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NEWS EDITOR: mel priestley MEL@vueweekly.com

Ricardo Acuña // ricardo@vueweekly.com

Moving beyond the taboo

Alberta needs to embrace all aspects of the changes made on May 5 Last Friday Alberta's two major daily newspapers, a national business newspaper and AM radio stations across the province all carried a story that might as well have been titled "Premier hires someone with opinions different from the Official Opposition."

Of course, that's not how they framed it. The story that all five of these news outlets told was about how scandalous it was that the Premier's office had just hired someone who, at some point in her life, held views critical of transporting bitumen by pipeline to the West Coast. Not only that: apparently she may still hold those views!

The Wildrose Party characterized the hire as part of a disturbing trend spreading across government: apparently this individual will join the supposedly swelling ranks of "anti-oil, anti-jobs individuals" working in the Premier's office. Oh, the humanity!

Frankly, many things about this are part of a disturbing trend, not least of which is the fact that this story is even news. A truly newsworthy outright betrayal of the NDP's roots would be if the party hired someone from the "damn the torpedoes; drill, baby, drill" camp—not that the NDP hired some-

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one whose website includes such treasonous quotes as "saying no to projects like Kinder Morgan, to protect our environment and quality of life."

Oddly, none of the stories referred to the Wildrose Party as either antienvironment or anti-life.

The really disturbing part of this, however, is the larger context that makes these stories and the reaction of the opposition even possible.

At some point in the last five years it became virtually criminal in Alberta to question, in any way, the pace of bitumen extraction or the wisdom of pipelines, or to echo the scientific consensus that meeting global greenhouse gas emission-reduction targets will necessarily mean leaving most bitumen in the ground.

If you espouse any of those views today—or have at any point in your

life—then the Wildrose Party, its Twitter followers and the mainstream media will do everything they can to demonize you and try to ensure you never work in any position of influence anywhere in this province. I am sure that if they could, they would not hesitate to charge you with high trea-

and therefore we should actually encourage citizen activism and the holding of different views. Their response has never been to highlight that the best policy comes from a careful and genuine consideration of a broad variety of possibilities from across the political spectrum—not just those endorsed by the oil industry.

Instead, their response has been to distance themselves from the staffers' past activities, highlight that it's the Premier's ideas and opinions that matter, and remind everyone how much the government loves the oil industry and all the jobs and money it brings us.

The government, the opposition and the media all need to remember that one of the reasons we got our political change on May 5 was the number of Albertans who were sick and tired of

having a government who saw its only job as cheerleading the oil industry at all costs, letting the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers essentially write policy, and completely ignoring the needs of Albertans and the public interest.

If we are sincere about wanting Alberta to be a progressive, forwardlooking and enlightened place, then it is vital to stop demonizing anyone who might be critical of how we have managed our resources and finances over the last 20 years. It cannot be taboo to question our dependence on fossil fuels; raising environmental and First Nations concerns about the bitumen sands and pipelines should be celebrated. Our way forward resides not in publicly stoning the people who challenge the way we've been doing things, but rather in embracing them and hearing what they might have to say. Let's insist on media and political parties that can show at least this minimum level of enlightenment.V

doesn't extend very far in that direction) as Corbyn is within the broader British spectrum. Could he really pull off a Corbyn-style upset and win the Democratic nomination?

It depends on whether Hillary Clinton's current stumbles end in a big fall in her support. It could happen.

Last week's opinion polls revealed that she had lost her lead over her two likeliest Republican opponents in next year's presidential election, Jeb Bush or Ben Carson—and even Donald Trump was drawing level with her.

The Democratic National Convention is still 10 months away, but it's already late for anybody other than VicePresident Joe Biden to enter the race with a good chance of winning—and Biden is deeply conflicted about running. So if Clinton fades, Sanders would have a chance: the odds against him are already a good deal shorter than 200-to-one. Whether he could actually win the presidency is a different question.

British pundits were unanimous in saying that Corbyn has no chance

of winning a national election and becoming prime minister. Former Labour leader and prime minister Tony Blair went further: "If Jeremy Corbyn becomes leader it won't be a defeat like 1983 or 2015 at the next election.

It will mean rout, possibly annihilation."

But Labour just lost the last election, and the next one is five years away. There is still time to change horses if Corbyn isn't working out.

Whereas the US election is next year.

Could Sanders win it? The professional pundits and pollsters in the United States say no, because he's too far from the mainstream.

Sanders just points to the despair that grips so many middle-class Americans as the rich get ever richer and their own living standards stagnate. "Don't let anybody tell you that we're radical, that we're outside the mainstream. We are the mainstream."

He could be right: it's the same despair with business as usual that has pushed Donald Trump out in front of the Republican nomination race.

And that would be something, wouldn't it? Bernie Sanders versus Donald Trump for the presidency. At last Americans get a real choice. V

If we are sincere about wanting Alberta to be a progressive, forward-looking and enlightened place, then it is vital to stop demonizing anyone who might be critical of how we have managed our resources and finances over the last 20 years. son and crimes against the state.

It wouldn't be so bad if this reaction only belonged to the opposition, but it doesn't: it is widespread. When these situations arise, the reaction from the government's communications folks has never been that this is a democracy

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

GWYNNE DYER // GWYNNE@vueweekly.com

Jez and Bernie

Britain and the US could take a turn towards the left Jeremy "Jez" Corbyn and Bernie Sanders are very much alike, and so are their ambitions. Corbyn wants to lead Britain's Labour Party into the next election and become prime minister; Sanders wants to win the Democratic Party nomination and become the next president of the United States.

And then each man plans to turn his country sharply to the left.

To the vast surprise of practically everybody, Corbyn has just achieved the first stage of his master plan: on Saturday, he became the leader of the Labour Party. When he entered the leadership contest, the bookmakers were quoting odds of 200-to-one against him, but he ended up winning the leadership by a landslide.

Senator Sanders was also seen as a complete no-hoper when he threw his hat into the ring: 74 years old (Corbyn is 66), no money and no wellhoned political machine behind him (ditto), and far too left-wing to win the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, let alone the presidency.

But something unexpected is also happening with Sanders's campaign.

There were no other high-profile candidates for the Democratic nomination: most people assumed that it was Hillary Clinton's for the asking.

But then Sanders began to creep up on her, especially in the two states where the first primaries will be held,

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New Hampshire and Iowa. The last three polls have shown Sanders leading Clinton in New Hampshire by an average margin of 7.5 percent, and he is now one-percent ahead in Iowa, too.

Sanders is not as far left as Corbyn, of course. No elected US politician is as far left as Corbyn, who promises to nationalize the railways and energy companies, scrap university tuition fees, bring back rent controls, raise taxes and introduce a national maximum wage to cap the wages of bankers and other high earners, impose an arms embargo on Israel, and get rid of Britain's nuclear weapons.

When asked if there were any circumstances under which he would deploy British armed forces abroad, Corbyn replied: "I'm sure there are some but I can't think of them at the moment." He's a republican, although he says that ending the monarchy is "not the fight I'm interested in." He's a vegetarian who does not own a car, and he looks a little like Obi-Wan Kenobi. He is, in other words, the Real McCoy.

Bernie Sanders, by contrast, lives in the United States, where many people regard "democratic socialism" as akin to devil worship. He favours universal healthcare funded by taxes (supported by all parties in Britain) and publicly funded elections with strict limits on corporate donations (ditto), and he too advocates free higher education and higher taxes on the rich. That's already "socialist" in an American political context.

Sanders is as far left within the American political spectrum (which doesn't extend very far in that direction) as Corbyn is within the broader British spectrum.

But he's not planning to nationalize anything, bring in rent controls, end all American military interventions overseas or ban arms sales to Israel.

Whatever his private opinons may be, he is running for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, and nobody in the Democratic Party has advocated anything that radical within living memory.

Sanders is as far left within the American political spectrum (which

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FRONT // IMMIGRATION

Challenging Canadian citizenship

Two federal candidates have very different views on Canada's immigration policies

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he Syrian refugee crisis is currently at the forefront of global discussions around citizenship and immigration policies. But closer to home, a growing number of people are experiencing difficulties with their Canadian citizenship applications due to recent changes to the immigration process. Vue spoke with some of these individuals as well as two federal candidates running in Edmonton-Mill Woods (a riding with a high number of newcomers to Canada), for a closer look at the discrepancies between the citizenship process and politicians' position on it.

Where indicated with a *, names have been changed to protect identities, out of respect for fears of speaking publicly against Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC)—the organization that administers citizenship and immigration processes and provides settlement agency funding to help newcomers settle in Canada.

"I think there's a lot of steps in the process that are kind of designed for you to fail," says Ana*, a University of Alberta student who came to Alberta from Mexico in 2009. After completing a four-year arts program at the U of A, Ana applied for permanent residency through the CIC's self-employed branch in August 2014. She was confident in her application as she had over a year of full-time experience in her field of study, but in January she was shocked when the CIC informed her that it defines selfemployed as "someone who has over two years of relevant experience"— a requirement she does not recall reading when she first applied. Ana then decided to apply through Express Entry, a new CIC electronic system that was introduced in January 2015 to manage permanent residency applications under the economic streams. Potential candidates complete an online profile including information on various assessment details; those who meet the criteria are entered into a pool of candidates who will possibly be invited to apply for permanent residency based on a point system.

The CIC did not consider Ana's day job—a data-entry clerk—a skilled position and therefore she was not eligible for Express Entry. She was later hired as a records management technician—a position the CIC considers more skilled—and was able to join the Express Entry pool. Unfortunately, she only has 444 out of 1200 possible points: in the last draw for Express Entry, only individuals with 460 points or more were invited to apply for permanent residency.

"The only way I could possibly have more points is [doing] things that I think are absolutely stupid." says Ana, who has no debt and is financially independent. "If I had a husband, my points would almost double. Or if I had family members in Canada, then my points would go up."

Tim Uppal, Conservative MLA and federal candidate for EdmontonMill Woods, argues that the Express Entry point system ensures people have the support networks that can help them become self-sufficient more quickly.

"The point system is based on your age, your ability to get a job, your ability to settle, your ability to be successful, and you're rewarded points based on that system," he says.

Running against Uppal in the same riding is Liberal candidate Amarjeet Sohi, who did not provide specifics on how his party would approach a case such as Ana's, but he did voice that the Liberals are committed to increasing permanent immigration to Canada.

"If somebody is already here, and they have studied here, and they have shown a commitment to this country, I think those are the kind of immigrants that we need," he says.

One of the major complaints voiced by citizenship applicants is a major lack of adequate response from the CIC when contacting the organization directly for answers.

"It's kind of like calling Rogers to get cellphone help," says Wendy*, a student at the University of British Columbia (UBC). "You just end up being on hold forever, and then the most they tell you is to check the website."

Wendy previously had an open work permit but it expired two months ago, though her employer allowed her to keep working. She applied for family sponsorship back in October 2014 but hasn't heard back from the CIC yet (the processing time can take up to five years) and wasn't able to obtain an answer from them when she called. She has reached out to the Edmonton Immigrant Services Association (EISA) twice for help, but felt that the rapid changes in the citizenship process have left staff at the EISA unsure how to assist.

Uppal, however, does not feel that people actually need help with their applications.

"I would say that most people fill out their immigration [or] citizenship applications on their own," he says. "They don't need anyone else, because the forms [are] available online."

Dama Diiriye, a community worker with over three years of experience assisting immigrants with their citizenship applications, has observed mounting challenges for a number of her clients. On average, Diiriye assists five clients each month; at least two of her clients submit an application on a monthly basis.

"I have seen people who have applied for Canadian citizenship three years before and still are not a Canadian citizen," she says. "I have seen people who have sent their forms [which] have been returned several times—three or four or five times—

with very minor issues."

Fees can also play a significant role in an individual's ability to apply for citizenship: two years ago, the fee for one adult to apply for citizenship was $200, but by June 2015 that fee had more than tripled to $630. Diiriye notes that some of her clients have had to postpone their applications because of this increase.

Uppal, however, argues that these fees are necessary.

"The fees charged reflect how much it costs to process the application," he says. "The fees also help to improve the process itself. If you compare Canadian fees to other Western countries, our fees are actually much, much lower than their fees."

That's not entirely accurate, however: the US charges just a little bit more than Canada ($680), Australia charges ($260AUD) and Germany charges €255; Britain is one of the highest at £1005.

Sohi says that the Liberal Party plans to review and remove barriers, including financial ones, to obtaining citizenship.

"It should not take seven years for someone to become a Canadian, and we should remove the financial barriers for them to become Canadian," he says.

But Uppal contends that the Conservative Party's action items on citizenship and immigration processes will ensure that immigrants have the necessary skills for Canada's job market.

"Our new immigration system is taking big steps in ensuring that immigrants who are coming to Canada are more skilled, have better language skills, and are better able to integrate into Canadian society and economy."

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Preserve identity Historic buildings, small venues and local businesses: three vital ingredients to any city, but ones that Edmonton can't stop hemorrhaging. The latest fight for historic preservation gave the city a real opportunity to hold back the bleeding and boost an up-andcoming neighbourhood, but it's opting instead to deliver a senseless blow to all three.

According to a report presented this week to City Council's Executive Committee, the city has no other choice but to demolish the Mitchell & Reed Auction House (most recently known as the Artery) and its neighbour, the Graphic Arts Building (recently brought back to life as Local Gifts), on the

corner of 95 Street and Jasper Avenue. The beloved and well-utilized buildings are being demolished not for a shiny new development, but will instead become a laydown space for dirt and construction materials for the LRT's Valley Line, set to roll through the Quarters.

With most cases of building demolition, the city is quick to point out its lack of influence in what are ultimately deals between building owners and property developers. If only, city officials lament, Edmonton had more owners and tenants that are passionate about architecture, heritage and making creative and viable use of spaces misjudged as unfit.

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nario for the city: it's both owner and developer, with tenants that bring regular traffic to once-forgotten buildings. But rather than use its power for good, the city's sending a cold, dirt-filled message to local artists and business owners who are trying to lay the foundation for a diverse and exciting neighbourhood.

There is a small hope for the buildings, at least. The report notes that relocation is the only remaining option for the businesses. Chalk that outcome up as another hollow victory in a city increasingly resigned to halfassed preservation measures and homogenous redeveloped neighbourhoods. V UP FRONT 7

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DISH EDITOR: MEL PRIESTLEY MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

DISH // APPLE CIDER VINEGAR

MCKERNAN FOOD WORKS A local chef is crafting ultra-local vinegar from Edmonton fruit

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pple cider vinegar crafted exclusively from apples grown within the city's limits: McKernan Food Works is the newest entrant to Edmonton's growing number of ultralocal food producers.

As it says right in the name, apple cider vinegar starts with apple cider.

Allan Suddaby, who is executive chef for the Elm Café line of restaurants, has been fermenting his own hard cider for a few years. He uses apples grown in his backyard as well as those gleaned from trees around the city: go on Kijiji or get in touch with Operation Fruit Rescue Edmonton (OFRE), he notes, and you'll discover the obscene amount of apples that are quite literally ripe for the picking all over the city at this time of year.

Apple cider vinegar is made by essentially just letting cider sit around for a while, and this natural occurrence in one of his cider batches was the origin of McKernan Food Works.

"It got this kind of slimy mat on the surface; I was pretty sure it was a mother of vinegar," Suddaby says. "As the yeast was converting the sugars in the apples, this guy was metabolizing the alcohol and making acetic acid. It started to take on that vinegar smell, so I started just adding cider to it to try and encourage the bacterial culture ... I just kept feeding it and have been using that same initial batch for the last three years or so."

It's the same principle as a sourdough starter, he explains, where you use a bit of the previous day's starter to make today's bread; the vinegar analog just happens over a month or two.

Suddaby briefly considered bottling his cider for sale, but quickly abandoned that idea when he realized all the hoops he'd have to jump through with the Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission. Vinegar, however, only has a trace amount of alcohol and therefore it's much easier to market.

Suddaby makes all his vinegar after hours in the Elm Café kitchen. He had been selling bulk batches to Blair Lesback at RGE RD for a few months prior to launching the bottled retail version, which is available (for $12 a bottle) at Little Brick and Dovetail Delicatessen, as well as at the 124th Street Grand Market on September 17 and October 8; he hopes to be there every week next year.

The vinegar is made from a blend of different apple varieties because of the necessity of using tart apples (like crabapples) for acidity and sweet eating apples for alcoholic content.

Suddaby is also in the process of developing a mead vinegar from Alberta honey, which he's hoping to have for sale by mid-October. If you visit him at the 124th Street market, you'll also be able to try another one of his vine-

McKernan Food Works Apple Cider Vinegar, $12 mckernanfoodworks.ca gar-based creations: switchel.

"We wanted a way for people to taste the vinegar without having to suck back a spoonful—although most people are fine with that, too," he says, explaining that sales of his vinegar far surpassed his expectations because of the number of people who want it for its medicinal value as opposed to for purely culinary purposes. "[Switchel]'s from maybe colonial ages when North Americans didn't have access to cheap lemons or limes. They would make these thirst quenchers by flavouring water with vinegar. It was cold water with apple cider vinegar and usually molasses and ginger."

Suddaby sells his own version of switchel at the market as a drink to be consumed right away, though he's also looking into bottling options.

"Right now it's apple season, so the number of apples I pick now is going to determine how much cider vinegar we can sell next year," he says. "That's the big bottleneck to expanding. The whole point of this is it's entirely apples from Edmonton; there's nothing added. There's no water; there's no sugar: it's just apples."

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DISH // FRUIT

If you plant it, they will come OFRE's apple crusher may be gone but its spirit remains uncrushed

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verything was going so well for Operation Fruit Rescue Edmonton (OFRE) until disaster struck just a few days ago.

Early this past Sunday morning, on the night that volunteers finished the third round of planting in the nonprofit's micro-orchard at McCauley School, a thief (or thieves) broke into OFRE's apple cider storage shed and made off with a vital piece of equipment from its pedal-powered apple crusher: the hopper, which is a stainless steel funnel with blades at the bottom that chop up apples, creating a pomace that is used to make apple cider. Two bicycle rims were also taken.

OFRE president Mike Johnson can only guess at the motives behind stealing the hopper, since it's so unique that its only use is for that particular apple crusher; scrap metal seems most likely. The timing is especially unfortunate as this is OFRE's busiest time of year: the non-profit's team of volunteers has been busily picking apples and other fruit from trees around the city, split-

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ting the bounty between themselves, the homeowners, local charities and OFRE itself, which uses it in various events and public workshops.

If you've seen OFRE's crusher in action, you'll know that it's a unique, custom-built machine—and therefore unusable until the hopper is replaced.

Unfortunately, that will cost about $2000: far more money than OFRE has available right now, so there will be a fundraiser launched for its replacement. In the meantime, OFRE will have to make do with modifying other equipment for use in its upcoming events.

Vue had actually reached out to OFRE just prior to this incident for a follow-up to a story we ran almost exactly a year ago, just after the initial planting of the McCauley orchard.

Other than this recent development OFRE has had nothing but positive news to report: the micro-orchard, which is its home base of sorts, has already achieved its various purposes.

It provides OFRE fruit for use in its public workshops, it's an opportunity to teach local school kids about

the food that grows all around us, and it's a source of free food for the community.

"People are eating the fruit because there's not much fruit at the orchard—the trees are kind of bare, I think there's two apples left," Johnson says. "All the cherries are completely gone; there's not a single strawberry I can actually find."

Those strawberries were planted by the Grade 3 class at Norwood Elementary School: the class did a fundraising project and decided to donate the funds to OFRE. They decided it would be a great idea to feed that directly back into the orchard while educating the kids to boot, which took the form of 52 strawberry plants, planted by the kids themselves, to serve as a ground cover between the orchard's larger shrubs and trees.

OFRE has done a several workshops over the past few weeks at the kitchen in the McCauley school (which now functions as a non-profit community centre), but Johnson notes that most of the orchard's fruit has been picked

by people in the community.

"I think there's a lot of community members, or homeless people actually, coming by and taking some of our fruit," Johnson says. "From our perspective, that's totally acceptable.

We don't want to say that this is our fruit and only OFRE can actually have that fruit. That doesn't build community; that doesn't build awareness to fruit and it doesn't allow access to that fruit. The fruit is there to be shared with community members and people who need it or want it. And as the orchard grows, more and more fruit will be available."

While the theft of the hopper is an ill-timed setback, Johnson remains optimistic about OFRE's future.

He hopes its volunteer team will grow—the numbers have remained about the same as last year's (approximately 100), though there are a lot of new faces; Johnson believes that volunteers from previous years have struck up personal relationships with homeowners near them and are simply picking those trees without going through OFRE, an unexpected

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but welcome secondary effect of the group's work.

OFRE is also reaching out to similar fruit-gleaning organizations in cities across the country to collaborate and share ideas. One such idea is the schnippeldisko: an event hailing from Germany in which vegetables gleaned from local farms are chopped up by kids and then prepared as a soup by professional chefs—all while listening to disco music. OFRE hopes to partner with Slow Food Edmonton to host its own schnippeldisko this October.

"The more people that we service, the more people get to know us, the more people realize that there is actually locally fruit that is available inside the city and it's just a stone's throw away from your house, usually," Johnson says. "OFRE will continue to work to build the communities and build that knowledge base so that people can understand what grows here and what people can do with the fruit."

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Ice, ice, baby

The right cubes can make all the difference It's possibly the most overlooked aspect of a cocktail, yet it serves an invaluable purpose: ice is worth just as much of your consideration as the actual spirits going into your drink.

"The comparison between a proper bartender and a chef is, a chef uses fire to cook and we use ice to cook," Joshua Walsh says. "We take a spirit that's room temperature and we're going to bring it down to the temperature we ideally want, in the methodology that we want to do it."

That's an elaborate way to describe the two purposes of ice in cocktail making: cooling and dilution.

Walsh, the bar manager at El Cortez, notes that of course you can use any old ice cube to make a drink; there's nothing inherently wrong in using those pillow-shaped or rectangular cubes produced by a standard refrigerator ice machine or a classic ice-cube tray. But different drinks are intended to be enjoyed in different ways—some should be very diluted while others are hardly diluted at all, which determines your choice of ice. A Negroni, for example, is typically served with large cubes of ice which offer a lower rate of dilution.

"The very first drink is going to be very strong and very alcohol-forward; you can smell it in your nose and taste it on your palate," Walsh explains, gesturing toward a Jalisco Negroni on the table in a back booth at El Cortez. "The idea is the first sip is going to be just perfect, and you're going to want to order another cocktail right away."

Not all drinks are intended to taste that strong, though, and El Cortez has many drinks on its menu that are based on quicker rates of dilution and therefore use different types

of ice. Daiquiris, for example, are intended to be very refreshing and are therefore served over crushed ice.

The level of dilution and cooling is also determined by the way in which you make the drink, with the main two methods being common knowledge thanks to James Bond's famous "shaken not stirred" line.

(Fun fact: in Ian Fleming's original novel Casino Royale, Bond ordered his martini stirred, not shaken—it was reversed in the movies.)

"Shaken will generally be more diluted because you're fracturing the ice, depending on how hard and how long [you shake]," Walsh says. This is why El Cortez strains its margarita: because it is made by shaking and is therefore more diluted, straining removes the tiny particles of ice that would otherwise quickly cause the drink to taste watery. But a stirred drink is actually colder than one that is shaken, so stronger drinks (like that Negroni, or Bond's original martini) are often made with stirring so that they taste smoother.

Ice can also teach you about your cocktail-making method and might even prevent you from developing the upper back and shoulder strain common among professional bartenders.

"When you dump out your spirit ... take a peek at the ice cubes," Walsh says. "If you're shaking way too violently those things are all going to be fractured in that shaker tin; if the corners are still too sharp you're probably not shaking enough. That ice cube should come out nice and rounded."

There are a number of different types of ice cubes out there, and if you order a drink at El Cortez—or any of Edmonton's other cocktailcentric joints—you're not going to

Jalisco Negroni

Courtesy of Joshua Walsh at El Cortez 1 oz Espolón Reposado tequila 1 oz Cocchi de Torino sweet vermouth 1/2 oz Aperol 1/2 oz Campari Place all ingredients into a mixing glass and fill halfway with one-inch square ice cubes. Using bar spoon, stir until the glass starts to develop condensation on the side—about 30 to 40 revolutions, or until the corners of the cubes become rounded.

Strain with a julep strainer into a highball glass filled with fresh oneinch square ice cubes. Garnish with an expressed orange peel.

see generic ice cubes in your glass.

El Cortez uses a one-inch square cube made by a Kold Draft ice machine in all of its drinks that aren't served strained or over crushed ice; if you've bellied up to Woodwork's bar you might have seen the bartenders use a nifty ice-baller device that produces a perfectly spherical block of ice. Given that most ice cubes respond the same during both the making and drinking process (barring a giant sphere of course— don't put one of those in your shaker), what's the point?

"There's an appearance feature of ice in a drink, just like a garnish," says Walsh, who is working on a new menu for El Cortez that will likely include drinks served over different shapes of ice. "If I had filled [the Negroni] up with pillow ice, it wouldn't look nice at all; it would look like a highball. It goes to the old adage: you eat with your eyes. It's the exact same thing with the cocktail." V

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o, watch this," Chris Cran says, indicating a monochrome silver staircase anchoring a like-coloured painting. "Walk by it," he commands.

As perspective shifts, so does the image: the chrome-coloured staircase inverts, its lights become darks and vice versa. The staircase's alignment alters.

"It flips," the Calgary-based artist grins. The smile proves perpetual, actually, as he walks through his Sincerely Yours retrospective. Co-organized by the Art Gallery of Alberta and the National Gallery in Ottawa, it runs through three decades and various eras of Cran's work. The painter hasn't seen some of the exhibit's pieces in person since shortly after they were made; soon after that, they were snapped up into other collections and away from the artist.

There are works in Sincerely Yours similar to the staircase, offering similar moments of visual surprise—like watching an ink-black profile shift from photo negative to positive, depending on where you stand.

"The point of that [shift] is to alert viewers that their attention is the active component of the art," Cran says, clad in a simple black T-shirt with a single piece of his art screened in its centre. But that idea of an active audience comes across in ways other than visual tricks in Sincerely

Yours. Other pieces engage the mind differently, like "Self-Portrait Accepting A Cheque For The Commission Of This Painting," a 1988 portrait of Cran, that shows him—well, as the title says, accepting the cheque for the commission of that very painting. There's a series of self-portaits, with Cran in a dark suit and straw-coloured hat caught in various experiences, some relatable, some skewing more surreal.

Elsewhere hang his Chorus paintings, where pop-art style faces are scattered around the walls surrounding a central portrait—like cherubs in a Renaissance painting, he notes— offering a sense of discussion inherent in the placement. Even a room of abstract ink-work offers strange, compelling surprises in their more abstracted approach. Such are the playful, contrasting abilities of the Calgary artist, who teaches at the Alberta College of Art and Design these days: his work activates your thought processes without revealing an overt narrative to guide you along.

"I leave that to the observer," he says. "The observer makes up the meaning, makes up the other half."

Bruce McCulloch, of Kids in the Hall fame and more recently the show Young Drunk Punk, is also present in the gallery—later, he'll interview

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Cran live for the exhibit's official opening reception, and has written a piece for the show's official catalogue. The two have been friends for 25 years, from their early years in the Calgary scene.

"You'd go out and see Chris there, larger than life," McCulloch recalls.

"Then I'd start to go out and see his shows. He lent some things to friends of mine who were doing records. And I started to go to his shows and realize that his stuff was so amazing, and so weird and kind of funny.

"There's something quirky and interesting about it," he continues. "For me, as a comedian, it has a comedic little tone to it, that I appreciate. But also, it's lyrical and weird, which I also love."

That lyrical weirdness hasn't been universally hailed; Cran acknowledges that the "Self-Portrait With Combat Nymphos Of Saigon" he did—featuring a group of scantily clad women trading arms-fire with soldiers while Cran, stationed at their side, wields a wooden gun—proved particualrly contentious: one of his peers at ACAD stopped talking to him for a few years because of how she felt it represented women. Another woman thought it should be burned—but another put it on the cover of her art magazine, championing the piece. A fundamentalist priest told Cran he thought it was a religious work. All of those sentiments were in conflict or praise of particular viewer-decided message that Cran notes he didn't intend to put into the work.

"It was a great lesson in readership, to me," he reflects. "People will go straight to resolution. What's the meaning? And they'll do it fast, because they don't like uncertainty. So I think it's interesting, as a provocation to [ask]: Why don't you like uncertainty?"

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Paint With Your Heart / Sat, Sep 19 (7 pm) Paint With Your Heart lets a charity fundraiser take the shape of a collaborative art project. Guests can add to a growing art piece being created on the night (materials with which to add will be provided). It's all for the benefit of WIN House, a children's and women's shelter, and just by snagging a ticket, your name will be entered to win the art piece that's been created at the end of the night. There's also a silent auction and a DJ; dinner, catered by OJ's on Ellerslie, is included in the cost.

(Wevive Studio [8632 - 53 Ave], $35)

Fri, Sep 18 (Noon – 6 pm) 101A Ave & 97 St

Thoughts ... A Kozbar's Path / Sat, Sep 19 (7 pm) The first event of Shumka's season is an interactive fundraiser:

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Thoughts offers a few sneak-peeks of the esteemed Ukranian's dance company's next show—inspired by the thoughts of Ukranian poet/ political figure Taras Shevchenko—plus, a talk back, eats, drinks, and hosting by CHED radio's Ryan Jespersen. (Timms Centre for the Arts, $75) Western Canada Fashion Week / Thu, Sep 17 – Sat, Sep 26 For the style-inclined among us, Western Canada Fashion Week must feel like a semi-regular advent calendar: every day offers more glimpses of cutting-edge fashion and further chances to get a sense of trends to come. And, hey, it's the 10th anniversary of WCFW, too. (westerncanadafashionweek.com) V

A moment from last year's PARK(ing) Day // Tom Young

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ne year ago, Chelsea Boos noticed that Boyle Street, the home of her exhibition space the Drawing Room, had been reduced to a sparse road overrun with parking.

The street stalls and fl ashing meters, she realized, had clawed away at public space and dulled the neighbourhood's cultural diversity.

So she called on a handful of visual artists in the city to transform the parking stalls into installations and, in the process, challenge ownership of public spaces.

Boos has now opted to partner with local urban planning project CITYlab and the University of Alberta's City-Region Studies Centre to look beyond visual art in the second iteration of PARK(ing) Day. On Friday afternoon, the intersection of 97 Street and 101A Avenue won't just host pickup trucks along its streets. Instead, drivers and pedestrians will run into an urban agriculture exhibit, a clothing swap, Tai-Chi demonstrations and a library of Star Trek books, just a handful of the two dozen installations set to overtake the heart of Edmonton's inner city.

Parking stall redesigns go back to 2005, when a San Francisco art and design studio transformed a street parking stall into a temporary public park. Once the meter hit the two-hour limit, organizers rolled the sod, packed the bench and swept the street clean.

PARK(ing) Day has since grown worldwide, with artists, designers and residents finding ways each year to breathe life into slabs of pavement. Past creations have included free health clinics, political seminars and a wedding ceremony.

Boos is turning her focus this year to the ways that Edmonton can better accommodate and celebrate its diverse populations. Running her exhibit space over the past three years

on Boyle Street has deepened Boos' appreciation for an area that she calls vibrant yet underestimated.

"This is a very old area of Edmonton," she says. "We have a lot of people in the Chinese community, the aboriginal population. Each new wave of immigration brings new groups of people to the area.

That's not refl ected very well in our public spaces."

"It would be great if every street had more places for people to gather and express themselves and make people feel like they're part of something."

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In 2011, part of 101A Avenue was given the honorary name Okisikow (Angel) Way to raise awareness about violence towards woman.

Boos says the event is a way to make the space more safe and inclusive for vulnerable populations.

One of the stalls will also feature a community mapping project developed by local charity E4C that invites people to reflect on their neighbourhoods and design an idealized community. That could mean more accessible public transportation or incorporating more shared spaces, like parks.

Boos says she ultimately hopes the event will encourage residents to connect with their neighbours and feel a sense of belonging in their community.

"It's about starting conversations and finding points of commonality between different people. I just really want people to come down and talk to a stranger; talk to people they normally wouldn't talk to," Boos says.

"It's really about interacting with the different installations. The more people put into it, the more they'll get out of it."

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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)

SALIMPOUR TRIBUTE CABARET • Co Co Di Mediterranean Restaurant, 11454 Jasper Ave NW • lesliebellydanceyeg@gmail.com • brownpapertickets. com/event/1790789 • A Mediterranean meal and a variety of belly dance performances from both local and visiting dancers • Sep 19, 6-9pm 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

TANGO • Auditorium Faculty Saint Jean, 8406-91 St • Polish Culture Society presents Vancouver Polish Theatre.

By Slawomir Mrozek, directed by Marek Czuma (in Polish with English subtitles) • Sep 19, 7:30pm • $20 (adult), $10 (students/seniors), free (TKP members)

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

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LOFT GALLERY • AJ Ottewell Gallery, 590 Broadmoor

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

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • FEATURE GALLERY: Here and There; Jul 11-Oct 3 • A Second Look: Simon Wroot in collaboration with Five Yukon Artists reinterpret Alberta and Yukon landscapes; Sep 5-Oct 17

• 780.407.7152 • friendsofuah.org/mcmullen-gallery • Weather Report: Andrzej Maciejewski; Aug 29-Oct 18

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston

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

Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • Tyler Los-Jones: A Panorama Protects its View: Jan 23-Jan 31, 2016 • 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 • Lectures: 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)

Alberta Museum Theatre, 12845-102 Ave • esff.ca • A variety of Alberta film and video projects from a 30-second trailer to a 15-minute short film from a variety of genres • Sep 26, 7-10pm • $16.25 (adv), $20 (door, cash only) • All ages, though some films may be inappropriate for children (audience members may exit the theatre in this event and will be invited to return for the next film)

FROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley A. Milner, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • Films adapted from books every Fri afternoon at 2pm • Schedule: The Fifth Estate (Sep 18), The Social Network (Sep 25)

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 METRO • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • 780.425.9212 • PAST FORWARD: THE GARNEAU THEATRE AT 75: The Philadelphia Story (Sep 18), Amy (Sep 18, 22-23, 27-28), Cooties (Sep 18, 23, 28), Saturday Morning AllYou-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party! (Sep 19), Flash Bash!

Featuring Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (Sep 19), The Thief of Baghdad (Sep 20), The Usual Suspects (Sep 20), It Follows (Sep 20), The Great Dictator (Sep 21), What We Do in the Shadows (Sep 21) • REEL FAMILY CINEMA: Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet (Sep 17); The Thief of Baghdad (Sep 20) • DEDFEST: Cooties (Sep 18, Sep 23, Sep 28) MOVIES UNDER THE STARS • Ellerslie Road Baptist 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

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

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • scottgallery.com • 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

LITERARY

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

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900 • Spoken Word Tuesdays: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathinpoetry@gmail.com SCRAMBLED YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St • 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artists from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm

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

CREATIVE PRACTICES INSTITUTE • 10149-122 ST, 780.863.4040 • creativepracticesinstitute.com • Colloquium Series: Stephen Williams; Sep 16, 7-9pm DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St • 780.760.1278 • daffodilgallery.ca • People and Places of Inspiration; Sep 9-Oct 3

TALES ALBERTA STORYTELLING RETREAT • Camp Kannawin, AB • 780.437.7736 • talesstorytelling. com • Professional development, discussions and readings. • Sep 18-20

DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St •

WORDS IN THE PARK - ANNUAL BOOK FAIR & SALE • Agora, Community Center, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.953.WFSC • wordsinthepark@ hotmail.com • wordsinthepark.ca • Meet local authors, local artisans and much more. Part of Alberta Culture Days • Sep 26, 10am-4pm • Free

• douglasudellgallery.com • Wilf Perreault: Light to Dark; Sep 19-Oct 2

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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

BOOM: THE MUSIC, CULTURE AND EVENTS THAT SHAPED A GENERATION • Citadel Theatre– Shoctor Theatre, 9828 101A Ave • citadeltheatre.com • A play that chronicles 25 turbulent years of the post-war Baby Boom and gives voice to over 100 influential politicians, activists and musicians • Sep 19-Oct 11

FAB GALLERY • 1-1 Fine Arts Bldg, 89 Ave, 112 St • 780.492.2081 • Make Good: Design for a Better Now; Aug 25-Sep 19; Closing reception: Sep 17, 7-10pm • From Time to Time: 50th Anniversary Print Portfolio; Aug 25-Sep 19; Closing reception: Sep 17, 7-10pm

BUBBLE GUPPIES LIVE - READY TO ROCK • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave NW • jubileeauditorium. com • Jump into a bubbly world of learning and laughter with Nickelodeon’s Bubble Guppies Live! Ready to Rock • Sep 19, 1pm & 4pm • $30-$40

FRONT GALLERY • 12323-104 Ave • thefrontgallery. com • Gallery Walk Weekend; Sep 25-27

CHIMPROV • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave

GALLERY 7 • Bookstore on Perron, 7 Perron St, St Albert • 780.459.2525 • Members of the St. Albert Painters Guild; Sep 1-28

• 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

GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • Un: artwork

by Walter Jule; Sep 11-Oct 25 • Land Shadows: artwork

by Annette Sicotte; Nov 6-Dec 20; Opening reception: Nov 6, 6pm GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library 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 JAKE’S PICTURE FRAMING • 10441-123 St NW • Brushstokes: Recent juried works by Edmonton Art Club artists; runs until Oct 31; Opening reception: Oct 2, 7-9pm

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

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

FACES OF EDMONTON BOOK LAUNCH • Mercury Room YEG, 10575-114 St • An exhibition of Faces of Edmonton portraits and stories, giveaways, a performance by the local band Aviakit and the author will talk about some of the stories behind the photos • Sep 18, 6:30pm (doors), 7pm (talk)

• Artwork by Mathieu Lefèvre; Sep 25-Oct 6

LATITUDE 53 • 10242-106 St • 780.423.5353 •

WEST END GALLERY • 10337-124 St •

opencanada.org • opencanada.org/event/cic-edmontonbook-club-event-thomas-piketty-capital-in-the-21stcentury • CIC Edmonton: Book Club Event – Thomas Piketty, Capital in the 21st Century; Sep 18, 6-8pm; Free

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

JEFF ALLEN ART GALLERY (JAAG) • Strathcona Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • Landscape Response: by artist Greg Doherty; Aug 27-Sep 24

Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa-art.com • Wild At Heart: artwork by Natasha Vretenar, Carol Johnson, Heather Howard, Marylinn Jeffery, Miles Constable, Shirley Vandersteen, Victoria Armstrong; Sep 1-Sep 26

AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • Edmonton@

• bugeramathesongallery.com • RCA: artwork by Scott Plear; Sep 25-Oct 9

DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY (DUG) • 10332-124 St

EDMONTON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL • Royal

5 St Anne Street, St Albert • MuseeHeritage.ca • 780.459.1528 • museum@artsandheritage.ca •The Street Where You Live; Sep 8-Nov 15

VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St

Park • 780.467.3038 • picturethisgallery.com • Jonn Einerssen and Vance Theoret Workshop; Sep 16-17, 9:30am-5pm

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 10345-124 St

COMEDY OF ERRORS • Arden Theatre, 5 St Anne St,

EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY • Royal 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: 3:10 To Yuma (Sep 21); The Law And Jake Wade (Sep 28); Winchester ’73 (Oct 5); Will Penny (Oct 19); Seven Men From Now (Oct 26); The Wonderful Country (Nov 2); The Man From Laramie (Nov 9)

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Theatre, bsmt, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7070 • Film screening every Wed, 6:30pm • Free • Schedule: Timbuktu (Sep 23), The Clouds Of Sil Maria (Sep 30) St Albert • 780.459.1542 • ardentheatre.com • Take one pair of estranged twin brothers and one pair of estranged twin servants, keep them in ignorance of each other and throw them into a city with a reputation for sorcery, and you have all the ingredients for theatrical chaos • Sep 20, 2pm • $20 adult, $15 child

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

THE COMEDY OF ERRORS • Arden Theatre, 5 St Anne St, St Albert • One of Shakespeare’s most chaotic and hysterical works, complete with all-out slapstick, mistaken identity and word-play, will have audiences roaring in the aisles with laughter • Sep 20, 2pm • $20 (adults), $15 (students/seniors) DARK STAR: THE LIFE & TIMES OF ROY ORBISON • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615 109 Ave

NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Artisan Nook: Compact Layers: Nancy Corrigan. Small drawings in several media; vigorous interpretations of nature; until Oct 1 • Ever-New: three mixed-media artists and nature; artists bring new methods to the practice and new insights into the traditions of depicting nature; until Oct 1

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NINA HAGGERTY CENTRE FOR THE ARTS • 9225-118 Ave • 780.474.7611 • volunteer@thenina.ca • The Art Of Recovery: An Inaugural Artshow Featuring A Collection Of Works From Recovery Acres Residents; Sep 14-18; Reception: Sep 17, 6-9pm

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Free-$117.95 • Dinosaurs Unearthed: until Oct 11

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• 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

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 THEATRESPORTS • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Sep-Jun • $12/$10 (member) at TIX on the Square

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COVER // GARNEAU

Then and now // Image A6885 from the collection of the Provincial Archives of Alberta (left); Meaghan Baxter (right)

STILL REELING I

n a way, it seems appropriate that when David Cheoros thinks back to the first time he stepped into the Garneau Theatre, he remembers the building, not the film he was there to see.

"I lived here as a student in '91," he recalls. "I remember going to some of the summer blockbuster-y things here because I was renting a room just two blocks away. I remember that sort of 'popcorn in a big ol' theatre,' but not what the movie was."

That might be because this sort of movie-going is a chance to immerse yourself in a space and atmosphere that's as indelible as whatever gets projected onto the screen—maybe more, depending on the film. That's what the Garneau Theatre offers those who cross beneath its lit-up marquee and enter. It first opened in 1940—designed by architect William Blakey and opened by theatre-operator Bill Wilson (who also opened the now-gone Roxy Theatre)—and today the Garneau stands as one of the two ancient fortresses that guard our city's most interesting cinematic offerings (the other, just a handful of streets and avenues away, is its older sister: the Princess Theatre opened a century ago). The Garneau in particu-

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The Garneau Theatre celebrates 75 years of cinema in Edmonton

lar marks the only remaining earlymodernist theatre in Alberta; it was designated as a Municipal Historic Resource in 2009, which means it can't be demolished, and any changes to the structure have to replicate the character of its original structure.

Cheoros is the current executive director of Metro Cinema, the nonprofit that presently calls Garneau home and runs the bulk of its film programming. Stationed in his office in the building's top floor, he's reflecting on the space's importance, both to him and to the community.

"I grew up in a relatively small town without this kind of historic thing," he recalls. "I only had the multiplex experience until heading into university. This was an eye-opener—this and the Princess."

That's partly because of the content—in Metro's hands, the Garneau anchors its programming in the arthouse, the oddball, the indie and the worldly cinema unlikely to screen elsewhere in Edmonton. But partly it's the building itself: watching red curtains pull back to reveal a screen in a gently gigantic cavern of a room feels like a ritual, one belonging to a long-past era.

"Certainly what differentiates the

Garneau is a sense of nostalgia, even if it's something you never experienced as a kid," he continues. "There is certainly a harking back to a previous era, which, given the movie experience in contemporary terms is very solitary one—a screen at home— kind of kicks you back into a more communal experience."

All of that was on Cheoros' and the Metro staff's mind when the building's 75th anniversary popped onto their radar. For about a year, they've been sifting through ideas to angle a weekend of programming set to celebrate the milestone. The result is a four-day swath of films and events that looks to celebrate the building's historic origins as well as its current place as a community hub. There are screenings of The Great Dictator and excerpts from the serial Flash Gordon (both released the same year the theatre opened) as well as more modern fare like What We Do In The Shadows and Amy, the Winehouse doc. There's also a few events to serve more community: like its semiregular Saturday Mornings All You Can Eat Cereal Party (the pyjamaclad among you are heartily welcomed as classic cartoons play out

on the big screen). There are also a series of ghost tours being offered, where you can descend into the bowels of the building and see another shade of the Garneau's history.

Of course, operating a 75-year-old building has its issues. As we talk, Cheoros' office boiler is open, beside him, for repairs. Outside the building there's a decided lack of parking around the space. But those are the costs of preserving a piece of history, something that increasingly feels like a rare occurence in Edmonton.

And some of those issues are just the double-edge of an asset, like location: not much parking, but situated near transit, university, and in an established neighbourhood.

"I think there's a few things that Metro does that are pretty essential to an overall conversation: we are the place that you can go to see films you're not going to see anywhere else in the city," Cheoros says.

"Plus a bunch of guilty-pleasure favourites, and some curation of very carefully considered juxtaposition of films. But if nothing else, our program guide should provide a kind of inspiration for people, even those people who never set foot in our door: [that] this is fantastic cinema

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Fri, Sep 18 – Mon, Sep 21 Past Forward: The Garneau Theatre at 75 Metro Cinema at the Garneau Full schedule available at metrocinema.org from all over the world that you're probably not hearing about unless you are combing the web every day.

That's a tribute to what Pete [Harris, Metro's programming manager] does, and some of our guest curators do, in unearthing some of these gems.

"Also, in curating a locale, both for local filmmakers and film programmers—we host a dozen film festivals over a year, of one kind or another; we try to be a go-to location for people to première their films—there's that sense of being a meeting place of the local community," Cheoros continues. "And to be honest, with everything that's happening with venues elsewhere in the city, increasingly it's just really important to have this as a place to gather, for a variety of purposes."

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REVUE // HORROR

Grandma's house is an unhappy place

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ey there! Welcome to M Night Shyamaland! This your first visit? Well, here's your map and I'll give you a quick run-down of the main attractions. Any questions, just let me know.

"What's that? The new one?

Well, it's a haunted-house ride, found-footage-style. See, you're led through a Pennsylvania farmhouse by a sister and brother makin' a documentary while they visit their grandparents, long estranged from the siblings' mom. There's creepy stuff, a Hansel and Gretel bit, grandma goes loony now and then—or gets naked, but only from behind! still PG-ish—the ride gets a bit Psycho with a kitchen knife and a basement, and ... well, the last section's a bit rickety, to be honest.

"Might be better to hit The Sixth Sense—Shyamaland's third ride, but still pretty popular. Or Unbreakable; lotsa folks overlook that one, but—the new one? Well, sure you can but, look, you've already paid your admission, so I don't mind warnin' ya, that ride's got lotsa glitches still. The siblings are programmed a little too old, if you ask me. The sister's precocitysettings seem out-of-whack—she spouts lotsa film-talk, 'long the lines of some Ivy League film-studies undergrad—and the brother keeps defaulting into this annoying tweenie-rapper thing. The creepy stuff gets crawly and tedious in the end. It kinda all splatters out, what with bloody adult-diapers and super-intense Yahtzee and the kids' emotional revelations popping up

in the climax as hurdles they gotta jump. And the schmaltzy family content they've tacked on there as you're trying to exit ... between you and me, I'd skip it.

"How 'bout the Signs cornfield maze? Just try to ignore that, whatsis name now, ah, right, that Mel Gibson fella—sometimes he breaks down and sputters out anti-Semitic stuff. And you definitely do wanna avoid Lady in the Waterpark and The Last Airbender-coaster. Plus

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High-Rise

Rising high on films to come

Part one of Vue's dispatch from the Toronto International Film Festival

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he Toronto International Film Festival moved its base of operations downtown a few years back with the grand opening of TIFF Bell Lightbox, an elegantly designed five-cinema arthouse multiplex, complete with offices, restaurants, an art gallery, a bookstore and, wink-wink, a high-end optometrist. Being at the corner of King and John places TIFF smack-dab in the heart of one of many Toronto urban zones that, like urban zones the world over, is being rapidly over-

taken by high-rise apartments—in fact, there is a high-rise apartment building attached to TIFF Bell Lightbox. It's thus all too apropos that one of the most highly anticipated films in this year's festival is a film about a high-rise, one that harkens back to the early days of this particular architectural-lifestyle phenomenon while looking forward to the rampant, violent psychopathy the phenomenon obviously engenders.

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by Ben Wheatley (Kill List, A Field in England), High-Rise is, naturally, a horror movie. The story, faithfully adapted by Amy Jump, Wheatley's partner in life and cinema, follows the same trajectory of many Ballard narratives, obsessed as they are with the way that civilization and capitalism reach critical mass and plunge us back into primitive anarchy. Set in the 1970s, the film is brilliantly designed, often outrageously funny, and features excellent performances from Tom Hiddleston, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans, Elizabeth Moss and Jeremy Irons as the titular high-rise's architect, who near the film's end wonders if perhaps his creation "will become a paradigm for future developments." (That line got a big laugh at the screening.) It's not easy to make a well-shaped narrative film from Ballard, and High-Rise does indeed run out of steam in the second half—and then gets it right back again in a beautifully gauged finale.

From High to low, both with regards to economic status, architectural latitude and geography: Bleak Street is the latest film from the great Mexican auteur Arturo Ripstein. Based on a true story about two midget wrestlers accidentally murdered by two middle-aged sex workers in a dingy Mexico City love hotel, the film is one of Ripstein's finest, most eerily beautiful explorations of the strange and sad destinies of the down and out, captured in spectral black and white camerawork that floats adrift through the poor places where the sun only enters from very high above

and the residents struggle to get by.

The film brims with black humour, yet it also carries with it a peculiar compassion that is the opposite of sentimentality—Ripstein, like his one-time mentor Luis Buñuel, refuses to make the marginal into saints, but by telling their stories with focus and fascination, he brings them closer to us.

Closeness and the ways in which time and truth-telling can eat away at it is central to 45 Years, Weekenddirector Andrew Haigh's slow-burn stunner of a relationship drama.

The film features magnificent performances from Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay as an elderly English couple whose preparations for their wedding-anniversary party are curtailed by the news that the remains of a woman Courtenay loved and lost before he and Rampling met have been discovered. Constructing his film from many quiet, exquisitely composed scenes where much drama goes unspoken, Haigh achieves the very impressive feat of conveying how a couple who have lived the majority of their lives together could be tossed into an emotional tempest by events that took place five decades ago.

The present is also impinged upon by the past—the long, long, longpast past—in Thai maestro Apichatpong Weerasethakul's haunted and haunting Cemetery of Splendour, which largely unfolds within a small, improvised hospital in which a group of soldiers suffering from a mysterious sleeping sickness are cared for by nurses and volunteers and overlooked by these weird and beautiful

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luminous tubes. We learn early in this latest film from the director of Syndromes and a Century that the hospital has supposedly been built on top of a centuries-old cemetery for kings—and their spirits may be involved in the onset and alleviation of the enigmatic affliction. In one of the most imaginative and moving sequences I've seen in any film this year, a psychic gives one of the hospital volunteers a tour of a building that no longer exists.

Such sequences cast the real world about the cinemas in new, more vivid shades. As I wander the streets of Toronto after another triple-feature, already over-caffeinated and somewhat dazed, it's films like those listed above that make me pause to consider the allure of something as ephemeral as the changing autumn light.

Movies are commonly thought of as machines of fantasy, but they can also make the world more real. I'm not just saying that because I stood beside Mathieu Amalric at the bar of the Bovine Sex Club, saw Jia Zhangke dine with his family at a mediocre Chinese restaurant, or got to share come canapés with Laurie Anderson. It's the images and sounds infusing our collective psyches as we sit and watch film after film here: they change us.

And if I try to watch the good films and avoid the stupid ones, I sometimes believe that may be changing me for the better.

More TIFF reportage next week. I may even get around to telling you about some of the stupid ones.

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PREVUE // POP

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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: THIS WEEK’S MUSIC NOTES

BACK TO THE BEGINNING Coleman Hell on returning to his small-town roots and his new album

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s those who grew up in a small town often attest, high school graduation and the ostensible freedom it brings can't come soon enough. But leaving one's hometown isn't always the clean break it appears to be, and some time away can make a person realize how much the place meant to them or how much they miss it.

This notion struck a chord with Coleman Hell after watching a Bruce Springsteen documentary on the making of Darkness on the Edge of Town. Springsteen had left his hometown in New Jersey and realized it was engrained in him, and that sentiment resonated with Hell, who's originally from Thunder Bay, ON. He decided to retreat to a cabin in the woods with his bandmates La+ch and Michah (the three began working together as part of sideways, a Toronto-based artist collective, about five years ago, along with Shan Vincent de Paul) to record his forthcoming yet-untitled debut album in order to capture the essence of this feeling.

"I had this sort of epiphany where I've moved away from where I was born and, I don't know if I resented it, but I kind of felt like I didn't belong," Hell explains as he drives through Ottawa. "I was into arts and stuff, which isn't so easy to do in a smaller place—a smaller remote place—and then recently I came to terms with, like, OK, I'm a pretty small-town person inside—or at least a part of me is.

So I sort of wanted to reconnect with the northern element that I'd grew up around."

The first single from the album (due out in the first quarter of 2016), "2 Heads," is a genre-bender that pairs a steady pop beat with twangy banjo, which Hell says is a nod to his early musical influences.

"Growing up in a small town and hearing classic rock radio being played, and my parents were really into music: my mom used to work at a record store," he explains. "So [it's] kind of just being influenced by roots,

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'70s rock and folk and bands that use those instruments—taking that and then mixing it with electronic music.

The first music I started making was on keyboards and programs and stuff, so [I'm] kind of trying to bridge the gap between old and new."

The gap is further bridged by the fact that Hell still uses the Casio keyboard he taught himself to play as a kid. And while there certainly won't be banjo present on all the songs on Hell's debut album, he notes that he strives to write "good, honest songs that are delivered in an unconventional way."

This is certainly true on his Vena EP, released in December 2014, though its five tracks have an inherently more electronic feel than his more recent singles—"Thumbelina," "Take Me Up" and "2 Heads"—which are still rooted in modern dance beats while incorporating elements of traditional instrumentation. There's a few months between now and the release of Hell’s album, but those looking to get their fill can be satiated by lyric videos for the aforementioned singles, as well as an official video for "2 Heads." Hell wrote the treatment, directed and edited the video himself, creating a dive-bar wedding in which the bride is more interested in his character than her new husband.

"It was pretty influenced by the movie The Graduate, which is one of my favourite movies, so I made an homage to that movie at the end, where there's sort of an awkward moment when you get away with the girl and you're like, 'Maybe this wasn't the greatest idea,'" he explains. "But I let it run a little longer to show there's no real happy ending, and I think, like in any relationship, it's more what you make of it and the work you put in."

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Hayden E

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ight albums and 20 years in the music industry found Hayden pondering what was keeping him going. Oddly enough for a musician, he says it could be the fact that he doesn't play a lot of music in his downtime.

While some musicians eat, sleep and breathe their instrument and devote every ounce of energy to their craft, Hayden's interest in music is not that all-encompassing— though it's certainly not wavering.

"I don't tour endlessly; I don't sit in hotel rooms playing my guitar, and I'm not showing up everywhere and playing music," he says. "When I'm done the cycle of writing and recording I find interest in other things, and I think when it comes time to go back and make another record after that time, I'm sort of refreshed, and I really, really feel the need to play music. I'm interested in the sounds and the textures, and that could be something that's helped me over the years, you know, just taking long enough breaks away from it to be interested in it again.

"What I'm saying could be eyerolling or annoying to some musicians," he continues. "Maybe to a fault I've never felt the need to master any instrument, either. I like dabbling on different instruments,

getting the performance or the sound that I want and then putting it down—not that I don't highly respect certain musicians who have mastered their craft, but that just hasn't been in the cards for me."

The interests Hayden has chosen to pursue outside of touring and recording include the Dream Serenade, a benefit show supporting services for children with developmental disabilities that's heading into its second iteration at Massey Hall in Toronto this October. Hayden and his wife started the project—which includes Joel Plaskett, TUNS and the Weather Station this year—and he's in the midst of planning out the details.

He notes that he moves rather casually from one pursuit to the next, be it touring, writing or video work (he graduated from the Radio and Television Arts program at Ryerson University). 2015 has been a fairly relaxed year for the singersongwriter: it included the release of his new album, Hey Love, but he didn't embark on any sort of frenetic touring in support of it. He notes there's a fine balance to strike between chasing opportunities and knowing when to pull back.

This is nothing new for Hayden, who has always taken a much

Wed, Sep 23 (8 pm) With Taylor Knox, Evening Hymns Starlite Room, $23 more subdued approach to selfpromotion, sticking to small-scale touring—there was the egregious rumour that he died in 2010 that prompted him to release his previous album, Us Alone, on Arts & Crafts and have the label handle promotion. He began working on Hey Love about a year after Us Alone's release in 2013, taking short solo trips away to "beat on an instrument uninterrupted," and the album's 13 tracks soon took shape.

Matters of the heart play out through the quietly arresting melodies of Hey Love, leaving plenty of room for personal interpretation. Hayden notes that he enjoys hearing what people have to say about his songs, or the impressions left on them, rather then spelling out exactly what each song is about or making the lyrics too black and white.

"There's strong themes, for sure: one that's noticeable is definitely the idea of reminiscing about stages of love," he explains. "That's a big one, sort of like nostalgia."

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PREVUE // FOLK

Trevor Mann W

hile he's better known as the lead singer and guitarist of Scenic Route to Alaska, Trevor Mann is excited to kick off his solo career—if he can remember to show up for his gig, that is. Mann is friends with both Wunderbar co-owner Craig Martell and the members of Close Talker, and a miscommunication between Martell and Closer Talker's manager resulted in him being listed as the opening act for the Saskatoon band's upcoming show, despite nobody talking to him about it.

"I don't have Facebook or Twitter or anything, so I pretty much live in my own black hole. It's really nice at times, but things like this happen," Mann says. "It's a beautiful coincidence because fortunately we're actually in town, and I think it'll be a really fun show, but I had no idea I was going to be playing."

Mann's solo debut, Sad Campfire Sing-Alongs, bears some similarities to his work with Scenic Route to Alaska, but it has a much more folksy, unpolished vibe that's aptly described by its title.

"I've always had a catalogue of these

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simple, three-chord folk songs that I write therapeutically, and didn't really expect to make them anything more," he says.

Mann was in Halifax doing an internship with an artist-management company when he decided, on a whim, to spend an evening recording a handful of solo songs he'd written.

Melanie Stone, a local musician and his boss during his internship, provided the backing vocals on several of the songs; her voice lends a haunting quality to the already raw and sorrowful tunes.

"It's not a perfect recording, but that's why I wanted to do it," Mann says. "I wanted it to be a different outlet than what the band serves."

Mann was initially concerned that his Scenic Route to Alaska bandmates might have reservations about him putting together a solo album, but he says they've been nothing but supportive.

"They were really happy about it, and thought I did a nice job," he adds.

"We don't compliment each other very often, because we're funny like

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Tue, Sep 22 (9 pm) With Close Talker Wunderbar, $12 that, so that was nice enough."

While Mann says Scenic Route to Alaska will remain his priority, he's hoping to put together a short solo tour later this fall on his way home from the group's trip out to Vancouver to record its new album.

"We're going to entirely sick of each other by that point, so it'll be fun to venture home alone," he adds.

For now, though, Mann's looking forward to the debut of his new material in his hometown.

"It's going to be the first time I've ever played this material in Edmonton, so it's going to be an unveiling of sorts," he notes. "It's going to be mellow, the songs are borderline depressing. It'll be an opportunity to maybe light some candles and bring them on stage, and see if I can make anyone cry."

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oey Cape's latest album, Stitch Puppy, has been a long time coming.

"I don't make records all that often," says Cape, deep in the midst of prepping for his month-long tour. "I do a lot of writing, but I don't tend to put a whole lot of material out. It's been about five years since my first solo record, so it's just great to have a new batch of songs to play live—it always feels good to play songs, you know?"

Cape, who also leads punk-rock legends Lagwagon and plays guitar in Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, crafts lyrical and melancholic music on Stitch Puppy (named for a doll Cape's daughter made for him a few years ago) that's hopeful but remorseful, with a small band accented beautifully by cello and piano in songs like

"Me The Witness."

"I've had cello on every solo record I've ever made; it's one of my favourite instruments," Cape says. "It's more of a question of how do you not include cello on every song, you know?

It's so beautiful sounding.

"My favourite two instruments to accompany the songs are piano and cello ... I got as much cello out of Serena [Chang] as I could in the time I had—I had about six hours in the studio and it was like, 'Alright, let's go; I've got some ideas, let's see what we can do.'

I would have loved to have more, because it sounds really pretty."

For Cape, one of the key things about the recording process is trying to remain true to his initial vision of the

song. The raw honesty of those first takes gets winnowed down by his own second-guessing.

"The truth is, when I first write a song, when I first have a song written, that's when I play it the best," Cape says. "There's something very difficult about letting go and not having any inhibitions and just kind of going for it and trying to get that raw thing that you get in the original incarnation of something."

Cape, who now has a home studio, thinks he'll be able to make music more consistently—he's already feeling good about some of his latest efforts.

"It's funny. I finished this album a couple months ago—and there's no calculation to it—I just have waves where I'm writing well, and I'm in one now." Cape adds. "So I'm writing a lot of new music and it just hit me last week and I just started writing—I've written something like five songs in the last week that I think are pretty good."

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'W

e have always been a live band, and we consider ourselves more a live band than a studio band," All Time Low lead guitarist Jack Barakat says.

The band recently won "Best Live Act" at the AIM Independent Music Awards. Barakat credits All Time Low's live-show triumphs to playing the festival circuit, specifically on bills alongside the band's idols like Foo Fighters, Green Day and Blink 182, all of which have found continued touring success after 20-some years in the music business.

"We get to learn and see what they do and what has driven them to be a band for 20 years plus," he says over the phone from Santiago, Chile.

"I think that has helped out our live show and become what we are today."

The band went on a three-year album hiatus (its previous release was Don't Panic in 2012), focusing on extensive touring nationally and internationally during that period.

All Time Low—rounded out by high school friends Alex Gaskarth (lead

vocals, guitar), Zach Merrick (bass) and Rian Dawson (drums)—took a break from rigorous touring to record its sixth studio album, Future Hearts, about a year ago.

"We basically locked ourselves in [producer] John Feldmann's poolhouse for about two months and just kind of got down to it and spent the first three weeks writing every night until about 12 or 1 am," Barakat explains. "Me and Alex rented a house in LA and lived together [during recording]. Ryan lived down the street and Zach would come out when he needed to be there."

For Future Hearts, the Towson, MDbased band returned to what Barakat describes as an "old school method of recording" with all the band members present during songwriting and recording as opposed to the band's previous albums, where Gaskarth would meet with a producer solo and write the songs, Barakat explains.

The 13-track record marks the second All Time Low album released under Hopeless Records since the band's

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The group resigned with Hopeless Records since the label better-suited its needs in achieving its goals as a band (its previous albums 2007's So Wrong, It's Right and 2009's Nothing Personal were both recorded under Hopeless).

"Future Hearts is the most realized version of All Time Low," Barakat says of the album's energy and combination of pop and rock elements. "In the past we experimented with different sounds, and we had some songs that leaned very rock and some songs that leaned very pop. I think this album is a perfect balance of those two.

"It's the album that we wanted to make our entire career. We nailed exactly what we wanted."

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The kickoff of this tour coincided with the release of the video for "Bedroom Angels," the fist single from Burn into the Earth.

The concept for the video—three hard-drinking, gun-toting angels steal a cop car and go on a less than angelic joy-ride—was not the band's first choice.

The original concept, essentially a live performance where the band would be bookended by aerialists dressed as angels, had been planned out months prior to the scheduled shoot date.

But just two days before the shoot was to take place, the ground fell out from under the idea.

Fri, Sep 18 (8 pm) With River Jacks, Nothing Gold Can Stay Wunderbar, $10 "Things got too expensive and there was a miscommunication [with the aerialists]," Miles explains.

Undeterred, left only with angel costumes, an acquaintance that rents cop cars and one day to shoot, things "snowballed from there."

"It turned out the best it possibly could have," Miles says. "It was a long weird, weird day."

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Miles explains.

House shows are, like the name suggests, a gig in a house. Local promoters will book a range of performers to play in a house owned by someone friendly to the scene (typically one touring band and several local acts). This practice is largely the result of the higher drinking age in the US and a lack of all-ages venues.

"Often it's a bunch of punk bands, sometimes it's artists of all walks of life," Miles notes. This diversity of expression was notably illustrated at the band's September 8 show in Columbus, where it shared the bill with a local poet.

With live bands...

OCT 2 & 3

rom a house in Columbus, Ohio, behind the static of a weak magicJack connection, Travis Miles, lead singer of the Penske File, is three days into the American leg of a five-month North American tour supporting the band's new album, Burn into the Earth.

Miles speaks slowly, in a charming, semi-aloof, possibly hungover kind of way. At 22 years old, he and his Burlington, ON-based bandmates are already a decade into a musical relationship that began in grade school.

"We all grew up together," Miles says, but this is actually something of an understatement. Miles met Alex Standen (drums) in Grade 7 and James Hall (bass) when he moved onto Miles' street at the age of four. Miles chuckles as he recalls how he first became aware of Hall—"My mom babysat him."

"We started playing when we were around 12; we picked up instruments and started writing songs and having fun with it," he explains.

"We've gotten slightly better."

Three albums and countless kilometers behind the wheel of the band's Ford E-350 van later, the Penske File has become a touring punk band in an era that's more DIY than anyone in the 1980s heyday could have hoped.

"We play a lot of house shows,"

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with host Duff Robison ENJOY CENTRE An Evening with

Tommy Banks; 5-7:30pm; $125 (per person, includes $65 charitable receipt) NEW WEST HOTEL Party Crowd ORIGINAL JOE'S VARSITY ROW Open

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

Blue 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)

NEW WEST HOTEL Tue Country Dance Lessons: 7-9pm; Later: Party Crowd

every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous

BLUES ON WHYTE Fred Brousse & the

O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue;

Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Monday

with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm

open mic

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Bingo

MERCURY ROOM Music Magic

Toonz every Tue

Monday Nights: Capital City Jammers, host Blueberry Norm; seasoned musicians; 7-10pm; $4

Stage with Brian Gregg; 7:30pm (door); no cover

ROCKY MOUNTAIN ICEHOUSE Live

STARTLITE ROOM Hayden with

NEW WEST HOTEL Party Crowd

SANDS HOTEL Country music dancing every Tue, featuring Country Music Legend Bev Munro every Tue, 8-11pm

TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul, Motown,

Funk, R&B and more with DJs Ben and Mitch; every Sat; 9pm-2am UNION HALL Celebrity Saturdays:

Blues Party; 9pm

SUN SEP 20 BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Sun BBQ jam hosted with the Marshall Lawrence Band; 4pm BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku

Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Brunch - Jazz Passages trio; 9am-3pm; Cover by donation BLUES ON WHYTE Maurice John

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

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

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

Vaughn; 9pm COMMONWEALTH STADIUM AC/DC;

7pm; $99-$155 DIVERSION LOUNGE Sun Night Live on

the South Side: live bands; all ages; 7-10:30pm DRAFT BAR & GRILL Sunday Draft

with Duggan's House Band 5-8pm MERCURY ROOM RTR/MZK Brings

You Back to the Boogie; 2-7pm; $10; All ages

guests; 7pm

music with the Icehouse Band and weekly guests; Every Tue, 9pm

STARTLITE ROOM Coleman Hell;

8pm (doors), 9pm (show); $13.50; 18+ only YARDBIRD SUITE Tuesday Session:

John Sweenie Quartet; 7:30pm (door)/8pm (show); $5

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

DJs

SIDELINERS PUB & PANTRY Justin

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

Respet; 8pm; No minors STARLITE ROOM Cattle Decapitation

Jam; 4-8pm; 18+ only; No cover DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Celtic Music

MERCURY ROOM Howqua with

W/ King Parrot, Black Crown Initiate & Dark Sermon; 7pm (doors); $23.50; No minors

DJs

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 BRIXX Metal night every Tue DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly,

Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock

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

Evening Hymns; 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $23; No minors UNION HALL Hollywood Undead (Pop/

Rock) with Crown the Empire and I Prevail; 6pm; $29.50 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 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 BRIXX BAR Eats and Beats 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 ARDEN THEATRE 5 St Anne St, St Albert ATLANTIC TRAP AND 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 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 COMMONWEALTH STADIUM 11000 Stadium Rd CONVOCATION HALL Old Arts Building, University of Alberta DARAVARA 10713 124 St, 587.520.4980 DRAFT BAR & GRILL 12912-50 St 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 ENJOY CENTRE 101 Riel Dr, St Albert FACULTE SAINT-JEAN 8406 Marie-Anne Gaboury FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 FIONN MACCOOL'S–DOWNTOWN Edmonton City Centre, 10200-

102 Ave HILLTOP PUB 8220 106 Ave HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH 10037-84 Ave NW IRISH SPORTS CLUB 12546-126 St, 780.453.2249 J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JAMES RAMSAY PARK 1501043 Ave NW JAVA XPRESS 110, 4300 South Park Dr, Stony Plain, 780.968.1860 KELLY'S PUB 10156-104 St L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LA CITE FRANCAPHONE 8627 Marie-Anne Gaboury LEAF BAR AND GRILL 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH 10086 MacDonald Dr NW 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 MUTTART HALL 10050 MacDonald Drive 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 OLD TIMER'S CABIN 9430 Scona

Rd NW 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 PARKVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 9135-146 St NW 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 RITCHIE UNITED CHURCH 9624 74 Ave NW 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. ANDREW'S UNITED CHURCH 9915-148 St NW STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 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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EVENTS WEEKLY EMAIL YOUR FREE LISTINGS TO: LISTINGS@VUEWEEKLY.COM FAX: 780.426.2889 DEADLINE: FRIDAY AT 3PM

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 • Keon Polee; Sep 17-19

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

Illness support and solutions • Robertson Wesley United Church Library, 10209-123 St • 780.235.5911 • Crohn's Colitis, I.B.D. Support and Solutions • Every 2nd and 4th Tue, 7-9pm

Lotus Qigong • 780.477.0683 • Downtown •

Comic Strip • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999

Practice group meets every Thu

• 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 • Adam Hunter; Sep 16-20

MADELEINE SANAM FOUNDATION • Faculté

Connie's Comedy presents Comedy @ the Fort Lounge • Fort Lounge, 13403 Fort Road NW • With comedian Tommy Savitt from LA • Sep 17, 8pm

Dating Game • Krush Ultralounge, 16648-109 Ave • With Sterling Scott as game show host • Sep 22, 8pm

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,

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

obad@shaw.ca; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free

Empress Ale House • 9912-82 Ave • Empress

Ave • poorvoteturnout.ca • Public meetings: promoting voting by the poor • Every Wed, 7-8pm

Comedy Night: featuring a professional headliner every week Every Sun, 9pm

Irrelevant Show • Muttart Hall, 10050 MacDonald Drive • cbc.ca/irrelevantshow • An evening of all-new comedy sketches and songs, featuring a cast of Edmonton's funniest performers. With musical guests and live sound effects created right before your eyes and ears. The show ranges from every day to the surreal with scenes about family life, dating, relationships and the workplace • 7:30pm • $33

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

Whose Live Anyway • Northlands Expo Centre, 7515-118 Ave • rivercreeresort.com • rivercreeresort. com • 90 minutes of hilarious improvised comedy and song all based on audience suggestions. Ryan Stiles, Greg Proops, Jeff B. Davis and Joel Murray perform some of the games made famous from the show Whose Line Is It Anyway plus some new ones • Sep 17, 7pm (doors), 9pm (show) • $49.50

Groups/CLUBS/meetings Aikikai Aikido Club • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm Amnesty International Edmonton • 8307-109 St • edmontonamnesty.org • Meet the 4th Tue each month, 7:30pm (no meetings in Jul, Aug) E: amnesty@edmontonamnesty.org for more info • Free

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

Brain Tumour Peer Support Group •

Mount Zion Lutheran Church, 11533-135 St NW • braintumour.ca • 1.800.265.5106 ext. 234 • Support group for brain tumour survivors and their families and caregivers. Must be 18 or over • 3rd Mon every month; 7-8:45pm • Free

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

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

26 at the back

Poor Vote Turnout • Rossdale Hall, 10135-96

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

Upward Bound Toastmaster Club: Rm 7, 6 Fl, Edmonton Public Library–DT: Meets every Wed, 7-8:45pm; SepMay; 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

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

Edmonton Comic & Entertainment Expo 2015 • Edmonton Expo Centre, 7515-118

Wild Rose Antique Collectors Society

G.L.B.T.Q Seniors Group • S.A.G.E Bldg, Craft-

• Delwood Community Hall, 7515 Delwood Rd • wildroseantiquecollectors.ca • Collecting and researching items from various periods in the history of Edmonton.

Presentations after club business. Visitors welcome • Meets the 4th Mon of every month (except Jul & Dec), 7:30pm

room, 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

• Red Piano West Edmonton Mall, 8882-170 St • edmontonepicurean.com • Executive Chef Tim Barath has created a multi-course dinner paired with Canadian wines from British Columbia • Sep 22 • $90 (members), $100 (guests); confirm attendance

by Sep 14

WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old Strathcona Farmers' Market • Silent vigil the 1st and 3rd Sat, 10-11am, each month, stand in silence for a world without violence

LECTURES/Presentations Alberta's Solar Future • MacEwan University City Centre Campus, CN Theatre, Rm 5-142 • 780.443.7788 • office@solaralberta.ca • solaralberta. ca • A presentation about the exciting state of solar in Alberta and Canada • Sep 23, 7-8:30pm • Free Public talk with Ven. Thrangu Rinpoche • Rutherford Rm, Varscona Hotel On 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

Redefining Conflict Workshop Series • MRJC offices, 10066-151 St • Learning conflict management concepts, enhance your understanding of yourself and others in conflict situations, and try out new communication techniques to resolve differences • Sep 18 (6-9pm), Sep 19 (9am-4pm), Oct 15 (6-9pm), Oct 22 (6am-9pm), Oct 29 (6am-9pm), Nov 27 (6-9pm), Nov 28 (9am-4pm) • $75 (includes all materials); register online mrjc.ca, or 780.423.0896

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

Schizophrenia Society Family Support Drop-in Group • Schizophrenia 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

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 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)

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

TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS) • Grace United Church annex, 6215-104 Ave • Low-cost, fun and friendly weight loss group • Every Mon, 6:30pm • Info: call Bob 780.479.5519

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

Stopping hamburger disease on the shelf: Engineering new smart materials for food safety • Room E1-001 Engineering Teaching and Learning Complex, University of Alberta, 116 St and 92 Ave • engineering.ualberta. ca/Expo • Learn about leading-edge research being conducted by University of Alberta materials engineering researchers, who are discovering ways to protect consumers when food becomes unsafe • Sep 26, 11:30am-12:30pm • Free

Turning your smart phone into a Tricorder • Room E1-001 Engineering Teaching and Learning Complex, University of Alberta, 116 St and 92 Ave • engineering.ualberta.ca/Expo • Learn about exciting biomedical engineering research at the University of Alberta to make the Star Trek tricorder a real, valued, and reliable medical instrument • Sep 26, 1-2pm • Free

Urban Green Cohousing Information Session • Downtown at the Stanley Milner Library Edmonton Room (lower level), 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square • hello@urbangreencohousing.ca • urbangreencohousing.ca • Live well, live sustainably--find out how to become involved with Urban Green Cohousing • Sep 20, 2-3:30pm

QUEER Beers for Queers • Empress Ale House, 9912 Whyte Ave • Meet the last Thu each month BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725 Jasper Ave • 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

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

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 •

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

Illusions Social Club • Pride Centre, 10608105 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, trans-identified and queer (LGBTQ) faculty, graduate student, academic, straight allies and support staff • 3rd Thu each month (fall/winter terms): Speakers Series. E: kwells@ualberta.ca LIVING POSITIVE • #33, 9912-106 St • 780.424.2214 • livingpositivethroughpositiveliving.com • In office peer counseling, public speakers available for presentations, advocacy and resource materials available • 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 • A safe, welcoming, and non-judgemental drop-in space, support programs and resources offered for members of the GLBTQ community, their families and friends • Daily: Community drop-in; support and resources.

Queer library: borrowing privileges: Tue-Fri 12-9pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, closed Sun-Mon; Queer HangOUT (a.k.a. QH) youth drop-in: Tue-Fri 3-8pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, youth@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Counselling: Free, short-term by registered counsellors every Wed, 5:30-8:30pm, info/bookings: 780.488.3234 • Knotty Knitters: Knit and socialize in safe, accepting environment, all skill levels welcome; every Wed 6-8pm • QH Game Night: Meet people through board game fun; every Thu 6-8pm • QH Craft Night: every Wed, 6-8pm • QH Anime Night: Watch anime; every Fri, 6-8pm • Movie Night: Open to everyone; 2nd and 4th Fri each month, 6-9pm • Women’s Social Circle: Social support group for female-identified persons +18 years in the GLBT community; new members welcome; 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm each month; andrea@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Men Talking with Pride: Support and social group for gay and bisexual men; 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

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

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; 7pm1am • Fri-Sat: Dancing and events until close • Sun: Karaoke with Jadee; 7pm-1am SPECIAL EVENTS 6TH ANNUAL ART IN OUR PARK FESTIVAL • James Ramsay Park 15016-43 Ave and Riverbend Road • artinourpark.ca • A family friendly arts festival featuring live music, an Art Market, and over twenty interactive elements and activities. Feature performers are: Chloe Albert, Ben Sures, Brother Octopus, and The Orchard • Sep 19, 1-5pm • Free DeepSoul.ca • 587.520.3833; call or text for 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

Doll Club or Edmonton Show and Sale • Italian Cultural Centre, 14230-133 Ave • dziegler@ telusplanet.net • dollclub.shawwebspace.ca • Antique & collectible sale of dolls, teddy bears and toys accessories, clothing, patterns, furniture with over 80 dealers • Sep 20, 10am-4pm • $5

Dollhouse Miniature Show and Sale • Executive Royal Inn West Edmonton, 10010-0178 St • 780.418.5198 • mheucher@shaw.ca • camacdonald. com/MEE/ShowandSale.html • This year's theme: Shop ‘til you drop on Itsy Bitsy Lane. Explore dollhouses, room displays, and more • Sep 20, 10am-4pm • $5 (adult), $2 (kids 6-12), free (kids under 6)

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Etsy: Made in Canada Edmonton Marketplace • Latitude 53, 10242-106 St • meriha@carineredmond.com • etsy.com/madeincanada • Made in Canada pop-up marketplace. Shop your favourite Etsy crafters, collectors and artisans selling their handmade and vintage goods • Sep 26, 10am-4pm • Free

E-Ville Roller Derby Presents: Welcome Smack • Edmonton Sportsdome, 10104-32 Ave NW • eville.publicrelations@gmail.com • facebook.com/EdmontonRollerDerby • e-villerollerderby. com • The Slice Girls vs. The Las Pistolitas • Sep 26, 7-9pm • $10 (adv), $15 (door), free (kids 10 and under) - food donatiojns to the Food Bankwill be accepted

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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) University of Alberta Engineering Expo • Engineering Teaching and Learning Complex, University of Alberta, 116 St NW • engginfo@ualberta. ca • engineering.ualberta.ca/Expo2015 • Junior and senior high school students can learn what engineering's all about • Sep 26, 10am-3pm • Free

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ARIES (MAR 21 – APR 19): I won't go so far as to say that you are surrounded by unhinged maniacs whose incoherence is matched only by their self-delusion. That would probably be too extreme. But I do suspect that at least some of the characters in the game you're playing are not operating at their full potential.

For now, it's best not to confront them and demand that they act with more grace. The wiser strategy might be to avoid being swept up in their agitation as you take good care of yourself. If you are patient and stay centred, I bet you will eventually get a chance to work your magic.

TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 20): Many of the heroes in fairy tales survive and thrive because of the magical gifts they are given.

Benefactors show up, often unexpectedly, to provide them with marvels—a spinning wheel that can weave a cloak of invisibility, perhaps, or winged shoes that give them the power of flight, or a charmed cauldron that brews a healing potion. But there is an important caveat. The heroes rarely receive their boons out of sheer luck. They have previously performed kind deeds or unselfish acts in order to earn the right to be blessed. According to my analysis, Taurus, the coming weeks will be prime time for you to make yourself worthy of gifts you will need later on.

GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUN 20): We humans need nourishing stories almost as much as we require healthy food, clean air, pure water and authentic love. And yet many of us get far less than our minimum daily requirement of nourishing stories. Instead, we are barraged with nihilistic narratives that wallow in misery and woe. If we want a break from that onslaught, our main other choices are sentimental fantasies and empty-hearted trivia. That's the bad news. But here's the good news: Now is a favourable time for you to seek remedies for this problem. That's why I'm urging you to hunt down redemptive chronicles that furnish your soul with gritty delight. Find parables and sagas and tales that fire up your creative imagination and embolden your lust for life.

CANCER (JUN 21 – JUL 22): Now is an excellent time to close the gap between the Real You and the image of yourself that you display to the world. I know of two ways to accomplish this. You can tinker with the Real You so that it's more like the image you display. Or else you can change the image you display so that it is a more accurate rendition of the Real You. Both strategies may be effective. However you go about it, Cancerian, I suggest you make it your goal to shrink the amount of pretending you do.

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LEO (JUL 23 – AUG 22): Born under the sign of Leo, Marcel Duchamp was an influential artist whose early work prefigured surrealism. In 1917, he submitted an unusual piece to a group exhibition in New York. It was a plain old porcelain urinal, but he titled it "Fountain," and insisted it was a genuine work of art. In that spirit, I am putting my seal of approval on the messy melodrama you are in the process of managing.

Henceforth, this melodrama shall also be known as a work of art, and its title will be "Purification."

(Or would you prefer "Expurgation" or "Redemption?") If you finish the job with the panache you have at your disposal, it will forevermore qualify as a souljiggling masterpiece.

VIRGO (AUG 23 - SEP 22): Some people express pride in gross ways. When you hear their overbearing brags, you know it's a sign that they are not really confident in themselves. They overdo the vanity because they're trying to compensate for their feelings of inadequacy. In the coming weeks, I expect you to express a more lovable kind of self-glorification.

It won't be inflated or arrogant, but will instead be measured and reasonable. If you swagger a bit, you will do it with humour and style, not narcissism and superiority. Thank you in advance for your service to humanity. The world needs more of this benign kind of egotism.

LIBRA (SEP 23 – OCT 22): The rooster is your power animal. Be like him. Scrutinize the horizon for the metaphorical dawn that is coming, and be ready to herald its appearance with a triumphant wake-up call. But the rooster is also your affliction animal. Don't be like him. I would hate for you to imitate the way he handles himself in a fight, which is to keep fussing and squabbling far beyond the point when he should let it all go. In conclusion, Libra, act like a rooster but also don't act like a rooster. Give up the protracted struggle so you can devote yourself to the more pertinent task, which is to celebrate the return of the primal heat and light.

SCORPIO (OCT 23 – NOV 21): Since you seem to enjoy making life so complicated and intense for yourself, you may be glad to learn that the current astrological omens favour that development.

My reading of the astrological omens suggests that you're about to dive deep into rich mysteries that could drive you half-crazy. I suspect that you will be agitated and animated by your encounters with ecstatic torment and difficult bliss. Bon voyage! Have fun!

Soon I expect to see miniature violet bonfires gleaming in your bedroom eyes, and unnamable emotions rippling through your unfathomable face, and unprecedented words of wild wisdom spilling from your smart mouth.

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SAGITTARIUS (NOV 22 – DEC 21): The Adamites were devotees of an ancient Christian sect that practiced sacred nudism. One of their central premises: How could anyone possibly know God while wearing clothes? I am not necessarily recommending that you make their practice a permanent part of your spiritual repertoire, but I think you might find value in it during the coming weeks. Your erotic and transcendent yearnings will be rising to a crescendo at the same time. You will have the chance to explore states where horniness and holiness overlap.

Lusty prayers? Reverent sex? Ecstatic illumination?

CAPRICORN (DEC 22 – JAN 19): One of your key themes in the coming weeks is "grace." I suggest that you cultivate it, seek it out, expect it and treasure it. To prepare for this fun work, study all of the meanings of "grace" below. At least two of them, and possibly all, should and can be an active part of your life. 1) Elegance or beauty of form, movement or proportion; seemingly effortless charm or fluidity. 2) Favour or goodwill; a disposition to be generous or helpful. 3) Mercy, forgiveness, charity. 4) A temporary exemption or immunity; a reprieve. 5) A sense of fitness or propriety. 6) A prayer of blessing or thanks said before a meal. 7) An unmerited divine gift offered out of love.

AQUARIUS (JAN 20 – FEB 18): Be good, but not necessarily well-behaved. Be extra exuberant and free, but not irresponsible.

Be lavish and ardent and even rowdy, but not decadent. Why? What's the occasion? Well, you have more-or-less finished paying off one of your karmic debts. You have conquered or at least outwitted a twist from your past that had been sapping your mojo. As a reward for doing your duty with such diligence, you have earned a respite from some of the more boring aspects of reality. And so now you have a mandate to gather up the intelligent pleasure you missed when you were acting like a beast of burden.

PISCES (FEB 19 – MAR 20): "I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love." That's the mantra that Frank O'Hara intoned in his poem "Meditations in an Emergency," and now I'm inviting you to adopt a modified version of it. Here's how I would change it for your use in the coming months: "I am the least difficult of passion artists. All I want is to give and receive boundless, healthy, interesting love." To be frank, I don't think O'Hara's simple and innocent declaration will work for you. You really do need to add my recommended nuances in order to ripen your soul's code and be aligned with cosmic rhythms. V

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Pansexuality shifts attraction away from gender Miley Cyrus is making headlines again, but this time it's not for showing her breasts or wagging her tongue: it's for using a particular word. In a recent Elle UK article, Cyrus said that she is pansexual. This caused a flurry of tweets and posts questioning what she was up to—is pansexuality really a thing, or is Miley just trying to get attention again?

Although it might be a new term for a lot of people, Cyrus definitely did not make it up: pansexuality is an identity claimed by quite a lot of people.

"We generally define pansexuality to mean the attraction to a person regardless of where they stand on the gender or sexuality spectrum," says Mickey Wilson, executive director of the Pride Centre of Edmonton. "But other people describe it in ways that work for them."

Though pansexuality might seem the same as bisexuality, there's a very important difference between the two. Whereas terms like heterosexual, homosexual and bisexual centre around the gender of the desired partner, pansexuality shifts the focus of attraction away from gender altogether. Instead, pansexuality recognizes the

fluidity of gender and that people can feel they are both male and female, neither male nor female, or anywhere in between. While some people who identify as pansexual are attracted specifically to people who are gender non-conforming, most simply feel that gender does not define what attracts them to a person.

Leo Quinn, a 16-year-old Edmonton student, identifies as male and is attracted mainly to women, but feels that the word straight simply doesn't work for him.

"I like women; I identify as male, so I'm straight, but that just never clicked," he says. "I thought that pansexual just seems right to me. It connects with my mind, my body, my soul. It just feels comfortable for me.

"I still have a lot of love for males," he continues. "I still have a lot of love for a person who doesn't have a gender or doesn't want a gender. If I can love their personality and their humour, just anything, then I feel like it doesn't matter if they're male, female, non-conforming, genderfluid—it's the love that I have for them as a person, regardless of their gender."

Quinn believes that it's important to be open about who he is.

"I could be completely stealth but I decided that I can try to make a change," he explains. "If I can be as open as I am, maybe I can be a little bit of a change, at least in Edmonton, so I feel like it matters. I don't want to live a life that's not true."

Pansexual might seem like just another label among so many other words and labels that we have these days, but contained in that one little word is a powerful idea.

The current labels of straight, bi and gay cause nothing but confusion and outright identity crises when people find themselves attracted to—or falling in love with—someone of the "wrong" gender, and yet this happens all the time. Perhaps gender is not the primary factor that determines who we will fall for. Indeed, perhaps there is more to it than that, and Cyrus, Quinn and others like them have found a way to make room for that possibility. V Brenda Kerber is a sexual health educator who has worked with local not-for-profits since 1995. She is the owner of the Edmonton-based, sex-positive adult toy boutique the Traveling Tickle Trunk.

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My son, who is almost 30 years old, was married four years ago. He just shared with us that for the last three years, he and his wife have been practicing polyamory. They are committed to their relationship but have each had relationships with both men and women. We are trying to get our heads around this, as we come from a more traditional background (we've been married 40 years in a loving and respectful relationship), and we find ourselves feeling very sad. We are accepting and nonjudgmental, just trying to understand how he came to this decision. He feels that to make love "finite," to love only one person, is "not being true," and that their kind of relationship prevents dishonesty and is based on truth. He shared that his wife was the first one to broach this idea—and after many deep conversations, he eventually overcame his jealousy and is embracing this practice. They do not have children or plan to have children. I asked my son if he's happy, and he says he is.

SAD MAMA If your son says he's happy, SM, you should believe him and be happy for him.

It's unfortunate that your son framed the news about his choices and his marriage—which make him happy—in what sounds like a clumsy critique of your choices and your marriage. (If that's what he did, SM. I've only got your characterization of his comments to go on, not a tape recording of them, and it has been my experience that monogamous folks sometimes hear critiques of their choices when we nonmonogamous folks talk about our own choices. "We're not doing what you're doing" ≠ "You're doing it wrong.")

There's nothing necessarily "finite," untruthful, limiting or dishonest about monogamy. If that's what two people want, SM, and it makes those two people happy, that's great. Monogamy is what you and your husband wanted, it's what made you and your husband happy, and it worked for your marriage. You could see your son's choice to be nonmonogamous as a rejection of everything you modelled for him, or you could see his choice as modelled on the fundamental bedrock stuff—for lack of a better word—that informed the choice you made. Your son and his wife are doing what they want, they're doing what makes them happy, and they're doing what works for their marriage. They're not doing monogamy (or kids), but they're doing what's right for them and what works for them—just like his mom and dad did.

There are lots of people out there in happy, fulfilling open/poly relationships, SM, and lots of people out there in happy, fulfilling monogamous relationships.

(And there are lots of miserable people in both kinds of relationships.)

There are also lots of people in happy, fulfilling monogamous relationships they will one day choose to open, and lots of people in happy, fulfilling nonmonogamous relationships they will one day choose to close. It's happiness, consent and mutual respect that matters, not whether a relationship is monogamous or nonmonogamous.

If your son is happy, SM, you should be happy for him. But if he states— or clumsily implies—that you and his dad couldn't be happy because you're not doing the same thing he and his wife are doing, you tell him from nonmonogamous me that he's full of nonmonogamous shit.

Two pieces of recommended reading: the book Open: Love, Sex, and Life in an Open Marriage by Jenny Block, and an informative interview poly activist and frequent Savage Lovecast guest Diana Adams did with the Atlantic. But I don't think you need to do a whole lot of homework about this. Love your son, respect

what happened. Needless to say, I didn't sleep too well after that. (And frankly, I was a little offended by the gargling.) So the question is: Can you fellate in your sleep? Can you sleepblow and still be a straight guy?

BLOW LATENTLY ONE WILD NIGHT Sexsomnia is a real thing—sleepwalking plus sex—but it's an exceedingly rare thing. Closeted guys are a lot more common, BLOWN, and guys who seem über-hetero are often more successfully closeted than your lighter-in-the-loafer guys. Three other details lead me to believe this was a crime/blowjob of opportunity: It's typically pretty difficult to wake a sleepwalker/sleep-blower (it takes more than calling out a name), the skills on display during the incident (it takes practice to give a "damn fine" blowjob), and his actions after he woke up with your dick in his mouth (rushing to the bathroom to gargle) smack of overcompensation.

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I have no disagreement with what you said to letter writer WHIFFING (the man who wanted to know how to broach the subject of a female partner's unpleasant vaginal odour).

But I wanted to add something that seems to be largely unknown: A common side effect of longterm SSRI use is that the scent and amount of sweat can change to be offensive and copious.

While it's worth getting checked out if the person is unaware of the cause of an offensive groin smell (it could be a health issue), sometimes the cause turns out to be something the person is not willing to change because of the benefit it brings to their life. I've been in this position. Nothing I did to treat the sweating (beta blockers were offered to reduce the amount but couldn't change the odour) made a difference, and my intimacy with my partner really suffered. We could basically be intimate only after I just showered; it took months for my partner even to bring it up. When I finally discovered the sweating in a list of side effects in a medical app, it was quickly confirmed by my prescriber as common but not talked about because it's not physically harmful, so other SSRI users may not be aware of the connection. Just wanted to let your other readers know!

SHOWER POWER

There's nothing necessarily "finite," untruthful, limiting or dishonest about monogamy. If that's what two people want, SM, and it makes those two people happy, that's great. his choices, don't blame or shame his wife, and be kind to any partners they introduce you to. Having a poly kid is a lot simpler than you think.

SWEET DREAMS

Many years ago, what was for me a bizarre sexual incident happened to me, and while I've largely laughed it off with no traumatic effects, the incident has always puzzled me. For the record, I'm a straight man in a good, loving marriage with no sexual issues to report. I was off on a golf weekend with a bunch of über-hetero buddies.

We stayed in a condo that didn't have enough beds for everyone, so I ended up sharing a bed with an ex-marine.

In the middle of the night, I thought my girlfriend was waking me up with a blowjob, and a damn fine one at that. However, as I gradually became awake, I realized the mouth on my penis wasn't my girlfriend's. I called this guy's name, and—this is the interesting part—he sprang up suddenly, like I just woke him up. I was also a little afraid, because he was a big guy who could have easily pummelled me to death out of embarrassment. But he jumped out of bed, went into the bathroom and gargled before coming back into bed. Neither of us said a word afterward about

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