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"Minimum wage is not the same as a living wage, which is the figure needed to meet the cost of living in a municipality." // 7

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Terrible Halloween costumes

Don't even consider dressing up as Caitlyn Jenner this year. Just don't. It's only a few days past Labour Day, but retail stores are already gearing up for Halloween. I have ambivalent feelings about Halloween: on the one hand, it's one of the few queer High Holidays (the other being Pride) and queers do a lot to make the holiday our own; on the other hand, Halloween is an excuse for douchebags to come crawling out of the woodwork because it's the one day each year when straight people can explore facets of their sexuality without fear of recrimination. Sadly, this year the parade of the ignorant started simultaneously with the rollout of Halloween merchandise. To wit: the Caitlyn Jenner Halloween costume. You may have seen the image floating around social media already: a hirsute cisgender man wearing a long brunette wig, white underwear with matching bustier, and a white satin sash that reads, "Call me

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Caitlyn." The product copy for the costume reads: "If you want some 'Vanity' this Halloween, then try wearing the Unisex Call Me Caitlyn Costume. You probably won't break any Twitter records when you wear this outfit like Caitlyn did when she first made her account, but you'll be sure to get a few laughs out of your friends and the other guests at the get together." Let's unpack why this is so terribly transphobic, shall we? People dress up as living celebrities every year, generally for two reasons: homage or mockery. I expect to see at least a few people in Donald Trump costumes, complete with a bad toupee and an

"I hate immigrants" button. As someone very much in the public eye of her own volition, Jenner is certainly not immune to the consumption of her image. However, the difference between that hypothetical Trump costume and the actual Jenner one is

because you're a dude dressed like a lady—always a knee-slapper. However, Jenner is not a dude dressed like a woman: Jenner is a woman. Period. This kind of transphobia is the same kind that underpins everything from policing trans* people in washrooms to their outright murder. It's not OK any day of the year.

Let's unpack why this is so terribly transphobic, shall we? People dress up as living celebrities every year, generally for two reasons: homage or mockery. this: the Trump costume is mocking Trump's blowhard political stances, while the Jenner costume is making fun of her for being a trans* woman. The copy reaffirms that you'll "get a few laughs" out of your friends

While I am sure there was some transphobia behind this costume development, there was also probably a serious economic consideration: straight cisgender dudes love dressing up as women for Halloween. It's to these guys that I want to turn my final remarks: listen fellas, I know

that toxic masculinity is a lot to bear and I know that Halloween is the one day where you get to experiment with femininity (#nohomo) without much fear of recrimination. You can try on a silky pair of panties, lovingly apply some foundation, or shave your legs and slip into a dress. Welcome to the club! Thousands of nascent queers are going to be joining you this year as they, too, embrace the opportunity to try on different parts of themselves. I'm not trying to suggest that you're gay—far from it. It's totally normal to be curious about femininity, because femininity is awesome. Find a YouTube tutorial on how to give yourself cleavage with three bras, visit your local drugstore makeup counter, and find a forgiving drag queen to give you some tips. Experiment away, my heterosexual brothers! Just please don't be an asshole while you do it.V

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Russia to the rescue?

Military intervention from Moscow may be Syria's last hope US Secretary of State John Kerry has just phoned Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warning him not to "escalate the conflict" by increasing Moscow's military support for the beleaguered Syrian regime. He stamped his foot quite hard, telling Lavrov that his government's actions could "lead to greater loss of innocent life, increase refugee flows and risk confrontation with the anti-Isil coalition operating in Syria." What the Russians have actually done, so far, is to send an advance military team to Damascus of the sort that is normally deployed to prepare for the arrival of a much larger military force. They have also sent an air-traffic control centre and housing units for its personnel to a Syrian airbase. It suggests that Moscow is getting ready to go in to save President Bashar al-Assad's regime. It has given Assad diplomatic support, financial aid and some weapons over the course of the four-year-old Syrian civil war, but it will take more than that to save him now. That would include at least an airlift of heavy weapons, but maybe also direct Russian air support for Assad's exhausted troops. They need it. Since the fanatical fighters of "Islamic State" (or Isil, as the US State Department calls it) captured Palmyra in central Syria in

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May, they have advanced steadily westward from their new base. One month ago they captured the mostly Christian town of al-Qaratayn, northeast of Damascus. (The inhabitants fled, of course.) And now IS forces are within 30 km of the M5, the key highway that links Damascus with the other parts of Syria that remain under government control. The jihadis captured Palmyra, by the way, because the "anti-Isil coalition"— the US Air Force, in practice— did not drop a single bomb in its defence. It made at least a thousand air strikes to save Kobani, the Kurdish city on the border with Turkey that was besieged by IS fighters, because the Kurds were US allies. Whereas Palmyra was defended by Assad's soldiers, so the US let Islamic State have it. One can imagine Kerry's (and Obama's) horror at the idea that by defending Palmyra they would be seen as protecting Assad's brutal regime, but if Islamic State troops manage to cut the M5 it will be seen

as a sign of the regime's impending defeat. At that point, up to half the people who still live in governmentcontrolled areas—around 17 million—may panic and start trying to get out of Syria. They would obviously include the religious minorities (Christians, Alawites, Druze), some five million people who have good reason to

roll on through behind the refugees, overrunning Lebanon and Jordan as well, or whether they fall to fighting among themselves. All three major Islamist groups—Islamic State (which Turkey and Saudi Arabia no longer support), and the alNusra Front and Ahrar al-Sham (which they still do)—are virtually identical in their ideology and their ultimate goals. However, they have some tactical differences, and Islamic State and al-Nusra fought a quite serious turf war last year, so maybe they will get distracted again. But even if they do, Syria will be gone. This is what the Russians see coming, and they may be willing to try to stop it. When asked on Friday if Moscow intended to get involved directly in the Syrian fighting, Russian President Vladimir Putin would only say that the question was "premature." Nobody, including the Russians, likes Assad's regime, but it is the least bad remaining option. Indeed, it is the only alternative left to a jihadi victory. Most of the "mod-

When asked on Friday if Moscow intended to get involved directly in the Syrian fighting, Russian President Vladimir Putin would only say that the question was "premature." fear slavery, rape and murder at the hands of Islamic State. The millions of Sunni Muslims who have served the Syrian government and its army would also be at risk. So let's say four or five million more refugees pouring out across Syria's borders, to join the four million who have already fled. What they left behind would be a Syria entirely controlled by the extremists. The only remaining question would be whether the jihadis

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erate" anti-regime rebels went home or fled abroad years ago, unable to match the jihadis in firepower, in money or in frightfulness. The notion that the US can now create a moderate "third force" able to defeat both the jihadis and the Assad regime is a shameful face-saving fantasy Moscow used diplomacy to save the Obama administration from itself two years ago, when Washington was getting ready to bomb Assad's forces in response to a (possibly spurious) allegation that they had used poison gas on civilians. The only way Russia can avert disaster this time, however, is to put its own air force into the fight—and maybe its own ground troops, too. If it does, the key question will then be whether the United States lets Russia do the job that it is too fastidious to do itself, or whether it gives in to the clamour of its Turkish and Saudi allies—and they would be clamouring—to "stand up" to the Russian intervention. Since the United States doesn't actually have a coherent strategy of its own, it's impossible to predict how it will respond. For all Kerry's bluster, they don't know yet in Washington either. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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What does a $15 minimum wage mean? Digging into the true impacts of Alberta's impending minimum wage increases

t was one of the NDP's most heralded platform planks in the spring provincial election. Since the election it has generated much heat and controversy, long before any changes have actually occurred—the first $1 increase (bringing minimum wage to $11.20 per hour) doesn't take effect until October 1. Advocates and lobbyists on both sides of the issue have been lining up to spin their tale to the media and to twist the arms of any NDP MLA they can grab. But the political debate around the issue is occluding bigger-picture discussions about the nature of low-wage employment, the role of tips and the best way to reduce poverty. What does a $15 minimum wage really mean for workers in Alberta? The arguments dominating the headlines centre around job loss: the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) claims the increase will cause a loss of 50 290 to 183 300 jobs in Alberta. This number is simply too large to be credible: at the upper end, they are suggesting that one in every 12 jobs in Alberta would disappear if the minimum wage increased. That would be an economic tsunami.

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Even if the CFIB's numbers are a little too torqued to be believed, there is a widespread belief that minimum wage hikes kill jobs. However, advocates for the increase counter that putting more money into the pockets of low-wage workers actually creates jobs, as they spend all their income on goods and services. Clearly minimum wages can't do both, so which is it? Academic studies on the effect of minimum wages are mixed, but there is a growing consensus that increases have only marginal effects—positive or negative—on jobs. Some cases show very slight decreases in employment, while others find slight increases. To be frank, it is the other, non-controlled factors that have more effect on job levels in low-wage sectors. The low (or high) price of oil will most likely swamp any cumulative effect of a $4.80 increase in the minimum wage. The Alberta government recently published a report, the Alberta Minimum Wage Profile (April 2014—March 2015), that provides another argument against increasing the minimum wage: only two percent of wage earners make the minimum, commonly assumed to be teenagers working part-time jobs. This argument also fails, not least because it implies that teenagers don't need or deserve a higher wage, but also because the same report reveals that only 35 percent of minimum wage earners are under the age of 20, and just over half were in part-time jobs. Interestingly, 11 percent of minimum wage earners are over 55—that is something the CFIB doesn't want to talk about. The more significant figure is those earning less than $15 per CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 >>

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No accountability

remarkable thing happened in Hungary this week—a thing that probably wouldn't have happened in Canada. I'm not talking about the fact that while the Hungarian government worked frantically to build a fourmetre-high barbed-wire fence on the Serbian border to keep Syrian refugees out, and police were firing tear gas at those who attempted to leave the reception (detention?) centre to which they'd been confined, the Hungarian people were bringing shoes

and supplies to the very people their government was trying diligently to keep the hell out. That would totally happen in Canada. What I'm talking about is that Hungary's defence minister resigned on Monday because the armed forces for which he was responsible were too slow building the fence. This, for Canadians unfamiliar with the concept, is what is referred to as ministerial accountability: an integral component of the centuries-old Westminster parliamentary dem-

ocratic system. It holds that ministers of the crown are answerable for the decisions of their ministry and served as an important motivator for ministers to closely scrutinize the goings-on in their own departments. When Prime Minister Stephen Harper assumed office in 2006, parliament's accountability guidelines explicitly stated that ministers were responsible for the actions of their staffers, "whether or not the minister had prior knowledge." Shortly after achiev-

ing a majority in 2011, the Conservatives changed those guidelines; Harper's ministers need not know anything and there's no requirement to take responsibility even if they do. It would be easy to call this an Ottawa problem, but the lack of accountability of elected representatives has reached every level of government. Take, for example, the Metro Line LRT fiasco. Councillors now claim they were not given full information and take no responsibility for the fact

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that they failed to ask the obvious questions—questions their constituents were, in fact, screaming at the top of their lungs. We can blame the elected officials who hide behind bureaucrats who hide behind consultants. Or we can blame ourselves for continuing to elect people who deliver pre-packaged talking points crafted by teams of professionals. Either way, there's no shortage of blame to go around— mainly because nobody's willing to accept it. V

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hour, since anyone at that level will be getting a pay raise in the next three years. Research shows minimum wage increases also benefit those slightly above the new minimum, so the number of impacted workers is higher. But if we just stick with $15, we find 20 percent of Albertans—almost 400 000—earned less than the government's benchmark. What does the average sub-$15 per hour worker look like? An article published in May 2015 on the Parkland Institute's website reveals that this worker is likely a woman over the age of 25, working full-time and living independently. This worker is also just as likely to be working for a large corporation (more than 100 employees) than a small business. This profile does

not reflect the image opponents are trying to portray, of some high school kid living with their parents and working for video game money. Proponents such as the Edmonton Social Planning Council argue that the increase is a key poverty reduction strategy, because if you can raise the incomes of the lowest 20 percent of wage earners, it follows that there will be a positive impact on reducing poverty. However, minimum wages may not be the most effective tool for poverty reduction, as taxes and other deductions mean that workers take home a lot less than $15. Plus, the minimum wage hike does not help marginal workers in the labour force whose employment income is minimal. Minimum wage is not the same as a living wage, which is the figure needed to meet the cost of living in a municipality. Living wage

factors in real-life costs such as transportation, child care and rent. Advocates on the Living Wage Canada website peg that figure to be over $17 per hour in Alberta's big cities (lower in smaller centres), meaning that even after the full increase, a full-time worker living in Edmonton will still not be able to make ends meet. Going back to the bigger-picture issues that have been mostly omitted from discussions about the minimum wage, what is the role of low-wage employment in Alberta's economy? We are told that wages are a measure of a job's worth and required skill set. If that were always true, I suspect child care workers would be making significantly more than they do. The reality is that low-wage employment—encouraged by low minimum wages—is a subsidy for employers to keep the cost of busi-

ness low. It is driven in part by consumers' desire for low prices, but it also helps keep marginal enterprises afloat that might otherwise fail. The sector most concerned about the increase is the restaurant sector. They argue an increase is not necessary since servers make tips (they ignore kitchen staff in this scenario). But the minimum wage increase could be used as an opportunity to shift away from tipping culture. Lots of places don't tip, such as Europe and Australia. They can do so because they pay their servers a living wage to begin with. Tips are inherently unstable, unreliable sources of income and contribute to making that sector relatively unattractive to longterm, mature workers. A shift away from tipping might make for a more mature dining experience for everyone. Minimum wages alone don't elim-

inate poverty. An effective poverty reduction strategy has many dimensions, including addressing housing, mental health, addiction, gender inequality and income redistribution. Minimum wages are just one, fairly blunt, tool in a poverty reduction toolbox. So, everyone: just relax. A $15 minimum wage is not going to cause the sky to fall or Alberta's economy to crash—nor is it going to solve all our social problems. It is just one policy that will help many Albertans who are struggling to make a living, at a fairly small cost to the rest of us. JASON FOSTER

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Jason Foster is Assistant Professor, Human Resources and Labour Relations at Athabasca University. He also happens to be Vue's regular beer columnist in his off-time.

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Buddha Boys is a new venture for two local chefs

ometimes you just have to move on. For Daniel Huber, that meant saying goodbye to the Pourhouse Bier Bistro. He spent the last three-and-ahalf years running the Whyte Avenue bar as part-owner and operating partner/manager before admitting it was time for a change. "The industry tends to chew people up and spit them out, and I've kind of reached that point of not really liking being bubblegum anymore," he says. "So it's time to do something else." That something else ended up being quite a lot: since the Pourhouse sold just a few weeks ago in August, Huber has developed Buddha Boys, which he describes as a "diversified food ser-

vices firm." It's a partnership with Levi Biddlecombe, owner and founder of the Attila the HUNgry food truck. The two met at one of the chef challenges that Huber had organized earlier in the year at the Pourhouse; Huber joined Biddlecombe on his truck and the pair quickly realized they had a lot to offer one another. "We're one of the few food trucks in the city that has an actual commissary kitchen," says Huber, referring to the commercial kitchen that all food trucks must use to prep and store their food. "They all have to [have one], but we have a very big base of operations on the north side. Once I kind of got in with [Biddlecombe] and

saw what we were working with, I said there's a million things we could do with this." In addition to running the food truck (and starting up a second truck next spring), Buddha Boys will focus on consulting—Huber is working with the owners of a 40-seat heritagehouse restaurant in Camrose, which is slated to open in mid-October, as well as revamping the menu for a local restaurant downtown. Catering is also a major component of Buddha Boys, as Huber notes that it's somewhat recession-proof and that it's a great way to fill in the food truck's down season over the winter; they've already lined up a dozen gigs throughout the fall. The pair is also shopping around for a flagship restaurant, likely located somewhere downtown or in the 124 Street area, and are ready to launch a line of proprietary sodas. "One of the things I noticed on [Biddlecombe]'s truck was his food is so unique, and we were just essentially selling Coke products," Huber says. "We've done up a whole bunch of tests, I think about a dozen flavours, and we're going to have a focus group. We're going to sit down with some select peers and friends and family in the industry and get their take on a couple of the ideas and see if they're too far out there." Look for the sodas at the Attila the HUNgry food truck: they should have a few flavours very shortly, including ginger peaches and cream, five spice cola, sweet corn and lime as well as strawberry shortcake. The soda, all

of which will be organic, vegan and capitalize upon. "There's a lot of, I would easily say celiac-friendly, will initially be served Italian-soda-style (simple syrup and the most panic I've seen in the last carbonated water), but they are 15 years in this industry," Huber says. "We're going to also researchkind of try to ing bottling Buddha Boys 780.901.4552 aim to put it options. out there that "One of the buddhaboysfoodservices@gmail.com if kitchens and mistakes a lot bars, anything of people make is spreading themselves too thin," like that in the food service industry, says Huber, acknowledging that Bud- need help and need some industry dha Boys' various projects make it experience to come in and restrucquite an ambitious endeavour. "We ture things and make what they have want to kind of build the brand up work, it seems to me that that could and make sure that every project, be a really good market for us to whether it's catering or a bigger res- corner." Time will tell if those fears are subtaurant, is going to be the quality that is needed because that's one of the stantiated, but regardless of that traps in the industry; a lot of guys wage increase there certainly seems and gals kind of take on more than to be change in the air on Whyte Avthey can chew. We see a lot of cater- enue. Buddha Boys may very well be ing companies go up and fold within on the first wave of a sea change in a year, and sometimes it's not even the city's restaurant landscape. "In the last two years, I've seen more because they're not getting business but because the labour situation is business in and around 109th [Street] to about Gateway go under than I've the way it is in this province." ever seen anywhere I've ever worked," That labour situation is also one Huber says. "It's built itself up to a of the reasons why Huber and the bubble that's not even burst; it's just other owners stepped away from the air has been let out of the balloon the Pourhouse: maintaining a bar on so all of these businesses, we're seeWhyte Avenue is increasingly an un- ing nobody want to come in and take sustainable venture. Aside from the them over. "Now, I mean everything's trending rent increases alone (the Pourhouse had its rent hiked 20 percent in one towards downtown, which is awemonth after the last property-tax as- some," he continues. "Because I think sessment), there is widespread fear if anything it will get Whyte Ave back in the restaurant industry surround- to where it used to be, which was ing the impending minimum wage more of a family friendly shopping increase. But that fear also affords district rather than a party district." PRIESTLEY an opportunity that Huber hopes to MEL MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

about Chewing Gum

Neolithic origins Humans have been chewing gum for millennia: tooth imprints were discovered in a piece of birch-bark tar found in Finland that dates back to the Neolithic period some 5000 years ago. Many cultures throughout history have used plants, grasses and tree resins as gum. The Ancient Greeks chewed resin from the mastic tree, while native North Americans chewed spruce-tree sap.

Commercial chewing gum The first commercially produced chewing gum was sold by John B Curtis in 1848. It was made from spruce-tree sap and sold under the name State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum. Later that century, chicle (a natural latex from Mesoamerican trees) was imported to the US from Mexico and became the base for several commercials chewing gums, including Chiclets (which takes its name from that material). By the 1960s, synthetic chewing gums made from synthetic rubber had replaced those made from chicle.

Baseball card gum American company Topps was the first to package collectible cards with a slab of bubblegum. In 1950 the company packaged gum with trading cards featuring early television star Hopalong Cassidy. Topps began selling its signature baseball cards in 1952 packaged with a stick of gum. The gum was eventually dropped from the package in 1992 due to its tendency to stain the cards and impair the cards’ collectible value.

An alternative to brushing The American Dental Association recommends chewing sugar-free gum for 20 minutes after eating to help prevent tooth decay. The extra saliva that chewing gum produces washes away food particles. Sugary bubblegum, however, can have the opposite effect on oral health.

The seven-year myth Contrary to a common folk belief, swallowed gum will not remain in your stomach for seven years—in most cases it will pass through your system along with everything else you ate that day. However, medical complications caused by swallowed gum do occur very rarely, usually when gum is given to small children as it can pose a choking hazard or cause intestinal blockages.

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The grossest tourist attraction ever Bubblegum Alley in downtown San Luis Obispo, California is famous for its massive accumulation of old bubblegum: chewed gum covers the walls 4.6 metres high and 21 metres long. Passersby started sticking their gum to the walls in the '70s and the gum graffiti has survived several full cleanings.V

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Staying true to Vancouver Island's wine industry Everyone loves a big red wine, but little bit lower risk so we don't have what's a winery to do when it's lo- to worry about getting into this big cated in a region suited to crisp investment of a farm." whites and light-bodied reds? Unfortunately, their plan was There are two schools of thought short-lived due to the nature of on the matter, both of which are Cellared in Canada wines: they are playing out right designed to be massnow in Vancouproduced and therever Island's wine Rocky Creek Winery fore the government industry: you can 250.748.5622 taxes them very either import full- rockycreekwinery.ca steeply (about 60 bodied red grapes percent). Realizing from elsewhere that their operation (usually the Okanagan) or you can was unsustainable, the Holfords desimply work with what will grow lo- cided to throw themselves fully into cally. The handful of larger produc- the wine industry and established a ers on the Island are increasingly winery and vineyard on their current opting for the former, in an attempt property in the Cowichan Valley. to reach a broader customer base. Since then, Rocky Creek has exRocky Creek is one of the wineries perimented with various grapes following the latter path: its wines to arrive at the current lineup of are 100-percent Island grown and wines, which is fairly typical of the made, which means the winery's had region: several crisp whites, a sparto experiment with different plant- kling wine, a couple of light-bodied ings to develop its portfolio. reds and a rosé, the latter of which "We're definitely a winery in stag- is made using the saignée method es," Linda Holford says. "We've real- to increase the concentration of the ly focused on developing and on the vineyard's red wines. Rocky Creek vision of the quality of the product." has some more unusual offerings Linda is sitting in the little garden too, including Vancouver Island's patio outside the tasting room of only wine made from Tempranillo Rocky Creek Winery, located in the and an absolutely delicious blackheart of the Cowichan Valley's wine berry wine. While blackberry wine industry. It's a quaint spot, very is a signature of the Cowichan Valsimilar in scale to the area's other ley, most of it tends to be sickly small wineries, though the gardens sweet and dessert style; Rocky definitely make it distinctive; she Creek's version is distinctively dry encourages guests to pack a picnic and tastes of the clean, pure fruit lunch and enjoy their wines al fresco. from which it is made. If you look for the namesake creek, The Holfords also had some experhowever, you'll come up empty- iments that didn't go as well, such handed: Rocky Creek is actually as a grove of olive trees and a plantlocated some distance north in the ing of the Spanish grape Albariño, little town of Ladysmith, where which simply didn't take. They've Linda and her husband Mark first got high hopes for a hybrid variety, settled after uprooting their corpo- Cab Foch, however—it might be the rate careers in Calgary's oil-and-gas answer to all those people asking industry some 10 years ago. for a big red wine. "Mark saw Salt Spring Island [Win"It's an early ripening, disease reery] was selling their press and so sistant [variety] that has potential he said, 'I have a harebrained idea,'" to be like a Cab[ernet Sauvignon]," she recalls. That idea was to make Linda explains. "Everyone comes use of the Cellared in Canada des- here wanting a heavy red, and now ignation to start up a commercial the bigger players are thinking the winery from their home, which was only way to survive is to buy big in a subdivision on Rocky Creek— reds from the Okanagan. But Mark hence the name. Under the Cellared and I are passionate to develop in Canada designation, wineries can what this region is." import cheap, bulk grapes from Vancouver Island's trend towards elsewhere—typically California or developing a crowd-pleasing portSouth America—and sell the wine folio, replete with full-bodied red under a Canadian label. It was de- wines, is a bit disconcerting. It could signed for use by wineries to sup- potentially inhibit the growth of the plement their income during tough region's signature style; you'd never times in the early days of Canada's see a winery in Burgundy importing wine industry, but it has since at- Cabernet Sauvignon so as to please tracted a lot of (justified) criticism the masses. Wineries like Rocky for being outdated and damaging to Creek are therefore not only enthe image of Canadian wine. couraging, but necessary: it's wonderful to try new things, but only The Holfords tried to use Cellared when it's in service to the region— in Canada very differently, however, not at the expense of it.V buying grapes only from a local Vancouver Island vineyard. Mel Priestley is a certified somme"With that loophole, we started lier and wine writer who also blogs the first home-based winery in about wine, food and the arts at Canada," Linda says. 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PREVUE // VISUAL ARTS

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EXPANDING YOUR EXPERIENCES Visualeyez fills Edmonton with a week of performance art

Tue, Sep 15 – Tue, Sep 22 Visualeyez Latitude 53, Various locations visualeyez.org Gualalupe Martinez // Maegan Hill-Carrol

Christian Bujold // Henry Chan, 7a11d festival Toronto

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n the perpetual boom-and-bust rhythm that propels this province, Edmonton is, at present, realizing some long-awaited growth: transit expansions are open (delays and issues notwithstanding), and the new stadium has rapidly spidered itself over 104th Street as a growing framework of an arena to be. Downtown's puffing up all around it to match, so it seems like a central vantage point—where Latitude 53, the artist-run centre, happens to situate itself—presently marks the ideal spot to take stock of changes in the city. And from Latitude's location, the ripples of expansion have been on Visualeyez curator Todd Janes' mind since, at the very least, last year's festival. "I think of Edmonton often as an organic being of itself, a very complex, living thing," he says. "I was thinking more about the expansion that was starting to happen. ... There's a lot of things growing here. And as the economy wanes and flows, it's an interesting time, and we're in a little bit of a downturn, but there's still so much activity happening here." The idea of expanding—and its corresponding downturn, collapse—make up the thematic throughline of Visualeyez, Latitude 53's annual performance art festival. Now in its 16th year, Visualeyez is dedicated to that curious, compelling area of the art world; for seven days, eight performance artists from across Canada are spending time in town with projects that in some way embody that thematic dichotomy. In the mornings, the group gathers to discuss the projects (a gathering that's open to visitors, too; "They're really usually a magical time," Janes says, "like the residency within the festival."); Later in the day, the artists attend to their works, including the audience in big or small ways as they go. One of this year's artists, Mathieu Leger, is planning a few walking tours of a city he doesn't yet know, Janes notes, but leaving where he goes up to chance. "He's taking a map of the city, and [will be] striking through it, piercing [it], and when he

opens the map, will be areas he wants to explore with his walks," Janes says. "And people are invited to come along for those two- to three-hour walks as he explores the city." Others are offering more intimate experiences. Montréal artist Rachel Echenberg— who's actually a Visualeyez alumnus, having been here for the festival's 2002 edition— is trying to explore proximity, both between people and around them. "The idea is that, there's something that's in perpetual movement, and it's changing the space between people," she says, over the phone from Montréal "When I talk about my work, I talk about it in terms of space, and spaces that could be considered social or political, as well as spaces that are more intimate, or personal. So you can move from a very large public context to a very intimate interior space with my work. That's what often I'm attempting to do." Her 2015 Visualeyez entries involve balloons—of a far more substantial kind and size than the typical birthday and used-carlot variety—being blown up collectively. Her trio of performances are titled Nine, Five and Three, respectively, with the titles corresponding to the number of people required to operate the balloon. Nine will be the largest version of the project she's ever done. (She's looking for iron-lunged participants willing to be involved too; those interested can put their names out there via the Visualeyez website.) "People get pushed apart and the shape that it takes on becomes more visible; it becomes more interesting," she explains. "It's kind of comical, but very beautiful and elegant. It keeps changing." Put another way, it's an experience that Echenberg and the others are offering audiences: something a little more direct and involving than, say, wandering a gallery of work by yourself. It's the pursuit of those experiences that Echenberg finds intriguing about the form. While she's worked in other

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mediums of art, all of her major projects are performative. "I think, as a performance art watcher, and follower, I just think it's really human," she says. "It's a place where you have to become very present. You have to observe the work as it's happening, and perhaps think about it later. It gives you a lot to think about, and it transforms your point of view and your perspectives. Where you're standing from, what body you're standing in, how you approach the work with what kind of openness, will affect the way you understand it. That's very human, and very present—and very direct. It has an ability to deal with the here and the now in a way that other work cannot. "There's a thrill and an excitement to that, every moment," she continues. "Becoming aware of the choices one makes in each moment that become heightened in performance." A thinning divide between audience and performer is something Janes is seeing elsewhere in the art world, too—from people taking selfies with art to galleries actively asking you to hashtag your experiences while there—but, he notes, it seems particularly visible in projects like these. "I think performance art is more porous around that, because very rarely is there a formal stage, a demarcation between audience and actor, audience and artist, and I think people are … for the most part appreciative of that," he says. "Even when people are like, 'What is happening? Or how am I engaging?' There's still a really strong, nuanced acceptance of, 'I will be part of this.' "Maybe there's kind of a switch, where people realize at one moment they're implicated in it," he continues. "But then there's a real sense of authorship, where they think, 'I'm implicated in this—but how do I make it my own?' And I think performance art allows that authority to be transferred a lot easier." PAUL BLINOV

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PREVUE // IMPROV

Rapid Fire Theatre M

att Schuurman became artistic director of Rapid Fire Theatre last March, and for the past six months he's been working closely with former AD Amy Shostak to learn the ropes. But as of September 1, the eight-year RFT veteran has taken the reins for the company's 35thanniversary season. "One of my early objectives taking over the job was not to shake things up too much," Schuurman says. "Rapid Fire Theatre has been experiencing tremendous growth over the last few years, so a goal of mine is just to maintain that growth and not do anything too crazy. ... We've got great stuff going on, and I'm really excited to keep that momentum going." But even with an already veryfull roster of performances—Theatresports competitions, Chimprov long-form shows, four different improv festivals each year—Schuurman has plans to launch some new programming. "We've had a very successful family show at the Fringe that we've done over the past couple of years called the Kidprovisers," Schuurman explains. "We loved doing it so much that we decided to take it into our regular season. ... In the spring we'll be launching a family friendly series. Not that our shows aren't family friendly, but you know— something you can bring the little kids to that's not late at night."

ARTIFACTS Die-Nasty Soap-A-Thon / continuous from Fri, Sep 11 (7 pm) until Sun, Sep 13 (9 pm) For its 23rd-annual fundraiser/ 50-hour marathon show, the improvised soap-opera Die-Nasty is training its collective, mirthful eye on the federal election campaign. In that, House of Soap is primed to give you the election season you actually want to follow: glimpses into all the behind-the-scenes scandal, intrigue and salacious gladhanding situations elected officials and the people around them are capable of. Intermittent throughout the weekend are a scatter of leaders' debates too, where you, the audience, can finally ask the questions and demand answers of the would-be leadership of Canada (or at least of the actors playing said would-be leaders). But mostly, you can see what happens to the make-

Fridays (7:30 pm & 10 pm); Saturdays (10 pm; additional 7:30 pm show the first Saturday of the month) Citadel Theatre, $12

Rapid Fire will also be expanding its improv workshops, offering classes that focus on specific genres, musical improv and physical improv in collaboration with Mile Zero Dance. Many of this season's rookie performers are graduates of last year's workshops, which Schuurman says has brought a greater diversity of ages and backgrounds into the ensemble. The new season will also start with a bang as Rapid Fire joins in the festivities for the Citadel's 50th-anniversary season. "The Catalyst is celebrating 20 [years], the Citadel is celebrating 50, we're celebrating 35," Schuurman says. "So on September 26, all three of us are getting together and throwing a huge birthday bash. Once all the audiences leave their shows there's this huge party that's going to go late into the night. ... There's going to be catering and drinks, and they're setting up a stage and a garden there as well. It's going to be huge all night."

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it-up mind under serious sleep deprivation: some improvisers do the whole 50-hour weekend without sleeping. (Backstage Theatre, $16 for one entrance, $50 for a comeand-go pass) “Weird Al” Karaoke/ Thu, Sep 10 (9:30 pm) Back from a slight Fringe-time hiatus, 'Weird Al” Karaoke is returning to its monthly cycle of mirth, letting comedians perform “Weird Al”-style parodies of existing songs. This Thursday-night show is a particularly special one, however: it's the night before “Weird Al” himself plays the Jubilee, and in honour of the occasion, anyone who brings proof that they're going to “Weird Al” on Friday gets in for free. (Cha Island, $5) V

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ARTS PREVUE // BURLESQUE

Edmonton Burlesque Festival I

nevitably, almost every article about contemporary burlesque mentions the art-form's "burgeoning revival." (There I go, line one.) But from within that world, Olwen Bell doesn't even see that particular Rword as the appropriate one to use while discussing burlesque. "I like to call it a burlesque renaissance," she says, "because burlesque didn't ever really go away. It just changed. And right now I think there's a fantastic mating of a lot of the classic burlesque together with a lot of the modern or neo-burlesque that has a lot of the edgier or political focus." Whatever the term, Bell's looking to celebrate the increasing popularity of the art form in all its shapes and styles. She's president of the Edmonton Burlesque Festival—more colloquially, the Festival of Bump and Grind—which is seeing its third iteration this weekend. The festival emerged after Bell had spent a bit of time in Edmonton and its burlesque community. She realized the scene was gaining traction, but it then lacked an anchor event. "As you can probably tell from my accent, I'm from Australia," she says. "Burlesque was huge in Australia when I left, but it was still kind of just

Thu, Sep 10 – Sat, Sep 12 Royal Alberta Museum edmontonburlesquefest.com

James and the Giant Pasty

blossoming here. But burlesque is also huge in Vancouver—they've had a festival for 10 years now. Toronto's about its sixth or seventh year. I could see that it was a growing community [here], and Edmonton also loves theatre. ... I just figured there was room for it here in Edmonton." The city's confirmed her suspicions: now in its third year, the festival's been expanding every year, trading up venues to match: After selling out last year's weekend at Fort Edmonton Park, it's moving its showcase of all things coquettish into the Royal Alberta Museum. The lineup pulls from across the continent: There's James and the Giant Pasty—who was just in town for Oh Manada!, which saw a sold-out Fringe run—as well as Minnesota's Wham Bam Thank You Ma'ams, who have seen celebrated stints in Vegas. There's a bevy of locals talent too, of course, with the total number hovering somewhere around 50 performers taking to the stage over the festival's three-day run. The nuances and hustle of putting on a festival aside, there's just one other major concern on Bell's mind. The AGLC's increasingly taking issue

with the art form in the province, often refusing to make a distinction between burlesque—which Bell notes to be non-fully nude performance art—and exotic dancing that doesn't stop its stripping at pasties. The latter requires a specific licence that, if made necessary for burlesque, would prove problematic for certain performers. "There hasn't been a demand, in terms of getting exotic entertainment licences, or anything like that," Bell clarifies, noting that the AGLC's inspected a few of her smaller shows, but generally it seems to be a more difficult issue in Calgary than in Edmonton. "We'll see how things go. We're hoping things don't step up, because that would it impossible for a lot of burlesque artists to entertain. Because they're school teachers, or real estate agents, and they're doing performance art—they're not stripping. So having an exotic entertainment dancer licence would be completely contrary to a lot of their other employment that gives them a lot of their regular income. Burlesque is just a side interest. "We'll see how that plays out," she adds. "It's definitely interesting times." PAUL BLINOV

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PREVUE // FESTIVAL

Kaleido Fri, Sep 11 – Sun, Sep 13 118 Avenue between 90 and 94 Street kaleidofest.ca the festival, along with the usual kickoff celebration and lantern parade on Friday night. "I think the big thing about Kaleido is, if you took all of Edmonton's festivals and then crammed them into one weekend and then made it free, that's kind of what you'd get," Fenton says. "We've got, I think, over 200 performances and 800 artists."

rom 300 to 60 000: based on the exponential increase in patrons alone, it's safe to say that the Kaleido Family Arts Festival is firmly entrenched as part of Edmonton's festival-rich summer. "It's grown to be the end of the festival season," Read Fenton says. "It's the one that's a little bit of a cabaret of all the stuff you saw all

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year, and it's beginning to become a staple in many people's minds." Fenton has taken the helm of program manager for this year's Kaleido, which is also the festival's 10th birthday. He recalls the first Kaleido he attended, back in 2010 when he was performing as a swing dancer; he's brought that dance back to this year's festival in the

form of a swing dance workshop and social dance hour. But there's also so much more than that, for Kaleido takes its multidisciplinary mandate to heart in a way that no other festival does. Stretching throughout various venues along 118 Avenue—some of them traditional stages and others more unusual, like balconies and

empty lots—visitors to the festival can enjoy a veritable gauntlet of artistic genres, from music and dance to poetry and theatre to stilt walking and aerial arts. Some of the music headliners this year include Zerbin, Captain Tractor, Eric Dozier and Souljah Fyah, though there's a full roster of programming throughout the two days of

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It's no secret that 118 Avenue is home to the city's largest concentration of artists. Fenton himself lived there when he first moved to Edmonton and currently works out of the Carrot Coffeehouse. Between Kaleido and the Deep Freeze festival in January, Arts on the Ave has inspired renewed vitality throughout the area. "It's a platform for the community to come together in a positive light and start building together," he says. "Instead of, you don't have to complain all the time—you can see ways to start building."

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DANCE BRAZILIAN ZOUK DANCE • Spazio Performativo, 10816-95 St NW • 780.974.4956 • hello@ludiczouk. com • ludiczouk.com • Drop-in Brazilian zouk social dance classes. Classes are inclusive; everyone is welcome. No partner needed • Every Wed (no class on Oct 21), 7:30pm-9pm; Runs until Dec 16 • $18 (single class), $9 (single class, month of Sep), $150 (ten classes) SECOND SATURDAYS DANCE SEMINAR WITH LIN SNELLING • Spazio Performativo, 10816-95 St • milezerodance.com • 780.424.1573 • admin@ milezerodance.com • Discussing various ways of making performance today. Artists from all diciplines are welcome • Sep 12, Oct 10, Nov 14, Dec 12; 2-4pm • $20 (drop-in), $$75 (session); register at info@ milezerodance.com

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM • 10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Friday Night Stomp!: Swing and party music dance social every Fri; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check web; $10, $2 (lesson with entry) • Swing Dance Social every Sat; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check the Sugar Swing website for info • $10, $2 lesson with entry

THOUGHTS – A KOBZAR’S PATH • Timms Centre for the Arts, University of Alberta, 87 Ave & 112 St NW • 780.455.9559 • shumka.com • An interactive fundraising event celebrating the journey of Shumka’s next creative work inspired by the thoughts of Taras Shevchenko • Sep 19, 7-11:30pm • $75 + service charges; at TIX on the Square

Between Modernism and Postmodernism; May 2-Sep 13 • Illuminations: Italian Baroque Masterworks in Canadian Collections; Jun 27-Oct 4 • Wil Murray: On Invasive Species and Infidelity; Jun 27-Oct 4 • Douglas Haynes: The Toledo Series; Jun 27-Oct 4 • Charrette Roulette: Language; Jul 18-Nov 15 • Sincerely Yours: By Alberta artist Chris Cran; Sep 12-Jan 3 • Nuit Blanche Edmonton: Sep 26-Sep 27 • Illuminating Nuit Blanche; Sep 27, 2pm • Rough Country: The strangely familiar in mid-20th century Alberta art; Oct 3-Jan 31 • Living Building Thinking: Art and Expressionism; Oct 24-Feb 15 • Lectures: A Conversation with Chris Cran and Bruce McCulloch (Sep 11, 6:30-7:30pm); Collecting Italian Baroque Painting in Canada (Sep 16, 7pm), $15/$10 AGA members • Open Studio Adult Drop-In: Wed, 7-9pm; $18/$16 (AGA member) • All Day Sundays: Art activities for all ages; Activities, 12-4pm; Tour; 2pm • Late Night Wednesdays: Every Wed, 6-9pm • Art for Lunch: 3rd Thu of the month, 12:10-12:50pm; Illuminations (Sep 17); Chris Cran, Sincerely Yours (Oct 15)

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HAVEN READING SERIES LAUNCH • Upper Crust Café, 10909-86 Ave • strollofpoets.com • Two poets laureate, Pierrette Requier and Charlotte Cranston will host the upcoming Haven reading series • Sep 17, 7pm • $5 MASTER THE ART OF WRITING QUERY LETTERS WITH JOAN MARIE GALA • Stanley Milner Library, Program Room, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square • Tackle the mystery of the query. The query is where you make your first impression with decision-makers in publishing. What information belongs in your letter? What is forbidden? Discover how to best present yourself and your work by mastering the art of query letter writing • Sep 16, 7pm

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STARFEST: ST. ALBERT READERS' FESTIVAL • St. Albert Public Library, 5 St. Anne Street, St. Albert • 780.459.1530 • sapl@sapl.ca • starfest.ca • A literary festival featuring authors such as Heather O'Neill (Lullabies for Little Criminals, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night); Sean Michaels (Us Conductors); Lawrence Hill (Book of Negroes); Kim Thuy (Ru); and Nick Cutter (The Troop) • Sep 11-Nov 10 • Tickets from $5

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at the Garneau, 8712-109 St NW • bluerevue.ca • Sexy films, beer and burlesque combine for one amazing night that you won't soon forget, this is Canada’s only pornography-based film festival • Sep 16, 6:30pm (doors), 7:30pm (show)

Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl. ca/art-gallery • Meeting Creek: watercolour paintings by SuChang Yi; through Sep • Display Cases: Edmonton Weavers’ Guild; through Sep • Plexi-glass cubes: Nature in Focus: winners of the Edmonton Master Naturalists photo contest; through Sep • Plexi-glass cubes: Edmonton Stamp Club: featuring World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) stamp exhibit; through Sep • Stanley A Milner Library: IBBY Silent Books Exhibit: a collection of over 100 renowned wordless picture books from around the world; through Sep

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WEST END GALLERY • 10337-124 St • 780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • Twelve on the 12th: A special collection of 12 paintings by Montréal artist Jean-Gabriel Lambert; Sep 12-24

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SCALES & TALES • Cha Island, 10332-81 Ave NW

Jasper Ave • Open: Thu-Fri, 12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm • Recollections: An Imperfect Schematic: art by Erin Pankratz-Smith; Aug 20-Oct 10 • Mind Games: art by Lisa Turner; Aug 20-Oct 10 • Arche-Textures: artwork by Amy Loewan, RCA; Aug 20-Oct 10

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-

VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St

EDMONTON STORY SLAM • Mercury Room,10575-

DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St • 780.760.1278 • daffodilgallery.ca • People and Places of Inspiration; Sep 9-Oct 3; Opening reception: Sep 10, 5-8pm

Alberta Museum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave • 780.439.5285 • edmontonfilmsociety@gmail.com • royalalbertamuseum.ca • royalalbertamuseum.ca/ events/movies/movies.cfm • Tall in the Saddle Series: The Far Country (Sep 14); 3:10 To Yuma (Sep 21)

9534-87 St • acuarts.ca • The gallery will feature unique and original works of art and music created by artists of Ukrainian heritage from Canada and abroad • Artwork by Marianna Savaryn and Linda Craddock; Sep 11, 5-9pm

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM • St Albert Place, 5 St Anne Street, St Albert • MuseeHeritage.ca •

SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • MAIN GALLERY: Open Art Competition; through Sep • FIREPLACE ROOM: OAC Hanging; through Sep

ST, 780.863.4040 • creativepracticesinstitute.com • September Focus Group for the Creative Practices Emerging Artists Program; Sep 12, 1-3pm • Colloquium Series: Stephen Williams; Sep 16, 7-9pm

ENTERPRISE SQUARE GALLERIES • 10230

ACUA GALLERY & ARTISAN BOUTIQUE •

Plain • multicentre.org • York: art by Sydney Lancaster and Marian Switzer; Aug 10-Sep 23

• Stockwell Depot 1967–79; Jul 24-Sep 12 • Splinter, Wash, and Walls: artwork by Jim Davies; Sep 19-Oct 10; Opening reception: Sep 19, 2-5pm

com • Artwork by Mathieu Lefèvre; Sep 25-Oct 6

EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY • Royal

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

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • scottgallery.com

CREATIVE PRACTICES INSTITUTE • 10149-122

DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY (DUG) • 10332-124 St • douglasudellgallery.com • Wilf Perreault: Dark to Light; Sep 19-Oct 2

Church, 10603 Ellerslie Rd SW • movies@erbc.ca • erbc.ca/movies • Bring your lawn chairs, blankets and enjoy an outdoor screening of Pixar's Inside Out. Food trucks will be on site • Sep 18, 6pm

MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • friendsofuah.org/mcmullen-gallery • Weather Report: Andrzej Maciejewski; Aug 29-Oct 18

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca • Out of Bounds: The Art of Lynn Malin; Sep 5-Nov 15

CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • savacava.

Library Theatre, bsmt, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7070 • Film screening every Wed, 6:30pm • Free

METRO • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St

Blvd, Sherwood Park • 780.449.4443 • artstrathcona. com • Open: Sat-Sun 12-4pm • Opens Sep 12 • Margaret Klappstein; through Sep

St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • Verve: artwork by Patricia Coulter & Donna MarchyshynShymko; Aug 6-Sep 26 • Flow of Traffic Theory: Gerry Dotto; Sep 3-26 • Art Ventures: Textured Landscape Layers (Sep 19); 1-4pm; drop-in art program for children ages 6-12; $6/$5.40 (Arts & Heritage member) • Ageless Art: Expressive Paint Explorations (Sep 17), 1-3pm; for mature adults; $15/$13.50 (Arts & Heritage member) • Preschool Picasso: Colourful Collages (Sep 19); for 3-5 yrs; pre-register; $10/$9 (Arts & Heritage member)

CINEMA AT THE CENTRE • Stanley Milner

GOTTA MINUTE FILM FESTIVAL • Stanley Milner Library • gottaminutefilmfestival.com • Wait for it! Watch for it! For one week, One Minute Silent Short Films will light up platform screens throughout the Edmonton Transit LRT system, bringing media art to Edmontonians on the go • Sep 14–20

LOFT GALLERY • AJ Ottewell Gallery, 590 Broadmoor

PICTURE THIS GALLERY • 959 Ordze Rd, Sherwood Park • 780.467.3038 • picturethisgallery.com • Jonn Einerssen and Vance Theoret Workshop; Sep 16-17, 9:30am-5pm

ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron

DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St • 780.686.4211 • dc3artprojects.com • Simplest of Gestures: art by Tammy Salzl; Aug 26-Oct 8; Artist reception: Sep 25, 5-9pm • Faltering Monuments: art by Brandon Vickerd; Aug 26-Oct 8; Artists reception: Sep 25, 5-9pm

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performance-based work while sharing a space. This year's theme: expanding and collapsing; Sep 16-21

TALES–Monthly Storytelling Circle • Parkallen Community Hall, 6510-111 St • Monthly TELLAROUND: 2nd Wed each month • Sep-Jun, 7-9pm • Free • Info: 780.437.7736; talesedmonton@hotmail.com

THEATRE CHIMPROV • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm • $12 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) • Until Jun 13

DARK STAR: THE LIFE & TIMES OF ROY ORBISON • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615 109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • This original from the Icon series celebrates the life and music of Roy Orbison, one of the most influential and iconic pioneers of American rock 'n roll • Sep 4-Nov 1

DIE-NASTY SOAP-A-THON 2015 • Backstage 780.459.1528 • museum@artsandheritage.ca •The Street Where You Live; Sep 8-Nov 15

NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Artisan Nook: Compact Layers: artwork by Nancy Corrigan; until Oct 1 • EverNew: art by three mixed-media artists; until Oct 1

PARADE GALLERY • Window Display Box 101 Street, north of 102 Ave, Edmonton City Centre Mall • paradegallery.ca • April Dean; Sep 4-Oct 4

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Artwork by Julian Forrest; Sep 3-Sep 22

STRATHCONA COUNTY MUSEUM & ARCHIVES • 913 Ash St, Sherwood Park • 780.467.8189 • strathconacountymuseum.ca • Paving the Way: Pioneers of the country Part 2; until Sep 30

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Free-$117.95 • Dinosaurs Unearthed: until Oct 11 VAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • visualartsalberta.com •TREX Alberta Foundation For The Arts Travelling Exhibition; Aug 6-Sep 26 • Off-Site (Jubilee): OPEN IMAGE: Partnership between Visual Arts Alberta - CARFAC and the Alberta Jubilee Auditoria Society; End of Aug-Nov

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Theatre, Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave NW • Join Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the Leader of Her Majesty’s Official Opposition Thomas Mulcair, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and Green Party Honcho Elizabeth May along with sparkling media personalities and hard hitting journalists, many more and THE BOYS IN SHORT PANTS • Running Continuously from Sep 11-13, 7-9pm • $16 (single admission), $50 (weekend)

MODERN FAMILY VACATION • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, Phase II West Edmonton Mall, West Edmonton Mall, 8882-170 St • edmonton.jubilations.ca • Jay and his beautiful Columbian wife have decided to celebrate their anniversary by taking a romantic cruise just the two of them… no kids, no family, no problems. Except the rest of the family has decided to surprise them by taking the cruise as well on a ship called the Titantic II, modeled after the original • Aug 28-Oct 25

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REVUE // EDM

FILM

FILM EDITOR : PAUL BLINOV PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

In the garden of EDM Eden finds a beautiful way to meander

ia Hansen-Løve's Eden tells the story of both a life—that of her DJ brother, Sven, with whom she wrote the screenplay—and a scene—that of the "garage" subgenre of electronic dance music—but above all it concerns a perspective, that of an immensely gifted young filmmaker whose manipulation of sound and vision can prove, as it does here, so much more potent than the material itself. Coming of age in the 1990s, Paul (Félix De Givry) is drawn toward the latest variations on house music coming out of New York. He makes it his mission to expand on those sounds with a Parisian twist. Thus begins a beautifully meandering, entirely prosaic, two-decade-long odyssey through nightclubs and sundry happenings with the requisite amount of excess drug intake, travel and romance—one of Paul's girlfriends is played by Greta Gerwig, though she's not much of a presence here— and the inevitable humbling of our hubristic hero. Turntables, pumped fists, coloured lights: the image vocabulary for the kind of performance Paul and his friends—among them Daft Punk—engage in could prove too limited in the hands of a director

Fri, Sep 11 – Thu, Sep 17 Eden Directed by Mia Hansen-Løve Metro Cinema at the Garneau 

with less craft and imagination than Hansen-Løve, but she manages to create rapturous sequences from events that, objectively speaking, strike me as exceedingly boring if you're not actually there, dancing and, ideally, chemically enhanced. (Grumpy critic disclosure: I would be remiss were I not to confess that a lot of EDM bores me as far as an engaging musical experience goes, and the "garage" label strikes me as exceedingly incongruous, given that this stuff is so utterly tasteful and tamed.) I mentioned meandering and should clarify this: Hansen-Løve knows how to meander! Her ebullient camera explores spaces with a perfect balance of formal control and wonder, and she understands how a room or a certain light can speak volumes about a character's mood or thoughts. In this way her work feels very much akin to that of her husband Olivier Assayas, whose Something in the Air was similarly drawn from real-life youthful experiences of life, love and art-making, though its insights into creativity and the development of a personal politics felt vastly more substantial.

JOSEF BRAUN

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PREVUE // FILM FEST

Gotta Minute Film Festival Sun, Sep 13 – Sat, Sep 19 Various locations gottaminutefilmfestival.com

Relish Food on Film Festival Short Film Challenge:

Tell Us a Food Story!

be screened there) and during Nuit Blanche, a free late-night contemporary art event held downtown on September 26 .

First Prize $300 • Second Prize $200 • People’s Choice $150 Are you a budding or professional filmmaker? Enter your short film about food or food people in any genre — memoir, comedy, fiction, documentary. Winning entries will be screened during the Relish Food on Film Festival, November 4-7.

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or the cheap fare of a LRT ride, you can catch up to 54 short films playing throughout Edmonton Transit's LRT system for one week. Gotta Minute Film Festival features oneminute silent short films that play every five minutes on the platform screens at Edmonton's LRT stations. "What we have here is the merging of public art with public transit in public space," says Beth Wishart MacKenzie, the festival's coordinator. "We're not just showing popular cinema, we're showing media art. Some of [these] films would only be seen in repertory theatres ... so this is a way for us to give exposure to our media artists here in an unconventional setting but also a broad, gen-

eral setting, [reaching] a wider public and helping develop an appreciation for media art in our community." You don't have to be a public transit user to see the films, though. Gotta Minute is offering audiences four alternate viewing venues, including a full-reel screening at six Edmonton Public Library locations (the Makerspace at Stanley Milner Library, Whitemud Crossing, Riverbend, Lois Hole, Capilano and Clairview); online (with an accompanying mobilefriendly website), which MacKenzie calls "a festival in your pocket" that allows audiences to pick up the show whenever they please; the Pattison screens at Calgary's international airport (though only 10 shorts will

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The festival, modeled after Toronto's Urban Film Festival (TUFF), dedicates at least 50 percent of the program to local films in an effort to promote the development of filmmaking locally. The remainder of the program is made up of national and international submissions, Wishart MacKenzie says. Seventy-percent of this year's films, which are chosen by a blind jury, are locally made. The other 30 percent are national and international films from Spain, Argentina, Australia, Germany, France, Portugal and Iran. How do you differentiate an advertisement from a Gotta Minute film? Listen for the jingle. Each silent film will be introduced with a jingle— courtesy of MacKenzie's son Aaron MacKenzie—that will que audience members of the film. JASMINE SALAZAR

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ASPECTRATIO

JOSEF BRAUN // JOSEF@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Running towards the future

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LEARNING TO DRIVE FRI 7:00 & 9:00PM SAT - SUN 2:00, 7:00 & 9:00PM MON - THUR 7:00 & 9:00PM RATED: 14A COARSE LANGUAGE, SEXUAL CONTENT

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Fate awaits

Blind Chance plumbs the spiritual depths of three different possible lives Blind Chance (1981) begins with its multi-destined protagonist Witek (Bogusław Linda) seated on an airplane and releasing a protracted scream of terror. The camera enters Witek's gaping mouth and seems set to plummet down his throat. Into his soul? It's not merely a poetic query. This film marks a turning point in the filmography of Krzysztof Kieślowski, a filmmaker whose spiritual views seem agnostic at best, but whose interest in inner life and metaphysics—which would come to full fruition in The Double Life of Veronique (1991) and the Three Colors trilogy (1993 – 94)— begins in earnest with this meticulously structured drama, a garden of forking paths that follows young Witek as he journeys through three disparate possible lives. Two of these lives will find Witek on opposing sides of Poland's political schema, which might suggest

that the thesis of Blind Chance is that personal convictions are malleable, even meaningless—the outcome of Witek's entire adult life is determined by whether or not he catches a train, the image of him running along the platform is the image of a man rushing toward his own formation. But one of the elements that makes this film so remarkable, and so cohesive, is that whether Witek finds himself a communist apparatchik or a dissident activist, some essential self dictates his actions. By which I mean that however radically different his life choices are, Witek always seems like the same guy. So perhaps Kieślowski's invasive camera is indeed searching for a soul—and finding it, over the following two hours. Criterion is releasing Blind Chance next Tuesday and it's a welcome

addition to what will hopefully be an ongoing catalogue of Kieślowski titles. (They've already released the aforementioned Veronique and Three Colors in superb packages.) The film is supplemented by, among other items, a very good essay by Dennis Lim and a hugely informative interview with Polish film critic Tadeusz Sobolewski, who contextualizes Blind Chance not only with regards to Kieślowski's life and work but also the political fluctuations that initially facilitated and then suppressed the project. Kieślowski began production during the solidarity era, enjoying a new dearth of censorship; he completed the film shortly after Poland was placed under martial law and though Blind Chance was ready for release in 1981, the Polish government held the film until 1987. Thus this meditation on chance was itself dictated by chance. V

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FILM REVUE // TRAVEL

A Walk in the Woods Now playing Directed by Ken Kwapis 

A walk to un-remember

he Bill Bryson narrating A Walk in the Woods, the 1998 book, is respectful (changing some people's names and identifiable details "to protect their privacy"), colourful,

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had never been so simultaneously impressed and bewildered"). The Bill Bryson of A Walk in the Woods, the 2015 movie-adaptation, is an unknowable, unlikeable, un-under-

standable dick. That's not the only ditch in this offroad-movie, though. The story of Bryson (Robert Redford) and old friend Stephen Katz's (Nick Nolte) trek along that 3500-kilometre trail becomes a series of weak improv sketches or YouTube clips: "Two Old Coots Stuck on a Ledge" or "Heavier Old Guy Crashes Through Top BunkBed Onto His Buddy." Patter gets pat, wise old-guy talk vies with lame wisecracks, and slapstick turns slapstick. There's out-of-shape, over-thehill Katz's huffing-and-puffing start (how he then manages almost 18 kilometres a day is inconceivable), or the predictable tumble into the creek, or the baffling character noncomedy of a know-it-all hiker who calls everyone, even her boyfriend (who's in jail), "boring" or "stupid."

She's not remotely believable, of course—just an assemblage of annoyances and tics—but this Bryson's no more interesting to walk with, either. He doesn't seem to like people (he can't respond in kind to his tearful wife's "I love you" farewell). There's no glimmer of the book's Bryson, who's at least intrigued by others, such as the camp-gear expert at the outdoortravel store. Here, that guy's just another odd, slightly annoying Homo sapien who's much too into tents. And we never learn why Bryson goes on this Appalachian odyssey. He is a wizened cipher, wrapped in a grizzled grump, inside a pickled jerk. Mary Steenburgen pops up briefly to make eyes at our non-hero, Katz goes on and on and on about skirts chased and skirts he'd like to chase, and ... well, you get the deadly drift. A Walk in the Woods turns out to be the exact opposite of the actual Appalachian Trail, because this slog's a waste of time and space.

BRIAN GIBSON

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PREVUE // FILM SERIES

EFS Fall Series: Tall in the Saddle

ack in those old saloon days out West, there on the plains and under that sprawling sky, how you held yourself on a horse mattered, and being "tall in the saddle" meant you reigned kingly on that animal— resolute, manly, impressive. Or so the movies would make you believe. The Edmonton Film Society's autumn slate sees a more shadow-lined octet of westerns (The Magnificent Eight?), mostly from the '50s, showcase the lawlessness versus order tensions, renegade male-personas and riobravado of Hollywood's horse opera heyday. The earliest is Anthony Mann's black-and-white Winchester '73 (1950; Oct 5), set in '76 Kansas and named after the rifle Lin McAdam (James Stewart) wins, only to have it stolen by the fugitive he's been pursuing.

Spurs-kicking off the series—shot in Jasper and on the Athabasca Glacier—is The Far Country (1954; Sep 14), another Mann-Stewart collaboration, with Stewart as a cattle-driver on the run to Dawson City, where he can no longer ignore a crooked lawman. The eight-events rodeo ends with Mann and Stewart's fifth and final film, The Man From Laramie (1955; Nov 9), shot in CinemaScope and Technicolor, where an outsider (Stewart) defies a cattle baron and his vicious son. The series' other pictures include Seven Men From Now (1956; Oct 26), with Randolph Scott as a former sheriff out to avenge the killing of his wife during a robbery, and black-and-white classic 3:10 To Yuma (1957; Sept 21). Adapting an Elmore Leonard story, it

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Mondays, Sep 14 – Nov 9 (8 pm) Royal Alberta Museum, $6 regular, $5 seniors/students, $30 season pass Full schedule available at royalalbertamuseum.ca/events/ movies/movies/ follows a struggling Arizona rancher who escorts a captured robber-gangleader to jail. A reformed robber (Robert Taylor) breaks out his old partner as one last favour—one which threatens to haunt him—in The Law and Jake Wade (1958; Sep 28). Mercenary Martin Brady (Robert Mitchum) finds himself a wanted man in both Mexico and Texas in The Wonderful Country (1959; Nov 2), where star pitcher Satchel Paige has a cameo as a soldier. And the titular hero of Will Penny (1968; Oct 9) is a cowhand (Charlton Heston) who's almost outto-pasture but finds himself with one last chance to settle down, if he can best the fiendish Quint family. BRIAN GIBSON

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SEX // FETISHES

SEX

Our understanding of fetish is tricky, to say the least

mpregnation by an alien: according to a recent article in Vice, this is a brand-new fetish made possible by the advent of the ovipositor sex toy. Biologists will recognize that name as being lifted from the animal kingdom: an ovipositor is an organ used for laying eggs, and essentially that's what the sex-toy version is—a dildo with an opening in the top that allows gelatin "eggs" to be laid in the bodily orifice of your choosing (which melt at body temperature and flow back out). Vice called the ovipositor an "emerging fetish" during an interview with its creator, but can a fetish really be considered new or emerging? Searching out the answer yielded a fascinating shift underway in both language and society's engagement with sexuality that falls outside the narrow scope of "normal." "Fetishes—things that people find sexy or they find alluring—they've been around for as long as people have been," Dylan Richards says. "What's really changing now is that the communities that the Internet is building, and the access that the Internet provides to people, gives people a chance to not only find other people with those fetishes, but also access them in a way that maybe they never thought of before." In his work as a sex educator with HIV Edmonton and occasional host of kink workshops at the Traveling Tickle Trunk, Richards is widely versed in the subject of fetishes. He agrees its definition and common usage is currently in flux, largely driven by the advent of online communities that have spurred more conversation and awareness about these things. The original definition of the word fetish was religious in nature: in a spiritual sense, a fetish is an object that has supernatural power over a human. It was first used by European colonizers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, who applied it to the various objects used by West Africans in their spiritual practices. Since then, the concept of fetishism was co-opted for use in non-religious

theories, notably Karl Marx's commodity fetishism. Sexual fetishism was first described by French psychologist Alfred Binet in the late nineteenth century, who applied it to individuals with a sexual interest in nonhuman objects. In contemporary discussions, fetish is usually used in one of two ways: either psychologically to describe a (usually problematic) sexual fascination with a particular item, or colloquially to describe a set of sexual preferences often of a non-mainstream nature; in the latter use, fetish and kink are often used interchangeably. "If we're talking about [a fetish] in terms of sex, you'd probably use the definition that it's something that is not normally attributed sexual qualities, but holds sexual significance to a person," Richards explains. "You commonly will hear fetish being used as, 'Oh, he has a high-heel fetish and therefore he cannot get off without it.' But that's a very, very, very limited view of what a fetish is." In the psychological realm, however, fetish does have quite a specific definition. As a registered psychologist, Andrea McTague generally uses the term paraphilia instead of fetish. "The paraphilias are a group of basically sexual behaviours that are viewed as abnormal," she explains. "Within paraphilias you have fetishism, and fetishism is only related to the use of inanimate objects. Those will change depending on what's available or what's viewed a certain way in society. "If we talk about a fetish in the colloquial sense, it can be just something that you really enjoy that adds to the sexual experience, like say, transvestite fetishism or cross dressing," she continues. "There's a couple things that characterizes a fetish versus a preference. One of those things is the inability to have sexual satisfaction without that thing, whatever it is."

She also identifies a true fetish as something obviously maladaptive and disruptive to an individual's life. From a psychological standpoint, McTague explains that the root causes of a fetish or paraphilia often stem from early childhood experiences or trauma experiences, though not necessarily of a sexual nature. The specificity of a particular fetish's current manifestation in someone's life is, as she mentioned, largely dependent upon their personal experiences, as well as sheer convenience. "People like to make the argument that porn creates fetishes," she says. "But really most of them have, because of the weird element in the definition of paraphilia that it has to be distasteful and unusual or abnormal, it moves—because what's abnormal, say, if we think about anal sex in the 1920s was extremely odd, or '40s even, but now if you look at conventional pornography it's prevalent. "Because [porn] gives individuals with a fetish or paraphilia a community, that can up the ante a little bit on what's acceptable," she continues. "It can push the extreme nature of it or make it more accessible, which is good if it's something that's non-harmful and bad if it's a fullblown paraphilia."

Given this background, it becomes clear that the ovipositor isn't a new or emerging fetish at all: it's simply a new iteration of something that has been around for a long time. Further, identifying it as a fetish is itself inaccurate, since it hasn't been established how and why individuals are using it other than that they find the idea appealing. While it could become part of someone's fetish or paraphilia, in most cases use of the ovipositor is just sexual preference, not a true fetish. "The idea of penetration or impregnation of a foreign or monstrous sort of being is actually a very old one," Richards says. "Tentacle porn's been around as long as basically people could make pictures of it in Japan. The foreign, the different, whatever a person considers inherently not them: so what it ends up being, it takes forms in different ways for sure, but I think it has more to do with, what does the person find the most foreign or what is it that triggers that in a person. "When we're talking about emerging fetishes, what we're talking about is how things are changing because of the way the world is changing, so much more than new fetishes," he continues. That's the key right there: while the knee-jerk reaction to something like

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the ovipositor is that it's so bizarre and unprecedented that it must be some kind of brand-new sexual deviance, in actuality it's just another example of modern technology and culture allowing for a shift in the expression of something a lot older. The Vice article is a prime example of our unfortunate western response to sexual practices that go beyond a very narrow window of what's considered normal. The general tone of the article—on behalf of both the writer and commenters—can be summed up along the lines of, "Oh my god; what is that." This reaction is unhelpful, if not outright damaging, for a couple of reasons: it implies anyone interested in more unusual expressions of sexuality is abnormal, and it furthers the conflicting definitions of the term fetish. Those definitions are important, and it would be wise for media sources to choose their words carefully—particularly when those words are bound up in centuries of history and include a multitude of connotations. For better or worse, the word fetish has proven that it will persist: perhaps the word itself is a fetish, holding a power over us that we just can't seem to shake.

MEL PRIESTLEY

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SEX SEX // DATING SITES

Safe online dating

A few tips to keep your personal information secure

he hacking and public posting of personal profiles from hookup site Ashley Madison has put privacy and security at the forefront of people's minds, especially those who use dating sites and apps. Ashley Madison was specifically targeted because it's a site for people looking to cheat on their long-term partners and because of its purported use of fake profiles and questionable methods to get users to spend money. Mainstream dating sites are unlikely to be victims of this type of largescale public exposure of private information, but there are other issues of privacy and security to consider when using these sites.

Not all sites are secure Most dating sites use HTTPS (hypertext transfer protocol secure) which encrypts all the information being sent to and from the site. This makes it impossible for anyone on the same network as the user to read the information without an encryption key. Most of us would assume that any site asking for personal information would be encrypted, but that's not always the

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case. Always look for "https" before the URL of the site. If it's not there, it's possible for someone using your network to see the information you're sending to the site—including your username and password. They can use this to read your whole profile, see who you've contacted and impersonate you on the site. If you'd like to use a site that isn't using HTTPS, you can install a browser extension called HTTPS Everywhere which will encrypt any information you send over the Internet from your computer. Your personal information can be stored for a very long time You might assume that as soon as you delete your profile from a site, it's gone forever. Unfortunately, this is not usually the case. Many sites disable the profile from use but keep the information cached. This means that if someone gets access to the site's records, as was the case with Ashley Madison, they can see that you used it—even if your account was closed a long time ago or if you used it only for a short time.

It's fairly easy to figure out your identity Apps like Tinder use information on your phone and Facebook page to complete your profile. While you can choose what information is shared by adjusting your privacy settings on both, many people don't know why this is important and how to do it. A friend of mine, Jennifer*, found out just how much people can learn about you from Tinder. "Someone referred to me by my last name's initial, and your last name does not get included in your Tinder profile info," she says. "When I asked him how he knew, he said that he just Googled Jennifer and the sport I mentioned on Facebook and all these newspaper articles and my Twitter/LinkedIn/Instagram pages all came up because the Google search had connected that to me. Luckily, it ended up being harmless, but it really made me realize how vulnerable I was due to the seemingly innocent info I had included about myself in my description." In an article for the Huffington Post, Laurie Davis (founder of online dating consultancy eFlirt), rec-

ommends Googling yourself before you finish your profile. Use various combinations of the keywords you've used to describe yourself and your location and see what comes up. If you're not comfortable with the kinds of things people would know about you by doing a quick search, consider taking out some of the potential identifiers in your profile. It's common nowadays for people to do a Facebook or Google search on the people they meet, so it's not necessarily something to be alarmed about. At the same time, most of us would like to have a bit of control about when and how people get to know things like where we live, where we work and who our closest friends are. At the very least, it's good to be aware of what someone might know from a few minutes of searching. Your phone holds the biggest store of your personal information "Whether you're snapping sexy cellphone pics or signing up for dating/hookup sites and apps, the reality is that digital information has the potential to be leaked,"

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writes Jessica O'Reilly in an email. She's the official sexologist for Desire Resorts, an all-inclusive, adults-only hotel chain in Mexico. "Something as simple as losing your cellphone at a restaurant can result in the sharing of sensitive personal information with millions of Internet users." Increase your security by putting a password on your phone and log out of Facebook and dating apps. All of the recent media attention can make you feel paranoid about being online at all, but the reality is that the risk of any serious harm is not that great. Some caution around personal safety has always been necessary when dating people you don't know well; Internet dating has just changed what that looks like. "You're probably more at risk of dating a few jerks than having your information hacked on most reputable dating sites," O'Reilly says. "The Ashley Madison hack is the exception— not the norm." *name changed to protect privacy BRENDA KERBER

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High kinks and low burns R100 flogs BDSM for some serious laughs

humiliation gives him more thrills. Ground-down Katayama wants a further grinding-down, a cathartic release through extreme-ness of the ass-kicking he's getting anyway, slowly but surely, in his life. But pleasures are often so pleasurable because they're private. There's a growing tension, a foreboding, that all these masochism-muggings could start invading Katayama's personal space. Sure enough, when his attackers start disrupting his job and then his home life, power-lines get tangled and his personal kinks can't get worked out.

An unusual agreement

ex-games can be masks for power-plays. But what if powerlessness turns you on most? Hitoshi Matsumoto's R100 is a BDSM film without the BS but plenty of initial IQ, tying up action and comedy and thriller into one zip snare (imagine Fifty Shades of Fight Club, but also Monty Python remaking Takashi Miike's Audition). Department-store salesman Takafumi Katayama (Nao Ōmori) signs a year-long contract to be MMA-style-dominated by leather-wearing, stiletto-sporting women. One will suddenly appear and flatpalm-smush each proffered roll at a sushi bar before he meekly eats it, or near-drown him in a public fountain, or knock him around in the back of a nondescript van parked curbside on a busy city street. In the midst of these agreed-upon ambushes, the working father of one (son Arashi)

will feel euphoria rippling around his head; a Cheshire-like smile widens; he's enraptured by pleasure. The thrill, it seems, for this beatendown salaryman—in a land where so many must submit to a punishing work-ethic, long commutes (there's a brief, early shot of Katayama crammed into a Tokyo train full of strap-hangers), and being strapped in to a stern social hierarchy—lies in more beat downs to be "totally submissive" to. But it's the not-knowing, the contract's manager (and bondage-club owner) declares, that never knowing when they're coming for him, that Katayama will find so "deeply satisfying." There's also a winking snap-andcrack of the sado-masochist whip at us here. (Not to mention a jubilant coming-out-of-the-closet for BDSM, classified by the American Psychiat-

ric Association as a mental disorder until 2013.) Do we viewers take an almost sexual thrill, sometimes, in cinematic violence disrupting our mundane lives? Are we signing boxoffice contracts with Hollywood to release us, for a few hours, from our workday grinds with some moneyshots in the dark, some frissons of escapist voyeurism? And is there a larger meaning of this fetish for consensual, sexually charged submission to violence (so recently, badly, and profitably dramatized by E L James in her Grey book-series)? Well, R100 reflects, it may be there's something too compartmentalized (like those train cars), too rigid and constrictive (like those buckle-straps on bondageoutfits), about our male-dominated society. In a Japan still fairly honourand-shame-bound, this customer's

Is Matsumoto's film suggesting BDSM isn't an erotic practice or sexual lifestyle but merely a freakish response to the pressures of conformist society (many scenes are shot in grayish, dull tones)? Not exactly. From the start, Katayama's love of getting kicked or whipped or spat on is just accepted and even made understandable by virtue of his daily toil. (In real life, of course, BDSM doesn't work the way Katayama's contract does—here in Canada, for instance, a person cannot legally consent to bodily harm. But in reel-life, as long ago as 1976's In The Realm of the Senses, Japan's been way ahead of most national cinemas when it comes to kink.) But R100 does first imply this Willy Loman's low-man-ness comes from trying to make up for a lack—eagerly submitting to sexual power-plays because of the loss of his wife (on hospital life-support). But sex-fantasies, imagined or real, aren't always compensations or cures for deficiencies; Katayama's submission-contract shouldn't be seen, so simplistically, as his life-support or vital recharging. And when Katayama tries to cancel

the contract—not allowed and he's got no safe word to cling to—it's as if he's not just bound but condemned to his Freudian-and-Faustian deal (ie, kinky sex as a curse, dominating one's life). His family's soon suffering for his too-eXXXtreme pursuit of BDSM pleasure. Happily, throughout R100 (even its comic-bookish third act, climaxing with an army of domininjatrices, a symphonic ode to Katayama's ecstasies, and a gender-bending twist), director Matsumoto—a well-known comedian in Japan—captures Katayama's joy and bursts of amusement. There's usually warmth to the weirdness (food porn even reaches delightful new lows in a series of spit takes). Comedy and Katayama's contract prove good bedfellows—after all, slapstick, even the groin-kicking kind here, is all about sudden disruption of physics-conventions and physical routines. As when Katayama tries to file a police report or a coworker, leaving a stall, tries to ignore the sight of Katayama cowering at the urinals before a whip-wielding dominatrix, there are oddly funny and funnily odd undercurrents to this man's erotic entanglements with ass-kicking femme fatales. The effect, in the first hour anyway, is like watching an arthouse socialrealist drama and waiting for an action-comedy-thriller (with flashes of docudrama) to break out. And if we're just a little thrilled, even elated, by that disruption of genre conventions, R100 suggests, then imagine how thrilled and elated a BDSMer like Katayama can be in the midst of those explosions of social and sexual conventions that they so desire.

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SAN FERMIN T

he lush melodies of San Fermin may be the workings of a single individual, but the band's performance of them is truly a sum of its parts. As its latest album, Jackrabbit, attests, each of San Fermin's eight members is equally vital, trading off the spotlight over the course of the record's 15 expansive folk-pop tracks. "They're great players, and their attitudes and energy towards music has definitely worn off on me in the best possible way," says composer/ keyboardist Ellis Ludwig-Leone while walking through Brooklyn to his usual lunch spot. "You're being willfully ignorant—or willfully stupid, maybe—if you're not engaging with and adjusting for that." Contemporary and classical co-

alesce on Jackrabbit, with the shared lead vocals of Charlene Kaye and Allen Tate weaving seamlessly amongst trumpet, synth, violin and drum beats. Ludwig-Leone, a music composition graduate of Yale University, began composing songs for what would become San Fermin shortly after concluding his post-secondary studies, and the debut self-titled album featured some 22 musicians. He notes that about half of the tracks heard throughout Jackrabbit were written prior to the first album being released, and he built on them while touring in support of it. He calls Jackrabbit a "transitional record," reflecting on his shift from being a composer working in solitude to a touring musician with a consistent

lineup of bandmates. "You have to write stuff that's exciting for them to play, which is more nerve-wracking than I would have thought," he admits with a laugh. "It's one thing to be like, 'Hey, guys, we're going to play this for a couple concerts, here's the sheet music.' But it's another thing to be like, 'Hey, guys, this is going to basically be your life for the next couple of years, hope you like the songs.' The first rehearsal of any new song is always, for me, by far the most scary part of the process, because you just want to make sure these people actually like them and can relate." Ludwig-Leone often starts these intricate compositions with one el-

ement, be it a drum beat or a sax line, rather than writing everything out on guitar or piano. Each piece of the song is of equal importance, he notes, and then he spends a week or two "hammering out the lyrics and making sure they're not embarrassing." In the case of Jackrabbit, Ludwig-Leone's lyrics focus on a sense of trying on different identities. "On the first record, it was like there's a guy and a girl, and they have very specific things they're saying to one another," he says. "But on this record the guy and the girl are all kind of part of the same mixture of confusion, which was probably a product of the time I was writing it." To that end, there's musings on

Mon, Sep 14 With alt-J Shaw Conference Centre, $58.50 facing adulthood, whether you're ready for it or not, fears of an uncertain future and muddled feelings about relationships. These experiences are often drawn from Ludwig-Leone's personal life, but he says he does his best to take snippets of reality and transform them into fiction. "I think of it a little like how I imagine a fiction writer would think of it," he says. "Obviously you have to write about what you know, but you aren't writing an autobiography." MEAGHAN BAXTER

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The Dears

urray Lightburn never intended to put the Dears on any sort of hiatus, officially or otherwise. But time kept stretching out after the Montréal band ceased touring its 2011 release, Degeneration Street, and Lightburn found his focus pulled in other directions. He put out a solo disc, Mass:Light, in 2013, and he and

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minute went a little longer." Before he knew it, the Dears was sitting in the longest between-release gap of its storied, now 20-year career. From the outside, the long silence seemed like a natural, quiet goodbye for a band that loved singing about finality with a dark, cinematic romanticism. (From the late 2000s onward, the band's lineup seemed perpetually in flux, too; as it stands, the list of ex-band members almost triples its current, five-strong incarnation.) But the band's now emerging from that span of silence with a new album and tour, the Edmonton show of which will be the band's first live date in three years.

bandmate Natalia Yanchak welcomed their second child the year before that. Those formative moments of fatherhood, especially, were ones he wanted to devote substantial energies to, more than shaping another album at the same time would've allowed for. "One of the things I always felt I

wished we'd done when we had our first child was take a bit more time, before quote-unquote going back to work," Lightburn says from his Montréal home. "We didn't do that; we started working on [2003's] Gang of Losers when our first child was nine weeks old. That's kind of insane. And so we took a minute, and then that

and a sense of acceptance: take "I Used To Pray For The Heavens To Fall" as an example, which seems an apt title for the band's usual course. But Lightburn couples that titular line with, "Now I never want this to end." There's an almost joyful way he repeats the title of opener "We Lost Everything" like an affirming mantra. And in the moments like those, Times Infinity sounds like a band that's learned how to reinterpret its own darkness, without feeling the need to abandon that atmosphere entirely. "A big part of the process of this record was about looking back, but very much firmly planted in my greys that have been getting in my beard and in my hair," Lightburn says. "Looking back, not with any regret, but a lot of fondness. When I was looking back, and thinking about the songs that I loved of what we've done, the common denominator was the storytelling side of things: when I would describe a place, or describe a situation, that was very personal. And I felt that that was a key in the songs that really connected with people when we'd go out and play shows, and I'd see what people are singing along to. And so, lyrically, I just kind of pursued that." PAUL BLINOV

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Primus T

he fantastical world of Willy Wonka is the stuff of sugar-coma dreams, and Primus is bringing its iteration of the notorious chocolate factory to life one last time. It's the final tour of Primus and the Chocolate Factory, the San Francisco rock trio's interpretation of the soundtrack to the eponymous 1971 film starring Gene Wilder—the band's accompanying album was released in October 2014. The show opens with a minimal set and a slew of original Primus tunes before unleashing sensory overload in the second half for Wonka—complete with Primus chocolate bars for sale. At the helm is Primus vocalist and bassist Les Claypool in the role of Wonka, whom he describes as a merry prankster with a jovial sense of cynicism about him. His take on that will be an amplified rendition of Gene Wilder's portrayal, though—"Sort of a Gene Wilder on peyote," he says from Las Vegas, a pool party raging in full force outside his hotel window. Claypool first saw the film as a child and quite literally devoured everything Wonka he could get his hands on—he even had a Willy Wonka Can-

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The Dears' lengthy absence is also the reason its sixth release, Times Infinity, is being broken up into two volumes, the first of which is out this month, with the latter planned for a near-future companion release. "I think if we'd only gone away for a year or two, that would be a bit preposterous," he says. "But being away for this long, it makes sense that we would come back to make up for long time, because we had been collecting quite a bit of music over all that time; it wasn't like we hadn't been writing, or even exchanging MP3s. I think it was just a matter of knowing from the beginning the scope and scale of the project, and really taking our time to meticulously craft the work." All across Volume One, classic Dears tropes roar up, but come saddled with an unexpected warmth

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dy Factory Kit, which he used to make chocolate Oompa-Loompas to sell to his classmates. "Our interpretation of this is seeing not just the film Willy Wonka, but the Wonka experience and the Roald Dahl world through an eight-year-old's eyes, or however the hell old I was when I [saw it]," he says. "The Roald Dahl books are quite a bit darker and a little more sinister than the film is, so after reading those it added this sort of noir element to what was the happiness of the film, and so what we've created is more of a combination of the two. It's basically just my perspective of Wonka World as a kid." The live set follows the linear path of the original soundtrack, and Primus' reimagined versions include the Fungi Ensemble (Mike Dillon on vibraphone, marimba and tablas and Sam Bass on cello), which Claypool says adds a strong element to the Primus landscape as well as a little beauty. It's also allowed him the opportunity to reinvent tracks like "Cheer Up Charlie," which he didn't particularly enjoy as a child. "That was the part of the film that

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Sat, Sep 12 (8 pm) Jubilee Auditorium, $62.30 always bored the hell out of me, but we kind of twisted it into something dark and creepy," he says. Everything else flowed rather smoothly as Claypool and company were figuring out how to put their stamp on the Oscar-nominated soundtrack, minus a small challenge here or there. "The hardest thing for me was coming up with the voice for Golden Ticket," Claypool says. "It kept coming out as me pretending to be an old man, and I didn't like it. It seemed pretentious to me, and then all of a sudden I kind of fell into this sort of aging Elvis impersonator and that stuck." The tour wraps up on October 31 in Tempe, Arizona with Tool, and Claypool notes he's uncertain what's next after he's had his fill of Wonka. "I've got lots of pots on the stove," he says. "I've just got to figure out which one's coming to the front burner." MEAGHAN BAXTER

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Seoul T

ype "Seoul" into Google and you'll get results about South Korea's capital. But buried in the 162 000 000 results, at the top of the second page, is a link to the website of an obscure band that goes by the same name. But that's where the similarities end—this Seoul hails from Montréal. Seoul is easily dubbed as an electronic band, but none of the group's members—rounded out by guitarists and synth players Julian Flavin, Dexter Garcia, Nigel Ward and drummer Ryan White—particularly agree with the classification. "I think the electronic label is often confused, because it can mean a lot of things. You can make ambiental music or progressive house, which can still be electronic," Ward explains via Skype from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. "But I feel like a lot of people confuse electronic music with dance music. I think there is some dance influences in our music or groove-orientated things [and] we are using, of course, electronic instruments to perform our music. The problem is that when you are labelled an electronic band that means different things to different people. It almost becomes not descriptive at a point." Seoul's making "atmosphoric pop music," which Ward explains represents an ideology and method of songwriting. "I think the songs are informed by pop structures, for sure, and an emphasis on melody," Ward adds. "And there's another element where we are focused on creating a specific atmosphere and mood through the textures we choose to include in the songs."

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Fri, Sep 11 (8 PM) with Tropic Harbour, Yes We Mystic, Merucry Room, $10 Forming in 2012, the band didn't officially become Seoul until around the release of the song "Stay With Us" in July 2013. The album was completed, though not released, and Flavin, Ward and Garcia decided it was time to pick a name that fit what they created musically. "We chose the band name and at that moment, we decided to release the music," Flavin says. Up until then the band played under different monikers with different lineups. For Flavin, "Seoul is the distillation of finally me, Dex and Nigel writing the music ourselves." In June 2015, Seoul released its first album, I Became A Shade, under Last Gang Records. The album was finished in 2012, but the group wasn't in any rush to release it. "Stay With Us" and "White Morning," two tracks from the album, were gaining popularity nationally and internationally, and Seoul gathered a large following playing bigname festivals like POP Montreal, M is for Montreal and SXSW. The band is now on its biggest tour to date, with 36 stops scheduled in the Dominican Republic, Canada and the United States. "We're excited to come to Edmonton. I was there once in my life and went to a mall that was in the west variety," Flavin says with a laugh. "I feel Edmonton breeds something special in people. I feel like Edmontonians are different in a very specific way that is hard to describe. It's almost mystical, to be honest."

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t was either make a video or go drink wine in Portugal. We chose Portugal," Ryan Anderson says with a laugh. F&M—Ryan (vocals, guitar), his wife Rebecca Anderson (vocals, multiinstrumentalist) and Bryan Reichert (back-up vocals, production)—had just recorded its fifth studio album, At Sunset We Sing, toured Canada, made one music video for "And We Will Mend Our Broken Hearts" and was scheduled to make another one. But thoughts of going on a two-week vacation came to mind. They ended up doing both. Ryan and Rebecca set off to Portugal

this past March (Reichert went to Spain) and filmed six videos using their iPhones and a tripod—all the footage was later edited by Greg Gillespie in Vancouver from Heavy Grain Productions. Five 35-second teaser videos were released each week of August, and the final fulllength music video will be debuted at the band's upcoming show—and made public on YouTube—this Saturday. All six videos were undirected and casual, capturing Ryan and Rebecca's trip as they were experiencing it, which provides an authentic intimacy that can be lost in big-budget videos. The videos have a cohe-

Within the 11 tracks on At Sunset We Sing, released in 2014, are songs built on broken bones (Ryan broke his hand and Bryan broke his leg) and loss, (Ryan and Rebecca bought a new condo that stripped them of everything they earned, which stopped them from touring for a while). In the process of healing (physically and mentally), they wrote the songs for At Sunset. During that time, the band members were inspired by traditional folklore music coming from Russia and Portugal, particularly Portugal's bottle blues music. "While we were doing this album, preparing for it [and] writing songs, Ryan and I really got into Portugal," Rebecca explains. "Drinking Portuguese wine; reading about Portugal; watching films about Portugal; listening mainly to Portugal bottle music [and] Portugal blues music. We were trying to get that element of passion we found in bottle music into the album. "Since Portugal really inspired this album, we really wanted to go to Portugal. It's the inspiration going around on itself." JASMINE SALAZAR

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YEGfest ravis Dallyn has felt the pain of gentrification, and he knows he's not alone. Last year, Creative Clubhouse, a not-for-profit collaborative art organization established by Dallyn, Michael Feehan and Nick Leeb, was ejected from its space above a bottle depot in the eastern downtown core. The Clubhouse became just another name in the growing list of Edmonton venues shut down amid urban revitalization and high rental prices. "It's really scary to think how quickly the prices are rising on real estate down there," Dallyn says. "We're all struggling to find a space, whether it's to practice or to play for others." Enter YEGfest, the Creative Clubhouse's attempt to create space for those being squeezed out. The two-day event held in the Heritage Amphitheatre will also fill a gap in festivals devoted to purely Edmon-

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tonian performers, Dallyn says. The lineup highlights experimental rock and hip-hop performances ranging from local favourites like Mitchmatic and the Velveteins to expats like former Mac DeMarcoguitarist Peter Sagar, now performing under the Homeshake moniker. Ten graffiti artists will be painting a mural throughout the weekend on a freewall beside the stage. The blend of visual and musical culture was integral to the Clubhouse when it was still up and running, Dallyn says, and bringing these works into the high-profile amphitheatre will give them the attention they deserve. "I want people to realize what a great place Edmonton is," Dallyn notes. "A lot of these artists are the ones that are playing the smaller venues. We're kind of bringing them to a bigger spotlight and putting a bit of shine on that area."

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t was 2009 when, in the midst of a severe depressive episode, Graham Hnatiuk decided to drop out of university to immerse himself in Winnipeg's arts community and, hopefully, start a band. "Art gives me a meaningful livelihood, a purpose," he says. "Songwriting is what makes me feel the best." Hnatiuk spent the next five years learning music, painting and participating in Winnipeg's lively slam-po-

etry scene while searching for other aspiring musicians through Kijiji. That was where he found fellow bandmates Kyle Kunkel, Joel Heidinger, David Huffman and Carey Buss, who came together in 2014 to form Hearing Trees. The group's second EP, Dear Sahara, was released late last month, and the band is currently touring western Canada to promote the release, doing 11 shows in 16 days. "I'm meeting other bands and seeing

other people and seeing other cities; it's very exciting and I very much look forward to it," Hnatiuk says. "What I don't look forward to is coming back and having to wait for the next time I get to do that." Dear Sahara is a four-song collection that marks an evolution from Hearing Trees' self-titled first release in 2014. The group worked on creating a more unified sound and identity for the band, drawing on pop, folk and punk influences while also incorporating Hnatiuk’s experience as a slam poet. "We got a lot better a band in a year," Hnatiuk says. "The first EP was a collection of a few songs that we felt were really good, and every song was completely different." ALIX KEMP

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Love marks a serious shift for TMO—known for its uptempo mix of European folk and American Bluegrass. Love is a slower, more drawn-out and lyrically complex experience than the band's previous work. "The trajectory of our music was going there since the last album," Loewen concedes. "We were known as this three-chord, jamming, dance-y band and it was really fun, [but] we've changed." Though it's not unusual for a band's sound to change with time, Loewen's motivator for this arch is not typical. "Do you listen to This American Life?" Loewen asks. It's not often that a musician will explain that he's heavily influenced by Ira Glass, host of the muchloved NPR show This American Life. But to hear Loewen describe his reasoning, it's surprising Glass isn't tied to music more often. "He keeps pushing it, he keeps wanting to get better, and that's the true definition of mastery," he says. "It's the desire to keep going, to find the muse everyday, to just get there." The passion through which Loewen relates his admiration for Glass is infectious, and it's hard not to listen to Love without hearing Glass's Maryland accent metaphorically introduce it, but more importantly, it gives an insight into the choices and honest work done on the album.

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Sat, Sep 12 (8 pm) Part of Kaleido Fest Avenue Central Stage (9210 - 118 Avenue) These "are songs about heartache and the end of friendships," Loewen says. While this sounds pedestrian in terms of pop-album fodder, the lyrical content parts ways from Top 40 comparisons and places itself more comfortably in the company of existential crooners like Josh Tillman or Tobias Jesso Jr. Take, for example, one of the album's standout tracks, "Wolfe Et Montcalm;" the song uses the historical backdrop of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham—Wolfe leading the British forces and Montcalm the French (both men die during the battle), to illustrate love as a destructive force. Ian Griffiths, TMO's co-lead singer croons, "There is a special type of love reserved for fools and I know I'm one." Despite the sombre tone of Love, Loewen assures that it's not time to put away the dance moves yet, and as the ferry's loudspeaker begins to buzz again he drops a notso-subtle hint as to how the next album may sound. "I want to call it We Make Really Party!"

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Thursdays KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE Open stage;

7pm; no cover ON THE ROCKS Salsa Rocks: every Thu;

THU SEP 10

dance lessons at 8pm; Cuban Salsa DJ to follow

ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE Live Music

UNION HALL 3 Four All Thursdays: rock,

every Thu; 9pm ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Open Mic with

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dance, retro, top 40 with DJ Johnny Infamous

NEW WEST HOTEL Rodeowind

BOYLE STREET COMMUNITY LEAGUE

O'MAILLE'S IRISH PUB The Party Hog;

The Rockslam Festival; featuring ten local bands; 3pm

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DJ; 9:30pm

BRIXX BAR Black Thunder with guests Counterfeit Jeans, Electricity For Everybody and Versions; 8pm (doors), 9pm (show); 18+ only

RANCH ROADHOUSE Chris Jericho

CAFE BLACKBIRD Hookloop; 8pm; $10

ON THE ROCKS The Ramifications; 9pm OVERTIME Sherwood Park Old School

(country); 9pm; No minors RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano

show featuring the Red Piano Players every Fri; 9pm-2am SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN Adam

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Thirsty

FRI SEP 11

Holm (folk/pop); 9pm Sep 11-12

Thursday Jam; 7:30pm

ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Sweet Vintage

Rides

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Derina

BLUES ON WHYTE Jimmy and the

Sleepers; 9pm

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Mac &

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled YEG: Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue- Fri, 5-8pm

Jones, Danger Pay and Absinthe from society; 9pm

(country/pop/rock); 9pm

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ The Whiskey Jerks; 8:30-10:30pm; $15

Harvey (celtic/folk/rock); 9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Doug Stroud ST. BASIL'S CULTURAL CENTRE Full

BLUES ON WHYTE Jimmy and the

Moon Folk Club: presenting Dala; 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $18 (adv), $22 (door), half price (kids under 12)

BRIXX BAR Part of Bermuda Festival:

Sleepers; 9pm

Edmonton Wowie Hosted By Jon Mick; 7pm (doors); 18+ only

STARLITE ROOM Part of Bermuda

BOHEMIA Woodhouse with The Glens,

BUDDY'S PUB Part of Bermuda Festi-

val: Physical Copies (dance/electronic/ punk) with Rhythm of Cruelty and Wares and with Kevin Maimann and the Pretty Things; 8pm; $8 (adv), $10 (door) CAFE BLACKBIRD Ken Dunn & Anna

Green (singer/songwriter); 7:30pm; $6 CAFÉ HAVEN Music every Thu; 7pm

Desperado Pilots, Twisted Pear; 8pm; 8pm (doors), 9pm (show); $5 BOURBON ROOM Dueling pianos

Festival: Villainizer Final Show! with Bleed (album release), Bloated Pig, Tylor Dory Trio & Tales Of The Tomb; 8pm; $10 (adv); 18+ only

every Fri Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 8pm

TIRAMISU BISTRO Live music every

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled YEG:

WILD EARTH BAKERY–MILLCREEK

Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue- Fri, 5-8pm

Fri

CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK Rockzilla

(rock); 9pm CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat Open mic;

7pm; $2 DENIZEN HALL Chad Vangaalen with

secret guest and Marlaena Moore; 8pm; $25 (adv); 18+ only DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Duff Robison;

9pm FILTHY MCNASTY'S Free Afternoon Concerts: this week with Lutra Lutra with guest Mohsin Zaman; 4pm; No cover GAS PUMP Saturday Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth HAWRELAK PARK–HERITAGE AMPHITHEATRE YEGfest presented by

The Creative Clubhouse: featuring Will Sprott, Terra, a special showcase by Night Vision, Peter Sagar of Homeshake and much more; No minors HILLTOP PUB Open Stage, Jam every

Sat; 3:30-7pm

Live Music Fridays: this week featuring; Each Fri, 8-10pm; $5 suggested donation

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Primus and the

WINSPEAR CENTRE Queen: It's a

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Open Stage

Chocolate Factory; 8pm; $62.30

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Thu Open Mic:

Sat–It's the Sat Jam hosted by Darren Bartlett, 5pm

All adult performers are welcome (music, song, spoken word); every Thu, 1:30-3pm

MAYFIELD DINNER THEATRE Dark Star: The Life & Times Of Roy Orbison; running until Nov 1

CHA ISLAND TEA CO Bring Your Own Vinyl Night: Every Thu; 8pm-late; Edmonton Couchsurfing Meetup: Every Thu; 8pm

MERCURY ROOM The Walkervilles with

CORAL DE CUBA Beach Bar: Beach

Live Local Bands every Sat

guests; 7pm (doors); $13 (adv), $15 (door); No minors MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET

Party Jam hosted by the Barefoot Kings; Ukulele lessons 7:30pm followed by Jam at 8:30pm

NEW WEST HOTEL Rodeowind O’BYRNE’S Live band every Sat,

3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm

DENIZEN HALL Part of Bermuda

Festival: Scenic Route to Alaska with Shred Kelly, George Ireland & The Willy Nillies, Revenge of the Trees; 8-11:30pm; $15 (adv), $20 (door)

O'MAILLE'S IRISH PUB The Party Hog;

9pm; No minors ON THE ROCKS The Ramifications; 9pm ORLANDO'S 1 Bands perform every

EARLY STAGE SALOON–Stony Plain

Open Jam Nights; no cover FIONN MACCOOL'S–DOWNTOWN Craft

Addict Thursday Presents: Andrew Scott; 7pm; No cover; All ages J R BAR AND GRILL Live Jam Thu;

9pm KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE Open stage

with One Percent (R&B/soul); 8pm every Thu L.B.'S PUB South Bound Freight open jam with hosts: Rob Kaup, Leah Durelle

BRIXX BAR Part of Bermuda Festival:

Mobina Galore with Worst Days Down, Snake Legs & The Worst; 8pm (doors), 9pm (show); 18+ only BUDDY'S PUB Part of Bermuda Festival: Mark Mills (alternative/ electronic/pop) with Doug Hoyer and Viking Fell and with DJ Anzu; 8pm; $8 (adv), $10 (door) CAFE BLACKBIRD Land's End Quintet;

8pm; $10

MAYFIELD DINNER THEATRE Dark Star: The Life & Times Of Roy Orbison; running until Nov 1

CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK Rockzilla

MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET

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

Thu and Fri DJ and dance floor; 9:30pm NAKED CYBERCAFÉ Thu open stage;

8pm; all ages (15+) NEW WEST HOTEL Rodeowind NORTH GLENORA HALL Jam by Wild

Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu; contact John Malka 780.447.5111 RED PIANO Every Thu: Dueling pianos

at 8pm RIC’S GRILL Peter Belec (jazz); most

Thursdays; 7-10pm SMOKEHOUSE BBQ Live Blues every

Thur: this week featuring Jeni Thai; 7-11pm TAVERN ON WHYTE Open stage with

Michael Gress (fr Self Evolution); every Thu; 9pm-2am WUNDERBAR Stone Iris with 10

(rock); 9pm CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Live music CASINO EDMONTON The Whiskey Boyz

(country/rock); 9pm CASINO YELLOWHEAD The Oddibles

(rock); 9pm DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Duff Robison;

9pm DV8 Punk Vs Grind: Abuse of Substance

Swill City and more (metal/hard rock/ punk); 7pm; No minors

Kinda Magic; 8pm; $59 (adult), $30 (kids age 3-12)

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every Friday

DJs on all three levels THE BOWER Strictly Goods: Old school

and new school hip hop & R&B with DJ Twist, Sonny Grimez, and Marlon English; every Fri THE COMMON Good Fridays: nu disco, hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation plus residents Echo and Justin Foosh DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Fri; 9pm ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ

every Fri THE PROVINCIAL PUB Friday Nights:

Indie rock and dance with DJ Brodeep RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie, rock,

funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Amplified

SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN Adam

Holm (folk/pop); 9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Derina

Harvey (celtic/folk/rock); 9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Doug Stroud

(country/pop/rock); 9pm SNEAKY PETE'S Sinder Sparks K-DJ

Show; 9pm-1am STARLITE ROOM Inspiration Series with Dance Spirit, Deko-Ze, Flipside; 9pm; $25; No minors STUDIO 96 Lisa Leblanc (alt/folk/rock);

8pm; $12 (adv), $15 (door) UNION HALL Vicetone; 9pm; $20

DJs

Y AFTERHOURS Foundation Fridays

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

HAWRELAK PARK–HERITAGE AMPHITHEATRE YEGfest presented by

The Creative Clubhouse: featuring Will Sprott, Terra, a special showcase by Night Vision, Peter Sagar of Homeshake and much more; No minors

SAT SEP 12 ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Sweet Vintage

Rides BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair of the

Dog: this week with John Guliak (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover BLUE CHAIR CAFE F & M; 8:30-

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Thu Main Fl:

LB'S PUB Potatohed; (rock/pop/indie);

10:30pm; $15

9:30pm; No minors

BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Jimmy and the Sleepers; 9pm

Uncommon Thursday: Rotating Guests each week!

"Infernal Calling" CD release with Death Toll Rising, Afterearth, Mongol & Wolfrik; 8pm; $15; 18+ only

UNION HALL Ladies Night every Fri

Fisted Friday Presents: Vera; 8pm; No cover; All ages

- The Mandatory World Tour; 9pm; Sold out; No minors

THE COMMON The Common

RENDEZVOUS PUB Eye Of Horus

FIONN MACCOOL'S–DOWNTOWN Two-

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Weird Al Yankovic

with house DJ every Thu; 7pm-close

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

7:30-10:30pm; $22-$26

FESTIVAL PLACE Tri City Rat Pack;

DJs

CENTURY ROOM Lucky 7: Retro '80s

OVERTIME Sherwood Park Old School

DJ; 9:30pm

Fridays: Dubstep, house, trance, electro, hip hop breaks with DJ Aeiou, DJ Loose Beats, DJ Poindexter; 9:30pm (door)

Minute Detour and Red Cannons (rock/pop/indie); 9pm; $10; No minors

Throwback Thu: Rock&Roll, Funk, Soul, R&B and 80s with DJ Thomas Culture; jamz that will make your backbone slide; Wooftop: Dig It! Thursdays. Electronic, roots and rare groove with DJ's Rootbeard, Raebot, Wijit and guests

week; $10

MAYFIELD DINNER THEATRE Dark

Star: The Life & Times Of Roy Orbison; running until Nov 1 MERCURY ROOM Seoul, with Tropic Harbour, and Yes We Mystic; 8pm; $10 (adv), $12 (door) MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET

Thu and Fri DJ and dance floor; 9:30pm

BOHEMIA DARQ Saturdays: Industrial

YEG DANCE CLUB Orjan Nilsen; 9pm;

$15

The Menace Sessions: alt rock/Electro/ Trash with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic Hip-Hop, R&B and Reggae with DJ Sonny Grimez & instigate; Underdog: Alternating DJs THE BOWER For Those Who Know...: Deep House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests; every Sat THE COMMON Get Down It's Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with resident Dane DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Sat; 9pm ENCORE–WEM Every Sat: Sound and Light show; We are Saturdays: Kindergarten

- Goth - Dark Electro with DJs the Gothfather and Zeio; 9pm; $5 (door); (every Sat except the 1st Sat of the month)

every Sat

BOURBON ROOM Live Music every Sat

THE PROVINCIAL PUB Saturday Nights:

Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 8pm

MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey Wong

Indie rock and dance with DJ Maurice

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RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and

(doors), 9pm (show); 18+ only

electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests

UNION HALL Akon & Karl Wolf Pre-

ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge Saturdays:

global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Mkhai SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM Swing Dance

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Party: Sugar Swing Dance Club every Sat, 8-12; no experience or partner needed, beginner lesson followed by social dance; sugarswing.com

SEPTEMBER 09 -13, 2015

TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul, Motown, Funk, R&B and more with DJs Ben and Mitch; every Sat; 9pm-2am

BERMUDA FEST SEP/11

UNION HALL Celebrity Saturdays: every

BERMUDA FEST PRESENTS

Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous

VILLAINIZER W/ BLEED, BLOATED PIG, TYLOR DORY TRIO & TALES OF THE TOMB

Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

SUN SEP 13

SEP/12 INSPIRATION SERIES LOCAL UNDERGROUND PRESENTS

W/ DANCE SPIRIT(SPAIN), DEKO-ZE (TORONTO), FLIPSIDE (TORONTO)

SEP/21 CATTLE DECAPITATION W/ KING PARROT, BLACK CROWN INITIATE & DARK SERMON

7pm; $10

BOHEMIA An Evening With Ruth B; BRIXX BAR Part of Bermuda Festival:

SEP/26 OCT/2

JCL PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS

PATRICK WATSON W/ GUESTS

MOBINA GALORE

SEP/12 BLACK THUNDER W/ COUNTERFEIT JEANS, ELECTRICITY FOR EVERYBODY AND VERSIONS BERMUDA FEST PRESENTS

SEP/13 FIST CITY W/ BETA BLOCKERS, TUQUES, AND HOUSEWARMING BERMUDA FEST PRESENTS

SEP/19 TUPPER WEAR REMIX PARTY W/ TERROR PIGEON AND GUESTS SEP/22 SAGE FRANCIS W/ SONIK & TRIPPZ AND GUESTS SEP/25 DIE MANNEQUIN W/ FAKE SHARK & THE CYGNETS

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DRUID IRISH PUB Open Stage Tue:

featuring this week: Sherry-Lee Heschel; 9pm L.B.'S PUB Tue Variety Night Open stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm

Dots, and guests; 7pm; $20 (adv), $25 (door); No minors

NEW WEST HOTEL Tue Country Dance

Lessons: 7-9pm • Doug & The Hurtin Horsemen O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue;

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

every Tue RANCH ROADHOUSE P.O.D with special

The Still Spirits (metal/hard rock/punk); 8pm; No minors

Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm; contact Vi Kallio 780.456.8510

MAYFIELD DINNER THEATRE Dark

ROUGE RESTO-LOUNGE Open Mic

Tour 2015; 7pm; $58.50

Service: acoustic open stage every Sun

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Open Mic Night hosted by Adam Holm; Every Mon

O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun;

SIDEDLINER'S PUB Paul Woida; 8pm;

NEWCASTLE PUB The Sunday Soul

9:30pm-1am

No minors

ON THE ROCKS Paul Woida & Jeff

STARLITE ROOM Part of Bermuda

Festival: Razor (metal) with Gatekrashor and Mortillery and with Vibes; 8pm; $27.50 (adv), $32 (door)

guest Islander; 7pm; $25; No minors ROCKY MOUNTAIN ICEHOUSE Live

music with the Icehouse Band and weekly guests; Every Tue, 9pm SANDS HOTEL Country music dancing every Tue, featuring Country Music Legend Bev Munro every Tue, 8-11pm

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Brit Pop, Synthpop, Alternative 90’s, Glam Rock with DJ Chris Bruce; Wooftop: Substance: alt retro and not-so-retro electronic and dance with Eddie LunchPail

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Kraftwerk 3-D Concert Tour; 8pm; $75-$96 MAYFIELD DINNER THEATRE Dark Star: The Life & Times Of Roy Orbison; running until Nov 1 MERCURY ROOM Busty and the Bass,

Horsemen mic Wed: Hosted by Jordan Strand; every Wed, 9-12 jordanfstrand@gmail.com / 780655-8520 OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Jason Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Wed; no cover PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:30-11pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member) RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 ROSSDALE HALL Little Flower Open Stage with Brian Gregg; 7:30pm (door); no cover ZEN LOUNGE Jazz Wednesdays: Kori

Wray and Jeff Hendrick; every Wed; 7:30-10pm; no cover

DJs BILLIARD CLUB Why wait Wednesdays:

Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover

BRIXX Metal night every Tue

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Alt '80s and '90s, Post Punk, New Wave, Garage, Brit, Mod, Rock and Roll witih LL Cool Joe and DJ Downtrodden on alternate Weds

DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly,

BRIXX BAR Eats and Beats

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue

Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue

Jay’s Messy Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay

WED SEP 16

DJs

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Wed open mic

with host Duff Robison

ORIGINAL JOE'S VARSITY ROW Open

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Bingo Toonz

SHAW CONFERENCE CENTRE alt-J: Fall

of prose and music. Featured reader: Leanne Myggland-Carter. Featured musicians: Ella Marie Coyes and Jasper Smith. Hosted by Tony FlemmingBlake; 7:30pm; Donations (door prizes available)

with guests; 9:15pm; No minors

Horsemen

MERCURY ROOM Abiotic (metal),

CHA ISLAND Scales & Tales: An evening

NEW WEST HOTEL Doug & The Hurtin

with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm

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

Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue- Fri, 5-8pm

Trevor Mullen

NEW WEST HOTEL Doug & The Hurtin

Star: The Life & Times Of Roy Orbison; running until Nov 1

7pm; $10

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Tue Open Jam:

MERCURY ROOM The Dears, with Vogue

Gatekrashör, Mortillery and Vibes; 8pm

W/ WORST DAYS DOWN, SNAKE LEGS, THE WORST

CONNAUGHT ARMOURY Fuck The Facts (metal/punk) with Begrime Exemious and Time's Tide; 7pm; $12

DIVERSION LOUNGE Sun Night Live on

STARLITE ROOM Razor with

BERMUDA FEST PRESENTS

CAFE BLACKBIRD Paint Nite; 7pm; $45

Harvey and guests

by Mark Ammar; 4-8pm

SEP/11

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled YEG: Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue- Fri, 5-8pm

MAYFIELD DINNER THEATRE Dark Star: The Life & Times Of Roy Orbison; running until Nov 1

RICHARD'S PUB Sunday Jam hosted

SEPTEMBER 09 -13, 2015

with Tension Sample, Parisian Beggars, & Mckenzie/Ferris Duo; 8pm; $5

Festival: Chad VanGaalen (folk/rock) with Marlaena Moore with guests; 8pm; $25 (adv), $30 (door)

OLD TIMERS CABIN Two Bears North presents: A French Toast to Women; 12-3pm; $50 (adv), $60 (door)

BERMUDA FEST

Vaughn; 9pm BOHEMIA Brick Quartet (alternative)

MERCER TAVERN Alt Tuesday with Kris

Morris

WE ARE PROUD TO BE APART OF

Festival: Black Mold (alternative/ electronic) with Segue and Chris Dadger and with Zebra Pulse and Pigeon Breeders; 4pm; $10 (adv), $12 (door)

Vaughn; 9pm

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled YEG:

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Monday open

with Reaping Asmodeia and with Protosequence; 7pm; $18 (adv)

THE STARLITE ROOM IS A PRIVATE VENUE FOR OUR MEMBERS AND THEIR GUESTS. IF YOU REQUIRE A MEMBERSHIP YOU CAN PURCHASE ONE AT THE VENUE PRIOR TO / OR AFTER THE DOOR TIMES FOR EACH SHOW.

BUDDY'S PUB Part of Bermuda

BLUES ON WHYTE Maurice John

mic

DV8 TAVERN The Bone Daddies With

KNIGHT RIDERZ, MOONTRICKS

7pm; $10

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Alt '80s and '90s, Post Punk, New Wave, Garage, Brit, Mod, Rock and Roll witih LL Cool Joe and DJ Downtrodden on alternate Weds

Night Jam with host Harry Gregg and Geoffrey O'Brien; 8-11pm

DENIZEN HALL Part of Bermuda

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Celtic Music with Duggan's House Band 5-8pm

LUNICE, SKIITOUR, HOODBOI,

Jay’s Messy Nest: Mod, Brit Pop, New Wave & British Rock with DJ Blue Jay; Wooftop: Metal Mon: with Metal Phil (fr CJSR’s Heavy Metal Lunch Box)

B STREET BAR Live Music with Lyle Hobbs; 8-11pm, every Wed

BOHEMIA An Evening With Ruth B;

MAYFIELD DINNER THEATRE Dark Star: The Life & Times Of Roy Orbison; running until Nov 1

4-8pm; 18+ only; No cover

UBK PRESENTS 3RD ANNUAL ALL OUR BASS BELONG TO YOU:

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Tuesday

CAFE BLACKBIRD Paint Nite; 7pm; $45

DRAFT BAR & GRILL Sunday Draft Jam;

SEP/24 REVOCATION W/ CANNABIS CORPSE, ARCHSPIRE & BLACK FAST

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Blue Mondays with Jimmy and the Sleepers; 8-11pm

TUE SEP 15

Fist City with Beta Blockers, Tuques, and Housewarming; 8pm (doors), 9pm (show); 18+ only

the South Side: live bands; all ages; 7-10:30pm

GEAR GODS PRESENTS

MON SEP 14

BRIXX BAR Part of Bermuda Festival: Fist City (punk/rock) with Beta Blockers, Tuques, and Housewarming; 8pm; $12 (adv), $15 (door)

BLUES ON WHYTE Blues Puppy; 9pm

JCL PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sundays: A fantastic voyage through '60s and '70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy

BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku Open

Findlay Trio; 9am-3pm; Donations

SEP/22 COLEMAN HELL SEP/23 HAYDEN

TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic Hip hop with DJ Creeazn every Mon; 9pm-2am

Vaughn; 9pm

BLUE CHAIR CAFE Brunch with the Jim

LIVENATION.COM PRESENTS

DJs

BOHEMIA An Evening With Ruth B;

SEP/13 RAZOR W/ GATEKRASHÖR, MORTILLERY AND VIBES CONCERTWORKS.CA PRESENTS

industrial,Classic Punk, Rock, Electronic with Hair of the Dave

jam hosted with the Marshall Lawrence Band; 4pm mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett

BERMUDA FEST AND CONCERWORKS PRESENT

Stadium Tour; 9pm; $39.95 (adv), $49.95 (door), $59.95 (VIP); 18+ only

BLUES ON WHYTE Maurice John

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Sun BBQ

DV8 T.F.W.O. Mondays: Roots

THE COMMON The Wed Experience: Classics on Vinyl with Dane RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed

VENUEGUIDE ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL 7704 Calgary Trail South "B" STREET BAR 11818-111 St BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Yellowhead Inn, 15004 Yellowhead Trail BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 1042582 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Dr, Nisku, 780.955.2336 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BOURBON ROOM 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; info@thebower.ca BOYLE STREET COMMUNITY LEAGUE 101 Boyle Street Plaza BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 THE BUCKINGHAM 10439 82 Ave, 780.761.1002, thebuckingham.ca BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 CAFE BLACKBIRD 9640 142 St NW CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca

CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464153 St, 780.424 9467 CENTRAL SENIOR LIONS CENTRE 11113-113 St CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 COMMON 9910-109 St CONNAUGHT ARMOURY 1031085 Ave DARAVARA 10713 124 St, 587.520.4980 DENIZEN HALL 10311-103 Ave DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8130 Gateway Blvd EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain, 780.963.5998 ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 ENCORE–WEM 2687, 8882-170 St FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557

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FIONN MACCOOL'S–DOWNTOWN 10200-102 Ave NW HAWRELAK PARK 9930 Groat Rd NW HILLTOP PUB 8220 106 Ave IRISH SPORTS CLUB 12546-126 St, 780.453.2249 J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JAVA XPRESS 110, 4300 South Park Dr, Stony Plain, 780.968.1860 JUBILEE AUDITORIUM 11455-87 Ave NW KELLY'S PUB 10156-104 St L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR AND GRILL 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET 8101 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.2337 MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 Ave NOORISH CAFÉ 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave O2'S–West 11066-156 St, 780.448.2255 O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 ORIGINAL JOE'S VARSITY ROW 8404-109 St

ORLANDO'S 1 15163-121 St O'MAILLES IRISH PUB 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 OVERTIME–Sherwood Park 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave THE PROVINCIAL PUB 160, 4211-106 St RANCH ROADHOUSE 6107-104 St NW RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 RIC’S GRILL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 ROCKY MOUNTAIN ICEHOUSE 10516 Jasper Ave, 780.424.3836 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St SANDS HOTEL 12340 Fort Rd, 780.474.5476 SHAW CONFERENCE CENTRE 9797 Jasper Ave NW SHERLOCK HOLMES– DOWNTOWN 10012-101 A Ave SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A 8519-112 St SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM 8882-170 St SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St

SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 SNEAKY PETE'S 12315-118 Ave SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 1292397 St, 780.758.5924 ST. BASIL'S CULTURAL CENTRE 10819-71 Ave NW STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 STUDIO 96 10909-96 St STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION 10940-166 A St SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 TIRAMISU 10750-124 St UPTOWN FOLK CLUB 7308-76 Ave, 780.436.1554 VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 WILD EARTH BAKERY– MILLCREEK 8902-99 St, wildearthbakery.com WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428 YEG DANCE CLUB 11845 Wayne Gretzky Dr YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St

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COMEDY Black Dog Freehouse • Underdog Comedy show: Alternating hosts • Every Thu, 8-11pm • No cover

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

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Sean Thomson; Sep 11-12 • Keon Polee; Sep 17-19

Comic Strip • Bourbon St, WEM •

Lotus Qigong • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu

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

Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-106 St • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

Organization for Bipolar Affective Disorder (OBAD) • Grey Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, obad@shaw.ca; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free

Poor Vote Turnout • Rossdale Hall, 1013596 Ave • poorvoteturnout.ca • Public meetings: promoting voting by the poor • Every Wed, 7-8pm

RASC Regular Meeting - Member's Night • Telus World of Science - Winspear Learning Centre, 11211-142 St NW • edmontonrasc. com • RASC members share their interests, projects, skills and passions • Sep 14, 7-9:30pm • Free

sAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP • Braeside Presbyterian Church bsmt, N. door, 6 Bernard Dr, St Albert • For adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional families • Every Mon, 7:30pm

Connie's Comedy presents Comedy @ the Fort Lounge • Fort Lounge, 13403 Fort

Schizophrenia Society Family Support Drop-in Group • Schizophrenia

Connie's Comedy presents Komedy Krush • Krush Ultralounge, 16648-109 St • Starting with an open mic, followed by headliner Mike Paramore from Ohio • Sep 15, 7:30pm (door), 8pm (show)

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

Empress Ale House • 9912-82 Ave • Empress Comedy Night: featuring a professional headliner every week Every Sun, 9pm

Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St • Comedy Groove every Wed; 9pm

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

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

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

Wiccan Assembly • Ritchie Hall, 7727-98 St • The Congregationalist Wiccan Assembly of Alberta meets the 2nd Sun each month (except Aug), 6pm • Info: contact cwaalberta@gmail.com WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old Strathcona Farmers' Market • Silent vigil the 1st and 3rd Sat, 10-11am, each month, stand in silence for a world without violence LECTURES/Presentations

780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 7:30pm; Fri-Sat 9:45pm • Battle to the Funny Bone; every Mon at 7:30pm • Triple Threat Tuesday; every Tue at 7:30pm • Josh Wolf Special Performance; Sep 10-12 • Paul Myerhaug; Sep 13 • Adam Hunter; Sep 16-20

Road NW • With comedian Tommy Savitt from L.A. • Sep 17, 8pm

Edmonton Public Library–DT: Meets every Wed, 7-8:45pm; Sep-May; upward.toastmastersclubs. org; reader1@shaw.ca • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue ea month; Contact: Antonio Balce, 780.463.5331

Society of Alberta, 5215-87 St • schizophrenia.ab.ca • The Schizophrenia Society of Alberta-Edmonton branch provides a facilitated family support group for caregivers of a loved one living with schizophrenia. Free drop-in the 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7-9pm

Sensational Ladies Night • Warp 1 Comics & Games, 9917-82 Ave • 780.433.7119 • facebook.com/sensational.ladies.night • A night dedicated to women indulging in various geekeries with other women once a month in a friendly and safe environment. Featuring a book club, board game nights, art jam and much more. No prior geekery knowledge required • 3rd Wed of every month, 6-8pm • Free

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

CIC Edmonton: Does Canadian Beer Still Exist? The Global Dynamics of the Beer Industry in the 21st Century • The Black Dog Freehouse, 10425-82 Ave NW • A talk that will look at global trends in the beer industry over the past 30 years and how they have affected the shape of beer in Canada • Sep 10, 6-7:30pm • $5 (CIC Member), $10 (Non-Member)

CRACKING THE ENIGMA. WHAT'S BEHIND THE IMAGINATION GAME MOVIE? • Bernard Snell Hall in Walter C. Mackenzie Health Science Centre (U of A). Use 112 St entrance, same side as Emergency • amgmitch@gmail.com • A talk that will describe the work of Alan Turing, a computer forerunner • Sep 16, 7pm • $15 (suggested donation; cash or cheque)

Fracking and Earthquakes: A cause for concern? • University of Alberta, 1-430, CCIS 11455 Saskatchewan Drive • A panel of experts from government, industry, and academia will discuss whether the ongoing development and expansion of hydrofracturing might pose a hazard to surrounding communities by the earthquakes they might create • Sep 10, 7:30-8:30pm • Free

Have You Had a Spiritual Experience? • ATB Financial Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave • spiritualexperience.org • meetup.com/ Edmonton-Eckankar-Meetup-Group • 780.490.1129 • Discovering how past lives, dreams and soul travel can help attendees understand these • Sep 13, 1-3pm • Free (free Eckankar’s Spiritual Experiences Guidebook for all guests

Public talk with Ven. Thrangu Rinpoche • Rutherford Rm, Varscona Hotel On

Sherwood Park Walking Group + 50 • Meet inside Millennium Place, Sherwood Place • Weekly outdoor walking group; starts with a 10-min discussion, followed by a 30 to 40-min walk through Centennial Park, a cool down and stretch • Every Tue, 8:30am • $2/session (goes to the Alzheimer’s Society of Alberta)

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

Sugar Foot Ballroom • 10545-81 Ave •

Whyte, 8208-106 St NW • 780.433.8463 • Teaching on Generating Compassion In Daily Life (Sep 18), The Dorje Chang Thungma Mahamudra Prayer (Sep 19), Manjushri Empowerment (Sep 20) • Sep 18-20

The Right to a Healthy Environment • Room 150, Telus Centre (corner of 111 St. and 87 Ave.), University of Alberta • Dr. David Boyd explain why the Canadian Constitution should be amended to recognize environmental rights and responsibilities • Sep 16, 7pm

Seeing is above All • Acacia Hall, 10433-83 Ave, upstairs • 780.554.6133 • Free instruction in meditation on the Inner Light • Every Sun, 5pm

Edmonton Photographic Historial Society • Capilano Library • 780.967.2590

587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Friday Night Stomp!: Swing and party music dance social every Fri; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check web; $10, $2 (lesson with entry) • Swing Dance Social every Sat; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check the Sugar Swing website for info • $10, $2 lesson with entry

• Gather and marvel over the latest finds in photography, discussions, and much more • 3rd Wed each month, 7:30pm

TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS) • Grace United Church annex, 6215-104 Ave • Low-cost, fun

780.488.6636 • Tue: Retro Tuesdays with Dj Arrow Chaser; 9pm-close • Wed: DJ Griff; 9-close • Thu: Wet underwear with Shiwana Millionaire • Fri: Dance all Night with Dj Arrowchaser • Sat: Weekly events and dancing until close • Sun: Weekly Drag show with Shiwana Millionaire and guests; 12:30am

and friendly weight loss group • Every Mon, 6:30pm • Info: call Bob 780.479.5519

EPLC Fellowship Pagan Study Group

EDMONTON OUTDOOR CLUB (EOC) • edmontonoutdoorclub.com • Offering a variety of fun activities in and around Edmonton • Free to join; info at info@edmontonoutdoorclub.com

Edmonton Ukulele Circle • Bogani Café, 2023-111 St • 780.440.3528 • 3rd Sun each month; 2:30-4pm • $5 FOOD ADDICTS • Alano Club (& Simply Done Cafe), 17028-124 St • 780.718.7133 (or 403.506.4695 after 7pm) • 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

Fort Saskatchewan 45+ Singles Coffee Group • A&W, 10101-88 Ave, Fort Saskatchewan • 780.907.0201 (Brenda) • A mixed group, all for conversation and friendship • Every Sun, 2pm

Habitat for Humanity Volunteer Information Night • Habitat for Humanity Prefab Shop, 14135-128 Ave • vbatten@hfh.org • 780.451.3416 ext. 236 • hfh.org/volunteer • Learn about taking the next step and what opportunities are available • 3rd Thu of the month, 6-7pm, until Nov 2015 • Free

TIBETAN BUDDHIST MAHAMUDRA • Karma Tashi Ling Society, 10502-70 Ave • Tranquility and insight meditation based on Very Ven. Thrangu Rinpoche's teachings. Suitable for meditation practitioners with Buddhist leanings • Every Thu, 7-8:30pm • Donations; jamesk2004@hotmail.com

Toastmasters • Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings: Campus St; Jean: Pavillion McMahon;

fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club: 2nd Fl, Canada Place Rm 217, 9700 Jasper Ave; Carisa: divdgov2014_15@ outlook.com, 780.439.3852; fabulousfacilitators. toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level, McClure United Church, 13708-74 St: meet every Thu, 6:45-8:30pm; contact bradscherger@hotmail.com, 780.863.1962, norators.com • Terrified of Public Speaking: Norwood Legion Edmonton, 11150-82 St NW; Every Thu until 7:30-9:30pm; Free; contact jnwafula@yahoo.com; norwoodtoastmasters. org • Upward Bound Toastmaster Club: Rm 7, 6 Fl,

QUEER BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725 Jasper Ave •

• Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • eplc.webs.com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome

Evolution Wonderlounge • 10220-103 St • 780.424.0077 • yourgaybar.com • Community Tue: partner with various local GLBT groups for different events; see online for details • Happy Hour Wed-Fri: 4-8pm • Wed Karaoke: with the Mystery Song Contest; 7pm-2am • Fri: DJ Evictor • Sat: DJ Jazzy • Sun: Beer Bash

G.L.B.T. sports and recreation • teamedmonton.ca • Blazin' Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary School Gym, 10925-87 Ave; Every Mon and Thu, 7pm; $30/$15 (low income/student); E: bootcamp@teamedmonton.ca • Mindful Meditation: Pride Centre: Every Thu, 6pm; free weekly drop-in • Swimming–Making Waves: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St; E: swimming@teamedmonton.ca; makingwavesswimclub.ca • Martial Arts–Kung Fu and Kick Boxing: Every Tue and Thu, 6-7pm; GLBTQ inclusive adult classes at Sil-Lum Kung Fu; kungfu@

teamedmonton.ca, kickboxing@teamedmonton. ca, sillum.ca

using a ticket system (ranging from $2-5))

G.L.B.T.Q Seniors Group • S.A.G.E

Sunday jam locations • Every Sun: Sunday Jams with no Stan (CCR to Metallica), starring Chuck Prins on Les Paul Standard guitars; Pink Floydish originals plus great Covers of Classics: some FREE; Twilight Zone Lively Up Yourself Tour (with DJ Cool Breeze); all ages

Bldg, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E: Tuff69@telus.net

Illusions Social Club • Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave • 780.387.3343 • edmontonillusions.ca • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri each month, 7:30-9pm INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campus-based organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transidentified and queer (LGBTQ) faculty, graduate student, academic, straight allies and support staff • 3rd Thu each month (fall/winter terms): Speakers Series. E: kwells@ualberta.ca LIVING POSITIVE • #33, 9912-106 St • 780.424.2214 • livingpositivethroughpositiveliving. com • Support group for gay men living with HIV: 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm

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

Pride Centre of Edmonton • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • Daily: Community drop-in; support and resources. Queer library: borrowing privileges: Tue-Fri 12-9pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, closed Sun-Mon; Queer HangOUT (a.k.a. QH) youth drop-in: Tue-Fri 3-8pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, youth@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Counselling: Free, short-term by registered counsellors every Wed, 5:30-8:30pm, info/bookings: 780.488.3234 • Knotty Knitters: Knit and socialize in safe, accepting environment, all skill levels welcome; every Wed 6-8pm • QH Game Night: Meet people through board game fun; every Thu 6-8pm • QH Craft Night: every Wed, 6-8pm • QH Anime Night: Watch anime; every Fri, 6-8pm • Movie Night: Open to everyone; 2nd and 4th Fri each month, 6-9pm • Women’s Social Circle: Social support group for female-identified persons +18 years in the GLBT community; new members welcome; 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm each month; andrea@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Men Talking with Pride: Support and social group for gay and bisexual men; every Sun 7-9pm; robwells780@hotmail.com • TTIQ: a support and information group for all those who fall under the transgender umbrella and their family/supporters; 3rd Mon, 7-9pm, each month • HIV Support Group: Support and discussion group for gay men; 2nd Mon, 7-9pm, each month; huges@shaw.ca

DeepSoul.ca • 587.520.3833; call or text for

Harvest Festival • St Albert Grain Elevator Park, 4 Meadowview Drive, St Albert • 780.459.1528 • museum@artsandheritage.ca • MuseeHeritage. ca • Tours of the provincially designated 1906 Brackman Ker Elevator and 1929 Alberta Wheat Pool Elevator and much more • Sep 13, 12-4pm • Free (donations welcome) ICChange's 8th Annual Kenya Run for Water • Emily Murphy Park, 11904 Emily Murphy Park Road NW • adennis@ualberta.ca • In support of the Kenya Ceramic Project, which produces, markets and distributes ceramic water filters to families across Kenya and East Africa • Sep 13, 8-11am

In the ‘Spirit’ of Festival Place • Festival Place, 100 Festival Way • festivalplace. ab.ca • An evening of tantalizing the taste buds with fine scotch, port and Madeira alongside delicious appetizers and fabulous entertainment • Sep 17, 4-8pm • $65 (includes a souvenir Glencairn tasting glass. Proceeds will be donated to the Festival Place Cultural Arts Foundation) Italia with Gusto • David Morris Fine Cars, 17407-111 Ave • 780.429.2020 • mealsonwheelsedmonton.org/news/italia-with-gusto • A Meals on Wheels fundraiser. Featuring exclusive Italian wine samples, a silent and live auction, live entertainment and great Italian eats • Sep 17, 7-9:30pm • $100 MADD Edmonton & Area: Strides for Change 2015 • Gold Bar Park, 10955-50 St NW • maddchapters.ca/edmonton • A day of walking, food, fun, and prizes – all to support the fight against impaired driving • Sep 13, 10am-2pm

National Drive Electric Week • Southgate Centre, 5015-111 St NW, South East Parking Lot • driveelectricweek.org • Electric vehicle drivers and enthusiasts from all over Alberta will be motoring to Edmonton to highlight the fun, and environmental benefits of electric cars. Featuring test drives, and more • Sep 12, 10am-5pm • Free

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

Nerd Nite #21 • The Club, Citadel Theatre, 9828101A Ave • edmonton.nerdnite.com • The beginning of the fourth season. Presenting: I wanna be like you: Voltroning molecules to build enzyme mimics, Is Orange really the new Blue? A look at what the heck is going on in Alberta politics in 2015, Strange medieval Christian relics • Sep 17, 7:30pm (doors), 8pm (show) • $20 (adv), $25 (door); 18+ only

WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • womonspace.

Night of Illusion - Benefit for YESS

St Paul's United Church • 11526-76 Ave •

org, womonspace@gmail.com • A Non-profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured

Woodys Video Bar • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Massive Mondays Comedy Night with Nadine Hunt; 8pm; New Headliner Weekly • Tue: You Don't Know Show with Shiwana Millionaire; 8pm; Weekly prizes and games • Wed: Karaoke with Shirley; 7pm-1am • Thu: Karaoke with Kendra; 7pm-1am • Fri-Sat: Dancing and events until close • Sun: Karaoke with Jadee; 7pm-1am

• ATB Arts Barns, 103320-84 Ave • To raise both awareness and funds for YESS (Youth Empowerment and Support Services) • Sep 11, 7:30-8:30pm

Red Shoe Crawl • 124 St • 780.439.5437 ext. 239 • darcie@rmhcna.org • A fundraising event in support of Ronald McDonald House Charities featuring culinary delights from a variety of restaurants and shops • Sep 13, 1-5pm • $45 (adult), $150 (adult four pack), $20 (child)

SPECIAL EVENTS

Scrambled YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St • 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm

3rd Annual Edmonton Burlesque Festival • Royal Alberta Museum Theatre, 12845-102

Subarctic Improv and Experimental Arts • Spazio Performativo, 10816-95 St •

Ave • The Edmonton Burlesque Festival returns to bring a dazzling array of performers from around the globe for a festival of tease • Sep 10-12

10th Annual Kaleido Family Arts Festival • Alberta Avenue Arts District, 118 Ave between 90-94 St • kaleidofest.ca • An arts and cultural experience with multi-arts collaborative performances such as music, dance, theatre, film, literary and visual arts with performances on rooftops, sides of buildings, back alleys, parks and found spaces • Sep 11-13 • Free (donations accepted)

Annual Donation Drive & Celebration Barbeque • Find, 5120-122 St • 780.988.1717 • findedmonton.com • Furniture donation drive and celebration barbeque • Sep 12, 10am-3pm • Free

Callingwood Cornfest • The Marketplace at Callingwood, 6655-178 St • info@callingwoodmarketplace.com • A fundraiser for Edmonton Firefighter’s Burn Treatment Society. Featuring fresh, hot buttered taber corn from Tanner Farms (by donation); petting zoo, pony rides, games and much more • Sep 12, 12-5pm • Free (food and activities operate

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780.424.1573 • subarctic@milezerodance.com • milezerodance.com • Features an array of artists. This month features Nate Wooley from NYC on trumpet, Allison Balcetis on sax, dancers Jen Mesch and Jodie Vandekerkhove, bassist Thom Golub, poet Yoav Engelberg, and visual artist David Janzen • Sep 10, 8-11:30pm • $15 or best offer at door

Tibetan Bazaar • Alberta Avenue Community Centre, 9210-118 Ave • 780.479.0014 • info@ gasamling.ca • gasamling.ca • A celebration of Tibetan culture. Attendees can shop in the Himalayan market, sample delicious Tibetan food, receive meditation information from Tibetan Buddhist monk, Kushok Lobsang Dhamchoe. Also featuring two internationally renowned Tibetan folk artists • Sep 19, 10am-5pm • $5, free (kids 12 and under) YEGfest • Hawrelak Park Heritage Amphitheatre, 9930 Groat Road NW • into@yegfest.ca • yegfest.ca • A celebration of the local music scene with visual art installations, food trucks, and a variety of other performance arts • Sep 11-12 • $40 (weekend pass) • 18+ only

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Can You Read This? Help Someone Who Can’t! Volunteer 2 hours a week and help someone improve their Reading, Writing, Math or English Speaking Skills. Call Valerie at P.A.L.S. 780-424-5514 or email palsvol@shaw.ca The 29th Edmonton International Film Festival (EIFF) raised its’ curtains on a fascinating, 10-day feast of films from around the world, and we are looking for VOLUNTEERS! Taking place October 1 - 10, EIFF unspools more than 150 international films downtown at Landmark Cinemas in Edmonton City Centre. We are looking for enthusiastic ambassadors to make our visiting filmmakers, and our audiences, feel the love that Edmontonians are known for! Come play with us. Volunteer applications are online until September 25. www.edmontonfilmfest.com Wanted: Volunteers for our Long Term Care Facility! Individuals or groups welcome! Many positions available! Vulnerable Sector search by EPS is mandatory to volunteer. Please contact Janice Graff Volunteer Coordinator – Extendicare Eaux Claires-16503-95 Street. For more information: jgraff@extendicare.com 780-472-1106 ext 202

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for your current situation, Leo. In one sense, you are in the early stages of a new cycle of growth. In another sense, you are strong and ripe and full-fledged. For you, this is a winning combination: a robust balance of innocence and wisdom, of fresh aspiration and seasoned readiness. VIRGO (AUG 23 – SEP 22): I hope it's not too late or too early to give you a slew of birthday presents. You deserve to be inundated with treats, dispensations and appreciations. Here's your first perk: You are hereby granted a licence to break a taboo that is no longer useful or necessary. Second blessing: You are authorized to instigate a wildly constructive departure from tradition. Third boost: I predict that in the next six weeks, you will simultaneously claim new freedom and summon more discipline. Fourth delight: During the next three months, you will discover and uncork a new thrill. Fifth goody: Between now and your birthday in 2016, you will develop a more relaxed relationship with perfectionism. LIBRA (SEP 23 – OCT 22): A "wheady mile" is an obsolete English term I want to revive for use in this horoscope. It refers to what may happen at the end of a long journey, when that last stretch you've got to traverse seems to take forever. You're so close to home; you're imagining the comfort and rest that will soon be yours. But as you cross the "wheady mile," you must navigate your way through one further plot twist or two. There's a delay or complication that demands more effort just when you want to be finished with the story. Be strong, Libra. Keep the faith. The wheady mile will not, in fact, take forever. (Thanks to Mark Forsyth and his book Horologicon.) SCORPIO (OCT 23 – NOV 21): Trying improbable and unprecedented combinations is your specialty right now. You're willing and able to gamble with blends and juxtapositions that no one else would think of, let alone propose. Bonus: Extra courage is available for you to call on as you proceed. In light of this gift, I suggest you brainstorm about all the unifications that might be possible for you to pull off. What conflicts would you love to defuse? What inequality or lopsidedness do you want to fix? Is there a misunderstanding you can heal or a disjunction you can harmonize? SAGITTARIUS (NOV 22 – DEC 21): Is feeling good really as fun as everyone seems to think? Is it really so wonderful to be in a groove, in love with life and in touch with your deeper self? No! Definitely not! And I suspect that as you enter more fully into these altered states, your life will provide evidence of the inconve-

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niences they bring. For example, some people might nag you for extra attention, and others may be jealous of your success. You could be pressured to take on more responsibilities. And you may be haunted by the worry that sooner or later, this grace period will pass. I'M JUST KIDDING, SAGITTARIUS! In truth, the minor problems precipitated by your blessings won't cause any more anguish than a mosquito biting your butt while you're in the throes of ecstatic love-making. CAPRICORN (DEC 22 – JAN 19): In this horoscope, we will use the Socratic method to stimulate your excitement about projects that fate will favour in the next nine months. Here's how it works: I ask the questions, and you brainstorm the answers. 1) Is there any part of your life where you are an amateur but would like to be a professional? 2) Are you hesitant to leave a comfort zone even though remaining there tends to inhibit your imagination? 3) Is your ability to fulfill your ambitions limited by any lack of training or deficiency in your education? 4) Is there any way that you are holding on to blissful ignorance at the expense of future possibilities? 5) What new licence, credential, diploma or certification would be most useful to you? AQUARIUS (JAN 20 – FEB 18): The story of my life features more than a few fiascos. For example, I got fired from my first job after two days. One of my girlfriends dumped me without any explanation and never spoke to me again. My record label fired me and my band after we made just one album. Years later, these indignities still carry a sting. But I confess that I am also grateful for them. They keep me humble. They serve as antidotes if I'm ever tempted to deride other people for their failures. They have helped me develop an abundance of compassion. I mention this personal tale in the hope that you, too, might find redemption and healing in your own memories of frustration. The time is right to capitalize on old losses. PISCES (FEB 19 – MAR 20): It's never fun to be in a sticky predicament that seems to have no smart resolution. But the coming days could turn out to be an unexpectedly good time to be in such a predicament. Why? Because I expect that your exasperation will precipitate an emotional cleansing, releasing ingenious intuitions that had been buried under repressed anger and sadness. You may then find a key that enables you to reclaim at least some of your lost power. The predicament that once felt sour and intractable will mutate, providing you with an opportunity to deepen your connection with a valuable resource. V AT THE BACK 35

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fore and loved them. She wasn't a week-between-showers kind of woman, and she was rightly hurt. Years later, I started listening to you and got religion. (And since she didn't want to hear from me, I made my apologies by treating the women I date now better.) Since then, I've loved the smell of every woman's pussy I've been fortunate enough to stick my nose in. But the question haunts me: How could I have handled that situation instead? How would I handle it again? What's a sex-positive way to tell a pussy-having person their smell turns you off? As someone who feels imbalanced in a sexual relationship if I'm not eating my partner's pussy, should I just quietly end things and say nothing? Seems like there's a middle way. I first thought of your advice for smelly dicks—tell him to take a shower—but for Americans, the smell of a vulva is tied up as much in hygiene as misogyny. I'm not sure how to approach this. WONDERING HOW I FILL FEMALES IN NOW GRACIOUSLY Telling someone with a pussy that their genitals smell funky is more complicated and fraught, as you're already aware, than telling the same thing to someone with a dick. Our culture has been telling women— and, yes, that tiny percentage of men who have pussies— that their genitals are unclean and stinky since basically forever. But there are legitimate medical issues that can make someone's junk smell funky (and just not pussy-style junk), WHIFFING, and sometimes we need the people who can actually get their noses into our crotches to give us a heads-up. A bad vaginal odour can be a sign of bacterial vaginosis or even cancer. Here's how you approach it: You ask yourself if you're the problem—think they smell bad? You're the problem—and then you ask yourself if sexual chemistry is the problem. (Don't like this person's particular smell and taste? Keep your mouth shut about their smell and taste and end the relationship.) If you think it might actually be a medical issue, you say something like this: "Please don't take this the wrong way, but your vagina and labia smell funky. That's not an easy thing to hear, I know, and it's not an easy thing to say. I know the misogynistic zap the culture puts on women's heads about this—but I'm worried that it might be a medical issue, and I'd rather risk your anger than your health." V

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an (through adoption or surrogacy). The only thing that stands between you and being with the kind of person you're most attracted to (a trans woman) and having the other stuff you want out of life (marriage, kids, family life) is you.

PUPPET MASTERS

Penis puppetry came up on an episode of Difficult People. I don't want to Google it, but I am curious about how it works. I don't want to see pictures. Could you explain it? DELICATELY INTERESTED PERSON I couldn't tell you, DIP, but Billy Eichner, one of the stars of Difficult People, could. "Puppetry of the Penis is a show that tours all over the world, where men use their penis and testicles as puppets, twisting them into all kinds of shapes and characters," Eichner said. "Not sure what about the name Puppetry of the Penis threw you off."

THE NOSE KNOWS

I'm a straight man, age 33. I was in a mutually unsatisfying relationship with a woman in my 20s. I told her not long after we got together that I didn't want to eat her pussy because I didn't like her smell. I'd eaten other vulvas be-

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