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Vuepoint A question of action samantha power // samantha@vueweekly.com

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id you hear James Cameron is in town? Did you hear they made him sign in to the legislature? Do you think he regrets becoming involved in this whole issue in the first place? With all of the excitment a couple of tar sands stories may have gone unnoticed in the last week. Last Friday NDP MP Linda Duncan released her minority report on the health and environmental impacts of the tar sands. The report was originally meant to be an all-party report from the parliamentary committee on the environment. After a year of meeting with aboriginal and environmental groups, touring tar sands projects in Alberta and hearing from numerous stakeholders, the committee decided, behind closed doors, to abandon the report to Parliament. Committee members decided to release individual reports. While it's an admirable effort, it won't have the same impact on Parliament, and without consensus it makes pushing the issues in Parliament a more partisan issue and easy to dimiss. That same day the Alberta government

announced it would be starting an independent review to explore why David Schindler's report on the water quality of the Athabasca River is significantly different from the reports of RAMP, a committee set up by government and industry to monitor water quality. Proper data should be used by the provincial government, and it's an admireable effort on its part to ensure it's acting with all information. If anything, it is an important effort if only to find out why the two water quality results were so different. But reports are often a way to stave off taking real action and if the result of the parliamentary committee is any indication, there will be more interest in further dissecting the resulting information. With reports from Alberta Health Services on high cancer rates, Dr John O'Connor, Kevin Timoney, David Schindler and much of the investigations by the parliamentary committee on the environment, there is enough evidence to support the idea that there are health and environmental problems in the surrounding environment of the tar sands. The only investigation that should be happening now is, how do we stop it. V

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bill by Liberal MP Gerard Kennedy is bringing new attention to the cause of war resisters from the US. The bill, originally introduced last year, will go to second reading this week. Desertion of military duty is considered a crime in the US. Since the Iraq war, the Harper government has cracked down on war resisters attempting to enter Canada and deporting those who have successfully made it into Canada. Many war resisters have claimed refugee and immigration applications based on their participation in what they believe to be an unjust war launched without reason and Amnesty International has backed the claims, stating freedom of conscience is a fundamental human right named by international treaties. Resisters are claiming their desertion based on being misled by American war recruiters who promised jobs and no tours of duty,

only to end up in Iraq and stuck in the American stop-loss program, an attempt to keep Americans in the military longer. Two previous bills passed in Parliament called on the Harper government to stop deportations. Kennedy's bill would permanently amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act to allow war resisters to enter and stay in Canada, though Kennedy has stated he's willing to amend the bill simply to stop the deportation of 300 – 400 American war resisters already in Canada.

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ransit ridership is on the increase across the country reports Statistics Canada. Ridership is up 3.4 percent since July last year and transit companies revenue rose 8.2 percent from July 2009 to July of this year. samantha power

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COMMENT >> POLITICS AND RELIGION

Godless and without morals The Pope accuses secular society of being the cause of crime The best defence is a good offense. A the Christian parts of the world, and less worldly pope, making a state visit to guess what? Religion does not make Britain as the revelations about Catholic people behave better. It makes them priests and bishops abusing the children behave worse. in their care spread across EuWe're not talking about suicide rope, might have been reduced bombers and other religious to shame and silence. But extremists here. We're talking Benedict XVI knows about about ordinary people comthe uses of power—he was mitting ordinary acts of viom o .c ly eek the late Pope John Paul II's lence, everyday thefts, and @vuew e n n y gw chief enforcer—and he imrun-of-the-mill sex crimes. wynne G mediately launched an attack The more religious a particuDyer lar society or region is, the more on all the people he sees as the church's enemies. of that sort of act happens. Speaking in Scotland last week, he conAs researcher Gregory Paul puts it: demned "aggressive forms of secularism" "In general, higher rates of belief in and the threat of "atheist extremism." and worship of a creator correlate Never mind the hundreds or thousands with higher rates of homicide, juvenile of priests who raped little boys (and ocand early adult mortality, venereal discasionally little girls). The real threat is ease, teen pregnancy, and abortion." the people who don't believe in God, Whereas according to Pope Benedict's and therefore have no morals. He even argument, the United States, one of equated atheists with Nazis. the world's most religious countries, That was rich coming from a man should be a crime-free paradise, while whose predecessor, Pope Pius XII, secular Sweden should be a vortex of personally negotiated a treaty with crime and violence. the Nazis in 1933 that was advantaDirect observation suggests othergeous for German Catholics, and did wise. So do Paul’s two articles, "Crossnot publicly condemn Hitler's exterNational Correlations of Quantifiable mination of the Jews although he was Societal Health with Popular Religioswell informed about it. But Benedict's ity and Secularism in the Prosperous tactics worked very well, because all Democracies: A First Look," published that the media could talk about after in the Journal of Religion & Society in his Scottish speech was whether non2005, and "The Chronic Dependence believers can be trusted to behave of Popular Religiosity upon Dysfuncmorally. tional Psychosociological Conditions," "As we reflect on the sobering lespublished in Evolutionary Psychology sons of atheist extremism of the 20th Journal in 2009. century," said the itinerant Pope, "let Even within the United States, Paul us never forget how the exclusion of reported, "the strongly theistic, antiGod, religion and virtue from public evolution South and Midwest" have life leads ultimately to a truncated vi"markedly worse homicide, mortality, sion of man and of society and thus sexually transmitted disease, youth a reductive vision of a person and his pregnancy, marital and related probdestiny." God, religion and virtue on lems than the North-East, where soone side; Nazis and Communists and cietal conditions, secularization and a selfish, hedonistic wasteland of sex acceptance of evolution approach Euand secularism on the other. ropean norms." Set the terms of the argument and you are already halfway to winning There's a chicken-and-egg question it. That is Benedict's game, and it is here, because what Paul's research acplayed by many other leaders of every tually shows is that people are more religion. Only the fear of God makes religious in societies where sociopeople behave morally. Without that economic conditions are poor. There fear of divine punishment, they would is more crime and anti-social behavact out every evil fantasy that popped iour in such societies, but are people into their minds. So stick with us. behaving badly because they are reliIt's an easy allegation to make, and gious, or just because they are poor, almost impossible to test—or so ill-educated and desperate? those who make it believe. But actuThe real statistical correlation is beally, it has been tested, at least for tween religiosity, poverty and igno-

rance. Hundreds of millions of religious people are neither poor nor ignorant, but the bottom of the pecking order is where religion has its strongest grip in any society. Raise that bottom level, as countries with good social welfare systems do, and religious belief will gradually decline. Besides, it's not really secularism per se that horrifies Pope Benedict and his minions. Cardinal Kasper, his top official for relations with the Church of England, gave the game away in an interview last week with the German magazine Focus, condemning England

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as "a secular, pluralistic country. When you land at Heathrow, you sometimes think you might have landed in a Third World country." Kasper was promptly removed from the list of high church officials travelling with the Pope, but the Vatican spokesman, Monsignor Oliver Lahl, defended his remarks: "All he was saying is that when you arrive in Britain today it is like arriving in Islamabad, Mumbai and Kinshasa all at the same time." It's the diversity, tolerance and necessary secularism of modern multicul-

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tural societies that religious leaders of every stripe really can't stand. Such societies have to be secular to accommodate all the different strands of belief and disbelief that must live alongside one another in peace, whereas the Pope and his friends still long for the humble, homogeneous peasant societies where everybody believed, and believed the same thing." V

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COMMENT >> HEALTH CARE

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They consulted, but did they listen? Report on Albertans' health care system misses Albertans concerns ricardo acuna // ualberta.ca/parkland

Earlier this month, MLA Fred Horne and his Members' Advisory Committee on Health (MACH) released a new report on Alberta’s health care system. The report, which took four months and over $1 million to prepare, was based on community consultations held around the province last spring on the question of what should be contained in a proposed Alberta Health Act. The report was released in two parts, and although the first part of the re-

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port was the one containing the actual recommendations from the committee, I chose to start by reading part two, which provided a summary of what the committee heard from Albertans during the process. I did this because it's not uncommon for this government to fudge what they hear during consultations in order to justify doing what they wanted to in the first place, and I wanted to see if this report would be any different. I was pleasantly surprised, therefore, to see a fairly honest and straight-forward presentation of what the committee

heard. The consultation included over 1500 participants in workshops around the province, input from 85 written submissions and close to 1500 completed Internet surveys. When the committee asked Albertans what wasn't working in the system, the results were fairly unequivocal. Albertans are concerned about their health system. Some of the key issues raised in the report include concerns about the growing list of services not being covered by Alberta Health Services, the tremendous difficulty Albertans face in finding family physicians, prob-

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lems with the timeliness of service, and a lack of assisted living and long-term care spaces in communities around the province. At the same time, the report highlights the fact that Albertans want to be consulted and genuinely listened to about the direction of the system, and that they don't support a complete overhaul of the province's existing health legislation. The contents of part two of the report, combined with the title of the report, "Putting People First," made me hopeful about what would be in part

one in terms of recommendations and proposed changes to the system. Here was a committee, I thought, that actually heard Albertans and their call for action, was prepared to acknowledge that the system had not been putting peoples' health care needs first, and which would surely recommend positive steps and actions for moving the health system forward. I should have known better. Despite having heard that Albertans wanted CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 >>

FEATURE // CITY LABOUR POLITICS

Of the people

Organized labour's role in municipal politics mimi williams // mimi@vueweekly.com

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mong the numerous monuments erected to honour civic-minded businessmen who served on Edmonton's City Council in the last century, you can find a few structures dedicated to the labour candidates who have graced Council's Chambers in the past: Harry Ainlay, Elmer Roper, Dan Knott. While labourbacked candidates played a significant role prior to the Second World War, they really haven't had any significant impact since Roper held the Mayor's chair from 1959 – 1963, resulting, as some observers say, in a reduction in the weight an endorsement from the Edmonton & District Labour Council carries today.

Local labour-history buff Eugene Plawiuk says there are a number of reasons for labour's declining influence at the ballot box. For starters, he says, labour long ago gave up the practice of grooming and running its own candidates. "There's a big difference between running a slate of 'labour' candidates and endorsing a group of people perceived to be 'friendlies,'" Plawiuk says. In Plawiuk's view, there hasn't been a city councillor practising labour politics at Edmonton City Hall since Brian Mason vacated his Ward 3 seat to become leader of the Alberta New Democrats in 2000. He says that in this election, labour politics have all but disappeared. "Who's talking about privatization?" he asks. "Who's speaking for the working class?"

Plawiuk contends that candidates in recent elections, even if they were active in trade unions, dilute their message to the point that it would be impossible to identify them as labour candidates. He also says that, sometimes, electing labour candidates can prove to be a disappointment and cites outgoing Councillor Dave Thiele's support last year of selling off a portion of EPCOR through shares issued through Capital Power as an example. Not surprisingly, outgoing Councillor Thiele takes exception to these analyses and vehemently disagrees with both Lightbody and Plawiuk's positions. An active member of the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 30 (representing non-administrative city workers) prior to his election, he stands by his voting record. He welcomes the opportunity to explain his vote on the Capital Power sale, over which he admits he experienced considerable conflict. "A lot of people don't realize what a large part

the province's deregulation of the power generation industry played in that decision," he explains. In the end, he had to weigh what he felt was in the best interests of the city in a volatile energy climate over the long-standing labour opposition to the selling off of public assets. He is quick to point out that the city still holds a 72 percent share in the company and says his biggest regret over the decision has nothing to do with ruffling feathers in the labour movement. Thiele says he's still upset at the secrecy involved in the decision-making process and regrets that Edmontonians weren't given a better opportunity to purchase shares in the newly formed company. Overall, Thiele says his labour background served him well as a councillor and believes that organized labour still has an important role to play in municipal politics. Terry Jardine, the current President of CUPE Local 30, says electing more la-

bour-friendly councillors would make working with the city much easier, even if they're not affiliated with the labour movement. He suggests council tends to have an anti-union animus that makes it's hard to get some councillors to even look at fact-based evidence related to policy debates around things like privatization and P3 partnerships. "Obviously, the protection of our members' jobs is important to us, but so is the quality of the work performed and the protection of the city's assets and infrastructure," says Jardine. CUPE 30 is about to commence bargaining with the city on behalf of its members immediately following the election, so voting in as many labour-friendly candidates as possible is vital to his membership, says Jardine. The results of those negotiations will impact Edmontonians whether they carry a union card or not, so it will be very interesting to see just how labour-friendly the council we are about to elect turns out to be. V

HOCKEY

Fresh start Welcome to another year of Oiler hockey. It's gonna be a tough season, and this team The team has a new coach, scads of new is getting nowhere near the playoffs. But, players, new training staff and (wishful unlike last year, when the Oilers were not thinking alert!) a new attitude. The only bad but an awfully boring team to first week of pre-season has been watch, there should at least be a bit impressive, with a 3-2 and 8-2 of a buzz around the arena. wins over Vancouver and a 5-2 Won't finish last, but this group win over Tampa Bay. Hold on? isn't coming close to a playoff m o ly.c What? Hockey coverage in Vue spot ... yet. eweek ox@vu intheb g& n Weekly? This is Edmonton. Steven Sandor (In The Box u o Y Dave Even the hipsters need to quietly Birtles creator) Bryan keep track of the Oilers. My predictions for this year? Dustin A new season dawns—Prediction Time!: Penner will score 30 goals again, Ales HemThis year had better erase the stink of last sky will score 80+ points and Shawn Horcoff season. And the season before it. And the will return to the 50 point level. Taylor Hall season before it. At some point last February and Magnus Paajarvi will delight with offenI seriously considered ending this damn colsive skill, but make horrible defensive blunumn. It was simply painful to chronicle about ders, while Jordan Eberle will be solid at both 72 percent of the season. Hockey is supposed ends. Andrew Cogliano will be the surprise to be fun. But I held off pulling the pin. And of the team with his hitting and scoring. Edthank God for that. Win or lose, this season monton will rise or fall on Nikolai Khabibulooks like it will be fun to watch. My fearlin's play, though, and he will struggle. No less calls? The rookies will deliver, but let's playoffs this time. be realistic. They won't unseat Ales Hemsky David Staples (Journal writer and or Dustin Penner, who will lead team scorOiler blogger ["The Cult of Hockey"]) ing. The Oilers will miss the playoffs, but we won't know until March, rather than by It's a young team again, and maybe that youth January. In fact, I'm calling "playoff time of will lead to some wild games. We've already death"—March 29, 2011. Locked in! seen than Paajarvi is possibly going to be a David Young (In The Box veteran) force on the ice, but I think Eberle could be the star young player. But nobody is talking The preseason has been so exciting this year about Hemsky, who I think is gonna pull it tothat I've had to remind myself on more than gether this season. Dubnyk is going to be the one occasion that other teams are icing secone we see between the pipes more this seaond and even third stringers while Edmonson as I don't have much faith in Khabibulin at ton is icing its world-class rookies. But still all, legal issues notwithstanding. Overall, we rookies. I think we're in for a fun year, but also might make the first round of the playoffs, a lot of reminders of just how inexperienced we'll win lots of faceoffs, and our penalty kill these players are. will be a lot better. If I'm wrong, then who Bryan Birtles (In The Box rookie. The cares, I'm a DJ, not a soothsayer.

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Taylor Hall to Dave's Ales Hemsky)

It's not going to happen right away. But watching a team that has the average age of a WHL club will be fun. The cynic in me won't go away, though. Who will be the first kid who asks his agent to get him out of Edmonton? Which one will be the first to be publicly called out by the Oilers' front office?

David Stone (DJ, Promoter, hockey fan, non-soothsayer)

I think it'll be another long year, with goals being the biggest question mark. Another lottery pick—and the real upswing coming in a year or two. James Mirtle )Globe and Mail writer and blogger)

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action to fix problems and didn't feel new legislation was necessary, the committee's 15 recommendations focus almost entirely on legislation and principles and completely ignore any type of concrete action or change. Some of the recommendations by the committee include the creation of an Alberta Health Act, the drafting of Alberta health care principles, the creation of a health care charter, the establishment a health care advocate, and more open, timely and genuine consultation on any future changes to the system. The recommendations also make it clear that the long-term goal of government should be the full replacement of all existing legislation with the new health act and charter. Of course, none of these fancy documents and statements of principle will make one lick of difference to accessibility, timeliness of care, people's ability to find a family doctor, or to families looking for affordable long-term care. There is a complete disconnect from what the committee heard to what they are recommending. The Parkland Institute, on the other hand, did publish a report last week that responds directly to what Albertans have said they want. The Parkland report, entitled "Access, Quality and Affordability:

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Real Health Care Change for Albertans," recommends six concrete actions the government can take to help meet the most immediate challenges facing the system and actually address the stated needs of Albertans. These include such things

greater privatization and eliminate some of the protections and standards that exist today in areas like seniors care. In the end, despite its title, Fred Horne's report is just one more example of how disconnected this

Despite having heard that Albertans wanted action to fix problems and didn't feel new legislation was necessary, the committee's 15 recommendations focus almost entirely on legislation and principles and completely ignore any type of concrete action or change. as limiting the role of for-profit involvement, working with other provinces to develop a national pharmacare program, investing in prevention and the social determinants of health, and making decisions about what is covered much more open and transparent. According to Parkland, taking these actions today would, at most, require only very minor tweaks to the existing legislation, not a complete overhaul or amalgamation. In fact, says the Parkland Report, replacing the existing legislation would be dangerous in that it would open up the system to even

government and its policies are from the needs, wishes and values of the Albertans it claims to represent. Health Minister Gene Zwozdesky has said he will consider the report's recommendations and announce his plan of action in midOctober. What that plan of action will include is anybody's guess, but past experience suggests that it will do nothing to put people first. V Ricardo AcuĂąa is the Executive Director for the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta.

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After much indecision, we ordered, sat back and watched Wu in action. He appeared to be the consummate host, with a flair for making everyone feel welcome.

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uirky, eccentric and unusual. All in a good way, of course. Oh, and absolutely delicious. That pretty much sums up Wild Tangerine, the "East meets West" modern Asian restaurant perched just west of our lovely city's downtown hub. I know, I know, I really shouldn't blurt out everything in my very first paragraph. But I couldn't help myself. When something erupts with such personality, so completely and with such abandon, well ... Wild Tangerine, run by brother and sister team Wilson and Judy Wu, has received its fair share of attention over the past few years. But I'd never been. Something to do with some pictures I've seen and the use of black, white and orange, all in one room. A wee bit too avantgarde for me, shall we say? But the promise of local, healthy cuisine and a reputation that simply refused to fade away finally found a friend and me futilely circling the packed parking lot on a recent Friday night. While Wilson Wu, our very affable host and server, got our table ready, I had time to take in our surroundings. The room was smaller than I had envisioned, and yes, there was ample evidence of the aforementioned black, white and orange, but the restaurant wasn't really

WILD DECOR >> Wild Tangerine's tasteful interior like the pictures. I mean, it was, but it wasn't. The orange wasn't as bright, the white wasn't as stark and the liberal use of earthy browns rounded everything out. It just worked. By the time I had admired the manycoloured napkins dotting the tables, the eccentric piggy banks gracing the front entranceway and the mosaic tiles adding interest to the walls—along with Wilson's sporty orange glasses—I was com-

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fortable. Very comfortable. All in a room that I had thought I might be scared of. After presenting us with orange clipboard-like menus, Wu beamed his ever-present smile and left us to mull. My friend, intrigued by the "Beers of the World" menu, opted to sample a Spanish Cerevezas Artesanal ($6). I was equally enthralled by the exotic drink offerings, but a glass of the bold and hearty Kaiken Malbec ($9) won out.

As we were marvelling at how private our table seemed, despite being in such an open, rectangular space, our appetizers arrived. We had mustered up our collective willpower and deliberately avoided ordering the shrimp lollipops; they've received such unequivocal rave reviews over the years that we made a conscious decision to explore other parts of the menu. My tomato soup with kaffir lime leaves ($5)—one of the daily specials—was very light, very fresh and very tomato-y, and the lime leaves added a welcome splash of brightness. As much as I enjoyed my soup, it was my friend's caesar oriental salad ($9), Wild Tangerine's stellar interpretation of this ubiquitous institution, that I really coveted. A big bowl of crisp lettuce, speckled with red cabbage and tomatoes, was lightly tossed in a refreshing oregano vinaigrette. Addictive, candied walnuts gave it a sweet edge, and a liberal dose of parmesan added its trademark stamp. Lounging on top, split in half to reveal all of its succulent glory, was the crowning touch: a very long, very yummy and decidedly non-greasy pork spring roll. Our entrÊes were no less impressive. I gave in to my craving for lentils—yes, I actually crave lentils—with the lemongrass-Thai basil lentils with grilled portabella mushroom ($16) and was presented with a bowl full of rather brothy lentils, topped with a whole portabella

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front with a balancing dryness in the finish. The initial flavours are bread, toast, toffee, a hint of honey and maybe some nut. The end surprises you with its crispness. No real hop As you read this, hundreds of thousands bitterness here, just a presence of balance. of revelers are soaking up the climactic I enjoy this beer a lot and would drink it last days of the famous Oktoberfest year-round if it were available. It has in Munich, unquestioningly the a decisive sweet body without largest keg party in the world. losing its beer credentials, someDespite its name Oktoberfest thing I admire. actually runs the last two I admit it isn't the same as om .c ly k e ewe int@vu weeks of September, this year actually being in Munich, but tothep ending October 3. put on an oom-pah-pah CD, Jason r e However this is no ordinary pull out those lederhosen you t s o F party—it's an institution of beer save for special occasions, pour appreciation and carefree fraternity and a bottle of Ayinger Oktoberfest and if socialization. 2010 marks the 200th anniyou close your eyes pretend you are in a versary of the first Oktoberfest, organized beer tent at the Theresienwiese festival as a celebration of the marriage of Crown grounds. Prosit! V Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen in 1810. It started life Jason Foster is the creator of onbeer.org, as a horse race with a beer tent attached, a website devoted to news and views on but was so successful the Germans decidbeer from the prairies and beyond. ed to do it every year, eventually putting an end to the pretence of the horse race and just having beer tents. During the 18-day festival, more than six million litres of beer are consumed, along with 500 000 roasted chickens, 120 000 pairs of sausages, 80 000 litres of wine, and God knows how many pretzels. It's enough to make a poor Canadian beer drinker desperate with jealousy. Well, those of us lacking the ability to be in Munich right now can drown our disappointment with the next best thing. Those crafty Germans also brew a beer especially for Oktoberfest—oddly called Oktoberfest—and this year one of the best examples of the style reached the borders of our fair province. Ayinger Oktoberfest-Marzen (Marzen is just another name for the style) is an old beer from one of the classic Bavarian brewers. It is stilled brewed in compliance with the Beer Purity Law (Reinhetsgebot) of 1516. It is a long time coming to Alberta and, if I may say, it was worth the wait. It is a medium-orange beer with gold accent and brilliant clarity. Its head builds fast and loose but fades just as quickly. The aroma is sweet, toasty and bready with a bit of rounded graininess. The flavour is exactly as an Oktoberfest beer should be—sweet up-

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REVUE // EURYDICE

Lyre, Lyre

Eurydice a touching meditation on communication where Eurydice's script departs from direct storytelling to a dreamy curiosity: a house is constructed out of an umbrella and string. Books get stood upon, their "readers" seemingly hopeful of absorbing their content like trees would water. The Lord of the Underworld acts like a brat and rides a tricycle while metal music blares. It's an odd world, but one that makes sense while you're watching it.

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urydice's framework is the Greek myth of Orpheus—the man who sung his way down to the underworld to attempt a rescue of his love—but playwright Sarah Ruhl's reinterpretation seems less of a tragic moral fable and more an inquisition into the ways we communicate with the people we love. Or the ways we don't; the language we use, the important things we say or hold back or the struggle to express are what really emerge from this script in equal parts beauty and tragedy. David Horak's MFA production does it tender justice. It's fairly well-known, but told with fresh point of view: on the day Eurydice (Beth Graham) is to wed Orpheus, her father (Michael Peng) writes her a letter from the underworld. It finds its way to the surface but into the hands of a self-aggrandizing Interesting Man (Matthew Hulsolf), and during her efforts to retrieve the note, Eurydice tumbles from his high rise and ends up in the elevator down to the

WELCOME TO THE UNDERWORLD >> Eurydice, her father and some stones afterlife. It's not hell, but it's hardly humane. Washed clean of memory and words—the dead, we're told, speak in

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the "very quiet" language of stones— she's adrift, but her Father (skillfully played by the always watchable Michael Peng) finds her, and that's

Designer Jennifer Goodman's graywashed set is full of little technical surprises, bending to the whims of its world with ease, and Horak's direction keeps the action moving along, while giving time to let us discover this world as the characters do. Here, as her father begins to coax her out of being a walking corpse and back to a proper person, while Orpheus attempts to make contact from above, we start to see the way communication twists and tangles: "You know how much I hate writing letters," an exasperated Orpheus whines from above, eventually winning his way down to his bride without words

but pure emotional sounds, which he can't seem to put into words when he's with her, while her father instructs, giving her back language and with it memory. Dialogue would be crucial, but it seems like the one thing each of these characters is unable to have with the other is a conversation about what each really means to the other. Eurydice's fate is decided by a single word, spoken not with certainty but panic, an emotional spill she struggles to explain in its aftermath, but instinctively let slip out. You probably know the ending, but the script doesn't dwell on its own inherent tragedy. Instead, Eurydice sculpts a mood made to linger long after the curtain falls. V Thu, Sep 24 – Sat, Oct 2 (7:30 pm) Eurydice Written by Sarah Ruhl Directed by David Horak Starring Beth Graham, Michael Peng and Mathew Hulshof Studio Theatre (87 Ave & 112 St) $10 – $20

REVUE // BILLY BISHOP GOES TO WAR

Above the trenches

Billy Bishop Goes to War soars on the lighter side of war David Berry // david@vueweekly.com

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omehow it never seemed like war at all" Billy Bishop (John Ullyatt) sings in the first of many bar-room shanties that pepper his recollection of how he became Canada's greatest First World War flying ace, and the rest of the play takes its cue from that sentiment. Though it's not without its impositions of all that nasty business of death and destruction, Billy Bishop Goes to War feels far more like one of the pulps that celebrated his feats of derring-do and rascally antics than the stories we're accustomed to hearing from the Great War. We meet Bishop in a dilapidated old bar somewhere in London, the occasional rumblings suggesting we're already into the next world war. Decked out in a sharp uniform with a lot of bars on the chest, Bishop slowly slips into something a little more comfortable, or at least a little more appropriate to his story. Soon he is

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regaling us with his less-than-auspicious beginnings: never exactly one for doing what he's told, he's nearly kicked out of his officer training for a drunken escapade involving a stolen canoe, some gin and some women, but catches a break, as it were, when war breaks out and he's sent off to Europe. There Bishop very quickly learns that he's not really one to be bogged down in the mud, and so enlists in the Royal Air Force as an observer. Whether it's just because the life of an airman is a little more vivacious than that of the calvary, here is where the play really starts to get going, and the energy really starts to burst through in Ullyatt's performance. In particular, his turn as the blustery officer who's charged with enlisting Bishop is brilliant: one of those helplessly stuffy and jowl-y British types trying to make up for his lack of sense with a heap of gravitas, it is a fine bit of comic acting, and immediately livens up a play that, until that point, had been lively more in implication

than in actual spirit. Ullyatt has a lot of fun with the various Brits Bishop comes across, from a lessthan-enthusiastic mechanic to a dashingly romantic fellow ace to the prim and sarcastic Lady St Helier, an aristocrat who recognizes Bishop's unique colonial qualities and helps his career along nearly as much as she disparages his country. These scenes, which frequently bounce back and forth between the mildly incredulous Bishop and the borderline-ridiculous interlocutors, give the production a sparkling comic sheen. As for the characterization of Bishop himself, it doesn't really take off until he does. Up until then Bishop feels more like an everyman dropped into these nearsatirical situations as a grounding point than a conquering hero, but Ullyatt's take quickly comes alive when he's in the air— actually just a series of boxes arranged to look like an airplane or, in a great scene, a toy airplane miming a daring raid. Here

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HARDLY A BARON >> John Ullyatt as Billy Bishop he comes alive like a six-year-old with his toys, though with just enough of a dark edge to keep his tales from being completely escapist; really what it evokes is a man using the exciting parts to keep the darker bits at bay. It ultimately shies away from anything too dark or deep—one song is a listing of various ways soldiers have died, performed in a pouty French cabaret singer pantomime—but the Citadel's production at least flies full throttle at the ras-

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cally and exciting parts of the story, leaving melancholy for another day. It doesn't seem like war, but they at least evoke an interesting warrior. V Until Sun, Oct 10 Billy Bishop Goes to War Directed by James MacDonald Written by John Gray, Eric Peterson Starring John Ullyatt, Ryan Sigurdson Citadel Theatre (9828 - 101A Ave), $42 – $77

COMMENT >> VISUAL ARTS

Awake and dreaming

Jonathan Kaiser lets imagination flesh out Celestial Bodies At the very back of the darkened RBC New Works Gallery, a modern suburban bedroom appears on a small stage. Lit through the adjoining closet that glows through a pair of thermal wear, there is an indecipherable light that suggests neither day nor night, but the removed and constructed .com lighting found in any quiet subweekly y@vue m a urban neighborhood. Amy Crawling onto the staged bedFung room floor where two crinkled blankets double as beds, books are scattered throughout the room, suggesting a space inhabited primarily for the solBEDROOM DREAMIN' >> Imagination rears its head in Jonathan Kaiser's Celestial itary behaviour of reading and dreaming. Bodies // Jonathan Kaiser The latter is true as you turn your head and see a two-headed creature, adorned drawings. It was a really positive experience. lar studio practice, but his works reveal with flowers and small ornaments, peerFrom that, I started meeting people." a maturity that is consistently surprising, ing back at you from the darkness. guided by a strong intuition that is calm It is a creature undeniably fantastical, Quiet and humble are understatements and thoughtful. and yet purely domesticated, at home in in describing Kaiser. From that first out He asserts knowingly in a soft spoken way, this bedroom that is neither a child's nor of school experience, his work caught the "I don't have much of a plan for my career. a man's. attention of the curators for the 2007 AlI plan to keep making art no matter what. It is in this liminal space that artist Jonaberta Biennial, and from that, his name was I've been producing smaller works, which is than Kaiser creates, and while the room is put forward and accepted into the Glenfida good scale for where I am right now." V modeled after his childhood home in Windich artist residency that opened up yet a Until Sun, Oct 10 nipeg, it is not necessarily an adolescent further world of opportunities. Celestial Bodies sentiment. "I've only done one residency, but I know Work by Jonathan Kaiser "When I was young, I wanted to be 50. I I should do more," he continues, echoing Art Gallery of Alberta (2 Sir Winston wanted to skip to being an adult," shares many artists transitioning from emerging to Churchill Square) Kaiser, who currently lives in Ottawa where mid level. "When I have a project, I totally his partner is attending school. "But now focus on it full time, then when I have downthat's changing. I remember my home, and I time, I do nothing. I have little odd jobs, but remember these memories because they're I'm afraid of taking on a real job or career as usually tender and fond. This was a space I my art practice may cease to be." could sit and think when I was a kid." As his first solo exhibition, Kaiser recogKaiser, who's been slowly recreating elenizes that this will be a higher profile show ments of absence, especially in suburbia, for himself, and that he's had to manage his began as a design and printmaking student time differently. "I like to have as much freeat the U of A. Graduating just five years ago dom as possible, and change things a week and technically apt, his content opened up before if I wanted to. This couldn't be the after being invited to participate in a drawing case this time, which is good for me." show at the AGA by curator Marna Bunnel. Building through Edmonton-based con"I was excited about the objects," says Kainections in projects such as The Apartment ser. "I didn't plan on doing an installation, Show and recently in The National Portrait but I ended up making an installation of wall Gallery, Kaiser doesn't hold down a regu-

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PREVUE // KEN CAMERON

From the bone

Cameron blends fiction with autobiography Paul Blinov // paul@vueweekly.com

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hile the dramatic skin of Ken Cameron's plays comes from his imagination, their spines, as of late, have been firmly autobiographical. The Calgary-based playwright and artistic director of the Magnetic North Theatre Festival brings fact and fiction together to pen works that feel like a heightened version of reality, where an everyday moment eventually gives way to something more dramatic and direct than either total truth or pure fiction would've mustered alone. "The earlier part of my career—the

first, I'd say, 12 plays I wrote—didn't really have that autobiographical element," he says. "And I think they weren't as strong, as a result. Cameron's three most recent scripts— freshly collected into the NeWest Press release Harvest and Other Plays— certainly deal in reality, if not his own: the most detatched, My One and Only, is an imagined "what if ?" based on an encounter Marilyn Munroe had while filming River of No Return in the Rockies during the '50s. The other two are far more personal: Harvest (which played in in Edmonton last year, as part of Shadow CONTINUED ON PAGE 14 >>

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Theatre's season) draws on Cameron's parents' experience in renting out their old farm only to find it turned into a grow-op while My Morocco, had the playwright himself onstage in a one-man performance, working through memories of his estranged sister's death while stuck in an exotic locale. "There's something about basing the story either in one's own real life experience—or in the case of Harvest, my parent's real-life experience—that adds a real strength and authenticity to the voice," Cameron explains. "In My Morocco, I actually lived those experiences, so I was able to speak with authority about those experiences, but with Harvest, I didn't personally live those experiences, my parents did. But I was really able to focus on and capture my parents' voices in that play. And I think that lends an authenticity to the experience that the audience recognizes."

That said, Cameron sees the role of a playwright as becoming far more collaborative than it has been in the past—where "a writer would write the script in his off–in his garret," he chuckles—where, more than ever, collaborative pieces, are being

"Sometimes too many voices can lead to a fractured experience, where a play might touch on a whole bunch of different subjects only briefly, but not really delve into any one of them," he notes. "Sometimes though, it can lead to really

There's something about basing the story either in one's own real life experience—or in the case of Harvest, my parent's real-life experience—that adds a real strength and authenticity to the voice. created and performed in groups. While the playwright certainly isn't vanishing, they're no longer the sole dominating voice of decision-making in a scipt. Which is, for the most part, fine by Cameron. "In this day and age, it's even more collaborative ... where the dramaturg, or dramaturg and director work really closely with the playwright to really fully realize the vision of the play and the story of the play and all the different elements of it."

astonishing experiences in the theatre where the performance is really alive, and really comes together in three dimensions where it can be a more physical, rather than literary, experience." V Available now Harvest and Other Plays By Ken Cameron 216 pp, $19.95

REVUE // C'MON PAPA

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Remarkable memoirs of a blind father Michael Hingston // michael@vueweekly.com

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hat's the target audience for parenting memoirs? Other parents, presumably. Having a baby is by default an isolating experience, one that renders the new mom or dad instantly unable to relate to large swaths of their well-rested peer group. Each parent interprets this exclusivity in his or her own way—some get religious about it, some prickly and agitated, some hippy dippy—but the change is real, and extremely difficult to describe. I have a hard time imagining any non-parent seeking out a book about parenting, let alone getting much use out of it. Which means that I've now probably cleared the room of any nonparents reading this, too. Oh well. The book under discussion is C'mon Papa, by Vancouver's Ryan Knighton, and we are here, essentially, to compare notes. What helped him rock his hysterical infant to sleep? Did he and his wife Tracy use cloth diapers? When was the moment he felt that click of dangerously intense love, that moment he realized he'd murder a stranger with a shovel before letting anything happen to his daughter? Knighton's story is complicated in a few big ways, all of which stem from the fact that he's blind. At the age of 18 he was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, which means "[p]oorly behaved genes programmed [his] retinas to painlessly self-destruct—very, very slowly." Knighton has roughly 1% vision remaining in his right eye, a small window into the world that might permanently shut at any moment. One of his big fears going into his wife's pregnancy was that he'd lose this final slice of eyesight before ever seeing his child's face. Thankfully, he makes it. C'mon Papa is, cover to cover, an absolute joy to read: warm, witty, spry and expertly observed. The book moves from Knighton's wife's first signs of pregnancy (she ultimately miscarries) to the time their daughter, Tess, is about 18 months old, walking and talking up a storm. He covers some of the obvious territory, like embarrassing role play at a prenatal class, but most of the time follows his own trajectory, and hones in on the moments that uniquely strike him as being significant. There's a fine combination of set pieces to choose from, including a bizarre stay-at-home dads' conference in Kansas City. Most, however, are tied to Knighton's explorations of what his life as a blind parent can or should be like—he slowly pushes at his instinctive boundaries, building up the confidence to take Tess for a walk on busy Commercial Drive, or even little things like changing a diaper unsupervised.

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He's a crisp and efficient stylist, too. The sections where he loses Tess while playing in the snow, or imagines her silently choking while he sits in front of her, oblivious, are vivid and terrifying, yet utterly relatable. Knighton's blindness makes him ultra-attuned to the minutiae of everyday parenting, yes, but there's more to it than that. If anything, the differences he points out, often to devastating comic effect, only further underscore how universal the process of having children really is. Every parent knows the feeling of hearing your infant scream, but having no idea what that particular scream means; the only difference is that Knighton lacks visual cues, too. He describes one of the limitations of his condition

Every parent knows the feeling of hearing your infant scream, but having no idea what that particular scream means; the only difference is that Knighton lacks visual cues, too. He describes one of the limitations of his condition as "a difficulty interfacing with visual information," and that includes his daughter. When she cries, it's about "literacy," he says—"I was learning how to listen to Tess. as "a difficulty interfacing with visual information," and that includes his daughter. When she cries, it's about "literacy," he says—"I was learning how to listen to Tess." This is a difference of degree, not in kind. C'mon Papa is full of such illuminating tidbits, each of which is delivered with punch and heart. And it's actually, thankfully, low on advice—the only thing he insists is that all parents buy an exercise ball, which simultaneously soothes an infant and keeps your butt toned. In the end, Knighton's experience with Tess is remarkable not because it's different, but because it's exactly the same. V Available now C'mon Papa By Ryan Knighton Knopf Canada 272 pp., $29.95

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Give 'er again

Alberta's quintessential hosers return in Fubar II David Berry // david@vueweekly.com

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ell, I mean, of course there would be Pilsner. Stepping into the room where Dave Lawrence and Paul Spence— immediately identifiable as Terry and Deaner, if not as the writers of both Fubar and its sequel, Fubar II—are holding their media day, Spence almost immediately tucks his hand into a torn-off corner of the familiar green cardboard and pops a can with that satisfying metallic and liquid hiss, then splays himself out over a desk, while Lawrence settles into an easy chair. "I shotgunned a beer on K97, and then all of the sudden the beers dried up, and that was, like, eight," Spence admits with a reasonable amount of weariness. "Now he's happy again," prods Lawrence. "Well, yeah. I don't mind drinking beer in the morning, as long as I can have another one," Spence continues. "[If they're not around], your beer buzz drops and you're doing five TV interviews and you can feel the mini, baby two-beer hangover creeping in." Such are the demands on you when

TERRY AND DEANER >> Givin' 'er one more time you've created the new template for the hoser, a headbanging duo whose longhaired penchant for shotgunning, general mayhem and other sundry ways of givin' 'er has made them veritable folk heroes across Canada. From humble beginnings as a recurring character at Calgary's Loose Moose Theatre improv, it really feels impossible to overstate the influence Fubar has had on hosing—our unofficial national pastime—which maybe made a sequel inevitable, even if it's taken eight years to finally reach the big screen. Time has passed, but it doesn't seem like much has changed for Terry and Deaner.

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On the eve of Dean's fifth anniversary of being cancer-free, the boys throw a bash that literally ends up burning the house down, and then take up old buddy Tron's offer to come up to Fort McMurray, where the money flows as easily as Pilsner through a puncture hole. "From the first pass of the script, we wanted to figure out what would really happen with these guys," explains Lawrence. "And Fort McMurray was a nobrainer. Every banger out there wants a quick fix to get rich, and that's the stigma of Fort McMurray: people come from all over Canada to make quick money."

It definitely feels like a very Terry and Dean milieu: it's a chance for a lot more money without having to change their lifestyle one bit. They mess up their safety class and are promptly given certification anyway. The instant their first pay cheque is in their hands—after a week of work one shade above dog-fucking—they are at Peelerz, the local strip club, and then down to Edmonton for a shopping spree at the Mall. There isn't much more to what's going on here than the two of them just givin' 'er, but with this duo that's about all you need. For all its crass comic highjinx, though, Fubar II is also basically the first non-documentary to take on life in Fort McMurray, and it just so happens that Terry and Dean are the ideal fit to take a look at some of the parts of the city neither the government nor the environmentalists talk much about. "Another reporter was asking if we were trying to make a poignant statement about the environment or blue collar labour and different class systems and all that, but, like, not really," says Lawrence plainly. "The characters decided that, and there's no statement, that's just what's happening." "Terry and Dean are the kind of guys who, if the jobs are there, they don't give a fuck," adds Spence.

"Fuck all the ducks," throws in Lawrence. "Yeah. They don't care if Shell Canada is this that or the other, as long as they get their paycheque and live their lives." Terry and Dean are the type of guys who drive around with testicles on their new trucks, and Fubar II is their document, an incredibly hilarious look at how they live their lives. But, as mentioned above, it's not coming from any place of judgment: though Lawrence and Spence have got a good ride from poking fun, ultimately they want these guys to be decent dudes who just happen to be dollar-store hedonists. "Why people can identify with them, I think, is that they're, generally speaking, nice people," says Spence. "They're opinionated and certainly kind of backwards, but they're not mean or evil guys. You can see the guy kicking the shit out of some guy's truck, but you could also see him lending you a cigarette after you got beat up." "Or after he beat you up," adds Lawrence. V Opens Fri, Oct 1 Fubar II Directed by Michael Dowse Written by David Lawrence, Paul Spence, Dowse Starring Lawrence, Spence Garneau Theatre (8712 - 109 st)

PREVUE // THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALICE CREED

Reappearing act

Arterton surpasses 'Bond girl' typecasting Josef Braun // josef@vueweekly.com

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here's not a word uttered in the first I don't know how many minutes. The men just get down to business, boarding up windows in the sad, anonymous flat, going to the hardware store, soundproofing—the menace begins with their silence. The silence ends with the muffled screams of the woman they snatch off the street, whisk away in their van, and hastily sequester. They gag her, cuff her to a bed, scissor off her clothes, prepare the bedpan, show her the loaded gun. From this claustrophobic set-up things only gradually loosen, or rather unravel. The Disappearance of Alice Creed, J Blakeson's feature debut, is taut, bracing, immensely resourceful and twisty as all hell, sometimes too much so for its own good. Best then to say as little about the story, but it should spoil little to discuss the acting. Marvelous Eddie Marsan as the elder kidnapper is riveting, a control freak prone

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to losing control, a barking attack dog who just wants to have his belly rubbed, his goatee rendering his face rat-like every time he blows his top and the crinkles round his nose bunch up as though about to crack. As the junior, cutie-pie criminal, Martin Compston, the young actor who made an auspicious debut in Ken Loach's Sweet Sixteen, has a tougher time in a perhaps unfairly demanding part as the centre of more than one game of trust. But it's Gemma Arterton as Alice that you're probably most curious about. Arterton drew attention for her brief but memorable role in Quantum of Solace— mostly the sort of attention that's accompanied by involuntary salivating—before appearing in such straightjacketing and spectacularly lame mega-movies as The Prince of Persia: the Sands of Time and the new Clash of the Titans. Her name has often been preceded by the term "Bond Girl," which seems condescending when weighed against her RADA training, her eponymous role in BBC's Tess d'Urbervilles,

her impressive body of stage work, and her upcoming starring roles in Stephen Frears' Tamara Drewe and Burden of Desire, in which she'll play a Haligonian. None of which, I freely confess, was I even aware of before preparing to interview her. But I suspect Arterton's profile is about to change. I met with Arterton in the lobby of a Toronto hotel. She was genuinely lovely, very friendly, thoughtful and chatty. She seemed happy just to be discussing work that didn't involve her wearing copper bikinis or enunciating hambone lines about time and destiny. VUE WEEKLY: What drew you to Alice Creed? It promised to put you into some nasty situations and couldn't have seemed like the most appetizing shoot. GEMMA ARTERTON: It was appetizing to me because I'd just finished a film that I felt like I hadn't acted in at all, or if I had it must have been terrible. So I wanted to make sure I could still act! [Laughs] I wanted to choose something really terrifying, something difficult. I also liked the script. I was mostly getting things exactly like the things I'd already done and they mostly seemed really boring. I knew if I kept playing those roles my shelf life would expire quickly. This script came along because

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the casting director believed in me. It was a glamorless role, very raw, visceral, so I went to meet J. He later confessed that before we met he assumed I wouldn't be able to handle it. His preconceptions were absolutely fair. People don't know what you can do until you do it. VW: Were you at all nervous about placing yourself in such a vulnerable position with someone who hadn't made a feature before? GA: You know, I probably should have been. I guess I'm just a very trusting person. But the script made me think he must have a very good mind for psychology, and his short film showed tremendous potential. Everybody has to start somewhere. Someone gave me a role once that they probably had doubts about. Sometimes you just have to have faith. It was actually kind of great that he was a first-time director because he kept discovering what the film was really about along with the rest of us, and that's how it should always be on a film set. It felt like a genuinely collaborative effort, very free and creative, which was such a contrast for me having previously made these very controlled movies. VW: You spend so much time bound and gagged. Were there moments when things became too claustrophobic?

GA: I'm not the type of actor that likes to get too carried away. I always go for it in a scene, but as much as I can I then try to snap out of it right afterwards, you know, tell a joke, take a break. But there were times where it got to be too much. There was one particular scene where I got so wound up. I asked them please to take me out of the handcuffs, and I ran into the toilet—which was actually the toilet you see in the film—locked myself in and just ... [loudly gasps for air]. I just needed to get it out, but then I went back and we got on with it. When you're crying all day it takes its toll. That's only natural, that it emotionally wears you down. By the end I was exhausted. VW: Did you ever feel like you were playing multiple roles? You have these layers of acting going on, one being you, Gemma, trying to inhabit Alice, another being Alice trying to play the willing participant in, well, let's just call it a scheme within the scheme. GA: It's true. Some of the most satisfying scenes to play are the ones where Alice is lying. One of my favourite screen acting moments ever is where Ben Kingsley's lying about smoking on the plane in Sexy CONTINUED ON PAGE 20 >>

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More reviews from EIFF Reviews by David Berry (DB), Mel Priestley (MP) and Bryan Saunders (BRS). All screenings happen at Empire Cinemas in City Centre. Be sure to check out even more EIFF reviews at vueweekly.com American: The Bill Hicks Story Fri, Oct 1 (9:30 pm) Directed by Matt Harlock, Paul Thomas

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Less a comedian than an incendiary and vicious social commentator who happened to be quite funny, Bill Hicks remains as unique now as he was in his heyday: a fire-tongued Jon Stewart with a much more palpable sense of moral outrage. American, a British production, is in many ways a standard biography, though it gains both from its subject—there are copious amounts of onstage material, a definite gain—and a unique approach that avoids talking heads for a much more immersive, animated experience. Far more people need to know about Hicks, and American is an enlightening and engaging introduction. DB Brotherhood Thu, Sep 30 (9:30 pm) Directed by Will Canon

 Reading like a cautionary tale to all college-bound kids, Brotherhood could be seen as a dark version of Animal House, putting a sinister spin on those innocent fraternity pranks and panty raids. Rife with profanity, racism, sexism and gratuitous violence, the film opens with a fraternity hazing prank gone horribly wrong and spirals ever downwards from there. Though each of these events could be believable in isolation, when strung together as the basis of plot, the series of disasters becomes almost laughable in its increasing outrageousness. If anything, the film is an instruction in the importance of honesty and accountability—or the stupidity of fraternity pranks. Either way, these are lessons that the audience doesn't need to be taught and doesn't want to see. MP Money Sat, Oct 2 (11 am) Directed by Ken Nemetchek

Director Ken Nemetchek's Money feels counterfeit. Despite its low-budget roots, Money manages to look—for the most part—quite polished from a technical perspective. The problem is, Nemetchek (who also wrote the script) can't decide what kind of film he's making: scenes oozing goofy campiness clash in a chaotic mishmash with other scenes begging to be taken seriously. The result is a confused, Frankensteinian sequence of events. Consequently, Money earns little interest because it fails to build any tension or suspense. The audience—as much as they may want to—can never really bring themselves to care for any of the characters or about the story's outcome. BRS Music from the Big House Fri, Oct 1 (8 pm) Directed by Bruce McDonald

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Perhaps by definition, the blues is synonymous with crime and the suffering it causes. What better destination for a blues pilgrimage, then, than the Louisiana State Maximum Security Penitentiary—known locally as the infamous Angola Prison. On her journey down Highway 61, Canadian blues singer Rita Chiarelli found an open and raw form of the blues within the prison's walls—music remains the focus of this documentary, and rightly so: many of

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the prisoners are truly talented musicians, and Rita's gravelly voice was made for the blues. However, politics can't help but enter a film whose setting is a penitentiary and main subjects are convicts. Big House does a commendable job in attempting to remain open and honest about the nature of its subjects; however, when Chiarelli voices her internal struggle, regarding these men as both fellow musicians and convicted felons, it is clear that hers is a sympathetic ear. Despite one's personal convictions, it is inspiring to see the correctional system portrayed in a fresh manner, and there's no doubt that Big House will stay with you. MP The People Vs George Lucas Fri, Oct 1 (7 pm) Directed by Alexandre O Philippe

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There are some wonderful moments and mini-stories in Roll Out, Cowboy, but they come at a leisurely pace and often with quite a bit of space in between them. Chris Sand's unique "cowboy rap" entertains more often than not, and "the Sandman" himself turns out to be a character with many interesting and complex layers. He has some great oneliners too, like his deadpan admission that, "Once I was in a relationship that I thought was polyamorous—there was a miscommunication." At 75 minutes, however, Roll Out, Cowboy is too long and many parts of it already feel dated. Instead of attempting to stretch this documentary into a feature length production, director Elizabeth Lawrence would have been wiser to leave a few more segments on the cutting room floor. BRS

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THE SECRET OF ROAN INISH (PG) MON

CINEMA CITY MOVIES 12 5074-130 Ave, 780.472.9779

ANJAANA ANJAANI (STC) DAILY 2:00, 5:00, 9:00 CATS AND DOGS: THE REVENGE OF KITTY GALORE (G) DAILY 1:40, 3:55 DABANGG (14A) Hindi W/E.S.T. DAILY 1:35, 4:10,

7:00, 9:45

GROWN UPS (PG crude content, language may offend) DAILY 1:50, 4:35, 7:25, 9:40

IK KUDI PUNJAB DI (G) Punjabi W/E.S.T. DAILY 6:30,

9:25

KABADDI IKK MOHABBAT (PG violence) No passes DAILY 1:00, 4:30, 8:30

NANNY MCPHEE RETURNS (G) DAILY 1:20, 4:15, 6:45 ROBOT (STC) No passes DAILY 1:15, 4:20, 8:00 SALT (14A) DAILY 1:30, 4:30, 7:35, 9:50

LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA'HOOLE (PG violence, frightening scenes, not

recommended for young children) No passes FRI�SAT 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30; SUN�THU 1:10, 3:25, 5:45, 8:10, 10:30; Fri-Sat 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30; SUN�THU 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:30

RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE 3D (18A gory

scenes) FRI�SAT 1:15, 3:45, 6:30, 8:45, 11:00; SUN� THU 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8:15, 10:40

STREETDANCE 3D (PG) FRI�SAT 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 8:00, 10:15; SUN�THU 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30

THE EXPENDABLES (18A brutal violence) FRI�

SAT 10:15; SUN�THU 9:45

THE SOCIAL NETWORK (PG coarse language, substance abuse) No passes FRI�SAT 2:10, 5:10, 8:00, 10:45; SUN�THU 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:00

THE TOWN (14A violence, coarse language) FRI� SAT 2:10, 5:00, 7:45, 10:45; SUN�THU 1:00, 3:45, 6:30, 9:25

WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS (PG coarse language) DAILY 1:00, 2:00, 4:00, 5:00, 7:00, 8:00, 10:00 YOU AGAIN (G) FRI�SAT 1:05, 3:30, 10:55; SUN�

THU 2:15, 6:00, 8:45

SECRETARIAT (G) FRI�SAT 7:30 WWE HELL IN A CELL (Classification not available) SUN 6:00

CITY CENTRE 9 10200-102 Ave, 780.421.7020

WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS (PG coarse language) No passes, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI 12:40, 3:45, 7:00, 10:05; SAT 10:00, 1:00, 4:05, 7:00, 10:10; SUN�THU 12:05, 3:15, 7:00, 10:05 THE SOCIAL NETWORK (PG coarse language,

5:40, 8:50; WED 4:30

THE TOWN (14A violence, coarse language) FRI 4:00, 6:50, 9:40; SAT�SUN 1:10, 4:00, 6:50, 9:40; MON�THU 5:15, 8:15

YOU AGAIN (G) No passes FRI 4:15, 6:55, 9:25; SAT�

4:20, 9:50; SUN 1:50, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50; MON�THU 7:05, 9:40

PARKLAND CINEMA 7 130 Century Crossing, Spruce Grove, 780.972.2332 (Spruce Grove, Stony Plain; Parkland County)

ALPHA AND OMEGA (G) FRI 4:10, 6:30, 9:00;

SAT�SUN 1:40, 4:10, 6:30, 9:00; MON�THU 6:30, 9:00

THE SOCIAL NETWORK (PG coarse language,

THE TOWN (14A violence, coarse language) FRI

substance abuse) DAILY 7:00, 9:30; SAT, SUN, TUE 12:45, 3:10

mended for young children) Digital 3d FRI 4:05, 6:30, 9:00; SAT�SUN 1:30, 4:05, 6:30, 9:00; MON�WED 4:50, 7:50; THU 4:50

EASY A (14A language may offend) FRI 4:30, 7:15,

GA'HOOLE (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) DAILY 6:50, 9:00; SAT, SUN, TUE 12:40, 3:00

WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS (PG coarse language) No passes FRI 3:45, 6:40, 9:35; SAT�SUN 12:50, 3:45, 6:40, 9:35; MON�THU 5:10, 8:10

RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE 3D (18A gory scenes) Digital 3d FRI 4:35, 7:30, 10:00; SAT�SUN 2:00, 4:35, 7:30, 10:00; MON�THU 7:20, 10:00

CASE 39 (14A, violence, frightening scenes) FRI 4:30,

SECRETARIAT (G) Sneak Preview, V.F. SAT 7:00

SUN 1:35, 4:15, 6:55, 9:25; MON�THU 5:20, 8:30

LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA'HOOLE (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recom-

7:15, 9:55; SAT�SUN 1:50, 4:30, 7:15, 9:55; MON�THU 5:35, 8:20

LET ME IN (14A brutal violence, gory scenes, not recom-

mended for children) FRI 4:20, 7:10, 9:50; SAT�SUN 1:25, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50; MON�THU 5:25, 8:25

THE SOCIAL NETWORK (PG coarse language,

substance abuse) No passes FRI 3:50, 6:45, 9:30; SAT�SUN 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:30; MON�THU 5:00, 8:00

STREETDANCE 3D (PG) Digital 3d FRI 4:10, 6:35, 9:15; SAT�SUN 1:45, 4:10, 6:35, 9:15; MON�WED 5:45, 8:35; THU 7:50

DUGGAN CINEMA�CAMROSE 6601-48 Ave, Camrose, 780.608.2144

LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA'HOOLE (PG violence, frightening scenes, not

recommended for young children) DAILY 7:05, 9:10; SAT�SUN 2:05

THE SOCIAL NETWORK (PG coarse language, substance abuse) DAILY 6:55, 9:30; SAT �SUN 1:55

4:05, 7:00, 9:55; SAT�SUN 1:20, 4:05, 7:00, 9:55; MON�THU 7:00, 9:55

9:30; SAT�SUN 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 9:30; MON�THU 7:15, 9:30

GARNEAU

8712-109 St, 780.433.0728

ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (STC) One

Show Only: Midnight OCT 23; Tickets on sale now

FUBAR II (18A crude content, substance abuse) DAILY 7:00, 9:00; Sat-Sun 2:00

GRANDIN THEATRE�ST ALBERT Grandin Mall, Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert, 780.458.9822

LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA'HOOLE (PG violence, frightening scenes,

not recommended for young children) No passes DAILY 1:10, 3:10, 5:10, 7:10, 9:05

WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS (PG

coarse language) DAILY 1:25, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00

EASY A (14A language may offend) No passes DAILY 1:20, 3:20, 5:20, 7:20, 9:20

NANNY MCPHEE RETURNS (G) FRI 1:00, 3:00, 4:55, 6:50

LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF

WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS (PG coarse language) DAILY 6:30, 9:15; SAT, SUN, TUE 12:30, 3:15 ALPHA AND OMEGA 3D (G) DAILY 7:10, 8:50; SAT,

SUN, TUE 1:10, 3:40

THE TOWN (14A violence, coarse language) DAILY 6:40, 9:20; SAT, SUN, TUE 12:50, 3:30

EASY A (14A language may offend) DAILY 7:30, 9:40; SAT, SUN 1:00, 3:20; TUE 3:20; Movies for Mommies: TUE 1:00

YOU AGAIN (G) DAILY 7:20, 9:35; Sat, Sun, Tue 1:20, 3:35

PRINCESS 10337-82 Ave, 780.433.0728

MESRINE : KILLER INSTINCT (18A) DAILY 7:00; SAT� SUN 1:00; No 7:00 show Thu Oct 7

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALICE CREED (14A

nudity, violence, coarse language) DAILY 9:00; SAT�SUN 3:00

GET LOW (PG) DAILY 6:50; SAT�SUN 1:00 COCO CHANEL AND IGOR STRAVINSKY (18A)

DAILY 9:10; SAT�SUN 3:20

SCOTIABANK THEATRE WEM WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.444.2400

CASE 39 (14A violence, frightening scenes) DAILY 1:30,

SHREK FOREVER AFTER 3D (PG) DAILY 1:05, 3:45,

4:20, 7:40, 10:20

6:50, 9:10

STREETDANCE 3D (PG) Digital 3d DAILY 1:10, 3:40,

THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE (PG violence, fright-

6:30, 9:20

ening scenes) DAILY 1:45, 4:25, 7:10, 9:30

THE SOCIAL NETWORK (PG coarse language, sub-

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE (PG violence) DAILY

stance abuse) No passes FRI�SAT, TUE�WED 12:15, 3:15, 6:45, 9:45; SUN 12:00, 2:30, 9:45; MON 12:15, 3:15; THU 12:15, 3:15, 6:15; FRI�SUN, TUE, THU 1:15, 4:15, 7:30, 10:30; MON 1:15, 4:15, 6:45, 9:45; WED 4:15, 7:30, 10:30; Star & Strollers Screening: WED 1:00

1:25, 4:30, 6:40, 9:20

THE VIRGINITY HIT (18A sexual content, substance abuse, language may offend) DAILY 10:00 VAMPIRES SUCK (14A crude content) DAILY 1:10,

LET ME IN (14A brutal violence, gory scenes, not

4:40, 6:55, 9:15

recommended for children) Digital Cinema DAILY 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:40

CINEPLEX ODEON NORTH

LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA'HOOLE (PG violence, frightening scenes, not

14231-137 Ave, 780.732.2236

CASE 39 (14A violence, frightening scenes) DAILY 2:00,

recommended for young children) Digital 3d, No passes FRI, SUN�THU 12:50, 3:30, 6:30, 9:00; SAT 12:50, 3:30, 10:15

4:40, 7:15, 10:00

STREETDANCE 3D (PG) Digital 3d DAILY 12:50, 3:20,

7:00, 9:20

WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS (PG coarse

THE SOCIAL NETWORK (PG coarse language,

language) FRI�TUE, THU 12:10, 3:20, 6:40, 9:50; WED 1:00, 3:45, 6:40, 9:50

substance abuse) Digital Cinema, No passes FRI�TUE, THU 1:10, 4:00, 7:10, 10:10; WED 4:00, 7:10, 10:10; Star & Strollers Screening: WED 1:00

YOU AGAIN (G)

FRI, SUN�THU 1:00, 3:45, 6:50, 9:40; Sat 1:00, 3:45, 9:40

LET ME IN (14A brutal violence, gory scenes, not recom-

LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA'HOOLE (PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec-

mended for children) DAILY 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20

FUBAR II (18A crude content, substance abuse) DAILY 1:40, 4:20, 8:00, 10:30

ommended for young children) No passes DAILY 12:00, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:30

LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA'HOOLE (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recom-

ALPHA AND OMEGA 3D (G) Digital 3d FRI�TUE, THU 12:20, 2:45, 5:15; WED 12:00, 2:15, 4:30

mended for young children) Digital 3d, No passes DAILY 12:00, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:45

THE TOWN (14A violence, coarse language) FRI�SUN, TUE�THU 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 10:15; MON 12:30, 3:50, 10:15

WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS (PG coarse

EASY A (14A language may offend) FRI�WED 1:20, 4:10,

language) FRI�SUN 12:30, 3:40, 6:45, 9:50; MON�THU 1:50, 5:00, 8:10

7:20, 10:00; THU 1:20, 4:10, 10:00

DEVIL (14A violence, frightening scenes) DAILY 4:30,

WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS (PG coarse

7:45, 10:45

language) Digital Cinema FRI�SUN 1:50, 5:00, 8:10; MON, THU 12:30, 3:30, 9:50; Digital Cinema TUE�WED 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:50

YOU AGAIN (G) FRI, SUN�THU 1:00, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30; SAT 1:00, 4:10, 9:30

ALPHA AND OMEGA (G) FRI�TUE, THU 1:20, 3:50, 6:30; WED 3:50, 6:30; Star & Strollers Screening: WED 1:00 THE TOWN (14A violence, coarse language) DAILY 12:20, 3:30, 6:40, 9:40

EASY A (14A language may offend) DAILY 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:05

DEVIL (14A violence, frightening scenes) FRI�SAT 8:40, 10:40; SUN�THU 9:00

RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE (18A gory scenes) DAILY 2:10, 5:10, 7:50, 10:15

SECRETARIAT (G) Advanced Preview SAT 6:50

CINEPLEX ODEON SOUTH

RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE 3D (18A gory scenes)

Digital 3d FRI�TUE, THU 8:00, 10:45; WED 10:45 substance abuse) Stadium Seating, DTS Digital FRI 12:15, 3:15, 7:15, 10:15; SAT 10:05, 12:50, 3:40, 7:15, 10:05; SUN� THU 12:40, 3:40, 7:15, 10:15

YOU AGAIN (G) Dolby Stereo Digital, Stadium Seating

THE TOWN (14A violence, coarse language) DAILY

EASY A (14A language may offend) No passes, DTS

EASY A (14A language may offend) DAILY 7:10

Digital FRI 12:10, 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10:10; SAT 10:15, 12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:35, 10:20; SUN, TUE�THU 12:15, 2:50, 5:15, 7:45, 10:20; MON 12:15, 2:50, 5:15, 7:45

THE TOWN (14A violence, coarse language) No passes,

DTS Digital FRI 12:30, 3:25, 6:50, 9:55; SAT 10:25, 1:20, 4:15, 7:10, 10:30; SUN, TUE�THU 12:30, 3:35, 6:30, 9:35; MON 12:30, 3:35, 9:35

LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA'HOOLE (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recom-

ALPHA AND OMEGA (G) FRI�SAT 1:30, 3:45, 6:00, 8:00; SUN�THU 1:00, 3:10, 5:20, 7:25 CASE 39 (14A, violence, frightening scenes) FRI�SAT

CASE 39 (14A, violence, frightening scenes) DTS Digital,

1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 8:30, 11:00; SUN 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 8:05, 10:40; MON�THU 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 8:05, 10:30

DESPICABLE ME (G) FRI�SAT, MON�THU 1:45; SUN 12:45

Stadium Seating FRI, SUN�THU 12:05, 3:00, 7:05, 10:00; SAT 10:30, 1:10, 3:50, 7:20, 10:00; SUN, TUE�THU 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45; MON 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 10:20

RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE 3D (18A gory scenes)

DEVIL (14A violence, frightening scenes) FRI�SAT, MON�

Digital 3d, DTS Digital SUN�THU 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10

EASY A (14A language may offend) FRI�SAT 1:20, 3:40,

LES MISERABLES: 25TH ANNIVERSARY LIVE FROM THE O2 (classification not available) Digital

THU 4:15, 6:15, 8:15, 10:15; SUN 3:30, 10:30

6:00, 8:20, 10:40; SUN 1:05, 3:20, 5:30, 8:15, 10:15; MON� THU 1:05, 3:20, 5:30, 7:50, 10:15

FUBAR II (18A crude content, substance abuse) FRI�SAT 2:15, 4:30, 6:45, 9:00, 11:00; SUN�THU 1:30, 3:35, 5:35, 7:45, 10:00

INCEPTION (PG violence) FRI 1:00, 4:05, 7:10,

10:15; SAT 1:00, 4:05, 10:15; SUN 1:45, 5:00, 8:15; MON�THU 1:45

coarse language) DAILY 6:45, 9:25; SAT�SUN 1:45

FRI 12:20, 2:40, 5:15, 7:55, 10:30; SAT 10:20, 12:30, 3:15, 7:25, 10:15; SUN�THU 12:20, 2:45, 5:25, 8:00, 10:35

mended for young children) No passes, Digital 3d, DTS Digital FRI 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20; SAT 10:10, 12:25, 2:55, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25; SUN� THU 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:25

1525-99 St, 780.436.8585

WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS (PG

Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital MON 8:00

CLAREVIEW 10

4211-139 Ave, 780.472.7600

EASY A (14A language may offend) FRI 4:25, 7:00, 9:20; SAT�SUN 1:20, 4:25, 7:00, 9:20; MON�THU 5:30, 8:40

DEVIL (14A violence, frightening scenes) FRI 4:50, 7:30, 9:45; SAT�SUN 2:00, 4:50, 7:30, 9:45; MON�TUE, THU

6:50, 9:20; SAT�SUN 1:50 9:05; SAT�SUN 2:10

THE TOWN (14A violence, coarse language) DAILY 1:45, 4:20, 6:50, 9:10

ALPHA AND OMEGA (G) DAILY 2:35, 4:15, 5:55 DESPICABLE ME (G) DAILY 12:50 THE SWITCH (PG mature subject matter, not recommended for young children) DAILY 7:35, 9:30

LEDUC CINEMAS

EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY Royal Alberta Museum, 102 Ave, 128 St, 780.439.5284

MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (PG) MON 8:00

GALAXY�SHERWOOD PARK

2020 Sherwood Dr, 780.416.0150 Sherwood Park 780-416-0150

CASE 39 (14A violence, frightening scenes) FRI

4:40, 7:25, 10:10; SAT�SUN 1:55, 4:40, 7:25, 10:10; MON�THU 6:55, 9:50

THE SOCIAL NETWORK (PG coarse language,

substance abuse) No passes FRI 4:00, 7:10, 10:00; SAT�SUN 1:10, 4:00, 7:10, 10:00; MON�THU 7:10, 10:00

LET ME IN (14A brutal violence, gory scenes, not

recommended for children) FRI 4:25, 7:20, 10:05; SAT�SUN 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:05; MON�THU 6:50, 9:30

LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA'HOOLE (PG violence, frightening scenes,

not recommended for young children) Digital 3d, No passes FRI 3:30, 6:45, 9:15; SAT�SUN 1:00, 3:30, 6:45, 9:15; MON�THU 6:45, 9:15

WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS (PG coarse language) FRI 3:45, 6:50, 9:45; SAT�SUN 12:45, 3:45, 6:50, 9:45; MON�THU 6:40, 9:35 YOU AGAIN (G) FRI 4:20, 7:05, 9:50; SAT 1:50,

DESPICABLE ME (G) DAILY 1:40 LIFE AS WE KNOW IT (STC) Advanced Preview SAT

7:00

SECRETARIAT (G) Advanced Preview SAT 6:50 WWE HELL IN A CELL (Classification not available) SUN 6:00

LES MISERABLES: 25TH ANNIVERSARY LIVE FROM THE O2 (Classification not available) MON 8:00

DEVIL (14A violence, frightening scenes) DAILY

BEST WORST MOVIE & TROLL 2 DOUBLE FEA� TURE (14A) THU 9:00

LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA'HOOLE (PG violence, frightening scenes,

WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS (PG coarse

THE SOCIAL NETWORK (PG coarse language,

INCEPTION (PG violence) Dolby Stereo Digital FRI 7:15;

WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS (PG

THE SOCIAL NETWORK (PG coarse language,

Leduc, 780.352.3922

1:05, 3:25; 7:05, 9:25

not recommended for young children) DAILY 1:10, 3:20, 7:10, 9:20 substance abuse) DAILY 1:00, 3:35, 7:00, 9:35

coarse language) DAILY 12:55, 3:35, 6:55, 9:35

METRO CINEMA 9828-101A Ave, Citadel Theatre, 780.425.9212

LAST JOURNEY W/ CHOPIN SHORTS (STC)

FRI 7:00

YOUNG CHOPIN/CHOPIN'S YOUTH (STC) FRI 9:00

CHOPIN: DESIRE OF LOVE (STC) SAT 6:45 IMPROMPTU (STC) SAT 9:00 ...WARSAW�BORN W/ CHOPIN SHORTS (STC) SUN 4:00

A SONG TO REMEMBER (STC) SUN 6:00 FAVA YOUTH CAMP SCREENING (STC) THU 7:00

VUEWEEKLY // SEP 30 – OCT 6, 2010

WESTMOUNT CENTRE 111 Ave, Groat Rd, 780.455.8726

language) No passes, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI 6:30, 9:30; Sat-Sun 3:25, 6:30, 9:30; MON�THU 8:05 SAT�SUN 4:00, 7:15; MON�THU 7:30

substance abuse) No passes, DTS Digital FRI 7:00, 9:50; SAT�SUN 3:50, 7:00, 9:50; MON�THU 7:50

THE TOWN (14A violence, coarse language) DTS Digital FRI 6:45, 9:40; Sat-Sun 3:35, 6:45, 9:40; MON�THU 8:15

WETASKIWIN CINEMAS

Wetaskiwin, 780.352.3922

THE TOWN (14A violence, coarse language) DAILY 6:50

pm and 9:30; 12:50, 3:30

THE SOCIAL NETWORK (PG coarse language, substance abuse) DAILY 1:00, 3:35, 7:00, 9:35

LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA'HOOLE (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) DAILY 1:10, 3:20, 7:10, 9:20

WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS (PG coarse language) DAILY 12:55, 3:35, 6:55, 9:35

FILM // 19

FILM REVIEWS 

Let

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Film Capsules Opening Friday Let Me In

Written and directed by Matt Reeves Starring Kodi Smit-McPhee  The faithfulness of Matt Reeves' adaptation of the masterpiece Swedish film Let The Right One In is equal parts heartening and problematic. The good news is, with the exception of some mildly unfortunate CGI and some obvious musical cues, Reeves has almost entirely resisted the urge to make Let Me In's waters any less murky, its rich subtexts and clever tweaks of the genre any more pointed or played-out. That said, there is such a thing as being too slavish, and Reeves hews close enough to the original that I think it's fair to question the necessity of the remake. Still, whether it should be or not it is here, and the original is close enough to perfect— and its themes of alienation and budding maturity universal enough—that sticking close to it is the smart decision. Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee) is a loner, bullied mercilessly at school and so meek even his parents don't pay much attention to him: his interaction with his mother is limited to her calling him for dinner, while when he tries to reach out to his now-absent father, he just revels in the wounds of his still-fresh divorce. He

finally finds someone to talk to in Abby (Chloe Moretz), a reserved but playful girl with her share of odd tics: she only comes out at night, she rarely wears shoes, even in the New Mexico snow, and she's not even forthcoming with her age ("I'm 12 ... more or less" she coyly answers). In style, Reeves isn't quite as dramatic a composer of images as original Tomas Alfredson—one scene in particular, a burning hospital room, really suffers in comparison—but he infuses a lot of clever shots into this. A theme of being boxed in quietly emerges, reflecting everyone's inability to look or live outside the worlds they've created, and punctured by Abby's sneaking in through windows everywhere she goes. The rare moments of horror are also a little more stark here, which lends Abby a more foreboding air, and maybe strikes at the question of just what Owen is willing to overlook for the privilege of a friend a little more pointedly. That's welcome, since ultimately this is a movie about a budding relationship with a lot of brilliant other subtexts and window dressing added on. Here, too, Let Me In is deferential but still captures the inherent sweetness and darkness of young friendship, and how much it can mean to have someone, anyone around to help you through life, even if that's the undead. David Berry

// david@vueweekly.comw

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALICE CREED << CONTINUED FROM PAGE 16

Beast. It's brilliant because he's making it up as he goes along. The audience knows that—you can see him calculating it in his head and yet it's so subtle. Anyway, for me, as soon as I plan something it just becomes terrible. But if you're very alert and working closely with your fellow actor it usually comes together. Eddie and Martin are fantastic. Even when the camera was just on me they would give it their best. Sometimes you'd hear them say, "Jesus, I just gave my best performance when the camera wasn't even on me!" [Laughs] VW: But of course their performance, albeit indirectly, does wind up on screen, because if things are working in the way you're describing then what they're delivering is reflected in what you're doing, right? GA: Absolutely. To me it's so frustrating when actors don't stick around when

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The Social Network

Directed by David Fincher Written by Aaron Sorkin Starring Jesse Eisenberg.  If the Internet feels like the crowning achievement of American rear-view myopia—the disdain for history that isn't myth, the quest for communication models that annihilate reflection via equally instantaneous responses to events both banal and of the utmost gravity—than it's that much more exhilarating to discover this American movie that interrogates recent history in a manner at once deeply reflective and gloriously impatient, and through a story that forsakes virtual communities for actual ones. Based on Ben Mezrich's The Accidental Billionaires, The Social Network opens with a riveting break-up scene rife with humiliation and rapid-fire exchanges—Todd Solondz by way of Howard Hawks—and closes with half of this broken couple refreshing the other's stubbornly oblivious Facebook page like a caffeinated laboratory mouse tapping his lever in vein hope of some paltry reward. Director David Fincher describes The Social Network as "the Citizen Kane of John Hughes movies," and he's not far from the mark. That young woman who left him at the bar with assurances of his asshole status will remain Mark Zuckerberg's elusive Rosebud, the one who got and stayed away, understandably so, since only minutes after being dumped the future Facebook creator blogged about what a bitch she was before drunkenly creating a misogynist hotness

they're not on camera. My first-ever job I had to do a scene—it was a Stephen Poliakoff film—and the actress I was working against wasn't there. My first-ever acting job and for my whole scene I was doing it to a cross with a prompt reading the lines. What does Stanislavski say? Acting is reacting. If you give, they give. That's how you get the best work. I have to say I was genuinely petrified at times with Alice because Eddie was so scary. Sometimes I didn't know if he was going to punch me. Of course he was completely in control. VW: He's also scarier with the beard. GA: I know! He's actually got this cuddly, kind face. VW: Sort of gnome-like. GA: [Laughs] Yeah, that's right. He's the sweetest guy you'll ever meet, always all, "Darling, are you all right?" Then as soon as he puts the balaclava on and starts shouting it's terrifying. He snaps right in and out of it. That's proper acting. VW: Though it's extremely selective with

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rating site using photos of every girl on campus. Unlike Charles Foster Kane, Zuckerberg's odyssey ends before he's 25, having already become the world's youngest billionaire yet nonetheless still wearing plastic sandals and tube socks to his legal proceedings. Kids grow up fast these days. Zuckerberg's portrayed by Jesse Eisenberg, whose facility with scripter Aaron Sorkin's brilliant dialogue is almost supernatural. Eisenberg's matched by Andrew Garfield's shafted Facebook CFO, Justin Timberlake's absurdly confident Napster creator, and most especially Armie Hammer's dual turn as the Winklevosses, the handsome and wealthy Harvard twins who recruited Zuckerberg to do the nerd labour for their proposed ivy league dating site and watched helplessly as Zuckerberg took their fragment of an idea and turned in into the world's biggest online community. The completely convincing doubling of Hammer is not only the result of vibrant acting but also fluid special effects, something Fincher knows his way around. Yet one of the things that makes The Social Network so satisfying is the sense that Fincher's almost completely shaken off the technical show-offery that's plagued his earlier work, most notably Panic Room. This Fincher is a nimble, eloquent, precise storyteller, compacting wordy scenes into bracingly taut matches of wit and desperation that indeed allude to contemporary issues—dissolving privacy, fractured interaction, fast money— yet frequently resonate most rewardingly as a study of masculine psychology barely emerging from awkward adolescence. Josef Braun

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Now Playing I'm Still Here

Directed by Casey Affleck Written by Affleck, Joaquin Phoenix Starring Phoenix, Antony Langdon  Odd as it may actually seem, I think it's kind of necessary to separate I'm Still Here the film from the spectacle of Joaquin Phoenix supposedly going crazy and quitting acting, insomuch as the former is just a per-

what it reveals, the film seems to demand that you imply a great deal of back-story for Alice. GA: I did create a lot of back-story. I made all these little films of myself—I had quite a bit of free time out there on the Isle of Man. It was really helpful to get a sense of who Alice was. But when it came to performing all that work seemed really irrelevant because Alice's situation is so extreme. If there were a film about Alice Creed before being kidnapped you'd see a completely different person than the Alice in our film. Over its course she transforms, becomes much more brutal, ruthless and manipulative. It's her method of survival. VW: In a way, your character remains the most mysterious, doesn't she? We actually learn far more about her captors. GA: I love that, because we're usually so spoon-fed in cinema nowadays. I get frustrated with that. It's nice not knowing every detail. VW: Does playing a character like Alice,

formance, while the latter was a piece of performance art. I'm just not sure how else to reconcile Casey Affleck admitting none of it was actually real, at least from their standpoint, before most of the world even got a chance to see the film. Because, for the film's artistic purposes at least, there really wasn't any reason for Joaquin Phoenix to take his character into real life (obviously it makes a lot of sense from a marketing standpoint, at least until the reveal). Most of the film is Phoenix in private or at least interacting with people who were in on what was really going on, whether that's his close circle or the few celebrities who pop up to interact with him— ie pure performance. Which, I have to say, is incredibly disappointing: there is a kind of twisted brilliance in manufacturing a celebrity's self-immolation in our tabloid culture, but neither Affleck nor Phoenix apparently have the courage of their convictions. The publicity spectacle at least gets at asking questions about the nature of our relationship to celebrity, and also revealed just how petty and facetious our interaction with them is: in public, Phoenix was playing a man who was quite obviously losing his mind, and of course the reaction was mostly just tossed-off derision and mockery. The film, though, being almost fully staged, just turns that bold statement into another (reasonably adept) performance on Phoenix's part, a far less-interesting circumstance. Scenes that could have been interesting reveals into how celebrities themselves might react to one of their own going off the deep end are instead just scenes: a great one with Ben Stiller discussing a script with a spaced-out Phoenix, wondering what the hell is happening, loses most of its bite when it's just something that's been rehearsed and enacted. All of which is to say that, though Affleck and Phoenix deserve major credit for the spectacle created, their unwillingness to actually carry that into most of the film reduces its impact considerably. I'm Still Here is an alright, and well-acted, film, sure, but it could have been a Boratlike statement, too, except it can't live up to its greater ambitions. David Berry

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being at the centre of such a traumatic story, teach you something about others or yourself you weren't aware of before? GA: I learned a lot about thinking on the spot, the fight or flight thing. Your brain goes to this other place where you lose sense of time and space. And I learned a lot about myself actually, and about my work. One of the reasons I was making this movie was because I doubted myself quite a lot. I wasn't sure if I could access those things needed for the role. What I learned was that if you're focused on working intensely with the other person you can achieve almost anything. You've got the director to support you. You've got the other actors. You're not doing it on your own. V Now playing The Disappearance of Alice Creed Written and directed by J Blakeson Starring Gemma Arterton, Eddie Marsan, Martin Compston Princess Theatre (10337 - 82 ave)

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n the late 1990s, rave culture in Edmonton exploded, filling warehouses nearly every weekend with heaving bodies, blinking lights and pulsating music. After-hours clubs popped up in basements and back rooms and DJs supplanted rock 'n' rollers as the keepers of the night. One of the DJs at the forefront of that explosion was David Stone, who is celebrating the 10th anniversary of his electronica-centred radio show BPM on CJSR. Having got his start in 1988 DJing at a teen club called Studio 82, by the late-'90s as electronic music began its ascent Stone found himself at the centre of it all. "We were getting booked for every party, every gig, every major event they wanted us ... At one point [we] were playing this night at the Rev— which had turned into Lush—called Turbo Saturdays and we were playing for, like, 700 or 800 people just jammed into that room, just raving. It was amazing, those were great times." A chance encounter in 2000 with a CJSR sales rep at the record store he worked at led Stone to the broadcast booth. "He wanted to get us to advertise and he said, 'Well, if you want you can sponsor a couple of hours on CJSR,' so we asked 'What if we wanna do a show?' and he said he'd try to get us a time slot," Stone recounts. "I don't know if that was above-board or not, but it turned out they had Wednesdays at 1 am available. So one cold fall night I went and started doing BPM."

David Stone's 10 years at CJSR have been full of ups and downs // Eden Munro

That show enabled me to weather a very bleak period in the scene here, where raves were getting shut down, the whole culture was under attack, there were some really dire times.

The beginning of the show was also the beginning of the end for the explosion of rave culture in Edmonton, however—police crackdowns on events and after-hours clubs ground the scene to a halt and pushed it underground. All across North America, a moral panic set in and its target was dance music. While the form lived on in Europe, through much of the early-2000s dance music disappeared from popular culture. "Right around the time I started BPM we had the Ascension rave and up to that point there hadn't been anything bigger than that. It was at the Sport-Ex on the Northlands grounds, which is now gone, and Paul Oakenfold played, Max Graham, there were three rooms, it was huge," Stone reminisces. "Unfortunately it also attracted some negative media attention. The lynch pin was that some people had seizures at the party which they attributed to the strobes, but some people attributed it to the fact that people were taking a lot of drugs. It's no lie that there are drugs in this scene—it exists. It exists in rock 'n' roll, it exists in country music, but in rave music it has somehow become part and parcel of the experience, or it seemed to be at that time." For Stone personally, the show provided an outlet during trying times, letting him stay in touch with the dance-music scene even if that scene had receded to the underground.

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Eventually, however, electronic music would make its inevitable comeback and BPM would be there to document it, to help push it along to the prominent place it now holds. "That show enabled me to weather a very bleak period in the scene here, where raves were getting shut down, the whole culture was under attack, there were some really dire times," Stone says. "That show allowed me to weather that storm and explore a lot of the music that was coming out at the time, like the rise of electro— and some would argue the descent of electro. To chart the rise of guys like Deadmau5 and MSTRKRFT and other artists that dominate dance music at the moment. BPM, in its way, charted that path with the music that I was playing and introducing to people." Stone isn't just celebrating 10 years at CJSR, however: he's also helping celebrate the fifth anniversary of Level 2 Lounge and his Friday night residency there. Though the radio may disseminate his message to the masses, nothing teaches a DJ what works and what doesn't like a club gig. "That's what's great about my Level 2 residency and being there every Friday night and playing for them and having that opportunity to play a new record for people and go, 'Do you like this?'" he says. "Having a place to play every week that's small and safe is awesome because on the radio you can't tell. It's pretty amazing that we have a place like this in Edmonton, because a lot of cities don't have a place like this and Edmonton needs a place like this, it deserves a place like this and I'm very proud to be associated with a place like this." Ultimately it's not the radio show or the DJ gigs that keep Stone interested: it's the music itself. Though he admits to having moments where he needs to turn off the stereo and think about something else, the pull of music is strong with the lure of the next clever melody that he can use to connect with people is overpowering. "It never fails to amaze me when I get a record and the first time I hear a tune and something comes into it that I've never heard before, or it's clever, I love that, I love finding those moments," he says. "I find that electronic music as a whole is a much more creative genre than people give it credit for—you're only restricted by what kinds of sounds you can make. There are no strings, no physicality to it. It's something that exists in electrons and that's what's amazing. You create one sound and steal a sound from somewhere else and twist it and bend it in ways that no one has imagined and all of a sudden it's just, 'Wow.'" V Sat, Oct 2 (9:30 pm) David Stone With Groovy Cuvy, TZ, Tianna J, Neebz Level 2 Lounge, $8

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ARTERY Monome Community Tour: A Night Of Electronic Music; 8pm (show); $10 at Foosh, Blackbyrd, Listen

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NEW CITY LOUNGE Unleash the Archers, Jezibelle, Reaver, Minax; 9pm

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

NEW CITY LIKWID LOUNGE Evil Survives, Untimely Demise, Mortillery

NEW CITY SUBURBS Easy Love: Barletta, Easy Love DJs

ROUGE LOUNGE Solice Fri

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

SPORTSWORLD Roller Skating Disco Sat; 1pm-4:30pm and 7-10:30pm

ON THE ROCKS Heather McKenzie Band; 9pm; $5

STOLLI’S ON WHYTE Top 40, R&B, house with People’s DJ

PAWN SHOP James T. Kirks (15th anniversary show, T-Shirt release party); 8pm

TEMPLE Oh Snap! every Sat: Rusko OMG World Tour: Knight Riderz, guests; 8pm (door); $25 at Foosh, Blackbyrd, Room 322, Ticketmaster

OBYRNE'S IRISH PUB Raphaël Freynet at 6:30pm; Guillaume Arsenault at 8:30pm; part of Edmonton Chante ON THE ROCKS Heather McKenzie Band; 9pm; $5 PAWN SHOP Current Swell, guests; 9pm RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players; 9pm-2am RED SQUARE VODKA HOUSE Dramatik; 7:30pm; part of Edmonton Chante RIVER CREE�The Venue Bjorn Again (Abba tribute); 8pm (show); $29.50 at rivercreeresort. com, ticketMaster RUSTY REED'S HOUSE OF BLUES Bill Bourne; 9:30pm; $10 SAVOY LOUNGE Tracteur Jack; 11pm; part of Edmonton Chante Fest SQUIRES PUB Tracteur Jack 9:30pm; part of Edmonton Chante STARLITE ROOM Japandroids, Frog Eyes, PS I Love You; 8pm (door); $15 at Blackbyrd, Listen, foundationconcerts.com STEEPS�Old Glenora Live Music Fri STUDIO PCL�ARTS BARN Jason Kodie; 9pm; part of Edmonton Chante TAPHOUSE Full Night of 22 Foot Funk; 8pm WILD BILL’S�Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close WILD WEST SALOON Billy Ringo WOK BOX Fri with Breezy Brian Gregg; 3:30-5:30pm YARDBIRD SUITE Amanda Tosoff Quartet; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $16 (member)/$20 (guest)

SPORTSWORLD Roller Skating Disco Fri Nights; 7-10:30pm; sports-world.ca STOLLI’S Top 40, R&B, house with People’s DJ TEMPLE Options Dark Alt Night; Greg Gory and Eddie Lunchpail; 9pm (door); $5 (door)

SAT OCT 2 180 DEGREES Dancehall and Reggae night every Sat ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE Marie-Josée Ouimet; 5pm; part of Edmonton Chante ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage with Trace Jordan 1st and 3rd Sat; 7pm-12 ARTERY Locution Revolution (CD release); all ages; 8pm (door), 9pm (show) AVENUE THEATRE Jason Zerbin, Seventh Rain, Chasing Jones, Letters To Elise; all ages BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair of the Dog: FD Jones Soap Co (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ LRT–Lionel Rault Trio with Don Marcotte, and Marc Ladouceur; 8pm; $10 BLUES ON WHYTE The Avey Brothers BOHEMIA Unthugged hip-hop: No Ego DJs present Paint My Decks, Tevin, El Brenno, guests; no minors; 8:30pm (door), 9pm (show); $5 (door) BRIXX BAR Dirty City Hearts, The Manvils, Dirty Picture Show; 9pm (door); $12 (door) BURNSY O'FLANNAGANS PUBLIC HOUSE Derek Sigurdson; 9pm; no cover CARROT Open mic Sat; 7:3010pm; free

QUEEN ALEXANDRA HALL Northern Lights Folk Club: Martin Simpson; $18 (adv at TIX on the Square, Acoustic Music, Myhre’s)/$22 (door) RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players; 9pm2am RIVER CREE The Beach Boys, California Girls RUSTY REED'S HOUSE OF BLUES Bill Bourne; 9:30pm; $10 STARLITE ROOM The Wooden Sky, Yukon Blonde; 8pm (door) no minors; $13 at TicketMaster.ca, Blackbyrd STUDIO PCL�ARTS BARN Raphaël Freynet; 6pm; part of Edmonton Chante WESTBURY THEATRE

10330-84 Ave, 780.448.9000

Allez Ouest , Dramatik, Qbanito, Majuscule; 7pm; part of Edmonton Chante

WILD WEST SALOON Billy Ringo YARDBIRD SUITE International Jazz Series: Anat Fort Trio; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $24 (member)/$28 (guest)

HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB Shawn Hlookoff, Lindsay Ell, guests; 7:30pm (door); $10 (adv at YEG Live)/$12 (door)

BUDDY’S Fri: DJ Arrow Chaser; 8pm; no cover before 10pm CENTURY ROOM Underground House every Fri with DJ Nic-E CHROME LOUNGE Platinum VIP Fri THE DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Fri at 9pm

HAYLOFT Harvest Moon: Marv Machura Band, Joe Public, guests; 6pm (door), 8:30pm (music); $15 (door) HILLTOP PUB Open stage/mic Sat: hosted by Sally's Krackers Sean Brewer; 3-5:30pm

EMPIRE BALLROOM Rock, hip hop, house, mash up; no minors

IRON BOAR PUB Jazz in Wetaskiwin featuring jazz trios the 1st Sat each month; $10

ESMERELDA'S Ezzies Freakin Frenzy Fri: Playing the best in country

IVORY CLUB Duelling piano show with Jesse, Shane, Tiffany and Erik and guests

FUNKY BUDDHA�Whyte Ave Top tracks, rock, retro with DJ Damian

JAMMERS PUB Sat open jam, 3-7:30pm; country/rock band 9pm-2am

GAS PUMP Top 40/dance with DJ Christian

JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Celcius Quartet (funky, contemporary jazz); $15

JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY LGBT Community: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm NEWCASTLE PUB Fri House, dance mix with DJ Donovan NEW CITY LIKWID LOUNGE DJ Anarchy Adam (Punk) PLAY NIGHTCLUB Pretty People Get Nasty with Peep n Tom, Showboy and rotating guest; DJS; every Fri; 9pm (door) REDNEX�Morinville DJ Gravy from the Source 98.5

JR BAR Big and Fearless (classic rock); 9pm-1am L.B.’S PUB Sat afternoon open jam with Gator and friends, 5-9pm; Late show: Boogie Patrol

PAWN SHOP Mark Sultan, BBQ, Hang Loose, Moby Dicks; 8pm (door); $10 at Blackbyrd, Listen, Freecloud PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm REXALL PLACE Brad Paisley (H20 World Tour), Darius Rucker, Justin Moore; all ages; 6:30pm (door), 7:30pm (show); $37.50, $49.50, $79.50 at TicketMaster

DJs

CROWN PUB Acoustic Open Stage during the day/Electric Open Stage at night with Marshall Lawrence, 1:30pm (sign-up), every Sat, 2-5pm; evening: hosted by Dan and Miguel; 9:30pm-12:30am

BOOTS Retro Disco: retro dance

CROWN PUB Latin/world fusion jam hosted by Marko Cerda; musicians from other musical backgrounds are invited to jam; 7pm-closing

NEW CITY This Will Hurt you Mon: Johnny Neck and his Job present mystery musical guests

J AND R BAR Open jam/stage every Sun hosted by Me Next and the Have-Nots; 3-7pm

BANK ULTRA LOUNGE Connected Fri: 91.7 The Bounce, Nestor Delano, Luke Morrison

GAS PUMP Blues Jam/open stage every Sat 3-6pm, backline provided

B�STREET BAR Acoustic-based open stage hosted by Mike "Shufflehound" Chenoweth; every Sun evening

DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB Open stage Mon with Ido Vander Laan and Scott Cook; 8-12

DJs

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

BLACKSHEEP PUB Fri Bash: DJ spinning retro to rock classics to current

BLUES ON WHYTE Second Hand Smoke

BLUES ON WHYTE Funkafeelya

EDDIE SHORTS Sun acoustic oriented open stage hosted by Rob Taylor

AZUCAR PICANTE Every Fri: DJ Papi and DJ Latin Sensation

FILTHY MCNASTY'S The Boudoirs, Mark Feduk; 4-6pm

BLUE PEAR RESTAURANT Jazz on the Side Sun: George Koufogiannakis (guitar); $25 if not dining

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sleeman Mon: BA Johnston and Magnificent 7s; no cover

RUSTY REED'S HOUSE OF BLUES Blue Mon: Jammin' with Jim Guiboche; 8pm-12

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sat DJs on three levels. Main Floor: Menace Sessions: alt rock/electro/trash with Miss Mannered

EDMONTON EVENT CENTRE Walking on the Red Carpet (pop rock); all ages; 7pm (door)

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Sun Brunch: PM Bossa with Jamie Philp, and Gary Myers; 10am2.30pm; donations

ARTERY Dave Lang, Dave Newberry (The Captains of Industry Tour), Sherry-Lee Heschel; no minors; 9pm (door); $8

DOW CENTENNIAL CENTRE� Fort Saskatchewan Canadian Country Music Legends; 2pm

CASINO YELLOWHEAD Billy Jive (show band)

DV8 Zero Cool, Brash Tax, Van Gohst; 10pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Who Made Who–The Rock and Roll Resurrection: The Maykings (revive The Who), The Dirty Dudes (revive AC/DC); 10pm; no cover

MON OCT 4

ROBERT TEGLER STUDENT CENTRE Beautiful City: Concordia University College and Concordia Concert Choir, (gospel music); 7:30pm; $12 (adult)/$10 (student/senior) at TIX on the Square

Classical

DJs

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Fri DJs spin Wooftop and Main Floor: Eclectic jams with Nevine–indie, soul, motown, new wave, electro; Underdog: Perverted Fri: Punk and Ska from the ‘60s ‘70s and ‘80s with Fathead

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

SAVOY MARTINI LOUNGE Reggae on Whyte: RnR Sun with DJ IceMan; no minors; 9pm; no cover

ROSE BOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE The Legendary Rose Bowl Mon Jam: hosted by Sean Brewer; 9pm

AZUCAR PICANTE Every Sat: DJ Touch It, hosted by DJ Papi

BAR WILD Bar Wild Fri

SUN OCT 3

PLAY NIGHTCLUB Rotating Drag shows; every Sun; 9pm (door)

DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB Celtic Music Session, hosted by KeriLynne Zwicker, 4-7pm

CASINO EDMONTON Al Barrett (classic rock)

BAR�B�BAR DJ James; no cover

RENDEZVOUS Survival metal night

LOIS HOLE LIBRARY Sun Afternoon Music: live musical performances ; 2-3pm; drop-in

BAR WILD Bar Gone Wild Mon: Service Industry Night; no minors; 9pm-2am BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Eclectic Nonsense, Confederacy of Dunces, Dad Rock, TJ Hookah and Rear Admiral Saunders

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

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Metal Mon: with DJ S.W.A.G.

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

NEW CITY Open Mic Sun hosted by Ben Disaster; 9pm (sign-up); no cover

LUCKY 13 Industry Night with DJ Chad Cook every Mon

CENTURY ROOM Underground House every Sat with DJ Nic-E

ON THE ROCKS Seven Strings Sun: The Michael James Band, Owls by Nature, guests; 9pm; $5

THE DRUID IRISH PUB Sat DJ at 9pm

O’BYRNE’S Open mic Sun with Robb Angus (Wheat Pool); 9:30pm-1am

BLACKSHEEP PUB Sat: DJ

EMPIRE BALLROOM Rock, hip hop, house, mash up ENCORE CLUB So Sweeeeet Sat ESMERALDA’S Super Parties: Every Sat a different theme FLUID LOUNGE Sat Gone Gold Mash-Up: with Harmen B and DJ Kwake FUNKY BUDDHA�Whyte Ave Top tracks, rock, retro with DJ Damian HALO For Those Who Know: house every Sat with DJ Junior Brown, Luke Morrison, Nestor Delano, Ari Rhodes JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY LGBT Community: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm NEWCASTLE PUB Top 40 Sat: requests with DJ Sheri NEW CITY LIKWID LOUNGE Punk Rawk Sat with Todd and Alex NEW CITY SUBURBS Black Polished Chrome Sat: industrial, Electro and alt with Dervish, Anonymouse, Blue Jay PALACE CASINO Show Lounge Sat night DJ PAWN SHOP SONiC Presents Live On Site! Anti-Club Sat: rock, indie, punk, rock, dance, retro rock; 8pm (door) PLANET INDIGO�Jasper Ave Suggestive Sat: breaks electro house with PI residents

LYVE ON WHYTE Early show: Mad Dog Blues Band, The Dungarees; Late show: Maxxed Out

PLAY NIGHTCLUB Every Sat with DJ Showboy; 8pm (door)

MORANGO'S TEK CAFÉ Sat open stage: hosted by Dr. Oxide; 7-10pm

RED STAR Sat indie rock, hip hop, and electro with DJ Hot Philly and guests

ORLANDO'S 2 PUB Sun Open Stage Jam hosted by The Vindicators (blues/rock); 3-8pm RUSTY REED'S HOUSE OF BLUES Open Blues Jam; 8pm SECOND CUP�Mountain Equipment Co-op Live music every Sun; 2-4pm

Classical MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH Pro Coro: Spectacular A Cappella, Richard Sparks (conductor); 2:30pm; $30 (adult)/$25 (student/senior) at winpear box office; Marg Daly pre-concert talk 45 minutes prior to performance WINSPEAR CENTRE Four Seasons: Sunday Showcase: ESO, William Eddins (conductor), Ewald Cheung (violin), Julianne Scott (clarinet), 2pm, $20-$65; Symphony Prelude at 1:15pm in the Upper Circle (3rd Level) Lobby with D.T. Baker; Postperformance Q & A with Lucas Waldin, William Eddins, Ewald Cheung and Julianne Scott in the main lobby

DJs BACKSTAGE TAP AND GRILL Industry Night: with Atomic Improv, Jameoki and DJ Tim BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sun Afternoons: Phil, 2-7pm; Main Floor: Got To Give It Up: Funk, Soul, Motown, Disco with DJ Red Dawn

FLUID LOUNGE Mon Mixer

NEW CITY LIKWID LOUNGE Daniel and Fowler (eclectic tunes)

TUE OCT 5 BLUES ON WHYTE Funkafeelya BRIXX BAR Troubadour Tue: Dead Letters, Nick and Graham (Needles to Vinyl), Mark Feduk (host); 9pm (door); $5 (door) CROWN PUB Underground At The Crown: underground, hip hop with DJ Xaolin and Jae Maze; open mic; every Tue; 10pm; $3 DRUID IRISH PUB Open stage with Chris Wynters, Paul Bellows; 9pm EDMONTON EVENT CENTRE As I Lay Dying, All That Remains, Unearth, Carnifex; all ages; 7pm (door); $32.50 at TicketMaster, Blackbyrd, and Unionevents. com L.B.’S PUB Tue Jam with Ammar; 9pm-1am NEW CITY LIKWID LOUNGE Open Mic; Hosted by Ben Disaster; 9pm NEW CITY SUBURBS Atari Teenage Riot, DJ Autoerotique, Virtual Terrorist, Psykkle O’BYRNE’S Celtic Jam with Shannon Johnson and friends RUSTY REED'S HOUSE OF BLUES CKUA Host Lionel Rault (guitar); 8:30pm SECOND CUP�124 Street Open mic every Tue; 8-10pm

FLOW LOUNGE Stylus Sun

SECOND CUP�Stanley Milner Library Open mic every Tue; 7-9pm

NEW CITY SUBURBS Get Down Sun: with Neighbourhood Rats

SIDELINERS PUB Tue All Star Jam with Alicia Tait and Rickey Sidecar; 8pm

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COMMENT >> THE END

Farewell and adieu

Sandor reveals his band and takes his leave Over the course of this column's exisBut none of that matters as long as you tence, I've tried to balance the real ecolove what you do. nomics of the industry with an appreciaLast year, as part of a series of articles tion for the music itself. that appeared in this space, I put And, looking back over the out an album digitally through many columns I've written that TuneCore, paid a fee to get a have painted a pretty bleak bunch of tracks I'd mixed myeconomic portrait over the self at home out onto iTunes. I ly.com past few years, my regret created a CBC Radio 3 profile. eweek u v @ n steve is that maybe, just maybe, I I promoted myself on MySn Steveor pace and Facebook. I Tweeted. could have done more to highSand light just how important it is to The experiment was begun to love what you do. see if you could make an album, at As I write what is unfortunately the last home, and actually sell it. But, because I instalment of Enter Sandor, my one last didn't want the articles to act as a promonugget of industry advice I'd pass on to tional tool for my "band," I kept my album any musician—from the band that's just title and artist name out of the article. cut its first album to a kid who just picked Well, I'm up to US$3.20 in royalties. I up the drumsticks for the first time—is have a few dozen MySpace followers. I that, to be happy in the music industry, have 58 fans on Jango. you have to put passion first. But, you know what? It was more than No one is getting rich in this business an experiment. As bad as that final prodanymore. That's just the reality of an inuct might have been, I really enjoyed it. dustry fractured by the Internet. But, I It was therapeutic. And I've kept doing think the worst is over. The resurgence it. Maybe there will be a second Poster of vinyl is a sign that there are more and Tube Killer album coming out soon. more people who want more out of their There it is. Now that I am closing this headphones than tinny compressed files. chapter, I can come clean. For anyone I believe that there is a new generation of who wants to go further and give it a listeens who don't see music as a valueless, ten, I apologize in advance. easily traded commodity. New models need to be built, but an emerging market Delivering this column week-to-week is out there. has been equally enjoyable. When I left

EXIT

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SPORTSMAN'S LOUNGE Open Stage hosted by Paul McGowan and Gina Cormier; every Tue; 8pm-midnight; no cover STARLITE ROOM Rusko OMG World Tour: Knight Riderz; 8pm STEEPS�Old Glenora Every Tue Open Mic; 7:30-9:30pm YARDBIRD SUITE Tue Night Sessions: Brett Miles Quartet; 7:30pm (door); 8pm (show); $5

Classical WINSPEAR CENTRE Cirque de la Symphonie: William Eddins (conductor); 7:30pm; $75-$125

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: CJSR’s Eddie Lunchpail; Wooftop: with DJ Gundam BRIXX BAR Troubadour Tue: The Balconies and Sean Brewer, hosted by Mark Feduk; 9pm; $8 BUDDY'S Mon: DJ Arrow Chaser; 9pm (door); no cover ESMERALDA’S Retro Tue; no cover with student ID FUNKY BUDDHA�Whyte Ave Latin and Salsa music, dance lessons 8-10pm LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Double Up Tue: Urban Elite DJs

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NEW CITY LIKWID LOUNGE ‘abilly, Ghoul-rock, spooky with DJ Vylan Cadaver

original Jam Wed (no covers): hosted by Dan and Miguel; 9:30pm-12:30am

NEW CITY SUBURBS Atari Teenage Riot (digital technopunks), DJ AutoErotique, Virtual Terrorist, Psykkle, Anonymouse; no minors; 8pm (door); $25 at New City, Freecloud, Blackbyrd

EDDIE SHORTS Goodtime jamboree Wed open stage hosted by Charlie Scream; 9pm-1am

RED STAR Tue Experimental Indie Rock, Hip Hop, Electro with DJ Hot Philly

WED OCT 6 AVENUE THEATRE Abandon All Ships, Woe is Me, Structures, Battleship; all ages; 6pm (door); tickets at TicketMaster, unionevents. com BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Glitter Gulch Wed BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Jimbo– Jim Hepler BLUES ON WHYTE Funkafeelya BRIXX BAR Really Good… Eats and Beats: DJ Degree every Wed, Edmonton’s Bassline Community; 6pm (music); no cover COPPERPOT RESTAURANT Live jazz every Wed night: Lionel Rault Trio; 6-9pm CROWN PUB Creative

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FIDDLER'S ROOST Little Flower Open Stage Wed with Brian Gregg; 8pm-12 GOOD EARTH COFFEE HOUSE Wed with Breezy Brian Gregg; 12-1pm HAVEN SOCIAL Open stage with Jonny Mac, 8:30pm, free MYER HOROWITZ THEATRE Crash Test Dummies, Colleen Brown; 7pm (door); $25 at TicketMaster NEW CITY Circ-O-RamaLicious: Gypsy and circus fusion spectaculars; last Wed every month PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; Slow pitch for beginners on the 1st and 3rd Wed prior to regular jam every Wed, 6.30pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member) RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 RIVER CREE Wed Live Rock Band hosted by Yukon Jack;

Edmonton for Toronto, I wanted to remain in touch. (Rumours that I kept working for Vue to pay back the publication for a company bar tab I helped burn in one night at the old Sidetrack Café are untrue.) I was here with some fantastic, creative people when Vue was born out of former editor Gene Kosowan's basement. I think I was the only person who didn't have an encounter with the ghost of the Empire Building when Vue had its offices there. But there is one main reason I've had a byline in almost every issue of Vue that's come off the presses. He's the publisher, motivator, visionary, carpenter, electrician, general contractor and maybe the most punk-rock person I have ever known. Ron Garth is one of Canada's most passionate supporters of independent media. And, to be a little part of that vision, week in, week out, has been important to me. (Of course, I also have to give props here to the late, great Terry Cox, who would be right up there on the list of people who understood rock 'n' roll was a philosophy, not just a musical form.) With a crew on board that I think is the most talented this magazine has ever had, Vue will continue to fight the good fight for independent media. And, while my byline won't be in the next issue, I'll continue being a fan. V Steven Sandor is a former editor-in-chief of Vue Weekly, now an editor and author living in Toronto ... er ... not any more.

7:30-9pm

RUSTY REED'S HOUSE OF BLUES Gord Mathews; 8:30pm SECOND CUP�Mountain Equipment Open Mic every Wed; 8-10pm STEEPS TEA LOUNGE� College Plaza Open mic every Wed; hosted by Ernie Tersigni; 8pm STEEPS TEA LOUNGE� Whyte Ave Open mic every Wed; 8pm TEMPLE Wyld Style Wed: Live hip hop; $5

BUDDY'S Wed: DJ Dust 'n' Time; 9pm (door); no cover DIESEL ULTRA LOUNGE Wind-up Wed: R&B, hiphop, reggae, old skool, reggaeton with InVinceable, Touch It, weekly guest DJs FLUID LOUNGE Wed Rock This IVORY CLUB DJ every Wed; open DJ night; 9pm-close; all DJs welcome to spin a short set LEGENDS PUB Hip hop/R&B with DJ Spincycle

Classical

NEW CITY LIKWID LOUNGE DJ Roxxi Slade (indie, punk and metal)

MCDOUGALL CHURCH Music Wed at Noon: David Grainger Brown, Hiromi Takahashi (guitar and oboe)

NEW CITY SUBURBS Shake It: with Greg Gory and Eddie Lunchpail; no minors; 9pm (door)

WINSPEAR CENTRE ESO and Winspear Overture; 12-1pm

NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed

DJs

PLAY NIGHTCLUB Movie Night every Wed; 9pm (door)

BANK ULTRA LOUNGE Wed Nights: with DJ Harley BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest Wed Night: Brit pop, new wave, punk, rock ‘n’ roll with LL Cool Joe BRIXX BAR Really Good... Eats and Beats with DJ Degree and Friends

RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed STARLITE ROOM Wild Style Wed: Hip-Hop; 9pm STOLLI'S Beatparty Wed: House, progressive and electronica with Rudy Electro, DJ Rystar, Space Age and weekly guests; 9pm-2am

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PREVUE // GREAT BLOOMERS

Bloomin' great

Great Bloomers find Love in a Northern cabin Paul Blinov // paul@vueweekly.com

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lthough Great Bloomers hails from the bustling cityscape of Toronto, the music the band makes feels more attuned to places found beyond city limits: the rustles of acoustic guitar, flicks of ragtime piano and gather-round-the-mic harmonies that the group makes use of conjure up images of stretching country roads, with sweeping emotion that feels as open and inspired as a prairie sky. The reason for that rustic influence could very well be Lowell Sostomi, Great Bloomer's singer/guitarist. Growing up in the border town of Fort Erie—population just shy of 30 000—Sostomi started writing music while far removed from the urban sprawl he'd later form his band within, though he's quick to point out that carrying homegrown influence into the big city is hardly an innovation. "One thing to keep in mind is that a lot of people who live in Toronto are not from Toronto," Sostomi says, his speaking voice gruffer than the one he sings in. "Rarely do you talk to somebody and they say, 'I was born in Toronto, I've lived here all my life.' A lot

of people come from outside the city to make music, and a lot of people have lived other places. "Certain things are inspired by the city," he adds. "I mean, I really love Toronto, I really love living there, so naturally it's an inspiring place to be a lot of the time. But also, to be able to get away, back to Fort Erie or just outside of the city is always inspiring as well." The rural inspiration coloured the band's debut album, Speak of Trouble, and continues to do so on Small Town Love, a seven-inch release the group put together for a between-albums teaser this tour. The record's title is apt: the tour itinerary includes "Derek's house" in Morden, Mantioba and "Paul and Sarah's house" in Mission, BC, a couple of tiny destinations the band was introduced to on its last tour with the Wooden Sky. The latter place, Sostomi notes, was as it sounds: "Essentially just a house party in a kitchen that we played." "Derek's house was a similar situation, just playing in a small house in the basement, and about 30 or 40 people all crammed in," Sostomi recalls. "It's a very intimate atmosphere, so instead of that stage barrier, you're

standing with the people you're playing to. Which is awesome. ... People are usually very excited to have you." Small Town Love was itself recorded in a cabin up in Northern Ontario. The Bloomers could have recorded at home, Sostomi says, but the thought of escaping to literally greener pastures proved difficult to pass up. "We could've easily just recorded this at my house, but first of all, Tim's family cottage is gorgeous, and to be surrounded by wilderness while you're recording this sort of music that we're recording is always inspiring," Sostomi explains. "But also, just to be in a place where the cellphones don't work, you're not bothering with the frivolous daily things that you deal with in the city. We went away almost like a little retreat to record, and we all focused and did, I think, a pretty nice recording. It was cool to just get into a different setting and a different mind frame to do that." V Fri, Oct 1 (7:30 pm) Great Bloomers With Wool on Wolves, the Details, Robyn Dell 'Unto/Sean Pinchin Haven Social Club, $15

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PREVUE // AS I LAY DYING

Heavy duty

As I Lay Dying steps up a weight class

SPEAK UP >> As I Lay Dying rises up

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and we want to get heavier and heavier and heavier."

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It works doubly well for the group on this record, whose lyrical weight marches in lock-step with the deeper sound. The theme of rising up seems particularly appropriate to America today, what with its ceaseless unrest, but Mancino admits it wasn't so much a conscious choice as something the band needed to get out. The tension and heaviness is just in the air, and As I Lay Dying has helped give it some shredding life. "It wasn't necessarily a motive when we were writing the record, but I think it is very fitting," he points out. "The Powerless Rise, it's about people who are oppressed somehow, by the world, by society, by the government, and just how this is their time to speak up and start voicing their concerns and changing the world around them and not just sitting by and letting things happen." V Tue, Oct 5 (6 pm) As I Lay Dying With All That Remains Edmonton Event Centre, $32.50

PREVUE >> JEN LANE

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Jen Lane's latest four years in the making Jen Lane has been releasing albums since the project because he knew how the room she was 16 and already has four under worked sound-wise. But the place was still her belt. Her latest, entitled For the being renovated while we got there Night, is chock full of the introso it was a huge scramble but spective and deep folk tunes everybody pulled together and she's become known for. Vue they got it done unbelievably. chatted with Lane recently We spent the first week pick.com ly k e e vuew about the new album over the ing apart the songs and doing bryan@ phone from her home in Saskathe pre-production stuff in SteBryans toon. ven's living room—that was really Birtle fun to nail the arrangements down Vue Weekly: You recorded For the Night in the first week and then it was just a in Vancouver with Steven Drake, can you matter of going in and tracking everything. tell me about the process? We did it all on a RADAR which is kind of Jen Lane: It was crazy, as crazy as he is. like digital tape, so there was no Pro Tools There's a new studio in Vancouver called involved or auto tuning involved. I wanted Stone Canyon Studios and he had a part a classic feel instead of the really tweaked in designing the room that we recorded in CONTINUED ON PAGE 33 >> so that was one really interesting aspect of

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Wed, Oct 6 (8 pm) / Crash Test Dummies Crash Test Dummies—aka frontman Brad Roberts—is back with the uplifting and chararcteristically quirky, atmospheric Oooh LaLa! After a six year "hiatus" as he calls it, Roberts will bring his acoustic trio to Edmonton before reuniting the full band later this week in Winnipeg for the first time in almost a decade. "I used to have a gun to my own head about touring, but I don't have that anymore," he explains from his home in New York City. "We [CTD] just basically shut down and went into hibernation. I didn't think I'd make another record, and then this one just happened." Inspired by hobbyist instruments like the optigan and omnichord, Oooh La-La! sees Roberts back in fine form, re-inspired after years of the demands of being one of Canada's most successful bands in the last 15 years. "It was a nice break to not have to fight the uphill battle we [CTD] had been fighting for so long. I was tired of touring, tired of where I was. "My life is great. I have no complaints." (Myer Horowitz Theatre, $29.50) —Mike Angus

Sat, Oct 2 (9 pm) / Locution Revolution If you've been to five rap shows in Edmonton since 2007, you've heard Locution Revolution. You've seen rappers iD, with his trademark dreads and cowboy shirts, and Khiry Tafari, with his signature cane. The group is prolific. Locution Revolution has rapped in parks and at Padmanadi, at festivals like NextFest and the Urban Games, and the group has opened for Margaret Atwood at a protest against funding cuts to the arts. (Actually, Atwood preceded the rappers, so technically, Canada's greatest literary treasure opened for them.) Yet, Locution Revolution won't have released an album until Saturday at the Artery, where the trio will celebrate its debut album, Walk Tall. What makes the group so accessible is that the content revolves around positivity and hip hop. “We take hip hop very seriously because it is such an integral part of our lives. We love it, we live it, we are it.” says iD, who also founded the annual Hip Hop in the Park festival. Though the group was formed in 2007, the equation wasn't complete until last year's addition of DJ Budakron. Tafari says,“People off stage don't know that Budakron is the leader on stage. He sets the tempo of the show and keeps it going.” (The Artery) —Omar Mouallem

COMMENT >> LOCAL SCENE

Wish you were here The biggest challenge Edmonton faces in or composing for theatre. Even those, almost any regard is how to keep people though, struggle for attention outside around. In music, which is disproportion- the city, and widespread attention can be ately stocked with young folks— a reasonable substitute for actually with their lessened ties to the being able to pay bills if the band city and pulls from school is young enough. and general wanderlust—we Obviously we're not enfeel that particularly acutely. tirely without our success m o ekly.c A brief survey of bands that stories, and one of the comvuewe david@ have left even in the last coumon threads in all of those is avid D ple years is enough to make Edmonton Berry oratocommitment—to you wonder what could be gomusic—that should be ading on here now, and stretching it mired. But I think it's a lot to ask an back further will likely have a directly early twentysomething in particular to proportional relationship to depression. know enough about what they want to Underlying all of the reasons for leaving commit themselves that hard to a career is the fact that a music career in Edmon- that is just as likely to leave them washton isn't exactly a lucrative prospect. Cer- ing dishes for life. I'd much rather we had tainly, a handful of people can actually a scene that was encouraging enough make a living here, usually supplemented to let them hang out and develop while with some other tangentially related oc- they sort that out, where even the fenccupation, like producing or promoting esitters can at least have a part in it and

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PREVUE // CARRIE DAY

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he saunters into a bustling cafe on a very rare sunny and warm fall day, but the look of tranquility on Carrie Day's face feels a bit more like a mask than a truly relaxed air. But of course why shouldn't Day be stressed: besides finishing up rehearsals for her upcoming release show for her latest record, Immaculate Night, Day is also prepping some of her other art—in this case painting—for two shows set to hang in October and November. It's a ridiculously crammed schedule for someone who does almost everything herself, but it's also rather indicative of the boundless creativity that Day evinces, proof that she is not the type to hold back or go in half measures. "I can't complain to anyone," she says with a genuinely buoyant smile. "I did it all to myself." There is a strong sense that Day wouldn't have it any other way. Immaculate Night is her third fulllength—earlier records Pieces of Me and Finding Grace were released under her "hard to pronounce" birth name of Carrie Hryniw—and it reveals a songwriter and especially a singer very comfortable in her milieu: Day has poise to spare, and a powerful voice that seems capable of

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things you're getting these days. Those are good but when you listen to old albums they have that sound that is so familiar. VW: Your lyrics are often cited as a strength

in your music—can you tell me about how you write them and what inspires you? JL: I remember watching an interview with Leonard Cohen and he said, 'I can't take responsibility for the songs—they're just there, they come out' and I was like, 'I know what you mean!' You never know what's going to inspire you when you turn around the corner; it could be the scene you see or something that's going on in somebody's life that you know. For me the process starts with a lyric— some musicians will come up with a riff or a melody on a guitar first, but I work the opposite way where I'll get words with a melody stuck in my head and then I'll go and put guitar to it. I always say I'm not much of a guitar player, I'm a singer-songwriter above anything else. I just like to do it, I always have. It's something I just naturally started doing when I was

a kid. I just started making up songs. VW: It's been four years between your

last album and this one. Is that a long time for you? JL: It was a longer process than I would have liked, but everything worked out the way it was supposed to—there was no rushing this. I had an injury about three years ago, so I hadn't been able to maintain a regular tour schedule anyway, but we hob-nobbed at SXSW and NXNE and we went to the WCMAs and Canadian Music Week and I did lots of educating myself about the industry while I couldn't tour and what I learned was you have to tour. It was kind of funny. VW: Was it frustrating to not tour? JL: Yes, extremely. We were getting a lot of

attention—I released my last album and got a WCMA nomination and right around that time I broke my foot and did a whole bunch of soft tissue trauma, and it was one of those things that took forever to figure out what was going on. So we had this nomination and we'd toured the previous summer and got invited to NXNE and SXSW and I

was meeting all these booking agents who were interested but I couldn't tour. I had an ankle reconstruction in January and I'm feeling a lot better. I'm really excited about the prospect of getting back out there and doing this again because that's what I do. VW: You've been putting out albums since

you were 16. How has the music matured in that time? JL: I was lucky, my parents were supportive and they caught onto the fact that I'd been writing these songs in my room in the middle of the night and they thought I should record them. So it was a process of not knowing at all what we were doing and now four albums later I've graduated to a producer and a studio and pro players and a graphic designer doing the artwork versus 10 years ago not knowing what we were doing. My parents were really supportive—my mom even took pictures and made the CD layout. V Thu, Oct 7 (7:30 pm) Jen Lane Haven Social Club, $10

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wrapping itself around any emotion Day wants to throw it at, from the breezy happiness of opener "Good Day" to the more plaintive melancholy of closer "Divine Immaculate Night." Also evident on Immaculate Night is Day's ease with a melody, which might be attributable to her leaning more towards her piano when it comes to writing. Classically trained, she admits she avoided the instrument for a time, wanting to break out and try new things—but now that she's been away from it, she's come to appreciate what she can do with it more and more. "I think I just got so sick of the instrument when I was done school—I would just look at it and feel nauseous," she admits. "That's when I started to play guitar, and I'm not trained on that at all. I used to call myself a hack, but now I just know my limits, and I can play within them. But now I've been leaning more towards the piano again. Now that I've had a 10-year break, I'm writing on it more and more. Which is good, because that's the one I can actually play." V Sun, Oct 3 (8 pm) Carrie Day Yardbird Suite, $8 – $15

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o you recall waking up on a dirty couch?" are the first words we hear on Halcyon Digest, the new record by Deerhunter, and this is likely no mistake. It is an album that exists in a temporal, ephemeral space, somewhere between awakening and dream state, which produces a woozy, ramshackle quality. It's a lonely tour record but any reference to the road is done subtly, as above. Halcyon Digest is about the drift and how to make sense of where it's taken you. Singer Bradford Cox has been quoted as saying this album is about the way we "edit our memories." His band seems to be making a likewise sonic statement. "Basement Scene" consciously references the Everly Brothers's "All I Have to Do Is Dream"; "Memory Boy" sounds haltingly close to "Needles in the Camel's Eye" by Brian Eno, but never in an obtrusive way. Cox writes about harsh moments in his past but presents them in a way that is inviting

to the listener, as if to say there is a place for nostalgia in the processing of pain. Also acclaimed for the more intimate, often sample-based experimentation of solo project Atlas Sound, singer Bradford Cox has let some of that adventurous spirit leak into his day job to great effect. Indeed, the most winning tracks are the ones that are out of step with the band's reputation for jangly, indie pop: "Earthquake" is anchored to a reversed drum machine loop with guitar figures evaporating upwards like steam. The crown jewel of this album (and perhaps even this entire year) is the jawdropping "Helicopter." Beginning with programmed drums and harpsichord-like strings of guitar, it bursts out like a sun flare, when we are presented with washes of guitar resting on reverb-like clouds and a stadium-ready Frippertronic crescendo in the middle. Based on a newspaper article about a murdered Russian male prostitute, it's appropriately lonesome, closing with the heartbreaking coda, "Now they are through with me". The more slight and spare tracks highlight Cox's aptitude as a vocalist, at times recalling Thom Yorke. He is clear and emotive, using very direct language: there are no turns of phrase or wilfully obtuse moments to wrap your head around. The depth is found in the context of what he says, not the content. "Basement Scene" is particularly rich, a rumination on the simplicity of youth. Coming from someone else, "In the bluffs, they know my name" might sound like a boast. For Bradford, it's a reflection on his modicum of indie fame, something he could only dream about back when he was playing in basements. V

Jay Sparrow The Tempest Line (Break Pattern)  When Jay Sparrow sings of trouble in his heart on the opener of his latest solo EP, it's hard not to believe him: it sounds like he's clawing his way out of the rough, muscles straining with every inch closer to the clear. But clear isn't where Sparrow is here. No, his struggle is still very much evident in the songs he's penned for The Tempest Line, and it's the conflict that makes this record so compelling. Well, that and the fact that Sparrow has a firm grasp on how a record should play out: after the opening grind of "Trouble" there's an upswing with "Villains & Lovers," another song fraught with difficulties yet also uplifting as Sparrow sings out, "We're gonna make it / We'll hide the wreckage in this song." Next, Sparrow takes a turn into an old-time country strummer (with a few well-placed electric guitar screams) with "Old Town Lonely Night before receding into the atmospheric wash of "St Peter" and heartfelt balladry of "Let's Make Our Way." "Green Eyed Girl" finishes things off with more than a glimmer of hope, raised high on the shoulders of a propulsive electric guitar that rolls right down the centre of the tune while drums and bass and a few more guitars drift in and out and finally into a charging climax. Sparrow's come a long way from the modern rock of his old band the Murder City Sparrows, and this new stomping ground suits him well, his songwriting on a distinct upswing as he mines new, rootsier territory while fusing the sound with a rough-and-tumble punk esthetic. Eden Munro

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Jay Sparrow plays his CD release show at Lyve on Whyte on Friday, October 1 at 8 pm.

The Winks Twilights (Oh!) 

The Winks sound like what a renaissance faire might sound like if it were populated by Montréal hipsters instead of your friend's weird dad. Even when the music is in straight time it lurches like a waltz, and the tinny mandolin over top the rooted cello wouldn't be out of place at a maypole dance— though its more experimental bits might raise eyebrows at the apothecary. Ultimately, Twilights is a bit of fun that can also sweep into orchestral highs that leave a listener exhilarated, but it's generally a mood creator, a tone painting that abandons melody for sonic tapestry. Bryan Birtles

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Blonde Redhead Penny Sparkle (4AD)  A band whose albums often need more than one listen to really connect— because of their very brashness and aggressive innovativeness—Blonde Redhead's Penny Sparkle is a new twist in the band's oeuvre for just how immediately accessible it is. A dreamy pop landscape, Penny Sparkle floats along on the back of laidback drums and windy synths. That isn't to say that repeated listens won't yield new surprises, but they're much more subtle. So subtle, in fact, that, at times, the music can seem to recede into the background. It's not necessarily a bad thing—sometimes you need a little background music—but it lacks the throat grab that Blonde Redhead usually brings to the table. Bryan Birtles

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Volbeat Beyond Hell/Above Heaven (Universal) 

Volbeat sounds vaguely as if Green Day decided to make a heavy metal album for the local countrythemed campus bar. The album is definitely a tight compilation of music and it carries the original party attitude of traditional and glam metal, but fits uncomfortably in the definition, and the Danish band admits to being a rockabilly mash-up of metal. Beyond Hell/Above Heaven, the fourth album from the band, is the new metal, country rockabilly metal mash-up you've been looking for. If you've been looking for that. Samantha Power

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Glen Matlock & the Philistines Born Running (Stomp) 

Glen Matlock's usually mentioned as the guy who Sid Vicious replaced as the Sex Pistols bassist, but he certainly deserves more than that, having been integral to the writing of the Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks ... album. Here he leads his own band, and while the record often sounds a little too clean cut, there are some excellent tracks. Unfortunately, a tired drawl and the nursery rhyme lyrics of "TROUBLE" and the go-nowhere structure of "Nowheresville" drag the album down a bit. All in all, Matlock's got a grasp on catchy melodies and solid rhythms, but he could stand to cut a couple tracks and dirty up the production a bit. Eden Munro

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sloughed off in a croaky hush of a voice. Queen Mary comes at the idea from all kinds of oblique ways, the side Originally released: 2004 roads and back alleys of art that suggest it couldn't have possiEscape is such a pervasive bly been on the forefront of m fantasy precisely because it is their minds, and instead was ekly.co e w e u v david@ so inherently impossible. Forsomething pervasive but und i v Da y get the logistics of leaving a consciously thought. "Grounds Berr life behind: just try to get away for Divorce" details a break-up from the pervasive influences that that happens at least in part behave shaped you cause the other since birth. The can't take Krug's spotless mind suggestion to might be granted pretend scrapeternal sunshine, ing bus brakes but those of us are whale noises; who remember "Dear Sons and are forever goDaughters of ing to be living in Hungry Ghosts" some shadows. is a sub rosa genInsomuch as erational revoluthere's any overtion song that's arching theme trying to shake to Wolf Paoff past influrade's full-length ence ("Now we'll debut—it was say it's in God's culled together hands / But God from a few EPs, doesn't always a handful of new songs and a draft from have the best goddamn plans, does he?") Sunset Rubdown—escaping is it. That and insistently points out, "I got a new longing, because it can never be much plan to bring / I got a new song to sing." more than such, rips through every jagGhosts show up again on "Shine a Light," ged drum beat, every shambolic guitar and two hearts beating time out together blast, every fuzzed-out synth hit and esoffer the only actual respite. pecially in the weary, striving voices of The underlying thing to all this escape Dan Boeckner and Spencer Krug, whose is that it's usually to or with someone tone and content makes them sound so else, an idea that gets its purest and most much older and wearier than they could stunning treatment in Krug's "I'll Believe in possibly be. Anything." It's a curious kind of love song It is present from the get-go: in "You Are that nevertheless doesn't lack for crusha Runner and I am My Father's Son" Krug you-into-the-floor emotion: it's heart is a laments a runner taking off into the high promise of ultimate escape, to "take you noon sun that he himself knows he won't where nobody knows you and nobody make it through, his bed already made by gives a damn," a kind of sweet oblivion, his ties to his father, a melancholy that but one in which Krug still needs your only seems heightened by the persistent, eyes, bones, blood, voice and ghost. The marching drum behind him, reminding conflict of this sentiment, the ethereal him of what he could be doing. Boeckner disappearance and corporeal realness, searches for a slightly different but no captures perfectly the ultimate impossiless eagerly felt need on second track bility of escape in just that juxtaposition: "Modern World," which ends with the the real reason escape is such a fantasy is refrain "Modern world I'm not pleased to because we don't actually want to leave meet you / You just bring me down," this all behind. V

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A new life

BC trio sticks together and forms Yukon Blonde

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calls, they felt totally rejuvenated from a reinvention. "Graham and I started another band we called Brides," he explains. "So I wrote a bunch of songs and it was a totally different sound. We played one show with Brides, and then eventually it became the model for what we wanted [Yukon Blonde] to sound like." The sound is an addictive, confident and catchy pop frenzy, enveloping melodic influences from the best of what pop rock has had to offer from the '60s onward. The remaining three then hunkered down in Kelowna for a year and a half to start work on what would eventually become 2008's

EP Everything in Everyway and a self-titled debut released earlier this year. "We rented a rehearsal space in the middle of winter and demoed stuff all day," Innes recalls. "That's pretty much how the writing process works: I'll bring in a skeletal song and we'll work it and rework it and re-work it until we're happy with it." Recorded with Shawn Cole (Bend Sinister, You Say Party! We Say Die!), Yukon Blonde was able to capture a clear, confident vision that's worked out in spades for the dedicated three-piece: appearances this year at SXSW, voted best band at this year's Canadian Music Week, accolades from CBC as one of the 10 top bands to watch and, most recently, a nomination for best rock album by this year's Western Canadian Music Awards. Not bad for a band that only two years ago scrapped the blueprints and started over. "We started as a three piece, so we were fully prepared to keep going, just change the name, change the songs and go from there," Innes laughs. "[The response] has been really good. We were worried that once the album came out [the Alphababy fans] wouldn't really like it because we had this new sound. But it's been so great. Everybody I talk to seems to think we're going in the right direction." V Sat, Oct 2 (9 pm) Yukon Blonde With the Wooden Sky Starlite Room, $13

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you prefer to put the emphasis on learning rather than on being learned, Leo? This is a good time to get the hang of that; cosmic rhythms will work in your favor if you do. My advice: Take action to intensify your commitment to education. Seek out new teachings. Think hard about the lessons you want to study in the coming years.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22)

I was tardy in planting my garden this year. My batch of seedlings didn't find their way into my patch of dirt until July 2. I humbly apologized to them for my procrastination, then made amends with a tireless campaign to provide them with extraordinary care. And by September the zucchini were booming, the pumpkins were thriving, and the watermelons were unstoppable. Take inspiration from my example, Virgo. Your plans may have gotten delayed, but don't let that demoralize you. There's still time to launch the project or crusade you've been dreaming about.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22)

"Everything is dreamed first," wrote French poet Gilbert Trolliet. French philosopher Gaston Bachelard agreed, adding, "Creative reverie animates the nerves of the future." Your task in the coming weeks, Libra, is to act on those clues: Conjure up pictures in your mind that foreshadow the life you want to be living next year. Proceed on the assumption that you now have extraordinary power to generate self-fulfilling prophecies.

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SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21)

You know me: I hate to sound sensationalistic. But in honor of this dramatic moment in your story, I'll risk it. So be alert! Get real! A pivotal moment is upon you! What you do in the coming days will ultimately determine how you will interpret the entire past year, shaping the contours of your history for better or worse! I advise maximum integrity! I urge timely action! Decisions should come from the roots, not the surface!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21)

You are ever so close to coming all the way home. For months you have been edging toward this welcoming source, and now you're almost there. I'm not sure about the specific details. Maybe it means you'll soon be in the place where your potentials will finally ripen. Perhaps you're ready to make peace with your past or accept your family members exactly as they are. Who knows? Maybe you're ready to give yourself completely to the life-changing mission that has been calling and calling and calling you.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19)

I have good intuition about fate's general trends, but I don't think of myself as psychic when it comes to foreseeing specific events. But lately I'm wondering if that's changing. I seem to be developing a knack for prognosticating certain sports events. For example, on three occasions I have hallucinated a golden cup floating in mid-air a short time

before Albert Pujols, a Capricorn who plays for the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team, hits a homerun. So I wonder what it means that right now, as I'm studying your astrological omens and meditating on your future, I'm flashing on an image of three golden cups filled with champagne.

AQUARIUS ( Jan 20 – Feb 18)

The Paws Up resort in Montana offers glamorous camping. For the right price, you can sleep in a feather bed with fine linens, comfortably ensconced inside a roomy, heated tent. And all the while you're surrounded by the great outdoors. I'm not specifically suggesting that you go to Paws Up, but I do recommend that you seek an experience that gives you an invigorating dose of raw elegance and untamed sweetness—some situation that allows you to satisfy your animal longing for wildness while at the same time indulging your human yearning for blissful repose.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20)

When I urge you to salvage and re-use old stuff, I'm not really suggesting that you find a purpose for the elastic from worn-out underwear or empty prescription bottles. That would be fine, but I'm thinking primarily of less literal, more poetic reclamation projects. Like dusting off faded dreams and refitting them with futuristic replacement parts. Or retooling a relationship that has lost its way, transforming it into a vibrant connection with a new reason for being V

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LECTURES/Presentations Art Therapy Info Session • St Stephen's College, U of A, 8810-112 St • ualberta.ca/St.Stephens/• Learn about what art therapy is and what training you need and what work opportunities are available • Mon, Oct 4, 1pm •Preregister st.stephens@ualberta.ca Designing Streets for People • Santa Maria Goretti Centre, 9110-110 Ave • 780.495.0319 • Queen Mary Park, Central McDougall, and McCauley Revitalization groups host Dan Burden's presentation • Fri, Oct 1, 9am-12pm • Free GREAT EXPEDITIONS • Hostelling International, 10647-81 Ave • 780.454.6216/780.435.6406 • Hostel travel slide presentation: Russia and Mongolia (2006), presentation by Claire Laskin • Oct 11, 7:30pm HERITAGE, INNOVATION AND THE LIVABLE CITY • Sutton Place Hotel • Edmonton heritage symposium exploring the connection between heritage and city making; Oct 1-2 • The Edmonton Heritage Council presents a community; opening reception with speaker Linda Goyette; Fri,

Neuroscience of Success • 1.877.393.9496 • Presentation by Douglas Vermeeren • Sat, Oct 2, 10am-4pm • Early Bird price $99 Regular $179 The Other Film Series–exploring cultures through film • Education North Bldg, Rm 2-115, U of A • The Canadian Multicultural Education Foundation and Department of Secondary Education present six films, faculty and graduate students will introduce each film and facilitate the follow-up discussion • Amreeka presented by Evelyn Hamdo; a poignant story of the challenges a Palestinian teenager and his mother face migrating to small town Illinois; Oct 7, 4:30pm Satya Das–Mahatma Gandhi’s 141st Birthday • Delta Edmonton South, 4404 Gateway Blvd • 780.498.5044 • Gandhi.ca • Author, Satya Das, speaker at a banquet celebrating Mahatma Gandhi’s 141st Birthday on Sat, Oct 2, 6pm • Garlanding ceremony at the Gandhi bust at the southeast corner of the Stanley Milner Library Plaza: Sat, Oct 2, noon Travel Talks • Audreys Books, 10702 Jasper Ave • Talks on the 2nd Tue each month at 7pm • Pre-register at 780.439.3096, 780.492.2756

Brooklyn's Lounge • 9216-34 Avenue • 780.221.5662 • Tuesday Night Live at Brooklyn's: Open Mic Comedy night; amateurs and pros welcome • Every Tue; 8:30pm • No cover Century Casino • 13103 Fort Rd • 780.481.9857 • Shows start at 8pm Thu-Sat and late show at 10:30pm on Fri-Sat; $12 (Thu)/$19 (Fri/Sat) • Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club presents Jamie Kennedy • Sep 30sOct 1-2 COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Thu, 8:30pm; Sat, 8pm and 10pm • Bob Angeli; Oct 1-2 • Chris Warren; Oct 7-9 • Ryan Wing Field; Oct 14-16

Hydeaway–Jekyll and Hyde • 10209-100 Ave • 780.426.5381 • Super Awesome Comedy presents: Wife Beater comedy night • $5 (door) • Live comedy every Tue

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

Winspear Centre • 102 Ave, 99 St • 780.428.1414 • Just For Laughs: Margaret Cho • Sat, Oct 2, 7pm • Tickets at the Winspear box office

MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu

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PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • 9540-111 Ave • 780.488.3234 • pridecentreofedmonton.org • Open Tue-Fri 1-10pm, Sat 2-6:30pm • LGBT Seniors Drop-in: Every Tue/Thu, 2-4pm • CA: Thu 7pm • Suit Up and Show Up: AA big book study group every Sat, noon • Womonspace: meet 1st Sun each month, 10:30am-12:30pm • Trans Education/Support Group meet: 1st/3rd Sun, 2-4pm, each month; albertatrans.org • Men Talking with Pride: Sun 7pm; facilitator: Rob Wells robwells780@hotmail.com • HIV Support Group: 2nd Mon each month, 7pm • Transgender, Transsexual, Intersex and Questioning (TTIQ) Alliance support meeting 2nd Tue each month, 7:30pm • Transgender, Transsexual, Intersex and Questioning: Education, advocacy and support for men, women and youth • Free professional counselling every Wed except the 1st Wed each month; 7-10pm; appt preferred, drop-ins welcome • YouthSpace: drop-in for LGBTQ for youth up to 25; Tue-Sat, 3-7pm

Aikikai Aikido Club • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm AWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP • Braeside Presbyterian Church bsmt, N. door, 6 Bernard Dr, Bishop St, Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • For adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional families • Every Mon 7:30pm Buddhust Centre • 10232-103 St • Everyone's on the Boardwalk: Drop-in yoga/meditation classes, all levels welcome, 16 yrs+ • Every Thu . 7:30-9pm and Sun 10:30am-12 • $10; pre-register at 780.909.9355, bewellsolutions2004gmail.com Canadian Mental Health Association • Suite 800, 10045-111 St • 780.414.6311 • Family support drop-in group for those who are supporting an adult family member living with a mental illness • Every Wed, 6:30-8:30pm

Robertson-Wesley United Church • 10209-123 St • 780.482.1587 • Soul OUTing: an LGBT-focused alternative worship • 2nd Sun every month, 7pm; worship Sun, 10:30am; people of all sexual orientations welcome. LGBT monthly book club and film night. E: jravenscroft@rwuc.org

Edmonton Bicycle Commuters' Society • Back Alley, 10047-80 Ave • Hands-On Bike Maintenance Seminar • Every Thu 6pm • $5 non-members • edmontonbikes.ca • Mountain Equipment Co-op parking lot: MEC Gear Swap; Sun, Oct 3, 9am-12pm; free

St Paul's United Church • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship)

Edmonton Corn Maze • Garden Valley Rd/23 Ave • 780.288.0208 • edmontoncornmaze.ca • Until Oct 16 • $9/$7 (child 5-12)/free (child under 5) • Fundraiser for the Edmonton Food Bank

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

Edmonton Esperanto Society • 10025-102A Ave, Rm 18128 • 780.702.5117 • Every Fri and the 2nd Thu of each month; 12-1pm

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 • Sat-Sun: breakfast 12-4pm, kitchen open to 11pm • Sun: breakfast 12-4pm, kitchen open to 11pm

EDMONTON’S NEXT GEN–CANDI(DATE) • edmonton.ca/ city • Forum connecting young voters with Edmonton Municipal Election candidates; 20 min sessions with candidates from surrounding wards allowing young voters the opportunity to ask questions on issues that impact their decision to make Edmonton the city they choose to live, work, learn and play in for future years • Sep 29 at U of A • Oct 6 at Grant MacEwan University (UofA: features candidates from wards south of the River: Wards 5, 9, 10, 11, 12; MacEwan: features candidates from wards north of the River: Wards 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7)

Youth Intervention and Outreach Worker • iSMSS, U of A • 780.248.1971 • Provides support and advocacy to queer youth 12-25; you don't need to be alone Youth Understanding Youth • yuyedm.ca • Meets every Sat, 7-9pm • E: info@yuyedm.ca, T: 780.248.1971

FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.465.2019/780.450.6179 • 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

SPECIAL EVENTS An Affair of the Heart (AAH) • Delta Centre Suites • Banquet, fashion show, silent auction, speaker Dr. Paul Grundy, fundraiser hosted by U of A medical students from the class of 2013 • Sat, Oct 2, 5:30pm (cocktail), 6:30pm (banquet) • $80/$55 (student)

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 energise you for passionate living • Every Sun 3-5pm

FESTIVAL OF POLISH CULTURE • Various locations • chopin2010. ca • Celebrating Chopin with Film and Music: A variety of events highlight the composer’s life and work • Until Nov 14

Lotus Qigong • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Wed MEDITATION • meditationedmonton.org • Strathcona Library, 8331-104 St: every Thu at 7-8:30pm • Glen Allan Rec Ctr, Sherwood Park: every Tue 8:30-9:30pm, with Amitabha Kadampa

German Can Cultural Centre • 8310 Roper Rd • gcca.ca • Oktoberfest, kick off Sep 30 in a beer tent outside, the Oktoberfest Haunted Pumpkin Festival • Prairie Gardens Adventure Farm, Bon Accord • 780.921.2272 • prairiegardensadventurefarm. com • Every weekend in Oct • Sturgeon County Bounty cuisine event: Oct 2, 12-3pm

Organization for Bipolar Affective Disorder (OBAD) • Schizophrenia Society of Alberta, 200, 10621-100 Ave, 780.452.4661; Support group meets 1st and 3rd Tue each month, 7-9pm • Grey Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, 780.451.1755; Group meets every Thu; 7-9pm

Home and Interior Design Show • Edmonton Expo Centre, Northlands • showswork.com/EFHS.html • Fri, Oct 1, 12-9pm; Sat, Oct 2, 10am-9pm; Sun, Oct 3, 10am-5pm • $12 (adult)/$10 (senior/ youth)/Free (child 12 and under)

Sisters in Spirit Rally • Alex Taylor Elementary School gym, 9321 Jasper Ave • To honour missing and murdered Aboriginal women, their families, and to shed light on this crisis • Sun, Oct 3, 1-3pm • Free Society of Edmonton Atheists • Stanley Milner Library, Rm 6-7 • Meet the 1st Tue every month, 7:15pm

GLBT sports and recreation • teamedmonton.ca • Badminton, Co-ed: St. Thomas Moore School, 9610-165 St, coedbadminton@teamedmonton.ca • Badminton, Women's Drop-In Recreational: Oliver School Gym, 10227-118 St; badminton@ teamedmonton.ca • Co-ed Bellydancing: bellydancing@teamedmonton.ca • Bootcamp: Lynnwood Elementary School at 15451-84 Ave; Mon, 7-8pm; bootcamp@teamedmonton.ca • Bowling: Ed's Rec Centre, West Edmonton Mall, Tue 6:45pm • Curling: Granite Curling Club; 780.463.5942 • Running: Every Sun morning; running@teamedmonton.ca • Spinning: MacEwan Centre, 109 Street and 104 Ave; spin@teamedmonton.ca • Swimming: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St; swimming@teamedmonton.ca • Volleyball: Mother Teresa Elementary School at 9008-105A; Amiskiwaciy Academy, 101 Airport Rd; recvolleyball@teamedmonton.ca; volleyball@ teamedmonton.ca • YOGA (Hatha): Free Yoga every Sun, 2-3:30pm; Korezone Fitness, 203, 10575-115 St, yoga@teamedmonton.ca

the junction bar • 10242-106 St • 780.756.5667 • Open daily at 4pm, food service available from the eatery until 10pm; rotating DJs Fri and Sat at 10pm; Movie Monday; Wingy Wed 5-9, and Karaoke at 9pm; free pool Tue-Thu

Newcity liquid lounge • 10081 Jasper Ave • Newcity Upstairs Underground Comedy Night presents: lies the state told you: Disestablishmentarianism comedy night • 1st Tue every month, 9pm

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

G.L.B.T.Q, African Group • Pride Centre, 9540-111 Ave • 780.488.3234 • Meets 2nd Thu every month, 6pm

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

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

Tourette Syndrome • Academy, King Edward, 8525-101 St, NW door • 1.866.824.9764 • Support meetings for TS adults and parents of TS kids • 1st Wed each month, 7pm; Oct-Jun

EDMONTON PRIME TIMERS (EPT) • Unitarian Church of Edmonton, 10804-119 St • A group of older gay men who have common interests meet the 2nd Sun, 2:30pm, for a social period, short meeting and guest speaker, discussion panel or potluck supper. Special interest groups meet for other social activities throughout the month. E: edmontonpt@yahoo.ca

Illusions Social Club • The Junction, 10242-106 St, 780-3873343 • Crossdressers meet 8:30pm on the 2nd Fri of the month at, 10242-106St. Info: groups.yahoo.com/group/edmonton_illusions or call

Comic Strip • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Reno Collier, Dawn Dumont, Ryan Paterson; until Sep 30, 8pm; Oct 1-3

Sugarswing Dance Club • Orange Hall, 10335-84 Ave or Pleasantview Hall, 10860-57 Ave • 780.604.7572 • Swing Dance at Sugar Foot Stomp: beginner lesson followed by dance every Sat, 8pm (door) at Orange Hall or Pleasantview Hall

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

Oct 1, 7-9pm • Edmonton’s Historian Laureate Ken Tingley with Linda Goyette (panel sessions); closing remarks by Alice Major; Sat, Oct 2, 9:304:30pm; 4:30-5:30pm (closing reception) • $15 (student)/$25 (member)/$40 (non-member); pre-register at edmontonheritage.ca

Human Rights Café Series • Three Bananas Café, Churchill Sq, 9918-102 Ave • jhcentre.org • 1st Sun each month dialogue on human rights issues • Free KARMA TASHI LING • 10502-70 Ave • 780.633.6157 • Naturally Liberating Whatever You Meet: DVD Study Course on series of teachings by Ven

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River Valley Clean Up • Victoria Park, River Valley Rd, W of High Level Bridge • 350.org/green-movement-edmonton • Pick up garbage, waste, and litter throughout the trail systems around Victoria Park. After enjoy snacks and coffee, followed by a 350.org photo shoot, with speakers and eco-friendly group presentations • Sun, Oct 10, 9am-3pm ROBUST REDS FOR ROTARY • Delta Edmonton South, 4404 Gateway Blvd • Sample over 100 wines, live and silent auction • Thu, Sep 30 • $50 at clubrunner.ca/edmontongateway Zumba–Groovin' For The Cure • Edmonton Event Centre, WEM, 8882-170 St • zumba-ren.com/zumba-groovin-for-the-cure2010/ • A Zumba fitness party for the CBCF, CIBC Run For The Cure. Latin-inspired, easy-to-follow, calorie-burning, dance fitness-party • Oct 2, 11:30am (door) • $20

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COMMENT >> LGBTQ

The right to kill

Complex motiviations behind queer rights to enter the military It's a weird thing to fight for the right pursue" and "don't harass." But since I to kill, but the issue of queers' right to doubt any of the discharged soldiers be in the military is back on the forehad their sexuality identified when front now that it's the cause they were caught fucking on the célèbre in America. "Don't general's bed, they probably ask, don't tell," the policy haven't been following those causing all the furor, was guidelines very closely. introduced by Bill Clinton DADT seems to be at the om .c ly k e vuewe in 1993 and was actually forefront of the movement tam@ a hailed as a positive move forward for queer rights in Tamar ka the US since the 2008 elecl a for gays at the time. The idea Gorz being that sexuality should be tion. Barack Obama has always kept private, and, unless clearly disspoken against it, but has been uncovered, a gay person could remain in able to push the repeal forward. Public the military. It doesn't seem to make a polls seem to show a general accepwhole lot of sense now that countless tance of gays in the military. Military soldiers have been witchhunted and personnel polls, however, still seem dishonourably discharged. The policy strongly against the idea. One can only includes two other tenants: "don't hope that if or when America finally re-

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our forces are so up on the gays, that we see them marching in our pride parades. Why is it then that there are countless accounts of assault, harassment and even rape inside our military? Allowing gays doesn't appear to do a bit of a good unless it comes with education to make them fully supported and included members of the service with a guaranteed right to safety and health. Discriminatory practices in any kind of national service or business, especially one run by the government, is an abomination. There's nothing wrong with fighting for and establishing equality. But the hippy leftist in me just wonders if there isn't a cause more deserving of our energy than the right to go to war. V

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The funny thing is, generally, the same people who fight for repealing DADT are the ones fighting to get out of Iraq. It's strange, the idea of a political movement for the right to participate in war. Perhaps it's more about serving and protecting one's country, but that seems hard to defend as well. These are the same Western nations that continue to deny many queer rights. Why fight for a country that still doesn't believe in full and true equality? One needs look no closer than home to see that military inclusion hasn't done a whole lot for acceptance as a whole. The Canadian Armed Forces has allowed queers to serve openly since 1992, which is about the only thing we can thank Kim Campbell for. In Canada,

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COMMENT >> ALT SEX

Orgasmic birth

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Actors to meet monthly to work on scenes and monologues with optional coaching from professional director and actor. email: elaine.elrod@telus.net Night 32 Productions Inc. seeks a qualified screen writer for a TV pilot titled “Ghostwater” a horror-cop drama. The first draft has been written. Please contact Kevin Sisk, Associate Producer at drsiskphddd@msn. com with contact info and sample of your work

MUSICIANS Latin/Gypsy/jazz guitarist, bassist and percussionist wanted for original band. Practice twice/wk, music theory a must. Songs are ready. Alin 780.237.2546 Drummer and bass player needed for new indie-rock band (ex-members of Cassidy) in the vein of Temper Trap, Coldplay, Snow Patrol. Serious inq only; shows are being booked. Vocals a plus. Sean 780.863.5315 Blues band needs a keyboard/vocalist. Mature, with writing capabilities, a believer, and gear. 780.686.9178 or E: cam@drblu.ca. W: drblu.ca Seeking mature rhythm/lead guitar or keyboard player, for a corporate function cover band. View Upstreet Band at www.bandmix.ca/georgem/ or call George at 780-499-1854 Vocalist wanted – Progressive/Industrial/metal; age 17-21. Contact justinroyjr@gmail.com Bass player needed asap for modern rock trio. Please call 780.999.5124 Lead singer looking for band to jam with. Covers and originals. Paul 780.270.4886 or 780.761.2721 Singer, songwriter, funk, dance, R&B, actor, stunt man, voice actor, commercial acting, screen play writer, ready for work. Katz 487.785.4481, okatz33@telus.blueberry. net Looking for a bass player/co-writer for full original rock trio. Please txt or call 299.7503 New Rehearsal Studios! Sound Check Rehearsals is having an opening party Sep 24. Tickets available from Axe Music, Long & McQuade, and Mother's Music. Call 780.964.8852; souncheckrehearsals.com for details

COSMOPOLITAN MUSIC SOCIETY: Opportunity for amateur adult musicians and singers to learn and perform concert band and choral music under professional music direction. Contact Darlene at 780.432.9333; generalmanager@cosmopolitanmusic.org Looking for a fiddle player to do traditional, old country and original music.... Please phone Larry at 780.466.1975 Seeking male singer between ages 14 - 18 for alternative cover band. Must have vocal range to cover artists such as Nickelback, P.O.D. Band located in Edmonton but have gigs booked outside of the city. Call 403.999.6976 Seeking folk/bluegrass/improv/country type small string band to work with me on some cool innovative performances. Must be willing to try new takes on some traditional work. 780.239.5758

Book Canadian Idol finalist Martin Kerr for your holiday event, Christmas party, house concert or wedding. Solo or with full band. 780.893.7335; www.martinkerrmusic.com

VOLUNTEER Operation Fruit Rescue Edmonton: Do you have a fruit tree that you can't harvest? Or, more berries than you can handle, OFRE will send volunteers to your house at your convenience to pick your fruit or berries. 1/3 goes to you, 1/3 goes to Edmonton’s Food Bank, 1/3 goes to the volunteers. E: ofre.edmonton@gmail.com; W: ofre. wordpress.com Alberta board development program recruiting volunteer instructors for not-for-profit organizations. Call 780.427.2001. Deadline: Oct 1 Looking for individuals to participate in the Wishmaker Walk for Wishes on Oct 16, 8am (registration), walk (9am) at WEM, Centre Stage. Fundraiser to support the wishes of local children suffering with a life threatening illness. Register at childrenswish.ca E: amanda.sigaty@ childrenswish.ca Volunteer website for youth 14-24 years old. youthvolunteer.ca The Candora Society of Edmonton–Board Recruiting; candorasociety.com; promotes positive growth in the lives of women, children/families in Rundle/Abbottsfield communities. Info: Elaine Dunnigan E: edunnigan@shaw.ca The Learning Centre Literacy Association: Seeking volunteer tutors to help adults develop reading, writing, math skills. Require High School reading, writing, and/or math skills; openness to tutor and learn with adults with various life experiences, including homelessness. Locations: Boyle Street Community Services and Abbottsfield Mall. Contact: Denis Lapierre, DowntownCentre, 780.429.0675, E: dl.learningcentre@shaw.ca; Susan Skaret, Abbottsfield Mall Centre, 780.471.2598, E: sskaret@telus.net

sible for contracting the uterus, also fills us with a sense of love and contentment. Endorphins kick in during labour, which, when fully functioning, can be even more effective for pain management than morphine. Catecholamine, which is part of the adrenaline family, floods the body just before the baby emerges. "It wakes us up out of that altered state (of endorphin rush) so that we're so present to bond with that baby," Jennifer says. "All of those hormones get severely interrupted when we're managing labour." She notes that in order for those hormones to operate optimally, the process must be allowed to unfold as it naturally would. Coincidentally, or perhaps not so, many of these same hormones are released during sexual pleasure and orgasm. In addition, as the baby passes through the birth canal, it presses on and stimulates several erogenous zones. Some women find, even without coaching or instruction, that some of the sensations during delivery are very

similar to sensations they feel during sex. So, if there are so many connections between sex and birth, why do we seem so adverse to acknowledging them? Jennifer thinks it's because sex, on a deeper level, if we really surrender ourselves to it, involves very deep intimacy, with ourselves and potentially with a partner. "It's a very profound and very private thing. Having that experience in front of others or witnessing someone else go through it is uncomfortable and embarrassing because it's so very personal," she says, "so instead of allowing it to happen, we try to manage and control it. Not everyone wants this kind of experience. And it's not necessarily better than other options for handling childbirth. But it is one of the options and it can be very powerful and rewarding." In our society, where we seem to go out of our way to separate sexuality from every aspects of our lives and put in a little box all its own, it's no wonder that we've man-

aged to completely de-sexualize pregnancy and childbirth. We are so uncomfortable with our sexual selves that accepting that aspect of ourselves in relation to babies seems downright perverse. But when you discover so many amazing connections between the two, it becomes hard to ignore. Orgasmic birth might not appeal to everyone, but if all women were at least encouraged to appreciate and use their sexual energy, in any way that feels comfortable for them, perhaps they would feel more confident and capable, and even powerful, during this major life transition. V The workshop ‘Birth is Sexual’ takes place on October 8 and 9 at The Organic Zodiac Healing Arts Cafe. Brenda Kerber has been a social worker and sexual health educator in Edmonton not-forprofits for the past 11 years. She is the owner of Edmonton-based sex-positive adult toy boutique, The Traveling Tickle Trunk.

Edmonton Mennonite Centre for Newcomers, need volunteers to help immigrant children and youth of all ages–volunteer in a homework club. Phillip Deng at 780.423.9516, pdeng@emcn.ab.ca Do you remember someone who believed in you when you were a child? Be that person in a child's life today. All it takes is one hour a week, which may not be much to you but will make all the difference in the life of a child. Be a Big Brother or Big Sister! Be a Mentor! Call Big Brother Big Sister today. 780.424.8181 Mechanics needed: The Edmonton Bicyle Commuters' Society operates a volunteer-run community bike workshop called BikeWorks, 10047-80 Ave (back alley), also accepting bicycle donations; E: volunteer@edmontonbikes. ca; W: edmontonbikes.ca Mediation & Restorative Justice Centre Edmonton: Vol Facilitator Recruitment 2010; mrjc.ca/mediation/ volunteering/complete a volunteer application form; 780.423.0896 ext. 201 Volunteers instructors needed–Tap Dancing, Line Dancing and Calligraphy. Wed: kitchen helper, Fri: dining room servers; Wed evening dinners: dishwashers, kitchen prep and servers. Mary 780.433.5807 S.C.A.R.S.: Second Chance Animal Rescue Society. Our dogs are TV stars! Watch Global TV every Sat at 9:45 AM where new, wonderful dogs will be profiled. scarscare.org Volunteer with Strathcona County RCMP Victim Services Unit and assist victims of crime and trauma. Call Katie at 780.449.0183 Volunteer at ElderCare Edmonton: help out with day programs with things like crafts, card games and socializing. Call Renée for info at 780.434.4747 Ext 4

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Cityfarm Growing Assistants: Volunteer with children and see their fascination with plants, seeds and soil; help a teacher/leader feel successful in growing plants indoors. Green thumb is not a pre-requisite but gardening experience and a passion for children and youth are an asset. E: claudia@city-farm.org The Azimuth Theatre seeks general volunteers for the upcoming 2010-2011 season. Come be part of the best small-scale, long running theatre in Downtown Edmonton. E: volunteer.azimuth@gmail.com T: 780.233.5778 Edmonton Immigrant Services Association: looking for volunteers to help with Youth Tutoring & Mentorship, New Neighbours, Language Bank, and Host/Mentorship programs. Contact Alexandru Caldararu 780.474.8445; W: eisa-edmonton.org

SEEKING SENIORS FOR PAID STUDY: Seeking seniors to participate in a paid study on investments. Participants will be paid $20 for 1 hr to complete a survey and will not be “sold” anything. T: Dr. Jennifer Boisvert at 780.436.8987; E: jenniferboisvert@hotmail.com Volunteer Meal Deliverer/Driver: "Life is a Highway" why not volunteer to be in the driver's seat? Come make a difference every day. Volunteer with Meals on Wheels as a driver. Call 780.429.2020 Carrot Café seeks volunteers: baristas to serve coffee, tea and carrot muffins; full training given on making specialty coffees and teas. Also need volunteer to clean daily from 7:30am, Tue-Fri, or once a week on Sun. For info contact Irene Yauck at Irene@ehenri.ca, 780.471.1580

HELP SUPPORT THE YOUTH EMERGENCY SHELTER SOCIETY Programs for youth; 780.468.7070; yess.org

SERVICES NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS Help Line 24 Hours a Day–7 Days a Week If you want to stop using, we can help Local: 780.421.4429/Toll free: 1.877.463.3537

Want to stop smoking? Nicotine Anonymous meetings: 7pm, every Wed, Ebenezer United Church Hall, 106 Ave, 163 St. Contact Gwyn 780.443.3020

ADULT STEAMWORKS GAY & BI MENS BATHHOUSE. 24/7 11745 JASPER AVE. 780.451.5554 WWW.STEAMWORKSEDMONTON.COM

Have you been affected by another person's sexual behaviour? S-Anon is a 12-Step fellowship for the family members and friends of sex addicts. Call 780.988.4411 for Edmonton area meeting locations and info, sanon.org

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SACE–Public Education Program: Sexual Assault Centre of Edmonton (sace.ab.ca) provides crisis intervention, info, counseling, public education. T: 780.423.4102/F: 780.421.8734/E: info@sace.ab.ca; sace.ab.ca/24-hour Crisis Line: 780.423.4121 Are you an International Medical Graduate seeking licensure? The Alberta International Medical Graduates Association is here to help. Support, study groups, volunteer opportunities–all while creating change for tomorrow. aimga.ca

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