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Study is biggest loser Let's all do some science: gather a bunch of your friends, split them into two groups, make each group watch a different YouTube clip—let's say one group watches puppies biting fingers and the other watches puppies taking naps in the sun. When they're done, ask them how they feel about puppies, then draw a conclusion based on this about how the rest of North America must feel about puppies. Study completed.

Clearly this would be one of the worst studies ever, at the university level anyway. And yet, a University of Alberta study is making headlines after its conclusion that watching NBC's reality exercise show The Biggest Loser—where obese contestants endure gruelling workouts and lifestyle changes in order to shed pounds—takes away any motivation viewers might have to exercise.

The study was led by Dr Tanya Berry of the Faculty of Physical Education and took 138 students (not exactly a broad spectrum of ages or social demographic), split them into two groups and had one group watch a seven-minute clip from the early stages of Loser and the other watch a clip from American Idol. The group that watched the Loser clip—where contestants often scream, cry and throw up from the exercise—reported feeling more negative about exericse than did their counterparts who watched Idol. It would be interesting to know what part of the season the Idol clip was from. Was it early on when

swathes of bad singers croon for the judges and if so, were the viewers turned off from ever belting out a tune themselves? Or was it later in the season when the talent is tight? Likewise, a study depicting how motivated viewers feel after watching Loser can't just pick a random clip and draw a conclusion. Lots of viewers watch this show from beginning to end and experience the transformation of people sidelined with obesity, who challenge themselves through the months of pain and come out stronger and healthier.

Berry has said that people who aren't familiar with exercise and watch this show will associate exercise with pushing yourself to the extreme limit and therefore be turned off from getting off the couch. But the study wasn't of 138 obese students who never exercise, it's reported to have been a range of students, so presumably some have hit the gym before.

The study will be published in the American Journal of Health Behavior in January. Let's hope there's more meat to it than what's been leaked and it answers these questions: What was everyone's feeling about exercise before watching the clips? What were their actual levels of activity? Had they watched Loser before? What does motivate them to exercise? What were their personalities like? Why was Idol chosen instead of a softer type of exercise program to compare?

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Gardeners dressed for Halloween planted garlic on Parliament Hill on October 29 as part the Toxic Trick or Treat March. Young people from all across Canada had gathered in Ottawa for a few days to rally about climate justice as part of Powershift 2012.

Some of the 60 registered gardeners—interested in a greener lifestyle for Canadians—planted the garlic during the rally to "ward off the vampires who are sucking the life from this earth."

The march on Parliament Hill of about 500 people wasn't to ask politicians for candy, it was a way to show they are fed up with handouts to businesses that pollute the environment. The Toxic Trick or Treat March aimed to send the message that it's not OK to cut jobs and services to Canadians while spending $1.4 billion on handouts to environmental polluters.

As Hurricane Sandy struck along the eastern coast of North America on October 29, stories of sharks swimming in the streets have nothing on the human tragedy that was left in its wake.

In Haiti, 51 people were killed, the most reported in any country.

Another 15 people are missing and 18 people are injured. The poverty stricken island has still not recovered from an earthquake in 2010 and 400 000 people still live in refugee camps.

The country had two days of heavy rainfall prior to the hurricane touching down in the Caribbean last weekend. Roads and villages in Haiti have disappeared due to flooding and there's fear that diseases like cholera will spread and kill more people.

Cuba has reported 11 deaths and there were a few more reported across the Caribbean. In the United States at least 50 people have been reported dead so far, and in Toronto one woman was killed after being hit with flying debris.

POTTY PARTY The glass in Whyte Ave's public washrooms hasn't prevented crime and graffiti from ending up inside. A group of men and women were found drinking on the women's side on October 28—and even had a keg with them. Another man was found hiding inside a stall in the women's washroom with drugs and alcohol on him and was arrested, and there has been a sexual assault complaint.

The washrooms on the corner of Gateway Blvd and Whyte Ave opened in July as part of the city's $536 000 plan to provide safe and accessible public washrooms. A few months in and they are the home of nightly gatherings. Police have the keys, and may consider locking the washrooms after the bars are cleared out by 3 am.

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Alberta's dirty little secret Detection of human trafficking picking up on increasing numbers

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lberta has a sore; an open wound that's been that's all we're looking for, then we're going to Labour trafficking is even more rampant in this covered with dirt for too long and is now oozing miss all these other cases." province than sex trafficking. In seven cases out out for others to see. The ailment is human trafficking These other cases of sex trafficking are right under of 10, Dawood says the RCMP is dealing with laand it's not just a few isolated incidents—it's a web. our noses, often in the form of brothels and masbour rather than sex. In fact, Alberta's first humanIn this boom-town province, countless victims of the sage parlours. The details of women trapped in sex trafficking conviction came just last month when $32 billion a year global industry are forced to give trafficking are lurid, and Jacqui Linder, registered psythree Albertans—including an Orthodox priest— their bodies, their time, their sexuality and their digchologist and executive and clinical director of The were charged with trafficking 60 Polish welders nity to men and women who treat them like property Chrysalis Anti-Human Trafficking Network, has seen and machinists in St Paul, Alberta. But the case and make an enormous profit from their pain. Howevhow dark it can be from sessions with her clients. dates back to 2005 – '06—it's taken that long to er, what you think you know about human trafficking "We know now in Edmonton that there are formake its way through the investigation and court might not completely match up with what actually eign nationals working in massage parlours that process. Because human trafficking was only introhappens in Alberta. sure look like they've been trafficked," says Linder, duced to the Criminal Code in 2005, the courts are "People see the movie Taken and they think that adding that the evidence from police who inspect still testing out the laws. Investigations are time that's what exists in Canada. I'm not going to say the brothels points to the women living in the consuming and involve a lot of police resources. In that doesn't exist in Canada, but it's not as prevasame rooms they service customers in. addition to that, so much of what happens in court lent if it is happening," says Cpl. Nicole Dawood "So can you imagine that you've had to service—eiis dependant on victim testimony and there have of the RCMP's Immigration and Passport Unit for ther through full intercourse or through various othbeen some trials that have fallen apart because the northwest region. victims don't want to testify.

Taken is about a young American woman Sometimes it's fear of retaliation; vacationing in Europe who is kidnapped sometimes they just want to go It's not women in handcuffs. It's not what to work as a sex slave. Dawood says the home. And oftentimes they don't you see in the movie Taken ... " RCMP is actually seeing a trend of some even see themselves as victims women who come to Canada and choose of human trafficking. to be involved in the sex industry—par"Maybe you come from a country ticularly Asian women. She says because prostitution er forms of sexual service—a bunch of strange men where human-rights violations are the norm; or mayis not acceptable here, it's easy for us to wonder who and when they all leave, you have to climb into that be you come from a community where you do not would choose that line of work. bed at night and sleep and wait for them to come trust the police. I think abuse can get normalized. I've "Yet, we didn't grow up where they grew up. back, with the smell of strangers on your sheets?" met trafficked people who didn't see that what hapWe don't know what their history is. We don't Linder asks, adding that there is an absolute annihilapened to them was a problem," Burkhart says. "There know what's acceptable there and what isn't," tion of the self that occurs when people are put into were workers I've met who had the work run out so Dawood adds. slavery—either sexual or labour. "They are subjugatthey had to leave, but they wouldn't have come fored to abuse, they are battered, they are insulted, they ward for help because they wouldn't have been able Poverty is one of the main drivers of international are hurt physically, starved, they're made to feel less to identify that what was happening to them was a human trafficking, and, in the case of sex traffickthan, so it breaks down their confidence; it breaks crime. And I'm talking situations where people were ing, many women are kept captive by threats from down their sense of self which then manifests as locked in warehouses, not paid, had their passports their traffickers that they will tell their families back clinical depression and suicide ideation and post-trautaken and not allowed to call their families, working home what they've been doing in Canada. And in matic stress disorder and 18-hour days—pretty extreme situations." countries where sexual purity is a profound soulWhen Canada's National Action Plan to Combat important, that would mean consuming Human Trafficking was released this past June, the being treated as an outcast if shame." only two provinces named specifically as lashe ever returned. bour trafficking locations were Alberta and Ontario. Trafficking cases have involved Andrea Burkhart, executive director of ACT Alberta—a foreign nationals from the Philippines, Innon-profit group that links dia, Poland, China, Ethiopia, Mexico, Thaidifferent organizations toland and Hungary. gether to fight human trafThe labour crunch in Alberta has made ficking—has her own take the demand for workers in both skilled on Taken and sensationaland unskilled positions an anomaly. ized portrayals of human "When you bring more skilled workers in, trafficking. it's going to increase the demand for people in restaurants, in hotels, things like that. So when you "It's not women in handcuffs. It's not see a spike in skilled labour, you're going to see a what you see in the spike in unskilled labour as well," Dawood says. movie Taken ...

If the demand can't be met locally, employThat might ers seek a Labour Market Opinion to bring in happen, foreign workers. While not all foreign workers but if

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Shining a Light: An Evening with Brian Stewart Thu, Nov 8 (7:30 pm) Westin Hotel, $30 A strong believer in the power of grassroots organizations to make change happen, CBC broadcaster Brian Stewart will be giving a talk about his experiences as a foreign correspondent and witnessing the scourge of human trafficking firsthand.

VUE WEEKLY: How did breaking the story about child slavery in Sudan in 1989 impact how you look at human trafficking?

BRIAN STEWART: The situation we found inside a war-torn Sudan in the '80s was then the worst case of modern slavery on Earth. We came across long streams of young children whose parents had been murdered or kidnapped by militias fleeing through dangerous jungles from slavers on horseback—it struck us as a scene right out of the 18th century.

Capture for these children meant being carried off to communities where they would be sold as farm labourers or sex slaves ... My involvement in this story led me to contact the International Anti-Slavery Society in London—the world's oldest volunteer organization— which brought home to me that beyond isolated cases of what we might call outright slavery, there's the scourge of human trafficking to deal with ... Because so much of this problem remains in shadows, it's hard to pin down exact figures. But human trafficking has almost certainly gotten worse in recent decades due to the increase in vulnerable populations in poor areas, the global reliance on very cheap labour, the internationalization of the sex trade and, of course, because of the rapid expansion of global travel.

What do you know about Canada as a source, transit and destination for human trafficking?

BS: Human trafficking in Canada is thought to afflict tens of thousands of victims, and our national record of combatting this danger has not been very effective to date. For years the US State Department has criticized Canada because of our governmental failure to energetically protect victims and coordinate action against the traffickers ... Fortunately Ottawa and some provinces are finally taking the problem far more seriously and the Harper government has recently put $25 million into a campaign that will bring trafficking to the public's attention, train police and prosecutors, and integrate law enforcement teams.

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VW: How do you keep from being discouraged about such a huge, global problem?

BS: What keeps me from being discouraged is humanity's recent record of growing success against human rights abuses everywhere. It is too easy to concentrate on the dire nature of problems without taking account of how very far we've come in just a few generations. V

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How wars end

MILF, FARC and the beginning of the end for decades-long hostilities More or less at opposite ends of the this peace initiative than for its predecesworld, two very long wars are coming to sors. The first is that FARC can no longer a negotiated end, with no victors and no hope for an eventual victory, although it vanquished. In the Philippines, President will be a crippling nuisance for another Benigno Aquino signed a peace agreement generation if it is not brought back into the with the leaders of the Moro Islamic Lib- political system. The other is that the two eration Front (MILF) on October 16, after sides are not trying to solve all the counmore than 40 years of war. The next day try's problems in these talks; they are just in Norway, Colombia's government began trying to end the fighting. talks with the FARC rebels to end a The talks, which will move to Cuba war that has lasted for over 50 for the next round, deal with years. only five topics: rural developNeither deal is yet complete, ment, FARC's participation in om eekly.c and in both wars there have w democratic politics, an end to e u v e@ gwynn e n been several previous peace the fighting, an end to the drug n y Gw r deals that failed. But the omens traffi cking, and justice for the e y D are better this time, mainly because many civilian victims of the war. Cothere is a lot more realism about what is lombia has dozens of other issues that depossible and what is not. mand attention, but if you put them all on "You can't just ask the FARC to kneel the table there will never be agreement. down, surrender and give us the arms," Those other issues can, and should be said the Colombian president, Juan Man- settled by the normal political process, uel Santos, as the talks in Oslo began. in which FARC will play a legitimate part "They will not do that, so there has to be once the war is over. There will have to some way out, and this way out has to be be an amnesty even for grave violations that you are able to participate in the po- of human rights. Nor will the fighting stop litical arena. This is the way any conflict is during the negotiations: that is what prosettled, not only the Colombian conflict." vides the pressure for a deal. But this time, The Colombian war has gone on so long in the end, there will probably be a deal. that neither side remotely resembles the Meanwhile, in the Philippines, the long adversaries of 50 years ago. The left-wing war between the central government revolutionaries who once set out to win and the Muslim minority on the big power through a guerilla war have be- island of Mindanao is also heading for come hereditary rebels who finance their a peaceful resolution. It has been clear operations through kidnapping and co- for some time that MILF could never caine production. achieve its goal of an independent At the same time, the repressive right- Muslim state in western Mindwing governments of the 60s have given anao—and it is also clear that way to a more or less democratic system. MILF could go on fighting for The death squads are gone and the econ- another generation unless omy is growing fast. Time to stop, then. there is a deal.

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Moros (Filipino Muslims) get a broad degree of self-government in the areas where they are the majority. There will be a referendum in 2015 to settle the size and shape of the new "Bangsamoro" region, but it will remain part of the Philippines, and Manila will retain control of defence, foreign policy, and the broad outlines of economic policy.

So two wars down (probably), and how many more to go? No more than a dozen or so of comparable scale, most of them in Africa and the Middle East. And whether they are internal wars like Colombia and the Philippines or wars between local nationalists and foreign occupiers, they tend to end the same way.

There are exceptions, of course, like the Sri Lankan government's recent victory over the Tamil Tigers, but in most cases the wars get closed down when both sides recognize that a decisive victory is impossible. Or rather, they get shut down when the participants finally recognize what has already been plain to most outsiders for decades.

The extra time is required because the people directly involved have already paid such a price for that elusive victory that they just cannot bear to admit to themselves that their sacrifices were wasted.

Does this have any relevance to the horrors that are now unfolding in Syria? A great deal, I'm sorry to say. V

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comedy contest hosted by Matt Alaeddine and Andrew Iwanyk • Every Tue, 8pm • No cover

GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS AIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87 Ave, Old

Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm

DISORDERLY CONDUCT • Rexall Place, 7424 - 118 Ave • jeffdunham.com • 780.414.4000 • With Jeff Dunham • Nov 2, 8pm • $70

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Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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are victims of trafficking, it does happen. Burkhart says ACT has noticed that wherever there are increases in migrant labour around the world, there are increases in trafficking too and Alberta is no exception.

The number of trafficking victims is going up in Alberta, but Burkhart says that doesn't mean the problem is getting worse; rather, awareness is growing as cases are being identified and people are coming forward for help.

"There will come a time when obviously we want to see the numbers go down, but in some ways it's like looking at cancer diagnosis," Burkhart suggests. "If you think the rates are going up it could be because cancer is going up, but it also could be because diagnosis tools are improving. I think in the case of trafficking, our diagnosis tools are improving."

The stories the RCMP hears from victims are almost textbook now. Dawood says the complaint they hear most often is that a person is brought in to work and all of a sudden their working conditions change and they're told they'll only be paid half of what they were originally told and will have to live in the employer's home and pay rent.

"We rarely ever see abusers in international cases where you have, let's say, a Caucasian person abusing Indian people.

It's usually Indian people abusing Indian people because, first of all, they know the language, they know best how to get and manipulate those people," Dawood adds. "One of the problems we have with getting people to testify is, 'If I testify, I'm putting my family at risk back home. How can you as police here protect my family in India?' And really, that's a good question, because how can we?"

Bill C-452 was introduced to Parliament on October 16 by Bloc MP Maria Moura-

ni as an Act to amend the Criminal Code (exploitation and trafficking in persons) and would, among other things, take the burden off of victims to testify and presume that the people harbouring exploited people are indeed guilty. Dawood says that amendment would be fantastic as an investigation itself can take up to a year before it's presented to the Federal Crown and testimony has been so important for laying charges. Things like presumed guilt are big steps for dealing with this massive issue.

Linder believes everyone has a choice to make when it comes to dealing with human trafficking: "I have a choice as a citizen of the land: I can stand on the sidelines and succumb to bystander effect in despair and helplessness and wring my hands and think there's nothing that can be done, or I can roll up my sleeves and get in the game."

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THE SKINNY ON FATS & CARBS • Earth’s

ARTS WEEKLY

Library • Monthly roundtable 1st Tue each month • edmontonatheists.ca; E: info@ edmontonatheists.ca

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL EDMONTON

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

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

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

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 • Bike-

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

EDMONTON NATURE CLUB • King's Uni-

versity College, 9125-50 St • 780.459.6389 • E: hingston@telusplanet.net • Topic: Instrumentbased Bird Monitoring in the Alberta Oil Sands • Nov 16, 7pm

General Store, 9605-82 Ave • Lecture on the truth about carbs • Nov 3, 7pm • Free

WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old Strathcona Farmers' Market • Silent vigil the 1st and 3rd Sat, 10-11am, each month, stand in silence for a world without violence Y TOASTMASTERS CLUB • Strathcona

Legion, 9020-51 Ave • Meet every Tue, 7-9pm; helps members develop confidence in public speaking and leadership • Info: T: Antonio Balce at 780.463.5331

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS AFTER THE DELUGE: UNDERSTANDING THE US ELECTIONS FROM A NOT-SO-DISTANT SHORE • University of Alberta, Dentistry/

Pharmacy Rm 1030 • americanstudies.ualberta. ca • Professors Judy Garber, Greg Anderson, and Serra Tinic will offer insights into the 2012 US Election, what happened and what it means • Nov 7, 12pm

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 (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

QUEER AFFIRM SUNNYBROOK–RED DEER •

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

BISEXUAL WOMEN'S COFFEE GROUP

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

BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725B Jasper Ave •

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

EDMONTON PRIME TIMERS (EPT) •

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, 10608-

105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • eplc.webs.com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome

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

G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E Bldg, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4pm • 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 • Campus-

based 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

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

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

EDMONTON NEEDLECRAFT GUILD •

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

ton.org • Counselling: Free, short-term by registered counsellors every Wed, 5:308:30pm, 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

PRIMETIMERS/SAGE GAMES • Unitarian Church, 10804-119 St • 780.474.8240 • Every 2nd and last Fri each Month, 7-10:30pm ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship) WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • wom-

onspace.ca, womonspace@gmail.com • A Non-profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured

WOODYS VIDEO BAR • 11723 Jasper Ave •

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

SPECIAL EVENTS

FABULOUS FACILITATORS TOASTMASTERS CLUB • 2nd Floor Canada Place, 9700

ANNUAL INTERFAITH AND MULTICULTURAL CELEBRATION • Meridian Banquet

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

Hall, 4820-76 Ave • 780.465.2992, E: culture@ mwssa.org • This year's topic: religion & art.

Ladies only event • Nov 3, 6:30pm • $20

FERTILITY AWARENESS CHARTING CIRCLE MEETING • Cha Island Tea Co, 10332-81

CALYX DISTINCTIVE ARTS SHOW AND SALE • Pleasantview Community League,

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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

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

HOME–ENERGIZING SPIRITUAL COMMUNITY FOR PASSIONATE LIVING • Garneau/

BRING THIS COUPON FOR YOUR

WINTER TIRE SPECIAL (WITH PURCHASE)

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 • 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

MEDITATION • Strathcona Library • medita-

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

NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall,

*cannot be combined with any other offer

Shop indoors, year round. info@southgatevw.ca

780.438.8888

www.southgatevw.ca

OCCUPY EDMONTON GENERAL ASSEMBLY • Grant MacEwan City Centre 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

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)

SOCIETY OF EDMONTON ATHEISTS • Centennial Rm, (basement) Stanley A. Milner

12 UP FRONT

• Part of Womanspace • Nov 4, 12-4pm

ELIZABETH’S ANTIQUE & COLLECTIBLE SALE • Alberta Aviation Museum,

11410 Kingsway Ave • Over 120 tables of Pop Culture, Vintage Clothing, Advertising Collectibles, Shabby Chic, Antique Furniture, Militaria, Jewelry, Petroliana, Art Glass, Vintage Toys, Fine China, Records, Sports Memorabilia, Coins & Stamps, Watches, Comics, Buttons & Linens and more • Nov 2-3 • $5

HOMEFEST 2012 • St. Faith's Church,

RUTHERFORD HOUSE REMEMBERS THE GREAT WAR'S HOME FRONT • Ruther-

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

ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey Nuns

CHRISTMAS IN NOVEMBER CRAFT AND TRADESHOW • Bellevue Hall, 7308-112 Ave

11725-93 St • homefest.ca • In support of ending homelessness in Edmonton. Line up includes: Terry Morrison, John Gorham, Maria Dunn, Kevin Cook, Mat Halton, Scott Peters, James Renton, Barry Westerlund • Nov 4, 2:30-5pm • $10 at Tix on the Square

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LOTUS QIGONG • 780.477.0683 • Downtown

Only at Southgate Volkswagen*

10860-57 Ave • Exhibition and sale of original artworks by local artists. Artists in attendance • Nov 3, 10am-4pm • Free

ford House Provincial Historic Site, 11153 Saskatchewan Drive • 780.427.3995 • jenny. park@gov.ab.ca • Remembering the war efforts of Albertans on the home front during the First World War. Learn what life was like during the war period; sample war-time cuisine, view war-time correspondence and learn more about the Rutherford’s wartime involvement, as we pay tribute to Albertan’s at war • Nov 4, 12-4pm • $4 (adults), $12 (family; 2 adults and their children ages 7-17), $3 (seniors, youth; ages 7-17), free (kids under 6)

SALVOS PRELORENTZOS PEACE AWARD • City Hall, City Room • With award

FOOD SECURE CANADA'S NATIONAL ASSEMBLY • NAIT • Powering Up! Food For

The Future: Theme reflects the need to place questions of energy, climate and long-term sustainability at the centre of how we think about, produce, and eat our food. • Nov 1-4

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

GREAT EXPEDITIONS • St Luke’s Anglican-

G.L.B.T.Q SAGE BOWLING CLUB •

Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.469.3270 • 1st Mon every month, 7:30pm • Suggested donation of $3

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

LIVING FOODS SUNDAY SUMMER SERIES • Earth's General Store, 9605-82 Ave •

teamedmonton.ca • Co-ed Bellydancing: bellydancing@teamedmonton.ca • Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary, 10925-87 Ave. at 7pm; bootcamp@teamedmonton.ca • Bowling:

Every Sun, 6:50-9pm • Pre-register; $25 (each session); info: Robyn at rawrobyn@gmail.com

GLBT SPORTS AND RECREATION •

MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB •

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

PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride

Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • A safe, welcoming, and non-judgemental 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 Sun-Mon; Queer HangOUT (a.k.a.

QH) youth drop-in: Tue-Fri 3-8pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, youth@pridecentreofedmon-

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recipient Paula Kirman, long-service award: Prem Kalia, guest speaker David Climenhaga and musical guest Terry Morrison • Nov 6, 7:30pm

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

FILM

PREVUE // FESTIVAL

Films from afar

Festival of New Spanish Cinema brings forward a caravan of cinematic treasures The idea was that we wanted to reach out to those areas that are film oriented. The presence of the Spanish film is very limited ... we'd prefer to be in more cities for a shorter period of time. We'd prefer to be in different cities, so different audiences can enjoy the films, and maybe be a little bit smaller, be in one screen or one movie theatre—though the movie theatre should be very good. [laugh] That's our philosophy.

MS:

How do you select the films?

It's actually very difficult. You are kind of a gatekeeper: whatever you decide is what people are going to think Spanish filmmaking is, so there is a lot of responsibility in that. But we're very interested in diversity, to show films that are very different between them[selves], the filmmakers [that] have a different way of approaching filmmaking and stories, different stories in general. We want to bring opportunity to everybody to enjoy very well known filmmakers as well as beginners.

That's important for us. The common thing among all of them is the quality: you will never find a film that is there just because, y'know, we have a slot more. It's the quality: some years you see 10 films, other years you see six films, this year we see five films in Edmonton. But those are very well curated.

VW: MS:

Madrid, 1987

Fri, Nov 2 – Mon, Nov 12 Festival of New Spanish Cinema Metro Cinema at the Garneau

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s a travelling caravan of cinematic treasures, the Festival of New Spanish Cinema takes a cache of modern films from its namesake country, and showcases them throughout a spread of North American film centres. This is the festival's fifth year, and it comes bearing five films, faring from the Goya-award sweeping No Rest for the Wicked to Sleep Tight, a creeping horror flick from the same director that crafted [REC]. Before its Edmonton opening, Vue caught up with festival director Marta Sanchez to discuss the festival's genesis. Though stuck in Puerto Rico, denied a trip back to New York by Hurricane Sandy, she seemed in chipper spirits. There are worse

places to be stuck, after all.

Tell me about the festival's beginnings.

MARTA SANCHEZ: I founded a company called Pragda. What we do is promote Spanish films abroad; we work a lot in the United States, and we wanted to create an event that brings in new films every year. So we create a loyal audience that's eager to find out what happened that year in filmmaking in Spain.

We started in five cities, and now we are in 10 cities in all of the United States and Canada. The idea is to have a presence, every year, of Spanish films. Because it's not so easy to get into [North American] movie screens usually.

VUE WEEKLY:

VW: Typically, film festivals tend to stay and grow in one city. What inspired having this one tour around?

PAUL BLINOV

// PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Reviews by Meaghan Baxter ( MB ) and Josef Braun ( JB ).

Madrid, 1987

Carmina O Revienta

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Calling David Trueba's Madrid, 1987 a chamber piece feels a tad euphemistic: it mostly takes place in the john. Miguel (José Sacristán) is an aged, endearingly didactic columnist. Hard-boiled with a soft exterior, he chainsmokes, drinks and cracks wise, supplying a steady stream of self-effacing braggadocio. Ángela (María Valverde) is a young journalism student, very pretty and very cagey. They meet in a café before retiring to the vacant flat of a painter pal of Miguel's. An exchange is to take place: his wisdom for her beauty. Then they get "stuck" in the bathroom, but the whole set-up feels very forced and as artificial as the arbitrary blocking—like bad theatre. Whether or not the pair gets busy hardly constitutes a nail-biter, so the stakes remain pretty low. And for all his great one-liners Miguel is decidedly not a guy anyone wants to be sharing a toilet with for a long, hot weekend. The returns are diminishing but here's the thing: Sacristán and Valverde are both excellent. JB

Spanish filmmaker Paco Leon makes his debut with a portrait of his outrageous mother Carmina, a 58-year-old bar owner.

Leon uses flashbacks to portray a series of unfortunate events that have left her a little down on her luck. The plot is a sparse one, but recounts Carmina's attempts to make up for money lost when 80 hams are stolen from her bar. What unfolds involves her chasing down her own stolen vehicle and smashing a beer bottle into her head and accusing the tax man of attacking her.

Leon shares these events through a film that's one part documentary and one part character study, painting a vivid picture of Carmina and her defiant and attitude-filled daughter Maria. The characters are entertaining to get to know in their quirks and personalities, but with such a slim plot, the film begins to lag before the final events take place. Overall, there are moments of humour that are truly entertaining, but it leaves something to be desired. MB

Sat, Nov 3 (7 pm) Sun, Nov 4, (2 pm) Directed by David Trueba

Wed, Nov 7 (9 pm) Mon, Nov 12 (7 pm) Directed by Paco Leon

REVUE // RALPH SMASH

Wreck-It Ralph

A nice gesture, sure, but he probably stole those from Pac-man

Opens Friday Directed by Rich Moore

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K

ids just love to destroy stuff, and that's a huge part of the appeal of

Disney's Wreck-It Ralph. Set entirely in an arcade, it's the story of a giant-fisted, gorilla-framed video game character who pulverizes windows and doors and develops a complex about it: the film opens with a terrific monologue

that we only gradually learn is Ralph introducing himself to a support group for depressed video game antagonists.

Turns out nobody likes to be stuck playing the bad guy—not even Satan.

The other best thing about WreckIt Ralph is John C Reilly. More than most name-actors, Reilly has taken an animated character and made it into someone that finally only he could play. Ralph's particular brand of self-effacement, neediness, childish bravado and inherent amiability are all uniquely Reilly-like qualities. The character is sweet and endearing, but also foolish and flawed. Much of the action concerns Ralph's misguided attempts to infiltrate and conquer other video games so as to bolster his cred

and earn the respect of his peers.

Ralph's impulses are totally selfish, but he comes to rely on and befriend a mischievous and incredibly annoying little girl (voiced by Sarah Silverman) who's trying to enter a go-kart race in a game called Sugar Rush, which is set in some horrendous realm where everything's made of confections. (I was disappointed that they couldn't find a way to work Silver Jews' "Candy Jail" into the soundtrack—there's even a scene in an actual jail made of candy!)

There are smart people behind Wreck-It Ralph: director Rich Moore is a veteran of The Simpsons, and cowriter Phil Johnson worked on Cedar Rapids, a movie I found to be over-

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rated, but which happens to feature some of Reilly's funniest scenes ever.

The script leans on a few over-familiar plot twists, but the details are uniformly clever, especially bits like one that finds Q*bert panhandling in a powerbar after they pulled the plug on his game.

Wreck-It Ralph is preceded by a short about a woman with no waist and too much make-up who falls for a guy with a poor work ethic and no environmental conscience whatsoever: he wastes an incredible amount of dead trees making paper airplanes. I guess it's supposed to be cute. I wouldn't sweat it if you come in late.

JOSEF BRAUN

// JOSEF@VUEWEEKLY.COM

FILM 13

REVUE // ARTY BLOCKBUSTER

REVUE // HOW DEEP THE RABBIT HOLE GOES

Cloud Atlas

The Ambassador

Hugh Grant: less charming as a cannibal

Now playing Directed by Tom Tywker, Lana and Andy Wachowski

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loud Atlas is a two-hours-andforty-five-minutes-long beast, six stories high, tentacling its reach through five centuries, and taking three directors (Lana and Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer) to try to tame. David Mitchell's acclaimed book was a nest-egg novel where each time's tale was read by the protagonist of the next. This adaptation, playing to film's strengths, time-travels the six eras with cuts: form cuts, cuts between characters played by the same actors, and cuts between

chase sequences. And there lies much of this curious, sometimes compelling beast's problem—rather than a lumbering, ponderous sprawl, it turns out to be too spry, too fleet-of-feeler.

Too often—thanks to the directors of Speed Racer and Run Lola Run—this becomes a fast-break, high-speed chase movie through time and space, its grasps for actual ideas (crossing tribal lines, self-cannibalizing consumerism, looking beyond the limits of Self) slipping away in the rush.

Initially, skipping from the Pacific in 1849 to Edinburgh in 1936 to San Francisco in 1973 to London this year and urgently on to Neo Seoul in 2144 and the "Big Isle, 106 Winters After The Fall," Cloud Atlas dances between

narratives with a momentum and fluidity that's intriguing. Certain motifs recur: a comet birthmark (predictably literalized at the end), tattoos, keys, doors (ultimately locked into a clichéd New Age metaphor for death), and blood splatter.

But the light steps of dance fade into the echoes of karaoke—a lip-synced echo of movies past. The Neo Seoul storyline, too often slicking into flashy action sequences, smacks too much of a genetic-breeding dystopia/sci-fi experiment: V For Vendetta splicing Total Recall splicing Blade Runner. It and the Big Isle story, directed by the Wachowskis, have the most action but the muddiest plots and perioddialogue. A little more satisfyingly, the San Francisco story plays out like a '70s conspiracy-thriller.

The broadest, oddest, and basically dullest story's the one set nowadays—directed by Tykwer, it starts out as a Coens-esque spoof of the dying-book-business but becomes Lovable-Old-Kooks Flew The Cuckoo Nest. And it offers the Tom Hanks most jarring here. At times, an actor's pop-up as a character in another story becomes too distracting (spot Hugo Weaving!) or implausible (Asian wife + white man who's brought a free black "cannibal" to 1850s America = one anachronistic, liberal touch too many). These popups make the movie too individualistic. Each saga in this sextet does tend to dissolve into the rebellious heroism of one or two people each time, with most sapped down to a "love endures" credo. Ultimately, going against two stories' fight-theunnatural-social-order message, this epic's more intent on inspiring uplift than provoking insight.

Maybe Cloud Atlas is so curiously compelling because it's such a curious film-beast of its time: with a $102-million budget, Asian investors, some German government backing and the directors' own funding, it's a globalization-production trying to wrest and wrangle a fading print-form into the era of touch-button tech and highspeed video-games. This is an arty blockbuster going for broke—easy to sympathize with, maybe even respect, but impossible to love.

BRIAN GIBSON

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t begins with its antihero, international über-capitalist Mads Cortzen—aka: Danish journalist and filmmaker Mads Brugger, the author of this investigative documentary/elaborate prank—shopping for diplomatic credentials. Apparently there are websites specializing in this sort of thing, though the price tags are rather intimidating and the vendors clandestine in the extreme. You see, Cortzen wants in on the diamond trade, so he's hoping to land a position as Liberia's ambassador to the Central African Republic. A little rusty on your knowledge of the Central African Republic?

The former French colony gained independence in 1958, but has had problems with adopting democracy.

And with cannibal despots. Despite its gems, uranium reserves and arable land, it remains one of the world's poorest countries, and a pretty dangerous place for white men who flash wads of dough, condescend to natives and smoke big cigars. In Brugger's own words—he narrates his journey in voice-over—"If the Congo was the heart of darkness, this is the appendix."

Diplomatic credentials will allow Cortzen to carry in and out of the country enormous amounts of cash, which constitute the contents of the "envelopes of happiness" he requires to do business—and to gain access to/ buy off government officials eager to do business with men just like Cortzen. But such documents don't come that easy, even when insane sums of money have changed hands, so in the meantime Cortzen sets up shop in the

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Central African Republic as a manufacturer of matches, which are to be called L'ambassadeur and will be marketed, rather falsely, as having been made by genuine CAR pygmies. And as Cortzen goes about promoting his business, which involves his building up suspicion via propaganda and racist slander toward other foreign businesses, namely, all those run by the French or the Chinese, he learns an awful lot about how one goes about draining a poor nation's resources.

Some strategies involve bribery and fraud, others assassination.

The apparently fathomless depths of European exploitation and African corruption on full display in The Ambassador may or may not shock you, but either way one would hope it appalls you. I've read reviews that express concern over Brugger's lack of moral editorializing, his total immersion in the Cortzen persona and, perhaps, the pleasure or excitement he may have felt in his role as an unsavory impostor, one whose intentions are less clear-cut than those of say, Sasha Baron Cohen in his somewhat similar cinematic adventures. Yet I can't help but think that this is one of The Ambassador's strengths: by allowing us to see just how deep the rabbit hole goes—Brugger has hidden cameras everywhere and shows us a lot of people doing flamboyantly incriminating things—he places on the onus on the spectator to make sense of the mess he's gotten himself into.

Of course, the hoax may itself all be a hoax. That would certainly change the optics a great deal, though the intrigue, and the essence of the accusations, would still remain.

JOSEF BRAUN

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REVUE // MUSIC LEGEND

Searching for Sugar Man Opens Friday Directed by Malik Bendjelloul Princess Theatre

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Sugar Man: the Waldo of musicians

f an artist named Rodriguez doesn't ring a bell, you're not alone.

In the late '60s, Sixto Rodriguez was hailed as the next Bob Dylan for his songwriting talents, which caught the attention of Motown big-wig Clarence Avant. The Detroit-based singer-songwriter went on to release two albums, but despite rave reviews from fans and critics alike, neither record succeeded in the sales department.

Rodriguez always remained a mysterious figure to those who were familiar with his music. He was painfully shy and often sung with his back to his audience.

He essentially became one of the greatest singers never known and fell into obscurity in the US. However, a world away in South Africa, Rodriguez was a superstar—a fact completely unknown to the singer himself. His songs, particularly those leaning towards protest, struck a chord with the South African population, which was enduring the height of Apartheid oppression.

Despite his rampant fame in South Africa, which placed him ahead of The Beatles, Rodriguez did not receive any royalties, and went on to live a simple life doing manual labour. Stories circulated that he had killed himself onstage—the method ranging from shooting himself to dousing himself in gasoline and going up in flames.

To get to the bottom of the mystery

behind the man, Swedish director Malik Benjelloul set out to fill in the blanks in Searching for Sugar Man. The documentary, shot on 35mm film, plays out like a mystery, with the director consulting producers from Capetown to Detroit, including an incredibly evasive interview with Avant himself, along with music journalists and one particularly fascinated record shop owner to get a better sense of who the enigmatic man was and what happened to his career.

As the story unfolds, it paints a vivid picture of Rodriguez, set to a soundtrack of his own music, giving unfamiliar viewers a chance to experience hidden musical gems that somehow fell by the wayside in North America.

The interviews and personal accounts

of Rodriguez are punctuated by old photographs and home video, adding a sentimental undertone to the mysterious story to help shape the man from legend to human being.

The documentary holds interest from start to finish, as clues begin to link up and the search begins to take a rewarding turn. In addition to introducing a new legion of potential fans to Rodriguez's music, as well as the story behind his brief time in the industry, Searching for Sugar Man delves into a revealing look at the commerce of music. It's a striking, honest portrayal of a man who had all the potential in the world, and how a series of unexplained events changed the course of his career forever.

MEAGHAN BAXTER

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REVUE // SKY HIGH

Flight groups constantly assembling outside of every building he enters, he swiftly jumps off the wagon.

Hello, ground control?

Opens Friday Directed by Robert Zemeckis

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carefully executed, impressively unnerving set-piece occurs early in Robert Zemeckis' Flight: when the jet under his command suddenly undergoes cataclysmic mechanical failure, seasoned commercial airline pilot Whip Whitaker (Denzel Washington) drains the fuel tanks, flips the plane upside-down and glides it to an emergency landing in a field behind a rural Georgia church. The sequence is rendered that much more suspenseful by our knowledge that Whip's wasted: he woke that morning in an Orlando hotel with the help of some beer, a blunt, some coke and a couple of single-serve vodkas. While everyone else onboard panics, Whip keeps his cool and, as a result, saves a hundred lives—only six perish.

So an interesting question develops over the course of Flight's first third: was Whip's state of intoxica-

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tion actually some sort of aid in his virtuoso, virtually miraculous feat of airmanship? In his resolutely cool, calm and contained performance, Washington—whose recent work has molded him into the top gun of all forms of American transportation (see Unstoppable and The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3)—would seem to support this thorny theory of grace under pressure. But we know where this is going. As soon as Whip gets home from the hospital he's flushing all the dope down the toilet and dumping all the beer down the sink (it's mostly Corona, but still). The union hires a whip-smart Johnny Cochrane (Don Cheadle) to ensure that Whip's toxicology report gets dismissed from the investigation. Meanwhile, Whip hooks up with Nicole (Kelly Reilly), a junkie who undergoes a nearly fatal overdose in perfect concert with Whip's own nosedive. Nicole opts for cold turkey and AA meetings, but Whip's resistant to join her. Stressed out by the investigation and the news

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The crash's proximity to the church, the omnipresent crucifixes, the lawyer's motion to enter "Act of God" into the possible causes of the accident: Flight is taking the high, even holy, road to redemption. Screenwriter John Gatins (Real Steel) builds an intriguing and morally complex story about the weird confluence of instinct, control, circumstance and body chemistry. We know that Whip's in trouble and needs help. We also know he's a genuine hero and was clearly not responsible for the loss of life on Flight 227; on the contrary, it's repeated several times that no one else could have saved the lives that he did. In the film's final third, Whip is given two tests of will. He fails one utterly and—by the moral logic of Gatins' script—he passes the other with flying colours. But consider this: when Whip's willpower fails, he's sober; when, during a hearing regarding the crash, Whip finally does the ostensibly right thing, he's drunk! And I mean, super-stinko-drunk. And high on coke. And consider this: that "right thing" that Whip does helps no one, distracts the public and industry alike from the very serious mechanical failures responsible for the crash and essentially ruins Whip's life. It's a peculiar confusion of purposes: Whip's an Icarus figure, to be punished for (literally) flying too high, yet he's granted what is—in politically correct, 12-step program terms—a Hollywood ending.

However you try to make sense of it, it'll make you seriously consider taking the train.

JOSEF BRAUN

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REVUE // MONSTER MASH

King Kong Vs Godzilla

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Sat, Nov 3 – Thu, Nov 8 Directed by Ishirō Honda Metro Cinema at the Garneau Originally Released: 1962

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here are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." The words will forever belong to Hamlet, but I rather like the fact that they're spoken (uncredited) by some omniscient voice of God over the image of the Earth, or some Play-Doh facsimile thereof, as it spins at what seems like a precarious gallop, right at the top of King Kong Vs Godzilla.

For while the country in immediate danger of giant monster apocalypse in this, the third installment in Toho's Godzilla franchise, is Japan once again, the film's canvas has become decidedly global. At least that's how it seems in the American version, which is the one Metro Cinema will start screening this Saturday at the Garneau.

Though still credited to Ishirō Honda, the director of the original Godzilla (1954), the US version deleted scenes from Honda's cut and added several new ones, many of which feature an American broadcaster filling us in on exposition before becoming something of a sports commentator once the rediscovered Kong and the resurrected Godzilla—who fronts some bravura Hulk Hogan flexes—go at it.

As with the original Godzilla, which

functioned as an eerily explicit metaphor for our proximity to atomic holocaust, the story is rooted in unease with the proliferation of looming disasters: the balls get rolling following an earthquake, unregistered radiation, and early signs of global warming.

But the initial underlying seriousness quickly falls away in King Kong Vs Godzilla, which makes lame use of an Abbott and Costello-like duo and ultimately makes little sense. We gradually come to realize that we're watching the sci-fi equivalent of a monster truck rally.

Even in colour, Godzilla still looks pretty fierce, but the rebooted Kong has nothing on the presence, pathos and flickers of intelligence found in Merian C Cooper's original King Kong (1933). We're told that Kong has a much bigger brain than Godzilla, but he sure looks dumb, perhaps because he has a habit of getting wasted on some rare hallucinogenic juice, tripping on trance music and passing out.

(Like some party guests I know.) But honestly, nobody seems too bright in this: the Japanese, all of them in Western clothes and hairdos, can't even say Hokkaido properly. Still, it's an awful lot of fun. And if you wanted to take your kids, rest assured that not nearly as many civilians get crushed to death in this one.

JOSEF BRAUN

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THE BUCKET LIST (PG coarse language) Stadium Seating,

SKYFALL (14A violence) Ultraavx, No Passes THU 6:50, 10:00 WRECK-IT RALPH 3D (G) Closed Captioned, No Passes FRI

Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital THU 7:00

Captioned FRI 5:45, 8:00, 10:20; SAT-SUN 12:30, 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:20; MON-THU 8:00, 10:20

WRECK-IT RALPH 3D (G) Bargain Matinee, Child Admission

FLIGHT (18A substance abuse) Closed Captioned, No Passes

Video FRI 3:50; SAT-SUN 12:30, 2:45

9:10; SAT-SUN 5:00, 7:20, 9:50; MON-THU 6:30, 8:45

WRECK-IT RALPH (G) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video,

7:00, 9:50; SAT-SUN 3:50, 7:00, 9:40; MON-THU 7:00, 9:35

HERE COMES THE BOOM (PG violence) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video FRI 4:10, 6:50, 10:00; SAT-SUN 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20; MON-WED 6:50, 9:30 ARGO (14A) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video FRI 3:40, 6:30,

Price, Closed Captioned, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital, Stadium Seating FRI-SUN, TUE 1:10

Price, Closed Captioned, Digital 3D, Dolby Stereo Digital, Stadium Seating FRI-SUN, TUE 4:00, 6:50, 9:40; MON, WED-THU 3:25, 6:45, 9:35

CLAREVIEW 10

HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3D (PG) Digital 3D FRI 8:50; SAT-

SKYFALL (14A violence) No Passes WED 12:05; THU 12:55,

CHASING MAVERICKS (PG) Closed Caption & Descriptive

PITCH PERFECT (14A language may offend, crude content,

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4 (14A frightening scenes) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video FRI 4:00, 6:20, 9:20; SAT-SUN 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20; MON-WED 7:30, 9:45; THU 10:00

SINISTER (14A gory scenes, frightening scenes) Digital FRI 6:45, 9:20; SAT-SUN 1:15, 4:05, 6:45, 9:20; MON-THU 5:15, 7:50

SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS (18A gory violence, language may

HERE COMES THE BOOM (PG violence) Digital FRI 9:15;

FUN SIZE (PG crude content, not recommended for young

children) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 11:40, 2:05, 4:25, 7:20; MON-THU 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:15

ARGO (14A) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 1:15, 4:05, 6:55, 9:45; MON-THU 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:45

TAKEN 2 (14A violence) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 12:45, 3:15,

18 FILM

ARGO (14A) Closed Captioned FRI 4:05, 6:50, 9:40; SAT-SUN

HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA (PG) Closed Caption & Descriptive

TAKEN 2 (14A violence) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video

LOOPER (14A violence, coarse language) FRI-SUN 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00; MON-WED 12:05, 3:20, 7:05, 9:55; THU 12:05, 3:20, 10:35

children) Closed Captioned FRI 4:55, 7:20; SAT-SUN 12:20, 2:35, 4:55, 7:20; MON-THU 7:20

gain Matinee, Child Admission Price, Closed Captioned, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital, Stadium Seating FRI-SUN, TUE 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 9:55; MON, WED-THU 3:45, 6:30, 9:25

FRANKENWEENIE 3D (PG) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 12:05, 4:05, 7:15, 10:30

SUN-MON 9:00

THE ROOM (14A nudity, sexual content) FRI 11:30 KING KONG VS. GODZILLA (STC) SAT 4:30; TUE 7:00; MADRID, 1987 (STC) SAT 7:00; SUN 2:00 BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD (PG mature subject

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HERE COMES THE BOOM (PG violence) Digital FRI 6:30, 8:50; SAT-SUN, TUE 1:15, 3:40, 6:30, 8:50; MON, WED-THU 5:30, 8:00

FUN SIZE (PG crude content, not recommended for young children) Digital FRI 6:20; SAT-SUN, TUE 1:10, 3:30, 6:20; MON, WED-THU 5:40 PITCH PERFECT (14A language may offend, crude content, not recommended for young children) Digital FRI-SUN, TUE 8:40; MON, WED-THU 7:50

SILENT HILL REVELATION 3D (18A gory violence) RealdD

3D FRI 7:00, 9:20; SAT-SUN, TUE 4:10, 7:00, 9:20; MON, WEDTHU 6:00, 8:15

WRECK-IT RALPH 3D (G) RealD 3D FRI 6:45, 9:15; SAT-SUN, TUE 4:20, 6:45, 9:15; MON, WED-THU 5:50, 8:20

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4 (14A frightening scenes)

Digital FRI 6:40, 9:00; SAT-SUN, TUE 1:20, 3:50, 6:40, 9:00; MON, WED-THU 6:15, 8:40

THE MAN WITH THE IRON FISTS (18A gory violence)

Digital FRI 6:50, 9:10; SAT-SUN, TUE 1:40, 4:00, 6:50, 9:10; MON, WED-THU 5:45, 8:10

HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA (PG) Digital FRI 6:15; SAT-SUN, TUE 1:00, 6:15; MON, WED-THU 6:10

HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3D (PG) RealD 3D FRI, MON, WEDTHU 8:30; SAT-SUN, TUE 3:20, 8:30

SILENT HILL REVELATION (18A gory violence) Digital SAT-SUN, TUE 1:50

WRECK-IT RALPH (G) Digital SAT-SUN, TUE 1:30

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SEARCHING FOR SUGER MAN (PG coarse language) FRI 7:00, 9:10; SAT-SUN 2:30, 7:00, 9:10; MON-WED 7:00, 9:10; THU 9:10

THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER (14A) FRI 6:50, 9:00; SAT-SUN 2:00, 6:50, 9:00; MON-THU 6:50, 9:00

SCOTIABANK THEATRE WEM WEM 8882-170 St 780.444.2400

HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA (PG) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video FRI-SUN 12:30, 2:50; MON-THU 1:20

HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3D (PG) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 5:10, 7:30, 9:50; MON-THU 3:40, 6:45, 9:20 WRECK-IT RALPH (G) No Passes FRI-SUN 12:20, 2:55; No Passes No Passes

MON-TUE, THU 1:10; Star & Strollers Screening, WED 1:00

WRECK-IT RALPH 3D (G) No Passes FRI-SUN 5:30, 8:05, 10:40; MON-THU 3:50, 7:00, 9:45

HERE COMES THE BOOM (PG violence) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video DAILY 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:40 LOOPER (14A violence, coarse language) FRI-SUN 4:20, 10:20; MON-WED 4:20, 10:00

FUN SIZE (PG crude content, not recommended for young children) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video FRI-SUN 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00; MON-THU 1:15, 3:45, 7:10, 9:30 ARGO (14A) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video FRI-SUN 1:15, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10; MON-TUE, THU 12:40, 3:30, 6:50, 9:50; WED 3:30, 6:50, 9:50; Star & Strollers Screening WED 1:00 FRI-TUE, THU 1:50, 4:40, 7:50, 10:15; WED 1:50, 4:40, 10:15

9:40; SAT-SUN 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 10:10; MON-WED 6:30, 9:15; THU 6:40, 9:25; Vip 18+ FRI 5:00, 9:20; SAT-SUN 2:00, 5:30, 9:40; MON-THU 7:45

2:40, 5:40, 8:10; MON-THU 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:20

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NO REST FOR THE WICKED (STC) FRI, SUN 7:00 THE AMBASSADOR (PG coarse language) FRI 9:30; SAT 2:00;

SINISTER (14A gory scenes, frightening scenes) FRI-SUN 2:00, 4:50, 7:45, 10:35; MON-THU 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20

WRECK-IT RALPH 3D (G) No Passes FRI-SUN 2:10, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20; MON-WED 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:30; THU 3:40, 6:20, 9:00

METRO CINEMA AT THE GARNEAU

TAKEN 2 (14A violence) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video

4211-139 Ave 780.472.7600 HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA (PG) Digital FRI 6:30; SAT-SUN 1:30, 6:30; MON-THU 7:30

MON-WED 12:00; Star & Strollers Screening, No Passes THU 1:00

7:00, 9:25; SAT-SUN, THU 1:00, 3:25

WE ARE LEGION: THE STORY OF THE HACKTIVISTS

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PITCH PERFECT (PG language may offend, crude content,

BENJI (G) SAT 11:00

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4 (14A frightening scenes) DAILY

matter, disturbing content) SAT 9:15; SUN 4:15; THU 7:00

Snow e l t t a B

FLIGHT (18A substance abuse) Ultraavx, No Passes FRI-TUE 12:30, 3:30, 6:50, 10:00; Ultraavx, No Passes WED 12:30, 3:30, 6:50; Closed Captioned, No Passes THU 12:30, 3:30, 6:50, 10:00; Closed Captioned, No Passes WED 10:00

Closed Captioned, No Passes DAILY 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:10, 10:40

THU 12:55, 3:25

FUN SIZE (PG crude content, not recommended for young

The Mitts Are Off.

Captioned FRI, MON-THU 1:00, 4:50, 7:45, 10:15; SAT-SUN 1:00, 5:20, 7:45, 10:15

THE MAN WITH THE IRON FISTS (18A gory violence)

ARGO (14A) DAILY 6:50, 9:25; SAT-SUN 12:50, 3:25 SINISTER (14A gory scenes, frightening scenes) DAILY 9:20 HOPE SPRINGS (14A) DAILY 6:55; SAT-SUN 12:55, 3:20 HERE COMES THE BOOM (PG) DAILY 6:55, 9:25; SAT-SUN,

THU 9:00

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offend) FRI-SAT 10:20; SUN-THU 8:50

Closed Captioned FRI, MON-THU 12:45, 4:30, 8:30; SAT 11:00, 2:50, 6:20, 9:55; SUN 2:50, 6:20, 9:55

children) DAILY 7:05; SAT-SUN 1:05, 3:20

(STC) MON 7:00

SILENT HILL REVELATION 3D (18A gory violence) Closed

CLOUD ATLAS (14A coarse language, violence, sexual content)

7:00, 9:25; TUE 9:25

HERE COMES THE BOOM (PG violence) Closed Captioned

FRI 5:15, 7:45, 10:20; SAT-SUN 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:20; MON-THU 7:45, 10:20

SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS (18A gory violence, language may

not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned DAILY 3:50, 9:10

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HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3D (PG) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN

Passes FRI-SUN 12:00, 2:35, 5:15, 7:35, 10:15; MON-WED 1:50, 4:25, 8:05, 10:30; THU 1:50, 4:25, 8:05, 10:35

LEDUC CINEMAS ALEX CROSS (14A violence) DAILY 9:20 WRECK-IT RALPH (G) SAT-SUN 1:00; TUE 7:05 WRECK-IT RALPH 3D (G) SAT-SUN 3:25; FRI-MON, WED-THU

SILENT HILL REVELATION (18A gory violence) Digital

Bargain Matinee, Digital Presentation, Closed Captioned, Dolby Stereo Digital, Child Admission Price FRI-SUN, TUE 1:00, 4:45, 8:30; MON, WED-THU 3:10, 7:30

CLOUD ATLAS (14A coarse language, violence, sexual content)

DAILY 1:00, 3:05, 5:10, 7:20, 9:20

FRI 3:30, 10:20; SAT-SUN 4:10, 9:30; MON-WED 9:20; THU 9:50

Video FRI, THU 7:10; SAT-SUN 12:40, 6:40; MON-WED 6:40

offend) Vip 18+ FRI 3:30, 6:30, 10:20; SAT-SUN 1:00, 3:45, 6:50, 10:30; MON-THU 6:45, 9:45

CLOUD ATLAS (14A coarse language, violence, sexual content)

Vip 18+ FRI 4:15, 8:20; SAT-SUN 12:30, 4:40, 8:40; MON-THU 8:45; Ultraavx FRI 4:40, 8:50; Ultraavx SAT-SUN 1:00, 4:40, 9:00; Ultraavx MON-WED 8:15; Closed Caption & Descriptive Video

SUN 4:10, 8:50; MON-THU 5:00

not recommended for young children) Digital FRI 6:40; SATSUN 1:25, 6:40; MON-THU 5:00

SAT-SUN 4:00, 9:15; MON-THU 7:40

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4 (14A frightening scenes)

Digital FRI 7:10, 9:30; SAT-SUN 1:45, 4:10, 7:10, 9:30; MON-THU 4:50, 8:00

FUN SIZE (PG crude content, not recommended for young

1:20, 4:05, 6:50, 9:40; MON-THU 6:50, 9:40

TAKEN 2 (14A violence) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 4:35, 9:45; SINISTER (14A gory scenes, frightening scenes) DAILY 9:35 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4 (14A frightening scenes) Closed

FRI 4:00, 7:05, 10:00; SAT-SUN 12:55, 4:00, 7:05, 10:00; MON-THU

7:05, 10:00

PITCH PERFECT (PG language may offend, crude content,

not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned FRI,

MON-THU 7:00; SAT-SUN 2:00, 7:00

CLOUD ATLAS (14A coarse language, violence, sexual content)

FRI 6:20, 10:00; SAT-SUN Closed Captioned 11:55, 2:35, 6:20, 10:00; MON-THU 6:25, 10:00

THE MAN WITH THE IRON FISTS (18A gory violence) Closed Captioned, No Passes FRI 5:25, 7:50, 10:15; SAT-SUN 12:35, 3:00, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15; MON-THU 7:50, 10:15 BENJI (G) SAT 11:00

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PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4 (14A frightening scenes) Closed

Caption & Descriptive Video FRI-SUN 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:30, 10:45; MON-THU 2:20, 5:15, 8:10, 10:25

SILENT HILL REVELATION 3D (18A gory violence) FRI-SUN 12:45, 3:20, 5:40, 8:15, 10:40; MON-THU 2:10, 5:00, 7:30, 10:10

FLIGHT (18A substance abuse) Closed Caption & Descriptive

Video, No Passes DAILY 12:50, 4:00, 7:15, 10:30

SKYFALL: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (14A violence) No Passes WED 12:07; THU 12:25, 3:35, 6:45, 10:00 CLOUD ATLAS (14A coarse language, violence, sexual content) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video THU 1:00, 4:30, 8:00

PITCH PERFECT (PG language may offend, crude content, not recommended for young children) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video FRI-WED 1:40, 7:20

THE MAN WITH THE IRON FISTS (18A gory violence) Ul-

traavx, No Passes FRI-SUN 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:20, 10:45; MON-THU 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30

CLOUD ATLAS: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (14A coarse

language, violence, sexual content) FRI-WED 1:00, 4:30, 8:00

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ALEX CROSS (14A violence) DAILY 9:20 WRECK-IT RALPH (G) SAT-SUN, THU 1:00; TUE 7:05 WRECK-IT RALPH 3D (G) SAT-SUN, THU 3:25 FRI-MON, WED-

THU 7:00, 9:25; TUE 9:25

HERE COMES THE BOOM (PG violence) DAILY 12:50, 2:50,

FUN SIZE (PG crude content, not recommended for young children) DAILY 7:05; SAT-SUN, THU 1:05, 3:20

FUN SIZE (crude content, not recommended for young

ARGO (14A) DAILY 6:50, 9:25; SAT-SUN, THU 12:50, 3:25 SINISTER (14A gory scenes, frightening scenes) DAILY 9:20 HOPE SPRINGS (14A) DAILY 6:55; SAT-SUN, THU 12:55, 3:20

4:55, 7:00, 9:05

children) DAILY 1:25, 3:25, 5:25, 7:25, 9:25

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4 (14A frightening scenes) DAILY 12:40, 2:35, 4:20, 6:00, 7:45, 9:35

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DISH

SERVING YOU FOR 30 YEARS

PREVUE // COCOANISTA

Good chocolate is always in style

JACEK Chocolate Couture redefines decadence

Since 1983

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e all need good chocolate."

Wise words indeed from JACEK Chocolate Couture owner Jacqueline Jacek, who recently moved her artisan chocolate business from a 150 sq ft workshop in her basement to a 2100 sq ft boutique in Sherwood Park. Edmontonians, fear not, her indulgent creations are available at a variety of locations in the city as well, including Credo and the

The cocoanista herself // Meaghan Baxter

Old Strathcona Farmer's Market.

"Demand in Edmonton and Sherwood Park for fine artisan chocolate is growing and we just had a lot of success and found this gem of a little place—which was a bakery—and we renovated it to our tastes, which was a French couture style, so it was kind of a good timing thing for the business as well as finding the perfect location," Jacek says of the new space, which she and her team renovated in three months to compliment the

style of her lavish work with sparkling chandeliers, Tiffany blue accents and fashion-inspired touches—including bust forms with chocolate jewelry.

Jacek, who has a background in business, has essentially created her dream job, combining her love of fine food— especially chocolate—fashion and art since opening JACEK Chocolate Couture in 2009. Jacek says she's always had an entrepreneurial streak, recalling her first

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business when she was 11 years old selling custom hats to classmates at school.

However, a person doesn't just wake up one morning and decide they're going to be a chocolatier, and Jacek says this business is the result of a lengthy learning process, involving an 11 year stint in New Zealand where she became fascinated by the country's food scene.

"They have a massive fresh, creative food culture," notes Jacek, who only uses top-notch fresh ingredients to create her chocolates, including fair trade cocoa beans. "That's where my love of it came, so I did have the drive to create, but I really had to figure out what I wanted to do when I grew up."

Named one of the Top 10 Chocolatiers in North America by Dessert Professional Magazine, Jacek spent years studying and perfecting the craft of chocolate making, eventually getting her master chocolatier certification in Vancouver before returning to Edmonton. However,

Jacek is no ordinary chocolatier, she's a cocoanista. What is that exactly? It's a term to describe the fusion of Jacek's love for fashion with her passion for chocolate. Jacek takes cues from the

principles of haute couture, such as shape and colour, with the added advantage of the dimension of flavour.

"I look at designs and colour to build and create my pieces. I look at inspiration in everything I do," Jacek says, add-

ing that educating customers about fine chocolate is another key focus of the business in addition to making delectable sweets.

Similar to a fashion designer, Jacek releases seasonal collections of chocolate four times a year, incorporating seasonal tastes and nuances to create a decadent experience for chocolate lovers. Jacek takes cues from the colours of the season as well, creating edible works of art.

Her current collection is Bijoux D'Hiver, an elegant assortment of jewel-inspired confections. Top quality chocolate is complimented with indulgent ingredients such as toasted cinnamon and maple ganache in Toasted Amber, caramelized milk chocolate with a hint of fresh chili pepper in Fire Opal and pomegranate and port are infused with dark chocolate for the Pom & Port Topaz. The luxurious collection is almost too beautiful to eat—almost being the key word.

WINE

The perfect Pinot Noir

Figuring out the 'bitch goddess' of wine

MEAGHAN BAXTER

// MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Pinot Noir is one of those grape variet- fascinating array of different flavours: ies that always gets a lot of attention. the typical red fruit flavours are overFor starters, it’s a notoriously difficult laid by toasty, smoky French oak as variety to grow—a viticulturist friend well as the grape’s signature earthy, refers to it as the “bitch goddess” be- gamey quality—akin to damp earth or cause unless growing conditions are even barnyard in particularly pungent near perfect, the resulting wine tends bottles (it tastes better than these to be a lot more bitchy than divine. descriptors make it seem).

The necessity for a very specific cliMany producers in the New World mate (warm days, cool nights, high have also tried their luck at growing humidity but not much precipitation) the grape, though only a few regions makes Pinot Noir only able to thrive have been able to produce good quality in specific little pockets around the Pinot Noir. The grape has found a welworld. Its ancient home is the Bur- come home in New Zealand, where the gundy region of France, where maritime climate makes for good I it has been cultivated since consistency between vintages.

VID VENI, around the 4th century AD. New Zealand Pinot Noir is a Since then, it has become lot more fruit-forward than ly.com eweek u v one of the most celebrated Burgundy, and is typically l@ me varieties in the world and ready to drink immediately Mel ey upon release; most aren’t can command some of the Priestl highest prices: top producers like wines to put in the cellar. Chile has Romanée-Conti and Dugat-Py can re- also had some success with the grape, lease their wines at a couple hundred especially in the cool Casablanca Valley; bucks a bottle, while older bottles Ontario’s Niagara region and Oregon’s can go for over $1000. Yet despite Willamette Valley also make notably its rich history, the vast majority of good Pinot Noir.

Burgundy is exceedingly average; an Another factor of Pinot Noir’s acclaim unfortunate percentage is even quite is its ability to pair well with a wide vabad. Because growing conditions in riety of foods. Its lighter body doesn’t Burgundy vary considerably from overwhelm most dishes, while its natuyear to year, the variation in quality rally high acidity cleanses the palate between vintages is very high—it’s between bites. It is also one of the few best to buy Burgundy from certain reds that can pair well with fish—Pinot years as opposed to certain produc- Noir and salmon is a classic combinaers: look for bottles from 2009, tion. It also works well with chicken and 2005, 2003 and 2002. poultry, especially duck—another clasA good year in Burgundy results in sic pairing. Heartier examples of Pinot a wine with a high concentration of Noir can stand up to lightly seasoned both tannins and acidity, providing red meat dishes, while more fruit-forthe backbone for wines that can eas- ward New World examples are probably ily age for upwards of 15 to 20 years. best on their own or with light, tapasOlder Burgundies can also develop a style dishes. V

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EDUCATION

EDUCATION // GRAPHIC NOVELS

Warning:

This class is going to get

graphic

Comix and graphic novels have birthed a new genre of teaching tools

S

ixty years ago, thanks largely to psychiatric bestseller Seduction of the Innocent, comic books were considered so threatening to American kids that a Senate Subcommittee Hearing was convened and a "Comics Code" created to ban gore, censor the sexual innuendo of "good girl art," and oversee the content of all those 10¢ DCs and Marvels just waiting to be plucked from the corner store's wire racks and riffled through on the walk home.

Forty years ago, after Stan Lee— agreeing to the US Department of Health, Education and Welfare's request for a story on drug abuse— had Peter Parker's pal Harry Osborn hospitalized after LSD-tripping in The Amazing Spider-Man #96-98, a chief administrator still refused to mark those issues with the Code's stamp of approval.

Now, post-Sunday strips, postsuperheroes, and post-Pulitzer (for Art Spiegelman's Maus), comix and graphic novels are increasingly taught in high schools and universities. Brandon Schatz, at the Wizard's Comics and Collectibles store on 109th St., near the University of Alberta's main campus, notes, "Some of our customers are elementary school teachers who have been using books like Bone, Amulet and Tiny Titans for reading exercises. Beyond that, many teachers have been snapping up flyers and posters that we get in for free, as the kids are definitely interested in the characters, which has prompted many schools to look into stocking more graphic novels in their library sections.

In addition to this, the U of A has been running a graphic novels course within their library program [LIS 404/518:

Comic Books and Graphic Novels in Schools and Public Libraries] for quite a few years now and other courses have been encouraging using graphic novel content while exploring genres, such as noir studies."

As a university professor myself, I've used pages from Chester Brown's Louis Riel to launch a conversation about the historical treatment of the Métis with some adult students in downtown Edmonton. I've taught Chris Ware's Acme Novelty Library No. 19 in a Contemporary Literature course—with a final exam question about Ware's satirical back-cover "Juan Tanamo" ad for US war-on-terror rendition—while a colleague in the French department teaches Tintin to first-year students.

But then, bandes-dessinées are still taken more seriously in Europe.

University professor Robin Durnford had "a bias against comics to begin with," she recalls. "Then I saw Art Spiegelman give a talk at the U of A," she says, "I read Maus," and "I noticed that women were starting to carve out a space for themselves in the comic book stores. There was Alison Bechdel's Fun Home; Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis."

Durnford thinks comix can be valuable teaching texts at times because they remind us of "the beauty of the book-as-object and what it means to be inside its covers—as opposed to, say, constantly staring, clicking, and blinking at a screen. In this way, they hark back to old-fashioned illuminated manuscripts, even to [William] Blake, but with a contemporary pop-culture spin. They get us thinking about the way text and image works together, and this is a way to re-engage students

with narrative—because many of them are more comfortable with the image than with text."

But both Durnford and Schatz note that perusing comix means a different kind of reading. "In my experience, graphic novels exercise a different set of muscles," explains Schatz. "They can also be used as a tool to learn visual storytelling, providing a more static canvas to dissect shots, and help people learn about story pacing, or what information should be visual, and what should be explained in dialogue."

Schatz feels that, even beyond the already-canonized comix, comic-strip biographies and history, or processexplaining graphic novels out there, the "medium is a rich, untapped vein of content, ready to be mined for the purposes of teaching." But, at the postsecondary level, are some of them still too easy and too trendy to teach?

Durnford wonders, "Is it pandering?

Is it too easy? Is it just about getting bums in seats? ... Does this mean we are giving up on Dylan Thomas and Shakespeare because students don't immediately gravitate to this 'hard' learning? ... I'm not sure."

At the store, Schatz notes, "We're hearing teachers talk about how much easier it is to teach students using the medium." And comix can be especially effective in introductory university English courses, Durnford's observed: "Teaching graphic novels can be a good thing, especially in first year. It can help students get a more comfortable foothold in the world of books through the comfort of images. On the other hand, it isn't really challenging them to actually read texts that are challenging or dense and I'm still

old-fashioned enough to believe that this should be at least the partial aim of any English literature department.

Yet I should say the best graphic novels, like Maus, are much more than a gateway drug to 'higher literature'.

They are a medium unto themselves and perhaps that alone is worth teaching—the birth of a new genre."

Schatz notes that some comix are "even designed specifically to [teach], like the fantastic Action Philosophers collection. Beyond even the non-fiction offerings, such as Maus, there's a treasure trove of wonderful stories, and interesting concepts that can be mined just like a prose novel or a movie, or music or what-have-you."

Certain comix can raise crucial questions—about artistic representation, realism, and history. "One of my students thought [Maus] was offensive," Durnford recalls, "because Spiegelman had depicted the Jews as comic book mice. She thought the book trivialized the Holocaust. She had read Elie Wi-

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esel's Night and was looking for realism. I was trying to show her the power of Spiegelman's fable-making. The way the Holocaust was almost best represented through comix because there was no attempt at realism—no one would ever get the fallacious idea from Spiegelman's book that they 'understood' the Holocaust or even came close to experiencing it. There is no voyeurism. No ownership. Just respectful distance, even from his father's own story. And yet there's deep power in that apparent trivialization—in the bleak joke of depicting Nazis as rats and Jews as mice."

As for that student, Durnford says, "I'm not sure if [she] ever came around, but I know most of the class responded well to Maus. They got it. It got them thinking about a sensitive historical moment in a more complicated way, and it never felt exploitative."

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A look back at the no zero policy and what it means "The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshipped it and the Church used it to fend off heretics."

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f this was Jeopardy, the answer would be what is zero, Alex. Or so says the back cover of Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea, Charles Seife's historical survey of the long difficulties the human race has had with zero. Zilch.

Nil. Naught.

Whatever you call it, zero has attracted more than its fair share of controversy.

Zero serves two important functions. In number systems such as our decimal system, zero keeps the other numbers in their place, differentiating between 2012 and 212. The zero could be anything: the Babylonians used two wedge symbols as placeholders in their system; we could have used smiley faces.

Zero's second function, a numeral representing nothing, first surfaced in India circa 650 AD. The ancient Greeks, though awesome mathematicians in their own right, had essentially dismissed the idea of zero as a flight of fancy. How can you measure nothing? Why would you?

As numeric systems evolved, Seife explains, the concept of zero emerged as a necessary evil.

All of which brings us to the case of Lynden Dorval, the Edmonton Pub-

lic School Board teacher who made headlines for refusing to comply with a "No Zero" directive issued by his school principal.

The controversy erupted in May when Dorval, a 61-year old physics and science teacher at Ross Sheppard High School, was suspended for giving students zeros on incomplete assignments. With 35 years experience, he took exception to a policy directing teachers to assign codes, not zeros, to indicate incomplete work.

"That's against what I've been doing my whole career because I believe the student should be accountable for what they're doing," he told CBC Radio. As the rest of the local, then national, media pounced on the story, Edmonton Public School Board (EPSB) Superintendent Edgar Schmidt's assurances that the rule didn't prevent students from failing courses if they don't complete the work did little to stem the tsunami of public support for the "Zero Hero" pouring in from across the country.

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Although Dorval vowed to fight his termination, his ability to do so appears unlikely. A statement issued by the Alberta Teachers' Association back in June explains why: "A school board's or a principal's directives to a teacher are lawful orders, and teachers are obligated under the School Act to comply with lawful orders of the board. If teachers disagree with a directive,

from the use of zeros and that new graduates have access to all sorts concur. O'Connor, echoing Superof assessment tools and strategies intendent Schmidt, pointed out an that he (in his 40s) and Dorval (in 'incomplete' in high school has the his 60s) would be less familiar with. same impact as a zero: the student "It really is an evolution," he says. will not receive credit.

Eggen says he's used zeros in the Second, the use of zeros violates past. "But they were always used mathematical principles. "Using zewith the caveat that the zero was ros in grades is similar to calculattemporary; I'd be chasing the stuing the average temperature for a dent to the end of the Earth to get week with data for only them to complete the six days, but calculating work," he insisted.

The ancient Greeks, though awesome the average as if you EPSB trustees voted mathematicians in their own right, had had data for seven days," unanimously at the end essentially dismissed the idea of zero as O'Connor argued. of June to review its policy a flight of fancy. How can you measure A third problem is moon student assessment, nothing? Why would you? tivational. Students who which is currently silent feel they have no chance on zero grades, leaving the of success give up and either become they are to protest the assignment matter of zeros up to high school prina discipline problem or drop out of through appropriate channels while cipals to decide. In September, Trustschool altogether. "I have been in high still complying with the order." ees Catherine Ripley, Dave Colburn schools in October and heard teachers Last week, Wildrose MLA (Chester- and Board Chair Sarah Hoffman were say that some students have no hope mere-Rocky View) Bruce McAllister appointed to the policy review commitof passing the year because no matter advised that his party will introduce tee, expected to report back later this what they do for the rest of the year an amendment to the new Educa- school year. A new principal brought they cannot overcome the impact of tion Act to protect teachers prov- in to lead the team at Ross Sheppard the zeros they have received to that ince-wide from discipline arising out has assured parents that he, too, will point," a situation O'Connor described of the use of zeros. review the policy, although it remains as unacceptable.

David Eggen, the NDP's education unclear how that will fit in with the Following a hearing in September, critic, questions whether the pro- board's district-wide review.

Dorval was given notice that his con- vincial legislature is the appropriate While attempts to reach Lynden Dortract would be officially terminated place for a conversation about stu- val were unsuccessful, several media effective October 15. His termination dent assessment to take place, say- reports indicate he has accepted a letter, which he chose to make public, ing he's inclined to believe the mat- part-time teaching position at Tempo, outlines numerous instances of insub- ter is best left for school boards and a provincially-accredited private K-12 ordination and examples of unprofes- teachers to work out. The governing school in Riverbend where, he's told, sional conduct. The letter, posted to PCs, to date, agree. he will be welcome to hand out zeros Scribd by the Journal and found easily A high school teacher himself, Eg- if he sees fit. with a Google search, uses the word gen pointed out that pedagogical re- MIMI WILLIAMS // MIMI@VUEWEEKLY.COM "zero" exactly zero times. search tends towards moving away << CONTINUED FROM PAGE 23

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PREVUE // DANCE

Dancing the iambic Othello gets a ballet translation

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espite the challenges of transferring Shakespeare to a wordless format like ballet, choreographer Kirk Peterson enjoyed incorporating the Bard's language into Alberta Ballet's Othel—he used full lines from the text to lo—he inform his rendition of the classic tragedy.

This weekend's show is a remount from Peterson's 2008 original ballet, which received a nomination for the prestigious Benois de la Danse award.

Using a modern score by prolific soundtrack composer Jerry Goldsmith (from the 1975 film The Wind and the ), Peterson's goal was to tell the Lion), Moor's infamous story by focusing on the emotional journeys of the four principal characters: Othello, Iago, Desdemona and Cassio.

"I originally was quite a Shakespeare fan, so I was very concerned about the idea of translating such a dense story into movement," Peterson explains. "It was a challenge. I wanted to find a leitmotif for each character, so I spent a lot of time finding what would define each of them."

He describes a passage from act two, scene one where Iago comments on Cassio's gestures to Desdemona in an aside, saying "Yet again your fingers to your lips?"

"I used that as a part of the inspiration for Cassio's movement. There is a whole duet he does with Desdemona where he kisses his fingers to his lips, so that [line] became a core of the movement that he's doing in that scene."

Beyond some of the literal, physical actions that he pulled from the play, there were a few thematic quotes that had to be addressed—especially that of the green-eyed monster. The token metaphor for jealousy has been prevalently used ever since Shakespeare first penned it to show how Iago's plot to destroy Othello rested on the intensity of man's covetous nature.

"I used the green-eyed monster as a point of departure for the idea of using a Greek chorus," he says, adding that it was important to find ways to include more of the corps in the show. "I wanted to create monsters that are manifestations of his subconscious, so the green-eyed monster appears as furies that are manifestations of his own jealousy developing."

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As in the Shakespeare version, the show really belongs to the character that's overtaken by even more resentment than Othello in the end: Iago. Played by Alberta Ballet veteran Kelley McKinlay, Iago is a venerable snake of a character, in movement and motivation.

"Kelley is kind of the anchor to the production, because it's as much Iago's ballet as it is Othello's," Peterson notes. Considering McKinlay has been typically cast in more of a hero's role, such as the Elton Fan in Love Lies Bleeding or as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, it was an interesting choice on Peterson's part.

"I know, I was totally casting against type," Peterson admits. "I didn't realize that when I was doing it, but I thought a lot of it had to do with his movement sensibilities because of what I was using as metaphors: they're all moving through a tangled web, and there was the idea of poison from a spider or snake. In exploring those at the beginning, I realized that Kelley was doing exactly what I was striving for because he was able to express my ideas to choreography so beautifully.

I really started focusing on him to a great deal."

In Shakespeare's version, Iago gets the last word after Othello—spoiler alert!— strangles Desdemona then offs himself.

One wonders if the Bard's darkest villain will get the last dance, too?

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PREVUE // THEATRE

The Memorandum

Mad Men meets doublespeak // Meaghan Baxter

Until Sat, Nov 11 (7:30 pm) Directed by Trevor Schmidt Timms Centre for the Arts, $11 – $20

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áclav Havel was way ahead of his time when he wrote The Memorandum in 1965. A Czech playwright, Havel was imprisoned as a political dissident, yet also served two terms as the ninth and last president of Czechoslovakia, as well as the first president of the Czech Republic.

"The play definitely has a very political agenda behind it," states Trevor Schmidt, guest director of Studio Theatre's upcoming production of Havel's The Memorandum.

It tells the tale of an office worker in a large organization who receives an inter-office memo written in a new language that he doesn't understand; attempting to have the memo translated results in a roundabout web of bureaucratic red tape and unhelpfully flamboyant characters. ("We keep say-

ing to the actors, 'You have to act as big as your wig,'" says Schmidt.)

"This new language has to be impersonal, with no emotional overtones; and if you have that emotional overtone then it breaks down all communication," Schmidt states. "There's much made of the main character being humanist. Everyone should be an individual; everyone needs to develop their own personality and own ideas about things. Obviously he was soft peddling his political agenda at the time, because of the political climate in his country."

Yet while The Memorandum may be a product of Havel's political views, his focus on the breakdown in language and communication also calls up an eminently relevant issue in our contemporary age of technology; everyone has experienced problems with tone and message in emails, online chat and texts.

The Memorandum's original script

calls for a cast of 11 men and three women, but in this production Schmidt is working with a cast of four women and two men—causing a significant reworking of several characters.

"In this particular production all of the higher-level executives in the company are women," he states. "It made sense to set it in that Mad Men-era where women were flowing into the workforce, getting better jobs." Other changes include purging the British colloquialisms from this translation and paring down the script from its original three-hour run time.

"One thing that might be a common misconception is that the show might be dark and serious and dry, because of what people perceive the subject matter to be," explains Schmidt. "But it's definitely lively and entertaining and fun: there's lots of smacking people on the butt—everybody likes that!"

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et in the heyday of '80s hair metal and Sunset Strip's prominence, Rock of Ages centres around the budding romance of Sherrie and Drew. The former begins the story about as archetypical a small-town gal as one gets—coming into LA with big singer dreams—who finds herself swept up the glitzy sex drugs and rock 'n' roll vibe of the era and place. The latter, Drew, is a bar runner and fledging songwriter struggling to make his mark, and around their story swirl songs you'll unquestionably recognize, from bands like Styx, Whitesnake or REO Speedwagon, that might bring back memories of wild nights and an ill-begotten youth.

It's a jukebox musical with its selection spanning the anthems of the '80s.

From the audience of the show's original broadway run, Shannon Mullen knew that the arc of Sherrie was one she wanted to embody.

"When I sat through Rock of Ages, there were two sounds—I grew up mimicking broadway musicals, but I also grew up as a good choir girl singing in church," she recalls, from a tour stop in Thunder Bay. "And Sherry gets to sing like both. It was the first time I saw a musical where she had the sweet, innocent, naive side

and then she turned into this rocker belt that just flew out of her mouth, and I was like, 'That's what I want to do.'"

Mullen's no stranger to Broadway shows—she's done tours of Legally Blonde and Hairspray in the past—and now she's been playing Sherrie for more than a year in Rock's touring outings. To her, it's a chord of nostalgia that Rock of Ages strikes with its audiences: almost everyone out there—from the veteran rockers who lived through the era to younger people who discovered bands like Styx at karaoke—has some attachment to this particular era of music, and Mullen thinks that offers a chance for reflection.

"It's one of those nights for people that lets them shut out whatever's going on in the world for them," she says. "If it was a bad day at work, if it was a bad time at home, you get two and half hours to go into the theatre and just be reminded of what it was like to be young or to go to a school dance. People always talk about their first date when they hear these songs. It just lets you forget what's going on right now, and regrounds people to be like, 'I was that age once—and now I'm here, but that doesn't change who I am, I'm just more mature in my skin, and I can walk out the door and handle whatever's going on.' It's a check in for people, I think."

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What is normal anyways? // Trudie Lee

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ulitzer prize-winning musical Next to Normal begins with a perfectly charming domestic scene depicting wife and mother Diana (Kathryn Akin) in the midst of sending her family off for the day. In the throes of the first song "Just Another Day," this picturesque ideal of the American suburban lifestyle comes crashing down as Diana falls to the floor and begins to frantically assemble a line-up of several sandwiches. The opening scene sets the tone for the rest of this rockmusical in a loud way: idealized notions of normal are constantly and abruptly shattered, and it's among the splintered remains that we find the story of a bipolar woman and her family.

Diana's family—her husband and two children—are in the constant process of negotiating their lives around the emotional fluctuations of their household. It is through Diana's story, however, that the audience is exposed to the issues surrounding the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness. Moving songs like Diana's "I Miss the Mountains" speak to the subduing effects pharmaceuticals can have, while jarring scenes like the one depicting Diana's ECT (electroconvulsive "shock" treatments) address the concept of using controversial means to achieve a decidedly idealized end: "normal."

Amidst themes of family ties and mental illness, the plot speaks to profound grief and the difficulties associated with loss.

Cory Sincennes's set design brilliantly compliments this. Blended into the twostorey household stands a glass wall used to separate the main characters from the lingering aspects of their grief—the source of which is a major surprise twist

in the show. The results of separating the home in such a visual manner were quite captivating and caused the definitive nature of the house to shift relentlessly between "home" and "cage."

Throughout this storytelling rollercoaster, the music pushes the lyrics to their emotional capacity, and the cast is bursting with vocal forte. At times, there was a peculiar exchange between acting and singing, in that when one faltered, the other rose to compensate. For the most part, however, listening to the talented ensemble belt out the rock and sail through the ballads is a treat. While this particular musical might not leave you with catchy songs stuck in your head, it certainly does leave a visual, thoughtful and emotional impression.

SALIHA CHATTOO

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ords can be powerful weapons, something spoken word poet Shane Koyczan knows all too well.

Cutting remarks and relentless bullying by his childhood peers made Koyczan believe his thoughts were unimportant, but he has taken those thoughts and spun them into powerful poetry that's captivated audiences worldwide.

"I'm not very comfortable in my own skin I guess is the easiest way to say it. What poetry gives me is that sort of thing where you lose one sense and another will overcompensate for it," Koyczan says of his interest in the genre. "I think for me, because I was so uncomfortable with my physical self, I over-compensated emotionally."

Over-compensating or not, Koyczan's heartfelt words have struck a chord with audiences, and he says it's always rewarding to hear people connect to what he's saying with something that's happened in their own lives.

"It's really led me to this sort of place where I realized, you know, that vulnerability is a stronger armour than all these walls we throw up," he muses.

Walls are non-existant on Koyczan's latest album, Remembrance Year, an honest, raw release which sees his poetry accompanied by his backing band Short Story Long. The material delves into Koyczan's childhood—often painful memories he had to resurrect from journals he had kept as a child. However, amidst the memories of bullying, he recognized a thread of positivity.

"I think they're just stories I needed

to get out. My journey over the last little while has been going back and looking at my childhood objectively.

I was really blessed to have a grandmother who never threw anything away and she kept all these journals that I wrote in as a kid. None of it was poetry; it was just my thoughts poured out on paper, but it was amazing. It was a treasure trove of being able to go back and see what I was going through," he says. "Going back and reading about myself from my perspective, in the midst of all this darkness, there were moments of beauty and levity and light ... so I wanted to pay homage to a chapter in my life I had ignored for so long and kind of revel in its value."

The stories were difficult to revisit, but Koyczan believes if someone else can gain something from his experiences, it's all worth it. The universal message that runs through his words is you are not alone, no matter how bleak a situation may feel.

"What's needed is compassion," Koyczan states, citing the recent suicide of Amanda Todd as a prime example of where bullying and judgement can lead. "We so severely need to abolish this idea of cool ... everybody's guessing what cool is—nobody knows.

There's no answer. Don't follow; carve out your own path."

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Porc-épic Until Sun, Nov 11 Directed by Craig Holzschuh La Cité Francophone

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eneath the radio's gentle flurry of classical strings sits Brian Dooley in his new office, coffee in hand. His desk is covered with plentiful stacks of neatly organized papers—the energy in the room is relaxed, but with an air of work to be done.

Well known around the Anglo side of the Edmonton theatre community, Dooley's new digs come with his new title: this marks his inaugural season as artistic director for L'Uni Theatre, our city's dedicated French theatre.

"It's been an adjustment, even though I'm familiar with the language and the culture. But that's a small adjustment," he explains. "It's more try-

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ing to discover what this community is, and what makes up this community. I know there are Quebecers, and Franco-Albertans, and speakers [of] continental French, and then there's the Franco-African community. So it's a real mixed bag."

Still, he seems eager, ready to relish the challenge of figuring out his newfound community. Dooley notes an interest in branching out, too, exploring the possibility of opening up L'Uni to a greater scope of English audiences than in the past. He also seems aware of the scope of that challenge. (If you didn't already know, L'Uni shows are presented with English surtitles. It's like watching a foreign film live, and more rewarding than you might expect.)

"That's always a tricky kind of goal," he

admits. "Your mandate, which is French culture first and foremost, is obviously something I embrace, but at the same time—and I said this to someone recently—I don't want the theatre to be ghettoized: 'Oh, there's the French theatre over there.' I want people to recognize that it's part of the 'ecology' of the theatre landscape of this city."

Still, first things first: Dooley's crafted a season that aims to get a feel of the community he's now working in, beginning with a play he'd previously requested commissioned into English: Porc-épic, an award-winning comedy centred around a birthday party that everybody's forgotten about, except Cassandra, the birthday girl, unfolding with a mix of absurdity, black comedy and whimsy.

"All of these characters seem to be disconnected somehow," he explains.

"They're all trying to either redefine their own realities, recreate a reality for themselves, and they're all on this kind of journey to affect some kind of transformation for themselves. Change their condition, if you will."

As the opening move of Dooley's first season, it seems to parallel his own hopes to discover what new directions L'Uni can go in.

"I see it as a transition: it's a first step," he says, of the season. "Next year will be something different, and probably a little more reformed— inevitably more informed, because you're more sensitive to what this community is wanting."

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The Universe Within Now available

By Neil Turok House of Anansi 280 pp, $19.95

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ook, I wish I didn't need books like The Universe Within.

I wish I could confidently recite Newton's laws of motion or the basics of general relativity off the top of my head.

At the very least, I wish I paid more attention in high school science classes (though I also wish my high school didn't make me choose between physics and English literature in Grade 12—a dilemma that ended up having a huge impact on my life trajectory).

Unfortunately, like a lot of people, my knowledge of even the simplest building blocks of science is woefully inadequate.

So when someone like Neil Turok, a South African-born physicist and author who works with Stephen Hawking (at

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least we know who that is, right? Right?), signs up to give this year's Massey Lectures, the only correct thing to do is pull up a chair, stop passing notes, spit out that gum and listen to the teacher.

Mercifully, Turok's style is breezy and accessible, and he favours a kind of pop history approach to science rather than getting bogged down in equations. If you come in looking for proofs, you'll be disappointed. But if you want to learn the gist of things?

Don't even worry about it. Turok has gist for days.

He gives readers a kind of scientific and mathematical highlight reel, starting in 35 000 BCE and a fossilized baboon leg bone with notches carved in it. We visit Pythagoras in ancient Greece, James Clerk Maxwell in the Scottish Enlightenment, and Einstein in last century's quantum upheaval. Along the way the universe expands, contracts, turns infinitely hot,

bounces like a ball and becomes sevendimensional—all as our conception of science keeps evolving and reinventing itself.

It's a permanent work in progress.

Because Turok never stops to dig in and show why any of these new developments checked out, The Universe Within can still sometimes feel like a classroom lecture that's zooming over your head.

But all readers will come away with something valuable—if nothing else, Turok's optimism about the future of scientific development is contagious. He also speaks with real passion about the importance of global science education, whether that's arguing for a 21st-century "Canadian Enlightenment," or hoping that the next Einstein will be African.

And if you're one of the few remaining dummies who thinks that scientists are only out to push their own selfish agendas, consider an old photo Turok

draws attention to. It's from 1927, and depicts a murderer's row of physicians and mathematicians, including Einstein, Marie Curie, Schrödinger, Heisenberg, and Niels Bohr, at a conference in Brussels. These people are leading a legitimate scientific revolution, yet they all look miserable. Why? Because quantum theory upended

Arts of Japan’s Last Shogun Age: a wide variety of Edo period art forms with focus on prints known as ‘ukiyo-e’; Nov 3-Feb 10 • PAUL FREEMAN: feature two life-size casts of stags whose antlers seem to have turned against them; Nov 3-Feb 10 • All Day Sunday: Art activities for all ages 3rd Sun every month, 12-4pm; free with admission • Studio Y Youth Drop-in: Collect: Mixed Media Installation: Thu, Nov 1, 3:30-5:30pm; $10 • Adult Drop-in: Layer: Image Transfer: Thu, Nov 1, 7-9pm, $15/$12 (member)

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ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA)

• Based on the Shakespearean play of tragedy of love, jealousy, deceit, revenge and murder • Nov 2-3

• 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • UNDER CULTIVATION: a series of oil paintings and ink drawings by Keith Harder depicting the rolling hills, vineyards and perched villages of Southern France; Nov 1-Dec 1; opening reception: Nov 1, 7-9pm

FILM

ART SOCIETY OF STRATHCONA COUNTY • Loft Gallery/A.J. Ottewell Gallery,

OTHELLO • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave

BAILEY THEATRE–Camrose • 5041-50 St,

Camrose • 780.672.5510 • baileytheatre.com • Singa-long Canada presents: Grease; Nov 3, 2pm & 7pm

CINEMA AT THE CENTRE • Stanley A. Milner Library Theatre (basement) • Get Animated!; Nov 7, 6:30pm

EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY • Royal Alberta

Museum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave • royalalbertamuseum.ca • $6 (adult)/$5 (senior 65 and over/ student)/$3 (child) • The Palm Beach Story; Nov 5, 8pm

FROM BOOKS TO FILM SERIES • Stanley A. Milner Library, Main Fl, Audio Visual Rm • 780.944.5383 • The Hunger Games; Nov 2, 2pm

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS AGNES BUGERA GALLERY • 12310 Jasper

Ave • 780.482.2854 • agnesbugeragallery.com • New work by artist Catherine McAvity; Oct 27-Nov 10

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY •

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 Demke-Lange 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

ART BEAT GALLERY • 26 St. Anne St, St. Albert

• artbeat.ab.ca • Fusion: new works by Shirley Cordes Rogozinsky; Nov 1, 6-9pm

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: A selection of print-making artists, whose work reveals an attention to different print-making technique, as well as an interrelationship; Oct 13-Jan 6 • EDO:

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

CROOKED POT GALLERY–Stony Plain

• 4912-51 Ave, Stony Plain • 780.963.9573 • CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS: featuring handmade and wheel thrown holiday décor, and handmade tree decorations; Nov 1-Dec 28; open house: Nov 3, 11-3pm

FAB GALLERY • Department of Art and Design, U of A, Rm 1-1 Fine Arts Bldg • 780.492.2081 • TRANSITIONS: Work by Technical Staff from the Department of Art and Design; Oct 23-Dec 1 • NIKA BLASSER: This exhibition is the final visual presentation for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Drawing & Intermedia; Nov 6-Dec 1 FRONT GALLERY • 12312 Jasper Ave •

780.488.2952 • Figurative Work by Michael Downs & Doug Jamha; Nov 3, 2-4pm

GALLERIE PAVA •9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 •

AME NUE: Artwork by Sabine Lecorre-Moore; Sep 22-Nov 14

KING'S UNIVERSITY COLLEGE • 9125-50 St •

780.488.8558; info@acuarts.ca • 120th Anniversary of Ukrainian Settlement in Canada • Oct 25-Nov 9

KIWANIS GALLERY–Red Deer • Red Deer Public Library • Beyond the Looking Glass: artwork

by Roberta Murray; Oct 16-Nov 25; Reception: Nov 2, 6:30-8:30pm 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

MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • GLASS JOURNAL: by Manola Borrajo-Giner; Sep 1-Nov 4 MISERICORDIA COMMUNITY HOSPITAL • 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

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 • Kelsey Stephenson (Etching); Nov 5-30; Reception: Nov 17, 2-4pm

NINA HAGGERTY–Stollery Gallery • 9225-118 Ave • 780.474.7611 • ninahaggertyart. ca • THE AVE WE HAD: interactive photographic display; Oct 4-Nov 5 PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • PERCEPTIONS IN SCAPES OF MY LAND AND MIND: artwork by David Alexander. Featuring interpretations of the Canadian landscape with vibrant colour and dynamic brushwork; Oct 27-Nov 13; Opening reception: Nov 3, 2-4pm PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES OF ALBERTA •

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

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

VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave,

St. Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa.ca • WILD ALBERTA: painters take a closer look at Alberta’s wild wonders, from the smallest insects to the vast Rockies; Nov 1-Dec 1; Opening reception: Nov 1, 7-9pm

WEST END GALLERY • 12308 Jasper Ave •

780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • THE OLD ROAD HOME: artwork by Paul Jorgensen; Nov 3-15

LITERARY CARROT COMMUNITY ARTS COFFEEHOUSE • 9351-118 Ave • vzenari@gmail.com •

Prose Creative Writing Group • Every Tue, 7-9pm

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900

• Poetry every Tue with Edmonton's local poets

T.A.L.E.S. STORY CAFÉ SERIES • Rosie’s Bar, 10475-80 Ave • 780.932.4409 • talesstorytelling. com • 1st Thu each month; Sep-Jun UGLY CANADIAN: STEPHEN HARPER'S FOREIGN POLICY EDMONTON BOOK LAUNCH • University of Alberta, Telus Building,

Rm 134 • Edmonton Book Launch with author Yves Engler. For those who would like to see Canada adopt a more just foreign policy • Nov 1, 7pm • Free (copies of book available for purchase)

GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner

QUIRKY ART CAFE • 6535-111 St • Recent

780.436.2286 • The poets of Nothing, For Now: poetry workshop and jam every Sun • No minors

HAPPY HARBOR COMICS V1 • 10729-104

Ave • COMIC JAM: Improv comic art making every 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7pm • Comics Artistin-Residence: with Kyle Sams; Every Fri 12-6pm and Sat 12-5pm; until Apr • The Gilbert Bouchard Memorial Art Show – Visions Of Comics; Nov 9-23

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 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

JEFF ALLEN GALLERY • Strathcona Place Seniors Centre, 10831 University Ave • In Oils Human Emotions: artwork by Neil Neli Farolan; Nov

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • FASHIONING FEATHERS: Dead Birds, Millinery Craft and the Plumage Trade; 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 • DIAGRAMS FOR THE PROMISED END: artwork

by Sean Caulfield; Oct 13-Oct 30 • BODYSCAPES: artwork by Richard Tosczak; Nov 1-3; Opening reception: Nov 1, 7-9pm SNAP GALLERY • Society Of Northern Alberta Print-Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • THE FORMATION OF THE WORLD: artwork by Fuki Hamada; Oct 25-Nov 24 STEPPES GALLERY • 1253 & 1259-91 St •

Fractured Light: Featuring: Sandy Cross, Krista Hamilton, and Annette Siccotte • Oct 20-Nov 21; Reception: Nov 17

at the library

VAAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St •

St, St. Albert • 780.459.2525 • A RETROSPECIVE: artwork featuring Marolyn Beck (medium of pencil crayon & watercolour); Oct 30-Nov 26

Portraits by Gerry Rasmussen; Oct 2-Nov 24

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CHIMPROV • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101 A

UPPER CRUST CAFÉ • 10909-86 Ave •

Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/art-gallery • BUILDING THE RING ROAD: Photographs by Sarah Boileau; Nov 3-30 • EDMONTON POTTERS' GUILD: items created by the Edmonton Potters' Guild in the Gallery at Milner display cases; Nov 5-30

MICHAEL HINGSTON

• 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • PHOTOGRAPHY IN A STATE OF EXCEPTION: Documents of Contemporary War; Nov 2-Dec 21; Reception: Nov 2 • The Wordless Book and other deserts; Nov 2-Dec 21; Reception: Nov 2, 7pm

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 7 • The Bookstore on Perron, 7 Perron

pretty well everything scientists knew about how the universe worked. Now they had to scrap centuries of good, hard work, and go right back to the drawing board.

As Heisenberg, the young German prodigy, put it, "Almost every progress in science has been paid for by a sacrifice; for almost every new intellectual achievement, previous positions and conceptions had to be given up. Thus, in a way, the increase of our knowledge and insight diminishes continually the scientist's claim on 'understanding' nature."

You can pretty much hear him sighing and rubbing his temples. So much for selfishness.

780.422.8174 • strollofpoets.com • The Poets’ Haven Weekly Reading Series: every Mon, 7pm; Presented by the Stroll of Poets Society • $5

WUNDERBAR ON WHYTE • 8120-101 St •

THEATRE 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 the threads apart when tragedy intervenes • Oct 30-Nov 11, 7:30pm, 2pm (matinee, Sat-Sun) • $25 (adults), $20 (seniors/students), $15 (selfidentifying aboriginal peoples)

ALBERTA THEATRE - IN THREE ACTS - ACT III • Strathcona County Library, 401

Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8600 • Acting Out Of The Box: Focuses on cutting edge and indie theatre. Local playwright David Belke will talk about his annual involvement with the Edmonton International Fringe Festival, and playwright Katherine Koller will discuss her new takes on Alberta stories • Nov 4, 2-4pm • $10 (general), $5 (students) - available at the door or

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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)

INNOCENCE LOST • Robert Tegler Student 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 • Nov 2-4 • $12 (adults), $10 (seniors, students) NEXT TO NORMAL • Citadel Theatre, 9828101A Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre.com • Book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey. Music by Tom Kitt.

Co-production with Theatre Calgary. Directed by Ron Jenkins. About a family coping with the complexities of modern life – heartbreak, compassion and hope • Oct 20-Nov 11 NOISY THEATRE: SINGING WITH SYLVIA

• Arden Theatre, 5 St. Anne St • ardentheatre.com • Part of the Family Series. As soon as Sylvia starts a singin’ kids are sure to feel the wiggles creep into the tips of their toes. Featuring songs about blankies, snoring, stinky feet, cookiesand more • Nov 7, 11am

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 THEATRESPORTS • Citadel Theatre, 9828 -

101 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 • U of A Studio Theatre: Inside one large, nameless organization, the 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 • $11 (student), $22 (adult), $20 (senior); Matinee $11 (student), $17 (adult), $15 (senior)

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 • $18 (adult); $15 (student/senior); $12.50 (child 12 and under)

SPRING AWAKENING • John L. Haar The-

atre, 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) • $17 (adults), $12 (students & seniors, 55+)

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PREVUE // NEW PORNOGRAPHER

Exile on Baker Street

AC Newman gets personal on Shut Down the Streets Mon, Nov 5 (8 pm) AC Newman With the Mynabirds Starlite Room, $18

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he imagery wrapping AC Newman's third solo album, Shut Down The Streets, finds the man standing, drink in hand, in a lush forest. His posture's relaxed as if to suggest he was standing in his living room.

Turns out, that's basically exactly where he is: the photos of him in the dense green canopy (and subsequent shots of a baby blue house) were taken at his property in upstate New York. It looks both wild and tranquil and in that way matches the music on the Streets: like with his dayband The New Pornographers, Newman's solo work maps out a lush sequence of beautiful pop songs. But unlike with that band's penchant for particularly uppity anthems, here it all seems more relaxedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in a good way. It turns out showing a little restraint in power-pop isn't a bad thing at all. On the phone from Philadelphia, Newman notes that it takes some musical cues from "Baker Street," of all things: Gerry Rafferty's iconic ballad gently helped direct the album's course.

"When you're making a record you're always a little unsure," He says. "I think a lot of people just go in, and they're not sure exactly what they're going to do. So sometimes it's good to have a

few guiding principles. It's not uncommon at all: sometimes a band has an album sitting on the board while they're workingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;they'll have a T Rex album on the board. It doesn't mean they're trying to sound like T Rex, they're like, 'Let's be inspired. Let's be inspired by this record that we love.'

"It wasn't like I followed it that closely. But I remember listening to 'Baker Street' and thinking, 'Hmm, this is cool.

I should use this as a template.,'" he continues. "I thought, If I don't know where to go, I should just use 'Baker Street' as the template."

That lent the instrumentation a bit of a '70s pop sheen, a balance between (Neko Case sings some backups here, too). Lyrically, Shut Down The Streets takes Newman into unusual territory: in the past, both with New Pornos or his previous solo output, the meaning of his songs could be a little obscure, but the Streets finds Newman addressing head-on some real world changes in his life: the birth of his son and the passing of his mother. Reconciling those big life shifts wasn't something he could avoid in his songwriting, though he notes the difference in subject matter does feel different to sing about.

"It definitely does. But it's nice to have that direction," Newman says.

"It's nice to know that like, well, this is what I'm going to write about because this is what's really mattering

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to me right now. It's difficult in that you want to be very respectful to your topic. And I think that could affect the music too. You're not going to write a punk song about your mother. You're going to write a song where you're trying to be very respectful to the way you feel about her. And so I think there's a lot of that on this record. I think the kind of record I made was how I felt.

"It's just what came out," he continues. "I really didn't have to look for any themes, because it was just so self-evident. Most of the time, making music, when you're living normal life, yeah, I think you're looking for themes. If nothing really crazy, if nothing's really happening in your life that jumps out, yeah, you're looking for themes. And on this record, it absolutely wasn't. I felt like I would be full of shit if I didn't

write about these things that were happening. Because they're all encompassing. At least for awhile, they were all encompassing.

"In that respect, I felt like it was something I just had to get out of my system. I just had to do it, had to get this record out of me so I could get back to my regular life. I had to address the big things."

is, we've got a whole bunch of songs built up from over the quiet years, so you know, over the next six months, over the winter here, we'll get together and practice and work on enough songs for a new album."

developed during that time," adds Liukko, who runs Freecloud Records.

"Focus on more important things because music is there, but it's not the only thing in the world."

With changing careers and families, Mad Bomber Society plans to continue making music and potentially heading back out on tour, but Liukko says this time around, the focus is playing music for pure enjoyment.

"Usually when a band first starts out, it's a lot of work and there's a lot of stress and pressure, and then you sort of grow up and hit a point where you're like, 'Wait, we can do this for fun?'" Liukko laughs. "There's way more reward when you're playing for fun and playing for a crown than when you're sitting there worrying about where the next gas tank is coming from."

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fter taking a couple of years for kids, life and a little Zen, Mad

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Bomber Society is back in full force.

The energetic six-piece ska-punk outfit made its raucous debut on the Edmonton music scene back in 1997 and after a few years developing at the local level, the guys hit the road

to tour Western Canada. Following the release of its debut album Atomic A-Go-Go in 2001, it was a wild ride of shows and touring across the country, growing a legion of fans along the way.

Following a break from 2008 to 2011, the band was offered a show in Whitehorse, Yukon, and spurred on by that performance, the Mad Bomber Society has returned armed with a brand new album, Butchers, Stompers and Cheats, which will played back to back with Atomic A-Go-Go at Friday's show. Mad Bomber Society recorded the album between 2005 and 2007, finishing the mixing and mastering stages a couple of years later.

"I really like it and it was actually great to be able to get away from it and then come back and start playing it again," says guitarist and vocalist Rich Liukko. "I guess the next step

Despite Mad Bomber Society taking a break from doing gigs and recording together, none of the band members ever left music completely, taking on roles in different local bands. Liukko adds there was never any bad blood between the members, and says the relationship they have is a family-style one. The reason for the break was due mostly to the economic boom of 2008, where Liukko says he encouraged everone to pursue their own endeavours and try to be as successful as possible while the going was good.

"As a result pretty much everyone in the band has career jobs now, which

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Rah Rah

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or two previous records Rah Rah has peddled in swirls of low-fi pop and swoops of hooky rock: there's been some punch, sure, but the band's been seemingly more drawn to barroom sing-alongs than to stadiumsized anthems, targeting the back of the bar, not the upper bowl.

So the first big, crunchy chorus that hits on "Art & A Wife," the first track of The Poet's Dead, stands as an indication of just how much more muscular the Regina six-piece sounds on album number three.

"Our previous two records, they

were obviously a little more lo-fi," begins drummer/bassist/vocalist Erin Passmore, on the phone from New York a few weeks back, there to play the CMJ Musical Marathon. "And [our manager] wanted us to experiment with bigger sounds. He'd been listening to the Priestess records and stuff, and was just like, 'How do we get to that volume?'"

To do so, Rah Rah let Gus Van Go and Werner F, known for helming records by the likes of Ottawa rockers Hollerado and Montréal's the Stills, produce the album.

Working with the duo involved an elaborate amount of pre-production, Passmore notes, a sort of figure-it-out-first approach that all

but eliminated the need for much tinkering afterwards.

"I didn't really know that that's what we were getting into, but the way that they work as far as finding a sound before you press record, fine-tuning the drums ... there's no real post-production involved," she says. "That obviously helps your performance, and that style of recording really jived with us, just 'cause we've obviously never really done that. It was nice. It was nice having that option where things could go."

Van Go and Werner also mixed the album—"they're scientists when it comes to that sort of thing," Passmore recalls—but in the downtime after recording the album last fall, Rah Rah took the winter off, scattering across the country to pursue individual projects. Passmore put out a solo EP, Downtown, that, at eight songs, seems closer to an album than an extended play.

"I call it an EP because there's no clear thematic element binding each song together," she explains.

quences of making art today.

"For the songs that Marshall [Burns] sings, he deals with a lot of themes like art and what motivates a person to pursue that in a serious way, and what happens as an art form surpasses an artist: after an artist dies their art lives on," Passmore says, pointing out the title track as an example.

"For me personally, a lot of the songs were just about what happens when you deal with that disconnect when you're away from home, and what happens to your relationships and your own identity, and how to be the person that you want to be when you don't have the immediate tools or the immediate comfort zones to explore that. Then Christina deals with a lot of issues of 'Is this an OK thing for me to be doing, since my family

worked so hard for me to be able to do this?'—I'm not sure if it's a familial guilt, but I totally get that. Obviously all our parents are very supportive of what we do. We're all like these traveling waifs that don't have a steady income ... is this really what should be doing?"

Still, having a rotating sense of songwriting's only proven itself a good thing for the band, Passmore notes.

"I think that spending so much time together, we sort of converge in the collective writing that we do, and we're all really comfortable around each other. I think that's what you need to write a record in general: to trust everyone that you're working with and just feel really safe."

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But if Downtown is a series of disconnected songs presented by a single songwriter, Passmore praises the cohesiveness of The Poet's Dead, split as it is between the band's three main songwriters, each taking their own approach, but all exploring the conse-

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James Keelaghan

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urviving the music industry is no easy task, but when the calendar flips and 2013 hits, singersongwriter James Keelaghan will have been making a go of it for a quarter of a century.

Keelaghan initially used music as

a way to put himself through university, and took the chance to record his first record when he graduated, telling himself he'd do it for a couple of years and return to academia to pursue a law degree.

"Twenty-five years later, I'm nowhere near that law degree," Keelaghan laughs over the phone while on the road to pick up his bandmates to start the next leg of his tour, which is bringing him to Spruce Grove's Horizon Stage for the first time.

He's now considered one of the country's finest songwriters, but Keelaghan remains humble about it all, stating no one's more surprised than himself for having a career that's gone on for so long. He says through it all, one of the most significant influences he's had is having the opportunity to travel the world and learn about how things are done in other countries, particularly in regards to different music scenes.

Exploring other cultures has also lent itself well to the melodies of Keelaghan's traditional folk sound.

Lyrically, he keeps ideas fresh by drawing on conversations, things he's read and history.

"History is just a topic that's get-

ting bigger every day," he notes.

"History is the way we figure stuff out ... The more you know about your own history, the more you know about yourself and the more society knows about its own history, the more it knows about itself."

After 11 albums and countless songs, Keelaghan notes he's at a point in his career where songwriting has become a much more organic and free-flowing process than it was in the beginning, when it was reliant on tight deadlines.

"When you look at the first album that I put out, theoretically it took me 26 years to write that album and then we get into this situation here it's like OK, let's put one out every two years. There's something to be said about having a deadline, but there's also something to be said for sort of relaxing into it and letting it come when it wants to come," note Keelaghan, who is currently gathering material for his 25th anniversary album, History and the First 25 Years. "The writing becomes more of a caress rather than a boot to the head."

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ON THE RECORD

All in the family

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Evening Hymns' Jonas Bonnetta talks Spectral Dust and his dad

JP Hoe

JB: Yeah, we didn't make a big list of songs and then cull it down into an album. Some of the songs were written to give the record a certain shape.

I knew that I wanted to have this long, droning, string piece in the middle of the album and segue into it with this other non-song, and so we'd leave space for all these things to happen.

It really felt like a drawing when we started. Open with a drone, pull the listener into this environment, a big release, meditation in the middle of the album and a lonesome solo performance at the end with room noises. Tie all the songs together with overlapping sounds and repeated lyrics. The whole thing was designed to have a certain feel.

Mon, Nov 5 Wunderbar To record Spectral Dusk, Evening Hymns hunkered down in a log cabin in Northern Ontario, a process that was punctuated by impromptu games of pond hockey with old friends from the group the Wooden Sky, who acted as Evening Hymns' backing band.

The album pays homage to lead singer and songwriter Jonas Bonnetta's father, who passed away in 2009, as well as his brother. Prior to a show in Edmonton, Bonnetta took some time to tell Vue about the process.

VUE WEEKLY: How long did it take to make Spectral Dusk from the initial songwriting through to the end of the recording?

JONAS BONNETTA: Well, Spectral Dusk is a record I wrote about my father passing away in early 2009, so it pretty much started then. I began writing about him then and wrote steady for months. We began recording the album in the winter of 2010, starting in January and working intensely on it for a couple months before I burnt out on it and had to put some distance between myself and those songs as I was depressed. I'd come back to it and work on it for a couple weeks and then have to disappear again. We finished this past spring—finally— after a long battle and I am really happy with it.

VW: When you were writing the songs, did you come at them in a particular way? Lyrics first? Music first?

JB: When I was writing I'd make these long lists of memories of Dad and then incorporate them into the songs.

In a lot of ways I wasn't making a record, but a documentation of our relationship so I could do that without guitar. When it came time to start shaping things into an actual record then I started putting stuff to music. I usually get some lyrics written down

VW: Were

VW: You co-produced the album with James Bunton. What drew you to him and what did he bring to the process?

JB: I worked with James on the last record and it was a great match. He was able to help me do everything I wanted to do and he was really excited about it.

We'd spend afternoons fiddling around in the studio. I'd hook my iPhone up through a bunch of pedals and he'd be routing sounds all over the place and we'd be having a blast just making weird sounds. It was super organic and fun, and then next time I'd show up he'd play me one of the songs that would have this cool sound happening in the background and I'd be like, “That sounds amazing. What is that?” He'd be like “Oh it's that weird phone sound running through delays that you were doing two weeks ago here.” He had this incredible sense of what we'd captured and where it could live on the record.

It was really fun. On top of that, he's a close friend. While we were making the record we'd spend half the time in the studio working on sounds and the other half talking about life. He was incredibly helpful both as an engineer and a friend.

VW: How did you decide which songs to include on the album? Did you have an idea of what you wanted Spectral Dusk to be when you started, or did the finished shape emerge as the writing and recording went along?

VW: If you were to trace the musical map that led you to Spectral Dusk what would it look like?

JB: I spent a long time after Dad passed wondering if I had the energy to tackle his loss through my music.

As I started writing music it was all about him and I had no choice.

When I realized that, it just became this quest to get it all out there and try to accurately and honestly write about our relationship. It wasn't till the very end of the recording process that I was finally able to accept it. It felt like a complete snapshot of our relationship. It's not really a record to me, but a documentation of all of that. There are field recordings from where he used to hunt embedded in there, references to my upbringing, all this imagery for me that brings him back to life. It's a real trip for me to listen to it. V

first before I add music, or I do both at the same time, but never the music first. I'm trying to create little environments to exist in, so I write with imagery and then try and create music that suits that environment.

VW: What were the recording sessions like for this album? Is this the kind of thing you recorded live or did you piece it together one track at a time? Why? JB: We recorded in a house in the woods near Perth, Ontario. We set up a studio there and rehearsed with the band and then recorded big chunks of the songs. Most of the tracks on the album were recorded there. When we got back to Toronto, we spent months in the studio adding layers, drones, etc. That part is pretty collage-y for me, but the bulk of the performances were live-off-the-floor in the cabin.

We needed to get away to make this record. It was important that we all be together in the woods and playing music without distractions.

there any other songs written that were left off the album?

Why? JB: We actually did record a song called "Quiet Energies" that we cut as it didn't fit the feel of the record.

I'm sure we'll release it at some point.

It's more of a Traveling Wilburys kind of song. I actually almost called the record "Quiet Energies." I like this idea of something being small and quiet, yet full of energy. I try to perform these songs with quiet energy and it's the way I always try and explain to the people playing in the band how to treat the songs live. Put the energy of a shout into a whisper.

Fri, Nov 2 (8 pm) With Karl Andriuk Haven Social Club, $7 (advance), $10 (door) Winnipeg-based singer-songwriter JP Hoe has become known for his tongue-in-cheek torch songs, spanning different styles and capped off with his smooth voice and casual demeanor. Hoe released his fifth studio record, Mannequin, earlier this year and before his show in Edmonton, shared his daily soundtrack with Vue.

At home

On the road

Morning: Rose Cousins is a great way to ease into the day. I just have to battle sadness on the album, or keep extra Kleenex in the office.

Morning: Fleet Foxes. Play anything in their catalogue. I imagine birds and squirrels flocking to FF's rehearsal space when they start practice around 5 am. They do start practice at 5 am right?

Noon: The Shins–Port of Morrow is my favourite record of the year.

I've probably listened to it over 100 times since seeing them live in April.

Noon: Aimee Mann is probably my favourite modern singer-songwriter.

Top two records are Bachelor No 2 and and The Forgotten Arm, but the single from Charmer, "Labrador" is fantastic.

Night: Wilco. I'll bounce back and forth between records, but Yankee Foxtrot and Wilco (the Album) are on high rotation always.

Night: Patrick Watson–Wooden Arms or Radiohead–In Rainbows. I love night driving so much. Both of these records are amazing accompaniments. Black pavement, no traffic, total peace and relaxation. Absolutely perfect. V

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hesive in a way that makes you feel uncomfortable. And Dan Geddes's voice rings out over top like a maniac's kiss, separate from yet solidly embedded in the threateningto-unweave tapestry.

Take, for example, the album's second track, "Fun and Games." Underneath guitars that sound like they could fall out of time with each other at any second rumbles bass and drums desperately trying to keep the whole thing together. The instrumental mix feels gloriously out of sorts, like when you stumble out of a pub and try to find a taxi, your skin clammy and your clothes dishevelled. On top of that comes the lyrics, "It's ... all ... fun and games," shouted with an urgency of purpose, punctuated by syncopated laughter that would make a madman uncomfortable.

The album is not wholly successful.

Unfortunately, its back half gives into the temptation of extended jam outs that, far from reinforcing the off-kilter incredibleness of the album serve only to dilute it and let it become boring. But let's just ignore that for the time being, OK? Because even when Peace is bad, Peace is very, very good.

The newest album from Bison BC proves that tales of heartbreak and loss do not have to sound like the pop flavour of the week, working just as well— or even better—as grounded, gritty, pounding throbs of anger and frustration. Guitarist and vocalist James Farwell, who, by his own admission, took something of an emotional pummeling, chose to work out his frustration in the writing of the band's fourth album.

Lovelessness captures the perfect balance between grandiose sprawl and heavy, forceful jams. It's a sound Bison has been working with since its first EP, but here the band has found the sweet harmony of a deep resounding sound, while fully engaged in an unrelenting forward momentum. Grandiose, 10-minute-long tracks drive with such force you cannot help but listen to the album in its entirety.

"Last and First Things" embodies the assault: seamless movement between the track's opening echoey drums and a single guitar riff moves into a pummeling, ripping assault; one could spend hours on the repeated echoes of the circular rhythm of "Blood Music"; while "Clozapine Dream" hits the other end with Farwell's gritty vocals and faster paced punk edge.

While still using the expansive outlook found on the album Quiet Earth, this album pulls at the roots of Bison's gritty punk sound and seamlessly mashes the two together in a grounded earthly mess.

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Peace The World Is Too Much With Us (Suicide Squeeze)  There's nothing more annoying than rock-critic math: the kind of lazy, presumptive writer who would see fit to tell you a band is like "Interpol + ABBA" or "Franz Ferdinand – Gang of Four + New Kids on the Block" is the kind of elitist gatekeeper gibberish that nobody ought to have time for.

But when it came to Vancouver post-punk princes Peace, the math was, until now, too perfect not to mention. Take the throaty, esoteric singing of Jonathan Richman and tack it onto the twinkling double-guitar lockstep of Television and you have your equation. As exciting as that scenario would be—I mean, could you imagine?—it meant that, because the math was so easy, Peace was simply the sum of its parts. It added up to a lot, but still.

That being said, Peace has smashed whatever mould it fit into and, with the group's second full-length and Suicide Squeeze Records debut The World Is Too Much With Us, taken the pieces and done a hell of a job reconstructing them with scotch tape and staples.

Gone are the band's pretty call-andresponse guitars, replaced with buzzsaws that fight each other for space, that layer on top of each other and argue. Their very disagreements are sonically sinister, but brilliantly co-

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ALL SAINTS' ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL Music and Masterpieces Featuring Cantilon Choirs; 6pm; $20 (adv)

BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; King Muskafa, Oct 29-Nov 3 BOHEMIA The Implicate Order with The Blank Trio and Seven Suns; 9pm; $5 (door)

THE DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Fri; 9pm

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

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Shake yo ass every Fri with DJ SAWG

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

COMMON Get Down It’s Saturday Night w/ $hortee, Chris Goza; $7

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

CROWN PUB Acoustic blues open stage with Marshall Lawrence

JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY LGBT Community: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm NEWCASTLE PUB House, dance mix every Fri with DJ Donovan 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

TEMPLE Silence be Damned: with DJs Gotthavok, Siborg, Nightroad; 9pm THIRSTY CAMELThe 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 Y AFTERHOURS Foundation Fridays

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CARROT CAFÉ Sat Open mic; 7pm; $2 COAST TO COAST Live bands every Sat; 9:30pm

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

PSYCHEDELIC PILL

BRIXX BAR Her Alibi, John Not Joan and Dawn in the City; 9pm (doors)

FLUID LOUNGE Hip hop and dancehall; every Fri

SUITE 69 Release Your Inner Beast: Retro and Top 40 beats with DJ Suco; every Fri

YARDBIRD SUITE Rafael Zaldivar Trio, part of the 2012 Yardbird Jazz Festival; 8pm (doors), 9pm (show); $18 (members), $22 (guests)

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Celtara; 8:30pm; $15

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

ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ every Fri

10442 whyte ave 439.1273 10442 whyte ave 439.1273 CD/ NEIL YOUNG LP

ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Duff Robison; Nov 2-3

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

SIDELINDER'S PUB The Tubsteppers; 9pm; No cover

WUNDERBAR Halloween Tribute Show! Guided

By Voices, Flaming Lips, Fugazi; 9pm

ARTERY CD Release Featuring The Collective West with Fish & Bird and Lindsey Walker; 7:30pm

BAILEY THEATRE Sing-along Canada presents: Grease; 2pm & 7pm

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

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

APEX CASINO Mark McGarrigle; Nov 2-3

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

SHERLOCK HOLMES– DOWNTOWN Joanne Janzen; Oct 30-Nov 3

STARLITE ROOM The Pack A.D. with Topanga; 18+; 8pm (doors)

Jordan 1st and 3rd Sat; 7pm-12

DEVON HOTEL PALS Acoustic Open Mic with Tim Harwill; Every Sat 4-6:30pm THE DISH NEK Trio (jazz); every Sat, 6pm DV8 Nervous Wreck with The Preying Saints EDMONTON EVENT CENTRE HELLYEAH with Holy Grail and Dance Laury Dance; 8pm ELEVATION ROOM–

TRANSCEND COFFEE

Alberto Boccardi, Mark Templeton, Attilio Novellino, Pigeon Breeders; All ages & licensed; 8pm; $10 (door) FILTHY MCNASTY'S Third Branch with guest Ben Disaster; 4pm; No cover GAS PUMP Saturday Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB JP Hoe with Karl Andriuk and Guests; $7 (adv); $10 (door) HILLTOP PUB Sat afternoon roots jam with Pascal, Simon and Dan, 3:30-6:30pm; evening HOOLIGANZ Live music every Sat HYDEAWAY Marleigh and Mueller (classic pop/jazz/ musical theatre); 8pm; 3rd Sat each month; $10 IRON BOAR PUB Jazz in Wetaskiwin featuring jazz trios the 1st Sat each month; $10 JAMES THEATRE The Led Zeppelin Show JEFFREY'S CAFÉ June Mann Quartet; $10 L.B.'S PUB Sat afternoon Jam with Gator and Friends; 5-9pm EVERY SAT: Live music LOUISIANA PURCHASE Suchy Sister Saturdays: Amber, Renee or Stephanie with accompaniment; 9:3011:30pm; no cover

SAT NOV 3

NEW CITY LEGION Vixenesque with Dead in Memphis and the debut of Machine Zombie; 9pm

ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage with Trace

NEW WEST HOTEL Herbs, Oct 29-Nov 3

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NEW WEST HOTEL Country jam every Sat; 3-6pm O’BYRNE’S Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm ON THE ROCKS Mustard Smile; Nov 2-3

FRI NOV 2

MAD BOMBER SOCIETY 15 YEARS OF BLOOD SWEAT & BEER’S PERFORM ‘ATOMIC A-GO-GO’ & ‘BUTCHERS, STOMPERS & CHEAT’S’ IN THEIR ENTIRETY!

W/ THE VON ZIPPERS & THE PREYING SAINTS

MON NOV 5

FUQUORED

W/ SECRET RIVALS, & END PROGRAM

OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Dueling Piano's, all request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover PUB 1824 Live music every Fri & Sat; $5 QUEEN ALEXANDRA COMMUNITY HALL Doug Cox & Betty Soo; 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $18 (adv), $22 (door), kids half price, free (kids under 6) RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am RIVER CREE–The Venue Diamond Rio; 18+; 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $34.50

Main Floor: The Menace Sessions: Alt Rock/Electro/ Trash with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic hip-hop and reggae with DJ Sonny Grimezz; Underdog: Dr. Erick BLACKSHEEP PUB DJ every Sat BONEYARD ALE HOUSE DJ Sinistra Saturdays: 9pm BUDDY'S Feel the rhythm every Sat with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm BUFFALO UNDERGROUND Head Mashed In Saturday: Mashup Night DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Sat; 9pm ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ every Sat FILTHY MCNASTY'S Fire up your night every Saturday with DJ SAWG

ROSE AND CROWN Amie Weymes; Nov 2-3

FLUID LOUNGE Scene Saturday's Relaunch: Party; hip-hop, R&B and Dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali

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

SHERLOCK HOLMES– DOWNTOWN Joanne Janzen; Oct 30-Nov 3

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

W/ NAPALM DEATH, DAYGLO ABORTIONS & EXHUMED

SIDELINERS PUB Sat open stage; 3-7pm

FUSIA/CORAL DE CUBA Mixing in the House every Sat: DJ Fuego and his Latin Groves with Mojito in Hand From Cuba; 9:30pm2am; $5

WED NOV 7

MUNICIPAL WASTE SOLD OUT!!!

STARLITE ROOM Innertwine Grainand the Threads; 9pm (doors)

FRI NOV 9

YARDBIRD SUITE Shannon Butcher, 2012 Yardbird Jazz Festival; 8pm (doors), 9pm (show); $18 (members), $22 (guests)

THE BIRTHDAY MASSACRE

W/ WILLIAM CONTROL, AESTHETIC PERFECTION, & ANY LAST REGRETS SUN NOV 11

QUIETUS

Classical ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN Church In Paradisum; 8pm; $15 (door) WINSPEAR CENTRE Richard Eaton Singers: Mendelssohn's Elijah; 8pm

W/ KYOKTYS, IMMUNIZE, & ANUBIAN

DJs

THU NOV 15

ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALBERTA AVENUE COMMUNITY LEAGUE 9210118 Ave ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ALL SAINTS ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL 10035-103 St APEX CASINO 24 Boudreau Road, St. Albert, 780.

460.8092, apexcasino.ca ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL 7704-104 St, 780.432.4611 atlantictrapandgill.com AVENUE THEATRE 9030-118 Ave, 780.477.2149 BAILEY THEATRE– CAMROSE 5041-50 St, baileytheatre.com 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 1022597 St, 780.497.0011 BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 CAFÉ CORAL DE CUBA 10816 Whyte Ave CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca CARROT CAFÉ 9351-118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CAFE TIRAMASU 10750-124 St CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464-153 St, 780 424 9467 CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

hip hop, reggae, Old School PALACE CASINO Show Lounge DJ every Sat PAWN SHOP Transmission Saturdays: Indie rock, new wave, classic punk with DJ Blue Jay and Eddie Lunchpail; 9pm (door); free (before 10pm)/$5 (after 10pm) RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style 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

Open stage/jam every Sun; 2-6pm BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Sunday Brunch: Jim Findlay Trio; 10:30am-2:30pm; donations BLUE PEAR RESTAURANT Jazz on the Side Sun 5:30-8:30pm; $25 if not dining 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 DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB Celtic open stage every Sun with Keri-Lynne Zwicker; 5:30pm; no cover

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

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

UNION HALL Celebrity Saturdays: every Sat hosted

by DJ Johnny Infamous

EDDIE SHORTS Open stage with Dan Daniels every Sun

VINYL DANCE LOUNGE Signature Saturdays

FESTIVAL PLACE Jens Lindemann with the River City Big Band in BRASSFIRE

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

Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

SUN NOV 4

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Rock and Soul Sundays with DJ Sadeeq

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

ALBERTA AVENUE COMMUNITY LEAGUE Eclipse Fusion; 6pm; $10 (adv), $15 (door)

HOGS DEN PUB Open Jam: hosted; open jam every Sun, all styles welcome; 3-7pm

NEWCASTLE PUB Top 40 requests every Sat with DJ Sheri

ARTERY California Lane Change with The Mighty Alliance and Seventh Rain and more; 3pm

HORIZON STAGE James Keelaghan; 7:30pm; $30 (adv)

O2'S TAPHOUSE AND GRILL DJs every Fri and Sat OVERTIME–Downtown Saturdays at Eleven: R'n'B,

BAILEY THEATRE The Troubadours; 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $29

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

BEER HUNTER–St Albert

O’BYRNE’S Open mic every

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 HORIZON STAGE–SPRUCE GROVE 1001 Calahoo Road HYDEAWAY 10209-100 Ave, 780.426.5381 IRON BOAR PUB 4911-51st St, Wetaskiwin J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JAMES THEATRE 520650 ave, Wetaskiwin, 780.352.7499, thejamestheatre.ca JEFFREY’S CAFÉ 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 JEKYLL AND HYDE 10209100 Ave, 780.426.5381 JUBILEE AUDITORIUM 11455-87 Ave, jubileeauditorium.com JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY 10242-106 St, 780.756.5667 KAS BAR 10444-82 Ave, 780.433.6768 L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEGENDS PUB 6104-172 St, 780.481.2786 LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR 10132-104 St LIZARD LOUNGE 13160118 Ave MARYBETH'S COFFEE HOUSE–Beaumont 5001-30 Ave, Beaumont, 780.929.2203 MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH 10025 Macdonald Drive MONTY'S PIZZA AND STEAKHOUSE 1027 Potter Greens Drive (Lewis Estates) MUTTART HALL 10050 MacDonald Drive NAKED CYBERCAFE &

ESPRESSO BAR 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE PUB 6108-90 Ave, 780.490.1999 NEW CITY 8130 Gateway Boulevard NISKU INN 1101-4 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535-109A Ave 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 QUEEN ALEXANDRA HALL 10425 University Ave REDNEX BAR–Morinville 10413-100 Ave, Morinville, 780.939.6955 RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780-457-3117 RIC’S GRILL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 RIVER CREE–THE VENUE 300 East Lapotac Blvd Box 179, Enoch ROBERTSON-WESLEY UNITED CHURCH 10209-123 St ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM THEATRE 12845-102 Ave R PUB 16753-100 St, 780.457.1266

Sun; 9:30pm-1am ON THE ROCKS Seven Strings Sun: Live music O2'S TAP HOUSE AND GRILL Live rock band every Sun with Joint Chiess RICHARD'S PUB Sun Live Jam hosted by Carson Cole; 4pm SHAW CONFERENCE CENTRE Wiz Khalifa & The Taylor Gang 2050 Tour; 6pm (door), 7pm (show); $49.50; All ages STARLITE ROOM Plants & Animals with Rah Rah; 18+; 8pm (doors) TWO ROOMS Live Jam every Sun with Jeremiah; 5-9pm; no cover; $10 (dinner) YARDBIRD SUITE Brandi Disterheft, part of the 2012 Yardbird Jazz Festival; 7:30pm (doors), 8pm (show); $20 (members), $24 (show) YELLOWHEAD BREWERY Open Stage: Every Sun, 8pm

Classical ALL SAINTS' ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL Pro Coro: Laudate – Jubilate – Cantate!; 2:30pm JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Video Games Live; 7:30pm ROBERTSON WESLEY UNITED CHURCH Enterprise Quartet; 2pm WINSPEAR CENTRE Lest We Forget… A Musical Tribute; 7:30pm

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

VENUE GUIDE

NOISY COLOURS W/ MAD YOUNG DARLINGS & REND - A NIGHT OF FEMALE

FRONTED ROCK

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SAT NOV 3

FREE SHOW 4PM

THIRD BRANCH W/ BEN DISASTER

STAND UP COMEDY

SUNDAYS 40 MUSIC

CHA ISLAND TEA CO 1033281 Ave, 780.757.2482 CHROME LOUNGE 132 Ave, Victoria Trail CITY HALL 1 Sir Winston Churchill Square COAST TO COAST 5552 Calgary Tr, 780.439.8675 COMMON 9910-109 St CONVOCATION HALL Old Arts Building, University of Alberta 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 CENNTENNIAL CENTRE–FORT SASK 8700-84 St DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8307-99 St EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain EDDIE SHORTS 10713-124 St, 780.453.3663 EDMONTON EVENTS CENTRE WEM Phase III, 780.489.SHOW ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 ELEPHANT AND CASTLE– Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave ELEVATION ROOM– TRANSCEND COFFEE 10349 Jasper Ave EMPIRE BALLROOM 8882170 St EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ 993870 Ave, 780.437.3667 FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FIDDLER’S ROOST 8906-99 St FILTHY MCNASTY’S 1051182 Ave, 780.916.1557 FLASH NIGHT CLUB 10018105 St, 780.996.1778 FLUID LOUNGE 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 FUNKY BUDDHA 10341-82 Ave, 780.433.9676 GOOD EARTH COFFEE

VUEWEEKLY NOVEMBER 1 - NOVEMBER 7, 2012

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 CENTRE 9797 Jasper Ave SHERLOCK HOLMES– DOWNTOWN Rice Howard Way 780.426.7784 SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St, 780.453.6006 SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924 SPORTSMAN'S LOUNGE 8170-50 St ST STEPHEN'S ANGLICAN CHURCH 11725-93 St STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 STEEPS TEA LOUNGE– Whyte Ave 11116-82 Ave SUEDE LOUNGE 11806 Jasper Ave, 780.482.0707 SUITE 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969 TAPHOUSE 9020 McKenney Ave, St Albert, 780.458.0860 TREASURY 10004 Jasper Ave, 7870.990.1255, thetreasurey.ca TWO ROOMS 10324 Whyte Ave, 780.439.8386 VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 VINYL DANCE LOUNGE 10740 Jasper Ave, 780.428.8655, vinylretrolounge.com WILD BILL’S–Red Deer Quality Inn North Hill, 7150-50 Ave, Red Deer, 403.343.8800 WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours. com YELLOWHEAD BREWERY 10229-105 St, 780.423.3333 YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Stylus Industry Sundays: Invinceable, Tnt, Rocky, Rocko, Akademic, weekly guest DJs; 9pm-3am SAVOY MARTINI LOUNGE Reggae on Whyte: RnR Sun with DJ IceMan; no minors; 9pm; no cover

MON NOV 5 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover BLUES ON WHYTE Too Slim And The Taildraggers; Nov 5-10 BOHEMIA Shahman with Mahria and Todos Caerán along with Crown of Antlers; 7pm; $10 (door) DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB Singer/ songwriter open stage every Mon; 8pm NEW WEST HOTEL Nightwing; Nov 5-10 OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Monday Open Stage PAWN SHOP Fuquored with Secret Rivals and Endprogram; 8pm; $5 (adv) PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by

the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm ROSE BOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE Acoustic open stage every Mon; 9pm STARLITE ROOM A.C. Newman with the Mynabirds; 18+; 8pm (doors) WUNDERBAR Evening Hymns & Andy Shauf; 7pm

Classical WINSPEAR CENTRE Dan Mangan & The Rural Alberta Advantage; 8pm

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

BAILEY THEATRE Myles Goodwyn and April Wine "Live Tour 2012"; 8pm; $45 BLUES ON WHYTE Too Slim And The Taildraggers; Nov 5-10 BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Phat Tuesday in The Quarters, The Rooster Davis Group, New Orleans Jump & Boogie; 8-11pm BRIXX BAR Ruby Tuesdays with host Mark Feduk; $5 after 8pm; this week guests: DRUID IRISH PUB Open stage every Tue; with Chris Wynters; 9pm L.B.’S Tue Blues Jam with Ammar; 9pm-1am LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR Mike Morrisseau; 8pm; No cover NEW WEST HOTEL Nightwing; Nov 5-10 O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm O2'S ON WHYTE DJ Grizz every Tue industry night

LUCKY 13 Industry Night every Mon with DJ Chad Cook

OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK The Campfire Hero's (acoustic rock, country, top 40); 9pm-2am every Tue; no cover

TUE NOV 6

PADMANADI Open stage every Tue; with Mark Davis;

all ages; 7:30-10:30pm PUB 1824 Karaoke every Tue; 8pm R PUB Open stage jam every Tue; hosted by Gary and the Facemakers; 8pm

Tue: freestyle hip hop with DJ Xaolin and Mc Touch DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly, Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue

plugged in jam with Dan, Miguel and friends every Wed

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

EDDIE SHORTS Electric open jam with Steven Johnson Experience every Wed

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:30-11pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member)

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

ELEPHANT AND CASTLE– Whyte Ave Open mic every Wed (unless there's an Oilers game); no cover

YARDBIRD SUITE Don Berner Quintet, part of the 2012 Yardbird Jazz Festival; 7:30pm (doors), 8pm (show); $5 (members/guests)

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

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

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

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

Classical

WED NOV 7

RED PIANO All request band Tuesdays: Joint Chiefs (classic rock, soul, R&B) every Tue SECOND CUP–Summerwood Open stage/open mic every Tue; 7:30pm; no cover

CITY HALL Enterprise Quartet; 12pm

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: alternative retro and not-so-retro, electronic and Euro with Eddie Lunchpail; Wooftop: It’s One Too Many Tuesdays: Reggae, funk, soul, boogie and disco with Rootbeard BUDDYS DJ Arrow Chaser every CROWN PUB Live Hip Hop

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Glitter Gulch: live music once a month: this week with The Dead Stringers; On the Patio: Funk and Soul with Doktor Erick every Wed; 9pm BLUES ON WHYTE Too Slim And The Taildraggers; Nov 5-10 CHA ISLAND TEA CO Whyte Noise Drum Circle: Join local drummers for a few hours of beats and fun; 6pm CROWN PUB The D.A.M.M Jam: Open stage/original

HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB Open stage every Wed with Jonny Mac, 8:30pm, free HOOLIGANZ Open stage every Wed with host Cody Nouta; 9pm NEW WEST HOTEL Free classic country dance lessons every Wed, 7-9pm; Nightwing; Nov 5-10

PUB 1824 Open jam session every Wed, hosted by Norm; 8pm RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 RICHARD'S PUB Live Latin Band Salsabor every Wed; 9pm SECOND CUP–149 St Open stage with Alex Boudreau; 7:30pm YARDBIRD SUITE Eliana Cuevas Quintet, part of 2012 Yardbird Jazz Festival; 7:30pm (doors), 8pm (show); $18 (members), $22 (guests)

MUTTART HALL Midday Music Featuring SimonMarc de Freitas with Melissa Harrison and Peter Krejcar; 11:30am

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Eats and Beats: every Wed with DJ Degree and Friends BUDDY'S DJ Dust 'n' Time every Wed; 9pm (door); no cover THE COMMON Treehouse Wednesdays FILTHY MCNASTY'S Pint Night Wednesdays with DJ SAWG FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Latin and Salsa music every Wed; dance lessons 8-10pm

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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 day-to-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.

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?"

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): "Dear 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.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): On September 22, the San Francisco Giants played a baseball game against the San Diego Padres. In the fourth in-

ning, 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.

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

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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, Sagittarius, 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.

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 30day 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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"Four Legs Good"--two legs bad!

Fifty shades of comfortable Spicing up the kinkiness takes more than just a paddle

In the wake of Fifty Shades of Grey, it's not ships get used to a small range of expres- pair of handcuffs, cuff her partner to the uncommon for couples who have been sion that fits comfortably into our lives. We bed and then look at them and say, 'Now together for a long time to experiment rarely explore anything outside of that. what?' No, she saw those handcuffs and with a little kink or bondage play If we allow ourselves to take the fiercely dominant woman inside FOR to try to spice up their sex lives. one little part of our person- of her started getting some ideas. She LUST I've talked to lots of couples ality or our deepest desire knew that her partner loved it whenever om .c who have done this, but I seem that rarely gets a chance to she took a little control, so she went ly k e e @vuew brenda to hear only two responses. express itself and just let it home and let that secret inner domme a Brend r Some couples say, 'Meh, it didn't loose to play for a short time, take over. She told her partner that she e b Ker really do anything for us.' And other the results can be amazing. We was going to rock their world and they'd couples say 'Oh my God, it was the most get a chance to break out of the every- better listen closely and behave or she amazing experience we've ever had. It has day and indulge in something that we would cuff them to the bed and make completely changed our relationship.' Why have always wanted to be, or secretly sure they behaved. It's no longer just a would the same type of activity result in knew we were. Our partner gets to see pair of handcuffs; it's taking intimacy to a two completely different experiences? Afthat, to react to it, to love it and explore whole new level. ter attending a recent It's not about In our sex lives, many of us in long-term workshop by Midori— bringing home relationships get used to a small range of author, sex educator some bondage expression that fits comfortably into our lives. We tape, it's about and rope bondage rarely explore anything outside of that. expert—I realized bringing home a what it is. It's not about new attitude and the handcuffs or the paddle or whatever it. Then it becomes a secret knowledge willingness. The handcuffs or bondage it is you choose to use, it's about you and that we can go back to and revel in tape are only the catalyst that lets you where you're willing to go with it. whenever we want. We can allow our- tap into another side of you or your partMidori explained that, although we are selves to do that because it's contained ner. As Midori said, you only need three very complex human beings with a huge within this particular time, place and things in your play bag and you can't buy range of interests and aspects to ourselves, situation. We don't have to worry about them at a store. They are your gaze, your in our daily lives there is only a small part whether it's appropriate or who will find voice and your touch. V of that range that we ever get a chance to out, we can just be free and enjoy. This is express. We have jobs to go to, kids to care what those couples who have the, 'Oh Brenda Kerber is a sexual health educafor and houses to clean. The parts of ourmy God it was amazing,' experience tap tor who has worked with local not-forprofits since 1995. She is the owner of the selves that pertain to those things are the into. ones that get the most air time. So in our One of the women who had the, 'Oh Edmonton-based, sex-positive adult toy sex lives, many of us in long-term relationmy God,' experience didn't just buy a boutique the Traveling Tickle Trunk.

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Across 1 There's one at the beginning of each of this puzzle's four theme entries 7 Retail estab.

10 Holder and Reno, for short 13 "Nets to Catch the Wind" poet Wylie 14 Goneril's father 15 Sign for a packed theater 16 Getting gray 17 Ways out 19 Sketch show with Dollar Bill Montgomery 20 Bart Simpson word 21 Gothic novelist Radcliffe 23 1 of 18 24 Explorer with a peak named after him 29 C times C, divided by IV 32 Chef who says "Pork fat rules!"

33 Had some hash 34 Type of 1-across, in Mexico 35 Burn in the tub 36 Election Day day: abbr.

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42 Native American group (and source of a Washington city that differs by one letter) 44 Yell on the links 45 Pop-up blockers block them 46 Drug abused by Rush Limbaugh and Courtney Love 50 Like growly stomachs 55 Removed from the actual action, as with a commentator 56 Where Cedric the Entertainer got a big break 57 ___ chi 58 Jimmy Eat World's "Drugs ___" 59 "I thought it'd never get here!"

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61 Lofty poem 62 Notable feature of each 1-across

7 She played drums on "Seven Nation Army" 8 Venue for drunken singing 9 Preset on a stereo, maybe 10 Org. 11 Bryant Gumbel's brother 12 Player suspended in 2003 for using a corked bat 14 Zodiac sign for Ben Affleck or Roger Federer 18 Crime novelist Grafton 20 MSNBC rival 22 Lon ___ (palindromic coup leader) 24 Piquant 25 Pageant host 26 Lima and pinto 27 They may be stored in "Favorites" 28 Comic Poundstone 29 Nixon whose voice replaced Natalie Wood's in "West Side Story" 30 Golden Arches sandwich, sometimes 31 "Love Will Lead You Back" singer Taylor 34 Shift 36 Don't rush 37 Reaches, as a high point 39 One of the Seven Sisters 40 Lamentable 42 Drink once pitched by Yogi Berra 43 Beatnik interjection 44 Govt. arm mentioned by Eminem in "Without Me" 46 Muesli ingredients 47 Get an inside shot?

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COMMENT >> SEX

The saline solution

Dan talks about enlarging yourself safely and lusting after a client So I was innocently browsing the personal ads on Craigslist and saw one from a dude who was looking to try "saline balls" for the first time. Having no idea what this was, I Googled it. Even worse, I Google-imaged it. I pride myself on being unshockable, but I was completely and utterly mortified at what I saw. With that said, my copious Internet searching failed to yield the answers to the basic/ most important questions regarding saline balls: (1) What is the procedure/process for salining one's balls? (2) What about it turns on the saliner/salinee? (3) How long does the effect last? (4) Can it be (god forbid) irreversible?

Completely Utterly Mortified "The technical name for what CUM is asking about is 'scrotal inflation,'" says Dart, a leatherman, BDSM/kink educator and host of the Dart's Domain podcast. "It's a type of body-modification play where the scrotum is infused with approximately 500 millilitres to one litre of saline solution via an IV/cannula drip, which results in the balls appearing to

have enlarged to the size of a pen include local infection and pair of grapefruits." cellulitis, which can occur from Saline, of course, is simply salt a lack of sterility. There can also water, and sterile saline solutions be dangerous problems if any are administered intravenously air was present in the tubto dehydrated patients so E ing of the IV during the that they don't, you know, infusion. But again, if SAVAG die. But some people— proper precautions are kly.com taken, these risks can e like the guys your Craige w e @vu gelove slist friend was seeking sava be avoided."

Dan e out—engage in recreationThe inflation process g a v Sa al saline play. But they're not takes about an hour, the putting saline in their balls, CUM, effect lasts for a day or two, and they're putting saline in their ball the sack gradually returns to norsacks. mal size as the saline is absorbed "The skin of the sack has a great into the body. So the process is deal of elasticity and can safely always reversible—so long as stretch to this large size withyou're inflating your sack with saout incurring damage," says Dart. line and not, say, silicone, SpackBalls, of course, are not noted le, or packing peanuts. Your sack for their elasticity, and they can may be a little looser afterward, burst. but you're not going to be stuck "While this is a more extreme with a giant sack forever. form of kink play, if done under As for why this is a turn-on, sterile conditions with hospitalwell, turn-ons are highly subjecgrade materials, it can be active. complished with a minimal risk," "The turn-on answer varies from says Dart. "No one should experiperson to person," says Dart. "For ment with scrotal inflation withsome, there is a certain rush from out some experienced guidance, temporarily modifying a part of and no one should do it alone. their body to a 'monstrous' size.

Some of the risks that can hapOthers have 'medical play' fantasies. In a power exchange setting between a dominant and a submissive, the dom may get off on 'altering' a part of the sub's body against the sub's will, while the sub may get turned on by the humiliation aspect. It's a wide spectrum. As I say, it's not for everyone. But many, including myself, have engaged in it safely and had a pretty fun time doing it."

Anyone who wants to see a pair of grapefruit-sized "saline balls" in action should go here:

LOVE

tinyurl.com/salineballs. Anyone who wants to find Dart's blog, podcast, and videos should go here: dartsdomain.com.

You once pointed out that you only heard from readers when their attempts to be GGG backfired. If something went wrong, you got a letter. But when an effort to be GGG didn't cause a problem, no one wrote you. And this was leading other readers to conclude that being GGG is always a risky mistake. So I thought I'd write to tell you that nothing went wrong after I was GGG for my girlfriend (we had sex in a series of semipublic places) and she was GGG for me (she arranged a small CFNM party at which I was the NM). We are being GGG and all is well with us, Dan, and we wanted to thank you for giving us the tools that we needed to talk about this stuff!

Clamoring About My Experiences Thanks for sharing, CAME. I have a problem with a guy I like and his porn habits. I know you've answered a lot of questions about porn, but I don't think you've answered one like mine. The problem is, I used to be his porn. I work part-time as a cam girl. He was one of my regular customers. I came to like him as a human being and he seemed to feel the same about me. This last summer, we actually got a chance to meet in person. It was fucking amazing! Since then, we've continued

playing online, although for free now, because it feels unethical to charge someone who I really like. We've also tossed around the idea of another visit. So here's the problem: he's still paying other cam girls and it makes me upset. I don't mind that he looks at porn, Dan. I don't even mind that he pays for live interactive porn. There are plenty of times when he's horny, but I'm asleep (we live in different time zones) or I'm at my other job and I don't care what he does then. The thing is, I feel I should be the one he plays with when we're both awake and online at the same time. But just as often, when we are both awake and online, he's busy with other cam girls. It makes me feel ignored and neglected.

Am I overreacting? Should I ask to be prioritized over porn? And how can I bring up this subject?

I don't want to tell him that he can't jerk off or insist that I have to be at the center of everything he thinks about sexually, but feeling constantly sidelined isn't OK either. And frankly, it makes me feel like a chump for not charging him anymore.

Clever Acronym Missing Monitoring this guy's porn habits seems like a waste of time and emotional energy, CAM, considering that he's not your boyfriend, you've only met in person on one occasion, you don't live in the same time zone and a second meeting is just an idea that's being "tossed around." You're not in a relationship with him and, really, would you wanna be? I'm pro-porn and I'm pro-porn-cam girls, but a guy who invests the amount of time, money and emotional energy in porn that Mr Not Your Boyfriend does, well, he hardly seems like decent relationship material.

But you've got nothing to lose—literally nothing—so go ahead and ask him to prioritize you over porn and to prioritize the free porn you're offering him over the porn he's still paying for, and see what he says.

If you don't like what you hear, CAM, if he makes it clear that he doesn't feel the same way about you that you feel about him, then you should definitely start charging him again. V Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage. @fakedansavage on Twitter

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