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NEWS // COMMON LAW

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Independent U?

Alberta could benefit from BC's clearly-defined common-law property rules

The idea of independence among universities is as old as the idea of the universities themselves, so the provincial government's push to rebrand the advanced education system here as one big Campus Alberta is a more destabilizing idea than it seems. It makes you wish the provincial government would've put more effort into clarifying its points than rushing them out the door; especially since it's apparently been in the works for years.

The Campus Alberta Strategic Directions Committee was created in 2008 by former Advanced Education Minister Stephen Khan. It consists of the board chairs of Alberta's publicly funded post-secondary institutions, and its powers are entrenched in the Post-secondary Learning Act. That said, the use of "Strategic Directions" in its title seems misleading: the government website offers that the committee's main focus is being a forum for the Advanced Education minister to "communicate provincial-level directions" and "enhance collaboration among institutions in order to further the vision of Campus Alberta."

The best point being made for Campus Alberta is also its clearest: that it would remove some of the difficulties of transferring between institutions. Being forced to repeat nearly-identical courses when going from one institution to another is a frustration for students.

But then there's the rest of it. Every other Campus Alberta point—its emphasis on reducing overlap between institutions; the idea of communal, between-institution projects; the uncertainty of institutions to operate on their own projects without influence—could charitably be called poorly argued. We have yet to see a solid case made for unifying provincial post-secondary institutions. Instead, we've heard silly soundbites from provincial brass: the most quoted is Lukaszuk's statement that, "You don't want to have five mediocre engineering schools.

You're better off having two really good engineering schools"—we do, in fact, only have two degree-granting engineering schools in the province—but he isn't the only one.

Statements like this offer nothing concrete to hold on to, particularly concerning when, in practice, the ideas of Campus Alberta have huge ramifications on how universities are supposed to run and work together and how future generations are supposed to learn. The autonomy postsecondary institutions have always been afforded is now under direct threat from an administrative cost-cutting push, one that's being imposed right after a surprising budgetary nightmare was handed down, and the government can only manage a few weak rah-rah soundbites. If there are better arguments for Campus Alberta, ones that actually address its own radical nature, we're still waiting to hear them. V

Alberta doesn't share our western neighbour's policies on common-law assets, but Edmonton family lawyer Sid J Kobewka says the province would benefit from making BC-like changes to common-law property rules.

"Most people do not think about the legal consequences of their living arrangements," Kobewka says. "In Alberta, by default if you live common- law it is difficult to claim ownership of your partner's property, but in BC now by default you will be half-owner of the property your common-law spouse acquires during the relationship ... I think most people expect to share and that the BC system is correct."

Alberta's Adult Interdependent Relationships Act states that a couple—hetero or homo—living together continually for three years in a "relationship of interdependence"—defined as being "emotionally committed to one another" or to "share one another's lives"—make an "adult interdependent relationship."

Heinrichs says the vagueness of legislation allows for massive confusion. To "share one another's lives" is so amazingly broad that college roommates splitting rent on an apartment through a degree might fit Alberta's description of an adult interdependent relationship.

"Roommates do get caught in these situations," hacking up, roommates with benefits, domeswere not seen as equal to traditional marriages Heinrichs adds. "Judges then have to determine if tic or registered partnerships, civil or conjuin the public eye," Heinrichs says. "But society the relationship had financial integration, emogal unions: call them what you will, common-law has changed, relationships have changed, and tional dependence—even if there was a sexual relationships come in more flavours than Ben & common-law relationships are now in the same relationship."

Jerry's—except the headaches come from arcane league as married relationships."

Each province sets its own rules. New Brunslegalities, not scarfing down tasty ice cream.

BC common-law couple Sandra Naconechny wick says three years of living together is If you've been living together continuously and Vince Lemay like the new rules, too. After enough to be common-law; Nova Scotia only for two years—three in some requires two. Saskatchewan has a provinces—in a "marriage-like" strange line in their Family PropBefore BC's new 50/50-split rules, non-married relationship or have children toerty Act—explaining the rights gether, you fit the definition of a partners often found out the hard way they of someone who "becomes the common-law couple. The most spouse of a person who has a had no claim to property acquired throughout a recent federal census shows comspouse"—that seemingly allows a relationship that could have lasted for decades. mon-law couples (1 567 910 at "conjugal union" at the same time last count) rose nearly 14 percent as a traditional marriage. from 2006 to 2011, more than The rules and obligations for four times the rate of marriages. eight years of living together, Naconechny says common-law relationships can be murky. But Last week, lawmakers in BC essentially married they have no plans to marry. what is clear is that more and more couples couples who have lived together for two years: "I think it's good to make common-law marriagare opting out of marriage. But that doesn't a common-law partner now has legal claim on es the same as regular marriages," the 28-yearmean that they should opt out of talking half of shared debts and assets if there's a sepaold says from the home she shares with Lemay about—or even getting in writing—what ration—like a traditional marriage, except with in Canal Flats. "Why not have the same rules? happens at separation. no fancy dress or stress about how the in-laws For us, and for a lot of our friends, there's no real "A [cohabitation] agreement defines the legal will behave. reason to get married. We already consider each relationship of the couple and prevents misunQuebec has nearly 700 000 civil unions, or other husband and wife." derstandings," Kobewka says. "It can be difficult 31.5 percent of all couples in the province, nearly She says they have always been open with to talk about these issues but it creates a healthdouble the national average and reportedly one their finances, splitting expenses and pooling ier relationship and prevents future misunderof the highest concentrations in the world. Untheir cash to buy their car and home—even standings."

JOSH MARCELLIN like the rest of Canada, La Belle Province doesn't having frank discussions of what would hap// JOSH@VUEWEEKLY.COM grant many rights to unmarried couples. In Janupen with their property in the unfortunate ary the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that conevent of a break-up.

SHOULD ALBERTA'S COMMON-LAW joints de fait in Quebec don't owe any spousal Heinrichs says that kind of pragmatism is unforRULES BE MORE LIKE BC'S? support after separation, the lone province withtunately uncommon. Before BC's new 50/50-split out some sort of common-law alimony. rules, non-married partners often found out the Vancouver-based family lawyer Kevin Heinrichs hard way they had no claim to property acquired Yes, because...

No, because... strongly favours his province's approach over throughout a relationship that could have lasted for You be the judge!

Quebec's. He sees BC's new rules as a long overdecades. That led to thousands of expensive lawVOTE • COMMENT • RATE COMMENTS • START A CONVERSATION due reflection of decades of societal shifts. suits dragging through BC's courts, as ex-commonvueweekly.com/proconit "Thirty years ago, common-law relationships laws sued for what they felt was their fair share.

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NEWS // EDUCATION CUTS

This is what happens when you have a government that is unprepared to ask the wealthiest Albertans to pay their fair share.

// Kathleen Zenith

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ore than 500 protestors braved frigid temperatures to march across the High Level Bridge to the Alberta legislature on March 15. They made the windy trip through freshly fallen snow to show their opposition to the provincial budget announcement of a 6.8 percent cut to the Campus Alberta Grant.

The cut to the grant, which 26 postsecondary institutions were depending on, saw the swift coalescence of students, faculty, support staff and otherwise concerned Albertans into the Coalition for Action on Post-Secondary Education (CAPSE). The group followed up their legislature protest with a flash mob rally around the University of Alberta campus last week— and they don't plan to stop.

"CAPSE is a university, but also a citizens', response to the harmful cuts to post secondary education in Alberta—but also an affirmation of post-secondary's importance," CAPSE spokesperson Brent Kelly says. "We do care about post-secondary education and we're really concerned about the fact that the government is essentially considering taking an axe to it."

That axe would cleave around $55 million from what the University of Alberta, for instance, was expecting following last year's promise of a two percent increase—a total of a 9.2 percent effective decrease. But a lot has changed since then says Thomas Lukaszuk, Deputy Premier and Minister of Enterprise

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and Advanced Education "You'd have to live in a cave not to know that a six billion-dollar drop in the government's revenue is what happened," he says. "The oil has just bottomed out, and as you know, oil royalties—the ones the NDP wants to tax even more—are the bread and butter of this province."

The shortfall has led to a tight budget all around. Almost every ministry took a cut, but the NDP's post-secondary critic, Rachel Notley, doesn't buy that it was necessary.

"Where they're coming from is what I would categorize as political cowardice," she says. "We have a fiscal problem in this province where we have a flat-tax system, where the wealthiest people in the province pay the lowest taxes in the country and corporations pay the lowest taxes in the country.

"This is what happens when you have a government that is unprepared to ask the wealthiest Albertans to pay their fair share—and instead we're going to compromise our education system, we're going to compromise our diversification opportunities and we're of course going to compromise the quality of education received by Alberta students."

Lukaszuk defends the current tax and royalties system, claiming that the lower tax rates Alberta offers are necessary to keep the province competitive. Citing British Columbia and Saskatchewan as examples of what

Alberta should avoid, he spoke about the advantage of Alberta attracting people to the province and the availability of jobs for graduates when they leave university.

When it comes to the implementation of the cuts, Lukaszuk says there are inefficiencies in Alberta's postsecondary system, such as different institutions in the same location offering similar programs—the University of Alberta's Calgary campus and the University of Calgary both offering an MBA, for instance.

"They want to see greater collaboration between Campus Alberta," University of Alberta Students' Union Vice-President (External) Petros Kusmu says. "By having these cuts, they'll be essentially forcing institutions to rethink the way they currently do business. [And] find ways to collaborate and complement each other rather than competing with one another, trying to see if there are any ways of reducing redundancies—and that last part is the worrisome part," Kusmu explains. "When we hear that, one of our fears is reducing programs."

And along with quality of education, Kusmu worries about further mandatory non-instructional fee and market modifier increases, which get around the tuition cap enforced by the province. That's a cap that will remain in place.

"Luckily the government understands that the cost of getting a degree is already too high as it is and they don't want to see these cuts

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burdened on the backs of students," Kusmu says. "So that's something we're extremely happy to see—that being said, the institutions are limited in the options they can choose from."

While tuition itself cannot be increased to bridge the gap, institutions really have few choices: increase non-instructional fees to get around the tuition cap, making post-secondary less accessible but allowing for a level of maintained quality; cut faculty, support staff or programs, reducing the quality outright; or comply with the government's calls for significant restructuring—which at this point remains unclear outside of several specific examples of claimed redundancies.

Whatever combination is chosen, one thing is clear: post-secondary education in this province will undergo change.

The one piece currently missing from the government is a forthcoming set of mandate letters. Little has been clarified about them, but fears abound that they will interfere with on-the-ground academia. Signs at the rally pronounced the importance of curiosity-driven research and protestors demanded that the government stay out of research.

The University of Alberta received a draft of a one of these letters on March 22.

"Our concern is that these mandate letters are going to significantly limit the nature of intellectual inquiry in

our post-secondary institutions and in particular our research institutions." Notley says. "By doing that, we are going to undermine our credibility and our reputation outside of this province and internationally."

"Academic freedom is not something these letters will be infringing on." Lukaszuk said in response.

"The letters will be relevant to how the universities are administered (and) will be promoting cooperation and collaboration."

Despite the assurances from the Ministry of Enterprise and Advanced Education, students, staff and institutions remain concerned. Students fear more sessional instructors replacing valuable professors, program cuts and fee increases.

Opposition MLAs worry about the long-term effects on the intellectual health of the province.

And as for CAPSE, they don't plan to go away yet. Regardless of whether the protests can change the mind of the government this year, they hope their presence and persistence will dissuade similar cuts when the next budget comes around.

"We have a four-week plan," Kelly says. "Our end goal is to raise as much awareness as possible, to organize and get as many people involved as possible, to take a stand opposing these cuts and affirming the importance of education and to get the government to listen as much as possible."

RYAN BROMSGROVE

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COMMENT >> EDUCATION

COMMENT >> KURDISH INSURGENCY

What's behind education cuts?

Kurds and Turks: end of the war?

Conservative ideology at work

Self-governance may be the best possibility for the Kurdish people

There is much hand wringing and of the province's institutions using speculation by faculty, staff and public funds to attend Conservative students at Alberta's colleges and fundraisers. universities about how best to This is how ideology reproproceed in light of the drastic duces itself, and how proE C cuts to post-secondary fundcorporate neoliberal ideolN E RFER ing announced in the 2013 INTE vueweekly.com ogy has come to dominate @ ricardo Alberta Budget. o the structure, governance Ricard a ñ After several years of no and administration of Alu c A increases at all, the province's berta's post-secondary instipost-secondary institutions had been tutions. Samarasekera, for example, promised an increase of two percent attends the World Economic Forum to their base operational grants this at Davos, has sat on the board of the year. Instead, they received an overall Bank of Nova Scotia and the Confercut of 6.8 percent. What this means ence Board of Canada, and has been a for most institutions in the province consultant to multi-national steel comis an actual cut of 7.2 or 7.3 percent panies around the world. to their operating grants for the 2013 It could be argued that this ap– 2014 fiscal years. Once you factor proach has served the province's in the two percent they had been exuniversities well. For example, just pecting, the bottom line is that the look at the number of energy-indusprovince's colleges and universities try funded research chairs and think are actually looking at having to slash tanks at the U of A alone, or at the close to 10 percent in their operating number of new buildings and classbudgets—the textbook definition of rooms at the U of A that have been being decimated. branded by oil and gas companies. It Indira Samarasekera, the University could also be argued that this wealth of Alberta's president since 2005, and corporate largesse has come at has said repeatedly in the media that the expense of programming in the this cut was completely unexpected. arts and humanities which, for the While the timing and scope of the most part, entered this current round budget cut may have been a complete of cuts not having recovered from surprise to everyone involved, it canKlein's cuts in the '90s, as evidenced not be said that the willingness to cut by the over-full classes, the neglectwas all that surprising. In fact, it can ed infrastructure and lack of budgets be said that the cut is entirely consisfor even phones and photocopying in tent with the direction and ideology many departments. promoted for post-secondary education in Alberta by both the governWhether you agree with it or not, it ment and the university governors is this ideology, embraced so fully by and senior administrators who now presidents and governors, that has claim they never saw it coming. now come home to roost. NeoliberalBoards of governors at Alberta's ism dictates that the true value of anypost-secondary institutions are apthing in society is best determined by pointed directly by government. As the money it can generate in a free and such, they tend to be made up of Conopen market. In the end, it is clear that servative party loyalists who strongly this combination of reduced governsupport the ideological and policy ment funding and an entrenched corleanings of the government. It is these porate and neoliberal ideology stands governors who hire the presidents and to further cripple programming in senior managers of their respective the arts and humanities while further institutions. Here again, those ideostrengthening those programs which logical and policy leanings tend to get can garner financial support from the replicated and reinforced. province's corporate sector.

The result has been post-secondary Understanding the source of these institutions across the province supcuts, however, makes it clear that it's porting government's bid to keep not enough to just protest the cuts taxes and expenditures low by volunand demand more money. If what we tarily turning to the corporate sector, want is meaningful change, then we wealthy philanthropists and investmust begin by working for a genuine ments in money markets to grow transformation of the ideology and their institutions. It has almost meant beliefs that are making the current the adoption of a very corporate govstate of affairs possible, and that ernance model with very well-paid means getting political. It means callpresidents and vice-presidents working out the fact that these cuts are ing the corporate and Conservative grounded in ideology, not finances. cocktail, conference and think-tank It means being clear about the comcircuit to generate funds for their plicity of boards and senior adminisinstitutions. Evidence of this can be tration in that ideology. And it means found in the number of allegations organizing a broad fight-back against over the past couple of years of seausterity overall, not just in post-secnior administrators and governors ondary education. V

"We are at a point today when the of Istanbul, ever since Turkish agents guns will fall silent and ideas will captured him in Kenya in 1999, so it speak," declared Abdullah Öcalan, has been easy for Erdogan's intelleader of the Kurdish insurligence chief, Hakan Fidan, to gency in Turkey on March go back and forth between 21. "Turks and Kurds fought the two men. ly.com k together (in the First There is every reason e e w e@vue gwynn World War) and launched to believe, therefore, that e n Gwyn the Turkish parliament toÖcalan's ceasefire declar Dye gether in 1922. The basis of the ration, though apparently new struggle consists of ideas, ideolounilateral, was really coordinated gy and democratic politics." And with between the two leaders. In which that, he declared a ceasefire. case the next steps that Öcalan Öcalan has declared ceasefires bepromised—the release of prisoners fore, but the Turkish government by both sides and the withdrawal of made no substantial concessions the 3000 PKK fighters in southeaston Kurdish rights, so the fighting reern Turkey into the adjacent parts sumed. Nor is "democratic politics" of northern Iraq—were presumably a phrase you would readily link to agreed in advance too. Öcalan, who tolerates no dissent in the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), This is not a process that will eventhe organization he created 30 years tually lead to the emergence of an ago to fight for independence from independent Kurdish state. That goal, Turkey. But this time really may be promised to the Kurds by the vicdifferent. tors at the end of the First World After three decades of low-level War, has been the dream of four guerilla war in southeastern Turkey generations of Kurds, but it is no (about 1000 deaths a year), both closer than ever. To bring all 30 milsides have concluded that they canlion Kurds into a single, independent not win: the Kurds cannot win their state would mean redrawing the borindependence and Turkey cannot ders of four major nations—Turkey, crush the armed Kurdish resistance Iran, Iraq and Syria—and that is not to its repressive rule. So Öcalan has going to happen. But Kurds already stopped demanding independence have full self-government (including and now talks about local self-gova powerful army) in northern Iraq, ernment, Kurdish language rights and and the Syrian Kurds have effectively an end to repression. thrown off Damascus' rule in the east The other thing that's different of that country, so a lesser Kurdish this time is that Öcalan has actually dream now seems almost within the been talking to Turkey's prime minisrealm of the possible. ter, Recep Tayyib Erdogan, since last That would be a large area, still diOctober. Not face-to-face, of course, vided by national borders but with as Öcalan has been held prisoner on free movement across them, where Imrali Island, about two hours south the Kurds of the whole region could

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live, work and teach their children in their own language. More than half that area would be in southeastern Turkey, so the deal that Öcalan and Erdogan may make, if things work out, is vital to this project.

Erdogan is currently trying to get a new constitution through parliament. He has two major aims: to prevent future military coups and to remove the anti-religious elements in the document that have restricted any political expression of Islam since the founding of the republic 90 years ago. He also wants to strengthen the presidency, now a largely ceremonial office, since he plans to run for president next year. Öcalan has no objections to any of that. All he wants in a new constitution is full equality for the Kurds and their language. Since the new constitution requires a two-thirds majority in parliament and Erdogan will not have that majority without the support of the main Kurdish party, the Peace and Democracy Party, both men can only get what they want if the deal goes through.

Long-lasting marriages have been built on less promising foundations.

This time, at long last, Turkey may finally get around to recognizing the rights of the 20 percent of its people who speak Kurdish. If it does, a long war will end, Erdogan will gain enormous political credit—and a post-modern version of the traditional Kurdish dream will start to come to life. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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EVENTS WEEKLY

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

info@expressionzcafe.com; 780.437.3667 • Silk Painting with art instructor Charity Brown. • Apr 4 • $25 (incl supplies); Pre-register at YEGlive

French, English and other African languages • 3rd and 4th Sat, 9am-5pm each month • Free (member)/$10 (membership); pre-register

BRAIN TUMOUR PEER SUPPORT GROUP •

MANY HANDS MAKE LIGHT WORK • Mercer

Mount Zion Lutheran Church, 11533-135 St NW • 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 Mon every month; 7-8:45pm • Free

Warehouse bsmt • Help with a book assembly for, the Co-lab design exhibition; The Untitled Forum: Mass Production; rough drafts, notes, outlines and doodles made in the process will be displayed for the opening • Fri, Apr 5, 7pm

CANADIAN INJURED WORKERS ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA (CIWAA) • Augustana

MEDITATION • Strathcona Library • meditationedmonton.org • Weekly meditation drop-in; every Tue, 7-8:30pm

Mathematics of Crime with Dr Andrea Bertozzi • Apr 5, 5pm • Free

tuff @shaw.ca

OPERA 101–Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin

10608-105 Ave • 780.387.3343 • edmontonillusions.ca • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri each month, 7:30-9pm

• Art Gallery of Alberta • Thought-provoking and informative panel discussion surrounding Edmonton Opera's season with emphasis on the multi-disciplinary nature of the art form. Featuring Tchaikovsky's, Eugene Onegin, and the discussion of 19th century Russian culture and literature • Apr 10, 7-9pm • Free; pre-register at education@edmontonopera.com

anyone who has been affected by somebody else's drinking • Meet every Wed 10-11am, admission by donation

BRIXX Comedy and Music once a month as a part

DROP-IN MEDITATION CLASSES • Sherwood Park Community Centre (Mon); Amitabha Centre, 9550-87 St (Tue, Fri) • info@meditationedmonton. org • Every Mon, Tue 7-8:30pm and Fri 10-11:30am

of Ruby Tuesdays

EDMONTON NEEDLECRAFT GUILD •

NSAI SONGWRITERS GROUP • The Carrot,

RAISING CHILDREN IN A DIGITAL WORLD • Royal Alberta Museum Theatre, 12845-102 Ave • How do we harness the spectacular connecting potential and yet avoid the pitfalls of attachment technology gone awry? How do we prepare them to live in this new world and yet preserve what is required for healthy development to take place? Lecture presented by Gordon Neufeld • Apr 7, 6:30-8:30pm • $15 at TIX on the Square

CENTURY CASINO • 13103 Fort Rd • 780.481.9857

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

9351-118 Ave • 780.973.5311 • nashvillesongwriters. com • NSAI (Nashville Songwriters Association International) meet the 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm

SENIOR'S TOWN HALL • Strathcona Community League, 10139-87 Ave • What does Redford's 2013 Budget mean to you? • Tue, Apr 2, 6:30pm

NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-

TAX FAIRNESS FORUM • Westwood Unitarian

Lutheran Church, 107 St, 99 Ave (across the street from WCB) • canadianinjuredworkers.com • Monthly meeting • Mar 30, 11am

COMEDY BEAR’S DEN/CONNIE’S COMEDY–Fort Saskatchewan • Sterling Scott, Greg Kettner, and Marvin Krawczyk; Mar 31, 7pm

• Open Mic Night: Every Thu; 7:30-9pm • Andrew Albert, Marcus Beaubier, Jeff Toth; Mar 29-30

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Brian Link; Mar 28-30 • Paul Sveen; Apr 4-6

COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Derick Lengwenus; until Mar 31 • Bert Kreisher; Apr 3-7

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 • Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm

FILTHY MCNASTY'S • 10511-82 Ave • 780.996.1778 • Stand Up Sundays: Stand-up comedy night every Sun with a different headliner every week; 9-11pm; no cover OVERTIME PUB • 4211-106 St • Open mic com-

EDMONTON UKULELE CIRCLE • Bogani Café, 2023-111 St • 780.440.3528 • 3rd Sun each month; 2:30-4pm • $5 EDMONTON YOUNG PEOPLE IN ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS • Expressionz Café, 9938-70 Ave • Every Fri, 7:30-8:30pm; doors at 7pm for coffee

FABULOUS FACILITATORS TOASTMASTERS CLUB • 2nd Floor Canada Place, 9700 Jasper Ave • 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw.ca • fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs.org • Can you think of a career that does not require communication • Every Tue, 12:05-1pm

edy anchored by a professional MC, new headliner each week • Every Tue • Free

FERTILITY AWARENESS CHARTING CIRCLE MEETING • Cha Island Tea Co, 10332-81 Ave •

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • Sterling Scott

faccedmonton@gmail.com • Learn about menstrual cycle charting and share your personal experiences in a supportive group environment • 1st Mon of the month from Oct-Apr, 6:30-8:30pm • $5 (suggested donation)

every Wed, 9pm

RUMORS ULTRA LOUNGE • 8230 Gateway Blvd • Every Thu Neon Lights and Laughter with host Sterling Scott and five comedians and live DJ TNT; 8:30pm

VAULT PUB • 8214-175 St • Comedy with Liam Creswick and Steve Schulte • Every Thu, at 9:30pm

WUNDERBAR • 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 • Comedy every 2nd Mon

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

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

GOOD FRIDAY OUTDOOR WAY OF THE CROSS • 9908-106 Ave • 780.218.6989 • 2 hour

2km walk in the inner city, with reflections on social justice issues, singing and prayer, light refreshments after • Mar 29, 10am-12 https://www.facebook.com/events/472860862779007/

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GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS AIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87 Ave, Old

Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm

GREEN DRINKS • The Common • Celebrating YEG Activism and Advocacy • Wed, Apr 3, 7pm

SO007027HEALING CIRCLE • Call 780.570.0475 for location

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL EDMONTON

• 8307-109 St • edmontonamnesty.org • Meet the 4th Tue each month, 7:30pm (no meetings in Jul, Aug) E: amnesty@edmontonamnesty.org for more info • Free

• spiritualawakeningcentre.com • Begins with a guided meditation moving into an affirmative state where healing on all levels occurs • Every Wed, 7-8pm

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ARGENTINE TANGO DANCE AT FOOT NOTES STUDIO • Foot Notes Dance Studio (South

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

MILL CREEK MORNING AL-ANON FAMILY GROUP • Expressionz Café, 9938-70 Ave • Open to

106 St • 780.435.0845 • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

OCCUPY EDMONTON GENERAL ASSEMBLY • Grant MacEwan City Centre Café, 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

ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, 780.451.1755; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free

SAWA 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

SEVENTIES FOREVER CLUB • Call 587.520.3833 for location • DeepSoul.ca • DeepSoul.ca • Combining music, garage sales, nature, common sense, and kindred karma to revitalize the inward persona • Every Wed, 7-8:30pm

SHERWOOD PARK WALKING GROUP + 50

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

SOL CAFÉ • Expressionz Café, 9938-70 Ave • thesolcafe.com • Meet Sundays 4:30-6:30pm

SUGARSWING DANCE CLUB • Orange Hall, 10335-84 Ave or Pleasantview Hall, 10860-57 Ave • 780.604.7572 • Swing Dance at Sugar Foot Stomp: beginner lesson followed by dance every Sat, 8pm (door) at Orange Hall or Pleasantview Hall

WILD ROSE ANTIQUE COLLECTORS SOCIETY • Delwood Community Hall, 7515 Delwood

MADELEINE SANAM FOUNDATION • Faculté

WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old Strath-

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cona Farmers' Market • Silent vigil the 1st and 3rd Sat, 10-11am, each month, stand in silence for a world without violence

Y TOASTMASTERS CLUB • Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (north door, stairs to the left) • Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue each month. Help develop confidence in public speaking and leadership • Contact: Antonio Balce, 780.463.5331

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS COMPOSTING 101 WORKSHOP • Earth’s General Store, 9605-82 Ave • Mon, Apr 8, 7-9pm • Free; pre-register at eventbrite.com/event/5132479384

EXPRESSIONZ HEART TO HEART LUNCHEONS • Expressionz Café, 9938-70 Ave • Mike

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Hudema of Greenpeace Canada, speaking on the Tar Sands and the necessity of civil disobedience: Q & A follows • Sat, Apr 6, 12-2pm • Donation

GREAT EXPEDITIONS • St Luke’s AnglicanChurch, 8424-95 Ave • 780.469.3270 • 1st Mon every month, 7:30pm • Suggested donation of $3 • England, Scotland and Wales (2011&12) – Al Cosh; Apr 1 HEALTHY LIVING THERAPIES ALBERTA ASSOCIATION • Expressionz Café, 9938-70 Ave • hltaa.org • Meeting with speaker; open to the public • 4th Wed every month, 7-9pm • $10 (member)/$15 (non-member)

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JILLIAN MICHAELS–Maximize Your Life Tour • Jubilee Auditorium • Sun, Apr 7, 6:30pm (door), 7:30pm (show) • $39/$79/$149 at TicketMaster

JOIN THE PARTY...ON WHYTE • Roots on Whyte • Free Zumba Fitness Demo Class • Wed, Apr 10, 4:30-5:30pm • Register: at dianakennedy. zumba.com MATH AND PLANET EARTH LECTURE • Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science (CCIS), U of A, Rm L2-190 CCIS • 780.492.3394 • The

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Kristina Huneault; Everything is connected: Emily Carr, Salish Basketry and the challenges of Canadian women’s art history • Thu, Mar 28, 3:30pm

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

BEERS FOR QUEERS • Empress Ale House, 9912 Whyte Ave • Meet the last Thu each month

780.488.6636 • Tue with DJ Arrow Chaser, free pool all night; 9pm (door); no cover • Wed with DJ Dust’n Time; 9pm (door); no cover • Thu: Men’s Wet Underwear Contest, win prizes, hosted by Drag Queen DJ Phon3 Hom3; 9pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Fri Dance Party with DJ Arrow Chaser; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Sat: Feel the rhythm with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm

ARTY PARTY • Expressionz Café, 9938-70 Ave • Art

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U OF A ART AND DESIGN WINTER LECTURE SERIES • FAB 2-20, U of A • Lecture by Dr

SOCIETY OF EDMONTON ATHEISTS •

Practice group meets every Thu

Jean, Rm 3-18 • 780.490.7332 • Program for HIV3.75” wideStAID’S version prevention, treatment and harm reduction in

Store, 9605-82 Ave • Permaculture Soils, Geoff Lawton; Apr 2, 7-9pm • Permaculture: Establishing a Food Forest, Geoff Lawton; Apr 9, 7-9pm; permaculturenews. org/store/cartview.html?id=2

BISEXUAL WOMEN'S COFFEE GROUP •

Rd • wildroseantiquecollectors.ca • Collecting and researching items from various periods in the history of Edmonton. Presentations after club business. Visitors welcome • Meets the 4th Mon of every month (except Jul & Dec), 7:30pm

with Charity Brown 7:00pm to 10:00pm, bring own supplies • $15; pre-register at Register @ YEGlive,

THOUGHTFUL TUESDAY • Earth's General

• Meet inside Millennium Place, Sherwood Place • Weekly outdoor walking group; starts with a 10-min discussion, followed by a 30 to 40-min walk through Centennial Park, a cool down and stretch • Every Tue, 8:30am • $2/session (goes to the Alzheimer’s Society of Alberta)

side), 9708-45 Ave • 780.438.3207 • virenzi@shaw. ca • 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)

3” wide version LOTUS QIGONG • 780.477.0683 • Downtown •

Church, 11135-65 Ave • Featuring speakers: Kevin Taft, Lori Sigurdson, and Shannon Stunden-Bower.

Q & A to follow • Sun, Apr 7, 2-4pm; 1:30pm (door); presented by: Occupy Edmonton; Sponsored by: Taxfairness.ca, BetterWayAlberta.ca, and Alberta Federation of Labour

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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 •

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

ILLUSIONS SOCIAL CLUB • Pride Centre,

INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campus-based organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transidentified and queer (LGBTQ) faculty, graduate student, academic, straight allies and support staff • 3rd Thu each month (fall/winter terms): Speakers Series. E: kwells@ualberta.ca LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408-124 St • edmlivingpositive.ca • 1.877.975.9448/780.488.5768 • Confidential peer support to people living with HIV • Tue, 7-9pm: Support group • Daily drop-in, peer counselling MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/ competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • 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 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 female-identified 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

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

ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship)

WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • womonspace. ca, womonspace@gmail.com • A Non-profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured

WOODYS VIDEO BAR • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Amateur Strip Contest; prizes with Shawana • Tue: Kitchen 3-11pm • Wed: Karaoke with Tizzy 7pm-1am; Kitchen 3-11pm • Thu: Free pool all night; kitchen 3-11pm • Fri: Mocho Nacho Fri: 3pm (door), kitchen open 3-11pm

SPECIAL EVENTS CANADIAN NATIONAL COLLEGE FINALS RODEO • Edmonton Expo Centre, Northlands

• Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • eplc.webs.com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome

Park, 78 St, 115 Ave • Mar 29-31 • Tickets at TicketMaster

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

EASTER EGGSTRAVAGANZA • Rutherford House Provincial Historic Site, 11153 Saskatchewan Dr • 780.427.3995 • Explore this home and discover historically coloured eggs. Enjoy freshly baked cookies and a spring-themed craft • Regular admission

G.L.B.T. SPORTS AND RECREATION • teamedmonton.ca • Hockey: at the Sportsdome; E: hockey@teamedmonton.ca • Blazin' Bootcamp: Every Mon, 7:30-8:30pm at Garneau Elementary School, 10925-87 Ave; $30/$15 (low income/student); E: bootcamp@teamedmonton.ca • Badminton (Co-Ed): Every Wed, 6-7:30pm; St Vincent School, 10530-138 St; $5 (drop-in); E: badminton@teamedmonton.ca • Cross-Country Skiing: Strathcona Wilderness Centre; E: Colette at crosscountry@teamedmonton.ca; facebook.com/events/511701118849342 • Outdoor Skating: Hawrelak Park, Victoria Oval; E: Teresa at skating@teamedmonton.ca • Yoga: Gay/Lesbian yoga every Wed, 7:30-9pm, at Lion's Breath Yoga, 206, 10350-124 St; Instructor: Jason Morris; $10 (drop-in) • Indoor Cycling: Terwillegar Recreation Centre; drop-in; E: 311@edmonton.ca • Running: Every Sun, 10am, at Kinsmen • Swimming–Making Waves: Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) pool, 11762-106 St; E: swimming@teamedmonton.c; makingwavesswimclub.ca • Volleyball: until May 2013; E: recvolleyball@teamedmonton.ca • Curling: Every Tue, 7pm at the Granite Curling Club (8620107 St; E: curling@teamedmonton.ca • Bowling: Every Tue, 6:30pm; at Ed's Rec Room, WEM; $15/ week • Martial Arts–Kung Fu and Kick Boxing: Every Tue and Thu, 6-7pm; GLBTQ inclusive adult classes at Sil-Lum Kung Fu; kungfu@teamedmonton.ca, kickboxing@teamedmonton.ca, sillum.ca

GARLIC FESTIVAL • 780.474.6466 • info2f=sorrentinos.com • Apr 8-May 11

G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E Bldg, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E:

MILLWOODS EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH • 1559-80 St • Free breakfast, kid's crafts, family picture booth, and Easter Egg Hunt • Mar 31, 9:30am • Free THE PALESTINIAN BAZAAR • Westbury Theatre, TransAlta Arts Barn • humanserve.org/ bazaar • Bazaar: 12-6:30pm • Comedy With A Cause: evening event featuring Maysoon Zayid and Aron Kader and musicians, poets and dancers; 6:30pm; age 15+; $25 (student)/$20 (adv, student)/$35 (adult), $30 (adv, adult) • Proceeds from the comedy night to Palestinian refugees through Humanserve International • Mar 30 SONGS OF THE SHADOWS–Maundy Thursday • First Baptist Church Edmonton, 10031-109 St • fbcedmonton.ca • 780.422.2214 • Service for reflection, stillness and contemplation with the First Baptist Church Choir • Mar 28 , 8pm • Free

WILD ROSE ANTIQUE COLLECTORS SHOW • Edmonton EXPO Centre, Northlands • Mar 29-30 • Appraisals on a first-come, first-serve basis • info@ wildroseantiquecollectors.ca • $8 (day)/$14 (2 day pass)

WORLD FIT FOR CHILDREN (WFFC) • Westerbury Theatre, TransAlta Arts Barns • Annual spring fundraiser featuring Bedtime Stories by Norm Foster.

The cast of six act in six different scenes which all feature a bed as their primary focus. Directed by Sean Jones • Apr 6, 6:30pm (door), 7:30pm (show)

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REVUE // DOC

The Gatekeepers reveals historical horrors of Israeli's secret service

“A SEARING DRAMA.” -Toronto Star

“POWERFUL.” -Indiewire

TATYANA ALI LYRIQ BENT STEPHAN JAMES FEFE DOBSON AND

CCH POUNDER

Former members of Shin Bet reflect

Opens Friday The Gatekeepers Directed by Dror Moreh Princess Theatre

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he gatekeepers of the title are six rather grave-looking men, ranging from late middle-age to elderly, all of them former heads of Shin Bet, Israel's clandestine, apparently nearly autonomous secret service (in certain scenarios they answer only to the prime minister). This powerful agency has from 1967's Six-Day War onward focused its considerable resources on counterterrorism and intelligence gathering. Shin Bet's motto is "Magen VeLo Yera'e," which I understand to mean "the defender that shall not be seen." Does that make The Gatekeepers—which aims to "see," and heavily scrutinize, a great deal of Shin Bet's inner workings—a work of treason? Because it could just as easily be regarded as a grotesque homage, depending on your sympathies. This ambivalence is among the film's strengths.

The subjects of this captivating, deftly organized documentary

profile of Shin Bet are astonishingly candid about the mire of their country's seemingly endless—and seemingly hopeless—tit-for-tat relationship to Palestinian terror.

These men speak of the failings of manhunts and surprise assaults, the human toll and the diplomatic fiascos. They speak frankly of the absence of vision or moral guidance.

"No strategy, just tactics," as one subject memorably puts it. Torture, overkill, unsubstantiated motivates for aggression, bad intelligence that leads to the bombing of crowded buildings full of innocents, the inability to prevent the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin: the inside dirt on so much chaos gradually comes to form nothing less than a brief history of Israel—and it is not a history that pats anyone on the back for being in the right.

The film's subjects do not come off as hand-wringing sinners seeking an opportunity for public confession— on the contrary, some of them seem to feel a need to justify their actions in the context of time, duty and demand—but it is remarkable, even shocking, to hear one of them speak

of how the experience of working in Shin Bet tends to prompt even the staunchest militarist to adopt more liberal politics. Dror Moreh, the film's Israeli director, for his part claims to be a centrist, and, despite the film's having earned an Academy Award nomination, The Gatekeepers is in no way a soapbox for Palestine apologists. Such binary attitudes have no place in a work as poignant and complex as this one— this one or, say, 5 Broken Cameras, that other Oscar-nominated documentary about the Israel-Palestine conflict, which views the violence from the other side, and is a film which Moreh has said would make an excellent double-feature with The Gatekeepers.

Rather than itemize the events chronicled in The Gatekeepers—a venture that could entail an unruly amount of exposition—I simply urge you to see the film. See it, talk or argue about it, and seriously consider its significance at this point in time, think of how it might speak to the future, as much as what it says about the desperate present.

JOSEF BRAUN

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REVUE // STUDIO GHIBLI

Ghibli retrospective, part three

Laputa: Castle in the Sky

Thu, Mar 28 (7 pm); Sun, Mar 31 (1:30 pm); Wed, Apr 3 (9:30 pm) Laputa: Castle in the Sky Directed by Hayao Miyazaki

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ONE OF THE BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR

Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES Manohla Dargis, THE NEW YORK TIMES Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY Joe Morgenstern, WALL STREET JOURNAL David Denby, THE NEW YORKER Bob Mondello, NPR David Edelstein, NEW YORK MAGAZINE

BEST DOCUMENTARY PICTURE NOMINEE

WINNER BEST DOCUMENTARY

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PRODUCERS GUILD OF AMERICA

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ONE OF THE TOP 5 DOCUMENTARIES THE NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW

Fri, Mar 29 (2 pm); Sun, Mar 31 (7 pm); Tue, Apr 2 (9:30 pm) Ocean Waves Directed by Tomomi Mochizuki

 Fri, Mar 29 (9:30 pm); Sat, Mar 30 (2:15 pm), Mon, Apr 1 (7 pm) The Cat Returns Directed by Hiroyuki Morita

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“AMAZING.

IT IS HARD TO IMAGINE A MOVIE ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST THAT COULD BE MORE TIMELY OR MORE PAINFULLY URGENT.” - A.O. Scott, THE NEW YORK TIMES

he Ghibli retrospective continues with another spirited run through its three decades, from one of Miyazaki's first flying films to a made-for-TV movie from the studio's up-and-comers, and then the breezily whimsical semisequel to Whisper of the Heart.

An imprisoned girl looking forlornly out the window; spells and a magic amulet; a wise elder; the girl learns her destiny when she learns her true name. Fairy-tale elements help lift Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986), the first official Ghibli creation, above the usual steampunk manga territory. Of course, Miyazaki's environmentalism (down below, the wise elder notes that the amulet's crystal was mined from the earth; up above, robots are guardians of nature in a floating Eden-island) keeps this more antic, comic-ish aviation-adventure grounded, too.

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of legendary sky-island Laputa (from Swift's Gulliver's Travels), to where her amulet can guide them. Sheeta, often plaintive and following Pazu, is uncommonly weak for a Miyazaki heroine, while the story feels a little rote and formulaic in places. The skyscapes are exquisite and the island turns out to be a haunting, ruined palace of nature, long free of humans. (The King Konglike metal robots there seem like inspirations for the look of the massive man-machine in The Iron Giant; the enjoyably prickly pirate-mother and her three buffoonish sons seem to reappear as Mom and her three stooge-ish sons in Futurama.)

Ocean Waves (1993), though spilling over its budget and completion-deadline, surged out of the studio's younger animators' aspirations (the director was 34) to make a film on the cheap. It aired on Nippon TV and, despite its slightly sketchier look, the film slips confidently into the gentle, musing Ghibli rhythm of its quieter films. And, while fewer than usual, there are still some nice details: the ex-Yakuza (mobster) way that a cook smokes; the indifferent rushingpast of a truck on the road at the moment a boy's rejected by a girl on the sidewalk. Also striking in this adaptation of Saeko Himuro's teen-romance novel is the framing of protagonist Taku's memories—a photo-like recollection, half the size of the screen, snap-shoots out once, then twice, to fill our gaze with Taku's past reminiscences.

Taku flashes back to high school with Yutaka, who became smitten with Rikako, a Tokyo girl just moved to small island town Kōchi. What's interesting is the two boys' close friendship (Taku of Yutaka's chances with Rikako: "I never thought she'd see his real value") and the very Japanese dilemma of indi-

viduality versus social cohesiveness.

The boys bond together over their individual stand against the school cancelling a trip, while Rikako's soon judged to stand out too much—she's 12th on the grades list and excellent in tennis, too, a real "super woman," one student notes as sighs of admiration and hmph!s of dislike mix. Taku, finding himself tangled up in Rikako's personal struggles, realizes she's more complex and conflicted than he, too, judged her to be. This wistful meditation on maturity echoes and eddies around a rueful, sudden trip to Tokyo in the past and a chance moment on a Tokyo train platform in the present.

The title The Cat Returns (2002) is simple, honest advertising. The Baron, an antique-shop cat-figurine given life by the heroine of Ghibli's Whisper of the Heart (1995), does reappear, this time at the heart of likely the studio's sunniest, most surreal fantasy-adventure.

Meek high-schooler Haru (deftly voiced

by Anne Hathaway for the English dub), after saving a cat from being run over on a busy street, is regaled with gifts from the feline kingdom (a yard full of cattails, boxes of mice) because, it turns out, the cat she saved was the Cat King's son. To cap off the Whiskered One's gratitude, Haru's to be married to the Prince ... until a voice tells her to seek out the Cat Bureau, where she finds a plummy-voiced Baron ready to help her out of what her moment of kindness has unintentionally landed her in ... even as Haru begins to turn into a cat.

The animation here seems a tad Westernized, though Haru's anxious eyes and lanky body nicely express her slightly awkward efforts to fit in and grow up. The story whisks gracefully along with little saunters and pitterpatters of humour. A Princess-and- theCat tale where the dashing Baron helps Haru groom her self-belief and not feel such a social stray, The Cat Return's wondrous strangeness also manages to coolly reflect the arrogant aloofness, suave superciliousness and intriguing independence of man's best-whenconvenient friend. In the end, Haru's frisky defiance is delightfully earned.

And, typically, as this tripartite take-off down the Studio's animé-strip reminds us, a Ghibli vehicle without some grrl power just won't fly quite as high.

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ne of the great modern cautionary tales of American justice arrived at something like a conclusion in 2011, when Jessie Misskelley, Jason Baldwin and Damien Echols, aka the West Memphis Three, were released from prison after serving nearly two decades for the 1993 murders of three boys from West Memphis, Arkansas.

The story of how the WM3 got rail-

roaded, thanks to Satanic-boogeyman hysteria—the accused teens had the great misfortune to be alienated metalheads in a small Southern town— and police and legal work that ranged from neglectful to criminal, has already been realized for the screen with uncommon journalistic rigour in no less than three documentaries

by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky.

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Spring Breakers Opens Friday Directed by Harmony Korine

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pring Breakers is toxic.

Swirling with the whole "good girl gone bad" mythology before the film even hits theatres, thanks to the very strategic casting of Disney stars Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez, the film is essentially a neonsoaked music video that's got the shakes. Filled with skipping and repeating scenes and cut with ethereal voiceovers, the intentioned esthetic is supposed to be artistic, but, just like your standard music video, it ends up being grating and hella boring.

Featuring four girls with barely a trace of back story and interchangeable personalities (you don't even really need to learn their names), the camera follows their nubile flesh as the quartet deem their college educated lives so miserable they decide to rob a chicken-shack full of lonely old people so they can go on spring break. Framed as a worldly experience they supposedly deserve, their stolen chance at enlightenment ends in fevered beerbonging. Oh, and to keep the party going, they go on a crime spree and eventually they kill some people.

Wallowing in boobs and butts, the film intelligentsia are giving director

Harmony Korine the kind of grace Korine never affords these girls, arguing that Spring Breakers is a triumphant satire. A satire of teenaged excesses and self-centeredness. But he's not mocking the societal structures that would lead a young woman to think butt jiggling is some kind of comingof-age rite of passage, but the girls themselves—looping their grinding torsos and having them wiggle on the ground for no conceivable reason. The male partiers and the camera itself are never scrutinized—they simply frame the girls who are basically starring in a Girls Gone Wild clip. There's nothing more here.

When a much hyped "method" James Franco appears halfway through as rapper/'I got money' criminal Alien, it says a lot that Alien is much more developed character, despite his supporting status. And he gets dialogue that doesn't end in giggling.

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Entrancing pointlessness

Samson and Delilah an elemental epic in its tiny scope Warning: ciné-love hyperbole ahead. The deGreer notes that Thornton "gets very close" but of the '00s, winner of Cannes' 2009 Camto "embody[ing]" pointlessness in Samson and era d'Or for best first feature, hailing from a Delilah, but it's the film's visceral and dreamy land some call Canada's counterpart in the sense of bodies—stripping down teen romance Southern Hemisphere, didn't really reach us to young bodies not quite knowing how to up North until its release on Blu-Ray in 2010 get close while also feeling so alienated and (DVD a year later). Samson and Delilah's as numbed by white culture—that animates this far from the Biblical epic as you can imagine, film. After the pair run off to a nearby town (Albut elemental and epic in its own small way. ice Springs), where they're constantly confrontMostly, though, it happens to be one of the ed by indifference, there are two scenes of (nongreat political films, masked as one of the best explicit) violence to Delilah's body—scenes that personal films, of 21st-century cinema. bond us even more to the couple. Each ranks In its opening stretch, there's almost no diaamong the most powerful depictions of trauma logue; when it comes, what little there is is for or soon-to-be trauma I've ever seen. The first others in their native tongue (Warlpiri, subtitled one's shot in a haze, reflecting Samson's state for us "whitefellas"). It's Northern Australia, where and our "no! This can't be happening!" shock. lank-haired young teen Samson (Rowan McNaThe second's a horrible jar, a jerking rupture of mara) rises each day in his brother's shack, reality just as we're still getting our breath sniffs some petrol, walks outside in the back. (Meanwhile, it's hard not to wonT C dust and heat as his brother's budder why a film this sharp hasn't been E P AS dies wail out tunes on electric guitar made about the similarly unconscioand drums, and ... that's pretty much nable state of affairs for so many ly.com k e e w vue paul@ it. Soon, though, he grows interested First Nations in Canada—but then, n Bria in neighbour Delilah (Marissa Gibson), the genius of films this sharp is that n o s Gib making dot paintings with her grandmother they always seem so easy to make.)

(Mitjili Napanangka Gibson). In this stretch, coverFor all its unsparing and quietly coning three days, writer-director Warwick Thornton demning look at Aborigines today—a long way juxtaposes the repetitive, feet-dragging drudgery from Philip Noyce's well-meaning Rabbit-Proof of Samson's existence with a Chaplinesque dance Fence (2002); much closer to Chloe Hooper's of romance—the back-and-forth between Sammatter-of-fact non-fiction opus The Tall Man son's little lunging, leaping like for Delilah and (2008)—Samson and Delilah is, miraculously, her scowling shrug-off of him. never pointless or bleak. (And there's much more Once we're engaged by this odd couple—living in to be said, and seen, about the film's framing of a place white civilization would judge a backwater; art, Delilah's defiance, and its couple's non-white left behind by their colonized land's history (only dilemma for white viewers.) In the end, after 3000 people still speak Warlpiri)—the film's sense its tenderness for Delilah's grandmother (while of "pointlessness," as critic Germaine Greer put it, Alice Springs is the only major Australian town becomes entrancing. (Plus Thornton's eye is scintilnamed after a woman), the film ends on a grace lating—his freshman sense of diegetic sound, plot note of devotion and motherly care. First love— pace, shot-rhythms and sheer, glancing beauty is for Samson and Delilah and between Samson light-years ahead of most veteran directors.) and Delilah—proves lasting. V

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innocence. West of Memphis, which offers audiences a chance to chronicle the whole WM3 narrative in one sitting, rightfully acknowledges the Paradise Lost films for doing so much of their legwork for them. Directed by Amy Berg (Deliver Us From Evil) and funded and produced

by Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson, this new film is a very useful summary, if not nearly as dogged a piece of filmmaking.

"When they told me Steve was dead, I lost all touch with reality." These words, spoken by the mother of one of the three victims, goes some way toward characterizing the atmosphere in West Memphis in the wake of the vicious triple child murder: reality was elsewhere. Local authorities seemed more eager to prove they were doing their job than that they were doing it properly. The prosecution swayed the jury by declaring that Echols, the WM3's ostensible ringleader, had no soul. As years passed and the incarcerated WM3 grew from boys to men, the twists in this real-life drama kept apace. John Mark Byers, father of one of the victims and man who developed a rather flamboyant redneck persona in his media appearances, went from being a vociferous accuser to coming under suspicion for the crimes himself. Meanwhile, Echols married Lorrie Davis, who gave up her job so as to devote herself full-time to reopening the case

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with the aid of a high-powered San Francisco law team. New DNA evidence proved instrumental, damning testimonies were recanted, and the supposedly "ritualistic" mutilation that caused such a sensation was shown to be the work of scavenger animals. Berg and her collaborators lay out each major development in a clean, coherent fashion, though not everything in the film feels vital. Personally, I think we could totally have skipped Eddie Vedder singing 'The Times They Are a-Changin'' at a WM3 benefit concert.

As it exonerates the WM3, West of Memphis slowly establishes Terry Hobbs, stepfather of one of the victims, as a new prime suspect— and the fact that the film is so convincing in its case against Hobbs troubles more than comforts me. Do we really need people turning up to offer nothing more than their sense that Hobbs was "creepy?" Hobbs, who has a history of violence, seems very creepy indeed, but you have to wonder: is the witch hunt merely shifting to a more suitable scapegoat? Given the nature of the miscarriage of justice that allowed the WM3 to spend the better part of their early adulthood behind bars, you'd think West of Memphis would tread a little more carefully. This story is, after all, a testament to the dangers of certainty.

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Sat, Mar 28 – Sun, Apr 21 The Penelopiad Directed by Brenda Bazinet Citadel Theatre, $35 – $73.50

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e're gonna run Stevie once," Dayna Tekatch says. "Just to warm ourselves up. Because we're not warm enough."

Her words fill a gigantic dance studio; one side of it covered in mirrors, the adjacent wall lined with windows looking out onto a snowy scatter of forest and buildings. The room's 13 other occupants all know what she means, moving into starting positions; though to an outside eye they seem plenty warmed-up, they begin a rehearsed routine set to "Signed, Sealed, Delivered." Over the course of the hour, breath seems in short supply, and this is only the start of a 12-hour day in the midst of a six-day week.

Here's what a sliver of week two of the Citadel Theatre's immersive Banff Professional Theatre Program, a partnership with the Banff Centre, looks like: Tekatch—who, it should be noted, is seven-months pregnant while running a physically-taxing movement class and easily keeping pace—is teaching movement; later, one of the Citadel's principal music men, Don Horsburgh, will have them practise a song while extolling the virtues of Randy Newman's dramatic narratives. "It's not mu-

sical theatre," he explains, "but it's what you have to do when singing text."

Another class spends an hour-and- a-half working on voice with Julia Lenardon, a Montréal-based expert, emphasizing breathing, with more movement in the afternoon, as well as scene study (Shakespeare) and individual work on a myriad of other skills; the Professional Theatre Program is, essentially, a fiveweek masterclass on all of acting's possible facets. Or, "It's like Hogwarts for actors," says Mary Hulbert, an Edmonton-based performer involved in the program, while passing along a hallway to the next class.

During all of this, The Banff Centre—which splits the difference in appearance between a university campus and an all-inclusive ski resort—is home to Hulbert and 12 others participating in the program. It's isolated, and in that remove it offers a rare chance for complete creative focus, right down to the nuances of living: their meals are taken care of by one of three places to dine; cleaning is done for them in their dorm-like housing. Nestled in the mountains, nobody's allowed to go skiing (just in case), but you get the sense that they might not have the energy even if the urge stuck, given the workload. For what it's worth, they do get Sundays off.

The Professional Theatre Program is now in its sixth year. It's open to actors in the middle

of their careers—the guidelines ask for three years of professional experience—so participants aren't just fresh out of theatre school.

They have some personal and professional experience to draw on as they start fine-tuning their approach.

"When we learn skills in theatre school, we're too young to understand them," James MacDonald, the program's director, explains. "We When we learn skills in theatre school, we're too have no emotional roadmap, because we young to understand them," James MacDonald, haven't lived through the program's director, explains. "We have no some life. I certainly emotional roadmap, because we haven't lived found, as I got older, through some life. age made me a much better actor, just because I had a little life experience. And so it's interesting, now that you actually have that life experience, to go back and visit the basic skills, and see how they apply."

This year some-250 applicants auditioned across Canada for 13 spots; the application process included writing essays and 20-minute interviews to help whittle that list down to a managable baker's dozen. Four of the successful applicants were Edmonton-based, the rest from elsewhere, and the program's widespread appeal to actors is obvious: a professional credit on one of Canada's largest reCONTINUED ON PAGE 16 >> gional theatre stages, plus a chance to hone

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where down the line I'm going to see how this can be incorporated into my process.' I see it all the time: you watched them singing there today. Is that teaching them a skill that they will then go, 'OK, when I go into my next show this is exactly what I'll do,' or is it opening up their minds towards something?"

He notes that actors have a tendency to get pigeon-holed, and to pigeonhole themselves—"this is kind of what I do"—and then rarely move away from the habits that work. Not that this is bad in and of itself, he stresses, but revisiting skills in an open environment offers a chance to challenge those go-to beliefs and refocus on training.

"It always sounds, when you describe it, that there's a deficiency in the training, or a deficiency in professionalism," he says. "I don't think that's necessarily true, but I do think that there are places that could stand to raise their game, and actors who could stand to raise their game.

It's not that they're bad people, it's just that they need to be reminded of it and allowed, enabled, to have the time."

cause there's just so much about the text work and classical stuff. So I came your craft without worrying about in going, 'OK, I don't know anything.' anything else. Of course, that has its And then I realized, 'Oh no, my training own strain—family and friends have does transfer over as well.'" to be put on hold for more than a "When I was in theatre school, I was month, longer if you don't happen to 18 years old," Norton adds. "And it's be based in Edmonton—but one plenpart training and part trying to be a ty seem willing to take. good student and part terrified: am Truthfully, watching a day of the I going to be a professional actor? program unfold feels a bit like intrudWill I ever even get one part? And ing on the development of important now I'm like, 'OK, now I know I've minutiae that would otherwise go chosen the right career. I'm not here unnoticed. Seeing a group of profesworrying, 'Can I act?' So I'm able to sional actors—culled from across hear things and take them in a difCanada, from all walks of life and ferent way, without all that other experience, some with some major bullshit—I mean, there's still some credits under their belts—spend an bullshit, obviously." hour-and-a-half working on breathIn The Penelopiad, Graham's the lead, ing, as a group, isn't the sort of skill which is probably her largest credit you can necessarily pick out later as to date: she's previously been seen it's put into action on a stage. But on the Citadel stage in The Christmas while those sorts of exercises may be Carol and her own The Drowning Girls invisible to the audience, they're ex(part of the now-defunct, smallerpansive for the actor, and the opporbut-envelope-pushing Rice Theatre tunity to explore them is one rarely season). MacDonald and Norton, both awarded once performance becomes based in Toronto, are making Citadel a full-time profession. debuts, as are many of the others involved.

There is a show at the end of all of They all emphasize a particular point: this—The Penelopiad, Margaret Atthe battle to score a role, then to get wood's retelling of the Odysseus a script on its feet in a three-week myth, featuring production cycle the cast trained doesn't offer much I always call it the Karate Kid theory of learning. here, direction by room for develYou learn all sorts of things, but you don't worry Brenda Bazinet, opment.

Habits, about how they necessarily apply. choreography by while not wrong in Tekatch and deand of themselves, signs by Catalyst rarely get moved Theatre's endaway from, espelessly inventive Bretta Gerecke—but During a dinner break, a trio of the cially if they've worked in the past, so MacDonald notes that while out at program's participants offer a similar to have a chance to just learn—not to Banff, they aren't even thinking about assessment. be worried about selling tickets, tech, it. The show prep's kept separate from "I'd done the theatre school thing, memorizing script or any of the rest the training. (It's a lesson perhaps and I was ready to come back and of it—is an indulgence rarely awarded learned from experience: in its first learn, and felt ready for that," to the working actor. And that they're year, the Professionnal Program put Beth Graham begins. "But when I coming into it from all walks, with on a production of Pride and Prejudice first came into it, the first week some life and stage experience behind right after the training wrapped up (its was really interesting for me, a bit them, means that there's a greater oprehearsals were part of the program), of a roller coaster. ... you kind of portunity to learn from each other as which ran in Banff and then opened learn all the first week, and you well as the curriculum. the Citadel season. MacDonald now have to take a dose of humility—I "James has said over and over," Norstresses the importance of a cur- did, anyways, of this 'Right, right, ton adds, "He likes to think of them as riculum that's not as immediately at- I'm here to learn, and that's a good mentors and as colleagues, and saying, tached to a show. thing.' It doesn't mean that I've 'Here's my approach, or here's what's "I always call it the Karate Kid theory done things wrong, or am doing worked for me.' Not, 'This is the way of learning," MacDonald says. "You things wrong. It means there's this and I am the guru.'" learn all sorts of things, but you don't opportunity to find different ways "And the thing is," MacDonald adds, worry about how they necessarily ap- of doing things." "they say that and they actually folply. Some things are really directly Beside her, Alison MacDonald and low through with it. It feels like we're applicable, and you go, 'I see how this Lisa Norton offer agreement. all here together, on the same playing text analysis will work towards this.'

"Most of my experience is in musical field, and it's really refreshing."

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t is a story that has captivated generation after generation, about a young girl who defied insurmountable odds to lead her country to freedom.

Joan of Arc was 12 years old when she claimed to see the figures of Saint Michael, Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret, who told her to drive the English out of France and bring France its rightful king. Without question, she listened. At age 17, Joan led the French army to several key victories during the Hundred Years' War, allowing for the coronation of Charles VII of France. However, she was captured A conversation play // Ed Ellis and handed over to the English, put on trial and eventually tried for insubordination and heresy, charges that would end her life when she was burned at the stake in 1431 at age 19. Twenty-five years later, an investigation into her trial found her innocent and she was eventually canonized in 1920.

One of the numerous works of theatre perpetuating her legacy is Saint Joan by playwright George Bernard Shaw. The production, which Shaw penned in 1924, is a dramatization of the substantial records surrounding Joan's trial, creating a retelling of the

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Robert J Sawyer events in a way where there are no villains, but rather, a method of opening discussion surrounding each pivotal figure. Shaw extensively studied the court transcripts from Joan's trial, concluding that each side concerned was acting in accordance to their own beliefs, particularly in the case of Peter Cauchon, Bishop of Beauvais, who led Joan of Arc's trial and is often painted as the villain.

"I really like understanding everyone's point of view, and I think it takes a lot of rigour to, instead of falling prey to saying, 'Well, these people are wrong and they're bad,' to try to understand their point of view," notes director Micheline Chevrier, citing the current conflict in Syria as a situation in which it is very easy to lay blame without understanding all perspectives, regardless of one's personal opinion. "Instead of throwing stones right away and blaming—which I think is a bit lazy, frankly—what is important to me is to debate, and this play, I think, is a really good conversation."

In addition to an in-depth look at the conflict, rather than the favoured blackand-white approach, Chevrier's rendition of the production utilizes gender-blind casting for traditionally male roles, which seems fitting considering Joan spent much of her time in battle disguised as a man.

"Actors are actors," Chevrier ex-

plains, noting its rarely an issue when an actor portrays a different age, but as soon as gender-bending or racial deviations occur, it raises debate. "I don't care what gender, what colour, what age you are; you are an actor and so what you have to perform is the character, and by character I mean what makes a person a person."

Of course, at the centre of it all is still Joan, an astonishing young lady whom Chevrier admires for her clarity of purpose and bravery. She admits she's unsure as to the exact reason for her continued prevalence in literature and culture, but it's undeniable that there is something fascinating surrounding her story.

"I don't know if it's the fact that she was young, that she was young and a woman or that it was the fact that she did somehow perform these miracles ... there was just something about her spirit," Chevrier says, noting similar figures who continue to captivate attention in similar regard such as Nelson Mandela or Malala Yousafzai, the young girl shot by the Taliban for advocating girls' education. "These people are extraordinary.

For them, it's not about saving your own skin; it's about doing what needs to be done and that's why they just take our breath away."

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Tue, Apr 2 (7 pm) Red Planet Blues Written by Robert J Sawyer Audreys Books

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f you're transferring consciousness with accuracy, then, yeah, you're uploading sinners as well as saints," says Robert J Sawyer, author of the brand-new noir SF novel Red Planet Blues featuring spelunking Martian fossils, cyborganica and the future of crime.

"My flesh-and-blood private detective Alex Lomax discovers a human mind inside an android being tortured, and at first doesn't intervene.

I think that's the real risk," Sawyer says of a future he believes is inevitable—the migration of the human mind into robotic replica bodies.

"Those who haven't uploaded themselves will view those who have, not as more than human, but less."

And so plunge the crimes that drive the book: murders to possess a trove of Martian fossils worth enough money to buy the moon, and the PI facing double-crosses on the plummet to justice or death.

Novels are always a gamble, but a Robert J Sawyer novel guarantees a provocative scenario bursting with questions in every direction.

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lode of them: how will human habitation of Mars work technologically, economically and socially?

How will "transferred" humans (possessing whatever stunning upgrades in appearance and ability they've paid handsomely for) regard their (inferior?) flesh-andbone fellow citizens? And what crimes will these cyborgs feel free to commit, now that they're incapable of leaving DNA evidence?

To science-fiction fans, it's obvious that Sawyer's work is SF. Its attention to scientific detail and plausibility allows it to benefit from the Vonnegut gambit: major book sales to non-SF or SF-hostile readers by hiding its SF-ness in plain sight. This krypto-SF approach has been lucrative for Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale), Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park), Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon), and George Orwell (Nineteen EightyFour), and has helped Sawyer to become one of Canada's most successful authors in terms of sales, reader acclaim, awards and reach. He's written dozens of novels, and his book Flashforward became the basis for a major ABC television drama. Given the degree to which SF sales have taken a beating at the mail-fisted hands of the surging swords-andCONTINUED ON PAGE 19 >>

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sorcery/paranormal romance-fantasy publishing juggernaut (Sawyer has predicted that traditional SF publishing is doomed), Sawyer's delivery of a recognizable, technoubiquitous society has ensured him a permanent place in CanLit, and on bookstore shelves.

So why bother diversifying into mystery fiction, even if it's set in another world? Isn't it risky, given that mystery fans and writers don't exactly align when it comes to publicly displaying their affection for their genre? Local mystery author Wayne Arthurson (A Killing Winter) has explained that in his experience, mystery pros and fans tend to not even read outside their field.

"If a guy happens to show up in Spock ears at a science-fiction convention, he's welcomed," agrees Sawyer, but "if someone shows up in a deerstalker at a mystery convention, he's looked on as a freak."

In Sawyer's case, Red Planet Blues isn't a shift in his career, but continuity.

"I've been earning my mystery cred for two decades now," he says.

He won Crime Writers of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award for best short story of 1993; the Globe and Mail named his SF courtroom drama Illegal Alien the best Canadian mystery of 1997, and he co-edited the official Crime Writers of Canada 2000 anthology, Over the Edge.

"I find myself welcomed with open arms," Sawyer says. "I keep trying to entice a few of the mystery writ-

ers to come on over and play on my side of the fence, too, but although the great US mystery writer Walter Mosley writes science-fiction, Canada's mystery-fiction writers haven't really dabbled much in SF. But I hope after reading Red Planet Blues, they'll want to give it a try."

A key—but oddly rarely-mentioned—element of Sawyer's canon is its pacifism. It's easy for any writer to fry up clean-your-plate, finger-licking-good stories when all it takes is dousing the meal in violence-sauce; Sawyer's literary project argues not only that violence isn't the solution in life, but that it needn't be the solution in dramatic entertainment. So how hard was it for Sawyer to synthesize his pacifism with genre conventions and reader expectations of blood, bullets and bombast?

"A pacifist isn't a passivist," Sawyer explains. "It simply means that you don't resort to violence as a solution. And that's hugely important to me personally. So writing a character—practically the only one in the Sawyer oeuvre—who goes around carrying a gun and sometimes killing people was very hard for me. It was correct for the story—it's never gratuitous—but it was distasteful to write. But, still, Alex—like all good hardboiled detectives—does have a strict internal moral code: he does the right thing even when the wrong thing would be easier or more lucrative. And that's a trait I do admire very much."

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Peggy Ann Douglas figures the best way to escape her life of chicory-pulling, stall-cleaning, hay-baling drudgery, is by picking up a baton and twirling her way out of town.

t's usually a good sign when Fringe shows are further developed and remounted after the festival. These are the shows that stand out from the hundreds of others, revealing both a production and company with real promise.

"There was a lot of interest and positive reception when we first did [s/kin], and a real collective desire to remount it," says Brooke Leifso, one of the minds behind the Mindhive Collective. A propitious local theatre company, Mindhive has, despite its youth, made a strong impression at the past two Edmonton Fringe Festivals with s/kin in 2011 and A Wake in 2012.

Leifso's background is neither in physical theatre nor modern dance, a fact made immediately peculiar when held against Mindhive's two shows, both of which were highly inventive and deeply symbolic physical theatre productions. "s/kin's definitely not standard theatre," Leifso says. "I knew from my own ethics that I wanted to work collectively, and to try to build theatre non-hierarchically but have it still facilitated, and people have roles.

It's a unique way of working. We still don't have a script of the show.

Remounting it involves reworking it,

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Aside from tightening the show's focus and streamlining the overall arcs and through-lines in the story, Leifso notes that her own directorial skills have grown significantly from the first mounting in 2011, which marked her debut as a director.

Leifso describes s/kin's overarching theme as broad to the point of being universal: the story centres around a relationship between two women, but this is a sort of metonym standing in for the exploration of relationship itself in its broadest context.

And one of the chief factors impacting any human relationship is physical space; Leifso notes that this staging of s/kin in the tiny TACOS Space plays into this in a big way.

"It's a tiny black box—it holds even less seats than the Azimuth Theatre does, and it's not as cozy," she explains. "To deal with some of the space challenges I've actually put a row of chairs on the stage. One of the actors said, 'They're in my space!' and I said, 'That's the point.' We're definitely playing with trying to get more people in, and closer to the action."

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f you're going to build a story around Timmy's coffee culture, you cannot arbitrarily move the time of year Roll Up the Rim occurs. Everyone knows it starts in February, ends in March-ish (when the cups run out) and has no relationship with July, which is where Edmonton playwright Ken Brown stuck it in his new play Double Double. Moving Roll Up the Rim is like playing with the space-time continuum. It's tantamount to moving Christmas. It could lead to deportation.

But beyond this one, egregious error, Double Double gets the rest of the Tim's experience right. The set itself will make you do a (double) double-take—from that mahogany veneer to the mossy green tiles, it was a fourth wall away from a franchise opportunity. Behind the counter is Marlene (Liana Shannon). Always standing on guard to take your order, Shannon's gruff "to stay or to go?" will evoke traumatic flashbacks to all the times you accidentally started an exchange at Tim Hortons with "Hi!" instead of "to stay" or, alternatively, "to go." Her delivery is

chillingly accurate and it seems to me that there's a very real possibility she went method for this role.

The script, however, focuses on the brewing relationship between single parents Nell (Linda Grass) and Kevin (Jon Paterson). Having found each other online, their first meeting doesn't go well—he doesn't like "why?" questions and she wonders "why?" a lot. Despite the complete lack of sparks, they delve deeper and there is barely a moment of relationship bliss before the play becomes a series of fights.

The two fight about sex, they fight about parenting techniques and they fight about love. As an audience member, you're exposing yourself to a lot of bickering, yelling, hostility and chagrin. Since these fights don't come to any satisfying conclusions— they only make a lot of sweeping preannouncements about "men" and "women," piling on to an already heaping pile of gender stereotypes— Double Double doesn't give the audience enough in the way of humour or lessons learned to justify being that close to a couple attacking each other for that long.

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ARTS WEEKLY

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DANCE CELEBRATING MOZART • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave • Alberta Ballet • Apr 5-6 • Tickets start at $29 at Alberta Ballet’s box office

EBDA BALLROOM DANCE • Lions Senior Recreational Centre, 11113-111 Ave, 780.893.6828 • EBDA.ca • Apr 6, 8pm

FILM BUMP 'N' GRINDHOUSE • Varscona Theatre, back alley, 10329-83 Ave, 780.446.6940 • Great movies and shorts by local cult heroes • Apr 6, 11pm

EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY • Royal Alberta Museum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave • Notorious (1946, 103 min, PG); Apr 8, 8pm • Membership for each film: $6/$5 (senior/student); $30 (membership for the series –8 films)

FROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley A. Milner Library Audio Visual Rm (main fl), 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • Films adapted from books • Argo (2012, 14A); Fri, Apr 5, 2pm

NFB FILM CLUB • Calder Library • Monthly film series featuring animated and documentary films from the National Film Board of Canada • Status Quo (87 min); Apr 3, 6:30pm

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186106 St, 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Feature Gallery: GOLDEN EDGE: Artworks by 16 craft artists; until Mar 30 • The Recipients of the 2012 Alberta Craft Awards; until Apr 13 • Discovery Gallery: UrbAn Wild: Works by Calgary Clay arts Association; Mar 30-May 4; artist reception: May 4, 2-4pm

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.422.6223 • youraga. ca • The neWs From here: The 2013 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art: Curated by Nancy Tousley; until May 5 • This Alberta Biennial showcases the work of several Alberta filmmakers and performance artists. Filmmakers with guest curator Nancy Tousley for an interactive Q&A session • The sTory oF CAnAdiAn ArT: As told by the Hart House Art Collection; until Jul 1 • The beqUesT: Ernest E. Poole and the AGA Collection; until Jul 1 • dAVid JAnZen: TrAnsFer sTATion: until Jun 16 • dUTCh lAndsCApes From rembrAndT To VAn GoGh: Until Jun 16 ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert, 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert. ca • plAne-spACe: Works by Duncan Johnson; hybrid Forms Works by Angela Lane; Until Apr 27

ART SOCIETY OF STRATHCONA COUNTY • Loft Gallery, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • Artwork by society members, and a gift shop of artist made items; open to Jul • Red Barn: Art Society of Strathcona County DVD lecture series: Sat, Apr 13, 1-4pm; $5; 790.559.4443

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 12310 Jasper Ave, 780.482.2854 • New work by artist Scott Plear • Apr 6-19 CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave, 780.461.3427 • Group show, works by members • Until Apr 9

CROOKED POT GALLERY– Stony Plain • 491251 Ave, Stony Plain, 780.963.9573 • Return of the Loon; an exploration of all things Loon, by Dianne Meili; Apr 2-30; opening reception: Apr 6, 11-3pm

DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St • midTAle: Works by Daniela Schüter; ELEG: and Stefan Demming • Until May 11 • Reception: Apr 4, 6-10pm

DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY • 10332-124 St • WATers: Works by Nathan Birch • Until Apr 6

EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ • 9938-70 Ave • Olive Tree Project, Peg Barcelo-Jackson, Ginette D'Silva, Alice Dolphin, Dara Loewen • Ongoing FAB GALLERY • Dept of Art and Design, U of

sTArTed, 1913-2013: Featuring displays showcasing EPL's history • The poeTry roUTe: Top four winning poems on display • Memorabilia from EPL’s history • Until Mar 31

HAPPY HARBOR COMICS V1 • 10729-104 Ave • COMIC JAM: Improv comic art making every 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7pm • OPEN DOOR: Collective of independent comic creators meet the 2nd & 4th Thu each month; 7pm • Comics Artist-inResidence: with Kyle Sams; Every Fri 12-6pm and Sat 12-5pm; until Apr 7

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St • Main Gallery: oF/oFF (CoUrse): Works by Steve de Bruyn; until Apr 12 • Front Room Gallery: liTTle FeArs: Laura O’Connor; until Apr 12 JOHNSON GALLERY–SOUTH • 7711-85 St, 780.465.6171 • Miniatures by Thelma Manary, Rita Briansky, Ann Huculak, Susan Gardiner, Olson; photos by David Baine; graphite works by Glen Gaillet; watercolours by Jim Painter • Through Mar

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM • Bsmt Gallery • CirqUe d'hoFFmAnn: Artworks by members of the ASA; artshow runs in conjunction with Edmonton Opera's les Contes d’hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach • Through Mar

LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St, 780.990.1161• New gallery is now open MonFri, 10am-5:30pm; Sat, 10am-5pm; by appt • JACqUeline–The UrbAn series: Artworks by Adele Knowler • Until Apr 9

LATITUDE 53 • 10242-106 St, 780.423.5353 • Winter Salon at McCauley Sch, 9538-107 Ave: Cold and Warmth: Mar 28, 7pm

MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440112 St, 780.407.7152 • boTAniCAls – South Africa by members of the Keiskamma Trust: The Keiskamma Trust will bring 30 textile-based artworks from those living Eastern Cape of South Africa who suffer a life of extremes; endemic poverty, disease, unemployment, and poor education; Mar 30-Jun 2; reception: Apr 4

MERCER WAREHOUSE • 10363-104 St, Bsmt • thesda.ca • The Co-lAb: Design exhibition presented by the Student Design Association (SCA) • Apr 6-11 • Opening: Apr 5, 7pm-12

MORINVILLE COMMUNITY CULTURAL CENTRE • 9502-100 Ave, Morinville, 780.939.7888 • AnimATed deliGhT: 7 short animated films and 15 artworks by Brian Batista, Leslie Bell, Stefanie Wong & Chris Melnychuk • Through Apr • Tickets: $30 (Fri)/$40 (Sat)/$30 (Sun); $95 (3-day pass)

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM–St Albert • 5 St Anne St, St Albert, 780.459.1528 • CATChinG The liGhT: The life and photography of Victor Post • Until Mar 31

NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave, 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • AFTer hoUrs ‘13: Works by the Paint Spot staff; until Mar 31 • UnFinished pAinTinG ChAllenGe: Exhibition of the "Before and After"; until Apr 15 • shiFT: Works

by Claire Uhlick and YESS youth; Apr 5-May 15

NINA HAGGERTY–Stollery Gallery • 9225-118 Ave, 780.474.7611 • ninahaggertyart.ca • FrenCh rooFs VillAGe impressions: Watercolours by Malcolm Johnson; until Apr 5

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave, 780.455.7479 • Spring group show; until Apr 2 • Works by Barbara Hirst; Apr 6-23

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave,

VAAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St, 780.421.1731 • Gallery A: FACING NORTH–COYOTES ARTIST COLLECTIVE: Artworks by Brenda Kim Christianson, Jim Davies, Brenda Malkinson, Judy Martin, John Maywood (Stony Plain), Les Graff • Until Apr 13

labooks.com Book signing of by author, Leif N. Gregersen • Mar 30, 10am-3pm

Apr 6, 6:30pm • $25 and up (pick your price; World Fit for Children fundraiser)

EMPRESS ALE HOUSE • 9912 Whyte Ave •

BIG BOOM THEORY • Jubilations Dinner

The Olive Reading Series: 2nd Tue each month, Sep-Apr

VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave,

Theatre, Phase II, WEM • All your favourite nerds are here helping Sheldon navigate his way through Canada. With plenty of Bazinga • Until Apr 7

Door Coffee House Reading Series: Monthly readings with new headliner • Last Thu each month

St. Albert, 780.460.5990 • vasa.ca • WelCome To bere islAnd: Paintings by four fine artists from an expedition to Ireland; works by Barbara Shore, Eleanor Lowden Pidgeon, Bella Totino, and Verne Busby • Until Mar 30

WEST END GALLERY • 12308 Jasper Ave • Works

by Raynald Leclerc • Apr 13-25

THREE COURSE DINNER AND A MYSTERY APRIL 20TH, 2013 for reservations Call 780.496.7227 FOR MORE INFO WWW.FORTEDMONTON PARK.CA

SNAP GALLERY • Society Of Northern Alberta

LITERARY ABBOTTSFIELD LIBRARY • 3410-118 Ave • Na-

Cultural Centre, 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove • GREEN: Allied Arts Council Members show; until Apr 6

STRATHCONA COUNTY ART GALLERY @

FRONT GALLERY • 12312 Jasper Ave,

tasha Dean–Writers' Corner: Learn about writing and creativity from Natasha Dean. Enjoy an author reading, interview, and practical activity with Natasha • Apr 8, 8-9pm • Free; info: Mark McHale, 780.499.0680

501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • From The

ART STREAM CENTRE • 11434-120 St,

GALLERIE PAVA • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • soUl noTes: Abstract acrylics works by Annette Ayre, Susan Allan • Until Apr 17

GALLERY 7 • 7 Perron St, St Albert, 780.459.2552 • Photos by Dianna Hanna • Mar 26-Apr 29

GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/art-gallery • 100 yrs, JUsT GeTTinG

oUTside in: Photos by Brenda Francis Pelkey, curated by Brenda Barry Byrne • Until Apr 28

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • STAR WARS Identities: The Exhibition: explores the amazing nature of human identity through the magic of the Star Wars universe and its legendary characters; until Apr 1 UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS • Enterprise Sq, 10230 Jasper Ave, 780.492.5834 • museums.ualberta.ca • siZe mATTers: Big Prints from around the World • Apr 4-Jun 29

T.A.L.E.S. TELLAROUND • Parkallen Community

2ND MURDER MYSTERY OF 2013:

A, Rm 1-1 Fine Arts Bldg, 780.492.2081 • GiAnT sTeps—bdes 2013: Graduating exhibition of students completing the Bachelor of Design program; Apr 2-13; opening night: Apr 4, 7-10pm 780.488.2952 • liGhT impressions: Artworks by Michelle Neumann and Michael J. Downs • Apr 6-25 • Opening: Apr 6, 2-4pm

Spoken Word Tuesdays: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathinpoetry@gmail.com

SUMMER SOCIALS

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St, 780.488.3619 • CroWs And more: Works by Leslie Poole; until Mar 30 • Works by Jim Visser; through Apr

SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • Melcor

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St, 780.902.5900 •

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780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca • riVer's EDGE: Until May 5 • inUUJAq: Dolls of the Canadian Arctic; until Apr 28 • ArCTiC 4: Exploring tales and traditions from Canada's North; until May 20 • Cold reCAll: Roald Amundsen's Reflections from the Northwest Passage; until Apr28 • eChoes in The iCe: History, Mystery and frozen corpses; until May 20 • irene AVAAlAAqiAq–Myth and Reality; until May 20

Print-Artists, 10123-121 St, 780.423.1492 • sissies And psyChopAThs: Works by Peter Kingstone and Daryl Vocat; answering the question, What was gay like when i was 5?; Apr 4-11; opening Apr 5 • Community Gallery: Jennifer Konanz (SNAP's Emerging Artist in Residence)

KOFFEE CAFÉ • 6120-28 Ave, 780.863.4522 • Glass

780.425.9303, E: artstream@pagemaster.ca • Art Fuse–an explosion of local word, image and sound • Every Thu, 7-9pm; featuring authors, artists, artisans, musicians, and open mic

AUDREYS BOOKS • 107 St, Jasper Ave • audreys. ca • Science fiction writer, Robert J. Sawyer, book release, red planet blues; reading and signing; Apr 2, 7pm

Hall, 6510-111 St, 780.667.8253 • Come One– Come All...: Hear what storytelling is all about in a comfortable, casual atmosphere • 2nd Mon each month until Jun, 7-9pm • Free • Bring inside shoes and your own mug

UPPER CRUST • 10909-86 Ave, 780.422.8174 • Book launch of Theresa Shea's new book, The Unfinished Child • Free • Sun, Apr 7, 7pm

WUNDERBAR ON WHYTE • 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 • The poets of Nothing, For Now: poetry workshop and jam every Sun • No minors

THEATRE THE 11 O’CLOCK NUMBER! • Varscona Theatre,

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE • 9351-118 Ave • Prose

10329-83 Ave • Grindstone Theatre presents a two act improvised musical every other Fri, Apr 5, 11pm • Tickets at TIX on the Square • Tickets at TIX on the Square

Creative Writing Group • Every Tue, 7-9pm

BEDTIME STORIES • Westbury Theatre, Tran-

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BONFIRE! • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101AAve • Rapid Fire Theatre's Ensemble experiment with long-form improv formats; bringing something new to Edmonton’s improv scene • Apr 9-14 • $25 (festival pass) at TIX on the Square

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 • $12 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square)

DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave, 780.433.3399 • The live improvised soap opera • Every Mon, until May 27, 7:30pm (subject to change) • Tickets at the box office DOUBLE DOUBLE • La Cite Francophone, 862791 St, 780.477.5955 • By Kenneth Brown. A pair of single parents with teenaged kids, steal brief, sometimes awkward moments away from their busy lives to try and fan the spark of their struggling new relationship –in a Tim Horton's • Until Apr 7 DUST • PCL Studio Theatre, TransAlta Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave • Abu Ghraib Prison. Jenny works in the office. Jonathan is a prison guard. They meet.

They fall in love. And someone takes photos. Dust is a chilling, and ultimately moving examination of torture, decency and the limits of love • Apr 5-13

ÉCUME • La Cité francophone, 8627-91 St • Presented by L'UniThéâtre. Écume, invites the audience to experience the unbridled imagination and playful world of playwright and director, AnneMarie White. A tale of fantasy combining love, death, and the peculiar, as interpreted by four very gifted actors • Apr 11-14, 8pm

THE KITE RUNNER • Citadel Shoctor Theatre, 9828-101A Ave, 780.425.1820 • Based on Khaled Hosseini's novel, co-production with Theatre Calgary, directed by Eric Ross. The friendship between two Afghan boys and one man’s journey to confront his past and find redemption • Until Mar 31, no show Mon; Tue-Sat 7:30pm; Sun, evening and mat shows • $35 LATE NIGHT CABARET: A VARIETY SHOW • The Club, 9828-101A Ave, 780.425.1820 • Presented by Rapid Fire Theatre featuring interviews, hot comedy, games, special guests • Mar 28, 9pm • $15

MISS CALEDONIA • Arden Theatre, St Albert, 780.459.1542 • One-woman show written and performed by Melody A. Johnson, with fiddle by Alison Potter. Peggy Ann has a plan to become a movie star • Sun, Apr 7, 8pm; Pre-show wine tasting at 7pm in Progress Hall • $30 at Arden box office

OVER THE EDGE WITH 4 PLAY • Westbury Theatre, TransAlta Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave • Presented by Catalyst Theatre • $20 at TIX on the Square • Apr 5, 9:30pm • Tickets at TIX on the Square

THE PENELOPIAD • Citadel's Maclab Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • By Margaret Atwood. Retelling of Homer’s The odyssey as told by Penelope and her twelve maids–the forgotten victims • Mar 30-Apr 21 • Start: $35 at box office

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ONLINE AT DISHWEEKLY.CA in ... [and some] Chinese teas you can let sit for 20 or 30 minutes, but the tannins don't seem to come out."

Wakey wakey The oxidization process wakes the tea up, so harvesters put it back to sleep through a heating process. Somerville says it's up to the tea drinker to reawaken the tea.

"Our job is to say, 'How am I going to wake you up? When I wake you up am I going to do it with a slap or am I going to do it quietly and pull you out of it?'"

T

ea drinkers, you have a mission: take your tea out of its dormant, comalike state and wake it up. What if it won't wake up? Then you're drinking

a dud, and that stale tea needs to be tossed.

Maybe you didn't know there was a method to leaf brewing, but Anna Somerville, owner of Acquired Taste Tea Company just off 124 Street, knows all the tricks for preparing a perfect cup of tea.

It's alive "The thing to remember about tea is it's alive and it's responsive to its environment when it's growing," Somerville says. "Temperature matters, climate matters, weather matters, infestations matter. The plant is alive and it responds to everything going on around it. If you get a bit of frost, the plant goes into shock and in going into shock it releases a defence—it tries to defend itself against weather or bugs or whatever—in doing that, it accentuates certain qualities in that tea and that's what you look for."

Flava flav When it's time for the leaves to be picked, how the harvesters crack the leaves determines the final flavour.

"The cracking of the leaf and exposing the enzymes in the leaf to oxy-

gen, that's where the taste comes in," Somerville says.

All tea comes from the same plant, but differences between green, black, oolong and white depend on growing conditions and the time of year when the leaves are picked.

Bitter isn't better "My opinion is that different farming practices control the tannins in your tea," Somerville says of the part of the plant that gives it a bitter taste.

"Tannins are a defence mechanism.

The plant says, 'Don't eat me, I want to keep growing, so I'm going to get bitter to the taste and that's my best chance for survival.' But if you pick that tea before those tannins have developed, then they don't have it. So a lot of Indian teas have a threshold of four minutes before the tannins come

Black tea basics "With a black tea, I would slap it awake.

I would throw boiling water on a black tea because what I want is something brisk, something full-bodied ... and I want to put milk in it—not because I want to disguise the tea taste—I want to put milk in it so I can get more tea taste out of it."

Somerville explains that the protein in our saliva bonds with the tannins in tea and creates a dry-mouth effect.

"We think it's bitter when, in fact, what it is is a drying out, and as a human being that's a bad thing. You never want your mouth dry," she adds.

"But if you put a little bit of milk in the tea, the protein in the milk bonds with the tannins. Now my tongue can stay slippery and I can taste more of what the tea has to offer."

Green tea and me "Mostly people say they don't like green teas because [the tea is] bitter, and I think what they're saying is, 'I don't like green teas because I burnt it,'" Somerville says.

She explains that some green teas are very flat-leafed, so when boiling water hits them the flavour can't develop.

"So what I suggest to people when they're buying a good quality green tea is first of all make it using cold water. You would use double the tea and use cold water," she adds. "It takes about an hour to infuse, or you could leave it in your fridge for four or five days; it doesn't matter because there are no sugars in it so you're pulling the flavour out without waking up the tea at all."

Somerville says to then take half of this cold-tea concentrate and add boiling water to it for a nice cup of green.

made. There's a real skill and a real art to making them. So when you add the water you want to think of coaxing; pull all the flavour out of the tea and not shock it. My theory is if your water's going to burn your finger, then it's going to burn your tea.

"I use a tablespoon of tea when I make oolong, most people use a teaspoon. I use a very cool water and I let it steep for 30 seconds and then I throw that [water] away because it's got a lot of caffeine in the first cup, and then I make it again."

Hot pot Should you listen to mom and warm the pot with boiling water first? If it's a black tea, Somerville says yes. Green teas, never.

"You don't want your green tea to be hot," she explains. "If you have a really hot teapot and you put your perfect green tea into it, the heat from the tea and the heat from the teapot continue to cook the tea and it's going to change your tea."

Rooibos schmooibos and herbal magic Rooibos is from a bush grown in Africa, it's not from the tea plant, so like herbal teas, it's less picky than true teas. Somerville says the difference is that herbal teas are static—no matter how long they steep, the flavour stays the same, whereas green, black and oolongs are dynamic and the flavour comes in stages. Pour on some water (boiling or a bit cooler) and you're good to go.

Oo oo oolong Have you heard that an oolong is somewhere in the middle between a green and a black? Somerville doesn't think that description does the Chinese tea justice.

"It's a style of leaf. There are green oolongs and there are red oolongs, it depends when they're picked," she explains. "A green one is picked in the spring. It's come through the winter and it's fresh. One that's picked in the fall is a red oolong. A red oolong tastes like ground cover, like decaying leaves ... beautiful. A green oolong tastes like the tops of the trees after it's rained; it's fresh and floral.

"With those teas you want to coax them. Oolongs are very carefully

White out of reach Oh, white tea, the rarest of them all.

Picked only once a year, the buds are dried without being oxidized and are said to be great for your health. But Somerville doesn't carry white tea in her shop because it is usually flavoured with something else.

"Flavoured white teas are not real white tea. It's misleading ... it can only be picked in the springtime, so there's only so much out there on the market.

Yet we see all of this white tea and if it's so rare and hard to get, would you put it in a teabag? Or would you put a flavour on it? No." REBECCA MEDEL

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Which brew do you choose?

The great coffee versus tea debate continues

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hen it comes to a morning or midday pick-me-up, is it a jolt of java or cup of tea that satisfies your craving?

The two are among the most widely consumed beverages around the world, and have been pitted as long-time opponents of one another in health and consumer studies. It seems as though there is consistently conflicting information regarding the supposed health benefits—or potential detriments, in coffee's case—and while tea is widely agreed upon as the healthier choice, as long as neither is loaded up with heavy doses of cream or sugar, it is safe to drink either option.

"I think initially there wasn't as much research, so it was like an old wives' tale that coffee is really unhealthy and you should never drink it because there wasn't that level of research, or the degree of research that's been done in the last 10 years for sure," says Robin Anderson, owner of Revive Wellness and a registered dietitian. "I think we just have more information now and being able to pinpoint some of the small antioxidants and small nutrients that are in tea and coffee that are of benefit. We used to think coffee was just caffeine and that was unhealthy."

"The evidence has been, in terms of

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their health benefits, not super strong one way or the other," adds Marcus O'Neill, dietitian, assistant director of the Human Nutrition Research Unit at the University of Alberta and assistant director of the Alberta Institute for Human Nutrition. "There have been lots of studies that have come out that show the positive health effects of one or the other, but there's lots that don't, so it's conflicting in that regard."

As O'Neill points out, it can be challenging to isolate one specific component of a food or beverage and translate that into a concrete beneficial effect on preventing specific diseases or other health benefits because an individual's overall diet and lifestyle also plays a crucial role as to whether or not they received the benefits from one item.

The most common varieties of tea examined in studies are black, green and white. There is also a variety that is a little more rare in North America called oolong, which exists in green or red varieties. White and green tea are considered the healthiest due to being less processed than black tea, which also has the most caffeine at approximately 60 to 90 milligrams per eightounce cup. Green tea clocks in at 35 to 70 milligrams per eight-ounce cup and

white tea has the least at 30 to 55 milligrams per eight-ounce cup.

"With black tea, you have to ferment it, and part of that process is believed to degrade some of the nutrients," Anderson notes, adding that approximately four eight-ounce cups of tea per day is generally what is needed to fully receive its health benefits.

One of tea's biggest advantages over coffee is its considerably higher levels of antioxidants, which are prevalent in tea leaves in the form of natural phenols called catechins.

"It's an antioxidant that boosts the immune system, and it helps prevent some cellular damage and it helps prevent cardiovascular disease," Anderson explains, noting catechins also help kill bacteria in the mouth.

Two other antioxidants in tea are biotin, which also helps with immune function, and EGCg, one that is often found in green tea and helps protect heart cells, notes Anderson. Due to this element, research has shown that consumption of green tea can help lower the risk of heart disease. Along with antioxidants, tea also contains tannins, a compound commonly associated with wine that assists in keeping bacteria in the stomach healthy.

Green tea is often sought out for its suggested health benefits, and

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for good reason. Anderson says it is particularly beneficial for its potential of lowering the risk of Type 2 diabetes and certain cancers, including ovarian, breast, prostate, gastric and colorectal. However, O'Neill notes that evidence in many studies is far from conclusive and cautions that while tea has its benefits, consumers should not rely on it as a primary source of antioxidants or health benefits in their diet.

"Frankly, things we all know are high in antioxidants like fruits and vegetables and whole grains are a much better source of antioxidants than tea," he says. "It's great if you want to drink tea for its antioxidants, but if you really want to do something good for antioxidants and trying to reduce the risk of diseases by consuming antioxidants, fruits and vegetables are the way to go."

However, there are certain misconceptions surrounding tea's healthboosting power, particularly when it comes to the supposed link between green tea and weight loss. While catechins in tea can act as a bit of a fat blocker, Anderson notes the amount of green tea a person would have to drink to achieve any type of weight loss from the beverage alone is unreasonable. O'Neill also notes that green tea does not positively impact weight loss. In other words, be wary of slick marketing campaigns touting the benefits of green tea extract in weight-loss supplements. O'Neill adds that caffeine does impact lipid (fat) metabolism, but again, there are no strong cases of caffeine being directly linked to drastic weight loss.

Caffeine is the very component that has put coffee on many nutritional blacklists. The average eight-ounce cup that is brewed using a filter drip con-

tains approximately 180 milligrams.

Most healthy adults can safely consume around 400 milligrams per day, so moderation is key, as well as recognizing whether or not you may be sensitive to the effects of caffeine.

"People tend to be either really sensitive to the effects of caffeine or not," O'Neill says. "It could be things like trouble sleeping or insomnia, being irritable, nervousness; they might have headaches after too much caffeine consumption or rapid heart rate because it's a stimulant."

However, coffee—and remember, this is black coffee, not a triple-triple from Tim Hortons—does have its perks aside from the energizing effects of caffeine, which has also been linked to improved cognitive function.

"I have seen some studies that have shown with coffee intake, that helps lower the risk of Type 2 diabetes and liver cancer," Anderson says, adding the 2009 Nurses' Health Study has also shown preliminary evidence coffee can perhaps lower the risk of stroke when two or more cups are consumed per day. "It's quoted a lot because it studies about 80 000 nurses over the US over a long period of time. What they showed actually is that nurses who drank two or more cups of coffee per day had 20-percent lower risk of stroke compared to women who drank less than two cups a day or none at all."

Essentially, O'Neill and Anderson maintain that while there have been studies and preliminary findings regarding each beverage's respective health advantages, it's not going to alter your overall health significantly if you choose to drink one or the other—or neither. In the end, it all comes down to a matter of personal preference.

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In fact, the beer presents a lot like ginger ale.

I will say there is absolutely no hint the beer is six-percent alcohol. It is light without any presence of alcohol warming. I am not sure if that is a good or bad thing.

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arguerite Pitre will forever hold an infamous place in Canadian history. In 1953 she was convicted of conspiring with a fella named Albert Guay to murder his wife, Rita Moral.

They bombed the small domestic flight that Moral took from Quebec City to Montréal, killing all 22 passengers on board. "[Pitre] was the last woman to be executed by the country," explains James Stewart, vocalist/guitarist for Edmonton's Slates. "Something about that seems really important. Especially once you get into the whole story and how it was this absolutely crazy trial. It was something I was not famil-

iar with, but people at the time, that would have been their OJ Simpson trial moment.

"There is the seed of doubt that she was basically just used," he continues.

"She might be entirely culpable—it's hard to say."

Pitre's story is referenced in enigmatic snapshots in the band's latest single "Vérité." French for truth, "Vérité" is grungy, strained and, like any respectable punk song, you can hear the veneration of truth, or at least the veneration of the search for truth.

Slates is headed down to Chicago this summer to record a new album at Electrical Audio Studios with recording engineer Steve Albini. The band is set on producing an overabundance of material with the intention of stripping away songs

until they have a recording that coalesces thematically. Taking their driving, raw sound, and heading in a slightly darker, more dynamic direction, Stewart has the challenge of finding space for his careful research over Slates' crashing cymbals and reverberating guitars.

"Generally when we write, we write the music pretty meticulously and we write that all first," says Stewart. "There might be a seed of a vocal idea but usually it's the last thing that goes on top, so sometimes there's barely any room to sing and I'm trying to tell this intricate, weaving story. It's just pointless. So I just have four lines that sound totally unrelated—just super weird but vaguely poetic."

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t's totally cathartic to be in this band," Mish Way says. "It's really emotional, and it works for me. I'm a really emotional person. I have a lot of unnecessary anger, and I think if I didn't have White Lung I'd probably walk around screaming at people—which I do do, and get in trouble for. But it's a

place where it's semi-accepted, so it's really important to me."

"I dunno, I need this band," she adds.

"For my sanity."

Way's the frontwoman of White Lung, a band borne in Vancouver's weird punk scene and a now-defunct, nowlegendary venue called the Emergency Room. Way and her bandmates trade in chaotic, two-minute-or-less blasts of feminist punk aggression that let her challenge her audience—"I want people to feel the way I feel when I'm pulling

that stuff," she notes. But there's also an undeniable pop sheen to the band's approach: when Way calls the White Lung's last album, Sorry, "sugary," she doesn't mean it as a pejorative. That saccharine veneer was a conscious choice to help sharpen not detract, from the music's barbs.

"That was really intentional on my part; we were on tour right before we wrote the record [in 2012], and I was listening to all sorts of different kinds of music—like, everything—and picking up on, 'OK what works for this audience?'" she explains. "So, yeah, it was intentional. I was really trying to write catchy melodies."

Sorry runs all of 19-minutes long, and managed to draw high praise from the likes of Spin, Pitchfork and Rolling Stone. Perhaps one of the reasons it stands out as well as it does is that such unflinching, honest aggression seems rare right now: its dressed up in some pop sheen, sure, but even in that, it remains far more unrelenting than most modern punk that dares add some pop.

"I don't really know why that's happened," Way notes, of aggressive music's fade from the mainstream. "I think maybe it has [disappeared], but I think maybe it's more fashioned itself into an emo mall-punk scene that's awful, and it's not good music writing, and it's just fake aggression and it's boring. I don't know why that trend happened, but I'd like to bring back smart aggressive music."

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ometimes it's difficult enough for a band to hunker down and get one full-length album out, let alone a double disc, but that's exactly what Soilwork has done with its ninth studio release, The Living Infinite.

But a little hard work has never seemed to scare the Swedish metal outfit, which got its start in 1995.

It's name essentially means "working from the ground up" and The Living Infinite is no exception, with 20 original tracks written and recorded over the course of eight months to bring fans a double dose of melodic, hardhitting fury.

"It's our ninth album, so we're kind of a ways into this career and you need to do some things differently to keep it fresh," says drummer Dirk Verbeuren during a stop in Pittsburgh midway through Soilwork's first North American tour in nearly three years. "Our singer Speed (Björn Strid) had the idea to do that and we all took some time to warm up to it because of the width of the project I guess, but eventually we all decided to just start writing and see what happened."

Soilwork took a considerably more collaborative approach to The Living Infinite than it had on previous releases, with each band member bringing something to the process, whether it was lyrics or song structure. Verbeuren has been with Soilwork since 2004 and says the process of creating The Living Infinite was unlike any

he had ever experienced before with the band—and was also the most intense. Verbeuren recorded 26 songs in a matter of eight days, a feat of both physical and mental endurance for the seasoned drummer.

"Taking on those types of challenges with the double album in itself is what kind of keeps you going and you don't fall into a routine," he says. "I had one weak moment through the recording where my brain started to freeze, so I just went for a walk for an hour and came back and finished what I had to do. For my mental strength and my state of mind it was a good process— I learned I can pull it off."

In a time when formats used to release music seem to be ever-changing, double albums have become a rarity, but Verbeuren says this was a driving factor in the band wanting to release one, along with giving its fans twice as much music as a thank you of sorts for sticking with it throughout the years.

"We all grew up with vinyl and old school stuff, so it's kind of interesting to us to follow that route and see how people will react to it, y'know?"

Verbeuren says. "It's kind of a renewal in a way because we've struggled with some lineup changes for a number of years prior to doing this record ...

There was kind of a period of time where we were looking at what we wanted to do and maybe weren't so sure about the direction to follow, but we've just decided to be a band more than ever before and let everyone contribute."

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LIAM CORCORAN: A couple of the songs on Foolish Blood ("Ready 4 a

Look," "Faster 4 U") had been around for more than two years by the time we hit the studio. They were the first new songs we had written following the release of our last album Territory. However, the bulk of the material was worked out in the summer and fall of 2011. We did demos in November 2011 and recorded for real in the summer of 2012.

VW: What were the recording sessions like for this album? Is this the kind of thing you recorded live or did you piece it together one track at a time? Why? LC: We recorded in rural Ontario at Darryl Neudorf's Operation Northwoods studio. It's basically one open-concept room, and this worked really well for us. We could all see each other and it was easy to keep the energy up.

We recorded piece-by-piece for the most part. I would love to record a live album someday, but for the kind of pop record we wanted to make, it required a little more precision. We just work from the bottom up—drums, bass, guitars, vocals.

Were there any other songs written that were left off the album?

Why? LC: There were a couple of songs left off the album, two of which ended up on the Siren Spell EP, which was released as a lead-up to Foolish Blood.

One tune is called "Feel Alright," and we're actually really proud of it. It's one of the more rockin' songs we've ever done and the recording turned out VW:

VW: When you were writing the songs,

did you come at them in a particular way? Lyrics first? Music first?

LC: We usually come up with some kind of musical hook before we get into any lyric-writing. It could be a lead guitar line or sometimes just a chord progression. The next step is to find a vocal melody that works on top of the guitar, and then once all the melodies

great, but it just seemed out of place on the album. The other song is "I Did What I Could," which is a reworking of an old folk tune. We included this on the EP because some of our long-time fans really like it and we wanted to do a nice recording of it. (That one we actually recorded completely live.) Lastly, we demoed a song called "Nature Girl" that was pretty cool, but it ultimately got left off the album because we felt there was something missing in the arrangement. You can find "Nature Girl" on the deluxe version of Foolish Blood on iTunes.

We have a good friend from PEI named Matt McQuaid who plays bass in Holy Fuck. He lives in Orangeville, ON, which is very close to Darryl's studio. We often go to Matt for advice and he suggested that we check Darryl out. We looked into Darryl's discography and saw a lot of cool stuff like Neko Case, the Sadies, and the New Pornographers. We ended up sending him our demos and he gave us a lot of great feedback. He seemed to understand our influences and our sound, so we didn't look back from there.

LC:

If you were to trace the musical map that led you to Foolish Blood what would it look like?

LC: I'm not exactly sure how you want this answered but I'll do my best.

We tour Australia in 2010 with a couple of new songs in the set-list; in the middle of writing more songs our former lead guitar player leaves the band; we write the bulk of the record as a three-piece in Charlottetown in the fall of 2011; we demo the entire record with our buddy Dale Murray in Nova Scotia in November 2011; we seek out Darryl Neudorf in early 2012; we record 13 songs in the summer of 2012 in Mono, ON; we release the Siren Spell EP in Sept 2012; we release Foolish Blood in February 2013. V VW:

How did you decide which songs to include on the album? Did you have an idea of what you wanted Foolish Blood to be when you started, or did the finished shape emerge as the writing and recording went along?

LC: Our main focus is always just to write the best songs we can. After we have four or five in the bag, we will start looking at lyrical themes and different rhythmic patterns and start trying to give the album a cohesive feel, but we don't plan too much of that out from the start.

VW:

VW: You produced the album with Darryl Neudorf. What drew you to him and what did he bring to the process?

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The Escorts

Fri, Mar 29 With the Thrashers, Durban Poison DV8

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hen your band's name is the Escorts, you shouldn't be surprised when you receive some interesting attention online.

But, after setting up a Facebook page, the year-old Calgary punk band wasn't quite prepared for what happened.

"We'd get 'likes' from all over the world from sex workers, and male models in particular, thinking that we

were escorts in Calgary," says Sebastian Buzzalino, the Escorts' guitarist.

"So our Facebook page got deleted because they thought we were actually escorts. We had a bunch of 'likes' and photos and our songs up there, so there was a lot of fan history to lose."

But even with the loss, Buzzalino says, ultimately, the experience was pretty entertaining. "It was hilarious, a quarter of our 'likes' were sex workers."

Months later, with a new Facebook page—one that makes it clear that the group is, in fact, a band—and the

release of a debut 7" EP, The Escorts are back on track and about to embark on a three-show tour with labelmates the Thrashers.

During the shows, Buzzalino says the audience can expect a punk 'n' roll good time.

"It will be loud and dancy. We like to have a good time and make it a good party and we want everyone to have a lot of fun and stay up all night and make weird decisions at five in the morning," he says with a laugh. "We'll make sure you don't go home alone."

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Homeshake The Homeshake Tape (Fixture) 

Long ago—or maybe it was only a few years ago but growing up on Much Music and transitioning to the Internet has given me a warped sense of the passage of time—Peter Sagar perfected his "thing." The Montréal-based man behind the brilliant Sans AIDS, one third of the '90sfuzz, child-geniuses Outdoor Miners, and now recording as Homeshake, his thing has long been a charming blend of sincerity with an undercurrent of sarcastic snark. He's like the kid who makes all the best jokes about the substitute teacher, but not to her face like the kids with real behavioural

This is an album that's been a long time coming for Canadian roots-rockers The Matinée, who has been logging serious miles across the country since its beginnings in 2007, playing for audiences in local bars, air force bases and prisons. Now, the lifelong group of friends has released We Swore We'd See the Sunrise, a debut that delivers an accessible collection of roots rock through autobiographical lyrics that still remain relatable to an outside listener, grounded by strong vocal harmonies and spot-on musicianship. Stand out tracks include the album opener "Young & Lazy" and the stripped-down strains of "Who Stoned the Roses."

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Anthrax has always had fun in the downtime. The band stomps heavy on its full-length records, cutting a fearsome swath of metal with its own songs. But then, off between the big albums, the band has always thrown down covers both old and new, hitting everything from Black Sabbath and Kiss to Hüsker Dü and Radiohead on a selction of EPs and B-sides. On Anthems, the band turns its focus to the '70s, ka-chunking its way through six new covers. (Wrapping up the EP is "Crawl" from the band's Worship Music, and a

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new remix of the same song, but we're talking about the covers here.)

Rush's "Anthem" kicks the EP off, and it's a nice fit for the band. Same as the next track, AC/DC's "TNT." But what's most striking here is that the tracks that on the surface seem to have the least in common with Anthrax's rhythmic destruction turn out to be the most fun: it's in the pop sensibilities of classic rockers from Boston, Journey, Cheap Trick and Thin Lizzy that Anthrax really shines, mainly because the members sound like they're reconnecting with the place where they fell in love with music.

This is the type of release that fills in the cracks of a discography: it's not a cornerstone in the way a full-length of original songs can be, but it shows another side of the band. In that, Anthems does its job and shines a light on the fact that Anthrax is made up of a bunch of guys who just want to have some fun playing music.

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The Homeshake Tape follows along those same lines but, while it has its moments, it just doesn't hold up.

Lacking strong focus, its nine songs run into each other, a mix of minimalist drumming, ominous-undercurrent bass and jazzy, plucked guitar that shows little variation. Overtop, Sagar sings lazily.

The tape shows a flash of brilliance at the end when the final track, "Moon Woman," pulls all the disparate strands Sagar's been trying to weave into an exquisite cloth. The bass rattles, the drums pop and the guitar's jazzy licks stand in stark contrast to the aimless noodling that came before. But it's not enough to salvage an album that would have benefitted from more careful consideration.

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The Matinée We Swore We'd See the Sunrise (Light Organ)

Charles Bradley Victim of Love (Daptone)

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he year following the release of Said the Whale's sophomore album Little Mountain has been a blur of tours racking up the miles throughout North America and beyond.

Since its inception in 2007, the Vancouver indie-pop band has become known for infectious hooks and intricate compositions, earning the five-piece a 2011 Juno Award for New Group of the Year. Now the band is growing its fan base around the world, recently wrapping up a stint at SXSW in Austin, TX before hitting the road again for a North American whirl with Stars.

"It's totally wild," says frontman Tyler Bancroft of SXSW, which Said the Whale has now made two appearances at. "SXSW shows have a reputation for being super fast-paced, high-energy, lots of shit going wrong with the

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sound systems, and everything just feels drunk. From the sound system, to the venue manager, to you, to the crowd, it's all just super loose, but it adds to the energy of it."

This atmosphere is a source of stress for some bands, but Bancroft says it's all part of the experience, and if there's anything life on the road has taught him, it's that sometimes you've got to just go with it and not let the small stuff get to you.

"Touring is one of those things that you just start to figure out how to do it and learn all the little tips and tricks that are going to help you have an easier time," he adds. "Touring is potentially a fucking nightmare. Logistically it doesn't make sense; it's not the correct thing for the human body to be doing, ever ... but every time you just figure out one more way to make it easy on yourself. We're becoming a well-oiled machine in terms of touring."

to take a break from partying for a night in favour of more sleep, making sure to eat healthy meals despite being on-the-go, and generally avoiding becoming a "big ball of sickness," as Bancroft puts it. Still, the haphazard situations that arise haven't taken away from the thrill of it all for Said the Whale.

"We love playing live shows. It's a chance for us to interact with the people who listen to our music," he maintains. "Honestly, the actual performing part of touring is only 40 minutes to an hour out of 24 hours a day. That's total insanity. There's so much to be enjoyed."

Once the current tour has wrapped up at the beginning of April, Said the Whale will head right back into the studio to finish up its forthcoming album. Bancroft says it's too early in the production stage for a release date or specific details, so we'll all the have to sit tight—for now.

Sometimes this means taking a step back from action, allowing yourself

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VENUE GUIDE ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave ART STREAM CENTRE 11434-120 St AVENUE THEATRE 9030-118 Ave, 780.477.2149 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Drive, Nisku, 780.986.8522 BLIND DUCK 10416-118 Ave BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 1032982 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; info@ thebower.ca BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 1022597 St, 780.497.0011 BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca CAFÉ TIRAMISU 10750124 St CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351-118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467

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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 JOES–North 13509-127 St, 780.451.7799 O2'S–West 11066-156 St, 780.448.2255 OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 1086057 Ave PUB 1824 12402-118 Ave, 587.521.1824 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, 780.457.3118 RIC’S GRILL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 THE RIG 15203 Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.0869 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235-

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SUN Mar 31 ARTERY Duncan Kinney's 30th Birthday Party: George Ireland, the Willy Nillies, guests; 8:30pm3am; pay-what-you-can BEER HUNTER–St Albert Open stage/jam every Sun; 2-6pm BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Sun Brunch: Jim Findlay Trio; 10am-2:30pm; donations BLUES ON WHYTE Russell Jackson CAFFREY'S–Sherwood Park Sun Blues Jam: hosted by Kevin and Rita McDade and the Grey Cats Blues Band, guests every week; 5-9pm; no cover CHA ISLAND TEA CO Live on the Island: Rhea March hosts open mic and Songwriter's stage; starts with a jam session; every Sun, 7pm DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB Celtic open stage every Sun with Keri-Lynne Zwicker; 5:30pm; no cover

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

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sun: A fantastic voyage through '60s and '70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy

OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK The Campfire Hero's (acoustic rock, country, top 40); 9pm2am every Tue; no cover

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RICHARD'S PUB Typhoid Mary; 7pm

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O2 JOES–North Sun Jam hosted by Andrew White; 4pm

ATLANTIC TRAP AND GILL Open Mic with Ehren Flais

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BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sleeman Mons: Ari Shine, Adrienne Pierce; 10pm; no Cover

ON THE ROCKS Bonafide PAWN SHOP Today is the Day, Ken Mode, Black Tusk, Fight Amp; 7pm (door); $18 (adv) RENDEZVOUS PUB The River Valley Search Party; 8pm; (door); $10

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Velvet Hour: every weekday with Bill Bourne, Moses Gregg, Matt Blackie and guests; 4-7pm; no cover

RICHARD'S PUB Sun Jam hosted by Carson Cole; 4-8pm

BRIXX BAR Ruby Tue: With host Mark Feduk; $5 after 8pm; this week guests:

THE RIG Every Sun Jam hosted by Better Us than Strangers; 5-9pm

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SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Amy Wymes SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Andrew Scott WUNDERBAR Kman and the 45s, Utopian Skank; 9pm YARDBIRD SUITE Tue Night Sessions: Dan Davis Quintet; 7:30pm (door), 8pm (show); $5

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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): I was too lazy to write your horoscope this week, so I went to a website that hawks bumper stickers and copied a few of their slogans to use as your "advice." Here you go: 1) Never follow a rule off a cliff. 2) Have the courage to honour your peculiarities. 3) It's never too late to have a rebellious adolescence. 4) Criticize by creating.

5) Never make anything simple and efficient when it can be elaborate and wonderful. 6) Complex problems have simple, easy-to-understand, morally clear, wrong answers.

APRIL FOOL! I lied. I wasn't lazy at all. I worked hard to ensure that all the suggestions I just provided are in strict accordance with the astrological gestalt.

old Bart is constantly getting into trouble because of the monkey business he loves to perpetrate. His teachers punish him by compelling him to write corrective declarations on the classroom blackboard. It so happens that some of those apologetic statements should be coming out of your mouth in the coming week, Leo. They include the following: "I will not strut around like I own the place. I will not claim that I am deliciously saucy. I will not instigate revolution. I will not trade pants with others. I will not carve gods.

I will not Xerox my butt. I will not scream for ice cream." APRIL FOOL! I lied. The truth is, you SHOULD consider doing things like that. And don't apologize!

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): It's a perfect time to watch the cult classic film Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Alien, Flesh Eating, Hellbound, Zombified Living Dead. It will provide you with just the right inspiration as you deal with your own problems. APRIL FOOL! I lied. Don't you dare watch any horror movies. You're in a phase when you can make dramatic progress in transforming long-standing dilemmas—but only if you surround yourself with positive, uplifting influences.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): The sport of ferret legging is an endurance contest. Participants vie to determine who can last longest as a live ferret runs loose inside their pants. The current record is five hours and 26 minutes, held by a retired British miner. But I predict that a Virgo will soon break that mark.

Could it be you? APRIL FOOL! I misled you. I don't really think you should put a ferret in your pants, not even to win a contest. It is possible, however, that there will soon be a pleasurable commotion happening in the area below your waist.

And I suspect that you will handle it pretty well.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): The coming week will be an excellent time to wash dishes, clean bathrooms, scrub floors, vacuum carpets, wash windows, do laundry and clean the refrigerator. The more drudge work you do, the better you'll feel.

APRIL FOOL! I lied. The truth is, you now have astrological licence to minimize your participation in boring tasks like the ones I named. It's high time for you to seek out the most interesting work and play possible.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): You know what would be a really cool prank to pull off this April Fool's Day? Arrange to have rubber tires airlifted into a dormant volcano, then set them on fire. Smoke will pour out the top. Everyone who lives nearby will think the volcano is getting ready to explode. Don't forget to videotape the event for YouTube. Later, when you reveal the hoax, your video will go viral and you'll become a celebrity. APRIL FOOL! I don't really think you should try this prank. It's old hat. Back in 1974, a guy named Porky Bickar did it to Alaska's Mt Edgecumbe. Here's my real oracle for you: it is a good time to boost your visibility by doing something funny. Or to build your brand by being mischievous. Or to demonstrate your power by showing off your sense of humour.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): In the animated TV show The Simpsons, 10-year-

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LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): Risk being a crazed fool for love, Libra. Get as wild and extreme as you've ever been if it helps you rustle up the closeness you're hungry for. Get down on your knees and beg, or climb a tree with a megaphone and profess your passion. APRIL FOOL! I was exaggerating a little. It's true that now is an excellent time to be aggressive about going after the intimate connection you want, but I suggest you accomplish that by being ingenious and imaginative rather than crazy and extreme.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): British comedy team Monty Python did a sketch in which a policeman apprehends a criminal. The bad guy says, "Yes, I did it, but society is to blame."

And the cop says, "Right! We'll arrest them instead." You should adopt this attitude, Scorpio. Blame everyone else but yourself for your problems and flaws. APRIL FOOL! I lied. In fact, the truth is the opposite of what I said. It's time to take more responsibility for your actions.

Bravely accept the consequences of what you've done—with your sense of humour fully engaged and a lot of compassion for yourself.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): Banzai skydiving is a step beyond ordinary skydiving. To do it, you hurl your folded-up parachute out of the airplane, wait a while and then leap

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into mid-air yourself. If all goes well, you free-fall in the direction of your parachute and catch up to it. Once you grab it, you strap it on and open the chute, ideally before you hit the earth. This is the kind of beyondballsy activity that would be perfect for you right now. APRIL FOOL! In truth, I don't recommend banzai skydiving now or ever. Plain old skydiving is fine, though. The same principle applies in relation to any adventurousness you're considering: push yourself, yes, but not to an absurd degree.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): Should you relocate to Kazakhstan and grow sunflowers? Is it time to think about getting a job in Uruguay and living there for the next 10 years? Can you see yourself building your dream home in Morocco on a bluff overlooking the Atlantic Ocean? I suggest you spend some quality time thinking way, way outside the box about where you belong on this earth. APRIL FOOL! I went a bit overboard in my recommendations. It is true that you should brainstorm about the kind of home you want to create and enjoy in the future. But that probably means revising and refining your current situation rather than leaving it all behind and starting over.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): Your brain has a bigger capacity than you realize. According to Paul Reber, professor of psychology, it can hold the equivalent of three million hours' worth of television shows.

As I'm sure you know, your brain is not even close to being full of that much data. And in accordance with the current astrological omens, I suggest you cram in as much new material as possible. APRIL FOOL! I told you a half-truth. While it's correct that now is an excellent time to pour more stuff into your brain, you should be highly discerning about what you allow in there. Seek out the richest ideas, the most stimulating information, the best stories.

Avoid trivial crap.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): July 2012 was a sad time in the history of mythic creatures. The National Ocean Service, a US government agency, made a formal proclamation that there are no such things as mermaids. But I predict those stuffy know-it-alls will soon get a big shock, when a Piscean scientist presents evidence that mermaids are indeed real. APRIL FOOL! I was exaggerating. I don't really foresee the discovery of a flesh-and-blood mermaid—by a Pisces or anyone else. I do, however, suspect that your tribe is now highly adept at extracting useful revelations and inspirations from dreams, visions and fantasies—including at least one that involves a coven of Buddhist ninja clown mermaids. V

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The Banff World Media Festival (BANFF) is the world's foremost television and digital media content creation event, bringing together over a thousand television professionals from dozens of countries. In a conference setting at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel. As a beneficial catalyst for growth and prosperity in Canada's television industry, BANFF could not happen without our invaluable team of volunteers!

The event will be taking place from June 9 – 12, 2013. Please have a look at our website for more information. www.banffmediafestival.com Volunteers required for St. Albert's RunWild Marathon May 5, 2013 www.runwild.ca WALK TO FIGHT ARTHRITIS June 9th at Laurier Park Event day volunteers needed, for more info or to register online please visit: www.walktofightarthritis.ca Welcome Home, a befriending program that provides companionship to recently rehoused individuals, is seeking volunteers to engage newly housed individuals in activities that reduce loneliness and isolation. Activities may include going for coffee, a walk, or a movie. Time commitment: 4-8 hours/ month for 6 months.

Contact: Jacqueline.Bass@catholicsocial services.ab.ca

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Acting Classes

$1000-$6500 off tuition for the March Acting Program Up to 50% OFF! Apply at: www.vadastudios.com

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Artist to Artist

Akokiniskway Gallery of Rosebud, AB is currently accepting submissions and is sending out a call to artists from around the province and at all stages in their art careers. For more information on this call please contact the curator, Valerie Speer at vals@rosebudmerc.com Annual Art Acquisition and Youth Art Acquisition program are due in April each year.

Submit your forms to: Strathcona County Gallery @ 501 120 - 501 Festival Avenue Sherwood Park, AB T8A 4X3 Fax 780-410-8580 (Attention: Permanent Art Collection Committee) Deadline Apr 25 Info: http://www.strathcona.ca Call for Featured Artists - 2014 The Allied Arts Council of Spruce Grove welcomes all Alberta Artists to submit a proposal as a Feature Artist for a solo or group show to be held at the Spruce Grove Art Gallery located in the Melcor Cultural Centre at 35 – 5th Avenue, Spruce Grove. The portion of our gallery dedicated to our Feature Artists is about 32 feet of wall space. Application dealine is June 30, 2013. For details on application criteria please visit www.alliedartscouncil.com Call For Submissions Every Victim Matters Youth Art Show The fourth annual Every Victim Matters youth art show will be on display from April 21 – 27, 2013.

Last year the exhibition featured drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, video, rap, poetry, music, and art performances from youth.

The perspectives of youth matter!

We want your voice heard!

Deadline for Artwork Submissions & Forms: Wednesday April 3, 2013 One submission per artist.

Each artwork must have a completed form upon submission to qualify. Contact: Hannah Heaton, Project Manager E-mail: everyvictimmatters@gmail.com Telephone: (780) 616-0949

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Artist to Artist

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: VISUALEYEZ 2013 The fourteenth annual Visualeyez festival of performance art happens from 10–16 September 2013 in the downtown core of Edmonton, Alberta, exploring on the curatorial theme of Vulnerability.

A conversation that begins by asking artists to explore issues around the curatorial theme of Vulnerability on an individual level and to confront issues of access, the body and social anxiety.

Proposals should include: a CV; artist statement; a detailed description of the work you wish to present, or explore; and support material which can include images, video, print or digital documentation of your work, catalogues, and press.

The deadline for submission is Friday, 31 May 2013, Proposals by email to: todd.janes@latitude53.org Please be courteous of image size and materials that you are sending. Please place Visualeyez 2013 submission in the subject line.

Calling all Artists! movement, music, visual, theatre, comedy, performing arts!

The Good Women Dance Society is calling for submissions for our 4th annual “What’s Cooking?”.

“What’s Cooking?” is an informal work-in-progress event in which artists get the chance to present their work and engage in valuable feedback discussions with the audience about their work. Audience members will be given written surveys about each piece of work, to both comment and critique the work shown, and there will be a short question and answer period following each piece.

The performance occurs on Sunday April 28th 2013, location TBA. The submission deadline is Friday March 15th 2013 at midnight and we will notify applicants of our decision by April 1st 2013.

EAC Call to Artists :: Ramble in the Bramble An opportunity exists for a local artist to design and build a transitory public artwork as part of a group of seven artists throughout the key design phases of the project. Artists will then produce an environmental art component in Whitemud Park, which will be exhibited in September 2013. A sound art/audio tour will also be created for the walk.

The selected artists will participate in a one day workshop together to develop their proposals.

Deadline: No later than 4:30 pm, April 18, 2013 For more information, contact Robert Harpin at the Edmonton Arts Council: phone (780)424.2787 ext. 231 or email: rharpin@edmontonarts.ca EDMONTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (EIFF) : Call for Entries now OPEN! Alberta filmmakers and High School Student filmmakers pay no submission fee.

Accepting shorts, features, documentaries, animation, and a new category that will make you want to find a warm coat – “SNOW, MAN”.

Film submission deadline is June 15. Submit online at edmontonfilmfest.com Prairie Wood Design Awards 2013 Call for nominations!

The Annual Prairie Wood Design Awards celebrate excellence in wood construction in the Prairie Region and the Territories.

Nomination forms and details are available online and are due June 15, 2013 wood-works.org/alberta

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McMullen Gallery - Call for Submissions We will be selecting 4 or 5 shows for the 2014 – 2015 exhibiting season. Submissions may be emailed or mailed and the deadline is Tuesday April 2nd @ 4pm. The McMullen Gallery is open to a wide variety of styles; both traditional and contemporary approaches that:Present highquality original artwork that is colourful, joyful, uplifting, soothing and / or inspiring.

Appeals to visitors of various ages, social, and cultural backgrounds, and engage our visitors who include hospital patients, staff and visitors.

For further information please email: diana.youngkennedy@albertahealth services.ca

The Allied Arts Council of Spruce Grove welcomes all Alberta Artists to submit a proposal as a Feature Artist for 2014 for a solo or group show to be held at the Spruce Grove Art Gallery located in the Melcor Cultural Centre at 35 – 5th Avenue, Spruce Grove.

The deadline for submission is June 30, 2013. Please see their website for full details alliedac@telus.net.

The Giovanni Fine Art Gallery is putting together an artist of the month feature that will highlight one Edmonton area arist's work, changing on a monthly basis beginning in January 2013.

Please submit your digital portfolio of 3 to 5 pieces that highlights your various styles and mediums. All work must be child/family friendly. Email to Emily Dymock, school@giovannimusic.ca or call her at 780-489-9764.

The Harcourt House Art Market features over 25 Alberta artists whom are awarded a 6’ table to make all their own. We encourage all emerging/ experimental artists to submit and we open to all varieties of mediums including but not limited to the following: painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, mixed media, collage, performance (oh yes), video, photography, etc.

Date: May 25th, 2013 Time: 2 – 6pm Location: Harcourt House Gallery, 10215 – 112 Street Please email all submissions and submission questions to: marketsubmissions@gmail.com (one email per submission) All submissions must be received by the Harcourt House Artist Run Centre by April 20th, 2013 @ midnight.

Only accepted exhibitors will be contacted.

The Mikisew Cree First Nation (MCFN) in the community of Fort Chipewyan, Alberta is holding an Open Call for Design Proposals to select individual artists or artist-led creative teams to conceive, create and install sitespecific works of public art at the Elder Care Centre (currently under construction) located on MacKenzie Avenue, Fort Chipewyan. Two art installations are required and proposals may address either one or both items.

These include: 1. Eagle Canopy (Exterior) 2. Medicine Wheel (Interior) Deadline for Submissions: May 15th, 2013 For more info please email: bills@group2.ca University City Public Sculpture Competition: University City Condo's in Calgary has launched a Sculpture Competition that is open to students to established artists. The budget is $100,000 CAD, the deadline for submission is June 1, 2013, and it is for Albertan artists only. More information about the competition can be obtained from the website. http://www.universitycity.ca/sculpturecompetition

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BASS PLAYER AND DRUMMER WANTED INFL. JUDAS PRIEST, IRON MAIDEN & GUNS N' ROSES GUITAR PLAYER/SINGER LOOKING TO FORM BAND 780-479-8766 Guitarists, bassists, vocalists, pianists and drummers needed for good paying teaching jobs.

Please call 780-901-7677 Heart Of The City Festival Auditions for 2013 Musicians who live, work, volunteer, or go to school in the heart of the city are invited to audition for our 2013 festival. All ages, genres, and experience levels welcome!

Please email heartcitymusic@gmail.com to book your audition slot - The evening of Thursday, April 4th and all day Saturday, April 6th.

Pacific Cafe 10876 97 St NW, Edmonton, Alberta T5H2M5 Original band looking for bass player and drummer. Have songs written and a gig booked for May 4. Influences include PJ Harvey, Radiohead, and Cocteau Twins. Call Andrea at 780 488 2596 or email at acwhite08@hotmail.com Seeking Lead Guitarist For Rock project. All original material, Acoustic duo to start, a full band is the goal. There are 2 albums of material ready to record. For samples check suedesmusic.webs.com and follow the contact link if you are interested.

Singer /songwriter looking for mature musicians to collaborate with in songwriting and performing.

Influences- Jazz, pop, country and blues. Please e-mail me at: cdguen@telus.net.

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Youth Music Mentorship Weekend April 6 & 7, 2013 We invite youth between the ages of 10 and 22 to take part in a full day of Songwriting and Live Performance Workshops on Saturday from 10 am to 6 pm.

On Sunday, participants will get to practice what they've learned by performing on stage for a special, free, 2 pm concert!

This exciting weekend will be facilitated by Rhea March, and a collection of Alberta's fastest rising young stars including: Braden Gates, Jenie Thai, Joe Nolan, Brian McLeod and more!

For more information, or to register for this FREE weekend of fun, contact Rhea March at rhea@schoolofsong.com.

Visit the March Music Inc. Website at www.marchmusic.ca

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GUN & SPORTSMAN AUCTION. March 30, 10 a.m. Firearms, ammo, parts accessories, and more! Unreserved! No buyers fee! Wainwright, Alberta. Scribner Auction 780-842-5666. Details: www.scribnernet.com.

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COLLECTOR CAR AUCTION. 3rd Annual Edmonton Motor Show Classic Car Auction. April 19 - 21. Edmonton Expo Centre. Over 75,000 spectators. Consign today. 1-888-296-0528 ext. 102; EGauctions.com.

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ANTIQUE SHOW - Western Canada’s longest running collectors show - Antiques, collectibles, and pop culture. 38th Annual Wild Rose Antique Collectors Show & Sale. Sellers from across Canada. Special collectors displays. Antique evaluations by Canadian Antiques Roadshow appraiser Frank Hall - $12 per item. Good Friday, Mar. 29, 9 - 5 p.m.; Sat., Mar. 30, 10 - 5 p.m. Edmonton Expo Centre, Edmonton. 780-437-9722; www. wildroseantiquecollectors.ca.

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Make Something Edmonton needs a kick in the queer direction Make Something Edmonton (MSE) ership roles. And to be honest, I'm mal conversations around kitchen was launched on March 21. In case not surprised that it's mostly young tables. I think MSE is the perfect opyou missed it, MSE is Edmonton white folks coming forward because portunity for us to stop talking and boosterism at its finest. But rather it's easy for us to speak up because start building on the great people than empty words and shallow geswe're pretty sure that other folks are and organizations that we have in tures, MSE is grounded in real going to listen. I'm not going to our community. projects that showcase this speak on behalf of any othSo over the next few weeks, I am city and its talented peoer communities, but to all going to put on my thinking cap ple. It was born out of a you queers in Edmonton: and come up with a project that I om eekly.c @vuew desire to answer the queswe need to get involved want to launch. And I want you to ashley Ashley h and queer the hell out of help because heaven knows I don't tion: why Edmonton? Why rg Drybu should people choose to live, this project. speak for our whole community. create and learn here? Instead For those of you who read this And maybe you feel ostracized and of a traditional branding strategy, column regularly, you might recall alienated by projects like this and the organizers starting talking to that I wrote a column at the begindon't have the time or the energy Edmontonians and the Make Something strategy was born.

If you do have the energy and the interest, get in Essentially, the project is a crowdtouch and let's show Edmonton just how awesome sourcing platform—a mini Kickour queer community is. starter if you will—where folks can post their project ideas and get help in the form of money, volunteers, readers or whatever else they need.

It sounds like a great way to foster ning of January that called for queers to wave the diversity flag and be community building and create supin Edmonton to do something to the token whoever and just don't port for local ideas. The only probhelp make our community a better want to engage. That's totally fine. lem? It's mostly full of young (posplace. Over the past few months, But if you do have the energy and sibly straight) white people. there's been a growing conversation the interest, get in touch and let's about queer spaces in this city—I've show Edmonton just how awesome Don't get me wrong: even though talked about it here and so has the our queer community is. Or betEdmonton skews fairly young, I Pride Centre's new public education ter yet, suggest your own project. am still happy that so many young program Queer Lens (have you been Let's have 10! Instead of making people (under 50 years) are comyet? It's every Wednesday at 7 pm) something, Edmonton, let's make ing forward and stepping into leadand I know there's been more inforEdmonton queer. V

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30 "South Park" protagonist 32 Understand fully 34 Dropped a line 36 Longtime Harry Belafonte label 39 Polite 41 Shakespeare nickname 43 Bizarre 44 Tahrir Square's country 46 Disturbed 47 "If it feels right, do it" 49 Public regard 51 Caustic substances 52 Scotch mixer 54 Chew out 56 Game where you tug on your ear 59 Smokin' 63 Rand of "Atlas Shrugged" 64 2013 dance all over YouTube, based on Mahler?

66 Was winning 67 Went on the radio 68 Toss option 69 "Gangnam Style" rapper 70 Times to eat cake, casually 71 Dark-skinned wine grape

8 Pole dance?

9 Loose-leaf selections 10 Stud fee?

11 Seriously irritate, based on Verdi?

12 Like a rind 13 Make pig noises 18 "Bridesmaids" director Paul 22 Diamond stat 24 Word before created or elected 26 Breakfast brand 27 Street ___ 28 Useful, based on Haydn?

30 Numerical suffix 31 Diver's place 33 Banana shell 35 Weasel's cousin 37 Plains language 38 Contributes 40 Driving force 42 Did some farm work 45 "The Pelvis" 48 Rowboat mover 50 Chicken ___ (dish on "The Sopranos") 52 Make some money off those tickets 53 "I just remembered..."

54 Quotable Yogi 55 Tries out 57 "Moby Dick" captain 58 "Pore Jud Is ___" (Rodgers and Hammerstein song) 60 It'll grow on you 61 Tulsa's st.

62 New age musician/former TV host John 65 Alt-weekly workers, briefly ©2013 Jonesin' Crosswords

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Down 1 Get on tape 2 Berry in juices 3 Sea bird 4 Stake out by the road, perhaps 5 Reporter April, friend of the Ninja Turtles 6 Great Leap Forward name 7 Jovial weatherman

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Virgin bro

Hiring out a sex worker for an agoraphobic sibling and going from curvy to skinny gals My brother is 22-years-old and menway," says Siouxsie Q, a San Francistally ill with social anxiety on the scale co–based sex worker and the creator of agoraphobia (officially diagnosed). and host of The WhoreCast, a weekly He's made significant progress in the podcast that seeks to humanize peopast few years, but he's stuck on the ple working in the sex industry. "And fact that he's a virgin and is conI want to reassure her that the E G vinced that he's not going to right provider is out there A SAV make any real social progfor her brother." ress until that's no longer a Some will object to your m o ekly.c vuewe fact. His particular problem savagelove@ hiring a sex worker to help Dan makes it impossible to reason your brother out, of course, avage but you can tell those people S with him—he's a little Asperger's-y—and he is convinced that he to go fuck themselves—or you will only be able to pursue a job, have can tell them to rent The Sessions. In a social life and tackle other obstacles that acclaimed 2012 film, John Hawkes after he loses his virginity. Financially, played a poet who is paralyzed from it would be easy for me to drive him the neck down. Helen Hunt played a to Nevada and eliminate the virginity sexual surrogate—a clinical/glorified issue. He's asked our mom to do so. My sex worker—that the poet, with the family isn't hung up on "purity" where blessing of his priest, hires to take his sex and virginity are concerned, so virginity. No one had a problem with we're open to this. I don't have any illuthe sex-work aspect of The Sessions sions that this will solve his problems, because Hawkes' character is so probut my mom and I are hopeful that it foundly and obviously disabled that would eliminate an excuse that's keepaudiences sympathized with his plight: ing him from taking positive steps forit would be difficult, if not impossible, ward. Should I offer to take him? Or for him to get laid any other way. force him to sort it out on his own deWhile Hawkes' disability in The Sesspite his crippling social issues? sions was immediately apparent, SIS, Socially Interactive Sister your brother's disability is no less real for being invisible. So I don't see why "I want to commend SIS for considanyone should object to your brother ering the services of a sex worker in getting a little professional assistance such a positive and nonjudgmental with his plight.

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So hire a sex worker for your brother, SIS, if you think it will help—even if it just eliminates an excuse that's blocking his progress—and there's no need to drive to Nevada. Siouxsie suggests you look for an "experienced" (read: somewhat older) escort with an online presence in your area. A sex worker who's over 25 or 30 and maintains her own website—and has write-ups on escort review sites—is not just far less likely to be trafficked or exploited, she's far more likely to be experienced and patient. She may have even worked with men like your brother before.

"A friend had a client who used her services to 'practise' dating," Siouxsie says. "Over time, the client gained enough confidence to start dating. I hope SIS's brother has a wonderful experience, and that boosts his confidence and helps him move forward in his life, too."

So what do you do once you locate a prospective sex worker in you area?

"Send an email explaining the situation and your brother's special needs," says Siouxsie. "There are sex workers out there who specialize in working with clients with disabilities, and many have experience working with clients who might be very similar to her brother," and with a little searching, you should be able to find one. If the first woman you contact doesn't work with men like your brother, she may be able to refer you to someone who does.

Once you find your local Helen Hunt, SIS, prep your brother for the experience. "Give him a pep talk," says Siouxsie. "Let him know about etiquette and protocol: no haggling, no prying for personal information, his personal hygiene needs to be impeccable and he should know the basics on protection and STI transmission. Above all, he needs to treat her with respect."

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I'm a straight guy who recently got out of a long-term relationship. Best sex of my life: physically, she rocked my world. Unfortunately, she rocked my world mentally, too. It was a toxic relationship for both of us, but we couldn't keep our hands off each other.

We ended things a few months ago. I finally feel ready to date again, and last week I met this drop-dead gorgeous girl. Intelligent, successful, positive— an unbelievable catch. She even pursued me! But there is just one thing, and it's killing me: she is a skinny girl.

In the past, I've always dated women with curves. This girl is gorgeous and athletic but she's also skinny. Am I objectifying women's bodies here? Am I fetishizing curvy girls too much? What is my dick thinking here?

My Dick, My Annoyance The dick wants what it wants.

That said, MDMA, sometimes the dick wants more than the guy attached to it realizes. You may discover, once you start fucking around with this girl, that your dick must have curves and this girl is just too skinny for you. Or you may discover that you want her so bad—that you're so attracted to her—that your dick can make the leap for her alone, ie, she's the lone exception to your curvy-girl rule. Or you may discover, as so many men have discovered before you, that your dick wants more than one narrow type. Sometimes it takes meeting someone wonderful who isn't the ideal you've locked onto to realize that your dick was into more than one thing, but your brain—your bigger and more powerful sex organ—was shutting your dick down.

Here's hoping your dick surprises you, MDMA. I'm a 23-year-old bi female from Vancouver, BC, and I've been heavily subidentified since I started having sex nine years ago. (Don't worry—the age of consent was 14 then!) But lately, with the helpful guidance of my lovely boyfriend, I've been realizing I have a very pronounced Dom streak. Do you have any pointers on starting out? I read The New Topping Book by Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy, and it was helpful, but I was wondering if you had any tips. I'm pretty uncomfortable topping my boyfriend—he's always been the top and I'm nervous about doing it wrong.

Another Novice Top Give yourself permission to do it "wrong," ANT. I don't mean "wrong" in the accidentally-injure-or-kill-the-boyfriend sense of doing BDSM wrong. I mean "wrong" in the go-your-own-way sense. You'll be less nervous about topping if you relax and give yourself permission to be yourself, ie, nervous and inexperienced, a little awkward in your new role. Remember: you don't have to be the perfect snarling dominatrix the very first time you pick up a crop. You don't have to be a snarling dominatrix ever, ANT, if that's not who you want to be. Check out the wonderful Beyond the Valley of the FemDoms—beyondthevalleyofthefemdoms.tumblr.com—for some insight on being your own dominant woman, not some FemDom porn cliché. Good luck! V Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage. @fakedansavage on Twitter

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