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A job's a job
This week federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty declared in the House, "There is no bad job. The only bad job is not having a job." It had more than a few Canadians scrunching their brow thinking of those frustrating hours of servitude given to customers' demands, hours spent cleaning other people's toilets or putting up with unsafe environments. Flaherty was defending the government's budget bill which contains reforms to the Employment Insurance program. The bill will give the power to Cabinet to define "suitable employment" which will determine if a person qualifies for Employment Insurance. The NDP has said this could potentially force Canadians into jobs they are overqualified for or even force relocation in search of employment. Now, we've all had crappy jobs: meaningless hours spent making coffee or working for an employer we don't agree with. It's done with the understanding that hard work will bring rewards, that we will one day be able to move up the ladder, or pay for our education and get that job we do care about and that we're good at. What we hope and expect is that, in a society where the idea of opportunity is defined as a core value, we will have the ability to find that perfect job, the one that engages our best talents and is a benefit to the people around us. While the definition of "suitable employ-
ment" has yet to be determined, the NDP and labour groups such as the Alberta Federation of Labour are concerned this program undermines the very purpose of EI, which is, in fact, not welfare but an insurance program paid into for the benefit of workers looking for new employment after losing their jobs. It is a program designed to serve that ideal of equality of opportunity. As AFL president Gil McGowan stated this week, "It's designed to give Canadians some breathing room so they can find a job that actually fits their skill set." Creating a more restrictive EI program is not the answer to getting people into jobs. In fact, a 2007 OECD study shows that reducing the generousity and flexibility of unemployment programs actually reduce measured productivity. It found that a system that allowed workers the time to find a new job that better matched their skill set, and that better matching actually increased overall economic efficiency. Not only is this current EI proposal a threat to the idea of opportunity, but it also contradicts the federal government's mandate. This government sold itself to the electorate as a government able to create jobs and increase economic productivity, but yet again this government is attempting to implement policy that will accomplish exactly the opposite. V
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GIVE THE KID A JOB Canadian Auto Workers President Ken Lewenza is calling on the federal government to take action on youth unemployment rates. Statistics Canada's monthly report on jobs this past April found that though employment increased by 58 000 jobs the unemployment rate for young workers remained unchanges at a rat eof 13.9 percent, almost double the general population. Youth unemployment has remained consistent since July 2009. "Young people are not able to find jobs in this economy and
the federal government must do more to ensure our youth secure decent full time jobs," Lewenza said. "The federal government must show a lot more leadership on the stubborn issue of youth unemployment in Canada." Lewenza has been calling for a multi-stakeholder, national good jobs summit to discuss job creation in natural resources, agricultre and manufacturing as well as the impact of austerity budgets and cutbacks.
THE PROTEST CONTINUES Protests have continued at the Castle Special Place over the clear-cut logging area. Twenty protesters rallied outside the Spray Lakes Sawmills open house in Blairmore last week. “We wanted to let Spray Lake Sawmills, the Forest Service and the public know that even though some clear-cut logging has already occurred in the Castle Special Place we haven’t given up or gone away,” explained Nancy Tripp, one of the protestors. “We want the logging to stop, and for the Castle to be protected as a Wildland Park.” People opposed to the logging project have been working for over a year to get the provincial government to stop an approved clear-cut logging project in the Castle area. The Castle area was designated
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a special management area in 1998, but continues to be the only one of 81 special places without final protective status. A Community Values Assessment done by the Southwest Alberta Sustainable Community Initiative (SASCI), released in March 2012, found "the strongest opposition among residents was for increasing opportunities for motorized recreation (OHVs, dirt bikes, etc), allowing clear cutting of the Castle Special Management Area, and subdividing land currently used for agriculture.” The group has stated that it is interested in working with the new government instead of continuing its protest and current court actions.
The Edmonton Coalition on Housing and Homelessness organized this year's homeless memorial. Held at the homeless memorial statue downtown, it commemorates the 42 men and women who have died due a lack of housing. // Paula Kirman
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COMMENT >> EGYPT
Is there hope in Egypt?
Protests continue as radicals are removed from the race for president After 11 demonstrators were killed ent directions, as random mobs of disoutside the Ministry of Defence in gruntled citizens so often do. Cairo early this month, Mohammad Nine of the 11 dead demonstrators al-Assaf, a member of the Suwere killed by head shots, a preme Council of the Armed sure sign that amateurs were Forces (SCAF), expressed at work. Only a died-in-thehis astonishment that m wool conspiracy theorist o .c weekly e@vue gwynn anybody might suspect would suspect that the ate Gwynn the military of wanting to tackers were the same old Dyer gang of thugs-for-hire that the rig the forthcoming presidential elections in Egypt. "The armed old regime turned to when it wantforces and its Supreme Council are ed to use deniable but lethal violence committed to handing over power at on crowds of demonstrators. the scheduled time or even before 30 June," he said. Oh, all right then, have it your way. State television, still controlled The Supreme Council of the Armed by supporters of the old regime, exForces, which has been Egypt's tranplained that the people who attacked sitional government since the revoluthe demonstrators were local resition of February 11, 2011, was indeed dents of the Abbassiya district who behind the murders—or at least, had grown sick of continued demonsome people very close to the SCAF strations. What could be more underwere. That's why the soldiers and postandable than that? lice watching all this did not intervene It's so easy to imagine the men of for six hours. So the question is: what Abbassiya spontaneously rummaging did the senior military hope to achieve around in their houses for pistols and by doing this? shotguns, determined to end the nuiPartly, they were just being their sance that made it almost impossible usual clumsy, brutal selves. But they to get to the new metro station. Then were also defending their policy of rethey gathered at 2 am in two separate moving all the radicals from the race. groups and simultaneously charged Most of the demonstrators in front the demonstrators from two differof the Defence Ministry were protest-
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ing against the disqualification in midApril of their presidential candidate, Sheikh Hazem Abu Ismail of the Nour Party. He was a front-runner in the presidential race, two of the others being Khairat al-Shater of the Muslim Brotherhood and the old regime’s intelligence chief, Omar Suleiman— both of whom were disqualified too. Abu Ismail was disqualified because the new parliament passed a xenophobic law demanding that the parents and grandparents of any candidate must be Egyptian and nothing else. The Nour Party had voted for that law—but then it turned out that Abu Ismail's late mother had also taken American citizenship before she died. Or so the junta-appointed Higher Presidential Election Commission claimed, although he denied it. The result of the military's machinations is that 10 of the 27 candidates for the presidency have been removed, including all the more extreme ones with any serious prospect of winning the election. The front-runners among the remaining 13 are two Islamic candidates and two secular ones, none of whom could be called extremists. Mohammad Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, who took the place of the
disqualified Khairat al-Shater, has all the charisma of a cabbage. He may even win fewer votes than Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, a former Brotherhood man who is running as an independent. On the secular side is Amr Moussa, a former Egyptian foreign minister and ex-head of the Arab League, and former air force commander Ahmed Shafiq, who was briefly prime minister in the last days of the Mubarak regime. All moderates. It's impossible to predict who will win, because the election on 23–24 May will only produce two frontrunners, who will then face a run-off contest on mid-June. What can be said with confidence is that the man the armed forces finally hand power over to at the end of June will not be a radical. Disappointed? You wanted Egyptians to conduct a radical political experiment you would never want to see tried in your own country? Tough. In 1998 there was a similar non-violent democratic revolution in another big Muslim country. The dictator who was overthrown, like Hosni Mubarak, was a former general who had ruled his country for more than 20 years. The first elected president was the
leader of a prominent Islamic organisation, which frightened the country's 10 percent Christian minority. Islamic parties also gained a dominant position in the new parliament, and the more excitable observers predicted national disaster. However, Indonesia today is a stable democracy with one of the world’s fastest-growing economies. Indonesia is far from perfect. The military still has enough clout to ensure that "defence" spending stays high, and the police are more corrupt than ever. But the mainstream Islamic parties have stopped demanding Sharia law and Muslim-Christian violence has practically ended. The place is a genuine but deeply imperfect democracy—like India, say, or the United States. Nobody in Indonesia wants the former dictator Suharto back, and already almost nobody in Egypt wants Mubarak back. It will get better in Egypt, though more slowly than most Egyptians hope. V Gwynne Dyer is a London-based independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries. His column appears each week in Vue Weekly.
NEWS // EDUCATION
Teaching human rights
Some home school educators unimpressed at proposed Education Act In Alberta, about 16 000 students are either homeschooled or in a blended education program. For some of those students, and their families and educators, the proposed 2012 Education Act held a perceived challenge to their right to educate based on faith or principled teachings. Section 16 of the proposed act, entitled "diversity and respect," incorporated the principles of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms as well as the Alberta Human Rights Act into the education curriculum. Some homeschool educators saw it as an affront to faith-based education and vocally contested this inclusion. Over 2000 individuals marched to the legislature on March 19, and, up until the bill's death, encouraged letter-writing campaigns. Many posted sample letters for concerned citizens to send to their MLAs or newspaper comment sections. One such person, Tim Gallant, posted a sample letter to his blog outlining his concerns over section 16: "In particular, it in essence prohibits Christian home educators (and others who share a basic biblical worldview) from teaching the biblical view that homosexual acts are wrong ("sinful"). This proscription applies, even though Christians teach kindness and love
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toward sinners; it is the intent of the Alberta Human Rights Act, and therefore Bill 2, to normalize and justify homosexual acts, period." Not every home-school educator saw it as that black and white though. Mary Siever, a home educator to her five children, commented, "I have no problem with ensuring human rights are upheld and that hate material or teaching should not be allowed, but it just worries me that this could branch out and be misinterpreted or misrepresented by someone who doesn't agree with how a parent, or anyone else is educating a child." The Home School Legal Defense Association, a national organization, followed the debate closely through its website. It stated the bill was a threat to parents because, as the group describes on its website, "It essentially makes parents subject to the Alberta Human Rights Act when they interact with their own children in their own homes." The HSLDA was encouraging the dissasociation of home schooling from the definition of a "school" under the act or an exemption for home schools from section 16. Once the bill died on the order paper due to the election call, the HSLDA issued a strong message to those who
fought to eliminate section 16, " ... this legislation is not necessarily dead forever. The Conservatives in Alberta have given many indications that they will be bringing this legislation back if they are elected for another term. We encourage our members to very carefully consider their political choices in this election." Education takes place in a community and is the result of relationships. A 2003 report from the Alberta Teachers' Association, "Trying to Teach, Trying to Learn: Listening to Students," delves into the importance of relationships: "Programs, technology, formal outcomes, plans and methods notwithstanding, learning ultimately depends on the complex relationship among the teacher, the students and the subject matter." Educators work with their students to foster a culture that accepts certain values. The Alberta Human Rights Act is principally based on a mandate to foster equality and to reduce discrimination, and the inclusion has been applauded by spokespeople for the Alberta Teachers' Association. In his March 27 editorial for the ATA News, Jonathan Teghtmeyer, an associate coordinator for communications at the ATA, wrote,
"Educating students from all backgrounds together in the same environment teaches respect and honours diversity. Students learn collectively to be cooperative, compassionate and collaborative contributors to society." The proposed Education Act was not only encouraging the inclusion of the Alberta Human Rights Act, but also, as stated in the February 14 press release announcing the bill, the new act would also require boards to develop a student code of conduct that addresses bullying, "Whether or not it occurs within a school building, during the school day or by electronic means." With the rise of reported teen suicides precipitated by repeated bullying, the public awareness of the consequences of schoolyard taunting has risen, but methods to mitigate the effects of bullying are still rather elusive. The issue of technology has created another level of bullying, one that cannot be tracked so easily. As one teacher from Lethbridge, who has asked to not be named, noted, "Technology, being such a huge part of our lives, has changed the reaction everyone has to bullying and where we need to create and reinforce that safe and caring environment." Under Bill 44, teachers have seen a
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change in how to broach the subject of bullying due to gender or sexuality. Students must now motivate these moments and teachers need to seize it when it occurs. The same Lethbridge teacher commented that, "If a student brings a question forward, I do have the responsibility to use that as a teachable moment and then to follow up on any questions or concerns with those stakeholders—parents and administrators." Class size and the way a school addresses bullying also makes a significant difference. For Jennifer Davis, a mom of two elementary aged children, a small school displayed the best characteristics of a diverse and inclusive environment for her kids. "I chose a smaller school for its francophone aspect and its community," says Davis. "Teachers are able to give more time and this helps reduce bullying. There is more accountability for the students." While the PC government was returned with a majority, the success of the act in the future will depend on the relationship between the new Minister for Education, Jeff Johnson and the critic from the Official Opposition— Wildrose MLA Bruce McAllister. JENN PROSSER
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oming out as a sexual minority is not a one-time occurrence. The process continues all throughout a person's life, as new people are introduced or take on a new jobs. Based on Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues, The Coming Out Monologues takes viewers on a journey through the experiences of five individuals who have been faced with the challenge of coming out as a sexual minority. These real-life accounts come from performers spanning generations and experiences, from those coming out after they were married with a family or their own to those who lost the support of their families because of who they were. "It's going to be a really intimate experience, to just hear the complexity of their stories and how they just spiral and wind and go to unexpected places," says director Tara Brodin, who became involved as part of
her masters degree in fine arts and theatre practice at the University of Alberta. "It's all about moving from darkness to light to liberations, but also becoming whole." The stories are coupled with discussions from academics and lesbian, gay, bisexual, two spirited and queer (LGBTQ) community leaders aimed to break down barriers, embrace diversity, emphasize the importance of accessing healthcare and promote social justice. "Without reflection you can't really learn, so I think this is just part of the learning process," Brodin says of the speakers. The production is a joint effort between the faculties of nursing, education and drama, along with the Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services (iSMSS), UAlberta Employment Discretionary Fund, Human Resource Services (Employment Equity) to raise awareness about the health, safety and social needs of sexual-minority persons, both on campus and beyond. "It's really to broaden the idea of sexuality as being an element of
health, and about opening up some of the access issues; understanding there are links between sexuality, gender, health and social justice," says Gerri Lasiuk, assistant professor in the Faculty of Nursing and the Health Equity AoE, which has a mandate of bringing attention to issues of inequities within the healthcare system. The group also encompasses the detriments of health, which includes often unexpected aspects
aware of, the experiences become more humanized. "I think that's always the important thing is education and awareness, so they understand the realities that are faced by a group they might not identify with, but still be able to understand what life is like for those people, and if they have a better appreciation of that I think it's a better thing for everyone," he adds. Lasiuk notes that since coming out
It's really to broaden the idea of sexuality as being an element of health, and about opening up some of the access issues; understanding there are links between sexuality, gender, health and social justice.
such as economics, education and gender environment. Lionel Kinkartz, Safe Spaces Coordinator with the Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services says the most important aspect of the event is simply creating awareness of people's lived experiences, because when people have a better understanding of groups they are not
is an ongoing process, it can mean an ever-present feeling of uncertainty for sexual minority individuals regarding how they will be perceived. This uncertainty includes not only friends, family and coworkers, but also with healthcare professionals. "Some folks, they've had very bad experiences with the health care system and with other experiences
in their lives, so they may withdraw from healthcare professionals and just not seek healthcare services when they need them because they don't feel safe," she notes, adding this is exactly what events like this aim to remedy. Brodin believes there is nothing comparative to the power of personal story, noting those told in the play cover aspects of family, support or lack thereof, finding identity and the fear of being a disappointment to loved ones. These stories need to continue to be told until society is no longer disenfranchised and there truly are equal rights, Brodin adds, noting that despite living in a seemingly progressive country, there's still a long way to go. "I think the message is to thine own self be true," Brodin notes of the event's message. "You're going to meet a whole bunch of adversarial situations in your life and if you can just stand in the greatness of who you are, then hopefully you'll have some strength to deal with the adversity." meaghan baxter
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NEWS // DEMOCRACY
Beautiful Trouble
New book discusses the how-tos of a creative revolution Wed, May 23 (7 pm) Beautiful Trouble book launch Black Dog (Underdog), Free Beautiful Trouble is a collection of activists' methods in creating creative activism. The book and web resources collect stories and methods from activists around the world who explain their approach to creative revolution. The book is co-edited by Dave Oswald Mitchell and Andrew Boyd. VUE WEEKLY: What prompted you to bring this project together? DAVE OSWALD MITCHELL: We started talking about putting it together about a year ago. Andrew Boyd (co-editor), he put together an activist cookbook about 15 years ago and has been wanting to revisit the idea. But it just seems like a time when more and more people are thinking about activism as not just something not to do just in rote measures, but to be creative with and seeing how effective you can be when you surprise people when you do something clever that contains a measure. VW: Some people dismiss creative activism as silly or ineffective. Where does the power of it lie?
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DM: It's in its effectiveness. I think we were lucky as we were pulling the manuscript together Occupy happened. And that whole constellation of events saw such an outpouring of creativity. A lot of people dismissed it at first because they weren't clear [in] what they were trying to achieve, they weren't playing by the rules, but we saw how quickly and how effectively it changed the conversation and how under a common banner people could express themselves in different ways. So creative activism is effective activism. VW: You went through an interesting process to bring the book together. DM: It was a snowballing process. Two things that were key to pulling it together: we developed it openly and collaboratively online, because we had contributors from all over the world, so it was all developed on Google docs so everyone could see what everyone else was working on, but we also held a number of book sprints in New York where as many people as possible met in person. We rented an office and just locked ourselves away and wrote as much as possible. From then on it was about trying to man-
age and not let it just snowball into an encyclopedia of everything. VW: How do you think this process added to what you ended up with? DM: By inviting people in who have been on the front lines of creative activism we created a collaborative atmosphere where everybody felt like they were contributing to the larger body of knowledge and to think strategically and distill what they knew intuitively. It just reached a point where people were having ideas sparked by seeing what others were working on. It became no one-person's project, everyone was contributing their best ideas. VW: Were you surprised or impressed by any of the submissions? DM: There were so many really insightful entries. One that I found the most moving was a case study about the Trail of Dreams, which was a group of Latino youth who trekked to Washington in support of the DREAM act, [an act that would have given permanent residence to certain illegal immigrants who graduated from US high schools, served in the military or attended a four-year post-secondary institution].
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Gabby Pacheco wrote the piece and the clarity with which she describes the trek they took and the fears they had to face down along the way, it was so movingly told. People can learn from that—not just what happened, but the tactics they used to achieve it and the principles they adhered to. VW: Part of the discussion you hope to have at the event in Edmonton is about the state and future of activism. Where do you see the future of creative activism going? DM: It's partially why we're asking these questions at these events. It feels like it's moving in so many directions at once and it feels like there's been a sea change in how people are approaching these questions. It feels like the situation is very much in play. And nothing is inevitable. It's not necessarily going to get bigger or better or anything, but people have sort of taken notice that the political situation can be changed, we can shake the balance of power. And what comes out of that is anybody's guess and the hope is that the book, by breaking down the component pieces of creative activism, can allow more people to see that this isn't just magic that certain activists are gifted to
pull off these things, but are applying principles that can work. VW: Some people view this type of activism as just thrown together. DM: A group that we managed to bring on fairly early is the Yes Men, so they're a perfect example of the work that goes into this. They pull off these spectacular actions that you just think, 'How can they possibly do that?'. But with their Yes labs they're really trying to just share these skills and have people realize that any person can do these things. Andy Bichlbaum wrote a book called Anyone Can Act to try to make that point. VW: Why did you decide to bring the event to Edmonton? DM: Personally, I'm looking forward to being in Edmonton for this event. In terms of my own activism one of my own inspirations was the Deconstructionist Institute of Surreal Topology which was based out of Edmonton and was responsible for the teddy bear catapult [during the Summit of Americas protests in 2001 in Quebec City]. I wrote that up as my own case study in Beautiful Trouble. Samantha power
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Series • NRE Bldg, 1 001, 9105-116 St, U of A • Until Jun 7, every Thu, 7pm • Institutions of Democracy by Rob Macintosh (Dejanira Ltd), David Campanella (Parkland): May 17 • Labour in a Natural Resource Economy: with Bob Barnetson (Labour Relation < Athabasca University), Gil McGowan: (AB Federation of Labour); May 24 The Plant-Based Diet • Amaranth
Whole Foods Market at the Enjoy Centre, 101 Riel Dr., St. Albert • Lecture presented by Brendan Brazier, author of Thrive, creator of Vega and Canadian triathlete. You must pre-register for this event at: http://brendaninalberta-es1. eventbrite.com/?srnk=1 • Wed, May 23, 6:308:30pm
Ceili's • 10338-109 St • 780.426.5555 • Com-
3728-106 St • 780.458.6352, 780.467.6093 • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm
Century Casino • 13103 Fort Rd •
Organization for Bipolar Affective Disorder (OBAD) • Grey
QUEER
780.481.9857 • Open amateur night every Thu, 7:30pm =
Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, 780.451.1755; Group meets every Thu 7-9pm • Free
COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertain-
River Valley Vixen • Glenora stairs
• Sunnybrook United Church, Red Deer • 403.347.6073 • Affirm welcome LGBTQ people and their friends, family, and allies meet the 2nd Tue, 7pm, each month
edy Night: every Tue, 9:30pm • No cover
ment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Funniest Person with a day job; Every Tue; until Jun 5 • Marvin Krawczyk; May 18-19 • Craig Sherburne; May 25-26
Comic Strip • Bourbon St, WEM •
780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Jesse Joyce; until May 20 • Jimmy Shubert; May 24-27 • Dan Levy; May 31-Jun 3
DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 • Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm Filthy McNasty's • 10511-82 • 780.996.1778 • Stand Up Sundays: Stand-up comedy night every Sun with a different headliner every week; 9pm; no cover hydeaway • 10209-100 Ave • 780.426.5381 • Comedy Night every 2nd Tue
laugh shop–Sherwood Park • 4
Blackfoot Road, Sherwood Park • 780.417.9777 • laughinthepark.ca • Open Wed-Sat • Fri: 8pm, Sat: 7:30pm and 10pm; $20 • Wednesday Amateur night: 8pm (call to be added to the line-up); free •
laugh shop–124th Street • 11802124 St • 780.417.9777 • thelaughshop.com • Amateur night every Wed (call 780.417.9777 to be added to the lineup); no cover Overtime Pub • 4211-106 St • Open mic
comedy anchored by a professional MC, new headliner each week • Every Tue • Free
Zen Lounge • 12923-97 St • The Ca$h Prize comedy contest hosted by Matt Alaeddine • Every Tue, 8pm • No cover
Groups/CLUBS/meetings Aikikai Aikido Club • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm Amnesty International Edmonton • 8307-109 St •
edmontonamnesty.org • Meet the 4th Tue each month, 7:30pm (no meetings in Jul, Aug, and Dec) E: amnesty@edmontonamnesty.org for more info • Free
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
Brain Tumour Peer Support Group • Woodcroft Branch Library, 13420-
114 Ave • braintumour.ca • 1.800.265.5106 ext 234 • Support group for brain tumour survivors and their families and caregivers. Must be 18 or over • 3rd Tue every month; 7-8:45pm • Free
Cha Island Tea Co • 10332-81 Ave •
Games Night: Board games and card games • Every Mon, 7pm
Edmonton Bike Art Nights • BikeWorks, 10047-80 Ave, back alley entrance • Art Nights • Every Wed, 6-9pm Edmonton Needlecraft Guild •
Avonmore United Church Basement, 82 Ave, 79 St • edmNeedlecraftGuild.org • Classes/ workshops, exhibitions, guest speakers, stitching groups for those interested in textile arts • Meet the 2nd Tue each month, 7:30pm
FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.465.2019/780.634.5526 • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm Home–Energizing Spiritual
• All girls outdoor bootcamp every Mon, and Wed: 6:30pm • Until end Jul • Info: E: rivervalleyvixen@gmail.com
Sherbrooke Stalk Exchange •
Sherbrooke Community Hall, 13008-122 Ave • 780.452.2363 • Demos from leading local gardening presentors, organizations supporting local food initiatives. Free plant and seed exchange. Garden related donation appreciated but not necessary to receive plant material. Tomato and herb plants for sale • Sun, May 27, 10am-2pm
Sherwood Park Walking Group + 50 • Meet inside Millennium Place, Sherwood
Place • Weekly outdoor walking group; starts with a 10 min discussion, followed by a 30-40 minute walk through Centennial Park, a cool down and stretch • Every Tue, 8:30am • $2/ session (goes to the Alzheimer’s Society of Alberta)
Society of Edmonton Atheists
• Stanley Milner Library, Rm 6-7 • edmontonatheists.ca • Meet the 1st Tue every month, 7pm
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
Walk Alberta • Tri Leisure Centre,
221 Campsite Rd, Spruce Grove: join the St Albert Trekkers Volkssport Club: guided walk through residential streets and walking trails, 5km, 10km; May 22, 6:30-9pm • Claireview Shopping Centre, Sobey's, 137 Ave, Victoria Tr: St. Albert Trekkers Volkssport Club walking trails through Hermitage Park and river valley. 5, 10km; May 26, 12.30-3pm • Kinsmen Sport Centre, 9100 Waterdale Hill: St. Albert Trekkers Volkssport Club walking mostly paved trails through the river valley; 5km, 10km; May 29, 6:30-9pm
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
Y Toastmasters Club • EFCL,
7103-105 St • Meet every Tue, 7-9pm; helps members develop confidence in public speaking and leadership • T: Antonio Balce at 780.463.5331
LECTURES/Presentations Beautiful Trouble • The Underdog, Blackdog Basement, 10425 Whyte Ave • 780.429.4500 • beautifultrouble.org • Book launch of Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution and presentation by Dave Oswald Mitchell (co-editor), and roundtable disussion on the state and future of creative activism • Wed, May 23, 7pm Great Expeditions • St Luke’s Anglican
Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.454.6216 • 3rd Mon every month, 7:30pm
Imagination Conversation • Winspear Centre, 9720-102 Ave • 780.428.1414 • Alberta’s innovative business leaders, entrepreneurs, educators and artists will join internationally known speakers, creativity advocates and education pioneers in an immersive, experiential conference as they work together to build a more creative Alberta • Until May 17 Living Foods Sunday Summer Series • Earth's General Store, 9605-82
Ave • Flat bread, herbed cheese, raw layered sandwiches; May 20 • Every Sun, 6:50-9pm • Pre-register; $25 (each session); info: Robyn at rawrobyn@gmail.com
Oil and Democracy Speaker
AFFIRM SUNNYBROOK–Red Deer
Bisexual Women's Coffee Group • A social group for bi-curious and bisexual women every 2nd Tue each month, 8pm • groups.yahoo.com/group/bwedmonton
BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725B Jasper Ave • 780.488.6636 • Tue with DJ Arrow Chaser, free pool all night; 9pm (door); no cover • Wed with DJ Dust’n Time; 9pm (door); no cover • Thu: Men’s Wet Underwear Contest, win prizes, hosted by Drag Queen DJ Phon3 Hom3; 9pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Fri Dance Party with DJ Arrow Chaser; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Sat: Feel the rhythm with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm 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
EPLC Fellowship Pagan Study Group • Pride Centre of Edmonton • eplc.
webs.com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome
Open Tues-Sat: Community bar with seasonal patio • Beat the clock Tue • WINGSANITY Wed, 5-10pm • Free pool Tue and Wed • Karaoke Wed, 9-12pm • Fri Steak Night, 5-9pm • Frequent special events: drag shows, leather nights, bear bashes, girls nights • DJs every Fri and Sat, 10pm
LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408124 St • edmlivingpositive.ca • 1.877.975.9448/780.488.5768 • Confidential peer support to people living with HIV • Tue, 7-9pm: Support group • Daily drop-in, peer counselling MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB
• geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu
Pride Centre of Edmonton • Mov-
ing • 780.488.3234 • Daily: YouthSpace (Youth Drop-in): Tue-Fri: 3-7pm; Sat: 2-6:30pm; jess@ pridecentreofedmonton.org • Men Talking with Pride: Support group for gay, bisexual and transgendered men to discuss current issues; Sun: 7-9pm; robwells780@hotmail.com • HIV Support Group: for people living with HIV/ AIDS; 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm; huges@ shaw.ca • TTIQ: Education and support group for transgender, transsexual, intersexed and questioning people, their friends, families and allies; 2nd Tue each month, 7:30-9:30pm; admin@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Community Potluck: For members of the LGBTQ community; last Tue each month, 6-9pm; tuff@shaw.ca • Counselling: Free, short-term, solution-focused counselling, provided by professionally trained counsellors; every Wed, 6-9pm; admin@pridecentreofedmonton.org • STD Testing: Last Thu every month, 3-6pm; free; admin@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Youth Movie: Every Thu, 6:30-8:30pm; jess@ pridecentreofedmonton.org
PrimeTimers/sage Games • Unitarian Church, 10804-119 St • 780.474.8240 • Every 2nd and last Fri each Month, 7-10:30pm
St Paul's United Church • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship) WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • womonspace.ca, womonspace@gmail.com • A Non-profit lesbian social organization for
FLASH Night Club • 10018-105 St •
Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured
Woodys Video Bar • 11723 Jasper Ave
• 780.488.6557 • Mon: Amateur Strip Contest; prizes with Shawana • Tue: Kitchen 3-11pm • Wed: Karaoke with Tizzy 7pm-1am; Kitchen 3-11pm • Thu: Free pool all night; kitchen 3-11pm • Fri: Mocho Nacho Fri: 3pm (door), kitchen open 3-11pm
SPECIAL EVENTS Birthday Bash for Boyle Street
• Integration Edmonton, 10565-114 St • 780.421.9853 • Fundraiser for Boyle Street Community Services hosted by Integration Pilates Edmonton Oliver Studio. Featuring fashion shows by Maggie Walt Design and Sabrina Butterfly, music by North Tango, DJ Buster Friendly (CJSR), Blue Pear Restaurant, Somerville Wine Bar, Paddy's Cheese, Bon Ton Bakery, Fuss Cupcakes and others, silent auction • Sat, May 26 • $50 (proceeds to Boyle Street) available at Integration Pilates Studios
Family Fun Film Night • Grandin Theatres, 101-22 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • 780.242.3374 • Bollywood Film Screening: Mere Brother Ki Dulhan (PG, 2011, Hindi, English subtitles) • Thu, May 17, 7pm • $5 Fashion for Foundations • Suede
Lounge • 780.482.0707 • zebracentre.ca • Fundraiser for the Zebra centre to support children in need. Evening of fashion, music, and a silent auction • May 17, 8pm (door)
Jamie's Food Revolution • Earth's General Store, 9605-82 Ave • foodrevolutionday.com • Fundraiser BBQ • Sat, May 19, 12-4pm • $3 for hot dog and drink ($1 of this goes to the Food Revolution) A Night On The Titanic • 2108 Warry
Way, Upper Windermere • Second annual Camp Everest fundraiser presented by Artisan Homes in support of the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation and the Pediatric Neurosurgery Fund. Featuring hors d’oeuvres by Bridges, inspired by Titanic’s first-class menu, boutique shopping, string quartet, wine and scotch bar, silent auction, casino games • Sat, May 26, 7pm-12 • $100; T: Lori 780.430.7277 • All proceeds raised to the Pediatric Neurosurgery Fund and Camp Everest
780.969.9965 • Thu Goth + Industrial Night: Indust:real Assembly with DJ Nanuck; 10pm (door); no cover • Triple Threat Fridays: DJ Thunder, Femcee DJ Eden Lixx • DJ Suco beats every Sat • E: vip@flashnightclub.com
G.L.B.T.Q. (gay) African Group Drop-In) • Pride Centre, moving •
780.488.3234 • Group for gay refugees from all around the World, friends, and families • 1st and Last Sun every month • Info: E: fred@ pridecentreofedmonton.org, jeff@pridecentreofedmonton.org
G.L.B.T.Q Sage bowling club • 780.474.8240, E: Tuff@shaw.ca • Every Wed, 1:30-3:30pm GLBT sports and recreation • teamedmonton.ca • Co-ed Bellydancing: bellydancing@teamedmonton.ca • Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary, 10925-87 Ave. at 7pm; bootcamp@teamedmonton.ca • Bowling: Ed's Rec Centre, West Edmonton Mall, Tue 6:45pm; bowling@teamedmonton.ca • Curling: Granite Curling Club; 780.463.5942 • Running: Kinsmen; running@teamedmonton. ca • Spinning: MacEwan Centre, 109 Street and 104 Ave; spin@teamedmonton.ca • Swimming: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St; swimming@ teamedmonton.ca • Volleyball: every Tue, 7-9pm; St. Catherine School, 10915-110 St; every Thu, 7:30-9:30pm at Amiskiwiciy Academy, 101 Airport Rd G.L.B.T.Q Seniors Group • S.A.G.E Bldg, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4:30pm • Info: T: Jeff Bovee 780.488.3234, E: tuff @shaw.ca Illusions Social Club • The Junction, 10242-106 St • groups.yahoo.com/group/edmonton_illusions • 780.387.3343 • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri every month, 8:30pm 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
Junction Bar and Eatery • 10242-106 St • 780.756.5667 • junctionedmonton.com •
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INTERVUE // CANADIAN GANGSTER
Durand Durand
Kevin Durand talks Citizen Gangster, Thunder Bay and what rapping taught him about acting Opens Friday Directed by Nathan Morlando
KD: Absolutely. You learn how to plant your feet and deliver a message. You learn how to commit to what you're saying. I think that's why a lot of rappers transition so fluidly into acting. Like Eminem in 8 Mile. I was so mad watching that. He was so good! Mos Def's an amazing actor. Obviously, the big leap is going from delivering those words that fit your rap persona and identifying with someone else's words, trying to figure out the character's heart and soul, what they believe in.
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anadian-born actor Kevin Durand is probably most familiar from shows like Dark Angel or Lost, and films such as Legion or Robin Hood, in which he played the decidedly ironically named Little John. In Nathan Morlando's Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster he plays Lenny Jackson, a former hairdresser turned bank robber, a role that earned Durand a Genie nomination for Best Supporting Actor. (He lost to Viggo Mortensen, so don't feel too bad.) He'll soon be seen in David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis, so within a short span of time he's worked with one of Canada's most promising emerging talents and our most unlikely elder statesman. I met with Durand on the roof of a Toronto hotel.
A quick shave of a heist in Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster
love it.
Wes on some local dates. The first gig that took me away from home was one that had me rapping in a show about multi-cultural diversity and the greatness of our country on the occasion of its 25th birthday.
VW: What changed your attitude toward
VW: Why did you focus on acting rather
the city?
than rapping? I wanted to act before I wanted to do anything else—except play hockey. But I had no idea how to find a venue or how to think about it. The only thing that fed that dream was disappearing into the Thunder Bay library to watch BBC videos of Shakespearian productions with Patrick Stewart or somebody. Finally when I was in high school I had this teacher that broke down Othello and King Lear and opened my eyes to an approach to acting.
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Do you like living in Los
Angeles? KEVIN DURAND:
I didn't originally. Now I
KD: When I first arrived there as a young-
er man I was just so preoccupied with finding work, finding someone who'd believe in me. When you're just another one of the thousands of desperate, unemployed actors it's like you're sinking into an abyss of broken dreams. The second time I moved there I went straight to surfing and hiking, taking in the beauty of that region. You're from a beautiful place. I've only passed through Thunder Bay, but it's gorgeous there. KD: Thank you for saying that. It was a great place to grow up. I miss it. VW:
VW: I
read that you used to be a rapper there. KD: Yeah. I opened for Maestro Fresh
KD:
VW: So what made you want to rap in the meantime? KD: I think I was nine the first time that I heard rap music. You remember Beat Street, or Breakin'? Those movies, the music in them, they just did something to me. Physically. When I heard those guys
rapping I immediately took out a pen and started writing. I was this little kid writing rhymes in Thunder Bay, where no one even knew what rap was. There were maybe seven or eight other kids in town who were into rap and eventually we found each other and formed a sort of subculture. Everybody else was into AC/ DC, you know? [Laughs] Mötley Crüe. Whenever we went across the border to Duluth we'd pick up cassettes and then tape them off of each other. Get us some Skully-D and MC Shan. Big Daddy Kane. I just fell in love with rap first time I heard it. And I'm still in love with it. VW: Do you still find yourself coming up with rhymes? KD: Actually, yes. You're familiar with Kyprios, of Sweatshop Union? Kyp and I were at a party once and started freestyling. He was kinda surprised, asked me if I'd written anything. I said yes. We recorded about 11 songs that nobody will ever hear. They're just for me and select family members. [Laughs] VW: Did rapping teach you something about acting?
VW: What aspects of Lenny Jackson did you identify with? KD: With Lenny, I was just happy to play a multi-dimensional character. A lot of the time, because of my size and my intensity, they try to throw me in the corner and tell me to play the big gorilla. VW: I was thinking about how the film to some degree portrays its men as suffering from this feeling of postwar emasculation. But then Lenny was a hairdresser, so the character already sidesteps gender stereotypes. Was that something that helped you with Lenny, that he was this tough, at times aggressive guy who was also very keen on hairstyles? KD: Well, he worked for his mother. She was the one who had the salon. He couldn't deal with that so he left and became a bartender in Toronto. He'd see all these gangsters with these beautiful cars and beautiful women. That's how he resorted to robbing banks. For me, Lenny's vulnerability came more from the fact that he and his wife were so in love. She drank herself to death within eight years of his execution. I've known a lot of drinkers in my life and it usually takes a hell of a lot longer than eight years to do that. VW: How was your experience working with Nathan Morlando? KD: It was a really special. We found Lenny together. Even in the midst of
production we'd have these great, long conversations. He always took the time if he could. And he'd encourage us to go off-script if it seemed like we might be onto something. I think that freedom comes across in the film. Certain scenes are very visceral. It could be a nightmare for sound, all that ad-libbing at varying degrees of volume, but we were trying to find a group dynamic. Was there any particular moment during the shoot that assured you that you'd found the character? KD: One of the first things we shot was the scene with Charlotte Sullivan tells us that this police officer had tortured her. I wanted to go and get this guy, but Charlotte wouldn't let me and I just grabbed her and threw her on the couch. It was this insane, explosive thing. And I remember thinking, "There he is." He's this animal, but he's this passionate, big-hearted being as well. VW:
VW: We often speak about what we bring
of ourselves to a role, but I wonder if there are roles that turn around and help you discover something about yourself. KD: You're constantly called upon to dig up stuff that maybe you don't want to dig up. Sometimes you didn't even know it was there. I've always been attracted to darker characters, ones who manifest those instincts we might not normally act upon. Someone cuts you off in traffic, and you can choose to follow them home and beat them over the head with a club or you can choose to just let it be. I choose to try to live like a happy, noble person, but what if suddenly there's a screw missing? I'm six-foot-six and 240 lbs. What if I do get angry and chase somebody? These things are all possible. It's in our nature. We all live on the edge of our best and worst intentions. I'm just lucky. Josef Braun
// josef@vueweekly.com
REVUE // CANADIAN GANGSTER
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster Opens Friday Directed by Nathan Morlando
T
he directoral debut for Nathan Morlando is based on the story of Edwin Boyd, a Second World War veteran who returns home to Toronto to few prospects and dwindling hope. After quitting his lackluster job as a bus driver and being unable to afford to take a real crack at a Hollywood career, Boyd (Scott Speedman) raids his wife's makeup drawer to create a
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disguise intended as the mask for his biggest role. He dusts off his army pistol and begins robbing banks, quickly grabbing the attention of the media, police and garnering a reputation as quite the dashing criminal. His suave, debonaire demeanour has the female bank clerks swooning rather than cowering as Boyd robs them blind. However, Boyd's luck—and newfound lifestyle for his wife Doreen (Kelly Reilly) and their two children, initially led to believe the money came from an acting job—comes to a
screeching halt after the police catch up with him during a robbery. While in prison, he meets three men, including an emotionally and physically damaged war veteran named Lenny (Kevin Durand), who stands out for both his malice and emotion. The guys don't plan on throwing in the towel just yet, and following a daring escape, they form the Boyd Gang, continuing to rob banks, live large and run from the law until internal conflict and careless decisions bring tension to the group, which begins to careen down a path of
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self-destruction. Speedman is pitch perfect in the role as he maintains a devil-may-care persona alongside that of a caring and concerned father. He never once strays from being the protagonist, despite his outlaw actions and his desperation and willingness to do whatever he needs to for his family makes his story one to empathize with. Production is used to the film's advantage as well, setting the story against a drab, dreary colour palette dominated
by greys and blues. The somber mood is punctuated with happier times, blended together with a soundtrack that features old school tunes and more modern selections like The Black Keys, which still seems fitting. There's enough tension and action— without the standard shoot-em-up mentality of a crime film—to make the film a poignant and compelling look at an intriguing figure in our country's history. meaghan baxter
// meaghan@vueweekly.com
REVUE // BABY TIME
What To Expect When You're Expecting Directed by Kirk Jones Opens Friday
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n What To Expect When You're Expecting, the best-selling pregnancy book of the same name gets adapted for the big screen with four interconnected couples navigating various paths towards parenthood. Author Heidi Murkoff had a hand in the screenplay and although the book itself has no actual storyline, the team made up for it by creating multiple
plot threads to cover the ups and downs of the road to childbirth. The ensemble cast consists of Cameron Diaz as Jules Baxter, a fitness guru who gets knocked up by Evan (Glee's Matthew Morrison), her dance partner on a popular reality show; Jennifer Lopez as Holly, a professional photographer trying to adopt a child from Africa while dealing with her unnamed husband's (Rodrigo Santoro) hesitations about fatherhood; Dennis Quaid, a former race car driver whose young-enough-to-be-his-daughter wife
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Skylar (Brooklyn Decker) is breezing through a pregnancy with twins; Elizabeth Banks, a mommy-glow-obsessed baby-store owner combating the lessthan-pleasant effects of pregnancy, and more. Basically, half the supporting cast of Bridesmaids Appears, along with some celebrity cameos, and it's a lot to take in. The interconnection between the couples is weak, aside from Banks and Falcone versus Quaid and Decker. Banks is endearingly funny as she
endures deadly gas spells, nausea and hemorrhoids, calling bullshit on the whole joy-of-pregnancy business while she watches her much younger mother-in-law embody the "glow" she thought pregnancy was all about. Men in the audience can find solace from the mommy business in The Dudes, who tell it like it is and try their best to get their kids through it all in one piece, while they try to prep Holly's husband for the fact that there's no time to get ready, comparing having a child to jumping on a
moving train and trying not to die. What To Expect develops each couple's story line enough to avoid making any of them feel like filler. However, it would have been more interesting to throw in a couple who doesn't fit the conventional mould. Each faces their own challenges, but what about including a single mom, or even a homosexual couple to better reflect that today's expectant parents don't necessarily fit the heterosexual status quo. meaghan baxter
// meaghan@vueweekly.com
REVUE // BURTON GOES VAMPIRE
A Little Bit Zombie Dark Shadows Now playing Directed by Tim Burton
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The bride and, um, groom
Fri, May 18 (9:30 pm) Directed by Casey Walker Metro Cinema at the Garneau
D
irector Casey Walker has three rules he suggests following in the event of a zombie apocalypse: "Get the hell out of the city, get the hell out of the city and get the hell out of the city. If you think something's going wrong, stick whatever you have in a bag and get out fast. If you have a plan that doesn't involve those three rules at the top of your list, you're already dead." Walker is a man with serious respect for the zombie movie genre. So despite the fact that as producer and director of A Little Bit Zombie he takes a comedic kick at the clichéd corpses of everyone's favourite pegged-legged monsters, zombie fans need not worry—for Walker, the undead are sacred. "There's rules to the zombie genre and I'm not going to go into the list of what they are because if you know 'em you know 'em," Walker says, sounding like you should probably know 'em. "But the key is, if you want to play in the genre you gotta know them and if you break them you better have a damn good reason for doing so, cause otherwise you're just screwing up."
be Tina (Crystal Lowe), Steve becomes the victim of a zombie mosquito—making him undead-ish. While Steve tries to satiate his hunger for brains by hunting down squirrels, Tina is determined to tie the knot, whether Steve is alive or just kind-of alive. "At the core of it, it's the relationships between the characters that drive things forward," explains Walker. "If it was just a bunch of zombies lumbering and stumbling around, it wouldn't be very interesting." Kathleen Bell
// kathleen@vueweekly.com
pale reflection of Tim Burton's past, Dark Shadows is a pretty anemic vampire flick, a creature-feature comedy without bite. It begins with a fairly unimaginative Gothic backstory. Barnabas Collins (Johnny Depp) is a man of 1770s Maine, cursed by the witch Angelique (Eva Green) into becoming an immortal vampire after he rejects her. Unburied two centuries later, he strives to restore his family's fishing-cannery fortune, but Angelique can't let go of her unrequited love. There's much more bloody potential here for dark comedy (and shaded emotions) than we're lightly spattered with. The counter-culture-clash of 18th-century bloodsucker and the trippy-hippie '70s is only tickled for a few laughs ... nothing artery-deep. From the new governess (Bella Heathcote) whose childhood's far too disturbing to the bland matriarch (Michelle Pfeiffer), most characters are overstuffed or underused.
Depp, presumably hungering for blood
Dark Shadows offers no zany flourishes, dashing touches or striking shots. The director of Beetlejuice and writer of A Nightmare Before Christmas needed to
go back two decades and conjure up the black-humour magic of those movies. Brian Gibson
// brian@vueweekly.com
Perhaps the only film ever to be billed as a rom-zom-com, A Little Bit Zombie is not only the Canadian filmmaker's debut feature-length, it's also the first time horror buffs and chick flick connoisseurs will be able to agree on what movie they want to see. Centering on the impending nuptials of nice-guy Steve (Kristopher Turner) and über-enthusiastic bride-to-
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dark and stormy night. "Man's weather," we're told. Several gangsters on-the-run and their respective molls, some naked, some clothed, hole up in a creepy old house that resembles a skid row antique shop and envelops an inner courtyard bog that doubles as a wet cemetery. This place was once the home of the gang's haggard-handsome boss, Ulysses (Jason Patric), who's come back to, as he puts it, return what was lost, but otherwise gives his ornery, potentially mutinous crew little clue as why they're there. Somewhere in this house there's a room where Ulysses' estranged wife Hyacinth (Isabella Rossellini) lingers in a bed and converses with her chain-draggin' naked phantom dad (Louis Negin), who is also our story's hoary narrator. There are electrified ghosts, a homemade electric chair, a radio kept tuned between stations, and a stuffed wolverine named Crispy. Mysteries will crumble ... only to reveal more mysteries underneath! It becomes difficult to discern the living from the dead. Everyone drifts through everyone else's space, like the inhabitants of some dilapidated housing project constructed along the muddy banks of the River Styx. Keyhole, director and co-scenarist Guy Maddin's latest retro-anachro-sui-generic-Winter-peggy quasi-autobiographical philmic phantasy, his first feature to be shot digitally, is a murky journey inward, and perhaps back in time, made of digressions, discoveries and double-crosses, building toward a strangely consoling finale in which all sorts of objects are returned to just where they belong, an act of restoration and sabotaged nostalgia
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that can sit as a metaphor for the entire Guy Maddin Project, whose greatest hits include Careful, The Heart of the World, Brand Upon the Brain! and My Winnipeg. Keyhole is loosely based on Homer's Odyssey—"the ultimate deadbeat dad story!" says Maddin—though the characters never manage to leave the property. Organized crime meets the occult and hysteria meets deadpan in Keyhole, which somehow looks like it was made in both 2012 and 1933, in both a Hollywood studio and a decrepit Winnipeg manor slated for demolition. Everything is draped in some sort of gauze or veil and possesses a billowy cheesecloth beauty. It also has almost no momentum and would put you in a trance if it weren't so crowded with riddles, surprises, antsy lyricism and pervert-hilarity. I interviewed Maddin some weeks back. I encourage you to go back and seek it out on our website, as Maddin is always entertaining and insightful one of my favourite people on Earth to interview. Our conversation encompassed not only cinema but also subjects as varied as the mysteries of the creative process, unexpected uses of genitals and developments in facial hair. Metro Cinema will be exhibiting Keyhole, and at the premiere screening Metro president Kyle Armstrong, who has a tiny cameo in the film, will introduce. He was working on Maddin's Spiritisms/Hauntings project, which was being shot simultaneously in the same location. Metro will follow the Keyhole premiere with three of Armstrong's 29 "residual hauntings," shot and edited on the Hauntings set. So get out there—and get haunted! Josef Braun
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The Deep Blue Sea Opens Friday Directed by Terence Davies
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n a coal-smeary London still recovering from the Blitz, in rooms of hanging smoke in which despair nestled in the wallpaper, in the backseats of cars and back corners of bars, in the lonely hollows of tube stations and the yellow gloom of side streets we find this unnervingly gorgeous, desperate woman struggling to find something to do with the most potent item in her possession: desire. Neither gender has it very easy when it comes to the expression, much less the fulfilment, of real longing in postwar England, but the women, those meant to be desired rather than to do the desiring, hold a special challenge. This is the milieu of The Deep Blue Sea, Terrence Davies' adaptation of Terence Rattigan's 1952 play. It begins, in a sense, where Davies' adaptation of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth left off: with a woman alone in a room with suicide. This, what we used to call a woman's picture, is a story of transgression as recklessly valiant as it is inevitably destructive: Hester (a particularly brilliant, courageous, sexy Rachel Weisz) is married to William (Simon Russell Beale), a judge, portly, much older than she, a mama's boy, and very tender-loving in a way that has noth-
ing to do with passion. Hester leaves William for Freddie (Tom Hiddleston), a lanky former RAF pilot who happens to be a war hero, a would-be bon vivant in silly ascots, a guy who lets a woman know when she gets his engine running, and a cad, neglectful, and not much more sensitive to the scope of Hester's needs than William. So, if you'll forgive the blunt language, this is about a woman trying to choose between a man who forgets her birthday and a man who forgets to fuck her. And it's just about perfectly realized by Davies and his collaborators, at once raw and elegant, generous and merciless: people have their reasons, and Davies finds reasons to sympathize with everyone. 1950s England is also the milieu where Davies seems most at home, the milieu of his childhood, the one that allows him to stage people singing the good old songs in pubs (the director's favourite on-screen activity). Shot by Florian Hoffmeister, the film glows with mostly muted colours under flickering penumbra—for the first 20 minutes I wondered if the projector's lamp was burning out—and the elegiac strains of a Samuel Barber violin concerto. The décors, the details in behaviour—the lick of a shoulder, or the bowed head that accompanies the giving of an achingly ill-chosen gift—are all so much of a piece. But I think what I admire most
about The Deep Blue Sea is its delicate balance of the subtle and the explicit. Hester's curtains are freighted with symbolism, and characters speak aloud phrases like "Beware of passion." Yet in the hands of these fine actors even the most on-the-nose dialogue brims with subtext. At its best, Davies' work exudes an intuitive understanding of the richness of melodrama, that potentially sublime interplay between surface and depth. Even in the film's seemingly straightforward bookend device we can trace an over-arcing lyricism: the camera pulls back from Hester's window, glides down the face of her rooming house, then down the street, then toward this rubble where there was once a building, and I couldn't help but notice: that bomb just missed her. Josef Braun // josef@vueweekly.com
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REVUE // A SINNER IN ALL OF US
Lola
Sat, May 19 – Mon, May 21 Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder Metro Cinema at the Garneau Originally released: 1981
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ola is set in 1950s Coburg, in a Germany still reeling, reconstructing and recovering from the horror and disorder of National Socialism and the Second World War. Yet the nominally secret nightclub-brothel where many of Lola's key scenes unfold brims with the vestiges of an earlier, more decadent era. Womb-like, awash in red, with songs from the heyday of the cabaret being played by the in-house band, the club is the epicenter of the corruption that's infected every aspect of life in Coburg. The club also serves as the stage upon which Lola's fascinating, fraught drama of love, lust and politics plays out most flamboyantly. Von Bohm (Armin Mueller-Stahl), Coburg's new building commissioner, is an idealist, a man of business ethics and conservative morals, but he falls for Lola (Barbara Sokowa), not knowing that she's one of the club's main attractions. When one night Von Bohm belatedly discovers the club he witnesses Lola at work and is thereafter prompted to dismantle the city's apparatus of corruption. Yet by Lola's end, love (or lust) conquers the same righteousness in Von Bohm that it had earlier inflamed.
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"There's a little sinner in all of us," says Schuckert (Mario Adorf), the construction entrepreneur and devil whispering in Von Bohm's ear. The second film in the late, great, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's BRD trilogy, Lola incorporates several elements of the writer/director's dizzying oeuvre: the bravura deployment of the motifs of melodrama for the purposes of social critique; prostitution as an analogue for other forms of exchange and exploitation in capitalist society (Von Bohm ultimately sets out to buy Lola, though the sad irony is that he's the one man she'd give herself to); the bold esthetic that merges high style with thematic heft: by bathing nearly every scene in reds, greens
and yellows Fassbinder offers a inspired spin on Technicolor garishness. As Christian Braad Thomsen has said of Lola's striking palette: "Fassbinder makes the whole world look like a whore house." Lola was originally conceived as a remake of The Blue Angel (1930), but that unforgettable scene in which Lola goes wild, singing, strip-teasing and hair-flinging all over the club, reminds me of nothing so much as Rita Hayworth's similarly audacious song and dance in Gilda (1946), a film also named for its much desired yet essentially enslaved central female character. The pair would make a hell of a double feature. Josef Braun
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REVUE // LYNCH
Mulholland Drive action), conjures up an eerie dreamscape in the City of Projected Dreams. As morning—or mourning, for Betty (Naomi Watts)—comes, we want to decipher the meaning of this strange, meandering reverie. But it's not as simple as ABCD (Adam, Betty, Camilla and Diane).
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Tue, May 22 (9 pm) Directed by David Lynch Metro Cinema at The Garneau Originally released: 2001 "It's been a very strange day." "And getting stranger." — Mulholland Drive
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trip through Hollywood. We witness a collision of genres— nightmarish thriller, peppy ingénue picture, comic noir—as we drift deeper into the LA night, along the synapses of one woman's fracturing thoughts, boulevards of dreamswithin-dreams with switchbacks and blind alleys (there's even a possibly imagined character named Rhodes). The film's eerie pull comes from its pitch-perfect arrangement of Angelo Badalamenti's soundtrack, Mary Sweeney's sharp editing, and its echoing images and unsettling close-ups. (And how can shrubs along pathways seem so sinister?) All that, pulsing with allusions to performance (people are often most affecting when they're acting; film sets and a theatre space, "Club Silencio," frame much of the
Red—the colour of desire and bloody vengeance—spreads throughout. Duplicities and dualities recur (one woman's both angelic and homicidal while another's a bewildered victim and a betraying femme fatale). One woman can't remember and the other can't forget. And Lynch offers up two rather foolish director figures for mocking self-sacrifice. Betty's sense of self is shattered by her jealousy, need, pain and heartbreak. (The sunny Betty's later turns in character were star-making turns for Watts.) But by then, Mulholland Drive, looking out over Hollywood, has led us into our own strange need to untangle the spools of film and dream, fiction and truth, protective fantasy and traumatic reality. Lynch uses the twinkling lights and dazzling stars of superficial LA to warp us into a deeper, stranger surreality. Brian Gibson
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BATTLESHIP (14A violence, not recommended for young children) Dolby Stereo Digital, FRI-WED 12:35, 3:55, 6:55, 10:05; THU 12:50, 3:55, 6:55, 10:10 THE AVENGERS (PG violence, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI-WED 1:15, 4:30, 7:45; THU 12:35, 3:50, 9:40; 3D: Dolby Stereo Digital, , Closed Captioned, 2 Screens DAILY 12:15, 12:45, 3:30, 4:00, 6:45, 7:15, 10:00, 10:30 THE DICTATOR (14A crude content, language may offend, not recommended for children) Closed Captioned, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI-TUE 1:30, 4:10, 7:05, 9:50; WED 1:30, 4:10, 7:20, 9:50; THU 1:10, 3:35, 7:25, 10:25 WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOURE EXPECTING (PG language may offend) Dolby Stereo Digital, Closed Captioned FRI-WED 12:25, 3:50, 6:30, 9:30; THU 12:25, 3:40, 6:30, 9:30 THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS (G) Closed Captioned, Digital Presentation FRI-WED 1:10 FIVE YEAR ENGAGEMENT (14A coarse language, sexual content) Closed Captioned, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI-TUE 4:20, 7:20, 10:20; WED 4:20, 10:20; THU 1:00, 4:15, 7:10 EDWIN BOYD (14A) DTS Digital, Closed Captioned FRIWED 12:50, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40; THU 1:15, 4:30, 7:45, 10:20 DARK SHADOWS (14A) Closed Captioned, DTS Digital, FRI-WED 1:00, 4:15, 7:30, 10:15; THU 1:25, 4:10, 9:50 CHERNOBYL DIARIES (14A gory scenes, frightening scenes) Closed Captioned DTS Stereo THU 10:15
CLAREVIEW 10 4211-139 Ave 780.472.7600
9:15; SAT-MON 12:20, 12:50, 3:25, 4:00, 7:10, 9:15; TUE-THU 4:30, 7:10, 7:35
not recommended for children) Digital FRI, WED-THU 7:20, 9:50; SAT-TUE 12:50, 3:10, 7:20, 9:50
DARK SHADOWS (14A) Digital Presentation FRI 6:50, 8:20, 9:40; SAT-SUN 12:50, 1:20, 3:45, 4:10, 6:50, 8:20, 9:40; MON 12:50, 1:20, 3:45, 4:10, 6:50, 8:20, 9:40; TUE-THU 4:45, 5:20, 7:35, 8:05
WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOURE EXPECTING (PG language may offend) Digital FRI, WED-THU 6:50, 9:20; SAT-TUE 1:00, 3:30, 6:50, 9:20
THE DICTATOR (14A crude content, language may offend, not recommended for children) Digital Presentation FRI 7:20, 9:30; SAT-MON 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 9:30; TUE-THU 5:30, 8:10 WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOURE EXPECTING (PG language may offend) Digital Presentation FRI 6:45, 9:20; SAT-MON 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:20; TUE-THU 5:10, 7:50 BATTLESHIP (14A violence, not recommended for young children) Digital Presentation, FRI 6:40, 8:00, 9:35; SATMON 12:40, 1:10, 3:40, 4:15, 6:40, 8:00, 9:35; TUE-THU 4:35, 5:00, 7:30, 8:00
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THE AVENGERS (PG violence, not recommended for young children) FRI, SUN-MON 12:30, 3:40, 7:00, 10:20; SAT 12:20, 3:40, 7:00, 10:20; TUE-THU 6:30, 9:40; FRI-SUN 12:50, 1:20, 4:10, 4:40, 7:30, 8:00, 10:50; MON 12:50, 1:20, 4:10, 4:40, 7:25, 8:00, 10:40; TUE-THU 7:00, 7:40, 10:15 BATTLESHIP (14A violence, not recommended for young children) FRI-MON 1:10, 4:15, 7:20, 10:25; TUE-THU 7:10, 10:10 THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS (G) FRI-MON 12:30; 3D: FRI-MON 2:50, 5:10, 7:35, 10:00; TUE-THU 7:15, 9:30 THE DICTATOR (14A crude content, language may offend, not recommended for children) FRI, SUN-MON 1:15, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30; SAT 11:10, 1:15, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30; TUE-THU 7:50, 10:00 HUNGER GAMES (14A violence) FRI-MON 12:40, 6:50; TUE-THU 6:40 DARK SHADOWS (14A) FRI, SUN-MON 2:05, 4:55, 7:45, 10:40; SAT 11:15, 2:05, 4:55, 7:45, 10:40; TUE-THU 7:30, 10:15 WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOURE EXPECTING (PG language may offend) FRI, SUN-MON 2:20, 5:05, 7:50, 10:35; SAT 11:35, 2:20, 5:05, 7:50, 10:35; TUE-THU 7:20, 10:05
10337-82 Ave 780.433.0728
FIVE YEAR ENGAGEMENT (14A coarse language, sexual content) Closed Captioned FRI-TUE, THU 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:40; WED 12:40, 4:00, 10:40 THE LUCKY ONE (PG sexual content) Closed Captioned FRI-
THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (PG coarse language) FRI 6:50, 9:10; SAT-MON 2:00, 6:50, 9:10; TUE-THU 6:50, 9:10
10:20; THU 12:10, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40
DEEP BLUE SEA (PG coarse language, mature subject matter) FRI 7:00, 9:00; SAT-MON 2:30, 7:00, 9:00; TUE-THU 7:00, 9:00
MEN IN BLACK 3: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG violence) THU 12:01
SCOTIABANK THEATRE WEM WEM 8882-170 St 780.444.2400
THE AVENGERS (PG violence, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned FRI-TUE 1:30, 5:30, 9:00; WED 5:30, 9:00; THU 1:30, 5:30, 10:15; Star & Strollers Screening: WED 1:00; 3D: FRI-MON 11:45, 3:10, 6:30, 9:45; TUE-THU 12:00, 3:10, 6:30, 9:45; 3D, Ultraavx: FRI-MON 12:45, 4:10, 7:30, 10:45; TUETHU 1:00, 4:10, 7:30, 10:45 BATTLESHIP (14A violence, not recommended for young children) FRI-MON 12:50, 1:50, 3:50, 4:50, 7:00, 8:00, 10:10, 11:00; TUE-THU 12:45, 1:30, 3:45, 4:30, 7:00, 7:45, 10:10, 10:40 THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS (G) DAILY 12:15; 3D: FRI-TUE, THU 2:30, 4:45, 7:10; WED 2:30 21 JUMP STREET (14A crude coarse language, substance abuse, violence) Closed Captioned DAILY 9:40 THE DICTATOR (14A crude content, language may offend, not recommended for children) Closed Captioned, FRI-MON 11:50, 2:10, 4:20, 6:40, 8:50, 11:00; TUE-THU 1:10, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:15 HUNGER GAMES (14A violence) Closed Captioned FRI, SUNMON 1:00, 4:15, 7:20, 10:30; SAT 4:15, 7:20, 10:30; TUE-WED 12:50, 4:15, 7:20, 10:30; THU 12:00, 3:15, 10:30 DARK SHADOWS (14A) Closed Captioned DAILY 12:30, 3:30, 6:50, 10:00
SAT, MON-WED 12:10, 2:50, 5:15, 7:50, 10:20; SUN 11:30, 2:15,
WWE OVER THE LIMIT–2012 (classification not available) SUN 6:00 DARK SHADOWS: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (14A) FRIMON 11:30, 5:00, 7:30; TUE-WED 5:00, 7:30; THU 4:00, 6:30
GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG: MET OPERA RING CYCLE ENCORE (classification not available) SAT 10:00 THE AVENGERS: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG violence, not recommended for young children) FRI-WED 2:00, 10:15; THU 1:00, 9:00 CHERNOBYL DIARIES (14A gory scenes, frightening scenes) THU 10:00 YELLOW SUBMARINE (STC) THU 7:00 BARRYMORE (PG language may offend, coarse language, not recommended for young children) WED 7:00
WETASKIWIN CINEMAS
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DARK SHADOWS (14A) DAILY 7:05, 9:35; FRI-MON 1:05, 3:35 THE AVENGERS 3D (PG violence, not recommended for young children) DAILY 6:50, 9:40; FRI-MON 12:50, 3:40 BATTLESHIP (14A violence, not recommended for young children) DAILY 6:55, 9:45; FRI-MON 12:55, 3:45 THE DICTATOR (14A crude content, language may offend, not recommended for children) DAILY 7:10, 9:25; FRI-MON 1:10, 3:25
FIVE YEAR ENGAGEMENT (14A coarse language, sexual content) FRI-MON 3:50, 10:10; TUE-THU 9:45 THE LUCKY ONE (PG sexual content) FRI, SUN-MON 2:30, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15; SAT 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15; TUE-THU 7:25, 9:55 JONAH: A VEGGIETALES MOVIE (G) SAT 11:00
GRANDIN THEATRE–ST ALBERT Grandin Mall Sir Winston Churchill Ave St Albert 780.458.9822
THE DICTATOR (14A crude content, language may offend, not recommended for children) DAILY 1:45, 3:45, 5:45, 7:30, 9:20 DARK SHADOWS (14A) DAILY 12:45, 2:55, 5:05, 7:15, 9:30 MIRROR MIRROR (G) DAILY 2:50 THE LUCKY ONE (PG sexual content) DAILY 8:45 THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS 3D (G) DAILY 1:05, 4:55, 6:50 BATTLESHIP (14A violence, not recommended for young children) DAILY 1:30, 4:05, 6:45, 9:15 THE AVENGERS (PG violence, not recommended for young children) DAILY 12:55, 3:40 , 6:25, 9:05
LEDUC CINEMAS 4702-50 St Leduc 780.986-2728
DARK SHADOWS (14A) DAILY 7:05, 9:40; FRI-MON 1:05, 3:40 THE AVENGERS 3D (PG violence, not recommended for young children) DAILY 6:50, 9:35; FRI-MON 12:50, 2D 3:35 BATTLESHIP (14A violence, not recommended for young children) DAILY 7:00, 9:45; SAT-MON 1:00, 3:45 FIVE YEAR ENGAGEMENT (14A coarse language, sexual content) FRI-MON 6:55, 9:30 CHIMPANZEE 2D (G) FRI-MON 1:10, 3:30
METRO CINEMA AT THE GARNEAU Metro at the Garneau: 8712-109 St 780.425.9212
KEYHOLE (14A nudity) FRI, SUN, TUE 7:00; SAT 4:15, 9:15; MON 2:00 , 9:00; WED 9:30 A LITTLE BIT ZOMBIE (14A gory scenes, coarse language, crude content) FRI 9:30 LOLA (14A coarse language) Sub-titled SAT 2:00, 7:00; SUN 9:00; MON 4:00 THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (STC) SAT midnight THE QUEEN (PG) SUN 1:30pm. PINA (G) SUN 4:00; MON 7:00 MUHOLLAND DRIVE (STC) Cult Cinema: TUE 9:00 FAVA FILM AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE (14A) WED 7:00 DRAGON AGE: DAWN OF THE SEEKER (STC) THU 7:00 LEGEND (STC) Turkey Shoot Comedy: THU 9:30
EMPIRE THEATRES–SPRUCE GROVE 130 Century Crossing Spruce Grove 780.962.2332
DARK SHADOWS (14A) Digital FRI, WED-THU 6:40, 9:30; SAT-TUE 12:10, 3:00, 6:40, 9:30 FIVE YEAR ENGAGEMENT (14A coarse language, sexual content) Digital FRI-WED 6:45, 9:40; THU 6:45 THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS (G) Digital SAT-TUE 1:10, 3:40 THE AVENGERS 3D (PG violence, not recommended for young children) Reald 3d FRI, WED-THU 6:30, 7:00, 9:45, 10:15; SAT-TUE 12:30, 3:15, 3:45, 6:30, 7:00, 9:45, 10:15 CHERNOBYL DIARIES (14A gory scenes, frightening scenes) Digital THU 10:00
HUNGER GAMES (14A violence) Digital Presentation FRI 6:30; SAT-MON 12:30, 3:30, 6:30; TUE-THU 4:40
THE AVENGERS (PG violence, not recommended for young children) Digital SAT-TUE 12:00
FIVE YEAR ENGAGEMENT (14A coarse language, sexual content) Digital Presentation FRI-MON 9:35; TUE-THU 7:45
BATTLESHIP (14A violence, not recommended for young children) Digital FRI, WED 7:10, 10:00; SAT-TUE 12:40, 4:00, 7:10, 10:00; THU 7:10, 10:10
THE AVENGERS (PG violence, not recommended for young children) Digital Presentation FRI 8:10; SAT-MON 1:15, 4:30, 8:10; TUE-THU 4:50, 7:55; 3D: Digital 3d FRI 7:10,
PRINCESS
WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOURE EXPECTING (PG language may offend) Closed Captioned FRI-MON 12:00, 2:40, 5:20, 8:10, 10:50; TUE, THU 12:00, 2:40, 5:20, 8:10, 10:45; WED 5:20, 8:10, 10:45; Star & Strollers Screening WED 1:00
THE DICTATOR (14A crude content, language may offend,
VUEWEEKLY MAY 17 – MAY 23, 2012
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ARTS
REVUE // AERIAL MONOLOGUE
Sic in-transit gloria
Operations EVAsion heightens its intriguing-but-dense subject matter Until Sat, May 20 (8 pm) Operation EVAsion Directed by John Ullyatt Catalyst Theatre, $20
T
he opening moments of Operation EVAsion see Annie Dugan walking out onto the stage unlit, her silhouette pulling itself into the air on a pair of white silks set in the centre. She'll be suspended there, enshrined in a spidery metal rig for the show's entire hour-long duration, twisting and posing in a striking, extended visual metaphor of EVAsion's subject matter, Eva Péron. Argentina's spiritual leader in life, her post-mortem fate was that of a corpse stuck in transit for 24 years, unable to find a final resting place as governments fretted about what to do with the body of the country's most beloved figure. Péron's after-death tale is an utterly bizarre footnote in history, a labyrinth of twists and turns and believe-it-or-not moments: three perfectly identical decoy bodies are made, but the one who thinks he has the proper body are incorrect;
the corpse spends time in an office, in a box marked 'Radio Supplies'; men continue to obsess over her, perhaps even more in death than in life; and her influence only increases in Argentina with her body's absence until two different spins on Péroncsm become rallying cries of rebel forces, though on opposite ends of the political spectrum. It's honestly a lot to sift through, but Dugan and director John Ullyatt structure Peron's tale with clarity. It's a lot to compress into an hour, but Dugan breaks it down, accompanied only by Jason Kodie on live accordion scoring (his additions give plenty of flavour to the proceedings, though admittedly the sound feels a bit small in the massive black box that is the Catalyst) and a number of projections—onto a large screen behind her or, even better, onto the silks as Dugan expertly manipulates them into clever frames. Still, there's one particular drawback to telling the tale through the one-woman-in-the-air execution;
having Dugan as both storyteller and performer of an extended silks routine seems to diminishes the range of both that's available to her. Dugan's a decent monologist, but a gifted aerialist (the confidence in which she twists herself in and out of holds and positions is nothing short of impressive), and having to do double duty seems to limit the latter, in particular, from the heights it could reach. Operation EVAsion's finest moment comes in a wordless, extended musical sequence: while shots of the moon are projected behind Dugan— that's where one of Peron's madder obsessives thought her body ended up—Kodie rises from his half-lit station and circles the set as she wordlessly performs feats of aerial mastery. It's here that Operation EVAsion reallyinjects a thrill into the proceedings, breaking through in the rigour of its dense tale. Péron's story alone is fascinating, but amping up its presentation would make each twist and turn carry greater impact. Paul Blinov
// paul@vueweekly.com
A body without a home: Dugan in Operation: EVAsion
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PREVUE // THEATRE
Medea Thu, May 17 – Sun, May 26 (7:30 pm) Directed by Donna Marie Baratta Timms Centre for the Arts, $10 – $20
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n an era of voracious media consumption where the vast majority of blockbuster films don't hold up in a second viewing, it's nice to be reminded that some stories can still speak to an audience after 2500 years. Larry Fineberg's take on Euripides' Medea will be the MFA thesis project for director Donna Marie Baratta, and will bring Studio Theatre's 2011/2012 season to a close. Though Medea is an enduring story, Baratta hasn't forgotten that a good adaptation needs some twists and risks. So, she's chosen a version that has no chorus, and is adding in a fractured representation of Medea's tur-
The 2500-year-old tale of Medea // Ed Ellis
moil: five other women will play the roles of Medea's inner struggle. "When you are that broken, you lose a sense of self," begins Baratta. "I want to show that from the moment Jason leaves her, she's divided. And, while the five divisions protect her, and convey different emotions, I've been
careful to keep her as a woman who ultimately stands alone." Directing Medea has been on Baratta's bucket list for years. Though the piece has shocked audiences for millennia thanks to Medea's horrifically creative definition of revenge, Baratta
hopes that her audience will also see that Euripides' complex character is worthy of some sympathy. "I always find myself needing a challenge, and this definitely is," says Baratta. "Medea is alone and yet she finds an amazing amount of power. This play shows the love between
ARTIFACTS The Crystal Ball: Raising the Roof / Sat, May 19 (7:30 pm) Varscona Theatre Alliance's fifth annual Crystal Ball fundraising gala will have familiar goodies such as silent and live auctions, music and theatrical entertainment and, of course, delish bites provided by some of Strathcona's favourite eateries. In addition, gala goers will also be privy to details of the upcoming renovation plans for the theatre. Varscona luminaries Jeff Haslam and Davina Stewart will be the evening's hosts, with a special guest appearance from Mayor Stephen Mandel. (Varscona Theatre, $85)
Jason and Medea while doing justice to the grief that tears them both apart and leaves them broken. I think months after this I'll still be wondering if she had to go that far." Above all, though, Baratta is thrilled about the team she's put together for the finale of her degree, and credits their talents as a large part of the production. "This has really become a dream project," Baratta excitedly explains. "It's been the most joyous I've had here. My cast and production team are phenomenal and incredibly gifted. All the images I saw, and wanted, they made happen. I want the audience to leave mesmerized by the world we've created on stage." SALIHA CHATTOO
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a celebration times two: The sixth annual event also marks SNAP's 30th anniversary—Ole! Shake off your winter coma, Mexican style, with The Urban Monks and load up on ropas and household wares created by Edmonton artists and designers. (SNAP, $15 members, $20 non-members)
SNAP annual Love those Clothes Fundraiser / Sat, May 19 (8 pm) This year's SNAP fundraiser will be
The Rocky Horror Picture Show / Sat, May 19 (midnight) Will this picture ever get old? Not likely. Metro Cinema at the Garneau Theatre will once again be screening the midnight cult favorite, so bring your best one-liners and get decked out in your favourite RHPS garb. (Metro Cinema, $13.75)
Freedom Personalized Weight Management Book Tour / Fri, May 18 – Sat, May 25 Author of Freedom—Personalized Weight Management, Larry R Lumley, will be visiting various bookstores in Edmonton promoting his book and raising funds for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. During his book tour Lumley will donate $5 from the sale of each book to the CBCF. Visitfreedomweightmanagment.com for times and locations. V
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VUEWEEKLY MAY 17 – MAY 23, 2012
PREVUE // GROWING PAINS
Dog Sees God Thu, May 17 – Sun, May 27 (8 pm) Directed by Jenna Greig TransAlta Arts Barns, $18.75 – $21.75
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ex, drugs, the struggle with selfidentity and a rabid Snoopy may not sound like the Peanuts characters generations have come to know and love, but this unauthorized parody of the Charles Schulz comic, presented by Rabid Marmot Productions, tells the compelling and amusing story of how they're handling the angstridden teen years. CB (Charlie Brown), is questioning the afterlife when he has to put down his beloved dog. His friend Van (Linus) has become a stoner and is little help, while his sister Sally is having an identity crisis. His girlfriend Lucy has been institutionalized and his other friends are in various states of self-destruction, as in the case of Matt (Pig-Pen), who has internalized his uncleanliness and become a pathological germophobe. Parents and adults continue to be nothing more than a monotone sound effect and leave the gang without stable role models to keep them from making terrible life decisions. Director Jenna Greig, who splits her time as a child and youth worker, says the story reflects a number of issues youth face today.
The Peanuts gang, all grown up
"I see a lot of the kids I work with in this show. It's kind of the dark under belly that a lot of people don't see," she says, adding that while the show deals with mature themes, it also possess a great deal of humour. "They assume kids these days have it easy; they have computers and iPhones and life is simple. I see
BRENDAN McGILLICUDDY Anthropocene May 18-July 1, 2012 The RBC New Works Gallery features new artworks by Alberta artists. Initiated in 1998 and named the RBC New Works Gallery in 2008, this gallery space continues the Art Gallery of Alberta’s tradition of supporting Alberta artists.
kids everyday that come in addicted and homeless and have all sorts of troubles that kids aren't supposed to have, and that's the troubles these kids have in the show." Greig also notes that youth today are facing adult problems, which is where the misconception of their resiliency has stemmed from. In real-
ity, they still need a strong adult in their lives to set them on the right path and avoid the detrimental consequences seen in the play. Zachary Parsons-Lozinski plays Beethoven (Schroeder), and says it's extremely unfortunate to see how distrusting some youth have be-
MEAGHAN BAXTER
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Conversation with the Artist May 17, 6 pm Art Gallery of Alberta Free with Gallery admission Media Sponsors
Brendan McGillicuddy, Anthropocene, 2012. Image courtesy of the artist
come because of the relationships around them, which is the case with Beethoven. It's alluded to in Dog Sees God that he was sexually abused by his father, leading him to find comfort in his music. Beethoven doesn't fit in, and his peers believe he's gay, which leads to bullying and further hesitation to open up to people. Parsons-Lozinski notes that teenagers don't think of themselves that way and are in a constant rush to grow up and figure out who they are, which is reflected in the dysfunctional Peanuts crew. The play isn't meant for younger audiences, but Parsons-Lozinski believes it's an important piece of theatre for youth to take in if their parents feel they are mature enough to see it. "I think it's incredibly poignant, especially today with the whole 'It gets better' movement, all the recent gay suicides, even the gay marriages. We're living in a really interesting time right now where I think, in North America, we're rapidly more accepting than ever, but at the same time, there is more focus on how much bigotry there still is," he notes. "We talk about bullying as being a teen issue a lot of the time, but bullying really transcends."
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DANCE
Yatran Ukrainian Dancers • Festival
Place, Sherwood Park • May 26, 2pm
FILM Downtown Docs • Stanley A. Milner Library, 780.944.5383 • Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey; May 17, 6:30pm
Fava • Metro Cinema, 8712-109 St • Awards of Excellence Film Screening • May 23, 7pm • Admission by donation From Books to Film series • Stanley A.
Milner Library, Main Fl, Audio Visual Rm, 780.944.5383 • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows-Part 1 (146 mins 2010, PG); May 18, 2pm
GALLERIES + MUSEUMS Agnes Bugera Gallery • 12310 Jasper Ave, 780.482.2854 • Walking and Painting in the Back Country: Jerry Heine; until May 25 • Scott Pattinson; May 26-Jun 8; opening: May 26, 2-4pm, artists in attendance ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY
• 10186-106 St, 780.488.6611 • Discovery Gallery: Confluence: Robin DuPont's exploration of soda fired pottery; until Jun 16 • Feature Gallery: PULP PAPER PAGES: Contemporary Albertan book + paper arts; until Jul 7
Alberta Society of Artists Gallery • Walterdale Playhouse, 10322-83 Ave,
780.426.0072 • A Balance of Order and Chaos: Paper works by Erik Cheung • Until May 19 • Open: May 19, 10am-3pm
HAPPY HARBOR COMICS v1 • 10729-104 Ave • Comics Artist-in-Residence program is proud to extend Paul Lavellee’s term. Visit him every Friday (12-6) and Sat (12-5); until Aug 18 • COMIC JAM: Improv comic art making every 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7pm • Open Door: collective of independent comic creators meet the 2nd & 4th Thu each month, 7pm • Live animal drawing: Daniel Schneider and his horse, Marty; $5 (door), a Food Bank Donation to come and see the horse; May 19, noon Harcourt House • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St, 780.426.4180 • Main Space: SOUNDBURSTINGS NO.1: Gary James Joynes installation of video projections • Becoming: Group show, artworks based on a model's pregnancy; until May 26 Jeff Allen Art Gallery • Strathcona Place
Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 780.433.5807 • Wimmin in Wax: Encaustic artworks by various artists • Until May 30
Jubilee Auditorium • 11455-87 Ave • Love
Lies Bleeding–The Exhibition: Artworks by Alberta Society of Artists members based on or inspired by music and lyrics of Elton John • Until Jun 15
Latitude 53 • 10248-106 St, 780.423.5353 • Main
Space: Mouth and Duet: Installation, performance by Andrew Forster; May 18-Jun 23; opening: May 18, 7pm • ProjEx Room/Main Space: Messages to: The Edmonton remand centre newspaper: Photos by Lindsey Bond, May 25-Jun 23, opening: May 26, 5pm, Public forum: May 26, 2pm (outdoors, Edmonton Remand Centre courtyard, 9660-104 Ave) • Main Space: Works by Montreal artist Andrew Forster • May 25-Jun 23
LOUNGE GALLERY • Edmonton Japanese
Community Association, Argyll Community League, 6750-88 St • Artworks by Edmonton Art Club Members • May 26-27; Sat 10am-6pm; Sun 12-4:30pm • Reception: May 25, 6-9pm
McMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital,
8440-112 St, 780.407.7152 • 25: Artworks by U of A Hospital staff in celebration of the Friends of University Hospital's 25th Anniversary; until Jun 17
Michif Cultural and Métis Resource Institute • 9 Mission Ave, St Albert,
Art Beat Gallery • 26 St Anne St, St Albert,
780.651.8176 • Aboriginal Veterans Display • Gift Shop • Finger weaving and sash display by Celina Loyer • Ongoing
Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.422.6223 • ALEX JANVIER: Life's Work: May 18-Aug 19 • RBC New Works: Anthropocene, 2012: Installation by Brendan McGillicuddy; May 18-Jul 1; Conversation with the Artist: May 17, 6pm • Icons of Modernism: until May 21 • BMO Work of Creativity: Method and Madness: Familyfocused interactive exhibition created by Gabe Wong; until Dec 31 • RBC New Works Gallery: MASS: Dara Humniski: until May 20 • VENERATOR: Contemporary Art from the AGA Collection; until May 20 • Art School: Banff 1947: until Jun 3 • Alberta Mistresses of the Modern: 1935-1975 • Art School: Banff 1947: Until Jun 3 • Alberta Process Painting: until Jun 3 • Open Studio: Adult Drop-In: Blend: Pastel Portraiture: May 17, 7-9pm; $15/$12 (AGA member); $15/$12 AGA members • All Day Sunday: Art activities for all ages 3rd Sun each month, 12-4pm; free with admission • Tone: Still Life Drawing Collage: May 24 • Art for Lunch: Ledcor Theatre Foyer: Alex Janvier: May 17, 12:10-12:50pm
Mildwood Gallery • 426, 6655-178 St • Mel Heath, Joan Healey, Fran Heath, Larraine Oberg, Terry Kehoe, Darlene Adams, Sandy Cross and Victoria, Pottery by Naboro Kubo and Victor Harrison • Ongoing
780.459.3679 • Picasso and Pinot Noir: 3rd Thu each month; $50, pre-register
Art Gallery Of St Albert (AGSA) • 19
Perron St, St Albert, 780.460.4310 • High Energy XVIII: Artworks by young artists from Bellerose Composite, École Secondaire Paul Kane and Sainte Marguerite d’Youville, St. Albert Catholic, and Outreach high schools; until May 28
Common Sense • 10546-115 St, 780.482.2685 •
Back Alleys and Side Streets–Finding Beauty in the Overlooked Urban Environment: Photographs by Russell Bingham • Until May 19
Creations Gallery Space • Sawridge Inn Lobby, 4235 Gateway Blvd • A Warriors Cry: Artworks by Veran Pardeahtan • Until Jun Crooked Pot Gallery–Stony Plain
• 4912-51 Ave, Stony Plain, 780.963.9573 • Annual Spring Garden Show: pottery for the garden by Marion Majeau, Robert Ford, and friends; until May 31
Daffodil Gallery • 10412-124 St,
780.760.1278 • Without Pretense: Paintings by Heidi Smith • Until May 25
Douglas UDell • 10332-124 St, 780.488.4445 • Bronx • Brooklyn • Queens in Edmonton: Artworks by Tim Okamura • Until May 26 Echo Hair • 205, 8135-102 St, 780.469.3246 •
Artworks by Justin Wayne Shaw • Until Jun 1
FAB Gallery • Department of Art and Design,
U of A, Rm 3-98 Fine Arts Bldg, 780.492.2081 • SuperVision! Michael Eubank's exhibition, the final visual presentation for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Painting • Insight: Visualizing Heath Humanities: To broaden our understanding of the emerging field of health humanities through visual, sound and performance explorations • Until Jun 9 • Reception: May 17, 7-10pm
Gallerie Pava • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • Entrelacé: Artworks by Patricia Lortie Sparks • Until May 26 Gallery at Milner • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.944.5383 • Out and About in Alberta: Paintings by Mary Jo Major; until May 31 • Quirky Quillers’ Guild: Gallery at Milner display cases and cubes near the AV Room; until May 31
Kehrig Fine Art • Great West Saddlery Build-
ing, 10137-104 St, 780.619.0818 • Silent Beauty:
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sculptures by Blake Ward, Michel Anthony, paintings by Raphaël Gyllenbjörn, hangings by Anna Torma, other artists • Until Jun 29
Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain, 780.963.9935 • Watercolours by Elaine Funnell; until May 23 • High Art 2012; May 25-Jun 7
Musée Héritage Museum–St Albert • 5 St Anne St, St Albert, 780.459.1528 • St Albert History Gallery: Artifacts dating back 5,000 years
Naess Gallery • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave,
780.432.0240 • No Name Place: Printworks by Taryn Kneteman • Until May 30 • Reception: May 17, 5-7pm
Peter Robertson Gallery • 12304 Jasper
Craft: How did modern ways of making paintings and prints emerge from the ink painter’s studio, enter the public sphere, and help shape people’s lives in China during the late imperial era? • Until Jul 14; Thu-Fri, 12-5pm, Sat 2-5pm
VAAA Gallery • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St,
780.421.1731 • Gallery A: There is no remedy against the truth of language: Assemblages by William G. Prettie • Gallery B: Human Voices: t Photos by Gerry Yaum • Both shows: until May 26
West End Gallery • 12308 Jasper Ave, 780.488.4892 • Sanctuary Series: Artworks by Ariane Dubois; until May 17 • Artworks by Michael Rozenvain; May 26-Jun 7
LITERARY Audreys Books • 10702 Jasper Ave,
780.423.3487 • Readings by Talonbooks poets: Weyman Chan, Colin Browne, and Daniel Zomparelli; May 23, 7pm • Poet Erin Knight reads from Chaser; May 27, 2pm
Greenwoods' Books • 10309-82 Ave, 780.439.2005 • Afternoon with the Authors: Alberta Literary Awards 2012 Nominees reading their books • May 27, 2pm Riverdale • 9917-87 St • Creative Word Jam •
Every 3rd Sun of the month, 6-10pm; E: creative.word. jam@gmail.com
Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St, 780.902.5900 • Poetry every Tue with Edmonton's local poets Strathcona County Library • 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park, 780.410.8600 • Reading by Alissa York, author of Fauna • May 26, 3-4pm • Free • Pre-register T.A.L.E.S.–STRATHCONA • New Strathcona Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park, 780.400.3547 • Monthly Tellaround: 4th Wed each month 7pm • Free The Underdog • Blackdog Basement, 10425 Whyte Ave, 780.429.4500 • Book launch of Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution, presentation Dave Oswald Mitchell; roundtable disussion on the future of creative activism • May 23, 7pm WunderBar on Whyte • 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 • The poets of Nothing, For Now: poetry workshop and jam every Sun • No minors
THEATRE Chat Blanc–Shadows and Light on Erik Satie • Campus Saint-Jean Auditorium,
McMahon Pavillion, 8406-91 St • May 25-27 • $20/$15 at TIX on the Square, Le Carrefour Bookstore, door
CHICAGO • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave • Tickets: 780.483.4051 • Broadway Musical • Until Jun 17 Chimprov • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave •
Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show • First three Sat every month, 11pm, until Jul • $10/$5 (high school student)/$8 (RFT member, door only)
The Coming Out Monologues: Performance and Colloquium •
4-104, Education N, U of A • About coming out as a sexual minority person, followed by speakers Michael Phair and Lisa Goldberg • May 17-18 • $5 (student)/$10 (non-students) at door
Ave, 780.455.7479 • Full Circle: Abstract paintings by Sheila Luck • Out of Place: Photos by William Anderson • Until May 26
DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave, 780.433.3399 • Improvised soap opera every Mon, until May, 7:30pm (subject to change)
Propaganda Hair Salon • 10808-124 St •
Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead • TransAlta Arts Barns,
Pieces of outro: Artworks by Outro • Through May
Royal Alberta Museum • 12845-102 Ave, 780.453.9100 • Faces of Labour: until Jun 24 • Winged Tapestries: Moths at Large: until Sep 3 • Fashioning Feathers: Dead Birds, Millinery Craft and the Plumage Trade; curated by Merle Patchett and Liz Gomez, show examines the effect of fashion's demand for beautiful feathers on bird populations at the beginning of the twentieth century; until Jan 6 Rutherford South Library • U of A Campus • In Focus: Blind Photographers Challenge Visual Expectations: Photos by blind and partially sighted photographers exploring the built environment • Until May 30 Scott Gallery • 10411-124 St, 780.488.3619 • John Snow, Pamela Thurston & More, group show • Until May 29 SNAP Gallery • Society Of Northern Alberta Print-Artists, 10123-121 St, 780.423.1492 • WalKing on Walls: U of A senior Print Show; until May 19 • Gallery Exhibition: Artworks by Arthur Desmarteaux and Allison Moore; May 24-Jun 30; opening: May 24 Strathcona County Gallery@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park, 780.410.8585 • Artworks by Ila Crawford; until Jun 24
Sugar Bowl • 10922-88 Ave • Acrylic on canvas
paintings by Cuban artist Anabel Quan. • Through May
TELUS Centre • U of A Museums, Gallery A, Main Fl, 87 Ave, 111 St, 780.492.5834 • Open: Thu-Fri 12-5pm; Sat 2-5pm • China's Imperial Modern: The Painter's Craft: Curated by Lisa Claypool • Until Jul 14 TELUS World of Science • 11211-142 St • IMAX: To The Arctic (G); Born to be Wild and Rescue • Margaret Zeidler Star Theatre: When Venus Transits the Sun; until Jun 5 • Robots–The Interactive Exhibition: May 26 until Sep 9 • Robots: The Interactive Exhibition: opens May 26 • ROBOTS: The Interactive Exhibition: Opens May 26 • EPS Explosives Disposal Unit Robots Show and Tell: May 26, 10am-2pm U of A Devovnian Botanic Garden • Butterfly Day: May 27, 12-3pm
U of A Museums–TELUS Centre • Gallery A, Main Fl, 87 Ave, 111 St, U of A, 780.492.5834 • China's Imperial Modern: The Painter's
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PCL Studio, 10330-84 Ave • Rabid Marmot Productions • May 17-27 • $20/$17 (student) at door, TIX on the Square
From Cradle to Stage: An Evening of One-Acts • Walterdale Playhouse, 10322-83
Ave, 780.439.2845 • Local playwrights works selected from an open competition and developed with assistance of dramaturges through to full productions • Until May 19 • $12-$16 at TIX on the Square
Hey Ladies! • Roxy, 10708-124 St, other venues, 780.453.2440 • Theatre Network • May 25 IN ON IT • Theatre Network, 10708-124 St,
780.453.2440 • By Daniel MacIvor, directed by Bradley Moss, sound designer Dave Clarke, stars Frank Zotter and Nathan Cuckow • Until May 20 • $13.50-$27
Little Elephants • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave, 780.434.5564 • Shadow Theatre • Domestic comedy by Belinda Cornish • May 23-Jun 10 • $15 (preview); FriSat night: $26/$23 (student/senior); Tue-Thu, Sun mat: $22/$20 (student/senior) MEDEA • Timms Centre, U of A, 112 St, 87 Ave, 780.492.2495 • Studio Theatre • Directed by Donna Marie Baratta (MFA Thesis) • May 17-26 • Tickets at Timms box office, TIX on the Square OH SUSANNA! • Varscona Theatre • 10329-83 Ave, 780.433.3399 • Euro-style variety show with Susanna Patchouli and her co-host Eros • Runs the last Sat each month, until Jul, 11pm (subject to change) Operation EVAsion • Catalyst Theatre, 8529
Gateway Blvd • Firefly Theatre and Circus • Created and performed by Firefly’s Annie Dugan • Until May 20 • $20 at TIX on the Square
Passages! • La Cité francophone, 8627-91 St • May 23-26 • $20 (adult)/$15 (student/senior)/$10 (child under 12) at tixonthesquare.ca
The Sound of Music • Citadel Shoctor Theatre, 9828-101A Ave, 780.428.2117 • Until May 20; extended to May 27 TheatreSports • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • Improv every Fri, until Jul, 11pm (subject to change) • $10/$8 (member) Thoroughly Modern Millie • Festival Place, Sherwood Park • May 22-25
golden fork awards 2012
PRESENTS...
And the rest of the winners are ... In the thrill of last week's Golden Fork Awards, we got a little excited and ended up missing four categories in print. We apologize to the winners, and also to all the readers who missed out on experiencing the best chicken wings, pizza, desserts and sweets that this city has to offer.
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Off to market
City Market Downtown kicks off another season
T
he May long weekend means an extra day off, but it also means the kickoff to the outdoor season of the City Market Downtown on the 104th St promenade. Starting Sat, May 19 and continuing each week until Sat, Oct 6, from 9 am to 3 pm, 104th St will add to its already eclectic lineup of merchants with 150 vendors and local producers taking to the street. Numerous new vendors, including Allium Food Works, Back to Basics, Barbola Foods, The Art of Cake, Sweet Stuff, Yes Peas and Fudgalicious will join the 110 year history of the market, which started near Churchill Square and 97th St before moving to 104th St in 2004 to revive the downtown heritage district. Gabriele Campbell, marketing and event coordinator for the market, credits its continuing success to the variety of products available, allowing customers to experience local flavour with an urban touch. No two vendors are exactly alike, and this year several new festivals will be introduced to accompany the market. Set dates have not been released at this point, but the festivals include a fashion show in June, a talent show in July, a back-toschool event in late August and an art show in October.
The draw of local fare
"We're able to bridge the gap between the producer and the consumer," Campbell adds. "Right now there's a big movement to shop local and also buy directly from producers, so you can see exactly who's created, who's put together and who's grown this product for you." Aside from being able to purchase delicious, high-quality products, the
interaction with producers helps to build a sense of community. Campbell says customers also have enjoyed learning about how vendors operations work and hearing their stories. "They know they're supporting an Albertan, a person who's part of this economy, and that money is staying here," she adds. "The community stays
stronger, the city stays stronger and the province stays stronger." Campbell encourages patrons to not only take in the multitude of vendors on-hand at the market, but to make a day out of it and take some time to check out the merchants along the promenade as well.
maudlin description to the beat of a hand drum, but it's wise to be suspicious of wines that try to sell you on some pseudo-mythical conjuration of the days of yore.
Things to Seek:
Argentinean Malbec & Chilean Merlot—actually, anything from Chile or Argentina The main problem I have with these wines is the exact same reason they make good fallbacks: they are reliable, consistent and there's oceans on the market, so the price is always good.
Screwcaps Long past are the days in which only the cheapest of cheap wines are bottled with a screwcap. There's a good reason why entire countries (New Zealand and Australia) have almost entirely shifted their wine industries towards this closure: it does the best job of keeping wine fresh with minimal complications. Cheaper bottles sealed with corks are problematic for several reasons: the corks are inevitably lower quality and therefore more prone to drying out, causing leaks and oxidation that render the wine spoiled. They may also pose a higher risk for TCA contamination, a harmless but unpleasant chemical. Many producers also use synthetic (plastic) corks for their cheap wines, which are the absolute worst closure: after about a year, these wines just end up tasting lifeless and devoid of fruit.
Blends While there's nothing inherently wrong with single varietal wines, many grape varieties work well (or even better) with partners. Some of the world's best wines are blends of several different grapes: Bordeaux and Bordeaux-style blends, and its New-World equivalent, Meritage; Champagne; Super Tuscans; Amarone. At the cheap wine level, blending different varieties serves to smooth out rough edges that would be much more noticeable in a varietal wine. Just make sure the label lists the specific grapes or region, and never buy something that's just called "red" or "white"—anything could be in there, including wine from a different country. The bottom line? Look for honesty. If it feels like a sales pitch, it is. Choose a bottle that informs, not sells. And, for God's sake, avoid all the cutesy-pie animal labels. V
MEAGHAN BAXTER
// MEAGHAN@vueweekly.com
COMMENT >> WINE
Cheap, but good
How to choose great wine on a budget Price is not an indication of quality. This basic truth of consumerism applies to wine as much as it applies to anything else, but luckily there are some obvious warning signs to watch out for when buying wine at any price range.
self-consciously witty and/or crass names, and vending machine-type junk dangling around bottle necks.
Meaningless words The only items on a wine label that are regulated by law are the country of origin, percentage of alcohol I D Things to Avoid: I by volume, metric quantity, V , I VEN the producer, bottler and/ Gimmicks or importer, government m o kly.c uewee At one point or another warnings on the back lamel@v Mel we all fall victim to marbel, and the region and y Priestle grape variety (if identified). keting and buy something purely because it looks cool, and/ Everything else is filler. Watch or because it comes with a free boout for terms and phrases that seem nus gift. Unfortunately, every time to suggest higher quality but are acI've fallen for a flashy wine label the tually completely unregulated and juice inside was always crap. There's therefore meaningless: "Reserve" and a simple explanation: the company "Private Reserve," "Proprietor Grown," spent its budget getting me to no"Barrel Select" and "Old Vines". tice the label, not making better wine. Watch out for gimmicky labels Back label descriptions that read (there's an obvious difference belike terrible high school poetry tween an interesting, aesthetically You might be tempted to buy the appealing label and one that shamebottle purely so you can (ironically) lessly slaps you in the eyeballs), entertain your guests by reading the
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ROAD TRIPS // ATV
Dusty Paradise
Experiencing the backcountry on an ATV
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about, but we did delight in our rough and tough new look, collectively deciding that we looked like old hands at ATVing now we were suitably dirty.
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iding up mining roads with dust whipping in the air, the roar of an ATV and breathtaking mountain views all around is an exhilarating way to explore the scenic backcountry on offer locally. My All-Terrain Vehicle—or ATV— adventure began on a sunny morning in late August at the Toby Creek Adventures office near Panorama Mountain Village. Just a 20-minute drive from Invermere, this outdoor adventure company offers guided ATVing in the summer and snowmobile tours and rentals during winter. After a quick safety briefing with Tim Hurst, our trip leader (with a seemingly infinite knowledge of the local area), my fellow adventurers and I eagerly leapt onto our ATVs and got to grips with the controls on the practice course set up beside the company's offices. ATVing is an incredibly straightforward method of transport: brake with the left hand and accelerate with a small lever pressed with the right thumb—simple. Once it was determined we were neither a threat
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to ourselves or others, the nine of us set off up the Paradise Mine Road, and started to test the capability of our machines. Mine, a rugged orange beast with chunky tires and a 500cc engine, bounced its way up the dirt road with ease, much to my delight. As many of my fellow riders picked a careful path around some of the larger bumps and dips in the road I powered through them, getting instant enjoyment from splashing through puddles and a tiny creek. Within minutes we had gained a reasonable altitude and were catch-
ing glimpses of Panorama Mountain Village below us to our left-hand side through the trees. A lovely view of the mountain, criss-crossed with ski runs and lifts, greeted us at our first stopping point. While Tim pointed out some parts of the mountain to our overseas visitors, Darija and Miran Momcilovic from Slovenia (who kindly helped out a journalist in need when camera failure occurred), the rest of us talked dust and the ATV's ability to blast it into every nook and cranny. With our full-face helmets, plus pants and long sleeved shirts it was nothing to worry
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Once underway again we hit 30 kilometres per hour as the group's confidence level grew and the dust calmed down. I reined in my impulse to stick the throttle down and see how fast I could go on the way up—but more than made up for it by the time we were coming down. Within an hour and a half of setting off, with two further stops along the way to take in the scenic views, we made it to Paradise Mine, about 18 km from our start point. "The mine opened in 1898 and closed in 1972," Hurst informed us as we dusted ourselves off and removed our helmets. "There was over $30 million in silver pulled out of the mine ... at first they walked up with pack mules and used picks, hammers and chisels." After a cup of tea at the Toby Creek Adventures shed in the heart of the mine, Hurst pointed out the spot where the old town site once stood, and delved deeper into the history of the spot. Between 200 and 300 people origi-
nally lived at the mine, he told us, with the original owner Sir Robert Randolph Bruce going on to become a key figure in Invermere's history as well as building Pynelogs Cultural Centre and becoming the Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia. "We're very lucky to have access to such an amazing historical site," Hurst added as we got ourselves ready for the trip down. "We're one of the only ATV companies, if not the only one, to have access to an alpine basin like we have here. There are not many places in BC where you have this much space to play in." And play we did. Our journey down satisfied my need for speed, with Hurst picking up the pace a little now that we could be trusted not to do any kamikaze leaps over the edge. Exactly three hours after we left, our group rolled up to the offices again with right thumbs a little achy, smothered in dust from head to toe, but beaming from ear to ear. Toby Creek Adventures offers a range of ATV tours from three to five hours long, leaving throughout the day. If you are ATVing on your own, please do so responsibly and respect the fragile backcountry terrain. Kate irwin
// kate@vueweekly.com
Join us for our 50th Anniversary Celebrations taking place June 2012 where activities onsite are in conjunction with the Chainsaw Carving Championship.
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Community Skateboard & Bike Jam at 2pm (contact 250-782-2752)
June 7 - 10, Thursday - Sunday
International Chainsaw Carving Championship, Live Music and Special Events n Little Prairie Heritage Museum tours 12 - 3pm n
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May 26, Artist Reception Featuring Page Ough. Celebrated
annually with her spring show, this leading Canadian artists’ work is full of colour and vitality. Canada House Gallery, 1 – 3 pm.
June 9, Jazz Concert. Don’t miss the finale concert featuring the world premiere of a new piece by Dave Douglas. Also appearing is the amazing vocalist and guitarist Aoife O’Donovan. Tickets $25. Eric Harvie Theatre, 7:30 pm.
June 14 - 17, Banff National Park Bike Fest. Banff National Park will
once again come alive with up to 500 competitive cyclists participating in five challenging road races and two family fun events, over four days. Register today!
June 23, Performance in the Park featuring the Sam Roberts Band. Tickets on sale now! If there is a group that knows how to captivate an audience, it's the 6-time Juno award-winning Sam Roberts Band. Don’t miss this ultimate outdoor concert experience in Banff National Park.
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ROAD TRIPS // PHOTOGRAPHY
Shoot like a pro
Tips for stunning outdoor nature photographs
Keep it real In Ponoka, we believe in
keeping it real
especially when it comes to the important things in life. This summer when you’re on Highway 2, take a few minutes out of your trip and discover how cool visiting an authentic small town can be.
// Jim Dobie
// Joel Koop
Summer 2012 Community Events Farmers Market: 9am – 1pm, Every Wednesday from May 2 – Sept 26 Fort Ostell Museum: Opens May 21 Downhill Soap Box Derby: June 9 Jace Harty Memorial Bull Riding: June 20 Annual Ponoka Stampede: June 26 – July 2 Ponoka Piston Poppers Road Run: July 13 – 15 Heritage Tea (Queen’s Diamond Jubilee): August 4 Vintage Motorcycle Rally: July 20 – 22 Ponoka County Fair and Horse Show: August 11 – 12 Summer Send Off Festival: September 1 – 3
For more events and info, call our tourism office at 403-783-6363 or visit us online at www.ponoka.org
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hotography is not as simple as pointing and clicking. There are a plethora of other factors such as lighting, exposure and composition that need to be considered before pushing the shutter. Let's face it though, not everyone has access to fancy high-end DSLR cameras, mega-telephoto lenses and all the other gear the pros use to capture stunning, magazine-worthy nature photographs. Fear not; even if you're not a pro, you can still get some jaw-drop-worthy results. Capturing great nature photographs can be a challenge, but according to Joel Koop and Jim Dobie, who are both pros in the Edmonton area, one of the most important things for beginners to keep in mind is simply to get out there and shoot. Learning how to take high-quality photographs doesn't happen overnight, and the medium is a continuous learning curve, so get out there and get snapping. "Don't get hung up on the equipment and just go do it. That's the most important thing," says Dobie, who shoots with his "big thumper," a Canon 5D Mark II and his "walking around camera," a Canon G11 point and shoot. Koop, whose work can be seen at the Milner Gallery this month, uses a Canon 5D for the
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majority of his shooting, but says there's no reason people can't get great results with point and shoot varieties as long as they're willing to work within the camera's limitations. There are not a great deal of manual functions on point and shoot cameras, but Koop advises at least learning the basics of exposure compensation to avoid harsh, blown out results. If you have access to a DSLR, don't leave the camera on automatic. Learn how aperture, shutter speed and ISO work together to obtain correct exposure. A solid understanding of these components will allow a photographer to have more control and make it easier to handle tricky lighting situations. Most camera manuals will explain how to operate advanced camera functions, so be sure to give it a read and practice up prior to heading out. As with any genre of photography, effective composition is key. When looking for a great nature photograph, Dobie advises maintaining an awareness of your surroundings and exploring as much as possible. "It's good to have some kind of objective. Have CONTINUED ON PAGE 29 >>
Hard to say what you might see...
But it will be worth the
ADVENTURE!
// Joel Koop
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a goal in mind, but be open to other prospects," he says. "You might trip over something that's totally unexpected." Koop shoots a great deal of close ups in his nature work, and advises keeping an eye out for interesting patterns or lines, if you're looking for a larger scale shot. "If you're doing large, grand landscapes, then I look for lines of trees, lines of mountains ... find interesting ways lines interact," he says. "In most western cultures, your eye goes in from the left side of the frame, so generally you don't want lines leading off the right side of the frame because you'll shoot across and nothing will catch your eye. Generally, you want something that will lead you back around into the frame." The rule of thirds is a tried and true composition technique, and both photographers say it's good to keep in mind, particularly for those just starting out. What this rule refers to is the placement of objects within the frame. For example, if the horizon line is in the upper two-thirds of the frame, then fill the bottom portion with an interesting foreground, and vice versa. Both photographers advise when composing an image, don't be afraid to look for new and interesting perspectives. Get up higher or get down low to create an interesting dynamic to an image away from standard shooting height. Once you've got a shot composed, the other key ingredient of a striking image is lighting. Not understanding how to effectively use natural light is the reason for white skies and other exposure issues faced in outdoor photography. "I think a lot of it is being aware of where the sun is and how that affects your picture, so shooting away from the sun in general, you're
going to get the blue skies and nice foreground. Shooting into the sun, you're going to get a lot more silhouettes," Koop says. Shooting into the sun can also set things up for interesting backlighting and light flares. Koop says this can be a good way to draw attention to a subject, as the eye tends to go to the part of the frame with the highest contrast. Don't discount cloudy days though. Clouds act as a diffuser and create even lighting, as well as effectively create a mood to a photo. "First and foremost, there is no such thing as bad light," Dobie says, adding snowy or rainy conditions can also make for interesting photographs. Time of day also plays a role in how light works in a photograph. Photographers often refer to the "golden hour," or similar names to describe early morning or early evening light. This light is considered ideal, as it has a warmer tone and can creates some stunning effects, like shadows. Above all, don't get frustrated if things don't work out on the first try, advises Dobie, noting that the perfect photo has yet to be taken. "If you're having a problem that's caused you to think that you can't be a photographer or, 'If only I had a better camera or a better lense or another thing,' that's probably not it," he continues, adding that it's helpful to find inspiration online or in magazines. "A camera's capable of a lot, but most people are too. Stop and think about it for a minute." "People shouldn't give up," Koops says, adding he often dislikes his own photos when he first takes them, but goes back a month later and finds good results he didn't initially see. "On a shoot, you'll get a few good pictures and probably a lot of bad ones, and that's OK."
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ROAD TRIPS // BIRDING
Wings of desire
Birding as a practice and a passion
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irds will give you a window, if you allow them," begins a passage from a profound and beautiful collection of naturalist writings by Lyanda Lynn Haupt, on a pursuit that has inspired more than its fair share of profound and beautiful writing: "They will show you secrets from another world, fresh vision that, though avian, can accompany you home and alter your life. They will do this for you, even if you don't know them by name—though such knowing is a thoughtful gesture. They will do this for you if you watch them." This is, in essence, the thesis of her book, Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds, and the touchstone of Haupt's own birdwatching practice. Her unhurried, affectionate approach resonated with me in my early days A Northern Sah-Whet // brendan.lally of birding, a blurry period of trying not only to acquire specific knowledge, but also to apply it, however times couldn't even see the bird my clumsily, to every flapping mass of companion had spotted in the folifeathers I could find. age. I was spectacularly terrible at I recall being horrified at how birdwatching, tormented by what wretched I was at identifying speI thought of as my "slow eye"—my cies; how blind I seemed, oblivious seeming lack of ability to process to details like field marks or general moving visual information quickly body shape. How I felt like I was takenough to make an ID. ing wild stabs at species and famiWeirdly, though, for an activity I lies, rather than diligently puzzling had no innate talent for, I also loved FF12VueAdB+W_Layout 1 12-05-10 11:32 AM Page 1 it out. How—maddeningly—I someit. Birding was an immediately satis-
BIRDING DESTINATIONS Although Edmonton has stellar birding opportunities, many more are just a delightful road trip away. Here are some destinations to consider: panicky Spruce Grouse.
fying pursuit: a pleasant walk anywhere, in any weather, became a combination nature documentary/ treasure hunt. The birds I actually saw were lovely, whether showy, like Northern Flickers in the River Valley, or creatures I'd previously considered indistinguishable, like the many little brownish birds wintering in mixed flocks downtown (revealed as mostly House Sparrows and Pine Siskins). Birding indoors was also fun: hours spent poring over gorgeous field guides, listening to songs and calls, reading books on bird life and questing birders, trying to learn what to look for, where to look, and how to see. Bird behaviour hooked me—the idea of all these little avian dramas taking place, in plain sight, like a cryptic biological soap opera! I was also struck by how much richer and more fine-grained the world seemed, now that instead of looking at a bird and thinking "bird," I thought of a particular bird. It was like semantic magic, as if by enlarging the category with new language, you actually enlarged the real world. Now with more bird! The cant of birding, poetic as it is, also appealed: evocative terms like "migratory restlessness" and "eclipse plumage" danced around my consciousness, trying to join my vocabulary. Teasing out IDs made evolution more vivid, concretizing relationships between species. And the "birdiness" of birds threw light on my own "mammalness," our divergent habits and morphologies made tangible. My surroundings became alive for me in a way that had never really happened before, animated with information. In a lifetime of being a resolutely indoorsy science lover, I'd never considered that an amateur could learn CONTINUED ON PAGE 34 >>
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Fred Johns Park, Leduc Territory: A walk in the park. Literally. A sedate, easy stroll around a pleasant landscaped reservoir with wide, meandering paved walkways and porta-potties. Waterfowl heaven, although ringed by bland suburbia and with big box stores and a highway overpass in close proximity. Look for: Adorably sexually aggressive Ruddy Duck drakes with cartoon blue beaks; aerobatic Purple Martins gobbling up bugs, hooded gulls bobbing on the water.
Beaverhill Lake Area/Amisk Creek Territory: Beaverhill's been losing water for years, although last spring the surrounding parched wetlands were somewhat revived. Buggy and boggy near summer, it's eerily magnificent desolation: spotty cell phone reception, pitted roads and prehistoric-looking dragonflies. Amisk is a conservation project straddling a road just a few miles away, but with an unbelievable density of birdlife. Look for: BH has a rainbow of warblers by day; Short Eared Owls by dusk; Amisk has Pintails, Shovellers, and shorebirds galore, and Northern Harriers swooping and dipping low to the ground in mesmerizing hunting ballets. (beaverhillbirds.com for activities and information.)
John E Poole Wetland at Big Lake Territory: Five minutes from downtown St Albert, Ducks Unlimited built a delightful wooden walkway that presses deep into a squishy wetland. Look for: Sociable iridescent Common Grackles with long fan-like tails and oddball calls, Red-Winged Blackbirds flashing their scarlet epaulets, and coots—a plump grumpy bird that looks like it was made out of discarded parts.
Clifford E Lee Nature Sanctuary Territory: Pick'n'mix landscape, from a shallow lake and wetland to forest to knobby prairie meadow, all blessed with easy trails and few people. Look for: Improbably elegant American Avocets, pudgy and
Ellis Bird Farm Territory: A delightful semi-working farm that has been a sanctuary for many generations of bluebirds. Tired? Watch the feeder over a scone at the teahouse. Look for: Mountain Bluebirds, which look like a loose bit of sky, and smiley Tree Swallows; you feel very cartoon Snow White there. Also hummingbirds in the gorgeous gardens.
Lesser Slave Lake Boreal Centre for Bird Conservation Territory: Otherworldly Northern Alberta landscape; deep cold lake hugged by birch and aspen woods. June 2 – 3 is their 2012 Songbird festival, but The Nest, their thrifty eco-hostel, is open year round. Look for: Diminutive Northern Saw-Whet Owls, which look like fluffy angry fruit when you spot them napping in a pine. Loons haunt the silvery lake while grouse march, presumably seductively, around lakeside leks. Songbirds. Elk Island/Hastings Lake Territory: Typical "used to be a honking big ice sheet here" landscape. Look for: Terns, cormorants and pelicans can often be mere dots in the distance on these big lakes, but Killdeer this time of year are defending nests on the beach. Their camouflage makes them hard to spot, but if one suddenly pops into view spazzing out and mewling, tread very, very carefully—you're almost on top of their nest and they're trying to lead you away. Let them.
Any old backroad, Alberta Territory: Duh. Look for: Most of the birds I've seen, I've seen en route. Spot freaky little orange chickeny heads of Gray Partridge, murmurs of starlings, or the American Kestrel's star-spangled plumage. Stop the car in the middle of the road and enjoy swallows surrounding you like a feathery cloud, hunting bugs attracted to the dissipating engine heat. Southern Alberta is home to Burrowing Owls, world's most awesome creatures (sorry, whale sharks!) and ibises. V
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ROAD TRIPS // ADVENTURE
Grand Trunk Trailway
Forestry Trunk Road a must for outdoor recreation enthusiasts
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lthough our state-sponsored tourism campaigns might deny this, Albertans are flatlanders. We live and love on these prairies while harbouring a fervent fondness for the grand alpines mere hours away. But unlike in the land to the left, very few of us make our lives and find our loves in the shadows of the giants. Why? Seemingly overly restrictive national park residency requirements? Perhaps (read: yes). Lack of employment and tourism outside the parks? Perhaps (read: perhaps). High cost of living in the towns with a plethora of vacation properties? Perhaps (read: ugh). But a lack of facilities, services and accessibility for recreational activities outside the major centres? Not mere inconveniences—mere untruths. For there exists a route amidst our front ranges that brings the big mountain country closer to us flatlandlubbers, very literally cutting a swath through the crests and valleys—the Forestry Trunk Road. A lifeline for industry and recreation both, it allows us the opportunity to tame the formidable wild for a moment in pursuit of play. Put simply: a purer multi-sport playground is not to be found in our province. In late summer, we chose four: cross-country mountain biking, river
boarding was abandoned. But they tell me it is done with some regularity in times of higher water levels. They also tell me I need more practice.
Just one of the activities found along Forestry Trunk Road
surfing, white-water kayaking and sport climbing. Others discarded due to constraints: caving, white-water rafting. Others possible: oh, yes. Running north-south, the Trunk Road tracks between roughly Canmore and Hinton (and further afield from there into true bush). We transited northerly. Our first outpost was the campground at the Mountain-Aire Lodge. Built (and rebuilt following a fire) and operated by the former Mustard Seed society and their charges, its uniqueness of organization fits as a last bas-
tion of hospitality before the inhospitable wild. Here, from the shores of the Upper Red Deer river, we set our kayaks in to play among the rapids. As one of the very, very few "park and play" white-water kayaking locations in the province the river attracts traffic from afar and yet seems to suffer none of the jams at other "playboating" sites. At the so-named "S-bend" rapids, we also jumped in with our surfboard. Alas, deficits in skill and/ or flow rates were a hindrance, and after a few encounters with rock, the
Onwards now, to the Ya Ha Tinda ranch. At the trailhead we encountered the requisite horse trailers and hitching posts as, after all, we were entering the home of the national parks' herd and trainers. But what is a mountain bike if not a modern steed? Probably carrying the same price tag as well ... Saddle-sore after a day spent searching for the mythical (to us) natural rock waterslides, building inuksuk and getting scared off trails by low ursine grunts, the skies grew—well not dark, as it was Alberta in the summer, but dark-ish. After a hot day, perhaps we'd be due for some precipitation? Well, perhaps if not for the fact that these leeward slopes of the Rockies live in a large rain shadow. Our next station, Nordegg, is to that same end, dry enough to be classified as a desert, and was the early wintering home of large herds of elk and the like and the aboriginal hunters that followed them. We overnighted at the local Hostelling International outfit and swapped stories and foreign cuss
words with the international hostellers in the hot tub as we prepped for a day of climbing. Guided by the Centre for Outdoor Education we "top-roped" slabs with Lake Abraham behind us. Grateful for the dry stone even the knee-buckling-ist of us found good holds and routes. Over the top and turning back towards the open expanse below was like opening the drapes. To find not another soul in sight. Which lends itself to a certain welcome lonesomeness. Too often, organized outdoor sport can devolve into a glorified run-around-the-block-a-couple-times. With your back to verified wildness, however, that sense of romanticism that infected the first generations of poet-explorers starts to seep in as you soon believe that you too are able to feel the soul of the land, or are able to paint with all the colours of the wind, et cetera, et cetera. If only for a short while, as we are only occasional travelers on this trail. Maybe that's the role we inhabit in our world, as a people who look to the hills in the distance and pine for them. Fortunately the track set amongst them is true and can lead us to a grand playground. kirk zembal
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"I hope that travellers who pick up this book and visit the area will find it a useful guide to get an appreciation of the area they are passing through; a better understanding of the ecology and landscapes, insights into unique history of the area and its significance provincially and nationally," Udell says, adding it will give locals the opportunity to understand and appreciate the unique area they live in.
of early explorers. "It is important to explore and understand this region because, although it is relatively small in area on the Canadian scene, it has played an important role in the history of this country, and as Canadians and local residents we need to understand our own country much better than we currently do," Udell adds. "There have been many colourful characters who have contributed to this history and this contribution came through incredibly hard work under some very trying circumstances." Following launches this week in Edmonton, Jasper, Hinton and Grande Cache, the guide will be available in various outlets in the region and through the Foothills Research Institute, which also gets publishing credit. V
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to read the landscape, discern the connections and history in a tangled profusion of life. I'd always believed it to be the province of specialists, or the impenetrable lore of dedicated campers, passed down through generations. Which in retrospect seems silly, but the idea you could teach yourself natural history, starting even from a place of near-total ignorance, was intoxicating. And birds were the right footing on which to begin, being, to a large extent, out in the open: lots of them, lots of kinds, everywhere. Their world, unlike that of almost any other kind of organism, lay noticeably on top of ours, like a velum over a book page.
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Reading Rare Encounters actually made me a birder, crystallizing my practice when I was plagued with frustration (stupid Slow Eye!). I switched my focus from making IDs to really looking at the birds, their environment, and what they were doing (which, of course, made them easier to ID, in the end). Haupt's essays advocate a kind of local mindfulness, a delight in moments of intense feeling with familiar creatures in humble nearness to our everyday lives. Her practice runs counter to some other philosophies in the global birding community, lying somewhere between exceptionally tender field observation, the transcendental idea of witnessing and an eager biophilic playfulness. Her book got me through my first two years of being a bad birdwatcher to the past couple, where I'm able to often, thrillingly, differentiate between sparrow species and to place birds I've never seen before into categories that significantly narrow down their IDs. (Birders have a somewhat embarrassing term for a kind of characteristic impression a bird gives off, even in nano-glimpses; they'll speak of an unknown creature seeming "finch-y" or "warbler-y" or whatnot, or even cite a species: "it seems Snow Bunting-y." This comes with experience and knowledge and—the embarrassing part—is referred to by various birders as the "giss," "jizz," or "jiz" of a bird; all pronounced the same, like the semen synonym, except typically with a slightly de-emphasized ending, more "s" than "z." It's usually described, amorphously, as the vibe of a bird—a combination of behaviour, physical qualities, and location that
points to identity. Although all three spellings crop up in birder literature, "giss" seems to be the correct term, from the military acronym "General Impression, Size & Shape.") I can't defend my excitement about my hard-won sparrow somewhatmastery. At some point, you either get how birdwatching could be rewarding—or you don't. Every birder has a different story; there are many motivations and approaches. But I offer mine simply because if I can do it—with no money, time, physical energy, tolerance for group activities or initial knowledge or talent—anyone can.
Watch the birdies You probably already do, but my birding began with field guides my companion brought home from the library, before even going for a walk. Obviously, I'd seen birds, but I'd never really taken them in. So, scrutinize anything feathered. You don't have to go anywhere special. Watch from
Kaufman, whose Kingbird Highway is a muscular memoir of youthful misadventure in the 1970s. Birder books contextualize field guide facts, concur with or contradict observations you've made, and offer birding tips, etiquette, or incidental knowledge that will illuminate some dark corners of birding. Jonathan Rosen's Life of the Skies has great urban birding advice, for instance, since he birds in New York City's Central Park. Consider them field guides for types of birders and their idiosyncratic methods and preferences. Birding blogs, especially from authors or scientists, can be enlightening. Caught By the River (caughtbytheriver.net) is a hub for UK arty types on the forefront of a new wave of naturalists, like illustrator Matt Sewell and half of the musicians in British Sea Power.
Develop a practice Not a regime, or any sort of schedule, but more like an approach, as you would with a creative art. Watching
And, why watch birds, anyway? Every birder develops a philosophical stance. Thinking about how you want to know birds gives your explorations shape and direction.
your window or balcony, on the way to work, while running errands. Birds are everywhere, and even gulls have exciting lives.
No avian Madonna/Whore complex There are no "good" birds or "bad" birds. Stop hating on magpies and pigeons and gulls.
Learn the culture Birding is a big tent, drawing together poets and pedants, show-offs and loners, meandering frosty-tops and kids whose practice revolves around energetically flushing targets and driving them away. Rich birders haul scopes and comically long camera lenses in mini-vans and RVs; broke birders may not even have binoculars or transportation. Birding has its protectors of orthodoxy and its freewheeling rebels. It has literary classics and hagiographies, like of Phoebe Snetsinger, a middleaged Cold War housewife diagnosed with terminal cancer who took off on a global birding quest that set a record for most species seen. Or Kenn
birds is step one. Step two is knowing them. How you know them is your practice. Are you more likely to track something specific, or ramble and see what turns up? Will you return to the same sites again and again, or constantly seek out the new? Are you a year-round birder, or a fair-weather one? Adventurer or homebody? Do you want to see more species or know a few species really well? Want to combine it with another hobby, like photography? And, why watch birds, anyway? Every birder develops a philosophical stance. Thinking about how you want to know birds gives your explorations shape and direction.
Find the right guides I love field guides so much that I wish a llama walked everywhere with me, carrying every field guide in the world. But sometimes I catch myself squinting into a guide when I should be seeing the bird before me. Guides should be thumbed through enthusiastically when you're not birding, but once CONTINUED ON PAGE 42 >>
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• Check your wipers and fluids to be sure there aren't any leaks and they're at the proper level. Schedule a checkup with your usual body shop or your car's dealership and have them perform any necessary maintenance like an oil change, which will keep our vehicle running reliably and efficiently. Have the cooling system flushed out if you haven't done so in the last year. • Take a look at your car's battery
for its ability to charge, and check if the terminals are clean. If not, clean them with little baking soda and water. • Tires are an important area that shouldn't be overlooked before venturing out. Have a look at the treads to make sure they aren't getting too worn down. Ensure there aren't any bulges on the side walls of your tires either. Check tire pressure as well. If your tires do need be filled, make sure you do so in adherence of the set of figures that should be printed on the inside of the driver's door jam. Make sure the spare tire is in good working order, just in case. • If you haven't done so in the last six months, now would be a good time to perform a four-wheel brake check to make sure brake pads are in good working order and are not worn down. • Replace spark plug wires if they're more than two years old. • Have the exhaust system checked to make sure it's in good working condition. • No one likes to think about accidents or medical issues when they're
heading out for a good time, but it doesn't hurt to make sure your car is equipped with a first aid kit, a flashlight, a blanket or two and some basic tools. Keep some healthy snacks and extra water on hand as well. • When packing, it's tempting to load your car up with everything you think you may possibly need, but pack smart. Check your vehicle's load capacity to avoid putting too much weight on it. Newer vehicles have this information printed on the inside of the driver's door jam and is for passengers plus cargo. Rooftop cargo boxes need extra consideration as well. They should be reserved for light bulky items that do not fit in the main part of the car. If a roof rack is loaded up with too many heavy things, it can make your vehicle more difficult to handle in emergency situations and increase the possibility of roll overs. If you've got a roof rack that's not being used for the trip, take it off. It'll improve your fuel economy and let you save your money. meaghan baxter
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ROAD TRIPS // WORLD'S LARGEST
World's largest: a checklist Alberta seems to love having the most oversized version of something that's usually much smaller: Edmonton alone lays claim to the world's largest baseball bat and the largest cowboy boots, but that's a light survey— the province lays claim to 34 'World's largest ... ' titles, some probably contested, some probably not. Here's the full list; hit them all in one massive, province-spanning trip, if you dare:
World's Largest ... Badminton racquet: St Albert Battle between a bear and a swan: Swan Hills Beaver: Beaverlodge Border markers: Lloydminster Blue Heron: Barrhead Bucking saddle bronc and rider: Ponoka Buffalo: Wainwright Chuckwagon: Dewberry David Thompson monument: Lac La Biche Dinosaur: Drumheller Dragonfly: Wabamun Duck: Andrew Kubasa (Ukranian garlic sausage): Mundare Geese: Hanna Golf club: Bow Island Gopher: Torrington 36 ROAD TRIPS
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Horse: Irricana Weathervane: Westlock Mushrooms: Vilna Oil lamp: Donalda Piggy bank: Coleman Potato: Vauxhall Pumpkin: Smokey Lake Pyrogy: Glendon Pysanka (Ukranian easter egg): Vegreville Putter: Bow Island Railroad spike: Hines Creek Softball: Chauvin Starship Enterprise: Vulcan Tallest teepee: Medicine Hat Toque: Morinville Wagon wheel and pick: Fort Assiniboine UFO landing pad: St Paul
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ROAD TRIPS // PIT STOPS
Spin the compass
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ut through the usual provincial descriptors, of farmlands and tar sands and treacherous northern highways, and you find that Alberta's actually a pretty werid place, with little oddball sights cratering the landscape in every direction. Some are always open, others pop up only at certain times of year, but almost all of them showcase a new side to a province often left stereotyped, even by the people who live here. We've collected a batch of these oddball pit stops for your potential summer perusal. These may not be your final destinations, but all certainly warrant a trip off the beaten path to witness and ponder: the odd little secrets of Alberta, yours for the price of gas and the pitstop.
very museum these stuffed gophers are themselves stuffed in. It's been seasonally open since 1996. There's also apparently a 12-foothigh gopher sculpture elsewhere in Torrington (population: 179), named "Clem T GoFur" and all 11 of Torrington's fire hydrants are painted to look like gophers. Hey, some places like to work with a theme. (mytorrington.ca)
Going North
Blue Suede Elvis Music Festival Busby (Sat, Aug 25 – Sun, Aug 26) Busby isn't exactly Graceland, but may as well be for a few days in August when tribute artists both Canadian and American flock to the town's sports grounds for a gigantic Elvis tribute concert. RV parking is possible, with reservations, if you want to camp out and take the entire thing in. (WILDalberta.com)
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Interplay - Fort McMurray (Fri, Aug 3 – Sun, Aug 12) It's the Edmonton Fringe in miniature: located on the Keyano College grounds, Fort McMurray's annual arts festival collects theatre (both touring and homegrown), street performance, fair fare and musical headliners, and makes a perfect excuse to go explore
the place where all the oil comes from. For the first time, Interplay is expanding from its usual three days to a full-on 10. (eventswoodbuffalo.com)
Going South
The Gopher Hole Museum - Torrington Probably Alberta's oddest pitstop. A
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collection of Gophers (if you really want to get technical, Richardson's Ground Squirrels), taxidermied, posed in costumes and placed on tiny little dioramas. They're set up in scenarios: gophers in the classroom, or bringing home groceries, or, in one particularly meta take, gophers arguing over whether to stuff a third gopher for the
Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden - Lethbridge Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden offers serenity in a landmark, worth explore for the careful tranquility that runs counter to the city's omnipresent howl of wind. The garden was created for Canada's centennial in 1967 to recognize the contributions of Japanese citizens in the area (The Nikka Yuko name— compounding together 'Ni' from Nihon, the word for Japan and 'Ka' from Canada—implies in its translation "Japan-Canada friendship"). It's designed by Japanese garden designer/architect Tadashi Kubo, and provides a symbolic look at both Japanese cultural history and the southern Alberta location, with ancient rockCONTINUED ON PAGE 39 >>
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beds and traditional stone lanterns framing a garden as symbolic as it is beautiful. And beyond simply basking in the Garden itself, Nikka Yuko looks to be a cultural hub of events, offering events from regular yoga sessions to moonlight viewings of the gardens. (nikkayuko.com) Creation Science Museum - Big Valley Presented without comment: a museum that showcases the Creationist view of the universe, refuting "evolutionary dogma" by citing geological evidence like explanations of dinosaurs and, in a large display, the age of the earth. Apparently they get a lot of hate mail. (bvcsm.com) The Canadian Badlands Passion Play - Drumheller (Fri, Jul 13 – Sun, Jul 15; Thu, Jul 19 – Sun, Jul 22) A yearly spectacle that appears in the middle of nowhere for just seven showings in July. A three-hour production of the Jesus Christ resurrection story, performed in a massive, natural outdoor amphitheatre outside of Drumheller. For the religious the pull is obvious, but even for nonbelievers, it's one of our most curious theatrical events to happen within the provincial borders. (canadianpassionplay.com)
Going East
Demolition Derbys (Lloydminster/ Glendon; various dates) We love to see vehicles smash into other vehicles (in a safe, controlled environment), And there's plenty of opportunity for that sort of twisted metal in Alberta: In mid-July, Lloydminster's Colonial Days Parade and Fair features a demo derby in addition to livestock shows, concerts, chuckwagon racing and other general fair-type delights, but the province's biggest derby is in Glendon in August, featuring trucks. Plus, Glendon is the Pyrogy capital of the world, earning that title with a massive, 25-foot hunk of simulated stuffed dough, skewered by a giant fork and set in a park for all to see. (lloydexh.com)
Going West
Thunder in the Valley Drag Racing Drayton Valley, AB (Aug 31 – Sep 2) Taking place at Drayton Valley Municipal Airport, Thunder in the Valley features Canada's only jet cars—cars with names, names like Rollin' Thunder, Her-A-Cane and, my favourite, Secret Weapon Jet Tank. It fills the Valley with a few days of high-octane racing and vehicular showboating. One of the vehicles can reportedly go from zero to 280 mph in less than six seconds—expect all other pedals to be pushed to the metal, too. (thunderinthevalleydragrace.ca) Paul Blinov
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Sharing road trip favourites
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oad trips aren't complete without a killer playlist or two to get things going, so Vue asked people around the city and beyond to share their favourite road trip albums and destinations.
Rick Reid,
lead vocals/guitar, the City Streets Favourite album and destination: I've been lucky to have had plenty of road trips over the years, it being part of my livelihood, as well as something I love to do. The drive down the west coast of the US, right along the ocean from Oregon to Mexico on Highway 1, is incredibly beautiful. For whatever reason, several times taking that trip the album Ghosts of the Great Highway by Sun Kil Moon was playing in the van. The record is a bit sad, wistful and very beautiful. The combination of the Oregon/Californian coastline and Mark Kozelek's voice and guitar are a perfect fit.
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Photography locations Now that you know the basics, it's time to get out and practice. Here's a list of locations in the Edmonton area recommended by Joel and Jim, as well as Jeremy Derksen of Tourism Jasper, to get you started. North County of Thorhild; 30-40 minutes north of the city. Lots of rolling countryside, old farm buildings, etc. Very few fences or "no trespassing" signs. Halfmoon Lake: Variety of forests and vegetation, with trails throughout. Some are marked and others are harder to follow. A compass or GPS is recommended. Redwater Natural Area: A natural area filled predominantly with pine trees. Some areas feature poplar trees, along with wetlands. Bring a GPS to navigate this area, as there are no trail maps available. Dirt bikes and all-terrain vehicles often frequent the trails as they are wide and sandy, so be sure to be aware of them. East Elk Island National Park Blackfoot Lake: This area features miles of networked trails to scout out locations, rolling hills, swamps and lakes. Beaverhill Lake: This includes the Beaverhill Bird Observatory and is an hour east of Edmonton. The bird observatory is a treed area on the south end of the lake with trails running throughout. Trails are short and well kept. South Battle Lake/Buck lake area west of Pigeon Lake; lots of little valleys, farm land and buildings. Miquelon Lake: This is a very popular camping spot, but the trails are less populated and wind through swamps and sandy hills. Trails are clear-
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ly marked, but mosquitos can be troublesome, so bring bug spray. West Chickakoo Lake Park; about 30 minutes west of the city; can be accessed by going north of Highway 16 on Highway 779, head west on Township Road 534, and follow the signs into the park. Loads of trails, small lakes, grassed areas, wildlife. Wagner Natural Area: Located between Edmonton and Spruce Grove, this natural area provides the opportunity to shoot numerous types of plants and flowers, as well as practise landscape shots. Beaver Boardwalk: The three-kilometre wooden pathway in Hinton winds its way through a fully functioning beaver pond. There are two observation towers that could be good for a new perspective. Jasper: Once you're through the park gates, take some time to stop at Jasper Lake, Snaring River and the Maligne Canyon/ Fairmont turnoff. Day trip For a photography day trip around Edmonton, head east on Highway 16 stopping at Elk Island. Then continue east to highway 834; turn south and stop at the Beaverhill Lake Heritage Rangeland Natural Area. Then continue south on 834 through Tofield onward to Highway 617; turn west. Proceed to Highway 623 and go north; follow the signs and stop at Miquelon Lake. Continue west on 623 toward Leduc. Take either Highway 39 west or Highway 19 west. Take any of the Range Roads going north or south; the area west of the international Airport has lots of old farm buildings. Find your way to highway 60 and go north toward Devon. If time permits you can head down any of the country roads north of Devon, or continue north to the Whitemud or Yellowhead Trail and eastward back to the city. V
how listening to that record is like going on a sonic journey throughout their 30-year history. Nothing gets the car bumping like the Beastie Boys. Nothing. Besides, "Sabotage" has got to be one of the greatest songs of all time. We've driven for an hour with that one on repeat, just screaming at the top of our lungs, "AWWWWWWWWWW I CAN'T STAND IT." Favourite destination: My favourite road trip has got to be the 15hour journey that it takes to get to the Sasquatch Music Festival at the Gorge Amphitheatre in George, WA. The anticipation of the weekend before you, coupled with some of the most awe-inspiring stretches of road that both Canada and the United States have to offer makes for a magical ride. Re-living the excitement of the weekend on the journey home makes for a trip that is just as fun coming home as it is getting there.
Amy Shostak, artistic director, Rapid Fire Theatre
Ryan and Becky Anderson
Favourite albums: Graceland by Paul Simon. My family listened to this album on every road trip when I was in elementary. I imagined a choreographed dance to "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes" for my Grade 6 class to do. One Foot in the Grave by Beck. Mellow album for a morning winter's drive. Specific attention should be paid to "Forcefield." The 1973 Jesus Christ Superstar soundtrack. I know this beast front to back, and my Caiaphas impression is not to be missed! Gods of the Earth by the Sword. There's a little tradition called "Metal in the Mountains" that I think everyone should experience.
Ryan's favourite albums: A great road record needs to be playable straight through with a margin of one song the vehicle doesn't agree on. On the last tour it was Danny Romano's Sleep Beneath The Willow. The album has a great tempo and feel. You keep speeds down and stay awake by singing along. Equally I give nods to Curtains by Tindersticks, Hope by Palace Brothers and Edmonton's own Josephine van Lier's Bach: Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello. Classical music makes me feel less of a hobo on the road.
Favourite destinations: Lussier Hot Springs in Whiteswan Provincial Park, BC, Upper Kananaskis Lake in Kananaskis Country, AB and The Last Chance Saloon in Wayne, AB
Craig Martell,
manager, Wunderbar Favourite album: What We Do Is Secret by the Burdocks. When you're travelling you need a dynamic pop record. The Burdocks do it better than anyone. They keep you awake and keep you singing. The perfect soundtrack for tires on pavement. Favourite destination: Historically Halifax. That was when I was on the East Coast. I don't think I've gone on a road trip since I moved to Edmonton. That's sad.
The Bandit, street artist
Favourite album: I know it may seem timely but my favourite road trip album has got to be the Beastie Boys anthology The Sounds of Science. It's an incredible collection that spans most of their career. It's always the first record to be packed and it tends to stay in the stereo for the majority of the road trip. I love
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Ryan's favourite destination: We did a performance in Germany followed by an amazing European road trip to meet ETown friends in Deutschland's laziest ancient spa town Baden Baden via "Monkey Mountain" (a German monkey sanctuary). Amazing scenery, great roads, monkeys, amazing wine and beer, nude co-ed spas. That trip had it all. Becky's favourite albums: F&M had the pleasure of performing with Olenka & The Autumn Lovers and we just can't stop listening to their album And Now We Sing. The album is varied in tempo, but always energetic, which is great for travelling on roads where you need to be alert. Also worthy of mention are two albums exuding a tortured sense of nationalism: PJ Harvey's Let England Shake and Bill Callahan's Apocalypse. For the morning drive, I enjoy Ariane Mahryke Lemire's poetic album Wrecked Tangles and Love Knots. Becky's favourite destination: My perfect road trip always involves going towards water. I have always enjoyed driving from Edmonton to Vancouver and taking the ferry over to Vancouver Island. Along the way, we are always sure to stop in Peachland for a break by the lake, with fresh baking from the lakeside bakery. Ideas for songs come naturally as our van cuts through Canada's wonderous changing geography. Compiled by meaghan baxter //meaghan@vueweekly.com
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all and see what works for you. And keep an eye out for vintage guides, which are often stunningly illustrated and full of interesting, if perhaps timeworn, facts.
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Learn from others Naturalists of all stripes generally welcome newcomers (except some-
an idea of what birds move through your area, and when. The Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology's stellar site (allaboutbirds.org) has an online guidebook, with audio and video, and a "Birding ID Skills" section that is fantastic for beginners. Cornell also connects with citizen science projects like FeederWatch, NestWatch, and the Christmas Bird Count. The
Naturalists of all stripes generally welcome newcomers (except sometimes mushroom people, but their field guides have recipes, which accounts for their secretive ways).
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outside, be judicious in their use— don't forget the bird. Field guides can be personalized by adding your own notes: log species hot spots, dates or times of fruitful events, first sightings, bizarre encounters, birthday birds, keepsakes and wishlists. These guides become precious living documents to your birding life. Most birders use multiple guides, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. Kenn Kaufman's photographic guides
group his birds in an oddly intuitive way. National Geographic has clear and detailed illustrations, but not much behaviour. DK has a handy flight guide. Peterson and Sibley are solid all-around, the latter's Bird Life and Behavior essential. Donald Kroodsma's works on calls and song are worthy references, as are Sibley's Birding Basics and Kaufman's Advanced Birding. Regional guides, like Lone Pine's charming John Acorn-
penned Birds of Alberta, can be goldmines: I've found bluebirds on the exact highway he says they're on, and many of his bird descriptions are singularly apt (too bad the illustrations are only serviceable and some of the information is getting dated). I carry my trusty Acorn everywhere, and add an illustrated North American guide for cross-referencing on outings. The Edmonton Public Library has most guides, so borrow them
times mushroom people, but their field guides have recipes, which accounts for their secretive ways). The Edmonton Nature Club (edmontonnatureclub.ca) has a Bird Study Group and events through the year, but the nexus of the community in Edmonton is Wildbird General Store (wildbirdgeneralstore.com). Sign up for newsletters and get updates on rare and seasonal sightings, workshops and group outings. Volunteering with conservation organizations (like Ducks Unlimited) or participating in citizen science projects put you in touch with more experienced birders in a social setting. Solitary types can seek out Birdingonthe.net, a moderated list of Alberta-wide bird alerts and related chit-chat. Ebird.ca has statistics you can search to get
Royal Alberta Museum has an excellent collection of fetchingly taxidermied birds, which is like having a 3D guide, with everything the correct size—especially useful for comparing similar birds, like Cedar to Bohemian waxwings.
Don't fear no gear I expected my wishlist to get longer as I got more into birding, but I only want serious outdoor winter wear (I try to be an all-season birder, but I'm wimpy). My companion gave me binoculars a couple holidays ago—no extraneous functions to trip me up, chubby but lightweight so they're easy to grip, and still good in fadCONTINUED ON PAGE 43 >>
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ing light. Those binoculars and my guides—many second-hand—are all I use. Borrow guides from the library and canvas your tribe to find unused binoculars (invariably, someone you know has a pair they never use). Make do with whatever you find for free and cheap while researching your dream optics online and at the Wildbird General Store.
Know local conditions Alberta is a birding haven. We have several ecosystems in our backyard, and we're on three (out of four) North American flyways, which are migratory bird superhighways. That means twice a year, for short periods of time, we get avian guests on their way to and from their Arctic breeding grounds. A tool like eBird can tell you when you're most likely to spot passersby, but so can field guides, and even your own notes after a few seasons. Even wasteland Edmonton winters offer good birding, like when flocks of crossbills feed in the pines, chattering like monkeys while discarded pinecone scales shower down. Nuthatches, woodpeckers, redpolls and chickadees come out of the woods to haunt downtown feeders, where they're easy to see in naked branches. March to May is an excellent time to begin birding, with spring's waves of migrating returnees and Arctic-bound exotics, crazy courtship plumage (now's the time to watch for gulls' red "breeding ring" around their eyes) and behaviour (like elaborate grebe nest material ritual exchanges and lake surface ballets), nests being built and early hatchlings emerging. (Fun fact: Before Audubon, people thought birds hibernated in a flock at the bottom of frozen lakes.) Waterfowl in spring are good "beginner" birds: relatively
large, out on the water, in snazzy plumage. Come summer, it's more challenging to spy birds in the greenery, and they've dispersed to raise families, but the warm weather lends itself to more patient birding. It can be a challenge to ID juvenile passerines ("perching birds"), because they can be about the same size as their parents—and even look bigger, because of their fluffy undeveloped feathers—but look completely different. (These huge babies are still very dependent on their parents and by and large won't be engaged in the same sort of activities as adults, but be hiding, testing their newfound skills or begging their moms and dads for food.) Through summer into autumn, many birds lose their breeding plumage and moult for migration, obscuring distinguishing marks. But you also get huge flocks in the fall, including Arctic migrants heading south, and spectacular displays of migratory restlessness, hunting and feeding, so it's still a great season for birding.
Bird with all senses Immerse yourself. Thumb through guides, watch videos, speculate about observations. Draw birds from life or books to get to grips with morphology. Even if you're a terrible illustrator, you'll get a better feel for their form and features. Keep field notes on what you've seen; place the birds in context, in their environment, doing bird things. Listen to calls and birdsong, sing what you've heard in the field to yourself or record what you hear, work to associate sounds with birds. You could be alerted to waxwings by spacey, buzzing chirps high above you, or discover migrating cranes sound like a thousand kittens—just the kind of sublime moments of natural spectacle that make a birder's heart leap with joy.
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Since 1982 AIDS has claimed approximately 1.8 million lives. Every year HIV Edmonton organizes a Vigil to celebrate those we have lost to AIDS and to honour the bravery and courage of those living with and affected by HIV. This year we will be part of the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial movement. Please come and join us this year on June 3, 2012 from 6:30-8:30pm for the Candlelight Memorial Vigil. The evening will begin with a traditional Aboriginal pipe ceremony followed by guest speakers who are living with HIV and who are working tirelessly to get us to zero.
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PREVUE // BLUEGRASS FOLK
Return of the Tanyas DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB
Bluegrass trio finds its lockstep after a hiatus
WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE DAY OF THE WEEK? SATURDAY & SUNDAY, BREAKFAST UNTIL 4PM SUNDAY, CELTIC MUSIC MONDAY, SINGER SONG WRITER TUESDAY, WING NIGHT WEDNESDAY, OPEN STAGE, PIZZA w/ JUG NIGHT THURSDAY, CHEAP JUG NIGHT The Be Good Tanyas, being good, presumably
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e're pretty lazy, I gotta admit," Frazey Ford laughs. She's talking about preparing for the first Be Good Tanyas tour in a couple years with a particularly relaxed lightness: you get the vibe that she cares, certainly, but also that she's completely devoid of worry. "We'll be doing our minimal preparation," she continues, "but we seem to just fall back into it easily." That sense of ease applies to more than just rehearsal: returning to active band forms seems to have been a smooth progression for the Tanyas. After a primary run of activity in the early 2000s, the folksy bluegrass three-piece split up for a time, first coming out of hiatus three years ago to re-release their debut album, Blue Horse, for its 10-year anniversary. And now the Tanyas have spent the past few years looking in the
rearview mirror, doing quick tours as a band again, and now finding themselves in the early stages of promoting their first Best-Of compilation. "I think we're all very gypsy, and very free spirited, and think we all needed to go be free ... once we had that chance, we were like, 'OK, we're ready to enjoy what we enjoy about this project again,'" Frazey Ford explains of the band's split. "We'd been playing a lot together for quite a few years, and we all just wanted to go off and do other things, musically go in a bit of a different direction. And then I think, doing that and fully exploring some other stuff, then, you miss the other thing you were doing." Still, Ford notes that the focused hindsight of the past few years has allowed her and the other Tanyas— Trish Klein and Sam Parton—to properly sift through the whirlwind years of their early career.
"Music is so tied to different areas of your life, and different experiences, as soon as we started digging out songs that I'd completely forgot about, it brought back all the times and experiences and who we were at those different points, and where we're at now," Ford says. "It's been interesting, actually: it's almost like a way to process all that stuff that happened, 'cause it all kind of happened so fast at the time. I think it's been interesting to re-explore some of it." And with that re-exploration returned a certain sense unity: when it came time to pick the tracklisting for the Best-of, the trio were essentially in lockstep. "Everybody wrote up a list [of songs], and the lists were very much similar," Ford says. "It was kinda neat that everybody knew what were the more significant songs that had hit people and stayed with them." PAUL BLINOV
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The Saturn Sessions Sat, May 19 (8 pm) Ortona Armoury, $5
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he Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society (BEAMS) is combining the talents of five unique artists with radio signals from Saturn for a musical experience that's out of this world. The Saturn Sessions is a live, improvised concert in which each artist, ranging from poetry to electronic to classical, will perform a duet accompanied by the Saturn soundtrack. Audiences are encouraged to bring a blank CD or a flash drive because, if all goes according to plan, they'll be able to walk away with a live recording of the event. "We're talking about signals that have existed long before we have, and continue to be that way and the fact that they don't really have a definable tone or a definable rhythm means
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that you can do almost anything with them," says Gene Kosowan, curator of the event. Saturn's unique soundtrack is thanks to its magnetic field, which is altered by the rotation of the planet. Kosowan says any planet with a magnetic field, Earth included, emits electromagnetic particles, waves or impulses that can be picked up via transmitter receiver. "Come into this with an open mind," Kosowan advises, adding that electroacoustic is the oldest form of music on the planet and it's known to attract extremely diverse audiences. "In the history of BEAMS, we've had performers as young as 12 and older than 60. They come from all walks of life, but one common bond is this interest in this type of music."
and Tsunami Brothers, will be doing a celestial flute homage to the acclaimed suite The Planets composed by Gustav Holst, which he admits is a personal favourite. Damur notes that planets have been referred to as musical entities since ancient times and views tapping into the sounds of the solar system as fuel for creative endeavours. "You know, anything a human composer or a living being can use to further his art is grist for the mill, fuel for the fire, food for the artistic diet," he says, adding that this type of concert offers a reprieve from contemporary shows that can sound interchangeable. "You begin to think anew and draw your opinions new, because you have nothing to fall back upon and that forces the brain even further and the imagination further."
Bob Damur, a music instructor and performer with acts such as Mobius
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PREVUE // METAL
The Black Dahlia Murder Fri, May 18 (6 pm) With Exhumed, Fuck the Facts Starlite Room, $25.25
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t's been almost a year since Detroit-based metal act the Black Dahlia Murder bombarded airwaves with its fifth studio album Ritual in June 2011, and the band is still on the road with no signs of slowing down for at least one more year. Ritual, described by lead singer Trevor Strnad as being the band's best and most diverse release to date, has set the bar high as the group begins planning the early stages of the next album. "It's kind of intimidating at this point because Ritual was such a massive success and it's kind of like capping off the 10-year mark for our band, so it's kind of a big deal in a lot of regards," notes Strnad during a phone interview prior to heading
out on tour again. The release of Ritual also marked the first time the band undertook a concept album, combining witchcraft, the macabre and the occult to create a more clear and potent statement than Deflorate, the band's last album. "First of all, nobody knows what the hell it means, so that was a problem," Strnad admits. For the record, deflorate by definition means "past the flowering state." Ritual offered the perfect backdrop for turning up the horror elements in the band's music and a return to its original intent at its inception when the guys were 18, which was to make the scariest music possible and incorporate the most horrific themes they could cook up. Overall, Strnad says the goal was to make an album that would resonate with fans. The ritualistic theme led to darker songs with added sonic dimen-
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sions, made possible by the addition of classical instrumentation such as strings, piano and acoustic guitar. "I think it has that definite atmosphere to it and that was the thing we wanted the most," he adds. "Really, classical music and metal are very
similar if you really get down to the nitty gritty of it, and a lot of metal bands are influenced by classical music. It was kind of a tribute to what had come before."
In keeping with the horror and macabre theme, the Black Dahlia Murder teamed up with David Brodsky to direct the music video for "Moonlight Equilibrium," which acted as a nod to old-school gore. "I don't even really check out any of the new horror movies that come out. It all looks too hokey to me," he says, admitting that when he was a kid, he was into slasher films like Friday the 13th, Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street thanks to his friend's father letting them watch the movies despite their age. "That was my loophole. I was this little kid watching all this crazy stuff and it definitely had an effect on me and led me to metal because it showed me the fun side of the macabre." meaghan baxter
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PREVUE // SKA
Jk & the Relays Fri, May 18 (8 pm) With the Hangers, King MuSKAfa Pawn Shop, $15
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rom opening for BB King with jazz-funk melodies with Mocking Shadows to tearing up pubs with ska and reggae ferocity as frontman of Jk & the Relays, Jory Kinjo clearly isn't one to shy away from musical diversity. Kinjo, who balances the two acts with a solo show in Calgary and a side project with his younger brother, aptly named the Kinjo Brothers, says each endeavour has taught him something new as an artist and musician. It's also not as difficult to juggle each commitment due to the fact Kinjo has teamed up with a core gang of musicians for each band, allowing him to maintain relationships with all of them and keep each project afloat. Watching BB King's show night after night showed Kinjo how to run a band and how to engage a crowd, something he found inspiring, especially coming from a man who was in his late 70s at the time. After each show, when autographs had been signed and fans went home, King would sit down with Mocking Shadows and talk shop. "I think the best advice is just to be honest with your audience and respect them," Kinjo says of his chats with King. "Those sorts of things go with presenting yourself in a good light, just both in what you're wearing and how you talk to them and the effort that you give them." When it comes to the switch in genres, which came about because Mocking Shadows began experi-
menting with reggae and ska during their show, crowds loved it, but it made it difficult to promote the band from a marketing perspective, though Kinjo says it's pushed him his artistic boudaries in addition to posing a new musical challenge. "Ska and reggae is just another Fantasyland Hotel form of soul music that comes from (WEM, 17700 - 87 Ave) a different place," Kinjo notes, add10:00am - 3:00pm ing he became engrossed in the genre while on tour as a bassist for The Planet Smashers. "I was able to write and create songs that I had never done before, so it pushed me Gain insight on the world of to do that and took me out of my music management & comfort zone, so musically, it was advice for those who are only challenging for a little while self-managed. because of the subtle differences in style." AB Music Members $30 Now that Jk & the Relays have a Non Members $70 debut EP, Timebomb!, under their belt, it's time to start thinking bigger, and a new album is already in REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED the works. Kinjo did some of the www.amia.ca writing in Japan and says his song780-428-3372 writing is influenced by his surroundings, regardless of where that may be. While Kinjo is happy with Timebomb!, he wants to take more time in the studio experimenting with different sounds, something they weren't able to do during the first round due to time and money. "It's not that I was rushed, but we MMF Workshop ad - EDM.indd 1 5/11/2012 9:52:37 AM just took the songs that we had and did our best with them at that time," he explains. "It was a little bit of a mixed bag, but I think in a debut EP, that's OK. The band is still finding its sound, so I thought that just putting it out there as it is and as we were at that time would help us develop something."
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PREVUE // SHOCK ROCK
The New Jacobin Club Thu, May 24 (9:30 pm) With the Invasives and Punktured DV8, $10
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orror shock-rock troupe the New Jacobin Club is celebrating 15 years of insanity and stretching boundaries, a feat lead singer The Horde never imagined possible. Ten years ago he thought the album it released would be its last, and he would have counted himself lucky to have made it that long with the out-there group. These thoughts were due to everyone's other commitments with side projects, and the New Jacobin Club was this grotesque entity kept in the closet and only brought out every now and then. "To slowly see this group turn into what it is now and how big it is now, and how much we've done and where we've been, I never really anticipated that," The Horde says. The Horde is the last original remaining member of the New Jacobin Club, which has evolved over the years to include The Angry Teeth, a freak show, which is a disturbingly entertaining element to the group. They consist of Rima the Birdgirl, Raunchy Rabies and Firecrotch Jones, who will rejoin the trio for the next
album, after being out for a year due to health concerns. "They're not a traditional freak show side show. What they actually do is much more theatrical than someone coming onstage and eating glass and that's the trick," The Horde says of the trio, adding that their theatrics act as a story line for music and take shows from a standard concert to cohesive theatrical experience. "We do function as one entity. We are a theatrical performance. We're not just a band and we're not just what they do, it's the two together." The Angry Teeth will be scaled back a little due to limited real estate at DV8, but The Horde promises some freakiness will still unfold. Aside from the theatrics, the tour is in celebration of the band's new EP, Left Behind which takes a look at the past, but also gives a taste of what's to come on a new album that's in the works. The album, which goes by the working title of The Mark, tells the tale of an apocalyptic Victorian conspiracy and hellfire gentlemen's club aiming to fulfill prophetic revelations. "It plays into the idea that we are, New Jacobin Club, a society. We are
a group; we are a group of artists that are working towards a certain common goal," The Horde says, adding that he can't give a concrete release date just yet since it's all in the early stages. In the mean time, fans will have to satisfy New Jacobin cravings with Left Behind, a collection that makes the old new again. The set's four tracks are songs the group was playing in the '90s, and two of them have never been recorded commercially before. The Horde says the only people who are likely to have them are superfans who have early copies of the band's demos. The step back into the archives formed a link to the past that The Horde believes was beneficial for the band moving forward, as each of the current members have filled roles along the way. Despite the band growing and changing over the years, it's stayed true to its original sound and kept the vision consistent. "It didn't feel different than what we're playing now," The Horde notes. "The songs are different, but it still sounded like us. It still sounded like the New Jacobin Club in 2012." MEAGHAN BAXTER
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PREVUE // MIXED BAG
Vibonics Fri, May 18 (8 pm, doors, 12 am show) The Warehouse (10220 - 103 St), $10 Part of Hip Hop in the Park Full schedule at hiphopinthepark.ca
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here's usually some amount of eclecticism amongst music fans' libraries, from the latest indie gem to, whether they want to admit it or not, the latest Top 40 hit, so why shouldn't a band do the same? Vibonics, a Toronto-based six-piece has set out to do just that by fusing together hip hop, R&B, indie rock and funk to reflect its own diverse musical influences and gather just as eclectic a fan base. The group began as a school project by guitarist Andrew Chong and emcee Crossword. Chong's background is in rock and metal, and he'd never played hip hop prior to joining up with Crossword. The pair wanted to expand their musical prowess and after some searching, gathered the current lineup. Crossword, who listens from everything from the Wutang Clan to Radiohead, says everyone in the band is a friend of someone, which makes the feel much more organic than if it had been contrived for the sake of making a band. Each member has a unique and multifaceted love of music that blends together to create a unique soundscape not often heard today. "I think any time you enter a song-
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writing process with six completely different minds that are rooted in different types of music, and each one of them has a large palette and wide brush to paint with, the options are crazy," he says, adding the songwriting process often means building piece by piece from the ground up. The intricate mix of ideas can pose its challenges, but Crossword says it's all about remembering that nothing is ever wrong, it's just different. "The fact that we all know each other allows us to push each other and we're not scared of saying anything to anyone."
bonics' self-titled debut EP, four tracks that, as Crossword puts it, mark the group's presence and offers a taste of what's to come, while collecting more fans into the eclectic following already gathered. "We want to leave people wanting a little bit more, but, at the same time, we want to use those four songs to their maximum capacity," he notes, adding that the experimenting won't stop. "We kind of joke about it, but we want to do a song in every genre. We'll do a country song, we'll do anything. If it's right and it's not contrived, then why not?" meaghan baxter
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ON THE RECORD
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Nothing's gonna stop him now JP Hoe discusses the making of his latest album, Mannequin
The mannequin himself // Robert Huynh
Fri, May 18 (7 pm) With Poor Young Things, Go For the Eyes Haven Social Club $10 (advance), $12 (door)
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annequin, the new album from Canadian singer-songwriter JP Hoe, is a collection of tunes with a melancholic edge accompanied by sharp lyrics and bold ideas. Prior to his stop in Edmonton, Hoe filled Vue Weekly in on some of the details of the making of the record.
VUE WEEKLY: How long did it take to make Mannequin from the initial songwriting through to the end of the recording? JP HOE: All in all it took roughly three years. That's when I wrote "Conversation" with Luke Doucet, and the bulk of the batch of songs arrived that first year and a half. Then, it took another half a year to acquire enough funds, then another year to record, send and receive mix feedback and finally settle on art work. VW: When you were writing the songs,
did you come at them in a particular way? JPH: Generally, I love approaching songs music first. I'll have a rhythmic melody caught in my head for days. The first chance I have to grab a guitar and figure out what the melody is I will. Then, once I figure what the tone of the song is, I usually steal a moment from someone else's life, make it my own and write it down in a relatable situation to listeners. I only have a handful of songs lyrics first, but I have such a difficult time doing so. VW: What were the recording sessions like for this album? JPH: The recording sessions were smooth. We tried to leave no stone unturned and approached each song from a few angles until we found the one we wanted to keep. Some started as a live-off-the-floor band track, but they didn't fit. We chose to rely less on a "band" and focus more on individual elements and building a song from the ground up. We added tiny moments here and there and I think we achieved the most singer-songwriter
record in my discography yet. I should note, we faithfully followed the heavy incorporation of strings like Elliot Smith, Aimee Mann or the Beatles have. That's why I'm bringing a cellist and violinist on tour, to try and capture as much of the record as possible. VW: Were there any other songs written that were left off the album? JPH: We had a batch of 25 songs, then whittled them down to 15â&#x20AC;&#x201D;they were a best of. Then we demoed all 15 and tried to figure out which 11 would suit to create a "journey" on the record. I'm an album music fan and really wanted to make sure that people could start at track one and make it to the end. That's so important. VW: Did you have an idea of what you wanted Mannequin to be when you started, or did the finished shape emerge as the writing and recording went along? JPH: All I knew is that I wanted the record to sound cohesive and focused. I wanted to showcase the different pop aspects that influence me, but ultimately could fit well together. As it turns out, the record is a darker, melancholic offering, with a few light moments. The song selection helped that, but it wasn't a particular goal. We thought, these 11 songs work really well together. Or maybe I wanted to give people a good cry. I guess I'm like Oprah in that way. VW: If you were to trace the musical map that led you to Mannequin what would it look like? JPH: I would say it started on the acme of a mountain, coming off of the Jann Arden cross Canada tour and a couple of Western Canadian Music Award nominations. Then off a cliff into a wooded valley, a bit lost and trying to figure out which direction I wanted or needed to go in. Finally, I found a path that gave me confidence to try and reach my goals, climbed through the Fred Penner log and arrived in a good place emotionally and better prepared than ever to achieve the next set of goals. V
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SLIDESHOW
The Black Keys Sat, May 12 / Rexall Place
BB King
Mon, May 14 / Jubillee Auditorium
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of Blood. The 'stache sees the world as being in need of a killer party, and it's prepared to bring the noise. Fellow Vancouver-based group West of Hell—which formed its instrumental lineup in Auckland, New Zealand before searching further afield for a lead singer, and finding that in Zimmers Hole frontman Chris "The Heathen" Valagao—is promoting the release of its debut album, Spiral Empire. Rounding out the lineup for the evening are the Order of Chaos, Mortillery and Silent Line. (New City, $12 – $15) MB
The Complete Rebirth of the Cool: Dean McNeill and Jeff Presslaf / Fri, May 18 and Sat, May 19 (8 pm) This project brings musicians together from across the prairies to revive the original burst of creativity brought about by the Cool School in the '50s. The unique musical ensemble fused jazz harmonies and rhythms with classically inspired counterparts. The album, The Complete Birth of the Cool was released in 1957 and several of the musicians, including Miles Davis, Gerry Mulligan and Gil Evans went on to become household names. (Yardbird Suite, $18 for members, $22 for guests) MB
Cocaine Moustache and West of Hell / Fri, May 18 Cocaine Moustache has been described as one hell of a drug, with its debut album On The Mirror landing the band opening slots for Nashville Pussy and Three Inches
Scarlett Jane / Wed, May 23 (9 pm) After leading separate successful solo careers, 2011 Canadian folk awards nominee Andrea Ramolo and award-winning bilingual artist Cindy Doire joined forces to form Scarlett Jane. Six months later, the duo is launching its debut album Stranger, a collection of radio-friendly roots tunes. Also performing that evening is Low Flying Planes. (Wunderbar, $10) MB
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D-Block / Thu, May 24 (9 pm) To Tuff House Records founder Orville Green, bringing American rap group D-Block to town as part of that group's first Canadian tour is as much about spotlighting our own Albertan rap community as much as it is about bringing in a bigger, more recognized name from elsewhere. "I wanted to bring a great major artist to help build the urban scenes in Alberta," Green says via email. "And to have a great concert, and great music." So in addition to D-Block's headliner slot and Ajax, On DJ Peter Jackson, Green's padded the lineup with a full spread of Albertan recording artists: Wayz (Green himself), Resurrect, Peep Game, Triple Crown and Ms Teaze, a Red Deerbased rapper who Green notes has her own indelible feel to the music she makes. "Nothing beats the love she puts in, and her style [is] new to the urban game," he says. "There's much exchange between the rap scenes in smaller cities, like Red Deer and Edmonton," he continues. "Edmonton has the biggest urban music scene in Alberta, [and] we also have some of the best artists, so we love working with small markets and they love working with us too." (Starlite Room, $35 – $50) PB
PREVUE // DIRTY JOKES AND COUNTRY-FOLK
Carolyn Mark
// J McLaughlin
Fri, May 18 (8 pm) With Luther Wright and Jack Grace The Artery, $10 – $13
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f anyone can pull off a song about whores featuring a children's choir, it would have to be Carolyn Mark. The unpredictable Victoria-based songstress assembled the choir by borrowing her brother's kids as well as a few of her friend's children, getting them to sing backup on her new album, The Queen of Vancouver Island, to be released this fall. "It was pretty cute. I paid them in ice cream after we were done," Mark
laughs. Known for her dirty jokes as much as her folk-country tunes and Sunday hootenanny's, Mark's never been one to shy away from a little controversy, and undoubtedly rouges even the crudest of cheeks. The stage is her "safe" zone, and her performances are often dubbed "the Carolyn experience," because with Mark you are guaranteed more than music—you get a full-on theatrical performance. Mark notes that her onstage character is not an act—this is her, and she's a hoot; at times even she can't keep up with herself. "It sort of all goes blank
and I don't really know what happens when it's over," she says. Taking a break from recording, Mark is hitting the road with the Owner/Operator Tour, traveling with two of her best tourmates: Luther Wright and Jack Grace. Each artist will be playing on one another's songs, which shows the diversity of Mark, who becomes rather tight lipped when asked to define her sound. She rebels against genre definitions, preferring to keep her options open. "Definitions are prisons baby!" The tour is followed by more crosscountry journeys that will consume most of Mark's summer, including an appearance at a favorite event, the Fred Eaglesmith Picnic. It's not surprising Mark favours the annual gathering of musicians. It's rare for her to perform or travel without a musical entourage. "Every time I plan a record or tour, I plan that I'm going to go solo. Very monkishly, you know, be alone with my body," she says. "But then I end up grabbing people because I don't want to go alone. "It's more fun to play music with other people." Tejay Gardiner
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NEW WEST HOTEL Country jam every Sat; 3-6pm
FILTHY MCNASTY'S The Give ‘em Hell Boys; 4pm; no cover
O’BYRNE’S Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm
GAS PUMP Saturday Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth
ON THE ROCKS Long Weekend: Bonafide
HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB Robin Woywitka (country folk), Trevor Tchir; 8pm; $8 (adv)/$10 (door) HILLTOP PUB Sat afternoon roots jam with Pascal, Simon and Dan, 3:306:30pm; evening HOOLIGANZ Live music every Sat HYDEAWAY Marleigh and Mueller (classic pop/jazz/ musical theatre); 8pm; 3rd Sat each month; $10
ORTONA ARMOURIES BEAMS (Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society): Saturn Sessions: Moonfyre (spoken word), Will Truchon (digital delay processing), Bill Damur (flute), Don Ross (clarinet), Stanis Coleslaw R.E.M. (electronics); all ages, licensed; 8pm; $5 OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Dueling Piano's, all request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover
PAWN SHOP The Dead re Restless–Halfway to Halloween: Hosted By Mark Meer, The Theatre Garage: DJ's Eddie Lunchpail, Blue Jay; Matt Landry and the Dryland Band (pop rock), 780 SKA, Lucky Pennies, Eddie Lunchpail; 8pm; $10 (adv) RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm2am RENDEZVOUS PUB Shocker, Surviving Suzanne, Alien Shape Shifter ROSE AND CROWN Lyle Hobbs SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Andrew Scott SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Tony Dizon SIDELINERS PUB Sat open stage; 3-7pm STARLITE ROOM Future of BASS: Soundclash Dubstep vs. Drum & Bass Vs. Glitch Hop Feat. Propa Tingz (Play Me, True Movement UK); 9pm TRANSCEND COFFEE– Elevation Room Nicola Ratti (alt), Mark Templeton, Taiwan; 8pm; $10 (adv) WUNDERBAR Void Magazine Launch: Swear By the Moon, The Frolics, Micelli; 8:30pm; $10 YARDBIRD SUITE Canadian Jazz Series: The Complete Rebirth of the Cool, with Dean McNeill and Jeff Presslaff; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $18 (member)/$22 (guest)
Classical ORTONA ARMOURY The Saturn Sessions: Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society; 8pm
DJs
JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY LGBT Community: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm NEWCASTLE PUB Top 40 requests every Sat with DJ Sheri NEW CITY LEGION Polished Chrome: every Sat with DJs Blue Jay, The Gothfather, Dervish, Anonymouse; no minors; free (5-8pm)/$5 (ladies)/$8 (gents after 8pm)
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: The Menace Sessions: Alt Rock/ Electro/Trash with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic hip-hop and reggae with DJ Sonny Grimezz; Underdog: Dr. Erick
O2'S TAPHOUSE AND GRILL DJs every Fri and Sat
BLACKSHEEP PUB DJ every Sat
O2'S ON WHYTE DJ Jay every Fri and Sat
BONEYARD ALE HOUSE DJ Sinistra Saturdays: 9pm
OVERTIME–Downtown Saturdays at Eleven: R'n'B, hip hop, reggae, Old School
BUDDY'S Feel the rhythm every Sat with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm BUFFALO UNDERGROUND Head Mashed In Saturday: Mashup Night DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Sat; 9pm ELECTRIC RODEO– Spruce Grove DJ every Sat FILTHY MCNASTY'S Fire up your night every Saturday with DJ SAWG FLUID LOUNGE Scene Saturday's Relaunch: Party; hip-hop, R&B and Dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Top tracks, rock, retro every Sat with DJ Damian HALO For Those Who Know: house every Sat with DJ Junior Brown, Luke Morrison, Nestor Delano, Ari Rhodes
PALACE CASINO Show Lounge DJ every Sat PAWN SHOP Transmission Saturdays: Indie rock, new wave, classic punk with DJ Blue Jay and Eddie Lunchpail; 9pm (door); free (before 10pm)/$5 (after 10pm) RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests
FRI MAY 18
JK & THE RELAYS WITH KING MUSKAFA AND THE HANGERS SUN MAY 20
THE NOUMENON WITH EXIT STRATEGY AND THE LUCIFER PORJECT FRI MAY 25
CD RELEASE PARTY
HEAVISIDE WITH THE APRESNOS, THE FRANK AND CLOUD SEEKERS SAT MAY 26
ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Rezzo, DJ Mkhai
EARLY SHOW - DOORS 6PM
SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M
WITH BORYS AND SAMANTHA SAVAGE SMITH
SUEDE LOUNGE House, electro, Top40, R'n'B with DJ Melo-D every Fri SUITE 69 Stella Saturday: retro, old school, top 40 beats with DJ Lazy, guests
ROYAL CANOE FRI JUNE 1
RELEASE PARTY
SCENIC ROUTE TO ALASKA AND MASS CHOIR WITH THE MARQUEE AND DESIDERATA
VENUE GUIDE ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave
CROWN PUB 10709-109 St, 780.428.5618
15120A (basement), Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.6010
DIESEL ULTRA LOUNGE 11845 Wayne Gretzky Drive, 780.704.CLUB
HILLTOP PUB 8220-106 Ave, 780.490.7359
DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834
HOGS DEN PUB 9, 14220 Yellowhead Tr
NISKU INN 1101-4 St
SECOND CUP–
NOLA CREOLE KITCHEN & MUSIC HOUSE 11802-124 St, 780.451.1390, experiencenola. com
Sherwood Park 4005 Cloverbar Rd, Sherwood
HOOLIGANZ 10704-124 St,
NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535-109A Ave
780.995.7110
O2'S ON WHYTE
HYDEAWAY 10209-100 Ave, 780.426.5381
O2'S TAPHOUSE AND GRILL 13509-127 St, 780.454.0203
IRON BOAR PUB 4911-51st St, Wetaskiwin
O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766
DV8 8307-99 St
J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403
ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767
BLACKSHEEP PUB 11026 Jasper Ave, 780.420.0448
EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain
JEFFREY’S CAFÉ 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890
ORTONA ARMOURIES 9722-102 St 780.454.0203
BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861
EDDIE SHORTS 10713-124 St, 780.453.3663
BLUE PEAR RESTAURANT 10643-123 St, 780.482.7178
EDMONTON EVENTS CENTRE WEM Phase III, 780.489.SHOW
AVENUE THEATRE 9030-118 Ave, 780.477.2149 BISTRO LA PERSAUD 861791 St, 780.758.6686 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Drive, Nisku, 780.986.8522
BLUES ON WHYTE 1032982 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BONEYARD ALE HOUSE 9216-34 Ave, 780.437.2663 BRITTANYS LOUNGE 10225-97 St (behind Winspear stage door)
DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554
ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 ELEPHANT AND CASTLE– Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ 993870 Ave, 780.437.3667
BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 CAFÉ CORAL DE CUBA 10816 Whyte Ave CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca CARROT CAFÉ 9351-118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464-153 St, 780 424 9467 CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 1033281 Ave, 780.757.2482 CHROME LOUNGE 132 Ave, Victoria Trail COAST TO COAST 5552 Calgary Tr, 780.439.8675 COMMON 9910-109
THE DISH 12417 Stony Plain Rd, 780.488.6641
St
FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FIDDLER’S ROOST 890699 St FILTHY MCNASTY’S 1051182 Ave, 780.916.1557 FLASH NIGHT CLUB 10018105 St, 780.996.1778 FLOW LOUNGE 11815 Wayne Gretzky Dr, 780.604. CLUB FLUID LOUNGE 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 FUNKY BUDDHA 10341-82 Ave, 780.433.9676 GOOD EARTH COFFEE HOUSE AND BAKERY 9942-108 St GOOD NEIGHBOR PUB 11824-103 St HALO 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.HALO HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB
JEKYLL AND HYDE 10209100 Ave, 780.426.5381 JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY 10242-106 St, 780.756.5667 KAS BAR 10444-82 Ave, 780.433.6768 KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE 16648 109 Ave NW L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LA PISANA–Leduc 110, 5401 Discovery Way, Leduc LEGENDS PUB 6104-172 St, 780.481.2786 LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR 10132-104 St LIZARD LOUNGE 13160118 Ave LOUISIANA PURCHASE 10320-111 St, 780.420.6779; louisianapurchase.ca MARYBETH'S COFFEE HOUSE–Beaumont 5001-30 Ave, Beaumont, 780.929.2203 MUTTART HALL Alberta College, 10050 Macdonald Dr MYER HOROWITZ THEATRE 8900-114 St NEWCASTLE PUB 6108-90 Ave, 780.490.1999 NEW CITY LEGION 8130 Gateway Boulevard (Red Door)
Park, 780.988.1929 • Summerwood Summerwood Centre, Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929 SIDELINERS PUB 11018127 St, 780.453.6006 SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924 SPORTSMAN'S LOUNGE 8170-50 St
STEEPS TEA LOUNGE– Whyte Ave 11116-82 Ave SUEDE LOUNGE 11806 Jasper Ave, 780.482.0707
OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588
SUITE 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969
PLAYBACK PUB 594 Hermitage Rd, 130 Ave, 40 St PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 1086057 Ave REDNEX BAR–Morinville 10413-100 Ave, Morinville, 780.939.6955 RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 RENDEZVOUS 10108149 St RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780-457-3117 RIC’S GRILL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602
TAPHOUSE 9020 McKenney Ave, St Albert, 780.458.0860 TREASURY 10004 Jasper Ave, 7870.990.1255, thetreasurey.ca TWO ROOMS 10324 Whyte Ave, 780.439.8386 VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 LOUNGE 10740 Jasper Ave, 780.428.8655, vinylretrolounge.com WILD BILL’S–Red Deer Quality Inn North Hill, 7150-50 Ave, Red Deer, 403.343.8800 WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286
LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253
Y AFTERHOURS 10028102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com
R PUB 16753-100 St , 780.457.1266 SECOND CUP–89 AVE 8906-149 St
WITH GUESTS OUR SOUND MACHINE FOR TICKETS- PLEASE VISIT WWW.YEGLIVE.CA
PRESENTED SAT MAY 19
HALFWAY TO HALLOWEEN
‘THE DEAD ARE RESTLESS’ TRANSMISSION SATURDAYS
WITH DJ BLUE JAY & EDDIE LUNCHPAIL | $4 PINTS & HI BALLS
VINYL DANCE
ROSEBOWL/ROUGE
ROSE AND CROWN 10235101 St
CHRIS MURRAY ON TOUR WTH THE FUNDAMENTALS
STARLITE ROOM 10030102 St, 780.428.1099
OVERTIME–Downtown 10304-111 St, 780.465.6800
PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814
SAT JUNE 2
SAT MAY 19
FREE SHOW 4PM
GIVE ‘EM HELL BOYS STAND UP COMEDY
SUNDAYS
YELLOWHEAD BREWERY 10229-105 St, 780.423.3333 YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295
VUEWEEKLY MAY 17 – MAY 23, 2012
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TEMPLE Oh Snap! Oh Snap with Degree, Cool Beans, Specialist, Spenny B and Mr. Nice Guy and Ten 0; every Sat 9pm Union Hall Celebrity Saturdays: every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous Vinyl Dance Lounge Signature Saturdays
Vindicators; 4-8pm every Sun Pawn Shop the Noumenon (metal), Exit Strategy, the Lucifer Project; 8pm; $10 (door) Red Piano Dueling piano show summer startup party
Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays
Richard's PUB Sun Live Jam hosted by Carson Cole; 4pm
SUN MAY 20
Starlite Room Calling All Junglists; 9pm
Beer Hunter–St Albert Open stage/jam every Sun; 2-6pm Blackdog Freehouse Steam Whistle presents: Audio/ Rocketry, Mitchmatic 9pm; no cover Blackjack's Roadhouse–Nisku Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett Blue Chair Café Farley Scott's Jazz Passages Trio; 10:30am2:30pm; donations Blues on Whyte Great North Blues Band Blue Pear Restaurant Jazz on the Side Sun: Dan Davis; 5:30-8:30pm; $25 if not dining Brixx Bar Surviving Suzzanne, Dreams Of Reason Caffrey's–Sherwood Park The Sunday Blues Jam: hosted by Kevin and Rita McDade and the Grey Cats Blues Band, guests every week; 5-9pm; no cover Cha Island Tea Co Live on the Island: Rhea March hosts open mic and Songwriter's stage; starts with a jam session; 7pm DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB Celtic open stage every Sun with Keri-Lynne Zwicker; 5:30pm; no cover
studio music foundation Harboursound, guests; 6-11:59pm TWO ROOMS Live Jam every Sun with Jeremiah; 5-9pm; no cover; $10 (dinner) Wunderbar Wintermitts (Vancouver); 8:30pm; $7 Yellowhead Brewery Open Stage: Every Sun, 8pm
DJs BACKSTAGE TAP AND GRILL Industry Night: every Sun with Atomic Improv, Jameoki and DJ Tim BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sundays: A fantastic voyage through '60s and '70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy FLOW Lounge Stylus Sun SAVOY MARTINI LOUNGE Reggae on Whyte: RnR Sun with DJ IceMan; no minors; 9pm; no cover
FILTHY McNASTY'S Rock and Soul Sundays with DJ Sadeeq Hogs Den Pub Open Jam: hosted; open jam every Sun, all styles welcome; 3-7pm Newcastle Pub Sun Soul Service (acoustic jam): Willy James and Crawdad Cantera; 3-6:30pm NEW CITY LEGION DIY Sunday Afternoons: 4pm (door), 5pm , 6pm, 7pm, 8pm (bands); Boy Rambler, Showbiz, The Universe Machine
Jubilee Auditorium Bon Iver (folk), guests; 8pm; $44.50, $49.50 at UnionEvents.com, Ticketmaster.ca Overtime Sherwood Park Monday Open Stage PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm Richard's Pub Moscow Dynamo Rose Bowl/Rouge Lounge Acoustic open stage every Mon; 9pm
DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay
On the Rocks Long Weekend: Bonafide O2's tap house and grill Open stage hosted by the band the
FILTHY McNASTY'S Metal Mondays with DJ Tyson
54 MUSIC
Red Piano All Request Band Tuesdays: Classic rock, soul and R&B with Joint Chiefs; 8pm; $5
Brixx Bar Ruby Tuesdays guest with host Mark Feduk: The Electric Religious with Adam Finley and Vincent Pearson; $5 after 8pm bohemia Ramshackle Day Parade: featuring some of Edmonton's lead performers in noise culture; no minors; 8pm show; $5 (door) Druid Irish Pub Open stage every Tue; with Chris Wynters; 9pm Jubilee Auditorium George Thorogood (blues rock) and the Destroyers, Gordie Johnson; 6:30pm (door), 7:30pm (show); $35, $65, $85 L.B.’s Tue Blues Jam with Ammar; 9pm-1am
Overtime Sherwood Park The Campfire Hero's (acoustic rock, country, top 40); 9pm2am every Tue; no cover
Crown Pub Mixmashitup Mon Industry Night: with DJ Fuzze, J Plunder (DJs to bring their music and mix mash it up)
O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am
Blues on Whyte Momarley
BLACK DOG
DV 8 Tavern Systematik (Ex Unlearn), guests; 9pm
DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly, Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue NEW CITY LEGION High Anxiety Variety Society Bingo vs. karaoke with Ben Disaster, Anonymouse every Tue; no minors; 4pm-3am; no cover
O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm
FREEHOUSE Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover
CRown Pub Live Hip Hop Tue: freestyle hip hop with DJ Xaolin and Mc Touch
Black Dog Freehouse Best in Show–a long weekend live music showcase: Ayla Brook, Team Building, Cockatoo, Concrete Hearts, Ospreys ( Jesse Dollimont The Consonance and Darrek Anderson); 2pm (door), 4pm (show); no cover
Artery Wake Owl (pop folk), Cody Gamracy, Tyler Butler; 8pm; $12 (at Blackbyrd)/$10 (door)
Devaney's Irish pub Brian McLeod '
Electric Rodeo– Spruce Grove Zumba! with Dawn Morgan
TUE MAY 22
MON MAY 21
Blues on Whyte Momarley
Edmonton Event Centre Gravity: All White Teen Party; all ages; 8pm
NEW CITY LEGION Madhouse Mon: Punk/ metal/etc with DJ Smart Alex
New City Trusty Chords Tuesdays; $5 (door)
Double D's Open jam every Sun; 3-8pm
Eddie Shorts Open stage with Dan Daniels every Sun
Lucky 13 Industry Night every Mon with DJ Chad Cook
Padmanadi Open stage every Tue; with Mark Davis; all ages; 7:30-10:30pm R Pub Open stage jam every Tue; hosted by Gary and the Facemakers; 8pm Red Piano All request band Tuesdays: Joint Chiefs (classic rock, soul, R&B) every Tue Richard's Pub Moscow Dynamo Second Cup– Summerwood Open stage/open mic every Tue; 7:30pm; no cover Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Tony Dizon; Sherlock Holmes– WEM Jimmy Whiffen; Wunderbar Geist (Calgary), Wilder Than We, Distance Bullock (Calgary); 8:30pm; $7 Yardbird Suite Tue Night Sessions: Charlie Austin Trio, Dino Dominelli; 7:30-8pm; $5
DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: alternative retro and not-so-retro, electronic and Euro with Eddie Lunchpail Buddys DJ Arrow Chaser every
RED STAR Experimental Indie Rock, Hip Hop, Electro with DJ Hot Philly; every Tue
Suite 69 Rockstar Tuesdays: Mash up and Electro with DJ Tyco, DJ Omes with weekly guest DJs
WED MAY 23 Avenue Theatre Counterparts (metal), Your Demise, Hundredth, guests; 6pm; $12 (adv)/$15 (door) BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Glitter Gulch: live music once a month Blues on Whyte Momarley Brittany's Lounge Aroot's Bazaar (Gypsy Latin band) every Wed Cha Island Tea Co Whyte Noise Drum Circle: Join local drummers for a few hours of beats and fun; 6pm Crown Pub The D.A.M.M Jam: Open stage/original plugged in jam with Dan, Miguel and friends every Wed Devaney's Irish pub Duff Robinson DV8 It's Criminal, Whiskey Rose, Better Us Than Strangers; 9pm eddie shorts Electric open jam with Steven Johnson Experience every Wed Elephant and Castle–Whyte Ave Open mic every Wed (unless there's an Oilers game); no cover Fiddler's Roost Little Flower Open Stage every Wed with Brian Gregg; 8pm-12 Good Earth Coffee House and Bakery Breezy Brian Gregg; every Wed; 12-1pm HAVEN SOCIAL Club Open stage every Wed with Jonny Mac, 8:30pm, free HOOLIGANZ Open stage every Wed with host Cody Nouta; 9pm Myer Horowitz Theatre The Be Good Tanyas, guests; 8p; all ages; $27.50 (adv) at primeboxoffice.com, unionevents.com New West Hotel Free classic country dance lessons every Wed, 7-9pm Nisku Inn Troubadours and Tales: 1st Wed every month; with Tim
Harwill, guests; 8-10pm Overtime Sherwood Park Jason Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Wed; no cover PAWN SHOP Yamantaka, Sonic Titan, guests; no minors; 8pm (door); $12.50 at Prime Box Office, unionevents.com, Blackbyrd
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MATT JONES // JONESINCROSSWORDS@vueweekly.com
What if these bands played together?
Playback Pub Open Stage every Wed hosted by JTB; 9pm-1am PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:30-11pm; $2 (member)/$4 (nonmember) Red Piano Bar Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 Richard's PUB Live Latin Band Salsabor every Wed; 9pm Second Cup–149 St Open stage with Alex Boudreau; 7:30pm Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Tony Dizon Sherlock Holmes– WEM Jimmy Whiffen Wunderbar Scarlett Jane (Toronto), Low Flying Planes; 8:30pm; $7
Classical Winspear Bach, Haydn & Beethoven: Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Lucas Waldin (conductor), Marc Destrubé (violin); 7:30pm; $20-$65
DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: RetroActive Radio: Alternative '80s and '90s, post punk, new wave, garage, Brit, mod, rock and roll with LL Cool Joe Brixx Bar Really Good... Eats and Beats: every Wed with DJ Degree and Friends BUDDY'S DJ Dust 'n' Time every Wed; 9pm (door); no cover The Common Treehouse Wednesdays Diesel Ultra Lounge Wind-up Wed: R&B, hiphop, reggae, old skool, reggaeton with InVinceable, Touch It, weekly guest DJs FILTHY McNASTY'S Pint Night Wednesdays with DJ SAWG FUNKY BUDDHA– Whyte Ave Latin and Salsa music every Wed; dance lessons 8-10pm LEGENDS PUB Hip hop/R&B with DJ Spincycle NEW CITY LEGION Wed Pints 4 Punks: with DJ Nick; no minors; 4pm3am; no cover NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed TEMPLE Wild Style Wed: Hip hop open mic hosted by Kaz and Orv; $5
VUEWEEKLY MAY 17 – MAY 23, 2012
Across 1 One-named musician born in Kalamata 6 "In the Valley of ___" (2007 Tommy Lee Jones film) 10 Maligned clear drink of the 1990s 14 Actor Delon 15 What a link leads to 16 Brown or Rice: abbr. 17 It makes a Brit bright 18 Go with the joke 20 Hazy memory after a few rounds of drinks? 22 President pro ___ 23 "The Jungle Book" snake 24 Cry convulsively 27 Former Cincinnati Bengal Collinsworth 30 More unlike a chicken 35 Painkiller-induced dreams, now for all to see? 38 Literary detective's outburst 39 ___-Magnon man 40 Cupid's counterpart 41 Did the candles for your cat's birthday party? 46 On a smaller scale 47 Timetable, for short 48 Allow 49 Eur. country 51 "Got it!" 53 Message that shows your car's warning system is joking with you? 60 1985 sci-fi film with Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossett, Jr. 62 Tropical vine 63 Baby ___ (tabloid term for a celeb's pregnancy sighting) 64 ___-Seltzer 65 Pull-down directories 66 Tendency 67 Loch ___ Monster 68 Guns N' Roses guitarist Down 1 Pensacola pronoun 2 Matty or Felipe of baseball 3 Grandmas, for some 4 One of seven in a week 5 "Office Space" company 6 "SportsCenter" network 7 "Mystic Pizza" actress Taylor 8 Sharp as ___ 9 Words before "Take a Walk on the Wild Side," in the lyrics
10 Yankee follower 11 "Are you ___ out?" 12 Like some keys: abbr. 13 Part of GPA 19 Dream interrupter 21 Katz of "Eerie, Indiana" 24 Need deodorant 25 Word appearing twice after "Boogie" in a 1978 #1 hit's title 26 Sausages at picnics 28 "Hedwig and the Angry ___" 29 Belgraders, e.g. 31 One of Geena's "Beetlejuice" co-stars 32 How some videos go 33 Bring out 34 Stopwatch button 36 Printable files 37 Knight's neighbor 42 Family surname in R&B 43 Sam & Dave hit covered by the Blues Brothers 44 Peachy 45 "The Hangover" actor 50 One of many explored by Mulder and Scully 52 She was "The Little Mermaid" 53 Disaster relief org. 54 Diamond heads? 55 Tattoo parlor supply 56 Meadows 57 ___ Lang ("Smallville" role) 58 Heavy burden 59 Laundry 60 Recede, like the tide 61 "Rapa ___" (1994 movie about Easter Island) ©2012 Jonesin' Crosswords
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
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Help Wanted
Cook - Thai Restaurant The Bangkok Express on the south-side is seeking an energetic, attentive, Cook. Full time permanent. Duties include prepare and cook stir fry, salads, soups and curries. 2 years or more and cook certificate preferred. $12.00 to 15.00 per hr. depending on exp. Please send resume to info@bangkokexpress.ca I am looking for an energetic and diligent personal assistant. Position is fairly flexible, salary very attractive, so if interested you can email me on matt@silverspringinc.com Kitchen Help - Thai Restaurant The Bangkok Express on the south-side is seeking an energetic, attentive, Kitchen Helper. Full time permanent. Duties include food prep, stock shelves,clean dishes. 6 months experience preferred. $10.00 $12.50 depending on exp. Please send resume to info@bangkokexpress.ca
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Volunteers Wanted
Canada's premier Surf Rock, Reggae and Roots Music celebration - The 3rd Annual Open Sky Music Festival takes place from June 8 - 10, 2012. Volunteers needed! Want to be a part of this great event? Please email the Volunteer Coordinator on our website : www.openskymusicfestival.com Community Action Dash Date: May 20, 2012 (shifts: 9am 12pm, 9-3 pm) Location: Santa Maria Goretti Center Volunteers required: Individuals to help with annual run and health festival supporting "Action for Healthy Communities" To register email: communityactiondash@gmail.com Or Visit www.communityactiondash.webs.com
Community Garden Volunteer Help maintain a small garden and landscaping outside the Meals on Wheels building. The produce and herbs from the garden will be used as part of Grow a Row for Meals on Wheels. Contact us at 780-429-2020, or sign up on our website at www.mealsonwheelsedmonton.org Environmental News Radio Needs You! Terra Informa is an environmentally themed radio news show that is syndicated across Canada. We are run by volunteers and we need more help! No experience necessary! We will provide you with all necessary training. Curious? Contact us at terra@cjsr.com, terrainforma.ca or call Steve at 780-432-5566 P.A.L.S. Project Adult Literacy Society needs volunteers to work with adult students in: Literacy, English As A Second Language and Math Literacy. For more information please contact (780)424-5514 or email palsvolunteers2003@yahoo.ca
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CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): You spend nearly one-third of your life sleeping. For one-fifth of that time, you're dreaming. So pretty much every night, you watch and respond to as much as 90 minutes' worth of movies created by and starring you. Much of this footage is obscure and not exactly Oscar-worthy. But according to my astrological analysis, the immediate future could be different. Your dreams should be full of riveting entertainment that reveals important information about the mysteries of your destiny. Please consider keeping a pen and notebook near your bed, or a small recording device. LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): It's Oxymoron Season for you. That means you're likely to encounter more than your usual share of sweet and sour paradoxes. The logic-loving areas of your brain will almost certainly have to seek assistance from your non-rational wisdom. I'll give you a heads-up on some of the lucid riddles you should be ready to embrace: a humbling triumph; a tender rivalry; a selfish blessing; an opportunity to commune with risky comfort; an invitation to explore a relaxing challenge. For best results, memorize these lines from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and recite them periodically: "Do I contradict myself? / Very well then I contradict myself. / (I am large, I contain multitudes.)" VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): There's at least a 50-percent chance that the coming days will be over-the-top, out-of-theblue and off-the-record. I'm half-expecting florid, luscious and kaleidoscopic events, possibly even rococo and splendiferous adventures. Are you ready for all this? Of course not. That's the point life will be trying to make: nudging you to learn more about the fine art of spontaneity as you improvise your way through unpredictable lessons that will lead you toward the resources you'll need to succeed. LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): Obsessions. Enchantments. Crushes. Manias. Fetishes. Some astrologers think you Libras are mostly immune from these indelicate but sometimes delightful modes of human expression. They seem to believe that you love harmony and balance too much to fall under the spell of a bewitching passion that rivets your focus. I disagree with that view. It may be true that you're better able than the other signs to be objective about your fixations. But that doesn't necessarily dilute the intensity you feel when they rise up and captivate your imagination with the force of a thousand love songs. My advice? Have fun and stay amused. SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): "The chains that bind us most CONTINUED ON PAGE 57 >>
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Master of their domain Masturbate-a-thon brings it all out in the open May is National Masturbation Month. have all genders. We have a little stage This awareness campaign started in at one side and have entertainment off San Francisco way back in 1995 after and on through the day; our current then-Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders location has a projector and screen, so was forced to resign her post after she we may show some porn. In those years stated in a press conference that when we webcast, there is a specific she thought masturbation was stage where the camera points, something that should be to preserve the privacy of othdiscussed in schools. Since ers. We often have celebrity .com ly then, Masturbation Month k hosts and I interview them e e @vuew brenda has been a platform for norand am sort of a Howard Coa Brender sell figure for the entire event, malizing and encouraging disb Ker cussion about this very human announcing what's going on, inand very healthy act. While it started terviewing participants, etc." As one of in the US, it has spread out to Canada the taglines for the event put it, "it's and countries all over the world. But if just like a walk-a-thon, except your feet you want to take in the very height of don't hurt at the end." National Masturbation Month celebrations, you'll have to go back to where it Does anyone actually attend this biall started and attend the live Masturzarre affair? For sure. It has changed bate-A-Thon in San Francisco. Yes, there in size and format over the years and really is such a thing. attracted up to 300 people each year. The Masturbate-A-Thon, hosted by This year, Queen expects between 60 the Centre for Sex and Culture, is now and 100 people, due to a somewhat in its 13th year. It is both an awareness smaller space. Each person is asked to event and a fundraiser for the Centre. collect pledges or, if they aren't comIf the idea of a live wank-a-thon defies fortable asking their friends and family your imagination, check out this helpful to give them money to get off, they can description given to me by sex educaself-sponsor at a minimum of $40/pertor and author Carol Queen, who runs son. That money is used to help fund the centre and helps to organize the the space and the programming of the event: "Part of the room [is] blocked off Centre for Sex and Culture. for women only, another area for men The crowd tends to be more women only; the larger part of the room will than men and more over 30 than un-
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closely are the ones we have broken," said Scorpio poet Antonio Porchia. In other words, the oppression from which we have freed ourselves may continue to influence us long after we've escaped. The imprint it left on our sensitive psyches might keep distorting our decisions and twisting our emotions. But I'm here to tell you that you're entering a time when you have an enhanced power to dissolve the lingering taint your broken chains still impose. You finally have the resources and wisdom to complete the liberation process. SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): In the coming weeks, you will have an excellent chance to develop more skill in the art of high gossip. High gossip has almost nothing in common with the mindless prattle that erodes reputations and fosters cynicism. It's not driven by envy or schadenfreude. When you engage in high gossip, you spread uplifting whispers and inspirational hearsay; you conspire to awaken generosity of spirit and practical idealism. High gossip is a righteous approach to chatting about the human zoo. It might not flow as easily as the cheap and shabby kind, but it lasts a whole lot longer and creates connections that help keep your mental hygiene sparkling clean. CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): Sometimes I have a dream that seems cryptic or meaningless when I first wake up, but a few days later I realize it was a brilliant insight into
der, says Queen and many of the people who attend are exhibitionists who enjoy performing and being watched, although certainly not all. "Most say they do it because they love to masturbate and want to be in a space that validates that; others say they are so nervous about doing it, that they realize it might really help them break through fears." Organizers work hard to make the space safe and keep a close watch on everyone to be sure that no one is being bothered or made to feel uncomfortable. Just like any other fundraising event, there are prizes. Records are kept for the longest time spent masturbating and the most orgasms. "We don't think masturbation ought to be competitive," says Queen, "however, this is a real crowd-pleaser." The Masturbate-a-Thon has been replicated in Denmark and in 2006, Queen and her crew took the event to London. Sadly, if this sounds like it's your kind of fundraiser, there is no Canadian version. You'll have to make your way to San Francisco on May 27. V Brenda Kerber is a sexual health educator who has worked with local not-forprofits since 1995. She is the owner of the Edmonton-based, sex-positive adult toy boutique the Traveling Tickle Trunk.
what I most needed to transform about my life. If you don't recall many of your dreams, that might not be a familiar experience for you. But you've probably had waking-life experiences with a similar arc. I predict you will be given at least one of those in the coming week. It may confound you while you're in the midst of it, but will eventually reveal choice clues that have the power to change your life for the better. AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): You may not have heard about the "forbidden colours." And you certainly haven't seen them, even though they exist. They're reddish green and yellowish blue, which the cells of your retina are not built to register. However, scientists have figured out a trick by which these hues can be made visible. A few lucky people have actually caught a glimpse of them. I bring this to your attention because I suspect you are close to experiencing a metaphorical version of this breakthrough—seeing something that is supposedly impossible to see. PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): "There's no such thing as a wrong note," said jazz pianist Art Tatum. "It all depends on how you resolve it." Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis had a similar philosophy. "It's not the note you play that's the wrong note," he said. "It's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong." I think that's an excellent understanding for you to keep in mind during the coming weeks. Be wary of coming to premature conclusions about alleged mistakes. Wait to hear the entire song and see the bigger picture.
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Dan has warnings about both canning and public washrooms I work in an office tower in downtown be interested in talking to," says ning" is used numerous times. Despite Seattle. From time to time, I go to a Whitcomb. "You don't need to be my best efforts, I cannot find a definibathroom on a mostly deserted floor, peeping into the stall to see if sometion for this practice. Who else can I go into a stall, and rub out a quick one is using it, and looking into a stall turn to but you? one. Usually, no one comes in. long enough to make a determination CONFUSED AND NAIVE, NEW ERA Today, just as I was blowing a as to what the person is doing in DEFINITION load into a handful of TP, that stall, exactly, is an inE someone came into the bathdication that you've been It's not canning ("a method of preSAVAG room. This person walked looking a little longer than serving food in which the food conkly.com you need to." e up to the stall and stared e tents are processed and sealed in w e @vu gelove through the door crack. This sava So, yeah, if anyone is goan airtight container"), it's caning ("a Dan e person stood there for a secing to jail here, SPANK, it's form of corporal punishment consistg a v Sa ond before walking over to the the peeper who reported you ing of a number of hits with a single urinal. He finished and left. I flushed to the office tower's crack security cane usually made of rattan"). and washed my hands and left. A seteam, not you. I don't know if the author of Fifty curity guard came around the corner HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA! Shades of Grey dropped that extra "n" while I was waiting for the elevator. Forgive me for laughing, SPANK, in there, CANNED, or if you did. But He rode the elevator down with me but said nothing. At the lobby, I got Get in a time machine and go warn your younger in the elevator that takes me back to self not to make the same mistake that so many my floor. As the door closed, I heard women make in their 20s. That is, dumping guys someone say, "See that guy?" with relatively harmless, easily indulged kinks ... I am paranoid that security is gobecause kinky guys are "weird," "not normal" or ing to confront me. But have I done "probably gay." anything illegal? I may have exercised poor judgment and been squicky, but is it illegal to masturbate in a closed but I'm having a hard time keeping a here's hoping that millions of women bathroom stall on private property? straight face. If someone called the acall over the world aren't fantasizing SUDDENLY PENSIVE ABOUT tual cops about a toilet wanker—and about having themselves canned by NOONTIME KICKS not, say, the Seattle Police Departkinky billionaires. A person can surment's polite and reasonable spokesvive—a person can even enjoy—a It isn't, SPANK, at least not in Seattle. person—it's the wanker who'll wind up good thrashing. But being sealed in "There is an expectation of privacy in in handcuffs, not the caller. Beat cops an airtight container? Not so much. a bathroom stall," says Seattle Police don't generally give the benefit of the Full disclosure: I may be the only Department spokesperson Sergeant doubt to guys rubbing 'em out in public sex writer on earth who has yet to Sean Whitcomb. "So obviously, what toilets. They'll assume you were cruisread Fifty Shades of Grey. While I people do there is their personal ing the toilet or, worse yet, that you're plan to avoid reading Grey, just as business." the kind of perv who gets off to the I've avoided watching "2 Girls, 1 Cup" If things went down exactly as you sounds and smells of other men taking (and for similar reasons, ie, I'm easdescribed, SPANK, you're not in any craps, and they'll arrest you. ily nauseated), I think it's wonderful legal danger, as you were doing your that this book is inspiring a whole own private business in the privacy I'm stumped, Dan. In the novel Fifty new generation of American women of a bathroom stall. The guy who Shades of Grey, which has been to get their kink on. peered into your stall, however, the subject of much discussion due could be in trouble. to its controversial subject matter I'm a 43-year-old woman, married for "Here's the irony: the person peep(a young woman gets involved in a 19 years, and I need your help! Like ing into the stall is the person we'd BDSM relationship), the term "canmost middle-aged moms, I read Fifty
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Shades of Grey. I understand that it is fiction. But it has motivated me to spice things up in the bedroom. The problem is that my husband is a dud. He's not open to trying anything that isn't missionary or doggy. That's the extent of it. I feel as if I've tried everything. He's happy with the way things are. Period. What do I do? WOMAN HAS INTERESTING PERVERSIONS Here's what you do: get in a time machine and go warn your younger self not to make the same mistake that so many women make in their 20s. That is, dumping guys with relatively harmless, easily indulged kinks—the foot fetishists, the guys who wear panties, the guys who want their girlfriends to wear superhero costumes while they peg their ass—because kinky guys are "weird," "not normal" or "probably gay." Backing way the hell up for a moment: I've been writing about sex and relationships, men and women, kinky sex and vanilla sex for 20 years. It is my informed opinion that men typically become aware of their kinks— they typically become hyperaware of them—when they're teenagers. Many women, on the other hand, don't seem to become aware of their kinks until they're in their 30s or 40s. Maybe it has something to do with the sexual peak, which men are believed to hit in their teens and women in their 30s (and which many people believe to be bullshit), or maybe it simply takes women longer to overcome the misogynist slut-shaming that they're subjected to as girls and to openly embrace their sexualities and sexual interests. Whatever the cause, I've seen it happen again and again: a woman tosses aside a series of decent but
somewhat kinky guys until she finds a guy whose sexual interests are "normal," eg, missionary, doggy and no-hands-on-the-back-of-thehead oral. And that's the guy she marries. Then, 10 or 20 years later, she develops some "weird," "not normal," "probably gay" sexual interests of her own. Now she wants to spice things up, but—fuckadoodledoo—20 years ago, she dumped a nice kinkster and married a total sexual dud instead. So here's what you do: get in a time machine and go tell your twentysomething self not to dump someone because he's kinky, WHIP, because one day you're going to come into your own kinks. And when that day comes, you'll want to be able to say something like this to your husband: "So, hey, you know how I've been jerking you off with my feet / letting you wear my panties / dressing up like Aquagirl and fucking your ass for the last 19 years? It's been a lot of fun, honey, and you know I love you and you know I love your kinks. But it's payback time. I just finished reading this book, and it really turned me on and now I wanna get canned and you're going to can me." If you don't have access to a time machine, WHIP, tell your husband that while he may be happy with the way things are, you're not. Which means things have to change. CONFIDENTIAL TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Thanks, man. V Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage. @fakedansavage on Twitter
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