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"I was having a weird fever dream and it sort of skewed my perspective a little bit."

"I don't shelve songs, I just throw them out. I wasn't feeling that inspired by them, and much more excited by the new material that was happening."

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Sold out to CETA? It's been a few years of government talks behind closed doors with minimal information trickling down to the Canadian public, but the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) could become a reality fairly soon.

CETA is a proposed deal between Canada and the European Union that both fronts are hoping to push through by the end of 2012. The government has said this free-trade agreement will be great for bilateral trade and will put billions into Canada's economy each year ($12 billion is the figure thrown around), but critics paint a different picture. Final negotiations are taking place in Brussels between October 15 – 26.

How would CETA work? European corporations would be able to compete for local contracts on just about anything: water, healthcare, education, public transit, etc. These corporations would be able to challenge regulations that encourage hiring and buying local, and, if they win the bid to become a contractor, they can challenge any existing laws that protect the environment or fair trade, for example, if these laws get in the way of their right to profit. It's called the investor state and it's a provision written into CETA that could mean huge lawsuits if a corporation's sales plummet.

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can be bid on. Of course, Canadian corporations will have the same rights in Europe, but most EU countries have had the foresight to make exemptions. Canadians have voiced concern about a proposed patent protection for pharmaceutical companies that would raise drug costs.

Canada's International Trade Minister Ed Fast has said local governments will still be allowed to give preferential treatment to Canadian companies through things like grants and loans. Fast has said CETA will open the largest procurement market in the world worth about $2.3 trillion annually and will boost job opportunities in Canada, remove tariffs and increase trade.

The procurement threshold for international firms will be $340 000 for goods and services and $8.5 million for construction, but some say these thresholds are too low.

Maude Barlow, national chairperson with the Council of Canadians, has said CETA is not about trade at all because most trade with Europe is now tariff free. Instead it's about giving corporations in Canada the right to challenge European rules that protect domestic economies, jobs, farmers, resources, etc, and giving European corporations the right to do the same in Canada.

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No Hockey Night in Canada on CBC? Not too hard to imagine these days with a lockout in progress, but if/when the players slide back onto the ice, there could be changes in a couple of years as the CBC's agreement with the NHL expires in 2014.

Friends of Canadian Broadcasting say that HNIC delivers more than 50 percent of English TV ad revenue, brings in $15 million after expenses and occupies 10 percent of scheduling but captures 30 percent of the English TV audience. So losing HNIC would mean losing one third of CBC's audience as well. Contenders for HNIC could include Bell and Rogers who are majority stakeholders in the

Toronto Maple Leafs and own Sportsnet and TSN and have recently broadcasted the Grey Cup and the Brier Curling Championship.

The so far non-existant 2012-13 season is the 60th of HNIC on CBC. Ian Morrison of Friends says, "If the CBC were to lose hockey, it would need to replace some 400 hours of hockey programming with a similar quantity of the very best, most attractive—and expensive—Canadian shows.

Any other replacement strategy designed to minimize costs, such as American movies or repeats of Canadian shows, would prevent the CBC from meeting its Canadian content requirements and lower audiences."

EQUAL RIGHTS IN THE WASHROOM Feeling comfortable using a public washroom as a trandsgendered person is one of the concerns that has been brought forward in the discussion of Bill C-279 which deals with gender identity and expression and is now in its second reading.

The purpose of the Bill is to amend Canada's Human Rights Act and sections of the Criminal Code that deal with offences caused by prejudice or hate

to include the terms gender identity and gender expression.

The comments of Conservative Calgary MP Rob Anders, who doesn't want the bill passed as he says it will put children at risk if transgendered men are allowed into women's washrooms, have caused a lot of debate as critics say comments like that paint transgendered people in a bad light.

RED SQUARE PORN Making a porno based on the Quebec student protests? Someone thought this out. Show Me Your Red Square! is a fiction where the female activists have to sell their bodies in order to pay for their tuition since the riots went on for so long and they lost their summer jobs.

The red felt square is a symbol of the student protest but it seems the movie is not a project of the movement itself

as protest organizors have said in interviews they are not happy about it.

The movie is available on pay-per-view on the French channel Indigo and was created by LiveGonzo, a porn site.

The Quebec student protests against tuition increases began last February with university walkouts and occupation of public space.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK "[The] ultimate tragedy of this case is that the very victims you abused had your trust, they trusted you. This crime is not only about crimes of the body, it is also about the assaults on their psyches and their souls." // Judge John Cleland, who sentenced Jerry Sandusky to 30 – 60 years in prison on October 9.

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COMMENT >> E. COLI

Big picture look at XL

Government's bent on reducing red tape puts consumers at risk A big-picture look at the events of the to what came out of the Walkerton last month reveals that the case with tainted water crisis and, most recently, the tainted meat crisis emanating from the 2008 outbreak of listeriosis at a XL Foods in Brooks, Alberta is much Toronto meat-packing plant that killed bigger than flawed processes or failure 23 people. to follow procedure. A big part of the What is not likely to be looked at by problem is rooted in political ideoloa future inquiry into the crisis is the pogies. litical ideology and flawed priorities beAt least 11 cases of E. coli have been hind the crisis—an ideology and a set directly linked to meat processed of priorities that will also make future at XL Foods (at time of pubcrises of this nature inevitable. lication) with many more It begins with the neoliberal suspected and over 1700 bent of the Harper ConserE C EREN beef products have been INTERF eekly.com vatives and their underly@vuew ricardo recalled from hundreds of ing belief that any form of o Ricard stores across Canada and the government regulation is an a ñ Acu United States. The company has unnecessary burden to the free now publicly admitted that they failed and efficient operation of markets. to follow or update safety protocols Closely connected to that is the illogiand last week federal officials suspendcal premise that the best way to proed the plant's operating license and ortect the public interest is by always endered it shut down until the Canadian suring that the corporate interest takes Food Inspection Agency is satisfied that priority. it is safe to reopen.

How does that manifest in the curThe question is what will come out of rent circumstance? It begins with this in the long-run. There will surely the federal government cutting back be a large inquiry which looks at the oversight over the operations of meat specifics of the case, what the safety packers and relying more and more on failings were at the plant, how the self-regulation by the industry itself. In tainted meat escaped notice by Canadiother words, acting on the belief that an officials (the initial alert came from these companies will always prioritize officials in the US), whether or not the public well-being over profit and safety CFIA followed proper protocols in issuprotocols over volume. This move has ing recalls and ultimately closing the helped this government achieve its plant and numerous other questions dual goals of cutting spending (by cutthat definitely need to be looked at ting inspectors and CFIA staff) while at in-depth. This process will be similar the same time reducing some of that

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burdensome regulation from industry so they can focus on the business of making money rather than filling out paperwork.

It's interesting that at the same time that this tainted meat crisis was exploding in the government's face, the government was releasing the report of something called the "Red Tape Reduction Commission"—a committee made up of government MPs and some of their friends in the business community set up to find ways to further reduce those pesky anti-business regulations and oversight protocols.

At the same time as they've been working to reduce regulations on business, they've also been working to fundamentally change the priorities under which those regulations are enforced. In the case of XL Foods, this meant that even though the CFIA had been alerted by the US that E. coli had been found in meat from the plant on September 3, the first public warning of XL products was not issued until September 16, by which time at least four people in Alberta had already been affected. Even then, the XL Foods plant was allowed to keep operating, and processing meat products until the CFIA finally shut them down on September 27—almost a full month after E. coli was first found in meat from the plant.

The CFIA has said they could not take any action earlier because they had to wait for the results of their investigation, suggesting that it would be wrong to take action against the plant until they had all the information in hand.

In criminal law this concept of innocent until proven guilty is tempered by removing suspects who could pose a danger to the public interest from the general population while they await a trial.

When it comes to corporations, however, the default has become that the business' right to continue making a profit clearly trumps any danger that might be caused to the public interest.

A government that truly prioritized public health and public interest would have ordered the plant shut down the moment they learned of a potential problem. Not this government. This government felt it was more important to let the company keep operating as long as possible, despite adding dozens of products to the recall list daily and a growing threat to public health.

Yes, we need to look at, understand, and fix the collapses in procedures and safety protocols that caused this specific crisis, but we also need to step back and understand the political and ideological imperatives at the root of the problem and fix those as well. And those larger issues don't just impact meat packing, they also affect dangerous goods transportation, pipelines, chemical plants and many other industries. If we don't get the bigger picture, it will only be a matter of time before we find ourselves dealing with another crisis, and the next one may be that much more tragic. V Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the Parkland Institute, a nonpartisan, public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta.

COMMENT >> NUCLEAR WARHEADS

Nukes in the cupboard

Clearing the arsenal of nuclear warheads makes sense if no risk of attack The major powers have all had their persuade the British public to get off nuclear weapons on permanent alert, the ladder altogether." ready to launch in minutes or hours, It isn't just the British public that for the past 40 years. Changes in the loves its nukes; the American, Ruslevel of political risk, even the sian and French publics would be end of the Cold War, have had equally reluctant to give up little or no effect on that. their nuclear deterrent forcBut wouldn't it be safer and es, even though they face ly.com no plausible threat of a nucheaper to "simply put (the eweek u v @ e gwynn e nuclear deterrent) away in a clear war. (The Chinese pubGwynn r cupboard and keep it as a conlic isn't really paying attenDye tingency in case there were ever tion yet.) But maybe you could to be a deterioration in the global seat least persuade the great powers to curity picture"? put the damned things away and BritIn terms of orthodox strategic ain would be a good place to start. thinking, that is heresy. But the man The orthodoxy still says that every who made that heretical suggestion self-respecting great power must was Sir Nick Harvey, until last month have its nuclear weapons on permathe defence minister in charge of the nent alert, in order to deter a surBritish government's nuclear capaprise attack by some other nuclear bility review. power. Nuclear "Pearl Harbours" alReplaced in the recent cabinet relegedly lie in wait around every corshuffle, Harvey is now free to speak ner. But, as Harvey told The Guardhis mind. At last week's Liberal Demoian newspaper, "If you can just break cratic Party conference, he did preciseyourself out of that frankly almost ly that, saying that he "wanted his leglunatic mindset for a second, all acy to be bringing the United Kingdom sorts of alternatives start to look down the nuclear ladder"—although, possible, indeed credible." he admitted, "we might struggle to

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So what are the alternatives to eternal hair-trigger readiness for an attack nobody really expects to come? You could just get rid of all your nuclear weapons, of course, and you'd probably be just as safe as you are now. But if you can't get your head around the idea of nuclear nakedness, you could at least store your magical cloak in the closet, safely out of the reach of foolish children.

What Harvey was actually proposing was that Britain should get rid of its missile-firing submarines when they get too old and rely on a few

In fact, why not do that right now?

Those "boomers"—nuclear-powered submarines carrying long-range ballistic missiles with multiple nuclear warheads—were really designed for "retaliation from the grave" if all the owner's cities, military bases, ports and hamburger stands were destroyed in a massive surprise nuclear attack.

Does anybody expect such a thing in the current era? Well, then...

And the best thing about putting the nukes in the cupboard is that you eliminate the risk of ugly accidents. In 2009 two boomers, one British and

It isn't just the British public that loves its nukes; the American, Russian and French publics would be equally reluctant to give up their nuclear deterrent forces, even though they face no plausible threat of a nuclear war. cruise missiles with nuclear warheads to keep everybody else honest. Store them somewhere safe, and don't even take them out unless the international situation has got dramatically worse.

the other French, actually collided underwater. Even at a time unprecedented in world history, when no great power fears attack by any other, it would have been a frightening event if those two submarines had

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been American and Chinese.

So put the toys away, boys. Don't expect the Israelis, the Indians and the Pakistanis to follow suit, because they live in parts of the world where full-scale war with a powerful enemy is still a possibility. But together they have only about 500 nuclear weapons; the five nuclear-armed great powers have around 11 000.

Somebody has to start and Britain is the likeliest candidate of the five. Sir Nick Harvey lost his job in the cabinet reshuffle, but the "nuclear capability review" is still underway.

Even Britain's generals think that another generation of fully deployed missile-firing submarines would deprive them of most of the other new weapons they want, so the issue will stay on the table. Dumping the boomers and locking the remaining nuclear warheads in the cupboard would be a useful halfway house on the way to getting rid of them entirely. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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NEWS // BURYING WASTE

Stopping nuclear waste in its tracks Saskatchewan communities pass resolutions against storage of nuclear waste

Growing numbers of communities in Saskatchewan are vowing to block nuclear waste from being transported through their territory. // Committee for Future Generations

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hree places in northern Saskatchewan are on the map in Canada's search for a high-level radioactive waste dump site, but the spent nuclear fuel bundles may be stopped in their tracks. Communities and indigenous organizations along potential transport routes and beyond have been passing resolutions against nuclear waste.

The Northern Village of Pinehouse, English River First Nation and the town of Creighton are all currently in the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) site selection process to find a "willing host commu-

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nity" for a deep geological repository to house the waste piling up at nuclear reactors in Quebec, New Brunswick and especially Ontario.

Many native groups have formally opposed the transportation and storage of nuclear waste in Saskatchewan.

Others criticize NWMO for refusing to deal with site selection process on a regional basis, even though a decision would affect much more than a single community.

Emil Bell has been educating Band and town councillors about the NWMO process and the dangers of nuclear waste. A Cree grassroots ac-

tivist, he lives in Fire Lake, outside of the Canoe Lake First Nation reserve.

"Canoe Lake is against this whole thing," Bell told the Media Co-op. "I was the one that was going around, getting all the signatures of the councillors," Bell says. "They are dead set against the nuclear dump. It goes against our Treaty rights, our inherent rights. If we get a major disaster wherever they put the nuclear dump, our waterways are, you know, shot.

Animal life, the plant life, are going to be drastically affected."

Bell has been travelling up and down the province, meeting with other First Nations, municipal authorities and groups and urging them to take an official stance against the transportation and storage of nuclear waste.

But northern activists are not the only ones speaking about nuclear waste in the region. "The nuclear industry people, NWMO, have a lot of money. They're also going around, trying to convince people to, you know, accept the nuclear dump [with] the promise of a lot of money, the promise of jobs ... they keep telling people 'Oh yeah, it's safe, it's safe,'" Bell told the Media Co-op.

The predominantly Métis community of Île-à-la-Crosse has yet to take an official position on nuclear waste transportation and storage and will likely revisit the issue after the October 24 municipal elections. Île-à-laCrosse Mayor Duane Favel says he and others requested that NWMO communicate and deal with municipalities in northwestern Saskatchewan collectively because a nuclear waste repository in the area would impact the entire region.

"Our proposal was, as northwest municipalities, that we try and get NWMO to deal with us as a region, as the northwest municipalities. We drafted up a letter [and] we tried to get the signature of every mayor— I believe there's 17 municipalities on the northwest side—[so] that NWMO would have to deal with us collectively, if they were, you know, to talk about nuclear waste within their region," Favel told the Media Co-op. "They didn't want to

deal with that as a collective organization. They wanted to deal with specific municipalities ... Our argument was if nuclear waste was to be stored in the northwest side of Saskatchewan, that they should be dealing with us collectively and we should vote as a region whether or not we want nuclear waste stored within this area."

The communication between Île-à-laCrosse and NWMO is currently nonexistent, and Favel told the Media Co-op it is a completely dispespectful approach.

While Île-à-la-Crosse and other municipalities consider whether to take an official position on the issue, some locals of the Métis Nation of Saskatchewan have been actively organizing opposition to the transportation and storage of nuclear waste. Bryan Lee and other members of the Fish Lake Métis local began looking into the nuclear waste storage issue a few years ago, when they heard locations in northern Saskatchewan were under consideration.

"Once we heard this, then we started looking into the whole issue ourselves because we had heard some things in [the] press, that the NWMO was looking for a 'willing host community' in northern Saskatchewan," Lee told the Media Co-op. "We brought forward a motion within our local to take a position ... to oppose the storage and transportation of high-level nuclear waste."

After passing at the Fish Lake Métis local, the resolution was taken to Western Region 2, where it passed as well. A motion for the resolution to be adopted at the provincial level by the Métis Nation of Saskatchewan did not succeed in 2010, but Lee presented it again in 2011.

"I reformatted the resolution and I brought it forward to the annual general assembly November 5, 2011. And in the presentation, we were successful in getting a two thirds majority approval at the assembly, for the Métis Nation of Saskatchewan to take the official position to oppose the storage and transportation of high-level nuclear waste anywhere in Saskatchewan," Lee says.

NWMO is moving forward in its search and Pinehouse, English River First Nation and Creighton are still under consideration. But with all the resolutions against nuclear waste transportation, whether the high-level radioactive waste would ever make it to a storage site in northern Saskatchewan without roadblocks along the way is beginning to look increasingly unlikely.

SANDRA CUFFE

Sandra Cuffe is a freelance journalist and member of the Vancouver Media Co-op. This article was originally published on the Media Co-op.

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GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS 30 DAY SUNRISE YOGA CHALLENGE • Prana Yoga Studio • 780.761.2226 • pranayogastudio.ca • Attend 30 days of sunrise yoga classes taught by a team of dynamic teachers, and receive one month of free unlimited drop-in yoga • Sep 24-Oct 23, 6:15am-7:30am AIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm

ARGENTINE TANGO DANCE AT FOOT NOTES STUDIO • Foot Notes Dance Studio - (South side), 9708-45 Ave • 780.438.3207 • virenzi@shaw.ca • Join Vincenzo and Ida Renzi every Friday at Foot Notes Dance Studio for an evening of authentic Argentine tango • Every Fri, 8pm-midnight • $15 (per person)

AWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP • Braeside Presbyterian Church bsmt, N. door, 6 Bernard Dr, Bishop St, Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • For adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional families • Every Mon 7:30pm BRAIN TUMOUR PEER SUPPORT GROUP • Woodcroft Branch Library, 13420-114 Ave • braintumour.ca • 1.800.265.5106 ext. 234 • Support group for brain tumour survivors and their families and caregivers. Must be 18 or over • 3rd Tue every month; 7-8:45pm • Free

DROP-IN MEDITATION CLASSES • Sherwood Park Community Centre (Mon); Amitabha Centre, 9550-87 St (Tue, Fri) • info@ meditationedmonton.org • Every Mon, Tue 7-8:30pm and Fri 10-11:30am

EDMONTON BIKE ART NIGHTS • BikeWorks, 10047-80 Ave, back alley entrance • Art Nights • Every Wed, 6-9pm EDMONTON NEEDLECRAFT GUILD •

Avonmore United Church Basement, 82 Ave, 79 St • edmNeedlecraftGuild.org • Classes/ workshops, exhibitions, guest speakers, stitching groups for those interested in textile arts • Meet the 2nd Tue each month, 7:30pm

FABULOUS FACILITATORS TOASTMASTERS CLUB • 2nd Floor Canada Place, 9700 Jasper Ave • 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw.ca • fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs.org • Can you think of a career that does not require communication • Every Tue, 12:05-1pm

FERTILITY AWARENESS CHARTING CIRCLE MEETING • Cha Island Tea Co, 10332 - 81 Ave • faccedmonton@gmail.com • Learn about menstrual cycle charting and share your personal experiences in a supportive group environment • 1st of the month from Oct-Apr, 6:30-8:30pm • $5 suggested donation

FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.465.2019, 780.634.5526 • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm

HOME–Energizing Spiritual Community for Passionate Living • Garneau/Ashbourne

of $3

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY VOLUNTEER INFORMATION & TOOL TRAINING SESSION • Prefab Shop, 13044 Yellowhead Trail • hfh.org • 780.451.3416 ext 234 • Information on programs, tools, and more • Oct 12 & 27, 8:30am-4pm • Free

HOWS AND WHYS OF A RAW FOOD DIET • Earth's General Store, 9605-82 Ave • vofa.ca • Learn the reasons behind a raw or high raw diet and how to easily incorporate more raw food into your diet • Oct 20, 7pm • $25 (cash, pre-register and pre-pay)

LIVING FOODS SUNDAY SUMMER SERIES • Earth's General Store, 9605-82 Ave • Every Sun, 6:50-9pm • Pre-register; $25 (each session); info: Robyn at rawrobyn@gmail.com

NEW SONGWRITERS' WORKSHOP • Transalta Arts Barn, 10330-84 Ave • Includes workshops: "What's In A Song", "Music Publishing & Revenue Streams", "Film & TV Placements" and "Song Review & Critique" • Oct 18 • $40 (adv), $60 (door); register at radiostar.ca NOT JUNK FOOD • Earth's General Store,

women every 2nd Tue each month, 8pm • groups.yahoo.com/group/bwedmonton

BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725B Jasper Ave • 780.488.6636 • Tue with DJ Arrow Chaser, free pool all night; 9pm (door); no cover • Wed with DJ Dust’n Time; 9pm (door); no cover • Thu: Men’s Wet Underwear Contest, win prizes, hosted by Drag Queen DJ Phon3 Hom3; 9pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Fri Dance Party with DJ Arrow Chaser; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Sat: Feel the rhythm with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm

EDMONTON PRIME TIMERS (EPT) • Unitarian Church of Edmonton, 10804-119 St • A group of older gay men who have common interests meet the 2nd Sun, 2:30pm, for a social period, short meeting and guest speaker, discussion panel or potluck supper. Special interest groups meet for other social activities throughout the month. E: edmontonpt@ yahoo.ca

EPLC FELLOWSHIP PAGAN STUDY GROUP • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • eplc.webs.com • Free

teamedmonton.ca • Volleyball: every Tue, 7-9pm; St. Catherine School, 10915-110 St; every Thu, 7:30-9:30pm at Amiskiwiciy Academy, 101 Airport Rd

G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E Bldg, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E: tuff @shaw.ca ILLUSIONS SOCIAL CLUB • Pride Centre, 10608 - 105 ave • 780.387.3343 • groups.yahoo. com/group/edmonton_illusions • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri each month, 8:30pm INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campusbased organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-identified and queer (LGBTQ) faculty, graduate student, academic, straight allies and support staff • 3rd Thu each month (fall/winter terms): Speakers Series. E: kwells@ualberta.ca

JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY • 10242-106 St • 780.756.5667 • junctionedmonton.com • Open Tues-Sat: Community bar with seasonal patio • Beat the clock Tue • WINGSANITY Wed, 5-10pm • Free pool Tue and Wed • Karaoke

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

PRIMETIMERS/SAGE GAMES • Unitarian

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

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)

LOTUS QIGONG • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu

WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • wom-

MADELEINE SANAM FOUNDATION • Faculté

onspace.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

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

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

MEDITATION • Strathcona Library • meditationedmonton.org • Weekly meditation dropin; every Tue, 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

OCCUPY EDMONTON GENERAL ASSEMBLY • Grant Macewan City Center

SPECIAL EVENTS EDMONTON COMIC & ENTERTAINment expo • Expo Centre, 7515-118 Ave •

Cafeteria, 10600-104 Ave • oc.yeg.info@gmail. com • A leaderless space where everyone is welcome to organize and/or assist with all forms of Edmonton based non-violent activism • Every Tue from 6:30-8:30pm & Sat from 2-4pm

edmontonexpo.com • Edmonton’s premier pop culture festival, featuring vendors, exhibitors, artists and celebrities such as Adam West, Burt Ward, Charisma Carpenter, Billy Dee Williams, video game developer Bioware and Mass Effect voice actor Mark Meer • Oct 20-21 • $15-$30

ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey

EXPOSURE: QUEER ARTS AND CULTURAL FESTIVAL • Various events around

Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, 780.451.1755; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free

Edmonton • exposurefestival.ca • Uncovers, highlights and celebrates queer arts and culture • Oct 20-23

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

E-VILLE ROLLER DERBY: LAS PISTOLITAS VS. BLACK GOLD DIGGERS • Mayfield Trade Center, 16615-109 Ave • Oct 13, 6-9:30pm • $10 (adv), $15 (door), $30 (VIP)

SOCIETY OF EDMONTON ATHEISTS •

E-VILLE ROLLER DERBY: E-VILLE DEAD VS. COLORADO PRIME CUTS • May-

Centennial Rm, (basement) Stanley A. Milner Library • Monthly roundtable 1st Tue each month • edmontonatheists.ca; E: info@ edmontonatheists.ca

POKER FOR JOKERS - A TEXAS HOLD ‘EM TOURNAMENT • Casino Edmonton –

field Trade Center, 16615-109 Ave • Oct 20, 6-9:30pm • $10 (adv), $15 (door), $30 (VIP)

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 WASKAHEGAN TRAIL • Camrose area for a hike on the Battle River; Oct 14; Hike leader is Marilyn 780.463.1207 • South of Edmonton for a hike on Saunders Lake; Oct 21; Hike leader is Sandra 780.467.9572 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 • Strathcona Legion, 9020-51 Ave • Meet every Tue, 7-9pm; helps members develop confidence in public speaking and leadership • Info: T: Antonio Balce at 780.463.5331

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS FOOD CRAVINGS & EMOTIONAL EATING • Earth's General Store, 9605 - 82 Ave • vofa.ca • Find out why you have food cravings or sometimes feel out of control around food • Oct 27, 7pm • $25 (paid in person in cash)

GREAT EXPEDITIONS • St Luke’s AnglicanChurch, 8424-95 Ave • 780.469.3270 • 1st Mon every month, 7:30pm • Suggested donation

7055 Argyll Road • In support of the Edmonton International Street Performers Festival • Oct 24, 7pm • $110 (entrance into the tournament and a tax receipt for the eligible portion)

ST. ANDREW'S QUILTING GROUP ANNUAL FALL QUILT SALE • St. Andrew's 9605-82 Ave • egs.ca/node/442 • Snacks CAN be healthy. Get ready to feature these raw stars as munchies for next movie night; ketchup-y chips, crispy kale chips, real ginger ale, nutty bark • Oct 14, 6:50-9pm • $25

RAISING & GRAZING YOUR VEGAN DOG: FOR THE PLANET & YOUR POOCH • Earth's General Store, 9605-82 Ave • vofa.ca • Organized by Vegans and Vegetarians of Alberta.

Part of Vegtoberfest • Oct 13, 7pm

TED TALKS @ LUNCH • Winspear Centre, 4 Winston Churchill Square • 780.492.2515 • TEDxEdmonton Education 2012 • Oct 13 • $99 (plus taxes/fees)

QUEER AFFIRM SUNNYBROOK–Red Deer • Sunnybrook United Church, Red Deer • 403.347.6073 • Affirm welcome LGBTQ people and their friends, family, and allies meet the 2nd Tue, 7pm, each month BISEXUAL WOMEN'S COFFEE GROUP • A social group for bi-curious and bisexual

year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome

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 GLBT SPORTS AND RECREATION • teamedmonton.ca • Co-ed Bellydancing: bellydancing@teamedmonton.ca • Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary, 10925-87 Ave. at 7pm; bootcamp@teamedmonton.ca • Bowling: Ed's Rec Centre, West Edmonton Mall, Tue 6:45pm; bowling@teamedmonton.ca • Curling: Granite Curling Club; 780.463.5942 • Running: Kinsmen; running@teamedmonton. ca • Spinning: MacEwan Centre, 109 Street and 104 Ave; spin@teamedmonton.ca • Swimming: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St; swimming@

Wed, 9-12pm • Fri Steak Night, 5-9pm • Frequent special events: drag shows, leather nights, bear bashes, girls nights • DJs every Fri and Sat, 10pm

LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408-124 St • edmlivingpositive.ca • 1.877.975.9448/780.488.5768 • Confidential peer support to people living with HIV • Tue, 7-9pm: Support group • Daily 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 • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • A safe, welcoming, and nonjudgemental drop-in space, support programs and resources offered for members of the GLBTQ community, their families and friends • Daily: Community drop-in; support and resources. Queer library: borrowing privileges: Tue-Fri 12-9pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, closed SunMon; Queer HangOUT (a.k.a. QH) youth

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United Church, 9915 - 148 St • purchase precious hand-made quilts, comforters, afghans, and other comfort items. All proceeds go to charity • Oct 27, 10am - 2pm • Free

THOUSAND FACES FESTIVAL • Avenue Theatre, 9030-118 Ave • thousandfaces.ca • Celebrating the diversity of international myth through performance and visual art. Features music, dance, theatre, visual art, and storytelling presentations inspired by traditional tales from many cultures • Oct 28-Nov 11 • Free URBAN MOMMY EXPO • WECA, 6315 - 199 St • info@urbanmommyexpo.com • facebook. com/urbanmommyexpo • a show featuring more than 60 vendors showcasing the latest finds for moms - baby and parenting related items, fashion and home products, specialized services moms • Oct 27, 10am - 5pm • $2, free (kids 6 and under) WASTE REDUCTION WEEK 2012: SILENT ART ACTION • Habitat ReStore North, 8210 Yellowhead Trail • 780.479.3566 • Upcycled silent art auction featuring 18 artists • Oct 15-20

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FILM REVUE // CELEBRITY CRAZY

The depths of obsession Antiviral projects a not-too-distant dystopia even more obsessed with celebrity Opens Friday Directed by Brandon Cronenberg

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ot so many years from now, celebrity obsession has been taken to a new extreme. In today's society, the general population seems to eat up every little detail of a celebrity's life, no matter how outrageous or even mundane. But in the world of Antiviral, it's excessive to the point of insanity.

Director Brandon Cronenberg—son of famed director David Cronenberg—is examining the depths of this obsession in his debut film, an official selection for the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival. Not a bad start for the young director.

Cronenberg has created an oddity of a film set in an eerie, dystopian environment where celebrity mania has reached an all-time high. The film's lead is Syd March (Caleb Landry Jones), a clinician who works for the Lucas Clinic, a facility where the general public are willing to pay a hefty price to be injected with a non-infectious disease harvested from a real celebrity—all in the name of feeling somehow connected to their idol.

I don't think it's anything new really.

I think it kind of connects to a broader human impulse to deify people.

Syd, an intense and enigmatic individual, spends his monotonous days injecting eager customers with the malady of their choice, all while smuggling various illnesses after hours to sell on the black market. One of the celebrities du jour is movie starlet Hannah Geist (Sara Gadon), and Syd finds himself seemingly in over his head when he's called to her house to extract her mysterious illness to unleash on the masses. Syd winds up catching the illness himself and must investigate the cause of the infection to save her life, as well as his own.

Antiviral is a skin-crawling piece of film full of nightmarish imagery, set in a world where consumers do creepy things such as buying harvested cell "steaks" made of cells from different celebrities, just as they would a normal piece of meat. Everyone seems consumed by the mania, but really, is that so far from our own? Set against a bleak back drop of stark whites, grays and blacks, punctuated frequently by bright crimson blood, Antiviral is a complex entity, filled with satire and social commentary to juxtapose its more grisly elements. A word to the wise: if needles make you squeamish, you may want to give this one a pass.

Inevitably, Antiviral's body horror vibe immediately draws comparisons to the elder Cronenberg's work. While there may be some similarities, the film stands up on its own as a solid effort, albeit a disturbing one.

Vue caught up with the Cronenberg over the phone to discuss the inspiration for his dark film, what he thinks of celebrity culture, and how Antiviral's exaggerated celebrity obsession is not be so far removed from today's.

Here's looking at you, kid

The idea for Antiviral came to you when you were sick while at film school in Toronto and got you thinking about the intimacy involved in illness. What sparked the connection between the two?

BRANDON CRONENBERG: I guess it was the fact that I was having a weird fever dream and it sort of skewed my perspective a little bit. Obviously we all get sick fairly commonly, but I was in a headspace where I was looking at it differently and obsessing over the fact that I had something physically in my body that had come from someone else's body ... we don't usually see it that way, but it's true. The virus is actually produced by infected cells in someone else's body, so it's hugely intimate in that way.

VUE WEEKLY:

How did that idea then spread to celebrity obsession?

I was in film school and I was trying to write something, I was trying to think of a character who would see disease as an intimate thing, and who could imagine a celebrity obsessed fan imagining getting Angelina Jolie's cold as a way of feeling somehow physically connected to her. That sort of developed from there into a metaphor that I liked.

VW: BC:

VW: How do you think the extreme measure of obsession in Antiviral can reflect on celebrities and society today?

BC: Well, I think it sort of represents a loss of perspective and critical thinking, or maybe an absence of perspective and

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critical thinking that I think is unhealthy. It's also something that is perpetuated and exploited by the industry of celebrity.

VW: Do you think we could ever get to that point where we're taking measures like people do in the film?

BC: I think we're pretty close to it already. I mean, some of the science is science fiction in the film, but most of it is pretty close to what could be done and I think it's only a very slight exaggeration of trends that are already in our culture.

The main character, Syd, remains a bit of a mystery throughout the film. We never really get to know him that much aside from his work. Was that intentional?

BC: I wanted to leave him as sort of a bit blank so that he could stand in for anyone who's kind of a product of that culture. He feels sort of removed from it and somehow superior to it, but he's actually completely defined by it. We're all defined by our environments even if we feel we've somehow escaped that.

VW:

VW: Speaking

Why do you think society's become so obsessed with celebrity?

BC: I don't think it's anything new really. I think it kind of connects to a broader human impulse to deify people. If you look at say, sainthood, people elevated almost to the status of gods and the iconography, even the physical fetishism. Old churches would claim to have, and still do claim to have, the finger bones of a particular saint, so I think that's something that we do as human beings that isn't unique to our culture. I think it's particularly ferocious in our culture because of the rate that we consume media and I think celebrities are made by visibility, by repetition of images, so people become famous extremely quickly these days and famous in a way that is totally disconnected from any sort of accomplishment.

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of Syd, what made Caleb Landry Jones the best choice to portray that type of character?

BC: When I saw the work he had done, there wasn't one specific thing that jumped out at me. It was more that kind of hard-to-articulate exciting thing that some actors have. He has this really fascinating screen presence and obviously was a very nuanced physical actor.

There was just something sort of hard to describe that was exciting when I saw him and that's always a good sign, especially because it's such a subjective film. He's in every scene and in almost every shot, so it needed to be someone who would be able to carry that, and someone intense and sort of fascinating to watch and interesting to look at.

MEAGHAN BAXTER

// MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

PREVUE // DINNER PARTY GONE STABBY

Among Friends

Ladies who lynch

Wed, Oct 17 (7 pm) Directed by Danielle Harris Metro Cinema at the Garneau

D

anielle Harris's Among Friends finds a genre figure shifting her focus. Known best as Scream Queen of slasher flicks, her horror roots run deep—as a child, she starred in Halloween 4 and 5 (she later starred in Rob Zombie's reboot of the series), and plenty more followed. She's also done her share of voice acting work in broader genres, but it's horror where she's found the greatest impact: google her name and you'll find lists with titles like "Top 6 Danielle Harris Horror Roles."

Among Friends, then, continues her work within the genre, but marks her first trip to the other side of the camera lens as a director. Ostensibly about a dinner party gone wrong when someone takes the murder mystery theme a wee bit too literally, it looks to capture an abandoned, campier, '80s style of horror, the likes of which Harris started out working in.

"I think that everything was the same for a while," she says over the phone from Los Angeles. "I mean, I'm 35. I'm not 18 and the movies that I see nowadays, at least the fun ones, are not

really geared towards my age group.

And what I know are movies growing up in the '80s. That's really where my career started, so sort of write what you know. I only got back into the genre a few years ago, so what I know is based on how it started."

Harris had been looking for a project to step behind the camera for when she got a call from pal Jennifer Blanc, whom she'd worked with on Blanc's The Victim, about a script with "strong, fun, female-based" ensembled that piqued her interest. Though she had some reservations about directing.

"I just didn't know 100 percent if it was what I wanted to do, if I wanted to direct, even though in my gut I felt like it was what I wanted to do," she says. "So I wanted to find the right thing and I think I finally had the confidence to tackle something. I saw all these different ways that it could go."

Among Friends resonated with her, though Harris had some hesitations about the script's then-state.

"It was a really basic psychological slasher, nothing out of the ordinary that I hadn't read a million times before, she explains. "We sat down and rewrote from page one. And it was like, what do you really wanna do?

And the first thing for me was I just wanna have fun. I have no desire to make a movie that everybody else is making. I want to try something a little bit different."

Writer Alyssa Lobit was receptive to an open creative process (Lobit also stars), and Among Friends' final shape coalesed into the pastiche of slashercamp and comic, old-school horror that it is now. Harris, Blanc and Lobit will all be in attendance at Dedfest's screening of the film. "[Alyssa] trusted me to guide her in certain directions that I knew would work, that we needed to have all the elements to make a good script, and still make it oddball enough to where everything was just a little bit kitchy," she says. "I like to say it's kind of tacky."

Harris notes her own roots in the genre gave her some leniency to take risks with the material.

"I have an awesome fan following anyway, and I've already created a bit of a mark in the genre, that I feel like I can get away with things maybe other first-time directors wouldn't try to take a chance to do. It just gave me a little bit more freedom."

PAUL BLINOV

// PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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REVUE // TOUGH STEPS

REVUE // HIGH SCHOOL HORROR

First Position

Carrie

hoping to win one of the coveted scholarships awarded to dancers in different age groups. These kids' dreams of being in the ballet are so steadfast that they talk about nothing but—and how their families have changed their entire lives to accommodate their child's classes, sometimes spending thousands of dollars on costumes and trainers.

Waiting in the wings

Fri, Oct 12 – Tue, Oct 16 Directed by Bess Kargman Metro Cinema at the Garneau

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ales of intense competitiveness, weight watching, social isolation and downright abuse (for further evidence, try Deirdre Kelly's recent book, Ballerina: Sex, Scandal and Suffering Behind the Symbol of Perfection) can be surprising to those who regard ballet as a glamourous dream career, aspired to by young girls the world around.

Despite some of that negative reputation, there are still many who stop at nothing to pursue ballet as a career.

The context of First Position, Bess Kargman's first full-length documentary, revolves around the Youth America Grand Prix—an annual international ballet competition that sees 5000 dancers in New York auditioning for the what they hope will be the beginning of the rest of their lives in ballet.

Dancers aged nine to 19 compete

Kargman focuses in on a handful of hopefuls and their families in the months leading up to the Grand Prix: Young Aran, 11, with a doe-faced grin, talks about how much he loves ballet while his father muses that he never thought he'd have a son that wanted to be a dancer. Miko, 12, is rail-thin but full of potential, and her younger brother plods behind her in frustration as he's pushed into ballet by his nightmare of a stage mom, Satoko.

The most inspiring story is Michaela's—born in Sierra Leone, she was adopted by an American family as a toddler. She knows that she has a tough road ahead as a black ballerina, who are often stigmatized as being too muscular for the ballet's conventional body type.

Kargman's journalistic eye is sharp, and the camera peers in on the crazed faces of the dancers' ballet teachers just enough to expose their garish, obsessive qualities.

At the Grand Prix, shots of bleeding, blistered feet and floor-burned skin are rife, as one dancer quips "you've been working your body to death since you were like, five."

In its best moments, the film shows the real desires of the kids that truly want to pursue ballet—the hinting at their loss of childhood is shrugged off as just another necessary step on the way to success.

FAWNDA MITHRUSH

// FAWNDA@VUEWEEKLY.COM

unexpected flow ("Blood, Mother, blood!") and Carrie leaps from serene to hysterical in seconds. The girls are cruel. Who cares that Carrie's never even heard of menstruation, let's pelt her with tampons! (The source material was Stephen King's first published novel, so in a sense he too was losing his innocence.)

Prom Queen to be! Nothing could possibly ruin this. Nope.

Wed, Oct 17 (9:15 pm) Directed by Brian De Palma Metro Cinema at the Garneau Originally Released: 1976

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here's a truly inspired transition at the start of Carrie: poor little Carrie White (Sissy Spacek), a high school senior who still looks prepubescent, flubs a volleyball triumph for her team, her PE class draws to a close, and lithe, blonde classmate Chris Hargensen (Nancy Allen) walks up to her and says, "Eat shit!" Hard cut to the locker room, the camera gliding through plumes of steam and naked young women, everything slowed down for lyrical effect, the music pretty corny. I imagine director Brian De Palma pitching Carrie to potential producers and getting stopped at this point: "Naked girls! Tastefully draped in steam!" Even before he gets to the telekinesis, the blowjob, the pig's blood shower, it's already green-lit.

And we in the audience already know we're in the hands of a filmmaker

who will shower us with great craftsmanship and flagrant trash. (There's more ogling to come in the detention sequence, when every female in sight, the jealous PE teacher included, wears extremely short-shorts. Does it matter that all the actresses playing teenagers were actually in their midto late-twenties?)

The story begins properly with what happens next: Carrie in the shower, initially consoled, then appalled and panicked to discover blood pouring from between her legs. This moment too tells us a lot about the sensibility of the director—who never saw a Hitchcock film he didn't want to remake—with the first of several winks to Psycho (1960): the fragmented shots of Carrie luxuriating, Janet Leigh-like, under that conspicuously penisy showerhead, the ominous god's-eye view shots of rooms, the Bernard Herrmannesque violin shrieks on the soundtrack, the oppressive mother, the fact that much of Carrie is set at Bates High School. With that

From here on it's a matter of inevitability. Carrie's classmates get in trouble for harassing her, Chris plans an elaborate revenge involving animal slaughter, while Sue Snell (Amy Irving) feels bad and convinces her poodle-pyramid-haired boyfriend (William Katt) to take Carrie to the prom. John Travolta shows up, smiling so vigorously he can't even get beer into his mouth. Piper Laurie plays Carrie's sadistic, sexually repressed Jesus freak single mom at a level of melodramatic mania that's hard to match—though her "dirty pillows" bit is easily one of my favourite lines in cinema history.

Nancy Allen licks her lips in close-up and gets slapped a lot, while De Palma gets drunk on the power of deep focus and, for better or for worse, takes none of this seriously—he plays it all for camp. But Spacek is a revelation, delivering a genius performance; she's truly heartbreaking in those nervous scenes leading up to her prom night humiliation ("Blood, Mother, blood!") and subsequent revenge on her entire high school. We can't help but identify with Spacek: being a teenager is already a kind of horror movie. Carrie is a flawlessly constructed, winky, sleazy slab of '70's pop horror, but, thanks to Spacek and something innately fascinating and resonant in the material, it remains a movie for the ages. As the final dream scene implies, Carrie will never die.

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REVUE // BUMP IN THE NIGHT

Sinister Opens Friday Directed by Scott Derrickson

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inister opens with the image, rendered in faux-Super 8, of four hooded figures hung from a tree in what has just become the Osborne family's backyard. True crime author Ellison Osborne (Ethan Hawke) is the only one who knows that his family is moving into a crime scene, but for him it's just business; it's been 10 years since his last bestseller and Ellison figures rooting himself right in the very place where some truly evil shit went down, a large house tucked away in a wood, with no apparent neighbours anywhere in the vicinity, is the surest way to spin literary gold.

But before you can say "Overlook Hotel" the place is already giving off

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bad vibes: there are exotic pest control issues and things going bump, very loudly, in the night; Ellison's son is sleepwalking, sleep-contorting and sleep-screaming, while Ellison's daughter's painting creepy things on the walls; and there's a stash of home movies in the attic that each depict some sort of creatively staged mass murder, with hints of occult activity in the margins.

Gradually these movies yield more and more glimpses of some shadowy, darkhaired figure in black and white makeup, always lurking in the background—it's like "Where's Waldo?" for Goths. And it's with the emergence of this figure, who comes to be known as Mr Boogie, that we come to understand that no matter how effectively photographed, nicely paced and well-cast Sinister is, it's eventually going to get really, really dumb.

The script is from C Robert Cargill,

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the direction by Scott Derrickson, who previously brought us The Exorcism of Emily Rose, which I felt somewhat warm toward, and that remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still, which I don't think anybody felt anything toward.

When you take away all the Mr Boogie and the demon kiddies and supernatural hokum, the essential story of Sinister isn't too bad, but the lack of ambiguity and corny special effect bits drain it of all credibility and real suspense, and all the time spent building Ellison's potent character—he's at once a loving father and a mercilessly ambitious and frustrated author—ends up being for nothing since the destiny of he and his family has little to do with any character flaws and everything to do with cheap, ultimately nonsensical twists.

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REVUE // A MOVIE ABOUT MOVIES

Seven Psychopaths

As with McDonagh's In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths gets playful  with post-Tarantino po-mo crime movie clichés and is intermittently irst thing we see in Martin Mcvery witty (I like the bit about how Donagh's Seven Psychopaths is Gandhi was wrong). But the plot of the iconic Hollywood sign, signalSeven Psychopaths, unlike In Bruging both the milieu whose fringes es, is a mess, plodding along, making the movie will occupy and the selfitself up as it goes (a quality I comaware, elbow-nudging, blatantly mend in movies that actually take artificial lens chances), slowly through which draining any There's a figure roaming Los Angeles known only the movie begs sense of investas the Red Mask Killer who's supposed to kill only to be seen. It's ment we might mid- to high-ranking Italian mafia and yakuza— a movie about have initially had until he kills his girlfriend. movies, and Mcin these characDonagh reminds ters, or rather us of this every character types. chance he gets, giving characters killers. They receive research assisMostly the movie feels like an aponames like Bickle and Kieslowski. tance from Zachariah (Tom Waits, logia, or rather a justification, for Its central character is a screenwho also played a Zack in Down by making yet another violent movie writer, conspicuously named MarLaw), a former mass murderer of about ostensibly amusing, amoral, ty (yes, Colin Farrell's been cast as mass murderers, who's apparently misogynist, sadistic pigs with funny a screenwriter; I mean, shit, why in his 80s (he started killing in 1947, nicknames or outfits or affectations. not Will Ferrell?); he seems to be two years before Waits was even Ultimately the movie wants us to writing the movie we're watchborn), and from a mobster (Woody identify with Billy, who really is a ing. You could say Seven PsychoHarrelson) whose beloved shih tzu psychopath and just wants Marty paths is like Paul Auster meets has become one of Hans' canine hosand Hans to admit that, no matter Guy Ritchie, but I don't think they tages. Meanwhile there's a figure what the effeminate artsy-fartsy get along well. It's a writer's block roaming Los Angeles known only as types say, everybody secretly just movie, a rather pitfall-laden niche the Red Mask Killer who's supposed wants to see bloodshed and explogenre. McDonagh's contribution to kill only mid- to high-ranking Italsions and who gives a shit about ain't exactly Barton Fink. ian mafia and yakuza—until he kills anything else.

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Opens Friday Directed by Martin McDonagh

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fights at auditions. Billy knows this aging grifter named Hans (Christopher Walken, sporting a dandy array of cravats) who steals pooches.

As the movie progresses (so to speak), both Billy and Hans become involved in the development of Marty's Seven Psychopaths script, a process that mainly consists of concocting novel ideas for psycho-

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REVUE // DVD

The Game Now on DVD and Blu-ray Directed by David Fincher

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here was a long stretch, particularly after the empty whiz-bang of Panic Room (2002), when I felt instinctively leery of anything directed

by David Fincher. This changed with Zodiac (2007), one of the great American films so far this century; Zodiac made me reconsider everything of Fincher's, both before and after. So along comes Criterion's new DVD and Blu-ray release of The Game (1997) and I'm very interested, even though I remember feeling underwhelmed by the film upon its debut. Having now revisited it, The Game remains in my estimation a work that's far from Fincher's most accomplished, either in

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terms of craft or thematic heft. But it is immensely intriguing—the set-up's the best piece of this puzzle—and entertaining and possesses several elements that bounce nicely against those in Fincher's other films, right from those eerie opening home movies that look forward to the haunting flashbacks in Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011).

The Game's protagonist is the obscenely affluent, controlling, toxically lonesome investment banker Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas, by then the Hollywood embodiment of white American wealth and guilt). For his 48th birthday Van Orton's longestranged little brother (Sean Penn) gives him a gift certificate for some mysterious service rendered by some

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company called CRS. They promise the fulfillment of desires you didn't even know you had, some sort of adventure full of revitalizing thrills— the promise of the movies, in other words, but delivered as something overwhelming and experiential. Van Orton only knows his game has started when he finds clowns in his driveway and the TV news starts speaking directly to him. Soon he's running from guard dogs, having unnerving encounters with a clumsy but very attractive waitress with an aversion to panties (Canada's own Deborah Kara Unger), escaping from drowning cabs, and watching his offshore accounts become suddenly, inexplicably drained. Suddenly everything that happens in the world is happening to him. Whether intentional or not, one

of the ironies of The Game is that while it's meant to humble the selfabsorbed and insulated Van Orton, it actually only accentuates the feeling that he really is the center of the universe.

Parts of The Game feel too fussed over; there's more incident than feels necessary, too many cutaways, too much overly indicative atonal pianotinkle scoring, too many low-angle shots of Van Orton's car. Indeed, in the audio commentary accompanying Criterion's disc, Fincher confesses that parts of the film are much cuttier than he would have liked. But there's no denying that the film clips along: it is a veritable suspense machine. It's easy to imagine Hitchcock being attracted to this material. It's

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a Wrong Man movie, except that the hero is unmistakably the Right Man, the target of so much mega-financed, vertiginous mischief. There's a darkness under all this—Van Orton's father was 48 when he suicided and it seems possible that Van Orton may follow in dad's footsteps—but that darkness evaporates under the cheerful glow of the film's risible but not inappropriate resolution. We leave Van Orton in a moment in decision, starting over, shaken awake, ready for a future of tantalizing uncertainty. And we leave Fincher on the verge of a period of uncertainty with regards to his career path, still some years away from mastering his own destiny.

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COVER // OVER THE RAINBOW

The dreams you dare to dream Typhoon Judy circles the trauma and the voice of Judy Garland Until Sun, Oct 28 (8 pm) Created by Darrin Hagen and Christopher Peterson Roxy Theatre, $21 –$50 "All who follow her have to bear that very, very, hard comparison of Judy Garland, anybody who sings, anybody who holds an audience in the palm of their hand with such consummate ease, with such magic, with such sincerity, with love and with such truth.

She is, always will be, Miss Show Business." —Richard Attenborough

I

t's true that the shadow Judy Garland cast over Hollywood was a long one. But it perhaps hung heaviest on Garland herself, an increasingly fragile woman straddled with the burden of being the legendary Judy Garland, whose biggest success came early ("Over the Rainbow") and was never surpassed, who coped with herself on a diet of pills and booze, a string of failed marriages, a rehab stint and eventually several suicide attempts. Her personality and personal failures are remembered as vividly as the string of successes that spanned her career.

Still, some of her performances were legendary for reasons other than skill. To call Judy Garland's 1964 Melbourne concert a disaster might be a gentler way of putting it: she started late; the audience, enraged at the wait and perceiving her drunk, started to heckle; the papers savaged it in the aftermath, giving her the worst reviews of her life.

Garland's next concert, in Hong Kong, was cancelled due to a typhoon, putting an end to her hopes of redeeming the performance immediately afterwards.

"We found this quote, this piece of media from after her Melbourne concert," says Darrin Hagen, sitting in the Roxy Theatre's green room, begins before Christopher Peter-

son, beside him, immediately jumps in: "The disaster Melbourne concert— where one of the journalists asks her, 'So, what did you think of last night's show?' And she says, [in a savagely dry tone]: 'I didn't like it. Did you?'"

"When the concert got cancelled in Hong Kong, Judy did her first serious suicide attempt," Darrin Hagen continues. "Because she was so crushed from Melbourne, and the disaster that happened there, and Hong Kong was her chance to redeem herself and it didn't happen, and she actually took too many pills, and actually, clinically, legally on the operating table died, and went into a coma for a little while.

And it was serious enough that the news flashed around the world that Judy Garland had died."

The two, have placed Typhoon Judy in that inbetween: the script picks up with Garland barreling into the rehearsal hall to find the band's taken a raincheck in the face of Ty-

phoon Viola, save one particularly quiet pianist. She begins to rehearse anyways, while regailing the fellow with her life's story, songs and the slow realization she has no idea how she actually got here. And in letting it all unspool in that scenario, Typhoon Judy offers a study in both lasting elements of the Garland legacy: the trauma and the voice.

"Nobody really talks about Hong Kong," Hagen says. "We took a tiny moment in her life and gave it gigantic significance."

"Of all the autobiographies, it's only mentioned in two of them," Peterson notes. "Barely mentioned. Almost a paragraph."

"Melbourne gets press, because it's her first disaster," Hagen continues.

"But Hong Kong, because it didn't happen, people just kind of skip over it."

So much of Typhoon is set to rest on Peterson's Garland impersonation. It's one he's known for, and has been touting in short form since 1996 as part of his EYECONS

impersonation show (It played in Edmonton at the 2011 Fringe), where Peterson runs through a spectrum of famous females. Most get a bit of a send up along with his impression.

Garland, though, marks that show's closer and gets a different treatment.

"I also do dialogue with her, a little patter, and in particular, older 'Friends of Dorthy'—homosexuals; that's what they were called in the old days—I've had many who had seen her in concert," Peterson explains. "They were old enough to have seen her in concert and say, 'Ohmygod, you're Judy Garland.' So she's one of the few characters I do that has a realism to it.

Some of the other characters I spoof.

But I'm very reverent with her, instead of irreverent, which most of the show [EYECONS] is."

Peterson's singing range, Hagen notes, is similar to Garland's own.

Typhoon—crafted, from Peterson's idea, in a long distance back and forth between Hagen and him ("This is the Skype collaboration," Hagen laughs)—has already gone up in front of an audience once, in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. For this run, opening up Theatre Network's 2012-13 season, Hagen and Peterson have had time to tinker, play around with ideas, find room for a few more good Garland quotes.

(There are some unusual rehearsal ques-

tions still being sorted out: is she on Ritalin when she barges in? How many of what pills has she already taken?)

The arrangement, courtesty of Jim Rice, puts most of the covered Garland Songbook into rich new instrumentations: "We want to give each song a different colour than the original," Peterson notes.

Hagan and Peterson both seem well aware that their audience will be bringing their own expectations for a Judy Garland and stress that, while this is their particular look at the woman, it's far from a muted portrait of the lady.

"This is A to Z. This isn't a light little cabaret show—"Hi, i'm Judy Garland, let me tell you a story about Toto, now I'm going to sing a happy song.'

The second act's really, really heavy."

"You said this the other day," Hagen says, turning to Peterson. "She was the first star that was a victim of her own success. She never did get past that Rainbow in her first big hit movie.

That was actually the beginning and the end of everything for her: she could never move past it, she could never leave it behind. She could never get over it, she always had that reputation trailing with her. And the expectations: when we talk about people bringing Judy-expectations to the table, she had to live with that every time she stepped foot on stage."

"And I'll go even farther: a victim of the press too," Peterson adds. "She's the first star that lived her life in the press. She's the first drug addict, alcoholic star that we know of. All the rest followed suit—none of them did it as well, either."

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itie Ballet is back for a new season with six new contracted dancers and professional status, getting underway with Gloria!, a production showcasing a repertoire of classical, neoclassical and contemporary technique.

Artistic director François Chevennement says the move to becoming a professional company is something he has been working towards since taking over the company six years ago. The fresh start with six new dancers, who come from as far away as China, brings a diverse range of training and technique that Chevennement believes will be an asset to the company.

"Looking at the styles I want to bring to the company, which is a mixed program, right from ballet to contemporary, we did look especially at their technique, because I want to keep the root of the company in ballet—in classical ballet—and also looking at they way they move in modern, because I believe modern

dance and modern techniques can help make a better classical dancer," he notes, adding guest performer Sophie Wensel, who performed for two seasons with Citie Ballet, will be joining the troupe for the first performance.

One of Citie Ballet's new dancers is Kayley Winfield from Calgary, who sent her audition DVD in June and secured one of the final spots in the company.

"I enjoy how personal it is. You get to know everyone and

you get to work more oneon-one with the directors, which is pretty rare with someone just starting with a company," notes Winfield, who has been dancing since age five.

The dancers have been preparing since the beginning of September for their premiere with Citie Ballet, with a diverse production celebrating life and dance.

"Every day it's a new challenge.

The company's so small that you're always being asked to do something demanding just because there's not that many dancers to choose from so you're always on your feet giving it 110 percent all day long," Winfield says, adding despite the challenges, it's been an enjoyable production to put together.

The title piece of the production is set to Anotonio Vivaldi's Gloria!, one of the world's most popular choral-orchestral compositions. In May 2012, the ballet was choreographed by Paul Destrooper, artistic director of Ballet Victoria.

"I think it's entertaining because it pulls a bit of everything into it," Winfield says. "We have a broad range of different dance styles that we cover in the show, so it's geared towards people who like all different things."

Debuting as part of the production is Ladybird, a piece by Citie Ballet's resident contemporary choreographer Solveig Groenland

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or the fourth year, Timeraiser is creating matches made in volunteer heaven through a unique event that's one-part silent art auction, one-part volunteer fair and one-part night out.

Encouraging community involvement and showcasing some of the best in local emerging artistic talent is at the forefront of the event. Participants are matched with potential volunteer organizations and agencies based on their unique skill set and interests. Once the matches are made, participants can bid on artwork, but instead of bidding with money, they pledge volunteer hours.

Before taking the artwork home, the "winner" must fulfil the pledged hours within one year of the event.

"Within each of the individual cities we're in, like Edmonton, the community response gets louder, tickets sell out faster and so the rapid growth of the program is just really great to watch," says Timeraiser's manager of communications and social media Amanda Grainger-Munday, adding the goal for Edmonton is to raise 4000 volunteer hours.

Timeraiser has its sights set on young professionals who are looking for a way to use their skills in new and innovative ways to help better the civic community as a whole.

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Grainger-Munday notes that while connecting Edmonton's young professionals to volunteer opportunities is an important component of Timeraiser, emerging artist benefit equally. Artwork in each city Timeraiser visits is selected by a juried committee and then purchased at fair market price to be put up for auction, rather than artists donating their work as is the case with many not-for-profit events. This year's lineup in Edmonton includes 23 upand-coming artists working in a variety of styles and mediums.

"It's not just the auction itself, it's the support of local emerging artists, so for us, supporting and connecting people to causes and causes to people have these two really key components. We have support of skilled volunteerism and the promotion of local art in the community and getting your professionals introduced to exciting emerging work," Grainger-Munday notes.

Each $20 ticket to the event is essentially a pledge to donate 20 volunteer hours to an organization of the participant's choice. Participants who place a winning bid on a piece of artwork will log their volunteer progress throughout the year to ensure to pledge is kept, before returning to the following year's Timeraiser event to pick up their artwork and celebrate the accomplishment.

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I

n 2009, Montreal-based choreographer Tedi Tafel embarked on a rather unique creative journey. The goal was to create a dance piece for each month of the calendar year and present each in a different location. Logistics aside, it took almost three years to get the whole Calendar Project presented—and not one of the spaces it took place in was a conventional stage. In her development phase, Tafel also created video installations to compliment a number of the site-specific performances.

Which brings us to October, onetwelfth of Tafel's project, being presented by Mile Zero Dance this week in Edmonton. Featuring solo-

ist Lin Snelling, October will take place in a living room—someone's real, live living room (read: space is extremely limited for these eight performances, so tickets must be booked ahead—the address of the house will be disclosed at the time of reservation). The original incarnation of October happened in Tafel's own living room in Montréal.

"October is a time when we start to spend more time indoors. It felt like a more interior time of year for me. I also wanted it to be really intimate. I wanted the performance to be really close to the audience, so a house felt right," Tafel says, describing that her process for creating the piece began when she stayed for months in a small house in the Laurentian forest north of Montréal.

"When I stayed in the forest I stayed in a cabin with a large window, and I watched the season transform through this window. So from an interior space, looking out onto the forest was a theme."

The 35-minute show features a woman exploring her own sort of story in the living room. It's not a linear narrative per se, but more of an emotional exploration of the character's isolation and view of the changing world outside. The soloist is backdropped by a window that shows projected images of a forest changing over seasons, along with a dense, haunting soundscape.

"I feel that it's a piece that speaks about memory and desire and the layers of this woman," Tafel says. "In fall you're watching all this transformation and the leaves falling and this kind of sense of dying down—and your psyche gets effected by this environment. And that's one of the beautiful things about spending time with nature: weather and the seasons are always with us, we are aware of cycles and and letting go and all that stuff about return. That effected me very strongly."

Tafel is also acutely aware of the condensed nature of the space and the audience's real proximity to the performance, and that was a point she wanted to hammer on with October. The result is a kind of relentless montage of movement, imagery and sound that is constantly changing throughout.

"There's a feeling of privilege when you're one of a dozen people in a room receiving something. Some people are intimidated by it, they might prefer to be in the dark in the back in their own intimacy watching something, but that's not to say that's the only way you can be intimate with an audience."

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set to gospel and blues music.

"It's a homage to a dear friend of the choreographer who just passed away," Chevennement notes. "But, she didn't create that piece for that reason. The first reason was to celebrate life in a modern way and she decided to dedicate this piece to her friend."

To acknowledge the company's classical roots, which Chevennement says will always be at its core, Citie Ballet's associate artistic director Laurence Menotti-Chevennement will present Peasant pas de deux from Giselle. Chevennement will also revisit some of Citie Ballet's repertoire including Purple Thought, a parody of a classical ballet along with Anul-Ka created by Waldemar Bartkowski.

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PREVUE // PIONEERING CANADIAN ARTIST

Françoise Sullivan Sat, Oct 13 (2 pm) Art Gallery of Alberta, $25 – $40

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s student artists, we wanted the best to do things that made sense in the world we lived in," begins Françoise Sullivan. She's reflecting on the early days of the Automatise movement she would gain renown as a major part of as a dancer and visual artist. The movement was considered the beginnings of modernist art in Canada, but back then, it was just an eager group of emerging artists trying to find new ideas wherever they could.

"We were very passionate and we wanted to discover, because everything seemed very closed here in Canada. We were so far away," she contin-

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ues. "Communication wasn't what it is now. And we had first discovered the poets Baudelare, Rimbaud that were not allowed to be sold in libraries in Quebec." They found their copies at Eaton's, she laughs: then came the impressionists, Picasso, and though "everything was difficult to find," eventually the surrealists.

"That was a big discovery," she recalls. "We thought that we could apply this research, the way they had of writing, we thought we could apply it in painting. And then we discovered—because by that time we were thinking of ourselves as part of the great avant garde of the world, and we were revolting against the closeness, how closed-in we were here.

And it's very interesting, because

these thoughts were happening elsewhere, but we had no communication, because of the war."

Sullivan's coming to the AGA for a discussion of her work—part of the Automatiste Revolution: Montreal 1941-1960 exhibit, ending this weekend—and the scene she helped craft, alongside the curators of the exhibit, Roald Nasgaard and Ray Ellenwood.

After a discussion with the three, longtime Sullivan collaborator Ginette Boutin will perform a quartet of her choreographies: The Archaic Woman, Black and Tan Fantasy, Dedalies—all from 1947–48—and the much more recent I Speak (1993).

She notes the Automatiste body of work still isn't seen so often outside of Quebec: "It's starting to, slowly.

But not so often."

But it is still getting out there, in reputable places: her own Danse dans la neige series of photographs was selected for an exhibit in the MoMA just two years ago.

"I guess it was our instinct," she says. "by the discoveries we were making, well this can be done, that can be done, and everything was amazing discoveries. At every step."

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DANCE GLORIA! • Timms Centre for the Arts (112 St & 87

Ave) • citieballet.ca • A mixed program of pointe, modern and neoclassical dance • Oct 12 at 7:30pm, Oct 14 at 2:30pm

MILE ZERO DANCE • Secret location

(will be disclosed upon purchase of ticket) • milezerodance.com • October: By Tedi Tafel • Oct 10 - 13, 7:30pm & 8:45pm • $20, $15 (members); call or email for reservations: 780.424.1573, admin@milezerodance.com

FILM ARDEN THEATRE • 5 Anne St, St. Albert • 780.459.1542 • ardentheatre.com • Radical Reels: The Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival's travelling movie event. Featuring an entire array of extreme sports. Stars athletes who live life as close to the edge as they can; Oct 14, 7:30pm • $20 (adult), $15 (student) BAILEY THEATRE–Camrose • 5041-50 St, Camrose • 780.672.5510 • baileytheatre.com • Charlotte's Web (G); Oct 14, 2pm; $5 (door) • Aliens (R); Oct 14, 7pm; $5 (door) CINEMA AT THE CENTRE • Stanley A. Milner Library Theatre (basement) • Rosemary's Baby (14A); Oct 17, 6:30pm DEDFEST • Garneau Theatre, 8712 - 109 St •

780.425.9212 • dedfest.com • Hellberta's Horror Festival.

Featuring 14 independent genre features a selection of both local and international shorts, and assorted grindhouse madness; Oct 18-21

EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY • Royal Alberta Museum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave • royalalbertamuseum.ca • $6 (adult)/$5 (senior 65 and over/student)/$3 (child) • Houseboat; Oct 15, 8pm FILM FORUM • Stanley A. Milner Library • Series of film screenings followed by facilitated discussions. Join us this summer for another round of intriguing films and guest speakers • Mulholland Drive; Oct 13, 1:30pm

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FROM BOOKS TO FILM SERIES • Stanley A.

Milner Library, Main Fl, Audio Visual Rm • 780.944.5383 • Bringing Up Baby (G); Oct 12, 2pm • The Philadelphia Story (PG); Oct 19, 2pm

HOME MOVIE DAY • Stanley A. Milner

Library Edmonton Room • Bring in your home movies on 8mm, Super 8mm or 16mm film to share with an audience. Chat with AV experts from the University of Alberta and the Provincial Archives of Alberta about caring for your film • Oct 20, 12-4pm • Free

UP FOR DISCUSSION: A FILM SERIES • Stanley A. Milner Theatre (basement), Stanley Milner Library • Oct 11

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS AGNES BUGERA GALLERY • 12310 Jasper Ave • 780.482.2854 • agnesbugeragallery.com • New work by artist David Wilson; Oct 6-19 ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • BENTS CUP PROJECT: Cathy Terepocki’s ceramic “souvenirs”; Sep 15-Oct 20 • Feature Gallery: PASSAGES: a group exhibition exploring the passage of time; Oct 6-Dec 24 ALLIED ARTS COUNCIL OF SPRUCE GROVE • Spruce Grove Art Gallery, 35 – 5 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • Seniors Show and Sale: See what Albertans over the age of 55 can do; Oct 1-20

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga. ca • BMO Work of Creativity: METHOD AND MADNESS: Family-focused interactive exhibition created

by Gabe Wong; until Dec 31 • THE AUTOMATISTE REVOLUTION: MONTREAL 1941-1960: Until Oct 14 • ABSENCE/PRESENCE: Catherine Burgess; until Oct 14 • BEHIND THIS LIES MY TRUE DESIRE FOR YOU: Mark Clintberg; Until Dec 30 • MISLED BY NATURE: CONTEMPORARY ART AND THE BAROQUE: David Altmejd, Lee Bul, Bharti Kher, Tricia Middleton, Yinka Shonibare, Sarah Sze; Sep 15-Jan 6 • BEAUTIFUL MONSTERS: Beasts and Fantastic Creatures in Early European Prints: European Prints; Oct 13-Mar 3 • IMPRINT: A selection of print-making artists, whose work reveals an attention to different print-making technique, as well as an interrelationship; Oct 13-Jan 6 • Studio Y Youth Drop-in: Sketch: Experimental Drawing (Oct 11): Thu, 3:30-5:30pm; $10 • Adult Drop-in: Tone: Still Life Drawing Collage (Oct 11): Thu, 7-9pm, $15/$12 (member) • Talk And Performance Lecture: Negative Cosmopolitanisms (Oct 11), The Automatiste Revolution (Oct 13); 2pm; $40/$25 (member/student/senior) ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca

Gallery, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • Artwork is changed on approximately eight week rotations; open Oct - Dec, Feb - Jul

CAFÉ HAVEN–Sherwood Park •

NVSart is featured • Sep-Jan

CAFE PICHILINGUE – RED DEER

• 4928 - 50 St, Red Deer • Filtered: artwork by Paul Boultbee; Oct 1-31

CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427

• ARTCETERA: artwork by Emma Cayer, Urmila Zdenka Das, Curtis Johnson, Sharon Rubuliak, Francoise Siset; Oct 12-23; Opening reception: Oct 12, 7-8:30pm

CROOKED POT GALLERY– Stony Plain • 4912-51 Ave, Stony Plain

• 780.963.9573 • LEAVING SUMMER BEHIND: featuring works of Clarice Cameron and Dianne Brown; Oct 2-31

DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St

• 780.760.1278 • daffodilgallery.ca • SAEED HOJJATI: Oil paintings featuring big, colourful landscapes with a dreamlike quality; until Oct 21 • GALLERY WALK: featuring gallery artists; Oct 20-21

FAB GALLERY • Department of Art

and Design, U of A, Rm 3-98 Fine Arts Bldg • 780.492.2081 • GAVIN RENWICK: COUNTERPOINT: the aesthetics of post-colonialism: Sep 4-Oct 13 • GRADUATE DESIGN GROUP SHOW 2012: A selection of work by students graduating in the Master of Design program; Oct 2-27

GALLERIE PAVA • 9524 - 87 St, 780.461.3427 • AME NUE: Artwork by Sabine Lecorre-Moore; Sep 22-Nov 14 GALLERY 7 • The Bookstore on Perron, 7 Perron St, St. Albert • INSPIRED BY TRAVEL: Watercolour artwork by Pat Trudeau; Oct 1-29 GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley

A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/artgallery • RENAISSANCE MADONNAS: Paintings by Kristine McGuinty; Edmonton Weavers' Guild: View items created by the Edmonton Weavers' Guild; Whimsy, Wonder and Women: Collaged artworks by Rona Anderson; Oct 1-31 • Origami Festival and Workshop; Oct 13-14

HAPPY HARBOR COMICS V1

• 10729-104 Ave • COMIC JAM: Improv comic art making every 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7pm • OPEN DOOR: Collective of independent comic creators meet the 2nd & 4th Thu each month, 7am

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY

• 3 Fl, 10215-112 St • Main Gallery: NEWS, WEATHER & SPORTS: Artworks by Dan Hudson; Sep 13-Oct 13 • Front Room: MY DARLING DEVIANTS: Artworks by Marcia Pitch; Sep 13-Oct 13 • Main Gallery: SYDNEY LANCASTER, NESTs: Part of the artist in residence program; Oct 18-Nov 24; Opening reception: Oct 18, 6:15-10pm

HARRIS-WARKE GALLERY–Red Deer • Sunworks Home and Garden

Store, Ross St, Red Deer • 403.346.8937 • harriswarkegallery.com • TRANSPARENT SHADOWS: Artwork by Andrea Simpson; Sep 17-Oct 20 • IN THE BLINK OF A SMILE: Artwork by Andrea Simpson; Sep 17-Oct 20

HUB ON ROSS–Red Deer • 4936

Ross St, Red Deer • 403.340.4869 • hubpdd. com • Michener Art Divas: Michelle, Alexa, and Donna; Oct 1-31

780.459.1528 • Each month of ArtWalk the Musée Héritage Museum displays part of the Victor Post collection. The complete exhibition of Victor Post’s work: Aug 28-Oct 21 • CUT AND PASTE: features family albums, personal collections and scrapbooks from clubs and community groups covering over 100 years of history; Sep 4-Oct 21

NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-

81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Artwork

by Wanda Benterud featuring collage/mixed media; Oct 5-31

NINA HAGGERTY–Stollery Gallery • 9225-118 Ave • 780.474.7611

• ninahaggertyart.ca • THE AVE WE HAD: interactive photographic display; Oct 4-Nov 5; Reception: Oct 11, 7-9pm

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY

• 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • BEST FOOT FORWARD: Jonathan Forrest; Oct 6-23

PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES OF ALBERTA • 8555 Roper Rd • 780.427.1750

• provincialarchives.alberta.ca • THE PEOPLE WHO BUILT ALBERTA: A Centennial for Alberta Workers: examining labour’s role in the growth and prosperity of the province • Sep 6-Dec 21

QUIRKY ART CAFE • 6535 - 111 St • Recent Portraits by Gerry Rasmussen; Oct 2-Nov 24

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM •

12845-102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • FASHIONING FEATHERS: Dead Birds, Millinery Craft and the Plumage Trade; examines the effect of fashion's demand for beautiful feathers on bird populations at the beginning of the 20th century; until Jan 6 • THE TSARS' CABINET: Two Hundred Years of Russian Decorative Arts under the Romanovs: Oct 6-Jan 2

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St •

780.488.3619 • PRAIRIE DARKNESS: Artwork

by Jim Davies; Sep 22-Oct 9 • DIAGRAMS FOR THE PROMISED END: artwork by Sean Caulfield; Oct 13-Oct 30

STRATHCONA COUNTY GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood

Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • SPYDER BITES (working title): Sep 14-Oct 28

VAAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.421.1731 • HOMEWORK: Artwork by David Cantine, Karen Cantine; Sep 13-Oct 13 • VAA Bay 3rd Annual FUNdraiser 'Think Small' / Membership Show: Visual Arts Alberta membership show and sale; Oct 18-Nov 24; Opening reception: Oct 18, 7-9:30pm VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St. Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa. ca • 5 TALES ON ABSTRACTION: A group exhibition; Oct 3-Oct 27; Reception: Oct 11, 7-9pm, artist in attendance VELVET OLIVE LOUNGE • 4924-50 St, Red Deer • Alberta Art & Drafting staff; Oct 1-31

WEST END GALLERY • 12308 Jasper Ave • 780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • Rod Charlesworth: An exhibition of new work; Oct 13-25

• nvsart.ca • NVSArt: Textured abstract art • Oct-Jan

MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • GLASS JOURNAL: by Manola Borrajo-Giner; Sep 1-Nov 4 MISERICORDIA COMMUNITY HOSPITAL • 16940 - 87 Ave •

780.432.6678; wands@web.net • Reflectivity: a series of mixed media assemblages completed within the past year • Sep 30-Nov 10

WUNDERBAR ON WHYTE • 8120-

LITFEST 2012 • Various locations around Edmonton • litfestalberta.org • Non-fiction content comes to life. Avid readers with non-fiction content and creators through a series of events such as panels, readings and presentations Oct 17-28 READINGS OF COLLABORATIVE POETRY BY DOUG BARBOUR & SHEILA MURPHY • MacEwan University, City Centre Campus, Library • The authors read from their collaborative collection of poetry Continuations 2, as well as some of their newest creations. Q&A and book signing will take place • Oct 10, 12pm

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St •

780.902.5900 • Poetry every Tue with Edmonton's local poets

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101 St • 780.436.2286 • The poets of Nothing, For Now: poetry workshop and jam every Sun • No minors

THEATRE ALBERTA THEATRE - IN THREE ACTS • Strathcona County Library, 401

Festival Lane • 780.410.8600 • Hear about the colourful early days of Alberta’s theatre scene.

Will also feature the radio drama of writers Elsie Park Gowan and Gwen Pharis Ringwood, including a radio play produced by CKUA • Oct 21, 2-4pm • $10 (general), $5 (students)

CAVALIA: A MAGICAL ENCOUNTER BETWEEN HUMAN AND HORSE • Edmonton City Centre Airport •

Featuring 49 horses and 39 riders, acrobats, aerialists, dancers and musicians from around the world, Cirque du Soleil cofounder Normand Latourelle created this dream-like performance that explores man’s longstanding relationship with horses • Sep 11-Oct 21 • $39.50-$124.50 + applicable taxes and fees

CHIMPROV • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101 A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • First three Sat every month, 10pm, until Jul • $12 (door or buy in adv at Tix on the Square)

MITCH MATIC // F&M E D M O N TO N O P E RA C H O R U S

- 109 Ave • 780.483.4051, tf: 1.877.529.7829 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • A sequel to last season's popular hit. Back from America and determined to never perform live again, The Beatles embarked on the most creative and incredible journey in pop music history • Sep 7-Nov 4

GHOSTBUSTED • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, #2690, 8882 - 170 St (West Edmonton Mall), Phase II • 780.484.2424, tf: 1.877.214.2424 • jubilations.ca • Pete Winkman is the head maintenance man at the Dorchester Hotel, but just until he can raise the money to go back to school. When the hotel manger says he would pay almost anything to get rid of the ghosts that plague the hotel Pete seizes the opportunity and announces that he and his two friends will rid the hotel of its unwanted visitors • Aug 24-Oct 21 MURDER MYSTERY - GHOSTBLUSTERS • Capitol Theatre • After years

of speculation, the Edmonton Society for the Paranormal (ESP), the Western Organization of Other-Worldly Operations (WOOO), and even the famous "Ghost Hunters" have joined forces to conduct an official investigation. Will someone go to murderous lengths to ensure the hotel is officially certified as haunted • Oct 13

THEATRESPORTS • Citadel Theatre, 9828 - 101 A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30 and 10 pm THE IRRELEVANT SHOW • Roxy, 10708-124 St • attheroxy.com • A live recording of CBC Radio's award-winning sketch comedy show • Sep 29-Nov 10 TYPHOON JUDY • Roxy, 10708-124 St • attheroxy.com • As Typhoon Viola swirls around Hong Kong, Judy Garland lies comatose in a hospital, the victim of a storm of her own making. As she drifts towards the light, “Typhoon Judy” enters a desolate rehearsal hall with a lone piano player and begins to tell tales of her life with comedy, anecdotes and of course, song • Oct 11-Oct 29 THE WEIR • Walterdale Playhouse,

10322 - 83 Ave • walterdaleplayhouse.com • In a small, rural bar in western Ireland, four men gather every night to drink and tell stories. One night, they are joined by a young woman from Dublin. What starts as a visit to the local pub turns into a night of ghostly tales and an unexpected twist that changes everything • Oct 17-20, 23-27 • $12-$18 at Tix on the Square

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FOUR LADS WHO SHOOK THE WORLD - THE BEATLES STORY: PART 2 • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615

GENDER CULTURE AND RELIGION: TACKLING SOME DIFFICULT QUESTIONS • Lister Centre,

HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB • 15120 Stony Plain Rd • 780.915.8869 • Edmonton Story Slam: writers share their original, 5-minute stories; followed by a music jam • 3rd Wed every month, 7pm (sign-up); 7:30pm (show) • $5

MANDOLIN BOOKS • 6419 - 112 Ave

780.422.8174 • strollofpoets.com • The Poets’ Haven Weekly Reading Series: every Mon, 7pm; Sep 17 (launch; not a sign-up event) presented by the Stroll of Poets Society • $5

POOF! THE MUSICAL • Capitol Theatre • The tale of a tween-aged witch who just wants to be normal, and her twisted mother who wants her to continue their evil lineage • Oct 11-21, 8pm; Matinee on Oct 20, 2pm

• Literary Saloon: reading series the 2nd Thu every month; Oct-May, 7pm (door)

KIWANIS GALLERY–Red Deer • Red Deer Public Library • PULSE OF ISTANBUL: Works by Asta Dale; Until Oct 14 780.423.5353 • latitude53.org • HOW THE WEST WAS WON: by Aimée Henny Brown; Sep 28-Nov 10 • CIRCUMSTANCES WITH SOME EARTH AND SKY: by Kent Tate; Sep 28-Nov 10

UPPER CRUST CAFÉ • 10909-86 Ave •

ARTERY • 9535 Jasper Ave • 780.441.6966

Wildrose Room, University of Alberta • Book launch and panel discussion • Oct 11, 7-9pm • Free; registration required

LATITUDE 53 • 10248 - 106 St •

Anne St, St. Albert • starfest.ca • Presentations with Canadian writers • Oct 20-27 • $5 (each event)

NEXT TO NORMAL • Citadel Theatre, 9828 - 101A Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre.com • About a family coping with the complexities of modern life – heartbreak, compassion and hope • Oct 20-Nov 11

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raft beer has been a buried treasure among Edmonton's bar scene, until now. The Underground Tap & Grill has taken the brews from being a rarity on a draft list to front and center.

Don't expect to find average, run-ofthe-mill brands at the the Underground.

Here, you'll find only the good stuff, with 72 taps of craft and micro-brews, 60 of which will be mainstays while 12 will rotate to feature different varieties.

General manager David Helm wanted to offer Edmontonians a reprieve from conventional macro-brewed beer and standard menu items commonly found in neighbourhood pubs.

"I took a trip to Calgary and Vancouver back to back and one thing I noticed is they have craft specific lounges where that was the only type of beer that they serve and they were wildly successful.

I could not for the life of me figure out why something like that would not be successful in Edmonton," Helm explains of the concept.

The Underground is located directly below the Treasury vodka bar, but Helm says there is no direct link between the two businesses and adds it will be an amicable co-habitation. He says the Treasury wanted a second business downstairs that could help retain business in the building during busy periods, rather than patrons getting fed up with waiting in long lines and going elsewhere. This way, they can move between the Treasury and the Underground, enjoying the contrasting atmospheres of each.

The Underground offers a relaxed, welcoming interior with ample seating for large and small groups. In addition to an extensive craft and micro-brew list, the Underground will offer a full lunch and

dinner menu, with dishes that will suit a variety of tastes and diets. Currently, a scaled-down introductory menu is being offered leading up to the grand opening on November 1 to let patrons get a taste of the menu lineup.

Helm says the fare is best described as upscale pub fare. Highlights on the current introductory menu include bison sliders, topped with arugula, roasted red peppers, caramelized onions and spicy aoili on mini sourdough buns; a grilled BLT avocado sandwich with applewood bacon, lettuce, tomatoes and avocado on grilled chiabatta bread; as well as smoked salmon salad with fresh greens bocconcini, feta and rosemary garlic dressing.

While the Underground has a staggering list of draft and bottled beers, as well as a full bar, it's not going to be a haven reserved only for beer geeks.

Helm wants it to be a place where those unfamiliar with craft beer can become more educated with the niche market, and potentially discover new favourite brews. The selection varies from local brands like Alley Kat Amber and Yellowhead, as well as Canadian micro and craft brews such as Granville Island, Mill Street and Unibroue. There is a beer from almost every province, as well as a couple of territories, including Paddock Wood from Saskatchewan.

One of Helm's concerns in compiling the draft list was that people would come in only ever having had macrobrews before, not recognize any of the beer and accidentally point to a Belgian quadruple, which they'd hate and write off craft beer forever, just because they hadn't adjusted to a stronger taste. To mitigate this, he has a troupe of welleducated staff who are there to help guide customers based on their palettes, as well as a simple way to navigate the

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lengthy beer menu.

"I got the idea from a post-secondary course calendar where you would expect a 100-level course would be far easier than a 400-level course, and the best way to king of work your way to a 400-level course would be to work your way through those courses," he explains, adding those who are fairly new to craft beer would be wise to start in the 100-level beer before branching out into the stronger varieties.

This approach to the craft beer world goes hand-in-hand with Helm's educational approach to The Underground.

He says he would like customers who are familiar and not-so-familiar to feel comfortable in the space and learn a thing or two, despite their prior knowledge. Beer flights, which can be compiled from any level of the menu give customers a chance to taste without committing to a full pint.

The idea for a craft-specific business has been met with some skepticism and Helm says while he has been told the idea will never hold up in Edmonton, Helm believes once people open up and try craft beer, it will be hard for them to go back to macro-brew varieties.

"I make the wine analogy a lot. You can have really cheap wine and then if you have a $30 or $40 dollar bottle of wine it kind of ruins you because you can't go back to that nice $10 bottle of wine," Helm says. "With craft beer, it's the exact same analogy there: there's this inferior product and superior product, but the cost is almost identical. In some cases it might be a little more expensive, but it's not wild."

In other words, back away from the Budweiser and see what you've been missing.

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BEER

Boston, beer and baseball Vue's beer geek strikes gold

We might hate the Bruins and Red go there).

Sox and can legitimately mock all of the US for its messed up health Of course, having plentiful brewcare system, but I gotta say we eries doesn’t mean much if there could learn a thing or two from isn’t anywhere you can drink them.

Bostonians about beer.

On the liquor store front, Boston I recently spent a week in Boston was disappointing—I can get a betfor work and found some time ter selection at Sherbrooke to explore their local beer Liquor. But it was the pub scene. Generally beer scene that made Boston fans know all about Denfun. Within easy reach of m ly.co eweek ver, Portland and even tothepint@vu the subway there are a Jason San Diego and their unbehandful of first rate beer Foster places that any beer geek lievable beer cultures. They are what we aspire to. Boston, would love to find. Right downon the other hand, flies a bit under town I found two. The Parish Café the radar. Mention Boston and beer on Boylston Street has a classy, repeople nod their heads and say fined feel. Their beer list of 10 on something unimpressed like “Yeah, tap and about 40 in the bottle may they got some good beer”. not impress in terms of quantity, However, after a week there, I can but the quality is unquestioned. Evsay that even if it isn’t the best beer ery beer deserves its place. And the scene in the US, it sure beats the staff had a good sense of beer and crap out of anything in Canada. Alcould talk you through the list. low me to walk through a few of A place that really warmed my my experiences, in case you are heart was Bukowski’s Tavern (Dalheading down there anytime soon. ton Street). I loved its local, workThe first thing you need to know ing class feel. No bells and whistles is that there are a LOT of brewerhere; just a long bar, a few tables ies in the region. Greater Boston and a gruff, no-nonsense atmohas 25 breweries (most of which sphere. Twenty-one amazing, conyou can reach by transit). Within a stantly rotating craft beer on tap couple hours drive there are more and another 100 or so in the bottle. than 100 craft breweries, almost as Just don’t expect the bartender to many as we have in all of Canada. make small talk. I happened to wanOf course, not all of them are der in while the Canadian women's something to write home about, soccer team was playing the US in but in that mix are some of the the Olympic semi-final, and it was country’s finest craft brewers, inclear I needed to keep my allegianccluding Samuel Adams, Allagash, es to myself lest I not make it out Cisco, Harpoon, Wachusett, Magic with all my teeth. And this was socHat, Smuttynose and Shipyard. cer, goddammit!

For the record, some of my local favourites were Magic Hat #9, Many tourists feel the need to Waschussett’s Green Monsta, Allawork their way to fabled Fenway gash White, Pretty Things Jack D’or Park. I did too, but not for the baseand Jack’s Abbey India Pale Lager ball. As it works out there are two (write the names down in case you good beer places a Bautista slam

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DISHWEEKLY Duchess Provisions / Now open Connected to the decadence that is Duchess Bakery, Duchess Provisions is like going inside the bakery's pantry.

It's filled to the brim with ingredients, preserves, tools, books and baking kits for pastry connoisseurs as well as baking beginners. The store will be a permanent fixture to compliment the brand that head baker Giselle Courteau began three years ago. (10720 - 124 St) Chocophilia / Back in business Kerstin Roos, the chocolate mastermind behind the Chocophilia bars, closed the business's doors in April, but now, her sister Angie is taking over the reins. Production will be on a smaller scale, but will be available at the City Market downtown, which moves indoors at City Hall starting this weekend.

away from the historic ballpark.

The Yardhouse is a huge beer pub chain spanning the US, but don’t let that fool you. They know their beer. They have 142 taps, plus more in the bottle (I neglected to count). A good chunk are corporate beer, but I also found an impressive range of craft beer from across the US, plus the staff knew their stuff.

The other Fenway beer place is a brewpub called Boston Beer Works.

The beer was only average, but you gotta give it points for offering real beer right across the street from Fenway.

But my favourite Boston beer location had to be the Sunset Grill and Tap in the working class suburb of Allston (only a 30 minute subway ride). It has 112 taps and another 400 in the bottle, but that is not the only thing that makes this place great. It has a friendly, down-home atmosphere, a welcoming attitude and what is unquestioningly the most beer knowledgeable staff I have ever encountered. The bartender—an outgoing 40-something woman—was able to match me toe-to-toe in beer knowledge. She knew her hop varieties, her brewing traditions and loads of other knowledge. I knew I was home.

These are only a few highlights of what Boston has to offer a beer fan.

Their beer culture is far more developed than anywhere in Canada and there is enough local beer that you can spend your entire time drinking 100-mile beer. And really, isn’t that something we all want? V Jason Foster is the creator of onbeer. org, a website devoted to news and views on beer from the prairies and beyond.

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Raw Food Preparation Class / Sun, Oct 14 (7 pm – 9 pm) Sessions are taught by raw foodist Lauri Germain and begin with "NOT Junk Food" on October 14, whcih how snacks can be healthy. Participants will learn to make crispy kale chips, real ginger ale and more. (Earth's General Store, $25) Chopped Edmonton 2012 / Wed, Oct 17 (5:30 pm) Local personal chef and caterer Andrew Parker is bringing the idea of the popular Food Network series Chopped to Edmonton. Parker will be recruiting three chefs to face off using ingredients fans voted in via Facebook to create a main course and dessert. The event is part of Ronald McDonald House's Home for Dinner program, where kids receiving treatment and their families can enjoy a meal cooked by volunteers away from the hospital. (Ronald McDonald House)

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PROVENANCE

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Six things to make with bacon Not so long ago, bacon lovers were up in arms over the possibility their favourite meaty indulgence would be in short supply. Bacon's not going anywhere, but it may cost you a few more pennies to indulge in the greasy goodness. Below is a special edition of Six Things to get the creative juices flowing and make the most out of your next pack.

CHOCOLATE BACON CUPCAKES WITH PEANUT BUTTER FROSTING

This indulgence is all about tasty weirdness. You'll need a package of chocolate cake mix, or use your own cake recipe if you have one. Bake the cupcakes according to the recipe instructions and top with peanut butter frosting. Make sure you have approximately eight to 10 pieces of cooked bacon to chop up and use for garnish. (cltampa.com)

BACON CINNAMON ROLLS

Take two delicious things and fuse them together. All you need is one tube of ready-to-cook cinnamon rolls and one slice of uncooked bacon per cinnamon roll.

Place rolls on a pan and wrap a piece of bacon around each. Follow the baking instructions on the cinnamon roll package and you're all set. (aldenteblog.com)

CHEESY BACON POPCORN

Movie night will never be the same. Cook up a few strips of bacon and then drizzle one tablespoon of bacon drippings over four cups of hot popcorn. Crumble the cooked bacon and sprinkle on top, along with a quarter cup of grated parmesan or cheddar cheese. (foodnetwork.com) BACON BUTTER

It's a condiment revolution. Cook two slices of bacon in a skillet, then drain and chop. Next, blend one stick of softened butter with the bacon drippings and two tablespoons of maple syrup. Finally, stir in the chopped bacon (foodnetwork.com) BACON WRAPPED PRETZELS WITH BROWN SUGAR AND CAYENNE GLAZE

BACON EXPLOSION

This dish should come with its own warning label, but is a revered entity among meat lovers. There's a variety of different ways to make one online, depending on your own personal preferences, but the main thing you'll needs is at least two pounds of bacon.

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It's suggested as a party appetizer, but you don't need an excuse to make these. You'll need one package of bacon, two cups of brown sugar, three tablespoons of red chili powder, a dash (or three) of cayenne pepper and one package of pretzel rods. Break pretzels and bacon in half; mix brown sugar, chili powder and cayenne together and spread out on a large flat dish; coat each strip of bacon in the mixture and wrap around the pretzel rods. Place each on a wire rack on top of a baking pan and bake at 375 F for about 10 minutes. (creative-culinary.com) V

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Whitehorse Danny Michel Jenn Grant Amelia Curran Out now

Out now

Out now

Out now

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AMELIA CURRAN • ST JOHN’S, NL: Arts & Culture Centre, Oct 12 • CHARLOTTETOWN, PE: Trailside Café, Oct 23 & 24 • HALIFAX, NS: Spatz Theatre, Oct 25 • MONTREAL, PQ: Upstairs Jazz Club, Nov 1 • WAKEFIELD, PQ: Blacksheep Inn, Nov 2-3 • LONDON, ON: London Music Club, Nov 7 • TORONTO, ON: The Rivoli, Nov 8 • HAMILTON, ON: Pearl Theatre, Nov 9 • WINNIPEG, MB: Park Theatre, Nov 14 • REGINA, SK: The Artful Dodger, Nov 15 • SASKATOON, SK: Christ Church Anglican, Nov 16 • EDMONTON, AB: Royal Alberta Museum Thtr., Nov 17 • LLOYDMINISTER, AB: The Root Emporium, Nov 18 • CALGARY, AB: Ironwood Stage & Grill, Nov 19-20 • KELOWNA, BC: Kelowna Folk Club, Nov 21 • VANCOUVER, BC: The Media Club, Nov 22 • THE BEAUTIES • HAMILTON, ON: The Studio at Hamilton Place, Oct 26 • DANNY MICHEL • COURTENAY, BC: Joe’s Garage, Oct 30 • DUNCAN, BC: Duncan Garage Showroom, Nov 1 • KELOWNA, BC: BC

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Rotary Centre for the Arts, Nov 2 • VANCOUVER, BC: BC Centennial Theatre Ctr., Nov 4 • LETHBRIDGE, AB: The Slice, Nov 5+6 • CANMORE, AB: Communitea Café, Nov 8 • ST ALBERT, AB: The Arden Theatre, Nov 9 • CALGARY, AB: The Ironwood, Nov 10+11 • WINNIPEG, MB: WECC, Nov 13 • TORONTO, ON: Winter Garden Theatre, Dec 8 • ST CATHARINE'S, ON: Sean O’Sullivan Theatre, Jan 17 • BURLINGTON, ON: Burlington Performing Arts Center, Jan 18 • DEEP DARK WOODS • AUSTIN, TX: Austin City Limits, Oct 13 • DENVER, CO: Marquis Theatre, Oct 16 • JACKSON, WY: Pink Garter Theatre, Oct 17 • PRINCE ALBERT, SK: EA Rawlinson Centre, Oct 24 • REGINA, SK: The Exchange, Oct 25 • LETHRBRIDGE, AB: U of Lethbridge, Oct 26 • BRAGG CREEK, AB: Community Centre, Oct 27 • EDMONTON, AB: Starlite Room, Oct 28 • NELSON, BC: Royal on Baker, Oct 30 • VANCOUVER, BC: Commodore Ballroom, Nov 1 • DEL BARBER • TORONTO, ON: The Rivoli,

SIX SHOOTER ON TOUR! Oct 10 • SUDBURY, ON: Townehouse Tavern, Oct 11 • ELLIOT LAKE, ON: Lester B. Pearson Civic Ctr., Oct 12 • BRACEBRIDGE, ON: Hastings County Beer Fest, Oct 13 • MONTREAL, PQ: Upstairs Jazz, Oct 14 • WINNIPEG, MB: WECC, Oct 26 • REGINA, SK: The Artful Dodger, Oct 27 • SASKATOON, SK: The Basement, Oct 28 • COLEMAN, AB: Blackbird Coffee House, Oct 30 • CALGARY, AB: Ironwood Café, Nov 1 • EDMONTON, AB: Haven Social Club, Nov 2 • JASPER, AB: Royal Canadian Legion, Nov 4 • HARLAN PEPPER • TORONTO, ON: Yonge-Dundas Square, Oct 1, 12.30pm • THORNBURY, ON: Bridges Tavern, Oct 5-6 • ORILLIA, ON: Orillia Opera House, Nov 7* • PORT DOVER, ON: Lighthouse Festival Thtr., Nov 8* • OTTAWA, ON: NAC, Nov 9* •

JENN GRANT • WINNIPEG, MB: The Garrick, Sep 29* • SASKATOON, SK: Broadway Thtr., Oct 1* • REGINA, SK: The Exchange, Oct 2 & 3* • FARGO, ND: Studio 222, Oct 4* • CHICAGO, IL: Park West, Oct 6* • CALGARY, AB: Ironwood, Oct 8&9** • LETHBRIDGE, AB: Geomatic, Oct 10** • RED DEER, AB: Hideout, Oct 11** • EDMONTON, AB: Haven, Oct 12 & 13** • CANMORE, AB: Communitea, Oct 14** • NELSON, BC: The Royal, Oct 16** • KELOWNA, BC: Sapphire, Oct 17** • VANCOUVER, BC: Biltmore, Oct 18** • LONDON, ON: Aeolian, Oct 25** • GUELPH, ON: Dublin Street Church, Oct 27** • WATERLOO, ON: Starlight Social Lounge, Oct 30** • HAMILTON, ON: Studio Thtr.

Hamilton Place, Nov 1 • OTTAWA, ON: National Arts Centre, Nov 16 & 17 • MONTREAL, QC: Petit Campus, Nov 20** • TORONTO, ON: Winter Garden Theatre, Nov 24**

SUDBURY, ON: Steelworkers Hall, Nov 14* • SAULT STE. M., ON: Algoma’s Watertower Inn, Nov 15* • REGINA, SK: Casino Regina, Nov 17* • WINNIPEG, MB: Burton Cummings Theatre, Nov 18* • SWIFT CURRENT, SK: Lyric Theatre, Nov 19* • SASKATOON, SK: Broadway Theatre, Nov 20* • EDMONTON, AB: Winspear Theatre, Nov 21* • CALGARY, AB: Epcor Centre’s Jack Singer, Nov 23* • KAMLOOPS, BC: Kamloops Convention Ctr, Nov 24* • COURTENAY, BC: Native Sons Hall, Nov 25* • NANAIMO, BC: The Port Theatre, Nov 26* • VANCOUVER, BC: Vogue Room, Nov 27* • PETERBOROUGH, ON: Market Hall, Nov 29* • LONDON, ON: Aeolian Hall, Dec 1* • HAMILTON, ON: Melrose United Church, Dec 7* *W/KATHLEEN EDWARDS **W/CUFF THE DUKE *WITH BLACKIE AND THE RODEO KINGS

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WHITEHORSE • PRINCE ALBERT, SK: EA Rawlinson Center for the Arts, Oct 2 • ST ALBERT, AB: Arden Theatre, Oct 4, 7.30pm • ROSELAND, VA: Festy, Oct 6 • ASHEVILLE, NC: Grey Eagle, Oct 9 • NASHVILLE, TN: Slowbar, Oct 11 • LOUISVILLE, KY: Zanza Bar, Oct 12 • CHICAGO, IL: Schubas Tavern, Oct 13 • ANN ARBOR, MI: The Ark, Oct 15 • PITTSBURGH, PA: Club Café, Oct 17 • CLEVELAND, OH: Wilbert’s, Oct 18 • NEW YORK, NY: Rockwood (Stage 2), Oct 22 • VIENNA, VA: Jammin’ Java, Oct 23 • AUSTIN, TX: Lamberts, Oct 25 • DENTON, TX: Dan’s Silverleaf, Oct 26 • HOUSTON, TX: McGonigel’s Mucky Duck, Oct 27 • COBALT, ON: Classic Theatre, Nov 10 • TORONTO, ON: Massey Hall, Mar 2 • PHOENIX, AZ: The Crescent Ballroom, Nov 27 • SAN DIEGO, CA: Soda Bar, Nov 28 • LOS ANGELES, CA: Hotel Cafe, Nov 29 • SAN FRANCISCO,CA: Hotel Utah, Dec 2 • PORTLAND, OR: Doug Fir Lounge, Dec 4 • SEATTLE, WA: Tractor Tavern, Dec 5

MUSIC

LIVE MUSIC

OCT. 12-13 LYLE HOBBS SUNDAY CELTIC MUSIC 5-8PM OCT. 15 SINGER/SONGWRITER 8PM W/ HOST JIMMY WHIFFEN WEDNESDAY OPEN STAGE W/ DUFF ROBISON edmontonpubs.com

PREVUE // ABRASIVE BEAUTY

A darker homecoming

Rodney DeCroo revisits a bleak past on Allegheny Tue, Oct 16 (8 pm) Rodney DeCroo With Mark Haney The Artery, $10

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or much of his adult life, Rodney DeCroo tried not to think about his childhood. He's still never been back to Allegheny, the small coal town he was born in, though its lasting effects—a very self-destructive 20s—followed him well beyond its borders. DeCroo eventually managed to surpass the demons: he got sober, picked up a guitar and developed a better life for himself, rooted in acclaimed folk music and poetry. But it was, in fact, his art that's now brought him back to Allegheny.

"For a lot of my life I've resisted thinking about it, and then suddenly I found myself writing some songs and some poems that were about that time in my life, and then it started happening more and more, and I realized I want to do this," Decroo explains over the phone from his BC home. "I want to get this stuff out and see what I can make out of it, rather than have it be bad memories I refuse to look at. And in the process of doing that, I think what happened is I've created something that hopefully allows me to reach people in terms of art, but it's kind of allowed me not to be making all that effort to keep it at bay."

The yield of unearthing his past is the two-pronged Allegheny: a printed poetry collection and an album that sets a selection of those poems to buzzing, hypnotic soundscapes, Decroo's usual high, melodic voice lowered into a deeper, storyteller register to craft the proper mood.

It's not a verbatim history, he notes, but together, the book and album develop a composite image of the places DeCroo is from and the troubled youth he went through in Allegheny, in middle-of-nowhere BC, and as a young man in Vancouver, trying to recover from it all.

DeCroo notes that the process of arranging his past on the page revealed some new layers to those days.

"I was surprised, while I was writing it—like in the "Oil Drum" poem for example—I have us standing around this oil drum, quietly looking down into the fire. We're these young

teenagers whose future basically holds things like treatment centres and jail and not very good prospects. And we're transitioning out of what little security we've known, of our maybe destructive but nonetheless family lives, and we're gonna go into the adult world soon and we're poorly equipped to meet it and our prospects don't look very good," he says.

"And I don't even know how conscious we were of that, but what I realized by the end of it, things were happening so quickly and our world was collapsing, and on an unconsciousness level we knew that, but none of us would've explained it that way. And I also realized I had a deep affection for these guys— affection's such a trite word, actually. I realized we shared a real troubled intimacy. We had a camraderie between us that allowed us to get past ... " He pauses. "I don't know how to explain it. We needed each other, and I didn't realize the extent to

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which that was true until I wrote the poems because I hadn't talked to those guys in years."

That sort of sharing, new to DeCroo in its scope—he'd started probing his past on 2006's War Torn Man— stands out for an abrasive beauty.

Plenty of artists have dug into troubled pasts, but none of the darkness feels like artifice here; even the scores, developed by former Edmontonion Rob Malowany, tailor each individual poem seamlessly in mood, lifting his tales of Allegheny toward a darkly beautiful catharsis.

"I could see people going, 'Wow, why would you want to write about some of this stuff. Aren't you kind of hesitant to reveal some of this, or to revisit it?'" DeCroo says. "And I could see people having that response or asking that question. I think it's a legitimate question, right? I think that I've always been drawn to art that visits difficult places, and, in so doing, I like to think art can transform those experiences and universalize them in a way that can find significance in them and even meaning. And, for lack of a better expression, sort of insist on a defiant beauty, despite that."

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The Kickit Bros.

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PREVUE // DANCE AT THESE SHOWS

Christian Hansen

Out in the wild: hunting for live sounds

Thu, Oct 11 (8 pm) Dinwoodie Lounge, SOLD OUT Fri, Oct 12 – Sat, Oct 13 (8 pm) With Mikey Maybe Elevation Room, $20

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NEW ALBUM AVAILABLE NOW

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alfway into making the record, we realized this isn't Christian Hansen and the Autistics anymore. The songs were not dance songs. It wasn't dance rock. It was something different."

Christian Hansen is talking about C'mon Arizona, his band's follow up to its neon-synth-propelled debut Power Leopard. It's what Hansen calls a transitional record, and he's certainly right about that, though its shift isn't just in terms of sonics.

A year ago Hansen and bandmate/ wife Molly Flood moved their base of operations to Toronto; the band lineup shuffled, eventually settling up with a rhythm section of considerable pedigree (drummer Al Boyle, who took over kit duties in You Say Party after that band's original drummer passed away, and Dustin Hawthorne, former four-stringer for Hot Hot Heat). The Autistics moniker was dropped (different lineup, different time), and C'mon—the ear-

ly working title of which was Dance Floor DeathCore, eventually found its way through the tumult to see the band take a new shape: a record devoid of samples, replaced with the ballast energy of live sound.

As music, C'mon Arizona isn't a total left turn, maintaining the moveit-shake-it energy of Power Leopard—produced, like Leopard was, by Doug Organ—but the delivery here gets re-imagined: the synths, once the band's beachhead instrument, now share the front-and-centre with Hansen's amped-up guitar lines and a punishing kit-and-bass combo.

After years of favouring synths over the six-string, Hansen admits it took some time to re-hone his chops.

"Growing up, I used to play guitar constantly, and I was, y'know, pretty good, I guess," he laughs. "But I realized how much not playing guitar all the time ... it's like anything, right?

My chops had suffered. Since we've been here, it's been a process of playing and playing as much as I can, and same with everyone else in the band. We've added two members, and they're both really, really great players, and accomplished musicians.

It's definitely pushed Molly and I into

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just getting back on top of being able to really play. " Of Hansen's three-show visit back to Edmonton, Thursday's Dinwoodie gig marks the new lineup's Alberta debut and the finished album's release, with a scattering of special guests planned. And while it may have taken some time to craft—the C'mon Arizona recording process spread itself out over a year—Hansen certainly seems pleased with the results. Maybe relieved is a better word for it: to wind up with an album that feels worth the wait, no matter how long it took.

"I can always tell when I'm beating my head against a wall trying to make a song happen, and in the early recording process, that's what I was doing," he says. "We had that initial success, and then you get kind of stuck, and you get kind of scared, and you want to make people happy, and you wanna deliver the goods.

Trying to make these dance songs, and it just wasn't happening. Once I just said goodbye to that, all the songs fell into place."

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ON THE RECORD

FIRSTS, LASTS AND FAVOURITES

Into The Beautiful Wild

The Crackling

Jenn Grant talks about the making of her latest album

Jenn Grant

Fri, Oct 12 and Sat, Oct 13 (8 pm) With Cuff the Duke Haven Social Club, $15 in advance, $20 at the door The Beautiful Wild, the latest release from Halifax-based singersongwriter Jenn Grant, is a collection of songs built like classic fairytales filled with love and nostalgia. The album title is a story in and of itself, referring to moments in life that pass by without signalling their full importance, where the full magnitude is felt later. Prior to her shows in Edmonton, Grant shared some insights about her new album with Vue. VUE WEEKLY: How long did it take to make The Beautiful Wild from the initial songwriting through to the end of the recording?

JENN GRANT: I had been writing songs since Honeymoon Punch came out, but decided to throw them out and start again once we arrived at

the house in PEI (except for "In the Belly of a Dragon") I also wrote "Hollywood" in November while on tour in the states.

The rest of the songs were written that week in January. It was a very fast and new experience. We did the drums and bass to them that week as they were written each day, and then I spent the winter getting to know the songs. Danny (Ledwell) was on tour for the winter with Kathleen Edwards, and when he came home we got to work adding layers to the songs.

VW: When you were writing the songs, did you come at them in a particular way? Lyrics first? Music first?

JG: I tuned my guitar down to different notes and found the note I wanted to begin on and the songs came out all at once right from there.

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? JG: We did the drums and bass in PEI right away, and then later we added the layers. We did them all individually, at home. I wanted to have the bass and drums down so I could experiment with my vocals and then have time to be very specific with the other choices with Dan. VW:

Were there any other songs written that were left off the album? Why? JG: I threw out a bunch. I don't shelve songs, I just throw them out. I wasn't feeling that inspired by them, and VW:

much more excited by the new material that was happening.

How did you decide which songs to include on the album?

Did you have an idea of what you wanted The Beautiful Wild to be when you started, or did the finished shape emerge as the writing and recording went along?

JG: It shaped and emerged in its own way over time. I felt like I was just a vessel for the songs. I felt very tapped in to a creative energy during this specific time in January, and just went with it.

VW:

VW: The album was produced by Daniel Ledwell. What drew you to him and what did he bring to the process?

JG: It's exciting to work together and to continually be inspired by things as a team. He understands what I want and makes it happen and brings textures and atmosphere with everything he does.

If you were to trace the musical map that led you to The Beautiful Wild, what would it look like?

JG: I don't really picture a musical map. I just see myself sitting by a fire close to the snow and no one around. And all of the songs coming down in one fell swoop which was about 10 days of writing and recording the bass and drums. The songs and stories echoed life and stories in my imagination, but also events that hadn't happened yet and seemed to unfold as the winter went on. It's the most personal album I've made, without me even really understanding how it all happened. V VW:

Sun, Oct 14 (9 pm) Wunderbar The Crackling, a new folk-rock endeavour spearheaded by Vancouver-based musician Kenton Loewen, is touring in support of Ashen, a new EP and followup to its debut album Keep Full Ambitious. Prior to the Crackling's stop in Edmonton, Loewen shared his firsts, lasts and favourites with Vue.

Last album Neil Young, Live at Massey Hall 1971.

"This is a new song that I wrote about my ranch": Young talking about "Old Man." New? Shivers!

Last concert The Dirty Three and Fond of Tigers.

The Tigers are some of Vancouver's finest. Warren Ellis is a trip. Gotta love him.

First album I think it was Phil Collins, No Jacket Required. Gotta love Columbia House. A two-way scam!

Favourite album Ornette Coleman, The Art of The Improvisers. Groundbreaking interplay. Four people listening so deeply. Ed Blackwell is one of my favourite drummers.

First concert Yikes. Might have been Amy Grant and Michael W Smith.

Christian pop. Two scary words put together.

Favourite musical guilty pleasure Oh God, I dunno. Howard Jones.

"Things can only get better." What does that say exactly? V

PREVUE // HARDCORE

Secret Rivals Fri, Oct 12 (6 pm) With Randy Graves, Shelbi, Ringleader Pawn Shop, $10

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ecret Rivals may be one of Edmonton's newest hardcore outfits, but the members are far from new to the scene.

Vocalist John Kennedy of E-town Beatdown began putting the band together six months ago, rounding up a group of the city's hardcore fixtures, including bassist Aaron Clarke, guitarist Don Palmer and drummer Ryan "Junior" Kittlitz of Savannah, who he had toured with in the past.

"We kind of know what to expect; there's no surprises," Junior says of the tight-knit group. "We know what this band's about, we know what we sound like, we know what we're going

for. It's just all fun and it's good hangs whenever we're hanging out together.

There's no bullshit."

Since solidifying the lineup, it's been a whirlwind of booking offers, which meant getting an album out as soon as possible. The band is set to release its debut album, The Committed Few, a disc firmly rooted in the style of '80s and '90s New York hardcore. Kennedy says the album is a reflection of influences stemming from the likes of Madball and Comeback Kid, who also happen to be friends of the group.

"It's not a rip of those bands, but you're influenced by what you listen to and those influences come out in all of us," he notes, adding each band member has been listening to hardcore for at least a decade. "Some of

those dudes who influence us are our friends, like Madball. We're homies with those dudes and those are some of the bands we look up to."

Just as the style pays homage to the hardcore bands who have influenced them, the title of the album is a testament to the staunch supporters of the hardcore scene, whether they're still directly part of it or not.

"Over the years we've seen so many bands come and go and so many people come and go," Kennedy notes.

"There's people out there who are committed to it and will go the extra mile to make sure that they're supporting a scene they've always believed in, whether they're 15 years old or 30 years old."

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MUSICNOTES

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The MarvMachura Band / F ri , O c t 12 ( 9 pm) B ri tta n y ' s Lo u n g e c ele b ra te s o n e y e a r o f l i v e m u s i c, th e a tre, d a n c e a n d a l l s o rts o f g o o d s tu f f a t i ts s n a z z y n e w d o w n to w n l o c a ti o n w i th l o c a l r o o ts - ro c k e r M a rv M a c h u ra a n d h i s b a n d . ( B ri tta n y ' s Lo u n g e )

Wide Mouth Mason / Thu, Oct 11 (8 pm) They say we all have our bad days, but that doesn't seem to be the case for Canadian rockers Wide Mouth Mason, or so the band claims with the title of its latest album, No Bad Days. (New City, $15)

GrimSkunk / Fri, Oct 12 (7 pm) The psych-punk rockers from Montréal are a whirlwind of angst and outrage, but when the dust settles, all they want is a little peace in this world. (New City, $8 in advance, $10 at the door)

Mise en Scene / Fri, Oct 12 (8 pm) The rock/pop duo bring the three S's: substance, sincerity and swagger on its new nine-track D e s i r e ' s D e s p a i r. ( A RTe r y )

Bouncing Souls / Fri, Oct 12 (8 pm) Nothing seems to remain uncharted territory for these punk rockers for long, including outer space. The band is journeying to the final frontier—metaphorically that is—on its new album Comet. (Starlite Room, $22.50) Andre Nickatina / Mon, Oct 15 (8 pm) You won't see many interviews with this San Fran hip-hop artist, whose two-decade career has been shrouded in an air of mystermy. (Starlite Room, $25)

Sabir Khan and Dilshad Khan / Sat, Oct 13 (7:30 pm) These musical cousins present A Sarangi Jugalbandi (duet), a classical Indian composition played with the expertise of a new generation. (Royal Alberta Museum, $20, students/seniors $15, Raga-Mala patrons free)

The Crystal Method / Sat, Oct 13 (9 pm) Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland, better known as the Crystal Method, will be shaking up dance floors and blasting speakers when they get the party started on Saturday night. (Empire Ballroom)

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Declan O'Donovan / Tue, Oct 16 (9:30 pm) The singersongwriter from the great white north has been compared to the likes of Tom Waits for his storytelling prowess. See if the comparison stacks up for yourself as he takes the stage in Edmonton. (Wunderbar, $7)

Steve Dawson/ Thu, Oct 18 (8 pm) Slide, pedal, steel, fingerstyle, you name it—if it's got strings, Steve Dawson can probably play it. (Blue Chair Cafe, $25)

Jeffery Michael Straker / Thu, Oct 18 (8 pm) The good old Saskatchewan boy doesn't stay in one place for long, racking up the miles with more than 100 shows each year. (ARTery, $12)

Matt Mays / Thu, Oct 18 (8 pm) Get your Internet browser ready. Tickets for Matt Mays' Edmonton show go on sale October 12. The four-time Juno nominee is hitting the road across the country in support of his new album Coyote.

(Starlite Room)

Electronic Music Info Session / Tue, Oct 16 (6:30 pm) Electronic music is more than just hitting buttons on a computer, and a panel of local and international DJs are here to tell you all about it. (Brixx Bar & Grill, free for Alberta Music Members, $10 for non-members)

SAT, OCT 13, AVENUE THEATRE //////////////

TERRACE

WITH ALL OUT DJ’S, MARK ELLIS, AND DJ READYMADE

FRI, OCT 19, AVENUE THEATRE //////////////

AIDAN KNIGHT

WITH LEIF VOLLEBEKK, AND GUESTS WITH KALLE MATTSON

FRI, OCT 26, THE ARTERY //////////////

SUNPARLOUR PLAYERS SUN, OCT 28, THE STARLITE ROOM ////////////// NO MINORS

THE DEEP DARK WOODS

WITH MARK DAVIS AND GUESTS

FRI, NOV 2, ROYAL AB MUSEUM THEATRE ////////////// ALL AGES & LICENSED

AN INTIMATE EVENING WITH SHANE KOYCZAN Ladyhawk / Thu, Oct 18 (7 pm) No Can Do may be the name of Ladyhawk's latest album, but this is a band that can do, and do it well. (Wunderbar, $20)

SAT, NOV 10, THE HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB

WITH JO THRILLZ, AND DJ’S TWIST & SONNY GRIMEZZ

JCL AND URBAN DNA PRESENT

SON REAL & RICH KIDD WITH GUESTS

SAT, NOV 10, THE PAWN SHOP ////////////// NO MINORS

PHOTOREVUE Fri, Oct 5 / Smashing Pumpkins / Rexall Place MEAGHAN BAXTER // MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

JULIE DOIRON & THE WRONG GUYS MON, NOV 12, AVENUE THEATRE ////////////// NO MINORS

CUNNINLYNGUISTS

WITH TONEDEFF, SADISTIK & DJ FLIPFLOP

FRI, NOV 16, AVENUE THEATRE //////////////

PAPER LIONS

WITH GUESTS

SAT, NOV 17, ROYAL AB MUSEUM THEATRE ////////////// ALL AGES & LICENSED

AMELIA CURRAN

WITH JOE NOLAN & GUESTS

FRI, NOV 23, ROYAL AB MUSEUM THEATRE ////////////// ALL AGES & LICENSED

PHOTOREVUE Thu, Oct 4 / Dragonette / Starlite Room PAUL BLINOV // PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

THE WOODEN SKY

WITH WILDLIFE

FRI, NOV 30, AVENUE THEATRE //////////////

TOM FUN ORCHESTRA

WITH WILD ROSE ORCHESTRA AND GUESTS

FRI, DEC 7, THE ARTERY //////////////

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WITH RYAN MCMAHON, AND GUESTS

JCL, PERRYSCOPE CONCERTS, AND SONIC 102.9 FM PRESENT: WED, DEC 19, STARLITE ROOM//////////////

JAPANDROIDS

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The Fundamentals Get Alright (Stomp)  This seven-piece from Montréal has come out with a bang on its debut album. The Fundamentals bring back the style of '90s horn-fuelled ska, laced with reggae, rock and a whole lot of soul. The feel-good record hits the mark as a cohesive collection of songs that moves seamlessly from one to the next, carrying the band's signature style without it becoming monotonous. Each track is strongly executed, weaving together complex instrumental arrangements with strong male-female harmonies.

MEAGHAN BAXTER

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Ben Folds Five The Sound of the Life of the Mind (ImaVeePee)  The three members of the Ben Folds Five went their separate ways back in 2000, and this casually made return album—developed without a label, written and recorded in bits and pieces whenever the three of them could find time to meet in the studio—has the feeling of a really good one-off reunion jam, successful in finding the old energy that propelled them in their heyday without seeking to change any of it.

So if The Sound of the Life of the Mind sounds like the Ben Folds Five has always sounded, that doesn't mean the band's chasing a past, fleeting glory. It's just three capable musicians revisiting a good thing they used to do together.

Here the aggression's a little tempered maybe, the snark turned down perhaps, but the decade-long gap has had little noticable impact on the sounds the trio makes together. Fold's solo offerings have drawn from broader musical palates than the purposefully restrained piano-fuzz

Ariane Mahrÿke Lemire Wrecked Tangles and Love Knots (Independent) 

bass-drums combo present here (the occasional string flourish backs up some of the ballads), while his lyrics run from gorgeous to silly—"If you can't draw a crowd / Draw dicks on the wall" goes the refrain on "Draw a Crowd"—all of it delivered with crisp production value.

The Sound of the Life of the Mind is casual, but that isn't to say it's lazy: it's just happening just 'cause. The Five isn't reinventing itself, or really altering the course it was on more than a decade ago. It sounds like the Five just wanted to write something together again, and in that, Life of the Mind expands the great Ben Folds Five songbook mostly just in volume: in place of new directions, there's simply a renewal of a comfortable energy. Here, that's more than good enough.

"Sharp Swords" opens up Ariane Mahrÿke Lemire's Wrecked Tangles and Love Knots, a melancholy, stuttering acoustic guitar accompanying the singer's haunting sentiments as she whispers, "Today will fade tomorrow / Barricade the past until only now remains." A darkness lingers nearby throughout, but the album is far from hopeless. Just the opposite, actually, with Lemire working her way through emotional twists and turns both small and large, revealing a spirit of survival. Musically, small details colour and breathe life into the record— a distant piano that slowly works its way into the mix until it becomes the pulse of "Reds + Blues"; an electric guitar injecting slinky lines into "San Diego"; or the swelling of voices and accordion on "Neurotic"—all rolling together into a moving, emotional album.

PAUL BLINOV

EDEN MUNRO

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Tragically Hip Now for Plan A (Universal) @VueWeekly: Lucky 13 for the loved Canucks. Bookended by quite good.

Filled by less so. Still, better than most CanCon.

No Doubt Push and Shove (Interscope) @VueWeekly: Continuing revival week, we have the full-grown No Doubt. Didn't like them before? This won't bring it home. Less rockreggae, more Stefani.

Cody Simpson Paradise (Atlantic)

Friday, October 19 8:00PM McDougall United Church

Edmonton’s version of the Ryman Auditorium

Tickets: www.tixonthesquare.ca More info: www.fredeaglesmith.com

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@VueWeekly: Somewhere on a path from Hanson to Justin Bieber, there's a hell where Cody Simpson lives a life in paradise and we develop deafness.

Converge All We Love We Leave Behind (Epitaph) @VueWeekly: Absolutely intense, punishing & brutal technical hardcore from a band who do what they do very, very well. 8 times in fact.

VUEWEEKLY OCTOBER 11 – OCTOBER 17, 2012

PREVUE // CELTIC ROCK

The Stanfields calist and guitarist Jon Landry says of the transition. "When we did our first record, we were probably three months old. We didn't know what we were doing per se, and so we were kind of scattered all over the place. We wanted to play country, we wanted to play Celtic rock 'n' roll, we wanted to play pop."

Landry believes the group has come back for round two with a more refined sound, which he credits to playing hundreds of shows together in recent years. He didn't want the band to stay in its comfort zone, adding that when you start to do that, it's time to pack 'er in.

"We kind of became this big, loud, fast version of our previous selves.

The whole mentality of the record was to take a snapshot of where we were and where we are, and Death & Taxes is what happened," he explains. "Its kind of like Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. I think we ended up taking the vial of medicine to make us a bit more bulky and burlier."

Rock 'n' roll Maritimers // Scott Blackburn

Thu, Oct 18 (7 pm) With Gloryhound, Fire Next Time Part of Concertworks Presents: The Great Canadian Slugfest Pawn Shop, $15

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continuing the good times with their new album, Death & Taxes.

This time around the band has written an album that leans heavily on its rock influences, creating a more beefed-up sound than the rowdy five-piece has had in the past.

"I think it was kind of natural," vo-

At the helm of Death & Taxes was producer Mike Fraser, whose recording credits include venerable rock outfits like AC/DC, Metallica and Aerosmith. Fraser helped reel in the intensity of the Stanfields' raucous live shows and put it on re-

cord, bringing out the band's edgier, yet still fun, sound.

However, Landry admits he had to get over some nerves to actually call Fraser and talk about recording the album once the band's management had started to get the ball rolling.

"I was beating around the bush; I was so scared. I was like, 'Holy crap, this guy recorded "Thunderstruck," and I'm in my apartment in crappyend-of-town Halifax,'" Landry says with a laugh. "My fiance finally said, 'Call the guy or you're sleeping on the couch for a month.'"

With that threat in mind, Landry finally made the call, only to find that his initial fears weren't necessary and Fraser was completely onboard with the project.

"When he came down, immediately we all hit it off. He's a salt of the earth kind of guy ... we all come from pretty humble backgrounds and there's a lot of commonalities there," Landry notes. "It was a lot of fun and a lot of hard work at the same time, and that fits right in with us. We work hard and we play hard, so it was a breeze. Thirteen days or so and we had a record in the can."

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THU OCT 11

FRI OCT 12

ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE folk/jazz/pop/ singer-songwriter live music Thu: Sister Gray (Indie-Acoustic) and After Eight (R&B/Pop); 9:30pm-11:30pm; no minors; no cover

SECRET RIVALS CD RELEASE PARTY

W/ RANDY GRAVES, SHELBI, STRONG HEARTS & RINGLEADER

SAT OCT 13

early show

THE RETURN OF

DOWNWAY W/ THE WEEKEND KIDS, PIND, FRESHMAN YEARS THUR OCT 18

THE STANFIELDS & GLORYHOUND

SEPTIC FLESH W/ KRISIUN, MELECHESH, EX DEO & INQUISITION TUES OCT 23

AGNOSTIC FRONT 30TH ANNIVERSARY

W/ DEATH BY STEREO & WEST OF HELL FOR TICKETS- PLEASE VISIT WWW.YEGLIVE.CA

NAKED CYBERCAFE & ESPRESSO BAR Open stage Thu; all ages; 9pm-close; no cover

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Kenny Hillaby hosts a jazz session night every Thu with Shadow Dancers, Maura and Jeanelle; no cover

PARK Blaze Of Glory; 9:30pm; No cover CARROT CAFÉ Zoomers Thu afternoon open mic; 1-4pm DINWOODIE LOUNGE – U OF A STUDENTS' UNION BLDG Christian

Hansen with Doug Hoyer; 8pm; $20 (adv), $10 (door)

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Thu at 9pm EDDIE SHORTS Good

HALL Jam by Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Jesse Peters (R&B, blues, jazz, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Thu; no cover PAWN SHOP The Canards with Concord

CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81

APEX CASINO 24 Boudreau Road, St. Albert, 780.460.8092

CHROME LOUNGE 132 Ave,

ARDEN THEATRE 5 Anne St, St.

BAILEY THEATRE 5041-50 St, Camrose, 780.672.5510

BISTRO LA PERSAUD 8617-91

St, 780.758.6686

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

RICHARD'S PUB Live R&B bands (dancing); 8pm

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Thu; 9pm

RIC’S GRILL Peter Belec ( jazz); most Thursdays; 7-10pm SHERLOCK HOLMES – DOWNTOWN Andrew Scott; Oct 9-13 SHERLOCK HOLMES – Dizon; Oct 9-13

WEM Tony

WILD BILL’S–Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close TREASURY Hyper Crush WUNDERBAR Born Gold - Little Sleepwalker LP Release with Jessica Jalbert; 9pm

Classical JULIAN'S PIANO BAR Dennis Begoray; 8:30pm

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 BRIXX BAR Hosted by Christian and Justin of Canyon Rose Outfit: Open turntables; E: kevin@starliteroom.ca to book 30-min set CENTURY ROOM Lucky 7: Retro '80s with house DJ every Thu; 7pmclose THE COMMON Uncommon Thursday: Indie with new DJ each week with resident CROWN PUB Break

Ave, 780.757.2482

Victoria Trail

COAST TO COAST 5552

Calgary Tr, 780.439.8675

COMMON 9910-109 St CROWN PUB 10709-109 St, 780.428.5618

DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB 9013-

88 Ave, 780.465.4834

DEVON HOTEL 1 Huron Street,

780.433.9676

GOOD EARTH COFFEE HOUSE AND BAKERY 9942108 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

Devon, AB

Yellowhead Tr

10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082

THE DISH 12417 Stony Plain Rd,

HOOLIGANZ 10704-124 St,

BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Drive, Nisku,

DINWOODIE LOUNGE

HYDEAWAY 10209-100 Ave,

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

780.986.8522

BLACKSHEEP PUB 11026 Jasper Ave, 780.420.0448

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave,

780.989.2861

BLUE PEAR RESTAURANT

780.488.6641

2nd Floor, Students' Union Building 8900-114 St

DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928

DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554

10643-123 St, 780.482.7178

DV8 8307-99 St

BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82

EARLY STAGE SALOON–

Ave, 780.439.3981

Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony

BOHEMIA 10217-97 St

Plain

BONEYARD ALE HOUSE 9216-

EDDIE SHORTS 10713-124 St,

34 Ave, 780.437.2663

780.453.3663

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 10225-97

EDMONTON EVENTS CENTRE WEM Phase III, 780.489.

St, 780.497.0011

BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St

(downstairs), 780.428.1099

BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave,

780.488.6636

CAFÉ CORAL DE CUBA 10816

Whyte Ave

CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd,

Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca

CAFE TIRAMISU 10750 - 124 St CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 1-99 Wye Road, Strathcona County

CARROT CAFÉ 9351-118 Ave, 780.471.1580

CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467

CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464153 St, 780 424 9467

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NORTH GLENORA

ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave

Ave, 780.477.2149

SUNDAYS

NEW WEST HOTEL Canadian Country Hall of Fame Guest host Bev Munro; LATER: Double Highway; Oct 8-13

Rd, 780.643.4000

AVENUE THEATRE 9030-118

STAND UP COMEDY

NEW CITY LEGION Wide Mouth Mason, The Balconies, The Threads, Forester; 8pm (doors), 9pm (show); 18+

8223-104 St, 780.431.0179

ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave

FREE SHOW 4PM THE ELECTRIC RELIGIOUS W/ ADAM FINLEY

NEWCASTLE PUB Band Quarter Finals Featuring Memphis Bound Blues Challenge; 7pm; $5 (door)

Pavilion and Death

By Robot along with Better Than Heroes; 8pm; $8 (adv)

ELECTRIC RODEO– Spruce Grove DJ every Thu FILTHY MCNASTY’S Something Diffrent every Thursday with DJ Ryan Kill FLASH NIGHT CLUB Indust:real Assembly: Goth and Industrial Night with DJ Nanuck; no minors; 10pm (door); no cover FLUID LOUNGE Take Over Thursdays: Industry Night; 9pm FUNKY BUDDHA– Whyte Ave Requests every Thu with DJ Damian

Thursdays: rock, dance, retro, top 40 with DJ Johnny Infamous WILD BILL’S–Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close

FRI OCT 12 ALE YARD TAP & GRILL Brian Pottie; 8pm APEX CASINO Souled Out; Oct 12-13, 9pm; No cover ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Derina Harvey Band; Oct 12-13 ARTERY The Noble Thiefs with Guests; 8pm BAILEY THEATRE – CAMROSE Oysterband;

8pm; $35

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

BISTRO LA PERSAUD Blues: every Friday Night hosted by The Dr Blu Band; 8pm (music); drblu.ca

KAS BAR Urban House: every Thu with DJ Mark Stevens; 9pm

BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE –NISKU The Traces; 8pm; No cover

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Funk Bunker Thursdays

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Blue Chair House Band; 8:30pm; $12

LUCKY 13 Sin Thu with DJ Mike Tomas ON THE ROCKS Salsaholic: every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; salsa DJ to follow

BLUES ON WHYTE John Primer; Oct 8-13 BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Marv Machura; 9pm; $5 (cover)

OUTLAWS ROADHOUSE Wild Life Thursdays

BRIXX BAR Late Show: XoXo to follow (every Fri)

OVERTIME–Downtown Thursdays at Eleven: Electronic Techno and Dub Step

CAFE TIRAMISU Tim Harwill; 7:15pm

RENDEZVOUS Metal night every Thu TAPHOUSE–St Albert Eclectic mix every Thu with DJ Dusty Grooves THIRSTY CAMEL The Sinder Sparks Show; every Thu; 8 - 12pm UNION HALL 3 Four All

CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK The Mishaps; Oct 12-13, 9:30pm; No cover CARROT Live music every Fri: this week with Kaley Bird; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door) CASINO EDMONTON The Classics; Oct 12-13 CASINO YELLOWHEAD

VENUE GUIDE ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE

Albert, 780.459.1542

SAT OCT 13

L.B.'S PUB Open jam with Kenny Skoreyko, Fred LaRose and Gordy Mathews (Shaved Posse) every Thu; 9pm-1am

BLUES ON WHYTE John Primer; Oct 8-13

CAFFREY'S IN THE

CONQUERORS OF THE WORLD

KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE Open stage; 7pm; no cover

MARYBETH'S COFFEE HOUSE–Beaumont Open mic every Thu; 7pm

‘MOVES’ CD-RELEASE PARTY MON OCT 22

JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Love Supreme; $10

AVENUE THEATRE Truman with Indigo Joseph, and Revenge of the Trees

CAFÉ HAVEN Brian Pottie with Tim Isberg; 7pm; No cover

W/ THE WHYTES & RANDOM FALTER

J R BAR AND GRILL Live Jam Thu; 9pm

LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR Brett Miles; 8pm

FRI OCT 19

SOULICITORS

FESTIVAL PLACE Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers; Oct 11-14

ARTERY Brock Tyler with Lynett McKell with Kimberley MacGregor, Sherry-Lee Wisor; 7:30pm

BOHEMIA DJ equatorial; 9pm; No cover

THE GREAT CANADIAN SLUGFEST W/ FIRE NEXT TIME & TALLEST TO SHORTEST

Time Jamboree with Charlie Scream every Thu

780.995.7110

780.426.5381

IRON BOAR PUB 4911-51st St, Wetaskiwin

J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403

JAMES THEATRE 5206-50 Ave, Wetaskiwin, 780.352.7499

JEFFREY’S CAFÉ 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890

JEKYLL AND HYDE 10209-100

Ave, 780.426.5381

JULIAN'S PIANO BAR 11727

ESPRESSO BAR 10303-108 St,

780.425.9730

NEWCASTLE PUB 6108-90 Ave,

780.490.1999

NEW CITY 8130 Gateway Boulevard

NISKU INN 1101-4 St NOLA CREOLE KITCHEN &

ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767

O2'S ON WHYTE 780.454.0203

OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588

PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814

PLAYBACK PUB 594 Hermitage Rd, 130 Ave, 40 St

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY

REDNEX BAR–Morinville

Ave, 780.437.3667

Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378

FIDDLER’S ROOST 8906-99 St

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR 10132-104 St

FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82

LIZARD LOUNGE 13160-118 Ave

FLASH NIGHT CLUB 10018-105

MARYBETH'S COFFEE HOUSE–Beaumont 5001-30

Ave, 780.916.1557 St, 780.996.1778

Ave, Beaumont, 780.929.2203

Ave, 780.429.0700

FLUID LOUNGE 10888 Jasper

MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH 10025 Macdonald Drive

FUNKY BUDDHA 10341-82 Ave,

NAKED CYBERCAFE &

VUEWEEKLY OCTOBER 11 – OCTOBER 17, 2012

SPORTSMAN'S LOUNGE 8170-50 St

STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, STEEPS TEA LOUNGE–Whyte Ave 11116-82 Ave

KAS BAR 10444-82 Ave,

FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival

12923-97 St, 780.758.5924

OVERTIME–Downtown 10304-

111 St, 780.465.6800

ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove,

780.481.2786

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

780.428.1099

13509-127 St, 780.454.0203

10242-106 St, 780.756.5667

LEGENDS PUB 6104-172 St,

SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St,

O2'S TAPHOUSE AND GRILL

SHOW

EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ 9938-70

149 St

SECOND CUP–Sherwood Park 4005 Cloverbar Rd,

780.453.6006

780.414.6766

PUB 1824 12402-118 Ave,

L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100

SECOND CUP–89 AVE 8906-

O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave,

HALL 10860-57 Ave

780.962.1411

S&M (STUDIO & MEAD HALL)

10940-166A St

NORTH GLENORA HALL

13535-109A Ave

JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY

ELEPHANT AND CASTLE– Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave

R PUB 16753-100 St, 780.457.1266

Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929 • Summerwood Summerwood Centre, Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929

MUSIC HOUSE 11802-124 St, 780.451.1390, experiencenola.com

Kingsway

780.433.6768

101 St

587.521.1824

10413-100 Ave, Morinville, 780.939.6955

RED PIANO BAR 1638

Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722

RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825

RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780-457-3117

RIC’S GRILL 24 Perron Street, St

Albert, 780.460.6602

ROBERTSON-WESLEY UNITED CHURCH 10209-123 St ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253

ROSE AND CROWN 10235-

SUEDE LOUNGE 11806 Jasper Ave, 780.482.0707

SUITE 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway

Blvd, 780.439.6969

TAPHOUSE 9020 McKenney Ave, St Albert, 780.458.0860 TREASURY 10004 Jasper Ave, 7870.990.1255, thetreasurey.ca

TWO ROOMS 10324 Whyte Ave,

780.439.8386

VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO– St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128

VINYL DANCE LOUNGE

10740 Jasper Ave, 780.428.8655, vinylretrolounge.com

WILD BILL’S–Red Deer Quality Inn North Hill, 7150-50 Ave, Red Deer, 403.343.8800 WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414

WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286

Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com

YELLOWHEAD BREWERY 10229-105 St, 780.423.3333

YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295

Shannon Smith; Oct 12-13 CENTURY CASINO Kenny Shields & Streetheart; 7pm; $39.95; No minors COAST TO COAST Open stage every Fri; 9:30pm COMMON Polyesterday, Les DJ, & Allout DJs; $7 DV8 Strugglefucks with White Beauty, Action News Team, isaywebyyou; 9pm EARLY STAGE SALOON Jeff Millar & Trisha Jameson; Oct 12-13 ELEVATION ROOM – TRANSCEND COFFEE

Christian Hansen with Mikey Maybe; 8pm; $20 (adv) FESTIVAL PLACE Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers; Oct 11-14 GOOD NEIGHBOR PUB T.K. and the Honey Badgers every friday; 8:30-midnight; no cover HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB Jenn Grant and Cuff The Duke; Oct 12-13 IRISH CLUB Jam session every Fri; 8pm; no cover JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Etoroma Trio; $10 JEKYLL AND HYDE PUB Headwind (classic pop/ rock); every Fri; 9pm; no cover LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Michelle C with Eddie Santini; 9:30pm LIZARD LOUNGE Rock 'n' roll open mic every Fri; 8:30pm; no cover NEW CITY LEGION Grimskunk, Dearly Beloved, Anatomy Cats; 8pm (doors), 9pm (show); 18+ NEW WEST HOTEL Double Highway; Oct 8-13 NORTHERN BLUEGRASS CIRCLE – L'UNI THEATER Jeff Scroggins & Colorado; Oct 12-13, 12pm

WILD BILL’S–Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close

Wattson; every Fri

with guests; 9pm

SOU KAWAII ZEN

WUNDERBAR Born Gold - Little Sleepwalker LP Release with Bboogiehowser; 9pm

LOUNGE Fuzzion Friday: with Crewshtopher, Tyler M, guests; no cover

EARLY STAGE SALOON Jeff Millar & Trisha Jameson; Oct 12-13

YARDBIRD SUITE Sheila Jordan Duo; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $26 (members), $30 (guests)

Classical JULIAN'S PIANO BAR Jonathan Osborne; 8:30pm WINSPEAR Chi plays Chopin; Oct 12-13; 7:30pm

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 THE COMMON Boom The Box: every Fri; nu disco, hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation plus residents Echo and Shortround THE DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Fri; 9pm ELECTRIC RODEO– Spruce Grove DJ every Fri FILTHY MCNASTY'S Shake yo ass every Fri with DJ SAWG

ON THE ROCKS Exit 303; Oct 12-13

FLUID LOUNGE Hip hop and dancehall; every Fri

OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Dueling Piano's, all request live; 9pm2am every Fri and Sat; no cover

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

PAWN SHOP CD Release Party Featuring Secret Rivals with Randy Graves and Shelbi; 6pm; $10 (adv) PUB 1824 Every Fri & Sat: Strck9Grin; $5 RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Fri; 9pm-2am RENDEZVOUS PUB Inside It Failed, Leave The Living, VanGohst, Practical Slackers; 8pm; $10 (doors) ROSE AND CROWN Kickit Bros.; Oct 12-13 SHERLOCK HOLMES – DOWNTOWN Andrew

Scott; Oct 9-13

SHERLOCK HOLMES – WEM Tony Dizon; Oct 9-13 SIDELINER'S PUB Rancho Relaxo; 9pm; No cover STARLITE ROOM Bouncing Souls with Dave Hause, Luther & the Old Wives; 8pm; 18+

FUSIA/CORAL DE CUBA Del Son a la Salsa: Lessons in Son,Cha Cha Cha,Salsa Rueda de Casino and more with Orlando Martinez (Fiesta Cubana Dance School); 9:30pm; $5 HILLTOP PUB The Sinder Sparks Show; every Thu and Fri; 9:30pm-close JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY LGBT Community: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm NEWCASTLE PUB House, dance mix every Fri with DJ Donovan O2'S TAPHOUSE AND GRILL DJs every Fri and Sat O2'S ON WHYTE DJ Jay every Fri and Sat 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

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 TEMPLE Silence be Damned: with DJs Gotthavok, Siborg, Nightroad; 9pm THIRSTY CAMEL The Sinder Sparks Showwith Stratosphere; 10pm - 2am 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

SAT OCT 13 ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage with Trace Jordan 1st and 3rd Sat; 7pm-12 APEX CASINO Souled Out; Oct 12-13, 9pm; No cover ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Derina Harvey Band; Oct 12-13 AVENUE THEATRE Terrace with All Out DJ's, Mark Ellis, and DJ Readymade BAILEY'S THEATRE – Camrose Opry

CAMROSE

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair of the Dog: Bocephus King with guests (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Dr Blu; 8:30pm; $12 BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; John Primer; Oct 8-13 CAFÉ CORAL DE CUBA Cafe Coral De Cuba Marco Claveria's open mic (music, poetry, jokes); every Sat, 6pm; $5 CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK The Mishaps; Oct 12-13, 9:30pm; No cover CARROT CAFÉ Sat Open mic; 7pm; $2 CASINO EDMONTON The Classics; Oct 12-13 CASINO YELLOWHEAD Shannon Smith; Oct 12-13 COAST TO COAST Live bands every Sat; 9:30pm

ELEVATION ROOM –

SIDELINERS PUB Sat open stage; 3-7pm

EMPIRE BALLROOM The Crystal Method; 9pm

DOWNTOWN Andrew

FESTIVAL PLACE Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers; Oct 11-14 FILTHY MCNASTY'S The Electric Religious with guest Adam Finley; 4pm; No cover GAS PUMP Saturday Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB Jenn Grant and Cuff The Duke; Oct 12-13 HILLTOP PUB Sat afternoon roots jam with Pascal, Simon and Dan, 3:30-6:30pm; evening HOOLIGANZ Live music every Sat HYDEAWAY Marleigh and Mueller (classic pop/jazz/musical theatre); 8pm; 3rd Sat each month; $10 IRON BOAR PUB Jazz in Wetaskiwin featuring jazz trios the 1st Sat each month; $10 JAMES THEATRE – WETASKIWIN The Moondogs JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Helena Magerowski; $15 L.B.'S PUB Sat afternoon Jam with Gator and Friends; 5-9pm EVERY SAT: The Normals; 9:30pm LOUISIANA PURCHASE Suchy Sister Saturdays: Amber, Renee or Stephanie with accompaniment; 9:3011:30pm; no cover NEW CITY LEGION Torches To Triggers, Down The Hatch, Vermin In Vinyl; 8pm (doors), 9pm (show); 18+ NEW WEST HOTEL Country jam every Sat; 3-6pm; LATER: Double Highway; Oct 8-13 NORTHERN BLUEGRASS CIRCLE – L'UNI THEATER Jeff Scroggins & Colorado; Oct 12-13, 10am PAWN SHOP Early Show! Featuring Downway with The Weekend Kids and Pind along with Freshman Years; 6pm; $10 (adv) O’BYRNE’S Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm ON THE ROCKS Exit 303; Oct 12-13 OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Dueling Piano's, all request live; 9pm2am every Fri and Sat; no cover PUB 1824 Every Fri & Sat: Strck9Grin; $5

CROWN PUB Acoustic blues open stage with Marshall Lawrence, every Sat, 2-6pm; every Sat, 12-2am

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

DEVON HOTEL PALS Acoustic Open Mic with Tim Harwill; Every Sat 4-6:30pm

REDNEX The Frolics; 8pm

DV8 Sanktuary (Metal)

S&M (THE STUDIO & MEAD HALL) No More Moments; 8pm

TRANSCEND COFFEE

Christian Hansen with guests; 8pm; $20 (adv)

COMMON Get Down Saturday Night with Kenzie Clarke, Justinfoosh, Chester Fields; $7

THE DISH NEK Trio ( jazz); every Sat, 6pm

ROSE AND CROWN Kickit Bros.; Oct 12-13

RENDEZVOUS PUB Fornication, Savage Streets, Runeblade, Morbis Infernus; 8pm; $10

SHERLOCK HOLMES –

Scott; Oct 9-13

SHERLOCK HOLMES – WEM Tony Dizon; Oct 9-13 STARLITE ROOM All Sides Closing In Tour feat. Imperative Reaction, Ludovico Technique, Everything Goes Cold, and the Witch Was Right; 9pm (doors) STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION No More Moments with guests; 9pm; $10 (door) WUNDERBAR Young Albertans with Creaks and Wesley Landry YARDBIRD SUITE Dave Peck Trio; 8pm (doors), 9pm (show); $20 (members), $24 (guests)

Classical ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM Raga-Mala presents a Sarangi duet by Sabir Khan and Dilshad Khan; 7:30pm; $20 (general), $15 (students/ seniors) WINSPEAR Chi plays Chopin; Oct 12-13; 8pm

DJs 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 BLACKSHEEP PUB DJ every Sat BONEYARD ALE HOUSE DJ Sinistra Saturdays: 9pm BUDDY'S Feel the rhythm every Sat with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm BUFFALO UNDERGROUND Head Mashed In Saturday: Mashup Night DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Sat; 9pm ELECTRIC RODEO– Spruce Grove DJ every Sat FILTHY MCNASTY'S Fire up your night every Saturday with DJ SAWG FLUID LOUNGE Scene Saturday's Relaunch: Party; hip-hop, R&B and Dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali FUNKY BUDDHA– Whyte Ave Top tracks, rock, retro every Sat with DJ Damian FUSIA/CORAL DE CUBA Mixing in the House every Sat: DJ Fuego and his Latin Groves with Mojito in Hand From Cuba; 9:30pm-2am; $5 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 NEWCASTLE PUB Top 40 requests every Sat

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FESTIVAL PLACE Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers; Oct 11-14

every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm

O2'S ON WHYTE DJ Jay every Fri and Sat

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Rock and Soul Sundays with DJ Sadeeq

ROSE BOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE Acoustic open stage every Mon; 9pm

OVERTIME–Downtown Saturdays at Eleven: R'n'B, hip hop, reggae, Old School

HOGS DEN PUB Open Jam: hosted; open jam every Sun, all styles welcome; 3-7pm

PALACE CASINO Show Lounge DJ every Sat

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

with DJ Sheri O2'S TAPHOUSE AND GRILL DJs every Fri and Sat

PAWN SHOP Transmission Saturdays: Indie rock, new wave, classic punk with DJ Blue Jay and Eddie Lunchpail; 9pm (door); free (before 10pm)/$5 (after 10pm) RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Rezzo, DJ Mkhai SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M SUEDE LOUNGE House, electro, Top40, R'n'B with DJ Melo-D every Fri SUITE 69 Stella Saturday: retro, old school, top 40 beats with DJ Lazy, guests 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

O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am ON THE ROCKS Seven Strings Sun: Makeshift Innocence; 9pm O2'S TAP HOUSE AND GRILL Open stage hosted by the band the Vindicators; 4-8pm every Sun O2'S –SOUTH McLovely with Jaide; 9pm REXALL PLACE Justin Bieber featuring Carly Rae Jepsen; 7pm RICHARD'S PUB Sun Live Jam hosted by Carson Cole; 4pm TWO ROOMS Live Jam every Sun with Jeremiah; 5-9pm; no cover; $10 (dinner) URBAN LOUNGE Dinosaur Jr; 7pm WUNDERBAR The Crackling with guests; 9pm YELLOWHEAD BREWERY Open Stage: Every Sun, 8pm

Classical ROBERTSON-WESLEY UNITED CHURCH Brilliant Baroque; 3pm WINSPEAR The Ultimate Tribute to the King; 7pm

SUN OCT 14

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

Albert Open stage/jam every Sun; 2-6pm BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Sunday Brunch: Hawaiian Dreamers; 10:30am - 2:30pm; donations BLUE PEAR RESTAURANT Jazz on the Side Sun; 5:308:30pm; $25 if not dining BLUES ON WHYTE Memphis Bound" Blues Challenge CAFFREY'S–Sherwood Park The Sunday Blues Jam: hosted by Kevin and Rita McDade and the Grey Cats Blues Band, guests every week; 5-9pm; no cover CHA ISLAND TEA CO Live on the Island: Rhea March hosts open mic and Songwriter's stage; starts with a jam session; 7pm DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB Celtic open stage every Sun with Keri-Lynne Zwicker; 5:30pm; no cover DOUBLE D'S Open jam every Sun; 3-8pm EDDIE SHORTS Open stage with Dan Daniels every Sun

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BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sundays: A fantastic voyage through '60s and '70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Stylus Industry Sundays: Invinceable, Tnt, Rocky, Rocko, Akademic, weekly guest DJs; 9pm-3am SAVOY MARTINI LOUNGE Reggae on Whyte: RnR Sun with DJ IceMan; no minors; 9pm; no cover

MON OCT 15 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover

WUNDERBAR Declan O’Donovan (singer/ pianist); 8:30pm (doors), 9:30pm (show); $7 (door)

HOOLIGANZ Open stage every Wed with host Cody Nouta, 9pm; Two Year Anniversary Show Featuring Mars and Venus, 9pm, no cover

STARLITE ROOM Andre Nickatina with Mistah F.A.B. & Mumbls; 9pm (doors); 18+

YARDBIRD SUITE Tue Night Sessions: NEK trio; 7:30pm (doors), 8pm (show); $5 (members, guests)

NEW WEST HOTEL Free classic country dance lessons every Wed, 7-9pm; LATER: Trick Ryder; Oct 15-20

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BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay

BLACK DOG

OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Jason Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Wed; no cover

CROWN PUB Mixmashitup Mon Industry Night: with DJ Fuzze, J Plunder (DJs to bring their music and mix mash it up) FILTHY MCNASTY'S Metal Mondays with DJ Tyson LUCKY 13 Industry Night every Mon with DJ Chad Cook

TUE OCT 16 ARTERY Rodney Decroo with Guests; 7:30pm BAILEY THEATRE – CAMROSE The

Bloozhounds; 7pm (doors); $10 (door)

BLUES ON WHYTE Andrew Jr Boy Jones; Oct 15-20 BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Phat Tuesday in The Quarters, The Rooster Davis Group, New Orleans Jump & Boogie; 8-11pm BRIXX BAR Ruby Tuesdays with host Mark Feduk; $5 after 8pm; this week guests: COMMON Occupy Common DRUID IRISH PUB Open stage every Tue with Chris Wynters, 9pm; Chris Hamall with Karl Andriuk, 8pm, No cover L.B.’S Tue Blues Jam with Ammar; 9pm-1am MACLAB CENTRE – LEDUC An Evening With the Rat Pack; 7:30pm NEW CITY LEGION Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols), Ben Disaster, guests TBA; 8pm (doors), 9pm (show) NEW WEST HOTEL Trick Ryder; Oct 15-20 O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK The Campfire Hero's (acoustic rock, country, top 40); 9pm2am every Tue; no cover PADMANADI Open stage every Tue; with Mark Davis; all ages; 7:30-10:30pm

BLUES ON WHYTE Andrew Jr Boy Jones; Oct 15-20

R PUB Open stage jam every Tue; hosted

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DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB Singer/songwriter open stage every Mon, 8pm; LATER: Jimmy Whiffen

RED PIANO All request band Tuesdays: Joint Chiefs (classic rock, soul, R&B) every Tue

NEW WEST HOTEL Trick Ryder; Oct 15-20

SECOND CUP– Summerwood Open stage/open mic every Tue; 7:30pm; no cover

OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Monday Open Stage PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam

SHERLOCK HOLMES – DOWNTOWN Tony Dizon; Oct 16-20 SHERLOCK HOLMES – WEM Andrew Scott; Oct

16-20

FREEHOUSE Main Floor: alternative retro and not-so-retro, electronic and Euro with Eddie Lunchpail; Wooftop: It’s One Too Many Tuesdays: Reggae, funk, soul, boogie and disco with Rootbeard BUDDYS DJ Arrow Chaser every CROWN PUB Live Hip Hop Tue: freestyle hip hop with DJ Xaolin and Mc Touch DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly, Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue RED STAR Experimental Indie Rock, Hip Hop, Electro with DJ Hot Philly; every Tue RED PIANO All Request Band Tuesdays: Classic rock, soul and R&B with Joint Chiefs; 8pm; $5 SUITE 69 Rockstar Tuesdays: Mash up and Electro with DJ Tyco, DJ Omes with weekly guest DJs

WED OCT 17 ARDEN THEATRE An Evening with The Rat Pack; 7:30pm; $39.75 ARTERY Bocephus King with Guests; 7:30pm BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Glitter Gulch: live music once a month; On the Patio: Funk and Soul with Doktor Erick every Wed; 9pm BLUES ON WHYTE Andrew Jr Boy Jones; Oct 15-20 CHA ISLAND TEA CO Whyte Noise Drum Circle: Join local drummers for a few hours of beats and fun; 6pm CROWN PUB The D.A.M.M Jam: Open stage/original plugged in jam with Dan, Miguel and friends every Wed DEVANEY'S Duff Robinson EDDIE SHORTS Electric open jam with Steven Johnson Experience every Wed ELEPHANT AND CASTLE–Whyte Ave Open mic every Wed (unless there's an Oilers game); no cover FESTIVAL PLACE Charlie Russell 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

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STARLITE ROOM Matty Mays witgguests the Meds; 9pm (doors) WUNDERBAR Vibrating Beds, The Fight, and guests; 9pm ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St

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5 Ending for coal or opal

1 1972 Bill Withers hit

6 Device used in speed tests

6 "Hair" co-author James

7 "[___ swim]"

10 "The Naked ___" (Goya painting)

8 Go against

14 Their fight song says "There goes old Georgetown"

9 Annual Ashland event, for short

15 Dedicated poems

11 Bakery draw

16 Fits of anger 17 Fancy sleeve adornment 19 "___ not good, I'll call you back" 20 In an aerodynamic way

ZEN LOUNGE Jazz Wednesdays: Kori Wray and Jeff Hendrick; every Wed; 7:30-10pm; no cover

21 Home of a Herculean lion

Classical

26 Like factory second clothing: abbr.

MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH Judy Loewen with George Andrix; 12pm

22 "I ___ the fool who..."

24 Badminton divider 25 He preceded Jimmy

27 Table scrap (hidden in PORTABLE)

10 They make hard water hard 12 Amethyst or turquoise 13 Syria's president 18 Painter Matisse 21 Brand near the Sanka 22 Rice side 23 Tabriz resident 25 Toothpaste variety 27 Categorized similarly 28 Minnesota medical group 31 Heel 32 All dressed up, perhaps

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29 When doubled, a Teletubby

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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

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41 How marathon runners walk around

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46 Baby bird sound 47 Gossipmonger

BRIXX BAR Really Good... Eats and Beats: every Wed with DJ Degree and Friends

39 Ate the rest of 42 Forbes 400 member, often

48 Totally bonkers

43 What some rings read

49 Battle groups?

44 Inc., in Paris

50 Vladimir of Russia

45 "Deep Space Nine" shapeshifter

52 Monocular character on "Yo Gabba Gabba!"

BUDDY'S DJ Dust 'n' Time every Wed; 9pm (door); no cover THE COMMON Treehouse Wednesdays FILTHY MCNASTY'S Pint Night Wednesdays with DJ SAWG

46 Humanoid creature 49 Three-letter diner order 50 "Hey, over here!"

51 "Barracuda" band 52 Send the family newsletter, say

FUNKY BUDDHA– Whyte Ave Latin and Salsa music every Wed; dance lessons 8-10pm

54 Prefix meaning "within"

LEGENDS PUB Hip hop/R&B with DJ Spincycle

59 "___ Love Her"

NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed

61 Picks up the tab

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55 "And don't try any ___!"

58 Query to Brutus 60 Pole dance?

62 Anjou alternative 63 ___ a million Down 1 "Weird Al" Yankovic movie 2 Group of Greeks: abbr.

3 It may be caused by too much screen time 4 Macho

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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): When Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro laid waste to Peru in 1532, his soldiers found green stones on the land. Were they emeralds? A priest who was traveling with them gave them bad advice. He said that the way to determine whether they were merely coloured glass or else precious gems was to test their hardness by pounding them with hammers. In this manner, many actual emeralds were shattered into fragments. Learn from this mistake, Aries. Make sure you recognize treasures for what they are. Don't force them to submit to unwise tests that misconstrue their true nature.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): Someone at Reddit.com posted a question to the community: could anyone help him recreate the aroma of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland? He said he loved that smell. It was a blend of damp earth, rotting wood, and gunpowder. It had musty overtones, a hint of chlorine, and a tantalizing freshness. If only he could get that fragrance to permeate his house, he testified, he'd always be able to work at peak efficiency. You might want to follow his lead, Taurus. It's a good time to identify and gather all the ingredients you would need to make sure your environment inspires you to the max.

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GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): If you asked me to be your personal advisor, I would prescribe supplements and herbs to build up your immune system. I'd insist that you eat nothing but healthy food and get at least eight hours of sleep every night. I'd suggest that you meditate daily on images that symbolize your most inspiring desires. For fun, I might even advise you to do a ritual in which you create a big circle around yourself using violet yarn and then do a series of playful acts to pump up your freedom, like dancing as wildly as you know how and chanting "love is my creator." Finally, Gemini, if you sought my counsel, I'd urge you to use your exuberant imagination in concert with your disciplined intellect as you design a long-term plan to charge up your well-being.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): "Dear Free Will Astrologer: I found your website by accident today and was drawn in fast and hard. No matter what I did I could not escape and get back to my work. Your messages were too interesting for my own good. You gave me too many answers to questions I've had for too many years. I felt like I was being cured of problems I didn't even know I had. Many hours went by until finally I was able to pull myself out of the vortex. How did this happen? - Freaked Out." Dear Freaked: I CONTINUED ON PAGE 41 >>

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was born under the sign of Cancer the Crab, and it so happens that the people of my tribe are currently emanating an intriguing and inscrutable aura. We're at the peak of our ability to attract and seduce. Many of us are using our power benevolently, but our mysterious mojo could still be a bit unsettling.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): The past is headed your way bearing gifts, Leo. I recommend that you make yourself available for its blessings, which may be delivered to you in unexpected ways. For example: the spirit of a dead loved one could impart an enigmatic but useful tip in the middle of the night. An abandoned dream you assumed was gone forever might return from limbo to grant you a wish. A favour you did for someone long ago could finally be repaid. Are you ready to let history reward you in its own unique style?

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): Just for you, it is Shark Week. During this dicey holiday, you should be wary of all sharks, especially the kind that look like human beings. Don't get in their way, and don't underestimate them. On the other hand, I'm not opposed to you getting to know some sharks better. They could teach you some valuable lessons on how to get what you want. Not that you would ever be as cold-blooded and predatory as they are, of course. But it might be energizing to your ambitions if you add just a bit of sharklike thinking to your repertoire.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): Visualize yourself heading out on a high adventure with interesting people, but all the while being distracted by the memory of a trivial insult you experienced earlier that day. Picture yourself getting intimate with a lover who inspires you to lose your self-consciousness—up until the point when you decide to interrupt your fun by answering a phone call from some random person. Imagine toning yourself down and holding yourself back because of misplaced politeness or unnecessary guilt or delusional fear—even though you're feeling a rushing instinct to surge and soar and overflow. Finally, Libra, understand that in getting you to envision these parodies of your current inclinations, I'm hoping to shock you into making sure that nothing like them happens.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): Sometime soon you may dream of being naked at a public event like a class at school or a committee meeting.

I think this would be an excellent omen, so I hope it comes to pass. It would signify that you're ready to shed the disguises that have been making it problematical for you to reinvent yourself. Who is the new you?

Stripping down to the bare essentials in your dreams will help you see raw truths about your waking life.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): As you cross the great water in search of the unknown treasure, navigate by the light of the clouds.

That's your dreamy oracle, Sagittarius. What does it mean? Well, the work you do to figure it out is essential to activating its potential, so I don't want to give away too much. But here are three further hints to inspire you on your quest.

1. Be willing to go a long way to find a secret you don't even know you're looking for. 2. Consider the possibility of cultivating faith in a goal that you don't quite yet grasp in its entirety. 3. Rely on shadows and reflections to give you accurate information you can't get directly from the thing that's casting shadows and being reflected.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): Everyone has some kind of power.

What's yours? In the coming days, I suspect there will be some crisis and opportunity regarding how you use it. Maybe you will be invited to assume more authority or exercise greater influence. Maybe your ability to wield your particular clout will be questioned or doubted and you will be challenged to either stand up and express it with more integrity and purpose, or else relinquish it. For best results, take a moment right now to visualize the precise power you would love to command.

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Crip theory workshops and art likely to spark good discussion

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reappropriated by their former tarIn celebration of the (Dis)ability gets. The term crip has been used event, the Crip Tease art show against people who are seen as will feature art that speaks to om eekly.c w e being disabled. Thus activists and the "broader sense of crip as u v alexa@ a scholars have reclaimed and redea political and artistic relationx e Al e ship to bodies, stories, identities, n g a fined the term in order to remove G De its negative connotations and to channel practices and communities that do its power toward their own ends. not seek to be 'normal'." Accordingly, the Crip theory, however, is not simply the show's organizers have "welcomed art that queer theory of disability studies. Crip the- explores the violence and barriers experiory questions how bodies and abilities are enced by those who are considered abnorunderstood, categorized and valued differ- mal. We also welcome art that explores the ently in society, ultimately creating systems ways people resist and the ways that we of oppression. Queer theorists and activists might imagine 'Otherness' otherwise." have been criticized for failing to account for The Crip Tease event will follow the (Dis) how gender, class, race and sexuality are ability panel and discussion. It will take place related to bodies and abilities. Crip theory in the Arts Based Research Studio, Educailluminates such crucial omissions, presents tion North, University of Alberta. important questions and offers critical tools Capping off the events, Qmunity—a local for queer, feminist, race and class-based anti- queer collective committed to producing oppression projects. safe, accessible, anti-oppressive spaces— Three top scholars of disability and crip will be hosting A Night of Irreverent Booty theory, Shelley Tremain, Alexis Shotwell Shakin' dance party on October 19 at Bikeand Robert McRuer, will be leading the (Dis) Works North. During the dance party, art ability panel on October 18 at the Univer- from the Crip Tease show will be projected sity of Alberta (4th floor student lounge, on the walls.

Education North). According to the event Ultimately, these three events will offer organizers, the panel participants "will lead Edmontonians an exciting opportunity to us in re-imagining relationships between learn about, engage with and celebrate "the disability, feminism, queerness, normativity, political importance and sexiness of crip art race, gender and social justice: in terms of and culture." The venues for the events are the academic possibilities, the social justice physically accessible and are located along opportunities, the artistic imaginaries, and public transportation routes. V the lived realities."

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Two of the most exciting, radical and important events to take place in our city this year?

The upcoming panel (Dis)ability?: Queer and Feminist Perspectives, and the art show Crip Tease: An Evening of Irreverent Art. Initiated and organized by Danielle Peers, (Dis)ability and Crip Tease will assemble academics, activists and artists to discuss and engage with crip theory, politics and art.

Crip theory is a methodology of disability studies that seeks to challenge, disrupt and deconstruct notions of normality/abnormality, health/sickness and independence/ dependence in relation to bodies, pleasures and identities.

Crip theory and queer theory are similar in their attempts to problematize social categorizations, hierarchies, and exclusions. Further, the terms crip and queer are both pejorative words —historically used to demean, intimidate or ostracize—that are now being

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): "Dear Rob: I really enjoy reading your horoscopes. You feel like a friend I've never met. When I try to picture what you're like, I keep getting a vision of you as being fat, short and bald with a strawberry blond moustache. Am I right? - Curious Aquarius." Dear Curious: It's great that you've decided to do a reality check. This is an excellent time for all you Aquarians to see if what you imagine to be true is a match for the world as it actually is. To answer your question, I am in fact tall and thin, don't wear a moustache, and have an abundance of long silver hair.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): I've got just the right message to set the tone for you in the weeks ahead. It comes from writer H. P. Lovecraft, and captures the essence of your astrological omens. "Pleasure to me is wonder," said Lovecraft. "It's the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the remote in the immediate; the eternal in the ephemeral; the past in the present; the infinite in the finite; these are to me the springs of delight and beauty." Now get out there, Pisces, and gather up all the mysterious marvels you have coming to you—all the bracing encounters with uncanny grace.

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Should abortion be a deal breaker?

When differences of opinion impact a relationship; teen looking at kinky porn I recently discovered that my boyfriend of seven months and I have opposing viewpoints on the whole "life begins at conception" issue. He's not a crazy zealot, but he is strongly against abortion. And while he won't go so far as to say abortion should be banned, he does believe in the whole "personhood" concept, i.e., that a fetus—from the moment of conception—is a person with the same rights as any other person.

This shocked me and I almost broke up with him. He says that disagreeing on issues is fine in a relationship, but I am not so sure. I find his position abhorrent, one that ignores hundreds of real-life factors, and it opens the door for a litany of laws regulating my body. He's a sweet, loving guy and progressive in every other way, but I'm suddenly unsure about a relationship I viewed as totally solid just a few days ago. I'm not sure if this should be a deal breaker or if this is just a disagreement. Please advise.

Love Is Finding Errors Your boyfriend won't go so far as to say abortion should be banned ... or maybe he saw the shocked look on your face and realized that going so far as to say abortion should be banned to you would be a big mistake.

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boyfriend is serious about not wantif you don't get married, even if you ing to impose his personal beliefs on don't live together and raise this child others or whether he's an anti-choice together, you two will be stuck with zealot: tell him you're pregnant. each other for the rest of your lives if Some men blithely assume antiyou have the baby. choice positions because "personhood" I'm guessing his answers will be "no, and other anti-choice arguments apno and no" and he'll offer to drive you peal to them in the abstract and, hey, to the nearest abortion clinic himself. it's not like their bodies or their As for whether you should date futures are on the someone who is anti-choice, E line, right? Most antiwell, women have to be in SAVAG choice-in-the-abstract control of their own bodly.com ies—and when and whether k men come to a very dife e w vue elove@ ferent conclusion about savag they reproduce—in order to Dan e the importance of access be truly equal. I don't think g a Sav to safe and legal abortion I could date someone who when an unplanned pregdidn't see me as his equal or nancy impacts them directly. who believed that the state should So tell your boyfriend you're pregregulate my sexual or reproductive nant. You can present it as a thought choices. So, yeah, this shit would be experiment if you prefer, LIFE, but I a deal breaker for me, LIFE, if I had a think you should flat-out lie to him. vagina.

Then, once the news sinks in, ask him Actually, this issue is a deal breaker if he's ready to provide financial supfor me, even though I don't have a vaport for a child and/or make regular, gina. I wouldn't date a gay dude who monthly child support payments diwas anti-choice. Any gay man who rectly to you. Ask him if he's ready for can't see the connection between a the responsibilities (and the grind) of woman's right to have children when full or even part-time parenting. Ask she chooses and his right to love and him if he knows you well enough— marry the person he chooses is an just seven short months into this relaidiot. And I don't date idiots. tionship—to make the kind of lifetime If your hypothetical pregnancy commitment that scrambling your doesn't shock your boyfriend out DNA together entails. Because even of his idiocy, LIFE, you'll have to ask yourself if you can continue dating this idiot.

And speaking of abortion ...

Researchers at Washington University in St Louis released the results of a massive study—more than 9000 women participated—on the effects of making birth control more widely available. And how did they make birth control more widely available? They gave it away for free. And it turns out that making birth control available to women at no cost, which is what the president is trying to do, reduced the

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teen birth rate by more than 80 percent (from 34.3 births per 1000 teens on average to 6.3 births per 1000 for teens enrolled in the study) and it reduced the number of abortions by 62 – 78 percent (from 19.6 abortions per 1000 women on average to 4.4 to 7.5 abortions per 1000 women enrolled in the study).

A person can't call himself pro-life and oppose access to birth control (or Obamacare!). If you do oppose access to birth control—or you oppose Obamacare because it expands access to birth control—you're not really pro-life. You're just anti-sex.

I found porn on my kid's computer and I talked to him about being careful about spyware, the difference between actual intimacy and objectification, and that kind of thing. I don't have a problem with a 15-year-old boy looking at porn—so long as he's discreet and doesn't do it to excess. But what my kid was looking at was standard stuff, i.e., garden variety M/F porn and a touch of M/M porn. But a friend found a stash of really kinky violence-againstwomen stuff on her kid's computer. I'm thinking a parent can't let that go as easily. She's about to confront her kid. I don't think you can help her with what to say, since she'll already have said something, but what would you have advised her to say?

My Friend's Kinky Son You meet two kinds of people at kink events and in kink spaces: people who've always known they were kinky—people who were jerking off to kinky fantasies and/or porn long before they were 15—and people who got into kink after falling in love with someone who was kinky. Your friend's son sounds like one of the former.

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bear in mind that her son, if he is indeed kinky, sought out kinky porn. Kinky porn didn't make him kinky. And being shamed by his mother for his porn preferences— or his kinks—isn't going to unmake his kinks.

That said, MFKS, your friend should talk with her son about the difference between porn and real sex—kinky or vanilla—and the difference between erotic power exchange and violence. She should also talk to him about safety and misogyny, and she should encourage him to be thoughtful about his sexuality. And most importantly, MFKS, she should emphasize the importance of meaningful and informed CONSENT. Your friend's son isn't going to want to dialogue with his mom about his porn stash or his kinks, MFKS, so she should go in prepared to monologue at him.

Finally, there's a chance that your friend's son isn't kinky and was just looking for the most appalling shit he could find on the Internet. Mom should acknowledge that as a possibility, and her son, even if he is kinky, is likely to seize on that excuse. If he does claim that he was just looking for shocking video clips, she should say: "I believe you. But there's a small chance that you're saying that because you think it's what I want to hear. So I'm going to say everything I wanted to say about safety, misogyny and consent just in case. And all of it applies to vanilla sex, too." V Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage. @fakedansavage on Twitter

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