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Scaredy cats The Conservative Party is terrified. You can tell, because the story they are spinning ahead of the October 16 throne speech is that it is set to address consumer concerns—this coming seven years into their hold on power. Cellphone roaming fees, overbooking flights, paying for TV channels you never watch—these sorts of things will be in the Harper government's crosshairs. And yes, from a consumer perspective, it sounds great. From a political perspective, it sounds great—on the surface. The NDP experienced a surge in the last election, but it did so because of the odd combination of the collapse of the Bloc and the fact that Jack Layton's charisma made Michael Ignatieff look like a stale Cheerio. But for 2015, the Liberals have finally found themselves someone who, for better or worse, seems to resonate with a lot of people. Justin Trudeau's rise to prominence has already scared the sweater vest off Harper. You remember the attack ads that accompanied Trudeau's ascendance to the Liberal leadership. "Get this," says the Conservative propaganda. "We'll take a bunch of disassociated clips and quotes, rip them out of context, claim he's in way over his head and sprinkle the whole thing with fairy dust visuals!" Harper's had a strange ability to weather all sorts of political scandals. Nothing seemed to stick—he probably could have eaten a baby on live television and his support would still hold strong. But then, finally, the senateexpense scandal happened, and this one, despite the summer and prorogation, does not seem to be going away. This is probably in part because Harper is a man who, after promising to never appoint an unelected senator, went on to appoint the majority of the current senate. Although, sure, three of the current 99 senators were elected as senators-in-waiting in Alberta first. It all could have been avoided if Harper had actually acted upon senate reform. It's not like he couldn't have at least started. The NDP may want abolition, but they're prepared to compromise along the road. And the provinces might kick up a fuss, but the work could certainly have been started by now. Perhaps if it had been, this scandal would have melted away too, the blame being thrown squarely and, perhaps justly, upon the provinces for not getting on board. But senate reform now? It would be seen as a defeat for Harper. A concession he must make after an admittance of having made mistakes. That won't do. Not with a rock-star Liberal who coincidentally defeated one of the investigated senators—now former Conservative Patrick Brazeau—in a charity boxing match looking like such a threat. So instead they'll take care of your cellphone roaming charges, your flight overbooking woes, your TV-channel bundle annoyance. Eat your bread, enjoy your circuses and ignore any signs of political desperation. V

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A castle without its defences // Meaghan Baxter

reg Lindgren hands me a little red flashlight and leads me to a blue door on the north side of the Molson Brewery castle. There's a taped-up sign advising face mask protection but the project manager for First Capital Realty has more pressing concerns: "Hopefully there are no residents." There are none to speak of, just squealing pigeons turning 40-some massive steel tanks into their nests and leaving their sticky, white rent on the concrete floors. My spotlight reveals relics from 95 years of beer-making— shattered fluorescent lamps, rusted bolts and metal sheets burglarized of their copper value and piled like pistachio shells. The property has changed hands several times since the last beer was bottled in 2007. The latest owners, First Capital Realty and Sun Life Financial, bought the former brewery lands and adjacent Crosstown Motors site for $32 million in March—not for the iconic building but the prime real estate it sits on. Structurally and architecturally, it's an intimidating building to repurpose, which is why the owners declined applying for heritage designation when the city invited them to do so. They're optimistically negotiating with provincial and municipal boards about how, if at all, it can be adapted, but in the meantime the future is uncertain. However, after walking up steep steel stairs, stepping over Budweiser cans and porno-mag discards, I enter the windowed, brightened fourth floor and find a more optimistic view of the site's future. From up here, the panorama—13 fenced-in acres of brownfield—is currently a blight, but its location within Edmonton's dense Oliver neighbourhood is also a gold mine of opportunity. It could be an urban oasis mimicking the trendy brewery districts of Toronto and San Antonio—apartments atop restaurants, maybe a flo-

rist, a bakery, rows of brick storefront facing wide sidewalks where fixies, strollers and walkers alike lead to and from the future West LRT line in a more urbanized, sustainable and connected city. Last spring, when acclaimed writer and longtime Edmontonian Myrna Kostash first learned of a coming development on the derelict lands, she, like many in the Oliver and surrounding neighbourhoods, celebrated the news. And then she saw the drawings. Eleven buildings that dwarfed the brewery—now a glass hybrid—and each one turned away from the streets, metres apart and separated by parking stalls—500 of them on the surface and 400 underground. "We don't need another Oliver Square," she says. Kostash speaks of the retail directly east of the Molson-Crosstown site. When the big-box magnet went up in 1991, it was hailed as a turning point for the former rail yards. But it came when the desperate city would accept nearly anything it could collect taxes on. Twenty years later, Oliver Square's suburban design is outmoded if not outright embarrassing While the brick finishings and lessened parking is an improvement, First Capital doesn't think a streetscape-oriented development is viable. Too many Edmontonians drive, public transit is lacking and there are currently about 2500 apartment units under construction in the area—a 10-year supply. In another decade, maybe when the planned West LRT is completed, the new buildings can be demolished and reconstructed into an urban centre. But until then, this is what the market allows, says Ralph Huizinga, the Calgary-based manager representing First Capital. The city doesn't even have an LRT station design, let alone funding, so he has no assurance it will even happen.

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There is irony here: on one hand, we're talking about repurposing a structure that's lasted four generations and on the other, building something so temporary it won't even last half a generation. Really, if what the residents wanted might mesh with the city's downtown vision, it doesn't with the developers' culture. First Capital is known more for Northgate and Longview, the unsightly strip of retail on the south side of 104 Avenue home to Jiffy Lube and Subway. And Oliver Square? That was purchased by its partners, Sun Life Financial, many years ago. Oliver Community League president, Jarrett Campbell, feared they were about to squander the opportunity and helped organize a series of design consultations attended by representatives of neighbouring Westmount and Queen Mary Park residents. The neighbourhoods have seen an influx of young people over the past decade and their values were clear in the charrette. [Full disclosure: Jarrett Campbell is my friend. Another disclosure: I live in Queen Mary Park. A final one: As the library's writer in residence I'm employed by the City of Edmonton, which approved of the rezoning proposal in late August.] "I was struck by how much the young people wanted access to public transit, want to be close to downtown, parks and independent small businesses," Kostash says. "This [development] seemed like an ideal opportunity to be living these values." The constructive criticisms were relayed back to the owners. But the adjustments, like widened sidewalks and landscaping, were window dressing, Campbell says. "They made a couple of superficial changes when our problems were fundamental." Leading up to the hearing, Campbell and Ward 6 Councillor Jane Batty had countless conversations. "There was never a time when she

said she wouldn't support the community," he says. So he was stunned when the general business rezoning passed, 10 – 3. Not only did Batty vote in its favour, but she seemingly led First Capital with questions about its good reputation and willingness to hear out the community that painted it in a very positive light. Batty denies leading them, though she acknowledges she may have suggested support for the community in past conversations. However, she says she didn't have all the facts about the marketplace until she met with Huizinga and Scott Mackie, manager of the Current Planning division that oversaw the application. Some good came out of the vote— a motion by Councillor Amarjeet Sohi to develop a plan to urbanize 104 Avenue—but the city is already a piñata of plans. It's action that's lacking. Don Iveson is the only councillor running for mayor who voted against it. First he tried combining two zoning laws that wouldn't force the developers to get constant approval but assure a certain quality. A similar bylaw is in place in the Warehouse District. However, his mayoral opponent Councillor Karen Leibovici called it "blackmail." "He was trying to put the proponent on the spot," she says. Of course, the proponent put council on the spot, too, saying the site looked like "Downtown Beirut" and claiming they'd lose a season of construction and $2 million on further delay. Iveson maintains that it could have been a "quick turnaround", but Leibovici thinks even a year delay is too long. "It was important that the site would not remain a disgrace the way it is now." She says that First Capital could develop a town-centre concept over time, even though the general business zoning she approved would not force them, and "the promCONTINUED ON PAGE 07 >>

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he election is coming to an end, but maybe you haven't picked your mayor yet. Nothing can replace your own in-depth research, but if you take a ride with us, you should at least get a good idea of what's on offer. You'll go through the backgrounds of the candidates first. If you like what you see, add a point for the relevant candidate. Next you'll go through some issues, then a selection of quotes from the candidates that sum up their campaigns and, finally, the vision line: what we take to be the summarization of the candidates' approach to municipal government. Again, if it's something you like, add a point. Some major issues have been omitted in the interest of differentiating candidates. Everybody loves the LRT and nobody loves potholes. At the end of it, count up the points you've accumulated and use them to inform your vote. You might not realize how much you have in common with many candidates.

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Property tax increases? Rate of inflation: +Diotte Look for new means of funding: +Iveson

Like the arena? Yes: +Leibovici, Iveson No: +Diotte

Council will only work best with a mayor with the most experience:

Public-Private Partnerships? Yes: Acielo It depends: +Iveson, +Diotte, +Leibovici No: +Semotiuk, Ward

The city's spending and debt is: Responsible: +Leibovici, Iveson Too much: +Diotte

Agree: +Leibovici Disagree: +others

Campaign donations? Accept, but reveal donors ahead of the vote: +Iveson, Leibovici Do not accept: +Ward, Semotiuk

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"I want people to know that anyone can just get up and decide they want to make a difference and go for broke." +Semotiuk

"One of my key priorities will be to lead consensus building to craft stronger regional cooperation that maximizes our shared opportunity while ensuring orderly and balanced growth."

"Edmonton is a city of opportunity, a city where dreams can be realized. We will face many challenges moving forward, but as those who know me well will attest, I never back away from a challenge."

+Iveson

+Leibovici

"My opponents have dreams, too. They call them visions, but they are not grounded in common sense." +Diotte

"It is now time to see Edmonton as it is ... to see it as a business that includes a multi-faceted and growing population that has international potential." +Ward

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"Besides corporate law, being mayor is my dream job."

The future's bright for Edmonton. Full steam ahead!

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+Iveson

Pull back a little and focus on the city's neglected infrastructure and foundations.

Make sure everything started during Mandel's time keeps on keeping on! +Leibovici

If you don't like the choices, run yourself.

Skytrains and double-sized arenas.

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Mixed messages on youth engagement ActivatED accused of being too young and naïve to understand city politics The concern about "youth apathy" in our society, especially when it comes to politics and elections, seems endemic. More often than not, that concern has resulted in lame youthvote campaigns that tend to be accompanied by top 40 music and candidates dressing up in jeans and leather jackets at well-orchestrated events designed to "engage youth". This municipal election, however, has seen something very different develop in Edmonton. A group of young Edmontonians has actively bucked the trend toward disengagement by forming a group called ActivatED. For them it's not about "rocking the vote," but rather about identifying their own priorities as young people living in Edmonton and doing the hard work of identifying candidates who align with those priorities. Once they identified the candidates they were interested in—done through surveys, research of platforms and interviews—they proceeded to endorse those candidates publicly on their website and on social media and to mobilize other young people with similar priorities and values to become active volunteers on those campaigns. These folks did none of this light-

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ises they made will be remembered by council, and by me as mayor." "I was trying to come up with a win-winwin," Iveson says. "But it became clear that there was no will on council to do any more work on this, and once that was clear I said, 'OK, I just can't support this.' ... But not for lack of trying." Indeed, the hearing lasted almost five hours, with community members pleading that council live up to city's touted downtown ambitions. But even with their voices heard, did council get the full story? As it turns out, the community members weren't the only ones asking for fundamental changes. Dismayed, insiders from the administration have opened up to Campbell and me over the past month to explain how something that contradicts sustainability, density and walkability—virtues espoused in the city's long-term vision documents—could pass through planning in the first place. It started downtown, inside the HSBC tower. The development permit for rezoning was circulating among the many units of Sustainable Development. Usually with a property like this, that carries both heritage and access to a future LRT, the city would get "Direct Control" zoning, meaning it lays out a prescriptive de-

ly. The definition of "progressive" they are using to assess platforms was hammered out through a long consensus-based process within the group. They divided the city up among themselves and spent hours researching the platforms of all the candidates in every ward as they entered the race. They held workshops where they brought in speakers to educate themselves and other young people about municipal government, elections and municipal issues. Then they painstakingly talked through their endorsements with the other young people at the workshops and accepted feedback—occasionally even reconsidering some of their endorsements. They have attended ward and mayoral forums and asked questions to help highlight their issues and priorities. And on top of all that, they have been door-knocking and volunteering for candidates all over the city. Not one of them is over 31 years old, and all of this was done entirely on a volunteer basis with the couple of hundred dollars they were able to raise from friends, family and members of the group. By all accounts, this is a textbook example of what most of us mean when we talk about youth

engagement: young people getting informed on the issues, leveraging the knowledge and experience of others in their communities and mobilizing to make a difference. And they've been successful, receiving media coverage and public dialogue about their group and their issues, bringing numerous other young people on board and making an impact on campaigns and debates across the city.

sign and nothing gets built without city approval. The owners didn't want that; they applied for CB2, a general business zone, as well as AP, a high-rise apartment zone to eventually convert retail into mixed-use. By the time the internal-review file made it back to the 13th floor and landed on Current Planning manager Mackie's desk, it had several letters of nonsupport. The files are not available to the public, however a memo from Mary Ann McConnell-Boehm, Director of the Planning Initiatives section, which oversees transit-oriented development, was leaked to me through Campbell. It reads, "On the basis [of the] design drawings that have emerged [Planning Initiatives] has serious concerns and cannot support the application as submitted." The three-page document lists many conditions required for approval, including street-facing entrances and an elimination of street-facing surface parking. Another letter from heritage planner David Holdsworth worried that the character of the castle would be lost and that CB zoning would give the city no influence over its future. Too much has already been lost and the streetscape is poorer for it, he wrote. Holdsworth, Erik Backstrom (senior planner of Transit Oriented Development) and Travis Pawlyk (senior planner on the Molson-Crosstown file), declined to comment. McConnell-Boehm was on

vacation. However, Peter Ohm, manager of Urban Planning and Environment Branch, explains that it's rare for these comments to make it into council's report. "They're not going to attach comments that were resolved," he says. But few if any of the conditions I read were adapted and nary a hint of the internal dissent made its way into the materials council was to vote upon.

Despite this success, the group and its members have received a tremendous amount of abuse and attacks at the hands of candidates, campaigns and commentators from across the political spectrum. On social media in particular, they have been accused of being a front group for specific candidates or issues, had their personal relationships and professional activities called into question and repeatedly referred to as "naïve," "liars" and "uninformed". They have been told that they are "singling out older white males" for attack and accused of "being funded by the pro-arena lobby" or specific political parties. Perhaps the most confusing is the Twitter user who keeps trying to discredit them on the grounds that they are "biased."

Inside Mackie's 13th-floor office there is a personalized bobble-head on the window ledge. Behind it, a five-by-seveninch framed picture of the downtown skyline. Behind that, the flattened urban reality that is Edmonton's parking lotriddled core. "They (First Capital) were not interested in applying for a direct control because it's more work, more costly and takes more time," Mackie says. He's asked for some certainty over the outcomes and the compromise was to offer a site plan of its longer term vision (residential towers and transit-oriented development) on which to approve the zoning application. That's why council was allowed to see drawings in the first place, even though they weren't voting on the development; they were voting on rezoning. One could say the sketches were required to trust the developers. Another, that it manipulated council. Affable as he is, Mackie has upset many within the administration. He has

The most concerning part of the reaction to their work, however, has been the patronizing and dismissive tone with which they have been treated by so many of their detractors. A common thread in the attacks has been that because they are young they have no credibility. Others have suggested that because they don't own property they have no right to express opinions on municipal politics. I've had numerous opportunities over the course of the campaign to sit down and chat with some of the key organizers about their experience and, without exception, the types of reaction detailed above are what have surprised them the most. They were fully expecting activists and candidates to disagree with some of their endorsements, but their hope had been that this would lead to constructive dialogue and discussion about issues and priorities. Instead, they have been met with personal attacks and accusations and constant questioning of their motives. At the same time, the most disappointing thing for them has been the degree of patronizing condescension they have encountered because of their youth—the suggestion that their age means they can

have nothing positive or constructive to offer. If we are truly serious about wanting greater youth engagement in the issues, politics and processes around them, then we have a responsibility to enable positive spaces within which that engagement can happen. Young people in our communities are as impacted by public policy as everyone else and we do our public sphere and the future of our democracy a huge disservice when we espouse the rhetoric of youth engagement while shutting youth down when they do become engaged. In the end, I hope that what the young people of ActivatED take away from this experience is that political engagement is positive, important and worthwhile, despite the actions of a few folks who have been working hard to make sure they never engage again. You can learn more about ActivatED, their process and their endorsements by visiting activatED2013.ca. V

a reputation for pushing development through and critics also take issue with the fact that someone who's not a fully accredited planner is in such a senior position. Mackie, who was hired from Calgary's planning department in 2009, has an MBA, though he's done eight years of planning course work and is a member of the Canadian Institute of Planners. "My MBA background seeks the balance between the business interest and planning interest," he says. There are systemic issues too. The many staff in Sustainable Development, renamed from Planning and Development a few years ago, are divided between several floors and buildings. Not even Current Planning, the biggest and most generalized branch, is on a single storey. Might this explain the Molson-Crosstown site's lack of coordination on the transit-oriented development guidelines? Sure, but the guidelines' language is weak; the word "encourage" appears more than "shall" or "must," so, without direct-control zoning, there's little to compel developers to follow them. As well, the department lacks a financial advisor, so when developers say the market can't support a denser development, there's rarely, if ever, an independent assessment. And then there are cultural problems—new-school and old-school planning principles butting heads as they are in Calgary, Toronto and countless other

North American cities. The renewed vigour of urbanism, led by theorists like Richard Florida, have made urban planning a sexy pursuit. Inspired, passionate young graduates enter the field to build cities they take pride in, but often confront an unmoveable old guard. Mackie says it's not the development he'd wished to see, but it's a good one. He won't call it a strip mall. According to him, a strip mall is more like what you see in the non-pedestrian friendly

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Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta.

shopping district known as South Edmonton Common. Those are anchored

by a big-box retailer and have five car stalls per 1000 square feet. This is anchored by a big grocer and only has 3.5 stalls per 1000 square feet. Comparing a downtown development to a suburban one does him no favours. That aside, it's impossible to look at the Molson-Crosstown site plans, stare into the gulf in the middle and not see a strip mall. "I don't disagree that we need to push for good design," Mackie says. "The question is what do we have to work with and what do we have to leverage?" It would be unreasonable to prescribe pedestrian-oriented design because the pedestrian activity doesn’t exist yet, he says. Of course, why would it exist when the avenue has been strip-malled for 20 years and disconnected with massive modular condos and obtrusive fences? OMAR MOUALLEM

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What happens in the fridge

hink about what's in your fridge right now. How long have those containers filled with remnants of various dishes been sitting in there? Chances are, some of them are turning into science experiments while others still look edible—but they may not be truly safe to eat. Once food has been cooked, it doesn't take long for potentially harmful bacteria to begin accumulating—usually within a couple of hours. But this can all depend on how food products are handled before being stashed in the fridge. "We can contaminate cooked food with the organisms we might have either on our hands or on the kitchen counter, and they will grow," explains Lynn McMullen, a professor of food microbiology at the University of Alberta. "It depends on the organism, how fast they will grow, but if you put things in the refrigerator that slows them down if not stops them." Freezing food is an alternative option, which completely halts bacteria growth. But even then, this doesn't mean food is invincible. Frozen food still has a shelf life of anywhere from two to six months, depending on the product. Clostridium perfringens is a strain of bacteria that can be especially troublesome and McMullen says the Public Health Agency of Canada has ranked it as the No 1 cause of foodborne illness. The cooking process itself can aid in making leftovers safer. McMullen notes once a food product is brought to a temperature between 70 and 75 C, a great deal of organisms are killed off, but there still may be dormant bacteria spores that won't begin to surface until food is cooled. Once food is cooked and ready to be cooled, McMullen says it is important to get it through what's known as the "danger zone" as quickly as possible—which means getting the product below 4 C. "Traditionally people would leave things on the counter to let it cool, but the best thing is to put it in containers and put them in the fridge and let your fridge do the job because it will do the job faster and you won't run the risk of forgetting it on the counter," McMullen adds, noting it is important to store food in smaller, shallow containers—ideally no more than two inches deep—in order to allow food to cool more efficiently than it would in a large container, which prevents dormant bacteria spores from germinating. "I'm going to use Clostridium perfringens as an example. It likes to grow between our body temperature and 20 degrees. It's going to grow really, really quickly so when we heat food and we are cooling it, the faster we get it through the danger zone as far as the temperatures for bacterial growth is a good thing." When it comes to digging into leftovers again, some items such as pizza that were great hot are just as good cold, but reheating can be a beneficial step. "Something that you would typically eat hot, the best way is to heat the whole thing, and microwaves are great, but they do have hot spots and you can get cold spots," McMullen explains. "One of the things about reheating food is it will actually help reduce the risk of foodborne illness because if something has contaminated your food, reheating may reduce the numbers and may provide some protection."

while fresh, uncooked poultry should be used within one to two days (fresh, uncooked beef, veal lamb and pork last longer at three to five days). Soups are usable for three to four days while sandwiches should only be kept overnight. There are resources online to assist with leftover storage times such as foodsafety.gov. During its time in the fridge, a food product continues to undergo chemical reactions that affect flavours and textures—for better or worse. Items such as tomato-based sauces, chili and curries often become more flavourful as they age. This is the result of cellular structures breaking down, which can release new flavour components. Individual flavours become less pronounced than they were during first tastes as they have had time to blend together, creating a much more developed flavour profile. Oxidation of fats is another component that affects flavour, McMullen notes. "When fat is exposed to oxygen, the oxygen will attack some of the bonds in the fats and that's where you get some of the interesting flavour components produced," she says, adding the "warmedover" flavour leftover roast beef can take on is an example of this. What about texture? Items like french fries or others that originally possessed a crispy texture become soggy the next day, and McMullen explains this can be a product of bacterial growth, but this would also push the limits of acceptable food quality. In other instances, such as leftover meat, reheating can break down gelatinous material

that binds protein cells together, a process that continues each time the food is cooled and reheated, eventually resulting in a stringy texture. "When you start seeing things actually breaking down or becoming slimy, sometimes things will become softer with time, then usually it's microbial changes that will do that," she adds. "The bacteria or yeasts and moulds will produce enzymes that break down tissues in foods. As far as spoilage is concerned and texture, if you think about how if you leave fresh meat in your fridge too long it goes green and slimy, same with processed meats: they become milky and slimy. With processed meats it's usually what we call lactic acid bacteria. They're not harmful but they can produce some slime from the carbohydrate that might be present in the product." With so many variables and elements that can affect leftover food quality from initial handling to cooking to storing, McMullen has a simple rule of thumb to keep in mind. "Traditionally we used to say keep it cold, keep it covered, keep it clean, which for leftovers is probably still the best advice." MEAGHAN BAXTER MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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Merlot strikes the middle ground Sometimes wine is best kept simple I hesitate to call Merlot the "medium grape" because that just isn't fair— but I can't help that this pops into my head every time I drink it. Merlot is just so often middle-ofthe-road in all components: medium acidity and tannins, medium fruit flavours and oak. This is certainly what makes it one of the biggest crowdpleasers—it's hard to dislike something that's just so banal—but, unfortunately, this is also what maintains Merlot's stigma as boringly mediocre. Certainly there are plenty of wines that support this ruling, but Merlot can, and does, achieve remarkable finesse. Merlot finds its most famous incarnation in France's Bordeaux region, where it is blended with Cabernet Sauvignon to form the vast majority of all red Bordeaux wines; Merlot comprises the majority of the blend in "right bank" Bordeaux, which consists of the appellations on the right side of the Gironde River that flows through the region. These two grapes make natural partners, and CabMerlot blends can be found around the world: Merlot provides the flesh to Cabernet's Sauvignon's skeleton,

filling out the wine with lush flavours of plums, blackberries, baked cherries and mocha. Each region has their own name for these Bordeauxstyle blends, as "Bordeaux" is a protected term under French wine law. Meritage is a term that originated in California, though it is now used in Canada, Australia and South Africa. Italy also makes a class of wines referred to as Super Tuscans, which are often based on some configuration of Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon. Plenty of Merlot is also made as a single varietal wine, especially throughout North America; California produces gallons of the stuff, which ranges wildly in quality. Chile has also emerged as the leading South American producer of Merlot, where it is sometimes blended—and even confused—with that country's signature red grape, Carménère. (In 1994, DNA profiling identified Carménère as the species growing rampant throughout Chilean vineyards; previously vintners had assumed it was Merlot.)

When pairing Merlot with food, keep its "medium" characteristic in mind; you don't want to put it beside

any food with particularly intense flavours. Instead, focus on food that will be complemented by Merlot's velvety texture: pork tenderloin and prime rib, veggie burgers and gouda. Merlot is one of those grapes that wine snobs will often sneer away from, unless it happens to be one of the super high-end versions. A couple examples of these include Château Pétrus, a Bordeaux, and Ornellaia, a Super Tuscan—both wines are 100 percent Merlot and their price tags alone are anything but middling. But there's certainly a place for all those soft and fruity Merlots from the New World. Sometimes you want a wine that isn't challenging and doesn't require a lot of thought be put into food pairings and serving strategies; a wine that's simply easy to uncork and quaff. Enter Merlot.

Recommendations:

Gray Monk Merlot (Okanagan Valley, Canada) Cono Sur Merlot (Chile) Bonterra Merlot (United States) Ghost Pines Merlot (United States) Château Teyssier (France)

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Leave the brown bag at home Downtown lunch options to keep work weeks interestings

uch as it hurts to say au revoir, food-truck season is almost at an end in Edmonton. Those of us who brown-bag it five days a week or, just as likely, forget our brown bags on the kitchen counter as we rush out the door five mornings a week, have enjoyed a delightful reprieve from squished PB&Js, congealed leftovers and the usual round of food-court kiosks thanks to the rolling lunch counters that have thrived and propagated on our streets over the past couple of years. Sad though it will be to see the food trucks head to their respective garages for a long winter's nap, the change of seasons does afford one an opportunity to become reacquainted with some reliable noon-hour favourites in the downtown core. Judging from the lineup I witnessed there last week, Sequel Café (10011 - 102 Ave) is already enjoying an equinoctial resurgence, if indeed it ever experienced a solstitial ebb. Brought to you by the same friendly and talented folks who once ran the beloved Hole in the Wall Café on 104 Street, Sequel carries on that tradition of homemade deliciousness with sandwiches, soups, salads, hot entrées and baked goods, but improves on things with a spare, spacious, sunlit dining room and a tabletop Pac-Man game. I resisted the allure of their highly appealing warm selection ($10 – $12.50): sirloin quesadillas, veggie burritos, spanakopita, quiche, ravioli, sausage calzone, served with tangy spinach salad and/or seasoned, roasted potatoes

in favour of a bowl of borscht with a well-stacked tuna sandwich on a fresh-baked roll ($10.50) They also had tomato spinach, black bean and corn chowder in their soup selection that day, and I had the option of taking home a whole litre for $8.50. The hearty borscht, enriched with a dollop of sour cream, velvety and rib-sticking, was practically a meal in itself. I've found in the past that the above-mentioned hot entrées are almost like two meals, so generous are the portions. The only caveat: Sequel does not take plastic, so make sure to come equipped with cash. Of course, there will be days you don't want to go outside for even a second to locate a decent lunch. Luckily, there are numerous independent hidden gems dotted throughout the city

Sequel Café is one of the places to eat downtown this winter

centre habitrail and its myriad of food courts. For instance, if you like a teppanyaki-style plate of grilled meats and vegetables, why join the herd at Edo when you can hop to the front of the line at Mt Fuji in the TELUS Plaza (10020 - 100 St) food court for their chicken and beef combo ($7.99) in which the eponymous thinsliced meats are cooked to order with hand-cut carrots, cabbage, onions, broccoli and sprouts and, most importantly, served with a house-made sesame sauce that adds a touch of salty, creamy perfection? The legendary Chicken for Lunch in the Scotia Place (10060 Jasper Ave) barely needs an introduction, especially since its owners became reality TV stars. But even before that, the poultry-based kiosk, personally presided over with martial precision by Amy Quon, had been creating long lineups that must have driven her

neighbouring competitors up the wall. The main attraction is a Styrofoam container bursting with rice, noodles, veggies and two or three different kinds of chicken, most notoriously the deep-fried marvel of dry, spicy chicken (aka "crack chicken"). Plus a spring roll. Your doctor would probably tell you to go easy on the crack chicken as a matter of cardiovascular health, but you owe it to yourself to find out what out the fuss is about, at least once. Chicken for Lunch is a cash-only business and don't fret, that line moves mighty fast. Despite the Quons' total dominance, a couple of other notable food kiosks have managed to hang on at Scotia Place and are worthy of your consideration, especially if you don't eat meat. Aegean Delights, aka that poor Greek place right next to Chicken for Lunch, goes in for the expected souvlakis (in a pita or on a platter, $6 - $9) and donair, but they also do spanakopita, the occasional savoury lima bean stew and what may be the only decent falafel to be found within easy reach of the Central LRT station, as well as roast quarter chicken, lasagna and bacon cheeseburgers. You can get rice, fries or roasted potatoes on the side, plus a salad of crunchy romaine, tomatoes and cukes, onions, olives and feta in light vinaigrette, which makes you feel like you ate something healthy. Also in Scotia, Millwoods-based Indian concern Rasoi has established a downtown satellite in Y-Not Indian, which is a reasonable enough quasiquestion I suppose. If you like butter chicken, and its ubiquity suggests everyone loves it, Y-Not will serve it to

you in a combo, in a bowl, in a wrap or in samosa. They also do decent chicken biryani, chili fish and korma (dense cashew dumplings) in creamy sauce, with that tittle of spicy heat appropriate to the noon hour. Usually I just have the combo special that sets you up with a saucy meat dish, a saucy veggie dish, rice, cabbage-y salad and fresh-made, crispy, not-from-a-bag naan bread for $8. The butter chicken is actually better at the Curry Fix (which also serves fresh-made, real naan) in nearby Manulife Place (10180 - 101 St) or, if you're committed to falling asleep at your desk after lunch, the New Asian Village-owned Haweli in Boardwalk Market hosts a sprawling Indian buffet daily. Outside the walkway system, downtown continues to bristle with restaurant action. Local dynasties Hoang Long and Sorrentino's have introduced storefront operations on 109 Street near Jasper Ave.; right around the corner, the express version of Lebanese stalwart the Sultan's Palace has rebranded as Arabia (10709 Jasper Ave); Thai purveyor of note Viphalay offers ample single-serving lunch deals from a house-based location (10523 - 99 Ave); and most excitingly the Three Amigos, which has been doling out tasty authentic Mexican cuisine— a relatively solitary pursuit in this town—from a Whitemud Crossing location, is opening a new outlet on Jasper Avenue near 103 Street to challenge the primacy of Tres Carnales' popular taquería. SCOTT LINGLEY

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COVER // THEATRE

ne of the unwritten social contracts that we inherently come to understand states that the elevator is almost exclusively a private, transient space. It's not the destination, it's the movement in-between: you step inside one to get somewhere you're actually going to, and any interactions with the strangers sharing that space are almost exclusively to be non-existent, or politely guarded at best. So the idea of theatre being set in the confines of an elevator—in eight of them, actually, scattered across downtown, playing out in five-minute scripts—is a radical rewrite of that contract: suddenly, not only are we supposed to pay attention to each other in the confined space, we're specifically seeking out some unusual turn of events. The elevator becomes the destination. The Theatre Yes-curated National Elevator Project (Part 1) spreads eight short works across the same number of elevators in the downtown core. This is the first of two performance cycles; the next, featuring another eight works, will debut in January as part of the Canoe Theatre Festival. Audiences meet at the Tix on the Square office in Churchill Square to receive a program with a map to all eight of the available shows. You can go in any order or amount you'd like; if seeing eight five-minute works in one night seems daunting, there's a pass that lets you spread them out over multiple evenings. For such a radical take on site-specific theatre, one that's pulling in scripts from all across the country, the National Elevator Project had rather innocuous beginnings. "I was literally sitting on my couch one day, and I had this idea," Theatre Yes's artistic director, Heather Inglis, says with a laugh. Of course, she's no stranger to site-specific theatre: Fringe-goers may recall the Inglisdirected Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat from the 2010 festival, which led audiences to secret locations spread around the Fringe grounds to witness theatrical vignettes play out where you'd least expect them. More recently was The List, which saw Inglis curtain off a tiny box of the massive Westbury theatre in white to bring us into an usual proximity with performance. That show featured Melissa Thingelstad, who's been brought on here as a co-curator—she'd been working on her own elevator-based project independently (hers will be part of the second cycle of performances in January), intrigued in her own way with the concept. "Taking [theatre] into a site-specific environment, you're breaking a rule, in a way," Thingelstad says, perched adjacent to Inglis in a downtown coffee shop. "Or you're changing the rules. And what fascinates me about that—and because I'm an actor, I'm obsessed with human behaviour and instinct—you change the rules of the playing environment, that changes the rules of the story you're telling, which is interesting, and I think lifts certain plays off the page in a really magical way." Inglis started reaching out to theatre companies to help her commission the works—"I had this notion that maybe I could get theatres to pay playwrights for me, to pay for the material," she says—and found the idea more resonant than she could've possibly imagined. Now, there's representation from most regions of provincial Canada, and a dialogue between independent theatre artists across the country that wasn't there before. Once the project started to coalesce, there were practicalities that had to be addressed. The logistics for gaining access to elevators took some

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preemptive footwork for Inglis. "I tried to lobby some support for my company before I started conversations with anyone," she recalls. "So I went to the Edmonton Arts Council, and I asked them if they could help us by brokering some conversations with members of the business community. I went to Workshop West—they had sponsored us before by insuring site-specific venues—and asked them if they'd provide insurance. They said yes, and so I went into the conversations knowing that I had those things in place, that I had some partners, some people who would speak for me who were bigger than we were." Inglis received some flat-out rejections, and some building managers that just never responded to her inquiries. But once one building came on board—in this case, Commerce Place was first to agree—the rest started to domino into place. "When I went to the City of Edmonton—we have some buildings that are owned by the city—they said, 'Oh, Commerce Place was on board, well they've run it through their insurance and risk management, and they think it's OK.' So from there it became easier," she grins. "Because 'If the City of Edmonton approved it ... '" They also offered a few guidelines to shape the artistic output, things they were discovering as scripts were workshopped and developed. "There's no template to pull from," Thingelstad notes, with Inglis nodding agreement and adding, "It all has to be made up." What they came up with are their "Rules for Elevator Plays" which they've posted on the Theatre Yes blog. Some rules ("No emergency stops") proved firmer than others ("Each play has three actors in it"). All the scripts are, in some way, about transformation, literally or otherwise: one of them turns an elevator into a nightclub, while another will bear witness to the declining relationship of two co-workers.

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Audience proximity to the actors, of course, changes how that all gets explored. The fourth wall, more or less, can't exist; ignoring the audience's presence would insert a level of disbelief into such close quarters. "One of the things we've talked a lot about is the notion of the fourth wall being part of the contract we have with each other, and we have in elevators," Inglis says. "Somebody having a big conversation with their boyfriend, they're breaking up with over there—we know that the social contract is we're going to pretend that it's not happening. We're not going to intervene unless something terrible is happening, and even then we might not." Thingelstad notes that even the pace of storytelling is something they've had to consider in new ways, "And how you tell the story when your proximity has shifted so much. We've talked a lot about how, due to how close you are, you have to actually sometimes slow the story down, because there's so much information hitting you." "Because there's no model for it, I think there's this thing that happens in people's minds, that 'How could there be a play in an elevator?'" Inglis ruminates. "How is that possible in any way? That's not how plays work. Because in plays, people sit at one end in the theatre and watch people perform on the other side. But, no, we haven't done that. "I think it's fascinating when we can see each other," Thingelstad adds. "I think the electricity of seeing each other is another one of those rules that gets changed." PAUL BLINOV

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et his decree be known: Dan Savage stand up-y part of the book. is a big fan of the new pope. "He's swell," Savage laughs, over the VW: Does anything surprise you these phone from his home in Seattle. It's days, or is that a word that hasn't got Pope Francis's focus on helping the des- much meaning anymore? titute, and wanting to make a decidedly DS: Some things do still surprise me. smaller issue out of gay marriage and Years ago [in] the column, there would abortion—choosing to place more em- be questions about particular sex acts phasis on the things Jesus actually talked and how to perform them. And that about—that's got him in Savage's good would always surprise me; I'd get a books. That, and how his words are question saying 'I want to try this. How making the United States' extreme right do I do it?' and it would shock me that wing squirm, and have to "hatesplain" anyone would be interested in that. But to their followers what Francis actually I don't get those questions anymore, bemeant. cause every single "You read what Mon, Oct 21 (7 pm) sex act known to the Pope said, and Winspear Centre, $10 – $25 man has its own then you have [CarWiki page that dinal] Dolan and Part of Litfest explains how it's [Bill] Donahue tell- Until Sun, Oct 27 done. So most of ing you what the Various locations my questions now pope meant," Sav- litfestalberta.com are asking to adjudiage says. "And it's cate a dispute: to litnot what the pope igate something, to meant or said at all!" weigh in, and I dunno, like Solomon, cut The acclaimed sex columnist, edito- a baby in half or say this person's right, rial director for Seattle alt-weekly The this person's wrong, you were right, you Stranger and founder of the It Gets Bet- were wrong. And those can be shocking, ter campaign is coming to Edmonton as the shitty horrible things that people part of Litfest. American Savage is his do to each other—that never ceases to collection of essays spanning his own amaze me. And sometimes I get quesCatholic upbringing to the mistakes he's tions about horrible, shitty things that made to a particularly infamous dinner happened, and that can shock me. But debate he had with National Organiza- particular sex acts, or kinks, those don't tion for Marriage president Brian Brown. shock me at all. We've had them for a In advance of his night at the Winspear, long time. which will feature both readings from the book and a live Q&A session, Savage VW: After doing your column for two took an early morning phone call with decades, have you seen the politics of Vue to discuss the tour, surprises and America change in the questions you how the public conversation about sex get asked? has changed over the past few decades. DS: Well, certainly in the queer issue, and gay marriage. It's become the default poVUE WEEKLY: Do you have a few sections sition of all decent people everywhere, of the book you like to read from on tour, I think, to be for marriage equality. And or does it change from night to night? that wasn't the case 20 years ago. Even DAN SAVAGE: I really enjoy reading the liberals and lefties were against sameopening of the chapter on Bisexuality. sex marriage at the time. But I think It's called "Mistakes Were Made." The that—more broadly relevant to everysection about the clitoris seems to be one—people are calmer about kinks an audience favourite. That's the most than they used to be, and people are

smarter about kinks, and smarter about infidelity, and I hope that my column has in some small way contributed to that, [to] push people along that learning curve a little bit. And it's not the culmination, but a continuation of the conversation that AIDS started. Because when HIV came along, we suddenly had to start talking about what people were actually doing in bed, not what everyone agreed that everyone ought to be doing in bed. Even though everybody knew [what was] true: when we would talk about sex in public, and particularly in print, everyone sort of agreed to support the same myth, that it was all hetero, that it was all missionary, that it was all within matrimony, that it was all between spouses—there are certainly no kinks or crossdressers or trans people or queers or anybody else out there having sex. And AIDS came along, and suddenly people you thought to be missionaryposition heteros were dropping dead all around you, and then, because it was a sexually transmitted plague, it became very important to talk about who was doing exactly what to whom, so we could figure out how people could be safer. And, what was interesting about being alive and sexually active during that nightmare was suddenly sex acts that were normal were more dangerous than sex acts that were not normal. It was a lot riskier to have quote on quote normal sex—gay or straight—than it was to be a fetishist. If you were gay and you had anal, missionary position quote-normal intercourse, you were doing something riskier than if you were a fist-fucker. Fist-fucking was safer than normal gay sex, so it just forced a whole conversation, a re-evalutation, and new standards by which to judge sex acts and sexual interests. And it changed peoples' attitudes and outlook.

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PREVUE // VISUAL ARTS & MUSIC

A Tune to Art T

hanks to both father and son, the Fafard family name holds weight in the visual and musical circles of art in Canada.

Yet, despite longstanding careers each, never before have they found an overlap between their artistic worlds.

Joe Fafard is a sculptor whose "We've been talking about doing large statues—most famously his something together for a number of bronze-cast, life-sized years, but we didn't animal works—dot know what form it Sun, Oct 20 (7:30 pm) the country, including would take," Joe beFestival Place, $20 our city; I saw a man gins, over the phone from Regina. putting his young son on Fafard's Jasper Ave horse for a The idea they settled on is letting photo-op this week. Fafard's son their two respective spaces of perforJoël is a musician, a Juno-nominat- mance—the concert venue and the ed guitarist known for his mostly gallery—combine into one. A Tune to instrumental output of finger-style Art: Sculpture and Song is, effectiveplaying and generous slide guitar. ly, a touring, one-night only gallery

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Récolte

Bilingual trouble's a-brewin'

rom the sounds of it, Joëlle Préfonatine grew up with the sort of storyteller grandparents that probably could've written a few National Film Board shorts just by verbalizing their trips down memory lane. "Like 'When we were young, we used to walk two miles to go to school' and all of that—all of these great fabulous stories of them growing up in the prairies," Préfontaine recalls, sipping coffee on 109 Street. "I'm fourth-generation Albertan, so their whole existence is growing up on the farm, and working and living through the depression. I wanted to find a way to have these great stories in art somehow, but I didn't know how I was going to do that."

The form she settled on was Récolte, we discuss ideas, and that's what I really an exploration of familial tensions, which wanted: is to have someone call me on marks the bilingual singer/actor/direc- my shit, and challenge me in a good, contor's first-ever turn as playwright. It's structive way." opening L'Uni Theatre's season with an exploration of the growing divide within Récolte's dialogue goes between both a rural Albertan family, particularly be- official languages—"pretty much 50tween Renée and Ray, a brother and 50," Préfontaine reckons. Characters sister struggling against a haunting past switch between the two, and, unusual and their present-day hardships. for L'Uni, there will be no surtitles being It was developed under mentorship: offered to English-speaking audiences. But while that may sound daunting Préfontaine's first sketch of the script— "only a scene," just four pages long—was to those who haven't taken any french written as a submission to a creation since grade school (like me), Préfonworkshop at the Banff Centre. "They pick taine seems confident that those who you, hopefully, and then you're paired can't speak a word of French will have enough to go on with a mentor from Thu, Oct 17 – Sun, Oct 20; Wed, and engage with out east," she explains. Oct 23 – Sun, Oct 27 (8 pm) the full scope of Préfontaine was Directed by Philippe Soldevila paired up with the story. La Cite Francophone Philippe Soldevila, "Philippe was really great in sayartistic director of Théâtre Sortie de Secours de Québec ing, have confidence in your audience. (loosely translated, that's the Emer- know that they're really smart," Préfongency Exit Theatre of Quebec). Préfon- taine recalls. "Don't give them anything taine showed up to the workshop with on a plate: let them figure it out, because a fuller, more fleshed out 40 pages to then, that's what gets them. It's like, 'Oh, go from, and found Soldevila an ideal ad- I figured that out. Oh, I knew that was viser for developing the material further. going to happen!' So they're discovering, and not just being spoon fed." He's now directing the production. "Once we had worked that week at PAUL BLINOV Banff, that he would be the right per- PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM son," she says. "Because we don't fight,

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and found-space concert wrapped together in one. The idea came when Joël's current musical partner, Joel Schwartz, again trotted out the suggestion, like so many before him, that the father-son pair try doing something together. "While I was explaining to him why it wouldn't work," Joël recalls, "it came to me that maybe it can work." His mind was lingering on a popup art show he'd helped his father set up in Regina, back in October; he'd brought a guitar with him, just as something to do when there was downtime. "A few times I picked it up and I was playing alone, surrounded by all this art," Joël recalls. "And of course, I'd been around my dad's art my whole life, but it was never in a room that was just his art, and I found it very inspiring, and [was] playing music in a different way. I think that's why, when Joel brought it up, I was open to it. " The evening will start with a concert by Joël and Schwartz—sur-

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rounded by the art, so long as each particular city's venue permits it— then switch gears into art-gallery opening mode. All of the sculptures Joe is displaying are new works, ranging from common Canadian animals to mythological half-man halfbeasts. All for sale, too, and these shows also act as an album-release party for Joël and Schwartz, who've put out their newest, Borrowed Horses, to accompany the tour. The reality of making A Tune to Art work ultimately came down to being able to move such heavy pieces of artwork quickly and safely, night after night. "It's coming in a trailer," Joe says. "And it has to be easy to pack and unpack, easily taken down, because we don't have a great deal of time." "If we design a proper kind of trailer," Joël recalls thinking, "and have the artwork set up so that we can get a show set up in a few hours instead of the two to three days it normally takes to do such a thing." He notes it was the head man at Joe's foundry that eventually figured it out. "It took a bit of imagination." PAUL BLINOV

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PREVUE // MUSICAL THEATRE

REVUE // THEATRE

Ordinary Days

Whiplash Weekend

icture a bustling metropolis. of reason for what they're doing," AnDoes Edmonton come to mind? gove explains. "That was something I think we really struggle with—you Probably not. "New York is the one place people leave school and you feel like you think is the busiest, the craziest need to be employed in your field implace," says Steven Angove, direc- mediately, otherwise you're not being tor of a new production of Ordinary successful." Days, a musical that follows four characters through the streets of Angove also notes that part of the the Big Apple. "But I think that can current shift in musical theatre is the accessibe any centre bility of the where things The characters are all playwrights are just so searching for some kind themselves. hectic—any think of the 'heart of gratification, some kind "I they're way of the city' of reason for what they’re more applaces where you feel like doing. That was something p r o a c h a b l e ; you're just I think we really struggle you could actually meet another perwith. one," he says. son, you're "They do a lot just another car. Even trying to find parking at of workshops in New York, so you the Fringe, or leaving a concert could meet one and have a converat Rexall—you can expect to be sation about their work. You can in that parking lot for like half an even email some of these composers directly and talk to them." hour." Angove backs up this claim by citOrdinary Days is a natural choice for Angove's young theatre compa- ing a show he performed in at this ny, Three Form Theatre; the original year's Fringe Festival, Little Fish: in production debuted off-Broadway preparation for the show, director in 2009 and the Kate Ryan had a playwright, Adam Thu, Oct 17 – Sat, Oct 19 lengthy email exGwon, is a rising (7:30 pm; 2 pm Sat matinee) change with playstar in the musi- Directed by Steven Angrove wright Michael cal theatre world. PCL Theatre, ATB Financial Arts LaChiusa. New theatre Angove sees the Barns, $15 – $20 show as part of a movement or new movement in not, Angove the genre: the focus is on mundane notes that Ordinary Days also oflife, on details that are universally fers a reminder that most of us relatable, which then catalyze an could probably use. "You need to take a minute to just exploration of life's big questions; in Ordinary Days that catalyst is a step back and appreciate what you grad student losing her most prized have, or what you have done, and possession: the notes to her thesis. really be thankful for that." "The characters are all searching for MEL PRIESTLEY some kind of gratification, some kind MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

A comic whiplash in progress // Mat Busby

ere's to you, Lake Ontario." It's favourites from among the six quirky certainly among the more id- personalities lined up on stage, but iosyncratic of opening lines, launch- don't be surprised to find that your ing the season ender for Teatro La first choice changes as each one is Quindicina: a remounting of Stew- given their moments in the zany art Lemoine's Whiplash Weekend, a spotlight. daffy romantic comedy that hasn't been seen on the Edmonton stage The show begins with a romantic misstep between Elaine Blaine (Shanin over 16 years. non Blanchet), Don't let the long-distance show's sub- Until Sat, Oct 26 (7:30 pm) swimmer and pop dued opening Directed by Stewart Lemoine star, and Lansing moments fool Varscona Theatre, Woodruff (Andrew you—Whiplash $16 –$28 Weekend has all MacDonald-Smith), a self-assured playthe tropes of a classic Lemoine comedy. Tongue- boy who also does an excellent wild twisty dialogue, extravagant char- turkey impression. From this inciacters, a plot in which U-turns are dent on the shores of the aforemende rigueur and a musical number to tioned Lake Ontario (which Blaine top it all off. There's no question of has just swam across, of course), the cast's expertise: diehard Teatro the rambunctious story romps to a and Lemoine fans alike won't find mansion on Cape Cod owned by seanything lacking in these exuberant rial divorcee and veteran lush Savanperformances. It's hard not to pick nah Ludlow (Belinda Cornish). She

drags along Teddy Tyrone (Vincent Forcier), her waiter-turned-butlerand-boytoy; also in attendance are semi-catatonic race-car driver Miles Abbott-Ellis (Mat Busby) and his pit mechanic Ruth Putnam (Kendra Connor). It's the unlikeliest of unlikely groups; we probably shouldn't be surprised when everything ends up with a dinghy ride across the Cape and a pilgrim's parade on Plymouth Rock. Whiplash Weekend is a tribute to 1966 and all the excesses, both real and imagined, of that decade; these are wonderfully manifest in Leona Brausen's expertly-curated costume designs. It's a frivolous diversion and you know all along that the happy ending is on its way, but, as with all things Lemoine, following the twists and turns of its arrival is quite precisely the point. MEL PRIESTLEY

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PREVUE // BURLESQUE

Edmonton Burlesque Festival B

Burlesque gets a fest // Drew May

urlesque has no doubt experienced a revival, and with shows and troupes gaining prominence across the city it was only a matter of time until a full-fledged festival came along. The inaugural Edmonton Burlesque Festival is joining cities across Canada and the US in hosting its own celebration of all things burlesque. Among the 40 performers will be guests including Tigger! from New York City, this year's headliner and the original Mr Boylesque; Canadian burlesque icon Judith Stein; husband and wife team Burgundy Brixx and The Purrrfessor from Vancouver; and local talent courtesy of Delilah Le Douche, LeTabby Lexington, Maila Mustang, Scarlett O'Handfull and

Violette Coquette. Von Sinn hopes this open-mind"We have a wide range going from ed attitude can transcend to local sort of classic feathers and fans and audiences as well, explaining this boas and elegance to very avant is one of the reasons the festival garde, very neoexpanded beburlesque," says yond Edmonton's Thu, Oct 17 – Sun, Oct 20 festival vice-chair strong contingent Yellowhead Brewery, Pawn and performer of burlesque perShop, $10 – $25, $50 festival Holly Von Sinn of formers. pass the styles that will "We've become edmontonburlesquefest.com be showcased, notkind of an insuing tongue-in-cheek lar community humour tends to be prevalent among where, especially for performers, Edmonton-based performers. "I think it we're seeing sort of the same people comes from being isolated and there's back and forth and we're seeing the not much else to do so we've got to same performers and that's great and amuse ourselves ... if you're an artist in that's wonderful and we have a reAlberta you have sort of a weird per- ally strong scene here, but it's great spective on life and an open mind." for the audience as well as the local

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performers to see what's going on in these other communities," says Sinn, who performed at the Toronto Burlesque Festival earlier this summer and is optimistic about where burlesque is headed in Edmonton as well as the city's presence on the global scene. "This festival's really going to give us a shot in the arm that we need as a community to go and do this. We can be top level; we can be as good as Toronto and Seattle and Vancouver, and we as performers don't have to go to Vancouver and Seattle and Toronto anymore. We can build our community here." MEAGHAN BAXTER

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Glenn Dixon and Helen Humphreys • Oct 17, noon • Free

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave,

FROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley A. Milner Library

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: Ernestine Tahedl and Alex Janvier stories about their beginnings; Oct 19, 12:30-1pm

CBC CENTRE STAGE • Edmonton Centre, Downtown •

780.432.0240 • WHAT’S YOUR HANG UP?: Craft by Edmonton Calligraphic Society Members; 'til Nov 15 • All in a Day's Dream: Works by Kristina Sobstad; 'til Nov 15; Opening: Oct 17, 5-7pm

10am-1:30pm; Wed 2-5:30pm; Mon-Fri 6:30-9pm • GENE PROKOP AND FRIENDS: Works by Gene Prokop, others, Monte Carlo car artist, Alfredo de la Maria (Argentina), artists from Ukraine and Russia • 'til Dec 20

FILM FORUM • Stanley A. Milner Library • Alien (14A,

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 12310 Jasper Ave,

NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave,

PRO'S ART GALLERY • 17971-106A Ave • Mon-Sat

EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY • Royal Alberta Museum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave, 780.439.5285 • What’s Up, Doc? (PG); Oct 21, 8pm • $6 (adult)/$5 (senior)/$5 (student)/$3 (child 12 and under)

• RECONNECTING: New works by Alex Janvier; Oct 19-31 • A Celebration of Friendship: Ernestine Tahedl and Alex Janvier will be sharing stories about their beginnings in Edmonton; Oct 19, 12:30-1pm at Bugera Matheson

Poets Underground with Wolfgang Carstens, and author William Taylor Jr; live taping; 7-7:30pm • Ground Zero welcomes William Taylor Jr. and special musical guest; 8pm • Oct 22

• VICTORY ON THE FIELD EXHIBIT: Exploring the effects of the First and Second World Wars on sports in Alberta • 'til Jan 31; free

Theatre, Churchill Sq, 780.496.7000 • Room 237 (14A); Oct 23, 6:30pm

BEARCLAW GALLERY • 10403-124 St, 780.482.1204

St Albert, 780.459.1528 • LACE UP: CANADA’S PASSION FOR SKATING: From the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Quebec • 'til Nov 3

PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES • 8555 Roper Rd, 780.427.1750

CINEMA AT THE CENTRE • Stanley A. Milner Library

Ave, 123 St, and Stony Plain Rd, 124 St • Fall Gallery Walk: Oct 19, 10-5pm-Oct 20, 12-4pm

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

780.455.7479 • HIGH WATER: Works by Steve Driscoll; 'til Oct 29 • CAMERA OBSCURA IN THE WESTERN LANDSCAPE: Works by Colin Smith; 'til Oct 29

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ARTWALK–124TH ST • Gallery Walk Area betw Jasper

Martin-DeMoo launch of How to Expect What You; Oct 30, 7pm

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave,

Centre, 11113-113 St • Freestyle dance to Latin beat with DJ Tamico Russell, Ike Henry, DJ Rocko; Zumba instructors Dru D, Manuella F-St, Michelle M, Sabrina D; Cuban Salsa instructor Leo Gonzales • 3rd Fri ea month • Oct 18, 7pm • $20 (online)/$25 (door)

St Albert, 780.460.4310 • ROOM: Amanda McCavour's installations of spaces she has lived in; 'til Nov 2 • Artventures: Drop-in art for children 6-12; Oct 19, 1-4pm • Ageless Art: mature adults; pre-register; Sepia-Toned Drawing; Oct 17, 1-3pm; $12

780.963.9935 • Works by Claudette Brown; 'til Oct 24 • Parkland Potter’s Guild Fifth Biennial Exhibition; Oct 26-Nov 22; Opening: Oct 27

Main Gallery: FUNCTIONAL BUILDINGS: works by Andrea Carvalho, Dan Gibbons and Kip Jones; 'til Oct 18 • Front Room: RE SIGNED: Works by Nicole Rayburn; 'til Oct 18

• Marketing Strategies For Artists; Oct 19, 10am-3pm; $30/$20 (member) • Main Gallery: THE QUIET REBUILD: Alexis Marie Chute • Front Room: Yael Brotman • Oct

County Fall Art Show and Sale; Oct 18, 7-9pm (artists in attendance), Oct 19, 10-4pm, Oct 20, 12-4pm

MARJORIE WOOD GALLERY–Red Deer • Kerry Wood Nature Centre • 2ND TIME'S THE CHARM: AN UPCYCLED EXHIBIT: Group show • 'til Nov 10 MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hosp, 8440-112 St, 780.407.7152 • PROCESSION WEST: Photos by Rob Pohl and Robert Michiel • WHERE DRAGONFLIES DANCE: Watercolours by Elaine Funnel; 'til Oct 20 • IMAGES MAKE THE WORDS COME ALIVE: Barbara Hartmann and Gwen Molnar; Oct 26-Dec 22 • After Hours Hallway Gallery: THE TEXTURE OF LIGHT AND LOVE: Paintings by Nancy Corrigan; 'til Nov 30

MISERCORDIA HOSPITAL • N/S and E/W Halls • Edmonton Art Club Exhibition • 'til Oct 26

MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GALLERY (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain,

BRITTANY’S LOUNGE • 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 •

CANADIAN LITERATURE CENTRE • Student Lounge, Old Arts Bldg, U of A • Brown Bag Lunch: Reading with Todd Babiak, hosted by Marie Carriére; Oct 23; free • Massey Lecturer, author, Lawrence Hill; Oct 25, noon KOFFEE CAFÉ • 6120-28 Ave, 780.863.4522 • Glass Door Coffee House Reading Series: Sandra Martin, Myrl Coulter, Caitlin Crawshaw, Rebecca Lappa; host: Danielle MetcalfeChenail, open mic • Oct 24, 7-9pm

LIT FEST • Various locations • Nonfiction Festival • litfestalberta.com • 'til Oct 27 • Programs at Audreys, TIX on the Square, the Edmonton Public Library, Edmonton Coles/ Chapters/Indigo stores

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St, 780.902.5900 • Spoken Word Tue: Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathinpoetry@gmail.com

STANLEY MILNER LIBRARY • Centennial Rm • Library Theatre: Four-by-Four: Writers on the Borderlines; Oct 17, 7pm • Amanda Lindhout's memoir A House in the Sky; Oct 18, 7pm • Armchair Travellers: Oct 19, 7pm • Brian Evans reading from, The Remarkable Chester Ronning: Proud Son of China; Oct 20 • Just Getting Started: Edmonton Public Library's First 100 Years, 1913-2013: panel disussion with Todd Babiak and friends; Oct 22, 7pm • The PROWlers: Readings and tributes; book sale proceeds support Edmonton’s Project Adult Literacy Society; Oct 24, 7pm • Writing In Blood: Authors: Lawrence Hill, Jenna Butler, Jessica Kluthe; Oct 26, 2pm • Tickets at TIX on the Square; info: epl.ca

STARFEST–St Albert Reader's Festival • St Albert Public Library, 5 St Anne St, 780.459.1530 • Helen Humphreys; Oct 17, 7-8:30pm; $10 • Trevor Cole and Anakana Schofield; Oct 19, 2pm; $10 • Carol Shaben; Oct 19, 7pm; $10 • Andrew Pyper; Oct 20, 7pm; $10 • Linda Spalding; Oct 22, 7pm; $10 • Cathy Marie Buchanan; Oct 23, 7pm; $10 • Todd Babiak; Oct 25, 7pm; $10 • Ross King; Oct 27, 7pm; $10 • info: sapl.ca INTERVIEW WITH LEONARDO ROSS KING • Arden Theatre, St Albert • I’m Not Making This Up: Performance by Paul Punyi, bring Leonardo da Vinci to life • Oct 27, 7pm • $10 T.A.L.E.S.–Strathcona • Strathcona Library, Willow Rm, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park, 780.400.3547 • Monthly Tellaround: 4th Wed, 7pm, ea month, Sep-Apr • Free UPPER CRUST CAFÉ • 10909-86 Ave, 780.422.8174 • Poets’ Haven Reading Series: Stroll of Poets Society; Oct 21, 7-8:45pm; $5 • Oct 21: Pushpa Acharya, Rusti L Lehay, and others, Karen Lumley (door host), Joy Ruth Mickelson (mic host)

THEATRE THE 11 O'CLOCK NUMBER • Varscona, 10329-83 Ave • Improvised Musical • Every Fri until Dec 13, 11pm ALADDIN AND THE MAGIC LAMP • Alberta Opera • Oct 25-Nov 3

DIE-NASTY • Varscona, 10329-83 Ave • Live improvised soap opera • Oct 21, 7:30-9:30pm • Every Mon, 7:30pm BEST OF FRIENDS REUNION • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, 8882-180 St, WEM, 780.484.2424 • Friends, set to hits from the '90s, along with a few timeless classics • 'til Oct 27 BOOKWORM • Arden, 5 St Anne St, St Albert • Corin Raymond performings his hit Fringe play as well as music from his album, Paper Nickels • Oct 18, 7:30pm CHIMPROV • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre’s improv show • Every Sat 10pm, 'til Jul • $12 (door, adv at TIX on the Square) • 'til Jun, 2014

A CLOSER WALK WITH PATSY CLINE • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave, 780.483.4051 • Homage to Patsy Cline and her climb to stardom • 'til Nov 3

DAISY THEATRE • Citadel's The Club, Rice Theatre • Pre-

WALTERDALE–ASA Gallery • 10322-83 Ave • Artist's

sented by Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes, starring Ronnie Burkett; ages 16+ • 'til Nov 17, 8pm

Choice • 'til Oct 26

DRACULA • Walterdale, 10322-83 Ave • A dark and lyrical

WEST END GALLERY • 12308 Jasper Ave, 780.488.4892 • ALBERTA LANDSCAPE: RETURNING HOME: Richard Cole's paintings; Oct 19-31 • Gallery Walk: Oct 19 (opens)-Oct 20, meet the artist: 1-4pm; Sun, 12-4pm

LITERARY ARTERY • 9535 Jasper Ave, 780.667.3798 • Writers' Cabaret for Literacy • Oct 20, 7pm • $10/$5 (student) ART IN THE ARCHIVES: LIT FEST • Provincial Archives, 8555 Roper Rd, 780.427.1750 • Tim Bowling and Theresa Shea talk about researching • Oct 23, 7pm • Free; RSVP E: paaevents@gov.ab.ca for tickets ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR • Alberta Avenue Community Centre, 9210-118 Ave • Oct 18-19 • Fri: live music, Oct 19, 7pm • Sat: pancake breakfast, 10am; local vendors, anarchist books; workshops at 11am • Free

ARDEN THEATRE • St Albert • LitFest/StarFest: Storyteller, Corin Raymond • Oct 18, 7:30pm • $20 at Arden box office, Ticketmaster, door

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA • Ledcor Theatre, Lower Level • Ross King • Oct 25, 7pm • $10/$5 (student) at TIX on the Square • LitFest

AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • 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 • Susan McGregor, launch of The Tattooed Witch, with guest flamenco dancers; Oct 27, 3pm • Marty Chan launch of, Barnabas Bigfoot: The Bone Eater; Oct 29, 7pm • Jessica Hiemstra and Lisa

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telling of Bram Stoker's classic vampire tale by Steven Dietz • 'til Oct 26 • $12-$18 at TIX on the Square

HIGH TEA • Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave • Firefly Theatre's fundraiser starring Lyne Gosselin, Mackenzie Baert, and many others, John Ullyatt with Dave Clarke • Oct 20, 2-4pm • $50 at TIX on the Square • Proceeds to Firefly's production, Craniatrium HOTBED HOTEL • Kinsmen Hall, 47 Riel Dr, St Albert • Dinner Theatre, 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

NATIONAL ELEVATOR PROJECT–Part 1 • Elevators– Downtown (meet: TIX on the Square) • Theatre Yes' • 5 min plays; 7:30-9:30pm (on demand) • 'til Oct 27, 7:30-9:30pm • $25 (adult)/$17 (student/senior) at TIX on the Square ORDINARY DAYS • PCL Studio Theatre, 10330-84 Ave • Musical about growing up, songs and vignettes • Oct 1719, 7:30pm; Oct 19, 2pm • $15 (student)/$20 (adult)

RÉCOLTE • La Cité francophone, 862-91 St • L’UniThéâtre • Bilingual play by Joëlle Préfontaine c • 'til Oct 27; WedSun 8pm; Sun 2pm • Tickets at door, TIX on the Square THEATRESPORTS • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm, 10pm • 'til Jun • $12/$10 (member) at TIX on the Square TWO PIANOS–FOUR HANDS • Citadel Shoctor Theatre, 9828-101A Ave, 780.425.1820 • Written, starring, directed by Ted Dykstra and Richard Greenblatt • Oct 26-Nov 17 WHIPLASH WEEKEND! • teatroq.com • By Stewart Lemoine • 'til Oct 26 • TIX on the Square

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REVUE // DRAMA

A good daughter

For want of a bicycle, Wadjda rides into Saudi Arabia's gender politics

having children. Mind you, Wadjda is irreverent enough, determined enough, that such threats may not dissuade her. She's not so different, in fact, from Hai-

When the headmistress announces a Koran-reading competition—complete with cash prize—Wadjda sees an opportunity to secure the funds needed for the object she so resolutely covets. But does she really believe that, even in the unlikely event of her taking firstplace, she'll be able to use the money on such an iconoclastic investment? Perhaps most What it does di- Opens Friday suitable for young rectly criticize, of Directed by Haifaa al-Mansour adults, Wadjda is, course, is gender Princess Theatre to be sure, baldly inequality, though didactic, with no  even in this regard detail, not even one could regard the songs playing Wadjda more as simply humanist, or soon the radio, left un-schematized. roral in spirit, rather than fiercely femi- Mansour's visual style is clean, but nist. Everywhere Wadjda turns, it seems, her characters are flat—only her lies another reminder of her gender's young heroine is allowed to develop second-class status: her mother's inabili- a personality that extends beyond ty to arrange her own transport and her her usefulness as a symbol. Thankfulparalyzing insecurities prompted by the ly, Mohammed is truly wonderful in danger of her husband's seeking a new the role, mischievous, never ingratiatwife; the family tree that only sprouts ing—except when Wadjda is trying to new leaves when boys are added to manipulate some adult by being blathe lineage. The film invites viewers tantly ingratiating—and, in the end, into the myriad cloistered realms its fe- a good daughter to her mother—an male characters inhabit, most especially inspiration, even. Wadjda's school, where any display of JOSEF BRAUN individuality is severely frowned upon. JOSEF@VUEWEEKLY.COM

oeuvre in its own right. Metro Cinema is screening the film as part of its cult programme Tuesday night. "At the end of the series," Lynch told interviewer Chris Rodley, "I felt sad. I couldn't get myself to leave the world of Twin Peaks. I was in love with the character of Laura Palmer and her contradictions: radiant on the surface but dying inside. I wanted to see her live, move and talk." This longing to resurrect the dead in a tender embrace, this artistic necrophilia,

permeates Fire Walk With Me. It is a school student Laura Palmer's sordid tormented, death-haunted, funereal secret life as a rural party girl and her thing, and a story of sexual abuse es- growing realization that the man who calating to filicide that would have has been raping her since the age of been straightforward if not continu- 12 may not the biker troll she believes ally subverted by wildly eccentric di- resides behind her dresser. Every mogressions. The entire first half-hour ment of Fire Walk With Me teeters isn't even about Palmer or the town on the precipice of nightmare—and of Twin Peaks—it's every member a prelude to the Tue, Oct 22 (9:30 pm) of the Palmer prequel, with en- Directed by David Lynch family seems tirely new charac- Metro Cinema at the Garneau perpetually on ters investigating a Originally Released: 1992 the verge of a related killing in a nervous breaktown named Deer down. Laura is Meadow. This prelude's a crazy cast- most often in a state of agitation if ing bonanza, with Lynch himself, play- not hysteria, or even demonic possesing a man compelled to speak very sion, a precariously static emotional loudly to people standing right beside plateau that does no favours for achim, introducing Chris Isaak to Kiefer tress Sheryl Lee. Meanwhile, the rest Sutherland. They're all federal agents, of the characters are so uniformly and Lynch debriefs his colleagues us- quirky that the more inspired and ing coded terms, semaphores and a significant oddities find it difficult to dancing lady-clown. A little later we'll stand out. Yet there are moments of get an extra-bizarre cameo from Da- absolute terror and palpable discovvid Bowie and a dream-warning from ery in Fire Walk With Me, as well as a red-suited dwarf who calls himself a number of ingenious set pieces, and The Arm. Not to mention a stoned more than a hint of the grasping in French Canadian who declares, "I am the darkness for narrative cohesion that made elements of Lynch's Inland as blank as a fart." Empire (2006) so electrifying. Fire Abundant peripheral weirdness Walk With Me is the most frustrating aside, what drives Fire Walk With Me work from a visionary filmmaker, but to its inevitably harrowing end—if its visionary nonetheless. you know nothing about Twin Peaks, JOSEF BRAUN consider this a huge spoiler—is high JOSEF@VUEWEEKLY.COM

faa al-Mansour, the writer/director of Wadjda, and Saudi Arabia's first female filmmaker. Daughter of the poet Abdul Rahman Mansour, she studied literature in Cairo and cinema in Sydney. Wadjda is her first feature, and, though it poses no direct criticism of Islam, it has stirred enormous controversy for its ostensible sacrilegious content.

Wadjda, having some bipedal daydreams

ll Wadjda (Waad Mohammed) really wants is a bike. Not an unreasonable desire for a middleclass 10-year-old, but Wadjda is a girl in Saudi Arabia, which makes her de-

sire tantamount to self-ostracization: Saudi girls don't ride bikes. Wadjda's mother (Reem Abdullah) is unequivocal on the matter: if she's seen on a bike, Wadjda can forget about ever

REVUE // DAVID LYNCH

Fire Walk With Me

ollowing the static and the credits, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me's christening gesture is that of a television getting smashed to hell, an image that begs to be interpreted as an emphatic farewell to a medium that David Lynch, it seems, had had his fill of. That or he just really wanted viewers to forget about TV for the next 135 minutes, specifically, to forget about Twin Peaks, the show that greatly expanded the filmmaker's audience. Fire Walk With Me was a pre-

quel to Twin Peaks, which ran for two much seen, discussed and dissected seasons (1990-91) on ABC. Perhaps the film felt superfluous, too riddled with references to the series for those just tuning in, too anti-climactic, drawn-out and unremittingly bleak for devotees. The film was savaged and poorly attended in 1992. Time has alleviated the antipathy, making it easier to regard Fire Walk With Me as a flawed, fascinating appendix to Twin Peaks and a worthy entry in Lynch's

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Free radicals

Romeo and Juliet

This club is just that secret

I loved thou in Sideways

The East a limited but worthwhile genre flim

I've been intrigued by Brit Mar- FBI agent who's gone to the dark ling since first seeing her in 2011's side—she now works for a private Another Earth, an impressive in- security firm. She goes undercovdependent science fiction which er to infiltrate the titular undershe starred in, co-produced and ground activist group, a handful of co-wrote. Marling possesses a pho- freegans squatting off the grid in togenic Scandinavian beauty you rural Pennsylvania; her boss (Pamight associate with innocence, but tricia Clarkson) lets Sarah know her cagey gaze exudes cool intelli- she's landed the gig by gifting her gence, a sort of knowing tranquility a pair of Birkenstocks. Sarah goes or quiet malice that would make it granola, rides the rails, eventually hard for Marling to seem oblivious meets a fellow traveler who, thanks to anything. She studied economics to some quick, fearless thinking on at Georgetown and turned down a Sarah's part, inadvertently leads job with Goldman Sachs to chase her to The East's HQ. Among the a career in movies—though very group's members are Izzy (Ellen much on her own terms. She's been Page), daughter of a petrochemiclosely involved in the develop- cal CEO, Doc (Toby Kebbell), victim ment of several of the productions of a poisonous antibiotic, and Benji in which she's starred, the most (Alexander Skarsgård), The East's Jesus-groomed, de facto recent being The East, a thriller sensitive, (Province Wide) • Softeners • Distillers • Reverse Osmosis leader. The characters are generally co-written by MarlingIron andFilters director Tell them Danny “Kontinuous Shok” Chlorinator humourless and lacking in dimenZal Batmanglij and which Marling Hooper sent you Patented Whole House Reverse Osmosis System 12345 co-produced with, among others, sion. That their political convictions Water Drilling - Within 150driven miles of seem by Edmonton, familial gripes is Ridley Scott. TheWell film is very conRed Deer, Calgary (New Government water well grant starts April 1/13) cerned with corporate maleficence meant to read as ethically complex, Time Payment Plan O.A.C. for water and water treatment difficult butwells it makes it increasingly and the precarious internal politics of radical fringe groups, though I'm to care about them. The film also from a mostly boilerplate sad to report that what it has to say suffers View our 29 patented and patent score and over-used about either is limited—too limited genre pending inventions online at extant yet again, Arvo to support The East's nearly two- music—including, www.1800bigiron.com hour duration and very busy plot. Pärt's "Spiegel im Spiegel." Still, it's engaging, worth checking out and mulling over. It's now avail- Talented as she is, Marling herself is a tricky match for the material. able on DVD and Blu-ray. Sarah Moss (Marling) is a former The story turns on the possibility of

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Sarah's conversion from corporatecontracted dissident-basher to true believer in the dissidents' cause, but Marling's opacity renders Sarah's motives as mostly vague. For me, The East was most interesting in the first half, when Sarah first participates in the group's communal rituals, which are weird and cult-like. So cult-like, in fact, that The East finally plays as a parallel piece to Marling and Batmanglij's previous collaboration, 2011's Sound of My Voice, in which a pair of documentary filmmakers go undercover to infiltrate a cult led by Marling's Maggie, a prophet who claims to come from a dystopian future. Sound of My Voice also struck me as a problematic film, but reconsidering of it in comparison to The East, I think it may actually be the more successful of the two, perhaps because its milieu is more insular and less freighted with incentive to provide insightful commentary on current issues than The East. Whatever the case, despite their flaws, Batmanglij and Marling's collaborations do something all too rare these days: they are attempts at making accessible, low-to-medium-budgeted genre films for smart people. Here's hoping their next project truly gels—and finds the audience it deserves. V

herefore art thou so pointless, viewers will be misled into believing Romeo? It’s the only question this is an authentic adaptation. But that comes to mind when watching believe me, this tastes more like a Carlo Carlei’s tired, unimaginative Wagon Wheel than a macaron. retread of the Bard’s tragic romance. Countless adaptations have come and The film is populated with a cast of gone, including Baz Luhrmann’s avant- pretty faces and surprisingly highgarde 1996 version that marked the calibre names looking to flex their Shakespearean last major release Now playing muscles. The two of Romeo and Juliet. But just as the Directed by Carlo Carlei leads—Hailee dust had settled  Steinfeld and on the cinematic Douglas Booth— coffin, Hollywood resurrected what are fresh-faced and do a serviceable job. One is an Oscar nominee, the should have stayed dead. The last thing anyone needs in 2013 is other starred opposite Miley Cyrus in a traditional adaptation that, ironically, a straight-to-video release. I’ll leave it caters to the teen demographic, most up to you to guess who has the betof whom know little about Shake- ter performance. Paul Giamatti, as speare’s works. That’s not to say one always, sweeps up the turds by derequires an encyclopedic knowledge of livering his lines with theatrical verve the Bard to enjoy this film, but to strip while sporting a crazy beard. If anything, the film is partly saved away the complexities and nuances of his work is a disservice to a younger by its borderline obsession with repgeneration seduced into believing this licating Renaissance Verona. The on-location sets are grand and ooze is a boy-meets-girl story. The fault lies in Julian Fellowes’ luxury—always with a sheen of artiscreenplay, which treats Shake- fice, though—and the styling is great speare’s play like Play-Doh. He re- fun. The overall product is clearly constructs, simplifies and even omits swimming in dollar bills, but money words from the original text. The re- is useless without an once of creativsult is futile—younger viewers will ity—nor does it excuse the sacrilege find it just as hard to understand— committed to a literary masterwork but also ethically troubling. With that deserves far better. the film boasting that it comes “from ALEX MIGDAL the greatest playwright ever known,” ALEXMIGDAL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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THE RIGHT KIND OF WRONG (14A coarse

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PRISONERS (14A brutal violence, not rec for young children) THU, OCT 17: 1:10, 4:35, 8:00

DESPICABLE ME 2 (G) THU, OCT 17: 1:55, 4:30 GRAVITY 3D (PG coarse language) THU, OCT 17: 2:35, 4:55, 7:15, 9:35; ULTRAAVX: 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:05

PERCY JACKSON SEA OF MONSTERS (PG frightening scenes) THU, OCT 17: 6:45, 9:25

CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (PG violence) THU, OCT 17:

9:45

4:45, 7:50

PACIFIC RIM (PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young children) THU, OCT 17: 3:45, 6:45, 9:45

2 (G) THU, OCT 17: 1:50, 4:15; 3D : 2:20, 4:45, 7:20, RUNNER RUNNER (14A coarse language) THU, OCT 17:

2:45, 5:15, 7:35, 9:55

CARRIE (14A gory violence, disturbing content) THU, OCT 17:

10:00

RUSH (14A coarse language) THU, OCT 17: 1:35, 4:25, 7:15, 10:10 WE'RE THE MILLERS (14A crude coarse language, sexual content) THU, OCT 17: 1:20, 4:10 INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 (14A frightening

TURBO (G) THU, OCT 17: 4:15, 6:40

scenes, not rec for children) THU, OCT 17: 7:00

GROWN UPS 2 (PG crude content, not rec for

MACHETE KILLS (18A, gory violence, crude

young children) THU, OCT 17: 3:50, 7:30, 10:00

THE WOLVERINE (14A violence) 3D : THU, OCT 17: 4:10, 7:10, 9:55

ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US (G) THU, OCT 17: 4:30, 7:15, 9:40

THE HEAT (14A crude coarse language) THU, OCT 17:

9:20

THE WORLD'S END (14A crude coarse language) THU, OCT 17:

4:20, 7:20, 10:05

AASHIQUI NOT ALLOWED (14A) Punjabi W/E.S.T. THU, OCT 17: 4:50, 8:00

BESHARAM (14A) Hindi W/E.S.T. THU, OCT 17: 5:00, 8:45

R.S.V.P–RONDE SAARE VIAH PICHO (STC) Punjabi W/E.S.T. THU, OCT 17: 4:00, 6:55, 9:50 CINEPLEX ODEON NORTH 14231-137 Ave 780.732.2236

Closed Captioned, DTS Stereo THU 9:35

ESCAPE PLAN (14A violence, coarse language) DTS Stereo FRI-SUN, TUE 12:50, 3:50, 6:45, 9:45; MON, WED-THU 3:50, 6:45, 9:45

EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY Royal Alberta Museum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave, 780.439.5285

WHAT’S UP, DOC? (PG) 1972, 94 min., colour, MON, OCT 21

8:00

EMPIRE CLAREVIEW 10 4211-139 Ave, 780.472.7600

WE'RE THE MILLERS (14A crude coarse

DESPICABLE ME 2 (G) THU, OCT 17: 1:05, 3:05, 5:05, 7:05

PRISONERS (14A brutal violence, not rec for young children) THU, OCT 17: 2:30, 6:50, 10:15

THE FAMILY (14A brutal violence, coarse language) THU, OCT 17: 9:05

GRAVITY 3D (PG coarse language) THU, OCT 17:

PRISONERS (14A violence, not rec for young

12:55, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10

children) THU, OCT 17: 1:35, 4:40, 7:45

PERCY JACKSON SEA OF MONSTERS (PG

GRAVITY (PG coarse language) THU, OCT 17: 1:20,

frightening scenes) THU, OCT 17: 6:55

3:20, 5:20, 7:20, 9:25

CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (PG violence) ULTRAAVX : THU,

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2

OCT 17:

(G) THU, OCT 17: 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 8:55

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (G) THU, OCT 17: 12:55, 3:15; 3D : 2:10, 4:50,

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

SHE WOLF–DEDfest (STC)

INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 (14A frightening

BOUNTY KILLER–DEDfest (A)

scenes, not rec for children) Closed Captioned, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI, MON-THU 6:55, 9:30; SATSUN 12:55, 3:30, 6:55, 9:30

FRI

6:55; 3D: Digital 3d, Dolby Stereo FRI, MON-THU 9:10; SAT-SUN 1:00, 3:45, 9:10

WEM 8882-170 St 780.444.2400 DATE OF ISSUE ONLY: THU, OCT 17:

language, sexual content) Dolby Stereo Digital, Sr Dolby Digital, Closed Captioned FRI, MON-THU 6:30, 9:10; SAT-SUN 12:30, 3:10, 6:30, 9:10

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (G) Closed Captioned, Dolby Stereo Digital DAILY

SCOTIABANK THEATRE WEM

THE SMURFS 2 (G) THU, OCT 17: 12:45 2:45

FRI

7:00 9:30

BLOODSPORT–DEDfest (M) FRI

11:30

REWIND THIS–DEDfest (STC) SAT

1:00

1:15, 4:20, 7:30, 10:35

7:15, 9:40

CARRIE (14A gory violence, disturbing content) THU, OCT 17:

10:00

GRAVITY 3D: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG coarse language) THU, OCT 17: 1:50, 4:20, 7:10, 9:30

RUNNER RUNNER (14A coarse language) THU, OCT 17:

1:10, 3:30, 5:55, 8:15, 10:30

RUSH (14A coarse language) THU, OCT 17: 1:00, 4:00, 7:00

WE'RE THE MILLERS (14A crude coarse language, sexual content) THU, OCT 17: 1:00, 4:00, 10:20

DON JON (18A sexual content) THU, OCT 17: 2:40, 5:05, 7:40, 10:00

Captioned, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI, MON-THU 6:45, 9:45; SAT-SUN 12:45, 3:15, 6:45, 9:45

WILLOW CREEK–DEDfest (STC) SAT 9:30

ESCAPE PLAN (14A violence, coarse language)

ROMEO & JULIET (PG) THU, OCT 17: 1:30, 4:20,

THE RIGHT KIND OF WRONG (14A coarse

7:10, 10:00

THE RIGHT KIND OF WRONG (14A coarse language, sexual content, nudity) THU, OCT 17: 5:00, 7:25, 9:50; Star & Strollers: 1:00

ENOUGH SAID (PG language may offend) THU, OCT 17:

2:00, 4:30, 6:50, 9:20

NATIONAL THEATER LIVE–MACBETH (Classification not available) THU, OCT 17: 7:00 CINEPLEX ODEON WINDERMERE CINEMAS Cineplex Odeon Windermere, Vip Cinemas, 6151 Currents Dr, 780.822.4250

7:00, 9:30; ULTRAAVX : 7:20, 9:40

CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (PG violence) THU, OCT 17: 6:40, 9:45; VIP 18+ : 6:30, 10:00

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (G) 3D : THU, OCT 17: 6:30, 9:00

OCT 17:

RUNNER RUNNER (14A coarse language) THU,

RUSH (14A coarse language) THU, OCT 17: 6:30, 9:25; VIP 18+ : 8:00

scenes, not rec for children) THU, OCT 17: 3:45

JACKASS PRESENTS: BAD GRANDPA (STC)

scenes, not rec for children) THU, OCT 17: 9:10

WADJDA (STC) FRI 7:10, 9:10; SAT-SUN 3:30, 7:10, 9:10; MON-THU 7:10, 9:10

scenes, not rec for children) THU, OCT 17: 1:45, 4:45, 7:35, 10:15

4:50, 7:20, 9:45

INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 (14A frightening

1:00

(STC) SAT 7:00

10:00

RUNNER RUNNER (14A coarse language) THU,

WE'RE THE MILLERS (14A crude coarse language, sexual content) THU, OCT 17: 1:30, 4:30, 10:20

coarse language) DTS Digital FRI-SUN, TUE 12:00, 3:40, 6:35, 9:35; MON, WED 3:40, 6:35, 9:35; THU 3:40, 6:35

SAT-SUN

RUNNER RUNNER (14A coarse language) Closed

THU, OCT 17:

2 (G) THU, OCT 17: 1:20, 3:50; 3D THU, OCT 17: 2:30,

RUSH (14A coarse language) THU, OCT 17: 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00

MACHETE KILLS (18A, gory violence, crude

guage, sexual content) THU, OCT 17: 4:45, 6:55

LOUIS CYR (PG)

PINUP DOLLS ON ICE–DEDfest

OCT 17:

10:00

DATE OF ISSUE ONLY: THU, OCT 17:

WE'RE THE MILLERS (14A crude coarse lan-

FRI 7:00, 9:00; SAT-MON 2:00, 7:00, 9:00; MON-THU 7:00, 9:00

SAT

2:10, 4:30, 6:50, 9:10; 3D : ULTRAAVX : THU, OCT 17: 1:15, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30

THU, OCT 17:

Grandin Mall Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert, 780.458.9822

10337-82 Ave, 780.433.0728

WATERMARK (PG)

tioned, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI, MON-THU 6:35, 9:00; 3:00, 6:35, 9:00

GRAVITY 3D (PG coarse language) VIP 18+: THU,

CARRIE (14A gory violence, disturbing content)

RUNNER RUNNER (14A coarse language) Closed Captioned, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI-SUN, TUE 1:00, 3:45, 7:10, 9:55; MON, WED-THU 3:45, 7:10, 9:55

GRANDIN THEATRE–ST ALBERT

SAT-SUN

GRAVITY 3D (PG coarse language) THU, OCT 17:

2:20, 5:20, 7:45, 10:05

language, sexual content, nudity) DTS Digital DAILY 9:35

PRINCESS

ESCAPE PLAN (14A violence, coarse language)

PRISONERS (14A brutal violence, not rec for young children) THU, OCT 17: 8:10

OCT 17:

THE RIGHT KIND OF WRONG (14A coarse

THE RIGHT KIND OF WRONG (14A coarse language, sexual content, nudity) THU, OCT 17: 7:30, 9:55

Digital SAT-SUN 12:50; Reald 3d FRI 6:20, 8:30; SAT-SUN 3:30, 6:20, 8:30; MON, WED-THU 5:00, 7:10; TUE 2:40, 5:00, 7:10 3D :

GRAVITY 3D (PG coarse language) Closed Cap-

PRISONERS (14A brutal violence, not rec for young children) THU, OCT 17: 1:10, 4:40, 8:00

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS

substance abuse) DTS Stereo FRI-SUN, TUE 1:10, 4:10, 6:55; MON, WED-THU 4:10, 6:55

GRAVITY (PG coarse language)

ALL THE BOYS LOVE MANDY LANE–DEDfest (18A gory brutal violence, substance abuse)

DATE OF ISSUE ONLY: THU, OCT 17:

1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:10

THE SPECTACULAR NOW (14A sexual content,

guage) THU, OCT 17: 9:20

Digital FRI 6:00, 9:10; SAT-SUN 12:20, 3:10, 6:00, 9:10; MON, WED-THU 5:10, 8:00; TUE 2:05, 5:10, 8:00

coarse language) THU, OCT 17: 2:05, 4:50, 7:30, 10:15

DATE OF ISSUE ONLY: THU, OCT 17:

CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (PG violence) THU, OCT 17:

10:00

DTS Stereo FRI-SUN, TUE 12:15, 3:10, 6:25, 9:30; 3:10, 6:25, 9:30; THU 3:10, 6:25

ART HOUSE SERIES (STC) SUN, THU 2:10

THE LONE RANGER (PG violence) THU, OCT 17:

CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (PG violence)

THU, OCT 17:

MON, WED

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS

4:05, 7:00, 9:30

ESCAPE PLAN (14A violence, coarse language)

ROMEO & JULIET (PG) THU, OCT 17: 1:20, 4:05,

BLUE JASMINE (PG coarse language, substance abuse, mature subject matter) MON 7:30

MONSTERS UNIVERSITY (G) 3D : THU, OCT 17:

Digital FRI 6:10, 8:40; SAT-SUN 12:40, 3:15, 6:10, 8:40; MON, WED-THU 5:20, 7:50; TUE 2:10, 5:20, 7:50

PLANES (G) 3D : THU, OCT 17: 7:00

6:45, 9:30

ESCAPE PLAN (14A violence, coarse language)

scenes, not rec for children) THU, OCT 17: 9:15

RUSH (14A coarse language) Closed Captioned,

language, sexual content, nudity) DAILY 9:25

5074-130 Ave 780.472.9779 DATE OF ISSUE ONLY: THU, OCT 17:

INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 (14A frightening

5:00, 7:30, 9:50

2:05, 4:05, 5:10, 7:10, 8:15, 10:15; Star & Strollers: 1:00

CINEMA CITY MOVIES 12

DTS Stereo DAILY 12:20, 4:00, 7:00, 10:10

THE FAMILY (14A brutal violence, coarse lan-

6601-48 Ave Camrose, 780.608.2144

ESCAPE PLAN (14A violence, coarse language)

10:00

guage, sexual content) THU, OCT 17: 6:40

7:00, 9:30

CRAVE–DEDfest (STC) SUN 1:00

MACHETE KILLS (18A, gory violence, crude

(18A disturbing content) SUN 3:30

coarse language) Dolby Stereo Digital FRI, MON-THU 6:45; SAT-SUN 12:50, 3:25, 6:45

CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (PG violence) Closed Captioned, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI, MON-THU 6:40, 9:15; SAT-SUN 12:30, 3:35, 6:40, 9:15

12:10, 3:30, 6:40, 9:50; MON, WED-THU 3:30, 6:40, 9:50 FRI-SUN, TUE

(STC) SUN 7:00

SEPTIC MAN–DEDfest (STC) SUN 9:00 SURVIVING EUGENICS IN THE 21 CENTURY (STC) MON 7:00; Free

MUSEUM HOURS (PG nudity)

ESCAPE PLAN (14A violence, coarse language)

CRYSTAL FAIRY (R) TUE 7:00

Closed Captioned, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI, MON-THU 7:00, 9:40; SAT-SUN 1:05, 3:45, 7:00, 9:40

THE FIFTH ESTATE (14A) Closed Captioned,

MON

9:30; WED 7:00

TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME –Cult Cinema (STC) TUE 9:00

Dolby Stereo Digital FRI, MON-THU 7:00, 9:20; SATSUN 12:35, 3:45, 7:00, 9:20

FRIDAY THE 13TH–Turkey Shoot

GRAVITY (PG coarse language) Closed Captioned,

FLIGHT–Science in Cinema

Dolby Stereo Digital SAT-SUN 12:35

(18A substance abuse) THU 6:30; free

GALAXY–SHERWOOD PARK 2020 Sherwood Dr Sherwood Park 780.416.0150

(STC) WED 9:00

CASTING BY (STC) THU 9:30 EMPIRE THEATRES–SPRUCE GROVE

PRISONERS (14A brutal violence, not rec for young children) THU, OCT 17: 7:40 GRAVITY (PG coarse language) THU, OCT 17: 7:15,

INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 (14A frightening

THU, OCT 17:

10:00

MACHETE KILLS (18A, gory violence, crude coarse language) THU, OCT 17: 2:00, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30

DON JON (18A sexual content) THU, OCT 17: 2:20, 5:10, 7:40, 10:00 THE RIGHT KIND OF WRONG (14A coarse language, sexual content, nudity) THU, OCT 17: 1:20, 4:10, 7:20, 9:45 NATIONAL THEATER LIVE–MACBETH (Classification not available) THU, OCT 17: 7:00

LEDUC CINEMAS 4702-50 St Leduc, 780.986-2728 DATE OF ISSUE ONLY: THU, OCT 17:

GRAVITY 3D (PG coarse language) THU, OCT 17: 3D

: 7:00, 9:40

RUNNER RUNNER (14A coarse language) THU, OCT 17:

7:05, 9:35

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (G) THU, OCT 17: 3D : 7:10, 9:35

CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (PG violence) THU, OCT 17: 6:45, 9:40

130 Century Crossing, Spruce Grove 780.962.2332

DATE OF ISSUE ONLY: THU, OCT 17:

THE RIGHT KIND OF WRONG (14A coarse

CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (PG violence) DTS Digital

ALL CHEERLEADERS DIE–DEDfest

Closed Captioned, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI, MON-THU 6:50, 9:40; SAT-SUN 12:40, 3:05, 6:50, 9:40

CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (PG violence) THU, OCT 17:

10200-102 Ave, 780.421.7018

WE ARE WHAT WE ARE–DEDfest

CARRIE (14A gory violence, disturbing content)

9:40

CITY CENTRE 9

BAD MILO!–DEDfest (STC) SAT 11:30

language, sexual content, nudity) Dolby Stereo Digital DAILY 9:25

DON JON (18A sexual content) THU, OCT 17: 10:00 language, sexual content, nudity) THU, OCT 17: 7:10, 9:35

3:00

WE'RE THE MILLERS (14A crude coarse language, sexual content) Digital FRI 6:15; SAT-SUN 12:45, 3:45, 6:15; MON, WED 5:25; TUE 2:15, 5:25

WETASKIWIN CINEMAS Wetaskiwin 780.352.3922 DATE OF ISSUE ONLY: THU, OCT 17:

GRAVITY (PG coarse language) THU, OCT 17:

6:30, 9:35

THE RIGHT KIND OF WRONG (14A coarse language, sexual content, nudity) Digital FRI-SUN 8:50; MON-WED 8:10

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2

THE FIFTH ESTATE (14A)

9:35

(G) THU, OCT 17: 6:50; 3D : 7:20, 9:50

Digital FRI 6:30, 9:20; SAT-SUN 12:30, 3:20, 6:30, 9:20; MON, WED-THU 5:15, 8:05; TUE 2:00, 5:15, 8:05

THE RIGHT KIND OF WRONG (14A coarse language, sexual content, nudity) THU, OCT 17: 7:00, 9:30

RUNNER RUNNER (14A coarse language) THU, OCT 17:

7:10, 9:30

CARRIE (14A gory violence, disturbing content) THU, OCT 17:

10:00

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (G) Digital FRI-SUN 6:40; MON-THU 5:05; Reald 3d FRI 9:00; SAT-SUN 1:00, 3:40, 9:00; MON-THU 7:20 3D:

VUEWEEKLY OCT 17 – OCT 23, 2013

3D :

7:00, 9:40

RUSH (14A coarse language) THU, OCT 17: 6:45,

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (G) THU, OCT 17: 3D : 7:10, 9:35

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OCT. 18 & 19 • DUFF ROBISON SUNDAY CELTIC MUSIC 5 - 8PM OCT. 21 • EHREN FLAIS WEDNESDAY • OPEN STAGE W/ DUFF ROBISON

A break from routine

The Sadies develops Internal Sounds without a deadline Not pictured: broken legs and bee-sting wounds

LIVE MUSIC AT “THE ROSE”

THE RURAL ROUTES OCTOBER 18 & 19

AMIE WEYMES OCTOBER 25 & 26

In Sutton Place Hotel #195, 10235 101 Street, EDMONTONPUBS.COM

hen Travis Good calls, he's nursing a hand that's swollen up "like a baseball glove." "At 45 years old, I found out for the first time last night that I'm allergic to bee stings," the Sadies' guitarist/ co-vocalist says with a rueful laugh. He's been stung plenty of times before—Good lives out on a farm, so it's a somewhat inevitable occurrence at least once a year—but this time there was swelling beyond the usual levels and, most alarming to Good, what felt like a numbing shot of Novocain to the mouth. He raced to a drug store to pick up some Benadryl; he was pulled over by the cops for "going 140," but the guy was nice enough to let him off when he saw what was going on. One day on, Good's hand is still inflamed, but fortunately the guy has a few more days before beginning the tour behind the band's latest, Internal Sounds. That album began with its own moment of unexpected damage: just before a 2011 gig in Saskatoon, Travis's brother Dallas slipped on some ice and suffered a compound leg fracture The rest of the band—Travis, drummer Mike Belitsky, bassist Sean Dean—played the show without him, then cancelled most of the tour (Edmonton was the next show). Internal Sounds' cover art is a artedup distortion of his broken leg's x-ray, and title is a reference to the sound Dallas heard as the break happened.

and rock, it never lets any particular style get in the way of finding deeper substance. Good notes that having no specific timeline for Internal Sounds was initially a worry, but the approach Skipping the remainder of that tour ended up yielding its own surprises saw the Sadies return to the studio to as it went along. "I used to think it was potentially a work on others' projects—the group is an in-demand backing band, tapped bad thing, and that your first instinct by the likes of Gord Downie, Neko would be best and that you should Case and Andre Williams for record- just get it done, put it down on tape," ing and touring—as well as its own. Good says. "But personally, now that They spread out the Internal Sounds' I'm a little older, I do like to mull it sessions, letting over for a while. the album develop It gives me more at its own pace, Sat, Oct 19 (7:30 pm) time to come up rather than setting The Sadies with lyrics, bea deadline and rac- Arden Theatre, St Albert, $35 cause quite often, ing towards it. almost always "We chipped with me, I write the away at this one, unlike the other music first and the lyrics after. And so, records. Took our time," Good it gave me time to really digest it and says. "Did a few tracks for a song, really think about it. "Whatever pops up, whatever I spit and went home and listened to it. Which is different, because usually out ... often my mouth or my writing you have a couple of minutes to lis- hand will say something more clever ten to what you just recorded, and than I'll actually come up with," he decide whether or not you want to continues. "You know what I mean? live with that for the rest of your Bringing the music home gives you life. But this way, [you have] a cou- more time to do that. I would write ple weeks to go home and decide songs like that, mumbling along the whether you want to live with that way the notes that I thought the music should be. And once in a while I'd for the rest of your life." The result is an album that takes an mumble something I'd never think of." agile, shifting approach to alt-country; PAUL BLINOV freely mixing psychedelia, roots, punk PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM "No," Good answers, when asked if his brother ever described the sound in specific. "Like Hitchcock says, it's best left to your own imagination, the most horrifying things you can imagine."

Troubled times

SNFU returns to the studio after a nine-year gap It’s been nine years since hometown—the band has since relocated, but Edmonton’s where it got its start—punk vets SNFU released an album, but the band is back with Never Trouble Trouble Until Trouble Troubles You, continuing the tradition of seven-word mouthful titles. Before SNFU’s upcoming show in Edmonton, vocalist Chi Pig and guitarist Ken Fleming answered some questions for Vue.

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LENGTH OF RECORDING PROCESS:

SONG INSPIRATION:

LYRICS FIRST OR MUSIC FIRST:

We rehearsed the songs and then did it live off the floor. (CP)

I started working on songs about two years ago and the total recording and arrangement was two months solid. (KEN FLEMING)

We came up with the music and wrote the lyrics later. (CHI PIG)

Each song tells a story and is full of real emotion. (CP)

// Cat Ashbee

just did not have time and money for. (CP) ALBUM TITLE:

That was a fortune cookie I got at a Chinese restaurant. (CP) PRODUCER:

Steve Loree was a great producer and helped piece the lyrics together. (CP)

RECORDING PROCESS:

LEFTOVER SONGS: There [were] many songs that we

VUEWEEKLY OCT 17 – OCT 23, 2013

HISTORY:

Ken Fleming and I are lifetime friends and fired this puppy up and everyone currently in the band works together great. (CP) V

WiL

First concert Iron Maiden at the Saddledome in Calgary. It was the Somewhere In Time tour. I had been hanging out with an older couple (Paul and Michelle) who were in metal bands. I had also loved Maiden since the Maiden Japan record. My parents bought me the tape along with a brand new Sony Walkman for my 14th birthday.

Fri, Oct 18 (7 pm) Royal Alberta Museum, $20 (advance), $25 (day of show)

Last album Being it is now the time of the single, my newest acquisition in our touring playlist for the truck is "I Wanna Holler" by Gary "U.S." Bonds—killer R&B singer from the '60s, yet this song remained unreleased until the early '80s

when it showed up on a B Side. Last concert Probably Ray LaMontagne at the Vogue Theatre in Vancouver with my good friend Dan. He had turned me onto Ray the minute Trouble was released. I had since opened for Ray at Richards on Richards; the concert meant a great deal for us as Dan was then my manager of eight years at the time and also happened to be one of the last concerts before that great venue was torn down. Favourite album The first one that immediately popped into my head is Pink

Floyd's The Wall. I would get in bed and listen to it to help me fall asleep. As well, I put it on and played classical guitar to it for months until I could play the whole record—or at least I thought I was playing it. Favourite musical guilty pleasure Super hooky power pop, but I don't know that I feel terribly guilty about it as I am 43 now and more than proud to talk about what I like listening to no matter the genre. A good song is a good song, subjective yes, but I was once told there was only two types of music: good and bad. V

Hometown: Qualicum Beach, BC Genre: Folk / alternative Lastest album: Live At The Ironwood (2013) Fun fact: WiL is also a commercial music composer. First album Toto IV: I bought it because I really liked the sword encompassed by stone circles [on the cover]— then fell in love with the music.

My parents had a lot of records and this was my first trip to a record store where my father told me I could buy any record I wanted with my allowance.

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Deer Tick

Deer Tick: now with fewer shenanigans

e're all New England guys for Negativity, Deer Tick's fifth fullthe most part," says Dennis Ryan length album, is a grizzly collection that over a crackling phone line that goes absolutely drips with the blues. Crafted dead every few sentences. "So we're all from the fractured pieces of a year used to some serious fall weather. We where McCauley's life truly fell apart, just went home for four days and all Negativity lurches through the results my trees had changed and I was pretty of a period of time that saw McCauley's engagement disintegrate and his father pumped about it." Drummer for the hard partying folk-rock go to jail on tax fraud and conspiracy outfit Deer Tick, Ryan easily concedes charges. And, in a lot of ways, the songs that change has also gripped the band feel like a release. "I think touring a lot before was escapism itself. With reports of its rowdy ways to just get fucked well known (think lots up and not deal of drinking and associ- Fri, Oct 18 (9:30 pm) with it immediately, ated shenanigans), in the Starlite Room, $23 unfortunately," says shadow of a tough year Ryan of the band's in the personal lives of its members—band leader John McCauley shift in attitude. "I think longevity has in particular—some healthier choices are always been our goal, but maybe it was harder to see before. It came to the point starting to redefine the band. "We are generally a lot more well be- where it became important to our longevhaved than we have been in the past," ity to take care of ourselves as well. "Once and a while Robbie [Crowell] and I Ryan admits. "There's a few antics every now and then because we're still prank- have been going to the gym at the hotels," sters and weirdos. I don't know ... not he adds with a laugh. From fucked up to chin-ups—that's quite [that we] necessarily had any malicious intent being fucked up or anything, but I the change for these New England guys. think that it feels like we are a little more KATHLEEN BELL KATHLEEN@VUEWEEKLY.COM focused on the music."

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MUSIC PREVUE // PROG ROCK

Ian Anderson you the first time around with a lot of catchy tunes. You've got to learn to love it, like a new husband. There may be some inherent attraction but you need to get to know the guy and that's going to take a couple of years. It may take a lifetime but it's worth investing the time in good things that have some promise of a deeper relationship and I think that's what some people look for in musical entertainment."

Thick As A Brick 2 answers the

udiences have to be prepared explains. "You've got to draw the audito bring a soft cushion to sit ence into the experience and not just on and some sandwiches and some expect them to sit there as if they warm drink because you're going were at a classical music concert or to be there for a long time" jokes an opera because we're offering a Jethro Tull flautist, vocalist and concert in a theatrical context." The thought of writing another concomposer Ian Anderson, who will be performing the band's hit conceptual progressive rock album, and a ceptual album Thick As A Brick in sequel at that, was an idea Anderson its entirety along felt was outlandwith its sequel ish in what he calls Thu, Oct 24 (8 pm) when he visits an "attention spanWinspear Centre, $47.50 – $91.50 Edmonton on his deficit world." In current solo tour. 2010, Anderson Until 2012, Thick finally sat down As A Brick—spun as a poem penned and went through the original materiby the fictional genius schoolboy al and the task to write another began Gerald Borostock about the pains to seem less daunting. That, coupled of growing up and a parody of con- with what Anderson views as a growcept albums in general—had not ing emergence and acceptance of been performed in its entirety since meatier conceptual prog-rock music in 1972. Only small snippets of the al- countries around the world made him bum's singular 43-minute track had realize it might not be so far-fetched been performed as part of Jethro to test the waters again. Tull's concert repertoire. Without "There's a lot of younger bands comthe usual breaks between songs to ing up that are, I guess, disenchanted interact with the audience, Ander- with the three-minute formulaic conson has incorporated video compo- temporary rock music that doesn't nents into the show that explain, sound so different from its predecescontrast or simply entertain. sors in the last 40 years," he says, "To do quite difficult music, I think comparing it to the same way people you've got to make it accessible," he approach classical music. "It doesn't hit

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W/ NO PROBLEM & BOGUE BRIGADE

“A Little Diversion”--be careful when you hear these.

WED OCT 23

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

FRI NOV 1

HELL AT THE SHOP STRIKER IRON MAIDEN AS

61 Born, in a bridal bio 62 Like, yesterday 63 Flat-topped formation 64 Prime meridian setting: abbr. 65 Girl Scout cookie with caramel 66 Advanced writing degs.

Down

1 Recipe instruction 2 “___ I’ve been told” 3 Upstart business, casually 4 Cartoon cringe catchphrase 5 Organic fertilizer 6 Group formed by Duane and Gregg, for short 7 “Anna and the King” actress ___ Ling 8 “Cold outside today!” 9 German two-door sportscar 10 Angst-ridden 11 “My Cherie ___” (Stevie Wonder song) 12 Blender button 14 Add fuel to the fire 17 Bikini and others 22 “___ Done Him Wrong” (1933 Mae West film) 24 “Remote Control” host Ken 25 Oust the incumbent 26 Get rid of a voicemail 27 Newman’s Own rival 28 ___ and means 29 Hydroxyl compound 32 ___ voce 33 Person who pedals stolen goods?

34 Harlem ___ (Central Park lake) 35 Doing nothing 37 Just chill 38 Mythological deities 39 “___ the mornin’ to ya!” 43 Letters on undies 44 “___ Fables” 45 “The Jetsons” dog 46 When doubled, essential oil used in shampoo 47 Hall colleague 48 Like some goals 49 Palindromic 1996 New York City Marathon winner ___ Catuna 53 Major in astronomy? 54 Greek letters 57 Shooting org. 58 ___ Kippur 59 “Bed-in for Peace” participant 60 “I’m thinking...” ©2013 Jonesin’ Crosswords (editor@jonesincrosswords.com) ©2013 Jonesin' Crosswords

W/GUESTS SECRET RIVALS,ETOWN BEATDOWN, AND TEN SECOND

EPIC AS SICK OF IT ALL, MADBALL AND OTHER HARDCORE CLASSICS • FIRE NEXT TIME/WEEKEND KIDS AS NOFX • OLD WIVES AS THE BRONX

SAT NOV 2

TRANSMISSION PRESENTS:

LITTLE PAWNSHOP OF

HORRORS III

COSTUME PARTY • DOORS 9PM • $10 COVER • $4.50 PINT & HIGHBALLS

JUST ANNOUNCED!

NOV 7

1 Gavel-banging shout 5 Word repeated before “hey” or after “Yo” 10 “This Is Spinal ___” 13 Three with close harmony, e.g. 14 Forester automaker 15 Aboriginal food source 16 Diversion tactic #1 18 “... a borrower ___ a lender be” 19 “Baloney!” 20 Heavy unit 21 Magazine edition 23 Diversion tactic #2 28 Toy advertised with the slogan “but they don’t fall down” 30 Speak eloquently 31 “Buffy” spinoff 32 Without a date 33 Physical measurement, for short 36 Diversion tactic #3 40 Furtive 41 Stub ___ (stumble) 42 Backwoods type 43 African language family 45 Unit named for a French physicist 46 With 56-across, diversion tactic #4 50 Hits the ground 51 To the ___ degree 52 Artist’s concern 55 Bank feature 56 See 46-across

THU

Across

BINGE AND PURGE AS METALLICA

SONIC 102.9 PRESENTS...

ZERBINI65& JULY TALK WITH GUESTS

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WEDNESDAY PINT NIGHT’S

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SAT OCT 19

FREE SHOW 4PM

FUNKSWAY W/ KELLY KOHLRUSS

VUEWEEKLY OCT 17 – OCT 23, 2013

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Kroovy Rookers, Knifedogs, Practical Slackers; 9pm EARLY STAGE SALOON–Stony Plain

The Gords

EMPRESS John Antoniuk; 2pm FESTIVAL PLACE Jim Messina

(pop rock); 7:30pm; $60 (table)/$55 (box)/$50 (theatre)

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Free Afternoon Concerts: Funksway with guest Kelly Kohlruss; 4pm; no cover

2013 - 2014 SEASON

GAS PUMP Sat Homemade Jam: Mike

Chenoweth

HIGH RUN Amie Weymes–the

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Cherokee Chick; 9-11pm; no cover; also Sat Night UFC: $10 HILLTOP PUB Open Stage, Jam every

Sat; 3:30-7pm

JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Grant Davidson; 9pm;

$10 LEAF BAR AND GRILL Sat jam with Terry Evans, and featured guests; host Mark Ammar LOUISIANA PURCHASE Suchy Sister Saturdays: Amber, Renee or Stephanie with accompaniment; 9:30-11:30pm; no cover NEW WEST HOTEL Country jam every

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Sat; 3-6pm

O’BYRNE’S Live band every Sat, 3-7pm;

DJ every Sat, 9:30pm

ON THE ROCKS Exit 303; 9pm OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Dueling Piano's, all request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover

KAT DANSER

PAWN SHOP Edmonton Burlesque

Festival: Saturday Showcase and Curtain Call; I Love 80s Dance Party featuring Nazz Nomad, Blue Jay

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

Celebrating the release of her latest Blues album, .

RENDEZVOUS PUB Fear the Living, Leave the Living, Dead as December in Edmonton

THE RIG Mike the Party Hog STARLITE ROOM Lucy Rose, guests; 8pm (door); no minors; $15 at UnionEvents.com, ticketfly.com

Friday, November 1 7:30 pm | $28

WUNDERBAR Needs (Vancouver) YARDBIRD SUITE International Jazz

Series: From Israel / New York: Ori Dakari Quartet; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $22 (member)/$26 (guest) at Ticketmaster.ca

Arden Theatre Box Office 780.459.1542

ardentheatre.com

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

Cultural Services

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

THE STEELDRIVERS

DRUID DJ every Sat; 9pm ENCORE–WEM Every Sat: Sound and Light show; We are Saturdays: Kindergarten

Grammy-nominated bluegrass band performing hits from their latest album, Hammer Down.

FANDANGO'S DJs night every Fri and Sat with DJ Stouffer

Friday, October 25 7:30 pm | $36

LUCKY 13 Every Fri and Sat with

FLUID LOUNGE R&B, hip hop and dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Sat LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Collective Saturdays

underground: House and Techno

resident DJ Chad Cook

NEWCASTLE PUB Top 40 requests every Sat with DJ Sheri PAWN SHOP Transmission Saturdays:

Arden Theatre Box Office 780.459.1542

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RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging

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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

VUEWEEKLY OCT 17 – OCT 23, 2013

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

COMEDY ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA–Ledcor Theatre • Winston Churchill Sq • Comics perform full concert sets • Oct 17-19 • $36.75 at TIX on the Square

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Underdog Comedy

show: Scott Belford (TO); Host: Brett McCrindle; Oct 17, every Thu, 8-11pm; no cover

BRIXX Comedy and Music once a month as a part of Ruby Tuesdays

CASINO YELLOWHEAD • Edmonton Comedy

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

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 • Harland Williams Special; Oct 17-20 • Dov Davidoff; Oct 23-27

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

KRUSH ULTRALOUNGE/CONNIE’S COMEDY • 16648-109 Ave • Travelling Open Mic • Komedy Krush Open Mic with Matt Billon co-hosting; call 780.914.8966 to get on roster • Oct 17, 8pm

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS CBC MASSEY LECTURES: Blood, The Stuff of Life • Myer Horowitz Theatre, 8900-114 St, U

of A • Author, Lawrence Hill examines the scientific and social history of blood, and the ways it unites and divides us today • Fri, Oct 25, noon • $15-$25 at ticketfly.com

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

DAVID SUZUKI PRESENTS THE GLOBAL ECOLOGICAL CRISIS • Myer Horowitz Theatre,

Practice group meets every Thu

8900-114 St, U of A • science.ualberta.ca/ water2013 • Setting the Real Bottom Line: David Suzuki with David Schindler • Wed, Oct 30, 7pm (show) • $30 (adult)/$20 (student)/$10 (child) at Ticketfly.com

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

DEMOCRACY 2.0 • Expressionz Café, 9938-70

NSAI SONGWRITERS GROUP • The Carrot,

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

NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-

A: Discussion panel: Tracy Bear, Joanne Faulkner, Jerry Kachur, Rebecca Cardinal Sockbeson, with the Faculty of Native Studies; Oct 17, 12-1pm; free • Persons’ Day Panel: Henderson Hall, Rutherford South, U of A: Feminism, Motherhood and Eugenics: Historical Perspectives with panelists Wendy Kline, Erika Dyck, Molly Ladd-Taylor; Oct 18, 12-1pm; free • Movie/documentary: Telus Centre 150, U of A: FIXED: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement, followed by Q&A with Dr. Gregor Wolbring; Oct 18, 7-9pm • Film: Metro Cinema at the Garneau. 8712109 St: NW Surviving Eugenics in the 21st Century: Our Stories Told; Oct 21, 7-9:15pm; free

Indigenous Perspectives: 2-06 Pembina Hall, U of

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

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

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • Sterling Scott

FOOD CRAVINGS AND EMOTIONAL EATING

• King Edward Community League Small Hall, 810280 Ave • Oct 23, 7-9pm

RUMORS ULTRA LOUNGE • 8230 Gateway Blvd • Every Thu Neon Lights and Laughter with host Sterling Scott and five comedians and live DJ TNT; 8:30pm

• 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)

SHAW CONFERENCE CENTRE • Edmonton

SOCIETY OF EDMONTON ATHEISTS •

VAULT PUB • 8214-175 St • Comedy with Liam

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

WINSPEAR CENTRE • Just For Laughs: Craig

SOLAR SYSTEMS–THE HOME OWNER EXPERIENCE • Grant MacEwan University

Creswick and Steve Schulte • Every Thu, at 9:30pm

Ferguson; Oct 22; $44.50-$51.50 • Laugh for Life Gala: with Brad Stine, Anita Renfroe and Michael Jr; Oct 19, 7pm; from $57.50 at Winspear box office, 780.424.1414; fundraiser for the Mustard Seed and Candeo Housing Association; LaughforLife.ca

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

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

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

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL EDMONTON •

THE OIL ROAD • ECHA (Edmonton Clinic Health

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

Academy) 2-150, U of A • Tracking Power From The Oil Wells To The Cities, talk by Mika Minio-Paluello • Oct 21, 7pm

TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS)

PAIN AND SLEEP 101 • Corbett Hall, Rm 2-39,

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

Open House: Learning Forum, W of entrance, 10201 Jasper Ave; Oct 17, 6-8pm; free • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club: 2nd Fl, Canada

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/workshops,

Churchill Sq • Presentation to focus on more advanced legal research. Learn how to find and note up case law and legislation on your topic and how to use online databases. Previous attendance at the Legal Resources Workshop Basic is recommended • Oct 30, 7-8:30pm • Free

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM • 10545-81 Ave •

ARGENTINE TANGO DANCE AT FOOT NOTES STUDIO • Foot Notes Dance Studio

• 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

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

ME TO WE: Make a World of Difference •

THOUGHTFUL TUESDAY • King Edward Com-

BRAIN TUMOUR PEER SUPPORT GROUP

FROM HUMANS TO COCKROACHES • 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

City Centre Campus, CN Theatre, Rm 5-142 • solaralberta.ca • An evening presentation and panel discussion by solar system owners; experience of living with solar electricity, water heating and space heating in Alberta • Oct 23, 7pm • Free

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

(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

4-104, U of A • CRIPSiE (iDance), reading by Leilani Muir, artworks by Nick Supina III • Oct 22, 6:30 (door) • Free

ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey Nuns Hospital, Rm

SHERWOOD PARK WALKING GROUP + 50

Comedy Festival • Until Oct 19

DIFFERENCE AND DIVERSITY: AN EVENING OF PERFORMANCES • Education N

EUGENICS AWARENESS: Eugenics and

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

every Wed, 9pm

Ave • Democracy/electoral reform-themed social networking event, hosted by Fair Vote Alberta • Oct 24 7-9pm • Free, donations

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

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

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

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

MADELEINE SANAM FOUNDATION • Faculté

edy.com • Stand-up comedy shows featuring acts from around the world • Oct 16-19 • Tickets at TIX on the Square

WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old Strath-

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

CENTURY CASINO • 13103 Fort Rd • 780.481.9857 • Open Mic Night: Every Thu; 7:30-9pm

COMEDY FESTIVAL • Various venues • atbcom-

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

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

LOTUS QIGONG • 780.477.0683 • Downtown •

Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Thu: 8:30pm; Fri: 8:30pm; Sat: 8pm and 10:30pm • Jamie Hutchinson; October 17-19 • Ken Valgardson; Oct 24-26

WILD ROSE ANTIQUE COLLECTORS SOCIETY • Delwood Community Hall, 7515 Delwood

EDMONTON UKULELE CIRCLE • Bogani

Fest • Oct 18-19

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment

available from here to trailhead • waskahegantrail. ca • Weekly 10km guided hike along a portion of the 309km Waskahegan Trail • Hike along Blackfoot Lake in the Cooking Lake/Blackfoot Recreation Area; hike leader Helen, 780.468.4331; Sun, Oct 27 • $5 (carpool)/$20 (annual membership)

munity Small Hall, 8102-80 Ave • Movie Monday: Average Joe on the Raw • Oct 21, 7-9pm

TOASTMASTERS: ACI Toastmasters Club

Place, 9700 Jasper Ave; 780.467.6013, l.witzke@ shaw.ca; fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs. org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • Power Speakers Toastmasters Club: Jasper Park Community League, 8751-153 St (top fl); Meet every Wed, 7-9pm; Contact: VP Ed, 780.720.2277 • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue ea month; Contact: Antonio Balce, 780.463.5331

WASKAHEGAN TRAIL • Meet: NW corner

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

WASKAHEGAN TRAIL • Meet: NW corner

Superstore Parking lot, Calgary Tr, 51 Ave; carpool

Chateau Lacombe, 10111 Belamy Hill • An Evening with Marc Kielburger, presented by the Social Justice Network • Mon, Oct 21 • $30 at TIX on the Square

U of A • Learn more about how sleep influences pain • Oct 26, 1:30-3:30pm •Free; pre-register at: http://fluidsurveys.com/s/PAIN-AND-SLEEP101-Registration-2013/

REGIONAL PLANNING SPEAKER SERIES

• City-Region Studies Centre • crsc.ualberta. ca/en/RegionalPlanningSpeakersSeries.aspx • Boomtowns: Planning for Resource Regions in Northern Canada Lecture and Workshop; Jason Thorne and Michelle Drylie present the challenges of planning and urban design in boomtown regions and resource communities • WORKSHOP: Rm 2-922 Enterprise Sq, 10230 Jasper Ave: Oct 30, 1-3pm • Lecture: Ledcor Theatre, Art Gallery of Alberta, 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq: Oct 30, 5:30-7:30pm

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

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; Oct 17, 24, 31, Nov 7 • $8 (per lecture)/$25 (four lectures, one series) at royalalbertamuseum.ca

WOMEN BUILDING FUTURES • 10326-107 St • Featuring Kate Braid, author of Journeywoman • Wed, Oct 23, 6pm $25/$5 (student) at TIX on the Square; part of Litfest

QUEER AFFIRM SUNNYBROOK–Red Deer • Sun-

nybrook 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, 10608-105 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, 9pm-2am • $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 G.L.B.T. SPORTS AND RECREATION •

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

port 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 7pm-1am; Kitchen 3-11pm • Thu: Free pool all night; kitchen 3-11pm • Fri: Mocho Nacho Fri: 3pm (door), kitchen open 3-11pm

SPECIAL EVENTS 5TH ANNUAL YOUTH FESTIVAL • City Hall

• Action for Healthy Communities: Celebrating Canada’s multicultural diversity through drumming, dancing, singing, spoken word, display of photograph • Oct 25, 5-9pm

COLD-FX TABLE HOCKEY TOURNAMENT

• HMV Stage, WEM • Oct 24 • Register online: cold-fx.ca to reserve a spot • Edmonton food bank donation

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) THE EXPERIENCE • Shaw Conference Centre • Edmonton Opera's tasting and charity auction; a prelude to the Rocky Mountain Wine and Food Festival • Oct 24 • Benefits University Hospital Foundation, and Edmonton Opera

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 FUNNY BONE? TURKEY BONE! • Westin Ed-

monton, 10135-100 St • 780.454.6074 • Christmas Bureau Fundraiser featuring Pete Zedlacher with Big Daddy Tazz, Kelly Taylor, host Graham Neil • Oct 18, 12-1pm; $25 at tixonthesquare.ca

HALLOWE'EN HOWL • U of A Butterdome • Fun Run/Walk hosted by the Alberta Diabetes Foundation • Oct 27, 10:30am (start) 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

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LITTLE WARRIORS • Rio Terrace Community League, 15500-76 Ave • Fall tradeshow, fundraiser • Oct 26, 10am-5pm • $2

INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campus-based

MAPLE LEAF ALBERTA PROJECTS • Ukrainian Youth Unity Complex, 9615-153 Ave • mapleleafap.ca • 5th Annual Gala Dinner • Oct 19, 5-12 • $50; funds help build and operate our Safe House in Ukraine; portion to ACT Alberta

10608-105 Ave • 780.387.3343 • edmontonillusions.ca • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri each month, 7:30-9pm organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transidentified 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

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POWER OF WORDS • Southminster-Steinhauer United Church, 10740-19 Ave • Scrabble Benefit hosted by the GANG to support the African Grandmothers raising children orphaned by AIDS • Oct 19, 1-4:30pm • Proceeds go to the Stephen Lewis Foundation

ROCKY MOUNTAIN WINE & FOOD FESTIVAL • Shaw Conference Centre • Oct 25-26 SCHOOL OF WITCHCRAFT AND WIZARDRY • Katz Bldg, U of A, 8601-114 St • Let's Talk Science: From magical plants to explosive demonstrations, see how much of the magic we know of can be achieved with a little knowledge of science • Oct 26, 10am-4pm • $2

SHOW AND SALE • St Albert 50+ Club, 7 Tache St, St Albert • edmontonlapidary.ca • Rocks, Fossils, Beads, Jewelry, Gems, Crystals and more; Meteorite Display with the collector present; Demonstrations; a beading station; Fluorescent rock display; a Scavenger Hunt • Oct 26, 11am-6pm; Oct 27, 11am-5pm • $5 (adult)/$4 (student)/$10 (adult with children up to 16)/Free for child 12 and under SPOOKTACULAR • Fort Edmonton • A night of

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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 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

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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

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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.org

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.

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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

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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

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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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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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

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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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.

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FREEWILLASTROLOGY ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): This is an indelicate oracle. If you're offended by the mention of bodily functions in a prophetic context you should STOP READING NOW. Still here? OK. I was walking through my neighbourhood when I spied an older woman standing over her aged Yorkshire Terrier next to a bush. The dog was in discomfort, squatting and shivering but unable to relieve himself. "He's having trouble getting his business done," his owner confided in me. "He's been struggling for 10 minutes." I felt a rush of sympathy for the distressed creature. With a flourish of my hand, I said, "More power to you, little one. May you purge your burden." The dog instantly defecated. Shrieking her approval, the woman exclaimed, "It's like you waved a magic wand!" Now I am invoking my wizardry in your behalf, Aries, although in a less literal way: more power to you. May you purge your psychological burden. TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): "You won't do it at the right time," warns writer Kate Moller. "You'll be late. You'll be early. You'll get re-routed. You'll get delayed. You'll change your mind. You'll change your heart. It's not going to turn out the way you thought it would." And yet, Moller concludes—are you ready for the punch line?—"It will be better." In describing your future, Taurus, I couldn't have said it better myself. Fate may be comical in the way it plays with your expectations and plans, but I predict you will ultimately be glad about the outcome. GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): In the coming weeks, you Geminis could be skillful and even spectacular liars. You will have the potential to deceive more people, bend more truths and even fool yourself better than anyone else. On the other hand, you will also have the knack to channel this same slipperiness in a different direction. You could tell imaginative stories that rouse people from their ruts. You might explore the positive aspects of Kurt Vonnegut's theory that we tend to become what we pretend to be. Or you could simply be so creative and playful and improvisational in everything you do that you catalyze a lot of inspirational fun. Which way will you go? CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): I'm all in favour of you indulging your instinct for self-protection. As a Cancerian myself, I understand that one of the ways you take good care of yourself is by making sure that you feel reasonably safe. Having said that, I also want to remind you that your mental and emotional health requires you to leave your comfort zone on a regular basis. Now is one of those times. The call to adventure will arrive soon. If you make yourself ready and eager for changes, the changes that come will kick your

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ass in mostly educational and pleasurable ways. LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): Who exactly do you want to be when you grow up and what is the single most important experience you need in order to make that happen? What riches do you want to possess when you are finally wise enough to make enlightened use of them and how can you boost your eligibility for those riches? Which one of your glorious dreams is not quite ripe enough for you to fulfill it, but is primed to be dramatically ripened in the coming weeks? If I were you, Leo, I would meditate on these questions. Answers will be forthcoming. VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): At an elementary school festival some years ago, I performed the role of the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland. One of my tasks was to ask kids to make a wish, whereupon I sprinkled their heads with magic fairy dust. Some of the kids were skeptical about the whole business. They questioned the proposition that the fairy dust would make their wishes come true. A few were so suspicious that they walked away without making a wish or accepting the fairy dust. Yet every single one of those distrustful kids came back later to tell me they had changed their minds and every single one asked me to bestow more than the usual amount of fairy dust. They are your role models, Virgo. Like them, you should return to the scene of your doubts and demand extra fairy dust. LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): "The door to the invisible must be visible," wrote the surrealist spiritual author René Daumal. This describes an opportunity that is on the verge of becoming available to you. The opportunity is still invisible simply because it has no precedents in your life; you can't imagine what it is. But just recently a door to that unknown realm has become visible to you. I suggest you open it, even though you have almost no idea what's on the other side. SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): In Tim Burton's film Alice in Wonderland, Alice asks the White Rabbit, "How long is forever?" The talking rabbit replies, "Sometimes, just one second." That's an important piece of information for you to keep in mind, Scorpio. It implies that "forever" may not necessarily, in all cases, last until the universe dies out five billion years from now. "Forever" might actually turn out to be one second or 90 minutes or a month or a year or who knows? So how does this apply to your life right now? Well, a situation you assumed was permanent could ultimately change—perhaps much faster than you have imagined. An ap-

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parently everlasting decree or perpetual feeling could unexpectedly shift, as if by magic. SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): "I need a little language such as lovers use," wrote Virginia Woolf in her novel The Waves. "I need no words. Nothing neat ... I need a howl; a cry." If I'm reading the astrological omens correctly, Sagittarius, Woolf is speaking for you right now. You should be willing to get guttural and primal ... to trust the teachings of silence and the crazy wisdom of your body ... to exult in the inarticulate mysteries and bask in the dumfounding brilliance of the Eternal Wow. Are you brave enough to love what can't be put into words? CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): "I get bored with the idea of becoming a better listener," writes business blogger Penelope Trunk. "Why would I do that when interrupting people is so much faster?" If your main goal is to impose your will on people and get things over with as soon as possible, Capricorn, by all means follow Trunk's advice this week. But if you have other goals—like building consensus, finding out important information you don't know yet and winning help from people who feel affection for you—I suggest that you find out how to have maximum fun by being an excellent listener. AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): The last time meteorologists officially added a new type of cloud formation to the International Cloud Atlas was 1951. But they're considering another one now. It's called "asperatus," which is derived from the Latin term undulatus asperatus, meaning "turbulent undulation." According to The Cloud Appreciation Society, it resembles "the surface of a choppy sea from below." But although it looks rough and agitated, it almost never brings a storm. Let's make asperatus your mascot for the next few weeks. Aquarius. I suspect that you, too, will soon discover something new under the sun. It may at first look turbulent, but I bet it will mostly just be interesting. PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): Should you try private experiments that might generate intimate miracles? Yes! Should you dream up extravagant proposals and schedule midnight rendezvous! By all means! Should you pick up where your fantasies left off the last time you got too timid to explore further? Naturally! Should you find out what "as raw as the law allows" actually means? I encourage you! Should you question taboos that are no longer relevant? Most assuredly! Should you burn away the rotting pain with a show of liberated strength? Beyond a doubt! Should you tap into the open secret at the core of your wild beauty! Of course! V

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My boyfriend and I have been together for two years and we live together. Recently, his ex was killed in a car accident. They were not on good terms, and he often made scathing statements about her. I made the mistake of saying the following several days after her death (after offering him my sympathy on numerous occasions): "I don't know how to help you grieve in this situation because you didn't like her." Obviously, that was a stupid, careless thing to say. I apologized numerous times and he said that he forgave me. Fast-forward two weeks. We were out having drinks with friends. He disappeared from the bar and wouldn't answer my calls. I ended up calling a cab and heading home

by myself. When I got home, he was there drinking with our roommate and some of his friends who were crashing at our house, including his friend's wife. I was angry and went to bed. I awoke at 8 am alone and went downstairs, where I found him making out with his friend's wife on our porch. They were both incredibly drunk. Later, he told me he was still angry about my comment, accused me of hating his ex and informed me that he spent the entire night venting about me to his friends. I am totally capable of getting over one drunken kiss—everybody makes mistakes. However, I feel like the whole context was incredibly toxic and hurtful, especially him airing our dirty laundry to his friends. I'm not sure if I'm interested in stay-

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ing with someone who can't speak to me like an adult when he has an issue and instead gets scary drunk and makes out with people. I told him that this chick owes me an apology before I can ever even consider getting over it. I asked him to consider quitting drinking. And I asked him to make it clear to his friends what really happened when it came to our interactions over his ex's passing, so I don't have to be treated like the bad guy in this situation. Am I being too demanding? Does it seem like our relationship is worth salvaging? We've had our ups and downs, but I hope we love each other enough to get past this. Confused And Concerned About Situation

betting that she dumped him. He may have said only shitty things to you about his ex because he thought that's what you wanted to hear. Reminding him about all of the shit he talked about his ex may have made him angry with himself and he projected that anger onto you and now, in the cold/sober light of day, he'll be able to see that and he'll apologize and you can rebuild your relationship. Or, you know, not.

He's a sex worker, WTBR, not a moron. Backing up: if we were talking about your lawyer or hairstylist BDSM GEAR FOR SALE or housekeeper—anyone else with My uncle died in a car wreck. I whom you had a client/service-prodidn't know him well, but we lived vider relationship—you wouldn't in the same city and he named hesitate to send flowers and a me executor of his estate. He was card. The only reason you're hesisingle, childless, straight, unmar- tating in this case is because you ried and—as it turns out—pretty fear outing your masseur as a sex kinky. I've been looking around on- worker. And here's what's fucked Let's review up about that: your boyfriend's assuming Maybe his behaviour can be attributed to a crazy you're behaviour: gets that he isn't almeltdown reaction to his ex-girlfriend’s death. drunk, ditches ready out about girlfriend, gets Clearly, his feelings for his ex were more compli- doing sex work. completely You're assuming cated than he let on. shitfaced back that being outed at shared home, as a sex worker bitches about is the worst posgirlfriend to drunk friends, makes line, and some of this stuff in his sible thing that could happen to out with another woman—who "playroom" is worth a lot of mon- him (I think your masseur can athappens to be married to another ey. But you can't haul a $1000 test that there are worse things.) friend—while his girlfriend sleeps bondage table out on the lawn for And—most shockingly—you're asin the next room, gets caught, a yard sale (at least not where he suming that your masseur is too blames girlfriend. lived). So what do you do with a stupid to cover for himself if he To me, that looks like someone dungeon full of BDSM gear when isn't out about doing sex work and slamming his hand down on the the owner dies unexpectedly? if someone else reads your card eject button, ie, he wants out of Boy De-acquisitioning Sadistic and if that person asks who you this relationship. Which means Merch are. Trust me, should a nosy relayour willingness to stay in this tive ask him who you are—which relationship—if "this chick" comes There's an adult section on EBay is highly unlikely—your masseur through with the apology you feel where you can unload the stuff, has lots of options before he gets she owes you, if your boyfriend BDSM, and NaughtyBids.com is a around to "a decent and kind guy corrects the record and quits site dedicated to auctioning off pre- I sometimes jack off for money." boozing—may be irrelevant. Be- owned sex toys and gear. But if you He can say you're a friend or an cause if your boyfriend wants to don't want to do the work (and you acquaintance or someone with dump you but lacks the decency, don't care about cashing in on that whom he's worked. balls or self-awareness to end it bondage table), google around a bit, Better to risk a moment of awkhimself (it's possible that he may and I bet you'll find a local BDSM wardness with a nosy relative than not be consciously aware that group in your area that would be to fail to acknowledge your mashe wants out), CACAS, he'll keep happy to take your late uncle's gear seur's humanity at a time like this. pulling stunts like this until you've off your hands. And that's what failing to acknowlhad enough and you dump him. edge his grief amounts to, WTBR: a I could be wrong, of course, and SECRET FLOWERS failure to acknowledge his humanI've been wrong in the past—see I'm a gay man in a happy and open ity. Sex workers are subjected to "clitoris, location" and "male bisex- marriage. I routinely seek the ser- far too much of that by people who uality, existence of"—and this is vices of an erotic masseur, a man don't see them as fully human. Don't advice not binding arbitration blah with whom I have a great client/ participate in the dehumanization of blah blah. Maybe his behaviour service-provider relationship. I sex workers. Send the flowers. can be attributed to a crazy melt- found out when booking my next down reaction to his ex-girlfriend's massage with him that he was The new magnum Savage Lovecast death. Clearly, his feelings for his recently in a car accident with his season starts on October 22 at savaex were more complicated than long-term partner, who died in the gelovecast.com. V he let on. I'm thinking he still had hospital. Normally, I'd send flowfeelings for her, CACAS, and I'm ers and a card. However, due to the @fakedansavage on Twitter

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nature of our working relationship, I don't want to extend myself in ways that could be uncomfortable for him. I wouldn't want to put him in the position of having to explain who I am if the card I sent was read by someone else. Any advice would be appreciated. Wants To Be Respectful

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