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"Bulky fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains and milk will likely be replaced by cheap processed foods."

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Our boring politics Politics in Canada are eye-glazingly boring. Just look at the hysterics caused by Justin Trudeau this summer when he told reporters he'd taken a drag on a joint three years ago while he was an elected MP. With the amount of media hyperventilation that followed, you'd think Trudeau had just admitted that he was a space alien hell-bent on stealing Canada's supply of precious beavers. With the exception of Quebec's seemingly xenophobic-values charter, the Great White North is not known for making international headlines with our politics. Say what you will about how Stephen Harper's Progressive Conservative government has run the country since 2006, at least we don't have the sort of irrational, us-versus-them style of politics that flavours American discourse. And thank God for that. Just look at the unholy mess the United States is wading through with their government shutdown. There, an ideological pissing match has progressed to the point where they just decided not to have a government anymore. On October 1, 800 000 "nonessential" government employees were told to stay home from work. And they can't even do interesting stuff with their days off like visit national parks, zoos or museums—those are all shut down, too. Government websites stopped working, frustrating medical researchers who rely on the information. The Environmental Protection Agency stopped cleaning up more than 500 sites contaminated with hazardous waste. And except for meat, the Food and Drug Administration stopped monitoring, well, foods and drugs. Economists estimate the shutdown is costing the US $300 million per day. The real insanity is that this brinkmanship could carry through to the October 17 debt-ceiling deadline. If the US Congress doesn't vote to raise the amount the country can borrow, the world's most powerful country will default on its loans. This event, though unlikely, would mean the US, which had a GDP of 15.7 trillion dollars last year, would not be able to borrow money. It would be running the world's largest economy with whatever cash it happens to have on hand from tax receipts. Now imagine all this happening in Canada. Thankfully, you don't have to, because our parliamentary system makes it all but impossible for the government to stop functioning. If the government ever got to the point where it couldn't pass a budget, it would be found to have "lost the confidence" of the House and the prime minister would be forced to call a general election. Our civil servants would never stop showing up to work. Yes, Prime Minister Harper famously prorogued parliament a couple of times—once to avoid a coalition of Liberals, NDP and Bloc Québécois from trying to vote him out of office—but that almost seems cute compared to what's going on in the States. Canadian politics aren't sexy, but at least we still function. V

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NEWS // ABORIGINAL WOMEN

Searching for the stolen A national action plan to bring justice to murdered and missing aboriginal women is crucial

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he abuse, disappearance and murder of aboriginal women in Canada happens at rates much higher than among other Canadian women. Statistics Canada stated in 2004 that aboriginal women 15 years and older are 3.5 times more likely to experience violence than

non-aboriginal women.

This statistic is nearly a decade old and yet families and communities continue to mourn and ask for justice for their sisters, mothers and daughters who were lost many years ago, and for those who have recently gone missing. In too many cases, the justice system has failed them. Caroline Adam and her husband Chief Steve Courtoreille of McKay Cree First Nation were among the speakers at the Sisters in Spirit Vigil at City Hall on October 6. Adam's words paint a sombre picture of how aboriginal women are often viewed by society: "It's sad being an aboriginal woman and being at the bottom of the totem pole and it shouldn't have to be that way." The racism often directed towards aboriginal women is part of the reason why 582 documented cases of Canadian indigenous women going missing or being murdered have gone without a response from the federal government to put measures into place to ensure it does not happen again.

The Native Women's Association of Canada paints a grim picture of our own province. Alberta has 93 cases of missing or murdered aboriginal women and girls—the second highest number in Canada after British Columbia—and 84 percent of these women were murdered. Half of them were young adults between the ages of 19 and 30.

Looking into the causes of the disappearances and murders and coming up with a plan to fix the problems has been the battle cry of many organizations and communities for years. Amnesty International called for a national action plan in 2004 in its report titled "Stolen Sisters." Amnesty Canada's Secretary General Alex Neve says this report illustrated the breadth and severity of the violence and discrimination that aboriginal women experience across the country. "There's no corner of Canada where this is not a pressing human-rights concern," Neve says. "We need a plan because this is complex, it involves many different levels of government, it involves many different assets to a solution. Some of it's about policing, some of it's about the justice system, some of it's about social services, some of it's about education—so you need a plan that's going to bring that all together and make sure it's coherent, it's coordinated, it's strategic." Amnesty's call for a national action plan includes granting indigenous women access to justice with unbiased policing, improving public awareness and accountability, securing adequate funding for frontline organizations, addressing the root causes of violence like the economic gap between indigenous and non-indigenous people and eliminating the inequalities in child-welfare services for aboriginal children. The NWAC has gone one step further with a petition that can be signed on their website (nwac.ca) demanding a national inquiry look into the causes of violence against aboriginal women and girls.

Amidst the calls for action, a quiet and compelling reminder of the missing and murdered has been curated by the NWAC. It has made its first of 32 cross-country stops in Edmonton at the U of A's Telus Centre. Walking With Our Sisters is an exhibit of 1725 pairs of vamps—beaded designs that decorate the tops of moccasins—and is on display until October 13. Erin Konsmo, the youth coordinator of the exhibit, says it is a commemorative art installation to remember and honour missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. "The exhibit itself represents a lodge or a healing space where each and every one of those indigenous women and girls are represented and they're facing inwards towards us as we walk," she says. "It's very healing for people—not only the families but the community. And it's important for non-indigenous peoples as well to participate—for the whole community of Edmonton to participate in acknowledging that indigenous women and girls are going missing or being murdered at higher rates than non-indigenous women and having this be a way of sharing a story and telling it in a way that is respectful of the women and what has happened to them and acknowledging that they're human beings like anybody else and they deserve to be remembered." Change could be coming soon. Neve points out that over the past year every provincial and territorial premier, both federal opposition leaders and every relevant UN expert or body that has anything to do with women's rights, indigenous peoples or discrimination have all endorsed the call for a national action plan. "The federal government can't continue to simply resist and deny that this is necessary and I think that's all because of the persistence and determination of people who come out for vigils like this," he adds. The appearance of UN human-rights envoy James Anaya this month to document the situation happening among Canada's aboriginal people should be another reminder to the government that the murdered and missing aboriginal women—and the factors leading to their disappearances—are a human-rights issue that needs to be resolved. REBECCA MEDEL

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COLIN I was born here. I lived on Vancouver Island, I lived in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Calgary—but here is home. Leather work [is my hobby]. I make belts and a few things. I do my own kind of style, not what other people do. I used to work for a leather worker 25 years ago and then I just picked it up again recently.

Are trades like this a lost art? That’s how I feel about it. People don’t have the same dedication. It’s too easy to go buy something that’s $5. If I wanted to sell a belt that’s $60 but you can go buy them at the mall for $20—and the ones at the mall fall apart, but people don’t connect with that for some reason. You buy one for $60 and it lasts you a lifetime, you buy 20 at the mall for $20 each and ... it takes away from what we’re able to accomplish as human beings because it’s too grab and throw it away.

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FRONT NEWS // FOOD INEQUALITY

Edmonton's hunger pangs

Volunteers battle food inequality as tens of thousands lack fresh, nutritious food

ately, Edmonton has been talking a lot about food—how we grow it, how we eat it and how we buy it. On October 12, food activists will be taking the conversation to the street, marching down Whyte Avenue for World Food Day. There'll be a smorgasbord of food-issues represented, ranging from GMOs and GEs, pesticides, going vegan, eating organic, to protecting honeybees and local farmers. "Every citizen has the right to access safe, clean, natural food," says Dana Blackwell, an organizer of World Food Day Edmonton. She expects approximately 1000 people to rally at End of Steel Park around noon on October 12, where there will be scheduled speakers, musicians, local food groups manning information tables and a march to protest against what they characterize as the shady ethics and business practices of agricultural-giant Monsanto. But while the foodies are banging their pots and pans, thousands of their fellow Edmontonians are quietly struggling to get the basics. For the residents earning low incomes, the working poor and those living on social assistance, a healthy diet is often a luxury. A Statistics Canada survey on eating habits says 58 percent of low-income families eat less than the recommended five daily servings of fruits and vegetables; 78 percent of children in low-income families don't get enough milk products. Alberta is the richest province in Canada, but is dead average nationally for food insecurity. In 2011, 12.3 percent of Alberta, nearly half a million people, struggled to consistently put food on the table. With all this wealth, how can this be? According to a 2012 report by the University of Alberta's Parkland Institute, our oil-boom province has the highest income disparity in the country—the top half of earners take home 87 percent of the money and the bottom 10 percent of families just 1.7 percent. Although Edmontonians enjoy one of the highest average income levels in the country, more than 20 percent make $15 an hour or less. Alberta, for all its money, has the highest percentage of employed people using food banks in all of Canada. And in a 2004 food-security report, Health Canada reported that an unbelievable 84 percent of Albertans who listed social assistance as their main source of income experience food insecurity, well above the national average of 59.7 percent. Consider that rents in the city are going up—the average two-bedroom apartment costs more than $1000 per month, up 4.2 percent from the year before—and so is the

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price of food. Government stats say it costs $210 each week for a family of four in Edmonton to maintain a nutritious diet, up from $133 per week in 2003. These numbers add up to tough choices for the 123 000 people in Edmonton classified as low-income: will it be vegetables or rent? "A common assumption is that lower-income households would be able to afford healthy, nutritious food if they used their limited food

to be affordable for vulnerable individuals and families." For lower-income folks, the expense of transportation and rent are two major barriers to buying healthy food says Tamisan Bencz-Knight, resource development coordinator with Edmonton's Food Bank. She'd like to see investments in public transit and affordable housing in Edmonton. If you have less money, BenczKnight explains, you're less likely to

bulky fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains and milk will likely be replaced by cheap processed foods loaded with fat, sugar and salt—potato chips are cheaper than broccoli and last much longer on the shelf. The consequences of poor nutrition are dire, both to individuals and society. An unhealthy diet high in fat and sugar is linked to obesity, heart disease and diabetes—diseases that cost Canada tens of billions of dollars in annual health-care expenses.

drive. That means getting to a supermarket, with much cheaper and healthier food than a convenience store, is a hassle—especially for the seven months of the year that Edmonton is tundra. And if you're taking the bus, odds are you'll only buy what you can carry home. So

The problem is complex, as hard to solve as poverty itself, but one thing is clear: poorer people aren't eating well, and we're all paying for it.

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dollars wisely. However, this belief is not supported by the evidence," says Suzanne Galesloot, a registered dietician and Public Health Nutrition Lead with Alberta Health Services. "In fact, regular monitoring of food costs ... consistently demonstrates that a basic healthy diet is unlikely

Edmonton's Food Bank north-end warehouse was buzzing last week when I visited. Volunteers zoomed

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by on pallet jacks, ferrying pallets of yogurt or massive crates of eggs out of freezers as big as houses. Encouragingly, Alberta had an 8.9 percent decrease in food-bank use from 2011 to 2012—but our province still had the highest increase in food-bank use in the whole country, a staggering 60 percent jump from 2008 to 2012. But thankfully, Edmonton has agencies and volunteers who are as serious as the problem. Bencz-Knight, who's been with the food bank since 1988, points to the fresh food—lettuce, spinach, yogurt, even pomegranates—that are going into the 14 000 food hampers they'll be making in October. "There's this myth that the food bank only gives away garbage food," she says. "But that's not true. We do everything we can to make sure that the people we help get fresh, healthy food." Edmonton's Food Bank gave away 3.2-million kilograms of food last year, worth $17 million. Approximately 80 percent of the food they get is from the food industry, but increasingly, Edmontonians are finding creative ways to help. Operation Fruit Rescue Edmonton gleans apples and berries from local trees that wouldn't otherwise be harvested, donating a portion to the food bank. The Plant a Row, Grow a Row program encourages locals to plant a little extra in their garden to donate to the food bank; major participants include the City of Edmonton, the Muttart Conservatory and Fort Edmonton Park. Lady Flower Gardens, a five-acre plot owned by Riverbend Gardens in northeast Edmonton, offers its rich, fertile soil to the city's most needy. Volunteers come from inner-city agencies, including Hope Mission, The Mustard Seed and Bissell Centre to plant their own crops, tend them, then harvest the vegetables so they can eat or sell the surplus. Lady Flower donated 4900 kilograms of root vegetables to the food bank, as evidenced by the dozens of duffel-bag-sized sacks of potatoes and carrots scattered throughout the warehouse. Then there are the city's food coops, community gardens and collective kitchens—all efforts to help people buy, grow and cook their own nutritious food. But these volunteer-run programs can only deal with the symptoms of a larger problem. Until income inequality is brought into line, Edmonton's most vulnerable will have hunger pangs for fresh, healthy food. "There will always be people who need our support," Bencz-Knight says. "I don't think we're going to work ourselves out of a job." JOSH MARCELLIN

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Savage and the urban elite Longtime Dan Savage fan has some advice of her own

1991 and appears in dozens of alternative newspapers across Canada and the US. His column also appears in podcast form, Savage Lovecast, and he is the author of a number of books, including his most recent, American Savage, for which he is currently on tour. He stars in a television show on MTV, has made appearances on major US news shows, and frequently speaks at universities. To say the man has a platform would be an understatement. But who exactly does Savage speak for?

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Monday, October 21 looks to be an important day for queers in this city. Not only is it voting day—and with reports of a prospective school-board trustee linking homosexuality with immorality surfacing, queerness is possibly again an election is-

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sue—but Dan Savage is delivering his keynote presentation at LitFest, Edmonton's non-fiction book festival, that evening. Love him or hate him, Savage is undeniably a prominent queer voice. His syndicated sex-advice column, Savage Love, debuted in

I will admit that I am deeply ambivalent about Savage's public role. I will further confess that I learned everything I know about sex and relationships from Savage Love. I started reading the column regularly 13 years ago and I don't think I have missed one since. I absorbed his messages about communication and consent. I adopted his neologisms: GGG (good, giving and game), monogamish (mostly monogamous with an understanding that allows for some extra-relationship sexual activity), the campfire rule (leaving a significantly younger lover in better

shape than when you found them.) I cheered as his campaign against Rick Santorum halted that man's political career (if you've been living under a rock for the past decade, just Google his last name). And yet, for as much as he's done to promote a sexual revolution and to bring queerness to the mainstream, I can't help but worry that Savage's perspective is becoming proscriptive. The It Gets Better campaign, started by Savage and husband Terry Miller, almost single-handedly brought the conversation about gay-teen suicide to an international level. But as a queer youth so eloquently told me, "I don't care that it might get better. Why isn't it better now?" The project's original message—that gay youth in homophobic communities will one day leave their small high schools and can move on to college and big cities—is only a reality for a small minority of gay youth and relegates queerness as belonging to an urban elite. Like any loud and opinionated public figure, Savage has his fair share of controversies: he has been accused of fatphobia (by describing fat bodies as undesirable),

biphobia (by implying bisexuality is just a phase on the way to gayness for men, although he admits in his latest book that his former opinions on bisexuality were a mistake) and transphobia (he has used trans as an insult for politicians and has been glitter-bombed three times by trans activists). Does Savage have a responsibility to speak to and for the entire queer community? Of course not. Savage would likely be the first person to say that his opinions are only ever his own; he is, after all, an advice columnist. Ultimately, Savage represents a white, middle-class male perspective that, while deeply influential, is not the sum total of queer experience, sexual or otherwise. So how do we balance Savage's influence with his short-comings? Does his position of privilege undermine what he is trying to say? Embracing the ambivalence seems like the best option here; while it is frustrating that his kind of perspective is repeatedly the most legitimized, we can take a note from the man himself and hope that one day, it will, indeed, get better. V

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The US government is not broke

Republicans are more afraid of the Tea Party than any backlash from other Americans A salient feature of American "exceptionalism" is the belief that the United States can never be ordinary. If it is not the best, then it must be the worst. If it is not destined to dominate the world forever, then it is doomed to decline and decay. This kind of thinking explains why much of the commentary in the United States about the recent "shutdown" of the US government, and also about the impending default on the national debt (due on October 17), has started at hysterical and quickly geared up to apocalyptic. We Americans have lost the mandate of Heaven, and it will soon be raining frogs and blood. So everybody take your tranquilizer of choice (mine's a double scotch), and let's consider what is actually going on here. The United States is the world's oldest democratic country, with an 18th-century constitution that is bound to be an awkward fit for 21st-century politics. But that hasn't stopped the United States from becoming the world's biggest economy and its greatest power. Has something now gone fundamentally wrong? The problem lies in Congress, specifically in the House of Representa-

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tives, where the Republican majority National public opinion is no threat funded by the Tea Party's wealthy supis refusing to pass the budget, and to them, whereas the views of their porters, and that may mark the end of threatening not to raise the official extremist Tea Party colleagues are a the incumbent's political career. debt ceiling either, unless President potentially lethal danger. So the Republicans in the House of Barack Obama postpones the impleRepresentatives, even those genermentation of his bill extending medi- You can't gerrymander the Senate; ally open to compromise, are keeping cal care to all Americans. every senator's "district" is the entire their heads down for fear of angering The Affordable Care Act was passed state he or she represents. State the Tea Party. That means it is posby both houses of Congress and legislatures controlled by the Demo- sible (though not probable) that the signed into law by Obama almost four crats also gerrymander congressional October 17 deadline will be missed, years ago. Last year it passed scrutiny districts to create safe seats for their and the US government will be by the Supreme forced to default Court, and was its debt. How So the Republicans in the House of Representa- on subsequently bad would that tives, even those generally open to compromise, be? welcomed by a majority of the are keeping their heads down for fear of angering Very bad, acvoters in the cording to a US the Tea Party. presidential elecTreasury spokestion, so Obama is person. "Credit understandably refusing to yield to own party, but there is no organized markets could freeze, the value of the blackmail. But the House Republicans extremist group in the Democratic dollar could plummet, US interest seem mysteriously unworried by the Party that will try to destroy elected rates could skyrocket, the negative fact the public blames them for the members of their own party who do spillovers could reverberate around impending train wreck. Why? not toe the ideological line. Whereas the world." And it might rain frogs Because 80 percent of the Republi- in the Republican Party, there is. and blood. cans in the House of Representatives Republicans seeking reelection to Or maybe not. There would certaindon't have to worry about what the the House of Representatives may not ly be turmoil in the markets: many general public thinks. They repre- have to worry about their Democratic people would lose money and some sent congressional districts that have opponents, but they certainly have would gain. But it would not be a been so shamelessly gerrymandered to fear the Tea Party. If it decides to repeat of the crash of 2009, when it by state legislatures that it is almost mount a challenge to an incumbent was suddenly understood that huge impossible for anybody who is a Re- in the Republican primary elections, amounts of the mortgage debt held publican to lose an election there. the far-right challenger will be lavishly by banks could never be repaid. The

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US government can still pay its debts; it just has to get Congress's permission first. And the markets, while prone to panic, are not completely stupid. Nor is the US Constitution fundamentally broken. It always requires a fair degree of compromise between the various branches of the government in order to work smoothly and at most times in history that cooperation has been forthcoming. The current paralysis is due mainly to the gerrymandering of Congressional districts that makes members of the House of Representatives less afraid of public opinion than of the views of their own party's hardliners. It wouldn't hurt to put some controls on election spending as well, so that rich ideologues had less influence over the political process. But that is merely desirable; ending the gerrymandering is absolutely essential. It will take time, but this is a problem that can be fixed. And in the meantime, the US government is not really going broke. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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REVUE // FILIPINO-CHINESE

Overwhelming menu may leave newbies in the dark

have to admit, I haven't really gotten the hang of Filipino food. Blame it on lack of exposure—it seems to me that, with a few far-flung exceptions, Edmonton has only started to sprout conspicuous Filipino restaurants in the recent past, relative to the amount of time people of Philippine descent have been a discernible part of Edmonton's cultural mosaic. And the times I have ventured out—to Manila Bay, or Fat Jakks or Panciteria de Manila—the experience has been hit and miss, and free of an ensuing specific food fixation, an abiding affection for the Panciteria's tapsilog notwithstanding. So when I walk into a place like Cusina Ni Mutya, a more recent arrival on the dining/nightclub scene, I'm woefully under-equipped to assemble a decent meal from its perplexingly lengthy, and not entirely helpful, menu. As in, not all of the descriptions of the dishes actually disclose what's contained in the dish. And, seriously, there are a lot of them, from the page of sizzling platters, to the pages reflecting regional delicacies, to the more eclectic "variety menus," to the noodle dishes (two pages) to the various silogs that comprise breakfast—that's some form of marinated meat and rice with a fried egg on it to you. Should you have the kare kare or the afritada? The mechado or the pinakbet? The dinengdeng or the dinardaraan? Unfortunately, what the Cusina Ni Mutya didn't seem to have was much in the way of advice for the greenhorn. My first visit was solo which is NOT the way to dine at Cusina Ni Mutya. It's all hands on deck if you want variety in your meal, as the plates are designed for sharing. I couldn't find, nor could my otherwise courteous server guide me toward, something along the lines of a meal for one. I panicked and ordered the Sotanghon Guisado ($11.95), then ordered lumpia—Filipino spring rolls— ($7.95) to make it look like I knew what I was talking about.

Let me just pause here to note Cusina Ni Mutya is in the former space of respected Vietnamese eatery Ninh Kieu, which featured a fountain in its dining room, among other gaudy appurtenances. Cusina Ni Mutya has a small stage and dance floor in one of its two dining rooms, and has restored a measure of gaudiness by deploying a pink on other-pink colour scheme and installing light-gauge chainmail curtains. It's a bit nondescript in daylight, but it's open til 2 am from Thursday to Sunday, so I imagine it gets fancier after dark. The dish I ordered was a variant of pancit which, I have finally learned, is a boring dish. Pancit, you are boring. I think it might actually be a side dish, to be served alongside something actually yummy, but no one will tell me that. Thread-like rice noodles are cooked in stock and soy sauce, then tossed with onions, carrots, cabbage, celery and some meat—in this case, pork and shrimp. My experience has been that the veggies and meats tend to get slurped up pretty quickly, leaving you with a mono-flavoured skein of humid, skinny noodles. On that account, Sotanghon Guisado did not disappoint. The remainder is in a takeout container in my fridge which, it's safe to say, I still haven't thrown out. The lumpia were a consolation, a Vietnamese spring roll's porkier cousin, with spicy chili dip on the side in a generous serving of 10. I vowed a return visit to actually wade into the unknown and discover a new favourite. With a co-diner in tow, I fetched

up in the Cusina's dining room of a Sunday afternoon. We pored over the menu, negotiating a probable meal. Co-diner, looking a tad fragile, put an absolute ban on dishes containing blood and or offal. Sorry dinardaraan, not this time. She conceded to sizzling gambas, but we were still stumped and leaning toward one of the many stews. We asked our server for a suggestion and she said, simply, "Sissig." ($15.95). We said OK. Rice was also called for. First came the sizzling gambas—a cast-iron dish of calamari rings, big shrimp, carrots, peppers and onions in a thick, sweet, savoury sauce, hissing steam. This was pretty easy to relate to, and the seafood was cooked just right. Next came the sissig—another sizzling platter filled with small chunks of pork, pork belly and pork fat marinated in vinegar and lemon juice and cooked with red onions, ginger, garlic and pepper. A beaten egg had been poured over it and we were encouraged to mix it up so it could cook before digging in. It was salty and a little creamy from the egg, but it was most especially fatty. I decided to accept it on its own terms and found it tasty in a guiltily pleasurable way, but my co-diner spread it around her plate in a hunt for leaner orts. She did not meet with much success. Still, it was better than the pancit. But on our way out, we scanned the handful of occupied tables and noted dishes there that looked rather appealing, if only we had known what any of them were. So, unless you're up on your Filipino cuisine, a trip to Cusina Ni Mutya falls somewhere between "choose your own adventure" and "caveat emptor." Good luck! SCOTT LINGLEY

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PROVENANCE

Way, way back

Turkeys were domesticated approximately 2000 years ago by the indigenous people of Mesoamerica— specifically, the area which is now the central part of Mexico.

Little gobblers

The name for a domesticated baby turkey is a poult or turkeyling. A turkey's average life span is 10 years.

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Turkey meat contains tryptophan, an essential amino acid to human diets that is attributed to the drowsiness people often experience after consuming turkey—like at Thanksgiving, for example. However, it is argued that any feelings of drowsiness are actually caused by all the food—particularly large amounts of carbohydrates and fats—consumed in addition to turkey.

Mighty meat

If you're after protein, turkey meat clocks in at 28g per 100g serving, which beats out roast chicken (24.8g) and ground beef (23.1g). White meat is also considered to be healthier than its dark counterpart due to lower saturated-fat content.

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Powerful poultry

They're delicious, but turkeys are also useful in other ways. Turkey litter— a mixture of droppings and bedding material, like wood chips—is now being used by electric power plants as a viable fuel source. There's one currently operating in Minnesota that uses 500 000 tons of litter per year to provide 55 megawatts of power.

Birds of a different feather

Turkeys are not all the same. There are numerous breeds of the bird including, the Broad Breasted White, the choice variety for large-scale industrial turkey farms, meaning it is the most widely consumed; the Broad Breasted Bronze, which is another strain that has been commercially developed; the Bourbon Red, which is a smaller, non-commercial breed characterized by red feathers and white markings; and the Chocolate, a more rare heritage breed characterized by light-brown markings and common in the Southern US. V

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Belgium by way of Toronto Oranje Weisse a surprise of flavour One of the advantages of living in Alberta is that it is easy for a brewery from elsewhere in Canada, or the world, to sell their beer in our province. The policy has downsides, such as stifling the growth of local breweries, but for the moment I want to accent the positive. In the last few weeks, one of Ontario's most established craft breweries made the jump to list in Alberta. Amsterdam Brewery is Toronto's oldest craft brewery and an anchor on the Ontario beer scene. They brought a number of their beer, but the one that caught my attention most was Oranje Weisse, a Belgian Witbier that has quickly developed a following. The intense citrus orange character is supposed to be a signature of the beer. I picked up a bottle to try, and, I must admit, was in for something of a surprise. The beer is a medium straw colour with better than expected clarity and a mountainous white head. The carbonation is quite aggressive, suggesting a sharp accent to the beer. The aroma gives me soft citrus sweetness with a touch of orange backed by an extremely earthy, almost barnyard mustiness. A slight sour tang also hangs in the air. It smells a bit like Orval, for those who know this Belgian beer.

Studying the aroma also sparked my awareness that I might not be drinking what I thought I was. The flavour confirmed it. The front is soft citrus, a touch of grain and a noted floral character that reminds me of lilac, lily and geranium. Some light citrus comes to the surface in the middle, offer-

ing a sweet orange-like note as well as soapiness. The finish has a fresh grain note plus some fruity orange. The beer also has a distinct earthy blanket undercurrent. Without that I would declare this a somewhat interesting Witbier with added orange, but the mustiness confused me.

There was clearly something going on. Quite frankly what I tasted was the distinct character of Brettanomyces, a wild yeast that produces an extremely distinct earthy, barnyard flavour. It is a central feature of tart beer like lambics. In normal beer its presence is a sign of infection, so I set my notes aside and decided to contact the brewery. Their reply was reassuring. They told me the Brettanomyces was intentional, sort of. It wasn't a part of the original design, but they discovered the infection in the brewery and held the batch back. As it aged, they found the Brett added an attractive, interesting dimension to the beer. I can say unequivocally I agree. I have not tried the original version of Oranje Weisse, but the Brettinfected version has a very pleasant balance between fruity citrus and sharp tartness and earthiness. However, many people won't like the beer because of its raw earthiness. But I think people should give it a try because the barnyard mustiness adds an extra dimension to what could be a fairly straightforward beer. V Jason Foster is the creator of onbeer.org, a website devoted to news and views on beer from the prairies and beyond.

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PREVUE // DOCUMENTARY

The Colorado river Delta #2, as seen in Watermark

e fade-in on what I can only describe as hurtling meteors of water, brown, white and opal, thunderous, not cascading but raging with such primal force as though giving birth to a planet. Then cut to tiles of cracked earth, the very absence of moisture, and an old woman whose face and voice seem to echo the desert floor. She speaks of a time when there was a river and fish in this place, before the government took the water away, rerouting it and leaving perpetual drought behind. This is the stuff of Chinatown, corruption, neglect, the commandeering of resources, though what I can't get out of my head after seeing the opening scenes of Watermark is a Talking Heads song: Water dissolving and water removing / There is water at the bottom of the ocean / Remove the water, carry the water ... Water is this film's fathomless subject. It's more than a lazy metaphor to call the experience of seeing and hearing Watermark immersive. Codirected by prolific filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal and renowned photographer Edward Burtynsky—whose work was the subject of Baichwal's widely lauded Manufactured Landscapes—the film picks you up and sweeps you away, to 1700-year-old Yunnan rice paddies; to kids performing cartwheels on Huntington Beach; to 30-million pilgrims bathing their sins away in the Ganges; to the Ogallala Aquifer and its land art for the viewing pleasure of gods and pilots; to a Bangladeshi tannery's toxic runoff, which leads to a river where women bathe; to a subterranean industrial vampire city in China; to a boat stranded in the middle of a vast desert. The cinematography, courtesy of Baichwal's producer, husband

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and regular shooter Nick de Pencier, tinued to location scout as a team. alternates between stunning and ex- And once we found our locations quisitely lulling—I could happily drift we agreed that things had to be off to dreamland every night watch- rooted. That meant finding people. ing and listening to Watermark's final So on some days Ed might be sortriver-run. But the film is also brim- ing out that one big money-shot of ming with urgent stories of what's the dam while Nick and I would folhappening to the water we depend low the workers home for lunch. I felt on for survival. we needed those There's an indaily life details Opens Friday teresting tension to root the aerial Watermark between the meshots or we would Directed by Jennifer Baichwal dium Burtynsky have floated away. and Edward Burtynsky typically works Sometimes we Princess Theatre in versus that of all worked on the  Baichwal. Still broader pictures photography rentogether and ders water almost as sculpture, a sur- sometimes we didn't. It was very faced thing, something frozen in time. organic in that respect. Then in the Whereas in movies water becomes a editing room it became a very dayforce of emotion, drama, movement. to-day collaboration between [editor] Burtynsky, whose 30-year career has Roland [Schlimme] and I. Then Ed and surveyed the myriad ways mankind Nick would come in for screenings of has manipulated the earth and its re- the various assemblies and we would sources, was already well into his Wa- discuss. In a nutshell, Ed did a lot of ter book project when he and Baichw- the heavy lifting at the beginning and al decided to make this film together, I did it at the end. which offers fascinating contrasts between still and moving images. Theirs VW: I read the piece in The Globe & is a collaboration founded on looking Mail this morning and it struck me as at the same subject through compli- funny, how it would describe certain mentary yet distinct lenses. I spoke moments in Watermark as obviously with Baichwal and Burtynsky in Sep- bearing the Burtynsky signature, tember, on the morning following while for me those exact same moWatermark's world premiere at the ments feel entirely in keeping with Toronto International Film Festival. your work, Jennifer. All of which, I suppose, functions as a testament to VUE WEEKLY: In Manufactured Landthe harmony of your collaboration. scapes Ed was, in a sense, the film's JB: I suspect one of the reasons why subject or its inspiration, whereas we came together in the first place is Watermark credits you two equally because we have similar perspectives. as co-directors. How did you two di- EDWARD BURTYNSKY: And neither of vide the workload? us has oversized egos. There was no JENNIFER BAICHWAL: Ed had a head need to enforce a calm discussion start—he was working on Water for as to how we were going to work. It two years before we got together. came easily. Once we were making a film we con- VW: I spend time in Mexico City, where

water is a valuable commodity and only rich or stupid people can think of it as something that doesn't need to be rationed. But there's something about being surrounded by water that makes it hard for many ostensibly ecologically conscious Canadians to reconcile themselves to the fact that it may very soon be scarce. Something I love about the opening of Watermark is the way it offers you these incredible images of deluge and follows them with images of drought. That contrast plants a useful seed in the viewers' minds, I think. JB: From the very beginning we talked about illumination through juxtaposition. On one level those two places depicted in the opening have nothing to do with each other, but on another they're directly related because it's all about control of water. The Colorado River Delta is the result of control. These kinds of juxtapositions became our version of narrative. EB: Abundance versus scarcity, East versus West, pristine versus tainted—meaning can be coaxed out of contrast. In one place water is contaminated and placed in a sewage ditch. In another we have Oscar Dennis talk about how water is integrated into a First Nations view of the cycle of life. And it's not that we're wagging a finger at those working in the Bangladeshi leather tannery—they're making those shoes for us. We've just managed to export most of our nastiest industries to the developing world. VW: When writing about Watermark

I find myself avoiding the word documentary. Not because it doesn't fulfil the requirements of the form in many regards, but because certain viewers equate documentary with activist

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or didactic films. I keep bumping up against this insistence that everything be clearly spelled out, as though viewers play no critical role. JB: We keep bumping up against that too. To be sure, in Watermark there are hard facts that are interesting and pertinent, things you need to know to contextualize what you're looking at. For example, Owens Lake is the largest source of dust pollution in the US. I didn't know that when we were filming there. That information gives you an important tool—it doesn't, however, tell you what to think. I don't know how often I've had to make the argument that the documentary form doesn't need to be defined by journalistic criteria. It's a question about truth. Just watch the news. I mean, who in their right mind thinks that everything on the news is true? EB: I think our work falls somewhere on the spectrum between what, say, Al Gore or, in a more exaggerated way, Michael Moore do, which is to barrage you with damning facts, and something like Samsara, which is entirely non-verbal filmmaking in which the visuals carry the freight. I like the idea of a film functioning like a showing of my work, where the viewer has to complete the meaning. The more you bring to furthering your understanding of what's in the picture, the more you bring to the picture itself. Last night we had dinner with various people who had attended the premiere and I was enjoying listening to the comments. Everyone seems to have a different idea as to what the film is about. Really, the final collaboration is between the finished film and its audience. JOSEF BRAUN

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PREVUE // GENRE FILM FEST

DEDfest

Septic Man, looking a little shitty

his isn't your average film festival. DEDfest strives for something a little different, with its organizers hunting down some of the best in horror, sci-fi, fantasy and just plain bizarre genre productions. "Usually it's feast of famine, and in the early years of DEDfest it was definitely famine," says Derek Clayton, one of the minds behind the five-day event, now

entering its sixth year. "We were having trouble being taken seriously outside of Edmonton. We were having trouble being taken seriously within Edmonton, too, but once we started going out to other festivals and meeting distributors and getting our name out there, it's become a lot easier to get films. Our final selections won't be because we're scrambling to get films last minute; it'll

be because we're trying to decide which ones we want to bring in." Location has been one of the most difficult hurdles for DEDfest to overcome. Clayton acknowledges Edmonton is not known for its film culture, and that we often don't give ourselves credit for having the continuously growing one that does exist. But as the team began to travel to events like Fan-

tastic Fest in Austin, Texas and Fantasia eous transformation. It's sort of a in Montréal, opportunities to bring in surrealist, transgressive film. He was more films began to arise. This year's inspired by Georges Bataille, who attractions include an appearance by was a banned French philosopher Bobcat Goldthwait in the '30s and and his found- Wed, Oct 16 – Sun, Oct 20 Samuel Beckett, footage Bigfoot Metro Cinema at the Garneau his play Endgame, so there's a lot of film Willow Creek; dedfest.com Pinup Dolls on Ice, literary inspiraa slasher flick where a retro striptease tion for a film that otherwise, on the act is stalked by a maniac; the cannibal- surface, might seem quite ridiculous." istic familial dynamics of We Are What We Are; and Septic Man, which won Ridiculous to some, maybe, but it's the Best Actor award at Fantastic Fest the fearlessness of pushing boundarlast month and puts its own gruesome ies and exploring themes outside the spin on the traditional tale of a man norm that keeps fans coming back for trapped down a well—or septic tank more each year. in this case, complete with the tagline "We're going to show something "Shit just got surreal." we think our crowd will like, and if it "Septic Man is sort of a ridiculous doesn't fit into a specific genre then plot—a man trapped in a septic we're not too concerned about that tank—but we play it serious. We anymore," says Clayton, who is curdon't play it for laughs at all," ex- rently in pre-production for a docuplains director Jesse Thomas Cook, mentary about the history of Canafor whom Septic Man marks his sec- dian exploitation cinema, examining ond DEDfest, the first having been the past and present generations the wrestling-horror-comedy hybrid of genre filmmakers. "There's a very Monster Brawl in 2011. "We felt that communal nature with going to a if we played it for laughs it would movie that people love and that's still just unravel, so Tony [Burgess], credit prevalent, so all you've got to do is to him, he wrote a very serious script find a way to get people in the seats." about this man who transforms into MEAGHAN BAXTER a creature and undergoes this hid- MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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all it the Great Gatsby gamble More shrugging connecting-theon the American Dream/Scam plots follows, with gambling lingo, masterpiece. It takes an excellent racism or sleaziness spouting from writer or director—Terence Winter the mouths of male assholes ("I'm with Boardwalk Empire, or Martin a fountain of money in this shithole Scorsese with Goodfellas and Casino, [Costa Rica]"; "think about him banging your girl while or David Fincher you're in jail"), conwith The Social Now playing versations steamN e t w o r k — t o Directed by Brad Furman ing with banal bluff make a criminal  and bluster, and or dubious empire tropical scenes seem attractive yet disheartening, alluring yet chill- wafting from perfume and liqueur ing, even grand ... yet tragic. Brad Fur- ads: scantily clad women, swanky man's Runner Runner, from a script clubs and parties, mansions, speedby Brian Koppelman and David Levien boats, fast cars zipping down palm(Ocean's Thirteen), instead mixes the tree-lined highways, sunrise-swept vacuous and tedious, the slick and beach. (Block's empire, especially predictable, the smarmy and smug. Its when he feeds crocodiles, seems like one saving grace is relative—it's not nearly as execrable as Oliver Stone's recent Savages, a stoned-dead look at marijuana-peddling. The script folds early and fast, like a cheap deck of cards. In no time, Princeton graduate student and online-gambling pusher Richie Furst (Justin Timberlake) is way offcampus, in Costa Rica, eager to meet gaming-website kingpin Ivan Block (Ben Affleck). This is the kind of lazy movie where people tell a charactertoo-dull-to-be-an-actual-protagonist that he'll never meet the mysterious kingpin—then he does, less than two When Justin met Ben minutes later.

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the world of a Bond villain just a tad too stupidly narcissistic to actually attempt global domination.) "I love those little slimy bastards," Block says of the primordial reptiles, but it's the plot that badly bets the house on loving him and Furst and the others here, slimy bastards all. Amid its slick Vegas capitalism-porn, the only interesting ambivalence in Runner Runner is whether it'll make any viewers who can sit through it to the end get up and run, run towards or run, run away from online gambling. Or maybe they'll just deal it what Block suggests Furst practise— that "fuck-you look." BRIAN GIBSON

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aptain Phillips, the titanic new movie about the 2009 Maersk Alabama hijacking, is a case study in various forms of cinematic grueling. It opens with about a good half-hour or more of superfluous scenes littered with mind-numbing exposition. The titular Rich Phillips (Tom Hanks) and his loving wife Andrea (Catherine Keener, conspicuously underused) talk in the broadest Baw-stonian Opening Friday p l a t i t u d e s Directed by Paul about the  trials of raising children. The conversation is presumably meant to convey decades of intimacy, but it's as though they just met. "Right now the world is moving so fast," says the Captain. "You gotta be strong to survive out there!" Meanwhile on the other side of the ocean Somali fishermenturned-pirates turn out to be human, too. Even if they have to say stuff like, "You worry about yourself, skinny rat!" Once the Alabama is moving through foreign waters, there are numerous scenes in which the Captain

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keeps reminding everybody on board to take extra safety measures—there are pirates in Africa, don't you know. That there is foreshadowing. It is also, perhaps, insurance: we are never to doubt Phillips' preparedness. Once we get through that kind of grueling we move on to the sort of grueling for which director Paul Greengrass is celebrated. The Somali pirates evenGreengrass tually make it aboard, there's lots of shouting and bulging eyeballs and rifles waved about. The handheld camera is suitably seasick. The Captain, who the pirates dub "Irish," sweats a great deal, and comes up with ways to delay the pirates' discovery of the rest of the crew who, in accordance with protocol, are hiding in the engine room. There are many cutaways to engines and rudders. A teenage pirate cuts his foot and man, does it look bad. Eventually the pirates take whatever cash is on board

and depart in a lifeboat with the Captain as their hostage. Things get claustrophobic. We are certainly engaged now. "There's got to be something other than being a fisherman or kidnapping people," says the Captain. "Maybe in America, Irish," says chief pirate Muse (Barkhad Abdi, quite good in a pathetically underwritten role). "Maybe in America." I mean no disrespect to the heroism or trauma of the real Rich Phillips or, for that matter, to the genuine desperation of the Somali pirates, when I say that Captain Phillips is kind of appalling. When the film sticks to conveying the events as tersely and matter-of-factly as possible, it more or less works as an unnerving docudrama thriller, but its meandering, over-simplistic attempts to make a grand statement about economic inequities or globalization or whatever boggles the mind and insults the moral intelligence of its audience. Watch the similar but much better Danish film A Hijacking instead. JOSEF BRAUN

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No monkey business here

Girl versus girl

She Monkeys finds adolescents competing for achievement

he title She Monkeys sounds like a mistake—maybe this is a doc about those little brine shrimp advertised in '70s comic books as "sea monkeys" ("Own a Bowlfull of Happiness—Instant Pets")? But the Swedish title Apflickorna does translate literally as "she monkeys," and Lisa Aschan's remarkable debut (available via Amazon or iTunes) shows girls aping adult sexuality and power-plays as they brazenly try to move ahead in the world. We first see Emma (Mathilda Paradeiser) pacing off steps in a forest as she trains the family dog; young sister Sara looks on. ("One shapes a behaviour," Emma explains to Sara later, passing on her icy sense of self-controlled maturity.) Few recent films—only Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank comes to mind—have been so attentive to the adolescent body moving through space even as it's aware of being seen, watched and evaluated: stretching and training in front of a mirror, moving furtively through rooms, trying on clothes, riding an animal, curled up to another girl. Emma's a 15-year-old of cooled, coiled emotions and deep determination, the extent of which we

won't realize until later. She's training to make an equestrian vaulting team—gymnastics atop a horse led in circles around a ring— and she's accepted, though there will still be a final round of cuts for the competition squad. Teammate and potential rival Cassandra (Linda Molin) takes her under her wing but also starts to play games with her. The pair toys with the affection of two young men they meet one day at the pool. Meanwhile, young Sara (Isabella Lindquist) is groping for her own preternatural sense of gender and sexuality. At her swimming lesson, an instructor tells her she must get a top. Soon after, there's a startling shot of Sara hiding, like a pre-pubescent Eve, behind plant fronds on the pool deck. She takes her father with her to buy a twopiece bathing suit and picks out a leopard-print bikini, drawing on whiskers as she looks in the mirror; in its own babyish way, the primal is emerging. Sara professes feelings for her older cousin and one time, when he comes to babysit her, becomes a confused, forlorn imitation of a relationship. (Sara's a deeply Salinger-esque

child, straight out of his collection Nine Stories.) There are the elements of a Western, too: the opening music; the horses; a standoff; tumbleweed rolling past the training stables; a gun. Aschan uses open space and tight framing to eerie, inchingly claustrophobic effect. Female adolescence becomes a tightening, narrowing constriction of the throat—a gasping for air and grasping for achievement, getting ahead of a rival or friend (the distinction blurs) however one can. "Work on your display," her coach tells Emma, and the emphasis on show over substance permeates these girls' worlds. Yet Emma's careful in never showing her true feelings, in case she's taken for a ride. And, in the chilling end, when Emma has, slyly and surreptitiously, achieved her goal (at what cost to herself?) she's moving coolly, calmly atop that strange, powerful, wild beast— adolescence—seemingly in complete control. She's even tricked herself, perhaps, into believing that she's reined in all her emotions to successfully capture the teen spirit of success. V

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The Right Kind of Wrong though, and mostly lets that slide off his back, until he falls in love (at first sight!), with Colette, on what happens to be her wedding day. That she's just tied the knot with a veritable successchecklist of a man (Ryan McPartlin) seems to matter little in Leo's mind; he pursues her with a Pepé Le Pewlike abandon. "What attracted me to it is what attracted me to any film that is relentlessly anti-cynical—something that works with a strong sense of optimism and possibilities," Checkik says. He was on the phone during TIFF, just before the movie's première. So was Sara Canning—and Catherine O'Hara, though we'll get to her in a minute—who plays Colette. A bornin-Newfoundland-raised-in-Alberta actor—she starred in the Citadel Theatre's production 1984 way back in the day, has fond memories of going to Artstrek as a youth, and is now known best for her television work in The Vampire Diaries and more recently Primeval: New World—she notes the script's appeal to be yes, atypical of the genre, but also a chance for her to flex her comedic muscles. "We don't really get a huge opportunity to do comedy in Canada," Canning notes. "So I responded to it immediately; it was quite different from anything I'd gotten to do. "When I was 19 and went to film school, I had to put the muppety part of myself in a cage, and learn how to

act for film and television," she adds. "It's fun to let that little muppet out when I get to do comedy."

Ted Tally from Harris's eponymous and Clarice develop a quasi-therapistbestseller. Clarice (Jodie Foster), is patient relationship. Despite Clarice's about to graduate from FBI school. efforts, the tables never turn. HanniThis smart, disciplined young woman bal reads her like a book, spotting trying to make it in a world of conher vulnerable points. But he's also descending older the only man in the men, is our hero- Mon, Oct 14 (7 pm) movie who respects ine. But Hannibal Directed by Jonathan Demme her. (Hopkins) is not Metro Cinema at the Garneau Hopkins is all high her antagonist. Originally Released: 1991 theatre, mesmerHe becomes an izing, no blinking, a intimate ally. lot of Bela Lugosi larice is sent to a Baltimore maxi- in Dracula (1931), maybe a little Joel mum security prison/luxury dun- Grey in Cabaret (1972) too. His timgeon where she's aggressively hit on ing's immaculate, frequently going by a warden with big hair (Anthony for the laughs while somehow never Heald), gets some nutcase's splooge compromising the integrity of this flung at her face—easily the most wildly artificial yet totally coherent disgusting moment in a movie riddled character. Foster is also remarkable. with disgusting moments—and has She was still young enough to conher first meeting with Hannibal, an vey innocence, or rather, an overencounter that in the most perverse achiever's spunk. She's acting hard way possible feels like the start of a and it shows, but that eagerness love story—one without any touch- perfectly fits with the character. ing. Hannibal is a psychiatrist put away for eating his patients. While os- What I most loved about revisiting tensibly helping the feds to catch an- Silence of the Lambs for the first other killer—dubbed Buffalo Bill for time in years was my realization his penchant for skinning victims—he that, despite the presence of es-

teemed stars and the multiple Oscars it eventually garnered, it really isn't a "prestige" picture. Demme's coverage isn't especially glossy or sweeping; it's solid meat-and-potatoes directing. The story is in many ways—mostly very good ways—utterly trashy, and the movie adheres to the source material's tone. Really, it's almost a (very expensive) B-movie, and the cameo from Roger Corman—the producer of Demme's early exploitation flicks Caged Heat (1974) and Fighting Mad (1976)— seems like a sly acknowledgment of this. How refreshing to see a Best Picture-winner that doesn't seem calculated or compromised by a desperate need to win Best Picture. On the contrary, Silence of the Lambs is first and foremost creepy, character-driven entertainment. That's why we're still captivated more than two decades later—and why you should go see it on the big screen when Metro puts it up there on Monday night.

The right kind of what?

here is a safety in a cynical view say 5000 years, the average person on of the world, because we have a percentile level is healthier, there's so much information," begins Jeremiah less crime, things are better, things Chechik. "Probably things aren't worse are safer, there is less death and war. than they've been Even though you over the last five Opens Friday wouldn't know it, [thousand] or 10 Directed by Jeremiah Chechik mathematically 000 years of huit's true." man history, but The director's we certainly know more, we're aware speaking of his romantic comedy, The of more. And because we're aware of Right Kind of Wrong, and how he sees more, there's a very easy way for us to it in opposition to the sort of gloomy, go, 'Well, it's all hopeless.' But, in fact, irony-heavy era he's releasing it into. if you look at the actual figures over, Calling a rom-com "not your typical

rom-com" is its own sort of cliché, but that separation from the rest of the genre was, in fact, what drew him in, in terms of its positivity: the script, based on the novel Sex and Sunsets by Tim Sandlin (who co-penned the screenplay) pivots around unsuccessful writer/dish-washer Leo Palomino (Ryan Kwanten), who not only gets dumped, but watches as his ex-girlfriend's blog (about why, exactly, he sucks as a boyfriend) becomes wildly popular and lands a publishing deal. The dude has an unshakable spirit

O'Hara, one of Canada's most enduring comedians, plays Colette's mother Tess. She notes the romantic genre of films has its own sort of embedded cynicism she was happy to avoid here. "In so many rom-coms, if there's another person involved, another husband or wife or girlfriend or whatever, they'll make them kind of an Ahole," O'Hara says. "An obvious A-hole, which Sara and I agree would make you question the intelligence of the lead character. What are they doing with them? Why did they marry this person? Where, I think, they give Ryan [McPartlin]'s character every chance he can to prove he's the guy for her, which I think is way more realistic." "I think maybe in a way that's less cynical," she continues. "All these movies that [say], 'Oh, get rid of them so you can get with the other lead'— that is cynical, and it's cruel, and they brush it off, and ... they don't care for those people. And the movies don't care for those characters. Get rid of them so these two can be together. Even though not everyone does the right thing [in The Right Kind of Wrong], you still are reminded, these are real people, and this is happening to them. It's real." PAUL BLINOV

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Silence of the Lambs

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er name is Clarice, which seems like a masterstroke of foresight on the part of novelist Thomas Harris—once you hear Anthony Hopkins utter this name, with customized twang, putting equal weight on both syllables, hovering over the slipperiness of the final consonant, you real-

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ize why there are some movie character names you never forget. Which, needless to say, goes double for Dr Hannibal—rhymes with "cannibal"— Lecter, one of two psycho-killers who feature prominently in The Silence of the Lambs (1991), directed by Jonathan Demme and adapted by

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A scene from Kieślowski's Blue

A colourful afterlife

The transcendent legacy of Krzysztof Kieślowski "I haven't got a great talent for films. ... A genius [like Welles, with Citizen Kane] immediately finds his place. But I'll need to take all my life to get there and I never will. I know that perfectly well. I just keep on going." – Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1992

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ut Kieślowski's work—his eye for the transcendent, his effort to capture "what lies within us," his deeply humanist fascination with the luminous and ethereal, wrenching moral dilemmas, and coincidence and fate—has kept on going, rippling through moviehouse retrospectives, film schools and the history of late 20th-century European film. So, as Metro's showcase of the Polish director's last works, the Three Colours trilogy, continues this week, let's trace the afterlife of this director's legacy. Here's some of the best "Kieślowskiana" out there, with all films available on DVD or by other means. One of his regular actors, Jerzy Stuhr (The Scar, Camera Buff, The Decalogue – X, Three Colours: White), starred in and directed Big Animal (2000), from Kieślowski's own script-adaptation of a short story. This 73-minute fable, shot in black-and-white and about a bank worker who comes across a camel in his yard, had one of its few overseas screenings at the Edmonton International Film Festival in 2001.

Two assistant directors for the trilogy went on to make their own well-received debuts around the turn of the century, too. Julie Bertuccelli (Blue) won the Critics' Week Grand Prize at Cannes with her study of three generations of women in Tbilisi, Georgia in Since Otar Left (2003), where mother and daughter try to hide a death in the family from the grandmother. And Emmanuel Finkiel (White, Red) debuted Voyages to much acclaim in 1999, its three stories linked in their examination of the lingering effects of the Holocaust on French survivors visiting Auschwitz, a widow in Paris and a Russian émigré in Israel. Co-writer Krzysztof Piesiewicz collaborated with Kieślowski on not only the trilogy but his 10-part made-for-TV exploration of the Commandments, Decalogue (available as a box set) and The Double Life of Véronique (the sumptuous Criterion Collection edition includes a booklet with essays by academic Slavoj Žižek and critic Jonathan Romney). The pair had started scripting a new trilogy— Heaven, Hell, Purgatory—before Kieślowski died suddenly in 1996. Tom Tykwer made the first in 2002 and the last went unproduced. But it's Danis Tanović's 2005 take on the Medea-inspired second entry—with Emmanuelle Béart, Karin

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Viard, and Marie Gillain as Parisian sisters drifting through a gilded, baroque, red-saturated world of savage domestic break ups and thwarted relationships—that's worth watching. And then there are Kieślowski's own words. He reveals a profound humility (quoted above) in interviews with Danusia Stok, collected in Kieślowski on Kieślowski (Faber and Faber, 1993). (And fascinating tidbits, too. It turns out he considered releasing Double Life with different endings for different theatres. He'd wanted Italian actorwriter-director Nanni Moretti as the male lead and Andie MacDowell as Véronique before deciding on an actress who would never reach greater heights—Irène Jacob. Her performance so wowed Quentin Tarantino—later certain that Red would beat Pulp Fiction for the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1994— that he had written the character of Fabienne in Pulp Fiction for her.) Kieślowski talks more about his work and life-philosophy in the documentary I'm So-So (1995). And there's his eloquent introduction to the published Decalogue screenplay (Faber and Faber, 1991), which happens to also include a short but quite complimentary ("such dazzling skill") foreword by none other than Stanley Kubrick. BRIAN GIBSON

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CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (G) SAT-SUN 1:00, 3:40; TUE 2:40; 3D: Reald 3d FRI 6:50, 9:10; SAT-SUN 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:10; MON, WED-THU 5:15, 7:30; TUE 2:05, 5:15, 7:30

CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (PG violence) FRI 6:30, 9:30; SAT-SUN 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30; MON, WED-THU 5:00, 8:00; TUE 2:00, 5:00, 8:00 WE'RE THE MILLERS (14A crude coarse language, sexual content) FRI 6:10, 8:50; SAT-SUN 12:40, 3:10, 6:10, 8:50; MON, WED-THU 5:05, 7:40; TUE 2:15, 5:05, 7:40

ESCAPE PLAN (STC) THU 10:00 DON JON (18A sexual content) FRI, MON 12:15, 2:45, 5:20, 7:50, ROMEO & JULIET (STC) DAILY 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00

THE RIGHT KIND OF WRONG (14A coarse language, sexual content, nudity) FRI 6:15, 8:30; SAT-SUN 12:50, 3:20, 6:15, 8:30; MON, WED-THU 5:20, 7:45; TUE 2:20, 5:20, 7:45

7:00, 9:30

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THE RIGHT KIND OF WRONG (14A coarse language, sexual

PACIFIC RIM (PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young children) FRI-TUE 1:00, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45; WED-THU 3:45, 6:45, 9:45

content, nudity) FRI-MON 12:35, 3:00, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15; TUE-WED 2:25, 5:00, 7:25, 9:50; THU 5:00, 7:25, 9:50; Star & Strollers: THU 1:00

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6:20, 8:40; SAT-SUN 3:50, 6:20, 8:40; MON, WED-THU 5:10, 7:20; TUE 2:10, 5:10, 7:20

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THE HEAT (14A crude coarse language) DAILY 9:20 THE WORLD'S END (14A crude coarse language) FRI-TUE 1:40, 4:20, 7:20, 10:05; WED-THU 4:20, 7:20, 10:05

AASHIQUI NOT ALLOWED (14A) Punjabi W/E.S.T. FRI-TUE 1:55, 4:50, 8:00; Wed-Thu 4:50, 8:00

BESHARAM (14A) Hindi W/E.S.T. FRI-TUE 1:35, 5:00, 8:45; WED-THU 5:00, 8:45

R.S.V.P–RONDE SAARE VIAH PICHO (STC) Punjabi W/E.S.T. FRI-TUE 1:05, 4:00, 6:55, 9:50; WED-THU 4:00, 6:55, 9:50

PRISONERS (14A brutal violence, not rec for young children) FRI-

NATIONAL THEATER LIVE–MACBETH (Classification not

MON 11:55, 3:20, 6:50, 10:15; TUE-THU 2:30, 6:50, 10:15

available) THU 7:00

GRAVITY 3D (PG coarse language) FRI-MON 12:50, 3:10, 5:30,

WALLACE & GROMIT IN THE CURSE OF THE WERERABBIT (G) SAT 11:00

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PRISONERS (14A brutal violence, not rec for young children) FRI

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3:40, 7:00, 10:20; SAT-SUN 12:20, 3:40, 7:00, 10:20; MON 2:00, 5:30, 9:00; TUE-THU 8:10

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (G) FRI-MON

PRISONERS (14A brutal violence, not rec for young children)

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DAILY 1:10, 4:40, 8:00

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CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (PG violence) FRI-WED 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:10; THU 1:00, 4:00, 10:10; SAT 11:15; THU 7:00 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (G) FRI 12:50, 3:10, 5:30; SAT 11:00, 11:45, 12:50, 3:10, 5:30; SUN-MON 12:15, 12:50, 3:10, 5:30; TUE-THU 1:20, 3:50; 3D : FRI, TUE-THU 2:30, 4:50, 7:20, 9:45; SAT 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:20, 9:45; SUN-MON 12:00, 2:30, 4:50, 7:20, 9:45

RUNNER RUNNER (14A coarse language) FRI-SAT, TUE-THU 2:20, 5:20, 7:45, 10:05; SUN-MON 2:40, 5:20, 7:45, 10:05

CARRIE (14A gory violence, disturbing content) THU 10:00 RUSH (14A coarse language) DAILY 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 WE'RE THE MILLERS (14A crude coarse language, sexual content) FRI-WED 2:00, 4:45, 7:40, 10:20; THU 1:30, 4:30, 10:20

INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 (14A frightening scenes, not rec for children) FRI-MON 3:20, 9:15; TUE-WED 3:45, 9:15; THU 3:45

MACHETE KILLS (18A, gory violence, crude coarse language) FRI, SUN-THU 2:15, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30; SAT 11:40, 2:15, 5:10, 7:50,

10:30

ESCAPE PLAN (STC) THU 10:00

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (G) SAT-SUN 12:30; MON 12:50; 3D : FRI 4:20, 7:10, 9:40; SAT-SUN 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50; MON 3:30, 6:40, 9:20; TUE-WED 6:50, 9:20; THU 6:30, 9:00

content) FRI-TUE 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50; WED 1:00, 4:00, 9:50; THU 1:00, 4:00, 10:20

RUSH (14A coarse language) FRI 4:30, 7:20, 10:10; SAT-SUN 1:20, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10; MON 12:30, 3:20, 6:30, 9:35; TUE-THU 6:30, 9:25; VIP 18+ : FRI 5:40, 8:50; SAT-SUN 2:10, 5:30, 8:40; MON 1:30, 4:50, 8:00; TUE-THU 8:00

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children) FRI-MON 12:20, 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 10:45; TUE-THU 1:45, 4:45, 7:35, 10:15

Come by soon. This remarkable show ends October 31.

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THE RIGHT KIND OF WRONG (14A coarse language, sexual content, nudity) FRI 4:45, 7:40, 10:00; SAT-SUN 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00; MON 1:10, 3:50, 6:50, 9:15; TUE-THU 7:10, 9:35

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MACHETE KILLS (18A, gory violence, crude coarse language)

WALLACE & GROMIT IN THE CURSE OF THE WERERABBIT (G) SAT 11:00

FRI-TUE 12:50, 4:00, 7:25, 10:10; WED-THU 4:00, 7:25, 10:10

ROYAL BALLET: DON QUIXOTE (Classification not available)

content, nudity) FRI-TUE 12:00, 3:40, 7:00, 9:35; WED-THU 3:40, 7:00, 9:35

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content) DAILY 4:45, 6:55

INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 (14A frightening scenes, not rec for

PRISONERS (14A brutal violence, not rec for young children) FRI

children) DAILY 9:10

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THE SMURFS 2 (G) DAILY 12:45 2:45

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THE RIGHT KIND OF WRONG (14A coarse language, sexual

THE RIGHT KIND OF WRONG (14A coarse language, sexual content, nudity) FRI-MON 12:30, 2:55, 5:25, 8:05, 10:30; TUE, THU 1:20, 4:10, 7:20, 9:45; WED 4:10, 7:20, 9:45; Star & Strollers: WED 1:00 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: OTHELLO–ENCORE (Classification not available) SAT 12:30

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THE SPECTACULAR NOW (14A sexual content, substance

PARKLAND (PG coarse language, disturbing content) FRI-MON

MACHETE KILLS (18A, gory violence, crude coarse language) FRI-MON 12:00, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:45; TUE-THU 2:00, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30

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RUNNER RUNNER (14A coarse language) FRI-TUE 1:00, 3:45, 7:10, 9:40; WED-THU 3:45, 7:10, 9:40

DON JON (18A sexual content) FRI-TUE 1:10, 4:10, 6:55, 9:35;

INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 (14A frightening scenes, not rec for

DON JON (18A sexual content) FRI, SUN-MON 12:25, 2:45, 5:10, 7:40, 10:00; SAT 5:10, 7:40, 10:00; TUE-THU 2:20, 5:10, 7:40, 10:00

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RUNNER RUNNER (14A coarse language) FRI, SUN-MON 1:10, 3:30, 5:55, 8:15, 10:40; SAT 12:25, 2:45, 5:55, 8:15, 10:40; TUE-THU 1:10, 3:30, 5:55, 8:15, 10:30

Drop in and meet Ernestine at the opening receptions:

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language) FRI-MON 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30; TUE-THU 1:50, 4:20, 7:10, 9:30

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PRISONERS (14A brutal violence, not rec for young children) FRI-

CARRIE (14A gory violence, disturbing content) THU 10:00

WE'RE THE MILLERS (14A crude coarse language, sexual

DON JON (18A sexual content) FRI-SAT, MON-TUE, THU 1:50, 5:00,

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“Colour to me is light… spiritually and serenity are integral to my work.”

RUSH (14A coarse language) FRI-TUE 1:30, 4:30, 7:25, 10:20; WED

12:45, 6:30; TUE-THU 1:00, 6:30

THE FAMILY (14A brutal violence, coarse language) FRI-MON

12:40, 3:05, 5:35; TUE 12:55, 3:15, 5:35; WED 3:15, 5:35; THU 12:55, 3:15; Star & Strollers: WED 1:00; 3D : FRI-MON 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40; TUE, THU 2:10, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40; WED 2:10, 4:50, 7:00, 9:40

GRAVITY 3D (PG coarse language) VIP 18+, FRI 4:20, 7:40, 10:45;

CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (PG violence) FRI 3:50, 7:00, 10:10; SAT-MON 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10; TUE-THU 6:30, 9:35

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (G) FRI 4:50, 7:15; SAT-MON 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15; TUE-THU 6:50; 3D : FRI 5:20, 7:45, 10:15; SAT-MON 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:15; TUE-THU 7:20, 9:50

RUNNER RUNNER (14A coarse language) FRI 5:05, 7:30, 9:55; SAT-MON 12:20, 2:45, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55; TUE-THU 7:10, 9:30

CARRIE (14A gory violence, disturbing content) THU 10:00 RUSH (14A coarse language) FRI 4:10, 7:10, 10:10; SAT-MON 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10; TUE-WED 6:45, 9:45; THU 6:45

THE FAMILY (14A brutal violence, coarse language) DAILY 9:05 PRISONERS (14A violence, not rec for young children) DAILY

GRAVITY (PG coarse language) THU, OCT 10: 3D : 7:00, 9:40 RUNNER RUNNER (14A coarse language) THU, OCT 10: 7:05, 9:35 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (G) THU, OCT 10: 3D : 7:10, 9:35

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BATTLE OF THE YEAR (PG coarse language) THU, OCT 10: 7:00, 9:40

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (G) THU, OCT 10: 3D : 7:10, 9:35

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ARTIFACTS

ARTS

ARTS EDITOR : PAUL BLINOV PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

REVUE // VISUAL ARTS

MEAGHAN BAXTER // MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Our Families: The Impact of Contemporary Family on Art / Until Wed, Nov 16; artist reception on Sat, Oct 12 (3 pm) There’s the fam-

ily we’re born into, which can be our biggest allies and drive us mad simultaneously, but there is also the family we make for ourselves throughout our lifetime. Work from 10 visual artists examines the ways in which modern families transcend DNA and help shape the people we become. (dc3 Arts Projects)

n atheist friend recently told me over a dinner conversation that the closest she comes to a spiritual experience is when she reads message boards that churches put up on their lawns. Her tongue-in-cheek tone belied a serious observation. Such message signs are often funny,

Beer ‘n’ Politics: A Municipal Election Discussion / Sun, Oct 13 (noon – 6 pm) Do your eyes glaze over at the

thought of reading campaign platforms and listening to forums? Beer will help. Join the discussion and watch a presentation from ActivatED (it’s not as bad as it sounds) to wade through the issues of the upcoming civic election. (Wunderbar)

It’s All About Me! Me! Me! / Wed, Oct 16 (5:30 pm) Here’s your chance

to be a little narcissistic and cater to you—that’s right, you. Hosted by Breakfast Television’s Bridget Ryan, this event allows you to have your very own onesentence biography penned by a professional author, take part in a photo shoot and scope out some of the other offerings of Litfest. (Bohemia, $10, $5 for students or groups of 10 or more)

// Nicole Rayburn

poignant and powerful. And this cultural phenomenon is proliferating; nowadays you can barely drive by any church in North America without seeing one. In her show re/signed, Nicole Rayburn has tapped into this fascinating trend. Rayburn, currently a Dawson

City, Yukon resident, photographed either for a good chuckle or for a moreligious public road signage primar- ment of reflection. While appealing, this advertisily around London, ON, where she received her MFA degree. Her im- ing strategy is questionable. For ages are largely unaltered, aside for example, one of Rayburn's images removal of identifying names and ad- says, "Jesus still loves you!" It's "in your face" partisan promotion. As dresses of churches. Her selections are often funny: "In long as the message is Christian, it's God's Olympics, the first will be last likely to be to ignored. But I wonder and the last will be first," "Google how communities would react if public billboards doesn't have all declared: "Allah the answers" or Until Fri, Oct 18 or the Dalai Lama "We use duct tape re/signed still loves you!" to fix things ... God Works by Nicole Rayburn used nails!" Some Harcourt House Rayburn's show challenge convenbrings myriad of tions: "It's OK to say Merry Christmas" subverts hard- such questions to the foreground won social changes aimed to include without providing facile answers. As diverse populations. Other signs bra- the artist stated, she doesn't strive to zenly recruit worshippers: "S nday 11 abolish this church marketing strategy. Her show merely brings attenam worship, what's missing is u." As the title of this show (a pun on tion to a fascinating and widespread the word "resigned") suggests Ray- social trend. Once examined in the cool, underburn is critical of this church practice and raises awareness of the blatant stated light of this show, message self-promotion that such signs sig- board marketing is likely to make nify. Yet her show also points out both believers and non-believers the wit and entertainment appeal of squirm. Non-believers could find this new church strategy. Some signs religious displays in public spaces make it seem like sermons are punc- disconcerting. As for believers, their deeply held spiritual truths seem betuated by stand-up comedy. With pews sitting empty it's not sur- littled to mere advertising slogans. prising that churches resort to clever "Jesus Saves" on a billboard becomes advertising. A 2006 online Harris Poll unnervingly akin to an ad for, say, the reported that only 26 percent of US healing powers of skin-care lotion. As Rayburn's art cleverly points out, adults attended services once a week. This is a hefty number in comparison religious marketing that blurs lines to European statistics: in Russia in between the spiritual and the com2012 regular attendance is only three mercial is captivating—even brilliant. Each sign in this show becomes a to four percent. It's hard to know if these religious found poem and a curious art object. message boards entice new parish- Yet, as I stand surrounded by these ioners. No statistics are available religious jingles and catchphrases I outside of broad trends that show am giddy with amusement and repulchurch attendance has leveled off. sion. Advertising and religion make But, as this show aptly points out, bizarre bedfellows. I wonder if Jesus message board marketing is so cap- would have laughed or cried. tivating that many people, my atheist AGNIESZKA MATEJKO friend included, regularly read them AGNIESZKA@VUEWEEKLY.COM

REVUE // THEATRE

Mary's Wedding

There's something about Mary ...

ary's Wedding is a simple story. A familiar story. It's a story of young love torn apart by the First World War. But in its innocence and simplicity, it's deeply moving.

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Canadian playwright Stephen Massicotte's play has been brought to the Capitol Theatre under director Trevor Schmidt's thoughtful supervision to heartbreaking effect. Bring tissue.

You'll need it. sending them back and forth between With lanterns alight, hanging from Charlie's time in the trenches and their the skeleton-frame of an old barn, and courtship at home in Canada. Both waves of golden wheat projected on Chartier and Hall move flawlessly the screen behind Mary (Mari Chart- though the transitions, never leaving ier) and Charlie (Evan Hall) the scene the audience behind. is beautifully set Of the two, Hall for an earnest ro- Until Sun, Oct 13 (8 pm) has a more physical mance to bloom. Directed by Trevor Schmidt role and, given the "We are playing Capitol Theatre, opportunity, he coma little game," Fort Edmonton Park, mits to throwing his explains Mary, in $20 – $28 body around. Hall's town after her tumbles onstage first run-in with actually startle the Charlie. "It's called 'We don't see each audience like a good fall should and, as other. Oh, hello!'" such, they deserve special mention. However, the audience isn't left to indulge in sideways glances very long, The addition of a strong animated eleas Massicotte's play challenges its ac- ment to a play set in 1914 seems like tors to move between time and space, a little bit of a risk, but whether it be

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a lightning-streaked sky or the explosions on the battlefield, for the most part, the graphics do not distract. Instead, they add intensity to the battle scenes or softness to their time spent on the prairies. Mary's Wedding draws you in quietly—a seemingly modest tale of two Canadian kids. But before you leave you'll be reminded of the greatness of first love, and the tragedy of seeing that love torn apart. And, as an added bonus, walking out into Fort Edmonton Park lets the audience decompress after the play, as you pass the confectionaries and cigar shops and slowly walk back into the 21st century. KATHLEEN BELL

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Madcap antics in motion // Mat Busby

e are staring down the bar- es and unbridled frivolity that seem rel of another winter," says to be forever pinned on all depicShannon Blanchet, offering up tions of that decade. Blanchet's own perhaps the best reason to attend character is Elaine Blaine, a long-disTeatro La Quindicina's season end- tance swimmer and, incongruously, ing remounta pop star—"And ing of Stew- Thu, Oct 10 – Sat, Oct 26 (7:30 pm) mine's one of the art Lemoine's Directed by Stewart Lemoine straighter charW h i p l a s h Varscona Theatre, acters!" she exWeekend!: as $16 –$28 claims. a comedy that's perennially labelled as both screw- For this production, Lemoine has ball and over-the-top, it's the perfect freshened up the jokes for a 21stbalm for the coming cold. century crowd, but left most of his "Sometimes you find yourself original script intact, including its laughing and then you realize you motormouth pace. don't really know what's happening "Right now it's all about speed, because you've just been laughing and getting our mouths to move so hard," Blanchet says. She likens fast enough," Blanchet says. "I've the story to a car race: "It takes very always done well with complicated sharp turns and you go with them." language and this time I'm stumThe plot follows a series of decep- bling a lot." tions and romantic missteps made She goes on to explain she was by the guests at a party thrown at a happy she hadn't seen a past proCape Cod mansion in 1966; the char- duction of the show, though this acters are better described as cari- wasn't particularly difficult, given catures, fully embracing the excess- that Whiplash Weekend! hasn't

been performed since 1997. "I've been kind of willfully ignorant so that I don't try to just do what other people have done," she explains. "If you get obsessed with past productions it can become a daunting task to fill very large comedy shoes, so you just dive in and make it new all over again." The costumes—which Blanchet promises are as outlandish as the characters wearing them—are designed by Teatro's Leona Brausen, who Blanchet describes as "the best vintage costumer in the country." Blanchet herself holds the taxing honour of having the most changes in the show, fully swapping out her wardrobe four times whilst maintaining the script's breakneck pace. "The actors as well as the characters are just being flung along," she says. "It's a total race; just sitting in a car with a Formula One driver and being flung around the track." MEL PRIESTLEY

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t one pivotal moment in what awaits me, Brian Webb will watch his mother walk into the great beyond. The moment plays out in a short film Webb's including in the massively collaborative piece that

opens his dance company's 35th season—what awaits me is looking to explore a spiritual journey, and, in Webb's case, it's a bit of a personal one too. (His ma is just fine in real life, folks.) "When you take care of someone,"

Webb ruminates, while sipping on a done is played with it with huge post-rehearsal tea, "one has the op- respect, and elegance. In contempoportunity to learn about the gentle- rary work, you're working to shock the audience into a new sensibilness of love." The film, one of two created by ity. Like, are you really listening to award-winning local filmmaker Kyle this Beethoven? It's not Beethoven Armstrong, will be shown while right now. Do you get that? That Webb and dance partner Nancy shock of the new is important." Sandercock improvise their moveBeside him, Sandercock nods her ments to Beethoven's "C-Sharp Mi- agreement. "Beethoven had its own nor String Quartet," played live by challenges, musically, with its suthe University of Alberta's Enter- per-structure," she says. "And then prise Quartet. Everything will lit by Dave's piece, which, the more I listen to the fifth James Proudfoot. movement— That said, the Fri, Oct 11 & Sat, Oct 12 (8 pm) which we aren't score isn't solely Timms Centre for the Arts, using—I think I Beethoven's 1826 $20 – $35 know where he's composition: they've removed the fifth movement pulling [from]. It's not just some of Beethoven's piece. In its place is a piece he made up. And that was a brand-new work by Dave Wall, who challenging piece to work on." worked with Webb and Sandercock on 2009's The Effects of Sunlight In discussing the spiritual aspects of what comes next, a little bit of Falling on Raw Concrete. "It's a very eclectic time," Webb everything comes up, from philosocontinues, of removing a chunk of phy ("our practice is very centred in the legendary composer's work. "It's elements of eastern philosophy") not modernism; that's over. Purity is to sourdough bread ("If you think really dated. And nothing is sacred about that, that's powerful: of life in art, including Beethoven's mas- sustaining life, and what that all terpiece, but I think what we have means, without being cynical. In a

spiritual way."). It is an improvised dance, but Webb and Sandercock note they've got a few images they know they'll hit, and a few dance goals they're aiming to beat along the way. "It's really freeing, and it's a challenge," Sandercock says. "There's the limitation of the score, which gives you a certain amount of freedom and creativity, because there's challenges to overcome. But you have to be there, and you can't wander ... There's no place that you can cut your brain off from your body or your body off from your brain." what awaits me is only half of the bill; the other is Nicole Mion's Quiver, a pair of solos to be accompanied by live music from Tariq, who plays in the band Brasstronaut, in addition to holding hosting duties on CBC radio 3. In that, Quiver, too, looks to embrace a collaborative approach to its art, which suits Webb just fine. "The thing is," he says, smiling, "the group is always smarter than one genius." PAUL BLINOV

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puppeteer: on Sunday night Burkett took shots at the Citadel, War Horse, Edmonton winters, conservative politics, audience complaints he's already received in the run, and so on. He's also made himself a target—Schnitzel scales the theatre's curtains to meet his maker, only to be disappointed with what he sees: "The headshot in the program must be pretty old." There are a few moments of direct audience participation—including arming some hapless fellow with a puppet and instructing him on the basics so he can play a puppet while Burkett has another puppet sing—that play well, too. The only piece that didn't seem to land on Sunday was that of a Jewish devil, which had the feel of a strong character that hadn't quite been cushioned in the proper scenario yet. But then again, seeing ideas tinkered with and rebuilt and perfected seems exactly what the Daisy is about. That the bulk of them are at the level they are speaks to the skill of the man pulling the strings. PAUL BLINOV

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DANCE BRIAN WEBB DANCE COMPANY: WHAT AWAITS ME • Timms Centre, U of A • Nicole Mion’s Quiver • Oct 11-12, 8pm • $35 ($25 students/seniors). TIX on the Square

EDMONTON BURLESQUE FESTIVAL • Yellowhead Brewery, 10229-105 St • Intimate, showcase feature events • Oct 17-20 • $15 (start) TOFIELD DANCE CLUB–DANCE IN RYLEY • Ryley Community Hall • Chwill Bros • Oct 12, 8pm-12; 10:30pm (Lunch)

ZUMBA BASHFIERY FRIDAYS • Central Senior Lions Centre, 11113-113 St • Latin beat, freestyle dance to DJ music; Tamico Russell, Ike Henry, DJ Rocko and Zumba instructors Dru D, Manuella F-St, Michelle M, Sabrina D. and Cuban Salsa instructor Leo Gonzales • 3rd Fri each month • Oct 18, 7pm • $20 (online)/$25 (door)

FILM CINEMA AT THE CENTRE • Stanley A. Milner Library Library, bsmt, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.496.7000 • Who Cares? (STC, Canada, 2012); Oct 16, 6:30pm; Dransfield there for Q & A after the film

FAVA • Film and Video Arts Society, 9722-102 St, 780.429.1671 • Fava's Exhibition Suite: Video Pool Media Arts Centre; info session with Jennifer Smith • Oct 10, 6:30pm • Free FILM FORUM • Stanley A. Milner Library • Drop-in; no registration • Alien (14A, 1979); Oct 19, 1:30pm FROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley A. Milner Library Centennial Rm, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.496.7000 • Slumdog Millionaire (14A, 2008); Oct 11, 2pm • Never Let Me Go (14A, 2010); Oct 18, 2pm

GRAPHIC CONTENT • Metro Cinema at the Garneau Theatre • Monthly film series: exploring the relationship between film and sequential art • The Crow • Oct 15, 7pm • $10 (adult)/$8 (student/senior) HALLOWE'EN AT METRO CINEMA • Metro Cinema • Reel Family Cinema: Coraline: Oct 12, 2pm; free (child 12 and under) • Graphic Content: The Crow: Oct 15, 7pm • Crime Watch: The Silence of the Lambs: Oct 14, 7pm • Dedfest 2013: Oct 16-20 MOVIE MONDAY • King Edward Community Small Hall, 8102-80 Ave • Unsupersize Me; Oct 14, 7-9pm; free • Movie Monday/Wednesday World Food Day: Our Daily Bread; Oct 16, 7-9pm

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS ALLIED ARTS COUNCIL OF SPRUCE GROVE • Spruce Grove Art Gallery, Spruce Grove Library, 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.0664 • Fireplace Room: Maggie Naef • REFLECTIONS OF JOY: Works by Helen Rogers • Until Oct 19

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106

St, 780.488.6611 • Discovery Gallery: TAILS FROM A REJUVENATED FOREST: A narrative installation exploring the drive of nature to revive itself by ceramic artists Lisa McGrath and Mindy Andrews; until Oct 19 • Discovery Gallery: STATIC BLOOM: Botanical polymer clay wall art by St Albert artist Kristin Anderson; until Oct 19 • Feature Gallery: POTWORKS: Showing the contemporary state of the ancient tradition of pottery; until Dec 24 • OPERA ART PROJECT: New collection launch, inspired by Edmonton Opera's season; Oct 10, 5-7pm

ARCHIVES SOCIETY OF ALBERTA • 913 Ash St, Sherwood Park, 780.467.8189 • REMEMBRANCE DAY EXHIBIT: Until Nov 18

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill

Sq, 780.422.6223 • Manning Hall (main level public space): NOW YOU SEE IT: A giant word search puzzle by Megan Morman • WATER INTO ART: British watercolours from the V&A, 1750-1950; until Nov 24 • LADY SPIDER HOUSE: Until Jan 12, 2014 • BMO World of Creativity: CABINETS OF CURIOSITY: Lyndal Osborne's curious collection; until Jun 30, 2014 • RBC New Works Gallery: ISACHSEN, 1948-1978: Works by Aaron Munson and David Hoffos; until Nov 24 • Bring Your Own Party: BYOP: 3rd Wed each month, Oct 16 5-9pm; free with admission

ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert, 780.460.4310 • ROOM: Amanda McCavour's installations of spaces she has lived in • Until Nov 2 • Artventures: Drop-in art for children 6-12; Oct 19, 1-4pm • Ageless Art: For mature adults; pre-register; Sepia-Toned Drawing; Oct 17, 1-3pm; $12 ARTWALK–124TH ST • Gallery Walk Area betw Jasper Ave, 123 St, and Stony Plain Rd, 124 St (Bugera Matheson, Bearclaw, Daffodil, Front, Peter Robertson, Scott, SNAP, West End) • Fall Gallery Walk: Oct 19, 10am-5pm-Oct 20, 12-4pm BEARCLAW GALLERY • 10403-124 St, 780.482.1204 • RECONNECTING: New works by Alex Janvier; Oct 19-31 • A Celebration of Friendship: with Ernestine Tahedl and Alex Janvier will be sharing stories about their beginnings in Edmonton; Oct 19, 12:30-1pm at Bugera Matheson Gallery • Gallery Walk Weekend: Oct 19-20

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 12310 Jasper Ave, 780.482.2854 • TERRA INCOGNITA: Works by Ernestine Tahedl; reception: Oct 17, 6-9pm; artist in attendance: Oct 19, 1-5pm; Oct 17-31 • Storytelling–A Celebration of Friendship: with Ernestine Tahedl and Alex Janvier will be sharing stories about their beginnings in Edmonton; Oct 19, 12:30-1pm

CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTAS (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave, 780.461.3427 • Works by Sharon Rubuliak, Carmen Gonzalez, Thérèse Bourassa and Jeannette Ouellette; until Oct 22

CROOKED POT GALLERY–Stony Plain • 4912-51 Ave,

Stony Plain, 780.963.9573 • SEA THINGS: Pottery by Cheryl Anderson, Holly Rolls, and Lynnette • Through Oct

CAMERA OBSCURA IN THE WESTERN LANDSCAPE: Works by Colin Smith; Oct 12-29; reception: Oct 12, 2-4pm; artist in attendance

DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St, 780.686.4211 • OUR FAMILIES: The Impact of Contemporary Family on Art; works by Paul Freeman, Francois Morelli (w/son Didier), Tammy Salzl • Until Nov 16 • Reception: Oct 12, 3pm

PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES OF ALBERTA • 8555 Roper Rd, 780.427.1750 • VICTORY ON THE FIELD EXHIBIT: Exploring the effects of the First and Second World Wars on sports in Alberta; until Jan 31; free • Art in the Archives: Visual Art: Marlena Wyman shares her art visual art pieces and her sources of archival inspiration; Oct 16, 7pm; free

DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St, 780.760.1278 • FOUND WHILE WALKING: Landscape paintings by Mike Dendy; until Oct 26; artist reception: Oct 10, 5-8

DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY • 10332-124 St • 46th

ANNUAL FALL SHOW: Works by David Blackwood, Jack Bush, Keith Harder, Alex Janvier, Jessica Korderas, William Kurelek, Erik Olson, Otto Rogers, Carl Schaefer, Robert Sinclair, Vivian Thierfelder, Les Thomas, Andrew Valko and more; until Oct 12 • Paintings by Robert Scott; Oct 16-20

ELMWOOD ART MARKET • 16415-83 Ave • Art market sale • Oct 12, 9am-6pm; T: 780.483.3135 to book a spot • Free, foodbank donations

Pro's Art GAllery • 17971-106A Ave • Mon-Sat 10am-1:30pm; Wed 2-5:30pm; Mon-Fri 6:30-9pm; Closed Thu • GENE PROKOP AND FRIENDS: Artworks by Gene Prokop with works by Zhaoming Wu, Robert Johnson, Sherri McGraw and Gregg Kreutz, and Monte Carlo car artist, Alfredo de la Maria (Argentina), and artists from the Ukraine and Russia • Until Dec 20 QUEEN MARY PARK HALL • 10844-117 St • Paintings by Vivian Dere • Oct 12, 1-4pm

WITH OUR SISTERS: Moccasin Tops–a commemorative art installation for the missing and murdered Indigenous women of Canada and the US • Until Oct 14; 9am-9pm (Mon-Fri); 9am-5pm (Sat-Sun)

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • BODY WORLDS AND THE CYCLE OF LIFE: Revealing the Symphony Within; until Oct 14; $26.50 (adult)/$16.50 (child (3-12)/$23.50 (senior/youth/student) at door; prices incl general admission and admission for exhibit • Friday Night Lecture Series: Strange Pains–How Our Mind Can Trick Us: Dr Geoff Bostick; Oct 11, 7-8pm; free (members) • APEGA Rock Fossil Clinic: Oct 19, 10am-4pm; free • Friday Night Lecture Series: GameChanging Treatments for Diabetes Using Islet Transplants and Stem Cells: James Shapiro; Oct 18, 7-8pm; free (members) • Science Café: Opening the Time Capsule: What Stories Can Receding Glaciers Tell?: Catherine La Farge, John Engl; Oct 17, 7-9pm; free (members) • Manning Symposium: Kinetic Hall: Computing Enables Innovation; presentations; Oct 19, 12-3pm; free (members)

ENTERPRISE SQUARE GALLERIES • 10230 Jasper Ave •

BOHEMIA • 10217-97 St • It's All About Me, 5:30pm, part of Litfest, $11.75 (adult)/$6 (student) • Edmonton Story Slam; Oct 16, 7:30pm; $5 (donation)

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St, 780.902.5900 • Spoken Word Tue: Weekly spoken word night; info: E: breathinpoetry@ gmail.com

paintings by Michelle M. Lavoie • ADRIFT: POETRY AND IMAGE (2012-2013): Poetry: Jannie Edwards; Video: Bob Lysay and Agnieszka Matejko; video installation • Until Oct 25

STANLEY MILNER LIBRARY • Centennial Rm, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Amanda Lindhout presents her memoir A House in the Sky; Oct 18, 7pm • Brian Evans reading from his book, The Remarkable Chester Ronning: Proud Son of China, at the LitFest Writers Cabaret; Oct 20 • Part of LitFest

FRONT GALLERY • 12312 Jasper Ave, 780.488.2952 • URBAN REFLECTIONS: Artworks by Ira Hoffecker • Oct 19-Nov 7 • Opening: Oct 19, 2-4pm

GALLERIE PAVA • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • COLLECTION D'INSTANTS: Works by Patricia Lortie-Sparks; until Oct 16

STARFEST–St Albert Reader's Festival • St Albert Public

EXPERIENCE CHILLS, SHUDDERS AND FEARS!

GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.944.5383 • Edmonton Stamp Club: Display; until Oct 31 • Edmonton Potters' Guild: Works from the membership; until Oct 31

Ghosts, Goblins,

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St • Main Gallery: FUNCTIONAL BUILDINGS: Nancy Anne McPhee brings

together the work of Andrea Carvalho, Dan Gibbons and Kip Jones; until Oct 18 • Front Room Gallery: RE SIGNED: Nicole Rayburn–looking at religious road signs; until Oct 18 • Marketing Strategies For Artists: Artists learn to use social media to get their names heard and their work seen, presented by Alexis Marie Chute; Oct 19, 10am-3pm; $30/$20 (member)

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HARRIS-WARKE GALLERY–Red Deer • 2nd Fl, Sunworks, 4924 Ross St, Red Deer, 403.597.9788 • BRAVE NEW WORLDS, BOLD NEW PLANS: Installation by Daniel Anhorn • Until Oct 26

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

KAASA GALLERY • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave; VAAA: Off-site location • OPEN PHOTO/OPEN DIGITAL 2013: Visual Arts Alberta, in partnership with the Alberta Jubilee Auditoria Society, presents Open Photo/Open Digital 2013, opening in Edmonton at the Kaasa Gallery, then moving to Calgary midOctober. This contest and exhibition presents work by some of Alberta’s finest photographers, diverse in subject matter, styles and techniques • Until Oct 12

Ave • An Improvised Musical • Every Fri; Oct-Dec 13, 11pm

BEST OF FRIENDS REUNION • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, WEM, 780.484.2424 • Friends, one of the most popular sitcoms of all time. Catch up with these lovable characters. Set to hits from the '90s, along with a few timeless classics • Until Oct 27

BOOKWORM • Arden, 5 St Anne St, St Albert • Corin Raymond performing his hit Fringe play, and music from his album, Paper Nickels. Co-presented with LitFest and StarFest • Oct 18, 7:30pm

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CBC'S THE IRRELEVANT SHOW • Arden Theatre • Oct 11, 7:30pm

CHIMPROV • Zeidler Hall, Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm, until Jul • $12 • Until Jun, 2014

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Room: ELSEWHERE: Paintings by Kristen Keegan; until Nov

2; Plein-air painting excursion with the artist: Oct 19, 1:30pm • Main Space: LES CORPS: Photographic based portraits by Christophe Jivraj; until Nov 2

GLADYS–FALL FEAST OF WORDS • Strathcona Public Library, Sherwood Park: Oct 16 • St Albert Library: Part of the St Albert STARFest, Cassie with Leanne Shirtliffe, author of Don't Lick the Minivan, hosted by Barbara North; Oct 15

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LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St, 780.990.1161 • FALL ON 124 STREET: Gallery artists works, secondary market works; until Oct 12 • Lando Art Auctions: Oct 20, 2pm; Previews: Oct 18, 10am start; landoartauctions.com

Library, 5 St Anne St, 780.459.1530 • Leanne Shirtliffe and Cassie Stocks; Oct 15, 7pm; $10 • Helen Humphreys; Oct 17, 7pm; $10 • Corin Raymond in a joint presentation with the Arden Theatre and Edmonton's LitFest; Oct 18, 7pm; $20

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JUBILEE AUDITORIUM • Kaasa Gallery: OPEN PHOTO OPEN DIGITAL 2013: Presented by Visual Arts Alberta–CARFAC • Until Oct 11

A CLOSER WALK WITH PATSY CLINE • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave, 780.483.4051 • Homage to Patsy Cline and her climb to stardom, from her humble beginnings in small town Virginia to the bright lights of Carnegie Hall • Until Nov 3 DAISY THEATRE • The Club, Citadel Rice Theatre • Presented by Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes, starring Ronnie Burkett; recommended for ages 16+ • Until Nov 17, 8pm

DRACULA • Walterdale Playhouse, 10322-83 Ave • A dark and lyrical telling of the Bram Stoker classic vampire tale full of humour and horror by Steven Dietz • Oct 16-26 • $12-$18 at TIX on the Square

LOFT GALLERY • A.J. Ottewell Arts Centre, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park, 780.449.4443 • Artwork and gifts made by members of the Art Society of Strathcona County artists • LAYERS OF ALBERTA–underneath the landscape to above the surface: Works by Anne McCartney; until Oct 27, Sat-Sun 12-4pm

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MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St, 780.407.7152 • PROCESSION WEST: A photographic Visual Journey from Plains to Coast by Rob Pohl and Robert Michiel • WHERE DRAGONFLIES DANCE: Botanical paintings by Elaine Funnel; until Oct 20 • After Hours Hallway Gallery: THE TEXTURE OF LIGHT AND LOVE: Paintings by Nancy Corrigan; until Nov 30; opening: Oct 10, 7-9pm

HIGH TEA • Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave • Firefly Theatre's

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(MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain, 780.963.9935 • Paintings by Claudette Brown • Until Oct 24 MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM–St Albert • 5 St Anne St, St Albert, 780.459.1528 • LACE UP: CANADA’S PASSION FOR SKATING: Travelling exhibit by the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Quebec • Until Nov 3

NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave, 780.432.0240 • WHAT’S YOUR HANG UP?: Craft by Edmonton Calligraphic Society Members; until Nov 15 • All in a Day's Dream: Works by Kristina Sobstad; until Nov 15; reception: Oct 17, 5-7pm

NINA HAGGERTY CENTRE FOR THE ARTS • 9225-118 Ave • Reflecting 96th StReet: Mustard Seed Artists present Views Of An inner city locale in transition • until Nov 1 • Reception: Oct 10, 7-9pm

780.455.7479 • HIGH WATER: Artworks by Steve Driscoll; Oct 12-29; reception: Oct 12, 2-4pm; artist in attendance •

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ • 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 • Story Slam 2nd Wed each month @ the Chair: Share your story, sign-up at 7pm • 7-10pm • $5 (suggested, donations go to winners)

LIT FEST • Various locations; litfestalberta.com • Edmonton's Nonfisction Festival • Oct 16-27 • Programs at Audreys, TIX on the Square, the Edmonton Public Library, Edmonton Coles/Chapters/Indigo stores • Bohemai: ME ME ME!; Oct 16, 5:30pm

FACULTY COMMONS–Grant MacEwan City Centre Campus • Rm 7-266 • DIS/UTOPIA:: From a series of 12

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AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • Anvil Press book/ poetry tour: Jane Silcott, Jennica Harper, and Marita Dachsel; Oct 12, 2:30pm • Barbara Galler-Smith launches, Warriors; Oct 15, 7pm • Travel Talks: Indochina/Asia; Oct 17, 7pm • Robin Esrock launch, the Great Canadian Bucket List; Oct 20 • Stroll of Poets' Society presents Poets' Haven: Oct 20, 2pm

EDMONTON STORY SLAM • Bohemia, 10217-97 St • Competitive story telling event. Up to 10 tellers have 5 minutes to tell their story. 5 audience judges pick the winner. Winner takes home the donations from the audience. 3rd Wed in Oct • Oct 16, 7:30pm • $5 Donation to winner

FAB GALLERY • 1-1 Fine Arts Bldg, 89 Ave, 112 St, 780.492.2081 • PHARMAKON: Brad Necyk's final visual presentation for Master of Fine Arts-Drawing and Intermedia • PRINT RESONANCE: Works by faculty and graduate students from Musashino Art University, Japan; U of A; Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium; Silpakorn University, Thailand; University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA; until Oct 26

Gateway Blvd • ART FROM THE UNKNOWN 2013: new and emerging artists • Opening: live music: Oct 18, 6pm-10pm • Oct 19, 9am-6pm; Oct 20, 11am-3pm

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annual elevated fundraiser starring Lyne Gosselin, Mackenzie Baert, Kevin Ouellet, Sheri Woo, Sandra Olarte, Michalene Giesbrecht, Stephanie Grusom, Anastasia Kulpa, John Ullyatt with Dave Clarke • Oct 20, 2-4pm • $50 at TIX on the Square • Proceeds toward Firefly's aerial-musical spectacle, Craniatrium

HOTBED HOTEL • Kinsmen Hall, 47 Riel Dr, St Albert • St Albert Theatre Troupe; By Michael Parker, directed by Mark McGarrigle • Oct 17-19, 24-26, 31, Nov 1-2 • $47.50 at box office

LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT • Citadel's Shoctor Theatre, 9828-101A Ave, 780.425.1820 • By Eugene O’Neill’s, directed by Bob Baker, starring Brenda Bazinet, John Ullyatt, and Tom Wood • Until Oct 13

MARY’S WEDDING • Capitol Theatre, Fort Edmonton, 780.496.7381 • A story of first love during the Great War by Stephen Massicotte; starring Mari Chartier, and Evan Hall • Until Oct 13, 8pm

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave, 780.453.9100 • CHOP SUEY ON THE PRAIRIES: Until Apr 27, 2014 • MILTON AND CHEADLE PLATES: Jun 24-Dec 9 • Orientation Gallery: 20TH ANNIVERSARY–TIME TRAVELLERS EXHIBITION; until Nov 11

U OF A MUSEUMS • museums.ualberta.ca • Human

NATIONAL ELEVATOR PROJECT • Various Elevators–

VENUS: Fashion and the Venus Kallipygos: The influence of the study of Venus Kallipygos on fashion • Until Mar 2, 2014

Downtown Edmonton (meet at TIX on the Square) • Theatre Yes' National Elevator Project (PART 1) • Plays are five mins; available on demand (7:30-9:30pm) • Oct 16-27,

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • SELECTED WORKS 1961-2013: Douglas Haynes • Until Oct 26

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7:30-9:30pm ORDINARY DAYS • PCL Studio Theatre, 10330-84 Ave • Musical about growing up and enjoying the view. A series of intricately connected songs and vignettes • Oct 17-19

VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert,

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10123-121 St, 780.423.1492 • Main Gallery: NATURAL, POLITICAL, POETIC AND UNPREDICTABLE–MIRRORED LINES AND CURVES: Printing objects by Klavs Weiss (Denmark) • Community Gallery: THE FACES WE KNOW AND LOVE: Works by SNAP artist in residence, Megan Stein • Both shows: until Nov 9

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WEST END GALLERY • 12308 Jasper Ave, 780.488.4892 • RICHARD COLE: Landscape paintings • Oct 19-31

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PREVUE // EXPERIMENTAL POP

Rae Spoon dishes on songwriting, recording and starring in a documentary

The record continues a fascination with electro t's a few days after the première of My Prairie Home in Vancouver and singer-songwriter Rae sounds, though you can still hear hints of the roots music the singer first established themSpoon is still feeling ebullient. A National Film Board "musical documentary" selves with back at the turn of the century, with about Spoon's early years growing up in an albums like Honking at Minivans and Throw evangelical Christian family, My Prairie Home Some Dirt on Me. takes a far more whimsical approach to a story "I've been trying to get away from the guitar involving religion, gender issues and family vio- strum in every song, and working with my computer has helped in that," Spoon lence than one might think. It also features Spoon in a Sat, Oct 12 (5 pm) says. "When I pull it out there's variety of colourful set- Stanley Milner Library just a lot more space there to tings, singing many of the work with, which I like." songs found on the film's Sun, Oct 13 Spoon credits Matheson with The Common (11 pm) being sympathetic to the oversoundtrack. all vision, with both working as Seeing one's own image on screen might cause most Part of the Up+Downtown Festival co-producers. Spoon will often people to cringe a little, but upndowntown.com engineer parts on the road, while Matheson concentrates Spoon is long used to the on bed tracks. camera's attention, not only Sun, Oct 13 (3:30 pm) as an acclaimed performer My Prairie Home "No matter what I come up but also as a role model for Directed by Chelsea McMullan with he's able to work with Metro Cinema at the Garneu transgendered youth. me," Spoon says. "Most importantly he understands "I don't think it's a choice I get to make at this point," Spoon wryly points how to record my voice; he always gets that." out. "Seeing myself on film is something I guess That Spoon likes to record back in Calgary I've tuned out by now, and I don't get to be sepa- despite being resident in Vancouver, Berlin and rate from my identity anyways. To have that por- (for the last few years) Montréal shouldn't tion of it pulled out for something like being a come as a big shock. Spoon—who likes to be role model I guess I'm fine with." referred to by gender neutral pronouns—has a My Prairie Home is scheduled for wide release great deal of affection for their prairie home, in Canada sometime in November, and Spoon pointing to the community support they have hopes to be around for a few of the premières received over the years. Spoon has also given in various cities. The accompanying soundtrack, back, working with transgendered Albertan which Spoon wrote and recorded just a year after youth and on songwriting workshops. The fact is that Spoon is inextricably linked with the last record, 2012's I Can't Keep All Our Secrets, is also autobiographical in tone, sometimes the province, and has taken on some of the more painfully so. Spoon began putting it together not headstrong characteristics associated with it. long after the movie was proposed, working with "I like to be in charge of what I do, and I like to longtime co-producer Lorrie Matheson in Spoon's change, I like to constantly learn about music," hometown of Calgary. Spoon asserts. "Nobody is like, 'Make another

record like the last one, in the same genre.' I've never been on a label that has told me what to do. Dawn (Loucks) from (record label) Saved by Radio is chill. I just give her the finished album and she's like, 'OK.'"

It's a good position to be in, and Spoon's career

hasn't suffered for it. They're overbooked, in fact, concerts jostling with burgeoning soundtrack work as Spoon makes even more use of new and always improving computer skills. It makes one wonder whether a major label deal might be a possibility in the future. "No," Spoon laughs, genuinely amused. "Being trans is not a commercially attractive proposition to business people. It's not really an easy sell, or a jump that many people are willing to take." Which might be why Spoon diversified a few years back and published a book of short stories that also drew heavily on autobiographical detail. First Spring Grass Fire was a well-reviewed first effort that announced Spoon as something of an artistic triple threat. "I didn't write it to 'diversify,'" Spoon corrects. "That would be the worst reason in the world to write a book. It's true that it's opened doors for me that music couldn't, though, because people are now teaching it as part of curriculum, so now I can come in as a guest lecturer." Just a few weeks back Spoon had a coffee date with the Whiskey Rabbi, Geoff Berner, who also recently released a book of his own. Both marvelled at how they've managed to carve out unique territories of their own outside the mainstream. "We've both been around for a while now, which is cool. We were like, 'Oh I guess we did it.' We work a lot and we get to do what we want to do. I guess this is as good as it gets." TOM MURRAY

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here have been many reasons kick-off, Jason Flammia, one of the fespeople have avoided downtown tival organizers, answered a few quesrecently. Endless construction, scarce tions for Vue via email. parking and the perception that there really isn't much goVUE WEEKLY: Where ing on. That being Sat, Oct 12 and Sun, Oct 13 did the idea for this said, the inaugural Various locations festival begin? What Up+Downtown Music upndowntown.com did you want to and Arts Festival aims achieve in its inauguto draw people to the ral year? city's core with a lineup of indepen- JASON FLAMMIA: I wanted to create a dent music and artistic talent featuring festival outside the traditional sumWhitehorse, Plants and Animals, Rae mer season that Edmontonians would Spoon, Wool on Wolves, Black Mastiff, be proud to talk about, and crush the Wildways, the Wet Secrets, Hot Pan- idea that there's nothing to see or do da and more. Prior to Up+Downtown's in our downtown.

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What stands out to you when it comes to independent music and art, particularly in Edmonton? JF: Independent artists have their finger on the pulse of society, and as a result I personally tend to connect with the messages in their creations a bit more. Edmonton's community is very creative, very talented and, best of all, not pretentious. VW:

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mances. If you're familiar with any of the bands or DJs playing UP+DT 2013, you can't argue with that. VW: What are some highlights of the festival and what can people expect from it? JF: Whitehorse and Plants and Animals at McDougall Church will be awesome, and the afternoon shows we have planned throughout the weekend will be so much fun. It's a great chance to see concerts in unique settings, too. MEAGHAN BAXTER MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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PREVUE // INDIE-ROCK

Plants and Animals

Neither plants nor animals

who have never gotten in a van and seen the country roll by," says Woodley when I ask him to reflect on the band's 10-plus years together. "There's a certain kind of romanticism that just can't exist the same way it does when you first fall in love." "We're in a place where this is what we do and we are doing it wholeheartedly," he continues. "At the same time we are dealing with life in more and more adult ways as we keep getting older. It's an interesting balance. Though I gotta say when we go to the studio being grown ups gets flushed out the window and we get pretty playful." And this time around they are giving themselves lots of extra play time. "I think our goal, loosely and broadly, is just 'be adventurous,'" Woodley explains. "I gotta say, everyone is very happy with the way things are going." KATHLEEN BELL

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atthew Woodley from Plants at La Frette Studios in France, with and Animals is the kind of guy a two-week deadline that ended up who puts down his phone to order a having to be extended under a wee coffee. I know this, because Woodley bit of duress. graciously agreed to this interview on "The last record we went into the short notice and when I call him he's studio with very set ideas of what out walking his dog in his hometown the songs should be," Woodley of Montréal. says. "This time "I'm just going to Sat, Oct 12 (6:30 pm) we don't know. do the coffee or- With Rae Spoon We are makder now," he says, Part of Up + Downtown Music ing it up as we politely lowering and Arts Festival go. That's kind his phone. While McDougall United Church, $30 of what we did he's ordering, it three records seems like a good ago on Parc Avtime to tell you that Plants and enue —it's just more colouring outAnimals is in the middle of working side of the lines." on a new album. The band released The End of That in 2012—a more This will be the group's fourth structured, less experimental rock full-length album, building on a recording than the band traditionally hearty resumé of dynamic, limitproduces. less, yet satisfying, rock 'n' roll. And "Sorry," he says, coming back on the as their accomplishments grow, the line. "I'm ready to go." years also slip by. The End of That was produced "We're not excited 20-year-olds

Michael Feuerstack

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Singer-songwriter Michael Feuerstack built his name as Snailhouse during the mid '90s. These days, he's out on the road under his own name promoting his album Tambourine Death Bed, as well as being in the midst of working on Singer Songer, a project flexing his songwriting chops from a new perspective as he writes material for other artists to sing. Before his show in Edmonton, Feuerstack shared his soundtrack picks with Vue.

At home

On the road

Morning: Usually Bob Dylan because, no matter what mood you are in, it is the breakfast jam. This surprises some people, but a common favourite around here is Self Portrait.

Morning: I often get up early, before everyone else, and listen to some song-y music in my headphones while lying there. Lately, it would have to be Colours by Devon Sproule and Mike O'Neill, which is amazing on any occasion.

Noon: This is when I put on something that I can enjoy while I also concentrate on other things. Lately it's been Evening Star by Fripp and Eno. I know I am supposed to focus on it, but hey, it works for me this way. Night: Jenny Hval. This Norwegian artist has two records and they are both beautiful and creepy in all the best ways.

Noon: There is usually driving involved at this point, and there is not much better driving music than Jonathan Richman, although the new Marine Dreams makes its way in there too. Night: For night drives, it has to be something great sounding and intricate, like Here We Go Magic, or maybe Diana Ross if we are feeling amped. V

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The Sojourners

Singing for change

lthough we do gospel music, we're not evangelists; we're not out trying to covert people," chuckles Marcus Mosely, one-third of roots-gospel trio the Sojourners. Gospel music, Mosely explains, has been deeply tied to social justice, the focus of the trio's latest album Sing and Never Get Tired , which features traditional gospel music as well as covers such as "I Shall Be Released" by Bob Dylan and "I Ain't Got No Home" by Woodie Guthrie—"borrowing all the best parts from gospel and the folk protests and union movements," as Mosely sees it. "[Gospel music] has a very rich history in mobilizing and encouraging

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and helping to get the message out proach to the trio's signature harmoas far as social justice in the civil nies, reviving the sounds of '60s-era rights era in the states, which I was gospel and rock—Mosely believes living there for at the time," Mosely the music can continue to be a veadds. "Protestors were having dogs hicle to address social issues, ticking sicced on them off events like and fire hoses on Sat, Oct 12 (7:30 pm) mass shootings in the children to Horizon Stage, $30 – $35 the US and conpush them down tinuous oil spills the streets to as examples. break up the protests. They used "There's so many things that pull gospel music and gospel songs to us to either make us feel we're all give them some sense of courage isolated and alone or that we have and to just help speak their defi- to hunker down and defend ourance to the injustice that was being selves against those people over perpetrated." there, whoever that might be," says While entertainment plays a pivot- Mosely with a sigh. "Everyone has al role in the Sojourners' music—this something to bring to the table and, album evokes a more groove-rich ap- in fact, one of the songs we sing is "Welcome Table," which is the whole idea that everyone's welcome to the table, everybody has something to bring and to contribute, and by doing so we all benefit."

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However, as themes of Mosely's youth resurface in today's society, such as certain groups and people longing to feel accepted as part of one community rather than segregated ones, he is inspired by how involved the younger generation is becoming. "Back in my day people took it to the streets: they protested, they went out and marched and they carried signs and I'm glad to see that this generation seems to be coming full circle," he adds. "They're taking to the streets, literally protesting and marching, but they're also using technology, social media and all that to take their concerns and issues to the streets, which is really encouraging to me ... this generation, they're big-picture people; they're looking at the long haul." MEAGHAN BAXTER

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eople think in rock 'n' roll panded. It started out pretty modevery night's a weekend. No, est," he says of the band's blues, every night's a Monday morning to reggae and gospel-influenced matell you the truth," laughs Gordie terial, the latter a genre Johnson Johnson over the phone from Fred- discovered during his youth. "I ericton, NB. "You're always on duty. listened to rock 'n' roll music as a It looks more glamorous than it is, kid but I used to hear gospel music on Detroit radio growing up. If I I guess." stayed up too late Johnson's been on a Saturday, at on duty non- Wed, Oct 16 (7:30 pm) about 5 am they'd stop for nearly With Joe Satriani start broadcasting all of last year, Jubilee Auditorium, $58.65 – out of the churchrecording and $98.65 es and inner city touring as front... I could hear man of reggaerock band Big Sugar, playing shows preachers preaching and people in with his Southern rock outfit the congregation singing and clapGrady, and now on tour with his ping their hands and thought, 'Oh, newest project Sit Down, Servant!! man, that church is on fire.' There's no way to hear that and not be takuntil the middle of November. The two-man band (rounded out en aback by it and that stuck with by Big Sugar drummer Stephane me, and a lot of the songs we do Beaudin) was started out of John- in Sit Down, Servant!! go that far son's determination to continue back for me." playing music following surgery for severe carpal tunnel syndrome. Johnson's left hand—his chord hand—was badly affected, but rather than slowing down, Johnson went in search of a way to continue playing. He found his answer in the steel guitar. The instrument is played sitting down, alleviating the stress put on his left hand while playing an electric guitar. Johnson put his own twist on the instrument's traditional sound, manipulating Moog bass pedals to fill out the duo's lower end and Sit Down, Servant!! (a name borrowed from one of Johnson's favourite gospel songs) transformed from a temporary gig to a mainstay on Johnson's packed agenda. "As my health's improved and my ability to play has gotten more comfortable, this music of this group has just expanded and exTwo men in a rock ‘n roll band

Sit Down, Servant!! now has one album behind it, titled I Was Just Trying to Help . The disc, recorded over the span of two days, focuses more on instrumental elements than Johnson's other projects, which Johnson acknowledges offers a little more freedom than being confined to lyrics. But he's quick to note he has always been an exploratory musician and his other bands have never been creatively constricting—each offers something unique for him to explore. "We sat down and spent two days making the record and put it out and went on tour and more opportunities just keep coming up," Johnson says, noting the band's first national tour was alongside George Thorogood. "It's already been kind of a crazy little ride." MEAGHAN BAXTER

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hen rapper Mickey Avalon of a drug overdose, he returned to picks up the phone from Hollywood with a newfound deterhis home in Los Angeles, he's in mination to turn his life around. "If something's not broken, don't the middle of a seemingly low-key try to fix it," he day—for once. says of his lyrics, "I'm just watch- Sun, Oct 13 (8 pm) which build on ing hockey right With Kid Mac similar themes now," he says, Starlite Room, $18 from album to explaining he's album, but it's catching up since he missed the game the night be- what Avalon knows. He says fans fore. His favourite team? The LA may be in for something a little Kings, of course. "I'm from there different with the new maand I live there so that makes the terial he's currently workmost sense, and the team kicks ing on, but they'll find ass—but I liked them before we won the cup." The City of Angels, and Hollywood more specifically, is the focus of Avalon's new single "Hollywood"—from his latest EP I Get Even —which he shot most of the video for the previous day alongside director Todd Angkasuwan, which has Avalon leading viewers throughout different parts of the city he calls home. He compares the metropolis to a living, breathing organism teaming with an abundance of people from multifaceted walks of life and cultures, giving fans a taste of the Hollywood in all its forms, rather than the star-studded mecca it's often known as. "I haven't really done a video that I'm super proud of yet for whatever reason; it just kind of worked out that way," Avalon says, acknowledging this video will be a different story. "Even though I should have more to do with the videos, it's like since I don't use a camera or direct videos or anything like that I usually just let them [directors] do their thing. I think with me everyone's always like, 'Yeah, let's get a The one and only // bunch of chicks and this and that.' Not that I've got anything against any of that stuff, I just think it gets kind of corny after a while ... I think it's too obvious."

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have capitalized on Avalon's hardpartying, hyper-sexualized persona in the past, an image accompanied by lyrics that are a bombardment of explicit imagery riffing on past experiences many of us cannot even fathom. Avalon's Hollywood experience is a little more lavish these days, but the city so many hopefuls dream of finding fame in hasn't always been so kind. Drugs plagued Avalon's family from the time he was a child (his father was a heroin addict and his mother dealt pot, a trade Avalon soon picked up himself); he married and had a daughter in his early 20s and moved to Portland, but his past caught up to him and Avalon developed a heroin addiction of his own. He was soon broke and divorced, turning to prostitution to get by. Avalon and his sister tried to get clean together and after she died

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out what that means in the near future. "I wish I was talented enough to write a song about love or heartbreak or something like that, but I just don't know how, or at least I don't know how in this genre ... I just try to do what I do best, I guess, and sometimes you feel like you don't really have anything to say ... I'm just happy I got a few out that I like and that hopefully everyone else likes, y'know?"

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SNFU Never Trouble Trouble Until Trouble Troubles You (Cruzar Media) 

SNFU's first Belke-less album now exists. Does it sound OK? Sure, it sounds OK. It stumbles out of the gate before hitting its stride on the third track, "Morley," where Chi Pig apologizes for, among a myriad of transgressions, pissing in the sink. In fact, the album is a laundry list of failures, self-denunciations and lamentations. In a way, these are the most personal lyrics Chi Pig has ever penned: even though he delivers his sermons through his myriad of characters and wild perspectives, there's a desperation to them instead of the mix of anger and silliness that characterizes much of SNFU's lyrics. So what's the problem? It's disconnected. There's hardly a quibble to

The Wild Feathers The Wild Feathers (Warner Bros) 

"Backwoods Company" grabs you by the belt and whirls you around like a spirited cousin dragging your ass to the dance floor at a wedding. It's hook comes out of nowhere and throws you into the party, and by the time the moment passes, you're just getting warmed up. What follows is inspired roots rocking and soulful harmonies, where there's certainly a knack for sweet melodies, and it seems like the band has a handbag full of hooks, as

make with the band behind Chi Pig: all the riffs, all the bass lines and drum parts and solos are authentic enough, but they feel as though they were written for the FYULABA era, while the singer is nearly two decades removed from that and can't keep up. Chi Pig's voice disappears into the mix. Backup vocals don't simply supplement him, they seek to support him entirely. Plenty of artists whose voices weren't the powerhouses they once were—Johnny Cash, Neil Diamond, Neil Young—have made late-career records that were every bit as powerful as their earlier stuff by playing to the abilities they did have, instead of trying to recapture old glories. For SNFU to tour the world, the band needs only recreate a live show worth going to—to make a successful new record requires a more thoughtful process. BRYAN BIRTLES

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is evident with tracks like the stomping claps-capade of "I'm Alive" or the aforementioned single. Where these feathers really fly, however, is with their harmonies; which soar and dive through every conventional hoop of the genre: harmonicas, organs, or saucy electric and twangy acoustic guitars. "Left My Woman" could never reverberate as much as it does if there were not so many voices coming together to make you shudder and the lumbering "Hard Wind" has a powerful rattle that makes ya wanna holla! LEE BOYES

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Viet Cong Cassette (Independent) 

Crawling out from the muck of Women's 2010 break-up, bassistsinger Matt Flegel and drummer Mike Wallace have teamed up with Calgarians Scott Munroe and Daniel Christiansen to storm Canada as Viet Cong with the recent release of their self-released cassette. Comparisons to Women are inevitable—and wrong. Viet Cong is its own band, and on this tape the sound ranges from the '70s psychedelia of "Static Wall" to the ferocious noise of "Select Your Drone." The tape, full of orphans and demos from recording sessions for the Viet Cong's upcoming debut album, shows a band at a crossroads. Nothing is more emblematic of that than "Structureless Design." The song opens with ominous synthesizer and gravelly vocals that then explode in a fury of abrasive noise—a substantial, and enjoyable, difference from the breezy, hook-laden opener "Throw It Away" and moody "Unconscious Melody." JORDYN MARCELLUS

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Cults, Static (Columbia) @VueWeekly: There are still some hints of the '60s girl thing in the Cults voice, but we're kind of dealing with a grunge callback now.

Moby, Innocents (Mute) @VueWeekly: Continuing with a filling-your-headphones sort of week, Moby's greatest moments are when they're wordless. Beautiful album.

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OCT/11 CANYON ROSE OUTFIT CD RELEASE W/ GIBSON BLOCK OCT/12 CRASH KARMA W/ ONE BAD SON & ALTERRA OCT/13 SULTANS OF STRING / FRI, OCT 11 (7:30 PM) If there’s a string, chances are these guys can tear it up. Sultans of String are back to take audiences on a quick spin around the world with Spanish flamenco, Arabic folk, Cuban beats and some gyspy jazz. (Festival Place, $20)

ARCHSPIRE / FRI, OCT 11 (8 PM) Metal, metal and well, more metal. The Vancouverbased headbangers are joined by a local lineup featuring Ides of Winter, Krosphere and the Lucifer Project. (Rendezvous Pub, $13 advance, $16 at the door)

RUSTY REED’S BLUES SHOWCASE / SAT, OCT 12 (8 PM) Since Fred Larose passed away this summer, Chris Brzezicki has picked up bass duties for the band, joining Scott Anderson, Jimmy Guiboche and of course, Rusty Reed. The band is back, playing one of St Albert’s newest nighttime hotspots. (The Bourbon Room, $10)

LEGEND OF ZELDA: SYMPHONY OF THE GODDESSES / SAT, OCT 12 (8 PM) The adventure series has challenged (and frustrated) gamers for more 25 years, and for the first time, the venerable soundtrack of the Legend of Zelda is brought to you live. Oh, be sure to dig out your swords and tunics: costumes are encouraged. (Jubilee Auditorium, $35 – $137.65)

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WARRIORS NOV/1 STANTON & ELITE FORCE KENT SANGSTER’S OBESSIONS OCT 13 / SUN, OCT 13 (7:30 PM) The local cross-over classical ensemble hit the big times last year with its debut performance at Carnegie Hall in New York City. The octet is celebrating the one-year anniversary of the performance with music from Kent Sangster, Allan Gilliland, Astor Piazzolla and more. (Muttart Hall, $15 – $25)

STREETLIGHT MANIFESTO / THU, OCT 17 (7 PM)

THE MAHONES / WED, OCT 16 (8 PM) Grab a pint—OK, maybe more than one—and get in the Irish (punk) spirit. Think of it as your St Patrick’s Day warm-up. (Pawn Shop, $13)

Genre? What genre? This seven-piece apparently goes by an “everything but the kitchen sink” mentality— rock, ska, latin, folk and world, just to name a few. The band released a new album, The Hands That Thieve earlier this year. (Starlite Room, $20)

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WEDNESDAY EVERY WEDNESDAY, $0.35 WINGS HOLY GRAIL / THU, OCT 17 (7 PM) Just in case you want to get loud and rowdy in a whole different way and make it a Pawn Shop double-header. The metal band from Pasadena was here in July and managed to squeeze Edmonton in again on the last leg of its world tour. (Pawn Shop $22)

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LOUNGE Live Music every Thu; this week: Drowning Ophelia THE BOWER Thu: Back to Mine: Hip hop, funk, soul, rare groove, disco and more with Junior Brown and DJ Mumps

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

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SARGENT HOUSE TOUR FEATURING: AND SO I WATCH YOU FROM AFAR & TTNG BOTH PLAYING FULL LENGTH SETS W/ MYLETS & DESIDERATA

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TERROR W/ COUNTERPARTS, POWER TRIP, CODE ORANGE KIDS, & SECRET RIVALS

WED OCT 16

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Underdog Comedy show: Dion Arnold (TO), Hosted by Simon Gorsak every Thu, 8-11pm; no cover BLUES ON WHYTE JW Jones and his band BRITTANY'S Velvet Hour: Live music in the afternoons hosted by Rob Taylor and Bill Bourne; Mon-Fri; 4:30-8pm; no cover BRIXX Hosted by Christian and Justin of the Canyon Rose Outfit: The Ultimate open stage, open jam, open turntables E: kevin@ starliteroom.ca for info CAFÉ HAVEN Music every Thu; 7pm CARROT COFFEEHOUSE

Zoomers Thu afternoon open mic; 1-4pm COOK COUNTY Pony Up Thu: Country, Rock Anthems and Top 40 Classics with Mourning Wood DRUID DJ every Thu at 9pm EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain Open Jam

THUR OCT 17

ORANGE GOBLIN

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Nights; no cover FANDANGO'S Rock out Thu Rock Jam

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Samantha King, PRISM; Chloe Albert; 7pm J R BAR AND GRILL Live Jam Thu; 9pm JAVA EXPRESS–Stony Plain

SAT OCT 19

I LOVE 80’S DANCE PARTY

HOSTED BY DJ’S NAZZ NOMAD & BLUE JAY TUE OCT 22

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DYING FETUS W/ EXHUMED, DEVOURMENT & ABIOTIC

FRI OCT 25 & SAT OCT 26 MAD CADDIES ONLY CANADIAN APPEARANCE W/ MAD BOMBER SOCIETY, SOULICITORS (26TH) & THE OLD WIVES & GUESTS (25TH)

THU OCT 31 HALLOWEEN WITH THE BRAINS & EAST END RADICALS W/ GUESTS SAM HATE & THE SPADES FOR TICKETS- PLEASE VISIT WWW.YEGLIVE.CA

Acoustic/singer songwriter the 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7-10pm; no cover JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Jordan St. Cry; 8pm; $10 KELLY'S PUB Jameoke Night, karaoke with band the Nervous Flirts; every Thu, 8pm-12am L.B.'S PUB Thu open stage: the New Big Time with Rocko Vaugeois, friends; 8-12 LONG & MCQUADE– EDMONTON SOUTH

Meet and Greet with Prism; 2:30pm NAKED CYBERCAFÉ Thu open stage: fully equipped stage, bring your instruments and your voices; gaming everyday NEW WEST HOTEL

Canadian Country Hall of Fame Guest host Bev Munro NORTH GLENORA HALL

Jam by Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu; contact John Malka 780.447.5111 OVERTIME Sherwood Park

Jesse Peters (R&B, blues, jazz, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Thu; no cover

PAWN SHOP Tesseract (alt metal), Scale the Summit, Anciients, Of Articulate Design; 8pm; $20 (adv) RED PIANO Every Thu: Dueling pianos at 8pm RIC’S GRILL Peter Belec (jazz); most Thursdays; 7-10pm RICHARDS'S PUB Great North Blues Band THE RIG Every Thu Jam hosted by Loren Burnstick; 8:30pm-1am SMOKEHOUSE BBQ Live Blues every Thur: rotating guests; 7-11pm TAVERN ON WHYTE Thu

Jam at the Tavern every Thu

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Mile House (folk rock); 7pm (door); $20 (adv)/$25 (door)

Classical WINSPEAR ESO: Operetta Magic: Robert Bernhardt (conductor), Amy Wallis (soprano), Robert Uchida (violin); 8pm; s$24-$79

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Main Floor: wtft w djwtf - rock 'n' roll, blues, indie; Wooftop: Musical flavas incl funk, indie, dance/nu disco, breaks, drum and bass, house with DJ Gundam CENTURY ROOM Lucky 7: Retro '80s with house DJ every Thu; 7pm-close THE COMMON The Common Uncommon Thursday: Rotating Guests each week! CROWN PUB Break Down Thu at the Crown: D&B with DJ Kaplmplx, DJ Atomik with guests DRUID DJ every Thu; 9pm

ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ every Thu FILTHY MCNASTY’S Taking

Back Thursdays KRUSH ULTRA Open stage; 7pm; no cover LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Funk Bunker Thursdays LUCKY 13 Industry Night every Fri ON THE ROCKS Salsa Rocks: every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; Cuban Salsa DJ to follow OUTLAWS ROADHOUSE

Wild Life Thursdays RED STAR Hip hop, funk 'n' soul, and classics with Junior Brown; every Thu, 8pm to close RENDEZVOUS Metal night every Thu UNION HALL 3 Four All Thursdays: rock, dance, retro, top 40 with DJ Johnny Infamous

FRI OCT 11

AVENUE THEATRE Beerprov

Zombies!

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Tim

Williams with Braden Gates; 8:30pm; $15 BLUES ON WHYTE JW Jones and his band BOHEMIA Paris and the

English, Cheap Date, Civic Radio, Crowded City Skyline, Shiza Maliza BRITTANY'S Velvet Hour: Live music in the afternoons hosted by Rob Taylor and Bill Bourne; Mon-Fri; 4:30-8pm; no cover

BRIXX BAR Better Us Than Strangers, Eticpo, Thomas Marsh; 9pm

“B” STREET BAR The Paula Pero Band

CAFÉ TIRAMISU Live music

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Live music every Fri; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door)

CASINO EDMONTON The Red Hotz

CASINO YELLOWHEAD Catalyst (Caribbean); 9pm

DV8 Nodding Donkey, the

Cowabungas, the Reckless Rebels

FESTIVAL PLACE Qualico Café Series: Sultans of String; 7:30pm; $20 at Festival Place box office, TicketMaster; Dar Williams; 7:30pm; $32 (table)/$30 (box)/$28 (theatre)

HOGS DEN PUB Sinder Sparks Show; 8-12pm

J+H PUB Early show:

Acoustic Open mic every Fri, 10-15 mins to perform; 5:30-8:30pm, no cover; Late show: Every Friday: Headwind (vintage rock 'n' roll), friends, 9:30pm, no minors, no cover

JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Marc

Beaudin's The 7-8-0! (cool R'n'B jazz ensemble); 9pm; $10

L.B.'S PUB Kirby Sewell Band; 9:30-2am

LIZARD Rock 'n' roll open

mic every Fri; 8:30pm; no cover ON THE ROCKS Mustard Smile

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park

Dueling Piano's, all request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover PAWN SHOP Kriticos (EP release), Exit Strategy (CD release), The Order of Chaos, Immunize; 8pm; $10 (adv) RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Fri; 9pm-2am

RENDEZVOUS PUB The

Lucifer Project, Archspire, Ides of Winter, Kryosphere; 8pm (doors), 9:30pm (show); $16 (door)

THE RIG Indigo Storm SHAW CONFERENCE CENTRE Blackout STARLITE ROOM Canyon Rose Outfit (CD release show); 2 full sets with friends; with Boogie Patrol and Gibson Block; 8pm

TAVERN ON WHYTE Monarch Sky, Any Last Regrets; no cover

WUNDERBAR Dryland

Band, Revenge of the Trees, Twobears North, Alright Gents, Joey D, Tory, B-Don YARDBIRD SUITE CrossBorder Jazz Series: From New York/Vancouver/ Calgary/Edmonton: Hendrick Meurkens Quintet; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $20 (member)/$24 (guest)

SUITE 69 Release Your Inner

Beast: Retro and Top 40 beats with DJ Suco; every Fri TEMPLE Rapture–Goth/Ind/ alt; every Fri 9pm TREASURY In Style Fri: DJ Tyco and Ernest Ledi; no line no cover for ladies all night long UNION HALL Ladies Night every Fri Y AFTERHOURS Foundation Fridays

SAT OCT 12 ARTERY The Lion the Bear the Fox (country folk/rock), Sean Burns, Lindsey Walker; 8pm; $8 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Hair of the Dog: Sean Burns (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Blue Chair Band; 8:30pm; $12 BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; JW Jones and his band

CHICAGO JOES Colossal

Flows: Live Hip Hop and open mic every Fri with DJs Xaolin, Dirty Needlz, guests; 8:30pm2am; no cover THE COMMON Good Fridays: nu disco, hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation plus residents Echo and Justin Foosh DRUID DJ every Fri; 9pm ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ every Fri FANDANGO'S DJs night every Fri and Sat with DJ Stouffer FLUID LOUNGE R&B, hip hop and dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Fri LUCKY 13 Every Fri and Sat with resident DJ Chad Cook RED STAR Indie, alternative, electronic, hip hop, reggae, funk 'n' soul every Fri, with Mega Wattson, Jesse Gado, Prairie Dawn STARLITE ROOM KLUB OMFG SOU KAWAII ZEN Amplified Fridays: Dubstep, house, trance, electro, hip hop breaks with DJ Aeiou, DJ Loose Beats, DJ Poindexter; 9:30pm (door)

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OVERTIME Sherwood Park

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

PAWN SHOP Sargent

THE RIG Indigo Storm

Music and Art Festival: The Get Down (alt rock), Temple, Labradoddle, Devonian Gardens; 9pm; $10 (adv)/$15 (door) "B" STREET BAR Rockin Big Blues and Roots Open Jam: Every Sat afternoon, 2-6pm; Evening: The Paula Pero Band

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Karma, One Bad Son, Alterra; 9pm

Music Edmonton: Nate Wooley and the Pigeon Breeders; 7:30pm; $21.75 (adv adult)/$16.75 (student/senior)/$11.75 (adv member)

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat

Open mic; 7pm; $2

CASINO YELLOWHEAD

Every Friday DJs on all three levels THE BOWER Zukunft: Indie and alternative with Dusty Grooves, Fraser Olsen, Taz, and Josh Johnson

Up+Downtown Music and Art Festival: Early show: Nature Of, Cantoo, 1:30pm; Evening Show: Wildlife (pop rock), Cowpuncher, the Allovers; 9:30pm; $15 (adv) NEW WEST HOTEL Country jam every Sat; 3-6pm O’BYRNE’S Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm ON THE ROCKS Mustard Smile

BRIXX BAR Up+Downtown

WINSPEAR Viva Verdi

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

MERCER TAVERN

BOURBON ROOM Rusty Reed's Blues Showcase: The Rusty Reed Band; 8pm; $10

BOHEMIA DARQ Saturday

Classical

DJs

MCDOUGALL UNITED

CHURCH Part of: Up+Downtown Music and Art Festival: Plants and Animals, guests (alt rock); 6:30pm; $30

House Tour: And So I Watch You From Afar (punk rock), TTNG, Mylets, Desiderata; 8pm; $15 RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am

CASINO EDMONTON The

Gala: Edmonton Opera Chorus, Michael Spassov (conductor), Edmonton Youth Orchestra, Michael Massey (conductor), Emilio De Mercato and Stephanie Kwan (pianos), Vaughan String Quartet, Bertrand Malo (bass-baritone), Cara Brown (soprano), Robert Clark (tenor), Krista Marie Lessard (mezzo-soprano), Edmonton Appennini Dancers; 7pm; $35 (adult)/$20 (student 13-25)/$15 (child 3-12)

11:30pm; no cover

Red Hotz

Catalyst (Caribbean); 9pm

CENTURY CASINO Harlequin

CKUA Up+Downtown Music and Art Festival: Daniel Romano (country), Jeff Stuart and the Hearts, Dive Pool and The Awesome Hots; 7:30pm; $15 (adv) CREATIVE CLUBHOUSE

Brothers Grim (Canadian rap), Mitchell Lawler, Toxsic; 6pm; $10 CROWN PUB Acoustic blues open stage with Marshall Lawrence, 2-6pm; Evening: Down to the Crown: Marshall Lawrence presents great blues with Trevor Duplessis, Mad Dog Blues Band, every Sat 10pm-2am, $5 (door)

DV8 Nodding Donkey, the Cowabungas, the Reckless Rebels FILTHY MCNASTY'S Free Afternoon Concerts; Anchors North - Whiskey Wagon; 4pm; no cver GAS PUMP Saturday Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth HILLTOP PUB Open Stage, Jam every Sat; 3:30-7pm HORIZON STAGE The Sojourners (contemporary Christian Gospel trio); 7:30pm; $35 (adult)/$30 (student/seniors) JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Lionel Rault; 9pm; $15 L.B.'S PUB 63 Street Band featuring: Mel Degen; 9:30-1:30am LATITUDE 53 GALLERY

Up+Downtown Music and Art Festival: Skratch Bastid (DJ, pop rock), Nik 7, Jaycie Jayce, DJ Weezle; 9pm; $15 LEAF BAR AND GRILL Sat jam with Terry Evans, and featured gues0ts; host Mark Ammar LOUISIANA PURCHASE

Suchy Sister Saturdays: Amber, Renee or Stephanie with accompaniment; 9:30-

STANLEY A. MILNER LIBRARY THEATRE

Up+Downtown Music and Art Festival: Early Show: Rae Spoon (alt folk), Whitey Houston, Field and Stream; all ages; 2:30pm; $15 (adv)

STARLITE ROOM Crash

WUNDERBAR Chronobot, Catgut, Vitriolage, Snow

YARDBIRD SUITE Canadian Jazz Series: From Vancouver:

Jaclyn Guillou Quintet; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $18 (member)/$22 (guest)

YELLOWHEAD BREWERY Up+Downtown

Music and Art Festival: The Wet Secrets (electronic, pop rock), Slow Down, Molasses, Hot Panda, I Am Machi; 2pm; $10 (adv)

Classical JUBILEE AUDITORIUM

Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Main Floor: The Menace Sessions: Alt Rock/Electro/ Trash with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic hip-hop and reggae with DJ Sonny Grimezz; Underdog: Dr Erick THE BOWER For Those Who Know...: House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests THE COMMON Get Down It's Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with resident Dane DRUID DJ every Sat; 9pm ENCORE–WEM Every Sat: Sound and Light show; We are Saturdays: Kindergarten FANDANGO'S DJs night every Fri and Sat with DJ Stouffer FLUID LOUNGE R&B, hip hop and dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Sat LEVEL 2 Collective Saturdays underground: House and Techno LUCKY 13 Every Fri and Sat with resident DJ Chad Cook NEWCASTLE Top 40 requests every Sat with DJ Sheri 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); 1st Sat each month RED STAR Indie, alternative, electronic, hip hop, reggae, funk 'n' soul every Sat; with Mega Wattson, Freshlan, Hot Philly

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ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge

Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Mkhai SOU KAWAII ZEN 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 SUITE 69 Stella Saturday: retro, old school, top 40 beats with DJ Lazy, guests TEMPLE Step'd Up Saturdays with Lolcatz, Yaznil, Badman Crooks, Ootz UNION HALL Celebrity Saturdays: every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

SUN OCT 13 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ

Sunday Brunch: Jazz Passages Trio; 9am-3pm; donations BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku Open

mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett

BRIXX BAR Early Show:

Up+Downtown Music and Art Festival: Book of Caverns (alt jazz rock), Black Thunder, Arrowz, Lords Kitchner; 2:30pm; $7 (adv)/$10 (door); Late Show: Up+Downtown Music and Art Festival: Black Mastiff, Three Wolf Moon, High Kicks, NEK Trio; 9pm; $15 (adv)/$20 (door) CHA ISLAND TEA CO Live on the Island: Rhea March hosts open mic and Songwriter's stage; starts with a jam session; every Sun, 7pm

THE COMMON

Up+Downtown Music and Art Festival: Rae Spoon (alt folk), Cora Kim, Physical Copies, Wild Ways; 8:30pm; $15 (adv) DUGGAN'S Celtic Music with Duggan's House Band 5-8pm

DV8 Dusty Bones, Ornament

and Crime, the Archaics FANDANGO'S Sun Industry Night: House mix with DJ JEZ LF; Show and Shine/open stage every Sun: hosted by Marshal Lawrence; 6-11pm

GAS PUMP Edmonton's Women Of Song: Sophie and the Shufflehounds, Paula Perro, Rita McDade, Angela Mackenzie, Lynne Chwyl, Mary Thomas; Silent Auction, Scotty "Bulldog" Olson (guest celebrity), comic Tim Koslo (MC); $25 (incl turkey dinner)/$15 (no dinner) at Gas Pump, Fusion Music, Heritage Music, Resonate Music HOG'S DEN PUB Rockin' the Hog Jam: Hosted by Tony

Ruffo; every Sun, 3:30-7pm

LATITUDE 53 GALLERY Up+Downtown Music and Art Festival: Mat the Alien (DJ), Knight Riderz, DJ Beat Burglar; 9pm; $15 (adv)

MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH UP+DT Music

Festival with Whitehorse, Colleen BrowN; all-ages; 7:15pm; $30 (adv)

MERCER TAVERN Early

Show: Up+Downtown Music

and Art Festival: The Matinee (folk rock), Good for Grapes, Valhalla and Switches; 2:30pm; $12.50; Late Show: Wool On Wolves (pop rock), Daniel and the Impending Doom, Fire Next Time, Grey Kingdom; 9:30pm; $15 (adv)

MUTTART HALL Kent

Sangster's Obsession Octet; 7:30pm; $21.75/$16.75 (adv student/senior) NEWCASTLE Sun Soul Service (acoustic jam): Willy James and Crawdad Cantera; 3-6:30pm O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am

PAWN SHOP Terror (punk),

Counterparts, Power Trip, Code Orange Kids, Secret Rivals; 8pm; $13 (adv) RICHARD'S PUB Sun Jam hosted by Andrew White and the Joint Chiefs; 4-8pm THE RIG Every Sun Jam hosted by Better Us than Strangers; 5-9pm SMOKEHOUSE BBQ Hair of the Dog acoustic Sun Jam with Bonedog and Bearcat; every Sun; 2-6pm

WUNDERBAR The Moas,

Borscht

YELLOWHEAD BREWERY Up+Downtown

Music and Art Festival: The Wet Secrets (Electronic / Pop / Rock); Part of: Up+Downtown Music and Art Festival: Slow down, Molasses, Hot Panda, I Am Machi; 2pm; $10 (adv)

Classical MUTTART HALL– Alberta College The

Obsessions Octet (classical, tango, jazz); 7:30pm; $25 (door)/$20 (adv)/$15 (student/senior) at TIX on the Square

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Main Floor: Soul Sundays: A fantastic voyage through '60s and '70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy LEVEL 2 Stylus Industry Sundays: Invinceable, Tnt, Rocky, Rocko, Akademic, weekly guest DJs; 9pm-3am

MON OCT 14 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Sleeman Mon: live music monthly: Sean Pinchin (blues folk); 10pm - 12; no cover BLUES ON WHYTE Maurice John Vaughn BRITTANY'S Velvet Hour: Live music in the afternoons hosted by Rob Taylor and Bill Bourne; Mon-Fri; 4:30-8pm; no cover DUGGAN'S Singer/songwriter open stage every Mon; 8pm; host changes weekly

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM

Adam Cheng and Liza Wang Super Stars Charity Concert Tour 2013 (Hong Kong's Superstar Power Duo); 7:30pm; $40-VIP$180 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; contact Vi Kallio 780.456.8510

ROUGE RESTO-LOUNGE

Open Mic Night with Darrek Anderson from the Guaranteed; every Mon; 9pm

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay CROWN PUB A Sexy Night with DJ Phoenix and MJ with Sleepless DJ, DJ Breeze and more every Mon; 9pm-2am DV8 T.F.W.O. Mondays: Roots industrial,Classic Punk,Rock, Electronic with Hair of the Dave

TUE OCT 15 ARTERY Carolyn Mark (country folk), Jack Grace Band, guests; 7:30pm; $10 (adv)/$12 (door) BLUES ON WHYTE Maurice John Vaughn BRITTANY'S Velvet Hour: Live music in the afternoons hosted by Rob Taylor and Bill Bourne; Mon-Fri; 4:30-8pm; no cover BRIXX BAR Ruby Tuesdays with host Mark Feduk; $5 after 8pm; this week guests: DRUID Jamhouse Tues hosted by Chris Wynters, guest J+H PUB Acoustic open mic night every Tue hosted by Lorin Lynne; Everyone will have 10-15 minutes to play L.B.'S PUB Tue Blues Jam with Darrell Barr; 7:3011:30pm LEAF BAR Tuesday Moosehead/Barsnbands open stage hosted by Mark Ammar; every Tue; 7:3011:30pm O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park The Campfire Hero's

(acoustic rock, country, top 40); 9pm-2am every Tue; no cover

YARDBIRD Tue

Sessions: JF Picard Quartet; 7:30pm (door), 8pm (show); $5 (door)

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: alternative

retro and not-so-retro, electronic and Euro with Eddie Lunchpail; Wooftop: The Night with No Name featuring DJs Rootbeard, Raebot, Wijit and guests playing tasteful, eclectic selections CROWN PUB Underground at the Crown Tuesday: Trueskool and live hip-hop with residents Jae Maze, Xaolin, Frank Brown; monthly appearances by guests Shawn Langley, Locution Revolution, and Northside Clan DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly, Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue RED STAR Thomas Culture Tues: Indie, alternative, electronic, hip hop, reggae, and funk and soul every Tue SUITE 69 Rockstar Tuesdays: Mash up and Electro with DJ Tyco, DJ Omes with weekly guest DJs

WED OCT 16 ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL

Open stage Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

at 9pm HOOLIGANZ Open stage

every Wed with host Michael Gress; 9pm J+H PUB Acoustic open mic night hosted by Lorin Lynne

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Joe Satriani; 7:30pm

OVERTIME Sherwood Park

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:3011pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member) RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 THE RIG Open jam every Wed hosted by Will Cole; 8pm -12am ZEN Jazz Wednesdays: Kori Wray and Jeff Hendrick; every Wed; 7:30-10pm; no cover

Classical

BLUES ON WHYTE Maurice

YELLOWHEAD

BRITTANY'S Velvet Hour:

Live music in the afternoons hosted by Rob Taylor and Bill Bourne; Mon-Fri; 4:30-8pm; no cover

THE BUCKINGHAM The Fight and Circle Collective; 9pm; no cover CROWN PUB The Dan Jam: musical styles from around the globe with Miguel and friends; musicians are invited to bring their personal touch to the mix every Wed DUGGAN'S Wed open mic with host Duff Robison DV8 Snak the Ripper, Jaclyn Gee, Mercules, Brothers Grim, guests

ELEPHANT AND CASTLE–

Whyte Ave Open mic every Wed (unless there's an Oilers game); no cover FANDANGO'S Wed open stage hosted by Michael Gress and Cody Noula; Original artist showcase

BREWERY Edmonton

Recital Society Special: Sonic Escape Yellowhead Brewery; 7:30pm; $47.50 (adv senior/ adult)/$21.75 (student)

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: RetroActive

Radio: Alternative '80s and '90s, post punk, new wave, garage, Brit, mod, rock and roll with LL Cool Joe BRIXX BAR Really Good... Eats and Beats: every Wed with DJ Degree and Friends THE COMMON The Wed Experience: Classics on Vinyl with Dane NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed

RED STAR Indie,

alternative, and electronic every Wed, with Polyesterday and DJ Cookie TEMPLE Wild Style Wed: Hip hop open mic hosted by Kaz and Orv; $5

VENUEGUIDE ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave AVENUE THEATRE 9030-118 Ave, 780.477.2149 "B" STREET BAR 11818-111 St BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Dr, Nisku, 780.986.8522 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BOURBON ROOM 205 Carnegie St, St Albert, 780.289.0992 THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; info@thebower.ca 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 C103 (CATALYST) 8529 Gateway Blvd CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca CAFÉ TIRAMISU 10750-124 St CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467

40 BACK

CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464153 St, 780.424 9467 CENTRAL SENIOR LIONS CENTRE 11113-113 St CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 CKUA 9804 Jasper Ave COMMON 9910-109 St CREATIVE CLUBHOUSE 9510-105 Ave CROWN PUB 10709-109 St, 780.428.5618 DUGGAN'S 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8130 Gateway Blvd EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 ELEPHANT AND CASTLE– Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave ENCORE–WEM 2687, 8882-170 St FANDANGO'S 12912-50 St, fandangoslive.com FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557

FLUID LOUNGE 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 GAS PUMP 10166-114 St HILLTOP PUB 8220-106 Ave HOGS DEN PUB Yellow Head Tr, 142 St HOOLIGANZ 10704-124 St, 780.995.7110, 780.452.1168 J+H PUB 1919-105 St J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JAVA XPRESS 110, 4300 South Park Dr, Stony Plain, 780.968.1860 JEFFREY’S CAFÉ 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 LATITUDE 53 GALLERY 10248-106 St L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR AND GRILL 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 LEGENDS SPORTS BAR AND TAP HOUSE 9221-34 Ave, 780.988.2599 LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR 10132-104 St LIZARD LOUNGE 13160-118 Ave MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH 10086-101 St MERCER TAVERN 10363-104 St MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St MUTTART HALL 10050 MacDonald Dr

NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE PUB 6108-90 Ave, 780.490.1999 NEW CITY 8130 Gateway Boulevard NOORISH CAFÉ 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535-109A Ave O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 O2'S–West 11066-156 St, 780.448.2255 OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave PUB 1824 12402-118 Ave, 587.521.1824 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 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE

“Understand?”-- I hope you do.

Jason Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Wed; no cover PAWN SHOP The Mahones (Celtic folk punk), Louise Distras, Whiskey Wagon; 8pm; $13 (adv)

WINSPEAR RCCO– Sundays at Three: Rachel Laurin (Quebec); 3pm; $28/$25 (senior/student)

John Vaughn

MATT JONES JONESINCROSSWORDS@VUEWEEKLY.COM

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Wed variety night: with guitarist, Gord Matthews; every Wed, 8pm MERCURY ROOM Little Flower Open Stage every Wed with Brian Gregg; 8pm-12 NEW WEST HOTEL Free classic country dance lessons every Wed, 7-9pm

Main Floor: Glitter Gulch: live music once a month; On the Patio: Funk and Soul with

Doktor Erick every Wed; 9pm

JONESIN' CROSSWORD

10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St SET NIGHTCLUB Next to Bourban St, 8882-170 St, WEM, Ph III SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924 SPORTSMAN'S LOUNGE 8170-50 St STANLEY A. MILNER LIBRARY THEATRE 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 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 YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428 YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St

Across

1 Chocolate sources 7 “Dude! Gross!” 10 Confetti-throwing Taylor 13 Mike’s Hard Lemonade or Bacardi Breezers 14 Place for SpongeBob’s pineapple 15 Classical ___ 16 Diamond attendant 17 I piece? 18 Holstein or Guernsey 19 Shrinking sea of Asia 20 Emergency signals 23 Rose-like flower 26 Ending for theater or party 27 Atlanta sch. 28 What a hand stamp permits at a concert 31 Clean, on-screen 34 Mobster’s weapon 35 Fortune-ate folks? 37 Pre-med subj. 38 Van Susteren of TV news 40 Members ___ jacket 41 Band-wrecking first name 42 Sprint rival 43 Jazz bandleader Stan 45 Like healing crystals and biorhythms 47 Suffix for south or west 48 Hathaway of “Get Smart” 49 Formed teams of two 54 Wealthy socialite 57 “Going Back to ___” (LL Cool J single) 58 “___ y Plata” (Montana’s motto) 59 Andy Warhol portrait subject 60 German word in a U2 album title 63 RSVP part 64 “Where did ___ wrong?” 65 Hunter’s gatherer 66 Show with a Five-Timers Club, for short 67 Manual alphabet, briefly 68 Chips away at

Down

1 American Red Cross founder Barton 2 Happy as ___ 3 Athens, Ohio and Athens, Georgia, for two 4 Police dispatch, for short

VUEWEEKLY OCT 10 – OCT 16, 2013

5 Tic-tac-toe win 6 Genre for James Bond or Austin Powers 7 Beef-grading govt. agency 8 Actor-turned-Facebook humormonger 9 Deride 10 Like some themes 11 Do a laundry job 12 Hound’s hands 13 Scheme for a quatrain 21 Like some crossword books 22 Jump online, or a hint to the long theme answers 24 1960s drug 25 They say where your plane will land 29 Fill up on 30 Modern day “carpe diem” 31 Light beam 32 “Author unknown” byline 33 Do major damage 36 Roget’s wd. 39 Highway: abbr. 44 Commit a mistake 46 Red blood cell deficiency 50 “___ in Harlem” 51 French stew with beef, wine and garlic 52 Arm bones 53 “Falling in Love at a Coffee Shop” singer Landon ___ 54 Whedon who created the Buffyverse 55 “Happy Days” actress Moran 56 Maynard James Keenan band 61 “The Price Is Right” prize 62 Org. for docs ©2013 Jonesin' Crosswords

EVENTS WEEKLY EMAIL YOUR FREE LISTINGS TO: LISTINGS@VUEWEEKLY.COM FAX: 780.426.2889 DEADLINE: FRIDAY AT 3PM

workshops, exhibitions, guest speakers, stitching groups for those interested in textile arts • Meet the 2nd Tue each month, 7:30pm

EDMONTON NATURE CLUB • Kings University College, Theatre Room, 9125-50 St • Monthly meeting featuring Jamie Gorrell speaking on the Kluane red squirrel project which is a study of 8000 squirrels since 1987, monitoring behaviour and reproduction • Fri, Oct 18, 7pm (refreshments), 7:30pm (meeting) • Admission by donation EDMONTON UKULELE CIRCLE • Bogani

COMEDY

Café, 2023-111 St • 780.440.3528 • 3rd Sun each month; 2:30-4pm • $5

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA–Ledcor Theatre • Winston Churchill Sq • Comics

FABULOUS FACILITATORS TOASTMASTERS CLUB • 2nd Fl, Canada Place,

perform full concert sets • Oct 17-19 • $36.75 at TIX on the Square

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE • Underdog Comedy show: every Thu, 8-11pm; Dion Arnold (TO), hosted by Simon Gorsak; Oct 10; no cover • Scott Belford (TO); Host: Brett McCrindle; Oct 17, no cover BRIXX Comedy and Music once a month as a part of Ruby Tuesdays

CENTURY CASINO • 13103 Fort Rd •

780.481.9857 • Open Mic Night: Every Thu; 7:30-9pm

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertain-

ment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Thu: 8:30pm; Fri: 8:30pm; Sat: 8pm and 10:30pm

COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM •

780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Hit or Miss Mondays: Amateurs and Professionals every Mon, 7:30pm • Battle to the Funny Bone; last Tue each month, 7:30pm • Jimmy Shubert; until Oct 13 • Harland Williams Special; Oct 17-20

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

FILTHY MCNASTY'S • 10511-82 Ave •

780.996.1778 • Stand Up Sundays: Stand-up comedy night every Sun with a different headliner every week; 9-11pm; no cover

9700 Jasper Ave • 780.467.6013, l.witzke@ shaw.ca • fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs.org • Can you think of a career that does not require communication • Every Tue, 12:05-1pm

FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican

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

HOME–Energizing Spiritual Community for Passionate Living •

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

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

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

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

GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS

Strathcona Farmers' Market • Silent vigil the 1st and 3rd Sat, 10-11am, each month, stand in silence for a world without violence

Y TOASTMASTERS CLUB • Queen

Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (north door, stairs to the left) • Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue each month. Help develop confidence in public speaking and leadership • Contact: Antonio Balce, 780.463.5331

AIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87

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

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

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

ARGENTINE TANGO DANCE AT FOOT NOTES STUDIO • Foot Notes Dance Studio (South side), 9708-45 Ave • 780.438.3207 • virenzi@shaw.ca • Argentine Tango with Tango Divino: beginners: 7-8pm; intermediate: 8-9pm; Tango Social Dance (Milonga): 9pm-12 • Every Fri, 7pm-midnight • $15

BRAIN TUMOUR PEER SUPPORT GROUP • Mount Zion Lutheran Church,

11533-135 St NW • braintumour.ca • 1.800.265.5106 ext. 234 • Support group for brain tumour survivors and their families and caregivers. Must be 18 or over • 3rd Mon every month; 7-8:45pm • Free

CANADIAN INJURED WORKERS ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA (CIWAA) •

Augustana Lutheran Church, 107 St, 99 Ave • canadianinjuredworkers.com • Meeting every 3rd Sat, 1-4pm • Injured Workers in Pursuit of Justice denied by WCB

EDMONTON NEEDLECRAFT GUILD •

Avonmore United Church Basement, 82 Ave, 79 St • edmNeedlecraftGuild.org • Classes/

3728-106 St • 780.435.0845 • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

• Myer Horowitz Theatre, U of A, Students' Union Bldg, 8900-114 • Blood in the Veins of Power and Spectacle • Fri, Oct 25, 8pm • $25 (adult)/$15 (student/senior) at Ticketfly 1.888.732.1682, ticketfly.com/event/327535

Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, 780.451.1755; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free

LEGAL RESOURCES WORKSHOP: BASIC • Stanley Milner Library, 7 Sir Winston

8751-153 St (upper fl) • Promote yourself by building leadership, confidence and communication skills • Meet every Wed, 7-9pm • Contact: VP Ed, 780.720.2277

PRAIRIE WOOD SOLUTIONS FAIR • Edmonton Marriott, River Cree Resort, 300 East Lapotac Blvd, Enoch • Wed, Oct 16, 8am-5pm • • Pre-register: ams.cwc.ca/Live/ AMS/EventRegistrations/EventDetails/207 7?isPreview=False • Call Barbara Murray, 780.392.1952; E: bmurray@wood-works. ca for info RIVER VALLEY VIXEN BOOT CAMP •

Summer long drop-in, all girls boot camp • Various days and times throughout the week; info E: rivervalleyvixen@gmail.com • $20 • facebook.com/#!/rvvbootcamp

SAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP •

Braeside Presbyterian Church bsmt, N. door, 6 Bernard Dr, St Albert • For adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional families • Every Mon, 7:30pm

SEVENTIES FOREVER CLUB • Call

587.520.3833 for location • deepsoul.ca • Combining music, garage sales, nature, common sense, and kindred karma to revitalize the inward persona • Every Wed, 7-8:30pm

SHERWOOD PARK WALKING GROUP + 50 • Meet inside Millennium Place,

Sherwood Place • Weekly outdoor walking group; starts with a 10-min discussion, followed by a 30 to 40-min walk through Centennial Park, a cool down and stretch • Every Tue, 8:30am • $2/session (goes to the Alzheimer’s Society of Alberta)

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS FROM HUMANS TO COCKROACHES

ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey

School, 1395 Knottwood Rd E • I've Outgrown It Sale • Sat, Oct 19, 10am-2 pm

Superstore Parking lot, Calgary Tr, 51 Ave; carpool available from here to trailhead • waskahegantrail.ca • Weekly 10km guided hike along a portion of the 309km Waskahegan Trail • Hike in the pleasant farmland surroundings of Kopp Lake; hike leaders Yvette, 780.756,3623/Sandra, 780.467.9572; Sun, Oct 13 • $5 (carpool)/$20 (annual membership)

WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old

NSAI SONGWRITERS GROUP • The

PARENTS AS CHAMPIONS • Ekota

• Grace United Church annex, 6215-104 Ave • 780.479.5519 • Low-cost, fun and friendly weight loss group • Meets every Mon, 6:3pm

Delwood Rd • wildroseantiquecollectors. ca • Collecting and researching items from various periods in the history of Edmonton. Presentations after club business. Visitors welcome • Meets the 4th Mon of every month (except Jul & Dec), 7:30pm

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

POWER SPEAKERS TOASTMASTERS CLUB • Jasper Park Community League,

TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS)

WILD ROSE ANTIQUE COLLECTORS SOCIETY • Delwood Community Hall, 7515

NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall,

Gateway Blvd • Every Thu Neon Lights and Laughter with host Sterling Scott and five comedians and live DJ TNT; 8:30pm

Ave • 780.604.7572 • Swing Dance at Sugar Foot Stomp: beginner lesson followed by dance every Sat, 8pm (door)

Superstore Parking lot, Calgary Tr, 51 Ave; carpool available from here to trailhead • waskahegantrail.ca • Weekly 10km guided hike along a portion of the 309km Waskahegan Trail • Explore the Big Lake area of Lois Hole Provincial Park; hike leader Dennis 780.973.3164; Sun, Oct 20

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • SterRUMORS ULTRA LOUNGE • 8230

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM • 10545-81

WASKAHEGAN TRAIL • Meet: NW corner

OVERTIME PUB • 4211-106 St • Open

ling Scott every Wed, 9pm

• Stanley A. Milner Library, Centennial Rm (bsmt); edmontonatheists.ca; E: info@ edmontonatheists.ca; Monthly roundtable 1st Tue each month

WASKAHEGAN TRAIL • Meet: NW corner

Carrot, 9351-118 Ave • 780.973.5311 • nashvillesongwriters.com • NSAI (Nashville Songwriters Association International) meet the 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm

mic comedy anchored by a professional MC, new headliner each week • Every Tue • Free

SOCIETY OF EDMONTON ATHEISTS

Churchill Sq • Presentation to give you a better understanding of the court system and the legal research process; by Alberta Law Libraries and the Law Information Centre • Oct 16, 7-8:30pm • Free

SEEING IS ABOVE ALL • Acacia Hall,

10433-83 Ave, upstairs • 780.554.6133 • Free instruction into the meditation on the Inner Light • Every Sun, 5pm

STRANGERS TOUR PART 2 • Myer Horowitz Theatre, 8900-114 St, U of A • strangerstour.com • Featuring Boonaa Mohammed, Baba Ali, and Navaid Aziz; poetry, comedy and inspiration • Sat, Oct 12 • $20 at Ticketfly.com

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

BEERS FOR QUEERS • Empress Ale

House, 9912 Whyte Ave • Meet the last Thu each month

BISEXUAL WOMEN'S COFFEE GROUP

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

BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725 Jasper Ave

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

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

EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220

103 St • Calling all kink and queer and leather and fetish–this party has a bit of something for everyone; Oct 18, 9pm2am • $5 https://www.facebook.com/ events/693440094018172/ • Mutation: Join world class DJ Tony Moran at Edmonton's hottest GLBT nightclub for a Halloween circuit party; Oct 26, 9pm; $35 (adv)/$40 (door)

FLASH NIGHT CLUB • 10018-105 St •

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

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• teamedmonton.ca • Blazin' Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary School Gym, 10925-87 Ave; Every Mon and Thu, 7pm; $30/$15 (low income/student); E: bootcamp@teamedmonton. ca • Mindful Meditation: Pride Centre: Every Thu, 6pm; free weekly drop-in • Progressive Core Stability and Abdominal Training with Barb Turner: Parkallen Community League Hall; Every Thu, Sep-Dec 19, 6pm (beginner/intermediate), 7:15pm (advance); $50 (month), $200 (season) • Swimming–Making Waves: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St; E: swimming@teamedmonton.c; makingwavesswimclub.ca • Bowling: Bonnie Doon Bowling Lanes: Every Tue, 6:30pm; until Apr 1, 2014; $15/week • Volleyball: Westminster Junior High School (Garneau) every Thu, until Nov 21, 7-9pm; St Matthew Elementary School (NE): Tue, Dec 3-Mar 11, 8-10pm; Stratford Junior-Senior High School (west end): every Tue, Mar 18-Apr 29, 7-9pm, $65 (season), $35 (Half season), $5 (drop-in) • Badminton: Westmount Junior High Sch: Every Wed until Nov 6, 6-7:30pm • Curling: Granite Curling Club: Every Tue, until Mar 25, 7pm • Martial Arts–Kung Fu and Kick Boxing: Every Tue and Thu, 6-7pm; GLBTQ inclusive adult classes at Sil-Lum Kung Fu; kungfu@teamedmonton.ca, kickboxing@teamedmonton.ca, sillum.ca

G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E

Bldg, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E: tuff @shaw.ca

THOUGHTFUL TUESDAY • King Edward Community Hall Small Hall, corner of 80 Ave, 81 St, 8102-80 Ave • MOVIE MONDAY: Unsupersize Me; Mon, Oct 14, 7-9pm

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ALANIS MORISSETTE AND MARGARET ATWOOD • Winspear, Sir Winston

INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campus-

Churchill Sq • Life. Love. Art: A conversation with Alanis Morissette and Margaret Atwood • Fri, Nov 22, 8pm • Part of Festival of Ideas

TIME TRAVELLERS XX • Royal Alberta

Museum Theatre, 12845-102 Ave • Lecture series: Unearthing...the discovery of Richard III's remains, an Arctic shipwreck, life as a Neandertal and human history at the end of the ice age. Visit the Royal Alberta Museum Oct 17, 24, 31 and Nov 7, 2013 for an indepth look at our remarkable history • Oct 17, 24, 31; Nov 7 • Tickets at royalalbertamuseum.ca • $8 (per lecture)/$25 (four lectures, one series)

QUEER AFFIRM SUNNYBROOK–Red Deer

10608-105 Ave • 780.387.3343 • edmontonillusions.ca • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri each month, 7:30-9pm

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

LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408124 St • edmlivingpositive.ca • 1.877.975.9448/780.488.5768 • Confidential peer support to people living with HIV • Tue, 7-9pm: Support group • Daily drop-in, peer counselling MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB •

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

PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON •

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

PRIMETIMERS/SAGE GAMES • Unitarian Church, 10804-119 St • 780.474.8240 • Every 2nd and last Fri each Month, 7-10:30pm ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH • 11526-

76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship)

WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • womonspace.ca, womonspace@gmail.com • A Non-profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured WOODYS VIDEO BAR • 11723 Jasper

Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Amateur Strip Contest; prizes with Shawana • Tue: Kitchen 3-11pm • Wed: Karaoke with Tizzy 7pm1am; Kitchen 3-11pm • Thu: Free pool all night; kitchen 3-11pm • Fri: Mocho Nacho Fri: 3pm (door), kitchen open 3-11pm

SPECIAL EVENTS DEEPSOUL.CA • 587.520.3833; text to:

780.530.1283 for location • Classic Covers Shindig Fundraiser • Every Sun: Sunday Jams with no Stan (CCR to Metallica), starring Chuck Prins on SG guitars: upcoming Century Casino show as well; GarageGigs Tour; all ages • Fundraising for local Canadian Disaster Relief, the hungry (world-wide through the Canadian Food Grains Bank)

FASHION WITH COMPASSION 2013

• Shaw Conference Centre Hall D • fashioncompassion.ca • MAKE A STATEMENT: Presented by Syncrude • Thu, Oct 17 • Dinner–single ticket: $275; T: 780.418.6996

HERITAGE FUNDRAISING DINNER • St Albert Community Hall • 1980’s themed evening–a celebration of the history and culture of St Albert • Sat, Oct 19, 6pm • Tickets: $100/$750 (table of 6-8); incl cocktails, dinner, entertainment at MuseeHeritage.com THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: Symphony of the Goddesses 2013–world tour

• Jubilee Auditorium • This video game series comes to life with this cinematic video presentation with live symphony orchestra music • Sat, Oct 12, 8pm • Tickets at Ticketmaster

UP + DOWNTOWN MUSIC + ARTS FESTIVAL • Various Venues: Bohemia,

Brixx Bar and Grill, The Common, Latitude 53 Gallery, McDougall United Church, Mercer Tavern, Stanley Milner Library Theatre and Yellowhead Brewery • Eight venues in downtown Edmonton will collaborate to host over 75 performers that celebrate independent music and visual art • Oct 12-13 • $80 (weekend pass)

WORLD FOOD DAY EDMONTON • End Of Steel Park, 87 Ave, 103 St • March for a way a life that is quickly being lost – for seed saving, planting a garden, knowing your farmer, for chemical-free food • Sat, Oct 12, noon • Free

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Can You Read This? Help someone Who can’t! Volunteer 2 hours a week and help someone improve their Reading, Writing, Math or English Speaking Skills. Call Valerie at P.A.L.S 780-424-5514 or email palsvol@shaw.ca Growing Facilitators Volunteer Opportunity Sustainable Food Edmonton offers a Little Green Thumbs indoor gardening program to schools and childcare agencies and we are looking for volunteers. A green thumb is not a pre-requisite. However, gardening experience and a passion for children and youth are an asset. For info and volunteer application form: www.sustainablefoodedmonton.o rg

Walking With Our Sisters Exhibit of Moccasin Tops, Edmonton 2013 Call Out for Volunteers: We are looking for volunteers to support this event starting Sept. 7- Oct. 17, 2013. Please contact Co-VolunteerCoordinator, Laura Sterling at: Laura.Sterling@metischild.com , or you can leave her a voicemail message if you have further questions at (780) 452-6100.

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Fort Edmonton Park is in search of performers to terrify and delight audiences at our annual Halloween Spooktacular. Bring to life the bone chilling horror of our haunted houses as directed by Edmonton’s own theatrical legend Dana Andersen. This is a great opportunity to make connections, get experience working with professional actors, and have the kind of fun that only comes from making people wet themselves in terror. Spooktacular runs October 25th and 26th, and rehearses Wednesdays through September and October. Auditions held the last week of August. To audition, please send a recent photograph and resume to volunteer@fortedmontonpark.ca

Habitat For Humanity - St. Albert Experience Community Hands’ On! Beginners to trades people welcome, groups and individuals welcome. We provide all tools and equipment. All volunteers participate in onsite safety orientation/training. No minimum number of shifts required. Check our website www.hfh.org to register as a volunteer online or contact Louise. Habitat For Humanity is building a pool of volunteers to help us with renovations at our newest ReStore. Flexible hours, no experience necessary If interested, please contact Evan at ehammer@hfh.org or call (780) 451-3416 Help someone in crisis take that ﬁrst step towards a solution. The Support Network`s Crisis Support Centre is looking for volunteers for Edmonton`s 24-Hour Distress Line. Interested or want to learn more? Contact Lindsay at 780-732-6648 or visit our website: www.TheSupportNetwork.com Help someone in crisis take those ﬁrst steps towards a solution. The Support Network`s Crisis Support Centre is looking for volunteers for Edmonton`s 24-Hour Distress Line. Interested or want to learn more? Contact Lindsay at 780-732-6648 or visit our website: www.TheSupportNetwork.com Help the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation create a future without breast cancer through volunteerism. Contact 1-866-302-2223 or ivolunteer@cbcf.org for current volunteer opportunities Needed for our Long Term Care residence, daytime volunteers for various activities or just for a friendly visit! Please contact Janice at Extendicare Eaux Claires for more details jgraff@extendicare.com (780) 472 - 1106 Room to Read is changing children’s lives in Asia and Africa through literacy programs and gender equality. Join our Edmonton team and help us plan events to support our work, and spread the word about our amazing results. Edmonton@roomtoread.org www.roomtoread.org

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Volunteering - Does your employer have a Day of Caring program? We invite you to come and spend some time with us at Habitat for Humanity! It’s easy to sign up a group of volunteers to work on one of our builds. Volunteers from beginners to garage “putterers”, to trades people come out and help us to build homes for families in our community. We provide all tools, equipment, safety gear and lunch. Volunteers work in small crews under the direction of our site supervisors. Our primary focus is safety and we have a fun, welcoming environment that’s great for an employee group to experience giving back to community together. For more information, go to our website at www.hfh.org or contact Kim at 780-451-3416 ext 232. Contact: Kim Sherwood Email: ksherwood@hfh.org Phone: 780.451.3416 Website: http://www.hfh.org Volunteering - Habitat for Humanity invites all women to build with us during Women Build Week: October 22-26 Are you a woman who has always wanted to volunteer on a Habitat for Humanity build site but were unsure if you had the necessary skills? You may be surprised how many women -- with no construction experience -- build homes with Habitat for Humanity. If you are a woman who wants to help families in our community, there is an important role for you on our build sites, whether you have no construction experience or a tool belt of skills. Your gift of time will give hard-working families an opportunity to build equity in a home and in their futures. Volunteers are trained and equipped to perform every task accurately and safely by our expert site superintendents and crew leaders and will leave our build sites with an inspiring sense of accomplishment and satisfaction. We provide all tools, equipment and lunch. All volunteers participate in onsite safety orientation/training. No minimum number of shifts required. Check our website www.hfh.org to register as a volunteer online , contact Louise Contact: Louise Fairley Email: lfairley@hfh.org Phone: 780.451.3416 Website: http://www.hfh.org Volunteering - Habitat for Humanity requires Landscaping Volunteers! New houses with bare yards need love and our energetic volunteers will be beautifying yards for our families by planting trees, laying sod, building fences and decks and putting the ﬁnishing touches on our completed homes. This is an active opportunity open to volunteers of all skill levels. Previous volunteers really enjoyed strengthening friendships and building new ones and knowing they had put in a good day of work. Individual and group volunteers welcome. Contact: Evan Hammer Email: ehammer@hfh.org Phone: 780.451.3416 Website: http://www.hfh.org

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Volunteering - Improve the Lives of Children in the Developing World Room to Read is changing the lives of children in Asia and Africa through literacy programs and gender equality. Join our Edmonton team and help us plan events to support our programs, and spread the word about the fantastic results we are achieving. Skills in event planning, PR, marketing, graphic design are needed, but not essential. We welcome all volunteers. If this sounds interesting, email us at Edmonton@roomtoread.org Contact: Kerri Tulloch Email: Edmonton@roomtoread.org Phone: 780.425.4043 Website:

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Art Gallery of St Albert (AGSA), a contemporary public art gallery, seeks submissions from artists working in all styles and mediums for exhibition in the 2015 calendar year. Submissions are adjudicated by a panel of visual art professionals who represent a spectrum of expertise in the visual arts. The artists chosen to exhibit receive CARFAC fees. Deadline for submissions: Saturday, March 1, 2014, 5 pm For more information: Jenny Willson-McGrath, Exhibition Curator 780.651.5741 I jennyw@artsheritage.ca

STUDENT POSTCARD EXCHANGE CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS, THEME: MAPPING Create a postcard that follows the theme of MAPPING. Here are some ideas to get you thinking about mapping, these are only to start thinking about your piece and in no way are meant to be restrictive. Maps can direct you where to go; they can chart both physical places and ideas. Technology has changed the way that we understand mapping. Maps are no longer a static representation of space but change as quickly as the place that they represent. They can record public knowledge or a private understanding of an environment; they can be clear or cryptic. For this exhibition artists can make up to 2 original postcards. Postcards must be 2-dimensional, 4 x 6 inch postcards. Artists are encouraged to use any media (drawing, print media, painting, collage, etc.). Submission Deadline (postmarked by): Friday, December 13, 2013 Please contact Brittney Roy for more details. harcourtexhibit@shaw.ca 780.426.4180

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Take Your Best Shot: Youth Digital Photo Contest Returns St Albert- The Musée Héritage Museum is having its third annual youth photo contest! This year the theme is Playing Around St Albert so we’re asking youth to take a picture of ‘play’ in or around St Albert – you might choose sports and games you play or watch, places you play, people you play with, friends, family or animals playing, or ﬁtness/outdoor activities. A jury will choose 12 photos from each age group to be displayed at the museum and on our website. Winning photographs will be displayed at the Musée Héritage Museum from November 26, 2013 – January 12, 2014. A special reception and prize presentation will be held on Friday, November 29. Entries will be divided into three groups: Grades 3 – 6 Grades 7 – 9 Grades 10 – 12 Prizes will be awarded to the top three photos (as decided by a jury) in each age group. 1st prize: $200 gift card to McBain Camera 2nd prize: $150 gift card to McBain Camera 3rd prize: $100 gift card to McBain Camera Submission Deadline is October 15, 2013. For additional information on Take Your Best Shot, or to enter, please visit our website www.MuseeHeritage.com or contact Joanne White at 780.459.1528 or joannew@artsheritage.ca The Paint Spot, Edmonton would like to extend an invitation to your organization, club, society, school or association to make use of the many exhibition opportunities we offer to members of the Alberta art community. We encourage individuals and curators, particularly those who are emerging, as well as groups, to make exhibition proposals to our galleries: Naess, Gallery, Artisan Nook, and the Vertical Space. For further information on these three show spaces, please visit our website, www.paintspot.ca

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The Vanguard Journal invites undergraduate students of Edmonton to submit articles (max. 1500 words) for the Fall 2013 issue, Extinction. Send inquiries and submissions to vanguard.journal@gmail.com Details at www.thevanguardjournal.word press.com

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COMING EVENTS GROW MARIJUANA COMMERCIALLY. Canadian Commercial Production Licensing Convention, October 26 & 27. Toronto Airport, Marriot Hotel; www.greenlineacademy.com. Tickets 1-855-860-8611 or 250-870-1882.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES AUTOMATED TANK Manufacturing Inc. is looking for experienced welders. Competitive wages, profit sharing bonus plus manufacturing bonus incentive. Full insurance package 100% paid by company. Good working environment. Keep your feet on the ground in a safe welding environment through in hole manufacturing process. No scaffolding or elevated work platform. Call Cindy for an appointment or send resume to: cindy@autotanks.ca. 780-846-2231 (Office); 780-846-2241 (Fax). AN ALBERTA OILFIELD Company is hiring dozer and excavator operators. Lodging and meals provided. Drug testing required. Call 780-723-5051 Edson, Alberta. INTERESTED IN the Community Newspaper business? Alberta’s weekly newspapers are looking for people like you. Post your resume online. FREE. Visit: www. awna.com/resumes_add.php. DRIVER NEEDED with clean Class 1 drivers licence for busy livestock hauling position. Based out of Westlock, Alberta. Email resume to: rob@jubileefarms.ca. JOURNEYMAN AUTOMOTIVE Service Technician(s) in Hanna Alberta. Hanna Chrysler Ltd. offers competitive wages from $30/ hour, negotiable depending on experience. Bright, modern shop. Full-time permanent with benefits. Friendly town just 2 hours from major urban centres. More info at: hannachrylser.ca. Fax 403-854-2845; Email: chrysler@telusplanet.net. FREIGHTLAND CARRIERS, a tri-axle air ride flatdeck carrier is looking for Owner/Operators to run Alberta only or 4 Western Provinces. Average gross $18 20,000/month. 1-800-917-9021.

WINCH TRACTOR OPERATORS. Must have experience operating a winch. To apply fax, email or drop off resume at the office. Phone 780-842-6444. Fax 780-842-6581. Email: rigmove@telus.net. Mail: H&E Oilfield Services Ltd., 2202 - 1 Ave., Wainwright, AB, T9W 1L7. For more employment information see our webpage: www.heoil.com. EXPERIENCED EQUIPMENT OPERATORS required for oilfield construction company. Knowledge of oilfield lease, road building. Competitive salary, benefits. Safety tickets, drivers abstract required. Fax resume 780-778-2444. NOW LOCATED in Drayton Valley. BREKKAAS Vacuum & Tank Ltd. Wanted Class 1 & 3 Drivers, Super Heater Operators with all valid tickets. Top wages, excellent benefits. Please forward resume to: Email: dv@brekkaas.com. Phone 780-621-3953. Fax 780-621-3959. HEAVY DUTY MECHANIC, Flagstaff County, Sedgewick, Alberta. Please contact Kevin Kinzer at 780-384-4106 or kkinzer@ flagstaff.ab.ca. Competitive salary, benefits & pension plan. NOW HIRING Production Testing Crews in various locations throughout Northern and central Alberta. Day Supervisors, Night Supervisors, Assistants. Please email: resumes@vencorproduction.com or fax 780-778-6998. HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE Class 1 or 3 Operators. Full-time and parttime positions available. Openings in several Alberta areas. Fax resume to Carillion Canada 780-4490574 or email: mcroft@carillionalberta.ca. Positions to start Oct. 15, 2103. Please state what position and location you are interested in. PUMPS & PRESSURE REQUIRES Air Wash & Lube Equipment Installers for Edmonton area. Email resume to: hr@pumpsandpressure.com or fax to 403-3437922. Attention: Jack Tremain. EDMONTON BASED COMPANY seeks qualified & experienced (or experienced) Mulcher Operator. Fort McMurray, camp work, 21/7 rotation, flight in/out provided, safety tickets and drivers abstract required. Fax 780-488-3002; jobs@commandequipment.com. EDMONTON BASED COMPANY seeks qualified & experienced Buncher Operator and Processor Operator. Fort McMurray, camp work, 21/7 rotation, flight in/out provided, safety tickets and drivers abstract required. Fax 780-488-3002; jobs@commandequipment.com. THE INNISFAIL PROVINCE has an immediate opening for an experienced weekly newspaper reporter. Details at www. jeffgaulin.com or email resume to lsmaldon@olds.greatwest.ca.

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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): Sometimes you quit games too early, Aries. You run away and dive into a new amusement before you have gotten all the benefits you can out of the old amusement. But I don’t think that will be your problem in the coming days. You seem more committed than usual to the ongoing process. You’re not going to bolt. That’s a good thing. This process is worth your devotion. But I also believe that right now you may need to say no to a small part of it. You’ve got to be clear that there’s something about it you don’t like and want to change. If you fail to deal with this doubt now, you might suddenly quit and run away somewhere down the line. Be proactive now and you won’t be rash later. TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): Jugaad is a Hindi-Urdu word that can be translated as “frugal innovation.” People in India and Pakistan use it a lot. It’s the art of coming up with a creative workaround to a problem despite having to deal with logistical and financial barriers. Masters of jugaad call on ingenuity and improvisation to make up for sparse resources. I see this as your specialty right now, Taurus. Although you may not have abundant access to VIPs and filthy riches, you’ve nevertheless got the resourcefulness necessary to come up with novel solutions. What you produce may even turn out better than if you’d had more assets to draw on.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): In accordance with your current astrological omens, I authorize you to be like a bird in the coming week—specifically, like a bird as described by the zoologist Norman J Berrill: “To be a bird is to be more intensely alive than any other living creature. Birds have hotter blood, brighter colours, stronger emotions. They live in a world that is always present, mostly full of joy.” Take total advantage of the soaring grace period ahead of you, Gemini. Sing, chirp, hop around, swoop, glide, love the wind, see great vistas, travel everywhere, be attracted to hundreds of beautiful things and do everything. CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): “The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired,” wrote Nikos Kazantzakis in his book Report to Greco. I’m hoping that when you read that statement, Cancerian, you will feel a jolt of melancholy. I’m hoping you will get a vision of an exciting experience that you have always wanted but have not yet managed to bring into your life. Maybe this provocation will goad you into finally conjuring up the more intense desire you would need to actually make your dream come true.

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LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): “It is truly strange how long it takes to get to know oneself,” wrote the prominent 20th-century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. “I am now 62-years-old, yet just one moment ago I realized that I love lightly toasted bread and loath bread when it is heavily toasted. For over 60 years, and quite unconsciously, I have been experiencing inner joy or total despair at my relationship with grilled bread.” Your assignment, Leo, is to engage in an intense phase of self-discovery like Wittgenstein’s. It’s time for you to become fully conscious of all the small likes and dislikes that together shape your identity. VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): “I’d rather be in the mountains thinking of God than in church thinking about the mountains,” said the naturalist John Muir. Let that serve as your inspiration, Virgo. These days, you need to be at the heart of the hot action, not floating in a cloud of abstract thoughts. The dream has to be fully embodied and vividly unfolding all around you, not exiled to wistful fantasies that flit through your mind’s eye when you’re lonely or tired or trying too hard. The only version of God that’s meaningful to you right now is the one that feeds your lust for life in the here and now. LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): The advice I’m about to dispense may have never before been given to Libras in the history of horoscopes. It might also be at odds with the elegance and decorum you like to express. Nevertheless, I am convinced that it is the proper counsel. I believe it will help you make the most out of the highly original impulses that are erupting and flowing through you right now. It will inspire you to generate a mess of fertile chaos that will lead to invigorating long-term innovations. Ready? The message comes from Do the Work, a book by Steven Pressfield: “Stay primitive. The creative act is primitive. Its principles are of birth and genesis.” SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): Two years ago a British man named Sean Murphy decided he had suffered enough from the painful wart on his middle finger. So he drank a few beers to steel his nerves and tried to blast the offending blemish off with a gun. The operation was a success in the sense that he got rid of the wart. It was less than a total victory, though, because he also annihilated most of his finger. May I suggest that you not follow Murphy’s lead, Scorpio? Now is a good time to part ways with a hurtful burden, but I’m sure you can do it without causing a lot of collateral damage.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): Grace has been trickling into your life lately, but I suspect that it may soon start to flood. A spate of interesting coincidences seems imminent. There’s a good chance that an abundance of tricky luck will provide you with the leverage and audacity you need to pull off minor miracles. How much slack is available to you? Probably as much as you want. So ask for it! Given all these blessings, you are in an excellent position to expunge any cynical attitudes or jaded theories you may have been harbouring. For now at least, it’s realistic to be optimistic. CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): Capricorn innovator Jeff Bezos built amazon.com from the ground up. He now owns the Washington Post, one of America’s leading newspapers. It’s safe to say he might have something to teach us about translating big dreams into practical realities. “We are stubborn on vision,” he says about his team. “We are flexible in details.” In other words, he knows exactly what he wants to create, but is willing to change his mind and be adaptable as he carries out the specific work that fulfills his goals. That’s excellent advice for you, Capricorn, as you enter the next phase of implementing your master plan. AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): Here’s the horoscope I would like to be able to write for you by the first week of December: “Congratulations, Aquarius! Your quest for freedom has begun to bear tangible results. You have escaped a habit that had subtly undermined you for a long time. You are less enslaved to the limiting expectations that people push on you. Even your monkey mind has eased up on its chatter and your inner critic has at least partially stopped berating you. And the result of all this good work? You are as close as you have ever come to living your own life—as opposed to the life that other people think you should live.” PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): “It’s an unbearable thought that roses were not invented by me,” wrote Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. You’re not as egotistical as Mayakovsky, Pisces, so I doubt you’ve ever had a similar “unbearable thought.” And it is due in part to your lack of rampaging egotism that I predict you will invent something almost as good as roses in the coming weeks. It may also be almost as good as salt and amber and mist and moss; almost as good as kisses and dusk and honey and singing. Your ability to conjure up long-lasting beauty will be at a peak. Your creative powers will synergize with your aptitude for love to bring a new marvel into the world. V

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I visited Halifax, Nova Scotia, last week—for my geographically illiterate fellow Americans, Halifax is the biggest city on Canada's Atlantic coast—to help celebrate the 20th anniversary of the founding of The Coast, Halifax's kick-ass alternative weekly newspaper. The paper brought me to town to do Savage Love Live. I took questions for two hours in the auditorium of a brandnew Halifax high school that has a full bar. (First you have socialized medicine and then marriage equality and now bars in high schools—what's not to love about Canada? Oh, right: Stephen Harper, oil sands, porn laws.) The place was packed, the audience was rowdy and things got dirty. Here's a selection of Halifax's questions and my answers ...

Current celebrity crush? Jorge Mario Bergoglio. My boyfriend broke up with me 10 times over the last two years. But this time, he says he's committed. Am I stupid? You may or may not be stupid (impossible to tell from a short question written on a green index card), but you do meet a popular-if-somewhatannoying-but-sometimes-eerily-accurate definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over again—doing this boyfriend of yours over and over again—and expecting different results. Tell him this chance is his last and don't take him back a 12th time.

Monday, October 21, 2013 @ 7pm Winspear Centre (9720 – 102 Avenue, Edmonton) Sex columnist and provocateur Dan Savage takes on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics.

My partner is obsessed with Shania. He's gay. Is this normal? It's gay normal. Sometimes it's a Shania, sometimes it's a Cher, sometimes it's a Gaga or a Madonna or a Rihanna. My gay husband is currently obsessed with a Katy Perry. Maybe you and I should start a support group? Anal rose budding videos—your reaction?

Is it inappropriate for me to flirt and attempt to have an affair with a married coworker? Yep. Affairs with married coworkers are hot in theory and messy in practice. I would urge you to be careful—and considerate. Maybe this guy is dying to cheat on his wife, maybe he's looking for someone to cheat with, but if you sense that he really, really wants to stay faithful and your flirtatious attentions are 1) torture for him but 2) harder and harder to resist, do him, his wife, and your karma a favour and go fuck someone else.

Give up an advice column? No way. It's too sweet a gig. They'll have to pry my column from my cold, dead hands just like they pried Ann Landers' column from hers. How do I make cum taste better?

"Cum" is not a word. We don't have three-letter alternate spellings for O_o other four-letter words that have sexual and nonsexual meanings. You Married straight lady. My husband wouldn't write "I know this guy who recently told me that he is bisexual. sucks and he's a mean dick, but he's I couldn't imagine something hotter! so fucking hot, I want to suk his dik." But he is also EXTREMELY monogaSo there's no need to misspell "come" mous. Suggesto give it a sexual tions? I want to The If you two have threesomes only with each other connotation. have fun with proper spelling and one additional hot bi guy, then all your three- works just fine. this! But in answer to somes are EXTREMELY monogamous. Strap-ons—like your question: the ones they come is an acsell at Venus quired taste. No Envy, Halifax's education-oriented What ground rules should be set for a one likes Guinness the first time they sex shop and bookstore—are fun. Or, friends-with-benefits situation? drink it, right? But soon you're haphey, you could push your husband to pily knocking back pints of the stuff. adopt the "gay normal" definition of The most important ground rule: be Same goes for come. monogamy: if you two have three- friends. Too many people are pointedsomes only with each other and one ly unfriendly to their FWBs because My partner is a neat freak and a conadditional hot bi guy, then all your they don't want their FWBs "getting trol freak in everyday life, but in bed threesomes are EXTREMELY mo- the wrong idea," ie, they don't want she's a whore. Is this normal? nogamous. their FWBs to think they might be interested in something more serious. Nope, but it sounds awesome—dirty I'm a kinky, poly guy who meets awe- The result? Lots of FWB situations sex is always more fun in a spotlessly some kinky, poly girls on the Internet. are all B and no F. No friendly ges- clean apartment. Everything is great, except I never tures (friends sometimes give each know when or if to go in for a first other gifts), no friendly assistance Is it true that some men like a finger in kiss. With my girlfriend, it took me (friends sometimes help each other the butt during a blowjob? six months to build up the courage! move), no friendly concern (friends Thanks! are there for each other during a cri- It is true that some men like a finger sis.) Don't want your FWB to get the in the butt during a blowjob. Some None of the kinky, poly girls I've met wrong idea about your intentions? men like two fingers, some like more. in Seattle, New York, Portland, San Use your words to tell your FWB that Some men like it in the butt generally. Francisco, Madison, Toronto, Vancou- a serious romance isn't in the cards. How to determine if the man you're ver, Chicago, etc are what you would Then make a good-faith effort to be a blowing likes a finger in the butt? call shy. So I bet if you told the kinky, friend to your FWB. Take his dick out of your mouth and poly girls of Halifax during your preask. meeting, Internet-enabled conversa- How can I go about financial dominations that you prefer to let the KPGs tion in a smart way? (I'm a 19-year-old What's the best place to make love? you're with make the first move—in- girl and I'm looking to Dom.) cluding going in for that first kiss— In the butt. (Individual results may you won't have to worry about mak- Most men who submit to financial vary.) domination—making cash gifts to ing the first move. a Dom—expect a little something Thanks, Halifax, for such a great eveWill you tell us about your first sexual in return: some attention, some pic- ning. And congrats to Kyle and Chrisexperience? tures, maybe a Skype session now tine and everyone at the Coast on 20 and then. Be warned: once your im- great years! Nope. ages are out there, they're out there. And an angry, vindictive "sub" might The new Savage Lovecast season Is it weird that I, the girl, want to have post your pictures online, or a care- starts October 22 at savagelovecast. sex more than my boyfriend? less sub could lose his computer and com.V someone else could steal and post Nope. @fakedansavage on Twitter your photos or web chats.

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