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New leadership Following a seven-month campaign many described as boring, it might have made for better political drama had Thomas Mulcair lost the federal NDP leadership last weekend. First elected to the Quebec National Assembly in 1994, he was re-elected in 1998 and 2003. Mulcair left the provincial Liberals and joined the federal NDP in the spring of 2007. That fall, Mulcair handily won a by-election in Outremont and was re-elected in the general elections of 2008 and 2011. Given that the man's never lost an election, who knows what his reaction might have been? Following Jack Layton's death, Mulcair's entry into the race to succeed him as leader didn't exactly garner a hero's welcome. Despite his enviable electoral track record, many members were suspicious of the former Liberal, no matter how many times he explained that the Quebec Liberals were the only federalist option available for those wanting to enter provincial politics. The whispers that he was a Zionist would not go away, no matter how many times he committed to adhere to the party's policy of a twostate solution for Israel and Palestine. The accusations that he would bring the party closer to the center prevailed, despite his critics being unable to offer any evidence in his platform that he would do so. When former NDP Leader Ed Broadbent, supporting Mulcair's opponent

Brian Topp, brought these criticisms out in the open during a series of media interviews last week, the reaction was swift and loud. Some applauded Broadbent's statements, others (including former Harper advisor Tom Flanagan) pointed out that the former leader had just handed the Conservatives the content for their first series of attacks should Mulcair win. For his part, Mulcair's strategy was to ignore it all. While only time will tell if Broadbent's concerns were warranted, Flanagan's prediction was realized immediately: the Conservatives issued negative talking points about Mulcair before the new leader had even made it to the stage to claim victory after the fourth ballot. Mulcair jokes that with nine siblings, there's nothing Stephen Harper can throw at him that he can't handle. The manner in which he fended off his opponents within his own party gives ample cause to believe him. Thomas Mulcair has three years to heal internal party rifts and build a team that can earn the trust of Canadians before the 2015 election. That is no easy task, but then again neither was his initial win in Outremont, a riding the Liberals had held (except for one term) since 1935. If Mulcair maintains his winning streak, he'll go down in history as Canada's first NDP Prime Minister. Whether or not he's a sore loser will remain a mystery for now, but the political drama is a guarantee. V

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UNEXPECTED START The Ontario Court of Appeal has ruled an Ontario ban on brothels is illegal. The decision legalizes brothels in the province, but rules that communicating for the purposes of prostitution is to remain illegal. The ruling will move to the Supreme Court of Canada this fall or by early 2013. The Court of Appeal ruled that since prostitution is legal, it only makes sense prostitutes

should be able to work collectively and hire staff to protect them. Municipalities now have to set up regulations, if not already in place, that allow for brothels. The ruling had an impact on day one of the Alberta election when the PC party released Calgary Herald columns written by Danielle Smith in 2003, which stated, "It's no surprise sex-trade

workers are the most vocal advocates for decriminalization.â&#x20AC;¨If the status quo is this bad, legalization can't be worse." Premier Redford also called on the federal government to change the criminal code, saying, "I urge Prime Minister Harper to reconstruct the relevant sections of the criminal code to continue Canada's strong opposition to legalized prostitution."

tions Canada has said it is investigating instances of misleading robocalls in numerous ridings, with the Chief Elections Officer being called before MPs on March 29. The legal actions backed by the Council are calling for the results in the seven ridings to be annulled. "It's a sad day for Canadian democracy that we have to take this action," said Garry Neil, executive director of the Council of Canadians. "In response to the survey

we launched earlier this month, thousands of Canadians reported about widespread dirty tricks. We believe the evidence demonstrates that the voter suppression campaign affected the outcome in at least the seven ridings in which we are supporting applications." Neil believes Canadians are only beginning to hear all of the stories on fraudulent calls, and he encourages Canadians who experienced such calls to step forward and report them.

LEGAL ACTION The Council of Canadians is backing the first of several legal cases against the use of robocalls during the 2011 federal election. Seven legal challenges will be filed by individuals within the ridings of Don Valley East, Elmwood-Transcona, Nipissing-Timiskaming, Saskatoon-Rosetown-Biggar, Vancouver Island North, Winnipeg South Centre and Yukon. Each riding was won by a Conservative candidate within a margin of 1000 votes. Elec-

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PREVUE // THE TRUTH ABOUT CANADA

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Book reveals a new perspective on Canada's peacekeeping history Wed, Apr 4 (7 pm) Book Launch: Lester Pearson's Peacekeeping: The Truth May Hurt With author and activist Yves Engler Telus Building, Room 134 Corner of 111 St & 87 Ave, U of A Campus

ost Canadians are convinced of their national excellence and how much the world loves them. Canadian backpackers sew the flag on their knapsacks, not just to avoid being confused with Americans, but to capture the adulation of foreigners. Hailing from the country that's next door to "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world" (as Martin Luther King, Jr said of the USA) makes it easy to look good (no history of slavery, genocide, colonialism or international aggression). But Canadians aren't just not evil—they're great. For instance, they gave the world peacekeeping, such a powerful component of patriotic pride that it's next to universal healthcare on the national trophy shelf. And just like claims about slavery (had it), genocide (residential schools; the Beothuks), colonialism (the entire country) and international aggression (Libya), it's a lie.

According to Yves Engler, author of Lester Pearson's Peacekeeping: The Truth May Hurt, neither Canada's 14th prime minister nor the United Nations peacekeeping force he established was a force for global good, but rather imperial control. Engler's doubts about Pearson began while he was researching a previous work, The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy, and found "There were some serious limitations to the mythology about Pearson's role as a benevolent international actor." Pearson was Canada's ambassador in the US during 1945 and 1946, and before that he'd been assistant to Canada's High Commissioner in Britain, which let him closely observe British political decline. Instead of acting as the Crown's loyal subject, Pearson, says Engler, intentionally subverted British interests in favour of American ones. If Canada were a remora, Pearson led the Dominion to switch sharks. "He understands," says Engler, "earlier than many other Canadian decision-makers towards the end of World War II, that the emerging hegemon in the world was the US and that Britain was going to be a much weakened power." A key opportunity to boost the US at

Britain's expense came during the 1956 Egyptian nationalization of the Suez Canal. The Americans opposed the British, French and Israeli invasion of Egypt, giving Pearson the opportunity to establish the United Nations Emergency Force. "Washington opposed that invasion," says Engler. "It wanted to tell the former colonial powers, the British and the French, that there was a new boss in the region." As well, Engler states, the US was looking to counter the USSR's prestige among the growing anti-monarchist sentiment in the Arab world. Rather than attempting to protect Egyptian civilians or sovereignty, Pearson's gambit in Egypt, says Engler, "Aimed to bring Britain back into realignment with the US in its Middle East policy [and] protect NATO from internal division." Pearson helped establish NATO, which he claimed as his greatest accomplishment; the trident of UNEF, the US-dominated NATO, and a then-USdominated UN, furthered the American empire's already massive global power. Pearson won the Nobel Peace Prize for his Suez maneuverings, and as Peace laureates from Henry Kissinger to Barack Obama have demonstrated, the world's most prestigious prize seems

often to have been awarded purely out of irony. Today, Pearson's legacy is UN peacekeepers in Haiti protecting the American-French-Canadian-backed 2004 coup against Haiti's democratically elected Lavalas government. That UN peacekeeping occupation has carelessly poisoned a Haitian river with human feces, imported a cholera epidemic and served as brutal enforcers for the regime's neoliberal agenda. The intertwining of US and Canadian political economies began long before Pearson's tenure. But as Engler explains, Pearson understood the Canadian elite were well-placed to benefit from a growing US power. "Because no other country's elite is better integrated [with] the US elite, politically, culturally and obviously business-wise," says Engler. Such integration allowed Canadian interests to operate with a free(ish) hand inside what's euphemistically called the US "sphere of influence," a coup-littered and death-squadpatrolled landscape stretching across the Caribbean and Latin America. A key example of how Canada's one percent benefit from US-Canadian integration is the 1964 US-backed military coup against Brazil’s Labour

Government and its president, João Goulart. One of the major beneficiaries was Toronto's Brascan, a company dubbed "the Canadian octopus" because by the end of the 1950s it was Latin America's biggest company with tentacles throughout the Brazilian economy, maintaining supremacy by undermining domestic business development and spying on workers and leftist politicians. Engler states that as far back as the 1898 Spanish-American War, in which two imperial powers battled for domination of Cuba, Canadian bankers benefited because US banks had heavy restrictions on foreign operations, so Canadian bankers became the financial nexus for American companies there. Today, Canadian mining companies around the world fear increased royalty rates for host countries. "The best way to [ensure countries remain] open to international investors," says Engler, "is to have a strong US empire, because governments that try to nationalize resources or increase royalties rates [often face] the US as the prime mover in terms of destabilizing or overthrowing those governments." malcolm azania // malcolm@vueweekly.com

COMMENT >> WAR ON TERROR

Bring them home

Recent rogue shootings a sign to bring troops home After Mohamed Merah died in a hail the motives: both men were respondof French police bullets last Thursday, ing, in confused ways, to the "war people who had known him talked on terror" that former US president about "a polite and courteous George W Bush launched after boy" who liked "cars, bikes, the 9/11 attacks. sports and girls." His friends In Bales's case, the trigger had trouble believing that may have been a fourth om eekly.c @vuew he had murdered seven deployment to a combat e n n y gw e people, including three chilzone after three one-year Gwynn Dyer deployments in Iraq since dren, in a 10-day killing spree in the city of Toulouse, and none 2003, during which he suffered a of them believed his claim to be a concussion and lost part of a foot. He member of al-Qaeda. "Three weeks also had money problems, but it was ago he was in a nightclub," one said. Afghans he shot, not bankers. In his The following day, in Fort Leavenmind it was Afghans, Muslims, whatworth, Kansas, US Army Staff Serever, who were causing his problems. geant Robert Bales was charged with Both men had had run-ins with the murdering 17 Afghans, including nine law: Bales for assault in 2002, Merah children, in a lone night-time attack for stealing a woman's handbag in on sleeping civilians in two villages 2007. But Merah spent two years near Kandahar two weeks ago. "I can't in prison for the mugging, and while believe it was him," said Kasie Holthere, as is often the case with teenland, his next-door neighbour in Lake age Muslim thugs, he was converted Tapps, Washington. "There were no to the extremist Islamic ideology signs. It's really sad. I don't want to called Salafism. believe that he did it." Mohamed Merah videotaped his atThere are startling parallels in these tacks, so we know that just before cases, right down to the fact that Mohe shot his first victim, an unarmed hamed Merah held a little girl by the French paratrooper, Merah told him: hair as he shot her in the head, and "You kill my brothers, I kill you." He that Robert Bales allegedly pulled was an unemployed small-time crimilittle girls from their beds by their nal with delusions of grandeur, and he hair to shoot them. And there is, of wanted to "bring the French state to course, the underlying symmetry of its knees" in retaliation for French par-

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ticipation in America's war in Afghanistan. His claim to belong to al-Qaeda, however, was probably just a private fantasy. Predictably, Marina Le Pen, leader of the extreme right National Front, called on French voters to "fight ... against these politico-religious fundamentalists who are killing our Christian children, our Christian young men." (She is running in next month's

a Jewish school and seized the chance to murder a young rabbi, his five- and three-year-old sons, and eight-yearold Myriam Monsonego. It was a monstrous act, but in his disordered mind he believed that he was taking revenge for the Muslims who had been killed in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It's no excuse, but it is an explanation. And the more relevant fact is

Both men were responding, in confused ways, to the 'war on terror' that former US president George W Bush launched after the 9/11 attacks.

presidential election, after all.) The incumbent right-wing president, Nicolas Sarkozy, says much the same thing, but less bluntly. Yet two of the three French paratroopers Merah killed were Muslims. The other dead soldier, a Christian of West Indian origin, just had the bad luck to be in the street with two Muslim comrades when Merah found them. (He was deliberately targeting French Muslim soldiers as traitors to his cause.) Merah was hunting another Muslim soldier when he found himself outside

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that only one out of perhaps two million young Muslim French males has committed such an atrocity. What happened is appalling, but it is statistically insignificant. It should also be politically insignificant, but that may be too much to ask in the midst of a presidential election campaign. The United States is also heading for a presidential election this year, but the only role that the war in Afghanistan has in the campaign is ritual accusations by Republican candidates that President Obama is "soft on ter-

ror." (On the contrary, he has become the willing prisoner of the Washington foreign policy consensus that still defends the profoundly misconceived Afghan adventure.) As for the Bales atrocity, it is already being written off by the American media and public as a meaningless aberration that tells us nothing about US foreign policy or national character. Not so. It tells us that the character of American soldiers is no better or stronger than anybody else's, and it is a reminder that 10 years occupying a foreign country will make any army hated from without and rotten within. The army will become even more demoralized and undisciplined if it is a professional force that rotates the same soldiers through repeated combat tours with no visible success on the horizon. Recent instances of American soldiers urinating on dead Taliban fighters and burning Qurans are symptoms of the same malaise that finally drove Bales around the bend. Obama should not wait until 2014. It's time to go home. V Gwynne Dyer is a London-based independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries. His column appears each week in Vue Weekly.

COMMENT >> PROVINCIAL ELECTION

Miscalculated play

A controversial sitting of the legislature cost the PCs some momentum Well, it's official now. Albertans— percent. well, at least some Albertans— Had Ms Redford called the elecwill go to the polls on April 23 to tion immediately after the tabling elect a provincial government. In of the provincial budget in early many ways the dropping of the writ February, these poll numbers this past Monday was simply would likely have translated into a formality. Alberta's poanother Conservative majorlitical parties have been ity government with just E C in full-out election mode a handful of opposition N E RFER since early fall when Ali- INTE vueweekly.com MLAs in the Legislature, @ ricardo son Redford was elected o primarily from Wildrose Ricard a ñ leader of the Progressive and NDP. u c A Conservative Party, and was subsequently sworn in as Alberta's It is common practice for govern14th Premier. Candidates have been ments to table a budget and call nominated, signs have been oran election before it gets debated dered, campaign offices are open or voted on. This minimizes the and functioning, and candidates amount of public scrutiny to which and their volunteers have been the budget is subjected, and allows knocking on doors for a couple of the governing party to use the budmonths now. get as a type of platform document Despite the fact that everyone during the election itself. knew an election call was coming, For some reason, however, Ms the one person in the province with Redford decided against this stratecontrol over exactly when it would gy. She determined, instead, that it be is the only one who appears to would be best to hold a full spring have been tripped up by the timing session of the legislature, debate of the election. and vote on the budget, and try to Almost immediately after Ms get a number of other contentious Redford's win in the leadership bills passed in the process. race, poll after poll began showThe result of this decision has ing Conservative numbers climbing been something of a disaster for steadily. The province-wide polling the premier and her party. Over numbers went from a virtual dead the course of the six week spring heat between Conservatives and session, serious evidence of public the Wildrose Party last spring to institutions illegally donating to putting the Conservatives back into the Conservatives was made public, comfortable majority government the Canadian Taxpayers Federation range after the holidays. very effectively exposed the comPolls conducted in January consismittee that was being paid despite tently put the Conservatives in the not meeting, and Redford called 40 to 45 percent range for popular an investigation into questionable support, with the Wildrose Party fundraising by her trade envoy to hovering in the 30 percent range. Asia Gary Mar. There was huge The New Democrats and Liberals public outcry when she moved the both regularly registered 12 to 14 goal-posts on the promised judicial

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inquiry into health care, one of her MLAs announced his retirement a week before the election, and to wrap up the session, they failed

the field between March 20 and 25 has the PCs and the Wildrose both at 38 percent province-wide, with the NDs and Liberals back at 12 and

Recent polling shows the Conservatives lost five to seven percent province-wide in the month after the budget was released.

to pass the new Education Act after coming under attack from the extremist right and the Wildrose Party. So now, instead of heading into an election riding high in the polls and with momentum on their side, the opposite dynamic is at play. Recent polling shows the Conservatives lost five to seven percent provincewide in the month after the budget was released.

11 percent respectively. Electorally those numbers still likely translate to a Conservative majority, but not a terribly comfortable one. How all of this will play out over the course of the election remains

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Interestingly, most of the polling conducted in the lead-up to the election had those points lost by the Conservatives migrate to the Liberals rather than to the Wildrose, who had actually remained steady in the 30 percent range throughout most of January and February. This would suggest that for most of that period the message of the Wildrose Party was not resonating with Conservative supporters who appeared much more likely to seek out another centre-right alternative rather than move all the way over to the far right. A new poll released by Ipsos on the day the writ was dropped, however, shows that perhaps this trend shifted in the last week before the election. The poll, which was in

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to be seen, but from this vantage point on the first few days of the race, it really does appear that the Conservatives remain in the driver's seat and that it's theirs to lose. Of course, as we've seen over the last month, 28 days is a very long time and anything can happen. Either way, one thing is sure: it will be a much more interesting election than we have seen in some time in this province. V

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COMMENT >> HOCKEY

The end is nigh

There's nothing left but the picking apart The Oiler season is drawing to a close. having a bad year, and yes, trading him Last week the Oilers improved their lousy now goes against the "Buy low, sell high" road record with a 3-2 shootout loss to maxim, but does Paajarvi have a future Tampa, a 2-1 win over Florida and with this team? He was so promisa huge 6-3 win in Columbus. ing last year, but now he's the The Oilers scored five goals in odd man out. the second period in the Blue • Nikolai Khabibulin: We may ly.com eweek ox@vu b Jackets win. have missed our only chance e th in oung & Dave Y s when, at the trade deadline, e tl Bir Bryan Necessary goodbyes somebody might conceivably It's become obvious that Linus Omark have been looking to add a backup will not be sticking around with the with tons of experience, but if we could team much longer and, as sad as that is, move Khabibulin's contract it would there just isn't room for another small clear the space we need to sign a numforward, especially if that small forward ber-one defenceman. doesn't seem to be capable of the num• Ben Eager: Remember when Georges bers being put up by our other small forLaraque decided he wasn't a fighter anywards. But with Omark on the first plane more? How long did his career last after out of town come the end of the season, that? For some reason Ben Eager thinks it might be worth thinking about some of himself as a top-six offensive guy, other guys that might need to go: when in reality he's a hard-nosed meany who can pot a few once in awhile. Like • Magnus Paajarvi: Sure, he may just be Raffi Torres, or Esa Tikkanen. He's gonna

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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 Citadel Theatre • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre.com • CHASING MANHOOD, a one man show about the challenges of growing up a skinny comic book collector raised by a burly father and older brother, by Canadian stand-up Darrin Rose • Mar 31, 8pm • $27 COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Dann Accapella; Mar 29-31 • Dave Stawnichy; Apr 5-7 Comic Strip • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Godfrey; until Apr 1 • Hit or Miss Monday: Apr 2, 8pm; $7 • Brown on Bourbon; Apr 3, 8pm; $12 • Patrick Deguire; Apr 4-8 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: Standup comedy every Sun night; 9pm; no cover

laugh shop–Sherwood Park • 4 Blackfoot Rd, 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 • Dave Tsonos; Mar 30-31 laugh shop–124th Street • 11802124 St • 780.417.9777 • thelaughshop. com • Amateur night every Wed (call 780.417.9777 to be added to the lineup); no cover

Cha Island Tea Co • 10332-81 Ave • Games Night: Board games and card games • Every Mon, 7pm E4C’s Make Tax Time Pay (MTTP)

• 780.424.7543 • e4calberta.org • Free tax preparation and access to government benefits for low-income families and people wanting help to apply for government benefit programs • Find a MTTP tax site, dial 2-1-1, Support Network, to find a tax location nearby; until Apr 30 Edmonton Bike Art Nights • BikeWorks, 10047-80 Ave, back alley entrance • Art Nights • Every Wed, 6-9pm 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 Good Friday–annual walk • Starts at Hope Mission, 9908-106 Ave • 780.466.6327/780.431.0778 • Two hour ecumenical event • Apr 6, 10am (start) Hatha Flow Yoga • Eastwood Community Hall, 11803-86 St • Every Tue and Thu (7:05pm) until the end of Apr • Sliding Scale: $10 (drop-in)/$7 (lowincome)/$5 (no income)

Home–Energizing Spiritual Community for Passionate Living

• Garneau/Ashbourne Assisted Living Place, 11148-84 Ave • Home: Blends music, drama, creativity and reflection on sacred texts to energize you for passionate living • Every Sun 3-5pm Lotus Qigong • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu Meditation • Strathcona Library • meditationedmonton.org • Weekly meditation drop-in; every Tue, starts Apr 3, 7-8:30pm

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,

Groups/CLUBS/meetings

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)

Aikikai Aikido Club • 10139-87 Ave,

Society of Edmonton Atheists •

Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm AWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP • Braeside Presbyterian Church bsmt, N. door, 6 Bernard Dr, Bishop St, Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • For adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional families • Every Mon 7:30pm

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Stanley Milner Library, Rm 6-7 • edmontonatheists.ca • Meet the 1st Tue every month, 7pm Sugarswing Dance Club • Orange Hall, 10335-84 Ave or Pleasantview Hall, 10860-57 Ave • 780.604.7572 • Swing Dance at Sugar Foot Stomp: beginner lesson followed by dance every Sat, 8pm (door) at Orange Hall or Pleasantview Hall

have to be more willing to get his hands dirty if he wants to stick around. • Tom Renney: Unless the team hires an absolute hard ass for an assistant coach—like that sheriff who locked up Khabibulin or something—it's time for Renney to go. This team doesn't belong in second last place in the league and if it takes somebody screaming themselves hoarse to drill it into the Oilers' heads, by God we should find that person. BB Fast Thoughts for the Short Attention Types • On March 22, the Oilers were mathematically eliminated from the playoffs. This means even the rosiest of rosecoloured glasses have been removed from faces, thrown out and stomped on. In 2011, the team didn't even make to St Patrick's Day before being officially declared dead. That's called improvement, he wrote while gagging. • I like Nick Schultz. I don't miss Tom Gilbert. Thank Jeff Petry for moving into Gilbert's turf for much less dough. • If this upcoming CBA gets ugly, I think I'll find a new sport. Is there a pro sport Vegetarians of Alberta • Bonnie Doon Community Hall, 9240-93 St • vofa. ca/category/events • Monthly Potluck and book sale: bring a vegan dish to serve 8 people, your own plate, cup, cutlery, serving spoon • $3 (member)/$5 (nonmember) • Apr 8, 5:30-7:30pm WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old Strathcona Farmers' Market • Silent vigil the 1st and 3rd Sat, 10-11am, each month, stand in silence for a world without violence Y Toastmasters Club • EFCL, 7103-105 St • Meet every Tue, 7-9pm; helps members develop confidence in public speaking and leadership • T: Antonio Balce at 780.463.5331

LECTURES/Presentations Election Forum • Centre for

Education, Kingsway Ave • A provincial election candidates’ Election Forum hosted by Edmonton Public Schools • Apr 4, 7-9pm • Pre-register at tinyurl. com/ElectionsForum; or call Kim at 780.429.8040 Fidelio Panel Discussion • Art Gallery of Alberta, 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Wrongful Imprisonment Opera 101: Edmonton Opera presents this panel discussion • Apr 4, 6:30-9pm • Free

Lester Pearson's Peacekeeping: The Truth May Hurt • Telus Bldg,

Rm 134, 111 St, 87 Ave, U of A • Book Launch with author and activist Yves Engler • Apr 4, 7-9pm • Free Macular Degeneration • Chateau Lacombe, 10111 Bellamy Hill • 780.488.4871 • Free symposium hosted by CNIB featuring speakers from CNIB, an ophthalmologist; an open question and answer period • Apr 4, 6:30pm (door) 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. At the end of the meal, diners vote on which proposal receives the pot of funds to move forward with their project • Pre-register atmeaet.com • $10 (minimum donation for diners)

Mental Health Awareness Week (MHAW) • Katz Group Centre for Pharmacy and Health Research, Rm 1080 • Mental Illness Seminar Series presented by U of A Chapter Of Medical Students for Mental Health Awareness (MSMHA): Bipolar Affective Disorder, Mar 30, 12-1pm • 2nd floor atrium: Booth Fair highlighting community mental health resources; Mar 29, 10am-1pm Spring Migration • Available Anywhere–LIVE Online • 780.849.8623, E: wfdev@northernlakescollege.ca • At the Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory • Apr 2, 6:30-8:3pm • Free; pre-register: WorkForce Development, 780.849.8623, E: wfdev@northernlakescollege.ca

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free of greed, boardroom posturing and other buzzkills? Nope? Shit. • Kudos to the WHL Edmonton Oil Kings. They finished with the best record in the WHL and have already won their first two playoff games. Both games boasted crowds of more than 16 000. The awkward part? Edmonton hockey parents had to explain to their children what playoffs are. • Support comedian Anthony Jeselnik. Reason 1: He's really funny. Reason 2: He stated on the Sklarbro country podcast that hockey is the best sport to watch live—and he's not Canadian but obviously very enlightened. Reason 3: He looks a bit like Taylor Hall (Google it. If you think I'm wrong, I choose to disagree). • At this point, I would like to see Nashville win the Cup. I would also like to see Shea Weber get MVP. This way, it will be harder for Nashville to scrape the cash together to re-sign him, leaving Edmonton to take a run at him with an RFA offer sheet. • Toronto Maple Leaf Colby Armstrong is set to make an appearance on an upcoming episode of Top Chef Canada. The

challenge should include cheese, seeing as he is named after both a style and manufacturer of cheese. I'm curious if the producers also tried to get teammate Joey Crabb. Another great idea for Top Chef producers: have the chefs make a cake out in the rain and get Clarke MacArthur to judge. • It is disappointing that only two Canadian teams are going to make the playoffs (sorry, Flames fans—you're close but I'm calling it). Sure we provide most of the players, revenue and fan support but our teams just fall short. I'm putting my Canadian loyalty behind Ottawa. • I dare anyone to say one bad thing about Ladislav Smid. Is he not totally likeable? • Assuming a deal is possible, the Oilers should trade their first-round pick from 2013. No more safety net. DY

Ave • 780.488.6636 • Tue with DJ Arrow Chaser, free pool all night; 9pm (door); no cover • Wed with DJ Dust’n Time; 9pm (door); no cover • Thu: Men’s Wet Underwear Contest, win prizes, hosted by Drag Queen DJ Phon3 Hom3; 9pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Fri Dance Party with DJ Arrow Chaser; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Sat: Feel the rhythm with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm 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 Sage bowling club • 780.474.8240, E: Tuff@shaw.ca • Every Wed, 1:30-3:30pm

PrimeTimers/sage Games • Unitar-

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. at 7pm • Bowling: Ed's Rec Centre, WEM, Tue 6:45pm • Curling: Granite Curling Club; 780.463.5942 • Running: Kinsmen • Spinning: MacEwan Centre, 109 St, 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: 9pm-12; Thu 2-4-1 burgers: 5-9pm; Fri steak night: 5-9pm; DJs Fri and Sat at 10pm LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408124 St • edmlivingpositive.ca • 1.877.975.9448/780.488.5768 • Confidential peer support to people living with HIV • Tue, 7-9pm: Support group • Daily drop-in, peer counselling MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu Pride Centre of Edmonton • Moving • 780.488.3234 • 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 • Counselling: Free, short-term, solution-focused counselling, provided by professionally trained counsellors; every Wed, 6-9pm • STD Testing: Last Thu every month, 3-6pm; free • Youth Movie: Every Thu, 6:308:30pm

Oilers Player of the week Ladislav Smid: Two goals in the past five games. In Smid terms, that's like a natural hat trick. DY Ryan Nugent-Hopkins: If the Nuge doesn't win the Calder, I'll eat my hat. BB

ian Church, 10804-119 St • 780.474.8240 • Every 2nd and last Fri each Month, 7-10:30pm St Paul's United Church • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship) WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • womonspace.ca, womonspace@gmail.com • A Non-profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured Woodys Video Bar • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Amateur Strip Contest; prizes with Shawana • Tue: Kitchen 3-11pm • Wed: Karaoke with Tizzy 7pm-1am; Kitchen 3-11pm • Thu: Free pool all night; kitchen 3-11pm • Fri: Mocho Nacho Fri: 3pm (door), kitchen open 3-11pm

SPECIAL EVENTS Canadian National College Finals Rodeo • Edmonton Expo

Centre, Northlands Park, 78 St, 115 Ave • Mar 29-31 Hop! Easter Fest • Prairie Garden, 56311 Lily Lake Rd, Bon Accord • Easter at Prairie Garden: petting farm, egg hunt, Dave Tyler Puppet Show, storytelling, Heather Swain, Keith Remple Band • Apr 6-9 • $9.95 (adult)

Mayor's Celebration of the

arts • Winspear Centre • Celebrating some of Edmonton's artistic talents • Apr 2, 7pm • $30-$80 (incl after-party) Run Wild for Wildlife • William Hawrelak Park • Wildlife REhabilitation Society of Edmonton's 2.5km (walk); 5km (run) • Apr 1, 11am • Iinfo: E: volunteer@ wildlife-edm.ca; T: 780.960.1497 Shades of Grey • Shaw Conference Centre, Hall A • Edmonton Collectible Toy and Comic show featuring Nat Jones, Steve Sansweet, Robert Bailey • Apr 1, 10am-5pm • $15/free (Kids under 12)/$12 (adv at Shades of Grey, 2nd Fl, 10444-82 Ave); donation for Edmonton Food Bank UNMASK THE CURE: THE CARNIVAL TO CONQUER • Art Gallery of Alberta,

Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Starts with performers and a seven-course feast by Zinc's Executive Chef David Omar, followed by a 1920's carnival-themed dance party with dancers, musicians, DJs and models, silent auction, jugglers, comedians, a live art installation and more • Mar 30 • $100 (for 7pm dinner show and dance party)/$30 (dance, 10pm-2am) 1920's Carnival costume

Western Canada Fashion Week

• TransAlta Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave • westerncanadafashionweek.com • A fusion of art, design, fashion and music • Mar 29Apr 5 • Tickets at TIX on the Square womonspace–Spring Fling • Bellevue Hall, 7308-112 Ave • womonspace. ca • Dance, silent auction; self defense instruction • Mar 31, 8pm-1am

FILM

REVUE // TOUGH LOVE

Being Flynn

Two of Suck City's residents

Opens Friday Directed by Paul Weitz Princess Theatre

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he title of the source material, a memoir by poet and playwright Nick Flynn, is Another Bullshit Night in Suck City. The title of the movie, scripted and directed by Paul Weitz, is Being Flynn. I don't know about you, but this discrepancy in tone already gave me pause—would this adaptation suck all the bite from the book and replace it with middlebrow Hollywood bullshit? The good news is: not really. Being Flynn exudes polished, pedestrian, professional directorial style, but its heart's in the right place, by which I mean a toughminded, tough-love kind of place. This is the story about a boy trying to become a man while living in the dual-shadow of a suicided mother and a long-absent, crazy motherfucker of a father who returns to this boy's life when he shows

up one night looking for a bed at the homeless shelter where the boy works. Too late, obviously, to make up for lost time—the boy's now in his 20s—but just in time to challenge the boy's undigested notions about maybe-kinda becoming a writer. Jonathan Flynn never published a word in his life, yet even as a going-on-elderly homeless drunken babbler, he remains convinced of his innate literary genius. And of his son Nick's inheritance of this genius. So, yes, like many a memoir this is also the story of a writer discovering his craft. Thankfully, rather than spending time watching the writer try to write, Being Flynn focuses on the experiences that engender literary insight. Nick (Paul Dano) is uneasy with any career path that might make explicit his creative desire, so, following his father's oft-stated and, as it turns out, ironic dictum that "we are put on this earth to help other people," he works night shifts trying to give a modicum of comfort to the city's

downtrodden. The movie's depiction of life at the shelter gets a surprising number of things right, partially through casting the likes of Lily Taylor, Wes Studi and Eddie Rouse as Nick's more experienced colleagues, partially through Weitz's uncondescending framing of the shelter's clients. Nick may be Being Flynn's protagonist but its star performance is unquestionably Robert De Niro's Jonathan. The movie wisely capitalizes on De Niro's iconic status, rendering Jonathan as a variation on Travis Bickle some 30-odd years after Taxi Driver. Not just because Jonathan's last job was driving a cab, but because, like Travis, Jonathan regards himself as possessing some rarefied, god-like view of mankind in all its frailty, a view that allows him to go on manic, fevered rants against homosexuals, women and racial minorities. Neither Weitz nor De Niro strain to ingratiate Jonathan to us, understanding that it's up to Nick to figure out how to come to terms with his father's less palatable attitudes. And without resorting to mere camp, De Niro has an awful lot of fun with Jonathan, singing "You Are MEE-eee!" to his son from his skinny cot or throwing a tantrum while wearing a makeshift toga. And Jonathan does have things to teach his son about what it means to be a writer. The key midpoint scene involves Jonathan calling his son on the fact that he's working at the shelter to gather material. Nick, horrified, denies this. Indeed, it isn't the whole truth, but it is a truth, and the proof is in Flynn's book and in this flawed but worthwhile movie. Josef Braun

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REVUE // DANCE FILM

PINA

Opens Friday Directed by Wim Wenders

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he first space is just a stage, a place we expect dance to happen, but that stage soon feels like a world, one made of some coffee-like soil, one whose inhabitants were long ago condemned to wear only beige, where a fearsome collective anxiety accumulates with the appearance of a red slip. The inhabitants' gestures read as self-flagellation, their bodies move in a manner that's captivatingly neurotic, addled, electrified, as though possessed by some great and mysterious force. This is a world that German choreographer Pina Bausch built. I've never seen Bausch's work performed live, so her death in 2009 came with the extra sting of knowing that I'd truly missed something. But Bausch lives on, not only through ongoing revivals but also through this remarkable film from her compatriot Wim Wenders, whose undisguised reverence infuses this, his

best work in more than a dozen years. That he made it in 3D, a format traditionally reserved for the biggest and often dumbest sort of genre pictures, is itself remarkable. Photographed by Hélène Louvart, Pina is both the most straightforwardly conceived and best employment of 3D I've seen—if you're going to film something normally experienced in three dimensions, why not shoot it so that it looks three-dimensional? The bottom line is that, however variable his later films may be, Wenders has always possessed an unfailing eye for texture, shadow, colour and sweeping cinematic splendour, and he's one of very few filmmakers who has thus far managed to incorporate 3D without sacrificing beauty. Beauty—a mischievous, obsessive, intelligent, enigmatic beauty—could be said to be one of the subjects of Pina, which is neither biographical documentary nor a performance film in the strictest sense. It's an homage, by Wenders, his collaborators, and also Bausch's collaborators, who appear in the film not as talking heads but in silent portraits over which their spoken memories of Bausch float.

"Meeting Pina was like finding a language," says one of her wildly diverse dancers, and Wenders ensures that we understand what's meant by language in this context: Bausch developed an essentially immutable, bodily vocabulary that swayed playfully between the primal and the sophisticated. Pina shows us dancers dancing with veal chops in ballet slippers outside a factory, having strange encounters on elevated trams, or marching with expressionistic smiles across fields in formal wear. Perhaps best of all, Wenders includes a generous excerpt from Bausch's famous "Café Müller"—a work some filmgoers will recognize from Almodóvar's Talk to Her, which used the dance both as its opening scene and perhaps its source material— in which women scurry blind through a room crowded with tables and chairs while men yank the furniture out of their trajectories. It is, among other things, a testament to the balance of trance-like surrender and devotional support that combine to make art this dynamic, alluring and haunting. Josef Braun

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REVUE // ABUNDANT SADISM

Tyrannosaur Fri, Mar 30 – Wed, Apr 4 Directed by Paddy Considine Metro Cinema at the Garneau

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n animal can only take so much humiliation," explains Joseph (Peter Mullan), "before it snaps, fights back." Our protagonist is referring to a neighbourhood dog that eventually attacks a child, but the implication is clear from Tyrannosaur's opening scene, in which Joseph, in one of his alcoholic rages, kicks a dog, his own dog, to death: Joseph's the animal here, and his is a fury with no coherent target upon which to vent itself. He's been beaten by life and beats back blindly whenever that fury surges. He's not an easy guy to be with, and Tyrannosaur isn't an easy film to sit through, but I think there are at least some of you reading this who'll find a sober sort of reward from seeing Joseph's

story unfold in this earnest, wellcrafted exercise in British miserablism, actor Paddy Considine's feature debut as writer/director. The setting is somewhere in Northern England. Joseph's unemployed, a widower wading in the deep end of middle-age and frequently deep in his cups. He hangs out in public houses even though everyone seems to piss him off. An altercation leaves him hiding in a thrift store. He crouches behind a rack of sweaters, trembling, clutching a pool cue, tells the store's clerk that he's Robert De Niro. She prays for him. Hannah (Olivia Coleman) seems kind and gentle and big on Jesus. Joseph has none of it. "God's not my fucking daddy," he snarls at her. "My daddy was a cunt, but at least he knew he was a cunt." So much for conversion. Yet this encounter will prompt changes for Joseph

and Hannah both. They become close after Hannah flees home following a particularly sad and evil scene of domestic rape. Later you might wonder if maybe Joseph couldn't reach out to Hannah until he saw her all beaten up. At one point Hannah says she feels safe with him, but how do you gauge such a statement when it comes from someone already so shattered by abuse? Tyrannosaur's abundant sadism is somewhat balanced by Considine's sensitivity to behavior and space, to interiors that sooner or later darken, though the penumbra brings with it rich greens and golds. His film is above all a showcase for Mullan, an old hand at wounded brutes who wield cruelty as an emotional shield, and Coleman, whose complexity and vulnerability are nothing short of a revelation. Josef Braun

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REVUE // SUSHI

Jiro Dreams of Sushi Now playing Directed by David Gelb

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ukiyabashi Jiro is a subterranean sushi joint near Tokyo's Ginza Station. The place serves nothing but sushi, has only 10 seats and the toilet's down the hall. It's also the only restaurant of its kind on Earth to have earned Michelin's full three stars, and a 20-piece meal starts somewhere in the neighbourhood of $300. The proprietor is one Jiro Ono, 85. He's been making sushi almost daily for 75 years—Jiro hates holidays—and has no retirement plan, despite the fact that his eldest son Yoshikazu has been his apprentice since he was 19 and, though now in his 50s, has yet to take over the family business. Still, even if Sukiyabashi Jiro were to become Sukiyabashi Yoshikazu, would the clientele embrace anything less than sushi shaped by the master's aged but nimble hands? David Gelb's Jiro Dreams of Sushi is both an alluring high-protein documentary about rarified dining experiences and the cult of personality that can form around chefs and an unobtrusive study of Japanese mores and fraught family dynamics. Jiro's parents barely

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raised him; he left home to start what would become his career at the age of nine. Jiro was clearly preternaturally ambitious, a born-workaholic and natural disciplinarian and, given his roots, a kid with nowhere to go but up. Yoshikazu meanwhile grew up under the shadow of his globally revered father and, as the charismatic food critic who provides much of the film's best commentary puts it, he'd have to make sushi twice as good as his dad in order to convince anyone that he was his equal. Both men retain a stoic, if occasionally dryly humorous, persona, so whatever unspoken tensions linger between them can only be inferred.

There are diverting excursions to Jiro's childhood home and, most entertainingly, to a fish auction, but much of this documentary stays pretty close to the highly regulated lives of its central characters. Gelb shapes his film with handsomely diffused images of food, faces and urban spaces, impressively fluid travelling shots, lots of slow-motion and the celestial strains of Phillip Glass—for a film about simplicity and austerity Jiro Dreams of Sushi is awfully decorative in its storytelling techniques. Yet mostly it works quite wonderfully. Josef Braun

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COVER // MURAKAMI

INorwegian once had a girl ... Wood's director talks of adapting Murakami and enjoying the difficulty of the creative process

Fri, Mar 30 – Wed, Apr 4 Directed by Tran Anh Hung Metro Cinema at the Garneau

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story of sex, devastating loss, selfrealization and all kinds of love in various geometries, set amidst the political unrest of Tokyo university life in the late 1960s, Norwegian Wood is the fifth feature from Tran Anh Hung, who's works include The Scent of Green Papaya and The Vertical Ray of the Sun, which I wrote about rapturously in these pages more than 10 years ago. Tran's films possess a sensual languor, a vivid fecundity, a certain tenderness and grace that, despite the fact that he was born in Vietnam, lives in France, and doesn't speak Japanese, made Tran an ideal filmmaker to adapt Haruki Murakami's beloved 1987 heartbreaker-breakthrough, in which the shy yet charismatic Toru Watanabe (Kenichi Matsuyama) wrestles with irrepressible youthful desires, ambiguous relationships, an innate resistance to the youth movements enveloping him, and the suicides of more than one of his closest friends. The lead performances by Matsuyama, Kiko Mizuhara and Rinko Kikuchi, who most of you will probably recognize from her Oscar-nominated turn in Babel, balance degrees of physical or social awkwardness with glimpses of inner turmoil and sudden sparks of preternatural wisdom. The photography by Mark Lee Ping Bin, best-known for his collaborations with Hou Hsiao-hsien and Wong Kar-wai, would seem almost too sublimely pretty if it weren't so utterly precise, governed by the dictates of narrative and close attention to the actor's impulses. The music by Radiohead's Johnny Greenwood, who previously scored There Will Be Blood, seems born of a bubbling caldron of romanticmodernist strife. And the sweaters are to die for. (Costume credit goes to Tran Nu Yên-Khê, the writer/director's wife and frequent star.) Anyway, I think we cover a fair amount of ground in the conversation transcribed below, so I'll refrain from much in the way of analysis here. Tran spoke to Vue Weekly while touring North America to promote the film last October. Norwegian Wood is arguably Murakami's most overtly personal work. Certain elements seem almost autobiographical. Do you feel any similarly personal connection? TRAN ANH HUNG: Yes, but only because VUE WEEKLY:

of the themes. Someone finds first love and then loses it, someone is first confronted with grief, or first has to accept the consequences of major life decisions—all this is universal. On a certain level it could have happened to anyone. I think the international success of the book comes from this. VW: But there's also this specific theme

of suicide and its effect on those left in its wake, the suggestion that when you encounter suicide at a young age it throws a shadow over everything in your life from that point on. All of the choices Watanabe makes after coming into contact with suicide seem influenced by that contact. TAH: This is true, but we have to recognize that suicide is also a narrative mechanism. The suicide of Kizumi at the beginning of the movie is traumatic for Naoko, and the mechanism starts to work on her when she has sex with Watanabe. Suddenly she doesn't understand why she couldn't make it with Kizuki yet now she can make it with a boy she doesn't love. This mechanism is at work throughout the story. Life is just experience. You can only harness the beauty of experience through art. As an artist you have to find out how to express experience so that the audience can draw the beauty from it. You want the audience to leave the theatre carrying some trace of that beauty with them. VW: Norwegian Wood closes on a bracing note, just the black screen and those final words spoken about how Watanabe's friends will be 17 and 21 forever, while he has to continue to grow older. TAH: Yes, I'm quite proud of that. [Laughs] Those words exist somewhere in the book, but to pluck them out and place them at the end feels very right, better than anything I would have created by myself.

VW: I imagine Norwegian Wood demanded a very different development process for you. Your preceding films are rather spare in incident and you give a lot of room for scenes to breathe. By contrast, with Norwegian Wood you have a great deal of plot to manage. Did you find that process enjoyable? Or was it frustrating? TAH: Everything that is difficult in the creative process is enjoyable. I like hav-

ing problems to solve. When you move from one form to another, you have to build emotion from the devices specific to the new form. For example, you have this sequence where you see Watanabe mourning by the sea, then in the next scene he's making love with a woman, then in the next he calls another woman and says, "I love you." It's disturbing. Normally such behavior is not acceptable. But when you've surrendered to this story it seems acceptable. My challenge is to make an audience intuit this without fully understanding exactly what happened. The book has a framing device: a man—the narrator—sits on a plane, hears some music, and is drawn into the past. So it's all channeled through

VW:

happening in the present. I prefer to focus on the past. To show the wound when it's fresh. Using a little voice-over was just a way of bringing the melancholy out of the story. VW: I guess if you tried to weave in the present then you'd be stuck shooting a lot of coverage of some guy on an airplane, thinking. TAH: [Laughs] Yes. Airplane, then hotel room ... Not really interesting. VW: Murakami's characters tend to be very composed, at least externally. Your rendering of Norwegian Wood features at least two elements that counter that. One is your allowance of Naoko to succumb to these tempests of convulsive weeping. The other is Johnny Greenwood's music, which expresses a lot of

Life is just experience. You can only harness the beauty of experience through art. As an artist you have to find out how to express experience so that the audience can draw the beauty from it. memory. In the movie that framing device survives only through a very sparing use of voice-over. Did you ever think of structuring the movie similarly, as a memory collage? TAH: No. Structures relying on flashbacks feel too mechanical. I don't really like them. But there's a more important reason. Normally when you move back and forth between present and past you need to show how the past changed or influenced the present somehow. In the book there's nothing like that. It's just a voice. So for me to follow this structure I would need to create other events

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high emotion. TAH: Murakami's characters are always meant to be normal people. Given the romantic nature of this story he could have created moments where the characters go really crazy, do spectacular things. But he always stays with normal people. That's a great strength. Everyone can identify with his characters. So I had to maintain that aspect while at the same time give voice to the romantic side of things. Johnny Greenwood has a special talent for creating very serious, very dark music that has this captivating beauty. I don't like the idea

of creating so many variations in music. I wanted it to speak to the deep, dark parts of the characters. VW: I was also very drawn to your use of landscape, the specificity brought to looking at the geography of living spaces, and the fact that the camera, in my memory at least, seems to be moving almost constantly. There's the sense that this intimate story is always set within a larger, very particular context. TAH: I think this is very important. You need to have the physical feeling of a movie. Watanabe's life is suspended, floating, so you need to find a way to shoot every scene to create a sense of that instability. Every set we built, every space we used needed to allow us to move a certain way. Every landscape needed to give wings, somehow, to the emotions of the characters, to be lyrical. That mourning sequence by the sea, for instance. Because what Watanabe is feeling is very primitive, something inside all of us, something that was probably inside the first man on Earth, I needed to find a place that resembled the beginning of life. Only rocks and the violence of the water and the wind. This violence needs to be forceful enough to break through Watanabe's reserve, to let loose the tears. You cannot explain this to the audience—they just need to feel it. And they way we did this, with this combination of elements, is something that you can do only with movies. And when I wake up in the morning it's precisely this kind of challenging that I'm seeking, that I'm looking forward to as a filmmaker. Josef Braun

// josef@vueweekly.com

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FILM // QUIRKY INDIE

Moon Point

PRESENTS

JULIE BENZ Star of Dexter, Buffy, Angel and more!

JOHN DE LANCIE

From Star Trek: TNG, Torchwood, Breaking Bad and more!

Other Special Guests Include! Comic Artist NAT JONES

Illustrator ROBERT BAILEY

Collecting Guru STEVE SANSWEET

Special Exhibits!

Just a man, a wagon and a dream

The Art of ‘68! Featuring the artwork of Nat Jones’ Zombies in Vietnam comic ‘68!

Celebrate 30 Years of Masters of the Universe

Get Tattooed! Shades of Grey artists tattooing all day long!

All that PLUS Western Canada’s largest selection of collectible toys, comics, video games and pop culture memorabilia! Please bring a donation for The Edmonton Food Bank and enter to win one of several great door prizes!

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Sat, Mar 31 – Thu, Apr 5 Directed by Sean Cisterna Metro Cinema at the Garneau

oon Point's creation began with a single image: an electric wheelchair, slowly driving forward and behind it, a fullgrown man in a wagon, attached, slowly being tugged along. Director Sean Cisterna and screenwriter Robert Lazar built outwards from there for their debut feature film, developing a world of twee Canadiana to surround that wheelchair/wagon, combo and give it a place to be headed to: an offbeat roadtrip movie in the style of something like Little Miss Sunshine, Moon Point traces the attempts of a 24-year-old slacker named Darryl Strozka who departs his mother's basement to track down his childhood crush, now filming some B-movie in a town a couple hundred kilometers away. Shot on an tidy budget in rural Ontario, Cisterna notes the style of movie seemed to fit with what they could accomplish with an independent debut. "Rob and I, I guess we had similar tastes, we knew we couldn't have a lot to work with, and we looked at other popular movies at the time, and It seemed like movies like Juno and Little Miss Sunshine, these quirky, lower budgeted movies were making a splash," Cisterna says. "So we wanted to do our own version. It all a started with that image."

love, while a fairly common cinematic sentiment, seemed particularly befitting the world of today when applied to an old flame, Cisterna notes: when they were developing the script, social networking was becoming the all-encompassing connector it now is, leading people to rediscover long-forgotten people from their lives. "Facebook had just come out, and people were reconnecting with their elementary school friends, and people they hadn't seen for many years, and it just seemed like a natural fit for the story that this lead character was looking for his long lost love," Cisterna notes. "And yeah. I guess the challenge was who these characters meet along the way. They're on a roadtrip, they have to meet people, and we wanted each character on the trip to be memorable and special." After a positive reception at film festivals last year, Moon Point's getting some ample postfestival circuit life, including this Metro run, as it tours its slacker protagonist across the country. There's something about him that fits into a budding niche of the loser hero figure, an archetype that seems to be popping up more regularly today than in the past. "I think in other films, the lead charcaters are so special, they have a unique superhero quality about them," Cisterna notes. "We're inundated with these 'superhero' movies, so just to have an average slacker guy is kind of rare these days it seems." Paul Blinov

Putting their protagonist on a quest for

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FILM WEEKLY Fri, MAR 30 - THU, aPr 5, 2012

CHABA THEATRE–JASPER 6094 Connaught Dr Jasper 780.852.4749

Mirror Mirror (G) Fri-Sat 7:00, 9:15; Sun-Thu 8:00

HUNGER GAMES (14A violence) Fri-Sat 6:45, 9:15; Sun-Thu 8:00

DUGGAN CINEMA–CAMROSE 6601-48 Ave Camrose 780.608.2144

WRATH OF THE TITANS (14A) Fri-Mon 7:05 9:05; Sat-Sun, Tue, Thu 2:05

HUNGER GAMES (14A violence) Daily 6:45,

9:30; Sat-Sun, Tue, Thu 1:45

21 Jump Street (14A crude coarse language, substance abuse, violence) Fri-Mon 6:55 9:15; Sat-Sun, Tue, Thu 1:55 CINEMA CITY MOVIES 12 5074-130 Ave 780.472.9779

UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING (18A gory

violence) Fri-Wed 1:30, 3:40, 7:35, 9:50; Thu 3:40, 9:50

ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED (G) Daily 1:50, 4:25 THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN (PG violence) Digital Cinema Daily 1:15

THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN 3D (PG

violence) Digital 3d Daily 3:50, 6:55, 9:25

HUGO 3D (PG) Digital 3d Daily 1:10, 3:55, 6:50, 9:30

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE–GHOST PROTOCOL (14A) Daily 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (PG violence not recommended for

young children) Daily 6:50, 9:40

THE MUPPETS (G) Fri-Wed 1:20, 3:45 BIG MIRACLE (PG) Daily 1:35, 4:20, 6:40, 9:10 Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance

(14A frightening scenes) Daily 1:55, 4:35, 7:15, 9:35

CONTRABAND (14A violence, coarse language) Daily 1:40, 4:30, 7:10, 9:55 CHRONICLE (14A violence) Daily 1:45, 4:15, 7:40, 10:05

MAN ON A LEDGE (PG coarse language, violence) Fri-Wed 6:30, 9:00; Thu 1:05, 6:30 WOMAN IN BLACK (14A frightening scenes) Daily 1:25, 4:10, 7:20, 9:45

Housefull 2 (STC) Hindi W/E.S.T. Thu 12:50, 4:05, 7:25

Agent Vinod (14A violence) Hindi W/E.S.T.

Daily 12:55, 4:20, 7:45

CINEPLEX ODEON NORTH 14231-137 Ave 780.732.2236

DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX (G) Closed Captioned Fri-Sun 12:15, 1:10, 3:20, 5:30; Mon-Thu 1:10, 3:20, 5:30 DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX 3D (G) Daily

12:00, 2:10, 4:30, 6:45, 8:45

21 JUMP STREET (14A crude coarse

language, substance abuse, violence) Closed Captioned Daily 1:50, 4:40, 7:40, 10:20

JOHN CARTER 3D (PG violence) Fri-Sun

Tue-Thu 12:50, 3:50, 7:10, 10:10; Digital 3d Mon 12:50, 3:40, 10:30

SAFE HOUSE (14A brutal violence) Closed

Captioned Daily 6:50, 9:30

WRATH OF THE TITANS (14A) Closed Captioned, No passes Fri-Sat 11:50, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50, 10:50; Sun-Thu 11:50, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 WRATH OF THE TITANS 3D (14A) Digital

3d, No passes Fri-Sun Tue-Thu 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 8:10, 10:40; No passes Mon 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 8:10, 10:40

HUNGER GAMES (14A violence) Closed

Captioned, No passes Fri-Tue 12:00, 12:30, 1:30, 2:30, 3:15, 3:45, 4:45, 5:45, 6:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 9:45, 10:15; Wed-Thu 12:00, 12:30, 1:00, 1:30, 3:15, 3:45, 4:15, 4:45, 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 9:45, 10:15, 10:45

HUNGER GAMES (14A violence) Ultraavx,

No passes Fri-Tue 1:00, 4:15, 7:30, 10:45

MIRROR MIRROR (G) Closed Captioned,

No passes Fri-Tue Thu 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30; Wed 5:10, 7:50, 10:30; Star & Strollers Screening, No passes Wed 1:00

JOURNEY 2 THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (PG) Closed Captioned Daily 1:40, 4:10

PROJECT X (18A substance abuse, crude

content, language may offend) Closed Captioned Daily 8:20, 10:45

TITANIC 3D (PG coarse language, disturb-

ing content, not recommended for young children) No passes Digital 3d: Mon 6:30; Ultraavx: Wed 12:15, 4:20, 8:30; Thu 2:00, 6:30, 10:30

FRIENDS WITH KIDS (14A coarse language)

Fri-Tue Thu 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:10; Wed 4:00, 6:40, 9:10; Star & Strollers Screening: Wed 1:00

The Neverending Story (STC) Sat

11:00

CINEPLEX ODEON SOUTH 1525-99 St 780.436.8585

DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX (G) Fri-Sat 11:45, 2:20, 4:45, 7:15; Sun 11:45, 2:20, 4:45; MonThu 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:20 DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX 3D (G) Digital 3d

Fri-Sat 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:05; Sun 12:15, 2:40, 5:15, 7:45, 10:05; Mon-Thu 1:00, 3:15, 5:35, 7:45, 10:05

21 JUMP STREET (14A crude coarse language, substance abuse, violence) Fri-Sat 11:40, 2:30, 5:45, 7:55, 8:25, 10:30, 11:00; Sun 11:40, 2:30, 5:25, 7:45, 8:15, 10:15, 11:00; MonWed 1:45, 4:40, 7:05, 7:40, 9:40, 10:15; Thu 4:40, 7:05, 7:40, 9:40, 10:15; Star & Strollers Screening: Thu 1:00 JOHN CARTER (PG violence) Fri-Sun 1:05;

Mon-Thu 1:20

JOHN CARTER 3D (PG violence) Digital 3d Fri-Sun 4:00, 6:55, 10:50; Mon-Thu 4:15, 7:35, 10:35

SAFE HOUSE (14A brutal violence) Fri-Sun

11:30, 2:15, 4:55, 7:35, 10:35; Mon-Wed 1:05, 4:20, 7:25, 10:20; Thu 1:05, 4:20, 9:55

WRATH OF THE TITANS (14A) No passes

Fri-Sun 11:50, 2:25, 5:00, 7:30, 10:15; MonThu 12:40, 3:40, 7:00, 9:30

WRATH OF THE TITANS 3D (14A) Ultraavx, No passes Fri-Sun 12:20, 2:50, 5:30, 8:00, 10:45; Mon-Thu 1:15, 4:30, 7:30, 10:25

HUNGER GAMES (14A violence) No passes

Fri-Sun 12:00, 12:30, 1:00, 1:20, 3:10, 3:40, 4:10, 4:40, 6:20, 6:50, 7:20, 7:50, 9:30, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00; Mon 12:30, 1:00, 1:15, 2:00, 3:40, 4:00, 4:45, 6:50, 7:20, 8:30, 10:00, 10:30; Tue 12:30, 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, 3:40, 4:00, 5:00, 5:30, 6:50, 7:15, 8:45, 9:00, 10:00, 10:30; Wed 9:15, 12:15, 1:30, 2:00, 3:30, 4:45, 5:30, 6:45, 8:30, 9:00, 9:50; Thu 12:30, 1:00, 2:00, 3:30, 4:00, 5:30, 6:45, 8:30, 9:00, 9:45

MIRROR MIRROR (G) No passes Fri-Sat

11:30, 2:00, 4:30, 7:05, 9:35; Sun 11:55, 2:30, 7:40, 10:10; Mon 12:45, 3:25, 6:30, 9:15; TueWed 12:35, 3:25, 6:30, 9:15; Thu 3:30, 6:30, 9:15: Star & Strollers Screening: Thu 1:00

JOURNEY 2 THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (PG) Fri-Sat 12:35, 3:00, 5:35; Sun 12:35, 3:00, 5:20; Mon-Thu 12:50, 3:20

The Metropolitan Opera: Ernani– Encore (Classification not available) Sat 10:55

WANDERLUST (14A nudity, substance abuse, coarse language) Fri-Sat 12:25, 3:05, 5:25, 8:10, 10:40; Sun 1:25, 4:35, 7:55, 10:20; Mon 1:40, 4:50, 7:50, 10:40; Tue-Wed 1:35, 4:25, 7:50, 10:40; Thu 1:40, 4:00, 10:40

TITANIC 3D (PG coarse language, disturb-

ing content, not recommended for young children) Digital 3d, No passes Mon 6:30; Wed-Thu 1:00, 5:00, 9:15

THE VOW (PG) Fri-Sat, Mon-Thu 9:45; Sun 10:10

PROJECT X (18A substance abuse, crude

CLAREVIEW 10 4211-139 Ave 780.472.7600

DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX (G) Digital Presentation Fri-Sun 1:40

DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX 3D (G) Digital 3d Fri-Sun 4:00, 6:45, 9:00; Mon-Thu 5:15, 7:30 21 JUMP STREET (14A crude coarse language, substance abuse, violence) Digital Presentation Fri-Sun 1:10, 3:50, 6:40, 9:40; Mon-Thu 5:10, 8:00

HUNGER GAMES (14A violence) Digital

Presentation, On 3 Screens Fri-Sun 12:50, 1:15, 3:20, 4:00, 4:20, 6:35, 7:10, 7:50, 9:10; Mon-Thu 4:30, 5:45, 7:00, 7:40

WRATH OF THE TITANS (14A) Digital Presentation, No passes Fri-Sun 1:20

WRATH OF THE TITANS 3D (14A) Digital 3d,

No passes Fri-Sun 1:45, 3:45, 4:15, 7:00, 8:00, 9:30; Mon-Thu 4:50, 5:20, 7:50, 8:15

Titanic 3d (PG coarse language, disturbing content, not recommended for young children) Digital 3d Wed-Thu 6:40 MIRROR MIRROR (G) Digital Presentation Fri-Sun 1:00, 1:30, 3:40, 4:10, 6:50, 7:40, 9:15; Mon-Thu 5:00, 5:30, 7:30, 8:10 JOHN CARTER (PG violence) Digital Presentation Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:35, 6:30, 9:20; Mon-Tue 4:40, 7:40

Edmonton Film Society Royal Alberta Museum Auditorium 12845-102 Ave

The Lion In Winter (PG) Mon 8:00 GALAXY–SHERWOOD PARK 2020 Sherwood Dr Sherwood Park 780.416.0150

Date of issue only: Thu, Mar 29 DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX (G) Thu, Mar 29:

12:20, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10

DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX 3D (G) Digital 3d Thu,

Mar 29: 11:50, 2:00, 4:20, 6:40, 9:00

21 JUMP STREET (14A crude coarse language, substance abuse, violence) Thu, Mar 29: 1:10, 4:30, 7:15, 9:50

JOHN CARTER 3D (PG violence) Digital 3d Thu,

Mar 29: 1:00, 4:00, 7:20, 10:30

WRATH OF THE TITANS (14A) Digital 3d Thu, Mar 29: 10:00

HUNGER GAMES (14A violence) No passes Thu,

Mar 29: 11:40, 12:00, 12:25, 12:50, 2:50, 3:20, 3:50, 4:10, 6:00, 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, 9:15, 9:45, 10:15, 10:45

THIS MEANS WAR (PG language may offend,

violence) Thu, Mar 29: 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10

JOURNEY 2 THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (PG) Thu, Mar 29: 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:50

PROJECT X (18A substance abuse, crude content,

language may offend) Thu, Mar 29: 10:20

GRANDIN THEATRE–St Albert Grandin Mall Sir Winston Churchill Ave St Albert 780.458.9822

DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX (G) Daily 1:00, 3:00,

content, language may offend) Fri 12:55, 3:20, 5:50, 8:05, 10:25; Sat 5:50, 8:05, 10:25; Sun 12:55, 3:20, 5:50, 8:20, 10:50; Mon 1:50, 5:10, 7:55, 10:10; Tue-Thu 1:55, 5:10, 7:55, 10:10

4:55, 6:45, 8:35

Wwe Wrestlemania Xxviii (Classifica-

Mirror Mirror (G) Daily 1:05, 3:15, 5:20,

tion not available) Sun 5:00

FRIENDS WITH KIDS (14A coarse language) Fri 12:05, 2:35, 5:40, 8:15, 10:55; Sat 2:35, 5:40, 8:15, 10:55; Sun 12:05, 2:35, 5:40, 8:10, 10:55; Mon-Thu 12:55, 3:35, 7:10, 9:50 The Neverending Story (STC) Sat

11:00

Rascal Flatts: Changed (STC) Thu

6:00

CITY CENTRE 9 10200-102 Ave 780.421.7020

WRATH OF THE TITANS (14A) Dolby

Stereo Digital, No passes, Stadium Seating, Digital 3d Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 9:45; Thu 1:20, 4:15, 7:15, 9:45

HUNGER GAMES (14A violence) Digital

Presentation, DTS Digital, On 3 Screens FriTue 12:30, 12:45, 1:00, 3:45, 4:00, 6:30, 7:00, 8:00, 10:00, 10:20; Wed-Thu 12:30, 12:45, 12:50, 3:45, 4:00, 6:30, 7:00, 8:00, 10:00, 10:20

21 JUMP STREET (14A crude coarse

language, substance abuse, violence) Closed Captioned, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital Daily 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10

JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI (G) Digital Presentation, DTS Digital Fri-Tue 1:40, 4:40, 7:40 Titanic 3d (PG coarse language, disturbing content, not recommended for young children) DTS Digital, Stadium Seating, Digital 3d Wed-Thu 12:35, 4:40, 9:00 JEFF, WHO LIVES AT HOME (14A coarse

language) Digital Presentation, DTS Digital Fri-Tue 10:15

SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN (PG

coarse language) Digital Presentation, DTS Digital Fri-Tue, Thu 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:30; Wed 12:40, 3:40, 10:15

MIRROR MIRROR (G) DTS Digital Daily 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:25 Pina 3d (G) DTS Digital, Stadium Seating, Digital 3d Fri-Tue 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:40; Wed-Thu 1:15, 3:50, 6:50, 9:40

21 Jump Street (14A crude coarse language,

substance abuse, violence) Daily 12:45, 2:55, 5:00, 7:05, 9:10

WRECKED (G) Digital Fri 11:15

7:10, 9:50; Sun, Wed 9:50

Titanic 3d (PG coarse language, disturb-

WRATH OF THE TITANS (14A) No passes

ing content, not recommended for young children) Digital Projection, Closed Captioned, Reald 3d Wed-Thu 6:30

THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN (PG vio-

lence) Digital Fri 2:15

Daily 1:25, 4:15, 7:00, 9:40

Wrath of the titans (14A) No passes Daily 1:35, 3:35, 5:35, 7:35, 9:45 LEDUC CINEMAS

4702-50 St Leduc 780.986-2728

tioned, Digital Projection Fri-Sun, Tue 12:30

Fri-Tue 1:00, 4:15, 7:30, 10:45; Closed Captioned, Wed 12:00, 3:15, 5:30, 6:30, 9:00, 9:45

DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX 3D (G) Reald 3d,

HUNGER GAMES (14A violence)

Closed Captioned, Digital Projection Fri-Sun, Tue 3:15, 6:15, 9:15; Mon, Wed-Thu 6:15, 9:15

MIRROR MIRROR (G) Digital Projection

Sun 1:00, 3:25

METRO CINEMA at the Garneau Metro at the Garneau: 8712-109 St 780.425.9212

JOURNEY 2 THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND

language, substance abuse, violence) Digital Projection, Closed Captioned Fri, Mon, Wed-Thu 7:30, 11:10; Sat-Sun, Tue 1:30, 4:15, 7:30, 11:10

(PG) Fri-Sun Tue-Wed 12:40, 3:10, 5:30; Mon, Thu 12:40, 3:10

ACT OF VALOR (14A violence) Daily 1:45,

HAPPY FEET TWO (G) Digital Fri 11:35

7:40

PROJECT X (18A substance abuse, crude con-

WE BOUGHT A ZOO (PG) Digital Fri 2:30 WRATH OF THE TITANS 3D (14A) Closed

Captioned, Digital Projection Fri-Sun, Tue 1:15, 4:00, 7:15, 10:00; Mon, Wed-Thu 7:15, 10:00

PRINCESS 10337-82 Ave 780.433.0728

A Separation (PG mature subject matter) Sat-Sun 1:00, 6:50; Mon-Thu 6:50

We Need To Talk About Kevin (14A disturbing content, not recommended for children) Fri 9:20; Sat-Sun 3:30, 9:20; MonThu 9:20 Being Flynn (14A coarse language, sexual content, substance abuse) Fri 7:00, 9:10; SatSun 2:00, 7:00, 9:10; Mon-Thu 7:00, 9:10 SCOTIABANK THEATRE WEM

tent, language may offend) Closed Captioned Fri-Sun Tue-Wed 7:50, 10:30; Mon, Thu 10:30

Wwe Wrestlemania Xxviii (Classification not available) Sun 5:00

WRATH OF THE TITANS: An Imax 3d Experience (14A) No passes Fri-Tue 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00

Rascal Flatts: Changed (STC) Thu

6:00

Silent House (14A frightening scenes, disturbing content) Closed Captioned Daily 4:45, 10:40 TITANIC 3D: An Imax 3d Experience

(PG coarse language, disturbing content, not recommended for young children) No passes Wed-Thu 12:00, 4:00, 8:00

WETASKIWIN CINEMAS

WEM 8882-170 St 780.444.2400

DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX (G) Closed Cap-

tioned Fri-Sat, Mon-Tue Thu 12:10, 2:20, 4:50; Sun 12:00, 2:00; Wed 12:10, 2:20, 4:30

DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX 3D (G)

Digital 3d Daily 12:50, 3:30, 6:40, 9:15

Wetaskiwin 780.352.3922

Wrath Of The Titans (14A) In Digital

3D Thu, Mar 29: 10:00; Daily 7:10, 9:35; SAT-Sun 1:10, 3:35

21 JUMP STREET (14A crude coarse

The hunger games (14A violence) Daily 6:50, 9:40; Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:40 Fri 3:40

JOHN CARTER (PG violence) Digital 3d

SAT-Sun 1:05, 3:30

SAFE HOUSE (14A brutal violence)

language, substance abuse, violence) Daily 7:00, 9:25; Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:25

language, substance abuse, violence) Closed Captioned Daily 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 10:10 Daily 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20

Mirror Mirror (G) Daily 7:05, 9:30; 21 JUMP STREET (14A crude coarse

Closed Captioned Fri-Sat, Mon-Tue Thu

“THRILLING

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PREVUE // PERFORMER CREATED

Whisper

Thu, Mar 29 – Sat, Apr 7 (7:30 pm) Directed by Jonathan Christenson Timms Centre for the Arts, $10 – $20

tudio Theatre's season will end in a few months, and for this year's graduating BFA class at the University of Alberta, whisper is the remarkably personal way they'll be closing this chapter of their careers. The upcoming new work, conceived by Catalyst Theatre's Jonathan Christenson and Bretta Gerecke, started, in a sense, with The Way We Live, a performercreated project the class experimented with in 2011. "We put up the show," says actor Perry Gratton, "and the text was, for the most part, us whispering personal stories that we had decided on. Jonathan just kept going back to that unit and was very excited about what we had done." Since then, whisper has been a collective in every sense of the word. The production has called on talents from all over the drama department, and Christenson has made the actors an integral part of the creation process. "We started by telling the stories that make us important to ourselves, and getting at the building blocks of who we are," says Gratton. As a result, he continues, "We're not telling the story of one person. We're telling the story of people in general. And then, [whisper] is so well tailored in terms

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of sound and set design. The design doesn't just support the show, it's another character in the show." Working with award-winning theatre professionals like Christenson and Gerecke on a play that was written with the graduating class in mind is a singular experience, says Gratton, and the constant evolution of the piece provides new meaning to the project everyday. "Jonathan and Bretta work fast and they work thoroughly," he says. "We've

had to be on our toes everyday. It's a new work, so it's being changed before we come in, after we go home at night, and even over the lunch hour during rehearsals. "It's been an amazing experience and one that's taught us a lot about the nature of performing," he continues. "This style of process demands a very high work ethic. I think that's what I'll take out of this ... an exactitude, and a precision that's necessary in every show." Saliha Chattoo

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PREVUE // WRITER GATHERING

Tâpwê!

Fri, Mar 30 (7 pm) and Sat, Mar 31 (2 pm) University of Alberta, Free

or the first time, the University of Alberta will play host to a writers' gathering showcasing the talents of indigenous writers across Canada. The collaborative effort between the Department of English and Film Studies and writer-in-residence program will assist students in developing their own writing portfolio and increase awareness amongst the public regarding indigenous writers and their work. "I wanted to see more of the indigenous students coming over and participating in the creative writing programs that we have," says Christine Stewart, an assistant professor in the Department of English and Film Studies and an organizer of the event. "It was an effort to bring together two communities on campus that don't often come together." Richard Van Camp, writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, is one of the authors who will be mentoring students over the course of the gathering. He is

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also the first published author from his nation, Dogrib Dene. "There's a large aboriginal population in Edmonton and I think there's a huge curiosity about what's happening in aboriginal literature," he says. Van Camp hopes that people will leave the weekend's events with a greater understanding of the indigenous culture as well. In the past, the majority of literature concerning it was written from an outside perspective, but he says this time it's coming straight from the source. Tâpwê, which means "the truth," embodies the goal of the event. "We want people's truths to be honoured and encouraged and shared," Van Camp adds. Throughout the gathering, students will have the opportunity to work directly with the invited writers, including Edmonton's Poet Laureate Anna Marie Sewell, Sharon Proulx-Turner, Duncan Mercredi, Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak and Taqralik Partridge. Stew-

art notes that six to seven students will work with each writer in order to develop their work. "I'm hoping they will get a sense of what they can do and maybe some material for a portfolio, so if they want to sign up for the classes, they have something," she adds. "I think that's sometimes hard for people who are just starting." The free events open to the public are Friday's gala and a panel discussion on Saturday called The Arc of Indigenous Literature. Van Camp says it will cover where each writer is coming from, where they want to go and aboriginal writers they admire, because, as he puts it, they have some large shoes to fill thanks to those who came before them. "There's a whole new generation of writers coming up that are younger than me that are astonishing voices," Van Camp says. "So what we're going to be talking about is really celebrating Canada's inheritance of aboriginal literature." meaghan baxter

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REVUE // VISUAL ARTS

REVUE // MENACING WORDS

Anusewaree / Unstable Natures The Country history of lead to their existence, and a comparison of oil-based economic and infrastructure growth of Edmonton and Bangkok since the middle of the past century. This exhibit is worth a visit, and I hope the artist continues to grow and expand the project.

A picture from Korapin Chaotakoongite's Monuments

Until Sat, Apr 7 Anusewaree (Monuments) Works by Korapin Chaotakoongite Unstable Natures Works by the U of A Art & Design Graduate Student Association Latitude 53

t's a common kind of heartbreak in Edmonton to fall in love with a piece of architecture and its history, only to watch it get bulldozed for something new and, apparently, improved. Korapin Chaotakoongite draws upon this familiar image in text as a local example of how an urban landscape is transformed by oil-based economic booms in her photo-based show Anusawaree (MONUMENTS). Currently on exhibition in Latitude 53's ProjEx Room, the photographic series captures the architectural remnants of Bangkok's rise and fall. The oil boom in the 1980s lead to a spike of foreign investment in Thailand, which in turn inspired a frenzy of infrastructure projects in the country until the market crashed in 1996. In an inspired meeting of concept

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and technique, the exhibit's photographs render unfinished and abandoned building projects exquisite and ominous. An image of an abandoned parking garage has a brilliant, subtle use of light and range of tonality in the shadows, which seem to swallow the ghostly concrete environment. Vestiges of The Hopewell Project, a failed attempt to construct a highway and rail line above the ground in Bangkok, are shown by Chaotakoongite to be only T-shaped concrete structures which bridge a highway, dwarfing the corrugated metalroofed shacks below. Interesting, too, is the exploration of how failed projects in Bangkok have been appropriated, one concrete shell of a structure serving as home to a dimly lit market. These are all stunning photographs when considered purely from a design perspective—it was an effective curatorial choice to keep supporting didactic materials off the walls. Make sure you pick up the information sheet that briefly details the history of each space featured in the show, as well as the economic

The main space at Latitude contains Unstable Natures, an exhibition curated by the University of Alberta's Art & Design Graduate Student Association. The exhibit features two- and three-dimensional works that explore unstable, uneasy ecological relationships created by graduate students across the country. The exhibit sets out to interrogate an always-timely issue—our species' relationship with the natural environment—but a thematic focus is only as strong as the work that should support it. "To be veiled," a video work by the University of Toronto's Faye Mullen, features a nude woman lying supine in a plowed field, a colossal piece of fabric billows above her, casting shadows on her body until it comes to rest over her. This work is an interesting consideration of a gendered relationship with the land, and particularly with an agricultural one. Although University of Alberta artist Anna Gaby Trotz's black mat photographs, "Cirque of the Unclimbables I and II," are notable as beautiful photos of treacherous rock faces, they lose some of their power due to the pure volume of work in the room. There are provocative works in the exhibition, but they are overpowered by how much wall space is filled. It is a challenge in Edmonton to find gallery space that can accommodate large group shows, but the inconsistency of the exhibited work suggests a greater need for editing. Just like living things, artwork needs room to breathe. CAROLYN JERVIS

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There's secrets in these here woods

Until Sun, Apr 8 (7:30 pm; Matinees Sat & Sun at 2 pm) Directed by Wayne Paquette Varscona Theatre, $10 – $26

here comes a time early in Shadow Theatre's production of The Country when you're struck by the realization that something just isn't quite right. Certainly the relationship between the central couple, a doctor (John Sproule) and his wife (Coralie Cairns) who have uprooted themselves from the city in pursuit of peace and tranquility in the British countryside, is quite obviously strained. Their crocodile smiles and forced pleasantries are obvious masks for an anxiety that borders on being manic. The third part of the cast, a young woman (Beth Graham) whom the doctor claims to have found unconscious by the side of the road, also brings a hefty dose of menace in her swaggering confrontations with each of the other two. But more than the foreboding beneath the words of each character, the truly disorienting factor at play are the words themselves. Playwright Martin Crimp is noted for his use of natural speech in his works—characters speak in half sentences, repeat themselves unnecessarily, cut each other off and jump around

lines of thought. It's surprisingly frustrating to hear on the stage; I can't be the only one who felt the urge to stand up and shout at them to just bloody spit it out already. The Country's characters are particularly damning perpetrators of this type of language, creating a sensation akin to watching a pair of dogs circling each other, teeth bared and ready to snap. It is a testament to the talents of each performer that they are able to handle this unwieldy dialogue so adroitly; this is a performance in which no one can be permitted to slack off. Wayne Paquette's direction was similarly quick-paced, ensuring that even though the language is frustrating to hear, it is also thoroughly absorbing. The set, designed by Cory Sincennes, provides a great visual representation of the characters' claustrophobic relationships: a rustic cottage complete with authentic barnwood walls and floor, a backdrop of rock and a scattering of dirt. It's as visually engrossing as it is aurally engaging; a hauntingly brilliant production that bodes very well for the rest of Shadow Theatre's 2012 season. MEL PRIESTLEY

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“Pure joy. Great, great theatre.” – CBC Radio Starring: Peter Balkwill, Pityu Kenderes, Trevor Leigh Directed by: The Old Trout Puppet Workshop

MAR 20 - APR 8, 2012 2 for 1 Tuesdays Mar 27 & Apr 3 The Roxy Theatre 10708 124 St 780.453.2440 theatrenetwork.ca

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REVUE // PUPPET

PREVUE // GEEK CHIC

Edmonton Collectible Toy and Comic Show

Ignorance

Sun, Apr 1 (10 am – 5 pm) Shaw Conference Centre, $12 – $15

Inn in 2003, with 40 tables and 25 dealers. It was different from his punk experiences—mostly just less stressful, he notes—and the show's slowly and surely grown since its inception, moving from the Inn to The Mayfield to its present home at the Shaw Conference Centre.

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e've come a long way since developing the frontal lobe. Now we have wants, needs, goals, dreams, ambitions and—as the central cerebral thrust in The Old Trout Puppet Workshop's Ignorance showcases— tend to dream of the future rather than remain content in the now. But, the Trouts ask, is happiness the point? Do our restless efforts to chase our dreams inadvertently make us more miserable? Their answers come through crisply in a documentary-style puppet show (complete with nature-doc voice over), following a pair of our hapless cave-dwelling ancestors, one of whom proves the first in history to develop her frontal lobe. There are also leaps forward into the modern era, where happiness floats by as an elusive, smiling yellow balloon that quickly becomes a sinister figure to see approaching centre stage, given the the wicked, funny fates that befall the puppets who commit to chasing it. The show's moments of black comedy are among its best. The influence of

Famous Puppet Death Scenes lives on here in an attitude that no puppet's life is totally sacred. The Old Trouts are clever puppeteers, and skilled performers, imbuing the simplest of props with vibrant life. They let the gibberish-speaking cavedwelling protagonists develop a wordless vocabulary that's easily understood without much prodding. There's a video screen well-incorporated into the set, and the leaps through time to the modern are simple, as are some clever jumps in scale between miniature puppets and their regular counterparts, to really craft the feeling of a world up on stage. Ignorance is smaller in scale than the shows Trouts have presented in the past few years. It is, at well-crafted puppet heart, a simple show that sets out to make a point and capably does so, but the pulled-back scale means some of the whimsy of their previous works isn't present here. The bar feels lower, and though they handily clear it, it doesn't quite leave the same impact and magic effect that these masters have managed in the past. Paul Blinov

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hortly after the turn of the millenium, our collectable community was in a state of flux. The Pop Culture Fair— local vanguard for niche collectables and geek curios—was going through some turbulence, Shane Turgeon recalls, and nobody was stepping up to take command of it. "I had been involved with the community for a long time, and having put on some punk-rock shows in the past," Turgeon explains, "I thought, how different could a toy show be?" Turgeon set up his own fair, creating the first Edmonton Collectible Toy and Comic Show at the Greenwood

The show's 10th iteration this weekend will see the likes of Dexter/Buffy star Julie Benz and Star Trek figure John de Lancie, plus a couple more, guesting among all the wares and buyables. Turgeon, himself a collector of vintage Star Wars figures and 3 3/4 inch GI Joes for 22 years, notes that the growth the festival has seen over a decade is as much about the sturdy collectible

scene here as it is about a global shift in attitude towards what was previously seen as very niche. "I don't know if it's the whole new geek chic term ... In the last, probably I'd say five to seven years, you're seeing a lot more people just becoming so much more comfortable with it," he says, "whether or not it's because events like Comic Con are becoming so huge, and making such mainstream press, and stuff like that. People might just be seeing how much fun people are having at these events. Because that's ultimately what it boils down to: whether you're into toys or comic books or costuming or videogames, it's all about having fun." Paul Blinov

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PREVUE // UNSINKABLE

Titanic: The Musical Wed, Apr 4 (7:30 pm) Winspear Centre, $20 – $25

of being able to relate to Titanic in some way that's kept it alive. "We all have our own Titanics in life, our grand obstacles," she says. "Life throws you curve balls and I think the Titanic is in a sense, like that. It's the unexpected." "I think it's the story itself of Titanic. So many little things came together to put them on the collision course with the iceberg," adds music director Rob Curtis, who plays Wallace Hartley, the ship's band master. "Not only is there the human dimension to it, but the story would have been unbelievable if it hadn't actually happened."

century ago, one of the most definitive disasters in modern history rocked the world. The Titanic was said to be unsinkable; the pinnacle of luxury and for many, the promising hope of a new life in America. More than 1500 passengers would never complete the maiden voyage of the gargantuan ship after it collided with an iceberg on April 15, 1912 and sank into the depths of the Atlantic. Despite occurring so long ago, the intrigue behind Titanic remains and Nicole English, co-artistic director of Two OneWay Tickets to Broadway productions, also playing Kate McGowan, a spunky Irish third class passenger on her way to the US in the company's production of Titanic: The Musical, says it's the element

Don't expect a remake of the movie with the company's rendition of the Tony Award-winnng production. The musical brings to life the stories of real passengers and crew members with the help of special guests Anna Beaumont and the Ed-

monton Metorpolitan Chorus, which adds more than 100 voices to the production. Curtis describes the music as a mix of lush, soaring operatics complimented with catchy melodies. A favourite moment for him is when Isidor and Ida Strauss profess their love for one another in a number called "Still," after she decides to forgo lifeboats and remain with her husband. "Through the show you meet a lot of different characters and every character in the musical is based on a reallife counterpart on the ship," he says. "It really puts you there and gives you an idea of some of people who were involved and what it might have been like and I guess how deeply the tragedy touched so many people not just on the ship, but around the world." meaghan baxter

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Edmonton Film Society • Royal Alberta Museum, 12845-102 Ave, 780.453.9100 • The Lion In Winter (1968, PG) Apr 2, 8pm From Books to Film series • Stanley Milner Library, Main Fl Audio Visual Rm, 780.944.5383 • Casablanca (1942, PG); Mar 30, 2pm Varscona Theatre • Back alley entrance, 10329-83 Ave, 780.446.6940 • Bump 'n' Grindhouse: Movies and shorts by local cult heroes with Lauren Claire Hunka, Matt Currie and Dana Andersen • Apr 1, 7:30-9:30pm

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS Agnes Bugera Gallery • 12310 Jasper Ave, 780.482.2854 • GALLERY SPRING SELECTIONS: Gallery artists works • Until end of Mar ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St, 780.488.6611 • THINKING BIG: Unveiling public art projects; until Apr 7 • Discovery Gallery: OBSESSION: A group exhibition exploring the concept of obsession, curated by Jill Nuckles; Mar 31-May 5; Reception: Mar 31, 2-4pm • April Artist Spotlight–meet and greet Stephen Evans; Apr 5, 6-8pm Alberta Society of Artists (ASA) Gallery • Walterdale, 10322-83 Ave,

780.426.0072 • Diverse Scapes: Rural and urban landscapes by Laurie MacFayden, Leona Olausen, Eileen Raucher-Sutton and Elaine Tweedy; in conjunction with The Love of the Nightingale • Apr 4-14 • Reception: Apr 3, 7pm Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.422.6223 • 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 • MASS: Dara Humniski: until May 20 • VENERATOR: Contemporary Art from the AGA Collection; until May 21 • Art School: Banff 1947: until Jun 3 • Alberta Mistresses of the Modern: 1935-1975: Until Jun 3 • Alberta Process Painting: until Jun 3 • Ledcor Theatre: Indigenous Architecture, Design and Spaces Series: The Douglas Cardinal Lecture; Mar 29, 7pm; $20/$15 (AGA/ MADE member) • Art Lectures: Sustainable Wastage with Jan Edler, realites:united; Apr 1, 4pm; $15/$10 (AGA/EAC member) • Artist Talk: Taras Polataiko (REARVIEW MIRROR: New Art from Central and Eastern Europe): Apr 3, 5:30pm; free Art Gallery Of St Albert (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert, 780.460.4310 • Immuto: Watercolour paintings and stop-motion animations by Jennifer Wanner; until Apr 28 • Artventures: Drop-in art program for children 6-12; 1-4pm; $5 Brittany's • 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 • ManWoman: 30 new works • Through Apr • Opening: Apr 1, 2-7pm ManWoman will read his poems; music by Tippy Agogo

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• 9103-95 Ave, 780.461.3427 • Artventure: Artworks by Zoong Nguyen, Thérèse Bourassa, Sarah Cleary, Keith Nolan, and Clayton Sauvé • Until Apr 10 Common Sense • 10546-115 St • Spring Boards: Abstract paintings paintings by Taya Ross • Until Apr 14 Creations Gallery Space • Sawridge Inn Lobby, 4235 Gateway Blvd • A Warriors Cry: Artworks by Veran Pardeahtan • Until Jun Crooked Pot Gallery–Stony Plain • 4912-51 Ave, Stony Plain, 780.963.9573 • Anticipation of Things to Come: Ceramic artworks by Barb Watchman; until Mar 31 • The Three Faces of... April: Ceramic artworks by Jeannette Wright; Apr 3-28; reception: Apr 7, 11am-3pm Daffodil Gallery • 10412-124 St, 780.760.1278 • Songs on the Wall: Beatles inspired artworks by Bernadette McCormack • Through Mar Douglas UDell • 10332-124 St, 780.488.4445 • Here: Artworks by Mara Korkola • Until Apr 7 Enterprise Square • 10230 Jasper Ave, 780.492.5834 • Cool Stuff: Presented by U of A Museums, featuring objects and artifacts related to winter, ice, snow, mountains and polar regions; until Mar 31 • Curating Cool Stuff with Jim Corrigan; Mar 29 • Sweat of Our Brow: University of Alberta's Student Design Association; until Mar 31 Expressionz Café Gallery • Featuring Feral Dog Photography, Brian Zahorodniuk, Dara Loewen, Ginette Vallieres-D'Silva, Margot Solstice, Maggie Tate and others • Until Apr 28 FAB Gallery • Department of Art and Design, U of A, Rm 3-98 Fine Arts Bldg, 780.492.2081 • Giant Steps: Bachelor of Design graduate show • Apr 3-14 • Reception: Apr 5, 7-10pm Gallery at Milner • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.944.5383 • Postage Stamps as Messengers of Culture: Display by Anita Nawrocki

(display cases) • The Argentum Project: Chronicles of Motion: Works by the Sculptors' Association of Alberta (in the Gallery and display cases near AV Rm); until Mar 31 • Water: Photographs by Joel Koop; Apr 1-30 Gallerie Pava • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • Old Dogs/New Tricks: Featuring drawings by Father Douglas; until Apr 7 • Entrelacé: Artworks by Patricia Lortie Sparks; Apr 7-May 16 HAPPY HARBOR COMICS v1 • 10729-104 Ave • Comics Artist-in-Residence: Paul Lavelleed: every Fri (12-6pm), Sat (12-5pm) until Apr 21 • Comic Jam: Improv comic art making: 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7pm Harcourt House • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St, 780.426.4180 • Main Space: SOUNDBURSTINGS NO.1: Gary James Joynes installation • Front Room: We Are In The Same Place: Paintings by Patrick Higgins • Until Apr 14 Hub on Ross–Red Deer • 4936 Ross St, Red Deer • 403.340.4869 • Eccentric Embraces of Landscapes Expressed: Artworks by Rea Vanlie • Through Mar Kiwanis Gallery–Red Deer • Red Deer Library • Fractals Infinitum: Digital collages by Elyse Eliot-Los, digital imagery by Janice Johnson • Until Apr 29 Latitude 53 • 10248-106 St, 780.423.5353 • ProjEx Room: Anusawaree (Monuments): Works by Korapin Chaotakoongite; until Apr 7 • Main Space: Unstable Natures: Works by North American graduate students and recent MFA recipients, dealing with moments of rupture and change; until Apr • Main Space: The Big Foldy Painting of Death: By Ian Forbes; Apr 6-May 12; Opening: Apr 6, 7pm Loft Gallery • A. J. Ottewell Art Centre, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park, 780.922.6324 • Art and gifts by local artists • Until Apr 29; Sat: 10am-4pm; Sun: 12-4pm McMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St, 780.407.7152 • Pattern, form, detail: Photos 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, and others • Ongoing

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• 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 Peter Robertson Gallery • 12304 Jasper Ave, 780.455.7479 • Abstract paintings by Robert Christie • Mar 31-Apr 17 • Opening: Mar 31, 2-4pm Royal Alberta Museum • 12845102 Ave, 780.453.9100 • Narrative Quest: Until Apr 29 • Faces of Labour: until Jun 24 • Winged Tapestries: Moths at Large: until Sep 3 • Fashioning Feathers: Dead Birds, Millinery Craft and the Plumage Trade, curated by Merle Patchett and Liz Gomez; until Jan 6 SCOTT GALLERY 10411-124 St, 780.488.3619 • Blue Notes and Stormy Weather: Paintings by Jim Stokes • Until Apr 3 SNAP Gallery • Society Of Northern Alberta Print-Artists, 10123-121 St, 780.423.1492 • Artworks by Todd Stewart; until Apr 21 SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.0664 • 100 Miles-360 Degrees: Artworks by 360 Grit • Until Apr 14 • Reception: Mar 31, 1-4pm Stollery Gallery • Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, 9225-118 Ave, 780.474.7611 • F.E.A.R.–FALSE EVIDENCE APPEARING REAL: Drawings, paintings, and collages influenced by paranoia, works by Chris Zaytsoff, Jocelyn Gallant and Gaye Huckell; until Mar 31 • UNIQUE MYTHICAL VESSELS: Corwin Cherwonka pottery/ sculptural artworks • Apr 4-16 • Opening: Apr 12, 5-7pm; music by guitarist Steven Johnson, artist in attendance

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• 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park, 780.410.8585 • Production Pottery: Brenda Danrook and Martin Tagseth; until Apr 29 Sugar Bowl • 10922-88 Ave • Acrylic paintings on canvas by Cuban artist, Anabel Quan • Apr 1-May 1 TELUS World of Science • 11211-142 St • Discoveryland • Sport II: The science of sport; until May 6 U of A Museums • Enterprise Sq, 10230 Jasper Ave, 780.492.5834; Sweat of Our Brow: Design exhibit showing the diverse range of work produced by design students at the U of A; Mar 22-31; Wed-Sat 11:30am-6pm, Thu 'til 9pm; Highlights from illumiNITE 2012: Seven illuminated works; Mar 22-31; Wed-Sat 11:30am6pm, Thu 'til 9pm • TELUS Centre, Gallery A, Main Fl, 87 Ave, 111 St, U of A, 780.492.5834; China's Imperial Modern: The Painter's Craft: How modern ways of making paintings and prints enter the public sphere, and helped shape the people’s lives in China during the late imperial era; Apr 5-Jul 14; Thu-Fri 12-5pm, Sat 2-5pm VAAA Gallery • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St,

780.421.1731 • Gallery A and B: ALBERTA IN A BOX: WIDE OPEN: Works by Alberta Potter’s Association • Until Apr 14 VASA Gallery • (Studio Gallery) Grandin Park Plaza, 22 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert, 780.460.5993 • Figurative artworks by Carla Beerens and Rick Rogers; until Mar 31 • My Renaissance Madonnas: Artworks by Kristine McGuinty; meet the artist: every Fri, 10am-2pm; Apr 4-28 West End Gallery • 12308 Jasper Ave, 780.488.4892 • Spring Splash: Artworks by Claudette Castonguay, Brent R. Laycock, Raynald Leclerc, Paul Jorgensen, Ariane Dubois and Grant Leier • Until Apr 5

LITERARY Audreys Books • 10702 Jasper Ave, 780.423.3487 • CAA Writer in Residence Jannie Edwards in the store every Wed; until Apr 25, 12-1:30pm Canadian Authors Association • Campus Saint-Jean, Pavillon Lacerte, Rm 3-04, 8406 Marie-Ann-Gaboury St (91 St) • Fri Presentations: 8pm; free (member/first-time guest)/$10 (returning guest) • Sat workshops: 9:30am-4pm; $40 (member)/$70 (non-member), lunch incl Empress Ale House • 9912-82 St • Olive at the Empress: poetry by students of The U of A's 394 and 494 WRITE classes • Apr 10, 7pm Greenwoods' Books • 10309-82 Ave, 780.439.2005 • Book launch of Brit and Kari Trogen's book, Margaret and the Moth Tree • Apr 1, 2-4pm Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St, 780.902.5900 • Poetry every Tue with Edmonton's local poets T.A.L.E.S. STORY CAFÉ SERIES • Rosie’s Bar, 10475-80 Ave, 780.932.4409 • 1st Thu each month, open mic opportunity • Until Jun; Apr 5, 7-9pm • $6 (min) • $6 minimum cover University of Alberta • Telus Bldg, Rm 134, 111 St, 87 Ave • Author and activist Yves Engler's book launch of Lester Pearson's Peacekeeping: The Truth May Hurt • Apr 4, 7pm WunderBar on Whyte • 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 • The poets of Nothing, For Now: poetry workshop and jam every Sun • No minors

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Maclab Theatre, 9828-101A Ave, 780.428.2117 • By William Shakespeare, directed by Tom Wood, starring Julien Arnold • Apr 7-29 OH SUSANNA! • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave, 780.433.3399 • The Euro-style variety spectacle with Susanna Patchouli • Last Sat each month, until Jul, 11pm (subject to occasional change) Richard Scarry’s Busytown • Festival Place, 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • The adventures Huckle Cat, Lowly Worm, Sally Cat, Hilda Hippo, Pig Will and Pig Won't • Apr 9-10, 6:30pm, 11pm • $24 (table)/$22 (box)/$18 (theatre) at Festival Place box office Rock Band • Overklocked Gaming, 11618119 St, 780.471.1586 • Northern Light Theatre's fundraiser. Haul out your platform boots, your headless bat, and your black eyeliner to hunker

down with your fab friends and rehearse for the Rock of Ages! • Mar 29 TheatreSports • Varscona Theatre, 1032983 Ave • Improv runs every Fri, until Jul, 11pm (subject to occasional change) • $10/$8 (member) Thebans • Grant MacEwan Centre for the Arts, 1st fl, 10045-156 St • Canadian premiere by Liz Lochhead • Until Apr 1, 7:30pm; Apr 1: 2pm and 7:30pm • Tickets at TIX on the Square Titanic, the musical • Winspear, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Presented by Two One Way Tickets to Broadway, with Anna Beaumont, Edmonton Metropolitan Chorus, directed by Barbara Mah • Apr 4-5 • $20/$25 at 780.428.1414 Whisper • Timms Centre, 112 St, 87 Ave, U of A • Studio Theatre • Jonathan Christenson, Mary Mooney, and Bretta Gerecke with choreographer Laura Krewski in association with Catalyst Theatre • Until Apr 7, 7:30pm; Apr 5, 12:30pm

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11455-87 Ave • 1.866.540.7469 • Broadway Across Canada, a theatrical show and concert combining comedy, music, and technology • Until Apr 1 BOEING, BOEING • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave, 780.483.4051 • Bernard, a successful American living in a Paris apartment, has been juggling three fiancées. His lifestyle hits turbulence when his old friend visits and each of his fiancées change their schedules • Until Apr 8 Chimprov • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • 1st 3 Sat every month, 11pm, until Jul • $10/$5 (high school student)/$8 (RFT member, door only) Commission/Creation • Timms Centre, 87 Ave, 112 St, U of A • Studio Theatre • Guest Creator, director Jonathan Christenson • Until Apr 7, 7:30pm; Apr 5: 12:30pm The Country • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave, 780.434.5564 • Shadow Theatre • By Martin Crimp, stars Coralie Cairns, Beth Graham and John Sproule, directed by Wayne Paquette • Until Apr 8, 7:30pm, 2pm • $15 (previews); Fri-Sat night: $26/$23 (student/senior); Tue-Thu, Sun mat: $22/$20 (student/senior) DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave, 780.433.3399 • Improvised soap opera • Every Mon, until May, 7:30pm (may change) The Ecstatics • TransAlta Arts Barns, Studio B, 10330-84 Ave, 780.471.1586 • Northern Light Theatre • By Erika Hennebury and Ruth MadocJones • A pair of anorexic nuns are the only two who remain after 128 of their Sisters suddenly perish • Apr 5-15 Funny Money • Beaver Regional Arts Centre, Holden (1 hr E of Edmt on Hwy 14), 780.688.2052 • Farce comedy • Apr 13-14, 20,7pm; Apr 14, 21, 2pm, 7pm; Apr 15, 2pm • Tickets: Lunch/ dinner available for Sat shows ($30 (adult)/$25 (18 & under)/$25/$18 (wine and cheese after Fri show)/$15/$10 (show only) God of Carnage • Citadel Shoctor Theatre, 9828-101 A Ave, 780.428.2117 • Comedy by Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton, directed by James MacDonald, stars Fiona Reid • Until Apr 1 ignoraNce • Roxy, 10708-124 St, 780.453.2440 • Theatre Network presents puppet documentary about the evolution of happiness by the Old Trout Puppet Workshop • Until Apr 8 Jump for Glee • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, 2690, 8882-170 St, Ph II WEM, 780.484.2424 • Until Apr 1 Just One Spark • Bailey Theatre–Camrose • Musical, romantic comedy by One Trunk Theatre • Mar 29-31, Apr 4-7, 7:30pm • $15 (adult)/$12 (student); Apr 4: pay-what-you-can Love According to John • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave, 780.328.4927 • Alberta Lyric Theatre with 300 cast and crew with full orchestra and band • Apr 6, 7:30p; Apr 7, 2:30pm The Love of the Nightingale • Walterdale, 10322-83 Ave, 780.439.2845 • By Timberlake Wertenbaker, directed by Alex Hawkins • Two sisters leave their sunny Athenian home towards a land of shadows • Apr 4-14 • $12-$16 at TIX on

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Tiny treats, big flavour Mirabelle Macarons takes on a French classic

Building a better world, one macaron at a time // Meaghan Baxter

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acarons are Lilliputian French sandwich cookies. They are created from almond flour, egg whites, and buttercream filling infused with a remarkable array of flavours that range from the recognizable, like berry or milk chocolate, to the exotic and enticing, like passionfruit and green tea. Edmonton entrepreneur Connie Nelson first sampled macarons at a farmers' market in Calgary. At first glance, she was unimpressed. "I thought they would be hard," she admits, "but after sampling them, eating one turned into eating the whole bag." These tiny treats piqued her curiosity, and Nelson set out on an online quest to master the art of macarons. Trial and error propelled Nelson to try countless recipes, determined

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to discover a successful formula for macaron mastery. "It probably would have shortened the learning curve had I taken a class," she laughs. She adds, "I was obsessed for a solid year! It was frustrating because when batches didn't turn out, it was hard to know why. It's hard to troubleshoot when you're learning." Nelson baked macarons nearly every day and discovered that macarons require a surgeon's precision. "You can't cut corners with them. They are very finicky and that's why they are special," she notes. Despite her tribulations, Nelson persevered and admits, "It was a good process and a good year." Family and friends encouraged Nelson, who is a stay-at-home mom to a young daughter, to start a business. "I wondered if it was possible," she recalls. She named her business after

her daughter. "The name 'Mirabelle' has a nice ring to it and it is also the name of a French variety of peach or apricot," she explains. She laughs and adds, "Some people still think my name is Mirabelle, though!" Nelson found a warm response to her miniature morsels at the City Centre Farmers' Market and discovered that social media like Twitter

met otherwise. It's fun and they show so much support for my business," she notes with gratitude. Reading blogs provides Nelson with significant inspiration, particularly with respect to flavour development. "I've noticed that other people who bake macarons tend to stick to common flavours, and that pushes me to tweak them and add something

I've noticed that other people who bake macarons tend to stick to common flavours, and that pushes me to tweak them and add something to elevate them.

and blogging were a huge source of traffic. "I really enjoy market days, and blogs have been a big boost. Thanks to blogging and the market, I am meeting people with common interestsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;people that I wouldn't have

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to elevate them," she states. "Milk chocolate passionfruit is probably my favourite flavour and salted caramel is one of my best sellers." French baker Pierre HermĂŠ, who is credited with inventing the macaron, is an additional inspiration for Nel-

son's creative endeavours. "His philosophy is to concentrate on the filling, rather than the shell. Shells usually aren't flavoured and the flavour of a macaron comes from the filling and permeates the whole cookie," she explains. For now, Nelson is content to introduce Edmonton to macarons at the farmers' market and through catering private functions like weddings, but she continues to dream of a grander future. "It has been a fantasy of mine to open a store. I would love to have a permanent store front, but I'm not sure Edmonton is ready for such a specialized place," she remarks. "I think people like the 'smallish' feel of the macaron and the market," observes Nelson. Indeed, small is beautiful in respect both to macarons and to Nelson's business. LS Vors

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PROVENANCE

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Six things about Coca-Cola

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The original sounded better

The beloved fizzy drink was originally formulated at the Eagle Drug and Chemical Company in Columbus, Georgia by John Pemberton in the late 19th century. It was originally marketed as a coca wine, which is an alcoholic beverage combining wine with extracted coca alkaloid. Pemberton's French Wine Coca was introduced, but during Prohibition, the wine was required to be replaced with non-alcoholic syrup. This also led to the prohibition of cocaine in the US, and the removal of coca alkaloid from the beverage. It was believed carbonated water was good for your health, and Pemberton claimed Coca-Cola cured numerous diseases like morphine addiction, headaches and impotence.

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REVUE // AFRO-CONTINENTAL

Koulture shock

A unique dining experience on 118th Ave

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warm, pink-and-dark-brown décor welcomes me when my dining companion and I enter Koultures, an Afro-Continental fine-dining restaurant that opened in October 2011. A server shows us to a table, offering for us to sit near a space-heater lamp, considering that we have just come in from the cold. The dark-toned interior makes the space feel warm and friendly, and we are immediately asked if we want a drink. My companion orders the malt drink (ginger), but the restaurant is out of those, so he gets the malt drink classic ($3.50) instead. From the selection of smoothies, I order a Koultures fruit cocktail ($6.00), pointing to that item on the menu as I place my order. When my drink arrives, it actually looks like a dessert—a bowl of fruit slices with whipped cream on top. I check the dessert menu, and yes, there is a fresh fruit cocktail ($5.50) on the dessert menu, too; I suspect that this is what I'm receiving now. Even the server expresses surprise, saying that what I'd ordered should look more like a smoothie. Two items on the menu have nearly the same name, which could have resulted in confusion as to what I'd ordered. I wonder if that's why my drink is a dessert. Still, I do have water to drink, so I ac-

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cept this solid-form "drink" and eat dessert first; I do enjoy both the dish and the experience. When the server returns to take our order, my companion orders the obe ata with okra ($11.99), asking for goat and chicken as his selection of meats, and for the amala with which to eat his food. Amala a type of paste, made from yam, and people use a piece of this paste to scoop up the meat, vegetables, and sauce off their plate. For an appetizer, I order the goatmeat pepper soup; for a main course, I order the asaro, a spicy yam porridge, but the restaurant does not have either tonight. Instead, I order the dodo, fried plantains ($2.50), for an appetizer. For my main course, I opt for the obe efo elegusi ($11.99), which is a spicy melon stew with meat and green vegetables. For my meat, I select goat; instead of amala, I choose the pounded yam. With the ordering hiccups over, my companion and I look around, and notice the television, which plays some kind of musical program, but with the green screen very noticeable in the background. I taste the malt drink, and the name is very apt: the malt flavour is very strong. It's almost like a thickened non-alcoholic beer, and while I enjoy one sip, I don't think I could work my way through an entire glass, but my companion does. Our main courses arrive, and we dive in. The amala and the pounded yam look like big balls of dough on a separate plate, and I try a bit of both. My companion and I both like the pounded

yam better, as the amala has a bit of a sour taste, and even reminds me a bit of the malt drink. The pounded yam has a milder taste, almost like mashed potatoes. The main dishes themselves, as well as my appetizer of fried plantains, are the highlight of the evening. My melon stew promises spice, and it delivers. The goat meat, with its mild (and slightly fatty) taste, works well with the spinach and the tongue-awakening sauce of the stew. The gentle taste of the pounded yam does not overpower the stew, and I find that it works better with this dish than the amala does. The restaurant's owner comes out to see if we enjoy our meal, a gesture that I appreciate. I also ask her what the word Continental in the name means, and she tells me that it refers to the few Western dishes that are on the menu, although she wants to offer mainly Nigerian dishes in her restaurant. For an appetizer, which I eat alongside my main dish, I highly recommend the fried plantains. It's a big serving, so perfect for sharing. The sweet dipping sauce brings out the subtle sweetness of this dish, while the frying does not produce an oily flavour—the batter is crispy, and the insides soft, but not mushy. I enjoy the food, but I wonder if some of the operational glitches that we experienced this evening will work themselves out with time. I hope so, because it's a classy restaurant, and maybe eating dessert first really is a good idea. MARIA KOTOVYCH

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PREVUE // GARLIC BREATH

Deliciously stinky

Sorrentino's 21st Annual Garlic Festival Starts Sun, Apr 1 All Sorrentino's locations

t's that time of year again. Have some mouth wash and gum ready and celebrate another year of eat, drink, stink. This year marks number 21 for Sorrentino's Annual Garlic Festival and this time around, the focus is on homegrown food and homemade stink. Menu items will feature a variety of homegrown products, including beef, chicken, pork, pasta and of course, garlic by the ton. "For us, it's always been important and we try to use local products as much as possible in our regular menu as well," says Stella Rago, marketing and operations director for Sorren-

tino's Restaurant Group. "Every year we try to pick a theme besides the garlic, so kind of like a sub theme. This year we thought, 'OK, how do we make 21 years of garlic festivals

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more exciting? Let's focus on Alberta products.'" The appeal of the smelly yet delicious festival after two decades is

simple says Rago: people just love garlic. Right from the time her husband opened the doors of Sorrento in 1979, customers gravitated to garlicy dishes, and would even request more in their food. "I just started out listening to customers," she says. Highlights from this year's flavourfull menu include gnocchi made from Alberta-grown potatoes by Let's Pasta in Lethbridge, risotto with Alberta pork emince, garlic cloves and basil pesto, Alberta beef 8 oz ribeye grilled and brushed with spicy chile garlic pesto oil and maldon sea salt, as well as vanilla garlic gelato, which sits atop a warm Alberta Saskatoon berry panettone bread pudding drizzled with locally produced honey.

The festival ties in a fundraising component and this year, money will be raised for the expansion of Sorrentino's Compassion House, which accommodates breast cancer patients. "Sorrentino's Compassion House has hosted many, many women and what we've found now is we've had to turn women away because it's in such demand," Rago says. To help with the expansion, five percent of each garlic-filled dish will be donated during the big GARLIC night on Wednesday, April 25 at all Sorrentino's locations, as well as proceeds from the Mini Garlic Stomp on Sunday, April 29 at Sorrentino's Downtown. meaghan baxter

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PREVUE // TRAVELLING MUSIC FESTIVAL

Provincial shift

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Swig of Alberta looks to strengthen Alberta's scene

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t often happens that when I have a moment I make a thousand more things for myself to do," Joe Gurba says. He doesn't seem all that concerned with the statement, but its truth is evident: he certainly knows how to keep his plate full. His label, Old Ugly, is one of the city's busiest (he also runs a music blog, Argue Job, as well as programs shows for Wunderbar). We're sitting in Transcend's downtown location where, in a few short weeks, Gurba's beginning a regular curated series of weekend shows in the basement, and just a month back he curated Tip of the Iceberg, a daylong music festival that happened in Churchill Square. That last one, actually, is the reason that his latest idea to bear fruit, Swig of Alberta, is happening now instead of in its originally intended date of

January. Co-imagined by Gurba and Lethbridge dj/record label owner Jesse Northey, Swig of Alberta looks to pull a scattering of bands from across Alberta together for a trio of shows, one each in Edmonton, Calgary and Lethbridge, like some roving musical caravan peddling its wares across our prairie province. Launching on Friday in Lethbridge, each city gets a slightly tailored lineup, as some bands will pop up in one city and not the others—Lethbridge gets Michael Rault, Calgary showcases Halifax poet laureate Tanya Davis and Edmonton will have TOPS, a band of expats now based in Montréal—but some nine acts will do the full circuit of all three cities. And of those, it's an eclectic spread of styles, including Mitchmatic's dexterous raps, kaledoscopic pop from Jessica Jalbert, bare-bone pop from Calgary's Extra Happy Ghost! and the old-school rock of Medicine Hat's Daydream Johnny. "I really see it as a new chance to inject new flavours into a scene, be-

cause you see the same people play a lot," Gurba notes. Not all the bands he wanted could make it this weekend for the inaugural Swig, he notes, but he's already looking ahead to future outings the travelling festival could undertake. "I'd like to see this keep going," he explains. "I'd like to see this twice a year, and I'd like to see it have a completely different lineup each time." "I would love to see it go from Medicine Hat, Lethbridge, Calgary, Edmonton and Grand Prairie or Fort McMurray or something, and really tie in the province. 'Cause the whole idea is to change it from being scenes of cities to being the scene of the province. And getting the people who are playing lots of shows in their city, all the time, to be more tied into the other communities, because when you can play a show at places like three hours away, then it's totally worth it for you to go on a weekend and play a show and make some money. It's like mini tours." Paul Blinov

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ON THE RECORD

Bahamas

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How did you decide which songs to include on the album? Did you have an idea of what you wanted Barchords to be when you started, or did the finished shape emerge as the writing and recording went along? AJ: I tried to choose the songs that had a clear narrative connecting them all. Many of the songs explore a similar theme, sometimes a similar melody. I also wanted the human voice to be the instrument that permeated the album and really inform the finished songs. VW:

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Bahamas, also known as Afie Jurvanen spent years playing alongside acts like Great Lake Swimmers, The Stills, Howie Beck and most recently Feist. Now, he's celebrating the release of his latest solo album, Barchords and took the time to tell Vue all about it.

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Most of my songs are about different relationships in my life and my complicated role in them. Sometimes that results in some very direct storytelling, but I think it would be difficult for me to colour it any other way.

AJ:

How long did it take to make Barchords from the initial songwriting through to the end of the recording? AFIE JURVANEN: The dates are a little fuzzy because my songwriting process is a continuous thing, but I'd say I spent two years writing the songs and then six days recording them. That seems to be the way I'm most comfortable working, to put the majority of the time and effort into writing the best song I can write. Recording is the fun part.

VW: What were the recording sessions like for this album? Is this the kind of thing you recorded live or did you piece it together one track at a time? Why? AJ: We recorded quickly and it was very much a lively recording. People playing in the same room together, really listening and reacting to each other. There were no rehearsals, I would just count the songs off and the band would fall in pretty quickly. Usually the first take is the most inspired and full of nervous energy and those are the songs that are really special to me on the album.

VW: When you were writing the songs, did you come at them in a particular way? Lyrics first? Music first? AJ: I wrote most of these songs in between touring for my last record, Pink Strat. I almost always start with a lyric idea and that usually suggests a particular melody. It's funny how certain words will tell you exactly how they

VW: Were there any other songs written that were left off the album? AJ: Yes. There always is. I guess I'm fortunate to have enough material to pick and choose. Sometimes you work hard on something and it doesn't turn out the way you thought it would. It's nice to know I can just make that thing go away!

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You worked with Robbie Lackritz to produce the album. What drew you to him and what did he bring to the process? AJ: Robbie? He's my buddy. We've done a lot of touring together and I've done all my recording with him. He used to be my roommate. He's my manager. He's my producer. He's my best friend! I wouldn't say the album sounds produced, even though it has a cohesive tone and mood. Robbie made all of those esthetic decisions, where to place certain instruments, what microphones to use. He's an engineer of the highest order and I think he understands me and my music very deeply. I completely trust him and I think that's a rare and special thing for any relationship, let alone a musical one. I'm really lucky to have him in my life. VW:

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If you were to trace the musical map that led you to Barchords, what would it look like? AJ: I'm weary of maps ... A bad map is worse than no map at all for it engenders in the traveler a false confidence and might easily cause him to set aside those instincts which would otherwise guide him if he would but place himself in their care. Seems to me the best map is just to follow what feels right. I know I'll get there eventually, so I'm okay with stumbling around a bit along the way. It's more interesting anyway. V VW:

WAR STORY

Hilltop Hoods A cocktail to steer clear of Fri, Mar 30 (6 pm) The Starlite Room ($26.75)

MAR 30 & 31

The Salesmen

APR 6 & 7

Andrew Scott

In Sutton Place Hotel #195, 10235 101 Street, EDMONTONPUBS.COM

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What began jokingly as a bet at one of Hilltop Hoods' shows has now turned into a standing challenge for any fan brave enough to step up. MC Pressure gives Vue the details of what exactly this invovles. I came off stage in Victoria, Canada from a packed club full to the brim of rowdy locals drenched in a mix of their sweat and my own. After DJ Debris laughed at my soaking clothes I took off my shirt and wrung it into a

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glass filling it to the brim with a grey liquid resembling storm water. A joke was made that $50 would be paid to

anyone who would drink the sweat from Pressure's shirt, one eager and rather drunk dude piped up that he would. $50 was laid on the table, he took the glass and knocked it back. As I threw up in my mouth a little the entire backstage started gagging in disgust, he stood motionless and turned a light shade of green. The gauntlet had been throw down, every city in Canada for the rest of the tour was offered the same challenge. Thankfully only one sunburnt Banff kid suffering a snowboarding concussion was game. He was never seen or heard of again. Bottoms up Canada, cheers. V

FIRSTS, LASTS & FAVOURITES

PREVUE // BOSTON POP

Rose Cousins

A glimpse into her south-of-the-border music family Fri, Mar 30 (8 pm) Haven Social Club, $15

ver the course of her travels back and forth to Boston during the last eight years, Canadian folk-pop songstress Rose Cousins become part of a tight-knit music community, which is now the focus of her short film, If I Should Fall Behind. The film tells the story of the musicians who becames a source of inspiration and camaraderie for Cousins during the production of her new album, We Have Found a Spark. The journey she has embarked on since becoming involved in the Boston scene is one that Cousins describes as amazing, and says her musical guts were telling her it was exactly where she needed to be. "I think the first thing that probably brought me down there was all of the people I seemed to be influenced by were all coming out of the northeast for some reason," she explains. "I just was creeping everyone on the Internet and found everyone kind of filtered through Club Passim." Cousins made the treck to perform at the Club Passim's Campfire Festival and met fellow musician Rose Polenzani, who she's dubbed as the collaborative instigator for the whole process. Polenzani led to her becoming involved with a multi-talented group of musicians and producers, including Zachariah Hickman, Austin Nevins and Charlie Rose. They all work together on a regular basis, which Cousins says has allowed for the development of a musical conversation between

the artists. "Everybody has a real personality they bring to it," she continues. "It's like everybody has a strength that they can bring, but not one person needs the limelight, so everybody contributes the exact thing they can contribute that makes the song better and makes the performance better." Cousins adds that the experience of working with the diverse group has given her a taste of the fruits of collaboration, which has subsequently opened her up as a performer and musician. The variety of talent has morphed her album into a living, breathing entity where everyone plays off one another in a pressure-free environment. "There's this feeling of no one really worries if someone makes a mistake ... everyone's just kind of going for it, and not going for it in a way where it's going to be terrible. It's like, just being there and being present and not worrying about it being something specific," Cousins says. "I hear everybody's contribution and it makes me feel really close to this record." While the collaborative, community-minded approach of the group has made a profound impact on Cousins as a musician, the decision to document the creative process was a lastminute one. "I've never done anything film-wise before," Cousins admits. "It's been a lot of work, but really fun to have this supplementary piece that somehow gives a little window into what I'm talking about." meaghan baxter

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Big John Bates Sat, Mar 31 (8 pm) New City Legion

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The Gretsch-endorsed Big John Bates and his band of troubadours—Brandy Bones on upright bass and Bill Dozer on percussion—will be bringing their unique brand of garage punk blues to Edmonton to show// Tanya Plonka case their new EP Headless Fowl. Prior to the show Bates himself let Vue in on his firsts, lasts and favourites.

with Country Star

Gord Bamford Wednesday, April 4

Expressionz Cafe (9938-70 Ave)

First album It was southern rock—Molly Hatchet—I think I liked the cover. First concert Billy Idol / The Cult

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Last album Tom Waits, Bad Like Me

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Last concert Eagles of Death Metal

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3pm at the Winspear Centre for the Arts

8pm at the Winspear Centre for the Arts

World Music Sampler

A Celebration of Winds & Voices

with performances by our West African, Indian and Middle Eastern & North African Music Ensembles featuring two time Grammy Nominee

Rahim Alhaj

including works by Brahms, Grainger, Holsinger, Purcell & Whitacre featuring

Symphonic Wind Ensemble The Madrigal Singers The Concert Choir

$10 Students | $15 Seniors | $20 Adults | $60 Season Flex Pass Tickets available at the door on the day of the performance www.music.ualberta.ca

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Field Music Plumb (Memphis Industries)  Plumb is best listened to as a whole, as each song spills into the next. In many cases, though, the tracks, particularly the ones that run under two minutes, feel too short for all the elements the band has jammed into them. The vintage vibe of the tracks is created through a complex arrangement of guitar, strings, keys and vocal harmonies that feels mashed together at times. Despite the time crunch, Field Music manages to fit some through-provoking lyrics into the instrumental fray as seen in the social commentary of "Taking Sides." Meaghan Baxter

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Soulfly Enslaved (Roadrunner) 

Hilltop Hoods Drinking From the Sun (Golden Era)  Ever listen to a song that sounded amazing musically but not so much lyrically? Well, that's the sentiment that comes to mind when listening to Aussie hip-hop trio Hilltop Hoods' sixth studio album. Rock-tinged hip hop, creative sampling and beats are wasted on recollections of making it big or numerous pop references made with little reason beyond sounding cool. Still, sound sure goes a long way. Canadian rapper Classified is featured on one of the album's better tracks, "The Underground," which samples "California Earthquake" by Mama Cass. Other standouts include the reggae-influenced "Living in Bunkers" and "I Love It," with its perfect combination of piano and violin, and a catchy pop chorus by fellow Adelaide musician Sia.

There's not much in the way of complacency on Soulfly's latest album. In fact, leadman and songwriter Max Cavalera is writing songs like he's still got something to prove even after years of Soulfly and Sepultura before that. And the result is brutal, crushing and full of the rhythmic swinging that has often separated Cavalera's work from a large part of the metal pack. Enslaved sounds like a complete album, too, with songs flowing as one—the devolving crunch into slow grind finish on "Intervention," followed by the pounding blasts of "Gladiator" being just one fine example—and the cohesiveness makes this a strong entry in Cavalera's catalogue of work. Eden Munro

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Soulfly plays the Shaw Conference Centre on Thursday, April 5.

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Carole Facal, "Shiver" Competitive snowboarder-turned-songwriter Carole Facal leads off Shiver's release with its title track, a driving little pop ballad that hides a sentimental heart in its lyrics—"Wish I could leave loneliness / Teach me what I'm doing wrong" goes one hook—but dresses them up warmly in a cozy spiral of electronic ripples, acoustic guitar heaves and tumbling drums.

Japandroids, "The House That Heaven Built"

Vancouver two-piece Japandriods doubles back here on the guitar/ drum/heart formula that vaulted its debut Post-Nothing into treasured indie album status. "House" suggests there's plenty of richness left to mine out of that simple set up: the sing-song "whoa oh oh" refrain is a barbed hook, designed to stick, and coupled with the sense of youthful urgency that permeates the heavy wash of guitar and drums, it's punk-ish bliss. V

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ON THE RECORD

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Good Old War

Trio's latest release part of a music evolution

Sat, Mar 31 (8 pm) The Haven Social Club, $15

he acoustic-driven folk-pop trio Good Old War recently released its third full-length record, venturing even further into the organic sound that's been consistently developed since the group's inception. Multi-instrumentalist Tim Arnold took the time to explain a little more about Come Back As Rain prior to the band's Edmonton show.

VUE WEEKLY: How long did it take to make Come Back As Rain, from the initial songwriting through to the end of the recording? TIM ARNOLD: We never really stop writing, so some songs we may have been working on for years. "Amazing Eyes" is one of these songs. The amount of studio time was a month and a week.

VW: When you were writing the songs, did you come at them in a particular way? Lyrics first? Music first? TA: It really varies from song to song. Dan usually brings songs to the table with a structure and lyrics finished and then we all work on them together. When Keith or I write a song it could go either way. We could have all these lyrics and not really know where the song is

gonna go, like we could have a melody but no structure. It really depends. If we have a song that has the lyrics and structure close, we usually look at the lyrics first then work on the music. VW: Did the songs come from one person fully formed, or were they sketches that were then filled out as a group? TA: On this record especially, we all worked together on every song, making them all Good Old War songs as opposed to individual member's tunes. VW: What were the recording sessions like for this album? Is this the kind of thing you recorded live or did you piece it together one track at a time? Why? TA: We recorded the basics (drums, bass, guitar) live and then recorded vocals, percussion, overdubs afterwards. We wanted to capture the energy of our live shows in the studio so we did as much as we could live. VW: Were there any other songs written that were left off the album? How did you decide which songs to include on the album? Did you have an idea of what you wanted Come Back As Rain to be when you started, or did the finished shape emerge as the writing and recording went along?

TA: There are a bunch of songs that we worked on that aren't on the record. We released a few as bonus tracks with the deluxe version, but there are still a whole lot that are just waiting to be revealed. And that's not to say those songs aren't good, we just put all of the songs we had together and picked the ones that would make the record the strongest, most cohesive thing we could produce. This also kind of makes the record come together naturally and without any preconceived notions. VW: You worked with Jason Cupp to produce the album. What drew you to him and what did he bring to the process? TA: We actually recorded the first songs we've ever done with Jason. He recorded our first demos, and "Coney Island" and "Looking for Shelter" on our first record were produced by Jason. When we recorded our second record by ourselves, we were pretty much on the phone with him everyday asking him what mics to use, where to place themâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;he was pretty much there during that record. He started touring with us and doing our sound and on the road we would discuss our sound and songs. When it came time to record Come Back As Rain it was an obvious decision as to who was to produce. We're all thick as thieves and work really well together so it's a good match. It's a family affair at this point. Oh yeah, and he's a genius. He brings so much to the process it's almost as if he's the fourth member of the band. VW: If you were to trace the musical map that led you to Come Back As Rain, what would it look like? TA: Honestly I think it would be a nice gradual incline. I feel like this is the next step in our evolution as a band and is very natural. We just keep trying to make the best record we can make. No one is really pressuring us or trying to turn us into something we are not. It's nice. V

FIRSTS, LASTS AND FAVOURITES

AWOLNATION

First album Run-DMC, Raised in Hell. First concert Sting was the first, Bad Religion was the second. Last album The Walker Brothers, Nite Flight. Last concert Rage Against the Machine at the Coliseum.

Tue, Apr 3 (7 pm) Edmonton Event Centre, $34 This band of electro rockers hit it big with the hit "Sail," an ode to Styx's "Come Sail Away." AWOLNATION has continued to make a name for itself since releasing Megalithic Sympathy in 2011. Frontman Aaron Bruno shared his firsts, lasts and favourites with Vue prior to AWOLNATION's Edmonton show. "Each day brings a different record that I listen to," Bruno says. "I will say, that morning starts mellow, lunchtime is heavier, and night is usually something epic."

Favourite album I have many favourite albums. Neil Young's Harvest, Beatles' Abbey Road, Radiohead's Ok Computer, Nirvana's In Utero, etc. Favourite musical guilty pleasure I find no guilt in listening to any music. V

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MUSIC NOTES Solidarity Rock benefit show / Fri, Mar 30 (9:30 pm) Cuban rockers are getting a little help from Edmonton's independent rock community with Scrapbooker, Krang and Catgut playing in support of Solidarity Rock. The group has worked to open the door to opportunities that unite musicians and artists. Over the past four years, Solidarity Rock has led the first five rock 'n' roll tours in Cuba and built an independent music community in central Cuba thanks to instrument donations and peer-to-peer mentorship. All proceeds from this show will be used in conjunction with funds raised in Calgary on March 24 to send a shipment of instruments down to Cuba in April. (Wunderbar, $10)

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Tribute featuring Kenny "Blue Boss" Wayne as the legend himself. Special guests include Purple City, Connie & the Gin Pulls and the comedy stylings of "Harvey." (Central Lions Hall, $30)

Job for a Cowboy/ Fri, Mar 30 (6 pm) The death-metal head-bangers got a job as part of the Metal Alliance North American Tour, and at the same time are promoting the release of their latest album, Demonocracy. For the hard-hitting tour, the group will be joined by headliners DevilDriver, as well as the Faceless, Dying Fetus and Three Inches of Blood. (Edmonton Event Centre, $46.84)

Fats Domino Tribute / Sat, Mar 31 (6:30 pm) Support to Individuals at Risk in Everyone's Neighbourhood, also known as SIRENS, is hosting a Fats Domino

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Gabrielle Papillon / Tue, Apr 3 and Sat, Apr 7 The indie-folk songstress is hitting the road for a crosscountry headlining tour. Friend and bandmate Corinna Rose is along for the ride and the pair are travelling as part of VIA Rail's Onboard Entertainment program which involves entertaining passengers onboard. Her show at the Black Dog will feature Scott Cook. (The Druid Irish Pub, Apr 3 and the Black Dog Freehouse, Apr 7) V

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THU MAR 29 Accent European Lounge Sarah Lillian (folk/pop), Where’s Lula (Indie/pop); 9:30pm11:30pm; no minors; no cover Blues on Whyte Too Slim and the Taildraggers bohemia Mic to the Masses: RasBee (hip hop, rap), Ignotus (thrash, dub), Ryjin the Recounter (beat poetry), Grizzly Adams Apple (beat box), Doobyis ♧ (Hiphhop), Natalia Wilhelm aka Queen of the Green (hip hop); no minors; 8pm; $5 (door) Brittanys Lounge Kenny Hillaby hosts a jazz session night every Thu with Shadow Dancers, Maura and Jeanelle; no cover CARROT Café Zoomers Thu afternoon open mic; 1-4pm Cha Island Tea Co Live on the Island: Rhea March hosts open mic and Songwriter's stage; starts with a jam session; 7pm Druid Irish Pub DJ every Thu at 9pm DV 8 Magik Spells and guests; 9pm Edmonton Event Centre Young Jeezy; 8:30pm; tickets at TicketMaster, Foosh, Shadified, Queue, Soular, Rain Haven Social Club Head of the Herd, Coal Creek Boys, Mike Dunn; 7pm (door); $10 (adv)/$12 (door) J R Bar and Grill Live Jam Thu; 9pm Jeffrey's Café Alfie Zappacosta; $35 Jubilee Auditorium Blue Man Group

Shotgun Jimmie; all ages licensed; 7pm (door); tickets at Blackbyrd Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Andrew Scott

Wild Bill’s–Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close

Avenue Theatre Lucid Skies (hard rock/metal); $5 (door)

Winspear Centre Ben Folds, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Epsilon; 8pm; $69 Orchestra (C & F), Terrace (B) & Dress Circle (A); $49 Upper Circle (D) & Gallery (E)

Bistro La Persaud Blues: every Friday Night hosted by The Dr Blu Band; 8pm (music); drblu.ca

Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Andrew Scott

Blue Chair Café Billie Zizi and the Gypsy Jive; 8:30-10:30pm; $15

STARLITE ROOM Early SHow: Hilltop Hoods, guests; 6pm (door); no minors; $21.50 at Prime Box Office

Wunderbar Portage and Main, Redbird, Zerbin; $8; 9pm

DJs Black dog Freehouse Main Floor: wtft w djwtf - rock 'n' roll, blues, indie; Wooftop Lounge: Musical flavas incl funk, indie, dance/nu disco, breaks, drum and bass, house with DJ Gundam

bohemia Dick Lexington's Birthday Bash: music by Action News Team (psych), The Patterns (rock), The Cavalry (alt punk) and guests; 8pm

Rose and Crown The Salesmen

Sherlock Holmes– WEM Derina Harvey

Wild Bill’s–Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close Wunderbar Scrapbooker, Krang, Catgut; $10; 9pm

Century Room Lucky 7: Retro '80s with house DJ every Thu; 7pm-close

Brixx bar Early Show: Fair Blue, Psuedo Escape, 7pm (door); Late Show: XoXo CARROT Dr. Blue; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door)

Classical

Chrome Lounge 123 Ko every Thu

CASINO EDMONTON All the Rage

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

CASINO YELLOWHEAD Blackboard Jungle

Brixx Radio Brixx

Crown Pub Break Down Thu at the Crown: D&B with DJ Kaplmplx, DJ Atomik with guests

Century Casino Alan Frew (of Glass Tiger); 8pm Cha Island Tea Co Live music on the Island; 9pm every Fri and Sat; donation Coast to Coast Open stage every Fri; 9:30pm

Druid Irish Pub DJ every Thu; 9pm

Devaney's Irish pub Quentin Reddy

electric rodeo– Spruce Grove DJ every Thu

DV8 The Rebel Spell, guests; 9pm

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

HALO Fo Sho: every Thu with Allout DJs DJ Degree, Junior Brown

Level 2 lounge Funk Bunker: Rene LaVice (Ram/Machinist MusicToronto); 9:30pm

HILLTOP PUB The Sinder Sparks Show; every Thu and Fri; 9:30pm-close

New West Hotel Jimmy Aurthur Ordge (country)

Blues on Whyte Too Slim and the Taildraggers

Richards Bar Fri and Sat Nights DJ (dancing)

Yardbird Suite International Jazz Series: Assaf Kehati Trio With Billy Hart; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $22 (member)/$26 (guest)

Lit Italian Wine Bar Lindsey Walker; 8pm; free

New City Legion Bingo is Back every Thu starting 9pm; followed by Behind The Red Door at 10:30pm; no minors; no cover

Red Piano Bar Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Fri; 9pm2am

Sherlock Holmes– WEM Derina Harvey

FLUID LOUNGE Take Over Thursdays: Industry Night; 9pm

Marybeth's Coffee House–Beaumont Open mic every Thu; 7pm

Apex Casino–Vee Lounge Room To Dance Duo

Band of the Month: Mad Bomber Society, The Mandates, The Old Wives

The ARTery Bahamas, Wake Owl; no minors, 8pm (door); $17 at Blackbyrd

L.B.'s Pub Open jam with Kenny Skoreyko, Fred LaRose and Gordy Mathews (Shaved Posse) every Thu; 9pm-1am showcase: Rob Taylor "Stringtime"

Maclab–Leduc Valdy (folk); 2pm; $20

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FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Requests every Thu with DJ Damian

KAS BAR Urban House: every Thu with DJ Mark Stevens; 9pm Level 2 lounge Funk Bunker Thursdays 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

Eddie Shorts Bango an deMan Edmonton Event Centre The Metal Alliance Tour: DevilDriver; all ages; 6pm (door) FRESH START BISTRO Richard Monkman; 7-10pm; $10 Good Neighbor Pub T.K. and the Honey Badgers every friday; 8:30-midnight; no cover

Muttart Hall Potpourri: Classical Works; 7:30pm; $25 (adult)/$20 (student/ senior) at unionevents. com, Sloth Records

DJs BAR-B-BAR DJ James; every Fri; no cover BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every Friday DJs on all three levels 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 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

Haven Social Club Rose Cousins, Charlotte Cornfield; no minors; 8pm (door); $15 at Blackbyrd

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

Irish Club Jam session every Fri; 8pm; no cover

The Druid Irish Pub DJ every Fri; 9pm

Jeffrey's Café Alfie Zappacosta; $35

electric rodeo– Spruce Grove DJ every Fri

Jekyll and Hyde Pub Headwind (classic pop/ rock); every Fri; 9pm; no cover

FILTHY McNASTY'S Shake yo ass every Fri with DJ SAWG

Jubilee Auditorium Blue Man Group

FLUID LOUNGE Hip hop and dancehall; every Fri

L.B.'s Pub Big Time, Randy Rorsberg, Charly Deshane, Jared Sowan, arry Shelast; 9:30pm2am

Funky Buddha–Whyte Ave Top tracks, rock, retro with DJ Damian; every Fri

Level 2 lounge Fridaze presents Miguel Amador; 9:30pm

HILLTOP PUB The Sinder Sparks Show; every Thu and Fri; 9:30pm-close

rendezvous Metal night every Thu

Lizard Lounge Rock 'n' roll open mic every Fri; 8:30pm; no cover

junction bar and eatery LGBT Community: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm

Taphouse–St Albert Eclectic mix every Thu with DJ Dusty Grooves

New West Hotel Jimmy Aurthur Ordge (country)

Newcastle Pub House, dance mix every Fri with DJ Donovan

Ric’s Grill Peter Belec ( jazz); most Thursdays; 7-10pm

Union Hall 3 Four All Thursdays: rock, dance, retro, top 40 with DJ Johnny Infamous

NOLA Jazz dinner shows: Karen Porkka Trio, 6pm; Late show: Louise Dawson Quartet, 9pm

Royal Alberta Museum Theatre John K. Samson and the Provincial Band,

Wild Bill’s–Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close

On the Rocks Bad Judgement

New City Sick XXVII: An Evening Of Hard Industrial with DJ Dervish, The Gothfather; no minors; $5 (door)

NORTH GLENORA HALL Jam by Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu Richards Bar Live R&B bands (dancing)

PAWN SHOP Sonic 102.9

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 House, electro, Top40, R'n'B with DJ Melo-D every Fri Suite 69 Release Your Inner Beast: Retro and Top 40 beats with DJ Suco; every Fri 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: Pink Party Ft Bitchin'

SAT MAR 31 ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage with Trace Jordan 1st and 3rd Sat; 7pm-12 ALE YARD TAP & GRILL Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; 9:30pm Apex Casino–Vee Lounge Room To Dance Duo Avenue Theatre Unbalanced, Thoroughbred Racing Pigeon, guests; 9:30pm Black Dog Freehouse Hair of the Dog: Dawn in the City (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover Blue Chair Café Jack Semple; 8:30-10:30pm; $20 Blues on Whyte Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Late Show: Too Slim and the Taildraggers bohemia art+muzak: Crimes of Adventure in the Polaroid Apocalypse, featuring the art by Alex Hindle and Leila Sidi; music by DJ Tavia Daylene; no minors; 9pm; no cover Brittany's Lounge Rob Taylor "Stringtime"; 9pm; no cover Cafe Coral De Cuba Marco Claveria hosting an open mic for music, poetry, jokes; every Sat, 6pm; $5 CASINO EDMONTON All the Rage CASINO YELLOWHEAD Blackboard Jungle Cha Island Tea Co Live music on the Island; 9pm every Fri and Sat; donation Coast to Coast Live bands every Sat; 9:30pm The Common Get Down Saturday Night: Neighbour; 9pm Crown Pub Acoustic blues open stage with Marshall Lawrence, every Sat, 2-6pm; every Sat, 12-2am Devaney's Irish pub Quentin Reddy THE DISH NEK Trio ( jazz); every Sat, 6pm DV8 Alley Cat Blues, The Blame It's; 9pm Early Stage Saloon– Stony Plain Dangerous Guise (soul, r&B, funk,

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blues, rock); 8:30pm; $5 EDDIE SHORTS The Frolics EDMONTON EVENT CENTRE Act A Fool 2-All Night Massive: (dance/electronic); no minors; 6pm (door); $57 (Batch 2)/ $67 (Batch 3)/$77 Batch 4) at Foosh, Rain Salon WEM EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ Open stage for original songs, hosted by Karyn Sterling and Randall Walsh; 2-5pm; admission by donation FILTHY MCNASTY'S Victoria Baldwin, Kelly Kohlruss; 4pm; no cover HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB Good Old War, The Belle Brigade, Family of the Year; no minors; 8pm (door); $15 at Blackbyrd HILLTOP PUB Sat afternoon roots jam with Pascal, Simon and Dan, 3:30-6:30pm; evening HOOLIGANZ Live music every Sat HYDEAWAY Edmonton Undiscovered concert; 6pm IRON BOAR PUB Jazz in Wetaskiwin featuring jazz trios the 1st Sat each month; $10 JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Dr Blu (rockin' blues); $15 JOHN L. HAAR THEATRE Songwriters’ Concert: Students original pop and rock tunes JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Blue Man Group L.B.'S PUB Sat afternoon Jam with Gator and Friends, 5-9pm; Late Show: The Canyon Rose Outfit, 9:30pm-2am

NEW CITY Murder by Death, Big John Bates, Hellfire Special; no minors; $5 (door) NEW WEST HOTEL Country jam every Sat, 3-6pm; Late show: Jimmy Aurthur Ordge (country) NOLA Jazz dinner shows: Karen Porkka Trio, 6pm; Late show: Louise Dawson Quartet, 9pm O’BYRNE’S Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm ON THE ROCKS Bad Judgement PAWN SHOP Early Show: Victoria Balwin, 4pm, free; Late show: Untapped Alberta, Tupelo Honey, Mars and Venus, The Lions RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm2am RENDEZVOUS Face First, Death Assembly, Within the Ashes, Gru Sam Illa Ah; no minors; 8pm (door); $10 RICHARDS BAR Fri and Sat Nights DJ (dancing) ROSE AND CROWN The Salesmen SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Andrew Scott SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Derina Harvey STARLITE ROOM Demonika's Symphony Of Horrors 7 WUNDERBAR Sir Ma'am Ma'am, Bayonets, Smokey, Gary Las Vegas, T. Salty; donation YARDBIRD SUITE

FLUID LOUNGE Scene Saturday's Relaunch: Party; hip-hop, R&B and Dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali

International Jazz Series: Køgging; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $20 (member)/$24 (guest)

Classical MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH Easter Prelude: Keri Lynn Zwicker (harp), contemporary reflections by Larry Derkach; 3pm; free; info at 780.428.181, mcdougallunited.com WINSPEAR CENTRE Rolston plays Dvorák: Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Shauna Rolston, Julian Kuerti (conductor); 8pm; $20$75

NEWCASTLE PUB Top 40 requests every Sat with DJ Sheri

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: The Menace Sessions: Alt Rock/ Electro/Trash with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic hip-hop and reggae with DJ Sonny Grimezz; Underdog: Dr. Erick

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 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

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

DJs

BLACKSHEEP PUB DJ every Sat

FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Top tracks, rock, retro every Sat with DJ Damian

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

40 beats with DJ Lazy, guests 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: Will Bailey

SUN APR 1 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 Brunch: PM Bossa brazil!; 10:30am- 2pm BLUES ON WHYTE Bluessmyth

PALACE CASINO Show Lounge DJ every Sat

BLUE PEAR RESTAURANT Jazz on the Side Sun 6pm; $25 if not dining

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

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Tippy Agogo (music), ManWoman (art exhibit, poetry reading); 2-8pm

ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Rezzo, DJ Mkhai

CAFFREY'S–Sherwood Park The Sunday Blues Jam: hosted by Kevin and Rita McDade and the Grey Cats Blues Band, guests every week; 5-9pm; no cover

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M SUEDE LOUNGE House, electro, Top40, R'n'B with DJ Melo-D every Fri SUITE 69 Stella Saturday: retro, old school, top

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

Snyder & Associates presents

All Things

English Robert de Frece - Founder & Conductor

8:00 pm Friday, April 13, 2012 All Saints’ Anglican Cathedral - 10035 103 St. Tickets: $18-20 (plus agency fees) TIX on the Square: (780) 420-1757 or www.tixonthesquare.ca Also available at the door www.greenwoodsingers.org

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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 John L. Haar Theatre Guitar Concert: Students Jubilee Auditorium Blue Man Group

United Church WindRose Trio: This Trio has Seven Players; 2pm; $20/$15; windrosetrio.ca Winspear Centre World Music Sampler: U of A Indian, West African & Middle Eastern & North African Ensembles, Rahim Alhaj; 3pm; $20 (adult)/$15 (senior)/$10 (student) at U of A Dpt of Music, 780.492.0601

DJs

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

BACKSTAGE TAP AND GRILL Industry Night: every Sun with Atomic Improv, Jameoki and DJ Tim

NEW CITY LEGION DIY Sunday Afternoons: 4pm (door), 5pm, 6pm, 7pm, 8pm (bands)

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

New City Ghettosocks, Timbuktu, Touch and Nato, Mitchmatic, Mikey Maybe; no minors; $10 (door) O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am O2's PUB Open stage hosted by the band the Vindicators; 4-8pm every Sun Richards Bar Sun Live Jam open mic; 4pm TWO ROOMS Live Jam every Sun with Jeremiah; 5-9pm; no cover; $10 (dinner) Wunderbar Swig Of Alberta Travelling Music Festival: Such As Tops, Jessica Jalbert, The Joe, Mitchmatic, Extra Happy Ghost!!!, Stalwart Sons, Wand and more; 5pm; $10 Yellowhead Brewery Open Stage: Every Sun, 8pm

Classical Convocation Hall Transcriptions for Winds...and more: The U of A Concert Band; 2-4pm; admission by donation Robertson-Wesley

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

MON APR 2 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sleeman Mon: Oh My Darling; 10pm; no cover Blues on Whyte Bluessmyth Devaney's Irish Pub Singer/songwriter open stage every Mon; Quentin Reddy; 8pm John L. Haar Theatre Big Band Concert: Students, Antoniuk, ( jazz sax); 7:30pm; tickets at TIX on the Square New West Hotel Eldorado Creek (country) pawn shop Metal Monday: Untimely Demise, Dire Omen, Boulderfist 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 Live Music (TBA)

Classical

Chords Tuesdays: Sea & Air, Doug Hoyer, Ben Disaster; $5 (door) New West Hotel Eldorado Creek (country) O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm

Convocation Hall Monday Noon Music: 12-1pm; free

Padmanadi Open stage every Tue; with Mark Davis; all ages; 7:3010:30pm

DJs

Red Piano All Request Band Tuesdays: Classic rock, soul and R&B with Joint Chiefs; 8pm; $5

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)

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

FILTHY McNASTY'S Metal Mondays with DJ Tyson

Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Quentin Reddy

Lucky 13 Industry Night every Mon with DJ Chad Cook

Sherlock Holmes– WEM Tony Dizon

NEW CITY LEGION Madhouse Mon: Punk/ metal/etc with DJ Smart Alex

TUE APR 3 Atlantic Trap & Gill Little Flower Open Stage On The Road; 9pm Blues on Whyte Bluessmyth Druid Irish Pub Open stage every Tue; with Chris Wynters; 9pm Edmonton EVent Centre Awolnation, guests; all ages; 7pm (door); $26.50 at Blackbyrd, Unionevents. com, Ticketmaster Haven Social Club Housse de Racket with Organic Orbit, Cockatoo; 8pm; $13 (adv) at Blackbyrd L.B.’s Tue Blues Jam with Ammar; 9pm-1am New City Trusty

Wunderbar Live Music (Tba) Yardbird Suite Tue Night Sessions: Audrey Ochoa Quartet; 7:30pm (door), 8pm (show); $5

Classical Winspear Centre A Celebration of Winds and Voices: U of A's Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Madrigal Singers, Concert Choir; 8pm; $20 (adult)/$15 (senior)/$10 (student)

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: alternative retro and not-so-retro, electronic and Euro with Eddie Lunchpail Brixx Bar Ruby Tuesdays guest with host Mark Feduk; $5 after 8pm 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 Suite 69 Rockstar Tuesdays: Mash up and Electro with DJ Tyco, DJ Omes with weekly guest DJs

WED APR 4 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Glitter Gulch: live music once a month Blues on Whyte Fist Full of Blues Cha Island Tea Co Whyte Noise Drum Circle: Join local drummers for a few hours of beats and fun; 6pm Crown Pub The D.A.M.M Jam: Open stage/original plugged in jam with Dan, Miguel and friends every Wed Devaney's Irish Pub Open Stage: Duff Robinson 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 Espressionz Café Alberta Music–Up Close with Gord Banford

Calgary Tr, 780.439.8675 Common Lounge 10124124 St Convocation Hall Arts Bldg, U of A, 780.492.3611 Crown Pub 10709-109 St, 780.428.5618 Diesel Ultra Lounge 11845 Wayne Gretzky Drive, 780.704.CLUB Devaney’s Irish Pub 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 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– Stony Plain 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 Festival Place 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FIDDLER’S ROOST 890699 St FILTHY MCNASTY’S 1051182 Ave, 780.916.1557 FLASH Night Club 10018105 St, 780.996.1778 FLOW Lounge 11815 Wayne Gretzky Dr, 780.604. CLUB Fluid Lounge 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 FUNKY BUDDHA 10341-82 Ave, 780.433.9676 Good Earth Coffee House and Bakery

9942-108 St Good Neighbor Pub 11824-103 St HALO 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.HALO haven social club 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 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 John L. Haar Theatre Grant MacEwan, 10045156 St 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 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)

MAD BOMBERS SOCIETY WITH THE MANDATES AND THE OLD WIVES SAT MARCH 31

UNTAPPED ALBERTA

TUPELO HONEY WITH MARS & VENUS AND THE LIONS MON APRIL 2

METAL MONDAY

UNTIMELY DEMISE WITH DIRE OMEN AND BOULDERFIST WED APRIL 4

THE BRAINS

WITH HELLFIRE SPECIAL AND GUESTS FRI APRIL 6

THE DEAD SET ON LIVING TOUR

CANCERBATS WITH TOUCHÉ AMORE AND A SIGHT FOR SEWN EYES

SUN APRIL 15

VENUE GUIDE Accent European Lounge 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave Apex Casino–Vee Lounge 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092,apexcasino.ca ARTery 9535 Jasper Ave Atlantic Trap & Gill 7704 Calgary Trail South Avenue Theatre 9030118 Ave, 780.477.2149 Bistro La Persaud 861791 St, 780.758.6686 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082 Blackjack's Roadhouse–Nisku 2110 Sparrow Dr, 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 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 Café Coral De Cuba 10816 Whyte Ave CARROT Café 9351-118 Ave, 780.471.1580 Casino Edmonton 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 Casino Yellowhead 12464-153 St, 780 424 9467 Cha Island Tea Co 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 CHROME LOUNGE 132 Ave, Victoria Trail Coast to Coast 5552

FRI MARCH 30

SONIC BOTM

Nisku Inn 1101-4 St Maclab–Leduc 4308-50 St, Leduc, 780.980.1866 Muttart Hall Alberta College, 10050 Macdonald Dr NOLA 11802-124 St, 780.451.1390 NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535-109A Ave O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 O2's PUB 13509-127 St, 780.454.0203 Overtime–Downtown 10304-111 St, 780.465.6800 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 Playback Pub 594 Hermitage Rd, 130 Ave, 40 St Pleasantview Community Hall 1086057 Ave R Pub 16753-100 St, 780.457.1266 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 Richards Bar 12150-161 Ave, 780-457-3117 Ric’s Grill 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 Rose and Crown 10235101 St Robertson-Wesley United Church 10209123 St Royal Alberta Museum Theatre 12845102 Ave, 780.453.9156

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 Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924 Sportsman's Lounge 8170-50 St 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 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 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256 Yellowhead Brewery 10229-105 St, 780.423.3333 Yesterdays Pub 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295

VUEWEEKLY MAR 29 – APR 4, 2012

NASHVILLE PUSSY &WITHSUPERSUCKERS TRAMP STAMPER

SAT MARCH 31

FREE SHOW 4PM

VICTORIA BALDWIN STAND UP COMEDY

SUNDAYS

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(country); 6:30pm; free (AB Music member)/$10 (nonmember); amia.ca 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 Free classic country dance lessons every Wed, 7-9pm; Late show: Eldorado Creek (country) Nisku Inn Troubadours and Tales: 1st Wed every month; with Tim Harwill, guest Kevin Cook; 8-10pm PAWN SHOP The Brains, Hellfire Special, Nervous Wreck, guests Playback Pub Open Stage every Wed hosted by JTB; 9pm-1am PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic

Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:30-11pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member) Red Piano Bar Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 Richards Bar Wednesday Nights: Live R&B bands (dancing) Royal Alberta Museum Theatre Colleen Brown, Mike Angus, Jessica J'albert; all ages licensed event, 7pm (door); $17 (adv) at YEG Live, Blackbyrd Second Cup–149 St Open stage with Alex Boudreau; 7:30pm Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Quentin Reddy Sherlock Holmes–WEM Tony Dizon Wunderbar Joe Nolan, guests; 9pm $5

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: RetroActive Radio: Alternative '80s and '90s, post punk, new wave, garage, Brit, mod, rock and roll with LL Cool Joe

Brixx Bar Really Good... Eats and Beats: every Wed with DJ Degree and Friends BUDDY'S DJ Dust 'n' Time every Wed; 9pm (door); no cover The Common Treehouse Wednesdays

JONESIN'CROSSWORD

"Drink Up"–it's getting hot out there

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

Across 1 Donkey was temporarily turned into one, in "Shrek 2" 6 Final decision 11 ___-droppingly bad 14 Receive, as a penalty 15 Far from lewd 16 The end of winter? 17 Where to play games like Little Red Riding Kombat and Jack and Jill's SkeeBall? 19 Pork pie, e.g. 20 Golfer ___ Aoki 21 Paperless tests 23 Meat preparation in "Up in Smoke"? 29 Big band leader Tommy 30 It's a perfect world 31 Yani Tseng's org. 32 Leavened 34 Question from viewers if TV's Robin will get a cohost? 40 Camped out in line, maybe 41 Green ice cream flavor 43 Greg's mate, in a sitcom 46 Flick where you might see planets held up by fishing line 48 Imaginary cutoff of supplies? 51 Language we got the words "basmati" and "juggernaut" from 52 Gp. against workplace discrimination 53 Fifth qtrs., so to speak 54 Where cartoon character-shaped balloons fly? 61 Expert 62 Got hitched again

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VUEWEEKLY MAR 29 – APR 4, 2012

63 James T. Kirk, by state of birth 64 Wrath or sloth 65 Hollers 66 Topic for the marriage counselor

Down 1 Nuclear fam member 2 NBA airer 3 Prefix meaning "green" 4 It's north of Afr. 5 Fog maker at a haunted house 6 Get the heck outta there 7 One of the 30 companies comprising the Dow Jones Industrial Average 8 Supporting vote 9 Regrettable 10 Small game of b-ball 11 "Holy warrior" in the news 12 Common shrub 13 Hoses down 18 Pale gray 22 Genre for Schoolly D 23 CCXXV doubled 24 Kachina doll maker 25 Rowing machine units 26 Morales of "NYPD Blue" 27 Son in the "National Lampoon's Vacation" series 28 Tabloid pair 32 Out in the sticks 33 Speck in the Pacific: abbr. 35 Like yellow-green and red-orange, on the color wheel 36 Weekly academic mag for docs 37 Nutty way to run

38 Female megastar, in pop music 39 British children's author Blyton 42 It holds a golfer's balls 43 Periodic table creator Mendeleev 44 Jim who brought us Kermit 45 "Then what happened?" 46 Betty of cartoons 47 Obama opponent of 2008 49 Diagonal slant 50 City the Sisters of Mercy and Corinne Bailey Rae come from 51 Microbrewery's need 55 Quilting get-together 56 Bird that can turn its head 135 degrees in both directions 57 Caviar, e.g. 58 You may be struck with it 59 Another nuclear fam member 60 Naval rank: abbr. ©2012 Jonesin' Crosswords

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Coming Events

1600.

Volunteers Wanted

2003.

Artists Wanted

Needed for our Seniors residence, volunteers for various activities or just for a friendly visit! Please contact Janice at Extendicare Eaux Claires for more details jgraff@extendicare.com (780) 472 - 1106

Feature Artists - 2013 Call for Entries The Allied Arts Council of Spruce Grove is now accepting applications for our 2013 Feature Artists. For more information go to www.alliedartscouncil.com or phone the Spruce Grove Art Gallery at 780-962-0664

emow@mealsonwheelsedmonton.org

P.A.L.S. Project Adult Literacy Society needs volunteers to work with adult students in: Literacy, English As A Second Language and Math Literacy. For more information please contact (780)424-5514 or email palsvolunteers2003@yahoo.ca

The McMullen Gallery is seeking proposals for April 2013 - March 2014. We are seeking accomplished artists with proven exhibiting experience, to present solo and group exhibitions in our busy gallery. For more information please visit www.friendsofuah.org or call 780-407-7152

EIGHT MINUTE DATE Speed Dating at 300 Club Lounge (Ed's Rec Room): Wednesday April 4th, 2012. Age groups: 24-33, 34-46 & 47-56 $40/ Ticket Call 780-457-8535 or www.eightminutedate.ca

The Leading Edge Physiotherapy RunWild Marathon on May 6, 2012 is looking for volunteers. Course Marshals, water station crew, kids fun zone attendants, start/finish line crew, set up crew, clean up crew, food tent servers etc. Visit www.runwild.ca to sign up and for more info!

Did you graduate from St. Joes in 1987? Come celebrate our 25th reunion. Tickets $20. Proceeds to Blue & White Fund. Go to stjosephgrad87.com for info and payment options Edmonton Meals on Wheels is asking for all high school students to submit original soup recipes for their "I Love Homemade Soup" recipe contest. One winner will have his/her recipe as a soup du jour which will be enjoyed by all EMOW recipients. Submit entries by April 30th. 2012 Fax 780-424-5561 or call 780-429-2020

1600.

Volunteers Wanted

Experience Community Hand's On! Habitat for Humanity requires volunteers for various builds in Edmonton and Surrounding Areas! Beginners to trades people welcome! We provide everything you need to work, including lunch! You provide your time, energy and heart. No minimum number of shifts. Visit www.hfh.org & contact Kim at 780-451-3416 ext 223 or ksherwood@hfh.org

Volunteers Wanted Walk to Fight Arthritis is looking for event day volunteers for June 10th at Laurier Park. To register please visit: www.walktofightarthritis.com

2001.

If you're not having fun, you're fired! Be a volunteer driver for seniors with Lifestyle Helping Hands Seniors Assoc. Monetary honorarium to help with gas. 780-450-2113 or lhhsa@telus.net

Acting Classes

FILM AND TV ACTING Learn from the pros how to act in Film and TV Full Time Training 1-866-231-8232 www.vadastudios.com

2003.

Artist to Artist

Artists Wanted

Art Walk 2012 is looking for gifts for their volunteers! We are collecting small art works, prints and cards to give as "Thank You" gifts to our wonderful volunteers. Please contribute (if you can) by bringing a small item with you on registration day (March 3rd @ The Paint Spot). We will promote these items as perks to attract more volunteers.

Starts at $99/10 weeks

Musicians Available

Session starts on April 16!

Drummer looking to join metal or hard rock band. Double kick, 12 yrs exp, 8 yrs in Edmt indie band, 7 albums, 250 live shows, good stage presence, dedicated, catch on quick, no kids, hard drug free. 780.916.2155

get a FREE Coin Scarf! Register online or in person!

11805 – 94 Street • (780) 761-0773 • www.bedouinbeats.com

Experienced bass player looking to play with established band. Between the ages of 35 and 55. No heavy metal or punk but willing play 80's power metal Call Tony 780-484-6806.

Career Opportunity Collection Officers

Female singer, No Doubt style, looking to start a band. If interested please call Lisa at 587-520-1805

2020.

Metropolitan has been providing growth opportunities to talented and motivated individuals for over 30 years.

Musicians Wanted

Energetic female vocalist needed to co-share fronting vocals in established pop-rock dance band. Tamborine and percussion an asset. B-52, Cyndi Lauper etc. Call Priscilla at 780-965-5677 or 780-450-5677

Harcourt House Arts Centre is currently accepting submissions for our 2012/2013 Artist in Residence. For proposals to be considered submission packages must be submitted in by May 31, 2012. For more information please visit www.harcourthouse.ab.ca or call Brittney Roy at 780-426-4180

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(Apr 20 – May 20): According to a recent poll, God's approval rating has dipped below 40 percent for the first time on record. My research suggests the new low is due in part to a disproportionate amount of dissatisfaction by those born under the sign of Taurus. Can you fix this please? See if you can talk yourself into restoring some of your faith in the Divine Wow. APRIL FOOL! The real truth is, I encourage you to be skeptical in regards to all authorities, experts, and topdogs, including God. It's an excellent time in your cycle to go rogue. Be a rabble-rousing doubter.

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(Jun 21 – Jul 22): Back in 1835, a newspaper known as The New York Sun resorted to an extreme measure in order to boost readership: It ran a story about how the renowned astronomer Sir John Herschel had perfected a telescope that allowed him to see life forms on the moon, including unicorns, and sexually liberated "manbats." If I'm reading the astrological omens correctly, you temporarily have license to try something almost equally as wild and experimental to "boost your readership." APRIL FOOL! Don't refer to cliched chimeras like them. But it's fine to invoke

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more unexpected curiosities like sexually liberated manbats. LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): In his documentary film Prohibition, Ken Burns reports on the extreme popularity of alcohol in 19th-century America. He says that the typical person over 15 years of age drank 88 bottles of whiskey a year. I suggest you increase your intake to that level and even beyond. APRIL FOOL! It's not literal alcoholic spirits you should be ingesting in more abundance, but rather big ideas that open your mind and intriguing people who expand your worldview.

(Aug 23 – Sep 22): A woman in Euclid, Ohio claims her house is haunted by randy ghosts. "They have sex in my living room," Dianne Carlisle told a TV news reporter. "You can see the lady's high-heeled shoes." I suspect you may soon be dealing with a similar problem. So consider the possibility of hiring an X-rated exorcist. APRIL FOOL! The naked truth is that you will not be visited by spooks of any kind, let alone horny ones. However, you would be smart to purify and neutralize old karma that might still be haunting your love life or your sex life. Consider performing a doit-yourself exorcism of your own memories.

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LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): In Karley Sciortino's NSFW blog Slutever. com, she announces that "this blog is intended to trick strangers into thinking my life is more exciting than it actually is." I highly recommend you adopt that approach. Do whatever it takes—lying, exaggerating, bragging—to fool everyone into believing that you are a fascinating character who is in the midst of high-drama adventures. APRIL FOOL! I wasn't totally sincere about what I just said. The truth is, your life is likely to be a rousing adventure in the coming days. There'll be no need to pretend it is, and therefore no need to cajole or trick others into thinking it is. SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): "Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem," said author William Gibson, "first make sure you are not, in fact, just surrounded by a--holes." This is a good time to check in with yourself, and see if Gibson's advice applies to you. Lately, the jackass quotient seems to have been rising in your vicinity. APRIL FOOL! I was half-joking. It's true that you should focus aggressively on reducing the influence of jerks in your life. At the same time, you should also ask yourself rather pointedly how you could reduce your problems by changing something about yourself.

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A political divide

LGBTQ and polyamorous communities should have similar goals As with many LGBTQ communities on our non-romantic relationships. You across North America, Edmonton's has love all of your children, parents and expanded, and at times retracted, over close friends. We don't love sparingly in the years. While our past is marred our other relationships so why do with sexism, transphobia and we have to love sparingly in our racism, our communities have romantic relationships? It's a increasingly embraced difconstructed ideal to love one m ekly.co e ferences in gender, sexuality, person romantically during w e u v alexa@ a race, religion and ability. The your entire life, and a growx e Al e ing norm is serial monogamy. n g moniker of queer came to siga G De nify all those who cannot or do not I practice ethical non-monogamy, want to conform to constructed norms meaning that I am involved in more than of monogamous heterosexuality and one romantic relationship at a time but binary gender ideals. And while many I don't hide anything from any partner. LGBTQ organizations and individuals People that live a polyamorous lifestyle within Edmonton practice queer poliaccept that it is possible to be attracted tics based on inclusion and acceptance, to, in love and involved with multiple there is still a rather large segment of people at the same time." the population that feels excluded from Mark advocated that it's important to the LGBTQ community: polyamorous have a connection or alliance between Edmontonians. Edmonton's LGBTQ and poly communiI spoke with a member of Edmonton's ties: "Our interests are inherently linked polyamorous or "poly" community, as people whose romantic and private who wishes to be called "Mark," about lives diverge from the constructed norm polyamory, the relationship between of heterosexual monogamy." Edmonton's poly and LGBTQ commuMark said that there is support for nities, and the possibilities for develLGBTQ people within Edmonton's poly oping real alliances between the two community. He added that a major "natural" allies. bridge between the two communities is I asked Mark to define polyamory. "The bisexual people. This is not to say that word 'polyamory' means 'many loves' all bisexual people are polyamorous, but and that is the real simple definition. it does seem like there are substantial The idea of polyamory is that we're not numbers of bisexual people within the built to romantically love one person poly community. I imagine that it may for our entire lives. We know that based even be that some bisexual people feel

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): Do not under any circumstances put on a frog costume, go to a shopping mall, and ride around on a unicycle while reciting erotic poetry in German through a megaphone. APRIL FOOL! That wouldn't be such a terrible use of your time. The astrological omens suggest that you will be visited by rather unusual creative surges that may border on being wacky. Personally, I would prefer it if you channeled your effervescent fertility in more highly constructive directions, like dreaming up new approaches to love that will have a very practical impact on your romantic life.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): Last December a woman in Tulsa, Oklahoma made creative use of a WalMart. She gathered various ingredients from around the shelves, including lighter fluid, lithium, and drain cleaner, and set up a meth lab right there in the back of the store. She's your role model for the coming week. APRIL FOOL! I lied, kind of. The woman I mentioned got arrested for illegal activity, which I don't advise you to do. But I do hope you will ascend to her levels of ingenuity and audacity as you gather all the resources you need for a novel experiment.

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more comfortable in the poly community because, historically and presently, gay and lesbian communities have ostracized bisexuals. Still, there remains a chasm between the two communities. Part of the problem, according to Mark, is that poly people are not that politically or socially active. "I think this is in part because poly relationships take so much work and effort to maintain that they don't have time to be politically active." There is also so much social stigma around polyamory that its practitioners are scared or intimidated to identify as polyamorous, much less become politically active. "I would say that polyamorous people are some of the most excluded sexual minorities in our society," said Mark. Most disconcerting, however, is that there is stigma among some liberal gay and lesbian activists that see polyamory as a perversion. This prejudice, while decidedly un-queer, has engendered the relationship between Edmonton's LGBTQ and poly communities. "I don't think Edmonton's LGBTQ and poly groups, organizations or individuals do enough work to reach out and organize with one another," said Mark. "The LGBTQ community needs to reach out to the poly organizations and discover what common political and social goals they can work towards." V

(Feb 19 – Mar 20): A Filipino man named Herbert Chavez has had extensive plastic surgery done to make himself resemble Superman. Consider making him your role model. I hope he inspires you to begin your own quest to rework your body and soul in the image of your favorite celebrity or cartoon hero. APRIL FOOL! I lied. In fact, you'd be wise to avoid comparing yourself to anyone else or remolding yourself to be like anyone else. The best use of the current cosmic tendencies would be to brainstorm about what exactly your highest potentials are, and swear a blood oath to become that riper version of yourself.

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(Dec 22 – Jan 19): In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan is stirred to the point of rapture by Jay Gatsby's silk shirts. "I've never seen such beautiful shirts before," she sobs, burying her face in one as she sits in his bedroom. I sincerely hope you will have an equivalent brush with this kind of resplendence sometime soon. For the sake of your mental and even physical health, you need direct contact with the sublime. APRIL FOOL! I half-lied. It's true that you would profoundly benefit from a brush with resplendence. But plain old material objects, no matter

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Dan gets straight to the point on some serious topics this week I am the father of a recently out action to be supportive for my son, I 18-year-old gay boy. Here's the probdon't know what I can or should do. lem: my son is in a relationship with a What say you, oh wise one? 31-year-old guy. I'm not OK with that. ONE CONCERNED DAD Yes, my son is a legal adult at 18 and can make his own decisions, but Your wife is wrong. he's also still in high school. Homophobic parents are E SAVAG His mother argues that in bad for gay kids. But "suporder to be supportive, we portive" parents who let m ekly.co vuewe @ e can't object to this relationtheir gay kids get away v lo savage ship. I don't think this is a with murder—supportive Dan Savage parents who stop parentgay versus straight objection. If I had an 18-year-old heterosexuing their gay kids because they al daughter who was in a relationship worry about seeming homophobic if with a 31-year-old man, I would have they object to lousy gay boyfriends, exactly the same concerns and objecchoices, apparel, etc—aren't doing tions. Beyond that, even if I can estheir gay kids any favours, either. tablish that it's OK to have an objecYour son, despite what he might tell tion, or to feel the need to take some you, needs his parents to advise him, meddle in his affairs, even object and interfere. Here's what I would do if I were in your shoes, OCD—I would take my son's 31-year-old boyfriend out for a beer and ask him a lot of pointed questions: how did you meet my son? Are you having sex with my son? Are you using condoms? What is your HIV status? How old was your last boyfriend? And, finally, do you realize that I will tear you gay limb from gay limb if you hurt my gay kid? As for your son, OCD, tell him that you realize gay guys his age sometimes date older men because there aren't a lot of boys his own age to choose from. (If you didn't already know that, now you do.) And tell your son that this gay dude you know— that would be me, OCD—told you that something's usually wrong when a 31-year-old is dating a teenager. Something's usually wrong with the 31-year-old. There are exceptions, of course, and maybe his boyfriend is exceptional—maybe he's not a jerk who pursues naive boys because gay

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men his own age can see through his shit—but the simple fact of his age requires that he be subjected to a higher degree of scrutiny than a first boyfriend who was closer to your son's own age. Finally, OCD, tell your son that you know he's an adult and free to date whomever he wants. But you're his dad and he has to hear you out— whether he wants to or not. I'm 16 and an openly gay boy in a very welcoming community. My first boyfriend and I broke up recently. We'll be friends again, I'm sure, but now I don't even have a hint of any sort of anything on the horizon, and it's driving me insane. All the out gay guys here are nice, but most are sassy stereotypical caricature flamer types and I'm not attracted to any of them. But those are the kind of people who are out at 16. I just hate thinking I'm alone for the foreseeable future. I know the logical thing is for me to wait, but how am I supposed to wait? Is there any alternative? WHINY ANGSTY SAD TEEN ENTREATS DAN Sorry, WASTED, but you're gonna get the same advice I give to hard and hard-up 16-year-old straight boys: worry less about getting your 16-year-old self laid and more about getting your 20-year-old self laid. Get out of the house and do shit, get books and read shit, volunteer for a political organization and change shit. You'll have more boys to choose from in a few years and you'll be a more interesting, more informed, more attractive guy thanks to all that doing, reading and volunteering. Beat off in the interim, WASTED, remembering to vary your masturbatory

routine (left hand, right hand; firm grip, soft touch; with toys, without; lots of lube, just a drop; etc), and try to cultivate your own erotic imagination (translation: don't jerk off to Internet porn exclusively; use your imagination once in a while). I'm not telling you that you should wait until you're 20 to date. But you'll find the next few years less aggravating if you take the long view and keep busy, all the while jerking it to your part's content. And who knows? You might meet a nice boy while you're out there doing shit. As for those "sassy stereotypical caricature flamer types," WASTED ... SSCFTs can be attractive, and some guys are into SSCFTs. But some boys react to the pressures of being young, gay and out by dialing it up to 20. It's a force field—it's a fierce field—that many SSCFTs eventually drop. Which is to say: you may have already met your next boyfriend, WASTED, but his fierce field was up. You might want to give 'em a little time. My 13-year-old nephew, who is straight, was in a play last year. It was a very positive experience. The only problem is one of the theater group's fans, who is 50 and gay, befriended my sister and seems to be fixated on my nephew: he posts to my nephew's Facebook page, he's constantly asking my sister to allow my nephew to spend the night at his apartment, etc. I would like you to weigh in on this situation, Dan. Other family members share my suspicions, but we're afraid to say anything to my sister because she has a temper. Should I go ahead and tell my sister and brother-in-law that I think the guy is attracted to my nephew? A WORRIED AUNT

Thanksgiving, 2019: "I'm so sorry you got raped when you were 13. I thought something was off about that guy. But I didn't say anything at the time because I was afraid your mom would yell at me. So, um, pass the yams?" Unless you're looking forward to making an apology like that after your nephew confronts his whole family for failing to protect him when he was a child, AWA, you should speak the fuck up. Talk to your sister, temper be damned, and talk to your nephew, too. Your sister could be color-blind in addition to being an angerbomb— prone to rages and incapable of seeing red flags—and it's possible that your nephew already told his mother that this man makes him uncomfortable and got yelled at himself. Firmly raise your concerns, AWA, but don't make accusations. You may not have all the information. It's possible that this man has no sexual interest in your nephew. It's also possible that your nephew is gay, recently came out to his mother and father but wasn't ready to come out to his extended family, and this man is mentoring your nephew at your sister's request. But even so, fiftysomething gay men do not invite 13-year-old boys to sleepovers for the same reason fiftysomething straight men don't invite 13-year-old girls to sleepovers: suspicions will be aroused, even if nothing else is. In my opinion, the invite itself is a mentor-disqualifying display of piss-poor judgment. Speak up, AWA. V Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage. @fakedansavage on Twitter

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