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Muzzle no more After Sunday's New York Times editorial blasted Prime Minister Harper and the Conservative government for "muzzling scientists," Minister of Natural Resources Joe Oliver's response was to offer up flat-out denial.

Claiming, in a statement to Postmedia, that "Neither I nor any member of my political staff have ever directed scientists not communicate with each other or with the public, nor, to my knowledge, has any member of my ministry," Oliver criticized the article's misrepresentation of his government's work surrounding the field: “Americans are free to oppose resource projects in Canada as they are to development in their own country. However, it would be refreshing if they confined themselves to the facts and the science.”

The irony, of course, is present in the last sentence, as Oliver and company have spent plenty of energy confining our access to facts and science. His statement comes up against plentiful documented examples of Canadian scientists being prevented from speaking—or reprimanded for doing so—under the current conservative government. A February 2012 letter to Harper from the Canadian Science Writers' Association laid out specific instances of scientists being prevented from speaking to the media about findings they'd published, and how they require "consent" from the government's media-relations people to do any sort of interview.

Access has never been something this government is particularly fond of, despite its claims of transparency. It has restricted the media's ability to gather information on all sorts of fields, but it's limiting approach to science feels particularly dangerous— especially when its push to do so seems to be exclusively rooted in industry beneficial results.

In 2007, the conservative government put forward a science agenda. Titled "Mobilizing Science and Technology to Canada's Advantage," it stressed that "Accountability is important because it puts the responsibility on those who are supported by public funds to demonstrate to taxpayers that results are being achieved."

Even that definition seems skewed, leaning towards bottom-dollar results, rather than the actual discoveries. How can they demonstrate their results if they're unable to directly tell the public their findings?

Research leads to progress and benefits, but it also leads to warning bells: that's in the nature of testing hypotheses, of evaluating the feasibility of projects and studying their short- and long-term impacts on their environments. To limit honest access to those findings, and favouring only results that match the message the government wishes to put forward skews and corrupts the whole process.

Less than a week ago, before the Times editorial came out, hundreds of scientists took to Parliament Hill to protest the government's efforts to cut funding and keep them silent. The scientific community is rallying to keep its industry—and our access to its findings—honest, accountable and relevant, rather than to simply be a mouthpiece for a government agenda that doesn't actually take its findings to heart. The fact they feel the need to protest stands to invalidate Oliver's statements of denial. V

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NEWS // TAKE BACK THE NIGHT

They walk alone

Take Back the Night asks male allies to support without marching port through other means, such as providing childcare while women march.

"We need to have a really good understanding of sexual violence against men as being a really important issue," she says. "But not everything has to be inclusive and humanistic.

For example, we have marches to protest and call attention to the problem of missing and murdered aboriginal women. But we're not saying, 'Some of the women who are missing and murdered are actually white women.

Why aren't we focusing on white women's experiences?'

"I think there has to be a way of recognizing specific problems. And if you look at the problem of sexual violence, it is a gendered problem."

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or several years, Parker Leflar has wanted to join Take Back the Night, an international rally and march that protests sexual violence against women. He was invited to lead part of the September 27 Edmonton event, an offer he turned down due to a scheduling conflict. But even if he were to attend, Leflar would be barred from marching alongside hundreds of women.

That's because select cities that host Take Back the Night only allow self-identified women to join the march. Edmonton is one of them. Critics argue that the separation implies men are predisposed to sexual aggression and that it ignores the plight of male survivors of sexual violence.

But Leflar doesn't see it that way. In fact, women need space to support one another in solidarity given their constant fear of sexual violence and street harassment, he argues.

Fifty-eight percent of women, for instance, feel unsafe waiting for public transpiration versus 28 percent of men, according to Statistics Canada's most recent numbers.

"I don't think having segregated spaces is saying that men don't experience sexual violence, but just that their experience of that in a cultural sense is very different than that of a woman. It's really important to centre women's voices," Leflar says.

The murder of a 37-year-old woman in March 1975 spurred the event. Susan Speeth was walking home late one night when a stranger brutally stabbed her a block away from home.

One year later, Belgium played host to the first Take Back the Night. It was conceived as

a space for women to reclaim their authority, but over the years, the rules have been relaxed for men to join. Edmonton, however, maintains a steadfast policy of barring men during the march. Toronto's march only allowed men to join for the first time this year.

Organizers re-examine male involvement every year, says Nikki Bernier, director of public education at the Sexual Assault Centre of Edmonton.

"It's such a contentious issue," she says. "It's not that we aren't inviting men to participate.

We're just asking men to participate in a way that's supportive of women in their community. Traditionally, it is about self-identified women being able to reclaim space without feeling the need to have male chaperones in their community accompany them. We're just trying to honour the historical and symbolic nature of the event and allow women the time and space to exist on the streets in a really empowering way."

The Edmonton event, however, will include a rally that welcomes all genders. And at last year's gathering, the Men's Circle led a discussion for men during the march. Bernier says she understands men may feel uncomfortable attending, but stresses there will be a space for them to take part. "We strongly believe that this isn't just a women's issue and men absolutely have a place in confronting and dealing with gender-based violence."

But people also need to be flexible with politics, says Lise Gotell, chair of women's and gender studies at the University of Alberta. Male allies are crucial to the feminist movement, she says, but can show their sup-

At the same time, society hasn't properly acknowledged men's experiences with sexual violence, Gotell says. Leflar, for instance, admits he's been discriminated over perceptions of his gender and sexual orientation.

That concept is key, he says, because when people do experience harassment, it's often tied to a failure of traditional masculinity.

"In some ways, it's closely tied to the type of sexism that women experience. It's powerdriven and it's usually from other men trying to gain a sense of power over that person. Usually what their focus is on gender deviance."

It's the reason why Leflar is overseeing a one-year initiative called the Accountability Action Project. Led by the Gender-Based Violence Prevention Project at the University of Alberta, it aims to engage men at the U of A campus about issues of sexual violence.

Lefar is targeting fraternities for facilitated discussion groups on issues such as gender roles, sexism and homophobia.

"I think what this project does is it gives them a chance to talk about their own experiences in a way that's very personal to them," he says. "It will give them a better sense of how to actually prevent gender violence in a broader way.

A lot of these issues come from very violent masculinity norms, so being able to break those down and see how men have been impacted by those themselves will help them to understand how they can change it."

So even though Leflar won't be joining the hundreds of marching women Friday as the sun sets, he says he hopes to show his support through other means.

"This project will be a success if we see a number of individual men on campus coming together in community and actually having these conversations and opening up that dialogue."

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Fair is fair

Fair-trade organizations make sustainability more than a fringe cause

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hen Michael Kalmanovitch opened Earth's General Store in 1991, fair trade was already a priority. But he was in the minority—while he offered fair-trade products and partnered with social-justice organizations and local businesses to promote the concept, Fairtrade Canada, the country's certifying body for fair-trade products, wasn't established for another six years. At the time, Kalmanovitch says, discussions about fair trade largely belonged in the realm of counter culture.

"Fair trade is near and dear to my heart," Kalmanovitch says. "It doesn't make any sense not to do it. We're talking about respect. You like to be paid and respected for your work. You don't like people taking advantage of you, and you work so hard only to find out that you're making less money than it costs to live.

"That's what is happening with the global commodity market, and that's not very respectful."

More than 20 years later, multinational corporations like Starbucks now promote their own fair-trade options. Among other sustainability initiatives, the concept of fair trade has become mainstream. And as consumers demand transparent, ethical business practices, companies are marketing not just their products, but their adherence to good environmental and labour standards.

Edmonton is now also embracing the concept of fair trade as a city, after passing Fairtrade Canada's certification process to be named a Fair Trade Town. It's the third major city in the country to receive the title, after Toronto and Vancouver, and the nation's 17th Fair Trade Town overall, with smaller communities holding most of the titles. While businesses such as Earth's General Store had been selling Fairtrade-certified products for years, earning the official title from Fairtrade Canada was a long and involved process of its own.

Volunteers built the campaign from the ground up, beginning by raising awareness through presentations to local schools, churches and community groups. Soon they were sending information and petitions to City Council members demonstrating local support for the initiative. And on July 3 City Council endorsed Edmonton's bid to become a Fair Trade Town, cementing Fairtrade Canada's final piece of criteria—which also includes confirming at least two Fairtrade-certified products are available in more than 40 restaurants and 80 stores and providing proof of community sup-

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port and public awareness.

Fairtrade-certified products, identifiable by a blue and green logo, offer a guarantee that the entire production process meets a minimum standard in labour and sustainability practices. Both producers and companies purchasing products are also subject to audits checking that these standards are being maintained.

Valantina Amalraj, a volunteer from the advocacy organization Make Poverty History, helped mobilize support for Edmonton's Fair Trade Town certification. As the initiative gained momentum, local chapters of Engineers Without Borders and World University Service of Canada also got involved to help the cause.

"This is a way for consumers to let businesses and governments know that Canadians and consumers care about trade being fair, so governments will rethink how they engage with trade discussions," Amalraj says.

"The short-term goal is to raise awareness of the [Fairtrade] logo, but the ultimate goal is about challenging global trade."

countries that may not enforce adequate labour or wage standards.

"There's been a general race to the bottom with a lot of countries," Amalraj explains. "To attract foreign investment, countries have been forced to lower their standards."

Greg Anderson is an associate professor who studies international political economy in the department of Political Science at the University of Alberta. He says

Agricultural producers in devel-

also provides the tools to scrutinize corporations' actions. If they're caught profiting from shoddy labour standards or environmental degradation, the consequences can be dire.

"Globalization has been bad news, but it's been good, because if something happens, we know about it," Anderson says. "As consumers, we're outraged, and we'll think twice about buying things if they are not produced in an ethical or sustainable way.

Companies have gotten in big trouble for these sorts of things.

"Consumers will take their dollars elsewhere."

The push to make Edmonton a Fair Trade Town is focused on this sense of consumer awareness and watchfulness.

While it might be criticized as an empty title with little action to back it up, Amalraj says simply bringing knowledge of these issues to a wider audience can have a signifi-

// Mike Kendrick

oping nations are often particularly affected by the unbalanced world trade system. Because farmers in North America and Europe usually receive subsidies from the government to protect their income, they can sell their products at an artificially low rate, making it difficult for farmers in countries without subsidies to compete. Globalization also plays a role, as corporations outsource labour to other

agriculture's vital role in development makes its suppression especially concerning.

"Agriculture in North America was a major stepping stone to industrialization. And in a sense, agricultural subsidies here now are short-circuiting some developing countries' ability to get on that same path to a commercial sector."

But the interconnected nature of the current world-trade system

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cant impact.

"Fair trade is something that is very well researched, the system is well set up and it has achieved a lot of credibility," she says. "The only thing that's missing is reaching consumer awareness. That's the next step."

While Kalmanovitch is a firm supporter of fair trade, he also worries about whether certifying organizations like Fairtrade Canada are ef-

fective enough. Ultimately, he believes the organization's benefits outweigh any drawbacks. But as promoting sustainability becomes increasingly mainstream, fair trade and environmental certification and labelling systems have proliferated, and sometimes even compete with each other. Kalmanovitch says the Fairtrade logo is a good signal for consumers, but they should be doing their own research too.

"If [consumers] are reading the ingredients or researching the company, they might decide they don't like it. Because we have these labels, it kind of disempowers people to some degree."

Fairtrade certification has also drawn criticism for not being impactful enough, with not enough of consumers' money actually reaching producers. Anderson also notes the fair-trade system itself, while it addresses some of the problems in the current world commodity market, might have some economic drawbacks.

"If a multinational corporation is paying coffee growers in a developing country a higher wage to produce coffee there, what about other local producers?

"From an economist's point of view, they would look at that as a distortion of the labour market. Everyone wants to work for the multinational when it shows up because they tend to pay slightly higher wages. So does it drive the small, local craft out of business?"

Social sustainability isn't yet a priority for everyone, but it's no longer a fringe cause. The days of buying groceries, or even just a cup of coffee, without a single thought about their origins, are dwindling.

In Edmonton, there are still active efforts to raise more awareness— while the city's Fair Trade certification winds down, a similar initiative to establish the University of Alberta as a Fair Trade Campus is also underway. The sense of the importance of awareness only continues to grow.

Amalraj says this awareness is a catalyst for more effective conversations— not just in terms of how developed nations can come to the aid of developing countries, but how our everyday actions contribute to inequality.

"I like that it changes the conversation from charity to justice," she says. "Fair trade puts the responsibility back on the person to say, 'How am I responsible for the state of the world?' Even just stepping away from the bigger conversations of capitalism or colonialism, what am I doing today that propagates the status quo?"

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Syria's one-year timeline to remove chemical weapons means no bombing for now 3” wide version It was already looking likely that democratic Syria freed from the peace to the country, but it might President Bashar al-Assad's regime Baath Party's tyranny. seduce enough of the other rebels would survive—it has had the upMost of the less radical groups to shift the military balance sharply per hand militarily in the Syrian civil want an Islamic republic too, but in Assad's favour. war for at least six months now— they are repelled by the extremism but the events of the past two of the jihadists. They hoped that the Much cruel fighting would remain weeks have made it to defeat virtually certain. the jihadSyria has already Syria has a year to destroy them all, and until and ists, but complied with the least unless it fails to meet that deadline, bombing is at two initial demands the counout of the question. of the Russian-Amertry would ican deal concluded e m e r g e over Assad's head intact. Or last week. It has signed the Chemi- West would destroy Assad's forces the war may just go on and on, cal Weapons Convention, and it has and put them in power instead ending eventually in partition. But given a list of all Syria's poison-gas (while keeping the jihadists out), and at least we have been spared the facilities and storage depots to the they are now very angry at the Unit- spectacle of the United States and Organisation for the Prohibition ed States for letting them down. But its sidekicks attacking yet another of Chemical Weapons. That means they are also deeply disappointed, Muslim country, only to realize in that the United States cannot at- for the realists among them can see the end (as in the case of the imagitack it for at least a year. nary "weapons of mass destruction" no other way to win this fight.

President Barack Obama's abilMany of these fighters would in Iraq) that its excuse for doing so ity to order such an attack was now be open to a regime offer was false. already in doubt because of oppo- of a ceasefire, an amnesty and a The pretext this time was going to sition in Congress. Now he could gradual transition to a less cor- be Assad's use of poison gas against not bomb without endangering UN rupt and repressive political system his own people. But the timing was inspectors, who will be all over the and the Baathist regime is likely to weird. (UN inspectors had just arregime-controlled parts of Syria by make such an offer soon (whether rived in Damascus when nerve gas November to take control of the it means it or not). It would not was fired at the rebel-held eastern estimated 1000 tonnes of chemi- neutralize the jihadists and restore suburbs). The target was pointcal weapons. Syria has a year to destroy them all, and until and unless it fails to meet that deadline, bombing is out of the question.

Even if there are delays, the United States will be uniquely ill-placed to use them as the pretext for an attack, as it is far behind schedule itself. In 1997 the US agreed to destroy the 31 000 tonnes of sarin, VX, mustard gas and other lethal gases that it owned within 10 years.

That's 30 times as much as Syria has, but 10 years should have been enough.

It wasn't. In 2007 Washington asked for five more years to get rid of all its poison gas, the maximum extension allowed under the Chemical Weapons Convention. It didn't meet that deadline either, so last year it announced a new deadline: 2021. Given its own record, the US will find it hard to use Syrian delays as an excuse for resurrecting its bombing threats.

The civil war will probably continue during the coming year and possibly for a good deal longer. Assad's troops have been winning back territory in the centre of the country, but they have yet to make much progress in the north, the south or the east. They lack the numbers to finish the job now, but the tide is running in their direction.

Close to 1000 separate rebel units are now operating in Syria, but there is no unified rebel army.

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What consent really means It's not as simple as yes or no

Over the past few months, a local parties involved in the sexual acts. tions," "apologize," "admit what group has been postering neigh- Voluntary consent also requires your body did, admit what you said, bourhoods in our city, propagating continual affirmation, meaning admit what you did not say or ask," myths and misinformation about sexual partners should be check- "admit to yourself that your acsexual assault and rape. The group ing-in with each other throughout tions can affect others negatively" has also begun targeting individu- their encounter. While someone and "fight off feelings of defensiveals who have challenged their may initially consent to engage in ness." The zine also states "assaultsexual relations, SACE states "peo- ers are not villains, they/we are messages and tactics.

Given the harmful nature of the ple can change their minds. Once not doomed. We are humyn and group's messages and tactics, I have someone changes their mind and how we address these situations chosen not to name it or directly withdraws consent, that needs to (and ourselves) after being told it, discuss its beliefs. Instead, I'll focus be respected and the sexual act makes a hell of a difference."

To promote such accountabilon understanding sexual assault must stop." ity, and engage men in the camand voluntary consent, and acpaign against knowledging the gender-based constructive work violence and being done in our In order to create a society that respects and sexual ascommunities. practises voluntary consent, everyone—queer sault, the U of Let's start with and straight alike—needs to be actively engaged A's Accounta few definitions. ability Action According to the in challenging myths about sexual assault.

Project (AAP) criminal code, is "an opporsexual assault is tunity for men "any form of sexual contact without voluntary con- While these ideas may seem to engage in dialogue with one sent." The Sexual Assault Centre straightforward and obvious for another about the impact of genof Edmonton (SACE) elaborates some, sexual assault and consent der-based violence on their own that "[sexual assault] includes are not openly discussed in our lives and the lives of those they forced oral contact ('kissing'), fon- society, and, accordingly, volun- care about. Through participating dling, grabbing, groping, sexual tary consent remains misunder- in workshops, attending events rubbing, oral-genital contact ('oral stood, undervalued and ignored. and developing collaborative acsex'), vaginal penetration and anal In order to create a society that tion projects, men at the U of A penetration. Basically, any physi- respects and practises voluntary are working towards making our cal contact, that is sexual in any consent, everyone—queer and campus community safer for evway, done without a person's vol- straight alike—needs to be active- eryone." This project supports the ly engaged in challenging myths many men in our communities who untary consent is sexual assault."

What exactly is voluntary con- about sexual assault, and being have been, or wish to be, actively sent? We often hear the phrases conscious about how our words engaged promoting a culture of "yes means yes" and "no means no" and actions affect our current or voluntary consent.

The events over the past months but, as SACE explains, we cannot potential sexual partners.

The organization Philly's Pissed have only reaffirmed my belief depend on these phrases as definitive indications of voluntary produced a helpful zine called that our city's feminist, queer and consent because someone might "What to do when someone tells social justice communities and be coerced into saying yes, or you that you violated their bound- organizations are strong and comnot saying no. Instead, voluntary aries, made them feel uncomfort- mitted, and are actively working to consent is dependent on many able or committed assault." The stop sexual assault, delegitimize factors, most importantly non-co- zine offers suggestions such as sexual assault myths, and support ercive communication between all "take responsibility for your ac- survivors of sexual assault. V

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ure, it looks like a strip-mall wasteland, but once you take a closer look at the ostensibly generic parking-lot shopping oases situated along 127 Street north of the Yellowhead, there's plenty 14016 - 127 ST to intrigue the 780.934.3767 questing palate, from what might be Edmonton's northernmost sushi outpost (Hakone) and its near neighbours, an Asian fusion restaurant called— what else—Asian Fusion Restaurant and a Filipino-to-go operation (Manila Express), an extravagantly signed pho restaurant the name of which ironically eludes me, and a knot of Middle East-centric businesses that includes a place laying claim to both the biggest and best donairs in town (Adam's Donair).

Among it all you find the enigmatic Turquaz Kebab House (subtitled Turkish and Lebanese Grill). If you Google it, you'll turn up Turkuaz Donair at the same address—it's the same place, but there was no sign of the eponymous meat bulb on the premises and no donair on the menu.

And inside Turquaz, all the signage still reads Mashawee, the establishment's previous name (though it is still under the same ownership).

It's fair to say Turquaz hoes a similar row to the ever-growing La Shish Taouk empire that now dots the city in culinary style and price range. Turquaz's stock in trade is the platter, with your choice of protein-intensive (mostly meaty) Turkish or Lebanese (mostly Lebanese) delicacy, surrounded by things that taste good with it. The price point runs from around $12 (falafel) to $20 (an entire grilled fish) with stops at lamb, beef and chicken.

Turquaz is proudly and prominently halal, but certainly not just for followers of Islam. That said, the joint is also uncontaminated by alcohol so perhaps enjoy the boozeless sparkling malted beverage Barbican (I like the apple flavour) or see if you can enjoy ayran, the salty yogurt beverage that must certainly be an acquired taste.

I haven't mentioned yet that, despite its counter-service orientation and lack of ornament, Turquaz is warm, tidy and spacious inside, lined with handsome tile and paint in autumnal hues and equipped with deep booths. Remarkably, the charbroiler behind the counter was actually stoked with wood that was crackling and popping under an electric fan between orders.

The light waft of woodsmoke was in itself quite appetizing. Large flat screens advertised the available platters over glass cases of waiting kebabs, though two of the monitors had yet to be turned on—a

staff member told me they'd feature more items, once activated.

The choice was simple for me: a trio kebab platter ($16.95) to span as many flavours as possible. My co-diner was in a falafel mood.

It was just our luck to arrive just after a large group, so our food took a little while to come out, but when it arrived, any concerns about leaving hungry were immediately allayed. I faced three skewers' worth of juicy marinated meats— chicken, beef and kofta (spiced ground beef)—atop a large mound of subtly seasoned rice bounded by a salad of diced tomatoes, cucumbers and onions tossed with minced herbs on one side, a pile of fresh, hot fries on the other, and healthy dollops of hummus and toum, a potent condiment that's like a less mayonnaise-y, more garlicky aioli.

My co-diner's platter was similarly equipped, but featured four orbs of mashed, fried chickpeas drizzled with tahini sauce. And of course there were pickles, the sour green ones that don't resemble any vegetables I'm familiar with and the bright magenta ones made from turnip. A parcel of pita enabled us to assemble our own wraps as we saw fit. (Pro tip: put the fries right into the pita.)

There's no denying the food was as tasty as it was plentiful, with the charbroiling over wood contributing a distinctively authentic note. I found the kofta to be particularly toothsome and would be interested in trying the Turkish variant, adana kebab, that's also on the menu, just to taste the difference. My co-diner was quite pleased by her falafel and wanted me to emphasize to you that it started and remained perfectly crispy from when it arrived to when she finally admitted she couldn't eat another bite. She was a bit nonplussed by the absence of ketchup for her fries, but bravely made do with ketchup's angry Thai cousin, sriracha. When we went to pay, the friendly owner and staff practically clustered around us to see how we liked our experience.

For hours afterwards, my tongue basked in a residual garlic radiance.

Despite the ambivalence about its identity, Turquaz seems to have found a receptive audience among Edmontonians of Middle Eastern extraction, if the composition of the dining room on our visit is anything to go by. Even if your not, I'd encourage you to go see what the fuss is about, provided you don't mind spending a little more for quality and care. But then, why would you?

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about absinthe

Details, details Every now and then, absinthe will be referred to as a liqueur. However, traditional absinthe is not bottled with any additional sugar, which means it's actually a spirit.

Famous drinkers The spirit (commonly referred to as la fée verte, meaning "the green fairy") was consumed by all social classes, but became particularly popular in France amongst artists and writers during the late 19th and early 20th century.

However, it was opposed by social conservatives and prohibitionists due to its strong link to bohemian culture of the era. A few well-known figures were known to imbibe from time to time, including Vincent van Gogh, Oscar Wilde, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Ernest Hemingway and Charles Baudelaire It's a strong one It's a highly alcoholic spirit (45 to 74 percent ABV, or 90 to 148 proof) was traditionally redistilled from a white grape spirit (lesser versions were made from grain, beet or potato-based alcohol) which was combined with grande wormwood, green anise and florence fennel. Other herbs were often used as well, including petite wormwood, hyssop, melissa, star anise, angelica, peppermint, coriander and veronica.

Verte or blanche?

The eponymous green colour occurs naturally, but blanche versions exist as well. These clear varieties are bottled directly after distillation and reduction, which means the herbs are not added

Absinthe methodology Sure, you could just drink it, but there's a traditional way to serve absinthe. Special slotted spoons were designed (and often quite ornate) to hold a sugar cube over top of a glass with a measured amount of absinthe in it. Ice water was then poured or dripped over the sugar to dilute it, creating a cloudy appearance due to botanicals with poor water solubility emerging from the solution. This process brought out flavours and aromas that were muted when undiluted. When ordered at a bar, patrons were given the necessary tools, but it was up to them to mix the drink.

The Bohemian Method, which may be more familiar, involves dousing the sugar cube in alcohol—which was usually absinthe— set on fire and then dropped into a shot of absinthe.

A shot of water is used to douse the flaming absinthe and this method often produces a stronger drink than the traditional one.

Recovered reputation Absinthe was often associated with miscreant behaviour, including violent crimes, and was banned by numerous countries in the early 1900s. It has been demonstrated it is no more dangerous than any other alcoholic spirt and it experienced a revival in the 1990s, when British importer BBH Spirits realized the UK had never actually banned absinthe. After being banned in France in 1914, absinthe was distilled and bottled for the first time in 2000 and the first genuine absinthe to receive a Certificate of Label Approval to be imported into the United States was the French brand Lucid— the first to do so since 1912. The French Absinthe Ban was officially repealed in 2011. V

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Get in the loop. Call us at (780) 442-0450 for a free sample of our paper products or visit www.greys.ca

24 BEST OF EDMONTON

VUEWEEKLY SEP 26 – OCT 2, 2013

fringetheatre.ca

nextfest.ca

edmontonstreetfest.com

BEST POP UP EVENT

WHAT THE TRUCK?!

Whatthetruck.ca

1ST RUNNER UP

2ND RUNNER UP

Fruit Loop

Kaleido Festival

2ND RUNNER UP

kaleidofest.ca

BEST MUSIC FESTIVAL

EDMONTON FOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL edmontonfolkfest.org

1ST RUNNER UP

With no added virgin pulp in our unique manufacturing process, we mean it when we say "100% recycled."

BEST PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL

Interstellar Rodeo interstellarrodeo.com

2ND RUNNER UP

Blues Festival

bluesinternationalltd.com

Mercer Collective BEST FILM FESTIVAL

EDMONTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL edmontonfilmfest.com

1ST RUNNER UP

Blue Revue bluerevue.ca

2ND RUNNER UP

Dedfest dedfest.com

110 AVE

N

BEST OF 124!

109 AVE

1

7 BEST ART GALLERY,

1 BEST FETISHWARE

108 AVE

PRIVATE Scott Gallery

Nightshade Corsets

10832A 124 Street | 780-451-1129

2 2

BEST LOCAL PERFORMING ARTS FEST Next Fest

8

2 3

10403 124 Street | 780-482-1204

2ND RUNNER UP

BEST THEATRE CO. Theatre Network

9 BEST LAWYER

(WILLS / REAL ESTATE)

Jennifer Liddle

1ST RUNNER UP

BEST RECORD STORE Listen Records

200-10339 124 Street | 780-448-7401

10 BEST KITCHENWARE STORE

10443 124 Street | 780-732-1132

105 AVE STON Y PLA IN

4 3

RD

56

104 AVE

1ST RUNNER UP

BEST BIKE SHOP Western Cycle

Call The Kettle Black

12523 102 Avenue | 780-448-2861

10429 124 Street | 780-482-5636

4

BEST ART GALLERY,

Bearclaw

10708 124 Street | 780-453-2440

106 AVE

1ST RUNNER UP

PRIVATE

10708 124 Street | 780-453-2440

124 ST

107 AVE

10411-124 Street | 488-3619

1ST RUNNER UP

GIFT SHOP 11 BEST 5 BEST & RUNNER UP BABY/TODDLER BEST HOME STORE ACCESSORY /

7 8

DÉCOR SHOP Tin Box

Bosom Buddies

12413 Stony Plain Road| 780-448-1384

9 6

103 AVE

12433 102 Avenue| 780-454-4474

BEST

HAIR SALON Mud Studio

12 BEST TATTOO

12403 Stony Plain Rd | 780-482-2004

Atomic Zombie

10121 124 Street| 780-482-2662

102 AVE

10

11

12

BEST NEIGHBOURHOOD 1ST RUNNER UP

JASP

ER A VE

Oliver

www.124street.ca | 780.413.6503 VUEWEEKLY SEP 26 – OCT 2, 2013

@shop124street BEST OF EDMONTON 25

BEST OF EDMONTON 2013

MEDIA BEST RADIO STATION

SONIC 102.9

BEST RADIO HOSTS

CRASH AND MARS

GARNER ANDREWS

crashandmars.com

sonic1029.com

1ST RUNNER UP

1ST RUNNER UP

Garner Andrews

Crash and Mars

2ND RUNNER UP (TIE)

2ND RUNNER UP

Terry, Bill and Steve

Ryder

102.3 NOW

sonic1029.com

1ST RUNNER UP

Now Radio

1023nowradio.com

2ND RUNNER UP

CJSR

cjsr.com

BEST MORNING RADIO HOST

sonic1029.com

k97.com

SONIC 102.9

crashandmars.com

hot107.com

Ryder

hot107.ca

9923 - 82 Avenue

780-469-6669 travelingtickletrunk.com

Thank You, Edmonton!

SE X

SH OP

for making us the

Best Sex Toy Store in the City Edmonton's own sex-positive toy boutique

26 BEST OF EDMONTON

VUEWEEKLY SEP 26 – OCT 2, 2013

Photo: Eden Munro

AL)

CHOR (INDIVIDU

BEST TV NEWS AN

BEST AFTERNOON RADIO HOSTS

LANE MITCHELL

BEST TV NEWSCAST

BEST TV STATION

GLOBAL NEWS HOUR

GLOBAL TV

SONIC 102.9

globaltvedmonton.com

sonic1029.com

1ST RUNNER UP

1ST RUNNER UP

CTV Edmonton

1ST RUNNER UP

M A R I A N N E WATCHEL

Edmonton.ctvnews.ca

1023nowradio.com

2ND RUNNER UP

2ND RUNNER UP

City TV

Veils and Incidents November 2 - 23

2ND RUNNER UP

CBC

citytv.com/edmonton

Portia Clark

Selected Works 1961 - 2013 October 5 - 26

CTV News

Edmonton.ctvnews.ca

Rachel Day

D O U G L A S H AY N E S

globaltvedmonton.com

cbc.ca/edmonton

cbc.ca/radioactive

BEST LATE-NIGHT RADIO HOST

BEST TV MORNING SHOW

BEST TV NEWS ANCHOR (INDIVIDUAL)

BREAKFAST TV

FITZY

CITY TV

102.3 NOW

btedmonton.ca

1023nowradio.com

1ST RUNNER UP

globaltvedmonton.com

1ST RUNNER UP

Global TV

1ST RUNNER UP

GORD STEINKE

globaltvedmonton.com

Brandy Taylor

Shaye Ganam

10 4 11 - 1 2 4 S t r e e t | E d m o n t o n A B T 5 N 3 Z 5 | i n fo @ s c o tt g a l l e r y. c o m w w w. s c o t t g a l l e r y. c o m | 7 8 0 . 4 8 8 . 3 6 1 9

Thank you for voting us Best Private Art Gallery

sonic1029.com

2ND RUNNER UP

globaltvedmonton.com

2ND RUNNER UP

CTV Edmonton

2ND RUNNER UP

Edmonton.ctvnews.ca

Taylor Smith

scottgallery

GLOBAL TV

Daryl McIntyre

925freshfm.com

Edmonton.ctvnews.ca Pilates Matwork

THANK YOU

Pilates Equipment

for voting us Best Pilates Studio!

Gravity Straps & Kettlebars Vinyasa Flow Yoga

Drop-ins are welcome in any of our 90 weekly classes.

Find your core connection here.

Cardio & Core Bosu NEW! Dance Barre Personalized & Rehabilitative Training C O R E

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Schedules & Online Registration at integrationpilates.com •

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ph. 780-421-9853 integrationpilates.com

B A L A N C E

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BEST OF EDMONTON 27

28 BEST OF EDMONTON

VUEWEEKLY SEP 26 – OCT 2, 2013

BEST OF EDMONTON 2013 BEST TV NEWS ANCHOR (TEAM)

JENNIFER CROSBY & SHAYE GANAM GLOBAL TV

globaltvedmonton.com

1ST RUNNER UP

Carrie Doll & Daryl McIntyre Edmonton.ctvnews.ca

2ND RUNNER UP

Gord Steinke & Carole Anne Devaney globaltvedmonton.com

BEST TV SPORTSCASTER (TIE)

KEVIN KARIUS GLOBAL TV

globaltvedmonton.com

JOHN SEXSMITH GLOBAL TV

globaltvedmonton.com

1ST RUNNER UP

Adam Cook

Edmonton.ctvnews.ca

BEST TV WEATHERPERSON

JOSH CLASSEN CTV EDMONTON Edmonton.ctvnews.ca

1ST RUNNER UP

Mike Sobel

globaltvedmonton.com

2ND RUNNER UP

Nicola Crosbie

globaltvedmonton.com

BEST PODCAST

THE MOVIE JERKS themoviejerks.ca/podcast/

1ST RUNNER UP

What it is

whatitispodcast.com

2ND RUNNER UP

The Unknown Studio theunknownstudio.ca

BEST FOOD BLOG

ONLY HERE FOR THE FOOD onlyhereforthefood.ca

1ST RUNNER UP

Eating is the Hard part eatingisthehardpart.com

2ND RUNNER UP (TIE)

Liane Faulder

blogs.edmontonjournal.com

BEST TWITTERER

CREOLE ENVIE @creoleenvie

1ST RUNNER UP (TIE)

Kikki Planet @kikkiplanet

MasterMaq @mastermaq

Edible Woman edible.woman.com

BEST FASHION BLOG

DRESS ME DEARLY dressmedearly.com

1ST RUNNER UP

Yu Fashion

yufashion.blogspot.com

BEST AFFAIRS BLOG

MASTERMAQ

2ND RUNNER UP

Adventures in Fashion

adventures-in-fashion.blogspot.com

blog.mastermaq.ca

1ST RUNNER UP

Daniel Costa danielcosta.ca

2ND RUNNER UP

The Wanderer

thewandereronline.com

BEST MUSIC BLOG

NEW MUSIC MICHAEL newmusicmichael.com

1ST RUNNER UP

YEG Music Club BEST ARTS/FILM BLOG

yegmusicclub.com

2ND RUNNER UP

FISH GRIWKOWSKY Silent Shout blogs.edmontonjournal.com

Silentshout.ca

1ST RUNNER UP

Movie Jerks themoviejerks.ca

2ND RUNNER UP

Sound and Noise thesoundandnoise.com

Congratulations to our associate Jennifer C. Liddle on receiving Best Real Estate and Wills Lawyer 2013.

Kirwin LLP takes pride in the legal services we provide in the following areas: • Civil Litigation • Corporate/Commercial • Real Estate • Wills and Estates • Intellectual Property Law

Kirwin LLP Lawyers & Trade-Mark Agents 200, 10339- 124 Street Edmonton, AB T5N 3W1 VUEWEEKLY SEP 26 – OCT 2, 2013

T (780) 448-7401 F (780) 453-3281 www.kirwinllp.com BEST OF EDMONTON 29

BEST OF EDMONTON 2013

SHOPPING AND SERVICES BEST ART SUPPLY STORE

THE PAINT SPOT

AUDREY’S BOOKS

10032 81 Ave 780.432.0240 paintspot.ca

10702 Jasper Ave 780.423.3487 audreys.ca

1ST RUNNER UP

1ST RUNNER UP

Michael’s

Chapters

2ND RUNNER UP

2ND RUNNER UP

Colours

Wee Book Inn

michaels.com

artistsupplies.com BEST FETISHWEA

R STORE Photo: Eden Munro

30 BEST OF EDMONTON

VUEWEEKLY SEP 26 – OCT 2, 2013

BEST BOOKSTORE

chapters.indigo.ca

weebookinn.com

!

BEST AUTO DEALER (USED)

TEAM FORD 3304 - 91 Street 780.462.8300 goford.ca

1ST RUNNER UP (TIE)

Norden Volkswagen nordenvw.com

Southtown Kia southtownkia.ca

BEST AUTO-BODY REPAIR SHOP (TIE)

CARSTAR AUTO BODY

herbersautobody.com

1ST RUNNER UP

Doug’s Place dougsplace.com

G&E Pharmacy #1 pet store in Edmonton!

carstar.ca

HERBERS AUTO BODY

Thank you for voting

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Join us at our CUSTOMER APPRECIATION WEEK !

September 21 - 28, 2013

7326-82 Ave!!

Monday - Saturday: 9-6

Something for Everyone Culture connects us to our past and our diverse traditions, to our personal and collective imaginations, to one another, and to the place we all call home. Share the experience of Alberta Culture Days. Join the movement today by planning or volunteering for an event that showcases your community’s unique talents, pride and passions. Or, mark your calendar and be sure to get out to some of the hundreds of events taking place throughout the province Sept. 27 to 29.

From sidewalk chalk art and backstage tours to museum visits that bring our past to life, from Aboriginal song to culinary masterworks – there’s something for everyone during Alberta Culture Days!

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Culture

September 27-29, 2013 #ABCultureDays

VUEWEEKLY SEP 26 – OCT 2, 2013

BEST OF EDMONTON 31

congratulations

TO ALL WINNERS AND NOMINEES! BEST OF WINNERS Blackbyrd Myoozik The Briefing Room Empress Ale House Justik Medical Clinic Long & McQuade Laurel’s on Whyte Nightshade Corsets The Observatory Opticians Ocean Sports Old Strathcona Antique Mall The Paint Spot The Plaid Giraffe Plush Skateboards Rowena The Traveling Tickle Trunk The Yoga Loft

Best Record Store Best Men’s Clothing Best Place to Drink Alone Best Medical Clinic Best Instrument Store Best Florist Best Fetish Ware Best Eyewear Best Watersport Best Antique Store Best Art Supply Store Best Fashion Accessories Best Skateboard Shop Best Womens Clothing Best Sex – Toy Store Best Yoga Studio

Finding the perfect outfit at a chic boutique, sipping and socializing on a summer patio and enjoying world class festivals, entertainment and live music are just a few of the incredible experiences that you will have in Old Strathcona and on Whyte Avenue. Come for an hour or come for a day – with almost 650 businesses, Old Strathcona has everything you need with experiences for all five of your senses.

NOMINEES Acoustic Music Shop Avenue Clothing & C’est Sera The Bamboo Ballroom Derks Edmonton International Fringe Festival Next Act Pub The Paint Spot The Pawn Shop Plush Skateboards Princess Theatre Sanctuary Curio Shoppe Sundance Ski Shop The Tin Box United Cycle United Cycle Warp One Comics & Entertainment When Pigs Fly The Wunderbar The Wunderbar

1st Runner Up Best Instrument Store Tie 2nd Runner Up Best Women’s Wear 1st Runner Up Best Women’s Wear 2nd Runner Up Best Men’s Wear 1st Runner Up Best Community Fest 2nd Runner Up Best Place to Drink Alone 2nd Runner Up Best Public Art Gallery 2nd Runner Up Best Live Music Venue 1st Runner Up Best Snowboard Shop 1st Runner Up Best Movie Theatre Tie 1st Runner Up Best Fetish Ware 2nd Runner Up Best Ski Shop 1st Runner Up Best Home Accessory 2nd Runner Up Best Bike Shop Tie 1st Runner Up Best Ice Skate Shop 1st Runner Up Best Comic Book Store 2nd Runner Up Best Gift Shop 1st Runner Up Best Live Music Venue 2nd Runner Up Best Comedy Club

BEGIN YOUR EXPERIENCE AT THE NEW OLDSTRATHCONA.CA

32 BEST OF EDMONTON

VUEWEEKLY SEP 26 – OCT 2, 2013

BEST OF EDMONTON 2013 BEST AUTO SERVICE

KAL TIRE

BEST COMIC-BOOK STORE

BEST SEX-TOY STORE

HAPPY HARBOR COMICS

THE TRAVELING TICKLE TRUNK

10729 - 104 Ave 780.452.8211 happyharborcomics.com

9923 - 82 Ave 780.469.6669 travelingtickletrunk.com

Lendrumautoservice.com

1ST RUNNER UP

1ST RUNNER UP

2ND RUNNER UP

Warp One

Hush

2ND RUNNER UP

2ND RUNNER UP

Wizard’s Comics and Collectibles

Love Boutique

kaltire.ca

1ST RUNNER UP

Lendrum Auto Service

Mr Lube mrlube.com

BEST ANTIQUE STORE

OLD STRATHCONA ANTIQUE MALL 10323 - 78 Ave 780.433.0398 oldstrathconamall.com

1ST RUNNER UP

Junque Cellar 2ND RUNNER UP

Rocky Mountain Antique Store rockymountainantiquemall.ca

Warpcomics.com

hushlingerie.ca

theloveboutique.com

wizards-comics.com

BEST FETISHWEAR STORE

BEST MUSICAL INSTRUMENT STORE

NIGHTSHADE CORSETS LONG & MCQUADE 10832A -124 St 780.451.1129 8128 Gateway Blvd 780.437.1129 nightshadecorsets.com

1ST RUNNER UP (TIE)

Hush

hushlingerie.ca

Sanctuary Curio Shoppe sanctuarycurios.com

long-mcquade.com

1ST RUNNER UP

Acoustic Music Shop acousticmusicshop.com

2ND RUNNER UP

Axe Music axemusic.com

VUEWEEKLY SEP 26 – OCT 2, 2013

BEST OF EDMONTON 33

BEST OF EDMONTON 2013 BEST RECORD STORE

BLACKBYRD MYOOZIK 10442 - 82 Ave 780.439.1273 blackbyrd.ca

1ST RUNNER UP

Listen Records listenrecords.net

2ND RUNNER UP

Freecloud Records freecloud.ca

BEST SUSTAINABLE GOODS / GIFT STORE

EARTH’S GENERAL STORE 9605 - 82 Ave 780.439.8725 egs.ca

1ST RUNNER UP

Carbon Environmental Boutique carbonboutique.com

2ND RUNNER UP

Credo Coffee credocoffee.ca

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VUEWEEKLY SEP 26 – OCT 2, 2013

Thank You Edmonton

for voting Norden Volkswagen #1 in New Car Sales!

BEST TV WEA THERPERSON Photo: Eden Mu nro

BEST TATTOO STUDIO

ATOMIC ZOMBIE 10121 - 124 St 780.482.2662 atomiczombie.net

1ST RUNNER UP

BEST CLEANING SERVICE

GREEN CLEAN SQUAD greencleansquad.ca

1ST RUNNER UP

Eye of the Lotus

Cleaning Pros

2ND RUNNER UP

2ND RUNNER UP

eyeofthelotus.com

Showdown Tattoo & Skateboards

We’re constantly changing to serve you better

cleaningpros.ca

Molly Maid mollymaid.ca

WHY BUY at Norden Volkswagen?

showdowntattoo.com

BEST AUTO DEALER (NEW)

NORDEN VOLKSWAGEN

Our Salespeople are paid the same on every sale.

BEST COMPUTER STORE

Our goal isn’t to sell you the most expensive vehicle, it’s to sell you the right vehicle.

APPLE

Go Auto Finance

Easy credit solutions with in-house finance.

apple.com/ca/retail

Go Card Customer Rewards

14703 - 137 Ave 780.484.3000 nordenvw.ca

1ST RUNNER UP

Memory Express memoryexpress.com

Go Insurance

1ST RUNNER UP

Waterloo Ford

2ND RUNNER UP

Free Service Loaners

waterlooford.com

2ND RUNNER UP (TIE)

Save up to 15% when you use your Go Card.

Get an insurance quote without leaving the dealership.

Get the car care you need and the service you deserve.

Future Shop

24/7 Customer Service

futureshop.ca

Chat live on GoAuto.ca, send us an email, or call 780.777.7777.

Lexus South Pointe lexussouthpointe.com

Team Ford

$

PLUS NO ADMIN FEES! What you see is what you pay plus GST.

goford.ca

14703 – 137 Avenue, Edmonton • 1.855.285.5304 VISIT US ONLINE AT NordenVW.ca VUEWEEKLY SEP 26 – OCT 2, 2013

BEST OF EDMONTON 35

BEST OF EDMONTON 2013 BEST FLORIST

BEST FURNITURE STORE

LAUREL’S ON WHYTE

29 ARMSTRONG

300 East Lapotac Blvd, Enoch, AB 780.484.2121 rivercreeresort.com

101 Riel Drive, St Albert 780.419.6800 enjoycentre.ca

1ST RUNNER UP

1ST RUNNER UP

1ST RUNNER UP

theartworks.ca

thebrick.com

Argyll Casino

2ND RUNNER UP

2ND RUNNER UP

2ND RUNNER UP (TIE)

Greenland Garden Centre

The Brick

The Artworks theartworks.ca

2ND RUNNER UP (TIE)

Bunches

BEST GIFT SHOP

THE ENJOY CENTRE

1ST RUNNER UP

1ST RUNNER UP

BEST GARDENING STORE

RIVER CREE RESORT

105, 10180 - 101 St 780.758.4940 29armstrong.com

8210 - 104 Street 780.431.0738 laurelsonwhyte.ca

BEST GAMBLING HOUSE

Ikea

Century Casino

ikea.com

2ND RUNNER UP

Edmonton.cnty.com

bunchesflowers.com

Wellington Garden Centre

Palace Casino

Zocalo

greenlandgarden.com

palacecasino.com

wellingtongardencentre.com

zocalo.ca

THE TIN BOX thetinbox.ca

The Artworks

When Pigs Fly whenpigsfly.ca

BEST HOME ACESSORY / DÉCOR STORE

LYNDALE ACCENTS 9676 - 142 St 780.439.4302 lyndaleaccents.com

1ST RUNNER UP

The Tin Box thetinbox.ca

2ND RUNNER UP

Henry’s Purveyor of Fine Things henrysfinethings.ca

BEST INDEPENDENT MORTGAGE BROKER

COLLIN BRUCE #102, 10903 - 23 Ave 780.436.2511 collinbruce.ca

1ST RUNNER UP

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“Best Art Store” in Edmonton

36 BEST OF EDMONTON

mortgagesbycolin.ca

2ND RUNNER UP (TIE)

Val Labrecque mymortgage.ca

BEST KITCHENWARE STORE

CALL THE KETTLE BLACK 2523 -102 Ave 780.448.2861 444 Riverbend Square 780.434.1622 callthekettleblack.com

1ST RUNNER UP

10032 81 Avenue Edmonton AB Ph: (780) 432 0240 www.paintspot.ca

ART SUPPLIES

for naming your AGA Edmonton’s Best Public Art Gallery for 2013!

We appreciate your support and the support of all our members, sponsors, donors, funders and volunteers.

Colin Grandysh

WORKSHOPS

Williams Sonoma Williams-sonoma.ca

youraga.ca

GALLERY VUEWEEKLY SEP 26 – OCT 2, 2013

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BEST LAWYER (REAL ESTATE / WILLS)

JENNIFER LIDDLE #200, 10339 -124 St 780.448.7401 kirwinllp.com

WHYTE AVE GEM

1ST RUNNER UP

Jerry Kiriak kiriak.com

instrument sales fixing rentals instruction

2ND RUNNER UP

Prowse Crowne LLP prowsecrowne.com

BEST LAWYER (CRIMINAL)

SARAH TERRY #2, 9902 - 111 St 780.454.0055 sarahterrylaw.com

1ST RUNNER UP

Rod Gregory

thedefencelawyer.com

2ND RUNNER UP

Knisely Shipanff thedefenceteam.com

BEST MOTORCYCLE DEALER

TEL

780 433 3545 9934-82 Avenue acousticmusicshop.com

AFTER DARK MOTORCYCLES 12845 - 151 St 780.441.3666 afterdarkcycles.com

WHYTE AVE (82 AVE)

1ST RUNNER UP

Cycle Works cycleworks.com

2ND RUNNER UP

Heritage Harley Davidson

A new home for your old furniture.

heritageharley.com

We pick up. No charge.

BEST REAL ESTATE AGENT

sofas. chairs. tables. kitchen supplies. dressers. home electronics. books. gently-used household items.

STEVE SEDGWICK Royal LePage Noralta 780.431.5600

Find provides an opportunity to donate gently-used household furnishings that will help support fellow Edmontonians transitioning out of homelessness.

1ST RUNNER UP

Jerry Aulenbach zoomjer.com

5120 122 St edmonton, ab

2ND RUNNER UP

Doug Best

780.988.1717 @findYEG

dougbest.com

www.findedmonton.com VUEWEEKLY SEP 26 – OCT 2, 2013

BEST OF EDMONTON 37

BEST OF EDMONTON 2013

BEST BURLES

QUE SHOW Photo: Eden Mu nro

BEST SHOPPING MALL

KINGSWAY MALL 109 St and Kingsway Ave 780.477.5756 kingswaymall.com

1ST RUNNER UP

West Edmonton Mall wem.ca

2ND RUNNER UP

Southgate Centre southgatecentre.com

BEST EYEWEAR STORE

THE OBSERVATORY BRIDGET SMATLAN OPTICIANS 10608 - 82 Ave 780.438.3448 observatoryeyes.com

1ST RUNNER UP

Regent Optical regentoptical.ca

2ND RUNNER UP

Women With Vision BEST SHOE STORE

KUNITZ SHOES kunitzshoes.ca

1ST RUNNER UP

Gravity Pope gravitypope.com

2ND RUNNER UP

Lord Shoes lordsshoes.ca

womenwithvisionopticians.com

BEST HAIR SALON

MUD STUDIO 12403 Stony Plain Road 780.482.2004 mudstudio.com

1ST RUNNER UP

The Beauty Lounge Williamhalabi.com

2ND RUNNER UP

Mousy Browns mousybrowns.com

38 BEST OF EDMONTON

VUEWEEKLY SEP 26 – OCT 2, 2013

BEST DESIGNER

iamfridget.blogspot.com

1ST RUNNER UP

Malorie Urbanovitch malorie.ca

2ND RUNNER UP

Maggie Walt maggiewalt.com

BEST MEN’S CLOTHING STORE

THE BRIEFING ROOM 10151 - 82 Ave 587.521.0384 thebriefingroom.ca

1ST RUNNER UP

Simons simons.ca

2ND RUNNER UP

Derks derks.ca

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WIN!

THANKS FOR YOUR VOTES EDMONTON!

WIN 2 TICKETS

to Alberta Ballet’s performance

of “Madame Butterfly” on October 4th, and

“Sleeping Beauty”

on November 6th!

PLUS GIFT CERTIFICATES to Hotel Selkirk, Underground, Lions Breath, Cibo Bistro, Bistro Saisons, Oodle Noodle, Aleyard, Blue Plate Diner, O’Byrnes, Tres Carnales, and Sugarbowl

BEST LAWYER

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@rodgregory12 Rod J.A. Gregory Davidson Gregory Danyluik 10008-110 Street Edmonton, AB T5K 1J6 780-993-6999

www.thedefencelawyer.com BEST OF EDMONTON 39

THANK YOU EDMONTON! YOU VOTED US AS YOUR FAVOURITE MALL FOR 2013

YOUR GIFT. THEIR STYLE.

STYLE IS MORE THAN A PRETTY PICTURE

KINGSWAY MALL GIFT CARDS* ARE ACCEPTED AT OVER 2000 STORES, BOUTIQUES, FAIRMONT HOTELS, AND SERVICES ACROSS CANADA.

FALL 2013

For any occasion, your friends, family and clients will enjoy the flexibility of a Kingsway Mall Gift Card.

Available at Guest Services on the main level, near the west entrance.

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BEST OF EDMONTON 2013 ROWENA CLOTHING

BEST PLACE TO BUY COSMETICS

BEST SPA

MAC COSMETICS

EVELINE CHARLES

maccosmetics.com

evelinecharles.com

10762 - 82 Ave 780.439.5445 rowenaedmonton.tumblr.com

1ST RUNNER UP

1ST RUNNER UP (TIE)

Lux Beauty Boutique

NVE Spa

1ST RUNNER UP

luxbeauty.com

The Bamboo Ballroom

2ND RUNNER UP

Dandy Salon & Spa

bambooballroom.ca

2ND RUNNER UP (TIE)

Avenue Clothing avenueclothingco.com

C’est Sera cestsera.com

All Tucked In BEST VINTAGE/ THRIFT STORE

VALUE VILLAGE

Sephora Sephora.com

BEST FASHION ACCESSORY STORE

THE PLAID GIRAFFE

Ardene

2ND RUNNER UP

Sweet Jolie

BEST BABY / TODDLER STORE

BOSOM BABIES 12413 Stony Plain Road 780.488.1384 bosom-babies.com

1ST RUNNER UP

Babies R Us toysrus.ca

2ND RUNNER UP

West Coast Kids westcoastkids.ca

BEST BRIDAL STORE (TIE)

BRIDAL DEBUT 5916 - 104 St 780.431.0539 bridaldebut.com

TIFANY’S BRIDAL 1160, 9704 - 39 Ave 780.486.2577 tifanysbridal.com

1ST RUNNER UP

Novelle Bridal novellebridal.com

AGES 4 TO ADULT NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED!

thebay.com

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Young punks

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hen singer-songwriter Andy White was a 14-year-old punk rocker in the late '70s he would summon up whatever courage he had to climb the steps of Good Vibrations, the record store in Belfast city centre that was one of the few respites teenagers in that city had from the constant sectarian violence and general gloominess around them.

The courage was necessary, because not only did they have to worry about car bombs and other threats, they were also intimidated by Terri Hooley, the owner-operator of the shop.

Hooley was quite the character—an ex-trade-union poet with a glass eye he would often leave on the counter.

Hooley had been entranced by punk rock after finding his way to a local show, and immediately decided he wanted to be part of the scene by recording Belfast bands, most famously the Undertones.

The film Good Vibrations captures a great deal of the excitement, chaos

and general insanity that went on around Hooley and the shop, provoking young musicians like White to form bands and write songs. White was already a professional musician with several releases (most notably on Stiff) by the time Hooley and Good Vibrations released his single "Six String Street" and a follow-up EP in the late '80s, but he still holds the record store and its owner close to his heart.

"Be sure to catch the start of the film," he says from his home in Melbourne, Australia. "It's amazing to think we lived through all that old news footage and regarded it as normality. The release punk brought was the perfect soundtrack and antidote to those chaotic, violent times. The Clash may have looked cool and played hard, but even they knew that Belfast was a new universe of heaviness."

White was there with the rest of the players of the time, from initial

signing Rudi (who released the single plays Hooley. "(He) captures Terri's voice perfect"Big Time," still considered a Northern Irish classic) to lesser- known acts ly, and that's the key to the whole Protex and The Moondogs. For him, story. Absolutely perfectly. Also his Good Vibrations does an amazing job energy—and that's what drives it," he adds. "You can see Terri in the of capturing that time and place.

"The only liberty recording studio I noticed was that playing the accorthe store was on Sat, Sep 28 (9:30 pm) dion before the Undertones walk our equivalent of Good Vibrations in. An ex-editor Whyte Avenue," Directed by Lisa Barros D'Sa & says White, a Glenn Leyburn of the NME (New Express) is constant visitor Music Express on a slot machine to Edmonton. "A Part of the Edmonton Internain one of the bar big wide road. Ev- tional Film Festival scenes. At least erything else was edmontonfilmfest.com pretty much as it one of Rudi is was. Yes, the Unthere too. But it's dertones were like that, and yes, he the whole atmosphere in the club sold them for under £600. I don't when Terri has his epiphany, which know about in Canada, but in the UK really gets the feel of the time. That they had at least 10 Top 20 hits—a and the news footage at the start of whole lot of sales. Terri doesn't re- the movie."

Another excellent scene involves the gret that—he's an anarchist. Truly."

Most importantly he was impressed first time Hooley hears "Teenage Kicks," with actor Richard Dormer, who the song that assured the Undertones

a career. Hooley took it around to every major record label in London, where he was dismissed and usually asked to leave. It was only when legendary DJ John Peel made the bold move of playing it twice in a row, an unheard of event, that the record finally got its due. It's a story oft-told in the annals of the Undertones, and the movie does it justice. "It's the best thing I've ever recorded," the engineer flatly states.

Hooley, wearing headphones to listen, stares at the band behind the glass window of the control booth, a smile slowly spreading on his face as Undertones singer Feargal Sharkey says "Why are you staring at us, you mad bastard?"

The soundtrack is silent; Sharkey can't hear the song, and neither can we. Hooley, does, though, and he knows what he has.

"Make sure to listen to it at ear shredding volume before you go see the movie," White recommends.

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Pan's Labyrinth

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uillermo del Toro was born, raised, and film-schooled in Guadalajara. But the two Spanish-language films he made before staying in the Hollywood mainstream—where he's been

splashing around with big-budget money (or out the republicans still hiding in the hills. The thrashing around with failed or stalled projects) housekeeper (Maribel Verdú) and doctor (Álex ever since—looked back to Mexico's colonizer. Angulo), though, are clandestinely helping The second, Pan's Labythose guerrillas. Family rinth (2006), remains Fri, Sep 27 (11:15 pm); Sat, Oct 5 (2 pm) façades, fatherly love his most acclaimed and and blood-bonds seep Directed by Guillermo del Toro respected work, a kind out inkily from the Metro Cinema at the Garneau of Euro-art-film horror shadows. Ofelia's magOriginally released: 2006 fairy-tale. But it's not ical-world meetings or quite the grotesque, three tasks, from the macabre fantasy-masterpiece that some have forest goat-god in an underworld lair to her made it out to be. slaying of a huge toad within a dying fig tree The story's woven around the legend of a and escape from a palm-seeing ghoul at a bandead princess, Moanna, who seems to have quet table, still spook and enthrall. returned in 1944 (post-Civil War) Spain in the form of Ofelia (Ivana Baquero). She comes to But there's a drawn-out-ness to the plot (the a country estate with her recently widowed housekeeper and doctor's secret is over-elabmother (Ariadna Gil), now remarried to a Na- orated, for instance) that extends to the timetionalist captain (Sergi López) eager to root period being overdrawn. Captain Vidal's such

an overstated fatherland (he has daddy issues) fascist: the scowl or sneer, the leather gloves pulled off one finger at a time, the squeaking and polished boots, his brutal murder of two farmers (the violence here can be indulgently explicit), his ominous flicking-open of a straight razor. He seems more unreal, like the evil stepparent of a fairy-tale, than the fairies and fauns around Ofelia. The political history he anchors becomes morbid melodrama; Franco's Spain is too like a fable, a distant, far-off, not-quite-real place. And so the power of the fantasy-plot as an echo of a horrible, all-too-true reality is diminished. In Pan's Labyrinth, unlike in the best grim (and Grimm) fantasies, only the dreamland chills and thrills; the nightmare-truths of our world remain safely distant.

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Festival is a place of discovery; a Long notes there were just over 100 chance to step away from the main- films submitted by Alberta auteurs, stream barrage of Hollywood to un- and as a result, there will be a full cover cinematic gems from around day (the opening Sunday) dedicated the world, not to mention the steadi- to homegrown talent.

“We often hear ly growing pool of about ‘woe is us talent right here Thu Sep 26 – Fri, Oct 5 City Centre 9 Cinemas here in Alberta, in Alberta. we don’t have a There are a few edmontonfilmfest.com tax credit,’ but titles that may somehow filmmakalready be familers are still making their movies and iar to audiences, such as Blue is the telling their stories, so that’s pretty Warmest Colour, the controversial inspiring,” she says. film that nabbed the illustrious Palme d’Or award at this year’s Among the local lineup are 20 films Cannes Film Festival, but EIFF producer Kerrie Long also encourages submitted by high-school students visitors to take a chance on the unfrom Grade 9 to Grade 12. Long hopes engaging youth in the arts familiar.

“If you’re looking at the program early on and showing them the types guide going, ‘Should I see the one of opportunities available will be an that’s probably going to come out a encouraging push to pursue a career month from now, or should I take a within the industry.

“There are a number of schools chance on a little indie film I know that offer filmmaking programs for nothing about that has the filmmaker high-school students, and if they can here?’ I always say go for the indie because you can see the other one get their first kick in a major festival at some point later and this might be that might be just what they needed to get their career going at some your only time ever to see these quipoint,” Long says, noting the idea eter films,” she says.

Approximately 945 films were subwas inspired two years ago when mitted for this year’s festival, with 60 the organizers received an impressive submission from then 16-yearfeature-lengths and 110 shorts mak-

old Akash Sherman, who has since gone on to pursue numerous successful film endeavours, including a place in the top three at the CineCoup Face Off at the Banff Media Festival earlier this year.

Also new this year is the Snow, Man category in which filmmakers were encouraged to submit films of all lengths reflecting their take on winter—an ode to our province and the yearly battle we have with the chilly season. Two films make up this category, including Antarctica: A Year on Ice by Anthony Powell, who shot the film over the span of 15 years, telling the story of the station workers who brave the coldest and most isolated place on the planet. The second is Whitewash by Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais, a film which Long describes as a winterized version of Castaway, where the main character trades in PICTUREHOUSE PRESENTS A BLACKENEDisland PRODUCTIONfor “METALLICA THROUGH THE NEVER” DANE DeHAAN JAMES HETFIELD LARS ULRICH KIRK HAMMETT ROBERT TRUJILLO MUSICBY METALLICA EDITEDBY JOE HUTS being alone on a tropical PRODUCTION LIGHTING DIRECTOR OF EXECUTIVE the ordeal ofJARVIS getting trapped DESIGNER HELEN PADOS,inHSC CONCERTaPRODUCERSHOW DAN BRAUN CONCERTDESIGNERSHOW MARK FISHER CONCERTDESIGNER JOHN BRODERICK PRODUCEDMUSICBY GREG FIDELMAN PRODUCERS DOUG MERRIFIELD CLIFF BURNSTEIN PETER MEN PHOTOGRAPHY GYULA DIRECTED EXECUTIVE COPRODUCED SCREENPLAY snowplow all winter.

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FILM REVUE // COMEDY

Don Jon

Like father like son

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shameless vanity project and an act of celebrity self-effacement, a half-disaster of an actor-turnedwriter/director’s debut and a character study peppered with stray moments of resonant, if not exactly mind-blowing, truth, Joseph GordonLevitt’s Don Jon looks like a romantic comedy but is really a coming-of-age story about a guy forced to confront an addiction—to porn.

Jon Martello (Gordon-Levitt) really does have a joyless, discovery-free, automaton-like sex life. He has sex to

prove he can. Women never satisfy him and he doesn’t much enjoy satisfying them—he can’t see the point in cunnilingus aside from its usefulness as a bargaining tool for reciprocal pleasure. He takes far more pleasure in the rituals preceding sexual conquest, which involve he and his asinine buddies going to clubs and rating women as though at a cattle auction. Even more than this grotesque male bonding, Jon savours the ritual that follows his every act of intercourse, one that allows Gordon-Levitt to bathe his bulg-

ing pectorals in laptop screen light and provide pornhub.com with loads of free advertising. To be explicit: the only sex Jon actually enjoys is the kind that requires nothing more than a wireless signal and his right hand.

Deeply narcissistic, incapable of empathy and anal-retentive-to-the-max, Jon is an ostentatiously ethnic, under-educated American Psycho. He attends church every Sunday, itemizes his sexploits in confession, cheerfully accepts his HailMarys, then visits his folks’ for bottles of Bud and Sunday supper, a ritual rou-

tinely derailed by his dad’s fixation on three mother figures in Don Jon, the televised football—an addiction to rival other two being Jon’s actual mother Jon’s. In Don Jon’s obnoxious opening (a wonderful Glenne Headly) and voice-over, Jon lists “the few things that Esther (Julianne Moore, also excelmatter” to him: “my body, my pad, my lent), the older woman Jon meets in ride, my family, my church, my boys, my his night class who is at once a wildly girls, my porn.” That’s rather more than eccentric, emotionally devastated “a few,” but, to be fair, Jon’s stupidity is mess and pretty much the only maan intermittently sucture adult in the cessful running joke. Opens Friday movie.

Esther, unlike Barbara, There are laughs to Directed by Joseph Gordonisn’t irreparably be had, for example, Levitt in the bit where  scandalized by Barbara (Scarlett JoJon’s porn-love. hansson) uncovers The real probevidence of Jon’s porn habit by simply lem isn’t that Jon looks at porn, but scrolling through his browser’s histo- rather that it’s only through porn ry—a feature Jon somehow didn’t real- that he can lose himself. The counize existed. ter-intuitiveness is almost Zizekian: Jon looks to machines for intimacy Who’s Barbara? She’s the dime that and to human contact for mechanimakes Jon wait, for once. Rather than cal release. The film’s aim is to conletting him into her bed, she makes vincingly reverse this—it’s maybe Jon cream his jeans in the hall while half-successful. The supporting chartalking in wanton tones about his at- acters are all underwritten, yet the tending night school and introducing supporting actors are exceptionally her to his family. She is, we’ll swiftly good. The protagonist is hard to care discern, a mercilessly controlling about and Gordon-Levitt’s perforsexist snob who won’t tolerate the mance is at best amusing, yet moidea of Jon cleaning his own apart- ments in Jon’s journey ring true. Don ment—another of his most beloved Jon is in so many senses a masturbapastimes. Jon Sr (Tony Danza) calls tory exercise. But it could have been Barbara “a woman who can make a so much worse. boy into a man,” which is another way JOSEF BRAUN of saying a mother. Barbara is one of JOSEF@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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FILM REVUE // DRAMA

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Prisoners

Drug War deal; mute brothers who work in the methamphetamine lab and communicate with sign language.

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uebec director Denis Villeneuve ter. As the film begins, the Dovers is slowly building a reputation share a peaceful Thanksgiving dinner for delivering high-stakes, jarring, often with the neighbours (Terrence Howbrutal human drama filtered through a ard and Viola Davis) and their two delicate, almost serene cinematic sen- daughters, and we get a glimpse into sibility. Having already spent an admi- their blissful middle-class existence.

When the young rable career at the Now playing daughters of each forefront of Canafamily suddenly dian independent Directed by Denis Villeneuve go missing, it's up cinema—with films  like Maelström, to an inscrutable Polytechnique and the Oscar-nominat- police detective (Jake Gyllenhaal) to ed Incendies—Villeneuve has now, like try to find them, and piece together so many Canadian filmmakers before the increasingly dense mystery. him, stepped into the world of big-budget, star-studded Hollywood drama. In Any film that deals with the subject the hands of someone like Villeneuve, of child abduction is already opening though, this big-budget, star-studded up the imagination to any number of Hollywood drama doesn't feel like such horrible possibilities, and the genius a departure from the string of indie hits of this film, as the cliché goes, is what it doesn't show—in fact, some of the he's been crafting all along.

With Prisoners, Villeneuve draws worst examples of human behaviour us into a deep, dark maze of a movie, depicted onscreen are the actions of full of mistrust, suspicion and moral the distraught father as he delves conundrums. Keller Dover (Hugh Jack- deeper into the rabbit hole of desman) is a carpenter in a sleepy little peration and revenge. This is a very logging town with his wife (Maria confrontational, uncomfortable film, Bello), teenage son and young daugh- and in that sense, not a very fun time DRILLING LTD. E-T ENERGY LTD. atDAVIDSON the movies.

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areer-wise, Johnnie To's not a di- ting over plastic bedpans as the cops rector who takes his time—with wait to confiscate the pods of drugs 50 films since 1987, he's averaging they swallowed hours before. There's nearly two a year—but one of his lat- the arrested boss, Timmy Choi (Eric est, Drug War, is so effective because Khoo), who agrees to a complex sting he helms with a operation quickly set up by Captain steady hand and Fri, Sep 27 – Wed, Oct 2 Zhang (Honglei gazes intensely at Directed by Johnnie To Sun) in order to drug-trafficking. Metro Cinema at the Garneau break the ring and There's a pair of  cops, tailing a nab the top guy, Bill Li. And there drug-running truck all day as it waits for delivery con- are the characters teetering on the firmation; relieved from duty, they edge of caricature but pulled back just scramble out of their car to finally in time: middle-man Haha (Hao Ping), piss at the side of the road. There who laughs as much to put himself at are the mules, arrested and squat- ease as to be jovial before a business

To's a Hong Kong director—perhaps best known over here for the very good Election—who shot in mainland China for the first time; Drug War is a gritty, near-cynical take on today's China, where both police violence and drug-related violence seem inevitable but pointless. The uncompromising, hard-eyed Zhang runs Choi relentlessly but suspects Choi's playing him. (Choi's nearly immediate decision to work for the cops, though, comes when Zhang tells him he'll get the death penalty—a convenient and implausible justification of state executions.)

There's a documentary-like look to many sequences, though the film's also fairly stylized (particularly the many blue-lit scenes). The raid on the brothers' warehouse is coolly, efficiently, wordlessly memorable for the pair's unrattled response. Still, the climactic street shootout is such a melee, it's as much tragic as comic; the last moments are as much pathetic as nihilistic. All the clever bluffing and imposture throughout can't mask the fact that Drug War is a nicely tangled, smartly paced and cold little thriller—nothing more, nothing less.

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The Deep

Not your ideal aquatic experience

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ar more quiet, far more modest, and leaves a more lasting impression for it. far more successful and distinctive Gulli (Ólafur Darri Ólafsson) and his than Captain Phillips—a big helping of fellow fishermen set out from their Hanks you will be assaulted by in about Westman Islands home in their rusty two weeks' time— is this haunted little trawler one March morning in 1984. A work of modern folklore from Iceland, routine day turns tragic when technical problems cause the which, like Gabriel García Márquez's Fri, Sep 27 – Thu, Oct 3 ship to capsize in Story of a Ship- Directed by Baltasar Kormákur the unfathomably wrecked Sailor, Metro Cinema at the Garneau cold waters of the chronicles the ex-  North Atlantic. Everyone quickly sucperience of an ordinary seaman who cumbs to the brutal somehow lived through a catastrophe elements, yet Gulli, despite—or who that brought a swift demise to every one knows, perhaps because of—the fact of his colleagues. The Deep, directed by that he was clearly the pudgiest, schlubBaltasar Kormákur and adapted by Jón biest of the bunch, manages to hang on.

Atli Jónasson from his own play, is one He stays afloat under the hard night, beof those eerie, strange and deeply em- holds the Northern Lights ribbon green pathetic stories that imposes little and across the sky, attempts conversation

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with a seagull, says his prayers, itemizes his regrets, slips into prolonged reveries, recalling an volcanic eruption and evacuation that marked his childhood.

Eventually he washes up on land. Doctors are baffled. His survival is regarded as a miracle. He's talked into participating in laboratory tests to try and find out what it was about his constitution that granted him reprieve from what should have been an inescapable watery grave. In the end, it's just one of those things.

Kormákur is very good with keeping Jónasson's telling spare and visual. We get a strong sense of the community from which Gulli hails, their ways of dealing with life in a frigid climate: heavy drinking and merriment, close family ties, big beards and learning to scrape just enough frost off the windshield to get where you're going. It isn't hard to relate to these characters or the simple working lives they lead. And it isn't hard to share in their grief and wonder at the events that shatter their calm and yet prompt them to keep moving forward into a life that every now and then eludes explanation.

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WE'RE THE MILLERS (14A crude coarse language, sexual content) Closed Captioned Fri 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 9:30; Sat 2:20, 4:50, 7:40, 9:30; Sun-Tue 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:15; Wed-Thu 2:10, 4:50, 10:15

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RIDDICK (18A gory violence) Closed Captioned

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PLANES (G) Closed Captioned Fri,Sun-Thu 12:30;

ENOUGH SAID (Pg Language May Offend) No Passes

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LEE DANIELS' THE BUTLER (14A) Digital FRI-SUN

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DESPICABLE ME 2 (G) Closed Captioned Fri 4:20; Sat-Sun 11:15, 1:45, 4:20

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LEE DANIELS' THE BUTLER (14A) FRI-SAT 6:50,

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RUSH (14A coarse language) DAILY 6:30, 9:05; SATSUN, THU 1:40

PRISONERS (14A brutal violence, not rec for young children) No passes DAILY 7:30; SAT-SUN, THU 1:30

THE FAMILY (14A brutal violence, coarse language) DAILY 6:45, 9:15; SAT-SUN, THU 1:50

INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 (14A frightening scenes, not rec for children) DAILY 7:10, 9:20; SAT 2:10; No 7:10 show on MON

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TURBO (G) Closed Captioned Fri-Sun, Tue 1:45, 4:05, 6:40, 8:55; Mon, Wed-Thu 4:05, 6:40, 8:55

GROWN UPS 2 (PG crude content, not rec for young children) Closed Captioned Fri-Sun, Tue 1:15, 3:50, 7:30, 10:00; Mon, Wed-Thu 3:50, 7:30, 10:00 THIS IS THE END (18A gory violence, crude coarse language, substance abuse) Closed Captioned Fri-Sun, Tue 1:40, 4:15, 7:10, 9:30; Mon, Wed-Thu 4:15, 7:10, 9:30

THE HEAT (14A crude coarse language) Closed Captioned Fri-Sun, Tue 1:25, 4:10, 7:20, 9:55; Mon, Wed-Thu 4:10, 7:20, 9:55

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LEE DANIELS' THE BUTLER (14A) Closed

DON JON (18A sexual content) No Passes Fri-Thu 1:15, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 THE ART OF THE STEAL (14A coarse language) Fri-Thu 6:40, 9:00

DEF LEPPARD VIVA HYSTERIA CONCERT (Classification not available) Wed-Thu 7:30

THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS (PG) Sat 11:00

ENOUGH SAID (PG Language May Offend) No Passes Fri-Tue, Thu 1:10, 3:30, 6:50, 9:10; Wed 3:30, 6:50, 9:10; Star & Strollers Screening: Wed 1:00

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PRISONERS (14A violence, not rec for young children) Closed Captioned Fri-Sat 12:00, 12:40, 3:20, 4:00, 6:40, 7:20, 10:00, 10:40; Sun 12:00, 12:30, 3:20, 3:50, 6:40, 7:10, 10:00, 10:30; Mon-Thu 1:10, 2:05, 4:35, 5:30, 8:00, 9:00

ELYSIUM (14A gory violence) Closed Captioned FriSun 9:40; Mon-Thu 9:30

DESPICABLE ME 2 (G) Closed Captioned Fri 2:00, 4:45, 7:15; Sat 11:25, 2:00, 4:45, 7:15; Sun 1:55, 4:20, 6:45; Mon-Thu 2:00, 4:30, 7:05

BATTLE OF THE YEAR 3D (PG coarse language) Closed Captioned Fri 2:10, 4:50, 7:25, 10:05; Sat 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:25, 10:05; Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 9:55; Mon-Thu 1:15, 4:00, 7:00, 9:40

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PRISONERS (14A violence, not rec for young children) Closed Captioned Fri-Thu 12:50, 3:40, 7:00, 9:50

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GRAVITY 3D (STC) Closed Captioned, No Passes Thu 10:00

PERCY JACKSON SEA OF MONSTERS (PG frightening scenes) Closed Captioned Fri-Thu 1:20; 3D : Closed Captioned Fri-Wed 3:55, 6:30, 9:20; Thu 3:55, 6:30

THE WOLVERINE (14A Violence) Closed Captioned Fri-Sat 10:15; Sun-Thu 9:30

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2

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RUSH (14A coarse language) Closed Captioned, No Passes Fri 4:05, 7:05, 10:05; Sat-Sun 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05; Mon 6:50, 9:45

WE'RE THE MILLERS (14A crude coarse language, sexual content) Closed Captioned Fri 4:40, 7:25, 10:10; Sat-Sun 1:55, 4:40, 7:25, 10:10; Mon 7:10, 9:50 INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 (14A frightening scenes,

LEE DANIELS' THE BUTLER (14A) Fri 3:30, 6:40,

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9:40; Sat 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:40; Sun 12:40, 3:35, 6:40, 9:35; Mon-Thu 6:30, 9:30

PLANES (G) Closed Captioned Sat-Sun 12:20, 2:45;

PLANES (G) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video Sat 1:00; Sun 1:10

THE FAMILY (14A brutal violence, coarse language) Closed Captioned Fri 4:00, 7:10, 10:00; Sat 1:10, 4:00, 7:10, 10:00; Sun 1:20, 3:55, 6:30, 9:15; Mon-Thu 6:30, 9:10 DON JON (18A sexual content) No Passes Fri 4:40, 7:30, 10:10; Sat 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:45, 10:10; Sun 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:25, 9:40; Mon-Thu 7:10, 9:25; VIP 18+: No Passes Fri 4:20, 7:40, 10:45; Sat 1:00, 4:20, 7:40, 10:45; Sun 2:00, 5:40, 9:00; Mon-Thu 6:30, 9:10

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PERCY JACKSON SEA OF MONSTERS (PG

THE FAMILY (14A brutal violence, coarse language)

GRAVITY 3D (STC) Closed Captioned, No Passes

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CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (G) Closed Captioned, No Passes Fri-Sat 12:00, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00; Sun 12:00, 2:15, 4:40, 7:00; Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:15, 6:50; Thu 4:15, 6:50; Star & Strollers Screening: Thu 1:00; 3D : Closed Captioned, No Passes: Fri-Sat 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:10; Sun 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10; Mon-Thu 2:30, 4:55, 7:25, 9:45

EKSTRA (PG) Fri-Sun, Tue 1:35, 5:00, 8:45; Mon

BESHARAM (STC) Hindi W/E.S.T. Wed-Thu 5:00, 8:45

Descriptive Video Fri-Sat 3:45, 6:45, 9:30; Sun 3:40, 6:30, 9:20; Mon-Wed 7:00, 9:45; Thu 7:00

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DAILY 12:45, 2:50, 4:55, 7:05, 9:20

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WE'RE THE MILLERS (14A crude coarse language, sexual content) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video Fri 4:10, 6:50, 9:50; Sat 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:50; Sun 12:35, 3:20, 7:10, 9:45; Mon-Thu 7:00, 9:35

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2

PRISONERS (14A violence, not rec for young

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fter Eugene O'Neill finished A Long Day's Journey Into Night, he sent a sealed copy to his publisher, Random House, with instructions: that it not be opened until 25 years after his death.

His wishes were ignored. Long Day's Journey was published just three years after his passing—Carlotta Monterey, O'Neill's third (and final) wife, had it printed through Yale University Press. It won O'Neill his fourth Pulitzer, posthumously, and its successes entrenched the script as a titan of dramatic theatre, a three-anda-half-hour epic focused on a single family rattled to the core by addiction and dysfunction, all coming to a head over the period of a single day. The family was a thinly veiled version of the author's own.

Though a classic, Long Day's Journey hasn't been seen on the Citadel stage since the '84-'85 season; its return continues a trend of a few seasons

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now in which big family dramas arrive on the Shoctor stage. The trend isn't just coincidence: over the phone, artistic director Bob Baker points to August: Osage County, of the company's 2011 season. That play's exploration of massive family dysfunction, mangled by divorce, incest and pedophilia—it's a comedy!—found him revelling in the richness of exploring family bonds on stage.

"I love the fact that there's a history to relationships that informs everything the actors do," Baker says. "I guess it's like Chekhov, it's the same way. But I loved doing August: Osage County, and I started looking for other great plays that would be excellent vehicles for great actors. I came upon Death of a Salesman two years ago, and that was pretty fulfilling in that it was hard, it was a challenge, and it was really exciting to execute.

And so, Long Day's Journey is in that realm. I think it's a harder play be-

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A damaged family dynamic // David Cooper Photography

went through this. So all the melocause it's less obvious."

Less obvious, perhaps, because a lot drama goes out of it, because everyof the reasoning and rationale behind thing becomes that much more real its characters' tattered relationships and true and serious. Because it could wasn't written down on the page. be a soap opera; everything goes Baker and the cast had to research wrong. I mean everything: she's using the O'Neill family history to dig morphine, and he's got consumption through all the script's layers. A 2002 and everyone's drinking. It could be, I guess, a melobiography—by dramatic fiction. the same people Until Sun, Oct 13 (7:30 pm) But knowing that who'd written the Long Day's Journey Into Night it isn't, and these definitive one 40 Directed by Bob Baker people are reyears earlier, upCitadel Theatre, $36.75 – $82.95 ally in pain, and dated with newly really love each released informaother, makes it tion—proved parreally rich. So I guess the biographies ticularly illuminating.

"When you do a play about real taught us how much dignity we have people, and I've done them occasion- to give these people." ally, there's a huge responsibility to respect that they actually existed, Sifting through the weight of that and to be truthful to their story," lent itself to an unusually focused, if Baker says. "And when you read the trying, rehearsal process.

"I think what was intense was combiographies, you kinda go, 'Wow ... ' more than anything, it just reinforces ing in day after day after day, and just [that] oh, this isn't a play; a family insisting on how much resentment

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there is between characters, and how much bitterness and how much love there is," Baker says. "When you watch it once, you get that in threeand-a-half hours. But when you do day after day after day ... it got a bit, I won't say depressing, but it got a bit intense. We had to drag each other down into these dark places.

"Having said all that," he adds. "Their lives are depressing, the play isn't. Having watched it through an audience's eyes last night [at an invited dress rehearsal], which a director gets to do only when some people show up—I'm going, is this story clear? What am I getting? Did they know that Jamie was this or that? Watching through an audience's eyes, I was going, 'This is fascinating.' What I thought was a depressing family situation—which is an objective viewpoint of it—isn't. It's so full of love, and so full of jagged, truthful, raw emotions that it's kind of invigorating."

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tudio Theatre's season opener is a deliciously dark offering written by the esteemed Mark Ravenhill, who I'm betting knows a few things about professional jealousy: the UK playwright

izes on this by creating an evocative, stands out from the others as surpasscaptivating production: each of the ing in skill because they simply work five characters slip too well together seamlessly between Until Sat, Sep 28 (7:30 pm) as a singular enroles as they weave Directed by Nancy McAlear tity, with palpable scenes from past and Timms Centre for the Arts, magnetism and present. stage chemistry $11 – $22 The production shared by all. The gains a mesmerizing central incident polyphonic sound as lines are stated in of the show, a gruesome accident that unison, echoed and repeated, matched leaves the successful friend in a coma, by a haunting soundtrack of ambient is amplified through these movements, post-rock music infused with a thump- their bodies acting as a metaphoric miring electronic backbone. Matching the ror for her brokenness through their vartone of the show's sound is the sinuous ious acts of depravity and mania, writhmovements of the actors' bodies, which ing all around her as she lies serene and form important points and counter- unconscious for months. points to their words. The cast is peopled by a host of actors familiar with the There's a sort of terrible allure to the importance of bodily movement: none way they indulge their jealousy togeth-

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er; who hasn't, at least once, reveled in disparaging a colleague who received more recognition—a promotion, perhaps—than you? The proceedings have a confessional aura physically manifested through the clever employment of live projection: the characters speak into an iPad and their leering faces are magnified across the backdrop as they spout their darkest, slimiest feelings of contempt. This tension builds throughout the show until they are given the absolution they crave, which comes not from forgiveness but precisely the opposite: thus does Ravenhill offer an unapologetic declaration of human nature, and Studio Theatre makes an excellent start to its new season.

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ast year, nearly 14 000 people Anarchy (whom Foong notes they descended on the Edmonton finally managed to nail down afComic and Entertainment Expo to ter trying for several years), Chad show off their best costumes, in- Coleman of the Walking Dead, teract with fellow fans and meet Christopher Lloyd, horror legend the stars behind their favourite Robert Englund—who played Fredcharacters. dy Krueger—Jon Organizers ex- Sat, Sep 28 – Sun, Sep 29 Heder, aka Napopect an even Edmonton Expo Centre leon Dynamite, and Katharine Isalarger turnout edmontonexpo.com for year two unbelle of the cult der that title— hit Ginger Snaps. the event was rebranded from its original billing as the Edmonton Foong believes the success of any Collectible Toy and Comic Show expo hinges on its guest roster— when founder Shane Turgeon that's what people are there to joined forces with Kandrix Foong, see and that's what generates exfounder of the Calgary Comic and citement year after year. Watching Entertainment Expo. someone perform as a character "Doing the Edmonton show last on TV is one thing, but it's another year was almost like getting a experience entirely when fans can chance to hit the reset button. meet their idols face to face. Plus, Now that we've got more experi- as our society continues to prove ence, knowledge and know-how time and time again, the draw of of what it is we're doing, we ap- pop culture isn't dwindling. plied a lot of those techniques for "In good times and bad times I the Edmonton show, so I think we think entertainment is one of the avoided a lot of those initial grow- constant things we have ... I think ing pains we had in Calgary," Foong a lot of the reason for that is enexplains, listing off crowd manage- tertainment is a form of escapism," ment and overall organization of Foong says. "I think the reason why the event as two examples. Still, [the Expo] is so successful is we're he sees lots of room for further bringing that piece to you in pergrowth, and feedback. son; it's not just the TV, it's the 20 "I think a lot of people forget seconds that I got a chance to talk Edmonton is only going into year to Ron Perlman, for example. That's two," he says. "It's not going to be what a lot of people talk about; this giant, 60 000-person mecca. they talk about the experience.

It's going to take some time for us They don't talk about, 'Oh, man I to grow in that way and some fans had to wait an hour in line before just kind of forget that."

I could see him.' They talk about, That said, the goal is not to cre- 'Oh, man, Ron Perlman was cool ate a carbon-copy of Calgary's because he said this or he did that' Expo. The differences start with and thats just something you don't the guest list: among those at- get in everyday life." tending this year's Edmonton Expo MEAGHAN BAXTER will be Ron Perlman from Sons of MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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How a legend grows

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ho can resist, when telling a story, of throwing in just a few garnishes, embellishing an incident to better make your point—or even, occasionally, just plain lying?

Such is the case with the "legendary lost weekend" of the duo in Midsum-

First produced by Frantic Assembly, Lyric Hammersmith and Drum Theatre Plymouth at the Lyric Hammersmith, London on 31 October 2006.

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mer [a play with songs]: their stories have, by the characters' own admittance, grown and changed despite their best intentions of honesty.

Witnessing this evolution is the CONTINUED ON PAGE 61 >>

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t seems like a crazy prospect for those of us who aren't musically inclined: a live, improvised, unrehearsed musical. But lucky for Edmonton audiences, there are

others who find it a perfectly reasonable endeavour.

"Funnily enough, I think that we're probably more comfortable improvising songs than scenes," says Byron Martin,

Songs on the fly // Brianne Jang

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a very familiar love story set in middle-class Edinburgh: Helena and Bob crux of the show, which is Theatre are lonely and middle-aged, each Network's season opener as well going through a sort of existential as the inaugural mid-life crisis. Of play of new local Until Sun, Sep 29 (8 pm; Sun course, they meet theatre company, matinee at 2 pm) in the likeliest of Broken Toys. The Directed by Bradley Moss unlikely places for romance: a pub. script, penned Roxy Theatre, $16 – $26

by Scottish playThe pair jumps wright David in and out of each Greig with music by Gordon Mc- other's narratives, offering rueful Intyre of Scottish band Ballboy, tells commentary and reflective quips. << CONTINUED FROM PAGE 60

artistic director of the fledgling Grind- cals. Parody comes into it a little bit, stone Theatre company and founder but we're not asking the audience for of the 11 O'Clock Number, an impro- the name of a musical and then going vised musical set to open its second to redo Annie or something." season. Martin explains that the com"You can't just go for the cheap fort comes from laughs," he conhis rotating cast's Fridays at 11 pm, starting Sep 27 tinues, comparing years of experi- Varscona Theatre, $14 improvised musicals to regular ence with musical improv shows. theatre, as well as from spending a good deal of time "You really have to develop a story workshopping various song-building because you're stuck in that story for techniques. the whole 90 minutes."

"We'll look at different musicals and try to dissect the sort of songs that The 11 O'Clock Number kicked off in are, not necessary, but that you might January as a new bimonthly, late-night often find," Martin says. "We're not re- show at the Varscona (it plays at 11, ally trying to do parodies; it's really as you've probably already gleaned). trying to come up with original musi- Martin notes the response was posi-

The script takes its time building up to the events described in the play's synopsis: a wild weekend of unbridled expenditure, courtesy of conman Bob's ill-gotten cash. On the surface it sounds fun and frivolous, but because we've watched the trajectory that brought the pair to this point, there's a surprising amount of melancholic pathos pervading their actions.

The music is performed live on stage by the actors, adding a nice

mixture of immediacy and vitality to the proceedings: Clinton Carew mans the guitar while Elena Porter accompanies him on shaker, tambourine and glockenspiel; both lend their polished voices to song lyrics that are enjoyable for their simple honesty. Unfortunately the songs don't reach much further than that, used as punctuation marks to reinforce and reiterate what has already been established through dialogue and action, rather than

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tive enough that they extended the season and then did a run at the Edmonton Fringe Festival; their second season will now run every Friday night. Though the show will be gaining a major addition in the form of a huge light-up marquee sign, at present Martin is hesitant to proceed with any big changes to the show's format or basic concept.

"It's very easy to want to grow too fast," he notes. "We're approaching it in a long-term sense, just slowly building those audiences. I think we keep coming back to the 'if it's not broke don't fix it' sort of thing, and just want to see it through for a little while."

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standing on their own as elucidation and expansion of the characters' actions and thoughts.

Nonetheless this is an endearing story fleshed out by a pair of relatable characters. This production may lack some resonance and resilience, but there's still potential for it to become, just like the story of Helena and Bob, "bigger and better with each telling."

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DANCE ALBERTA BALLET–Madame Butterfly • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave • Oct 4-5, 7:30pm

ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert, 780.460.4310 • TALL TALES: Ceramics by Alysse Bowd, works on paper by Wanda Lock; until Sep 28 • ROOM: Amanda McCavour's installations of spaces she has lived in; Oct 3-Nov 2; opening: Oct 4, 7-9pm BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 12310 Jasper Ave, 780.482.2854 • Works by artist Ernestine Tahedl; until Oct 4 • MASCULINE INTUITION: Abstract art by sculptor, Morley Myers, and painter John King; until Oct 10; opening: Sep 26, 6-9pm; meet the artist: Sep 28, 1-5pm CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTAS (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave, 780.461.3427 • COLLECTION

D'INSTANTS: Works by Patricia Lortie-Sparks; until Oct 16 • Works by Danièle Petit, Suzanne Gauthier, Sylvie Pinard, Katherine Restoueix and Françoise Fiset; until Oct 1 • Art on the Block: Arts to try out: for adults: jewellery, marbling, quilling, cards, collective painting, sidewalk chalkpaint; child 5-11: Paint and crafts; Sep 28, 12-4pm •

DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY • 10332-124 St • 46th

ANNUAL FALL SHOW: Works by David Blackwood, Jack Bush, Keith Harder, Alex Janvier, Jessica Korderas, William Kurelek, Erik Olson, Otto Rogers, Carl Schaefer, Robert Sinclair, Vivian Thierfelder, Les Thomas, Andrew Valko and more • Sep 28-Oct 10 • Celebrate Culture Days/opening: Sep 28, 2-4pm

ENTERPRISE SQUARE GALLERIES • 10230 Jasper

Ave • Open: Tue-Fri 12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm • THE WORLD OF SPLASH INK: Painting and calligraphy by Professor FAN Zeng; Oct 1-26 • SANAUNGUABIK: Traditions and transformations in Inuit art, featuring prints, sculpture, textile, and video art; Oct 1-Dec 21

FAB GALLERY • 1-1 Fine Arts Bldg, 89 Ave, 112 St,

780.492.2081 • Brad Necyk's final visual presentation for Master of Fine Arts-Drawing and Intermedia • PRINT RESONANCE: Works by faculty and graduate students from Japan, U of A, Belgium, Thailand, and USA • Oct 1-26

DELILAH AND THE DOUCHETTES • Bunkers Sports Bar, 615 Hermitage Rd • A Birthday Boogie: Meet Edmon-

FILM ARTSSCENE GOES OUTSIDE • Churchill Sq • Free

CINEMA AT THE CENTRE • Library Theatre, Stanley

OPEN DIGITAL 2013: Presented by Visual Arts Alberta– CARFAC • Until Oct 11

KAASA GALLERY • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave; VAAA: Off-site location • OPEN PHOTO/OPEN DIGITAL 2013: Work by Alberta’s photographers • Until Oct 12

EDMONTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL •

Empire Theatres, Edmonton City Centre, 10200-102 Ave, other locations • Sep 27-Oct 5 • free-$30 • Opening Night Gala: Muscle Shoals, with after-party at the Delta Centre Hotel's Ballroom; with the Lent Brothers Band; Sep 26 • Presentation: The Good Son with Ray 'Boom Boom' Mancini and post-reception at Latitude 53; Oct 4 • Closing Night Gala: Broken Circle Breakdown or The Right Kind Of Wrong with after-party at Zenari's with the Bix Mix Boys Bluegrass Sounds; Oct 5 • Sex After Kids: premiere: Jeremy LaLonde, Jennifer Liao, Kris-Holden Ried, Zoie Palmer, Dr Lauren Lewis for Q&A following the screening; Sep 28, 7pm; $13 (EIFF box office, of Empire Theatres on day-of only 1 hr before show (6pm)

PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES OF ALBERTA • 8555 Roper

Rd, 780.427.1750 • VICTORY ON THE FIELD EXHIBIT: Exploring the effects of the World Wars on sports in Alberta; until Jan 31; free • Culture Days: A HERITAGE SONG: Café concert featuring local singer-songwriters and emerging musicians; Sep 27-28; free; limited seating, tickets at E: paaevents@gov.ab.ca

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave,

780.453.9100 • CHOP SUEY ON THE PRAIRIES: Until Apr 27, 2014 • THE ART OF SEATING: 200 YEARS OF AMERICAN DESIGN: until Oct 6 • MILTON AND CHEADLE PLATES: Jun 24-Dec 9 • Orientation Gallery: 20TH ANNIVERSARY–TIME TRAVELLERS EXHIBITION; until Nov 11 • Culture Days: Sep 27-29; free admission

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • TERRAIN:

Group show featuring landscape works; through Sep • SELECTED WORKS: Douglas Haynes; Oct 5-26

ALLIED ARTS COUNCIL OF SPRUCE GROVE •

SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta Print-

Spruce Grove Art Gallery, Spruce Grove Library, 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.0664 • OPEN ART COMPETITION: Until Sep 28 • Fireplace Room: Maggie Naef • REFLECTIONS OF JOY: Works by Helen Rogers • Oct 1-19 • Reception: Oct 5, 1-3pm

Artists, 10123-121 St, 780.423.1492 • Main Gallery: NATURAL, POLITICAL, POETIC AND UNPREDICTABLE – MIRRORED LINES & CURVES: Printing objects by Klavs Weiss (Denmark) • Community Gallery: THE FACES WE KNOW AND LOVE: Works by SNAP artist in residence, Megan Stein • Both shows: Oct 3-Nov 9; reception: Oct 4, 7-9pm

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106

St, 780.488.6611 • Discovery Gallery: TAILS FROM A REJUVENATED FOREST: A narrative installation exploring the drive of nature to revive itself by ceramic artists Lisa McGrath and Mindy Andrews; until Oct 19 • Discovery Gallery: STATIC BLOOM: Botanical polymer clay wall art

by St Albert artist Kristin Anderson; until Oct 19 • Feature Gallery: HANGING BY A THREAD: Group exhibit using textiles to explore the relationship between multiple generations of women; until Sep 28 • POTWORKS: Showing the contemporary state of the ancient tradition of pottery; Oct 5-Dec 24 Jazz 'Art: École Publique Gabrielle Roy Gym, 8728-93 Ave; Concert Jazz’Art featuring 5 visual artists and 5 musicians; Sep 28, 7:30-11pm; open and silent auction; free • Works

by Sharon Rubuliak, Carmen Gonzalez, Thérèse Bourassa and Jeannette Ouellette; Oct 4

CROOKED POT GALLERY–Stony Plain • 4912-51

Ave, Stony Plain, 780.963.9573 • QUEEN OF HEARTS: Wheel and slab pottery by Jeannette Wright; until Sep 28 • SEA THINGS: Pottery by Cheryl Anderson, Holly Rolls, and Lynnette; through Oct

DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St • WHAT MAKES

A MAN: Featuring works by Craig Le Blanc and Travis McEwen • Until Oct 5

DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St, 780.760.1278 • THROUGH THE DOOR: Paintings by Catherine Marchand; until Sep 28 • FOUND WHILE WALKING: Landscape paintings by Mike Dendy; Oct 3-26

• Lecture Series: FAB 2-20: Guddling About: exploring human/more than human interdependencies in relation to water in the urban environment presented by artists, Donald and Millar; Sep 26, 5pm

FACULTY COMMONS–Grant MacEwan • City Centre Campus, Rm 7-266 • DIS/UTOPIA:: From a series of 12 paintings by Michelle M. Lavoie • ADRIFT: POETRY AND IMAGE (2012-2013): Jannie Edwards, poetry; Bob Lysay and Agnieszka Matejko, video installation • Until Oct 25 FRONT GALLERY • 12312 Jasper Ave, 780.488.2952 • Fundraiser • Until Sep 30

GALLERIE PAVA • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • COL-

LECTION D'INSTANTS: Works by Patricia Lortie-Sparks • Until Oct 16

GALLERY 7 • Bookstore on Perron, 7 Perron St, St Albert

• Artworks by Carol Brown, Pat Trudeau, Sandy Mitchell • Until Oct 1

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LITERARY AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • Book launch of Audrey Whitson's new story collection The Glorious Mysteries and Other Stories; Sep 26, 7pm • Lunch hour Book Signing: With Andrea Carter, author of South American fiction novels, Hard Bed Hotel, and South of Centre; Sep 27, 12-1:30pm; free

Door Coffee House Reading Series: Monthly readings with new headliner • Last Thu each month, 7-9pm • Sep 26, 7-9pm hosted by poet, Jannie Edwards with headliners Diana Davidson (author of Pilgrimage), Susan MacGregor (author of the Tattooed Witch), Maitham Salman (Writers without Borders), Eric Papsdorf and the Wingmen (music); open mic

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St, 780.902.5900 • Spoken Word Tues: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathinpoetry@gmail.com

THEATRE THE 11 O'CLOCK NUMBER • Varscona Theatre,

BEST OF FRIENDS REUNION • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, 8882-180 St, WEM, 780.484.2424 • Friends, one of the most popular sitcoms of all time. Catch up with these lovable characters. Set to hits from the '90s, along with a few timeless classics • Until Oct 27

780.455.7479 • SHIELD: Figurative paintings by Carolyn Campbell and; BACKLIT MEMORIES: Paintings by Gordon Harper • Until Oct 8 • Reception: Sep 26, 7-9pm

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS

780.488.4892 • COLLECTED LANDSCAPES FOR AUTUMN: Landscape paintings by Steven Armstrong; until Oct 3 • TIMELESS: Works by Irene Klar; until Oct 10; meet the artist: Sep 26, 5-8pm

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM–St Albert • 5 St Anne St, St Albert, 780.459.1528 • LACE UP: CANADA’S PASSION FOR SKATING: Travelling exhibit by the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Quebec • Until Nov 3

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave,

-By Stephen Massicottee

WEST END GALLERY • 12308 Jasper Ave,

10329-83 Ave • An Improvised Musical • Sep 27, Oct 4, 11pm

NINA HAGGERTY GALLERY • 9225-118 Ave • Reflecting 96th StReet: Mustard Seed Artists'Views Of An inner city locale in transition • Oct 2-Nov 2

FROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley A. Milner Library Centennial Rm, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.496.7000 • We Bought A Zoo: Sep 27, 2pm

Albert, 780.460.5990 • RURAL ALBERTA: Marilyn Jeffrey and David Scott; through Sep • WILDLIFE GALORE: Vicki Armstrong, Carol Johnson, Heather Howard, Carla Beerens; through Oct

780.963.9935 • multicentre.org • Paintings by Claudette Brown; Sep 27-Oct 24; reception: Oct 6

780.432.0240 • ARRAY: Abstract paintings group show; until Sep 30 • WHAT’S YOUR HANG UP?: Craft by Edmonton Calligraphic Society Members; until Nov 15

780.429.1671 • FAVA Open House: Tour the facilities, take in gear demonstrations, enjoy excellent short films by Albertan filmmakers; Sep 28 (10am-4pm) • Red Rover. screening; Oct 4, 8pm

VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St

KOFFEE CAFÉ • 6120-28 Ave, 780.863.4522 • Glass

NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave,

FAVA • Film and Video Arts Society, 9722-102 St,

• SURVIVORS AND FIFTEEN RESTLESS NIGHTS: Alexandra Haeseker and Derek Besant; curated by Ania Sleczkowska • Until Oct 19 • Concert: Elizabeth Koch (flute), Murray Vaasjo (violin); Oct 5, 2pm

LOFT GALLERY • A.J. Ottewell Arts Centre, 590 Broad-

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

EDMONTON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL • Tegler Auditorium, Concordia University College, 7128 Ada Blvd, 73 St-112 Ave • Filmmakers want to share their work with friends and family. Groove Soldier Production wants to help make that happen, so we are hosting the first Edmonton Short Film Festival! Independent filmmakers have been invited to submit short films (max 20 min), music videos presented by Groove Soldier Productions • Oct 5, 7-10pm • $10 (adv)/$12 (door)

VAAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St, 780.421.1731

CHAPTERS STRATHCONA • 105 St, Whyte Ave • Meet Canadian author of South American cultural fiction, Andrea Carter, book signing • Sep 28, 12-4pm

MISERCORDIA HOSPITAL • North/South and East/ West Halls • Edmonton Art Club Exhibition • Until Oct 26

EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY • Royal Alberta Museum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave, 780.439.5285 • How to Steal a Million (1966, colour, PG); Sep 30, 8pm • $6 (adult)/$5 (senior)/$5 (student)/$3 (child 12 and under

influence on dress • Until Mar 2, 2014

Room: ELSEWHERE: Paintings by Kristen Keegan; until Nov 2 • Main Space: LES CORPS: Photographic based portraits by Christophe Jivraj; Sep 27-Nov 2; opening: Sep 27, 7-9pm

MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St, 780.407.7152 • PROCESSION WEST: A photographic Visual Journey from Plains to Coast by Rob Pohl and Robert Michiel • WHERE DRAGONFLIES DANCE: Watercolours and graphite botanical paintings by Elaine Funnel • Until Oct 20

A. Milner Library basement, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.496.7000 • God Said Ha! (PG); USA, 1998; Oct 2, 6:30pm

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JUBILEE AUDITORIUM • Kaasa Gallery: OPEN PHOTO

moor Blvd, Sherwood Park, 780.449.4443 • Artwork and gifts made by members of the Art Society of Strathcona County artists • LAYERS OF ALBERTA–UNDERNEATH THE LANDSCAPE TO ABOVE THE SURFACE: Works by Anne McCartney • Until Oct 27, Sat-Sun 12-4pm

Movie Night in Churchill Square; screening of Dear Frankie (PG coarse language); bring chairs, blankets • Sep 27, dusk (shortly after 7:30pm) • Free • Official after party will be at the Mercer Tavern

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.422.6223 • LADY SPIDER HOUSE: Until Jan 12, 2014 • Manning Hall (main level public space): NOW YOU SEE IT: Giant word search puzzle by Megan Morman • WATER INTO ART: British watercolours, 1750-1950; until Nov 24 • New Acquisitions: VIEWS AND VISTAS: until Oct 6 • BMO World of Creativity: CABINETS OF CURIOSITY: Lyndal Osborne's curious collection; until Jun 30, 2014 • 19TH CENTURY BRITISH PHOTOGRAPHS: From the collection of the National Gallery of Canada; until Oct 6 • RBC New Works Gallery: ISACHSEN, 1948-1978: Works by Aaron Munson and David Hoffos; until Nov 24 • Lecture: RBC New Works Gallery: aAron munson, artist talk about Isachsen 1948-78; Sep 29, 2pm; free; part of Alberta Culture Days

SIGNED: Nicole Rayburn–looking at religious road signs; Oct 3-18; opening: Oct 3, 8-10pm

LATITUDE 53 • 10242-106 St, 780.423.5353 • ProjEx

Centre, 11113-111 Ave, 780.893.6828 • Oct 5, 8pm

ARCHIVES SOCIETY OF ALBERTA • 913 Ash St, Sherwood Park, 780.467.8189 • REMEMBRANCE DAY EXHIBIT: Oct 2-Nov 18

Main Gallery: FUNCTIONAL BUILDINGS: Works by Andrea Carvalho, Dan Gibbons and Kip Jones; until Oct 18 • Front Room Gallery: WESTERN HORSEMEN, ECONOMIC ACTION PLAN: Works by Justin Shaw; until Sep 27 • RE

• FALL ON 124 STREET: Works by gallery artists and secondary market • Until Oct 12

EBDA BALLROOM DANCE • Lions Senior Recreational

Chernushenko and the Living Lightly Project • Sep 30, 7-9pm • $25

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St •

LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St, 780.990.1161

ton's burlesque legend Suzzette, with Holly Von Sinn, Jade Janvier, Maila Mustang, and hypnotist, Sebastian Steel • Sep 28, 7-11pm • $15; Proceeds fund the First Annual Edmonton Burlesque Festival

MOVIE MONDAY • King Edward Community Small Hall, 8102-80 Ave • Be the Change, produced by David

GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.944.5383 • ALBERTA FARM WOMEN: Paintings and photos by Dawn Saunders Dahl; Display Cases: Works by Edmonton Weavers' Guild, until Sep 30; Edmonton Stamp Club, Oct 1-31; Works by Edmonton Potters' Guild, Oct 1-31

CHIMPROV • Zeidler Hall, Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm, until Jul • $12 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) • Until Jun, 2014 A CLOSER WALK WITH PATSY CLINE • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave, 780.483.4051 • Homage to Patsy Cline and her climb to stardom, from her humble beginnings in small town Virginia to the bright lights of Carnegie Hall • Until Nov 3 THE DAISY THEATRE • The Club, Citadel Rice Theatre • Presented by Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes, starring Ronnie Burkett; recommended for ages 16+ • Sep 28-Nov 17, 8pm

DANCE FOR GRANDMA • Varscona Theatre,

10329-83 Ave • A tribute to our grandmothers, and your grandmothers... and you. A hilarious all new musical revue with Cathy Derkach and Jeff Haslam • Until Sep 28 • $16-$25 at TIX on the Square

ENGAGE WITH CHANGE • Arts Barns–Westbury Theatre, 10330-84 Ave • Presented by Edmonton Dream Centre: with interactive improv fun, entertainment and great food featuring Rapid Fire Theatre, 6 Minute Warning, and dinner by Absolutely Edibles • Oct 3, 6:15-10:30pm • $150 at engagewithchangedinner.eventbrite.com/ HEY LADIES! • Roxy, 10708-124 St, 780.453.2440

• Theatre Network • The Roxy Performance Series: Womanly talkshow/gameshow/varietyshow/sideshow starring Davina Stewart, Cathleen Rootsaert, Leona Brausen • Oct 4-May 24 • $25 at TIX on the Square

LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT • Citadel's

Shoctor Theatre, 9828-101A Ave, 780.425.1820 • Eugene O’Neill’s play, directed by Bob Baker, starring Brenda Bazinet, John Ullyatt, and Tom Wood • Until Oct 13

STRATHCONA COUNTY GALLERY @ 501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • RULES OF PLAY: Curated

by Brenda Barry Byrne Witschl’s work explores anxiety within the context of contemporary Surrealism focusing on collage and games • Until Oct 10

MARY’S WEDDING • Capitol Theatre, Fort Edmonton, 780.496.7381 • A story of first love during the Great War

by Stephen Massicotte; starring Mari Chartier, and Evan Hall; directed by Amanda Bergen • Oct 3-13, 8pm; no show Oct 7/8

StRAthCONA COuNty MuSeuM ARChiveS • 913 Ash St, Sherwood Park • MODELS OF OUR HERITAGE: Featuring historic models created by Strathcona County resident, Alfred Neuman • Until Sep 30

MIDSUMMER [A PLAY WITH SONGS] • Roxy, 10708-124 St • Broken Toys Theatre • Alberta premiere, part of Theatre Network’s Roxy Performance Series; by David Grieg and Gordon McIntyre • Until Sep 29 • $20 (adult)/$16 (student/senior); Tue: 2-for-1

THE STUDIO • 11739-94 St • Works by Glen Ronald, Bliss Robinson, Debra Milne and guest artists • Until Dec 31, 12-5pm TELUS CENTRE– U of A Atrium • 112 St, 87 Ave • WALKING WITH OUR SISTERS: Exhibit of Moccasin Tops; a commemorative art installation for the missing and murdered Indigenous women of Canada and the United States • Oct 2-14; 9am-9pm (Mon-Fri); 9am-5pm (Sat-Sun) TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St •

BODY WORLDS AND THE CYCLE OF LIFE: Revealing the Symphony Within; until Oct 14; $26.50 (adult)/$16.50 (child (3-12)/$23.50 (senior/youth/student) at door; prices incl general admission and admission for exhibit

U OF A MUSEUMS • Human Ecology Gallery: Main Fl, 116 St, 89 Ave: THE RE-BIRTH OF VENUS: Fashion & The Venus Kallipygos: Explores the influence of art on fashion through the study of Venus Kallipygos, and its pervasive

POOL (NO WATER) • Timms Centre, 112 St, U of A • Studio Theatre; by Mark Ravenhill. About the fragility of friendship and the strength of resentment • Until Sep 28; Sep 26, 12:30pm • 2-for-1 Mon: at door SARTRE'S SHORTS • C103, 8529 Gateway Blvd • 5

Adaptations of the short stories of Jean Paul Sartre. A Surreal SoReal Theatre production featuring adaptations

by Jason Chinn, Darrin Hagen, Nicole Moeller, Amber Borotsik, and Jon Lachlan Stewart • Until Sep 29

THEATRESPORTS • Zeidler Hall Citadel, 9828-101A

Ave • Improv every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Until June • $12/$10 (member) at TIX on the Square

WILL STROET AND HIS BACKYARD BAND • Arden, St Albert, 780.459.1558 • Noisy Theatre • Oct 2, 11am • $10 (adult)/$5 (child)/free (child under 2) at Arden box office

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MUSIC EDITOR : EDEN MUNRO EDEN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Eamon McGrath serializes his Exile

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your audience to how your band actually is," he says. "You're not lying about anything"—but it's also simply cost-effective: after a month of prep with the band, the whole thing was recorded in two days, mixed in another two, and cost less than $3000 to make.

Admittedly, McGrath's not sure how Exile's incremental release will go. But if the idea of purchasing pre-recorded formats of music can no longer sustain most careers, and touring is one of the few avenues

t's a post-format world," Eamon away," He says. "Or pretty much spend a year doing fuck-all. And I'm not into McGrath says.

Hoodie on, headphones 'round his that. I want to be touring all the time.

"I started thinking," McGrath continneck, he's sitting on a green edge of the downtown core, overlooking the river ues, "If the way of consuming music is becoming so digvalley. In the distance itally modified to is an empty Gallagher Park, a month after Sat, Sep 28 (8 pm) the point where it's not even betarps of Folk Fest Eamon McGrath ing held in your coloured it in a cha- With Stepmothers, Eyes on otic rainbow mess. Ivan hand anymore, A flock of pigeons Avenue Theatre, $10 (advance), then you could wander around quiz- $12 (door) tour around any kind of content." zically, keeping their distance.

"Format is a dead thing," he contin- Which brings us to Exile, McGrath's ues. "People talk about CDs killing next album, and one that he's looking vinyl and then the mp3 killing the cd at as an antidote to his no-tour blues: and now music streaming has killed its nine songs will be released in threethe mp3. So now, I think we're at the song, EP-length instalments over the point where we've come past the idea next year or so. It'll culminate in a viof a music format in general. We are at nyl release of the whole thing in 2014, the point where the idea of a commod- but, as McGrath notes, by serializing its release, he can hit the road and stay ified, consumable product is dead."

It's something that McGrath's been there as its pieces come out. That's the thinking about since the touring cycle idea, anyway.

"It's more or less just a reason for me of his 2012 release, Young Canadians, wrapped up. He'd hoped to be touring to tour, and a way to have new conbehind it for another year or so, but tent available to tour behind every few instead found the momentum difficult months, and sustain the release of a reto maintain: he couldn't afford to reis- cord out over the course of a year and sue the album after its initial pressing a half," he says. "So the touring cycle sold out and the first press campaign doesn't have to end. The album isn't wrapped up, but festivals and other even out yet, and I'm on tour right now."

Exlie's a live-off-the-floor recording, touring opportunities needed somemade with a band, unlike McGrath's thing fresh to consider him.

"A lot of people in the music industry last few albums where he played evget stuck in that point: touring cycle's erything on the record. This approach done, we have to put out a record right is a more honest one—"You're exposing

that a musician can live off of these days, he's hoping it'll keep him on the road for as long as possible.

"It's a totally chaotic time," he says. "Every couple years, people thought they had it figured out. And they were totally fucking wrong every time."

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Little Miss Higgins T

he Prairies have always been ness" roomy enough to include Louis a promise as well as a place: Riel, teepee rings and farmer-friendly a boundary between new and old auctions. Her aural identity coalesced worlds, known and unknown possi- alongside a sort of roadhouse flapperbilities. In a deeply romantic tradition, raconteur persona—the kind of outsized, brassy, fireit's where we go blooded character to shuck our trou- Thu, Sept 26 (7 pm) one readily enviblesome pasts Little Miss Higgins & the Winsions roaming the and presents; find nipeg Five vintage heartland. or prove our met- Yellowhead Brewery tle and be remade into better, stronSo it's been Little ger, wilder people; to collide unpre- Miss Higgins who's made five prodictably with other utopians, oppor- gressively more accomplished altunists, and rugged individualists who bums, the sassy hustle of her early have likewise struck out westward. days giving way to a more coherent, Jolene Higgins has been around the intimate, polished sound on her latPrairies—both real and imagined. est made live-off-the-floor recording Born in Alberta, raised in Kansas, with the Winnipeg Five (who play as making Saskatchewan home and the F-Holes without Higgins). Bison Manitoba her stomping grounds, she's Ranch Recording Sessions seems so seen plenty of swaying seas of grass, eerily reminiscent of a certain era— thunderhead-filled skies and chirring one that doesn't actually exist as a Richardson's ground squirrels. But she package—that you expect to hear the also headed west in a poetic sense, hisses, pops and spitting of old-timey into the junctures of country-blues, shellacs on top of its slow swinging rural jazz and pop Americana, synthe- ballads, jaunty portraits of countrisizing elements from the '20s to early fied slices of life, and Depression Era'50s, with her lyrics suggesting an type hope-raising shuffles. equally blurred, expansive "Westish"I don't know how to explain it; it

just happens," Higgins confesses of her stylistic mélange, laughing easily and often. "I guess I take from my surroundings to create the music, the lyrics, the performance, just being the Prairie girl that I am. I love the Prairies; always have. I've spent time in other places, but I just seem to feel at home in the North American Plains.

My family is from the Prairies, and I loved hearing stories of how they grew up. I loved learning to drive on gravel roads with my dad when I was eight years old; going to explore old farmhouses and barns; looking for teepee rings. My dad had a collection of arrowheads and I was fascinated by them, and fossils and stuff like that.

They gave me an appreciation of history. Those are the kinds of things I really loved and still do, so I guess it weaves into my art. It's not the biggest or only part of it, but it's found its way into my art because a big thing for me is writing about what I know, then turning that into something that might be engaging for an audience, wherever that audience might be."

Her performances borrow from history, too: Higgins takes it for granted

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that her job is to entertain, and that making people laugh, dance and forget their troubles is a worthy task.

"Something I learned from theatre school was: 'Leave the rest of the world at the door, come in and be in the moment, and tell your story,'" she

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explains. "And that helps when I'm on stage. I'm here in this moment, and these people, they're here to listen and watch, and that's the most important thing right now."

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eaving school at 17 to pursue a Sermanni to receive responses from career in music is admittedly a some of those emails, but it didn't gamble, but it's one that seems to be deter her from her pursuits. She casupaying off for Scottish folk singer Ra- ally notes it's all part of the process chel Sermanni who, four years later, is and like any job you have to be prequickly becoming a festival mainstay pared to be turned down a few times and touring throughout Europe and before opportunity arises.

Her tenacious approach towards now North America.

"The decision was almost by default music has led her to opening for in the sense that I didn't really know Mumford and Sons (a now nearly legendary story what I wanted to of her casually do," explains Serapproaching the manni, who got Fri, Sep 27 (8 Pm) band in a pub her taste for music With Rose Cousins and writing while Avenue Theatre, and asking them to jam continues learning tradition- $20 (Advance), $24 (Door) to follow her), al Scottish tunes appearances at in grade school. "I knew uni wasn't quite in the cards, so the Calgary Folk Music Festival and I took a year to go down to Glasgow Reading Festival, as well as supportand I told my mum it would be a year. ing spots for Elvis Costello and Fink, I just very quickly established myself to name a few. in a lot of open-mic nights and sent a "Lots of bands like telling the story, and it's true, of the roadside ends and lot of emails."

It took nearly a year and a half for constant service stations, and in that aspect I guess it's a hardship if you like to call it that," Sermanni says of touring life. "But usually you meet the most interesting people that sort of challenge your impressions of what you've grown up with—it sort of opens you up musically."

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In the midst of it all, Sermanni has released her debut full-length, Under Mountains. The disc features songs spanning back to Sermanni's early writing days when she was 16, such as opener "Breathe Easy," to more recent compositions, like "Bones," a beautiful and slightly eerie string-driven number. Regardless of the age she was at the time, it's evident Sermanni has a strong knack for songwriting, blending haunting and evocative melodies with storytelling rich with vivid imagery that is often the product of Sermanni's subconscious.

"Your dreams are pretty raw and they provide you with immediate and instant emotions and feelings, whether you're sure about the symbolism or not."

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Tim Hus SEPT. 27 & 28 • STAN GALLANT SUNDAY CELTIC MUSIC 5 - 8PM SEPT. 30 • CALEIGH CARDINAL WEDNESDAY • OPEN STAGE W/ DUFF ROBISON

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f there was one recent moment sounding. Hus recorded it a year that encapsulates exactly what ago with Harry Stinson, an in-deTim Hus is all about, it's when he mand producer (Corb Lund, Trisha played the song "Hardcore Apple Yearwood) songwriter (Martina Picker" from his new album West- McBride's number-one hit, "Wild ern Star to a crowd of people in the Angels") and multi-instrumentalist Okanagan. sideman (Marty Stuart, Steve Ear"Afterward there was this huge le). Stinson had taken a shine to lineup of people looking to buy the Hus's material when he and Lund were recording album with the Hurtin' Albertan, ' a p p l e - p i c k i n g Sat, Sep 28 (6 pm) song' on it," he Stony Plain Cowboy Gathering and invited him down to work chuckles from Stony Plain Museum, $25 with him at his his home in Fort Macleod, where Thu, Oct 3 and Fri, Oct 4 (8 pm) place just outside he's busy stuffing Expressionz Café, $15 (advance), of Nashville. envelopes full of $18 (door) "I definitely didn't want to do the new album it in a studio in to send out to radio stations and magazines. "These the middle of downtown Nashville," are people who had all grown up Hus explains. "Harry has this place around that; I mean, you can't es- he likes to use in the hills, though, cape it there; it's probably the first so we went there instead. It was cajob you get as a teenager, and there sual, and he brought a few people they are hearing me sing about it." in to play along with my regular Hus has another song about pot- touring band." ash mines that goes over well with miners in Saskatchewan. In fact, Those "people" were long-time over the course of six albums he's Nashville cats like Kenny Vaughan made an attempt to celebrate as (Marty Stuart), Hank Singer many facets of Canadian life as he (George Jones), Wanda Vick, Chris can. Does all of this sound familiar? Scruggs, Glen Duncan (Bill Mon"Stompin' Tom once told me roe's Bluegrass Boys), Tim Graves, that he hoped I would be the one and Kayton Roberts (Hank Snow). to pick up where he left off and The recording was live off the floor maybe bring Canada's story to the and the seasoned pros were happy international level," says Hus, who to get outside of the close confines toured with Tom and viewed the of the Nashville machine. recently deceased Canadian legend "It was personally thrilling to me as a mentor and guide. "He's the guy that these guys actually liked my that got it going here, but he felt songs," Hus adds. "I guess to them that he ran out of time." they would be a little different, Western Star definitely continues nothing like what they usually deal in the Stompin' Tom vein, if not a with. I mean, sessions in Nashville little more fleshed out and country are pretty textbook: show up, un-

pack and play, pack up and go to the next one. We definitely had a relaxed and easygoing feeling happening, and they were into it."

The session musicians even took an interest in the unabashed Canadiana in the lyrics, but Hus dismisses any idea this would make his songs somewhat opaque to outsiders.

"I've been criticized before in reviews about my music being regional and I always disagree strongly with that. Nobody says that about American music, nobody ever says that about ['San Antonio Rose'] or 'California Girls,'" he scoffs. "The fact is that a good song is a good song, and anyone can relate to one. When we play the States people relate to all the topics that I sing about in my music because they have them all there as well, whether oil rigs, salmon fishing or farming."

Getting back to Stompin' Tom, who often lashed out at domestic artists who turned to America, Hus admits he's thought about how strange it is to have recorded a batch of such overtly Canadian songs in Tennessee. For a minute, anyway.

"Tom would have ribbed me about it, no doubt," Hus chuckles. "But he kind of painted himself into a corner sometimes, and that's a slippery slope to go down. I never was anti-American or anything, and Harry was the man for the album. It would have been ridiculous to have flown him up here just so we could say we did it in Canadian airspace."

"Mind you," he reflects, "that actually would have been Tom's style."

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Sloan

song should kind of come to you and be done and be good or just move on and try to do something else. That's why I wrote a song last night out of the blue."

'I

t's a big clusterfuck," laughs Pat"The hard part for me usually is lyrrick Pentland of Sloan, about the ics; I don't really have a whole lot of band's latest recording project. appropriate lyrics for rock songs, so The venerable rock-pop quartet is I usually get the music done fairly working on a douquickly and then ble-vinyl release I'm just sitting in which each Fri, Sep 27 (7:30 pm) around trying to member gets his With Mo Kenney come up with rhymes," he says. own side of wax. Arden Theatre, $38 The presently unThat latest comtitled project is position is a threeabout a month behind (the sched- chord, fuzzed-out guitar garage-rock uled release date is spring 2014), tune; some of his other contributions but Pentland acknowledges the de- include a song he began in 2000 lay is simply a combination of four and shelved until a few lyrical adpeople trying to create something justments—and a simplified rhyme in one studio space while adher- scheme—allowed him to finish it for ing to their time-consuming sum- this project. mer schedules. Although, Pentland "You can't just force it. I don't want managed to bang out a song in one to put a song on a record just to get it sitting the night before. out; I want it to be good ... I feel like a

All four members of Sloan have always been heavily involved in the writing process of each album, both lyrically and musically. But for this project, with just over 15 minutes of airtime per person on the record, each band member was free to experiment as they saw fit. Pentland hasn't heard much of what the others are doing, but says his will lean towards straightforward rock accented by some atmospheric material.

Pentland's lost count of the number of times it's been suggested Sloan release four solo albums like Kiss did (back in 1978) or write songs together rather than the band's albums being a collection of solo material, but he says it just doesn't work.

"I don't think it works for anybody.

Name me one band aside from, like, modern pop where there's 10 writers, but that's not 10 people sitting in a room together. There's different levels of the song being passed around," Pentland says. "The Beatles didn't do that, Rolling Stones don't do that, U2 doesn't do that. If you have four cooks dealing with a pot of chili, it's not going to be very good in the end."

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Christa Couture

Fri, Sep 27 (8:30 pm) With Tzadeka Blue Chair, $10 Singer-songwriter Christa Couture has endured more than her share of tragedy, but rather than allow it to pull her down, she picked herself up and spun it into song. Her latest album, The Living Record is an emotion-packed batch of folk that is a testament to events that have shaped her present and a hopeful look towards the future. Prior to returning to her former hometown of Edmonton, Couture shared her soundtrack picks with Vue.

At home Morning: If I've set my alarm, I wake up to CBC Radio 2, but usually my morning is spent waking to the sounds of my neighbourhood—from kids playing in the courtyard to trucks rumbling down Knight Street in Vancouver.

Noon: My let's-get-the-day-rolling go-to is Brandi Carlile, Bear Creek.

Night: The Signal, with Laurie Brown [on CBC].

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On the road Morning: CBC, if I can find it.

Noon: Episodes of This American Life.

Night: To come down after a show, or if there's more driving that night, I hand over the decision making to my iPod's shuffle. V

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MUSIC LeE HARVeY OsMOND Fri, Sep 27 (7:30 pm) Festival Place, $28 – $32 Answered by: Tom Wilson, guitar and vocals Hometown: Hamilton, ON Genre: Folk-rock Lastest album: Folk Sinner (2013) Fun fact: In addition to his music career, Wilson is also an accomplished painter.

First album The soundtrack from the movie The Wizard Of Oz—the best songwriting ever collected on one piece of 12-inch vinyl. I later bought the soundtrack from the movie Cat Ballou, the second-best collection of songwriting, sung by Nat King Cole and Stubby Kaye no less.

First concert Don Messer and the entire cast from The TV show Don Messer's Jubilee at the Dundas Arena. My dad and four of his buddies from the war (all blind) brought me to the show. They

all got wasted on sloe gin and beer.

I was five years old. It was the '60s and that's what parents did with their kids. Years later I saw the Guess Who with John Kay at the CNE Grandstand in Toronto. This time I got drunk with my buddies. The only difference was they all had their eyesight.

playing guitar for some guy named Bob Dylan. It don't get no better than hearing Linden's dobro solos while Dylan does his "I'm a little tea pot" dance around the stage.

Last album Last album I bought was Snoop Lion, Reincarnated. Yeah, baby. My neighbours hate me.

Favourite musical guilty pleasure Definitely folk music. Not because of the music but because of the audience. What other genre of music has so many people with weird food stuck in their beards? (And that's just the women.) V

Last concert Last concert was my pal Colin Linden

Favourite album Willie P Bennett, Hobo's Taunt.

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Michael Bernard Fitzgerald Y

es—three letters form one small word capable of enormous impact, as well as a proclamation Michael Bernard Fitzgerald (MBF for short) felt fitting for the title of his latest album.

"It's meant to announce an arrival, or it's an exclamation or it's a positive affirmative," Fitzgerald says over the phone, on a rare day off before getting back on the road to support the album's release.

"That word being three letters kind of

encompasses all that I want to say with ment, but he knew the critiques could the music on the record." only further his writing. He says there The melting-pot of sounds behind Yes have been instances in the past where he's listened to an transcend folk, rock, pop and album after it's comWed, Oct 2 (8 pm) world music, creatpleted and wished With Michael Franti & ing something as he'd done things difSpearhead ferently, but Yes is all-encompassing Winspear Centre, $52 another story. as its title, with songs ranging "When you're infrom the groove-heavy swing of "Fire- dependent and you're down there and cracker" to thoughtful, expressive bal- you're piecing it all together ... that prolads like "Follow." Yes could also be fessional support system's not there," he described as an exhalation of relief and says. "If you get sent back to the drawing celebration, considering it's been two board you feel kind of by yourself, beyears in the making and a process that's cause you're spending whatever you can led Fitzgerald through an intense learn- to be down there and to be in the studio ing process of his own. and it can feel trying at times. But you Following Fitzgerald parting ways end up having a record where you don't with his Calgary-based label Load Music feel there's a word out of place." (he's now on Trauma2), he found him- MEAGHAN BAXTER MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM self going back and forth to Hollywood to complete the record with the help of Brian West and Jon Levine, formerly of the Philosopher Kings.

"It's the first time with my songwriting that I was sent back to the drawing board by someone else other than myself, where they say, 'You know, I don't get this verse or I think you can do better on this line,'" Fitzgerald says. "I think that can be good to have someone that's not a 'no' person, but not a 'yes' person—someone that's actively trying to develop what it is that you do or challenge you to find that within yourself."

The most constructive criticism can be difficult to swallow at times, and Fitzgerald admits even someone with no ego can feel the hurt in it for a mo-

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MUSIC PREVUE // ELECTRONIC

Life in Color

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hat began as an idea between legal issues with the trademark Dayfriends in college has grown to glow. But, to be honest, we have be the largest paint party in the world. found this as a blessing as we feel Life in Color is makthat Life in Color ing a stop in Edmon- Sat, Sep 28 (9 pm) represents us and ton as part of its Re- Edmonton Expo Centre, $71.75 our show better birth tour featuring than Dayglow did.

R3hab and Cazzette along with Life in Color performers VW: Where did the concept begin and and, of course, lots and lots of paint. what did you want to accomplish?

Co-founder and CEO Sebastian Solano SS: Started in Tallahassee when we were all in college, and from the first told Vue more about it via email. one we always had a long-term vision VUE WEEKLY: The event was formerly of turning this into one of the biggest known as DAYGLOW. When did the touring events in the world where name change and why was it changed? it's not just about the music but the SEBASTIAN SOLANO: The name unique experience that the fan enjoys changed in 2012 and it was due to at our show.

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Whether there are words in the songs or not, the beat speaks for itself.

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RICHARD’S PUB– Castledowns W.O.W Band;

ARTERY Chris Murray (reggae, ska), Jory Kinjo; 8pm; 410 (adv)/$12 (door)

ON THE ROCKS Mourning

THE RIG Every Thu Jam hosted by Loren Burnstick; 8:30pm-1am

ATLANTIC TRAP AND GILL

Hip hop, funk, soul, rare groove, disco and more with Junior Brown and DJ Mumps

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM

The Rural Routes

(country), Rachel Sermanni; 8pm; $20 (adv)/$24 (day of)

BRITTANY’S Velvet Hour: Live

SHERLOCK HOLMES–DT

Andrew Scott

“B” STREET BAR Evening: The

Thu; this week: F&M; 10pm BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Cara Luft

and Bella Hardy; 7:30pm; $12 (adv)/$15 (door)

BLUES ON WHYTE Big Crush BOHEMIA Art and Muzak:

curated by Joy Ashmore

BOWER Thu: Back to Mine:

music in the afternoons hosted

by Rob Taylor and Bill Bourne; Mon-Fri; 4:30-8pm; no cover

BRIXX Hosted by Christian

and Justin of the Canyon Rose Outfit: The Ultimate open stage, open jam, open turntables E: kevin@starliteroom.ca for info

RIC’S GRILL Peter Belec (jazz);

most Thursdays; 7-10pm

8pm

SMOKEHOUSE BBQ Live

Chuck Rose

AVENUE Rose Cousins

Joe Picalo Band

Blues every Thur: rotating guests; 7-11pm

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Christa Couture (indie-folk); 8:30pm; $10

STARLITE ROOM Bliss N

BLUES ON WHYTE Big Crush

ESO, guests; $18.50 (adv) at Unionevents.com, Ticketfly. com, Foosh, Blackbyrd

BOHEMIA Upon the Arctic

CAFÉ HAVEN Mary Caroline and Megan Nash; 7pm

Jam every Thu

Shelf, Nadir Bellamer, the Acta Non Verba Band, Small Town Knife Fight, Rubber Nurse; 8:30pm (music); $10

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE

YELLOWHEAD BREWERY

BRITTANY’S Velvet Hour: Live

Zoomers Thu afternoon open mic; 1-4pm CHA ISLAND TEA CO Lucas Chaison (folk), Rhys Berlin; licensed all ages event; $10` (door)

TAVERN ON WHYTE Thu

Little Miss Higgins (blues), guests; 7:30pm; $12 (adv)/$15 (door)

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

COOK COUNTY Pony Up Thu:

Main Floor: wtft w djwtf - rock ‘n’ roll, blues, indie; Wooftop:

DRUID DJ every Thu at 9pm

Musical flavas incl funk, indie, dance/nu disco, breaks, drum and bass, house with DJ Gundam

Country, Rock Anthems and Top 40 Classics with Mourning Wood

EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain Open Jam Nights;

CENTURY ROOM Lucky 7:

no cover

Retro ‘80s with house DJ every Thu; 7pm-close

FANDANGO’S Rock out Thu

THE COMMON The Common

Rock Jam; 9pm

J R BAR Live Jam Thu; 9pm JAVA EXPRESS–Stony Plain

Acoustic/singer songwriter the 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7-10pm; no cover

KELLY’S PUB Jameoke Night,

Uncommon Thursday: Rotating Guests each week!

CROWN PUB Break Down

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

DRUID DJ every Thu; 9pm

music in the afternoons hosted

by Rob Taylor and Bill Bourne; Mon-Fri; 4:30-8pm; no cover; Late show: The Baretones– Vaudeville Show: 9pm; by donation BRIXX Silence Be Damned:

Goth/Industrial with DJs Siborg, Nightroad; 9pm

CAFÉ TIRAMISU Live music every Fri: John Calverley; 7-9pm; no cover CARROT COFFEEHOUSE

Live music every Fri; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door) CENTURY CASINO Dr Hook featuring Ray Sawyer; $44.95 DOW–Shell Theatre–Fort Saskatchewan George

Canyon; 7:30pm; $45 (adult)/$42 (senior/youth) at DOW, Ticketpro.ca, 780.992.6400

karaoke with band the Nervous Flirts; every Thu, 8pm-12am

ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ every Thu

DUGGAN’S Stan Gallant

L.B.’S Thu open stage: the New Big Time with Rocko Vaugeois, friends; 8-12

Back Thursdays

FILTHY MCNASTY’S Taking

KoC, Busted Femur

KRUSH Open stage; 7pm;

EDMONTON ACCORDION EXTRAVAGANZA Fri

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Funk

FESTIVAL PLACE LeE HARVeY

LIT WINE BAR Dino Dominelli

Duo; 9pm

NAKED CYBERCAFÉ Thu

open stage: fully equipped stage, bring your instruments and your voices; gaming everyday

NEW WEST HOTEL Canadian

no cover

Bunker Thursdays

LUCKY 13 Industry Night

every Fri

ON THE ROCKS Salsa Rocks:

every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; Cuban Salsa DJ to follow

DV8 Adolyene, Soul Mates,

Cabaret: 7:30pm; $10

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

HIGH RUN Duo Exhaust

(classic rock); 9pm; no cover

NEW WEST HOTEL Silverado

Wood with DJs; 9pm

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park

Dueling Piano’s, all request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover

PAWN SHOP The Blackstone

(CD release, alt blues rock), Tallest to Shortest, Mayday and the Beat, Creeps, the Collective West; 8pm; $10 (adv) RED PIANO BAR Hottest

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

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM

STARLITE ROOM SONiC

The Rural Routes

SHERLOCK HOLMES–DT

Andrew Scott

102.9 B.O.T.M: Unwed Mothers, guests; 8pm

WUNDERBAR B.A. Johnston, Krang, the Strugglefucks YARDBIRD SUITE Cross-

Border Jazz Series: From Toronto/New York: Nick Fraser Quartet featuring Tony Malaby; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $20 (member)/$24 (guest)

Classical CITY HALL Edmonton Opera; 11:30am-1:30pm MUTTART HALL–Alberta College Vaughan String Quartet

THE COMMON Good Fridays:

nu disco, hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation plus residents Echo and Justin Foosh

DRUID DJ every Fri; 9pm DV8 Punk Rawk: DJ night with Luke Mangler and NickisDead; 8pm ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ every Fri FANDANGO’S DJs night every Fri and Sat with DJ Stouffer

RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie, rock, funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri STARLITE ROOM KLUB OMFG SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

Amplified Fridays: Dubstep, house, trance, electro, hip hop breaks with DJ Aeiou, DJ Loose Beats, DJ Poindexter; 9:30pm (door) SUITE 69 Release Your Inner

Beast: Retro and Top 40 beats with DJ Suco; every Fri

W/ GUESTS

CD RELEASE

OCT/5 FAIR BLUE (LAST SHOW!) HEAVISIDE & BOOTLEG SAINT

OCT/8 BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME OCT/11 CANYON ROSE OUTFIT CD RELEASE W/ GIBSON BLOCK OCT/12 CRASH KARMA W/ ONE BAD SON & ALTERRA OCT/13

MICKEY AVALON

2 DUBLIN NOV/2 DEHLI & KUSH ARORA

!MPULSE

E V E RY F R I DAY N I G H T I N T E M P L E

SEPT/27 ON THE SIDEWALK BLEEDING W/ THE MOST OF AUGUST

SEPT/28

every Fri 9pm

TREASURY In Style Fri: DJ

Tyco and Ernest Ledi; no line no cover for ladies all night long

UNION HALL Ladies Night

every Fri

Y AFTERHOURS Foundation

Fridays

SAT Sep 28 ARDEN Early show: Norman

Foote (family series), 2pm, $18 (adult)/$15 (child to 17); Evening show: Sloan, 7:30pm, $38 at Arden box office

ATLANTIC TRAP AND GILL AVENUE Eamon McGrath

“B” STREET BAR Rockin Big

Blues and Roots Open Jam: Every Sat afternoon, 2-6pm; Evening: The Joe Picalo Band

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Hair of the Dog: The Dead South (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Michael Jerome Browne; 8:30pm; $15

THE BOWER Zukunft: Indie

BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Evening: Big Crush

CALGARY BEER CORE PRESENTS

AUTHORITY ZERO TOUR 2013 W/ WEEKEND KIDS, WHITE KNIGHT FINISH LAST

OCT/1

RUBY TUESDAY FEAT

RILEY QUINLAN W/ MY DAD’S A SPY

TEMPLE Rapture–Goth/Ind/alt;

(alt blues, hard rock, punk), Stepmothers, Eyes on Ivan; 8pm; 410 (adv)/$12 (day of)

and alternative with Dusty Grooves, Fraser Olsen, Taz, and Josh Johnson

IN THE TEMPLE

SONIC B.O.T.M. PRESENTS

LUCKY 13 Every Fri and Sat with resident DJ Chad Cook

WINSPEAR CENTRE Alberta

Every Friday DJs on all three levels

SONIC SEDUCTION SEPT/27 UNWED MOTHERS OCT/4 BRYAN FINLAY

and dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Fri

Chuck Rose

DJs

!MPULSE FEATURING

FLUID LOUNGE R&B, hip hop

Concert; Alberta Culture Days; noon; free

Culture Days: family activities, performances by Edmonton Opera, Pro Coro (ticket event), Kita No Taiko, Prince Charles School Fiddlers, an open dress rehearsal (Sat morning), by the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra; and tours of the building; 12-5pm; free

SEPT/27

BLISS N ESSO

OCT/4

WYDDERSHYNNS, COLLIDICIDE & OTTOSTOCK

AND DOWNTOWN FESTIVAL OCT/12-13 UP SEE WWW.UPNDOWNTOWN.COM/ FOR DETAILS

OCT/18

OCTOBER SKY W/ GUESTS

OCT/19 LADY WAKS & NEON STEVE

EVERY EATS

AND BEATS

WEDNESDAY EVERY WEDNESDAY, $0.35 WINGS

EVERY THE ULTIMATE OPEN STAGE THURSDAY EVERY THURSDAY, OPEN TURNTABLES, OPEN STAGE

NOW HIRING SERVERS, BUSSERS, SECURITY STAFF AND BARTENDERS

BOHEMIA DARQ Saturday BRITTANY’S Smoked Folk;

VUEWEEKLY SEP 26 – OCT 2, 2013

MUSIC 71

9pm; $10 cover BRIXX Authority Zero, Abandon

All Hope, White Knights Finish Last, Good Friday Brawl; On the Sidewalk Bleeding, California Lane Change; 9pm

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat

Open mic; 7pm; $2

FRI SEPT 27 THE BLACKSTONE CD RELEASE W/ TALLEST TO SHORTEST, MAYDAY AND THE BEATCREEPS & THE COLLECTIVE WEST SAT SEPT 28 TRAMP STAMPER CD RELEASE W/ OCEANS ON FIRE, OUT GO THE LIGHTS & THE RECKLESS REBELS MON SEPT 30

NO JOY

MONTREAL SHOEGAZE 4PIECE W/ ALEX CALDER & VERTTIGO

TUES OCT 1

GUTTERMOUTH

W/ AGENT ORANGE & THE DIRTBAGS WED OCT 2

KMAN & THE 45S PRESENTS SKA-MONES A SKA TRIBUTE TO THE RAMONES & SPECIAL GUESTS FROM TIGHTEN UP!

FRI OCT 4

CANCER BATS & BAT SABBATH W/ DUSTY TUCKER

TESSERACT

& SCALE THE SUMMIT W/ ANCIIENTS & OF ARTICULATE DESIGN

WED OCT 12

SARGENT HOUSE TOUR FEATURING: AND SO I WATCH YOU FROM AFAR & TTNG BOTH PLAYING FULL LENGTH SETS W/ MYLETS & DESIDERATA

SUN OCT 13 TERROR, COUNTERPARTS, POWER TRIP, CODE ORANGE KIDS, & SECRET RIVALS WED OCT 16

THE MAHONES

W/ LOUISE DISTRAS & WHISKEY WAGON

THUR OCT 17

ORANGE GOBLIN

W/ HOLY GRAIL, LAZERWULF & CHRON GOBLIN

FOR TICKETS- PLEASE VISIT WWW.YEGLIVE.CA

CONVOCATION HALL U of

Drifters featuring Rick Sheppard and Rhonda Franklin; $64.95 (dinner and show)/$44.95 (show only) CROWN PUB Acoustic blues

WINSPEAR CENTRE Alberta

open stage with Marshall Lawrence, 2-6pm; Evening: Down to the Crown: Marshall Lawrence presents great blues with Trevor Duplessis, Mad Dog Blues Band, every Sat 10pm2am, $5 (door)

DOW–SHELL THEATRE–Fort Saskatchewan Donald Lee

and The Kacafeenated Quartet (jazz); 7:30pm; free, Alberta Culture Days DUGGAN’S Stan Gallant DV8 Hoopsnake, Begrime Exemious, Tarantuja, Ftl, Vitriolage

EDMONTON ACCORDION EXTRAVAGANZA Sat Day:

Competitions (9am-noon); Children’s Mini Dance; 3 Workshops (1-4pm), $5 ea; Roland display, question/ answer/demonstration; $5/ free (child, 18 and under); Sat Night Concert

FESTIVAL PLACE Roy Rogers

Culture Days: family activities, performances by Edmonton Opera, Pro Coro (ticket event), Kita No Taiko, Prince Charles School Fiddlers, an open dress rehearsal (Sat morning), by the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra; and tours of the building; 12-5pm; free

WINSPEAR CENTRE Spanish

Symphony: William Eddins (conductor), Elmar Oliveira (violin); 8pm; $24-$79

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 THE BOWER For Those Who

Know...: House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests

Trio with Steve Ehrmann (bass), Billy Lee Lewis (drums/ percussion); 7:30pm; $34 (table)/$32 (box)/$30 (theatre) at Festival Place box office

THE COMMON Get Down It’s

FILTHY MCNASTY’S

ENCORE–WEM Every Sat: Sound and Light show; We are Saturdays: Kindergarten

Free Afternoon Concerts; Ravensword, Them Locals; 4pm; no cover FUSIA CORAL DE CUBA

Orquesta Salsabor (Salsa and Sabor); 8pm-2am; $10 GAS PUMP Saturday Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth HIGH RUN Duo Exhaust

(classic rock); 9pm; no cover

HILLTOP PUB Open Stage, HORIZON STAGE George

Canyon; 7:30pm; $45 (adult)/$40 (student/senior)

IRISH SOCIETY Amie Weyme JEFFREY’S CAFÉ Devin Hart

(jazz piano trio); 9pm; $10

L.B.’S Road to the WCMAs: Jimmy and the Sleepers, Graham Guest; 7:30pm LEAF BAR Sat jam with Terry

Evans, and featured guests; host Mark Ammar LOUISIANA PURCHASE

Suchy Sister Saturdays: Amber, Renee or Stephanie with accompaniment; 9:3011:30pm; no cover NEWCASTLE PUB Matt

Walker Band; 8pm

NEW WEST HOTEL Country

jam every Sat; 3-6pm; Evening: Silverado O’BYRNE’S Live band every

Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with resident Dane

DRUID DJ every Sat; 9pm

FANDANGO’S DJs night every Fri and Sat with DJ Stouffer FLUID LOUNGE R&B, hip hop

and dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Sat

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Collective Saturdays underground: House and Techno LUCKY 13 Every Fri and Sat

with resident DJ Chad Cook

ROOM Edmonton Blues

Society–Memphis Bound Competition: Solo/Duo Quarter Finals: Leigh Friesen, Jenie Thai, Charlie Jacobson, Sean Stephens, Ashley Barlow, Shiv Shanks, Breezy Brian and Moses Gregg, Music Worx; all ages; noon (door), 1pm (competition); $10; edmontonbluessociety.net

DUGGAN’S Celtic Music with

Duggan’s House Band; 5-8pm

FANDANGO’S Sun Industry

Night: House mix with DJ JEZ LF; Show and Shine/open stage every Sun: hosted by Marshal Lawrence; 6-11pm

HOG’S DEN PUB Rockin’ the

Hog Jam: Hosted by Tony Ruffo; every Sun, 3:30-7pm NEWCASTLE PUB Sun Soul

Service (acoustic jam): Willy James and Crawdad Cantera; 3-6:30pm O’BYRNE’S Open mic every

Sun; 9:30pm-1am

YARDBIRD SUITE Canadian

Featuring Abra King

BRITTANY’S Velvet Hour: Live

by Chris Wynters, guest

J+H PUB Acoustic open mic

every Wed with host Michael Gress; 9pm

SMOKEHOUSE BBQ Hair of the Dog acoustic Sun Jam with Bonedog and Bearcat; every Sun; 2-6pm

L.B.’S Tue Blues Jam with

Classical

LEAF BAR Tue Moosehead/

hosted by Better Us than Strangers; 5-9pm

ALBERTA COLLEGE Free Music Activities for Children: Concerts at 1:30, 2:30 and 3:30 performed by Conservatory youth performers; free; Alberta Culture Days CONVOCATION HALL

Culture Days: A Time for Everything: Pro Coro, Kita No Taiko, Edmonton Opera, Prince Charles School Fiddlers, an open dress rehearsal (Sat morning), by the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra; tours; 12-5pm; free

Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Mkhai

DJs

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

Main Floor: Soul Sundays: A

Saturdays

HOOLIGANZ Open stage

THE RIG Every Sun Jam

Edmonton Chante: 100% FrancoFun Night: live from KASBAR: Paul Cournoyer, Post Script, Daniel Gervais; 7-10:30pm Darrell Barr; 7:30-11:30pm

Barsnbands open stage hosted

by Mark Ammar; every Tue; 7:30-11:30pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

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

MON Sep 30 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

open stage every Mon; 8pm; host changes weekly

SUN Sep 29

NEW WEST HOTEL

BLACKJACK’S ROADHOUSE– Nisku Open mic every Sun

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park

Rodeowind

night hosted by Lorin Lynne

Season’s first Faculty Concert– jazz, pop and beyond: Raymond Baril, Jim Head, Chris Andrew, Kent Sangster, Chandelle Rimmer, Michael MacDonald, Brian Thurgood, John Taylor, Allan Gilliland, Bill Richards, Jerrold Dubyck, Craig Brenan, Ton Van Seters; 7:30pm; $21.75/$16.75 (student/senior) at TIX on the Square LEAF BAR Wed variety night:

NEW WEST HOTEL

with guitarist, Gord Matthews; every Wed, 8pm

O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every

Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm

MERCURY ROOM Little Flower Open Stage every Wed with Brian Gregg; 8pm-12

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park

NEW WEST HOTEL Free

Rodeowind

PAWN SHOP Guttermouth (punk),

with Lolcatz, Yaznil, Badman Crooks, Ootz

FANDANGO’S Wed open stage hosted by Michael Gress and Cody Noula; Original artist showcase at 9pm

JOHN L. HAAR THEATRE

WINSPEAR CENTRE Alberta

Swing Dance Party: Sugar Swing Dance Club every Sat, 8-12; no experience or partner needed, beginner lesson followed by social dance; sugarswing.com

Wed (unless there’s an Oilers game); no cover

KASBAR–YIANNI’S Festival

DUGGAN’S Singer/songwriter

The Rural Routes

BOHEMIA Acoustic Tuesday:

Regrets, W.M.D.; 9pm

J+H PUB Acoustic open mic

Y AFTERHOURS Release

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM

ELEPHANT AND CASTLE– Whyte Ave Open mic every

night every Tue hosted by Lorin Lynne; Everyone will have 10-15 minutes to play

PAWN SHOP Tramp Stamper

Andrew Scott

ARDEN Indigo Girls; 7:30pm

Edmonton Opera; 2pm

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM

host Duff Robison

TUE Oct 1

ENJOY CENTRE–St Albert

Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M

DUGGAN’S Wed open mic with DV8 Child’s Play, Any Last

The Campfire Hero’s (acoustic rock, country, top 40); 9pm-2am every Tue; no cover

ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge

musical styles from around the globe with Miguel and friends; musicians are invited to bring their personal touch to the mix every Wed

RICHARD’S PUB Sun Jam hosted by Andrew White and the Joint Chiefs; 4-8pm

BRITTANY’S Velvet Hour: Live music in the afternoons hosted

by Rob Taylor and Bill Bourne; Mon-Fri; 4:30-8pm; no cover

FoulMouth Fight To Swill Betty’s A Tramp; 8pm (door); $10 cover

CROWN PUB A Sexy Night with DJ Phoenix and MJ with Sleepless DJ, DJ Breeze and more every Mon; 9pm-2am

DRUID Jamhouse Tues hosted

UNION HALL Celebrity Saturdays: every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous

RENDEZVOUS PUB

Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay

RITCHIE UNITED CHURCH

Dueling Piano’s, all request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover

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

CROWN PUB The Dan Jam:

Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy

music in the afternoons hosted

by Rob Taylor and Bill Bourne; Mon-Fri; 4:30-8pm; no cover

Sleeman Mon: live music monthly: Luke Blu Guthri; 10pm; no cover

RED PIANO BAR Hottest

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

PAWN SHOP Transmission

and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests

music in the afternoons hosted

by Rob Taylor and Bill Bourne; Mon-Fri; 4:30-8pm; no cover

DJs

University Symphony Orchestra and Symphonic Wind Ensemble; 2-4pm; free

RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop,

of Blues

BRITTANY’S Velvet Hour: Live

COPA CABANA Festival Edmonton Chante: Mercredi: World Music Night: Mamselle Ruiz, Youssou Seck, La Luna De Santiago; 7-10:30pm

Sundays: Devon Coyote, Matt Blais, Element Orange; 9pm

TEMPLE Step’d Up Saturdays

(CD release, rock, metal, punk), Oceans on Fire, Out Go the Lights, the Reckless Rebels; 8pm; $10 (adv)

BLUES ON WHYTE A Fist Full

Five Finger Death Punch (The Wrong Side of Heaven Tour); 6:30pm

NEWCASTLE PUB Top 40 requests every Sat with DJ Sheri

Saturdays: Indie rock, new wave, classic punk with DJ Blue Jay and Eddie Lunchpail; 9pm (door); free (before 10pm)/$5 (after 10pm); 1st Sat each month

Main Floor: Glitter Gulch: live music once a month; On the Patio: Funk and Soul with Doktor

Erick every Wed; 9pm

ON THE ROCKS Seven Strings

Jazz and reflections: Don Berner Trio; 3:30-5pm; donations (door)

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

SHAW CONFERENCE HALL

WINSPEAR The Tenors for Bulembu (children’s choir); 7:30pm

Day admission: $5; Pancake Breakfast: (9-11am), $5; Competitions: 9am ; Trade Show & crafts; Open Championship

(pop rock, theatre), Jenie Thai; 7:30pm; $5 (adv)/$8 (door)

Darrek Anderson from the Guaranteed; every Mon; 9pm

EDMONTON ACCORDION EXTRAVAGANZA Sunday Day:

ON THE ROCKS Mourning OVERTIME–Sherwood Park

ROUGE Open Mic Night with

Classical

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

Wood with DJs; 9pm

REXALL PLACE Drake, Miguel, Future; all ages; 6pm (door), 7pm (show); $49.75/$69.75/$99.75 reserved

DV8 Off the Menu, Guise; 9pm

Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm

SHERLOCK HOLMES–DT

72 MUSIC

Classical A Dept of Music Mainstage Concerts: Three centuries of piano trio masterpieces: Trio Voce’s Patricia Tao (piano), Jasmine Lin (violin) and Marina Hoover (cello); 8pm; $20

CENTURY CASINO The

Jam every Sat; 3:30-7pm

THUR OCT 10

Jazz Series: From Montreal/ New York: Smoked Pianos (Jan Jarczyk/John Stetch); 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $18 (member)/$22 (guest)

classic country dance lessons every Wed, 7-9pm; Rodeowind

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park

Agent Orange, guests; 8pm; $20 (adv)

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

WUNDERBAR Jesse

PAWN SHOP Tighten Up: Kman

YARDBIRD SUITE Tuesday Night Sessions: Jeff Hendrick Quartet; 7:30pm (door); 8pm (show) $5

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic

LeBourdais, Jon Creeden, James Renton, Worst Days Down

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Main Floor: alternative retro and

not-so-retro, electronic and Euro with Eddie Lunchpail; Wooftop: The Night with No Name featuring DJs Rootbeard, Raebot, Wijit and guests playing tasteful, eclectic selections CROWN PUB Underground at

the Crown Tuesday: Trueskool and live hip-hop with residents Jae Maze, Xaolin, Frank Brown; monthly appearances by guests Shawn Langley, Locution Revolution, and Northside Clan

DV8 Creepy Tombsday:

Psychobilly, Hallowe’en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue

and the 45s present SKA-Mones a Ska Tribute to the Ramones; 8pm; $8 (adv)

Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:30-11pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member)

RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 THE RIG Open jam every Wed

hosted by Will Cole; 8pm -12am

WINSPEAR Live at the

Winspear: Michael Franti and Spearhead, Michael Bernard Fitzgerald; 8pm; $52 Winspear box office ZEN LOUNGE Jazz Wednesdays: Kori Wray and Jeff Hendrick; every Wed; 7:3010pm; no cover

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

RED STAR Experimental Indie

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

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

rock, hip hop, electro with DJ Hot Philly; every Tue

hosted by Tim Lovett

Mon Open Stage

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Sunday

PAWN SHOP No Joy (alt), Alex

Calder, Verttigo; 8pm; $10 (adv)

SUITE 69 Rockstar Tuesdays: Mash up and Electro with DJ Tyco, DJ Omes with weekly guest DJs

CHA ISLAND TEA CO Live on

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic

WED Oct 2

Experience: Classics on Vinyl with Dane

ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL

NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and

Brunch: Cramer Brothers; 9am3pm; donations the Island: Rhea March hosts open mic and Songwriter’s stage; starts with a jam session; every Sun, 7pm CKUA PERFORMANCE

VUEWEEKLY SEP 26 – OCT 2, 2013

instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm; contact Vi Kallio 780.456.8510

Open stage Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12

ARTERY Pins on a Map (album

release party), Joel Crichton

THE COMMON The Wed

‘80s metal every Wed

RED STAR Guest DJs every

Wed

EVENTS WEEKLY EMAIL YOUR FREE LISTINGS TO: LISTINGS@VUEWEEKLY.COM FAX: 780.426.2889 DEADLINE: FRIDAY AT 3PM

COMEDY ARDEN THEATRE • St Albert • Norman Foote (kids

songs, comedy) • Sep 28, 2pm COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre,

34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Thu: 8:30pm; Fri: 8:30pm; Sat: 8pm and 10:30pm • Dave Tsonos; Sep 26-28 • Tom Liske; Oct 3-5 COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM, 780.83.5999

• Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Hit or Miss Mondays: Amateurs and Professionals every Mon, 7:30pm • Gary Gulman; until Sep 29 • Cy Amundson; Oct 2-6 JUBILEE AUDITORIUM • 11455-87 Ave • Red Green

How to do Everything Tour • Sep 28, 7pm • Tickets at TicketMaster

MYER HOROWITZ • U of A • John Cleese: Last Time

To See Me Before I Die • Oct 2-6, 8pm • $75 at TicketMaster RIVER CREE–The Venue • Whose Live Anyway?: Improvised comedy and song • Sep 27, 6pm (door), 8pm (show) • $49.50; Sold out X-WRECKS LOUNGE • 9303-50 St • Connie’s

Comedy presents Travelling Open Mic: Danny Martinello co-hosting; 780.914.8966 to get on roster • Oct 4, 8pm

GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS AIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm ARGENTINE TANGO DANCE AT FOOT NOTES STUDIO •

Foot Notes Dance Studio, 9708-45 Ave, 780.38.3207 • Argentine tango every Fri, 8pm-12 • $15 DEATH CAFÉ • Pilgrims Hospice, 9808-148 St, 780.642.8703 • Care & Prepare: Discuss life, death and dying matters • Sep 29, 2-4pm • Donations DOLL CLUB OF EDMONTON SHOW • Alberta Aviation

Museum, 11410 Kingsway Ave • Antique, collectible modern sale of dolls, teddy bears and toys • Sep 29 10am-4pm • $5 FAIR TRADE TOWN • Alumni Rm, SUB Bldg, U of A • Celebrate your support of Fairtrade • Sep 26, 5:30-6:30pm • Free FABULOUS FACILITATORS TOASTMASTERS CLUB •

2nd Fl, Canada Pl, 9700 Jasper Ave, 780.67.6013 • Can you think of a career that does not require communication • Every Tue, 12:05-1pm FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican Church, 8424-

95 Ave, 780.65.2019 • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), 12-Step recovery program for thos suffering from food obsession, overeating, undereating, bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm 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 • 780.77.0683 • Downtown •

Practice group meets every Thu ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651,

780.451.1755; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free POWER SPEAKERS TOASTMASTERS CLUB • Jasper Park Community League, 8751-153 St • Promote yourself by building leadership, confidence and communication skills• Meet every Wed, 7-9pm• Contact: VP Ed, 780.720.2277 SAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP • Braeside Presby-

terian Church bsmt, N. door, 6 Bernard Dr, St Albert • For adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional families • Every Mon, 7:30pm SHERWOOD PARK WALKING GROUP + 50 • Meet

inside Millennium Place, Sherwood Place • Weekly outdoor walking group; walk through Centennial Park every Tue, 8:30am • $2/session (goes to the Alzheimer’s Society of Alberta) SOCIETY OF EDMONTON ATHEISTS • Stanley Milner

Library, Centennial Rm (bsmt)• Monthly roundtable 1st Tue ea month SOUTH EDMONTON GARDENING VEGETARIAN AND VEGAN GROUP • Park Allen Hall, 11104-65 Ave,

780.63.1626 • Bring vegetarian/vegan dish for 6; Healthy eating Habits and Student Mental Health, with speaker, Marilyn Bergstra • Sep 29, 5pm, 6:30pm (speaker only) SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM • 10545-81 Ave •

780.604.7572 • Swing Dance at Sugar Foot Stomp: beginner lesson followed by dance every Sat, 8pm (door) TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS) • Grace United Church annex, 6215-104 Ave, 780.79.5519 • Low-cost, fun and friendly weight loss group • Meets every Mon, 6:3pm THOUGHTFUL TUESDAY • Duncan Innes Park, 8102-

80 Ave • Movie Monday: Be the Change • Sep 30, 7-9pm WASKAHEGAN TRAIL • Meet: NW corner Superstore

Parking lot, Calgary Tr, 51 Ave • 10km hike along Pipestone Creek to Coal Lake; hike leader, David 780.434.2675; Sep 29 • $5 (carpool)/$20 (annual membership) WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old Strathcona Farmers' Market • Silent vigil the 1st Sat ea month, 10-11am Y TOASTMASTERS CLUB • Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (north door, stairs to the left) • Every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue. Develop confidence in public speaking and leadership; Antonio Balce, 780.463.5331

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS CRAIG SCOTT’S DEMOCRACY TOUR • Cité Franco-

phone, Main Fl, 8627-91 St • Sep 30, 7pm DEHYDRATOR DEMONSTRATION • King Edward Com-

munity League, Small Hall, 8102-80 Ave • Margaret Marean's presentation on how to make dehydrated crackers, burger, veg and fruit • Oct 2, 7-9pm • $25 DESIGNING DOWNTOWN–Pecha Kucha • Winspear,

9720-102 Ave • Speakers address how we design and develop our cities • Oct 5, 6:30pm (door, cocktails, exhibits), 7pm (presentations) • $35/$30

LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408-124 St, 780.488.5768 • Peer support for people living with HIV • Tue, 7-9pm • Daily drop-in/peer counselling PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre, 10608105 Ave, 780.88.3234 • Daily: Community drop-in; support and resources. Queer library: Tue-Fri 129pm, Sat 2-6:30pm; Queer HangOUT: 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, 780.488.3234 • Knotty Knitters: every Wed 6-8pm • QH Game Night: Board game fun every Thu 6-8pm • QH Anime Night: every Fri, 6-8pm • Movie Night: 4th Fri ea month, 6-9pm • Women’s Social Circle: 4th Thu, 7-9pm ea month • Men Talking with Pride: To discuss current issues; every Sun 7-9pm

780.36.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship)

SPECIAL EVENTS ALBERTA CULTURE DAYS • Various locations, 780.15.0281 • Sep 27-29 • Free for most events

780.92.3224 • Sharing her experiences from 30 years of reporting across Canada and the world, and explains how they have helped form her world view • Sep 27, 7-8:15pm • $15 at ticketfly.com

ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR FUNDRAISER • Stanley Milner Library, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Movie TBA, money raised goes towards funding this year's anarchist bookfair • Sep 27, Fri, 2:15-7:15pm • Free

GREEN DRINKS EDMONTON: The Election #yegvote

DEEPSOUL.CA • 587.520.3833; text: 780.530.1283

MAKESCAPE 2 • Centennial Plaza behind Stanley Milner Library • Oct 5, 3-11pm MEDICAL GENETICS • TELUS World of Science, 11211-142 St • Fri lecture series: Stephanie Skinner, Sajid Merchant • Sep 27, 7-8pm ST JEROME'S DAY–Translation Conference • Senate

Chamber, 3rd Fl, Convocation Hall, U of A • Cardinal Points of Translation: talks on translation scholarship; keynote panel discussing Scandinavian translation • Sep 30, 8:15am-6:30pm • Free

SEEING IS ABOVE ALL • Acacia Hall, 10433-83 Ave,

upstairs, 780.554.6133 • Free instruction into the meditation on the Inner Light • Every Sun, 5pm SUN IS RISING IN CANADA • Grant MacEwan

University, CN Theatre, 105 St Bldg, Rm 5-142 • Opportunities and Challenges: Presentations by Mr Donald of the Solar Energy Society of AB • Sep 26 7-8:30pm • Free VEGTOBERFEST 2013 • Earth’s General Store, 960582 Ave • World Vegetarian Day In Edmonton: Displays, food sampling, booths • Sep 29, 11am-3pm VITAL SIGNS REPORT LAUNCH–FOOD SECURITY IN EDMONTON • Shaw, 97 St, Jasper Ave • Interact

with groups and organizations contributing to food security in our city • Oct 1, 8-10am

QUEER BEERS FOR QUEERS • Empress Ale House, 9912 Whyte Ave • Last Thu ea month BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725 Jasper Ave, 780.88.6636 • Tue with DJ Arrow Chaser, free pool all night; 9pm (door); no cover • Wed with DJ Dust’n Time; 9pm (door); no cover • Thu: Men’s Wet Underwear Contest, win prizes, hosted by Drag Queen DJ Phon3 Hom3; 9pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Fri Dance Party with DJ Arrow Chaser; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Sat: Feel the rhythm with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm FLASH NIGHT CLUB • 10018-105 St, 780.969.9965 •

Thu Goth + Industrial Night: Indust:real Assembly with DJ Nanuck; 10pm (door); no cover • Triple Threat Fri: DJ Thunder, Femcee DJ Eden Lixx • DJ Suco beats every Sat • E: vip@flashnightclub.com G.L.B.T. SPORTS AND RECREATION • teamedmonton.

ca • Blazin' Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary School Gym, 10925-87 Ave; Every Mon/Thu, 7pm; $30/$15 (low income/student) • Mindful Meditation: Pride Centre: Every Thu, 6pm; free weekly drop-in • Progressive Core Stability and Abdominal Training with Barb Turner: Parkallen Community League Hall; Every Thu, Sep-Dec 19, 6pm (beginner/intermediate), 7:15pm (advance); $50 (month), $200 (season) • Swimming– Making Waves: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St • Bowling: Bonnie Doon Bowling Lanes: Every Tue, 6:30pm; until Apr 1, 2014; $15/week • Volleyball: Westminster Junior High School (Garneau); every Thu, Oct 3-Nov 21, 7-9pm; St Matthew Elementary School (NE): Tue, Dec 3-Mar 11, 8-10pm; Stratford Junior-Senior High School (west end): every Tue, Mar 18-Apr 29, 7-9pm, $65 (season), $35 (Half season), $5 (drop-in) • Badminton: Westmount Junior High Sch: Every Wed until Nov 6, 6-7:30pm • Martial Arts–Kung Fu and Kick Boxing: Every Tue/Thu, 6-7pm; GLBTQ inclusive adult classes at Sil-Lum Kung Fu G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E Bldg, Craftroom,

15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.74.8240 • Meeting for seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E: tuff @shaw.ca

“Thinking of View”--so listen carefully.

ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH • 11526-76 Ave,

(student) THE FACULTY OF ARTS PRESENTS: Anna Maria Tremonti • Myer Horowitz, SUB, U of A,

GUDDLING ABOUT • FAB 2-20, Fine Arts Bldg, 89 Ave, 112 St, 780.92.2081 • FAB Lecture Series: Exploring human/more than human interdependencies in relation to water in the urban environment, lecture presented by Donald and Millar • Sep 26, 5pm

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PRIMETIMERS/SAGE GAMES • Unitarian Church, 10804-119 St, 780.74.8240 • Last Fri ea Month, 7-10:30pm

ALL THINGS WOOL • Rutherford House, 11153 Saskatchewan Dr • The history of wool in Alberta, its sources, uses and products made from wool. Part of Alberta Culture Days • Sep 27, 12-4pm • Free

• Yellowhead Brewery, 10229-105 St • Launch of Green Drinks: meet candidates and people in your ward • Oct 2, 7-10pm

JONESIN' CROSSWORD

for location • Classic Covers Shindig Fundraiser • Every Sun: Jams with no Stan (CCR to Metallica), starring Chuck Prins on SG guitars: upcoming Century Casino show as well; GarageGigs Tour; all ages • Fundraising for local Canadian Disaster Relief, the hungry (world-wide through the Canadian Food Grains Bank) DISCOVER AFRICA • Louise McKinney Park,

Riverfront, 9999 Grierson Hill Rd • Alberta Culture Days: Drums, choir, performances and African dance lessons • Sep 27, 7-9pm; Sep 29, 2-6pm ELIZABETH'S ANTIQUE COLLECTIBLE SALE • Alberta

Aviation Museum, 11410 Kingsway Ave • Pop Culture, Vintage Clothing, Advertising Collectibles, Shabby Chic, Antique Furniture, Militaria, Jewellery, Petroliana, Art Glass, Vintage Toys, China, LPs, Sports Memorabilia, Coins, Stamps, Watches, Comics, Buttons and more • Oct 1-2 • $5 FREE MUSIC ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN • Alberta College, 10050 MacDonald Dr • Alberta Culture Days introduce children to the joy of music: Musical Instrument Zoo (children try a variety of instruments), Classical Music Concerts by Conservatory youth performers (at 1:30, 2:30, 3:30pm); tours of Alberta College Conservatory of Music (2pm, 3pm) • Sep 29, 1-4pm GRAND OPENING ITALIAN CENTRE–West End •

17010-90 Ave • Food, fun, music, entertainment and more food. Lots of food • Sep 28, 11am-4pm GRAPE EXPECTATIONS • Edmonton BMW, 7450

Roper Rd • Meals on Wheels' wine-tasting fundraiser • Sep 26, 7-10pm • $60 at 780.429.2020; mealsonwheelsedmonton.org/events JLS NIGHT MARKET • 102 Ave, 106 St, 780.901.8480 • Every Sat, 7-11pm; until Sep 28 • E: nightmarketedmonton@gmail.com LEAF EDMONTON PERSON'S DAY BREAKFAST • Delta Hotel, 10222-102 St • With Carmen Aguire (author, actress and activist) interviewed by Portia Clark • Sep 30, 7:30-9:30pm • $20 (student/senior/LowIncome)/$55 (adult) THE PARTY IN QUAD • Tuck Shop Tent on Quad, U of A North Campus • Watch Peter Sellers in The Party in the big tent in Quad; BYO blanket • Sep 28, 7:30-11pm • Free OUR ROOTS AR SHOWING • St John's Institute, 11024-82 Ave • Public Perogy Pinching Party: Learn to stuff, pinch, and cook your own pyrohy with Edmonton personalities;Sep 29, 2-4pm • Aboriginal Youth Culture: Showcase of art, music, dance and film;Sep 27 • Front Porch Folk Fest: Cam Neufeld, the Crawdad Trio, the Shumka Ukrainian Dancers, Bollywood Beat, Booming Tree Taiko Drummers, more; Sep 28 PHOTO FAIR • Wingate Inn, 18220-100 Ave • Swap

Meet: presented by Edmonton Photographic Historical Society: Buy/sell/trade used camera equipment–all things photographic • Sep 29, 10am-3pm • $3; 780.456.2717 RATT REDUX • RATT, SUB, 7 Fl, U of A, 8900-114 St

• music and retro music bingo with Chris Craddock • Sep 26, 7:30-11:30pm SHABAM–BEER TASTING FESTIVAL • Alberta Aviation Museum Hangar, 11410 Kingsway Ave, 780.51.6900 • Kidney Foundation fundraiser: Canadian Craft Beer Festival, music by Bardi Form • Sep 27, 7-10pm SOMBRILLA INTERNATIONAL DINNER AND SILENT AUCTION • Cité Francophone, 8627-91 St • Dinner by

Mexican Chef Victor Hugo • Sep 28, 6-10pm • $50 at: E: sombrillahome@gmail.com; proceeds to Sombrilla International Development Society's projects VEGTOBERFEST • Earth's General Store’s Parking

Lot, 9605-82 Ave • Displays, food sampling, booths, info • Sep 29, 11am-3pm • Free WESTERN CANADA FASHION WEEK • Arts Barns Westbury Theatre • Western Canada Fashion Week • Until Sep 26

Across

1 AMA members 4 Defiant stayer’s stance 11 Race participant?

14 Black Eyed Peas singer will.___ 15 Place for a friend to crash 16 SOS part 17 Bed linen where bad stuff goes on?

19 Hosp. diagnostic 20 “___ fair in love and war” 21 Smooth fabric 22 Random link from some stranger, say 23 Late comedian Phyllis 26 Island show 28 Planner square 29 “West Side Story” actor Tamblyn 32 Site to search for stomach remedies 36 Drinkware crafted between the mountains?

40 “In ___ of flowers...”

42 Clearer, as the sky 43 “Silver Spoons” actress Gray 44 What sports car engines have?

47 Put at, as a price 48 Sinn ___ 49 “But ___ Cheerleader” (Natasha Lyonne movie) 52 “The Georgia Peach” 55 “Primal Fear” actor Edward 57 Roo, for one 60 Disaster relief org.

63 Better Than ___ 64 Major miner concern?

65 Technical genius at filmmaking?

68 Animation studio drawing 69 D, E and F, but not F#, on a piano 70 Quit fasting 71 Daily ___ (political blog) 72 Instant coffee brand 73 Common omelet ingredient

10 Kind of poem 11 Easy win 12 A psychic may claim to see it 13 Barber’s quick job 18 Adult ed. course 22 “Jackass” crewmate once on “Dancing with the Stars” 24 Pitching stat 25 Rough game on a pitch 27 Abbr. in personal ads 30 Toby Keith’s “Red ___ Cup” 31 Tobacco type 33 Event where 13 is a good number 34 1051, to Caesar 35 Opium lounge 37 Utter madness 38 Late golfer Ballesteros 39 Senator Hatch 40 Jazzophile’s collection, often 41 Detroit suburb Grosse ___ 45 General ___’s chicken 46 “Bed-In” participant 50 Pat of “The Karate Kid” 51 Headwear of yore 53 Bingo call 54 Jeff who bought the Washington Post in 2013 56 Court judge 57 Sporty stereotype 58 Brand with a “Triple Double” variety 59 Slippery critters 61 “Walking in Memphis” singer Cohn 62 Coloratura’s offering 65 Earn a title 66 Cool, to the Fresh Prince 67 Suffix for sugars ©2013 Jonesin' Crosswords

Down

1 Total one’s totals?

2 Mexico’s national flower 3 Reason for insoles, maybe 4 “Was ___ das?”

5 Pursue with passion 6 Deep-sixes, to a thug 7 Language spoken in “Avatar” 8 Government IOU of sorts 9 Lizard that pitches insurance

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To place an ad PHONE: 780.426.1996 / FAX: 780.426.2889 EMAIL: classifieds@vueweekly.com 1005.

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DRAGON FX KINGSWAY is currently

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ARTISTS • $25/hour salary • Bonuses and additional health benefits as well.

• Must have -3yrs professional experience • Must have Up-To-Date Portfolio

Apply in person or Call: 780.444.2233 Email: 780bodyart@gmail.com

is in need of 3 Rubber Processing Machine Operators F/T Permanent $20.00/hr, 40 hrs/week, weekend shift work maybe required as needed; Completion of High School, Experience is an asset but willing to train.

Duties: Set up & operate machinery used for mixing, moulding & curing rubber materials or products, Load or feed rubber, pigments, filler, oil & chemicals into machines, Check & monitor processing conditions & product quality, Make minor repairs & maintenance, Able to follow direction & maintain safety practices & procedures.

Apply by Mail, Fax or E-mail jag@linexcoatings.com Fax: (780) 444-2715, Phone: (780) 487-9720, Employer: 1214646 Alberta Ltd. o/a Line-X Edmonton, Business/Work Location: 17395-108 Ave, Edmonton, AB T5S 1G2

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Coming Events

OIL CITY DERBY GIRLS All tickets are $10.00 in advance and $15.00 at the door, Kids under 10 are free!

Next up: Double Header Alice Capones VS CCRD Kill Jills River City Riot VS Glenmore Reservoir Dogs Oct 19 @ Oil City Grindhouse 14420 112 street Doors at 6pm Visit www.oilcityderbygirls.ca for more information

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Are you an animal lover?

WHARF Rescue is looking for volunteers We are a nonprofit animal rescue that provides shelter to homeless,neglected animals Please check www.wharfrescue.ca for more information Edmonton Chante The Festival’s team is presently looking for dynamic volunteers that are available during the next edition of Edmonton chante. If you would like to get involved, contact David Letky, at d.letky@acfaedmonton.ab.ca.

Thanks for your participation!

Fort Edmonton Park is in search of performers to terrify and delight audiences at our annual Halloween Spooktacular. Bring to life the bone chilling horror of our haunted houses as directed by Edmonton’s own theatrical legend Dana Andersen. This is a great opportunity to make connections, get experience working with professional actors, and have the kind of fun that only comes from making people wet themselves in terror.

Spooktacular runs October 25th and 26th, and rehearses Wednesdays through September and October.

Auditions held the last week of August. To audition, please send a recent photograph and resume to volunteer@fortedmontonpark.ca

Volunteers Wanted

Habitat For Humanity is building a pool of volunteers to help us with renovations at our newest ReStore.

Flexible hours, no experience necessary If interested, please contact Evan at ehammer@hfh.org or call (780) 451-3416 Help someone in crisis take that first step towards a solution. The Support Network`s Crisis Support Centre is looking for volunteers for Edmonton`s 24-Hour Distress Line. Interested or want to learn more? Contact Lindsay at 780-732-6648 or visit our website: www.TheSupportNetwork.com Help someone in crisis take those first steps towards a solution. The Support Network`s Crisis Support Centre is looking for volunteers for Edmonton`s 24-Hour Distress Line. Interested or want to learn more? Contact Lindsay at 780-732-6648 or visit our website: www.TheSupportNetwork.com Help the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation create a future without breast cancer through volunteerism.

Contact 1-866-302-2223 or ivolunteer@cbcf.org for current volunteer opportunities Like climbing for exercise and for your career? Event planners needed.

The Lung Association 780-488-6995 Ext 2225 Needed for our Long Term Care residence, daytime volunteers for various activities or just for a friendly visit!

Please contact Janice at Extendicare Eaux Claires for more details jgraff@extendicare.com (780) 472 - 1106 Room to Read is changing children’s lives in Asia and Africa through literacy programs and gender equality.

Join our Edmonton team and help us plan events to support our work, and spread the word about our amazing results.

Edmonton@roomtoread.org www.roomtoread.org Support local farmers and your community. SouthWest Edmonton Farmers Market is seeking volunteers to help with set up, market activities and take down each Wednesday.

This is fun, vibrant and community-oriented place and you get to be outside!

For more information please contact Melissa at 780-868-9210 Volunteering - Does your employer have a Day of Caring program?

We invite you to come and spend some time with us at Habitat for Humanity!

It’s easy to sign up a group of volunteers to work on one of our builds. Volunteers from beginners to garage “putterers”, to trades people come out and help us to build homes for families in our community. We provide all tools, equipment, safety gear and lunch. Volunteers work in small crews under the direction of our site supervisors. Our primary focus is safety and we have a fun, welcoming environment that’s great for an employee group to experience giving back to community together.

For more information, go to our website at www.hfh.org or contact Kim at 780-451-3416 ext 232.

Contact: Kim Sherwood Email: ksherwood@hfh.org Phone: 780.451.3416 Website: http://www.hfh.org

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Volunteering - Habitat for Humanity requires Landscaping Volunteers!

New houses with bare yards need love and our energetic volunteers will be beautifying yards for our families by planting trees, laying sod, building fences and decks and putting the finishing touches on our completed homes. This is an active opportunity open to volunteers of all skill levels.

Previous volunteers really enjoyed strengthening friendships and building new ones and knowing they had put in a good day of work.

Individual and group volunteers welcome.

Contact: Evan Hammer Email: ehammer@hfh.org Phone: 780.451.3416 Website: http://www.hfh.org Walking With Our Sisters Exhibit of Moccasin Tops, Edmonton 2013 Call Out for Volunteers: We are looking for volunteers to support this event starting Sept. 7- Oct. 17, 2013. Please contact Co-VolunteerCoordinator, Laura Sterling at: Laura.Sterling@metischild.com , or you can leave her a voicemail message if you have further questions at (780) 452-6100.

Growing Facilitators Volunteer Opportunity Sustainable Food Edmonton offers a Little Green Thumbs indoor gardening program to schools and childcare agencies and we are looking for volunteers. A green thumb is not a pre-requisite. However, gardening experience and a passion for children and youth are an asset. For info and volunteer application form: www.sustainablefoodedmonton.o rg

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Call for Proposals: Jackson Power Gallery, Edmonton Deadline: Ongoing The Jackson Power Gallery in Edmonton is seeking submissions for future exhibitions.

For further information, including photographs, gallery plan and submission requirements please contact: Paddy Lamb paddylamb@mac.com 780 499 7635

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Volunteering - Habitat for Humanity invites all women to build with us during Women Build Week: October 22-26 Are you a woman who has always wanted to volunteer on a Habitat for Humanity build site but were unsure if you had the necessary skills? You may be surprised how many women -- with no construction experience -- build homes with Habitat for Humanity. If you are a woman who wants to help families in our community, there is an important role for you on our build sites, whether you have no construction experience or a tool belt of skills. Your gift of time will give hard-working families an opportunity to build equity in a home and in their futures.

Volunteers are trained and equipped to perform every task accurately and safely by our expert site superintendents and crew leaders and will leave our build sites with an inspiring sense of accomplishment and satisfaction. We provide all tools, equipment and lunch.

All volunteers participate in onsite safety orientation/training. No minimum number of shifts required. Check our website www.hfh.org to register as a volunteer online , contact Louise Contact: Louise Fairley Email: lfairley@hfh.org Phone: 780.451.3416 Website: http://www.hfh.org Volunteering - Improve the Lives of Children in the Developing World Room to Read is changing the lives of children in Asia and Africa through literacy programs and gender equality.

Join our Edmonton team and help us plan events to support our programs, and spread the word about the fantastic results we are achieving. Skills in event planning, PR, marketing, graphic design are needed, but not essential. We welcome all volunteers. If this sounds interesting, email us at Edmonton@roomtoread.org Contact: Kerri Tulloch Email: Edmonton@roomtoread.org Phone: 780.425.4043 Website:

http://www.roomtoread.org/ Edmonton

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Artists Wanted

Artist to Artist

Take Your Best Shot: Youth Digital Photo Contest Returns St Albert- The Musée Héritage Museum is having its third annual youth photo contest!

This year the theme is Playing Around St Albert so we’re asking youth to take a picture of ‘play’ in or around St Albert – you might choose sports and games you play or watch, places you play, people you play with, friends, family or animals playing, or fitness/outdoor activities.

A jury will choose 12 photos from each age group to be displayed at the museum and on our website. Winning photographs will be displayed at the Musée Héritage Museum from November 26, 2013 – January 12, 2014. A special reception and prize presentation will be held on Friday, November 29.

Entries will be divided into three groups: Grades 3 – 6 Grades 7 – 9 Grades 10 – 12 Prizes will be awarded to the top three photos (as decided by a jury) in each age group.

1st prize: $200 gift card to McBain Camera 2nd prize: $150 gift card to McBain Camera 3rd prize: $100 gift card to McBain Camera Submission Deadline is October 15, 2013.

For additional information on Take Your Best Shot, or to enter, please visit our website www.MuseeHeritage.com or contact Joanne White at 780.459.1528 or joannew@artsheritage.ca The Paint Spot, Edmonton would like to extend an invitation to your organization, club, society, school or association to make use of the many exhibition opportunities we offer to members of the Alberta art community.

We encourage individuals and curators, particularly those who are emerging, as well as groups, to make exhibition proposals to our galleries: Naess, Gallery, Artisan Nook, and the Vertical Space.

For further information on these three show spaces, please visit our website, www.paintspot.ca

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SPECIAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: The Artisan Nook, Located at The Paint Spot, Edmonton, AB Looking for submissions of Holiday-themed craft/ artisan work for display/ sale Nov/Dec 2013. Artists who craft small, artistic objects are invited to submit exhibition proposals SUBMISSION DEADLINE: September 30, 2013.

For further information, contact Michelle at 780 432 0240 accounts@paintspot.ca www.paintspot.ca/galleries The 2013 Art in Transit program features 25 local and national projects on a variety of Pattison ‘urban screen’ and print media across Canada.

Pattison Onestop is now accepting proposals by artists and curators for original projects to include in our 2014 Art in Transit program.

For examples of past programming visit www.artintransit.ca.

Deadline for Submissions: October 14, 2013 Instructions for proposals: Proposals must include CV/bio plus 5 – 10 examples of past work (jpgs or links). Proposals can be emailed, shared via dropbox, or sent by mail. If emailing proposal, email must not be larger than 5MB. Address your email with the subject heading: Art in Transit PROPOSAL Send to: Sharon Switzer, Arts Programmer and Curator, Pattison Onestop 266 King Street West, Suite 300, Toronto ON, M5V 1H8

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Transitory Public Art Program 2014 The Edmonton Arts Council, on behalf of the City of Edmonton, is seeking local applications from a Lead Artist(s) and/or Curator interested in participating in the Transitory Public Art Program 2014.

Budget: $30,000.00 maximum per proposal Deadline for Submissions: 4:30 PM on Friday October 25, 2013 Installation: Project Complete

by December 2014 For more information, contact the Edmonton Arts Council Dawn Saunders Dahl, Public Art Program Officer phone:(780) 424–2787 ext 229 email:publicart@edmontonarts .ca dsaundersdahl@edmontonarts.ca

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Musicians Available

Old shuffle blues drummer available for gigs.

Influences: B.B. King, Freddy King, etc.

780-462-6291

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Musicians Wanted

Bass guitar player looking for Top 40 Band Call Matt 780-484-6806 Guitarists, bassists, vocalists, pianists and drummers needed for good paying teaching jobs.

Please call 780-901-7677 Tsunami Bros. surf band seeks another guitarist to share lead/rhythm duties. Phone John @ 780-432-1790

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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): I've got a good feeling about your relationship with intimacy in the coming weeks. Judging from the astrological omens, I think you will have a good instinct about how to drum up interesting fun with your most important allies. You'll just naturally know what to do to make your collaborative efforts synergistic. So by all means cash in on this potential. Don't just sit back and hope for the best; rather, call on your imagination to provide you with original ideas about how to make it all happen.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): Would you be willing to go to extraordinary lengths to transform aspects of your life that you have felt are hard to transform?

Now would be a good time to do that. Luck will flow your way if you work on healing your No 1 wound. Unexpected help and inspiration will appear if you administer tough love to any part of you that's addicted, immature or unconscious. Barriers will crumple if you brainstorm about new ways to satisfy your frustrated yearnings.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): I bet your normal paranoia levels will decline in the coming weeks.

Fears you take for granted won't make nearly as much sense as they usually seem to. As a result, you'll be tempted to wriggle free from your defence mechanisms.

Useful ideas your mind has been closed to may suddenly tantalize your curiosity. I won't be surprised if you start tuning into catalysts that had previously been invisible to you. But here are my questions: can you deal with losing the motivational force that fear gives you? Will you be able to get inspired by grace and pleasure rather than anxiety and agitation? I advise you to work hard on raising your trust levels.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): "Sometimes people have nothing to say because they're too empty," writes author Yasmin Mogahed, "and sometimes people have nothing to say because they're too full." By my reckoning, Cancerian, you will soon be in the latter category. A big silence is settling over you as new amusements and amazements rise up within you. It will be understandable if you feel reluctant to blab about them. They need more time to ripen. You should trust your impulse to remain a secret and a mystery for awhile.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): "Insight is not a light bulb that goes off inside our heads," says author Malcolm Gladwell. "It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out." Take that as a constructive warning, Leo. On the one hand, I believe you will soon glimpse quite a few new understandings of how the world works and what you could do to make it serve

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you better. On the other hand, you've got to be extra alert for these new understandings and committed to capturing them the moment they pop up. Articulate them immediately. If you're alone, talk to yourself about them. Maybe even write them down. Don't just assume you will be able to remember them perfectly later when it's more convenient.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): After a storm, British wildlife lover Gary Zammit found a baby heron cowering in a broken nest. Its parents were dead. Zammit took the orphan under his wing. He named it Dude, and cared for it as it grew.

Eventually he realized Dude was never going to learn to fly unless he intervened. Filling his pockets full of the food that Dude loved, Zammit launched a series of flying lessons—waving his arms and squawking as he ran along a flat meadow that served as a runway.

Dude imitated his human dad and soon mastered the art of flight.

Can you see ways in which this story might have metaphorical resemblances to your own life, Virgo? I think it does. It's time for your mind to teach your body an instinctual skill or self-care habit that it has never quite gotten right.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): For four days twice a year, the East China Sea recedes to create a narrow strip of land between two Korean islands, Jindo and Modo.

People celebrate the "Sea-Parting Festival" by strolling back and forth along the temporary path.

The phenomenon has been called the "Korean version of Moses' miracle," although it's more reasonably explained by the action of the tides. I foresee some sweet marvel akin to this one occurring in your life very soon, Libra. Be ready to take advantage of a special dispensation.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): The desire for revenge is a favourite theme of the entertainment industry. It's presented as being glamorous and stirring and even noble. How many action films build their plots around the hero seeking payback against his enemies? Personally, I see revenge as one of the top three worst emotions. In real life, it rarely has redeeming value. People who actively express it often wreak pain and ruin on both others and themselves. Even those who merely stew in it may wound themselves by doing so. I bring this up, Scorpio, because now is an excellent time for you to shed desires for revenge. Dissolve them, get rid of them, talk yourself out of indulging in them.

The reward for doing so will be a great liberation.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): Just for a few days, would you be willing to put your attention on the needs of others more than on your own? The weird thing is,

your selfish interests will be best served by being as unselfish and empathetic and compassionate as you can stand to be. I don't mean you should allow yourself to be abused or taken advantage of. Your task is to express an abundance of creative generosity as you bestow your unique blessings in ways that make you feel powerful. In the words of theologian Frederick Buechner, you should go "to the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet."

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): Imagine a scenario like this: the CEOs of five crazily rich US corporations, including a major defence contractor, stage a press conference to announce that in the future they will turn down the massive welfare benefits and tax breaks the federal government has been doling out to them all these years. Now picture this: the Pope issues a statement declaring that since Jesus Christ never had a single bad word to say about homosexuals, the Catholic Church is withdrawing its resistance to gay rights. I am envisioning a comparable reversal in your life, Capricorn—a flip-flop that seems equally improbable. But unlike the two I named, yours will actually unfold in the course of the next eight months. If it hasn't already started yet, it will soon.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): Matteo Ricci was an Italian Jesuit priest who lived from 1552 to 1610. For his last 28 years, he worked as a missionary in China.

Corresponding with his friends and family back home required a lot of patience. News travelled very slowly. Whenever he sent out a letter, he was aware that there would be no response for seven years. What would you express about your life right now if you knew your dear ones wouldn't learn of it until 2020?

Imagine describing to them in an old-fashioned letter what your plans will be between now and then ... what you hope to accomplish and how you will transform yourself. Right now is an excellent time to take inventory of your long-term future.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): The cosmos is granting you a poetic licence to practice the art of apodyopsis with great relish. You know what apodyopsis is, right?

It refers to the act of envisioning people naked—mentally undressing them so as to picture them in their raw state. So, yes, by all means, Pisces, enjoy this creative use of your imagination without apology. It should generate many fine ramifications.

For instance, it will prime you to penetrate beneath the surface of things. It will encourage you to see through everyone's social masks and tune into what's really going on in their depths. You need to do that right now. V

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