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Don't expect regret "Greenpeace protesters seek discharges, remain defiant," read the headline in the Edmonton Journal regarding the protesters who dropped the "Separate oil and state" banner off the Calgary Tower last year. Similarly, in the Toronto Star activist Jaggi Singh was portrayed by the prosecuting attorney as "an unrepentant and incurable ideologue bent on the violent destruction of capitalism," and it was stated "rehabilitating Mr Singh ... appears to be a lost cause." Activist Brigette dePape has faced a league of criticism over holding up a protest sign in the Senate, but has not backed down on her stance. Despite the conviction of their causes, the media and apparently the court system seem bent on securing a statement of remorse from political activists. While the presence of guilt or remorse on the part of the accused often enters into the judgement of a criminal and can assist in alleviating the charges against them, in the case of a political action taken with the conviction and knowledge of potential consequences it's interesting that there continues to be an expectation of remorse by the courts and the media. Citizens are taking political action against an injustice they have witnessed. They are willing to take the responsibility of losing their job or being sent to jail as consequences for their actions, but in no way should we expect
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them to express remorse for taking those actions. Very rarely do protesters enter a situation of civil disobedience without understanding the legal implications and the possibilities for personal consequences. In fact, that's what makes it civil disobedience: the refusal to obey a law believed to be unjust. The breaking of the law or the loss of the job become part of the statement about the severity of the inequality they are speaking out against. In the case of dePape, numerous commentators were outraged at her disrespect for Parliament, the house of democracy, but in the eyes of dePape and other activists, the sanctity of that house has already been broken by the people inhabiting it. Stephen Harper was found to be in contempt of Parliament—he broke the laws of democracy. The argument that he was re-elected does not hold weight with the 60 percent of voters who voted against his party. In the eyes of many, that means democracy is broken. Losing her job was the least dePape saw she could do to call attention to the problem. These actions are measured closely by the people who choose to take the hours and weeks out of their lives to complete them. If they are willing to take on the consequences of their actions, no one should demand that they feel remorse for standing up for what they believe in. V
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The right to a veil
Court process threatens women's ability to wear the niqab
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repeatedly between the ages of six and 11 and, though she disclosed the assaults to a teacher in 1992, charges weren't filed. On the first day of the preliminary trial, the accused stated they had no problem with NS's niqāb. By the second day, however, they appealed to their Section 7 right to full answer and defence and argued her veil made a cross-examination impossible. According to the defence, NS's demeanour might indicate whether she's telling the truth or lying, but there's simply no way to tell so long as her face is covered.
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ranted leave by the Supreme Court in March is NS v R, a case involving a niqāb-wearing woman who has pressed charges against her uncle and cousin for sexually as-
saulting her as a child. But the sexual assault in this case is proving to be a separate ordeal. The two accused are demanding that NS, a niqāb-wearing woman, reveal her face and the trial
has become about issues of religious freedom and cultural rights. NS, now a married woman, pressed charges against the accused in 2007. She alleges that she was assaulted
The lack of access to demeanour evidence shouldn't be a problem considering its proven unreliability. The Wizards Project, conducted by Dr Maureen O'Sullivan and Paul Ekman, determined that only 50 of 20 000 people could accurately identify deception in most cases—80 percent or higher. Even if the court insisted on referring to NS's behaviour as an indication of the validity of her statements, it isn't a wild supposition to suggest her behaviour might be atypical following the forced removal of her niqāb. Furthermore, even with the niqāb the court would still be able to examine NS's demeanor through other means,
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If Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi gets his way, cities will become a big agenda item for leadership candidates in all political parties this year. Nenshi would like to see a push by Alberta's two biggest cities to gain ground on financial commitments from the province as well as the development of a city charter. He publicly stated this week in the Edmonton Journal that he "will be working together aggressively in this leadership race and in the election to push for the interests of the two big cit-
including her tone of voice or choice of words. To simplify the niqāb-wearing issue as being only about the use of demeanour evidence is to grossly ignore the marginalization of Muslim and niqāb-wearing women. The tendency to regard these women suspiciously is an assumption that is culturallyrooted, a product of a society that views its criminals as the only people who cover their faces. For Natasha Bakht, professor of law at the University of Ottawa, it's evidence that niqāb-wearing women simply aren't welcome in the court system and that people believe they can't be trusted. "Publicly, there is this unwillingness to see niqāb-wearing women as going about their daily lives," Bakht explains. Veils are often regarded as repressive, as imposed upon the women who wear them, and the women who assert their autonomy are dismissed as living in a state of false consciousness. Throughout NS v R there have been attempts to prove NS's wearing of the niqāb is an act that may not be religiously motivated. She only began wearing it in 2004, and some people may see this as evidence of something less than full CONTINUED ON PAGE 9 >>
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SLIDESHOW ies—legislative authority, revenue sources and infrastructure." Toronto received a charter from the Province of Ontario in 2007 after years of lobbying. The charter recognizes the unique position of Toronto as a large city. It increased Toronto's flexibility in charging taxes and providing services. Currently, Edmonton and Calgary are beholden to the same rules of taxation and revenue under the municipal government act as small cities such as Sylvan Lake, Sherwood Park and Millet.
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FAILURE TO PROTECT Canada is failing to secure safe drinking water for Aboriginal communities. The auditor general's June report reveals a failure by the federal government to improve ongoing deplorable conditions on reserves. The report also points to a continued failure to improve educational resources in Aboriginal communities, as well as a lack of access to housing and drinking supplies. The report points to four key problems preventing improvement of the situation: the federal
government has failed to name services it will improve; those services are not in legislation but only named in policy creating a lack of impetus to act; funding for services has failed to be timely and is not stable; few organizations exist on reserves to assist in the delivery of these services. The auditor general also called attention to the fact that the failure to deliver clean, safe drinking water is a violation of UN resolutions on the human right to water and sanitation.
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Beyond the water licence system, recent comments by the chairman of Nestle and an Alberta government advisory board have her worried. Peter Brabeck, chairman of Nestle, recently made headlines by declaring Alberta an excellent place to consider trading water like a commodity. His communications department later clarified that the company wasn't involved in talks with the government to push forward the concept, but had merely made a presentation to the Alberta Water Research Institute last year. The company does, however, support a water market. "The company believes an exchange-based water trade within a river basin or around an underground aquifer would establish a realistic value for water," reads the clarification. It goes on to
Water markets in Alberta could mean big profits and lower protection
Water belongs to Albertans. When you have a market system, it doesn't prioritize use for people or water for the river.
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say that putting a value on water would force industry to conserve. "It would also help with a transparent re-allocation of water usage rights in times of major shifts, such as new users entering the scene, or climate change." The Premier's Council for Economic Strategies also proposed a new Alberta Water Authority last month, with conservation cited as a core factor. The authority would put a water allocation market in place.
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t may not seem like it when you open your utility bill, but water in Alberta and Canada is free. Residents pay for the delivery system of pipes and drains, but the resource itself doesn't carry a price-tag. In recent years there's been plenty of rumbling about how that could change, and a polarized debate has emerged. Some argue that putting a value on water leads to commodification, putting the vital, life-sustaining resource in the hands of private corporations. Others insist allowing water to flow freely encourages people and companies to waste it without repercussions, a situation which can't continue given environmental concerns. Alberta's unique experience with water scarcity and a licensing system that allows water rights transfers puts the province smack in the middle of this boiling debate.
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When the developers of a planned racetrack and mega mall north of Calgary in Balzac couldn't get a licence to withdraw water from the dwindling South Saskatchewan River, they simply went to an already existing water licence holder and bought the right to withdraw the water. It's the most notorious example of how Alberta has allowed a water market to evolve in the province. Barry Robinson, a lawyer with Ecojustice, a national non-profit providing environment-focused legal services, says a move to a market system for water in Alberta means "windfall profits" for the lucky, current owners of water licences. "The irrigation districts and other big users like the City of Calgary got their licences in the late 1800s and early 1900s for free," he says. "Now, they are holding water that could be sold for $5000 and $10 000 an acre." In 2006, the province closed the South Saskatch-
ewan river basin to new users when it discovered that licences to withdraw water exceeded the river's capacity. So the irrigation districts, which represent groups of farmers, began transferring unused portions of their water licences to others. Emma Lui, the Council of Canadians' national water campaigner, says corporations and other private interests shouldn't have that kind of control over water. "Water belongs to Albertans," she says. "When you have a market system, it doesn't prioritize use for people or water for the river." The Council of Canadians, a national citizens' advocacy organization, has taken a strong stance against any commodification of water, saying moves to put a price on water will lead to corporate domination of the resource. Under that system, both the environment and regular citizens lose out, Lui says.
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The province needs better information and better management of its water resources, says Bob Fessenden, deputy minister for the Premier’s Council for Economic Strategies. The proposed Alberta Water Authority would tackle that. "There are already informal water exchanges taking place," he says, referring to the water licence transfers in the South Saskatchewan. "What's required here is a visible, rules-based system." Part of making it a more orderly system involves monitoring how much water licence holders actually withdraw from the river, or how much of that water is returned back to the river. The new incentive-based system would also encourage better use of the water, he says, but he insists it's not about putting a price on water. "We are not talking about selling water," he says. "We are talking about a management system that puts a value on water that starts to direct it towards higher and better use." Lui disagrees. Wealthy companies won't pay any attention to the cost because it wouldn't be enough to affect their bottom lines. In some ways, it could make the situation worse. "It makes them think that they’ve paid for it, and can use it however they want to," she says. "They can use as much of it as they want to, or pollute it. It sends the wrong message." Robinson also has a problem with the water market system. Since many of the existing water licences will have seniority over any government licences held to help protect the environment, he doubts the government's ability to protect Alberta's rivers and lakes. But the province isn't anywhere near the Alberta Water Authority becoming a reality, says Fessenden, saying a recommendation is hardly government policy. Considering the Tories are currently undergoing a leadership race, and a provincial election is expected in the fall, there could be no movement on the water authority for a long time. "The devil, as they say, is always in the details." Angela Brunschot // Abrunschot@vueweekly.com
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City Centre redevelopment reality may not match hopes the profit from the sale of the property gets applied back into the various sustainable opportunities." Building a sustainable community doesn't necessarily mean it costs more. For example, laying out the buildings to maximize the amount of sun and solar energy collected doesn't cost extra money: it simply
of what this development will be," says Sande. The final look of the development will be fleshed out as individuals and corporations buy up the land and build on it. So the actual look and feel of the neighbourhood—which will take 30 to 50 years to develop—could be
The city is really great at planning and creating these big visions, but they are really poor at implementing and committing to them when it comes down to allocating budgets and resources.
requires better forethought, Sande says. The other factor to consider is that deciding on a team merely starts the re-development process: the public will be consulted for a 15-month period. After that, the design team will come up with the plans for the area, including the master plan, neighbourhood plans and zoning. "What we do with this team is identify the skeleton, the bones
quite different from the conceptual plan presented by the winning design team. During this process, it's important to raise people's expectations, says Sande, because that creates buy-in from the community. "If you don't set your sights high at the very beginning, then you have no chance of ever achieving it." angela brunschot // abrunschot@vueweekly.com
Community mandate The master planning principles were approved by City Council in 2009. They were meant to guide design submissions and part of City Council's selection of the final design is based on the design firm's interpretation of the following principles and ideas.
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his past week, city council chose a design team for the airport lands. The vote marks the end of a year-long international design competition for the contract to plan development on the closing Edmonton City Centre Airport. The city was looking for a team capable of creating a world-leading, environmentally sustainable community with easy access to public transit. Before a final winner was announced, however, local architect Shafraaz Kaba had some doubts about the city's ability to deliver the sustainable development that city council says it wants. "The city is really great at planning and creating these big visions," he says, "but they are really poor at implementing and committing to them when it comes down to allocating
budgets and resources." Kaba has been involved in the process. He was part of the bid from BNIM, an architectural firm from Kansas City, Missouri, which didn't make the last round. The recent arena decision is a case in point, says Kaba. The process was not transparent as it ought to have been, and a price has already been set, before proper consultations on design. "Right away, they are making it about price," he says. "That tells you that the city would rather cheap out when it comes to the design than go over budget."
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investment in wearing it. One judge appealed to NS's driver's licence photo, in which she was not wearing her niqāb. Less weight is placed on the fact that the photo was taken in front of one woman, not the two men she's ac-
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Besides the funding, Kaba is concerned about making sure the development works in the context of Edmonton. All the firms that made
it to the final round of the airport redevelopment presented plans that don't match the reality of Edmonton, he says. "I'm afraid that what might end up happening is that we'll get something like Summerside," he says, "where you make a fake lake for storm water retention, and it doesn't become as special as the images we've seen." Making sure that the project lives up to it's potential is a legitimate concern, says Phil Sande, executive director of City Centre Airport Redevelopment, but money might not be the deciding factor here. This is a unique situation and there are several factors in the city's favour. "Having the city as the owner of the land at the base level allows us to have the affordability," he says, "as council gets to decide how much of
cusing of having repeatedly sexually assaulted her; the preliminary inquiry judge deemed her religious belief to be "not that strong." NS is the first niqāb-wearing woman to challenge the criminal trial process—others have been in Canadian courts without issue. The decision made by the Supreme
Court will affect all Muslim and niqāb-wearing women who enter the court system. It's possible all women who testify will be required to reveal their faces. Though there may be cases where the wearing of a veil may impede the proper conduct of a case, NS's sexual assault trial is not one of these cases.
Moreover, there is no argument sufficient enough to require a sexual assault complainant to remove her clothes before the accused. "The legal system holds on dearly to the belief that lower courts should see the witness's face," Bakht explains, but she urges that there are alternatives available. Some women
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• It must retain the history of Edmonton's aviation legacy. • The redevelopment has been mandated to be the most comprehensively sustainable development in the world using 100 percent renewable energy. • The City Centre Redevelopment team is using the UN definition of sustainable: "Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Three dimensions of societal development must cooperate for sustainable development: The social, economic, and ecological dimensions.”
• The redevelopment must have the capability to empower people to make different lifestyle choices. • As part of the planning principles, the redevelopment committee included the example of the One Planet communities. These are urban eco-villages that include real estate with zero emissions and zero waste, as well as sustainable transport with an 82 percent reduction in carbon dioxied emissions. • Project proposals should reach LEED Gold standards which call for energy efficient electronics, recycled carpet, the use of mountain-pine beetle wood and furniture from 100 percent recycled material. • Space for public parks and the presence of restorative ecological initiatives must be present. • A green energy system including a zero carbon district energy system which connects with NAIT. samantha power // samantha@vueweekly.com
may be comfortable removing their veil in front of the judge alone or under similar arranged circumstances. "Rather than assuming what is and isn't permitted," Bakht says, "we should explore what niqāb-wearing women might like." derek warwick // derek@vueweekly.com
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The "Prague Spring" of 1968 was a rule in the old Soviet Union itself by out in Bahrein, whose fate resemgallant attempt at a non-violent late 1991, could have been stopped bles that of Prague in 1968. And democratic revolution, but it was if the local Communist regimes had while the revolt in Yemen has probcrushed by Soviet tanks. Eighteen been willing to follow the Chinese ably displaced the old regime, it years later, in the Philippines, the example, but none of them had the has been very violent, and the new first "people-power" revolution sucstomach for killing on that scale. regime may be no more democratic ceeded, and since 1986 nonSo about 350 million Europethan the old. violent revolutions have ans got their freedom and Same goes for Syria, and of course driven a great many dicalmost nobody died. At for Libya. There are no one-size-fitstators from power. The almost exactly the same all techniques for revolution or for kly.com time, the apartheid regime most recent was in Egypt, anything else. But the desire for uewee v @ e n gwyn e n in February—but there in South Africa released democracy, equality and fairness n y w G never was a guarantee that Nelson Mandela and began survives everywhere, and the least Dyer these revolutions would turn the talks that led to majority bad technique for trying to achieve out well. rule in 1994. A very well-connected those things is still non-violence. It depends partly on how bad the African friend of mine told me later Even if sometimes the revolution ethnic and religious cleavages are what had actually happened. succeeds but the aftermath doesn't. in a country: Bulgaria and RomaIn late 1989, after the East GerThe original "people power" revonia were OK, but Yugoslavia was man, Czech and Romanian regimes lution in the Philippines was fola blood-bath. It depends to some had fallen with scarcely a shot belowed by two decades of political extent on how poor and illiterate ing fired, the head of the National turbulence. Yugoslavia splintered the population is, although even Intelligence Service, the South Afinto half a dozen warring fragvery poor countries have made a rican secret police, went to State ments. Russia, though it escaped successful transition to democracy. President FW de Klerk and warned mass violence, is not exactly a modAnd it depends on good leadership him that if the African National el democracy. and good luck, too. But it is the Congress put half a million people On the other hand, South Korea, dominant political phenomenon of on the street in Johannesburg, he Indonesia and South Africa are now our time. would only have two options: to kill all democracies. So are Poland, RoThe revolution in the Philippines succeeded because by the lateNon-violent revolution works often enough, '80s, everything was happening in and its results are positive often enough, that it real time on global television. Opis still the most hopeful political development pressive regimes that had never of the past quarter-century. had much compunction about killing people who challenged them didn't feel confident about doing it before a global audience. They no ten thousand of them, or to surrenmania and Taiwan. The aftermath longer felt free to use massive force der power unconditionally. may not be what most people unless the protesters gave them If he didn't like either of those ophoped for in Egypt, and it probably an excuse by resorting to violence tions, he should start negotiating won't be in the case of Syria. But themselves. the transfer of power now. So Mannon-violent revolution works often The Marcos regime that was overdela was released, and eventually enough, and its results are posithrown in the Philippines in 1986 there was a peaceful transition from tive often enough, that it is still the was a mere kleptocracy with little apartheid to majority rule. most hopeful political development ideology beyond a vague "anti-comThen there's a long gap, perhaps of the past quarter-century. munism." When the infection spread partly explained by the fact that The glass is half-full, and getting to China in 1989, the outcome was the number of dictatorships in the fuller. Even the most wicked and different, because a disciplined Comworld had already shrunk considruthless rulers must now take world munist dictatorship was willing to erably. An attempted non-violent public opinion into account, and we kill large numbers of its own people revolution in Iran in 2009 was merexpect them to behave much betin front of the television cameras. It cilessly crushed. People worried ter than dictators did in the bad old understood that if it failed that test, that repressive regimes might have days. They may disappoint our exit would not survive. finally figured out how to counter pectations, but that is the standard Less ruthless Communist dictatornon-violent revolution. And then by which they will be judged, and ships in Europe, longer in power and along came the "Arab spring." they know it. V ideologically exhausted, did fail the Gwynne Dyer is a London-based test. The non-violent revolutions So the technique is still alive, and journalist. His column appears every that began in East Germany in Noit worked in Tunisia and in Egypt. On week in Vue Weekly. vember, 1989, and ended Communist the other hand, it has been stamped
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PREVUE // IMPROV
Neil Hamburger on ...
IMPROVAGANZA
that's a bad scene. With the comedy crowds you get these drunk idiots who just watched Beverly Hills Cop II on TV that night and said, 'Oh, let's keep the laughter going,' and they don't even listen to what you say, they're just laughing their fool heads off because they think that's what you're supposed to do at a comedy club. Then you get these groups of secretaries and these bachelor parties and these people look at you as the wallpaper, you're just there as part of their evening and they're not even laughing at the jokes, they're laughing at their own miserable existences."
// Bryan Birtles
On hecklers ...
Wed, Jun 15 – Sat, Jun 25 Presented by Rapid Fire Theatre Varscona Theatre & Transalta Arts Barns
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or more than a decade, Edmonton's venerable Rapid Fire Theatre has run Improvaganza, Canada's largest improv festival. Gathering improvisers from as far away as Japan and as close as Strathcona, the festival has grown into a meeting ground for different styles, cultures and types of improv. In recent years, the festival has also grown to encompass not just improvisation but a full spectrum of alternative comedy. First under former artistic director Kevin Gillese, and continuing under current artistic director Amy Shostak, Improvaganza has morphed into a festival that welcomes a wide variety of under-the-radar comedians and artists. "A lot of people think 'comedy' and they think 'stand-up comedy' and they think
of stand-up comedy as a very specific thing: it's a person with a microphone making observations about the world they live in. That's great and there's a place for that and it's very well-received, but what we're interested in is the idea of spontaneous comedy and how comedy doesn't have to be joke telling," says Shostak. "That's really interesting and I think it's artful, more artful than trying to fit into the mainstream idea of what comedy is, being able to go, 'We don't have to fit into this mould: we can do whatever we want.'" Far from being a mainstream comedy festival, this year's Improvaganza will feature performers such as Neil Hamburger—an anti-comedy stand-up comedian—the School of Night—a literary improv group from England that creates work in the vein of Marlowe, Raleigh and Shakespeare, going so far
as to improvise in iambic pentameter— and Norway's The Most Beautiful People in the World—an improv duo bent on educating the world about Norway. In addition to these and many other performers, this year's fest will feature a "Social Media Show," which will experiment with real-time online interaction with the audience. "We're trying to incorporate Twitter and Foursquare and all that stuff into an improv show and there's going to be bloggers present and live tweeting from the audience, so I think that's a pretty experimental and unique thing to do," Shostak enthuses. "We're hoping it'll draw some kind of a unique crowd, hopefully some of the people that are integrated into the Edmonton Twitter community. I don't know what it's going to be, but it'll be pretty cool." Bryan Birtles // bryan@vueweekly.com
artifacts Broadway Rocks 2! / Until Sat, Jun 18 (7:30 pm) Staple local company Edmonton Musical Theatre's 34th annual show traverses the biggest hits of both modern and classic broadway shows. They promise a revue spanning the likes of "Frank Sinatra, Jersey Boys, Million Dollar Quartet, Promises-Promises, Disco standards, Rock of Ages and Green Day," all in the name of that massive feel-good spectacle that only Broadway can fully pull off. (Westbury Theatre, TransAlta Arts Barns, $25)
The Crystal Ball / Sat, Jun 18 (7 pm) Though not taking place at the Varscona Theatre itself, The Crystal Ball is the annual fundraiser for a number of its resident theatre companies, as well
Performing at this year's Improvaganza, Neil Hamburger is the world's foremost anti-comedian, whose act consists of alienating the audience and turning the conventions of stand-up comedy on their head. He gave Vue his thoughts on aspects of his life:
A life in comedy ...
"It's really a tragic mess and I urge your readers not to choose this field of endeavor because while you will have the occasional person that comes up to you and says, 'Neil, I love what you do,' the reality is you're going to spend many many, many, many hours behind the wheel driving from one show to another in complete financial and emotional ruin."
On his typical audiences ...
"At the music venues you've got these drugged-up sickies who are coming there to have their brains blown out with a loud beat and these people don't know a good laugh from a good bath and honestly they could use both, so
"It's something everyone deals with. I don't know if you've ever interviewed Justin Timberlake, but even someone like that will occasionally have someone at one of his concerts who screams out, 'Your music is of poor quality!' and there's nothing he can do except keep singing because you can't let these people win, especially not when they're right, as in the case of the Timberlake heckler who I cited as an example."
On improv ...
"I think improv is a $2 term that's being applied to normal interaction. We're doing an interview right now and I'm not going off a script, but someone could say, 'Oh, what a great "improv" performance'— no! We're just having a conversation. I think a lot of times when you're on stage things will come out of your mouth that weren't scripted, weren't planned, but I don't think you have to call it improv—I think it's just a part of life." V Neil Hamburger performs Thu, Jun 23 (11 pm) at the Varscona Theatre.
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as for the building, which is about due for a pretty hefty facelift. Songs, performance and a silent auction are all on the agenda. (Expressions Café, $85)
tfest show Pushed, which this very paper gave a rare five-star review to. Just saying. (Leva Café, by donation [$5 minimum])
PornStar USA Fundraiser / Sat, Jun 18 (8 pm) It's not what it sounds like. Honest. Rather than trying to earn funds for XXX-types south of border, this fundraiser looks to drum-up funds for the upcoming works of some of Edmonton's finest playwrights: Chris Craddock, Conni Massing, Mark Stubbings, Michelle Kennedy and Jason Chinn are all showcasing samplings of new works they have in progress (the title comes from a revamped version of Craddock's previous Fringe hit). There's also an encore performance of Jessica Peverett's just-closed Nex-
DIYalogue / Sun, Jun 19 (2 pm) Interested in starting a hands-on project, but not sure where to start? DIYalogue, presented by Edmonton's NextGen—in their own words, "a hub for connecting people, places, community and ideas together"—is a mingler for creatively inclined, where established DIYers share their wisdom with those who may not know where to start. You get "20-minute, one-on-one mentorship mini-dates" with the likes of The Royal Bison, The Edmontonian, SOS Fest, Parlour Magazine and more. Plus, it's only a mini-date, so, y'know, no pressure. Put your creative self out there. (The Artery)
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Hooked on Bardics / Sun, Jun 19 (8 pm) It's a match made in iambic pentameter heaven: visiting UK-based Shakespearean improv troupe, The School of Night, and The Freewill Shakespeare Festival are combining forces for a fundraiser evening of comedy a la The Bard, with proceeds going to Freewill's yearly fest—happening at the end of this month, with concurrent productions of Othello and Twelfth Night—which provides an opportunity to see Shakespeare's works in an open-air venue. It's far from a stuffy classroom Shakespeare experience, seeing the works influenced by weather and any particularly bold chipmunks that may scatter across the onstage action. (Varscona Theatre, $25)
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T Tickets available at T Tix on the Square or at the door
Come out and enjoy not only the shows, but the festive Irish pub between shows too! JUNE 28 - JULY 3, 2011 Full show schedule at
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REVUE // VISUAL ARTS
PREVUE // THEATRE
Testing the limelight
MY BANFF
StageLab joins the summer festival lineup
Until Aug 7 Works by Sarah Fuller Art Gallery of Alberta
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arah Fuller's My Banff exhibition in the AGA's New Works Gallery seeks to reclaim a place overtaken by tourism and the wilderness entertainment narrative it manufactures. "Banff has always functioned as a place of natural exoticism," she says. Through the use of diorama, miniatures and photographs, Fuller makes visible an alternate narrative usually hidden behind the veneer of Main Street. The centerpiece of the exhibition space is The Banff Bubble, a plasticdomed, miniaturized version of the town constructed from materials usually reserved for the making of model trains. Although the familiar Banff
landmarks remain, Fuller adjusts the viewer's focus to the personal relationships significant to her experience of living in the mountain town, and the places marked by those stories. Inserted among the hand-painted plastic model houses and buildings in the miniature town are photograph cut-outs accompanied by brief stories and descriptions from Fuller's experience of living in Banff. Thousands walk the Banff Springs Hotel every year, but few are likely to know, as Fuller points out, the location of the hot tub it's easy to sneak into, or the very existence of the hotel's bowling alley. The artist provides an insider's view of Banff in this diorama, one you peer down upon to learn about dance parties and favourite riverside spots, introducing you to local residents and their homes in the small town.
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In the use of the miniature model materials and the cut-out photographs on paper, another level of meaning is formed by this contrast in materials. The tiny perfection of the model town, and the controlled topography with its trees of uniform height and width, versus the insertion of tiny portraiture accompanied by casually written personal notes by the artist, reinforces that juxtaposition between an industry-manufactured narrative and a personal telling of life in Banff. The introduction of a few of the people with whom she shares a dayto-day existence in Banff could be read as just a sweet valorization of her friends and neighbours. This idea is made more potent by the photographs hung on the walls surrounding the bubbled town that feature the images of the people who populate the diorama enlarged and in situ. The conventional, majestic Rocky Mountain landscape is forced to take a backseat in these photographs as attention is focused upon a person in their everyday context. The sublime views are traded for peopled front steps, old RVs and garage driveways, humanizing Banff as a lived-in place. Coupled with the diorama, the exhibition is a subversive one, reclaiming Banff from the pervasive story manufactured by the tourist industry. Worth considering as you explore this exhibition is the additional level of complexity created by what the artist allows us access to in her version of Banff. You are only permitted a certain level of intimacy with Fuller's personal Banff. The protective plastic bubble mediates intimacy with the diorama—we remain tourists even in this alternate version of Banff.
A scene from Don Hannah's The Cave Painter
Wed, June 15 – Wed, June 29 Stagelab Second Playing Space, Timms Centre for the Arts, $10 Schedule available at www.drama. ualberta.ca/StageLabFestival
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dmonton has a wealth of theatre festivals, and it speaks to the continued vitality of our city's theatrical scene that new festivals are continually appearing. StageLab, a theatre festival arising out of the University of Alberta's drama department, is among this year's new entrants to the festival circuit. "The focus of the event is really to showcase my faculty," states Kate Weiss, drama department chair and founder of StageLab. "All of the practitioners on our faculty at U of A work in the profession, and we try to balance that with teaching. Our research, as opposed to writing books, is directing, designing and reading plays. But a lot of that work happens away from the university. "I wanted to create an event that would encourage collaboration with my faculty," she continues. "We have various partners, but it's all centered on the faculty and the creative research we do—which is all very different."
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tions of several finished plays, as well as stage readings of works in progress; there will also be a workshop clown show facilitated by Mike Kennard of Mump and Smoot. "This year is centered on new work," notes Weiss. "I think it will be different every year, it will happen annually in June and it will always have a different personality." Kim McCaw, a professor of drama at the U of A, is directing the world premiere of The Cave Painter, a new play by former playwright-in-residence Don Hannah. "Part of what we're trying to do with StageLab is to make this an important event that looks at new work that is coming out of our faculty—so this was the ideal place for it," explains McCaw. "I'm hoping that we can find a way to tour the show in the future. Then of course we'll be able to say it had its premiere here at StageLab." There are several festivals in town that focus on new work, but Weiss notes that StageLab differs from the others in a key way. "This is mature work," she says. "In terms of the actual plays we're producing, these are writers who have long histories and long track records. So it's new work, but it's new work by very experienced, practiced artists." Mel Priestley
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// Josiah Hiemstra
Her Banff is your Banff, too
The festival will encompass produc-
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PREVUE // BOOKS
PREVUE // THEATRE
THE ALCHEMISTS OF KUSH
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
Now available online physical release on Thu, Jul 7 Written by Minister Faust
'M
y books are always a bunch of things together," Minister Faust explains. He's not just making a sweeping statement: an accomplished author with two acclaimed novels already behind him, both of his previous works carry an undeniable element of postmodern coupling in both style and substance. The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad gave Edmonton a mythic sheen—centred on two brilliant young slackers, it blended pop culture, hip-hop sentiment and ancient Egyptian folklore together—while From the Notebook of Dr Brain, (a runner up for the Philip K Dick award), flipped the impervious superhero mythology on its head by showing us the confidential meetings between the fantastically powered and their personal therapist. In other words, his novels are amalgams, modernizing myths to make them fit into the world Faust sees around him (or in the case of Dr Brain, flipping a current mythology in a new way). "Like probably the majority of human beings, I find these stories fascinating because they are about people in the midst of crisis who are also encountering wonder and experiencing awe, even in the midst of tragedy," he says, of adding mythic structure to modern tales. "There's always the promise of some kind of, even facing the worst odds, the hope for, if not the promise for, redemption and transformation. "Whether we're talking about the living religions that are well known across the world, or the mythologies of religions that are no longer practiced, any science fiction or fantasy novel you can find today probably doesn't come close
to the level of detail and fascination you can find in any of these myth systems." Faust's forthcoming novel, The Alchemists of Kush, transmutes a trio of threads into a modern myth. It follows a pair of Sudanese refugees— one in modern Edmonton, one from 7000 years ago—and in arcing through their story, dips into allegory for the founding of a new American religion, The Five Percenters, the harsh reality facing Sudanese and Somali refugees of Edmonton, and a "classical foundation myth of ancient Egypt." It's also a publishing experiment of sorts for Faust; the physical book sees release early in July, but starting on the June 15, an ebook copy will be available. If it hits the Kindle top 100 on that day, he's donating $500 to a program that ships university textbooks to a Sudanese university currently lacking a proper library. And though the Kindle/ ebook revolution is still in the midst of establishing its grip, Faust is excited about it, about the power it puts back into the hands of writers, eliminating the "gatekeepers" between authors and their audiences. He seems to have no hesitation at all in approaching the novel's new digital format. "I thought I would hate reading e-books," he says. "I just assumed it. Then I remembered, 'Hey genius, you've been reading on a computer for 25 years, what's the big deal?' So I bought a couple of ebooks and I thought, my gosh, this isn't like reading a Microsoft Word document. This has a totally different feel, it's easy to flip the pages, I can take it with me ... in fact, I think I can take thousands of books with me with a little tiny device, and that's pretty frigging awesome." Paul BLinov // paul@vueweekly.com
Hungry for blood!
Fri, Jun 17 – Sat, Jun 25 (7:30 pm) Directed by Marcie Pringle La Cité Francophone, $25.65 – $28.50
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t is, perhaps, the only star to reach Broadway's uppermost echelon of lasting success through sheer virtue of the chlorophyll pumping through its body. The overgrown, creeping tendrils, the grinning, lipsticked, eyeless flytrap face and the sinister-yet-convincing pleas to "feed me!" of The Little Shop of Horror's killer plant Audrey II have long been a permanent transplant into the lexicon of popular culture, together forming one of the most memorably kitschy villains in musical theatre: the little plant that pined for blood and got it, too. (In an unusual twist, the Roger Corman movie propagated the musical, not the other way around) Still, it's the seedy roots of Audrey II that dig back into Marcie Pringe's past. To the director of Two-One Way Tickets to Broadway's production of the show, Little Shop's hook has been pretty obvious since she first saw it years ago. "Something about a man-eating plant from outer space," she says with a certain knowing dryness, "that's always got me hooked." But beyond simply being a campy story with a feature creature, the Little Shop of Horror's popularity seems to possess an unstrained longevity, its frequency of production hardly abating through the years. A simple, catchy musical with an endearing wink to itself, it intertwines the lives of kind but somewhat bumbling florist
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Seymour, his somewhat tacky secret-love Audrey, her sadistic dentist boyfriend and the little plant that doesn't seem satisfied with water and sunlight. Pringle, a staple figure at Sherwood Park's Festival Place, found her focus on the production fell to casting the whole thing in its knowing wink while maintaining enough of a sense of sincerity to keep it approachable. "I just wanted to be able to keep the satiric nature of the performance, and still make it believable enough that people could relate to the characters," she explains. Her production's been aided out by some fortunate theatrical recycling: making use of an old, borrowed set means she already has crafted, multiple-sized Audrey II's to toy with without having to start from scratch. "We're really lucky to have gotten the set that has been at Scona; I'm not sure where it originated, I think it was another high school. There's actually four puppets total for Audrey II. A small, a medium, a bigger one and then the biggest one." As for Little Shop's lasting power, Pringle has some ideas about its enduring quality. "It's just so fun. Nothing more fun than a maneating plant from outer space," she laughs. "And I think the music as well: it's catchy music you find singing in your head days later." Paul BLinov // paul@vueweekly.com
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Dance Dancefusion • Jubilee Audito-
rium, 11455-87 Ave • Fusion: Harmony in Motion • Jun 25, 7:30pm
feats–festival of Dance • Various locations • 780.422.8107 • abdancealliance.ab.ca • Catch The Current: Lyrical, Cuban Jazz, and Contemporary Ballet • Jun 23-Jul 1 • Tickets at TIX on the Square • TransAlta Arts Barns, Westbury Theatre: Made in Alberta: choreographers, Marc Hall, Deanne Walsh (Decidedly Jazz Danceworks), Lisa La Touche (M.A.D.D. Rhythms Canada); Fri, Jun 24, 8-11pm; $15 • Live Feed: works-in-progress with new choreography and audience/artist dialogue, and post show reception; Sat, Jun 25, 8-11pm; $15 • Fresh Feets: A night of Afro jazz, Caribbean house, and tap by young performers; Sun, Jun 26, 7-10pm; $15 • City Market, 104 St, Jasper Ave: Urban Dance Encounters; free dance classes; Sat, Jun 25, 12-2pm; free • Orange Hall, 10335-84 Ave, sugarswing.com: Sugar feats Stomp: Hosted by Sugar Swing, Sugar feats Stomp for people with no dance experience, a beginner drop-in lesson at 8pm; a social dance: 9pm. Sat, Jun 25, 8pm-1am; $10 (dance)/$17 (dance + lesson) at door • Fort Edmonton Park: Historic Feets: Fri, Jul 1, 12-2pm, free with admission • Winspear: Global Dance–Folk Dance Traditions: Dances from the Andes, Spain, India, and China, Fri, Jul 1, 4-6pm; free Mile Zero Dance • North Saskatchewan River • 780.424.1573 • Streaming: A site-specific installation about Edmonton's river. Part of The Works Festival of Art and Design • Jun 24-26, Jul 1-3 viter–fusion: HarMony in Motion • Jubilee Auditorium • Viter
Ukrainian Dancers and Viter Ukrainian Folk Choir featuring works from Viter’s repertoire and premiere of original choreography • Sat, Jun 25, 7:30pm • $35/$25 at TicketMaster, viter@shaw.ca
FILM cineMa at tHe centre •
Stanley A. Milner Library Theatre, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • Centre for Reading and the Arts showcases little-known films every month in the Library Theatre
Downtown Docs • Stanley A. Milner Library Theatre (basement level) • Documentaries with attitude eDMonton international filM festival–tHe screening rooM • Empire City Centre
Theatre • edmontonfilmfest.com; http:// bit.ly/i7hXvj • Summer movie series • Beginners; Jun 16, 7pm • Project Nim; Jul 21, 7pm; tickets at the Empire Theatre box-office • Beginners; Jun 16, 7pm • Tickets at edmontonfilmfest.com
froM Books to filM series • Stanley A. Milner Library, Main Fl, Audio Visual Rm • Screenings of films adapted from books every Friday afternoon presented by the Centre for Reading and the Arts • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance; Fri, Jun 17, 2pm • True Grit (14A), 2010; Fri, Jun 24, 2pm
GaLLeRIeS + MUSeUMS alBerta craft council gallery • 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Discovery Gallery: IN THE RED: CREATIoN FRoM DEFICIT: Works explore the impact of Alberta’s recent budgetary cuts on an artist’s ability to create; until Jul 5 • Discovery Gallery: Contemporary fine craft by emerging artists; until Jul 9
art froM tHe streets–red Deer • 4935-51 St • Group show • Until Jun 30
art gallery of alBerta (aga) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq •
780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • Sculpture Terraces: Works by Peter Hide and Ken Macklin • ANDy WARHoL: MANUFACTURED; until Aug 21 • SARAH FULLER: My BANFF: in the RBC New Works Gallery; until Aug 7 • BMO World of Creativity: DRAWN oUTSIDE: especially for kids; Until Jan 29, 2012 • LAWREN HARRIS ABSTRACTIoNS; until Sep 11 • TRAFFIC: CoNCEPTUAL ART IN CANADA 1965-1980: Tracking the influence and diversity of Conceptual Art as it was produced in Canada during the 1960s and 1970s; Jun 25-Sep 25 • Art for Lunch: Ledcor Theatre Foyer: Manufacturing Warhol; Thu, Jun 16, 12:10-12:50pm; free • All Day Sunday: Pop goes the AGA! Sun, Jun 19, 12-4pm; free with admission • Adult Drop-in: Autoportrait: Lino-cut Portraits: Thu, Jun 16, 7-9pm, $15/$12 (AGA member); Mix: Mixed-media Painting: Thu, Jun 23, 7-9pm; $15/$12 (AGA member) • Studio Y Youth Dropin: Autoportrait: Lino-cut Portraits: Fri, Jun 17, 3:30-5:30pm, $10; Still: Pop Art Still Life: Fri, Jun 24, 3:30-5:30pm; $10
art gallery of st alBert (agsa) • Profiles, 19 Perron St,
St Albert • 780.460.4310 • FIELD DoLL: Artworks by Heather Benning; until Jul 2 • Rental & Sales Gallery: PALETTE oF MEANINGS: Artworks by Métis artists, Leah Dorion, and Heather Shillinglaw in celebration of National Aboriginal Day; Jun 21-Jul 9; opening reception: Tue, Jun 21, 5-7pm
carrot café • 9351-118 Ave
• 780.471.1580 • Gone to the Dogs: Artworks from Father Douglas' Puppy Series • Until Jul 5
coMMon sense gallery
• 10546-115 St • 780.482.2685 • commonsensegallery.com • SPILL: artists are invited to Avenue Theatre with a few pieces of work. Paint and easels are provided so that people can make art while listening to the live music. There will be a vote on the pieces at the theatre, the most popular pieces will be shown at one of the Common Sense Galleries; 2nd Sun each month
Douglas uDell • 10332-124
St • 780.488.4445 • New artworks by Robert Lemay • Jun 18-Jul 2
expressionZ café • 9938-70
Ave• 780.437.3667 • expressionzcafe. com • NIGHT oF ARTISTS–FAB FoUR: Magazine launch, art exhibit and live entertainment: Featured performers: Tiff Hall and Pulse; featured visual artists at nightofartists.com • Until Jul 30
faB gallery • U of A • LoVE
THoSE (BIkEy) CLoTHES: SNAP Gallery's annual fundraiser; Sat, Jun 18, 6:30-11pm; $20 (adv)/$25 (door)
front gallery • 12312 Jasper
Ave • 780.488.2952 • Paintings by Paddy Lamb • Through Jun
Harcourt House • 3rd Fl,
10215-112 st • 780.426.4180 • Main Space: RE-CHARGED: artworks by members; until Jul 16 • Annex: Charges Pending–NAkED: Artworks from lifedrawing sessions • Opening reception: Thu, Jun 23 at the Summer Party featuring open studios, free drawing activities, front yard BBQ • Part of the Works: Jun 23-Jul 5
gallery at Milner • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • I AM UNIqUE: Aboriginal Teen Art exhibit by Edmonton Public School Students; until Jun 17 • THE PoWER oF THE NATURAL WoRLD: Artworks by Leah Dorion, part of The Works Festival Jun 20-Jul 7; opening reception: Sat, Jun 25, 4-5pm gallery is–red Deer • 5123
art Beat gallery • 26 St Anne
48 St, Alexander Way, Red Deer • 403.341.4641 • Thresholds oF SToNE: Photographs on marble tiles by Sandy Warren • Until Jul 2
artery • 9535 Jasper Ave • DUPES:
Haggerty centre–stollery gallery • Nina Haggerty Centre for
St, St Albert • 780.459.3679 • Paintings by Randy Hayashi • Until Jul 2 Artworks by Wilf Kozub • TransporT TyCooNS: Artworks by Josh Holinaty • Closing event: with music by Wilfred 'n' the Grown Men: Jun 16, 8:30pm
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the Arts, 9225-118 Ave • 780.474.7611 • ninahaggertyart.ca • THE BRIDGE: Contemporary art for modern viewers; part of The Works Festival • Jun 16-Jul 5
Harris-warke gallery–red Deer • Sunworks Home and Garden
Store, Ross St, Red Deer • 403.346.8937 • harriswarkegallery.com • oUR FATHERS: Installation/group show, thirteen sons and daughters using 2D and 3D art work contemplate how we see our fathers • Until Jun 19
HuB on ross art gallery– red Deer • 4936 Ross St, Red Deer •
403.340.4869 • hubpdd.com • SUN WATER AND oTHER MATTER: Artworks by Mauricio Iniestra • Until Jun 30
Jeff allen gallery • Strathcona Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave • 780.433.5807 • CREATIVE AGE FESTIVAL ART: Senior artists share their skills and talents in a huge variety of mediums • Until Jun 29; open Mon-Fri, 9am-3pm Jurassic forest/learning centre • 15 mins N of Edmonton
off Hwy 28A, Township Rd 564 • Education-rich entertainment facility for all ages
kiwanis gallery–red Deer •
Red Deer Library • 3rd Annual IB and AP Art Show: Artworks from students at Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School, and Hunting Hills High School • Until Jun 30
latituDe 53 • 10248-106 St • 780.423.5353 • latitude53.org • Main Gallery: WHERE ARE WE GoING?: Curated by Gabe Wong with posters by a cross-section of Edmonton artists; also works from the show Where are... We Going • ProjEX Room: SANCTUARy: Sculptural installation by Daniel Evans; until Jun 18 • Main Gallery: SP ACES&PLACES:VISIoNINGMCLUHAN @100: Artworks dedicated to the centenary of Marshall McLuhan's birth; Jun 23-Jul 23 • Rooftop Patio and Summer Incubator Series: Kick-off: Thu, Jun 16, 5pm loft gallery • A. J. Ottewell Art
Centre, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • 780.922.6324 • artstrathcona.com • MeMories: Artworks by artists of the Art Society of Strathcona County • Until Jun 26, Sat 10-4pm, Sun 12-4pm
McMullen gallery • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • SIzE DoESN'T MATTER: Artworks by Spyder Yardley-Jones • Until Jul 31 • Opening reception will be during the Works Art and Design Festival MicHif cultural anD Métis resource institute • 9 Mis-
sion Ave, St Albert • 780.651.8176 • Aboriginal Veterans Display • Gift Shop • Finger weaving and sash display by Celina Loyer • Ongoing
MilDwooD gallery • 426,
6655-178 St • Mel Heath, Joan Healey, Fran Heath, Larraine Oberg, Terry Kehoe, Darlene Adams, Sandy Cross and Victoria, Pottery by Naboro Kubo and Victor Harrison • Ongoing
Multicultural centre puBlic art gallery–stony plain • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain • 780.963.9935 • Installation works by Sarindar Dhaliwal and Lyndal Osbourne • Jun 25-Jul 27 • Opening reception: Sun, Jun 26
Musée Héritage MuseuM– st albert • 5 St Anne St, St Albert •
780.459.1528 • PATTERNS IN GLASS: Métis Design in Beads; until Jun • St Albert History Gallery: Featuring artifacts dating back 5,000 years • THE MISSIoN MAkERS: Celebrating the ambitions, accomplishments and friendships of Archbishop Taché, OMI, and Father Lacombe, OMI; until Nov • Opening reception: Thu, Jun 16, 7pm
naess gallery–paint spot • 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • MoRE THAN A PoRTRAIT: Group Show • Through Jun peter roBertson gallery
• 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • IN THE GRID: Artworks by Ken Macklin • Until Jun 25
reD Deer artwalk festival • Kerry Wood Nature Centre, City Hall Park, Veterans Park and the Recreation Centre • Featuring artworks and demonstrations • Until Jun 18 • Artwalk Amble Gallery Tour: Thu, Jun 16
reD Deer MuseuM anD art gallery • 4525-47A Ave • reddeermuseum.com • FARM SHoW: A series of exhibitions newly created
to explore contemporary farming issues • FARMING oUT oUR FUTURE: Changes that have had an impact on rural life in Alberta, 1950 to present • FRoM oUR CoLLECTIoN: Objects and artifacts from Central Alberta’s history • Through Jun
reynolDs-alBerta MuseuM–wetaskiwin • 780.361.1351 • reynoldsalbertamuseum.com
royal alBerta MuseuM • 12845-102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • Wild Alberta Gallery: WILD By NATURE: Every Sat and Sun, 11am and 2pm scott gallery 10411-124 St
• 780.488.3619 • scottgallery.com • Landscape paintings by Jim Visser • Until Jun 21
snap gallery • 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • AN ETCHING PLATE FEELS No PAIN: Printworks by Denise Hawrysio; until Jul 9 • 5TH ANNUAL LoVE THoSE (BIkEy) CLoTHES: Fundraiser at FAB Gallery: Sat, Jun 18, 6:30-11pm spruce grove art gallery
• Melcor Cultural Centre, 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • WIMMIN IN WAX: Artworks by 11 artists • Until Jun 18
telus worlD of science • 11211-142 St • 780.451.3344 • SESAME STREET PRESENTS: THE BoDy • Until Sep 5 vaaa gallery • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.421.1731 • energize: Artworks by VAAA members in conjunction with the Works Art and Design Festival • Until Jul 16 • Opening reception: Jun 16, 7-9:30 pm
walterDale tHeatre • 1032283 Ave • 780.439.2845 • DEMoMISSIoN: Artworks by The REArtcycle Group, Saskatchewan's Best Recycle Artist Group • Jun 23-26 • Opening reception: Thu, Jun 23, 7pm
tHe works art anD Design festival 2011 • Through
Downtown Edmonton • theworks.ab.ca • Visual arts at various venues as well as in Churchill Square • Jun 23-Jul 5 • Open Night Party: Moriarty's Bistro, Sir Winston Churchill Sq, Thu, Jun 23, 7:30-10:30pm; $10 at 780.426.2122 Ext 235
LITeRaRY auDreys Books • 10702 Jasper
Ave • 780.423.3487 • Robert Bear launches his new book, Sorrow’s Reward . Jun 16, 5:30pm
Blue cHair café • 9624-76 Ave
• 780.469.8755 • Story Slam: 2nd Wed each month
wunDer Bar on wHyte • 8120-101 St • 780.436.2286 • Bi-weekly poetry reading presented by Nothing, For Now; all poets are welcome • Every 2nd Tue, 7pm (sign-up), 8pm (readings)
THeaTRe tHe 25tH annual putnaM county spelling Bee • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Until Jun 19
BroaDway rocks 2 • Transalta Arts Barns, Westbury Theatre, 1033084 Ave • 780.420.1757 • By Colin MacLean, set in a diner, Edmonton Musical Theatre sends the audience through the decades • Until Jun 18, 7:30pm • $25 at TIX on the Square; $30 BuDDy Holly story • Century
Casino, 13103 Fort Rd • Starring Zachary Stevenson • Jun 24
cHiMprov • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • Every Sat at 11pm (no show on the last Sat of the month) expose new plays–pornstar usa • leva Café, 11053-86 ave • Fundraiser, featuring new works by Conni Massing, and Mark Stubbings, and a preview of Chris Craddock's PornStar USA; musical performance by Paul Bellows, and a silent auction • Sat, Jun 18, 8pm • Donation (min $5)
ganZa ganZa ganZa! • Var-
scona Theatre, PCL Stage, TransAlta Arts Barns • Rapid Fire Theatre present the best shows, the best acts, a growing festival with stuff you never thought possible! • Jun 15-25 • Tickets at TIX on the Square
HookeD on BarDics • Var-
scona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • Freewill Shakespeare Festival and Rapid Fire Theatre present guests Sean McCann and Alan Cox from the UKbased Shakespearian-improv troupe, The School of Night • Fundraiser in support of The Freewill Shakespeare Festival on Jun 19, 8pm • $25 at TIX on the Square; Hooked on Bardics plays as part of Rapid Fire Theatre’s annual Improvaganza Festival, which runs from • Until Jun 25
iMprovaganZa 2011 • Varscona Theatre and PCL Studio at The Transalta Arts Barns • Public workshops and touring performances • Until Jun 25 • $10-$20 at tixonthesquare.ca • Public Improv Workshops: Veslemoy Morkid (Norway) on Jun 20, 1-4pm; Sean McCann (London) on Jun 21, 1-4pm; Stephen Sim (Winnipeg) on Jun 22, 1-4pm
With Friends–An Evening of Poetry and Prose (E: Jason at robotsunderwater@ gmail.com to read at event); no minors • Thu, Jun 16, 7pm • No cover
iMprov on tHe ave • Avenue Theatre, 9030-118 Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre kicks it northside! Improv comedy featuring your old favourites from RFT, and guests on Alberta Ave the last Thu every month
greenwooDs' BooksHoppe
little sHop of Horrors •
BoHeMia • 10575-114 St • Words
• 7925-104 St • 780.439.2005 • Post Solstice Poetry Reading: Bert Almon, Olga Costopoulos, Nancy MacKenzie, and Lisa Martin-DeMoor; Wed, Jun 22, 7pm • Book launch, reading, and signing with author, Glen Huser, for his new book, The Runaway; Sat, Jun 25, 11am
Haven social cluB • 15120
Stony Plain Road • Edmonton Story Slam: Five random audience judges rate a maximum of 10 writers, who compete for cash. No minors • Sign up after 7pm. Show starts at 7:30pm, 3rd Wed of every month
riverDale • 9917-87 St • Creative Word Jam • Every 3rd Sun of the month, 6-10pm rouge lounge • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900 • Poetry every Tue with Edmonton's local poets
stanley a. Milner liBrary
• 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • Centre for Reading: From Books to Film; every Fri, 2pm • Teen Movie Scene: movie club for teens; 1st and 3rd Thu every month • Writers’ Corner: EPL’s Writer in Residence; featuring a different author each month; last Sun each month at 1:30pm
upper crust café • 10909-86 Ave • 780.422.8174 • strollofpoets.com • The Poets’ Haven Weekly Reading Series: every Mon, 7pm presented by the Stroll of Poets Society; $5
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La Cité, 8627 rue Marie-Anne-Gaboury • Two One-Way Tickets to Broadway Productions present Menken's Little Shop of Horrors • Jun 17-25 • Tickets at twoonewaytickets.com
ruBaBoo aBoriginal arts festival • Catalyst Theatre, 8529-
103 St • Multi-disciplinary festival showcasing new Aboriginal plays, music, dance, art, and food • Until Jun 19
stagelaB 2011 • The Second
Playing Space, Timms Centre, U of A, 112 St, 87 Ave • drama.ualberta.ca/ StageLabFestival.aspx • From Research to Performance–a festival of new work and innovation, presented by the U of A's Department of Drama • Until Jun 29 • seasons, Jane Heather's new play; until Jun 19 • Jane austen, action Figure, by Elaine Avila, directed by Kathleen Weiss; until Jun 19 • The Cave painter, by Don Hannah, directed by Kim McCaw; Jun 23-26 • Vice Versa: featuring a clown presentation with clowns mentored by Mike Kennard; Jun 17-18 • A series of new play readings: Life Without Secrets: by Priscilla Yakielashek; Jun 28; Stalker: The Musical: by Andrea Boyd, lyrics and music by Paul Morgan Donald; Jun 29
tHeatresports • Varscona
Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre's 30th Anniversary Edition • Every Fri at 11pm • $10 at TIX on the Square, door • $10 at TIX on the Square, door
FILM
Close encounters Super 8 aims for throwback sci-fi
Sending footage to the TV news station can get you $30 and a jacket
Now playing Written and directed by JJ Abrams
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uper 8 tries to be throwback scifi, beaming us back to an earlySpielberg era of close encounters with ETs, gremlins and goonies—a time when an alien could pop up in smalltown USA to be discovered by mop-haired white teens. JJ Abrams unspools a story that's pretty much Stand By Me meets Close Encounters of the Third Kind (with a few pellets from The Ice Storm), but it never feels that borrowed or piecemeal. When the movie nestles itself among the kids trying to figure out what's happening to their Ohio town in 1979, it manages to be pretty engaging, almost moving at times. It's the blockbuster, action-pounding sequences, which seem to have been teleported in from our century's movies, that tend to jam up Super 8. Abrams wisely bookends the film with scenes expressing loss, ache and wrenching acceptance. We first find Joe Lamb (Joel Courtney) at the wake for his mother, killed in an accident at the steel mill in Lillian. Joe's father, Lillian's deputy sheriff, wants him to have nothing to do with Alice Dainard (Elle Fanning, particularly good), the daughter of a man he
blames for his wife's death. But Joe's making a Super-8 movie about zombies with his friends—Charles (Riley Griffiths), Cary (Ryan Lee), Martin (Gabriel Basso) and Preston (Jack Mills)—and they enlist Alice for a
town play of these kids' lives, often nicely observed. The Godzilla-monstrous action also draws attention to the movie as a movie—so what gets lost is the dramatic difference between the friends' wanna-be film
That catastrophic event, while astounding, is also way over-the-top. We're meant to accept the beyond-Jesus miracle of none of the kids being seriously hurt. role. One night, moviemaking on the sly at a train station outside town, the six witness a horrible, mysterious disaster. That catastrophic event, while astounding, is also way over-the-top. We're meant to accept the beyondJesus miracle of none of the kids being seriously hurt, then a man's Lazarus-like revival from the land of the surely departed. And some other action clichés rear their ugly heads: a super-easy escape from a lockeddown facility, blocks and blocks of devastated streets, plenty of Transformers-style scenes of smashed or tossed metal, and a long embrace in the midst of imminent danger. These big-show moments, concocted from today's blockbuster formula, clash with the '70s small-
and the events in their town spreading beyond strange fiction and into horrible truth. The gang's rather sweet in its fizzling innocence—Joe is sweet for Alice while Cary still has a juvenile fondness for firecrackers. Charles even notes, "It's on the news—that makes it real." By film's end, it seems, though not powerfully enough (the dialogue involves much exposition and emotional overstatement; the story's middle drags), that these kids have been matured. Their makebelieve, built on a world of models and moviemaking, has been overtaken by real life's traumas. If only Abrams could've kept his sweeping sci-fi flourishes from overtaking the humble human stories in Super 8. Brian Gibson // Brian@vueweekly.com
VUEWEEKLY JUN 16 – JUN 22, 2011
FILM 15
BEGINNERS
“MARVELOUSLY ROMANTIC. A CREDIBLE BLEND OF WHIMSY AND WISDOM.” -A.O. Scott, THE NEW YORK TIMES
“A JOYOUS DELIGHT! IN THIS BEGUILING AND THEN BEDAZZLING NEW COMEDY, NOSTALGIA ISN’T AT ALL WHAT IT USED TO BE— IT’S SMARTER, SWEETER, FIZZIER AND EVER SO MUCH FUNNIER.” -Joe Morgenstern, WALL STREET JOURNAL
Making up for lost time
Thu, Jun 16 (7 pm) Written and directed by Mike Mills City Centre Cinemas
“EXHILARATING! BRIMS OVER WITH BRACING HUMOR AND RAVISHING ROMANCE – INFUSED WITH SEDUCTIVE SECRETS. OWEN WILSON IS PITCH PERFECT. MARION COTILLARD IS SUPERB.” -Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
“ROMANCE, FANTASY, LAUGHS, AND A WHOLE LOT OF STARS!” -David Germain, ASSOCIATED PRESS
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eginners, the second feature from Thumbsucker writer/director Mike Mills, begins with an ending, with introverted illustrator Oliver (Ewan McGregor) mourning the loss of his father Hal (Christopher Plummer), who came out of the closet at 75 and died five years later. Oliver inherits Hal's house and his highly intelligent dog, whose thoughts we glean through subtitles, which along with numerous drawings, notebooks, postcards and graffiti contribute to this film's charming, text-heavy, scrapbook texture. Oliver falls in love with a gorgeous,
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funny, friendly yet oddly unknowable French girl (Mélanie Laurent) he meets at a Halloween party. As Oliver falls in love he remembers Hal falling in love, or something like it, in his final years, when everything became new again and he enjoyed speaking to inanimate objects and trying on various forms of expressing his sexual identity the way one tries on outfits. Memory and the present are intertwined. They bleed into each other and fold into a single narrative that's admittedly a little sketchy in some of the emotionally complicated bits yet brims overall with spontaneity and moments of truth that are touching, transporting and wry. Josef Braun // josef@vueweekly.com
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How the Western Was Won
Kathy Bates Adrien Brody Carla Bruni Marion Cotillard Rachel McAdams Michael Sheen Owen Wilson
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"The horse opera’s dead! Long live the horse opera! Not long ago, American cinema’s most American genre, the Western, seemed gunned-down in the street, only to rear back up in the saddle. Its re-emergence in new guises, shapes and forms only offers a living testament to its vitality." This week's Sidevue: Online at Vueweekly.com
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her caricature into a character. Just because kids are young doesn't mean they can't be interesting enough to carry a movie, as the vastly superior Ramona and Beezus showed last year. But this movie won't sit still long enough to get beyond its pee, barf and poop moments and offer anything interesting about an eight-year-old girl or her summer. There's something natural and down-to-earth about Mosteller as Stink, at least, amid the sugar-rush performances and garish set design. And some visuals, plus Judy's growing love of words (we see her two definitions of "scat"), are intriguing. Otherwise, this movie would be a lot more funner if it were much less dumber. Brian Gibson // brian@vueweekly.com
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THE DARK CRYSTAL
LABYRINTH
Thu, Jun 16; Fri, Jun 17; Sun, Jun 19 (9 pm) Sat, Jun 18 (7 pm) Directed by Jim Henson, Frank Oz Metro Cinema
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couldn't remember whether I'd actually seen The Dark Crystal, which came out when I was very small. The images I'd retained of the film could just as easily have been planted in my mind via bubblegum cards or one of those books my mother would buy me that condensed entire films into 24 illustrated pages and came with a 45 that narrated one's reading. But along came that scene where the vulture-like Skeksis emperor dies, still clutching his royal scepter, and rapidly turns brittle before simply crumbling to ash, and it all came back. Of course I saw The Dark Crystal— how could I forget that image, surely among the most chilling, most corporeal depictions of death my child eyes had seen? This is, to be sure, a film for kids, but only so long as we agree that it isn't a bad thing for kids to catch occasional glimpses of decomposition and how quickly a life can be erased from the world. The Dark Crystal has a fairly generic fantasy-quest storyline, though it's peppered with many wonderfully inventive details (including a terrific party/music-making sequence). Jen, a Gelfling, was raised by these guys that resemble an elderly British psy-
A Skeksis, before turning to ash
chedelic rock outfit who've lately discovered Tibetan chanting. Ostensibly the last of his race (they were wiped out by the Skeksis), Jen traverses a world brimming with strange plantlike creatures in search of the missing shard of the sacred, life-giving titular crystal, fractured some 1000 years back. The dialogue is pretty insipid, though certain lines are humorous in their understatement (Jen: "This place is weird!"). Compared to Jim Henson's beloved Muppet Show, The Dark Crystal is indeed dark and engagingly peculiar, though, like The Muppet Show, the reason to see it
is the diverse array of beautifully sculpted puppets, so nuanced in their manipulation as to seemingly assume a life of their own. They possess a magic all but extinguished in the age of computer animation, when everything that appears onscreen can be realized without using your body or getting your hands dirty and there are no more accidents. The beauty of the creatures in The Dark Crystal is the beauty of things discovered and crafted, rather than conceived and programmed. Josef Braun // josef@vueweekly.com
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Fri, Jun 17; Sun, Jun 19 (7 pm) Sat, Jun 18; Mon, Jun 20 (9 pm) Directed by Jim Henson Metro Cinema
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hat remains striking about Labyrinth, now 25 years old and remaining relevant mostly just to Bowie diehards and those nostalgic for their childhoods—of which I am both—is the sort of large-scale strangeness it's willing to pass off as a children's movie. Though Sarah's (a young Jennifer Connelly) quest to retrieve her baby brother from the castle of Jareth, Goblin King (a very '80s David Bowie by way of the Jim Henson company's imagination) feels structurally familiar to other quest movies of the time—a leap from the depressing real world into the more colourful one of fantasty, filled with a roster of beasts to back the protagonist on a quest full of derring-do and, in this case, a bog of unending stench. But along that wellworn track is a bizarrely challenging level of creativity at play: strange beasts dance and sing as they kick off their body parts (which continue to dance and sing) and try to take Sarah's noggin off. The climactic final scene takes place in Esther's staircase room, and minutes before that there's a masquerade-ball dream sequence which adds a darkly ambiguous sheen to Jareth relationship with Sarah. Plot aside, it's far from predictable, instead engaging with a sort of unspoken darkness and looming sense of violence that, while never fully seen, deepens
Plot aside, it's far from predictable, instead engaging with a sort of unspoken darkness and looming sense of violence that, while never fully seen, deepens the film from along the periphery of a friendly story structure. The creativity of its esthetic is timeless. of Bowie's best-of compilations, either, and with fairly good reason, being more silly than suitable. But Labyrinth remains as watchable as anything else in the Jim Henson film canon (it was the last feature he directed before his death), and at least it presents an esthetic that the emotions and moods of the fantasy world it presents, which is more than you can say for most nonPixar modern children's stories. Paul Blinov // paul@vueweekly.com
FILM WEEKLY Fri, JUN 17, 2011 – ThU, JUN 23, 2011
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CHABA THEATRE–JASPER 6094 Connaught Dr, Jasper, 780.852.4749
BRIDESMAIDS (14A crude content,
coarse language, sexual content) DAIly 6:55, 9:10 SUPER 8 (PG coarse language, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) DAIly 7:00, 9:10 CINEMA CITY MOVIES 12 5074-130 Ave, 780.472.9779
PRIESt 3D (14A violence) Digital 3d DAIly 1:35, 3:50, 6:50, 9:10
RANGO (PG) FRI-tUE, thU 1:20,
4:00, 7:20, 9:45; WED 7:20, 9:45
RIO 3D (G) Digital 3d DAIly 1:30, 4:20, 6:45, 9:00
hOP (PG coarse language) DAIly 1:00, 3:30
MARS NEEDS MOMS 3D (PG)
DAIly 1:35, 3:50
WAtER FOR ElEPhANtS (PG
violence, not recommended for young children) DAIly 1:15, 4:30, 7:05, 9:50
PROM (PG) DAIly 1:25, 4:25, 7:00,
9:15
SOURCE CODE (PG violence,coarse
language) DAIly 1:55, 4:50, 7:15, 10:00
thE lINCOlN lAWyER (14A)
DAIly 1:05, 4:15, 6:55, 9:35
SOUl SURFER (PG) DAIly 1:40,
4:10, 6:40, 9:20
ARthUR (PG not recommended for
young children) DAIly 7:30, 9:55
INSIDIOUS (14A frightening scenes,
not recommended for children) DAIly 7:10, 9:40
IN thE NAME OF lOVE (PG violence, not recommended for young children) DAIly 1:30, 4:05, 6:45, 9:30 READy (PG) Hindi W/E.S.T. DAIly
1:10, 4:45, 8:00
CINEPLEX ODEON NORTH 14231-137 Ave, 780.732.2236
thOR (PG violence, frightening
scenes) DAIly 9:20 KUNG FU PANDA 2 (G) DAIly 12:20, 2:30, 4:50
KUNG FU PANDA 2 3D (G) Digital 3d DAIly 11:50, 2:00, 4:20, 6:40, 8:50
GREEN lANtERN (PG frightening
JUDy MOODy AND thE NOt BUMMER SUMMER (G) DAIly
1:00, 3:20, 6:55
thE ARt OF GEttING By (PG
coarse language) No passes DAIly 1:50, 4:10, 6:50, 9:00
hARRy POttER AND thE GOBlEt OF FIRE (PG frightening scenes,
not recommended for young children) SAt 10:30; MON 7:00 CINEPLEX ODEON SOUTH 1525-99 St, 780.436.8585
GREEN lANtERN (PG frightening
scenes, violence, not recommended for young children) Ultraavx, No passes FRI 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:15; SAt 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:45; SUN 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30; MON, WED-thU 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15; tUE 12:30, 3:00, 8:00, 10:30
hARRy POttER AND thE GOBlEt OF FIRE (PG Frightening
Scenes, Not Recommended For Young Children) Digital Cinema SAt 10:30; MON 7:00
thE MEtROPOlItAN OPERA: DIE WAlKⁿRE ENCORE (Classification not available) SAt 10:00
WWE CAPItOl PUNIShMENt 2011 (Classification not available) SUN 6:00
GEKIJOUBAN tRIGUN: BADlANDS RUMBlE (Classification not
available) WED 7:00 CITY CENTRE 9
10200-102 Ave, 780.421.7020
SUPER 8 (PG coarse language,
frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Child Admission Price, Dolby Stereo Digital, No passes, Stadium Seating, Bargain Matinee DAIly 12:30, 3:30, 7:30, 10:30
GREEN lANtERN 3D (PG frightening scenes, violence, not recommended for young children) Dolby Stereo Digital, Child Admission Price, Digital 3d, Digital Presentation, No passes, Stadium Seating, Bargain Matinee DAIly 12:00, 3:00, 7:00, 10:00
BRIDESMAIDS (14A crude content, coarse language, sexual content) Bargain Matinee, Child Admission Price, Dolby Stereo Digital DAIly 12:40, 3:40, 7:20, 10:20
KUNG FU PANDA 2 3D (G) Digital
3d, Child Admission Price, Bargain Matinee, Digital Presentation, Stadium Seating DAIly 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05
JUDy MOODy AND thE NOt BUMMER SUMMER (G) Bargain
scenes, violence, not recommended for young children) No passes DAIly 1:20, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45
Matinee, Child Admission Price, DTS Digital, Stadium Seating DAIly 12:50, 3:50
GREEN lANtERN 3D (PG fright-
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DISH very activity, whether academic, athletic or artistic, carries the potential for competition. The culinary arts combine these three attributes, for a good chef must be academic in his or her knowledge of ingredients, athletic with respect to speed and precision, and artistic in terms of execution. Competition provides a venue to hone these skills. Paul Shufelt, corporate chef at Century Hospitality Group, or CHG—which includes Lux Steakhouse, Century Grill, Delux Burger Bar and Hundred Bar and Kitchen—and Lux/Hundred executive chef Tony Le sensed an opportunity to create a Top Chef-style competition for young chefs at these restaurants. "We wanted to encourage our young cooks to be passionate about what they do and strive to grow as chefs every day. This was a fun way for them to test skills, be creative, work under pressure and measure their abilities as chefs," Shufelt says. CHG Top Chef started on May 7 with 16 chefs creating appetizers which featured scallops. The judging panel, which included Shufelt, educator-foodie Valerie Lugonja, radio/marketing personality Shauna McKay McConechy and food writer Mary Bailey, ranked each dish based on flavour, presentation and overall creativity. Eight competitors progressed to the next round and, within a narrow time frame, conjured up pork tenderloin with various permutations of Granny Smith apples, bacon, sage, prawns and figs. Judges Shufelt, McConechy, realtor Jerry Aulenbach and NAIT culinary instructor Blair Lebsack halved the number of hopefuls. Round three witnessed pairings of bi-
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son, rhubarb and wine by the remaining quartet of competitors, judged by Shufelt, Baseline Wine proprietor Che Bechard, Gold Medal Plates winner Andrew Fung, blogger Sharon Yeo and her husband Mack Male. The two finalists were Century Grill's Ben Weir and Lux's Shirley Fortez. The May 28 finale featured a sold-out supper at Lux and each finalist selected a team consisting of a former competitor and a celebrity judge-cum-chef. Weir selected John Dykeman and Valerie Lugonja while Fortez chose Cedric Boeglin and Che Bechard. The competitors spent the morning shopping for local ingredients at the downtown farmers' market and created appetizers, entrées and dessert featuring, respectively, steelhead salmon, beef short rib, spot prawns and eggs. The night buzzed with excitement. Weir's salmon tartare showcased simple salmon flavour paired with vivid asparagus-tarragon mash. Fortez's cured salmon with daikon-carrot slaw sang with citrus. Weir crusted his short rib entrée with coffee and served it with a giant prawn tortellini and a puddle of arugula pesto. The coffee flavour was utterly demure, and the bright chartreuse pesto belied a strong peanut flavour. Fortez placed a whole prawn atop a rectangle of short ribs on rice with red curry-coconut-shrimp sauce. Dessert presented sabayon and carrot cake. Weir's boozy, airy sabayon crowned a mouthful of winter berries and shared quarters with a vibrant scoop of raspberry cream. Fortez's carrot cake was dense, moist and buttressed by apple-
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pineapple compote and a scatter of almonds. It was anybody's game. The moment of truth. Judges Shufelt, Lebsack, Edmonton Journal's Liane Faulder and radio host Kari Skelton deliberated while guests voted for their favourite chef. The race was unbelievably close but, ultimately, Weir seized
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victory. Shufelt and Le were exceptionally pleased with CHG Top Chef's inaugural run and anticipate a bigger and better competition next year. Shufelt envisions the participation of chefs from around the city. "At this point it is simply an idea," he states, "but we are working out
the logistics." He adds, in the spirit of competition, "I think it would be really fun to have some of our best go head to head against some of the city's best. Nothing wrong with a little friendly competition, right?" LS Vors // vors@vueweekly.com
BEER
Growing up
I have been a "beer guy" in town for a that Hudson's had launched something number of years. I have seen a lot of new. I decided to check it out. ups and downs when it comes to craft What I found was a feature selection beer—in the first couple years of bottles from some of Canmostly downs. I have also ada's best microbreweries. seen a slow, steady growth Twelve different (mostly) in beer appreciation in town. craft beers representing m o kly.c uewee I am convinced there is more tothepint@v almost every province and Jason space today for good beer territory in Canada (only Foster NWT and PEI are missing bethan a few years ago. We are no Vancouver, Portland or Denver, cause neither have breweries). It is a but we are getting there, slowly. decent list, including accessible entries A few weeks ago I wrote about three like Yukon Gold, Steam Whistle and pubs on Whyte Avenue trying to inGranville Island Cypress Honey Ale, corporate serious beer into their repand more challenging offerings includertoire. That is encouraging. However, ing Propeller IPA, St Ambroise Oatmeal all three are independent, single locaStout and Paddock Wood 606 Pale Ale. tion places. Not to dismiss them, but The Alberta entry is Alley Kat's Aprikat it does limit their potential audience, apricot wheat beer. Not bad. The tap and their freedom to be creative is unline continues to disappoint, but I am inhibited by corporate types. But I am told by partner Jason Borle that that also seeing some movement from bigtoo will change. ger operations, and I want to discuss "We see this as version one," he says. that today. "We want to increase our Canadian I am not talking about mega-corcraft beer selection, so we can become porations like Boston Pizza—they known as 'Canada's Pub.'" are still a wasteland. But a couple of This first step is to draw patrons' atmid-sized regional chains are starting tention to the range of beer available to do something different. And when in Canada through this bottled beer that starts to happen, I start to think series. Of course, I am well aware that that craft beer might finally be hitdraught is a pub's lifeline. Borle agrees, ting the big leagues. Each is paying saying that the next step will be to rehomage to Canadian craft brewers, work the tap lines. but in different ways. He says over the next six to 12 months Hudson's Tap House made an interestthe bar plans to increase the selection ing shift when it introduced its Drink of craft beer available on tap, decreasCanadian bottle series. Hudson's is a ing the number of taps available to the medium-sized chain that started in Edbig boys. That hasn't happened yet, but monton in 2003, and now has five EdI will happily await phase two. monton locations, three in Calgary and a new Vancouver spot. Until recently The second place is Local Public Eatit has been one of those places with ery, which may sound local but isn't. It little appeal to guys like me. Lots of TV is the third location, after Vancouver screens, hockey drink promotions and a and Medicine Hat, of a new concept boring line-up of macro-beer. Last year, from the Joey's Group, a huge regional the bar introduced two house beers, franchised chain of Joey's restaurants which is a trend I will talk about in the owned by the second generation of future. Both were decent if uninspiring. the Fuller Family (founders of the Then I heard through the grapevine Earl's chain). There is a lot of corporate
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restaurant experience in that lineage. The idea behind Local is to feature beer, and its model is to do so through its draught offerings. Thus the bar has 16 beers on tap, plus another nine in the bottle. Of the 16 taps, nine are craft offerings, and good ones at that. Alley Kat Full Moon and Charlie Flint, Amber's Sap Vampire and Australian Mountain Pepper Berry, Yukon Red, and even hard to find beers like Calgary's Brew Brothers Tumblewheat and Saskatoon's Paddock Wood Czech Mate Pilsner. It is the best draught selection in the city, without question. However, outside the crafty nine, the rest of the beer menu is profoundly disappointing—standard Buds and Keiths' and Kokanees. Plus they are serving 14-ounce pints, which is far too
// Chelsea Boos
Edmonton's beer scene is turning a corner
small—a British Pint is 20 ounces. Both efforts are imperfect, but they are, in my opinion, a significant signal that things are changing in Edmonton's beer culture. When the chain pubs start to realize there is money to be made in offering real craft beer, then we are on the cusp of good things. I
will be keeping my eye open for other developments. And for now, we beer lovers have more choices with where to go for a pint or two. V Jason Foster is the creator of onbeer.org, a website devoted to news and views on beer from the prairies and beyond.
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Fri, Jun 17 (8 pm) With Trevor Tchir Blue Chair Café Fri, Jun 24 (8:30 pm) With Camp Radio Artery To call Mark Davis a roots artist—the most common descriptor applied to him—is to become hopelessly entangled in the definition of a genre, trying fruitlessly to put a lasting label over an eclectic mix of sounds. The albums he crafts emerge from a greater depth than any one pure genre could hope to include. "I understand the need to categorize people," Davis says. "It's just part of the business or part of the job, and I suppose if you look at my entire oeuvre, I suppose folk music is the thread that runs through it all. But really, I find folk music to be an almost inherently stagnant sort of art form or genre. "If you think of, say, straight, traditional folk music, pure folk music—I suppose anything traditional is inherently stagnant until it starts being infused with different influences," he continues. "I mean, if you look at Celtic music—that's the way I feel about Celtic music. And bluegrass too. It's like, there's no drums in bluegrass,
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there's no electric guitar in bluegrass. It is what it is. Bluegrass is pure, otherwise it's just not bluegrass. Same thing with folk [or] Celtic music: if you start putting electric guitars in there, well then, it becomes Celtic rock, and it morphs into something else." Davis has long been letting different sounds brush shoulders on his recordings, and Eliminate the Toxins, his third solo release, perhaps best shows the impressive effect of bringing together a wide range of influence. The album's songs span from acoustic slow-burners to bombastic pop songs to dark, electrifying murder ballads, built with gently strummed guitars channeled through crunchy distortion or left raw and spacious. They're as affecting when loud as they are when quiet, all of their disparate elements unified and grounded by Davis's weather-thestorm voice. "My favourite songwriter would be Townes Van Zandt, followed by Bob Dylan, but my favourite band is Motörhead," Davis says. "I feel in a way that, whether it's one record that I make, or you look at the eight records I've made over time, I think in a way I'm just always striving to bridge that gap, between something like Townes Van Zandt and Motörhead."
He has yet to put out his own "Ace of Spades," but it may come. Davis cites American '90s alternative rock as a reference point for the album, as well as instrumental new wave from 1980s Britain, but it's not that he decided to bring those specific styles together. Eliminate the Toxins came together much the same way a record collection does: as a gradual accumulation of sounds that only together offer proper insight into their collector's musical whims. "It just sort of happened, really organically. I didn't set out to make an eclectic record," Davis explains. "I didn't set out to reference all sorts of different artists and genres. It just happened, and it happened really naturally. I didn't go into it thinking, 'Well, I want Eliminate the Toxins to be like Guided By Voices, or 'A Good One' to have this bombastic sort of Urge Overkill-feel at the end, or 'In The Waters' to be like Tom Petty meets Byrds or something. Each song just happened really naturally, and lent itself to a particular sonic element or feel in the moment of recording it. We didn't set out to make any particular kind of record." PAUL BLINOV // PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM
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DROPKICK MURPHYS
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hether it's the band's version of "Tessie," a sing-a-long devoted to the hometown boys of summer, the Red Sox, or its energetic Bruins fight song "Time to Go," Dropkick Murphys is the modern band of Massachusetts sports. Admitted Boston enthusiast that he is, singer and spokesman Al Barr holds back any predictions on the series between the Bruins and adversaries the Vancouver Canucks, disclosing that he probably isn't the best Dropkick member to talk to about sports. Bassist Ken Casey and bagpiper Josh "Scruffy" Wallace are the diehard Bruins' supporters among the band—the ones who flew to Vancouver for opening games in the Stanley Cup Final. Barr has become more of an honorary enthusiast. "People naturally assume that when they talk to anyone in the band that we're all sports fans but I grew up in punk rock. Jocks were always kind of the enemy," says Barr, adding, "It's just nice to be nominated for the Stanley Cup."
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And while the Dropkick Murphys is nearly synonymous with Boston sports culture and the city's spirit, the band's biggest breakthrough didn't come from sports at all. It took a rumoured on-set pitch to film director Martin Scorsese from guitarist Robbie Robertson and Leonardo DiCaprio to catapult the band onto the soundtrack of the Boston mafia drama, The Departed. "We'd only played 'Shipping Up to Boston' once and it went over like a fart in a spacesuit and I thought, 'Well, I guess we'll never play that song live again," and the rest is history," says Barr. "It's amazing what a movie will do for a song." It seems it's the same way of what a city will do for a band. Being featured in films is just a pin in the map that leads back to the community of Boston. "Around St Patty's day a lot of people make the pilgrimage to Boston—take in one of our shows, see the parade, take a tour of Fenway, a tour of old Boston," says Barr. "The Massachusetts Tourism Board should probably be giving us a kickback for all of the things we've done." Curtis Wright // cwright@vueweekly.com
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Lauren Mann & the Fairly Odd Folk
Lauren Mann plays Avenue Theatre this Thursday
Thu, Jun 23 (8 pm) Avenue Theatre, $10 It makes sense that Lauren Mann & the Fairly Odd Folk are deeming this "the summer of colour." On her 2010 album, Stories From Home, Mann's poppy, reflective, piano-tinged songs sit
At home
behind beautifully woven tales from the road and her hometown of Calgary. Touring behind Stories From Home and an upcoming, unnamed album, Mann continues to accumulate stories and lovely melodies, but she took some time out to share the sounds that soundtrack her life at home and on the road.
On the road
Morning: Bon Iver, For Emma, Forever Ago This is a great album to wake up to. It's soft and full of depth and eases me into the day.
Morning: Brooke Fraser, Flags This album is instantly catchy, and when we get in the van to drive to the next city, it's the perfect start to that.
Noon: Death Cab For Cutie, Plans This is definitely one of my favourite albums, I think because it's musically inspiring and has so much emotion packed into it. It makes me feel carefree.
Noon: Mumford and Sons, Sigh No More Mumford and Sons is fun to sing along to, therefore a great album to carry through the afternoon while driving.
Night: Northcote, Borrowed Chords, Tired Eyes When the sun goes down, there's nothing better to wind down with than this organic and soothing album. One of Canada's finest.
Night: Fleet Foxes, Helplessness Blues After a show, when I'm tired of singing and talking, it's nice to listen to something that's so sweet and wonderful that it totally helps me relax.
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DUB VULTURE Wed, Jun 22 (8 pm) Empress Ale House, free
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hen Dub Vulture frontman Tim Balash started working on new material for the follow up to the band's eclectic 2009 debut Voodoo Love Nuke, he was wasn't writing songs "with dub in mind," he says. "I was just writing more rock-based songs—you can dabble with the format later." So it came as a complete shock when Balash was contacted personally by legendary dub producer and innovator the Scientist, who asked if he could do dub mixes of their new work. "My first reaction was to spend a couple hours on the Internet seeing if there were any Scientist-based scams going around. It just didn't seem credible, for one of our heroes to get a hold of us like that." The resulting mixes appear on the
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Dub Vulture in its native habitat
upcoming EP Dub Vulture Meets the Scientist, with plans for a follow-up full-length in the fall "We're inverting the usual pattern for a band," Balash laughs. "Usually
the dub mixes come out after." The new material sees a few personnel changes for the band—most notably the departure of founding member and drummer Mike Silver-
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man—but also the addition of bassist Duncan Turner (Electricity for Everybody) to the talents of existing members Amy Van Keeken, Brahm Ollivierre and Brian Golightly, who were brand new members at the time of recording Voodoo Love Nuke. Now, with two years' worth of playing together live, the band is excited about the cohesiveness of the new
material—not to mention the "incredulity" of working with one of dub's biggest names. "I've been listening to the Scientist for so many years," Balash gushes. "I felt like a little kid. I don't think I could be objective about [the EP]. I was just tickled." Mike Angus // mikeangus@vueweekly.com
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DAVID USHER Fri, Jun 17 & Sat, Jun 18 With Ani Difranco, Lights and more Part of Utopia Music Festival Heritage Amphitheatre, Hawrelak Park, $45 – $60
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avid Usher seems reflective these days, though it's less a pensive, hold-a-mirror-up-to-one's-broodingfigure way and more a personal renaissance, a creative retread of the road he's taken to get where he now finds himself. The former Moist frontman and longtime solo artist has returned to reside in Montréal after four years in New York, and crafted an album that strips down his entire oeuvre, reimagining old hits and newer works with an acoustic guitar and little else. "We came back to Montréal after four years, intending to come up to visit for a week in the summer to visit old friends, and we got that old feeling back," Usher explains over a crackling cellphone line.
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He and his wife, photographer Sabrina Reeves, moved back to Montréal soon after that visit. What that "old feeling" is, exactly, is somewhat intangible, though Usher has a few ideas regarding the pull of Quebec's largest creative hub. "It's a mix of things," he says. "It's the language, it's the architecture. There's something to the culture there. It maybe seems less focused on work and more focused on life than a lot of places, maybe because it's been cheaper to live there—less so now, but it's been much cheaper to live there [previously], so you can focus on things other than working just to to get by, for a lot of people." The Mile End Sessions, Usher's seventh and most recent solo album, takes its name from his current neighbourhood and includes his first foray into french language recording with "Je repars" ("I set out again"). Usher notes that scrap-
ing the gloss of production off of old songs to find their acoustic hearts took longer than he'd initially thought. More than simply recording stripped-down versions of former recordings, the songs opened up in ways he never expected. Leading with "Je repars," and another new track, "Fall to Pieces," The Mile End Sessions offers a step away from Usher's past toward new, uncharted territory. He's ready to engage in a musical landscape that's barely recognizable from the one that existed when Moist was making records. "It's definitely a different music business than when I started. I enjoy the changes that are happening," he says. "You can either embrace that and go with it, and learn as much as you can and try and be part of it, or you can try and do what you always did—and those things just don't work." Paul Blinov // paul@vueweekly.com
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JOE NOLAN Fri, Jun 17 (8 pm) With Mike Edel, Steph Macpherson Haven Social Club, $12
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earing his music and hearing him speak, you have to remind yourself that Joe Nolan is only 21. Only a few wistful seconds into "High as the Moon," a soft, guitarpicked whisper of a song, you appreciate that his talent is outside his years. As the gravity of his love ode pushes on, his sometimes raspy, sometimes gentle voice speaks of anything but a man just old enough to legally consume alcohol in Nashville, the city that the Fort Saskatchewan native recorded Goodbye Cinderella t. "People say that I am, but I'm not an old soul" says Nolan. "I'm only 21. Maybe it's because of what I listen to and what I write." Nolan seems hardly experienced enough for the words he pens, and it doesn't seem fair that he can sing them so well, but from the list of what he listens to, it isn't surprising when you hear his earnest songs. He doesn't have quite the gravel of Tom Waits, the poetic beat of Bob Dylan or the earned fascination of Leonard Cohen, yet Nolan's Goodbye Cinderella is soaked in their influence. "[They're] not trying to be anybody, not trying to act like anything— they're vulnerable," says Nolan. "Mostly, I'm attracted to their lyrics. I just connect with them."
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A young soul singing wise words
His love of influence is crystal clear as he speaks with a kind of Southern charm—he often will throw in a Springsteen tribute, or cover Waits's "Cold Water" in his sets—but like his idols, Nolan is reserved about his qualified talents. "A couple of songs on that CD, I woke up in the middle of the night
and wrote them. I don't even know where they came from. Where the source is, I don't know," says Nolan. "It's almost like I'm this middle—the songs come to me and then they come out. I'm just the carrier, you know." CURTIS WRIGHT // CWRIGHT@VUEWEEKLY.COM
SLATES Fri, Jun 17 (6 pm) With No Problem Permanent Records, Free
the first place and how important punk rock is in our lives. That's the statement of this record."
Sat, Jun 18 (9 pm) With Falklands, Whiskeyface Teddy's $10 ($20 w/ LP)
Like Slates' previous album, the new one, entitled Prairie Fires, was recorded with Jesse Gander in Vancouver. As Stewart explains, getting out of the city and away from the everyday pressures of home gave the band a chance to focus on the task at hand. "It's really important for us to get out of town when we record: it galvanizes the band," he says. "You're more of a gang in the studio whereas at home there's distractions and you're wasting time and thinking you can get to it later. When you have a set block of time in Vancouver you need to make decisions on the fly so it really focuses the project."
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hen the members of Slates found themselves in Cuba for two weeks, touring around the country thanks to the hard work of Solidarity Rock, none of the members knew what an effect it would have on the band. Since then, Slates has re-devoted itself to music and the transformational nature of punk rock: the band hosted a punk-rock karaoke fundraiser, recorded a new album and is about to embark on a DIY tour of Europe. "That kind of was the spark for doing the Europe thing and doing the punk rock karaoke thing we did last
A trip to Cuba brought new fire to Slates
Christmas for the Youth Emergency Shelterâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all of that came out of that [Cuba] experience," singer and
guitarist James Stewart explains. "It was like a recalibration for the band: there was no cynicism about
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anything down there, just pure excitement and it really reminded us of why we started to play music in
Bryan Birtles // bryan@vueweekly.com
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NO PROBLEM
Look, I listened to the record and I'm pretty sure these guys have a few problems
Fri, Jun 17 (6 pm) With Slates Permanent Records, Free Fri, Jun 17 (8 pm) With Tarantuja, Panik Attak, Suicidal Cop New City, $10
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unk rock has its fair share of wellworn tropes: subverting authority figures, railing against the system, belittling the shallowness of society and pop culture—these form the basis of countless classic and not-so-classic punk songs. Graeme MacKinnon is well aware of punk's thematic tendencies. After more than a decade spent fronting Edmonton street-punk band the Wednesday Night Heroes, MacKinnon helped to found No Problem, a band whose debut fulllength will be released this weekend. With years of punk rock under his studded belt—and a record collection that might make Joey Ramone jealous— MacKinnon knew that while it'd be difficult to get away from the feelings that go along with being a punk rocker, it'd be more rewarding to go his own way.
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"Everyone can say, 'Fuck the cops,' but what part of the police are you angry about? What part drives you crazy? Is it the fact that they don't want you to get drunk and piss all over a playground or something? Or is it something that's real? That's the things I wanted to talk
band, but Falco's love of hardcore and deep understanding of what No Problem needed won the group over. "Even though Fucked Up is really avant garde and really out there, for me I was a bigger fan of Career Suicide and the crazy hardcore stuff he was doing, so
Everyone can say, 'Fuck the cops,' but what part of the police are you angry about? about," he explains of the way he made lyrical choices for the band's first album. "How can I say things that have been said so perfectly before, how can I say them a little different?" Knowing that the group wanted to remove any polished veneer from its sound and go for something more raw and lo-fi, No Problem was attracted to the recording work of Jonah Falco, drummer for Fucked Up and guitarist for Career Suicide. His set up—with only one pair of headphones, one mic over the drums and a number of instruments directly inputted into the mix— initially seemed a little too lo-fi for the
it was really cool to work with him because not only is he able to take all these wild chances but he knows a lot about punk and the history and he's a record collector like all of us, so we'd always talk about different records that we were listening to at the time," MacKinnon enthuses. "He'd get all excited and go, 'Hey I hear this little guitar part in my head. Is it cool if I take the guitar for a chew?' and then he'd bust a sweet lick in there and at the time you'd go, 'Oh that's cool,' and try to downplay it but in your head it's like, 'Fuck, that just made that part way better." Bryan Birtles // bryan@vueweekly.com
MUSIC NOTES
Jack Semple / Fri, Jun 17 (7:30 pm) Although it's called "Raising the Roof," Jack Semple is simply—or not so simply—helping to repair the roof. McDougall United Church is 138 years old and at about that point where a roof starts to show signs of aging. The superb acoustics of McDougall will be the perfect venue to hear Semple's Delta-tinged rhythm and blues, while raising funds for the future of Edmonton's historic church. (McDougall United Church)
Steve Earle / Mon, Jun 20 (7 pm) Celebrating his 14th album and debutnovel, You'll Never Get Out of This World Alive, Steve Earle has become something of an institution in music. Starting off relatively country in sound and inspiration—in fact, he defined "New Country"—Earle's storied career has seen the genre transform, along with his varied and eclectic audience. Unlike his acoustic tours of recent years, Earle's upcoming performance brings an electric sound aided by the Dukes (and Duchesses) featuring Allison Moorer. (Jubilee Auditorium, $29.50 – $39.50)
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Martin Atkins / Wed, Jun 22 (6:30 pm) If you're going to make it in the music industry, you're going to want to work "nine days a week, 28 hours a day," says Martin Atkins—the drummer known for his work with Public Image Ltd, Ministry and many more in the post-punk/industrial genres. On his Tour:Smart sessions, presented by the Alberta Music Industry Association, Atkins explains that every band has the right to success, it just has to work harder than anyone else and tour smarter that everyone. The more you risk, the greater the reward. Atkins dissects the tools for tour success. (Brixx, $10 – $20 [requires preregistration at amia.ca])
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Sled Island Festival / Jun 22 – 25 If you're planning on taking any summer roadtrips, Calgary's Sled Island is worth the trek. What it doesn't have on Bonarroo/Sasquatch/Coachella in size, it makes up for in meat. Over 200 bands and 30 venues packed into a solid four days of musical confusion (it's really not that confusing, all of the schedule information is neatly laid out on the festival's website—sledisland.com). If it's your desire to see Calgary's Braids break out in advance of the band's almost-sure Polaris Prize longlisting (Wed, Jun 22), to see Deer Tick in a sweaty club rather than at the Edmonton Folk Festival (Fri, Jun 24) or any number of other ridiculously-talented and wide-ranging bands, then Sled Island is your, uh, island. There's comedy, there's film, there's art and there's food— plus there's also a lot of music. A lot. (Calgary, various venues)
Ravel's Rapsodie / Fri, Jun 17 (7:30 pm) & Sat, Jun 18 (8pm) Winding up its 2011 season this weekend, the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra presents the classic works of late-19th, early-20th century French composer, Maurice Ravel's piano-laced espagnole and his challenging "Daphnis et Chloé." As an ESO-season-end bonus, fans are invited to stick around after Friday's performance for an opportunity to meet the conductors and soloists. Fans are also invited to come early to the performance on Saturday for a symphony prelude that will teach more about the performance. (Winspear Centre, $20 – $71)
Jethro Tull / Tue, Jun 21, (8 pm) Jethro Tull is here to ring in the 40th year of Aqualung—dubbed by critics as a concept album discussing organized religion. Playing Aqualung in its entirety, along with a handful of other favourites, it might be your last chance to check out a band that once rivaled Elton John and the Rolling Stones. (Jubilee Auditorium, $49.50 – $79.50)
Paula Perro & No Foolin' / Sat, Jun 18 (7:30 pm) Borrowing from both Texas and Chicago blues, No Foolin' covers the bands you've grown to love with the infectious energy of leading lady Paula Perro and her energetic, soulful delivery. (Queen Alexandra Hall, $5 – $10)
Meaghan Smith / Mon, Jun 20 (8 pm) Fresh off her Juno win for "Best New Artist," (beating out Hannah Georgas, Basia Bulat, Bobby Bazini and Caribou) Meaghan Smith and her big band visit Edmonton while celebrating her debut, The Cricket's Orchestra. The sounds—inspired by days of yesteryear, while remaining true to today's pop sensibilities—promise to fill the relatively tiny room of the Haven with a tremendous orchestra. Don't believe me? Check out her rendition of the Pixies classic "Here Comes Your Man." (Haven Social Club, $15)
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NEWSOUNDS
Vetiver The Errant Charm (Sub Pop)
Sounding like something recorded in a wispy farmhouse, The Errant Charm is far from badly-behaved music: it wears a gracious, laidback tone of sliding guitars and sleepy, overly-hushed vocals with a lot of empty space. The voids, filled in by soft, programmed beats, polished effects and song after song of audio calm, makes this album quiet, yet listenable pulp that glides by in the same pleasing but nonexistent way that workday radio spaces the listener out. This isn't to suggest that Vetiver's latest is an obscenely poor album, but it's difficult to truly appreciate it for anything but its immaculate plainness. Curtis Wright // cwright@vueweekly.com
Arctic Monkeys Suck it and See (Domino) There's been a creeping feeling surrounding Arctic Monkeys for a while now that the band has lost touch with what initially compelled the members to pick up their guitars and write tightlywound, propulsive tales of youth getting into trouble. This feeling has never been stronger than on the band's latest album, Suck it and See. Everything from the title to the lack of artwork to the limp slabs of uninspired guitar rock carries the taint of a band that just doesn't care anymore but continues to paint by numbers because doing so is bankable. Of course, even at his least interested frontman Alex Turner is too talented a songwriter to churn out complete bombs—except for the unspeakably dire single "Brick by Brick"—and the album does contain a few choice moments, but, on the whole, Suck it and See captures the sound of a band that used to seethe with vitality discovering how to go through the motions. Garth Paulson // garth@vueweekly.com
Blueprint Adventures in Counter Culture (Rhymesayers) Like seemingly every other up-andcoming rapper today, on his sophomore fulllength Blueprint believes that if he wants to move any units he has to add an R&B croon. As a singer, Blueprint is completely forgettable, offering a bland, flat voice that immediately derails any track where it appears. It's an unfortunate addition because Blueprint demonstrates some serious skills as a producer and MC throughout the album. His beats are rich, eclectic and easily induce some pleasant head nodding while he employs a flexible, blunted flow with an emphasis on oldschool lyricism. Nothing he does is groundbreaking, but without the lame attempts to be his own hook man Adventures ... would be a solid throwback to hip hop's early-'90s golden age. With the singing, though, it's merely OK. Garth Paulson // garth@vueweekly.com
Black Lips Arabia Mountain (Vice) Framing the rowdy '60s model for punk sound, jagged melodies in the vein of a low-sweetener Ramones and a fuzzy, pre-British Invasion Beatles effortlessness, the Black Lips' unconstrained, lo-fi sound is something rock 'n' roll's been missing. Electro-wonder Mark Ronson, who has produced everything from ol' Dirty Bastard to Duran Duran, manages to magically funnel the foursome's notoriously raucous ways, capturing a set of raw, carefree and very live-sounding songs on Arabia Mountain. Outrageously catchy and unrestrained, yet strangely cohesive, Black Lips has created something as memorable and oddly distinctive as the band's live performances claim to be. Curtis Wright // cwright@vueweekly.com
Nadia Strange Song (Independent) On another group of songs, Nadia would excel: her knife-edged voice carries with it a primal power that draws a listener in. On Strange Song—a collection of Leonard Cohen covers— however, her voice, and the arrangements, are all wrong. She's taken the introspective musings of Canada's most reluctant poet and turned them into overwrought, hard-rock songs. Cohen's songs have been covered thousands of times, but here Nadia corrupts them well beyond any bounds of interpretation. Bryan Birtles // bryan@vueweekly.com
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QUICKSPINS WHITEY HOUSTON
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OLDSOUNDS
The Coathangers Larceny & Old Lace (Suicide Squeeze) Grimy lady punk Presumably named after Penchant for fashion?
Katie Goes to Tokyo My Naked Heart (Saturday Enterprise) A sad-sack strumfest Why does sunny, sweet music Depress me so much .
Swingin' Utters Here Under Protest (Fat Wreck Chords) Still swinging wildly Like kid's pinata party Or hobo fist fight .
Jesse Peters Face Time (Independent) Snazzy jazz stylings He belts it out with aplomb Nary a facepalm
U2 Zooropa (Island) Originally released: 1993
Breaching Vista Vera City (Brightside) So derivative To figure it out you'll need Ten calculators
Glasvegas Euphoric ///Hearbreak\\\ (Columbia) Just fucking lovely Sweet union of sad and cool Like a dropped ice cream
Zooropa occupies a confused moment in U2's history. Although it won a Grammy in 1994 for Best Alternative Music Album, and was called U2's most creative album, none of the three released singles reached the heights of the previous two albums, and the band continues to look back on it with mixed reviews. Conceptualized during a break in the ZooTV tour, the band was caught up in the exploration of technology and media saturation. Bono and The Edge took that momentum and delved into the use of noise manipulation, electronic music and sound effects, but amidst the chaos the band managed to compile 10 tracks alternating between crazed noise and dedicated love songs. The title track is dominated by advertising slogans with radio signals fading into looping melodic guitar. It quickly sets a dystopic stage of uncertainty (“And I have no compass / And I have no map / And I have no reasons / No reasons to go back”) that resonates throughout the album. In reference to the lyrics to the monotonous, mantra-like "Numb," The Edge stated that he wanted to capture the feeling of “being bombarded by so much information that you find yourself shut-
ting down and unable to respond.” But amidst the chaos and over-saturation of sound, the songs remain grounded in the core beliefs of the band. "Lemon" is a love song Bono wrote to his mother, and the lilting piano track calms an otherwise frantic album, but also transitions to the confusion the band was dealing with: “And these are the days / When our work has come asunder / And these are the days / When we look for something other.” At the time of the album's conceptualization the band was also attempting to bring attention to the Bosnian War. Responding to Bill Carter, a journalist on the ground in Sarajevo, the band had begun dedicating time during their concerts to live interviews from war-plagued Sarajevo. That experience echoed during the recording sessions. Bono had written several songs dedicated to the feeling of helplessness generated by watching a war on television, and although several of these tracks were cut from Zooropa, they continued to appear in tour setlists and on future albums: Pop's callout for peace in "If God Would Send His Angels" and the desolate and hopeless "Wake Up Dead Man," and "Miss Sarajevo" from the 1995 Passengers side project all contain the weight of a band attempting to deal with the political realities of an uncertain world. The alienation and isolation that was running through Eastern Europe at the time echoes through the album's noisy loops and experimental tracks, but remains grounded in the basics U2 has always attempted to put forward. As the title track suggests, "Don't worry baby, it's gonna be all right / Uncertainty can be a guiding light." Samantha Power // samantha@vueweekly.com
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Hammered by Sound, Marley Daemon; 8pm; $10 (adv at YEG)/$12 (door) J And r Open jam rock 'n' roll; every Thu; 9pm
Jeffrey's cAfé
MRE4U (indie rockers); $10 L.B.'s puB Open jam with Kenny Skoreyko, Fred Larose and Gordy Mathews (Shaved Posse) every Thu; 9pm-1am
LeveL 2 Lounge
Summer Heat W. Jump, Jack and Zebrah; 9pm
MAryBeth's coffee house– Beaumont Open mic
every Thu; 7pm
nAked cyBer cAfé Open stage every Thu, 9pm; no cover
neW city Legion
The Sorels, Morals, White Beauty; no minors
neW West hoteL Saddle Ridge
north country fAir–driftpile Firefly
Stage: Scott Cook (MC), Type Monkey Type (9pm); Scott Cook and the Long Weekends
north gLenorA hALL Jam by Wild Rose
Old Time Fiddlers every Thu
pAWn shop
Forbidden (metal), Revocation, White Wizzard, Havok, Kriticos; 7pm; $20 (adv) ric’s griLL Peter Belec (jazz); most Thursdays; 7-10pm
rusty reed's house of BLues
Every Thu Ladies Night; Ladies free admission: The Rault Brothers; $5
second cup– varscona Live music
every Thu night; 7-9pm thAt's AroMA Open stage hosted by Carrie Day, and Kyler Schogen; 7-9pm
WiLd BiLL’s–red deer TJ the DJ every
Thu and Fri; 10pm-close
WiLd West sALoon Colleen Rae
WunderBAr Carmen
34 MUSIC
Townsend, Owls by Nature; $7
DJs 180 degrees DJ every
Thu
BLAck dog freehouse Main
Floor: Tight Jams: every Thu with Mike B and Brosnake; Wooftop Lounge: various musical flavas including Funk, Indie Dance/Nu Disco, Breaks, Drum and Bass, House with DJ Gundam; Underdog: Dub, Reggae, Dancehall, Ska, Calypso, and Soca with Topwise Soundsystem Brixx Radio Brixx with Tommy Grimes spinning Rock n Roll; 8pm (door); no cover
century rooM
Lucky 7: Retro '80s with house DJ every Thu; 7pm-close chroMe Lounge 123 Ko every Thu the coMMon So Necessary: Hip hop, classic hip hop, funk, soul, r&b, '80s, oldies and everything in between with Sonny Grimezz, Shortround, Twist every Thu croWn puB Bass Head Thursdays: Drum and Bass DJ night, 9pm druid irish puB DJ every Thu; 9pm
eLectric rodeo– spruce grove DJ every
Thu
fiLthy McnAsty’s
Punk Rock Bingo every Thu with DJ S.W.A.G. fLuid Lounge Thirsty Thursdays: Electro breaks Cup; no cover all night
funky BuddhA– Whyte Ave Requests
every Thu with DJ Damian hALo Fo Sho: every Thu with Allout DJs DJ Degree, Junior Brown kAs BAr Urban House: every Thu with DJ Mark Stevens; 9pm LeveL 2 Lounge Funk Bunker Thursdays Lucky 13 Sin Thu with DJ Mike Tomas
on the rocks
Salsaholic: every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; salsa DJ to follow
overtiMe– downtown Thursdays
at Eleven: Electronic Techno and Dub Step rendezvous Metal night every Thu
sportsWorLd
Roller Skating Disco: Thu Retro Nights; 7-10:30pm; sportsworld.ca
tAphouse–st Albert Eclectic mix every Thu with DJ Dusty Grooves union hALL 123 Thursdays
WiLd BiLL’s–red deer TJ the DJ every
Thu and Fri; 10pm-close
FRI JUN 17
AtLAntic trAp And giLL Duff Robison BLue chAir cAfé
Mark Davis, Trevor Tchir;
VUEWEEKLYMTH JUN 00 16 ––JUN 22,00, 2011 VUEWEEKLY MTH 2011
8pm; $15
BLues on Whyte
Dave Weld (Chicago)
BoheMiA
Democrafunk, The Creeks; no minors; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $8/$6 (member) Brixx BAr Sidney York (CD Release), Kaley Bird, The Flock; 9pm (door); $14 (door) cArrot Live music every Fri; all ages; KarenPorkka; 7pm; $5 (door)
cAsino edMonton The Whiskey Boyz
cAsino yeLLoWheAd The
Classics
coAst to coAst
Open stage every Fri; 9:30pm
devAney's irish puB Alesha and Brendon (folk/rock); 9pm; no cover dv8 Frightenstein, guests; 9pm
eddie shorts
Mireille Moquin, Mae Anderson (original alt folk); 9pm; no cover
eMpire BALLrooM Glow Party presented by Much; $5 (adv) at empireballroom.ca/$7 (door)
fresh stArt Bistro Darrell Barr (country, rock); 7-10pm; $10 gAs puMp The Uptown Jammers (house band); every Fri; 5:30-9pm
heritAge AMphitheAtre
Utopia Music Festival: Summer Solstice Cultural Celebration: Ani Difranco, Janet Panic; 6pm (gate); E: info@ utopiamusicfestival.ca
hAven sociAL cLuB Joe Nolan (CD
Shady Grove: Cameron Noyes (MC), The Recipe, Pulse, Digging Roots on the rocks Love Junk pAWn shop Radio for Help (pop/rock); 8pm (door); $5 (adv)
red piAno BAr
Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Fri; 9pm-2am
rusty reed's house of BLues The
Rault Brothers; $10 sneAky pete's Mr Lucky
stArLite rooM
Vanity Red, Wolf Sons, Bomb Squad Rookie; 9pm (door); $14 (door)
utopiA Music festivAL –hawrelak park Ani Difranco, Janet
Panic; 6pm (gate)
West side puB
Tye Jones and Tall Dark 'n' Dirty (rock 'n' roll 'n' electric blues; grand opening); 9:30pm-1:30am; no cover
WiLd BiLL’s–red deer TJ the DJ every
Thu and Fri; 10pm-close
WiLd West sALoon
Colleen Rae Wok Box Breezy Brian Gregg every Fri; 3:305:30pm WunderBAr AHNA; $5
Classical WinspeAr centre
Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloé: Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Bill Eddins (piano solo); 7:30pm
DJs 180 degrees DJ
every Fri
AzucAr picAnte
DJ Papi and DJ Latin Sensation every Fri
release), Mike Edel, Steph Macpherson; 8pm; $12 (adv at Blackbyrd Myoozik)/$15 (door) irish cLuB Jam session every Fri; 8pm; no cover Jeffrey's cAfé June Mann Quartet ('70s pop and jazz classics); $10
Connected Fri: 91.7 The Bounce, Nestor Delano, Luke Morrison every Fri BAr-B-BAr DJ James; every Fri; no cover
JekyLL And hyde puB Headwind (classic
on the main floor every Fri; Underdog, Wooftop
pop/rock); every Fri; 9pm; no cover
LizArd Lounge Rock
'n' roll open mic every Fri; 8:30pm; no cover
neW city Legion
No Problem, Tarantuja (LP release party), Panik Attak, Suicidal Cop; no minors
neW West hoteL Saddle Ridge
north country fAir–driftpile
MaiStage: Mostly Water Theatre (5:30pm); OKA, Scott Cook and the Long Weekends, Paul McGowan, Maria in the Shower, Britt Pernille Froholm, David Gogo, Ron Casat, Jampara, Michael Bernard Fitzgerald, Dr. Draw, Shelley Foss, Sister Gray; $100 (adult)/$60 (youth 13-18 yrs) at Earth's General Store; Friday on the Reed: Penny Malmberg (MC), Gizzard 7pm, Audio/Rocketry, Alexis Normand, Eddie Patterson, Tremoloco; Friday After Midnight– The Firefly: Chris Dummot (MC), Wool on Wolves, Sophmore Jakes; The Reed: Jill Pollock, United Steel Workers of Montreal, The Tequila Mockingbird Orchestra;
BAnk uLtrA Lounge
BLAck dog freehouse DJs spin BLAcksheep puB
Bash: DJ spinning retro to rock classics to current Buddy’s DJ Arrow Chaser every Fri; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm
BuffALo underground R U
Aware Friday: Featuring Neon Nights
chroMe Lounge
Platinum VIP every Fri the coMMon Boom The Box: every Fri; nu disco, hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation plus residents Echo and Shortround
the druid irish puB DJ every Fri; 9pm eLectric rodeo– spruce grove DJ every
Fri
fLuid Lounge Hip
hop and dancehall; every Fri
funky BuddhA– Whyte Ave Top tracks, rock, retro with DJ Damian; every Fri gAs puMp DJ Christian; every Fri; 9:30pm-2am
Junction BAr And eAtery LGBT Com-
munity: Rotating DJs Fri
and Sat; 10pm
neWcAstLe puB
House, dance mix every Fri with DJ Donovan
overtiMe– downtown Fridays
at Eleven: Rock Hip hop country, Top forty, Techno
rednex–Morinville
DJ Gravy from the Source 98.5 every Fri red stAr Movin’ on Up: indie, rock, funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri
rouge Lounge Solice Fri
sportsWorLd Roller
Skating Disco Fri Nights; 7-10:30pm; sports-world. ca suede Lounge Juicy DJ spins every Fri suite 69 Every Fri Sat with DJ Randall-A teMpLe Options with Greg Gory and Eddie Lunchpail; every Fri treAsury In Style Fri: DJ Tyco and Ernest Ledi; no line no cover for ladies all night long union hALL Ladies Night every Fri
vinyL dAnce Lounge Boonstock B Live Loud: DJ competition
y Afterhours
Foundation Fridays
SAT JUN 18
ALBertA BeAch hoteL Open stage with
Trace Jordan 1st and 3rd Sat; 7pm-12 Arden The West Coast's Best Women Of The Blues: Dalannah Gail, Bowen, Sibel Thrasher, Featuring Kenny Blues Boss, Wayne, Gaye Delorme; Presented by S.I.R.E.N.S. Charity 7:30pm • $30 at Arden, Ticketmaster,Myhres, Blackbyrd; proceeds support the breakfast program at St Francis of Assisi School Artery The Collective West (album release), Jeff Morris, Mat Savard; 8pm; $10 (adv)
AtLAntic trAp And giLL Duff Robison BLAck dog freehouse Hair of
the Dog: Lovertine (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover BLue chAir cAfé Jack Semple; 8pm; $20
BLues on Whyte
Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; evening: Dave Weld (Chicago) BoheMiA Lost Cat, Spartans, Dave Hodson; no minors; 9pm show; entry Brixx BAr Dual Side, Jack Straight, In Limbo; 9pm (door); $12 (door)
cAsino edMonton The Whiskey Boyz
cAsino yeLLoWheAd The
Classics
coAst to coAst
Live bands every Sat; 9:30pm
the coMMon
Goodlife pres: Old Balls; 9pm croWn puB Acoustic blues open stage with Marshall Lawrence, every Sat, 2-6pm; Laid Back Saturday African Dance Party with Dj Collio, every Sat, 12-2am
devAney's irish puB Alesha and Brendon
UP FRONT 1
(folk/rock); 9pm; no cover Dv8 Zero Cool, The Mange, Down The Hatch, Brave by Numbers (BC); 9pm eDDie sHorts Saucy Wenches every Sat
expressionz cAFÉ The Magpies (roots); 11am-noon
FiLtHy mcnAsty's
Fire Next Time, Miek Headache; 4pm; no cover gAs pump Blues jam/ open stage every Sat 3:30-7pm
HAven sociAL cLuB The Plaid Tongued Devils, Desert Bar, Jordan Norman; 8pm; $10 (adv at Blackbyrd Myoozik)/$12 (door)
HeritAge AmpHitHeAtre
Utopia Music Festival: Summer Solstice Cultural Celebration: 1pm (gate), 5-10:30pm (headline concerts); Headliners: Suzie Mcneil, David Usher, Lights, Rich Aucoin at 5pm; Western Canada Showcase: Justin Blais, Mark Sheppard, Matthew Lindholm, Boy And Gurl, DJs: D3viant, Tianna J., Souljah Fyah at 1pm HiLLtop puB Open stage every Sat hosted by Blue Goat, 3:30-6:30pm HooLigAnz Basic Space, Gunshy, The Frolics (rock); no minors; 7pm (door) iron BoAr puB Jazz in Wetaskiwin featuring jazz trios the 1st Sat each month; $10 jeFFrey's cAFÉ Dave Riddell (contemporary jazz trio); $10
LB's puB–st Albert
Jared Sowan and Hippie Junktion; 9:30pm-2am
LeveL 2 Lounge
Kinetic Saturdays: Lori J Ward; 9:30pm
mcDougALL cHurcH Blues Café:
Jack Semple (benefit concert for a new roof for the church); 6:30pm (pre-sjpw; $35 at TIX on the Square, McDougall at 780.428.1818
neW city Legion Early Show:
Ivardensphere, guests, no minors, 7pm (door), 8pm (show), $10; Late show: REWIRED club night with The Gothfather and Neo, no additional cover
neW West HoteL Saddle Ridge
nortH country FAir –Driftpile Main
Stage: Sarah Hoyles (MC), Booming Tree Taiko (11:30 am), Alexis Normand, Leftover Tears (the love gone wrong workshop), Ron Casat with Rotten Dan and Yugi, The Pint of No Return, The Aurora Sisters; Saturday Evening on Main Stage: Dan Shinnan (MC), Eddie Patterson (5:15pm), The F-Holes, Wool on Wolves, Michael Bernard Fitzgerald, Wes Borg (MC), United Steel Workers of Montreal, Tremoloco, Digging Roots, Joe Vickers, Audio/Rocketry; Saturday Evening on the Reed: Tattered Lace (MC), Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me! (7pm), George Ireland and Boxcar Social, Finding Nepo.. tism, Sophmore Jakes, Dr. Draw; Saturday After Midnight–The Firefly: Chris Dummot (MC), Feast or Famine, Type Monkey Type, Scott Cook and the Long Weekends; The Reed: Calvin Weatherall (MC), The Recipe, Maria in the Shower, Gizzard; Shady Grove: Cameron Noyes (MC), Pulse, OKA, Mamaguroove; Saturday on The Firefly: George Ireland & Boxcar Social (1pm); The AwesomeHots, Ralph Shaw, le vie en rose (those were the days my friend),
Jill Pollock, Brittney Grabill; Saturday on the Reed: Cptn Thndrpntz! (MC), Paul and Gina (10am), Hooping with Amanda, Captain Greenbeard, Not Your Mama’s Improv! Maracatu Mudanca, Gogo Bonkers, Joe Bird Memorial Open Stage (hosted by Wes Borg); Saturday on Shady Grove: Penny Malmberg (MC), Catgut Fever (1pm), Dana Wylie Band, Mostly Water Theatre, The Recipe, Unleash Your Inner Clown, OKA Tokes o’Byrne’s Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm on tHe rocKs Love Junk
pAWn sHop
Transmission Saturdays
Queen ALexAnDrA HALL Edmonton Blues
Society: Paula Perro, No Foolin'; 7:30pm (door), 8pm (music); $5 (member)/$10 (guest) at door reDnex BAr– morinville Inspector Fuzz
reD piAno BAr
Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am
rusty reeD's House oF BLues The
Rault Brothers; $10 sneAKy pete's Mr Lucky
stArLite room
Striker, Savage Blade, Stinger, Alien Shape Shifter; 9pm (door); $10 (adv)/$15 (door)
sutton pLAce HoteL–rutherford room Rumba at the Sutton; 8pm
utopiA music FestivAL Headline
concerts after showcase: Suzie Mcneil, David Usher, Lights, Rich Aucoin, 5pm; Showcase: 1-5pm: Justin Blais, Mark Sheppard,
Matthew Lindholm, Boy and Gurl, DJs D3viant and Tianna J., Souljah Fyah; gate (1pm), festival closes 10:3pm
West siDe puB
Sat Afternoon: Dirty Jam: Tye Jones (host), all styles, 3-7pm;
West siDe puB
Sat Afternoon: Dirty Jam: Tye Jones (host), all styles, 3-7pm; Evening: Tye Jones and Tall Dark n' Dirty (grand opening, rock 'n' roll 'n' electric blues), 9:30pm-1:30am, no cover
WiLD West sALoon Colleen Rae
WunDerBAr Walter TV with Babysitter, Group Sound; $5
Classical WinspeAr Ravel’s
Daphnis and Chloé: Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Bill Eddins (piano solo); 8pm
DJs 180 Degrees Street
VIBS: Reggae night every Sat
AzucAr picAnte DJ Touch It, hosted by DJ Papi; every Sat
BAnK uLtrA Lounge Sold Out Sat: with DJ Russell James, Mike Tomas; 8pm (door); no line, no cover for ladies before 11pm
BLAcK Dog FreeHouse DJs on
three levels every Sat: Main Floor: Menace Sessions: alt rock/ electro/trash with Miss Mannered; Underdog: DJ Brand-dee; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic Hip-Hop and Reggae with DJ Sonny Grimezz BLAcKsHeep puB DJ every Sat BuDDy's Feel the rhythm every Sat with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm
Mashed In Saturday: Mashup Night DruiD irisH puB DJ every Sat; 9pm
eLectric roDeo– spruce grove DJ every
Sat
FLuiD Lounge
Intimate Saturdays: with DJ Aiden Jamali; 8pm (door)
FunKy BuDDHA– Whyte Ave Top tracks,
rock, retro every Sat with DJ Damian gAs pump DJ Christian every Sat HALo For Those Who Know: house every Sat with DJ Junior Brown, Luke Morrison, Nestor Delano, Ari Rhodes
junction BAr AnD eAtery LGBT
Community: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm
LeveL 2 Lounge
Kinetic Saturdays: Lori J Ward with Micky Sass, The Ol Kid, Battery, Josh EP; $5 (before 10:30pm)/$10 (after) neWcAstLe puB Top 40 requests every Sat with DJ Sheri
neW city Legion
Polished Chrome: every Sat with DJs Blue Jay, The Gothfather, Dervish, Anonymouse; no minors; free (5-8pm)/$5 (ladies)/$8 (gents after 8pm)
overtime– Downtown Saturdays
at Eleven: RNB, hip hop, reggae, Old School pALAce cAsino Show Lounge DJ every Sat
pAWn sHop
BuFFALo unDergrounD Head
Transmission Saturdays: Alt, DJ, punk-rock reD stAr Indie rock, hip hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests sportsWorLD Roller Skating Disco every Sat; 1pm-4:30pm and 7-10:30pm sueDe Lounge DJ Nic-E spins every Sat suite 69 Every Fri Sat
780.485.1717 pAWn sHop 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 pLAyBAcK puB 594 Hermitage Rd, 130 Ave, 40 St pLeAsAntvieW community HALL 10860-57 Ave Queen ALexAnDrA HALL 10425 University Ave reDnex BAr–morinville 10413-100 Ave, Morinville, 780.939.6955 reD piAno BAr 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882170 St, 780.486.7722 reD stAr 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 renDezvous 10108149 St ric’s griLL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 roBertson-WesLey uniteD cHurcH 10209123 St roseBoWL/rouge Lounge 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 rose AnD croWn 10235-101 St r puB 16753-100 St , 780.457.1266 rusty reeD's House oF BLues 12402-118 Ave, 780.451.1390 seconD cup–mountain equipment 12336-102 Ave, 780.451.7574; stanley milner Library 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq; varscona, Varscona Hotel, 106 St, Whyte Ave seconD cup– sherwood park 4005 Cloverbar Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929 • summerwood Summerwood Centre, Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929
siDeLiners puB 11018127 St, 780.453.6006 sneAKy pete's 12315118 Ave sportsWorLD 13710104 St sportsmAn's Lounge 8170-50 St stArLite room 10030102 St, 780.428.1099 steeps teA Lounge– Whyte Ave 11116-82 Ave sueDe Lounge 11806 Jasper Ave, 780.482.0707 suite 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969 tApHouse 9020 McKenney Ave, St Albert, 780.458.0860 timms centre U of A treAsury 10004 Jasper Ave, 7870.990.1255, thetreasurey.ca utopiA music FestivAL Hawrelak Park, Heritage Amphitheatre vinyL DAnce Lounge 10740 Jasper Ave, 780.428.8655, vinylretrolounge.com West siDe puB 15135 Stony Plain Rd WiLD BiLL’s–red Deer Quality Inn North Hill, 7150-50 Ave, Red Deer, 403.343.8800 WiLD West sALoon 12912-50 St, 780.476.3388 WinspeAr centre 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WoK Box 10119 Jasper Ave WunDerBAr 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 y AFterHours 10028102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com yesterDAys puB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295
VENUE GUIDE 180 Degrees 10730-107 St, 780.414.0233 Accent europeAn Lounge 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 Artery 9535 Jasper Ave AtLAntic trAp AnD giLL 7704 Calgary Tr S BAnK uLtrA Lounge 10765 Jasper Ave, 780.420.9098 BLAcK Dog FreeHouse 10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLAcKjAcK's roADHouse–nisku 2110 Sparrow Drive, Nisku, 780.986.8522 BLAcKsHeep puB 11026 Jasper Ave, 780.420.0448 BLue cHAir cAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLue peAr restAurAnt 10643-123 St, 780.482.7178 BLues on WHyte 1032982 Ave, 780.439.3981 BoHemiA 10575-114 St Brixx BAr 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 BuDDy’s 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 cAsino eDmonton 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 cAsino yeLLoWHeAD 12464-153 St, 780 424 9467 cAtALyst tHeAtre 8529 Gateway Blvd century griLL 3975 Calgary Tr NW, 780.431.0303 cHrome Lounge 132 Ave, Victoria Trail coAst to coAst 5552 Calgary Tr, 780.439.8675 common Lounge 10124124 St croWn AnD AncHor 15277 Castledowns Rd, 780.472.7696 croWn puB 10709-109 St, 780.428.5618 DieseL uLtrA Lounge 11845 Wayne Gretzky Drive, 780.704.CLUB
2 UP FRONT
DevAney’s irisH puB 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 tHe DocKs 13710 66 St, 780.476.3625 DruiD 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DuKe's BAr 12650-151 Ave Duster’s puB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 Dv8 8307-99 St eDDie sHorts 10713124 St, 780.453.3663 eDmonton events centre WEM Phase III, 780.489.SHOW eLectric roDeo– spruce grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 eLepHAnt AnD cAstLe–Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave expressionz cAFÉ 9938-70 Ave, 780.437.3667 FiDDLer’s roost 8906-99 St FiLtHy mcnAsty’s 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 FLoW Lounge 11815 Wayne Gretzky Dr, 780.604. CLUB FLuiD Lounge 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 FunKy BuDDHA 1034182 Ave, 780.433.9676 gAs pump 10166-114 St, 780.488.4841 gooD eArtH coFFee House 9942-108 St HALo 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.HALO HAven sociAL cLuB 15120A (basement), Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.6010 HiLLtop puB 8220-106 Ave, 780.490.7359 HooLigAnz 10704-124 St, 780.995.7110 HyDeAWAy 10209-100 Ave, 780.426.5381 iron BoAr puB 491151st St, Wetaskiwin
j AnD r 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 jeFFrey’s cAFÉ 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 jeKyLL AnD HyDe 10209-100 Ave, 780.426.5381 junction BAr AnD eAtery 10242-106 St, 780.756.5667 KAs BAr 10444-82 Ave, 780.433.6768 KeLLy's puB 11540 Jasper Ave L.B.’s puB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LegenDs puB 6104-172 St, 780.481.2786 LeveL 2 Lounge 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 LizArD Lounge 13160118 Ave mAryBetH's coFFee House–Beaumont 5001-30 Ave, Beaumont, 780.929.2203 mcDougALL uniteD cHurcH 10025-101 St nAKeD cyBer cAFÉ 10354 Jasper Ave, 780.425.9730 neWcAstLe puB 610890 Ave, 780.490.1999 neW city Legion 8130 Gateway Boulevard (Red Door) nisKu inn 1101-4 St nortH country FAir–Driftpile lslncca.ca nortH gLenorA HALL 13535-109A Ave o’Byrne’s 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 on tHe rocKs 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 orLAnDo's 1 15163121 St overtime–Downtown 10304-111 St, 780.465.6800 overtime Whitemud Crossing, 4211-106 St,
VUEWEEKLY JUN00 16 – JUN 2011 VUEWEEKLY MTH MTH22, 00, 2011
MUSIC -35
with DJ Randall-A TEMPLE Oh Snap! Oh Snap with Degree, Cobra Commander, Battery, Jake Roberts, Ten-O, Cool Beans, Hotspur Pop and P-Rex; every Sat Union HaLL Celebrity Saturdays: every Sat hosted by Ryan Maier
VinyL DancE LoUngE Utopia After Party
y aFTERHoURS Release Saturdays
SUN JUN 19
BEER HUnTER–St albert Open stage/jam
every Sun; 2-6pm
BLackjack'S RoaDHoUSE–nisku Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett
BLUE cHaiR caFé
Sun Brunch: Hawaiian Dreamers; 10:30am2:30pm; donations
BLUE PEaR RESTaURanT Jazz on
the Side Sun; 6pm; $25 if not dining
BLUES on WHyTE
Greg Wood Band; 8pm cRoWn PUB Band War 2011/Battle of the bands, 6-10pm; Open Stage with host Better Us Than Strangers, 10pm-1am
DEVanEy’S iRiSH PUB Celtic open stage
every Sun with KeriLynne Zwicker; 5:30pm; no cover DoUBLE D'S Open jam every Sun; 3-8pm
EDDiE SHoRTS
Acoustic jam every Sun; 9pm
ExPRESSionz caFé YEG live Sun Night Songwriters Stage; 7-10pm
ExPRESSionz caFé
YEG live Sunday Night Songwriters Stage; 7-10pm every Sunday j anD R BaR Open jam/stage every Sun hosted by Me Next and the Have-Nots; 3-7pm nEWcaSTLE PUB Sun Soul Service (acoustic jam): Willy James and Crawdad Cantera; 3-6:30pm
noRTH coUnTRy FaiR–Driftpile
Main Stage: Joanne Johnson (MC), long as I can see the light, Corin Raymond, The Tequila Mockingbird Orchestra, Al Brant Band, The Recipe, Closing Ceremonies and Circle; Sunday on the Firefly: Wes Borg (MC), Joe Bird Memorial Open Stage II, Jacquie B and Jesse D, Michael Bernard Fitzgerald; Sunday on the Reed: Cptn Thndrpntz! (MC), Maracatu Mundanca, Ralph Shaw, Gogo Bonkers, Booming Tree Taiko, Parade!, Hooping with Amanda, The Aurora Sisters; Sunday on Shady Grove: Sarah Hoyles (MC), Sister Gray, Brittney Grabill, the shower-take a bath, Todd Bidford, Jack Garton, Martin Reisle, Brendon Hartley, Eric Lemoine, Patrick Leclerc, Blake Thomson, James McKee, Evan Friesen, Jill Pollock, Feast or Famine; Sunday night on The Firefly: The AwesomeHots, Mamaguroove, Dr. Draw; Sunday night on the Reed: Michael Bernard Fitzgerald, The f-holes, Coordinator Jam
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o’ByRnE’S Open mic
every Sun; 9:30pm-1am on THE RockS Seven Strings Sun: Matt Blais Band, Se7ven Sided, Tupelo Honey
oRLanDo'S 2 PUB
Open stage jam every Sun; 4pm
RUSTy REED'S HoUSE oF BLUES
Salsa Sundays: featuring The Tilo Piaz Band; 2pm (door), 4-8pm (music); $5 cover
SEconD cUP– Mountain Equipment co-op Livavenue
e music every Sun; 2-4pm
Classical RoBERTSon-WESLEy UniTED cHURcH Edmonton Vocal Minority (Pride worship service); 10:30am
DJs BackSTagE TaP anD gRiLL Industry Night:
every Sun with Atomic Improv, Jameoki and DJ Tim
BLack Dog FREEHoUSE Sunday
Funday: with Phil, 2-7pm; Sunday Night: Soul Sundays: '60s and '70s funk, soul, R&B with DJ Zyppy FLoW LoUngE Stylus Sun
SaVoy MaRTini LoUngE Reggae on
Whyte: RnR Sun with DJ IceMan; no minors; 9pm; no cover SPoRTSWoRLD Roller Skating Disco Sun; 1-4:30pm; sports-world. ca
MON JUN 20
BLack Dog FREEHoUSE Sleeman
Mon: live music monthly; no cover
BLUES on WHyTE Russell Jackson
DEVanEy'S iRiSH PUB
Singer/songwriter open stage every Mon; 8pm DV8 TaVERn Bertha Cool, Hospital Blonde; 9pm
HaVEn SociaL cLUB Meaghan Smith, Del Barber, Danielle and the Deadbeats; 8pm; $15 (adv at Blackbyrd)/$18 (door)
jUBiLEE aUDiToRiUM
Steve Earle and the Dukes and Duchesses featuring Allison Moorer; 8pm (show); $29.50, $39.50 at TicketMaster kELLy'S PUB Open stage every Mon; hosted by Clemcat Hughes; 9pm
PLEaSanTViEW coMMUniTy HaLL
Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm
RoSE BoWL/RoUgE LoUngE Acoustic open stage every Mon; 9pm
RUSTy REED'S HoUSE oF BLUES Big
Rock Open Stage: Moses Gregg, Grant Stovel, guest WUnDERBaR David Riddel Trio; $5
DJs BLack Dog FREEHoUSE Main
Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: every Mon with DJ Blue cRoWn PUB Minefield Mondays/House/Breaks/ Trance and more with host DJ Pheonix, 9pm
VUEWEEKLY JUN00 16 – MTH JUN 22, 2011 VUEWEEKLY MTH 00, 2011
FiLTHy McnaSTy'S
Metal Mon: with DJ S.W.A.G. LUcky 13 Industry Night every Mon with DJ Chad Cook
nEW ciTy LEgion
Madhouse Mon: Punk/ metal/etc with DJ Smart Alex
TUE JUN 21
BLUES on WHyTE
Russell Jackson BRixx BaR Sled Island Showcase: Minto, Red Cedar, guests; 8pm (door); $10 (door)
DRUiD iRiSH PUB
Open stage every Tue; with Chris Wynters; 9pm DUkE'S BaR Emo LeBlanc (country); 7:30pm
jUBiLEE aUDiToRiUM Jethro
Tull; 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $45.50, $59.50 & $79.50 at TicketMaster L.B.’S Tue Blues Jam with Ammar; 9pm-1am o’ByRnE’S Celtic jam every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm PaDManaDi Open stage every Tue; with Mark Davis; all ages; 7:30-10:30pm R PUB Open stage jam every Tue; hosted by Gary and the Facemakers; 8pm
RUSTy REED'S HoUSE oF BLUES
Gordie Matthews Band, guest
SEconD cUP–124 Street Open mic every Tue; 8-10pm
SEconD cUP–Stanley Milner Library Open mic every Tue; 7-9pm
SEconD cUP– Summerwood Open
stage/open mic every Tue; 7:30pm; no cover SiDELinERS PUB All Star Jam every Tue; with Alicia Tait and Rickey Sidecar; 8pm
SPoRTSMan'S LoUngE Open stage
every Tue; hosted by Paul McGowan; 9pm WUnDERBaR Pre-Sled Island Party: No Gold, Sans Aids, Pat Jordache, Service: Fair; $6
Classical TiMMS cEnTRE Opera
NUOVA: Mainstage Operas: Marriage of Figaro, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; 7:30pm; $38 (adv adult)/$34 (adv student/ senior)/$34 (adult)/$30 (student/senior)
DJs BLack Dog FREEHoUSE Main
Floor: alternative retro and not-so-retro every Tue with Eddie Lunchpail; Wooftop: From dub to disco: One Too Many Tuesdays with Rootbeard BRixx BaR Troubadour Tue: hosted by Mark Feduk; 9pm; $8 BUDDyS DJ Arrow Chaser every Tue; free pool all night; 9pm (door); no cover
cHRoME LoUngE
Bashment Tue: Bomb Squad, The King QB, Rocky; no cover cRoWn PUB Live hip hop and open mic with DJs Xaolin, Dirty Needlz, Frank Brown, and guests; no cover DV8 Creepy Tombsday:
Psychobilly, Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue
FUnky BUDDHa– Whyte ave Latin and
Salsa music every Tue; dance lessons 8-10pm
nEW ciTy LEgion
High Anxiety Variety Society Bingo vs. karaoke with Ben Disaster, Anonymouse every Tue; no minors; 4pm-3am; no cover RED STaR Experimental Indie Rock, Hip Hop, Electro with DJ Hot Philly; every Tue
WED JUN 22 BLack Dog FREEHoUSE Main
Floor: Glitter Gulch: live music once a month
BLUES on WHyTE
Russell Jackson BoHEMia Ramshackle Day Parade (some of Edmonton's raunchiest noise musicians); no minors; 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $5 (door) BRixx BaR Alberta Music Industry Association and Starlites Musicians Club Presents Tour Smart with Martin Atkins; no minors; 6pm; adv registration atamia. ca or 780.428.3372
cEnTURy gRiLL
Century Room Wed Live: featuring The Marco Claveria Project; 8-11pm
cEnTURy caSino
Dr Hook featuring Ray Sawyer; $39.95 cRoWn PUB Dan Jam/ open stage every Wed; 8pm-2am DV8 TaVERn The Dayglo Abortions, Redd Monkey; 9pm
EDDiE SHoRTS
Acoustic jam every Wed, 9pm; no cover
EDMonTon EVEnT cEnTRE Dropkick
Murphys, Chuck Ragan; no minors; 7pm (door), 8pm (show); sold out
ELEPHanT anD caSTLE–Whyte ave
Open mic every Wed (unless there's an Oilers game); no cover
ExPRESSionz caFé
Open stage with Randall Walsh; every Wed; 7-11pm; admission by donation
FiDDLER'S RooST
Little Flower Open Stage every Wed with Brian Gregg; 8pm-12
gooD EaRTH coFFEE HoUSE Breezy Brian
Gregg every Wed; 121pm
HaVEn SociaL cLUB
Open stage every Wed with Jonny Mac, 8:30pm, free HooLiganz Open stage every Wed with host Cody Nouta; 9pm
jUBiLEE aUDiToRiUM Don Williams; 6:30 (door), 7:30pm (show); $39.50, $59.50 at TicketMaster
nEWcaSTLE PUB
The Vindicators (silent auction); 4pm-12am; $15 niSkU inn Troubadours and Tales: 1st Wed every month; with Tim Harwill, guests; 8-10pm PaWn SHoP Skratch Bastid; 9:30am PLayBack PUB Open Stage every Wed hosted by JTB; 9pm-1am
PLEaSanTViEW coMMUniTy HaLL Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass
Circle Music Society; Slow pitch for beginners on the 1st and 3rd Wed prior to regular jam every Wed, 6.30pm; $2 (member)/$4 (nonmember) REDnEx BaR– Morinville Hidden Towers RED Piano BaR Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5
RExaLL PLacE
Rihanna, B.O.B, J. Cole; 6:30pm (door), 7:30pm (show); $19.75-$99.75 at Ticketmaster RiVER cREE Pussycat Dolls Burlesque Revue, Carmen Electra; 8pm (show); $49.50
RUSTy REED'S HoUSE oF BLUES Gord Matthews
SEconD cUP– Mountain Equipment Open mic every Wed; 8-10pm
STaRLiTE RooM
Striker, Savage Blade, Alien Shape Shifter, Stinger; 9pm (door); $10 (adv)/$15 (door) WUnDERBaR Quivers, The Jessica Jalbert Band, Bonspiel; $5
Classical caTaLyST THEaTRE
Our Proud Voices: Edmonton Vocal Minority, Paula Roberts (conductor), 7:30pm; $15 (adult adv at TIX on the Square)/$12 (student/senior adv at TIX)
TiMMS cEnTRE
Opera NUOVA: Mainstage Operas: Rusalka, Antonin Dvorák; 7:30pm; $38 (adv adult)/$34 (adv student/senior)/$34 (adult)/$30 (student/ senior)
DJs Bank ULTRa LoUngE Rev'd Up
Wed: with DJ Mike Tomas upstairs; 8pm
BLack Dog FREEHoUSE Main
Floor: RetroActive Radio Wed: alt '80s and '90s, Post Punk, New Wave, Garage, Brit, Mod, Rock and Roll with LL Cool Joe; Wooftop: Soul/ breaks with Dr Erick BRixx BaR Really Good... Eats and Beats: every Wed with DJ Degree and Friends BUDDy'S DJ Dust 'n' Time every Wed; 9pm (door); no cover
THE coMMon
Treehouse Wednesday's
DiESEL ULTRa LoUngE Wind-up
Wed: R&B, hiphop, reggae, old skool, reggaeton with InVinceable, Touch It, weekly guest DJs LEgEnDS PUB Hip hop/R&B with DJ Spincycle
nEW ciTy LEgion
Wed Pints 4 Punks: with DJ Nick; no minors; 4pm-3am; no cover
nikki DiaMonDS
Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed RED STaR Guest DJs every Wed
STaRLiTE RooM
Wild Style Wed: HipHop; 9pm TEMPLE Wild Style Wed: Hip hop open mic hosted by Kaz and Orv; $5
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COMEDY Brooklyn's lounge • 9216-34
Ave • 780.221.5662 • Tue Night Live at Brooklyn's: Open Mic Comedy night; amateurs and pros welcome • Every Tue; 8:30pm • No cover
Ceili's • 10338-109 St • 780.426.5555 •
Wed
MarketplaCe at CallingWooD • 178 St, 69 Ave in the breezeway
• Annual Movie at the Marketplace, free, family-friendly movie event • Jun 17
MeDitation • Strathcona Library,
8331-104 St; meditationedmonton.org; Drop-in every Thu 7-8:30pm; Sherwood Park Library: Drop-in every Mon, 7-8:30pm
northern alBerta WooD CarVers assoCiation • Dug-
gan Community Hall, 3728-106 St • 780.458.6352, 780.467.6093 • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm; through the summer
organiZation For Bipolar aFFeCtiVe DisorDer (oBaD) • Grey
Comedy Night: every Tue, 9:30pm • No cover
Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, 780.451.1755; Group meets every Thu 7-9pm
Century Casino • 13103 Fort Rd • 780.481.9857 • Shows start at 8pm ThuSat and late show at 10:30pm on Fri-Sat • $12 (Thu)/$19 (Fri/Sat) • Amateur Night at Yuk Yuk's; Jun 16, 23 • Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club presents: Paul Myrehaug; Jun 17 • Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club presents: Bob Beddow; Jun 24-25
soCiety oF eDMonton atheists • Stanley Milner Library, Rm 6-7 • Meet the 1st Tue every month, 7:15pm
DJ Arrow Chaser; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Sat: Feel the rhythm with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm
eDMonton priMe tiMers (ept)
• Unitarian Church of Edmonton, 10804119 St • A group of older gay men who have common interests meet the 2nd Sun, 2:30pm, for a social period, short meeting and guest speaker, discussion panel or potluck supper. Special interest groups meet for other social activities throughout the month. E: edmontonpt@ yahoo.ca
glBt sports anD reCreation
• teamedmonton.ca • Badminton, Co-ed: St. Thomas Moore School, 9610-165 St, coedbadminton@teamedmonton. ca • Badminton, Women's Drop-In Recreational: Oliver School Gym, 10227118 St; badminton@teamedmonton.ca • Co-ed Bellydancing: bellydancing@ teamedmonton.ca • Bootcamp: Lynnwood Elementary School at 1545184 Ave; Mon, 7-8pm; bootcamp@ teamedmonton.ca • Bowling: Ed's Rec
jess@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Men Talking with Pride: Support group for gay, bisexual and transgendered men to discuss current issues; Sun: 7-9pm; robwells780@ hotmail.com • HIV Support Group: for people living with HIV/AIDS; 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm; huges@shaw.ca • Seniors Drop-In: Social/support group for seniors of all genders and sexualities to talk, and have tea; every Tue and Thu, 1-4pm; tuff@shaw.ca • TTIQ: Education and support group for transg http://www.flickr. com/photos/ghdrumbum/5400051955/ ender, transsexual, intersexed and questioning people, their friends, families and allies; 2nd Tue each month, 7:30-9:30pm; admin@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Community Potluck: For members of the LGBTQ community; last Tue each month, 6-9pm; tuff@shaw.ca • Counselling: Free, short-term, solution-focused counselling, provided by professionally trained counsellorsevery Wed, 6-9pm; admin@ pridecentreofedmonton.org • STD Testing: Last Thu every month, 3-6pm; free; admin@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Youth Movie: Every Thu, 6:30-8:30pm; jess@
EDMONTON PRIDE WEEK EVENTS CONTINUE UNTIL JUN 19
780.710.2119 • Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm
JuBilee auDitoriuM 11455-87 Ave • Just for Laughs Presents Jerry Seinfeld • Jul 8-9 • $90-$140 at TicketMaster
Noiselab • theartery.ca • Fri, Jun 17, 8pm • $15 (adv)/$20 (door); proceeds to support production of show by Good Women, in Dec at the Westbury Theatre
Sherwood Park • laughinthepark.ca • Chris Gordon; Jun 16-18
GrOups/CLuBs/MEEtinGs
kiDs With CanCer soCiety (kWCs) FunDraisers • kidswith-
aikikai aikiDo CluB • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm
Brain tuMour peer support group • Woodcroft Branch Library,
13420-114 Ave • braintumour.ca • 1.800.265.5106 ext 234 • Support group for brain tumour survivors and their families and caregivers. Must be 18 or over • 3rd Tue every month; 7-8:45pm • Free
eXpressionZ CaFé • 9938-70 Ave •
780.437.3667 • Marketplace: Artisans and creative businesses; 1st Sat every month, 10-3pm • Old Time and Country Rock Jam/Dance: 2nd Sun every month, 1-5pm
Fair Vote alBerta • Strathcona Library, Community Rm (upstairs), 104 St, 84 Ave • fairvotealberta.org • Monthly meeting • 2nd Thu each month; 7pm FooD aDDiCts • St Luke's
Anglican Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.465.2019/780.634.5526 • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm
hoMe–energizing spiritual Community for passionate living • Garneau/Ashbourne Assisted Living Place, 11148-84 Ave • Home: Blends music, drama, creativity and reflection on sacred texts to energize you for passionate living • Every Sun 3-5pm
lotus Qigong • 780.477.0683 •
Downtown • Practice group meets every
2 UP FRONT
780.437.3667 • Fundraiser for the benefit of Varscona Theatre, Shadow Theatre, and Teatro La Quindicina • Sat, Jun 18, 7pm • $85 at 780.434.5564, TIX on the Square
gooD tunes With gooD WoMen: karaoke FunDraiser • Artery
laugh shop • 4 Blackfoot Road,
• Braeside Presbyterian Church bsmt, N. door, 6 Bernard Dr, Bishop St, Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • For adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional families • Every Mon 7:30pm
Crystal Ball–inDoor garDen party • Expressionz Café, 9938-70 Ave •
berry Tea; The altView Foundation Annual BBQ; The Empress Pride Party–Beers for Queers; Jun 16 • Professionals' Pride Mixer: Jun 17 • Utopia Music Festival: Jun 17-18 • Pride Picnic; Womonspace Pride Wind-Up Dance (Mixed): Jun 18 • Sunday Morning Service; 6th Annual Mayor's Pride Brunch; FTB Volleyball Pride; Jun 19
DruiD • 11606 Jasper Ave •
aWa 12-step support group
Ave • Fundraiser for artistic activities on the Ave and for the Carrot • Sat, Jun 25, 7-10pm • Register at info@artsonthehave. org
eDMonton priDe FestiVal– stanD up • edmontonpride.ca • Straw-
CoMiC strip • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Jesse Joyce; until Jun 19, 8pm
School, 8901-101 Ave • Join paranormal investigator and tour guide Morgan Knudsen • Jun 25, 9-11:30pm • $15 at E: teachingtheliving@gmail.com; T: 780.452.2692; pre-register
aVenue anD alleys–BoWling For BuCks • Plaza Bowl, 10418-118
edmontonpride.ca • Various locations downtown Edmonton • Showcasing the unity and diversity of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans-identified and queer community • Until Jun 19
Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Thu, 8:30pm; Sat, 8pm and 10pm • Tim Doslo; Jun 17-18 • That's Improv; Jun 24-25
the art oF ghost hunting– riverdale tour • Meet at Riverdale
Society, 10047-80 Ave, back alley; make jewellery from bike parks; Jun 23, 7pm; free • pick-your-part: Edmonton Bicycle Commuters' Society; Part of the Jewellery making sessions; Thu, Jun 16, 7-9pm • Bikey Breakfasts: various locations: Jun 17, 24, 7-9am; free • Festival Day: Beaver Hills House Park, Jasper Ave, 105 St; Sat, Jun 18, 12-4pm • park(ed) Festival: 102 Ave, between 104 St and 102 St; Sat, Jun 18, 12-4pm • outdoor ride in Movie: Victoria Cricket Pitch, 12130 River Valley Rd; Jun 25-26 • Fare thee Well: Meet at 6:30pm at Beaver Hills House Park and ride to Shakespeare in the Park, Hawrelak Park: Thu, Jun 30, 6:30-11:15pm
eDMonton priDe FestiVal •
CoMeDy FaCtory • Gateway
all you Can eat yoga • Scona Pool Deck, 10450-72 Ave • 780.909.9355 • Yoga Flow and Meditation • Mon and Fri 9:30am-11am; or Mon and Fri 11:30am12:30 • $11 drop-in • Until Jun 30
Bikeology • bikeology.ca • Create your art: Edmonton Bicycle Commuters'
sugarsWing DanCe CluB •
Orange Hall, 10335-84 Ave or Pleasantview Hall, 10860-57 Ave • 780.604.7572 • Swing Dance at Sugar Foot Stomp: beginner lesson followed by dance every Sat, 8pm (door) at Orange Hall or Pleasantview Hall
WoMen in BlaCk • In Front of the
Old Strathcona Farmers' Market • Silent vigil the 1st and 3rd Sat, 10-11am, each month, stand in silence for a world without violence • Jun 18
y toastMasters CluB • Edmonton Federation of Community Leagues, 7103-105 St • ytoastmasterclub.ca • 1st and 3rd Tue, 7-9pm; every month
LECturEs/prEsEntatiOns CoaChing ConVersations that Work • Stanley Milner Library
• 780.465.1721 • co-creating.ca/current_events • Learn proven coaching techniques, powerful questions, wholebodied listening • Jun 15-16, 22-23
eXperienCe the energy tours– Fort Mcmurray • Oil sands Discovery Centre, junction of Hwy 63 and MacKenzie Blvd, Fort McMurray • See the inner workings of the oil sands industry • Jun 17-18 • Jun 24-25
QuEEr aFFirM sunnyBrook–red Deer • Sunnybrook United Church, Red Deer • 403.347.6073 • Affirm welcome LGBTQ people and their friends, family, and allies meet the 2nd Tue, 7pm, each month
BiseXual WoMen's CoFFee group • A social group for bi-curious
and bisexual women every 2nd Tue each month, 8pm • groups.yahoo.com/group/ bwedmonton
BuDDys nite CluB • 11725B Jasper
Ave • 780.488.6636 • Tue with DJ Arrow Chaser, free pool all night; 9pm (door); no cover • Wed with DJ Dust’n Time; 9pm (door); no cover • Thu: Men’s Wet Underwear Contest, win prizes, hosted by Drag Queen DJ Phon3 Hom3; 9pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Fri Dance Party with
Centre, West Edmonton Mall, Tue 6:45pm • Curling: Granite Curling Club; 780.463.5942 • Running: Every Sun morning; running@teamedmonton.ca • Spinning: MacEwan Centre, 109 Street and 104 Ave; spin@teamedmonton.ca • Swimming: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St; swimming@teamedmonton.ca • Volleyball: Mother Teresa Elementary School at 9008-105A; Amiskiwaciy Academy, 101 Airport Rd; re http://www.flickr.com/ photos/ghdrumbum/5400051955/in/photostream/ cvolleyball@teamedmonton. ca; volleyball@teamedmonton.ca • YOGA (Hatha): Free Yoga every Sun, 2-3:30pm; Korezone Fitness, 203, 10575-115 St, yoga@teamedmonton.ca
g.l.B.t.Q seniors group •
S.A.G.E Bldg, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors that have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Wed, 1-3pm • Info: T: Jeff Bovee 780.488.3234, E: tuff @shaw.ca
insiDe/out • U of A Campus •
Campus-based organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-identified and queer (LGBTQ) faculty, graduate student, academic, straight allies and support staff • 3rd Thu each month (fall/winter terms): Speakers Series. E: kwells@ualberta.ca
the JunCtion Bar • 10242-106 St •
780.756.5667 • Open daily at 4pm, food service available from the eatery until 10pm; rotating DJs Fri and Sat at 10pm; Movie Monday; Wingy Wed 5-9, and Karaoke at 9pm; free pool Tue-Thu
liVing positiVe • 404, 10408-
124 St • edmlivingpositive.ca • 1.877.975.9448/780.488.5768 • Confidential peer support to people living with HIV • Tue, 7-9pm: Support group • Daily drop-in, peer counselling
Making WaVes sWiMMing CluB • geocities.com/makingwaves_
edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu
priDe Centre oF eDMonton • 9540-111 Ave, Norwood Blvd •
780.488.3234 • Daily: YouthSpace (Youth Drop-in): Tue-Fri: 3-7pm; Sat: 2-6:30pm;
pridecentreofedmonton.org • Prime Timers Games Night: Games night for men age 55+; 2nd and last Fri every month; 7-10pm; tuff@shaw.ca • Art Group: Drawing and sketching group for all ages and abilities; every Sat, 11am-2pm; tuff@shaw. ca • Suit Up and Show Up: AA Big Book Study: Discussion/support group for those struggling with an alcohol addiction or seeking support in staying sober; admin@ pridecentreofedmonton.org; every Sat, 12-1pm • Youth Understanding Youth: LGBTQ youth under 25; Every Sat, 7-9pm; yuyedm.ca, yuy@shaw.ca
st paul's uniteD ChurCh •
11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship)
WoMonspaCe • 780.482.1794 • womonspace.ca, womonspace@gmail. com • A Non-profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured
cancer.ca • 780.496.2459 • Le Tour of Hope Bicycle Tour: 8-day adult cycling adventure starting in Penticton through BC and returning to Edmonton; Jun 19-26 • LOOK & Stepper Homes Revving Up for Kids Motorcycle Adventure: 4-day motorcycle tour through Idaho, Bonners Ferry, Sandpoint, Newport, Metaline Falls, and BC; Jun 23-26
MiDsuMMer CeleBration • Wye
Hall, Wye Rd, Hwy 21, Bailey Subdivision • 780.449.6286 • Potluck supper to celebrate the longest day of the year, Summer Solstice and St Jean Baptiste Day • Wed, Jun 22, 6-10pm, followed by bonfire • Donations to foodbank
otesha sustainaBility–FunDraiser • Central Lions, 11113-113St •
Scottish Ceilidh Dance with live music by the Nicky Tams. Fundraising for participation in Otesha cycling performing tour • Jun 17, 7:30pm • $15 at Scottish Imports, Earths General Store, door
paDDleFest • Rundle Park • mec.ca/ paddlefest • Focus on fun and water safety, family-oriented event hosted by Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC) • Sat, Jun 25, 11am pink FeVer FunDraiser–in support oF a Cure • Newcastle Pub,
WooDys ViDeo Bar • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Amateur Strip Contest; prizes with Shawana • Tue: Kitchen 3-11pm • Wed: Karaoke with Tizzy 7pm-1am; Kitchen 3-11pm • Thu: Free pool all night; kitchen 3-11pm • Fri: Mocho Nacho Fri: 3pm (door), kitchen open 3-11pm
6108-90 Ave • 780.490.1999 • Breast Cancer fundraiser with music by the Vindicators, a silent auction, and door prizes. Wear your best pink outfit for a chance to win the "boobie" prize • Sat, Jun 18, 4pm-12am • $15 (incl drink)
youth interVention anD outreaCh Worker • iSMSS, U of
Gardens • Jun 19
A • 780.248.1971 • Provides support and advocacy to queer youth 12-25; you don't need to be alone
youth unDerstanDing youth
• yuyedm.ca • Meets every Sat, 7-9pm • E: info@yuyedm.ca, T: 780.248.1971
spECiaL EVEnts aFriCa ConneCt • Edmonton Expo
Centre, Hall D, 7515-118 Ave • Celebration of the United Nations International Year for People of African Descent. Gala dinner and concert with the African Guitar Summit • Sat, Jun 18, 11-1am • $30 (dinner/dance) at TIX on the Square/$20 (dance) at door only
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rhuBarB FestiVal • Devonian
st Jean Bapiste FestiVal • Morinville • 780.939.4361 • Street dance, midway, breakfast, farmer’s market, slo pitch tournament, art walk, displays, tours, fireworks • Jun 24-26 White night • Edmonton City Centre, bridge over 101 St (near Tim Horton’s) • Evening of music, cocktails, silent auction, and “White-hot” fashion in support of the Alberta Council of Women’s Shelters • Jun 23, 8pm • Free, donations for the ACWS WoMonspaCe priDe WinD-up DanCe • Caernarvon Community Hall, 14830-118 St • Jun 18, 9pm-1am • $10 (member)/$15 (guest)
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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY
ROB BREZSNY // FREEWILL@vueweekly.com
ARIES (Mar 21 - Apr 19) The film Tuck Ever-
time for you to play a more ethical version of
she helped me achieve. I suspect a similar test
SCORPIO (Oct 23 - Nov 21) The Kinky
to achieve healing and restoration that have
lasting tells the story of a family that becomes
this game. The game can have rules, but they
is ahead for you, Leo. Would you rather be
Dream and Funky Paradise chapter of your
been a long time coming?
immortal after drinking from a magical spring.
may be changed at any time, and new ones
honest or impress people?
astrological cycle has arrived—a phase when
A mysterious man finds out about their secret
may be added as needed. The object of your
you'll have poetic license to let your imagina-
AQUARIUS (Jan 20 - Feb 18) What is sa-
and at one point in his search, this man has a
brand of TEGWAR is to have as much smart
VIRGO (Aug 23 - Sep 22) I predict that at no
tion run wilder than usual. It'll be prime time
cred? The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche
conversation with a young pastor. "What if you
fun as possible without anyone getting hurt.
time in the coming weeks will anyone be justi-
to escape into fantasyland and try on a new
said it was anything that you cannot or will
fied in saying to you, "Your ego has been writ-
identity or two, complete with a host of out-
not laugh at. But I have the exact opposite
could be eternal?" he asks the priest, "Without having to face the uncertainty of death." The
CANCER (Jun 21 - Jul 22) "The only way to
ing checks that your body can't cash." Or "You
landish nicknames. Your pro wrestler name
view. For me, part of what makes an idea or
priest is rattled. "You speak blasphemy, sir,"
let your dreams come true is to wake up,"
may be an old soul but you've been acting like
could be Velvet Soul Pandora. Your mystic
person or object holy is its power to animate
he protests. "Fluently," replies the man. This is
said poet Paul Valery. Here's how I think that
a naive punk." No, I firmly believe that none of
superhero name could be Mountain Wind
my sense of humour and put me in the mood
your mandate: to speak blasphemy fluently, as
applies to you right now. You've become too
those accusations will be hurled at you. Be-
Storm. Your rock star from the future name
to play. Where do you stand on this issue?
well as any other rebellious diction. It's time
engrossed in the mythic, phantasmagorical
cause from what I can tell, all of the various
could be Destiny Acrobat.
If you're aligned with my view, you will have
to rise up and express the unspeakable, the
feelings of your fantasies, and that's interfer-
parts of your psyche will be in a greater state
controversial, the revolutionary.
ing with your ability to muster all of the kick-
of collaborative unity than they've been in for
SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 - Dec 21) The com-
ass pragmatism and supercharged willpower
a long time. Your alienation from yourself will
ing weeks could be a Golden Age for your
TAURUS (Apr 20 - May 20) There's substan-
you will need to actually make your fantasies
be at an all-time low, as will your levels of hy-
perceptiveness. If you're even moderately
PISCES (Feb 19 - Mar 20) In the chorus of
tial evidence that ages ago the currents of the
come to life. I advise you to snap out of your
pocrisy.
aligned with the cosmic rhythms, you will
my band's song "Apathy and Ignorance," I
Amazon River traveled westward from the
creamy dreamy haze with a self-induced wake-
be able to discern hidden agendas that no
sing, "What is the difference between apathy
Atlantic Ocean toward the Pacific. I'd like you
up call. Stop floating and start grunting.
LIBRA (Sep 23 - Oct 22) I'm brave in some
one else has spotted, catch clues that have
and ignorance?" and the other two singers
ways, cowardly in others. I've gone parasail-
been hidden, and be able to recognize and
chant, "I don't know and I don't care." I recom-
to hold that image firmly in mind as you con-
some wonderful opportunities to commune with the sacred in the coming days.
template a monumental shift of course in your
LEO (Jul 23 - Aug 22) As we began our first
ing, performed on big stages in front of thou-
register interesting sights you've previously
mend you make that chant your mantra in the
own life. Let it serve as a surprising symbol of
session, the 79-year-old Jungian psychothera-
sands of people, assisted in the birth of two
been blind to. To maximize your ability to
coming days, Pisces: "I don't know and I don't
what's possible—as a promise that you could
pist looked at me with mischief in her eyes
children and explored the abyss of my own
cash in on this fantastic opportunity, say this
care." You really do need to experiment with
actually manage to reverse a current that may
and said, "Go ahead—surprise me! What have
unconscious. On the other hand, I'm scared
affirmation frequently: "My eyes are working
a mischievous state of mind that is blithely
seem immutable.
you got?" I was torn. Part of me felt like ris-
of confined spaces and can't bring myself to
twice as well as usual. I can see things I don't
heedless of what anyone thinks about any-
ing to her challenge: I fantasized about telling
shoot a gun. I imagine that you have areas of
normally notice."
thing. You have the right and the privilege
GEMINI (May 21 - Jun 20) In Mark Harris's
her wild versions of my adventures that would
courage and timidity, Libra. And I suspect that
novel Bang the Drum Slowly, professional
outstrip any tales she'd heard in her long ser-
in the coming weeks you will be called to a
CAPRICORN (Dec 22 - Jan 19) If you were
dogmas. Trust your intuition above all other
baseball players cheat their fans out of money
vice as a deep listener. But in the end I chose
challenge in both areas. See if you can transfer
the star of a fairy tale in which a spell had
influences! It's an excellent time to at least
by engaging them in a card game called TEG-
to tell the truth. I felt it was more important
some of the nervy power you're able to sum-
been placed on you, you would find a way to
temporarily declare your independence from
WAR, which is an acronym for The Exciting
to explore my life's actual mysteries than to
mon in one sphere to bolster you in the place
break that spell sometime in the next seven
everything that's not interesting or useful or
Game Without Any Rules. I'd say it's prime
entertain her. And that was the first healing
where you're a wimp.
months. Are you ready to do what it takes
helpful or appealing.
to be free of expectations, precedents and
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Male birth control possibility lacks corporate support News reports have come out this take so long to get RISUG to market? month about a new form of male birth It's because this is one part of sex control in the works. We've been hearthat is not so sexy to the pharmaceutiing about the research on male birth cal companies. It always takes time to control pills for many years, but this is bring a new drug or medical device to something different. Reversible Inhibimarket, and well it should. The clinical tion of Sperm Under Guidance trial process has to be followed (RISUG) is a one-time injecand safety, effectiveness and tion that can provide effecpotential longer-term side eftive contraception for up fects have to be studied. But om eekly.c @vuew to 10 years. It's reportedly with major funding from a brenda Brendear pharmaceutical company, this reversible and has very few Kerb side effects. RISUG has actumethod, or any one of the male ally been in clinical trials in India for hormonal contraceptives that have over 15 years, but a small group called been under study for years, could have the Parsemus Foundation has signed a been brought to clinical trials and to technology transfer agreement which market by now. Consider Viagra, which will allow them to pursue RISUG rewent from invention to market in only search in the USA. They plan to start nine years. According to industry estipre-clinical tests in the USA by the end mates, Pfizer would have spent close of this year. to $2 billion researching and developNot surprisingly, it's not as perfect as ing the drug. Consider the money and it sounds, at least not yet. The reverseffort that then went into getting Viaibility has never been tested in human gra's little cousins Levitra and Cialis to subjects, only in primates. market and it's clear the pharmaceutiOf course, this is a method of birth cal industry is much more interested in control only, it will not prevent sexually promoting male virility than in helping transmitted infections. But in this it's men manage their fertility. no different than most other methods. Still, it has the potential to be an excelThe drug companies seem to think lent, low-cost, low-risk and high-complithere isn't enough public interest in ance option. So why are we just hearing male contraceptives. A 2010 study in about this now? And why, even if the the UK showed that almost 25 percent pre-clinical trials start as planned, will it of the men surveyed said they would
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My daughter is 14 years old and she has been searching on the Internet for "sneezing fetish" information. She reads articles about it every day. She reads stories about sneezing (some with sexual acts in them!) and watches YouTube videos of people sneezing every day! Yes, she might be curious if she heard the term "sneezing fetish" from someone, but no normal person would search about it on the Internet every day! How can anyone actually associate sneezing with sex—and she's only 14! It makes me uncomfortable reading this stuff! Is this normal? I am so worried! Worried Mom
Kinky people aren't assigned their kinks during their freshman orientation sessions at university, WM, and no one has ever contracted a fetish—like a cold?—just because someone uttered the name of it aloud. (And no fetishist has ever been cured by Mom freaking out.) People tend to become aware of their kinks, and start scouring the web in search of information about them, right around puberty. Which means your daughter is perfectly normal—a perfectly normal, perfectly kinky kid. Like lots of young kinksters, she may
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it, and relax into it, and one day she'll have a very nice boyfriend—or girlfriend—who loves her enough to indulge her harmless kink or, better still, she'll meet someone online she clicks with emotionally and intellectually who also shares her kink. In the meantime, WM, if it makes you uncomfortable to read what your daughter is reading online, stop reading it.
Yes, NIC, see a shrink—and a pot dealer/medical marijuana provider.
There's a famous case of a 15-year-old girl who was born without a vagina— but with everything else—who managed to get pregnant via oral sex. Well, via oral sex and a knife fight and a lifethreatening wound that allowed the spermatozoa in the girl's gut to swim into her uterus. This—according to a friend-of-a-friend who knows someone who was there—is not an urban legend. In fact, the story appeared in a 1988 issue of the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and bounced around the blogs for a few weeks last winter after a blogger at Discover unearthed it. Anyway, BSIC, the moral of the story: never say never. But provided your husband swallows and doesn't gargle, and provided there isn't any semen dribbling down his chin, I'd put your chances of getting pregnant under the circumstances you've described at pretty darn close to zero. (And not to ruin your day/three-way or anything, but you do know that vasectomies have a 1-in-2000 failure rate, right? If you do get knocked up after one of those three-ways, BSIC, the bonus baby could still be your husband's.) V
I've been married to my amazing husband for 11 years. I'm straight and love being with two men at once and
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I'm a 19-year-old heterosexual female. When I get a boyfriend, I get so nervous that I get physically sick. It makes dating very stressful and it feels like I can't have a normal relationship because I have to think about not throwing up when I really just want to enjoy his company. I feel particularly sick when things start to heat up with a boy. Now I try to stay out of relationships because I don't think anyone will want to deal with this problem. How can I help condition my way out of it? Should I see another shrink? Nervous In Candlelight
BOB THE ANGRY FLOWER
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chelsea boos // che@vueweekly.com
It pains me to know that all great underground movements become commodified and appropriated for someone else's gain, unless the message is for the greater good. Walking past the Stanley Milner library last week, I came across the image and true story of David. He is one of the subjects of a site specific poster campaign called "No longer with us" to raise awareness about homelessness in Edmonton and the Housing first principle. The life-sized poster is strategically pasted into a recess in the wall, effectively designed to attract the attention of those who stop to read the meandering words that fill the silhouette. Its hand lettered message holds one's attention and communicates the voice of David and others like him that are trying to get off the street. The campaign is directed by the Edmonton Committee to End Homelessness, a group of prominent community leaders who were gathered together by Mayor Mandel. It is a community-based approach that aims to end homelessness in Edmonton in 10 years. The Committee uses Housing First as an effective, common sense approach to resolving the problem. The first step is to find people permanent homes and then give them the support they need to be successful in those homes. It focuses on taking chronically homeless individuals off the street rather than attempting to merely manage chronic homelessness through shelters and drop-in centres. After just two years, the 10-Year Plan is already yielding tremendous results and is more cost effective than providing shelters, social services, health care, policing, ambulance and court costs. Go to nolongerwithus.com if you're interested in learning how you can volunteer or make a donation in support of the Housing First principle. V Chelsea Boos is a multidisciplinary visual artist and avid flâneur. Back words is a discussion of her explorations in Edmonton and a photographic diary of the visual culture.
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