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A list too long to ignore Maybe the US will finally take a good look at its gun control laws after the shooting rampage that happened last week in Newtown, CT, where 26 children and adults were murdered before the gunman took his own life. Two other adults were reported to have been shot and survived.

A federal bill to ban assault weapons lapsed in 2004, but now big names like New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg are pushing for it again. Even some NRA supporters like West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin are now saying things have gone too far and the right to bear arms should not include assault rifles.

Killing sprees have escalated in the US over the last six years, leaving the country at the top of the worldwide list. Here's what has happened: Oregon shopping mall two days before Newtown, two killed, one wounded; Wyoming's Casper College on November 30, two killed, one wounded (knife and bow-and-arrow used); Maryland's Morgan State University on the same day, one wounded (MSU had another shooting in September, one wounded); Minneapolis sign company in September, five killed, three wounded; Wisconsin Sikh temple in August, six killed, four wounded; Colorado movie theatre in July, 12 killed, 58 wounded; Alabama bar in July, 17 wounded; California's Oikos University in April, seven killed, three wounded; California hair salon in October 2011, eight killed, one wounded; Nevada IHOP in September 2011, four killed, seven

wounded; Arizona public meeting in January 2011, six killed, 13 wounded; Connecticut beer company in August 2010, eight killed, two wounded; Texas' Fort Hood in November 2009, 13 killed, 29 wounded; Pennsylvania health club in August 2009, three killed, nine wounded; immigration centre in upstate New York in April 2009, 13 killed, four wounded; North Carolina nursing home in March 2009, eight killed, two wounded; Alabama in March 2009, 10 killed, six wounded, four dogs also killed; Washington State in September 2008, six killed, four wounded; Northern Illinois Univeristy in February 2008, five killed, 17 wounded; Missouri city council meeting in Feburary 2008, six killed, one wounded; Nebraska shopping mall in December 2007, eight killed, four wounded; Wisconsin homecoming party in October 2007, six killed, one wounded; Virginia Tech in April 2007, 32 killed, 17 wounded.

It's ridiculous that the "right to bear arms" has led to so many people being murdered and injured. Something should have been done to curb this type of violence after the school shooting happened in Columbine in 1999. But looking at what should have happened won't change what did. The US now needs to take serious steps towards prevention and stop acting like it won't happen again. As the above list shows, making it easy for the deranged to access firearms does nothing to protect the innocent. V

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STEP IT UP WALLY WORLD Walmart, the world's third largest employer, faced a deluge of fed up union members all across Canada and internationally on December 14 when the Global Day of Action for Change at Walmart took place. Members of the global trade union UNI talked to Walmart shoppers and employees about labour rights for its just-over-twomillion workers.

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UFCW has been trying organize a union within Walmart for the past 10 years. Protests were held outside of American Walmarts by employees on Black Friday—one of the busiest shopping day of the year—to protest low wages paid to employees, but not necessarily to unionize.

The robocalls hearing—concerning the 2011 federal election when many voters received pre-recorded phone calls, allegedly from the Conservative Party, meant to confuse them about where to vote—wrapped up on December 17, but no decision will be made as to whether six Conservative MPs will lose their seats until 2013.

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n the face of stagnant funding and growing needs, The Support Network—an Edmonton non-profit organization offering resources for crisis management, suicide and support—is shuttering a few of its programs.

The Support Network's flagship programming—a 24/7 crisis support centre, 211 Edmonton and Volunteer Edmonton—will remain as is after the holiday season. However, both its education and training services branch as well as its walk-in counselling service will not be returning in January.

Losing those two branches of The Support Network's operations wasn't a decision made lightly, notes executive director Nancy McCalder, but one that seemed necessary. While the walk-in program has been running for 15 years, its core funding has never covered the full costs of the program, meaning there have already been times when the service was sporadic.

Fundraising has always been part of its equation, and the results of that have been mixed, particularly in recent years.

"In 2008 when the markets crashed, our funders—our core funders, which would be our government sources and The United Way—basically said to us, 'We'll continue giving you your 2008 level of funding, but we're not giving you any increments,'" McCalder explains. "And so the gap between what we would get as core funding and what we've had to fundraise has

widened drastically. For the last coufor females (0.8 percent). reducing the operating efficiency of ple of years, we've had to fundraise non-profit groups." nearly a million dollars a year just to The Support Network isn't the only Allan Undheim, the vice-president maintain our services. And we have non-profit seeing troubles in the wake of community building and investnot been successful in the last two of the 2008 economic crisis. It's a ment for The United Way, notes that years, so we know it's not achievable. growing issue: a report published in the Edmonton community is growing The community ... what we would May 2009 by the Wellesley Institute at a rate that puts a strain on its incall 'donor fatigue' is extremely high; titled "Canada's Non-Profit Maze" frastructure, increasing the amount people are tired of all the fundraising found that among the three main of need placed upon non-profits and that's going on. sources of revenue for non-profits stretching their ability to meet that "So the bottom line is, we just really like The Support Network—charineed. had to roll back and not be delivering table donations, government funding "[It's] challenging times: a lot of so much," she adds. priorities out "Because we canthere, and a lot What we would call 'donor fatigue' is extremely not continue fundof great stuff high; people are tired of all the fundraising that's raising to the level that's happengoing on. we've had to." ing and needs McCalder points to happen," he out that there are a says. "So it's number of other counselling programs and earned income—charitable and also difficult to find the resources to within the city, whereas the 24/7 crisis government funding were on the deramp up everything, all at once, across line and 211 aren't replicated, and thus cline. Earned income was increasingly the board. When 2008 hit, we as The were important to maintain with conbecoming important, even though United Way ... didn't go down in our sistency. Still, the walk-in program's the amount of governmental regulacampaign result, we steadily increased. shuttering in particular shortens the tion surrounding these types of nonHowever, the community is growing reach of support services in the city, profits makes it difficult for them to around us, the needs are growing, and as the program was unusually effecgo out and earn income. the ability of funders to keep pace with tive at connecting with men—about "Government accountability meathe need is often challenged."

40 percent of its clientele was male. sures remain overwhelming and foThe United Way helps fund more The low/no cost, single session, solucused on fiscal management to the than 50 organizations, and in 2012 tion-focused format resonated with detriment of programs and services," its total funding is aimed to be some a demographic that's of high risk for the report reads. "Not only do third $23.3 million, offset by the approxisuicide: as of 2008, Stats Canada resector organizations suffer, but the mate organizational costs of four milported suicide to be the ninth highmany millions of Canadians who rely lion (as of November 7, the organizaest cause of death in Canada, at 1.7 on their programs and services also tion had raised about $14.3 million, or percent. But broken down by gender, suffer. Proper accountability for pub62 percent of its goal.) suicide was the seventh highest cause lic and charitable funds is important, "Our community is changing and of death for Canadian males (2.3 perbut the stranglehold of regulation there's a lot of priorities out there," cent), and only the 13th highest cause that has emerged in recent years is he continues. "So people are need-

ing to make decisions with their dollars, and so sometimes the decisions are to move dollars away from what they've done in the past. That's just how it happens sometimes. And it's very difficult for organizations to offset what they lose in certain areas. I think that there's a tremendous amount of support still, in this community and region, for organizations like The Support Network and others. Edmonton, and the region in general is very philanthropic relative to other major centres, given the number of people that live here.

There's still been a tremendous amount of support for organizations.

However, recognizing that there often isn't the amount of dollars necessary, and keeping pace with the need across the board, there are decisions that need to be made—If you're a donor as well as if you're an organization."

Undheim notes that The United Way will work to address the gap that's created by the closure of The Support Network's programs. Still, McCalder sees the loss as the one that's unlikely to be the end of organizations like hers reducing their available services.

"We're not the only ones this happened to, but we're really the first one that just really said, 'You know what?

We need to make some substantial changes here. We can't carry on hanging on.'"

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COMMENT >> POLITICAL MERGER

Of mergers and democracy Green, Liberals, and NDP as a united front?

It's like clockwork. Whenever there's split three ways. any type of provincial or federal elecAlthough informed by the federal tion in Alberta, especially one that's byelection, Hehr's proposal actually close, there is a fresh round of discusfocuses on the provincial scene, where sions about the need for some sort of he suggests that the centre/centre-left merger or collaboration strategy in Alberta will never form governby the parties on the "centrement unless there is a merger left" of the political specof the four parties currently NCE on that side of the spectrum.

E trum in order to defeat the R E F INTER vueweekly.com In Calgary-Centre, he points Conservatives. @ ricardo o The narrow margin of victoout, Liberal candidate Harvey Ricard a ñ u c ry for Joan Crockett of the ConLocke, Green candidate Chris A servatives in the recent CalgaryTurner, and New Democrat Dan Centre byelection has helped to spur Meades "were all singing from the same this phenomenon once again. This time, song sheet," but their ideas lost the day the initial public salvo in the discussion because there were three of them. was fired by Liberal MLA Kent Hehr.

Likewise in Alberta, he argues, in the In a blog entry written in early Decemspring 2012 election the Greens, NDP, ber, Mr. Hehr lamented the fact that Liberals and Alberta Party had policy although the three candidates "repreplatforms that were in agreement 95 senting the centre/centre-left side of percent of the time. He believes that the spectrum" garnered 60 percent of bringing those four entities together as the votes cast in the Calgary byelection, one "big tent" party would enable the extreme Conservative Crockett was province's progressives to focus their able to win with only 37 percent of the energies, efforts and resources on devote. In other words, the far right lost feating the conservatives rather than on the vote, but was still able to win the each other. seat because the centre-left vote was Of course, none of this is new. It comes

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from an understandable frustration with the fact that Conservatives keep winning and the belief that a united front might turn that around. As understandable as this desire is, and despite the fact that in instances like the Calgary-Centre byelection it seems to make sense mathematically, the idea of a merger fails to consider some big picture issues.

The first and most obvious of these is the fact that, overall in Alberta, the numbers just don't add up. In the last provincial election the combined vote totals of all of the parties left of the Progressive Conservatives added up to less than 22 percent of the total vote.

That pales in comparison to the 34 percent obtained by the far right Wildrose Party, who became the official Opposition. In other words, even if all of the people who voted for non-right wing parties in the last election had voted for the same party, they still would not have come in second, never mind forming government.

The second issue that this doesn't seem to take into account is the fact

that, as was the case in Calgary-Centre, the number of eligible voters who didn't bother to cast a ballot also far surpasses the combined vote totals of the parties on the left. A merger is premised on securing the ballots of people who already vote for certain parties. This focus would only serve to further alienate those folks who don't currently vote for any party. Wouldn't it make more sense for these parties to focus their energies on these non-voters rather than on the small number of people who already vote?

Then of course there is the reality that, in electoral politics, 10 plus 10 does not always equal 20. There are many voters on the far left of the New Democratic Party who already think the party has moved too far to the centre and who would never consider casting a ballot for a Liberal, Green or Alberta Party candidate. Likewise, there are people on the far right of those three latter parties who would jump to the Conservatives before ever considering casting a ballot for the NDP. This isn't about blind and stubborn partisanship, it's about people

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seeking to vote for the party that most closely represents their ideals. When you seek to build a big tent, out of necessity you opt for the common ground in the mushy middle and ignore the outer edges. There are people, and votes, on those outer edges. The big tent party would not get those votes and many of those voters would simply join the ranks of the non-voters.

The biggest problem, however, is the fact that a merger or coalition completely fails to acknowledge that the core problem here is not one of math, but rather one of a grossly broken and dysfunctional democracy. In the last 20 years government has moved drastically away from a focus on the public interest to a singular focus on the private corporate interest. This has resulted in a large number of people not feeling represented at all by their government, regardless of who's in power. At the same time privatization, the mantra of low taxes, and the myth of government corruption and inefficiency have greatly CONTINUED ON PAGE 09 >>

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Here's an interesting statistic: the try in North America with a similar This is also what has happened in second-highest rate of gun ownerpolitical heritage, is about half the most other parts of the world, alship in the world is in Yemen, a largeAmerican rate—and in England itthough in many cases it was the cololy tribal, extremely poor country. self it is only one-thirtieth as much. nial power that disarmed the people The highest is in the United States, What else is in play here? and instituted the rule of law. But in where there are almost as many Steven Pinker, whose book The Betthe United States, where the demoguns as people: around 300 million ter Angels of Our Nature is about the cratic revolution came over two cenguns for 311 million people. long-term decline in violence of evturies ago, the people took over the But here's another interesting statisery kind in the world, is well aware state before they had been disarmed tic: in the past 25 years, the proporthat murder rates have not fallen —and kept their weapons. They also tion of Americans who own guns has in the United States in the past cenkept their old attitudes. fallen from about one in three to tury. (Most people don't believe Indeed, large parts of the United only one in five. However, the that violence is in decline States, particularly in the southeast United States, unlike Yemen, anywhere, let alone almost and southwest, still have an "honour" is a rich country and the aveverywhere. That's why he culture in which it is accepted that a .com weekly erage American gun-owner wrote the book.)

And Pinkprivate individual may choose to dee u v @ e gwynn e n has four or five firearms. er suggests an explanation fend his rights and his interests by n y w G Moreover, he or she is utterly for the American exception. violence rather than seeking justice Dyer determined to keep them no matthrough the law. The homicide rate ter what happens.

In medieval Europe, where everybody in New England is less than three What has just happened at Sandy from warlords to peasants was on his people per 100 000 per year; in LouiHook Elementary School in Newtown, own when it came to defending his siana it is more than 14.

Connecticut is the seventh massacre property, his rights, and his "honour," None of this explains the specific this year in which four or more people the murder rates were astronomically phenomenon of gun massacres by dewere killed by ranged individuals, a lone gunman. who are presumBut in the United States, where the democratic The fact that ably present at the revolution came over two centuries ago, the people same rate in every this time 20 of took over the state before they had been disarmed country. It's just the victims were —and kept their weapons. They also kept their old that in the United little girls and attitudes. boys six or sevStates, it's easier for en years old has individuals like that caused a wave of revulsion in the Unithigh: 110 people per 100 000 in 14thto get access to rapid-fire weapons. ed States, but it is not likely to lead to century Oxford, for example. It was at And, of course, the intense media covnew laws on gun control. It's not even least as high in colonial New England erage of every massacre gives many clear that new laws would help. in the early 17th century. other crazies an incentive to do the Half the firearms in the entire world By the mid-20th century, the mursame, only more of it. are in the United States. The rate of der rate in England had fallen more But only one in 300 murders in the murders by gunfire in the United than a hundredfold: in London, it was United States happens in that kind States is almost 20 times higher than less than one person per 100 000 of massacre. Most are simply due to the average rate in 22 other populous, per year. In most Western European quarrels between individuals, often high-income countries where the frecountries it was about the same. members of the same family. Private quency of other crimes is about the Whereas the US murder rate is still acts of violence to obtain "justice," same. There is clearly a connection up around seven people per 100 with or without guns, are deeply enbetween these two facts, but it is not 000 per year. Why? trenched in American culture, and the necessarily simple cause-and-effect.

Pinker quotes historian Pieter Spiemurder rate would stay extraordinarily Here's one reason to suspect that renburg's provocative suggestion high even if there were no guns. it's not that simple: the American rate that "democracy came too early" to Since there are guns everywhere, of for murders of all kinds—shooting, America. In European countries, the course, the murder rate is even higher. strangling, stabbing, poisoning, pushpopulation was gradually disarmed by But since the popular attitudes to vioing people under buses, etc—is seven the centralized state as it put an end lence have not changed, that is not gotimes higher than it is in those other to feudal anarchy. Only much later, afing to change either. V 22 rich countries. It can't just be guns. ter people had already learned to trust Gwynne Dyer is an independent jourAnd here's another clue: the rate the law to defend their property and nalist whose articles are published in of firearms homicides in Canada, anprotect them from violence, did de45 countries. other mainly English-speaking counmocracy come to these countries.

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reduced the stake that people feel they have in their government. These are the roots of today's crisis of democracy, and this is where we need to start if we are going to turn things around.

A merger of so-called progressives would ultimately only serve to reinforce the current state of affairs. By saying that we're going to find ways to win within the current context, rather than by focusing our energies on the difficult grassroots work of changing the current paradigm, we would be ensuring that we only go from bad to worse. In a time

where the dominant voices are all leading us in the same direction—toward further alienation, privatization and corporatism—we need the broadest possible spectrum of opposing views and voices articulating alternatives and hope for change. That's because change happens on the fringes, not in mushy middle. Closing off the public realm to all voices but the 'electable' ones ensures that no fundamental change will ever be possible, and further entrenches the dominant system with all its flaws.

In the end there is no quick-fix to the issues facing us today. Calls for mergers and coalitions are well-intentioned

and understandable, but in the long run they will only make the problems worse. If we want real change, and a genuine revitalization of democracy, then we should be working to expand the scope of policy alternatives and effectively reach as many people as possible with those alternatives. We should not be seeking to further limit the parameters of debate and alienate more people from the process. V Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta.

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

CANADIAN BREWHOUSE/CONNIE'S COMEDY–Camrose • 6608-48 Ave, Camrose

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

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

• Bring in 2013 with Laughs presenting Dave

Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese

Stawnichy, PJ. McGuire, and Marvin Krawcyzk •

Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm;

Dec 31 • $30 • Connie's Comedy: 780.914.8966

Thu 6-8pm

CENTURY CASINO • 13103 Fort Rd • 780.481.9857 • Open amateur night every

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL EDMONTON • 8307-109 St • edmontonamnesty.org

Thu, 7:30pm

• Meet the 4th Tue each month, 7:30pm (no

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertain-

meetings in Jul, Aug, and Dec) E: amnesty@

ment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Dennis Ross; Dec 20-22 • Tim Koslo; Dec 28-29 • Brian Work; Jan 4-5 • Paul Sveen; Jan 11-12

COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Hit or Miss Mondays: 8pm • Rob Little; until Dec 23 • Theo Von; Dec 26-31 • NYE: Theo Von, hosted by Kelly

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)

Soloduka featuring Jason Cooper; Dec

AWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP •

31, 7:30pm and 10pm; $30, $56 (7:30pm

Braeside Presbyterian Church bsmt, N. door, 6

show), $65 (10pm show) • Ian Bagg; Jan

Bernard Dr, Bishop St, Sir Winston Churchill

2-6 • Michael Che; Jan 9-13

Ave, St Albert • For adult children of alcoholic

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 •

and dysfunctional families • Every Mon,

Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm

FILTHY MCNASTY'S • 10511-82 Ave • 780.996.1778 • Stand Up Sundays: Stand-up comedy night every Sun with a different headliner every week; 9pm; no cover

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM • 11455-87 Ave • 780.427.2760 • jubileeauditorium.com • Gerry Dee's Life After Teaching • Dec 28, 7:30pm • $84$154 at TicketMaster

NORTHMOUNT COMMUNITY HALL • 9208-140 Ave • Connie’s Comedy: featuring Sterling Scott, Trixx, Doug Mutai, Jean Paul • Dec 22, 8pm (door), 8:30pm (show) • $20 (door) • Connie's Comedy: 780.914.8966

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

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • Sterling

7:30pm

BRAIN TUMOUR PEER SUPPORT GROUP • Woodcroft Branch Library, 13420114 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 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

Scott every Wed, 9pm

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10860-57 Ave • 780.604.7572 • Swing Dance

month • Everyone welcome

JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY • 10242-106 St

at Sugar Foot Stomp: beginner lesson fol-

FLASH NIGHT CLUB • 10018-105 St •

• 780.756.5667 • junctionedmonton.com • Open

FABULOUS FACILITATORS TOASTMASTERS CLUB • 2nd Floor Canada Place,

lowed by dance every Sat, 8pm (door) at

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS

Orange Hall or Pleasantview Hall

GREAT EXPEDITIONS • St Luke’s Anglican-

9700 Jasper Ave • 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw.

TOASTMASTERS CLUB • Queen Alexandra

Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.469.3270 • 1st Mon

ca • fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs.org •

Community League, 10425 University Ave

Can you think of a career that does not require

(north door, stairs to the left) • Meet every Tue,

communication • Every Tue, 12:05-1pm

7-9pm except last Tue each month. Help de-

FERTILITY AWARENESS CHARTING CIRCLE MEETING • Cha Island Tea Co,

velop confidence in public speaking and lead-

AFFIRM SUNNYBROOK–Red Deer • Sun-

ership • Contact: Antonio Balce, 780.463.5331

nybrook United Church, Red Deer • 403.347.6073 •

10332-81 Ave • faccedmonton@gmail.com

UNSILENT NIGHT EDMONTON • Meet

Affirm welcome LGBTQ people and their friends,

• Learn about menstrual cycle charting and

at Gazebo Park, 83 Ave, 104 St • unsilent-

share your personal experiences in a supportive

night.com • Get out your CD, cassette, mp3

group environment • 1st Mon of the month

boombox, bundle up, and join us for Phil

BEERS FOR QUEERS • Empress Ale House,

from Oct-Apr, 6:30-8:30pm • $5 (suggested

Kline's 45 minute interactive sound walk

9912 Whyte Ave • Thu., Dec 27, 7pm-2am

donation) • Mon, Jan 7

through the streets of the Old Strathcona •

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH EDMONTON •

Sat, Dec 22, 5-6pm • Free, all ages

BISEXUAL WOMEN'S COFFEE GROUP •

10031-109 St • fbcedmonton.ca • 780.422.2214 •

every month, 7:30pm • Suggested donation of $3

QUEER

family, and allies meet the 2nd Tue, 7pm, each month

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

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

GLBT SPORTS AND RECREATION • teamedmonton.ca • Co-ed Bellydancing: bellydancing@teamedmonton.ca • Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary, 10925-87 Ave. at 7pm; bootcamp@ teamedmonton.ca • Bowling: Ed's Rec Centre, WEM, Tue 6:45pm; bowling@teamedmonton.

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, beer bashes, girls nights • DJs every Fri and Sat, 10pm

LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408-124 St • edmlivingpositive.ca • 1.877.975.9448/780.488.5768 • Confidential peer support to people living with HIV • Tue, 7-9pm: Support group • Daily dropin, peer counselling

MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after

A social group for bi-curious and bisexual women

ca • Curling: Granite Curling Club; 780.463.5942 •

practices • Every Tue/Thu

WASKAHEGAN TRAIL HIKES • waska-

every 2nd Tue each month, 8pm • groups.yahoo.

Running: Kinsmen; running@teamedmonton.ca

Carols and Candlelight Christmas Eve Service;

hegantrail.ca • Hike through river and ravine

com/group/bwedmonton

PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON •

• Spinning: MacEwan Centre, 109 Street and 104

Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave •

Dec 24, 11pm

trails of Devon; meet at Argyll McDonalds,

Ave; spin@teamedmonton.ca • Swimming: NAIT

780.488.3234 • A safe, welcoming, and non-

FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican Church,

Argyll Rd, 81 St; 780.487.0645; Dec 30,

BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725B Jasper Ave • 780.488.6636 • Tue with DJ Arrow Chaser, free

pool, 11762-106 St; swimming@teamedmonton.

judgemental drop-in space, support programs

9:45am-2:45pm • Guests are welcome. An-

pool all night; 9pm (door); no cover • Wed with DJ

ca • Volleyball: every Tue, 7-9pm; St. Catherine

and resources offered for members of the GLBTQ

nual membership is $20

Dust’n Time; 9pm (door); no cover • Thu: Men’s

School, 10915-110 St; every Thu, 7:30-9:30pm at

community, their families and friends • Daily:

Wet Underwear Contest, win prizes, hosted by

Amiskiwiciy Academy, 101 Airport Rd

Community drop-in; support and resources.

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,

Queer library: borrowing privileges: Tue-Fri

and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm

12-9pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, closed Sun-Mon; Queer HangOUT (a.k.a. QH) youth drop-in: Tue-Fri

HEALING CIRCLE • Call 780.570.0475 for

3-8pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, youth@pridecentreofed-

location • spiritualawakeningcentre.com •

monton.org • Counselling: Free, short-term by

Begins with a guided meditation moving into

registered counsellors every Wed, 5:30-8:30pm,

an affirmative state where healing on all levels

info/bookings: 780.488.3234 • Knotty Knitters:

occurs • Every Wed, 7-8pm

Knit and socialize in safe, accepting environ-

HOME–Energizing Spiritual Community for Passionate Living • Garneau/Ashbourne

ment, all skill levels welcome; every Wed 6-8pm • QH Game Night: Meet people through board

Assisted Living Place, 11148-84 Ave • Home:

game fun; every Thu 6-8pm • QH Craft Night:

Because you’ve been very good all year.

Blends music, drama, creativity and reflection on sacred texts to energize you for passionate living • Every Sun, 3-5pm

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

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

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 female-identified 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

MEDITATION • Strathcona Library • medita-

transgender umbrella and their family/support-

tionedmonton.org • Weekly meditation drop-in;

ers; 3rd Mon, 7-9pm, each month • HIV Support

every Tue, 7-8:30pm

Get FREE winter tires and $0 first payment in your stocking!*

MILL CREEK MORNING AL-ANON FAMILY GROUP • Sundrenched Room • Meet every Wed: Open to anyone who has been affected by

Email us to qualify for an additional $100 on the New Southgate Volkswagen Customer Reward Card!

somebody else's drinking; 10-11am • Dinner/ Presentation: last Wed each month, 6:30-9pm; Dinner and Speaker: $12 (member), $17 (nonmember); Speaker only: $5; pre-register hltaa. org/Events.php

NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community

DAN HELLER Elf internet specialist info@southgatevw.ca

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

ANDY DIMOND Elf internet specialist info@southgatevw.ca

southgatevw.ca

780.438.8888

Hall, 3728-106 St • 780.458.6352, 780.467.6093 •

Cafeteria, 10600-104 Ave • oc.yeg.info@gmail. com • A leaderless space where everyone is

*cannot be combined with any other offer *come see us at Southgate Volkswagen for details.

Shop indoors, year round.

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

SUGARSWING DANCE CLUB • Orange Hall, 10335-84 Ave or Pleasantview Hall,

10 FRONT

profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton letter, reduced rates included with membership.

Confidentiality assured

WOODYS VIDEO BAR • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Amateur Strip Contest;

3-11pm • Thu: Free pool all night; kitchen

Tue from 6:30-8:30pm & Sat from 2-4pm

meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free

space.ca, womonspace@gmail.com • A Non-

Wed: Karaoke with Tizzy 7pm-1am; Kitchen

of Edmonton based non-violent activism • Every

Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, 780.451.1755; Group

WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • womon-

prizes with Shawana • Tue: Kitchen 3-11pm •

welcome to organize and/or assist with all forms

ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey

tions are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship)

and surrounding area. Monthly activities, news-

nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

OCCUPY EDMONTON GENERAL ASSEMBLY • Grant MacEwan City Centre

ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orienta-

3-11pm • Fri: Mocho Nacho Fri: 3pm (door),

WILD ROSE ANTIQUE COLLECTORS SOCIETY • Delwood Community Hall, 7517 Delwood Rd • wildroseantiquecollectors. ca • Collecting and researching items from various periods in the history of Edmonton.

Presentations after club business. Visitors welcome • Meets the 4th Mon of every month (except Jul & Dec), 7:30pm

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

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

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 •

kitchen open 3-11pm

SPECIAL EVENTS BENEFIT FOR THE JASPER PLACE HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTRE

EDMONTON PRIME TIMERS (EPT) •

Info: E: tuff @shaw.ca

Unitarian Church of Edmonton, 10804-119 St

ILLUSIONS SOCIAL CLUB • Pride Centre,

sic with the Classics and Big Hank and Fistful

10608-105 ave • 780.387.3343 • groups.yahoo.com/

of Blues • Sat, Dec 22, 7pm • $20, contact Jayne

group/edmonton_illusions • Crossdressers meet

at 780.498.6216 • Bring your donation of new or

2nd Fri each month, 8:30pm

used blankets or coats

INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campusbased organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual,

CBC TURKEY DRIVE FOR EDMONTON FOOD BANK • cbc.ca/edmonton • Turkey

trans-identified and queer (LGBTQ) faculty,

Drive: until Dec 20 • Free entertainment on

graduate student, academic, straight allies

the CBC Centre Stage Mon-Fri, 11:45am-1pm

and support staff • 3rd Thu each month (fall/

• Wrap on Radio Active: at CBC: Dec 20, 3-6pm

winter terms): Speakers Series. E: kwells@

for live entertainment and to celebrate the last

ualberta.ca

day of the drive

• A group of older gay men who have common interests meet the 2nd Sun, 2:30pm, for a social period, short meeting and guest speaker, discussion panel or potluck supper. Special interest groups meet for other social activities throughout the month. E: edmontonpt@ yahoo.ca

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

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REVUE // DECK THE HALLS

ARTIFACTS

Elevate the festivus

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With Bells On a hilarious, moving take on holiday spirit Until Sun, Dec 23 (8 pm) With Bells On Directed by Darrin Hagen Roxy Theatre, $13 – $21

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ence almost instantly. But what happens when the elevator stalls? It's here that the hilarious and moving story of With Bells On takes place. Ted is just recovering from a nasty divorce, and

he stage is bare and unlit, save for one crisp white elevator. Ted (James Hamilton) has his back to the audience as he boards, and then the silence shatters as we meet Natasha (Paul Welch) in one of the most entertaining entrances I've seen in some time. Once they've both gotten on, the incredibly relatable situation of awkward elevator rides begins to unfold.

Uncomfortable conversation takes hold thanks to Ted's mousey curiosity and the hilarious juxtaposition of Natasha's standoffish diva attitude.

If you're looking for some holiday cheer this season, look no further than Darrin Hagen's With Bells On. The show had the Someone's in the holiday spirit // Ian Jackson, EPIC audience laughing and cheering from start to finish—and the sentimental moments Natasha is on her way to the Christwere quite welcome as well. mas pageant in the hopes of winning a As terribly awkward as elevator rides crown. He represents the unchallenged with strangers can be, they all end status quo and she is a person who eventually, and we forget the experitakes risks and stands out—though

we come to learn that her insecurities can be just as debilitating as his. The process the characters go through to find common ground is wonderful to watch, and I'll credit the success to both the superb writing and acting. Ted's words are filled with so much honesty and reflection, and Natasha speaks beautifully on the nature of pain and relentless dreaming.

While the deeper story will stay with you, what the audience clearly loved at the time was the comedy. Watching Welch in drag and Hamilton as an insightful yet emotionally scarred hopeful couldn't have been more entertaining. Their artful performances were executed beautifully within the confines of the elevator, and it was exciting to see how much they could do with such a small space.

This show is ultimately about human connection.

The elevator stalled and forced two people to face each other and speak. Setting aside my more cynical inclinations about our favourite consumerist holiday, I'll say that that's what the holiday spirit is all about.

Oliver! / Until Sun, Dec 30 (7 pm, 2 pm matinees on Saturday and Sunday) Festival Players bring the Charles Dickens classic to life with Lionel Bart's rendition of Oliver!. The story has become a family holiday tradition over the past decade, with this year's cast of 50 bringing to life memorable characters including Fagin, Bumble and The Artful Dodger. (Festival Place, $24 – $36)

Wonder / Thu, Dec 20 (7 pm – 9 pm) Marv Machura celebrates the official launch of his book of poetry. The collection has been 20 years in the making, telling stories of the seasons, youth, age, society, love and memorable moments when experiences transcend the confines of our ordinary lives. (Brittany's Lounge) V

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Turn the page

Latitude 53 writers ruminate on visual arts and the written word

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oming into Latitude 53's writerin-residence position six months ago was Blair Brennan's first foray into online publishing. The longtime-local visual artist found it to be a somewhat curious exploration: not better or worse than print, so far as he can determine, but certainly a lot more current.

"It's been great for me, because when I've written about art in the past," he explains. I can pick and choose what I want to write about, and I can pick and choose when I want to write about it.

And most Canadian art publications are quarterly—most art news is not new, if it's a quarterly publication. Because there's stuff that's been written

about that happened a quarter of a year ago, half a year ago, and it's still timely in that context."

During his time at Latitude, he found his own writing mixing the usual essay format with more experimental offerings.

"I think what I tried to do was write about something that was going on in our community, try and have some more experimental writing things— my art practice uses a lot of text so there was always an overlap for me, anyway, between experimental writing and conventional writing," he says. "So there was a way to play with that a bit."

Now, at the end of his six-month stint as writer-in-res, Brennan's reflec-

tions on his time in the role seem to linger on the idea of fostering a visual arts writing community alongside the visual arts community itself.

"The people that are there are good, but there's not very many of them," he notes. "We could do more to nurture that writing audience. The wealth of theatre in the community means we're also nurturing a theatre-writing community."

The gallery's writer-in-residence position was first established in 2010.

Brennan was the fifth writer to hold the position, and just-announced as the sixth is Josh Holinaty, a local illustrator looking to put a more visual spin on the position. He notes that

he and Latitude 53 executive director Todd Janes have been referring to his forthcoming stint as the illustrator in residence; his time in the position will be rooted in crafting visual reactions more so than penning written pieces.

"I'm sure at some point I will have some form of writing on there too, but I think in the end it will mostly be a visual thing," Holinaty explains.

"We're inundated with pictures all the time, with our Instagrams and Facebook, and everyone's making pictures.

We're so bombarded with them that maybe it could engage people easier online than just via long articles and essays that are very much speaking about art to artists."

Like Brennan, Holinaty suggests that

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it comes down to engagement with the community, opening up the sometimes opaque realm of visual arts to those who might otherwise pass it by.

"I think the state of art writing— I'm not totally sure if I could answer that, if it's in a good or bad state, but I just know we could always use more of it, regardless. To put the city on the map. Because that seems to be an ongoing discussion, in our circle of friends and artists: trying to get Dirt City out there."

You can follow Latitude 53's Writer In Residence's post at blog.latitude53.org/writer.

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PREVUE // CHRISTMAS SPIRIT

The Best Little Newfoundland Christmas Pageant ... Ever!

Season's greeting from The Rock

Thu, Dec 20 – Sun, Dec 23 (7:30 pm) Directed by Cheryl Jameson Varscona Theatre, $18 – $20

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ewfoundlanders and mainlanders alike are invited to come together

for some laughs and a little Christmas spirit with the third annual production of The Best Little Newfoundland Christmas ... Ever!

Whizgiggling Productions—that means "to act silly and foolish" to

those of us west of The Rock—brings a taste of home to Newfoundlanders stuck in Edmonton for Christmas, but it seems you don't have to be a Newfie to appreciate the story, or even the humour. The tale begins when Mrs O'Brien is left in charge of the Christmas pageant after the original leader, Mrs Armstrong, breaks her leg. Easy, right? It's the same story with Mary, Joseph and the usual characters every year. However, the Herdmans—also known as the brattiest kids in town— show up for the auditions.

"I love the story ... it ends up being really funny because whenever you set anything in a Newfoundland context it has a little more humour that comes with it because they do like to poke humour at themselves in a very tongue-in-cheek kind of way," says director Cheryl Jameson, an Edmontonian who was introduced to the story while living in Newfoundland during her time with Spirit of Newfoundland theatre company. "It's quite light-hearted, but at the end it kind of punches you in the stomach

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rtists can't compete with God, but they can join him. That's the intriguing take on art that Nika Blasser (Master of Fine Art Candidate in Drawing and Intermedia) explores in her graduating show Emergence.

Blasser doesn't trek across deserts or conquer remote glaciers to exploit nature's riches: her kitchen suffices.

Nature, she discovers, is right under our fingertips. Its marvelous workings can be witnessed in the movement, sound and chemistry of every-day materials. It only takes the creative hand of an artist to pour salt out of a shaker, unroll tinfoil and turn it into mesmerizing art.

In the two years that Blasser prepared for her show, she turned her studio into something of a laboratory. Only scientists strive for quantifiable results while Blasser's experiments plunge into the unknown.

"Ah, look what that just did!" she exclaims as household materials burn, melt or dissolves and take on a life of their own.

"Sometimes the most interesting things happen when they are not fully planned," she explains. "There is a magic in that tension between control and chance. "

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Helping to bring this message for the third year in a row is actress Kayla Gorman as Beth, a nine-year-old girl who is essentially the narrator of the story and offers her own insights into the whole situations surrounding the

Hermans. For Gorman, playing such a young character provides an opportunity to rediscover the child-like innocence she used to have at Christmas time.

"I like to believe I'm a kid at heart, and some days more than others I act like one," laughs Gorman, a graduate of the Grant MacEwan acting program. "It has a great story about looking past the first impression of a person and trying to help somebody understand the meaning of Christmas and I think for people, it helps them relive that feeling of Christmas and what Christmas means for each person, because it does mean something different ... the show touches on well, Christmas is about this and this is how we do it every year and it has to be the same every year, and reminding people that it's not routine. The reason why it's here is so you can be with your loved ones and appreciate the life that's been put before you."

MEAGHAN BAXTER

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PREVUE // DANCE

Emergence Until Sat, Jan 12 Works by Nika Blasser FAB Gallery, University of Alberta

because it's got a really beautiful, strong Christmas message."

During the last two years of the show, Jameson portrayed Imogene Herdman, but has taken on the sole role of director this year due to pregnancy, something she jokes doesn't mix well with playing a 14-year-old.

"The Herdmans are the kids from the wrong side of the tracks," she says.

"They've never been to church; the only thing they know about Christmas is they get gifts from the Christmas hamper and the Christmas Bureau and they get extra food that day ... I think the two really important messages in this show are the true meaning of Christmas and the discovery that everybody, but mostly the Herdmans, is discovering it's not just about the gifts, but also about acceptance."

Return to Simplicity

Among Blasser's many experiments are six-foot-high paper trays. She pours Prussian blue washes onto them and sprinkles liberally with salt.

Two weeks later, water evaporates and intricate crystals emerge—so delicate that a breath disperses them.

Blasser captures such effervescent masterpieces of nature with a camera. The remaining image is rotated: the tray becomes a frame. Nature's footprint turns into art.

Her show is filled with such commonplace science. For instance, Blasser affixed hundreds of beads onto a 20-foot-long gallery wall and sprinkled them with charcoal. Gravity beomes a subtle artist; delicate streaks fall and fade into white. Another experiment features a four-foot-wide drum coated with carborundum (silicon carbide).

Low frequency music emanates from the drum; the skin vibrates, particles change patterns to each beat in their pow-wow dance.

Such works don't imitate nature: they are nature. Robert Motherwell, one of a group of abstract expressionists, said, "Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask.

Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask." Blasser takes a conceptual leap: she eliminates the mask as well as the person. There is no navel gazing her work, no churning of intimate

emotions: nature reigns supreme.

However, nature is not always a master craftsman. Some of Blasser's works are more successful than others. For example, her book of photos documenting experiments is exquisite. It reveals microcosmic masterpieces of nature. But a few works, such as the salt paintings, are not vastly different from the popular and predictably successful children's project of salt and paint washes. To reach beyond the accidental takes endless trials; for example, the sculptor Isamu Noguchi cleaved stone many times before reaching the "aha!" moment of a perfect composition. Nature too needs a good editor.

The range of refinement is wide but when Blasser's experiments work they are not only visually magnificent, they challenge conceptual foundations of art. What is the role of the artist? Is science a form of art? A myriad questions fill my mind as I leave this show. But there are also some answers. In the words of Einstein, "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." Where Emergence poses the questions, nature's mysterious beauty answers.

AGNIESZKA MATEJO

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Tony Olivares

Thu, Dec 20 (7 pm) Mile Zero Dance Studio, $10 (MZD members), $12 (non-members)

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ometimes, we all just need to take a minute to slow down and focus on the beauty of simplicity.

Mile Zero Dance artist-in-residence Tony Olivares—who has returned to Edmonton after completing his studies in theatre and dance beyond the city—is delving into this notion through Return to Simplicity, an exploration of the natural body as a vehicle for the return to the most simple aspects of movement, connecting with the natural world through Butoh techniques.

For the past decade, Olivares has been studying Butoh, which requires its students to first connect with breath and gravity, exploring movement on an internal level before branching out into slow, languid movements.

"These days, we are so hectic, time is

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always consuming us and going faster and faster and we never slow down, so I think it's important to somehow go back to that simplicity of moving slow and to be able to appreciate that as well as we appreciate the fast pace that we always have in life," explains Olivares, who is also trained in ballet, interpretive and Latin dance in addition to practicing Butoh further through portraying living sculptures on the street during the summer months.

"You don't slow down if you don't give your body a break or your mind a break or just concentrate on your breath."

This notion will be explored onstage

by Olivares and two other dancers: Levi Etherington and Izumi Kuribayashi. Together, the trio will not only explore simplicity in movement, but the simplicity and elegance of the human body.

"It's a connection to simplicity, a connection to the four elements perhaps, you know, whether it's breath, water, fire and Earth ... there will be some moments of nudity perhaps at the end, so it's a mature concert," Olivares adds. "It's a beautiful thing to just slow down, just appreciate effortless movement and I think that's one of the appreciations I have for the masters of Butoh: they're very into effortless movement. Even though it looks effortless, it takes a lot of control to do it."

MEAGHAN BAXTER

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REVUE // BOOKS

Graphic novel roundup The Song of Roland

By Michel Rabagliati Translated by Helge Dascher Conundrum 189 pp, $20 The Nao of Brown

By Glyn Dillon SelfMadeHero 206 pp, $27.95 Building Stories

By Chris Ware Pantheon 260 pp, $55

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oming of age and coming of death in post-referendum Quebec. Psychological turmoil in the ethnic mix of today's London. Comix can move us through times and spaces as floatingly and spellbindingly as a friendly spirit leading us through an old house, characters and memories drifting out from frames and panels. And no graphic novel showcases that better than one doorstopper, a decade in the making, which finally arrived this fall to stake its claim as one of the best in the history of the medium.

First up is Michel Rabagliati, who's immensely popular in Quebec for his Paul series of bandes-dessinées but remains largely unknown in English Canada. The 2009 book (and soon-to-be-film) Paul à Québec (Paul in Quebec City), has been translated for a volume retitled The Song of Roland (mostly set in 2001). The unassuming everydayness and sheer amiability of the book are striking. There's Paul's fluster and anxiety during his inlaws' favourite card game, his snowballing exasperation with setting up his new computer or his explanation of the afterlife to his young daughter.

In this utterly absorbing look at one man's demise, Rabagliati's fluid rhythm and artistic sophistication (captions, wistful flashbacks, moments where bodies are in cartoonmotion, photo-realistic streets and buildings, and the finale, where a child's imagination tenderly meets a bird's-eye view) are easy to miss. The dying man is Paul's father-in-law, Roland. En route, we see 1930s tenements, orphanages and farms, 1990s backyard pools peppering a suburban

development, notaries closing a house-sale, a retiree's sugar shack and friends musing on separation as they look out over a graveyard from a church on St Jean Baptiste Day, 1999, wondering if their generation "missed the boat." In other words, we see a slice of Quebec.

Across the pond, among the shops and flats of northwest London, Glyn Dillon wrenches us along the sharp edges of one woman's violent fantasies. Nao Brown, a twentysomething Japanese-English illustrator and toy designer, has an OCD that throws her, and the narrative, into sudden, spin-cycle fancies of bone-breaking, murder or suicide; her greatest fear of all is that she's not "good." It's all the more psychologically stark because of Dillon's careful, diary-like pen

drawings and his gorgeous watercolours, as powerfully vivid yet fragile as Nao herself. The Buddhist circular symbol enso recurs in different forms throughout, but also suggests the void that Nao sometimes feels herself slipping into and the 0 that she wants to dial her fantasies back down to. A striking, ichi-comic folktale wends its allegorical way through this narrative of losing control, trying to make connections and dealing with obsessions. The only fault with The Nao of Brown is a too-dramatic, too-expository, yet

still too-rushed resolution.

There's no clear end or beginning to Chris Ware's collection of 14 comics (pamphlets, books, a newspaper, fold-out sheets, a foldout board), all gathered in one big box. In a hyper-speed time when books seem like obsolete objects, Ware's been building Building Stories for 10 years; within weeks of publication, The Comics Journal posted a series of critical essays about the work. It's hard not to get gleefully analytical about this maestro's construction of minute observations and meaningful, mundane detail. As Daniel Raeburn's pointed out, Ware's sense of the composition of a comic is akin to removing the façade of a building. Ware once wrote that the credo "architecture is frozen music" explains the art-form of cartooning.

In the compartments of Building Stories, Ware installs us in the perfect form, content and metaphor for his mastery of the medium.

An unnamed, black-haired, onelegged woman is at the heart of the Chicago brownstone whose rooms and lives we move through.

It's mainly her wending thoughts and little yearnings we follow, leading us into those melancholic, shadowy nooks and corners tucked away in all of our days. This is a meticulously paced, impeccably detailed work of psychological inner-ness on par with the best modernists (Woolf, Joyce), delving into this woman's rooms of her very own: desire, her body, loneliness, her complex doubts. When she enters suburbanite motherhood, she becomes ever-so-cringingly more self-involved. And amid this existentialism, flitting about in the early 21st century between glowing screens, there's a droll, Shakespearean-toned, "to bee or not to bee" story, too.

While Maus, 25 years ago, showed how comix could reinvent history and the personal memoir, Building Stories shows how comix can remap and re-present the space-time of human emotions and memories—the basic stuff of modern fiction. Ware's stunning achievement elevates him to the penthouse-loft level of living artists.

The University of Alberta Museums return to Enterprise Square with

Split Petcetrix by Marilène Oliver

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

BRIAN GIBSON

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DANCE MILE ZERO DANCE–RETURN TO SIMPLICITY • Mzd Studio, 9533 Jasper Ave • milezerodance.com • By Tony Olivares; part of the Artist in Residence program • Dec 20, 7pm • $10 (MZD member)/$12 (non-member) at door

PUBLIC YALDA NIGHT (WINTER SOLSTICE) CELEBRATION • Ramada Conference Centre, 11834 Kingsway • A night of celebration featuring Iman Sani and His Fantastic Music Band, Araz Music and Dance Ensemble Persian, Azari, Kordi, Latin DJ music, Mimi Ghazaal Belly Dance • Fri, Dec 21, 7pm-1am, 6pm (door) • $35 (adult)/$15 (child 5-12)/$300 (group of ten, students 10% off ) tickets at Mini Super Pars, Bijan Optical, HUB Mall, Babak 780.716.4437, tixonthesquare.ca

FILM BAILEY THEATRE–Camrose • Sing-a-long Canada presents: The Sound Of Music; Dec 29, 1pm, 7pm; tickets at singalongcanada.com CINEMA AT THE CENTRE • Library Theatre, Stanley A. Milner Library basement, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • Centre for Reading and the Arts showcases little-known films every month • Tomboy; Jan 9, 6:30pm

FROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley A. Milner Library Audio Visual Room (main floor), 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • Films adapted from books every Friday afternoon at 2pm • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King; part 1 (2003, 14A); Fri, Dec 21, 2pm • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King; part 2 (2003, 14A); Fri, Dec 28, 2pm • The Polar Express (2004, G): Tue, Dec 24, 10am • Rio Bravo; Fri, Jan 4, 2pm • High Noon; Fri, Jan 11, 2pm

UP FOR DISCUSSION: A FILM SERIES

ALLIED ARTS COUNCIL OF SPRUCE GROVE • Spruce Grove Art Gallery, 35 – 5 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • Christmas Store and Gala: Art and crafts by members of the Spruce Grove Art Gallery • Until Dec 22

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; until Jan 6 • BeauTifuL MoNsTeRs: Beasts and Fantastic Creatures in Early European Prints; until Mar 3 • iMpRiNT: A selection of print-making artists, whose work reveals an attention to different printmaking technique, as well as an interrelationship; until Jan 6 • edo: arts of Japan’s Last shogun age: a wide variety of Edo period art forms with focus on prints known as ‘ukiyo-e’; until Feb 10 • pauL fReeMaN: feature two life-size casts of stags whose antlers seem to have turned against them; until Feb 10 • All Day Sunday: Art activities for all ages 3rd Sun every month, 12-4pm; free with admission • Adult Drop-in: Splash: Large Scale Rhythm Painting: Dec 20 • Art for Lunch: Theatre foyer: Casual and informative discussions about AGA exhibitions, held during the lunch hour, 3rd Thu every month • Holiday Hours: Sun, Dec 23: 11am-5pm; Dec 24-26: Closed; Thu, Dec 27: 11am-9pm: Servus Community Access Night; Fri, Dec 28: 11am-7pm; Dec 29-30: 11am-5 pm; Dec 31-Jan 1: Closed; Jan 2: 11am-7pm

ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • GaMe pieCes: Paintings by Margaret Witschl • Until Feb 2 ART SOCIETY OF STRATHCONA COUNTY • Loft Gallery, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • Artwork by society members, and a gift shop of artist made items; open Oct-Dec, Feb-Jul

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Feature Gallery: PASSAGES: a group exhibition exploring the passage of time; until Dec 24

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY (Agnes

Sherwood Park • NVSart is featured • Sep-Jan

Red Deer • 403.340.4869 • hubpdd.com • iNdiGeNous iMpRessioNs: Works by Claudine Fleury • Until Dec 31

JOHNSON GALLERY • 7711-85 St • 780.465.6171 • New works by Ada Wong, Yardley Jones, George Weber, Illingworth Kerr, Alex Halliburtron and Noboru Kubo (pottery) • Through Dec-Jan

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

KING’S UNIVERSITY COLLEGE • 9125-50 St • iMMiGRaNT: Paintings and installation piece by Rosemary Sloot • Mon-Fri, 8:30am4:30pm; until Jan 15

KIWANIS GALLERY–Red Deer • Red Deer

MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • RefuGe: pRiNTed iMpRessioNs: Group exhibition of graduate Printmaking students and staff from the U of A Printmaking Department • Until Jan 13

MISERICORDIA COMMUNITY HOSPITAL • Main Floor halls, 16940-87 Ave • MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GALLERY (MCPAG)–Stony Plain •

CHRISTL BERGSTROM'S RED GALLERY • 9621-82 Ave • 780.498.1984 • Experiencing the City–Portraits of Edmonton Street Life • Until Dec 31

CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • MiNaTuRes aNd MoRe • Until Dec 21

COMFORTS THE SOLE–Red Deer • Original jewellery by Wendy Meeres and Carol Nault • Through December

CROOKED POT GALLERY–Stony Plain

EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ • 9938-70 Ave • Olive Tree Project, Peg Barcelo-Jackson, Ginette D'Silva, Alice Dolphin, Dara Loewen • Ongoing

FAB GALLERY • Department of Art and Design, U of A, Rm 1-1 Fine Arts Bldg • 780.492.2081 • eMeRGeNCe: Works by Nika Blasser, the final visual presentation for the degree of master of fine arts in Drawing and Intermedia; until Jan 12 • STROKER: Mackenzy Albright: Final visual presentation for Master of Fine Arts in Drawing and Intermedia; until Jan 12 • Gallery closed Dec 24-Jan 2

FRONT GALLERY • 12312 Jasper Ave • 780.488.2952 • CHRisTMas KeepsaKes: Group Show • Through December

GALLERIE PAVA • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • Artworks by Michel Allen • Until Jan 16 GALLERY 7 • Bookstore on Perron, 7 Perron St, St. Albert • 780.459.2525 • exuBeRaNCe: Oil paintings by Gail Seemann; until Dec 21 • NaTuRes oBseRvaNCe: Graphite and pastel artworks by Carroll Charest; Dec 22-Jan 28; Opening reception: Sat, Dec 29, 1-3pm, artist in attendance

GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/art-gallery • STARS: Linocut

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HUB ON ROSS–Red Deer • 4936 Ross St,

St, Red Deer • TiMe TRaveL: Works by Wendy Meeres • Until Dec 31

780.760.1278 • daffodilgallery.ca • 12 days of CHRisTMas: Featuring gallery artists • Through December

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• Sunworks Home and Garden Store, Ross St, Red Deer • 403.346.8937 • harriswarkegallery. com • CoNNeCTiNG pLaCes: Paintings by Galia Kwetny • Until Dec 29

CAFÉ PICHILINGUE–Red Deer • 4928-50

DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St •

Give membership in Edmonton’s oldest artist-run gallery.

Like Edmonton, we’re growing.

HARRIS-WARKE GALLERY–Red Deer

780.432.6678; wands@web.net • Edmonton Art Club Show and Sale • Until Jan 26

• 4912-51 Ave, Stony Plain • 780.963.9573 • CeLeBRaTe CHRisTMas: featuring handmade and wheel thrown holiday décor, and handmade tree decorations • Until Dec 28

MORE THAN ART

10215-112 St • Main Gallery: iN MaTeRiaL: Works by Marie de Sousa • Front Room Gallery: RooTed: Works by Corey Hardeman • Until Jan 18

MANDOLIN BOOKS • 6419-112 Ave • nvsart.ca • NvsaRT: Textured abstract art; Oct-Jan

CAFÉ HAVEN–Sherwood Park • 9 Sioux Rd,

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl,

122 St • Naturally Abstract: artwork by David Blaine, featuring abstract images discovered in natural environments • Until Feb 28

VARSCONA THEATRE • 10329-83 Ave • Three

Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • Presented by Film and Video Arts Society - Alberta (FAVA): new works from the introductory digital film course, Video Kitchen • Thu, Jan 10, 7pm • Admission by donation

HAPPY HARBOR COMICS V1 • 10729-104 Ave • COMIC JAM: Improv comic art making every 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7pm • OPEN DOOR: Collective of independent comic creators meet the 2nd & 4th Thu each month, 7am • Comics Artist-in-Residence: with Kyle Sams; Every Fri 12-6pm and Sat 12-5pm; until Apr

BRINSMEAD KENNEDY GALLERY • 10434-

• Stanley Milner Library Theatre • epl.ca • Film screening, and a lively exploration of current and timely topics of concern • Broke; Thu, Jan 10, 6:30pm

VIDEO KITCHEN SCREENING • Metro Cinema,

Way • GaLLeRy is 4 CHRisTMas: Susan Woolgar, Erika Schulz, Jeri Lynn Ing, and Victoria Schulz • Through December

Public Library • Members Only Show and Sale: Artworks by Red Deer Arts Council members • Until Jan 1

Bugera Gallery), 12310 Jasper Ave • 780.482.2854 • bugeramathesongallery.com • CHRisTMas CHeeR: featuring works by gallery artists that inspire romance, nostalgia, comfort and joy • Through December

showings of The Best Little Newfoundland Christmas Pageant … Ever • Dec 21-23, 7:30pm • $18-$20 at door, TIX on the Square

prints by Cheryl Anhel • Until Dec 31

GALLERY IS–Red Deer • 5123 Alexander

5411-51 St, Stony Plain • 780.963.9935 • TwiCe ReMoved: Works by Brenda Kim Christiansen • Until Jan 2

century; until Jan 6 • THe TsaRs' CaBiNeT: Two Hundred Years of Russian Decorative Arts under the Romanovs; until Jan 2

ST JOHN’S INSTITUTE • 11024-82 Ave • pRaiRie dReaMsCapes: ReiMaGiNiNG ouR RooTs: Alberta launch of art exhibit by the Alberta Council for the Ukrainian Arts • Until Jan 19

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • 780.488.3619 • paNfoRTe: Artworks by Douglas Haynes, Kelly Krueger, Gabor Nagy, Robert Sinclair, Marianne Watchel, the Selfridges • Until Dec 22

SNAP GALLERY • Society Of Northern Alberta Print-Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • Main Gallery: MeMBeRs sHow & SALE: until Dec 20

STRATHCONA COUNTY GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • pHoToGRapHy iN a sTaTe of exCepTioN: Documents of Contemporary War; until Dec 21 • The Wordless Book and other deserts; until Dec 21

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • STAR WARS Identities: The Exhibition: explores the amazing nature of human identity through the magic of the Star Wars universe and its legendary characters; until Apr 1

UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS • Enterprise Square, 10230 Jasper Ave • 780.492.5834 • museums.ualberta.ca • peRCepTioNs of pRoMise: BioTeCHNoLoGy, soCieTy aNd aRT: until Jan 5 • passioN pRoJeCT: 75 works from the U of A art collection, until Jan 26; Passion Project–Curator's Talk with Jim Corrigan, Fri, Jan 25, 12:15-1pm • iMMoRTaL BeauTy: The work of 84-year-old master calligrapher Shiko Kataoka, until Jan 26; immortal Beauty: Curator's Talk with Jim Corrigan; Fri, Jan 18, 12:15-1pm • peRCepTioNs of pRoMise: BioTeCHNoLoGy, soCieTy aNd aRT: challenging viewers to consider the positive and negative possibilities of biotechnology in general and stem cell research in particular; until Jan 5 • The Biomedicalized Body: Curator's Talk with Lianne McTavish, discussing how conceptions of the human body have changed since the Renaissance; noon-hour talk for the exhibition Perceptions of Promise: Biotechnology, society and art • Conservation: With U of A Museums conservator Carmen Li in conjunction with Passion Project; Sat, Jan 19, 2-4pm VAAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.421.1731 • uRBaN aNiMaLs: Works by Jason Carter: Paintings exploring urban vs. natural environment • Until Jan 19 (Closed: Dec 22-Jan 9)

VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St. Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa.ca • weT paiNT: Small artworks by VASA artists • Until Feb 2

WEST END GALLERY • 12308 Jasper Ave • 780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • wiNTeR CoLLeCTioN: New works by Claudette Castonguay, Fraser Brinsmead, Arianne Dubois, Brent R. Laycock and others • Through December

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM–St Albert • 5 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1528

LITERARY

• wiNd woRK, wiNd pLay: weaTHeRvaNes aNd wHiRLiGiGs: Wind-powered folk art from the collection of the Canadian Museum of Civilization • Until Jan 13

Literary Saloon: reading series the 2nd Thu every month; Oct-May, 7pm (door)

NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • aLiGNMeNT: Paintings by Sandra Kunz • Until Dec 31

NINA HAGGERTY–Stollery Gallery • 9225-118 Ave • 780.474.7611 • ninahaggertyart. ca • BouNd foR GLoRy: Handmade, altered, and transformed books • Until Jan 6

VELVET OLIVE LOUNGE–Red Deer • Trent Leach and Holly Elliott • Until Dec 31

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery. com • Group exhibitions: Artworks by gallery artists; • Until Mar 23

PROPAGANDA HAIR SALON • 10808-124 St • THe ModeL, THe MysTiC aNd THe MusCLe: 11 new paintings by outro • Until Jan 12 PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES OF ALBERTA • 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 • Until Dec 21

RED DEER COLLEGE LIBRARY • Four Corners Gallery: THe iMpoRTaNCe of LiNe: Artworks by Elena Rousseau; until Jan 9 • PortHole Gallery: sMaLL sCaLe woRK: Past Artists in Residence: Until Jan 11

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • fasHioNiNG feaTHeRs: Dead Birds, Millinery Craft and the Plumage Trade; curated by Merle Patchett and Liz Gomez, show examines the effect of fashion's demand for beautiful feathers on bird populations at the beginning of the twentieth

ARTERY • 9535 Jasper Ave • 780.441.6966 • BRITTANY'S LOUNGE • 10225-97 St • Book Launch party celebrate the launch of Marv Machura's new book: wonder, a Collection of poetry • Dec 20, 7pm CARROT COMMUNITY ARTS COFFEEHOUSE • 9351-118 Ave • vzenari@gmail.com • Prose Creative Writing Group • Every Tue, 7-9pm

HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB • 15120 Stony Plain Rd • 780.915.8869 • Edmonton Story Slam: writers share their original, 5-minute stories; followed by a music jam • 3rd Wed every month, 7pm (sign-up); 7:30pm (show) • $5

RIVERDALE • 9917-87 St • Creative Word Jam • Every 3rd Sun of the month, 6-10pm • facebook. com/group.php?gid=264777964410 E: creative. word.jam@gmail.com

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900 • Poetry every Tue with Edmonton's local poets T.A.L.E.S.–STRATHCONA • New Strathcona Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.400.3547 • Monthly Tellaround: 4th Wed each month 7pm • Free

T.A.L.E.S. TELLAROUND • Parkallen Com-

THEATRE AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS • Holy Trinity Anglican, 10037-84 Ave • E: raycrofte@ hotmail.com • Charming Christmas story opera is written by American composer Giancarlo Menotti • Dec 20-21 • All ages • $15 (adult)/$5 (child) at door THE BEST LITTLE NEWFOUNDLAND CHRISTMAS PAGEANT...EVER! • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • 780.433.3399 • By Barbara Robinson. A Newfoundland Christmas tradition presented by Whizgiggling Productions featuring Kayla Gorman, Natalie Czar Gummer, Mary Hulbert, Byron Martin, Eric Wigston, Lindsey Walker • Dec 20-23, 7:30pm • $20 (adult)/$18 (senior/student/child under 15) at door, Varscona, at TIX on the Square

BUDDY HOLLY STORY • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • By Alan Janes with Jeff Giles as Buddy • Until Feb 3 • New Year's Eve: $165 each (incl dinner buffet and table-served appetisers, performance) CHIMPROV • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101 A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • First three Sat every month, 10pm, until Jul • $12 (door or buy in adv at Tix on the Square) A CHRISTMAS CAROL • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre. com • Adapted by Tom Wood. Directed by Bob Baker and Geoffrey Brumlik. Based on the story

by Charles Dickens • Until Dec 23, Sat matinee: Dec 22, 1:30pm • Tickets start at $35 at the Citadel box office THE CHRISTMAS CAROL PROJECT • Westbury Theatre, TransAlta Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave • 780.409.1910 • fringetheatre.ca/arts_at_the_ barns.php • A musical interpretation of Dickens’ classic tale and features original songs written from the perspectives of the various characters • Dec 28-29 • $40 (door)/$35 (adv) 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 LIONEL BART’S OLIVER • Festival Place, 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • Until Dec 30 • $36 (adult)/$24 (child) at the Festival Place box office festivalplace.ab.ca, Ticketmaster

NCIS • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, 8882-170 St, WEM • 780.484.2424 • jubilations.ca • Dr. Ducky and his colleague from Los Angeles, Hetty, are off to Canada to attend a conference with the Royal Canadian Navy Investigative Services, where they run into trouble. Ducky is accused of committing murder and has been given until the end of the conference to prove his innocence • Until Jan 26

THE SNOW GLOBE FESTIVAL OF CHILDREN'S THEATRE • C103, Catalyst Theatre, 8529 Gateway Blvd • 780.431.1750 • Presented

by Promise Productions, three productions: The classic and upbeat music of Babes in Toyland, the sword flying adventure of Robin Hood, and the world premiere of the heart warming Birdie On the Wrong Bus by Ellen Chorley • Until Dec 22 • Single tickets: $10 (child)/$12 (adult) at TIX on the Square; Festival Passes at catalysttheatre. ca • BiRdie oN THe wRoNG Bus: Dec 20, 10am, 1pm; Dec 21, 10am • RoBiN Hood: by Kathryn Schultz Miller; Dec 21, 1pm • BABES iN ToyLaNd: Book by Rebecca Ryland, music/ lyrics by Bill Francoeur; Dec 20, 7:30pm; Dec 21, 7pm; Dec 22, 8pm

SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD • L’uni Théàtre, la cité francophone, 8627 Rue Marie-Anne Gaboury • threeformtheatre. com • By Jason Robert Brown, presented

by Three Form Theatre A moment in time in a collection of songs; musical theatre • Dec 29-Jan 3 • $23 (adult)/$20 (student/ senior); $26 (door, adult)/$23 (door, student/senior); special New Years Eve performance at 7pm with reception at 6pm: $30 at TIX on the Square OH SUSANNA! • Varscona Theatre • 1032983 Ave • 780.433.3399 • varsconatheatre.com/ ohsusanna • The Euro-style variety spectacle with Susanna Patchouli and her divine co-host Eros, God of Love! Laughs! Music! Cocktails! • Runs the last Sat each month, until Jul, 11pm (subject to occasional change)

munity Hall, 6510-111 St • 780.667.8253 • talesstorytelling.com • Come One - Come All...: Hear what storytelling is all about in a comfortable, casual atmosphere; share a story or just listen • 2nd Mon each month until Jun, 7-9pm • Free • Mon, Jan 14 • Bring inside shoes and your own mug

THEATRESPORTS • Citadel Theatre, 9828101 A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm

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

THE VELVETEEN RABBIT • Capitol Theatre • The charming story of imagination, transformation and growing up • Dec 21-24 WITH BELLS ON • Roxy Theatre, 10708-124 St

WUNDERBAR ON WHYTE • 8120-101 St •

• Presented by Guys in Disguise and Theatre Network • Until Dec 23, 8pm; Sun at 2pm • Tickets at tickets.theatrenetwork.ca, TIX on the Square

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

VUEWEEKLY DECEMBER 20 – DECEMBER 26, 2012

FILM

REVUE // MIYAZAKI

Youth and nature

Miyazaki's films examine growing up and the majesty of the wild

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Princess Mononoke

Sat, Dec 22 – Sun, Dec 30 Kiki's Delivery Service Wed, Dec 26 – Sat, Dec 29 Princess Mononoke Directed by Miyazaki Hayao Metro Cinema at the Garneau

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etro's Miyazaki retrospective continues with a more fancy-free but labour-intensive film launched for littler viewers and the artier, darker epic that flew onto film critics' radar-screens in the late '90s.

Kiki's Delivery Service (1989; 4 stars), the fourth Studio Ghibli film and loosely based on Eiko Kadano's book, is for a younger audience. The girl-hero wears a red bow in her hair throughout, there's some Disney-like cuteness to the picture and there's never a sense she'll come to any harm.

Kiki's a witch-in-training and, now 13, she must fly from home astride her broom to find a city where she can make a sorceress of herself.

Miyazaki and company aren't shy about showing Kiki as a girl trying, in fits and starts, to grow up. Her witch's familiar Jiji, a black cat often riding on her shoulder, expresses both Kiki's more timid and more cynical sides. (In the American dub, Jiji becomes male, voiced by Phil Hartman in one of his last roles—Hartman nearly steals the film as the dry-toned, always skeptical creature, constantly exuding an aloof cat-ness. Miyazaki also has familiars for his heroines in Nausicaä—a foxsquirrel—and Spirited Away.) The archetypal image here is Kiki on her broomstick, her black dress billowing up around her. Studio Ghibli, avoiding the prurience of American animation for kids, isn't afraid to have the billowing dress expose Kiki's diaper-like panties, reminding us of her immaturity.

The film delivers the thrilling, nervous excitement of a young girl in the city, finding her way through com-

munity and work. The rolling, cobblestoned seaside city of Koriko, a '50sish version of Visby, Sweden (though with echoes of such European cities as Munich and Prague), has a smalltown intimacy. Kiki scrubs and cleans for her room and board at a bakery before opening up a delivery service, whisking airmail to its destinations.

But when her flying-magic weakens, the story examines Kiki's waning power as a metaphor for wavering self-belief, "finding your inspiration" and creative block. An artist (surely mirroring Miyazaki himself), living in a cottage in the woods among crows, helps Kiki reflect on her inner confidence and gain some perspective on the power she'd taken for granted.

Kiki's Delivery Service also spirits us through moments where children can be snotty and excluding: Kiki encounters a snobby young witch, grows wary of a cocky group of kids, is chagrined when a spoiled young girl dismisses her grandmother's oven-fired pot pie that she worked so hard to make and she often feels like a lonely outsider. It's this sense of melancholy, mixed at times with the surging joy of lingering childhood (as when Kiki and her friend Tombo ride giddily down to the beach to see a dirigible), that marks the film as a quietly masterful portrait of late-girlhood.

Princess Mononoke (1997; 5 stars), though a fantasy-epic set in the past, is Miyazaki's most pressing, urgent film. From the opening charge, where a boar, coiled with the squirming strands of a demon, partly infects a boy with hatred, the film throws us into a pitched battle between human industry and spiritual nature. The boy's the last Emishi prince, Ashitaka.

Riding off on his red elk, searching for the source of the boar's curse—a bullet lodged inside the creature—he comes upon a fortress. Its fiery queen,

Lady Eboshi, has liberated brothel workers to manufacture guns for the deforestation of a mountain to mine its iron. She's pitted against a girl, San, who lives with wolves and communes with the Forest Spirit.

Eboshi's leadership makes the story all the more complex. She's rescued lepers and saved tough-talking women from city brothels but remains intent on stripping the landscape for its forge-fired wealth. There's a heated discussion of gender roles in smoking, rumbling Irontown. And then there's Ashitaka's first, astounding glimpse of feral San—eyes flashing, her mouth stained red, she's sucking out the wound from a mother wolf, spitting out the blood into a lake. It's femaleness at its fiercest, most primal, most sisterly and most defiant.

Miyazaki's riffing off John Ford's Westerns and Kurosawa's samurai epics, but never have the violations and massacres of a "civilizing" past been so stirringly juxtaposed with the poetic animism of nature. (Although set in the Muromachi period [1337 – 1573] the story makes for a Joseph Campbell-like, mythical reflection of James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis of the planet as a self-regulating bio-system, much discussed in the '90s.) Miyazaki's usual composer, Joe Hisaishi, offers a lilting score. Fog wreaths treetufted glades and mountain dells. The forest spirit, a giant nightwalker who becomes a grand elk at dawn, is hailed by small, white, head-rattling Tree Spirits. And Miyazaki's trademark goo and globules, squirming and spreading, warn of vengeance and rage.

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind is about the marvel of nature thriving in a post-apocalyptic world but, in its pre-modern past, Princess Mononoke asks us to respect the sheer magic and brutal power of nature's majesty.

BRIAN GIBSON

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REVUE // TOLKIEN

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Now playing Directed by Peter Jackson

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as a movie ever been more expected than The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey? The grand-wizard of modern fantasy was bound to be

Just pallin' around

adapted (again) after the success of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy; websites and chatboards have buzzed about production and casting and then the two-part adaptation becoming three-part. Whenever the movie suffers from that lengthy sense of prequel-itis (stretching backstory, lingering with hallowed characters from LOTR) and offers a weighty sense of expectations (ominous beginnings, portents of doom), it falls short.

Still, for much of its 165 minutes, this is an epic with enough small moments and deft touches that it tugs you along with the power of a good story.

As our small-bodied, parochial-minded, tuft-toed hero, Martin Freeman is perfectly cast as Bilbo—affable but reluctant, plucky but homesick. And much of the story has a nice domestic arc: Bilbo besieged at home by

dwarves and a conscripting Gandalf (Ian McKellen), Bilbo deciding to leave his hobbit-hole's comforts for the open road, Bilbo declaring at last that he wants to help the dwarves recover their homeland, the Lonely Mountain, from the dragon Smaug. The other arc concerns the comfortably lonesome Bilbo being discomfited by exploits that embolden him and lead him to being accepted by his newfound dwarffriends.

But an unnecessary backstory of Smaug's conquest and a torpid, namedropping interlude amongst elves— including the nearly inert, blondetressed, angelic Galadriel, wasting Cate Blanchett's talent—remind us just how much the plot is, unfortunately, best at being a grog-clinking, sword-swinging tale of male cama-

raderie. As foes multiply, dark skies build and we press on past the twohour mark, action sequences get more video-game-ish. Our questing group of warriors weightlessly and whizzingly rollercoast along crashing mountainmonsters, falling bridges and uprooted trees on a cliff ledge. (One sequence, involving hordes of skewered goblins, is especially suspense-less and suspend-disbelief-less.) Thankfully, the brooding, schizoid ruminations of that fishy, sneaky Gollum (Andy Serkis), playing at riddles with Bilbo, offers a kind of folk-tale gravitas. Because it's when this tale is folksy, one-on-one, droll and tenderly human that The Hobbit discovers the little moments of weight and wonder that make any good epic.

BRIAN GIBSON

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REVUE // BEETHOVEN

A Late Quartet Opens Friday Directed by Yaron Zilberman Princess Theatre

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he title of A Late Quartet holds at least two meanings, one to do with Beethoven's String Quartet No. 14 in C# minor, Op. 131, written during the final year of the composer's life, and one to do with the musicians at the film's centre, celebrated collaborators for some 25 years who suddenly find themselves splintering apart due to a mixture of illness, professional dissatisfaction and marital strife. From a cool distance, much of the drama looks fairly conventional, even soapy. The script, by director Yaron Zilberman and co-scenarist Seth Grossman, is a tidy arrangement of rising tensions and carefully graded complexities, of betrayals, struggles and fresh alliances. The four protagonists (plus one—there is a young budding musician added to the mix) allow for a tasteful, not too busy amount of shifting between narrative threads.

But I think A Late Quartet transcends its conventions in more ways than one. It's the product of a filmmaker who clearly believes in the integrity of great music and of the musicians who devote their lives to bringing great

music to fierce, fluid, glorious life. It doesn't hurt that the actors are uniformly superb.

Peter (Christopher Walken), the cellist, is the Fugue Quartet's eldest member, a widower who learns he's experiencing the early stages of Parkinson's. For Robert (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the news of Peter's condition functions as a reminder of life's bracing brevity; Robert's weary of being second violinist, of being an underappreciated husband to violist Juliette (Catherine Keener), of having the group constantly take its cues from Daniel (Mark Ivanir), the rather stodgy first violinist, who always chooses perfection over passion—though his passions seem set to be awakened by Alexandra (Imogen Poots), his attractive, assured young student, who also happens to be Robert and Juliette's daughter. Despite Peter's affliction the group chooses to forge ahead with a planned performance of the Op. 131, a challenging, gorgeously detailed piece of approximately 40 minutes which demands that each of the musicians play at a brisk pace, without pause even to retune. There's an engaging, relaxed scene in which Peter tells his class an anecdote about a misunderstanding he once had with Pablo Casals; the moral of the story is to

never underestimate the potential for innovation or freshness in what seem in the moment like mistakes. But Peter's too long in the tooth to allow himself to fumble his way through a piece of music he reveres, or to diminish the power of what he and his colleagues have worked so hard to develop.

The final scene of A Late Quartet, very nicely cut together by Yuval Shar (from coverage shot by the great Frederick Elmes), is thus very moving not only for the beauty of Beethoven's music or the actors' performances or our familiarity with the characters and their individual problems, but because, whether or not we know anything about music, we've also been led to understand what at stake artistically. This is a film about what it means to be an artist, the sacrifices made, the heights that can be reached, the discoveries made along the way. None of this is a revelation, but it is wise. And Walken most especially is at his best here. His strange cadences and embodying of jumbled emotions are a kind of music all their own. Walken alone is reason to see (and hear) this film.

JOSEF BRAUN

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REVUE // TARANTINO

Django Unchained Opens Wed, Dec 25 Directed by Quentin Tarantino

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hen we first meet Django (Jamie Foxx) his chains are the real, iron-round-the-ankles type, part of a link of freshly purchased slaves being led to their new plantation. It's 1858, two years before the American Civil War, and once those shackles get unlocked by a sly dentist-turned-bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz), our titular hero gets himself into the same profession, hunting bad dudes down while working towards the story's big unshackling: the rescue of his wife from a vicious plantation owner (played by Leonardo DiCaprio—wait, what?).

And so Django Unchained goes about tossing spaghetti western style in Tarantino's popcorn gore. It's long—the movie pushes two hours and forty-five minutes—but lively, sprinkled with humour amid the heft of violence. Waltz is put to excellent use here, unlike in so many other recent American films, and Foxx assembles himself into a sort of quiet badass, not so much brooding as grimly determined. DiCaprio seems like he's having the time of his life as a bad guy in plantation owner shoes and southern gentleman accent. Before they reach him, though Tarantino builds

endless little molehills into mountains for Foxx and Waltz to traverse: an attack of hood-wearing racists, learning bounty hunting trade and avenging past wrongs. There's a shootout where the human shields are all alive and writhing as bullets fly into them. It's about as entertaining as Tarantino-style all-out violence gets.

Still: Tarantino's filmography has slanted, in the past few years, towards justifying his popcorn bloodbaths at the expense of much depth of scenario. His recent heroes—a bride revenging her assassin-ambushed wedding, a group of gals taking down a killer stunt driver at high-speeds, American forces rewriting the end of the Second World War— face enemies so reprehensible that (the implication goes) we're satisfied just to watch them meet bloody, brutal ends.

Here, in barely pre-Civil War America, the targets are slave owners and men who toss out the N-word like cheap change—no sympathy, right? And while it's all entertaining and done with panache and style, it also feels a bit like Tarantino's just shooting these racist fish in a barrel because he can, because it's easy for him to do, and because he knows we'll all just eat it up.

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REVUE // POST-WAR DRAMA

The Master

Looking for The Master

Fri, Dec 21 – Wed, Jan 2 Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson Metro Cinema at the Garneau

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ots of guys came back from the Second World War messed up, but what messed Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix) started long before he went to sea. His father died from drink and his mother wound up institutionalized; now Freddie boozes with an uncommon passion for oblivion, responding to the world with equal parts naïveté and rage.

The Master is, among other things, a portrait of Freddie; so much of this film, the latest from writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will

Be Blood), is made of haunting, gorgeously framed and photographed portraits which render every wrinkle, blink and lip-tremble as dramatically as the movement of armies across a battlefield. Indeed, faces, and the minds behind those faces, are battlefields upon which wills are bent and self-realization is a merciless, violent endeavour.

Freddie moves from job to job, until he meets Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman), author, self-declared scientist, what we now call a New Age guru, and something of a stand-in for Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard.

Freddie and Dodd recognize each other as the unlikeliest of kindred spirits, chosen father and chosen son, another of Anderson's surrogate families. Their scenes together are among the most riveting moments of cinema I've seen this year (and a lot of other years, for that matter).

The Master will draw different ratios of unease and awe in different viewers, but I feel no reservations about calling it a masterpiece, with all the provocations and points of contention that term implies.

VIOLENCE, FRIGHTENING SCENES, NOT RECOMMENDED FOR YOUNG CHILDREN

JOSEF BRAUN

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FILM WEEKLY Fri, DEC 21 - THU, DEC 27, 2012

CHABA THEATRE–JASPER 6094 Connaught Dr Jasper 780.852.4749

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Real D Daily 800; Sat-Sun 1:30 RISE OF THE GUARDIANS (G) Real D Fri-Sat 7:00, 9:00; Sun 8:00; Sat-Sun 1:30

DUGGAN CINEMA–CAMROSE 6601-48 Ave Camrose 780.608.2144

December 24th: Matinees only; December 25th: CLOSED

Jack Reacher (STC) Daily 6:55, 9:25; SAT-MON, WEDTHU 1:00 This Is 40 (14A crude coarse language, sexual content, not recommended for children) Daily 6:45, 9:20; SAT-MON, WED-THU 1:15 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) No passes Daily 7:30; SAT-MON, WED-THU 12:30; FRI-SUN 8:00; SAT-MON 12:45 The Guilt Trip (PG language may offend) Daily 7:10, 9:15; SAT-MON 1:30 RISE OF THE GUARDIANS (G) WED-THU 2:00; WED-THU 1:45, 7:20, 9:30

CINEMA CITY MOVIES 12 5074-130 Ave 780.472.9779

HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA (PG) Fri-Mon, Wed-Thu 1:05; 3d: Fri-Sun,Tue-Thu 3:40, 6:55, 9:15 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (G) Fri-Mon, Wed-Thu 1:40; 3d: Daily 4:20 Frankenweenie (PG) Fri-Mon, Wed-Thu 1:15; 3d: Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 3:50, 6:45, 9:10; Mon 3:50, 6:45; Thu 3:50, 6:35, 9:10 HERE COMES THE BOOM (PG violence) Fri-Sun, WedThu 1:35, 4:05, 6:50, 9:20; Mon 1:35, 4:05, 6:50; Tue 4:05, 6:50, 9:20 Playing For Keeps (PG sexually suggestive scenes) Fri-Sun, Wed-Thu 1:00, 4:15, 6:40, 9:25; Mon 1:00, 4:15, 6:40; Tue 4:15, 6:40, 9:25 Looper (14A violence, coarse language) Fri-Sun, WedThu 1:45, 4:35, 7:15, 9:55; Mon 1:45, 4:35, 7:15; Tue 4:35, 7:15, 9:55 ARGO (14A) Fri-Sun, Wed-Thu 1:20, 4:10, 7:05, 9:45; Mon 1:20, 4:10, 7:05; Tue 4:10, 7:05, 9:45 Seven Psychopaths (18A language may offend, gory violence) Fri-Sun, Tue-Thu 7:00, 9:30; Mon 7:00 Taken 2 (14A violence) Fri-Sun, Wed-Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 9:50; Mon 2:00, 4:40, 7:20; Tue 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 KILLING THEM SOFTLY (14A course language, brutal

violence, not recommended for young children) Fri-Sun, Wed-Thu 1:55, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40; Mon 1:55, 4:30, 7:10; Tue 4:30, 7:10, 9:40

LINCOLN (PG violence, language may offend, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned Fri-Tue 1:00, 4:15, 7:30; Wed-Thu 12:10, 3:20, 6:35, 9:50

PITCH PERFECT (PG language may offend, crude content, not recommended for young children) Fri-Sun, Wed-Thu 1:30, 4:25, 7:25, 10:00; Mon 1:30, 4:25, 7:25; Tue 4:25, 7:25, 10:00

Parental Guidance (G) No passes Tue 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15; Wed-Thu 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Elf (G) Sat 11:00

TALAASH (14A) Hindi W/E.S.T. Fri-Sun, Wed-Thu 1:50, 5:00, 8:00; Mon 1:50, 5:00; Tue 5:00, 8:00

Royal Opera House: The Nutcracker (classification not available) Sat 12:55

Dabangg 2 (STC) Hindi W/E.S.T. Fri-Sun, Wed-Thu 1:10, 4:00, 6:45, 9:35; Mon 1:10, 4:00, 6:45; Tue 4:00, 6:45, 9:35

CINEPLEX ODEON NORTH 14231-137 Ave 780.732.2236

RISE OF THE GUARDIANS (G) Closed Captioned Fri, Sun 11:35, 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:35, 10:00; Sat 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:35, 10:00; Mon 11:35, 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:35; Wed-Thu 11:35; 3d: Tue 1:30, 4:00; Wed-Thu 12:05, 2:30, 5:00 WRECK-IT RALPH (G) Closed Captioned Fri-Mon, WedThu 11:50; Tue 1:05 TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 2 (PG violence, disturbing content, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned Fri, Sun, Tue-Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:15, 10:35; Sat 4:40, 7:15, 10:35; Mon 2:00, 4:40, 7:15 THIS IS 40 (14A crude coarse language, sexual content, not recommended for children) No passes Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:30, 7:40, 10:40; Mon 1:20, 4:30, 7:40; Tue-Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:40, 10:40 LIFE OF PI 3D (PG) Closed Captioned Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:40, 6:40, 9:30; Mon 12:50, 3:40, 6:40; Tue 6:35, 9:20; Wed-Thu 7:30, 10:25 SKYFALL (14A violence) Closed Captioned Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:45, 7:00, 10:10; Mon 12:30, 3:45, 7:00; Tue 3:40, 6:55, 10:05; Wed-Thu 12:30, 3:40, 6:55, 10:05 The Guilt Trip (PG language may offend) Closed Captioned, No passes Fri-Sun, Wed-Thu 11:40, 1:50, 4:10, 6:30, 8:50; Mon 11:40, 1:50, 4:10, 6:30; Tue 1:50, 4:10, 6:30, 8:50 THE HOBBIT AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned, No passes Fri-Sun 1:30, 2:30, 5:15, 6:10, 9:00, 9:45; Mon 12:15, 2:30, 4:00, 6:10, 7:45; Tue 2:30, 6:10, 9:45; Wed-Thu 2:20, 6:10, 9:45; 3D: High Frame Rate Ultraavx Fri-Sun, Wed-Thu 11:30, 3:10, 6:50, 10:30; Mon 11:30, 3:10, 6:50; Tue 3:10, 6:50, 10:30; 3D: Fri-Sun 12:45, 4:30, 8:30; Mon 12:40, 4:25, 8:00; Closed Captioned, Tue 1:00, 4:45, 8:30; Wed-Thu 12:45, 4:30, 8:15; 3D: Fri-Mon 12:00, 3:30, 7:10 Django Unchained (18A gory brutal violence) Tue 3:15, 7:00, 10:40; Wed-Thu 12:00, 3:30, 7:00, 10:40 JACK REACHER (STC) No passes Fri-Sun, Tue 1:10, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20; Mon 1:10, 4:20, 7:20; Wed-Thu 1:10, 4:15, 7:20, 10:20

CINEPLEX ODEON SOUTH 1525-99 St 780.436.8585

RISE OF THE GUARDIANS (G) Closed Captioned Fri-Sun 11:35, 1:55, 4:25, 7:10, 9:30; Mon 12:20, 2:40, 5:05, 7:35, 10:00; Tue 1:35, 4:30; Wed-Thu 11:55, 2:20, 4:55 WRECK-IT RALPH (G) Closed Captioned Wed-Thu 11:05; 3d: Fri-Sun 4:00, 9:55; Mon 4:00, 9:35; Closed Captioned Wed-Thu 10:55 TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 2 (PG violence, disturbing content, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned Fri 11:10, 1:55, 4:50, 7:35, 10:25; Sat 4:50, 7:40, 10:25; Sun 11:00, 1:50, 4:50, 7:40, 10:25; Mon 12:10, 3:20, 6:25, 9:10; Tue 7:55, 10:50; WedThu 7:30, 10:20 THIS IS 40 (14A crude coarse language, sexual content, not recommended for children) No passes Fri 12:35, 3:50, 6:50, 10:05; Sat 12:15, 3:50, 6:50, 10:05; Sun 12:15, 3:40, 6:50, 10:05; Mon 12:40, 3:45, 6:45, 9:55; Tue 1:15, 4:20, 7:25, 10:35; Wed-Thu 1:25, 4:35, 7:40, 10:50 LIFE OF PI 3D (PG) Closed Captioned Fri 12:20, 3:25, 6:20, 9:30; Sat-Sun 12:20, 3:25, 6:20, 9:35; Mon 12:25, 3:30, 6:30, 9:25; Tue 3:00, 6:35, 9:30; Wed-Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 SKYFALL (14A violence) Closed Captioned Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:55, 7:15, 10:40; Mon 1:15, 4:30, 7:50; Tue 3:05, 7:10, 10:30; Wed-Thu 12:35, 3:50, 7:05, 10:55 The Guilt Trip (PG language may offend) Closed Captioned, No passes Fri 12:10, 2:40, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10; Sat-Sun 12:10, 2:40, 5:15, 7:40, 10:10; Mon 1:50, 4:15, 6:40, 9:05; Tue 1:45, 4:15, 7:05, 9:40; Wed-Thu 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:05, 10:30 THE HOBBIT AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned, No passes Fri-Sun 12:00, 2:15, 3:45, 6:00, 7:45, 9:45; Mon 12:55, 1:30, 4:40, 5:10, 8:30, 9:00; Tue 1:00, 1:30, 5:10, 5:40, 8:50, 9:20; Wed-Thu 1:15, 2:00, 5:00, 5:45, 8:45, 9:30; 3D: Fri-Sun 11:00, 12:30, 2:45, 4:15, 6:30, 8:15, 10:15; Mon 12:00, 2:00, 3:40, 5:40, 7:30, 9:30; Tue 2:00, 6:10, 9:50; Wed-Thu 11:05, 2:45, 6:25, 10:15; 3D: High Frame Rate Ultraavx: Fri-Sun 11:30, 3:15, 6:55, 10:45; Mon 12:30, 4:10, 8:00; Tue 2:30, 6:40, 10:20; Wed-Thu 11:30, 3:15, 7:00, 10:45 Django Unchained (18A gory brutal violence) Tue 2:40, 7:00, 10:40; Wed-Thu 11:25, 3:05, 6:50, 10:35

SKYFALL (14A violence) Closed Captioned, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital Fri-Mon 12:45, 4:20, 7:45; Tue-Thu 10:15 THE GUILT TRIP (PG coarse and sexual language) Digital, Dolby Stereo Digital, Fri-Sun, Wed-Thu 12:20, 3:15, 6:20, 10:20; Mon 12:20, 3:15, 6:20; Tue 3:15, 6:20, 10:20 SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK (14A coarse language) Closed Captioned, DTS Digital Fri-Sun 12:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10; Mon 12:10, 4:10, 7:10 LIFE OF PI 3D (PG) Closed Captioned, DTS Digital, Child Admission Price Fri-Mon, Wed-Thu 1:15 Django Unchained (18A gory brutal violence) Closed Captioned, Digital, Dolby Stereo Digital, No passes, Tue 4:15, 9:00; Wed-Thu 12:10, 4:15, 9:00 LIFE OF PI 3D (PG) Digital 3d, DTS Digital Fri-Sun 4:15, 7:20, 10:25; Mon-Thu 4:15, 7:20 Parental Guidance (G) Closed Captioned, Digital, Dolby Stereo Digital, No passes Tue 3:20, 6:40, 9:30; WedThu 12:45, 3:20, 6:40, 9:30

CLAREVIEW 10 4211-139 Ave 780.472.7600

SKYFALL (14A violence) Digital Presentation Fri-Sun, Tue 9:00; Wed-Thu 8:10 TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 2 (PG violence, disturbing content, not recommended for young children) Digital Presentation Fri 6:45, 9:30; Sat-Sun 1:20, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30; Mon 1:20, 4:00, 6:45 THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Digital Presentation, No passes Fri 8:00; Sat-Sun 12:50, 4:25, 8:00; Mon 12:50, 6:00; Tue 8:00; Wed-Thu 12:50, 4:25, 8:00; 3D: No passes, On 3 Screens Fri 7:10, 8:30, 8:50; Sat-Sun 1:00, 1:30, 2:10, 4:40, 5:10, 7:10, 8:30, 8:50; Mon 1:00, 1:30, 2:10, 5:10, 6:15; Tue 8:50; Wed-Thu 1:20, 5:00, 8:50

MONSTERS, INC. 3D (G) Digital 3d, No passes Fri, Tue 6:50, 9:10; Sat-Sun, Wed-Thu 1:40, 4:10, 6:50, 9:10; Mon 1:40, 4:10, 6:50 JACK REACHER (STC) Digital Presentation, No passes Fri, Tue 6:30, 9:25; Sat-Sun, Wed-Thu 12:40, 3:35, 6:30, 9:25; Mon 12:40, 3:35, 6:30

THIS IS 40 (14A crude coarse language, sexual content, not recommended for children) Digital Presentation, No passes Fri, Tue 6:40, 9:35; Sat-Sun, Wed-Thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:40, 9:35; Mon 12:45, 3:45, 6:40

MONSTERS, INC. 3D (G) Closed Captioned Fri 11:15, 1:40, 4:05, 6:45, 9:10; Sat-Sun 11:10, 1:40, 4:05, 6:45, 9:10; Mon 12:05, 2:25, 4:50, 7:20, 9:45; Tue 2:50, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15; Wed-Thu 11:40, 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 9:50

Les Misérables (PG violence, not recommended for young children) Digital Presentation, No passes Tue 8:30; Wed-Thu 1:15, 4:40, 8:30

11:15, 1:55, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45

LINCOLN (PG violence, language may offend, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned Fri-Sun 11:25, 2:55, 6:25, 9:50; Mon 1:25, 4:45, 8:10 Elf (G) Sat 11:00 Royal Opera House: The Nutcracker (classification not available) Sat 12:55

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

Date of Issue only: Thu, Dec 20:

RISE OF THE GUARDIANS (G) Thu, Dec 20: 6:40, 9:00 WRECK-IT RALPH (G) Thu, Dec 20: 6:50, 9:30 TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 2 (PG violence, disturbing content, not recommended for young children) Thu, Dec 20: 7:10, 9:50 LIFE OF PI 3D (PG) Thu, Dec 20: 7:00, 10:00 SKYFALL (14A violence) Thu, Dec 20: 6:40, 9:55; Vip 18+: Thu, Dec 20: 7:40 THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) No passes Thu, Dec 20: 7:50 THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Thu, Dec 20: 8:40; Thu, Dec 20: 6:40, 10:35; Ultraavx: Thu, Dec 20: 6:30, 10:05 PLAYING FOR KEEPS (PG sexually suggestive scenes) Thu, Dec 20: 6:50, 9:20

CITY CENTRE 9 10200-102 Ave 780.421.7020

Les Misérables (PG violence, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned, Digital, Dolby Stereo Digital, No passes Tue 4:30, 8:00; Wed-Thu 1:00, 4:30, 8:00 JACK REACHER (STC) Digital, Dolby Stereo Digital, No passes Fri-Sun, Wed-Thu 12:30, 3:45, 6:45, 9:50; Mon 12:30, 3:45, 6:45; Tue 3:45, 6:45, 9:50 THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned, Digital, Dolby Stereo Digital, No passes, Fri-Sun 1:00, 4:40, 9:45; Mon 1:00, 4:40; Tue 4:40, 9:45; Wed-Thu 1:30, 6:00, 9:45; 3D: Closed Captioned, Digital 3d, On 2 Screens: Fri-Sun 12:00, 1:30, 4:00, 6:00, 8:00, 9:45; Mon 12:00, 1:30, 6:00, 6:30; Tue 4:00, 6:00, 8:00, 9:45; WedThu 12:00, 4:00, 7:45

Metro at the Garneau: 8712-109 St 780.425.9212

NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND–Miyazaki (STC) Subtitled Fri 4:00; Thu 2:00 THE MASTER (14A coarse language, nudity, sexual content) Fri 7:00; Sat 1:30, 9:00; Sun 9:00; Thu 6:45 AKIRA (18A disturbing content) Subtitled Fri 9:45; Wed 4:00 SAMSARA (STC) Sat, Thu 4:15; Sun 2:00, 7:00 KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE–Miyazaki (STC) subtitled Sat 7:00; Sun 4:00 CASABLANCA (STC) Wed 2:00 PRINCESS MONONOKE–Miyazaki (14A) Subtitled

Wed 7:00

SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN (PG coarse language)

Thu 9:30

Empire Theatres–Spruce Grove 130 Century Crossing Spruce Grove 780.962.2332

THE GUILT TRIP (PG coarse and sexual language) Digital Fri 6:10, 9:50; Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:10, 6:10, 9:50; Mon 1:00, 3:10; Tue 5:50, 9:30; Wed-Thu 12:50, 3:00, 5:50, 9:30 THE HOBBIT AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Digital Fri 6:00, 9:30; Sat-Sun 12:30, 6:00, 9:30; Mon, Wed-Thu 12:30; 3D: Reald 3d Fri 8:00; Sat-Sun 12:00, 4:00, 8:00; Mon 12:00, 4:00; Tue-Thu 6:10, 9:30 Django Unchained (18A gory brutal violence) Digital Tue 6:00, 9:20; Wed-Thu 1:00, 6:00, 9:20 RISE OF THE GUARDIANS 3D (G) Reald 3d Fri 6:40, 9:00;

Thu 12:10, 2:50, 6:30, 8:50

Les Misérables (PG violence, not recommended for young children) No passes Tue 2:20, 7:20, 10:50; Wed-Thu 11:10, 2:50, 6:40, 10:25

Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away 3d (G) No passes

METRO CINEMA at the Garneau

THE GUILT TRIP (PG coarse and sexual language) Digital Presentation, No passes Fri, Tue 7:00, 9:20; Sat-Sun, WedThu 1:50, 4:30, 7:00, 9:20; Mon 1:50, 4:30, 7:00

MONSTERS, INC. 3D (G) Closed Captioned Fri-Sun 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15; Mon 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50; Tue 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:10; Wed-Thu 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:10

Fri-Mon 1:00, 7:00; Tue 2:05, 4:50, 7:35, 10:10; Wed-Thu

The Guilt Trip (STC) No passes Fri-Sun 1:30 3:30 5:30 7:30 9:30; Mon Dec 24 1:30 3:30 5:30; Tue 7:10 9:10; Wed-Thu 5:00 7:10 9:10

Sat-Sun 3:20, 6:40, 9:00; Mon 3:20

JACK REACHER (STC) Closed Captioned, No passes Fri 11:00, 2:00, 5:00, 7:55, 10:55; Sat 11:05, 2:00, 5:00, 7:55, 10:55; Sun 12:35, 3:35, 7:25, 10:30; Mon 12:50, 3:55, 6:55, 9:50; Tue 1:05, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00; Wed-Thu 10:55, 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 11:00

Parental Guidance (G) Closed Captioned, No passes Tue 1:50, 4:40, 7:40, 10:25; Wed-Thu 12:00, 2:40, 5:25, 8:00, 10:40

Wreck-It Ralph (G) Fri-Sun 3:05; Mon 3:05 The Hobbit An Unexpected Journey (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) No passes Fri-Sun 12:45 4:25 7:45; Mon 12:45 4:25; Tue 7:45; Wed-Thu 12:45 4:25 7:45

RISE OF THE GUARDIANS (G) Digital Presentation Fri, Tue 6:40; Sat-Mon 1:10, 3:40, 6:40; Wed-Thu 1:10, 3:40

Les Misérables (PG violence, not recommended for young children) No passes Tue 3:00, 6:40, 10:20; Wed-Thu 11:45, 3:15, 6:40, 10:20

SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK (14A coarse language) FriSat 1:35, 4:35, 8:05, 11:00; Sun 1:25, 4:20, 7:45, 10:45; Mon 12:35, 3:25, 6:20, 9:15; Tue 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45; Wed-Thu 1:00, 3:55, 6:55, 10:00

18 FILM

THIS IS 40 (14A crude coarse language, sexual content, not recommended for children) Closed Captioned, Digital, Dolby Stereo Digital, No passes Fri-Sun, Wed-Thu 12:15, 3:30, 7:00, 10:05; Mon 12:15, 3:30, 7:00; Tue 3:30, 7:00, 10:05

Django Unchained (18A gory brutal violence) Digital Presentation, No passes Tue 8:20; Wed-Thu 1:00, 4:30, 8:20

Parental Guidance (G) Digital Presentation, No passes Tue 6:45, 9:30; Wed-Thu 1:20, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30

GALAXY–SHERWOOD PARK 2020 Sherwood Dr Sherwood Park 780.416.0150

Parental Guidance (G) Digital Tue 6:30, 8:50; Wed-

THIS IS 40 (14A crude coarse language, sexual content, not recommended for children) Digital Fri 6:30, 9:20; Sat-Sun 12:10, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20; Mon 12:10, 3:40; Tue 6:20, 9:10; Wed-Thu 12:20, 3:20, 6:20, 9:10 JACK REACHER (STC) Digital Fri 6:20, 9:40; Sat-Sun 12:40, 3:30, 6:20, 9:40; Mon 12:40, 3:30; Tue 6:40, 9:40; Wed-Thu 12:40, 3:30, 6:40, 9:40 MONSTERS, INC. 3D (G) Reald 3d Fri 6:50, 9:10; Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:10; Mon 12:50, 3:50; Tue 6:50, 9:00; Wed-Thu 12:00, 3:10, 6:50, 9:00 Rise Of The Guardians (G) Digital Sat-Mon 12:20

PRINCESS 10337-82 Ave 780.433.0728

Hitchcock (PG not recommended for young children) Fri 6:50, 8:50; Sat-Sun 2:30, 6:50, 8:50; Mon 2:30, 6:50; Tue Closed Seasons Greetings; Wed-Thu 2:30, 6:50, 8:50 A Late Quartet (STC) Fri 7:00, 9:10; Sat-Sun 2:00, 7:00, 9:10; Mon 2:00, 7:00; Tue: Closed Seasons Greetings; Wed-Thu 2:00, 7:00, 9:10

SCOTIABANK THEATRE WEM WEM 8882-170 St 780.444.2400

RISE OF THE GUARDIANS (G) Sat-Mon,Wed-Thu 2:10; Closed Captioned: Sat-Mon, Wed-Thu 11:40; 3d: Closed Captioned: Fri-Sun 4:40, 7:15, 9:40; Mon-Thu 4:40, 7:15

RISE OF THE GUARDIANS (G) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video Fri-Mon 11:50, 2:20; Tue 2:20, 4:40, 7:10; Wed-Thu 11:50, 2:20, 4:40, 7:10; 3d: Fri-Sun 4:40, 7:10, 9:40; Mon 4:40, 7:10

THIS IS 40 (14A crude coarse language, sexual content, not recommended for children) No passes Fri, Tue 4:15, 7:20, 10:25; Sat-Sun, Wed-Thu 1:10, 4:15, 7:20, 10:25; Mon 1:10, 4:15, 7:20

Video Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50; Mon 1:30, 4:30, 7:20; Tue 1:30, 4:30; Wed-Thu 11:00, 1:40, 4:30

LIFE OF PI 3D (PG) Closed Captioned Fri 4:30, 7:20, 10:10; Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10; Mon 1:40, 4:30, 7:20; Tue-Thu 9:40 WRECK-IT RALPH (G) Closed Captioned Sat-Mon 11:45 SKYFALL (14A violence) Closed Captioned Fri, Tue 3:40, 7:00, 10:20; Sat-Sun, Wed-Thu 12:20, 3:40, 7:00, 10:20; Mon 12:20, 3:40, 7:00 THE HOBBIT AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned, No passes Fri 4:10, 6:05, 7:50, 9:50; Sat-Sun 12:30, 2:25, 4:10, 6:05, 7:50, 9:50; Mon 12:30, 2:25, 4:10, 6:05; Tue 4:10, 7:50; Wed-Thu 12:30, 4:10, 7:50; 3D: Fri 5:10, 6:50, 8:50, 10:30; Sat-Sun 11:30, 1:30, 3:10, 5:10, 6:50, 8:50, 10:30; Mon 11:30, 1:30, 3:10, 5:10, 6:50; Tue 3:05, 6:50, 10:30; Wed-Thu 11:30, 3:05, 6:50, 10:30

WRECK-IT RALPH (G) Closed Caption & Descriptive

TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 2 (PG violence, disturbing content, not recommended for young children) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video Fri-Sun, Tue, Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 10:10; Mon 1:10, 4:10, 7:15; Wed 1:05, 4:10, 7:15, 10:10 THIS IS 40 (14A crude coarse language, sexual content, not recommended for children) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video, No passes Fri-Sat 1:00, 4:20, 7:40, 10:40; Sun, Tue-Thu 1:00, 4:20, 7:40, 10:50; Mon 1:00, 4:20, 7:40 LIFE OF PI 3D (PG) Fri-Sun, Wed-Thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45; Mon 12:45, 3:45, 6:45; Tue 1:00, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 SKYFALL (14A violence) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video Fri-Sun 12:00, 3:30, 6:50, 10:20; Mon 12:00, 3:30, 6:50; Tue-Thu 7:20, 10:30

JACK REACHER (STC) No passes Fri,Tue 4:05, 7:10, 10:15; Sat-Sun, Wed-Thu 1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15; Mon 1:00, 4:05, 7:10

THE HOBBIT AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video, No passes Fri-Sun, Tue-Thu 1:15, 5:00, 8:45; Mon 1:15, 5:00; 3D: High Frame Rate Ultraavx: Fri-Sun 11:30, 3:15, 7:00, 10:45; Mon 11:30, 3:15, 7:00; Tue 3:15, 7:00, 10:45; Wed-Thu 11:30, 3:15, 7:00, 10:45; 3D: Fri-Sun 2:00, 5:45, 9:30; Mon 2:00, 5:45

MONSTERS, INC. 3D (G) Closed Captioned Fri, Tue 5:00, 7:30, 10:00; Sat-Sun, Wed-Thu 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00; Mon 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30

Django Unchained (18A gory brutal violence) Ultraavx Tue 3:00, 6:50, 10:35; Wed-Thu 11:20, 3:00, 6:50, 10:35

Les Misérables (PG violence, not recommended for young children) No passes Tue 3:00, 6:35, 10:05; Wed-Thu 11:30, 3:00, 6:35, 10:05

Les Misérables (PG violence, not recommended for young children) No passes Tue 2:50, 6:40, 10:20; WedThu 11:10, 2:50, 6:40, 10:20

Parental Guidance (G) No passes Tue 4:25, 7:05, 9:50; Wed-Thu 1:45, 4:25, 7:05, 9:50

JACK REACHER (STC) Closed Caption and Descriptive Video, No passes Fri-Sun 10:55, 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:50; Mon 10:55, 1:50, 4:50, 7:50; Tue 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 11:00; Wed-Thu 10:55, 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 11:00

Django Unchained (18A gory brutal violence) Tue 2:55, 6:30, 10:10; Wed-Thu 11:25, 2:55, 6:30, 10:10

Elf (G) Sat 11:00

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

Jack Reacher (STC) No passes Fri-Sun 1:20 4:00 6:50 9:25; Mon 1:20 4:00; Tue 6:50 9:25; Wed-Thu 1:20 4:00 6:50 9:25 This Is 40 (14A crude coarse language, sexual content, not recommended for young children) No passes Fri-Sun 1:10 4:15 6:55 9:20; Mon 1:10 4:15; Tue 6:55 9:20; Wed-Thu 1:10 4:15 6:55 9:20 RISE OF THE GUARDIANS (G) Fri-Sun 1:05 5:00 7:05; Mon 1:05, 5:00; Wed-Thu 1:05 3:00 FLIGHT (18A substance abuse) Fri-Sun 9:15

VUEWEEKLY DECEMBER 20 – DECEMBER 26, 2012

MONSTERS, INC. 3D (G) Fri-Sun, Wed-Thu 11:40, 2:10, 4:45, 7:30, 10:00; Mon 11:40, 2:10, 4:45, 7:30; Tue 2:10, 4:45, 7:30, 10:00 Parental Guidance (G) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video, No passes Tue 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40; Wed-Thu 12:00, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 FLIGHT (18A substance abuse) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video Fri-Sun 12:10, 3:20, 6:40, 9:55; Mon 12:10, 3:20, 6:40 THE HOBBIT AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY–Imax 3d (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) No passes Fri-Sun, Wed-Thu 11:00, 2:45, 6:30, 10:15; Mon 11:00, 2:45, 6:30; Tue 2:45, 6:30, 10:15

DISH

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REVUE // CREOLE

Southern hospitality Be sure to bring your appetite

juleps and bourbon-pecan pie.

The promise of casual-gourmet dining notwithstanding, a good chunk of the menu is quite affordably priced.

Po'boys go for $10 and they're massive (sweet potato fries are extra, but still). Most of the dishes are priced under $20—the only big-ticket items are meaty: ribs, fried chicken, triplepork pork chops, or the 30-buck 'Taste of Soul' platter that hits all the highlights: gumbo, rice and beans, jambalaya, fried chicken, ribs, catfish and bread pudding. That can't possibly be for one person.

Southern taste north of the border // Meaghan Baxter

Creole Envie 6509 – 112 Ave, 780.477.2422 creoleenvie.net

Y

ou wouldn't run a marathon without first doing some shorter jogs to work up to it, would you? Similarly, in preparation for the over-eating a lot of us will be doing during the holiday season, it's important to do some training.

I didn't know that's what I would be doing when I checked out Creole Envie, a Cajun restaurant that recently opened in the old Culina Highlands space after inhabiting a tiny nook in

Jasper Place. But the one thing you cannot fail to notice, which probably stems from its American culinary orientation, is that Creole Envie is generous with their portions.

The present regime, helmed by chef/ owner Danielle Majeau, has preserved some of the esthetic quirks of Culina's rustic-in-the-city interior concept— simple-yet-snug dining area, cigar box paper towel dispensers in the loo, mismatched baba-vintage flatware and respectable garage sale furniture tastefully deployed in functional roles—but the menu is all new and all southern, from its blackened catfish po'boys and collard greens to its mint

For ourselves, we decided on the crawfish cheese bread ($12) for starters, then proceeded to a plate of fried catfish ($15) for my co-diner and, get ready for it, the Andouille-stuffed bacon-wrapped pork chops ($26) for me. My co-diner might have gone for this, but the absence of hyphens on the menu left her unsure which was stuffed with what and wrapped how.

I had no such compunctions.

I was pleased to find the lovely Le Bombarde Cannonau ($8/glass) on the small but judicious winelist, having previously been recommended this Sardinian take on French grenache for pairing with smoky and saucy repasts, and no less delighted to be presented with a free sample of alcoholic ginger beer—many of you will already have thought of Crabbie's—during the meal. The service, it should be noted, was both personable and attentive, and when my co-diner tried and failed twice to get the side dish of her choice—they'd had a busy night— the management offered to knock 10 percent off our total bill on the spot.

Clearly they aim to please.

Our appetizer assured us we would not be leaving hungry: two halves of a French loaf had been liberally slathered with a mix of mozza, Cajun mayo, al dente burls of sweet, pink crawfish, green onion and red pepper, and broiled in our honour. I shamelessly devoured mine, then polished CONTINUED ON PAGE 20 >>

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COMMENT >> BEER

Christmas in a bottle A beer fit for the festive season Father John's Winter Ale Howe Sound Brewing, Squamish, BC $8.99 for one-litre bottle

cluded local berries, juniper, roots and various other varieties.

Today, Xmas beer has evolved into a spiced dark ale. Think the beer equivalent of mulled wine or spiced One of the great traditions of beer, apple cider. There are many versions and one particularly unique to it, is out there, with some being spicier, that of making a special brew for while others are more beer-y. For toChristmas. Designed to be festive, day's column I picked one that does wintery and exclusive to the a remarkable job walking the yuletide, one of the great line between beer and spice. pleasures of Christmas Howe Sound is a small beer is that it finds favour BC brewery that puts .com weekly among both beer fans their beer in big honking e u v int@ tothep and beer skeptics. bottles—one-litre flipn o s Ja r e Christmas beer is genertops—meaning you need to t s o F ally a darker ale, higher in albe committed. They have been cohol and made with fruit or spices brewing their Father John's Winto liven it up. Its history goes back ter Ale for some time and I enjoy to 10th-century Scandinavia when it every year. It is named after John Norwegian King Haakon decreed Mitchell, a pioneer of Canada's craft that each household must brew a beer scene who, in 1980, opened measure of beer for Jul, their fesCanada's first craft brewery. Mitchtive holiday around the winter ell went on to be Howe Sound's first solstice. As this was before the brewmaster in 1996. hops-era of beer, the Jul beer were The beer pours reddish brown with brewed with a mixture of herbs a rich off-white head. The aroma ofand spices which would have infers caramel, toffee, burnt sugar

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off the remainder of my co-diner's portion when she feared it would crowd out her entrée.

Her concern was justified, as her portion of lightly coated, pan-fried catfish came with an enormous side-serving of buttery, creamy corn grits and enough Cajun mayo to float a small watercraft.

My double serving of porked-up pork chops, with a side of Jim Beam applesauce and a heap of pecan green beans, was also somewhat daunting.

The locally sourced chops, about the thickness of a medium-length Stephen King novel, were indeed seamed with

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stuffing made with pork sausage and ensconced entirely in slices of crispy bacon. One of the chops was perfectly juicy, with a hint of heat from the savoury stuffing; the other was a little dry, but this was nothing that couldn't be remedied by ladling on the bourboninfused, cinnamon-scented applesauce.

The crunchy, nutty green beans were the perfect accompaniment. My codiner enjoyed her fish, but didn't make it too far into the grits and wished for a green, crunchy accompaniment of her own; because those beans were mine.

For reasons that elude me—the generally low price point of the desserts might have been a factor—we decided to conclude our already considerable

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and hints of chocolate contrasting earthy spiciness. I pick up vanilla, clove and some pungent earthiness.

The flavour gives you a quick hit of honey, molasses, brown sugar and caramel. This is joined by a moderate spiciness. I can isolate nutmeg, but the rest blend into an earthy, sharpness that nicely contrasts the malt sweetness. There is a dark fruit angle in there as well. The finish is balanced, with a hint of warming from the 7 percent alcohol level.

I later do some research and find that their additions this year include nutmeg, vanilla, molasses, ginger, yellow sugar and honey.

That fits what I tasted. Multilayered but nicely balanced, this beer represents the best of what Christmas beer has to offer. Plan on sharing one with your family on Christmas Eve. V Jason Foster is the creator of onbeer.org, a website devoted to news and views on beer from the prairies and beyond.

intake by sharing a piece of housemade bourbon-pecan pie ($4), the essential pecaniness and sweetness of which made it worth every penny. I also had a fantastic pot of organic Earl Grey tea along with it.

With just two months of operation in their current location, Creole Envie might still be ironing out a few kinks, but their obvious commitment to providing a quality dining experience (at very reasonable prices) is not in question. And they provided me with a handy reminder to take my Yuletide fat clothes to the cleaners. Happy holiday eating, everyone.

SCOTT LINGLEY

// SCOTT@VUEWEEKLY.COM

New Year's Eve

STYLE & PARTY GUIDE Velvet Midnight A

nother year is coming to a close and it's your responsibility to see it off with a bang. While it's easy to cruise through the holidays in your usual attire, let the last night of the year be worthy of mass Instagram updates. Cultivating the ultimate New Year's Eve party vibe begins with velvet. The luxurious fabric will have the ladies looking as if they stepped out of a Fleetwood Mac album and the men channeling their inner Bob Dylan. There is no such thing as over-the-top; this is the night of bolo ties, silk flowers and costume jewelry.

Take your boudoir to the bar; silk kimonos aren't just for the comfort of your home. Let Stevie Nicks be your muse and have crystal visions on the dance floor while looking like a gypsy queen swishing around in tasseled silk and flower crowns.

On Emily: Kimono: Tattered Rose, Dress: Vintage, Headpiece: The Pretty Secrets, Heart necklace: Vintage, Ring: Banana Republic, Tights: Betsey Johnson, Boots: Michael Kors

ALE YARD TAP AND GRILL

• 13310 - 137 Ave • 780.457.1300 • American Bandstand New Year's Eve • General admission for dance $15 or two for $25 • 4 course dinner tickets two for $75 • Door open 6:30 for the dinner • Doors 9 pm for general admission

APEX CASINO

• 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert • 780.460.8092 • Banquet room: The Emeralds with a buffet dinner • VEE Stage: Mourning Wood with a plated dinner • Tickets available for both shows.

Call 780.460.8092, or at the Apex Casino Lotto/Host desk

ARTERY

• 9535 Jasper Avenue • 780.441.6966 • theartery.ca • Yes Nice! New Years Eve Party with Yes Nice, Darren Frank and Mitchmatic, and DJ OJ Pimpson • 8:30 pm (door) • $15 (advance at yeglive.ca/events/ yes-nice/dec-31-2012/artery)/$25 (door on the night)

ATLANTIC TRAP AND GILL • 7704 - 104 Street • Derina Harvey Band • 9:00 pm

AVENUE THEATRE

• 9030 - 118 Avenue • 780.477.2149 • avenuetheatre.ca • Zodiac Series presents Return to Elysium featuring LongWalkShortDock, Busta, Blue Lunar Monkey, PK Sound, live art by Just Joe Clarke and Tamara Newton • 8 pm • $40 (at Foosh, primboxoffice.com)

BAILEY THEATRE – CAMROSE

New Year's Eve Extravaganza– Dinner and Dance: featuring the Xtatix Big Band Ticket price includes a fully catered meal from Prairie Oven and complimentary Champagne at midnight

SPRUCE GROVE

• 140, 700 McLeod Avenue, Spruce Grove • 780.960.8501 • Rend play all night long

BEER HUNTER PUB • 7522 - 178 Street • 780.489.7877 • thebeerhunter.ca • The Dangerous Guise NYE • Call ahead to reserve

• 2nd Floor, 10505 Whyte Avenue • 780.432.0335 • thebilliardclub.com/events • Black & White Party with Squires Pub and Billiard Club • 5 pm - 2 am • No cover

BILLY BUDD'S

• 9839 - 63 Avenue • 780.438.1148 • New Years Eve with Carson Cole (rock) • 8 pm; music: 9.30 pm – 1:30 am • $20 (advance at Billy Budds)/ $25 (door on New Year's Eve evening)

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

• 10425 - 82 Avenue • 780.439.1082

BEER HUNTER –

– WEST

BILLIARD CLUB

• Cabaret Le Chen Noir: A magical, fantastical evening of sight, sound and wonder featuring live music by the Dead Stringers, roving circus and comedy performances by Acme Circus, and burlesque by Holly Von Sinn • Woof Top: 100-percent vinyl party with DJ Blue Jay and guests playing '50s and '60s rock 'n' roll, R&B, soul, classic punk and garage; '80s, Brit pop, and indie rock, only spinning vinyl records • $20 (includes free Champagne at midnight) Tickets available at the Black Dog

BLACKJACKS ROADHOUSE

CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ

CAMROSE RESORT CASINO

• 2110 Sparrow Drive, Nisku • 780.955.2336 • New Years Eve with country music by the Traces • 9 pm • $21.95 (buffet, 6 – 9 pm), available at Blackjacks

• 9624 - 76 Avenue • 780.989.2861 • bluechair.ca • New Year's Eve Dance Party with a six-course menu. The Rault Family Band will rock the room, with Ron, Lionel, Michael and Emily • 7 pm • $100 (show and dinner)

BLUES ON WHYTE

• 10329 - 82 Avenue • 780.439.3981 • bluesonwhyte.ca • New Year's Eve with Lucky Peterson from Buffalo New York with Tamara Peterson • $25 (advance)/ $30 (door); includes 11 pm buffet and party favours

BRIXX BAR & GRILL

• 10030 - 102 St • Cygnets, Thompson Highway and Death by Robot • 9 pm • $25.25

• 1-99 Wye Road, Sherwood Park • 780.449.7468 • caffreys.ca • New Year's, rock with Replay • 9 pm • $15.50

• 3201 - 48 Avenue, Camrose • 780.679.0904 • camrose.westerncanadaresorts.com •Toast & Stay with live music by DeeJay in between Band • 8:30 pm

CANADIAN BREWHOUSE • 6608 - 48 Avenue, Camrose • Connie’s Comedy presents Bring in 2013 with Laughs featuring Dave Stawnichy, PJ. McGuire and Marvin Krawcyzk • $30

CASINO EDMONTON • 7055 Argyll Road • 780.463.9467 • casinoabs.com • Suite 33 • 9 pm

CASINO YELLOWHEAD • 12464 - 153 St • 780.424.9467 • casinoabs.com • The Top Tones • No cover

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• Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton Arts District, Downtown 102 Avenue and 100 Street • 780.423.2822 • eventsedmonton.ca • Churchill Square: • City Hall: Norman Foote, Sean Sonego, Payton Klassen, Brendan Guy and Payton Klassen Duet, Brendan Guy (Solo Performance), Cassidy Zahar, Olivia Wik, Candice Ryan, and The Magic of Brain Lehr Comedy Magician • Stanley A Milner Library Theatre: Captain Thunderpants, The Magic of Brian Lehr Comedy Magician, Facepainting and more • CBC Centre Stage: Jessy Mossop and Stephen Lecky, Get Recked, Jasmine Singh, Hey Romeo, Campus Thieves • Free, non-alcoholic event

Crown: A big head of hair requires an equally big statement piece.

Replace the common New Year's Eve paper crown with a coronet worthy of your evening. Available at Tattered Rose. (9917 - 110 Street) tatteredrosecanada.blogspot.ca.

EDMONTON EVENT CENTRE

CENTURY CASINO

• 13103 Fort Road • 780.643.4000 • Chilliwack New Year's Eve bash: Rock • 7 pm (door) • $69.95 (at Century Casino and Ticketmaster); reserved seating

CHROME LOUNGE AND GRILL

• 104, 550 Clareview Road • 780.937.8810 • New Years Eve Rock Festival: Featuring Rita McDade and Fusion Band, Northern Comfort, Mary Thomas Band, Typhoid Mary • $10 (includes music, party favours, and giveaways) • Tickets available at 780.937.8810

COMIC STRIP

• Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • thecomicstrip.ca • New Year's Eve with Theo Von, hosted by Kelly Soloduka featuring Jason Cooper • 7:30 pm and 10 pm • $30, $56 (7:30 pm show), $65 (10 pm show)

THE COMMON

• 10124 - 124 Street • 780.452.7333 • thecommon.ca • NYE 2013: DJs include Allout DJs, Girls Club, Chris Goza • 5 pm (door) • $15 (door, starts at 9 pm)

COOK COUNTY SALOON

• 8010 - 103 Street • 780.432.2665 • cookcountysaloon.com • New Year's Eve with country music by Codie Prevost • 9 pm • $10 (advance at Cook County )/$15 (door)

CROWN AND ANCHOR PUB

• 15277 Castledowns Road • 780.472.7696 • Stephanie Urquhart - The Last Calls • 8 pm

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DELTA EDMONTON SOUTH HOTEL

• 4404 Gateway Boulevard • 780.434.6415 • Top of the Inn: The Best is Yet To Come: Jazz New Year's Eve 2013: with live jazz music by the Swing Kings Band featuring Shelley Jones under a starlit ceiling; four-course plate service dinner (6:30 pm); dance (8:30 pm – 1:30 am) 5:30 pm (door) – 1:30am; $125 (single dinner/ dance); Group of four, option 1: $440; Group of eight, option 2: $880. Tickets include four-course plate service dinner, party favours, entertainment • Grand Ballroom: 13th Annual Latin New Year's featuring Anthony "La Makina", a 14-piece Orquestra (from Puerto Rico), DJ Sank, DJ Fuiego, DJ Acuario; 6 pm (door)-2:30 am, dinner at 7:30 pm; Option 1: $89 (dinner/dance); Option 2: $60 (advance dance); $500 (group rate, 10/table), dinner tickets include party favours, four-course plate service and entertainment; tickets at Educational Travel 780.471.1125; dress to impress

DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB

• 9013 - 88 Avenue • 780.465.4834 • New Year's Eve Burlesque for Busts: Breast Cancer fundraiser with music

by Duff Robinson • 9:00 pm • $25 (includes party favors, champagne, midnight snack, complimentary cab service [within city limits] and $5 donation to Cdn Breast Cancer Foundation)

DRUID IRISH PUB

• 11606 Jasper Avenue • 780.454.9928 • thedruidedmonton.com • New Year's Eve 2013 with a Celtic Twist: Featuring DJ Shnaw • $10 (advance)

DV8

• 8307 - 99 Street • myspace.com/dv8tavern • Tighten Up! New Year's Eve Dance party • 8 pm

EARLY STAGE SALOON • 4911 - 52 Avenue, Stony Plain • 780.963.0120 • theearlystagesaloon.com/page04. html • New Year's Eve Celebration: with Kickback and guest star Amber Heyday • $20 (includes food and Champagne) • Tickets available at 780.963.0120

• WEM Phase III • 780.489.SHOW • edmontoneventcenter.ca • Big Bang: Dance/electronic presented by Urban Metropolis • 9 pm • $29.95/$79.95 (VIP) at TicketMaster, Irie Foods, Foosh

EMPIRE BALLROOM • 2687 WEM, 8882 - 170 Street • 780.486.9494 • empireballroom.ca • New Year's Eve 2013 • 8 pm – 2 am

FANDANGO'S

• 12912 - 50 Street • 780.406.1940 • New Year's Eve with Sweet Tequila (country) • 7 pm

FANTASYLAND HOTEL

• Beverly Hills Ballroom, WEM • edgala.com • Edmonton International Hotel: Cirque Du Soleil style variety shows with aerial acrobatics; music by DJ Tomski • 8 pm – 10 pm; 7 pm (cocktails), 8 pm (dinner), 10 pm – 3 am (dance) • $135; in support of the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation.

Tickets available at REGIS (WEM)

FLUID LOUNGE

• 780.902.5900 DJ Aiden Jamali's amazing hip hop, R&B, dancehall, old school sets bring in the new year • Dress stylish

JR BAR AND GRILL

• 4003 - 106 Street • 780.436.4403 • New Year's Eve Musical Magic with Fearless Frank (rock, pop, country, blues, folk), and special guests. Email your requests to fjnmusic@mac.com • 9 pm – 1 am • No cover

GARNEAU THEATRE – METRO CINEMA

• 8712 - 109 Street • Normals Welcome New Years Eve Party: Shout Out Out Out Out, Renny Wilson, Wild Ways and Khotin (DJ set) • 8 pm • $30 (advance) at Blackbyrd

HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB

• 15120A (basement), Stony Plain Road • 780.756.6010 • thehavensocialclub.com • New Year's Eve featuring The Canyon Rose Outfit (alt pop) with The BlackStone (alt blues, rock), and Dead Cat Bounce (rock 'n' roll) • 8 pm (door) • $15 (advance)/$20 (door)

HELLENIC COMMUNITY HALL

• 10450 - 116 Street • 780.454.2382 • New Year's Eve Party • 6:30 pm (cocktails), 8 pm (dinner)

HOGS DEN PUB

• 9-14220 Yellowhead Trail • New Year's 2013 featuring the Harder Band • 7 pm (buffet dinner), 9 pm (show) • $25

HUDSON'S

• hudsonstaphouse.com • The Red White 2013 New Year’s Eve Mega Party • Whyte, 10307 - 82 Avenue, 780.439.4526 • Campus, 11113 - 87 Ave, 780.433.0473 • Downtown, 11248 - 104 Avenue, 780.428.5196 • Bourbon Street, WEM, 7870.489.3035 • South Common, 2104 - 99 Street, 780.469.7007 • Party package: includes first drink, party favours, an individual sized bottle of champagne. Tickets at location or at ticketweb.ca

FORT EDMONTON PARK

• New Year's Night Out: Cocktail (5:30pm), a 5 course plated dinner (6pm), nightclub and gambling joint, "Shooters" (8:30pm). Film "When Harry Met Sally" (14A), at Capitol Theatre. Return to Mahogany Bar for a toast to the new year. Spend the night at the Hotel Selkirk, and New Year Brunch at Johnson's Café; reservations; $450.00/per couple (included GST and gratuity) • New Year's Eve Dinner & Movie: Cocktail (5:30pm), 5 course plated dinner (6pm), nightclub and gambling joint, "Shooters" (8:30pm).

Film, When Harry Met Sally (14A), at Capitol Theatre.

Return to Mahogany Bar for a toast to the new year; $149.90/person (included GST and gratuity) • New Year's Eve Movie: Film, When Harry Met Sally (14A), (9:45pm) at the Capitol Theatre followed by a toast to the new year at the Hotel Selkirk; $15 (incl glass of sparkling wine)

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LA CITÉ FRANCOPHONE

• La Cité francophone, 8627 Rue Marie-Anne Gaboury 91 Street • NYE: Songs for a New World: join Three Form Theatre early in the evening at 6 pm for champaign and appetizers before a 7 pm show.

Intermission will include delicious deserts • 6 – 9 pm • $30 • Tickets at tixonthesquare.ca

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE

• 11607 Jasper Avenue • 780.447.4495 • With DJs Tianna J, Groovy Cuvy, Jebstone Boppman, Michelle D • 9:30 pm – 3 am • $10 (advance), $15 (door)

MAYFIELD DINNER THEATRE

• 16615 - 109 Avenue • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • New Year's Eve–The Buddy Holly Story • $165 each (includes champagne, party favours, dinner buffet, tableserved appetizers and more)

MCDOUGALL CHURCH

• 10025 - 101 Street • 780.428.1818 • mcdougallunited.com • New Year's Eve Concert Fundraiser: featuring music by Al Brant Trio, Back Porch Swing, Breezy Brian Gregg, The Command Sisters, Myrol, Netti Speghetti, Picture The Ocean, Keri Lynn Zwicker Harp Rouge Trio.

Families welcome, free face painting, games and crafts. Desserts and refreshments for sale • 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm • Admission at the door by donation to the Edmonton Food Bank

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Offal Goods: Your dandy look can be achieved with one solid item: a bowtie. Made in Edmonton, these tailored dreams come in a multitude of fabrics, patterns and colours. Briar Rose (top)and Lilac Chambray (bottom) available at Barber Ha and offalgoods.com.

Earrings: Nothing says New Year's like a dangly pair of rhinestone jeweled earrings. Find these pastel treats at Tattered Rose. (9917 - 110 Street) tatteredrosecanada.blogspot.ca.

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BRILLIANT NEW YEAR! DECEMBER 21

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DECEMBER 28–29

Stan Gallant

NYE: “Little Black Dress”

If there is one night to look like royalty, New Year's Eve is it. Forget what you've been told—white after Labour Day is wild and more is more when it comes to accessories.

Come dressed in your favorite black outfit!

Mushroom Duxelle Dinner $25 Music by Mark McGarrigle

DOWNTOWN

Dec. 20 - 22, JIMMY WHIFFEN Dec. 26, AJ GOODVIN

WEM

Dec. 20 - 22, LYLE HOBBS SUNDAY NIGHT KARAOKE

NYE:

CAPILANO:

"Come as You Are"

Prime Rib Dinner - Includes party favors, complimentary cab service, and champagne! - $21.99 Music by Lyle Hobbs WEST EDMONTON MALL:

"End of the World Party"

Zombies unite!

Come dressed as your favorite animated corpse!

NY Steak Dinner - $24.95 Music by Alesha & Brendon

On Emily: Crushed velvet jacket: Tattered Rose Silk gown: Tattered Rose Cream slip: Vintage Crown: Tattered Rose Necklace: Tattered Rose Shoes and purse: Vintage

DOWNTOWN:

"Little Black Dress"

MERCER TAVERN

Come dressed in your favorite black outfit!

Prime Rib Dinner $21.99 Music by AJ Goodvin

• 10363 - 104 St • mercertavern.com • Live entertainment by Russ Dawson and the DJ afterwards is "Freshlan" • Tickets for three-course meal (price TBD); $15 (dance tickets)

MORIARTY’S BISTRO / WINE BAR

DEC. 21DEC. 22, ANDREW SCOTT

• 10154 - 100 Street • 780.757.2005 • Chef Cory Welsch invites you to celebrate the end of 2012 with a four-course meal for $80. Optional wine pairing for $30. Reserved Seating only. 11 pm –midnight = snacks and champagne

SUNDAY CELTIC MUSIC 58PM WEDNESDAY OPEN STAGE WITH DUFF ROBISON

NYE: "Burlesque for Busts"

Party favors, champagne, midnight snack, complimentary cab service (within city limits) and $5 donation to Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation $25 Music by Duff Robison

MUTTART HALL

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• Alberta College, 10050 Macdonald Drive • 780.442.5311 • muttartconservatory.ca • Celebrate New Year's early from 10 am – 2 pm

On Mike: Velvet Blazer: Vintage Dress shirt: American Apparel White denim: American Apparel Bow Tie: Oxblood Floral by Offal Goods

NEW CITY LEGION

• 8130 Gateway Blvd • 780.990.4425 • Tudor Queens present A Royal New Year's Eve: with burlesque by Katherine Parr, Kitty Howard and Jane Seymour, and rock music by the Frolics, games and more • 8 pm • $20 (advance at New City)/$25 (door)

NEW WEST HOTEL

• 15025 - 111 Avenue • 780.489.2511 New Year's Eve 4'S a Crowd: country • 9 pm • No cover

NEW YEAR'S EVE CLUB CRAWL A2013

• Start at $30 (includes party bus transportation, entrance to four hot clubs/NYE parties, VIP access - no lines and no covers, drink specials, free NYE party favours and Mardi Gras bead laces • Tickets available at newyearseveclubcrawl.com, 1.888.868.7750

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O2'S WEST

• 11062 - 156 Street • 780.448.2255 • New Year's Eve with the Rusty Reed Band and Joe Piccilo • 8 pm • $25 (includes Champagne, hors d'oeuvres, and party favours) at O2's

ON THE ROCKS

• 11730 Jasper Avenue • 780.482.4767 • ontherocksedmonton.com • The Boom Booms (Reggae, rock) • 9 pm (doors) • $25 (advance, dance only)

OUTLAWS ROADHOUSE

• 147 Londonderry Mall • Jack Frost New Year's Eve GLOW Party • 6 pm (doors open), 7 pm (dinner) • $10 (general), $25 (dinner)

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There is nothing more elegant than a frock made from your grandma's tablecloth, especially when paired with wild stockings.

Add some wow factor with a dapper date in a ruffled dress shirt and satin blazer.

• 10108 - 149 Street • 780.444.1822 • 2013, The Year of Metal: Featuring music by Iron Will, Display of Decay, Solid State Revolution, and guest • $12 (casual metal, includes snacks, party favours, Champagne)

THE RIG

• 15203 Stony Plain Road • 780.756.0869 • Rock with Better Us Than Strangers, the Ian McArthur Band, Paul Morin, the Table of Contents, Todd Moffatt with Sean Delman • 7 pm • $25 each (available at the Rig)

ROSE AND CROWN

• Sutton Place Hotel, 195 10235 101 Street • 780.426.7827 • New Year's Eve Little Black Dress: Come dressed in your favourite black outfit as you dine, drink Champagne and enjoy music by Mark McGarigle • $25/person

THE SANDS HOTEL

On Emily: Dress: The Pretty Secrets Fur jacket: Vintage Earrings: Vintage Purse: Vintage Tights: Wolford Shoes: Kate Spade

PAWN SHOP

• 10551 - 82 Avenue • 780.756.6010 • pawnshoplive.ca • Two party bands share the stage as one super-group: Mad Bomber Society (punk, reggae, ska), Raygun Cowboys (rockabilly, psychobilly) with guests Punch Drunk Cabaret and guest DJs • No minors • 8 pm (door) • $25 (advance)

On Mike: Wool coat: American Apparel Jeans: American Apparel Ruffle dress shirt: Vintage Satin blazer: Vintage

• 12340 Fort Road • 780.474.5476 • The Cjca Chessmen 50 Year Get Together Dance 1962-2012 with the Southbound Freeway 2012 with guest Gary Donnelly • Door prizes and best prize for '50s/'60s attire • All ages show • $65 (available by phone)

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RED PIANO

• Bourbon Street, WEM • 780.486.7722 • theredpiano.ca • Speakeasy • Dinner and Show: $135/person (dinner reservations at 6:30 pm, four-course meal and themed entertainment) • Show only: $50/person (show reservations start at 8 pm), dueling piano show • Champagne and themed party favours at midnight • Semi-formal dress

COME CELEBRATE WITH US!

Book your 4-course

New Year’s Eve Dinner NOW! Limited seating available.

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• 780.467.2211, strathcona.ab.ca; Oak Street and Sherwood Drive, Sherwood Park • Safari themed fun, an Safari Iceland Playground; fireworks at 8 pm; 4 pm – 8 pm

FESTIVAL PLACE

Bob Dylan and bolo ties: need we say more? The legendary icon got it right the first time, so take a lesson and channel his simple, yet suave style. Best paired with a moody pout.

• 780.467.2211, strathcona.ab.ca; • Madagascar: performances with Alex the Lion from Dreamworks' Madagascar 33; 5 pm, 6:15 pm, 7 pm; $10 available at Glen Allan Recreation Complex, Recreation Administration Office, Festival Place, Millennium Place, Kinsmen Leisure Centre

SNEAKY PETE'S

• 12315 - 118 Avenue • 780.455.8007 • New Year's Eve with the Disastronauts (rock) • 9:30 pm

On Mike: Blazer: Vintage, Dress shirt: American Apparel, Burgundy denim pants: American Apparel, Bolo tie: Vintage

SHERLOCK HOLMES PUB – CAPILANO

• Capilano Mall (North entrance), 50 Street, 101 Avenue • New Year's Eve Come as You Are: Music by Lyle Hobbs • $21.99 (includes prime rib dinner, party favours, complimentary cab service, Champagne)

SHERLOCK HOLMES PUB – DOWNTOWN

• 10012 Avenue • New Year's Eve Little Black Dress: Music by AJ Goodwin • $21.99 (for prime rib dinner)

SHERLOCK HOLMES PUB – WEM

• 1650 - 8882 - 170 Street • New Year's Eve End of the World party: Zombies unite! Come dressed as your favourite animated corpse as you dine (set menu), with music by Alesha and Brendon • 9:30 pm • $24.95

STARLITE ROOM

• 10030 - 102 Street • 780.428.1099 • starliteroom.ca • 2013 New World Order featuring Matt The Alien, Knight Riderz and Tantric Decks at 9 pm

TILTED KILT

• 10401 - 82 Avenue • 780.756.5455 • New Year's Bash rock and roll with Grave New World • 7:30 pm • $20 (at Tilted Kilt)

TIRAMISU URBAN BISTRO

• 10750 - 124 Street • 780.452.3393 • tiramisubistro.ca • 2013 New Year's Party with a set menu, live indie pop band Where?s Lula and free Champagne • 7 pm – 12 am • $55; reservations/info at 780.452.3393

TREASURY

• 10004 Jasper Avenue • thetreasury.ca • 780.990.1255 • New Year's Eve 2013 Champagne Dreams: Featuring resident DJ Tyco playing a

mixed format set, hors d’oeuvres and midnight champagne • 9 pm – 2 am • $30 and up

UNION HALL NIGHT CLUB

• 6240 - 99 Street • NYE–Whatta Night: hosted by and performance by Ricky J. • 7 pm (doors) • $13; tickets available online now or at the club box office

WORLD WATER PARK • 8882 - 170 Street • New Year’s Eve Family Beach Ball • 6 pm until midnight

WUNDERBAR

• 8120 - 101 St • 780.436.2286

• New Year's Eve House Party/Fancy Kegger • 8 pm

Y AFTERHOURS

• 10028 - 102 Street • New Year's Eve: With Dekoze and Will Bailey with local DJs Benny Hawk, Big Daddy, Chad Cook, Christian J, David Stone, DJ Dezire, DJ Twigz, Hector Castro, Nv, Peep’n Tom, Sean Champagne, Seelo Mondo, Shawnton, Tony Donohue, Donohue, Tyco • 11 pm – 2 am • $35

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• MEGA CRAWL: Various venues: Route 1: Billiards Club, Whiskey Rock, The Ranch Roadhouse, Union Hall; Route 2: Public House, Whiskey Rock, The Ranch Roadhouse, Union Hall; Route 3: The Rack, Union Hall, Whiskey Rock, The Ranch Roadhouse • edmontonpubcrawls.com • newyearscrawl.com • New Year's Eve Pubcrawl: 4 routes • 10 bars • 30 Buses Your Ticket Into The Hottest Countdown Parties In Edmonton • 6:30 pm (check-in at first bar), 7 pm (buses leave) • Reserve Tickets at newyearscrawl.com

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SNOW ZONE

SNOW ZONE // CANYON WALK

Icy adventures Touring the frozen wonderland of Maligne Canyon

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hen walking on ice, it's best to tread carefully, cautiously choosing each foothold before taking another step. But when you're surrounded by the magical beauty of frozen waterfalls and ice formations, it's near impossible to keep your eyes on your rubber boots and ice cleats.

Or at least that's what I encountered when I ventured out into Jasper National Park's Maligne Canyon for an icewalk earlier this month.

My eyes bounced from one icicle to the next as I ignored the trail ahead. In fact, it wasn't until my guide, Christian Roy, advised that I and the rest of the group follow his footsteps to ensure the safest possible route that I took a second to look down at the snow crunching beneath my feet.

December 8 marked the first icewalk of the season for Overlander Trekking and Tours, and the following day was the first trip of Roy's seventh year as a canyon guide.

Although he walks the same trail about 120 times per season, Roy says it never gets boring because the canyon is always changing.

"It's never been the same twice," he says.

Among the tour-goers who joined Roy on December 9 was Carli Nichols, who drove to Jasper from Spruce Grove to celebrate her 18th birthday.

The milestone celebration meant not only did Nichols enjoy a drink at the bar for the first time, she also got to sign her own waiver before the walk. (Anyone under 18 needs the signature of a parent or guardian before they can slip into a pair of the supplied rubber boots and ice cleats and head out into the canyon.)

Cleats and boots are a must on this walk, especially this early in the season, as there is still a good amount of slush and water in the gorge. In fact, there was so much water in the "toilet bowl"—one of the canyon's entrances—that we were unable to enter and instead had to enjoy the sights from the outside looking in.

Maligne Canyon is one of the deepest river canyons in the Canadian Rockies with a depth of about 50 metres. It was carved away thousands of years ago by the rushing power of the Maligne River.

As you approach the canyon, first ducking under the handrail that lines the snowy Maligne Canyon trail and then walking along the frozen Maligne River, the sound of each crunching

Guide Christian Roy stands in front of massive ice formations in Maligne Canyon // Nicole Veerman

footstep grows louder until it's echoing around you.

Then, before you know it, you're surrounded by enormous ice formations, some white, some clear, some yellow, some grey and some blue. The colour depends on the conditions under which the water froze, explains Roy. "Some of them are yellow. That doesn't mean it's pee, though," he says with a smile. "When the water goes through the vegetation, sometimes it picks up some of the colour."

Clear ice is formed when water freezes between zero and minus four degrees Celsius. "So it freezes slow enough that it's just basically water frozen," he says.

White ice has a lot of oxygen in it and is made from the sprinkle of a waterfall. Grey ice has less oxygen and blue ice has even less.

There are a lot of variations, says Roy, noting that it depends on the temperature at which the ice formed, the amount of sun hitting it and how the water froze.

These variations make for a magical sight, adding depth to the layers upon layers of ice that create curtains on the sides of the canyon.

Because the river bottom was unsafe to walk on earlier this month, instead of venturing into the canyon to walk amongst the colourful icicles, Roy took the group further up Maligne Canyon trail to a lookout where the Angel and The Queen waterfalls are visible.

These massive slabs of ice can get so thick over the winter that portions of them can still be seen during the summer months. While overlooking the falls, Roy stopped to talk about ice climbing, a popular activity on both Angel and The Queen.

While showing the group an ice screw—used as an anchor while climbing steep ice surfaces—and explaining how mountaineers use them, eyes widened and heads shook with disbelief, even as Roy assured the group that ice climbing is fun.

The falls marked the turn-around point on the tour. The round-trip, which took two separate trails to and from Fifth Bridge, was about two hours long, with stops to chat about some of the wildlife and vegetation in the area and to discuss the history of the canyon.

"Maligne" is an old French word that means wicked or evil, explains Roy on

the return trip. "I tell you that now, after we're off the river," he jokes. The canyon, river and Maligne Lake received their names from a description of the river given by an early explorer.

Evil or not, the area is captivating.

As you near the canyon and begin to see frozen icicles and half-frozen waterfalls lining the limestone walls, it feels almost as if you've entered a magical winter wonderland straight out of a fairy tale.

There are three commercial guide

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companies offering Maligne Canyon Icewalks this winter: Overlander Trekking and Tours, the Jasper Adventure Centre and the Jasper Tour Company.

And, Parks Canada and the Friends of Jasper have guides as well.

Tours take place daily from now until March, with times varying depending on the company. For a totally different experience, some even offer evening tours lit by headlamps.

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CANADA DOMINATES THE SNOWZONE

Last weekend, Canadian athletes were raking in medals all over the globe.

In Finland, Canada's MikaĂŤl Kingsbury defeated teammate Alex Bilodeau in the season opening dual moguls final. Last season, 2010 Olympic champion Bilodeau only competed in selective events and Kingsbury took advantage, winning several competitions. It looks like the season-long confidence builder is paying off early this year.

In the womens' final, Canadian Justine DufourLapointe collected a silver medal. Last winter, Spruce Grove's mogul master Jennifer Heil retired, leaving Dufour-Lapointe to go it alone, but her two sisters Chloe and Maxime finished ninth and 14th.

In Telluride, Colorado, Dominique Maltais and Maelle Ricker respectively delivered gold and silver for Canada in the women's World Cup snowboard cross event, followed by gold in the World Cup snowboard cross team final. Both have had great success in singles, but until this point had never been able to put it all together on the same day.

Finally, in Val Gardena, Italy, Canada's Erik Guay

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took the bronze medal in the men's World Cup downhill. Guay is the defending downhill world champion but he's been off to a slow start this year. Conditions in this race were sketchy, with snowfall and poor visibility forcing officials to shorten the track. Maybe Guay needed a little adversity to get his season back on track.

MOUNTAIN RUNS AND TERRAIN PARKS

Snow conditions continue to excel and, as a result, mountain operations staff have been able to open more terrain.

At Marmot Basin, the ever-popular Eagle's East mountain face is now open, adding some of the more challenging terrain on the slopes.

At Sunshine, Delirium Dive is now open as well. This, too, opens up some incredible steeps that advanced skiers have been waiting for.

Lake Louise staff has also been very busy, adding 11 features to the hill's terrain park. And now that Marmot Basin has a real terrain park, all three of our nearest major mountain resorts have a playground for boarders and skiers to challenge. V

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REVUE // FILM FESTIVAL

Best of the fest

Standout flicks from the Banff Mountain Film Festival

Justin Jones and James Castrission set their sights on an unassisted crossing of the South Pole in their new film Crossing the Ice. The film nearly swept the Banff Mountain Film Festival, collecting numerous awards. // From the film Crossing the Ice ©Justin Jones and James Castrission

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n the Banff Mountain Film Festival media screening room, pro skier Lynsey Dyer is chatting amiably with the volunteers as they hand out DVDs to journalists. I've got a stack of discs in my hand but this is a rare chance to ask the opinion of someone who lives the experience of the films I'm here to review.

So without reserve, I approach and ask straight out, "So, out of all the films here, which ski movie would you recommend?"

Dyer looks at me, pauses briefly and smiles. "That depends on what you're looking for," she says, sizing me up. "Do you watch all the big movies every year?

Looking for something different?"

"You pegged it dead on," I reply.

No pause this time. "Skiing the Void," she responds, adding, "I think it captures what we all feel."

It's a short exchange, but one that distills the essence of the festival. Here, as cultivators, creators and consumers of mountain culture, there may be many smaller tribes, but there is an overarching "we.” An implicit understanding of who we are and what we seek, and in that quest each of us is ready to help the next.

It is a language we all know.

Amongst the Babel voices at a festival with 50 films, here were a few of the standouts from stacks of DVDs, select festival screenings and astute recommendations from friends in the know.

On the Road – Skiing the Void Like a phoenix from the ashes, this short nine-minute journey takes a hard look at the human cost of mountain endeavour.

On the flipside of those epic lines and lifeaffirming moments there is another reality awaiting: trauma, injury, death.

"The longer you stay in this game," narrates Nick Waggoner, "the closer it gets."

Perhaps no one has been more conscious of this in the last year than Waggoner and the Sweetgrass Productions crew. While filming Solitaire (2011), the crew lost two of their friends and talented cast members Arne Backstrom and Kip Gare, and the film is dedicated to these two athletes.

Venturing back to the same territory that claimed others' lives, Waggoner and his compadres must confront head on that perilous balance once again, the question we’ve all asked, “How far can I push this

before it pushes back?"

Their choice will change them all. .

Reel Rock 7: Honnold 3.0 Freesolo climbing phenomenon Alex Honnold has his own take on risk and mortality. Musing on falling to his death, he laughs, “Some people will say, ‘Oh, at least he died doing what he loves.’ Other people will say, 'What a douchebag.'"

The rush that comes with watching Honnold climb without a rope on some of the thinnest, tightest and most treacherous faces in the world is wild. Yet intense as it is, it's humour and sheer love for the sport that permeate this 30-minute biopic on Honnold's progression as an athlete from lanky, unknown kid with a goofy grin and an innate ability to scale just about anything, to the focused celebrity athlete who seeks out challenges that would be certain death for almost anyone else.

Attempting to scale Yosemite’s three giants in a single day may not be his greatest challenge, but it shows him finding the grace to be calm, humble and human under pressure.

premise that could well spin into a much longer feature: introducing the sport of skiing to a culture that has never encountered it and training a group of eager participants to compete in a ski race.

There is a long buildup to the payoff as the Austrian ski coaches put their charges through their paces, but it’s worth it.

Hopefully the second annual race will be televised on a major network in its entirety—not just for laughs, but to show the world the sheer joy that the sport inspires.

At its essence this translates into any language, and yet it needs no words. Except perhaps a well-timed “fugyeh schiesse!”

Crossing the Ice This year’s darling of the festival, nearly sweeping the awards with Best Film—Exploration and Adventure, People’s Choice Award and Grand Prize, Crossing the Ice is an understated film about accomplishing the miraculous.

The film’s two narrators, Cas (James Castrission) and Jonesy (Justin Jones), are familiar to many outdoor film fans for their unaided passage across the sea between Australia and New Zealand.

This time, they have set their sights on an unassisted South Pole crossing. By almost any measure, there couldn’t be two more unlikely candidates.

But this isn’t just a story about the odds.

It’s about the constant brinkmanship of extreme exploration, and what it takes to transcend that. This is what earned this simple yet elegant film a raucous standing ovation at the Banff Mountain Festival on awards night.

Unicorn Sashimi One perfect powder day in Japan captured by the Sweetgrass crew and set to Taiko.

Not much else needs to be said, nor in fact was by Waggoner when he answered questions in a question and answer session following its premiere at the festival.

And why try? Rather than analyze a thing of beauty, sometimes you just need to appreciate it. Let’s be clear on one thing: this is not ski porn—it’s ski eroticism.

1st Afghan Ski Race In a genre that often brims with earnest intensity, 1st Afghan Ski Race offers a welcome dose of levity. It has a simple

Industrial Revolutions Although it didn’t receive an award, this film earned special mention for its brilliant cinematography and inspired action.

Quite simply, Danny MacAskill’s demo riding is mind-boggling.

His artistry unfolds against a post-industrial European setting—an abandoned ironworks—that is in itself a rich commentary, given new meaning by the intrusion of man and machine as one.

With so many languages and forms of communication we have yet to fully understand one another as humans. But in some rare moments we come close. In a mountain-culture festival there is frivolity and necessity, silliness and enlightenment. We starve and we thrive, and sometimes we get it.

As award presenter Jamie Clark of LiveOutThere.com said, quoting one skier from 1st Afghan Ski Race; "fugyeh schiesse."

In falling, failing, winning, flying—in life and death itself—there may be no truer words.

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PREVUE // FOLK

A change of scenery Daniel Moir brings his surroundings into his music Sat, Dec 22 (8 pm) With Dead Red Pine, Molly Little Elevation Room, $10

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his is the grumpiest place on Earth, I think," says singer-songwriter Daniel Moir when he picks up the phone during what seems to be a less-than-enjoyable experience at the passport office, adding he's never seen so many frowns in his life. "I'm glad you called because it gives me an excuse to get out of here."

Keeping one eye on the screen for his number to be called, the conversation shifts to what life has had in store for Moir since relocating to Vancouver from Edmonton in 2011. It's easy to see why Moir would be affected by a negative environment, such as the one at the passport office, as he speaks about the influences his surroundings have on his music and outlook, which appears to be a generally optimistic one.

"I didn't think being involved in the music scene here would have anything to do with my music, but I think even subconsciously it starts to affect the way your songs come out and it starts to make more sense why there's a Vancouver sound or a Toronto sound or a MontrĂŠal sound. That was always something that alluded

me, but now being here I see how that happens," Moir points out, adding the outdoors has always played a role in his songwriting, and being so close to the ocean and the mountains in Vancouver has fed that even further.

Moir's surroundings are about to have another change in pace, albeit a temporary one, as he heads south for his first tour in the US. His song "Change The World" was used on the season finale of the hit medical drama Mercy, which quickly gained him attention south of the border.

"Remember that chick from Buffy [The Vampire Slayer]? The redheaded girl? She was making out with this dude in the bar and they were playing my song in the background, so it was funny to see that," Moir laughs. "I'd always thought she was a total babe, so for my song to be the background to her make-out scene was quite a thrill for me."

Once the whirlwind nine-day tour down to Los Angeles and back wraps up, things won't be slowing down for Moir. The 22-year-old is heading back into the studio to record his currently untitled album, which he says is only a couple of songs away from completion. He notes the title will come once he goes back through it all and

discovers what kind of themes have emerged.

"It really comes down to what's going on in my life or what's going on in my brain at that time ... Like with 2013 coming about there's a general shift going on around the world, not like the shift that the Mayan calendar is talking about, but the shift in climate change, our economy is collapsing and there's a general evolution of humanity going on," explains Moir, who is also taking on the role of producer for the disc. "I've got my home studio set up and I've been recording music and been really happy with the way it's turning out, so just to have that creative control, I'll be much more satisfied doing it myself."

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To Vancouver and beyond

PREVUE // INDIE ELECTRONIC

Wild Ways

Into the wild

Fri, Dec 21 (8 pm) With Physical Copies, Love Electric Elevation Room, $10 Mon, Dec 31 (8 pm) With Shout Out Out Out Out Metro Cinema at the Garneau, $30

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hether you've got an arsenal of impressive moves or not, Wild Ways just wants you to get up and dance.

The electronic duo, forged by Conrad Black and Kyle McCrea, has been on a mission to get audiences out of their seats and create music that bridges

modern electronic and indie rock ever since relocating from Edmonton to Vancouver a year-and-a-half ago. The pair's musical connections were solidified in their early teens, when Black and McCrea started lending their talents to various music ventures ranging in style from punk rock to country,

with Wild Ways being created last October over a desire to bring something unique to contemporary music, not to mention a healthy obsession with analog recording gear.

"We kind of wanted to incorporate a different spectrum of sound to our music," explains Black, adding the pair consulted with friends from Shout Out Out Out Out and others in the electronic scene during the beginning phases of Wild Ways.

"We realized that the more natural approach to making electronic music would be using analog gear instead of digital ... I guess we're mostly geek fanatics on vintage gear so we really study all our instruments and sounds, and really see the bands we listen to and how their sound is influenced, and kind of what pleases the ear in a warmer sense related to classical instruments and acoustic instruments."

The result has been the duo's debut self-titled EP, a sonically varied collection of tracks that brings the

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two musical worlds together in a way that Conrad says brings back some of their early musical influences and captures the raw energy of those years.

"There's a lot of changes happening, but you still have that raw power in yourself," he says. "We made that big move of moving over to Vancouver by ourselves and we made a pact to make something that's unique to ourselves, but also pulls from, and reminds us of that energy we had when we were younger and to still have that and to not ever lose that when we're growing up."

"Conrad listens to a lot of electronic music, I listen to a lot of lo-fi and garage rock and pop, " McCrea adds. "We both agreed that it was so much more fun if your audience could dance to it; even if the music is really good, it's a different element when people aren't just bobbing their heads to it. When people are having a lot of fun and dancing, you feed off that."

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PREVUE // DJ

A Sides Wed, Dec 26 (9 pm) Boxing Day Soundclash With Celcius, Sureshock and MCs Deadly and Flowpro Starlite Room, $15 (advance), $30 (door)

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ging gracefully while maintaining credibility can be a tightrope act for many artists, but Jason Cambridge has never shied away from heights.

As DJ and producer A sides, Cambridge has helped pioneer drum and bass futurism since it first broke through in the early 1990s. Given this longevity, the Brit says his sound, style and persona are often referred to as being "old school." Not that he seems to mind: if the years—and his own discography upwards of 700 released tracks—have taught him anything, it's that all things old become new again.

"My biography says 500 releases, which I should probably change, but I lost count of some of what I have worked on over the years," says Cambridge, 42. "There have been so many collaborations, stuff without my name on it, so many pseudonyms. I love a lot of my old stuff. Lately, I have been dropping a few classics in my sets because many people enjoy hearing stuff they know. But I have been building on what I did before for a long time."

Cambridge's latest progression is his fourth album, Based Upon Bass, which was released this year. It's pure drum and bass, he says, and features a few old tricks (like longtime partner MC Fats on "Keep Steppin" and "Flashback") and a few new wrinkles. This includes "Spiritual Synergy," a track Cambridge recorded with LA-based vocalist J-os over the Internet.

Even during the interview for this story via Skype, Cambridge was simultaneously reviewing releases from his back catalogue for a possible Eastside Records best-of compilation—all while on the road in Miami. Cambridge maintains a rigorous performance schedule. After the US and Canada, he'll visit family and tour through Australia and New Zea-

land before returning to England in mid 2013. Not unlike drum and bass, Cambridge says his life's drumroll has always beat quickly.

"Even with DJ'ing, I am about playing the freshest stuff," he says. "But I have always been into new music. When I was in school, I played drums but had to sell my kit because I lived in a tiny flat. I got a drum machine instead and eventually progressed through hip hop, hip house, hardcore, jungle and now drum and bass."

He also does music library project work. His often uncredited productions have been in TV shows like CSI and Top Gear, amongst others. "I get bored fast," he laughs.

What does the future hold?

When Cambridge starts contemplating the great inevitability, his thoughts fortunately turn to his 65-year-old uncle and lifelong influence Jeff Bertolla. A reggae and dub mainstay in England since the 1970s, Bertolla continues to produce music and tour throughout Europe as Jahfree Dub Activist. And if ol' Uncle Jeff can do it, Cambridge sees no reason he shouldn't.

"The thing that actually makes me feel older is thinking about the future," Cambridge says. "Inside, I still have the same energy and passion I have always had."

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PREVUE // CLASSICAL

Alissa Cheung honours degree in chemistry and attained a Bachelor of Music degree with high distinction in violin performance from McGill University.

"There's just such a wealth of knowledge and information in this university community that it's daunting, but it's inspiring at the same time."

Thu, Dec 27 (6:30 pm) The Opus 33 - Christmas Fundraising Concert Giovanni Yamaha Concert Hall (10528 Mayfield Road), $25

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o ring in the holiday season, nine renowned classical musicians are

coming together to fundraise for the venerable Anne Burrows Music Foundation—a foundation built on providing scholarships to students studying classical music.

Among them is award-winning violinist Alissa Cheung, who has taken a sabbatical from her role with the Edmon-

ton Symphony Orchestra to complete her master's degree at Yale University.

"Having worked in the 'real world' for two years, I knew exactly what I wanted to do at school here: I wanted to improve my violin playing and improve my composition," says Cheung, who already holds an

Cheung, who chose violin over piano lessons at age four, will be performing alongside her friend Ewald Cheung, a McGill University graduate student who won the Schulich School of Music's Golden Violin Award in 2011—the largest privately funded music scholarship in Canada. The pair of virtuosos will be showcasing two movements from Prokofiev Sonata for Two Violins, Op. 56 and "Analogia," an original composition by Cheung inspired by a fascination with fractal patterns, such as snowflakes or watching a rainfall.

"Humanly, we can sort of appreciate the pattern, but we can't quite figure it out," she says. "I mean, there are

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mathematical formulas that they are writing to try and express this in terms of math, but even just the beauty of looking at a mountain; there's beauty in the small scale and beauty in the large scale."

Discovering and portraying beauty in unexpected ways ties back to Cheung using music as an effective form of self-expression.

"There are just certain emotions and ideas that I find very difficult to express in words," says Cheung, who will go back to teaching when she returns to Edmonton following her studies at Yale. "You can help people grow and that moment when they play that one passage or realize that, 'Hey, I can be creative with this,' and they find their own identity and find their own self-expression, it kind of liberates people, which is another reason why I love music."

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Hip Hop for Hunger

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on YouTube as possible, but until you're able to bring your music out there and actually entertain people and find that connect, there's a disconnect, y'know?" he adds. "This year, we've introduced the eight emcee cipher, which is going to introduce younger up-and-coming hip-hop emcees here in the city who we feel in the next five to 10 years will be the mainstays as far as Edmonton hip hop goes and will be the people travelling, whether it's across Canada or worldwide, to raise the flag of Edmonton hip hop."

en years and more than 8000 lbs of food later, Hip Hop for Hunger is entering its 11th year, with a new lineup and a mission to raise 1500 lbs in food donations for the city's less fortunate.

"We've seen it get to a point of averaging out a little over 1100 lbs every single year, so that's definitely a positive, which means we're raising a consistent level of Raising the profile of young artfood and a good level of food," ists and community engagement notes organizer Marlon Wilson— has always been an integral part of also known Wilson's caas Arlo reer, and he This year, we've introduced Maverick recognizes the eight emcee cipher, of Politic the positive which is going to introduce Live—over influence younger up-and-coming hip- m u s i c i a n s the phone, hop emcees ..." adding this can have, year, the famous or food bank not. Wilson has asked acknowldonors to take changing dietary edges that hip-hop music tends to needs of Edmonton's multiculturhave a negative stigma attached to al community into consideration it, but is working to show that it can when selecting items. be used for empowerment.

Despite the event's consistent "At one point in time, art was used and continuing success, it hasn't to create social change and art been without its challenges—parwas used to reflect the climate of ticularly in making it exciting each the world ... I think as it's become year and roping in the younger genmore corporate we've lost sight of eration. Wilson notes the pluggedwhat art can be used for," he notes. in, social media generation has a "When we look at some of the plethora of ways to communicate greatest artists of all time, whether with one another, but when it it be Bob Marley or John Lennon or comes to getting them off to an Tupac or anybody who's ever really actual event, it can be like pullhad a huge impact on the world, ing teeth. As part of the solution, they've often used their art to creWilson has worked to incorporate ate that change, whether it be diyounger hip-hop acts into Hip Hop rectly or indirectly."

MEAGHAN BAXTER for Hunger's roster. // MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM "You can make as many videos

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COMMENT >> TOPIC

Music Notes Christmas at the Winspear Thu, Dec 20 – Sun, Dec 23 (8 pm, 2 pm on Sunday) The holiday festivities at the Winspear continue with A Christmas Feast on Thursday, followed by a threenight run of A Celtic Christmas with The McDades, a local, groundbreaking family of singers and instrumentalists featuring a lineup of holiday favourites.

(Winspear Centre, $20)

FRI DEC 21 VILLAINIZER

- END OF THE WORLD - CD RELEASE PARTY

W/ MORTILLERY, THE RETURN OF SIXGUNS OVER TOMBSTONE & GATEKRASHOR

SAT DEC 22

No Problem / Thu, Dec 20 (9 pm) Before you batten down the hatches and get those bunkers ready, join No Problem for its The Eve of Destruction/Xmas party show as the band rounds up some of its musician friends and The Mighty Tiger on the turntables for a reggae/dancehall/punk/hardcore bash to ring in the holidays. (DV8)

BLACK MASTIFF W/ DESIDERATA, MACHINES, DUSTY TUCKER, & CHRON GOBLIN

Villainizer Fri, Dec 21 (8 pm) Nothing says the holidays like a little speaker shattering metal, and local shredder Villainizer is celebrating the launch of its latest album, along with a lineup of some of the city's hardest rockers. (Pawn Shop, $10)

SUN DEC 23 THE RETURN OF...

DRIVE BY PUNCH

W/ THE OLD WIVES, SECRET RIVALS, CALIFORNIA LANE CHANGE & RIOT IN PARADISE

FRI DEC 28 Benefit concert Fri, Dec 21 (6:30 pm) Four young, local bands are coming together for a cause as they rock it out for the Brain Tumor Foundation of Canada.

The night features Smile For The Bullet, Silverline, The Truth and special guest Matthew Myers. (Maclab Centre, $5)

SCENIC ROUTE ALASKA W/ MICHAEL RAULT, VIKING FELL & CALM ASA COMA

SAT DEC 29

The Provincial Archive / Fri, Dec 21 (8 pm) Just in case the Mayans were wrong and you need some Friday night plans, party like its 1999 with the Provincial Archives' second annual Christmas party. The alternative folk act is back after a time out from performing to focus on recording, and the band is ready to celebrate. (Artery, $12 advance, $15 at the door)

2012 PAWN SHOP LIVE CUSTOMER APPRECIATION PARTY!!!

FREE COVER BEFORE 10:30 PM $5 COVER FOR THE REST OF THE NIGHT HOSTED BY YOUR EDMONTON FAVORITES - EDDIE LUNCHPAIL, BLUE JAY, BLACK FRIDAY’S DJ WHYTE TRASH, DJ LEITHAL & OTHER GUESTS TBA..

FIRST 50 ENTREES GET A FREE CUSTOM PAWN SHOP LIVE T-SHIRT!! WIN TONS OF OTHER GIVEAWAY PRIZES, TICKETS & SHWAG!!

MON DEC 31 NYE 2012 MAD BOMBER SOCIETY & THE RAYGUN COWBOYS 2 BANDS + 1 STAGE = 1 EPIC PARTY!!

W/ BALL & CHAIN, WHISKEY WAGON & DJ DOKTOR ERICK

Black Mastiff Sat, Dec 22 (8 pm) This venerable breed is known for its soothing melodies as much as it is for its intense grooves and it's rounded up a troupe to really rock those jingle bells, including Desiderata, Machines, Dusty Tucker and Chron Goblin. (Pawn Shop, $10)

THU JAN 17

INTO ETERNITY W/ SILENT LINE, IRONSTORM & THY DEMONS JEST

Hip Hop on the Ave 5 / Thu, Dec 27 (noon) Event co-ordinator Stephen "Komrade" Goyette is channeling a year of personal growth—including extensive travel and losing 80 lbs in six months—into the fifth annual Hip Hop on the Ave. With the help of his brother Patrick "Pat Grim" Goyette, the Brothers Grim, along with 25 local hip-hop artists, are aiming to beat last year's numbers and raise more than 300 toys for Santa's Anonymous. Get in the spirit and help 'em out.

(Please bring a new, unwrapped toy)

SAT JAN 26 THE RETURN OF

CHOKE

W/ FIRE NEXT TIME, THE OLD SINS & 400 STRONG FOR TICKETS- PLEASE VISIT WWW.YEGLIVE.CA

SAT DEC 22 FREE SHOW 4PM CHRISTMAS WITH JOHNNY MCCORMACK

& 780-SKA

Jay Sparrow Sun, Dec 23 (9 pm) You likely don't have to work tomorrow, and if you do it's a short day, so head out and join Jay Sparrow, along with Soulicitors, Mayday and the Beat Creeps and other guests as they team up to help the Bissell Centre. (On the Rocks, $10)

SUN DEC 23 FESTIVUS THE AIRING OF THE GRIEVANCES FEAT. EX- PUNK’D WRITER ROB PUE

VUEWEEKLY DECEMBER 20 – DECEMBER 26, 2012

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MUSIC WEEKLY FAX YOUR FREE LISTINGS TO 780.426.2889 OR EMAIL LISTINGS@VUEWEEKLY.COM

DEADLINE: FRIDAY AT 3PM

Funk Bunker Thursdays

PAWN SHOP Annual

LUCKY 13 Sin Thu with DJ Mike Tomas

Wild Ways, Physical Copies, Love Electric; 8pm; $10

ON THE ROCKS

EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ

Ugly Sweater Christmas Dance: Sister Gray, Axe and Smash, Raptors, DJ'd by Easy Love; $5 at YEGlive.ca

PUB 1824 Sinder Sparks Show; 8-12pm

THU DEC 20 ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE Live Music Every Thu; 9:30-11:30; no minors; no cover; Seven Suns (acoustic singer-songwriter)

ATLANTIC TRAP AND GILL Dirty pool

(rock); 9pm

BLUES ON WHYTE

R&B bands (dancing); 8pm

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

Zoomers Thu afternoon open mic; 1-4pm

COOK COUNTY Open stage/jamaoke with Mourning Wood

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ

every Thu at 9pm

DV8 No Problem with

Rapid Loss, Skabilia, Raptor Strike (metal; 9pm

EARLY STAGE SALOON–Stony Plain Open Jam Nights:

Musicians are invited to come and join Jammin' Jeff Millar and Trish Jameson alternate hosting; $5

EDDIE SHORTS Good

Time Jamboree with Charlie Scream every Thu

FANDANGO'S Kory

Wlos (country)

HOGS DEN PUB Hog's Den Jam (blues); 8pm

J & R GRILL JR's Jam hosted by Gary Thomas; 9pm JEFFREY'S CAFÉ

Sandy Foster's Christmas Concert ( jazz, Christmas classics); $15

JOHN WALTER MUSEUM Candlelight

Thursdays

RENDEZVOUS Metal

night every Thu

TAPHOUSE–St Albert Eclectic mix

SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Lyle

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

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM

CARROT CAFÉ

OUTLAWS ROADHOUSE Wild Life

every Thu with DJ Dusty Grooves

BOHEMIA Bohemia

every Thu; Joanne Janzen, Rebecca Lappa; 7pm

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

THE RIG Thursday night jam with Rockin' Randy; 7pm

Hobbs; 9pm

CAFÉ HAVEN Music

UNION HALL 3 Four All

WILD BILL’S–Red Deer TJ the DJ every

Thu and Fri; 10pm-close

Jimmy Whiffen

WILD BILL’S–Red Deer TJ the DJ every

Thu and Fri; 10pm-close

FRI DEC 21

WUNDERBAR Eamon

ARTERY The Provincial

Mcgrath, Krang; 9pm

Classical HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN Amahl and the Night Visitors; 7pm

WINSPEAR CENTRE

ESO: A Christmas Feast: Steven Reineke (conductor), Richard Eaton Singers (Leonard Ratzlaff (director), Kira Guloien (vocals); $20-$79

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main

Floor: wtft w djwtf - rock 'n' roll, blues, indie; Wooftop Lounge: Musical flavas incl funk, indie, dance/nu disco, breaks, drum and bass, house with DJ Gundam

BRIXX Hosted by

Christian and Justin of Canyon Rose Outfit: Open turntables; E: kevin@starliteroom.ca to book 30-min set

CENTURY ROOM

Lucky 7: Retro '80s with house DJ every Thu; 7pm-close

THE COMMON

Uncommon Thursday: Indie with new DJ each week with resident

Archive (alt folk), Mark Davis; 8pm; $12 (adv) at YEGLive.ca

AVENUE THEATRE

Doomsday Show: Mongol, Cultured by Fire, Any Last Regrets, Eternal Prophecy, Attention to the Wounded; 6pm; all ages; $15 at YEGlive.ca

BAILEY THEATRE– Camrose Rose City

Roots Music Society presents: Jaron Rovensky; 8pm; $20 at Bailey box office; baileytheatre.com

BISTRO LA PERSAUD Blues: every Friday Night hosted by The Dr Blu Band; 8pm (music); drblu.ca

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ

Front Porch Christmas revue featuring Ron Rault, Crawdad Cantera, Tracy Millar, Gord Matthews; 8:30-10:30pm; $15

BLUES ON WHYTE Boogie Patrol

BO DIDDLY'S ROADHOUSE Rennie

and the Blazers; 8pm

BOHEMIA Ultimate

Doomsday 2k12 Party: Fiction Smiles, Carl for Breakfast, Dark Sarcasm, The Archaics; 8:30pm

ELECTRIC RODEO– Spruce Grove DJ every

Thu

every Fri; Danielle Knibbe; all ages; 7:30pm; $5 (door)

FILTHY MCNASTY’S

CASINO EDMONTON

Canadian Country Hall of Fame Guest host Bev Munro; Trick Ryder

NORTH GLENORA HALL Jam by Wild Rose

Old Time Fiddlers every Thu

OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK

Jesse Peters (R&B, blues, jazz, Top 40); 9pm-2am

Over Thursdays: Industry Night; 9pm

FUNKY BUDDHA– Whyte Ave Requests every Thu with DJ Damian

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

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE

VUEWEEKLY DECEMBER 20 – DECEMBER 26, 2012

McGarrigle; 8:30pm

IRISH CLUB Jam session every Fri; 8pm; no cover JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Alfie

WINSPEAR CENTRE– Lobby The Jim Findlay

Trio; 7pm

Classical WINSPEAR CENTRE ESO: A Celtic Christmas with the McDades; Steven Reineke (conductor), the McDades, Greenwood Singers (Robert de Frece, director); 8pm; $20-$89

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

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every

Friday DJs on all three levels

BLACKSHEEP PUB

Darrell Barr (Christmas CD release party); 9pm; $20; Kid's Help Phone raffle

HOUSE The Rock Mashup: DJ NAK spins videos every Fri; 9pm; no cover

LIZARD LOUNGE

BRIXX Silence be

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

MCLAB THEATRE– Leduc The Truth,

Silverline, Smile for the Bullet along with an acoustic act by Matthew Myers; 3:20pm (door), 4-6:30pm (music); $5 (door as min donation) in support of brian cancer research

DEN PUB The Piano Man Live; 9pm

NEW WEST HOTEL Trick Ryder (country); 9pm

ON THE ROCKS Hamburger; 9pm

OVERTIME– Sherwood Park Jesse

Peters Live; 9pm

PAWN SHOP End

of the WOrld Party: Villainizer (CD release party), Villainizer, Mortillery, Sixguns Over Tombstone, Gatekrashor; $10 (adv) at YEGLive.ca

RAMADA HOTEL

and Cornerstone (country pop)

FLUID LOUNGE Take

HIGH RUN Mark

CARROT Live music

FLASH NIGHT CLUB

NEW WEST HOTEL

CLUB End of the World Party: The Electric Religious, Between Brothers (rock), guests; 8pm; $7 (adv)

PUB 1824 Every Fri &

Catalyst (Caribbean)

every Thu; 7pm

HAVEN SOCIAL

CAFFREY'S The Ruminators; 9pm

Something Diffrent every Thursday with DJ Ryan Kill

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

Badgers every friday; 8:30-midnight; no cover

Thu and Fri; 10pm-close

BONEYARD ALE

L.B.'S PUB Open jam

MARYBETH'S COFFEE HOUSE– Beaumont Open mic

PUB T.K. and the Honey

WILD BILL’S–Red Deer TJ the DJ every

L.B.'S–St Albert

every Thu; 9pm

free

GOOD NEIGHBOR

Doomsday Show: Cannibal, Holoshock, Death Twitch, Scarletts Nightmare; all ages; 6pm (door), 9pm (show); $10

GILL Dirty pool; 9pm

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ

LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR NEK Trio; 8pm;

Wlos

STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION

Bash: DJ spinning retro to rock classics to current

KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE Open stage;

with Kenny Skoreyko, Fred LaRose and Gordy Mathews (Shaved Posse) every Thu; 9pm-1am

FANDANGO'S Kory

Jimmy Whiffen

Zappacosta; $35

CROWN PUB Break

Down Thu at the Crown: D&B with DJ Kaplmplx, DJ Atomik with guests

It’s the End of the World As We Know It: Stirfry Variety Night with the Blenders, Kevin McGrath, Patti Hawreliak, the Boomers and Rhonda (bellydance), open stage: Bring your instruments; 7pm (door), 8pm (show); donation

HOLMES–WEM

ATLANTIC TRAP AND

Christmas: The McDades; $23/$14 (child 2-14 years); 311 for shedule and tickets

7pm; no cover

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RICHARD'S PUB Live

Boogie Patrol

Xmas Bash: Dave Smith, Forrest Tate, the Son of the Sea; 8pm; $8

ELEVATION ROOM

every Thu; no cover

CASINO YELLOWHEAD Mandy

COAST TO COAST Open stage every Fri; 9:30pm

DEVANEYS' IRISH PUB Andrew scott DV8 Kemo Treats

Christmas Krunkfest: Down the Hatch, the Fucking Lottery; $8 (door)

EARLY STAGE SALOON End of

the World Party: The Dangerous Guise (rock); $5

Sat, this week; $5

Yalda (Winter Solstice) celebration: Iman Sani and his band, Araz Music Ensemble, and Persian, Azari, Kordi, and Latin DJ music; 6pm (door); $35 (adult)/$15 (5-12 yrs)/$300 (group of 10)

RED PIANO BAR

Damned: with DJs Gotthavok, Siborg, Nightroad; 7pm

BUDDY’S DJ Arrow

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

BUFFALO UNDERGROUND R U Aware Friday: Featuring Neon Nights

CHROME LOUNGE

Platinum VIP every Fri

THE COMMON

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

THE DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Fri; 9pm ELECTRIC RODEO– Spruce Grove DJ

every Fri

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

FLUID LOUNGE Hip

hop and dancehall; every Fri

FUNKY BUDDHA– Whyte Ave Top tracks,

rock, retro with DJ Damian; every Fri

JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY LGBT Com-

munity: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm

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

NEWCASTLE PUB

ROOT CELLAR The

O2'S TAPHOUSE AND GRILL DJs every

House, dance mix every Fri with DJ Donovan

Armada, Emma Perri, and Three Sun Sea, Tabasco Cat; 8pm

Fri and Sat

ROSE AND CROWN PUB Stuart Bendall

DJ Gravy from the Source 98.5 every Fri

SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Lyle

Hobbs; 9pm

RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie, rock, funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri

SHERLOCK

SOU KAWAII

REDNEX–Morinville

ZEN LOUNGE

Fuzzion Friday: with Crewshtopher, Tyler M, guests; no cover

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

THIRSTY CAMEL The

Sinder Sparks Show with 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

Y AFTERHOURS

Foundation Fridays

Acoustic Open Mic with Tim Harwill; Every Sat 4-6:30pm

DEVANEYS' IRISH PUB Andrew Scott

ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage with

THE DISH NEK Trio ( jazz); every Sat, 6pm

DV8 Bleed, Monarch Sky

Classical

Wlos

WINSPEAR CENTRE ESO: A Celtic Christmas with the McDades; Steven Reineke (conductor), the McDades, Greenwood Singers (Robert de Frece, director); 8pm; $20-$89

FILTHY MCNASTY'S

DJs

ELEVATION ROOM

Daniel Moir Band, Dead Red Pine, Molly Little; 8pm; $10

FANDANGO'S Kory

Christmas with Jonny McCormack and 780 Ska; 4pm; no cover

Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth

HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB

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

Hip Hop for Hunger: Politic Live, Mitchmatic, Sonny Grimez, others; 8pm; $8 (adv)/$12 (door)

ARTERY Free Elliott

HOOLIGANZ The

Farewell Show: Free Elliott, guests; 8pm (door); $8 (adv at YEGlive. ca)

Young Albertans, Wyddershynns, the Tubsteppers

HORIZON STAGE Big

ATLANTIC TRAP AND GILL Northwest Passage

Reunion, Dirty pool; 8pm; $5 (door)

Band Christmas: The River City Big Band; 7:30pm; $33-$38 at Ticketmaster

AVENUE THEATRE

IRON BOAR PUB Jazz

End of the World Rock Show: Zombie Resurrected Bell Jar Blues Band, The Psychedelic Space Invaders (McGowan Family Band), Uncas as our own Horsemen of the Apocalypse; 8pm; $15 (door); no minors

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair of

the Dog: Beerbelly (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover

in Wetaskiwin featuring jazz trios the 1st Sat each month; $10

JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Alfie

Zappacosta; $35

L.B.'S PUB Early: Sat afternoon Jam with Gator and Friends, 5-9pm; Late: The Blazers, 9:30pm-2am LOUISIANA PURCHASE Suchy

Blue Chair House Band; 8:30-10:30pm; $12

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

BLUES ON WHYTE

NEW WEST HOTEL

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ

Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Late: Boogie Patrol

BONNIE DOON HALL The Classics and Big Hank, Fistful of Blues; 7pm; $20 (door, adv contact Jayne at 780.498.6216); benefit for the Jasper Place Health and Wellness Centre; bring your donation of new or used blankets or coats BRIXX BAR Early Show: Uncle Ape; 9pm

CAFFREY'S The

Ruminators; 9pm

CARROT CAFÉ Sat Open mic; 7pm; $2 CASINO EDMONTON Catalyst (Caribbean)

CASINO YELLOWHEAD Mandy

and Cornerstone (country pop)

CHROME LOUNGE

The After the End of the World B.U.T.S. Xmas Party: Better Us Than Strangers; 9pm

COAST TO COAST Live bands every Sat; 9:30pm

CROWN PUB Acoustic

blues open stage with Marshall Lawrence, every Sat, 2-6pm; every Sat, 12-2am

DEVON HOTEL PALS

WUNDERBAR Holiday Fucking Wastoid Rager, Dirty Dudes and the Lad Mags

GAS PUMP Saturday

SAT DEC 22

FOUNDATION Studio Music Foundation Members Xmas Party; 6pm

Country jam every Sat; 3-6pm; Evening: Trick Ryder (country); 9pm

O’BYRNE’S Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm

ON THE ROCKS Hamburger; 9pm

OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK

Dueling Piano's, all request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover

PAWN SHOP Black

Mastiff, Desiderata, Machines, Dusty Tucker, Chron Goblin; 8pm (door); $10

PUB 1824 Every Fri &

Sat, this week with: ; $5

RED PIANO BAR

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

RICHARDS PUB

Carson Cole hosts singersongwriter

SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Lyle

Hobbs; 9pm

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Jimmy Whiffen

SHAW CONFRENCE CENTRE Tiesto; 8pm SIDELINERS PUB Sat open stage; 3-7pm

STUDIO MUSIC

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main

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

BLACKSHEEP PUB DJ

every Sat

BONEYARD ALE HOUSE DJ Sinistra

school, top 40 beats with DJ Lazy, guests

TEMPLE Oh Snap! Oh

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

UNION HALL Celebrity Saturdays: every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous

Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

SUN DEC 23 BEER HUNTER–St Albert Open stage/jam

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ ELECTRIC RODEO– Spruce Grove DJ

every Sat

FILTHY MCNASTY'S

Fire up your night every Saturday with DJ SAWG

FLUID LOUNGE Scene

Every Sun, 8pm

Classical WINSPEAR CENTRE ESO: A Celtic Christmas with the McDades; Steven Reineke (conductor), the McDades, Greenwood Singers (Robert de Frece, director); 8pm; $20-$89

BACKSTAGE TAP AND GRILL Industry

Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ

Brunch: Jim Findlay Trio; 10am-2pm; donations

BLUE PEAR RESTAURANT Jazz on

BOGANI CAFE

every Sat; 9pm

YELLOWHEAD BREWERY Open Stage:

BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku

BUDDY'S Feel the

Mashed In Saturday: Mashup Night

Sun Live Jam hosted by Carson Cole; 4pm

DJs

the Side Sun 5:30-8:30pm; $25 if not dining

BUFFALO UNDERGROUND Head

RICHARD'S PUB

every Sun; 2-6pm

Saturdays: 9pm

rhythm every Sat with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm

Punch, the Old Wives, Secret Rivals, California Lane Change, Riot in Paradise; $10 (adv)

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

Night: every Sun with Atomic Improv, Jameoki and DJ Tim

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main

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

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE

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

SAVOY MARTINI LOUNGE Reggae on

Whyte: RnR Sun with DJ IceMan; no minors; 9pm; no cover

MON DEC 24

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

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Closed

DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB Celtic open stage

open stage every Mon; 8pm

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

every Sun with KeriLynne Zwicker; 5:30pm; no cover

FUNKY BUDDHA– Whyte Ave Top tracks,

every Sun; 3-8pm

DOUBLE D'S Open jam

DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB Singer/songwriter

FANDANGO'S Open mic Music Industry Night every Mon OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK

EDDIE SHORTS Open stage with Dan Daniels every Sun

Monday Open Stage

Community: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm

FANDANGO'S Singer songwriter open Stage every Sun

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE

FILTHY MCNASTY'S

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

rock, retro every Sat with DJ Damian

JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY LGBT

Collective Saturdays underground: House and Techno

NEWCASTLE PUB Top

40 requests every Sat with DJ Sheri

Rock and Soul Sundays with DJ Sadeeq: Festivus: the airing of the prievances featuring Rob Pue

HOGS DEN PUB Open

O2'S TAPHOUSE AND GRILL DJs every

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

PALACE CASINO Show

JOHN WALTER MUSEUM Candlelight

Fri and Sat

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

Christmas: The McDades; $23/$14 (child 2-14 years); 311 for shedule and tickets

NEWCASTLE PUB Sun

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

O2'S TAP HOUSE AND GRILL Live rock

band every Sun with Joint Chiess

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

O’BYRNE’S Open mic

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Your

Sparrow (folk rock), Soulicitors, Mayday, Beat Creeps, and more; 9pm (door); $10 (door); fundraiser for the Bissell Centre

Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M

SUITE 69 Stella

Saturday: retro, old

every Sun; 9:30pm-1am

ON THE ROCKS Jay

PAWN SHOP Drive By

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

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

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

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

CROWN PUB

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

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Metal Mondays with DJ Tyson

LUCKY 13 Industry

Night every Mon with DJ Chad Cook

TUE DEC 25 BRIXX BAR Ruby Tuesdays with host Mark Feduk; $5 after 8pm; this week guests: L.B.’S Tue Blues Jam

with Ammar; 9pm-1am

VUEWEEKLY DECEMBER 20 – DECEMBER 26, 2012

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O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam

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

O2'S ON WHYTE DJ

Grizz every Tue industry night

OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK

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

PADMANADI Open stage every Tue; with Mark Davis; all ages; 7:30-10:30pm

horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue

PUB Open stage with Duff Robison

RED STAR

Electric open jam with Steven Johnson Experience every Wed

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

RED PIANO All Request

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

SUITE 69 Rockstar

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

R PUB Open stage jam

EDDIE SHORTS

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

FIDDLER'S ROOST

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

GOOD EARTH COFFEE HOUSE AND BAKERY Breezy

every Tue; hosted by Gary and the Facemakers; 8pm

WED DEC 26

Brian Gregg; every Wed; 12-1pm

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

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Closed

HOOLIGANZ Open

SECOND CUP– Summerwood Open stage/open mic every Tue; 7:30pm; no cover

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Closed

BLUES ON WHYTE George Taylor and the House of Payne

BRIXX BAR Boxing Day

Massacre: Black IIIV and DJs Pher8 and Sekt; 9pm

CHA ISLAND TEA CO Whyte Noise

BUDDYS DJ Arrow Chaser every

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

CROWN PUB Live Hip

CROWN PUB The

Hop Tue: freestyle hip hop with DJ Xaolin and Mc Touch

DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly, Hallowe'en

D.A.M.M Jam: Open stage/original plugged in jam with Dan, Miguel and friends every Wed

DEVANEYS' IRISH

stage every Wed with host Cody Nouta; 9pm

NEW WEST HOTEL

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

OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK

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

PLAYBACK PUB Open

Stage every Wed hosted

by JTB; 9pm-1am

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass

Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:30-11pm; $2 (member)/$4 (nonmember)

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

STARLITE ROOM

Boxing Day Jungle Sound Clash 2012; 9pm

WUNDERBAR Sean

Nicholas Savage, Renny Wilson, Paula , DJ Cadence Weapon; 9pm; $10

ZEN LOUNGE Jazz

Wednesdays: Kori Wray and Jeff Hendrick; every Wed; 7:30-10pm; no cover

(door); no cover

THE COMMON

Treehouse Wednesdays

EDMONTON EVENT CENTRE ARTY-

Boxing Day/ Customer Appreciation: Dance; 9pm; no minors; no cover

FUNKY BUDDHA– Whyte Ave Latin and Salsa music every Wed; dance lessons 8-10pm

LEGENDS PUB

Hip hop/R&B with DJ Spincycle

NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed

RED STAR Guest DJs

every Wed

TEMPLE Wild Style

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

O’BYRNE’S 10616-82

• Summerwood

Ave, 780.414.6766

Summerwood Centre, Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929

BRIXX BAR Really

Good... Eats and Beats: every Wed with DJ Degree and Friends Time every Wed; 9pm

VENUE GUIDE ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179

ALE YARD TAP 13310137 Ave

ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave ATLANTIC TRAP AND GILL 7704-104 St, 780.432.4611

AVENUE THEATRE 9030-118 Ave, 780.477.2149

153 St, 780 424 9467

CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000

CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482

CHROME LOUNGE 104-550 Clareview Rd, 780.710.3008

COAST TO COAST 5552 Calgary Tr, 780.439.8675

8617-91 St, 780.758.6686

COMMON 9910-109 St CROWN PUB 10709-109

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82

DEN PUB 412, 6655-178

BISTRO LA PERSAUD

Ave, 780.439.1082

BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku

St, 780.428.5618 St, 780.487.5953

DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB 9013-88 Ave,

2110 Sparrow Drive, Nisku, 780.986.8522

780.465.4834

BLACKSHEEP PUB

Street, Devon, AB

11026 Jasper Ave, 780.420.0448

THE DISH 12417 Stony

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861

BLUE PEAR RESTAURANT 10643123 St, 780.482.7178

BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981

BO DIDDLY'S ROADHOUSE 11650-142 St, 780.454.3558

BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BONEYARD ALE HOUSE 9216-34 Ave, 780.437.2663

BONNIE DOON HALL 9240-93 St

THE BOWER (used to be the HALO) 10538 Jasper Ave BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011

BRIXX BAR 10030102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca

CARROT CAFÉ 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467

CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464-

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DEVON HOTEL 1 Huron

Plain Rd, 780.488.6641

DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 6402118 Ave, 780.474.5554

DV8 8307-99 St EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain

EDDIE SHORTS 10713124 St, 780.453.3663

EDMONTON EVENTS CENTRE WEM Phase III,

COFFEE HOUSE AND BAKERY 9942-108 St GOOD NEIGHBOR PUB 11824-103 St HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB 15120A (basement), Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.6010

ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767

O2'S ON WHYTE 780.454.0203

HIGH RUN 4926-98 Ave,

O2'S TAPHOUSE AND GRILL 13509-127 St,

780.440.2233

780.454.0203

HOGS DEN PUB 9,

OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK 100

14220 Yellowhead Tr, 780.455.6316

HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN 10037-84 Ave HOOLIGANZ 10704-124 St, 780.995.7110

HORIZON STAGE 315 Jesperson Ave., Spruce Grove

IRON BOAR PUB 491151st St, Wetaskiwin

J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403

JEFFREY’S CAFÉ 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890

JOHN WALTER MUSEUM 9180 Walterdale Hill

JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY 10242-106 St, 780.756.5667

KAS BAR 10444-82 Ave,

Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588

PAWN SHOP 1055182 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814

PLAYBACK PUB 594 Hermitage Rd, 130 Ave, 40 St

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave

PUB 1824 12402-118 Ave, 587.521.1824

RAMADA HOTEL 11834 Kingsway Ave

REDNEX BAR– Morinville 10413100 Ave, Morinville, 780.939.6955

RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882170 St, 780.486.7722

780.433.6768

RED STAR 10538 Jasper

L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr,

Ave, 780.428.0825

St Albert, 780.460.9100

RENDEZVOUS 10108-

780.489.SHOW

LEGENDS PUB 6104-

149 St

ELECTRIC RODEO– Spruce Grove 121-1

172 St, 780.481.2786

RICHARD'S PUB 12150-

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE

161 Ave, 780-457-3117

Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411

11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495

RICHARDS PUB 12150161 Ave, 780.457.3117

ELEPHANT AND CASTLE–Whyte Ave

LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR 10132-104 St LIZARD LOUNGE

RIC’S GRILL 24

10314 Whyte Ave

EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ 9938-70 Ave, 780.437.3667

FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378

FIDDLER’S ROOST 8906-99 St

FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557

FLASH NIGHT CLUB 10018-105 St, 780.996.1778

FLUID LOUNGE 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700

FUNKY BUDDHA 10341-82 Ave, 780.433.9676

GOOD EARTH

13160-118 Ave

MARYBETH'S COFFEE HOUSE–Beaumont 5001-30 Ave, Beaumont, 780.929.2203

NEWCASTLE PUB 6108-90 Ave, 780.490.1999

NEW CITY 8130 Gateway Boulevard

Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602

THE RIG 15203 Stony

SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St, 780.453.6006

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924

SPORTSMAN'S LOUNGE 8170-50 St STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099

STEEPS TEA LOUNGE– Whyte Ave 11116-82 Ave STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION 10940166A St

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

VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128

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

Ave, 780.974.6128

Y AFTERHOURS

ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St,

10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours. com

780.482.5253 10235-101 St

R PUB 16753-100 St,

15025-111 Ave, 780.489.2511

780.457.1266

SECOND CUP–89 AVE

NISKU INN 1101-4 St NOORISH CAFÉ 8440-

8906-149 St

NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535-109A Ave

Ave, 780.426.7784

ROOT CELLAR 8719-64

NEW WEST HOTEL

109 St

SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown 10012-101A

Plain Rd, 780.756.0869

ROSE AND CROWN

SECOND CUP– Sherwood Park 4005

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Across 1 Alabama Shakes or Sparklehorse 5 Tarbell and Lupino 9 Bellicose god 13 ___ about (roughly) 14 Jeremy of "Suburgatory" 16 Lymph ___ 17 It's the end of The World!...actually, it's a radio station mentioned at the end of PRI's "The World" 19 "Yeah, right!"

20 Farm refrain 21 It's the end of the world!...or, the country home to Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world 23 Sound system name 24 "___ Married an Axe Murderer" 25 Food drive unit 26 Throb 28 Earth Day prefix 30 Hole in one's knowledge 33 It's the end of The World!...or not, since that was the first company to provide access to it in 1989 37 Become rigid 39 Shakespearean king 40 Snatches 42 Person who says "Breaker, breaker..."

43 Get really mad 45 It's the end of the world!...if you sort the countries alphabetically 47 Boat with two goats 48 "The Greatest" 50 Coyote score 51 Verbal ability 53 Series set in Las Vegas 55 Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby 59 It's the end of The World!...or at least it's seen in the bottom corner of the tarot card The World

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YELLOWHEAD BREWERY 10229-105 St, 780.423.3333

YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295

ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 Street

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62 "Peer Gynt" playwright 63 Dominates 64 It's the end of the world!...if you want to get really literal about it 66 Be a computer programmer 67 "Cars" singer Gary 68 St. that legalized marijuana in 2012 69 Rope feature 70 Dick Tracy's girl 71 Chrysler model

Down 1 Acknowledged the applause 2 Prefix before -plasty 3 Prize given to Carter and Obama 4 Deep-voiced "Simpsons" character 5 "Looking for," in the personals 6 Nightmare 7 Elroy's dog 8 What an old comedian chomps 9 Author Loos 10 Maurice's singing twin 11 Tree of Life location 12 ___ precedent 15 Inseparable 18 Makers of the Mallo Cup 22 Some mil. members 27 "Buffy" spinoff 29 Mag with quizzes 31 Some 32 Combustible heap 33 "Casablanca" character 34 ___-do-well 35 Olympic sport since 2000 36 Looney Tunes spinner 38 Go smaller 41 Think tank output 44 Roles, in metaphor 46 Old-school computer language 49 Lake's thaw 52 Map-within-a-map 54 "She ___ Coming" (Rolling Stones song) 56 Part of AAA 57 One-eyed "Futurama" character 58 "Return of the Jedi" moon 59 Sure thing 60 Victorious shout 61 Jane Velez-Mitchell's network 65 IV givers ¥2012 Jonesin' Crosswords (editor@jonesincrosswords.com)

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Volunteers Wanted

ElderCare Edmonton seeks volunteer Board Member. Grant writing experience preferred.

Must take initiative. We are a non-profit dedicated to frail seniors and their caregivers.

Pls contact Matt at 780-270-8802 Help the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation create a future without breast cancer through volunteerism. Contact 1-866-302-2223 or ivolunteer@cbcf.org for current volunteer opportunities Interested in volunteering at Edmonton's Food Bank?

Lots of opportunities coming up for this holiday season including Save-On-Foods "Stuff A Bus", Candy Cane Lane.

Contact Judy at 780-425-2133 for more information Jasper Place High School's Global Cafe is doing a call out for living books!

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If you are interested in becoming a living book , please submit a short description of the story you wish to share and a brief biography to Julia Dalman at julia.dalman@gmail.com before January 14th, 2013 Meals On Wheels Be a Christmas Elf During the holiday season, Meals on Wheels serves all of their clients a free turkey dinner and deliver a Christmas gift as a wish of goodwill to lift up those who are alone over the holiday season. To volunteer please contact: 780-429-2020 or volunteer.general@mealsonwheels edmonton.org

Meals On Wheels Celebrate 12 Days of Christmas During the holiday season, Meals on Wheels serves all of their clients a free turkey dinner and deliver a Christmas gift as a wish of goodwill to lift up those who are alone over the holiday season. Your company or business can sponsor one of our special holiday meals from December 14 to 25. Your financial support of $1000 will go towards the cost of making the meals.To volunteer please contact: 780-429-2020 or volunteer.general@mealsonwheels edmonton.org

Meals On Wheels Christmas Elves Gift Drive During the holiday season, Meals on Wheels serves all of their clients a free turkey dinner and deliver a Christmas gift as a wish of goodwill to lift up those who are alone over the holiday season. Collect Christmas gifts for our clients to brighten their day. We are collecting new, unused blankets, toiletries, candies and goodies, socks and grocery store gift cards.To arrange for a pick up please contact: 780-429-2020 or volunteer.general@mealsonwheels edmonton.org

Meals On Wheels Christmas Elves In The Kitchen During the holiday season, Meals on Wheels serves all of their clients a free turkey dinner and deliver a Christmas gift as a wish of goodwill to lift up those who are alone over the holiday season. Come in and make the meals that make a difference.

Come on your own or put together a team to help our Red Seal cooks prepare homemade meals in our kitchen during the morning Monday through Friday throughout the holiday season.To volunteer please contact: 780-429-2020 or volunteer.general@mealsonwheels edmonton.org

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Volunteers Wanted

People who come to Bissell Centre for clothing rarely get new items for themselves. Everything is used or passed down from somewhere else. At Christmas, we aim to provide the adults who access services at Bissell Centre with a brand new hoodie, as we've done the last three years.

Something that is their very own fresh, clean, new. For questions about hoodies or other clothing donations, please contact Barb at 780-423-2285 ext 159 or bnickel@bissellcentre.org The 2013 Deep Freeze: A Byzantine Winter Festival on Jan 12 & 13, is looking for a few volunteers to help out with indoor and outdoor activities. To be a part of this cool event, please visit www.deepfreezefest.ca or call 780.471.1580, or email: deepfreezevolunteers@gmail.com or come out to our volunteer round up on Nov 15, Dec 8 or Jan 8 at 6pm at the Alberta Avenue Community Centre at 9210 118 ave.

The Brick Sport Central is searching for volunteers to donate their time helping with collection, inventory, repairing, as well as outfitting children in need of sports equipment. Call for more information and a tour 780-477-1166 The Salvation Army needs volunteers for Annual Kettle Campaign. Please email

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Art Gallery of St. Albert (AGSA), a contemporary public art gallery, seeks proposals from artists working in all styles and mediums for exhibition in the 2014 calendar year. Submissions must include an artist statement, CV and up to ten images of work. For full details head to: artgalleryofstalbert.ca/exhibitionsevents/call-for-submissions Art in Public Places Kingswood Day Use Shelter The City of St. Albert seeks proposals and qualifications from experienced artists or artist teams with a demonstrated ability to produce a recognition artwork.

This artwork will commemorate the spirit and energy of the athletes, and the Special Olympic 2012 Canada Winter Games.

Proposal deadline is January 23 For details head to: stalbert.ca/tender-opportunities City Of Lethbridge: Request for Qualifications - Helen Schuler Nature Centre Public Artwork Artists are invited to participate in a two stage public art competition, for further details please email suzanne@artslethbridge.org Proposal deadline is February 1st

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): Isaac Newton is regarded as one of the most influential scientists in history. But the time he spent as a member of the English Parliament was undistinguished. The only public comment he ever made while serving there was a request to close the window because he was cold. Basketball star Michael Jordan had a similar schism. In the prime of his outstanding career, he took a year off to try playing baseball, which he did poorly.

After analyzing 2013's astrological aspects, Aries, I'm guessing that you should cultivate a firm intention to avoid doing what Newton and Jordan did. Keep playing to your strengths and emphasizing what you love. Don't get sidetracked by peripheral concerns.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): In 2013, I'd like to help you cultivate an even more re-

liable relationship with your intuitions and hunches than you already have. You may not need much guidance from me, since the astrological omens indicate this will happen quite naturally. There's another kind of inspiration I hope to offer you in the coming months: clues about how to be "bad" in ways that will give your goodness more vigour. And when I say "bad," I'm not referring to nastiness or insensitivity, but rather to wildness and playfulness and experimentation. Here's one further service I want to provide, Taurus: helping you build a greater capacity to receive gifts, blessings and support.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): In the year 1900, few people believed that human beings would ever fly through the sky in machines. Most scientists thought that such a feat was impossible. For years, the

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Wright Brothers had a hard time convincing anyone to believe their flights were actually taking place, even though they had photos and witness reports as documentation. Although the leap you'll be capable of in 2013 isn't quite as monumental as the Wright Brothers', it could be pretty important in the history of your own life. You may also have to deal with skepticism akin to what they had to face. Be true to your vision, Gemini!

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): In 2013, I predict you will see why it's wise to phase out an influence you have loved to hate for far too long. Uncoincidentally, you will also have a talent for purging emotional burdens and psychic debris that you've been holding on to since the bad old days. No later than your birthday, if all goes well, CONTINUED ON PAGE 41 >>

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you will be free from a subtle curse you've been casting on yourself; you will finally be attending to one of your long-neglected needs; and you will have turned some rather gawky, half-assed wizardry into a smooth and silky magic.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): In 2013, I pledge to help you raise your lovability. It's not that you are unlovable now, of course, but there's always room for improvement, right?

And if people become even more attracted to you than they already are, then you're likely to get a lot of collaborative and cooperative work done. You will thrive as you and your allies work on projects that make your corner of the world a better and more interesting place. So what are the first three actions you could take to raise your lovability?

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): First question: have you ever thought to yourself, "I'm afraid I will never achieve my noblest dreams or live according to my highest ideals?"

Answer: there's a very good chance that in the coming year you will banish that fear from the sacred temple of your imagination. Second question: have you ever wondered if maybe you unconsciously undermine the efforts of people who are trying to assist you? Answer: in the coming months you should discover exactly what to do to prevent such a thing from happening. Third question: do you know the single most important question you should be asking in 2013? Answer: I predict you will figure that out sometime in the next three weeks.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): In 2013, I will be encouraging you to journey into the frontiers and experiment with the unknown. I will seek to inspire you to go in search of teachings you've needed for a long time. Are you ready for this expansion, Libra?

Are you feeling a natural urge to explore forbidden zones and discover missing secrets and mess with your outmoded taboos? As you might imagine, doing this work would motivate you to develop a healthier relationship with your fears. To bolster your courage, I suggest you find some new freedom songs to sing.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): In 2013, I will do what I can to ensure that your fiscal biorhythms are in close alignment with the universal cash flow. You should have pretty good instincts about this worthy project yourself, Scorpio. And so there's an excellent chance that your wealth will increase. The upgrade will be especially dramatic if you are constantly scheming about how you can share your riches and benefit other people with your generosity. I think there will also be an interesting fringe benefit if you maintain maximum integrity as you enhance your access to valuable resources: you will develop a more useful relation-

ship with your obsessive tendencies.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): In 2013, I pledge to conspire with you to achieve more mixtures, connections, accords and unifications than you ever thought possible. I will furthermore be a fount of suggestions about how you can live well in two worlds. I will coach you to create a peace treaty with your evil twin and your nemesis and I will help you develop a knack for steering clear of other people's bad ideas and sour moods. I can't, of course, guarantee that you will never again experience a broken heart, but I swear I will do everything I can do to heal the broken part of your heart that you've been suffering from.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): When he was 21, the Capricorn writer Jack London set off to prospect for gold in the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush. He had a rough time there.

Malnourished, he suffered from scurvy and leg pain. To make matters worse, he didn't find much gold and returned home broke. On the other hand, he met scores of adventure seekers who told him stories of their travels. These tales served as rich raw material for his novel The Call of the Wild, published in 1903.

It made him famous and is generally regarded as his masterpiece.

I'm guessing you will begin a similar trajectory in 2013, Capricorn. Events that may at first seem less than successful will ultimately breed a big breakthrough.

COMMENT >> LGBTQ

Queermonton gift guide

Saying no to the consumeristic orgy; gifting from scratch instead I have a confession: I absolutely love Roasted Pecans: grab a bunch of holiday gift guides. Some hold a speshelled pecans and drizzle some oil cial place in my heart—the arrival of over them. Add something sweet the Lee Valley Christmas catalogue is (maple syrup, honey, sugar) and somea revered event in my house—but thing spicy (cayenne, chili flakes, pain general I am indiscriminate prika). Roast in oven at 350 dein my love. Even stores that grees for 15-ish minutes. Let sell astronomically-priced cool. If you're feeling fancy, clothing, confusing kitchen stick them in a jar. m o ekly.c vuewe alexa@ gadgets and gender specific Alexa e Candy: go to Bulk Barn. Buy toys; if it's under the heading n DeGag candy. Wrap it up in cellophane "holiday gifts," I'll read it.

The worst part is, I am fully aware with ribbon. Try not to eat it all. of how terrible these lists are. I know that they are nothing more than a Spice mixes: Go to a library and check shallow attempt to make me spend out recipes for dry curry or other spice money that I don't have, they promote mixes. Go to Bulk Barn and buy ingrean orgy of consumerism, and most of dients. You will probably spend less it is junk that people don't actually than $10 and have enough for dozens need. Did I mention the part where I of people. can't afford most of it anyway?

Inevitably, I usually make my gifts.

Flavoured oil: if you are feeling extra Not because I'm a hipster, but because splashy with your cash, buy some olive I'm often broke. And homemade things oil in bulk and some oil jars from the are thoughtful, right? Sadly, I have dollar store. Throw some peeled garlic very little crafty talent, so over the cloves and rosemary into a jar and top years I have established a repertoire it off with oil. Bam! of inexpensive, easy-to-make stuff that people actually seem to enjoy (or Bath salts: mix two parts Epsom salts at least pretend to enjoy). to one part kosher salt in a plastic Let me present the 2012 Queermonbag. Add a drop of food colouring and ton Holiday Gift Guide for People Who shake the bag to mix. Keep adding a Are Broke and Not Crafty: drop at a time until you have the colour you want. Repeat with essential

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oil of your choice (lavender, eucalyptus, vanilla). Spread the salts out to dry on some wax paper for an hour, and then stick in jars. Pro-tip: get all of the above ingredients at—where else?—Bulk Barn.

Gourmet hot chocolate: since you are already at Bulk Barn, buy some cocoa powder, sugar, mini marshmallows and a cinnamon stick. Layer it all in a jar (or whatever). If you want to be fancy, tie a mini bottle of booze to the jar.

Mixed CDs: seriously, who doesn't love a mixed CD? Magnets: go to a craft store and buy a roll of magnet tape. Stick to anything you want (bottle caps, pictures from comic books, fortune cookies). Instant fridge magnet.

Write a song: can't sing? No worries: make up some rhyming couplets about how awesome your friend is ("Andi, Andi, you're so sweet! You always make me things to eat!"), and then belt it out at the top of your lungs at a party/on their answering machine. No one will care about your voice, trust me.

Have a great holiday and see you in the new year. V

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): I can't force you to seek more pleasure in 2013. I won't nag you to play harder and explore the frontiers of feeling really good. However, I will say this: if you don't plan to put yourself into at least partial alignment with the cosmic mandate to have maximum fun, you may not get the best use out of the advice I'll be offering though my horoscopes in the coming year. Please consider the possibility of ramping up your capacity for pure enjoyment.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): The study of ancient Mayan civilization owes a lot to the fact that Americans started buying lots of chewing gum in the late 19th century. Huh? Here's the connection: for a long time, chicle was one of the prime ingredients in Chiclets, Juicy Fruit, Bazooka bubble gum and many other brands of chewing gum. Chicle is obtained from the sap of sapodilla trees, which grow in abundance in Central America and Mexico. Over the decades, workers harvesting the chicle accidentally found many Mayan ruins covered in overgrown vegetation, then told archaeologists about their discoveries. I foresee a metaphorically comparable sequence happening in your life during 2013. In unexpected ways, you will be put back in touch with and benefit from lost, forgotten or unexplored parts of the past.

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COMMENT >> SEX

Family matters

Dan's advice about violent sexual fantasies and self-loathing This is a touchy and gross subject. problem via your column, but do you I am a 17-year-old girl growing up have any ideas for how I could get in an adoptive family in Australia. help with this without messing up my I was sexually abused by my birth family? family, and I think it really fucked up Not Over Painful Experiences my sexuality. The only thing E that gets me off is the idea Sane people can have exSAVAG of people absolutely detreme and/or violent stroying their lives for an sexual fantasies, NOPE, m o ekly.c vuewe orgasm. I started with mild savagelove@ and extreme and/or vioDan S&M stories and then moved lent sexual fantasies do avage not make sane people crazy.

S on to grosser stuff like murder (stories and online images), pedo (Let's call them EVSFs for short, (stories only), and lately I've been shall we?) thinking about my (adoptive) parBut you need to talk to a shrink— ents. The thing is, it doesn't have to not because you're hopelessly dambe a particular category. As long as aged or the only person out there it's the most vile thing I can think of, with EVSFs, but because you're it will get me off. There isn't a pattern troubled by your fantasies. And as far as gender, age or relationship that's understandable. It's difficult to the people I am fantasizing about; to have EVSFs—or to find a healthy it just has to be horrible, the kind of way to incorporate EVSFs into your thing that would destroy you in real sex life, or to figure out how to dial life. These fantasies alone are scary EVSFs way the fuck back if there's enough, but because they are literally no healthy way to incorporate them the only things that get me off, I can't into your sex life—when your erotic even really tell if I'm attracted to imagination is constantly dragging boys or girls or none of the above. I'm you to new and more disturbing scared to talk to a counselor about places. And while most people's fanthis because I don't want to freak tasies are relatively fixed, ie certain my parents out. I mean, I've got my types of people or scenarios turn quirks, but overall I seem like a pretty them on, your erotic imagination healthy kid and I try not to worry seems to be on the hunt for new them. I don't expect you to solve this "wrong" thoughts, images, stimuli

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and scenarios. You need to seize control of your sexuality, and you'll need help doing that or your sense of estrangement from your sexuality will only continue to grow.

That said, NOPE, you could be seeing causation where there is only coincidence. There are a lot of people out there who didn't suffer the kind of abuse you did—or any kind of abuse at all—but who nevertheless have EVSFs. Some people with troubling fantasies or interests have found relief with low-dose antidepressants; some folks with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have been helped by novel programs that incorporate MDMA, aka ecstasy, into their treatment plans. You could be suffering from PTSD, considering your history.

A good therapist—one with whom you are completely honest—may be able to help you reshape and redirect your fantasies in the direction of still-intense, less-wrong, not-constantly-escalating stimuli that gives you the "wrongness" charge you need without nuking your mental health or your life. (Stay away from all pedo porn sites, NOPE, even "stories only" porn. Please.) And a good sex therapist can help you draw a clear distinction between your adult sexuality—whatever form it takes— and your history of sexual abuse.

(I shared your letter with a sex researcher I trust and she urged me to urge you to insist on seeing a reputable therapist who does sex therapy specifically, as they're less likely to be sex-negative and therefore less likely to react with prudish or panicked judgments when you disclose your EVSFs.) Considering the abuse you suffered at the hands of your family of origin, NOPE, I trust that your adoptive par-

ents are aware that you may need professional help throughout your life and that your asking for help is a good sign about 1) you as a person and 2) them as parents. At your very first appointment, ask your shrink to confirm that your sessions are confidential. If for some reason your shrink tells you he or she can't offer you complete confidentiality (which they can and, in most places, are required to do by law, unless you're a danger to yourself or others), thank the nice shrink for his or her time and ask your parents to make you an appointment to see a different shrink.

Please get help—not because you are or may be kinky, NOPE, but because you're struggling with doubt, you're confused about your sexual orientation and you're rightly worried about the way your erotic imagination keeps upping the "wrongness" ante. And remember: not all counsellors or shrinks are created equal. If you don't like or click with the first one you see, tell your parents you want to see someone else.

I am gay and I have a brother who's gay. The problem is, he is very much into humiliation. He exposes himself online and allows his online "masters" to have control over his pictures and videos. I found his pictures recently and the embarrassment and humiliation were a huge turn-on for him.

(In real life, we've never shown any interest sexually in each other whatsoever. But when he asked if I had any naked pictures, I told him I did and sent some to him, and somehow that was a bit of a turn-on, I must admit.) On to the real problem: soon, my brother told me that he felt really guilty, cleaned up his hard drive, deleted all his pics and mine and asked me to do the same, and swore off

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playing online. But I found evidence that he's resumed this habit. This has been a pattern for him, he says, and he insists he was somehow damaged in childhood. I told him I see him as my kinky brother and that he might be happier if he could just accept himself. But I don't think he should quit his "addiction" cold turkey, as it hasn't worked in the past.

Bro Of Kinky Bro There are people who manage to turn their lives upside down in pursuit of their turn-ons—there are people whose sex lives are complete fucking shitshows—and all they're into is heterosexual sex in the missionary position in their own bedrooms with the lights off. Your brother's problem isn't his childhood or his kink.

His problems, plural, are his selfloathing, his attempts to swear off his kink (which leads to these bingeand-purge cycles) and the reckless ways he indulges his kink when he's bingeing.

Instead of running from his kinks— which he can't do—your brother needs to find safer, saner ways to satisfy his desire for erotic humiliation and submitting to someone else's control. People with humiliation kinks managed to find ways to get off before the Internet came along, BOKB, and so can your brother.

And you need to establish better boundaries, BOKB. No more swapping pics with your kinky bro, bro, and no more hunting for evidence of your bro's ill-advised online adventures. V Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage. @fakedansavage on Twitter

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