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A conversation continues Good news Edmonton, you can now win a wife. The Bear is running a contest throughout September in which you can submit your application to marry a Russian bride. After coming under some criticism for the contest, the Bear has defended its actions by saying it is merely facilitating an already existing organization, Volga Girl, which sets up international marriages between North Americans and primarily Russians. For many, that answer is not good enough.

The provincial immigration minister, Thomas Lukaszuk, surprised many by pulling his departmental advertising from the station for the month in which the contest will run. In an interview with the Edmonton Journal, Lukaszuk gets right to the point and calls out the radio station for what this is: encouragement of a system of exploitation. "In some parts of the world where women make themselves available to be Internet brides or through international dating agencies ... they very seldom have that choice. They are either coerced into that position by despairing economic circumstances or they are coaxed into it by illegal elements."

Women in Russia currently earn 43 percent of what men do, despite com-

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posing 52 percent of the workforce.

Because economic considerations are often a motivating factor for women in developing countries who consider putting themselves up for a mail order bride program, women can feel economically beholden to their new partner.

In briefly perusing the Bear's contest entries there are several that mention they are essentially looking for free labour. Many mention their new bride must know how to keep a clean home, that they hope she knows how to cook, or that they need someone to look after their children—in a few instances the entries even use the word "maid."

What is somewhat positive about this situation is the reaction from Edmontonians. The recent controversy over a local hair salon's advertising was extensively covered by local media and had Edmontonians debating everything from domestic violence to art vs advertising. It was so widely debated that it became a concern that a single instance of sexism received overwhelming attention when sexism continues to permeate advertising around the city. To see this debate, and reaction from a provincial minister, to the Bear's contest is somewhat reassuring that perhaps the conversation is not not over, because there is a lot more work to do. V

Your Vue is the weekly roundup of all your comments and views of our coverage.

Every week we'll be running your comments from the website, feedback on our weekly web polls and any letters you send our editors.

LAST WEEK'S POLL The Alberta government will be cutting funding to restorative justice programs. Advocates of the program argue the government is ignoring potential cost-savings by effectively preventing criminals from re-offending.

Is this a defensible cut?

14.3% Yes, we need to pull back on government funding of social programs.

85.7% No, the small investment is worth the benefit to victims and rehabilitation efforts.

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Letters to the Editor

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If you recall, the cartoon [August 18 - 24, 2011] featured a young, black male wearing a black hoodie with the words "Somalian Youth" on the front, standing in the middle of several dead bodies with (what appeared to be) gun smoke in the background.

To be blunt, I expected better of Vue than to feature an image so tactless. The cartoon does a great disservice to Edmonton's Somalian community in many ways.

It creates the impression that Somalian communities are prone to violence (given that the violence depicted in the cartoon supposedly "followed" the young man to Canada and became entrenched) and furthers negative perceptions of Somalians that are featured in our mainstream media. The Somalian community is not homogenous ... there are many different ethnicities and tribal affiliations that permeate Somalian society, and to paint them all with one brush the way this artist did is nothing short of offensive.

In addition, the timing of this image is also bewildering. Community leaders in Edmonton's Somalian communities have been very vocal about the lack of support they have received from police in Edmonton.

Their concerns must also take into account the fact that there have been several instances in recent months where EPS personnel have been caught making disparaging remarks about "The Somalian Community" in our city.

Furthermore, this image was published in an edition immediately after the riots that occurred in racialized and working class communities in England (riots that were blamed on supposedly "maladjusted" nonWhites). This leads one to conclude that the decision to run this cartoon was done in either extremely bad taste, or reflects a surprising lack of sensitivity towards the concerns of a large immigrant/refugee diaspora living in our city. Neither of these reflect kindly on the Editorial Team of what is supposed to be a progressively-minded weekly newspaper.

Do you find objectification of women in advertising offensive?

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1. Yes, it's damaging to women's empowerment in society.

2. No, we can seperate the way we view advertising and how we treat women everyday.

Check out vueweekly.com/yourvue to vote and comment.

Historical connection

Chileans commemorate Allende's death as protests continue Sun, Sep 11 (2 pm) September 11 Commemoration Queen Alexandra Community League, Free

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ducation in Chile has been divided by class. If you can afford to attend the well-funded private schools, you will be able to reach university and move on to a job of your choosing. If you do not have the resources to access schooling beyond the underfunded municipal schools, your options become limited. Chile's university system has become one of the most expensive internationally with students paying almost 700 dollars per month, while the average income of Chile's poorest community is just over $300 a month.

Currently, only 10 percent of the poorest of Chileans can afford a post-secondary education. It's a system that is a direct result of the changes made under Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.

Under Pinochet's leadership, responsibility for primary education was passed down to the municipal goverments while the government began funding private, for-profit schools.

Today, Chileans have had enough. Protests by the Chilean Confederation of Students have moved across sectors and across the nation, creating some of the strongest resistance to the Chilean government since Pinochet was in charge.

As September 11 approaches, Chileans in Edmonton, and around the world, will be standing in solidarity with protesters in Chile and remembering how their country was changed for decades with the coup d'etat that killed former president Salvador Allende.

"His death was a great loss of the revolution Chileans had fought hard to bring

about," says Marcela Lillo president of the Memoria Viva Society here in Edmonton. As the events were being planned to remember the death of Allende, the protests happening in Chile today were present in the minds of organizers. "We still see the legacy of the dictatorship in what needs to be fought against."

Memoria Viva also seeks to celebrate and recognize the politics of the Chilean

community that fled after 1973.

"The Chilean community is fairly progressive and has also added a lot of work and progress to the activist community in the city," says Lillo. "There are many organizations that have Chilean individuals present, present because they have that progressive culture in them. They identify with First Nations issues, or environmentalism."

Memoria Viva seeks to preserve the

progressive culture of the Chileans, and Latin Americans, who were forced out of their countries due to a deepening American imperialism and support of repressive dictatorships. It's that deeper understanding that the group would like to convey with the events they have planned on September 11.

"True multiculturalism is not simply seeing traditional dances and the things people eat, but understanding their way

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IT'S NOT OVER

WHAT'S IN A RIOT?

POLITICAL ACTION

After over 1250 protesters were arrested during two weeks of action outside the White House this past month, environmentalists are promising that this is not the end. A brief on Tarsandsaction.org promises further action to draw attention against the the Keystone XL pipeline.

The pipeline would extend from Alberta to Texas and cross several key ares where aquifers and environments could be harmed from construction, or spilling, of the pipeline as it winds through Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Montana and South Dakota. Activists were attempting to put pressure on President Obama to reject the pipeline, which he has the ability to do. The State Department ruled that there would be no significant impacts from the pipeline, which some are calling the White House's endorsement of the project.

While Tarsandsaction.org mentions that people should be aware of further actions happening around October 7, Canadians will be mobilizing in Ottawa on September 26.

The official report on the Vancouver riots was released on September 1. According to the document there was inadequate monitoring of alcohol consumption, and security guards were not trained to confiscate alcohol coming into the live venues. The report reiterates the police concern over the live venues themselves, stating that there was improper consideration for the number of people that would flood downtown sites.

Titled "The Night the City Became a Stadium," the report has come under some criticism for absolving the responsibility of the owners of Rogers Arena, and for failing to address the contributions a police reaction may have had that night. Previous to the release of the report there was concern over the appointment of former VANOC chief executive John Furlong to head the review. During his time with VANOC many were concerned over his treatment of the death of bobsledder Nodar Kumaritashvili and the behindclosed-doors method of his appointment to the review. A survey in the Georgia Straight found that 87 percent of respondents did not agree with Furlong's appointment to the review.

Leadnow.ca, an independent political organization, is attempting to organize several days of action to build an extra-Parliamentary voice for Canadians. Called The Turning Point, the days of action are being organized to call attention to growing economic inequality, necessary democratic reforms and action

of thinking, understanding their roots, why they feel certain things are important," says Lillo. "That's partaking in true multiculturalism."

To date, the protests in Chile have extended over four months and have resulted in national work stoppages on August 24 and 25, when the Workers United Centre in Chile called for a national general strike in support of the students' demands. The student movement has activated a movement across Chile with hundreds of thousands of people protesting homelessness, fasting to draw attention to the need for indigenous land reclamation, queer rights, and workers demanding better health care and accessible education for their children. Over one million people gathered in Santiago to demand a better education system. The president of the Student Federation of the University of Chile (FECH), Camila Vallejo, told the crowd, "This neoliberal model is not working for us. Its ultimate purpose is the profit and business of a few.

We believe it's necessary to advance toward a system more egalitarian and inclusive. [We want] a free country, a just country, more democratic, more egalitarian. And for that we need a quality education for all."

As Edmontonians and the Chilean community prepare to commemorate the events that led to the current economic model in Chile, Lillo wants to ensure the historical connection is made.

"It's important for us to make the connections between what is happening in Chile today and what happened 38 years ago."

on climate change. “Jack Layton's death and final message tapped into many people's deep desire for both a more positive and collaborative kind of of politics, and their concern about the direction that our country is being taken by this government,” said Jamie Biggar, executive director of Leadnow.ca.

Leadnow was also responsible for the mobilizing of several vote mobs during the last federal election. According to a release, over 1000 Canadians have currently signed up for the events which will culminate in several actions directed toward constituency offices around the country.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK "In some parts of the world where women make themselves available to be Internet brides or through international dating agencies ... they very seldom have that choice. They are either coerced into that position by despairing economic circumstances or they are coaxed into it by illegal elements."

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New plan looks familiar

New solutions to address crime in Edmonton are similar to the old ones

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e've got a shiny apple here and we want to polish it a little bit more over the next couple of days," Police Chief Rod Knecht told the media last month as the city eagerly awaited details of the Violence Reduction Action Plan he and the Mayor were about to announce.

It was June, before the Mayor broke his silence regarding the ever-increasing homicide tally, which had just reached 26 with the death of Bruce Dumais. As it turns out, the police chief might have better spent his summer dusting off bookshelves rather than polishing fruit, for much of the strategy unveiled that day could have been found amongst recommendations of various task forces and action committees going back to the early 1990s.

The new police chief, sworn in just weeks earlier, vowed to make the matter his highest priority. Two months and seven murders later, local media got fed up waiting for the plan. Finally, following a fair dose of criticism for their silence, Knecht held a press conference on August 8 to advise that he would hold another press conference, with the mayor, two days later.

"Announcing that you're going to announce a press conference for a pos-

sible strategy suggests that they feel the need to be seen doing something," Jim Lightbody, a political science professor at the University of Alberta, told the Edmonton Journal prior to the August press conference. "If they knew what they were going to do, they should be doing it."

seem like a case of déjà vu all over again. "In addition to the 24/7 recommendation, there were vigorous discussions 20 years ago about knives," said Voogd, recalling the "No Knives" signs placed prominently around inner-city bars.

In 1990, as Edmonton headed toward a record number of homicides, thenmayor Jan Reimer set up the Mayor's Task Force on Safer Cities, appointing citizens-at-large along with representatives from government, the police department and the labour council.

With a focus on crime prevention through both social development and environmental design, the 15-member group was divided into subcommittees and over the two years that followed, produced a series of reports and recommendations on issues such as family violence, safe housing, young adult employment, children and youth and safe urban design. Voogd, who currently serves as the program manager at the Mediation and Restorative Justice Centre, was also a participant on the Safer Cities Family Violence and Children & youth sub-committees.

The Safer Cities initiative had successes. The city and the province were convinced to fund an Inner-city hot lunch program for children attending

schools in economically-disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Beaver Hills Park on Jasper Avenue, long a hotbed of violence, was redesigned according to crime prevention through environmental design principles. In an innovative response to family violence, joint response teams were formed to deal with domestic assaults, pairing social workers with police officers to conduct follow-up visits, and the City of Edmonton Youth Council was formed.

Writing recently in the Washington ist group and its allies, but bin Laden Post, Brian Michael Jenkins, a senior pushed ahead. When the United States adviser at the Rand Corporation think did [invade Afghanistan], bin Laden tank, claimed that the 9/11 attacks 10 switched gears, claiming that he had years ago were not a strategic success intended all along to provoke the Unitfor al-Qaeda. He's right. Osama ed States into waging a war that bin Laden's strategy did fail, in would galvanise all of Islam the end—but not for the reaagainst it." son that Jenkins thinks.

Jenkins is quite explicitly kly.com uewee Jenkins argues that Osama saying that bin Laden never v @ e n gwyn e n n bin Laden believed the US realized that the United y w G was a paper tiger because it States would respond violentDyer had no stomach for casualties. ly when his organization murdered Kill enough Americans, and the United thousands of Americans. He would have States would pull out of the Middle been dismayed when the US invaded East, leaving the field free for al-Qaeda's Afghanistan and destroyed his training project of overthrowing all the secular camps. And therefore, the think-tank Arab regimes and imposing Islamist rule expert concludes, the United States did on everybody. not fall into a trap that bin Laden had In bin Laden's 1996 fatwa declaring deliberately laid for it when it invaded war on America, Jenkins pointed out, Afghanistan. he claimed that the US would flee the Well, that's one point of view. Here's region if attacked seriously. Indeed, bin another. Bin Laden was fully aware that Laden gave the rapid US military withthe United States would invade Afghandrawal from Lebanon after the bombing istan in response to the 9/11 attacks, and of the Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983, he wanted it to do so. He believed that and the equally rapid retreat of Amerithe US would then get mired in a long can forces from Somalia in 1993 after 18 and bloody guerilla war in Afghanistan, US soldiers were killed in Mogadishu, as a replay of the war against the Soviet examples of American cowardice. invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s in Other al-Qaeda commanders diswhich bin Laden himself had first risen agreed, Jenkins says, warning that the to prominence.

9/11 attacks would enrage the United Military commanders are always planStates and "focus its fury on the terrorning to re-fight the last war; terrorist

commanders are no different. Bin Laden hoped that a protracted guerilla war in Afghanistan, with American troops killing lots of Muslims, would indeed "galvanise all of Islam" against the United States.

So why didn't he say that beforehand?

Why did he claim that the United States would flee screaming at the first atrocity, if he really expected it to invade Afghanistan? Because revolutionaries who resort to terrorism always talk freely about their goals, but they NEVER publicly discuss their strategy for achieving them. They can't, because the strategy is so profoundly callous and cynical.

Terrorists generally have rational political goals—usually a revolution of some kind. In bin Laden's case, he wanted Islamist revolutions across the Muslim world, but he had been notably unsuccessful in whipping up popular support for such revolutions. So how could he build that support? Well, how about luring the United States into invading a Muslim country?

Revolutionary groups often resort to terrorism if they think they lack popular support. Their aim is to trick their much more powerful opponent (usually a government) into doing terrible things that will alienate the population and drive it into their arms: it's the political equivalent of jiu-jitsu.

They are trying to bring horror and death down on the population by triggering a government crack-down or a foreign occupation, in the hope that it will radicalize people and turn them into supporters of the terrorists' political project. But the people they seek to manipulate must believe that it was the oppressors or the foreign occupiers,

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While the mayor and police chief continue to present very few specifics about their strategy, city council voted last week to approach the province to help fund a 24/7 service centre downtown, one of the REACH recommendations submitted back in 2009.

Kate Gunn, interim executive director at REACH denies that this recommendation has been sitting on a shelf collecting dust. "Work on 24/7 has gone ahead throughout 2010 and 2011.

We've been working with a number of coalition partners to flesh out what it would be like, what it would cost," she explained in an interview.

A similar proposal to provide roundthe-clock services to the city's homeless and vulnerable population had been made, however, back in 1991 by the Task Force on Inner City Crime.

Harvey Voogd sat on that task force and admits that, when it comes to Edmonton and crime prevention, it can

While Reimer's efforts faced resistance from some of the more conservative members on council, her agenda faced even more significant challenges when the provincial government made massive cuts to its social service budget in October of 1993. In 1995, Reimer was defeated

by Bill Smith, who did not share his predecessor's enthusiasm for "social engineering," however the committee continued to be chaired by the Mayor and report to City council until 2001.

Since that time, Edmonton has had a variety of task forces and action committees. In 2005, Safer Cities, now a city program, took on the new name of Safedmonton. In 2006, an Action Committee on Community Violence was struck and in 2007, the Edmon-

ton Community Drug Strategy Task Force tabled its report and the Community Safety Leadership Council was formed. A new Office of Community Safety was launched that same year.

In 2008, Mayor Mandel created the Taskforce on Community Safety with the goal of producing an action plan—known as "REACH"—with recommendations and implementation strategies by early autumn 2009. That report was presented to City Council in September, 2009.

Asked to comment about whether all of these various task forces and action plans really make a difference when it comes to preventing crime in our city, Harvey Voogd was circumspect. "I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, I'm very proud of the significant inroads that we made in the area of family violence," he said, citing support for at-risk youth as one area where he doesn't feel a strong sense of progress.

Even without reports collecting dust and political foot-dragging, Voogd says the job of crime prevention is never done. "Even when you build a brand new house," he says, "you've still got to maintain it." mimi williams

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COMMENT >> REVOLUTION

The 9/11 strategy

Bin Laden won the battle, but not the war

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him absolutely permeates the "how to" books on guerilla war and terrorism, from Mao to Marighella.

So bin Laden dug a trap, and the United States fell into it. In that sense his strategy succeeded, and the guerilla war that ensued in Afghanistan did much to turn Arab and Muslim popular opinion against America. (The invasion of Iraq

Bin Laden was fully aware that the United States would invade Afghanistan in response to the 9/11 attacks, and he wanted it to do so.

not the terrorists, who pulled the trigger. That's why bin Laden lied about his strategy.

He probably didn't even warn his Taliban hosts in Afghanistan that he was planning 9/11, because they would not have welcomed the prospect of being driven from power and having to fight another 10-year guerilla war against another invading superpower.

Bin Laden's strategy was not original with him: he had been fighting as a guerilla and a terrorist leader for 15 years by the time of 9/11, and people of this sort have ALWAYS read all the standard texts on their chosen trade. The notion of using the opponent's strength against

did even more damage to America's reputation, but that really wasn't about terrorism at all.)

In the long run, however, bin Laden's strategy failed, simply because his project was unacceptable and implausible to most Muslims. And the most decisive rejection of his strategy is the fact that the oppressive old Arab regimes are now being overthrown, for the most part nonviolently, by revolutionaries who want democracy and freedom, not Islamist rule. V Gwynne Dyer is a London-based journalist. His columns appear every week in Vue Weekly.

Forgotten skills

Reskilling Edmonton shares skills between generations

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education for the real World

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e often forget how much we don't know.

Many of us don't cook our own food. We've stopped repairing broken electronics, crafting furniture, mending clothes—skills that are important not only for self-sufficiency, but that could help to improve our impact on the environment.

While many of us don't use these skills on a daily basis today, there is a generation that could teach the rest of us a thing or two. Reskilling Edmonton is a new group that attempts to connect seniors with a younger generation to share their skills in reducing our impact on the environment.

Chelsea Taylor, an associate director with the Sierra Club Prairie Chapter, saw a chance to help Edmontonians develop some important skills and connect across a generational divide. Taylor wants to connect the project with the ideas of sustainability.

"We can speak to alternatives that will address our own personal impacts on the climate, lowering our carbon footprint and food security issues," says Taylor. "Our food is being transported by unsustainable resources. If there is a change to that in the next 20 – 30 years, we're looking at the generation that still has those skills so that we can be better prepared than we are now."

The first step in the project was to connect with the better-prepared generation. Taylor got in touch with Public Interest Alberta's seniors task force for advice as well as further outreach. The first obstacle proved to be a generation gap in communications.

"We forget people don't text and email everyday," says Taylor. "People still use the phone." So organizational efforts had to be adjusted to accommodate multiple generations. Taylor notes that a lot of the control over the workshops is in the hands of the seniors who have the skills as well.

"There are several skills-based groups for seniors based around woodworkers, [and] quilting.

We're trying to get in touch and outreach with those groups, to see if they would be interested in putting on a workshop for younger people."

So far, Taylor says, there has been some reluctance on the part of seniors, who are skeptical as to the desire by the younger generation to know these skills. An event was organized in July to generate some interest in the project.

"I thought it would be a good way to show the seniors and people who have had cynicism around interest that we are going to push forward as well," says Taylor. The day had workshops on composting, sewing and some crafting with locally-sourced resources.

The goal for the network is to hold regular workshops that are fairly barrier free.

"I'm quite keen on learning these things, but I've

We can speak to alternatives that will address our own personal impacts on the climate, lowering our carbon footprint and food security issues seen workshops in the city where things have a fee and it's an additional boundary to participating," says Taylor. "So we wanted to keep it barrier-free, entry level learning and accessible for seniors in the community." So far the group has applied for several grants and collected some resources to ensure materials are accessible and workshops can exist without financial barriers.

As school starts up again Taylor is hopeful more students will be interested in picking up the skills of sustainability. "Our target right now is university and college students who are out on their own for the first time. People feeling the heat of their bills and how to do their own repairs."

The intergenerational differences didn't end at learning to reuse the phone. Taylor says there was some conversations around the differences in gender roles between generations. "But the network is also about communication," says Taylor. samantha power

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Life to death

The Festival of New Spanish Cinema examines all stages of life Fri, Sep 9 – Thu, Sep 15 The Festival of New Spanish Cinema Metro Cinema at the Garneau Full Schedule at metrocinema.org

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ilms of death, life and love emblazion this year's Festival of New Spanish Cinema with a heightened sense of the world around us. Filling the Garneau Theatre this week is a sumptuous spread of cinematic explorations: kidnappings, repressed feelings, emotional (re)discovery and women who quite literally take to the air when they fall in love. It's a pretty diverse mix; here are our thoughts on the whole lot.

Reviews by Bryan Birtles (BB), Paul Blinov (PB), Josef Braun (JB), Eden Munro (EM) and Sam Power (SP).

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Every Song is About Me Directed by Jonás Trueba

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"As soon as Pasqual Maragall's memories die, he will be dead," utters one doctor interviewed for this documentary on the research going into a cure for Alzheimer's disease. Maragall, the former mayor of Barcelona and expresident of Catalonia, has headed an effort to bring light to the disease in Spanish society. Documentarian Carles Bosch expertly uses Maragall's boisterous personality to not only bring levity to a difficult subject, but to illustrate the impact of Maragall's perspective that his illness does not make him a victim, but an active subject aware of what is happening to him and in control of how he deals with it.

By following Maragall and his family, Bicycle, Spoon, Apple excels at relating the impact of a growing global epidemic to the impact on a single family.

(SP)

A quiet, measured film, Every Song is About Me follows protagonist Ramiro from the moment his girlfriend of six years leaves him—through a letter— to a time when he feels whole again.

Through the journey, he rediscovers parts of himself that he had let fall by the wayside: poetry and, perhaps more importantly, ambition. He gets out of the rut that he and his friends had fallen into post-university, and figures out what it means to be happy in a world where frivolous distractions are legion. (BB)

For 80 Days Directed by Jon Garaño and José María Goenaga

 Axun and Maite don't recognize each other when circumstances bring them

- Rex Reed, THE NEW YORK OBSERVER

back together after 50 years. Like all good friends, Axun and Maite are very different: Maite left San Sebastien to discover herself, while Axun married a farmer and lives in the countryside. Now, Maite's presence forces traditionally-minded Axun to confront not only the reality of love, but sends her on a journey of selfdiscovery and connection with her own identity.

Itziar Aizpuru plays the shy Axun with subtlely, and conveys her increased frustration as her attempts to reach out to her husband and daughter fail. The absence of dialogue between Axun's family is particularly striking and lends to the increasing isolation she feels.

The handling of repressed love is done beautifully throughout the film and the relationship between Axun and Maite is developed through simple everyday interactions and conversations where actions are allowed to speak louder than words. (SP)

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INSPIRED BY ACTUAL EVENTS

 While it intends to be madcap, The Great Vazquez sometimes frustrates with its inability to tell the truth.

The story of a comic artist—Manuel Vazquez Gallego—who is perhaps the world's greatest mooch, The Great Vazquez lets its subject matter influence its esthetics: chases are slapstick, visual jokes abound, colours are near-psychedelic in their intensity. The biopic suffers, however, by not taking its subject matter seriously, so the payoff doesn't register nearly as much as it might were the slapstick elements toned down just a shade. (BB) Half of Oscar

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Lope Directed by Andrucha Waddington

 The story of Spanish poet and dramatist Lope de Vega and his banishment from Madrid after a love affair gone sour with the daughter of the city's leading theatre owner, Lope is a journey into the heart of creative genius. It's comparison to Shakespeare in Love is a worthy one, though Lope is both more epic and less cornball than its analogue, and comes of as a romantic story rather than a romantic comedy. In its detail, in its legend, in its vast scope, Lope succeeds as a worthy way to tell the drama of a playwright whose creative output was so fevered as to remain unequalled. (BB)

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Lovestorming Directed by Borja Cobeaga

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A security guard at a closing salt mine, Oscar's life is consumed by its absences—his dead parents, an estranged sister, a job about to end. When Oscar's sister, Maria, shows up for the final days of their grandfather's life, it's almost a relief to Oscar's silent life.

But she brings with her an unspoken tension and it slowly becomes apparent she has left for a reason.

The film aptly uses scenes of Almeria's coastline, the half abandoned salt mines as well as an absent soundtrack composed only of the sounds of footsteps reverberating down hospital hallways, crashing waves and ticking clocks, to convey an almost oppressive but always present past that Maria has tried desperately to escape. (SP)

A bad weather pattern finds a literal planeload of passengers spending New Year's Eve together in a hotel and high jinks ensue. It's a classic case of a lovelorn guy trying to win back the girl he's lost, except it's not so classic as it is a mulleted comedian doing his best to pay back a grade-school favour in a somewhat confused romp that's never quite sure if it wants to be screwball or only mildly comedic. Jokes include a rant about how Facebook doesn't work because nobody ever receives the friend requests—why else would they not be accepted?—while the main plot is middling romantic comedy territory. Lovestorming is not all bad, just a little lost as it works its way through too many styles without ever committing fully to one, making for a film full of occasional diversions but no single riveting thread tying it all together. (EM)

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Who Could Kill a Child?

Written and directed by Nacho Ibáñez Serrador

 A couple of largely insufferable English tourists, Tom and Evelyn (Lewis Flander and Prunells Ransome), rent a boat and travel to Almanzora, a fictitious island off the southern coast of Spain.

The trip is intended as a sort of celebration of their third pregnancy, which they hope will be the first that Evelyn carries to term. But as the creepy, childish la-la-laing that plays over the

opening credits—so reminiscent of Rosemary's Baby—implies, Who Could Kill a Child? (¿Quien puede matar un niño?) is not going to be an ode to the joys of parenting. The answer to the titular question is: anybody, provided they're faced with a crowd of murderous brats and armed with automatic rifles or baseball bats at the very least.

Uruguayan-born writer/director Nacho Ibáñez Serrador's loose adaptation of Juan José Plans novel is at once high-minded and lowbrow, though it displays a far greater facility with the latter than the former. A sort of hybrid of The Wicker Man and Children of the Damned (or, for that matter, Children of the Corn), this 1976 low-budget horror flick promises some gruesome, vulgar and potentially unnerving entertainment in its depiction of a village overtaken by underage assassins. And it intermittently delivers—one memorable scene finds the tykes playing with a human piñata.

Unfortunately, Ibáñez Serrador took it upon himself to saddle the film with a deeply moronic stab at social commentary that fumblingly attempts to align its fabulous narrative with real-life tragedies. The film opens with images of Vietnamese children maimed by napalm, Nigerian children perishing from civil war and starvation, and the bulldozing of Holocaust victims, in a sequence as incomprehensible as it is flamboyantly tasteless. Oh, and as to why someone with a tendency to miscarry would want to fly to Spain and go hoofing around a remote island during her third trimester, your guess is as good as mine. (JB)

With or Without Love Directed by David Serrano

 With or Without Love infuses some magical realism into a comic soap opera structure: a truly bizarre love triangle emerges between Claudia, her sister and hunky Pablo (who, by the way, has a girlfriend already, not that the already married Claudia is deterred), that gets only increasingly absurd as it intensifies.

The film's charm stems from the little bursts of strange creativity that make up that absurdity: characters burst into song, replete with always-smiling, enthusiastically choreographed background dancers, only to call off the music and dancing to hear each other talk, or one woman who begins to float when she falls in love. Yes, it's on the lighter, but given some of the heavier themes and ideas abound in other festival screenings, a quirky little palette cleanser is a pretty good idea. (PB)

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THE WHISTLEBLOWER Opens Friday Directed by Larysa Kondracki

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nable to transfer out of her Lincoln, Nebraska post so as to be closer to her kids in Atlanta, spunky policewoman Kathryn Bolkovac (Rachel Weisz) impulsively accepts a lucrative gig with a military contractor to do peacekeeping in Bosnia—the year is 1999. Upon arrival, she finds that many of her colleagues seem resigned to the bleak, chaotic circumstances of post-war life; some, she soon discovers, even exploit it.

Early in her tour, Kathryn, who states more than once how much she loves her work, facilitates the first conviction for domestic violence since the war, and is imme-

Hmm ... should I blow the whisle?

diately given a position with the United Nations Gender Affairs Office, where she makes an important ally of Madeleine Rees (Vanessa

Redgrave), head of the UN Human Rights Commission. Yet even with Rees on her side, Kathryn finds it difficult to pursue what is clearly

Brendan's little girls is sick, his house is about to be scooped by the bank, he's just been suspended, and the only way he can cover his bills is if he too gets back in the ring.

siastic students, a bottomless bucket of backstory, and roughly 97 reaction shots for every triumphant KO these brothers inflict on their opponents along the way? Sadly, yes. Imagine Redbelt at roughly double the runtime and half the wit and you start to get the idea. Warrior is a frequently entertaining if cliché-ridden fight

the most urgent case presented to her: the human trafficking racket that brings untold numbers of underage Eastern European girls into Bosnia to work at bars where they're subjected to torture, rape, humiliation and murder. Numerous UN contractees, many of them given diplomatic immunity, are patrons of these bars, whose proprietors bribe local authorities to stay open.

Strengthened by the region's air of cynicism, misogyny and religious and racial hatred, the racket seems all but impenetrable.

Canadian co-writer/director Larysa Kondracki's debut is a supremely upsetting docudrama—upsetting in part because the real Bolkovac, despite her exposure of the conspiracy to the British media, was finally unable to bring any of those involved

to justice. (It's also upsetting in its implication that the abhorrent appetites that fuel these bars seem so pervasive.) However, the film's message is more powerful than the film itself, which is simultaneously overburdened by clunky expository dialogue and unneeded subplots— such as the one involving a worried Ukrainian mother—and undernourished with regards to virtually all the supporting characters. Weisz is a spark plug, and her emotional energy drives many scenes, yet it can't quite elevate The Whistleblower from its status as a dutiful prompt to despair. Still, the world could stand to despair a little more over such incidents—if only that despair could lead to action.

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WARRIOR

Down ... for the count?

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hen Tommy (Tom Hardy) comes back to Pittsburgh for the first time in 16 years he finds his pa Paddy (Nick Nolte) nearing 1000 days of sobriety, getting friendly with Jesus and working his way through Moby Dick on tape in the car. Paddy used to beat the living shit out of his wife and kids when he was boozing—that's why Tommy and his mom split, and why Tommy's still so pissed off. But now Tommy's wants Paddy to train him so he can get back into mixed martial arts.

Meanwhile Tommy's brother Brendan (Joel Edgerton), who stayed behind when Tommy and mom fled all those years ago, now has a family of his own in Philadelphia, where he teaches physics to teens. But one of

Will these two estranged fraternal fighters eventually wind up punching and kicking through their familial

Imagine Redbelt at roughly double the runtime and half the wit and you start to get the idea.

baggage in the MMA championship in Atlanta with the $5-million dollar purse that we keep hearing about?

Of course! Will the fighting be absolutely brutal? You bet! Will the film take an obscenely long time to get there, what with all the needless subplots about uneasy spouses, meatheads with grudges and enthu-

fest and study in masculine angst, a story about redeeming a legacy of violence through yet more violence, but man, you could carve a good 45 minutes out of this thing and it would still feel like it's in the wrong weight class.

Josef Braun // josef@vueweekly.com

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REVUE // SPACE SPOOKS!

REVUE // SHARK WEEK THIS AIN'T

APOLLO 18

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The Blair Witch Project ... in space

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aunching the Blair Witch-style, found-footage horror film into outer space, Apollo 18 is spooky at times—it can put us on the edge of the rocketship seat even as it jolts us back into post-Nixon paranoia and Cold War secrecy. But the movie's NASA technical-talk, clutter of cameras and even the strange airlessness of space and claustrophobia of capsulelife sometimes just detach us from the plot, too. The ending, which tries to bring alien horror back to earth in our infectious Internet age, lands a little short.

The classified footage, recently uploaded to a website, is of a top-secret mission in December 1974, when Ben Anderson (Warren Christie), Nathan Walker (Lloyd Owen) and John Grey (Ryan Robbins) were sent to the moon, ostensibly to place detectors there to warn of any Soviet missile-attacks. Grey remains in an orbiter while Anderson and Walker, armed with many cameras, land in a lunar module.

They soon discover they're not alone.

The plot's mysteriousness works for (the aliens'

purpose remains unknown) and against it (why's the footage been uploaded now? by whom?). The visuals are double-edged, too—footage from so many different cameras can disturbingly disorient, but the array of angles and stocks overwhelms, too, and, at the end, becomes implausible. As for the sound—the men's hollow breathing within their helmets grows ghastly, but their intercom communications, especially in the frenetic finale, distance their situation from us. More personal backstory and cosmic camaraderie would increase the gravity of the three men's fates, while their mission-speak can whiz by in a meteor-shower of jargon and acronyms.

Director López-Gallago is smart enough to keep the creepiness crawling on the edge of the frame, slipping out of the corners of eyes and skittering through the soundtrack. Ultimately, though, there's a certain remoteness and weightlessness to these eerie events, as if the movie can't quite escape its location—a moon-haunting just lacks that really down-home, earthy fright.

BRIAN GIBSON // BRIAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

hark Night 3D isn't, unfortunately, a biopic about Conrad Black, Rupert Murdoch, or Wall Street CEOs. Instead, we're subjected to 1/2-dimensional characters—"college pricks," one baddie calls them in the only good line—that the poor sharks, the flick's most likeable, wellrounded characters, have to try to feed off. No wonder they're starving—and probably for attention, too, since the director can't film them in any scary, suspenseful or mildly impressive way whatsoever.

The camera's hungrily intent on ogling female bodies, though. Also tossed into the water are a half-stupid, halfpsycho backstory, some loco locals and a black guy from Baltimore who talks about taking out a shark like he's in some idiot screenwriter's version of The Wire meets

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Jaws. Dog lovers, though, needn't worry—man's best friend can't possibly be shown devoured by any of the giant killer fish torpedoing through a Louisiana saltwater lake.

But wait! Coming this way, slicing through this fourth-rate schlock, there, beyond the absence of thrills, campiness, even B-movieness, there's a redneck (called "Red") so monstrous he's fanged and a satirical point duller than a toothless shark! This beyond-boring movie eventually mocks its own voyeurism, and after that surge of self-cannibalism, there's nothing left. Sweet, sweet nothing.

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fireflies across stone and stalagmites and the places where calcites have rendered the cave floor into a rink of glistening wax. In the most spellbinding passages, Herzog's informative, characteristically eccentric running voice-over falls silent and his light panels move across the paintings like a caress, echoing the torches held by those who came before. The result is a feeling of intense intimacy.

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landslide hermetically sealed what would become known as the Chauvet Cave some 20 000 years ago, preserving its contents in a sort of natural time capsule. Among these contents are paintings which carbon dating tells us are roughly 32 000 years old—by far the oldest works of art in the world. The cave was discovered in 1994 when explorers found air shafts along its nearby cliffs. Because of the delicate atmospheric conditions needed to maintain the integrity of its contents, access to Chauvet has been restricted to a handful of scientists, with very few exceptions. It is our great fortune that one of those exceptions was made for Werner Herzog and his skeleton crew.

It is difficult to put into words why so much in Cave of Forgotten Dreams is so immensely moving. Obviously, that we're seeing manmade images of such unfathomable vintage is itself deeply impressive, but the sophistication of the paintings goes far beyond crude representation: they elegantly envelop the undulations of the cave's walls; they convey decidedly personal impressions of the beasts they depict, and sometimes imply movement through repetition; one image of a cave lion is drawn with a single, six-

What dreams may come at you like a lion

foot-long brush stroke. The genuine artfulness of these paintings prompted Herzog to make his film not merely a document of some extraordinary discovery, but to use it as a platform for speculating on the dreams of its Stone Age authors, whom he imagines as envisioning "the landscape as oper-

atic event," and whom he aligns with both the German Romanticists and cinema's forefathers.

One of the most remarkable works Herzog encounters is a palimpsest, with one layer being painted some 5000 years after the first. In a sense, Herzog's film is another layer to this

collaboration that stretches across millennia, evoking a poetry and sensuality unique to its form, and making the most relevant use of 3D technology I've ever seen. Organ and cello music heighten our sense of having entered an ancient cathedral. Spotlights from the crew's headlamps move like

There's more, of course, to Cave of Forgotten Dreams than just the cave itself. As with Encounters at the End of the World, Herzog is also very interested in the people who have gathered from many places and disciplines to work in and around Chauvet. Most memorably, he speaks with a scientist and former circus juggler who confesses that during his initial visits to Chauvet he had alarmingly vivid dreams of lions every night and needed time away from the cave to recover. It's one of those things you might imagine the mischievous Herzog scripting for his subject, but the truth is that, after seeing this film, it's actually hard to imagine spending time in Chauvet and not being haunted by primordial visions, by things lodged deep in the psyche, rarely awakened, and beyond language. Do see this movie.

Josef Braun // josef@vueweekly.com

REVUE // MOSSAD SECRETS

THE DEBT

When you're a Jet you're a Jet all the way

Now playing Directed by John Madden

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arah Gold knows her mother Rachel Singer has a complicated past—a former Mossad agent who participated in the successful mission to capture the Surgeon of Birkenau, a Nazi war criminal. But there's a part of the story even Sarah hasn't uncovered in her effort to write a book on the mission. It's a secret

Singer doesn't want getting out.

The Debt is an artfully crafted story that slowly reveals the consequences of a complicated choice made to salvage personal and national pride. As with all good thrillers, the truth is slowly revealed through intricate plot twists, but the turns are never so grand as to lose the path of the story. Movement between timelines is seamless and only adds to the increasing tension.

While Helen Mirren does a fantas-

tic job portraying a woman conflicted over the consequences of her past decisions, it's Jessica Chastain that holds the majority of the dramatic tension as the young Rachel Singer. A Mossad agent trapped in a house with the manipulative Nazi war criminal, Chastain's subtle and strong performance delivers the emotional weight of the mission that will shape the three Mossad agents' lives.

Samantha Power // samantha@vueweekly.com

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PREVUE // VISUAL ARTS

Ceremony and Ritual

Visualeyez festival looks at the routines in our lives Tue, Sep 13 – Sun, Sep 18 Visualeyez Latitude 53 ituals don't have to be big. Or even be particularly weightly displays, really; the little routines we program into our lives of whatever size or emphasis, religious or secular, are in and of themselves fascinating, if only in how they permeate into every sort of person. Even, or perhaps particularly, artists.

"When you're looking at performance art, a lot of it has to do with ritual and ceremony," explains Todd Janes, longtime curator of Visualeyez, Latitude 53's annual exploration of performance art, now in its 12th iteration. "I think that's why I've always been fascinated with watching religious ceremonies. Whether they're like mass or the royal wedding or something, because there's a lot of symbolism in that type of work. Also, I think the work we're presenting this year is very non-secular. It certainly isn't embracing one religion or another. In many ways, I think what we're looking at is how people ground themselves in daily activities."

Worship itself is the theme of this year's Visualeyez, which brings 10 artists together to explore the idea in front of, or including their audiences. One of them, Aimee Henny Brown, will be leading a "revival walk" through downtown Edmonton, what Janes calles "a pilgrimage" of sorts.

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Another, Emilio Rojas, here by way of Mexico, has written his mother a letter of everything he's never told her, and she, back in Mexico, has done the same. Toying with the ceremonial idea of confession, They'll read them together, connected via Skype, along with any secrets that members of the audience are looking to air, too (you can find his email on the Latitude 53 blog) which will translated into Span-

ish and presented to Rojas' mother.

The worship theme itself, Janes notes, came out of discussions he had with last year's artists (that year's theme was food).

"We were talking about how ceremony takes a roll in preparation or kind of odd rituals that artists may have that they do prior to a performance," Janes says. "Whether it's meditating—some people are like, 'I do yoga' or others

are like, 'Well I won't eat anything the day of the performance, I'll just drink water or something.' And some more people are like, 'No, I don't do [any of] that."

In seeing these artists explore the concepts, Janes admits he's surprised at the variety of directions they've taken in their interpretations.

"I mean, first when I was looking at the idea of ritual and ceremony, a lot

of people think right away of religious connotation," Janes explains. "Certainly some of the work we're presenting does have a fairly strong kind of spiritual connection in terms of how one is grounded to the world they live in.

But other aspects of the work kind of take that idea of ritual and turn it on its head a little bit."

years ago. "An experimental, really playful festival is what we wanted to create."

The early years saw a festival that existed among the various performance and gallery spaces on Alberta Avenue, but Morin knew something even bigger could be accomplished. In the same way the Fringe and the Folk Fest create miniature cities within the city, and Kaleido strives to transform the area it inhabits.

"It was two years ago that we completely shut down 118 Avenue for four blocks and we really use 118 Avenue as our canvas," she says, mentioning that now the festival can take place all over the street, in back alleys, up the sides of buildings, anywhere an artist could imagine performing. "It's truly a celebration of the Avenue—using the Avenue as our site of experimentation."

As an area that the city has been looking to reinvigorate for years, 118 Avenue has been the site of a number of attempts at rehabilitation. Various artifacts to these efforts exist along the avenue—the giant baseball bat at its western boundary, the sports murals and neighbourhood identifiers on lampposts—but no strategy has worked the way arts has to bring a renewed vitality to the area. For Morin, the arts are the perfect way to restore life to the area.

"When you look at cities around the world, the arts is an important cornerstone to creating community," she says. "Artists are visionaries and can see something where maybe others can't, and I really think that on 118 Avenue the arts have driven the change into becoming a vibrant place to live."

Paul Blinov

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PREVUE // ARTS AS REVITALIZATION

Experimenal Ave

Kaleido uses Alberta Avenue as a multidisciplinary canvas Fri, Sep 9 – Sun, Sep 11 Kaleido Family Arts Festival Various artists 118 Ave between 91 St and 94 St artsontheave.org n a city rife with festivals, Kaleido Family Arts Festival stands out as one of the more diverse in not only its ethnic makeup but also in its artistic practices. Featuring music that spans the gamut from folk to big band, rock 'n' roll to African drums, performing arts as varied as modern dance and Firefly Theatre's aerial acrobatics, as well as a wealth of galleries displaying diverse works of visual art, Kaleido has never limited itself to one genre, one art style or one way of expressing oneself. According to festival producer and founder Christy Morin, such was the goal from the start.

"We realized what a wealth there

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was in our community in the way of art and artists, so we thought why not create a festival—because this is festival city—and invite Ed-

monton to come to where we live, where we work and where we create and celebrate art in all disciplines," she says of the festival's origins six

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Bryan Birtles

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PREVUE // ADVENTURES IN SLEEP DEPRIVATION

Pitching a tent

Die-Nasty gears up for a camp-themed Soap-A-Thon

Camped out at Lake Boobahootchee

Fri, Sep 9 (7 pm) – Sun, Sep 11 (9 pm) Die-Nasty Soap-A-Thon Varscona Theatre, $15 single admission, $50 weekend pass

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very time I tell someone about the annual Die-Nasty Soap-A-Thon, in which a host of actors perform on stage for 50 straight hours, their reaction ranges from incredulity to downright bewilderment.

"The Soap-A-Thon started as a fund-raiser ... and an experiment in sleep deprivation," jokes Dana Andersen, director of Die-Nasty and founder of the Soap-A-Thon. Andersen established the annual marathon show back in 1992 to raise funds for the company's main season, but he also admits that he was simply curious to see what would happen to an improv show if it was sustained over a very extended period of time.

"It's a great way to see a character develop and go through all kinds of emotional roller coaster rides," states Andersen. "Everyone finds a new experience every time they do it."

There are about 14 actors who will average the entire 50 hours on stage, and a few dozen others who will do shorter shifts. The Soap-AThon follows the format of a regular Die-Nasty show: it's a live, improvised soap opera, with Andersen providing some direction to each scene.

This year's theme is a weekend camping trip set in Camp Tee Hee Hee on Lake Boobahootchee (located just past Pigeon Lake, apparently). "It's Meatballs meats Porky's," Andersen says with a chuckle.

"Dana has described it before as a 'box set,'" states Davina Stewart, a regular Die-Nasty performer. "You get to sit down and watch it all in one weekend.

"Some people love to come and watch the whole thing because the jokes come out from whatever's happening on stage," Stewart continues. "A joke may happen in the first three hours

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that gets a real payoff at hour 25. It seems like it's been written, but in fact it's just been created in front of everybody. That's why people come in and get hooked."

Like Die-Nasty itself, the Soap-A-Thon has become an Edmonton institution, even a rite of passage for the die-hard fans.

"We have people who sit there for the whole entire thing, bring their sleeping bags and camp out for the weekend and watch the show," states

A joke may happen in the first three hours that gets a real payoff at hour 25. It seems like it's been written, but in fact it's just been created in front of everybody.

That's why people come in and get hooked."

Andersen. "People come and go, but we have a pretty good die-hard crowd of people who enjoy Die-Nasty and come each year religiously."

The Soap-A-Thon has also spread beyond the Varscona: in 2005 Andersen helped establish a 36-hour Soap-A-Thon in London, and it has since spread to several other cities in England, Ireland and even Australia. Several overseas performers will be guest starring at this year's show.

Though the prospect of camping out in a theatre for a whole weekend may seem daunting (not to mention exhausting), it's a rare chance to experience something that cannot be reproduced in any other setting.

"The only thing that's stopping you is you," states Stewart. "No one's making you do the whole 50 hours, you don't have to stay up the whole time, you can go—but what'll happen is, you won't want to miss out on anything!"

Mel Priestley

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REVUE // VISUAL ARTS

HOOTS, CACKLES AND WAILS Until September 25 Works by Robin Arseneault and Paul Jackson The Art Gallery of Alberta

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he latest show at the AGA's New Works Gallery, Robin Arseneault and Paul Jackson's Hoots, Cackles and Wails, bills itself clearly as an exhibit of provocations before you even open the gallery door. Standing sentinel at the entrance is the giant "Waving Hand," a black, golden finger-tipped fabric hand. The disembodied hand waves slightly from the rushes of air that keeps its hollow insides inflated, but it shows only its back, suggesting a threat as much as a welcome. The performance of this inanimate severed hand truly sets the stage for this exhibit and its small collection

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boundaries between their framed images and the viewer's space through paper cut outs, which jut out toward the spectator.

This theme of space continues with architecture-inspired failures, including ceiling-high sculpture "Fata Morgana II," which leans against the wall. The latter work succeeds in engaging physical space through using master of space Constantin Brancusi's sculpture "Endless Column" as a source of inspiration. The impaled painted foam lumps, sadly suspended on metal rods, look as though they are being punished for their inelegant material existence.

The final element of the exhibition, the video work entitled "The English Tipplers" is a looped video of pigeons on a perch, playing on a television high in the corner of the room. In another connection to Brancusi, this work is also a tongue-in-cheek literal interpretation of the sculptor's iconic "Bird in Space" work. Even though the video is of tiny-brained birds that appear to watch you with their facile gazes, the work still contributes to an unnerving awareness of the gallery space you inhabit as a spectator. Beyond raising questions of success or failure, the play with Brancusi's work results in a play with space and the comfort of the people who inhabit it, made all the more potent with the connection to failed monuments and perverse bodily forms.

The unusual arrangements of the artwork within and just outside the space additionally makes clear the artists' preoccupation with making viewers uncomfortably aware of the relationship between art, environment and audience. This theme continues with "Hunting Blind," the recent commission by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts newly installed on the AGA's fourth floor City of Edmonton Terrace, also by Robin Arseneault and Paul Jackson.

The work is comprised of three elements: perches on tall textured black stands sitting high over the scene, a rough-looking ominous black metal tower, and shiny "shields" with ghostly eyes which seem to be subject to the tower's faceless gaze. The installation presents an ambiguous narrative about power and surveillance for AGA audiences to interpret over the next five years.

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of performing "failures."

Inside the gallery, "The Family," a series of five minimal paper-based collage works, explores the interior/exterior limits of the imperfect human body, dominating the sparse exhibit. The abstracted images simply drawn in silver marker suggest orifices, waste and permeabilityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; realities of the human body that are subject to shame, taboo and social anxiety. The series acts as a playful challenge to these normal aspects of the body considered failures or unspeakable perversities in need of quiet control and maintenance. What makes the exploration of these challenged norms even more interesting is how the series provokes the viewer by forcing coexistence with these unspeakable bodies. The bodily forms resist the

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Other Dances: Recreated by Nicole Pearce, choreography by Jerome Robbins, music by Frédéric Chopin. Emergence: Choreography

by Crystal Pite, original score by Owen Belton • Sep 19-20, 7:30pm

Brian Webb Dance Company • Art Gallery of Alberta, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Lynn Snelling, co-presented by the Art Gallery of Alberta • Sep 16-17 • Tickets at TIX on the Square

Swan Lake–The Bolshoi Ballet Series • Cineplex Odeon North Edmonton Cinemas and Cineplex Odeon South Edmonton Cinemas • Tchaikovsky’s haunting music traces the steps of prima ballerina Mariya Aleksandrova as she dances both Odette and Odile. This performance was captured live in HD from the world famous Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow • Sep 11 at 1pm; Sep 12 at 6:30pm • $19.95 (adult)/$17.95 (senior)/$9.95 (child) available at cineplex. com/Events/BolshoiBallet/Home.aspx

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; until Sep 25 • Hoots, Cackles and Wails and Hunting Blind; Robin Arseneault and Paul Jackson; until Sep 25 • UP NORTH: Artworks by four contemporary artists from three circumpolar countries: Jacob Dahl Jürgensen, Simon Dybbroe Møller (Denmark), Ragnar Kjartansson (Iceland), and Kevin Schmidt (Canada); Sep 10-Jan 8 • Adult Drop-in Workshop: Form: Abstract Sculpture; Sep 8, 7-9pm; $15/$12 AGA (member) • Art for Lunch: Theatre Foyer: Casual and informative discussions about AGA exhibitions, held during the lunch hour, 3rd Thu every month: Message in a Bottle: talk about the artworks in Edmonton's 1969 exhibition, Place and Process; Sep 15, 12:10-12:50pm; free

Art Gallery Of St Albert (AGSA) • Profiles, 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • ARTificial: Artworks by Paul Bernhardt, Brenda Kim Christiansen, Eveline Kolijn, and Jordan Rule • Until Oct 29 • Artventures: Drop-­in art session for children 6-­12; Absolutely Abstract; Sep 17, 1-4pm

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The Common • 10124-124 St

FAVA • 9722-102 St • 780.429.1671 • Video

• THE TRENDS WEEEKEND: Scenic Edmonton Art Show; photo's by Patrick Zubiri, Ashley Champagne, Brianna Hughes, Erin Monaghan, Nick Crokaine, and Paul Swanson • Sep 8, 7pm

Common Sense Gallery • 10546-115 St • 780.482.2685 • 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.

• 2nd Sun each month Crooked Pot Gallery– Stony Plain • 4912-51 Ave, Stony Plain, Alberta

Kitchen: Basic Digital Filmmaking: Create your own short film; Sep 10-Dec 10; Every Sat, 10am-2pm • Doc Shop: Develop your idea into a documentary project; Sep 20-Nov 22; every Tue 6-9pm

• 780.963.9573 • All Fired Up After 35 Years: Parkland Potters Guild and Crooked Pot Gallery 35th anniversary pottery show • Until Sep 30 • Open house: Sep 10, 11am-4pm

Metro Cinema • Garneau Theatre,

Enterprise Square • 10230 Jasper

8712-109 St • Metro celebrates its new home with a Grand Opening Week of screenings; Sep 16-22

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS Agnes Bugera Gallery • 12310 Jasper Ave • 780.482.2854 • Memoryscapes: Landscapes, oil on canvas by Greg Edmonson • Until Sep 16

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • Making a Spectacle of Myself: Metal works, retrospective of eyewear by Calgary artist Jackie Anderson; until Oct 15 • Victorian Inclinations: Metal works by Calgary artist Jennea Frischke; until Oct 15 • generation whY: Exploring the voices of craft makers 35 & younger; until Sep 24

Art Beat Gallery • 26 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.3679 • The Heaths: Artworks

by Fran, Karen, and Mel • Until Sep 30

Artery • 9535 Jasper Ave • Heaven: artworks by Craig Talbot, Patrick Arès-Pilon, and Angela Talbot • Surreal Series: Artworks by Dawn Saunders Dahl • Until Sep 25

Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • Sculpture Terraces: Works by Peter Hide and Ken Macklin • BMO World of Creativity: Drawn

Ave, U of A • A New Ball of Wax ˆ Wimmin in Wax • Until Sep 21, 7am-11pm

FAB Gallery • Department of Art and Design, U of A, Rm 3-98 Fine Arts Bldg • 780.492.2081 • VOID: Ryan Wolters: MFA Drawing and Intermedia • Things that Rise in the Morning: Matthew Arrigo: MFA Printmaking • Until Sep 24 • Opening reception: Sep 22, 7-10pm

Gallery at Milner • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • You Looking At Me: Self portraits, created by artists from the Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts • Until Sep 30 • Book launch: You Looking At Me featuring portraits from the exhibit and life in the NHC studios: Sep 30, 11am

Gallery IS–Red Deer • 5123 48 St, Alexander Way, Red Deer • 403.341.4641 • Shift: Artworks by Jeri-Lynn Ing • Until Sep 30

Gallerie Pava • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • CIrcle of Live: Paintings

by Jerry Berthelette; until Sep 13 • Xoxo From Paris: Artworks by Elaine Berglund; Sep 17-Oct 19

Haggerty Centre–Stollery Gallery • Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, 9225118 Ave • 780.474.7611 • Kaleido Festival: Sep 9-11 • Printworks by Cheryl Anhel and

Provincial Archives of Alberta • 8555 Roper Rd • 780.427.1750 • Sharing the Word: Display on the development and use of syllabics by missionaries in Western Canada • Until Sep 17 • Free admission

Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery • 4525-47A Ave • Farm Show: A

• Sunworks Home and Garden Store, Ross St, Red Deer • 403.346.8937 • Soul Sisters– A Journey to the Hearth: Installation by Sabine Schneider and Glynis Wilson Boultbee • Until Sep 9

Hub on Ross–Red Deer • 4936 Ross

Royal Alberta Museum • 12845-102

St, Red Deer • 403.340.4869 • Wellness Through Art: Group show • Through Sep

Jeff Allen Art Gallery • Strathcona Seniors Centre, 10831 University Ave • 780.433.5807 • Instructors and Students Showtime: Artworks by Strathcona Place’s instructors and students • Until Sep 21

Jurassic Forest/Learning Centre • 15 mins N of Edmonton off Hwy 28A, Township Rd 564 • Education-rich entertainment facility for all ages Library • Out of the Hole: Artworks by Robin Byrnes • Through Sep

Café Pichilingue–Red Deer • 4928-50

reception: Sep 8, 7-9pm

series of exhibitions newly created to explore contemporary farming issues; until Nov 13 • Farming Out Our Future: Changes that have had an impact on rural life in Alberta, 1950 to present; until Nov 13 • From Our Collection: Objects and artifacts from Central Alberta’s history; through Sep

Harris-Warke Gallery–Red Deer

Marie-Anne Gaboury, 91 St • J'ai changé! / I've Changed!: Artworks by Doris Charest • Sep 8-25 • Opening reception: Sep 8, 5-7pm

Cinema At the Centre • Library Thea-

Alberta Museum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave • The Spirit Of St Louis (1957, PG) • Mon, Sep 12, 8pm; $6 (adult)/$5 (senior 65 and over/ student)/$3 (child); $30 (membership for fall series, 8 films) • The Battle Of Britain (1969, PG); Mon, Sep 19, 8pm; $6 (adult)/$5 (senior 65 and over/student)/$3 (child); free parking

780.426.4180 • Main Space: Fire Successional: Installation by Tiki Mulvihill • Front Room Gallery: Narrative paintings

by Kevin Friedrich • Both shows: Sep 9-Oct 7 • Artist Talk: Sep 9, 6pm • Opening reception: Sep 9, 7pm

Kiwanis Gallery–Red Deer • Red Deer

FILM

Edmonton Film Society • Royal

Harcourt House • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St •

BiblioThéque Saint-Jean • 8406 rue

• 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • Autumn Harvest: Artworks by Danièle Petit, Doris Charest, Urmila Zdenka Das, Katherine Restoueix, and Juanita Noble • Sep 9-20 • Opening reception: Sep 9, 7-8:30pm

tre, Stanley A. Milner Library basement, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • Tea and Sympathy: 1956, rated PG • Wed, Sep 14, 6:30pm

Lisa Rezansoff; Sep 15-30; opening reception: Sep 22, 5-7pm

Latitude 53 • 10248-106 St • 780.423.5353 • Main Gallery: Future Future Age(s): Featuring a cube containing Dawson City northern lights, quartz crystal balls, a tree trunk adorned in gold and a set of supposedly haunted mirrors–series of five sculptural installations by Jason de Haan; until Sep 9 • Visualeyez–Worship: Canada's Annual festival of performance art in the downtown core. Artists works will involve discourses about worshipping, devotion, contemplation, and adoration; Sep 13–18 Loft Gallery • A. J. Ottewell Art Centre, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • 780.922.6324 • Artworks by members of the Edmonton Art Club • Sep 10-Oct 2; Sat: 10-4pm; Sun: 12-4pm • Opening reception: Sep 10, 1-4pm

McMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • In the Moment: Featuring Alberta landscapes by Kristen Federchuk, Judith Hall, Judy Martin, Donna Miller • Until Oct 2

Ave • 780.453.9100 • Creatures of the Abyss: Featuring full-scale models of exotic sea creatures, several preserved specimens, and a host of interactive elements and multi-media presentations; until Sep 11 • Composed Exposures: Photographs by museum staff members; until Nov 25 • Wild Alberta Gallery: Wild by Nature: Every Sat and Sun, 11am and 2pm

SNAP Gallery • 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • Artworks by Sonia Higuera • Sep 8-Oct 8 • Opening reception Sep 8

SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • Open Art Competition: Competition open to all artists in Alberta over 18 • Sep 13-Oct 1 • Opening reception and Awards: Sep 16, 7pm

Strathcona County Art Gallery • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park •

Visual Arts Alberta Association • 780.421.1731 • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave • Open Photo 2011: Off-site exhibition, the fourth annual photography competition and exhibition. Awards will be announced at the opening reception • Until Oct 2

Artery • 9535 Jasper Ave • Launch of Lynn Coady's book The Antagonist; music by Ben Sures • Sep 8, 8:30pm

Blue Chair Café • 9624-76 Ave • 780.469.8755 • Story Slam: 2nd Wed each month • Sep 14 Haven Social Club • 15120 Stony Plain Road • Edmonton Story Slam; no minors • Sign up after 7pm. Show starts at 7:30pm, 3rd Wed of every month

• 5 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1528 • 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

Riverdale • 9917-87 St • Creative Word

Muttart conservatory • 9626-

St John’s Institute • 11024 Whyte Ave, 7pm (reception) • Book launch of Re-imagining Ukrainian Canadians: History, Politics and Identity • Sep 16, 7pm

96A St • 780.496.8755 • When Butterflies Dance: Watercolours by Elaine Funnell; until Sep 9

Naess Gallery–Paint Spot • 10032-

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

T.A.L.E.S. MONTHLY STORYTELLING CIRCLE • Venue T.B.A. • 780.932.4409 •

81 Ave • Duality Series: Figurative acrylic paintings and sculpture by Samantha Williams-Chapelsky • Until Sep 29 • Opening reception: Sep 10, 2-4pm

Tell stories or come to listen • 2nd Wed of the month; Sep 2011-Jun 2012, 7-9pm • Free event

Perron Bookstore–St Albert • 7 Perron St, St Albert • 780.459.2525 • a pound of puppies: Pastels by Father Douglas • Until Sep 29

Upper Crust Café • 10909-86 Ave • 780.422.8174 • The Poets’ Haven Weekly Reading Series: every Mon, 7pm presented by the Stroll of Poets Society; $5

Peter Robertson Gallery • 12304

WINSPEAR CENTRE • The Studio, Side

Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • Abstract paintings

by Mitchel Smith • Until Sep 17 • Opening

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Common Ground Concert Series featuring Rapidfire Theatre • Sep 9, 8pm

Chimprov • Varscona Theatre, 1032983 Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • First three Sat every month, 11pm, Sep 2011-Jul 2012 • $10/$5 (high school student)/$8 (RFT member at the door only)

DIE-NASTY SOAP-A-THON • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • 780.433.3399 • 50 straight hours, one amazing story • Sep 9, 7pm-Sun, Sep 11, 9pm • $50 (pass) available at TIX on the Square; tickets and passes available at the Varscona Theatre box office starting Sep 9 at 5pm FOUR LADS WHO SHOOK THE WORLD: THE BEATLES STORY PART 1 • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave • 780.483.4051, Toll free: 1.877.529.7829 • The story of the Beatles early beginnings in 1957 thru to their last performance in America in 1966 • Until Nov 6

HIGH TEA • Transalta Arts Barns, 10330-84

• 4924-50 St, Red Deer • 403.340.8288 • Artworks by Dawn Candy • Through Sep

LITERARY

Musée Héritage Museum–St Albert

Avenue Theatre • 9030-118 Ave •

Velvet Olive Lounge–Red Deer

Albert • 780.651.8176 • Aboriginal Veterans Display • Gift Shop • Finger weaving and sash display by Celina Loyer • Ongoing

51 St, Stony Plain • 780.963.9935 • Installation work by Sheri Chaba • Until Sep 21

THEATRE

VAAA Gallery • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.421.1731 • Galleries A and B: Alberta Spirit: Featuring award winning art works by the membership of the ACACA • Until Oct 1 • Opening reception: Sep 9, 7-9:30pm

Michif Cultural and Métis Resource Institute • 9 Mission Ave, St

Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-

WunderBar 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)

Heroine • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • 780.471.1586 • Northern Light Theatre • A story by Karen Bassett about the two most famous women pirates. Ann Bonny and Mary Read have been captured and thrown into a Jamaican prison cell. Heroine invades the final moments of captivity and connection between the two passionate women • Sep 14-25

780.410.8585 • Wild Thing • Until Sep 30

West End Gallery • 12308 Jasper Ave • 780.488.4892 • VOYAGES: Artworks by Irene Klar; Sep 10-22; opening reception: Sep 8, 5-8pm; artist in attendance • Artworks by Jean-Gabriel Lambert; Sep 24-Oct 6

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

ed by Kehrig Fine Art • Sep 8-11, 11am-10pm; artist in attendance every night, 6-10pm

door, 9720-102 Ave • 780.619.0818 • Classical figurative sculptures by Blake Ward; Present-

Ave • Firefly Theatre and Circus Fundraiser: Join Firefly’s artists as they dangle overhead serving steeps, champagne and sweets • Sun, Sep 18, 2-5pm • $50 at TIX on the Square, Firefly at 780.758.9999

The Importance of Being Earnest • 780.442.5311 • Live Theatre Series • By Oscar Wilde • Sep 17-18, 23-25

Kaleido Family Arts Festival • 780.244.5854 • artsontheave.org • KaleidoFest.ca • Arts festival bringing art to the streets • Sep 9-11 • Free

The Last Concert–Buddy Holly and Friends • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, 2690, 8882-170 St, Phase II WEM Upper Level • 780.484.2424 • Tribute to Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper, story about an impromptu show they put on for the locals at a truck stop • Until Oct 23

A Little Night Music • Festival Place, 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.464.2852 • Romantic comedy, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Hugh Wheeler, orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick, co-directed by Mary Jane Kreisel and Barbara Mah, Music Directed by Gail Olmstead presented by Festival Players • Sep 8-11, 7:30pm; Sep 11, 2pm • $28 (adult)/$18 (child) available at Festival Place box office, and TicketMaster Ordo Virtutum (The Way of the Virtues) • All Saints’ Anglican Cathedral 10035-103 St • Hildegard von Bingen's 12th century musical drama • Sep 17, 7:30pm; $20 (adv)/$25 (door) at TIX on the Square, The Gramophone

Penny Plain • Citadel Maclab Theatre, 9828-101 A Ave • 780.428.2117 • Rice Alternative Series: Created and performed by Ronnie Burkett, commissioned by the Citadel Theatre, co-commissioned by the National Arts Centre World Premiere. Penny Plain is blind, but hears plenty about the state of mankind.

When her companion dog Geoffrey leaves to live as a man, Penny sits waiting for the world to end • Sep 17-Oct 9

TheatreSports • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • Improv runs every Fri, Sep 2011-Jul 2012, 11pm (subject to occasional change) • $10/$8 (member)

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People who served fountain sodas in the 1930s and '40s were called soda jerks, a term that's become this restaurant's namesake. Indeed, the word jerk appears on the front of staff members' shirts.

Large, colourful displays of sodas decorate the walls, adding interest to the browns and greys of the interior. I'm not that big a fan of pop, but I can't resist these flavours: should I have the bubble-gum-flavoured soda, or the dandelion and burdock one?

I opted for the bubble gum ($3).

When faced with gum or lip balm that smells unusually good, I'm tempted to eat it. In this case, consuming this bubble-gum flavour would actually be legit, so I went for it. The lip balm in my purse breathed a sigh of relief.

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When my soda arrived, the first thing I did was admire its colour: electric blue. In fact, it was just a bit brighter than the straw, and tasted exactly as it looked: electric blue. It wasn't too carbonated and fizzy, a sensation that I dislike about many other pops.

For my meal, I went for the buildyour-own burger deal ($9.48), which lets you assemble a burger from a selection of different patties, buns, sauces, cheeses, and toppings. You can also add a side ($2.98). Eventually, I ordered a beef patty on a sesame-seed bun, and the root beer BBQ sauce. Root-beer flavouring on a burger? Why not? If I can drink bubble gum, I can also eat root beer.

I also selected the cheddar cheese before deciding on my four toppings for the burger. After going with the fried egg and the bacon, I decided to add spinach and cucumber; after all, I should probably have some veggies with my meal, and the chili-cheese fries on the side likely don't qualify.

The meal arrives really quickly.

The burger is huge, the patty is nice and juicy, and I wondered if I'd be able to eat the whole thing. Sadly, I couldn't really taste the BBQ sauce, and I wish a bit more had been put on the bun. I'd never eaten a fried egg on a burger before, but I'm glad that I went with it.

The chili-cheese fries impressed me a bit less—the chili was a bit heavy on the tomato. Still, I managed to eat my entire side dish, but I didn't make it through the entire burger After one last sip of soda—concluding my meal with a sweet touch—there was no room for dessert.

Soda Jerks offers an interesting concept for a restaurant without being overbearing with the theme. The soda menu is impressive, and the service is friendly and attentive.

But next time, to honour Edmonton's summers, I'm going to have the dandelion and burdock soda.

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PROVENANCE

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Six facts about marshmallows 1) Better than most medicines The first use for marshmallow was as a medicinal substance. The root of the marshmallow plant—which originally gave the marshmallow its distinct flavour—has been used as a sore throat remedy since Egyptian antiquity.

2) Whip it good The modern, well-known marshmallow candy was created in 19th-century France by whipping sap from the marshmallow plant until it was fluffy. Sometimes this pâte de guimauve was mixed with rosewater. The process was labour intensive and was abandoned in favour of a mechanical process of combining gelatin and corn starch to create marshmallows.

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Twin Fin 2009 Pinot Grigio This is an absolute favourite budget-friendly white wine. It's fun, laid-back, big and brassy—just what you'd expect from a California-style Pinot Grigio. With a wavecrest crispness and delicious floral finish, it pairs well with everything from soft cheeses to student loans.

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Mission Hill 2010 Five Vineyards Rosé Nothing howls "frat party" quite like rosé. This off-dry pink wine (as opposed to the stereotypically sweeter rosés) from British Columbia's premier winery offers up a fist-pumping alternative to a simple white sipper, while it pairs beautifully with grilled meats and Asian cuisine (see: Ichiban noodles). If you're really out to impress, simply sniff your glass and announce, "Oh wow! The honey and jasmine notes are so nuanced!"

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REVUE // REALLY LONG NOODLES!

A delicious secret

The tucked away Won Jung Gak hides some tasty morsels of Korean Won Jung Gak 9655 - 62 Ave 780.988.7709

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orean food, for the uninitiated, is an open secret. Its existence is known but the contents of said existence often are not. Won Jung Gak epitomizes this "open secret" concept: its existence is increasingly common knowledge but its location remains vexing. Indeed, this venerable eatery holds its own in the staunchly industrial neighbourhood south of Argyll Road.

Won Gung Gak's dining room is a bit of a mish-mash. A high ceiling and cinderblock walls sport colourful dragons and garlands that, curiously, share quarters with pioneeresque oil paintings that evoke Little House on the Prairie. Tables and chairs are carefully wrapped in plastic. A massive manga collection occupies one wall, and signs written in both English and Korean promote house specialties.

The capacious menu encompasses hot and cold noodle dishes, tofu, rice and all manners of meat and fowl. Our supper commences with deep-fried dumplings ($8.99), which superficially resemble gyoza. Each possesses a crisp exterior and pops

Won Jung Gak's tucked-away location

with the luscious drippings of ground pork and scallions.

We progress to noodles with Koreanstyle black bean sauce ($10.50) and, when this dish appears, are struck by the presentation of scissors. Further

investigation reveals that each noodle is nearly several metres long and, hence, the scissors are required to snip each serving to a manageable length.

The accompanying black bean sauce is thick, glossy, flecked with bits of squid and shrimp, and is heinously salty. The

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black beans infuse the sauce with rich, fermented character, but a far lighter hit of salinity would be preferable.

Bi Bim Bap ($13.50) features toothsome rice mixed with julienned zucchini, mushrooms, sliced daikon and generous morsels of beef, all topped with a

fried egg. The correct dining procedure is to chop up the egg with chopsticks and mix it in with the other ingredients; the egg provides rich flavour as well as an edible adhesive. The summation of these ingredients is a satisfying medley of textures and savoury flavours. A few squirts of hot sauce add a bracing kick that commences as warm but finishes as incendiary.

Bulgogi ($13.50), perhaps the most famous of Korean dishes (apart from the ubiquitous condiment kimchee), is comprised of beef, shiitake mushrooms and thin, transparent noodles bathing in a salty-sweet broth. The beef is pounded thin and divides into manageable slices at a chopstick's touch. The noodles do not require scissors and, hence, may be easily entwined around slices of mushroom, providing an intersection of sturdy starch and tender fungus.

Won Jung Gak thrives in the most unintuitive of restaurant locations, its dĂŠcor remains quirky, and it dishes up solid Korean cuisine. Won Jung Gak is gaining a place in the city's collective culinary knowledge, with the conundrum of its open secret waiting to be discovered by Edmonton's adventurous diners.

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he slow, silky whisps of Brooke Manning's music seem perfectly tailored to a twilight in some misty forest clearing, intended to curl with the shivers of our own nighttime introspections. As Loom, her songs linger and build on circular guitar plucks and a smooth pixie-ish voice; the big city bustle of her residential Toronto home seems at odds with the music she makes. And though, Manning notes, her neighbourhood is an urban pocket with a slower pace than the city's more bustling areas, to record her Loom debut, Epyllion, she and a few collaborators stole away for a week to quieter territories, taking an artistic residence on Toronto Island's Gibraltar Point, a place where artists of all disciplines can set down for temporary, focused excursions into their craft.

"I felt like it was necessary to remove myself from the city in order to make the kind of record I wanted in the way I wanted it," she explains, on the phone from Toronto. "It was really important to me to be ... separated, and surrounded by nature, and surrounded by really creative humans that are all just there to do one thing."

Manning spent a week there, recording the album in just three days of that

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time. She never did more than three takes of any one song, she notes. "I won't do any more than three," Manning says, "because I feel like it doesn't have the genuineness I need in it if there's more than three.

"I'm not the type of musician who picks up her instrument every day," she continues, "'cause I'm inspired by a lot of other things. ... I think living on my own also really helps. There's a lot of quiet silence in my life, which is very beneficial for my writing."

At the time, Manning didn't see any particular themes to what she was writing. But listening back to the finished re-

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cording, she found a thread that ended up lending Epyllion its title. "[Epyllion] refers to a type of epic poetry from the 19th century that refers to romance and mythology," she explains. "It's like a narrative poem that pertains to romance. The whole album is about this achingness of love and the ups and downs of it all. And I think I only realized that in listening to it after the first time we recorded it. Which is interesting," she laughs, "but I'm sure that happens to a lot of people."

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First Concert Sloan, Navy Blues tour (Rufus Wainwright opened)

Last Concert A Random show in Portland

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First Album The Beatles The White Album

Musical Guilty Pleasure The California Raisins

Last Album Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues

Guilty Pleasure Corn Dogs

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pring is often singled out as the season of change and rebirth, but autumn sees the world change again, settling down and gearing up for the process that will lead to new life. The changes that Edmonton's the Consonance went through prior to making the group's latest EP are what's behind the disc's title: October. Gaining a new drummer and cementing the group's sound, the Consonance is looking forward to something of a rebirth of its own.

"I think there were a lot of influences that would sometimes fight each other," explains guitarist David Riddell of the group's previous output. "The songwriting was a bit all over the place, but now the sound is more united."

That united songwriting can be heard on October: it's a mix of jazz and indie rock that is nearly virtuosic in its execution.

The second EP for the group—it has also released one full-length album—the format appeals to the Consonance because

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it gives the group the ability to release its music in short bursts, unencumbered by the need to artificially bulk up a release to album length.

"We just thought, 'Let's record [our songs] and release them just so they're out there,'" says Riddell. "If there is a period of time where we're really productive and we do have a lot of original tunes then we would definitely put out a full-length, but I think when we have the songs and we don't have the time to write more we'll just put out an EP." The EP's official release comes on the heels of a six-week tour the band embarked on across the United States and

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Canada, which had its share of ups and downs. Toward the end, van trouble caught up with the Consonance, but, altogether, Riddell and his compatriots considered it a success.

"It's hard to gauge response sometimes when you're only playing to three people," he laughs. "Some of the shows, like in Minneapolis and Seattle for example, had really good crowds and a really good response and we played with some great bands. There were definitely some slow shows but there were some great shows too."

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Absolute hooligans from Victoria, Babysitter prefers the noisy hiss and lo-fi buzz of cassettes for its own garageish punk releases, and apparently is satisfied with the even more primitive technology of eight-track recordings when it comes to the band’s listening pleasure. About to head across the country, guitarist Kristian North gave Vue Weekly the lowdown on what hits the band’s ears on and off the road.

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The Fall, any album, it doesn't matter I used to be selective about which Fall albums I like, now I just don't care. It is all good. I listen to the Fall all the time, but in the morning is pretty rad.

Dead Moon, Defiance Another Babysitter favourite. Again, good at any time of the day, but seems like it would be rad if you were driving in your car or had it on a cassette in a boom box at the beach or in a graveyard or something.

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Joni Mitchell, Clouds Our van has an eight-track player, which really limits our music selection on the road. There just wasn't a lot of good music released on eight-track, so when we find something we can tolerate in the thrift store it's a real holy grail. Driving in the early morning in a beat-up van through the middle of nowhere listening to Clouds feels pretty good.

Steppenwolf, Live This is an eight-track standby. If you don't like driving in a car and listening to "Born to be Wild" you're already dead.

The Guess Who, The Best of The Guess Who At night the van turns into a real party bus. Last time we were in Edmonton we had a a full house in there with this eight-track really taking the party to the next level.

It's easy as a Canadian to hate the Guess Who 'cause Randy Bachman is ... well, Randy Bachman ... but they are a pretty good band.

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JUNIOR BOYS Wed, Sep 14 (8 pm) With Young Galaxy Starlite Room, $22.75

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hen Jeremy Greenspan began to think about what he needed to do to create a fourth Junior Boys album, it turned into a crisis of confidence. After the dance group's previous album—2009's Begone Dull Care, based on the life of Norman McClaren, a Canadian animator for the National Film Board who died in 1987—didn't achieve the response he'd hoped for, Greenspan had doubts about whether he could still produce art that would resonate with people.

So he went to Shanghai to visit his sister, and ended up staying for two months.

"I needed to get some perspective

on certain things," he says of the sojourn. "I'm getting older in a genre that celebrates and is fixated on youth—I was wondering about my relevance as an artist."

Once he got the perspective he

for the album. Even the title was inspired by Welles—It's All True is also the title of an unfinished Welles picture set in Latin America that was shut down after Welles went spectacularly over budget.

I'm getting older in a genre that celebrates and is fixated on youth—I was wondering about my relevance as an artist.

was looking for, Greenspan and his musical partner Matt Didemus set about creating It's All True. Orson Welles proved inspirational for Greenspan, especially the auteur's film F for Fake, which deals with plenty of the issues Greenspan was dealing with during the creation of It's All True and provided fodder

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"Orson Welles is a guy who struggled with his own relevance and artistic ability, especially toward the end of his life," Greenspan says. "With all the stuff I was going through, I found him to be an inspirational figure."

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Fleetwood Mac tribute / Fri, Sep 9 (8:30 pm) An absolutely non-official afterparty for the Support Network's 10th annual Suicide Awareness March, this jim-jam features some of Edmonton's better-known musicians rocking the tunes of Fleetwood Mac. And not just the stuff from Rumours

either—with two sets in one night, there are gonna be some deep cuts in there too. So don't break "The Chain," "Say You Love Me" and then "Go Your Own Way" to the Artery.

There's also a dance party afterward. All proceeds benefit the Support Network. (Artery, $12)

Claudette Phoenix Swampy / Fri, Sep 9 (8 pm) The first lady of Aboriginal blues, Claudette Phoenix Swampy got her start singing karaoke and was discovered at a talent competition. Since then, her career has gone nowhere but up and this weekend she gets set to release her second album, entitled The Return to the New Blues. On it her vocals—compared to the great Phyllis Hyman—will be featured prominently. (The Gas Pump)

Delhi 2 Dublin / Sat, Sep 10 (9:45 pm) Showing off the diversity of the Kaleido Family Arts Festival, Delhi 2 Dublin—as the group's name implies—mixes influences from everywhere from Delhi to Dublin. Formed specifically for a performance at the Vancouver Celtic Festival in 2006, the group was so well received that it stayed together and has now toured across Canada as well as internationally. (Kaleido Festival)

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NEWSOUNDS

The Pack ad Unpersons (Mint) 

With the duo's fourth album, Unpersons, the Pack ad has stepped firmly into the realm of rock. Hook-laden opening track "Sirens" starts the album off with a targeted guitar riff and a direct heavy drum kick. It's a great start to an album that holds to the Pack's confident progression from blues to rock.

While the duo announced previous to its last album, We Kill Computers, that it was done with the heavy blues it had become known for, it seemed to be a missing element on that third album. Unpersons delves fully into the

direct, forceful nature of punk, borrows the fuzzy undertones of garage rock and the full sound of the blues without being burdened by its broad, open sound.

Along with the sound, the Pack's lyrics have fully developed from Miller and Black's distinct "don't give a shit" attitude. "8"'s "I think your friend would hate my friend" has echoes of Tintype's "Don't have to like you" and "Rid of Me" and "Seasick" would fit well on an epic break-up album celebrating newfound independence.

But with "Seasick" the album moves into a slower sound. It doesn't diminish the intensity, only proving that the duo has found a way to integrate a blues approach into a rock track with the result being a song with a great guitar hook and smoky vocals. The only track that feels slightly out of place is "Pieces," which delves back into a blues sound that is a bit more cumbersome.

Overall, though, Unpersons combines the best elements the Pack has developed over the course of its previous albums into a one great rock album.

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Gruff Rhys Hotel Shampoo (Turnstile)  Though recording for a third time under his own name—taking a break from dayband Super Furry Animals and his more recent Neon Neon side project—the hallmarks of Gruff Rhys's sonic output remain virtually unchanged no matter the moniker: it's vitamin-grade sunshine pop, taken in with an oddball's eyes for world analysis and channeled out into big beach harmonies and layered, blissful keyboard strokes.

Rhys's weirder side has become subtler or at least here seems more subdued—Hotel Shampoo's sung entirely in English, as opposed to his usual solo dabblings in his native Welsh—with Rhys slipping into subtler texture explorations rather than revamping larger song structures or making more bombastic declarations. These are, by and large, love songs with a bit of quirk to them, full stop. But with that frame of mind in mind, Hotel Shampoo captures the guy doing pop music as well as he always has, alone or with band: from the suspicious grooves of opener "Shark Ridden Waters" to the darker hush of "I Totally Understand" or the digi-blip bliss of closer "Sunflower," any suckers for a good pop hook will find plenty to catch on here.

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The Paint Movement The Paint Movement (Nevado)  This six-piece Toronto band pulls from the same big rock band dynamics as a certain other, more wellknown TO collective—possibly due to the present hand of Broken Social Scene producer David Newfeld here— but do it smoother and jazzier, driven by silky brass, swooning boy-girl harmonies and urban bass rhythms. Single "Young Lights" opens the album with a simmering sax riff that builds to a full, heated, every-instrument swell, and the rest of the album follows suit with the same well-crafted heart. "Porcelains" strips the instruments down to a gorgeous spatter of sounds that still makes use of everything, instruments simmering up to boil and back again, and hints that maybe the band would do well to use a bit of sonic restraint more often.

Call it a more Unified Social Scene, perhaps, but all BSS comparisons aside, the band makes a strong case here that there's room for another act unafraid to shout about its big emotions with gusto. The Paint Movement just happens to do it with a bit of grace, too.

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Classical Winspear William Joseph with the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra; 8pm; $250 (incl post reception) at 780.428.1414

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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 Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge Fuzzion Friday: with Crewshtopher, Tyler M, guests; no cover SPORTSWORLD Roller Skating Disco Fri Nights; 7-10:30pm; sportsworld.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 Connected Las Vegas Fridays Y AFTERHOURS Foundation Fridays

SAT SEP 10 ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage with Trace Jordan 1st and 3rd Sat; 7pm-12 Artery DJ Budakron, guests (dance and silent auction); 9pm

Black Dog Freehouse Hair of the Dog: live acoustic music every Sat; 4-6pm; no cover Blackjacks Roadhouse The Kyler Schogen Band, 8pm Blue Chair Café Sillan and Young; 8:30pm; $10 Blues on Whyte Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Evening: Bill Durst Brixx Bar Looking East, Bucknife; 7pm CASINO EDMONTON Whiskey Boyz CASINO YELLOWHEAD The Classics

Gibbons Hotel Mr Lucky (blues/roots); 9:30pm; no cover Haven Social Club All Else Fails, Syn{a} pse, Hollows Anatomy, Enduring the Fall; 8pm (door); $10 (adv)/$12 (door) HillTop Pub Sat afternoon roots jam with Pascal, Simon and Dan, 3:30-6:30pm; Hooliganz Live music every Sat Iron Boar Pub Jazz in Wetaskiwin featuring jazz trios the 1st Sat each month; $10

Coast to Coast Live bands every Sat; 9:30pm

Kaleido Family Arts Festival Community Jam hosted by Breezy Brian Gregg; 7:30-9pm

The Common Trends Wrap up Party; 9pm

LB's PUB Coaster 44; 9:30pm-2am

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

new city compound Marc Ross, Sister Gray, Ian Mcintosh, Jeremy Pudlowski; no minors 8pm (door), 9pm (music); $10

Devaney's Irish Pub Stan Gallant DV8 Abigail's Cross; 9pm Eddie Shorts Saucy Wenches every Sat Empress Ale House Acres and Acres (Halifax folk); 4-6pm Expressionz Café Open stage for original songs, hosted by Karyn Sterling and Randall Walsh; 2-5pm; admission by donation Filthy McNasty's Good Intentions, Jessica Denise; 4pm; no cover Gas Pump Blues jam/ open stage every Sat 3:30-7pm

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Rexall Place Maroon 5, Train; 7:30pm Rose and Crown PUB Neil MacDonald Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Derina Harvey Sherlock Holmes– WEM Doug Stroud Starlite Room Captial City Burlesque, The Get Down; 9pm West Side Pub West Side Pub Sat Afternoon: Dirty Jam: Tye Jones (host), all styles, 3-7pm Wild West Saloon Jordan Doell

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 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

Wunderbar Babysitter, guests; 9pm; $5

Union Hall Celebrity Saturdays: every Sat hosted by Ryan Maier

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Vinyl Dance Lounge Signature Saturdays

180 Degrees Street VIBS: Reggae night every Sat

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AZUCAR PICANTE DJ Touch It, hosted by DJ Papi; every Sat

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Bank Ultra Lounge Sold Out Sat: with DJ Russell James, Mike Tomas; 8pm (door); no line, no cover for ladies before 11pm

Beer Hunter–St Albert Open stage/jam every Sun; 2-6pm Blackjack's Roadhouse–Nisku Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Saturday evenings feature DJs on three levels; Main Floor: The Menace Sessions: Alt rock/ Electro/Trash with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic hiphop and reggae with DJ Sonny Grimezz

Blue Chair Café Sunday Brunch: PM Bossa; 10.30am-2.30pm; donations

Blacksheep Pub DJ every Sat

Blues on Whyte Bluessmyth

Brixx Oh Snaps Step'd Up Saturdays: Degree, Cool Beans, Specialist, Spenny B and Mr. Nice Guy, Ten 0; 10pm

Crown Pub Band War 2011/Battle of the bands, 6-10pm; Open Stage with host Better Us Than Strangers, 10pm-1am

BUDDY'S Feel the rhythm every Sat with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm Buffalo Underground Head Mashed In Saturday: Mashup Night Druid Irish Pub DJ every Sat; 9pm electric rodeo– Spruce Grove DJ every Sat Fluid Lounge Scene Saturday's Relaunch: Party; hip-hop, R&B and Dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Top tracks, rock, retro every Sat with DJ Damian 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 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: R'n'B, hip hop, reggae, Old School Palace Casino Show Lounge DJ every Sat PAWN SHOP Transmission Saturdays: Alt, DJ, punk-rock RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests

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Blue Pear Restaurant Jazz on the Side Sun: Audrey Ochoa (trombone); 6pm; $25 if not dining

DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB Celtic open stage every Sun with Keri-Lynne Zwicker; 5:30pm; no cover Double D's Open jam every Sun; 3-8pm Eddie Shorts Acoustic jam every Sun; 9pm Expressionz café YEG live Sun Night Songwriters Stage; 7-10pm HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB Industry Night; 9pm Jeffrey's Carol Lynn Quinn (acoustic rock duo); $10 Newcastle Pub Sun Soul Service (acoustic jam): Willy James and Crawdad Cantera; 3-6:30pm NEW CITY LEGION DIY Sunday Afternoons: 4pm (door), 5pm , 6pm, 7pm, 8pm (bands) O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am On the Rocks OldBury, guests ORLANDO'S 2 PUB Open stage jam every Sun; 4pm Rexall Place Andre Rieu tickets at ticketmaster.ca Second Cup–Mountain Equipment Co-op Live music every Sun; 2-4pm Westside Pub Sun Blues Jam: hosted by Blues Curry and Javed; every Sunday, 3-7pm Winspear Centre Winspear Centre Presents: Jennifer Warnes and Eric Bibb; 7:30pm; $41.50 (upper circle, gallery), $51.50 (orchestra, terrace, dress circle) Wunderbar Sans AIDS (going away show), Field and Stream; Service:Fair; 4:30pm (door), 6pm (music); no cover

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DJs BACKSTAGE TAP AND GRILL Industry Night: every Sun with Atomic Improv, Jameoki and DJ Tim BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sundays: A fantastic voyage through '60s and '70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy. Dance parties have been known to erupt 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 SEP 12 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover Blues on Whyte Bluessmyth Churchill Square Every weekday (weather permitting): Breezy Brian Gregg (SW corner); 12-1:15pm Devaney's Irish Pub Singer/songwriter open stage this week hosted

by Breezy Brian Gregg; 8pm kelly's pub Open stage every Mon; hosted by Clemcat Hughes; 9pm New West Hotel Double Highway 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

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay Crown Pub Minefield Mondays/House/Breaks/ Trance and more with host DJ Phoenix, 9pm 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 NOLA Creole Kitchen Music House Chris Andrews; 6-9pm

TUE SEP 13 Accent European Lounge Cory Woodward (electro folk rock), Prairie Nights (blues, folk) Artery The Collective West, Bog River (album release); 8:30pm Avenue Theatre Fall In Archaea, Beheading Of A King, Sight For Sewn Eyes, Machines, Great White Shark Fight; 7pm (door), 7:30pm (show); $7 (adv)/$10 (door) Blues on Whyte Bluessmyth Churchill Square Every weekday (weather permitting): Breezy Brian Gregg (SW

Druid Irish Pub Open stage every Tue; with Chris Wynters; 9pm L.B.’s Tue Blues Jam with Ammar; 9pm-1am New West Hotel Double Highway NOLA Creole Kitchen Music House Chris Andrews; 6-9pm O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm Padmanadi Open stage every Tue; with Mark Davis; all ages; 7:3010:30pm R Pub Open stage jam every Tue; hosted

by Gary and the Facemakers; 8pm 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 Action News Team, The Greys, Carl For Breakfast; 9pm; $5

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: alternative retro and not-so-retro, electronic and Euro with Eddie Lunchpail; Wooftop: One Too Many Tuesdays with Rootbeard Brixx Bar Troubadour Tue: Comedy and Music Collide: Comedians J.P Fournier, Steve Shulte, Lawrence Fehle; music: Nick and Adam (Chasing Jones), Matchbreaker; hosted by Mark Feduk; 9pm; $8 Buddys DJ Arrow Chaser every 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

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Open mic every Wed (unless there's an Oilers game); no cover Fiddler's Roost Little Flower Open Stage every Wed with Brian Gregg; 8pm-12 HAVEN SOCIAL Club Open stage every Wed with Jonny Mac, 8:30pm, free HOOLIGANZ Open stage every Wed with host Cody Nouta; 9pm New West Hotel Double Highway Nisku Inn Troubadours and Tales: 1st Wed every month; with Tim Harwill, guests; 8-10pm NOLA Creole Kitchen Music House Chris Andrews; 6-9pm PAWN SHOP Grave, Blood Red Throne, Pathology and Gigan; 8pm; $22 at Blackbyrd 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) ; meeting featuring Ian Porteous' band performing Bill Monroe tunes, no cover Red Piano Bar Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 Second Cup–89 Ave Rick Mogg (country) Second Cup–Mountain Equipment Open mic every Wed; 8-10pm Starlite Room Junior Boys, Young Galaxy; $21 at Blackbyrd Winspear Centre Paul Brandt, High Valley; 7:30pm (show); $49/$75/$99; Up From The Ashes: a benefit for Slave Lake

DJs BANK ULTRA LOUNGE Rev'd Up Wed: with DJ Mike Tomas upstairs; 8pm BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: RetroActive Radio: Alternative '80s and '90s, post punk, new wave, garage, Brit, mod, rock and roll with LL Cool Joe; 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 Wednesdays 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; 4pm3am; no cover NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed Starlite Room Wild Style Wed: Hip-Hop; 9pm TEMPLE Wild Style Wed: Hip hop open mic hosted by Kaz and Orv; $5

SEX // HIGHWAY TO HELL-O, NURSE

For those about to rock ... Capital City Burlesque salutes AC/DC

Ladies ... I don't usually get Thunderstruck this quickly

Sat, Sep 10 (9 pm) Capital City Burlesque The Starlite Room, $16

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aying homage to AC/DC is no easy task. With nearly 40 years of history behind the band, including 16 albums and some of the most famous rock anthems in pop culture history, the towering giants of rock are a lot to live up to. But when Capital City Burlesque takes on the challenge, Donna Ball has the perfect way to honour her rock 'n' roll heroes.

"I'm going to set my boobs on fire!" she laughs. "I've always wanted to do that."

Ball and Capital City Burlesque cofounder Kim Rackel have a shared appreciation for the legendary heavy metal group, and have been discussing how they might incorpo-

rate their love for the band into one of their own shows for years. With Ball preparing to relocate to the UK, the AC/DC-themed burlesque is the ideal send-off—a final farewell from the rest of the dancers as they make plans to continue performing in her absence.

Preparing to mount the rock show of their dreams has proven a daunting task. The girls are used to hand-making all their own customized costumes—already a challenge with a troupe of 14 dancers—but paying tribute to the extravagant heavy metal style of AC/DC has demands far beyond a typical burlesque performance.

"AC/DC has the whole trucker Highway to Hell thing going on, so the amount of time we spend in the hard-

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ware store matches the amount of time we spend in the fabric store at this point," Ball says. "Good times sorting through truck parts.

"I think this is also the most extensive choreography we've ever done, and some of the more elaborate costumes," she adds. "You can't just get away with doing normal burlesque outfits, you have to make it fit in. But AC/DC is fun to do because it goes so well with burlesque: the idea of mixing and matching things that don't necessarily belong ... Burlesque can be whatever you want it to be at this point in time. Anything goes."

This willingness to experiment beyond the expected characteristics of burlesque showcases Capital City's creativity, but Ball is still careful to balance the traditional and unconvention-

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al aspects of the performance, noting that typical burlesque fans might not necessarily like AC/DC, and vice versa.

They are, however, pulling out all the

not just '80s rocker outfits and big crazy banger hair. It's a tribute, but it's definitely still burlesque."

With a rock 'n' roll light show, a live

I'm going to set my boobs on fire! I've always wanted to do that. stops for their own rock show, combining it with an elaborate light set-up and a live band to back up their own interpretations of AC/DC's catalogue.

"I think we bring clever things to AC/DC songs. We have oompa loompas, we have some Marie Antoinettestyle gowns that we're using, we have little firecracker outfits—it's a play on AC/DC songs, which are actually quite fun," Ball explains. "You can find a lot to do with AC/DC songs, so it's

band, and yes, the possibility of some pyrotechnics, the rock show is ready to begin, but still in its own cheeky burlesque fashion.

"We have the rock 'n' roll lights and we have confetti," Ball says, "but I think the most wonderful rock and roll thing we're going to be doing is 14 girls highkicking at the front of the Starlite stage.

That's what I'm most excited about."

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For us, by us

Feminist pornography is a growing sub-genre

Spreading the message is more of a pleasure than you might think

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eminist Porn. That phrase may seem like an oxymoron. In fact, a quick search on Wikipedia will present you with 11 logical, reasonable feminist arguments for why porn is the bane of the fairer sex. A quick scan of what's available behind the beaded curtains at what's left of your local video stores probably won't provide much of a case for the existence of pornography made by and for smart, sexy women. And it's even more difficult to understand what could possibly be feminist about the DVD stock fading under bad fluorescent lighting in your nearest windowless porn shop.

Feminism and porn don't exactly have a sexy history together; while they have had their cuddly moments, there are instances when they are completely incompatible. For the most part, feminist criticisms of pornography and the porn industry are obvious. The industry is largely run by fantastically rich white men and employs the bodies of women and men, a patriarchal heirarchy if there ever was one. Mainstream pornography is made to titillate men, and porn's assumptions about what turns men on can be problematic. Industrycreated porn almost exclusively features actors, especially female actors, with genetically and surgically perfected bodies unrealistic for the majority of people, and contributes to the unattainable standard of beauty our culture perpetuates.

Many feminist porn critics such as Gail Dines, author of Pornography: The Production and Consumption of Inequality, have publically declared porn to be overwhelmingly harmful to women. Sex-positive feminists who believe that sexual freedom and equality are essential components of equality, provide a contrasting opinion to Dines and other critics, however.

Feminists such as Annie Sprinkle, Tristan Taormino, Betty Dodson and Carol Queen argue that though some pornography is harmful and degrading, that doesn't mean that all porn CONTINUED ON PAGE 43 >>

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3) All About Anna Directed by Jessica Nilsson

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5) The Gift Directed by Candida Royalle

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Falling down the peephole Is porn driving film technology ... and more?

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n April 15, a movie opened in Hong Kong that promptly beat Avatar for the top-grossing Friday debut ever in the city, bagging HK$2.79 million in a day and grossing over HK$40-million (US$5-million) in its first two months.

The movie? 3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy, a dimension-bulging, often sadistic and violent (including rape and dismemberment) take on the erotic novel The Carnal Prayer Mat. Although not quite the virgin entry in our new 3D era's pornmovieverse (a South Korean skinflick beat it to screens

by six months), 3D Sex and Zen certainly won't be the last to try tri-dimensional titillation. 3D's pushed by Hollywood studios because it's impossible to pirate (so far); Tinseltown's fearful of suffering the music-industry's burned, leaked and fileshared fate. Still, the technology may find its greatest consumer success in porn, where visual augmentation of certain assets is always a double-D plus.

But what if technology isn't on top of porn, but porn is riding and driving technology? That's the contention of Toron-

the naked truth

tonian Patchen Barss' recent book The Erotic Engine. Barss argues that, to a great extent, the development of nearly every form of recent mass communication was pushed out of the shadows and into the light by smut-seekers.

Super-8 projectors shot into use in the '60s because they proved popular in frat-houses for screening nudie movies. Polaroids developed insta-nudes.

The desire for porn-watching privacy at home, far from seedy adult theatres, pushed the cheaper, more convenient VHS videotape format and started sell-

excerpts from our 2011 sex survey

It’s Amateur Night at the strip club (remember there are male strip clubs too) ... You: • I am more burlesque than stripper • Not interested in public nudity for sexual purposes or excitation—this is what's wrong with our concept of public nudity in this country. More interested in nudity as a freedom from attachment to clothing and a right.

• I think it would be fun, but wouldn't do it because I know that it would upset my boyfriend.

• Why would I be in a male strip club, amateur night or not?

• If I was stripping I'd expect to be paid. Amateur nights are free acts for club owners.

• If I did amateur night I would provide a great performance/dance, and would have wicked music that I really wanted to let loose to. I wouldn't show my cookie, but I would show off my ta tas with pride.

• I've worked hard for the body I have so I am proud to show it off.

• I'm hairy as fuck, so I might have to hit up some waxing before I get on stage.

• I thought I was darn good.

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ing VCRs. Skipping quickly to favourite sex-scenes made DVD players popular.

The pay-per-view channelverse expanded after showing skinflicks in hotel rooms. Dirty-home-moviemakers directed the market for the camcorder in the '90s.

The demand for less commercial smut and even more private consumption and sharing of porn fuelled web engines until the Internet exploded. Mobile communications were pushed by porn.

VoIP met a demand for dirty talk. Lusting eyes led to interactive TV and videophones. Pop-up windows and spam?

Thank sex sites. Online transactions are safer today because web-porn distributors had to chastity-belt their security.

Webcams took off because of people taking things off. And the haptic devices (touch- and texture-sensitive) now being developed by porn-makers may soon be used to transmit, across the world, hugs from a father to his daughter.

You could say that the more things change, the more they're still about sex. After all, the Victorian-era explosion in print saw an explosion in printed porn—pornographers' awareness of the popularity of erotic paintings and novels like Fanny Hill surely horsewhipped the 19th-century boom in both adult and non-adult photos, magazines and newspapers.

But have we, these 21st-century digital days, been dishonest with ourselves about porn slipping so casually into bed with film and film technology?

And what if there's not only a seamier feedback loop between art and porn in general—with art often paving the low-way for porn to push its limits— but it's a loop that usually ends up hanging women for display? And what if porn is at the heart of more than just our technology?

en's figures. Poetry used the technique of "blazon" to cut up its female subjects into manageable parts. TV and cinema continue to fetishize the female form.

French critic Roland Barthes even intellectualized the tradition with his essay "The Face of Garbo," cryptically elaborating on but never criticizing the fan-male attention paid to the actress: "Garbo offered to one's gaze a sort of Platonic Idea of the human creature, which explains why her face is almost sexually undefined, without however leaving one in doubt."

Hitchcock's Psycho, with its artfully voyeuristic shots of a man cutting into a naked woman in the shower, came out just a few months after Michael Powell's Peeping Tom in England, where a man serially murders women while recording their terror on his handheld movie camera.

Psycho, a hit, cemented Hitchcock's stature; Peeping Tom, a flop, sank Powell's career in the UK. But both are now considered classics (Martin Scorsese was especially influenced

by Powell's film). Was Peeping Tom simply too disturbingly honest about some men's violently lustful gaze?

It wasn't long before B-movies and porn began pushing the envelope that Hitchcock and Powell had opened. A decade later, slasher films had nightieclad sorority sisters being slaughtered by masked men and porn had a new on-screen sex-act, Deep Throat, for eager middle-class audiences to watch (Scorsese and Brian De Palma admitted seeing the movie).

These days, unsimulated sex and porn stars have come over into art films.

There's an increasingly fluid exchange between porn and Hollywood even as porn has also, according to Barss and others, been driving how we see what

Classical sculpture fawned over wom-

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we see.

Our discomfort with admitting how much our private pleasures are pushing our public media may have to do with our now un-protectable sense of what's "adult"—the Internet still seems too wide-open to abuse by and abuse of children (surfing 18+ sites, sex and violence clips online for all to see, sexual predators, etc.). The Internet's both too public (easily accessible) and too private (any user can watch almost any content on the sly, then delete the evidence).

But, whether we want to talk truthfully about it or not, the Porndora's box of technology's been opened. Porn's so readily available now, the suddenly old-school porn-movie-making industry's hoping 3D flicks, like Sex and Zen, will raise its

flagging fortunes. And the influences of porn are everywhere—because so much TV and film are trying to assault us with desire and need. Porn's visual techniques (soft-focus, catchphrases, clichéd conventions, in-your-face action, money shots) are used to have us fetishize houses for sale, salivate over food being cooked and eaten, admire athletes' bodies grunting and groaning, and much more.

Art and erotica were secretly kissing cousins for a long time, but then came advertising to make things fully up-front and sexual. Now, in these globalization days, the pornification of visual media, from content-delivery to product-placement, from how we see to what we see, has climaxed in an endlessly orgasmic opportunity for the most lascivious, lusting, tireless conqueror of them all—capitalism.

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the naked truth

excerpts from our 2011 sex survey

When is the last time someone saw you naked? (your pets don’t count) • I was helping a friend with benefits installing something on her computer. We had to wait for a long download, so I said, "Sex?", she said "Sure!". It was the first time we'd had sex in a bed in quite a while.

• I was changing out of my corset in my co-worker's office. She looked away politely for most of it but I'm sure she caught a glimpse • I was naked on my 10th floor balcony having a cigarette and someone yelled "Put some clothes on!"

• Sexy couch times. The couch isn't sexy. But we were.

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must be villified. As Annie Sprinkle once said "The answer to bad porn isn't no porn, it's to try and make porn better." Feminist pornographers do just that: work within the confines of the industry to create porn that challenges barriers of equality.

So what exactly is feminist porn? There's no one definition, but there seems to be some consensus on the following necessary features: first, the porn is made by women; second, the porn is made to appeal to women by emphasizing consensual sex, female pleasure and chemistry. Feminist porn can also challenge porn-typical gender stereotypes.

Feminist porn is not necessarily all vanilla, hetero sex; after all, feminists themselves are a diverse population with individual gender and sexual orientations and kinks. Making porn that appeals to women is not about turning porn into a romance novel. Feminist porn features people having graphic sex— what separates it from the mainstream is that it is filmed through the lens of equality.

And it's not just for women; feminist porn is for people who prefer to consume pornography free of glamorized and sexualized degradation and violence, and that demographic often includes men.

The importance of feminist porn lies in its acknowledgement of self-determined sexuality, both in the sex it portrays and the sexual desires it responds to in its audience. Feminist porn strives to portray sexual activities beyond the heteronormative standard in a positive, erotic light. Characters and arch-

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types are diverse and varied, and real pleasure is the ideal. This porn genre strives to give its audience the eroticism of real sexuality: intense, spontaneous sexual play between consenting partners. Sometimes it's rough, painful or even violent, but it's never

The importance of feminist porn lies in its acknowledgement of self-determined sexuality, both in the sex it portrays and the sexual desires it responds to in its audience ... Characters and archtypes are diverse and varied, and real pleasure is the ideal.

non-consensual or not enjoyed. The naked, human honesty that feminist pornographers present to us is the intimacy of sexual partners rarely captured by mainstream porn, which by contrast presents more emphasis on the sex acts themselves leading to a dehumanization of porn actors.

A healthy enjoyment of watching pornography, whether alone, with a partner or a cadre of sexy, naked people can be difficult to reconcile with strong feminist beliefs. But thanks to the existence of feminist porn and the dedicated work of a lot of sexy people, Feminist porn offers porn-lovers a product that with help get them off on equality, diversity and pleasure.

Kristi Coleman // kristi@vueweekly.com

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SEX // DIY PORN

DIY porn tips How to maximize your wild side N

owadays everyone has a camera, and making a naughty movie on your iPhone on a lazy Sunday afternoon can be a great way to have some sexy fun and produce a lusty memento. Here are some tips to help you make a sexy video of your own that you can treasure (or at least stand to watch a few times).

Kristi Coleman // kristi@vueweekly.com

2) Use eye contact intelligently

3) Be aware of your tape's existence

4) Flaunt your good side

5) Dress your best

Camera location is key to an erotic exposé. It should either be manned by one of the participating parties or placed somewhere secure where it will capture the action from a straighton-to-downward angle.

Eye contact with the camera should reflect eye contact with your partner(s).

If your partner's eyes are behind the camera, looking at the camera is intimate, and intimacy in amateur is what makes it hot!

Talk with your partner(s) and determine (a) who will hold the tape and (b) when, how and under what terms the tape will be destroyed. When in doubt, burn after viewing

Remember that this tape is for you, and you are your own worst critic. If you love your butt but hate your stomach, keep your stomach out of view and your butt featured prominently

Wear clothes that make you feel sexy and accentuate all the parts of your body you love. When you feel sexy you will act sexy.

6) Perform

7) Set the scene

8) When in doubt, Vaseline

9) Invisible camera

10) Don't script, do storyboard

Give your best sexual performance: make sexy noises, be enthusiastic and unleash your inner porn star

Figure out where you will be filming and tidy up, throw in a few extra pillows and prepare all your props.

You don't want to run in and out of the shot grabbing your rope, nipple clamps, condoms, etc.

Can't handle the less-than-flattering details picked up by modern HD cameras? Put some plastic wrap over the lens and smear some Vaseline over the plastic wrap to blur out any small imperfections that you don't want to catch on tape

Pretend the camera isn't there, but remember that it is. Your sexual activity with your lover is the primary focus of your film, but maintain awareness of the camera to avoid capturing any untimely confessions, eye-rolling or other things that will cause more laughs than moans.

Don't script your sex scene; part of the fun of amateur porn is the spontaneity and sexy improv. But do have a general idea of what you want to do before you film it so you don't capture your inevitable "What do we do now?" moment on film.

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COMMENT >> ALT SEX

More the merrier

More people are coming out as polyamorous From the time we are toddlers, in they may have always been doing that you are open about your mulevery fairy tale and every love song, things. As the taboos fall away, open tiple relationships and that everyone we hear the same story: the story of discussion ensues. People have always knows and agrees. "I don't think I've how we will find "the one." The been non-monogamous, we now ever gotten the same answer twice idea of one person, one soulhave the societal freedom to as to why people are interested in or mate is so ubiquitous in our be more open about it." practising polyamory. The reasons run culture that it's taken for Susan Larcombe who the gamut: feminist or anti-oppressive om eekly.c w e granted that this is what teaches workshops on statements against ownership of anu v @ brenda a d we all want. But what if polyamory and is poly herother person; loving partners with n e Br er you fall in love with many? self, agrees. "As more people very different social or sexual needs; Kerb What if it feels right to love hear about polyamory, I think past histories of being controlled by more than one at a time? Turns out, there are definitely more people expartners; diverging interests; wanting many Edmontonians are finding out Less and less people are relying on the nuclear they're not the only ones who love more than one. family as the model of how they shape their I used to hear about polyamory only relationships. They're taking a 'whatever works' in quiet conversations with the occaapproach, and non-monogamy's growth can be sional person who "confessed" to me partially attributed to that. that they had a few partners or an open relationship. Now I hear from poly people all the time. Is it becomploring it who might not otherwise a more solid family base for raising ing more common, or are people just have done so a decade ago." children; sharing resources ... the list more comfortable being open about goes on." it? Kevin Cutting, a member and orgaI admire polyamorists who are open Whatever the reasons, it's definitely nizer of Polyamory Edmonton thinks about their relationships. North Amergaining acceptance in our city and it's a bit of both. ican culture places a very high value across our country. The Supreme "Less and less people are relying on on monogamy. Anyone who challengCourt of BC is actually hearing arguthe nuclear family as the model of es it seems to be quickly judge and ments against section 239 of the crimhow they shape their relationships. condemned—witness the backlash inal code which makes it illegal for They're taking a 'whatever works' apagainst Oprah Winfrey several years Canadians to live in conjugal relationproach, and non-monogamy's growth ago for simply agreeing with one of ships with more than one person at a can be partially attributed to that. On her guests that an open relationship time whether they are legally married the other hand," he says, "you have could be a healthy one. or not. If s.239 is ruled unconstitutionmore people being open about how "People think that it can't work over al, it would be a big step towards the the long term," Cutting says. "'Outsidrecognition of polyamory as a legitiers' see their poly friends go through mate relationship and family style. On dramatic breakups and seem to think the homefront, poly Edmontonians that it's symptomatic of polyamory, now have a group for meeting, socialwhen instead it's usually just the inizing and talking openly about their dividuals involved not meshing well. lives, called Polyamory Edmonton.

If the same standards were applied to Their meetups are posted on their Fathose who practised monogamy, we cebook page. V would see the same issues."

Brenda Kerber is a sexual health educaLarcombe has encountered a lot of tor who has worked with local not-formisconceptions about polyamorists, profits since 1995. She is the owner of that it's just cheating with a differthe Edmonton-based, sex-positive adult ent name and that you'll sleep with toy boutique the Traveling Tickle Trunk. anyone. She says polyamory means

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Phoning it in

A vacationing Dan offers up letters from the Savage Love phone app Dear readers: I'm on vacation. The ones. Many of the homophobes I meet questions and answers in this week's display dominant behavior to each column are three recent instalments other: squabbling with friends, getting of the "Savage Love Letter of the Day," drunk and fucking with each other. which folks with the SLAPP—the SavFrom my hippie "all-is-love" perspecage Love app for iPhone or Android— tive, this seems more gay than just bereceive daily via the miracle of moding nice, sensitive and caring. ern technology. If you have the SLAPP, To break it down: sometimes I feel you've already read these quesgay. But usually it is only around tions and second-guessed my E insecure homophobes who I SAVAG answers. Sorry about that. If don't consider physically you don't have the SLAPP, beautiful at all! I have been .com weekly e you're not getting your full around a lot of gay people. u v @ ve avagelo weekly dose of Savage Love, s I worked a promotion for n a D and I'm sorry about that, too. a pride festival and a liquor Savage promotion for a gay bar. I don't I have always been attracted to womfeel gay around gay people! en. But I have had experiences with I feel very frustrated, Dan, because I other males as well. All fondling. I have don't feel confused at all, but I feel like at times found the penis erotic, but it I confuse people. does not consume me. I enjoy women Damn Acronyms Really and prefer them in every respect. I get Evade pegged, so to speak, as being gay quite a lot. I recognize why: I flirt with men.

I should probably reread your letter I like being nice and making people before I bang out a response, DARE, happy. I think some guys confuse my but that might prompt me to throw polite "I love everybody" hippie vibe for my laptop, myself or both right out my being willing to suck their dicks. the open window I'm sitting next to.

I am a pretty boy, so perhaps this So forgive me for dashing this off: yes, causes confusion. My eyes are femiDARE, you confuse people. And you're nine, I have long lashes, I make eye doing it on purpose, pretty little hipcontact with everyone. Also, I notice pie, as you damn well know. But allow that I tend to display "mate poaching me to unpack your bullshit for you behavior," meaning I tend to flirt with just in case in you damn well don't ... women who are in relationships, and You pursue women who have boyI have been with quite a few women friends and flirt with men who have who are in relationships, or married, issues because you're an egotistical and these "committed" women are oflittle narcissist who derives sadistic ten attracted to me. pleasure from causing erotic chaos I guess I am just a flirtatious guy. I wherever you go. When you bed consider myself a very sensual person. women who have boyfriends or husAlso: I act more gay around homobands, it proves that you're just as hot phobes, to the point where even I start as you think you are; when you flirt to question myself. Yet I know I love with and unnerve straight-identified women. I enjoy being with women and homophobes, it proves that you're I am happy with women. It dawns on just as hot as you think you are. But me that these accusers—the men who you don't allow yourself to flirt with think I'm gay—might be the insecure good-looking dudes, DARE, because

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you're not secure enough in your sexuality to risk batting your eyelashes at a guy who you might actually want to go to bed with.

I'm sorry if all of that sounds harsh, pretty little hippie, and there are worse things you could do than be a player and a prick tease. (And, hey, I'm all for fucking with conflicted closet cases.)

But at some point you're going to have to admit—at least to yourself— that your "I love everybody" routine is a disguise, and you get off on creating confusion, and you're a narcissist (perhaps with cause) with a sadistic streak (not that there's anything wrong with a sadistic streak, properly channeled).

You're the satyr, DARE, not the faun.

Own it.

I'm 26, bi, female, and my idea of a successful long-term relationship lands

Look, kiddo, you might wanna think of your romantic history this way: every man you've been with so far either hasn't wanted the type of relationship you're offering or hasn't wanted you.

That doesn't mean there aren't men out there who do want the type of relationship you're offering and/or you, only that you haven't met one yet.

And that's perfectly normal for someone your age. Keep calm, carry on, and push that kink conversation back to the third date.

I'm a 27-year-old straight guy. This girl I work with is everything I want in a partner. We've been flirting at work and on Facebook, and it's getting to the point where one of us has to make a move. But she's already got a boyfriend. I've been the guy who gets cheated on, and I won't do that to

You pursue women who have boyfriends and flirt with men who have issues because you're an egotistical little narcissist who derives sadistic pleasure from causing erotic chaos wherever you go.

somewhere between monogamish— awesome word!—and completely nonmonogamous. Basically, I want a primary partner but I enjoy me some women, and a threesome sounds like a great birthday present. I've tried telling potential partners about my kinks on the first date. At first, they're all into it—I'm every dude's dream, right?— but eventually the men all change their minds about wanting that type of relationship. What am I doing wrong?

Apparently NOT Every Man's Dream So basically, ANEMD, you're 26 years old and you're still single.

Where do I send flowers?

someone else. Also, I've recently been promoted and I'm now her immediate superior. She's a shit employee: lazy, rude to customers, and last week I had to call her on a really basic mistake.

Despite these complications, I want to make a real move on her. But how do I get around these issues?

Frustrated In Sydney

Also: my naturally suspicious nature has me wondering if she didn't see your promotion coming—the one that made you her immediate supervisor— and the flirting always was and still is an insurance policy that protects her from being fired. Right now, you're not going to fire her because you want to fuck her, FIS, and once you've fucked her, you won't be able to fire her because she'll be able to accuse you of sexual harassment. See how that works?

My advice: go to your boss and tell him that a little innocent coequal-coworker-to-coequal-coworker flirtation has been queered by your promotion, and it would be a sensitive situation even if the other employee was a good worker. But she's a shit worker, and if she doesn't shape up, someone is going to have to fire her.

And that someone can't be you.

Ask your boss to place this girl under someone else, FIS, and after this girl's new immediate supervisor fires her, you'll quickly find out if she was ever really interested in being "placed" under you at all. V Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage.

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19) "Don't be angry with the rain," counseled author Vladimir Nabokov. "It simply does not know how to fall upward." I advise you to apply that principle to a host of phenomena. Don't get all knotted up about any force of nature that insists on being itself, and don't waste your time trying to figure out how to disobey the law of gravity.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20) Where will you be in the latter half of 2016? Now would be an excellent time to meditate about questions like those. You're likely to have a good bit of intuitive foresight in the coming days. You will have extra power to dream up potent visions for your best possible future and plant them in the fertile bed of your subconscious mind.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20) You're close to getting permanent immunity from hell. Take it as a metaphor if you like, but consider the possibility that you will receive the equivalent of a "Get out of jail free" card that forever guarantees you exemption from the worst of the nightmare realms. I'm not saying you will be forever free of all suffering. But if you simply keep doing the smart things you've been doing lately, you will tap into a reservoir of stabilizing poise so that "the devil" will have no further claim on your soul.

Across 1 Amazement 4 One A in AMA 8 "Peachy keen!"

13 It's nothing, really 14 "That's right" 16 Person in the delivery business?

17 551, to Nero 18 "Earth Girls Are Easy" star Davis 19 Rest in a nest 20 What escorts are usually paid to do?

23 France's longest river 24 Samson's love 28 Agreement between nations to stretch borders further?

32 Free plaything that's actually in the Toy Hall of Fame 33 Dietary restriction for some 34 President pro ___ 37 "Not ___ care" 39 Last mo. with just 30 days 40 Star of "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," in tabloids 43 ___! at the Disco 46 Birds who get busy right up to April?

51 Actress Dawson 52 Like horror movie music 53 Cockney and French, when I'm entertaining people at parties?

57 Up and about 60 Spaghetti western composer Morricone 61 "Just as I suspected!"

62 Tea at the movies 63 Kidney-related 64 Tom's "Toy Story" costar 65 Author Fannie 66 "___ Luck Chuck" (2007 romcom) 67 Summer, in St. Tropez Down 1 "Let's go!" to Speedy Gonzalez 2 "Laugh and the world laughs with you" poet Ella Wheeler ___ 3 Bring out 4 Add to 5 Fox News anchor Smith 6 Stadium where Jim Bunning pitched a perfect game 7 Former senator Sam 8 Electric shaver company 9 Dialect in 1990s news 10 "It was 20 years ___ today..."

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11 Detmer and Cobb 12 Mich. neighbor 15 "Papa" of classical music 21 Miner's finds 22 Definition 25 Occasion of interest?

26 "Alice's Restaurant" singer Guthrie 27 One way to get the big picture 29 Putdown from The Fonz 30 "___ liebe dich" 31 Animal that looks half-giraffe, half zebra 34 Pre-1917 Russian ruler 35 ___ Domani (wine brand) 36 Apples, often 38 M&M hue 41 Charge for some mobile phone usage 42 Work with what you have 44 Frigid 45 Canadian prairie residents 47 Loom (over) 48 Intricately decorated 49 Hip 50 Bagel variety 54 Blood type, for short 55 The A of A.D. 56 Cremona closing 57 TV character who ate cats 58 Salt, in Quebec 59 "I've come ___ decision" ©2011 Jonesin' Crosswords

LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22) In "The Blood," an episode of the TV show Seinfeld, George tries to go for "the Trifecta": eating a pastrami sandwich and watching TV while having sex. His girlfriend isn't pleased about it, though, so the triple-intense pleasure doesn't materialize in the way George had hoped. But something akin to this scenario could very well work for you in the coming week. You will have a knack for stirring up more fun and pleasure that usual through the inventive use of multitasking.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22) In Wiccan circles, a "familiar" is a supernatural entity or magic animal that serves as a spirit ally. This would be an excellent time for you to develop a closer relationship with a familiar or any other uncanny helper. You have more hidden power at your disposal than you realize, and it's a propitious time to call on it.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22) On Wheel of Fortune not too long ago, a highly intuitive contestant solved the puzzle with just one letter unveiled. The winning answer was "I've got a good feeling about this." You've got a similar aptitude these days—an ability to foresee how things are ultimately going to develop simply by extrapolating from a few clues. I encourage you to make liberal use of your temporary superpower.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22) You have about 100 billion neurons in your brain. That also happens to be the approximate number of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy. Coincidence? I think not. As the mystic dictum reminds us, "As above, so below." The better you know yourself, the more likely you are to understand how the world works. I urge you to be alert for concrete evidence of this principle, Libra. Your week will be successful if you make it your background meditation.

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SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21) "By the year 2021, the complete gratification of sexual desires will be as easy and stress-free as drinking a glass of water." That was one of 25 prophecies delivered to me by a polite, well-spoken madman I met in a cafe in Earls Court, London back in 1990. Sixteen of his other predictions have come true so far (like "America will have a black president by 2010," "60-year-old women will be able to give birth"), so I'm thinking this one could turn out to be accurate as well. I'm happy to announce that the coming weeks are shaping up as one of your closest approximations to the supposed 2021 levels of erotic bliss.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21) The beauty contests in Saudi Arabia don't judge women on the basis of their physical appearance. A recent winner, Aya Ali al-Mulla, was crowned "Queen of Beautiful Morals" without ever revealing the face and form shrouded beneath her black head-to-toe garment. Instead, her excellence emerged during a series of psychological and social tests that evaluated her strength of character and service to family and society. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you could and should be a paragon of moral beauty in the coming week.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19) Filip Marinovich calls his poetry book And If You Don't Go Crazy I'll Meet You Here Tomorrow. I'm borrowing that title for this horoscope. There is an excellent chance you will be able to keep our appointment. The astrological omens suggest you'll call on reserves of wisdom that haven't been accessible before. You're also primed to be nimble in your dealings with paradoxes, which, again, should keep you from descending into fairytale-style madness. But even if you do take a partial detour into the land of kooky, I think it will have an oddly healing effect on you. See you next time!

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18) There's no better way to inform you of your task right now than to cite Hexagram 18 of the I Ching. The title of the oracle is "Work on What Has Been Spoiled." Here's an interpretation by translator Richard Wilhelm, with a little help from me: "What has been spoiled through human mistakes can be made good again through human work. It is not immutable fate that has caused the state of corruption, but rather the abuse of human freedom. Toil that is done to correct the situation bodes well, because it is in harmony with cosmic potentials. Success depends on diligent deliberation followed by vigorous action."

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20) Breaking the rules could be a boon for your closest relationships if it's done out of deep caring and not out of anger or boredom.

Can you commit to that high standard? It's prime time to shake up and reinvigorate stale concepts about togetherness. You will never know how much more interesting your intimate alliances can be unless you put that vivacious imagination of yours to work. Would you be willing to buy tickets for a joint excursion to the frontier? Take a collaborative risk you'd never want to face alone? V

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nybrook 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 DJ Arrow Chaser; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Sat: Feel the rhythm with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm EDMONTON PRIME TIMERS (EPT) • Unitarian Church of Edmonton, 10804-119 St • A group of older gay men who have common interests meet the 2nd Sun, 2:30pm

Assisted Living Place, 11148-84 Ave • Home: Blends music, drama, creativity and reflection on sacred texts to energize you for passionate living • Every Sun 3-5pm Lotus Qigong • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu

Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association • Duggan Community Hall,

3728-106 St • 780.458.6352, 780.467.6093 • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

Organization for Bipolar Affective Disorder (OBAD) • Grey Nuns Hos-

pital, Rm 0651, 780.451.1755; Group meets every Thu 7-9pm • FREE outdoor movement!

Sherwood Park Walking Group + 50 • Meet inside Millennium Place, Sherwood

Place • Walk through Centennial Park, a cool down and stretch • Every Tue, 8:30am • $2/session (goes to the Alzheimer’s Society of Alberta) 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 Woven Wire Roll-Up • Penhold, near Red Deer • 403.444.3547 • Tear-down woven fence inhibiting wildlife movement • Sep 15, 10am3:30pm • Free Yoga in the Park • St Albert’s Kingswood Park • Sep 10, 1-2:30pm • $20; register at 780.454.0701, 221 (drop-ins are welcome)

EPLC Fellowship Pagan Study Group • Pride Centre of Edmonton • Free year

long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome FLASH Night Club • 10018-105 St • 780.969.9965 • Thu Goth + Industrial Night: Indust:real Assembly with DJ Nanuck; 10pm (door); no cover • Triple Threat Fridays: DJ Thunder • DJ Suco beats every Sat • E: vip@ flashnightclub.com GLBT sports and recreation • teamedmonton.ca • Badminton, Co-ed: St. Thomas Moore School, 9610-165 St • Badminton, Women's Drop-In Recreational: Oliver School Gym, 10227-118 St • Co-ed Bellydancing • Bootcamp: Lynnwood Elementary School, 15451-84 Ave; Mon, 7-8pm • Bowling: Ed's Rec Centre, WEM, Tue 6:45pm • Curling: Granite Curling Club; 780.463.5942 • Running: Every Sun morning • Spinning: MacEwan Centre, 109 Street and 104 Ave • Swimming: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St • Volleyball: Mother Teresa Elementary School at 9008-105A; Amiskiwaciy Academy, 101 Airport Rd • YOGA (Hatha): Free Yoga every Sun, 2-3:30pm; Korezone Fitness, 203, 10575-115 St 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 Illusions Social Club • The Junction, 10242-106St • groups.yahoo.com/group/edmonton_illusions • 780.387.3343 • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri every month, 8:30pm INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campus-based organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transidentified 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

LECTURES/Presentations INTRODUCTION TO TIBETAN MEDICINE • Alberta Avenue Hall, 9210-118 Ave • Presented by Amchi Kunga Chodak; hosted by Gaden Samten Ling Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Society • Sep 16, 7-9pm • Donation 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 • Sep: Fri, Sat, Sun

Love your Shoreline... Love your Community! • Hermitage Park Ponds •

780.863.4818 • Remove litter and make a positive difference in their community • Sep 17, 12-4pm • E: shoreline.cleanup.hpp@gmail.com PECHA KUCHA NIGHT • Myer Horowitz Theatre, U of A, 8900-114 St • PKN11 presented

by Edmonton’s NextGen; presentations on local ideas, projects and musings in the 20 slides x 20 second per slide format made popular worldwide by Klein Dytham Architecture. Music by DJ Blue Jay and a visual art showcase presented by the 3rd Annual Edmonton Timeraiser • Sep 14, 6:30pm (door), 7:30pm (presentations) • $9 (student)/$11 (adult) at TIX on the Square

Thinking and Acting Like a Region • Telus Centre, Rm 150, U of A, 112 St, 87 Ave • Panel discussion, an attempt to make sense of 'the regional' and suggest ways of cultivating regional culture • Sep 15, 7pm • Free

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Coming Events

All You Can Eat Yoga Retreat One Day Workshop!

Saturday, September 10th from 10am to 11:30 am Body Wisdom - Learn How 90 min. Intuitive Yogic principles unite mind and body in blissful awareness opening a space to be well!

Pre-register 780-488-1552 $20 Mon - Sat 10 am to 6pm (Studio: 5016 - 106 ave) ----------------------------------------Starting at Solis Wellness (5016 106 ave) Register for classes Sept 22- Dec 22 Intermediate Intuitive Yoga (5:45pm - 7:15pm) Beginner,Senior Intuitive Yoga (7:30pm - 9pm) www.youtube.com/user/ayceyoga ----------------------------------------Info: ayceyoga@gmail.com (780)909-WELL(9355)

Medical Marijuana Educational Seminar September 24th & 25th at Edmonton's Concordia University info at greenlineacademy.com

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Get Involved, make a difference!

Help remove harmful debris from our local waterways, join 1000's of like minded Canadians on September 17th, 2011 from noon to 4 at Hermitage Park Ponds.

For more info please contact: shoreline.cleanup.hpp@gmail.com

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www.peaceinthepark.weebly.com

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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

SPECIAL EVENTS AIDS Walk for Life • Churchill Sq, through downtown to the Legislature Bdg, back to the Square • Celebration–commemorate 20 years of community spirit and AIDS Walks for Life in

A day of sailing on Lake Wabamun

• Walamun Sailing Club • 780.892.3431 • For people with all levels and types of disabilities Canadian hosted by: Paraplegic Association (Alberta), the Disabled Sailing Association of Alberta, the Wabamun Sailing Club • Sep 17, 10am • Pre-register Doing Our PEACE • Providence Renewal Centre, 3005-119 St • CDPI Edmonton presents: Showcasing Edmonton, Peacemakers and Peace in Canada. On display The International Peace Pals Art Tour featuring artworks by students from 63 countries and St. James Edmonton Peace Art (6:30-7pm) • Sep 17, 7pm Kaleido Family Arts Festival • Arts on the Ave area, 118 Ave • kaleidofest.ca • Sep 9-11 Leonard Cohen Night • La Cité Francophone, 8627 rue Marie-Anne-Gaboury, 91 St • leonardcohennights.org • A celebration of the music and poetry of Leonard Cohen featuring interpretations of Cohen's work by Crystal Plamondon, Ido van der Laan, and Janaya Ellis of Souljah Fyah • Sep 17, 8pm • $30 at lcnight2011@gmail.com P3 – People. Passion. Purpose • The Agora, Community Centre, 2001 Sherwood Dr • 780.464.4242 • Volunteer Fair event • Sep 15, 1-7pm PEACE IN THE PARK • Heritage Amphitheatre, Hawrelak Park • peaceinthepark.weebly.com • United we jam! Presented by The Centre for Spiritual Living Edmonton • Sep 11, 11am-6pm • $25 (adv at TIX on the Square)/$30 (door) Success Tails/Edmonton BPCTE’s • Meet outside of Kinsmen Sports Centre • Educational canine evening to fight cancer • Sep 9, 7pm-8:30pm • Donation to Bark For Life for the Canadian Cancer Society TIBETAN BAZAAR • Alberta Avenue Hall, 9210-118 Ave • Items such as yak hair blankets, prayer wheels, mala rosaries and jewellery from Tibet, India and Nepal. The bazaar provides a sampling of Tibetan traditional food, meditation sessions, and slide shows • Sep 17-18, 10am-5pm • $5 /free (child under 12)

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Health Services

Medical Marijuana Educational Seminar September 24th & 25th at Edmonton's Concordia University info at greenlineacademy.com Lite 95.7 Community Scoop "Peace In The Park" is a music festival in Edmonton honoring the lives lost on 9-11 and to spread a common goal of peace.

Enjoy music, food and drinks from 11am until 6pm on September 11th near the Heritage Amphitheater.

For information visit:

Youth Intervention and Outreach Worker • iSMSS, U of A • 780.248.1971 •

Edmonton • Sep 18, 11am-3pm • Pre-register to walk, pledge, donate Blue Revue –Dirty Film Festival • Metro Cinema at the historic Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • metrocinema.org • Vue Weekly's 2nd Annual Blue Revue featuring fun and sexy DIY porn from Edmonton and across Canada • Sep 14, 7pm • $15 (adv)/$20 (door) at TIX on the Square, Blackbyrd Completing the Circle • Jubilee Auditorium • Community benefit featuring Sawyer Brown, Anna Beaumont, Krystle Dos Santos, Reddnation • Sep 16 • Tickets at TicketMaster; proceeds to The Christmas Bureau, Food Bank, iHuman Youth Society, Butterfly Transitions, Healing Society (BTAHS) CornFest 2011 • Beaverhills House Park • Free corn-on-the-cob and popcorn, 'Downtown in Bloom Awards' presentation; salsa music and dancing, and meet fellow downtown residents • Sep 17, 11:00am • $5 (membership renewal opportunity) Corn Maze • Garden Valley Rd, west of Edmonton • 780.288.0208 • edmontoncornmaze. ca • Open through to mid Oct • $10 (adult)/$8 (youth, 5-12)/free (under 5)

To place an ad Phone: 780.426.1996 / Fax: 780.426.2889 Email: classifieds@vueweekly.com

Lite 95.7 Community Scoop "The Great Canadian Hair Do" is another great event continuing the work of Terry Fox. On Saturday, September 10th at the Leduc Rec Centre, be one of the many who will lose some hair in one way or another, to raise money for cancer research.

For more information visit: www.terryfox.org

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the junction bar • 10242-106 St • 780.756.5667 • Free pool daily 4-8pm; Taco Tue: 5-9pm; Wing Wed: 5-9pm; Wed karaoke: 9pm12; Thu 2-4-1 burgers: 5-9pm; Fri steak night: 5-9pm; DJs Fri and Sat at 10pm LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408-124 St • edmlivingpositive.ca • 1.877.975.9448/780.488.5768 • Confidential peer support to people living with HIV • Tue, 7-9pm: Support group • Daily drop-in, peer counselling MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/ competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu Pride Centre of Edmonton • 9540-111 Ave, Norwood Blvd • 780.488.3234 • admin@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Daily: YouthSpace (Youth Drop-in): Tue-Fri: 3-7pm; Sat: 2-6:30pm • Men Talking with Pride: Support group for gay, bisexual and transgendered men to discuss current issues; Sun: 7-9pm • HIV Support Group: for people living with HIV/AIDS; 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm • Seniors Drop-In: Social/support group for seniors of all genders and sexualities to talk, and have tea; every Tue and Thu, 1-4pm • TTIQ: Education and support group for transgender, transsexual, intersexed and questioning people, their friends, families and allies; 2nd Tue each month, 7:30-9:30pm • Counselling: Free, short-term, solution-focused counselling, provided by professionally trained counsellors; every Wed, 6-9pm • Youth Movie: Every Thu, 6:30-8:30pm • Art Group: Drawing and sketching group for all ages and abilities; every Sat, 11am-2pm • 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; every Sat, 12-1pm • Youth Understanding Youth: LGBTQ youth under 25; Every Sat, 7-9pm 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 • A Non-profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured Woodys Video Bar • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Amateur Strip Contest; prizes with Shawana • Tue: Kitchen 3-11pm • Wed: Karaoke with Tizzy 7pm-1am; Kitchen 3-11pm • Thu: Free pool all night; kitchen 3-11pm • Fri: Mocho Nacho Fri: 3pm (door), kitchen open 3-11pm

(main foyer) • Lunch Hour Speakers Series: Solar Power & the Municipal Context • Sep 13

Volunteers Wanted

Special Olympics Edmonton Athletes & Volunteer Registration Day on Saturday, September 18th at Clarke Park (11000 Stadium Road) from 2:00pm 6:00pm.

Special appearances by Edmonton Eskimo players, cheer team and mascots.

For more info contact Lenny Andrichuk at 780-278-5563

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Volunteers Wanted

Terra Centre is seeking special event volunteers to assist with Bossy Mama Flaunt.

A variety of 2 to 4 hour shifts are available from 7am - 5pm on September 25th.

For more info please visit www.terraassociation.com or call 780-428-3772

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VICTIM SERVICES VOLUNTEER ADVOCATE Work in conjunction with the RCMP providing support to victims of crime & trauma in Strathcona County Contact Chelsea at 780-410-4331

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The Learning Centre Literacy Association is seeking volunteers tutors to help adults develop reading,writing and/or math skills.

Skills required: High School level reading/writing/math.

Abbottsfield Mall Centre Contact: Susan at 780-471-2598 sskaret@telus.net

The Learning Centre Literacy Association is seeking volunteers tutors to help adults develop reading,writing and/or math skills.

Skills required: High School level reading/writing/math.

Boyle Street Community Services Contact: Denis at 780-429-0675 dl.learningcentre@shaw.ca

Volunteers Wanted

Musicians Available

Experienced bass player looking to play with established band.

Between the ages of 35 and 55.

Call Tony 780-484-6806.

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Music Instruction

Experienced music teacher, piano or guitar. Beginner Books included, 40 min lessons.

Flexible Schedule or Reg Time each week.

Free consultation Call 780-487-5949

MODAL MUSIC INC. 780.221.3116 Quality music instruction since 1981.

Guitarist. Educator.

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chelsea boos // che@vueweekly.com

See you next tuesday It's not often you see vulvas in public. It is more common to find roughly drawn phalluses on bathroom stalls of bars and inside locker doors of high schools. This piece of street art, found along the Rails to Trails path toward the river valley, attacks the association that representations of genitalia are adolescent and immature. This stylized two-colour stencil was made with care and is deftly coloured in hues of pink and red.

The artist may be taking cues from eastern religions such as Hinduism. In India and other eastern countries, they refer to the vulva as the yoni, and pay tribute in public through festivals, sculpture and art. For many religions, this is a symbol of life, birth, creativity and fertility. It represents the goddess, and is worshipped in as many ways as there are cultures.

Even western culture, usually steeped in shame about the human body, has a history of placing figurative carvings of naked women displaying exaggerated vulvas. They are called Sheela na gigs and usually found on churches and castles in England, Ireland, France, Spain and throughout Europe. Their origin is in debate, but some theorize that they were vestiges of a pre-Christian tradition of fertility goddess worship, later incorporated into early Christian buildings. Others argue that statues are meant to protect from evil spirits.

Hopefully these little works of art have such protective powers, if only to reassure women walking through the trails, as the days grow shorter and the evenings become darker, that they are not alone. 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 local visual culture.

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