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Let's talk it out Lies. Malicious lies! You're with us, or you're with the child pornographers. Hyperbole and accusations mean it must be time to create some legislation in this country. On Tuesday it was discovered that the provincial PCs would be boycotting a breakfast held by the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association after the president, Linda Sloan, made some critical comments about the provincial budget. This created cross-partisan outcry that the AUMA was being bullied by the PCs, speak out of turn and you lose a comfy relationship with provincial ministers. Alison Redford's chief of staff contributed to the conversation via Twitter, calling Sloan's comments not just critical, but lies. Meanwhile, in the federal legislative house public safety minister Vic Toews decided to draw a very clear line defining the opposition to the Conservatives new bill to expand police surveillance on the web. Toews declared that anyone not in favour of the bill "can either stand with us or with the child pornographers." That's not a lot of territory to build a middle ground where debate can occur. And it's certainly not a starting point to make the case for the legislation itself. Boycotting breakfast, lines in the sand, slanderous tweeting, it's all in a day's work when trying to get your way, but

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it doesn't help to develop an actual conversation or start to create a solution to political problems. A well-placed angry comment can help draw attention to an issue. Politics is an emotional realm. NDP MP Pat Martin's no-holds barred tweet calling the Conservatives use of closure on the budget "a fucking disgrace" is a good example of legitimate outrage used to call attention to an issue that normally wouldn't be discussed. But refusing legitimate criticism in the House of Commons on a bill under discussion by characterizing opposition as being "with child pornographers" tends to put any criticism into a questionable light and shuts down important questions and debate on a contentious issue. The inflammatory language and dangerous accusations on both sides of the murky AUMA issue fail to create discussion about provincial funding priorities and instead just inflame hurt feelings and sore egos. Politics should be the meeting of ideas—opposing ideas, so of course anger can be involved—but there should be enough consideration for the opposing viewpoint to then actually create better legislation. Politicians often criticize the tactics of protesters who yell, or pie people in the face. Their advice might be taken more seriously if they weren't debating legislation with a pie in hand. V

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BUDGET FOR RESULTS

Save the Castle

Alberta Funeral Services Association has ended its contract with the provincial government. Due to government policy, children who die in care are buried in adult caskets, which AFSA states in a letter to Liberal MLA Laurie Blakeman, is inappropriate to the child and "insensitive to their caregivers and loved ones." Blakeman notes that religious considerations are currently not taken into account and the Speech from the

Throne promised new ways to reach out to vulnerable people. "If they are sincere about reaching out to vulnerable Albertans, they could start by giving vulnerable families some relief and closure when they lose a loved one," Blakeman says. The letter from AFSA states that funeral providers across the province have decided that change is needed and a new contract has been proposed to the Minister of Human Services and Alberta Seniors.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK “I’m disappointed and concerned that Enbridge is attempting to silence voices, especially from the riding that’s going to be most impacted—the North Coast. It appears that they don’t want to hear what’s actually happening in our riding, where it’s going to be all the risk and no benefits.” Protesters gathered at the legislature this past Valentine’s Day to protest logging in the Castle area. Over 170 people attended rallies in Calgary and Edmonton to protest logging by Spray Lakes Mills in Castle. The debate

over logging in Castle has been going on for over a year. Logging started in the area, designated a protected special place by the provincial government, on February 1 of this year.

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NEWS // H20

Water, water, everywhere

An honorary degree for the CEO of Nestlé causes international concern

ndira Samaraskera's goal when taking on the job of University of Alberta president was to make the institution internationally renowned—one of the top universities in the world by the year 2020. But the current international uproar over the granting of an honourary degree to the chairman of Nestlé is probably not what Samaraskera had in mind. On February 8 it was announced Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, CEO of the Nestlé Group, would be the recipient of an honorary degree from the University of Alberta—an honour that has been described as the university's highest. The degree is viewed as problematic by national and international advocates of water due to Nestlé's promotion of baby formula in less economically developed countries and Brabeck's controversial advocacy of the commodification of water. "It's undeserved kudos," says Mike Brady of Baby Milk Action in the UK. "We think it would bring the university into disrepute knowing that Nestlé will use it [the degree] to divert criticism." Baby Milk Action has worked for decades to bring attention to the problematic ways in which Nestlé markets baby formula in countries like Pakistan. Despite the sustained boycott campaign against Nestlé since the '70s, the company refuses to acknowledge the problems with its marketing practices, which violate international standards developed by the

World Health Assembly. "Nestlé has been has been found to be one of the foremost boycotted companies on the planet," says Brady. In addition to the baby formula controversy, Nestlé has also had to pay settlements for misleading advertising when it claimed its Poland Springs brand was "pure spring water," and has been challenged by American jurisdictions in Michigan, Colorado, Maine, California, Florida and Pennsylvania for targeting small communities and withdrawing massive amounts of water from aquifers for bottled water. In 2003 Food and Water Watch estimates Nestlé withdrew seven billion litres of water in the US. Although both the president and chancellor of the University of Alberta have so far refused to give interviews on the subject, the institution released a statement on its blog Colloquy, stating the choice of Brabeck for an honorary degree is due to his "decision to use his exceptional position within the global

corporate sector, as Chairman of Nestlé, to engage government and business leaders on the critical issues of water resource scarcity and security." The Council of Canadians, however, has stated that it is this advocacy that is the problem. "Brabeck and Nestlé have been very active in advocacy," says Scott Harris, the prairies regional organizer for the Council of Canadians. Harris states that Nestlé has spent millions on advocacy and that, "The end result of advocacy is to move towards a situation where water is treated as a commodity where it is bought and sold and traded and profited off of." The largest player in the bottled water market, Nestlé owned 30.6 percent of the US market in 2006 with sales of $9.93 billion across its 27 brands of water. Brabeck has been quite public in his advocacy of private water markets as the solution to water scarcity. In 2005, he stated in the documentary We Feed the World that the idea that water is a human right—recognized as such

by the UN in 2010—is extreme, saying, "Water is food and should have a market value." In November of last year, Brabeck was appointed to the World Bank's water resources group, an organization whose goal is to "transform the water sector" and includes partnerships with Coca-Cola and Veolia, a private water operator.

Water is a human right—it's too important to be left to the market.

Brabeck will receive the honorary degree on March 1 and participate in a presentation the same day with three other water advocates who will also receive honorary degrees. His co-recipients are Steve Hrudy, an academic working on issues of safe drinking water, and Sunita Narain, a vocal water advocate in India who has successfully lobbied corporations and governments to act on issues of environmentalism. To have three honorary degrees awarded on the same subject is a unique decision on the university's part and could be part of the university's efforts to make water as an institution-wide priority. The field of water research is listed as a top priority by the university in its comprehensive institutional plan—approved by the board of governors last March—along with environment and energy, and infec-

tious diseases. The plan’s aim is to "establish the University of Alberta as the intellectual anchor for international research consortia." In the last three years the university has taken steps toward raising the profile of the latter priorities, partnering with German researchers in 2009 to create the Helmholtz-Alberta Initiative which works on issues related to energy and environment and in 2010 with the Government of Alberta to establish the Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology. (The university senate, responsible for the selection of honorary degree recipients, has so far turned down interview requests, as has president Samaraskera.) The decision to honour two advocates of water as a human right alongside Brabeck could be viewed as an attempt at balance, but Harris believes it doesn't achieve its purpose. "I don't think that's balance, that's giving legitimacy to something Brabeck promotes, that [water is] a commodity," says Harris. "Water is a human right—it's too important to be left to the market." The Council of Canadians has started an online action alert where people can send in their concerns to the University of Alberta. The International Centre on campus will hold an event on Thursday, February 16 where students and community members are invited to discuss the debate. Samantha Power

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COMMENT >> SYRIA

Mistaken strategy

Syrian opposition forces should stick to non-violent playbook As the Syrian opposition abandons ple around Bashar believe they'll non-violent protest for armed reget away with it this time too—and sistance, many people think this they may be right. means that President Bashar alThe Arab League can pass a resoAssad and his Baathist regime are lution demanding that Bashar in even deeper trouble than hands over power to a depbefore. On the contrary, it uty at once, and that the means that Assad and the Baathists form a "unity" Baathists are winning. with the .com government ly k e e w e@vue gwynn The Baathists know how opposition within two e n Gwyn to destroy armed resismonths, but Syria's rulers Dyer simply shrug it off. The Arab tance. Bashar's father, Hafez al-Assad, crushed the armed uprisLeague is not going to send troops ing of 1982 with massive military to Syria. force, destroying the city of Hama Besides, the Baathist leadership and killing between 10 000 and comes mainly from the Alawite 40 000 people in the process. He community, a Shia Muslim minority got away with it, stayed in power, that accounts for only 10 percent and died peacefully in his bed 18 of Syria's population. About sevyears later. enty percent of Syria's people are This time, the focus of the Baathist Sunni Muslims, as are the governregime's attention is the rebel city ments in all the other members of of Homs, only an hour's drive south the Arab League except Iraq and of Hama, and it is clearly willing to Lebanon. So the Syrian Baathists do the same thing there. The peothink that the League's resolution

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is merely intended to drive Syria's Shias from power, and they just ignore it. A comparable resolution by the United Nations Security Council will never happen, because Assad's Russian and Chinese friends will veto it again if necessary. And even if such a resolution were passed, no

violence. Violence is much easier to defeat than non-violence. It's a quarter-century since nonviolent movements began driving oppressive regimes from power: the Philippines, Indonesia, South Korea, East Germany, the Soviet Union, Chile, South Africa, Serbia, Georgia, and most recently Egypt,

The people around Bashar believe they'll get away with it this time too—and they may be right.

Western country is going to send troops to intervene in Syria either. The country is too big and the regime is too well armed: this is not another Libya. So Assad's calculations all have to do with how the confrontation plays out in Syria itself. In that context, it is greatly to his advantage that the opposition is turning to

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not to mention a dozen others. By now, everybody on both sides of the barricades has the playbook. The tactics of the protesters are governed by strict rules—and the regimes also know and understand those rules. Non-violent protesters have a whole menu of actions they can take to undermine the regime's

authority: mass demonstrations, strikes, sit-ins, stay-at-homes and much more. They also have a strict rule never to use violence against the regime and its servants—not because the protesters are pacifists, but because non-violence works better. It gets better results because if the protesters avoid violence, it is almost impossible for a dictator to unleash all the force at his command. The regime's troops and police will kill a few protesters each day, or even a few dozen, but they are psychologically deterred from mass killing because the protesters pose no direct threat to them. If the protesters do attack the regime's security forces, the soldiers and police are released from this inhibition and will use extreme violence to "protect" themselves. CONTINUED ON PAGE 11 >>

COMMENT >> ALBERTA BUDGET

DYER STRAIGHT

Missing the middle

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The Alberta budget fails to capture the truth in numbers Ralph Klein. It may sound counterThis is why by the end of Mr of the Ralph Klein book of budgetintuitive, but that's who first came Klein's tenure as Premier our public ing, and turn it on its head. The budto mind last week as Alberta's Fiservices were understaffed and in a get numbers work only because of nance Minister Ron Liepert shambles, and our infrastructhe highly optimistic projections for tabled the 2012 Provincial ture was completely inadthe price of natural resources used Budget in the Alberta equate for a province of by the government. E ERENCm our size in the midst of an Legislature. Not because INTERF Like in Mr Klein's days, the numo eekly.c @vuew ricardo it inspired the kind of aneconomic boom. That was bers are not so far off as to be eno Ricard ger and frustration that Ralph Klein's political goal tirely inconceivable, but they cera Acuñ Mr Klein's numerous provinfrom the start, and it was tainly do not represent the middle cial budgets inspired in so many accomplished through a combinaground of what experts and indusof us, but because it used the same tion of creating deficit hysteria and try are forecasting. The budget inaccounting trick, albeit in reverse, low-balling provincial revenues. cludes a projected price for oil of that Mr Klein used so effectively $99 per barrel this year, $106 next throughout the 1990s to achieve The 2012 Alberta Budget was also year, and $108 the year after that. his political goals. a highly political document. It is These projections are entirely posThe most consistent element of meant to form the basis of the Consible given where oil is today, but provincial budgets during Ralph servative platform for the upcomthey very much represent only the Klein's heyday of slash-and-burn fiPolitically, it would have been impossible nances was the extreme low-balling of projected oil and gas prices. Mr for Ms Redford to present a budget based Klein's team would regularly scan on realistic projections while covering the very crowded world of energy price forecasting and cherry-pick her left and right flanks in the provincial the most ridiculously pessimistic election ... So like Ralph Klein in the '90s, of those forecasts. Those are the numbers that would inevitably find she chose instead to fudge the numbers for their way into the projected revthe sake of political expediency. enue lines of the provincial budget. The results, of course, were obvious: choosing the most pessimistic of forecasts made the natural reing provincial election, and its triple most optimistic of forecasts. source revenue lines of the budgets focus on stable funding for public Likewise, the budget projects natlook very small. Given that over the services, increased funding for the ural gas prices of three dollars this last 20 years or so natural resource most vulnerable, and elimination of year, $3.50 next year, and $4.25 the revenues have accounted for anythe deficit within two years highfollowing year. Given that the price where between 25 and 35 percent lights where Ms Redford wishes to of natural gas is currently south of of provincial revenues, this also position herself and her party durthe three dollar mark and dropping, achieved the goal of making overing the campaign: as a party much it's difficult to imagine how the govall provincial revenues look incredmore interested in public services ernment's scenario could be conibly meagre. And this, in turn, enand the poor than the Wildrose sidered anywhere near likely. One abled Mr Klein and his government Party, but one that still carries an energy forecaster recently dropped to publicly justify cutting public obsession with balancing the books their 2012 price projection for gas services, encouraging government and not raising taxes. to $2.27—that alone would result workers to roll back their salaries, The problem is that the only way in the government missing its revand not spending money on essenshe could achieve that highly politienue forecast by over $200 million. tial infrastructure. cal objective was to take a page out Add to this an incredibly optimis-

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tic forecast for bitumen production and revenues as well as for the US dollar exchange rate, and you begin to get the picture. Politically, it would have been impossible for Ms Redford to present a budget based on realistic projections while covering her left and right flanks in the provincial election. Realistic projections would have meant drastically cutting services, increasing taxes and royalties, doubling the size of the deficit, or some combination of all three. So like Ralph Klein in the '90s, she chose instead to fudge the numbers for the sake of political expediency. It worked well for Ralph Klein year after year, and early indications seem to be that it will also work well for Alison Redford. Apparently, you can fool Albertans a second time. And a third and fourth too. Given how dependent our provincial budgets have become on natural resource revenues (a topic for another day), it is essential to Albertans that we be able to trust what's being put forth by our government rather than having to second-guess their projections year after year. Putting in place a set of clear guidelines and protocols for how the government forecasts energy prices and exchange rates would go a long way to restoring faith in provincial finances and removing provincial budgets from the realm of rhetoric and political manipulation. It’s time we demanded some truth in budgeting in this province. V Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta.

If physical force is what decides the confrontation, the regime almost automatically wins, because the force it can deploy is so much greater. As soon as the protesters throw the first brick or fire the first shot, the balance of power shifts radically in favour of the regime. Nowadays dictators understand this, and do everything in their power to provoke their opponents into using violence. The Syrian protesters resisted this pressure for months, clinging bravely to nonviolence despite a relentless toll of deaths and injuries inflicted by Assad's regime. But then some of the regime's troops, sick of killing their own people, deserted from the army—and they took their weapons with them. Once the "Free Syrian Army" started fighting back, the internal pressure on Assad’s regime lessened dramatically. Its claim that it was fighting "armed terrorist gangs" gained some credence, especially among Alawites, Christians, Druze and other Syrian minorities who fear Sunni Muslim domination in a democratic Syria. And the willingness of the security forces to use really large-scale violence grew, because now they were scared for their own safety. It is a disaster for the Syrian opposition: their death-toll has now risen to hundreds each week, but the deaths have less moral impact because they are happening in what is becoming a mere civil war. Ugly and destructive though that will be, Assad's regime has a better chance of survival now than it did when the protests were strictly non-violent. V Gwynne Dyer is a London-based independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries. His column appears each week in Vue Weekly.

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COMMENT >> HOCKEY

All the same

How many more years of disappointment and boredom? You win some and you lose some, the for Rick Nash trade would be close— saying goes. That's last week for the but that ain't happening. The exciteOilers crystallized perfectly. The Oilment generated from that Grounders played game two of a three-game hog Day Massacre was enjoyable but Eastern road trip in Detroit and served merely as a reminder of lost 4-2 in the city that selfhow long it has been since identifies as Hockeytown. A an Oiler game or player visit to Ottawa capped off has made the old ticker m ly.co eweek ox@vu the Eastern tour with a 4-3 jump. Frankly, following & intheb oung Dave Y s OT win over the Senators. the Oilers has been boring, e tl Bir Bryan unrewarding and uninspiring. I Dark Night of the Oil grew up watching the '80s Oilers The recent Sam Gagner eight-point rewrite the NHL record book. It's hard extravaganza was unmistakeably the to live up to that legacy but last place highlight of this Oiler season. I can't finishes don't make a convincing arguimagine anything topping it between ment. Here are my biggest complaints now and game 82. An Ales Hemsky, about Oiler hockey lately: first round 2013 pick and just about • Last place sucks. It was awful once any player not named Nuge or Hallsy and the sequel was numbing. Only the

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COMEDY Brixx Bar • 10030-102 St • 780.428.1099 •

Troubadour Tuesdays with comedy and music Ceili's • 10338-109 St • 780.426.5555 • Comedy Night: every Tue, 9:30pm • No cover Century Casino • 13103 Fort Rd • 780.481.9857 • Open amateur night every Thu, 7:30pm COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Steven Juliano Moore; Feb 16-18 Comic Strip • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Ralph Harris; until Feb 19 • Adam Hunter; Feb 22-25 DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 • Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm Filthy McNasty's • 10511-82 • 780.996.1778 • Stand Up Sundays: Stand-up comedy night every Sun with a different headliner every week; 9pm; no cover laugh shop–Sherwood Park • 4 Blackfoot Road, Sherwood Park • 780.417.9777 • laughinthepark.ca • Open Wed-Sat • Fri: 8pm, Sat: 7:30pm and 10pm; $20 • Wednesday Amateur night: 8pm (call 7804179777 to be added to the line-up); free • Mike Storck; Feb 17-18 • Tim Koslo; Feb 24-25 • Lars Callicou; Mar 2-3 laugh shop–124th Street • 11802-124 St • 780.417.9777 • thelaughshop.com • New Venue Myer Horowitz Theatre • U of A Campus • Jeff Ross; 7:30pm • Feb 17 • $42.75

Groups/CLUBS/meetings Aikikai Aikido Club • 10139-87 Ave, Old

Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm AWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP • Braeside Presbyterian Church bsmt, N. door, 6 Bernard Dr, Bishop St, Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • For adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional families • Every Mon 7:30pm

Brain Tumour Peer Support Group

• Woodcroft Branch Library, 13420-114 Ave • 1.800.265.5106 ext 234 • Support group for brain tumour survivors and their families and caregivers. Must be 18 or over • 3rd Tue every month; 7-8:45pm • Free Cha Island Tea Co • 10332-81 Ave • Games Night: Board games and card games • Every Mon, 7pm Edmonton Bike Art Nights • BikeWorks, 10047-80 Ave, back alley entrance • Art Nights • Every Wed, 6-9pm Edmonton Nature Club • King's University College, 9125-50 St • All Aflutter-Moths in Alberta: Monthly meeting featuring speaker Greg Pohl • Feb 17 • Admission by donation Fair Vote Edmonton • Strathcona Branch Library, Upstairs Meeting Rm • Chapter Meet-

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ing: plan actions to raise awareness of the need for electoral reform • Feb 23, 7pm FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.465.2019/780.634.5526 • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm Hatha Flow Yoga • Eastwood Community Hall, 11803-86 St • Every Tue and Thu (7:05pm) until the end of Apr • Sliding Scale: $10 (dropin)/$7 (low-income)/$5 (no income)

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

Assisted Living Place, 11148-84 Ave • Home: Blends music, drama, creativity and reflection on sacred texts to energize you for passionate living • Every Sun 3-5pm Lotus Qigong • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu MEDITATION • Strathcona Library, 8331-104 St; meditationedmonton.org; Drop-in every Thu 7-8:30pm; Sherwood Park Library: Drop-in every Mon, 7-8:30pm

Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association • 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 Hospital, Rm 0651, 780.451.1755; Group meets every Thu 7-9pm • Free Paranormal Explorers • Two Rooms, 10324 Whyte Ave, 780.439.8386 • Dead Of Winter Dinner: Have dinner with the spirits and learn about paranormal investigations. Bring your cameras! Hosted by the Paranormal Explorers • Full course dinner: $40 (single)/$75 (couple) • Feb 19, 6:30pm

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

Place • Weekly outdoor walking group; starts with a 10 min discussion, followed by a 30-40 minute walk through Centennial Park, a cool down and stretch • Every Tue, 8:30am • $2/ session (goes to the Alzheimer’s Society of Alberta) Sugarswing Dance Club • Orange Hall, 10335-84 Ave or Pleasantview Hall, 10860-57 Ave • 780.604.7572 • Swing Dance at Sugar Foot Stomp: beginner lesson followed by dance every Sat, 8pm (door) at Orange Hall or Pleasantview Hall WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old Strathcona Farmers' Market • Silent vigil the 1st and 3rd Sat, 10-11am, each month, stand in silence for a world without violence

LECTURES/Presentations Jung's Warning about Faith • Rm 2-115, Education, U of A • C.G. Jung's Warning about Faith: The Psychological Danger of Belief: Presenter: David Miller • Feb 16 • $35 (member)/$45 (non-member); online purchase will be available 3 weeks prior to event LENTEN SPIRITUAL FORMATION RETREAT • Rabbit Hill Baptist Church, 25439 twp

Rd 510 • 780.955.7774 • A morning gathering during the first Saturday of Lent. Hosted by First Baptist Church Edmonton at Rabbit Hill Baptist Church • Feb 25, 9am-noon • $10; pre-register by contacting ryan@fbcedmonton.ca Listen Up! A Listener’s Guide • Stanley A. Milner Library, Audio Visual Rm, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Mama Africa: A Basic Introduction to Music from Africa: Explore sounds

Blue Jackets are doing their best to prevent another Oiler team in the basement for number three. • Missing playoffs sucks. No amount of playoff drafts can replace having a horse in the race. • No playoff races. Not since the 2007-08 season when the Oilers finished in ninth place have we seen a legitimate playoff race and meaningful games. There's nothing like starting every day in March reviewing the Western Conference standings and calculating magic numbers and going through scenarios. Even a Phoenix versus St Louis game is worth tracking if there are standings implications. • Arena Guilt. The ongoing Katz and rhythms from Africa with this overview of the various regional styles and major artists from Ali Farka Toure to Zap Mama • Thu, Mar 1, 12:15pm, 2:30pm • Free MEÆT 1.5 • DIYalouge forums bringing local creatives and new philanthropists together for an evening of short proposals followed by a shared meal. At the end of the meal, diners vote on which proposal receives the pot of funds to move forward with their project • Pre-register atmeaet.com • $10 (minimum donation for diners) Moving Beyond The Automobile • Metro Cinema, Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • Featuring The film, Moving Beyond The Automobile, and panel discussion exploring the solutions to the problem of automobile dependency • Feb 20, 4-6pm • Admission by donation

Net Zero Energy Buildings, How Are They Working? –An Owner's Perspective • Grant MacEwan University

CN Theatre, Rm 5-142 • 780.378.6178 • solaralberta.ca • Panel discussion lead by net zero home owner Shafraaz Kaba • Feb 22, 7-8:30pm • Free Visual Arts Forum • FAB 2-20, U of A • Sean Caulfield and Royden Mills in Conversation with Gavin Renwick • Feb 16, 5:15pm

WINTER ROOTS AND BLUES ROUNDUP III • Various Venues: Art Gallery of Alberta, Royal

Alberta Museum, Stanley Milner Library theatres, Yardbird Suite, Blue Chair, Century Casino • ualberta.ca/folkwaysalive • Festival with live performances, films and workshops presented by folkwaysAlive! and Peter North featuring Peter Case (singer-songwriter), Mark DuFresne (Roomful of Blues fame), Roy Forbes (folk); Canadian premieres of music documentaries on Sister Rosetta Tharpe and David Bromberg, workshops and seminars • Feb 23-26

QUEER 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

EPLC Fellowship Pagan Study Group • Pride Centre of Edmonton • eplc.

webs.com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome FLASH Night Club • 10018-105 St • 780.969.9965 • Thu Goth + Industrial Night: Indust:real Assembly with DJ Nanuck; 10pm (door); no cover • Triple Threat Fridays: DJ Thunder, Femcee DJ Eden Lixx • DJ Suco beats every Sat G.L.B.T.Q Sage bowling club • 780.474.8240, E: Tuff@shaw.ca • Every Wed, 1:30-3:30pm GLBT sports and recreation • teamedmonton.ca • Badminton, Women's Drop-In Recreational: St Vincent School, 10530-138 St; every Wed 6-7:30pm, until Apr 25; $7 (drop-in fee) • Co-ed Bellydancing • Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary, 10925-87 Ave. at 7pm • Bowling: Ed's Rec Centre, West Edmonton Mall, Tue 6:45pm • Curling: Granite Curling Club; 780.463.5942 • Running: Kinsmen • Spinning: MacEwan Centre, 109 Street and 104 Ave • Swimming: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St • Volleyball: every Tue, 7-9pm; St. Catherine School, 10915-110 St; every Thu, 7:30-9:30pm at

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arena debate means identifying as an Oiler fan tells people you obviously support giving public money to a billionaire to add more dough to the pile instead of housing the homeless, feeding the children, fixing the potholes or giving more raises to city councillors. Isn't there a middle ground? • Go millionaires! It's hard to care about a group of millionaires performing for our entertainment— especially when they aren't winning. I find it hard to identify with 20-somethings getting rich for playing a game that my pal Bruce and thousands of other Canadian working stiffs spend their hard-earned money just to play for fun. • CBA. The current NHL/NHLPA collective bargaining agreement expires at the end of this season. It took a year without NHL/Oiler hockey to ink this deal. Hockey games are fun.

Threats of lockouts, strikes and work stoppages are not. Go Oilers!? DY

Amiskiwiciy Academy, 101 Airport Rd G.L.B.T.Q Seniors Group • S.A.G.E Bldg, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4:30pm • Info: T: Jeff Bovee 780.488.3234, E: tuff @shaw.ca 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 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 dropin, peer counselling MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu Pride Centre of Edmonton • Moving • 780.488.3234 E: 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 • Counselling: Free, short-term, solution-focused counselling, provided by professionally trained counsellors; every Wed, 6-9pm • STD Testing: Last Thu every month, 3-6pm; free • Youth Movie: Every Thu, 6:30-8:30pm PrimeTimers/sage Games • Unitarian Church, 10804-119 St • 780.474.8240 • Every 2nd and last Fri each Month, 7-10:30pm St Paul's United Church • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship) 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

heated temporary structures made from Aluma Systems construction scaffolding covered with white shrink wrap, entertainment and fireworks at midnight • Until Feb 20 (Churchill Square) Night Works in the Park • Silver Skate Festival, Hawrelak Park • Live music, dance and light spectacles; this year’s performances by Murdoch and Sparrow, Jason Kodie (folk pop), Allez Ouest (francophone folk rock), Terry Morrison (singer-songwriter), Neko Rei (electronica), F&M (songwriters), Donovan Workun and Atomic Improv, Psychic City (rock), Vibe Tribe (dance) • Feb 18-19, 6pm Orchid Fair • MacEwan University–South Campus • Annual show of orchids presented by the Orchid Society of Alberta also display of orchid artwork, photography, arrangements, workshops • Feb 24-26; Fri: 12-8pm; Sat: 10am5pm; Sun: 10am-4pm • $10/free (child under 12); incl parking Parka Patio • Latitude 53, 10248-106 St • latitude53.org/parka • Rooftop Winter Patio Party: Part of Common Ground Festival with DJs Axe and Smash, Josh Johnson, video projection, decor by Elemental Interiors • Feb 18, 8pm-late

SPECIAL EVENTS Gathering of Eagles Dinner, Silent/ Live Auction • Edmonton Coast Plaza Hotel,

10155-105 St • The Past/Present/Future: Aviation Museum’s fundraising dinner and presentations, and auction • Feb 17, 6pm • $50 at the Alberta Aviation Museum gift shop, door 780-451-1175 HEARTS FOR HOMELESS EVENT • Chateau Louis Hotel, 11727 Kingsway Ave • Event for Women’s Emergency Accommodation Centre (Weac): 2nd Annual Hearts for Homeless Dinner and Silent Auction in Support of the Women’s Emergency Accommodation Centre (WEAC) • Feb 25, 5:30pm (cocktails) • $75 at 780.424.7543 ext 115 Metropolis • Churchill Square and the surrounding streets • Edmonton International Winter Festival: Featuring six free-standing,

Hire MacTavish?

Just kidding, but maybe it's time to bring in a new coach. Let's not get stuck in the rut we did with MacT— who was, it should be noted, a good coach, just one who overstayed his welcome—and hold onto a guy because we're too nice to let him go. Let's pull this trigger. The Oilers have, quite obviously, learned all they can from Renney and now somebody with a different style is needed—maybe a hard ass. You think this team is too soft for a dose of Mike Keenan? Just throwin' it out there. BB Oilers Player of the week

Magnus Paajarvi: Glad that monkey's off the back, Maggie. BB Taylor Hall: Fifth game winner of the season in OT in OTT. DY

Parkland Institute Fundraising Gala • Faculty Club, 11435 Saskatchewan

Dr, U of A • parklandinstitute.ca • Featuring comedy with Howie Miller • Thu, Mar 1, 6pm (reception), 6:45pm (dinner) • $100/person (incl 3-course dinner, entertainment, silent auction) at 780.492.8558

Rhythms of the Earth: Black History Month • Carrot Café, 9351-118 Ave •

Poetry Slam: Featuring: The Overachievers & Titilope Sonuga; Feb 16, 7:30-9:30pm • Jazz Improv: Featuring Karen Porkka & Brett Miles; Feb 18, 2-4pm • Afro Beauty & Fashion: Featuring clothing by Jean Walrond, braiding by Mama Afrco; Feb 22, 7:30-9:30pm • African Storytelling: Featuring Tololwa Mollel, Junetta Jamerson, and Dr. Bitupu Mufata; Feb 28, 7:30-9:30pm • People Poet: Featuring local poets & song writers; Feb 29, 7:30-9:30pm • Free Silver Skate Festival • Hawrelak Park • silverskatefestival.org • Featuring skate races, winter sport demonstrations, the Baba Yaga and The Firebird Trail, live performances, snow and fire sculpture • Snow Sculpture competition: Feb 17, 9am-6pm; Daily events: Feb 18-19, 9am10pm; Feb 20, 12-5pm Swapopolis • Churchill Sq Community Centre • At Metropolis Fashion Festival open at 5:30pm for patrons to shop the Hand Made Mafia’s Sale Market before the swapping commences. Clothing SWAP • Feb 17, 7pm • $20 to participate TEAM EDMONTON LGBTQ Mixer • Sawridge Inn Edmonton South, 4235 Gateway Blvd • Mixer and Silent Auction; no minors • Feb 25, 7-11:30pm • Free Winterfest–Uptown Folk Club • Expressionz Café, 9938-70 Ave • 780.436.1554 • uptownfolkclub.ca • Featured Cindy Church, Wendell Ferguson, Shane Chisholm, Roger James plus 35 performers with original folk, country and bluegrass music • Feb 17-19 • $20 (Fri)/$30 (Sat)/$40 (both days)/$10 (Sun workshop) at Myhre's, Acoustic Music Shop, yeglive

WINTER ROOTS AND BLUES ROUNDUP FESTIVAL • Art Gallery of Alberta, Royal Alberta

Museum, Stanley Milner Library theatres, Yardbird Suite, Blue Chair, Century Casino • 780.492.7887, 587.989.3034 • ualberta.ca/ folkwaysalive • Music festival featuring live performances, films and workshops for Edmonton music fans, presented by folkwaysAlive! and Peter North • Feb 23-26 • Info: folkwaysAlive!

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FILM // PROTO-NOIR

Creating the canon

Double Indemnity offered key noir motifs before the genre was defined Fri, Feb 17; Sun, Feb 19; Tue, Feb 21 Directed by Billy Wilder Metro Cinema at the Garneau Originally Released: 1944

ere's what I think of when I think of Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity: Barbara Stanwyck's legs, coming down the stairs, wearing that anklet, of course, but more than that it's the gait, the stride of a woman (or a jungle cat) who knows, somehow, that she's finally been cued to assume her destined role; Fred MacMurray's apartment, where he and Stanwyck luxuriate in barely disguised postcoital bliss; the grocery store where Stanwyck and MacMurray meet, in sunglasses, to discuss their nefarious plan in deadpan tones, not facing each other, surrounded by anonymous canned goods; the cigarette Edward G Robinson lights for MacMurray while MacMurray lies slumped in the front doors of his insurance company's headquarters—it is the only moment of genuine affection shared by any two people in the whole film. MacMurray and Stanwyck's story is one of lust; MacMurray and Robinson's is the film's (platonic) love story. So: an insurance salesman (MacMurray) conspires with the wife (Stanwyck) of a client to have the client die in an ostensible accident and thus collect twice the normal rate on the client's life insurance policy. That's the story in a nutshell, but what we're trading in here is philosophy, impulse and, above all, mood. Double Indemnity is the inaugural film to be

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screened in Metro Cinema's Film Noir series for a reason: the film encompass myriad elements that, about 10 years later, would be declared key motifs of the noir style: voice-over, low-key lighting, hard-boiled banter, lust, crime, fatalism and femme

fatale. But, unlike so many other beloved and canonical films noir, it was also classy, very much an A-picture, with stars, production value and the kind of backing that gets you seven Oscar nominations. (Though the film didn't win a single statue.) Its narrative trajectory and heavily pouredon attitude has become so ingrained into our collective notion of noir that some viewers may regard it as tropeladen kabuki, but the film, which was co-scripted by none other than novelist Raymond Chandler, transmits these elements with such confidence as to feel sui generis, organic, and though it were inventing its own ritual and cosmology as it goes along— which it basically was, even though Chandler had considerable contempt for his source material.

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But the source material was absolute gold. James M Cain wrote novels that practically begged to be filmed—if only they could make it to the screen with all their tawdrier bits intact. There are many

transportive as it is in part because it's so faithful not only to Cain's narrative but to his dialogue and character conception. Double Indemnity kind of splits the difference, cloaking its less savoury traits in

The film encompass myriad elements that, about 10 years later, would be declared key motifs of the noir style: voice-over, low-key lighting, hard-boiled banter, lust, crime, fatalism and femme fatale.

things to recommend in Tay Garnett's adaptation of The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), but the sunny ending ties itself into increasingly risible knots in its effort to try and redeem Cain's hell-bound characters. Whereas Todd Haynes' five-part miniseries adaptation of Mildred Pierce (2011) is as brilliant and

a tasty fusion of Chandler's romanticism and Wilder's wickedly cynical humour. The result is smoldering, seductive and unforgettable. No one film defines noir, but this one is as good as any for getting the conversation started. Josef Braun

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FILM // CANADA'S TOP TEN

The country's finest? A look at Canada's top 10 flicks

One of Canada's Top Ten: David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method

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hen one has access to a decent number of the many films produced in Canada over the course of any given year, through festival screenings or what have you, the annual unveiling of Canada's Top Ten is almost inevitably frustrating. Particularly with regards to work from lesser-known, first-time or not-especially-connected filmmakers, what's conspicuously absent from CTT is always cause for grumbling—particularly when work from established filmmakers seems to get a free pass. At the same time, CTT is never as predictable as it might seem, and 2011 is no exception: yes, it's kind of impossible to imagine how something as deeply mediocre as Starbuck could have been considered if it weren't for the presence of Quebecois star Patrick Huard—or for the fact that certain people in the industry seem to think that production value is itself something to applaud— but the failure of, for example, Bruce MacDonald's Hard Core Logo 2 or DIY queen Ingrid Veninger's i am a good person/i am a bad person to make the final cut cuts against the assumption that CTT is only a popularity contest. Of the seven CTT features screening at Metro Cinema over the next two weeks—my apologies for not commenting on the shorts, but I haven't been able to see them—there is at least one film that one might call an underdog: Hobo with a Shotgun, a film that I didn't much care for but which certainly bucks against the likes of Starbuck with its odd fusion of nihilism, sentimentality, low-budget gore and conventional plot structure. Meanwhile, the placement of David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method

is a given—it's also awfully close to a masterpiece, though many of my fellow Canadian critics seem to disagree—as is C.R.A.Z.Y. writer/director Jean-Marc Vallee's Café de flore, which has its moments of genuine emotional resonance but pivots on a high-concept structural device that's kind of a load of bullshit. The other two Quebec films, Guy Edoin's Wetlands and Sebastien Pilote's The Salesman are far more worth the spotlight, even if they might not seem quite as ambitious or, let's say, fully realized as Vallee's. That just leaves Sarah Polley's Take This Waltz, which may require more defending despite the almost unimpeachable stature of the filmmaker at its helm—we'll see what the consensus is when it gets properly released this summer. The biggest problem with Polley's story of a marriage in peril is the lack of chemistry between its heroine, played by Michelle Williams, and both of the men she's torn between—Seth Rogan plays the husband, Luke Kirby the Other Man. Yet I felt that Polley's immense and at times unnerving insights into the intricate network of problems that beset long-term love, along with Williams' typically brave and intelligent performance, more than outweigh the film's considerable flaws. As for the three remaining CTT features that didn't make it into Metro's series, Monsieur Lazhar has already opened and both Nathan Morlando's Scott Speedman-starring bank robber biopic Edwin Boyd and Guy Maddin's sublimely demented gangster movie Keyhole are sure to secure some sort of proper release later this spring. Josef Braun

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REVUE // A JABRONI OF A MOVIE

Journey 2: The Mysterious Island Now playing Directed by Brad Peyton

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hunter's animal instinct erupts, purposely stagey 2D fronts are blown up by 3D thrills, and the chase zips zanily along on the rails of a slyly self-conscious story ... too bad that's all, folks, in the opening short, "Daffy's Rhapsody" (5 stars), not the main feature. In its first 15 minutes, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island whiplashes us from a punkass teen's joyride to his and supportive stepdad's sudden discovery (in an attic, of course) that maps from three island-adventure books from two different eras and genres (one is a satire and no, punkass, Treasure Island was not "written in 1883") merge to reveal a new island, then to the South Pacific. We're shot down a hurricane in a chopper with a cute girl and her bumbling dad to meet the punkass's Indiana Jonesing grandfather on the island, where Atlantis is and a volcano erupts gold! ... all that's missing are chocolate rivers and Willy Wonka. (Meanwhile, in "Daffy's Rhapsody," showing off how to update and honour source texts, the song everyone's favourite Fudd-ruck-

A journey! To a mystery island!

ing duck cleverly croons—with Mel Blanc's original voice—is taken from a '50s kids' album.) Journey 2: The Mysterious Muddle panders to the kiddies (lizard-egg goo, plopping bird poop, berries popping off pulsing pecs in 3D), caters to the teens (punkass falls for cute girl),

and tosses in a loser-ethnic-sidekick (Luis Guzmán doing cringingly broad schtick that narrowly avoids slurring Hispanics and Polynesians simultaneously). The shrugging tone of this 21st-century sabotage of the original novel is summed up by this slogan masquerading as dialogue: "It's Jules

Verne, man—ya gotta believe." If, however, you always wanted to see the Rock/Dwayne Johnson engage in a petty man-off with Sir Michael Caine, only to make up with a high-five, this still isn't your movie. Because you have to sit through the hulking ex-wrestler strumming a ukelele, B-grade F/X giant

bee-riding, then bromance-bonded son and stepdad finding Nemo's nautilus and jumpstarting it with an enormous electric-eel. The assumption? Size matters, not quality. The moral? Go for the short and leave happily thereafter. Brian Gibson

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REVUE // ENCHANTING TATUM

REVUE // BOURNE-PORN

The Vow

Safe House

Promise to forget this movie

Now playing Directed by Michael Sucsy

 Secret agent men

Now playing Directed by Daniel Espinosa

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ome people really dug Buried (2010), with a truck driver (Ryan Reynolds) stuck in a coffin. It seemed Reynolds could be an action-thriller star, and he makes good on his promise in the misleadingly titled Safe House. If only the movie had stuck to the confines of its secret CIA interrogation site in South Africa. As soon as Matt Weston (Reynolds) and his charge Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington) bust out, with

killers pursuing Frost for a data file (not on but in his person—injected subcutaneously), the story starts to get away, too. There are flashes of a fine espionage-thriller with the safehousesiege (some crackling panic), Reynolds as still-green agent Matt (some quiet anxiety), and Brendan Gleeson (much quiet dignity) as boss David Barlow. The Cape Town setting's used well in a chase along a shantytown's corrugated-metal roofs. But unlike The Bourne Ultimatum (terrorist state creates insurgent) or Green Zone (Iraq WMD lie), the

big secret in Safe House is Le Carrélite vagueness about spy-network corruption. By the time the body count's hit double digits and the murder scenes have taped off much of South Africa, the movie's bloodsmeared itself into committing the deadliest of the 007 spy-thriller sins—dashing into so many chases, doublecrosses and close-ups of carnage and neckbreaking that it skids scuzzily close to secret agent-snuff. Call this Bourne-porn; Safe House needed a safe word. Brian Gibson

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nto screens for Valentine's darts The Vow, trying to be three times the charm: an "inspired by true events" tale that'll inspire you with good feelings, a tour-guide that'll make you fall in love with Chicago, and a forget-menot tale of romance that's like a Hallmark card to love itself. But, as with the city's tragicomic, success-whiffing Cubs (name-dropped here), it's three strikes and out. Channing Tatum, seemingly cast for his physique (which, in a nice changeof-clothing from the norm, appears much more than his female's counterparts), is otherwise forgettable as Leo. In a snowbound car crash (the

first of many implausibilities), his wife Paige (Rachel McAdams) loses her recent memory and, it seems, her love for him. Makes sense—their love was so full of trite phrases, clichéd moments (skinny-dipping, eating chocolates, a care-package for a sniffly nose) and uncool coolness (she has a tattoo on her back! she likes to be tickled!), it's mind-wiping. Humour's strained, even by brain-trauma-victim-learning-tolaugh-again standards. The boho-loft setting's only out1D-d as a backdrop by the old-money milieu where Jessica Lange and Sam Neill are comatosely wasted as Paige's parents, whiteWASPing the past. I vow to forgive this movie, just to forget it faster. Brian Gibson

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FILM 15

DVD // WANDERLUST TRAVELOGUE

Sans Soleil / La Jetée Now available Directed by Chris Marker

he first image he told me about was of three children on a road in Iceland, in 1965. He said that for him it was the image of happiness ... " These words, spoken by a woman never seen or named, and, rather briefly, the image these words describe, constitute the vestibule of Sans Soleil (1983), a film so devoutly forged upon inspired impulse and seductive digression as to result in a something like a labyrinth of sound and image. It's a film I long to get lost in. The woman comments on, or reads directly from, letters she's received from a vagabond cameraman named Sandor Krasna, over a dizzyingly diverse, rhythmically varied stream of images, presumably taken or compiled by Krasna. We visit Japan, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Île-de-France, San Francisco and, of course, Iceland. So maybe Sans Soleil is a travelogue, maybe an essay, maybe amateur anthropology. It's associative and lyrical, playful and meditative. We circle themes of memory and history, time and its ceaselessness. There are continual leaps in editing, sudden freezeframes, and the fleeting, rebellious thrill that arises when a subject looks directly at the camera. Sans Soleil is

one of the best-known works of the reclusive 90 year-old polymath who calls himself Chris Marker. It feels like a hazy miracle, daring you to slip in and out of concentrated states of viewing, demanding repeat viewings. You can now watch it over and over again on Blu-ray, thanks to a gorgeous new disc from the Criterion Collection that collects both it and Marker's other most famous work, the masterful, haunting, equally sui generis "photo-roman" about traveling back in time before World War III, La Jetée (1962), aka the film that inspired 12 Monkeys (1995). Revisiting Sans Soleil for the first time in years, what the film now reminds me of most is WG Sebald's uncategorizable literary masterpiece The Rings of Saturn. We have the intimate voice that's mostly talking about others, the rigorous wandering, the compulsive thought-detours into subjects such as street parades, video games, holidays, revolutions and military coups, panda death, Vertigo, television, Jean Jacques Rousseau, volcanic ash, public sleeping, Apocalypse Now, wildlife, the absence of adjectives in Japanese poetry and large-scale advertising: "pictures larger than people, voyeurizing the voyeurs." It's a film for those who feel at home everywhere

A travelogue film ... maybe

but at home, who are fascinated by the sacred-exotic, who want to remember everything even though they know perfectly well that memory's really just the lining of forgetting. Or it's for anyone drawn to the essence of movies, because that's also what Sans Soleil is essentially about. In one of Criterion's superb supplements

filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin describes Sans Soleil as "a secret map." Which again calls to mind the travelogue, except that Marker's navigational skills are all tied up in the facilitation of his wanderlust, which has guided him through a long career that embraces many forms, formats and themes. He's still at it, some 60 years after

helping to found the Left Bank movement, still embracing new technologies, still merging the very personal with the global, the political, the arcane. And he's still too little known. My wish list for future Criterion releases? More Marker, please! Josef Braun

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Still Showing FILM WEEKLY The Descendants

Fri, FEB 17 - THU, FEB 23, 2012

CHABA THEATRE–JASPER 6094 Connaught Dr Jasper 780.852.4749

Journey 2 THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (PG) Fri-Sat 7:00, 9:00; Sun-Thu 8:00; Sat-Sun 1:30 The Vow (PG) Fri-Sat 7:00, 9:00; Sun-Thu 8:00; Sat-Sun 1:30

DUGGAN CINEMA–CAMROSE 6601-48 Ave Camrose 780.608.2144

Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance (14A

frightening scenes) Daily 7:00 9:05; Sat-Mon 1:05 3:05

This Means War (PG, language may offend, violence) Daily 6:55 9:00; Sat-Mon 1:00 3:00

Journey 2 THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (PG)

Daily 7:10 9:10; Sat-Mon 2:50

The Vow (PG) Daily 7:05, 9:20; Sat-Mon 2:45

Big Miracle (PG) Sat-MOn 2:40 THE WomAn In Black (14A frightening

Princess Theatre

 Against striking vistas of Hawaii that give way to bitter truths, The Descendants dwells on, better than any film in years, how just beneath the surface of that teenager who seems a shrugging idiot or that woman who seems an everyday mom, rustles an undergrowth of pain, loss, or heartache.

Shame

scenes) Daily 7:15, 9:15

CINEMA CITY MOVIES 12 5074-130 Ave 780.472.9779

HAPPY FEET TWO (G) Digital Cinema Daily 1:15

Happy Feet Two 3d (G) Digital 3d Daily 3:40, 6:40, 9:15

4:30, 10:10

WE BOUGHT A ZOO (PG) Daily 1:25, 4:15,

young children) Daily 1:20, 4:10, 6:55, 9:55

Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu (PG) Hindi W/E.S.T. Daily 1:35, 4:20, 7:00, 9:35

Pata Nahi Rabb Kehdeyan Rangan Ch Raazi (STC) Punjabi W/E.S.T. Fri-Mon 12:50,

4:00, 7:10, 10:20; Tue-Thu 12:50, 4:00, 8:00

Ek Deewana Tha (PG) No passes, Hindi W/E.S.T. Daily 12:55, 3:55, 6:50, 9:50 CINEPLEX ODEON NORTH 14231-137 Ave 780.732.2236

UNDERWORLD AWAKENING 3D (18A gory violence) Digital 3d Daily 2:00, 4:45, 7:20 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (18A brutal violence sexual violence) Digital Cinema Daily 9:30

ONE FOR THE MONEY (PG language may offend) Digital Cinema Fri-Tue, Thu 1:15, 3:40, 6:30, 8:50; Wed 3:40, 6:30, 8:50; Star & Strollers Screening: Wed 1:00

BIG MIRACLE (PG) Digital Cinema Fri-Sat, Mon-Thu 1:30, 4:10, 6:40, 9:20; Sun 4:10, 6:40, 9:20

GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE

(14A frightening scenes) Ultraavx, No passes Daily 12:50, 3:15, 5:45, 8:10, 10:40

BIG MIRACLE (PG) Digital Cinema Fri-Sat, Mon-Thu 12:45, 3:30, 6:50, 9:30; Sun 5:30, 8:00, 10:40

GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE

(14A frightening scenes) No passes Digital Cinema: Fri-Mon 12:00, 2:30, 5:00; Tue 1:00, 3:40, 6:00; Wed-Thu 1:00, 3:25, 5:50; Ultraavx: Fri-Mon 12:50, 3:20, 5:50, 8:20, 10:50; TueThu 12:30, 2:55, 6:55, 10:05

SAFE HOUSE (14A brutal violence) Digital Cinema Fri 2:00, 4:50, 8:00, 10:50; Sat-Wed 2:00, 4:50, 7:45, 10:30; Thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:45, 10:25 CONTRABAND (14A violence coarse lan-

guage) Digital Cinema Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:10, 7:05, 10:05; Sun 1:40, 4:10, 10:40; Thu 1:50, 4:20, 7:15, 10:15

THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY (G)

Digital Cinema, No passes Fri, Sun-Mon 12:30, 2:55, 5:25, 7:45, 10:10; Sat 1:20, 3:45, 6:00, 8:30, 10:50; Tue-Wed 12:35, 2:55, 5:25, 7:45, 10:10; Thu 12:25, 2:50, 5:20, 7:40, 10:05 1:20, 4:25, 7:30, 10:30

Fri-Mon 1:30, 3:50, 6:10, 8:35, 10:45; Tue-Thu 1:30, 3:50, 6:05, 8:20, 10:35 fend, violence) Digital Cinema, No passes Fri, Sun-Mon 12:20, 2:55, 5:30, 8:10, 10:40; Sat 12:20, 2:55, 5:30, 8:40, 11:00; Tue-Wed 12:55, 3:30, 7:35, 10:20; Thu 3:35, 7:35, 10:20; Star & Strollers Screening: Thu 1:00

MAN ON A LEDGE (PG coarse language, vio-

lence) Digital Cinema Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:35, 7:40, 10:10; Thu 4:35, 7:40, 10:10; Star & Strollers Screening Thu 1:00

JOURNEY 2 THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND 3D (PG) Digital 3d Fri-Mon 11:45, 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 9:50; Tue-Thu 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25

THE WOMAN IN BLACK (14A frightening

scenes) Digital Cinema Daily 12:40, 3:10, 5:35, 8:15, 10:35

THE VOW (PG) Digital Cinema Fri-Mon 12:00, 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 10:20; Tue, Thu 12:35, 3:05, 7:15, 10:00; Wed 1:35, 4:05, 8:15, 11:00 TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (STC) Digital Cinema Sun 1:00

THE GREY (14A course language, gory scenes) Digital Cinema Daily 1:25, 4:15, 7:10, 9:50 La Phil Live: Gustavo Dudamel Conducts Mahler 8 (Classification not

7:00, 10:05

Daily 1:20, 3:30, 6:15, 8:20, 10:45

THIS MEANS WAR (PG language may of-

fend, violence) Digital Cinema, No passes Fri 1:40, 4:40, 7:30, 10:00; Sat-Tue, Thu 1:40, 4:20, 7:30, 10:00; Wed 4:20, 7:30, 10:00; Star & Strollers Screening: Wed 1:00

EBCS: Moving Beyond The Automobile (STC) SUN 4:00 Canada's Top Ten Shorts 2011 (STC)

scenes) Digital Presentation Fri 7:15, 9:40; Sat-Mon 1:25, 4:30, 7:15, 9:40; Tue-Thu 5:45, 8:15

STAR WARS: EPISODE I–THE PHANTOM MENACE 3D (PG violence) Digital 3d Fri 6:30, 9:25; Sat-Mon 12:40, 3:40, 6:30, 9:25; Tue-Thu 4:50, 7:50

THE VOW (PG) Digital Presentation Fri 7:00,

9:35; Sat-Mon 1:10, 4:20, 7:00, 9:35; TueThu 5:30, 8:10

SAFE HOUSE (14A brutal violence) Digital Presentation Fri 6:40, 9:20; Sat-Mon 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20; Tue-Thu 5:10, 8:00 JOURNEY 2 THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND 3D (PG) Digital 3d, No passes Fri 6:50, 9:15;

Sat-Mon 4:10, 6:50, 9:15; Tue-Thu 5:15, 7:40

GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE

(14A frightening scenes) Digital 3d Fri 7:10, 9:25; Sat-Mon 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 9:25; TueThu 5:00, 7:50

THIS MEANS WAR (PG language may offend, violence) Digital Presentation Fri 6:50, 9:20; Sat-Mon 1:00, 4:15, 6:50, 9:20; Tue-Thu 5:10, 7:45 The Secret World Of Arrietty (G)

Digital 3d Sat-Mon 1:50, 4:15

JOURNEY 2 THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (PG) Digital Presentation Sat-Mon 1:30 GALAXY–SHERWOOD PARK 2020 Sherwood Dr Sherwood Park 780.416.0150

BIG MIRACLE (PG) Digital Cinema Fri-Mon 4:20, 9:30; Tue-Thu 9:50 GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE

(14A frightening scenes) Digital 3d, No passes Fri-Mon 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:30; Tue-Thu 7:10, 9:35

SAFE HOUSE (14A brutal violence) Digital

Cinema Fri-Mon 1:10, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50; TueThu 6:50, 9:30

THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY (G)

12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40; Tue-Thu 6:40, 9:40

CHRONICLE (14A violence) Digital Cinema Fri-

Mon 1:30, 7:20; Tue-Thu 7:30

THIS MEANS WAR (PG language may offend,

violence) Digital Cinema, No passes Fri-Mon 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:40; Tue-Thu 7:15, 9:45

JOURNEY 2 THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (PG)

Digital Cinema Fri-Mon 12:00

JOURNEY 2 THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND 3D

(PG) Digital 3d Fri-Mon 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00; Tue-Thu 6:30, 9:20

THE WOMAN IN BLACK (14A frightening

scenes) Digital Cinema Fri-Mon 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 9:55; Tue-Thu 7:40, 10:00

Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance (14A frightening scenes) Daily 7:20, 9:30; Sat-MOn, Tue 1:20, 3:40 Safe House (14A brutal violence) Daily 6:55, 9:20; SAT-MOn, Tue 12:50, 3:15

The Vow (PG) Daily 7:10, 9:25; Sat-Mon,

Tue 1:15, 3:25; Movies for Mommies: TUE 1:15

Daily 8:00

Daily 6:50, 9:00; SAT-MOn, Tue 12:55, 3:10

THE WomAn In Black (14A frightening scenes) Daily 7:30

Alvin And The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (G) Sat-Tue 1:25, 3:20 PRINCESS 10337-82 Ave 780.433.0728

Oscar Nominated Animation Shorts (14A mature themes) Sat 3:00; Mon 11:00am, 3:00

Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts (14A mature themes) Sun 3:00; Mon 1:00, 5:00

Sat-Mon 2:00, 6:50, 9:10; Tue-Thu 6:50, 9:10

subject matter) Fri 7:00, 9:05; Sat-Sun 1:00, 7:00, 9:05; Mon-Thu 7:00, 9:05 SCOTIABANK THEATRE WEM WEM 8882-170 St 780.444.2400

UNDERWORLD AWAKENING 3D (18A gory

violence) Digital 3d Daily 2:00, 5:10, 8:00, 10:45

THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: THE SECRET (PG violence) Digital 3d Daily 3:45, 9:20 MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL (14A) Closed Captioned Daily 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00

GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE (14A

THE GREY (14A course language, gory scenes)

SAFE HOUSE (14A brutal violence) Closed

(Classification not available) Sun 6:00 CITY CENTRE 9

10200-102 Ave 780.421.7020

SAFE HOUSE (14A brutal violence) Closed

Captioned, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital Daily 1:20, 4:20, 7:30, 10:30

GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE

(14A frightening scenes) Closed Captioned, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital, Digital 3d Daily 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00

TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (14A coarse THE VOW (PG) Closed Captioned, Digital

2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:20; Tue-Thu 7:20, 10:00

Digital Cinema Fri-Mon 1:00, 3:45, 6:50, 9:45; Tue-Thu 7:00, 9:55 GRANDIN THEATRE–St Albert

Grandin Mall Sir Winston Churchill Ave St Albert 780.458.9822

Date of Issue ONLY: Thu, Feb 16

Safe House (14A brutal violence) Thu, Feb 16: 1:45, 4:25, 6:40, 9:00

Alvin And The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (G) Thu, Feb 16: 8:30 THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: THE SECRET 3D (PG violence) Thu, Feb 16: 4:45 The Way (PG substance abuse) Thu, Feb 16: 5:00, 7:15

HUGO (PG) Thu, Feb 16: 12:50 ONE FOR THE MONEY (PG language may

THE IRON LADY (PG violence) Digital Presen-

offend) Thu, Feb 16: 3:15, 9:25

tation, DTS Digital Fri-Tue 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45; Wed-Thu 12:45, 3:45, 10:10

The Vow (PG) Thu, Feb 16: 1:15, 3:20, 5:25,

THE ARTIST (PG) Digital Presentation, DTS

Journey 2 THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (PG)

Digital Daily 12:40, 3:30, 6:15, 9:15

THIS MEANS WAR (PG, language may

offend, violence) Closed Captioned, Digital Presentation, DTS Digital Daily 1:30, 4:30, 7:15, 10:15

JOURNEY 2 THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND

7:20, 9:20

Thu, Feb 16: 1:00, 3:00, 5:05, 7:00, 8:50 LEDUC CINEMAS Leduc 780.352.3922

The Vow (PG) Daily 6:50, 9:20; Sat-MOn 12:50, 3:20

1:10, 3:25

The Muppet Movie (G) Sat 11:00

violence) Daily 7:00, 9:15; Sat-Mon, Tue 1:00, 3:35

Shame (18A nudity, sexual content, mature

STAR WARS: EPISODE I–THE PHANTOM MENACE 3D (PG violence) Digital 3d, DTS

scenes) Digital Cinema Daily 1:00, 3:45, 6:50, 9:45

130 Century Crossing Spruce Grove 780.972.2332

This Means War (PG language may offend,

STAR WARS: EPISODE I–THE PHANTOM MENACE 3D (PG violence) Digital 3d Fri-Mon

THE WOMAN IN BLACK (14A frightening

Cinema Sun 1:00

PARKLAND CINEMA 7

The Descendants (14A) Fri 6:50 & 9:10;

9:20; Sat-MOn 12:55, 3:35

THE GREY (14A course language, gory

9:30

Digital Cinema, No passes Fri-Mon 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:55, 10:15; Tue-Thu 6:45, 9:15

JOURNEY 2 THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (STC) Digital

Café de Flore (14A sexual content) TUE 9:00 FAVA Video Kitchen (STC) WED 7:00 Turkey Shoot: Cool as Ice (STC) WED

Big Miracle (PG) SAT-MON, Tue 1:10, 3:30 Journey 2 THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (PG)

Safe House (14A brutal violence) Daily 6:55,

2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20

A Dangerous Method (14A sexual content, mature subject matter) TUE 7:00

THE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST 3D (G)

JOURNEY 2 THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND 3D (PG) Digital 3d, DTS Digital, No passes

THE VOW (PG) Digital Cinema Daily 12:20,

Starbuck (14A mature subject matter, coarse language) MON 9:00

The Grey (14A course language, gory scenes)

This Means War (PG language may offend,

scenes) Digital Cinema Daily 1:45, 4:30, 8:00, 10:30

SUN 7:00

Digital Presentation Fri 6:45, 9:10; Sat-Mon 12:50, 4:00, 6:45, 9:10; Tue-Thu 4:50, 7:30

(PG) Closed Captioned, Digital Presentation, No passes Daily 12:30

(PG) Digital 3d Daily 12:15, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10

SAT 9:00

The Muppet Movie (G) Sat 11:00 Wwe Elimination Chamber–2012

Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital Daily 12:40, 3:40, 7:20, 10:20

CHRONICLE (14A violence) Digital Cinema

THE WOMAN IN BLACK (14A frightening

frightening scenes) Ultraavx, No passes Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:50, 5:20, 8:00, 10:45; Mon-Thu 12:30, 2:50, 5:20, 8:00, 10:45

CONTRABAND (14A violence coarse language) Digital Cinema Daily 1:50, 4:40, 7:45, 10:25

STAR WARS: EPISODE I–THE PHANTOM MENACE 3D (PG violence) Daily 12:40, 3:50,

Hobo with a Shotgun (R brutal violence)

tion Fri-Mon 9:15; Tue-Thu 7:45

THE VOW (PG) Digital Cinema Fri-Mon 12:10,

language gory scenes) Digital Presentation, DTS Digital Daily 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10

Digital Cinema, No passes Daily 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40

CHRONICLE (14A violence) Digital Presenta-

available) Sat 3:00

SAFE HOUSE (14A brutal violence) Digital Cinema Daily 1:10, 4:00, 7:10, 9:50

THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY (G)

fend) Digital Cinema Fri 2:15, 4:35, 7:15, 9:45; Sat 12:30, 8:00, 10:15; Sun 12:30, 2:50, 8:00, 10:15; Mon-Tue, Thu 2:15, 4:30, 7:15, 9:45; Wed 1:15, 3:35, 9:45

THIS MEANS WAR (PG language may of-

Red Tails (PG violence, not recommended for

The Woman in Black's a little too drawn out in places, a little too bogged down in its own mythology, a little too dependent on boo moments to generate tension. But it has wonderfully eerie locations, a gasp of an ending, a superbly measured supporting performance from Ciarán Hinds, and the eminently watchable wounded eyes of its protagonist—eyes you will likely recognize.

7:00, 10:00

ONE FOR THE MONEY (PG language may of-

Alvin And The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (G) Daily 1:50, 4:25, 7:15, 9:30 Immortals (18A gory brutal violence) Daily

turbing content, violence) Daily 4:35, 10:00



HUGO 3D (PG) Digital 3d Daily 1:00, 4:00,

CHRONICLE (14A violence) Digital Cinema

6:30, 9:00

The Muppets (G) Daily 1:10, 3:45, 7:05, 9:40 JACK AND JILL (PG) Daily 1:40, 7:25 JOYFUL NOISE (PG) Daily 1:50, 6:45 The Devil Inside (14A coarse language, dis-

The Woman in Black

violence) Digital Cinema Fri-Mon 7:55, 10:15; Tue 8:30, 10:40; Wed-Thu 8:15, 10:30

Puss In Boots 3d (G) Digital 3d Daily 4:00,

1:45

children) Daily 1:00, 3:50, 7:10, 10:05

The tale of a sex addict whose successful New York life begins to unspool when his sister arrives at his doorstep, director Steve McQueen's overall vision, assisted by co-writer Abi Morgan, seems almost too cold in its execution, but Fassbender's performance is devoted and powerful.

UNDERWORLD AWAKENING 3D (18A gory

Puss In Boots (G) Digital Cinema Daily

SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (PG violence not recommended for young



1525-99 St 780.436.8585

STAR WARS: EPISODE I–THE PHANTOM MENACE 3D (PG violence) Digital 3d Daily

6:55, 9:45

Princess Theatre

CINEPLEX ODEON SOUTH

Daily 3:30, 6:30, 9:30

Digital Daily 12:35, 3:50, 6:55, 10:05 CLAREVIEW 10

4211-139 Ave 780.472.7600

UNDERWORLD AWAKENING 3D (18A gory

violence) Digital 3d Fri-Mon 7:10, 9:45; TueThu 5:20, 8:15

THE GREY (14A course language, gory scenes) Digital Presentation Fri 6:35; Sat-Mon 12:50, 3:50, 6:35; Tue-Thu 5:00

VUEWEEKLY FEB 16 – FEB 22, 2012

violence) Daily 7:00, 9:30; Sat-MOn 1:00, 3:30

Journey 2 THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND in Digital 3D (PG) Daily 7:10, 9:25; Sat-MOn METRO CINEMA at the Garneau Metro at the Garneau: 8712-109 St 780.425.9212

Science in the Cinema: Jurassic Park (STC) FRI 1:00

The Salesman (STC) FRI 4:00; SAT 7:00 Take this Waltz (STC) FRI 7:00; SAT 4:00 Wetlands (STC) FRI 9:15; SUN 1:30 Noir: Double Indemnity (STC) SAT 2:00;

MON 7:00

Captioned Daily 1:30, 4:20, 7:15, 10:15

CONTRABAND (14A violence coarse language)

Closed Captioned Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:40; Sun 1:40, 4:40, 10:40; Thu 1:20, 4:00, 10:40

STAR WARS: EPISODE I–THE PHANTOM MENACE 3D (PG violence) Digital 3d Daily 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10

CHRONICLE (14A violence) Closed Captioned

Daily 12:40, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:20

THIS MEANS WAR (PG language may offend,

violence) Closed Captioned, No passes Fri-Tue, Thu 1:20, 3:50, 6:50, 9:40; Wed 3:50, 6:50, 9:40; Star & Strollers Screening: Wed 1:00

JOURNEY 2 THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (PG)

Closed Captioned Daily 1:15, 6:30

THE WOMAN IN BLACK (14A frightening

scenes) Closed Captioned Fri-Sat, Mon-Thu 1:50, 4:50, 7:45, 10:30; Sun 12:30, 2:45, 7:45, 10:30

THE VOW (PG) Digital Cinema Fri-Sun 12:00,

2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00; Digital Cinema Mon-Tue, Thu 12:50, 3:40, 6:40, 9:30; Closed Captioned Wed 3:40, 6:40, 9:30; Star & Strollers Screening: Wed 1:00

THE GREY (14A course language, gory scenes) Closed Captioned Fri-Tue, Thu 12:45, 3:30, 6:45, 9:45; Wed 12:45, 3:30, 9:45

JOURNEY 2 THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND: An Imax 3d Experience (PG) Daily 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:30, 9:50

Wwe Elimination Chamber–2012 (Classification not available) Sun 6:00 WETASKIWIN CINEMAS Wetaskiwin 780.352.3922

The Vow (PG) Daily 6:50, 9:20; Fri-MOn 12:50, 3:20

Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance (14A

frightening scenes) Daily 7:00, 9:30; Fri-Mon 1:00, 3:30

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Coffee, with its ability to wake us up and keep us up, has long been a part of humans getting anything done around here. To celebrate this humble but powerful bean, Vue Weekly presents its Coffee Issue, featuring a look into the third wave of coffee in Edmonton, the curious combination of beer and coffee and a view into the caffeine intake of the Vue Weekly staff. Crunchy

With its origins in Ethiopia just prior to the 6th century AD, coffee was originally eaten, not drunk.

The musical fruit

Coffee "beans" are technically the seed of a coffee berry. Once the berries ripen, they are picked, the flesh removed, the seed fermented, washed, dried and then roasted. Finally it is ground and brewed, then served.

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Kopi luwak coffee, however, does not simply undergo the picking-washing-drying-roasting method. Instead, Kopi luwak beans are eaten

by the Asian Palm Civet and passed through its digestive tract. Once defecated, the beans are collected by a farmer, washed, dried and then lightly roasted. Considered an incredibly aromatic coffee with very little bitterness, kopi luwak is the world's most expensive coffee, selling for up to $600 per pound.

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Oi vey!

Balanced diet

Prior to the 1920s, there was debate amongst Jewish communities as to whether or not coffee was a legume and therefore prohibited for Passover. After coffeemaker Maxwell House adjured, Orthodox Rabbi Hersch Kohn certified coffee kosher for Passover, deciding that coffee beans were a berry—therefore a fruit—

Viva Brazilia

Brazil leads the world in coffee production, more than doubling its nearest competitor, Vietnam. The country produces more than two million tonnes of coffee per year.

Coffee has been linked to ulcers, high blood pressure, raised cholesterol and anemia. But it has also been linked to reduced risk of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, cirrhosis of the liver and gallstones, it can increase the effectiveness of pain medication and it's solely responsible for 86 percent of PhD theses.

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offee in this town has taken a turn for the amazing within the last couple of years: spreading from the centre to the outskirts, and even into the suburbs, good coffee is now available everywhere. To get a sense of what it takes to make a truly excellent cup of coffee and the commitment to quality of the new third-wave coffee shops, Vue Weekly gathered Representatives from Transcend Coffee, Credo Coffee, Elm Café and Sherwood Park's Café Haven around a table and let them chat.

Getting into it Poul Mark, Transcend: I wanted a place

for conversation to begin with and then the push for quality led me down into a path of passion for the people that grow the coffee and the desire to know them and celebrate their hard work and promote their hard work. I was in construction my whole life and this was more a home passion that's come to life in our cafe. [My wife] Joanne and I, whenever we visit a city it's going into the coffee shops and cafes, not the bars and restaurants so much, and realizing that that's where the heart of the city is. That's what we wanted to recreate.

Geoff Linden, Credo:

For some reason it got in my head that I wanted to roast. I got a popcorn popper and started to roast in my house. That was a bad idea ... too much smoke, but eventually it grew from there.

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Michael Harvey, Café Haven: I didn't have my first cup of coffee until 2007. My first one was at Transcend, when Andrew Legg served me a four-shot Americano and it was the best thing I'd ever drank ... I'd only been a tea drinker up to that point in my life. I took a lot of education from Chad Moss, who at the time wasn't even part of Transcend. He was up north doing construction, but he was an ex-barista champion from Australia. It totally fascinated me—as soon as I got an inkling that there was so much to this I was blown away, really intrigued.

wild" and this is what it progressed into. That's where we experienced coffee for the first time and then took it from there.

The "other" guys

NB: Starbucks and Second Cups have introduced so many people [to coffee] and you can't fault them for that. I mean, my mom knows what an Americano is and 10 years ago she had no idea—she was drinking Sanka.

PM: On roast level there's a massive gap

between what we do and what Starbucks does. Even their "Blonde," which they've just released, is 10 times darker than anything I roast. So there's a huge gap in flavour profile between what Starbucks does and what we do. And in quality there's a huge gap. I've seen the coffee on the patios that Starbucks buys, I know what the quality level is. Compared to what we're after there's a marked departure and that's part of the reason I think they perpetuate the dark roast, is they have to hide a bit the lack of quality in the blend. GL: From the café point of view, they allow us to do what we do: they created that café culture and they introduced it to the mass market. I don't know if "abandoned" is the right word, but they left the top tier of that available.

MH: Sometimes I think we're almost out of touch with the real world. Last week Tim Hortons brought out a 24 oz cup for their coffee. That's terrifying! That's three-quarters of a litre of coffee. For us, if we're going to drink black coffee, it makes sense to drink a little at a time. You're going to enjoy it more, it's not going to get stale. PM: It's like the Big Gulp of coffee.

When we were opening we were honestly considering just doing an eightand a 12-ounce cup. That was going to be our cup sizes, a small and a large. We went around to friends and people in the neighbourhood and asked, "What do you think of these?" and we put an eight and a 12 and asked about a 10 and a 16 and nobody picked an eight-ounce cup. And that's in downtown Edmonton.

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MH: Eight ounces is such a nice size, it really is such a nice size for a cup of coffee.

Nate Box, Elm Café: The first coffee I ever MH: They used manual machines and were dedicated to the pulling of an espresso shot correctly, but corporate mentality changed all that. GL: So maybe "abandoned" is the right word.

home machines as well—that's where my background is in coming into this industry. I call it the "home passion gone

A standard cappuccino is five ounces, a macchiato is three ounces. It's the problem we have in North America, we're addicted to cheap, we're addicted to big, and we're fighting against that. It's not always easy and sometimes it's frustrating but that's the reality of it.

PM:

MH: Pretty much, yeah.

They went to the super auto [fully automated espresso machines] and that's when the quality really started to crash—you can only do so much with something like that.

PM: GL: Leva was a great place because of the

MH: From a café perspective there's several things you're looking for. There has to be a complete package in terms of the quality they're providing you, the end product you're getting from your machines and the level of service they're providing you and support. You're dealing with complicated machinery and you need to be able to handle that and prepare that and we've had our fair share of problems with that over the last year, and Stumptown has been phenomenal for support. Stumptown, along with Intelligentsia, is one of the grandfathers of the third-wave movement and the way that they source coffee, the prices they pay is up there. The way they work with farmers, it can probably be echoed by what Poul does as an approach.

MH: Originally they didn't. PM: They used to be very, very good.

started drinking that I thought was of any quality was at [Da Capo Caffé owner] Antonio Bilotta's shop when he was at Leva. That was '03, '04, and that's when I was doing my undergrad and I just hung out there. It was a quaint spot for me to skip university and I got introduced to proper coffee and milk and realized there's a whole other culture to coffee.

allowed us to use that level of coffee that was completely different from anything that was being served in the city at that time. We're able to be very proud of what we serve because we enjoy it. They're actually the pioneers of buying direct-trade coffee and visiting farms, it's a great education from there, it's been a great ride for six years with them.

The coffee [Coffee company] Intelligentsia, their espresso appealed to our palate on a home level. That sold us at that point and from there it was creating a café that GL:

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Transcend is a small roastery, we're small still in terms of the overall specialty industry. This year, we'll probably do 85 000 pounds. Intelligentsia does around three million pounds, Stumptown probably around the same. That puts us in perspective. 49th Parallel is probably doing a couple hundred thousand pounds ... Tim Hortons roasts 100 000 pounds a day. We're after some of the highest levels of quality coffee in the world. That works for us because we have a mostly retail marketplace, we're not wholesale. We're able to pass on what is, in some ways, outrageous prices for the coffee we pay to our customers.

PM:

MH: There's

a finite price point you can charge for a cup of coffee. Us in this room, we're staying pretty close to what the franchises are charging for a cup of coffee because we have to to survive, but it's shocking for us all because we know just how much better the coffee we have is compared to those guys. But that's just the way the game is, that's the business we chose.

PM: Because of the crash of the US housing market, investors got scared and focused their attention on commodities so, in the last year and a half, speculation in the commodity market has driven the price up to a point that's almost the highest price coffee's been at in 60 years. That's wreaked havoc on a lot of business models because the industry got addicted to this cheap coffee but the problem with this cheap coffee is that 90 percent of the people growing it are impoverished and can't afford to eat, let alone send their kids to school or feed their families. The 20-billion-dollar-a-year industry that coffee is worldwide is largely built on the backs of the impoverished of this world and it's really appalling for the most part. That's the challenge that we have to face and consumers are going to have to get their heads wrapped around it because the reality is that prices are going to keep going up. With climate change we've hit peak coffee, the supply cannot meet the demand anymore, and so the prices are just going to go up and up and up and up.

The food GL: We don't want a menu of 100 items. We're a coffee shop so we'll

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Training I haven't changed staff in almost eight months. That's incredible actually and I sit back in wonder of it. In this industry, that's just amazing.

GL:

stick to baking. That's a complement and that's the end of the day for us. PM: We didn't ever do food, we just did

bakery as well for the longest time but then we had Chad [Moss], who's a Red Seal chef and used to roast for us. He wanted to get into the food thing and so we took the dive last year ... and we rolled out a Latin American streetfood menu. We're giving Edmonton an opportunity to experience food that comes from where coffee grows. Transcend's quite vertical: you have the roastery and then you have the cafe to showcase your coffee, so it makes some sense to have that food experience follow that approach. For a lot of us it's more about being that community cafe, having the food as a part of the lunch menu for us. We have comforting, hearty, interesting food, a little bit different from the typical coffee shop.

MH:

NB: For

us coffee was almost a secondary thing to what we're doing in our location. We saw coffee as something to fill a void in that neighbourhood. I've lived in that neighbourhood for five or six years and the best cup of coffee you can get is at Starbucks. That's hard because on Saturdays you want to be able to wander across the street and get a coffee. So we looked at it like, "We need to do coffee and we need to do it well," and the food side of it, that's what I'm passionate about, so we wanted to do that in a way that people aren't used to and draw people there.

GL: I think the bottom line is that all of us are bringing that sense of quality to the food we offer the same as the coffee. Everything we make is fromscratch, in-house, it's baked daily and it's fresh and every one of us is doing exactly the same thing. I don't think we could do anything else as a group, so that's what we're putting forward.

The food industry is notorious for having constant turnover of people and the fact that we're sitting here saying we've got staff willing to stick around is a testament to how you're running your business. It's not an illustrious career and, to be honest, you can't pay everybody behind the bar a lifetime salary. They're there because they want to be there. They enjoy the environment and they enjoy the work and they're keen on coffee and what you're working on.

it for such a long time and you lose touch. MH: It's true, you don't know, "Should I be

adding more coffee to add sweetness or will that make it too sour?" The barista who sits and plays with those things knows it. They start to break it down.

NB:

GL: If

you've got someone who wants to achieve that, it's easy to teach the tools. Technique is easy, it's just practice and it's understanding what the elements of it are. Training is a big part of it. We've calculated that it costs about $2000 to train someone to become a barista—it's a huge investment. Normally, when we do a hire, you're café staff for three months—you don't get to touch, you don't even get to look at the espresso machine. It takes time to develop. There's skill involved to making a good cup of coffee, there's a lot of skill involved.

PM:

MH: There's some real challenges with the training, especially with espresso. A lot of staff really have never tasted espresso before, so you need to be really willing to learn to taste espresso which is an intense thing to get into ... That's probably one of the hardest things because you're really trying to get them to understand their palate. And that's huge.

I'll freely admit, I don't even understand it anymore. I'm not qualified to work at Transcend, I'm not a barista—they won't let me near the bar. I haven't done PM:

It always comes down to the variables and eliminating one variable at a time until you come down to the problem or the success. That's how we break it down in the shop and that's how we approach it. That's separate from training, that's the next level. That's when you find the people that are truly in the game, they understand it from that level.

GL:

Why no blender drinks, caramel, fruit smoothies? We're trying to keep things simple. We've got a small shop and we don't have the ability to do that, nor are we interested in providing people with a gamut of choices of things they don't need. If people want to drink coffee we should be giving coffee to them as coffee, not as Orange Mocha Frappucinos—that masks everything you're trying to do. We do one syrup which is vanilla and it's just vanilla paste and we leave it at that.

NB:

GL: Simplicity's

a big one for us as well. It's about doing what we do well and presenting that. We have chocolate and we have vanilla but that's almost a wink and a nod—they're from beans.

MH: We

make our own vanilla syrup, we use an organic, Madagascar vanilla bean and actually make the syrup. Something we've been keen to do is to get people used to our drinks ... if they want to keep it a little bit sweeter that's fine, but we have to stay true to what we're trying to do, which is make a good coffee drink.

NB: It's a question of how you go about it, too. You're not going to mock and ridicule people, say, "We don't do that here," and show them the door. We're trying to bridge a gap between people who've been introduced to six different flavour sources and now they've been introduced to your cafe and you're trying to make them stick around.

We're all only three or four or five years away from that ourselves and it's a progression we've all gone through. There's no harm in it and no reason to look down on anybody for it. They're there and we're glad they're there.

GL:

At the end of the day it comes down to quality: the lack of quality requires doctoring to make it palatable. That's why Tim Hortons' most popular drink is a double-double— because the coffee doesn't taste that good on its own and people want their coffee but need two or three packages of sugar and to fill it half full of cream, and Starbucks is no different. When you serve better quality coffee you can let the coffee sing and that's what it's about, really.

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We decided to keep track of our coffee intake for this issue of Vue Weekly, and it turns out we're an office full of addicts! It took us approximately

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medium sized cups of coffee for this single issue!

How did we come up with that number? Well, we made a few assumptions ... We, very unscientifically, assumed that a large coffee is 1.5 mediums, and that an extra large is 2 mediums. (we completely made that number up without even looking up the actual sizes, cause we're lazy like that.) Then we made a little spreadsheet and graphed it out with these little mugs you see to the right (cause we're not lazy like that).

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They are polar opposites. One is whether the coffee should be your morning pick-me-up. The other made with cold water or with specializes in night-time revelry. But hot water and then cooled. That some special things can happen when is splitting hairs. you put them together. I am speaking You might also be asking if the of coffee and beer. You can be forcaffeine survives. From the given for crinkling your nose best information I can at the thought of combingather, the answer ing the two, but, under the is yes, meaning you ly.com can combine your k right circumstances, they e e w e int@vu tothep can work. depressant and your Jason For example, think about a stimulant in one bevr e t Fos rich, full-bodied stout. It has a erage. No need to hit the mild roastiness that can often remind 24-hour Humpty's after all. you of coffee. So, it isn't a far stretch The best qualities of coffee to consider putting coffee in a beer make their way through in the like that. And many craft brewers in beer, meaning if you like cofthe last few years have done exactly fee, you will love coffee beer. that. In fact, it is more than stouts But the best way to bring you which have embraced an addition of around is to get you to try some. coffee. A number of beer styles can Allow me to offer a couple of support the robust, rich flavours and good examples, spanning the aromas that coffee imparts on beer. range of intensity, that give you So, how do you put coffee in beer? a good sense of what coffee can There are two basic ways. Some do for beer. brewers add freshly made and cooled coffee to their mash. This generOn the lighter end of the scale is ally results in a softer, more subtle the Coffee Porter from Toronto's Mill coffee character to the beer. More Street Brewing ($13.75 for a six pack). commonly, the coffee is added after The beer has a rich, velvety chocolate fermentation, in a secondary tank or character, which on its own might be even just before bottling. This offers rather sweet. The addition of coffee a sharper taste and a more assertive adds a slight roast and dries out the aroma. There is some debate about finish. Coffee flavours are present, but

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generally lurk in the background. This is a subtle dark beer that stands out because of its coffee additions. On the more assertive end of the scale you will find Yukon Brewing's Midnight Sun Espresso Stout ($13.99 for six pack), which I have favourably reviewed in the past (got to bit.ly/

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espressostout to find it). The beer starts with a strong roast quality and some dark, milky silkiness. Then the espresso, hand roasted in Whitehorse, kicks in, giving the beer a pronounced roast bitterness and deep burnt accent. A bit of oatmeal softens the rougher edges of the beer and helps it achieve a balance between dark roast and malt sweet. This is a great example of adding coffee to the mash. Most coffee beer are dark and roasty styles, like stout and porter. This is natural, as the bitter, earthy roast of coffee accents the flavours naturally found in those styles and doesn't overpower the beer. However, it doesn't have to be that way. Roving, mad Danish genius Mikkeller recently had a coffee-infused India Pale Ale available in Alberta. Sadly it is now sold out, but it did prove that you can add coffee to lighter-coloured beer. Sticking with Mikkeller, the brewery has what might be the king of intense coffee beer in its Beer Geek Breakfast ($15.99 for 500 ml bottle) series (one of which included the addition of bacon just to complete the breakfast experience of the beer). Most closely

resembling a Russian Imperial Stout, these are big, alcoholic beer which don't compromise on coffee or other beer flavours. There are a few different versions available. I picked up the original, which is 7.5 percent alcohol. The first impressions have less coffee than might be expected. I pick up dark, rich malt sweetness, some bitter roast, a bit of vanilla and a hint of smokiness. Yes, there is some espresso-like roast as well, but it is subdued. Coffee comes through more in the flavour. After a bit of chocolate and burnt sugar, the coffee roast comes rushing in to coat my mouth. It plays with the dark malt bitterness to create a rich, sharp coffee/beer experience. The body is quite silky (due to a large addition of oats), which is a good thing as it softens the overall impression of the beer. The roast is intense, and you can certainly tell that coffee is a key part of this beer. Full bodied, intense and warming. As you may now see, when added to beer coffee adds complexity, enhancing roast character and giving an earthy note to the flavour. Most coffee beer are darker, which makes sense, but it is not impossible to make a lighter coffee beer. So go crazy and combine your morning java and your evening pint. V

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ments of inspiration." "Even though he was born like this, it shouldn't be a deterrent to life." And yet, for many paraplegics, there are still barriers to activity and participation in sports. From the simple fear of trying something new and fraught with physical risk, to the issues of access to venues, specialized

sporting gear and cost, the disabled athlete has to overcome many hurdles an able-bodied person simply doesn't encounter. It's only really during the last five to 10 years that these obstacles have started to be removed, says Andreas Donauer. Donauer is the head instructor for the Edmonton chapter of the Canadian Association for Dis-

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abled Skiing (CADS) and an orthotist at the Glenrose Rehabilitation Centre, where he sees paraplegics like Micah regularly. "It matters for their wellbeing, their happiness and satisfaction with life," he stresses, "and the fitness aspect is huge. I work in a hospital and I know there are a lot of health issues with not being active and this gets that

population out and active and helps them stay strong and healthy as long as they can." The Edmonton chapter of CADS currently has approximately 60 instructors who support about 40 students of varying abilities. In addition to paraplegic skiers, there are also visually CONTINUED ON PAGE 29 >>

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Deals to be had in Jasper Jasper in January is a distant memory but the hoteliers in Jasper are in the mood to continue rolling out some amazing deals. Browsing through their websites, I found some pretty incredible deals. For $299 per person you can get a room for three nights at the Sawridge Inn, which doesn't sound that great until you look further and see that this deal includes three days of lift tickets and allows for weekend bookings. This is a 33 percent saving, as normally this price gets you a two-day package. Similar $95 – $120 per-night deals can be found at the Amethyst, Marmot Lodge, Lobstick Lodge, and the list goes on. Some will even throw in a hot breakfast, but you better check all the details online because a few of the best deals are mid-week only and some may have to be booked in advance. With your room sorted out, all you have to worry about is the snow conditions and in that respect I have some great news. Marmot Basin has an incredible base right now and when I checked the Weather Network's longterm forecast, there were 10 straight days of snowflakes on the horizon. I haven't seen that in years and I, for one, can't wait to get on the slopes. V

Musical acts and slopeside parties are plentiful Music seems to go hand in hand with skiing and snowboarding and this time of year the resorts and hotels start cranking up the entertainment. On Saturday, February 18, Redfish will be performing in the lodge at Castle Mountain, while just across the border in Fernie Shred Kelly will be rockin' the Griz Bar from February 18 – 19. The following weekend (February 25 – 26), the Back in Blues Band will get you up on your feet and stretching those weary powderpounding legs. Further west, on February 23 James Struthers and Kate Morgan will stop for one night only at Sun Peaks Resort near Kamloops. Closer to home at the Rose and Crown Pub in Banff, there's a lineup of nightly entertainment including Dirty North Boys and Dean Lonsdale & the Ramifications. And to finish off the month, pay a visit to Whitewater Ski Resort, where North America's backcountry skiers will be celebrating their sixth annual Kootnenay Coldsmoke Powder Festival from February 24 – 26. V

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ire sculptors, athletes, orienteerers and snow artists make for strange bedfellows—but that eclectic blend helps form the core of this weekend's Silver Skate Festival, which gets underway tomorrow. Add to the mix blacksmithing, dogsledding and figure skating demos, bannock making, outdoor games and roving performers and there's a little something for everyone, says assis-

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tant festival producer Erin DiLoreto. It's tough to argue with her. To make it to 22 years and hold the title of longest-running winter festival in Edmonton, Silver Skate's organizers must be doing something right. "We try to give people a real experience," Erin continues. "There are lots of free things to do, like cross-country skiing and snowshoeing, family snow sculpting, fun races and all different kinds of unique programming to celebrate our Edmonton culture." Along with the usual speed skating competitions and winter biathlon, those with a sporty inclination can

hit up the free curling, sledge hockey, figure skating and other activities on offer at the Family Fun Zones. Artisans can head for the theatrical and musical performances, plus fire and snow sculpting and one of the fest's brand new events, the Baba Yaga Trail. "Memi Von Gaza has create the first Silver Skate Folk Trail around the story of Baba Yaga and the Firebird," Erin says. "It's fully interactive. Festival-goers can do the trail, there's an on-site tent to make lanterns as well as feathers for the fire sculpture." KATE IRWIN

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n their recent first ascent of Helmcken Falls, BC in December 2011, ice climbers Will Gadd and Tim Emmett faced 20-foot icicles on a sheer overhang, with freezing ice spray and CAP12010.SNOW.101.4C.VUE -25 C temperatures. Hanging over a 100Vue Weekly foot ice hole as they climbed, one slip Insertion Date: N/A meant almost certain death. General Motors APD12005 "Winter makes everything harder," reflects Gadd. "It always adds an extra layer of difficulty to anything." The pursuit of winter ascents has been a long, gloried and tragic tale, raising Production Contact Numbers: 403 261 7161 403 261 7152 many questions about sacrifice, obsession, human endurance and the value of life—questions that figure prominently in Bernadette McDonald's Freedom Climbers (2011, Rocky Mountain Books). During the "Golden Age" from the late 1960s to mid '80s, Polish climbers earned a reputation as the hardiest climbers in the sport for their first winter ascents of many of the "8000ers": a collection of the world's 14 tallest peaks, including Everest, the Gasherbrums and K2, all of which exceed 8000 metres. In examining the influences—politics, heritage, economics and community—that underpinned Polish national success in alpine endeavours, Freedom Climbers questions whether the same appetite exists in contemporary Western culture, with its increasing comfort and luxury. "Adversity shapes the best climbers," McDonald writes, "prosperity is not as inspiring." In that context, the short history of the Knuckle Basher Ice Climbing Festival in Canmore offers an interesting window onto the sport. In 2009, the recession had forced the Knuckle Basher's sponsors to cancel the fledgling festival in only its second year. At the last minute, Adventure Logistics, an upstart outdoor guiding and event organizing company, stepped in to revive the event. For the next two years, Adventure Logistics kept the festival going, before turning it over to MEC and Yamnuska Mountain Adventures this season. Climbing sport is enjoying a renaissance in popular culture and the survival of the Knuckle Basher through those lean years bodes well for climbers in the region. But is the cultural appetite for climbing and the risks it entails as strong

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in Alberta as, say, in Poland's glory days? "Every society has a certain number of people who need to go out and do things they see as meaningful and risky," argues Gadd. "There are always these malcontents that head off into the wilderness, one way or another." For those malcontents, Canmore and festivals like the Knuckle Basher play a key role in driving the sport forward. Over 500 people attended the Knuckle Basher this February 11 – 12, which featured beginner and advanced clinics, demos and a Saturday night gala with guest Jen Olson (who recently placed top 20 at the UIAA Ice Climbing World Cup). "Canmore has historically had a strong climbing culture," adds Gadd, who describes himself as a Canmore lifer. "It is one of the world epicenters for climbing." For Gadd, though, few can compare to the Polish climbers. "What the Polish guys were doing was pretty new at that time ... they pushed the sport of mountain climbing a long way. Those guys were tough sons of bitches." Freedom Climbers is the first telling of their story and it captures the magnificence of their achievements. But it also casts their accomplishments against the high human costs of their adventures. Preserving alpine history was an important part of writing the book, McDonald acknowledges, but, "Almost more important to me was, how could that happen in those circumstances?" she says. "I've heard very detailed descriptions of what life was like and the ability to rise above that, to thumb their noses at it and be entrepreneurs when it wasn't an entrepreneurial society, to be creative ... to speak up when they were oppressed and to be free when they weren't free, that transcends the climbing community and history." Human ambition in the mountains is a strange and wonderful thing, wound up in the mystery of life. Whatever the motivation, the pursuit of adventure and its subsequent cultural manifestations have lessons for those ready to learn. Jeremy Derksen

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impaired skiers and those with mental handicaps. Famous alumni from the Edmonton program include Viviane Forest, a legally blind skier and Paralympic gold medalist in alpine racing who has been clocked at speeds of over 120 kilometres per hour. Donauer, now in his 12th season with CADS, explains that all their instructors are volunteers, many drawn from within the skiing community, including the occasional certified ski instructor. Still, he says, many volunteers are a little hesitant starting out. "They don't know what to expect, they're very nervous and worried at first ... they say, 'I don't know if I can do this,' and it's really getting through that barrier and realizing they have a lot to contribute," Donauer says. "After a while the instructors become so dedicated because they know the difference they're making. You can see it each time an instructor comes out, their eyes are glowing and they're asking, what can I do next?" Fresh off his first night as a volunteer, Nick Gilmour is beaming. The University of Alberta engineering student came out expecting just to observe but soon found himself pitching in. "They put me to work and it worked out," he smiles. "The guy we had tonight was just having a blast ... it looked like he was having the time of his life. It was pretty fun." Getting into a sit-ski and pointing it downhill for the first time is an exercise in trust and courage. Most sitskiers start in a double-tether chair,

with two skis underneath for extra balance and ropes behind for volunteers to help guide and control speed. It can take a while before a student is ready to move up to a single ski without tethers. Not Micah. Three seasons ago he tried a tethered chair at Jackson Hole, but he says it was holding him back, forcing him to go too slowly. The following season, an instructor at Sunshine Village put him on a monoski. "He started on the little bunny hill and by that afternoon he was on Angel and Strawberry," says Marian proudly. "The next day he was on Goat's Eye." Micah's quick progression reflects a natural affinity for the sport, something his parents soon recognized. Now, on family ski trips Marian's hard pressed to keep up with his son, he says. Reflecting on what it means to see Micah engaging and excelling in sport, Marian recalls a conversation between Micah and his mother, as Micah tried to describe the experience of skiing. In retelling it, Marian's voice deepens and his eyes glisten just a little. "My wife would probably tell it best. Micah said to my wife Bonnie," and here, Marian's tone softens ever so slightly, "he goes, 'Mom, I've never felt so free.'"

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s a member of Edmonton's rock 'n' roll zoo Les Tabernacles, Rob Wright gained plenty of experience booking tours. So much so that when it came time to get a real job, he got one booking tours for other bands. Now a booking agent for SL Feldman in Vancouver, Wright will return to Edmonton to participate in a panel on touring called Hittin' the Road for the Alberta Music Industry Association. Below are his top five tips for DIY tour booking—but he's got way more, so don't skip the talk.

Have realistic expectations

"I certainly don't want to discourage people from grandiose plans, but keep things somewhat realistic. If you've not yet released a record, maybe you shouldn't embark on a North American tour. It's OK to have the pie-in-thesky dreams and longer goals to work toward, but it's important to really build things out and not just jump immediately. "It's important to realize you're running a business ultimately whether you like it or not—art is art but if you want to make it your living it's

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"An email is a pretty easy thing to ignore. I mean, you don't wanna harass the shit out of anyone and call them 15 times a day and annoy them, but I think that you can be a little more persuasive or just personable on the phone as opposed to an email. "That said, there are club bookers where you'll get them on the phone and they'll go, 'Just email me, just email me.' You'll have a fiveminute conversation on the phone with them and they'll go, 'Yeah, can you just email all that to me?'"

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whole ton of money but maybe you can focus on the major markets at least and you can probably find somebody for a relatively reasonable fee. Ultimately, the promoter may or may not be really on board with getting the word out about your band and that's something that's really essential, particularly for an indie band that doesn't have a label or a publicist in-house at that label to trumpet the band and get the word out about them. "Getting in touch on a street level, getting in touch with blogs, people who are going to be the ground level supporters, is a really important thing."

Realistic drives

"Don't drive overnight. It's tough in a country like Canada, but try to book

shows that are four or six hours apart from each other, or give yourself a day off if you've gotta drive 15 hours. "I've done it before myself, I've done the overnight drives, but I wouldn't recommend it. Book yourself a realistic routing, giving yourself ample time to get to shows. Also, you won't be exhausted at your shows: you'll be able to give a better performance."

Pick your battles

"Don't get wasted every night in a row. Do it every other night and take lots of vitamin C. It can help you to not get sick. "When I was in Les Tabs I would get lung infections fairly often because I would just push things too far. Drinking lots, that sure never helps your immune system. Eat a fucking vegetable and take some vitamin C." Bryan Birtles

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lberta can be a pretty difficult place in which to carve out a lasting musical scene. Sure, groups of artists band together and gel into something solid for a couple of years, but inevitably, there's drift: many eventually uproot and go elsewhere to stake their musical claim. A permanent fixture can be a tough thing to foster in the prairies. When Tuff House Records began back in 1998 as a joint idea of Orville Green (who raps as Wayz) and longtime friend/label-DJ Reno, it was in an attempt to fill in that void, particularly for the urban scene, which then lacked much in the way of organization. "We were young teenagers, [and] there was nothing to help establish the music Alberta was putting out on the urban side," Green says. "On a scheme, on my mother's couch, I decided I'd start it." His mother's couch was the first Tuff House office, he notes (they now operate in Strathcona). And in the 13 years since its inception Tuff House has been trying to keep an urban scene alive and growing in Alberta. Standing in the Strathcona Chapters, flanked by Reno, his label's videographer, Bradlee Clouston, and his own son (happily playing with a couple of loose books), Green

63% ROCK points out some of the trickier aspects of keeping a scene together. "We have the talent, and it's been cultivating for so long," he notes. "But in order for a network to properly work, it needs DJs, promoters." Part of it also seems to be splitting the difference between bringing in some outside artists—Tuff House's upcoming show is being headlined by Royce da 5'9'', an early Eminem collaborator—and ensuring local content's included on the bill. And keeping that local content rotating, too.

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"Especially when it's performers, and you see these same guys opening up [for shows], and it's the same guys, over and over," Reno says. "That's why you gotta start bringing the upcomers in, and see the new talent." To both of them, a focus seems to be keeping the shows varied, letting the lineup shift instead of stagnate. "The label doesn't just represent the urban elite," Green says. "We have to represent the scene as a whole, and we also have to represent Edmonton, and, at the end of the day, we have to represent Alberta. I love Alberta; Alberta's home."

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Supergrass, Road To Rouen Some hauntingly beautiful songs on this record. Playing this music before going to bed maintains my faith in what you can do with bass, drums, piano, guitars and the voice.

Foo Fighters, The Colour And the Shape I listened to this album a lot when it was released and have recently revisited it with fresh ears. It's easier for me to eat lunch on the road knowing Dave Grohl is so versatile.

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f we know the song is not danceable, we're never gonna play it live," says Peter Ricq, one half of Vancouver dance duo Humans. That idea effectively functions as a statement of intent for the band: though it has some calmer numbers in the bag, Humans' primary modus operandi is to set controls for the heart of the dancefloor. Take early single "avec mes mecs" as a torchbearer example: written in the aftermath of a New Year's celebration that raged for three nights (which is sort of telling in and of itself), it sports a rallying chorus of, "Who knew / All we had

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to do was party?" that's given a disaffected delivery and drifts over a growing electronic beat and increasingly punchy synth. It grooves and shakes and, though it's a fine listen

through headphones, it's clearly meant to be heard while in motion. The party the song's based on, Ricq notes, wasn't quite as all-encompasing for him as for co-Human

Robbie Slade. "It was mostly Robbie—I had broken up with my girlfriend, so I was not that into a party mood," Ricq says, adding a laugh. "So I missed one of those three nights of mayhem that he had." The pair pull from varied backgrounds: Ricq is a former warehouse party promoter; Slade used to be a folk musician. After becoming a duo when a promoter wanted Ricq to heighten the presence of his live show, the band shifted focus to electronics, and geared those toward the live setting. Ricq notes that, finances permitting, they'll bring a live drummer into the fold soon enough, but in the meantime, Humans is getting ready to release an EP that's been on the cusp of coming out for about a

year now. It's shifted forms a couple of times in that span. "First we had an EP, then it became an album—we had 23 songs—and we put it down to 12," Ricq explains. "And at 12, the label's like, 'Oh, rerecord these ones and we'll put it out as an EP.' So, one year later, back to an EP. But it's better than it was: it sounds better. It's the first time we worked with a real producer, and it does make a difference."" "We don't really think about how we're going to play [it] live," Ricq adds about the material they've written, "but we do think about what energy the song brings out, and we always have it in mind to have people dancing. That's the most important thing." PAUL BLINOV

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Mark Lanegan Blues Funeral (4AD)  "With piranha teeth / I've been dreaming of you," begins Mark Lanegan, in his tombstone baritone, at the start of "The Gravedigger's Song." That's his come hither: over chugging, fuzzed-out bass, a digital stutter and a rattling Jack Irons drum run, the first song on Blues Funeral turns out to be a love ballad, or at least as much of one as Lanegan's capable of. It laments one no longer with him, but undercuts the heaviness of sentiment with a disaffected shrug in the way only the exScreaming Trees turned ex-Queens of the Stone Age member could. You can almost hear the grin hidden underneath all the mourning. Happy Valentine's day everybody. Mark Lanegan sent a black bouquet in Blues Funeral, and it's the finest solo gesture he's made in at least a few albums (and his first solo release since 2004's Bubblegum). Lanegan seems to exist outside the streams of style or time: he toils on whatever ideas he's interested in at his own pace, regardless of whatever else is going on—often stripped down to let that whiskysoaked voice really ring out over the notes. But despite Blues Funeral's lyrical focus on death and the departed, Lanegan sounds energized and lively: the guitars are plugged in and amped up, Iron's drumming is rhythmic and nuanced,

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and Alain Johannes's production makes the overall sound much larger than usual. The morbid subject matter of the lyrics rarely enters into the instrumentation, instead letting the instrumentals play off the sentiment and balance it out into something hypnotic. Simmering ballad "Bleeding Muddy Water" delivers lines like "You're the bullet in the gun / Muddy Water, you're heaven sung" with guitars that rise up in almost a wash of relief. "Gray Goes Black" is as close to an indie-rocker as anything Lanegan's ever written; "Ode to Sad Disco" is probably the most danceable thing he's ever done. Album standout "St Louis Elegy" abandons words altogether at its chorus, letting Lanegan's croon rise above in a wash of sound. It is, in a way, playing to his usual strength: Mark Lanegan's strongest weapon has always been that singular, impossibly ochre voice, and it's never wasted, though it sometimes feels like a crutch he leans on; some of his more strip-the-bones acoustic releases simply feel like a vehicle for that voice. Not on Blues Funeral: here, the music has its own propulsion and pull, and it complements what's already an unnatural instrument. On "Elegy," and the rest of Blues Funeral, the pairing is transcendent.

With perhaps the most legendary Rolodex in rock 'n' roll journalism— and judging by his penchant for vintage clothing, I'm guessing the Human Serviette employs an actual Rolodex on his desk—Evaporators frontman and legendary guerrilla interviewer pulled out all the stops on Busy Doing Nothing!, an album of Canadian punkrock covers that can't help be as much a straight-up Evaporators album as anything else. With contributions from the likes of Jill Barber, the Cribs, Kate Nash, Franz Ferdinand, Andrew WK and a number of others, the only real disappointment is that the presence of all the guests didn't significantly change the feel of the album— not that I'm unhappy with another Evaporators album, just that if you're going to go to all the trouble of gathering all these guests, you might as well go the distance. The album's highlight, "Bring it on Home," is a duet between Nardwuar and Jill Barber, with Andrew WK partying down on piano and organ. That song, a DollyParton-Kenny-Rogers-duet-esque crooner, takes the albums elements— Nard, the Evaporators, guest artists— and squeezes them through an entirely new filter, making the whole greater than the sum of its parts and still retaining the sense of goofy fun the Evaporators are known for. More of that kind of feeling would have seriously upped the party.

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R Kelly, "Share My Love" R Kelly has long-since proven he's willing to do whatever the fuck he wants—be it a boderline brilliant / borderline insane rap opera that basicaly alternates between two musical chords for 20-odd instalments, or write about what Batman's Gotham City can aspire to be, or whatever—but him rattling off a bouncy old-school disco number complete with string sweeps, soul singer crooning and bass-from-the-hip might be the weirdest change of tune he's ever pulled. Strange is its adherence to the genre, and while this let's-bone track only mildly tones down self-aggrandizement of his usual verses, it's a pretty bang-on attempt at a beloved style that feels far cleaner than Kelly's work usually does. Beguiling.

Mac DeMarco, "Rock And Roll Night Club" Former Edmontonian Mac DeMarco, striking out under his own name after leaving his previous Makeout Videotape moniker behind, has let slip a few songs in advance of his solo debut, Rock And Roll Night Club. This is one of them, and with it, the guy proves he could've fronted the bar band in Twin Peaks. The title track has hazy guitars that sound like they're filtered through clouds of cigarette smoke, and, coupled with DeMarco's alluring voice, it perfectly captures the murky pull of some roadside club off the beaten path.

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Eluveitie Helvetios (Nuclear Blast)

Dirty Ghosts Metal Moon (Last Gang)

Royal Canoe Extended Play (Independent)

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The bass rolls and rumbles over and around the drums. Guitars alternately rail along in jagged attacks, push up against the rhythm with slinky notes or simply wash away into a trippedout reverb. Dirty Ghosts' Metal Moon wanders a musical wasteland full of the scraps of everything from punk to reggae to new wave—and anything else in between—yet it doesn't sound patched together. Maybe it's the intensity of Allyson Baker's vocals that ties the record together into a consistent wave of sound, or maybe it's the dedication to a gritty underground groove that never falters no matter where the focus of any given track lies. Whatever it is, it's pretty great as the songs boil up and threaten to spill over, seemingly more dangerous for coming right to the edge and holding ever so slightly back then if they'd been allowed to run completely unrestrained.

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Winnipeg's Royal Canoe offers tribal-vibed pop music that breathes in deeply, then shouts its inner joys out loud. Each of Extended Play's four songs are packed full of shifting textures and off-kilter, unusual time-signature rhythms: it starts with the building chants of "Hold On To The Metal" but runs through the multiple revisions of instrumentation in "Bathtubs"— where little flourishes of this and that crop up throughout—right to the relaxed, borderline soul jam "Caught In A Loop." It's like the Animal Collective made a record that reversed that band's usual 60-percent weirdo / 40-percent pop balance; Extended Play is brimming with energy and ideas, but never seems overstuffed or inaccessible. Paul Blinov

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MUSIC NOTES Görgön Hörde / Fri, Feb 17 (9 pm) In Greek mythology, a gorgon is a terrifying female creature. A Görgön Hörde then, would seem to be a whole group of terrifying female creatures with an affinity for Motörhead. Whether or not that's true—and it isn't—remains to be seen as local punk band Görgön Hörde releases its third album this Friday. (DV8)

Rock Off for the Edmonton Food Bank / Fri, Feb 17 (8 pm) You can't eat rocks, but rock is going to help people who don't have enough to eat. In the first annual Rock Off for the Edmonton Food Bank, Feast or Famine will face off against Freshman Years, while the Weekend Kids will face off against the the Old Wives. Sources close to the Weekend Kids have alleged that the members of the Old Wives ate off the seniors menu the last time the two groups toured together, a charge that will be answered by a flurry of rock this Friday. (Pawn Shop, $8 with a can of food)

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presidential. Dave sure knows how to pick 'em. No word yet on what sex legend, Jack Daniels fan and drug legalization proponent Lemmy Kilmister—frontman of Motörhead, who are also on the tour—had to say about it. (Shaw Conference Centre, $64.75)

Deep Purple / Tue, Feb 21 (7:30 pm) Smoke on the WA-TER! (Rexall Place, $77 – $97)

Haven Social Club Fundraiser / Sun, Feb 19 (1 pm & 7 pm) Haven Social Club has provided a home for hundreds of bands in this city and hundreds more from without. With good sound, good pay and a good atmosphere, it's one of the best places to play and now it needs help. Holding two shows in one day as a fundraiser—the shows feature the likes of F&M, Souljah Fyah and Boogie Patrol—do consider coming out and supporting a venue that has long supported local, independent art. (Haven Social Club, $10 minimum donation)

Megadeth / Fri, Feb 17 (6 pm) In a recent interview, Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine said he'd like to see Rick Santorum as the next president of the United States, saying, "I think Santorum has some presidential qualities." He's right, though, y'know? Comparing two consensual adults in a same-sex relationship to kid fuckers and dog fuckers is very presidential. Santorum's desire to see women kept out of the workforce is very presidential. His racist interpretation of welfare is very

Linda Tillery & the Cultural Heritage Choir / Sat, Feb 18 (2 pm & 7 pm) Hailing from Oakland and deeply connected to the members' African and Caribbean roots, the Cultural Heritage Choir will perform twice this Saturday: a one-hour concert in the afternoon and a two-hour show at night. So decide how much Cultural Heritage Choir you need and get on out there. (Horizon Stage, Spruce Grove, $15 – $25)

Bombay Bicycle Club / Thu, Feb 23 (9 pm) If you've ever spent a night getting shitfaced in Britain, you'll know that the thing to eat in the wee hours of the morning is not pizza by the slice, nor a late night run to McDonalds. Instead, Indian places are open late for you to get tikka masala and naan to soak up all that liquor. Hailing from Crouch End in North London, Bombay Bicycle Club is an indie rock band named after a chain of Indian restaurants in that city. I'm not saying the band loves drinking, I'm just saying its members are familiar with it. (Starlite Room, $15)

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

bohemia Love is for Chumps: an anti-v-day celebration: Robyn Slack (rock), Victoria Baldwin (singer/songwriter), The Malmo Boys (rock), Miek Headache (folk); 8pm; no minors; $5 (door) Brittanys Lounge Rob Taylor (live performance and interview by Grant Stovel for CKUA's Backstage Series)

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J R Bar and Grill Live Jam Thu; 9pm

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L.B.'s Pub Open jam with Kenny Skoreyko, Fred LaRose and Gordy Mathews (Shaved Posse) every Thu; 9pm-1am Lit Italian Wine Bar Sleeping Stones Marybeth's Coffee House–Beaumont Open mic every Thu; 7pm New City Legion Bingo is Back every Thu starting 9pm; followed by Behind The Red Door at 10:30pm; no minors; no cover

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New West Hotel Rodeowind

Wild Bill’s–Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close

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NORTH GLENORA HALL Jam by Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu Ric’s Grill Peter Belec ( jazz); most Thursdays; 7-10pm Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Duane Allen Sherlock Holmes– WEM Alesha and Brendon Wild Bill’s–Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close

Classical Winspear Centre ESO and Winspear Overture (backstage tour); 12-1pm

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The Artery Opening party for art works by Justin Shaw and Lisa RezansoffFriday; music by Wild Rose Orchestra and Gene Kosowan; no cover; 7pm Avenue Theatre The JollyGood, In Limbo, Surviving Suzanne, Cheap; 9pm; $10 (adv)/$12 (door) Blue Chair Café LRT Lionel Rault Trio; 8:30pm; $12 Blues on Whyte Michael Charles Brittany's Lounge Gareth Lambkin (solo acoustic musings); 9pm1am Brixx bar Early Show: Vista Waves, Those Are Them, 6pm; Late show: followed at 10pm by Options CARROT Live music every Fri; Scott Peters and James Morrissey; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door) CASINO EDMONTON Whiskey Boyz (pop/rock) CASINO YELLOWHEAD Suite 33 (pop/rock) Century Casino Honeymoon Suite; 8pm; $34.45 at TicketMaster

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DV8 Zero Cool, Gorgon Horde (CD release) Kroovy Rookers; 9pm

Eddie shorts Andrew Scott and Charlie Scream's Rip Snortin' Weekend Starter; 9pm Expressionz Café Winterfest–Uptown Folk Club: Pascal Lecours, Lucette, Shane Chisholm, Roger James, Wendell Ferugson; 6-11pm; $20 (Fri)/$40 (Fri & Sat) at Myhre's, and Acoustic Music Shop FRESH START BISTRO Darrell Barr; 7-10pm; $10 Good Neighbor Pub T.K. and the Honey Badgers every friday; 8:30-midnight; no cover

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bohemia NTM Entertainment presents Broken Beatz (Emma's Birthday Bash): DRKWTR (breaks), DJ SugarBear (DnB, Breaks), DJ Funk'd (Breaks), Teller (D 'n' B, Breaks), JPlunder (Glitch, Dubstep, Drumstep), Famus (Dubstep), Rorschach (Dubstep); 8:30pm; no minors; $10 (door)

Jekyll and Hyde Pub Headwind (classic pop/ rock); every Fri; 9pm; no cover

Boneyard Ale House The Rock Mash-up: DJ NAK spins videos every Fri; 9pm; no cover

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Horizon Stage– Spruce Grove The Human Statues; 9pm; $25 (adult)/$20 (student/ senior)/$5 (eyeGo) Irish Club Jam session every Fri; 8pm; no cover

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Classical Convocation Hall U of A University Symphony Orchestra featuring performances by the 201112 Concerto Competition winners Emilie Schutz (sax), Mark Wilkinson (baritone); 8pm Holy Trinity Anglican Church Beth Levia (oboe), Sylvia Shadick-Taylor (piano); presented by Tonus Vivus; 8pm

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Avenue Theatre The Glorification of the Fist II: Silent Line, Any Last Regrets, For Reasons Lost, guests; 8pm; Tickets: $10 (adv)/$15 (door) Black Dog Freehouse Hair of the Dog: Smoked Folk (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover Blue Chair Café Manraygun; 8:30pm; $15 Blues on Whyte Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Late show: Michael Charles CARROT Café Rhythms of the Earth: celebrating Black History Month: Jazz Improv featuring Karen Porkka and Brett Miles; 2-4pm CASINO EDMONTON Whiskey Boyz (pop/rock) CASINO YELLOWHEAD Suite 33 (pop/rock) Coast to Coast Live bands every Sat; 9:30pm Common Pop-Up Restaurant, 6pm; Filistix After Party, 9pm Crown Pub Acoustic blues open stage with Marshall Lawrence, every Sat, 2-6pm; every Sat, 12-2am THE DISH NEK Trio (jazz); every Sat, 6pm Devaney's Irish pub Doug Stroud Dow–Shell Theatre– Fort Saskatchewan The Human Statues (folk/pop duo), Jackson MacDonald; 7:30pm; tickets: $24.50 (adult)/$22.50 (senior/ youth)/$5 (eyeGO) DV8 Tavern Thoroughbred Racing Pigeon, Punktured, Rebuild Repair; 9pm Eddie Shorts Saucy Wenches every Sat Expressionz Café Winterfest–Uptown Folk Club: Rebecca Lappa, Kenneth Brown, Jay Willis, Rick Garvin, Jan Baker Band, Alex and Sheila, Command Sisters, Doll Sisters, Folks of the Uptown (Brian, Mike, Rick M, Steve, Bobby), Elena Yeung, Cindy Church, Finale: East Meets West; 1-11pm; $30 (Sat)/$40 (Fri & Sat) at Myhre's, and Acoustic Music Shop Gas Pump Saturday Jam with Mr Lucky; 3:30pm Haven Social Club Nathaniel Sutton (folk rock), The Burning Streets, Blunt Force Charm, White Lightning, The Elkies (CD release show); $10 (adv at Blackbyrd) HillTop Pub Sat afternoon roots jam with Pascal, Simon and Dan, 3:30-6:30pm; evening Hooliganz Live music every Sat Horizon Stage–Spruce Grove Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir (African American roots music); 2pm family matinée: $15 all ages; 7:30pm: $25 (adult)/$20 (student/senior)/$5 (eyeGo) Hydeaway–Jekyll and Hyde Marleigh and Mueller; all ages; 8-11:30pm; $10 (cover) Iron Boar Pub Jazz in Wetaskiwin featuring jazz trios the 1st Sat each month; $10 Jeffrey's Café Christina Schmolke (pop/rock duo); $10 l.b.'s pub Sat afternoon Jam with Gator and Friends; 5-9pm Newcastle Pub Sweet Heart Swirl, Big Hank and A Fist Full of Blues, Willy and Crawdad, Paula Perro and Gerry Moellering; 8pm (door); $10 (adv)/$15 (door)

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New West Hotel Country jam every Sat, 3-6pm; Late Show: Rodeowind NOLA Saturday afternoon R & B Jam hosted by Jeff Hendrick, 1-4:30pm; Early Show: Andrew Glover Trio, 6-9pm; Late show: Jeff Hendrick Quartet, 9pm-12 O’byrne’s Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm On the Rocks Long weekend triple bill with Ultimate Tribute Band PAWN SHOP Early Show: Market Forces with Puremud, 6pm, $10 at Blackbyrd Queen Alexandra Hall Northern Lights Folk Club: Shari Ulrich and Julia Graff; 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $18 (adv at TIX on the Square, Acoustic Music, Myhre's)/$22 (door) Red Piano Bar Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm2am Rendezvous Grave New world and a hundred years; 8pm; $10 (door) Rose and Crown Neil MacDonald Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Duane Allen Sherlock Holmes– WEM Alesha and Brendon Stanley Milner Library Theatre Edmonton Raga Mala Music Society: Vocal concert by Ramneek Singh with Parvinder Singh Dhaliwal (harmonium), Amritpal Singh (tabla); 6pm Sideliners Pub Sat open stage; 3-7pm studio music foundation Looking East, The Catalyst Imprint, In The Details, Cavernous; 7pm (door); $10 Vee Lounge–Apex Casino–St Albert Dawn In The City; apexcasino.ca

West End Christian Reformed Church Stories: Kokopelli and Oran; 4pm and 9pm; $20/$15 (student) at TIX on the Square Wunderbar Suicidal Cop-Step One-Tasha Sanders; 12:30am Yardbird Suite Canadian Jazz Series: Owen Howard's Nostalgia Quintet; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $16 (member)/$20 (guest)

Classical Winspear Centre Disney in Concert: Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Lucas Waldin (conductor), Dennis Kyle, Juliana Hansen, Arielle Jacobs, Arbender Robinson (vocals); 2pm and 7pm (sold out); $32$80 (adult)/$20-$35 (child)

DJs 180 Degrees Street VIBS: Reggae night every Sat AZUCAR PICANTE DJ Touch It, hosted by DJ Papi; every Sat 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 Blacksheep Pub DJ every Sat bohemia Ex Machina: Hardcore Valentine: music by DJ Boneyard Ale House DJ Sinistra Saturdays: 9pm Brixx Heaviside, Diesel May, Call Apollo BUDDY'S Feel the rhythm every Sat with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm Buffalo Underground Head Mashed In Saturday: Mashup Night Druid Irish Pub DJ

every Sat; 9pm electric rodeo– Spruce Grove DJ every Sat FILTHY McNASTY'S Fire up your night every Saturday with DJ SAWG Fluid Lounge Scene Saturday's Relaunch: Party; hip-hop, R&B and Dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Top tracks, rock, retro every Sat with DJ Damian HALO For Those Who Know: house every Sat with DJ Junior Brown, Luke Morrison, Nestor Delano, Ari Rhodes junction bar and eatery LGBT Community: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm Level 2 lounge House Underground FM Saturdaze; 9:30pm 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: Indie rock, new wave, classic punk with DJ Blue Jay and Eddie Lunchpail; 9pm (door); free (before 10pm)/$5 (after 10pm); There Will Be Beads Mardi Gras RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Rezzo, DJ Mkhai Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M

Starlite Room Drum And Bass Strike Back 2 Rm Prty: Hospital & Ram Records Tour: Cyantific and Wilkinson Suede Lounge DJ Nic-E spins every Sat Suite 69 Every Fri Sat with DJ Randall-A TEMPLE Oh Snap! Oh Snap with Degree, Cool Beans, Specialist, Spenny B and Mr. Nice Guy and Ten 0; every Sat 9pm Union Hall Celebrity Saturdays: every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous Vinyl Dance Lounge Signature Saturdays Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

SUN FEB 19 Beer Hunter–St Albert Open stage/jam every Sun; 2-6pm Black Dog Freehouse Valentine Blues 4: Noisy Colours, Consilience, Sabretooth Blackwiddow; 9pm; no cover Blackjack's Roadhouse–Nisku Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett Blue Chair Café Sunday Brunch: Jim Findlay Trio; 10:30am2:30pm; donations Blue Pear Restaurant Jazz on the Side Sun: Don Berner (sax); 6pm; $25 if not dining Cook County Bentley and Brownlee after party with CISN; no cover 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 DV 8 Tavern The Social Threat, guest; 9pm Eddie Shorts Acoustic jam every Sun; 9pm Expressionz Café Winterfest–Uptown Folk Club: Harmony

Singing workshop with Elena Yeung, 11am-2pm; Autogiography with Cindy Church, 1-2pm; Comedy Songwriting: with Wendell Ferguson, Roger James, 2-4pm/$10 (Sun workshop) FILTHY McNASTY'S Rock and Soul Sundays with DJ Sadeeq HAVEN Early Show: Winter Fundraiser: acoustic afternoon with: A Silent Auction, F&M, Joe Nolan, James Murdoch, Ariane Mahryke Lemere, Jay Gilday; 1pm (door), 2pm (show); Late Show: Shake Your Booty: featuring Souljah Fyah, Boogie Patrol, the Canyon Rose Outfit, guests, 7pm Hogs Den Pub Open Jam: hosted; open jam every Sun, all styles welcome; 3-7pm Jubilee Auditorium Dierks Bentley (country folk); 7:30pm Newcastle Pub Sun Soul Service (acoustic jam): Willy James and Crawdad Cantera; 3-6:30pm NEW CITY The Apresnos, Grounded Star, Six String Loaded; no minors; $8 NEW CITY LEGION DIY Sunday Afternoons: 4pm (door), 5pm, 6pm, 7pm, 8pm (bands) NEW CITY The Apresnos, Grounded Star, Six String Loaded; no minors O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am On the Rocks Long weekend triple bill with Ultimate Tribute Band ORLANDO'S 2 PUB Open stage jam every Sun; 4pm Red Piano Dueling piano; 8pm-1am Starlite Room Royce Da 5'9 TWO ROOMS Live Jam every Sun with Jeremiah; 5-9pm; no cover; $10 (dinner) Wunderbar Fieldhead (Britain), Chris Tenz (Calgary), Ghibli, Phil Dfickau; 8:30pm

VENUE GUIDE 180 Degrees 10730-107 St, 780.414.0233 Accent European Lounge 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ARTery 9535 Jasper Ave Avenue Theatre 9030-118 Ave, 780.477.2149 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082 Blackjack's Roadhouse– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Dr, Nisku, 780.986.8522 Blacksheep Pub 11026 Jasper Ave, 780.420.0448 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 Blue Pear Restaurant 10643-123 St, 780.482.7178 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 Bohemia 10217-97 St Boneyard Ale House 9216-34 Ave, 780.437.2663 Brittanys Lounge 1022597 St (behind Winspear stage door) Brixx Bar 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 Caffrey's in the Park 99Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CARROT Café 9351-118 Ave, 780.471.1580 Casino Edmonton 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 Casino Yellowhead 12464-153 St, 780 424 9467 Century Casino 13103 Fort Rd Cha Island Tea Co 1033281 Ave, 780.757.2482 CHROME LOUNGE 132 Ave, Victoria Trail Coast to Coast 5552 Calgary Tr, 780.439.8675 Common Lounge 10124124 St Convocation Hall Arts Bldg, U of A, 780.492.3611

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Crown and Anchor 15277 Castledowns Rd, 780.472.7696 Crown Pub 10709-109 St, 780.428.5618 Diesel Ultra Lounge 11845 Wayne Gretzky Drive, 780.704.CLUB Devaney’s Irish Pub 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 THE DISH 12417 Stony Plain Rd, 780.488.6641 Dow's Shell Theatre– Fort Saskatchewan 8700-84 St, Fort Saskatchewan, 780.992.6400 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8307-99 St Early Stage Saloon 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain Eddie Shorts 10713-124 St, 780.453.3663 Electric Rodeo–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 Elephant and Castle– Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave Expressionz Café 993870 Ave, 780.437.3667 FIDDLER’S ROOST 890699 St FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 FLASH Night Club 10018105 St, 780.996.1778 FLOW Lounge 11815 Wayne Gretzky Dr, 780.604. CLUB Fluid Lounge 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 FUNKY BUDDHA 10341-82 Ave, 780.433.9676 Good Earth Coffee House and Bakery 9942-108 St Good Neighbor Pub 11824-103 St

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HALO 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.HALO haven social club 15120A (basement), Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.6010 HillTop Pub 8220-106 Ave, 780.490.7359 Hogs Den Pub 9, 14220 Yellowhead Tr Holy Trinity Anglican Church 10037-84 Ave HOOLIGANZ 10704-124 St, 780.995.7110 Hydeaway 10209-100 Ave, 780.426.5381 Iron Boar Pub 4911-51st St, Wetaskiwin JAMMERS PUB 11948-127 Ave, 780.451.8779 J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 jeffrey’s café 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 JEKYLL AND HYDE 10209100 Ave, 780.426.5381 junction bar and eatery 10242-106 St, 780.756.5667 KAS BAR 10444-82 Ave, 780.433.6768 L.B.’s Pub 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEGENDS PUB 6104-172 St, 780.481.2786 LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 Lit Italian Wine Bar 10132-104 St Lizard Lounge 13160118 Ave Marybeth's Coffee House–Beaumont 5001-30 Ave, Beaumont, 780.929.2203 McDougall United Church 10025-101 St Newcastle PuB 6108-90 Ave, 780.490.1999 New City Legion 8130 Gateway Boulevard (Red Door) Nisku Inn 1101-4 St

NOLA Creole Kitchen & Music House 11802-124 St, 780.451.1390, experiencenola. com NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535-109A Ave O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 Orlando's 1 15163-121 St Overtime–Downtown 10304-111 St, 780.465.6800 Overtime Whitemud Crossing, 4211-106 St, 780.485.1717 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 Playback Pub 594 Hermitage Rd, 130 Ave, 40 St Pleasantview Community Hall 1086057 Ave Queen Alexandra Hall 10425 University Ave REDNEX BAR–Morinville 10413-100 Ave, Morinville, 780.939.6955 Red Piano Bar 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 Rendezvous 10108-149 St Ric’s Grill 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 Rose and Crown 10235101 St R Pub 16753-100 St, 780.457.1266 Second Cup–89 Ave 8906-149 St Second Cup–Sherwood Park 4005 Cloverbar Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929 • Summerwood Summerwood Centre, Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929

Shaw Conference Centre 9797 Jasper Ave Shiloh Baptist Church Sanctuary 10727-114 St Sideliners Pub 11018-127 St, 780.453.6006 Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924 Sportsman's Lounge 8170-50 St Stanley Milner Library Theatre 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq STARLITE ROOM 10030102 St, 780.428.1099 STEEPS TEA LOUNGE– Whyte Ave 11116-82 Ave Suede Lounge 11806 Jasper Ave, 780.482.0707 Suite 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969 Taphouse 9020 McKenney Ave, St Albert, 780.458.0860 Treasury 10004 Jasper Ave, 7870.990.1255, thetreasurey. ca TWO ROOMS 10324 Whyte Ave, 780.439.8386 Vee Lounge–Apex Casino–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092 Vinyl Dance Lounge 10740 Jasper Ave, 780.428.8655, vinylretrolounge.com Wild Bill’s–Red Deer Quality Inn North Hill, 7150-50 Ave, Red Deer, 403.343.8800 Winspear Centre 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com Yesterdays Pub 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295

Yellowhead Brewery Open Stage: Every Sun, 8pm

Classical Shiloh Baptist Church Sanctuary Friends in Concert: featuring Stephanie Burlie, Deborah Dobbins, Jericho Dobbins, Byron Leffler, Bob Mathew, Rachel Nachtigall, Marleigh Rouault, SWAK Singers (Faye Mitchell, Kamill Reid, Colleen Miller), Andrea Thorne, more; 7pm; $10 (door); proceeds in support of Intergenerational Projects for 2012 Winspear Centre Disney in Concert: Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Lucas Waldin (conductor), Dennis Kyle, Juliana Hansen, Arielle Jacobs, Arbender Robinson (vocals); 2pm; $32-$80 (adult)/$20-$35 (child)

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

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm

Downtown Tony Dizon

Nouta; 9pm New West Hotel Rene and the Blazers

Rose Bowl/Rouge Lounge Acoustic open stage every Mon; 9pm

Yardbird Suite Afternoon: Avenue Guitars presents Guitar Clinic with Steve Morse (Dixie Dregs-Kansas-Deep Purple), 3pm (door), free; Tue Night Sessions: Peter Belec Quartet; 7:30pm (door), 8pm (show); $5 (door)

DJs

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

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: alternative retro and not-so-retro, electronic and Euro with Eddie Lunchpail; Wooftop: One Too Many Tuesdays with Rootbeard

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

Crown Pub Mixmashitup Mon Industry Night: with DJ Fuzze, J Plunder (DJs to bring their music and mix mash it up) FILTHY McNASTY'S Metal Mondays with DJ Tyson Lucky 13 Industry Night every Mon with DJ Chad Cook NEW CITY LEGION Madhouse Mon: Punk/ metal/etc with DJ Smart Alex

TUE FEB 21 Blues on Whyte The Avey Brothers

FLOW Lounge Stylus Sun

Brixx Bar Ruby Tuesdays guest with host Mark Feduk; $5 after 8pm; Christian and Justin of Canyon Rose Outfit, and Jimmy Zenn

SAVOY MARTINI LOUNGE Reggae on Whyte: RnR Sun with DJ IceMan; no minors; 9pm; no cover

Druid Irish Pub Open stage every Tue; with Chris Wynters; 9pm; with guest Sarah Lillian

Brixx Face First, Dualside, Oldbury

L.B.’s Tue Blues Jam with Ammar; 9pm-1am

MON FEB 20 NEW CITY Trusty Chords Tuesdays: with Lindsey BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover Blues on Whyte The Avey Brothers Caffrey's in the Park Blues Jam: Hosted by Big Hank and Fist Full of Blues with Kevin McDade (Grey Cats Blues Band); 8pm

Walker, Ariane Lemire, Vicki Berg, Marlaena Moore; no minors; $5 (door)

New West Hotel Rene and the Blazers O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm

Devaney's Irish Pub Singer/songwriter open stage every Mon; 8pm; Nadine Kellman

Padmanadi Open stage every Tue; with Mark Davis; all ages; 7:3010:30pm

Jubilee Auditorium Celebrate Family Day: Music and dane from around the world; 2pm; free; donation to Food Bank

REXALL PLACE Deep Purple; 7:30pm

New West Hotel Rene and the Blazers Pawn Shop Social Threat, Down the Hatch, White Beauty; 8pm; $5 (adv) at Blackbyrd

R Pub Open stage jam every Tue; hosted by Gary and the Facemakers; 8pm Second Cup– Summerwood Open stage/ open mic every Tue; 7:30pm; no cover Sherlock Holmes–WEM Andrew Scott Sherlock Holmes–

Nisku Inn Troubadours and Tales: 1st Wed every month; with Tim Harwill, guests; 8-10pm Playback Pub Open Stage every Wed hosted by JTB; 9pm-1am

Buddys DJ Arrow Chaser every

Red Piano Bar Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5

CRown Pub Live Hip Hop Tue: freestyle hip hop with DJ Xaolin and Mc Touch

Second Cup–149 St Open stage with Alex Boudreau; 7:30pm

DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly, Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue

Sherlock Holmes–WEM Andrew Scott

NEW CITY LEGION High Anxiety Variety Society Bingo vs. karaoke with Ben Disaster, Anonymouse every Tue; no minors; 4pm-3am; no cover RED STAR Experimental Indie Rock, Hip Hop, Electro with DJ Hot Philly; every Tue

WED FEB 22 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Glitter Gulch: live music once a month Blues on Whyte The Avey Brothers

Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Tony Dizon

Classical McDougall United Church Trevor Sanders (classical guitar); 12:1012:50pm; free

DJs 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

Century Casino Jay and the Americans; 8pm; $34.95

Brixx Bar Really Good... Eats and Beats: every Wed with DJ Degree and Friends

Cha Island Tea Co Whyte Noise Drum Circle: Join local drummers for a few hours of beats and fun; 6pm

BUDDY'S DJ Dust 'n' Time every Wed; 9pm (door); no cover

Crown Pub The D.A.M.M Jam: Open stage/original plugged in jam with Dan, Miguel and friends every Wed Devaney's Irish pub Duff Robinson eddie shorts Acoustic jam every Wed, 9pm; no cover Elephant and Castle– Whyte Ave 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 Good Earth Coffee House and Bakery Breezy Brian Gregg; every Wed; 12-1pm HAVEN SOCIAL Club Early Show: Bob Wiseman, $18 at Blackbyrd); Open stage every Wed with Jonny Mac, 8:30pm, free HOOLIGANZ Open stage every Wed with host Cody

The Common Treehouse Wednesdays Diesel Ultra Lounge Finals: Top 3 Crews From Previous Weeks showcase; 10-12; official after party to follow FILTHY McNASTY'S Pint Night Wednesdays with DJ SAWG FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Latin and Salsa music every Wed; dance lessons 8-10pm LEGENDS PUB Hip hop/R&B with DJ Spincycle NEW CITY LEGION Wed Pints 4 Punks: with DJ Nick; no minors; 4pm-3am; no cover NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed TEMPLE Wild Style Wed: Hip hop open mic hosted by Kaz and Orv; $5

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PREVUE // SAM SHEPPARD

Return to the heartland Shadow Theatre revisits its inaugural show

Ain't foolin' no one

Until Sun, Mar 4 (7:30 pm; weekend matinees 2 pm) Directed by John Hudson Varscona Theatre, $18 – $26

ool For Love was already almost 10 years old and enjoying "classic" status when it played Edmonton some 20 years back. But that performance of Sam Sheppard's gritty drama marked the emergence of something new in town: it was the debut for a company called Shadow Theatre which, decades on, is now one of the city's most devoted mainstage companies. In acknowledgment of its platinum anniversary Shadow's returning to that first script, and, in taking that glance back at its past, is bringing

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Shadow Theatre co-founder Shaun Johnston back into the fold. "To come back, revisit the play, it's a little bit gentle for me in some ways," Johnston says. "But of course it's intimidating as hell too, 'cause I

presence—he plucked his cowboy hat from his head at the door, and his eyes are flanked with thick laugh lines that match a perpetual smile spread across his features. It's been six years, he reckons, since he

To come back, revisit the play, it's a little bit gentle for me in some ways ... But of course it's intimidating as hell too.

haven't done a play in a while, and being on stage again ... I have to lubricate muscles that I haven't used in a while." Sitting in the Varscona's dressing room, Johnston's a large but gentle

did any theatrical performing: Johnston's best known these days for a principle cast spot on CBC's Heartland, and work in film and television. CONTINUED ON PAGE 44 >>

PREVUE // BOSS SAYS

Horace Porridge Goes to Work it’s just something we do here

// Jen Stacey

THEATRE NETWORK

PRESENTS

MOVING ALONG by

CHRIS CRADDOCK

“The writing is as electric as the chair and the performance will make you gasp.” FIVE STARS – The Edmonton Journal Starring: Chris Craddock Directed by: Bradley Moss Sound Designer: Dave Clarke

FEBRUARY 7–26 2012 2 for 1 Tuesdays Feb 14 & 21 The Roxy Theatre 10708 124 St 780.453.2440 theatrenetwork.ca

That's Mister Porridge to you

Thu, Feb 16 – Sun, Feb 19 (7:30 pm; 2 pm matinee on Feb 19) Directed by Katie Hudson Living Room Playhouse, $10

e's not a bad guy; he's not mean—he's just set in his

ways." Sound familiar? You'd have to look pretty hard to find someone who hasn't, at some point or another, worked for a difficult person. Newly-formed company Blue Sky Theatre is bringing just such an individual to the stage in the company's inaugural production, Horace Porridge Goes to Work. Written by University of Alberta drama graduate Jake Prins, the titular protagonist is the boss of ICBA, a successful insurance office in Alberta, and he lives up to everything you'd expect from someone with such a material name. "He's very excessive," notes Blue Sky co-founder and Horace Porridge director Katie Hudson. "He likes lavish and excessive food, and suits,

The Comedy of Errors (l to r) Joel Ballard, Carlos Rodriguez & Noah Rosenbaum. Photo by David Cooper.

Picture yourself at Studio 58 APPLY NOW! and material items. He's very set in what he believes are the keys to management. And he tends to take things he's learned to heart, and make them fact, and continuously tries to share those ideas." Hudson describes Porridge as the boss of all bosses, and the set as the office of all offices—archetypes that are easily relatable, complete with bad carpet, cheap office supplies and ingratiating motivational posters.

The inimitable presence of The Office in popular culture has created a very defined set of characteristics associated with a corporate office and its employees. Hudson notes that while Horace Porridge could be pegged as "conservative Alberta meets The Office," the play is certainly not a carbon copy of the characters and situations found on NBC's sitcom. "I think first and foremost the play is a comedy; it's entertaining, it's

Hudson describes Porridge as the boss of all bosses, and the set as the office of all offices—archetypes that are easily relatable, complete with bad carpet, cheap office supplies and ingratiating motivational posters. As the central figure to the show, Porridge takes on a physical prominence. "He's got half of the stage devoted to his office," explains Hudson "So he's always a piece of the stage; even if he's not physically on stage, his office precedes him—he's always kind of looming over the space."

fun," states Hudson. "It's not there to be anti-corporate, and it's not there to be anti-the other extreme, but just sort of there to pose the two sides and let you do with it what you will." MEL PRIESTLEY

// MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

S P R IN G

2012

Studio 58 Auditions PROFESSIONAL THEATRE TRAINING

AUDITIONS:

Vancouver April 24 - May 3 Winnipeg April 25 EDMONTON APRIL 26 Ottawa April 30 Toronto May 2 For application & information: Studio 58, Langara College 100 W 49th Ave, Vancouver, BC V5Y 2Z6 T: 604.323.5652 | F: 604.323.5579 E: studio58@langara.bc.ca

ACTING Program (3 years) PRODUCTION Program (2 years) Application deadline

March 30, 2012

www.studio58.ca

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REVUE // GREEN-EYED MONSTER

PREVUE // PAINTER'S PHILOSOPHY

// Bruce Zinger

Red

// Ed Ellis

Cymbeline

Woe in a weird Shakespeare

Until Feb 19 (7:30 pm) Directed by Kathleen Weiss Timms Centre, $5 – $20

oosely based on first-century British monarch Cunobeline, Shakespeare's Cymbeline, apart from being one of his least-known plays, is also one of his strangest. Part history, part tragedy, part romance and part comedy, the play swings emotionally, incorporating a plethora of Shakespeare's themes and tropes: jealousy, poisonous mix-ups, misplaced revenge, prescient dreams, monarchical benevolence. It's a challenging undertaking, one met head on by Studio Theatre. The small cast manages to nail the sense of intrigue, if occasionally faltering in other areas. Although it has been

posited that Cymbeline is Shakespeare's attempt to parody his own work, that's no excuse to take the piss: the audience will be reminded of the necessarily short life of Internet memes during a distracting episode of "Tebowing" early on. Nevertheless, the cast shines. Particularly deserving of acclaim are Paula Humby and Nikolai Witschl. The former manages to play the Queen—a mixture of evil stepmother and power-hungry Queen archetypes—with a mature restraint not normally seen in such a character, nor in a Shakespearean tragedy. Witschl deftly walks a fine line between fey weakness and vain bravado in Prince Cloten, while bending the text to his will.

pressive interstitial scenes consisting solely of movement and sound. In fact, the sound design is one of the play's highlights: eternally present and responsible for much of the play's foreboding sentiment, it never imposes itself unjustly. The set, somewhat boxy and boring in the first half, impresses in the second, where its minimalism draws the audience further and further into its secret abilities. The ending unravels a bit in histrionics, although—and forgive me for criticizing Shakespeare—there's no doubt in my mind the fault rests mainly with the playwright. Until then, Cymbeline, as both play and production, shines. Bryan Birtles

The play is spurred along by im-

// bryan@vueweekly.com

Edmonton Region proudly presents

STAGE STRUCK! 2012 Adult One-Act Play Festival

Includes works by • Gerald Osborn • Linda Wood Edwards • Zack Siezmagraff • Barbara North • Phil Kreisel • Zoe Hawnt • Heather Morrow • Susan Rivers

Friday, February 24, 7 pm Saturday, February 25, 1 pm & 7 pm WALTERDALE PLAYHOUSE 10322-83rd Avenue, Edmonton Festival pass $32 Single session $14 Students & seniors $28/$12 TIX-on-the-Square 780-420-1757 www.tixonthesquare.ca

Adjudicated by Mieko Ouchi

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Rothko and his palette

Until Sun, Mar 4 (7:30 pm; Sunday matinee at 1:30 pm) Directed by Kim Collier Citadel Theatre, $51.45 – $61.95

hough visual art may be the organizing principle behind the Citadel Theatre's upcoming production of Red, director Kim Collier assures that it is very much a play about ideas. "The challenge is the dramatic action of the piece," explains Collier, over the phone from her hotel room after a busy day of rehearsals. "When I was reading the script, you could feel the ideas, and the very exciting nimbleness of how that play pulls you forward into these discussions. After I read it all I wanted to do was research all night." Red is set in the 1958 studio of Russian-American painter Mark Rothko, depicting his work on the series of murals he created on a commission from the Four Seasons Restaurant in the Seagram Building in New York. To complement the philosophical and political discussions between Rothko (Jim Mezon) and his apprentice (David Coomber), Collier had the characters engage in action related to their discussions: mixing paint, building canvases, and actually doing some painting onstage. "The design really celebrates Rothko's work, and there's a progression to the work on stage that I think is reflective of the journey inside that commission and inside the play, from the red palette more towards black," states Collier.

Red originally premiered in London in 2009; it also ran on Broadway in 2010. Though much of the dialogue is necessarily fictitious—we simply cannot know what was actually said in Rothko's studio—the timeline and historical facts surrounding his life and his work on the commission are very accurate. "Rothko was really interested in controlling the environments that his work would show in," Collier says. "The opportunity with this commission was that he could have a place where he could have his murals live in a series, one painting relating to the other, creating a sense of whole for the viewer. I think as with any artist, you're always moving on to the next layer of your artistic exploration, and for Rothko at this time, the commission afforded him an extraordinary opportunity to expand into where he wanted to go next artistically. "We also see him [struggling] with whether this great commission will reduce his paintings to be decorative, rather than transformative," she continues. "And as he wrestles with these questions, he takes a really profound action at the end of the pay that is either tragic or inspiring, depending on how you as an audience member interprets it. For me, I love that he ultimately stands to his principles and he's not seduced by money or fame or legacy, or any of the trappings of larger culture." Mel Priestley

// mel@vueweekly.com

PREVUE // PERSONAL HISTORY

Moving Along // Sam Estok

shared—coming out of it feels like an accomplishment, like there was actually some progress made on the part of everyone in the audience and not just the guy on stage.

Craddock and the electro-chair

Until Sun, Feb 26 (8pm) Directed by Bradley Moss Theatre Network, $13.50 – $27

lunging headlong into a vivid recollection of childhood nightmares, Chris Craddock doesn't give you much time to orient yourself at the opening of his semi-autobiographical one-man show, Moving Along. And move along is indeed what we do, bouncing from one recollection

to another at a snappy quick pace for the duration of the 90-minute show. Walking on stage barefoot and in a rumpled suit, Craddock clambers into the "electro-chair" where he spends the duration of the performance, a strange contraption surrounded by an array of lights that Craddock controls himself with a series of switches and dimmers set into the chair's arms. Given the sheer number of shifts, Craddock's ability to control all the

cues while simultaneously performing the show is an impressive feat. Each time Craddock jumps to a new memory or allows his inner voice a chance to comment on the recollection, the lights flash and his head tilts; the combined effect is a series of strobe light freeze frames. The end result is a mesmerizing collection of "everything he didn't say." Craddock trots out all his insecurities, pain and past trauma, putting them on

display to nonchalantly comment on them, an exercise that is as revelatory as it is hilarious. He's a candid, charming performer and the show feels very honest—all the more important given that he dubs it a "semi-autobiographical" piece, a phrase that is often code for "self-indulgent." Such works often end up feeling more like a one-way self-therapy session, and while it's obvious that Moving Along fulfills this purpose for Craddock, the therapy is

Craddock has remounted the show several times previously, adding new material and rewriting the existing work with each mounting. This newest installment is his longest yet and the benefit of his added experience is tangible. It feels fuller, more fleshed out, as complete as a chronological piece could be without an end. Fans of Craddock's past work will recognize several of the segments from previous productions, and will also delight in his frank reflections on his recent Broadway run of past Fringe hit BASH'd: A Gay Rap Opera. Local Edmontonians, especially those affiliated with the University of Alberta, will be interested to hear the vivid retelling of the initiation rituals for Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, of which Craddock is an alumnus. In short, while there's a lot packed into Moving Along, above all it is highly entertaining. It will certainly make you think, and if you are so inclined, it might even send you away contemplating the meaning of life, death, and other such weighty concepts—but you'll also chuckle while you do so. And you know what they say about laughter and medicine. Mel Priestley

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REVUE // POINTED NUNSENSE!

The Ecstatics W

e sit down in wooden pews that outline three of four walls Studio B, all underneath the glaring light of a giant fluorescent-light cross outlined with tiny disco balls and ornaments. At its very top sits a massive crimson crown of thorns, equally decadent. It's a striking set that reflects the duality embodying The Ecstatics: higher sacrifice and deeper reverence bashing up against glammed up, over the top what-have-yous. The sheer pull-no-punches rigour of Erika Hennebury & Ruth Madoc-Jones' script, as presented by Northern Light Theatre, seems guaranteed to polarize: either you'll happily engage with a particularly edgy, dark comedy about the perils of zealousness, one that goes almost cartoonishly big, or you will not. But if you don't mind seeing nuns doing some very un-nunlike things— puking, farting, strutting down a catwalk, lifting up habits to reveal hotpants—there's a lot to take in and think about among all that madcap action. A few days later, I'm still sorting through The Ecstatics, thinking about its implications, how those sit among its more irreverent moments,

and the strength of the interplay of the two. This production is, at points, wickedly funny and unrestrained in its satire and adept at nailing some serious points about faith and guts. If it occasionally falters in landing some of its points, it's still one to dwell on and discuss. The plot follows the last pair of nuns left in a covenant devoted to faith through starving oneself to perfection: the other 128 devoutees have suddenly passed on, which, in the eyes of the older Sister Abegail (Elinor Holt), means she and Sister Marguerite (Gianna Vacirca) have been left behind, not "chosen" to join the heavenly choir. So they redouble their efforts with fanatical zeal, leading them both through the Seven fasts while the younger Marguerite starts having visions that offer anything but comfort. Two of the bravest, no-holds-barred performances this season come from Holt and Vacirca: locked in a mentor-apprentice relationship that slowly unravels, Holt's Abegail is a matriarchal madwoman somewhere between living cartoon and hysterical zealot; Vacirca's Marguerite, is a more quietly frail follower, with some growing differences in opinion. As it progresses, the scope of The

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Until Sat, Feb 18 (8 pm; weekend matinees 2 pm) Directed by Trevor Schmidt Arts Barns, Studio B, $20 – $27

The weird Sisters

Ecstatics' satire proves itself wide and unrelenting, if not always evenly deep. There are some sexual undertones that feel underdeveloped, lost in the wash of everything else going on, and the danger being when everything's so big, going small in

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that feels tackily tacked on. But the script's larger points come across strong, particularly the focal one, of the costs that come with chasing perfection too far. In a strange way, all this madness feels justified, having started in a very human issue

and then blasted it into irreverent heights to point out its faults. And the way The Ecstatics charts the inevitable fall from grace with nearly religious glee is convincing. Paul Blinov

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ARTIFACTS

PREVUE // FAIRY TALE

Cinderella

PAUL BLINOV // PAUL@vueweekly.com

Parka Patio Party / Sat, Feb 18 (8pm – late) If you've lived here for anything longer than a year, you probably get that it's generally colder for more months than it approaches being anything resembling warm (although, really, this is some pale shade of our winter we're currently enjoying, right?). So why not just embrace our winter? Latitude 53's doing just that with its first ever Parka Patio Party. They're giving the gallery's open-air rooftop section some much needed February love: there's music by Djs Axe & Smash and Josh Johnson, video projections, food and beverage of various heats, a silent auction and a couple of "winter installation environments" courtesy of Mackenzy Albright, Rachelle Bowen and Jes McCow, and more. Dress for the weather. (Latitude 53, $12)

Western Horsemen & Two Rivers / Fri, Feb 17 (7 pm)

This place'll never get clean if you keep moving like that

Fri, Feb 17; Sat, Feb 18 (7:30 pm) Presented by Alberta Ballet Jubilee Auditorium, $18 – $89

s young Tara Williamson was growing up, she loved playing "Cinderella"—a game her mother quite enjoyed. "When I was little I used to put a white T-shirt on and wrap it around as an apron," says Williamson, adding that Disney's animated telling of the down-and-out stepchild was her favourite childhood movie. "I'd go to my mom in the kitchen, who would be working on paperwork or something, and I would say 'Mom, you're going to be my evil stepmother, and I'm Cinderella, and you have to tell me to wash the floor.'" Of course, her mother relished giving the order. "I'd get out my bucket and start whistling and actually wash the entire kitchen floor. It worked for both of us," Williamson laughs. Now 24 years old, Williamson gets to play Cinderella in real life—or at least for an audience of more than just her mom. It's actually the second time she's danced in the Alberta Ballet production of the well-known fairy tale; The first go-around she was dancing with the corps as a new dancer. Now, as she takes on the title char-

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acter, Williamson is looking at her favourite childhood pastime with the maturity of an experienced principal dancer (since joining Alberta Ballet, she's played title roles in Carmen and Romeo and Juliet, as well as leading parts like the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker, the Demon in Love Lies Bleeding, and Anna in Seven Deadly Sins). "It's very exciting, and always an honour to get a role like this. I take responsibility and pride in the com-

within the dancing." Working with Jean Grand-Maître— Alberta Ballet's artistic director and choreographer of the show—Williamson has been working hard to project the depth of the storied heroine. "Because the abuse she has to endure with the wicked stepmother and cruel, heartless stepsisters is really intense, I want to show the balance in how she overcomes that with her positivity and forgiving nature. She

I'd go to my mom in the kitchen ... and I would say 'Mom, you're going to be my evil stepmother, and I'm Cinderella, and you have to tell me to wash the floor.'

pany, and I want to deliver the best I can. It can be a lot to handle, but it think that's part of the challenge." As far as her stage time in the threeact show goes, Williamson knows the adult Cinderella is in it for the long haul (graduating from washing the kitchen floor to an all-out top-tobottom attic cleaning is more like it). "You can probably see me onstage the entire ballet," she says. "I guess, in a sense, Cinderella's character in the story has a lot of stamina and patience, so you'll definitely see that

becomes a really confident woman, so we're working on showing the dynamic between the two sides of her character: how she's locked up in the basement and a little skeptical and afraid, then eventually comes out as a wonderful, powerful woman that, you know, can get a prince." Not to mention run a potentially lucrative cleaning service. Heck, Cinderella as a savvy businesswoman may just be something more young dancers out there will aspire to. Fawnda mithrush

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Justin Shaw's probably known best as the guitarist for Old Sins, but the guy knows his way around the visual arts, too (he did the cover art for the band's 2011 album Like A Steady Heart Beat), and its his latter talents he's looking to showcase in Western Horsemen, an exhibit of large digital collages at the Artery. Alongside his works are those of Lisa Rezansoff in her Two Rivers collection; the reception for both happens Friday, with live music from The Wild Rose Orchestra and electroacoustic artist Gene Kosowan. (The Artery, free)

Vinok's Mardi Gras 2012 / Sat, Feb 18 (6:30 pm) Vinok Worldance is looking to bring everyone's favourite bead-trading festival to Edmonton with its annual Mardi Gras event. The idea is to replicate the experience of wandering down Bourbon Street (not the West Edmonton Mall one, the real New Orleans one), getting to sample the styles of food, drink and entertainment, all to fundraise for Vinok's dance endeavours. (Chateau Louis Hotel & Conference Centre, $75)

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"Coming to work and rehearsing every day is a luxury you don't get in film," he says, of the difference between film and stage acting. "Very often on a film project you're ships in the night; even though you may shoot a couple really terriffic scenes with another actor, you never really get to know that person. So there's lots of really good reasons why I'm having the time of my life." Twenty years ago Johnston played one half of Fool For Love's central pair, a feuding set of lovers who find themselves in an empty motel in the mojave Desert. Now John-

son's embodying the more surreal, whiskey gulping Old Man figure who's present alongside them. Revisiting it decades on, Johnston notes that it's Sheppard's indelibile writing that keeps the play potent. "The beautiful thing about Fool For Love is that the dialogue is written in such a real and natural manner, that it holds up over time. That kind of good writing, that kind of relationship writing, and truth in writing, or truth in character's speaking, is timeless. It doesn't matter what the thematic value of the play is, really, it holds up after 30 years. You can put on Fool For Love today and it doesn't seem like it's out of place in terms of how humans behave." Paul Blinov

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ARTS WEEKLY

Art from the Streets–Red Deer •

4935-51 St • Spirit of the People: Artworks by Thomas Francois • Through Feb

Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) • 2

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Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • State of Nature: until Feb 20 • Rearview Mirror: Contemporary Art from East and Central Europe; until Apr 29 • Icons of Modernism: until May 21 • BMO World of Creativity: A Passion for Nature: Landscape Painting from 19th Century France: until Feb 20 • BMO Work of Creativity: Method and Madness: Family-focused interactive exhibition created by Gabe Wong; Feb 20-Dec 31 • RBC New Works Gallery: The Untimely Transmogrification of the Problem: Chris Millar; until Apr 29 • 5 Artists, 1 Love–A Retrospective: Black History Month art show curated by Darren Jordan; until Mar 3 • The Icons of Modernism lecture: Tensions and Convergences in the Art of Last Century or, Peggy Guggenheim’s Earrings presented by Prof. Steven Harris; Wed, Feb 29, 7pm; $15/$10 AGA Members Buy tickets online • Art for Lunch: Surrealism and Futurism and Cubism – Oh My! Modern “isms” in the Early 20th Century (Part 2): Thu, Feb 16, 12:10pm; Ledcor Theatre Foyer

Cinema At the Centre • Library Thea-

Art Gallery Of St Albert (AGSA) •

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Dance Alberta Ballet–Beyond Words

• Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave • 780.428.6839 • albertaballet.com • Cinderella: Choreography by Jean Grand-Maitre, music by Prokofiev • Feb 17-18

Vinok World Dance • Chateau Louis

Hotel, 11727 Kingsway • 780.454.3739 • vinok.ca • Mardi Gras: New Orleans dinner and entertainment–an evening of Carnival, featuring the rhythms of New Orleans with Vinok Worldance and roving entertainment • Feb 18 • Tickets at 780.454.3739

tre, Stanley A. Milner Library basement, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • Centre for Reading and the Arts showcases little-known films every month

Downtown Docs • Stanley A. Milner Library Theatre (basement level) • 780.944.5383 • Documentaries with attitude • Mighty Jerome; Thu, Feb 23, 6:30pm From Books to Film series • Stanley

A. Milner Library, Main Fl, Audio Visual Rm • 780.944.5383 • Screenings of films adapted from books, presented by the Centre for Reading and the Arts • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) (PG); Fri, Feb 17, 2pm • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) (PG); Fri, Feb 24, 2pm

Oscar Night at the Varscona • Varscona Theatre • Celebrate the awarding of the 84th Academy Awards in a one of a kind Oscar event • Sun, Feb 26, 5pm (door) • $25 (door) at TIX on the Square, Shadow Theatre box office 780.434.5564; Elegant Hollywood style formal wear is encouraged, but not essential Princess Theatre on Whyte • 10337

Whyte Ave • Oscar Nominated Short films in the Animation and Live Action categories • Feb 18, 3pm-animation (80-min); Feb 19, 3pm-live action (110-min); Feb 20, 11am and 3pm-animation; 1pm and 5pm-live action; Feb 25, 3pm-live action; 3pm-animation • $7 (door), proceeds to the 2012 EIFF

WINTER ROOTS AND BLUES ROUNDUP FESTIVAL • 780.492.7887, 587.989.3034

• ualberta.ca/folkwaysalive • Royal Alberta Museum Theatre: David Bromberg–Unsung Treasure; Fri, Feb 24, 7-8:15pm; $5 (followed by Peter Case Concert, $20) • Stanley Milner Library, Edmonton Rm (B): Benda Bilili, Sat, Feb 25, 12-1:30pm, free (donations welcome); A Walk in My Dream; Sat, Feb 25, 2-3:30pm, free (donations); The Godmother of Rock & Roll: Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Sun, Feb 26, 1-2pm, $5 • Art Gallery of Alberta Theatre: Troubadour Blues, featuring live conversation with Director Tom Weber and Peter Case; Sat, Feb 25, 7pm; $10

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY •

10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft. ab.ca • The Recipients: 2011 Alberta Craft Award Recipients; until Feb 18 • THINKING BIG: Unveiling public art projects; until Apr 7 • Discovery Gallery: What’s a Girl to Do? Felted hats by Edmonton artist Virginia Stephen; Feb 18-Mar 24; reception: Sat, Feb 18, 2-4pm • Women: Clay sculptures by Keith Turnbull; Feb 18-Mar 24; reception: Sat, Feb 18, 2-4pm

Alberta Society of Artists • Walter-

dale Playhouse, 10322-83 Ave • 780.426.0072 • artists-society.ab.ca • walterdaleplayhouse. com • Fiber Optics: Fiber works by Diana Un-Jin Cho, Candace Makowichuk and Sharon Rubuliak; runs in conjunction with Albertine in Five Times • Until Feb 18

Alley of Light • Behind Sobeys on 104 St, Jasper Ave • illumiNITE: Alley of Light sculpture show and party • Feb 25-26, dusk to dusk • Free

Art Beat Gallery • 26 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.3679 • Picasso and Pinot Noir: 3rd Thu each month; $50, pre-register Artery • 9535 Jasper Ave • 780.441.6966

• theartery.ca • Western Horsemen: Artworks by Justin Shaw and Lisa Rezansoff • Until Feb 29 • Opening party: Fri, Feb 17, 7pm with music by the Wild Rose Orchestra and Gene Kosowan; no cover, all ages

19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • On Location: Paintings by Mike Dendy, Christine Elmgren and Tom Yurko; until Feb 25 • Artventures: Lovely Landscapes: Drop-in art program for children 6-12; Feb 18, 1-4pm; $5

Bruce Peel Special Collections Library • Rutherford Library, U of A • I'm No

Blezard • Until Feb 22

Jurassic Forest/Learning Centre • 15 mins N of Edmonton off Hwy 28A, Township Rd 564 • Education-rich entertainment facility for all ages

Kiwanis Gallery–Red Deer • Red Deer Library • The Gardens at Trevarno: Artworks by Sally Towers-Sybblis • Until Feb 26

Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51

TELUS World of Science • 11211-142

St, Stony Plain • 780.963.9935 • Economies of Scale–Our New Agricultural Landscape: Digital works by John Freeman; until Mar 14

St • Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition: human stories told through artifacts recovered from the wreck site of the Titanic and extensive room re-creations; until Feb 20 • Discoveryland

Musée Héritage Museum–St Albert •

VAAA Gallery • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St

Naess Gallery • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • After Hours 12: Artworks by the staff of the Paint Spot • Through Feb

VASA Gallery • (Studio Gallery) 11 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.5993 • Fibre of Silk: Series by Samantha WilliamsChapelsky • Until Feb 25

5 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1528 • St Albert History Gallery: Artifacts dating back 5,000 years • Slavic ST Albert: Based on the research work of Michal Mynarz; until May 12; Reception: Feb 23, 7pm

Latitude 53 • 10248-106 St • 780.423.5353 • latitude53.org • ProjEx Room: Anusawaree (Monuments): Works by Korapin Chaotakoongite; Feb 24-Apr 7; reception: Fri, Feb 24, 7pm; Artist Talk: Fri, Feb 24, 6:30pm • Winter Parka Patio Party: Silent art auction, food, drink and DJs in the gallery and on the patio; Sat, Feb 18, 8pm-late; $12 (adv, non-member)/$15 (door)

Peter Robertson Gallery • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Simple equations, sticks, and mascots for dirty little cities: Paintings, sculptures by Clay Ellis; until Mar 3 • Artist's Talk: Thu, Feb 16, 6pm; opening reception: 7-9pm

McMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • Pattern, form, detail: Photographs of natural and manufactured landscapes by Ronald Whitehouse • Until Apr 15 • Opening reception: Thu, Feb 16

Royal Alberta Museum • 12845-102

Ave • 780.453.9100 • Narrative Quest: Until Apr 29

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

Strathcona County Gallery@501 •

Mildwood Gallery • 426, 6655-178 St

SNAP Gallery • Society Of Northern Alberta

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

501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • Blair Brennnan, Richard Boulet and Patrick Reed; until Feb 26

• Mel Heath, Joan Healey, Fran Heath, Larraine Oberg, Terry Kehoe, Darlene Adams, Sandy Cross and Victoria, Pottery by Naboro Kubo and Victor Harrison • Ongoing

Print-Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • Gallery Exhibition: Artworks by Robin Smith-Peck and Marc Siegner; Feb 16-Mar 17; opening reception: Feb 16

• 780.421.1731 • Gallery A: Travelling Within Dreams: Paintings by Ricardo Copado • Gallery B: Body/Language: Large drawings by Daniel Evans • Until Feb 25

LITERARY Artery • 9535 Jasper Ave • 780.441.6966 • Literary Saloon: reading series the 2nd Thu every month; Oct-May, 7pm (door) Audreys Books • 10702 Jasper Ave • 780.423.3487 • CAA Writer in Residence Jannie Edwards in the store every Wed; Until Apr 25, 12-1:30pm • Michelle Cederberg will share information from her new book, Energy Now!: Small Steps to an Energetic Life; Tue, Feb 28, 7:30pm Blue Chair Café • 9624-76 Ave •

780.469.8755 • Story Slam: 2nd Wed each month

Canadian Authors Association

• Campus Saint-Jean, Pavillon Lacerte, Rm 3-04, 8406 Marie-Ann-Gaboury St •

Superman: The comic collection of Gilbert Bouchard: Until Feb 28

CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • Group show • Until Feb 28

Crooked Pot Gallery–Stony Plain

• 4912-51 Ave, Stony Plain • 780.963.9573 • Northern Lights: In celebration of the Alberta Winter Games-winter themed pottery and giftware • Until Feb 29

Daffodil Gallery • 10412-124 St, 780.760.1278 • Love and Other Myths: Artworks by Joe and Oksana • Until Feb 25 Enterprise Square • 10230 Jasper Ave • Cool Stuff: Presented by U of A Museums, featuring objects and artifacts related to winter, ice, snow, mountains and polar regions • Feb 17-Mar 31 • Noon-Hour Series: Collecting Dinosaurs in Antarctica: Phil Currie; Mar 1 FAB Gallery • Department of Art and

Design, U of A, Rm 3-98 Fine Arts Bldg • 780.492.2081 • amass: Artworks by Andrea (visual presentation for the degree of Master of Design, painting) • bearings: Artworks by Annie King (visual presentation for the degree of Master of Design, Drawing and Intermedia); Until Feb 18

FAB Gallery • Colin Lyons: MFA Print-

making; The Alcuin Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada: This show covers books in eight categories (Children’s, Limited Editions, Pictorial, Poetry, Prose Fiction, Prose Non-fiction, Prose Non-fiction Illustrated, and Reference) published in 2010; Feb 28Mar 28

Gallery at Milner • Stanley A. Milner

Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/art-gallery • Feathers and Flash: Acrylic on canvas paintings by Teresa Stieben; until Feb 28 • Postage Stamps as Messengers of Culture: Display by Anita Nawrocki (display cases)

Gallerie Pava • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427

• Le Rapprochement: Photos by Suzanne Bourdon, Paul Brindamour, Robert Fréchette and Iva Zimova–a collective of four photographers from Québec; until Feb 22 • Old Dogs/New Tricks: Featuring drawings by Father Douglas; Feb 25-Apr 7; opening reception: Feb 25, 1-4pm; artist in attendance

HAPPY HARBOR COMICS v1 • 10729-104 Ave • Comics Artist-in-Residence: Paul Lavelleed available every Fri (12-6pm), and every Sat (12-5pm) until Apr 21 • Comic Jam: Improv comic art making every 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7pm • Open Door: a collective of independent comic creators, meet on the 2nd and 4th Thu each month, 7pm Harcourt House • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.426.4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca • Main Gallery: discards: Works by Griffith Aaron Baker • Front Room: Getting Anxious: Works by Margaret Witschl • Until Feb 25 Hub on Ross–Red Deer • 4936 Ross St, Red Deer • 403.340.4869 • hubpdd.com • Tranquil Transitions: Artworks by Marjorie Robert and Sheldon Robert • Through Feb Jeff Allen Art Gallery • Strathcona

Seniors Centre, 10831 University Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • Undulations–The Series: Artworks by Linda

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canauthorsalberta.ca • Feb 24-25 • Fri Evening Presentations: 8pm; free for members and first-time guests/$10 (returning guests) • Sat workshops: 9:30am-4pm; $40 (member)/$70 (non-member) lunch included

CARROT Café • 9351-118 Ave •

Rhythms of the Earth: celebrating Black History Month • Poetry Slam featuring The Overachievers and Titilope Sonuga; Thu, Feb 16, 7:309:30pm; free • African Storytelling: Featuring Tololwa Mollel, Junetta Jamerson, and Bitupu Mufata; Tue, Feb 28, 7:30-9:30pm • People Poet: featuring local poets and songwriters; Wed, Feb 29, 7:30-9:30

Haven Social Club • 15120

Stony Plain Rd • 780.915.8869 • Edmonton Story Slam: writers share their original, 5-minute stories; followed by a music jam • 3rd Wed every month • 7pm (sign-up); 7:30 pm (show) • $5 (registration from writers to support the Society)

T.A.L.E.S. TELLAROUND • Bogani Café, 111 St, 23 Ave • Come to share a story, or just come to listen; hosted by Dawn Blue • Wed, Mar 14, 7-9pm • Free • 2nd Wed each month From Books to Film series • Stanley A. Milner Library, Main Fl, Audio Visual Rm • 780.944.5383 • Screenings of films adapted from books, presented by the Centre for Reading and the Arts

Greenwoods Books •

Ross Block, 10309 Whyte Ave • 780.439.2005 • greenwoods.com

Haven Social Club • 15120

Stony Plain Rd • 780.915.8869 • edmontonstoryslam.com/schedule. html • Edmonton Story Slam followed by a music jam; no minors; 7pm (sign-up), 7:30pm (show), 3rd Wed of every month

Leva Cappucino Bar • 11053-86 Ave • olivereadingseries.wordpress. com • The Olive Reading Series Presents: Erín Moure • Feb 28, 6:309pm • 2nd Tue each month; Sep-Apr, 7pm, open mic to follow Riverdale • 9917-87 St • Creative Word Jam • Every 3rd Sun of the month, 6-10pm • facebook.com/ group.php?gid=264777964410 E: creative.word.jam@gmail.com

Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900 • Poetry every Tue with Edmonton's local poets T.A.L.E.S. STORY CAFÉ SERIES

• Rosie’s Bar, 10475-80 Ave • 780.932.4409 • talesstorytelling.com • 1st Thu each month, open mic opportunity • Until Jun, 7-9pm • $6 (min) • $6 minimum cover

T.A.L.E.S.–STRATHCONA • New

Strathcona Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.400.3547 • Monthly Tellaround: 4th Wed each month 7pm • Free

Upper Crust Café • 10909-86 Ave • 780.422.8174 • strollofpoets. com • The Poets’ Haven Weekly Reading Series: every Mon, 7pm presented by the Stroll of Poets Society • $5 Writers Guild • Jekyll & Hyde: Pub / Restaurant / The Hydeaway • Feb Social and Book Exchange • Wed, Feb 22, 7:30pm WunderBar on Whyte • 8120101 St • 780.436.2286 • The poets of Nothing, For Now: poetry workshop and jam every Sun • No minors

THEATRE Albertine in Five Times • Wal-

terdale Playhouse, 10322-83 Ave • Directed by Mary Jane Kreisel • Five actors play the same woman and are present on stage all at once. Each signifies one of five ages in the life of Albertine, a working-class Québécoise woman • Until Feb 18, 8pm • $12-$16 at TIX on the Square

Annie Get Your Gun • Festival

Place, 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • Sherard Musical Theatre • A fictional version of Annie Oakley, America’s greatest sharpshooter, and her romantic, tempestuous relationship with Frank Butler. Music by Irving Berlin • Feb 24-26, Feb 29, Mar 1-2 • $23 (adult)/$20 (student/ senior/matinees)

Blind Date • Citadel Rice Theatre,

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9828-101 A Ave • 780.428.2117 • citadeltheatre.com • Rice Alternative Series: Created and performed by Rebecca Northan, produced by Kevin McCollum. Rebecca Northan plays Mimi, and one lucky man in the audience will play her Blind Date • Until Feb 19

BOEING, BOEING • Mayfield

Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Bernard, a successful American architect living in a posh Paris apartment, has been deftly juggling three fiancées who are all flight attendants. But his supersonic lifestyle hits turbulence when his old college friend visits and each of his three fiancées change their flight schedule • Until Apr 8

CATS • Jubilee Auditorium • Musical Based on T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, with original direction by Trevor Nunn and choreography by Gillian Lynne • Feb 22-25, 8pm; Feb 25, 2pm • Tickets start at $35 at TicketMaster Chimprov • Varscona Theatre,

10329-83 Ave • rapidfiretheatre. com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • First three Sat every month, 11pm, until Jul • $10/$5 (high school student)/$8 (RFT member at the door only)

CYMBELINE • Timms Centre, U

of A, 112 St, 87 Ave • 780.492.2495 • studiotheatre.ca • U of A Studio Theatre • By William Shakespeare, adapted and directed by Kathleen Weiss • Until Feb 18, 7:30pm; Feb 16, 12:30pm • Tickets at Timms Box Office, TIX on the Square

DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre,

10329-83 Ave • 780.433.3399 • dienasty.com • The live improvised soap opera featuring improvisors Dana Andersen, Matt Alden, Leona Brausen, Peter Brown, Belinda Cornish, Tom Edwards, Jeff Haslam, Kory Mathewson, Mark Meer, Sheri Somerville, Davina Stewart, Stephanie Wolfe, and Donovan Workun • Every Mon, until May, 7:30pm (subject to change) • Tickets at the box office

Disney's Cinderella • Festival Place, Sherwood Park • Festival Players for Kids production; music and lyrics by Mack David, Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingston; book adapted and additional lyrics by Marcy Heisler; music adapted and arranged by Bryan Louiselle; directed by Marcie Pringle • Feb 17-20 • Sold Out The Ecstatics • Transalta Arts

Barns Studio B, 10330-84 Ave • 780.471.1586 • Northern Light Theatre • By Erika Hennebury and Ruth Madoc-Jones; stars Elinor Holt and Gianna Vacirca; directed by Trevor Schmidt • Until Feb 18, 8pm; Paywhat-you-can mat: Sat, Feb 18, 2pm

Fool for Love • Varscona Thea-

tre, 10329-83 Ave • 780.434.5564 • shadowtheatre.org • Shadow Theatre • By Sam Shepard. In an abandoned motel Eddie and May play out their tainted romance, co-production with Calgary's SAGe Theatre, starring Shaun Johnston • Until Mar 4, 7:30pm, 2pm mat • $15 (previews); Fri-Sat night: $26/$23 (student/ senior); Tue-Thu, Sun mat: $22/$20 (student/senior)

Jump for Glee • Jubilations

Dinner Theatre, 2690, 8882-170 St, Phase II WEM Upper Level • 780.484.2424 • jubilations.ca • It is time to put on a great show. Unfortunately, there are transportation problems and only six people from William Mackenzie King High can make it to the event • Until Apr 1

L’HOMME DE LA MANCHA • La Cité Theatre, 8627 rue Marie-AnneGaboury • 780.469.8400 • lunitheatre.ca • L'UniThéâtre • By Dale Wasserman, adaptated by Jacques Brel; with English surtitles • Until Feb 19 • $25 (adult)/$21 (senior)/$16 (student) at TIX on the Square Merrily We Roll Along •

Grant MacEwan University, Centre for the Arts and Communications campus, John L. Haar Theatre, 10045-155 St • Book by George Furth; music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; based on the Kauf-

man and Hart play • Until Feb 18, 7:30pm • Tickets at TIX on the Square

Moving Along • Roxy Theatre– Theatre Network, 10708-124 St • 780.453.2440 • By Chris Craddock, directed by Bradley Moss • Until Feb 26; Two-for-One Tue: Feb 21

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Munsch-A-Palooza–Fort Saskatchewan • Dow Centen-

nial Centre's Shell Theatre–Fort Saskatchewan, 8700-84 St, Fort Saskatchewan • 780.992.6400 • fortsask. ca/ftsk_thingstodo/Shell_Theatre. aspx • Family Series: Musical based on five famous Robert Munsch stories and paired with live rock accompaniment • Family Day: Mon, Feb 20, 1pm • Free, tickets are required at the Dow Centennial Centre ticket outlet

Munsch-A-Palooza–Leduc

• Maclab Centre for the Performing Arts–Leduc, 4308-50 St, Leduc • 780.980.1866 • maclabcentre. com • centre-stage.ca • Family Series: Munsch-A-Palooza • Sun, Feb 19, 2pm • $10 at TIX on the Square, Leduc Recreation Centre 780.980.7120

OH SUSANNA! • Varscona Theatre

• 10329-83 Ave • 780.433.3399 • varsconatheatre.com/ohsusanna • The Euro-style variety spectacle with Susanna Patchouli and her divine co-host Eros, God of Love! Laughs! Music! Cocktails! • Runs the last Sat each month, until Jul, 11pm (subject to occasional change)

One Good Marriage • Living Room Playhouse/Azimuth Theatre, 11315-106 Ave • Rabid Marmot Productions dark comedy by Sean Reycraft, directed by Nicholas Mather; stars Nathan Coppens and Kate Jestadt • Feb 23-26; Mar 1-4 • $20 each and can be purchased at the door or through Tix on the Square Opening Night • Kinsmen Korral

47 Riel Dr • 780.668.9522 • By Norm Foster, dinner theatre presented by the St Albert Theatre Troupe • Feb 16-18, 23-25 • $47

RACE • Catalyst Theatre, 8529 Gateway Boulevard • theatre-yes.ca • Theatre Yes • By David Mamet • A provocative new tale of sex, guilt and accusation. Two lawyers find themselves defending a wealthy white executive charged with raping a black woman. When a new legal assistant gets involved in the case, the opinions that boil beneath explode to the surface • Feb 23-Mar 11, 8pm; 2pm on Saturdays • $26 at TIX on The Square, door Red • Citadel Shoctor Theatre, 9828-101 A Ave • 780.428.2117 • citadeltheatre.com • Mainstage Series: By John Logan, directed by Kim Collier. New York in the late 50s – famous abstract painter Mark Rothko has been commissioned to create a series of murals at an upscale restaurant. Is Rothko selling out? Or is this his chance to reach the commercial audience he despises? • Until Mar 4 STAGE STRUCK! 2012 • Wal-

terdale Playhouse, 10322-83 Ave • Edmonton’s Annual Adult One-act Play Festival featuring eight one-act plays, including world premieres by Gerald Osborn, Zack Siezmagraff, Barbara North, Phil Kreisel, Zoe Hawnt and Linda Wood Edwards • Feb 24-25, Fri 7pm, Sat 1pm and 7pm • 3-session Festival Pass: $32 (adult)/$28 (student/senior); single: $14 (adult)/$12 (student/senior) at TIX on the Square, door

TheatreSports • Varscona

Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv runs every Fri, until Jul, 11pm (subject to occasional change) • $10/$8 (member)

WildFire Festival • Westbury Theatre TransAlta ArtsBarns • rapidfiretheatre.com • Canadian Improv Games Alberta Regionals created by the marriage of two improv tournaments: The Canadian Improv Games (more info available at www. improv.ca) and Rapid Fire Theatre’s own Nosebowl Tournament and their baby: The WildFire Junior. Teams from across Alberta • Until Mar 3, 7pm • $11.50 (adult adv)/$6 (high school student adv) at TIX on the Square

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): What do you typically do just before you fall asleep and right after you wake up? Those rituals are important for your mental health. You could say they are sacred times when you're poised in the threshold between two dimensions of your life. I'll ask you to give special care and attention to those transitions in the coming week. As much as possible, avoid watching TV or surfing the Internet right up to the moment you turn off the light, and don't leap out of bed the instant an alarm clock detonates. The astrological omens suggest you are primed to receive special revelations, even ringing epiphanies, while in those in-between states.

(Apr 20 – May 20): Have you ever gazed into the eyes of goats? If you have, you know that their pupils are rectangular when dilated. This quirk allows them to have a field of vision

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that extends as far as 340 degrees, as opposed to humans' puny 160-210 degrees. Goats are your power animal in the coming week. You will have an excellent chance to expand your breadth and depth of vision. Now is the time to illuminate blind spots. GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): In the animated film The Lion King, two of the central characters are a talking meerkat named Timon and a talking warthog named Pumbaa. They help the star of the tale, Simba, rise to his rightful role as king. The human actors Nathan Lane and Ernie Sabella, originally auditioned for the lesser roles of hyenas. They set their sights too low. Fortunately fate conspired to give them more than what they asked for. Don't start out as they did. Aim high right from the beginning—not for the bit part or the minor role but rather for the catalyst who actually gets things done.

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(Jun 21 – Jul 22): "He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him," says a Dutch proverb. Ancient Roman writer Marcus Terentius Varro articulated a similar idea: "The longest part of the journey is the passing of the gate." I hope these serve as words of encouragement for you. You've got a quest ahead of you. It will involve freewheeling exploration and unpredictable discoveries. If you can get started in a timely manner, you'll set an excellent tone for the adventures. Don't procrastinate.

CANCER

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): You're so close to finding a fresh perspective that would allow you to outmaneuver an old torment. In the hope of providing you with the last little push that will take you the rest of the way, I offer two related insights from creativity specialist Roger von Oech: 1. If you get too fixated on solving a certain

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problem, you may fail to notice a new opportunity that arises outside the context of that problem. 2. If you intensify your focus by looking twice as hard at a situation that's right in front of you, you will be less likely to see a good idea that's right behind you. VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): Thirty-two carrier pigeons were awarded medals by the United Kingdom for their meritorious service in the World Wars. Of course, they probably would have preferred sunflower seeds and peanuts as their prize. Let that lesson guide you as you bestow blessings on the people and animals that have done so much for you. It's time to honour and reward your supporters with practical actions that suit them well.

it has become a cliché. But I'd point out that when the creature emerges from its chrysalis, it never grows any further. We human beings are asked to be in a lifelong state of metamorphosis, continually adjusting and shifting to meet our changing circumstances. I'll go so far as to say that having a readiness to be in continual transformation is one of the most beautiful qualities a person can have. Are you interested in cultivating more of that capacity? Now would be an excellent time to do so. Remember that line by Bob Dylan: "He who is not busy being born is busy dying."

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): The caterpillar-

(Oct 23 – Nov 21): This would be an excellent time to round up a slew of new role models. You need to feel far more than your usual levels of admiration for exceptional human beings. You're

to-butterfly transformation is such an iconic symbol of metamorphosis that

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A starting point

Local youth group creates foundational support Youth Understanding Youth is a an underserved demographic. The acLGBTQ&A youth group in Edmonton. tivities range from DIY fashion workIt's been serving baby queers for more shops to field trips, art sessions and than 12 years. My relationship with YUY movie nights, along with educational goes back to when I was 14, conevents like speakers and discusfused and with a very new unsions as well as community derstanding of my sexuality. service projects. Likely the At that point gayness to me most important thing it ofly.com k e seemed embodied by the fers is support, as numerous e w vue tam@ a female folk singers I had on youth let me know. One told r a Tam a k l old cassettes and older men me that YUY offers, “"Friends a z r Go who wore loud colours and vacafor life! Once a YUYer, always a tioned in Miami. I basically knew about YUYer," she said. Ani Difranco, the Birdcage and these According to volunteer Kristy Hartwo ladies who taught me women's court, YUY has found success by allowself-defense. YUY opened up a whole ing youth to take an active role in how new world: there were people out the group functions, while remaining there around my age that weren't exclucasual and open. She says it's fundasively heterosexual. It was an epiphany. mental that YUY is drop-in and youth At the time YUY was housed in an inled. "Youth do the planning, hosting, conspicuous building on 124th Street. and coordinate some of the activities, I asked my parents to take me there but they have a safety net of adult volthe first time, under the ridiculous unteers to help them run it smoothly," ruse that I was escorting a friend who says Harcourt. "It's open to all youth 14 needed it. YUY is great for that—allies to 24 and the youth who attend are will often help friends by accompanyquite varied in terms of gender expresing them to a meeting. sion, age and background." YUY has had one goal from the beginning: no matter what might be hapI started in youth work because of a pening in the tumultuous life of a teen, chance encounter with another youth it's a safe space to go for two hours at YUY who was being bullied at school. each week. The group has accomAdvocacy gave me a sense of purpose I plished that and a lot more, providing desperately needed at the time. That a network of friends and resources to lead to all sorts of things, eventually

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in a phase when you could derive tremendous inspiration by closely observing masters who are doing what you would like to do. For that matter, your mental and spiritual health would be profoundly enhanced by studying anyone who has found what he or she was born to do and is doing it with liberated flair. (Nov 22 – Dec 21): WD-40 is a spray product that prevents corrosion, loosens stuck hinges and has several other uses. Its inventor, Norm Larsen, tried 39 different formulas before finding the precisely right combination of ingredients on his 40th attempt. The way I understand your life right now, is that you are like Larsen when he was working with version number 37. You're getting closer to creating a viable method for achieving your next success. I urge you to be patient as you continue to tinker and experiment. Open your mind to the possibility that you have not yet discovered at least one of the integral components.

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CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): A person who emits a huge angry shout produces just .001 watt of energy. Even if he or she yelled continuously 24/7, it would still take a year and nine months to produce enough energy to heat a cup of coffee. That's one way to metaphorically illustrate my bigger point, which is that making a dramatic show of emotional

including government and media work and this very column. I was recently invited back after all that time to deliver a queer doll workshop, where participants modify toy figures to more accurately represent their identity. It was a bit of a homecoming for me. The group has no trouble attracting youth, but is in need of facilitators. Interested applicants should be over 25, able to donate about 10 hours a month, including 1 to 3 Saturday nights. The group is looking for culturally and professionally diverse volunteers of all sexual and gender orientations. Readers who want to help in other ways can hold a fundraiser and donate, the money going to snacks, bus tickets and the costs of special activities. YUY, like most other LGBTQ orgs, receives no corporate or government funding. I asked Harcourt who would make a good candidate for facilitator and what they should expect to experience. "Volunteers come from a range of backgrounds: trades, nursing, education, government. Volunteering with YUY has been a great experience for me and my fellow facilitators. We get to plan and arrange activities for youth, meet these exceptional young people and help to connect them with our community." V Go to yuyedm.ca for more information

agitation may feel powerful but is often a sign of weakness. If you do fall prey to a frothy eruption of tumultuous feelings, use all of your considerable willpower to maintain your poise. Better yet, abort the tumult before it detonates. This is one time when repressing negative feelings will be healthy, wealthy, and wise. AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): Jeep vehicles always feature seven slots on their front grills. It’s a symbolic statement proclaiming the fact that Jeep was the first vehicle driven on all seven continents. Let's take that as your cue. Your assignment is to pick an accomplishment you're really proud of and turn it into an emblem, image, glyph, or talisman that you can wear or express. If nothing else, draw it on dusty car windows, write it on bathroom walls, or add it to a Facebook status update. The key thing is that you use a public forum to celebrate yourself for a significant success, even if it's in a modest or mysterious way. PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): A sign outside

the Apostolic Bible Church in Bathurst, New Brunswick invited worshipers to meditate on a conundrum: "Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?" After all, if the builder of the Ark had refused to help the pesky insects survive the flood, we'd be free of their torment today. (Or so the allegorical argument goes.) Please apply this lesson to a situation in your own sphere. As you journey to your new world, leave the vexatious elements behind.

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to get over this apprehension? Practise on the dogs and cats? —CAN'T GO THERE

Dan fires off some rapid-fire answers to some rapid-fire questions I headed north last week to do Savage equality campaigns made huge strides Love Live—a rapid-fire, slightly tipsy in Maryland and Maine. Pretty soon, all Q&A session—at the University of Alasthe lawyers who specialize in "traditional ka Anchorage. It was my third visit divorce" are going to be booked E G to UAA and it was a blast. All solid as traditional marriages A SAV of the questions in this week's buckle under the strain of column were submitted to me all of this equality nonm o ekly.c vuewe by UAA students and staffers. savagelove@ sense. Wait too long to get Dan divorced, TFW, and you may Savage not be able to get divorced at Should I go ahead and divorce my fantastic wife of 23 years now because all. Find a lawyer now! gay marriage is going to destroy it eventually anyway? —TONY FROM WASILLA I am with a girl who is a female ejaculator. It's pretty cool, but the quantity of You might as well do it now, TFW, if only ejaculate is way too much. Am I getting to beat the rush. Just in the last couple peed on here? —TIDAL WAVE of weeks, the 9th Circuit ruled that CaliYou're not getting peed on. (Science fornia's Prop 8 is unconstitutional, the says: female ejaculate ≠ urine.) But don't governor of Washington State signed take my word for it, TW: ask your girlmarriage equality into law, and marriage friend to piss on you sometime, and see if you can't tell the difference.

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My friend is a lesbian but recently started dating a gay man. They seem really happy. What does that make them? They were both really active in the LGBT community before getting together. —CONFUSED STRAIGHT ALLY

You see that "B" in LGBT, CSA? It stands for "bisexual," and it's there for a reason. Your friend may have been B all along, or perhaps she's just B for this one particular guy, and he's B for her, but there's really nothing to be confused about, and your friends can and should remain active in the LGBT community. I know about your "price of admission" theory. What else do you have to offer by way of advice for a healthy, lasting relationship? —ANNOYED WITH HIM Selective, self-induced short- and longterm memory loss. You have to learn to shrug off minor and sometimes not-so-minor annoy-

ances—maybe even a betrayal or two over the decades—because an ability to forgive and truly forget is necessary for the survival of any long-term relationship. If you're having a hard time getting there, AWH, speak to your doctor about medical marijuana. I'm a lesbian, and my friend who is a bi male keeps asking me to peg him. How should I deal with this? —NOT INTO BOYS If it doesn't bother you, NIB, laugh it off. If it does bother you, slap him down. How do you tell a more-than-a-friend that his hygiene is an issue? —THE NEW GIRLFRIEND

"Hey, big boy, you stink. Jump in the shower—there's a blowjob in it for you." Advice for beginning buttsexers? We're having trouble getting started. —HOLE NEW WORLD

Start with rimming, during or immediately after a shower, move on to fingers, small toys and finally dick. Take your time! Work up to buttsex over a week or two, HNW, not in a single evening. Lots of lube, penetration should be slow and very controlled, breathe, medical marijuana. I can't brag to my friends, but I need to brag publicly and anonymously: I had a threesome for the first time, and it was AWESOME. Highly recommended! — FUN UNICORN COMPLETES KINKSTERS

Another perceived-to-be-monogamous couple that actually isn't monogamous! Welcome to the monogamish club, FUCK! My husband wants to be spanked. This is beyond my comfort zone. What can I do

A woman who spanks her dogs and cats goes to actual jail, CGT, but a woman who spanks her husband goes to GGG heaven. But if you simply can't get over your apprehension, outsource those spankings to your friendly local professional dominant.

You have heard that an ordinance to protect LGBT people from being evicted or fired will be up for a vote in Anchorage soon. Well, I am a bi woman in a het relationship who works in an office where the environment is akin to the Fellowship of the Bros. Recently, I attended a pride event where a coworker saw me act in a very non-hetero way. I'm afraid this person will out me and I will be harassed at best and fired at worst. What can I do?

My best guy friend had sex with me. Does that mean he loves me? —HOLDING OUT

—UNSAFE AT WORK

HOPE

Not much, sadly. LGBT people are not protected under the City of Anchorage's antidiscrimination statutes. There have been three attempts to add protections for LGBT people to the law; all three failed after "Christian" activists protested, lied, demagogued, bullied mayors and lied some more. One Anchorage—a coalition of progressive organizations—gathered enough signatures to put an equal rights initiative on the ballot in Anchorage. The vote is April 3, and passing Proposition 5 will make it illegal to discriminate against LGBT people in housing, public accommodation, employment and credit.

Don't be ridiculous, HOH. People have sex with people they don't love all the time. It isn't proof that your guy friend doesn't love you, of course, but it's not proof that he does. I recently broke off a relationship after my female partner demanded that I get a circumcision. I told her I would get one if she did. She told me I was a sexist asshole. I don't see where she gets off asking me to mutilate myself if she won't. Am I wrong? —UNCUT ABOUT ANCHORAGE You weren't wrong to refuse to cut yourself for her, UAA, but you were wrong to equate "female circumcision" with male circumcision. A woman who's been "circumcised"—a woman who has been subjected to genital mutilation—has had her clit cut off. The male equivalent would be the removal of the head of the cock, not the foreskin. With all the stress of jobs, relationships, kids, etc, what's your advice for romance and great sex when you're overwhelmed by life? —JACK AND JILL My advice is to give up on great sex. Not forever, JAJ, but for now. Make time for some good-not-great, low-stakes, lowpressure, undemanding mutual masturbation sessions. Lie down together and get off while dirty talking about the truly great marathon sex sessions you're gonna have once your stress levels drop. Then do it!

HEY, LGBT SUPPORTERS: we scored some big victories in the last two weeks. But as we race toward marriage equality in California, Washington State, Maryland and New Jersey (don't be such a fucking coward, Christie!), we should remember that there are LGBT people living in cities, counties and states without any civil rights protections for queers. I hate to guilt folks into making political donations two weeks in a row—last week, Planned Parenthood, this week, One Anchorage—but One Anchorage could use our help. The haters are planning a big advertising campaign to block equality for LGBT people in Anchorage. One Anchorage needs to get on the air and counter the hate and lies. Donate here: oneanchorage.com. V Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage.

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