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Beyond panic A national panic has been created by Prime Minister Stephen Harper about his mysterious Old Age Security reforms. Harper's surprise announcement a few weeks ago set off a flurry of panicked discussions about possible cuts to OAS, increasing the age of qualification and speculation on the idea that Canada will not have the taxpaying population to support seniors. While his reluctance to illustrate the details of his old age security plans is concerning it's perhaps more concerning that this conversation is happening on the eve of a demographic shift in many areas unprepared for growth in the needs of seniors. A demographic shift is happening. The number of Canadian seniors will double in the next 25 years. It's a growth that requires more consideration than surprise announcements and talk of crisis. Here in Edmonton, it's expected that the population of seniors—which currently make up 12 percent of the city's population—will double in the next decade and seniors aged 80 plus will increase by 266 percent in 30 years. Accommodations for an older population, while important, go beyond the financial considerations of income and include everything from barrier-free access buildings and streets to the
myriad of health services and housing considerations for seniors who wish to remain independent as well as those who no longer can. A strategy enacted by the city last year aims to address these concerns. They're considerations that need to be reflected in provincial and federal conversations—conversations that shouldn't be spurred by unnecessary panic. According to many economists, the public funds exist to ensure proper services. The recent federal concern that the tax-paying population will not exist to support an aging population is considered unfounded by parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page. The Globe and Mail reports that Page stated in a new report that the cost of OAS service alone will be payable as a percentage of GDP in the future, and that cause for crisis is unfounded. Canada's aging population is growing rapidly. By 2051, one in four Canadians will be 65 years or older according to Human Resources Department of Canada. But the panic induced by the phrasing of Harper and Human Resources Minister Diane Finley does little to assist an evaluation of what resources will be needed to accommodate this growing population, not simply financially, but in all sectors of need. V
NewsRoundup WILDCAT GETS RESULTS Alberta health care workers walked out across the province last week. Members of General Support Services with the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees were engaged in a wildcat strike across the province for most of Thursday after talks with Alberta Health Services broke down. The wildcat strike started at Edmonton's Royal Alex and spread across the province throughout the day. GSS members have been in talks with mediators since March of 2011 in order to create a new contract. The mediator's report was voted down by 95 percent of members in January. Since then members have expressed frustration at the treatment by AHS in negotiations. Support staff are looking for equal benefit and work schedules, seeking a two percent wage increase for the first two years and a four percent for the second, as well as premiums for night shifts. A week previous to the wildcat
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DANGEROUS DRIVING strike action AHS had tabled a package lower than the rejected mediator's report. "Every one of these members lost something in their collective agreement when the health regions were collapsed into AHS. They've been trying to get some of that back in bargaining, and be treated as equals in the healthcare system," said AUPE President Guy Smith. "These members are mostly women, employed part-time and struggling to make ends meet," said Smith. "They are among the lowest paid employees in the health care system, but they are the backbone of health care and deserve to be treated better by AHS." GSS members were back at work by the end of Thursday, February 16, the same day as the action. AHS and the GSS members will go back to the table under a binding arbitration process headed by arbitrator Andy Sims.
The Alberta Federation of Labour is saying the conditions that created a crash killing 11 farm workers in Ontario exist here in Alberta. Ten migrant workers and a driver were killed while driving in a 15-passenger van, which the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has warned about. Here in Alberta, an exemption in the Alberta Traffic Safety Act allows flexibility in the way farm workers ride in the back of pickup trucks and in vans
such as the one involved in the Ontario crash. The vans have been banned in Nova Scotia, banned for the transportation of children by the US government, and some Alberta school boards will not insure them. "These vehicles aren't good enough for our children and they aren't good enough for our workers. It's time to take them off the road," says Gil McGowan president of the AFL. "The exemptions from road rules is just another example of our
government hanging onto outdated, dangerous attitudes that date back to the 19th century. Alberta's farms are industrial worksites like any you'll find in urban areas, involving the use of heavy machinery and heavy loads." The AFL would like the see the exemption removed for riding in the back of pickup trucks, a ban on the use of 15-passenger vans and the outlawing of vans that have been modified and are below safety standards.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK "What I witnessed time and time again, was the technical experts knowing the damage, risk and adverse effects of the project, versus what corporate would portray to the general public after reading their materials. There was a clear and present dual world operating simultaneously—completely undeniable if you are on site." —Lee Brain, son of an oil executive, testifies at the Prince Rupert Northern Gateway pipeline joint review panel about his experience working in the industry. The Vancouver Observer Feb 20, 2012
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Murdered and missing Métis artist creates an emotional connection to the hundreds of missing Aboriginal women Mon, Mar 5 Artist tours of the installation Tue, Mar 6 (6 pm) Contemporary Indigenous realities panel discussion Law Centre University of Alberta campus Free
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ver 600 Aboriginal women have gone missing or been murdered in the last 20 years. It's a tragic number that has become so large it's difficult to connect with personally. But Métis artist Jaime Black is hoping to create an emotional connection with her REDdress project. Black hangs 600 donated red dresses throughout a public space in an endeavour to create a visual representation of what it means to lose over 600 women in this country. "Through the installation I hope to draw attention to the gendered and racialized nature of violent crimes against Aboriginal women and to evoke a presence through the marking of absence," Black writes
of her project. Black's 600 donated red dresses will hang throughout the University of Alberta campus during the first week of March. She came up with the idea after 300 Columbian women created a moving four-hour performance piece in a main square in Bogota to commemorate missing and murdered community members. Organizers Andrea Menard, an aboriginal student advisor with the Faculty of Arts, and Pippa Feinstein, a law student at the University of Alberta, brought the project to the Faculty of Law last year and received positive feedback from so many students that they decided to expand the project to the rest of campus. "I didn't realize how strong the imagery was when I was planning it. It was really when all the dresses were up and everyone was walking between them that the whole installation changed," says Feinstein. "A lot of people said the mixture of the dresses and the education material [help to] understand the
issue a little better, but then have an emotional connection to the subject matter." In an interview for the Indigenous Foundations program while her project was at the University of British Columbia, Black explains, "I think the symbol of the red dress is both and compelling, and also
campus, the main goal was to bring attention to an issue that has been denied public space. "These women have been marginalized for so long," says Feinstein. Aboriginal women are five times more likely to die of violence than non-Aboriginal women according to the Native Women's Association
I didn't realize how strong the imagery was when I was planning it. It was really when all the dresses were up and everyone was walking between them that the whole installation changed.
very simple and accessible. People are attracted to the dresses and often connect to them before learning what the project is about, what the dresses represent. When they do ask or find out that the dresses represent missing and murdered Aboriginal women in our country, they are often overwhelmed." Feinstein explains that when Menard approached her with the idea of bringing the REDdress project to
of Canada, who helped to bring the issue of murdered and missing women to an international level late last year. The UN announced in December that it would be conducting an inquiry into the issue, and whether the lack of adequate response by law enforcement and government officials is a contributing factor in the rate of deaths over the last three decades. A committee of 23 international experts will in-
vestigate the issue as a violation of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women, signed by Canada in 1979. The REDdress project has been shown at the University of Winnipeg and the University in Kamloops, as well as at the University of British Columbia. In the same interview, artist Black stated that having the project shown at a university campus is important: "The university is not a totally accessible space and if you are not a student there can be significant barriers to walking into a university setting." Similarly, Feinstein believes educational institutions have a particular responsibility to incite discussion. "It's often a centre of education and thought development," says Feinstein. "I would like to see the project expand into the greater Edmonton community as well." The REDdress project will be at the University of Alberta until March 5. samantha power samantha@vueweekly.com
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Arbitrary application
Policies for transgender Canadians are applied inconsistently Earlier this month, I learned that Canada has "very important security rules for boarding airplanes," according to the federal Minister of Transport, the Honourable Denis Lebel. "These rules are applied fairly for all passengers." Lebel was responding to concerns that recent changes to Canada's Aeronautics Act might prevent trans and gender non-conforming Canadians from accessing air travel. These regulations require air carriers to deny access to passengers who do not appear to match the gender on their identification as well as to passengers who present more than one form of identification when there is a major discrepancy between those forms of identification. Happening to be a trans Canadian whose wallet is packed with discrepancy-laden identification, I decided to see what happens if a traveller tries to board an aircraft where nothing actually matches up. None of this identification is fake—I obtained it all through the usual channels such as registries or Passport Canada, according to the regulations specific to each of these agencies. And that's where the in-
consistencies begin. Even within the same level of government the rules for amending identification varies wildly. Updating photographs is generally straightforward but amending a sex marker is another matter entirely. The end result is that one person can simultaneously hold multiple sexes depending upon which particular pieces of identification that person happens to use. I admit that the challenges to amend my documentation as a trans Canadian were a surprise. Having once been married with an adopted (not legally-changed) surname of my then-partner, I knew that changing paperwork can sometimes take a few weeks. I never imagined that it might take years, and that's for the lucky ones. Some trans Canadians are never able to obtain fully congruent official identification. Rules vary from department to department. What might work in one province may not be acceptable in another. Sometimes, changing information relies upon proof of expensive surgical intervention, at others it only requires a letter from a doctor. Sometimes proof of change of name is enough, other times it's not.
The last federal election also proved surprising for me: despite having brought all my name change documentation to the federal service counter several years ago and filing all taxes under my new name, my voter card came to my new address with my old (female) name. The local elections office advised that the best way to exercise my right to vote without outing myself as trans to a bunch of volunteers at the voting station was to claim I never received a card in the first place. Yes, that's right: I had to lie before I could vote. Still, the voting problem seemed like a piece of cake compared to the new travel restrictions. Statements by government officials seemed to suggest that, although no trans people were known to have been denied passage, anyone lacking congruent identification was obviously a security threat to all Canadians. To that, I take umbrage. I fail to recall seeing any headlines about trans or gender non-conforming people storming aircraft, whether in Canada or elsewhere. Surely we would all remember the headlines
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screaming from the front page if such a thing actually occurred. Yet here I was, a fistful of documents and nothing entirely matching, something I pointed out to the airline gate agents, but only after they cleared my identification to board the plane. No one noticed, but everyone cared. Over and over again, agents expressed concern that another agent might not choose to accept that I am who I am. That the conflict between documents stating I am male or female or have a different name might be the type of conflict that does prevent travel at some stage of a journey. Any one of those gate agents could have chosen to enforce the regulation. The decision to be allowed to board or to be left behind was entirely out of my hands and left to the arbitrary decisions of individual airline employees at various points in the journey. The regulation notes that passengers presenting documentation with discrepancies requires the carrier to prevent such passengers from boarding. As written, the regulation does not provide a procedure for explaining the discrepancies beyond provid-
ing a doctor's letter describing why a person's appearance may be different from a photograph. It does not mention what the airline is to do when the sex marker is the part that's incorrect. The problem of arbitrary decisionmaking without redress was underscored by one agent in Toronto who told me firmly and repeatedly that "I'm going to let that pass this time," before adding stiffly that I shouldn't count on being able to board future flights. If we are to believe the federal government, catching discrepancies in identification is an essential part of airline travel safety, yet at each and every gate I entered, no one noticed—or was concerned about— these discrepancies unless I took time to point them out. Legislation that is neither enforceable nor enforced is not going to benefit anyone. As a Canadian who cares deeply for the safety of all travellers, regulations should be reflective of the needs of all Canadians, not merely those who are convenient. Jan ButERMAN // jan@vueweekly.com
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COMMENT >> AFRICA
Continental divide
Pressure is growing on the Christian-Muslim divide in Africa Sudan was bombing South Sudan toll in Nigeria from terrorist attacks again last week, only a couple of and army reprisals is probably only months after the two countries a few hundred a month—but the split apart. Sudan is mostly Muslim, potential for much greater slaughand South Sudan is predominantly ter is certainly there. Christian, but the quarrel is In an interview with Reuters, about oil, not religion. And President Jonathan said: "If yet, it is really about re(Boko Haram) clearly idenligion too, since the two tify themselves now and kly.com uewee v countries would never say ... 'This is the reason @ e n gwyn e have split apart along the why we are confronting Gwynn current border if not for the government or this is the Dyer religious divide. reason why we destroyed some Ivory Coast was split along the innocent people and their propersame Muslim-Christian lines for ties,' why not (talk to them)?" But nine years, although the shooting it's pointless: he already knows who ended last year and there is an atthey are and what they want. tempt underway to sew the coun"Boko Haram," loosely translated, try back together under an elected means "Western education is forgovernment. But in Nigeria, Africa's bidden," and the organization's biggest country by far, the situdeclared aim is to overthrow the ation is going from bad to worse, government and impose Islamic law with the Islamist terrorists of Boko on all of Nigeria. In a 40-minute Haram murdering people all over audio message posted on YouTube the country in the name of impostwo weeks ago, the group's leader, ing Sharia law on the entire nation. Abubakar Shekau, threatened that "The situation we have in our his next step would be to carry out a hands is even worse than the civil bombing campaign against Nigeria's war that we fought (in 1967 – 70, secondary schools and universities. which killed between one and three This is not only vicious, it is also million people)," said President completely loony. There is no way Goodluck Jonathan. That's a major that Boko Haram could conquer the exaggeration—the current death entire country. Only half of Nigeri-
ans are Muslims, and they are much poorer than the country's 80 million Christians. The Christian south is where the oil is, and the ports, and most of the industry, so that's where most of the money is too. The same pattern is repeated in many other African countries: poor Muslim north; prosperous Christian south. There was no plan behind this. Islam spread slowly south from North Africa, which was conquered by Arab armies in the 7th century, while Christianity spread rapidly inland once European colonies appeared on the African coast in the last few hundred years. The line where Islam and Christianity meet runs across Africa about 1100 km (700 mi.) north of the equator (except in Ethiopia, where the Christians have the highlands and the Muslims the lowlands). In general, the Muslims ended up with the desert and semi-desert regions of Africa because Islam had to make it all the way across the Sahara, while the more fertile and richer regions nearer to the equator and all the way down to South Africa are mainly Christian because the Europeans arrived by sea with much greater economic and military
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power. But some 350 million Africans live in countries that straddle the Christian-Muslim fault line. There probably won't be a fullscale civil war in Nigeria this time around, but Boko Haram is targeting Christians indiscriminately. The Nigerian army, not best known for its discipline and restraint, is almost as indiscriminate in targeting devout but innocent Muslims in the northern states that are home to the terrorist organization. Christians are already moving out of the north, and Muslims out of the south. It will get worse in Nigeria, and it is getting bad again in what used to be Sudan, and Ethiopia is an accident just waiting to happen. Even Ivory Coast may not really be out of the woods yet. There is a small but real risk that these conflicts could someday coalesce into a general Muslim-Christian confrontation that would kill millions and convulse all of Africa. Christianity and Islam have been at war most of the time since Muslim armies conquered half of the then-Christian world, from Syria to Spain, in the 7th and 8th centu-
ries. There was the great Christian counter-attack of the Crusades in the 12th century, the Muslim conquest of Turkey and the Balkans in the 15th and 16th centuries, and the European conquest of almost the entire Muslim world in the 18th20th centuries. It is a miserable history, and in some places it is likely to continue for some time to come. But nowhere in sub-Saharan Africa does the frontier between Muslim-majority and Christian-majority areas derive from conquest: these populations are not looking for revenge. Boko Haram's style of radical Islamism is an import from somewhere else entirely, and it would be a terrible mistake for large numbers of Muslim Nigerians to embrace it. On the other hand, it will be a terrible mistake if Nigeria doesn't get a choke chain on its army, whose brutal actions are all too likely to drive Nigerian Muslims in exactly that direction. V Gwynne Dyer is a London-based independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries. His column appears each week in Vue Weekly.
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COMMENT >> ALBERTA EDUCATION
To act or to budget
The new Education Act will be caught up in budget processes Over the next six months, decisions will be made be made by the Alberta government which have the potential to drastically alter the face of education in this province. Of course, this being Alberta, it is also entirely possible that the only thing that will change over the next six months is the government's rhetoric about education, and that everything on the ground will actually remain the same
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sures are included in the act when it is re-introduced. Regardless, the public meetings are now wrapped up, even though the online portion of the consultation is ongoing, and we can expect a revised Bill 18 to hit the legislative agenda as soon as the legislature resumes sitting.
Education March 1 or get worse. Between now and the end of March, the government will re-introduce the Education Act, Bill 18, into the provincial legislature. This is the act that, after three years of extensive research, broad consultations, and numerous drafts, was introduced into the legislature last spring by former minister Dave Hancock and then removed from consideration by the fall session of
the legislature by new Education Minister Thomas Lukaszuk for the sake of further consultation. Listening to Lukaszuk speak over the course of the public consultations, it seems that the only reason he wanted to pull the act for re-consideration was so that he could spend a few months touring the province speaking about bullying, and the need to make sure that strong anti-bullying mea-
Albertans shouldn't expect the act itself to drastically alter education in the province, as it is largely full of big-picture sentiments and concepts, without anything specific and implementable. The bill is likely, however, to include a handful of significant
changes like an increase to the compulsory education age (from 16 to 17), and extension to 21 of the maximum age for participation in the school system, better defined roles for school boards, parents, schools and trustees, an increase in the power and flexibility given to school boards, and now, some sort of anti-bullying measures. The real meat and potatoes of the process will come from the regulations that the government passes in council to actually implement the provisions of the act. Those will be especially telling given
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COMMENT >> HOCKEY
Looking forward, looking back Memories and insane predictions dominate this week's In the Box The Oilers had an eventful week that It's Game Seven of a roller-coaster first started poorly, got worse but ended well. round playoff series between YEG and Started poorly: A home OT loss to the YYC. I was in Lethbridge, away from Leafs. Got worse: Home losses to Edmonton for the first time, atColorado (3-1 stinker) and Vantending college. A bunch of couver (5-2 drubbing). Ended us were enjoying beers and m well: A trip to Calgary and ready for the game. Since o .c ly eweek ox@vu a 6-1 roasting of the Calgary I was in southern Alberta, I & intheb g oun Dave Y es was outnumbered by Flames tl Flames. The Oilers haven't ir B Bryan beaten those turkeys much lately fans, including present-day CJOB so that was Flame-tastic! (Winnipeg) sports guy Jim Toth and Lethbridge Hurricanes sales guy Neil Memories of Battles of Alberta Fraser. Yeah, I'm naming names here. The Watching the Oilers manage a good Oilers fell behind early, trailing 3-0 but one against Calgary was a tonic. Even the great Esa Tikkanen fired the Oilers in a nothing game, beating Calgary still up, scored a couple goals in regulation resonates. The win reminded me of one and helped the Oilers send the game to of my favourite Battle of Alberta expeOT. The Grate One kept the momentum riences. Let's go back to April 16, 1991, going and scored a stunning OT winner. I when Birtles was probably nine years went home happy. old or something. About an hour later, I got a call from Neil:
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of the need for electoral reform • Feb 23, 7pm FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.465.2019/780.634.5526 • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm Hatha Flow Yoga • Eastwood Community Hall, 11803-86 St • Every Tue and Thu (7:05pm) until the end of Apr • Sliding Scale: $10 (dropin)/$7 (low-income)/$5 (no income)
Home–Energizing Spiritual Community for Passionate Living • Garneau/Ashbourne
COMEDY
Brixx Bar • 10030-102 St • 780.428.1099 •
Troubadour Tuesdays with comedy and music
Ceili's • 10338-109 St • 780.426.5555 • Comedy
Night: every Tue, 9:30pm • No cover Century Casino • 13103 Fort Rd • 780.481.9857 • Open amateur night every Thu, 7:30pm COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Danny Acappella; Mar 1-3 Comic Strip • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Adam Hunter; until Feb 25 • Dan Cummins; Feb 29-Mar-4 DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 • Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm Filthy McNasty's • 10511-82 • 780.996.1778 • Stand Up Sundays: Stand-up comedy night every Sun with a different headliner every week; 9pm; no cover laugh shop–Sherwood Park • 4 Blackfoot Road, Sherwood Park • 780.417.9777 • laughinthepark.ca • Open Wed-Sat • Fri: 8pm, Sat: 7:30pm and 10pm; $20 • Wednesday Amateur night: 8pm (call 7804179777 to be added to the line-up); free • Tim Koslo; Feb 24-25 • Lars Callicou; Mar 2-3 laugh shop–124th Street • 11802-124 St • 780.417.9777 • thelaughshop.com
Groups/CLUBS/meetings
Aikikai Aikido Club • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm
Amnesty International Edmonton
• 8307-109 St • edmontonamnesty.org • Meet the 4th Tue each month, 7:30pm (no meetings in Jul, Aug, and Dec) E: amnesty@edmontonamnesty. org for more info • Free AWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP • Braeside Presbyterian Church bsmt, N. door, 6 Bernard Dr, Bishop St, Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • For adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional families • Every Mon 7:30pm Cha Island Tea Co • 10332-81 Ave • Games Night: Board games and card games • Every Mon, 7pm Edmonton Bike Art Nights • BikeWorks, 10047-80 Ave, back alley entrance • Art Nights • Every Wed, 6-9pm
Fertility Awareness Charting Circle meeting • Cha Island Tea Co,
10332-81 Ave • Monthly meetings: learn about menstrual cycle charting and share your personal experiences in a supportive group environment • Feb 27, 6:30pm • $5 Fair Vote Edmonton • Strathcona Branch Library, Upstairs Meeting Rm • fairvote.ca • Chapter Meeting: plan actions to raise awareness
Assisted Living Place, 11148-84 Ave • Home: Blends music, drama, creativity and reflection on sacred texts to energize you for passionate living • Every Sun 3-5pm Lotus Qigong • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu
Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-106 St • 780.458.6352, 780.467.6093 • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm
Organization for Bipolar Affective Disorder (OBAD) • Grey Nuns Hospital,
Rm 0651, 780.451.1755; Group meets every Thu 7-9pm • Free
Sherwood Park Walking Group + 50 • Meet inside Millennium Place, Sherwood Place • Weekly outdoor walking group; starts with a 10 min discussion, followed by a 30-40 minute walk through Centennial Park, a cool down and stretch • Every Tue, 8:30am • $2/session (goes to the Alzheimer’s Society of Alberta) Sugarswing Dance Club • Orange Hall, 10335-84 Ave or Pleasantview Hall, 10860-57 Ave • 780.604.7572 • Swing Dance at Sugar Foot Stomp: beginner lesson followed by dance every Sat, 8pm (door) at Orange Hall or Pleasantview Hall 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
Back to Basics in Palestine • Engineering, Teaching and Learning Complex (ETLC), Rm E 1-013 Redefining Our Relationship to a People’s Struggle: IAW 2012, opening keynote by Ramzy Baroud • Mar 5, 7-9pm Beyond Acute Care Conference • 780.483.3021 • beyondacutecare.ca • Covering Seniors and the Disabled with the Medicare Umbrella: Speech by Ralph Nader opening the conference • Feb 24-25 • $75 (for conference, incl lunch on Sat)/$50 (senior/low-income) • $25 (Nader’s speech Feb 24, 7pm) at Audrey's Bookstore Curatorial Lecture Series • Royal Alberta Museum Theatre • 780.453.9100 • Small, Dark and Sandstone: Tiny plants with a big tale to tell • Feb 29, 7pm From Sun to Soil • Amiskwaciy Academy, 101 Airport Rd • Creating a Sustainable World Built on Aboriginal Wisdom Traditions • Feb 28, 9am-3pm • $15 (student)/$25 (adult); pre-register: Felicia Ochs 780.990.8487 or felicia.ochs@epsb.ca Israeli Apartheid Week • psnedmonton. ca • The Palestine Solidarity Network presents seven days of presentations, workshops, film screenings, and cultural events in solidarity with Palestine to raise awareness around the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israeli apartheid. Featuring speakers Ramzy Baroud, Dalit Baum, Mike Krebs. Closing poetry night with Palestinian-American poet Remi Kanazi • Mar 5-13 • Free LENTEN SPIRITUAL FORMATION RE-
Neil: "Hey Dave" Me: "Neil. What's up? Great game, wasn't it?" Neil: "Yeah, about that. You should go check your car. We got a bit carried away. Jim and I egged it." Kudos go out to Neil for experiencing post-prank guilt and owning up. He didn't need to give me the heads-up. Hell, the guy even helped me clean the car up. It was worth it, though. I'd egg my own car just to see a playoff series like that again. DY Injuries
Just when we were about to go injury free for the first time all year, the Nuge goes down with another shoulder thing. Then the coach goes out with a concussion. The coach?!? How the heck does this happen? If it were just the Nuge I TREAT • Rabbit Hill Baptist Church, 25439 twp Rd 510 • 780.955.7774 • Morning gathering on the first Sat of Lent, hosted by First Baptist Church Edmonton at Rabbit Hill • Feb 25, 9am-noon • $10; pre-register E: ryan@fbcedmonton.ca Listen Up! A Listener’s Guide • Stanley A. Milner Library, Audio Visual Rm, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Mama Africa: A Basic Introduction to Music from Africa: Explore sounds and rhythms from Africa with this overview of the various regional styles and major artists from Ali Farka Toure to Zap Mama • Thu, Mar 1, 12:15pm, 2:30pm • Free MEÆT 1.5 • atmeaet.com • DIYalouge forums bringing local creatives and new philanthropists together for an evening of short proposals followed by a shared meal • Pre-register atmeaet. com • $10 (minimum donation for diners) Occupy the Occupation • Engineering, Teaching and Learning Complex (ETLC), Room E 2-002 • Corporations, Profit and the Israeli Occupation of Palestine: IAW 2012 keynote by Dalit Baum • Mar 8, 7-9pm; psnedmonton.ca Royal Alberta Museum • Museum Theatre, 12845-102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • Curatorial Lecture Series • Until Apr 11, 7pm • Free • Small, Dark and Sandstone: Tiny plants with a big tale to tell: Roxy Hastings, Curator, Botany; Feb 29, 7pm Solar Seminar • online • tsoukenation. com • northernlakescollege.ca/Courses_Details. aspx?id=10672 • T'Sou-Ke First Nation Solar Community: LIVE Online Speaker Series: A conversation with Andrew Moore (project manager), to talk about how T’Sou’Ke First Nation became the most solar-intensive community in Canada • Feb 28, 7-8:30pm • Free (pre-register at contact WorkForce Development, 780.849.8623; E: wfdev@northernlakescollege.ca) Solidarity Week–Edmonton reclaiming our spaces • solidarityweek.wordpress.com •
Aboriginal Student Council Lounge, 220 North Power Plant: Privilege, Guilt, and Responsibility, Feb 27, 5pm; Feminism vs. Womanism, Mar 1, 5pm • Telus: 217/219: Film: Bottled Life: Nestle’s Business With Water, Feb 28, 2-4pm; 236/238: U of A: Film: The End of Poverty? Think Again, Feb 27, 2pm; What is Solidarity?, Feb 28, 5pm; Indigenous Peoples and the State: Multiculturalism– Multiculturalism for Real, Feb 29, 5pm • Rouge Lounge, 10111-117 St: Rouge Slam Night, Feb 28, 8:30pm • Education Centre South Rm 129: Film: Bottled Life: Nestle’s Business With Water, Feb 29 (7-9pm) • Timms Centre: Say No to a UofA Honorary Degree for Nestle!, Mar 1, 2:30pm WINTER ROOTS AND BLUES ROUNDUP III • Art Gallery of Alberta, Royal Alberta Museum, Stanley Milner Library theatres, Yardbird Suite, Blue Chair, Century Casino • ualberta.ca/folkwaysalive • Festival with live performances, films and workshops presented by folkwaysAlive! and Peter North featuring Peter Case (singer-songwriter), Mark DuFresne (Roomful of Blues fame), Roy Forbes (folk); Canadian premieres of music documentaries on Sister Rosetta Tharpe and David Bromberg, workshops and seminars • Feb 23-26 X-WEIGHTED CONNECT • Fantasyland Hotel, WEM • Launch of X-Weighted Connect across Canada • Mar 4 • Pre-register at register at xweighted.com
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BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725B Jasper Ave •
780.488.6636 • Tue with DJ Arrow Chaser, free pool all night; 9pm (door); no cover • Wed with DJ Dust’n Time; 9pm (door); no cover • Thu: Men’s Wet Underwear Contest, win prizes, hosted by Drag Queen DJ Phon3 Hom3; 9pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Fri Dance Party with DJ Arrow Chaser; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Sat: Feel the rhythm with DJ Phon3
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might say, "Did that rat bastard Sheldon Souray have a point about the way this organization handles injuries?" but with Renney—I call him "the Ruge"—out as well, what can the answer be? The Mayan calendar. Seriously guys, the end of the world is coming and we're just seeing a few cracks forming in the space-time continuum, raining peril upon us early before we get a taste of the real thing in December. By then, however, we'll have seen a new rash of injuries. Steve Tambellini will go deaf the day before trade deadline day and won't be able to wheel and deal on the phone. Organist Gordon Graschuk will be struck with 27 hangnails and will be out of commission for weeks. Devan Dubnyk will be haunted by the ghost of Jacques Plante—who played one season for the Oilers in the WHA—and he'll refuse to come to the rink. Chris Pronger will get healthy and beg to come back to Edmonton. It'll be absolute pandemonium. BB Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm FLASH Night Club • 10018-105 St • 780.969.9965 • Thu Goth + Industrial Night: Indust:real Assembly with DJ Nanuck; 10pm (door); no cover • Triple Threat Fridays: DJ Thunder, Femcee DJ Eden Lixx • DJ Suco beats every Sat • E: vip@flashnightclub.com
G.L.B.T.Q. (gay) African Group DropIn) • Pride Centre, moving • 780.488.3234 •
Group for gay refugees from all around the World, friends, and families • 1st and Last Sun every month • Info: E: fred@pridecentreofedmonton.org, jeff@pridecentreofedmonton.org G.L.B.T.Q Sage bowling club • 780.474.8240, E: Tuff@shaw.ca • Every Wed, 1:30-3:30pm GLBT sports and recreation • teamedmonton.ca • Badminton, Women's Drop-In Recreational: St Vincent School, 10530-138 St, every Wed 6-7:30pm, until Apr 25; $7 (drop-in fee) • Co-ed Bellydancing • Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary, 10925-87 Ave, 7pm • Bowling: Ed's Rec Centre, West Edmonton Mall, Tue 6:45pm • Curling: Granite Curling Club; 780.463.5942 • Running: Kinsmen • Spinning: MacEwan Centre, 109 Street and 104 Ave • Swimming: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St • Volleyball: every Tue, 7-9pm; St. Catherine School, 10915-110 St; every Thu, 7:30-9:30pm at Amiskiwiciy Academy, 101 Airport Rd G.L.B.T.Q Seniors Group • S.A.G.E Bldg, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4:30pm • Info: T: Jeff Bovee 780.488.3234, E: tuff @ shaw.ca the junction bar • 10242-106 St • 780.756.5667 • Free pool daily 4-8pm; Taco Tue: 5-9pm; Wing Wed: 5-9pm; Wed karaoke: 9pm12; Thu 2-4-1 burgers: 5-9pm; Fri steak night: 5-9pm; DJs Fri and Sat at 10pm LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408-124 St • edmlivingpositive.ca • 1.877.975.9448/780.488.5768 • Confidential peer support to people living with HIV • Tue, 7-9pm: Support group • Daily dropin, peer counselling MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/ competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu Pride Centre of Edmonton • Moving • 780.488.3234 • E: admin@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Daily: YouthSpace (Youth Drop-in): Tue-Fri: 3-7pm; Sat: 2-6:30pm • Men Talking with Pride: Support group for gay, bisexual and transgendered men to discuss current issues; Sun: 7-9pm • Community Potluck: For members of the LGBTQ community; last Tue each month, 6-9pm • Counselling: Free, short-term, solutionfocused counselling, provided by professionally trained counsellors; every Wed, 6-9pm • STD Testing: Last Thu every month, 3-6pm; free • Youth Movie: Every Thu, 6:30-8:30pm PrimeTimers/sage Games • Unitarian Church, 10804-119 St • 780.474.8240 • Every 2nd and last Fri each Month, 7-10:30pm St Paul's United Church • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship) WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • womonspace@gmail.com • A Non-profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured Woodys Video Bar • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Amateur Strip Contest; prizes with Shawana • Tue: Kitchen 3-11pm •
Mr Brightside
I was a bit negative last week. Here's some positive take-aways to focus on from this season: • Smytty. It's still comforting to see #94 (hasthtag bigbrain) back in Oiler colours. • The Yoots. RNH, Taylor Hall, Ebs and even Samwise Gagner are showing chutzpah. • The Jets. Another Canadian team is in the NHL this year. O Canada! • @SHorcov. An alternate Oiler reality is being created 140 characters or less at a time. • Draft pick. Draft day will be fun again with what should be a top five pick. • Um ... Ummmm ... Ummmm. Yeah, that's about it. DY Oilers Player of the week
Ben Eager: Goal against TO, assist versus Avs, assist against Flames. Waking up. DY Ryan Smyth: Happy belated birthday Smytty. Great show versus Calgary. BB Wed: Karaoke with Tizzy 7pm-1am; Kitchen 3-11pm • Thu: Free pool all night; kitchen 3-11pm • Fri: Mocho Nacho Fri: 3pm (door), kitchen open 3-11pm
SPECIAL EVENTS
The African Descendants • Alberta
Avenue Community League, Hodson Hall • 780.200.7286 • Black History Month, a diverse group of youth will be hosting and celebrating the achievement and contribution African and African descendants have made to making Edmonton with African cuisine, performances by African dance troupes, TOA, slam poet Ahmed Knowmadic, fashion show ending with a dance • Feb 25, 6pm • $10, proceeds to the Youth Emergency Shelter Society of Edmonton (YESS)
Five decades of Jasper Place School Celebration! • Jasper Place High
School, 8950-163 St • Former students and staff, are invited to attend; RSVP, E: jpevents@epsb. ca • Feb 24 (evening): Screening of 50 years at JP Video; JP Rebels vs. Ross Shep Thunderbirds Basketball Game • Feb 25 (afternoon): Welcome back; tour your old hallways; jp archives; games HEARTS FOR HOMELESS EVENT • Chateau Louis Hotel, 11727 Kingsway Ave • Event for Women’s Emergency Accommodation Centre (Weac): 2nd Annual Hearts for Homeless Dinner and Silent Auction in Support of the Women’s Emergency Accommodation Centre (WEAC) • Feb 25, 5:30pm (cocktails) • $75 at 780.424.7543 ext 115 If My Friends Could See Me Now! • Yardbird Suite, 11 Tommy Banks Way • Featuring Edmonton Musical Theatre alumni Susan Gilmour, Vance Avery, Marleigh Rouault, Bernard Quilala, Byron Leffler • Mar 4, 5pm (cocktails/ dinner), 7pm (show) • $70 (adv)/$80 (door) at TIX on the Square Orchid Fair • MacEwan University–South Campus • Annual show of orchids presented by the Orchid Society of Alberta also display of orchid artwork, photography, arrangements, workshops • Feb 24-26; Fri: 12-8pm; Sat: 10am5pm; Sun: 10am-4pm • $10/free (child under 12); incl parking
Parkland Institute Fundraising Gala • Faculty Club, 11435 Saskatchewan Dr,
U of A • parklandinstitute.ca • Featuring comedy with Howie Miller • Mar 1, 6pm (reception), 6:45pm (dinner) • $100/person (incl 3-course dinner, entertainment, silent auction) at 780.492.8558
Rhythms of the Earth: Black History Month • Carrot Café, 9351-118 Ave •
African Storytelling: Featuring Tololwa Mollel, Junetta Jamerson, and Dr. Bitupu Mufata, Feb 28, 7:30-9:30pm • People Poet: Featuring local poets & song writers, Feb 29, 7:30-9:30pm • Free Tabula Rasa Fundraiser • Nina Haggerty Gallery, 118 Ave • Clean slate painting event Glen Ronald will help you create your own personal painting • Feb 25 • $118 (incl a blank canvas, paint, brushes, food and wine); funds help Carrot and Arts on the Ave TEAM EDMONTON LGBTQ Mixer • Sawridge Inn Edmonton South, 4235 Gateway Blvd • Mixer and Silent Auction; no minors • Feb 25, 7-11:30pm • Free
WINTER ROOTS AND BLUES ROUNDUP FESTIVAL • Art Gallery of Alberta, Royal Alberta Museum and Stanley Milner Library theatres, Yardbird Suite, Blue Chair Café, Century Casino Showroom • 780.492.7887, 587.989.3034 • ualberta.ca/folkwaysalive • Music festival featuring live performances, films and workshops for Edmonton music fans, presented by folkwaysAlive! and Peter North • Feb 23-26
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REVUE // MAGNETIC DRAMA
Fool For Love Until Sun, Mar 4 (7:30 pm; weekend matinees 2 pm) Directed by John Hudson Varscona Theatre, $18 – $26
Rothery generates some sympathy out of the role. Still, it's a curious role to exist when The Old Man already sits, watching and commenting, and in the role Shaun Johnston's incomparable thick voice and measured performance carry so much emphasis on their own.
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n a nondescript motel room in the middle of the Mojave Desert, She sits on the bed, head in hands, while He stands, waiting to be acknowledged. There's a sense of inevitability in the air, and alongside it, the feeling of deja vu: you get the sense that the volatile lovers at the heart of Sam Sheppard's Fool For Love have been here before, in some other time and place, and know how this all plays out. Their toxic chemistry is a slow whirlpool that's proving itself increasingly inescapable, and they're about to be pulled another rotation closer, while an Old Man from both of their pasts sips whisky from a cup and watches. He's acknowledged, but never fully—his existence as a physical entity or a shade of what once was is unconfirmed. The tension in the scenario pays off richly: Fool For Love's a very concise, very magnetic drama that
The tension in the scenario pays off richly: Fool For Love's a very concise, very magnetic drama that pulls you in with the atmosphere it generates.
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pulls you in with the atmosphere it generates. Sheppard's dialogue is lively, clever, and its potency heightened in this Shadow Theatre's production, which weights its
punch in its acting: David MacInnis's Eddie seems bullish naive to the realities of this relationship, while cast standout Jamie Konchak seems agonized by the state of them.
Kevin Rothery's nice guy, after a dramatic entrance, seems written to be a one-note presence: he's here to play witness to the realizations and nothing more, it seems, though
John Logan's script is dense, heavy with weighty concepts, yet there are also moments of surprising playfulness; Rothko's moody unpredictability could see him fly into a rage as easily as diffuse the tension with a snarky quip. However, the script is not entirely flawless: interrupting the steady flow of ideas is a confusingly out-of-sync interlude describing Ken's backstory, which
is never reconciled with the rest of the performance. Aside from this narrative anomaly, it's an engrossing performance—though not an easy one. Rothko's sense of mounting frustration is shared by Ken and his growing disillusionment with Rothko's irrepressible ego and bullishly derisive opinion of the newly established pop art movement. Yet, despite
For all the danger in the air, John Hudson's paced direction keeps the whole thing on simmer. For a mix as unstable as these two, it rarely boils up and over like it feels it could. Still, even with some restraint, it's a compelling tale to watch play out. Paul Blinov
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REVUE // ART IS HARD
Red
Until Sun, Mar 4 (7:30 pm; Sunday matinee at 1:30 pm) Directed by Kim Collier Citadel Theatre, $51.45 – $61.95
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You'll be wrong. A character that could stand up to the most verbose of the Greek philosophers, Mark Rothko's tempestuous relationship with his work and his place in the canon of modern art is the premise behind the Citadel Theatre's production of Red. Set in the late 1950s at the height of his fame, Red takes place in Rothko's studio as he works on a series of murals created on commission by the Four Seasons restaurant in New York's then-newly constructed Seagram Building. The notion of seeing is the focus of the show, its drive and purpose, but the true vision is the insight lent by Rothko's words. Jim Mezon gives a captivating performance, delivering Rothko's rhetoric with finesse: ambling about the stage, paint-spattered with ubiquitous cigarette in hand, he spouts high philosophy in the same breath that he shoots down the over-
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hat do you see?" Don't answer.
A man and his colours
eager contributions of his young apprentice, Ken (David Coomber). The master-apprentice relationship serves as a perfect foil for Rothko's lectures. Indeed, their relationship is fundamentally one-sided, with Rothko getting the lion's share of the dialogue and Ken occupying more of a physical presence on stage—tidying supplies, mixing paint, building canvases.
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its seemingly grandiose and esoteric subject matter, one doesn't need extensive knowledge of fine art or philosophy in order to enjoy Red. As much as it is about the purpose, goal and meaning of art, it is also about one frustrated, and frustrating, man—a human side to the ideas that is entirely comprehensible. Mel Priestley
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PREVUE // THE POWER OF COLOUR
Race
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Thu, Feb 23 – Sat, Feb 25; Tue, Feb 28 – Sat, Mar 3; Tue, Mar 6 – Sat, Mar 10 (8 pm; 2 pm matinees Sun, Feb 26 and weekends thereafter) Directed by Heather Inglis Catalyst Theatre, $20 – $32
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o point out that we're still living in a world where skin colour plays heavily into the distribution of politics and power seems an almost depressingly bland gesture, but, well, there it is: regardless of the current president's skin colour, privilege still weighs heavily towards the white and the male populations, with power following in a cozy dovetail. It's no longer a completely exclusive bubble, perhaps, but one that seems carefully content to avoid any major changes or shifts in its balance—if anything, the waning discussion, happening without a growing redistribution of power, is its most troubling characteristic. Race is, in short, an issue that's still very alive, and one that Heather Inglis was stewing over, and what eventually drew her to David Mamet's 2009 whudunnit. 'My reading of Canadian politics and international politics is that, as the world gets closer together, it appears to me that we have a lot of issues with skin colour and who our tribe is and who our tribes are not," Inglis explains. "I feel in Canada they're fairly buried—I'm caucasian, I'm of European descent, so I obviously come at life from the point of view of being priviledged, but a lot of people don't share that in Canada, increasingly. And I've always had this sense that there's something deeper there that we— we meaning the privileged—weren't acknowledging very well. And I think because we have the banner of multiculturalism, it's really easy to say,
The cast of Race
'We're multicultural, and so we don't have any issues.' And I, in fact, think, have always sensed that, we do have issues, just that we don't talk about them, and the fact that we don't talk about them actually means we have an a issue." Inglis has never really pulled any punches on the theatre she chooses to explore—her last Theatre Yes production, at the 2010 Fringe, was the controversial location-specific Shoot/ Get Treasure/Repeat, and prior to that she explored the politically charged in My Name is Rachel Corrie, the English activist tragically crushed under a bulldozer while protesting the destruction of Palestinian homes in the Gaza Strip. In that sense, she seems a kindred spirit of Mamet, a playwright known for theatre that tears into the ill realities of the world at large around him. Race follows a pair of lawyers attempting to discover if a white billionare is in fact guilty of allegedly raping a poor black woman in a motel room. It isn't looking to
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present a comfortable, easy to defend perspective; its blunt exploration looks to go straight for your own inhibitions, thoughts and feelings about race, and challenge them directly, for better or wors. "It's a play where we've been forced to be really courageous and really honest about what we understand and don't understand," Inglis notes of the process she's been going through with the cast. "What our preconceptions are, about race, about sex, about the combination of race and sex—all of those things. So great discussions, a really wonderful group of actors who are really fearless, and really precise in their thinking about it, and really curious. "Because he's Mamet, and he doesn't actually believe in preaching to people—he doesn't believe that's the purpose of theatre—what you end up with is a very fascinating investigation of race, where everybody is right and wrong, from their own perspective." Paul Blinov
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tors Matt Alden and Tom Edwards, there's also a bevy of prizes to be given out. Yes, you could walk away from Oscars night with your trophy, even if it's merely a DVD. Success! (Varscona Theatre, $25)
My Occupation / Thu, Feb 23 – Sat, Feb 25 (8 pm) A one-man-show inspired by the Occupy movement, My Occupation has Scott McAdam projecting a "what-if?" near future, where the United States has declared bankruptcy, and one corporate honcho starts to examine the flaws of his way of life. (EPCOR Centre, Motel Theatre, $10 – $15)
Oscar Night at the Varscona / Sun, Feb 26 (6:30 pm) You're probably going to watch the Oscars. Why not watch it in a setting more akin to Mystery Science Theatre 3000? Shadow Theatre's hosting its annual Oscars watching fundraiser, which will let you take in all the excess—the stupefying levels of glam, and the bevy of award upsets and successes as Hollywood pats itself on the back—on a big screen in the Varscona, and in the company of a merry crowd. Hosted by local ac-
Kevin McDonald / Tue, Feb 28 (10 pm) Everyone's second-favourite Kid in the Hall is rolling through town to teach a comedy workshop and perform a one-night-only show. Flanked by local stand-ups Mike Robertson and Jon Mick, as well as members of Rapid Fire Theatre, McDonald will also do an audience Q&A at the end: If you ever wanted to know about the genesis of the Nobody Likes Us guys, now's your chance. (Varscona Theatre, $20) V
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PREVUE // THE SHOW WITH NINE LIVES
Cats
Until Sun, Feb 26 (8 pm; matinees at 2pm) Directed by Trevor Nunn Jubilee Auditorium, $35 – $93
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haz Wilcott had just graduated from college when he got the call: in what can only be presumed to be a momentary lapse in cleverness, the Magical Mister Mistoffelees in a touring production of Cats was out with injury. The production needed someone who could leap right in. "I learned the show in a week, and on my seventh day, I was on stage. That was my first experience," Wilcott explains, on the phone from what's now his second, and inaugural full tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's beloved family musical. Like many, he first saw the musical as a child, and something about seeing 22 different people-as-cats running through the events of the Jellicle night resonated with him. And now, on his second run through the character as part of the show, Wilcott notes that getting a second chance to go through the full rehearsal process has given him the opportunity to dig deeper into the species specifics of Mistoffelees. "We have rehearsals just to work on being cats—not your cat, or your dance moves or your singing," he
Just some cats doing some regular, everyday cat stuff
says. "Just specifically on how to act like a cat, how to react to things like a cat. It was great to experience that this time around." The feline mannerisms, he notes,
are some that have followed the cast into their everyday lives: coughing up hairballs and tensing up in the chest when spooked are difficult to shed byproducts of embodying one of TS Eliot's practical cats on stage every
evening. Still, Wilcott notes that it's that level of feline specificity is what that makes or breaks a production. "I think those little extra things, about felininty and being catlike, are what makes the difference with
a great production of Cats and a medicore production of Cats. So I'm glad we focus on it on tour. I think it makes a huge difference." Paul Blinov
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REVUE // VISUAL ARTS
The Comedy of Errors (l to r) Joel Ballard, Carlos Rodriguez & Noah Rosenbaum. Photo by David Cooper.
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Rearview Mirror Until Sun, Apr 29 Curated by Christopher Eamon Art Gallery of Alberta
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oes Eastern Europe really exist anymore? Guest curator Christopher Eamon poses this question in the AGA's new exhibition, Rearview Mirror: New Art from Central & Eastern Europe. Whether or not Eastern Europe is an accurate way to describe former Eastern Bloc countries, it is a powerful lens through which we contextualize the past, present and the people of this diverse set of countries. The recent works that form Rearview Mirror very much fit the title, that self-conscious looking behind, and the way it informs the way of moving forward. An omnipresent expression of this looking back comes in the investigations of power dynamics throughout the exhibition. Religion forms a subject of interrogation in the show, including in Romanian artist Dénes Miklósi's video work "The Life of Jesus." The artist enforces audience subjection to self-critical religious contemplation. A mirror frame requires the viewer to stand in front of it in order to see the video, a film about Jesus's life used by Presbyterian missionaries, which is projected on the wall a couple feet behind it. This forces awareness of one's evaluation of their subject position in relation to the religious content of the
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film, ensuring self-policing judgment of themselves as well as the artwork. Slovakian-born Roman Ondák takes on institutional power through another major theme in the exhibition, investigating issues of property and displacement, in "Freed Doorway" and "Shared Floor." The former work, a well-used door stripped of its hardware, leans against the wall. It faces the latter work in the centre of the
"The Perfect Sound." This Belgradeborn artist's video forms an interesting analysis of the rigour and discipline of language in its creatively edited footage of a young man's lesson to remove the accent from his speech. Through directing attention to decisive gestures and carefully manipulated muscles to form very distinct versions of sounds, Zdjelar makes clear the disciplining power
Origin stories are also considered through the power of identity and the power to transform the evidence of one's story.
room—a worn wooden floor, its perimeter delineated by baseboards, with electrical outlets acting as a reminder of the walls that should hold them. Are these domestic objects and spaces really better off in an art institution, decontextualized from their urban environments? Is this liberation from private space for the communal good by providing a shared art experience, or is this disrespect for the domestic use value of these things, and the now-floorless room and doorless doorway where they originated? Origin stories are also considered through the power of identity and the power to transform the evidence of one's story, such as in Katarina Zdjelar's
of language, encouraging a finely tuned effort to conform. At times the image is removed, encouraging the viewer to lean in and listen more closely to the subtle distinction between the ideal expression of certain sounds and the attempts to mimic it. The works in Rearview Mirror form provocative reflections of the struggle to grapple with the past, and the residue of a Soviet bloc political history, and national or religious history. These are thoughtful considerations of how to speak to, speak with, and speak in opposition to a history that has an uneasy relationship to a present existence in Eastern Europe. Carolyn JErvis
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PREVUE // COMIC BALANCE
One Good Marriage
THEATRE NETWORK
PRESENTS
MOVING ALONG by
CHRIS CRADDOCK
“The writing is as
electric as the chair and the performance will make you gasp.” FIVE STARS – The Edmonton Journal Starring: Chris Craddock Directed by: Bradley Moss Sound Designer: Dave Clarke
FEBRUARY 7–26 2012 2 for 1 Tuesdays Feb 14 & 21 The Roxy Theatre 10708 124 St 780.453.2440 theatrenetwork.ca
EXHIBITION OPENING MAIN GALLERY
GARY JAMES JOYNES / SOUNDBURSTING NO.1
FRONT ROOM GALLERY
PATRICK HIGGINS / WE ARE IN THE SAME PLACE
OPENING RECEPTION: MARCH 1, 8-10 Artist Talk with Gary James Joynes @ 7:15
FOR MORE INFO CALL US AT: 780.426.4180 FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK & TWITTER @HARCOURTHOUSE
One half of a good marriage Alberta
Thu, Feb 23 – Sun, Feb 26; Thu, Mar 1 – Sun, Mar 4 (8 pm) Directed by Nicholas Mather Living Room Playhouse, $20
H
umour may be one of our more cherished coping mechanisms, but bringing a dark comedy to life on stage can be a tricky thing to do. Obtaining this elusive balance is a challenge that director Nicholas Mather enthusiastically accepts with Sean Reycraft's One Good Marriage. While the play principally lays claim to being a dark comedy, it is also largely suspenseful. "It's hard to promote this show without giving away too much," says Mather. "I'll tell you this right now, the first line opens with, 'Everybody died ... everybody's dead. But thanks for coming!' The play profiles a married couple celebrating their first anniversary. But there's this serious kind of sadness in the background that keeps popping up, and we find out that something terrible has happened."
Reycraft is known for his writing for television (Slings and Arrows, Vampire Diaries), but his skill for playwriting is what originally drew Mather to the piece. The plot deals with heavy issues, and Mather notes that this script can be as mysterious as the tale it's telling.
'What can we add to the conversation?'" Conversation is precisely what Mather hopes to incite in his audience. This season, Rabid Marmot Productions has shown a penchant for topics relating to being an outsider. The couple in this piece has their "community
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People ask me, 'Why don't you go to Vancouver?' Vancouver is film. Toronto is money. Edmonton is innovation. It's not, 'What's commercially successful?' it's, 'What can we add to the conversation?'" "We've had many rehearsals where we just sat down and read, just finding the subtleties in the lines. There are a lot of hidden gems in the dialogue itself." Mather's eagerness to get this piece out to an audience is easily noticed. "Edmonton loves smart writing," he says. "Theatre here is always evolving. People ask me, 'Why don't you go to Vancouver?' Vancouver is film. Toronto is money. Edmonton is innovation. It's not, 'What's commercially successful?' it's,
literally ripped away," leaving them on the outside, wondering how to forge new identities. "Sean Reycraft said it himself: 'I want to take a mild-mannered, slightly depressed couple, and have something extraordinary happen to them.'" While the nature of the couple will allow audience members to relate, the tragic twist to their story is what will keep them guessing. SALIHA CHATTOO
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Dance Citie Ballet presents • Timms Centre, 87 Ave, 112 St, U of A • Mosaic One, Japanese Drumbeat • Sat, Mar 3, 7:30pm; Sun, Mar 4, 2:30pm Lord of the Dance • Jubilee Auditorium • Feb 28-29
Ukrainian Shumka Dancers • Ju-
bilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave • Featuring retrospective and all-new works-including two Hopaks • Mar 3-4, Thu 8pm, Fri 2pm • Tickets at TicketMaster
FILM Cinema At the Centre • Library Theatre, Stanley A. Milner Library basement, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • Centre for Reading and the Arts showcases little-known films every month Downtown Docs • Stanley A. Milner Library Theatre (basement level) • 780.944.5383 • Documentaries with attitude • Mighty Jerome; Thu, Feb 23, 6:30pm Edmonton Film Society •
dusk • Free
Artery • 9535 Jasper Ave • 780.441.6966
• theartery.ca • Western Horsemen: Artworks by Justin Shaw and Lisa Rezansoff • Until Feb 29
Art from the Streets–Red Deer • 4935-51 St • Spirit of the People: Artworks by Thomas Francois • Through Feb
Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • Rearview Mirror: Contemporary Art from East and Central Europe; until Apr 29 • Icons of Modernism: until May 21 • BMO Work of Creativity: Method and Madness: Family-focused interactive exhibition created by Gabe Wong; until Dec 31 • RBC New Works Gallery: The Untimely Transmogrification of the Problem: Chris Millar; until Apr 29 • 5 Artists, 1 Love–A Retrospective: Black History Month art show curated by Darren Jordan; until Mar 3 • The Icons of Modernism lecture: Tensions and Convergences in the Art of Last Century or, Peggy Guggenheim’s Earrings presented by Prof. Steven Harris; Wed, Feb 29, 7pm; $15/$10 AGA Members Buy tickets online • Early Mistresses of the Abstract and the Modern: Mar 3-Jun 3 • Alberta Process Painting: Mar 3-Jun 3 Art Gallery Of St Albert (AGSA)
• 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • On Location: Paintings by Mike Dendy, Christine Elmgren and Tom Yurko; until Feb 25 • Immuto: Watercolour paintings and stop-motion animations by Jennifer Wanner; Mar 1-Apr 28; opening: Mar 1, 7-9pm • Artventures: Drop-in art program for children 6-12; 1-4pm; $5
Bruce Peel Special Collections Library • Rutherford Library, U of A • I'm
Royal Alberta Museum, 12845-102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca/ events/movies/movies.cfm • The Prince and the Showgirl (1957, 117 min, colour, PG); Feb 27, 8pm • Monsieur Beaucaire (1946, 93 min, PG); Mar 5, 8pm
No Superman: The comic collection of Gilbert Bouchard: Until Feb 28
From Books to Film series • Stanley
Crooked Pot Gallery–Stony Plain
A. Milner Library, Main Fl, Audio Visual Rm • 780.944.5383 • Screenings of films adapted from books, presented by the Centre for Reading and the Arts • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) (PG); Fri, Feb 24, 2pm
Global Visions Film Festival • Venues: Art Gallery of Alberta, metro Cinema, Empire Theatre • globalvisionsfestival. com • Empire Cinemas: Youth Media Day Screenings: featuring The Bully Project, and You’ve Been Trumped; Feb 29, 10am; $10(one film)/$15 (both films) • Metro Cinema: Opening Night Gala: present Peace Out with filmmaker Charles Wilkinson in attendance, a night of film, music, discussion, food and drinks, Thu, Mar 1, 7pm, $18 • Festival Runs: Feb 29-Mar 4 Oscar Night at the Varscona •
Varscona Theatre • Celebrate the awarding of the 84th Academy Awards in a one of a kind Oscar event • Sun, Feb 26, 5pm (door) • $25 (door) at TIX on the Square, Shadow Theatre box office 780.434.5564; Elegant Hollywood style formal wear is encouraged, but not essential
Princess Theatre on Whyte • 10337 Whyte Ave • Oscar Nominated Short films in the Animation and Live Action categories: Sat, Feb 25, 3pm-live action; Sun, Feb 25, 3pm-animation • $7 (door), proceeds to the 2012 EIFF
WINTER ROOTS AND BLUES ROUNDUP FESTIVAL • 780.492.7887, 587.989.3034
• ualberta.ca/folkwaysalive • Royal Alberta Museum Theatre: David Bromberg–Unsung Treasure; Fri, Feb 24, 7-8:15pm; $5 (followed by Peter Case Concert, $20) • Stanley Milner Library, Edmonton Rm (B): Benda Bilili, Sat, Feb 25, 12-1:30pm, free (donations welcome); A Walk in My Dream; Sat, Feb 25, 2-3:30pm, free (donations); The Godmother of Rock & Roll: Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Sun, Feb 26, 1-2pm, $5 • Art Gallery of Alberta Theatre: Troubadour Blues, featuring live conversation with Director Tom Weber and Peter Case; Sat, Feb 25, 7pm; $10
GALLERIES + MUSEUMS Agnes Bugera Gallery • 12310 Jasper Ave • 780.482.2854 • agnesbugeragallery.com • GALLERY SPRING SELECTIONS: Arworks by gallery artists • Until Feb 29 ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY
• 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft. ab.ca • THINKING BIG: Unveiling public art projects; until Apr 7 • Discovery Gallery: What’s a Girl to Do? Felted hats by Edmonton artist Virginia Stephen; until Mar 24 • Women: Clay sculptures by Keith Turnbull; until Mar 24
Alberta Society of Artists • Walterdale Playhouse, 10322-83 Ave • 780.426.0072 • artists-society.ab.ca • walterdaleplayhouse. com
Alley of Light • Behind Sobeys on 104
St, Jasper Ave • illumiNITE: Alley of Light sculpture show and party • Feb 25-26, dusk to
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CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • Group show • Until Feb 28
• 4912-51 Ave, Stony Plain • 780.963.9573 • Northern Lights: In celebration of the Alberta Winter Games-winter themed pottery and giftware; until Feb 29 • Anticipation of Things to Come: Ceramic artworks by Barb Watchman • Mar 1-31 • Opening reception: Fri, Mar 3, 1-5pm
Daffodil Gallery • 10412-124 St,
780.760.1278 • Love and Other Myths: Artworks by Joe and Oksana • Until Feb 25
Enterprise Square • 10230 Jasper Ave • Cool Stuff: Presented by U of A Museums, featuring objects and artifacts related to winter, ice, snow, mountains and polar regions; until Mar 31 • Noon-Hour Series: Collecting Dinosaurs in Antarctica: Phil Currie; Mar 1 • When Meteorites Fall on Snow: Chris Herd; Mar 7 • Nature in Winter in Edmonton: John Acorn; Mar 15 • Winter Through Roman Eyes: Jeremy Rossiter; Mar 23 • Curating Cool Stuff: Jim Corrigan; Mar 29 FAB Gallery • Department of Art and
Design, U of A, Rm 3-98 Fine Arts Bldg • 780.492.2081 • Colin Lyons: MFA Printmaking; The Alcuin Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada: This show covers books in eight categories (Children’s, Limited Editions, Pictorial, Poetry, Prose Fiction, Prose Non-fiction, Prose Non-fiction Illustrated, and Reference) published in 2010; Feb 28Mar 28
Gallery at Milner • Stanley A. Milner
Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/art-gallery • Feathers and Flash: Acrylic on canvas paintings by Teresa Stieben; until Feb 28 • Postage Stamps as Messengers of Culture: Display by Anita Nawrocki (display cases)
Gallerie Pava • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • Old Dogs/New Tricks: Featuring drawings by Father Douglas • Feb 25-Apr 7 • Opening reception: Feb 25, 1-4pm; artist in attendance HAPPY HARBOR COMICS v1 • 10729-104
Ave • Comics Artist-in-Residence: Paul Lavelleed available every Fri (12-6pm), and every Sat (12-5pm) until Apr 21 • Comic Jam: Improv comic art making every 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7pm • Open Door: a collective of independent comic creators, meet on the 2nd and 4th Thu each month, 7pm
Harcourt House • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St
• 780.426.4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca • Main Gallery: discards: Works by Griffith Aaron Baker • Front Room: Getting Anxious: Works by Margaret Witschl • Until Feb 25 • Main Space: SOUNDBURSTINGS NO.1: Gary James Joynes installation of several video projections that create a sequence of SoundBursts • Front Room Gallery: We Are In The Same Place: Paintings by Patrick Higgins • Mar 1-Apr 14 • Opening reception: Thu, Mar 1, 8-10pm; artist talk with Gary James Joynes at 7:15pm
Harris-Warke Gallery–Red Deer •
Sunworks Home and Garden Store, Ross St, Red Deer • 403.346.8937 • harriswarkegallery.com • Scenes from the Domestic: Ceramic works by Red Deer artist, Jenna
Turner • Feb 20-Mar 24 • Reception: Fri, Mar 2, 6-8pm; part of Red Deer’s First Fridays
Poet Shane Koyczan • Fri, Mar 2, 7:30pm
Hub on Ross–Red Deer • 4936 Ross
780.423.3487 • CAA Writer in Residence Jannie Edwards in the store every Wed; Until Apr 25, 12-1:30pm • Michelle Cederberg will share information from her new book, Energy Now!: Small Steps to an Energetic Life; Tue, Feb 28, 7:30pm
St, Red Deer • 403.340.4869 • hubpdd.com • Tranquil Transitions: Artworks by Marjorie Robert and Sheldon Robert • Through Feb
Jurassic Forest/Learning Centre • 15 mins N of Edmonton off Hwy 28A, Township Rd 564 • Education-rich entertainment facility for all ages Kiwanis Gallery–Red Deer • Red Deer
Library • The Gardens at Trevarno: Artworks by Sally Towers-Sybblis • Until Feb 26
Latitude 53 • 10248-106 St • 780.423.5353
• latitude53.org • ProjEx Room: Anusawaree (Monuments): Works by Korapin Chaotakoongite; Feb 24-Apr 7; reception: Fri, Feb 24, 7pm; Artist Talk: Fri, Feb 24, 6:30pm • Main Space: Unstable Natures: Works by fifteen graduate students and recent MFA recipients from across North America, dealing with moments of rupture and change caused by mechanical instability; Mar 2-Apr 7
Loft Gallery • A. J. Ottewell Art Centre,
590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • 780.922.6324 • artstrathcona.com • Art and gifts by local artists • Mar 3-Apr 29; Sat: 10am-4pm; Sun: 12-4pm
McMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • Pattern, form, detail: Photographs of natural and manufactured landscapes by Ronald Whitehouse • Until Apr 15 Michif Cultural and Métis Resource Institute • 9 Mission Ave, St
Albert • 780.651.8176 • Aboriginal Veterans Display • Gift Shop • Finger weaving and sash display by Celina Loyer • Ongoing
Mildwood Gallery • 426, 6655-178 St • Mel Heath, Joan Healey, Fran Heath, Larraine Oberg, Terry Kehoe, Darlene Adams, Sandy Cross and Victoria, Pottery by Naboro Kubo and Victor Harrison • Ongoing
Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51
St, Stony Plain • 780.963.9935 • Economies of Scale–Our New Agricultural Landscape: Digital works by John Freeman; until Mar 14
Musée Héritage Museum–St Albert • 5 St Anne St, St Albert •
780.459.1528 • St Albert History Gallery: Artifacts dating back 5,000 years • Slavic ST Albert: Based on the research work of Michal Mynarz; until May 12; Reception: Feb 23, 7pm
Naess Gallery • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Af ter Hours 12: Artworks by the staff of the Paint Spot • Through Feb Peter Robertson Gallery • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Simple equations, sticks, and mascots for dirty little cities: Paintings, sculptures by Clay Ellis; until Mar 3 Royal Alberta Museum • 12845102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • Narrative Quest: Until Apr 29
SCOTT GALLERY 10411-124 St •
780.488.3619 • scottgallery.com • New Work: Paintings by Mitchell Fenton • Feb 25-Mar 13 • Opening reception: Sat, Feb 25, 2-4pm, artist in attendance
SNAP Gallery • Society Of Northern Alberta Print-Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • Gallery Exhibition: Oh...Know: Artworks by Robin Smith-Peck and Marc Siegner; until Mar 17 • Instructors' Salon: Printworks by the instructors of SNAP's 2012 education programs; until Mar 17 Strathcona County Gallery@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • Blair Brennnan, Richard Boulet and Patrick Reed; until Feb 26 • Production Pottery: Brenda Danrook and Martin Tagseth; Mar 5-Apr 29 TELUS World of Science • 11211-
142 St • Discoveryland • Lecture: Toxic Bodies: Safe Drinking Water–What Should We Fear?; Wed, Feb 29, 6:30pm (door); donations
VAAA Gallery • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.421.1731 • Gallery A: Travelling Within Dreams: Paintings by Ricardo Copado • Gallery B: Body/Language: Large drawings by Daniel Evans; until Feb 25 • Gallery A and B: ALBERTA IN A BOX: WIDE OPEN: Works by Alberta Potter’s Association; Mar 1-Apr 14; reception: Thu, Mar 1, 7-9:30pm VASA Gallery • (Studio Gallery) 11 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.5993 • Fibre of Silk: Series by Samantha WilliamsChapelsky • Until Feb 25
LITERARY Arden Theatre • 5 St Anne Street, St Albert • 780.459.1542 • ardentheatre.com •
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CARROT Café • 9351-118 Ave • Rhythms of the Earth: celebrating Black History Month • African Storytelling: Featuring Tololwa Mollel, Junetta Jamerson, and Bitupu Mufata; Tue, Feb 28, 7:30-9:30pm • People Poet: featuring local poets and songwriters; Wed, Feb 29, 7:30-9:30 From Books to Film series •
Stanley A. Milner Library, Main Fl, Audio Visual Rm • 780.944.5383 • Screenings of films adapted from books, presented by the Centre for Reading and the Arts
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Café’s Living Library • Feb 29, 9:30pm (opening), noon, 2pm, 3pm (living books) • Global Café, room 138 in Jasper Place High School, for this unique event • RSVP Julia Dalman T: 587.926.3391, E: julia. dalman@gmail.com
Leva Cappucino Bar • 11053-86 Ave • olivereadingseries.wordpress.com • The Olive Reading Series Presents: Erín Moure • Feb 28, 6:30-9pm Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St •
780.902.5900 • Poetry every Tue with Edmonton's local poets
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sie’s Bar, 10475-80 Ave • 780.932.4409 • talesstorytelling.com • 1st Thu each month, open mic opportunity • Until Jun, 7-9pm • $6 (min) • $6 minimum cover • Don’t Press Your Luck; open mic opportunity • Mar 1, 7-9pm • $6 minimum cover
Upper Crust Café • 10909-86 Ave • 780.422.8174 • strollofpoets.com • The Poets’ Haven Weekly Reading Series: every Mon, 7pm presented by the Stroll of Poets Society • $5 WunderBar on Whyte • 8120-101 St • 780.436.2286 • The poets of Nothing, For Now: poetry workshop and jam every Sun • No minors
THEATRE Annie Get Your Gun • Festival Place, 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • Sherard Musical Theatre • A fictional version of Annie Oakley, America’s greatest sharpshooter, and her romantic, tempestuous relationship with Frank Butler. Music by Irving Berlin • Feb 24-26, Feb 29, Mar 1-2 • $23 (adult)/$20 (student/senior/matinees) BOEING, BOEING • Mayfield Dinner
Theatre, 16615-109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Bernard, a successful American architect living in a posh Paris apartment, has been deftly juggling three fiancées who are all flight attendants. But his supersonic lifestyle hits turbulence when his old college friend visits and each of his three fiancées change their flight schedule • Until Apr 8
CATS • Jubilee Auditorium • Musical Based on T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, with original direction by Trevor Nunn and choreography by Gillian Lynne • Until Feb 25, 8pm; Feb 25, 2pm • Tickets start at $35 at TicketMaster Chimprov • Varscona Theatre, 1032983 Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • First three Sat every month, 11pm, until Jul • $10/$5 (high school student)/$8 (RFT member at the door only) DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 1032983 Ave • 780.433.3399 • die-nasty.com • The live improvised soap opera featuring improvisors Dana Andersen, Matt Alden, Leona Brausen, Peter Brown, Belinda Cornish, Tom Edwards, Jeff Haslam, Kory Mathewson, Mark Meer, Sheri Somerville, Davina Stewart, Stephanie Wolfe, and Donovan Workun • Every Mon, until May, 7:30pm (subject to change) • Tickets at the box office Eight Arms to Hold You • Sacred Heart School, 4419 52 Ave, Wetaskiwin • 780.352.8383 • wetaskiwintheatresociety. com • Waterworks Theatre • By Ken Mastel • A musical comedy about the rise of the Beatles and the chaos they create amongst their fans before their debut on the Ed Sullivan show • Mar 2-4, 9-11, Fri-Sat 8pm, Sun 2pm • $15
Fool for Love • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • 780.434.5564 • shadowtheatre.org • Shadow Theatre • By Sam Shepard. In an abandoned motel Eddie and May play out their tainted romance, co-production with Calgary's SAGe Theatre, starring Shaun Johnston • Until Mar 4, 7:30pm, 2pm mat • $15 (previews); Fri-Sat night: $26/$23 (student/senior); Tue-Thu, Sun mat: $22/$20 (student/senior) The Great Mountain • Arden The-
atre, 5 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1542 • Red Sky Performance • Sun, Mar 4, 2pm • Tickets at TicketMaster
Hey Ladies! • Roxy, 10708-124 St, various other venues throughout Edmonton • 780.453.2440 • attheroxy.com • Theatre Network • The Roxy Performance Series: starring Davina Stewart, Cathleen Rootsaert, Leona Brausen • Fri, Mar 2 • Tickets at Theatre Network’s box office, 780.453.2440 Jump for Glee • Jubilations Dinner
Theatre, 2690, 8882-170 St, Phase II WEM Upper Level • 780.484.2424 • jubilations. ca • It is time to put on a great show. Unfortunately, there are transportation problems and only six people from William Mackenzie King High can make it to the event • Until Apr 1
Kevin Mcdonald and Friends • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre • Kevin Mcdonald (Kids in the Hall fame), with local stand-ups Jon Mick and Mike Robertson, and an improv jam with your RFT favourites. Audience Q&A to follow • Feb 28, 10-11:30pm • $20 at TIX on the Square Moving Along • Roxy Theatre–Theatre Network, 10708-124 St • 780.453.2440 • By Chris Craddock, directed by Bradley Moss • Until Feb 26 Munsch-A-Palooza–Fort Saskatchewan • Dow Centennial Centre's
Shell Theatre–Fort Saskatchewan, 8700-84 St, Fort Saskatchewan • 780.992.6400 • fortsask.ca/ftsk_thingstodo/Shell_Theatre. aspx • Family Series: Musical based on five famous Robert Munsch stories and paired with live rock accompaniment
OH SUSANNA! • Varscona Theatre •
10329-83 Ave • 780.433.3399 • varsconatheatre.com/ohsusanna • The Euro-style variety spectacle with Susanna Patchouli and her divine co-host Eros, God of Love! Laughs! Music! Cocktails! • Runs the last Sat each month, until Jul, 11pm (subject to occasional change)
One Good Marriage • Living Room Playhouse/Azimuth Theatre, 11315-106 Ave • Rabid Marmot Productions dark comedy by Sean Reycraft, directed by Nicholas Mather; stars Nathan Coppens and Kate Jestadt • Feb 23-26; Mar 1-4 • $20 each and can be purchased at the door or through Tix on the Square Opening Night • Kinsmen Korral 47 Riel Dr • 780.668.9522 • By Norm Foster, dinner theatre presented by the St Albert Theatre Troupe • Feb 23-25 • $47 RACE • Catalyst Theatre, 8529 Gateway
Boulevard • theatre-yes.ca • Theatre Yes • By David Mamet • A provocative new tale of sex, guilt and accusation. Two lawyers find themselves defending a wealthy white executive charged with raping a black woman. When a new legal assistant gets involved in the case, the opinions that boil beneath explode to the surface • Feb 23-Mar 11, 8pm; 2pm on Saturdays • $26 at TIX on The Square, door
Red • Citadel Shoctor Theatre, 9828-101 A Ave • 780.428.2117 • citadeltheatre.com • Mainstage Series: By John Logan, directed by Kim Collier. New York in the late 50s – famous abstract painter Mark Rothko has been commissioned to create a series of murals at an upscale restaurant. Is Rothko selling out? Or is this his chance to reach the commercial audience he despises? • Until Mar 4 STAGE STRUCK! 2012 • Walterdale Playhouse, 10322-83 Ave • Edmonton’s Annual Adult One-act Play Festival featuring eight one-act plays, including world premieres by Gerald Osborn, Zack Siezmagraff, Barbara North, Phil Kreisel, Zoe Hawnt and Linda Wood Edwards • Feb 24-25, Fri 7pm, Sat 1pm and 7pm • 3-session Festival Pass: $32 (adult)/$28 (student/senior); single: $14 (adult)/$12 (student/senior) at TIX on the Square, door TheatreSports • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv runs every Fri, until Jul, 11pm (subject to occasional change) • $10/$8 (member) WildFire Festival • Westbury Theatre TransAlta ArtsBarns • rapidfiretheatre. com • Canadian Improv Games Alberta Regionals created by the marriage of two improv tournaments: The Canadian Improv Games (more info available at www. improv.ca) and Rapid Fire Theatre’s own Nosebowl Tournament and The WildFire: Junior Teams from across Alberta • Until Mar 3, 7pm • $11.50 (adult adv)/$6 (high school student adv) at TIX on the Square
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Viva Cuba!
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Bringing the melange of Cuban cuisine to Edmonton
Whyte Avenue's Café Coral de Cuba
Café Coral de Cuba Lidice Fernandez and Nestora Estevez 10816 - 82 Ave, 780.433.3306
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riendship does not guarantee success in a business venture, but longtime friends Lidice Fernandez and Nestora Estevez are exceptions to this rule. Fernandez and Estevez noticed a palpable absence of Cuban cuisine in the Capital City and decided to break ground as Edmonton's first and only Cuban eatery, Café Coral de Cuba. "This is the first time working in a restaurant for both of us. Nestora is an amazing cook and we thought we would give it a try," recounts Fernandez. "We took over this Whyte Avenue spot in February 2011 and officially opened on September 23 last year." Fernandez moved to Edmonton many years ago and Estevez arrived in 2005. "We met as neighbours and became good friends," explains Fer-
nandez. Estevez adds that she loves to entertain and cook for friends, and that encouragement from friends was their inspiration to pursue careers as restaurateurs. "It wasn't easy to find a good location," reveals Fernandez, "and we looked for over a year until we found this one." Fernandez and Estevez composed a succinct menu of traditional Cuban fare. Cuban cuisine is a colourful and spicy blend of Spanish, African and Caribbean culinary traditions, and the pair opted to include dishes that reminded them of home, but were still approachable to Edmontonians. Pollo Asado and Ropa Vieja are two of Café Coral's preeminent dishes. Pollo Asado features a roasted whole leg and thigh of chicken seasoned with, among other things, lemon juice, garlic and oregano, and served with rice and beans. Ropa Vieja means "old
clothes" when translated literally and is a quintessentially Cuban dish that is comprised of shredded beef in a light sauce of tomatoes, onions and peppers. Cuban sandwiches also grace Café Coral's menu, and consist of crusty bread stuffed generously with roasted pork, ham, Swiss cheese, yellow
dishes. Both Fernandez and Estevez take turns with food preparation, but Fernandez admits that Estevez has a unique talent. "I follow the recipes exactly, but they always taste a bit different," says Fernandez. "They are Nestora's family recipes and she has a special touch. "The Cuban community in Edmonton
People like the music, the food and the environment. We tried to recreate a traditional Cuban café here, which is meant to be relaxing.
mustard and dill pickles. Cassava, which is a starchy root vegetable that takes on the role of potatoes in Cuban cuisine, is boiled, sliced and served with mojo (pronounced "mo-ho") sauce. Mojo consists of garlic, oil, citrus juices and an array of spices, and adorns many Cuban
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isn't that big and it's only about 1000 people," Fernandez continues, "but we are meeting new people all the time." Indeed, every Friday Café Coral hosts a Cuban DJ who teaches salsa dancing, and this event draws large crowds. "He teaches dances like salsa and
cha-cha. It starts at 9:30 pm and ends around 1 am. Classes are around an hour, and then there is lots of music and dancing," explains Fernandez, adding, "Another guy comes once a month to play with his trio—the Marco Clavieria Project. It's mostly traditional Cuban music." Fernandez and Estevez are both impressed at the warm reception that Edmonton has bestowed upon them. "People like the music, the food and the environment. We tried to recreate a traditional Cuban café here, which is meant to be relaxing. There is no pressure— just enjoy yourself," recommends Fernandez. Fernandez and Estevez enjoy the atmosphere as much as their customers do, and have disproven the notion that good friends do not make good business partners. LS Vors
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So worth it Chinese records dated to 2000 BCE make reference to lychee fruit. In the 1st century AD, a special courier service featuring "fast horses" rushed fresh fruit from Guangdong province where it grew wild to the Imperial Court. In the 8th century, Lychee was the favoured fruit of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang's favourite concubine Yang Yuhuan, so the emperor brought it in at great expense.
ants of the plant have a much smaller seed—known as a "chicken tongue"— and, because these variants have much more edible flesh, command a higher price.
Sounds crazy Lychee is sold fresh, canned and dried. Dried lychee have the rind still on them and shrink and darken as they harden. These dried lychees are sold as "lychee nuts," even if they aren't actually nuts.
TCM is A-OK In traditional Chinese medicine, lychee is classified as a "dry fire" food. It can be used to treat "cold" symptoms such as dizziness, weakness and low oxygen level in the blood.
Seeds of doubt The seed of a lychee fruit is typically large and is not edible. Some vari-
Good for Hulkamaniacs Lychee fruit contains a high amount of vitamin C. On average, only nine of the small fruits would be required to reach an adult's recommended intake of the vitamin.
How'd they make love? Carefully. You ever notice how a lychee kinda looks like a strawberry mated with a porcupine?
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icture the witch's cauldron ... bubbling up with smoke, fire and brimstone. She tastes the brew ... and discovers it needs something, perhaps a pinch of eye of newt. Or perhaps even a dash of VIDI VENI, Merlot. What might lurk underneath the smoky m ekly.co cauldron's lid? Quite posvuewe taylor@ sibly the most delicious Taylor wine blend of the century. Eason All over the world, winemakers blend their wines much like a witch's brew, with patience and endless taste tests. They perfect their craft during years of effort, nitpicking over the tinniest of tannins and the smallest sugar variations. The reasoning behind this age-old ritual is to get the flavour of the wine just right, like when you add extra basil, garlic or salt to a homemade batch of marinara sauce. And, like a cook, the winemaker strives to please his/ her taste while creating something you will enjoy as well. Bonny Doon, Ridge and Marietta Why blend? Sometimes winemakCellars are a few wineries that have ers just like to have fun and concoct introduced us to their unique style an entirely new wine flavour profile. of wines. Most of the time, the perThese blends turn out to be the centages are listed on the label, so most enjoyable because the wineyou can learn which different varimaker's personality shines through. etals strike your fancy. Australia's Penfold's and California's But generally, blends are down-
Merlot to even out (or "balance") a harsh or young Cabernet. And a little dab'll do ya; even a 25 percent addition of another grape's juice can change the wine experience. (In California, if a bottle is labeled Merlot, the juice within must be at least 75 percent Merlot.)
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In Europe, blends are part of the historic wine fabric. France has been blending wine for centuries in
famous blends in the wine world: Châteauneuf du Pape, named after an area in the southern part of France. Winemakers can use up to 13 different grapes for a Châteauneuf du Pape blend, with Grenache or Syrah grapes as a base. Because of the variety of grapes used, the style of this blend can range from smooth and fruity to heavy and tannic. In Italy, it's the same deal. Although the regional grape varieties are
To woo you, the winemaker might add a dollop of smoother, fruitier Merlot to even out (or 'balance') a harsh or young Cabernet.
right crucial. Sometimes a Cabernet, Malbec or Zinfandel alone is just too tannic to release on unsuspecting palates. The harshness of the wine can assault your mouth and send you running for the hills. To woo you, the winemaker might add a dollop of smoother, fruitier
Bordeaux and the Rhone Valley. The majority of wineries in Bordeaux produce blends of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot or Malbec. California makes its own French-style blend of at least three of these grapes, and call it Meritage. White Meritage is a blend of the two white grapes grown in Bordeaux: Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon. (There is a third, Muscadelle, but it doesn't show up often.) The Rhone Valley boasts one of the most
heavily mandated by the Italian government, blends are commonplace. In Tuscany, the Sangiovese grape rules, but Super Tuscans—a relatively new breed of Cabernet-based wines—have come to the forefront with a more modern take on Italian wines. Worth a look. So next time you're in the market for a Cabernet, don't be surprised if there's a little Merlot thrown in there. And be sure to watch for the eye of newt. V
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sands of boisterous fans cheering on their favourite competitors. Althought it's only been around three years, Crashed Ice is incredibly popular. In fact, at last year's finals in Quebec, 100 000 fans showed up. Despite its short lifespan, Crashed Ice already has four major world tour stops: Saint Paul, Minnesota; Are, Sweden; Valkenburg, Netherlands; and the birthplace of Crashed Ice, Quebec City, Canada. Like most inaugural winter sports, Canadian competitors are leading the charge. The Croxall brothers, Scotty and Kyle, have been at or near the top since the sport's inception. Only the hardcharging Fin Arttu Pihlainen has been able to break their dominance and now another Canadian, Adam Horst, has entered the picture, winning last weekend's competition in Sweden. This year's final event will take place in Quebec City from March 15 – 17. Sportsnet looks to be carrying the feed, so if you can't be there, enjoy it live on the screen. With all the manywinding roads we have going into the river valley, Edmonton looks like a natural to host a race or two! Maybe we can get Taylor Hall or Ben Eager to join. They would give the Croxalls a run for their money.
Powder 8s at Lake Louise If you're near Lake Louise on Saturday, February 25, check out the Powder 8 Ski Championships taking place in Purple Bowl, directly behind the top of the Larch Chair. You can even enter the event if you have a buddy and you both love skiing powder. Prizes on offer are a heli-ski vacation from CMH and a couple of packages to stay at the historic Skoki Lodge near Lake Louise. If you're going to compete, you better be in good shape for this one because competitors need to hike for about 45 minutes to access the untracked powder of the Lipalian Mountain's Purple Bowl. Seems kind of cruel that you have to hike like mad for a chance at a helicopter ride! Judges will be critiquing entrants for synchronization, dynamic/aggressive skiing and the distance between teammates. The competition is expected to take place from 7:30 am – 4:30 pm, so you better pack a lunch.
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Le Gap (the original instructor training program based in Quebec) advertising 99-percent pass rates for CASI (Canadian Association of Snowboard Instructors) and CSIA (Canadian Ski Instructors' Alliance) exams, the intensive training approach seems to work. "We've had course evaluators come up to us and say, 'These are the besttrained instructors we've seen,'" Alun proudly reveals. "That's because we've brought in the best instructors in Canada to teach them ... We all take a huge personal pride in getting people successfully through the program."
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nyone lured by the call of the slopes has dreamed of stretching their fleeting ski vacation into a powder-packed season. After all, once you've been bitten, this ski bug is a tough one to shake. Within weeks, your bank accounts are disgorging their contents, which trickle away on lift tickets, gear and travel. You get the chills at the thought of several feet of snow piling up overnight. Your heart aches to ditch the humdrum dayto-day and live among the mountains. Free lift pass, constant skiing, flirting with hotties and the ultimate goggle tan? Sign me up! Spending your days at play in the sun, cutting tracks through fresh powder is, to most, a pipe dream—a lovely, unattainable vision of the ultimate freedom. Nowadays there is a hefty selection of companies offering to make the dream (or something like it) a reality. Ski instructor training courses, from a couple of weeks to three months in length, have been a trend among Europeans for over a decade—and now growing numbers of North Americans are getting in on the action. "We started out with mostly Brits, now we're seeing people from New Zealand, Europe, the States, South America and even Canada, particularly the east," says Rupert Taylor, founder and managing director of Nonstop Ski and Snowboard, which runs instructor training courses and ski improvement camps in Fernie, Red Mountain, Banff, Whistler, New Zealand and France. Hundreds of youngsters seeking adventure, workers wanting a career
break and mature skiers and boarders looking for a fresh start teaching snow sports land in BC and Alberta at the beginning of each winter. For a solid chunk of cash, these "seasonnaires" get a flights, a few months of accommodation, regular on-snow tuition, transport to and from the hill, cooked meals and the all important lift pass. But in the notoriously close-knit communities of isolated ski towns, how warm of a welcome do the locals give? "The reaction has been overwhelmingly positive, apart from the odd grumble," Rupert divulges. "It has a real multicultural impact for the communities. You're bringing in new characters, new ways of thinking, plus some good international promotion for the smaller places ... and mid-week in a poor snow year, our clients are some of the only ones out there. Seasons like that can be make or break for some businesses." Skiing is a make-hay-while-the-sunshines kind of industry. Good snow and pleasant temperatures equal bustling ski hills, packed hotels and a boisterous atmosphere downtown. It's easy to forget while impatiently waiting in a lift line on a long weekend that those sorts of numbers aren't the norm. For those making a living in ski towns, the busy periods allow you to scrape by during the more-frequent lean times—and a single poor snow season can spell the end, even for established businesses. Even so, bringing groups of up to 100 into small ski towns requires some careful laying of groundwork each year,
says Alun Williams, who founded the International Academy in 1997 and, eight years later, the Canadian Rockies Academy, currently running four-week and 11-week instructor training courses in Jasper. "The academy succeeds in Jasper because the ski hill, the ski school, the locals all take ownership of the program," he explains. "We worked really hard to ensure we're not perceived as a bunch of tourists coming in to party ... Immediately, we encourage our groups to volunteer for Jasper in January and to be a part of the community. From day one our clients are in uniform as trainee instructors, it's a very different mindset from a bunch of holidaymakers." Being accepted into the community is as important as the ultimate goal of preparing participants for the rigours of what can be a very demanding job, he says. Not only do course participants need to study hard and improve their skiing and riding to pass exams, most courses of this type include first aid training, avalanche safety, equipment maintenance and tuning and a selection of other lessons for the eager student. A typical week consists of five days of focused tuition, both on and off the hill, with participants left to their own devices on weekends. Riding improvement and teaching skills are a priority, as every trainee must prove their ability to demonstrate, evaluate and teach technical skills up to an intermediate level. Still, with most courses like the Rockies Academy, Nonstop and Ski T:10.25”
As well as receiving a wealth of potential new employees, the ski resorts where these programs have set up shop reap another major benefit. For smaller hills like Red and Marmot Basin, the offer of regular work teaching high-level lessons to seasonnaires is enough to net the big fish: level three and four CSIA and CASI instructors. Traditionally the smaller hills could only dream of drawing them in. Topquality instructors mean top-quality training within the snow sports school, raising the level of instruction at the hill up as a whole, Alun explains. The other long-term effect is the handful of seasonnaires each year who
choose to settle in the area, Rupert adds. Fernie has gained a bakery and speciality chocolate shop courtesy of a couple of former Nonstoppers, another's heading up the local search and rescue unit, while others are getting married, raising families and becoming Canadian citizens. Many more, from CRA, Nonstop, Ski Le Gap and the rest are teaching skiing across the globe in New Zealand, North and South America, Europe and Japan. "It's really nice to have been a huge contributing factor in peoples' lives," Rupert says. "A person's whole character, outlook, confidence level is influenced by time on the course and I'm not just talking about the ones who stay in Canada. To be part of one of the best times in someone's life—that, for me, is a massive reason to do this." With backcountry programs, ski improvement camps and multi-resort trips catering to the Canadian crowds now also on offer through companies like Nonstop, even if a career break isn't on the cards, grasping a little piece of the lifestyle is within reach. KATE IRWIN
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Folkways keeps the past alive with the Winter Roots and Blues Roundup Thu, Feb 23 – Sun, Feb 26 Winter Roots and Blues Roundup Full schedule available at ualberta.ca/folkwaysalive
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oses Asch formed and lost two companies before he found his place in the recording world. They were Asch Records and the Disc Company of America, respectively; neither lasted particularly long, but the latter, while initially more promising than the first, collapsed rather spectacularly when a Nat King Cole Christmas album it was distributing failed to materialize on store shelves before the holiday season. Conflicting stories blame an early winter snowstorm or a truck driver's strike but regardless of the reason, the loss of his second record company had a lasting effect on Asch's intentions in recording. "He lost his shirt," explains Lorna Arndt, "and decided, according to his son, that he was no longer going to chase the big seller, that he was going to produce niche recordings for niche markets, and decided to record people who would not necessarily be given a voice anywhere else." The name he gave his new project, formed in 1948, was Folkways. Some of its earliest recordings were the likes of Leadbelly, Pete Seeger and Woodie Guthrie. Folkways still wasn't much of a financial hit, but it's become the Asch project that's lasted, shaping the man's own place in history and, more importantly, becoming a vital life preserver for early regional musical culture. "A lot of who we think about now as traditional folk musicians, who were telling a story or revealing an injustice of some kind, those people had a voice on Folkways," Arndt explains. She works at the University of Alberta's Folkways Alive! Project. Partnered with the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC, they together vanguard the Folkways' legacy and are cataloging and digitizing the entire oeuvre—some 2000
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LPs, none of which have ever gone out of print (Arndt notes that, to Asch, "If it was worth recording it was worth keeping forever," and that that stipulation was one of the reasons why the Smithsonian is now the primary source for the collection's maintenance: an insitute of its ilk can uphold the demand.) Arndt originally took a one-year leave of her job in the Registrar's office to help set up the project. That was back in 2003, and she's still here. Her time working with the small Folkways Alive! team has been as much about about ensuring that the traditions and sounds the label represents remain vital as it has been about archiving these old sounds. The U of A had a massive collection of
Folkways recordings—all of them, actually; every one of the initial Folkways pressings—sitting mixed in with the rest of the university's music collection. The Smithsonian owns the rights to the recordings, and thus a partnership was struck and, in addition to helping digitize the archive, Folkways Alive! has expanded awareness of it, bringing connected artists into town to perform, record and talk about their past, influences and connections to Folkways. For the past few years, though, its biggest outreach event has been the Winter Roots And Blues Roundup, about to embark in its third year of dedication to celebrating artists that have a direct connection to Folkways, and those that
carry a kindred banner or pull inspiration from its roster. Mark DeFresne (of Roomful of Blues) and Roy Forbes will perform, among others, this year; Holger Petersen will run a Blues of Folkways workshop alongside other thematic musical events; Peter North has curated a film component of five full films (see sidebar). At the Yardbird Suite will be The Woman of Folkways concert—all of these events, Arndt notes, sharing a connection with Asch's label. "Bringing in a performer for a concert, we like them to have some kind of connection to Folkways, either in actual fact that they're on the label, or that they have some sort of philisophical
youth. Those two screenings are free of charge; The Godmother of Rock & Roll: Sister Rosetta Tharpe, tracing the life and career of the gospel singer and guitarist who influenced the likes of Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley, costs only $5, and has a Q&A with the director Mick Csaky, coming up from London. "I emailed him one afternoon; he emails me right back and says, 'This is great. ... My son has just moved to Edmonton.' He'd said he was going to come and visit him from England this winter, and he said, 'I guess this
is when I'll show up.'" Troubador Blues dwells on the reality of life on the road for a modern folk musician, will be followed by talk with director Tom Weber and musician Peter Case (who afterwards will play a concert), while David Bromberg – Unsung Treasure, looking at the enigmatic artist's rollercoaster career, has never before had a public screening
connection," she notes. "There's lots of traditional musicians who really feel an affinity for what Folkways was all about, so it makes sense to bring them." Over the phone from his home in California, Peter Case—this year's festival headliner, plus a participant in the Folkways workshop—starts reading aloud an essay entitled "Concerning a Black Guy's $45 Lottery and a Large Business Corporation Swindling The Public." "I wrote this when I was about 15 or 16," he offers, before launching into its opening lines: "People talk about crime as if it's the problem. I think crime is CONTINUED ON PAGE 27 >>
AND THE FILMS ... Thu, Feb 23 – Sun, Feb 26 Various locations; full schedule at ualberta.ca/folkwaysalive
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think it's going to become the foundation of this thing," Peter North says. He's referring to the Winter Roots and Blues Roundup's film component, and in saying so he doesn't sound overconfident— to North, it's simply the fact of the matter. "There's so much good stuff out there to get—I could've had 16 films this year. And I just didn't have time to properly put
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that together. Five is good." Five is also up one from last year; this is the second time that the Roundup has sported a film selection curated by North (if you don't count a lone short that played during the inagural festival), and within that he's gathered a varied mix of films: Benda Bilili documents four parapalegic musicians' struggle from the streets to acclaim; A Walk In My Dream follows harmonica player Mike Stevens' attempts to improve the rock-bottom quality of life for a group of Labradorian
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The films draw on the idea of banding together in some way. "I wanted those aspects, because
that's part of the Folkways thing, too," North says. "It's about community. That's what Folkways was always about; it wasn't just about music, it was about the coming together of community." Still, even with that full spread, North doesn't seem fully satisfied. He's already planning ahead to next time. "The one thing I'm missing is about a younger artist," North says. "Just about had the film about Andrew Bird, but it fell through. Maybe next year." Paul Blinov
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Nathan Rogers Wed, Feb 29 (7:30 pm) Festival Place, $18 n innovative folk singer in his own right, Nathan Rogers never coasted on the fact he's the son of Canadian legend Stan Rogers to make a name for himself. Instead, he went out and earned his own name, diving into the study of
Mongolian throat singing and creating his own sound. But there comes a time when looking back just feels right, so Rogers is setting out on a tour where he'll sing his dad's songs—the trek is entitled "Nathan Sings Stan"—as a tribute to his late, great father. Nathan Rogers gave Vue a bit of his musical history before arriving in town.
First album
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First one bought for me at my request was Tina Turner, Private Dancer. The first one I bought with my own money was Nirvana, Incesticide.
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Polka Dot Door Live was the first one I recall with any clarity. I started attenting folk festivals when I was sixweeks old ... so ...
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caused by 'fear on the streets' as much as the fear is caused by the crime: both are just part of the way that everything is messed up.'" The essay goes on to compare street thievery to corporate thievery, discuss how the system of punishment lets the latter off easier, and consider the extent to which people are responsible for their actions—it could, as Case noted on his personal blog, have been written by someone in the Occupy Movement, not a decades-younger version of himself. It's indicative of Case's early engagement with the bigger questions of the world around him. If anyone shared a kindred spirit with the outsider existence that Folkways sought to capture, it'd be him. He certainly seems to adhere to the same ideals: his songwriting seems to capture the world he sees around him in immaculate detail, in whatever forms it takes. His own music has spanned from New Wave to Folk, from work with his power-pop band the Pilmsouls to solo, singer-songwriter guitarcraft. Case seems to be a careful archivist of his own past. Not only did he just find his decades-old essay "in a pile of papers," at home he's spent the past few years skimming his own past: The Case Files, released in 2011, is his dig through the closet, unearthing sounds that span the length of his three-decade career. Everything from major hits to deeper cuts—spoken word pieces he never commercially released, songs with the Pilmsouls, his own solo releases—are represented across its 12 songs. "I have quite an archive here, of stuff I hadn't really been willing to take the time to approach. And then I started looking at it," he says, pausing for a moment to gather his thoughts. "It was interesting, 'cause you forget certain periods of time, and you go back, and listen to it. It can be surprising. ... I tried to make a record that mirrored the interests I have now, y'know. It felt like a
good record for now, so that's what it is." Digging through his past, Case notes, helps reveal which ones have staying power for himself. "It is fun, though, to have a big catalogue of songs and go on the road and be able to sing 'em all, y'know," he continues. "There's something about the songs ... when I go out and play 'em for people, the ones that I've kept and really keep working at, you really keep finding new things in them, too. They keep revealing themselves. And that's why they're fun to sing. And that's what you're looking for."
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That seems to be another parallel to the Folkways spirit, there in Case's words: archiving the past, not just holding it in memory but in a physical recording, means it can be revisited to reveal new, unexpected dimensions of itself. Or maybe it changes because we do—but if it goes unarchived, the chance for us to understand it in new ways all but vanishes, and we're left with disintegrating memories. Asch's success with creating Folkways was one of legacy: none of these sounds he pressed to wax have vanished. And the university's reward for keeping the archive alive and engaging with an audience is the same: the preservation of a living, active history, to revisit and draw inspiration from, music or otherwise. "The other thing that Moses said that gets bounced around a lot in relation to Folkways is that 'anything that is sound is worth recording,'" Arndt recalls. "So not only is there folk music and blues and jazz and a lot of what we now think of as world music [in the collection], but there's sound effects, or the sounds of the junkyard, or the office, or a lot of instructional things: how to play fivestring banjo, for example, or mandolin. There are speeches—the "I have a dream speech," for example—the Watergate hearings are on Folkways. It's all about sound, not only music."
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t's the curse," explains Mad Bomber Society's guitarist/vocalist Rich Bomber—otherwise known as Rich Liukko—from behind the counter at Freecloud Records, his tone revealing both his exasperation and resignation. It's a curse that's has been following the ska/punk diehards since 2005-ish, when the members first started laying down tracks for the group's sophomore album. Today it's shown itself by messing with the power at Freecloud Records, leaving some parts of the old building without light, so Liukko goes about shutting down his store in semi-darkness. According to Liukko, the curse affects all who cross paths with the album, officially called Butchers, Stompers and Cheats. "Every step of the way something weird would happen," says Liukko, over tea, having moved the interview a safe distance away from the store. "With our mixing and mastering engineer, I warned him about the curse and he laughed about it. [Then] the studio got broken into and everything got stolen, except our album." Promising to be as sweaty, fun and unruly as the band's debut, Atomic-AGo-Go, the Bombers waited out not only the curse, but also the natural
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progression of life, as band members pursued careers, bought houses and had children, all to release this album. It speaks to the faith they have in their work. Even though Liukko encouraged his bandmates to take advantage of the last economic boom, putting the album on an indefinite hold to get real jobs, they never abandoned it. "Whenever anybody in the band would go back to listen to it, giving it time away," says Liukko, "they'd listen to it and go, 'Wow, this should come out.'"
Bomber Society safely back to the stage. If not, we're all in trouble because a long-standing tenet of the Bomber's is that there can be no differentiation between fans and the band. "People who like us, are us," says Liukko. "We are part of the crowd. That's been our raison d'être: we are the people, the people are us. Same thing with the album—what we're singing about are the things that happen to you, that happen to me, that happen to us just in life. The stupid shit that happens, that's what we're about."
Hopefully the release party will finally shatter the curse, sending Mad
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ny band working within a wellmapped genre is bound to brush up against the borders of its chosen musical territory: blues makes for the easy example, though in the case of the Breakmen, the band's bluegrass roots hold truer to the same strict limitations. Any creativite urges to develop the sound in new directions have to either filter through the accepted (and often cherished) restrictions of the genre, or abandon them and, potentially, the audience as well.
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When the Breakmen chose to plug in and mic up for the recording and release of Heartland, the group's third album of sweet, sweeping Canadiana, songwriter Lee Watson notes they'd reached such a turning point. "I think that's a crossroads, maybe, that musicians in those [traditional] genres all come across," Watson explains. "And then it's up to you to decide how you want to get past that: whether you want to go deeper in the genre with it, to embellish your sound. Or take a step to the side, [and] progress into newer takes on it. So I think for everyone in those genres,
there's always a time where you realize well, I see we've taken it as far as we can go in the traditional sense. What's next?" Heartland's electric lead lines and liberal use of telecaster seems a natural enough progression for the band itself; its last album, When You Leave Town had drums and pedal steel on it, and while the band came together in a shared love of bluegrass, its members' roots reach into a more eclectic pool of sounds. "We all grew up playing electric music. During the grunge era, I guess," Watson continues. "We all met through bluegrass and jamming, and it was nice; that type of music was really condusive to jamming and hanging out and playing all kinds of stuff within that genre—there's a lot of blues and country and old time and a little bit of jazz thrown into it. After really doing as much as we could within the bluegrass genre, we felt artistically we were a bit stifled, I guess. And in order to expand on our sound, we just started picking up other instruments and going back to electric guitars and drums and electric bass." Heartland's stylistic gamble has paid off—Watson notes that the album's been greeted with more appreciation than trepidation from the band's audiences. "We anticipated some of that [backlash] from the hardcore bluegrass folks, but as it turns out, they wish they played electric guitar too." Paul Blinov
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kind of thing you recorded live or did you piece it together one track at a time? Why? MBF: We had to record a track at a time as I was in and out of town, but it was nice to get the gentlemen that I play live with to play on the EP.
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n advance of releasing his latest album—Yes, Side A, due out in April— Calgarian Michael Bernard Fitzgerald will head across the country, bringing a tour EP, called Yes, Side B - EP, with him. He took the time to answer a few questions about the new EP.
How long did it take to make Yes, Side B - EP from the initial songwriting through to the end of the recording? Michael Bernard Fitzgerald: Of the five tracks, one was written over a year ago. The remaining tracks were written and recorded this past summer. We continued to track into the
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fall and now it's all done. VW: When you were writing the songs, did you come at them in a particular way? Lyrics first? Music first? MBF: These songs were mostly music first. I try to make sure that I have a
balanced breakfast before I get to music or lyrics. So, I guess the balanced breakfast really comes first.
duce. What drew you to him and what did he bring to the process? MBF: He and I worked together on the last album, and over the last couple years he has been playing live with me as well. Made sense for this EP [to be done] from home. What’s the relationship between this EP and your upcoming full-length album, Yes, Side A?
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What were the recording sessions like for this album? Is this the VW:
MBF: They are very different in my opinion. I didn't put the tracks together onto a disc because to me they are both separate but cohesive ideas.
Did you have an idea of what you wanted Yes, Side B - EP to be when you started, or did the finished shape emerge as the writing and recording went along? MBF: I had an idea, but with time the music changed. I Iike where it ended up. VW:
If you were to trace the musical map that led you to Yes, Side B - EP, what would it look like? MBF: The map would be full of paths, scribbles, re-tracing and new paths. As you know, my map would start with a balanced breakfast. VW:
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At home
On the road
Morning
Morning
Dinosaur Jr, You're Living All Over Me
New Order, Power, Corruption & Lies
Noon
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Husker Du, Metal Circus
Wavves, King of the Beach
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13th Floor Elevators, Bull In The Woods
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NEWSOUNDS Lambchop Mr M (Merge) ««««« Lambchop's 11th studio album opens with an upwelling of curtain-raising, Douglas Sirk-ian strings that give way to a gently harrumphed phrase of affectionate exasperation perched around an obscenity, and it ends with one word: "love." In between, the indie stalwarts embark on what feels like a lens-fogged peregrination through the achingly familiar territory of loss and consolation, but reveals itself as a transect that exactingly maps a current human condition. That human—our Everydude—is bandleader Kurt Wagner, who's always written with remarkable bareness and considerable wit and courage about being here/being now/ being him/being us. He doesn't just do the grand passions, either, the ones that routinely get swept into song, but also covers the undignified, ameliorative, inconvenient, absurd, narrow, irksome, gratuitous, clumsy, futile, tedious, provisional aspects of being, individually and collectively. Wagner is a supreme lyrical technician* who traffics in turns of phrase that pivot wildly from line to line—flipping the melodramatic and mundane, forlorn and filthy-minded, consequential and petty, observational and revelatory—collapsing the breadth of human concerns into something like a stylized stream of consciousness, poetic and often comic. He never obscures the minutia, the plodding reality we spend much of our consciousness in even as our willful spirits seethe with longings. Broken things around the house, grudges, eating too fast, being stoned,
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his practice as a musician, his work as a blue-collar tradesman, and taking the dogs out for a piss are all part of Wagner's musical world. Alongside Lisa Germano, Lou Barlow and San Gabriel, he's one of the few musicians who write about pets in proper symmetry to how much of our lives they actually occupy. He gives us a musical world that feels lived in while acknowledging the super-
structure mysteries. His writing is given conviction by his oddly evocative rumbling voice—he can sound conversational or grousing; he easily appropriates an unapologetic funky falsetto; his croons come in a thousand flavours. Over the course of almost 20 years, he's gone from singing about the befuddlements and emotional tsunamis of youth to the strangeness of middle-aged decay, the diminishment of dreams and expectations underlined by cranky knees, sore feet, thin wallets, the reckonings of jerry-rigged lives. Mr M had its genesis in the death of Vic Chesnutt, Wagner's friend and sometimes collaborator. (Chesnutt has extraordinarily long reach; an artist's artist, he's the Kevin Bacon of three
decades of masterful musical undergroundlings, and there've been several excellent musical 21-gun salutes to the man since his death just after Christmas, 2009.) The album is dedicated to him and apparently influenced by his passing, although the songs are far from gloomy and well within the Lambchop oeuvre, developing longtime themes while embracing new musical syntheses and moods. After the dense clarion beauty of the last record, Ohio, this is a spacious and elegiac album— albeit oozing with Lambchop's hallmark sonic texture. There are long stretches of wordless song and a couple instrumentals, simmering in Tony Crow's brilliantine piano, which feels more with every record like an extended universe of Peanuts music, with the same appeal to memory, nostalgia, movement, and innocence. Crow's piano works with Lambchop's exceptional rhythm section to exert a bracing effect on the weight of the strings and Wagner's concrete-and-bronze voice; it makes the music sparkle like sunlight on a brackish pond. They wear their virtuosity with ease, no showboating, but an extravagance in approach and absolute sincerity in the many genres they use and transform. No band takes more palpable joy in playing together, and the instrumentals are the purest expression of that. And what better tribute to Chesnutt? Love is the last word, because in the best parts of us, love is what we have, what we do, what we make. Love is what we hope endures. MARY CHRISTA O'KEEFE
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King Giant Dismal Hollow (Graveyard Hill)
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King Giant could have only come out of the Southern US. The melding of the baddest of bad attitudes, hardened vocals and sludgy guitar riffs creates a compelling sound and King Giant nails all three on their album. The opening track "Appomattox" sets up engaging guitar solos that work well with a rhythm section interested in creating a background that builds up cyclically. Lyrics decrying the killing fields pull you into a narrative that means something to the writer, and is backed up with a heavy beat that emphasizes the commentary. It's a sound that holds up throughout the album, taking the occasional turn for the Hank III sound. Overall, though, Dismal Hollow holds heavy guitar solos and clear whiskey drenched vocals over a sludge-filled background that works.
Edmonton's own Görgön Hörde shows that punk rock is alive and well on its second full-length release. Year of the Görgön effectively combines old-school punk and heavy rock with some tracks having more of a notable country twang ("Cheap Cocaine") or classic-rock kick ("Happy Birthday") to them. "Playstation Generation" is a highlight with its catchy chop-chop guitar/drum theme and simple lyrics that poke fun at video game addiction ("I lived for the game / Soon it ate my life / Could't wait / My God someone save the princess!") However, the lyrics don't get any better than in "She's Got the Herp": "Now it burns everytime I pee / I got me a sexually transmitted tragedy" would make a great jingle in an ad for practising safe sex.
The mashy guitar crunch of opener "True Shred Guitar" is as offputting as it is telling about the rest of Reign of Terror, Sleigh Bells' sophomore album: metal buzzsaw guitar tones smashed up against Alexis Krauss's angelic, peppy voice, resulting in a messy, thin sound that plays to neither component's strength. When they focus on one—the slow, feel-better hug-pop of "End of the Line"—some well-rounded pop emerges, but that's the exception: mostly, songs like "Crush," "Comeback Kid" and especially "Demons" sound like they're self-consciously being clever for clever's sake, conjuring up cheerleader chants over Scorpions guitar riffs. The results won't even rock you like a steady wind, much less a hurricane.
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Bruce Springsteen "We Take Care of Our Own"
Only the Boss, man, could really sell this sentiment so earnestly today and get away with it. Uplifting guitar, driving drum beats, lines like "I've been stumblin' on good hearts turned to stone / The road of good intentions gone dry as a bone," ring out loud and clear. It's the earnestness in that husk of a voice that makes it all fit together and lift, though: Springsteen's still the guy in charge because you really believe that when he says something, he means it.
Zola Jesus "In Your Nature (David Lynch Remix)" The epic swells of one of the Contaus LP's more upbeat cuts gets the David Lynch treatment, which, surprisingly lightens the mood instead of adding shadow: the beat slows down, Nika Roza Danilova's operatic vocals raising up over a warped guitar chug and subtle synth wash, until even brighter guitar strums kick in for the song's miniature chorus. Unexpectedly pure, given the complex moods usually found in both artists' output.
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MUSIC NOTES Guitar Republic / Fri, Feb 24 (7:30 pm) If I were to tell you that a new guitar supergroup out of Italy was coming to town, you'd be all "wheedely-wheedely-wheedely-waaaaah! Metal!" right? Well you'd be wrong, buster. Playing acoustic guitars, Guitar Republic is made up of three of Italy's finest players. "Awww, acoustic?" I can hear you saying. Check it bub. Google the group's song "Funky Sex Republic" and get back to me, aight? (Arden Theatre, $40)
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Black Phoenix Orchestra / Sat, Feb 25 (8 pm) Calgarybased psychedelic rock band Black Phoenix Orchestra won that city's Xposure 2011 contest—put on by radio station X92.9, hence the name—and walked away with $25 000. There are plenty of dark alleys around the venue and since it's cold out, ski masks are de rigueur anyway, but I'll need a crew of at least eight, so who's with me? (Haven Social Club)
Edmonton Youth Orchestra / Sun, Feb 26 (2 pm) If you ever need to feel bad about the dumb shit you're doing with your life, just check out the Edmonton Youth Orchestra. Made up of youth 11 – 24, these kids are going places like the concert halls of the world, not their parents' basement when they get evicted. Again. (Winspear Centre, $10 – $15)
Fur Eel / Fri, Feb 24 (7 pm) Native to Regina's Wascana Lake, the Fur Eel is a type of eel that is about to release its sophomore album of funky soul jams and will hit our town this Friday. (Brixx)
Everytime I Die / Mon, Feb 27 (6 pm) You could wait until the summer and catch Every Time I Die at the Warped Tour, but in a way more intimate venue like Avenue Theatre, you know the mosh is gonna be brought like 10 times harder, so get with it. (Avenue Theatre, $20)
Royal Canoe / Sat, Feb 25 (8 pm) The only city colder than Edmonton on the Prairies is Winnipeg, so when that city's Royal Canoe rolls into town on the back of the band's cleverly titled EP Extended Play, be sure to give them a warm welcome—you see what I did there? (Wunderbar)
Joel Crichton / Wed, Feb 29 (8 pm) Fighting back against the "monstrous" Gregorian monks whose calendar gave us an extra day every four years—except years that end in 0—the Wunderbar is presenting Joel Crichton. Inspired by a recent trip through Europe and Africa, Crichton has a batch of new songs to play. (Wunderbar)
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Classical Stanley A. Milner Library–AV Rm The music of Haydn and Beethoven: The Enterprise String Quartet, featuring members of the U of A Department of Music, the ESO, the Enterprise String Quartet; 12:10-1pm
DJs 180 Degrees DJ every Thu Black dog Freehouse Underdog: Underdog Sound Revue: garage, soul, blues with Stu Chel; Main Floor: Soul/reggae/ punk/funk/junk with DJ Jaime Del Norte; Wooftop Lounge: Various musical flavas including funk, indie dance/nu disco, breaks, drum and bass and house with DJ Gundam Brixx Radio Brixx Century Room Lucky 7: Retro '80s with house DJ every Thu; 7pm-close Chrome Lounge 123 Ko every Thu THE Common So Necessary: Hip hop, classic hip hop, funk, soul, r&b, '80s, oldies and everything in between with Sonny Grimezz, Shortround, Twist every Thu Crown Pub Break Down Thu at the Crown: D&B with DJ Kaplmplx, DJ Atomik with guests Druid Irish Pub DJ every Thu; 9pm electric rodeo–Spruce Grove DJ every Thu FILTHY McNASTY’S Something Diffrent every Thursday with DJ Ryan Kill FLASH Night Club Indust:real Assembly: Goth and Industrial Night with DJ Nanuck; no minors; 10pm (door); no cover FLUID LOUNGE Take Over Thursdays: Industry Night; 9pm FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Requests every Thu with DJ Damian HALO Fo Sho: every Thu with Allout DJs DJ Degree, Junior Brown HILLTOP PUB The Sinder Sparks Show; every Thu and Fri; 9:30pm-close KAS BAR Urban House: every Thu with DJ Mark Stevens; 9pm Level 2 Lounge All Vinyl Week; 9:30pm Lucky 13 Sin Thu with DJ Mike Tomas On The Rocks Salsaholic: every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; salsa DJ to follow Overtime–Downtown Thursdays at Eleven: Electronic Techno and Dub Step rendezvous Metal night every Thu Taphouse–St Albert Eclectic mix every Thu with DJ Dusty Grooves Union Hall 3 Four All Thursdays: rock, dance, retro, top 40 with DJ Johnny Infamous Wild Bill’s–Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close
FRI FEB 24 ARDEN THEATRE Guitar Republic; 7:30pm; $40 at TicketMaster, Arden box office Atlantic Trap and Gill Duff Robison; 9pm Avenue Theatre Attention To The Wounded, Autopsy of an Icon, Stallord (EP release show); 6:30pm; $10 (adv)/$12 (door) Blue Chair Café Winter Roots n Blues Roundup: Sean Pinchin presented by FolkwaysAlive!; 8:30pm; $20
Blues on Whyte The Avey Brothers bohemia Makin' Noise, Just Joe Clarke present: Way TOO Much Fun: featuring paintings by Just Joe Clarke and music by Patrick Dunn, Serious MF, Electric Avenue, DrkWtr, Schwag Dankus; 8:30pm; no minors; $10 (door) Boneyard Ale House Mustard Smile; 9pm Brittany's Lounge Vixenesque (New Burlesque troupe), music by The Baretones; 9pm ; no cover Brixx bar Early Show: Stone Iris, Fur Eel, 7pm (door); Late show: followed at 10pm by Options Caffrey's in the Park Big Red Shoe (rock); 9pm CARROT Live music every Fri; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door) CASINO EDMONTON The Al Barrett Band CASINO YELLOWHEAD Jetstar (pop/rock); 9pm Century Casino Jim McLennan, Dave Clarke; 7:30pm (door), 9pm; $25 (door) Cha Island Tea Co It's a Take Over; 9pm; donation Coast to Coast Open stage every Fri; 9:30pm Crown and Anchor Dawn In The City (rock); 9pm The Den Pub The Piano Man Live; 9pm Devaney's Duane Allen; 9pm DV8 N.N. with Van Gohst and Sir Ma'am Ma'am; 9pm Eddie Shorts Big Deal Festival Place Tim Hus (country); 7:30pm; sold out FRESH START BISTRO Barbara Meyer; 7-10pm; $10 Good Neighbor Pub T.K. and the Honey Badgers every friday; 8:30-midnight; no cover Haven Social Club Mike Roste (CD release), Blackstone, The Collective West (folk); 8pm; $10 Hilltop Pub Better Us Than Strangers, No Need For Boredom; 9pm Irish Club Jam session every Fri; 8pm; no cover Jeffrey's Café Meen Furlong, Davies Trio, David Riddel (contemporary jazz); $10 Jekyll and Hyde Pub Headwind (classic pop/ rock); every Fri; 9pm; no cover LBs Pub The Prairie Dawgs; 9:30pm-2am Leva Jill Pollock, Jon Manning, Cory Vanderjagt, Ben, Journey; no cover Lizard Lounge Rock 'n' roll open mic every Fri; 8:30pm; no cover Maclab Centre– Leduc Lunch at Allens: musical revue by Murray McLauchlan, Cindy Church, Marc Jordan, Ian Thomas; 7:30pm; $43 (adv adult)/$40 (adv student/senior) New City Legion Fire Next Time (7"Party), Old Sins, Give 'em Hell Boys, Jesse Lebourdais; no minors; 8:30pm; $10 (door) New West Hotel Rene and the Blazers Nola Creole The Frolics, 9pm, $7 (adv) On the Rocks Exit 303 (rock); 9pm Overtime Broiler– Sherwood Park The famous all-request Dueling Piano Show
PAWN SHOP February Sonic Band of the Month: Scenic Route To Alaska, One Way State; 8pm Queen Alexandra Community Hall Edmonton Blues Society: Forty Below; 8pm; $5 (member)/$10 (guest) Red Piano Bar Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Fri; 9pm2am Rendezvous Pub Mindweiser, Hammer By Sound, Anything But, Rock And Or Roll Dance Party, Hammered By Sound, Mindweiser; 8pm Rose and Crown Stuart Bendall Royal Alberta Museum Theatre Peter Case; 9pm; $20 (door) St Basil’s Cultural Centre Full Moon Folk Club: The Breakmen (Indie folk); 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $18 (adv at Acoustic Music, TIX on the Square/$22 (door) Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Tony Dizon; 9pm Sherlock Holmes– WEM Andrew Scott The Shop Live Blues Music featuring Harpdog Brown and Graham Guest; $10 studio music foundation The Dirt Bags, BDFM, Stab Twist Pull and Fuquored Vee Lounge–Apex Casino The Hitmen (rock, country) Wild Bill’s–Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close Wunderbar Krang, Gab'n, Rhythm of Cruelty Yardbird Suite Tania Gill Quartet; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $18 (member)/$22 (guest) at Ticketmaster.ca
electric rodeo– Spruce Grove DJ every Fri FILTHY McNASTY'S Shake yo ass every Fri with DJ SAWG FLUID LOUNGE Hip hop and dancehall; every Fri Funky Buddha–Whyte Ave Top tracks, rock, retro with DJ Damian; every Fri HILLTOP PUB The Sinder Sparks Show; every Thu and Fri; 9:30pm-close junction bar and eatery LGBT Community: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm Level 2 Lounge All Vinyl Week; 9:30pm Newcastle Pub House, dance mix every Fri with DJ Donovan Overtime–Downtown Fridays at Eleven: Rock hip hop, country, top forty, techno Rednex–Morinville DJ Gravy from the Source 98.5 every Fri RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie, rock, funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge Fuzzion Friday: with Crewshtopher, Tyler M, guests; no cover Suede Lounge Juicy DJ spins every Fri Suite 69 Every Fri Sat with DJ Randall-A Treasury In Style Fri: DJ Tyco and Ernest Ledi; no line no cover for ladies all night long Union Hall Ladies Night every Fri Vinyl Dance Lounge Connected Las Vegas Fridays Y AFTERHOURS Foundation Fridays: Freedom Fridays Launch with Sydney Blu; 11:30pm
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ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage with Trace Jordan 1st and 3rd Sat; 7pm-12 Art Gallery of Alberta Theatre Canadian Classics, Folkways Style: with Roy Forbes, Maria Dunn, Jim McLennan, 2-3:30pm, $10; The Blues of Folkways111: with Peter Case, Sean Pinchin, Holger Peterson, 4:155:15pm, $10 Atlantic Trap and Gill Duff Robison Avenue Theatre Rend (CD release), guests; 7:30pm; $10 (door) Bailey Theatre– Camrose Camrose Country Opry; 7pm; $8 (door) Black Dog Freehouse Hair of the Dog: Give 'Em Hell Boys (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover Blue Chair Café Winter Roots n Blues Roundup: Jim McLennan and Dave Clarke presented by FolkwaysAlive!; 8:30pm; $20 Blues on Whyte Every Sat afternoon Jam; Late show: The Avey Brothers bohemia art+muzak (femme fatale edition) featuring art by Erika Love, Keshia Narcissus, Krista Acheson, Pixie Sun Child, Tamara Newton, Tamara Thompson, Thera Zerr; 9pm; no minors; no cover Boneyard Ale House Mustard Smile; 9pm Brixx Bar Netherward, This Is War, Mortillery, The Acid Helps; 9pm
Winspear Glorious Voices: William Eddins (conductor, organ, harpsichord), Jeanine De Bique (soprano), Christopher Mayell (tenor), Cantilon Chamber Choir, Da Camera Singers, i Coristi Chamber Choir, Ukrainian Male Chorus of Edmonton; 7:30pm ; $20-$75
DJs 180 Degrees DJ every Fri AZUCAR PICANTE DJ Papi and DJ Latin Sensation every Fri BAR-B-BAR DJ James; every Fri; no cover BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every Friday DJs spin on the main floor, Underdog and the Wooftop Blacksheep Pub Bash: DJ spinning retro to rock classics to current Boneyard Ale House The Rock Mash-up: DJ NAK spins videos every Fri; 9pm; no cover BRIXX BAR Options with Greg Gory and Eddie Lunchpail; every Fri BUDDY’S DJ Arrow Chaser every Fri; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm Buffalo Underground R U Aware Friday: Featuring Neon Nights CHROME LOUNGE Platinum VIP every Fri THE Common Boom The Box: every Fri; nu disco, hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation plus residents Echo and Shortround The Druid Irish Pub DJ every Fri; 9pm
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Caffrey's in the Park Big Red Shoe; 9pm CASINO EDMONTON The Al Barrett Band CASINO YELLOWHEAD Jetstar (pop/rock) Century Casino Winter Roots & Blues Roundup III: Blues Revue with Dave Babcock, Mark Dufresne, guests; 9pm, 7:30pm (door); $25 Cha Island Tea Co It's a Take Over; 9pm; donation Coast to Coast Live bands every Sat; 9:30pm Crown and Anchor Pub Dawn In The City (rock); 9pm Crown Pub Acoustic blues open stage with Marshall Lawrence, every Sat, 2-6pm; every Sat, 12-2am Devaney's Duane Allen THE DISH NEK Trio (jazz); every Sat, 6pm DV8 Jezibelle, Kill Matilda, Demon Republik, Lordosis; 9pm Eddie Shorts Blue Bones Edmonton Event Centre Zeds Dead–The Living Dead Tour (dance/ electronic); 9pm (door); no minors; tickets at Foosh, Shadified, Restricted Elite (Kingsway), Occultist (WEM), connectedevents. ca Expressionz Café Open stage for original songs, hosted by Karyn Sterling and Randall Walsh; 2-5pm; admission by donation Filthy's Mayday and the Beatcreeps, Wolfsons; 4pm; no cover FRESH START BISTRO Barbara Meyer; 8-11pm; $10 Gas Pump Club Open Blues Jam at the Pump; 3:30pm
Haven Jon Bryant , guests (Christian pop); 8pm HillTop Pub Sat afternoon roots jam with Pascal, Simon and Dan, 3:30-6:30pm; evening Hooliganz Live music every Sat Iron Boar Pub Jazz in Wetaskiwin featuring jazz trios the 1st Sat each month; $10 Jeffrey's Café Diana Stabel (pop/rock singer/ songwriter); $10 l.b.'s pub Sat afternoon Jam with Gator and Friends, 5-9pm; Late Show: Harpdog Brown with Graham Guest; 9:30pm La Pisana Mardi Gras with Mr Lucky; 8:30pm New City Freshman Years: J Reds (hip-hop), Midwest Mindset (hiphop), L. Luciano (hip-hop), guests; no minors; $10 (door) New West Hotel Country jam every Sat, 3-6pm; Late show: Rene and the Blazers this week, 9pm NOLA Boogie Patrol, 9pm; $10 (adv)/$15 (door) O2's West Edmonton Open Blues Jam Saturday; 1pm O’byrne’s Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm Oil City Grindhouse Oil City Derby Girls: Roller Derby Bout OCDG All-Stars vs. Kootenay Kannibelles; 6pm (door); $10 (adv)/$15 (door/free (kids 10 and under) On the Rocks Exit 303 (rock); 9pm Overtime Broiler– Sherwood Park The famous all-request Dueling Piano Show; 10pm
Pawn Shop Mad Bomber Society (album release party), The Chokeouts, Butchers, Stompers, Cheats Queen Alexandra Hall Edmonton Blues Society: Forty Below (Lynne Chwyl, Doug Crighton); 7:30pm (door), 8pm (music) Red Piano Bar Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm2am Rendezvous Pub Display Of Decay, Hammerdrone, Decapitatedchaos; 8pm (door); $10 River Cree–The Venue The Righteous Brothers’ Bill Medley; $39.50 Rose and Crown Stuart Bendall Royal Canadian Legion–Leduc Wolves Of Chernobyl, Taking Juno, Unity Through Tragedy, Attention To The Wounded, Last Chance Hollywood (metal); all ages; 6pm (door), 7pm (show); $10 Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Tony Dizon; 9pm Sherlock Holmes– WEM Andrew Scott Sideliners Pub Sat open stage; 3-7pm Stanley A. Milner Library–Centennial Room (A) Reading Roots & Blues: with John Einerson, Janice McDonald, Tom Weber, 10:30-11:30am, free (donations); Folk Styles Guitar: with Jim McLennan and Dave Clarke, 12:15-1:15pm, free (donations); Music Migrations: with Carl Urion, 2:15pm, free (donations) Starlite Room The
Spins, Seven Minute Burn, The Greys; 9pm Vee Lounge–Apex Casino The Hitmen (rock, country) Wunderbar Royal Canoe, Doug Hoyer, Martyrs; 8:30pm Yardbird Suite Matt Slocum Trio; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $20 (member)/$24 (guest) at Ticketmaster.ca
Classical the Arden Oliver!: Cantilon Choirs; 2:30pm; $40 (adult)/$20 (student) at TIX on the Square Winspear Glorious Voices: William Eddins (conductor, organ, harpsichord), Jeanine De Bique (soprano), Christopher Mayell (tenor), Cantilon Chamber Choir, Da Camera Singers, i Coristi Chamber Choir, Ukrainian Male Chorus of Edmonton; 8pm; $20-$75
DJs 180 Degrees Street VIBS: Reggae night every Sat AZUCAR PICANTE DJ Touch It, hosted by DJ Papi; every Sat BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Saturday evenings feature DJs on three levels; Main Floor: The Menace Sessions: Alt rock/Electro/Trash with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic hiphop and reggae with DJ Sonny Grimezz Blacksheep Pub DJ every Sat Boneyard Ale House DJ Sinistra Saturdays: 9pm BUDDY'S Feel the rhythm every Sat with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm Buffalo
Underground Head Mashed In Saturday: Mashup Night Common Smalltown DJs; 9pm Druid Irish Pub DJ every Sat; 9pm electric rodeo– Spruce Grove DJ every Sat FILTHY McNASTY'S Fire up your night every Saturday with DJ SAWG Fluid Lounge Scene Saturday's Relaunch: Party; hip-hop, R&B and Dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Top tracks, rock, retro every Sat with DJ Damian HALO For Those Who Know: house every Sat with DJ Junior Brown, Luke Morrison, Nestor Delano, Ari Rhodes junction bar and eatery LGBT Community: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm Level 2 Lounge All Vinyl Week; 9:30pm Newcastle Pub Top 40 requests every Sat with DJ Sheri New City Legion Polished Chrome: every Sat with DJs Blue Jay, The Gothfather, Dervish, Anonymouse; no minors; free (5-8pm)/$5 (ladies)/$8 (gents after 8pm) Overtime–Downtown Saturdays at Eleven: R'n'B, hip hop, reggae, Old School Palace Casino Show Lounge DJ every Sat PAWN SHOP Transmission Saturdays: Indie rock, new wave, classic punk with DJ Blue Jay and Eddie Lunchpail; 9pm (door); free (before 10pm)/$5 (after 10pm) RED STAR Indie rock, hip
VENUE GUIDE 180 Degrees 10730-107 St, 780.414.0233 Accent European Lounge 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 Atlantic Trap and Gill 7704-104 St, 780.432.4611 Avenue Theatre 9030118 Ave, 780.477.2149 Bend Lounge 14743-40 Ave, 780.430.7171 Billiard Club 200, 10505 Whyte Ave, 780.432.0335 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082 Blackjack's Roadhouse–Nisku 2110 Sparrow Drive, Nisku, 780.986.8522 Blacksheep Pub 11026 Jasper Ave, 780.420.0448 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 Blue Pear Restaurant 10643-123 St, 780.482.7178 BLUES ON WHYTE 1032982 Ave, 780.439.3981 Bo Diddly's Roadhouse 11650 142 St, 780.454.3558 Bohemia 10217-97 St Boneyard Ale House 9216-34 Ave, 780.437.2663 Brittanys Lounge 10225-97 St (behind Winspear stage door) Brixx Bar 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636
Caffrey's in the Park 1-99 Wye Rd,
Sherwood Par, 780.449.7468 Crown and Anchor 15277 Castle Downs Rd, 780-472-7696 CARROT Café 9351-118 Ave, 780.471.1580 Casino Edmonton 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 Casino Yellowhead 12464-153 St, 780 424 9467 Century grill 3975 Calgary Tr NW, 780.431.0303 Cha Island Tea Co 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 CHROME LOUNGE 132 Ave, Victoria Trail Coast to Coast 5552 Calgary Tr, 780.439.8675 Common Lounge 10124-
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124 St Crown and Anchor 15277 Castledowns Rd, 780.472.7696 Crown Pub 10709-109 St, 780.428.5618 The Den Pub 412, 6655-178 St, 780.487.5953 Devaney's 9013-88 Ave, 780-465-4834 Devaney’s Irish Pub 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 Diesel Ultra Lounge 11845 Wayne Gretzky Drive, 780.704.CLUB THE DISH 12417 Stony Plain Rd, 780.488.6641 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8307-99 St Early Stage Saloon 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain Eddie Shorts 10713-124 St, 780.453.3663 EDMONTON EVENTS CENTRE WEM Phase III, 780.489.SHOW Electric Rodeo–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 Elephant and Castle– Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave Expressionz Café 993870 Ave, 780.437.3667 FIDDLER’S ROOST 890699 St FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 FLASH Night Club 10018105 St, 780.996.1778 FLOW Lounge 11815 Wayne Gretzky Dr, 780.604. CLUB Fluid Lounge 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 FUNKY BUDDHA 10341-82 Ave, 780.433.9676 Gas Pump Club 10166114 St Good Earth Coffee House and Bakery 9942-108 St Good Neighbor Pub 11824-103 St HALO 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.HALO haven social club
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15120A (basement), Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.6010 HillTop Pub 8220-106 Ave, 780.490.7359 Hogs Den Pub 9, 14220 Yellowhead Tr HOOLIGANZ 10704-124 St, 780.995.7110 Hydeaway 10209-100 Ave, 780.426.5381 Iron Boar Pub 4911-51st St, Wetaskiwin JAMMERS PUB 11948-127 Ave, 780.451.8779 J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 jeffrey’s café 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 JEKYLL AND HYDE 10209100 Ave, 780.426.5381 junction bar and eatery 10242-106 St, 780.756.5667 KAS BAR 10444-82 Ave, 780.433.6768 L.B.’s Pub 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEGENDS PUB 6104-172 St, 780.481.2786 LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 Lit Italian Wine Bar 10132-104 St Lizard Lounge 13160118 Ave Maclab Centre for the Arts–Leduc 4308-50 St, Leduc Marybeth's Coffee House–Beaumont 5001-30 Ave, Beaumont, 780.929.2203 McDougall United Church 10025-101 St Newcastle PuB 6108-90 Ave, 780.490.1999 New City Legion 8130 Gateway Boulevard (Red Door) New West Hotel 15025111 Ave, 780-489-2511 Nisku Inn 1101-4 St NOLA Creole Kitchen & Music House 11802124 St, 780.451.1390, experiencenola.com NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535-109A Ave O2's West Edmonton
11062-156 St, 780.448.2255 O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 Oil City Grindhouse 14420-112 St ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 Orlando's 1 15163-121 St Overtime–Downtown 10304-111 St, 780.465.6800 Overtime Broiler– Sherwood Park 101 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 780.570.5588 Overtime Whitemud Crossing, 4211-106 St, 780.485.1717 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 Playback Pub 594 Hermitage Rd, 130 Ave, 40 St Pleasantview Community Hall 1086057 Ave Pourhouse 10354-82 Ave, 780.757.7687 Queen Alexandra Community Hall 10425 University Ave, 780.439.9046 REDNEX BAR–Morinville 10413-100 Ave, Morinville, 780.939.6955 Red Piano Bar 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 Rendezvous 10108149 St Ric’s Grill 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 Robertson-Wesley United Church 10209123 St ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 Robert Tegler Student Centre Concordia University College, 73 St, 112 Ave, 780.479.9355 Rose and Crown 10235101 St Royal Canadian Legion–Leduc 5210 50 Ave, Ledu, 780.986.1455 R Pub 16753-100 St ,
780.457.1266
St Basil’s Cultural Centre 10819-71 Ave
Second Cup–89 Ave 8906-149 St Second Cup– Sherwood Park 4005 Cloverbar Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929 • Summerwood Summerwood Centre, Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929 The Shop 12545-125 St Sideliners Pub 11018127 St, 780.453.6006 Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924 Sportsman's Lounge 8170-50 St Stanley A. Milner Library 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq STARLITE ROOM 10030102 St, 780.428.1099 STEEPS TEA LOUNGE– Whyte Ave 11116-82 Ave Suede Lounge 11806 Jasper Ave, 780.482.0707 Suite 69 2 Fl, 8232
Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969
Taphouse 9020 McKenney Ave, St Albert, 780.458.0860 Treasury 10004 Jasper Ave, 7870.990.1255, thetreasurey.ca TWO ROOMS 10324 Whyte Ave, 780.439.8386 Vee Lounge–Apex Casino–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 Vinyl Dance Lounge 10740 Jasper Ave, 780.428.8655, vinylretrolounge.com Wild Bill’s–Red Deer Quality Inn North Hill, 7150-50 Ave, Red Deer, 403.343.8800 Winspear Centre 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com Yellowhead Brewery 10229-105 St, 780.423.3333 Yesterdays Pub 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295
hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Rezzo, DJ Mkhai Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M Suede Lounge DJ Nic-E spins every Sat Suite 69 Every Fri Sat with DJ Randall-A TEMPLE Oh Snap! Oh Snap with Degree, Cool Beans, Specialist, Spenny B and Mr. Nice Guy and Ten 0; every Sat 9pm Union Hall Celebrity Saturdays: every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous Vinyl Dance Lounge Signature Saturdays Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays
SUN FEB 26 Beer Hunter–St Albert Open stage/jam every Sun; 2-6pm Blackjack's Roadhouse–Nisku Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett Blue Chair Café Sunday Brunch: PM Bossa; 10:30am-2:30pm; donations Blue Pear Restaurant Jazz on the Side Sun: Audrey Ochoa (trombone); 6pm; $25 if not dining Blues on Whyte Jessie Dee and Jaquie B DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB Celtic open stage every Sun with Keri-Lynne Zwicker; 5:30pm; no cover Double D's Open jam every Sun; 3-8pm Eddie Shorts Open stage with Dan Daniels every Sun FILTHY McNASTY'S Rock and Soul Sundays with DJ Sadeeq Hogs Den Pub Open Jam: hosted; open jam every Sun, all styles welcome; 3-7pm Hydeaway Music Hootinanny: The Bix Mix Boys' (bluegrass, roots); 7pm Newcastle Pub Sun Soul Service (acoustic jam): Willy James and Crawdad Cantera; 3-6:30pm NEW CITY LEGION DIY Sunday Afternoons: 4pm (door), 5pm , 6pm, 7pm, 8pm (bands) O2's North Edmonton Barsnbands.com's O2's North Sunday Blues Jam: The Vindicators O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am On the Rocks Harry Wojak (CD release), The Kyler Shogen Band and Puremud ORLANDO'S 2 PUB Open stage jam every Sun; 4pm Pawn Shop Nervous Wreck, Maintain Status Quo, The Mange; 8pm Pourhouse Open mic for singer-songwriters Stanley A. Milner Library–Edmonton Room (B) Writing Roots & Blues: with Peter North (interview with author John Einarson), 1-2pm; Celtic Connection: With Roddy Campbell, Andy Donnelly, 2:15-3:15pm; free (donations) Stanley A. MIlner Library Theatre A CKUA Radio Network Special Event: Roy's Record Room Live, 3:305pm TWO ROOMS Live Jam every Sun with Jeremiah;
5-9pm; no cover; $10 (dinner) Wunderbar Whiskey Pigs Yellowhead Brewery Open Stage: Every Sun, 8pm
Classical the Arden Oliver!: Cantilon Choirs; 2:30pm; $40 (adult)/$20 (student) at TIX on the Square Robert Tegler Student Centre Concordia Symphony Orchestra; 2pm; $12 (adult)/$10 (student/ senior); at TIX on the Square, at the door McDougall United Church Fusion of Voices: Vocal Alchemy with Edmonton Youth Choir, Jordan Van Biert (conductor); 7:30pm ; $15/$12 (adv)/$17/$15 (door) at TIX on the Square Winspear Edmonton Senior Youth Orchestra, Intermediate Youth; 2pm; $15 (adult)/$10 (student/ senior) at TIX on the Square
DJs BACKSTAGE TAP AND GRILL Industry Night: every Sun with Atomic Improv, Jameoki and DJ Tim BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sundays: A fantastic voyage through '60s and '70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy. Dance parties have been known to erupt FLOW Lounge Stylus Sun SAVOY MARTINI LOUNGE Reggae on Whyte: RnR Sun with DJ IceMan; no minors; 9pm; no cover
MON FEB 27 AVENUE THeATRE Every Time I Die, Terror, Stray From the Path, Former Thieves; 6pm BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover Blues on Whyte Sonny Rhodes Devaney's Irish Pub Singer/songwriter open stage every Mon; 8pm Jubilee Auditorium Jann Arden, guests; 7pm (door), 8pm (show); all ages; $59.50, $79.50, $99.50 New West Hotel Jess Lee(country); 9pm North Pointe Community Church Good Buddies Blues Band and Friends Awareness Concert; fundraiser to support travel expenses to perform at the 2012 Special Olympics Canada Winter Games Opening Ceremonies in St Albert Overtime Broiler Overtime's Acoustic Open Stage; 9pm Pawn Shop Tyson's Dirty Thirty–Metal Monday: with Into Eternity, The Noumenon, Raw DMonday; 7pm PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm Rose Bowl/Rouge Lounge Acoustic open stage every Mon; 9pm Wunderbar Noel Johnson, Victoria Baldwin, Chris Daly Yellowhead Brewery Kelly Nall and Julie Jonas
DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock
with DJ Blue Jay Crown Pub Mixmashitup Mon Industry Night: with DJ Fuzze, J Plunder (DJs to bring their music and mix mash it up) FILTHY McNASTY'S Metal Mondays with DJ Tyson Lucky 13 Industry Night every Mon with DJ Chad Cook NEW CITY LEGION Madhouse Mon: Punk/ metal/etc with DJ Smart Alex
TUE FEB 28 Blues on Whyte Sonny Rhodes Brixx Bar Ruby Tuesdays guest with host Mark Feduk; $5 after 8pm; featuring: Swear By The Moon, Marco Taucer Druid Irish Pub Open stage every Tue; with Chris Wynters, 9pm L.B.’s Tue Blues Jam with Ammar; 9pm-1am New City Trusty Chords Tuesdays: Stuart Hoye, Ben Olson, Scott Peters, James Morissey, Blair Dover; no minors; $5 (door) New West Hotel Jess Lee (country) O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm Padmanadi Open stage every Tue; with Mark Davis; all ages; 7:3010:30pm Pawn Shop Whiskey Tuesday's: Diehatzu Hijets (CD release), Action News Team R Pub Open stage jam every Tue; hosted by Gary and the Facemakers; 8pm Second Cup– Summerwood Open stage/open mic every Tue; 7:30pm; no cover Sherlock Holmes– WEM Tony Dizon Wunderbar Rococode, Wilder Than We, Marlaena Moore Yardbird Suite Tue Night Sessions: No Rules Trio featuring Bob Tildesley; 7:30pm (door); 8pm (show); $5
DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: alternative retro and not-so-retro, electronic and Euro with Eddie Lunchpail; Wooftop: One Too Many Tuesdays with Rootbeard Buddys DJ Arrow Chaser every CRown Pub Live Hip Hop Tue: freestyle hip hop with DJ Xaolin and Mc Touch DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly, Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue NEW CITY LEGION High Anxiety Variety Society Bingo vs. karaoke with Ben Disaster, Anonymouse every Tue; no minors; 4pm-3am; no cover RED STAR Experimental Indie Rock, Hip Hop, Electro with DJ Hot Philly; every Tue
WED FEB 29 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Glitter Gulch: live music once a month Billiard Club Feb Fest II:Sara Isabel, The Greys (rock); 10pm Blues on Whyte Sonny Rhodes CARROT Café Rhythms of the Earth: Celebrating Black History Month: People Poet, featuring local poets & song writers; 7:30-9:30pm Cha Island Tea Co Whyte Noise Drum Circle: Join local drummers for a few hours of
beats and fun; 6pm Crown Pub The D.A.M.M Jam: Open stage/original plugged in jam with Dan, Miguel and friends every Wed Devaney's Duff Robison DV 8 Tavern All in Fault (Leap Year Party); 9pm eddie shorts Good Time Jamboree with Charlie Scream; Every Wed Elephant and Castle– Whyte Ave Open mic every Wed (unless there's an Oilers game); no cover Expressionz Café Hole in Guitar (CD relase), Jimmy Whiffen (CD release); 7pm Festival Place REALTOR® Café Series: Nathan Rogers (sings the songs of Stan Rogers); 7:30pm; $18 Fiddler's Roost Little Flower Open Stage every Wed with Brian Gregg; 8pm-12 Good Earth Coffee House and Bakery Breezy Brian Gregg; every Wed; 12-1pm HAVEN SOCIAL Club Open stage every Wed with Jonny Mac, 8:30pm, free HOOLIGANZ Open stage every Wed with host Cody Nouta; 9pm New West Hotel Jess Lee (country) Nisku Inn Troubadours and Tales: 1st Wed every month; with Tim Harwill, guests; 8-10pm Playback Pub Open Stage every Wed hosted by JTB; 9pm-1am PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:3011pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member) Red Piano Bar Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 Second Cup–149 St Open stage with Alex Boudreau; 7:30pm Sherlock Holmes–WEM Tony Dizon Wunderbar Joel Crichton, Prairie Nights
Classical McDougall United Church John Mahon and Marthe Wildsmith (clarinet, piano); 12:1012:50pm; free
DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: RetroActive Radio: Alternative '80s and '90s, post punk, new wave, garage, Brit, mod, rock and roll with LL Cool Joe; Wooftop: Soul/Breaks with Dr. Erick Brixx Bar Really Good... Eats and Beats: every Wed with DJ Degree and Friends BUDDY'S DJ Dust 'n' Time every Wed; 9pm (door); no cover The Common Treehouse Wednesdays Diesel Ultra Lounge Wind-up Wed: R&B, hiphop, reggae, old skool, reggaeton with InVinceable, Touch It, weekly guest DJs FILTHY McNASTY'S Pint Night Wednesdays with DJ SAWG FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Latin and Salsa music every Wed; dance lessons 8-10pm LEGENDS PUB Hip hop/R&B with DJ Spincycle NEW CITY LEGION Wed Pints 4 Punks: with DJ Nick; no minors; 4pm-3am; no cover NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed TEMPLE Wild Style Wed: Hip hop open mic hosted by Kaz and Orv; $5
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FILM // TAKE THE GLOVES OFF
Heavy hitter
Mike Dowse on Goon, the hockey-film genre and the place of violence in Canada's sport Opens Friday Goon Directed by Mike Dowse
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et's not mince words," says Mike Dowse. "You have a chimpanzee as a goaltender, or a fairy with wings. It's embarrassing how bad hockey movies have been. We wanted to set the bar a little higher." Goon, written by actor Jay Baruchel and Superbad scenarist Evan Goldberg, is the latest comedy from the director of FUBAR, It's All Gone Pete Tong and FUBAR 2, and it does indeed take the sorry hockey movie up a notch or two. It's the story of a big-hearted brute named Doug Glatt (American Pie's Seann William Scott) who, being "touched by the fist of God," goes from bouncing to bashing heads on the ice virtually overnight. Not everything in Goon flies—the love story especially feels compulsory, lazily slapped together and riddled with tiresome tropes—but most of what transpires between the players is both lovingly imbued with keen detail and hysterically funny. It's a go-for-it movie for hosers. Dowse spoke with Vue Weekly by phone from Winnipeg, where Goon was shot, and where Dowse was screening the movie for local cast and crew.
You saw Goon in its second draft. What in particular drew you to the script? MICHAEL DOWSE: The main thing was the character of Doug Glatt. He really spoke to me. I find myself attracted to these odd, Chauncey the Gardenertype characters. Rocky Balboa would be another prototype. Or Lenny from Of Mice and Men. I liked the central dichotomy of Doug, that he was so nice and soft and warm, but also capable of such violence. VUE WEEKLY:
VW: It's one of the hardest things for an
actor to do, I think, to intelligently convey a lack of intelligence. Or at least naiveté. MD: It's very hard to pull that off properly. But after meeting Seann and seeing the breadth of his work, you realize the guy's a great actor. Not enough people are aware of that because his Stifler character has canonized him in a certain way. As soon as we met it was one of those rare things where within 20 seconds I knew that no one else could play this part. Seann carries this film. He keeps the emotional core ticking. I went into Goon ready to see a hockey movie, if that's even a genre. But I quickly realized that, in a way, what I was really watching was a gladi-
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ator movie. Gladiators on skates! MD: [Laughs] That's a good analogy. Either way, you know, we've all seen this story before, whether we're thinking of gladiators or athletes. A guy comes from nothing and finds his place in the world ...
a good job. This summer was a bit of a wake up call, but they've had drug counselling for years and they're doing what they can to help these guys out when they leave the game. The savagery of hockey is such an important part of Goon, but so is the sentimentality. I think a lot of the comVW:
VW: There's
a sort of polemic to Goon regarding all the rhetoric surrounding violence in hockey, how the industry condemns the violence but once that condemnation has been aired it becomes a form of tacit consent. There's this sense that we need to wring our hands over the fighting while knowing perfectly well that fights are integral to the allure. MD: It's definitely not a black and white topic. It's as complex as any player. You're right, of course. Would I want my son to get into a hockey fight? No. Would I be the first to stand up if a fight breaks out during a Habs game? Probably. But there's more to the issues currently being debated than just the fighting itself. There's drug issues, depression issues, exit strategies. My opinion is that the guys who play the game and live the game are dealing with this, and I think they're doing
VW: Much of what's funny in Goon is physical or gestural or about manners. But there's also much that's dependent on a subtle understanding of the vernacular. It's not like all your actors come from the same place, it's not like they're all Canadians even, or like hockey talk is their native language. Was it a challenge to get your
Would I want my son to get into a hockey fight? No. Would I be the first to stand up if a fight breaks out during a Habs game? Probably.
edy lives in that balance. This whole idea of a goalie with a photo of his mom plastered on his helmet, right? MD: [Laughs] Comedy sort of permeates hockey, more than any other sport, I think. I find that hockey players don't take themselves as seriously as maybe a baseball or basketball player would. They just seem to rib each other all the time. When you look at a show like 24/7, they're very funny with each other.
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cast to all sound like they were from the same brotherhood? MD: For sure. There's very simple things you can do, little tricks like putting "y"s at the end of everybody's names. Smitty, Parky, whatever. It also helps that we're shooting long hours and we have all the these actors that we've flown in from all over, but then we surround them with real Winnipeg hockey players. So I think it all happened very organi-
cally. We played hockey with these guys and they quickly became part of the family. But Doug has his own cadence. That was a really fun thing to develop with Seann. Just this idea that he's overly polite all the time, that he's painfully nice, that he's incapable of coming up with comebacks—and then can snap and beat the crap out of somebody. It creates interesting rhythms. You've got a pretty good record with sequels so far. Are you thinking about revisiting Goon? It seems to lend itself to more story. MD: I think so too. There's more that can be done with the Glatt character. And there's more than can be done with the changing role of the goon in the game. We can hit these hot-button issues a little harder. And I think there's room to make things more poignant, to show the struggles these guys go through. Goon is the story of the start of this guy's career, and there's an opportunity to show how this kind of career might end. VW:
Josef Braun
// josef@vueweekly.com
PREVUE // MUSICAL CINEMA
The Man That Got Away
Ah, Uncle Jimmy's here!
Sat, Feb 25 (5 pm) Directed by Trevor Anderson Metro Cinema at the Garneau, $20 contribution
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y family almost forgot to tell me about my great uncle Jimmy,' begins the voiceover for The Man That Got Away in filmmaker Trevor Anderson's own unreplicable voice, its owner unseen as the camera lens stares upwards through a parking garage, gently spinning. "True story, or so I'm told." That smidge of doubt is well placed; what unfolds seems almost too rich to be real, too good to be true. Charting how one boy's escape from the prairies eventually landed him in the company of Judy Garland—in rehab— Anderson's presented his almost-lost family tale in a 25-minute merger of autobiography and musical (the original music's courtesty of Bryce Kulak). The Man's official Canadian premiere will at TIFF in the fall, but there's a private screening for cast, crew and contributors this Saturday, and you can become one of the latter for the cost of a $20 donation to the movie's IndieGoGo campaign (or more, if your pockets run deep and your hand is generous), either at the door or to the already existent webpage (igg. me/p/60409?a=68825). For that price, you get yourself a copy of the soundtrack and your name on the private screening guestlist. Just don't call it a premiere, because it's not. Honest. From over in Berlin, where The Man That Got Away's world premere just netted the film the Berlin Film Fest's DAAD Short Film Prize, (which includes a future three-month Berlin residency), Anderson was kind enough
to answer a few questions over email. VUE WEEKLY: The
Man That Got Away is the story of your great uncle, a fellow your family almost forgot to tell you about. Was he the familial black sheep? TREVOR ANDERSON: Jimmy was the black sheep from a side of the family that we already didn't talk about. When I started making films, people said, "You should find out about your Uncle Jimmy ... but ask someone else." Nobody seemed to know the story, everyone just knew there was something juicy there. Finally an uncle said, "You want to find out about your Uncle Jimmy, right?" and told me the story. Then the uncle who told me the story passed away, so I was the one left holding the bag. I felt like I had a responsibility to tell it, and what a story it is! Lots of action for a film, a real rollercoaster of a life, from growing up on the Alberta prairies during the Great Depression, to joining the Merchant Marines during WWII, to moving to NYC to become a dancer on Broadway, to getting hooked on booze and pills and going to rehab where he met Judy Garland. VW: When
did that autobiography become a musical? What do you think that form adds to a nonfiction story? What drew you to working with Bryce Kulak for the music, and what was the give and take of that relationship like, between the film and the music? TA: I struggled for a long time with how to tell the story: should it be a straight documentary? A fictionalization? A full-length feature? A short? I finally settled on a hybrid form: medium-length documentary musical.
It just seems right for such a complex subject. And for a story about a Broadway dancer who meets Judy Garland in rehab, a musical seemed most appropriate. I've worked with Bryce before when we co-wrote a children's musical for the theatre, Nami Namersson, the Viking Who Liked to Name Things. So we already had a good working process where I write the lyrics and Bryce writes the music. He's really talented and his work inspired me a lot as we developed the script and score. You were recently invited to go study under Werner Herzog. What was the experience like? What was Herzog like? TA: Last month I was invited to participate in Herzog's Rogue Film School, which is a three-day seminar he runs whenever he feels like it, in whatever city in the world he happens to be in at the time. This one was in Los Angeles in January, 2012. It was really inspiring. Of course, it would be worth it to listen to Herzog just read the room service menu for three days, but he explored a wide variety of subjects and was really inspiring in very practical ways. His biggest theme was that there's no such thing as independent cinema, you're never independent, you need collaborators, subjects, audience, etc. But he encouraged us to think of it as "selfreliant cinema" and talked about how to do-it-ourselves in the face of the unavoidable challenges that will always arise when you set out to make a film. He's very funny and kind, a real Bavarian gentleman. And of course, a wild, eccentric genius.
VW:
Paul Blinov
FRIGHTENING SCENES
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// paul@vueweekly.com
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The Secret World of Arrietty
A COMEDY OF NO MANNERS
WINNER
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST THE DETROIT SOCIETY OF FILM CRITICS
WINNER
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST THE BOSTON SOCIETY OF FILM CRITICS
“WE’RE TOO BUSY LAUGHING! WICKEDLY FUNNY! A GOLD STANDARD FOURSOME!” -Karen Durbin, ELLE
JOHN C. REILLY
KATE WINSLET
JODIE FOSTER
CHRISTOPH WALTZ
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Now playing Directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi
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tudio Ghibli's best film since Hayao Miyazaki's eco-fable masterpiece Spirited Away (2001), The Secret World of Arrietty's story is impeccably paced, its look beautifully imagined and its drama perfectly built-up. This animated adaptation of Mary Norton's 1952 Carnegiewinner The Borrowers bristles, underfoot, with some delightful feminism and environmentalism. Above ground, some of the usual concerns of great kids lit flutter about: leaving home, learning independence, coming to terms with being small. (The film's only flaw is parental: dad's an intrepid idol and mom's a constantly concerned, near-helpless clown.) This lovingly detailed film begins and ends, cursorily, with a male perspective—that of sickly Shawn, come to his mother's childhood home to convalesce—but the truer, more heartfelt, secret world within is female, dominated by Arrietty, a girl from a dwindling, Lilliputian people. Her initiation, at 14, is her first expedition to "borrow" unmissed bits (a sugarcube, one tissue) from the immense human "beans" above them. She and her headlamp-wearing father ascend stairs of old, bent nails inside
the wiring spaces between walls; they use grapple-hooks with long ropes to lower themselves from table to floor. Outside, huge dark splotches spread on wood when rain begins falling; come morning, Arrietty brushes off dew droplets clinging to her like large beads. Insects, nearly as big as she, cavort with each other. Close-ups, low-angles and soundscapes show our world as a fearfully vast series of Everests to climb and descend. And at Arrietty's pragmatic, humble level, living with nature means being more threatened by it, and by Godlike humans. (When a wild thing collides with our tame world—a crow caught in a screen window—the trauma and frenzy are unforgettable.) When family maid Hara, seeing borrowers as pests and thieves, captures Arrietty's mother, Hara's belittling view is soon punished, while bold Arrietty ("I'm not afraid—I'll cut them down to size") learns to trust Shawn even as she teaches him not to surrender to fatalism. The ending's perfectly bittersweet, masking, with Arrietty and Shawn's tender friendship and another exciting voyage, the pessimism of writer Miyazaki's message: every day, we adults unthinkingly trample, disrupt, or scatter the little creatures and little worlds beneath our arrogant gazes. Brian Gibson
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REVUE // GOOD GOD, Y'ALL
Act of Valor Opens Friday Directed by Mike McCoy, Scott Waugh
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sing real Navy SEALS in an action movie about Navy SEALs is the greatest idea ever—on paper. In reality, Navy SEALs are wooden, stunted and unable to convey emotion realistically. When it's time for talking, Act of Valor reminds the viewer of a high school play. Actually, I've witnessed plenty of high school plays more naturalistic than this. Where it shines, however, is in the action. There, the SEALs look comfortable, moving silently, pumping lead into bad guys and making daring escapes. Act of Valor handles rising
suspense well—on a scene by scene level, not throughout the movie as a whole—and the way it's shot, with plenty of POV, immerses you in the stomach-churning anxiety of war. Still, it's not nearly enough. The rest of the movie is all stiff acting, cheap emotional manipulation and a creeping realization that none of the maneuvers being carried out in this movie take place in America or in a designated war zone. Thick with imperialism, Act of Valor is not only a baldfaced advertisement for the US Navy, it's also a 90-minute justification of America acting as the world's policeman. Gross. Bryan Birtles
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FILM // NOIR
Criss Cross Fri, Feb 17; Sun, Feb 19; Tue, Feb 21 Directed by Robert Siodmak Metro Cinema at the Garneau Originally Released: 1949
fatale's capacity to drain the hero's better judgment—presuming he ever had any—familiar from Double Indemnity. But in this case the deadly female, played by Yvonne De Carlo, a considerably more angelic actress than Barbara Stanwyck, is no stranger taking advantage of the hero's ignorance. She's his ex-wife.
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rom an aerial view of some anonymous stretch of Los Angeles we descend into a parking lot, and in that parking lot we find a man and a woman, hiding amidst the cars, speaking hushed and excitedly, and in the midst of this exchange we cut jarringly to the man's point of view, to a close up-vision of the woman's sculpted, lovely face, her eyes like luminous planets, and she's looking right at him, at the camera, at us, and this is how, with great economy and elegance, we get locked from the very start into the almost dreamlike subjectivity of the doomed hero of Criss Cross. We become lost in his longing as he watches the woman he desires dancing a rhumba in a club with Tony Curtis, and later become lost in the haze of a heist gone awry, a landscape made of smoke, out of which figures in suits and gas masks and carrying guns appear and disappear. The hero's voice-over narration speaks to us of the inescapability of fate—a thesis strengthened by the film's subtle array of grid-like imagery—and, seeing events play out from his claustrophobic perspective,
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it becomes hard to argue with him. Following Double Indemnity (1944), the second film in Metro Cinema's noir series leaps ahead five years to a moment when both the major studios and poverty row were churning out moody crime thrillers like so many bratwursts. Yet it's remarkable how consistently good these films
were, as though whatever, in retrospect, makes these films noir—artful atmosphere, moral ambiguity, social commentary, hot sex—makes them good. Director Robert Siodmak and star Burt Lancaster had already collaborated on the sublimely fatalistic, extremely liberal adaptation of Hemingway's The Killers (1946),
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and while Criss Cross revisits somewhat similar thematic terrain, Daniel Fuchs' script, based on Don Tracy's novel of the same name, offers some fascinating variations on by-now-familiar motifs. We're back in the realm of secret affairs, criminal plans to escape or do away with an oppressive male power figure, and the femme
So Criss Cross is the story of a marriage. Lancaster's beefy, hopelessly romantic armoured car guard already tried sharing a life with De Carlo's object of desire, and they fought like cats and dogs. He left town for a while, then came back, and with one look at her on the dance floor, she not even knowing he's watching her, he's drawn in again. Since he went away she got herself glued to a very amusing douchebag crime lord, deliciously embodied by Dan Duryea, so she and Lancaster begin an affair—if you're no good as spouses, maybe it'll work as adulterous lovers. It doesn't, of course. They want too much, nostalgic for what never really was. I hope I'm not spoiling things when I tell you that things end badly. But how do we get to that ending? Believe me, you've got to experience Criss Cross to really understand. JOSEF BRAUN
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PREVUE // OSCARS!
Oscar Nominated Shorts
REVUE // RARELY-SEEN CLASSIC
Killer of Sheep
Sat, Feb 25 (3 pm) Live action shorts Sun, Feb 26 (3 pm) Animated shorts Princess Theatre, $7
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outinely one of the more curious categories of the Academy Awards, the shorts are usually the movie clips that intrigue but then never get seen—mostly because, outside of the Pixar, which attaches shorts to its features, who really screens short films outside of the film fest circuit? The Edmonton International Film Fest seems to grasp that: it has put together a weekend of screenings of both live action and animated shorts that are up for the Oscar this year, each category bundled together into a feature-length run of acclaimed,
A Morning Stroll
minute flicks: the live action program's collected for a Saturday afternoon screening, while you can catch the animated program on Sunday, being led off with A Morning Stroll
(which took best animated short at this past EIFF, too) among myriad other wonders. Paul Blinov
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REVUE // SOCIAL NUANCES
Carnage A portrait of a district in decline
Fri, Feb 24 – Wed, Feb 29 Directed by Charles Burnett Metro Cinema at the Garneau Originally Released: 1977
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asmina Reza's God of Carnage is a four-hander in which the parents of an ostensible pubescent bully visit the parents of the ostensibly bullied pubescent. Everyone present initially makes nice, spouts their liberal bourgeois rhetoric and arrive at some sort of agreement regarding necessary repercussions. It's a non-event—until it becomes the main event. Like some less-imaginative variation on Luis Buñuel's The Exterminating Angel, the guests can't seem to leave, though their inertia is caused mainly by exceedingly artificial stalling devices, such as the mobile phone that always manages to ring just when it's time to split. There's also some vomit, which goes a long way when you need to kill time. The uncomfortable minutes tick away, the
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predictable revelations accumulate, the characters' inherent hypocrisies emerge. God of Carnage is exactly the sort of well-paced, reasonably witty, supposedly scathing but ultimately over-schematic social satire that Reza's brittle characters would probably go see and later pat themselves on the back for laughing at. And yet Carnage, Roman Polanski's fleet but utterly faithful screen version of Reza's play, is pretty damned entertaining, even with its phony laughing fits, its strained performance from Jodie Foster, and its music from Alexandre Desplat, whose whimsy-whipped work here confirms his status as the new Bill Conti (if one imagines an alternate universe in which the Oscar ceremony conductor wound up scoring for the likes of Polanski, David Fincher and Terence Malick). The film's as solid as it is for a number of reasons: Polanski's very good with bringing stage work to the screen, never hiding his mate-
rial's theatrical roots while imbuing it with a certain cinematic elegance; he's aided by Dean Tavoularis' subtle and precise production design, which works harmoniously with the characters' more or less overt pretensions; most especially, there's the cast, rounded out by Kate Winslet as a broker apparently unaccustomed to such confrontations (she's the author of the aforementioned vomit), John C Reilly as a plumbing supply salesman and enemy to hamsters everywhere (you'll see what I mean), and Christoph Waltz, channeling Jack Nicholson, as the alpha male big pharma lawyer whose mantra is "deny, deny, deny," while he's actually the first of the characters to admit that he thinks their whole arrangement regarding the kids is total bullshit. That doesn't make him any more likable than the others, but it does give him some of the better lines. Josef Braun
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ade while its writer/director was still a student at UCLA, Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep (1977) was one of the most extraordinary debuts of the 1970s, even though, due to music clearance issues, it was barely seen by anyone until 2007. Burnett would later claim that he never imagined the film finding an audience outside of special screenings for activist or sociological study groups, yet it's been chosen by the National Society of Film Critics as one of the 100 Essential Films, was selected for preservation by the Library of Congress, and was placed on countless critics' top 10 lists upon its much-belated release. Metro Cinema is bringing the film back for a brief and most welcome run beginning this Friday. Set within the crumbling buildings, dusty rail yards and rundown homes of Los Angeles' mainly African-American district of Watts, Killer of Sheep is an episodic tour of a forsaken landscape mangled by economic stasis—even if Watts' further decline into crime and poverty now renders Burnett's sympathetic, funkily humorous yet unmistakably bleak vision almost quaint by comparison. Shot over weekends on black and white 16 mm, the film alternately recalls early Cassavetes,
Italian neorealism, The Exiles, silent comedies, documentaries and the photography of Ralph Eugene Meatyard. Yet it possesses a hugely charismatic, ramshackle lyricism all its own, which would prove enormously influential on the early work of David Gordon Green, for one, and blooms in unforgettable images of children roof-jumping, wearing masks or playing with rocks, of families assembling on front stoops, of exhausted couples dancing in darkened living rooms to old records with whatever remnants of tenderness they can still muster. Stan (Henry G Sanders), the film's titular protagonist, works in an abattoir to support his small family. He's an insomniac, thus he not only kills sheep but counts them too. His wife (Kaybee Moore) craves his affection desperately, but he's a million miles away, consumed by worries. When not working, Stan throws himself into less emotionally demanding projects, such as acquiring a motor for a friend's jalopy, a mission doomed to comic failure. The closest thing to conventional heroism on display in Killer of Sheep is simply Stan's stubborn capacity to endure his fraught condition with some dignity intact, yet Burnett's affectionate yet unsentimental chronicle assures us that this is no small feat. Perhaps, in the end, it means everything. Josef Braun
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FILM WEEKLY
THE WOMAN IN BLACK (14A frightening scenes) Fri-Sun 1:45, 4:20, 7:00, 9:30; Mon-Wed 12:55, 3:10, 8:00, 10:15; Thu 12:55, 3:10, 8:10, 10:20
Fri, FEB 24 - THU, Mar 1, 2012
Ernani (STC) Sat 10:55
CHABA THEATRE–JASPER 6094 Connaught Dr Jasper 780.852.4749 Journey 2 THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (PG) Fri-Sat 7:00, 9:05; Sun-Thu 8:00
SAFE HOUSE (14A brutal violence) Fri-Sat 7:00, 9:05; Sun-Thu 8:00 film Club night: Monsieur Lazhar (PG mature subject matter) Thu, Mar 1: 7:30
DUGGAN CINEMA–CAMROSE 6601-48 Ave Camrose 780.608.2144 Act Of Valor (14A violence) 6:50, 9:15; Sat-Sun 2:00
Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance (14A frightening scenes) 7:00 9:05; Sat-SUn 2:15 This Means War (PG, language may offend, violence) 6:55 9:00; Sat-SUn 2:10 Journey 2 THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (PG) 7:10 9:10; Sat-SUn 2:20 The Vow (PG) 7:05, 9:20; Sat-SUn 2:20
CINEMA CITY MOVIES 12 5074-130 Ave 780.472.9779 HAPPY FEET TWO (G) 1:15; 3d: 3:40, 6:40, 9:15
Puss In Boots (G) 1:45; 3d: 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Alvin And The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (G) 1:50, 4:25, 7:15, 9:40 WE BOUGHT A ZOO (PG) Fri-Mon, Wed-Thu 1:25, 4:10, 7:10; Tue 1:10, 4:10, 7:10 SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (PG violence not recommended for young children) 1:00, 3:55, 6:55, 9:50 The Muppets (G) 1:10, 3:45, 6:45, 9:20 The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (18A sexual violence, brutal violence) 12:55, 4:15, 7:45 JACK AND JILL (PG) 1:35, 7:20 The Devil Inside (14A coarse language, disturbing content, violence) 9:55 My Week With Marilyn (14A) 1:40, 4:20, 6:45, 9:10 Red Tails (PG violence, not recommended for young children) 4:30, 9:35 Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu (PG) Hindi W/E.S.T. 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:30 Pata Nahi Rabb Kehdeyan Rangan Ch Raazi (STC) Punjabi W/E.S.T. 12:50, 4:00, 8:00 Tere Naal Love Ho Gaya (STC) Hindi W/E.S.T. 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:00
CINEPLEX ODEON NORTH 14231-137 Ave 780.732.2236 GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE 3D (14A frightening scenes) Ultraavx 12:50, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:40
SAFE HOUSE (14A brutal violence) Closed Captioned 1:00, 3:50, 7:10, 10:00 CONTRABAND (14A violence coarse language) 1:20, 7:00 THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY (G) Closed Captioned 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:15, 9:35 STAR WARS: EPISODE I–THE PHANTOM MENACE (PG violence) 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 CHRONICLE (14A violence) Fri, Sun-Thu 2:10, 4:30, 6:50, 9:00; Sat 4:30, 6:50, 9:00 THIS MEANS WAR (PG language may offend, violence) Closed Captioned 1:30, 4:10, 7:20, 9:50 GONE (14A) Closed Captioned Fri-Tue, Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:45, 10:15; Wed 4:40, 7:45, 10:15; Star & Strollers Screening: Wed 1:00 JOURNEY 2 THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (PG) Fri-Wed 12:15, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10; Thu 12:15, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40 THE WOMAN IN BLACK (14A frightening scenes) Closed Captioned 2:00, 5:00, 8:10, 10:35 Ernani (STC) Sat 10:55 ACT OF VALOR (14A violence) 1:10, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 GOON (18A language may offend) 12:40, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 WANDERLUST (14A nudity, substance abuse, coarse language) No passes 1:40, 4:20, 7:30, 10:05 THE VOW (PG) Fri-Tue, Thu 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20; Wed 5:20, 7:50, 10:20; Star & Strollers Screening: Wed 1:00 PROJECT X (18A substance abuse, crude content, language may offend) Thu 10:15 THE GREY (14A course language, gory scenes) Closed Captioned 4:15, 9:45 The Land Before Time (STC) Sat 11:00
CINEPLEX ODEON SOUTH 1525-99 St 780.436.8585 HUGO 3D (PG) Fri-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 10:00; Mon-Wed 12:45, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00; Thu 12:45, 4:00, 7:05, 10:00
BIG MIRACLE (PG) Fri, Sun 12:45, 3:40; Sat 12:45, 3:45; Mon-Wed 12:55, 3:30; Thu 2:05, 4:45 GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE (14A frightening scenes) Ultraavx Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:20, 5:50, 8:20, 10:50; Mon-Wed 12:30, 2:55, 6:55, 9:40; Thu 1:45, 4:10, 6:50, 9:50 SAFE HOUSE (14A brutal violence) Fri-Sun 2:00, 4:55, 7:40, 10:40; Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:30, 7:50, 10:30; Thu 1:40, 4:20, 7:50, 10:30 CONTRABAND (14A violence coarse language) Fri-Sun 6:50, 10:05; Mon-Wed 7:05, 10:05; Thu 7:40, 10:35 THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY (G) Fri-Sun 12:10, 2:30, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40; Mon-Wed 1:05, 3:25, 6:45, 9:35; Thu 12:15, 2:35, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40 STAR WARS: EPISODE I–THE PHANTOM MENACE 3D (PG violence) Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:25, 7:30, 10:30; Mon-Wed 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10:30; Thu 1:25, 4:25, 10:30 CHRONICLE (14A violence) Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:05, 6:45, 9:15; Mon-Wed 2:05, 4:15, 6:50, 9:55; Thu 4:15, 9:55; Star & Strollers Screening: Thu 1:00 THIS MEANS WAR (PG language may offend, violence) Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:35, 10:15; Mon-Thu 1:15, 3:40, 7:55, 10:20 GONE (14A) Fri-Sun 12:30, 2:55, 5:25, 7:45, 10:10; MonThu 12:35, 2:55, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10 JOURNEY 2 THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND 3D (PG) Fri-Sun 11:45, 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 9:50; Mon-Wed 1:25, 3:50, 7:20, 9:50; Thu 1:30, 4:40, 7:15
ACT OF VALOR (14A violence) Fri-Sun 12:00, 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25; Mon-Thu 12:45, 3:15, 7:30, 10:25
THE VOW (PG) Fri 4:00, 7:10, 9:45; Sat-Sun 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 9:45; Mon-Thu 7:00, 9:30 PROJECT X (18A substance abuse, crude content, language may offend) Thu 10:00
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GOON (18A language may offend) Fri-Sun 1:25, 3:45, 6:05, 8:30, 10:50; Mon-Wed 1:00, 3:20, 5:30, 7:45, 10:20; Thu 1:05, 3:20, 5:30, 7:45, 10:20
Grandin Mall Sir Winston Churchill Ave St Albert 780.458.9822 Goon (18A language may offend) 1:05, 3:15, 5:15, 7:15, 9:25
WANDERLUST (14A nudity, substance abuse, coarse language) Digital Cinema, No passes Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:35; Mon-Wed 12:40, 3:00, 5:30, 8:10, 10:35; Thu 3:30, 6:00, 8:20, 10:45; Star & Strollers Screening: Thu 1:00
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (14A) No passes 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30
THE VOW (PG) Fri-Sun 11:50, 2:25, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45; Mon-Wed 1:15, 3:45, 7:00, 9:30; Thu 1:15, 3:45, 7:00, 9:45 THE GREY (14A course language, gory scenes) Fri 1:15, 4:15, 7:10, 9:55; Sat 5:15, 8:10, 10:55; Sun 5:15, 7:55, 10:45; Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:35, 7:10, 10:00; Thu 1:50, 4:30, 7:10 Leonardo Live (G) Sun 12:55 The Land Before Time (STC) Sat 11:00
Safe House (14A brutal violence) 6:40, 9:00 Alvin And The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (G) 12:50 Big Miracle (PG) 2:35 4:35 The Vow (PG) 1:15, 3:20, 5:25, 7:20, 9:20 Journey 2 THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (PG) 1:00, 3:00, 5:05, 7:00, 8:50
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National Theatre Live: The Comedy Of Errors (Classification not available) Thu 8:00
Leduc 780.352.3922 The Vow (PG) 6:50, 9:20; Sat-SUn 12:50, 3:20
PROJECT X (18A substance abuse, crude content, language may offend) Thu 10:00
This Means War (PG language may offend, violence) 7:00, 9:30; Sat-SUn 1:00, 3:30
CITY CENTRE 9 10200-102 Ave 780.421.7020 SAFE HOUSE (14A brutal violence) Closed Captioned, Dolby Stereo Digital, Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30; Thu 12:30, 3:30, 7:15, 9:30
ACT OF VALOR (14A violence) Dolby Stereo Digital, Closed Captioned, 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 National Theatre Live: The Comedy Of Errors Encore (Classification not available) No Passes, Dolby Stereo Thu 8:00 TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (14A coarse language gory scenes) Dolby Stereo Digital Fri-Tue 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20; Wed 4:20, 7:20, 10:20; Thu 4:20
Safe House (14A brutal violence) 6:55, 9:20 Journey 2 THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND in (PG) 7:10; Sat-SUn 1:10, 3:25 Goon (18A language may offend) 7:00, 9:25; Sat-Sun 1:05, 3:25
METRO CINEMA at the Garneau Metro at the Garneau: 8712-109 St 780.425.9212 Noir: Criss Cross (STC) FRI 7:00; Sat 2:00; MON 7:00
A Dangerous Method (14A sexual content, mature subject matter) FRI 1:00, 9:00; SAT 4:00, 9:00; SUN 7:00; TUE 9:00 Killer of Sheep (14A) FRI 3:00; SAT 7:00; SUN 9:00; TUE 7:00
THE VOW (PG) Dolby Stereo Digital, Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40; Thu 12:40, 3:40, 9:40
Cult Cinema: Brazil (14A) MON 9:00
THE IRON LADY (PG violence) DTS Digital 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10
130 Century Crossing Spruce Grove 780.972.2332 Wanderlust (14A nudity, substance abuse, coarse language) 7:00, 9:15; Sat-Sun, Tue 1:05, 3:20
JOURNEY 2 THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (PG) Closed Captioned, 1:35
PARKLAND CINEMA 7
THE ARTIST (PG) DTS Digital 3:55, 6:45, 9:45
Act of Valor (14A violence) 7:10, 9:30; Sat-Sun, Tue 1:15, 3:40
THIS MEANS WAR (PG language may offend, violence) Closed Captioned, DTS Digital, Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:45, 7:15, 10:15; Thu 1:45, 4:45, 7:15
Safe House (14A brutal violence) 6:45, 9:10; Sat-Sun, Tue 12:50, 3:30
Wanderlust (14A nudity, substance abuse, coarse language) DTS Digital, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE 3D (14A frightening scenes) Closed Captioned, Dolby Stereo Digital, 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Project X (18A substance abuse, crude content, language may offend) Dolby Stereo Digital, No Passes Thu 10:15
CLAREVIEW 10 4211-139 Ave 780.472.7600 THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY (G) Fri 6:45, 9:10; Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:20, 6:45, 9:10; Mon-Thu 4:50, 7:30
THE WOMAN IN BLACK (14A frightening scenes) Fri-Sun 9:00; Mon-Thu 7:45 THE VOW (PG) Fri 6:45, 9:25; Sat-Sun 1:20, 4:00, 6:45, 9:25; Mon-Thu 5:35, 8:10 SAFE HOUSE (14A brutal violence) Fri 6:30, 9:15; Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15; Mon-Thu 5:10, 8:00 THIS MEANS WAR (PG language may offend, violence) Fri 7:15, 9:40; Sat-Sun 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 9:40; Mon-Thu 5:00, 7:40 GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE (14A frightening scenes) Sat-Sun 1:50 GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE 3D (14A frightening scenes) Fri 7:10, 9:40; Sat-Sun 4:20, 7:10, 9:40; Mon-Thu 5:00, 7:50 Wanderlust (14A nudity, substance abuse, coarse language) Fri 6:40, 9:20; Sat-Sun 1:10, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20; Mon-Thu 5:40, 8:10 ACT OF VALOR (14A violence) Fri 7:00, 9:30; Sat-Sun 1:25, 4:15, 7:00, 9:30; Mon-Thu 5:15, 8:00 GOON (18A language may offend) Fri 7:10, 9:35; Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:10, 7:10, 9:35; Mon-Thu 5:30, 8:15
Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance (14A frightening scenes) 7:15, 9:25; Sat-Sun, Tue 1:20, 3:35 Journey 2 THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (PG) 6:50, 8:50; Sat-Sun, Tue 12:55, 3:05 This Means War (PG language may offend, violence) 6:55, 9:00; Sat-Sun, Tue 1:10, 3:25; Movies For Mommies: TUE 1:10
Oscar Nominated Animation Shorts (14A mature themes) SUN 3:00 Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts (14A mature themes) SAT 3:00
GALAXY–SHERWOOD PARK 2020 Sherwood Dr Sherwood Park 780.416.0150 GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE (14A frightening scenes) Fri 4:20, 7:30, 9:50; Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:20, 7:30, 9:50; Mon-Thu 7:15, 9:40
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keep coming.”
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Jeanne Wolf, JeAnne Wolf’S hollyWood
GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE (14A frightening scenes) 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:40
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Ernani (STC) Sat 10:55 ACT OF VALOR (14A violence) Ultraavx 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30
“InTense.”
The Metropolitan Opera: Faust–Live (Classification not available) Mon 6:30 GOON (18A language may offend) 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:45
Bonnie laufer, tRiBUte cAnAdA
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National Theatre Live: The Comedy Of Errors (Classification not available) Thu 8:00 JOURNEY 2 THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND–An Imax 3d Experience (PG) 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:30, 9:50 PROJECT X (18A substance abuse, crude content, language may offend) Thu 10:10
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“An InTense psyChoLoGICAL ThrILLer.”
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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): I invite you to identify all the things in your life that you really don't need any more: gadgets that have become outdated, clothes that no longer feel like you. Don't stop there. Pinpoint the people who have let you down and the activities that have become boring or artificial. Finally, figure out the traditions that no longer move you and the compulsive thoughts that have a freaky life of their own. Got all that? Dump at least some of them.
(Apr 20 – May 20): If you're a woman, you could go to the perfume section of the department store and buy fragrances that would cause you to smell like Jennifer Lopez, Eva Longoria, or Paris Hilton. If you're a man, an hour from now you could be beaming an aroma that makes you resemble a celebrity like Antonio Banderas, Usher, or Keith Urban. You could even mix and match, wearing the Eva Longoria scent on your
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manly body or Usher on your female form. But I don't recommend that you do any of the above. More than ever before you need to be yourself, your whole self, and nothing but yourself. Trying to act like or be like anyone else should be a taboo of the first degree. GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): "I
try to take one day at a time," says Ashleigh Brilliant, "but sometimes several days attack me all at once." I think you may soon be able to say words to that effect—and that's a good thing. Life will seem more concentrated and meaningful than usual. As a result, you should have exceptional power to unleash transformations that could create ripples lasting for months. Would you like each day to be the equivalent of nine days? Or would four be enough for you?
(Jun 21 – Jul 22): When actor Ashton Kutcher is working on the set
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of his TV show Two and a Half Men, he enjoys spacious digs. His trailer is two stories high and has two bathrooms as well as a full kitchen. As you embark on your journey to the far side of reality it might be tempting for you to try to match that level of comfort. But more important will be the psychological and spiritual aids that help keep you attuned to your deepest understandings about life. Be sure you're well-stocked with influences that keep your imagination vital and upbeat. Favorite symbols? Uplifting books? Magic objects? LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): Veterans of war who've been wounded by shrapnel often find that years later, some of the metal fragments eventually migrate to the surface and pop out of their skin. The moral of the story: The body may take a long time to purify itself of toxins. The same is true about your psyche. It might not be able to easily and quickly get rid
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of the poisons it has absorbed, but you should never give up hoping it will find a way. I think you are very close to such a climactic cleansing and catharsis. VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): Distilled water is a poor conductor of electricity. For H2O to have electroconductivity, it must contain impurities in the form of dissolved salts. I see a timely lesson in this. If you focus too hard on being utterly clean and clear, some of life's rather chaotic but fertile and invigorating energy may not be able to flow through you. I suggest you experiment with being at least a little impure and imperfect. Don't just tolerate the messiness. Learn from it; thrive on it; even exult in it.
(Sep 23 – Oct 22): According to my reading of the astrological omens, you are neither in a red-alert situation nor are you headed for one. A pink
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alert may be in effect, however. Thankfully, there's no danger or emergency in the works. You may be called upon to come up with unexpected responses to unpredicted circumstances. It actually might be kind of fun as long as you play with the perspective Shakespeare articulated in As You Like It: "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players." SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): "Dear Rob: For months I've had a recurring dream in which I own a pet snake. Here's the problem: The only cage I have to keep the snake in is sadly inadequate. It has widely spaced bars that the snake just slips right through. In the dream I am constantly struggling to keep the snake in its cage, which is exhausting, since it's impossible. Just this morning, after having the dream for the billionth time,
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Condoms!
Condoms must follow an international standard February 14 to 21 was National Conare cheap and break all the time. Fortudom Week. This awareness campaign nately, that's a myth. The reality is that was started in 1978 by students at the as far as effectiveness goes, a condom is University of California, Berkeley. In a condom is a condom. recent years it has spread across the globe with the mandate of proIn 1990, the International Organimoting condom knowledge zation for Standardization set and use. Although National standards for the production Condom Week has just of condoms. According to om eekly.c w e ended, I thought I could the standards, every latex u v @ brenda a d still do my part. condom must be tested for n e Br er Condoms are much older holes with an electrical curKerb than we think. The use of conrent and a portion of each batch doms is depicted in cave paintings in must also go through water leak and Combarelles, France that are dated air burst testing. Minimum numbers of around 200 AD. The first known widebreakage for each batch have been set. spread use of condoms was in the Manufacturers don't necessarily have 1500s to help prevent the spread of to follow these standards, but if they syphilis. This was also the dawn of the don't most countries won't allow the first known spermicide. The first latex sale of their products. condoms were produced in 1919, but The ISO standard is part of a set of it wasn't until the 1980s and the dawn regulations that Health Canada uses to of the HIV epidemic that they became determine whether condoms are suitwidely accepted and used. 10.4 billion able for sale in this country. Every brand condoms were used worldwide in 2005. and type of condom approved for sale in There seems to be a pretty common Canada meets the ISO standard. There belief out there that some condoms are is a list on Health Canada's website of better than others. Often people ask me all the condom types that have met Cawhich condoms are the safest or report nadian regulations. If a type of condom to me that they've heard, or even exis on that list it's highly unlikely that, if perienced, that a certain brand or type used properly, it will break more than of condom breaks more often. Just once or twice in a thousand condoms. the other day, a student at a presentaThe key is using them properly. Puttion told me that he had heard that the ting on a condom seems like such a free condoms given away on campus simple act but there are a lot of things
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I FINALLY asked myself, what's so terrible about letting the snake out of its cage? So I gratefully wrote myself this permission note: 'It is hereby allowed and perfectly acceptable to let my dreamsnake out of its cage to wander freely.' - Scorpio Devotee." Dear Devotee: You have provided all of your fellow Scorpios with an excellent teaching story for the upcoming weeks. Thank you! SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): For millions of years, black kite raptors made their nests with leaves, twigs, grass, mud, fur and feathers. In recent centuries they have also borrowed materials from humans, like cloth, string and paper. And in the last few decades, a new element has become quite popular. Eighty-two percent of all black kite nest-builders now use white plastic as decoration. I suggest you take inspiration from these adaptable creatures. It's an excellent time for you to add some wrinkles to the way you shape your home base. Departing from tradition could add significantly to your levels of domestic bliss. CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): There are many examples of highly accomplished people whose early education was problematic. Thomas Edison's first teacher called him "addled," and thereafter he was homeschooled by his mother. Win-
that can go wrong. Condoms that are expired, or that have been exposed to heat or freezing temperatures for too long (leaving your condoms in the glove compartment of your car is not a good idea), are much more likely to break. Getting the right size and shape is also important. A condom that is too small could break. A condom that is too big could slip off. Contrary to popular opinion, when it comes to condoms, one size does not necessarily fit all. Fortunately, they do come in many shapes and sizes. Condomania.com is a great place to go for condom information. It lists the exact length, width and thickness of almost every condom on the market and even the type of lubricant used. What's the latest in condom development? Durex is set to launch a new condom it claims will help men get larger and longer-lasting erections. The condoms contain a drug called Zanifil which is a lot like nitroglycerin. It boosts blood flow in the penis. Who knows if it will really work, as the clinical trials on it were few and small, but given the interest in Viagra and its copycats, it's sure to be a big seller. V Brenda Kerber is a sexual health educator who has worked with local not-forprofits since 1995. She is the owner of the Edmonton-based, sex-positive adult toy boutique the Traveling Tickle Trunk.
ston Churchill did so poorly in school he was punished. Benjamin Franklin had just two years of formal education. What all these people had in common, however, is that they became brilliant at educating themselves according to their own specific needs and timetable. The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to plot and design the contours of your future learning. AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): Nigeria has abundant deposits of petroleum. Since 1974, oil companies have paid the country billions of dollars for the privilege of extracting its treasure. And yet the majority of Nigerians, over 70 percent, live on less than a dollar a day. Where does the money go? That's a long story, with the word "corruption" at its heart. Now let me ask you: Is there a gap between the valuable things you have to offer and the rewards you receive for them? The coming weeks will be an excellent time to address this issue. PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): Gawker.com notes that American politician John McCain tends to repeat himself -- a lot. Researchers discovered that he has told the same joke at least 27 times in five years. In the coming week, please avoid any behavior that resembles this repetitive, habit-bound laziness. You simply cannot afford to be imitating who you used to be and what you used to do. As much as possible, reinvent yourself from scratch—and have maximum fun doing it.
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Happily ever after and beyond
The past, present and afterlife make appearances in this week's column I am a straight 24-year-old female my room and had amazing sex and who has known my fiancé since freshsmoked a joint. I wanted to have sex man year of college. He has a feagain, but he wanted to wait E G tish where he likes to watch to see if I could go. He said, SAVA women use the bathroom. "Drink some coffee! Smoke I knew this, having seen a cigarette!" I love him and m ekly.co vuewe some of his porn early on, savagelove@ want to be GGG, but the Dan and I accepted it. We all have pressure turned me off. (1) Is avage this my fault for bringing it up? S kinks. But while peeing in front of someone isn't that big of a deal, (2) Was his pressuring me wrong? shitting in front of someone is hard. (3) How should I approach this situaSo we had a lovely night going, tion without sounding like a bitch? PRESSURED OVER OBSERVABLE when I had to poop. We went into PERFORMANCE the bathroom together. He got very horny, but I couldn't go. I said I was 1. You didn't do anything wrong when sorry, maybe I'll be more relaxed later, you brought it up, POOP, and he didn't and he goes, "Well, let's fuck in here do anything wrong when he got excited in case you have to go." He wanted to about the possibility of having his fando it sitting on the toilet with me on tasy realized. top. No go. Too hard, so we went in
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2. Yes. However excited your fiancé was about finally realizing his watchmy-girl-take-a-shit fantasy, he shouldn't have pressured you to perform once it became clear that it wasn't gonna happen. (And he shouldn't encourage you to smoke cigarettes; those things will kill you.) Shitting in front of someone—and here's hoping that's as far as his interest in poop goes—isn't easy, POOP, and badgering you won't help. Your fiancé, if he knows what's good for him, will hang back, let you set the pace, and thank his lucky fucking stars that he found someone who is willing to even try and will get there eventually. 3. "I know you're excited, honey, and it excites me to see you so excited. But dial it back a bit, OK? Next time I feel like I can give it a try, I will definitely let you know. But all of this pressure is making me feel constipated. And you don't want that, right?"
I'm an 18-year-old male. After three years of silence, my ex-girlfriend texted me out of the blue. She was my first
love, and part of my heart still aches for her. I feel like the smart thing to do is to stop talking to her right now, but my heart says if I keep at it, I might be able to win her back. Most of her messages sound flirtatious, but it could just be me being optimistic. She even said, "I don't think of you as more than a friend. But I would be open to a relationship if I started having feelings for you again." Is this a lost cause? Or do I need to give it more time and see how it develops? LOVE AND MEMORIES ENFLAMED
Forgive me, LAME, for what I'm about to type. You're being used. Your ex-girlfriend
You're not in love with her, LAME, you're in love with the way she made you feel. There are other girls out there who can make you feel that way.
sent that out-of-the-blue text because she wanted to feel wanted. Maybe she got dumped recently, or maybe she's in the midst of a dry spell, or maybe she's just selfish and cruel. But all she's after here—most likely—are the ego boosts your texts provide. And to keep those boosts coming, LAME, she's dangling a little false hope in front of you: she told you the truth so she wouldn't have to admit to herself that she's a manipulative liar (she only thinks of you as a friend) and then tacked on some meaningless, impossibleto-disprove crap (a relationship might be possible if she starts to have feelings for you again) to keep you textin'. You dated her three years ago ... when you were 15. You're not in love with her, LAME, you're in love with the way she made you feel. There are other girls out there who can make you feel that way. Go find one.
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I'm a 35-year-old GGG married male with a 33-year-old not-so-GGG wife. We've been together 17 years and married four months. She was a virgin when we met and she's never been too sexual a person. I am a very sexual person, but she kept me satisfied with oral, dress-up, sex in different places—things like that. Things really started to fall off sexually around our 10th year together. When I mentioned it, she said that she felt I was never going to marry her, so why should she give me 100 percent? I enjoy oral and watching women masturbate, and she wouldn't do either and blamed it on the marriage thing. Five years later, I gave her the big wedding she
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wanted. I actually enjoy being married. Now, here's my dilemma: she won't do anything besides traditional sex—and only when she's awake enough to actually have sex, and I always have to initiate. When I mention things like oral or toys or masturbation, she says she feels uncomfortable doing things like that. If she would have told me this before, my decision to get married might have been different. I don't want her to do anything that makes her feel uncomfortable or degraded. But in my opinion, what I'm asking for is not "kinky," certainly when compared to some of the things I could be into. We've had this discussion consistently throughout our short marriage, with no sign of her even trying. Am I doomed to a bad marriage, or is there something I can do? Because
talking isn't working. I feel she lied to me to get me to marry her, and now I don't know what to do. Any advice is appreciated. LOTS OF SEXUAL TENSION
All your options are bad, LOST. Stay married, stay faithful and stew in your own frustration and resentment until you die; stay married, cheat with cause and hope you don't get caught; inform your spouse that you're not going to ask her to do things she's not comfortable with but you're also not going to ask for her permission to do those things with other women, and be cast as the villain when she files for divorce; or initiate the divorce yourself, find a new partner and make sure your new partner both enjoys sex and enjoys the kinds of sex you do before you marry her. (Hint: if she likes sex, and likes the stuff you like, she'll want to do that stuff whether you're married to her or not.) Sorry, LOST, but that's all I got. HEY, EVERYBODY: you know how Mormons "baptize" dead people who weren't Mormons—including Holocaust victims—because Mormons believe they have a right to choose Mormonism for the deceased? And you know how the Mormon Church says that being gay is a choice? The same church that doesn't think you should have a choice about being posthumously baptized? Well, now you can choose homosexuality for dead Mormons! Just go to AllDeadMormonsAreNowGay.com, enter the name of a deceased Mormon or ask the site to find a dead Mormon for you, and—presto!—that dead Mormon gets to have a gay afterlife! V
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Lost and Found The Alley of Light is about turning a lost space into a place for people. The committee is a grassroots initiative that aims to transform an uninviting alley into a place with character and identity. It continues this weekend from dusk on February 25 to dusk on February 26 when IllumiNITE exhibits a gallery of light sculptures and structures from local artists in the alley behind Jasper Avenue at 104 Street. It will address the aesthetic quality of the alley by adding visual interest, bringing beauty and joy through an unexpected burst of activity and light. In 24 hours, artists, designers and community members will come together to reclaim and revitalize a commercial alley through art. This void in the urban fabric finds new meaning when a community takes ownership and creates events and artworks that celebrate the diversity,
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intricacy and visual delight of the built environment. The process of place making is just as important as the final product. The project proves that a group of citizens can have a sense of control over their environment. By encouraging participation, the project allows the opportunity for people to put their own stamp on a space, giving the street a stronger sense of place and security. It is an example of community groups and municipalities working on a human scale, closing the gap between planners of urban design and the end user of built environment. V Chelsea Boos is a multidisciplinary visual artist and flâneur. Back words is a discussion of her dérives and a photographic diary of the local visual culture.
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