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"When it comes down to the practical experience of living, at some point you have to compromise with people in order to be engaged in society."

"They have a "smaller" IPA called Baby Back (get it?) that is a mere 91 IBUs. To give you a point for comparison, your average IPA runs at about 50 IBUs."

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Restructure non-profits On Monday, Youth Empowerment & Support Services (YESS) announced that it had failed to meet its fundraising goals for the year and would be forced to eliminate 10 staff positions and reduce the service hours at its Armoury homebase by four hours every day (except Wednesdays, when youth can access a physician).

It's disappointing news, but YESS isn't the only organization of its kind facing cutbacks: 2013's looking to be a dire one for the whole non-profit sector, as organizations struggle to find funding.

YESS isn't even the first to reduce its scope: at the end of December, The Support Network announced the ending of its lauded, walk-in counselling program that was particularly effective at getting at-risk men to seek out help. Other groups, like the Mustard Seed, have voiced similar funding concerns.

These cuts are the result of a growing need for the non-profit services, increasing as the city's population grows, coupled with cutbacks to publicly funded services like these. Only 28 percent of YESS's million-dollar budget is assured, coming from the provincial government and The United Way, and it hasn't actually met its full budget target since 2008, the year before the organization took over the Armoury building. While there were cuts in staffing over that time, no services were reduced until now.

Traditionally, non-profits draw their funding from three sources: charitable donations, government funding and earned income. It's a system

that's no longer effective: in the wake of widespread need, donor fatigue is increasing, and early hints about the upcoming Alberta Budget, set to be tabled March 7, suggest cuts across the board, which doesn't bode well for any sort of growth of provincial assistance. So with lacklustre results from the first two branches of funding, the third, earned income, is becoming increasingly important. It's also the most difficult to develop, essentially a revenue stream built on selling products and services. It has its own costs, issues and, in particular, difficulties in terms of governmental regulation on how a non-profit can go about doing that.

A restructuring and relaxing of some of those regulations is in order. The non-profit sector has made do for too long with the increasingly small hand it gets dealt, attempting to work on a system designed in a different era's economic state. If funding from government and donors is becoming inadequate, no longer capable of maintaining the necessary level of services, then headway must be made into letting non-profits generate a source of revenue to continue their services.

This isn't the sort of infrastructure programming we can let fall into disarray. Letting YESS reduce its scope means more at-risk youth spend time in high-risk situations, vulnerable to exploitation or danger on the streets or at home during pivotal years of development.

If we simply continue to watch these programs continue to shrink, in the case of YESS alone, we let down a generation of future Albertans. V

NEWS // EXERCISE

Get off the couch

Parents are key in helping kids lose extra pounds

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ver the past few years, various studies have pointed out that because of obesity, the generation of children in school right now will be the first to die younger than their parents. To think that something as preventable as being overweight or obese could take up to 10 years from a life (according to an Oxford University study) might seem disheartening, but a research project

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at the University of Alberta's School of Public Health has found that parents can do one simple thing to start reversing this trend: encourage their kids to exercise.

The project asked parents how much they care about staying fit and exercising, how much they encourage their children to be physically active, and how often they engage in activities together with their chil-

dren. Researchers found that when parents simply encouraged their kids to get off the couch and run around, there was a 22-percent decrease in the number of overweight children.

"The national data show only less than 10 percent of boys and girls in Canada meet the recommendation for physical activity on at least six days of the week," project lead Kerry Vander Ploeg, a PhD candidate, says. "The recommendation is 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity or 13 500 steps, and they're supposed to get that every day and only 10 percent get that on at least six days of the week ...

The average is about 10 000 steps per day for girls and 12 000 steps per day for boys, so they're not meeting the recommendations for steps, which is a big risk factor for overweight and obesity."

No specific guidelines were given for what "encouragement" means, but Vander Ploeg says, "I think it would be things like asking your

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children to turn off the TV and go outside and play, or supporting them and being interested in what they're doing or praising when they're doing something well."

And by taking it a step further and being active together, Vander Ploeg says both parent and child can benefit. "Certainly when you look at barriers to physical activity, overweight children tend to report more barriers. So as a parent, being active with an overweight child may help them overcome some of those barriers in finding activities that are enjoyable to do together."

The research project found that parents modelling physical activity wasn't as strongly associated with less overweight or obesity in children as encouraging them or engaging with them side-by-side. "So that means that you don't have to be the star athlete as a parent to have your child be more physically active, but just simply encouraging them and supporting their active behaviour

can help them to be more active."

Grade 5 students from 150 classrooms across the province who participate in REAL Kids Alberta and their parents—about 10 percent of all Grade 5 students in Alberta— filled out surveys and the measurements of the children were taken.

Vander Ploeg admits that sometimes people may give a desired response rather than the truth when self-reporting, but says the system they use ensures accuracy. The results come from 2008 and 2010.

Keep in mind that exercise alone will not make much of a difference if people continue unhealthy eating habits. "It's hard to out-exercise unhealthy eating. It's much easier to over-consume than it is to burn the same amount of calories. So even if you are exercising and meeting the recommendations for physical activity, but your diet is unhealthy, you're still at an increased risk for overweight and obesity."

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NEWS // ISLAM

Food and faith

Followers of Islam serve homeless and troubled Edmontonians more than just a meal Islamic centres are dotted all around the city, and they sometimes dig deep into their resources to help their community.

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ou might not expect to find refugees from Afghanistan and Somalia among the volunteers serving a hot dinner for patrons coming in from the street at the Boyle Street Co-op, but doing work for the greater good is exactly how a person develops a sense of belonging, says the Islamic Family and Social Services Assocation's youth program chair, Omar Yaqub.

The volunteer-run Boyle Street event he helps organize is just one of the ways Muslim groups in Edmonton, including recently arrived immigrants and refugees, are taking their faith out onto the streets by giving back to the community.

"Within the Islamic tradition," Yaqub says, "there's different forms of obligations.

There's obligations you have towards family, there's obligations you have towards God ... and there's obligations one has towards their community. And one of the obligations we have towards our community is to feed the homeless."

Yaqub, with a reassuringly soft voice and neat but boisterous hair, is an important node in the city. He's an expert in labour and immigration, and teaches in the University of Alberta's MBA program. He's one of a crew of volunteers from diverse Muslim backgrounds who come together

every few months to prepare around 800 meals at the Boyle Street Co-op. Dozens of volunteers descend on the kitchens to prepare foods like roast beef and soft fruits. The event began in 2001, and there's been such high demand for ways to contribute that they've ramped it up to six times a year.

From organizing blood drives to running domestic violence and literacy programs, Edmonton has a long history of locals being driven to serve others by their faith in Islam. The original Al-Rashid Mosque, the city's first—and the first in Canada— opened in 1938. Today, mosques and

A couple of years ago, recalls Yaqub, he was helping host a dinner after Eid. "One of the leaders from one of the inner city mosques," he says, "predominantly a Somali mosque, came to me afterwards and he said something that really moved me. He's like, 'Why weren't we invited as volunteers?' This is a really low-income mosque, and it just didn't occur to us to invite them."

"But he said, 'You should invite us, this is our neighbourhood. This is our place. This is our duty to be serving these people dinner. Call us.'"

Mim Fatmi is a first-year medical student at the University of Alberta and former president of its Muslim Students' Association. Speaking during a breather between sundown prayers and studying, she says she sees a spirit of service reinforced in many stories from the Prophet Muhammad's life, called hadiths.

One hadith, she recounts, talks about a man who was walking down a road and saw tree branches blocking the way. He removed the branches, thinking if it was a barrier for him, it would also be an inconvenience for others. Because of his sincerity, he was admitted into paradise in the afterlife.

This side of Islam, that asks its followers to see service as a way of life, isn't the one that usually gets much attention in Edmonton. More often, it's the stories

about disaffected youth turning to gangs that get told.

First- or second-generation Muslims do often go through an identity crisis trying to bridge their home life and the society they live in, says Mustafa Ali. Now 23, Ali helps run youth programs like the Somali Edmonton Basketball Association, or SEBA. He says he's glad he had role models to help him through that conflict when he was younger.

"That's probably why I do what I do," he says. "My older brothers were a big influence on me. My brother Ahmed was very influential in my life. He was like the older figure that would always take me away from bad company, or give me a positive alternative to the society that we were living in."

Ultimately, Ali thinks Islam can offer meaning to people having a hard time figuring out the big questions: who we are, what our purpose is. He says he's never felt regret comparable to dropping a kid off at a youth shelter once to escape an abusive father.

"It was sort of just a drop-off point for a lot of people who were involved in a lot of bad things," he adds. "Like when I went there, there was a group of people fighting right outside. And there was nobody there to stop them, nobody."

The missing ingredient, Ali believes, was an attempt to uplift them.

"You can't expect them to grow if all you do is give them a bed."

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COMMENT >> PUBLIC CONSULTATION

Water on the table

Alberta Conservatives not interested in public opinion regarding our water For more than four years, Albertans have been waiting for the government's promised consultation on water allocation in the province. But a leaked government document, released publicly last week by Our Water Is Not For Sale (OWINFS), suggests that what we will actually get will be much more a one-sided conversation.

In September 2008, as part of the government's Water for Life implementation strategy, Alberta's Minister of the Environment Rob Renner announced that his government would be reviewing how Alberta allocates water to various users in the province, and would place any necessary changes in legislation. There was growing consensus at the time that Alberta's current First-In-Time First-In-Right system of water allocation was badly in need of an overhaul. Over allocation of many of the province's waterways, an oil and gas industry that is highly dependent on fresh water and years of drought in the south of the province have all highlighted the weakness of the system in recent years, and resulted in near crises in some areas.

The government, however, began the review process by commissioning three

high-level reports on water allocation in place in February and March. The problem Alberta. Predictably, given the presence of is that what the government is planning to conservative economists, oil industry execs deliver has no resemblance whatsoever to and pro-business government folk working what was promised. on these reports, all three of them recomFor starters, the government documents mended that the path forward for water make clear that a discussion of the First-Inallocation in Alberta lay in moving toward a Time First-In-Right system will be entirely largely unregulated market system where "off the table" during the consultations. water access would be bought and sold to Instead, the conversation will only focus the highest bidder. on four "priority areas": the "appropriate" After a fair bit of public outcry around the use of water in hydraulic fracturing (frackprospect of letting the marketplace ing) in the oil patch, ensuring efficient determine who gets water and and effective water management, how much, the government maintaining sustainable drinking CE water and wastewater systems N promised that no policy deciE R E ERF sions would be made without INT @vueweekly.com and maintaining healthy lakes. ricardo o holding extensive public conThere is no question that these Ricard a ñ u sultations first. The promise of are all important issues worthy of c A broad and genuine consultations on discussion, but somehow what was water allocation was repeated by Alison supposed to be a consultation on how we Redford during the Conservative leadermove from our current archaic system of ship race, and again during the provincial water allocation to a more just, equitable election. and sustainable system has now explicitly declared that very topic out of bounds.

It now appears that the government is fiThe second major area of concern is that nally ready to move forward on this promeven in the four identified areas for discusise with planned public meetings in 20 citsion, there will be next to no room for acies and towns across the province to take tual public input. The public meetings are

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structured in such a way that there will only be a grand total of 30 minutes at each one for Albertans to actually provide input on the issues. The bulk of the remaining two-and-a-half hours at the meetings will be dedicated to presentations on behalf of the government.

Perhaps this is why the leaked documents, which are available on the OWINFS website, identify what the government is seeking to get out of this conversation not as valuable input and insight from Albertans, but rather that "citizens appreciate that there is no water crisis today," although some changes may be required in the "coming decades." The goals of the conversation are further clarified with the statement that "the water conversation is not about setting policy."

The government documents make clear that the main issue they are seeking to address is not a problem with water allocation in Alberta, but rather that they have not been able to move forward with policy "due to challenges associated with trust and confidence." In other words, the ultimate goal of this million-dollar process is not to actually consult Albertans, but rath-

er to convince them that all is well and that the government will take care of whatever issues may arise without anyone needing to worry about it.

In the end, after four years of waiting for a genuine and comprehensive consultation on water allocation in the province, what Albertans are getting is a million-dollar public-relations exercise that will enable government to say they have consulted with Albertans and then proceed to do whatever they want with water policy.

History has taught us that what they do will not be based on the public interest and expressed needs of Albertans, but rather on the private interests and wishes of some unnamed stakeholders with privileged access to the ears of the premier and her cabinet. Albertans deserve better, and they deserve to be heard. The future of our water is far too important to be left solely in the hands of this government and their closest friends. V Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta.

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COMMENT >> NORTH AFRICA

Mali intervention

France may be in over its head in newest Islamic war "Those days are over," said France's President François Hollande last month, when asked if French forces would intervene in the war between Islamist insurgents who have seized the northern half of Mali and the government in Bamako. But the days in question weren't over for very long.

Last Friday, France sent a squadron of fighter-bombers to the West African country to stop the Islamist fighters from taking the capital.

"We are making air raids the whole time," said French Minister of Defence Jean-Yves Le Drian. "They are going on now. They will go on tonight. They will go on tomorrow."

Some 550 French combat troops are on the ground already, with up to 2500 more to follow. Contingents of soldiers from the neighbouring countries of Nigeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Niger and Togo are scheduled to arrive as early as next week. It has turned into a real war.

It has also turned into a Western-run

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war in a Muslim country, despite the dismilitary intervention in Libya, another couraging precedents of Afghanistan and French initiative that was decided Iraq. The government of Mali has asked over one weekend. They like that analfor French help and on Monday the ogy better because the Libyan United Nations Security Counintervention ended tolerably cil unanimously supported well, with the overthrow of France's military intervention. the dictator, a democratiom eekly.c w e The army of Mali, such as it is, cally elected government, u v e@ gwynn e n will theoretically be in charge of and no Western casualties. n y Gw r e the war—but everybody knows But the differences between y D that the Malian army is useless.

Libya and Mali are greater than In fact, the presence of Mali's army at the the similarities. front is usually counter-productive, as it is In Libya the rebels were trying to rid brutal, militarily incompetent and prone to the country of Moammar Gadhafi, a panic flight. The other African armies are of loony, friendless dictator, and create a variable quality, but it is obviously French democratic future. The decision to introops, and especially French air power, tervene was made in Paris in only two that will decide the outcome of the war. hectic days, when it appeared that GadSo has France bitten off more than it can hafi's mercenary troops were about to chew? Is this going to end up like Afghanioverrun Benghazi and massacre the rebstan and Iraq? els. NATO served as the rebel air force, but no Western troops fought on the The supporters of the war prefer to ground. And it worked. compare it with last year's Western The West is supporting the govern-

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The Islamist rebels are fanatical, intolerant and violent, but they are well-armed (a lot of advanced infantry weapons came on the market when Gadhafi's regime collapsed) and they appear to be well-trained.

They have almost no popular support in 90-percent-Muslim Mali, whose version of Islam is much more moderate, but they have terrified the population of the north into submission or flight.

Until recently, the rebels seemed to be confined to Mali's desert north, but last

week they began to advance into southern Mali, where nine-tenths of the country's 14-million people live. The Malian army collapsed, and Western intelligence sources estimated that the Islamists would capture the capital, Bamako, within two days. That would effectively give them control of the entire country.

Mali has long, unguarded borders with seven other African countries, and it is only 3000 km from France. So Hollande ordered immediate military intervention to stop the Islamist advance and we'll all worry about the long-term consequences later. The next Western war against Islamist extremists has already started, and the question is whether it will end up like Afghanistan.

Nobody would like to know the answer to that more than the French. Except, of course, the Malians. V

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REVUE // HORROR

Mama's Nikolaj Coster-Waldau digs into the heart of horror

Come to mama

Opens Friday Directed by Andrés Muschietti

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here's nothing as unconditional as a mother's love, even if she happens to be some withered ghost of her former self with lethal potential who's taken up residence in a dilapidated, ominously spooky cabin in the middle of the woods.

The feature film directorial debut for Andrés Muschietti—done under the watchful guidance of Guillermo del Toro in the executive producer's chair—is a chilling tale of two sisters, Victoria (Megan Charpentier) and Lilly (Isabelle Nélisse) who have somehow survived in the woods for five years after being abandoned.

However, they weren't alone. A ghostly being, who has her own tragic story and motives, cares for the girls and they begin to see her as a loving mother figure. When the girls are finally found by their father's twin brother and devoted uncle Lucas (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who some of you may know better as Jaime Lannister on Game of Thrones), they are feral beings scurrying around on all fours, growling and recoiling at any human affection. Lucas and his girlfriend Annabel (a rocker-chick version of Jessica Chastain, complete with smudgy

black eyeliner and some serious ink work), take the girls in, but the pair continue to exhibit strange behaviour: talking to the walls, playing with an unseen being and constantly mentioning "Mama," who isn't about to let her children go.

It's billed as a spookfest, but Mama manages to shy away from genre clichés by adding a human element to its titular character, rather than portraying her as an all-out bloodthirsty monster. Instead, she hits a nerve in creating suspense and tapping into underlying psychological fear, becoming a character who is much more than a simple antagonist.

Vue caught up with Coster-Waldau via phone prior to the film's premiére to chat about the cast and crew, fear and making Mama a reality.

VUE WEEKLY: First off, what attracted you to this story and this role?

NIKOLAJ COSTER-WALDAU: Well, I think it was always a combination of things.

Starting with the script—which I really like—and I was surprised by the beginning, because I didn't expect it to start right at a massive drama. The father has a breakdown and kills his wife and he takes off with the kids, and that kind of surprised me and also got me really interested because you know, there's some great scenes and very strong scenes also in the cabin when he wants

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a very experienced director, like 10 years of great commercial work, but there's something great when someone does something for the first time. You sense a rawness and an eagerness—he is a perfectionist—and then of course you also have Guillermo del Toro, who is producing, he's not directing. He was very respectful of that. It wasn't like there was a second director walking on set. It was Andy's movie, but his knowledge of this film and of filmmaking was a huge help for Andy and they were so close because we were shooting it in Toronto and at the same time Guillermo was shooting Pacific Rim on the stage next door, so it was a great relationship.

What was it like working with Andy and Guillermo?

NCW: It was Andy's first feature, and he's

Let's talk about the actual character of Mama for a second. She can be dangerous, but she also has this softer side that you can almost empathize with. What do you think that adds to the story?

NCW: I think it's in a way a gutsy move to do, because you're used to the ghost or the monster to be an evil entity out to destroy or kill, but here you get to know her a little bit and you can, I think, sympathize with her.

It doesn't make it right what she does of course, but she has real feelings for these girls. That is interesting and I think also the fact that they chose to, when we shot it, have a real being there. We had this amazing Spanish

to kill himself and then he can't. And then of course the movie takes a different turn and changes course. I like that. I saw the short that Andy Muschietti did that the movie's based on, and I thought it was just tremendous, the way it was shot. It was so scary and you only have two minutes. And there's a tracking shot that starts on the floor and they follow these kids down and it was clearly done by a very talented guy. And then of course Guillermo del Toro producing— I'm a big fan of his—and Jessica Chastain playing the lead; it was like a combination of all those things.

What do you enjoy most about exploring the horror genre?

NCW: I mean, I guess it depends on who you ask, "What is horror?" I don't really see this as a horror movie because for me, horror is more about gore and blood and this is a ghost story. All the characters, even Mama herself, have strong emotional reasons for doing what they do. I find that more interesting than straight-up horror, so and what attracted me is not the genre. I like the script and the people and whether it's a thriller or a comedy it doesn't really matter. It wasn't the genre that attracted me.

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performer/actor, Javier Botet, who is very tall and skinny, and it's like he has no joints. He can move his body in all these ways. He's amazing. He moves like Mama and you just don't believe it. Guillermo brought in the team that worked with him on Pan's Labyrinth and this team came from Spain to do Mama. It was five hours of makeup for Javier, but when it was done ... it was quite something to work with this ghost, this horrible monster and she was actually there because usually when you do stuff like that you end up working with a tennis ball. But here we had the real thing.

VW: How do you think a story and a character like Mama can tap into some of our own fears?

NCW: I think it's very universal and we're born with this fear of the unknown because it's like instinct ... if you don't know, just be aware and it might hurt you. I mean, I'm sure when you were a kid as well, you had sleepovers with your friends and one night you would start telling ghost stories or something really scary. We like those stories and I think it's part of being human: there is this fundamental fear of what's out there and stuff we don't know, and I think it's a very basic thing.

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PREVUE // FILM IN 2013

Still reeling

Part two of our 2013 film preview us Beyond The Hills with two women in an Orthodox convent.

ANIMATION Joann Sfar's The Rabbi's Cat, adapting his quizzical, Quixotic graphic novel, should get a release. Also from France comes the gentle bear-mouse friendship of Ernest and Celestine. Juan José Campanella (The Secret in Their Eyes) kicks off Metegol, about a boy trying to reunite his table-soccer team. And Studio Ghibli's 1964-set drama From Up on Poppy Hill reaches English-language screens this spring.

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ur coming-soon preview continues with a quick tour of lauded world-cinema leftovers looking to land here at last, animation to arrive, documentaries due and more arthouse, auteur work in the works.

LEFTOVERS Look for Saudi Arabian director Haifaa al-Mansour's feature debut Wadjda, about a 10-year-old girl in suburban Riyadh. Mexican Michel Franco's Cannes-acclaimed After Lucia covers

the relationship between a bullied 17-year-old and her newly widowed father. Kleber Mendonça Filho's sliceof-wealthy-life Neighboring Sounds eavesdrops on a Recife apartment block. Audio's more sinister in Peter Strickland's Berberian Sound Studio, where a British sound-effect maker (Toby Jones) works madly on a '70s Italian thriller. James Marsh (Man on Wire) heads to '90s Belfast, tracking an IRA member turned MI5 informant in Shadow Dancer. And Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days) takes

DOCUMENTARIES Michael Apted's 56 Up continues his monumental, every-seven-years chronicle of 12 Brits. Errol Morris considers Ford's and "Dubya" Bush's Secretary of Defence in The Unknown Known: The Life and Times of Donald Rumsfeld (meanwhile, Morris's first fiction-feature, set in the world of cryonics, says Freezing People Is Easy). Rodney Ascher leads us through nine different interpretations of Kubrick's The Shining to Room 237. And American documentary-master Ross McElwee, using Photographic Memory, reviews the generation gap between him and his son.

MORE NEW FILMS Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men) returns with Gravity, starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock as astronauts surviving in a space station.

Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast) will try to get Under the Skin with his tale of a woman (Scarlet Johansson) preying on men. Spike Jonze offers a new romantic interest with Her—a young man falls for his operating-system.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amelie) follows The Young and Prodigious Spivet, shot in Quebec and Alberta and based on a multimedia book about a 12-year-old map-lover. Michel Gondry puts us in Mood Indigo, from a 1947 novel about a woman (Audrey Tautou) surrounded by flowers to treat her illness.

Hot off his crime-film debut, Animal Kingdom, Australian David Michôd heads Western (and sci-fi) with The Rover, starring Guy Pearce.

After Hunger and Shame, Steve McQueen's Twelve Years A Slave retells the true horror of Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a bornfree black man kidnapped in 1841 and enslaved on a Louisiana plantation for 12 years. Kelly Reichardt (Meek's Cutoff) returns with Night Moves, about three environmentalists planning to explode a dam.

Richard Linklater's tripped through Vienna in Before Sunrise and Paris in Before Sunset with Julie Delpy as Céline and Ethan Hawke as Jesse—now the pair reconnect in Greece in Before Midnight. Nicole Holofcener (Please Give) is back with Catherine Keener for a still-untitled drama about a divorcee who realizes the man she likes is her new friend's ex-husband. Humorist Alexander Payne (The Descendants) takes us through his home state, Nebraska, in black and white. Comedygenius Steve Coogan hits screens twice—first as Soho smut-king Paul Raymond in Michael Winterbottom's The Look of Love, then as his most famous creation, self-centred radio-host Alan Partridge.

And ... we're out of space to talk about Thomas Vinterberg's persecution drama The Hunt, Jeff Nichols' Mud, Jim Jarmusch's vampire film Only Lovers Left Alive, Nicolas Winding Refn's follow-up to Drive, Danny Boyle's hypnotherapy and stolen-art-recovery flick Trance, Werner Herzog's return to feature-filmmaking, Lars von Trier's porn-drama, or Submarine director Richard Ayoade's double-take on Dostoyevsky.

lawman in sleepy Summerton, Arizona? Whether shooting the breeze with the local diner staff or drinking beer on his front porch, Sheriff Ray Owens seems to have been written as a man of ordinary, humble heroism. When did they sneak in the bit about Owens having spent five years working narcotics in Los Angeles?

Was it before of after they added that line, delivered near the film's end, that cryptically acknowledges the fact that this Owens is, like his Sinaloa cartel overlord opponent, a foreigner? Was Owens written for Tommy Lee Jones and then later retro-fitted for the Terminator? Or was Owens always meant to be a massive bodybuilder with an Austrian accent who looks awkward trying to answer the phone and pour a cup of coffee at the same time?

as to defy belief. "Someone needs to stay and keep the peace," says Owens in the first scene. Turns out he's quite serious about that. Even when an impossibly wealthy criminal organization, trigger-happy and armed for megadeath-overkill, invade his town of senior citizens, Owens won't back down.

And he's totally immune to corruption, even when the Mexican sleazebag villain offers him five million dollars to look the other way. (Though really, doesn't he know what this guy makes on a single picture?)

The supporting cast is mostly overqualified and underused: Harry Dean Stanton shows up to put on a farmer outfit and say "Get off my land" for three minutes; Forest Whitaker plays an ornery fed and chews scenery like an underfed dog; Luis Guzmán gets to fire big guns, make a few jokes and wear a 10-gallon hat. Korean director Kim Jee-woon (The Good, the Bad, the Weird) keeps things fleet enough but hardly seems interested in the story.

In short, it's just a paycheque for all involved—though no one's cheque is likely as fantastically large as Arnie's.

Here's hoping his next movie is a lot more fantastic, too. IMDb has him slated for another half-dozen.

BRIAN GIBSON

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REVUE // ARNIE ACTION

The Last Stand

Act Arnold, act!

Opens Friday Directed by Kim Jee-woon

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erhaps in some alternative universe it would be possible to watch The Last Stand as anything other than the vehicle for Arnold Schwarzenegger's comeback after a political career that you could call unlikely if it

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didn't transpire in the state of California. But in that universe there would be little reason to even watch a movie as dopey and conventional as The Last Stand, aside from some chuckles and whatever pleasure is supposed to be derived from watching bodies flail under automatic rifle fire. So let's stick to reality here: it's an Arnie movie. And not a memorable one.

I've defended Schwarzenegger in the past—not his acting chops, but his rightful place in the movies. But the roles we've needed Schwarzenegger to play have uniformly been extraordinary, superhuman or non-human: no one else could be Conan. (Certainly not Jason Momoa.) So just whose idea was it to cast Schwarzenegger as the county

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Maybe it was all a joke from the beginning. But if that's the case the joke is a pretty limited one, however many laughs The Last Stand might generate from our sheer awe at witnessing the return of this singular mega-star.

He always said he'd be back, but now that he's back he actually seems stiffer than ever, with line readings that make it seem like he's hypnotized, and lines that are anyway so baldly expository

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REVUE // DRAMA

Quartet

Once more, with feeling

Opens Friday Directed by Dustin Hoffman Princess Theatre

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estled in the English countryside is a stately, opulent abode hous-

ing some of the most prestigious retired musicians in the country, including three members of a once revered operatic quartet: the crass and flirtatious Wilfred (Billy Connolly), the forgetful but endearing Cecily (Pauline Collins) and stately, refined Reginald

(Tom Courtenay).

Beecham House, as the residence is known, is filled with a colourful cast of characters, each with their own musical gifts—and played by renowned virtuosos in their own right—who prepare a gala concert each year in honour of Giuseppe Verdi's birthday.

However, this year has a new twist, as Jean Horton (Maggie Smith), the fourth member of the quartet—not to mention Reg's ex-wife—arrives, bringing back old rivalries and heartache as the other three attempt to convince her to reunite with them to take the stage, despite her reservations.

What follows is a comedic and heartwarming journey into the past and present, as old conflicts and wounds are unearthed between Jean and Reg, who are a lovable duo to root for as Jean tries to

make amends for what she says was the biggest mistake of her life.

It's the characters, rather than the story itself, that makes Quartet an enjoyable film to watch. Hoffman's directorial debut is a rose-tinted projection of late life, with only a few moments of its struggles, such as Cecily struggling with progressing senility and a few scattered conversations about the trials of progressing into old age—which, as Cecily repeats several times, is not for "sissies." Other than that, the high-end retirement facility and its inhabitants aim to entertain, with impromptu musical numbers and lively, charismatic personalities. Suspense isn't the aim of the game, and it's evident from the start where the story's headed, but that aside, it's a touching story flecked with

a great deal of enjoyable humour, particularly from Connolly's Wilfred. The old Scotsman is a hormonal high-school boy trapped in a senior citizen's body, winking and flirting relentlessly with Beecham House's female staff and doctor, making remarks about "seasoned wood" and the like.

The panache of the core four members of the cast captures a sense of camaraderie and fond reminiscence of days gone by while trying to grasp the future. Complimenting the integral story are supporting roles, such as Michael Gambon as the cantankerous and egotistical Cedric Livingstone, which bring impressive musical flair to the story, even moreso when the credits roll and it is revealed who the musicians are behind the characters.

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REVUE // CRIME

Gangster Squad comes off as a hollow masquerade, play-acting at machismo for nearly two hours. Along with the furniture tossed in fits of rage, there are empty flourishes of neo-noir style, rote action sequences (and one strange slo-mo swoon over shot-up Christmas decorations), and little danger for our hardboiled heroes. The movie plummets into an uncanny valley between the purposeful cartoonishness of Dick Tracy and the moral shadows of LA Confidential.

Sean Penn can't shoot his way out of Gangster Squad

Now playing Directed by Ruben Fleischer

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he mob never gained a foothold in Los Angeles, but LA-set mobster movies have never gained a foothold in Hollywoodland (as it was known in 1949), either, and the cardboard-cutout Gangster Squad isn't going to change that. Blink once, after the lights come up, and it's as if this airy piece of puffery had never even flitted through the cinema and landed on the screen.

The story starts with some leering, jeering violence—two cars ripping a Chicago gangster's torso into pulp for coyotes to sup on—then just spins its

wheels. The man behind the mayhem is Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn), a pugnosed, pug-faced ex-pugilist growling about how he's "progress"—more like the Prince of Evil personified. So any suggestions that John O'Mara (Josh Brolin) or his posse of badge-less, vigilante cops are crossing the line and becoming like Cohen come off as lip service, even as the blood spatters and spills, pointlessly. Neither side gets compelling characterization; Emma Stone's "tomato" of a moll could be any redhead.

While Prohibition-era mobster drama Boardwalk Empire's offering a novelistic, profound take on the American melting-pot of corruption, crime and politics, Gangster Squad

It ends with a trite tribute to the thousands of cops serving LA. But this flick, with its superhero-ish title and bad-comic-book flatness (little wonder the screenwriter's penning Justice League next), can't frameup the truth. Because, post-Rodney King and post-Rampart scandal, the biggest LA-set crime-genre has been the crooked or troubled cop movie. Gangster Squad can't boysin-blue our eyes to those true colours-shown in TV series The Shield (2002-08), Rampart (2011) or Dennis Hopper's Colors (1988), starring a different Sean Penn, his face no cosmetic caricature of evil, but a troubled reflection of a city where there are no angels.

BRIAN GIBSON

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VUEWEEKLY JAN 17 – JAN 23, 2013

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REVUE // CHILEAN BIOPIC

Violeta Went to Heaven Sat, Jan 19 (7 pm) Directed by Andrés Wood Metro Cinema at the Garneau

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he most celebrated of the three titles screening in Metro Cinema's Cine Chile series, you'd be hard-pressed to find a film with more Chilean content than Violeta Went to Heaven, Andrés Wood's portrait of Violeta Parra (1917–

Violeta Parra: a portrait of an inscrutable, larger-than-life figure

1967), the musician, composer, folklorist, visual artist and activist who spearheaded the Nueva Canción Chilena movement. Winner of Sundance's 2012 World Cinema Dramatic Jury Prize, Violeta, scripted by Eliseo Altunaga, takes a loose approach to chronology, history and the comfortable realism generally expected of biopics. Sliding between key transitional moments in Parra's life, the film emphasizes its heroine's mercurial, contradictory nature as much through collage-like narrative as Francisca Gavilán's mesmerizing, half-aggressive, half-impish central performance.

Violeta makes no apologies for presenting Parra as larger than life, fundamentally inscrutable and probably crazy.

This Violeta is a force of nature, still haunting Chile's psyche. The film implies that even 45 years after her suicide, she might only be playing dead.

Parra inherited her musicality from her father—literally; he was a lunatic drunk and lost pretty much everything

to poker, but he left Violeta his guitar. A memorable early scene shows Parra's father performing at a rowdy rural dance party and stopping midsong to guzzle wine. (Unfortunately, these abbreviated early scenes are pretty much all we see of our heroine's famous brother, the great "antipoet" Nicanor Parra.) We see young Parra on tour, researching, bringing her eccentric approach to eroding musical styles and verses to the very country folk whose elders are dying along with their musical history. We see Parra giving birth and then leaving her family for Europe, where she brought her music and communist politics to folk-hungry audiences, and where she stayed for two years even after her child died. We see Parra falling into a long, troubled love story with Swiss flautist Gilbert Favre, and getting invited to show her paintings at the Louvre. These threads are interwoven in such a manner that one could be forgiven for losing track of the larger story, though the framing device of a TV interview made when Parra was at the height of her international renown helps ground us in this strange tale of a life ostensibly lived "for the people," yet dictated by fevered caprice.

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REVUE // DRUGGY THRILLER

Pusher

place of slowly uncoiling despair.

Frank becomes a petty cash-collector and, suspicion growing as he can't get hold of a mule, beats up his best mate.

Harsh tokes, man

Fri, Jan 18 – Wed, Jan 23 Directed by Luis Prieto Metro Cinema at the Garneau

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anish writer-director Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive) launched his career in 1996 with Pusher, tracking a harrowing week in the life of one Copenhagen dealer—this pusher gets pushed, harder and harder.

The gritty little ins-and-outs of the drug business have since made the rounds in American TV's best series, The Wire (where Stringer Bell even takes a college business course), while the bestseller Freakonomics noted that many dealers, stuck near the base of a pyramid-like business

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and bringing in less than minimum wage, still live at home.

Luis Prieto's London-set 2012 remake of Pusher slides us into the highs and lows of Frank (Richard Coyle), who freely samples his own product, cuts the coke with baby laxative to increase his profits and soon finds himself trapped between police and his debt-calling supplier (played with oily zeal by Zlatko Burić, also in the original).

Sniffing its way into the seams of England's multiculti capital—nightclubs, parks, an outdoor market, an immigrant's clothing store, a sad old user's pet shop—the film's best at showing how the grungy, always hustling-and-bustling city can be a

Frank looks more and more harried as his control unravels. The film's look slides between luridness and garishness, with neon-lit, dance-music-scored scenes straddling grungy reality and dreamy urban cool. Pusher can be too music-video kinetic and pretty at times—seemingly epitomized by Agyness Deyn, a model, as the girlfriend whom Frank's drifting away from (though, in this version's deftly different ending, we realize just how dead-end she feels). The dealer does turn to his mom here, a pathetic homecoming first framed by bars between son and parent.

As Frank nears bottom, searching for a way back in, but soon realizing his only hope is to get out of this prison-like city, this mix of pop and pulp (sonically throbbed by Marcus Marr, Meg Cottone and a remix of Austra's "The Beat and the Pulse") becomes a hyper-charged, buzzy take on the London night-scene—and one man slipping under it, for no-good.

REVUE // RECOVERY DRAMA

Smashed Fri, Jan 18 – Thu, Jan 24 Directed by James Ponsoldt Metro Cinema at the Garneau

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etermining the point of slippage between hedonism and addiction, between gonzo times and sloppy self-destruction can be tricky, even in the movies. But when the movie in question is a recovery narrative there's often a very small window of time in which any such ambiguity is allowed.

So you might catch an early glimpse of cute Kate Hannah (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) guzzling beer in the shower and think you've found your new favourite drinking buddy, but when you see her behind the wheel of her car soon after, bracing herself with a liberal dose of whisky for another day of work—teaching first grade!—you'll no doubt have gathered that this protagonist needs to seriously rethink her priorities. And once you gather that, you'll pretty much have figured out everything that's to follow in Jeremy Ponsoldt's Smashed, a movie with some real heart and some obvious craft, but without any place to go. Life after rock bottom is rarely a cinematically dynamic space to explore.

The heart part comes mainly from Winstead herself, who is credible in both moments of distress and moments of determination, and at all times hopelessly adorable, even in dowdy dresses, even peeing on the floor of a convenience store, even while having bad bouncing-to-oblivion sex, even—or perhaps especially— while nattering crack-addled under a bridge in the middle of the night, bragging about growing up poor to a captive audience of homeless people. "You and me, we aren't so different," she tells them. And sure, she's even adorable when pulling up her bleary psychic bootstraps, climbing up on the wagon, confronting her drunken mother, going to Alcoholics Anonymous and unavoidably alienating her

BRIAN GIBSON

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VUEWEEKLY JAN 17 – JAN 23, 2013

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husband Charlie (Aaron Paul), who loves her to death, but doesn't quite understand what this not-drinking stuff is all about. It's the movie's only significant twist on the well-tread road to recovery: the arduousness of getting sober when the person you share your life with just wants to keep the good times rolling and the emergency route to the toilet free of obstacles. Yet somehow, once these characters have drawn their lines, the problems faced by Kate and Charlie ultimately don't feel arduous enough.

There's a deeper tragedy left unexplored here: maybe some of us can drink and some of us can't, and maybe every once in a while the drinker and the one who can't drink fall in love and start a life together, and when the drinking has to end for the one who shouldn't drink, maybe love is simply impossible, period.

Far more economical and far less patronizing, propagandistic and ethically confused than, say, Flight, Smashed is also somehow slighter and more mechanical. Scenes of confrontation between Kate and Charlie, or Kate and her alcoholic mom or Kate and the employer she deceives (she pretends she barfed in class because she's pregnant) feel wrote, slavish and, no pun intended, dry. Smashed strives to be sobering, but it winds up feeling mostly just hungover, draped in that dayafter gloom that renders even reasons for hope uninspiring. All this is to say, see the film for Winstead, and make a mental note of Ponsoldt.

JOSEF BRAUN

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LOOPER (14A violence, coarse language) DAILY 7:15, 10:00

4:00, 7:05, 10:00; THU 4:00, 7:05

ARGO (14A) FRI-SUN 1:20, 4:10, 7:05, 9:50; MON, WED-THU 4:10, 7:05, 9:50; TUE 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 9:50

LES MISÉRABLES (PG violence, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned FRI-SAT 2:40, 6:20, 9:40; SUN-TUE, THU 12:20, 3:45, 7:20; WED 4:20, 7:45; Star & Strollers Screening: WED 1:00

FRI, JAN 18 - THU, JAN 24, 2013

TAKEN 2 (14A violence) DAILY 9:35

CHABA THEATRE–JASPER

FLIGHT (18A substance abuse) FRI-SUN, TUE 12:55, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45; MON, WED-THU 3:55, 6:50, 9:45

6094 Connaught Dr Jasper 780.852.4749

THIS IS 40 (14A crude coarse language, sexual content, not recommended for young children) FRI-SAT 6:50, 9:10; SUN-THU 8:00 LES MISÉRABLES (PG violence, not recommended for young children) DAILY 8:00

DUGGAN CINEMA–CAMROSE 6601-48 Ave Camrose 780.608.2144

ZERO DARK THIRTY (14A violence, coarse language) DAILY 7:30; SAT-SUN, THU 1:30 GANGSTER SQUAD (18A gory brutal violence) DAILY 7:00, 9:25; SAT-SUN, THU 2:10 DJANGO UNCHAINED (18A gory brutal violence) DAILY 7:15; SAT-SUN, THU 1:15 LES MISÉRABLES (PG violence, not recommended for young children) DAILY 7:45; SAT-SUN, THU 1:45 THIS IS 40 (14A crude coarse language, sexual content, not recommended for young children) DAILY 6:45, 9:20; SAT-SUN, THU 2:00

CINEMA CITY MOVIES 12 5074-130 Ave 780.472.9779

HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA (PG) FRI-SUN, TUE 1:05; 3D: DAILY 3:45, 6:55, 9:15 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (G) FRI-SUN, TUE 1:40, 4:30; MON, WED-THU 4:30

ANNA KARENINA (PG mature subject matter) FRI-SUN, TUE 1:00, 4:20, 7:10, 10:05; MON, WED-THU 4:20, 7:10, 10:05 CLOUD ATLAS (14A sexual content, violence, coarse language) FRI-SUN, TUE 12:50, 4:25, 8:00; MON, WED-THU 4:25, 8:00 MATRU KI BIJLEE KA MANDOLA (PG) Hindi W/E.S.T. FRISUN, TUE 1:10, 4:35, 7:35; MON, WED-THU 4:35, 7:35 ONE MORE TRY (14A sexual content) FRI-SUN, TUE 1:50, 4:05, 7:00, 9:30; MON, WED-THU 4:05, 7:00, 9:30 SAADI LOVE STORY (PG) Punjabi W/E.S.T. FRI-SUN, TUE 1:25, 4:15, 7:20, 9:55; MON, WED-THU 4:15, 7:20, 9:55

CINEPLEX ODEON NORTH 14231-137 Ave 780.732.2236

RISE OF THE GUARDIANS (G) Closed Captioned FRI, SUNTHU 1:40; SAT 11:15, 1:40 THIS IS 40 (14A crude coarse language, sexual content, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned DAILY 12:50, 4:10, 7:15, 10:15 LIFE OF PI 3D (PG) Closed Captioned FRI-SAT 1:20, 4:15, 7:20, 10:10; SUN-THU 1:20, 4:15, 7:10, 10:05 SKYFALL (14A violence) Closed Captioned DAILY 3:40, 6:50, 9:55 HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS 3D (STC) THU 10:00 THE HOBBIT AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) High Frame Rate Ultraavx DAILY 12:40, 4:30, 8:15

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 2 (PG violence, disturbing content, not recommended for young children) FRI-SUN, TUE 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:40; MON, WEDTHU 4:00, 7:00, 9:40

DJANGO UNCHAINED (18A gory brutal violence) FRI-SAT 2:20, 6:45, 10:20; SUN-THU 1:15, 5:00, 8:30

FRANKENWEENIE (PG) FRI-SUN, TUE 1:15; 3D: DAILY 3:50, 6:45

ZERO DARK THIRTY (14A violence, coarse language) No passes FRI-SAT 12:00, 3:30, 7:00, 10:30; SUN-THU 12:00, 3:30, 7:00, 10:20

HERE COMES THE BOOM (PG violence) FRI-SUN, TUE 1:35, 4:05, 6:50, 9:20; MON, WED-THU 4:05, 6:40, 9:20

THE LAST STAND (18A gory brutal violence) Closed Captioned DAILY 12:15, 2:50, 5:20, 8:00, 10:35

JACK REACHER (14A violence) Closed Captioned FRI-WED

GANGSTER SQUAD (18A gory brutal violence) No passes FRI-WED 1:30, 4:20, 7:30, 10:10; THU 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 PARENTAL GUIDANCE (G) Closed Captioned DAILY 1:00 BROKEN CITY (14A coarse language, violence) Closed Captioned FRI 1:10, 3:50, 7:10, 9:50; SAT 11:45, 1:10, 3:50, 7:10, 9:50; SUN-THU 1:10, 3:50, 6:45, 9:20 SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK (14A coarse language) FRI, SUN-THU 1:50, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30; SAT 11:05, 1:50, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 LINCOLN (PG violence, language may offend, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned FRI-TUE, THU 12:10, 3:20, 6:30, 9:45; WED 6:30, 9:45; Star & Strollers Screening: WED 1:00 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: MARIA STUARDA LIVE (Classification not available) SAT 10:55 MAMA (14A frightening scenes) Closed Captioned DAILY 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:10, 10:40 LOONEY TUNES: BACK IN ACTION (G) SAT 11:00

CINEPLEX ODEON SOUTH 1525-99 St 780.436.8585

WRECK-IT RALPH (G) Closed Captioned FRI-SAT 11:00 THIS IS 40 (14A crude coarse language, sexual content, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned FRI 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:50; SAT 4:10, 7:20, 10:50; SUN 1:00, 4:15, 7:20, 10:25; MON-THU 1:00, 4:05, 7:15, 10:20 LIFE OF PI 3D (PG) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 12:35, 3:30, 6:35, 9:30; MON-THU 12:25, 3:55, 6:55, 9:50 HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS 3D (STC) THU 10:00 SKYFALL (14A violence) Closed Captioned FRI-SAT 4:00, 7:30, 10:45; SUN 3:25, 6:40, 9:55; MON-THU 3:40, 7:00, 10:20 THE GUILT TRIP (PG language may offend) Closed Captioned FRI 1:05, 3:40; SAT 12:55, 3:40; SUN 1:10, 3:40; MON-THU 1:15, 3:45 THE HOBBIT AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 6:00, 9:40; MON-THU 6:15, 9:55 THE HOBBIT AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) High Frame Rate Ultraavx: FRI-SUN 11:05, 2:50, 6:30, 10:10; MON-THU 12:40, 4:20, 8:00

LES MISÉRABLES (PG violence, not recommended for young children) Digital, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI-SUN, TUE 1:00, 4:30, 8:00; MON, WED-THU 3:30, 8:30 THE HOBBIT AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Digital 3d, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI-SUN, TUE 12:00, 3:40, 7:20; MON, WED-THU 4:00, 7:45 THE IMPOSSIBLE (14A violence) Digital, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI-SUN, TUE 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00; MON, WED 3:50, 6:40, 10:00; THU 3:50, 10:00 GANGSTER SQUAD (18A gory brutal violence) Digital, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI-SUN, TUE 12:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15; MON, WED-THU 3:20, 7:00, 9:50 LIFE OF PI (PG) Digital, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI-SUN, TUE 12:20; MON, WED-THU 3:10; 3D: Digital 3d, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI-SUN, TUE 3:30, 6:30, 10:10; MON, WED-THU 6:20, 9:30 MAMA (14A frightening scenes) Closed Captioned, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI-SUN, TUE 1:10, 4:20, 7:00, 9:50; MON, WED-THU 3:40, 6:10, 9:20 BROKEN CITY (14A coarse language, violence) Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI-SUN, TUE 12:40, 3:50, 6:45, 9:30; MON, WED-THU 4:10, 6:50, 9:40

CLAREVIEW 10 4211-139 Ave 780.472.7600

LES MISÉRABLES (PG violence, not recommended for young children) Digital Presentation FRI 7:45; SAT-SUN 1:00, 4:30, 7:45; MON-THU 4:25, 7:45 RISE OF THE GUARDIANS 3D (G) Digital Presentation SAT-SUN 1:40, 3:55 THIS IS 40 (14A crude coarse language, sexual content, not recommended for young children) Digital Presentation FRISUN 6:20, 9:15; MON-THU 5:05, 8:00 THE LAST STAND (18A gory brutal violence) Digital Presentation FRI 6:50, 9:30; SAT-SUN 2:00, 4:40, 6:50, 9:30; MON-THU 4:35, 7:25 MAMA (14A frightening scenes) Digital Presentation FRI 6:30, 9:10; SAT-SUN 1:10, 3:55, 6:30, 9:10; MON-THU 5:10, 7:50 BROKEN CITY (14A coarse language, violence) Digital Presentation FRI 7:00, 9:40; SAT-SUN 1:30, 4:10, 7:00, 9:40; MON-THU 5:00, 7:40 TEXAS CHAINSAW 3D (18A gory brutal violence) Digital 3d FRI 6:45, 9:00; SAT-SUN 1:55, 4:05, 6:45, 9:00; MON-THU 5:25, 8:10

GANGSTER SQUAD (18A gory brutal violence) DAILY 7:00, 9:30; SAT-SUN 1:00, 3:30

METRO CINEMA AT THE GARNEAU Metro at the Garneau: 8712-109 St 780.425.9212

SMASHED (14A coarse language, sexual content, substance abuse) FRI, MON 7:00; SAT 4:00, 9:30; SUN 1:15; TUE-THU 9:30 PUSHER (18A substance abuse, sexual content) FRI, MON 9:00; SAT 2:00; SUN, WED 9:30 EXCISION–Metro Bizarro (STC) FRI 11:00 VIOLETA WENT TO HEAVEN–Chilean Film Fest (STC) Sub-titled SAT 7:00 THE YEAR OF THE TIGER–Chilean Film Fest (STC) Subtitled) SUN 3:00 SIN CITY–Graphic Content Film Series (R gory violence throughout) TUE 7:30 THE INVISIBLE WAR–Anesty International (14A mature subject matter, disturbing content) WED 7:00 THE THIRD MAN–Science In Cinema (PG) THU Jan 24: 6:30; free

EMPIRE THEATRES–SPRUCE GROVE 130 Century Crossing Spruce Grove 780.962.2332

LINCOLN (PG violence, language may offend, not recommended for young children) Digital FRI 6:00, 8:50; SAT-SUN, TUE 12:20, 3:10, 6:00, 8:50; MON, WED-THU 5:00, 8:40 THE LAST STAND (18A gory brutal violence) Digital FRI 6:20, 9:10; SAT-SUN, TUE 12:40, 3:30, 6:20, 9:10; MON, WED-THU 5:40, 8:15 MAMA (14A frightening scenes) Digital FRI 6:30, 9:40; SAT-SUN, TUE 12:45, 3:20, 6:30, 9:40; MON, WED-THU 6:00, 9:00 THE HOBBIT AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Digital SAT-SUN, TUE 11:50 THE HOBBIT AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Reald 3d FRI 6:10, 9:00; SAT-SUN, TUE 3:00, 6:10, 9:00; MON, WED-THU 5:30, 8:50 GANGSTER SQUAD (18A gory brutal violence) Digital FRI 6:40, 9:30; SAT-SUN, TUE 12:30, 3:40, 6:40, 9:30; MON, WED-THU 5:15, 8:20 DJANGO UNCHAINED (18A gory brutal violence) Digital FRI 6:15, 9:15; SAT-SUN, TUE 12:00, 3:15, 6:15, 9:15; MON, WED-THU 5:00, 8:30

DJANGO UNCHAINED (18A gory brutal violence) FRI-SAT 11:40, 3:20, 6:55, 10:30; SUN 11:25, 3:05, 6:40, 10:15; MON-

DJANGO UNCHAINED (18A gory brutal violence) Digital Presentation FRI 8:00; SAT-SUN 2:15, 5:45, 9:05; MON-THU 4:45, 8:05

TEXAS CHAINSAW 3D (18A gory brutal violence) FRI-SUN 7:40, 10:00; MON-THU 7:30, 9:45

ZERO DARK THIRTY (14A violence, coarse language) Digital Presentation FRI 8:25; SAT-SUN 1:05, 4:45, 8:25; MON-THU 4:30, 7:55

THE LAST STAND (18A gory brutal violence) Closed Captioned FRI-SAT 11:55, 2:40, 5:30, 8:05, 10:35; SUN 12:00, 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30; MON-THU 2:00, 4:35, 7:10, 9:50

GANGSTER SQUAD (18A gory brutal violence) Digital Presentation, No passes FRI 6:40, 9:25; SAT-SUN 1:15, 4:00, 6:40, 9:25; MON-THU 4:40, 7:30

QUARTET (PG coarse language) FRI 7:00, 9:10; SAT-SUN 2:00, 7:00, 9:10; MON-THU 7:00, 9:10

ZERO DARK THIRTY (14A violence, coarse language) No passes FRI-SUN 12:20, 3:45, 7:10, 10:40; MON-THU 2:30, 6:05, 9:30

THE HOBBIT AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Digital 3d FRI 8:45; SAT-SUN 4:20, 8:45; MON-THU 7:00

HYDE PARK ON HUDSON (PG coarse language, mature subject matter) Check website: rainbowcinemas.ca or 780.433.0728 for show times

JACK REACHER (14A violence) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 12:55, 3:50, 7:05, 10:05; MON-WED 1:10, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15; THU 1:10, 4:15, 7:15

THE HOBBIT AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Digital Presentation SAT-SUN 12:45

THU 1:05, 4:40, 8:15

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PREVUE // THEATRE

Free-Man on the Land explores freedom's extremes

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Meaghan

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Until Sun, Jan 27 (8 pm) Directed by Murray Utas The Roxy Theatre, $11 – $26

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reemen on the Land (FMOTL), refers to a set of philosophical values suggesting that individuals break free from legal and social contracts with the government and opt for a method of self-government and individualism instead. Mainstream media representations of FMOTL are almost unanimously negative, and when Azimuth Theatre debuted

Free-Man on the Land two years ago, they set out to contribute a more balanced representation, while theatrically tackling the notion of freedom in general.

Playwright Steve Pirot, the co-artistic director of the company as well as an actor in the show itself, looked at a wide range of works that spoke to the concept of freedom in order to write the script for the show.

"I started with primary texts," Pirot explains, "and then I went to other sources. With FMOTL it's all about freedom as it relates to the individual and the government, but I tried to get beyond that. I was reading Cicero, Pablo Neruda and then speeches given by

senators from the southern states in the years prior to the Civil War." Once the show began its first run, the cast and crew quickly realized that their new play was appealing to a market they hadn't anticipated. Audiences who were drawn to the concept of FMOTL—either out of support or sheer curiosity—came out to close the first run of the show with an overflowing house. The ensemble took this indication of the project's relevance and potential and are now opening the show for another run with a revisited structure that has been carefully designed to compliment the larger venue they'll be using for round two.

little problems without you even knowing it—so you see things with a fresh perspective," he says, in describing his return to 2 Across, a show that was cancelled just days before its run in May 2011 after one of the actors suffered a back injury.

Arnold had always intended to remount the show sometime in the future. "The timing is good now," he says. "It's a really sweet comedy, kind of a romantic comedy, so it's sort of an early Valentine's play."

Set in contemporary San Francisco, 2 Across depicts the meeting of a man and woman on a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) train ride from the airport to East Bay. The 90-minute commute occurs in real time on

stage as the pair connects over The New York Times crossword puzzle.

"The crossword is kind of the motif that runs through the play," Arnold states. "It's a neat metaphor for how you approach life: do you struggle and finish the crossword or do you give up when it gets hard?"

While the majority of mainstream media representations depict FMOTL as marring the current societal order, Pirot's hope is that this play will allow

audiences to briefly extract themselves from the deluge of critiques in order to engage in a larger discussion.

Uninterested in either promoting or discrediting the FMOTL philosophy, he's written a play that depicts a man who, while struggling with the other perceived restrictions in his life, is also unknowingly trapped on stage as a theatrical fiction.

"I think one of the reasons there's been a more negative spin put on FMOTL is that the people these reporters are going to aren't necessarily the best sources," Pirot says.

"What they're finding are the flaws and failures, whereas the people who are more successful are off the grid and uninterested in drawing attention to themselves. Richard, the character we have created for the show, hasn't succeeded at putting

these ideas into practice either. I think the people getting media attention may not be appreciating that what is being proposed here is a really hard road to follow.

"I find FMOTL philosophies to be enticing, certainly. The part of me that wants to think of myself as an iconoclast who marches to the beat of his own drum, as an individual who is free, well, FMOTL speaks to all of these things," Pirot says. "But it's also so difficult. That is ultimately why we have a character that could easily be termed as a failure in their life experiment: he has an extreme view of freedom.

When it comes down to the practical experience of living, at some point you have to compromise with people in order to be engaged in society."

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PREVUE // THEATRE

2 Across Fri, Jan 18 – Sun, Jan 27 (8 pm) Directed by Julien Arnold Holy Trinity Anglican Church, $13 – $15 Reserve tickets by calling 780.437.2891

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eturning to a show after an extended hiatus can be unexpectedly fruitful, says Atlas Theatre's Julien Arnold.

"I believe your subconscious brain works on

The two characters are classic opposites: she's a straitlaced, uptight businesswoman who brings an arsenal of reference books to finish the crossword, while he's a charming, freewheeling spirit that Arnold likens to The Big Lebowski's "Dude" character. The playwright, Jerry Mayer, wrote for several television sitcoms like MASH and The Bob Newhart Show, and Arnold notes that this influence is felt in the play's

snappy pace and witty banter. But Arnold notes that it's also richer than a sitcom, which is why Mayer made the switch to playwriting. "There isn't that demand to have a zinger every five seconds," Arnold says.

This second mounting also revealed a development in Arnold's personal esthetic: while he had planned a fairly elaborate set for the 2011 production, this time around the staging and props are very pared-back, with most of the setting delivered through a soundscape designed by Paul Morgan Donald.

"The idea is that we let the audience do the imaginative work," Arnold adds. "That's part of the beauty of theatre, compared to movies and

TV, that it can engage the audience's imagination that way. It's sort of what theatre has, in the great battle."

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Second time's the charm

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Hereafter / Visual Splice

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The Tales of H offmann

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hough we haven't seen Tania Alvarado on Edmonton stages in the past few years, our homegrown contemporary dance maven has been busily making splashes in Calgary and beyond, and in her own life, too.

"Life's been pretty crazy recently. I had a baby, he's six months old now—and I've been living between Edmonton and Calgary (where she teaches at U of C). I've also been in the middle of a creation, which is huge for dance makers. It's almost like having two babies at the same time," Alvarado says, with a casual charm that makes one wonder why one doesn't also have babies, make creations and live in two places all at once.

Hereafter, which Alvarado created in Calgary as part of a dance lab last year, has now found its way into the Prairie Dance Circuit. Four dancers will take the stage with the piece this weekend, which The Globe and Mail's Paula Citron had a chance to see at this past Fall's Fluid Festival, describing the work as "hypnotic," among other things.

"Hereafter is a poignant kaleidoscope of loss, as connections are made and then broken. If this work doesn't find a shelf life, meaning tours across the country, there is no justice," Citron wrote.

"I named it Hereafter because I get the feeling when I see the dancers moving through the piece that they're sort of orbiting around each other ... It also kind of reminds me of the hereafter, as in they're not in this world, or they're transitioning from this world to the next," Alvarado explains.

"I've been working in a very collaborative way, so what's coming out of the dancers' experiences is what is shaping that theme. The theme I started with was that the simple act of entering a space depends on leaving another, and what is that minute change that happens in a person in that

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moment? I started to work a little bit bigger and asking the dancers about their experiences about leaving a place and entering somewhere new, or leaving someone, or going somewhere new. So my themes became bigger. I started to explore migration, birth, death—anything to do with entering somewhere new."

All the while, she had to find different ways to work—her regular creative process was flummoxed by certain biological realities.

"When I went to the lab I was eight-months pregnant, so I couldn't exactly jump in and be like, 'OK, five-six-seven-eight!' I was able to make one movement section myself—a short movement section—then I couldn't move any more. I was just gigantic, so I had to find different ways of creating a full work, with one movement phrase and then a whole a lot of collaboration. So, in fact, being pregnant forced me to find new ways of working. It was a blessing in disguise—a gigantic disguise," she laughs.

"I really like what happened with Hereafter," she adds. "And I can say that because generally one's very critical of their own work. Very often I've felt like 'Ahh, I never want to see that again,' but this one I feel really good about. I think becoming a mother has helped me be a lot less obsessive about what I do and make quick decisions, that really helped the work. So I'm excited about this piece. I hope it will have a future."

As part of the Prairie Dance Circuit, Hereafter plays with Mile Zero Dance's Gerry Morita and her new work, Visual Splice. The piece is an interdisciplinary exploration using movement, light and interactive sound. Collaborators with Morita on Visual Splice include electro-acoustic composer Shawn Pinchbeck and analog film projectionist Patrick Arès-Pilon.

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Rapid Fire Theatre presents: Date Night

Maybe a little less tongue // Meryl Smith-Lawton

Sat, Jan 19 (7:30 pm) Citadel Theatre, $5

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ome on, a date with a couple of hilarious improv performers has got to be a whole lot more fun than that blind date you went on with what's-his/her-name last weekend, whose phone number you've now conveniently lost.

If you manage to beat out your bidding competition, you'll be able to hit the town with some of the fine ladies and gentlemen of Rapid Fire Theatre at the troupe's annual Date Night fundraiser, from which all proceeds go towards bringing in out-of-town talent for Improvaganza 2013. Even if you don't win, you'll be treated to an evening of improv performances, swing dancing and a little magic.

"We originally thought, I guess the question is, 'Does anyone at Rapid Fire actually have any kind of star power or celebrity?' There are tons

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of silent auctions all over the city to try and do fundraisers ... maybe some silent auctions are great, but I've been to some where no one bids on anything and they kind of lowball things and try and get away with a deal when really, it's a fundraiser for a non-profit," says Rapid Fire artistic director Amy Shostak, explaining that Rapid Fire wanted to inject some fun into the event through the live auction aspect.

To Rapid Fire's surprise, audiences were enthusiastic about the idea of hanging out with them, and Shostak recalls people getting into bidding wars and certain dates going for up to $300.

"Maybe it's the adrenaline of a live auction, so that was kind of attractive because it has to do with the same adrenaline that improv gives people," Shostak adds.

members, and the winners are free to go on the dates with a group of friends instead, but this is rarely the chosen option.

What's in it for you, you ask? How about a tour of the BioWare offices with Mark Meer, or tagging along on the "True Ballers" date with Shostak, Jamie Cavanagh and Richard Lam? Before the trio takes you out on the town, you get prepped with a new 'do from Ponytails and Horseshoes, and then—armed with $200 in gift certificates—party like a rock star.

"One of the things about being on a date like that is you have to focus on giving whoever buys the date the best time possible. There's no time for 'I don't feel like dancing right now, or I'll just have one drink,' " Shostak says. "We'll be committed to making sure the people have a great time. And the fun thing about it is we're good at talking to people, so we get to learn a lot about the person who buys the date, and then when we see them along the line throughout the year it's like we have a special connection with them from then on."

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There's no pressure to actually go on a date with Rapid Fire cast

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Olympic Designing with Leslie Frankish / Sun, Jan 20 (2 pm) Have you ever sat staring at your TV during an Olympic opening ceremony and wondering how exactly it was all pulled off? Now's your chance to hear all about the inner workings of the Vancouver 2010 opening ceremonies—from inception to execution—straight from the source, senior production designer Leslie Frankish. (The Club at the Citadel, $10) Jake's Gift / Sun, Jan 20 (2 pm) Written and performed by Julia Mackey, Jake's Gift portrays a Canadian Second World War veteran who reluctantly returns to Normandy, France for the 60th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. During his visit he meets Isabelle, an inquisitive 10-year-old from the local village whose charms challenge him to confront long-ignored ghosts. (Maclab Centre for the Performing Arts, Leduc, $22 – $27) V

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REVUE // BOOK

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Woes of the True Policeman

by Carter Lewis

Gripping Suspense!

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By Roberto Bolaño Translated by Natasha Wimmer Hamish Hamilton 256 pp, $30

Jan 23 - Feb 10, 2013 Varscona Theatre 10329-83 Ave

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oberto Bolaño died a full decade ago, and we're only just now running out of his novels, essays, and story and poetry collections to translate into English. Not that his honourable publishers haven't given it their best shot: the first translation arrived a matter of months after the Chilean's death from liver failure at age 50, and since then they've come fast and furious, well over a title per year, the biggest among them becoming genuine literary events. The fact that you can still find copies of the colossal 2666 in most mainstream bookstores is a coup in and of itself.

Signalling that the end of the line is nigh is Woes of the True Policeman.

Billed as Bolaño's "last, unfinished novel," one that he worked on for decades as well as immediately before his death, it's a choppy, love-ridden

work that revisits the setting and even certain characters from 2666.

Our hero is Óscar Amalfitano, an academic whose late-breaking homosexuality forces him and his teenage daughter Rosa to flee to a town in northern Mexico. (You may remember him from part two of 2666, "The Part about Amalfitano.")

Because Woes was assembled posthumously, from several different folders and computer files—there's an editorial note about the process that raises more questions than it answers—doubts have been voiced about how this work was meant to be presented, if at all. Is it a lost appendage from 2666? Scraps from the cutting-room floor? Or was Bolaño trying to convert it into something entirely new?

It's easy to see why this material wasn't included in the masterwork.

For one thing, it's written in a completely different key: luxurious melancholy to 2666's seething menace.

Amalfitano spends most of his section in the big novel panicking about if—and, terrifyingly, when—Rosa will join the ranks of the hundreds of women in Santa Teresa who have been grotesquely murdered.

Famously, several hundred pages in 2666 were devoted to clinical descriptions of these crime scenes; here, however, Rosa floats through her days serenely writing letters and watching movies. And Amalfitano's story is devoted almost exclusively to his newfound status as a sexual libertine, and the young male lovers he picks up along the way.

As to whether these pages were ready for publication, that's much less clear. There's no question that Bolaño was one of the flat-out best writers of his generation, and surprisingly large chunks of Woes, thanks in

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no small part to long-time translator Natasha Wimmer, meet those high standards. The section summarizing the works of a reclusive novelist named Arcimboldi (another 2666 callback) is particularly combustible.

Put it this way: if you've never read Bolaño before, you won't be scared off by this one.

But other parts of the book do feel undeveloped, and even aimless. The pages devoted to Rosa in particular feel like they were built from scraps.

This is especially frustrating given Bolaño's own penchant for, and delight in, fragmentation. Given what we know about the book's rather haphazard assembly process, it's impossible to say which parts of the novel are fragmented by design, and which are simply incomplete.

That being said, I'll take a scruffy addition to the Bolaño universe over none at all any day. There are also throughlines back to his earliest writings: Bolaño's first novel, the fuzzed-out, impressionistic Antwerp, hinges on the reveal of one character as "the fake policeman."

And Woes of the True Policeman even contains a fitting précis of the author's overall methods. Amidst a paraphrased police report about Amalfitano, near the book's end, we read this: "He realized something that in his heart he had always known: that the Whole is impossible, that knowledge is the classification of fragments."

When I read this passage, I nearly choked on my coffee. Then I marked the page immediately. Hopefully the people in charge of Bolaño's estate did, too—if there's anything left in the vaults, "knowledge is the classification of fragments" is a mantra that needs to be chanted again and again.

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DANCE BRIAN WEBB DANCE COMPANY/MILE ZERO DANCE • Timms Centre, U of A • Featuring Tania Alvarado and Gerry Morita of Mile Zero Dance • Jan 18-19, 8pm • $35/$20 (student/senior) at TIX on the Square

CITIE BALLET–PATHWAY, A DANCE JOURNEY • Dow Centennial Centre, Shell Theatre, 8700-84 St, Fort Saskatchewan • Edmonton's Citie Ballet • Jan 19, 7:30pm • $27.50 (adult)/$25.50 (senior/youth) at fortsask.ca/dowcentre

FILM BUMP 'N' GRINDHOUSE • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave, 780.446.6940 • Movies and shorts by local cult heroes • Feb 2, 11pm-1am • Admission: bring a die-cast metal car, your imagination and money for beer

CINEMA AT THE CENTRE • Library Theatre, Stanley A. Milner Library bsmt, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.496.7000 • A Cat In Paris; Jan 23, 6:30pm

GRAPHIC CONTENT FILM SERIES • Metro Cinema at Garneau Theatre • Sin City, directed by Robert Rodriguez of Machete and Grindhouse fame, and with help from comic violence virtuoso Frank Miller • Jan 22, 7pm • $10 (adult)/$8 (student/ senior)

FROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley A. Milner Library Audio Visual Room (main fl), 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.496.7000 • Films adapted from books every Friday afternoon at 2pm • My Darling Clementine; Jan 18, 2pm • 3:10 to Yuma; Jan 25, 2pm

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186106 St, 780.488.6611 • Discovery Gallery: EARTHLY ElEMEntS: Charles Lewton-Brain and Les Manning in recognition of contributions and work; until Feb 16 • Feature Gallery: GolDEn EDGE: Artworks by 16 craft artists; until Mar 30

ART BEAT GALLERY • 26 St Anne St, St Albert, 780.459.3679 • New works by gallery artists including Roger Belley, Shirley Cordes-Rogozinsky, Andrew Raszewski, Bev Bunker, Randy Hayashi, Igor Postash, and Tinyan • Through Jan

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.422.6223 • BEAUTIFUL MonStERS: Beasts and Fantastic Creatures in Early European Prints; until Mar 3 • 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 • thE nEwS FRoM hERE: The 2013 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art: Curated by Nancy Tousley; Jan 26-May 5 • Adult Drop-in: Shape Shift: Wood and Mixed Media Sculpture: Jan 17 • Press: Collograph Printing: Jan 24 • All Day Sunday: Art activities for all ages 3rd Sun every month, 12-4pm; free with admission • Art for Lunch: theatre Foyer: Casual and informative discussions about AGA exhibitions, held during the lunch hour, 3rd Thu every month • Inuit Art Road Show: Manning Hall: Jan 20, 1pm (registration); 2-4:30pm (appraisals); free

ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert, 780.460.4310 • GAME PiECES: Paintings by Margaret Witschl • Until Feb 2 • Artventures: Drop-in children's for ages 6-12; Cool Colour Creations: Jan 19, 1-4pm; $5/child • Ageless Art: Art for mature adults: Monochromatic Still Life; Jan 17, 1-3pm; $12, pre-register

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 Feb-Jul

BRINSMEAD KENNEDY GALLERY • 10434-122 St • Naturally Abstract: artwork by David Blaine, featuring abstract images discovered in natural environments • Until Feb 28 CAFÉ HAVEN–Sherwood Park • 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park • NVSart is featured • Sep-Jan

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CROOKED POT GALLERY–Stony Plain • 4912-51 Ave, Stony Plain, 780.963.9573 • Winter warming-casseroles, tea pots, mugs and more: a variety of slab, wheel thrown, decorated works selected for display by gallery members • Jan-Feb

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boUnCE: Works by Jason Baerg • Until Feb 24

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8440-112 St, 780.407.7152 • thE SPiRit oF AGinG: Photographs by Sharon Moore • Jan 19-Mar 24 • Reception: Jan 24

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FAB GALLERY • Department of Art and Design, U of A, Rm 1-1 Fine Arts Bldg, 780.492.2081 • Sam Walrod: the final visual presentation for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Painting; Jan 22-Feb 16 • Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada; Jan 22-Feb 16

GALLERIE PAVA • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • Retrospective of Nathalie Shewchuk-Paré's artwork; Jan 19-Mar 5; opening: Jan 19, 1-4pm

MISERICORDIA COMMUNITY HOSPITAL • Main Fl halls, 16940-87 Ave, 780.432.6678; wands@ web.net • Edmonton Art Club Show and Sale • Until Jan 26

NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave, 780.432.0240 • Works by Byron McBride • Until Feb 15

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GALLERY 7 • Bookstore on Perron, 7 Perron St, St. Albert, 780.459.2525 • nAtURES obSERvAnCE: Graphite and pastel artworks by Carroll Charest • Until Jan 28

Ave, 780.455.7479 • Group exhibitions: Artworks by gallery artists • Until Mar 23

GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave,

Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.944.5383 • DISPLAY CASES: SPACES AnD PlACES: Works by the Focus on Fibre Arts Association of Edmonton • Until Jan 31

RED DEER COLLEGE LIBRARY • The Panels: PORTRAITURE: Alberta Society of Artists • Until Jan 21

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

Winston Churchill Ave, St. Albert, 780.460.5990 • wEt PAint: Small artworks by VASA artists • Until Feb 2

LITERARY AUDREYS BOOKS • 107 St, Jasper Ave • Stroll of Poets: Poets' Haven Weekly Series • Feb 10, Mar 10

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GALLERY–Red Deer • Sunworks, 4924 Ross St • ART OF THE PEACE: Works by Peace River Country artists • Until Feb 9 • Reception: Fri, Feb 1, 6-8pm; Red Deer’s First Friday

ENJOY CENTRE • Moonflower Room, St Albert • The Perennial Book Club: Winter Garden Party: With a discussion via Skype with author Vanessa Diffenbaugh. In support of the Youth Emergency Shelter Society (Y.E.S.S.) • Jan 20, 1:30-4:30pm • $40 at Audreys Books, Hole’s at the Enjoy Centre

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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

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 Jan

RITCHIE COMMUNITY LEAGUE • 7727-98 St • Book signing and talk with Joel Salatin • Jan 23, 7-9pm

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RIVERDALE • 9917-87 St • Creative Word Jam • Every 3rd Sun of the month, 6-10pm

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ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111117 St, 780.902.5900 • Poetry every Tue with Edmonton's local poets

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MANDOLIN BOOKS • 6419-112 Ave • nvSARt: Textured abstract art • Through Jan

MARJORIE WOOD GALLERY–Red Deer • Kerry Wood Nature Centre • oUR SURRoUnDinGS: Works by Red Deer Culture Services photography students • Through Jan

Enterprise Square, 10230 Jasper Ave, 780.492.5834 • PASSion PRoJECt: 75 works from the U of A art collection, until Jan 26; Passion Project–Curator's Talk with Jim Corrigan, 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; Jan 18, 12:15-1pm • 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; Jan 19, 2-4pm

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LA CITÉ FRANCOPHONE THÉÂTRE • 862791 St • JAZZ 'ART: Featuring by artists: Jacques Martel, Sylvia Grist, Nathalie Shewchuk-Paré, Rachelle Bugeaud, Susan Woolgar, Curtis Johnson; musicians: Pierre-Paul Bugeaud, Jamie Philp, Bill Richards, Brett Miles, Gord.

Silent auction and open auction of artworks during the night • Jan 26 • $20 at CAVA

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Deer Public Library • boRRowinG ARt: The Red Deer Public Library Art Lending Program • Until Feb 19

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

STANLEY MILNER LIBRARY • Edmonton Room, 780.453.9100 • RivER'S EDGE: Until Apr 10 • inUUJAq: Dolls of the Canadian Arctic; Until Apr 28

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 • StEAM: a winter intermission: Figurative artworks • Jan 18-25 • Opening reception: Jan 18, 7-10pm SNAP GALLERY • Society Of Northern Alberta Print-Artists, 10123-121 St, 780.423.1492 • Main Gallery: biMPE (Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition): Prints measuring no more than 15cm x 10cm • Until Jan 31 STRATHCONA COUNTY GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park, 780.410.8585 • noMADiC

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downstairs • Edmonton Stroll Of Poets–Vision 2013: Members, share your ideas on where we are now and where we want to be in the next 3-5 years • Jan 26 9:30-11:30am

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 UPPER CRUST CAFÉ • 10909-86 Ave, 780.422.8174 • The Poets’ Haven Weekly Reading Series: every Mon, 7pm; Presented by the Stroll of Poets Society • $5 • Jan 21 feature local spoken word artists Matt Dekker, Christine Falk, Teresa Manning, and Linda PapineauCouture

WUNDERBAR ON WHYTE • 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 • The poets of Nothing, For Now: poetry workshop and jam every Sun • No minors UPPER CRUST CAFÉ • 10909-86 Ave,

780.422.8174 • The Poets’ Haven Weekly Reading Series: every Mon, 7pm presented by the Stroll of Poets Society • Jan 21, 28 • $5

THEATRE THE 11 O’CLOCK NUMBER! • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • Grindstone Theatre presents a two act improvised musical every other Fri, 11pm • Jan 25

BUDDY HOLLY STORY • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave, 780.483.4051 • By Alan Janes with Jeff Giles as Buddy • Until Feb 3

CABARET WITH JOHN ALCORN • The Club at the Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • Featuring Cole Porter songs featuring Steve Wallace on bass and Reg Schwager on guitar • Jan 25-26 • $35 at box office THE CANOE THEATRE FESTIVAL • The 2013 Festival lineup includes: tudor queens by Send in the Girls Burlesque (Edmonton) ; vice versa

by Punctuate Theatre (Edmonton); white Rabbit Red Rabbit (Canadian/Iranian/Irish CoPro with local actors); northern Soul by Victoria Melody (Brighton, UK) Victoria Melody’s hilarious onewoman show ; A western by Action Hero (Bristol, UK); Dancing with Rage by Mary Walsh • Info at workshopwest.org • Jan 24-Feb 3

CHIMPROV • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • 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) DATE NIGHT FUNDRAISER • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • Improv performances and a LIVE auction where you'll have the chance to bid on hot dates with our hot players, presented by Rapid Fire Theatre • Jan 19, 7:30pm • $5 (door); proceeds to travel expenses for visiting artists during Improvaganza 2013

DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave, 780.433.3399 • The live improvised soap opera • Every Mon, until May 27, 7:30pm (subject to change) • Tickets at the box office

EVIE'S WALTZ • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • Presented by Shadow Theatre. Clay and Gloria Matthews' son has just been expelled for bringing a gun to school; then the intervention barbecue is torpedoed by his fiery accomplice-girlfriend • Jan 23-Feb 10 • $16-$27; Jan 25 (Pay-What-You-Can) FREE-MAN ON THE LAND • Roxy Theatre, 10708-124 St • Presented by Theatre Network and Azimuth Theatre. By Spirot, live original music by local singer/songwriter Dale Ladouceur, the theatrical fiction of the Man Commonly Known as Richard Svoboda strives to disengage from the system of legal fictions that claim to govern us • Jan 15-27 • $11-$22; $21 (adult)/$16 (student/ senior); Preview: Jan 15 and 16, $13 ea; Jan 22: Two-For-One/$22 (for two)/$11 (for one)

HOT 8 GUMBO–MARDI GRAS FOR THE FAMILY! • Arden Theatre • This brass is bright and blazing hot. The Hot 8 Brass Band produces a waterfall of soul-soaked sound that you’ll find truly irresistible. Carrying on a tradition that dates back to New Orleans’ famous jazz roots, Hot 8 shares the joyful music of the city’s world-famous Mardi Gras parade. Steeped in West African rhythms, this group creates a live performance that is rich, full and inspiring • Jan 27, 2pm

JACK AND THE BEANSTALK • Horizon Stage, 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce Grove, 780.962.8995 • Missoula Children’s Theatre • Jan 19, 2pm, 7pm • $18 (adult)/$15 (student/senior)/$5 (eyeGo) JAKE’S GIFT • Maclab Centre for the Performing Arts, Leduc, 780.980.1866 • Written and performed by Julia Mackey. A funny drama about a Canadian World War II veteran and a 10-yearold French girl • Jan 20, 7:30pm • $27 (adult)/$22 (student/senior) NCIS • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, 8882-170 St, WEM, 780.484.2424 • 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 • Until Jan 26

PAPER SO NG • Westbury Theatre, TransAlta Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave • A traditional Japanese folktale about a crane (Tsuru) with the story of a young mouse and her grandfather, as they struggle against an oppressive overlord, the goblin Tengu. Suitable for ages 4+ • Jan 24-26 • $18 (adult); $15 (student/senior); $13 (12 and under); Jan 25, 7pm; Jan 26, 11am, 2pm; Schools: bring your students to the Westbury Theatre: Jan 24, 10am, 1pm; Jan 25, 1pm • Group pricing available through Fringe Theatre Adventures 780.409.1910

THEATRESPORTS • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101 A Ave • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm THE V.I.P. KID’S SHOW • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave, 780.433.3399 • Series for children where young and old can enjoy a Variety, Improv and Puppet show with Kate Ryan, Davina Stewart, Donovan Workun, Dana Andersen, Cathy Derkach and friends • Jan 26, 11am • $6/$60 (VIP pass)

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SNOW ZONE // WINE FESTIVAL

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The snow was heaped sky high and sculpted puffy and pillowy atop European-style, three-story buildings in Sun Peaks Village. We were ready to eat, drink, climb into the hot tub and be merry.

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Festival of Wine. The first weekend this year featured Fort Berens Winery, a vintner newcomer from the old country. Winemaker Heleen Pannekoek joined us at our table for dinner in the intimate Black Garlic Bistro and in a good-natured way laughed off many of the challenges of starting a winery in Lillooet, BC, after immigrating more than 7000 kilometres from Holland.

As for dinner, each course was paired with white wines only—an unusual choice for a winemakers' dinner. We sampled the Fort Berens's 23 Camels White, Chardonnay, and Riesling.

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ed on Sunday with the blind tasting party. The winner was a local FrenchCanadian mom and a serious merlotmeritage-syrah-savante. She correctly identified eight out of nine reds and whites from both well-known and lesser-known Okanagan wineries.

Over the weekend, I spoke to skiers from Alaska, California, Oregon and Washington, and snowboarders from Alberta, BC, Ontario and Quebec, and everyone enjoyed the wine and the slopes.

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And, on top of all that, there are even opportunities to ski with Nancy Greene, the resort's director of skiing and an Olympic medalist. To find out when she's on the slopes, check for signage at the top of the Sunburst Chairlift. Greene won gold and silver medals at the 1968 Grenoble Winter Olympics, plus 17 Canadian ski championships, two world cups, and in 1999 she was named Canadian female athlete of the century.

The Winter Festival of Wine continues through Sunday, January 20, with numerous events each day. After a day on the slopes, you can wander around the village while tasting wine from 25

BC wineries one night and the next morning continue the tasting during brunch. And why stop there? The wine keeps flowing all day long, paired with cheese or chocolate or tapas.

To see what the festival has to offer, visit sunpeaksresort.com. Accomodations can be made through a central reservation line (1.800.807.3257) or through Top of the Mountain Accommodations & Management (topofthemountain.ca). A few events have already sold out, so if you feel the urge to wine, dine and ski, be sure to book now and plan later.

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The annual Jasper in January festival is well under way, and if the kickoff weekend was any indication of its success, I think organizers nailed it yet again.

Media from Edmonton, Calgary, Prince George and numerous other locations were invited to partake in the opening weekend of the 24th annual festival. For lucky me, it was my 17th year in attendance.

As on many previous occasions, mother nature played a huge role in the weekend's success. On Wednesday and Thursday, just before we arrived, 47 centimetres of snow blanketed Marmot Basin and the town. A welcome and much-needed dump after several verydry weeks. You could see it in eyes and hear it in the voices of our check-in staff at the Sawridge Inn: they were totally jacked about their adventures on the slopes the last couple of days.

For that matter, all weekend long I heard about amazing crashes where airborne boarders and skiers didn't feel a thing upon impact. Just a swipe of the goggles and all was good to go.

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it means a dedicated outdoor enthusiast who works part time to make just enough money to ski five days a week.

If you ask Maarty Meijer, a ski patroller at Marmot Basin, a ski bum is someone who "doesn't work and skis all winter." By that definition, he says, he can't be one. "I work full time and people make careers out of ski patrol, thus, me, not a bum." He is, though, a ski enthusiast, who spends his winters in Jasper, happily skiing Marmot's most difficult terrain.

If you ask Drew Pearson, a firefighter in St Albert, you can, like Meijer, have a lucrative job and be a ski bum.

For Pearson, it's more about the lifestyle choice than the job. "One of the reasons I chose to be a firefighter is because, as a shift worker, it gives you so many opportunities to get out into the mountains," he says. "Every four days I'm back in the mountains. I don't think the people who work the regular nine-to-five jobs have that opportunity as much."

Pearson was a ski patroller and raft

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guide for nine years before he became "gainfully employed." But, he still ski patrols part time, just to keep his feet wet.

And he lives like a true ski bum while he's enjoying his mountain days, camping out in a $350 truck-trailer he bought off Kijiji. "When I hit the mountains, the ski-bum lifestyle it is. Is there any other way to enjoy the mountains that doesn't cost a butt load of money?"

And, that's what it's all about, he says: spending time on the slopes, catching first chair and drinking a few beers. In his words, it's about "living simply."

"We need more people in this day and age to live simply," he says. "People that would rather spend their time enjoying and playing in the outdoors and in the mountains than work at a second job or a third job just so they can afford things that they just throw out in a few years.

"If I can sum it up, your experiences, your adventures and your friends define you, not what you do and not what you own. That's the philosophy."

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Within a split second I was travelling backwards and when the backs of the skis dug in, my world turned upside down several times over. I didn't even feel a thing because the powder absorbed every blow.

I also discovered another nice thing at Marmot Basin. Long lift lines and overstuffed parking lots are no longer a direct correlation. On Saturday, 3000 guests flocked to the slopes and we didn't face a lift line longer than six chairs. All the additions and upgrades to the lift infrastructure over the past few years have really paid off. And now, with their snow-making capability, the winter season goes from early November to the first weekend in May, another milestone for the Marmot Basin team.

Although some might argue this, Jasper isn't all about skiing and boarding.

On Friday night, we kicked off the festival at the Whistle Stop Pub where a boisterous crowd celebrated the season, new snow and life. There were drinks aplenty, a steady flow of free appetizers cruising through the house and great live music by local artists Picture the Ocean, making for a wonderful evening. Later that night, as we stepped outside, we could hear Mourning Wood

belting out tunes at the AthaB. I'm sure this party atmosphere will repeat itself several times over as many new guests arrive to take their turn on the slopes and in the town.

My last word goes out to the wonderful hospitality staff. Phil, our desk clerk at the Sawridge Inn, was the first one we met. After unpacking we came down to the lobby and requested a taxi. "Taxi?" he said, "I'll just grab my coat and drive you." So off we went.

The staff at Marmot Basin and all the other establishments we visited were no different. Big smiles were abundant all weekend long. No wonder they call it the big friendly. There's more snow in the forecast, so I suggest you find some time for a getaway to experience the wonder of Jasper in January for yourself.

To find a full schedule of festival events, visit jasper.travel. There is at least one event every night from now until January 27. And, this weekend is particularly packed with popular activities, like the Mountain Park Lodge's Chili Cook-off, the Atco Family Street Party and the Polar Bear Dip. There are also killer deals on hotels and lift passes. V

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The bar has been set

The Makk on 124 starts 2013 off with dining success

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elebrating life's small victories is an essential tonic to the dreary days and long nights of the post-festive season in the City of Putative Champions. So while January usually entails some self-imposed austerity measures to atone for (or pay off) the excesses of yuletide, one still requires a touch of merriment to dispel the despair that can accumulate when, say, looking out a bus window at the dark, snow-blighted world at 7 am.

In this spirit, the co-diner and I decided that making it through the first week of 2013 called for some kind of celebration. Not only had we (as a civilization) outstripped the Mayans' expectations in somehow forestalling our doom, we (as spoiled, post-everything materialists) had completely avoided making any new year's resolutions, thus obviating the despair that comes with failing at the merest gestures toward self-improvement. Even better, we had a fancy new restaurant in which to toast these not-failures.

The Makk on 124 opened its doors on 124 Street late last year, just slightly ahead of the similarly niched Red Ox Inn satellite operation Canteen, and seems to be humming along quite nicely, the conventional wisdom that a new resto needs a few months to find its feet notwithstanding. Could be the cumulative experience of Chef Kasiran Simin, who has ties to vegan mecca Padmanadi, as well as Culina and Zinc, has served him well in establishing a hip new eatery on Edmonton's perennially up-and-coming strip. His varied background certainly explains a menu that's fluent in vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free, as well as locally-sourced and decadently omnivorous.

Austerity is reserved for the handsome interior, split roughly between red and grey, with tall windows, exposed fixtures,

tastefully dispersed art and a central bar.

High ceilings create an illusion of spaciousness, meaning you should probably consider a reservation most nights. This particular night was not so bustling, but we were still seated in near proximity to another pair of diners, to whom I apologize not only for eavesdropping, but then taking up their topic of conversation with my date. You folks were fascinating!

And so is the menu. As noted, there's something for every dietary predilection and a good range of price-tags, but the terse descriptions are almost Hemingwavian in their evocation of the food—enough detail to tantalize, but none of the purple prose that often distinguishes foodie-porn.

It's all to the good, as you're not even sure what to expect when your food arrives.

The co-diner had scouted out the menu online and pre-decided that we would be having the lobster-avocado salad ($14). It was a minor struggle to settle on main courses, but she eventually opted for the smoked duck breast ($29), which left it to me to order the seared lamb loin ($30). Since we missed an opportunity to indulge in MRKT's fabulous flourless chocolate cake the week before, it was a foregone conclusion we'd be trying The Makk's version ($8), no matter what.

Presentation is a big part of The Makk experience, and each plate featured artfully arranged food staged, swirled and dotted with infused oils and sauces. The lobsteravocado salad, for example, dressed up a plump half-lobster tail with crushed avocado, fresh microgreens, a colourful concoction of diced mango, tomato and red onion, and bright dribs of mango syrup.

The eponymous ingredients were an inspired pairing heightened by the sweet and savoury blandishments, and we quickly regretted having to share a portion.

Two possibilities are implied by a $20plus entrée. One is that you get so much food you'll go home with a tinfoil swan under your arm; the other is that the meal

is smaller, but so thoughtfully assembled that you're practically obliged to savour every chew. The latter was certainly the case with the seared lamb loin, cooked an exacting medium rare, encased in a crisped slice of the house-made bread lined with thyme, and accompanied by a small pool of jus. The preparation allowed the tender lamb to shine, but the sides of ratatouille—stewed eggplant, peppers and tomatoes bound with iridescent ajvar—and dumpling-like potato pasta were an astute complement and a pretty slick way to present a starch.

Likewise, my co-diner's succulent smoked duck breast, showing just a seam of pink at its delicious core, rested against twin servings of Macaire potatoes topped with slow-braised red cabbage. This was a starch-style I hadn't previously encountered, but which I would wager is exactly the opposite of vegan given its texture and flavour.

Having indulged in one too many groaninducing meals over the holidays, I was relieved to find room for my share of flourless chocolate cake which, despite the menu's promises, didn't come sided with red coulis or fresh fruit confit (not that I would necessarily recognize those things if I saw them). It did come with a serving of the house-made sorbet which, in this case, was intensely flavoured with orange, the tartness of which proved apt for offsetting the deep, dense richness of the cake itself. The house sorbet also comes in lobster, beet or yam if you have something to prove about your appetite for novelty.

Thus was the first week of January successfully celebrated—abetted by attentive, helpful service, might I add. Whichever venue we choose to celebrate the success of this celebration had better bring their A-game, as The Makk on 124 has set the bar dauntingly high.

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Hogging the hops New brewery hits capital region

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There is a new kid in town, and he has got master of Alberta breweries. Their flagship a mean snout on him. In early November, beer is Hop Slayer, an India Pale Ale that the first beer rolled out of the Hog's Head runs at 100 IBUs (a standardized meaBrewery and into the pubs of the Capital surement of bitterness—don't sweat the Region. And even though it is early days for details), which by any account is one hell this start-up, they already have three things of a lot of hops. They use eight different that separate them from the pack. hops in Hop Slayer, and have a "smaller" First, they are located in St Albert, IPA called Baby Back that is a mere 91 IBUs. becoming the first-ever brewery to To give you a point for comparison, your operate out of the Edmonton suburb. average IPA runs at about 50 IBUs. Hog's Head owner Brian Molloy says At the moment, they have only one that it was a conscious choice. other beer—a pumpkin beer called "Our other business is in St Albert (Molloy Death By Pumpkin (which also has a is principal at liquor distributor Spider Bevnoticeable hop kick)—but have plans erages). I live in St Albert," he says. It only for more. Molloy says the brewery's made sense to him the he should hopes are to have a stable of locate his brewery there as well. five beer, plus a constantly Second, they bailed Amber's changing series of one-off Brewing out of a sticky situam beer. They don't plan to do o .c ly k e vuewe tion. Over the summer, a last- tothepint@ seasonals in a traditional n o Jas minute rent increase at Amber's sense.

Foster 99th Street location forced them "There will be no pattern," Molloy to find a new home for brewing their says. "We plan to throw out some kegs of beer. After searching without success, something interesting, have some fun and Amber's agreed to have Hog's Head brew see how people react."

Amber's beer at their brewery (in the inMolloy, who previously worked at Tree dustry this is called "contract brewing").

Brewing in Kelowna, BC, wants to bring This arrangement was made more doable micro-brewing back to its roots.

by Hog's Head purchasing Amber's brew"We are both businesspeople and house—giving them two (a 15-hectolitre and beer geeks. We want to bring the story a 25-hectolitre)—which is an unusual set-up, back, bring the fun back into microbut one that offers Hog's Head more flexbrewing," he adds. ibility in terms of batch sizes and scheduling.

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than bottles. This is a growing trend in the US, but is rarer in Canada. At first, only Hop Slayer will be available in cans (due in early spring), but the plan is to have all five beer in cans. They will also offer their beer in two-litre "growlers," which are re-usable flip-top bottles popular among beer drinkers who want beer with low environmental impact.

At time of writing, the release of Hop Slayer had been delayed a few weeks, but the Baby Back and Death by Pumpkin were available at select locations.

The Baby Back lives up to the hophead reputation, with a big citrus hop aroma and bitterness, a light body and a decidedly hop-forward attitude—and this is the "small" IPA. The Death By Pumpkin was drier and sharper than most pumpkin beer you will have tried. The dry body draws out the spicing more, and while the hop addition doesn't present as a hops, per se, it does give the beer a 90-degree turn in the linger.

You can find Hog's Head beer at select pubs in town, including Underground Tap and Grill and the Sugar Bowl, and on the growler system at Wine and Beyond and Keg 'n Cork liquor stores. V Jason Foster is the creator of onbeer.org, a website devoted to news and views on beer from the prairies and beyond.

MUSIC It just keeps getting better

COVER // POP

Hannah Georgas continues momentum with more touring—lots of touring Fri, Jan 18 (6:30 pm) Hannah Georgas With Early Doors Starlite Room, $20

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ast the heartache and tumultuous emotion that rings at the center of Hannah Georgas' latest album— a self-titled release that sees the Vancouver-based artist channelling a contemplative look at life and love—is a shift in sonic direction, bringing the songwriter further into her own sound.

She's often been compared to Feist, but Georgas' evolving sound is something all her own, and her latest record brings in the help of Graham Walsh from Holy Fuck as producer, a collaboration that helped Georgas add a heavy electronic influence to her signature honest and mellifluous sound without losing its human touch.

Walsh and Georgas spent three weeks meticulously jamming away in pre-production, giving the songs space to breathe and creating strong, simple melodies to set the

tone for the words to carry through.

Georgas compares Walsh to a scientist, tinkering away on different instruments to make the concept a reality. As her sound continues to grow and evolve, so does Georgas' approach to songwriting.

"I've just kind of refined how my process is as a songwriter and demoing and I think I've gotten better at that ... for the last record, I wanted to make sure that I was sitting down every single day and writing and practising the piano," explains Georgas, who moved to Vancouver eight years ago and, after a short stint in university, made the decision to forgo academia in favour of pursuing music. "I think that kind of channelled things easier and bettered me as a musician. I think it also comes out in the live stuff, too, and just conducting and getting a band together, and I think all that is making me a better musician."

The diligence has paid off, with Georgas—who is a two-time Juno nominee—recently earning a CBC Radio 3 Bucky Award for "Hottest

Pipes" for the Best Vocal Performance on "Robot." Georgas has also logged some serious miles on the odometer, sandwiching her recording process for her self-titled album in between two lengthy tours. She set out again after finishing recording her latest release in the fall of 2011, this time for a fourmonth international tour with Kathleen Edwards, pulling double duty as the opening act and a member of Edwards's backing band.

"I think, for me, I just learned a lot on that tour," Georgas adds of the Edwards tour, which began with a breakfast meeting between the two and went from Georgas learning Edwards's songs in a matter of days for a performance video to singing harmonies with her on the road. "I was kind of on the go all day. As soon as you get to the venue, you're there until the end of the night, but it was really fun because Kathleen and her crew are absolutely lovely, and I love to sing and play with her band. For me, opening was great too, so I ended up having a blast doing it."

From there, the momentum didn't

diminish. This time, Georgas' musical talents were on display as the opening act for Mother Mother. For Georgas, the tour was a chance to catch up with old friends from the band, something she says is easier to do on the road than it is back home since each have their own hectic schedules to deal with.

Going from playing open-mic nights playing for a handful audience members to packed houses and supporting act to headliner is something Georgas is continually getting used to, though she says that the feeling she gets before stepping out on stage in front of a new crowd remains the same.

"And that's like, 'Oh man, I feel like I'm going to barf.' It's just normal," Georgas laughs, adding once she starts playing the butterflies subside and she can enjoy the experience. "I don't think that feeling will ever change for me and I've kind of accepted that. It's just the way it is."

After a quick break back at home, where Georgas says it always takes a few days to switch from on-the-road

mode to life at home, she's heading back out, trading in daily routine for another round of living life out of a suitcase. While this means she'll be singing the same set of songs night after night once more, Georgas has found ways to keep things fresh for herself and her perspective on the lyrics often changes as time goes on.

"I think once you're so deep into a record and you're playing those songs night after night, you're trying to find ways where you can still get really excited about them, too, and try to figure out how to make them sound the best live. Those are the challenges I face," she admits. "You know when you first get a record and fall in love with it?

After a while if you listen to it and play it like a million times, you just feel different about it. It's kind of the same when you're playing those songs night after night. You just want to try to make them sound the best that they can and channel that energy when you first heard the song, to try to get that feeling every night."

MEAGHAN BAXTER

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ulti-instrumentalist and award-winning songwriter JR Shore is set for the release of his latest album, State Theatre, which continues on in the vein of his trademark soulful blues-folk style, with a bonus disc of covers included. Before taking the stage in Edmonton this Friday, Shore shared his soundtrack picks with Vue.

At home

Morning: The morning wake-up is a delicate balance between what's inspiring enough to get you out of bed, but not so in-your-face, forcing you to hide under the covers. Chatham County Line's album IV starts off with that perfect balance with the song "Chip of a Star," and gets better from there.

Noon: Lunch with my son has a regular soundtrack to keep us yipping and yapping during meals. A vintage copy of Disney's Country Bears is our current fave. With classics like "Mama Don't Whip Little Buford," how can you go wrong?

Night: Kids are asleep. The day is done. It's time to settle into Richard (Dickey) Betts' album Highway Call. Chuck Leavell and Vassar Clements knock your socks off from start to finish, just in time to catch some shut eye.

On the road

Morning: Mornings need a bit more of a kick-start on the road. A lot of the time it's a get-up-and-go scenario.

A good strong coffee and a funky soundtrack get the day cooking bright and early. Dr John's new one, Locked Down is just what the Good Doctor ordered for watching the sun rise over the highway.

Noon: By midday, the brain is ready for one of the great tunesmiths of today. Todd Snider's Excitement Plan is cued up and ready to roll. Combine one of the greatest baseball songs ever written (about Dock Ellis's no-hitter under the influence of LSD) and a duet with Loretta Lynn, and you're hitting your destination before you can say, "Hot damn, this album is fine."

Night: This is getting serious now. If you haven't pulled over for the night and are still a good ways away from your destination, it's time to pull out the big guns. Bob Dylan and the Band's Before the Flood brings you some of the greatest songs ever written, performed with the energy of their prime years. Being able to sing along with every word can be critical at this point in a drive, and this album is happy to oblige. V

PREVUE // ELECTROACOUSTIC

Art's Birthday own birthday—January 17—to commemorate all things art. Filliou suggested at the time that art didn't exist until one million years before the creation of the designated celebration, which makes Art 1 000 050 years young in 2013.

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The international event has been confirmed in 10 different countries,

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and the celebrations can be viewed live online in cities such as Prague, Antwerp, Vienna and Stockholm, as well as places a little closer to home like Vancouver and Calgary.

Edmonton's chapter is spearheaded by the Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society (BEAMS), and will follow in the now 50-year tradition first conceived in 1963 by French artist Robert Filliou, who dedicated his

This year's birthday celebrations aim to bring together a group of artists and musicians who push the boundaries, as well as provide a chance for them to be acknowledged for their hard work and dedication. The lineup of outside-the-box thinkers includes SkruntSkrunt, Don Ross, Bill Damur, Serenity Cell, Babysugarbag, Pizzarrhea and Pigeon Breeders.

To add to the celebration, Jagger has dubbed this year's theme the Edmonton Non-Music Awards in response to what he sees as the lack of categorical variety at the annual Edmonton Music Awards, particularly when it comes to electroacoustic music.

"I'm not trying to diss the Edmonton Music Awards, but they didn't have categories for experimental artists and they didn't have categories for jazz artists or world-beat artists," he adds. "I'm just wanting to acknowledge those musicians in our community."

MEAGHAN BAXTER

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PREVUE // METAL

Hidden Towers Sat, Jan 19 (9 pm) With Claw, Gary Debussy Wunderbar

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he inception of Hidden Towers has been over a decade in the making, its founding members enduring incessant lineup changes and obstacles from side obligations delayings its progress.

"I guess I just really believed in what we were doing and had a strong passion towards it and didn't want to see the songs that we were working on go to waste," says Chris Cantrell—who cofounded the group with fellow Alberta expat Ben Holland—of his determination to see the project through, despite consistently having to teach new members the songs as Hidden Towers morphed from a three-piece to a four-piece to a five-piece and finally back to a trio, with drummer Jakub Svoboda rounding out the group.

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Now the Vancouver-based band is launching its first full-length LP, Olympus Mons, a disc forged of influences in '90s metal and psychedelic rock. Throughout the thundering disc, which delivers a sonic palette far larger and more

diverse than something three people should be able to pull off, is an over-arching theme of exploring the unknown.

"All of the songs except for the last song seemed to deal with death in the subject matter in some way or another, and then the last song, well, I grew up Mormom and it was about being baptized. It's called 'Drowining in a Baptismal Font' and it's about rebirth through Christian pageantry," Cantrell explains with a slight chuckle.

As far as death is concerned, Hidden Towers explores both the hypothetical and real, drawing on past experiences such as Cantrell and Holland stumbling across a dead body outside a campsite outside Gainsford, AB, which became the moniker for the track.

"Some of them come from how I would deal with a hypothetical situation," Cantrell adds. "If you've ever laid awake at night and thought about how you would feel if you lost a loved one or if you lost everything you own in a fire or these really traumatic experiences."

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bum. It could slip into background repetition if it wasn't being bolstered by Romano's sharp lyricism. Opener "Middle Child" cries for a mama who abandoned just the second of three children; the protagonist in "I'm Not Crying Over You" knows his girl will come back when she realizes all his tears are "just a role he's workin' on"; "Chicken Bill" finds Romano channeling Johnny Cash. Sometimes, it feels a little tongue in cheek: "When I Was Abroad" could be the tale of a nostalgic sailor or a drag queen, depending on whether or not you take its lyrics sincerely. The final track, "A New Love (Can Be Found)," is the highlight, a gorgeous, heartbroken closer stripped down to a lone, live guitar and ghostly, barely there backing vocal.

This is a classic country album. It's been made in a modern era, but with a genuine affection for the genre's heyday. With that in mind, Come Cry WIth Me is about the best invitation you'll get these days. I recommend you take him up on it.

Amy van Keeken's So Long is a delicate heartbreaker that, on the surface, anyway, seems closer to the tumbling country sounds of the AwesomeHots than her work rocking out with the Secretaries. Dig deeper, though, and you'll find van Keeken wringing emotion from every note, her voice as powerful here in a (mostly) acoustic setting as when she's singing over top of a rock 'n' roll band.

Opener "Golden Leaves" begins the set with quiet and steady strumming, wistful organ and bowed bass joining van Veeken's melody as the song plays out, while "Fire For You" is a torch-lit love song complicated by van Keeken's vocal twists and turns.

The record spins on the title track, providing a stunning mid-point for the set as van Keeken sings, "It's been so long since I felt so good," the melody rising towards a precipice, finally arriving and holding there in a haunting pause before backing off ever so slightly. It's the sort of song that sits comfortably, compellingly, on repeat, van Keeken's ragged guitar strums melding perfectly with Darren Radbourne's coronet and Tom Murray's double bass.

The final two tracks flow together almost as two connected parts: "You In My Mind" is a sparse confession of love, while "Living Without" adds a reverberating electric guitar and steady, driving percussion to the sonic palette, van Keeken's voice wavering subtly until it gathers its full force and rises to the top of a turbulent swell. So Long is about as close as you can get to a perfect record, each track mining a new piece of territory without becoming lost and disconnected from what came before, turning the songs into a complete piece of work rather than a tenuous collection.

PAUL BLINOV

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Daniel Romano Come Cry With Me (Normaltown)  Daniel Romano is probably best known for some combination of the following: founding rock/punk outfit Attack in Black, playing with (and co-producing) Dallas Green's City and Colour and crafting clever, folksy songs with Julie Doiron and Frederick Squire.

That's a varied (and collaborative!) CV, but Romano's third solo album, Come Cry With Me, suggests his true calling has always been reclaiming the opensky heartbreak of classic country music.

Its 10 songs sound like they were recorded on a lonesome Sunday afternoon at some backwater bar, chickenwire stretched across the stage: this is sad-cowboy music, tear-in-your-beer songwriting made with a strict adherence to AM country style. The darker moments of Gram Parsons' Grievous Angel haunt these songs: glance at the back and be greeted with titles like "Two Pillow Sleeper," "I'm Not Crying Over You" and "He Let Her Memory Go (Wild)." Somebody, buy Romano another round. Sounds like he needs it.

The instrumentation—winsome harmonies, crystalline and omnipresent slide guitar, sad sack strums and precise, wagon-wheel drumming—holds a steady tone throughout most of the al-

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Jose James No Beginning No End (Blue Note) @VueWeekly: African rhythms, jazz-inspired neo-soul from this risk taker.

Think D’Angelo. Now think Robert Glasper. A very cool cat, without a doubt.

Ulrich Schnauss A Long Way to Fall (Domino) @VueWeekly: Extraterrestrial music that brings on the mellowest trance of melancholy and, often times, utter boredom.

Free Energy Love Sign (Free People) @VueWeekly: Very simple, straightforward rnr that, while not guaranteeing a great time, claims to be about one. How bitchin’ Camaro of them.

Foxygen We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic (Jagjaguwar) @VueWeekly: Something tells me the Velvet Underground is going to have a lot of shirts for sale at Urban Outfitters.

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University of Alberta Madrigal Singers Fri, Jan 18 (8 pm) Voices from the Department of Music and all corners of the U of A campus join together for an unaccompanied choral concert featuring music from the 19th century to the present day.

Lending their vocal abilities to the evening's performances will be approximately 20 Madrigal Singers alumni. (Convocation Hall, University of Alberta, free)

Cindy Church Fri, Jan 18 (7:30 pm) This country songbird has been hailed as one of the best singers in the country, thanks to her distinctive voice and technique, picking up a numerous accolades along the way and expanding her presence beyond Canada's borders. (Festival Place, $28 – $32)

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Bocephus King Tue, Jan 22 (7:30 pm) Winter blues got you down? Shake 'em off at a swinger of a psychedelic dance party with Bocephus "Theolopolous" King, Paul "Tiger" Townsend, Wynston "The Professor" Minckler and Charle "Purple" Hase. Who knows, by the end of the night, you might have your own nickname, too. (Artery, $10)

All Time Low and Yellowcard Mon, Jan 23 (7 pm) Sure, it's a Monday, but that doesn't mean you can't pretend it's the weekend. All Time Low is back supporting its latest album Don't Panic, and the band is joined by co-headliners and label mates Yellowcard, who is back on the road after a three-year hiatus. (Union Hall, $32.50)

The Tragically Hip Mon, Jan 23 (7:30 pm) See? Monday is the new Friday. This is a band needing little introduction, and it's back on the road in support of its 13th studio album, Now For Plan A for a cross-Canada jaunt with Arkells. (Rexall Place, $24.50 – $85.50) Davis Concert Organ 10th Anniversary Gala Thu, Jan 24 (7:30 pm) The "crown jewel of the Winspear Centre" gets some special treatment by worldrenowned, Grammy Awardwinning organist Paul Jacobs to commemorate its 10th anniversary. (Winspear Centre, $20 – $59)

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

DEADLINE: FRIDAY AT 3PM

FRI JAN 18

IDES OF WINTER W/ DISPLAY OF DECAY, EYE OF HORUS, AFTEREARTH, UNITY THROUGH TRAGEDY & NEGATION

SAT JAN 19

HEAVISIDE W/ KICKUPAFUSS, THRILLHOUSE, & WARNING TO AVOID

THU JAN 24

KING CROW & THE LADIES FROM HELL W/ WHISKEY WAGON, THE MISERY MOUNTAIN BOYS & THE BOXCAR BAWLERS

FRI JAN 25

DRUNK STUDENT PARTY

FORESTER W/ THE CANARDS, TANNER GORDON AND THE UNFORTUNATES

SAT JAN 26 SOLD OUT THE RETURN OF

CHOKE

THU JAN 17 ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE Live Music Every Thursday 9:3011:30; no minors; no cover BLUES ON WHYTE Carson Cole CAFÉ HAVEN Music every Thu: Between Brothers, North of Here; 7pm CARROT CAFÉ Zoomers Thu afternoon open mic; 1-4pm COOK COUNTY Open stage/jamaoke with Mourning Wood DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Thu at 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 HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB Edmonton Nerd Nite; 8pm; $10 (adv)/$12 (door) J R BAR AND GRILL Live Jam Thu; 9pm

W/ FIRE NEXT TIME, THE OLD SINS & 400 STRONG

JAVA EXPRESS–Stony Plain Acoustic/singer songwriter the 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7-10pm; no cover

2ND DATE ADDED SUN JAN 27

JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Sketches of Eternity (MacEwan jazz students); 8pm; $15

SUPPORT TO BE ANNOUNCED!

THU FEB 14

ENSLAVED

WINTER RITE 2013 TOUR W/ PALLBEARER, ROYAL THUNDER & ANCIENT WISDOM

FRI FEB 22

D.O.A. FAREWELL TOUR W/ NO PROBLEM, L.A.M.S. & PANIK ATTAK

SUN MAR 17

ST. PATTY’S DAY WITH THE REAL MCKENZIES W/ FIRE NEXT TIME & EAST END RADICALS FOR TICKETS- PLEASE VISIT WWW.YEGLIVE.CA

KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE Open stage; 7pm; no cover L.B.'S PUB Open jam with Kenny Skoreyko, Fred LaRose and Gordy Mathews (Shaved Posse) every Thu; 9pm-1am LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR Tangele; 8pm (Music); no cover MARYBETH'S COFFEE HOUSE–Beaumont Open mic every Thu; 7pm NEW WEST HOTEL Canadian Country Hall of Fame Guest host Bev Munro 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 every Thu; no cover PAWN SHOP Into Eternity (metal), Silent Line, Ironstorm, Thy Demons Jest; 7pm; $12 (adv)

WEDNESDAY PINT NIGHT’S

$2.75 DOMESTIC PINTS

SAT JAN 19 FREE SHOW 4PM

CABANA BIRD

PUB 1824 Sinder Sparks Show; 8-12pm RED PIANO Every Thu: Dueling pianos at 8pm RICHARD'S PUB Live R&B bands (dancing); 8pm RIC’S GRILL Peter Belec ( jazz); most Thursdays; 7-10pm THE RIG Every Thu Jam hosted by Lorne Burnstick; 8-midnight SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Party Hog

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SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Tony Dizon

ROADHOUSE Dawn in the City

Classical

BOHEMIA The Dirrty Show, Kemo Treats, Give 'Em Hell Boys, Joey D

CATALYST THEATRE Svadba-Wedding: Edmonton Opera a cappella for six female opera singers produced

by Queen of Puddings Music Theatre; 8pm; $55 WINSPEAR ESO: Flamenco; William Eddins (conductor), Compañía Azul (instrumental, vocal and dance troupe), Sandra Tziporah (dance), Sean Harris (vocals), Ian MacMillan (percussion), Megan “Azulita” Matheson Hamilton (dance), Daniel MacNeil, Bob Sutherby (guitar); 8pm; $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 CROWN PUB Break Down Thu at the Crown: D&B with DJ Kaplmplx, DJ Atomik with guests DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Thu; 9pm ELECTRIC RODEO– Spruce Grove DJ every Thu FILTHY MCNASTY’S Taking Back Thursdays FLUID LOUNGE Take Over Thursdays: Industry Night; 9pm LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Funk Bunker Thursdays LUCKY 13 Industry Night every Fri ON THE ROCKS Salsaholic: every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; salsa DJ to follow

BRIXX BAR Early Show: Rock vs Hardcore CAFFREY'S Carling Undrecover CARROT Live music every Fri; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door) CASINO EDMONTON Capital Newz (pop rock) CASINO YELLOWHEAD Whiskey Boyz (country rock) CENTURY CASINO Walter Ostanek and the Western Senators DEVANEY'S Doug Stroud DV8 Down the Hatch, Rebuild Repair, Promise Revoked ELEVATION ROOM Rattlerattle, Marlaena Moore Band with Oliver Buck; 8pm; all ages; $5 FESTIVAL PLACE Cindy Church; 7:30pm; $32 (table)/$30 (box)/$28 (theatre) at the Festival Place box office HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB JR Shore (country folk), Scott Cook (CD release); 8pm; $12 (adv)/$15 (door) HIGH RUN CLUB Duo Exhaust JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Lauren Gillis ( jazz, pop vocals); 9pm; $10 KC HALL–Beaumont Goodmorning Groove, the Archaics, and Gyroiid; 7pm; all ages; $5 (tickets)/$10 (door)

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Malanka 2013 Ukrainian New Years: Marv Machura; 8pm BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ The Carolines; 8:30pm; $10; sold out BO DIDDLY'S

VUEWEEKLY JAN 17 – JAN 23, 2013

THE DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Fri; 9pm ELECTRIC RODEO– Spruce Grove DJ every Fri FLUID LOUNGE Hip hop and dancehall; every Fri LUCKY 13 Every Fri and Sat with resident DJ Chad Cook O2'S TAPHOUSE AND GRILL DJs every Fri and Sat RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie, rock, funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri STARLITE ROOM KLUB OMFG SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Fuzzion Friday: with Crewshtopher, Tyler M, guests; no cover

CASINO EDMONTON Capital Newz (pop rock) CASINO YELLOWHEAD Whiskey Boyz (country rock) CENTURY CASINO Walter Ostanek and the Western Senators CHA ISLAND TEA COMPANY Rob Heath, Kessler Douglas; 8-11pm CROWN AND ANCHOR PUB Sophie and the Shufflehounds Rock CROWN PUB Acoustic blues open stage with Marshall Lawrence, every Sat, 2-6pm; every Sat, 12-2am DEVANEY'S Doug Stroud DEVON HOTEL PALS Acoustic Open Mic with Tim Harwill; Every Sat 4-6:30pm DV8 Zero Cool, Practical Slackers; 9pm ELEVATION ROOM Brazilian Money, Telstar Drugs, OJ Pimpson, Ex Jocks; 8pm; $5 FESTIVAL PLACE Calypso Rose; 7:30pm; $38 (table)/$36 (box)/$34 (theatre) at Festival Place box office

THIRSTY CAMEL The Sinder Sparks Show with Stratosphere; 10pm 2am

HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB Nuela Charles, Politic Live, guests; 8pm; $7 (adv)/$10 (door)

TREASURY In Style Fri: DJ Tyco and Ernest Ledi; no line no cover for ladies all night long

HIGH RUN CLUB Duo Exhaust

NOORISH CAFÉ Brian McLeod (folk) ON THE ROCKS Chronic Rock OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Dueling Piano's, all request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover

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

BLUES ON WHYTE Carson Cole

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

CARROT CAFÉ Sat Open mic; 7pm; $2

GAS PUMP Saturday Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth

RENDEZVOUS Metal night every Thu

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

CHROME LOUNGE Platinum VIP every Fri

CAFFREY'S Carling Undrecover

TEMPLE Silence be Damned: with DJs Gotthavok, Siborg, Nightroad; 9pm

PUB 1824 Every Fri & Sat, this week with; $5

AVENUE THEATRE Joy and Excess (alt); all ages; 7:30pm (door); $10 (adv)

BUDDY’S DJ Arrow Chaser every Fri; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm

BRIXX BAR So Called, RC Sindicate, guests; 9pm

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

ROADHOUSE Wild Life Thursdays

ARTERY The BlackStone (alt blues), the AwesomeHots, Savanah Bosch; 8pm; $8 (adv)

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every Friday DJs on all three levels

BITTANY'S LOUNGE Improv Burlesque a la Carte; 9pm $10

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

OUTLAWS

FRI JAN 18

DJs

BOHEMIA The Edmonton Non-Music Awards

L.B.'S PUB Oil City Sound Machine, Alberta's Dance Band; 9:30pm2am

PAWN SHOP Ides of Winter (metal), Display of Decay, Eye of Horus, Afterearth, Unity Throug; 8pm; $15 (adv)

UNION HALL 3 Four All Thursdays: rock, dance, retro, top 40 with DJ Johnny Infamous

Edmonton Opera a cappella for six female opera singers produced

by Queen of Puddings Music Theatre; 8pm; $55

THE RIG Lorne Burnstick ROSE AND CROWN Stuart Bendall SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Party Hog SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Tony Dizon SIDELINERS PUB Oddibles; 9pm; no cover STARLIGHT ROOM Early Show: Hannah Georgas, guest; Late show: Klub OFG, 10pm VAT PUB–Red Deer Of Thorn and Vine: Into Eternity, Divinity and Dissimilis; 8pm YARDBIRD SUITE Canadian Jazz Series: Michael Blake and the Variety Hour; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $18 (member)/$22 (guest)

Classical CATALYST THEATRE Svadba-Wedding:

UNION HALL Ladies Night every Fri Y AFTERHOURS Foundation Fridays

SAT JAN 19 ARDEN Socalled and his 6-piece band (klezmer, funk hip hop); 7:30pm; $25 AVENUE THEATRE The Gibson Block (alt dance), Pale Blue Dot, The Red Cannons, Analog Respond, Between Brothers; 8pm; $15 (adv)

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Free Afternoon Concerts; 4pm; this week: Cabana Bird; 4pm; no cover

HOOLIGANZ Live music every Sat EDMONTON IRISH SPORTS AND SOCIAL SOCIETY Amie Weyme JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Diana Stabel (pop/rock singer songwriter); 9pm; $10 L.B.'S PUB Sat afternoon Jam with Gator and Friends, 5-9pm: Late show: CD Release Concert: If You Keep This Up: Emily Seal (country pop), Joanne Janzen, Asim Chin, others; $20 (adv) LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Hoola and Breakfluid; 9:30pm

BAILY THEATRE–

LOUISIANA

Camrose The Bailey Bailout: Ten Second Epic, Brittany Lehman and Quarantino; proceeds to the Bailey Theatre Society; 6:30pm (door), 7:30pm (show); $20/$15 (student) at the ASA and Bailey box office

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

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair of the Dog: Robin Woywitka and the Super 92 (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Ranger Creek Wranglers; 8:30pm; $15 BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Evening: Carson Cole

NEW CITY LEGION The Mahones (Celtic, folk punk), guests; 8pm; $20 (adv)/$25 (door) NEW WEST HOTEL Country jam every Sat; 3-6pm O’BYRNE’S Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm OLD TIMER'S CABIN Edmonton Blues Society: Rita McDade and the Fusion Blues Band; 7:30pm (door), 8pm (music) OVERTIME SHERWOOD

PARK Dueling Piano's, all request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover PACIFIC CAFÉ Heart of the City featuring Paula Kirman (singersongwriter), open mic (call 780.424.2870)

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

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

PAWN SHOP Heaviside (alt hard rock), kickupafuss, Thrillhouse, Warning to Avoid; 8pm; $10 (adv)

BUDDY'S Feel the rhythm every Sat with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm

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

PUB 1824 Every Fri & Sat, this week with: ; $5

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Sat; 9pm

QUEEN ALEXANDRA

ELECTRIC RODEO– Spruce Grove DJ every Sat

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

HALL T Buckley Trio; 7pm (door), 8pm (music); $18 (adv)/$22 (door); child 6-12 1/2 price at door; child under 6 free RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am RENDEZVOUS PUB Reverend Kill, Bitchsplitter, Bleed; 8pm (door), 10:30pm(show); $10 THE RIG Seven Suns ROSE AND CROWN Stuart Bendall

FLUID LOUNGE Scene Saturday's Relaunch: Party; hip-hop, R&B and Dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Collective Saturdays underground: House and Techno LUCKY 13 Every Fri and Sat with resident DJ Chad Cook NEWCASTLE PUB Top 40 requests every Sat with DJ Sheri

SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Party Hog

O2'S TAPHOUSE AND GRILL DJs every Fri and Sat

SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Tony Dizon

PALACE CASINO Show Lounge DJ every Sat

SIDELINERS PUB Sat open stage; 3-7pm

PAWN SHOP Transmission Saturdays: Indie rock, new wave, classic punk with DJ Blue Jay and Eddie Lunchpail; 9pm (door); free (before 10pm)/$5 (after 10pm)

STARLITE ROOM Big Gay White Party, Spencer Red; 9pm YARDBIRD SUITE Cross-border jazz series: Cory Weeds, Steve Davis Quartet; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $20 (member)/$24 (guest)

Classical CATALYST THEATRE Svadba-Wedding: Edmonton Opera a cappella for six female opera singers produced

by Queen of Puddings Music Theatre; 8pm; $55 WINSPEAR ESO: Flamenco: 2pm; $20-$29 (adult)/$13-$17 (child)

DJs

RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Mkhai SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM Swing Dance Party: Sugar Swing Dance Club

every Sat, 8-12; no experience or partner needed, beginner lesson followed by social dance; sugarswing.com

Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

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

NEWCASTLE PUB Sun Soul Service (acoustic jam): Willy James and Crawdad Cantera; 3-6:30pm O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am O2'S TAP HOUSE AND GRILL Live rock band every Sun with Joint Chiefs ON THE ROCKS Russ Dawson, Dean Lonsdale and the Ramifications RICHARD'S PUB Sun Jam hosted by Joint Chiefs; 4-8pm

SUN JAN 20

THE RIG Every Sun Jam hosted by Better Us then Strangers; 4-8pm

BEER HUNTER–St Albert Open stage/jam every Sun; 2-6pm

YELLOWHEAD BREWERY Open Stage: Every Sun, 8pm

BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Sunday Brunch: Cramer Brothers; 10am-2:30pm; donations CAFFREY'S–Sherwood Park The Sunday Blues Jam: hosted by Kevin and Rita McDade and the Grey Cats Blues Band, guests every week; 5-9pm; no cover CHA ISLAND TEA CO Live on the Island: Rhea March hosts open mic and Songwriter's stage; starts with a jam session; 7pm CITY HALL Swing 'n' Skate: Skate to live swing band; 1-4pm; free; Jan 20: Dave Babcock and his Jump Orchestra DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB Celtic open stage every Sun with Keri-Lynne Zwicker; 5:30pm; no cover EDDIE SHORTS Open stage with Dan Daniels every Sun FANDANGO'S Singer songwriter open Stage every Sun HOGS DEN PUB Open

Classical ROBERTSON WESLEY UNITED CHURCH Bach & Vivaldi: Alberta Baroque; 3pm; $25 (adult)/$20 (student/ senior) at Gramophone, TIX on the Square, door

DJs

monthly: Jets to Theory; no cover

BLUES ON WHYTE Momarley DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB Singer/songwriter open stage every Mon; 8pm FANDANGO'S Open mic Music Industry Night every Mon OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Monday Open Stage PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm PUB 1824 Tribute to Elton John; 8pm-12 ROSE BOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE Hosted by Darrek Anderson (the Guaranteed)open mic nights every Mon; 9pm DEVANEY'S Scott Cook

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

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

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

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

TUE JAN 22

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 JAN 21 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sleeman Mon: live music

ARTERY Bocephus King (alt country), guests; 7:30pm; $10 (adv) BLUES ON WHYTE Momarley BRIXX BAR Ruby Tuesdays with host Mark Feduk; $5 after 8pm; this week guests: Katosaurus Wrecks, 9pm DRUID IRISH PUB Open stage every Tue; with Chris Wynters; 9pm L.B.’S Tue Blues Jam with Ammar; 9pm-1am O’BYRNE’S Celtic

VENUE GUIDE ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave

CROWN PUB 10709-109 St, 780.428.5618 DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834

9942-108 St

NOORISH CAFÉ 8440-109 St

GOOD NEIGHBOR PUB 11824-103 St

NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535-109A Ave O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766

LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253

OLD TIMER'S CABIN 9430 Scona Rd, 99 St

ROSE AND CROWN 10235101 St

ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767

R PUB 16753-100 St, 780.457.1266

UNITED CHURCH 10209123 St ROSEBOWL/ROUGE

ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave

DEVON HOTEL 1 Huron Street, Devon, AB

HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB 15120A (basement), Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.6010

AVENUE THEATRE 9030118 Ave, 780.477.2149

THE DISH 12417 Stony Plain Rd, 780.488.6641

HILLTOP PUB 8220-106 Ave, 780.490.7359

BISTRO LA PERSAUD 861791 St, 780.758.6686

DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928

HOGS DEN PUB 9, 14220 Yellowhead Tr

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082

DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554

HOOLIGANZ 10704-124 St,

O2'S ON WHYTE 780.454.0203

SIDELINERS PUB 11018127 St, 780.453.6006

BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku 2110 Sparrow Drive, Nisku, 780.986.8522

DV8 8307-99 St

780.995.7110

O2'S TAPHOUSE AND

JAVA EXPRESS 110, 4300 South Park Dr, Stony Plain, 780.968.1860

GRILL 13509-127 St, 780.454.0203

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 1032982 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca CARROT CAFÉ 9351-118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464-153 St, 780 424 9467 CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 1033281 Ave, 780.757.2482 CHROME LOUNGE 132 Ave, Victoria Trail COMMON 9910-109 St

EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain EDDIE SHORTS 10713-124 St, 780.453.3663 EDMONTON IRISH SPORTS AND SOCIAL SOCIETY 12546 126 St, 780.453.2249 ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 ELEPHANT AND CASTLE– Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ 993870 Ave, 780.437.3667

FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FIDDLER’S ROOST 890699 St FILTHY MCNASTY’S 1051182 Ave, 780.916.1557 FLASH NIGHT CLUB 10018105 St, 780.996.1778 FLUID LOUNGE 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 FUNKY BUDDHA 10341-82 Ave, 780.433.9676 GOOD EARTH COFFEE HOUSE AND BAKERY

J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JEFFREY’S CAFÉ 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 KC HALL–Beaumont 5204 50 Ave, Beaumont KAS BAR 10444-82 Ave, 780.433.6768 L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEGENDS PUB 6104-172 St, 780.481.2786 LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR 10132-104 St LIZARD LOUNGE 13160118 Ave MARYBETH'S COFFEE HOUSE–Beaumont 5001-30 Ave, Beaumont, 780.929.2203 NEWCASTLE PUB 6108-90 Ave, 780.490.1999 NEW CITY 8130 Gateway Boulevard NISKU INN 1101-4 St

OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PACIFIC CAFÉ 10876-97 St PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 PLAYBACK PUB 594 Hermitage Rd, 130 Ave, 40 St PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 1086057 Ave PUB 1824 12402-118 Ave, 587.521.1824 QUEEN ALEXANDRA HALL 10425 University Ave RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 RIC’S GRILL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 THE RIG 15203 Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.0869 ROBERTSON WESLEY

SPORTSMAN'S LOUNGE 8170-50 St STARLITE ROOM 10030102 St, 780.428.1099 STEEPS TEA LOUNGE– Whyte Ave 11116-82 Ave SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave SUITE 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969 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 WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286

Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours. com YELLOWHEAD BREWERY 10229-105 St, 780.423.3333

THUR, FEB 14, AVENUE THEATRE

SHANE PHILIPS

W/ GUESTS

SAT, FEB 16, AVENUE THEATRE, OPEN SKY MUSIC FESTIVAL PRESENTS:

SOULJAH FYAH, THE BOOM BOOMS, THE SOULICITORS SUN, FEB 17, AVENUE THEATRE

LINDI ORTEGA AND DUSTIN BENTALL & THE SMOKES

W/ GUESTS

MON, FEB 25, THE ARTERY

JUSTIN RUTLEDGE

W/ GUESTS

THUR, FEB 28, AVENUE THEATRE

THE BALCONIES

W/ GUESTS

FRI, MAR 1, THE ARTERY

REUBEN AND THE DARK

W/ GUESTS

FRI, MAR 8, AVENUE THEATRE

STEPHEN FEARING

W/ GUESTS

FRI, MAR 9, THE ARTERY

BRASSTRONAUT

W/ THE COLLECTIVE WEST, AND LOCOMOTIVE GHOST TUES, MAR 26, ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM THEATRE

HAYDEN

W/ LOU CANON

FRI, APR 19, AVENUE THEATRE

DANIEL WESLEY

W/ GUESTS

YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295

VUEWEEKLY JAN 17 – JAN 23, 2013

MUSIC 29

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

Sessions: Dan Skakun Quintet; 7:30pm (door), 8pm (show); $5

O2'S ON WHYTE DJ Grizz every Tue industry night

Classical

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 R PUB Open stage jam every Tue; hosted by Gary and the Facemakers; 8pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Joanne Janzen SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Stan Gallant YARDBIRD SUITE Tue Night

WINSPEAR CENTRE William Eddins (conductor, piano); Karen Gomyo (violin); 7:30pm; $35-$50

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

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

Funk and Soul with Doktor Erick every Wed; 9pm

BLUES ON WHYTE Momarley

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): "If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it," wrote 19th-century poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. "Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of the Earth." This is good counsel for you to keep in mind during the coming weeks, Aries. I suspect you will have a good, clear shot at a target you've been trying to get close to for a long time.

Make sure you adjust your trajectory to account for the attraction of the Earth.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): If you learn a novel idea or a crucial new lesson while you are tipsy or outright blitzed, you will probably forget it when you sober up. And it will remain forgotten as long as you abstain. But there's a good chance you will recall the vanished information the next time you get loopy. I'm telling you this, Taurus, because even if you haven't been inebriated lately, you have definitely been in an altered and

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expanded state of consciousness. I'm afraid that when you come back down to Earth in a few days, you might lose some of the luminous insights you've been adding to your repertoire. Is there anything you can do to ensure you will retain these treasures? It would be a shame to lose track of them until the next time your mind gets thoroughly blown open.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): Study-

ing the movements of the planets is my main way of discerning the hidden currents of fate. I sometimes supplement my investigations by reading Tarot cards and the Chinese Book of Changes, also known as the I Ching. To arrive at your horoscope this week, I used all of the above as well as the following forms of prognostication: catoptromancy, which is divination by gazing into a mirror underwater; cyclomancy or divination

by watching a wheel that's turning; geloscopy, divination by listening to random laughter; and margaritomancy, divination by observing bouncing pearls. Here's what I found, Gemini: you now have the power to discern previously unfathomable patterns in a puzzling mystery you've been monitoring. You also have the ability to correctly surmise the covert agendas of allies and adversaries alike.

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certain secrets you've been concealing from yourself.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): "To be reborn is a constantly recurring human need," said drama critic Henry Hewes.

I agree. We all need to periodically reinvent ourselves—to allow the old ways to die so that we can resurrect ourselves in unforeseen new forms. According to my analysis, Cancerian, your next scheduled rebirth is drawing near.

For best results, don't cling to the past; don't imitate what has always worked before. Instead, have faith that surrendering to the future will bring you the exact transformation you need.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): My readers Paul and Sophie wrote to let me know they have patched together three Latin words to invent a term for a new concept: vomfiabone. They say it means "a curse that becomes a blessing." Here's an example of the phenomenon at work in their lives: while driving home from work together, they experienced car trouble and had to pull over to the shoulder of the road, where they called a tow truck. Later they discovered that this annoying delay prevented them from getting caught in the middle of an accident just up ahead. Extrapolating from the current astrological omens, I'm guessing that you will experience at least one vomfiabone in the coming week, Leo. VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): I bet that in the next five months you will be obliged to carry more responsibility than you have in the past. You will find it hard to get away with being lazy or careless. I suspect that during this time you will also have the privilege of wielding more influence. The effect you have on people will be more pronounced and enduring. In short, Virgo, your workload will be greater than usual—and so will your rewards. To the degree that you serve the greater good, you will be a major player. As for next few weeks, you should concentrate on the work and service and responsibility part of this equation.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): Do you know what a "binky" is? It's what a rabbit does when it gets so crazily happy that it exuberantly leaps up into the air, stretching and twisting its body as it flicks and flops its feet. I'm not sure if lexicographers would allow us to apply this term to humans. But assuming they might, I'm going to predict that you'll soon be having some binkyinducing experiences. You're entering the Joy and Pleasure Season, Libra—a time when abundant levels of fun and well-being might be quite normal.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): You know that area on your back that you can't quite reach if you want to scratch it? It's called your acnestis. I propose that we make it your featured metaphor of the week. Why? Because I suspect you will have to deal with a couple of itchy situations that are just beyond your ability to relieve. Yes, this may be frustrating

in the short run, but it will ultimately make you even more resourceful than you already are. By this time next week, you will have figured out alternative solutions that you haven't even imagined yet.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): "We need new friends," said essayist Logan Pearsall Smith. "Some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to reenact an ideal version of their lives."

Smith could have been talking about you Sagittarians in early 2013. According to my interpretation of the astrological omens, you need some fresh alliances. Their influence will activate certain potentials that you haven't been able to access or fully express with the help of your current circle.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): A San Francisco writer named Maneesh Sethi decided he was wasting too much time on the Internet. His productivity was suffering. So he hired a woman to sit next to him as he worked and yell at him or slap his face every time his attention wandered off in the direction of Facebook or a funny video. It worked. He got a lot more done. While I would like to see you try some inventive approaches to pumping up your own efficiency, Capricorn, I don't necessarily endorse Sethi's rather gimmicky technique. Start brainstorming about some interesting yet practical new ways to enhance your self-discipline, please.

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Edmonton offers a lot of queer support; let's make it more Here we are, halfway through Janu1) Get more youth involved: despite ary. If you're like many people, you're the supports for queer youth already about to fall off the wagon on the in place, there could absolutely be New Year's resolutions you've made more. We can also do a better job (unless your resolutions are similar to of reaching out to youth. I rarely see a friend of mine, who declared youth at the queer functions I atshe wanted to drink more in tend. Queer youth today are 2013) just in time to meet coming of age in an era unthe coldest days of winter. like anything we have ever kly.com uewee I say this because I recently v seen before and have ques@ y ashle read a report that claimed Ashley h tions, concerns and ideas rg that reflect this. most January resolutions only Drybu last three weeks. However, the report also went on to say that suc2) Increase mentorship: we need cessful resolutions are often groundmore successful queers mentoring ed in community support, which got other queers. By "successful" I don't me thinking about how individuals only mean upwardly mobile, suburalso contribute to a community's ban-dwelling white gays and lesbians. goals. What are our goals as a comAre you happily practicing polyamory? munity and how can we work to make Have survival tips for negotiating the them happen? name-change form? Dealt with immiI've listed mine below and I certainly gration? Survived the bathhouse raids don't expect everyone to agree with in the 70s? This is knowledge that our them. I do, however, want everyone to community needs. I am sure these conthink of at least one thing they want versations are happening already, but I to see changed in this city and then really want to encourage us to create work towards making it happen. Big or spaces to talk to one another more. small, get in touch with a queer organization in town (or start your own) 3) Continue to acknowledge diverand let's see what we can do as a comsity: this last year has seen some munity. In December I'll compile a list great conversations happen about of what we've done, so be sure to keep the intersections between queerness in touch (@ashdryburgh on Twitter). and disability, and we need to keep it up. Those of us with more privilege—

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4) Believe that Edmonton is a queer place: if I have to hear one more person claim that they are moving to Toronto, Vancouver or Montréal because that's where the queers are, I am going to scream. Having lived in two of those cities, I can assure everyone that those queer communities have as much in-fighting and gate keeping as we do and that there are as many problems and bigots (hello, mayor of a certain major city) as anywhere else. The only difference is we imagine those places as somehow being more culturally queer than here, and I don't think it's true. Did you know that Edmonton was one of the earliest sites of gay and lesbian organizing in Canada? We have so much going on here: Exposure, I Dig Your Girlfriend, qmunity league, GayWire, Buddy's and Flash, the various institutes, GSAs, and groups associated with educational institutions, Camp Fyrefly, the Pride Centre and dozens more. Can there be more? Of course! But the only way we're going to drown out every lakeof-fire dinosaur who comes along is to be louder (and, dare I say it, prouder?) and to stop being so damned ashamed of this city. V

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): "Ronnyjohnson618" is a guy who posts his opinions on a wide variety of YouTube videos. Many times, he claims to be an expert in the field he's commenting on. Responding to a live music performance, he says he's a conductor for an orchestra. Offering his opinion about a mimosa plant, he asserts that he is a botanist. Beneath other YouTube videos, he declares he is a meteorologist, chemist, psychologist, soldier and geometry teacher. I love this guy's blithe swagger; I'm entertained by the brazen fun he's having. As you express yourself in the coming week, I recommend that you borrow some of his over-the-top audacity. Create a mythic persona. Imagine your life as an epic story. Play the part of a hero.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): The earliest performance artist on record was the ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes of Sinope. In one of his notorious stunts, he wandered around Athens with a lit lantern during the daytime, claiming to be looking for an authentic human being. I recommend that you undertake a similar search in the coming days, Pisces.

You don't have to be as theatrical about it. In fact, it might be better to be quite discrete. But I think it's important for you to locate and interact with people who are living their lives to the fullest —devoted to their brightest dreams, committed to their highest values, and sworn to express their highest integrity.

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eaten by a zombie? Asking for a friend.

—Sheriff Rick Grimes (via Twitter @ RickGrimesATL) Not too long—life is short, particularly during a zombie apocalypse, and your friend shouldn't waste what little time he has left. And remember: during a zombie apocalypse, all relationships are rebound relationships.

So your friend should get out there.

CONFIDENTIAL TO EVERYONE IN OR NEAR SEATTLE: We're doing a very special live taping of the Savage Lovecast for SINGLE PEOPLE ONLY at Seattle's Neptune Theater on February 14. Me and the Tech-Savvy, AtRisk Youth want to make sure that single people have as much fun on Valentine's Day as coupled people.

There will be free lap dances, a bondage demo with Twisted Monk, music courtesy of DJ TROUBLE, sex advice from me and Mistress Matisse, the Human Cupcake and much more.

Doors at 7 pm, show at 8 pm, 21+.

A limited number of discounted advance tickets are available from Stranger Tickets (strangertickets. com). All other tickets can be purchased through Seattle Theater Group (tinyurl.com/savlov). Again: this event is for SINGLE PEOPLE ONLY. Lap dances! The Human Cupcake! Be there! (Of course we can't stop couples from coming, as that would be discriminatory, and discrimination is always wrong, so coupled people are welcome to attend so long as they don't gloat.) V Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage. @fakedansavage on Twitter

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