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Endangered social network The Edmonton Public Library has proven to be a life saver for me more than a few times. Whether it's tracking down the perfect source text for an essay or scoring some much-needed Wi-Fi access while I wait for my home network to be set up, the library has always been able to help me out of a bind. But those functions don't hold a candle to the services that the library provides to many disadvantaged Edmontonians—services at risk of disappearing. Libraries have long been hubs for the homeless, offering large, warm, communal spaces to pass time outside of shelter hours. But in 2011, the Government of Alberta began funding a three-year pilot project that saw full-time social workers added to the library payroll at the downtown Stanley A Milner Library, bringing much-needed services straight to those who need it. Each social worker visits with upwards of 30 people throughout the day, offering their advice—or even just a friendly ear—to people with few resources and little hope. When the funding expires next summer, EPL intends to take on the funding itself, shifting its established budget around to scrape up loose change, but it's not enough. It's essential that the city fill the gap. For the city, which is in the midst of a 10-year plan to eliminate homelessness, this is exactly
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NEWS // CENSORSHIP
Censoring free speech
Not all speech is considered equal if it harms the public good
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have the right to make a fist, but not to hit you with it," explains Dr Kristopher Wells, director of programs and services at the Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services. Wells was riffing on an expression originally attributed to prohibitionist John B Finch: "The right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins." Wells says while we enjoy freedom of expression in Canada, we also enjoy freedom to access public spaces without being unduly threatened. Recently, the American Freedom Defense Initiative was criticized for ads appearing on ETS buses that advertised a helpline for girls who might be
the Charter allow the government to pass laws that limit free expression as long as the limits are reasonable and can be justified. The late BritishAmerican author and journalist Christopher Hitchens once took issue with these laws in Toronto at a Munk Debate. He asked for a nomination on who we, as Canadians, would allow to make the final decisions on what we can hear. There's no clear answer to that question. For a better understanding of the kind of speech most likely to be limited, Stephen Camp, the president of the Alberta Hate Crimes Committee,
lessen the scope and effect of hate speech spread by fringe groups. "They are trying to counteract some of the messaging that we get about feminists and the women and men who advocate for gender equality," she says. Fringe groups that seek to marginalize others based on ideology often use provocative campaigns like the honour-killing posters in order to garner attention. Both Stasia and Wells say it is difficult to know when to draw attention to a campaign, as it can seem to legitimize an invalid argument. In Alberta, an individual's actions are covered by
Libraries have long been hubs for the homeless, offering large, warm, communal spaces to pass time outside shelter hours. the kind of program whose survival it must ensure. Housing is worthwhile, but programs like EPL's get at the more personal and individual barriers preventing people from taking those pivotal first steps towards betterment, whether it's by providing resources, advice or merely companionship. Though much of these interactions occur behind the scenes, they've had a marked affect on the library's atmosphere. EPL notes a 40 percent decrease in incidents requiring the police over the three-year span, lending credence to the premise that the social workers have helped turn the library into a safe environment for its patrons. This should be an easy decision for the city, which takes great pride in all of the services the EPL offers, and routinely flaunts its innovative spirit. Without having to worry about construction expenses or even building an outreach program, the city simply needs to pay the wage for established workers in an established building, and set a precedent for this type of program to spread beyond downtown to other branches and other cities. The library sees thousands come and go every day, but how many consider the services beyond what sits on the shelves? However invisible, the Edmonton Public Library has created an innovative and invaluable program, one that jump-starts the process of getting people back on their feet. The library may have helped me out of the occasional bind, but for many others, EPL has truly become a life-saving institution. V
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in danger of becoming victims of honour killings and fatwas, which they seemed to associate with Islam. Amarjeet Sohi, Ward 12 councillor, spoke out against these ads for being anti-Islamic, telling Metro News that the "main target is to degrade people of the Muslim faith and that is something that is unacceptable in our city". ETS has since removed the ads. Pamela Geller, founder of Stop Islamization of America (the organization behind AFDI) posted on her blog, Atlas Shrugs, that Edmonton Transit caved to "Muslim supremacist demands." Gellar may be unfamiliar with freedom of expression in Canada, which is not the same as the right to free speech in the United States. There is a lot of confusion in the Edmonton community about what constitutes the right to freedom of expression. Contrary to the United States, freedom of speech is not granted to Canadians as an absolute. The limitations set out in Section 1 of
points to Section 319 of the Criminal Code. Camp says this definition of hate propaganda means there has to be intent to "move people into action whether that is through discriminatory practice such as not allowing a particular group to have access to housing or education or actions such as criminal behaviour." Given this narrow legal definition, there is a tendency for groups to overuse the term hate speech when, as Camp explains, they really mean an offense of speech. Dr Cristina Stasia is an instructor in the Department of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Alberta. When she addresses free speech in the classroom, she reminds people of the sentiment "it's not free speech if it takes away the freedom of someone else," and adds that publicizing information that is hateful, threatening or exploitative actually does just that. Stasia's students are getting involved by creating social-media intervention projects they hope will
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Section 3 of Alberta's Human Rights, Citizenship and Multiculturalism Act. The protections offered cover the gamut from religious beliefs, mental disability, colour, class, gender and so on. However, Section 2 of the Canadian Charter grants everyone the freedom of conscience and religion. The debate over free speech and censorship in communities is very complex. To put limitations on what others can say limits the things you can hear. It denies people the ability to decide the truth as they see it. At the same time, people deserve the chance to co-exist peacefully in a community without being singled out as targets. In our society, understanding the difference between reasonable free speech and the absolute right to free speech will help in accurately weighing the benefit of protecting people's safe access to public spaces against the cost of censoring some speech.
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NEWS // POLICE DOGS
Quanto's Law looms
Impending legislation will offer harsher penalties for harming police animals
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uanto the police dog was stabbed and killed one month ago while trying to apprehend a suspect evading Edmonton Police Service's pursuit. Faced with the reality that the only charges that can be brought against somebody for killing a trained police animal were those of animal cruelty, EPS called for changes that would result in harsher penalties. The federal government responded in the throne speech on October 16, pledging to enact "Quanto's Law." But it's not the first time this has come up at the federal level. Costas Menegakis, Conservative MP for Richmond Hill, ON—now Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration—brought forward a private member's bill in May that sought to amend the criminal code to make harming a law-enforcement animal executing its duties an offence. "The inspiration for the bill came from a police horse named Brigadier," Menegakis says. "[Brigadier] was killed in Toronto because the police officer on the horse was in pursuit of a drug dealer who turned his vehicle around and ran into the horse." Brigadier was put down following the incident, which occurred in 2006. It was as a result of this and other similar stories from across the country that Menegakis decided to put forward his bill. "I thought it was important that there was recognition of the risk that is imposed on their lives by virtue of the situations that we put them in and train them for," Menegakis says. "I strongly believe that there should be very tough penalties for those that maliciously and willfully hurt a police animal—which is a very valuable tool for police services across the country." According to the RCMP, it takes an average of $60 000 for them to train a service dog. They tend to retire at around seven years old, cost $1000 per year to maintain, and might be used for a wide variety of tasks. They can track missing people, detect bodies, chase suspects, search for drugs and explosives, among other things. There's also the angle of public relations—there are a lot of people who love things with fur. Edmonton Police Service was not able to offer a comment, but while it does have dogs that can detect narcotics and explosives, it primarily uses its service dogs to assist officers on the street, often deploying them against suspects fleeing on foot or hiding. Of course, the uncomfortable understanding is that, while they have many uses and are highly trained, police dogs' lives are not valued the same as humans', so they get sent into situations we'd rather keep humans out of. In some instances, that might simply involve navigating a dangerous environment. In others, as
with Quanto and Brigadier, they will find themselves up against humans who fight back with lethal force. Sending dogs in to apprehend suspects is, however, much different than sending in a human. "It is worth noting that these police dogs fall into a very interesting gap," says Ian Runkle, an associate lawyer with Knisely Shipanoff LLP. "They can be tools and weapons. A police dog that's being deployed to search for drugs is clearly falling into the tool category—it's enhancing the senses of the police officer." But if a dog is sent to chase a suspect, it's more like a weapon. "If you think of what would be analogous [to a dog's teeth] that a police officer might do, the closest example to my mind would be a pocket knife or a hunting knife—it's clearly a cutting instrument of some form—and there's very few circumstances that would justify a police officer chasing after a suspect with a hunting knife in order to cut them if they refuse to surrender." The problem, from the suspect's point of view, is that these dogs have been trained to respond to only their handlers. The dog might not pick up on a surrender signal in the same way a human would. It might bite too long, too deep, the wrong person entirely and is certainly capable of damage before the handler arrives. The details of the proposed law as announced at the throne speech have not yet been announced as finalized, but Runkle believes that the right of the suspect to defend themselves must play a part. "In all instances where a police animal is in pursuit of a criminal, the criminal needs to stop and adhere to the wishes of the police officer," Menegakis says. "And if they don't and the animal is released to apprehend or help in the apprehension, and assist in the protection of the police officers, I don't think there should be any exceptions." "There is a need for some recognition that suspects who at this point haven't been convicted of whatever they're being chased for have some permission to defend t h e m selves," Runkle continues. "It is legitimate to defend yourself against a police officer if that police officer is using illegitimate
force—that being force that's not justified by the law either because of the degree of the force or the reason for which it's used." His concerns aside, Runkle can see a case for some sort of change. But while noting these animals are simultaneously living things and also property that comes with a substantial training cost, he says the actual number of incidents is fairly low, and so it might not be the best use of limited legislative time and resources. A greater case, he says, could be made for a law that protects animals such as guide dogs for the blind. Menegakis's original private member's bill focused on police animals. He explained this was to make it easier to get through the legislative process. Indeed, though under the Harper government, private members' bills have fared better
than usual, they tend to have a hard time succeeding in general. But as greater protection for police animals will now be introduced as government legislation, it will pass, and become law in Parliament, ahead of the 2015 election. Regardless, Menegakis is hopeful the other parties will support the initiative. Until the legislation is tabled, we won't know what exceptions will be made, if any, and we won't know the degree to which the penalties will exceed those already enacted through cruelty against animals legislation—though Menegakis knows what he'd like to see. "Obviously, we all want very strict penalties for something like [Quanto's case]," he says. "Here's what I think should happen. In cases like that, the addition [to the] criminal code would impose a maximum penalty of five years in cases like Quanto's, where
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the animal lost its life. In cases where there was no loss of life, it could impose a penalty of up to $10 000. Also, the judge would have the opportunity to impose costs of training of the animal, which could be in the tens of thousands of dollars." Penalties that are too harsh would make it difficult for a person, potentially in the middle of being mistakenly or excessively injured, to defend themselves. The right balance will be of prime importance. "As much as I'm a dog person myself," Runkle says, "I have dogs, I would be very upset if my dogs were injured—and I understand that the handlers form a very special bond with these dogs—but at the same time, human life is paramount, and human safety is paramount."
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Georgia: another messiah Country's lone billionaire is a puppet master at work
Money doesn't talk; it gives commands. And it doesn't really do democracy, either. Billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili // Wikimedia Commons
"My work here is done," said the masked man, as he mounted his horse and rode away. But he didn't go very far away. Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili of Georgia doesn't actually wear a mask, but he is mysterious enough without one. It's never been quite clear how he got so rich—his fortune is estimated at $6.4 billion, about a third of the entire country's annual GDP—but the real puzzle is his motives and goals. Why did he bother to become prime minister at all if he was planning to quit after only one year? He returned home only 10 years ago, after 20 years in Moscow. He built a huge and spectacular mansion in the hills above Tbilisi, the capital, and began doing good by stealth. The small Transcaucasian republic was near economic collapse at the time and he quietly subsidized beloved Georgian artists and actors who could not make ends meet. At one point Ivanishvili even paid the salaries of state employees when the government could not, and it has recently emerged that he paid for the massive new cathedral that now adorns the city centre. He
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clearly disliked the country's president, Mikheil Saakashvili, but he shunned politics and mostly stayed out of sight on his secluded estate like a James Bond villain, stroking his tame zebras in lieu of the statutory evil cat. Then, 18 months ago, he formed a political party that quickly combined with others to form the Georgian Dream coalition. Last October it won a sweeping victory in the parliamentary elections and Ivanishvili became prime minister. On Monday, his candidate Giorgi Margvelashvili replaced Saakashvili as president and his triumph was complete. So now he is going to quit. Two months ago Ivanishvili announced he would retire as prime minister as soon as Margvelashvili was installed in the presidency. Some other member of the Georgian Dream coalition will take over as prime minister, while Ivanshvili devotes himself to "strengthening civil society in Georgia as a private citizen." Georgians must not think of him as a messiah, he says. There have certainly been too many messiahs in Georgia's recent
history. After the old Soviet Union broke up in 1991, the first president of independent Georgia was Zviad Gamsakhurdia, a former dissident and ethnic nationalist who led the country into a civil war. Georgia lost control of the ethnic minority regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia under his rule, and he ended up shooting himself when surrounded by hostile militia troops. Next came Eduard Shevardnadze, an old Communist apparatchik (he spent six years as the Soviet Union's foreign minister) who had once gained fame as an anti-corruption crusader. Back home, however, he presided over one of the most corrupt regimes in the world. His inner circle wound up controlling about 70 percent of the country's economy, while most ordinary Georgians continued to live in wretched poverty. The last messiah was Saakashvili, who launched the non-violent "Rose Revolution" and restored democracy to Georgia in 2003. But Saakashvili also started and lost a war against Russia over breakaway South Ossetia in 2008. The Georgian economy more than doubled in size during his decade in
power, but at least a quarter of the population lives in extreme poverty and unemployment remains above 15 percent. When people protested about his policies, they were met with violence and repression—so when Ivanishvili gave them a plausible alternative, they flocked to his banner. Ivanishvili has never offered a coherent plan for Georgia or even very distinctive policies; Georgians appear to have chosen him as the next messiah simply because he has a lot of money and seems to be generous with it. And it doesn't bother them where it comes from. Ivanishvili made his fortune in the chaotic decade after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and like all the other "oligarchs" who emerged in Russia at that time, the exact route he took on his rise to great wealth remains obscure. All of them did it by privatizing former state companies or property into their own pockets at derisory prices, but just how they managed that is rarely explained, and would usually not bear close inspection. Never mind all that. Ivanishvili is the only Georgian billionaire, and his wealth and wisdom will save us
all. In Monday's election, his presidential candidate got 62 percent of the vote, compared to only 22 percent for the candidate chosen by the last messiah. (Saakashvili could not run for president again himself, having served two full terms.) Ivanishvili's decision to retire from high political office himself is less quixotic than it seems. He's not actually relinquishing power: with loyal placemen in both the presidency and the prime minister's office—president-elect Margvelashvili said that he would always listen to his "authoritative friend"—he can continue to dominate affairs without having to take any personal responsibility if things go wrong. Money doesn't talk; it gives commands. And it doesn't really do democracy, either: Ivanishvili's government has already begun arresting Saakashvili's former ministers on various charges and the ex-messiah himself can probably expect the same treatment once he leaves the presidency. Salvation for Georgia is still not at hand. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.
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The Wildrose gets with the present Policy affirmation mirrors act passed 13 years ago On October 26, 2013 the Wildrose Party of Alberta officially entered the year 2000. On this date, the party affirmed a policy to "defend the rights and freedoms of all people" regardless of "race, religious belief, colour, gender, physical disability, mental disability, age, ancestry, place of origin, marital status, source of income, family status or sexual orientation of that person or class of persons." In this, the party copies the language of the Alberta Human Rights Act, which was passed 13 years ago. Welcome to the new millennium, Wildrose. Let's back up. Cast your mind back to the tense days of the last provincial election when most folks were preparing for a massive Wildrose victory. The fact they only captured 17 seats was the stuff of the finest political drama. For the past 18 months Danielle
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against party policy at the time. Smith has been busy at work ca- for government in 2016. The results of the convention joling, sweet-talking and convincing her party about the need to shouldn't really be a surprise to Regardless of your political change. This effort culminated at anyone: Smith has noted in the views, you have to hand it to the the party's annual convention held past that she is more liberally Wildrose Party for responding to at the end of October. The conven- minded about social issues than a clear message from the electortion's major aim was to overhaul many in her party. Somewhat in- ate: the startling upset at the polls the party's contentious socially famously, she also met with Terah during the last election was attributed in part to their conservasocial tive poliI am not sure how much credit the party actually contentious policies. However, cy—policy like scrap- deserves for now meeting the lowest standard for I am not sure how much credit the parping the basic human respect in this province. ty actually deserves Alberta Hufor now meeting the man Rights lowest standard for Commission, replacing the RCMP with an and Janelle of I Dig Your Girlfriend basic human respect in this provAlbertan provincial police force in July 2012 for an interview in ince. A robust democracy natuand the defence of conscience which she supported funding rally has a variety of parties with rights for medical practitioners sexual-reassignment surgery and diverse opinions on economics, doare now off the table. No doubt reversed her position on support- mestic policy, healthcare and the this overhaul was undertaken to ing conscience rights of health- like, but the fact that a political demonstrate to Albertans that the care professionals and marriage party has come as far as the WilWildrose party is a viable option commissioners, stances that were drose has without a commitment
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to basic human rights until now is still astonishing. Is this a commitment to a more centrist approach to social issues, or is this merely a calculated attempt at a political power grab? Perhaps this truly does mark a new era for the Wildrose party, where the fringe elements still clinging to regressive social policies will no longer hijack the party agenda. Or perhaps Smith is taking a page out of the Stephen Harper playbook and is making sure she has a tight muzzle on the racists and homophobes. Only time will tell, but as it stands, the party as a whole has only officially sanctioned my basic human rights for two weeks; it is going to take much more than Wildrose MLA Rob Anderson declaring the party to be "loud and proud" to convince me of a sea change. V
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omething about the cuisine known as barbecue, which encompasses a whole range of picnictype comestibles augmenting the saucy smoked meats implied by the name, demands that its purveyors indulge in a certain level of ostentation. Images of pigs as both mascot and metaphor, sprawling, nostalgiaimbued dining rooms, big food trucks emblazoned with flames, hyperbolic assertions and, above all, button-popping portions—all are intrinsic parts of competing in the barbecue market. At least that's what I thought until I met up with Fired Up Southern BBQ, a more modest but not less worthy entrant in the local smoked-meatsand-accoutrements sweepstakes. Unlike operations such as Sloppy Hoggs Roed Hus and Smokehouse BBQ, which seem to have earned a prominent public profile—though the latter unfortunately gained some profile by having their 124 Street outlet catch fire shortly after it opened last year—I only noticed Fired Up as I was on my way to the Union Hall for a show. I had been aware that a procession of luckless food ventures had transpired in their current location on the corner of Argyll Road and 99 Street, which actually shares a wall with a deathless McDonald's franchise, but the advent of a new barbecue place was news to me. Getting in there took a bit of planning—Fired Up only keeps lunchtime hours (11 am – 3 pm) on Monday and Saturday, and is open until 7 pm Tuesday to Friday—but I finally found my chance
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on a gloomy Saturday afternoon. If the dining room is a little nondescript, the warm blast of barbecue aroma and '70s funk on the house sound system that meets you at the door is entirely welcoming. You can see most of the menu laid out behind the glass service counter, where quarter and half chickens, huge slabs of ribs and a bewildering assortment of appropriate sides are presented to assure you that you won't be leaving hungry. Ostensibly the choice is simple: you can have most of the smoked meats in sandwich form ($7 – 9) or as a platter, with three sides of your choosing ($11 – 20). Ever value-conscious, my co-diner and I decided on platters, which the friendly and helpful young woman behind the counter assembled in mere moments.
Co-diner had the pulled-pork cheese, pasta salad, green salad, posandwich platter ($11) with Spanish tato salad, white rice, veggie sticks, rice, corn salad and baked beans. A fruit, potatoes or potato chips, if I had large roll stuffed with shaggy shreds preferred. I also ordered the houseof smoked pork swimming in rich, made iced tea, unaware that $2 entangy barbecue sauce dominated titled me to a small bucket of it. At first I worried I was going to end the plate and seemed to dare him to up wearing a subtry to pick it up. stantial amount He quipped that Fired Up Southern BBQ of my entrée as I the place was ob- 6224 - 99 St tried to separate viously BYOB— 780.438.8218 the meat from bring your own firedupbbq.ca its bones. It turns bib. He went at out, I didn't even his sandwich with a knife and fork, but was defeated need a knife. The ribs were so perhalf-way through and took the re- fectly cooked, so lubriciously tender, mainder to go. The fact that he pol- that the bones slipped obligingly out ished off all three sides bespoke his with the merest tug, leaving plenty of smoky meat that could be cut with a satisfaction with their quality. I ordered the half-rack of pork ribs fork and a liberal shellacking of rich, ($15) with coleslaw, barbecue beans tangy barbecue sauce. My experience of BBQ isn't proand a pickle—for the record, I also had my choice of cornbread, mac and found, but I've had enough to suspect
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that some joints ply you with a ridiculous quantity and array of food to distract you from the fact that no single item is particularly outstanding. Already fully satisfied by the ribs, I was happy to discover the sides were ideal complements to the saucy meat, from the full-flavoured baked beans to the crunchy, lightly dressed and entirely healthy-seeming fresh-cut coleslaw to the absurdly large and crunchy kosher dill pickle I had only ordered as an afterthought. Even the iced tea was just how I like it: brewed with real tea and barely sweetened. And though the portions of everything were generous, especially given the price, I finished it off without instantly being overcome by the urge to go lie down somewhere. As we were fixing to leave, I heard the counterperson telling another customer how the owner of Fired Up is not an itinerant chef from the deep south, but just a guy who really loves cooking and was encouraged by family and friends to share his talents, thus bringing my inklings about this particular place's relative modesty full circle. Is it the best barbecue in town? I'm modest enough to admit I have no idea. I do know what I like, however, and I'd go back to Fired Up in a sluggish, barbecuethickened heartbeat. SCOTT LINGLEY
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A number of months ago, I wrote a nut brown. It is darker piece introducing Hog's Head Brewing than I would normally to the world (you can find it at bit.ly/ expect from an IPA, hogsheadbrewing). St Albert's first-ev- but not problematic. It er brewery and the latest in the small- holds a slight haze and ish stable of Alberta craft brewers had a moderate light tan big plans. Over the past few months, head with a bit of lacing. I suspect they have figured out it is The aroma is soft piney harder than expected to sell craft beer and earthy hops. It also in Alberta—their initial prognostica- gives off a pleasant toffee tions seem now to be a tad ambitious. and biscuit malt sweetness. I However, they have successfully find the hop aroma a bit modest. Overall, the established themaroma suggests selves and are Hop Slayer IPA a more balanced making a mark Hog's Head Brewing Company, beer than I might with both their St Albert, Alberta have feared, given main lineup of $17.55 for six Pack its proclamations. three beer plus a The flavour starts handful of seasonals. I expect to see more things from with soft malt —caramel, some biscuit and a bit of brown sugar. It gives me them over the coming months. For now I wanted to highlight their the distinct impression of an amber ale flagship beer, which at the time of at first. The middle offers a subdued writing the first piece had been de- hop flavour of pine and earth. Then layed. It is called Hop Slayer IPA, and she slowly builds, whispering at first, hinting that there are some lupulins in they bill it as a big, assertive IPA. this beer. As the beer slides down your I've had it a couple of times since its throat you can—for a millisecond— release and agree it offers something doubt that more is coming, but then most IPAs don't. Hop Slayer pours it does. The bitterness keeps building dark reddish amber, verging on chest- in the linger until it reaches a rather
formidable level. It is a sharp, piney bitterness with a citrus accent. Very American, with a bit of a harshness. Hog's Head has created a very unique beer here. Darker and more malty than most IPAs, but not completely out of style. From batch to batch the beer can shift and move. That is natural for a craft brewery in its early stages. For now, however, they seem to be living up to their promises of hoppy edginess. V Jason Foster is the creator of onbeer. org, a website devoted to news and views on beer from the prairies and beyond.
PROVENANCE Gone nutty The Ferrero company claims approximately 50 hazelnuts can be found in one jar of Nutella. Prior to making it into the spread, the nuts undergo tedious quality control.
about Nutella Not-so-nutritious breakfast Remember the commercials that claimed Nutella was part of a nutritious breakfast? Yeah, that landed the company in hot water when Ferrero was sued in a class action lawsuit for false advertising in April 2012. The company agreed to pay a settlement of $3 million. Its advertising claims have since been revised.
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Thank Ferrero The Langhe district of Piedmont, Italy is known for its hazelnut production and a baker by the name of Pietro Ferrero—as in Ferrero Rocher chocolates—decided to take its reputation one step further. He created an early version of Nutella in 1946 called Pasta Gianduja. It came in a solid block and a creamy version called Supercrema was introduced in 1951. Supercrema got a revamp in 1961, when Ferrero’s son Michael renamed it Nutella and began mass production in Europe in April of 1964.
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Italian invented, Canadian made Ferrero runs numerous facilities around the world, and production for its North American market takes place in Brantford, ON. Mark your calendars February 5 is World Nutella Day, but really, do you need an excuse to eat it? Other key ingredients Hazelnuts and cocoa are two key ingredients in Nutella, but they are not the main components. Sugar and palm oil are actually the main ingredients and while it is also known as hazelnut cream in many countries it cannot be called chocolate cream, as per Italian law, because it does not meet the minimum cocoa solid concentration. V
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itting across from local designer Bridget Smatlan in her bright south Edmonton home, it's difficult to imagine her earliest foray into design involved making herself a different pair of bondage pants for every day of the week during her teen years. "They were my everything because I couldn't afford them, so I taught myself how to sew those from a Vogue pattern and a sewing machine my mom had hidden in the basement—my mom never wanted me to sew, ever," recalls Smatlan, who sports a much different style now—vintage-inspired though still quirky and playful in its own right. "I think just from her era it's something everyone needs to learn how to do, but it's not a profession, right? So I snuck her machine up and I learned to sew." Smatlan's repertoire began to grow as she designed ostentatious Spandex costumes for her brother's "faux glamrock band," the Lackeys, whom she credits as her early muses. After high school, Smatlan was working at a makeup counter as she attempted to find a solution to a question with no right or wrong answer: what did she want to do with her life? She followed the encouragement of her brother's now-wife and enrolled in the fashion design course at Marvel College in 2000. "It was during the rave era, which is bizarre and it really opened up our brains because the ugliest and weirdest fabrics were being used and the styles were outrageous, but there was nothing holding us back," Smatlan says with an infectious laugh. "We all had bizarre final collections and now we're really good, normal designers." Graduating was one thing, but then came the task of establishing herself in a notoriously difficult and competitive industry—particularly in a small marketplace like Edmonton. Jobs altering firefighter and EMS gear, working at Fabricland, five years spent designing the house line for the now defunct, allCanadian boutique Nokomis—a time Smatlan looks back at as an immense learning experience, as she was designing for an age and shape ("mom butts" as she describes it) she didn't fully understand—and a brief stint teaching colour theory at Marvel all led to Smatlan finally making a go of her own label, Fridget Apparel. She was finally able to design what she wanted and get it to the marketplace, but Smatlan explains that selling in a store did not allow her face-to-face contact with her clients and did not help her understand why certain items were not selling, where there may be fit problems with specific garments, or getting to know the demographic that was attracted to her pieces. Smatlan was designing womenswear at the time and began selling her wares at farmers' markets, a venue that allowed her to engage with her clients and understand their needs. "The line I was doing was really based around teaching and the cute little outfits I got to wear, and I found the outfits
I would wear teaching really worked out for a lot of girls," she says. "I swear, 50 percent of my customers were sexy librarians and that's because it was kind of my tagline ... it was a specific look." The line drew heavily on vintage fashion, but Smatlan says this wasn't by choice. Rather, it was dictated by the fabrics she was drawn to, which often featured unique prints or bold colours that were a step away from the run-of-the-mill fabric-store offerings—and always purchased locally. These days, however, Smatlan's focus is on menswear, a shift that began after an operation to repair an injury to her foot ended up doing more damage than good. Smatlan stepped on a sewing-machine needle (a much larger tool than the infuriatingly tiny ones we're used to) nearly six years ago. The needle broke when she stepped on it and despite being able to get part of it out, the portion that had broke off remained lodged in her foot, unbeknownst to Smatlan. It wasn't until she nearly broke her heel at her brother's wedding a year later that the needle was discovered. It also happened to be turned perfectly sideways, with the eye of it clearly visible on the X-ray.
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the needle, making it more difficult to locate all the pieces and extrapolate it. "I've still got the eye of the needle, which is kind of funny because everyone was like, 'Don't get the operation; you're going to lose your sewing powers,' and I was like, 'Maybe I am going to lose my sewing powers,' and the eye of the needle's still there so I still have my sewing powers, thankfully," she jokes, adding the incident has also rendered her ambidextrous since she had to learn to drive and operate her sewing machine with her left foot while her right healed—a process that is still ongoing. "I had lots of nerve damage, which was honestly the hardest part about healing. The nerve lightning storms I would have in my foot, just debilitating pain afterwards. It would come at any time and luckily I've regained a lot of feeling in my foot, but things were messed up." The healing process was supposed to take one week, but Smatlan was confined to her bed for nearly two months. Unable to work, Smatlan was forced to let her sole employee go and her business began to suffer. The orders for popular items from her women's line kept piling up, but Smatlan admits she dreaded the thought of sewing the same garments over and over again, and decided it was time to refocus her work. "I was becoming a slave to these few garments and I wasn't just sewing the garments over and over again, I was fixing the pattern.
Doctors were reluctant to operate due to the risk involved—the foot has a great deal of nerve endings and they felt damage would occur—and Smatlan was placed on a waiting list. Smatlan finally managed to convince a podiatrist—she p o i n ts out that a month later podiatrists in the US were deemed unqualified to do surgery— to do the procedure after firmly telling him she was going to do it herself with the help of a little alcohol and a magnet. Smatlan finally underwent surgery after five years on the waiting list, but it did not go well. The podiatrist "just dug around," and the half-hour surgery turned into a fourhour ordeal. The matter had been further complicated by the fact Smatlan is severely allergic to nickel and her body Smatlan had begun dissolving Designer Bridget
Every time I made one I was spending hours fixing the pattern and being so meticulous about these designs ... they've been done enough. People have them and I didn't want to make them anymore," she explains, adding she may have quit designing all together if she hadn't found another outlet, due in part to many of her previous suppliers going out of business and menswear was quickly becoming a more viable option. "I just needed something to make me learn again," she says. "I really love the challenge of first figuring out the perfect fit and then trying to figure out all the sizes, because I'd figured out all the perfect sizing for women, the exact jump between the sizes and how to perfectly space that so three men with different sizes will fit into that one category. So actually, this year at the farmers' markets was just making shirts and fixing patterns." In Smatlan's basement studio, a visually intriguing cacophony of vintage artwork, sewing supplies and the occasional bunny rabbit (she has two), is a mass of shirt patterns she says she's remade at least 20 times, adjusting the most minute details to achieve a better fit. "Right when the market finished I was like, yes! I did it; I totally figured it out," she says. "The neck, the body, everything, as long as they were under 55-years-old because it's a different body after that." The steep learning curve of designing for men was a welcome distraction for Smatlan as she healed and got back to work—her first official sale date was at the Royal Bison in May—and it still provided a way to incorporate her love of vintage fabrics, bold colours and patterns. Her menswear is a far cry
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from the plain, monotone palette men are used to, and admittedly won't be for everyone—that and they're custom made, creating a much more tailored silhouette than standard boxy designs often available. "My husband was probably my first inspiration. I worked on making him the perfect shirt for about three years because he's a smaller guy, there's nothing that fits him," Smatlan says, noting she hopes her pieces can have more sentimental value and stick around in wardrobes rather than becoming casualties of a consumer culture dominated by disposable fashion. "I think the problem with womenswear was just the competition in Edmonton was kind of making me lose my focus on what I love to do: I love to sew and create pieces that are timeless and almost indestructible. I love quality—why buy anything if it's not going to last?" Aside from making well-tailored, highquality shirts—Fridget Apparel is also the force behind the increasingly popular City of Champions T-shirts, which started out as merch for she and her husband's band of the same name—Smatlan can't replace the feeling that comes from seeing her customer truly satisfied with the end result. She notes men don't often get the chance to have something made just for them or feel a little bit pampered, and having a custom-made shirt provides them with that experience. "I think they like the attention from a woman, too, because I'm really interested in hearing about how every garment fits every person, so I don't just let things go—I'm right in there," she says, adding now that she's got the pattern down she'll begin experimenting more with design, and eventually hopes to expand the label to other menswear pieces. "It's usually the wives that bring the men because they're my old customers and then the men can't believe how well it fits. It's so sweet taking a tag off a shirt so he can wear it out. That's the nicest thing when the man's like, 'I want to keep this on.'" MEAGHAN BAXTER
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y Colleen Murphy's account, Pig Girl was a script born out of her personal anger, though the bolt of emotion that struck the playwright was probably mirrored across the country. It was 2010, and after Robert Pickton was charged with seconddegree murder for six women on his farm in BC, the judge on the trial decided not to try the man on the remains of the 20 other women found on his farm. "I realized later on that the judge was right; his decision was sound," Murphy says. "But when it first happened I was angry, and I thought, 'Just another way to silence the women again.' Writers often say, when you're a writer, you can speak to the dead. But I think, as a writer, you can let the dead speak." That said, the script she created is only loosely based on the Pickton murders: consider Pig Girl a very vivid horror story, with one foot rooted in true events and the other in pure invention. None of its four characters have names—"There's no way I'm gonna do some sort of Robert Pickton imitation or whatever else," explains Randy Hughson, sitting across a table from Murphy, who plays the Killer. It takes place in what director Brad Moss refers to as two time signatures. In one, Dying Woman and
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Killer are alone on his farm as she serial killers or taken on the boats or struggles to survive and escape; in whatever. Poverty's part of the big the other, her sister tries fruitlessly issue ... we need to change how we to make a police officer care about a work in our society. It's just so evimissing person when that person was dent. That interests me as a point of departure for discussion." living a high-risk lifestyle. "When I first read it, I wept," Hughson says. "And I wept because of the That's grim territory, by necessity, women, and I felt that I wanted to be to be doing honestly. The truth is part of it in order to give some sort of ugly, and Pig Girl doesn't look to be voice, some sort of identity, some sort easy theatre. It's rare to see a mainof talk about these women who are stage program that is so graphic: these voiceless nameless people who there's a sequence of Dying Girl being hung, alive, from a just disappeared." hook. The practiMoss's initial re- Until Sun, Nov 24 (8 pm; 2 pm action wasn't too Sun matinee) calities of staging far from that ei- Pig Girl that caused rether. "Hardest play Directed by Brad Moss writes to maintain actress Nadien ever to work on," Roxy Theatre, $21 – $50 Chu's safety while he says. He'd been a fan of Murphy's suspended off the previous works—naming, in particu- ground. For her part, Moss notes, lar, December Man and Beating Heart Chu's been quiet about the level of Cadaver—and Pig Girl's look at the difficulty in inhabiting this world, but marginalized voices in Canadian so- both him and Brown have found all ciety—addicts, prostitutes, runaways four actors willing to go where the and native women among them— material commands them to without much in the way of complaint. stirred something in his conscience. "It's the first time I've worked with "I understand that we have to have a discussion about people versus prop- four actors that all have families," Moss erty," Moss says. "And how, specifi- points out. "There is a deeper thing cally, these women are treated in our that's going on there because of that ... I country. Because it's not done yet; think they would all rather not have to there are hundreds and hundreds of deal with what they have to deal with. women still missing. So whether it's We all are having this sense of, 'We have
to do this.' There's something about it that has to be communicated." Rehearsal's been difficult to shake off, Hughson notes; inhabiting this space and these characters has been weighty. But the cast has been plowing through, less daunted, it seems, from the outside eyes in rehearsal. "There's been times when Colleen's turned to me and said, 'Are these guys OK?' and wanting to stop work," Moss says. "And I've stopped things and gone, 'Whoa, are you guys OK?' And the actors say, 'Yep.'" "And to me," Murphy adds, "that's what theatre should be. It's what I want to see in theatre and cinema, but in theatre, it's live, so I am on the edge of my seat and I'm engaged, my heart's engaged, and I don't know what the fuck is going to happen next. I love that kind of theatre, which is the kind of theatre I like to do. Not all that's just life and death, but this is particularly manifested in life and death. You go on a journey with the actors, and you don't know where you're going, and you feel all different things. You feel like you're angry at this guy, you hate him; you want to throw a tomato at the cop. You want to jump up on the stage and take that actress down and help her. And I think that's theatre: theatre should disturb, in some way, the emotions."
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That said, Murphy isn't trying to guide an audience towards a particular take-away from Pig Girl. Any message an audience brings out of the room will be grounded in their own personal experience with what unfolds on stage, not the playwright's intentional guiding hand. "I hate going to theatre and being told how to feel, being told how to think, and being given some kind of message at the end, that somehow I'm being educated or preached to," Murphy says. "To me, that's not theatre; I want the emotional journey. And then later in the night, or the next day, thinking about the material, and how I felt, and how it was structured, and all of those things are very interesting. Or what questions it raised, politically, or emotionally, or psychologically. But I just don't want to be—I don't know if this is the right thing to say—but I don't want to be educated, or preached to, as an audience member. I want the experience, whatever that may be." "And even that, the way I say it, sounds righteous," she sighs. I don't mean it to sound righteous, because I hate righteousness. So no, there's no message. If people think there's a message, that's fine. It's for them to feel."
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xploitation or art? It's a line that's tion of the play. A university proeasily blurred, and one of the is- fessor who helped organize a body sues at stake in Annie Baker's 2008 awareness week and is hosting one play Body Awareness. of the photographers whose work "It's about how appears on camyou see the people Wed, Nov 6 – Sun, Nov 24 (7:30 pus, Phyllis and you love and then pm; Sun matinee 2 pm) her partner Joyce what they really Directed by Valerie Planche are thrown into are, and is that the Varscona Theatre, $21 – $27 turmoil by their differing opinions same thing?" says actress Stephanie on the images. Wolfe, who plays the character of "[Baker] wanted to write a play about Phyllis in Shadow Theatre's produc- issues, but she didn't want to lecture
the audience," Wolfe notes. She goes on to explain that while Body Awareness uses a great deal of feminist language—notably the concept of the male gaze, which inevitably comes up where nude photographs of women are concerned—the show is not easily coded into any one set of politics or philosophy. "There are lots of moments where it's not being mocked, but it's definitely being pointed out and some of the absurdity is being laughed at," Wolfe explains. "So while there're feminist issues, it's definitely not onesided. [Baker]'s very fair that way, or she wants to critically examine the kneejerk reaction we have to everything that might be misogynistic— maybe it's not."
come emotional exchanges that often erupt in hilarity. They push people to blurt things out that they might not have even sat down and thought about, but that's what they think, so when it's finally out in the air it's a) absurd, or b) repulsive, or c) preposterous. "Everybody's got a TV show and everybody's got a blog and everybody's preaching at us and we're getting everybody's philosophical tweet," she continues. "I think it's refreshing to just throw a great big pail of ice water on it all."
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While there are undoubtedly several avenues for raising these issues, Wolfe feels this play's use of comedy is highly effective in keeping the audience engaged and willing to consider views that oppose their own. "She's got people debating issues and talking about philosophy, but it's within a setting of real, rich relationships and love," she says. "So these hot topics quickly be-
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hy do we force our kids into of a harsh examiner. Greenblatt and Dykstra are obvipiano lessons when being a professional musician is so often re- ously old hands and it's clear that this material is close to their hearts, garded as a bad move? This is one of the questions that un- as they throw themselves back into derpin the Citadel Theatre's newest their familiar roles with great paproduction, landmark Canadian play 2 nache. A few moments may feel Pianos 4 Hands. It's both the Edmon- melodramatic, sure, but that energy is ton premiere and farewell tour for the generally channelled to great effect. show's creators and original performers, Richard Greenblatt and Ted Dyk- The tone of the show isn't exclustra, who have watched their creation sively lighthearted, however—2 Pienjoy a stunningly successful produc- anos 4 Hands has some grim things to say about the trampling of childtion history for the past 17 years. The show unfolds as a series of vi- hood dreams, the pursuit of a career gnettes featuring the two performers in the arts and the unfair, conflicting pressures kids at a pair of grand are subjected pianos, switching seamlessly Until Sat, Nov 17 (7:30 pm; 1:30 to by their parbetween roles as pm Sunday matinee) ents. Maybe it's all those minor they enact various Created and directed by Richard chords, but descenes from their Greenblatt & Ted Dykstra youthful slaving Citadel Theatre, spite the humour away at scales and $36.75 – $88.20 in most of the arpeggios. Rangscenes there's also a broody ing from hilarious to sobering, these situations will un- undercurrent, culminating in the doubtedly strike a chord with those revelation that most of us will nevwho have also studied music—but er reach the top of our vocations the beauty of the script is that it can because our best just isn't good be easily extrapolated to any extra- enough; there's always someone curricular activity that demands great better. Still, above all, 2 Pianos 4 Hands commitment of time and energy; those who played hockey or attended reminds us to simply appreciate and dance class will undoubtedly find revel in the beauty of music—wheththemselves laughing along with the er it's Mozart or Elton John, Jerry Lee former music kids as we witness the Lewis or Bach. beleaguered teacher, the bargaining MEL PRIESTLEY MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM with a frustrated parent, the ranting
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Pains of Youth P
ains of Youth is a tricky play. Stu- world, and unsurprisingly there's no dio Theatre's second production sappy, romantic ending that tends to of the season, the script was written be the ultimate destination of angsty by Ferdinand Bruckner and translated youth narratives in contemporary from the original North America. For the most part, Austrian by Mar- Until Sat, Nov 9 (7:30 pm tin Crimp. The nightly) this young cast of setting and char- Directed by Kim McCaw BFA students navigates the bleakness acters are very Timms Centre for the Arts, well, spicing up the specific: a group $11 – $22 of Viennese medibroody moments cal students in a with punctuations 1920s dormitory, fleshed out in pre- of surprising violence and disconcertcise and luxuriant detail by set de- ing outbursts. Things do get a little signer Sean McMullen and costume too melodramatic at points, with one designer Hannah Matiachuk. It is shrieking, hair-pulling scene standing tempting to take that specificity and out in particular, but for the most generalize its web of issues (social, part the cast lends believability to economic, political, philosophical— what are otherwise fairly unbelievthere's a lot going on) to all groups able people. of twentysomethings throughout history. After all, it's got those same The trickiness of Bruckner's script tangled romantic relationships (for- is that it is so thoroughly frustrating. get love triangles—this is like a love Perhaps because I'm at the tail end of hexagon) and angst over the future my 20s, I couldn't help wishing they that we still see throughout art and would all just shut up and grow up already—none of the characters are pop culture today. But this just doesn't quite work, be- at all willing to simply accept responcause the era specifics are too impor- sibility and move on with their lives. tant to these characters, who were Quite the opposite: they revel in their teenagers during the First World War immaturity, in their petty selfishness and are now facing the rise of fascism and anger, and these unsympathetic throughout Europe. Theirs is a bleak characterizations ultimately prove
alienating. Nonetheless, Pains of Youth delivers plenty to think about, even if it's your own embarrassing youthful follies—and, hey, it'll sure make you realize that even if you think your peer group is crazy, they could always be so much worse. MEL PRIESTLEY
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Trouble in the 20s // Ed Ellis
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Forbidden Broadway
A global grapple // Mat Simpson
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atthew Mackenzie wasn't sure That's the point." what to expect when he enEven one of the main descriptions of tered the Buduburam refugee camp. "I wasn't really equipped to deal Sia—as a "hostage drama"—is probwith all the stuff I heard. It took lematic, Mackenzie says. "Most people assume that the Caquite a while to sort through that," he says, recounting his interviews nadian is the main character," he exwith dozens of young people who plains. "For better or for worse they had fled the civil wars in Liberia and see the play through the eyes of the white guy. But look at it structurally Sierra Leone. These interviews formed the basis and dramatically and he's clearly not of his play, Sia, driving the action." Mackenzie draws which tells the Fri, Nov 8 – Sun, Nov 17 (8 pm; story of a former no shows Nov 11 & 12; Wed, a comparison child soldier who Nov 13 show at 11 pm) between this retakes a University Directed by Laura Raboud action and the of Alberta stu- ATB Financial Arts Barns, phenomenon of $15 – $20 dent hostage. v o l u n to u r i s m — Sia has already bite-sized volunenjoyed runs in Toteer vacations ronto and Calgary and staged readings that claim to change the world in a in New York; its current production week but have questionable (if not and Edmonton première is part of the completely negligible) impact on the Arts at the Barns performance series. nations in question. "There's a difference between a docMackenzie has continued to revise his script, which won the 44th Alberta tor with the Red Cross in a place like Playwriting Competition in 2010, cit- Liberia, and a kid who's maybe not ing his dynamic relationship with the even had a part-time job yet, just out of high school," he says. play's complex web of issues. Ultimately, Mackenzie hopes that "It seems like white guilt is so pleasurable, in a way," Mackenzie says. Sia will offer multiple avenues of "There's a certain person who sees interpretation. "I try to capture that this show and wants to feel guilty; there's young people all over the they want it to be about them. I've world who are grappling with these had people who've said, 'Well, where huge issues," he says. "And they're does this play leave me?' And I don't just kids in the midst of it all." want to discount how they're feel- MEL PRIESTLEY MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM ing—but the play's not about you.
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ood parody pokes fun, but should know what Les Mis is really about and probably refrain from downright that there is the depth to 'God on High' when you sing 'God It's High,' you still insulting its source material. "In the mocking, it absolutely still bring that sense of [Jean] Valjean's jourhonours the initial work and the ney through the music he has to sing people who made the work we could and how beautiful the song is." make fun of," says Linette Smith, director and choreographer of Forbid- Smith and her cast also poured tireden Broadway's Greatest Hits, the lessly over videos of different performseason opener for Two One-Way ers, studying their movements, mannerisms and even sense of style in order to Tickets to Broadway. The revue-style production riffs on do them justice. "[It was] just a reiconic Broadway repertoire such as Rent, Les Misérables, Annie, Mamma minder of those Mia, Chicago, Wicked, Hairspray and sensational clasBroadway numerous others—all by four actors sic required to complete 90 costume shows and claschanges throughout the show, not to sic Broadway mention embody the quirks and nu- characters that ances of the likes of Liza Minnelli, Barbra Streisand, Fri, Nov 8 – Sat, Nov 16 John Travolta and (7:30 pm; 2 pm matinee on Sun, Nov 10) Idina Menzel. "At first, I was a Directed by Linette Smith little daunted ... La Cite Theatre, $26 you're thinking, 'Do I really know these shows?'" notes Smith, who, de- laid the foundation spite having a strong musical-theatre of American musical background, had to conduct a great theatre," she says, deal of research to gain better insight noting the original into each show and its recognizable Forbidden Broadway figures, regarded as integral parts of production played more than American musical-theatre vernacular. 2000 performances. "There's a "You can't just work with what's on draw there that says we love our the page; you have to go back. If you musical theatre, but we also love to
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poke at it and make fun of it and it doesn't necessarily have to be so serious, and maybe that's why Les Mis gets parodied so much in this, is because it's so damn serious, and for a moment we get to go, 'Yeah, we live in that tragedy right now, but we need that joy and we need that sense of release.'" MEAGHAN BAXTER
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The Fine Art of Schmoozy / Sat, Nov 9 (8 pm) Latitude 53 turned 40 this year, but still knows how to throw a party. Its annual gala, this year dubbed The Fine Art of Schmoozy, features delectable fare from local establishments such as the Common, MRKT and Duchess Bake Shop, cocktails, fortune telling, live music and plenty of artwork from Edmonton-based talent. (Latitude 53, $40 in advance, $50 at the door) Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches / Tue, Nov 12 – Sun, Nov 17 (7:30 pm; 12:30 pm Sunday matinee) ABBEDAM Productions is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a
Pulitzer Prize and Tony Awardwinning show tackling sexuality, gender, race, relationships, love and politics during the AIDS outbreak in New York City in 1985. (Timms Centre for the Arts, $10 – $15) Capital City Burlesque Sneak Peek Fundraiser / Wed, Nov 13 (7 pm – 10 pm) Want to see what the ladies of Capital City Burlesque have been working on? Well, you won't get the whole thing this time around, but it's a preview of what's to come at their upcoming shows. Plus, there's karaoke, silent auctions and you'll be helping out the Pride Centre. (The Druid, $10)
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Christmas Around The World Kwanzaa, depending on the dances we have that year," Koziak explains. "[The show] focuses on the season's traditions from around the world, so we have a host who talks about Christmas traditions from different countries and he'll also sing carols from some of those countries. It's also a dinner theatre so it's the whole atmosphere; it's a very intimate performance."
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ith the Halloween season over, it's time to start prepping for that next big fat holiday—which, for Canadians, comes a bit earlier than our American counterparts, who usually leave the festive seasonal deluge until after their own Thanksgiving. But hey, we've got snow, so why not get in the spirit early? The holidays come early to Edmonton through Vinok Worldance's long-cherished Christmas Around the World tradition. In true Canadian style, they've lined up another evening of live music and folk dances from around the globe, all celebrating the season—with a bit of cultural education and dinner, too. When Leanne Koziak and Doyle Marko
Wed, Nov 13 & Thu, Nov 14 (meal 5:30 pm; show 7 pm [$70]) Fri, Nov 15 & Sat, Nov 16 (meal 6pm ; show 7:30 pm [$75]) Sun, Nov 17 (meal 11:30 am; show 1 pm [$75]) Chateau Louis Conference Centre started Vinok (named for the floral wreaths worn by Ukrainian dancers) in 1988, they had just returned from researching folk dances across Eastern Europe. Now, nearly 25 years later with a company of nine dancers and a chorus of musicians accompanying their transcontinental journeys in cultural choreography, Vinok has been working up to a brand new program for their annual holiday celebration. "The idea of the show is that we celebrate Christmas traditions, and in some cases Hanukkah or other traditions like
They took theatre from champagne and evening wear to jeans and T-shirts: The Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival - pop. 735,000 and growing.
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This year's Christmas Around the World features dances from Mexico, Finland, the Philippines, Germany, Bavaria, Peru, Chile, Ukraine, Slovakia, Romania, a Turkish choreography from the Black Sea region, a French-Canadian broom jig, a women's dance from Armenia and a special nod to Hanukkah with their Hasidic Jewish piece, which has become a crowd favourite over the years. "We change the content every year, so it's the same feeling and the same ambience, but a completely different show," Koziak says. "It's kind of cool in that things like The Nutcracker or A Christmas Carol are the exact same show every year, while our show is neat because it has become a real Christmas tradition for our audiences, but it's a fresh show when they come." FAWNDA MITHRUSH
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DANCE ALBERTA BALLET • Jubilee Auditorium • Sleeping
Beauty: Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal–Alberta Premiere • Until Nov 7, 7:30pm • Tickets at box office, 78O.428.6839 s
ZUMBA BASHFIERY FRIDAYS • Central Senior Lions Centre, 11113-113 St • Shake your body to the Latin beat, and freestyle dance to live DJ music. Featuring Tamico Russell, Ike Henry, DJ Rocko and Zumba instructors Dru D, Manuella F-St, Michelle M, Sabrina D. and Cuban Salsa instructor Leo Gonzales • 3rd Fri each month • Nov 15, 7pm • $20 (online)/$25 (door)
VINOK WORLDANCE • Chateau Louis Conference Centre, 11727 Kingsway • Christmas Around the World: Featuring a Turkish Black Sea piece by choreographer Ahmet Lüleci, Flamenco guitarist Harry Grimwood-Knight; directed by Leanne Koziak, host Timothy J. Anderson • Nov 13-17 • $70: Nov 13-14, 5:30pm (buffet), 7pm (show); $75: Nov 15-16, 6pm (buffet), 7pm (show); $75: Nov 17 11:30am (buffet), 1pm (show), $39 (child 12 and under) at christmas.vinok.ca, 780.454.3739
FILM BACKSIDE SKI AND SNOWBOARD FILM FEST • Myer Horowitz Theatre, 8900-114 St, U of A • Featuring Sherpa Cinema's Into the Mind; Nov 13, 5:30pm (door), 6:30-9pm (show); $15-$45 at ticketfly.com • Matchstick Productions McConkey; Nov 14, 6:30-9pm (show); $15$45 at ticketfly.com
CINEMA AT THE CENTRE • Library Theatre, Stanley A. Milner Library Bsmt, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.496.7000 • Buying Sex (STC, Canada, 2013) Presented with the National Film Board; Nov 13, 6:30pm
FROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley A. Milner Library Centennial Rm, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.496.7000 • The Last of The Mohicans (1997, 14A); Nov 8, 2pm • The Jane Austen Book Club (PG 2007); Nov 15, 2pm
SCIENCE IN THE CINEMA • Metro Cinema at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • Salud!, film is introduced by Dr Dominic Allain and will discuss global health after the movie • Nov 14, 6:30-9pm • Free
GALLERIES + MUSEUMS ALBERTA AVENUE COMMUNITY CENTRE • 9210118 Ave, 780.426.5642 • “FIRED UP” FOR CHRISTMAS: Edmonton Potters’ Guild: Annual Pottery Show & Sale • Nov 9, 10am-3pm; info: edmontonpottersguild. wordpress.com
ALBERTA COLLEGE • 10050 MacDonald Dr • Alberta College Fall Music Festival Gala: Pastels by David Shkolny • Nov 16, 2-4pm; concert, art exhibition and reception ALLIED ARTS COUNCIL OF SPRUCE GROVE • Spruce Grove Art Gallery, Spruce Grove Library, 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.0664 • THE LANDSCAPE AROUND US: Artworks by Anne McCartney • Nov 13-30 • Reception: Nov 16, 1-3pm ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St, 780.488.6611 • Feature Gallery: POTWORKS: Showing the contemporary state of the ancient tradition of pottery; until Dec 24 • Discovery Gallery: FAIRY TALES, FOLKLORE, AND MYTHCOMMUNICATIONS... PART II: Calgary artist Shona Rae's sculptural rings; until Nov 30 • Discovery Gallery: ILLUSIONS, REVELATIONS, TRANSFORMATIONS: A journey in seven stages by Edmonton fibre artist Diane Krys; until Nov 30
ARCHIVES SOCIETY OF ALBERTA • 913 Ash St, Sherwood Park, 780.467.8189 • REMEMBRANCE DAY EXHIBIT: Until Nov 18
ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.422.6223 • Manning Hall: NOW YOU SEE IT: A giant word search puzzle by Megan Morman • WATER INTO ART: British watercolours from the V&A, 1750-1950; until Nov 24 • LADY SPIDER HOUSE: Until Jan 12, 2014 • ANGAKKUQ: BETWEEN TWO WORLDS; until Feb 16 • Daphnis & Chloé: Chagall; until Feb 16, 2014 • BMO World of Creativity: CABINETS OF CURIOSITY: Lyndal Osborne's curious collection; until Jun 30, 2014 • RBC New Works Gallery: ISACHSEN, 1948-1978: Works by Aaron Munson and David Hoffos; until Nov 24 • Funhouse Refinery: Late-night art party; Nov 16; 45/$39 (member); Funhouse Refinery: performances by The World’s Smallest Circus Show and The Lad Mags; video installation by Anna Binta Diallo and a sound performance by Kamil Krulis, appearances by Teen Jesus Barbie and Jon Mick; puppet making and a collaborative funhouse • Lecture: Ledcor Theatre: Cecil Balmond; Nov 13, 7pm; $15/$10 (Member)
ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert, 780.460.4310 • INVISIBLE CITIES: Daniel Evans examines the imaginative potential of urban environments; Nov 7-30; opening: Nov 8, 7-9pm • Preschool Picasso: Magical Monoprints: for ages 3-5yrs; Nov 9, 10:3011:30am; $8 • Artventures: Powerful Prints: Drop-in art for children 6-12;, Nov 16, 1-4pm; $5 per child
BEARCLAW GALLERY • 10403-124 St, 780.482.1204 • SHAMAN'S TRANSFORMATION: Collections of drawings by Inuit artist Simon Tookoome; Nov 16-28 • First Thurs-
day Event: open late for a gathering of culture lovers; will
run the 1st Thu each month, year round; Nov 7, 5-7pm
BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 12310 Jasper Ave, 780.482.2854 • THE ROAR AND THE SILENCE: Watercolour landscapes by Jerry Heine; until Nov 15 • First Thursday Event: open late for a gathering of culture lovers; will run the 1st Thu each month, year round; Nov 7, 5-7pm CARROT COMMUNITY ARTS COFFEEHOUSE • 9351-118 Ave • LONGITUDINAL STUDY: Works by William G Prettie • Until Nov 30 • Opening: Nov 7, 6:30-9pm
CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTAS (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave, 780.461.3427 • Artworks by Claude Boocock, Valerie Solash, Rollande Brodeur, Deborah Lenihan, Fondation Jean Gauthier • Nov 8-20; opening: Nov 8, 7pm
CROOKED POT GALLERY–Stony Plain • 4912-51 Ave, Stony Plain, 780.963.9573 • CELEBRATE THE SEASON: pottery, handmade decorations • Until Dec 24; Open house: Nov 15 and Dec 7; Proceeds to local Christmas charity
NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave, 780.432.0240 • WHAT’S YOUR HANG UP?: Craft by Edmonton Calligraphic Society Members; until Nov 15 • All in a Day's Dream: Works by Kristina Sobstad; until Nov 15 NINA HAGGERTY CENTRE FOR THE ARTS • 9225-118 Ave • CHIMERIUM: HYBRIDS FROM NINA'S STUDIOS: Works by the NHCA Collective; curated by Sherri Chaba; until Dec 20 • Jane Siberry: Celebrating the Three Queens Trilogy; Nov 8; $125 (incl wine) at tixonthesquare.ca • IT’S A WHALE: Desiree McCook; Nov 7-30; opening: Nov 14, 5-7pm, music, food and festivities
PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave, 780.455.7479 • Works by Amy Claire Huestis and Robert Wiseman; Until Nov 19 • First Thursday Event: open late for a gathering of culture lovers; will run the 1st Thu each month, year round; Nov 7, 5-7pm
PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES OF ALBERTA • 8555 Roper Rd, 780.427.1750 • VICTORY ON THE FIELD EXHIBIT: Exploring the effects of the First and Second World Wars on
Wizardry. Nov 9-Mar 9
SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • Paintings by Marianne Watchel; Until Nov 23 • First Thursday Event: open late for a gathering of culture lovers; will run the 1st Thu each month, year round; Nov 7, 5-7pm
SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta PrintArtists, 10123-121 St, 780.423.1492 • Main Gallery: NATURAL, POLITICAL, POETIC AND UNPREDICTABLE–MIRRORED LINES AND CURVES: Printing objects by Klavs Weiss (Denmark) • Community Gallery: THE FACES WE KNOW AND LOVE: Works by SNAP artist in residence, Megan Stein • Both shows: until Nov 9 • First Thursday Event: open late for a gathering of culture lovers; will run the 1st Thu each month, year round; Nov 7, 5-7pm
STEPPES GALLERIES • 1253, 1259-91 St, 780.965.2534 • PRISMATIKA–ILLUSIONS OF THE UNIVERSE: Artists from Canada, Croatia, Germany, Great Britain, Israel, Poland, Ukraine, and the US • Until Dec 7
Albert, 780.460.5990 • vasa.ca • CURIOSITY : Group show • Until Nov 29
WEST END GALLERY • 12308 Jasper Ave, 780.488.4892 • Paintings by W.H. Webb; until Nov 14 • Landscapes by Ken Faulks; Nov 16-28 • First Thursday Event: The art galleries will be open late after work, for an informal gathering of culture lovers the 1st Thu of every month, year round • Nov 7, 5-7pm
LITERARY AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • Launch of Adam Dickinson's The Polymers; Nov 9, 2pm • Travel Talks: South Africa: Nov 12, 7pm • Arthur Slade, reading and signing; Nov 14, 7pm • Author Alison Neuman book launch for her memoir, Searching for Normal; Nov 16, 12:30pm BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ • 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 • Story Slam 2nd Wed each month @ the Chair: Share your story, sign-up at 7pm; 7-10pm • $5 (suggested, donations go to winners)
CANADIAN LITERATURE CENTRE • 4-115 Humanities Centre, U of A • Blue Pencil Café: Writers' Guild of Alberta, Canadian Literature Centre: discussing your writing with one of these two terrific authors: Doug Barbour and S.G. Wong • Nov 14-15, betw 10am and 4pm • Free, preregister: E: cdnlit@ualberta.ca; T: 780.492.9505
DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St, 780.686.4211 • OUR FAMILIES: The Impact of Contemporary Family on Art; works by Paul Freeman, Francois Morelli (w/son Didier), Tammy Salzl • Until Nov 16; open: Thu-Fri 6-9pm; Sat 11am-6pm
EMPRESS ALE HOUSE • 9912 Whyte Ave • The Olive
DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St, 780.760.1278 • APPROACHING RIVER CITY: Meghan Dauphineé; until Nov 23; artist reception: Nov 7, 5-8pm • First Thursday Event: open late for a gathering of culture lovers; will run the 1st Thu each month, year round; Nov 7, 5-7pm
Reading Series: 2nd Tue each month, Sep-Apr • Murray Reiss and Paul Wilson • Nov 12, 7pm
ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St, 780.902.5900 • Spoken Word Tuesdays: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathinpoetry@gmail.com
DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY • 10332-124 St • RECOLLECTIONS: Works from Private Collections • Nov 9-23 • Opening: Nov 9, 2-4pm
THEATRE
EDMONTON GALLERY WALK • Gallery Walk Galleries: Daffodil Gallery, Scott Gallery, Bearclaw, Bugera Matheson, Front, West End, Peter Robertson Gallery, SNAP • First Thursday Event: open late for a gathering of culture lovers; will run the 1st Thu each month, year round; Nov 7, 5-7pm
THE 11 O'CLOCK NUMBER • Varscona Theatre, 1032983 Ave • An Improvised Musical • Every Fri through until Dec 13, 11pm
BODY AWARENESS • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • Shadow Theatre • By Annie Baker, starring Coralie Cairns, Paul Cowling, Caleb Ellsworth-Clark, Stephanie Wolfe, directed by Valerie Planche • A witty and moving domestic comedy of image, ideology and intimacy • Until Nov 24 • $23-$27 (adult)/$21-$24 (student/senior)/$16 (Sat mat: Nov 16 & 23)/$11 (any perf for under 18's); at TIX on the Square; Tue: 2-for-1; Sat mat: Nov 9: Pay-What-You-Can
ENTERPRISE SQUARE GALLERIES • 10230 Jasper Ave • Open: Thu-Fri 12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm • SANAUNGUABIK: Traditions and transformations in Inuit art, featuring prints, sculpture, textile, and video art; until Dec 21 • POP GOES CANADIANA: Painting, print, and sculpture by Charles Pachter; until Nov 30
FAB GALLERY • 1-1 Fine Arts Bldg, 89 Ave, 112 St, 780.492.2081 • CREATURE OF CLIMAX: Works by Agata Derda (MFA Printmaking) final visual presentation for Master of Fine Arts-Printmaking; until Nov 30; artist opening: Nov 7, 7-10pm • PRINT RESONANCE: Musashino Art University Museum, Ryuta Endo; Extended to Nov 30
CINDERELLA • Horizon Stage, 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce Grove, (Spruce Grove High School), 780.962.8995 • DuffleBag Theatre, Theatre for Young Audience • Nov 16, 2pm
FRONT GALLERY • 12312 Jasper Ave, 780.488.2952 • URBAN REFLECTIONS: Artworks by Ira Hoffecker; until Nov 7 • First Thursday Event: open late for a gathering of culture lovers; will run the 1st Thu each month, year round; Nov 7, 5-7pm
CARRIE, THE MUSICAL • John L. Haar Theatre,
DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • Live improvised soap opera • Runs Every Mon, 7:30pm 10045-156 St • Presented by MacEwan, music by Michael Gore, lyrics by Dean Pitchford, book by Laurence D. Cohen, based on the Novel by Stephen King • Until Nov 9, 7:30pm • $15 (start), at TIX on the Square, macewan. ca/TheatreArts
GALLERIE PAVA • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • NATURAL POWER: Works by Barbara Hull Chan; Until Nov 27 GALLERY 7 • Bookstore on Perron, 7 Perron St, St Albert
CHIMPROV • Zeidler Hall, Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm, until Jul • $12 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) • Until Jun, 2014
• CORNUCOPIA: Paintings by Marina Bazos; until Nov 25
GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.944.5383 • Gallery: THE SEVENTH KINGDOM: Mixed media artwork by Lori Kieser on the walls • Until Nov 30 • Display Cases: VESSELS OF PURPOSE: Clay figurines by Corwin Cherwonka • Until Nov 30
THE DAISY THEATRE • The Club, Citadel Rice Theatre • Presented by Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes; recommended for ages 16+ • Until Nov 17, 8pm
HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St •
ELVIS AND THE LAS VEGAS HANGOVER • Jubila-
Main Gallery: THE QUIET REBUILD: Alexis Marie Chute • Front Room: Yael Brotman; Until Nov 29; Artist Talks:
tions Dinner Theatre • The annual Elvis festival in sunny Las Vegas featuring hit songs by Elvis Presley, and more • Until Feb 14
Brotman 7pm, Chute 7:30pm
JEFF ALLEN ART GALLERY (JAAG) • Strathcona
FORBIDDEN BROADWAY'S GREATEST HITS • La Cité Theatre • Two One-Way Tickets to Broadway Production • Directed and choreography by Linette Smith; music directon by Robert Bradford • Nov 8-16
Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave, 780.433.5807 • OIL ON CANVAS: By Dawn Dlashinsky • Until Nov 27
KING'S UNIVERSITY COLLEGE ATRIUM • 9125-50 St • OMAR AHMED KHADR. CANADIAN: William G Prettie's art inspired by Stephen Harper’s definition of social justice • Nov 8-19 • Lecture by US military defence attorney, Samuel Morison; Nov 12, 7pm
THE HISTORY OF ROCK ‘N ROLL STARS & STRIPES • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave, 780.483.4051 • A musical evening all-American music review of the origins of rock ‘n roll from its infancy highlighting Chuck Berry, Elvis, the Doo-Wop groups of the '50s, the Beach Boys, and R&B groups of the '60s • Nov 12-Feb 2
LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St, 780.990.1161 • ROCKY MOUNTAIN LAKES: Tatjana Mirkov Popovicki; until Nov 12 • AWAKENING: Paintings by Works by Shirley Elias • EMBRACING COLOUR: Paintings by Jana Milne: until Nov 20
LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN • King’s University Col-
LATITUDE 53 • 10242-106 St, 780.423.5353 • Fine
lege, 9125-50 St • By Oscar Wilde, The King’s Players • Nov 13-16, 7:30pm • $15/$10 (student/senior) at King’s Bookstore, 780.465.8306, 780.465.3500, kingsu.ca
Art of Schmoozy: Schmoozy is your future: art auction, music and more; Nov 9, 8pm • Main Space: BEFORE PHOTOGRAPHY: Chuck Samuels mixes photographic history and fiction by Chuck Samuels; Nov 15-Dec 21; reception: Nov 15, 7-9pm
PAINS OF YOUTH • Timms Centre, U of A • Studio Theatre • By Ferdinand Bruckner, translation by Martin Crimp; Kim McCaw directs • Until Nov 9; Nov 7 mat at 12:30pm • $11-$22 at TIX on the Square, Timms Centre box office
LOFT GALLERY • A.J. Ottewell Arts Centre, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park, 780.449.4443 • CHRISTMAS MARKET: Art and gifts by members of the Art Society of Strathcona County artists • Nov 16-17 MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St, 780.407.7152 • IMAGES MAKE THE WORDS COME ALIVE: by Barbara Hartmann & Gwen Molnar; until Dec 22; opening/book launch: Nov 7, 7-9pm • After Hours Hallway Gallery: THE TEXTURE OF LIGHT AND LOVE: Paintings by Nancy Corrigan; until Nov 30
MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GALLERY (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain, 780.963.9935 • multicentre.org • Parkland Potter’s Guild: Fifth Biennial Exhibition; until Nov 22
MUTTART HALL–CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC • 10050 MacDonald Dr • Fall Music Festival Gala: David Shkolny, pastel artist • Nov 16; art exhibition: 3pm, Concert: 2pm; reception to follow featuring art inspired edibles
sports in Alberta; until Jan 31; free
PRO'S ART GALLERY • 17971-106A Ave • Mon-Sat 10am-1:30pm; Wed 2-5:30pm; Mon-Fri 6:30-9pm; Closed Thu • GENE PROKOP AND FRIENDS: Artworks by Gene Prokop with works by Zhaoming Wu, Robert Johnson, Sherri McGraw and Gregg Kreutz, and Monte Carlo car artist, Alfredo de la Maria (Argentina), and artists from the Ukraine and Russia • Until Dec 20
RED PIANO • Bourbon Street, WEM, 780.486.7722 • Paintings and Pianos: works by Maria Pace-Wynters, Jennie Vegt, Denise Lefebvre, Sandra Kunz • Nov 7, 7pm (door); dueling pianos at 8pm ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave, 780.453.9100 • CHOP SUEY ON THE PRAIRIES: Until Apr 27, 2014 • MILTON AND CHEADLE PLATES: Jun 24-Dec 9 • Orientation Gallery: 20TH ANNIVERSARY–TIME TRAVELLERS EXHIBITION; until Nov 11 • Feature Gallery: Pattern
PIG GIRL • Roxy Theatre, 10708-124 St • By Colleen STRATHCONA COUNTY ART GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • LANDMARKS ON THE STUDIO WALL: Art by Robert Dmytruk, Les Graff, and Paddy Lamb • Until Dec 20
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SIA • Arts Barns’ PCL Studio, 10330-84 Ave • Pyretic Productions• Arts at the Barns Presentation Series: The day Canadian volunteer Nick Summers is scheduled to fly home from Ghana, he wakes up hung over and tied to a chair • Nov 8-17 • $20 (adult)/$15 (student/senior)/ Nov 10: Pay-what-you-can
THEATRESPORTS • Zeidler Hall, Citadel Theatre, 9828101A Ave • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Until June • $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. The farewell tour of a Canadian Theatre musical sensation plays at the Citadel Theatre • Until Nov 17
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The distance that blooms
Italy a collaboration concerned with marital strife and cultural difference
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Romantic tension! Sexy romantic tension!
he short-lived but extremely fertile romantic and creative partnership of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini—the subject of our October 3 instalment of Aspect Ratio—began with the Swedish-born Casablanca (1942) star's abandonment of Hollywood for the Italian director's native land in 1949. It seems fitting then that the couple's final feature film collaboration concerns martial strife and cultural difference and is titled Journey to Italy. It is a stark, beautiful film, at times piercingly resonant, very knowing about the distance that blooms between lovers, metastasizing through the body of their union before either party is capable of diagnosing it. In fact—spoiler ahead—the only part of Journey to Italy I never completely buy is the final reconciliation. Katherine and Alex Joyce (Bergman and George Saunders) are a middle-aged English couple visiting Naples to liquidate some assets gained in an inheritance, including an enormous manor with a vast patio from which Mt Vesuvius can be seen. Unaccustomed to spending time alone together, the Joyces
capturing the ancient artworks and architecture visited by Katherine is stunning, as though in each of these scenes there exists a tension or dialogue between the inanimate figures and Bergman's anxious, searching gaze. The film's most startling moment has both Katherine and Alex witness archeologists unearthing a pair of clinging corpses, victims of the eruption that consumed Pompeii and Herculaneum nearly 2000 years previous. This vision of fear, love and death comes to haunt the couple— The film is defined by striking fleeting pleasures or frustrations contrasts: female sensitivity and whither in the face of the eternal. Journey to Italy male callousness; is a quietly devasAnglo-Saxon reFri, Nov 8 – Thu, Nov 14 tating exploration serve and MediJourney to Italy of long-term love terranean exDirected by Roberto Rossellini and what it means pressiveness; the Metro Cinema at the Garneau to confront all we self-absorption Originally released: 1954 chance to lose. and pettiness of Thankfully, we the present moment and the overwhelming sense haven't yet lost this film, long-chamof an individual's insignificance in pioned by Martin Scorsese and oththe face of deep history. Enzo Se- er contemporary filmmakers. Metro rafin's brilliant camerawork fills Cinema begins screening the gorthe film with ascents and descents, geously restored version on Friday. with his protagonists always sinking JOSEF BRAUN JOSEF@VUEWEEKLY.COM or surfacing. Rossellini's manner of quickly realize they kind of can't stand each other. It would be an exaggeration to say this realization comes as a relief, but in neither does it prompt any display of grief—almost nothing seems to draw unruly emotions from these buttoned-down Brits. In lieu of hashing it out, Alex goes off in search of kicks in clubs and taverns, while Katherine visits museums and historical sites, which highlight the savagery of the past.
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he story of four septuagenarian pals hitting Nevada's neon-lit, double-dealing, one-armed-bandit strip for a bachelor party might be better called The Combover. But Last Vegas sums up this flick's problem— all the glitzing-up and trading-off of Vegas's allure blinds and bleaches out what is, actually, not nearly as bad a mainstream old-guys-comedy as it could've been. It's sure a helluva lot better than its opening flashback—a '50s Stand By Me backstory that's utterly inauthentic (it would've been better with puppets). Present-day, the movie's sly enough to turn its actors' screen personas into their characters' funny foibles. Tanned, coiffed Michael Douglas is wealthy fox Billy, marrying a 30-something woman to avoid
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facing his mortality. Genteel Morgan ments, some of that clichéd bromancFreeman is Archie, polite and re- ing boys' clubbiness, much shilling for strained but eager to cut loose again. LV (though the strip's one long, conErudite Kevin Kline is Sam, freed by stantly glowing billboard anyway), his wife to fully express himself in the and a dinosaur-attitude to women, city of sin for the weekend. Scowling who always end up being told what Robert De Niro is Paddy, a glum wid- to do. And there's the same old ower who regains his brio in Vegas (a friendship-forever moral in an ending mirror-scene even that drags on, as alludes to both De if the flick can't Niro's Travis Bickle Now playing bear to let these and Jake LaMotta). Directed by Jon Turteltaub smiling stars' There are some Ocean's Four amusing jokes swansong slip out about being outof sight just yet. What makes so much of Last Vegas of-touch, a great acting-flash of hope fighting with pain from Kline, pleasantly decent is its relaxed, let'sand even some gentle nudges into have-some-laughs feel. What ends up poignancy. This comedy's got much arresting its development is its copmore nuanced, slice-of-life humour— out on the bittersweet comedy of even in Sam's encounter with a cross- getting older, as it tries too hard to dresser—than easy digs or lazy leers. be so cool and sappy-ever-after for all those "zoomers" out there. GIBSON Still, there's a little ogling by the BRIAN BRIAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM camera, a few leching-old-men mo-
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DIRECTIONLESS: How to build a board of directors Anybody who has ever been on a board of directors knows that it is not always the easiest thing in the world. It becomes even more complicated when the organization is a registered charity or any other type of non-for-profit.
“Now, we work with non-forprofits across the province including registered charities, condo boards, religious boards, libraries, and agricultural societies.”
legal and ethical responsibilities.” The workshops delivered by the Board Development Program goes over these topics and many more.
gram as well in discussing the future of the organization and the policies needed to get it there. Marion Boyd, a board mem-
Suddenly, not only are you trying to get a group of people to agree on what the direction of the organization should look like, but there are all sorts of legal, financial, and ethical requirements to navigate as well.
“People are often surprised to learn that we train skilled volunteers from other organizations to facilitate the workshops. So we’re using trained board members from one organization and they’re speaking to board members at another organization.”
This is where the Alberta Government’s Board Development Program comes in. Joel Christianson, the Community Development Officer of the program, explains that since 1983 the Alberta government has been offering a series of workshops to non-for-profit boards to help guide them in the legal and financial world of board governance. “Originally, the program was started to help arts boards. So the boards of arts organizations who were receiving grant funding from the Alberta government. And it was very successful in helping them, so over the years, they’ve broadened the mandate of the program,” Christianson explains.
She adds that the facilitators—the outside person that the program provides to guide the workshop— were excellent. At this, Christianson notes that the facilitators are all actually volunteers.
This type of peer mentorship seems to work well, even across different non-for-profit sectors.
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As Christianson points out, the challenges that all of these non-for-profits face is often the same: “How to get the work done; how to attract people to their board; and how to make sure that they’re covered and safe in terms of their
And the program isn’t just for new organizations either. While newer, less established non-for-profits will benefit from learning more about their auditing and ethical requirements, moreestablished non-for-profits often benefit from the pro-
ber with the Pilgrims Hospice Society, recently participated in the Board Development Program. “It was very helpful to help the board move forward and set common objectives to improve our performance,” Boyd notes.
“You know you could do a workshop with each one of those sectors and write down what issues came out of the workshop, and I probably wouldn’t be able to tell what kind of organization they are: an arts board, or a library board, or an agriculture board. Because the problems that they face are so similar.” For more information on the board development program, visit: culture.alberta.ca/bdp -- Bryan Saunders
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happens at them: “I think it’s because we attract people from different worlds, and because of the monthly topic they have something to talk about, an
which is great, because you meet new people every time,” Unland says. Sometimes you’re looking to network with very specific people, however, and this
“We have different investors come in and discuss what they’re looking for, what criteria would need to be in place for them to consider investing in a product. We also give entrepreneurs feedback on their product and on their pitch.” If you’re looking for office space, Startup Edmonton offers that as well.
Another organization, Capital Ideas, takes this idea of an advisors and brings it to the next level. “We’re about sharing people’s business experiences and telling stories about mistakes they’ve made, things they wish they’d known when they started out, and triumphs that have been the basis for other lessons,” explains project leader Karen Unland.
thing Big’ where we talked to Eveline Charles of Eveline Charles ,Dale Wishewan of Booster Juice, and Greg Zeschuk of Bioware about selling a business you’ve built.”
“So, once a month, we have 3 entrepreneurs from different walks of life come and talk about some common busi-
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is where Startup Edmonton comes in. “We are definitely are focused mostly on tech entrepreneurs, and especially those that are building a [software or hardware] product,” says Chief Operating Officer Tiffany Linke-Boyko.
“We do memberships by the desk. So you can be a resident member, and that gets you a specific space, access to meeting rooms, access to a mailing address that is not your home, and access to different mentorship programs such as our ‘Preflight’ and ‘Flightpath’ programs,” Linke-Boyko concludes. For more information on Business Link, Capital Ideas, and Startup Edmonton, visit: CanadaBusiness.ab.ca CapitalIdeasEdmonton.com StartupEdmonton.com -- Bryan Saunders
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tough, hierarchical military culture, Rackham (Ben Kingsley). This Messianic seriousness is reflected Ender's Game's too in bed with it to be in lotsa po-faced, hit-you-on-the-nose critical, even with its last-act twist into lines: "In the midst of that decisive pacifism—a pacifism set up by Ender's battle, a legendary hero emerged"; "You hokey, paradoxical, Sun-Tzu-lite notion think this is a game?" (well, um, yes, that understanding one's enemy means actually—the movie title there, ah, it loving and defeating him at once. Maybe that war-empathy-love bafkinda says so, sir); "I wish there were another way." Ender's intuitive strategic flegab explains the oddly sterilized genius? Comes off mostly as an insis- sense of sex—the two girls in Ender's life come off as tence on the same Now playing virginal, superold body-shielding, Directed by Gavin Hood uptight comrades t a k e - i t - fo r - t h e in some of the team, all-or-noth- many scenes here ing game-plan all along. And while Graff, as his underling that seem ever-so-slightly starchy and rightly points out, never "see[s] them stiff, uniform-pressed into the story's as children," the movie doesn't let us "yessir!" martial marching-on. GLAAD see Ender and co. as kids, either. It's so and other groups are urging boycotts blindly fixated on its wonder-warrior because of Card's personal criticisms of story arc that considerations of privacy, homosexuality and same-sex marriage. exploitation or even Ender's family are But the problem with Ender's Game is human-phobia—it's 100-percent graviquickly shouldered aside. tas and humourless inhumanity. Ender For all its sleek, neat F/X, Ender's starts waking to empathetic life at the Game's too childishly enamoured of very end, but there's no human here, its centrepiece, a Zero-G shoot-'em-up not even him, worth getting interested cadet training-game. Sure, it's much bet- in, let alone seeing fought for. (Psst— ter than quidditch but still basically just 'tween you and me? I was rooting for youngsters floating around like fetuses, the ants.) suddenly cut loose from their umbilical BRIAN GIBSON cords. For all its intense look at a super- BRIAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM
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s the hype speeding 'round technoscience and its toys warps us down the wormhole, lotsa folks seem to be taking sci-fi flicks more seriously. Revering hi-tech-sci and CGI-sci-fi more, we seem to care less 'bout its tangled religious roots (even Newton, Darwin and Einstein, both in and beyond many of their theories, were concerned about God). All of which is my roundabout, lofty way of saying that Ender's Game, the latest oh-so-serious sci-fi flick, happens to be a sign of these touch-screen-means-toan-end-times—because it's got a severe case of the Messiah Complex. From its grave, Full-of-Portent-andMoment start 'til its grave, Full-of-Portent-and-Moment end, there's not just too much full-of-itself-seriousness in Gavin Hood's adaptation of Orson Scott Card's novel. There's also the "One," aka The Very Last Starfighter, aka The Reincarnated Jedi, aka L'il Neo, aka Andrew "Ender" Wiggin (Asa Butterfield). He's the super-gifted mid-teens trainee, watched and monitored and trained and pushed all the way by super-intent, win-at-all-costs Colonel Graff (Harrison Ford), until Ender's ready to command the International Fleet 'gainst those antlike Formics, vanquished last time only by the preternatural genius of Mazer
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odzilla 2000, the 23rd Japanese film to feature Godzilla—that radioactive, genetically monstrified, reptilian love-child of King Kong and the Hulk—is slightly interesting as a B-movie reflection of its human era and almost entirely forgettable as a creature feature. As Y2K
approached, this 1999 flick offered a horror-scene where a UFO tries to "suck up every last bit of data" in Tokyo. There are store displays of iMacs, sensor readings, near-instant skin-sample results, and a line so sci-tech-gobbledygook it's almost poetic: "Use the linkage tracer to visual-
ize the access route!" Stubbornly retro, at least, are most F/X—that same old combo of Toho's scale models and a man in a latex mega-critter suit, giving Godzilla that iconic lumbering, action-toy quality. (That look holds up better now than the alien's CGI liquid-mercury tentacles). There are '90s eco-concerns: interfering with nature (scientists raise a meteorite from the ocean floor with balloon-ships, only to find it's an alien life-form which becomes interested in everyone's favourite Last-Dinosaur-on-Earth); Godzilla as a power-station-destroying force of nature (the Godzilla Prediction Network acts like tornado-hunters, tracking Roarasaurus Rex's emergence from the deep). And the B-movie schlock: bad dialogue, characters like a whiny reporter and a super-precocious child, zoom-ins on
wide-eyed humans staring at battling worth the 90-minute wait—if only to creatures and plenty of oversized, over- imagine what Freud would've thought scored emotions: the brusquely ordered of this oddball, deathly doppelgängerattack on this great green nuclear meta- lizard sex. It sure beats the dimestore phor, the wonder of scientific discovery, psychology of "Maybe there's a Godzilla in each the anguish over one of us." Beone's helplessness Fri, Nov 8 (9 pm); Sun, cause, after all the as apocalypse nears. Nov 10 (4 pm) blathering by huDirected by Takao Okawara mans about studyThe contrast be- Metro Cinema at the Garneau ing him or killing tween sleek alien Originally released: 1999 him or why-doestech and primordial giant reptile is he-keep-saving-usnowhere near as dramatic as it should after-we-created-him-but-now-try-tobe. The showdown between Godzilla destroy-him?, the big scaly brute's got and Orga is tedious ... until its climax, the best idea of all for taking the piss where the shot of Godzilla clambering out of this movie—just keep roaring forward to shove his head into clon- along unintelligibly. GIBSON ing Orga's membrane-surrounded de- BRIAN BRIAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM taching jaws to blow him up is almost
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30 FILM
VUEWEEKLY NOV 7 – NOV 13, 2013
FILM
WEEKLY
Fri, Nov 8-Thu, Nov 14, 2013 CHABA THEATRE–JASPER
6094 Connaught Dr Jasper, 780.852.4749
THOR: THE DARK WORLD 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) FRI-SAT 7:00, 9:05; SUN-THU 8:00
LAST VEGAS (PG crude content, course language) FRI-SAT 7:00,
9:05; SUN-THU 8:00
DUGGAN CINEMA–CAMROSE 6601-48 Ave Camrose, 780.608.2144
THOR: THE DARK WORLD 3D (PG violence,
frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) No passes DAILY 6:45, 9:10; SAT-SUN, MON, THU 1:45
LAST VEGAS (PG crude content, course language) DAILY 7:15,
9:25; SAT-SUN, MON, THU 2:15
FREE BIRDS (G) DAILY 7:00, 9:00; SAT-SUN, MON,
THU 2:00
ENDER'S GAME (PG coarse language, sexual
content) DAILY 6:30, 9:05; SAT-SUN, MON, THU 1:30
JACKASS PRESENTS: BAD GRANDPA (14A
crude content, coarse language, not rec for children) DAILY 7:30, 9:30; SAT-SUN, MON, THU 2:30
CINEMA CITY MOVIES 12 5074-130 Ave 780.472.9779
MONSTERS UNIVERSITY (G)
Closed Captioned Fri-Tue 1:20, 4:15, 6:50, 9:30; Wed-Thu 4:15, 6:50, 9:30
ELYSIUM (14A gory violence) Closed Captioned Fri-
Tue 1:35, 4:00, 6:45, 9:15; Wed-Thu 4:00, 6:45, 9:15
DESPICABLE ME 2 (G) Closed Captioned FRI-TUE
1:00; 3D : DAILY 3:50, 7:10, 9:40
THE SMURFS 2 (G) Closed Captioned FRI-TUE 1:30,
3:55, 6:40; WED-THU 3:55, 6:40
PERCY JACKSON: SEA OF MONSTERS (PG
frightening scenes) Closed Captioned FRI-TUE 1:25; 3D : DAILY 3:45, 7:15, 9:35
Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 6:50, 10:50; MON-THU 6:50, 9:30
FREE BIRDS (G) Closed Captioned FRI, SUN, TUE-THU
12:35, 2:50, 5:10; SAT 11:15, 12:35, 2:50, 5:10; MON 12:10, 12:45, 3:00, 5:30; 3D : DAILY 1:30, 3:45, 6:30, 8:45
THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: TOSCA (Clas-
sification not available) SAT 10:55
12 YEARS A SLAVE (14A brutal violence, disturbing content) Closed Captioned FRI 12:50, 3:50, 7:10, 10:15; SAT-SUN 12:40, 3:50, 7:10, 10:15; MON-THU 12:50, 3:50, 7:10, 10:10
JACKASS PRESENTS: BAD GRANDPA (14A crude content, coarse language, not rec for children) FRI-SUN 10:55; Closed Captioned MON 2:20, 4:40, 7:40, 10:20; TUE-THU 2:10, 4:40, 7:40, 10:20; Closed Captioned: FRI, SUN 2:10, 4:40, 7:40; SAT 11:20, 2:15, 4:40, 7:40 OUT OF AFRICA (STC) SUN 12:45 BLACK BEAUTY (G) SAT 11:00 CINEPLEX ODEON SOUTH 1525-99 St 780.436.8585
THOR: THE DARK WORLD (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned, No passes FRI-MON 12:20, 3:10, 6:30, 9:20; TUE 2:30, 5:10, 8:10; WED 2:30, 5:20, 8:10; Thu 3:45, 6:30, 9:20; Star & Strollers: THU 1:00; 3D : FRI-SUN 1:00, 1:40, 3:50, 4:30, 7:00, 7:30, 9:50, 10:20; MON 1:00, 1:40, 3:50, 4:30, 7:00, 7:15, 9:50, 10:05; TUE-WED 1:00, 1:30, 3:50, 4:20, 6:40, 7:10, 9:30, 10:00; THU 1:15, 1:30, 4:00, 4:20, 6:45, 7:10, 9:30, 10:00; 3D ULTRAAVX : FRI 2:20, 5:10, 8:00, 10:50; SAT 11:30, 2:20, 5:10, 8:00, 10:50; SUN-THU 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 GRAVITY 3D (PG coarse language) Closed
Captioned FRI, SUN 1:05, 3:30, 5:50, 8:15, 10:35; Sat 1:05, 3:30, 5:55, 8:15, 10:35; MON 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:05, 10:30; TUE-WED 2:40, 5:00, 7:35, 9:55; THU 1:55, 4:25, 7:35, 9:55
ENDER'S GAME (PG violence, not rec for young
children) FRI-SUN 7:05, 9:45; MON-WED 6:50, 9:45; THU 6:50, 9:40; Closed Captioned: FRI 2:10, 5:00, 7:45, 10:35; SAT 11:20, 2:10, 5:00, 7:45, 10:35; SUN 2:00, 4:45, 7:35, 10:35; MON 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15; TUETHU 2:05, 4:45, 7:30, 10:20
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (PG violence) Closed Cap-
FRI-TUE 1:10,
4:10, 7:00, 9:55; WED-THU 4:10, 7:00,
9:55
THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES (PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec for
young children) Closed Captioned DAILY 9:20
PLANES (G) Closed Captioned FRI-TUE 1:50; 3D : DAILY 4:30,
7:05, 9:10
LEE DANIELS' THE BUTLER (14A) FRI-TUE 1:15, 4:05, 7:00, 9:50; WED-THU 4:05, 7:00, 9:50
SHE'S THE ONE (PG) FRI-TUE 1:45, 4:40, 7:20, 9:50; WED-THU 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 KRRISH 3 (PG violence) Hindi W/E.S.T. FRI-TUE 1:55, 5:00, 9:00; WED-THU 5:00, 9:00 CINEPLEX ODEON NORTH 14231-137 Ave 780.732.2236
THOR: THE DARK WORLD (PG violence, frighten-
ing scenes, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned, No passes FRI, SUN 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 9:30, 9:50, 10:10; SAT 11:30, 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 9:30, 9:50, 10:10; MON-TUE, THU 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 9:50; WED 4:00, 7:05, 9:50; MON 12:00; Star & Strollers Screening: WED 1:00; 3D : FRI-SUN, TUE-THU 12:30, 3:20, 6:20, 9:10; MON 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20; 3D : SAT 11:50, 2:30, 5:20, 8:10; No passes MON 2:50, 5:40, 8:30; ULTRAAVX : TUE-THU 1:50, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30; 3D : FRI, SUN, TUE-THU 2:30, 5:20, 8:10; ULTRAAVX : SAT 11:10, 1:50, 4:50, 7:45, 10:40; 3D ULTRAAVX: FRI, SUN-MON 1:50, 4:50, 7:45, 10:40
GRAVITY 3D (PG coarse language) Closed Captioned DAILY 2:00, 4:20, 6:40, 9:00 ENDER'S GAME (PG violence, not rec for young
children) Closed Captioned DAILY 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 7:50, 9:40, 10:30
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (PG violence) Closed Cap-
tioned FRI, MON-THU 12:40, 3:40, 6:45, 9:55; SAT-SUN 3:40, 6:45, 9:55
CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS
GRAVITY 3D (PG coarse language) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video FRI 4:00, 6:30, 9:00; SAT-MON 1:20, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00; TUE-THU 6:40, 9:10 ENDER'S GAME (PG violence, not rec for young
children) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video FRI 4:50, 7:50, 10:40; SAT-SUN 2:00, 4:50, 7:50, 10:40; MON 1:10, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40; TUE-THU 6:40, 9:20
LAST VEGAS (PG crude content, course language)
Closed Captioned FRI 5:30, 8:00, 10:30; SAT-SUN 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30; Mon 1:00, 3:50, 6:50, 9:30; TUE-THU 6:50, 9:30; VIP 18+ : FRI 3:30, 6:45, 10:00; SAT-SUN 12:30, 3:30, 6:45, 10:00; MON 1:15, 4:30, 8:00; TUE-THU 6:30, 9:10
FREE BIRDS (G) Closed Captioned SAT-MON 12:40;
3D: FRI 5:10, 7:20, 9:30; SAT-MON 2:50, 9:30; TUE-THU 6:30, 8:50
5:10, 7:20,
THE COUNSELOR (14A sexual content, gory violence, not rec for children) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video FRI 4:15, 7:00, 9:50; SAT-MON 12:50, 4:15, 7:00, 9:50; TUE, THU 7:00, 9:50; WED 9:50 12 YEARS A SLAVE (14A brutal violence, disturbing content) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video FRI 3:30, 6:40, 9:50; SAT-MON 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:50; TUE-THU 6:30, 9:40; VIP 18+ : FRI 5:30, 9:00; SAT-MON 2:00, 5:30, 9:00; TUE-THU 8:00
JACKASS PRESENTS: BAD GRANDPA (14A
crude content, coarse language, not rec for children) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video FRI 3:30, 5:45, 8:10, 10:50; SAT-SUN 1:00, 3:15, 5:40, 8:10, 10:50; MON 2:10, 4:30, 7:30, 9:45; TUE-THU 7:30, 9:45
CITY CENTRE 9 10200-102 Ave, 780.421.7018 DATE OF ISSUE ONLY: THU, NOV 7
FRI 12:35, 3:00, 5:25, 8:00, 10:30; SAT 2:40, 5:25, 8:05, 10:30; SUN 4:55, 7:35, 10:05; MON 2:30, 4:55, 7:30, 9:55; TUE-WED 2:35, 5:10, 7:35, 10:10; THU 1:35, 4:15, 9:35
THE COUNSELOR (14A sexual content, gory violence, not rec for children) FRI-SUN, TUE 12:50, 4:05, 6:55, 9:50; MON, WED-THU 4:05, 6:55, 9:50
ABOUT TIME (14A coarse language) Closed Captioned FRI 1:50, 4:45, 7:50, 10:40; SAT 11:00, 1:50, 4:45, 7:50, 10:40; SUN 1:45, 4:40, 7:50, 10:40; MON 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:40; TUE 1:05, 4:05, 7:20, 10:25; WED 1:05, 4:05, 7:25, 10:25; THU 4:00, 6:55, 9:45; Star & Strollers Screening: Thu 1:00 LAST VEGAS (PG crude content, course language)
Closed Captioned FRI 12:25, 3:00, 5:35, 8:10; SAT 12:25, 3:00, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45; SUN 12:25, 3:00, 5:30, 8:10, 10:45; MON 2:20, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20; TUE 1:40, 4:15, 7:00, 9:50; WED 1:40, 4:15, 6:55, 9:50; THU 1:25, 3:55, 10:15; THU 6:55
ESCAPE PLAN (14A violence, coarse language)
Closed Captioned FRI 1:55, 4:35, 7:15, 10:05; SAT 11:10, 1:55, 4:35, 7:15, 10:05; SUN 1:35, 4:15, 7:15, 10:05; MON 1:30, 4:10, 10:15; TUE 1:10, 3:55, 6:45, 9:25; WED 1:10, 3:55, 6:40, 9:25; THU 1:10, 3:50, 6:40, 9:25
FREE BIRDS (G) FRI-SAT 12:15, 2:35, 4:50; SUN
12:10, 2:35, 4:50; MON 12:00, 2:15, 4:35; TUE-WED 2:30, 4:40; THU 2:25, 4:40; 3D : Closed Captioned: FRI-SUN 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 7:55, 10:15; MON 12:35, 2:50, 5:15, 7:25, 9:55; TUE 1:15, 3:25, 5:35, 7:50, 10:00; WED 2:15, 4:30, 5:50, 8:00, 10:10; THU 1:15, 3:25, 5:15, 5:35, 7:50, 10:00
THE COUNSELOR (14A sexual content, gory vio-
lence, not rec for children) Closed Captioned FRI-MON 10:00; TUE 9:15; THU 9:50
THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: TOSCA (Clas-
sification not available) SAT 10:55
12 YEARS A SLAVE (14A brutal violence, disturb-
ing content) Closed Captioned FRI 12:50, 3:55, 7:10, 10:10; SAT 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10; SUN 4:10, 7:10, 10:10; MON 12:45, 3:55, 7:05, 10:10; TUE-WED 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 10:05; THU 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05; SUN 1:50
JACKASS PRESENTS: BAD GRANDPA (14A crude content, coarse language, not rec for children) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 1:10, 3:35, 6:00, 8:20, 10:40; MON 12:50, 3:15, 5:35, 8:00, 10:20; TUE-THU 2:10, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30
ESCAPE PLAN (14A violence, coarse language)
PRINCESS 10337-82 Ave, 780.433.0728
12 YEARS A SLAVE (14A brutal violence, dis-
turbing content) FRI 6:45, 9:20; SAT-MON 2:00, 6:45, 9:20; TUE-THU 6:45, 9:20
Captioned FRI-SUN 12:40, 3:00, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15; MON-THU 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30
THANKS FOR SHARING (STC) FRI 6:50 & 9:10;
ENDER'S GAME (PG violence, not rec for young
SAT-MON 2:30,
children) Closed Captioned DAILY 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (PG violence) Closed
Captioned FRI-SUN 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20; MON-THU 12:40, 3:45, 6:50, 9:55
CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (G) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 1:50, 4:15, 6:40; MONTHU 12:25, 2:45, 5:10, 7:35
LAST VEGAS (PG crude content, course language) Closed Captioned Fri-Sun 2:10, 4:45, 7:30, 10:05; MON-THU 1:50, 4:25, 7:00, 9:40 ESCAPE PLAN (14A violence, coarse language) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 1:05, 3:55, 6:50, 9:40; 3:50, 6:40, 9:25
MON-THU 1:00,
6:50, 9:10; TUE-THU 6:50 & 9:10
SCOTIABANK THEATRE WEM WEM 8882-170 St 780.444.2400
THOR: THE DARK WORLD (PG violence, frighten-
ing scenes, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned, No passes FRI-SUN, TUE, THU 12:30, 3:30; MON 12:30, 3:15; WED 3:45; Star & Strollers Screening: WED 1:00; 3D : FRI-SUN 7:00, 10:00; MONTHU 6:30, 9:15; 3D : FRI-SUN 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30; MON-THU 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15; 3D ULTRAAVX : FRI-SUN 11:45, 2:30, 5:20, 8:10, 11:00; MON-THU 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:45
GRAVITY 3D (PG coarse language) Closed Captioned DAILY 12:50, 3:10, 5:25, 7:50, 10:10
FREE BIRDS (G) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 12:30, 2:45; MON-THU 12:45, 3:00; 3d : Fri-Sun 5:00, 7:15, 9:30; MON-THU 5:15, 7:30, 9:45
ENDER'S GAME (PG violence, not rec for young
THE COUNSELOR (14A sexual content, gory violence, not rec for children) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 9:10; MON-THU 10:00
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (PG violence) Closed
JACKASS PRESENTS: BAD GRANDPA (14A crude content, coarse language, not rec for children) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:25; MON-THU 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:40, 10:05
CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2
BLACK BEAUTY (G) SAT 11:00 GRANDIN THEATRE–ST ALBERT Grandin Mall Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert,
children) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:25; MON-THU 1:40, 4:40, 7:45, 10:25
Captioned FRI-MON 12:40, 3:50, 7:10, 10:15; TUE-WED 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:00 (G) Closed Captioned FRI-MON 12:10, 2:40, 5:00, 7:20; TUE-WED 1:30, 4:00, 6:45; THU 1:30, 4:00
CARRIE (14A gory violence, disturbing content) Closed Captioned FRI-MON 10:20; TUE-THU 9:30 LAST VEGAS (PG crude content, course language) Closed Captioned FRI-MON 12:00, 2:35, 5:10, 8:00, 10:40; THU 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 ESCAPE PLAN (14A violence, coarse language)
780.458.9822
3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30
children) DAILY 12:35, 2:45, 4:55, 7:10, 9:20
JACKASS PRESENTS: BAD GRANDPA (14A crude content, coarse language, not rec for children) DAILY 1:45 3:45 5:45 7:45 9:40
Closed Captioned FRI, SUN 1:45, 4:40, 7:45, 10:35; SAT 4:40, 7:45, 10:35; MON 1:20, 4:00, 10:35; TUE, THU 1:45, 4:45, 7:35, 10:35; WED 12:55, 3:55, 10:35
FREE BIRDS (G) FRI-MON 12:45; TUE 1:20; Star &
Strollers Screening: WED 1:00; Closed Captioned THU 1:20; 3D : FRI-MON 3:00, 5:15, 7:35, 9:50; TUE-WED 4:10, 7:25, 9:40; Closed Captioned THU 4:10, 7:25, 9:40
FRI-SUN, TUE 9:55; MON, WED-THU 9:55
frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) DAILY 1:45, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45, 9:40
JACKASS PRESENTS: BAD GRANDPA (14A crude content, coarse language, not rec for children) Closed Captioned DAILY 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:20, 10:45
ESCAPE PLAN (14A violence, coarse language)
FREE BIRDS (G) DAILY 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 6:50, 8:45
THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: TOSCA (Clas-
FRI-SUN, TUE 12:30, THU 3:50
3:50, 6:40; MON, WED 3:50, 6:40;
METRO CINEMA AT THE GARNEAU
ENDER'S GAME (PG violence, not rec for young
children) FRI-SUN, TUE 12:20, 3:40, 6:50, 9:50; MON, WED-THU 3:40, 6:50, 9:50
GRAVITY (PG coarse language) FRI-SUN, TUE 12:45 ENDER'S GAME (PG coarse language, sexual
content) FRI-SUN, TUE 12:35, 4:00, 7:15, 10:05; MON, WED-THU 4:00, 7:15, 10:05
ABOUT TIME (14A coarse language) FRI-SUN, TUE
Metro at the Garneau: 8712-109 St 780.425.9212
JOURNEY TO ITALY (STC) FRI, SUN, WED 7:00; SAT 9:15; MON 2:00; THU 9:00
GODZILLA 2000 (PG) FRI 9:00; SUN 4:00 ALL CHEERLEADERS DIE (STC) DEDfest: FRI 11:00
THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE (G) Reel Family
12:05, 3:20, 6:45, 9:40; MON, WED-THU 3:20, 6:45, 9:40
Cinema: SAT 2:00; free admission for children 12 and under
FREE BIRDS (G) FRI-SUN, TUE 12:10, WED-THU 6:35; 3D : DAILY 3:30, 9:30
REEL ROCK CLIMBERS FILM FESTIVAL (STC)
6:35; MON,
EMPIRE CLAREVIEW 10
4211-139 Ave, 780.472.7600 DATE OF ISSUE ONLY: THU, NOV 7
TWENTY FEET FROM STARDOM (PG coarse language) SAT 7:15; SUN 2:00; MON 9:15; WED 9:00 FIGHT CLUB (18A brutal violence) SUN 9:00 DR STRANGELOVE (STC) MON 4:00 MANHATTAN MURDER MYSTERY (STC) Crime
1:00, 3:25, 9:10
Watch MON 7:00
GRAVITY 3D (PG coarse language) FRI, MON-THU
ATANARJUAT: FAST RUNNER (14A sexual
6:35, 9:00; SAT-SUN 3:00, 6:35, 9:00
content) Art Gallery of Alberta; TUE 7:00pm
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (PG violence) FRI, MON-THU
SALUD! (STC) Science in Cinema; THU 6:30; free
MON-THU 7:00,
9:40; SAT-SUN 1:05, 3:45, 7:00, 9:40
THE COUNSELOR (14A sexual content, gory
violence, not rec for children) FRI, MON-THU 6:30, 9:40; SAT-SUN 12:50, 3:30, 6:30, 9:40
content) FRI, MON-THU 6:50, 9:25; SAT-SUN 12:50, 3:40, 6:50, 9:25
FREE BIRDS (G) FRI 9:15; SAT-SUN 3:40, 9:15; MON,
WED-THU 8:10; TUE 2:40, 8:10; FRI, MON-THU 6:30; SAT-SUN 12:55, 6:30; 3D: FRI, MON-THU 9:00; SAT-SUN
3:15, 9:00
THOR: THE DARK WORLD 3D (PG violence,
recommended for young children) MON 7:00
ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: RICHARD II (Classification not available) WED 7:00 THOR: THE DARK WORLD: AN IMAX 3D (PG
violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) No passes FRI-SUN 4:00, 9:30; MON9:45; WED 4:15, 9:45
TUE, THU 3:45,
LEDUC CINEMAS
130 Century Crossing, Spruce Grove 780.962.2332 DATE OF ISSUE ONLY: THU, NOV 7
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (PG violence) FRI 6:00, 8:50; SAT-SUN 12:20, 3:10, 6:00, 7:50; TUE 2:00, 5:00, 7:50
4702-50 St Leduc, 780.986-2728
THOR: THE DARK WORLD 3D (PG violence,
frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Opening 3D : THU NOV 7: 10:00; DAILY 3D 6:55, 9:35; TUE 2D : 6:55; SAT-TUE 2D : 12:55; 3D : 3:35
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Pup finds balance between punk aggression and singable hooks
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eople can't listen to us as background noise in the bar," Stefan Babcock says. "We force them to pay attention and either like it or hate it." That somewhat polarized reception is what Babcock and the rest of the punkish rockers in Pup have been facing as of late: opening for guitar-pop rockers Hollerado on this current, continent-crossing tour has put them in rooms with audiences expecting less punk bite from an opener. Not that Babcock minds some audience division. "We're the loud, obnoxious band on the tour," the frontman continues. "We just come on stage and we end up pissing half the crowd off. And the other half, by the end of our set, ends up becoming a fan. " Babcock's speaking from just outside Sudbury, the day after a Halloween gig. "We all went as batman," he notes. Pup's touring behind its self-titled debut, an album that definitely revels in its punk influences, but also proves Pup's love for a singable hook, too. "We're a big chorus band," Babcock says. "Usually [we] start with a chorus and the choruses are usually pretty poppy, but, because of the way we play and influences we have, we end up playing them in a scrappier, more aggressive way than a band like Hollerado." Still, finding that balance on the record took some figuring. Previous attempts at recording had failed to capture that aggressive part of the equation—at least to the extent the band wanted. Even this time
Fri, Nov 8 (8 pm) With Hollerado Starlite Room, $17 Pup: down with a case of the ol' face-shakes
were going to be, and so we made the record that way." Part of that scrapper mentality came from producer Dave Schiffman (whose CV includes Rage Against the Machine, Weezer and the Bronx), who encouraged the band to record live off the floor, to emulate its live approach as closely as possible in the studio. "He came out to see us live before
we ever started recording a record," Babcock recalls. "And as soon as we got off stage he was like, 'Whoa, this was not what I expected, based on the songs that you sent me. We gotta do this record live off the floor.' Schiffman encouraged the band to use all its own gear, rather than studio equipment, and had them treat recording sessions as if they were
real do-or-die gigs. "For a lot of those songs, we were running around the room, jumping around, acting like we were onstage," Babcock says. "It gets the endorphins flowing, got us all riled up, and we managed to capture some awesome takes that way."
he bad news is that most of the bumming around and writing." McMahon started Switches nearly a members of Switches are now laid off. year ago with drummer Tamar Dinner The good news is, strangely, also a short while after returning home that they're laid off. After all, a day job from Victoria, where she played a just gets in the way variation on surf of musical creativ- Sun, Nov 10 rock as part of ity, and the winter is With Wet Secrets, Physical the duo Bible an excellent time to Copies Belt Badlands. flesh out new songs Barber Ha, $10 Angela Mason and tighten up as a (No Knives) was band when you live recruited as bassist after a chance meeting at a in Edmonton. "Maybe we'll pick up a few dollars party, and Stefan Opryshko, formerly while busking," muses singer-guitarist of Montréal's Swamp Sex Robots, Tara McMahon over the phone from came in to complete the four-piece Victoria, where the four-piece are on keyboards. "We started off with not a lot of direcin the midst of a 10-day West Coast tour. "I hear that January is prime time tion," McMahon admits of the first few to play on the streets of Edmonton. months. "We were just writing songs Mostly I'm just looking forward to and messing around. Mostly I was just
happy to be on guitar exclusively after playing with Bible Belt Badlands, where I played a lot of drums. That was fun, but I'm preferring the guitar at the moment." What they tended to agree on, more or less, was punk rock, even if the songs that came out of such diverse players isn't strictly traditional punk. McMahon has written a number of songs, but the band is now writing together and Mason is also starting to supply a few. "There are a lot of different personalities and influences in the band," Dinner notes. "Our backgrounds are different but we all generally come from punk rock—and we like to be silly." Switches stick out on the Edmonton scene, showing up as they did in the midst of a mini garage-rock revival.
They've picked up a number of excellent gigs, hopped on the Hot Plains Music Festival roster and recorded an EP with Mason's former bandmate in No Knives, Terry Fairfield, who now plays with Betrayers. The end of their current tour will coincide with the EP release at Barber Ha, where they'll be playing with Wet Secrets and Physical Copies. Plans for the next half a year include hunkering down in the basement to write a full-length album, now that the songs are coming hot and fast —some written as quickly as "in five minutes," Mason interjects. "When it comes right down to it, the louder the better for me," McMahon admits.
around, it wasn't until Pup was in the studio that the band found its edges sharpening. "I think, for a debut record, a lot of the recording process is also a growing experience," Babcock says. "[Figuring out] what kind of band we wanted to be. So as we recorded it, we learned a lot about ourselves. And we realized we're a lot scrappier than we originally thought we
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PREVUE // HIP-HOP
Josh Martinez H
eartbreak often remains a steadfast source of inspiration for artists, regardless of genre. Some have built entire careers singing about those who did them wrong, and while that's no doubt a painful experience, there are often lessons beneath the heartache. Blotto, the latest from hip-hop artist Josh Martinez—now available digitally, with a physical release scheduled for November 19—is a poignant testament to self-inflicted heartbreak that came as a consequence to living what he calls the musician lifestyle. "Being on the road a lot, miscommunications, dalliances with other partners who are not necessarily your own— there's a bit of a cliché to the music life, but it's quite a bit more complex and nuanced than that in the sense that you're out there trying to pursue your hopes and dreams or spread your music or whatever it is you set out to do, but there's an obvious choice you have to make," Martinez explains, during a break from preparing to head out on the road again in support of the album. "You're going to have to take a risk and you'll see what that risk will turn up ... a lot of the time there's a devastating effect on relationships with people you really care about, and not just temporary rela-
tionships with people who come and go as the show comes and goes." The term Blotto is a colloquialism referencing alcohol, but Martinez says it's more about a drunken black-out akin to the feeling endured during heartache— at least it was in his case. He recalls waking up in the morning unable to remember what happened before everything came rushing back, making him painfully aware he was still alone and had still made the critical mistake that cost him the one he loved. "My dad used to say you don't really know what it's like to be a man until you've experienced true heartbreak," he adds. "It's what puts us in check or gives us perspective or forces changes in behaviour that allow us to grow and become better people—at least in theory."
in his youth, and has no regrets about that period in his life, but it has allowed him to regain perspective—Blotto, in many ways, is a cautionary tale from his present self to his younger self, urging him to avoid disharmony and mistrust in his life. Overall, the experience has taught Martinez the importance of balance. The artist in him still craves experience and growth, but he is still looking for a stable relationship and believes it is possible to achieve both. "A lot of it is maturity of both the individual and the partner," he states matter-of-factly. "Trust is a hell of a drug. I mean, when it comes down to it, once that's broken it's hard to get it back, and without it you don't have a relationship." MEAGHAN BAXTER
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LEST WE FORGET ... A MUSICAL TRIBUTE / SAT, NOV 9 (6:30 PM) Remember, this long weekend isn’t just about getting a day off work. The Cosmopolitan Music Society pays tribute to the Canadian Armed Forces with a musical program recognizing pivotal events through military marches and popular wartime music. (Jubilee Auditorium, $25)
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FREE YOUR MIND
Kemo Treats
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hen we first started writing rap music, we tried to do serious shit," admits G-Wiz3rd, henceforth to be referred to as G-Wiz. "We only did one song, and we were like, 'Oh, this ain't working,' because we have no struggle! We have pretty good lives. We were like, 'OK we gotta write stuff we're more familiar with: eatin' chips and takin' naps and drinkin'." Adorned with sunglasses, massive rings and a leopard-print fedora, GWiz is sitting in a remote corner of the Empress; his partner in rap, Smoovie II Smoov, is beside him wearing what could best be described as a boxer's pre-fight robe, extensively trimmed with gold flames. Chains rest on his open-air chest-hair, and he also has shades on inside the bar. Together, the pair form Kemo Treats, the only faux-gangster rap game in town, or, at the very least, the most visible and ambitious. Their lyrics are goofy (for the most part), their beats target the dance floor and their influences run between old and new hip hop. Like a rap-world BA Johnston, Kemo Treats celebrates its chosen style by replacing its typical subject matter with more irreverent offerings—Kemo song titles include "Get My Snack On" And "Textin' on the Dance Floor." It's been three years since the duo released its debut, Straight Gold. Its follow-up is a bit more focused than that original offering. The Essentials conceptually centers around Kemo Treats' favourite indulgences—which are snacks, mostly. "For a while it was gonna be almost all about food and drinking," G-Wiz explains, noting they did stray a bit from that subject matter as the album developed.
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"Wino" has an impressive 50 000 views on YouTube—and it showcases a greater mastery of the beats and styles they're drawing from. The release show this weekend will, in keeping with the band's image, celebrate its love of excesses: Avenue Theatre is being outfitted with a catwalk for the occasion, and Kemo Treats will debut a rough cut of the music video for "Chips in the Hot Tub." The appeal of making music that's more playful in its nature, they note, comes down to energy and the ability to skew a genre from within. "I find it more entertaining," Smoov says. "I don't like dwelling on negative shit; might as well make something that's fun to play at a show. The live show's a big part of it—we want to be able to have something high-energy and fun." "I think, in some ways," G-Wiz adds. "We expose the ridiculousness of mainstream music in what we do."
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Justin Rutledge T
en years on from when he first without his guitar arrived as a heralded singer-song- to hide behind. “Ten years ago writer and Justin Rutledge is afraid definitely that he may already know his place in I couldn’t do the annals of Canadian music. “The sad bastard, that’s where I this,” he ad“I’m seem to be slotted,” he says with wry mits. amusement from Toronto. “I think I g e n e r a l l y may have sealed my fate with my last the sole creator when album on that one.” Last year’s Valleyheart does indeed I do music, theatre have its share of slow, considered but ballads to add to the rapidly grow- involves trusting back catalog of similar Rutledge ing in large enofferings, but the Toronto resident is sembles, and reright to dismiss the idea that he only ally relying on other writes “sad bastard” songs. Now that people. It’s definitely listeners have had a decade in which a different feeling, and I to pigeonhole him that’s where Rut- hope to get the chance to do more of it in the ledge has been placed for casual Sat, Nov 9 (7 pm) future.” Rutledge is exlisteners, however, With Aidan Knight and all the literate Royal Alberta Museum Theatre, panding in other lyrics in the world $20 (advance), $25 (door) ways as well. At the moment he’s won’t change that. “I remember getworking with ting the cover of an alt-weekly in Cal- a director friend who requested gary back when I started and thinking that the musician come help with ‘Wow, this is amazing, it’s going to be a soundtrack. This is new territory a great ride.’ But as one of my friends for Rutledge, but as with his theatre once told me ‘You only get to be the work he’s willing to say yes to it. “I say yes to most things right now,” golden boy once.’ Now that I’m not the golden boy what I do has become he chuckles. “This is a movie of the something else. I look at songwriting week, and it’s definitely a first for me, in a different way. It’s a job, but it’s a but I’m a musician, that’s how I make really nice job. I mean, I make ends my living. It’s exciting, and there’s no meet, but I’m also trying to fight for template to work from.” my version of what I can contribute to the world musically.” There was definitely a template Lately Rutledge has found other when Rutledge decided to check out ways in which to contribute to the the songwriting scene in Nashville a world of art at large. In the last few number of years back, and it wasn’t years he’s worked in the theatrical to his taste. adaptation of Michael Ondaatje’s “Whenever I left those sessions I novel Divisadero, and more recently always felt as though I’d done somein Max Frisch's The Arsonists at Ca- thing wrong. It was a physical feeling, nadian Stage. He’s enjoyed the expe- actually; I felt tired and vacant. It’s rience of creating a new work with something I can do but I don’t really a group of people, while simultane- think I want to. You need a certain ously terrified at appearing onstage type of personality for that. I tend to
G8 Sat, Nov 9 (8 pm) Muttart Hall, Alberta College, $25 – $30 This G8 is a whole different kind of international summit than the one we're accustomed to hearing about. In this case, the Canadian Guitar Quartet and the Salzburger Gitarrenquartett have come together and become known the world over for their respective six-string veracity. Prior to the G8 show in Edmonton, Philip Candelaria shared his Firsts, Lasts and Favourites with Vue.
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First album
[My] very first I think was The White Album by the Beatles and the first classical guitar album was Julian Bream's Greatest Hits.
First concert
My parents took me to see Andrés Segovia play a concert in Seattle, and I also remember seeing Jimi Hendrix perform in Vancouver with Soft Machine and Vanilla Fudge opening for him.
Last album
This is funny, but the last one I bought was the G8 album that we will be releasing in Edmonton at our November 9 concert. It's because I had no gift copies left and I really wanted a good friend to have a copy, so I paid for it!
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He's really not that sad
trust my gut on these things, and when I feel like I’ve just stolen an old woman’s purse after spending a week down there then I probably shouldn’t be doing that. I’m not saying that what I do is anything new or fresh; I’m not reinventing the wheel, I’m slowly turning the wheel.” With Valleyheart Rutledge switched to Outside Music (where he’s starting on his sixth record, a covers album), leaving behind four albums and most of his twenties with Six Shooter Records. The label jump was amicable, with Rutledge averring that he simply wanted to see what it was like to work in a new environment. Six Shooter head Shauna de Cartier has given her blessing on the change, and seems to be as strong a supporter of the songwriter as ever. “They’re great people, and a great team,” says Rutledge. “So are Outside. It’s kind of a boring story, you know? Both Outside and Six Shooter give a lot of liberties to their acts. Nobody ever insists on anything. It just felt like time for a change.” TOM MURRAY
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Last concert
I see concerts from the stage all the time because I'm playing in them. The last one was with the Canadian Guitar Quartet at the Colours of Music festival in Barrie a few days ago.
Favourite album
When you are a professional musician there are SO many great albums that you can name. Over the years I think I've enjoyed CDs by the Assad Guitar Duo as much as anything, and if you really want to pin me down for a truly great album, I would have to say the Assad brothers' Baroque album.
Favourite musical guilty pleasure I'm pretty guilt free! OK, rockin' out to Stevie Ray Vaughan. V
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ear the name Matthew Good its title track as a single and the ones and certain song titles are like- to follow are a collection heavily inly to come to mind—"Hello Time fluenced by the Pixies, the ReplaceBomb" and "Load Me Up" among ments and early Afghan Wigs. "No one really makes rock muthem—and with a back catalogue as sizable as the one he's amassed sic with that kind of abandon, you over the years, it can make creat- know?" Good says. "I listened to a ing a set list a difficult task, and his whole bunch of stuff I grew up with tour for his latest record Arrows of and just the theory of intent, things that people would do and it wouldn't Desire was no exception. "You have so much material and you sound contrived ... that was their have a record that you really like and thing and that's what made it special. There's kind of you want to play a lot of the stuff off Thu, Nov 14 (8 pm) a thing in music that record, so it With Gentlemen Husbands right now where becomes a difficult Jubilee Auditorium, it's this cooler balance," he says $46.40 – $53.90 than cool thing during a day off in going on and I Kingston, ON, adddon't trust anying that he flip-flops back and forth thing like that. I want to feel like I'm between his past hits and will choose being given the straight goods." "Load Me Up" over "Hello Time Bomb" any day, feeling he does that one bet- This cooler-than-cool façade is what ter. "I don't do 'Automatic.' Obviously Good sees as indie music and its os'Born Losers' is in there and so is 'Ap- tensible subgenres—"Rock 'n' roll's paritions.' I don't really do 'Strange rock 'n' roll's rock 'n' roll; I don't think Days,' and if I do I just do it acousti- you can call it anything else but fuckcally by myself ... I have certain things in' rock 'n' roll," he says with a raspy I demand I play for myself. My song laugh. On Arrows of Desire, he seems every show is 'Non Populus.' I will al- to have applied his own advice, getways play that during the show. It's ting back to basics with straightformy favourite song; it's the best song ward rock tunes, a conscious shift he made after wrapping up touring for I've ever written." But, of course, there's a whole crop Lights of Endangered Species. "There was just something in me of new songs to get out there. So far, Arrows of Desire has launched that wanted to simplify and you
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know, that just goes back to your roots, right, when we used to just be four guys in some shitty fuckin' rat-infested rehearsal space in Vancouver," he says. While the melodies favour simplicity over contrived complexities, Good's lyrics delve into commentary on politics and society while remaining ambiguous enough to allow listeners to form their own opinions and conclusions. "You know, you'd be surprised how many people talk to me and they ask about, say, 'Garden of Knives,' and they'll say, 'Politically, what are you talking about?' and I'll say 'What are you talking about? ... It's a song about sex,'" he says with an amused laugh, adding that he likes that aspect of songwriting, that people will always extrapolate what they will, whether or not it matches with the original intent. "I've made some pretty overt political statements in the past and I'm not going to say there aren't certain things, given my involvement in that arena—just on a personal level of interesting—that I don't interject into certain things or don't unconsciously end up in them. But having said that, this one, it isn't something conscious ... I just kind of went with it."
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Classical ARDEN Beyond Bach: Matt Haimovitz; 8pm; sold out
JUBILEE AUDITORIUM
Lest We Forget… A Musical Tribute: Cosmopolitan Music Society (CMS); 6:30pm (silent auction in support of honouring troops); 7:30pm (concert); $25 (at area Legion branches, Cosmopolitan Music Society)
MUTTART HALL– Alberta College
Edmonton Classical Guitar Society: G8 Guitar (guitar quartet); 8-10pm; $30/$25 (student/senior/member) at TIX on the Square, Avenue Guitars, Acoustic Music Shop, ADW Music–St Albert), ECGS, door
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SAT NOV 9
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SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM Swing Dance
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SUITE 69 Stella Saturday: retro, old school, top 40 beats with DJ Lazy, guests
TEMPLE Step’d Up
Saturdays with Lolcatz, Yaznil, Badman Crooks, Ootz
UNION HALL Celebrity
Saturdays: every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous
Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays
SUN NOV 10 ARTERY Ken Stead (CD
release party), Ken Stead with band, Braden Gates, Erin Kay, Crowded City, Skyline; 7-11pm; $15
BARBER HA Hot Plains’
event: the Wet Secrets / Switches, Physical Copies; 9pm
BLACKJACK’S ROADHOUSE–Nisku
Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett
BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ
Sunday Brunch: Cramer Brothers; 9am-3pm; donations
BLUES ON WHYTE Mississippi Heat
BRIXX BAR CFR
showcase: Alberta Recording Artists: Sarah Beth Keeley Lauren Mayell Jaydee Bixby Quentin Reddy Frank Eagle Dirt Road Angels Chris LeBlanc Jimmy Whiffen Lonesome Dove; $10 (door)
CASINO EDMONTON Hey Romeo (country); 9pm
CASINO YELLOWHEAD
The Jess Valdez Switch Band (Filipino music); 8pm
CHA ISLAND TEA CO
Live on the Island: Rhea March hosts open mic and Songwriter’s stage; starts with a jam session; every Sun, 7pm
CITY HALL A Musical
Salute: A Tribute to Our Veterans: The Royal Canadian Artillery Band; 2pm; free
COOK COUNTY CFR
Crown Royal Wrap Up Party: Domino, Codie Prevost; 8pm (door)
DUGGAN’S IRISH PUB
Celtic Music with Duggan’s House Band 5-8pm
EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE
EVOgirls Drag Show; drag queens and DJ Dan; 9pm-2am
FANDANGO’S Sun
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FESTIVAL PLACE Leon
NEWCASTLE PUB Top 40 requests every Sat with DJ Sheri
Russell (blues); 7:30pm; $65 (table)/$60 (box)/$55 (theatre)
PAWN SHOP Transmission
HOG’S DEN PUB Rockin’
Saturdays: Indie rock, new wave, classic punk with DJ Blue Jay and Eddie Lunchpail; 9pm (door); free (before 10pm)/$5 (after 10pm); 1st Sat each month
the Hog Jam: Hosted by Tony Ruffo; every Sun, 3:30-7pm
RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests
O’BYRNE’S Open mic
NEWCASTLE PUB Sun
Soul Service (acoustic jam): Willy James and Crawdad Cantera; 3-6:30pm
every Sun; 9:30pm-1am
ON THE ROCKS Long
Weekend Sunday: the Dungarees
PAWN SHOP
iVardensphere (CD release, alt dance electronic rock), Comaduster, Borys, Booming Tree Taiko; 8pm; $12
RED PIANO Special long
weekend Dueling piano performance; 8pm
RICHARD’S PUB Sun Jam hosted by Andrew White and the Joint Chiefs; 4-8pm
THE RIG Every Sun Jam
hosted by Better Us than Strangers; 5-9pm
SMOKEHOUSE BBQ
Hair of the Dog acoustic Sun Jam with Bonedog and Bearcat; every Sun; 2-6pm
Classical ROBERTSON-WESLEY UNITED CHURCH Baroque Chamber Music Treasures (Fundraising Event for the Alberta Baroque Music Society); 3pm
ST ANDREW’S UNITED CHURCH Of War And Peace: A Joyful Noise: first edition choir; 3pm; $10 at TIX on the Square
DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:
Soul Sundays: A fantastic voyage through ‘60s and ‘70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy
LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 8
Year AnniversaryL Teenage Mutants Free
MON NOV 11
with DJ Phoenix and MJ with Sleepless DJ, DJ Breeze and more every Mon; 9pm-2am
BRITTANY’S LOUNGE PJ Perry every Wed; 8-11pm; $10
DV8 T.F.W.O. Mondays: Roots industrial,Classic Punk,Rock, Electronic with Hair of the Dave
THE BUCKINGHAM Look Away, the Crypt; 9pm; no cover
TUE NOV 12
Jam: musical styles from around the globe with Miguel and friends; musicians are invited to bring their personal touch to the mix every Wed
BLUES ON WHYTE Russell Jackson
BOHEMIA Acoustic
Tuesday: Samara Von Rad, Dan Smith, Oliver Buck, Wares
BRIXX BAR Ruby Tuesdays
with host Mark Feduk; $5 after 8pm; this week guests:
DRUID IRISH PUB
Jamhouse Tues hosted by Chris Wynters, guest FIDDLER’S ROOST
Tuesday Nights fiddle circle jam; all levels of musicians welcome; 7:30pm; $3 cover
J+H PUB Acoustic open mic night every Tue hosted by Lorin Lynne; Everyone will have 10-15 minutes to play JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Tedeschi Trucks Band
L.B.’S PUB Tue Variety Night Open stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm
LEAF BAR AND GRILL
Tuesday Moosehead/ Barsnbands open stage hosted by Mark Ammar; every Tue; 7:30-11:30pm O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam
every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm
OVERTIME Sherwood Park The Campfire Hero’s
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sleeman
(acoustic rock, country, top 40); 9pm-2am every Tue; no cover
BLUES ON WHYTE
the Nervous Flirts: Sing with the band; no cover
Mon: live music monthly; no cover
Russell Jackson
DUGGAN’S IRISH PUB
Singer/songwriter open stage every Mon; 8pm; host changes weekly
FIDDLER’S ROOST
Monday Nights Open stage hosted by Norm Sliter’s Capital City Jammers; all styles and skill levels welcome; 7:30pm; $3 cover
JUBILEE AUDITORIUM
Edmonton Folk Music Festival presents: Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell with Richard Thompson; tickets at TicketMaster
OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Monday Open Stage PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL
Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm; contact Vi Kallio 780.456.8510
ROUGE RESTO-LOUNGE
Open Mic Night with Darrek Anderson from the Guaranteed; every Mon; 9pm
Classical CONVOCATION HALL A
War Memorial: Enterprise Quartet: 7:30-8:30pm; free; enterprisequartet.com
WINSPEAR CENTRE Always & Forever: Richard Eaton Singers: Leonard Ratzlaff (conductor), Jeremy Spurgeon (organ); 2:30pm; $30-$35 (adult)/$28-$33 (student/senior, Military) at TIX on the Square
DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:
Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay
CROWN PUB A Sexy Night
VUEWEEKLY NOV 7 – NOV 13, 2013
RED PIANO Jamoeke with YARDBIRD SUITE
Tuesday Session: Don Berner Quartet; 7:30pm (door), 8pm (show); $5 (door)
DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:
alternative retro and not-so-retro, electronic and Euro with Eddie Lunchpail; Wooftop: The Night with No Name featuring DJs Rootbeard, Raebot, Wijit and guests playing tasteful, eclectic selections
CROWN PUB Underground at the Crown Tuesday: Trueskool and live hip-hop with residents Jae Maze, Xaolin, Frank Brown; monthly appearances by guests Shawn Langley, Locution Revolution, and Northside Clan DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly, Hallowe’en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue RED STAR Experimental
Indie rock, hip hop, electro with DJ Hot Philly; every Tue
SUITE 69 Rockstar Tuesdays: Mash up and Electro with DJ Tyco, DJ Omes with weekly guest DJs
WED NOV 13 ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:
Glitter Gulch: live music once a month; On the Patio: Funk and Soul with Doktor Erick every Wed; 9pm
BLUES ON WHYTE Russell Jackson
CROWN PUB The Dan
DUGGAN’S IRISH PUB Wed open mic with host Duff Robison
ELEPHANT AND CASTLE–Whyte Ave
Open mic every Wed (unless there’s an Oilers game); no cover
EMPRESS ALE HOUSE Nadine Kellman & The Black Wonders; 9pm; no cover
FANDANGO’S Wed open stage hosted by Michael Gress and Cody Noula; Original artist showcase at 9pm FIDDLER’S ROOST
Wednesday Nights Folk and Roots Open Stage: amateur and professional musicians welcome; 7:30pm; $3
HOOLIGANZ Open stage every Wed with host Michael Gress; 9pm J+H PUB Acoustic open mic night hosted by Lorin Lynne JOHN L. HAAR THEATRE MacEwan
University’s Faculty Concert; 7:30pm; $21.75/$16.75 (student/senior) at door, TIX on the Square
LEAF BAR AND GRILL Wed variety night: with guitarist Gord Matthews; every Wed, 8pm
MERCURY ROOM Little Flower Open Stage every Wed with Brian Gregg; 8pm-12
NEW WEST HOTEL
Free classic country dance lessons every Wed, 7-9pm
OVERTIME Sherwood
Park Jason Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Wed; no cover PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL
Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:3011pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member)
RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm1am; $5 THE RIG Open jam every Wed hosted by Will Cole; 8pm-12am
ZEN LOUNGE Jazz
Wednesdays: Kori Wray and Jeff Hendrick; every Wed; 7:30-10pm; no cover
DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main
Floor: RetroActive Radio:
Alternative ‘80s and ‘90s, post punk, new wave, garage, Brit, mod, rock and roll with LL Cool Joe
BRIXX BAR Really Good... Eats and Beats: every Wed with DJ Degree and Friends THE COMMON The Wed
Experience: Classics on Vinyl with Dane
NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed
RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed
TEMPLE Wild Style Wed:
Hip hop open mic hosted by Kaz and Orv; $5
EVENTS WEEKLY EMAIL YOUR FREE LISTINGS TO: liSTinGS@VueWeeklY.COm FAX: 780.426.2889 DEADLINE: FriDaY aT 3Pm
3rd Sat, 1-4pm • Injured Workers in Pursuit of Justice denied by WCB
Community Small Hall, 8102-80 Ave • Movie Monday: In Organic We Trust : Nov 18, 7-9pm
EDMONTON NATURE CLUB • King’s
TOASTMASTERS
University College Atrium, 9125-50 St • 780.459.6389 • Conservation of the ‘Canadian’ Burrowing Owl, featuring speaker Geoff Holroyd • Nov 15, 7pm • Donation
EDMONTON NEEDLECRAFT GUILD •
Avonmore United Church Basement, 82 Ave, 79 St • edmNeedlecraftGuild.org • Classes/ workshops, exhibitions, guest speakers, stitching groups for those interested in textile arts • Meet the 2nd Tue each month, 7:30pm
COMEDY BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Underdog
EDMONTON UKULELE CIRCLE • Bogani
BRIXX Comedy and Music once a month as a
ELIZABETH’S ANTIQUE AND COLLECTIBLE SALE • Alberta Aviation
Comedy show: Alternating hosts • Every Thu, 8-11pm • No cover part of Ruby Tuesdays
CENTURY CASINO • 13103 Fort Rd •
780.481.9857 • Open Mic Night: Every Thu; 7:30-9pm
COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertain-
ment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Thu: 8:30pm; Fri: 8:30pm; Sat: 8pm and 10:30pm • Paul Sveen; Nov 7-9 • Vilmos; Nov 14-16
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 • Bret Ernst; until Nov 10 • Sam Tripoli; Nov 13-17
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 JUBILEE AUDITORIUM • 11455-87 Ave
• Just for Laughs–Comedy Tour 2013: The Comedy Rat Pack Edition: Darrin Rose, Tom Pap, Alonzo Bodden, Orny Adams, Ben Seidman • Nov 15, 8pm
MYER HOROWITZ THEATRE • 8900-114 St • CBC's The Irrelevant Show • Sat, Nov 2, 6:30pm (door), 7:30pm (show) • $12-$23 at Ticketfly.com
OVERTIME PUB • 4211-106 St • Open mic comedy anchored by a professional MC, new headliner each week • Every Tue • Free RIVER CREE • Joe Rogan, standup comedian; Nov 9, 6pm (door), 7:30pm (show); Sold out ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • Sterling Scott every Wed, 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
SIDELINERS PUB.CONNIE’S COMEDY
• Connie’s Comedy Travelling Open Comedy mic with Ken Valgardson co-hosting; call 780.914.8966 to get on roster • Nov 12, 8pm
VAULT PUB • 8214-175 St • Comedy with
Café, 2023-111 St • 780.440.3528 • 3rd Sun each month; 2:30-4pm • $5
Museum, 11410 Kingsway Ave • Pop culture, vintage clothing, collectibles, shabby chic, antique furniture, militaria, jewellery, petroliana, art glass, vintage toys, china, LPs, sports memorabilia, coins, stamps, watches, comics • Nov 1-2, Fri 2-8pm; Sat 10-4pm • $5
FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican
Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.465.2019, 780.634.5526 • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm
HOME–Energizing Spiritual Community for Passionate Living • Garneau/ Ashbourne Assisted Living Place, 11148-84 Ave • Home: Blends music, drama, creativity and reflection on sacred texts to energize you for passionate living • Every Sun, 3-5pm
LOTUS QIGONG • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu
MADELEINE SANAM FOUNDATION • Faculté St Jean, Rm 3-18 • 780.490.7332 • madeleine-sanam.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 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, 3728-106 St • 780.435.0845 • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm
ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey
Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, 780.451.1755; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free
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
SEIZE EVERY MOMENT • Grey
X-WRECKS/CONNIE’S COMEDY • Connie’s Comedy Travelling Open Comedy mic with Tim Koslo co-hosting; call 780.914.8966 to get on roster • Nov 8, 8pm
Nuns' Community Hospital, Mill Woods • covenanthealth.ca/news-resources/whatshappening.html?WHK=626 • Annual Prime Time for Women Conference: Freefall Memoir Writing, Healthy Eating–Gluten-free or Not, Conflict Management and more • Nov 9, 8:30am-3:30pm • $35 (incl lunch)
ZEN LOUNGE • 12923-97 St • The Ca$h
SEVENTIES FOREVER CLUB • Call
Liam Creswick and Steve Schulte • Every Thu, at 9:30pm
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
• 8307-109 St • edmontonamnesty.org • Meet the 4th Tue each month, 7:30pm (no meetings in Jul, Aug) E: amnesty@edmontonamnesty.org for more info • Free
ARGENTINE TANGO DANCE AT FOOT NOTES STUDIO • Foot Notes Dance Studio
(South side), 9708-45 Ave • 780.438.3207 • virenzi@shaw.ca • Argentine Tango with Tango Divino: beginners: 7-8pm; intermediate: 8-9pm; Tango Social Dance (Milonga): 9pm-12 • Every Fri, 7pm-midnight • $15
BRAIN TUMOUR PEER SUPPORT GROUP • Mount Zion Lutheran Church, 11533-135 St NW • braintumour.ca • 1.800.265.5106 ext. 234 • Support group for brain tumour survivors and their families and caregivers. Must be 18 or over • 3rd Mon every month; 7-8:45pm • Free
CANADIAN INJURED WORKERS ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA (CIWAA) •
Augustana Lutheran Church, 107 St, 99 Ave • canadianinjuredworkers.com • Meeting every
587.520.3833 for location • deepsoul.ca • Combining music, garage sales, nature, common sense, and kindred karma to revitalize the inward persona • Every Wed, 7-8:30pm
SHERWOOD PARK WALKING GROUP +
• Fabulous Facilitators
2nd Fl, Canada 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 Toastmasters Club:
WILD ROSE ANTIQUE COLLECTORS SOCIETY • Delwood Community Hall, 7515
Delwood Rd • wildroseantiquecollectors.ca • Collecting and researching items from various periods in the history of Edmonton. Presentations after club business. Visitors welcome • Meets the 4th Mon of every month (except Jul & Dec), 7:30pm
WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old
Strathcona Farmers' Market • Silent vigil the 1st and 3rd Sat, 10-11am, each month, stand in silence for a world without violence
LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS ALBERTA SOLAR PV PERFORMANCE– THE REAL SCOOP • Grant MacEwan Uni-
versity CN Theatre, 105 St Bldg, Rm 5-142 • 780.378.6178 • What is the actual economic value of solar electricity in Alberta presented by Solar engineer Gordon Howell • Nov 13, 7-8:30pm • Free
GLOBAL HEALTH FILM SERIES • globaled.ualberta.ca/events • 1-080 Katz Atrium, U of A: Fire in the Blood; Nov 7 • ECHA 2-420, U of A: Heart of Sky, Heart of Earth; Nov 14 • ECHA 2-420, U of A: Water Wars: When Drought, Flood & Greed Collide; Nov 21 • ECHA 2-420, U of A: A Walk to Beautiful ; Nov 28 THE EXCEPTIONAL LIFE AND TIMES OF WINSTON CHURCHILL • Strathcona
County Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • Churchill As A Military Man: presented by Rod MacLeod; Sun, Nov 10, 2-4pm; $10 (adult)/$5 (student) at door • Churchill And Stalin: A Tricky Alliance and a Common Enemy: presented by Rod MacLeod; Sun, Nov 17, 2-4pm; $10 (adult)/$5 (student) at door
A FOOD-BODY LOVE AFFAIR • King Edward Community League Small Hall, 8008-81 St • Eating Your Way to Your Greatest Potential presented by Blair Francis Armstrong • Nov 13, 7-9pm • $25; register: https://www. eventbrite.ca/event/8885812705 REGIONAL PLANNING SPEAKER SERIES • Ledcor Theatre, AGA, 2 Sir Winston
Churchill Sq • What is an Innovative City?: panel discussion with Kevin Jones, Rob Shields, Chris Lumb, Mark Hall • Nov 19, 5:30-7pm
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
• Grace United Church annex, 6215-104 Ave • 780.479.5519 • Low-cost, fun and friendly weight loss group • Meets every Mon, 6:3pm
THOUGHTFUL TUESDAY • King Edward
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 ILLUSIONS SOCIAL CLUB • Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave • 780.387.3343 • edmontonillusions.ca • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri each month, 7:30-9pm
INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campusbased organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-identified and queer (LGBTQ) faculty, graduate student, academic, straight allies and support staff • 3rd Thu each month (fall/ winter terms): Speakers Series. E: kwells@ ualberta.ca LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408-
MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB •
Museum Theatre, 12845-102 Ave • Lecture series: Unearthing...the discovery of Richard III's remains, an Arctic shipwreck, life as a Neanderthal and human history at the end of the ice age • Nov 7 • $8 (per lecture)/$25 (four lectures, one series) at royalalbertamuseum.ca
WHYS AND HOW TO'S OF A RAW FOOD DIET • King Edward Community League Small
TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS)
FLASH NIGHT CLUB • 10018-105 St •
TIME TRAVELLERS XX • Royal Alberta
SOCIETY OF EDMONTON ATHEISTS
Ave • 780.604.7572 • Swing Dance at Sugar Foot Stomp: beginner lesson followed by dance every Sat, 8pm (door)
105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • eplc.webs.com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome
St • To raise awareness about the concerns on seniors care in Alberta • Dec 11, 7-9pm
WASKAHEGAN TRAIL HIKE • waskahegantrail.ca • Capilano McDonalds, 9857-50 St: Hike with Hike leader Michelle 780.417.6928; Nov 10, 9:45am; $5 (carpool) • Meet at McDonalds, 14920-87 Ave: Explore the Devon Ravine trails with hike leader JoAnne 780.487.0645; Sun, Nov 17; $5 Carpool
SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM • 10545-81
EPLC FELLOWSHIP PAGAN STUDY GROUP • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-
124 St • edmlivingpositive.ca • 1.877.975.9448/780.488.5768 • Confidential peer support to people living with HIV • Tue, 7-9pm: Support group • Daily drop-in, peer counselling
SENIORS CARE PROVINCIAL SPEAKING TOUR • Lions Seniors Centre, 111 Ave, 113
50 • Meet inside Millennium Place, Sherwood Place • Weekly outdoor walking group; starts with a 10-min discussion, followed by a 30 to 40-min walk through Centennial Park, a cool down and stretch • Every Tue, 8:30am • $2/ session (goes to the Alzheimer’s Society of Alberta) • Stanley A. Milner Library, Centennial Rm (bsmt); edmontonatheists.ca; E: info@ edmontonatheists.ca; Monthly roundtable 1st Tue each month
• 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
Hall, 81 St, 80 Ave • Earth's General Store • Nov 20, 7-9pm
QUEER AFFIRM SUNNYBROOK–Red Deer •
Sunnybrook United Church, Red Deer • 403.347.6073 • Affirm welcome LGBTQ people and their friends, family, and allies meet the 2nd Tue, 7pm, each month
BEERS FOR QUEERS • Empress Ale House,
9912 Whyte Ave • Meet the last Thu each month
Community Small Hall, 8102-80 Ave • Movie Monday: • Movie Monday: Gasland; Nov 11, 7-9pm • In Organic We Trust; Nov 18 • Free; pre-register
BISEXUAL WOMEN'S COFFEE GROUP
THOUGHTFUL TUESDAY • King Edward
BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725 Jasper Ave
• A social group for bi-curious and bisexual women every 2nd Tue each month, 8pm • groups.yahoo.com/group/bwedmonton
geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu
PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • A safe, welcoming, and non-judgemental drop-in space, support programs and resources offered for members of the GLBTQ community, their families and friends • Daily: Community drop-in; support and resources. Queer library: borrowing privileges: Tue-Fri 12-9pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, closed Sun-Mon; Queer HangOUT (a.k.a. QH) youth drop-in: Tue-Fri 3-8pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, youth@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Counselling: Free, short-term by registered counsellors every Wed, 5:30-8:30pm, info/bookings: 780.488.3234 • Knotty Knitters: Knit and socialize in safe, accepting environment, all skill levels welcome; every Wed 6-8pm • QH Game Night: Meet people through board game fun; every Thu 6-8pm • QH Craft Night: every Wed, 6-8pm • QH Anime Night: Watch anime; every Fri, 6-8pm • Movie Night: Open to everyone; 2nd and 4th Fri each month, 6-9pm • Women’s Social Circle: Social support group for female-identified persons +18 years in the GLBT community; new members welcome; 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm each month; andrea@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Men Talking with Pride: Support and social group for gay and bisexual men to discuss current issues; every Sun 7-9pm; robwells780@hotmail.com • TTIQ: a support and information group for all those who fall under
VUEWEEKLY NOV 7 – NOV 13, 2013
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 CALDER REMEMBRANCE DAY • Calder
Cenotaph, behind Calder Seniors Drop-In Society, 12963-120 St • 780.451.1925 • Service (inter-denominational church, 10am); Parade (10:45am); Cenotaph Service (11am); followed by reception at Calder Seniors for World War I and II songs by Calder Cuties • Nov 11
CFR 40: CANADIAN FINALS RODEO • Rexall Place, Northlands Park, 78 St, 115 Ave • Until Nov 10 CHRISTMAS IN THE COUNTRY • Various Venues throughout South Rural Strathcona • Christmas Market Activities: Crafts, sleigh rides, food markets, 10am-3pm; Light-Up South Strathcona: 3:30-5:30pm; refreshments, family fun, live entertainment, fireworks, and ofcourse Santa • Nov 23, 10am-5:30pm 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)
DENIM AND DIAMONDS GALA • Shaw
Conference Centre • in support of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation • Nov 15
LEGION LEGACY • ACCA Centre, 3591‐91 St • 780.708.3665/780.916.5698 • South Side Legion Boxing Club competition • Nov 10 • $15/$10 (student/senior)/$5 (Veteran) LIGHT UP YOUR LIFE • 780.963.5691 • Fundraiser in support of palliative/hospice and continuing care in Stony Plain, Spruce Grove, Wabamun, Seba Beach, Parkland County • Nov 1 • Donation boxes at WestView Health Centre, Good Samaritan Facilities in Stony Plain and Spruce Grove; $10 donation will light a bulb on one of the campaign symbols that will glow in memory of your loved one • OrienT reSTauranT: 4305 South Park Dr (across from WestView Health Centre): Buffet: Nov 18, 11am2:30pm; proceeds to Light Up Yur Life Society MAGPIE BAZAAR • The Bower, 10538 Jasper Ave • magpietheatre.ca • Local Art Auction, Living Spectacle, DJ Dance Party: Fundraiser for Magpie Theatre's collaborative projects melding performance with visual imagery, music and dance • Nov 7, 7pm • Tickets at Blackbyrd, magpitheatre.ca
PERUVIAN DINNER–LATIN MUSIC NIGHT • Yardbird Suite, 11 Tommy Banks
Way • Marco Claveria Project, others • Nov 17, 5-9pm • $30 (single)/$50 (for two in adv)/$40 (single)/$60 (for two door); fundraiser for Standing Up for Peruvian Children
PURE SPECULATION FESTIVAL • Ramada Conference Centre, 11834 Kingsway Ave • A science and fiction festival • Nov 15-17 • $40 (adv)/$50 (door)/$30 (daily pass) • STeamPunk Ball: Ramada Hotel • Featuring Punch Drunk Cabaret (swing-rockabilly band), the Robed Rogues of the Airship Vargos, Sugar Swing Dance Club. Enthusiasts dress-up in science fiction-enhanced Victorian fashions • Nov 16, 8pm • $20 (adv)/$25 (door)/$15 (with Pure Speculation weekend pass) TIMERAISER • ATB Financial Arts Barn, 10330-84 Ave • Volunteer fair, silent art auction, night on the town • Nov 9, 6-10:30pm • $10 • facebook.com/events/549202145153185/? source=1 XMAS CRAFT AND GIFT SALE • BritanniaYoungstown Community League Hall, 15927105 Ave • Hand made crafts and gifts • Nov 16 10am-4pm • Free
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Habitat For Humanity is building a pool of volunteers to help us with renovations at our newest ReStore. Flexible hours, no experience necessary If interested, please contact Evan at ehammer@hfh.org or call (780) 451-3416 Help someone in crisis take that first step towards a solution. The Support Network`s Crisis Support Centre is looking for volunteers for Edmonton`s 24-Hour Distress Line. Interested or want to learn more? Contact Lindsay at 780-732-6648 or visit our website: www.TheSupportNetwork.com Help 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 Volunteers needed at CHED Santas Anonymous
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CHED Santas Anonymous has been delivering the spirit of Christmas to the less fortunate children for 59 years in the City of Edmonton. To help with this work, we are looking for people to volunteer as Toy Pickup Drivers collecting our toy donations from various locations around the city. To be eligible for this work, you must have a vehicle, show us your valid driver’s license and insurance and be willing to undergo a police check. You will need your vehicle for two or three trips a week to your location, where you will fill up the supplied bags with toy donations and bring them to our warehouse at Northgate Industries (12345 121 ST). For more information, visit our website at http://santasanonymous.ca , email
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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 Growing Facilitators Volunteer Opportunity Sustainable Food Edmonton offers a Little Green Thumbs indoor gardening program to schools and childcare agencies and we are looking for volunteers. A green thumb is not a pre-requisite. However, gardening experience and a passion for children and youth are an asset. For info and volunteer application form: www.sustainablefoodedmonton.o rg
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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 Needed for our Long Term Care residence, daytime volunteers for various activities or just for a friendly visit! Please contact Janice at Extendicare Eaux Claires for more details jgraff@extendicare.com (780) 472 - 1106 Room to Read is changing children’s lives in Asia and Africa through literacy programs and gender equality. Join our Edmonton team and help us plan events to support our work, and spread the word about our amazing results. Edmonton@roomtoread.org www.roomtoread.org Volunteers needed at CHED Santas Anonymous CHED Santas Anonymous has been delivering the spirit of Christmas to the less fortunate children for 59 years in the City of Edmonton. To help with this work, we have been granted a booth at the Edmonton Christmas Show 2013 which runs from Nov 28 to Dec 1st. We are looking for volunteers to help us man the booth. Shifts are mornings, afternoons and evenings. We will be setting up a silent auction table and a table with information on CHED Santas Anonymous. Please visit our website at http://santasanonymous.ca for more information on CHED Santas Anonymous and the Edmonton Christmas Show 2013 event. Interested people may contact Janet at
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Volunteers needed at CHED Santas Anonymous CHED Santas Anonymous has been delivering the spirit of Christmas to the less fortunate children for 59 years in the City of Edmonton. To help with this work, we are looking for people to volunteer as Greeters welcoming and signing in our warehouse volunteers. Our warehouse is located at 12345 121ST, inside Northgate Industries. Shifts available are: Saturday afternoons from 2pm to 5pm on Nov 16, Nov 23, Nov 30 and Dec7. Sunday afternoons from 1pm to 3pm on Nov 17, Nov 24, Dec 1 and Dec 8. Tuesday daytime hours available on Nov 19, Nov 26, Dec 3 and Dec 10. Thursday afternoons from 3pm to 5pm on Nov 21. For more information, visit our website at http://santasanonymous.ca , email
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Botanical Artists of Canada (BAC) – Juried Exhibition, The Four Seasons, March 26 – April 6, 2014, Paper Mill Gallery, Toronto.
This year, our scientists have selected a Stygimoloch skull to discover and interpret through art. Our annual Palaeo Arts Contest is open to all grade levels, has prizes for every winner, including two $500 draw prizes that are awarded to schools, and offers the chance to have students’ winning artwork displayed at the Museum.
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Submission fee $45 for up to three works. Awards: Best in show – $350 and three other awards – $150 each.
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 ARTIST requires agent/manager to assist in selling ART. Commission is generous percentage % . Contact BDC at monkeywrench@live.ca Call for Submissions 2014/15 Gallery Exhibition Programming Submission Deadline: November 30, 2013 Harcourt House Arts Centre is currently accepting submissions for our 2014/2015 gallery exhibition programming for the Main Gallery and Front Room Gallery exhibition spaces. For full submission details please visit www.harcourthouse.ab.ca
Call for Submissions : FAVA FEST FILM AND VIDEO ARTS FESTIVAL MARCH 25 – 29, 2014
Entry deadline: Friday, January 10, 2014. Open to all BAC members in good standing; non-members may join prior to entering exhibition
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The EAC’s annual Community Investment Program Arts Operating Grant is fast approaching. If you are running an non-profit in Edmonton, and primarily support the production of artwork, you could be eligible for this grant. The deadline for submission is December 1st. Application guidelines can be found through Art Rubicon: http://artrubicon.com/2322/eaccip-arts-operating-grantsorganizations-closesdec-1-annually/ 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
FAVA FEST exposes the larger community to the artistic work of membership, stimulates new work, rewards past success and just generally makes a bigger noise about FAVA. Hosting a media art gear expo and BBQ, screen 30-40 films directed by Northern Alberta filmmakers, hold an Artist Talk or Panel ( 2013-brought in noted Art Director Todd Cherniawsky) and give away $20,000 worth of awards at FAVA GALA – a celebration of excellence in media arts and FAVA’s big fundraiser for the year. Festival details and schedule to come in early 2014. STAGE STRUCK 2014! CALL FOR ENTRANTS Submissions for ADFA/Edmonton one-act adult play festival on February 21/22, accepted until December 15, 2013. Information and registration package from Mary-Ellen at 780-481-3716 or mperley@shaw.ca
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The Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) is pleased to announce the 2015 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art Call for Submissions is now open to resident Alberta artists. Details of the call, which closes at 4 pm on Friday, December 13, 2013, can be found at youraga.ca. The exhibition will be on view at the AGA in early 2015 All resident Alberta artists are eligible to submit works for consideration. Submissions should include: a curriculum vitae; a brief artist’s statement; a CD with a maximum of 20 images formatted as a PowerPoint presentation of recent work (with artist’s name, title, media and date of work clearly indicated for each image) or a maximum of three videos or DVDs for media or time-based work; and a self-addressed envelope with appropriate postage for return delivery if required. Submissions should be sent directly to the Art Gallery of Alberta by Friday, December 13, 2013 by 4 pm. Please visit youraga.ca for more information STUDENT POSTCARD EXCHANGE CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS, THEME: MAPPING Create a postcard that follows the theme of MAPPING. Here are some ideas to get you thinking about mapping, these are only to start thinking about your piece and in no way are meant to be restrictive. Maps can direct you where to go; they can chart both physical places and ideas. Technology has changed the way that we understand mapping. Maps are no longer a static representation of space but change as quickly as the place that they represent. They can record public knowledge or a private understanding of an environment; they can be clear or cryptic. For this exhibition artists can make up to 2 original postcards. Postcards must be 2-dimensional, 4 x 6 inch postcards. Artists are encouraged to use any media (drawing, print media, painting, collage, etc.). Submission Deadline (postmarked by): Friday, December 13, 2013 Please contact Brittney Roy for more details. harcourtexhibit@shaw.ca 780.426.4180
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The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Northern Italy Call for literary arts / visual arts residencies Deadline: December 3, 2013 Through residencies and conferences, the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Northern Italy supports innovations that change the way we address complex global issues. Here, people of diverse expertise and backgrounds come together in a thoughtprovoking, creative, collegial environment that helps create change and have impact on a wide range of world issues. Applications for Academic Writing as well as Arts & Literary Arts residencies are due by December 3, 2013. Applications from practitioners and for conferences are accepted on a rolling basis. http://www.rockefellerfoundatio n.org/bellagio-center The Writers’ Guild of Alberta Gears Up for the 2014 Alberta Literary Awards! The Writers’ Guild of Alberta (WGA) is preparing to celebrate another successful year with the 2014 Alberta Literary Awards. Writers from across Alberta and their publishers are invited to check out and submit to this year’s award categories. The deadline for submissions to the Alberta Literary Awards is December 31, 2013. For more information and submission guidelines, please visit www.writersguild.ab.ca
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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): I'm not a big fan of fear. It gets far more attention than it deserves. The media and entertainment industries practically worship it and many of us allow ourselves to be riddled with toxic amounts of the stuff. Having said that, though, I do want to put in a good word for fear. Now and then, it keeps us from doing stupid things. It prods us to be wiser and act with more integrity. It forces us to see the truth when we might prefer to wallow in delusion. Now is one of those times for you, Aries. Thank your fear for helping to wake you up.
TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): "Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings," wrote W H Auden. If that's true, then your job is to be a poet right now. You seem to be awash in a hubbub of paradoxical inclinations, complete with conflicting desires and mismatched truths. There's no shame or blame in that. But you do have a responsibility to communicate your complexity with honesty and precision. If you can manage that, people will treat you with affection and give you extra slack. They might even thank you. GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): What can you do to improve your flow? Are there obstructions in your environment that keep you from having a more fluidic rhythm? Do you harbour negative beliefs that make it harder for life to bestow its natural blessings on you? Now is the time to take care of glitches like these, Gemini. You have more power than usual to eliminate constrictions and dissolve fixations. Your intuition will be strong when you use it to drum up graceful luck for your personal use. Be aggressive. Be bold. Be lyrical. It's high time for you to slip into a smooth groove. CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): In the beginning of his novel The White Castle, Orhan Pamuk offers this meditation: "To imagine that a person who intrigues us has access to a way of life unknown and all the more attractive for its mystery, to believe that we will begin to live only through the love of that person—what else is this but the birth of great passion?" How do you respond to this provocative statement, Cancerian? Here are my thoughts: on the one hand, maybe it's not healthy for you to fantasize that a special someone can give you what you can't give yourself. On the other hand, believing this is true may inspire you to take an intriguing risk that would catalyze invigorating transformations. Which is it? Now is a good time to ruminate on these matters. LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): Canadians Tommy Larkin and Stephen Goosney are biological brothers, but they were adopted by
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different families when they were young. They lost touch for almost 30 years. Once they began looking for each other, it didn't take long to be reunited. Nor did they have to travel far to celebrate. It turns out they were living across the street from each other in the same small town in Newfoundland. I foresee a metaphorically similar experience in your future, Leo. When you get reconnected to your past, you will find it has been closer than you realized. VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): This will be an excellent week for you to talk with yourself—or rather, with yourselves. I'm envisioning in-depth conversations between your inner saint and your inner evil twin ... between the hard worker and the lover of creature comforts ... between the eagerto-please servant of the greater good and the self-sufficient smartie who's dedicated to personal success. I think that in at least some of these confabs, you should speak every word out loud. You should gesture with your hands and express colourful body language. It's prime time for your different sub-personalities to get to know each other better. LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): In the coming week you will probably have more luck than usual if you play keno, craps, blackjack, bingo, or roulette. People who owe you money will be inclined to pay you back, so you might want to give them a nudge. I won't be surprised if you find a $20 bill lying on the sidewalk or if a store cashier accidentally gives you way too much change. In the wake of these tendencies, your main assignment is to be alert for opportunities to increase your cash flow. For example, if you wake up in the middle of the night with an idea for boosting your financial fortunes, I hope you will have a pen and notebook by the bed to write it down. SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): "Not for all the whiskey in heaven," begins a poem by Charles Bernstein. "Not for all the flies in Vermont. Not for all the tears in the basement. Not for a million trips to Mars. Not for all the fire in hell. Not for all the blue in the sky." Can you guess what he's driving at? Those are the things he will gladly do without in order to serve his passion. "No, never, I'll never stop loving you," he concludes. According to my understanding of your astrological cycle, Scorpio, now is a good time for you to make a comparable pledge. What is the one passion you promise to devote yourself to above all others? And what are you willing to live without in order to focus on that passion? Be extravagant, pure, wild and explicit. SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): Dmitri Razumikhin is a char-
acter in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel Crime and Punishment. His surname is derived from the Russian word for "reason." At one point he makes a drunken speech that includes these observations: "It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! Not one single truth has ever been arrived at without people first having talked a dozen reams of nonsense, even 10 dozen reams of it." Let's make this a centrepiece of your current strategy, Sagittarius. Just assume that in order to ferret out the core insights that will fuel your next transformations, you may need to speak and hear a lot of babble. CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): At the 2013 Grammy Awards, actor Neil Patrick Harris introduced the band Fun. this way: "As legendary gangster-rap icon Katharine Hepburn once said, if you follow all the rules, you miss all the fun." Everything about that vignette is a template for the approach you can use now with great success. You should gravitate toward festive events and convivial gatherings. Whenever possible, you should sponsor, activate and pave the way for fun. Toward that end, it's totally permissible for you to tell amusing stories that aren't exactly factual and that bend the rules not quite to the breaking point. AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): Some spiritual traditions regard the ego as a bad thing. They imply it's the source of suffering— a chronically infected pustule that must be regularly lanced and drained. I understand this argument. The ego has probably been the single most destructive force in the history of civilization. But I also think it's our sacred duty to redeem and rehabilitate it. After all, we often need our egos in order to get important things done. Our egos give us the confidence to push through difficulties. They motivate us to work hard to achieve our dreams. Your assignment, Aquarius, is to beautify your ego as you strengthen it. Build your self-esteem without stirring up arrogance. Love yourself brilliantly, not neurotically. Express your talents in ways that stimulate others to express their talents. PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): Dr Seuss wrote his children's books in English, but he liked to stretch the limits of his native tongue. "You'll be surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond 'Z' and start poking around," he said. One of the extra letters he found out there was "yuzz," which he used to spell the made-up word "yuzza-ma-tuzz." I recommend that you take after Seuss—not only in the way you speak, but also in the ways you work, play, love, dream and seek adventure. It's time to explore the territory beyond your comfort zone. V
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“I’m a Little Bit Country”- and a little bit rap. Kinky septuagenarian
I am a kinky, youthful 72-year-old guy. I grew up in the Pleistocene era, when there was virtually no way to meet a kinky woman. I've had two vanilla marriages, and three months ago I ended a four-year vanilla relationship with the best woman I've ever met. I just couldn't take not being a BDSM person anymore, and I broke up with this wonderful woman so I could do BDSM. I've had some fun, but no candidate for a possible LTR has come along. In the meantime, my most recent ex (I'll call her "Mel") and I have both been bereft over our split. It is like a death, and we grieve it every day. But I need the BDSM lifestyle, and I figured that sooner or later I would meet someone else and get over Mel. Two days ago, Mel called me and said she wants me back. She says she's willing to do what I need if it will make it possible for us to be together. Since I am a switch, it would be perfectly acceptable to me to have her abuse and torture me. I am functioning as a Dom in the BDSM world at the moment, since there are so few female switches around and virtually all female subs turn green at the idea of being with a switch. Also, the competition for female dominants is fierce, and it's too much for me—especially at age 72. However, if I had to choose to be one or the other, I would choose to be a sub to a dominant woman. Can Mel be that woman? Is it possible for a vanilla person to adapt to BDSM? Also, she does have a few weirdo fantasies of her own, such as making it with a chimp. But she stresses these are not very intensely compelling, as mine are. If it is possible for her to make this change, are there any good books on this? Wants Helpful Insight, Please! PS My son turned me on to your column recently!
(sometimes to save the relationship), and grew to love their partners' kinks. So Mel may be able to "adapt" to BDSM. Price agrees: "Yes, it's absolutely possible for your vanilla lady to shift into kinky sex, especially since she's in love with you. Whether she's doing it just to please you or she's open to kinks herself, give her a chance." But you're going to need to take it slow, WHIP, and you'll need to use your words. "Tell her what turns you on," says Price. "Whisper your fantasies into her ear, share erotica or porn featuring your favourite activities. Solicit her fantasies about dominating you, if she has them, or suggest some scenes to her and see what she responds to. Once she's ready and willing, start with small steps rather than full-blown scenes, so she can ease into this new world." And if all goes well—if Mel isn't traumatized or disgusted by BDSM sex, if she enjoys dominating you or is GGG enough to go there for
stop living paycheck to paycheck, so we came back to the States. We recently bought a house, and we were planning to have a kid next year. But now my husband says that he's not ready. He says there are things he wants to do that he will never ever get to do if we have kids now. I asked him for a time frame, and he said that he couldn't answer that. What he has said to me is: "We've always said we'd never be one of those couples that stop adventuring because we have a nest and kids and stuff." This might be a deal breaker for me. I want to be a mom. I'm ready. I don't want my husband to feel resentment that he never got to live the life he wanted—more travel? More crazy sexual adventures?—because I stuck him with a kid, but at the same time, he can't even give me a time frame. I love him dearly. He's my best friend, he's hot, he's a wonderful person and funny as hell. They don't make many men like him. What should I do? Childless H First, get to a couples counselor. Second, relay this message to your h u s b a n d from me: travel and adventure— sexual and otherwise—don't have to stop after you become parents. They do become more difficult, logistically speaking, and you won't be able to go adventuring on impulse anymore. But you can have adventures, dude, as a couple and as individuals. (It's good for married people, including parents, to spend time apart.) It's true, however, that most parents do stop adventuring—but that's usually because they were ready to stop adventuring or they weren't that adventurous in the first place. You can do it differently. Pro tip: it's easier to make time for adventuring if you have one kid. And travelling with a small child— even taking off to live in a foreign country for a year or two—is a lot easier than Parentlandia propaganda would have you believe. You're an adventurous person–—you and your wife are adventurous people—and adventurous people can choose to be adventurous parents.
It’s true, however, that most parents do stop adventuring—but that’s usually because they were ready to stop adventuring or they weren’t that adventurous in the first place.
"Good for you for being honest about the importance of kink in your life," says Joan Price, author of Naked at Our Age: Talking Out Loud About Senior Sex. "At our age, we often realize that life is too short for bad sex. Sometimes it takes a series of unfulfilling relationships to make sexy, silver-haired folks like us say, 'If not now, when?'" And if not Mel, who? You're a new reader, WHIP, so you missed this insight the first ten thousand times it appeared in my column. You'll meet two kinds of people at leather/fetish/BDSM contests, play parties and street festivals: people who were always kinky—men and women who've been jacking/jilling off about their kinks since they hit puberty—and formerly vanilla people who fell in love with someone who was kinky, gave their partners' kinks a try
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you on a regular basis—don't be a stupid, selfish kinkster, WHIP. By which I mean to say: don't neglect Mel's desire for vanilla sex. If it helps to think of vanilla sex as a horrible ordeal that you have to submit to—vanilla is a service you provide to Mel, your Dom, because you're a good slave—then ask Mel to order you to have vanilla sex. As for books, WHIP, both Price and I recommend The Ultimate Guide to Kink: BDSM, Role Play and the Erotic Edge (Cleis Press, 2012), an informative collection of essays by a diverse group of writers that was edited by the indispensable Tristan Taormino. And if you're hoping Mel will join you at public fetish events—parties and contests and street festivals—get her a copy of Mollena Williams and Lee Harrington's Playing Well with Others: Your Field Guide to Discovering, Exploring and Navigating the Kink, Leather and BDSM Communities. Joan Price blogs about sex and aging at NakedAtOurAge.com. Follow her on Twitter @JoanPrice.
To baby or not to baby
I'm a bisexual or pansexual or omnisexual—or whatever the kids are calling us these days—woman in a monogamish marriage to a great, GGG straight man. Both of us are in our early 30s. Since getting married, we've travelled around the world and done whatever the hell we wanted. It was a crazy exciting life, but we decided it was time to
DEAR READERS: You were probably expecting me to comment on that "making it with a chimp" detail in WHIP's letter. But I had nothing to say except "Really? Holy crap. Chimp fantasies? Damn." V This week on the Savage Lovecast: Do bisexuals need a new label? Savagelovecast.com. @fakedansavage on Twitter
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