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Stealing from kiddies The theft of $2 million worth of toys donated to the Salvation Army over the past two years might make you wonder if giving to charity is actually worth it. Who's to say if your money and donations make it into the hands of the folks who really need them, especially when some charities' financial reports are pretty vague, according to MoneySense, which has been grading Canadian charities for the past three years.

Only five of Canada's top 25 charities received an 'A' from MoneySense this time around—and the Salvation Army wasn't one of them. The top dogs were Canadian Red Cross Society, Nature Conservancy of Canada, United Way of Greater Toronto, United Way of Calgary and area and Centraide of Greater Montreal. A top grade means at least 87 percent of spending went directly to the cause, along with other transparency measures. The Salvation Army got a 'C', so in other words, less than 63 percent of donations were spent on the intended program.

The case of the missing toys involves David Rennie, the now former executive director of the Salvation Army's Railside Road warehouse in Toronto that stores donations. He must have decided his $100 000 plus salary needed to be augmented by some shady deals in toys, cribs and strollers—146 wooden platforms stacked with 'em. Apparently some food was stolen too.

Even bikes donated by Ontario's Premier Dalton McGuinty that were supposed to be for kids at

summer camp never made it to them last summer.

Rennie was fired after admitting to the thefts on November 26. He is charged with theft, possession of stolen goods and breach of trust and will appear in court on January 4. The only upside is that Toronto police will return everything after it's itemized so it can be given away for Christmas. But it's not over for the Sally Ann. Another executive director was fired in mid-November after $250 000 was found missing from the operating budget at an Ottawa centre.

It's not to say the Salvation Army doesn't help out a lot of needy people, but making the headlines twice in one month for swindling money and donations can shatter any trust the public has in you.

Charities know that people feel extra giving over the holidays and they receive a big chunk of their donations at this time. Giving is great— if you put some thought into it. As sad as it is, you can't just trust any charity with your money anymore; you have to do your research. Charityfocus.ca is a great place to start. Look up the finances of any Canadian charity and see how they've been doing over time, find them on social media, even make a donation.

It's hard not to be cynical when scandals involving millions of dollars take place, but there are still many people who honestly just want to make a difference to people in need. V

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GET OFF OUR LAND Fed up with oil and gas companies pushing their way onto aboriginal land, 12 rallies were held across Canada and internationally on November 27 to support the Unis'tot'en people in central BC who evicted shale gas pipeline surveyors from their land the week

before. The Unis'tot'en have said they will not budge on allowing any proposed pipelines or development on their land.

Shale gas from BC is used as fuel in the Alberta tar sands and Robert Howarth from Cornell University says that, "Shale gas is worse than conventional gas, and is, in fact, worse than coal and worse than oil."

The Edmonton rally was in front of the Whyte Avenue location of the Royal Bank of

Canada as they are the largest financier of oil and gas companies operating in the tar sands, the second largest financier of Enbridge and a major investor in Encana.

Encana's chairman of the board, David P O'Brien, is also the chairman of RBC. Demonstrators were there to defend the rights of all aboriginal peoples in Canada—including the Beaver Lake Cree First Nation who are involved in a land rights lawsuit—to protect their lands.

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An eagle feather—sent as a first and only notice—was sent to surveyors from the CanAm Geomatics company on November 20 as a warning to stop trespassing. They were then ordered to leave. The company was working on the proposed Pacific Trails Pipeline, which is a $1 billion partnership between Apache Canada, Encana and Enron Oil and Gas. For the past two years, the Wet'suwet'en Nation (of which Unis'tot'en is a clan) has set up camp in the pathway of the Pacific Trails Pipeline and keep making it known that it will not allow any pipeline to pass through its territory. The nation says the Canadian government has broken the law by only consulting with the elected Indian Act tribal councils and bands.

Freda Huson, spokeswoman for the Unis'tot'en, says, "Pacific Trails Pipeline does not have permission to be on our territory.

This is unceded land. Through emails and in meetings, we have repeatedly said no. Pacific Trail Pipeline's proposed route is through two main salmon spawning channels which provide our staple food supply. We have made the message clear to Pacific Trails, Enbridge, and all of industry: we will not permit any pipelines through our territory."

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here are times, for example, when it hits -30 C before factoring in the windchill, when it can be difficult to love Edmonton, but beyond its perceived flaws is a multitude of opportunity, diversity and a boom of activity that The Local Good is working to connect the population to.

The not-for-profit organization—formerly known as Edmontonians Supporting a Green Economy (E-SAGE)—started five years ago by a group of Edmontonians who were passionate about living local, sustainable, progressive lifestyles, but didn't have a platform to share information and connect like-minded individuals who were interested in local food, farmer's markets, making socially responsible choices and all around making Edmonton an exciting city to live in.

"We also noticed that a lot of the resources around sustainable living, green this and that were all American. All the books were American, all the experts that would come to speak were American," begins co-founder Tad Hargrave, who also runs marketingforhippies.com. "We've got so much good stuff here in Edmonton around sustainability and living a more local life and so we just wanted to create this kind of a hub, so we started gatherings where we brought together just a lot of our friends and colleagues."

During its five years of existence, this network has expanded from friends to a diverse group of the city's go-getters and dogooders with the help of The Local Good's email newsletter, social media presence and organized events—the latest being its fifth anniversary party, where designated facilitators will ensure people meet the most beneficial connections for their interests.

"I feel in the last year something's really shifted and exploded in Edmonton ... there's so many amazing restaurants that have opened up in the last while like Tres Carnales, Three Boars, Corso 32, and so many restaurants are focused on serving local food, and interest in local food has really exploded. There's the food truck thing that's just started to happen, the Edmonton theatre scene is in the middle of kind of a renaissance," Hargrave notes, adding neighbourhoods such as 118 Avenue have undergone a renaissance of its own, focusing on revitalization of its rich culture.

Hargrave says he is unsure of what's been the catalyst for the apparent sudden burst of activity that's underway in the city, but does note it's not exclusively an Edmonton thing, having witnessed similar effects in cities such as Vancouver. However, he feels numerous Edmonton-based initiatives that have been started in recent years are beginning to bear fruit at the same moment, creating a wealth of opportunity for those interested in finding it.

"I'm seeing more and more people falling in love with Edmonton and I

think something that's shifted, and again I don't know why, but people are starting to be like, 'I can build something here; I can build something lasting," he adds. "I do feel like Edmonton and a lot of places have come from this shift where it was cool to be apathetic, not involved and be cynical and have this kind of hipster, disaffecting, apathetic posture, and I feel like 10 years ago that was cool and it was cool to diss Edmonton. I feel like somehow it's shifted to genuinely actually a cool thing to be involved and be active."

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Edmontonians is Hannah MacDonald, who moved from Cape Breton to Edmonton four months ago. She had visited Edmonton in the past and been surprisingly impressed, but admits the city is still perceived less-than-favourably not only by some Edmontonians, but by the rest of Canada.

"I arrived in August. It was beautiful, warm and sunny—hard to believe right now how warm it was," she recalls.

MacDonald and her partner, who prompted the move when he was offered a job in Edmonton, immediately got involved in they city's festival scene, volunteering at the Fringe Festival and taking in as many events as they could during the final summer months. MacDonald eventually became involved in the local good after meeting with Hargrave at the suggestion of a mutual friend back home in Cape Breton who felt the two would hit it off. They met for coffee and the rest is history.

"The Local Good has opened up my view of Edmonton to so many events happening and people I wouldn't have met otherwise, so in meeting those people and going to events and going to talks, I've learned so much about the diversity of Edmonton and how much is going on," she says.

So, if there's so much to get involved with in Edmonton, why does it still get perceived as a place with little potential?

MacDonald has a theory: "I think it's because Edmonton's this hub in a way where people come, but it's for jobs or for school and it's kind of a means to an end, either to get training or to make good money and then return to the rest of their lives," she says. "I've heard this again and again, is people come, then they grow to love it or learn more about it, get involved in what's going on and stay."

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Free trade and democracy incompatible Canada's pending trade deals with China and the EU will result in huge payouts

• Long-term, legally binding agreements with multi-national corporations involving zero public and Canadian Parliamentary scrutiny.

• Secretive lawsuits of any level of Canadian government by the same corporations if Canadian laws interfere with a corporation's profitability.

• Export of good jobs overseas because smaller local companies can't compete for public contracts. Resulting pressure on Canadian governments to privatize our essential services.

These are just a few of the negative outcomes of past trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agree-

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ment (NAFTA) and the Canada-US FTA and the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA). And they will be repeated again with the impending Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and the Canada-China Foreign Investment Protection and Promotion Agreement (FIPA). The Harper government is trying to pass these deals with as little public awareness as possible, even though they will have a tremendous impact on Canada.

Under FIPA, Chinese companies will (as with NAFTA) be able to sue any Canadian government for any regulations that may affect their profits. Unelected, un-

accountable trade tribunals outside the court system will decide the outcome.

Tens of millions of Canadian taxpayer dollars will then be paid out to these companies. And, as with NAFTA, elected politicians and Canadians citizens will be deliberately left out of the process.

As well, Canadian governments will have to give Chinese companies the same treatment as local companies seeking contracts. Thus, we won't be able to use local procurement as a tool to create local jobs or promote sustainable development. These provisions apply to Chinese companies investing in Canada, but not necessarily to Canadian companies investing in China. Once again, in our eagerness

to get a trade deal signed, Canada gives away more than it gets.

The Canada-China and Canda-EU agreements will have major environmental, social and financial impacts on Canadian citizens and undermine our very fundamental democratic rights. But the Harper government is determined to rush them through as soon as possible. Parliament doesn't even get to vote on it. If FIPA is passed behind closed doors, Canadians will be legally locked in for over 30 years.

Harper doesn't seem to think that our MPs should be able to vote on trade agreements. Shouldn't we, as taxpayers, voters and citizens, be able to get a good look at this agreement and then decide if

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we want our MPs involved?

Both CETA and FIPA are blatant indications of the profoundly anti-democratic agenda of the Harper regime. Both agreements will be signed in 2012 if the Conservatives succeed. When elected in 2006, the Conservatives promised greater accountability. Canadians must demand that they live up to that promise now.

For more information, and to take concrete action, please visit the Council of Canadians' website at canadians.org/action/2012/CanadaChina-FIPA.html.

Jared Milne is a member of the Edmonton Chapter of the Council of Canadians.

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Egyptian president claims absolute power

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Morsi moved swiftly, not only giving himself supreme powers beyond the ability of the courts to challenge, but specifically forbidding the Supreme Judicial Council to dismiss the second Constituent Assembly.

He also gave that assembly an extra two months to finish writing the constitution, after which it would have to be approved by referendum.

Only then (perhaps next May) would a new lower house of parliament be elected—and once the constitution is in place and the subsequent election is past, Morsi promised, he will relinquish his extraordinary powers. But by then Egypt would have an Islamic constitution and almost certainly a lower house of parliament dominated by the Islamic parties.

What is happening now, therefore, is not the rise of a new dictatorship, but rather a ruthless political manoeuvre aimed at creating a democratic but Islamic Egypt. Naturally, it frightens a large proportion of the 49 percent of Egyptians who voted against Morsi in the presidential election earlier this year and it absolutely terrifies the country's eight million Christians.

Morsi's edict has been met with impassioned protest in the streets and the formation of a National Salvation Front aimed at uniting all non-Islamist groups to force Morsi to rescind his edicts. Its leaders include three of the candidates who ran against Morsi in the election earlier this year. But that may not be enough.

`There is no middle ground, no diaclothing, just waiting for the chance logue before (Egyptian President to impose Islamic rule on everyMohammed Morsi) rescinds this body, including liberals, Christians declaration," said pro-democracy and secular Egyptians? How else advocate and Nobel Peace Prize can you explain what he winner Mohammed ElBarahas just done? The andei. "There is no room for swer matters because if dialogue when a dictator Egypt, by far the most m o ly.c eweek u v @ e imposes the most opprespopulous Arab country gwynn e n n y w sive, abhorrent measures (90 million people), sucG Dyer cumbs to a new tyranny, and then says, 'Let us split the difference.'" then the whole "Arab Spring" Morsi won last June's presidential was just a brief illusion. election fair and square, but many Morsi's actions are wrong, but he Egyptians really are frightened is not actually aiming at a dictatorthat his decree from November ship. He just wants to thwart the 22 sweeps aside the democratic Supreme Judicial Council, made up gains of last year's revolution. The of judges who almost all date from decree gives him absolute power, the Mubarak era, which had already although he swears it is only for a dismissed the first body charged limited time. with writing a new constitution.

Morsi was already governing by There were indications that it might decree pending a new parliamenbe about to dissolve the second one tary election, since the courts had What is happening now, therefore, is not the rise dissolved the lower house of parof a new dictatorship, but rather a ruthless politiliament because the election was cal manoeuvre aimed at creating a democratic but flawed. His latest decree declares Islamic Egypt. that the courts cannot challenge any of his edicts until that new election takes place.

The decree also states that he on the same grounds.

The truth is that the elections can take any steps necessary to The grounds were legally sound, for produced a parliamentary majordefeat undefined "threats to the the first assembly chosen by parliaity and a president who wants to revolution"—and nobody can ask ment included a large number of MPs impose Islamic law and that its the courts to decide whether those who belonged to the Islamic parties, opponents are using various lesteps are legal and justifiable. In although the law said that members gal devices in an attempt to stop theory, at least, Morsi has given of parliament could not themselves the process. Moreover, a new himself greater powers than the sit in the Constituent Assembly. A constitution imposing Islamic law former dictator, Hosni Mubarak, second Constituent Assembly, chowould almost certainly get a "yes" ever possessed. sen in June, once again included memin a referendum. bers of parliament in clear defiance But the other truth is that maThis is as puzzling as it is alarmof the law, which is why it is facing jorities in a democracy should not ing, since nothing in Morsi's prefurther court challenges. try to impose their religious and vious history suggests that he In the last month or so, the prospect social views on large minorities wants to be Egypt's next dictator. that this new body will produce a who do not share them. Morsi is He is a prominent member of the constitution based mainly on Islamic already showing signs of wanting Muslim Brotherhood and shares law led most of the secular and Christo compromise but, as ElBaradei its conservative social and relitian elements to withdraw. That depointed out, he cannot take these gious values, but that organizaprived it of a voting quorum, but the extreme measures and then offer tion, the mainstay of opposition remaining members, including many to "split the difference." Egypt is to Egypt's military dictators durMPs linked to the Muslim Brotherin for a rough ride. V ing half a century of tyranny, has hood, carried on regardless, so there Gwynne Dyer is an independent jourmoved a long way from its radical was a growing probability that a new nalist whose articles are published and sometimes violent origins. court ruling would dismiss this asin 45 countries.

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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 • Cha Island Tea, 10332 81

Ave • Learn about menstrual cycle charting and share your personal experiences in a supportive group environment • Mon, Dec 3, 6:30-8:30pm • Suggested donation of $5

Toastmasters Club • Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (north door, stairs to the left) • Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue each month.

Help develop confidence in public speaking and leadership • Contact: Antonio Balce, 780.463.5331 Fertility Awareness Charting Circle meeting • Cha Island Tea Co,

tertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Vilmos; Nov 29-Dec 1 • Leif Skyving; Dec 6 • That's Improv!; Dec 7-8 • Leif Skyving; Dec 13-15 • Dennis Ross; Dec 20-22 • Tim Koslo; December 28 - 29

10332-81 Ave • faccedmonton@gmail.com • Learn about menstrual cycle charting and share your personal experiences in a supportive group environment • 1st Mon of the month from Oct-Apr, 6:30-8:30pm • $5 (suggested donation)

Comic Strip • Bourbon St, WEM •

FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Angli-

780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Mike Dambra; Nov 28-Dec-2 • JR Brow; Dec 5-9 • Pete Correale; Dec 12-16

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119

• Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm

Filthy McNasty's • 10511-82 Ave • 780.996.1778 • Stand Up Sundays: Stand-up comedy night every Sun with a different headliner every week; 9pm; no cover Metro Cinema • 8712-109 St • Local

comedian Jon Mick's celebratory Saint Mick’s Muletide Extravaganza with music by Renny Wilson and Liam Trimble, film clips, Capital City Burlesque and more • Thu, Dec 13, 7pm (door) • $10-$12 at Blackbyrd Myoozic, Permanent Records, door

Overtime Pub • 4211-106 St • Open

mic comedy anchored by a professional MC, new headliner each week • Every Tue • Free

Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St • Sterling Scott every Wed, 9pm

Vault Pub • 8214-175 St • Comedy with Liam Creswick and Steve Schulte • Every Mon, at 9:30pm Wunderbar • 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 • Comedy every 2nd Mon

can 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

Healing Circle • Call 780.570.0475 for location • spiritualawakeningcentre.com • Begins with a guided meditation moving into an affirmative state where healing on all levels occurs • Every Wed, 7-8pm Home–Energizing Spiritual Community for Passionate Living • Garneau/Ashbourne Assisted Living

Place, 11148-84 Ave • Home: Blends music, drama, creativity and reflection on sacred texts to energize you for passionate living • Every Sun, 3-5pm

Lotus Qigong • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu MADELEINE SANAM FOUNDATION

• Faculté 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

Meditation • Strathcona Library •

meditationedmonton.org • Weekly meditation drop-in; every Tue, 7-8:30pm

Zen Lounge • 12923-97 St • The Ca$h Prize comedy contest hosted by Matt Alaeddine and Andrew Iwanyk • Every Tue, 8pm • No cover

Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association • Duggan Community

Groups/CLUBS/meetings

Occupy Edmonton General Assembly • Grant MacEwan City Centre

Aikikai Aikido Club • 10139-87 Ave,

Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm

Amnesty International Edmonton • 8307-109 St • edmontonamnesty.org

• Meet the 4th Tue each month, 7:30pm (no meetings in Jul, Aug, and Dec) E: amnesty@ edmontonamnesty.org for more info • Free

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

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Hall, 3728-106 St • 780.458.6352, 780.467.6093 • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

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

Organization for Bipolar Affective Disorder (OBAD) • Grey

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

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

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

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 Unsilent Night Edmonton • Meet

at Gazebo Park, 83 Ave, 104 St • unsilentnight. com • Get out your CD, cassette, mp3 boombox, bundle up, and join us for Phil Kline's 45 minute interactive sound walk through the streets of the Old Strathcona • Sat, Dec 22, 5-6 pm • Free, all ages

Vegetarians of Alberta • Riverdale Community League • Holiday Potluck: Bring a vegan, raw vegan or vegetarian holiday dish to serve at least 6 people (plus plate, cutlery, serving spoon, cup). Hot apple cider will be provided • Dec 16, 5:30pm

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WASKAHEGAN TRAIL HIKES • waskahegantrail.ca • Hike along the North Saskatchewan River from Mill Creek to Kinsmen Park; meet at Argyll McDonalds, Argyll Rd, 81 St; Dec 2, 9:45am-2:45pm; Sandra 780.467.9572 • Hike along the North Saskatchewan from Snow Valley to Hawrelak Park; meet at Argyll McDonalds, Argyll Rd, 81 St; Helen 780.468.4331; Dec 9, 9:45am2:45pm • Hike along the North Saskatchewan River from Kennedale Ravine to Sunridge; meet at Argyll McDonalds, Argyll Rd, 81 St; 780.467.9572; Dec 16, 9:45am-2:45pm • Guests are welcome. Annual membership is $20.

EDMONTON NATURE CLUB • King's University College, 9125-50 St • 780.459.6389 • Christmas Bird Countin' around the world with speaker Dr. Richard Knapton • Fri, Dec 14, 7pm (refreshments), 7:30pm (meeting) • Admission by donation

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

BELLEVUE HALL • 7308-112 Ave • Wom-

onspace Annual Christmas dinner and dance • Dec 8 • $35 (incl meal and dance)

BISEXUAL WOMEN'S COFFEE GROUP • A social group for bi-curious and bisexual women every 2nd Tue each month, 8pm • groups.yahoo.com/group/bwedmonton

1:30-3:30pm

MAKING WAVES SWIMMING C5

GLBT SPORTS AND RECREATION •

LUB • geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu

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@teamedmonton.ca • Volleyball: every Tue, 7-9pm; St. Catherine School, 10915-110 St; every Thu, 7:309:30pm at Amiskiwiciy Academy, 101 Airport Rd

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 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

WILD ROSE ANTIQUE COLLECTORS

SOCIETY • Delwood Community Hall, 7517 Delwood Rd • wildroseantiquecollectors.ca • Collecting and researching items from various periods in the history of Edmonton. Presentations after club business.

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

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 ALBERTA LABOUR LECTURE SERIES

• Provincial Archives of Alberta, 8555 Roper Road • 780.427.0356 • Four part lecture series related to the working people who built Alberta. This week: Working People in Alberta, A History to 1945 • Every Wed in Nov, 7-8pm • Free (RSVP to paaevents@gov.ab.ca or call 780.427.1750

ART OF CONVERSATION • Metterra

Hotel On Whyte, 10454 82 Ave • Rob Christie, Audie Lynds, Graham Hick, an opportunity for Edmontonians to mingle with other interesting people • Nov 29, 4:30-7pm • Free

EARTH'S GENERAL STORE • 9605-82 Ave • 780.439.8725 • egs.ca/node/442 • Introduction to Kombucha Making; Sun, Dec 2, 7-9pm; $25 FIRE IN THE HOLE: SOCIAL SCIENCE ETHICS AND THE US ARMY'S TERRAIN TEAM SYSTEMS • University of Alberta, Business Building Room 5-04 • Lecture

by Jennifer Hunt, Montclair State University • Nov 29, 4pm • Free

GREAT EXPEDITIONS • St Luke’s AnglicanChurch, 8424-95 Ave • 780.469.3270 • 1st Mon every month, 7:30pm • Suggested donation of $3

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• .edmonton.ca/city_government/city_vision_and_strategic_plan/the-way-we-greenspeakers-series.aspx • Presentation by author Thomas Homer-Dixon • Thu, Nov 29, 12pm • Free

SOLAR FARMS–LARGE SOLAR SYSTEMS ARE COMING TO ALBERTA •

Grant MacEwan University CN Theatre Rm 5-142, 105 St BLdg, 104 Ave • 780.378.6178 • solaralberta.ca • Presentation by Brian Marshall and Gordon Howell • Dec 6, 7-8:30pm • Free

SUSTAINABILITY SPEAKER SERIES

• Myer Horowitz Theatre, Students’ Union Bldg, U of A, 8900-114 St • sustainability. ualberta.ca/speaker• Thomas Homer-Dixon's Alberta and the Coming Energy Transition: Shock, Innovation, and Resilience • Thu, Nov 29, 7-9pm • $5 at TIX on the Square, at Infolink Booths in HUB, SUB, CAB; proceeds to the U of A's Campus Food Bank and Green Grant programs

THOMAS HOMER-DIXON'S ALBERTA AND THE COMING ENERGY TRANSITION: SHOCK, INNOVATION • Myer

Horowitz Theatre, Students Union Building, University of Alberta • 780.492.9289 • E: sustainability@ualberta.ca • Part of the Sustainability Speaker Series • Nov 29, 7-9pm • $5 (Proceeds from ticket sales will support the University of Alberta’s Campus Food Bank and Green Grant programs)

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Hall, 11840-87 Ave • 780.436.5732 (Linda), 780.434.8105 ( Jennifer) • minkhasweaters.com • Hand knit sweaters, shawls, scarves hand knit by women’s cooperative in Bolivia, the poorest country in South America. Pure alpaca/pima cotton. All proceeds return to knitters • Dec 8, 9am-3pm

CHRISTMAS POTTERY SALE • Hwy 16 (Yellowhead Hwy) west past Stony Plain overpass to RR 12, turn rt (north) and follow red arrow signs for 2km • 780.968.2606 • Dec 1, 10am-4pm; Dec 2, 12-4pm DANCE MOVES 15TH ANNUAL FOOD BANK CLASSIC FUNDRAISER • City

ECAWAR'S TENTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION • Old Strathcona Communi-

ty Hall, 10113-87 Ave • ecawar.org • Celebrate ten years of the peace movement in Edmonton with the Edmonton Coalition Against War and Racism (ECAWAR) with speakers, live music, displays, and a potluck supper • Sat, Dec 1, 1-7pm • Free

KIDS CHRISTMAS SHOPPE • Old Strathcona Antique Mall, 10323-78 Ave • 780.433.0398 • Kids shop where no parents are allowed, gifts between $5-$20 • Sat, Dec 8, 10am-4pm

Ave • thelocalgood.ca • Bringing together edmonton’s savviest do gooders & community members (arts! activism! non profit! business! government! etc.) for a night of networking and celebration • Wed, Dec 5, 7-11:45pm • $10 (adv)/$15 (door)

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ford House Provincial Historic Site on campus, 11153 Saskatchewan Drive • 780.427.4033 • execdir@rutherfordhouse.ca • A Movember Shave Party like no other. Includes keynote speakers from the U of A, live jazz music, food and wine. Hosted in the home of the most famous moustached man in Edmonton’s history: Alexander Cameron Rutherford, first Premier of Alberta and founder of the University of Alberta • Nov 30, 7-11pm • $60 (regular)/$100 (couple)/$40 (students)

PHOTOS WITH SANTA & HORSE DRAWN HAY RIDES • The Marketplace

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RESILIENCY • City Hall, 102A Ave, 100 St

10TH ANNIVERSARY MINKA SALE/ OPEN HOUSE • Windsor Park Community

THE LOCAL GOOD'S 5TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY • The Kasbar, 10444-82

Ave • Every Sun, 6:50-9pm • Pre-register; $25 (each session); info: Robyn at rawrobyn@ gmail.com

CUSSION • Ledcor Theatre, 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • jledmonton.org • Documentary Screening • Thu, Nov 29, 6:30-9:30pm • $45

SPECIAL EVENTS

Hall Main Foyer • dancemoves.ca • Dance Movers from all over Edmonton, St. Albert and Sherwood Park will strut their stuff to show you what they have learned in the past 10 weeks of dance/fitness classes • Dec 19, 7-9pm

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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

CHRISTMAS CAROL • Jubilee Auditorium • Kid-friendly, 21st century Christmas Carol presented by the Leading Stars Arts and Education Foundation • Nov 29-30, 7pm • $7 at Ticketmaster, 780.451.8000

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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

activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured

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 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,

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 Wed, 9-12pm • Fri Steak Night, 5-9pm • Frequent special events: drag shows, leather nights, beer bashes, girls nights • DJs every Fri and Sat, 10pm LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408124 St • edmlivingpositive.ca • 1.877.975.9448/780.488.5768 • Confidential peer support to people living with HIV • Tue, 7-9pm: Support group • Daily drop-in, peer counselling

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 • Family Holiday Event: Cookie decorating, gingerbread house making, holiday ornaments, movies and music; all ages eevnt; donations for Sntas Anonymous; Sat, Dec 1, 2-5:30pm

PRIMETIMERS/SAGE GAMES • Unitar-

ian Church, 10804-119 St • 780.474.8240 • Every 2nd and last Fri each Month, 7-10:30pm

ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH • 1152676 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship) WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • wom-

onspace.ca, womonspace@gmail.com • A Non-profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly

VUEWEEKLY NOVEMBER 29 – DECEMBER 05, 2012

at Callingwood, Callingwood Professional Centre lobby, 6650-177 St • callingwoodmarketplace.com • Pictures with Santa! Includes face painting, festive colouring for the kids, and a horse drawn hay ride around the parking lot • Dec 8, 11am-4pm • Charges for photos; horse drawn hayride is free

POWER OF HOPE CAMPAIGN LAUNCH • Citadel Zeilder Theatre, 9828-

101A Ave • 780.452.4661 • Featuring a performance of the Schizophrenia Society of Alberta's production, Starry Night written by members of the SSA, both those who live with schizophrenia and their families, and is based on real-life experiences • Dec 7, 1-3pm

ST ALBERT MAYOR’S PRAYER BENEFIT • Gateway Alliance Church, 13931-140

St • A Christmas Concert with music from the Steve Bell Trio in Support of the St Albert Food Bank (CD release) • Thu, Dec 6, 7:30pm • $20 at 1.800.854.3499, stevebell.com

STUART MCLEAN–VINYL CAFÉ CHRISTMAS • Jubilee Auditorium • Stuart McLean with special guests Reid Jameson and the Vinylettes • Sun, Dec 2, 2:30pm, 7:30pm • $40-$50 at Ticketmaster

UNFORGETTABLE • Robertson Wesley United Church, 10209-123 St • The music of Nat King Cole Christmas fundraiser featuring Don Stewart and Sabian Compri Gospel Group Essence of Praise • Dec 5, 5pm (door, craft sale), 7pm (music) • $20 (adult)/$15 (senior/student) at Ticketmaster, Myhre's Music, Permanent Records, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Maureen 780.461.7061, and Tanya 780.482.1587; proceeds to the breakfast program at St.Francis of Assisi School

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REVUE // DOCUMENTARY

The stories of life Sarah Polley delves into a family secret

Fri, Nov 30 – Thu, Dec 6 Stories We Tell Written and directed by Sarah Polley Princess Theatre

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his is the story of a woman who couldn't quite cope with the demands of a marriage that never brought her joy so much as stasis, who took a chance on a spell of fulfilled desire in another city, who returned from that city and out from under that spell with irrefutable evidence of her indiscretion, who opted to remain in that not very joyous marriage and to keep that irrefutable evidence and incorporate it into the story of her family. This is the story of a girl who was loved, but whose mother died when the girl was far too young, who was told certain things over the years in jest and began to wonder when exactly jest becomes so insistent as to resemble truth.

This is the story of a woman who was lovable but hard to love with, who had a loud laugh, who spoke a lot on the phone and worried over things, who really wanted to be an actor but mostly settled for being a casting director, a mother and a problematic wife, who died far too young and

became an enigma for everyone she left behind. This is the story of a young actress and political activist who became an extraordinary film director, who wanted to make a terribly thoughtful essay film about the vagaries of memory and how stories shape identity, who thought she could regard her subject from layers of distance and abstraction but slowly came to realize that her essay was a kind of memoir, that the thesis was blushingly personal, that however broadly she populated these stories she was telling with colorful characters from her family and beyond, the film was always bound to become about her. Stories We Tell is many stories, but like any story it's also about the storyteller. It cannot be otherwise.

Sarah Polley's third feature as director, which has been called a documentary for lack of a better term, feels like the culmination of her preceding films, Away From Her and Take This Waltz, in that those films used fiction as a way of thinking about domesticity, intimacy and betrayal between fascinating women and loyal, sturdy men. It was sparked

by Polley's longtime suspicion

that her father was not really her father—that is, her biological father—that her mother, who died 20 years ago, conceived Polley with some other man while working on a play in Montréal (the family lived in Toronto). Stories We Tell combines interviews with family and friends of the family—all of them providing different, conflicting speculations or supposed certainties about who was Father X—with sometimes startling home movie footage, an investigation, a formal reading by the man who raised Polley, a great orator with a rigorous emotional poker face, and other, trickier elements that needn't be described here. It's rich, suspenseful, funny, smart and heartbreaking. It keeps changing its mind about what it is as it goes along, yet it never looses the thread of its search. At one point Polley's brother quotes Neruda: "Love is so short / Forgetting so long." That about sums it up. And this film imaginatively sums up something about love and forgetting that Polley's been getting at for a while, which makes it that much more thrilling to consider where she goes from here.

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REVUE // PERIOD PIECE

Anna Karenina Opens Friday Directed by Joe Wright

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nglish director Joe Wright can marshal the teeming forces that constitute the cinematic apparatus on the grandest of scales with a tremendous fluidity. And, boy, nobody knows it better than him. If there was ever any chance of the cameras simply bearing witness to a shift in thought, atmosphere or emotion in his new adaptation of Anna Karenina, Wright has done a painstaking job of ensuring that any such event was quashed under a behemoth of elaborate tracking shots, movable décor and razzle dazzle choreography. Not a whole lot of slipping elegantly between the internal musings of various characters here. Doesn't sound much like Tolstoy does it? I suspect fidelity to the source material was not high on Wright's priority list.

This Anna has a big design concept at its core, though the execution of this concept is hardly consistent. All the world's a stage—until it isn't. The first several scenes of this spin on Tolstoy's sprawling, multi-character tale of marital infidelities and class angst in 19th century Russia are confined entirely

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to a baroque theatre, with Anna (Keira Knightley) arriving in Moscow to help rescue her brother's damaged marriage and soon after becoming inexplicably entranced with the young military officer Vronsky (Aaron Taylor-Johnson).

The way Wright shifts from scene to scene by using toy trains, fake snow and sweeping gestures is undeniably virtuosic and increasingly tedious. If there is any real tension, sexual or otherwise, between Knightley and Taylor-Johnson, it gets lost in all the swirling, swooping and cutting. But, hey, they look great in those costumes, and Taylor-Johnson's blue eyes really pop when underlined by that blonde moustache.

Some interesting casting: Jude Law plays Anna's ultra-reserved husband, a government official. I guess someone figured it was Law's turn to get cuckolded for once, and the actor does some impressive work here, invoking a mixture of repressed pain and rage, doing internal battle with a desire to be forgiving and above it all. Elsewhere we find a very interesting, clearly devoted young actor named Domhnall Gleeson playing Tolstoy's other protagonist Levin, the young man who flees affluence to

join the workers in the fields and admire nature in all its ferocity and splendour.

Gleeson's nicely complimented by the Swedish beauty Alicia Vikander, who plays Kitty, the girl of Levin's dreams, who initially turns him away in favour of Vronsky. For some reason these actors have much stronger, subtler scenes than those shared by the stars. Do Wright and playwright Tom Stoppard, the film's scenarist, simply believe in true love between the young and innocent while disbelieving in the operatic lust and longings indulged in by the slightly older cheaters and manipulators? I suspect that this contrast has more to do with Wright's knee-jerk response to drama, already more than evident in earlier films like Pride and Prejudice and Atonement: the bigger the stakes, the more you got to dress it up!

I applaud chances taken with form and I have nothing against a little flamboyance, but the endless directorial flaunting in Anna Karenina just doesn't connect to the material in any sort of sustainably interesting way. Heartless pizazz doesn't make for much catharsis, and even the merciless wheels of a train can't conjure much feeling for the fate of poor Anna K. JOSEF BRAUN

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Laurence Anyways goes to work. Laurence and Fred have a cocoon-like relationship, a rare level of shared life and experience and sense of fun that precariously resembles codependence. There is some initial giddiness to Laurence's radical shift in optics, spurred by an even more radical shift in internal self-awareness, yet his personal and professional status quo is undeniably rocked, and the couple's life quickly gets complicated and imperiled. Thus begins an on-again/off-again love story spanning over 10 years and promising to go on for many, many more.

Fri, Nov 30 (6:30 pm); Sat, Dec 1 (9:30 pm); Sun, Dec 2 (4 pm & 8:45 pm); Mon, Dec 3 (9 pm); Wed, Dec 5 (6:30 pm) Written and directed by Xavier Dolan Metro Cinema at the Garneau

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he third feature from Montréal's Xavier Dolan is a truly ambitious modern love story and a definite improvement on its predecessor, the facile and overly derivative Heartbeats, but Laurence Anyways' 168-minute runtime and incessant detours into slow-motion, florid fantasy mostly feel like audacity for audacity's sake. Meanwhile, there is a quieter, more impressive sort of audacity at work in Dolan's approach to notions of self-determination, of gender, sexual preference and sexual identification,

that easily rivals, and in some ways betters, the gender-bending philosophical currents running through the equally lengthy, overbearing and similarly long view-taking Cloud Atlas. Precious few films are so broad as Laurence Anyways in their ideas of who we fundamentally are, how we come together and how we drift apart. Likewise, few films meander through the worlds they create with such jejune patience-trying pretension.

With the arrival of his 35th birthday, high school teacher and budding writer Laurence (France's Melvil Poupaud) decides he's really a woman and needs to dress the part, at the very least. Understandably, his girlfriend Fred (Suzanne Clément) has a hard time with this, yet she's supportive, encouraging him to don eye shadow and ladies wear when he

As with Heartbeats, Dolan's narrative and camera work overwhelmingly favours the woman; Clément, a tremendously resourceful actor, does the emotional heavy lifting, while Poupand's Laurence seems mostly pretty, and pretty vacuous, in comparison. There are some truly arresting scenes of relationship meltdown and moving moments of intimacy, but so much of Laurence Anyways, set in a 23-year-old's idea of the '80s, feels like music video or perfume ad pastiche. Dolan's embracing of high style is welcome in theory; in execution it feels like a mish-mash. Best to focus on the hearts beating underneath all the directorial overstatement; it's in the heart department that Dolan may yet prove to be a genuine wunderkind.

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The World Before Her

Fri, Nov 30 (9:30 pm); Sat, Dec 1 (2:15 pm); Sun, Dec 2 (12:15 pm & 7 pm); Tue, Dec 4 & Wed, Dec 5 (9:30pm); Thu, Dec 6 (7 pm) Written and directed by Nisha Pahuja Metro Cinema at the Garneau

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n the midst of evolving modern attitudes and lifestyles, a strong dichotomy exists in India—particularly when it comes to girls.

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The staggering population boasts more than one billion people, and as Nisha Pahuja's poignant and quietly shocking documentary attests, of the 12 million girls born each year, two million do not see their first birthday.

By many, girls are seen as a burden, another mouth to feed, and one that does not hold a great deal of value.

For those who do get a chance at life, there is an ever-present push and pull to uphold cultural values and traditions while embracing modern ways, such as young women getting an education and starting a career, rather than being married off to start a family—something traditional families still believe is a girl's sole purpose in life.

In the opening minutes of The World

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Before Her, we are introduced to two young woman with strikingly different views on the world. On one hand, there is Prachi Trivedi, a Hindu fundamentalist who considers herself gender neutral and runs the women's camp at Durga Vahini, a branch of the extremist Vishwa Hindu Parishad, also known as the "Hindu Taliban." Here, girls are taught to use weapons, to fight those who oppose their religion and that education means a girl has her head in the clouds. They denounce modern and Western influences, viewing it as a threat to their way of life, pledging to protect "Mother India" by any means necessary.

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Killing Them Softly

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t opens with a series of unnerving stutters, cross-cutting between the credits—silent, stark, white on black—and images of greasy hoodlum Frank (Scoot McNairy) exiting a darkened building for the sodden daylight of some profoundly rundown US city while one Senator Obama fills the soundtrack with something about "the American promise of life." As Killing Them Softly ambles toward its flamboyantly cynical conclusion, the city becomes only more a shambles of windblown refuse and houses collapsing in slow motion, Frank and his colleagues become only more hunched with fear and the broadcasts of speeches made by Obama and Bush that follow the characters everywhere they go become only more redolent of a distinctly American combination of stoic apologia and unconvincing optimism. The story is set in 2008, only four years ago, though this is very much a period piece, with the financial crisis and swap of presidents functioning as an increasingly overstated counterpoint to the film's seedy milieu of robbery, gambling, dope and murder.

The plot is unremarkably generic, featuring a heist followed by a series of killings. But Killing Them Softly isn't about its plot.

ultimate line of dialogue—is ultimately far too simplistic to sustain such an incessant refrain as it gets treated to here in scene after scene. Yet Dominik's determination to impart a directorial signature actually complicates his message in some truly engaging ways. That arresting opening described above is complimented by a bravura, tensionfilled sequence in which Frank and an Australian junky, glistening with about six weeks' worth of sweat, rob a poker game populated by mafia; by a drugtaking scene built from woozy push-ins and gauzy flickers of amber light; by an assassination scene slowed down to such a glacial frame rate that the victim's head turns a windshield into a spider web one crack at a time.

And the stylistic gambles aren't just to do with sound effects and vision.

Dominik's screenplay, an updated adaption of George V Higgin's Cogan's Trade, makes room for an absorbing series of extended monologues—most memorable are those made by James Gandolfini's aging, groggy, sex-and-

booze addicted hitman—riddled with anxiety, rampant misogyny, self-pity and squeamishness. Quentin Tarantino made talky crime films into a subgenre, but Dominik's is a different variety of verbose thug. All the characters in Killing Them Softly are men, and all are repugnant in the extreme—who cares about these scumbags? But get them talking for a while and you find that you want to hear more.

So take this as a wary recommendation. Killing Them Softly is at once painfully obvious yet, somehow, captivating. The cast is uniformly marvelous, with a great supporting turn from Richard Jenkins doing mob middle management, and yes, Brad Pitt, a character actor who just happens to be very handsome, as the most sensible assassin of the bunch. He's something of a softie when it comes to killing, but he understands the bottom line. The film's final words? "So fucking pay me!"

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New Zealand director Andrew Dominik's previous film, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford was so tailored for my personal tastes that I resented it. A downbeat western following a fascinatingly strange historical trajectory and high on atmospheres derivative of Terrence Malick, Jesse James struck me as pandering. It kept getting in its own way with precious stylistics. The funny thing about Killing Them Softly is that something like the reverse of Jesse James' problem has happened.

The film's one big idea—"America's not a country, it's a business," goes the pen-

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On the other side of the equation is Ruhi Singh, an innocent, idealistic teen who has relocated to Bombay from Jaipur for a different kind of training. Singh is one of 20 hopefuls vying for the Miss India World title. She is taught how to walk, talk and look—including skin lightening treatments and a great deal of sexism from the pageant coordinators that veers towards degradation. The pageant diction coach Sabira Merchant calls it "a little factory ... where you're polished like a diamond."

Pahuja brings in numerous other figures to paint a contrasting picture for each side of life for Indian women, albeit the extreme ends of the spectrum with the beauty pageant feeling like a reality TV show, while the other is more akin to a news special. One of the most compelling additions to this is 2009 Miss India Pooja Chopra, who speaks about her gratitude to her mother for

allowing her to live, despite her father's wishes to kill her, all because she was the second girl in her family. Her mother was defiant in a way that many are not, stating that girl would make her proud—and she did. Once again, the contrast is shown when Trivedi brushes aside her father's beatings, telling the film crew that he allowed her to live, so she must be grateful for that and do as he wishes. Despite her hard exterior and often disturbing chatter, she begins to come off as a tragic figure as she discusses pieces of her disturbing home life, as well as her aspirations, which go against her father's wish her to marry and have children.

It's a stark portrayal of a life that is hard for Canadians to imagine, and each side can be empathized with, portrayed without judgment or an influence which is right or wrong by Pahuja, leaving audiences to come to their own conclusions.

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superhero-team picture for the holidays, Rise of the Guardians sees that old Advent-calendar avenger, Santa Claus (voiced by Alec Baldwin), join forces with the Easter Bunny (Hugh Jackman), Tooth Fairy (Isla Fisher), the speechless Sandman, and Jack Frost (Chris Pine). They must save the world's children from being stampeded by a resurgent Bogeyman's (Jude Law)

galloping nightmares.

Whipping and whizzing along, the animation's usually a visual delight, with elements of wood-carvings and picture-books in many scenes. Etched out on the screen are the glittering grain of Sandman's dreams, Pitch Black's flying ash of nightmares, and Jack Frost's winter calligraphy on windowpanes.

There's a rather predictable, trite moral—children are the guardians of holiday spirit—and it's an all-too-male tale (the sole important female, the Tooth Fairy, is a decorous hummingbird-creature who flits about irides-

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Life of Pi

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cently and even coos over handsome Jack). Frost himself is a kind of moping American outcast-kid, feeling unappreciated. But there's enough visual spark and inventiveness in the rest of the supporting cast—the Cossack-clothed St Nick ("Shostakovich!" he swears), the image-popping Sandman and Bunny boy (a hopped-up hare from Down Under, complete with boomerangs)— to make this animated adventure rise above the Christmas crowd of flicks headed our way.

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or a film so serious about storytelling, Ang Lee's Life of Pi (adapted from Yann Martel's bestseller) takes some time to find its flow. The preamble is a bit of an amble, a shuffling between present-day Montréal, where Pi Patel (Ir-

rfan Khan) is reminiscing to a writer (Rafe Spall), and past Pondicherry, where the young Pi (Suraj Sharma) juggles Hinduism, Catholicism and Islam, falls in love with a girl, but then sails away from political strife, headed for Winnipeg with his family and their zookeeper-father's menagerie of animals.

After the boat sinks on storm-wracked seas, dramatic tension and visual splendor settle in at last. A tiger named Richard Parker paces the lifeboat and Pi must try to train him if they're to survive. Their commonality becomes touching—both creatures were raised by the same man but are now orphans, their suspicion and

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fear of each other keeping them alive.

One night, the blue glow of krill brings a whale lunging out of the Pacific's depths; flying fish arrow over the boat; Pi stares down into the dark ocean of his grief; an island of carnivorous algae almost proves Pi's final resting-ground, not a haven.

But the CGI-tiger is the greatest marvel here—the intensity of its stare alone makes it the truest fiction of all.

Because for all the story's talk of religious belief, of doubt only nurturing devotion, of the God-proving holiness of story, even of finding a kind of Darwinian divinity in nature, the story's constant talk remains unconvincing. Religious platitudes remain fairly pat; the final allegory's overstated, not trusting us to make the leap of faith.

It's the images—especially the beautiful ferocity of that pacing tiger—that remain.

Blake's short poem, with its wonder at the creation of such a carnivore, burns brighter than this magic-realist hybrid of animal fable and allegory. Because, after all's accounted for in Life of Pi, just the sight of that elusive, mysterious, magical creature says as much or more about the sublimely spiritual than the over-elaborated story around it does.

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PREVUE // THEATRE

Cross it off

The List turns tidy to-dos into tragedy Until Sun, Dec 9 (8 pm) The List Directed by Heather Inglis Westbury Theatre, TransAlta Arts Barns, $15 – $27

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ou can't accuse Heather Inglis of any lacking ambition.

Her Theatre Yes— a company tagged with the subtitle, "Intelligent theatre for adventurous audiences"— routinely stages works that other companies just won't touch. In the past few years alone, Yes has delivered Mamet's boiling critique of skin colour (Race), a bizarro fringe show that, in lieu of a proper venue, toured its audiences into confined spaces for intensely up-close performances (Shoot/ Get Treasure/ Repeat), and My Name is Rachel Corrie,

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an up-to-the-moment political play, the likes of which you'd otherwise never see, even in a well-versed theatre town like this. This is the realm, unflinching and resonant, that Yes likes to occupy.

Even with a play like The List—ostensibly a tidy dramatic one-hander— to hear Ingilis talk about it, it's in terms of depth and exploration, coaxing its hidden resonances up to the surface.

"It's like an excavation," Inglis states, sitting across from actor Melissa Thinglestad in the Third Space. Behind them lies the approximated stage, its furniture and flooring all painted a stark white.

"The actual action of the play is deep within the page," Inglis continues, "so there's been a lot of thinking, digging, experimenting, trying to find what the drive is behind the play."

Thinglestad's a little more blunt about the proceedings of rehearsals.

"It's hard.

Freaking hard," she states. "It's a hard play."

Winner of the 2008 French language Governor General's Award, The List puts Thinglestad into the role of an unnamed woman priding herself in organizing life into tidy to-dos, all the while slowly and surely settling into increasingly isolated space of mind.

When a neighbour comes to request a favour, she slots it low in her priorities, leading to a tragic turn and, for the woman, a downward spiral. And while her lists might be of the ink and paper sort, the ideas of isolation the play teases out don't seem so far off from what we all do in surrounding ourselves w i t h m o r e screens t h a n people.

"I was listening to a program that was talking about now that we have s m a r t phones, most people work actually an extra two hours a day," Thinglestad says. "Because of the mere fact that

they have access to this phone to accomplish some of the tasks on their list. Which seems like you're not doing as much, but we're perhaps overwhelming ourselves with all of these tasks and drawing away from ... creating little isolation bubbles for ourselves. " Given the layers of script to go through, the pair have embraced a part-time rehearsal process, beginning at the end of October. It's allowed them the luxury of having these ideas simmer and develop with a level of thought almost impossible in the regular, three-week rehearsal scramble.

The List is being staged in the Westbury, the high celiing black box space—usually capable of seating hundreds—being reappropiated into an intimate, up-close area. Just 30 seats per night, Inglis notes: even before they'd decided to program the script, early discussions had recognized the importance of a proper venue in which to stage it.

"We kept on coming down to this idea that somehow, it needed to be a small kitchen that was very contained within a larger space," she says. "Because this is in many ways a play about compartmentalization, and a woman who's pushing people away while longing for what's outside of the confines of her own home.

And her own home, in this place, becomes her own psychology."

PAUL BLINOV

// PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

PREVUE // IMPROV

Prairie Bowl: Theatresports Tournament Edmonton's own Rapid Fire Theatre was the third theatresports company in the world, and as artistic director Amy Shostak notes, staging a theatresports tournament for the original western Canadian companies is long overdue.

"We kind of feel a little bit of a disconnect with the teams that we're actually really close to," Shostak says. "I think everyone has their noses to the grindstone all year round, so you kind of have to create opportunities for us to get together, rather than just expect it to happen."

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heatresports is an Alberta innovation, having been created in Calgary in 1977 by Keith Johnstone.

This will be the inaugural year for the Prairie Bowl Theatresports Tournament, which will feature Rapid Fire Theatre as well as Loose Moose and the Improv Guild from Calgary, Bull Skit from Red Deer, and

Outside Joke from Winnipeg. Shostak notes that they tried to get companies in Saskatchewan involved, but it didn't work out due to scheduling conflicts.

"We're hoping it will be an annual event and we can try and bring out someone from Saskatchewan, so we can actually represent all the prairies."

Theatresports is a form of improvisational theatre with a sports team influence: though the specifics may vary, it typically involves two teams challenging each other to various scenes, with the audience picking their favourite and awarding points accordingly. Shostak notes that Prairie Bowl is really focused on the sporting aspect, as it's organized into rounds leading to the semifinals and finals.

"I would love us to have people really rooting for teams, making signs and

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booing teams from Edmonton if they're from Calgary—just really get it going in terms of that dynamic sports feeling," she says. "I think that's kind of the fun of theatresports, the idea that we're trying to bring that sports energy into a theatrical realm."

Shostak also points out that even if you've never really heard of or attended a theatresports show before, it's an easy form of theatre to engage with.

"I think it really relates to our attention span as a culture," she notes. "You're going to see a ton of different scenes in one night, so chances are if you didn't like one scene you'll like the next one.

Just like on YouTube, you get to see a ton of different things in a really short amount of time."

MEL PRIESTLEY

// MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

PROFILE // ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE

ARTifacts

Jordan Bennett

night's lineup of competitors includes Ryanne Ginger, LeTabby Lexington, Forbsie Flare and Mugs Bunny. Along with the competitors, the evening boasts the premier Tease 'n' Tassels show, capturing fetish, fusion, classic burlesque and circus arts. (Avenue Theatre, $25)

al craft. I do bead work and stuff too, but I also think aboriginal and indigenous people shouldn't be locked in time. We're not an artifact piece," says Bennett, who began drawing at age three. "Just as culture and technology's changing for so many other people, it should be the same for indigenous people, so I want my artwork to reflect what's happening now."

Expect the unexpected // Meaghan Baxter

Artist-in-residence 1-36 South Academic Building University of Alberta

W

alking down the nondescript, stark white hallway of the University of Alberta's South Academic Building, it is hard to imagine the world of colour and creativity that exists behind one of its doors.

The only indication of multidisciplinary artist Jordan Bennett's work is a sign on his studio door that proclaims "Not your average gift shop Indian," a statement that makes one wonder what exactly is going on in the room behind it. One step further and it's evident the sign lives up to its promise. Bennett, the University's first indigenous artistin-residence, is shaking up cultural perceptions and stereotypes one piece at a time. In his studio amongst a complex

set up of DJ equipment—one of many other artistic pursuits—hang vivid paintings that resemble comic book drawings more than they do traditional indigenous art.

"I'm an artist who happens to be indigenous," Bennett states, twirling a paintbrush in his hand as he speaks. "I mean, a lot of times you get put into categories, but everyone should be treated equally in my mind. If you're an artist, it doesn't matter if you're black, white, Asian, aboriginal, anything; you're an artist who happens to have this ancestry. I'd do the exact same thing if I wasn't aboriginal."

Bennett, who will continue his residency until May, does maintain that his heritage is an important part of his life, and while he takes a contemporary, unconventional approach to expressing it, it remains prevalent in his work.

"I have so much respect for tradition-

Just as Bennett's approach isn't confined to time or place, his methods of artistic expression are not confined to one medium. Along with a strong background in photography, Bennett works in sculpture, drawing, multimedia, video and even performance art to get his concepts across.

"For me, it's a lot about learning my Mi'kmaq heritage. I'm Mi'kmaq from Newfoundland and I've learned a lot about who I am and about my ancestors through my art because I get told a lot of stories around my culture and the only way that I know how to translate that, those stories to other people, is through art," he says, adding he has access to his campus studio 24 hours a day and some of his most creative times happen late at night when the halls are silent.

Past meets present in Bennett's current works-in-progress. He explains the comic-style paintings on the walls are inspired by the Ironman comic books, and one in particular where Ironman visits a shaman in Canada.

Hanging on another wall are pieces of leather, which Bennett explains he's making into bags that will be tattooed with logos from stores like Safeway and Wal-Mart before being roughed up and weathered for later generations to find and ponder as artifacts from our time.

"I really like to mess with history as much as I can right now," he laughs.

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f the title feels incongruous or maybe even sinister, your instincts are right on both accounts.

Debuting on Broadway in 2010, Rajiv Joseph's play Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo spins a dark tale set in the Iraq War, immediately after the fall of Baghdad in 2003. The Broadway run met with much critical acclaim and Studio Theatre's upcoming mounting of the show will be its Canadian premiere.

"It's very dark, but this particular playwright is superb at balancing humour and darkness in the same moment," director Sandra Nicholls says. "And then what happens is both of those are made stronger by the juxtaposition."

Nicholls, who was unfamiliar with the play until her students in the University of Alberta BFA acting program brought it to her attention, notes that the show is brutally intense, both visually and emotionally; the list of warnings includes language, fog, strobe lights, violence and partial nudity.

"It's not at all literal," Nicholls explains. "It is a little linear if you can kind of respond to folds in time and space and concurrent time and space occupation. It asks a lot of questions about what is war, what is the nature of cruelty, how do we know that someone is alien, or other, or the enemy."

The play's central premise derives from a bizarre incident that occurred in Sep-

tember 2003: a Bengal tiger, which had escaped from a zoo in Baghdad during the war, mauled a young army reservist; the tiger was subsequently shot and killed.

In the original Broadway production, Robin Williams played the ghost of this tiger, wandering in a sort of "dead zone" along with several other characters from the war.

"Every single character in the play has gone through their own moment of catharsis," Nicholls says.

She goes on to explain that this show is also highly relevant, despite being set in a very specific moment in history.

"It's the war that never ends. It's the same war that has been fought in the Middle East since previous to the Crusades. It's an old, old, old war—and it continues in different forms," she notes. "The area of Iraq goes back to Biblical times, it was the old Mesopotamia, so it really is the cradle of civilization. It's thought that the Garden of Eden was there, and the tower of Babel. And President Saddam Hussein wanted to make a new Babylon. So it's a little bit ironic that you might even think that war could be just a bad translation: just a confusion of tongues and languages; ironically Baghdad, the name for it in Arabic is 'The GodGiven City of Peace.'"

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PREVUE // COMIC RADIO

The Irrelevant Show

Sat, Dec 1 (7:30 pm) Horowitz Theatre $21.75

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he key to maintaining irrelevance while tackling issues of relevance? A little universality.

At least, that's what The Irrelevant Show strives for. On the precipice of a new season hitting airwaves across Canada, and heard by approximately 300 000 devoted fans each week, the cast and crew are conducting live tapings for those who want a taste of what's to come—often to soldout crowds.

In a day and age where screens reign supreme, sometimes a dose of imagination is needed, and cast member and head writer Neil Grahn says comedy lends itself well to radio due to its storytelling roots.

"Often I imagine I'm just driving on Highway 2 bored and thinking, 'what would I like to hear,' so it really helps. The thing with radio, too, that's great is you can be anywhere and do anything, so we can write scenes about astronauts going to Mars and we don't have to worry about how we're going to do that ... that's really freeing," Grahn says over the phone, noting the tapings have the added dimension of cast interaction between takes, such as them ragging on one another if someone

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happens to make a mistake.

From sending astronauts to Mars for out-of-this-world adventures, The Irrelevant Show brings a comedic slant to issues a little closer to home. A recent subject was Edmonton's now nonexistent new arena, which was presented in the style of a child aid ad, with a forlorn sounding professional hockey player desperately wanting a new home so he wouldn't have to play in his "old" arena.

"That is an Edmonton issue, but it's an issue all over as well because it seems like no matter what, every year, there's some city that's being blackmailed by some sports owner to build their arena or else they'll lose their beloved team—whether it's football, basketball or hockey. For me, the best is when you can have something that's actually really pertinent but still quite universal," Grahn notes of the show's development, which was given some added creativity this season thanks to a successful brainstorming session with high school students at the Victoria School of Performing and Visual Arts. "We want to make sure that our show's distinguished by not having a small shelf life so that if you turn to a scene in a few years and it's on iTunes or on the website or something, it's still going to be funny."

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Pushed Until Sun, Dec 2 (7:30 pm) Directed by Murray Utas Varscona Theatre, $15 – $18

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t's been a few years now since Jessica Peverett came across the article that lead her to write Pushed, but the story behind it is just as bizarre to hear tell of today: two women, both apparently pregnant, meet while visiting their boyfriends in prison. They go back to one's apartment, and by the end of the night, one of them is dead, and the other's trying to pass the deceased's child as her own.

Peverett, working for the government at the time, caught the story as a headline send-out, and found herself fascinated in t h a t

morbid, can't-look-away way.

"Every time I clicked on a link, it just got worse and worse and worse," Peverett recalls, sitting in a café just down the street from her current job as the Roxy Theatre's venue manager. Now a couple of runs into its stage life—having put acclaimed stints at both Nextfest and this just-past Fringe behind it—Peverett's Cold.Dead.Fish. company is returning to Pushed for a third go. For the second time, Peverett will play one half of the pair, who, in her take, meet at Lamaz class before things go south at one of their apartments.

"I wanted to know what happened between those two women in the apartm e n t , that nob o d y knew anything

about," she notes. "That whole evening that they'd spent together. I just kept going over it and over it and over it."

The script went about percolating in Peverett's mind for a few years. In an early take, Peverett went heavy on the research, mapping out an entire timeline of the events, trying to encompass the story in its entire scope. But while fascinating (turns out this wasn't the first time this woman had tried to steal a baby), the wide-angle take was too limiting, too daunting to smooth into a script.

Eventually, Peverett settled her idea into just one scene: no jumps in time, no expository overdubs to neatly colour-in the story's ambiguities. Instead, Pushed simply goes about presenting these two women, in a room, as its events unfurl.

"I was also interested why she would want a baby so badly, and the other people in her life didn't think she was a terrible person—what good there was in her," Peverett says. "And the flipside ... these two women who were in extraordinary circumstances, how do they form a friendship? What's going on between two of them?"

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PREVUE // NERD TELEVISION

Tiny Plastic Men conventions. The Internet has allowed people of very specific interests to connect with each other all over the world."

Revenge of the nerds // Harley Hay

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tar Wars, Star Trek, comic books, video games, politics, you name it, there's a particular type of nerd-dom that goes along with it.

Nerd culture has reached new heights and rather than being relegated to their mother's basements for their interests, nerds are taking over.

Pushing the nerd movement forward is Tiny Plastic Men, a sitcom-sketch comedy hybrid produced by Mosaic Entertainment that follows the adventures and shenanigans of three man-boys who work as toy prototype testers in the basement office of Gottfried Brothers Toy and Train Co. The trio works hard, but plays even

harder as their bizarre world of toys takes them on imaginative adventures.

Starring in the series are Matt Alden, Mark Meer and Chris Craddock, among other local improv veterans. The three are self-professed nerds, so embodying their characters' eccentricities was not a far stretch.

"I think people realize that everyone's a nerd about something," notes Craddock, who is the show's head writer, collaborating with Alden, Meer and Tony Binns.

"It's OK to be a nerd now and people embrace their interests whole-heartedly and without shame. You know, it could be that Internet 2.0 has something to do with this as well. You would think that anyone would be embarrassed to admit they were a brony for example, but no, these guys come forward; they come to

Craddock doesn't want to theorize too much, but he links the rise of nerd culture back to a quote in a Chester Brown comic book. While he doesn't recall the exact wording, the gist of it asked if the world had become so insecure that everyone requires the type of solace that had previously been reserved for the socially unfit.

"I'm not a social theorist, but it might be the world's just gotten so crazy that everyone likes to fantasize about a hero that can save us, whereas before it was just some nerdy kids who fantasized about that," he adds.

Just as nerdy subject matter fits nicely into our culture, so does the show's format. Tiny Plastic Men follows an underlying plot line while weaving in sketch comedy acts that goes between the basement workshop, the imagination and beyond, meaning that it can potentially hold even the shortest of attention spans.

"It's hard to keep their attention," Alden laughs. "That is another benefit of sketch comedy, especially for young, ADD people. They're just going to love this."

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DANCE BLUE BELLE BURLESQUE • Avenue Theatre,

9030-118 Ave • Blue Belle Burlesqeu with Tease 'n' Tassels and Heat 1 of Miss Burlesque Bunny • Dec 2, 6pm • $25 (adv)

GOOD WOMEN • La Cité Théàtre, 780.802.6867 • ConvergenCe: Two new works; one by collective artist Ainsley Hillyard and the other a collaboration with visual artist Kevin Green • Dec 6-8, 8pm • $20 (adult)/$15 (student/senior) at TIX on the Square NUTCRACKER OPENING CEREMONIES • outside the Jubilee • Alberta Ballet's holiday carol sing-along with the Chamber Choir of Cantilon Choirs; candy canes, hot chocolate; featuring the battle scene between the Mice and Toy Soldiers of The nutcracker • Nov 29, 5-6pm • Free

SKETCHES OF FLAMENCO • Expressionz

Café, 9938-70 Ave, 780.434.4509 • Showcasing guest Vancouver artist Stephanie Pedraza, Chuflaarteflamenco presents an intimate evening of live flamenco dance, guitar and song • Dec 1, 7:30pm, 7pm (door)

FILM FROM BOOKS TO FILM SERIES • Stanley A. Milner Library, Main Fl, Audio Visual Rm, 780.944.5383 • Clueless, 1995, PG; Nov 30, 2:00pm

VARSCONA THEATRE • 10329-83 Ave, Back

alley entrance, 780.446.6940 • Bump 'n' Grindhouse: great movies and shorts by local cult heroes; restricted adult • Dec 1, 11pm

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY •

10186-106 St, 780.488.6611 • Feature Gallery: PASsages: a group exhibition exploring the passage of time; until Dec 24 • DelineaTe: new work by Medicine Hat clay artists Jenn Demke-Lange and Elizabeth Burritt; until Dec 1

ALBERTA SOCIETY OF ARTISTS GALLERY • Walterdale Playhouse, 10322-83 Ave,

780.426.0072 • FesTive spiriT: Artworks by ASA members • Dec 4-15 in conjunction with the play The Misanthrope • Reception: Dec 4, 7pm

ALLIED ARTS COUNCIL OF SPRUCE GROVE • Spruce Grove Art Gallery, 35-5 Ave,

Spruce Grove, 780.962.0664 • Christmas Store and Gala: Art and crafts by members of the Spruce Grove Art Gallery • Until Dec 22

CAFÉ HAVEN–Sherwood Park • NVSart is

Textured abstract art; Oct-Jan

Group • Every Tue, 7-9pm

CAFÉ PICHILINGUE • 4928-50 Stm Red Deer •

MARJORIE WOOD GALLERY • Kerry Wood Nature Centre, 6300-45 Ave • okToBer: Staff and Volunteers of the Kerry Wood Nature Centre • Until Dec 12

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St, 780.902.5900 • Poetry every Tue with Edmonton's local poets

featured • Sep-Jan

alBerTa saMpler: Works by Harvey Brink • Until Nov 30

CHRISTL BERGSTROM'S RED GALLERY

• 9621-82 Ave, 780.498.1984 • Experiencing the City– Portraits of Edmonton Street Life • Until Dec 31

COMMON SENSE GALLERY • 10546-115 St

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.422.6223 • BMO Work of Creativity: MeThoD anD MaDness: Family interactive exhibition created by Gabe Wong; until Dec 31 • BehinD This lies My True Desire For you: Mark Clintberg; until Dec 30 • MisleD By naTure: ConTeMporary arT anD The Baroque: Artists include David Altmejd, Lee Bul, Bharti Kher, Tricia Middleton, Yinka Shonibare, Sarah Sze; until Jan 6 • BeauTiFul MonsTers: Early European Prints; until Mar 3 • iMprinT: Printmaking artworks; until Jan 6 • eDo: arts of Japan’s last shogun age: Edo period art forms; until Feb 10 • paul FreeMan: Two life-size casts of stags; until Feb 10 • Adult Drop-in: Relief: Lino Block Prints: Nov 29; Distort: New Perspectives in Drawing: Dec 6; Cast: Plaster Sculpture: Dec 13 • Holly Ball: Dec 2, 6pm (cocktails), 7pm (dinner); formal attire; $500 • AGA’s Book Club: Book inspired by the exhibit eDo: arts of Japan’s last shogun age: The Thousand autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell (2010); Nov 29, 7pm; free; pre-register at youraga.ca • The EDO Talks: love and profit: ukiyo-e, art for the Merchant Class, with exhibition curator Barry Till; Dec 5, 7pm; $15/$10 (member)

• Coloring Book: Solo exhibit of sculptures by Walter Early • Nov 30-Dec 15 • Reception: Nov 30, 7-11pm, artist in attendance

ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA)

• 19 Perron St, St Albert, 780.460.4310 • unDer CulTivaTion: Oil paintings and ink drawings by Keith Harder; until Dec 1 • gaMe pieCes: Paintings

by Margaret Witschl; Dec 6-Feb 2; reception: Dec 6, 7-9pm

ART SOCIETY OF STRATHCONA COUNTY • Loft Gallery, 590 Broadmoor Blvd,

Sherwood Park • Artworks by various artists, gift shop of artist made items

BRINSMEAD KENNEDY GALLERY • 10434122 St • naTurally aBsTraCT: Works by David Blaine • Until Feb 28

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY (Agnes

Bugera Gallery), 12310 Jasper Ave, 780.482.2854 • Leonard Cohen Artworks; until Dec 1 • ChrisTMas Cheer: Works by gallery artists; Dec 6, 5-9pm

BUTTERDOME CRAFT SALE • U of A

Butterdome • Craft Sale • Dec 6-9; Thu-Fri: 10am10pm; Sat: 10am-6pm; Sun: 10am-5pm

CROOKED POT GALLERY–Stony Plain

• 4912-51 Ave, Stony Plain, 780.963.9573 • CeleBraTe ChrisTMas: featuring handmade and wheel thrown holiday décor, and tree decorations • Until Dec 28

DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St,

780.760.1278 • Igor Postash illustrative drawings; through Nov • 12 Days oF ChrisTMas: Featuring gallery artists though December

DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY • 10332-124 St • solo 3: Artworks by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas • Until Dec 8

EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ • 9938-70 Ave • Olive Tree Project, Peg Barcelo-Jackson, Ginette D'Silva, Alice Dolphin, Dara Loewen • Ongoing

MISERICORDIA COMMUNITY HOSPITAL • Main Floor halls, 16940-87 Ave, 780.432.6678; wands@web.net • Edmonton Art Club Show and Sale; Dec 8-Jan 26

BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO BY RAJIV JOSEPH • Timms Centre for

5 St Anne St, St Albert, 780.459.1528 • WinD Work, WinD play: WeaThervanes anD Whirligis: Wind-powered folk art from the collection of the Canadian Museum of Civilization • Until Jan 13

NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave,

780.432.0240 • Kelsey Stephenson (etchings); until Nov 30 • Paintings by Sandra Kunz; Dec 6-31; reception: Dec 8, 2-4pm

FAB GALLERY • Dpt of Art and Design, U of A,

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jas-

780.488.2952 • silenT lanD: Recent Work by Tom Gale; through Nov • CoMMonplaCe BeauTy: Works by Kari Duke; reception: Dec 1, 2-4pm; Dec 6, 5-8pm • sherry and shortbread: Dec 1, 2-4pm • ChrisTMas keepsakes: Group Show; Dec 8, 2-4pm

GALLERIE PAVA • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • Artworks by Michel Allen • Until Jan 16 GALLERY 7 • Bookstore on Perron, 7 Perron St, St.

Albert, 780.459.2525 • exuBeranCe: Oil paintings

by Gail Seemann • Until Dec 21

GALLERY ON MAIN– LACOMBE • 2nd

level, 4910 50 Ave, Lacombe, 403.782.3402 rural Travel: Paintings by Gail Scheuring • Until Dec 7

HAPPY HARBOR COMICS V1 • 10729-104

Ave • COMIC JAM: Improv comic art making every 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7pm • Comics Artistin-Residence: with Kyle Sams; Every Fri 12-6pm and Sat 12-5pm; until Apr

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl,

10215-112 St • Main Gallery: in MaTerial: Works

by Marie de Sousa • Front Room Gallery: rooTeD: Works by Corey Hardeman • Dec 6-Jan 18 • Reception: Dec 6, 8-10pm • Artist Talks: Dec 6: Hardeman: 7pm; de Sousa: 7:30pm

HARRIS-WARKE GALLERY–Red Deer • Sunworks Home and Garden Store, Ross St, Red Deer, 403.346.8937 • ConneCTing plaCes: Paintings by Galia Kwetny; until Dec 29 • Opening/First Friday: Dec 7, 6-8pm HUB ON ROSS–Red Deer • 4936 Ross St, Red Deer, 403.340.4869 • MarkerTopia: Artwork by Sheldon Rabbit Wheatley • Until Nov 30

IRENE KLAR STUDIO • 15904-116 Ave,

780.732.7848 • ireneklar.com • Irene Klar's handpainted silk scarves, shirts, jackets, posters, etchings, embroidered cushion covers, journals, ornaments and more • Until Dec 1

JEFF ALLEN GALLERY • Strathcona Place Seniors Centre, 10831 University Ave • our WorlD arT shoW: Works by Joyce Boyer, Dessirrie Plewis, Elaine Tweedy, Sylvia Godina • Nov 29-Dec 19 • Reception: Dec 12, 6:30-8:30pm KING’S UNIVERSITY COLLEGE • 9125-50

St • iMMigranT: Paintings and installation piece

by Rosemary Sloot • Mon-Fri, 8:30am-4:30pm; until Jan 15

LENDRUM POTTERY GROUP • 11335-57

Ave (entrance off 113A St) • Christmas Sale: Pottery for all tastes • Dec 1, 10am-2pm

MANDOLIN BOOKS • 6419-112 Ave • nvsarT:

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MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM–St Albert •

NINA HAGGERTY–Stollery Gallery • 9225-118 Ave, 780.474.7611 • BounD For glory: Handmade, altered, and transformed books • Until Jan 6

FRONT GALLERY • 12312 Jasper Ave,

780.422.8174 • Poets’ Haven Weekly Reading Series: every Mon, 7pm; presented by Stroll of Poets Society • Dec 3 with Gary Garrison, Rusti Lehay, Nancy Mackenzie, Anna Mioduchowska • $5

ATTEMPTS ON HER LIFE • Theatre Lab, Grant

St, Stony Plain, 780.963.9935 • TWiCe reMoveD: Works by Brenda Kim Christiansen • Nov 30-Jan 2 • Reception: Dec 2, 1-3:30pm

• 2nd Fl art gallery, 2950 Calgary Tr, 780.450.0897 • Artworks by various local artists, fundraiser for the Kids with Cancer Society • Nov 30, 6pm

Rm 1-1 Fine Arts Bldg, 780.492.2081 • TransiTions: Works by technical staff from the Dpt of Art and Design; until Dec 1 • nika Blasser: Visual presentation for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Drawing & Intermedia; until Dec 1

UPPER CRUST CAFÉ • 10909-86 Ave,

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

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GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.944.5383 • BuilDing The ring roaD: Photographs by Sarah Boileau; until Nov 30 • eDMonTon poTTers' guilD: items created by the Edmonton Potters' Guild in the Gallery at Milner display cases; until Nov 30 • sTars: Linocut prints by Cheryl Anhel • Dec 1-31

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MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St, 780.407.7152 • reFuge: prinTeD iMpressions: Group exhibition of graduate Printmaking students and staff from the U of A Printmaking Department • Until Jan 13

T.A.L.E.S. STORY CAFÉ SERIES • Rosie’s Bar, 10475-80 Ave, 780.932.4409 • 1st Thu each month; Sep-Jun

per Ave, 780.455.7479 • WanDerlusT: Artwork by Scott Cumberland; until Dec 4 • reTurn: Artwork

by Joseph Hartman; until Dec 4 • Group exhibitions: Artworks by gallery artists; Dec 8-Mar 23

PROPAGANDA HAIR SALON • 10808-124 St • The Model, the Mystic and the Muscle: 11 new paintings by outro; until Jan 12

MacEwan University, Centre for the Arts Campus, First Floor, 10045-156 St • A roller-coaster of late 20th-century obsessions • Until Dec 2, 7:30pm (2pm matinee) • $11 (adult)/$9 (student/senior) at TIX on the Square

the Arts, 112 St-87 Ave, U of A • Two American Marines and an Iraqi translator have a significant encounter with a foul-mouthed tiger • Nov 29-Dec 8 (no Sun show) • Evening: $11 (student)/$22 (adult)/$20 (senior); matinee: $11 (student)/$17 (adult)/$15 (senior)

CHIMPROV • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101 A Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show • 1st three Sat each month, 10pm, until Jul • $12 (door, adv at TIX on the Square) A CHRISTMAS CAROL • Citadel Theatre, 9828101A Ave, 780.425.1820 • Adapted by Tom Wood.

Directed by Bob Baker and Geoffrey Brumlik. Based on the story by Charles Dickens • Nov 30-Dec 23, Sat matinee: Dec 22, 1:30pm • Tickets start at $35 at the Citadel box office DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave,

780.433.3399 • Live improvised soap opera • Every Mon, until May, 7:30pm (subject to change) • Tickets at the box office

PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES OF ALBERTA • 8555 Roper Rd, 780.427.1750 • The people Who BuilT alBerTa: A Centennial for Alberta Workers: examining labour’s role in the growth and prosperity of the province • Until Dec 21

DISNEY’S ALADDIN JR. • Horizon Stage,

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102

HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS

Ave, 780.453.9100 • Fashioning FeaThers: Dead Birds, Millinery Craft and the Plumage Trade; curated by Merle Patchett and Liz Gomez; until Jan 6 • The Tsars' CaBineT: Two Hundred Years of Russian Decorative Arts under the Romanovs; until Jan 2

SALISBURY GREENHOUSE • 52337 RR 232,

Sherwood Park • Christmas in the Country Art Show: artwork by Dessirrie Plewis, Elaine Tweedy, Joyce Boyer; Dec 1-2

SELFRIDGE STUDIOS • 9844-88 Ave,

780.439.9296 • Winter Open House: Ceramic works

by Carol and Richard Seslfridge • Dec 1-2, 11am-5pm

SNAP GALLERY • Society Of Northern Alberta

Print-Artists, 10123-121 St, 780.423.1492 • prinT aFFair: Silver and Gold annual fundraiser, silent auction and sale; Dec 8, 7pm-12; $15/$20 (non-member)

STRATHCONA COUNTY GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park, 780.410.8585 • phoTography in a sTaTe oF exCepTion: Documents of Contemporary War; until Dec 21 • The Wordless Book and other deserts; until Dec 21

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • sTar Wars iDenTiTies: Exploring human identity through the magic of the Star Wars universe and its characters; until Apr 1 UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS

• Enterprise Sq, 10230 Jasper Ave, 780.492.5834 • perCepTions oF proMise: Biotechnology, Society and Art: challenging viewers to consider the positive and negative possibilities of biotechnology in general and stem cell research in particular; until Jan 5

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The new food culture

Classes bring back do-it-yourself approach to food

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ith an abundance of grocery stores, restaurants and convenient ways to get food besides cooking it yourself, it may be hard to imagine butchering an entire side of beef, harvesting fruit or foraging in the woods, but the team at Shovel and Fork wants to change that.

The crew is commanded by Chad Moss, a professional chef and head instructor of all things culinary-related, and Kevin Kossowan, who spends time documenting the food scene in Alberta on his web series KevinTV and knows a thing or two about growing food and wielding a butcher knife.

Teaching alongside Moss and Kossowan are Jeff Senger, part owner of Sangudo Custom Meat Packers and Elyse Chatterton, an expert butcher schooled in a repertoire of Old World cuts. However, the crew is expanding to bring even more food craft skills to the masses.

Shovel and Fork is not all about getting elbow deep in animal guts. The year-round classes boast a roster that includes gardening for all seasons, cheese making, charcuterie making, meat smoking, basic and advanced skills for wild mushrooms, small and large game cooking, how to harbour bees, cob oven construction and pickling.

Oh, and you can learn how to make your own booze, too.

Kossowan acknowledges there is often a price barrier associated with accessing high-quality local food, but believes this independent approach to acquiring food trumps retail costs every time. Not to mention, you're accessing superior ingredients that haven't been

blasted with chemicals and processed beyond recognition.

"I've found I've ended up accessing really high-quality ingredients and nearly the lowest cost you can spend on a dollar basis," he says of the do-it-yourself approach, adding that one of the keys in accessing highquality ingredients is getting it as close to its original source as possible.

"The world has shown through the environment and everything else that the way we're doing it now is extremely convenient, but at a cost," Moss stated during a pop-up event hosted by Kevin Kent of Knifewear Edmonton at which he was giving private demonstrations. "If we don't do something to take control back of basic necessities of our life, we'll always be dictated to, and carrying the knowledge around is very easy to do.

Once you learn it you won't forget it, you can't unlearn it and no one can take it from you, so I think we're empowering people to have a better quality of life and on the flip side of that, we're protecting what our only true investment is, which is what we have beneath our feet.

So what about time? Our society is one of constant hustle and bustle, with people claiming to be more time-starved than ever, but Moss and Kossowan aren't about to take that as an excuse.

"I think as a cop-out a lot of folks go, 'Yeah well, that takes so much time; who has this time?' As long as there's a television on people's walls, they have the time," Kossowan laughs, adding a person could do some serious damage in as little as one weekend when it comes to stockpiling food. "People think nothing about watching a movie for two hours, but in that time you could harvest an estimated 200 to 300 lbs of food."

Making the switch to becoming increasingly independent in food production and processing is not going to happen overnight, but the pair say the best way is to just start somewhere—particularly with a class that interests you, regardless of what it is. There's no right or wrong way to go about it. As Kossowan explains, it's as simple as considering which types of food you can get away from in the grocery store aisles. Meat, vegetables and fruit can all be sourced locally, and while there's a small capital cost to gain the skills or acquire the right tools, Kossowan and Moss maintain it saves money in the long run when a person can set themselves up with enough food to last a year, explaining one side of beef can yield 70 to 80 meals alone.

On top of gaining some impressive new skills, Kossowan and Moss say the classes are a way to create a new support network of people who are interested in the same lifestyle, which leads to sharing ideas, tools and knowledge, further benefitting the initiative. As Moss explains, everyone needs to get something out of the process: teachers, students and the businesses or organizations hosting the classes. However, Shovel and Fork isn't about to be confined to Edmonton exclusively, with plans already in the works to expand.

"I want to learn as much as I want to teach," Moss notes. "The model that we've gone to is rewarding people who have done the hard yards in their food community and allowing them to share that information with other people ... everybody has to get something out of it and that'll keep people happy."

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New book offers a look at the province's diverse wine lineup Alberta may often feel like the land almost offhand remark to the pubof mass-produced beer, but a grasslisher of Whitecap Books. Familiar roots wine culture has been sproutwith their guides aimed at the Briting through the cracks in beer's doish Columbia and Ontario wine marmain for the past several years. For kets, Boettcher inquired about their evidence, you need look no plans to publish one for further than the recently Alberta.

I VID VENI, published second edition "It was super fast—I of a book devoted solely swear within a week and kly.com uewee to value wines in the Ala half I had a book deal," mel@v berta market: Shelley she says.

Mel ey Boettcher's Uncorked! The "When I did it the first Priestl Definitive Guide to Alberta's time, I didn't have a clue if Best Wines under $25. anybody would even read it, or Boettcher is the executive editor at Wine Access magazine and author of a monthly wine column for the Calgary Herald, where she previously worked full-time.

Boettcher began her writing career as a music, and later food, writer; visiting Spain's Valdepeñas wine region was the catalyst for her entrance into wine.

"I still don't feel I know what I need to know, as far as wine goes. But I can ask lots of questions," Boettcher says with a laugh, ever humble.

Though she came into the wine world a little later in life, having grown up on a farm near Carstairs where wine was definitely buy it," she continues. "It was just not a focus, Boettcher has attained this lark and it was fun to write and the intermediate certification from it was fun to taste through all these the Wine and Spirit Education Trust. wines. But then it did really well, so She published the first edition of it was a little more stressful the secUncorked! in 2010, the result of an ond time. More professional wine crit-

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In perusing the 150 wines included in Boettcher's book, some trends emerge. The book is organized by type of wine: red, white, rosé, bubbly, and sweet and fortified wines. Boettcher notes that it's a happy coincidence that Canadian wines dominate in the white wine category, but offers some speculation as to the significant number of American red wines.

"I think we're really lucky, especially after the crash in 2008, where we're seeing such incredible value reds, red blends, out of California right now. It was a terrible thing, the stock market crash, but at the same time it's benefitted us as far as wine drinkers in Alberta," she adds.

Although you probably wouldn't expect to find a local Alberta fruit wine amongst this selection, Field Stone's Saskatoon Dessert Wine is included amongst the list of fortified wines— for the second time.

"I think fruit wines aren't for everybody, by any means," Boettcher notes. "But it's definitely a neat wine and especially the fact that it's made out of Saskatoons, which I always think of as our prairie fruit, having grown up eating them."

Though Boettcher is unsure of the possibility of a third edition of Uncorked!, she is confident that this only marks the beginning of books focused specifically on the wine industry and market in Alberta.

"I think the next 15 to 20 years in this country are going to be incredible to watch as far as wine retail, but also wine writers," she notes. "The level of education, the level of knowledge just blows my mind." V

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DISPUTED ORIGINS

The origins of eggnog are highly debated, but that doesn't mean there aren't theories. Some say the term derived from the common Colonial term egg and grog, used for the drink made with rum. It was eventually shortened to egg'n'grog, before getting shortened even further to eggnog. Another theory is that it originated in East Anglia, England and the "nog" part of its name could stem from the word noggin, a term for a small, carved wooden mug used to serve alcohol. In Britain, the drink was also called an egg flip due to the practice of flipping—rapidly pouring—the cream and egg components between two pitchers to mix it.

DELICIOUS, BUT A POSSIBLE HAZARD

Due to the risk of salmonella, most modern homemade eggnog recipes

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recommend the use of pasteurized eggs. And no, adding alcohol is not an effective way to kill germs in raw eggs. Raw eggs are generally not included in many commercially sold varieties of eggnog.

NOT SO TRADITIONAL

Modern FDA requirements permit commercially sold eggnog to contain less than one percent egg yolk solids and "milk or milk products."

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The Eggnog Riot, also referred to as the Grog Mutiny, took place on December 24 – 25, 1826 at the United States Military Academy in West Point, NY. Two days prior to the incident, whiskey was smuggled in to make eggnog for a Christmas party to take place in the North Barracks of the Academy. Things did not go according to plan and the incident resulted in the court-martialing of 20 cadets and one enlisted soldier.

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It's been recorded in numerous historical documents that George Washington was something of an eggnog aficionado.

The variety he favoured included rum as well as significant amounts of sherry, brandy and whiskey.

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Q & A // WINTER CAMPING

Beneath the winter stars

Winter camping tips from wilderness survival expert Mors Kochanski

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o ensure you don't forget that critical item or survival tip when you head out on a camping trip this winter, it's always best to ask an expert for a few pointers before you pack up and go.

And, who better to ask than one of Canada's leading wilderness survival instructors?

Seventy-two-year-old Mors Kochanski is an author, survivalist and naturalist who instructed for both military and civilians in Canada, the US, the UK and Sweden. From his homestead in the wilderness outside of Edson, AB, Kochanski wrote and faxed a few tips and tricks for everyone to consider before going on a camping trip this winter.

VUE WEEKLY: When heading out in the wilderness, what are some essential survival tools?

MORS KOCHANSKI: When we venture into the forest, we must all be appropriately dressed, carry a good strong knife that works wood really well; a small first-aid kit with a signal mirror; a dependable means of lighting fires; a map and compass and a GPS as a backup. A well-trained person may "survive" with only the above items, but that would not be defined as winter camping.

and its reflection off the snow.

If big spruce is available, try to use the canopy to protect your shelter from the thermal sink of the sky.

Avoid terrain that tends to pool cold air, such as valley bottoms.

VW: What is the best way to keep warm while over-

nighting in cold temperatures?

The best way to keep warm in cold temperatures is to have sufficient sleeping gear. As a survival instructor, I have endured countless winter nights without shelter, sleeping under spruce trees, using the following gear: my sleeping bag system, usually consisting of two bags, kept me warm on the coldest nights.

My sleeping platform was levelled snow, covered with a three-eights-inch Ensolite pad that was good enough to insulate you from glare ice. To keep snow from getting between the bag and the pad and to

MK:

shed snow falling on it, a double-layered bag made of parachute nylon is used.

When needed, I used a breathing tube made out of cardboard and duct tape combined with a balaclava used in reverse. I removed my boots, wind pants and outer jacket. I kept a pair of socks and a toque for use only in the bag.

I was careful not to drink anything for the last three hours before going to bed to reduce the need to get up during the night.

What are the particular survival skills you should know before embarking on a winter camping trip?

MK: There are two distinct approaches to winter survival in the boreal forest: 1. When the snow is so scant that snowshoes are not required and temperatures are extremely low; snow is not available for constructing shelters and survival is seriously challenged.

VW:

VW: If you were to give one piece of advice to winter

campers what would it be?

MK: Master the art of dressing for the cold. It is your

first line of defense in survival. You should be able to survive for almost a week without a fire at -40 C. Operating under winter conditions one must expect weather, as well as your exertion, to vary. High exertion is modified by using a clothing ensemble that can be varied to prevent sweating as much as possible.

During the active part of the day, a normal person requires three centimetres of insulation composed of about four layers of varying thickness.

If a strong wind is present, an additional layer of one centimetre is needed.

All layers may be backed by a windproof shell with a hood, which doubles its effectiveness. A shirt of tightly woven fabric large enough to be used between any layer has its merits.

When the temperature is colder than -14 C, "dry cold" conditions prevail. Above that temperature is termed "wet cold."

In dry cold, frost accumulates as the cold penetrates the insulation of the clothing and meets the moisture evolving from the body.

In wet cold, the moisture passes out. Wet-cold footwear tends to keep environmental moisture away, but accumulates moisture given off by the feet, causing considerable misery.

Dry-cold footwear has to be porous to eliminate any moisture to stay comfortable.

An example of ideal footwear in extreme cold is three pairs of wool socks. If you wear wool socks and conditions are getting out of hand, remove the outer footwear and you should experience instantaneous relief.

If you break through the ice and your footwear becomes soaked, simply walk in your socks for the rest of the day. Your socks must be at least 60 per cent wool.

What are some must-have items that ensure your winter camping adventure is safe and fun?

MK: Excluding food and the utensils to prepare and serve meals, the well-prepared outdoors person would likely include the following items: 1. A sleeping bag.

2. A sleeping mat.

3. A modern tent, plus a Mylar silver tube tent.

4. A pot of seven-cup capacity.

5. A backpacking stove.

6. Snowshoes or skis that do not skimp on flotation.

7. A saw that can cut firewood, as well as snow blocks.

8. A pack that carries your gear.

9. Enough parachute cord to repair snowshoes or skis or build snowshoes.

10. A snow shovel.

11. A light—LED or candle lantern.

12. A water bottle or canteen, perhaps slung from the neck, with a wide enough mouth to be refilled with snow to be melted by body heat.

VW:

VW: If

you had to narrow it down to the essentials, what would you include?

MK: The barest must-have five essentials [are]: 1. Clothing.

2. Sleeping bag.

3. Means to light a fire.

4. Pot of seven-cup capacity.

5. Mylar tube tent—available at the Dollarama for $2.

What should you look for when choosing a camping spot?

MK: The camping spot must be safe, such as not being subject to avalanche hazard or springs that one may break through below beaver dams.

Seek protection from the prevailing wind by using dense stands of trees or heavy bush that provides protection from the northwest, north and northeast.

The southern aspect should be open to the sun VW:

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An open-fronted shelter with a large warming fire that requires tending 25 times a night may be your only recourse. The fuel requirement on a daily basis is logs as long as you are tall, with the stack as big as the side view of a common utility van.

With a wood stove inside a tent, the same amount of wood would heat it for a week.

A good axe and a very good saw are indispensable.

The skills of fire and shelter making, and tending long burning fires are absolutely necessary.

2. When the snow is deep enough to require snowshoes, snow shelters that can be warmed to a useful extent with body heat can be constructed.

A good shovel, a carpenter-like saw with swedesaw teeth in combination with the snowshoes for packing will allow you to build snow houses using the loose snow found in the boreal forest.

The technicalities of igloo construction have to be mastered, being more complex than that of the open-fronted lean-to.

With these tips in mind and the correct gear, you should be ready for a great winter camping trip.

To learn more or to have something to read while you're out in the wilderness, pick up one of Kochanski's survival books, like Bushcraft or Bush Arts.

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Our Canadian ladies did quite well in other winter sport speed events last weekend. Calgarian Sarah Reid finished second in a Women’s World Cup skeleton race at Whistler and Alec Gough, who also hails from Calgary, finished second in a Ladies Luge race held in Austria. Both disciplines involve hurdling down an icy track on a custom sled. The main differences are that lugers lay on their backs and go feet first and skeleton competitors lay on their front going head first. And I thought downhill skiers were brave.

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One of the bravest was Canadian skier John Kucera. This was his first return to the same slope where he fractured his left leg three years ago.

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ntil now, flat ground has been the bane of winter adrenaline junkies' existence. The gnarliest slopes, most death-defying drops and heart-pounding steeps see all the action, while ambling over terrain in cross-country skis or snowshoes is the gentler choice.

But a growing new winter sport is set to throw out that rule book.

With a kite, harness, helmet and skis, open spaces are becoming snowy playgrounds that, quite simply, kick downhill riding's ass.

Haven't you heard? All the cool kids are snowkiting now.

While snowkiting's origins are a matter of some debate, a popular theory is that the twisted love child of sailing and winter sports was birthed in the '70s in the German Bavarian Alps.

Using round-canopy parachutes obtained from NASA, scientist Dieter Strasilla developed parachute skiing in 1972, to drag himself across snowy fields with ski gear on.

The chemist refined his new system with self-made rectangular kites and a ball-socket swivel. This allowed pilots not only upwind and uphill movement, opening up vast swathes of new terrain, but also the chance to take off into the air at will.

Much of that original design work remains today. Hooking into the power of wind, modern kiteskiers and boarders use lightweight nylon kites for

propulsion uphill, downhill and across the flats. Their only real impediments are trees and power lines.

The kite is tethered to its rider via a waist harness and steered using a bar held in the hands, with an emergency cord to pull if things get hairy.

While the summer version, kitesurfing, is an institution at many watersport destinations worldwide, snowkiting is largely unknown across North America. But in Iceland, Russia, Norway and other parts of Northern Europe, it's becoming a massively popular winter sport.

"It's growing here really quickly, there are businesses starting up all across Canada—particularly Quebec and Ontario—but only three or four here in Alberta," says Jay Kilgannon, co-owner, operator and instructor at Canmore's Rocky Mountain Snowkite.

The hold-up to get the sport to Western Canada centres around the battle of wills between wannabe trainers and insurance companies.

Even with all the safety precautions built into modern snowkites, potential schools aren't finding it easy to persuade insurers to pass along the sport to new recruits.

Kilgannon and his business partner, Tom Couture, both certified International Kiteboarding Organization instructors, started work to establish their training school four years ago.

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Their first few seasons were curtailed almost to non-existence, with insurers unwilling to offer a policy for a sport they'd never heard of.

"We needed a permit to work in the provincial park and to get a permit you need insurance," Kilgannon explains. "Insurers just saw it as a great way to hurt yourself."

After several years in insurance limbo, the boys are soaring into this winter with paperwork in-hand, and an unrestrained optimism to put Western Canada on the snowkiting map.

This side of the country has a tiny choice of snowkite schools near Calgary, Edmonton, Red Deer and Canmore. A beginner half-day lesson will set you back around $200. All that's needed is ski and snowboard gear, and enough basic skills to be comfortable sliding on snow.

To buy your own kite escalates costs into the thousands, around $500 of which goes toward the harness. The major bonus of taking lessons is you can get comfortable with a beginner kite in a day or less, then purchase an intermediate one to grow your skills on.

With skis and boots stowed, Jay and I set off from Canmore up into the jaw-droppingly beautiful Spray Lakes Provincial Park. There I am to prove (or horribly disprove) that the sport is CONTINUED ON PAGE 33 >>

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Snowkiting, a winterized version of kitesurfing, is a sport that's just making its way into Canada.

easy to come to grips with.

"I pretty much self-taught initially and kinda scared the crap outta myself a few times and realized I needed a few lessons," my affable guide explains after we slam the car doors, ski down through a tree trail to Spray Lakes Reservoir and arrive at an unassuming, mid-lake hut.

The wind is a little light on our chosen day, which is unusual for Jay and Tom's favourite teaching spot, he assures me. Still, for a beginner like me, less is more.

We unfurl the four-metre starter kite. It seems like a tiny scrap of fabric compared to what the sole other kiter on the lake is using. However, once the wind is steady, without gusts, and I try my first launch, I'm taken aback by the power.

I bunny hop the kite off the ground a few feet each time before really hauling the bar toward me, causing my little scrap of fabric to rocket into the air. Whooping, I forget to try anything I've been instructed to do and instead turn the kite too sharply, nosediving it back to Earth.

"That's why we have beginner gear," Kilgannon laughs.

After 20 minutes spent running around in ski boots getting the hang of steering (pull left to go left, right to go right), I'm allowed to clip the kite to my harness. Now, when I pull the bar back to launch, I can lean my whole body weight against the kite, resisting its insistent pull forward.

The finesse comes with getting the kite to swoop low to the ground, in what Jay calls "the power zone". Sshaped waves made in the power zone provide a strong pull in one direction.

In less than two hours, I've convinced Jay of my ability to swoop and soar the kite where I want it to go, and progress up to something capable of dragging me across the dazzlingly white lake surface.

The skis go on. Tentatively nudging the kite down into the power zone and back up high into my comfort zone causes me to slide jerkily forward. Steeling my nerves, I wave the kite along the top edge of the power zone and am rewarded with my first smooth whoosh forward.

It's immensely satisfying.

Before long, I'm zipping across the lake to the east, making a wide arc around and whisking back across to the hut again, beaming ear-to-ear.

"The aim isn't to get airborne, although you can," Kilgannon explains as we take a breather and watch our fellow kiter mount the piles of snow toward the edges of the lake, soar in the air for a few seconds and then gracefully land.

As it's such a new concept, the limits of snowkiting are still being tested, with the fastest kiter so far recorded

travelling at 118 kilometres per hour.

Competitive kiting is delving deeper into freestyle, racing and big air, while recreationally, kites are being used to haul their users up mountains and make death-defying cliff jumps on the way back down.

After four hours, I won't exactly be winning any races, but I come away having enjoyed a tantalizing few attempts at carving, and feeling like a total boss.

"I like seeing people get hooked," Jay tells me as we clamber back up to the road. "When people are really getting it they have this grin they can't shake off."

Mine doesn't fade for at least a week.

To learn more about snowkiting or for a lesson, check out rockymountainsnowkite.ca.

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How your holiday favourites are destroying your health

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hristmas wouldn't feel the same without the holiday food that makes an appearance at every party, get-together and family meal. There are few other times of the year (hopefully) when you eat so much turkey and pie that you have to go lay on the couch with your pants undone, or an entire box of Quality Street chocolates disappears in one sitting. You'll run it off in the new year, right? Overeating and too much sugar aside, some holiday favourites are actually pretty toxic and could have long-term effects on your health. Be warned: after reading this you might think twice about what you pile on your plate.

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COCKTAIL OF DISEASE Like shrimp? Does your mouth get watery seeing the little paisley-shaped fleshy crustaceans circled around a plastic plate with the sharp scent of horseradish wafting up from a bowl of seafood sauce planted in the middle?

Well, you might not like them after you read this; and if you do, well, good luck to you.

Ninety percent of these little bottom dwellers that end up on North American plates hail from toxic sewage ponds in Asia and Latin America. In fact, the ponds these shrimp are farmed in are so polluted that most of them are out of commission after seven years.

Polluted with what, you ask, and would Canadian health officials really let us eat contaminated seafood? To answer the latter, yes, and to answer the former, here you go: the shrimp are sprinkled with any form of antibiotics the farmers can get their hands on to stop the spread of disease among them. Because there are so many shrimp crammed into a tiny living area their poo has nowhere to go but in and around them. Imagine sitting in a hot tub built for four with 10 extra people for a day, eating your lunch in there, dropping a piece of your sandwich,

fishing it out, taking a bite, swallowing, and oops, you've been here all day and Frank has IBS and couldn't hold it. You just ate shit. Well, shrimp have it way worse and you eat them. You eat shit.

In addition to antibiotics and diseased aqua life, the waters are teeming with pesticides, fungicides and chemical additives like chlorine. All of the above are banned on North American shrimp farms, but, as noted, most shrimp comes from countries where anything goes, or it is applied illegally to ensure a foreign farmer's income doesn't end up in the toilet—literally.

Public Citizen reports that ingesting this sewage cocktail can lead to "fetal and birth defects; miscarriages; weakening of the immune system; male infertility; brain damage; higher cancer rates in children and various forms of cancer affecting various organs, for example, the brain and lungs, prostate cancer in men, breast cancer and cancers affecting female reproductive organs; Parkinson’s disease; non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma; and attention deficit and hyperactivity disorders in children."

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GREAT BALLS OF CORN Popcorn balls are classic, and stringing strands of popcorn around the tree is a great way to incorporate some retro Christmas decorating into your home.

But those years we love to look back on with nostalgia were years when they didn't have microwaves to do things the "easy" way. And if you haven't heard, microwave popcorn is bad for you, and I'm not just referring to the high sodium content and the chemical butter smeared all over it. It's all in the bag, baby.

The Environmental Working Group reports that the lining of microwave popcorn bags is full of chemicals including perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) that may be linked to infertility in humans. When tests have been done on animals, PFOA caused liver, testicular and pancreatic cancer. EWG says microwaving causes the chemicals in the bag to vaporize and become toxic when you breathe them in and they accumulate in the body for years.

There's even a disease called popcorn lung (bronchiolitis obliterans) where breathing in too much of that vaporized chemical causes severe breathing problems. The chemical diacetyl that makes it taste like buttery, movie theatre popcorn is to blame as well.

But don't despair. Popcorn is still an amazing and healthy snack if you pop it the old-fashioned way.

METAL MANIA

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Plastic water bottles are so four years ago—no one likes BPA, bro. However, do you like soup? How about other things that come in a can, like pumpkin pie filling and cranberry sauce?

Mmmm, cranberries with turkey dinner, gravy and mashed potatoes. But on second thought, hold the cranberries. And

the pumpkin pie.

Bisphenol A, or BPA, loves metal food cans like Joanie loves Chachi. BPA lines cans to protect the food inside from contamination and it's hard to say how much is in a particular can as studies of different cans of the same product have resulted in differing levels. In a 2010 CONTINUED ON PAGE 35 >>

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Christmas is a colourful holiday: twinkling lights, bright packages, decorations and food. You might not have guessed it, but red food in particular is a cause for concern if it's been artificially coloured.

Most red dye is made from the crushed exoskeletons of South American beetles. The females and eggs produce the red colour and are farmed for three months before being killed. It's reported that it takes 70Â 000 beetles to make one pound of red dye.

This is not cool if you're a vegan or have religious diet re-

study called 'No Silver Lining', 50 cans from Canada and the US were tested and over 90 percent had detectable levels of BPA. And a little BPA goes a long way. At levels that a normal person would come across in a metal food can, the Breast Cancer fund says BPA can "increase the risk of breast and prostate cancer, infertility, early puberty in females, type 2 diabetes, obesity and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder." It's especially harmful for prenatal babies and very young children.

Some companies are switching to non-BPA cans now, but it's very rare and you'd need to do your research to be certain about which ones are in the clear. How about making that pie from scratch this year?

strictions or really didn't set out to eat any bugs today. The dye can also cause asthma attacks, allergic reactions and sometimes anaphylactic shock.

The red dye goes by a number of names like carmine, cochineal, E120, Crimson Lake and Natural Red 4.

Cranberry, pomegranate and ruby red grapefruit juices, pink yogurts and ice creams and candies, the pink fillings inside chocolates and the red food colouring you use to make icing for cookies and cakes are a few examples of where carmine can be found. Read labels if you want to avoid it.

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The dark side of the wreath Putting a terrifying new spin on the old holiday party

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emember all those holiday parties your parents used to dress you up for and drag you to as a kid, where some fat guy from their office got the task of dressing up as Santa Claus?

Well, now that you're the adult calling the shots, why not think outside the box for some creative and colourful holiday figures. Be warned, though: you're going to have to find the right kind of party for each of these.

Krampus This mythical creature makes getting a lump of coal seem like hitting the jackpot. Krampus is recognized in European Alpine countries and, according to legend, the creature accompanies jolly old St Nicholas during the Christmas season, punishing bad children.

In contrast to St Nick, Krampus is represented as a beastly figure, and quite frankly, a little demonic—covered head-to-toe with brown or black fur, complete with cloven hooves, a monstrous tongue and long, twisting horns. The roots of the Krampus legend are in German folklore and during the first week of December, particularly on the evening of the fifth—also known as Krampusnacht—young men in Austria, southern Bavaria, South Tyrol, Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia would roam the streets with rusty chains and bells, scaring the bajeezus out of children.

Along with chains and bells, Krampus is said to carry a bundle of birch switches, also known as ruten, perfect for swatting bratty children. Ruten has significance in pre-Christian pagan initiation rites, but in some depictions of Krampus, which vary depending on the region, it is shown wielding a

whip or with a basket or washtub attached to its back. If a naughty child got off with a swat, they should consider themselves lucky. The basket or washtub was ideal for carting off evil children for drowning, eating or even transporting them to hell. Being good all year doesn't sound so bad now, does it?

Grýla Krampus isn't the only figure in Christmas folklore known for devouring children. In Iceland, naughty children were told they would face the wrath of Grýla if they did not behave. The ogress dwells in a mountain cave, but comes out each year at Christmas time to teach misbehaving rug rats a thing or two. Grýla's dish of choice was a stew made of naughty children, and she had an insatiable appetite.

However, it wasn't until the 17th century she was linked to Christmas, by which time she had become mother of the Yule Lads—13 figures who range from mischievous pranksters to slightly more evil characters. Ostensibly, children couldn't handle the legends of the ogress and in 1746 a public decree was issued prohibiting the use of Grýla and the Yule Lads to terrify children.

dren were often told that if they did not go to sleep and misbehaved, Olentzero would hurl a sickle down the chimney and slit their throats.

Around 1952, Olentzero traditions were revived in a much more child-friendly fashion, with the more gruesome elements of his mythology being conveniently removed. Modern depictions of Olentzero portray him as a much more lovable figure, varying by regiovn depending on whether his pagan or Christian roots are being recognized. Generally, he is now portrayed as an overweight man dressed in traditional Basque farming attire, complete with a beret and pipe.

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Olentzero This character has reformed his ways, but back in the day he was not one to mess with. The story derives from Basque communities, and while the tale varies, a common version depicts Olentzaro as a jentillak—a mythological race of giants. However, he is also represented as a strong man and charcoal burner who crafted toys for children. Doesn't sound so bad, right? Think again. Chil-

HOLIDAY GUIDE // TRADITIONS

More strange holiday traditions Tió de Nadal In Catalonia (an autonomous region in northwest Spain) the tradition of Tió de Nadal—Christmas Log—is as bizarre as it is widespread. Beginning on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, on December 8, a little bit of "food" is placed into the log every night, which is then covered with a blanket so it doesn't get cold. The "food" is candies, nuts and dried figs. On Christmas Day, the Tió de Nadal—also known as Caga tió or "Shitting Log"—is placed into the fire and beat with sticks so that the previously placed objects are "shit" out while songs are sung that implore it to "shit well." To signal that it is finished, the log shits out a salt herring, head of garlic or an onion.

Kentucky Fried Christmas In Japan, Kentucky Fried Chicken has proven to be an extremely popular holi-

day meal. Most in-demand as a Christmas Eve feast, the fried chicken purveyor—which first entered the Japanese market in the 1970s—sees its sales on December 23, 24 and 25 equal to half that of a normal month. It is so popular that long lines form outside of franchises and some restaurants take orders up to two months in advance.

Caganer Nativity scenes are traditions for plenty of cultures during the Christmas holidays, but in Catalonia the tradition has taken a wacky turn. Since at least the 18th century, Catalan nativity scenes have included an extra figure nestled in amongst Mary, Joseph, Jesus and the Three Wise Men: the Caganer, or "Shitter." Perched in the corner, the Caganer squats with his posterior over his heels and his pants around his ankles, fertil-

izing the ground with his turds. Traditionally, the Caganer was dressed in Catalan costume, but in recent years all manner of celebrity Caganers—from Santa Claus to the Queen of England, Spiderman to Barack Obama—have been created.

Zwarte Piet In the Netherlands, St Nicholas (Sinterklaas) isn't accompanied by an elf or even any reindeer. Instead, he's accompanied by his slave, known as Zwarte Piet in Dutch—Black Peter in English. The character is almost always played by a Caucasian in black face and has come under criticism in recent years. Attempts to make Zwarte Piet more politically correct have led to some organizations claiming that his face is black because he's a chimney sweep but, even so, Cana-

da's largest Sinterklaas celebration— held every year since 1985—was cancelled last year over complaints about Zwarte Piet.

Roller derby Between December 16 and December 24, a special, early-morning mass is held all over Venezuela. While that might not seem so strange, residents of the capital city of Caracas get themselves to mass by roller skating—the city even closes many of its streets prior to 8 am so caraqueños can do so safely. In addition, during the time these roller skate masses are held, the children of Caracas each tie a string to their big toe and dangle the other end out the window before they go to bed. In the morning, skaters tug on every string they see, waking up children throughout the city.

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Wait, what?

Throughout much of North America, Christmas is celebrated by bringing an evergreen tree indoors and decorating it with electric lights, glass baubles and tinsel. Then, on December 24, families invite a rotund magician who lives in the North Pole to enter their houses through their chimneys, eat milk and cookies that have been left out for him, then leave presents for children who have behaved themselves throughout the year. This man—known as Santa Claus—travels throughout the world on a sled pulled by eight flying reindeer, and the gifts that he brings are created in his northern workshop by a team of magical elves. According to a popular folk song from the area, Santa Claus kissed your mother last night while your father was somewhere else.

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HOLIDAY GUIDE // REGIFTING

Wrap it up

The tricky art of the gift that keeps on giving

Y

ou catch sight of the shiny, carefully wrapped package that bears your name, glimmering like a beacon of holiday cheer. After eyeing up the parcel from a multitude of angles attempting to decipher what glorious item it holds within, you slip a finger under the tape and hear that first oh-so-satisfying rip of paper. The remainder falls away to reveal— wait, what the hell?!

Staring up at you from the after-

math of paper ripping is something you didn't bargain for or expect; a surprise that triggers emotions other than awe and delight.

What exactly do you do in this

delicate s i t u a tion? Simply say thank you, give the gift-giver the most sincere "I love it" grin you can muster and once you're out of sight, re-wrap that sucker and find someone else to bestow it on— they might just adore it.

Now, regifting takes a certain finesse if the receiver is going to be convinced it is, in fact, something new you carefully selected with only them in mind. There may be a bit of guilt attached to regifting, particularly if it was given to you by someone close, but try to remove the sentimental aspect and look at the item as something that someone else could truly enjoy. Not only does it help scratch one person off your holiday list, but regifting is beginning to be viewed as an acceptable, economical option. Hey, the holidays are expensive and according to the Mayans, we won't even make it to December 25, so why go all out on pricey gifts?

If you find yourself taking this approach to gift giving this holiday season, take a moment and consider a few key tips and tricks to

you do, it's going to be a dead giveaway.

Avoid regifting something in the same social circle. If your BFF bought you an incredibly itchy sweater, don't give it to a mutual friend.

Check for cards, gift tags or any other personal touches tucked in the packaging that will blow your cover. Books are some of the worst culprits—always check for an inscription inside the front cover.

Put some thought into choosing the ideal regifting candidate.

Take some time to consider whether or not it's something the new recipient would actually enjoy.

Don't regift an item that was made specifically for you.

Avoid regifting any type of food, as it can show age.

However, unopened bottles of wine or spirits can be acceptable regifting options.

Children can be a regifter's arch nemesis. An innocent comment like, "Didn't so-and-so give you that last year?" can spell disaster for your stealth operation. Wait to give the gift until any potential tattle-tale children are absent.

Lastly, regift with the same care you would a new item. Get new wrapping paper and make the gift look presentable.

Sloppy regifting often leads to a faux-pas, such as the new recipient, or worse, the person who gave you the gift in the first place, finding out.

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pull it off.

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HOLIDAY GUIDE // PARTY CHATTER

Choose your own ... dinnertable comebacks

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o, it's happened. You're slotted in around a dinner table with the family, trying to keep your head down and concentrate on turkey when ol' Uncle Carl pipes up with one of his awkward, prying questions to make your blood congeal into cranberry sauce. You certainly don't want to tell him the truth, let alone the rest of your suddenly interested family, so Vue's prepared a loose slate of potential answers for the common awkward question, ranging from polite—deflecting BS intended to minimize potential

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damage (and conversation)—to some finger-snapper attackers that'll really make this Christmas one to remember. Exercise your own judgment on which to apply and when.

can put them to good use and maximize my potential."

ATTACK: A lot more than you're doing with your third failed painting company, Uncle Carl. Pass the potatoes.

shirtless photo? Pass the eggnog.

or "ninnyhammer." Pass the gravy.

What do you mean you didn't vote conservative? You some sorta liberal ninnyhammer?

more often?

THE QUESTION: Are

Isn't democracy great? We all get to give our vote to the candidate we feel would best bring us closer to our own idealized version of the country. I voted for mine, you voted for yours. That's just how it works.

ATTACK: We can talk about politics when you can tell me about a political platform without using the words "socialist," "Hug-a-thug," "bleeding heart"

What are you doing

"Well, to be perfectly honest, I'm in the process of figuring that out myself. My arts degree put a lot of different skills into my toolbelt— and CV!—and right now I'm looking forward to finding the place where I

DEFLECT: Things just didn't work out, sadly. But there are plenty of fish in the sea, right? I have lots of prospects right now. I'll find someone sooner or later.

ATTACK: No. Do you still have that gross Plenty of Fish account with the

with your life?

DEFLECT:

THE QUESTION:

Why don't you call

Oh, I've just been busy.

School/work has really kept me on the go.

ATTACK: Honestly? I'd rather cook my own heart with the ham than have to face this exact stream of questioning more than twice a year. Let me eat my food in silence, the way dinner was intended. Pass the peas.

DEFLECT:

you still seeing soand-so? [Editor's note: you aren't.]

THE QUESTION:

THE QUESTION:

DEFLECT:

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MUSIC

PREVUE // ELECTRONIC FOLK

Brave new world Jay Sparrow goes digital with an album and an idea

Fri, Nov 30 (8 pm) Jay Sparrow With Mitchmatic, Love Electric Pawn Shop, $10

J

ay Sparrow didn't bring along a guitar when he bunkered down for a winter in Venezuela.

"My plan was I would get down there and just source an acoustic guitar to write on, and that's what I would use while I was there, or something," he recalls, "Like a ukulele, or who knows what, right?"

But a few weeks into his stay, he hadn't managed to track anything down, and the creative muse was calling, despite his lacking instrument situation. So the former Murder City Sparrows-punk-turned-solo-folk-artist began making use of what was at hand: his laptop.

"I think that had I not spent so much of my life writing songs traditionally, it would've been pretty hard, I would imagine," he says of writing on a laptop. "But because I've done it so much, it just felt like another instrument. It could've been a piano, it could've been

anything. So I didn't find it was very hard, but what I did like about it was it put me in a different mindspace for creation, for the spark."

The resulting album, White, sees Sparrow completely re-envisioning his sonic approach: there isn't a guitar to be heard in any of the album's 10 songs, all built around synths, digital drums, and looping soundbites, developed alongside the band BMBSHL CMD (who will back him live at the album release show). It's brand new territory for Sparrow to traverse— he notes that he didn't play White for anyone except those working on it while it was being developed, not wanting outside opinions of his musical shift to influence his explorations of a new sound.

"I don't ever want to be in that world," he says. "And to be honest, I just don't ever want to be in that world where anyone's opinion's gonna be dictating what I make. It's not that I don't care what people think of me—I do. I think you're an asshole if you don't. But I just know that people who really like what I

do are going to come with me for the ride. And they're the ones who have been with me since I was in a punk band, and the people who like me are the people who like change. They don't want to know what's going to happen next. Those are the people I'm excited to give my new stuff to."

That said, the spirit of White isn't so far off from Sparrow's more traditional folk records. Similar ghosts in a different machine, and, to Sparrow, a further exploration of what folk can be in an inescapably digital era.

"I've just been thinking in the last few years what folk music meant to me, and where I felt it was going as an art form," he says. "And I was trying to break down what contribution I wanted to make to that, and I feel like that's the natural progression of where music is headed, and the reason for that is access. Everyone has access to computer programming and laptops and things.

People who are writing music now are just naturally using it, because that's what they have access to. So that's sort of how folk music started in the first place: people had access to acoustic guitars and mandolins and banjos and things, and that's why they used them– that's just what they had."

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A NEW IDEA In addition to a new album, Jay Sparrow's been devoting time to the development of an online music sharing service. It's called Record Mob and will launch alongside White. It looks to bind artist and fan in a way that hasn't been attempted before: by sharing the profits of music sales between the two.

"It's a two-sided marketplace," Sparrow begins. "One side of it is really traditional: one, bands can go on, upload their music just like iTunes, and sell it worldwide for, y'know, a dollar per song or $10 per record.

They get their own URL and whenever they make a sale, they get the profit from it.

That's not groundbreaking— Bandcamp is doing that, there's other things doing that.

"The revolutionary side of it is the fan side: for example, if it's you, you can go on to Record Mob and set up your own profile and go through the library of artists that exists on Record Mob and stock your

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shelves with ones you like the most and things you're listening to. You can purchase them or you can just stock your shelves. And then you can go to your Twitter accounts and your Wordpress sites, and you can sell them. And whenever a sale is generated through your personal profile, you get half the profit. the other half goes to the band."

It's a curious, compelling offer: that fans could make money off of their favourite artists while also making those same artists money (50 percent of a record sale is more than the old label system would've given any artist, Sparrow notes). And while Record Mob's focus will obviously start with independent artists, Sparrow points out that if the idea sticks, the rammifications are potentially healing for a damaged record industry.

"If it's embraced by the consumers, that's it: we're on the other side. We've made it through the storm." V

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eventy-three million years after it ran the grounds we now called Edmonton, the Edmontosaurus—a duck-billed herbivore that shared the globe with the T-Rex and the Triceratops—is seeing its name unearthed, excavated and reinterpreted as the title of the collaboration betweeen AOK (née Omar Mouallem) and producer Dan Currie.

Edmontosaurus the album runs a punkish just-21-minutes long, its backend loaded up with party jams—AOK live staple "Mac Face" is here given a revised sound and upgraded hook, sitting alongside a collaboration with D-Sisive and the celebratory "#yegsummer"— with a Side A that finds fascination in digging deep into the bigger questions of world at large, or so Mouallem sees it.

"All that existential shit I thought I was going to outgrow at 20 seems to have come back to me in the last year or so," Mouallem explains. "It's full of songs and

themes about mortality, the possibility of immortality through memory, through legacies, through the effects that we have on other people. And I think the title—Edmontosaurus being this fossilized but extinct creature, gone but not forgotten—seems like a good name for what's the theme of about half the album."

Perched on an adjacent couch upstairs at the Mercer building, Mouallem's collaborating beatmaker, producer Dan Currie, nods his approval. His beats, he notes, started with riffing on the album title for inspiration.

"I watched a lot of Jurassic Park and stuff like that, listening to [the] music, and just to get the feel of what a dinosaur would sound like," he says. "I did a couple songs where I got those [albums] of library music of the ocean and stuff like that—a couple things of those of the jungle and jungle noises. You wouldn't really hear it first time in some of the music, but then it's underlaid ... stuff like that, to give it more of that Edmontosaurus feel."

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The two first met online when Currie, a Toronto expat, knew he was heading this way. He started searching for potential collaborators, and found what seemed a generous match with Mouallem.

"We pretty much did the Lavalife of hip hop," Mouallem adds. "Everything seemed to match up."

The pair's early works were a handful of one-offs, a number of which are found on Edmontonsaurus. There'd been talk of an album early on, but it only came about when the two agreed on an arbitrary two-month deadline. And while the final result—being released on a limited run of CDs, and downloads accompanying a Josh Hollinaty-designed T-shirt, available at both the Royal Bison Art and Craft fair and this weekend's album release show—may be brief in duration, both Mouallem and Currie seem pleased with the cohesion and craftmanship behind it.

As Currie, in summarizing his feelings, states: "It's the closest thing to perfection I've ever done."

PAUL BLINOV

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Propagandhi over the phone from Winnipeg during a break from Propgandhi's current tour.

Sat, Dec 1 (9 pm) With Rebel Spell and guests Starlite Room, $24

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f you've ever wondered what Propagandhi sounds like when in it's letting loose in its jam space, now's your chance to get a taste of it.

The band's highly-anticipated sixth studio album Failed States is a departure from the polished, modern sound of Supporting Caste in favour of capturing a more raw, sonically varied disc.

Failed States is a shift from the sound fans may be used to, but it's one that could be a testament to a maturing band as it gives a nod to its roots and

the sounds that influenced it at its inception. Still, despite change in sound, Failed States is Propagandhi to the core—pissed off and slinging protests at defunct authority, commenting on societal flaws, human nature and protesting for what it supports.

"I think we just wanted to sound like us in that particular room in that particular studio. We didn't want needless drum editing or quantizing or auto tuning or drum triggering, all the new standard things that happen in digital recording these days where records, you know, sonically turn out sounding very big, but also very much the same and very processed," guitarist Chris Hannah explains

Hannah says the natural, record asis approach is how he prefers to hear Propagandhi's music, versus something that's been run through the ringer in terms of editing, adding his biggest annoyance is drum triggering and auto tuning, something that immediately makes him tune out.

Aside from the sonic shift, Failed States was Propagandhi's first time recording in its home city rather than down in the US, which Hannah says often required the band to essentially live in the studio and work on the record 24/7.

"That is a crazy experience for us every time, in good ways and bad ways, but it also really focuses you on the project and the record gets done no matter what in that time period, but there's not really a lot of time to decompress," he adds. "This time in Winnipeg, we'd leave the studio everyday and go home, not be around each other, not be around instruments, not be around recording gear and then come back the next day. There was more room for new ideas and just more of an open-ended sense to the whole thing."

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f you can't reproduce it live, especially if you're a touring act, there's not much point in doing it," singersongwriter and multi-instrumentalist Tim Chaisson states matter-of-factly over the phone from Sudbury, ON. This is the framework Chaisson worked within to create his fifth studio album, The Other Side, a strippeddown, simple yet effective collection of songs that blend Chaisson's signature country-folk vocals and roots-rock style with a hint of Maritime charm.

"I do some shows with my band (Morning Fold) and some shows are stripped down and that's because of the nature of how things go whenever you're

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a singer-songwriter. I just wanted to make a record that when I play live by myself, that if somebody buys the record they're not going to be disappointed when they put the CD in on the way home," says Chaisson, who began his career in music performing in a family Celtic band, which introduced him to live recording. "You can't just go into the studio and do stuff you can't do live because it's pointless in a way. It's fun to do for the heck of it or whatever, but if you're touring live, I think kind of a good way to go about it is to try not to be something that you're not.

Do what you can do in the studio and whenever you do it live people will like it."

This honest and genuine approach transfers into the lyr-

ics of The Other Side, which he recorded with the help of Colin Linden of Blackie & the Rodeo Kings, as it winds through heartache, love and life, reflecting both Chaisson's personal experiences and those of people close to him. For Chaisson, sharing personal snippets of his life is just part of the deal as a musician, and he believes being able to be transparent in that way can help audiences gravitate to songs and relate them to their own experiences.

"I think whenever you're a songwriter, you have to put a bit of yourself out there—I mean, you don't have to—but I think for people to relate to the art you're creating, I think then I definitely have to be honest about it or people will know that it's not coming from you," he says, and one track in particular that is an example of this is "Beat This Heart" featuring Serena Ryder. "It was just kind of a simple song about you know, moving on from somebody but they're always going to be with you in some shape or form and it's hard to get over them. I remember writing it after somebody in particular and I think everybody can kind of relate to that to a certain extent."

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COMMENT >> ON THE RECORD

In the Fun house

The Tom Fun Orchestra shows off its Earthworm Heart

Fri, Nov 30 (8 pm) With Wild Rose Orchestra Avenue Theatre, $12 (advance), $15 (door) After a cryptic message on its website back in September, The Tom Fun Orchestra's second album, Earthworm Heart, was released on the masses. Prior to the band's stop in Edmonton, lead singer Ian MacDougall told Vue all about the rockoriented disc.

VUE WEEKLY: How long did it take to make

Earthworm Heart from the initial songwriting through to the end of the recording?

IAN MACDOUGALL: Earthworm Heart took a lifetime to create. It represents everything that happened up until now. It is the definition of a circle that turns back on itself ... like a number eight. It will happen again, probably.

VW: When you were writing the songs, did

you come at them in a particular way? Lyrics first? Music first?

IM: The songs were written in different places at different times. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes it just begins with a hook or a melody. Lately I've been writing songs on a dirty old keyboard hooked up to a looper pedal and it's my new favourite songwriting technique.

There is never a defined approach though, they just happen one way or another VW: Did the songs come from one person

fully formed, or were they sketches that were then filled out as a group?

IM: I generally write the songs on an acoustic guitar or, as previously mentioned, on a dirty keyboard and then present them to my pals. Sometimes they remain true to the original demo, sometimes they are transformed into a new beast. Either way, the entire band contributes in one way or another.

off the floor, staying true to our live show.

This time we weren't so concerned with that. An album and a concert are two wholly different experiences. There are songs on the album that we will probably never be able to recreate live and I am just fine with that. I'm proud of the musical nugget we've created.

VW: Were there any other songs written that were left off the album?

IM: There were a slew of songs that we had in mind for the album that didn't make the cut. Some of them will be released at a later date, some will die a peaceful death in the doldrums of forgetfulness.

VW: How did you decide which songs to include on the album? Did you have an idea of what you wanted Earthworm Heart to be when you started, or did the finished shape emerge as the writing and recording went along?

IM: We just chose the songs that made good neighbours for each other. I originally had ideas of different themes for the album but, eventually, we just picked the songs we liked the most and seemed to compliment each other in a handsome fashion.

VW: You worked with Jamie Foulds and Albert Lionais, to produce the album. What drew you to him and what did he bring to the process?

IM: Jamie Foulds helped us out with our last album and we've had a really good working relationship with him ever since.

He is the most amicable studio engineer you will find, has ears that can spot the footsteps of an amoeba and is primarily focused on making sure that you are happy with the sounds that are captured for the world to hear. Albert Lionais is our trumpet player, manager, accountant and moral conscience. He has a tattoo of an anchor on his arm, a great big beard and likes to drink King Cole tea.

VW: What were the recording sessions like

for this album? Is this the kind of thing you recorded live or did you piece it together one track at a time? Why? IM: On our first album we were focused on trying to capture as much as we could

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VW: If you were to trace the musical map

that led you to Earthworm Heart, what would it look like?

IM: It would look like Bea Arthur in a mid '70s Elvis suit holding a machete. V

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Carrie Day Sun, Dec 2 (7:30 pm) With Jamie Price The Yardbird Suite, $25

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arrie Day speaks just as she sings: calmly with an ever-present sense of tranquility and poise.

The topic is her latest album, Life Is Like This, and she speaks of the disc with a closeness that comes from letting go of something personal, which is precisely what the lyrics encompass.

The album is her first since the 2010 release of Immaculate Night, with many of the songs completed long before she ever hit the studio.

However, Day notes that this time around, there was a sense of cohesion to the album.

"I feel that with Immaculate Night, there was no real continual thread or theme running through it, it was just a collection of a bunch of songs I had been writing over the years ... I love the album; I like the diversity of it, but at the end, I didn't feel completely satisfied," she says over the phone prior to starting a day of music teaching. "So with this next album, I do feel, probably because all of the songs were written around the same time and just really being aware of how people are all kind of the same, they all get lost at times. We all want the same things: we want to be respected, we want to be liked, we want to feel like we belong."

While the majority of the songs on Life Is Like This were written well over a year ago, the title track didn't come to fruition until earlier this year on one particular evening when Day was feeling a little down and out.

"I was sort of going through a depression and feeling really stuck in the day-to-day, not having a good perspective about the bigger picture. I was on my way home from my day job and I just saw the sky and the trees and the sunset and it was just such a grand moment, and really a fleeting moment, but it had an impact, so I went home and started writing the song that night," Day recalls, adding she took on much more of the album's composition this time around, particularly with instrumental arrangements.

"A lot of these songs I did write when I was feeling quite positive and strong and grounded, and the funny thing is, after I had written the majority of them, I sort of fell into a depression and just even thought, 'How arrogant of me to even think that I have anything figured out. I don't know anything about how life is,' but you know, that's part of the cycle too, that ebb and flow. We have strong times, we have low times ... really what we have to do is be there for one another; be supportive."

MEAGHAN BAXTER Taking life one step at a time

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PREVUE // GUITAR 'N' DRUMS 'N' BOOK

Famines

This weekend Biesinger, who moved east over a year ago, will be back in his hometown attending to both passions; resuming his Famines collaboration with drummer Garrett Kruger at the Wunderbar on Friday night for the official Edmonton release of his latest compendium, Black & White Illustrations, and participating in the Royal Bison Craft & Art Fair over the weekend.

Black & White Illustrations is exactly that, a front and back embossed, 208-page, eight-inchsquare collection of black-andwhite artwork produced by Biesinger between 2002 and 2012. The book covers a great deal of ground; there are chapters devoted to his band, artwork taken from Xerox zines, never before seen roughs, and illustrations from such high profile gigs as The New York Times.

At the back are precisely detailed notes giving context for the images, and short explanations from the author on how they came about. // Raymond Biesinger

Friday, Nov 29 (9 pm) With Fist City and the Allovers Wunderbar, $10

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here's a connection to be found between Raymond Biesinger's mu-

sical and illustrative work, and it isn't particularly hard to find.

"My mission was always to impose limitations on what I do, and innovate within them," the ex-Edmontonian explains from his Montréal home. "In art it was to

work within the limits of black, grey and white. In (the band) Famines it's to take six notes, voice, drum kit and no guitar pedals and see how far we can push that to make interesting guitar and drumsbased music."

Call it a summing up of a particular period of his work life, especially as he receives accolades for his similarly gorgeous work with colour.

Still, Biesinger resists any notion that it signals any sort of change in his modus operandi.

"Black and white has a special place in heart," he says, noting that he has plans to release a book next year that will compile his colour work. "It's how I learned. Black still dominates in what I do, and I often find that I'm going back to just doing black, grey and white. I just did a GQ series back in September, and that's what I went with, despite the fact that it's a full colour magazine."

While Biesinger wryly admits that a great deal of his past paying gigs have come from the business press, in the last year or so he's begun to get a free hand from editors impressed by his imaginative work. Instead of being approached to supply specific illustrations for articles, he's asked to riff on a theme, with no editorial interference, thus giving full reign to his whimsical imagination.

"They'll say, 'Hey, we like what you do. Here's the idea, do what you want.'

Print Magazine recently had me do a visual essay on international bodies like the United Nations, Coca-Cola, The International Cat Association, the Soviet Union, The Masons, NATO, complete with text. That was really fun. It's an amazing thing to be self directed, to follow through on an idea; I'm very lucky to be in this spot."

Tom Murray

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SOUNDTRACK

Petunia

Fri, Nov 30 (8 pm) With George Ireland & the Willy Nillies, Bryan Coffey Elevation Room, $10 With his band the Vipers in tow, Petunia is ready to hit the road for the chilly frontier of the prairies in support of his latest album, aptly titled Petunia & The Vipers. Before the tour's stop in Edmonton, Petunia shared his personal soundtrack with Vue.

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At home

Morning, noon and night: I'm in the process of recording another album, so all day at various times I'm listening to rough cuts of the songs I'm thinking will be on the album. Otherwise, often mixed CDs friends have made me, like Nathan Godfrey's Via Lactea Caboose, or Crusher's various mixed rockabilly, western swing, R&B cds.

Also José Feliciano, Pascale Lejeune (from New Brunswick, famous in France as well) … um, mixed jugband and stringband music from a famous 78 collector in LA. And Riley Puckett a lot lately in the afternoon.

On the road

Morning, noon and night: Mixed CDs if I remember to bring along with me, and CKUA, the greatest Canadian radio station in Alberta.

Night: I'm playing shows at night "on the road" so whatever the venues play on their sound system, I listen to. If I get my way, old fashioned western swing lately, as it seems to be the most accessible in general. I don't have an iPhone to plug in at the clubs Night in particular: Charlie Parker Bird on and I'd probably forget it at one the Side, Vol 1. Sibelius, Satie, Debussy … you of clubs, eventually, so that's out. know, the pops. Every tune a great arrange- I'm glad I don't have an iPhone in any case. V ment as a whole.

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Dead Red Pine / Thu, Nov 29 (7 pm) The alt-folk five-piece is relatively new to the local music scene, but Dead Red Pine is quickly making itself known for its unique musical approach. Have a listen for yourself when they hit the stage with guest Lyra Brown. (Cafe Haven, free)

Ben Heppner / Sat, Dec 1 (7 pm) Feats of vocal prowess are the name of the game for internationally celebrated operatic tenor Ben Heppner, who is currently hitting the road across Canada. (West End Christian Reformed Church, $20 – $50)

Burton Cummings / Sat, Dec 1 (7 pm) If being a renowned rock musician wasn't enough, Burton Cummings also managed to receive the Order of Canada. The Guess Who member has struck out on the road solo in support of his latest album, Massey Hall. (Winspear Centre, $65 – $115)

Schubert's Second Symphony / Sun, Dec 2 (2 pm) Tatiana Warszynski, a 25 year veteran of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra's (ESO) second violin section is teaming up with her son Mikolaj, also an accomplished musician, for a special guest appearance for a trio of classic pieces accompanied by the ESO. (Winspear Centre, $20 – $69)

A Pro Coro Christmas Wed, Dec 5 (7:30 pm) From the early Renaissance to the avant-garde, Pro Coro—regarded as one of Canada's best chamber choirs—blends past and present, as well as sing-alongs accompanied by guest pianist Margaret King. (Festival Place, $28 – $32)

Bill Bourne Thu, Dec 6 (7:30 pm) Local legend Bill Bourne has had music in his blood from an early age, and the saga continues with his latest album, Songs From a Gypsy Caravan, which he is currently touring with Edmonton's own Prairie Balladeer Scott Cook. (Artery, $12 advance, $15 at the door)

Unforgettable: The Music of Nat King Cole Wed, Dec 5 (5 pm, craft sale, 7 pm, music) Support to Individuals at Risk in Everyone's Neighborhood Society (SIRENS), is bringing back the music of Nat King Cole courtesy of Don Stewart, all in support of the breakfast program at St Francis of Assisi School. (Robertson Wesley United Church, $15 – $20)

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NEWSOUNDS

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more to listening to it, the task of crafting a small journey inside of its confines is made easier. By limiting the scope, the artist—in some ways—increases their ability to tell a story.

Listening to the songs on Leisure Life individually, or going back and listening to them in the context of their releases as EPs (as you can do on Bandcamp if you so desire) shows Gentlemen Reg in more successful form. I don't know if it's the song order or simply the length, but the changed context makes the songs string together, makes the album feel like there's no up and down, no journey to go on.

It's a pity because Leisure Life is a bunch of good songs looking for a better structure. They are poppy and happy musically, filled with upbeat drums, buoyant keyboards and guitars that are just this side of saccharine—in a good way. Lyrically, the album is much darker: he concentrates on love that cannot be, disappointment and betrayal. This mix of optimistic music and melancholic lyrics strikes the right tone on a song-tosong basis, but as an album, Leisure Life fails to hit the mark.

Have Not Been the Same: The CanRock Renaissance unfolds something like a map of Canada's musical geography roughly between the years 1985 and 1995. A compilation album that accompanies the 2001 (and recently updated) book of the same name, Have Not Been the Same offers a view of the soundscapes between the coasts, kicking off with the title track from Vancouver punks Slow and then tumbling across the country, landing in the east with a rough live track from Sloan and dotting the big markers along the way. It's tough to make a coherent record out of such a disparate group of recordings, but by using the book's trajectory as a template, curator Jason Schneider—also one of the book's authors—has put together an album that tells a story across time and style. Have Not Been the Same is by no means an exhaustive catalogue of Canadian music, but it offers a way in to a history that should be remembered for the influence it had on today's bands, but more for the quality of the songs themselves. And for those who are already familiar with many of the players here, Schneider has pulled together plenty of lesser-known (and even some never-heard) gems. And if the record is a map, it's one that reveals many a sideroad worthy of further investigation by anyone with an ear for a particularly interesting period in Canadian music history.

BRYAN BIRTLES

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Gentleman Reg Leisure Life (Heavy Head)  Gentleman Reg's latest album, Leisure Life, took a circuitous route to get here.

It started life as a series of three EPs, released between July and October of this year. Now, less than a month after the final installment of the series, the songs have been rearranged into an album and released.

Those who downloaded the EPs will find nothing new on the album version. In fact, they'll find something missing: three songs have been deleted.

The practice of releasing music in dribs and drabs before collecting songs into an album is not a new one: it's an old idea (ask your grandparents about the way music was, at one time, released on 45 RPM singles before it would be collected into an album that played at 33 1/3 RPMs) that seems to be gaining new favour as the music industry searches desperately for a way to save itself, to keep the short attention spans of the contemporary world interested for more than the first 45 seconds of a song, just long enough to get the idea before shaking the iPod and moving on.

The beauty of an EP is its brevity. Not only does one not necessarily need to devote a full hour or

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9pm; $10

Classical MUTTART HALL Sarah Ho, Allene Hackleman, Aaron Au in recital; 7:30pm

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 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; 7pm-close THE COMMON Uncommon Thursday: Indie with new DJ each week with resident CROWN PUB Break Down Thu at the Crown: D&B with DJ Kaplmplx, DJ Atomik with guests DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Thu; 9pm ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ every Thu

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

REXALL PLACE Paul McCartney (On The Run Tour); sold out RICHARD'S PUB Live R&B bands (dancing); 8pm RIC’S GRILL Peter Belec (jazz); most Thursdays; 7-10pm STARLITE ROOM Christian and Justin (Canyon Rose Outfit), Vinyl Jamboree (open turn tables and open jam) WILD BILL’S–Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close WUNDERBAR SHHH! Quiet Music Series: Tyler Butler, Savk, Colin Close, Mike Tod, no minors;

OUTLAWS ROADHOUSE Wild Life Thursdays OVERTIME–Downtown Thursdays at Eleven: Electronic Techno and Dub Step RENDEZVOUS Metal night every Thu TAPHOUSE–St Albert Eclectic mix every Thu with DJ Dusty Grooves UNION HALL 3 Four All Thursdays: rock, dance, retro, top 40 with DJ Johnny Infamous WILD BILL’S–Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close

FRI NOV 30 ARTERY Meaghan Smith, Erica Viegas; 7pm; $12 (adv) AVENUE THEATRE Tom Fun Orchestra (punk/R&B), Wild Rose Orchestra, guests; 8pm; $12 (adv)/$15 (door) BISTRO LA PERSAUD Blues: every Friday Night hosted by The Dr Blu Band; 8pm (music); drblu.ca BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Highway 3 Roots Revue, Leeroy Stagger, John

DJs

ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage with Trace Jordan 1st and 3rd Sat; 7pm-12

BAR-B-BAR DJ James; every Fri; no cover

CARROT Live music every Fri: Slack Key Slim; all ages; 7:30-9:30pm; $5 (door)

BLACKSHEEP PUB Bash: DJ spinning retro to rock classics to current

CASINO EDMONTON Shannon Smith (country/ rock)

BONEYARD ALE HOUSE The Rock Mash-up: DJ NAK spins videos every Fri; 9pm; no cover

CASINO YELLOWHEAD The Top Tones COAST TO COAST Open stage every Fri; 9:30pm DV8 Promise Revoked, Magic in the Kill, Atomik Alice; 9pm ELEVATION ROOM Petunia, George Ireland and the Willy Nillies, Bryan Coffey; 8pm; $10 FESTIVAL PLACE Jason McCoy Christmas; 7:30pm; $34-$38 at Ticketmaster, festivalplace.ab.ca, 780.449.3378

IRISH CLUB Jam session every Fri; 8pm; no cover

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

Fridays

BRIXX BAR Mustache Party

FLUID LOUNGE Take Over Thursdays: Industry Night; 9pm FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Requests every Thu with DJ Damian

SPRUCE GROVE ALLIANCE CHURCH The Grove City Barbershop Harmony Chorus (Christmas songs, acappella); at 7:30pm; $10/ free (pre-school child); grovecitychorus.ca

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every Friday DJs on all three levels

HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB Kemo Treats (Pancake video release party), Blades of Steel; 8pm; $10 (adv)/$15 (door)

ON THE ROCKS Salsaholic: every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; salsa DJ to follow

PUB 1824 Sinder Sparks Show; 8-12pm

BOHEMIA Stalwart Sons, Desiderata, Book of Caverns, Latcho Drom; 9pm; $8 (adv)

FLASH NIGHT CLUB Indust:real Assembly: Goth and Industrial Night with DJ Nanuck; no minors; 10pm (door); no cover

NAKED CYBERCAFE & ESPRESSO BAR Open stage Thu; all ages; 9pmclose; no cover

OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Jesse Peters (R&B, blues, jazz, Top 40); 9pm2am every Thu; no cover

BO DIDDLY”S ROADHOUSE ZAYAS (CD release party, blues, funk, soul); 8:30pm; no cover

GOOD NEIGHBOR PUB T.K. and the Honey Badgers every friday; 8:30-midnight; no cover

LUCKY 13 Sin Thu with DJ Mike Tomas

NORTH GLENORA HALL Jam by Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu

BLUES ON WHYTE Bill Durst

FILTHY MCNASTY’S Something Diffrent every Thursday with DJ Ryan Kill

MONTY'S PIZZA Glen Cassidy; 8-10pm; $8

NEW WEST HOTEL Canadian Country Hall of Fame Guest host Bev Munro

Wort Hannam, and Dave McCann; 8:30pm; $20

JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Kirsten Rae Quartet (classic, contemporary jazz); $10 JEKYLL AND HYDE PUB Headwind (classic pop/rock); every Fri; 9pm; no cover LIZARD LOUNGE Rock 'n' roll open mic every Fri; 8:30pm; no cover OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Dueling Piano's, all request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover PAWN SHOP Sonic Band of the Month: Jay Sparrow (folk rock), Mitchmatic, Love Electric, guest; 8pm; $10 (adv)

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 FLUID LOUNGE Hip hop and dancehall; every Fri FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Top tracks, rock, retro with DJ Damian; every Fri HILLTOP PUB The Sinder Sparks Show; every Thu and Fri; 9:30pm-close JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY LGBT Community: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm NEWCASTLE PUB House, dance mix every Fri with DJ Donovan O2'S TAPHOUSE AND GRILL DJs every Fri and Sat OVERTIME–Downtown Fridays at Eleven: Rock hip hop, country, top forty, techno

PUB 1824 Brother Octopus (CD release party); 7pm (door); $5

REDNEX–Morinville DJ Gravy from the Source 98.5 every Fri

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

RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie, rock, funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri

STARLITE ROOM KLUB OMFG! Official re-Launch: Silence Be Damned with DJs Gotthavok, Siborg and Nightroad

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

ST BASIL’S CULTURAL CENTRE Kane Welch Kaplin–sold out; 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $18 (adv at Acoustic Music Shop, TIX on the Square)/$22 (door) WILD BILL’S–Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close WUNDERBAR The Famines, Fist City, the Allovers; 9pm; Book Launch for Black & White Illustrations by Raymond Biesinger YARDBIRD SUITE The Yardbird All-Stars, directed

by Craig Brenan play Duke Ellington Arrangements of the Nutcracker Suite; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $24 (member)/$28 (guest)

Classical

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 Show with 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

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ARTERY The Rebellion (alt rock), Greenlight District, Dead Cat Bounce; 8pm; $8 (adv) AVENUE THEATRE KingDoom (metal), Face First, Pistols at 20 Paces; 8pm; $10 (adv)/$15 (door) BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair of the Dog: Erin Ross (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Evening: Bill Durst

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BOHEMIA Ghost Cousin, Magic in the Kill, Doug Hoyer; 9pm; $10 CARROT CAFÉ Sat Open mic; 7pm; $2 CASINO EDMONTON Shannon Smith (country/ rock) CASINO YELLOWHEAD The Top Tones COAST TO COAST Live bands every Sat; 9:30pm CROWN PUB Acoustic blues open stage with Marshall Lawrence, every Sat, 2-6pm; every Sat, 12-2am DEVON HOTEL PALS Acoustic Open Mic with Tim Harwill; Every Sat 4-6:30pm THE DISH NEK Trio (jazz); every Sat, 6pm DV8 The Mange, Zero Cool ELEVATION ROOM The Threads (Christmas bash), Aku Aku; 8pm; $10 FESTIVAL PLACE Songs of John: Mark Sterling Plays the Music of John Lennon; 7:30pm; $32 (table)/$30 (box)/$28 (theatre) FILTHY MCNASTY'S Cadence and Nathan, Kim Macgregor; 4pm; no cover FINE ARTS BUILDING Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society: Robert Normandeau (electroacoustic from Montreal); 8pm; free GAS PUMP Saturday Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth HILLTOP PUB Sat afternoon roots jam with Pascal, Simon and Dan, 3:306:30pm; 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 JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Marco Claveria (traditional Latin); $15 L.B.'S PUB Sat afternoon Jam with Gator and Friends; 5-9pm LA CREMA CAFÉ Back Porch Swing LOUISIANA PURCHASE Suchy Sister Saturdays: Amber, Renee or Stephanie with accompaniment; 9:3011:30pm; no cover NEWCASTLE PUB The

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Classics; $15 NEW WEST HOTEL Country jam every Sat; 3-6pm O’BYRNE’S Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Dueling Piano's, all request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover PAWN SHOP Cygnets (alt elect rock, video premiere/ single release party); 7pm; $5 (adv) PUB 1824 Every Fri & Sat, this week with; $5 RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am SIDELINERS PUB Sat open stage; 3-7pm STARLITE ROOM Propagandhi, Rebel Spell, Guests; 8pm (door) ; $19 at Prime Box Office THREE BANANAS CAFÉ Celebrating Culture Through Music with Garth Prince (CD release); 1:30-3pm WINSPEAR CENTRE Burton Cummings and Band; 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $65/$85/$115 all ages

YARDBIRD SUITE The Yardbird All-Stars, directed

by Craig Brenan play Duke Ellington Arrangements of the Nutcracker Suite; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $24 (member)/$28 (guest)

Classical

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

MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH Festive Mosaic: the Ukrainian Male Chorus; 7pm; $10-$15 at 780.499.0422, E: UMCtickets@gmail.com, Ukrainian Bookstore, door

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Sat; 9pm

MUTTART HALL Fall Music Festival Concert: Presented by the Conservatory of Music; reception to follow; free; all ages

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Fire up your night every Saturday with DJ SAWG

WEST END CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH EDmonton Chamber music society, Ben Heppner (tenor): recital; 7pm; $50-$20

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

ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ every Sat

FLUID LOUNGE Scene Saturday's Relaunch: Party; hip-hop, R&B and Dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Top tracks, rock, retro every Sat with DJ Damian HALO For Those Who Know: house every Sat with DJ Junior Brown, Luke Morrison, Nestor Delano, Ari Rhodes

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Collective Saturdays underground: House and Techno

SUITE 69 Stella Saturday: retro, old school, top 40 beats with DJ Lazy, guests

NEWCASTLE PUB Top 40 requests every Sat with DJ Sheri

TEMPLE Oh Snap! Oh Snap with Degree, Cool Beans, Specialist, Spenny B and Mr. Nice Guy and Ten 0; every Sat 9pm

O2'S TAPHOUSE AND GRILL DJs every Fri and Sat OVERTIME–Downtown Saturdays at Eleven: R'n'B, hip hop, reggae, Old School PALACE CASINO Show Lounge DJ every Sat PAWN SHOP Transmission Saturdays: Indie rock, new wave, classic punk with DJ Blue Jay and Eddie Lunchpail; 9pm (door); free (before 10pm)/$5 (after 10pm) RED STAR Indie rock, hip 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

BLACKSHEEP PUB DJ

JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY LGBT Community: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm

SUEDE LOUNGE House, electro, Top40, R'n'B with DJ Melo-D every Fri

DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834

HOGS DEN PUB 9, 14220 Yellowhead Tr

NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535-109A Ave

DEVON HOTEL 1 Huron Street, Devon, AB

HOOLIGANZ 10704-124 St, 780.995.7110

ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave

THE DISH 12417 Stony Plain Rd, 780.488.6641

HYDEAWAY 10209-100 Ave, 780.426.5381

AVENUE THEATRE 9030118 Ave, 780.477.2149

DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928

IRON BOAR PUB 4911-51st St, Wetaskiwin

BISTRO LA PERSAUD 861791 St, 780.758.6686

DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554

J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082

DV8 8307-99 St

JEFFREY’S CAFÉ 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890

UNION HALL Celebrity Saturdays: every Sat hosted

by DJ Johnny Infamous VINYL DANCE LOUNGE Signature Saturdays Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

SUN DEC 2 BEER HUNTER–St Albert Open stage/jam every Sun; 2-6pm BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Sunday Brunch: Jim Findlay Trio; 10am-2:30pm; donations BLUE PEAR RESTAURANT Jazz on the Side Sun; 5:308:30pm; $25 if not dining BOGANI CAFE Edmonton Ukulele Circle; 3rd Sun of each month; 3:30-5pm; $5 fee

VENUE GUIDE ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave

BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku 2110 Sparrow Drive, Nisku, 780.986.8522 BLACKSHEEP PUB 11026 Jasper Ave, 780.420.0448 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUE PEAR RESTAURANT 10643-123 St, 780.482.7178 BLUES ON WHYTE 1032982 Ave, 780.439.3981

EDDIE SHORTS 10713-124 St, 780.453.3663 EDMONTON EVENTS CENTRE WEM Phase III, 780.489.SHOW ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411

JEKYLL AND HYDE 10209100 Ave, 780.426.5381 JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY 10242-106 St, 780.756.5667 KAS BAR 10444-82 Ave, 780.433.6768 L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100

ELEPHANT AND CASTLE– Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave

LA CREMA CAFÉ 44 Saint Thomas St, St Albert, 780.458.8225

EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ 9938-70 Ave, 780.437.3667

LEGENDS PUB 6104-172 St, 780.481.2786

BONEYARD ALE HOUSE 9216-34 Ave, 780.437.2663

FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 1022597 St, 780.497.0011

FIDDLER’S ROOST 890699 St

LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR 10132-104 St

BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099

FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557

LIZARD LOUNGE 13160118 Ave

BO DIDDLY”S ROADHOUSE 11650-142st BOHEMIA 10217-97 St

BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca CARROT CAFÉ 9351-118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464-153 St, 780 424 9467 CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000

FINE ARTS BUILDING Rm 2-7, U of A FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 10025-105 St • 780.479.9355 • concordia. ab.ca/music FLASH NIGHT CLUB 10018-105 St, 780.996.1778 FLUID LOUNGE 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 FUNKY BUDDHA 1034182 Ave, 780.433.9676

CHA ISLAND TEA CO 1033281 Ave, 780.757.2482

GOOD EARTH COFFEE HOUSE AND BAKERY 9942-108 St

CHROME LOUNGE 132 Ave, Victoria Trail

GOOD NEIGHBOR PUB 11824-103 St

COAST TO COAST 5552 Calgary Tr, 780.439.8675

HALO 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.HALO

COMMON 9910-109 St

HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB 15120A (basement), Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.6010

CROWN PUB 10709-109 St, 780.428.5618

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EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain

HILLTOP PUB 8220-106 Ave, 780.490.7359

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MARYBETH'S COFFEE HOUSE–Beaumont 5001-30 Ave, Beaumont, 780.929.2203

O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767

O2'S TAPHOUSE AND GRILL 13509-127 St, 780.454.0203

STARLITE ROOM 10030102 St, 780.428.1099

OVERTIME–Downtown 10304-111 St, 780.465.6800 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 HALL 1086057 Ave PUB 1824 12402-118 Ave, 587.521.1824 REDNEX BAR–Morinville 10413-100 Ave, Morinville, 780.939.6955 RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825

SUITE 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969 TAPHOUSE 9020 McKenney Ave, St Albert, 780.458.0860 THREE BANANAS CAFÉ 9918-102 Ave, Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.453.2638; cmef.ca TREASURY 10004 Jasper Ave, 7870.990.1255, thetreasurey.ca TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH 10014-81 Ave VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128

RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780-457-3117

LOUNGE 10740 Jasper Ave, 780.428.8655, vinylretrolounge.com

MUTTART HALL Alberta College Conservatory of Music, 10050 Macdonald Dr

ROSE AND CROWN 10235101 St

NOLA CREOLE KITCHEN & MUSIC HOUSE 11802-124 St, 780.451.1390, experiencenola. com

SUEDE LOUNGE 11806 Jasper Ave, 780.482.0707

VINYL DANCE

ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253

NISKU INN 1101-4 St

STEEPS TEA LOUNGE– Whyte Ave 11116-82 Ave

RENDEZVOUS 10108149 St

MONTY'S PIZZA 1027 Potter Greens Drive in Lewis Estates

NEW CITY 8130 Gateway Boulevard

SPORTSMAN'S LOUNGE 8170-50 St SPRUCE GROVE ALLIANCE CHURCH 250 Century Rd, Spruce Grove

RIC’S GRILL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602

NEWCASTLE PUB 6108-90 Ave, 780.490.1999

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924

O2'S ON WHYTE 780.454.0203

MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH 10025-101 St

NAKED CYBERCAFE & ESPRESSO BAR 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730

SIDELINERS PUB 11018127 St, 780.453.6006

WEST END CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH 780.433.4532 • edmontonchambermusic.org WILD BILL’S–Red Deer Quality Inn North Hill, 7150-50 Ave, Red Deer, 403.343.8800

R PUB 16753-100 St, 780.457.1266

WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414

ST ANDREW’S UNITED CHURCH 9915-148 St

WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286

ST BASIL’S CULTURAL CENTRE 10819-71 Ave

Y AFTERHOURS 10028102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com

SECOND CUP–89 AVE 8906-149 St SHELL THEATRE-DOW CENTENNIAL CENTRE 870084 St, Fort Saskatchewan

YELLOWHEAD BREWERY 10229-105 St, 780.423.3333 YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St

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

7:30pm; $32 (table)/$30 (box)/$28 (theatre) at Festival Place box office

CHA ISLAND TEA CO Live on the Island: Rhea March hosts open mic and Songwriter's stage; starts with a jam session; 7pm

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 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 FESTIVAL PLACE Festival Singers Wassail; 2:30 pm; $20.25 at TicketMaster FILTHY MCNASTY'S Rock and Soul Sundays with DJ Sadeeq HOGS DEN PUB Open Jam: hosted; open jam every Sun, all styles welcome; 3-7pm NEWCASTLE PUB Sun Soul Service (acoustic jam): Willy James and Crawdad Cantera; 3-6:30pm

OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Monday Open Stage

Mon Industry Night: with DJ Fuzze, J Plunder (DJs to bring their music and mix mash it up)

O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Metal Mondays with DJ Tyson

O2'S ON WHYTE DJ Grizz every Tue industry night

LUCKY 13 Industry Night every Mon with DJ Chad Cook

TUE DEC 4 BLUES ON WHYTE Trevor Finaly

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

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Phat Tuesday in The Quarters, The Rooster Davis Group, New Orleans Jump & Boogie; 8-11pm

SHELL THEATRE-Dow Centennial Centre Nat King Cole Unforgettable Christmas Concert; 7pm WINSPEAR CENTRE The Barenaked Ladies with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra; 7:30pm; $49$79 at Winspear box office

BRIXX BAR Ruby Tuesdays with host Mark Feduk; $5 after 8pm; this week guests: Special Secret Guest and Victoria Baldwin

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

DRUID IRISH PUB Open stage every Tue; with Chris Wynters; 9pm L.B.’S Tue Blues Jam with Ammar; 9pm-1am LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR Tiff Hall

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; 7:3010:30pm PUB 1824 Karaoke every Tue; 8pm R PUB Open stage jam every Tue; hosted by Gary and the Facemakers; 8pm RED PIANO All request band Tuesdays: Joint Chiefs (classic rock, soul, R&B) every Tue SECOND CUP– Summerwood Open stage/open mic every Tue; 7:30pm; no cover WINSPEAR CENTRE The Barenaked Ladies with the Edmonton Symphony

Orchestra; 7:30pm; $49$79 at Winspear box office YARDBIRD SUITE Tue Night Sessions: PJ Perry Quintet; 7:30pm (door); $5

Classical FESTIVAL PLACE Bev Facey Music Presents Seasonal Sacred Sounds; 7:30pm

DJs BLACK DOG 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

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O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am O2'S TAP HOUSE AND GRILL Live rock band every Sun with Joint Chiess RICHARD'S PUB Sun Live Jam hosted by Carson Cole; 4pm YELLOWHEAD BREWERY Open Stage: Every Sun, 8pm

Classical FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Concordia school of music Christmas Concert: Concordia Student Ensembles; 3pm MUTTART HALL WinterTIME concert: FORM, ’Nuf Sed and J***Word Vocal Ensembles; 2pm; $13-$16 at door, TIX on the Square, 780.482.7649 ST ANDREW’S UNITED CHURCH Vocal Alchemy of A Canadian Christmas; 3:30pm, 7pm; $12-$15 at TIX on the Square TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH Vivaldi’s Gloria: Concordia Concert Choir; 3pm; $12-$15 at TIX on the Square WINSPEAR CENTRE Schubert's Second Symphony; 2pm; $20-$69

DJs BACKSTAGE TAP AND GRILL Industry Night: every Sun with Atomic Improv, Jameoki and DJ Tim BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sundays: A fantastic voyage through '60s and '70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy 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

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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): "They are trying to make me into a fixed star," complained religious leader Martin Luther a few centuries ago. "I am an irregular planet." I invite you to use that declaration as your own in the coming weeks.

You have every right to avoid being pinned down, pigeonholed, and forced to be consistent. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you need abundant freedom to mutate your identity. You deserve a poetic license that allows you to play a variety of different roles and explore the pleasures of unpredictable self-expression.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): "The StarSpangled Banner" is America's national anthem. It features the lyrics of a patriotic poem written by Francis Scott Key, but the melody itself is entirely lifted from a bawdy old song that celebrates Bacchus, the ancient god of wine and ecstatic dancing. I love it when things are repurposed as dramatically as that. Do you? The coming weeks will be prime time to repurpose stuff with creative abandon. Make the past useful for the future, Taurus. Turn good old ideas into fantastic new ones.

Don't just recycle; transform.

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GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): I'm guessing that in the coming weeks you will be receiving a multitude of inquiries, invitations and temptations—probably more than you feel capable of responding to and certainly more than you should respond to. A few of these opportunities might be appealing and lead to interesting adventures, but some will be useless, diversionary, or trivial. Will you be able to tell the difference? That's your big challenge. If you'd like help dodging unwanted solicitations, give out this phone number as your own: 212.479.7990. It's a free service provide by The Rejection Line at rejectionline.com. People calling that number will be politely told you aren't available.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): For millennia, the plant known as the yellow avalanche lily has thrived on mountain slopes and meadows throughout western North America. It blooms early in the spring, just in time for broad-tailed hummingbirds that migrate from Central America to sip the flower's nectar. But now there's a problem with that ancient arrangement. Due to global warming, CONTINUED ON PAGE 53 >>

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the lily now blossoms 17 days earlier than it used to. But the hummingbirds haven't made an adjustment in their schedule, so they're barely showing up in time to get their full allotment of nectar. I suspect this is a metaphor for a shift you may be facing in your own life rhythm. Fortunately, you've been forewarned and you can adjust better than the hummingbirds.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): In our calendar, there is no special holiday devoted to honouring the joy and power of rebellion. This oversight confounds me. All my experience tells me that the urge to revolt is a fundamental human need. Every one of us has a sacred duty to regularly rise up and overthrow a stale status quo that is oppressing us—whether that's an organized group effort we're part of or our own deadening routine. I'm telling you this, Leo, because it's an excellent time to celebrate your own Rebellion Jubilee. Your vitality will soar as you shed numbing habits and decaying traditions.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): Recently you've had resemblances to an eight-year-old kid wearing the pajamas you loved when you were five. Your bare arms are jutting out beyond where the sleeves end and there's a similar thing going on with your legs. The fabric is ripped here and there because it can't accommodate how much you've grown. You're feeling discomfort in places where the overly tight fit is squeezing your flesh. All of this is somewhat cute, but mostly alarming. I wish you would wean yourself of the past and update your approach.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): A lot of leopard frogs live on Staten Island, one of New York City's five boroughs. Most of them make a sound that resembles a long snore or a rapid chuckle. But over the years, biologists have also detected a third type of frogly expression: a clipped, repetitive croak. Just this year, they finally figured out that this belonged to an entirely distinct species of leopard frog that they had never before identified. It's still so new it doesn't have a name yet. I expect a metaphorically similar development in your life, Libra. You will become aware of a secret that has been hiding in plain sight. You will "find" something that actually revealed itself to you some time ago.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): Tom Tolbert is a sports talk show host on San Francisco radio station KNBR. I am amazingly neutral about him. Nothing he says fascinates me or mirrors my own thoughts. On the other hand, he never makes me mad and he's not boring. I neither like him nor dislike him. I simply see him for who he is, without any regard for what he can do for me.

He has become a symbol of the possibility that I'm able to look at a human being with complete impartiality, having no wish for him to be different

from what he is. In the coming week, I suggest you try to achieve this enlightened state of mind on a regular basis.

It's prime time, astrologically speaking, to ripen your mastery of the art of objectivity.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): If you say "rabbit rabbit rabbit" as soon as you wake up on the first day of the month, you will have good luck for the next 30 to 31 days. At least that's how reality works according to a British superstition. But judging from your astrological omens, I don't think you will have to resort to magic tricks like that to stimulate your good fortune. In the next four weeks, I suspect you will be the beneficiary of a flood of cosmic mojo, as well as a surge of divine woowoo, a shower of astral juju and an upwelling of universal googoo gaga. If it would give you even more confidence to invoke your favourite superstitions, though, go right ahead. Even scientists say that kind of thing works: tinyurl. com/SuperstitiousBoost.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): According to Greek myth, Perseus cut off the head of Medusa. She was the creature whose hair was composed of snakes and whose gaze could turn a person into stone. The immortal winged horse Pegasus was instantaneously born from Medusa's blood.

He ultimately became an ally to the nine Muses and Zeus relied on him to carry thunder and lightning. I predict that while you're sleeping, Capricorn, you will have a dream that contains elements of this myth. Here's a preliminary interpretation of that dream: you are undergoing a transition that could in a sense give you the power of flight and a more abundant access to a muse.

COMMENT >> SEX

Viagra for women

Nasal spray not best solution for lack of orgasms Another drug company has announced women who had had their ovaries reits entry into the race to find a Viagra for moved and were experiencing symptoms women. This time it's a Canadian company associated with menopause. That means and the trials will happen here. Trimel that Tefina, if it's successful, could be used Pharmaceutical announced this month by a completely different, and potentially that Health Canada has approved its applilarger, group of women. While that may cation to begin phase two clinical tribe great news for Trimel, it's a bit als on Tefina, a testosterone gel to of a worry that they are testtreat female orgasmic disorder. ing a drug to help women Although Trimel is getting a in their prime child-bearing m o eekly.c @vuew lot of press coverage with this years enjoy sex when this brenda Brendear type of hormone therapy is announcement, it seems like old Kerb news. Since the spectacular success of considered unsafe to use during Viagra and its brothers Cialis and Levitra, anpregnancy. nouncements of new drugs for female sexTefina is also a bit different in that it is ual dysfunctions have been pretty frequent. meant to treat female orgasmic disorder.

Not one of them, including a number of tesOther drugs have been trialed as overall tosterone formulations, has been approved libido enhancers. Trimel claims that Tefina in North America. Is there anything different actually helps women have orgasms. So about Tefina? should women who have trouble having In some ways, Tefina is different because orgasms be excited about it? I don't think so unlike the unsuccessful Instrinsa testerand there are three reasons why. one patch, this is a nasal spray. Yes, that's 1. It is unlikely to work given that no right, hormones you snort. The patch had other testosterone trial has. The Intrinsa to be worn for several weeks before any patch was not approved in the US beeffect could be expected. This new nasal cause the company failed to show sigspray is used as needed, instead of connificant beneficial effect given the safety tinuously, and is supposed to take effect concerns. Coincidentally, just last month within six hours. the patch, which was approved for use in the European Union, was withdrawn from Another new aspect is that this trial the market. is taking place among pre-menopausal 2. If it is considered effective and does get women. Trials for previous testosterone approved in Canada, Tefina won't make it drugs were conducted only amongst to market for another three to five years.

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3. All this drug does is increase blood flow to the genitals. If that's not the cause of your issues, it's unlikely to help.

After many years of talking to women about orgasms and the lack thereof, I've known only a few where this physical issue seemed to be the main reason. These are usually women who have been able to have orgasms in the past and don't any longer. If this drug does work it could be very helpful for those few women.

For most women, trouble having an orgasm isn't physical and there are usually a number of related causes, not just one. Often it's due to not having enough information about how sex and sexual response actually works, not feeling comfortable or giving oneself permission to enjoy sex, feeling self-conscious or illequipped to talk to partners about needs and desires, and sometimes it's just about not getting the right kind of stimulation or even knowing what that is for them.

Those are things that can't be fixed with a nasal spray. The good news is that they are things that can be worked through and you don't have to wait through five years of clinical trials to do it. V Brenda Kerber is a sexual health educator who has worked with local not-for-profits since 1995. She is the owner of the Edmonton-based, sex-positive adult toy boutique the Traveling Tickle Trunk.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): It's time for you to be leader of the pack, Aquarius; to take your gang to the next level; to make sure the group mind isn't suppressing innovation and enforcing peer pressure, but is rather inspiring every member of the tribe to be as creative as they dare to be. And if it's not realistic for you to wield that much power, then do whatever you can to synergize the alliances that hold your posse together. Build team morale. Gossip constructively. Conspire to animate an influx of fresh magic.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): If you're a food company that wants to sell chicken in the shape of a chicken wing, it must have actual chicken wing meat in it. Otherwise, the law says you've got to call your product "wyngz." I've always thought that there's a lot of information the media presents as "news" that is really as fake as wyngz. That's why I advocate calling the bogus stuff "newzak" (rhymes with "muzak"). Your assignment in the coming weeks, Pisces, is to make sure you're not putting out any wyngz- or newzak-like stuff in your own chosen field. The fates will help you rather dramatically if you put a high premium on authenticity.

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COMMENT >> SEX

Not interested in love? Not alone Doing life solo, recycling old sex toys and defining polyamory—again I'm a straight man at that age where the general public still considers me young. Although I've attended many weddings, I have no interest in marrying or even being in a relationship.

I never have.

I'm not asexual; I've had and enjoyed sex. I just don't feel the need to be with anyone. As long as I've got music and friends, I'm satisfied. Unfortunately, I seem to be the only one. My parents want grandkids. My friends want to set me up. My television set only ever shows people in or pursuing relationships. My government wants me to father and raise future dead soldiers. I try not to internalize these views, but sometimes I wonder what's going to happen if I change my mind somewhere down the road. What the hell's wrong with me? Or not wrong with me?

What do I tell people who insist that something's wrong or that I'll change my mind? And what should I do if I actually do change my mind?

I Don't Give A Fuck Honestly, IDGAF, yours is one of those letters that I have a hard time giving much of a fuck about. Don't get me wrong: you sound like a nice

guy—articulate and pithy—and I Eric Klinenberg, professor of socitypically like people who know what ology at New York University and they do and don't want. author of Going Solo: The ExtraorBut cowards annoy me. dinary Rise and Surprising Appeal Forgive me for working my own of Living Alone. "Today, an unprecsexuality into this, but I have to say: edented number of people are when I was at that age the general opting to live alone. One-person public unanimously considers households represent 28 percent young—still a teenager—I of all households in the US, E G A V walked into my mother's and in cities the numbers A S bedroom and informed are higher." .com her that I was a faggot.

Your coupled-up friends ly k e e ew ve@vu (Begging my parents for savagelo and grandchild-starved Dan tickets to the national parents might have an easier e g Sava tour of A Chorus Line for time accepting your lifestyle my 13th birthday somehow didn't choices if they knew just how comdo the job; five years later, I had to mon they are. come out to them all over again.) If "In recent decades," says KlinenI could work up the nerve to come berg, "young adults have been out to my very Catholic parents the fastest growing group of about putting dicks in my mouth— American singletons. They're at the beginning of the AIDS crisis, delaying marriage and spendat that—you can find the courage ing more years single. Moreover, to come out to your parents and they increasingly recognize the friends as not asexual, not unhappy, fact that over their long lives, and not planning to date, cohabit, they're likely to cycle in and out wed, or reproduce. of different situations: alone, toBut while I'm not sympathetic to gether; together, alone." your plight, IDGAF, I found someone And despite the negative stewho is. reotypes that slosh around about "Few young adults say they're single people—they're antisocial, not interested in sex or relationunhappy, isolated—Klinenberg's ships, but IDGAF's preference for research shows that those who live going solo is hardly unique," says alone do just fine in the friends and social-life departments.

"People who live alone tend to be more social than people who are married," says Klinenberg. "They're more likely to spend time with friends and neighbours; more likely to spend time and money in bars, cafés and restaurants; and even more likely to volunteer in civic organizations. So much for the myth of selfish singles!"

So what should you tell your nagging friends and family?

"How about letting them know

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that going solo is what works best for him right now," says Klinenberg, "but that he's hardly made a vow to stay single forever. Or, if he's feeling feisty, he can remind them that, no matter how they've arranged their lives at the moment, someday they might find themselves opting out of sex and relationships, too."

What should you do if you change your mind someday? You should date, IDGAF, you should marry.

Don't describe your current choices as superior—even if it does mean a better social life—and you won't have to eat crow if you change your mind.

"We've come a long way in our attitudes about sex and relationships," says Klinenberg. "Now that living alone is more common than living with a spouse and two children, isn't it time we learned to respect the choice to go solo, too?"

Indeed it is. And the sooner you demand a little respect from your parents and friends for your choices, IDGAF, the sooner you'll get it.

Single and partnered people alike should follow Eric Klinenberg on Twitter: @EricKlinenberg. To find out more about Klinenberg's books and his research, go to ericklinenberg.com.

What's the etiquette around (nonpenetrative) sex toys after a breakup? I bought restraints, a blindfold, etc for my ex, and she left them behind. It seems a waste to throw them away. Is it a bit squicky for a guy to bust out an arsenal of old toys when a new gal comes along?

Alone With Accessories She Had Jonathan Schroder, general manager of Mr S Leather in San Francisco (mr-sleather.com), suggests that you get rid

of your bondage gear. Schroder is in the business of selling sex toys—Mr S is famous for its high-quality bondage gear—but his advice isn't about his desire to move merchandise. It's about your desire for gals, AWASH. "Personally, I think some of the best gear you can get is hand-me-down gear," says Schroder. "And there's a great tradition in the gay leather community about passing gear from older folks to younger folks. But my gut tells me that a new girlfriend might wig out about used bondage gear. We have a lot of customers and couples that have a strong preference for cleanliness. But straight women in particular prefer that things be wiped down, well cleaned and shiny. So a woman who opens a dresser drawer and finds restraints with signs of wear and tear— and signs of someone else's sweat or fluids on them—is probably going to be turned off."

So get rid of your old gear, Schroder advises, but don't throw it away.

"Find someone who wants and can't afford bondage gear and give it to them," says Schroder. "Gear is expensive, and there are people out there who can't afford it. Help 'em out." @fakedansavage says polyamory a "choice," not an "identity." Where have we heard that argument before? Meet the new bigots, same as the old. @lilyldodge If all people are naturally nonmonogamous—a point I've made about 10 million times—then from my perspective, polyamory and monogamy are relationship models, not sexual orientations. (And if poly and monogamy are sexual orientations, Lily, wouldn't going solo have to be considered one, too?) That was my point. Poly can be central to someone's sexual self-conception, and it can be hugely important, but I don't think it's an orientation in the same way that gay, straight, or bisexual are orientations. People can and do, of course, identify as poly. But is poly something anyone can do or something some people are? I come down on the "do" side. Lily clearly disagrees.

But as @GetItBigGurl said on Twitter, where Lily and I engaged about my comments in last week's column, "Openly pondering difference between orientation vs. lifestyle isn't bigotry, legislating against polyamory is."

No one is legislating against polyamory here. Just thinkin' about things. V Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage. @fakedansavage on Twitter

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