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From zero to hero Fired after 35 years in the same field and pretty much told he brought it upon himself: an ironic end after three decades of preparing students for higher education and life after high school.

Lynden Dorval, physics teacher at Ross Sheppard High School, was told by the Edmonton Public School Board's superintendent that assigning zeros for uncompleted work and his subsequent attitude towards school officials since his suspension on May 18 were the catalysts for his termination. Dorval received this news September 14, conveniently tucked into a Friday afternoon at the end of a newsweek.

Ross Sheppard has a no-zero policy.which means that when a student doesn't complete an assignment, it's deemed a behavioural issue rather than an academic one. The thinking here is that the student should not receive a grade of zero because the ability to perform the work is there, but for some reason they chose not to do it.

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of a student's mental health to a bunch of already over-spent teachers? Teachers are hired to teach, not to be social workers.

In his termination letter, Superintendent Edgar Schmidt wrote he had hoped the shock of being suspended would lead Dorval to contemplate his insubordinate and disrespectful behaviour. Schmidt wrote that he had expected Dorval to reform his behaviour and apologize to the principal, but that Dorval's actions made it seem like he intentionally chose to be fired.

So instead of being a good role model and standing by his principles, Dorval was expected to stand by his principal. Those kids gonna be learned real good from watching this fiasco.

Not assigning zeros when no work has been done just propagates a sense of entitlement to an already pampered generation.

And teaching students that they'll still pass by not doing their work means a very sad wake-up call is waiting after high school. And how about those kids who actually make the effort to do their work?

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andering through downtown Edmonton, it's not hard to come to the conclusion that buildings aren't constructed like they once were. Even the old warehouse district has an unmistakable charm. The architects and builders of these utilitarian structures took pride in their work and put in the effort to make each building unique.

These elders of Edmonton real estate present a stark contrast to the row upon row of oversized vinyl trimmed suburbs that are slapped together in record time on the city's outskirts. The generic, soulless repetition of suburbia's nearly identical houses is probably not what most homeowners dream of. Nor is the reputation for poor construction that often comes with these boom time homes. So what's behind the shift?

In his new book, The Energy of Slaves, Andrew Nikiforuk takes a wide ranging look at the impacts of petroleum on our society, from the early days of the Industrial Revolution to iPhones and electric can openers. Winding its way through discussions of the rise of the petroleum industry, changes to the structure of the family and society and the impacts of industrial farming, is the theme of our relationship to work itself. Nikiforuk explains that ide-

als of quality and craftsmanship gave way to quantity as North Americans moved from 19th century livelihoods centred on physical labour and muscle power to the modern luxuries of a petroleum-fueled world. At the same time, people began valuing idleness over the hard work and independence that their grandparents prized.

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It's viewed as an entitlement. But despite our lives of luxury, energy wealth hasn't led to happiness. The Industrial Revolution's ideals of speed and efficiency have extended into our jobs, regimenting and standardizing employees' activities to the point of monotony.

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selves perpetually indebted as they try to pay for gasoline, electricity, and the endless supply of gadgets that use them.

At one point Nikiforuk relates the story of a series of office buildings in China that were recently slated for demolition after only 25 years of use.

It's a narrative that is all too familiar to Albertans who bought homes during the last oil boom. At a time when environmentalists are calling for a transition to renewable energy, Nikiforuk suggests that the much more critical transition is away from the luxury of a high-energy society and back to valuing simplicity and the act of physical labour. We don't have to live in a world of disposable goods, fast food, and ugly crumbling buildings. Edmonton's downtown is full of 100-year-old monuments to what can be achieved when we slow down and value quality and craftsmanship.

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BOXED IN Trouble turning left on your bike at the corner of 116 St and 87 Ave (just across from Lister)? Not to worry: the city has painted a green bike box in the intersection as a way for cyclists to advance to the front of the queue of vehicles and make the turn first.

This is the only bike box in the city, but they are popular in Europe and exist in Montréal, Ottawa and Van-

couver. Andrew Siggelkow, a transportation engineer with the City of Edmonton was part of the project and says there are no more planned at this time, but as this was a problem area for cyclists making a lefthand turn, they decided to do something about it.

Watch the cool lego demonstration video at bit.ly/SZPubf and learn how it works.

TUITION TROUBLES Undergrad tuition fees are expected to take an 18 percent hike over the next four years. The Canadian Centre for PolicyAlternatives just released a study that said in 2011 – 12 students paid $6200 on average and that will rise to an average of $7300.

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study, says the tuition fee burden across the country has been increasing faster than incomes since 1990 and it's up to each province to ensure university education can be affordable for median and low-income families when household debt is at an all-time high and incomes have been stagnant for two decades.

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Sexual Assault Awareness Week was officially proclaimed on September 17 for the City of Edmonton with Liberal leader Raj Sherman and others talking about the importance of making this issue public.

The Take Back the Night march and rally starts 6:30 PM September 21 at Alex Taylor School.

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Fight for rights

Small northern Alberta First Nations band could force government to regulate oil industry

Former Beaver Lake Cree Nation Chief Al Lameman, who filed the first lawsuit against the provincial and federal governments in 2008. // The Co-operative Group

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n 1876, ancestors of the Beaver Lake Cree signed the Treaty 6 agreement, trading the land they'd occupied for countless generations in exchange for, among other things, the right to hunt and fish throughout their traditional territory. In return, the Canadian monarch gained the right to use land "for settlement, mining, lumbering or other purposes."

That was long before the oil sands were Alberta and Canada's economic driver. Now, the Beaver Lake Cree Nation—a First Nations band of 900 located just south of Lac La Biche— are saying their treaty rights are being trampled by 19 000 approved or proposed oil and gas applications in their

traditional territory, a sizeable chunk of northeast Alberta that includes the bitumen-rich southern leg of the Athabasca oil sands deposit.

In 2008, former BLCN Chief Al Lameman, on behalf of his band, sued the governments of Alberta and Canada, arguing that the government's approval of thousands of oil and gas projects is harming the environment and his community.

"The law is crystal clear: treaty rights are being violated," Jack Woodward of Vancouver-based law firm Woodward & Company says, part of the legal team representing BLCN. "Alberta is built on Indian land, ceded on a solemn promise that there will be the

right to hunt, fish and trap. And this is the case where we'll find how far the government can go until treaty rights are meaningless—it's monstrously important."

If Beaver Lake wins, it could mean pumping the brakes on Alberta's massively lucrative oil sands. Woodward says aboriginal treaty rights, and Beaver Lake's court case, are the only thing standing between the government and unregulated development of the oil sands, citing Bill C-38's weakening or removal of several key environmental protections.

"We have a radical government in Ottawa that has gutted our environmental laws," Woodward says. "Now, there's no significant environmental legislation. So what's left? We don't have the legislation, but there are still aboriginal treaty rights—that's it. So you can see why Alberta and Canada have fought this so hard."

On March 28, after four years of legal wrangling, Beaver Lake won the right to have the case heard in court—despite the Government of Canada saying "the entire claim is so broad, general and unmanageable that it is frivolous, improper or otherwise an abuse of the Court's process."

Both Canada and Alberta have appealed the March 28 ruling.

Sponsored by international environmental groups—who have also do-

nated more than $400 000 to help cover BLCN's costly legal fees—members of the small First Nations, including Crystal Lameman and her uncle Al, have toured England to talk about their experiences living in oil country.

Crystal, who has two degrees from the University of Alberta and is a member of the Indigenous Environmental Network, recently moved back into her childhood home in BLCN. She says her people have been "drastically affected" by the 15 years or so of oil speculation in their backyards.

"We've become economic hostages—our own people now say we need this industry, because we can no longer go to the land and get the things we need to live," Lameman says. "In the spring, we used to eat ducks on a weekly basis, make a nice soup—but they don't come here anymore like they used to. And the Saskatoon trees, which used to be black and heavy with berries, barely produce anymore."

Lameman and the BLCN aren't advocating shutting down the oil sands.

Instead, they want better consultation with the government about the cumulative effects of oil sands development. And if the courts find that those cumulative effects have significantly damaged their ability to exercise their treaty rights, the Beaver Lake Cree are asking for compensation.

Canada and Alberta both deny any

wrongdoing, saying oil and gas developments haven't affected the Beaver Lake Cree's ability to hunt, fish or trap for food.

"It is Alberta's position that Beaver Lake Cree Nation's treaty rights have not been infringed," Alberta Justice spokesperson Michelle Davio writes in an email. "[The] process for authorizations is appropriate … Alberta denies that Beaver Lake is entitled to any compensation claimed."

Originally, the Beaver Lake Cree wanted the 19 000 oil and gas applications in their traditional lands revoked. But the Alberta government successfully petitioned to remove the oil applications from the trial, meaning the developments will continue even if the BLCN were to win their case—unless there were a separate lawsuit challenging the applications.

Both sides agree on one thing: the trial will set an important precedent, and it will be a case that could take years before it's settled. For Crystal Lameman, she hopes for a victory— not just for the Beaver Lake Cree, but a symbolic one for all native people.

"I want indigenous people around the world to be able to look at what our little band of treaty Indians did," Lameman says. "We've stood up and talked as equals to the government."

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COMMENT >> SPACEFLIGHT

The 100-year starship

Technological advancements mean exploring distant planets could happen sooner than we think Never mind the constraints of the misyears, and the next, and the next ... erable present: the shrinking budgets, DARPA wanted to create an organizathe lost opportunities, the collapsing tion to foster "persistent, long-term, morale. Thinking is free, so let's think private-sector investment into the really big. Let's think about ... building myriad of disciplines needed to make a starship in the year 2112. long-distance space travel possible."

Well, I've already been thinking about The winning proposal, by the Dorothy that for decades actually, but that Jemison Foundation for Excellence, was just wishful thinking. Now there's declared that "100 Year Starship will a whole organization for thinking unreservedly dedicate itself to idenabout it, with a proper budget tifying and pushing the radical and government support leaps in knowledge and techand participation by private nology needed to achieve enterprise. Last week they ly.com interstellar flight." k e e w e@vue gwynn held a public conference in The 100YSS, as it's known, e Gwynn Houston, Texas: the first anwould probably not exist if Dyer the professionals interested nual symposium of the 100 Year Starship Initiative. in space flight had really challenging The sessions have ambitious titles: near-space projects to work on. They "Time and Distance Solutions"; "The don't: one American space scientist Mission: Human, Robotic or Reconstidescribed the current American space tuted?"; "Destinations and Habitats"; program, and indeed those of its rivals "Becoming an Interstellar Civilization." elsewhere, as "trying to finish what we But the organizers also realize that started in the '60s." Low-orbit operathis project will take as long as buildtions are vital but they are not inspiring a Gothic cathedral: one session is ing. simply called "Research Priorities for Some of these frustrated professionthe First 10 of 100 Years". Then they'll als work at NASA and the Defence have to set priorities for the next 10 Advanced Research Projects Agency

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(DARPA), so there is official support for thinking big. There's not much money: DARPA gave the 100YSS only half a million dollars of seed money (out of its $3 billion budget), but then nobody is planning to build expensive hardware now. They just want to think about what kind of hardware (and software) would be needed to go to the stars.

If they want to go on thinking big thoughts for very long, of course, they'll need more than half a million dollars, but the rest of the money will have to come from private enterprise.

For the moment, that means mainly from the well-funded space companies founded by billionaire entrepreneurs who made their money in other new technologies and now want to do something even more interesting.

So appoint a charismatic former astronaut to lead the organization—Dr Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman in space—and make sure that both private business and potential international partners feel comfortable with the approach. It's a natural area for international cooperation:

there are probably never going to be rival national starship programs. Add a truckload of ambition, a pinch of hardnosed realism and stir.

The first public outing for this enterprise was the symposium in Houston, and its popular appeal was obvious.

It's a heady thought that this may be where the future course of human history is set and at this stage nobody has to deal with dreary things like budgets and project management. The most outrageous concepts can be welcomed, examined and pursued or rejected. But is there any realistic prospect that human beings could ever build a starship?

Nobody knows. As Douglas Adams' seminal work, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, sagely observed: "Space ... is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is."

Building a starship would, therefore, require not just four or five generations of technological revolutions. It would also require the overturning, or at least the wholesale reinterpretation, of the laws of physics as cur-

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rently understood. Last time around, it took about five centuries, say from 1450 to 1950, to get through a comparable scale of change in technology and physics. But of course things move much faster now.

At any rate, it's hard to see what harm the 100YSS could do, even if it never achieves its objective. If the history of space-flight up to now is any guide, at the very least it would produce radically new technologies that have major positive impacts on human welfare.

And if it actually succeeded ... that would be the biggest deal in human history.

The most recent estimate is that there are about 30 000 planets suitable for our kind of life within a thousand light years of here. Most observers assume that if a planet can support life then it will almost certainly have life. It would be a great pity to miss out on all that because of a mere lack of ambition. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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glance, the book is innocuous, but is horrific upon further inspection.

"What they're saying is kids with cancer, they could get better, but it's really their fault for not asking the universe in the right way," she adds. "It's omen are bombarded with a the worst and they just came out with gamut of pseudoscience, from another one in the last year called women's intuition to the Law of AtThe Power. It's the exact same thing. traction, not to mention the They're like, 'How do we sell anmultitude of magical cosmetother million dollars of books to ics so-called experts try to people? We'll do the exact same convince them they need. thing with a different title.'"

People like Oprah have Aside from literature and inmade their living—and a lustinct, Watson says the cosmetic crative one at that—from industry has become one that marketing this pseudoscifeeds women's insecurities and ence to women, and Rebecca tries to tell them they need cerWatson, a secular activist and tain products to look a certain feminist, has set out to exway. In many cases, it's so men pose its irrationality. will notice and be attracted to "Women, I think, are socially them. Douches are one product conditioned to not be conin particular Watson has fun talkfrontational, to not tell peoing about. ple that something is bullshit, "Douches are these actually and at the same time, they've quite harmful products that been socially conditioned to women are encouraged to shoot be mothering and compasup into themselves and basically sionate and to focus on helpfire-bomb their vaginas," Watson ing others above all else," states, noting it's been proven says Watson, who is also the that douching can cause severe founder of Skepchick.org, an infections and even infertility. organization of women, and "The idea is that women are disone deserving man, who write gusting, women's vaginas are disabout science, skepticism, gusting and we have to do everyfeminism, atheism, secularism thing to pretty them up so that and pseudoscience. Watson men will love us." began looking critically at By exposing pseudoscience to pseudoscience during college, when an epidemic in the last few years. women, Watson hopes she is able to she was also working as a magician.

Whooping cough is something that show them it is OK to stand up for She witnessed psychics who were we could pretty much eradicate if themselves and realize they are capaessentially using magic tricks, fooling people vaccinated their children and ble of logic and critical thinking, somepeople into thinking they had superif people went and got their booster thing women have been conditioned natural abilities, to disregard in which was a catapast generations.

The idea is that women are disgusting, women's lyst for beginning vaginas are disgusting and we have to do everything "I suspect womher skeptical inen's intuition got to pretty them up so that men will love us. vestigations. to be a thing beShe began workcause for a long ing with skeptics time, women were like James Randy, who was a magishots every five years as recommendtold that they couldn't think logically, cian decades ago and offers a millioned. There's no reason for anyone to so women started to find this sort of dollar challenge to anyone who can ever die of whooping cough." power in saying, 'Oh yeah, I can't do prove they have paranormal abilities Behind some of the concern are cethat, but I do have this magic innate (it has yet to be won). lebrities like Jenny McCarthy, who property inside me that allows me to "I got involved with them and liked Watson says trump up a term called have some other kind of power.' We what they were doing, but I saw most "mommy instinct," a form of women's don't need that anymore," Watson of the skeptics who were on stages at intuition stating women don't need says, noting it's important to fight skeptical events and speaking about science or logic—they can simply rely back and recognize that both men and skeptical issues were mostly men, and on a magical instinct. women are capable of logic, because I realized that there were a lot of is"She (McCarthy) ignored all of her feeding into the idea of women's insues that directly affected women doctor's advice and now tells peotuition supports the idea this is not that weren't being addressed," Watple not to get vaccinated because possible. She believes this is a factor son recalls. she says she simply knows because in so many women dropping out of she's a mommy, so it's bullshit that the upper echelons of the sciences.

For Watson, one of the most conactually ends up killing people," "When we drop the idea of women's cerning issues of pseudoscience that Watson says. intuition, when we accept the fact she and her team at Skepchick inthat women can think critically, can be vestigate is vaccinations. Groups of Watson also targets The Secret, a logical, I think we're going to have a people are becoming increasingly antibook teaching people that if they better, more egalitarian society where vaccination, deeming them to be unwant something, all they need to do women can pursue the professions safe and cause conditions like autism. is act like they already have it, and the that they want to pursue regardless Watson notes that vaccinations have universe will manifest their wishes. of gender."

MEAGHAN BAXTER even been accused of being a form of The book has been targeted at women // MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM government mind control. in particular and Watson says at first

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BRIXX BAR • 10030-102 St • 780.428.1099 • Troubadour Tuesdays monthly with comedy and music

CENTURY CASINO • 13103 Fort Rd • 780.481.9857 • Open amateur night every Thu, 7:30pm CN THEATRE • Grant MacEwan University, Building 5 • Founder of Yuk Yuk's, Mark Breslin, inspire you to make the leap with a humorous take on his own crazy entrepreneurial journey • Sep 25, 4:30-6pm • Free

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Tim Koslo; Sep 20-22 • David Tsonos; Sep 27-29 COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Nick Thune; Sep 19-23 • Tammy Pescatelli; Sep 26-30

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: 7:30pm, 10pm; Sat: 7:30pm and 10pm; $20 • Wednesday Amateur night: 8pm (call to be added to the line-up); free OVERTIME PUB • 4211-106 St • Open mic comedy anchored by a professional MC, new headliner each week • Every Tue • Free

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • Sterling Scott every Wed, 9pm

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

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

GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS 30 DAY SUNRISE YOGA CHALLENGE • Prana Yoga Studio • 780.761.2226 • pranayogastudio.ca • Attend 30 days of sunrise yoga classes taught by a team of dynamic teachers, and receive one month of free unlimited drop-in yoga • Sep 24-Oct 23, 6:15am-7:30am

- (South side), 9708 - 45 Ave • 780.438.3207 • virenzi@shaw.ca • facebook.com/ events/361699747238523 • Join Vincenzo and Ida Renzi every Friday at Foot Notes Dance Studio for an evening of authentic Argentine tango • Every Fri, 8pm - midnight • $15 (per person)

AWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP • Braeside Presbyterian Church bsmt, N. door, 6 Bernard Dr, Bishop St, Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • For adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional families • Every Mon 7:30pm

BRAIN TUMOUR PEER SUPPORT GROUP • Woodcroft Branch Library, 13420-114 Ave • braintumour.ca • 1.800.265.5106 ext 234 • Support group for brain tumour survivors and their families and caregivers. Must be 18 or over • 3rd Tue every month; 7-8:45pm • Free

EARTH'S GENERAL STORE • 9605 - 82 Ave • egs.ca/node/442 • PACK YOUR LUNCH: create a nutritious living lunch that'll fuel your entire afternoon; Sep 23, 6:50-9pm • All samples and recipes are raw, gluten-free, and dairy-free • $25

EDMONTON BIKE ART NIGHTS • BikeWorks, 10047-80 Ave, back alley entrance • Art Nights • Every Wed, 6-9pm

EDMONTON NEEDLECRAFT GUILD • Avonmore United Church Basement, 82 Ave, 79 St • edmNeedlecraftGuild.org • Classes/ workshops, exhibitions, guest speakers, stitching groups for those interested in textile arts • Meet the 2nd Tue each month, 7:30pm FABULOUS FACILITATORS TOASTMASTERS CLUB • 2nd Floor Canada Place, 9700 Jasper Ave • 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw. ca • Can you think of a career that does not require communication • Every Tue, 12:05-1pm

FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.465.2019/780.634.5526 • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm HOME–Energizing Spiritual Community for Passionate Living • Garneau/ Ashbourne Assisted Living Place, 11148-84 Ave • Home: Blends music, drama, creativity and reflection on sacred texts to energize you for passionate living • Every Sun 3-5pm

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LOTUS QIGONG • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu

MADELEINE SANAM FOUNDATION • Faculté St Jean, Rm 3-18 • 780.490.7332 • Program for HIV-AID’S prevention, treatment and harm reduction in French, English and other African languages • 3rd and 4th Sat, 9am-5pm each month • Free (member)/$10 (membership); pre-register MEDITATION • Strathcona Library • meditationedmonton.org • Weekly meditation drop-in; every Tue, 7-8:30pm

MEDITATION CURIOUS • Jackie Parker Park, 4540 50 St • 780.468.2644 • A morning of sitting and walking meditation lead by Ven. With guest Metteyya Sakyaputta, a Buddhist monk from Lumbini, Nepal (birthplace of Buddha). Potluck to follow. Bring utensils and plate and cushion • Sep 22, 10am-1pm (meet up 9:40am)

NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-106 St • 780.458.6352, 780.467.6093 • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

OCCUPY EDMONTON GENERAL ASSEMBLY • Grant Macewan City Center Cafeteria, 10600 - 104 Ave • oc.yeg.info@ gmail.com • A leaderless space where everyone is welcome to organize and/or assist with all forms of Edmonton based non-violent activism • Every Tue from 6:308:30pm & Sat from 2-4pm

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GREAT EXPEDITIONS • St Luke’s Anglican Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.454.6216 • 3rd Mon every month, 7:30pm

I AM A SOLDIER BY PROFESSION: THE MILITARY CAREER OF SAM STEELE • Enterprise Square Gallery, 10230 Jasper Ave Presentation by Dr. Rod Macleod, Professor Emeritus University of Alberta • Sep 21, 6:30pm • Lecture included with admission

INNER WORK & COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY • Trinity Lutheran Church, 10014 - 81 Ave • jungforum.com • Panel Discussion: Symbols & The Unconscious • Sep 23, 6:15 (reception/registration), 7pm (presenation)

LIVING FOODS SUNDAY SUMMER SERIES • Earth's General Store, 9605-82 Ave • Every Sun, 6:50-9pm • Pre-register; $25 (each session); info: Robyn at rawrobyn@ gmail.com

THE OTHER FILM SERIES–EXPLORING CULTURES THROUGH FILM • Education North Bldg, Rm 2-115, U of A • The Canadian Multicultural Education Foundation and Department of Secondary Education present six films, faculty and graduate students will introduce each film and facilitate the follow-up discussion.

pool all night; 9pm (door); no cover • Wed with DJ Dust’n Time; 9pm (door); no cover • Thu: Men’s Wet Underwear Contest, win prizes, hosted by Drag Queen DJ Phon3 Hom3; 9pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Fri Dance Party with DJ Arrow Chaser; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Sat: Feel the rhythm with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm

EDMONTON PRIME TIMERS (EPT) • Unitarian Church of Edmonton, 10804-119 St • A group of older gay men who have common interests meet the 2nd Sun, 2:30pm, for a social period, short meeting and guest speaker, discussion panel or potluck supper. Special interest groups meet for other social activities throughout the month. E: edmontonpt@ yahoo.ca

EPLC FELLOWSHIP PAGAN STUDY GROUP • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • eplc.webs.com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome

FLASH NIGHT CLUB • 10018-105 St • 780.969.9965 • Thu Goth + Industrial Night: Indust:real Assembly with DJ Nanuck; 10pm (door); no cover • Triple Threat Fridays: DJ Thunder, Femcee DJ Eden Lixx • DJ Suco beats every Sat • E: vip@flashnightclub.com

G.L.B.T.Q SAGE BOWLING CLUB • 780.474.8240, E: Tuff@shaw.ca • Every Wed, 1:30-3:30pm

bers and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E: tuff @shaw.ca

ILLUSIONS SOCIAL CLUB • Pride Centre, 10608 - 105 ave • 780.387.3343 • groups. yahoo.com/group/edmonton_illusions • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri each month, 8:30pm INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campusbased organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-identified and queer (LGBTQ) faculty, graduate student, academic, straight allies and support staff • 3rd Thu each month (fall/ winter terms): Speakers Series. E: kwells@ ualberta.ca

JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY • 10242-106 St • 780.756.5667 • junctionedmonton.com • Open TuesSat: Community bar with seasonal patio • Beat the clock Tue • WINGSANITY Wed, 5-10pm • Free pool Tue and Wed • Karaoke Wed, 9-12pm • Fri Steak Night, 5-9pm • Frequent special events: drag shows, leather nights, bear bashes, girls nights • DJs every Fri and Sat, 10pm

LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408124 St • edmlivingpositive.ca • 1.877.975.9448/780.488.5768 • Confidential peer support to people living with HIV • Tue, 7-9pm: Support group • Daily drop-in, peer counselling

ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey

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)

onspace.ca, womonspace@gmail.com • A Non-profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured

ALBERTA CULTURE DAYS • Various locations around Edmonton and Alberta • Alberta’s largest celebration of our artistic sector, heritage, cultural diversity and provincial pride • Sep 28-30

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

ANNUAL KENYA RUN FOR WATER • Emily Murphy Park • icchange.ca/events/5thannual-kenya-run-for-water.aspx • A 10k run, or a 5k run/walk, as well as some fun water activities to experience the challenges of transporting water, like many people in Kenya do every day • Sep 29, 7am (registration/drop-off ), 8:30am (warm up), 9am (10K), 9:30am (5K)

UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA ALUMNI RECOGNITION AWARDS • Winspear Centre, 99 St, 102 Ave • 780.492.3224 • Recognizing the many outstanding accomplishments of University of Alberta alumni by nominating alumni who have made a difference • Sep 20, 7-10pm • Free

THE GRAPE ESCAPE • Edmonton BMW’s showroom, 7450 Roper Road • mealsonwheelsedmonton.org/events/the-grapeescape-2 • An elegant evening of wine sampling in support of one of Edmonton’s most cherished charities, Edmonton Meals on Wheels • Sep 27, 7pm • $60, available at Vinomania, Meals on Wheels

UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA ALUMNI WEEKEND • U of A Main Campus Quad, 114 St, 89 Ave • Weekend of fun events to reunite, recognize and rejoice in being a U of A Alumni • Sep 20, 7pm • info: E: alumni@ ualberta.ca

HIGH TEA: AN ELEVATED FUNDRAISER

WASKAHEGAN TRAIL HIKE • Meet: NW corner of Superstore parking lot, 51 Ave, Calgary Tr; carpool to trail from meeting point • Weekly guided hike of a portion of the 309km Waskahegan Trail • waskahegantrail. ca • Sep 23 • Southeast of city for a 9 km hike in the Ministik Bird sanctuary • Hike leader: Yvette 780.756.3623

• Transalta Arts Barns, 10330 - 84 Ave • fireflytheatre.com • Guests can sip quality teas from Acquired Tastes Tea Co. and nibble on sweets from Duchess Bake Shop, they’ll be entertained by Firefly’s talented servers, all of whom will be dangling from the rafters • Sep 23, 2-5pm • $50 at Tix on the Square or Firefly Theatre at 780.758.9999

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

The hearT of The Big CiTy •

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- 116 Ave • karmatashiling.ca • Benefits of Meditation, Sep 21, 7pm; $10 (suggested donation) • Aspiration For Mahamudra, Sep 22, 10am-noon & 3-5pm; $40 (suggested

WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • wom-

Churchill Sq • Sep 23, 11am-4pm • Register at hivedmonton.com, walk@hivedmonton. com

SUGARSWING DANCE CLUB • Orange

KARMA TASHI LING MEDITATION SOCIETY • Inglewood Community League, 12515

Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship)

AIDS WALK FOR LIFE • Sir Winston

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

facebook.com/events/135192286623117 • A riveting talk, “We All Must Be Revolting: Finding Your Place in the Global Revolution,” proposing bold ways citizens can reclaim public discourse • Sep 22, 6-9:30pm • $30 (regular admission), $20 (student admission)

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SOCIETY OF EDMONTON ATHEISTS •

AN ACGC EVENING AFFAIR FT. THE YES MEN • Garneau Theatre, 8712 - 109 St •

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

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

SHERWOOD PARK WALKING GROUP + 50 • Meet inside Millennium Place,

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PRIMETIMERS/SAGE GAMES • Unitarian

WOODYS VIDEO BAR • 11723 Jasper Ave •

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

gion, 9020-51 Ave • Meet every Tue, 7-9pm; helps members develop confidence in public speaking and leadership • Info: T: Antonio Balce at 780.463.5331

Wed 6-8pm • QH Game Night: Meet people through board game fun; every Thu 6-8pm • QH Craft Night: every Wed, 6-8pm • QH Anime Night: Watch anime; every Fri, 6-8pm • Movie Night: Open to everyone; 2nd and 4th Fri each month, 6-9pm • Women’s Social Circle: Social support group for femaleidentified persons +18 years in the GLBT community; new members welcome; 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm each month; andrea@ pridecentreofedmonton.org • Men Talking with Pride: Support and social group for gay and bisexual men to discuss current issues; every Sun 7-9pm; robwells780@hotmail.com • TTIQ: a support and information group for all those who fall under the transgender umbrella and their family/supporters; 3rd Mon, 7-9pm, each month • HIV Support Group: Support and discussion group for gay men; 2nd Mon, 7-9pm, each month; huges@ shaw.ca

RECALLING THE BUFFALO: THE VISION OF MARTIN GARRETSON • Enterprise Square Gallery, 10230 Jasper Ave • Special Lecture by Ken Tingley, the City of Edmonton's first Historian Laureate • Sep 26, 6:30pm

QUEER AFFIRM SUNNYBROOK–Red Deer • Sunnybrook United Church, Red Deer • 403.347.6073 • Affirm welcome LGBTQ people and their friends, family, and allies meet the 2nd Tue, 7pm, each month

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

BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725B Jasper Ave • 780.488.6636 • Tue with DJ Arrow Chaser, free

GLBT SPORTS AND RECREATION • teamedmonton.ca • Co-ed Bellydancing: bellydancing@teamedmonton.ca • Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary, 10925-87 Ave. at 7pm; bootcamp@teamedmonton.ca • Bowling: Ed's Rec Centre, West Edmonton Mall, Tue 6:45pm; bowling@teamedmonton.ca • Curling: Granite Curling Club; 780.463.5942 • Running: Kinsmen; running@teamedmonton.ca • Spinning: MacEwan Centre, 109 Street and 104 Ave; spin@teamedmonton. ca • Swimming: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St; swimming@teamedmonton.ca • Volleyball: every Tue, 7-9pm; St. Catherine School, 10915-110 St; every Thu, 7:30-9:30pm at 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 mem-

MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • A safe, welcoming, and non-judgemental drop-in space, support programs and resources offered for members of the GLBTQ community, their families and friends • Daily: Community drop-in; support and resources. Queer library: borrowing privileges: Tue-Fri 12-9pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, closed Sun-Mon; Queer HangOUT (a.k.a.

QH) youth drop-in: Tue-Fri 3-8pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, youth@pridecentreofedmonton. org • Counselling: Free, short-term by registered counsellors every Wed, 5:30-8:30pm, info/bookings: 780.488.3234 • Knotty Knitters: Knit and socialize in safe, accepting environment, all skill levels welcome; every

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Strathcona High School, 10450-72 Ave • 780.439.3957 • Evening of entertainment and silent auction in support of Strathcona High School’s Fine Arts trip to NYC • Sep 22, 7:30pm

INDY BIKE CHALLENGE • Argyl Velodrome, 6850 - 88 St • Peddle a look alike Indy race carfor the fastest time while raising money for the Canadian Liver Foundation • Sep 23

PRAIRIE GARDENS‘ FALL-O-WEEN FEST • Prarie Gardens, 56311 Lily Lake Road, Bon Accord • prairiegardens.org • Rich autumn activities, decorative displays and more.

Includes Lost Lemon Mine, Children’s Puppet Theatre, three Corn Mazes and the brand new Ghost Town of Boo’n Accord • Sep 22-23

UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL PEACE DAY • City Hall • cdpiedmonton.ca • A day devoted to engthening the ideals of peace, both within and among all nations and peoples • Sep 21

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PREVUE // ROLLERSKATING

Boogie nights

Love on wheels in Roller Town

Disco-fueled irreverency finds a home in Roller Town Opens Friday Roller Town Directed by Andrew Bush

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t's the 1970s. Disco crackles in its heat of its flash-in-the-pan inferno.

A band called the Boogaloos rules the airwaves. In Roller Town, cars have record players, and youth culture is happily wheel-bound, taking place under the spinning silver balls at the disco-rink, where the film's pair of skate-crossed lovers meet, fall in love, fall apart and attempt to keep their skating dreams alive as drugs and arcade games threaten the future for the scene.

Canadian film rarely attempts to rise to such irreverent heights, but Roller Town's pedigree is one to bet on: written by a trio from Canadian flagship sketch troupe Picnicface (known best for internet hit "Powerthirst"), and padded out with a cast of comedians from across the continent, the film transmutes their modern comic knack to a new time and genre.

In the week leading up to Roller Town's release, director Andrew Bush took a call with Vue to talk about the idea's origins, common tropes of roller films, and the switch from short sketches to a full-length production.

VUE WEEKLY: Perhaps

this is a bit selfevident, but what was it about the '70s roller-disco scene that appealed

to you as the setting for a comedy?

ANDREW BUSH: It's interesting. We really like bad films, or at least I do. Big fan of them. I was looking for some bad films to watch, and just joke around with. And a friend of mine, Jesse Eisener sent me a link to this movie called Roller Boogie, the trailer for it. And I watched it, it starred Linda Blair, and I was blown away by it. Then I found out there's a whole rash of these, from '79 to like '80, basically, so half a year there was this roller skating fad in movies: Roller Boogie, Skatetown, USA, Xanadu.

All these movies came out; me and my co-writers, Mark Little and Scott Vrooman, watched them and were blown away by them. And we said, we have to. This is a great setting for a comedy. So we basically watched those films, set a bunch of ideas for scenes; we didn't have a plot at first, we had a bunch of scenes, and then we wrote a plot around what we thought was funny. We also used that paradigm, that roller-disco, boymeets-girl kind of story. We took that and made a film out of it.

Is that the common trope of roller disco movies?

AB: Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back. The end. [laugh] yeah.

All of those movies are about that: a guy from the streets meets like a high-society girl, it's all love—except for Xanadu. In Xanadu, he literally meets a greek goddess, like an acVW:

tual muse from a wall-painting that he drew. That's weird. We didn't put that in there. I think people would go, 'That's actually too crazy.'

We wanted the jokes to work in any time period. We didn't want a huge amount of '70s-reference jokes. We were hoping most of the comedy would work in any time period.

VW: How did you find directing a fulllength comedy differed from sketch?

AB: It's so different. It's so different because you have to keep an audience's attention for an hour and a half as opposed to two minutes.

So where in a sketch you can have a premise be set-up and gone in the time it takes to eat half a sandwich, that's it. But when you have something like a film, you have to establish character, you have to establish plot, you have to establish so many things on top of making stuff funny. I think you can have a series of funny moments, then you don't really have a film. You have a revue, a sketch revue. If a scene is great, that's awesome: you can cut that up and put it on YouTube and get a bunch of hits.

But if you want to make a full-length feature that has heart to it, and a story, and gets people sitting interested, that's a whole different thing.

It was a real process for me, as a director and as a comedian, to really understand how that works.

Love on wheels

PAUL BLINOV

// PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

REVUE // SOME KIND OF MONSTER

Frankenstein

It's alive ... and feeling

Fri, Sep 21 – Tue, Sep 25 Directed by James Whale Metro Cinema at the Garneau Originally released: 1931

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n Mary Shelley's still-stunning 1818 source novel, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, the monster, forged from dead meat and animated

with electricity by the titular, ambitious young scientist, can speak.

There is a long, mesmerizing passage in which, after having disappeared for some time before returning to pay an unhappy visit to his father, the monster attempts to describe his own biography. He's read Milton and Goethe.

He's attempted to make sense of the human condition. He's as eloquent as any character in this beautifully worded novel.

This articulate, literate creature is precisely what was gotten rid of when Shelley's masterpiece was made into what remains easily the best of numerous cinematic adaptations, James Whale's 1931 Frankenstein, starring the inimitable Boris Karloff as the monster, a lumbering, looming, hunched,

hopelessly baffled thing who can barely close a vowel. But Karloff's stiffened, grunty golem was no cynical Hollywood compromise, no mere dumbing down for the scareseeking masses; the choice to make the monster virtually mute was inspired because, coming so soon after the introduction of sound, Whale's highly compressed, extremely economical Frankenstein understands the immense power of a great screen presence. Karloff's monster haunts us still because so much of the pathos, the fascination and, yes, the horror of his unholy existence is conveyed in Karloff's gait, his gaze, his frail smile, captivating even under all that makeup. He tosses a pretty flower into a pond—why not a pretty little girl?

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Watch Karloff's expressions shift in this tragic sequence. It is moving in a way that words would not have improved on—moving in a way that only the movies can be.

Metro Cinema will be screening Frankenstein five times this weekend. It's a great movie to watch with the onset of autumn. With its gorgeously gloomy backdrops, its expressionistic compositions and its moments of high mania, it continues to reward those who make the effort to catch it on the big screen. It's also the most prescient and potent metaphor for everything ushered into this world with reckless hubris.

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'm walking down an intestinally long, amber-lit, carpeted corridor in Toronto's Fairmont Royal York Hotel, built in 1929, though there's been some sort of hotel on this site since 1843. (" ... you've always been here, Mr Torrance.") Old by Canadian standards, the Royal York is creaky, tranceinducing, seemingly out of time as you wander its windowless passages. It's an ideal place to meet with Rodney Ascher and Tim Kirk, director and producer, respectively, of Room 237, the new essay film that explores a multitude of deep readings, some verging on conspiracy theories, of Stanley Kubrick's hotel-set horror movie The Shining. Room 237 is very fun, at once ridiculous and compelling; in some ways it feels to me like a parody of film criticism at its most obsessive and caffeinated. The film made a big splash at Sundance and Cannes and is now a major highlight of the 37th Toronto International Film Festival, which, as I attempt to find my way out of this hotel, is on the verge of closing.

It's been a good TIFF for ol' JB, brimming with interviews that will gradually turn up in this publication, free booze, too much coffee, too little food, and movies movies movies, including several very good ones, some of which will make their way toward Edmonton screens, many of which will recede into the vast film festival fog.

In that former, happy category, look in the next issue of Vue for something about a little masterpiece we like to call Tabu. In that latter, frustrating category, a great discovery for me was a character study entitled Once Upon a Time Was I, Veronica, from Brazilian writer/director Marcelo Gomes, a sensual, wise film I knew nothing about going in. Its eponymous heroine (Hermila Guedes) is a young doctor who lives with her ailing dad, whom she loves—seemingly to the exclusion of others; the film belongs in that small cache of sensitive, complicated films about fathers and daughters, which also includes 35 Rhums and Ozu's Late Spring. Veronica has good friends, loves to swim and to dance.

She has an active, often fulfilling sex life, but feels no great urge to get serious with anyone. Using a handheld recording device she undertakes some amateur self-analysis; she conceives of a movie of her life where she gets a happy ending of her own idiosyncratic design. Refusing to force any artificial resolutions upon Veronica, Gomes helps her find that ending, which became only more satisfying to me the more I thought about it in the hours and days afterward.

More likely to grace local screens— one would hope, anyway—is Something in the Air (Après mai). Set in the early '70s, the latest from Olivier Assayas, the prolific writer/director of

Ginger and Rosa

Irma Vep, Summer Hours and Carlos, is an autobiographical portrait of the artist as a young dissident, trying to forge a political identity while struggling to come to terms with a calling as suspiciously bourgeois as painting (Assayas' métier before he got into cinema). The film moves fluidly from one extended scene to another, through demonstrations, nocturnal vandalizing, ideological powwows, travels abroad, brushes with mysticism, trysts with likeminded lovers, art classes and film sets. Elegant and inquisitive, rich with period detail, Assayas keeps just the right distance at all times, never judging his characters, however young and zealous, never over-emphasizing a single scene to give us a false sense of sudden realization: self-discovery is an ongoing process, and Something in the Air simply lets us drift along with its teenage protagonist for a while, long enough to sense the great changes that occur both in his own psyche and in that of an entire generation trying to make sense of the world in the wake of that titular turning point of May, 1968.

Sally Potter's Ginger and Rosa takes a somewhat similar tack, tracing the collapse of a friendship between two teenage Londoners in the early '60s, one of whom (Elle Fanning) becomes increasingly devoted to the cause of nuclear disarmament, the other (Alice Englert) to finding some bohemiandomestic hybrid life with her best friend's father. The film ends rather too neatly, but the lead-up is utterly engrossing, and the supporting cast, which includes Timothy Spall, Annette Bening and Christina Hendricks, is marvelous.

Family life may seem wildly fraught in Ginger and Rosa, but those aspiring radicals and their lusty, misguided dads ain't got nothing on the violent, neglectful, doomed patriarchs of Mexican writer/director Carlos Reygadas' Post Tenebras Lux. Like Something in the Air and Ginger and Rosa, the film is very much grounded in autobiography, though when refracted through the prism of Reygadas' (often beveled) lens, personal memories and anxieties blend with fantasies and dreams, visions of radiant demons and spectacular acts of self-destruction. There's little in the chronologically amorphous Post Tenebras Lux that lends itself to easy synopsizing; let's just say that the young family at its center, living in rural Morelos, move through a series of crises both banal and mythic: the sexual dissatisfactions of life after kids, substance abuse, betrayals, attempted thefts and petty acts of revenge. The kids are played by Reygadas' own children, and give some of the most natural and mesmerizing performances I've seen this year from humans. (See below for non-humans.) Just watch that gorgeous, eerie opening bit, where little Rut, just old enough to walk, scurries through a dusky valley where all sorts of livestock get restless and the sky darkens and thunders. Tenebras, indeed.

Many of the best TIFF titles made closer to home I can tell you about soon enough, like To the Wonder, the flawed but still wonderful new one from Terrence Malick, or The Master, the latest epic-scaled yet intimate menacing father-figure drama from Paul Thomas Anderson. From right

here in Canada, Sarah Polley's Stories We Tell (yet another fascinating, formally engaged, autobiographical work), will be coming to our own Edmonton International Film Festival, and Peter Mettler's smart but groovy hypno-essay film about the nature of time, The End of Time, will hopefully find its way to Metro Cinema in the very near future. But my favourite Canadian film this TIFF? Bestiare, from Quebec's ever-inventive Denis Côté, auteur of Carcasses and Curling. As the streets of downtown Toronto were stampeded by fans, stargazers and nut-jobs clamouring like wild beasts for a closer view of, say, Shia LaBeouf, I was tucked

in TIFF Bell Lightbox, delighted and mesmerized by the many animals on display in Côté's observational, but also witty, playful, maybe political, quietly provocative and beautifully crafted study of four seasons of life at the Hemingford Parc Safari zoo.

For all the big stars striding the red carpets in expensive clothes over the last week and a half, I confess that I was most drawn toward the hairy ones, the four-legged ones, the inarticulate yet inherently cinematic stars that graced Bestiare. Here's hoping you get a chance to see them yourself soon.

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he Man in question is David Bowie, extremely famous several times over by the 1976 release of The Man Who Fell to Earth, yet still arguably about as close to a space alien as a famous person can get. He falls to Honeyville, New Mexico, which is, strictly speaking, Earth, though it certainly seems like one of Western civilization's weirder outposts. The film's director is the great Nicolas Roeg, who already had a masterpiece or three under his belt (Performance, Walkabout, Don't Look Now), as well as some substantial industry cred and star magnetism, despite the fact that his films were audaciously adventurous with form and occasionally baffling in content. (This was the 1970s.) So don't look too surprised if The Man Who Fell to Earth leaves you feeling a little lost in space. It is indeed far out. Some might say too far. Every time Rip Torn turns up in the film he has this look on his face that seems to say, "What the fuck am I doing here?" It's a fair question.

Soft-spoken, elfin-bodied Thomas Jerome Newton (Bowie) turns up one day with flaming orange hair, a British passport and a handful of enormously valuable patents. He

finds himself a good patent lawyer (Buck Henry) and a brilliant scientific consultant (Torn) and starts up a massive global communications corporation—but what he really wants is just water, a glass here, an ocean there. His home planet has been suffering a massive drought, his own family is dying from lack of H2O, and he's heard that Earth is swimming in

Who Fell to Earth is Newton's prolonged fish-out-of-water experience of our world, which through Newton's eyes looks far weirder and more sinister than anything glimpsed in the brief flashbacks to Newton's extraterrestrial, dunetraversing past. Though not quite as overtly, apocalyptically condemning a portrait of the modern materialist world as what was on display in Walkabout, the televiIt is indeed far out. Some sion culture, abuse of alcohol, might say too far. Every time gun accessibility, general ugliRip Torn turns up in the film ness and casual consumerism he has this look on his face on display in this film is, in its that seems to say, "What the way, pretty alienating. But then fuck am I doing here?" It's a so is the insistent vagueness of fair question. the dialogue. ("What are they like, your children?" "They're like children. Exactly like children.")

So is the poor man's Pink Floyd the stuff. So he sets up shop, trying soundtrack. And so is the film's meto develop a long-term project. Reandering nature. So much of what ally, really long-term. People around made Roeg's previous films (and him get old as it goes along. He some of his later ones) so sensoritakes up with a chambermaid (Candy ally rich can be found in the colours, Clark). He settles in, makes himself a montage, sound design and inspired life on Earth, develops a dependency ellipses of The Man Who Fell to on the booze. But does he ever realEarth—no one else could have ly become one of us? Can he? Would made it. Yet it lacks the urgency, the he want to? sustained energy and, more satirical than genuinely insightful, the depth Plot and backstory are both far those other films have. Still very clearer in Walter Tevis' eponymous much worth a visit, this Man may source novel than they are in Roeg's leave you longing for other, warmer film, which was scripted by Paul planets.

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he opening title card reads "Once upon a time in South Central ... " But what does this mean? That End of Watch, a cop-buddy movie that opens like a hifalutin spin on Cops before descending into some scenes of serious savagery that have "gritty realism" written all over them, is meant to be taken as some sort of fairy tale? Or is it perhaps a way for writer/director David Ayer to deflect the inevitable annoyance that arises from watching something so lazily, insultingly constructed? Because, though it boasts perfectly likable, lived-in lead performances, from Michael Peña most especially, End of Watch is a very dumb movie.

Perhaps dumbest of all is the halfassed formal conceit: LAPD Officer Brian Taylor (Jake Gyllenhaal) is, it would seem, taking a night school class in filmmaking, a fact mentioned early on and never mentioned or referred to or depicted ever again. As part of a class project, a day-in-the-life work-study thing, Taylor has fastened several tiny cameras to his uniform, to that of his partner, Zavala (Peña), and all over their squad car, and God knows what else. End of Watch is thus intended as a "found footage" action film, yet it can't sustain even the loosest sense of narrative logic within this framework. If everything we see is meant to have been captured by cameras within the world of the film, why are there so many pretty aerial shots?

Why do we get to see people doing things in private, like crying alone or

whispering in the back of convenience stores? Why is there so much coverage of even the most seemingly insignificant exchanges? Why did Ayer decide to employ this device in the first place if he wasnt going to use it?

End of Watch prompts many such questions. Why do the evil Mexican gangbanger baddies have a scene (shot by whom? apprehended by whom? edited by whom?) in which they make clear that they don't want to die, and then 10 minutes later suicidally open fire on about three dozen cops who have them surrounded in a back alley with nowhere to run to?

Maybe the better question is: did anyone involved in this thing ever actually read the script all the way through?

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or a guy with a sorta goofy nickname, General Butt Naked sure killed a lot of people.

Twenty thousand, by his own count at a Truth and Reconciliation tribunal, his murdering days playing out during the civil war that savaged Liberia in the '90s and early 2000s. Twenty thousand killed by him or by his small army, if you believe that count, though there's no reason not to. His Butt Naked title was one that struck true fear in the hearts of a lot of people.

Then, in 1996, at the peak of his

power, he was visted by a Christian missionary, converted, vanished from the war, married and reformed himself into an evangelical preacher by the name of Joshua Milton Blahyi.

But it's the other name that people react to: when your former life is a warlord with a track record as bloody as his, that's a pretty long shadow to try and detatch from.

Daniele Anastasion and Eric Strauss's documentary on the man's present day path to salvation is complex and curious. He is reunited with old victims, and attempts to make peace. He tells his old story and the word of the Lord, and tries to convince others that he's not the man he once was. Some, even of those he harmed, truly believe him, and seem to forgive him. He

tries to help those he harmed clean themelves up and get off the streets where the civil war left them.

To their credit, the filmmakers pretty much stay out of the movie, letting Blahyi and his victims tell the story (though you have to wonder about the effects a camera crew's presence has on those that forgive him on-screen).

They don't attempt to frame him in a particular sympathy, aside from following his attempts to redeem himself, which can be trying on the viewer: early on in The Redemption of General Butt Naked, the former General notes how he preferred child soldiers during those days, how they were more effective because "they haven't started to think about their future," how he would ply them with Hollywood movies, showing how actors getting shot in one movie would then pop up in another, so these kids would believe they would simply appear in another movie.

That death wasn't something to fear.

That's an ugly little detail, and Blahyi doesn't seem so much mournful about taking that approach. To him, it's just a detail of someone he used to be. He was pure evil, but to hear him tell it, that was only for a time.

Not everyone is as forgiving as his followers: after his Truth & Recon-

The General seeks forgiveness

ciliation testimony gets him off the hook for a war crimes trial—and to be fair, he seems one of the few willing to even acknowledge his crimes—the death threats begin to pour in, leading him to an exile away from his family. That distance takes its toll: the family start to grow weary of his absence and the men he'd taken off the streets fall back into old habits.

All of it is complicated and fascinating to unpack. The shifting role that religion's always played in Blahyi's life, for example: the fact that he was a tribal priest before he was a warlord, and even during his violent days, it was there. "When I'm naked, I disappear faster. When I'm naked, I activate my spiritual powers faster

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than when I had on clothes," he recalls at one point, years removed from the violent days. Now, his spiritual powers come in sermons trying to atone for the old ones.

So the title, The Redemption of General Butt Naked, ultimately seems as much a posed question as a statement. Blahyi is perpetually in the process of atonement, and certainly always will be. He seems mostly aware, even as it wears on him, that you just can't fully move on from certain legacies. So the most interesting question Redemption offers is whether or not you think his perpetual efforts to make peace with the past cast him in a redeemable light.

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fter the critical/commercial bomb that was Sylvester Stallone's Judge Dredd back in '95, its likely that the only people aping for a further cinematic take on the dystopian sci-fi comic series were those hankering for a doover. Which is essentially what Dredd 3D is: a somewhat violent, somewhat darker, somewhat decent action flick that eases up on the camp and doubles down on the grit. Somewhat.

The plot's a simple excuse for action and urgency that's feels structurally very similar to last year's excellent The Raid: Redemption. Set in the slummy-future city Mega-City One— shot in South Africa's Cape Town and Johannesburg—Dredd (Karl Urban) and a rookie with mutated psychic powers (Olivia Thirlby) go investigating a triple-homicide in a massive, 200-floor residential tower (its population in the 70 000 range). They soon find themselves locked in and surrounded on all sides by very, very unfriendly forces trying to hunt them down. Then the ass-kickings begin.

As a perma-masked Dredd, (who never does take that helmet off), Urban finds his particu-

lar shade of badass with a perma-frown and a voice somewhere between Christian Bale's Batman and Kurt Russel's Snake Pliskin, though I'd personally would've prefered a little more of the latter.

Still, he's adept at anchoring the action in an unusually gory action flick, though maybe it only seems so because the blood's often highlighted in slo-motion 3D sequences—spittle and blood flying, bullets piercing skin, flesh recoiling, a head caving in after a 200-story drop.

Director Pete Travis actually puts that third dimension to good use, and keeps the fighting scenes away from being incomprehensible shaky-cam shots.

Given its predecessor's lingering shadow, Dredd 3D seems successful largely by virtue of being a fun, mindless action blaster. Little gets questioned or morally examined outside of some police force corruption. But even that's less about the moral state of things and more about further opportunities for violence. Like the titular judge, we don't get much depth past the action-hero mask: Dredd is the law, battling bad guys who are unquestionably bad. But packaged as well as it is here, that's enough for an hour and a half of kicking ass.

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THE CAMPAIGN (14A Crude sexual content, coarse language) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN, TUE, THU 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 9:40; MON 2:10, 4:50, 9:40; WED 4:50, 7:30, 9:40; Star & Strollers Screening WED 1:00

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Captioned FRI, SUN-TUE, THU 1:30, 4:10, 7:00, 9:45; SAT 11:00, 1:30, 4:10, 7:00, 9:45; WED 4:10, 7:00, 9:45; Star & Strollers Screening WED 1:00

DAILY 8:45

CINEPLEX ODEON SOUTH 1525-99 St 780.436.8585

MRS. DOUBTFIRE (STC) SAT 11:00 HOUSE AT THE END OF THE STREET (14A violence) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 1:00, 3:30, 6:45, 9:15; MON-THU 2:05, 4:45, 7:15, 10:00 DREDD 3D (18A gory brutal violence) FRI-SUN 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 7:50, 10:15; MON-THU 1:50, 4:15, 7:25, 9:50 TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE (PG coarse language) FRI-SUN 1:15, 3:55, 6:55, 10:05; MON-WED 1:25, 4:20, 6:55, 9:35; THU 4:20, 10:05 TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE (PG coarse language) Closed Captioned THU 6:55; Star & Strollers Screening THU 1:00 END OF WATCH (14a Coarse Language, Violence) FRI, SUN 1:20, 4:15, 7:00, 9:55; SAT 1:10, 4:05, 6:50, 9:45; MON-THU 1:40, 4:25, 7:15, 10:10 RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION 3D (14A gory violence) Closed Captioned FRI, SUN 12:00, 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10:00; SAT 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10:00; MON-THU 1:25, 3:55, 7:05, 9:25; Ultraavx FRI-SUN 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:30; MON-THU 2:05, 4:30, 7:50, 10:15

FASCINATING AND INTOXICATING!”

FINDING NEMO 3D (G) FRI, SUN 12:05, 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30; SAT 11:55, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20; MON-THU 1:20, 3:50, 6:25, 9:00 THE WORDS (PG coarse language) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 10:25; MON-THU 9:05

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POSSESSION (14A frightening scenes, not recommended for children) Closed Captioned FRI, SUN 4:00, 7:10, 9:40; SAT 3:50, 7:00, 9:30; MON-THU 5:00, 7:35, 10:15 LAWLESS (14A brutal violence, nudity, coarse language) FRI, SUN 1:05, 4:05, 7:35, 10:10; SAT 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 10:10; MONTHU 1:15, 4:00, 7:00, 9:55 THE EXPENDABLES 2 (14A gory violence) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30; MON-THU 1:55, 4:35, 7:30, 10:05 PARANORMAN (PG frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 12:40; MON-THU 1:40 PARANORMAN 3D (PG frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 3:05, 5:40, 8:05; MON-THU 4:05, 6:40 THE BOURNE LEGACY (14A violence) Closed Captioned FRI, SUN 12:30, 3:35, 6:40, 9:45; SAT 12:20, 3:25, 6:30, 9:35; MONWED 2:20, 6:20, 9:30; THU 6:20, 9:30; Star & Strollers Screening THU 1:00 THE CAMPAIGN (14A Crude sexual content, coarse language) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 12:15, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 9:50; MONWED 2:25, 4:35, 6:55, 9:15; THU 2:25, 4:35, 9:40 HOPE SPRINGS (14A) Closed Captioned FRI, SUN 1:10, 3:45, 6:35, 9:20; SAT 1:00, 3:35, 6:25, 9:10; MON-THU 1:05, 3:45, 6:45, 9:20 THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (14A violence) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 12:50, 4:35, 8:15; MON-THU 1:10, 4:55, 8:55

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CLAREVIEW 10 4211-139 Ave 780.472.7600

THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (14A violence) Digital FRI 8:00; SATSUN 1:00, 4:25, 8:00; MON-THU 7:00 THE BOURNE LEGACY (14A violence) Digital FRI 6:35; SAT-SUN 12:55, 3:45, 6:35; MON-THU 4:45 THE EXPENDABLES 2 (14A gory violence) Digital FRI-SUN 9:30; MON-THU 7:45 LAWLESS (14A brutal violence, nudity, coarse language) Digital FRI 6:30, 9:10; SAT-SUN 1:05, 3:50, 6:30, 9:10; MON-THU 5:00, 7:50 POSSESSION (14A frightening scenes, not recommended for children) Digital FRI 7:15, 9:35; SAT-SUN 1:40, 4:25, 7:15, 9:35; MON-THU 5:30, 8:10 FINDING NEMO 3D (G) Digital 3D FRI 6:50, 9:20; SAT-SUN 1:25, 4:05, 6:50, 9:20; MON-THU 4:50, 7:30 RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION (14A gory violence) Digital SAT-SUN 1:50 RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION 3D (14A gory violence) Digital 3D FRI 7:00, 9:35; SAT-SUN 4:20, 7:00, 9:35; MON-THU 5:20, 8:05 DREDD 3D (18A gory brutal violence) Digital 3D FRI 7:10, 9:30;

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DREDD (18A gory brutal violence) Digital SAT-SUN 1:45 END OF WATCH (14A coarse language, violence) Digital FRI 6:50, 9:25; SAT-SUN 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:25; MON-THU 5:00, 7:45 TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE (PG coarse language) Digital, no passes FRI 6:40, 9:20; SAT-SUN 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20; MON-THU 4:45, 7:50 HOUSE AT THE END OF THE STREET (14A violence) Digital FRI 6:45, 9:15; SAT-SUN 1:10, 3:40, 6:45, 9:15; MON-THU 5:15, 8:00

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MRS. DOUBTFIRE (STC) SAT 11:00 DREDD 3D (18A gory brutal violence) Closed Captioned FRI 5:10, 7:40, 10:10; SAT-SUN 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10; MONTHU 7:40, 10:10 HOUSE AT THE END OF THE STREET (14A violence) Closed Captioned FRI 5:00, 7:30, 10:05; SAT 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:05; SUN 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:05; MON-THU 7:30, 10:05

LEDUC CINEMAS 4702-50 St Leduc 780.986-2728 ALL NEW STATE OF THE ART DIGITAL

HOUSE AT THE END OF THE STREET (14A violence) DAILY 6:50, 9:25; SAT-SUN 12:50, 3:25 FINDING NEMO 3D (G) DAILY 6:55, 9:20; SAT-SUN 12:55, 3:20 TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE (PG coarse language) DAILY 7:00, 9:30; SAT-SUN 1:00, 3:30 RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION 3D (14A gory violence) DAILY 7:10, 9:35; SAT-SUN 1:10, 3:35

METRO CINEMA AT THE GARNEAU Metro at the Garneau: 8712-109 St 780.425.9212

MOONRISE KINGDOM (PG) SUN 2:00; MON 9:00 UNIVERSAL: FRANKENSTEIN (14A sexual violence) FRI, TUE 7:00; SAT 2:00; SUN 4:00, 9:00 THE REDEMPTION OF GENERAL BUTT NAKED (14A) FRI, THU 9:00; SAT 4:00; SUN-MON 7:00 CULT: CLERKS (STC) TUE 9:00 OPERA: CLEOPATRA (STC) WED 7:00 COAST MODERN (G) THU 7:00 THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (STC) FRI 11:00

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THE EXPENDABLES 2 (14A gory violence) Digital FRI 6:20, 8:40; SAT-SUN, TUE 1:20, 4:00, 6:20, 8:40; MON, WED-THU 5:45, 8:15 LAWLESS (14A coarse language, brutal violence, nudity) Digital FRI 6:15, 8:50; SAT-SUN, TUE 1:00, 3:40, 6:15, 8:50; MON, WEDTHU 5:30, 8:00 DREDD 3D (18A gory brutal violence) Reald 3D FRI 7:00, 9:30; SAT-SUN, TUE 4:40, 7:00, 9:30; MON, WED-THU 6:20, 8:45 DREDD (18A gory brutal violence) Digital SAT-SUN, TUE 2:00 FINDING NEMO 3D (G) Reald 3D FRI 6:45, 9:15; SAT-SUN, TUE 1:30, 4:10, 6:45, 9:15; MON, WED-THU 6:10, 8:30 TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE (PG coarse language) Digital FRI 6:30, 9:00; SAT-SUN, TUE 1:10, 3:50, 6:30, 9:00; MON, WED-THU 5:40, 8:10 HOUSE AT THE END OF THE STREET (14A violence) Digital FRI 6:50, 9:20; SAT-SUN, TUE 1:50, 4:30, 6:50, 9:20; MON, WED-THU 5:50, 8:30 RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION 3D (14A gory violence) Reald 3D FRI 6:40, 9:10; SAT-SUN, TUE 4:20, 6:40, 9:10; MON, WEDTHU 6:00, 8:20 RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION (14A gory violence) Digital SAT-SUN, TUE 1:40

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FAREWELL MY QUEEN (14A nudity) FRI 7:00, 9:00; SAT-SUN 2:00, 7:00, 9:00; MON-THU 7:00, 9:00 THE INTOUCHABLES (14A) FRI 6:50; SAT-SUN 1:00, 6:50; MON-THU 6:50 THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES (PG) FRI 9:10; SAT-SUN 3:30, 9:10; MON-THU 9:10

SCOTIABANK THEATRE WEM WEM 8882-170 St 780.444.2400

RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II (STC) MON 7:30 END OF WATCH (14A coarse language, violence) DAILY 2:00, 4:45, 7:40, 10:20 HOUSE AT THE END OF THE STREET (14A violence) FRI, MON-THU 1:30, 4:25; SAT-SUN 12:20, 2:50, 5:15; Ultraavx DAILY 8:00, 10:30 DREDD 3D (18A gory brutal violence) DAILY 1:00, 3:25, 5:50, 8:15, 10:45 TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE (PG coarse language) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video FRI-TUE, THU 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00; WED 4:30, 7:20, 10:00; Star & Strollers Screening WED 1:00 RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION 3D (14A gory violence) DAILY 1:50, 4:20, 7:10, 9:40 FINDING NEMO 3D (G) DAILY 1:10, 3:40; DAILY 7:45, 10:25; Ultraavx FRI, MON-THU 1:45, 4:45; SAT-SUN 12:15, 2:45, 5:20 RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION 3D – AN IMAX EXPERIENCE (14A gory violence) DAILY 12:55, 3:20, 5:45, 8:10, 10:40

RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION 3D (14A gory violence) Closed Captioned FRI 5:05, 7:25, 9:55; SAT-SUN 12:25, 2:45, 5:05, 7:25, 9:55; MON-THU 7:25, 9:55

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 3D (PG frightening scenes, violence, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned FRI-SAT 3:15, 6:25, 9:35; SUN 3:10, 6:20, 9:35; MONTHU 6:30, 9:45

FINDING NEMO 3D (G) FRI 4:30, 7:10, 9:50; SAT 11:10, 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50; SUN 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50; MON-THU 7:10, 9:50

THE EXPENDABLES 2 (14A gory violence) Closed Captioned FRI, MON-THU 2:20, 5:20, 8:15, 10:45; SAT-SUN 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:15, 10:45

LAWLESS (14A brutal violence, nudity, coarse language) FRI 4:05, 6:55, 9:45; SAT-SUN 1:25, 4:05, 6:55, 9:45; MON-THU 6:55, 9:45

PARANORMAN (PG frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) FRI-TUE, THU 1:20, 4:00; WED 4:00; Star & Strollers Screening WED 1:00

THE EXPENDABLES 2 (14A gory violence) Closed Captioned

PARANORMAN 3D (PG frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) DAILY 6:50, 9:30

HOUSE AT THE END OF THE STREET (14A violence) VIP 18+ FRI 6:10, 9:10; SAT-SUN 2:45, 6:10, 9:10; MON-THU 7:45; Closed Captioned FRI 4:20, 6:50, 9:15; SAT-SUN 1:40, 4:20, 6:50, 9:15; MON-THU 7:10, 9:35

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TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE (PG coarse language) Bargain Matinee, Child Admission Price, Closed Captioned, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital, P.M., Stadium Seating FRI-SUN, TUE 1:30, 4:15, 7:10, 9:50; MON, WED-THU 3:40, 6:25, 9:00

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (PG frightening scenes, violence, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned FRISAT 12:10; SUN 12:05; MON-THU 2:00

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ICE AGE : CONTINENTAL DRIFT (G) THU 1:00 THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN (G) THU 1:05, 3:10, 5:15, 7:20, 9:20 RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION 3D (14A gory violence) THU 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:35, 9:35 PARANORMAN (PG frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) THU 1:20, 3:20, 5:20, 7:15 THE BOURNE LEGACY (14A violence) THU 9:00

TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE (PG coarse language) Closed Captioned FRI 4:10, 6:50, 9:30; Sat 11:00, 1:35, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30; SUN 1:35, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30; MON-THU 6:50, 9:30

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THE BOURNE LEGACY (14A violence) Closed Captioned FRI 4:00, 7:00, 10:00; SAT-SUN 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00; MON-THU 6:30, 9:30

ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (G) Closed Captioned FRI, SUN 12:20; SAT 12:15; MON-THU 1:45

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DREDD 3D (18A gory brutal violence) Closed Captioned FRI 4:50, 7:30, 9:50; SAT-SUN 2:00, 4:50, 7:30, 9:50; MON-THU 7:20, 9:40 TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE (PG coarse language) VIP 18+ FRI 4:00, 7:10, 10:15; SAT-SUN 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:15; MON-THU 6:45, 9:45; Ultraavx FRI 4:10, 7:20, 10:10; SAT-SUN 1:20, 4:10, 7:20, 10:10; MON-THU 7:00, 9:45 RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION 3D (14A gory violence) VIP 18+ FRI 5:00, 8:10; SAT-SUN 1:45, 5:00, 8:10; MON-THU 8:45; Closed Captioned FRI 4:40, 7:40, 10:20; SAT-SUN 1:50, 4:40, 7:40, 10:20; MON-THU 6:50, 9:10 FINDING NEMO 3D (G) Closed Captioned FRI 4:30, 7:10, 9:40; SAT-SUN 1:30, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40; MON-THU 6:50, 9:20 THE WORDS (PG coarse language) Closed Captioned FRI 3:40, 6:30, 9:00; SAT-SUN 1:20, 3:40, 6:30, 9:00; MON-THU 6:30, 8:50 LAWLESS (14A brutal violence, nudity, coarse language) FRI 3:50, 6:40, 9:25; SAT-SUN 1:10, 3:50, 6:40, 9:25; MON-THU

FRI 4:40, 7:20, 10:00; SAT 11:20, 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00; SUN 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00; MON-THU 7:20, 10:00

PARANORMAN 3D (PG frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 4:35, 7:00; MON-THU 7:00 THE BOURNE LEGACY (14A violence) Closed Captioned FRI 3:40, 6:40, 9:40; SAT-SUN 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40; MON-THU 6:40, 9:40 PARANORMAN (PG frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned SAT 11:45, 2:10; SUN 2:10 THE CAMPAIGN (14A Crude sexual content, coarse language) Closed Captioned FRI 5:30, 7:50, 10:10; SAT-SUN 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10; MON-THU 7:50, 10:10 HOPE SPRINGS (14A) Closed Captioned DAILY 9:20

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THE EXPENDABLES 2 (14A gory violence) THU 12:50, 2:45, 9:30 THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD (PG coarse language) THU 4:40, 7:05 DIARY OF A WIMPY KID : DOG DAYS (G) THU 2:55, 4:50, 6:45, 8:40

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POSSESSION (14A frightening scenes, not recommended for children) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN, TUE-THU 4:40, 7:50, 10:35; MON 4:40, 10:35

THE BOURNE LEGACY (14A violence) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video DAILY 7:00, 10:10 THE CAMPAIGN (14A crude sexual content, coarse language) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN, TUE, THU 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 9:50; MON, WED 2:00, 4:15, 9:50 THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (14A violence) Closed Captioned DAILY 1:15, 5:00, 8:45 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (G) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video DAILY 1:40

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HOUSE AT THE END OF THE STREET (14A violence) DAILY 6:50, 9:25; SAT-SUN 12:50, 3:25 TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE (PG coarse language) DAILY 7:00, 9:30; SAT-SUN 1:00, 3:30 FINDING NEMO 3D (G) DAILY 7:05, 9:25; SAT-SUN 1:05, 3:25 RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION 3D (14A gory violence) DAILY 7:10, 9:35; SAT-SUN 1:10, 3:35

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Simple, yet successful Battista's Calzone Co. expands

Battista's Calzone Co. 11745 - 84 St 780.758.7808 battistascalzonecompany.ca

S

ometimes less is more, and this has been proven once again by Battista's Calzone Co. The menu, which has expanded slightly from the original four items it featured upon opening in 2010, now includes six different calzones. Rather than start too large or overlap a niche in the Edmonton food scene that had already been successfully filled, proprietor Battista Vecchio decided to stick strictly to calzones, and do them exceptionally well.

The bright, open building features long, communal tables that offer a lunchtime reprieve from the hustle and bustle, and behind the counter you'll find Vecchio and his business partner Liv Vors. The pair went into business together after Vors interviewed Vecchio for a piece in this very paper: in June 2011, she bought half the business, and has since retired from writing with the exception of a little freelance work and a blog.

"Everything is in peaks and valleys.

There's that spurt of activity when something first opens, the novelty factor ... then things tend to drop a bit. The novelty wears off, but then you develop a following and it starts to climb again, so nothing is ever a steady climb," Vors notes of the small business's progress. "It doesn't follow any particular mathematical function, but what we've noticed is that peaks and valleys that we go through now, the lows are what the highs were a year ago this time."

Neither of the pair have any formal culinary training, but both have an insatiable love of impeccable food, and were taught what they know from the best: Vors' Polish grandmother taught her to put love into everything she did, while Vecchio's Italian mother taught him the importance of fresh ingredients. Vecchio was introduced to calzones as a child, when his mother would make them out of leftover pizza dough, and he says that after seeing how popular they were in places like Toronto and New York City he wanted to bring the sensation to Edmonton.

Calzones, if you have yet to be ac-

quainted, are essentially a pizza folded in half to make a simple, yet delicious lunch offering. Vecchio and Vors make the dough from scratch every day, and incorporate fresh ingredients to create concoctions like the Mama Mia, featuring Vecchio's mother's meatball recipe, Spicy Italian, Pesto Presto, Vegetariano and Nutella, which features fresh strawberries or bananas for a more decadent calzone fix.

"It's something that's different, but it's not unapproachable," Vors notes, adding that customers have asked why the business doesn't offer pizza.

"There's some amazing places in town doing pizza and we don't want that to be our niche."

"You can do anything with the product," Vecchio adds. "You can put any type of recipe in there from pulled pork to beef to Hawaiian to vegetarian to sausageâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;you can do anything you want ... that's the beauty of it."

This summer, Battista's expanded to join the food-truck craze that's shaken up the city's dining landscape. The truck has been a hit at events such as What the Truck?! as well as private catered engagements and the 124 St

Calzone-a-licious // Meaghan Baxter

Grand Market. The season is beginning to wind down, but Vecchio says it's still got a few weeks to go and he's hoping to have the truck on the street everyday next summer, but it's a balancing act between operating the store and the truck.

The truck was purchased from Kijiji in December 2011, and Vecchio and Vors had it custom outfitted to suit their needs. With the help of NAIT culinary student Max Usher they were able to hit the streets and also use the truck as an opportunity to try new calzone creations, including prosciutto and sage.

"In the future I'd love to see a lot of the business shifted towards the truck, especially since I feel like there's so much potential there," Vors says, adding that the move into the Edmonton food-truck scene has been met with an abundant sense of camaraderie, and she credits Susan Chin

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from Molly's Eats for helping them get started.

Vecchio says the experience has been a bit of a growing pain and a juggling act, but adds that it's been well worth the extra effort. He would like to see the business continue to grow and have Battista's present in other areas of the community as well in terms of festivals, summer events and even allyear events with the truck. Above all, he credits Battista's loyal following of customers for making the business, and its first shot at a food truck, a success.

"Once we meet the customers, they become regular customers," he notes.

"They come in and we try to get to know their names, we try to get to know who they are and how they found out about us and just trying to connect with people and I think that's a success."

MEAGHAN BAXTER

// MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

DISH 19

PROVENANCE

Six things about apples DEFINITELY NOT AN APPLE A DAY

WAY, WAY BACK

The average person eats 65 apples per year.

Archaeologists have discovered evidence that people have been eating apples since 6500 BC.

WHY WE CAN BOB FOR APPLES

CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF

Apples are able to float because 25 percent of their volume is comprised of air. Sizes range from a little larger than a cherry to as big as a grapefruit.

The crabapple is the only variety that originates in North America. Other varieties are grown here, but originated in other countries.

MORE THAN THE USUAL

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It's been my dirty little secret for a few of the barrel; there are some tasty opmonths now, and I just have to confess: tions available.

I drink box wine.

The main benefit of box wine is that The wine snob in me despises that it is by far the best package for keepbox, perched unassumingly on the ing wine fresh for the longest period edge of my kitchen counter. I hide of time. An open bottle of wine it when my wine enthusiast spoils in a couple days; an I D VI VENI, friends come over. Every open box wine stays good time I pick one up from the for three weeks. As well, box ly.com eweek u v store, I tell myself that I'm wines require far less packl@ me only buying it for parties, for aging by volume and the maMel ey terials are not nearly as heavy serving to people who couldn't Priestl tell a Shiraz from a Chardonnay. as glass, so they are both easier to But that's just not true; I'm buying handle and much lighter, and, therefore, that box of wine because, despite what much cheaper to transport. With box my inner wine snob says, it's a seriwine the consumer also doesn't need to ously practical and economical format worry about wines spoiled by cork taint in which to store wine. For those new (also known as TCA contamination) or to the concept, box wines are actuleaky corks and caps. ally a vacuum-sealed bag of wine that If I managed a bar or café where the is stored inside a box, with a built-in only wine choices were red or white, I spigot that you use to pour. Most box wouldn't even consider using bottles; wines hold around three to four litres the profit margin from spoiled wine of juice—the equivalent of four to five is just too high. Furthermore, if more regular bottles of wine. wines were available in box format, resBox wine carries the stigma of betaurants would be able to offer a more ing only used to package really cheap extensive list of wines by the glass, plonk—and in the past, at least in something particularly significant given North America, this was indeed the Alberta's recent change to the legal case. But this packaging is undergoing a blood alcohol limit. renaissance. Much like how screw caps are now recognized as a perfectly acA better selection of box wine would ceptable, and in some cases superior, also free up consumers from singleclosure, not all box wines are bottom bottle commitment: I envision a line of

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little boxes in the pantry, each with a different type of wine that would stay fresh for weeks. You could tailor your wine selection to match your current meal, craving or mood, and you could drink as much or as little of each as you wanted. It would be like having your very own by-the-glass service at home, and that's something I can definitely stand behind.

Canada is way behind several countries who already offer an extensive selection of box wine. Australia, the founder of this packaging, offers a huge selection of box wines, and not just the cheap stuff either. Some wine companies are also taking the initiative to spruce up their box wine in an attempt to make it look classier: Vernissage recently launched their "bag-in-bag" wine which is a box wine that looks like a designer handbag.

Dress it up as much as you want, but ultimately you're still quaffing wine from a box. And you know what?

There's nothing wrong with that. V

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Welcome to Vue Weekly's Best of Edmonton awards. We asked your thoughts on over 150 categories—yeah, we know, it was a little much. But we had over 1000 responses and upwards of 15 000 individual votes, so thanks for coming out, Edmonton.

(That said, there were several categories where the response was quite limited, and in some of those cases there were too few votes for us to justify giving out an award. In other cases, we had a ton of votes, but every one was for a different organization— looking at you, baby photographers—so we didn't give out awards in those situations either.)

One of the most common comments we received was "Where are all the food awards?" Well, those happen in May, in our Golden Fork Awards. So we do love the restaurants and your thoughts on them, but it's a spring thing. Check out the 2012 winners at goldenforkawards.ca.

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General Manager: Marvin Henschel and Business Development Manager: Phan Nguyen

Southgate Volkswagen would like to thank Edmontonians for voting them First RunnerUp in Vue Weekly’s 2012 Best of Edmonton poll in the Best Auto Dealer (New) category.

Though they’ve already been serving the community of Edmonton for over 40 years, in November 2011 Southgate Volkswagen opened the doors on their brand-new dealership – while simultaneously opening up an entirely new way of doing business.

The new facility is the largest Volkswagen dealership in Canada – which is not hard to believe when you walk through the floor-toceiling glass entryway on this sparkling open concept building. Nothing is hidden away: sales staff, management, and even the service department are all immediately visible and on hand to greet you upon entering the showroom, throughout which are various floor models of Volkswagen’s latest line of Germanengineered automobiles. The dealership also boasts a huge underground, heated holding facility for all their new vehicles, which is the only one of its kind amongst all the Volkswagen dealerships in Canada; there’s no need to stand around in the rain or snow kicking tires, as customers can instead peruse the latest models while remaining comfortably indoors.

The new dealership also has its very own inhouse café, Donna’s Lunchkit – and every day Donna herself serves up a selection of breakfast and lunch items as well as fresh coffee and drinks. Combined with their early morning service hours, the café allows customers to have a relaxing breakfast while their vehicle is serviced before the workday begins – and there’s even free Wi-Fi and laptops available.

The transparency in the physical building is also reflected in Southgate Volkswagen’s approach to customer service. They pride themselves on being a community dealership, an independently-owned business where customers will feel recognized and valued.

Much like a “mom and pop” shop, Southgate Volkswagen provides linear service that allows customers to purchase right from the source: you deal directly with a Volkswagen certified representative and there are no third parties or middle men involved, unlike numerous other dealerships in which customers are forced to go through an employee of a larger company that just happens to sell certain brands. Under Southgate Volkswagen’s customer service model, the focus is completely on your own personal needs; whether or not you want to come in and buy a car in an hour or take your time mulling over various alternatives, the choice is always your own.

The staff at Southgate Volkswagen do not take their positions lightly; this isn’t just a random job to pay the bills but rather a lifetime commitment to customer service. All staff members at Southgate Volkswagen are required to be 100% certified by the Volkswagen Academy in their first year of employment, meaning that they are continually and actively developing

their industry knowledge and product education. Several staff have even taken their training to the next level and achieved the Master Certified rank, meaning that they’ve invested over four years into developing their expertise with Volkswagen’s products.

Southgate Volkswagen’s General Manager, Marvin Henschel, has been with the company for over 25 years; he started his career at the very bottom, in the parts department, before moving into sales; he was then promoted to Finance Manager, Service Manager, and finally General Manager. Similarly, Business Development Manager Phan Nguyen is a Volkswagen Master Certified salesman and a four-year winner of the VW Sales Guild Gold Award, from 2007 (his first year in sales) to 2010. At all levels of the company, the commitment to ongoing education and customer service is paramount.

Volkswagen is one of the most internation-

ally prominent automobile brands, appearing throughout popular culture for decades; from playing childhood games of punch buggy when a VW Beetle drove by, to watching Herbie the Love Bug films or road tripping in a VW van, the Volkswagen logo is intimately familiar to many. Volkswagen has continued to build upon its rich history as well as evolve along with the passing of time. Their vehicles have a solid reputation for being very fuel efficient as well as having high safety ratings. Volkswagen is also one of the only brands in Canada and the United States to offer diesel engines in the sedan class. Diesel vehicles are surging in popularity throughout the world due to the emergence of new clean diesel technology – and Volkswagen’s diesel engines have even cleaner emissions than regular gas engines.

Southgate Volkswagen underwent a pricing adjustment about two years ago, adding a number of value brands to their line-up

Above: Southgate Volkswagen new facility (Largest VW Dealership in Canada)

which allows them to cater to a very broad customer base: everyone from recent graduates to young families to those shopping in the luxury market will find plenty of options to fit their budgets and individual needs. Southgate Volkswagen is especially excited for the upcoming arrival of the 2013 Jetta Hybrid, which combines the great fuel efficiency of a turbocharged engine with a hybrid component in Volkswagen’s most popular model.

With next year’s models continuously under development, the automotive industry has always been forward-looking; and as Southgate Volkswagen remains on pace with these innovations, it is pleased to recognize and thank all of its customers – past, present and future.

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BEST HOME ELECTRONICS STORE BEST BUY

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Various Locations bestbuy.ca

1ST RUNNER UP Axe Music axemusic.com

Future Shop futureshop.ca

BEST KITCHENWARE STORE CALL THE KETTLE BLACK

BEST MUSIC STORE BLACKBYRD MYOOZIK 10442 82 Ave 780 439 1273 blackbyrd.ca

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Listen Records listenrecords.net

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BEST RECORD STORE BLACKBYRD MYOOZIK

1ST RUNNER UP Listen Records listenrecords.net

#308, 10113 104 St 780 473 7779 myedmontonlawyer.com

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1ST RUNNER UP Lovatt LLP lovattllp.com

Permanent Records

Kingsway Mall Kingswaymall.com

BEST RV DEALER WOODY'S RV 14510 Mark Messier Trail 780 455 3380 woodysrv.com

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Love n Stuff

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Showdown Tattoo & Skateboards showdowntattoo.com

BEST TOY STORE TOYS R US

Various Locations ebgames.ca

Various Locations toysrus.ca

1ST RUNNER UP Future Shop futureshop.ca

1ST RUNNER UP Laugh n Learn laughnlearn.ca

Game Stop

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10121 124 St 780 482 2662 atomiczombie.net

BEST VIDEO GAME STORE EB GAMES

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Trailblazer RV trailblazerrv.autotrader.ca

9923 82 Ave 780 469 6669 travelingtickletrunk.com

5015 111 St 780 435 3721 southgatecentre.com

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10442 82 Ave 780 439 1273 blackbyrd.ca

1ST RUNNER UP Strange City strangecity.ca

Outback RV Outbackcountryrv.com

1ST RUNNER UP HMV hmv.ca

BEST LAWYER (REAL ESTATE) ROSELLINA GIARDINO

1ST RUNNER UP West Edmonton Mall wem.ca

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12523 -102 Ave/ 780 448 2861 444 Riverbend Square/ 780 434 1622 callthekettleblack.com

Bosch

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Acoustic Music Shop acousticmusicshop.com

Visions Electronics visions.ca

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BEST REAL ESTATE AGENT STEVE SEDGWICK

BEST SUSTAINABLE GOODS / GIFTS STORE EARTH'S GENERAL STORE 9605 82 Ave 780 439 8725 egs.ca

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Planet Organic planetorganic.ca

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Happy Harbor Comics happyharborcomics.com

BEST VINTAGE / RETRO FURNITURE STORE JUNQUE CELLAR 10442 82 Ave 780 433 9963

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Populuxe populuxeretro.com

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Five tied for third

BEST LAWYER (CRIMINAL) SIMON RENOUF 10020 101 A Ave 780 424 6750 renouflaw.com

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LOCAL BEST NEIGHBOURHOOD OLD STRATHCONA oldstrathcona.ca

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BEST LOCAL HERO STEPHEN MANDEL

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Craig Martell

New Edmonton Arena

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Public Art

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Linda Duncan

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BEST LOCAL EMPLOYER UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA ualberta.ca

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Bioware

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YMCA

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BEST PUBLIC SPACE RIVER VALLEY

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MOST ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIBLE LOCAL COMPANY EARTH'S GENERAL STORE

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Mountain Equipment Co-op mec.ca

EDUCATION BEST COLLEGE FOR FASHION /STYLE MARVEL COLLEGE 10018 106 St 780 429 4407 mccollege.ca

BEST EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR POST-SECONDARY DEGREE / DIPLOMA UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA ualberta.ca

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HEALTH AND LIFE BEST GYM (MEN) NO MORE EXCUSES FITNESS 780 722 6340 nomoreexcuses.ca

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YMCA

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World Health Club worldhealth.ca & Kinsmen Sport Centre www.edmonton.ca/attractions_ recreation/sport_recreation/ kinsmen-sports-centre.aspx

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World Health Club worldhealth.ca

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BEST DANCE STUDIO (TIE) MILE ZERO DANCE 9533 Jasper Ave 780 424 1573 milezerodance.com &

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BEST PILATES STUDIO INTEGRATION PILATES STUDIOS 10565 114 St 780 421 9853 integrationpilates.com 1ST RUNNER UP The Body Works Pilates Studios thebodyworkspilates.com CONTINUED ON PAGE 40 >>

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BEST YOGA STUDIO MOKSHA YOGA 14927 111 Ave 780 481 3070 Edmonton.mokshayoga.ca 1ST RUNNER UP The Yoga Loft theyogaloft.com 2ND RUNNER UP

Lion's Breath Yoga & Pilates lionsbreath.ca

BEST ACUPUNCTURIST THE ACUPUNCTURE TURNING POINT 10518 82 Ave 780 437 7723 Acupunctureturningoint.ca 1ST RUNNER UP Dr Steven KH Aung aung.com

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Several tied for third

BEST BIKE SHOP REDBIKE

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Dr Curtis Shell

BEST MEDICAL CLINIC THE ALLIN CLINIC 10155 120 St 780 482 7551 theallinclinic.com

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BEST ICE SKATE SHOP UNITED CYCLE 7620 Gateway Blvd 780 433 1181 unitedcycle.com

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Western Cycle westerncycle.ca

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BEST MESSAGE THERAPIST ALBERTA MOMENTUM MASSAGE

BEST NATURAL PHARMACY OPTIMUM HEALTH Various Locations optimumhealthvitamins.com 1ST RUNNER UP Five tied for second

SPORTS AND RECREATION

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BEST DENTIST / DENTAL CLINIC SMILE ZONE

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BEST SKI SHOP SUNDANCE SKI AND SNOWBOARD SHOP 10423 79 Ave 780 432 0711

1ST RUNNER UP Skier's Sportshop skierssportshop.com 2ND RUNNER UP

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PUT A LITTLE SPRING IN YOUR STEP! Get Parked on Car Free Day September 22, 11am – 3pm

102 Ave between 104 St and 103 St

Leave your car behind, use transit, ride your bike, walk, or carpool. It’s as easy as child’s play! Come play on Edmonton’s largest hopscotch board and other FREE activities:

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BEST SNOWBOARD SHOP SUNDANCE SKI AND SNOWBOARD SHOP 10423 79 Ave 780 432 0711 sundanceskishop.com

BEST WATERSPORT STORE OCEAN SPORTS 10133 82 Ave 780 432 1904 oceansports.ca

flamanfitness.com

1ST RUNNER UP (TIE) Easy Rider theeasyrider.com &

2ND RUNNER UP

BEST SPORTS APPAREL BEST SPORTS APPAREL STORE MOUNTAIN EQUIPMENT CO-OP

BEST SPORTING GOODS STORE UNITED CYCLE 7620 Gateway Blvd 780 433 1181 unitedcycle.com

1ST RUNNER UP (TIE) Mountain Equipment Co-op mec.ca & Sportchek sportchek.ca

1ST RUNNER UP Fitness Depot fitnessdepot.ca 2ND RUNNER UP

1ST RUNNER UP Plush Skateboards & Snowboards plush-famous.com Easy Rider theeasyrider.com

BEST STORE FOR FITNESS EQUIPMENT FLAMAN FITNESS

Mountain Equipment Co-op

12328 102 Ave 780 488 6614 mec.ca

Three tied for third

BEST USED SPORTING GOODS STORE TOTEM OUTFITTERS 7430 99 St 780 432 1223 totemoutfitters.ca

1ST RUNNER UP Play it Again Sports playitagainsports.com

1ST RUNNER UP Lululemon lululemon.com

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Several tied for third

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United Cycle unitedcycle.com

STYLE BEST SHOE STORE GRAVITY POPE 10442 82 Ave 780 439 1637 gravitypope.com

1ST RUNNER UP Kunitz Shoes kunitzshoes.ca 2ND RUNNER UP

Town Shoes townshoes.com

BEST PLACE TO GET A FACIAL LIFESTILES

BEST BRIDAL STORE BRIDAL DEBUT

1ST RUNNER UP (TIE) Healing Waters Spa thehealingwaters.ca & EvelineCharles evelinecharles.com

1ST RUNNER UP The Bridal House thebridalandtuxedohouse.com

10314 124 St 780 453 3538 lifestiles.ca

5916 104 St 780 431 0539 bridaldebut.com

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BEST CUSTOM JEWELLERY STORE ORANGE AVOCADO orangeavocado.ca

1ST RUNNER UP So Pretty Jewelry sopretty.ca 2ND RUNNER UP

The Plaid Giraffe

BEST EYEWEAR STORE WOMEN WITH VISION

10515 109 St 780 423 3937 womenwithvisionopticians.com 1ST RUNNER UP The Observatory Opticians observatoryeyes.com 2ND RUNNER UP

Smith & Wight Opticians smithandwight.com

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WORKSHOPS

BEST LASER EYE CENTRE LASIK MD

1ST RUNNER UP Crate & Barrel crateandbarrel.ca

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Various Locations thebay.com

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Anthropologie anthropologie.com

BEST PLACE TO BUY JEANS THE BAMBOO BALLROOM 8206 104 St 780 439 1363 bambooballroom.ca

Gimbel Eye Centre gimbeleyecentre.com 2ND RUNNER UP

Eye Q Premium Laser eyeqlaser.com

BEST LASER HAIRREMOVAL CENTRE BUSHWHACKED LASER 10462 82 ave 780 435 2874 bushwhackedlaser.com 1ST RUNNER UP

2ND RUNNER UP

2ND RUNNER UP

Gap gapcanada.ca

Carrie'L Salon & Spa carriel.ca

BEST HAIR SALON (TIE)

BEST LOCAL DESIGNER CLOTHING STORE (TIE) LOFT 82

PONYTAILS & HORSESHOES

8408 109 St 780 433 9922 ponytailsandhorseshoes.ca

1ST RUNNER UP

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The Bamboo Ballroom bambooballroom.ca

MOUSY BROWN'S

Coup Garment Boutique coupboutique.com

780 702 2020 lasikmd.com

1ST RUNNER UP Gravity Pope gravitypope.com

10340 82 Avenue 780 439 6195

2ND RUNNER UP

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

ART SUPPLIES

BEST FASHION ACCESSORY STORE THE PLAID GIRAFFE

BEST WEDDING REGISTRY THE BAY

10240 124 St 780 482 0060 mousybrowns.com

1ST RUNNER UP Flaunt flauntsalon.ca

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Divine Interventions divineinterventions.ca

10462 82 Ave 780 439 2227 loft82.ca &

THE BAMBOO BALLROOM

8206 104 St 780 439 1363 bambooballroom.ca &

SABRINA BUTTERFLY DESIGNS 6421 112 Ave 780 482 6460 sabrinabutterflydesigns.ca

BEST MEN'S CLOTHING STORE (TIE) FOOSH 10544 82 Ave 780 491 6980 foosh.ca &

JAISEL

8133 104 St 780 702 1388 jaisel.ca 1ST RUNNER UP (TIE) Haven havenshop.ca & Henry Singer henrysinger.com & Eddie's Men's Wear eddiesmenswear.com

BEST PLACE TO BUY COSMETICS SEPHORA Sephora.com

1ST RUNNER UP MAC Cosmetics maccosmetics.com 2ND RUNNER UP

Lux Beauty Boutique luxbeauty. com

BEST PLACE FOR A PEDICURE / MANICURE EVELINECHARLES SALON AND SPAS Various Locations evelinecharles.com

1ST RUNNER UP

BEST PLACE TO GET A BIKINI WAX DANDY SALON SPA 11104 82 ave 780 433 7078 dandysalonspa.com

1ST RUNNER UP (TIE) Healing Waters Spa thehealingwaters.ca & EvelineCharles evelinecharles.com & LifeStiles lifestiles.ca

BEST STORE FOR SPOTTING THE NEXT TREND THE BAMBOO BALLROOM 8206 104 St 780 439 1363 bambooballroom.ca

BEST SPA PERUGIA SALON SPA

Several tied for third

Divine Decadence divineplanet.com 2ND RUNNER UP

Vespucci vespucci2006.ca

BEST WOMEN'S CLOTHING STORE THE BAMBOO BALLROOM 8206 104 St 780 439 1363 bambooballroom.ca

Coup Garment Boutique coupboutique.com

Several tied for third

2ND RUNNER UP

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1ST RUNNER UP Healing Waters Spa thehealingwaters.ca

Various Locations valuevillage.com

1ST RUNNER UP Anthropologie anthropologie.com

1ST RUNNER UP Gravity Pope gravitypope.com

8211 104 St 780 435 7712 perugia.ca

BEST VINTAGE / CONSIGNMENT / SECONDHAND CLOTHING STORE VALUE VILLAGE

BEST BABY / TODDLER STORE WEST COAST KIDS 10424 169 St 780 489 0707 westcoastkids.ca

1ST RUNNER UP (TIE) Bosom Babies bosom-babies.com & Birth Source birthsource.ca

Vo's Nails 2ND RUNNER UP

Healing Waters Spa thehealingwaters.ca

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PREVUE // SPOOKY FUNNY

It was a dark and stormy night ...

A pair of twins meet the macabre in a Terrifying Tale of Terrible Things Fri, Sep 21 – Sat, Sep 29 (7:30 pm) Victor and Victoria's Terrifying Tale of Terrible Things Directed by Kevin Sutley Varscona Theatre, $15 – $20

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t the back of the Roxy Theatre hides one of those spooky crawl spaces, the kind that radiates with the creepy, ominous sense of unknown macabre that all crawl spaces seem to project. In 2003, Beth Graham and Nathan Cuckow, co-staring in a show Stop-Kiss at the theatre, found themselves fantasizing about the space's grim potential.

"When it's dark in the theatre it's just so creepy back there," Graham begins, before Cuckow quickly jumps in: "It was open. We were in rehearsal, and Beth pointed it out. And we started to joke that there were terrible things hidden back there."

"Ghosts, murdered children," lists Graham.

"Possibly," Cuckow laughs as Graham recoils at her own suggestions. "Who knows?"

To answer that question for themselves, Cuckow and Graham started playing around with a pair of hapless twin characters. After leaving the Roxy space, they kept their characters in mind, fleshed them out further and developed the world of Victor and Victoria's Terrifying Tale of Terrible Things to let them explore that darkness.

The script, colouring with the same charcoal shades as Edward Gorey and Tim Burton and presented by indie mainstay Kill Your Television Theatre, finds its titular twins on a particularly dark and stormy night. Their parents, it seems, are nowhere to be seen, so for solace they open a tome of Terrifying Tales to try and calm themselves down. Bad idea. Instead of comfort, the pair find themselves drawn into the stories, embodying them as they're unwittingly lead towards the revelation of a dark family secret.

Sitting on a patio on break from rehearsal, Cuckow and Graham note that their Tale of Terrible Things cuts its horror with dark comedy, and walking the balance between the two seems to have paid off for them: the show had a smashing Fringe run in 2009, getting four Sterling nominations and winning a pair (for Outstanding Production and Best Actress for Graham). It's since been given a revamping and brought to the 2011 New York Fringe, and had some further tinkering for this hometown return.

"I think naturally, for most people, there is just an automatic, instinctual draw to the macabre," Cuckow says of the style's appeal. "To darkness. I mean, I personally love the genre and I love horror movies and I love that sensibility. That was something that we talked about in the beginning, was try-

Oh, we're just totally creeped out, thanks. How are you? // Nicole Piotrkowski

ing to create a fun, hilarious play that actually had that dark underbelly, that had that sensibility.

"And that thrill," Graham adds, "of freaking yourself out."

Cuckow nods: "The ride. Which is probably why people are attracted to horror."

There is, of course, just a slim divide

in the tension that leads to either a horrified jump or release of laughter.

Why we're drawn to that tension in the first place, Cuckow notes, might very well be the desire for a safe place to explore it.

"It comes down to just the nature of fear, and us trying to understand as a society what it is," he says. "And

that there's a positive aspect to fear but there's also a negative aspect to it. And I think, if I was to go see a scary movie with an audience, it's that kind of collective experience of the fear, I think, that is exciting. So it brings people together in a strange way."

to, and the disillusionment that follows when they discover things are not as they seem, as well as the imperative to hold on to beauty and innocence. Carmichael notes that these themes resonate with Strindberg's own life, as he wrote the play

and angry, and not just angry at the world but at himself, and choices he had made in his life," she states.

gestions and fragments and the actors populate that, as though they're living in a dream."

Though The Ghost Sonata is a very different type of play than most theatre-goers are used to, Carmichael stresses that everyone will still be able to access and engage with it.

"Everyone knows about imagination. This play celebrates the imagination and how the art of suggestion is something I think all of us can understand. We experience that every day in our lives, having to read signs, having to read suggestions from the world around us, in nature or from human beings and interaction."

PAUL BLINOV

// PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

PREVUE // UNCOMMON THEATRE

The Ghost Sonata Thu, Sep 20 – Sat, Sep 29 (7:30 pm) Directed by Jessica Carmichael Timms Centre for the Arts, $11 – $22

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either The Ghost Sonata nor its genre—20th century modernism—are particularly common on North American stages. It's a chamber play written in 1907 by Swedish playwright August Strindberg.

"Chamber plays are supposed to be intimate, not long drawn-out evenings; they're delving into scenes," explains director Jessica Carmichael.

"The Ghost Sonata is a very non-literal, structure-less piece of theatre.

It's also a very thematic piece of music, and that's where the sonata part

comes in; [Strindberg] was really interested in the marriage of music and drama, what they meant to each other."

For this production, the opening show of Studio Theatre's 2012–13 season, Carmichael decided to heavily adapt the original script and make extensive cuts, paring the original 20 characters down to only seven.

She also incorporated dance and physical theatre, added additional text throughout the show to expand upon some of the main themes, and reworked some minor characters into full parts.

The basic story revolves around a young student and an old man's exploration of a house that the two of them are both mysteriously drawn

In keeping with the dreamlike, nonlinear script, Carmichael worked with designers to develop a simi-

Chamber plays are supposed to be intimate, not long drawn-out evenings; they're delving into scenes. The Ghost Sonata is a very non-literal, structure-less piece of theatre. It's also a very thematic piece of music, and that's where the sonata part comes in.

while dying of stomach cancer.

"He was really at a place in his life where he himself was disillusioned

larly fragmented set. "I wanted the world to be really non-literal," she explains. "The set itself is just sug-

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MEL PRIESTLEY

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PREVUE // HANDLING THE TRUTH

A Few Good Men Until Sun, Oct 7 Directed by James MacDonald Citadel Theatre, $35 – $73.50

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hen Aaron Sorkin was writing A Few Good Men—on napkins in the Hollywood bar he worked at, before it became the script that established his name—the world's perception of war was very different.

The Cold War was ending, and questions of relevancy within the military's branches were starting to percolate, as military focus started shifting towards peacekeeping.

"The first thing I thought when I read it was, 'Does this play have to be set in the '80s?'" James MacDonald, directing the Citadel's season-opening production of the script, notes. "And of course it does, because Guantanamo Bay was a completely different place [now] than it was in the '80s.

"I think a lot of things have changed, but in a way they've come full circle," he continues. "I think the difference is, back in the late '80s, the questions about the military were much stronger."

Those questions—the relevancy of the Marines, what it really means to be part of a unit, civilian life versus military life and how morals and justice don't always align between the two—pepper A Few Good Men's central courtroom drama, about two marines charged with the murder of a brother-in-arms, and their military lawyer's attempts to defend them. it's a story of the ambiguity of justice, told in Sorkin's trademark rapid-fire dialogue which, in this script, he was laying out for the first time.

"It's not like a 'good versus evil.' It's actually a 'you decide' story," MacDonald says. "Which I think is what makes it really thrilling. It's not just eat your popcorn and go away; it's something that actually challenges to make you think about what you're watching."

Though it started as a play, the version of A Few Good Men that most people recall is the film, and from that, the moments that have gone on to become part of the general cultural lexicon. One, in particular, delivered by one household name (Jack Nicholson) to another household name (Tom Cruise), seems permanently ingrained. In revisiting the script, how do you handle "You can't handle the truth?"

"It might be the first thing that challenged me," MacDonald laughs. "I would never approach it and say, 'We have to make it unlike the movie.' And I would never approach it and say, 'we have to make it like the movie.' And so you just go back to what you did before. I said to the actors several times, like I did in almost every production I do, I said, 'Treat it like a new play. A new play; it's never been done before.

Nobody's ever seen it. Take nothing for granted in the storytelling.' And when it comes down to the way the story is told, it's all done the way we would do it anyway. It's honesty. It's honesty in performance, honestly in impulse. And if that's your honest impulse, it's going to be good. It's going to be right, because we're watching people actually go through something on stage.

"Some people are saying, 'How do you compare it with the movie?' and I think the fact that there was a well-known movie for it was an opportunity for us," he adds. "Because it gives people a basic understanding of the story, and I think that when they come, they'll be thrilled with the fact that A) the way that it's told, which is far more theatrical, obviously, than the movie, but B), that there is a lot more nuance to the story ... the play has a lot more dips and lot more challenge than I think the film does."

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trust of a young prostitute, known only as Number 18, to convince her to testify against the industry, but risk her own life in doing so. (Catalyst Theatre, $27, $22 group rate for a minimum of 10) Bud'mo Cheremosh/ Fri, Sep 21 and Sat, Sep 22 (7 pm) The eclectic nature of Bud'mo Cheremosh, which means a toast or cheers, is a celebration of all things Ukrainian.

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Springboards

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hough the title of Alberta Ballet's season opener seems more suited to one you might see at an art gallery, artistic director Jean Grand-Maître explains that the seminal era of ballet's development that happened in New York between the late 1930s and '70s was nothing short of a true masterpiece period.

The mixed bill to be presented at the Jubilee Auditorium this weekend, Great Masterpieces of the 20th Centu-

ry, consists of two ballets by classical choreographer George Balanchine and a third piece by contemporary dance maven Twyla Tharp, who's best known for her credits on Broadway and film musicals like Hair and Amadeus.

"These choreographers are monuments, they're titans of choreography," says Grand-Maître, noting that Balanchine came to New York from the Ballets Russes, where he worked directly with composers like Prokofiev, Debussy and Stravinsky, plus set and costume designers of the likes of Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso.

"When you think about Manhat-

tan at that time, from Balanchine to Jerome Robbins to Baryshnikov to Martha Graham, you could probably spit off 20 names of choreographic geniuses living and creating there, all some of the greatest dancers in the world. It was a revolutionary moment in art for theatre and dance," he says, adding that the two répétituers (the people who "set" the ballets according to the original choreography) that Alberta Ballet has brought in for this presentation indeed lived in New York and worked with the original choreog-

lays don't live until you hear them being done by actors in front of an audience."

Brad Fraser, a former Edmontonian whose plays have been workshopped and performed the world over is back in his hometown to debut Kill Me Now at this year's Springboards, presented

by Workshop West. The playwright festival features six full-length plays and six to be workshopped, incorporating more than 30 local actors.

This is Fraser's first experience having his work read at Springboards, but has had numerous works, such as Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love, developed through Workshop West in the past. Coming back as an established playwright rather than an emerging one is a whole different experience, he notes.

"If you're an established or experienced playwright, you're looking for very specific things, whereas I think if you're a new playwright, sometimes just the act of hearing your play read aloud can be quite overwhelming and it takes awhile to catch up with what you felt about it," Fraser

explains, advising new playwrights to prepare themselves emotionally and physically for the experience. "A lot of young playwrights or new playwrights have to make necessary mistakes in these situations. Don't take everything said to heart, but you do learn to listen to people clearly."

Michael Clark, Workshop West's artistic director is enthusiastic about this year's lineup, which incorporates a variety of established Canadian playwrights in addition to Fraser.

"In the past few years we've really tried to focus Springboards on emerging playwrights and young professional playwrights, just because that's where we've been doing a lot of producing the last few years, but this year is a legendary lineup," he adds. "I hope it's a sign that Canadian playwriting is alive and well and will be for a long time. I think it's a sign that it's still a healthy and vibrant art form. We've have people saying since the invention of the television that theatre's dead —theatre is the chance to be in a room alive with people—I think it says a lot about the vibrancy of the art form and what's coming down the pipe for future seasons."

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fternoon tea takes to new heights for Firefly Aerial Arts' second annual High Tea mixer and fundraiser.

Guests will be able to sip on highquality tea courtesy of Acquired Tastes Tea Co, imbibe in champagne, indulge in delectable pastries from Duchess Bake Shop and nibble on finger sandwiches, with a little twist.

Firefly's own aerial artists will be dangling from the rafters as they serve guests.

The idea was sparked when Firefly creative director Annie Dugan discovered shopping bags full of tea cups in her old warehouse.

"My first thought was, 'This is junk, what are we doing storing this? The only thing we could possibly do with this is have high tea.' As soon as that came out of my mouth, I just immediately realized that that was ripe for an aerial company to do," explains Duggan, who celebrated her 25th year in circus performing this month.

For the last three to four weeks, artists have been practicing balancing trays while being suspended in different positions and rotating within their harnesses. It was a challenge, but Dugan says figuring out the logistics of it all was also the fun part of preparation. Trays haven't proven to be an issue, but there is still the challenge of pouring champagne while suspended.

"You have to figure out how can you hang upside down holding on by your arm or your leg and still operate a bottle of champagne," Dugan says.

In addition to being served in a rather unconventional setting, guests

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raphers throughout their careers.

The pieces in the program—Balanchine's classical Divertimento No. 15 and the more stark, abstract Four Temperaments, followed by Tharp's collaboration with Philip Glass, In The Upper Room—cover not only the history of classical, neoclassical and modern ballet, but also illustrate a range of, well, let's call them dance flavours.

"It's like having a three-course meal where every taste is very different, it's a different excitement to the palate with each one," says Grand-Maître.

"The whole process took 10 weeks because it's such a challenging program.

From the regal tutus in Divertimento, to the more edgy neo-classical in The Four Temperaments—which is still very much on pointe and technical— to Twyla Tharp's kind of relaxed, nonchalant contemporary dance where suddenly a dancer has to pull off four

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will be able to enjoy roving entertainment, tea leaf readings and a few surprises.

"I just had the impression last year that our patrons were waiting for something, like they were eating and drinking and looking around, but I just had the feeling, given who we are, that they were expecting something, so this year they're going to get something," she laughs.

The event not only raises necessary funds for Firefly's upcoming production of Zodiac Arrest in February, but raises awareness of aerial arts.

"We use space differently than anybody else in town, so we bring visual and physical dimensions to our work that is unique. The physical nature of our work appeals to crossdemographcis galore. It's not like we have an age range, we don't have social limitations—you know, rich or poor—our work is accessible to everyone," Dugan notes of the company, which moved into its own space in April and offers an extended variety of aerial arts classes for those looking to try their hand at the craft.

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pirouettes just coming straight off the floor ... For the dancers it's like trying to dance with three different companies, three different styles."

Particularly with Tharp's In The Upper Room, Grand-Maître says his dancers are truly feeling the pressure.

"The complexity and the structure of the music is beyond anything they've danced to before. The dancers are continuously counting, the lifts are dangerous ... it's almost Cirque du Soleil-like challenging. There are dancers wearing sneakers, dancers that are on pointe—it's almost created to show an audience dancers that are throwing themselves at this choreography.

Kelly McKinlay and Nicole Caron, they've been with the ballet here over 10 years and they say this is the most difficult program they've ever had to dance. 'More difficult than Swan Lake?' I asked, and they said yes."

He laughs a bit. "So I said, 'Now you see what my generation was doing.'"

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Cavalia Cavalia: A Magical Encounter Between Human and Horse Until Sun, Oct 21 The Big White Top at City Centre Airport, $39.50 – $124.50

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nder the Big White Top that's taken up residence at the City Centre Airport for the past month is Cavalia, a one-of-a-kind production showcasing the unique history and bond between human and horse.

The lavish production is the creation of Normand Latourelle, whose credits include being one of the co-founders of Cirque du Soleil. Cavalia stands apart, however, and the show combines music, multimedia, acrobatics, dance and a whole lot of trick riding on a 160-foot stage. The vast space allows horses room to play

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DANCE Bud'mo Cheremosh • Myer Horowitz Theater, Students' Union Building, 8900 - 114 St, U of A • A Celebration of Cheremosh's Journey to Ukraine • Sep 21-22; 8pm • $35 at Prime Box Office

Great Masterpieces of the 20th Century • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455 - 87 Ave • albertaballet.com • Features Divertimento No . 15, The Four Temperaments, and In The Upper Room • Sep 21-22

FILM Bailey Theatre–Camrose • 5041-50 St, Camrose • 780.672.5510 • baileytheatre.com • Where The Wild Things Are; Sep 23, 2pm; $5 (door); El Topo; Sep 23, 7pm; $5 (door); Valley Of The Dolls; Sep 24, 2pm; $5 (door)

Cinema at the Centre • Stanley A. Milner Library Theatre (basement) • Rango (G); Sep 26, 6:30pm

Edmonton Film Society • Royal Alberta Museum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave • royalalbertamuseum.ca • $6 (adult)/$5 (senior 65 and over/ student)/$3 (child) • Blithe Spirit (1945, 96 min., colour, PG); Sep 24, 8pm

From Books to Film series • Stanley A. Milner Library, Main Fl, Audio Visual Rm • 780.944.5383 • The Time Machine; Sep 21, 2pm Prairie Tales 14 • Metro Cinema at the Garneau Theatre, 8712 - 109 St • A selection of some of the year's best short films and videos made by Albertan media artists in a feature length compilation • Sep 20, 7pm

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS AGNES BUGERA GALLERY • 12310 Jasper Ave • 780.482.2854 • agnesbugeragallery.com • Portraits by Carl White • Sep 8-21

Alberta Centre for Peace & Meditation • 11403-101 St • SACRED ARTS OF TIBET: SAND MANDALA: A public live art exhibition; Sep 25-29

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Bents Cup Project: Cathy Terepocki’s ceramic “souvenirs”; Sep 15-Oct 20 • Feature Gallery: SHIFT: a transformative state of mind: Artwork by the ACAD fourth year metal program students; until Sep 29 • Negotiating Traditions: Different approaches to tapestry by former students of Jane Kidd • Translations: Jane Kidd's recent tapestries; until Sep 29

Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga. ca • Louise Bourgeois 1911-2010; until Sep 23 • 7 YEARS IN THE CITY: Artworks from the AGA

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and perform in a more natural context, bringing out their personality and often allowing them to run completely free.

Among the 48 beautifully cared for horses—strictly stallions and geldings—are two local foals from Leduc, AB, who make their debut during the show's prologue.

The storyline driving the show is a subtle one, allowing the performers and horses to capture the spotlight. The bond and trust between the two is palpable throughout the big top, creating a captivating visual for the audience that is enhanced further through live music and imagery projected on the screen encompassing the width of the stage.

The horses are controlled only through voice commands and hand gestures, and for the majority of the show, behaved exactly as their trainers expected. There were a couple of instances where one horse would decide to go rogue from a formation, but it added a touch of humour Collection; until Sep 30 • The Automatiste Revolution: Montreal 1941-1960: Until Oct 14 • Absence/Presence: Catherine Burgess; until Oct 14 • Misled by Nature: Contemporary Art and the Baroque: Key artists include David Altmejd, Lee Bul, Bharti Kher, Tricia Middleton, Yinka Shonibare, Sarah Sze; Sep 15-Jan 6, 2013 • Ledcor Theatre: Art for Lunch: A behind-the-scenes look at LOUISE BOURGEOIS 1911-2010; Sep 20,12:10-12:50pm; Free

Art Gallery Of St Albert (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • PATTERNS OF PLACES: Explores the fabric of the prairie landscape; Sep 6-29

ART IN THE PLAZA • 2001 Sherwood Dr, Sherwood Park • 780-410-8505 • strathcona.ca/ artintheplaza • A leisurely outdoor Sunday stroll through the West Plaza where artists will have original works available • Every Sun until Sep 30, 11am-4pm

Art Society of Strathcona County • Loft Gallery/A.J. Ottewell Gallery, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • Anne McCartney (plein aire/watercolors); Sep 21 • Dessirrie Plewis (Introduction to Watercolors); Sep 25

Brinsmead Kennedy Architecture Gallery • 10434 122 St • Passages and Portals: the theme is doors, gates and passages. Artwork by Janet Kan • Sep 29, 2-4pm • Free

Café Pichilingue–Red Deer • Brent Stolee; Sep 1-30

Crooked Pot Gallery–Stony Plain • 4912-51 Ave, Stony Plain • 780.963.9573 • Box Show: Boxes by Jan Haines and Lynnette Lukay, hand built and wheel thrown boxes of all shapes and sizes; Sep 1-29

Daffodil Gallery • 10412-124 St • 780.760.1278 • daffodilgallery.ca • Felted paintings and clothing by Tracey Kuffner; Sep 17-30

Douglas Udell Gallery • 10332-124 St • Fall show: New acquisitions from gallery represented artists; Sep 29, 2-4pm • Free admission

Enterprise Square Gallery • 10230 Jasper Ave • Sam Steele: The Journey of a Canadian Hero: Experience the untold story of Sam Steele, Canadian leader and hero; until Sep 30; $7 (adult)/$5 (child/student/senior)/$20 (family) • Free Movie Night With Sam: in the Bison Theatre; Every Thu until Sep 30, 6:30pm

Extension Gallery–Atrium • Enterprise Sq, 10230 Jasper Ave • VIEW FROM ABOVE: artwork from Laurie Bentz; Sep 8 - 26

FAB Gallery • Department of Art and Design, U of A, Rm 3-98 Fine Arts Bldg • 780.492.2081 • Counterpoint: the aesthetics of postcolonialism: Multi media pieces by Gavin Renwick, new faculty member • Designs for Life/Transformations - Paul Harrison (University of Dundee): A two year project brought together research scientists and community groups to engage in discussions regarding developments in biological research. This work represents the relationships between the processes of image making in the laboratory as compared with those in the workshop or studio • Sep 4-22 FRONT GALLERY • 12312 Jasper Ave •

rather than being detrimental. There were a few mishaps with acrobatics, but given the context, which involved backflips on a running horse, it's forgivable. The acrobat is to be given credit for getting back on, attempting the trick again, and landing it perfectly.

While Cavalia does deliver in terms of Cirque du Soleil-worthy acrobatics, there are moments where horsmanship takes focus with dressage or formations conducted with no bridles or reins, simply a trainer instructing the horses. If you are not a horse person and have no knowledge of dressage or other riding techniques, this may be difficult to appreciate in its full context, but is visually interesting nonetheless. There were points in the show that were a touch slow at the beginning, but things took off in the second act, incorporating breathtaking trick riding and aerial acrobatics that drew Cavalia to a stunning conclusion. meaghan baxter

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780.488.2952 • Zazo - Sculptor: Vision of Peace; Sep 22, 2-4pm

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Gallerie Pava • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • AME NUE: Artwork by Sabine Lecorre-Moore; Sep 22-Nov 14; Opening reception: Sep 22, 1-4pm

Intro to outro: Paintings by Outro... • Until Sep 30

Gallery at Milner • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/art-gallery • FAVORITE PLACES: Paintings by Marina Apartsin; Sep 1-30 • THE STORY HOUSE: Clay artworks by Samantha Williams-Chapelsky (display cases); Sep 1-30 • Presentation: Working with Clay with Samantha Williams-Chapelsky; Sep 29, 2-4pm

HAPPY HARBOR COMICS v1 • 10729-104 Ave • COMIC JAM: Improv comic art making every 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7pm Harcourt House Gallery • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St • Main Gallery: NEWS, WEATHER & SPORTS: Artworks by Dan Hudson; Sep 13-Oct 13 • Front Room: My Darling Deviants: Artworks

by Marcia Pitch; Sep 13-Oct 13

Harris-Warke Gallery–Red Deer • Sunworks Home and Garden Store, Ross St, Red Deer • 403.346.8937 • harriswarkegallery.com • Transparent Shadows: Artwork by Andrea Simpson; Sep 17-Oct 20; Reception: Oct 5, 6-8pm • IN THE BLINK OF A SMILE: Artwork by Andrea Simpson; Sep 17-Oct 20; Reception (Part of First Fridays): Oct 5, 6-8pm

Hub on Ross–Red Deer • 4936 Ross St, Red Deer • 403.340.4869 • hubpdd.com • 2 DIRECTIONS: Artwork by Tracie Stewart-O'Brien and Rita Schoenberger; Sep 1-30

Kiwanis Gallery–Red Deer • Red Deer Public Library • Pulse of Istanbul: Works by Asta Dale • Until Oct 14 McMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • Glass Journal: by Manola Borrajo-Giner; Sep 1-Nov 4 Musée Héritage Museum–St Albert • 5 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1528 • Each month of ArtWalk the Musée Héritage Museum displays part of the Victor Post collection. The complete exhibition of Victor Post’s work: Aug 28-Oct 21 • CUT AND PASTE: features family albums, personal collections and scrapbooks from clubs and community groups covering over 100 years of history; Sep 4-Oct 21 Naess Gallery • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave •

Quirky Art Café • 6535-111 St • An Royal Alberta Museum • 12845-102

WunderBar on Whyte • 8120-101 St • 780.436.2286 • The poets of Nothing, For Now: poetry workshop and jam every Sun • No minors

Ave • 780.453.9100 • The Art of Seating: Two Hundred Years of American Design: until Oct 6

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A Few Good Men • Citadel Theatre, 9828

• PRAIRIE DARKNESS: Artwork by Jim Davies; Sep 22-Oct 9

Spruce Grove Art Gallery • 35 – 5 Ave, Spruce Grove • alliedartscouncil.com • 2012 Open Art Competition; Sep 10-29

Strathcona County Gallery@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • Spyder Bites (working title): Sep 14-Oct 28, Yardley Jones • Exhibition tour with Spyder Yardley-Jones. Yardley-Jones will lead a tour of his current show. Part of Alberta Culture Days; Sep 29, 1-2pm; Free (no minors) • Enviro postcard workshop with Spyder Yardley-Jones: a free hands-on Enviro Postcard Workshop, using printing processes and environmental themes. Part of Alberta Culture Days. All supplies included; Sep 29, 2:15-4pm; no minors

VAAA Gallery • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.421.1731 • HOMEWORK: Artwork by David Cantine, Karen Cantine; Sep 13-Oct 13 VASA Gallery • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St. Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa.ca • DIVERSE ENERGY: Artwork by Peg McPherson, Helen Rogers, and Linda Willard; Sep 6-29

LITERARY Arden Theatre • St. Albert Library presents Author Kenneth Oppel reading from his latest book "Such Wicked Intent"; Sep 26, 7-8:30pm; Free Audrey's • 10702 Jasper Ave • 780.423.3487 • audreys.ca • Launch of the debut novel – Mirrored in the Caves; Sep 24, 7pm • Official launch of authors Theanna Bischoff and Naomi K. Lewis novels Swallow and I Know Who You Remind Me of; Sep 27, 7pm; Free Edmonton Clinic Health Academy • 11405 - 87 Ave, Room 2-490, University of Alberta Campus • “A Healthy Society: How a Focus on Health can Revive Canadian Democracy” Edmonton Book Launch and discussion with author Dr. Ryan Meili and Dr. Stan Houston • Sep 24, 7pm

780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Installation by Sydney Lancaster; through Sep

Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900

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Strathcona County Library • 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • Gilgamesh: His Story And Its Significance; Join Professor Ehud Ben Zvi to learn more about this classic tale, its significance to both ancient Mesopotamia and modern Western civilization, and its relation to other Mesopotamian texts; Sep 23, 2-4pm; $10

9225-118 Ave • 780.474.7611 • ninahaggertyart. ca • THE FRIENDSHIP SHOW: An exhibition of artwork created by the Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts Collective and artists at Indefinite Arts in Calgary; Sep 14-30; Closing reception: Sep 27, 5-7pm

Peter Robertson Gallery • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery. com • ISLA BURNS: SAMSKARA; organically amalgamates imagery of the vessel, still life, altars, landscapes & columns; Sep 13-Oct 2 Provincial Archives of Alberta • 8555 Roper Rd • 780.427.1750 • provincialarchives. alberta.ca • The People Who Built Alberta: A Centennial for Alberta Workers: examining labour’s role in the growth and prosperity of the province •

Haven Weekly Reading Series: every Mon, 7pm; Presented by the Stroll of Poets Society • $5

• Poetry every Tue with Edmonton's local poets

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

University of Alberta Press • TELUS Centre Auditorium, Corner of 111 St and 87 Ave • Launch of Pursuing China • Sep 27, 4-7pm

Upper Crust Café • 10909-86 Ave • 780.422.8174 • strollofpoets.com • The Poets’

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- 101A Ave • citadeltheatre.com • A fast-paced, thrilling military courtroom drama written by Oscar winner Aaron Sorkin. Made famous by the 1992 film starring Jack Nicholson and Tom Cruise • Sep 15-Oct 7

Cavalia: A Magical Encounter Between Human and Horse • Edmonton City Centre Airport • Featuring 49 horses and 39 riders, acrobats, aerialists, dancers and musicians from around the world, Cirque du Soleil cofounder Normand Latourelle created this dreamlike performance that explores man’s longstanding relationship with horses • Sep 11 - Oct 21 • $39.50 to $124.50 + applicable taxes and fees

Chimprov • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101 A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • First three Sat every month, 10pm, until Jul 2013, starting Sep 8 • $12 (door or buy in adv at Tix on the Square)

DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • 780.433.3399 • die-nasty.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 The Ghost Sonata by August Strindberg • Timms Centre for the Arts, 112 St - 87 Ave, University of Alberta • U of A Studio Theatre • Sep 20-29, 7:30pm, Matinee on Sep 27, 12:30pm(no shows on Sun)

OH SUSANNA! • Varscona Theatre • 1032983 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) TheatreSports • Citadel Theatre, 9828 101 A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30 and 10 p.m., starting Sep 7

Toopy and Binoo and the Marshmallow Moon • Jubilee Auditorium • As Toopy and his best friend Binoo embark on their most important musical quest ever, they encounter a Blue Cat Blues Band, a Loud Mouth Crooner Fish, some Adorable Sheep, a pair of Love Struck Dragons and many other zany characters along the way • Sep 23, 1pm, 4pm & 7pm

Victor and Victoria’s Terrifying Tale of Terrible Things • Varscona Theatre, 10329 - 83 Ave • A hilarious exploration of fear and the question of whether or not to confront it • Sep 21 - 29, 7:30pm, Sat matinee at 2pm • $20 (adult) / $15 (student), 2 for 1 Tuesday (Sep 25); Available at Tix on the Square, and door (cash only)

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PREVUE // RADIO

Amping up the fun

Fun Drive a chance for CJSR to meet listeners and raise funds CJSR 88.5 FM Fun Drive Sep 26 – Oct 6 Various locations

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f the only truth is music, like Jack Kerouac said, then CJSR must be on the path to righteousness because this ain't no commercial, small talk, pop-culture referencing radio station.

Since 1984, when the station was licensed, it has been a place where the community and the University of Alberta work together to create content that challenges what you think about life and what you think about music.

DJ Mark Rodgers (The Soul of the City, Thursdays at noon) did his time in commercial radio before joining the crew at CJSR. “I guess the biggest difference is the accessibility to local artists. So you can literally walk in the door, give [us your CD] and the chances are it's going to get a spin or two.”

He adds that news-wise they try to cover things that aren't necessarily being covered by mainstream media.

“Something that gets a one-minute story clip on mainstream radio will get a half an hour on community radio. We do in-depth reporting of the community that's not dictated by

money.”

And that's where the Fun Drive comes in. As a non-profit radio station, a third or so of the year's budget comes from fundraising. Fundraising doesn't have to be a dirty word. In fact, as the name kind of hints at, the Fun Drive is a good ol' time for listeners and CJSR staff and volunteers to mingle, share ideas and catch a show or two together.

The president of CJSR's board, David Johnston (also known as DJ David Stone of BPM on Saturday nights) has been a volunteer since 1994 and saw the station go through a rough patch when content and staff retention wasn't where it should be. He says his priorities as president have been to re-engage the volunteers: “The volunteers are the lifeblood.

They are more important than anything, outside of our listeners.

Because the volunteers are our listeners.” And to return value to the listeners: “We're not just a bunch of college kids running around; it's a viable media outlet.”

Johnston says being engaged in the community is a two-way street and the Fun Drive is the perfect opportunity for both sides to interact. It's a chance to put a face to the voices

behind CJSR's unique line-up.

“It's broadcasting and content that comes from the heart, a lot of the time, and is passionate. Because it's a volunteer organization, you know that the people going on the air and developing and producing this content are there because they love what they do and believe in what they do.” He adds that since CJSR exists to give people a voice, new volunteers are always welcome if they can put that voice out convincingly, intelligently and fairly.

The team also wants to create content that can be digested globally— because of live Internet streaming— but still give a glimpse of what life is like in Edmonton. The higher profile they now have in the community means they're definitely on their way.

“I'm really happy to see in the last couple of years ... that CJSR is being taken very seriously by the community and also internally now," Johnston says. "The volunteers seem extremely motivated and this year's Fun Drive is going to be a real example of how proud we are of what we've done and how importantly we want to engage the community now."

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Bird on a Wire: Flocking Patterns

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PREVUE // ELECTROACOUSTIC

21-22 24 26 28-29

In Sutton Place Hotel #195, 10235 101 Street, EDMONTONPUBS.COM

Sun, Sep 23 (8 pm) Presented by the Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society (BEAMS) Holy Trinity Anglican Church, $8 – $12

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ecorders aren't just for elementary school music lessons. The instrument has been around since the Medieval period, and can accommodate a wealth of creativity past basic scales and tunes.

Former Edmontonian Terri Hron, a renowned recorder composer and performer, has been confronted by people who do not consider the recorder to be a real instrument, but says its unusual nature has allowed her to do her own thing with music and not be compared to other artists.

"Its limitations are also sometimes its real strengths because it pushes you very early to be creative, whereas there's a lot of instruments that are very refined. There's so much technique to learn that you spend such a long time just learning ho to play the instrument before you even start thinking about what you want to do," she notes.

Her project, Bird on a Wire: Flocking Patterns, is the second installment of her

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ongoing Bird on a Wire series and takes recorder one step further. The project requires Hron to balance performance, composition and exploring acoustic and electronic sounds in written and improvised situations that provides audiences with an all-encompassing experience that immerses them in sound.

"I was playing in bands that were loud and I wanted to be heard, so I started with amplification ... guitar players had all these amazing pedals and I thought, what would happen if I put my instrument through all those pedals?" she explains of her inspiration to start composing electroacoustic mu-

sic, which she recalls was like opening Pandora's Box. Hron rallied eight different composers, some of which had experience only writing for acoustic instruments, and vice versa.

"We have this long tradition of instruments, which are like voices we have to express ourselves ... throwing that out the window because we have new technology is maybe not the best idea, but just expressing ourselves with all of the different tools that we have at our disposal with tradition and innovation," Hron says.

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PREVUE // SMALL FAME

Bend Sinister Thu, Sep 27 (8 pm) New City

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fter two successful EPs, Bend Sinister is back with Small Fame, its first full-length album since 2008.

The keyboard-driven, sonically nostalgic disc brings back sounds of the '70s and '80s with Bend Sinister's signature prog-rock flair. Drummer Jason Dana believes the band has become more refined over the last couple of years and that the members are better musicians overall, which comes across on the new album.

"We've come a long ways from when the band first got together, at least the incarnation it's in now," Dana adds.

"I think it comes with time, it comes with playing with each other—that sounds gross—playing in a band to-

gether, over the years ... your intuition towards each other becomes a little more refined. We feed off each other when we're playing live or anticipate what someone's going to do. It's just familiarity with the individuals."

Small Fame brings a less elaborate sound than Bend Sinister displayed on its previous full-length, Stories of Brothers, Tales of Lovers, which Dana says was a record with lots of overdubs and a whole lot of everything going on at the same time.

"This time it was kind of kept to a minimum and a lot of the songs are really just us playing as a band, you know, with minimal overdubs," he adds.

Small Fame took shape during a few months spent in Toronto when the band hunkered down for almost daily

jam sessions. When it came time to hit the studio with producer Shawn Cole at Mushroom Studios, Dana says it was as simple as pressing record, playing one song and moving right along to the next. The recording session for Small Fame took place at the same time as Bend Sinister's last EP, Got You On My Mind, and Dana managed to pound out 18 songs over the course of 16 hours.

"It was very tiring," he recalls. "I would essentially do three or four, possibly five takes of each song and would just move on, and would just go back and redo what we thought was best."

Aside from the whirlwind of takes, the recording session was memorable for Dana in another way. He began to

PREVUE // THRASH

Anthrax

Sinister sitters

take note of the platinum and gold records decorating the studio walls, realizing the roster included names like Heart, Lover Boy, Trooper, Chilliwack and even Led Zeppelin.

"When they were recording Led Zeppelin II, they were out on tour in North America promoting Led Zeppelin I and they did the gist of the recording in the UK, but I guess when they came over here to North America to tour,

they would stop and do just small parts like tambourines or harmonicas, and apparently they did some tambourines and harmonica parts at Mushroom Studios," Dana notes. "I was just enthralled and kind of beside myself that I was sharing the same room as John Bonham, who would have been in there years and years ago."

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Sat, Sep 22 (7 pm) With Testament, Death Angel Edmonton Event Centre, $39.50

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e've never written an album for anyone specifically, we just write songs," Scott Ian says over the phone from New York City. "It's just who's in the band at the time, but it's never ever been focused on specifically who the singer is."

Ian is a guitarist and founding member of Anthrax, one of the original Big Four thrash bands to emerge in the early '80s alongside Metallica, Slayer and Megadeth. After a few lineup changes in the early days, the band's lineup solidified and the quintet of Ian, drummer Charlie Benante, bassist Frank Bello, guitarist Dan Spitz and vocalist Joey Belladonna would go on to record several metal classics before Belladonna was fired from the band in 1992 and John Bush of Armored Saint took over the mic, making his own mark on the band for the next 13 years until he was replaced by Belladonna for a reunion of the Among the Livingera lineup. To complicate the story even further, that reunion lasted only one tour before a new singer entered the mix, recording an unreleased album and playing a few shows before being fired from the band only to be replaced by John Bush for a few more shows until Belladonna finally re-

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joined Anthrax again in 2010.

It's a messy story on paper, but the end result is that Anthrax pulled itself back together and dropped Worship Music after an eight-year gap between studio albums, and the record is a solid one, sounding perfectly at home in the band's catalogue. To describe it, one might say that Worship Music sounds like a Frankensteined creature of Persistence of Time, the last of the original Belladonna albums, and We've Come For You All, the last of the Bush-era records. Ian himself probably wouldn't be the one to say it, though, admitting that he doesn't have many answers when it comes to making music.

"We get in a room at some point when we decide we should probably start working on a record and things happen," he laughs. "Any other part of the process I just really don't have any

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answers for you because it's something I never ever think about. We just go in and we do it, you know?

"If someone was to come and sit from day one of us working on a record until the last day it's mixed, it would be interesting to see what they get out of it, how they would then describe or put down on a piece of paper in a bunch of paragraphs how we wrote our album," he continues. "I'd be really interested to see somebody be able to do that, document it and actually try and give it a meaning and a purpose and some kind of an answer, because for me ... I'm in the band. I'm doing it, I'm writing, I'm a part of it, so to step back away and then be able to analyze it from the outside, I'd feel like I'd be killing the magic and I wouldn't be able to write songs anymore."

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PREVUE // PARTY METAL

Skip the Foreplay

Ladies, these guys mean business

Fri, Sep 21 (6:30 pm) With Abandon All Ships, Fall City Fall, Slumlord, Marry Me and Murder Me Avenue Theatre, $20.75

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ance music and metal seem like they belong on opposite sides of the proverbial music spectrum, but Montréal five-piece Skip the Foreplay is mashing it all together for a raucuous style that juxtaposes both worlds.

The band, whose name was inspired by a line in the Jason Derulo pop song "In My Head," is a high-energy, raucous quintet whose energetic live shows and music are all about having fun.

The band's first single was a cover of LMFAO's "Champagne Showers," but with a much harder edge than the party rockers provided.

"We were all big LMFAO fans when their second album came out, so we were stoked on pretty much every song, but this one particularly was our

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favourite. We just did it ourselves for fun and it came out pretty well," explains drummer Marc-André Lemyre, citing the pop duo as one of Skip the Foreplay's influences as far as dance music is concerned, but on the metal side, he says there are too many to list.

Despite the differences, he believes there are also similarities between the dance music and metal, particularly when it comes to the aggressive nature of each.

"What's really popular these days is dubstep, it's really getting up in the scene, so if you go to a dub show, you know, you'll really see the kids pushing each other and really straight-up moshing. Pop music also has an aggressive vibe that mixes with metal ... we listen to pretty much every style of music," Lemyre adds. "Who knows what the next album's going to sound like, if it's going to be more metal or more electronic, we don't know yet.

We're dying to write new songs."

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Lemyre's background is in power and death metal, and when guitarist and friend Chuck Pilon first approached him with the idea for the project, he told him he was crazy. After hearing a couple of demo tapes, Lemyre was convinced and signed on. Once the remaining band members were in place, the idea took off, and Skip the Foreplay recently released its debut album, Nightlife, on the Epitaph label, which has opened a slew of doors for the new group, including a spot on the Vans Warped Tour. Through all the exposure, Skip the Foreplay aims to bring something new to the music industry.

"We're really trying to focus on the energy that we deliver on live shows.

We try to put on a really colourful and powerful energetic live performance," Lemyre says. "We're just trying to bring something different that is completely on another level."

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September featuring Mayday and the Beatcreeps.

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RAPTORS,

STRANGE PLANES, BAD ACID Sat. Sept. 22

CORY WOODWARD: THE TRUTH CD RELEASE PARTY, LORA JOL

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SECRET BROADCAST w KICKUPAFUSS

Sat. Sept. 29

THIRD BRANCH, NADINE KELLMAN & THE BLACK WONDERS, DARRYL MATTHEWS

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NEWSOUNDS

Graydon James & the Young Novelists In The Year You Were Born (Independent) 

Dinosaur Jr I Bet on Sky (Jagjaguwar) 

FRI, SEPT 21, THE STARLITE ROOM ////////////// NO MINORS

LIBRARY VOICES

WITH CANYON ROSE OUTFIT, & WILDER THAN WE

FRI, SEPT 21, ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM THEATRE ////////////// ALL AGES & LICENSED

JON AND ROY WED, SEPT 26, AVENUE THEATRE ////////////// NO MINORS

WITH THE WHYTES

AVENUE AND RAISED FIST PRESENT

THREE INCHES OF BLOOD

WITH THE ORDER OF CHAOS, AND SILENT LINE

FRI, OCT 19, AVENUE THEATRE //////////////

AIDAN KNIGHT

WITH LEIF VOLLEBEKK, AND GUESTS WITH KALLE MATTSON

FRI, OCT 26, THE ARTERY //////////////

SUNPARLOUR PLAYERS SAT, OCT 27, ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM THEATRE ////////////// ALL AGES & LICENSED

BAHAMAS

WITH JASON COLLETT

JCL AND PERRYSCOPE CONCERTS PRESENTS SUN, OCT 28, THE PAWN SHOP////////////// NO MINORS

MEN WITHOUT HATS

WITH GUESTS

WITH DOUG PAISLEY & GUESTS

SUN, OCT 28, THE STARLITE ROOM ////////////// NO MINORS

THE DEEP DARK WOODS

When Dinosaur Jr first came out of hiatus, it was with a roar. Beyond, the band's 2007 return album, let track one ("Almost Ready") explode out of speakers with a lengthy guitar solo as the first sound the band had released in almost a decade. It unapologetically sounded like 1996, but vitally 1996, a return to form rather than a wistful look back to a youthful heyday. It was fucking awesome.

The band's reunion has gained traction—now three albums of new material, plus a solo album from frontman J Mascis—precisely because, despite still peddling in the sounds of '90s alt rock, it rarely feels like a tired nostalgic retread for a paycheque. Dinosaur Jr's adept at taking an old sound and playing it like it was exciting and brand new: coming from a trio of aging '90s throwbacks, returning with the exact same sort of scorching guitar rock they traded in during their heyday, Beyond still seemed lively and relevant, joyous and vivid rock from a band still capable of doing that one thing do very well. Farm (2009) followed, and kept up the pace. Maybe it wasn't modern-sounding, but it wasn't museum piece either.

But I Bet on Sky marks the first time since reuniting that Dinosaur Jr opens an album sounding a little lost: the first third of it seems to wander in sedation. The synthswell undercurrent of opener "Don't Pretend You Didn't Know" sets a gorgeous, urgent mood, and then simply lingers there for five minutes. "Watch the Corners" has more crunch, but a stale energy persists until the solo (almost always a moment of grace with this band). Overall, the tone feels more sedated, more introspective than loud, like head Dino J Mascis's solo album was last year.

That in and of itself doesn't make it a slog by any means—Mascis has always sounded at least half asleep anyways—but the cloud of weariness doesn't sell the usual elements quite like they've come through in the past few albums.

And then I Bet on Sky picks up.

"Rude," sung by bassist Lou Barlow, is the mid-album highlight: a rock song with gravity to its groove, it rides rhythm with a much-needed force that seems to energize the band. From there onward, the band suddenly seems enlivened: the wahwah strums of "I Know It Oh So Well" make for a vigorous rocker; "Pierce the Morning Rain," where the album title is lifted from, features one of the record's best solos and even the downtrodden vibe of "What Was That" has more punch to it than the album's earlier moments.

So, aside from a few missteps, Dinosaur Jr still seems like a band to bet on. Having stretched one sound out for so long, it's impressive the group can still conjure the vitality out of it that it does, even if it's not sustainable, as it once was, to an album's length.

The latest album from this Galaxie Rising Star Award winner is a heartfelt bunch of folk-roots tracks that are as poignant as they are heartfelt. There are no gimmicks or studio trickery here, just good old-fashioned musical talent that combine soaring three-part harmonies, a host of instruments and storytelling to create an end result that emotes and entertains. The collective is at its best when it gets down with its folk-rock stompers, as on "I Was a Young Man's Son" and "Make the Same Mistakes." Each track tackles a facet of life, from joys to sorrows, with a fresh take that avoids cliched pitfalls and keeps the listener engaged from start to finished.

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MON, NOV 12, AVENUE THEATRE ////////////// NO MINORS

WITH TONEDEFF, SADISTIK & DJ FLIPFLOP

CUNNINLYNGUISTS PAPER LIONS

WITH GUESTS

THURS, NOV 17, ROYAL AB MUSEUM THEATRE ////////////// ALL AGES & LICENSED

WITH JOE NOLAN & GUESTS

FRI, NOV 23, ROYAL AB MUSEUM THEATRE ////////////// ALL AGES & LICENSED

THE WOODEN SKY FRI, NOV 30, AVENUE THEATRE //////////////

WITH GUESTS WITH GUESTS

TOM FUN ORCHESTRA

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 This Californian foursome has crafted a solid debut album saturated with harmony, sunsoaked imagery and an overall alt-pop-rock sound reminiscent of Fleet Foxes with a touch of Mumford and Sons and a little Fleetwood Mac. Loma Vista creates a world of late nights that turn into morning adventures, as heard on the opening track "The Stairs," before delving into deeper subjects, such as the sentimental "Hey Ma." Family of the Year is fun without being vacuous, and the effortlessly blended harmonies are catchy.

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Band of Horses Mirage Rock (Sub Pop)

Various artists Cruel Summer (GOOD Music) @VueWeekly: Kanye & friends get together and wax egotistically. The gang's all here. You know what to expect.

The Gaslamp Killer Breakthrough (Brainfeeder) @VueWeekly: Dark underground beat scene going on here. Harsh & jilted ride of creepy beats from a comrade of @FlyingLotus. #AcquiredTaste

Grizzly Bear Shields (Warp)

JCL, PERRYSCOPE CONCERTS, AND SONIC 102.9 FM PRESENT: WED, DEC 19, STARLITE ROOM//////////////

JAPANDROIDS

Family of the Year Loma Vista (Washashore)

@VueWeekly: One-half Neil Young, a quarter Beach Boys, and a dash of Band of Horses makes up this new Band of Horses album. Very Sub-Poppy.

FRI, NOV 16, AVENUE THEATRE //////////////

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FOUR IN 140

SAT, NOV 2, ROYAL AB MUSEUM THEATRE ////////////// ALL AGES & LICENSED

AN INTIMATE EVENING WITH SHANE KOYCZAN

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WITH GUESTS

@VueWeekly: Somewhere there's an art school where the teachers are Charles Mingus, Radiohead &, again, the Beach Boys. These are the pupils.

Be patient.

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PREVUE // WORLD FLAVOUR

The Boom Booms

Tue, Sep 25 (8 pm) With David Ward Artery, $12

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dmonton could use a little spicing up, and the Boom Booms, a six-piece Latin-funk-rock-soul-reggae band from East Vancouver, is about to bring the heat.

The band's roots took shape on the school yard between bassist/vocalist Geordie Hart and guitarist/lead vocalist Aaron Ross. The pair started their first band together, the Unknowns, with a couple of friends and had their sights set high from the beginning.

"We were planning on becoming the Knowns when we got famous," laughs Hart, adding he hasn't always kept being a professional musician as his life's goal. "I don't think we were thinking of it in terms of this is going to be our bread and butter necessarily ... Aaron puts it well when he talks about having read Jack Kerouac's On the Road, and that was in our early 20s, and we just kind of wanted to live every moment, travel the world and kind of be in the now, and music just happened to be a tool in which we could live that lifestyle."

In high school, the pair remained friends, but the Unknowns didn't continue. Their music career took a new turn following a trip to Meixco and Cuba after graduation. Hart says they became captivated by the music and lifestyle and wanted to bring it back to Canada. When he and Ross returned, they began piecing together a new band. The Boom Booms, who placed second at last year's Peak Performance competition, have blended influences

from dance music, which Hart says included Stevie Wonder growing up, Michael Jackson, some classic rock, as well as reggae and world music, which he and Ross began discovering in their early 20s.

A particularly influential trip found the Boom Booms on tour in Brazil. The band was captivated by the culture, music and people and had felt the love back, with sold-out shows in Rio de Janeiro and Manaus. Hart says he particularly enjoyed the inclusive nature of the country, recalling walking down the street in Rio and encountering live music at each bar they came across, rather than a DJ. "We went and sat down at a bar with a big patio and out of nowhere the next table had their instruments out and they were jamming and then everyone started standing around the table singing together in these big huge choruses and dancing and clapping with huge smiles on their faces.

For me that's how music can be so potent in a culture, y'know?" Hart adds.

This inclusivity has translated into the Boom Booms' own music. Its energetic live shows break down the barrier between performer and audience, gaining fans from all generations along the way. These interactive performances are also a chance for the Boom Booms to road test new material which, Hart says, is the plan on the current tour.

"You get this real, raw connection with the audience. It's almost like playing a CD with someone in the room and watching their face."

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CROWN PUB Break Down Thu at the Crown: D&B with DJ Kaplmplx, DJ Atomik with guests

COAST TO COAST Open stage every Fri; 9:30pm

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Thu; 9pm ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ every Thu FILTHY MCNASTY’S Something Diffrent every Thursday with DJ Ryan Kill FLASH NIGHT CLUB Indust:real Assembly: Goth and Industrial Night with DJ Nanuck; no minors; 10pm (door); no cover FLUID LOUNGE Take Over Thursdays: Industry Night; 9pm FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Requests every Thu with DJ Damian HALO Fo Sho: every Thu with Allout DJs DJ Degree, Junior Brown HILLTOP PUB The Sinder Sparks Show; every Thu and Fri; 9:30pm-close KAS BAR Urban House: every Thu with DJ Mark Stevens; 9pm LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Funk Bunker Thursdays LUCKY 13 Sin Thu with DJ Mike Tomas ON THE ROCKS Salsaholic: every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; salsa DJ to follow OUTLAWS ROADHOUSE Wild Life Thursdays OVERTIME–Downtown Thursdays at Eleven: Electronic Techno and Dub Step RENDEZVOUS Metal night every Thu TAPHOUSE–St Albert Eclectic mix every Thu with DJ Dusty Grooves UNION HALL 3 Four All Thursdays: rock, dance, retro, top 40 with DJ Johnny Infamous

FRI SEP 21

SHERLOCK HOLMES –

BOHEMIA Ramshackle Day Parade Featuring Uncle Ram & The Good Time Family Band with [willscott] and Gary Debussy; 8pm; $5 (door)

THE COMMON Uncommon Thursday: Indie with new DJ each week with resident

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

RIC’S GRILL Peter Belec (jazz); most Thursdays; 7-10pm

BLUES ON WHYTE Boogie Patrol; Sep 17-22

CENTURY CASINO Dr. Hook featuring Ray Sawyer; 7pm (doors); No minors; $39.95

WILD BILL’S–Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close

RICHARD'S PUB Live R&B bands (dancing); 8pm; This week's guests: The Red Hotz; 8pm

BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE – NISKU The Traces; 8pm; No cover Sep 21-22

CENTURY ROOM Lucky 7: Retro '80s with house DJ every Thu; 7pm-close

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

PAWN SHOP Hey Ocean! with Family of the Year and the Frolics; no minors

60 MUSIC

SHERLOCK HOLMES –

APEX CASINO Jukebox Leigh; 9pm; No cover Sep 21-22 ATLANTIC TRAP AND GILL Jimmy Whiffen Sep 21-22 AVENUE THEATRE Abandon All Ships with Fall City Fall, Skip the Foreplay, Slumlord & Marry Me, Murder; 8:30 (Doors; All ages BISTRO LA PERSAUD Blues: every Friday Night hosted by The Dr Blu Band; 8pm (music); drblu.ca

THE COMMON The Mod Club; 9pm; $7 DEVANEY'S Andrew Scott Sep 21-22 EARLY STAGE SALOON Stony's Own Reminiscence Of The Doors And Jim Morrison's Thing... The Smoked Folk Sep 21-22 EDMONTON EVENT CENTRE Full Moon Beach Party; 9pm; +18 EMPIRE BALLROOM Dillon Francis, Flosstradamus; 8pm EXPRESSIONZ CAFE Uptown Folk Club Open Stage; 6:30-11pm GOOD NEIGHBOR PUB T.K. and the Honey Badgers every Friday; 8:30-midnight; no cover HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB Raptors and Bad Acid with Strange Planes; 8pm; $8 (adv), $10 (door) IRISH CLUB Jam session every Fri; 8pm; no cover JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Nathan Ouelette Trio; $10 JEKYLL AND HYDE PUB Headwind (classic pop/ rock); every Fri; 9pm; no cover LB'S Darlene Olson; 9:30pm LIZARD LOUNGE Rock 'n' roll open mic every Fri; 8:30pm; no cover NEW CITY LEGION “Absylum’s Autumn Appearance” Mihu (Ukulele Soloist), Aaron Vincent Band, Kay The House Builder, Grizzly Adam’s Apple (Beatbox Master); 8pm (doors), 9pm (show) NEW WEST HOTEL Reactions; Sep 17-22 O'BYRNE'S Chris Claymore Greve Claymore; 8pm; Sep 21-22 ON THE ROCKS Love Junk Sep 21-22 OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Dueling Piano's, all request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover PAWN SHOP The Carnival Of Death Tour Featuring Obituary with Broken Hope and Decrepit Birth along with Jungle Rot and Encrust; 6pm; $32 (adv)

Players every Fri; 9pm2am RICHARD'S PUB Moscow Dynamo; 7pm; $39.95 (adv) ROSE AND CROWN Lyle Hobbs; Sep 21-22 ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM Theatre Jon and Roy with the Whytes; all ages SHERLOCK HOLMES – DOWNTOWN Quentin Reddy; Sep 18-22 SHERLOCK HOLMES – WEM Doug Stroud Sep 20-22 SIDELINERS PUB & PANTRY Living Daylights; 9pm; No cover S&M - THE STUDIO & MEAD HALL All Else Fails - Dayglo Abortions - Weapons Of Mass Distraction; 8pm ST. BASIL’S CULTURAL CENTER Chris Smither; 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $16 STARLITE ROOM Library Voices with Canyon Rose Outfit and guests; no minors STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION Dayglo Abortions, All Else Fails, Gorgon Horde, Weapons of Mass Distraction; Mini CD release party of Dayglo Abortions Covers by GWAR - Isn't This Disgusting, SNFU and Out Of The Ruins; Proceeds going towards the Smoot family fund TRANSCEND COFFEE – ELEVATION ROOM Three Sun Sea, Three of Hearts and Love Supreme WILD BILL’S–Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close WUNDERBAR Cowpuncher; 9pm YARDBIRD SUITE Jerry Weldon, PJ Perry Quartet; 8pm (doors), 9pm (show); $22 (members), $26 (guest) Sep 21-22

NEWCASTLE PUB House, dance mix every Fri with DJ Donovan O2'S TAPHOUSE AND GRILL DJs every Fri and Sat O2'S ON WHYTE DJ Jay every Fri and Sat OVERTIME–Downtown Fridays at Eleven: Rock hip hop, country, top forty, techno REDNEX–Morinville DJ Gravy from the Source 98.5 every Fri RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie, rock, funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Fuzzion Friday: with Crewshtopher, Tyler M, guests; no cover SUEDE LOUNGE House, electro, Top40, R'n'B with DJ Melo-D every Fri SUITE 69 Release Your Inner Beast: Retro and Top 40 beats with DJ Suco; every Fri TEMPLE Silence be Damned: with DJs Gotthavok, Siborg, Nightroad; 9pm TREASURY In Style Fri: DJ Tyco and Ernest Ledi; no line no cover for ladies all night long UNION HALL Ladies Night every Fri VINYL DANCE LOUNGE Connected Las Vegas Fridays Y AFTERHOURS Foundation Fridays

SAT SEP 22 ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage with Trace Jordan 1st and 3rd Sat; 7pm-12 APEX CASINO Jukebox Leigh; 9pm; No cover Sep 21-22

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

ARDEN THEATRE Joel Plaskett with Mo Kenney as opening guest; 7:30pm; $35 (plus facility fee) at Box Office and TicketMaster

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every Friday DJs on all three levels

ATLANTIC TRAP AND GILL Jimmy Whiffen Sep 21-22

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

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair of the Dog: Cory Woodward (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover

DJs

BONEYARD ALE HOUSE The Rock Mash-up: DJ NAK spins videos every Fri; 9pm; no cover BUDDY’S DJ Arrow Chaser every Fri; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm BUFFALO UNDERGROUND R U Aware Friday: Featuring Neon Nights CHROME LOUNGE Platinum VIP every Fri THE COMMON Boom The Box: every Fri; nu disco, hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation plus residents Echo and Shortround THE DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Fri; 9pm ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ every Fri FILTHY MCNASTY'S Shake yo ass every Fri with DJ SAWG FLUID LOUNGE Hip hop and dancehall; every Fri FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Top tracks, rock, retro with DJ Damian; every Fri

QUEEN ALEXANDRA COMMUNITY HALL Martyn Joseph; 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $18 (adv), $22 (door)

FUSIA/CORAL DE CUBA Del Son a la Salsa: Lessons in Son,Cha Cha Cha,Salsa Rueda de Casino and more with Orlando Martinez (Fiesta Cubana Dance School); 9:30pm; $5

RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano

HILLTOP PUB The Sinder Sparks Show; every Thu and Fri; 9:30pm-close

VUEWEEKLY SEPTEMBER 20 – SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

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

BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE – NISKU The Traces; 8pm; No cover Sep 21-22 BLUE CHAIR CAFE Alex Vissia and Band; 8:30pm; $10 BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Boogie Patrol Sep 17-22 BOHEMIA NDP Dance Party (dj's); 9pm; $7 (door); 18+ BRIXX BAR Tanner Gordon and the Unfortunates with Alterra, Yellowhead; 9pm (doors) CAFÉ CORAL DE CUBA Cafe Coral De Cuba Marco Claveria's open mic (music, poetry, jokes); every Sat, 6pm; $5 CAPITOL THEATRE – FORT EDMONTON Cedar Hill; 8pm CARROT CAFÉ Sat Open mic; 7pm; $2 CASINO EDMONTON Suite 33; Sep 21-22 CASINO YELLOWHEAD Colleen Rae & Cornerstone; Sep 21-22 CENTRAL LIONS RECREATION CENTRE Martyn Joseph; 7pm (doors), 8pm (music); $25 (adv), $30 (door)

COAST TO COAST Live bands every Sat; 9:30pm THE COMMON Spiltmilk! & Dane; $8 CROWN PUB Acoustic blues open stage with Marshall Lawrence, every Sat, 2-6pm; every Sat, 12-2am DEVANEY'S Andrew Scott Sep 21-22 NEW ONGOING:

DEVON HOTEL 1 Huron Street, Devon, AB

DEVON HOTEL PALS Acoustic Open Mic with Tim Harwill; Every Sat 4-6:30pm THE DISH NEK Trio (jazz); every Sat, 6pm EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain Stony's Own Reminiscence Of The Doors And Jim Morrison's Thing... The Smoked Folk Sep 21-22 EDMONTON EVENT CENTRE Anthrax, Testament and Death Angel; 7pm; 18+ EDMONTON KOREAN COMMUNITY CENTRE Karaoke Night Fundraiser Featuring K-soda; 5pm; $10 (door) FESTIVAL PLACE Jose Feliciano; 7:30pm; Sold out FIELD HOUSE -

COMMONWEALTH STADIUM

Emerson Drive and Dallas Smith (Edmonton Eskimos Post Game Cabaret); 8pm; $34 at TicketMaster

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Dead Red Pine with guest Dan Jackson; 4pm; No cover GAS PUMP Saturday Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB CD Release Show Featuring Cory Woodward with Lora Jol; 8pm; $8 (adv), $10 (door) HILLTOP PUB Sat afternoon roots jam with Pascal, Simon and Dan, 3:30-6:30pm; evening: Rellik / Mighty Mouth, Shortop, MCLovely, Deffine, Jaide, Jae Maze/ DoloMite; 8pm HOOLIGANZ Live music every Sat

HYDEAWAY Marleigh and Mueller (classic pop/jazz/ musical theatre); 8pm; 3rd Sat each month; $10

REXALL PLACE John Fogerty; All ages; 6:30pm (doors), 8pm (show); $20, $49.50, $69.50

Saturday's Relaunch: Party; hip-hop, R&B and Dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali

IRON BOAR PUB Jazz in Wetaskiwin featuring jazz trios the 1st Sat each month; $10

ROSE AND CROWN Lyle Hobbs; Sep 21-22

FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Top tracks, rock, retro every Sat with DJ Damian

JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Lionel Rault; $15 L.B.'S PUB Sat afternoon Jam with Gator and Friends; 5-9pm EVERY SAT: Smoky Oasis with special guest Rocko; 9:30pm LOUISIANA PURCHASE Suchy Sister Saturdays: Amber, Renee or Stephanie with accompaniment; 9:3011:30pm; no cover NEW CITY LEGION Diehatzu Hijets, Nervous Wreck, Guests TBA; 8pm (doors), 9pm (show); 18+ NEW WEST HOTEL Country jam every Sat; 3-6pm; Reactions; Sep 17-22 O’BYRNE’S Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm This week with: Chris Claymore Greve - Claymore; 8pm Sep 21-22 OLD TIMER’S CABIN A fundraiser and silent auction featuring blues piano legend David Vest and the 2012 Memphis Bound Blues Challenge representatives: Jimmy and the Sleepers and Breezy Brian Gregg; 6pm (doors), 6:30pm (hot meal), 7:30pm (music); $45 (adv only) at Tix on the Square Myhre’s Music, Fusion Music, Innovations Music, Permanent Records, ibc@ EdmontonBluesSociety. net ON THE ROCKS Love Junk Sep 21-22 OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Dueling Piano's, all request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover PAWN SHOP Chasing Jones with One Way State; 7pm; No cover RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm2am

SHERLOCK HOLMES – DOWNTOWN Quentin Reddy; Sep 18-22 SHERLOCK HOLMES – WEM Doug Stroud; Sep 20-22 SIDELINERS PUB Sat open stage; 3-7pm STARLITE ROOM Killinger with guests; 9pm (doors) STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION Unofficial Anthrax, Testament after party with Dayglo Abortions TRANSCEND COFFEE – ELEVATION ROOM Justine Vandergrift, Molly Little, and Spencer Ford at the ER WUNDERBAR The Lazy MK's, Blind Routes, Young James, Whiskey Pig; 9pm YARDBIRD SUITE Jerry Weldon, PJ Perry Quartet; 8pm (doors), 9pm (show); $22 (members), $26 (guest) Sep 21-22

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: The Menace Sessions: Alt Rock/ Electro/Trash with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic hip-hop and reggae with DJ Sonny Grimezz; Underdog: Dr. Erick BLACKSHEEP PUB DJ every Sat BONEYARD ALE HOUSE DJ Sinistra Saturdays: 9pm BUDDY'S Feel the rhythm every Sat with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm BUFFALO UNDERGROUND Head Mashed In Saturday: Mashup Night 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

FUSIA/CORAL DE CUBA Mixing in the House every Sat: DJ Fuego and his Latin Groves with Mojito in Hand From Cuba; 9:30pm-2am; $5 HALO For Those Who Know: house every Sat with DJ Junior Brown, Luke Morrison, Nestor Delano, Ari Rhodes JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY LGBT Community: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm NEWCASTLE PUB Top 40 requests every Sat with DJ Sheri O2'S TAPHOUSE AND GRILL DJs every Fri and Sat O2'S ON WHYTE DJ Jay every Fri and Sat OVERTIME–Downtown Saturdays at Eleven: R'n'B, hip hop, reggae, Old School PALACE CASINO Show Lounge DJ every Sat PAWN SHOP Transmission Saturdays: Indie rock, new wave, classic punk with DJ Blue Jay and Eddie Lunchpail; 9pm (door); free (before 10pm)/$5 (after 10pm) RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Rezzo, DJ Mkhai SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M SUEDE LOUNGE House, electro, Top40, R'n'B with DJ Melo-D every Fri SUITE 69 Stella Saturday: retro, old school, top 40 beats with DJ Lazy, guests 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 SEP 23 BEER HUNTER–St Albert Open stage/jam every Sun; 2-6pm BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett

Calgary Tr, 780.439.8675 COMMON 9910-109 St CROWN PUB 10709-109 St, 780.428.5618 DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DEVON HOTEL 1 Huron Street, Devon, AB THE DISH 12417 Stony Plain Rd, 780.488.6641 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8307-99 St EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain EDDIE SHORTS 10713-124 St, 780.453.3663 EDMONTON EVENTS CENTRE WEM Phase III, 780.489.SHOW ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 ELEPHANT AND CASTLE– Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ 993870 Ave, 780.437.3667 FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FIDDLER’S ROOST 890699 St FIELD HOUSE AT COMMONWEALTH STADIUM 11000 Stadium Road FILTHY MCNASTY’S 1051182 Ave, 780.916.1557 FLASH NIGHT CLUB 10018105 St, 780.996.1778 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 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 HOOLIGANZ 10704-124 St, 780.995.7110 HYDEAWAY 10209-100 Ave, 780.426.5381 IRON BOAR PUB 4911-51st St, Wetaskiwin 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 NAKED CYBERCAFE & ESPRESSO BAR 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE PUB 6108-90 Ave, 780.490.1999 NEW CITY 8130 Gateway Boulevard 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 O2'S ON WHYTE 780.454.0203 O2'S TAPHOUSE AND GRILL 13509-127 St, 780.454.0203 OVERTIME–Downtown 10304-111 St, 780.465.6800 OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 PLAYBACK PUB 594 Hermitage Rd, 130 Ave, 40 St PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 1086057 Ave 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 RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780-457-3117 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

FOR VOTING THE PAWN SHOP 2ND RUNNER UP FOR THE CATEGORIES OF BEST DANCE CLUB & BEST LIVE MUSIC VENUE.”

BLUE CHAIR CAFE Sunday Brunch: PM Bossa; 10:30am-2:30pm; donation

DOORS 6 PM FRI SEPT 21 CARNIVAL OF DEATH FEATURING

OBITUARY,

BLUE PEAR RESTAURANT Jazz on the Side Sun: Audrey Ochoa; 5:308:30pm; $25 if not dining

BROKEN HOPE, DECREPIT BIRTH, JUNGLE ROT & ENCRUST

CAFFREY'S–Sherwood Park The Sunday Blues Jam: hosted by Kevin and Rita McDade and the Grey Cats Blues Band, guests every week; 5-9pm; no cover

SAT SEPT 22

DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB Celtic open stage every Sun with Keri-Lynne Zwicker; 5:30pm; no cover

FRI SEPT 28

SONIC BAND OF THE MONTH

RAYGUN COWBOYS,

DOUBLE D'S Open jam every Sun; 3-8pm EDDIE SHORTS Open stage with Dan Daniels every Sun

W/ HELLFIRE SPECIAL & DOLLY ROTTEN

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Rock and Soul Sundays with DJ Sadeeq

WED SEPT 26

HOGS DEN PUB Open Jam: hosted; open jam every Sun, all styles welcome; 3-7pm

HANK & LILY ‘CRANK CITY’ RELEASE TOUR W/ GUESTS

HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH Bird on a Wire – Flocking Patterns (Terri Hron: recorders & flutes; Robert Normandeau: electronics, diffusing works of eight composers in surround sound); 8pm

FRI OCT 5

CJSR FUN DRIVE FEATURING NO HEAT TOMORROW W/ RAPTORS, CYGNETS & THE GIVE ‘EM HELL BOYS

NEWCASTLE PUB Sun Soul Service (acoustic jam): Willy James and

Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929 • Summerwood Summerwood Centre, Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929 SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St, 780.453.6006 SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924 SPORTSMAN'S LOUNGE 8170-50 St STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 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, 780.590.1128 VINYL DANCE LOUNGE 10740 Jasper Ave, 780.428.8655, vinylretrolounge.com

FREE SHOW EARLY SHOW

CHASING JONES W/ ONE WAY STATE

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

VENUE GUIDE ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave AVENUE THEATRE 9030-118 Ave, 780.477.2149 BISTRO LA PERSAUD 861791 St, 780.758.6686 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Drive, Nisku, 780.986.8522 BLACKSHEEP PUB 11026 Jasper Ave, 780.420.0448 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUE PEAR RESTAURANT 10643-123 St, 780.482.7178 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BONEYARD ALE HOUSE 9216-34 Ave, 780.437.2663 BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 1022597 St, 780.497.0011 BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 CAFÉ CORAL DE CUBA 10816 Whyte Ave CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca CARROT CAFÉ 9351-118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464-153 St, 780 424 9467 CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 CHROME LOUNGE 132 Ave, Victoria Trail COAST TO COAST 5552

THANK YOU EDMONTON

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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 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours. com YELLOWHEAD BREWERY 10229-105 St, 780.423.3333 YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295

VUEWEEKLY SEPTEMBER 20 – SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

SAT SEPT 22

FREE SHOW 4PM

DEAD RED PINE

W/ DAN JACKSON

STAND UP COMEDY

SUNDAYS MUSIC 61

Crawdad Cantera; 3-6:30pm NEW CITY LEGION River Valley Search Party, People Call It Home, Fringe, Ryan Ro; 8pm (doors), 9pm (show) O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am ON THE ROCKS Seven Strings Sun: Dean Lonsdale and the Ramifications; 9pm (show) O2'S – 11066 156 ST Brian Petch; 11am O2'S TAP HOUSE AND GRILL Open stage hosted by the band the Vindicators; 4-8pm every Sun

DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB Singer/songwriter open stage every Mon; 8pm LB'S PUB Moosehead Jam w/ Mark Ammar; 8pm NEW WEST HOTEL Sonny and The Hurricanes; Sep 24-29 OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Monday Open Stage PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm ROSE BOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE Acoustic open stage every Mon; 9pm

RICHARD'S PUB Sun Live Jam hosted by Carson Cole; 4pm

WUNDERBAR Flint (Tour Kickoff ) with Guests; 9pm

TRANSALTA ARTS BARNS Jason Kodie (Part of High Tea: An Elevated FUNdraiser); 2-5pm

DJs

TWO ROOMS Live Jam every Sun with Jeremiah; 5-9pm; no cover; $10 (dinner) WUNDERBAR J. Riley Hill with Guests; 9pm YELLOWHEAD BREWERY Open Stage: Every Sun, 8pm

Classical WINSPEAR Horn & Cello; 2pm MUTTART HALL Italienisches Liederbuch - (Italian Songbook); 2:30pm; $20 (adults), $10 (students/seniors 60+), tickets available at Tix on the Square

DJs BACKSTAGE TAP AND GRILL Industry Night: every Sun with Atomic Improv, Jameoki and DJ Tim BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sundays: A fantastic voyage through '60s and '70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Stylus Industry Sundays: Invinceable, Tnt, Rocky, Rocko, Akademic, weekly guest DJs; 9pm-3am facebook.com/ groups/214433451919439/

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

TUE SEP 25 ARTERY The Boom Booms and David Ward; 8pm BRIXX BAR Ruby Tuesdays with host Mark Feduk; $5 after 8pm; this week guests: Kevin Maiman and Connor Regan CROWN PUB AND PLAZA Evil Ebenezer, Merkules, Brothers Grim, Fresh Kils; 9pm DRUID IRISH PUB Open stage every Tue; with Chris Wynters; 9pm; This week's guest: Darren Gunsnowsky; 8pm EDMONTON EVENT CENTRE Bloc Party with Ceremony; 7pm (doors); all ages; tickets at TicketMaster

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

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

MON SEP 24

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

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover

NEW WEST HOTEL Sonny and The Hurricanes Sep 24-29

OVERTIME SHERWOOD

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

RED PIANO All Request Band Tuesdays: Classic rock, soul and R&B with Joint Chiefs; 8pm; $5

Tour Featuring Hank & Lily with Cockatoo and David Finkelman; 8pm; $10 (adv)

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

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

PLAYBACK PUB Open Stage every Wed hosted

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R PUB Open stage jam every Tue; hosted by Gary and the Facemakers; 8pm RED PIANO All request band Tuesdays: Joint Chiefs (classic rock, soul, R&B) every Tue SECOND CUP– Summerwood Open stage/ open mic every Tue; 7:30pm; no cover SHERLOCK HOLMES – DOWNTOWN Derina Harvey; Sep 25-29 SHERLOCK HOLMES –

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URBAN LOUNGE Ariel Pink; 9pm YARDBIRD SUITE Tue Night Sessions: Allen Jacobson Quartet; 7:30pm (doors), 8pm (show); $5 (members & guests)

Classical CONVOCATION HALL U of A Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition Finals; 7:30pm; Free HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH Holy Trinity Concert Series: Ron Long (tenor), Sandra Munn (piano); 3pm; Free (donations welcome) JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Buddy Guy and Jonny Lang; 8pm MUTTART HALL Kent Sangster's Obsessions Octet; 7:30pm

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: alternative retro and not-so-retro, electronic and Euro with Eddie Lunchpail; Wooftop: It’s One Too Many Tuesdays: Reggae, funk, soul, boogie and disco with Rootbeard BUDDYS DJ Arrow Chaser every CROWN PUB Live Hip Hop Tue: freestyle hip hop with DJ Xaolin and Mc Touch DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly, Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue RED STAR Experimental Indie Rock, Hip Hop, Electro with DJ Hot Philly; every Tue

WED SEP 26 AVENUE THEATRE Three Inches of Blood with the Order of Chaos and the Silent Line BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE CJSR Fundrive show featuring: Doug Hoyer, Mitchmatic, Small Town Knife Fight; 9pm; No cover charge Main Floor: Glitter Gulch: live music once a month; On the Patio: Funk and Soul with Doktor Erick every Wed; 9pm CHA ISLAND TEA CO Whyte Noise Drum Circle: Join local drummers for a few hours of beats and fun; 6pm CROWN PUB The D.A.M.M Jam: Open stage/original plugged in jam with Dan, Miguel and friends every Wed DEVANEY'S Duff Robinson EDDIE SHORTS Electric open jam with Steven Johnson Experience every Wed EDMONTON EVENT CENTRE The Weeknd; 7pm; all ages 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 Open stage every Wed with Jonny Mac, 8:30pm, free HOOLIGANZ Open stage every Wed with host Cody Nouta; 9pm NEW WEST HOTEL Free classic country dance lessons every Wed, 7-9pml Sonny and The Hurricanes Sep 24-29 OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Jason Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Wed; no cover PAWN SHOP Hank & Lily 'Crank City' Release

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1) Loud event 12) Mauna ___ 15) She drinks Go-Go Juice and showed her belly to the judges 16) Furthermore 17) Tudor symbol 18) General who's an enemy of Superman 19) Keep a ship from leaving port, maybe 20) On the line 22) Headwear banned by the NFL 24) Words that can precede a proverb 25) Robert who played A.J. Soprano 27) Word in wedding notices 28) Big name in skydiving?

32) Brown eraser variety 36) Banned apple spray 37) Had a yearning 39) Unit of loudness 40) JPEG alternative 42) Home to some lifers 44) Inseparable 45) Give off, like charm 46) Actress Nicollette 50) Romanian composer George of the opera "Oedipe" 55) It goes from box to pan 56) Garfunkel and ___ (female comedy-folk duo) 57) Folk rocker DiFranco 58) Chip slogan 62) Metta World Peace's former first name

10) Utterly befuddled 11) "Guys and Dolls" composer/lyricist Frank 12) Former file-sharing site 13) Mushroom used in Japanese cooking 14) Threw in 21) African parasite 23) Put on, like comfier clothes 24) Affixes T-shirt designs 26) Pink Floyd label 28) Chatter 29) Pharmaceutical company ___ Lilly 30) Snitch 31) At least 33) Democrats' rivals 34) Article in the Montreal Gazette?

35) Dudes 38) Eisenhower's command, for short 41) Belief in hidden spiritual creatures 43) Woodworker, when doing some joining 46) Cold-weather wear 47) Former capital of French Indochina 48) ___ out (managing) 49) Musician Hoyt ___ (who also appeared in "Gremlins") 51) Alleviated 52) Singer on "Shiny Happy People" 53) One who gives up 54) Site visitors 59) Before, before 60) "Law," on a bilingual workroom poster 61) When doubled, a 1965 Dixie Cups song ©2012 Jonesin' Crosswords

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Down 1) Freudian concept 2) They brought you the Popeil Pocket Fisherman 3) The Hulk's catalyst 4) Late "Queen of Salsa" ___ Cruz 5) Making a segue (to) 6) Docs for women only 7) "Ruh-___!" (Scooby-Doo phrase) 8) "Un momento, ___ favor" 9) German WWII craft

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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): Here's the curious message I derived from the current astrological configurations: it's one of those rare times when a wall may actually help bring people together. How? Why? The omens don't reveal that specific information. They only tell me that what seems like a barrier might end up serving as a connector. An influence that in other situations would tend to cause separation will in this case be likely to promote unity. Capitalize on this anomaly, Aries!

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): In my first dream last night, I gave you a holy book that you left out in the rain.

In my second dream, I cooked you some chicken soup that you didn't eat. My third dream was equally disturbing. I assigned you some homework that would have helped you discover important clues about tending to your emotional health. Alas, you didn't do the homework. In the morning, I woke up from my dreams feeling exasperated and worried. But later I began to theorize that maybe they weren't prophecies, but rather helpful warnings. Now that you've heard them, I'm hoping you will become alert to the gifts you've been ignoring and take advantage of the healing opportunities you've been neglecting.

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GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): There's a good chance that your rhythm in the coming days will resemble a gentle, continuous orgasm. It won't be stupendously ecstatic, mind you. I'm not predicting massive eruptions of honeyed bliss that keep blowing your mind.

Rather, the experience will be more like a persistent flow of warm contentment. You'll be constantly tuning in to a secret sweetness that thrills you subliminally. Again and again you will slip into a delicious feeling that everything is unfolding exactly as it should be. Warning! There are two factors that could possibly undermine this blessing: 1. If you scare it away with blasts of cynicism; 2. If you get greedy and try to force it to become bigger and stronger. So please don't do those things!

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): Philosopher Jonathan Zap (zaporacle.com) provides the seed for this week's meditation: "Conscious reflection on the past can deepen the soul and provide revelations of great value for the present and future. On the other hand, returning to the past obsessively out of emotional addiction can be a massive draining of vitality needed for full engagement with the present." So which will it be, Cancerian? One way or another, you are likely to be pulled back toward the CONTINUED ON PAGE 65 >>

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old days and the old ways. I'll prefer it if you re-examine your history and extract useful lessons from the past instead of wallowing in dark nostalgia and getting lost in fruitless longing.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): Picture a TV satellite dish on the roof of a peasant's shack in rural Honduras. Imagine a gripping rendition of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata played on the mandolin. Visualize the Dalai Lama quoting Chris Rock a bit out of context, but with humorous and dramatic effect. Got all that? Next, imagine that these three scenes are metaphors for your metaphysical assignment in the coming week. Need another hint? OK. Think about how you can make sure that nothing gets lost in the dicey translations you'll be responsible for making.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): Here are some ways to get more respect: 1. Do your best in every single thing you do, whether it's communicating precisely or upholding the highest possible standards at your job or taking excellent care of yourself. 2. Maintain impeccable levels of integrity in everything you do, whether it's being scrupulously honest or thoroughly fair-minded or fiercely kind. 3. On the other hand, don't try so compulsively hard to do your best and cultivate integrity that you get self-conscious and obstruct the flow of your natural intelligence. 4. Make it your goal that no later than four years from now you will be doing what you love to do at least 51 percent of the time. 5.

Give other people as much respect as you sincerely believe they deserve. 6.

Give yourself more respect.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): The German poet and philosopher Friedrich von Schiller liked to have rotting apples in his desk drawer as he worked; the scent inspired him. Agatha Christie testified that many of her best ideas came to her while she was washing dishes. As for Beethoven, he sometimes stimulated his creativity by pouring cold water over his head.

What about you, Libra? Are there odd inclinations and idiosyncratic behaviors that in the past have roused your original thinking? I encourage you to try them all this week, and then see if you can dream up at least two new ones. You have officially entered the brainstorming season.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): It's expensive for the U.S. to hold prisoners at its Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba: $800 000 per year for each detainee. That's 30 times more than it costs to incarcerate a convict on the American mainland.

According to The Miami Herald, Guantanamo is the most expensive prison on the planet. How much do you spend on locking stuff up, Scorpio? What does it cost, not just financially but emotionally and spiri-

tually, for you to keep your secrets hidden and your fears tamped down and your unruly passions bottled up and your naughty urges suppressed?

The coming weeks would be a good time to make sure the price you pay for all that is reasonable—not even close to being like Guantanamo.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): What time is it, boys and girls? It's Floods of Fantastic Gratitude Week: a perfect opportunity to express your passionate appreciation for everything you've been given. So get out there and tell people how much you've benefited from what they've done for you. For best results, be playful and have fun as you express your thanks.

By the way, there'll be a fringe benefit to this outpouring: by celebrating the blessings you already enjoy, you will generate future blessings.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): Telling the whole deep truth and nothing but the whole deep truth isn't necessarily a recipe for being popular. It may on occasion provoke chaos and be disruptive. In an institutional setting, displays of candor may even diminish your clout and undermine your ambitions. But now take everything I just said and disregard it for a while. This is one of those rare times when being profoundly authentic will work to your supreme advantage.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): "Show me the money" is a meme that first appeared in the 1996 movie Jerry Maguire. It has been uttered approximately a hundred trillion times since then. Have you ever said it in earnest? If so, you were probably demanding to get what you had been promised. You were telling people you wanted to see tangible proof that they valued your efforts. In light of your current astrological omens, I propose that you use a variation on this theme.

What you need right now is less materialistic and more marvelous.

Try making this your mantra: "Show me the magic."

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Laws south of the border take liberties in private sex lives Every time I go to the USA for a sex toy ly moved to Florida because she has been show, I'm struck by how different our harassed and threatened in her home state neighbours to the south are from us just because she sells vibrators. when it comes to sex and the law. I'm She was not expecting to lose because in not saying that Canada gets it right all a similar case, the Fifth Circuit Court ruled the time, but in the States there are that the same precedent used in her some real conflicts between case actually indicates that the the right of government and state does not have the right the right to personal privacy to intervene in matters of per.com weekly e and freedom—and it's getsonal sexual privacy. This rulu v @ brenda a d ting worse. ing struck down the Texas law n e Br er In one of the seminars I attendbanning the sale of sex toys. The Kerb ed, attorney Clyde DeWitt issued dire two opposing decisions created a warning for those in the sex industry. Desplit in the circuit courts over the meaning Witt believes there is a battle brewing over of the precedent case, Lawrence vs Texas. sexual privacy and the law and he thinks it The Supreme Court could intervene to may come to a head after the next election. decide on the matter. The Supreme Court At this point, Alabama is one of only probably isn't really burning to get into two states where it remains illegal to sell a fight over dildos, but they may be inadult toys. That law was challenged all the terested in taking up the argument over way to the federal Court of Appeals and the interpretation of Lawrence vs Texas, was upheld by the Eleventh Circuit Court. the case in which the Texas sodomy laws They ruled that the state had a legitimate were ruled unconstitutional. Sitting Suinterest in preserving public morality. I met preme Court Justices Clarence Thomas Sherri Williams, owner of the store that and Antonin Scalia both wrote dissenting pursued that suit, at an event in 2009. opinions on that decision. Scalia has been After years of pursuing this issue to the very vocal about his support for laws that highest court, she was shocked and fruslimit sexual freedom. He even seems to trated that it ended as it did. Her stores believe that masturbation should be ilin Alabama continue to operate, but each legal. customer must fill out and sign a short Of the current members of the Supreme questionnaire that indicates that the prodCourt, five have a record of conservative ucts they bought are required for medical voting on social issues—no surprise that purposes. Williams told me she has actualthey were all appointed by either Ronald

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Reagan or George W Bush—although one of them, Anthony Kennedy, is considered more of a moderate. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, one of the most liberal justices, will likely retire in the next four years, leaving the appointment of the new justice up to the winner of this upcoming presidential election.

This was the crux of DeWitt's warning to the room of sex toy distributors and retailers. "If you want to keep your job and your business," he said, "Vote for Obama."

DeWitt believes that Scalia is itching to reopen Lawrence vs Texas and will do exactly that if another conservative justice is appointed. If Lawrence vs Texas is overturned, it will certainly be an issue for toy sellers, but it will be much more of an issue for the American public as it will give states the right to once again make specific private sexual activities illegal.

They will be within their rights to come into a person's home and arrest them for getting a blow job, just as they did in the incident that sparked Lawrence vs Texas.

Will it actually happen? No one can say for sure, but the idea that it's even possible is nothing short of terrifying. V Brenda Kerber is a sexual health educator who has worked with local not-for-profits since 1995. She is the owner of the Edmonton-based, sex-positive adult toy boutique the Traveling Tickle Trunk.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): My acquaintance Jacob fell for a woman who also professed her ardour for him. But in the midst of their courtship, as the mystery was still ripening, she suddenly left the country.

"I've got to go to Indonesia," she texted him one night and she was gone the next day. Jacob was confused, forlorn, dazed. He barely ate for days. On the sixth day, a FedEx package arrived from her. It contained a green silk scarf and a note: "I wore this as I walked to the top of the volcano and said a fivehour prayer to elevate our love."

Jacob wasn't sure how to interpret it, although it seemed to be a good omen. What happened next? I haven't heard yet. I predict that you will soon receive a sign that has resemblances to this one. Don't jump to conclusions about what it means, but assume the best.

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Dan answers a bf who really wants his favs and responds to angry emails Healthy straight male here. The probcomfortable. I love being with her, I lem is twofold: my girlfriend doesn't can't get enough of her, and I can see like cum in her mouth and she feels this becoming a lifelong relationship. that doggy-style is objectifying to But I don't want to have to miss out women. Therefore, we don't do either. on my bedroom favourites for the rest She says she wants to get more of my life. comfortable and try these E SAVAG things, but they never seem The comparison you're makto happen—and when I ing between your girlfriend om eekly.c w e bring them up, it turns into and her ex isn't really fair. u v ve@ avagelo a touchy discussion. These s Your girlfriend's ex-boyn a D e g a are #1 and #2, respectively, on friend refused to go down v a S my list of favourite things to do on her. Not only does your girlin the bedroom and I'm not OK with friend go down on you, RANDY, she's not doing them indefinitely. The sex is getting you off. Her blowjobs may not otherwise great, but I do think there's wrap up the way you'd like—with her a double standard at work here. She swallowing your cum—but you are had an ex who refused to go down on getting blowjobs. her. When I said, "He needed to man up Sorry, RANDY, but where you see and take one for the team, even if he a double standard on the girlfriend's didn't like it," she readily agreed with part, I see only whining on yours. me. So why can't she "take one for the Swallowing is extra credit. It's not a team" and swallow my cum? I would course requirement. I say this as somefeel bad if she were doing something one who gives and receives blowjobs: she wasn't comfortable with, but it if someone sucks your dick until you disappoints me when she takes my cum, you got your damn blowjob. dick out of her mouth and points it at What a blower does with the blowee's my stomach when I start to come. I cum after the blowjob is over—spit, think she has a double standard. swallow, spread it on toast—is the Really Anxious Not Doing Yearnings blower's call to make.

And your girlfriend may have a good PS: We've been dating only about reason for not swallowing your cum, three months, so I understand there RANDY. Semen contains prostaglanis plenty of time for her to get more dins—"a group of lipid compounds

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that are derived enzymatically from fatty acids and have important functions in the animal body," says Wiki— and some people experience explosive diarrhea shortly after ingesting the prostaglandins in semen. It's possible that your girlfriend isn't swallowing because she doesn't want to have to run to the bathroom two minutes later and take a noisy shit while her new boyfriend listens in the next room.

Or, hey, maybe your girlfriend just doesn't like the way semen tastes.

Or maybe she's had boyfriends in the past who "lost control" and shoved their dicks down her throat as they came. Or maybe swallowing turns her off for the same reason that doggystyle does, i.e., she sees it as objectifying and/or degrading. And maybe if you're patient, RANDY, your girlfriend will come around and your #1 and #2 favorite sex things will enter into regular rotation.

Of course, it's possible that your girlfriend is lying to you. People have been known to make vague and insincere promises about all the blowjobs, three-ways and kinks they'll get into once they "feel more comfortable" with a new partner. Your girlfriend, like so many other girlfriends and boyfriends before her, may be trying to run out the clock. She may hope that by the time you realize she's never going to do your bedroom favourites, you'll be too emotionally invested in the relationship to dump her.

I'm a female in my mid-20s who loves to give head. The problem is, I think I'm giving head too soon and guys don't see me as relationship material.

I've been in only one relationship that was longer than a casual hookup, and that particular ex was a she-comesfirst/worship-the-pussy kinda guy. (I

didn't get to touch his dick until we were about a month in!) Most of the straight girls I hang out with believe that a guy needs to earn getting his dick sucked. My gay friends don't see the problem. My straight guy friends chuckle and say "depends" when I ask if I'm blowing a guy too soon. I really enjoy sucking dick, so once I'm horny, it's so hard to resist the impulse. How soon is too soon? Do you think that I would actually benefit by stopping this pattern?

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Generally, BLOW, I believe a person should do what she likes—and if you like giving head, give head. And if getting head scares a boy off, well, he was the wrong boy for you. (I'm having a hard time picturing a guy who wouldn't want to date a woman who enjoys giving head—are there many guys like that out there?) But there's a simple way to find out if the guys you're meeting make date/dump distinctions between girls who blow 'em right away and girls who make 'em wait: stop sucking guys off on the first date and see if they stick around longer.

I had to write after reading your response to Wanted Toys Too, the aunt who wanted to buy her niece a dildo.

I was once a teenage girl whose older cousin tried to "help me out" this way, and I was mortified. WTT wants to get her niece a sex toy, she said, because WTT experimented with a plastic banana when she was a girl because she didn't want "a penis to be the first thing of substance put in [her] vagina." Guess what? That is exactly what I wanted, so I had no need for a dildo and I had access to plenty of good sex advice! Advice that I asked for! This aunt is project-

ing her crap on her niece! She should back off and mind her own business.

MYOB About Sex You goofed in your reply to WTT. Instead of getting information from sex-shop owners, why didn't you get information from a mental health expert? We're talking about a 14-yearold who is emotionally fragile as she struggles through the years of defining self and understanding her own sexuality! Here's what you should've told WTT: "Back off. See a therapist.

Get a boyfriend. Get a hobby. MYOB, Auntie."

EE, LMSW In fairness to WTT, MYOBAS and EE LMSW, WTT had her niece's mother's permission to get her daughter a sex toy. My mother encouraged her kids to talk with one of her sisters about any sexual issues we weren't comfortable discussing with our parents, so … it's possible that WTT's niece has expressed an interest in a sex toy of her very own. It's also possible that (1) WTT's niece hasn't expressed an interest in a sex toy and would be mortified by the offer and (2) my response to WTT was coloured by my own relationship with my sex-questionanswering aunt. With the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, to say nothing of a file full of angry e-mails, I'll amend my advice to WTT with this: If your niece hasn't asked for help, info, or a sex toy, better to MYOB. V

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