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SUICIDE

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BY THE NUMBERS

ALBERTA

513 suicides *

75% male *

25%* female

6886

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attempted suicides (admitted to hospital or ER)

610

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Deaths by suicide nationally compared to other types of deaths

60%* female 40% male *

YOUNG PEOPLE

33

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suicide

traffic accidents

homicide

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2618

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Albertans under age 18 died of suicide

Suicide attempts among street youth are 10.3X that of the national average for Canadian youth.

3890

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Suicide ranked as 9th leading cause of death in Canada in 2009, but among young people aged 15 to 34 it was the second leading cause.

Suicide death rate comparisons across Canada

GENDER (SUICIDE RATES PER 100K PEOPLE)

AGE

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Canada is not so polite anymore. We are a country in a position to address what is happening because of climate change, both at home and abroad, and to take a leadership role in advancing techniques to fight its effects, but our government hasn't done anything. In fact, the latest slap in the face to other countries and to Canadians by the Conservatives was the sneaky withdrawal from the United Nations' Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)—the "announcement" was found by Canadian Press reporters on a website on March 26. The UNCCD wasn't even notified until two days later and representatives were naturally upset to hear that out of all 194 UN members, Canada was the first and only to withdraw its support for the UNCCD. Desertification is when the desert starts taking over once-viable agricultural land. The soil erodes and plants dry up. These drylands are home to one-sixth of the world's population and affect 110 countries—Canada included. It's not just clean water and air we should be concerned about, the soil affects our lives as well. But by pulling out of this convention, our government is saying that it doesn't want to be accountable to Canadians or to members of the UN for managing the land properly; it's more profitable—to those whose pockets are getting lined, anyway—to turn a blind eye to the greenhouse-gas emissions coming from the tar sands and ignore any voices of reason that are concerned about its environmental impact.

Finance Minister Jim Baird said his reason for withdrawing from the UNCCD was that the convention is just a talkfest where nothing gets done. He said it wasn't worth the $350 000 Canada was spending (3.1 percent of the UNCCD's budget). Harper said that less than one-fifth of that money was used for programming. In fact, the amount Canada is contributing in 2013 is only $315 000, not $350 000, and our government has never been concerned about keeping tabs on a few hundred thousands dollars before, so this seems like an odd place to start. Canada is even part of a 10-year strategy begun in 2007 to make the convention more effective and to institute cutting-edge technology. Nothing like sticking to your commitments.

Opponents of the Conservatives have spoken out against this withdrawal. Liberal MP Stéphane Dion asked why Canada is not using its leadership to make the UNCCD work better and Green Party leader Elizabeth May called Canada a rogue state like the North Korea of climate change.

At the next convention on April 9, the UNCCD says they are going to discuss the first-ever costbenefit analysis of desertification, land degradation and drought. The purpose of this organization is to bring ideas to the table, ensuring that countries are not isolated because of desertification. While the UN in general has faced criticism in the past, it's still the most influential place where countries can come to interact with one another on such important issues. The decision by the Conservatives to withdraw without any consultation affects every Canadian and is basically telling us that what goes on in Ottawa is none of our business. V

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NEWS // SUICIDE

Staying silent on suicide

Fear of encouraging copycats if it is mentioned could be part of the problem

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n the last decade, Edmonton's arts and activist scene has lost more friends to suicide than we'd care to remember. Due to the generally observed practice of media refraining from reporting incidents, it's possible we've lost more friends to suicide than we even know. The few reports we can recall are couched in terms that avoid coming right out and saying what a few already know and others are probably guessing: it was suicide.

We're told that if we report, we'll generate copycats. We believe this.

And the darkness grows.

Alberta consistently places in the top three of the number of suicides reported by Statistics Canada. We lose more people to suicide each year than to diabetes, Alzheimer's or pneumonia. The Vital Statistics database for 2009 shows that 207 Albertans lost their lives to heart attack, stroke and all cancers combined (excluding gender-specific cancers). That same year, 483 died at their own hand. Shocked? Consider the silence.

The idea that reporting suicides carries a high risk of copycats gained currency in the '70s when New York sociologist David Phillips observed that the number of suicides among Americans increased 12 percent in the month following

reports of Marilyn Monroe's death.

He identified similar spikes following 26 of the 33 suicides reported on the front page of The New York Times between 1948 and 1967.

Phillips' widely accepted conclusion stated that suicide was contagious, and it even had a name: 'The Werther Effect'. In Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1774 novella The Sorrows of Young Werther, the hero commits suicide following rejection by the woman he loves. An indeterminate number of reports that Goethe's work was triggering imitation suicides concerned authorities enough that it was banned in Italy, Germany and Denmark.

Despite more recent examples than Monroe (think Kurt Cobain) and a fictional character from Germany created around the time of the Industrial Revolution, this idea of contagion persists.

The Canadian Psychiatric Association offers journalists guidelines to follow when reporting suicide. Adopted by the CPA in 2008, they are designed to decrease the risk of copycat incidents among youth, who are most vulnerable to suicide contagion.

The guidelines contain a long list of "Don'ts." Don't run photos of the deceased. Don't use the

word "suicide" in headlines. Don't place such stories on the front page.

Don't admire the deceased, even if they were admirable. Don't say suicide is unexplainable, even if it is.

The Canadian Mental Health Association reports that the stigma attached to mental illness is so pervasive that people who suspect that they might be mentally ill are unwilling to seek help for fear of what others may think. What if the silence around suicide is part of the problem?

French sociologist Émile Durkheim refuted the notion that imitation led to increased levels of suicide. His 1897 study found that social isolation—more than any other factor— led to increases in the suicide rate.

Durkheim concluded that suicide rates were lower for people with strong relationships—for married people compared to those who were single, and for people with children compared to the childless. Current Statistics Canada data indicate these things hold true today. Can there be any demographic suffering more from social isolation than those suffering f r o m mental illness?

Last year's widely publicized suicide of BC teenager Amanda Todd and the recent spike of teen suicides in Red Deer should give the CPA reason to reconsider their guidelines.

The media coverage following Todd's death was relentless, motivating Vancouver school trustees to pass a motion calling upon the province's news organizations to follow the CPA's guidelines. BC's Education Ministry emailed a memo to school districts across the province, urging them not to show Todd's video.

Today, that video is approaching 7.5 million views, steadily rising long after the story of the teen's death left the news cycle. The fears of school administrators were never realized.

Contagion did not occur and both organizations showed how terribly out of touch they are with today's youth.

Recent media reports about the alarming number of teen suicides

A few weeks back, the Edmonton arts community lost another friend to suicide. Her sister is ready to break the silence; her mother is not, so no names will be used here. They don't need to be. She was beautiful, smart, funny. Guidelines be damned, she was admired. She also suffered from what were, at times, debilitating mental health issues. She sought and received treatment in the past.

This last time, the wait was too long.

Like the vast majority of suicides, our friend wasn't trying to end her life.

She was trying to end her pain. With pain, a day can seem like forever.

With suicide ideation and no access to treatment, 24 hours can quickly become forever.

"But where's the public outcry?" her sister asks. "Where's the demand for

The Vital Statistics database for 2009 shows that 207 Albertans lost their lives to heart attack, stroke and all cancers combined (excluding genderspecific cancers). That same year, 483 died at their own hand.

in Red Deer should also raise doubts. The editor of the Red Deer Advocate noted that a man called to ask why they hadn't run a story about the fact that seven teens had ended their life in six months.

It was the first she'd heard of it.

While there might be a contagion at play in Red Deer, it most certainly didn't rest at the feet of the media.

The CPA is currently reviewing the guidelines.

But their coauthor, Laurence Katz, associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Manitoba, has said in media interviews that they are unlikely to be changed in a major way. This is unfortunate.

In October 2011, the House of Commons passed an opposition motion urging the government "to work cooperatively with the provinces, territories, representative organizations from First Nations, Inuit and Métis people, and other stakeholders to establish and fund a National Suicide Prevention Strategy." Despite Todd's widely covered death by suicide, we're still waiting for anything to happen a year later. If statistics hold steady, over 5000 Canadians will have taken their own lives since that motion was passed. And still, one in three Cana-

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dians who require mental health services have their needs go unmet.

research dollars and health-care beds and an active response strategy to deal with people with mental illness, people who act impulsively?"

She says part of the problem is that addressing these needs doesn't always offer decision-makers tangible, measurable results like, say, hip surgery. I think, but do not say, that directing money towards a topic nobody wants to talk about doesn't generate nearly as many votes as a photo opportunity involving a new hockey rink built with Economic Action Plan dollars.

Goethe said he wanted to write about a man who opens himself fully to the urgings of nature, both inside and out. He succeeded in leaps and bounds. Werther has an incredible sense of himself and the world around him is unmistakable. Was the fictional hero the first young man to encounter a pistol while suffering a broken heart? Highly unlikely.

When it comes to suicide, we might be better served by taking guidance from some other words Goethe wrote: "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."

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Land of the morning calm may have storm on the horizon The US-South Korean military nuclear strike. And last Friday exercises will continue until the it sent two B-2 bombers all the end of this month and the North way from Missouri non-stop to Korean threats to do something drop bombs on some uninhabited terrible if they do not stop grow islands near North Korea, just to more hysterical by the day. Last remind Pyongyang that it can. week the Great Successor, Kim It's all still just a charade, a Jong-un, was shown signing a spring display of military cadecree that ordered North Kopacities by two rival armed rea's long-range missile forces forces that could as well be rutto be ready to launch against ting deer. The United States the United States, while would not even play this senior military officers game if the logic of looked on approvingly. both international and ly.com domestic politics did k On the wall behind e e w e@vue gwynn Kim was a map, helpfulnot oblige it to respond e Gwynn ly labelled "US Mainland to the increasingly rabid r e Dy Strike Plan," that showed North Korean threats. But the missile trajectories from it is playing nevertheless, and North Korea to Hawaii, Los Angethe risk of miscalculation is les, Washington, DC, and Austin, quite serious.

Texas. (Why Austin? Doesn't he like indie rock?) It was a scene The North Korean military doubtstraight out of the villain's lair in less understand that they must an early James Bond movie, exnot get into a nuclear war with cept that they'd forgotten to set the United States, but they may it in a cave. believe that their dozen or so These threats are so palpanuclear weapons make it safe for bly empty that the instinct of them to use conventional force both the Pentagon and the US without facing American nuclear State Department is just to igretaliation. And they do have rathnore them. North Korea has no er a lot of conventional military operational missile that can force at their disposal. reach even western Alaska, no Kim Jong-un's threats are being miniaturized nuclear warhead exposed as bluffs almost daily— to put on such a missile and no the US-South Korean military exlong-range targeting capability. ercises go on as though he had But the politics of the situation said nothing—and he may ultidemands that the US governmately feel obliged to do somement respond seriously to every thing to restore his credibility. It threat, however foolish. would probably be just a limited So next year the US government local attack somewhere, but in will spend another billion dolthe current atmosphere, with lars or so to place 14 more antiboth Seoul and Washington deballistic missile sites in Alaska, termined not to submit to psypresumably to protect the Alaschological blackmail, that could kan west coast and the Aleutian escalate rapidly to full-scale conIslands from a North Korean ventional war.

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It would be a major war, for although North Korea's weapons are mostly last-generation, that is not such a big handicap in ground warfare as it is in the air or at sea. North Korean troops are well-trained and there are over a million of them. Moreover, South Korea is compelled to defend well forward because holding on to Seoul, only 50 km from the frontier, is a political imperative. That makes it quite vulnerable to breakthroughs.

The North Koreans would attack south in a three-pronged thrust, accompanied by Special Forces operations deep in South Korean territory, just as they did in 1950.

The geography gives them few alternatives.

US-South Korean strategy would also echo 1950 – '51: contain the North Korean attack as close to the border as possible, and then counter-attack up the west coast on an axis heading north through Kaesong to Pyongyang. That would once again be accompanied by a big amphibious landing well behind the North Korean front, this time probably at Wonsan on North Korea's east coast.

Even if the North Korean air force were effectively destroyed in the first couple of days, as it probably would be, this would be a highly mobile, hard-fought land war in densely populated territory involving high casualties and massive destruction. The world has not seen such a war for more than 50 years now. We really don't need to see it again. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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JUSTICE FOR MAHJOUB: 12 YEAR TOUR • Telus Centre, Rm 134, U of A • supportmahjoub.org/ background/summary-2/ • After twelve years detained without charge, Mr. Mahjoub is taling about his demand for justice, with Syed Hussan. Presented by APIRG and ECAWAR (Edmonton Coalition Against War and Racism) • Thu, Apr 11, 7-9pm

MATH AND PLANET EARTH LECTURE • Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science (CCIS), U of A, Rm L2-190 CCIS • 780.492.3394 • The Mathematics of Crime with Dr Andrea Bertozzi • Apr 5, 5pm • Free

OPERA 101–TCHAIKOVSKY'S EUGENE ONEGIN • 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

PUBLIC INTEREST ALBERTA'S CONFERENCE • Chateau Louis Conference Centre,11727 Kingsway • 780.492.8558 • parklandinstitute.ca • Fighting for our Future: People Power vs. Corporate Control: with speakers, Linda McQuaig, Crystal Lameman, Beaver Lake Cree Nation, Gregor MacLennan, Peas Peas Ayui • Apr 11-13

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

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

TAX FAIRNESS FORUM • Westwood Unitarian 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

THOUGHTFUL TUESDAY • Earth's General 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

QUEER AFFIRM SUNNYBROOK–Red Deer • Sunnybrook

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

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

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AVONMORE PARENTS IN EDUCATION •

social group for bi-curious and bisexual women every 2nd Tue each month, 8pm • groups.yahoo.com/group/ bwedmonton

BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725B Jasper Ave • 780.488.6636 • Tue with DJ Arrow Chaser, free pool all night; 9pm (door); no cover • Wed with DJ Dust’n Time; 9pm (door); no cover • Thu: Men’s Wet Underwear Contest, win prizes, hosted by Drag Queen DJ Phon3 Hom3; 9pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Fri Dance Party with DJ Arrow Chaser; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Sat: Feel the rhythm with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm EDMONTON PRIME TIMERS (EPT) • Unitarian Church of Edmonton, 10804-119 St • A group of older gay men who have common interests meet the 2nd Sun, 2:30pm, 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

World Waterpark, 8882-170 St, WEM • 780.637.5640; E: playground@avonmore.org • Avonmore Playground Committee–WEM Waterpark fundraiser • Apr 13, 7:3010:30pm • $10

CEASE (Centre to End All Sexual Exploitation) Benefit and Men of Honour Awards • Sawmill Banquet and Catering Centre, 3480-76 Ave • E: info@ ceasenow.org • Fundraiser evening to celebrate men of character from all walks of life. Silent auction at 6pm; Banquet and Awards at 7pm. Special guest Joy Smith, advocate to end human trafficking • Apr 12, 6-10pm • $100 at TIX on the Square

CHILD HAVEN INTERNATIONAL • Meridian

Banquet and Conference Centre, 4820-76 Ave • East Indian dinner: Benefit to support children and women in India, Gangladesh, Nepal and Tibet • Sun, Apr 14, 3-8pm; dinner at 5pm • Early bird: adult: on or before Apr 6: $45/ after Apr 7: $60/child 5-12 yr: $15/free, 4 yr and under; tickets: T: 780.455.6741, or PayPal at: childhaven.ca

AN EVENING IN TIBET • Meridian Banquet and Conference Centre, 4820-76 Ave • Dinner and silent auction • Sat, Apr 13, 6:30

FABULOUS FABRIC FRENZY • Strathearn United Church, 8510-95 Ave • 780.434.9935, 780.469.6327 • Sale of unused donated fabric, yarn and notions; funds to the Stephen Lewis Foundation, to support African Grandmothers caring for children orphaned by HIV/AIDS • Apr 13, 10am-3pm • Donations may be dropped off at the church on Thu, Apr 11 only GARLIC FESTIVAL • 780.474.6466 • info2f=sorrentinos.com • Apr 8-May 11 GLITTERBALL–Part II • Artery • lunadancefusion.com • Luna Dance Fusion's evening of Vaudevillian delights.

Featuring Belly Dancers, Burlesque, adult clowns, and drag artists to explore the sensual facets of the feminine self. Performances by Seashells and Rocket (Small Matters Productions), Mimi Ghazaal, Ben and Pony, Travesty Tryst (Send in the Girls Burlesque), DJ Thomas Scott (Urban Monks), Luna Dance Fusion, guests • Apr 6 • $20 (adv)/$25 (door) at YEGlive.ca JASPER PRIDE WEEKEND • Jasper Town • The only LGBTQ-themed winter festival in the Canadian Rocky Mountains with parties, drag shows, movie screenings, concerts, spring skiing and other winter activities • Apr 12-14

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)

FLASH NIGHT CLUB • 10018-105 St • 780.969.9965 • Thu Goth + Industrial Night: Indust:real Assembly with DJ Nanuck; 10pm (door); no cover • Triple Threat Fridays: DJ Thunder, Femcee DJ Eden Lixx • DJ Suco beats every Sat • E: vip@flashnightclub.com G.L.B.T. 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 (8620-107 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

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: tuff @shaw.ca ILLUSIONS SOCIAL CLUB • Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave • 780.387.3343 • edmontonillusions.ca • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri each month, 7:30-9pm

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

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FILM

PREVUE // THRILLER

Killing the past, once and for all

Ferocious looks for thrills in the divide between an actor's public and private lives Fri, Apr 5 – Tue, Apr 9 Ferocious Written and directed by Robert Cuffley Metro Cinema at the Garneau

'F

ame can turn on you," dares the tagline of Ferocious, but the thriller's plot seems to imply—and a conversation with writer-director Robert Cuffley further suggests— something a little more subtle in its subversion: that if left unaddressed, it's the shadows of your private life, not your public one, that can grow long and threatening.

So it seems with Leigh Parrish, Ferocious's protagonist: she's a rising star in film, building on a good-girl-froma-small-town image that betrays her penchant for wilder, off-camera action. And while the film pushes Parrish into increasingly dark-and-deadly

territories—on a trip home, an attempted blackmailer and ex-employer find out just how far she's willing to go to keep her past off the radar— Cuffley points out that Ferocious began with an interest in that first idea: how an actor's self-presentation has to shift depending on whether or not someone's got a camera lens pointed their way.

"I'm really interested in the difference between when they're on camera and off camera, and how they act differently from when someone says, 'Cut,' or when the light from the video camera turns off from an interview," the Calgary-based director says. "I love that kind of discrepancy between this live person versus this in-the-shadows person. So, I took that, and really liked the idea of someone having a secret life in her past that she wants to inconceivably

eradicate without anyone knowing."

Shot in Saskatoon, Ferocious carries with it the bittersweet distinction of being the last film made with the help of Saskatchewan's nowdefunct film tax credit. It was made on a relative shoestring—its budget hovered around the million-dollar mark—and in that, Cuffley notes it's probably the smallest film he's done, compared to 2007's Walk All Over Me or 2001's Turning Paige, but that the trade-off, especially getting to direct his own script for the first time, seemed suitable: "Some physical limitations, some creative freedoms," he says with an audible shrug.

That should work well enough with Ferocious's attempts to subvert what Cuffley calls the paint-by-numbers structure embraced by most Hollywood thrillers.

Can you keep a secret?

"From my standpoint, I tried to go at it with no gore, and for all the violence to be off screen," Cuffley says.

"There is some gore, but, typically, I wanted it to be an auditory experience, proving—I think successfully— that what you don't see or hear is more creepy or menacing than what you do see or hear."

But, if anything, the process of making Ferocious seems to have furthered Cuffley's interest in his initial point: as director Cuffley, got to witness the sort of on/off camera divide his film explores while in the process of making it.

"I don't know how to explain it," he begins. "Amanda Crew [who plays Parrish], for instance, the movie opens with her being interviewed on some breakfast-television-type of show—the ubiquitous, every channel you flip in the morning there's

some vapid talk show going on.

And then, between shooting days, Amanda—the real woman, not the character—would have to do press for the movie. And it's essentially the exact same things as the character's doing, and you start identifying, 'Oh yeah, that laugh that I thought was sincere is actually her actorly laugh.'

And I love her, and we've become good friends, but it kind of freaks you out after a while: Because—and not to say she's fake at all, more actors as a conglomerate as opposed to her specifically—if they're good, they can fool anyone. And it's kind of weird sometimes, because of course actors are always nice in front of the camera. And my first question is, 'What are they like when they're not on camera?'"

PAUL BLINOV

// PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

REVUE // MUSIC DOC

Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation

It's about the music, maaaan

Fri, Apr 5 – Tue, Apr 9 Directred by Laura Archibald Metro Cinema at the Garneau

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y this point, the culture has been steadily inundated with a fairly broad, unthinking, nostalgic reverence for the '60s baby-boom

generation—enough so that the thought of yet another reverential stroll through memory lane might prompt the average viewer, whether they were alive at the time or not, to roll a weary eye. Keeping that in mind, Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation is certainly not as bland as its title might suggest, but it likely won't make much of a lasting impression either. The filmmakers seem to be going out of their way not to break any ground, nor to show us anything particularly exciting visually, choosing to follow well-established documentary conventions in order to yield a light, easily palatable music doc, which they accomplish.

Although the film's subject matter—

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the rise and impact of the American folk boom and its attendant large names like Bob Dylan, Kris Kristofferson, et al—is genuinely interesting, the film makes some unfortunate choices along the way. The repeated use of quaint animation sequences for each chapter break hampers the rhythm unnecessarily and slows down the pacing, while the repeated use of generic acoustic guitar picking as canned background music—particularly in a film about the staggering importance of "authentic" and "raw" '60s folk music—is perhaps incongruous.

Despite these cosmetic drawbacks, however, the film offers a compelling narrative about the important figures in this folk-music scene, giving equal foot-

ing to familiar faces like Pete Seeger and lesser-known gems like Eric Andersen. For all of the expository voiceover narration and endless talking heads of surviving folkies, this film derives great strength from allowing its source material to speak for itself, leaving plenty of room for contemporary live footage of the folk artists being discussed.

Unless you didn't know that "the 1960s were an amazing time," there might not be much new information for you here. But for those with a real passion for these artists, this film will be a pleasant way to reaffirm how important that music really was in "defining a generation," if that sentiment needs reaffirming.

JAMES CUMING

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COMMENT >> FILM

REVUE // ALIEN TWILIGHT

The Host

Insane love

The long-difficult-to-see Tristana offers an enigmatic look at desire "Soul" meets body

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T The beguiling Tristana

Tristana. "Triste Ana," her lovesick more in keeping with the cloisteredlover-guardian intones. The name inin-time feeling he was chasing—the vokes sadness—la tristeza. Sadness exteriors are mostly narrow cobbled is written into her name and her name streets loomed over by high walls is the film's perfect enigmatic tiwith few windows. There are tle. She is not its protagonist, clashes between authoriT C E at least not unambiguously. ties and workers in these P AS Tristana's is a heroine's streets, but such activities m ekly.co e w e journey, from near-destitubarely touch the central u atio@v aspectr tion and naïveté, to humble narrative thread, another f Jose n salvation in the home—and, of Buñuel's tales of amour u Bra eventually, the bed—of an aging fou. Fascinating, mischievous, aristocrat thriftily managing a dwinelegant, anthropologically alluring— dling fortune, to rebellion, escape, Buñuel was obsessed with recapturillness, empowerment, revenge. Yet ing numerous peculiar details of the Tristana is held at a distance, an obquasi-medieval Spain of his youth— scure object of desire who, unlike her the long-difficult-to-see Tristana is lover-guardian, is not designed for now available on DVD and Blu-ray our identification. Her mystery and from Cohen Media Group. malleability is one of the wonders of this beguiling story.

It begins with the newly orphaned Luis Buñuel wanted to make TristaTristana's adoption by the socialist-nona (1970), adapted from Benito Pérez bleman-ladies' man Don Lope. Tristana Galdós' novel, for years, and at one is played by Catherine Deneuve in point nearly did so, in Mexico, with the second of her two collaborations Silvia Pinal. He'd made Viridiana with Buñuel, the first being Belle de (1961), one of his greatest films, also jour (1967). She moves seamlessly from Pérez Galdós, with Pinal, in from wide-eyed wonder to fiery rehis native Spain, and it took a while sentment. (The only downside to Defor the Spanish to get over it, the nueve's casting is that her dialogue is blasphemy especially. But by 1969 overdubbed by some chirpy española.) they decided to let him come home Don Lope is played by the hopelessly to work one last time. He swapped charismatic Fernando Rey, providing the novel's 19th-century Madrid for Buñuel with another of his older gen1920s Toledo, when Spain was on tlemen obsessed with younger womthe cusp of Civil War, and a location en, variations of which can be found in

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Viridiana and That Obscure Object of Desire (1977). Don Lope is given to declaring his strict moral standards, but when he bends Tristana into becoming his lover he breaks his own rule about seducing the innocent. He will pay for this violation. Inevitably, even in a place as repressed as this, Tristana meets a younger man and they run off.

She returns years later, with a tumor in her calf, and renews her codependency with Don Lope. Throughout the film, Tristana delights in choosing favourites amongst the most banal items: columns, streets, garbanzos.

It's a child's game, a way of playing at self-determination, and thus, ultimately—when cancer forces Tristana to "choose" a leg—a source of cruel irony. Power in Tristana is precarious and fleeting. Don Lope will grow old and harmless; Tristana will become crippled yet domineering. In one of the film's richest scenes she methodically exposes her abbreviated body to a deaf-mute boy: one social outcast finding her hierarchical place amongst other outcasts.

Cohen's Tristana features several excellent supplements, including two written essays, a video essay, an audio commentary featuring Deneuve and critic Kent Jones, and, my personal favourite—since one must choose favourites—an excerpt from Deneuve's production journal. V

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The Mormon-romance-trance (or "Mormance") of the Twilight flicks returns, this time transplanted into a lifeless sci-fi body. Stephenie Meyer's The Host has the subtracted benefit of Andrew Niccol's direction; the once decent Niccol (Gattaca, Lord of War) has been sucking life out of his efforts in the genre lately (In Time). But beyond Meyer's trite-and-untrue formula (supernatural love triangle, exotic locale, family values and kisses as daring and transgressive), corpse-stiff dialogue, flat action sequences and a confused allegory make this movie particularly stultifying piffle.

After a zoom-in on an Earth occupied by "Souls"—glowing, spore-like creatures that have entered through gashes in our necks—a sudden, airless hide-and-seek ends with Melanie Stryder (Saoirse Ronan), one of few humans left and part of the resistance, jumping out a window. She's given a Soul, but this newly named "Wanderer" finds old Melanie battling her subjugation with hokey innervoiceovers (indistinguishable from the Wanderer's stiff words and full of trite, teenage-lite phrases like "You are not going there!" or "Yeah, right. She is

so full of it").

This sunlit Earth of shiny vehicles, clothes and décor out of designer catalogues is as arid as the desert Wanderer/Melanie soon runs off to (where she's reunited with the resistance, her brother and her lover in some caves—the setting for a subterranean soap). As the atmosphere gets more generic and the overexplaining story gets duller, Wanderer's Melanie-conscience gets more plaintive and priggish. The dialogue and tone turns the actors into straining, keening piners and whiners. The obviously religious, split-selves allegory—finding harmony between body (Melanie) and soul (Wanderer)—isn't just pat but becomes confused by movie's end (where there's an ecstatic born-again moment). There, the love triangle, after angling off into some non-passionate, bad-music-video sequences, gets re-shaped into not one but two happy-romance endings—call it bigamy of bliss.

Meanwhile, any potential in the movie's original conceit long since fizzled away, I kept waiting for some alien parasite to invade my body, just so the real me wouldn't have to watch this godforsaken bore any longer. But, apparently, critics don't make good hosts.

BRIAN GIBSON

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PREVUE // FILM TOWN HALL

YEG Filmmakers Live Sat, Apr 6 (4:30 pm) Metro Cinema

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hen Jeannette Lawrence and her husband first got into film, they seem to have had the sense, like many before and after them, that the "independent" part of independent filmmaking meant you took a camera, did your thing and got little in the way of outside input or assistance. Now, having spent a bit of time making films in the city, Lawrence is looking to get more ambitious and connected—not just for her own company, but for the city's film community as a whole.

"I just finished my executive MBA at Cornell and Queens, and I actually did an entire, 93-page business model on setting up a film company in Edmonton," she says.

"So what I've really come to realize is we have all the makings of becoming a great filmmaking city: we have all the resources,

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we have all of the trades, we have all of the creativity and the interest. ... But in order to do that, we have to expand, and grow outward, our community a bit."

And so what Lawrence, who co-runs Bearded Chicken Productions, has put together is effectively a town hall-type of gathering, for the film community to not just get to know itself—the president of FAVA will speak, among others, as well as the screening of the trailers from Edmonton filmmakers currently involved in the Canada-wide CineCoup Film Accelerator contest—but to hopefully intrigue those with skills that might not immediately seem applicable to film, but remain vital regardless.

"That's what the event is about: spreading awareness that we actually need people in the trades to come in and work on sets," she explains. "We need nurses to be on set, we need graphic designers to do key art,

we need people who do computer programming to do other aspects of filmmaking. It really is a multidisciplinary endeavour when you're creating a world and creating a project."

It's inspired partly by the newly founded group YEG FIlm, a collection of filmmakers getting together to screen their works, chat about what they're working on, and ask for help from the rest to achieve those goals. And that seems to be what Lawrence is ultimately getting at: the more the local film community starts communicating, instead of going it totally alone, the better it will be.

"When you explain it in pie," she begins "we all have a piece of the pie, but if we become interdependent filmmakers instead of independent filmmakers, we can actually grow the pie."

Paul Blinov

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ARTS

REVUE // VISUAL ARTS

Picturesque wastelands

David Janzen's romanticized landscapes come with a suffocating helping of garbage empty horizon, he trudged through mud to document the surrounding scenery. But Janzen's work offers a new twist on an old theme: misty mountaintops and unbounded skies are set against a low foreground of garbage dumps.

To be exact, Janzen's series of paintings document 17 scenic landfill sites. He travelled to places like Didsbury, Drumheller and Exshaw, and at times faced hostile "natives."

Waste management facilities and transfer stations (where garbage is held and sorted) are heavily guarded. Janzen's earnest explanations, that he is an artist on a mission to chronicle dumps in scenic places, failed to charm them.

Until Sun, Jun 16 Transfer Station Work by David Janzen Art Gallery of Alberta

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here is nothing like sitting at the edge of an ocean or on a mountain edge and watching clouds slowly drift by. In the face of such majesty daily problems and worries dissolve with the morning mist. Romantic

painters reveled in such scenery; their sublime vistas set humanity against a backdrop of the infinite sky.

As scientific rationalism gripped the popular imagination and attitudes to nature shifted to more utilitarian aims, such 19th-century perspectives became syrupy and more than a little ridiculous. Nature shed its divine power. Today, no artist of repute dares to be so unabashedly senti-

mental. That is, not until Edmonton painter David Janzen reinvented the sublime in Transfer Station, his current show of oil paintings.

Janzen is, in many ways, a typical third generation 19th-century easelpainter, as he sardonically refers to himself. With a camera and sketchbook in hand, he travelled along the wild and picturesque slopes of the Rocky Mountains. A lone figure in an

By hook or by crook he made his way into the dumps and saw oddly beautiful sights. Transfer stations, it turns out, are more orderly than many people's living rooms. They form low-lying hills of sorted materials: drywall neatly stacked next to lumber or glass awaits repurposing.

Janzen depicts these man-made foothills with obsessive fascination. His mounds of garbage take on nearly metaphysical proportions.

While some paintings remain faithful

documentaries, some—such as the "Martian Debris Platform"—take on science-fiction flair. Here, the setting sun illuminates a fire-red sky. Low on the horizon, garbage rises on altarlike platforms: modern man's offering to invisible and perhaps powerless gods.

While seductive beauty of dumps beckons in Janzen's oeuvre, the artist is far from optimistic about humanity's ability to survive the onslaught of garbage; his art leaves one with the uncomfortable feeling that we're about to suffocate in our own refuse. It is the stuff of nightmares, not dreams.

Yet, as foothills of garbage spread like tumors through pristine mountain vistas, vast skies hover above: eternal and oddly at peace with the destruction beneath them.

These powerful skies set the curious paradox of Janzen's art. Unsentimental contemporary problems shine through the wistful lens of 19tcentury landscape painting. Wholly secular dumps are illuminated by light that verges on religious kitsch.

Transfer Station revels in such contrasts: here, fatalism meets the timeless idealism of artistic beauty.

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Dust

They found love in a hopeless place // Ian Jackson, EPIC Photography

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'I

always want to go to the dark side of things."

Northern Light Theatre has built its reputation on staging little-known plays that explore specific relationships between individuals, often pitting hope against despair in the same

moment. Artistic director Trevor Schmidt explains that he's simply drawn to these types of scripts—and if he's going to stage a love story, as in the case of the upcoming production of Dust, it's certainly not going to end with happily-ever-after.

"I always like a damaged love story," Schmidt says. "I always like when you hope for things to work out but there's an inevitability that they won't.

I quite like plays that end on a note of uncertainty or failure on the part of the characters. And I like to work with a small cast in a small space and kind of trap your audience in there with the situation."

This is certainly an apt sentiment in the case of Dust, a 2005 play penned

by Canadian playwright Jason Maghanoy, which sets its ill-fated love story in the infamous Abu Ghraib prison during the Iraq war, between an office worker and one of the prison guards.

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mance.

"I think we like to watch people in extreme situations and see how they react and compare how we would react in that situation as well," Schmidt says. "It's interesting how you keep your humanity in an inhumane situation. Can you find someone else to help you do that, or do they drag you down with them?"

In recent months Edmonton stages have seen a rash of shows grappling with various aspects of Middle Eastern politics and settings. Schmidt notes that Dust has no direct references to any specific names or places, giving it a sort of creepy universality—though he did pull a few specific images into the production that root it firmly in Abu Ghraib.

"The images from this are so horrific," Schmidt notes. "There are some brief, but extremely unsettling graphic images that happen in the play. Just having to pick them was disturbing. I purposely chose the ones that I found

the least shocking, but they're still shocking."

Schmidt acknowledges that the weightiness of the subject matter takes its toll on audiences, but especially upon the actors; this was not a show that could be rehearsed for prolonged periods of time.

"I often require actors to sit in an uncomfortable feeling for a while during shows," he states. "It's a scary thing, because I know that as human beings we condition ourselves to avoid those feelings and it's hard to ask someone to sit in ugly, uncomfortable, unpleasant emotional stuff.

"To me, every play is about the conflict between your responsibility to others and your responsibility to yourself," he continues. "I love to watch characters struggle with whether they should be responsible to the people in their relationships and society, or whether they're selfish and just taking responsibility for themselves, and saving themselves."

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Saint Joan

Bonfire this play between those who side with Joan, and those who do not. Her critics are the most fun to watch: prideful, stubborn ignoramuses who plaster their hubris all over themselves, while her supporters are pious, open-minded souls who inevitably become the underdogs you root for.

The Passion of Joan // Ed Ellis

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eorge Bernard Shaw became a bit of an academic when he set out to write his play about the legendary Joan of Arc. Rigorously studying the records left behind from the trial that led to Joan’s eventual execution, Shaw wanted to create a cerebral series of vignettes around the key characters in Joan’s story while also addressing the confrontation he saw between a passionately individual form of religious belief and the rigidity of organized religion. In this sense, Studio Theatre could not have picked a more

relevant time to present Shaw’s play; the recent election of Pope Francis—a Pope attempting to show the softer side of institutionalized religion—ignites the same ethical debates as does this early 20thcentury play.

Saint Joan doesn’t boast the same physicality and intrigue you may have come to expect from the countless other renditions out there. Instead, what you’ll see are heated debates between both secular and religious authority figures. You’ll see tortured consciences and colourful character developments, and you’ll see a child-like earnest Joan—Joan as glorious martyr—plead for the voices in her head.

There is a peculiarly stark line drawn in

In this production, there are two sets of audiences. The first is the one we’re all familiar with, and the second consists of the cast as they sit on either end of the stage, popping in and out of scenes as narrators and characters. For the most part, this adds an enjoyable layer to the story, that is, until Joan herself breaks the fourth wall as narrator near the end of Act I. By this point, the audience is already so invested in her character that the break abruptly and unnecessarily shatters the illusion. The epilogue is another aspect of the production that is adapted into a form that felt out of place as jolly thespian historians assemble onstage to fill out the end of the story. One of the most exciting aspects of this particular production of Saint Joan, though, is that it serves as an example of what successful gender-blind casting looks like. Nearly the entire cast is able to showcase a dynamic range of talents, and most of the time the result is a collection of engaging characters ably brought to life on stage.

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The Edmonton Show reFOUND Ritchie, adding the show also marks the renewal of the collaboration between Common Ground and Avenue Theatre. "We just want to make sure we're connecting to everyone that used to be part of Common Ground and everyone that's excited about the current direction of it ... the founders that originally organized The Edmonton Show, they're all on board and had contacted us about remounting this type of show."

Thu, Apr 11 (7 pm) Avenue Theatre, $10 – $15

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ach artistic discipline has its own community which it relies on for support, but for the Common Ground Arts Society, it's all about overstepping these invisible lines and connecting artists of all types for the greater good of Edmonton's emerging arts community.

Last summer, artists from all facets of the city's arts scene took over unconventional venues throughout Old Strathcona for the inaugural Found Festival—a way to bring art out of its usual confines and make it accessible to the masses. The festival was also a benefit to the artists taking part, as it is often too costly for many to obtain venue space to showcase their work.

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To ensure the success of this festival continues into its second year, the Common Ground Arts Society is reviving its popular multi-discipline show The Edmonton Show—which was hosted regularly in the organization's early days, back in 2009—with The Edmonton Show reFOUND, a cabaretstyle fundraiser bringing together talent from across the board. Originally, The Edmonton Show acted as an accessible way for artists to come into their own in the city, and the organization felt it was time to remount the event.

"There's been a changeover in the team that was running the organization, so it felt really important to connect after a year of working on the Found Festival," explains Common Ground artistic director Andrew

The show features the musical talents of Marlaena Moore, James of Dark Wood and Tyler Butler along with performances by Jon Mick, Craig Martell, The 11 O'Clock Number and visual art courtesy of Tim Mikula, Michael Kuby, Sara McKarney and a host of others.

"It's showing that Edmonton has a lot of really amazing talent that is cooking out there," he adds. "We have these huge art communities that are so large that they support themselves almost ... I hope that bringing those disciplines together will show that we have these amazing sub art cultures and that Edmonton is truly an arts city to be reckoned with."

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Gettin' experimental // Andrew Paul

Tue, Apr 9 – Sun, Apr 14 Zeidler Hall, Citadel Theatre, $12 (show) $30 (festival pass)

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ast year, Rapid Fire Theatre offered Edmonton its first look at Bonfire: a six-day festival hosting fresh styles of long-form improvisation harvested from players' experiences at festivals all over the world. While long-form improv already has a comfortable home here in Edmonton, audiences were treated to a huge helping of experimentation and innovation as local improvisers were afforded the chance to mix up the improv scene with some new ideas.

"Bonfire 2012 was an incredible experience," says Benjamin Gorodetsky, last year's festival intern as well as a director and player. "This was the first time that the players had gotten a festival that was devoted specifically to them. We do Improvaganza in June, which is our international festival, but we're so busy being the hosts. With Bonfire, I think there was a specific pride and ownership that all the players felt."

This year Gorodetsky adds associate artistic director of promotions to his list of involvements in the festival. His appreciation for the administrative side of putting on shows stems from his initial experiences within the Vancouver improv scene.

"In Vancouver, I had to do a lot of self-producing," Gorodetsky explains.

"That included everything from rent-

ing venues to busting my ass to put posters up everywhere. Doing that grunt-work makes for a very different experience when you end up getting 20 people coming out to your show. It's very different from Edmonton where you have Rapid Fire as the big friendly company that supports, and the potential for a roaring audience of 200."

Structures, styles and the definition of risk will all be played with during this year's Bonfire festival. Edmonton audiences can expect to see everything from focused narratives to experiments involving dangerous obstacles. At the late-night show on Friday, for example, I'm told that one group will be enacting their show while navigating a stage covered in mousetraps. Another group plans to work out scenes where one player must have their head submerged in water at all times. It may sound odd now, but considering the success enjoyed by the festival last year, Edmonton audiences are likely in for some fun.

"Bonfire is basically just another reason to love Edmonton," Gorodetsky says. "There's already a culture of supporting the arts, but here we have the chance to explore, twist and grow that. I'm quite proud to be part of a city that gives us the space and the freedom to make this art happen."

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Created and hosted by local burlesque staple Holly Von Sinn, the evening heats up the stage with laughs, music and a little tease. (New City, $8) GlitterBall / Sat, Apr 6 (8 pm) Just in case you didn't get your fill of naughty entertainment last night, Luna Dance Fusion has put together a lineup featuring burlesque, drag kings, modern and classic belly dance, and a little clown theatre for your

viewing pleasure. (Artery, $20 in advance, $25 at the door) Sweet Ladies / Sat, Apr 6 – Mon, May 6 Six talented ladies have teamed up to pair two great things together—dessert and art—in a mixed-media art exhibition celebrating their love for all things sweet and sugary.

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is music has become an unmistakable soundtrack, its intricate melodies a testament to a standard of musicianship rarely replicated, and now Alberta Ballet is paying tribute to the composer with its double bill, Celebrating Mozart.

On one side of the production—billed as one of the largest for the company— is Mozart's Requiem, a homage to those

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who have lost their lives in modern conflicts, featuring a thundering chorus comprised of more than 100 voices and the talents of four internationally acclaimed soloists.

In contrast to the solemn themes of Requiem is the world première of Pomp Without Circumstance, choreographed by the company's own Yukichi Hattori, whose choreography credits with Alberta Ballet also include The Seven Deadly Sins in 2010.

"I wanted to do something light-

To achieve this contrast, Hattori selected some of the most prominent and beloved compositions from Mozart's oeuvre, including Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, The Marriage of Figaro Overture and Serenade No 10 in B Flat, in order to bring the lavish energy of the French aristocracy to the stage. Within Pomp Without Circumstance, which Hattori notes is girl-power at its finest, is the portrayal of the dangerous beauty of the superficial world of the royal court, complimented by costumes created by local designer Kalie Johnston.

"They never had to work, they didn't have to worry about the food on the table tomorrow; they had this gorgeous castle to live in and their job was to be beautiful and create higher artistry for human beings," Hattori explains, adding it may have seemed easy from the outside, but being beautiful for a living doesn't come easy: they cinched corsets so tightly they couldn't breathe, had to perfect the mannerisms of the court, as well as ensure they stayed in favour with the royalty to avoid losing their place in the inner circle. "I think in their own mind they had an agenda and hardships."

Of course, doing justice to classic scores is no simple feat either, admits Hattori, who notes Mozart was essentially the equivalent of The Beatles during his time.

"If you look at the score, the layering is just meticulous, but above all I think he wrote music for the people and I think that makes a big difference to the longevity of it," he says. "It's something that tickles your brain and heart that keeps me coming back to it."

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GLITTERBALL–LUNA DANCE FUSION • Artery, 9535 Jasper Ave • lunadancefusion.com • Evening featuring belly dance, burlesque, clowns and drag rtists. Performances by Small Matters Productions, Mimi Ghazaal, Travesty Tryst (Send in the Girls Burlesque), Luna Dance Fusion, Ben and Pony, music by Thomas Scott (Urban Monks), guests • $20 (adv attheartery.ca, Blackbyrd)/$25 (door) • Sat, Apr 6, 8pm

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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 • Life of Pi (2012, PG); Fri, April 12, 2pm

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DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave •

Brenda Malkinson, Judy Martin, John Maywood (Stony

780.433.3399 • die-nasty.com • The live improvised soap

Plain), Les Graff • Until Apr 13

opera • Every Mon, until May 27, 7:30pm (subject to

VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St. Al-

change) • Tickets at the box office

bert • 780.460.5990 • vasa.ca • boTAniCA: Works by Elaine

DOUBLE DOUBLE • La Cite Francophone, 8627-91 St

Funnell and Rayma Peterson • Until Apr 29 • Reception: Sat,

• 780.477.5955 • workshopwest.org • By Kenneth Brown. A

Apr 6, 1-4pm, artists in attendance

pair of single parents with teenaged kids, steal brief, some-

WEST END GALLERY • 12308 Jasper Ave • Works by

times awkward moments away from their busy lives to try

Raynald Leclerc • Apr 13-25

ABBOTTSFIELD LIBRARY • 3410-118 Ave • Natasha

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

ARTERY • 9535 Jasper Ave • 780.441.6966 • Literary

Saloon: reading series the 2nd Thu every month; Oct-May, 7pm (door)

ART STREAM CENTRE • 11434-120 St •

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 • Africa Encompassed: with Ryan Bourassa, and Kristina Boyce; Tue, Apr 9, 7pm; pre-register

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ • 9624-76 Ave • 780.989.2861 • Story

Slam 2nd Wed each month @ the Chair: Share your story,

2ND MURDER MYSTERY OF 2013:

ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron

sign-up at 7pm • Wed, Apr 10, 7-10pm • $5 (suggested, donations go to winners)

St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • plAne-

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE • 9351-118 Ave • vzenari@

spACe: Works by Duncan Johnson; hybrid Forms Works

gmail.com • Prose Creative Writing Group • Every Tue,

by Angela Lane; Until Apr 27

7-9pm

THREE COURSE DINNER AND A MYSTERY APRIL 20TH, 2013 for reservations Call 780.496.7227

ART SOCIETY OF STRATHCONA COUNTY • Loft Gallery, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • artstrathcona.com • 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 (Agnes Bugera

FOR MORE INFO WWW.FORTEDMONTON PARK.CA

Gallery), 12310 Jasper Ave • 780.482.2854 • bugeramathesongallery.com • 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 CROOKED POT GALLERY • 4912-51 Ave, Stony Plain • 780.963.9573 • Return of the Loon; an exploration of all things Loon, by Dianne Meili • Until Apr 30 • Opening:

EMPRESS ALE HOUSE • 9912 Whyte Ave • The Olive Reading Series: 2nd Tue each month, Sep-Apr

HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB • 15120 Stony Plain Rd • 780.915.8869 • Edmonton Story Slam: writers share their original, 5-minute stories; followed by a music jam • 3rd Wed every month, 7pm (sign-up); 7:30pm (show) • $5

KOFFEE CAFÉ • 6120-28 Ave • 780.863.4522 • Glass Door Coffee House Reading Series: Monthly readings with new headliner • Last Thu each month

PROVINCAL ARCHIVES • 8555 Roper Rd • Launch of the book, disinherited Generations, by Nellie Carlson,

by members • Until Apr 9

Kathleen Steinhauer with Linda Goyette, foreword by Maria DOOR: Collective of independent comic creators meet

AnimATed deliGhT: 7 short animated films and 15 art-

the 2nd & 4th Thu each month; 7pm • Comics Artist-

works by Brian Batista, Leslie Bell, Stefanie Wong & Chris

in-Residence: with Kyle Sams; Every Fri 12-6pm and Sat

Melnychuk • Through Apr • Tickets: $30 (Fri)/$40 (Sat)/$30

Campbell; and the celebration of the Indian Rights for Indian Women Collection • Fri, Apr 12, 7-9:30pm • Free, rsvp at 780.592.8832, e: monika.igali@ualberta.ca by Apr 9

12-5pm; until Apr 7

(Sun); $95 (3-day pass)

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St •

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM–St Albert • 5 St

• Spoken Word Tuesdays: Weekly spoken word night

Main Gallery: oF/oFF (CoUrse): Works by Steve de Bruyn;

Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1528 • ArCTiC liFe: Lomen

DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY • 10332-124 St •

until Apr 12 • Front Room Gallery: liTTle FeArs: Laura

Brothers photography • Apr 9-Jun 16

O’Connor; until Apr 12

WATers: Works by Nathan Birch • Until Apr 6

JURASSIC FOREST/LEARNING CENTRE • 15

NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave •

Apr 6, 11-3pm

DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St • dc3artprojects. com • midTAle: Works by Daniela Schüter; eleG: and Stefan Demming • Until May 11 • Reception: Apr 4, 6-10pm

EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ • 9938-70 Ave • Olive Tree

780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • UnFinished pAinTinG

mins N of Edmonton off Hwy 28A, Township Rd 564 •

ChAllenGe: Exhibition of the "Before and After"; until

Project, Peg Barcelo-Jackson, Ginette D'Silva, Alice Dolphin,

Education-rich entertainment facility for all ages

Apr 15 • shiFT: Works by Claire Uhlick and YESS youth;

Dara Loewen • Ongoing

KIWANIS GALLERY–Red Deer • Red Deer Public

until May 15

FAB GALLERY • Dept of Art and Design, U of A, Rm 1-1

presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathinpoetry@gmail.com

STRATHCONA COUNTY LIBRARY • 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • E: info@sclibrary.ab.ca; 780.410.8601 • 7th Annual Evening of Poetry: Readings by Shawna Lemay and Kimmy Beach, followed by an open mic session • Fri, Apr 12, 6:30-8:30pm • Adults only

T.A.L.E.S.–STRATHCONA • New Strathcona Library,

Library • When The CiTy isn'T lookinG: Photographs

Fine Arts Bldg • 780.492.2081 • GiAnT sTeps—bdes 2013:

NINA HAGGERTY–Stollery Gallery • 9225-118 Ave

by Bill Peters • Until Apr 25

• 780.474.7611 • ninahaggertyart.ca • FrenCh rooFs Vil-

Graduating exhibition of students completing the Bachelor

LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St • 780.990.1161

lAGe impressions: Watercolours by Malcolm Johnson;

• landogallery.com • New gallery is now open Mon-Fri,

until Apr 5

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

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave

Hall, 6510-111 St • 780.667.8253 • talesstorytelling.com •

of Design program; until Apr 13; opening: Apr 4, 7-10pm • FAB 2-20: VADF Lecture Series: (dis)inheritance: degenera-

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10am-5:30pm; Sat, 10am-5pm; by appointment •

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

TIVE: Artworks by Brenda Kim Christianson, Jim Davies,

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

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, Anne-Marie White. A tale of fantasy combining love, death, and the peculiar, as interpreted by four very gifted actors • Apr 11-13, 8pm; Apr 14, 2pm

MISS CALEDONIA • Arden Theatre, St Albert • 780.459.1542 • Peggy Ann has a plan–she just has to become a movie star. A one-woman show written and performed by Melody A. Johnson, accompanied by Alison Potter’s fiddle playing • 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 • Until Apr 21 • Start: $35 at box office

SAINT JOAN • Timms Centre, U of A • By Bernard Shaw. Presented by Studio Theatre • Until Apr 6, 7:30pm • $12.75-$23.40

SHEAR MADNESS • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Uproarious whodunit by Paul Portner, where the audience gets to solve the crime • Until Apr 7

STIRFRY VARIETY NIGHT • Expressionz Café, 993870 Ave • Featuring Off-Beat Improv with Andrea Graham, Thou Art Here, and Expressionz' house band, the Blenders; café is open for dinner (6pm on) 8pm (show) • Sat, Apr 6 • Donation

OH SUSANNA! • Varscona Theatre • 10329-83 Ave • 780.433.3399 • varsconatheatre.com/ohsusanna • The Euro-style variety spectacle with Susanna Patchouli and her divine co-host Eros, God of Love! Laughs! Music!

Cocktails! • Runs the last Sat each month, until Jul, 11pm (subject to occasional change)

THEATRESPORTS • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101 A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm

THE V.I.P. KID’S SHOW • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • 780.433.3399 • Series for children where young and old can enjoy a Variety, Improv and Puppet show with Kate Ryan, Davina Stewart, Donovan Workun, Dana Andersen, Cathy Derkach and friends • $6/$60 (VIP pass) • Sat, Apr 6, and Apr 20

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Looking beyond the marketing to pick the right yogurt

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lthough John Stamos won't materialize after a spoonful, there are other, real benefits to eating yogurt that don't appear in the commercials—as long as you pick the right one.

But how is that done when every week there seems to be a new, fancy yogurt on the market touting its amazing probiotics or its mouthwatering flavours with "half the calories"?

Jessica Hess, a dietitian at Philosophy Nutrition and Fitness, says you need to go back to the basics, looking for the least ingredients, the least sugar, and a low fat content.

"We keep coming up with these new products and as a dietitian I don't even look at those products," she says. "It doesn't matter that there's a new product out. I guarantee you they're not going to be better than the natural foods that I choose to put in my grocery cart.

"If you buy a plain yogurt and you read the ingredient list, it will say, milk, bacterial cultures and, possibly, fortified with Vitamin D. That's about it."

In comparison, if you buy fruit yogurt, a half cup serving can have between three to four teaspoons of added sugar.

"That's on top of what's already occurring in there. Can you imagine taking half a cup of milk and putting three teaspoons of sugar in it and drinking it? That's essentially what you're doing [when you eat fruit yogurt]."

That's why Hess recommends her clients take home a tub of plain yogurt over any other kind. And then, to add some flavour, she suggests they top it off with berries in order to cut out any additional simple sugars and to

benefit from the fibre, antioxidants and phytochemicals in the fruit.

So what's the truth about probiotics—are live microoganisms really only in one brand of yogurt?

"This is when we start getting into the commercial aspect of yogurt," Hess says. "Activia's the one that most people look at and think 'Oh! That's so good for me because it has probiotics,' but all yogurt has probiotics.

"And Activia yogurt, which has probiotics in it, like all other yogurt, also has added sugars in it," Hess adds. "So they're promoting the probiotics, but then we have to realize there's probiotics in all yogurt, so we can't glorify one yogurt."

This is why Hess encourages clients to look at the nutritional facts and ingredients on yogurts before taking one home.

"Yogurt in general is good for you, but you have to understand the differences between the yogurts out there and you can't go by marketing because marketing is there to sell a product."

The latest craze in the dairy cooler is Greek yogurt, which is thicker than regular stuff.

That thickness comes from a process of draining out excess water. As well as making the yogurt thicker, that straining also decreases the calcium content, while increasing the yogurt's protein content, Hess says.

So if you compare a plain regular yogurt to a plain Greek yogurt, they are

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both healthy options, they just have slightly different nutritional benefits.

"So a vegetarian who's struggling to get protein in, might find it more beneficial to choose the Greek yogurt because it's going to have a higher concentration of protein," Hess explains. "But maybe for somebody who already has a lot of protein, like an athlete who's done a workout and needs to work on getting carbohydrates in for recovery, the regular yogurt would be better.

"Picking the right yogurt is just about learning to decipher the differences between products, reading the nutritional facts and understanding what ingredients are being used in your products."

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WINE

The truth about sulphites

That wine headache may not be caused by what you think You're not allergic to sulphites. wine that causes people to experience the case. Sulfur is one of the few pest OK, there's a chance—a very small various unpleasant effects (namely controls allowed in organic producchance—that you belong to the one headaches, heartburn and nausea), tion, and many organic vineyards douse percent of the population with a lemost of the time it's not due to the their vines in sulfur to keep away insect gitimate sulphite allergy. If this is the sulphites. Overindulgence can certainly pests. That being said, there are a few case I deeply sympathize, but too cause a headache and nausea, as organic wines made with the express I often people automatically can dehydration—if you were D purpose of having as low sulphite conI V VENI, assume that if they have an already a bit dehydrated betent as possible—this is usually proudly unfavourable reaction to fore having a glass of wine, stated on the label. kly.com uewee wine, especially red wine, you're almost guaranteed I'm deeply suspicious of such wines. mel@v Mel it's because of a sulphite to wind up with a headache.

Sulphites are needed as both a preserey While some studies have tried vative and stabilizing agent, and wines allergy.

Priestl Are you able to eat pickles without to identify the chemical compound that have been engineered with a purany trouble? How about frozen French responsible for causing the infamous posefully reduced sulphite content run fries, dried apricots or sausages? These "red wine headache," no definitive culthe risk of spoiling too quickly. Oftenfoods all have much higher concentraprits have been discovered. times these low sulphite wines are little tions of sulphites than the average more than thin, vinegary substances glass of wine, and yet most people do Sulphites are a natural product of lacking any kind of complexity or nunot complain of any problems after fermentation, arising from the chemiance. While these wines may be the consuming them. A true sulphite recal reaction that converts the sugars only option available to those sensitive action involves breathing difficulties, in grape juice to sulphites, A true sulphite reaction a swollen throat, itchy skin, hives and to alcohol. it's best for (very rarely) anaphylactic shock. Not They also act those with a involves breathing many people will ever need to worry as a natural difficulties, a swollen throat, true allergy about reacting to sulphites in this way, preservative, to avoid all itchy skin and (very rarely) but because a sulphite allergy can be prompting wines comanaphylactic shock. severe or even fatal, the federal governsome (but pletely. And ment passed a law in 1994 requiring all certainly not for those products containing more than 10 ppm all) producwho experiof sulphites to state this on the label. ers to add extra sulphites to their wines ence headaches or other unpleasant Wine almost always has more than this in order to give them a longer shelf-life. effects from drinking wine, I would also amount, so therefore all wine labels While many assume that organic suggest just avoiding it altogether—but bear the words "contains sulphites." wines have less sulphites than those please don't run around blaming sulWhile there is clearly something in that are non-organic, this is not always phites for your woes. V

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Six things about

Kobe beef

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There's only one True Kobe beef refers to cuts from the black Tajima-ushi strain of Wagyū cattle hailing from the Hyogo Prefecture in Japan. The meat is prized as a delicacy for its flavour, tenderness and well-marbled texture.

Myth busting It has been said that Wagyū cattle are fed beer and given massages to promote the adequate development of their meat, but this has not been proven true. The cattle are often fed on a mixture of grass and grain.

Not your typical steak To be considered authentic Kobe beef, which is a registered trademark of the Kobe Beef Marketing and Distribution Promotion Association, the meat must fulfil a rigorous set of requirements. These stipulations state that the cattle must in fact be Tajima cattle born and farm-fed in Hyōgo Prefecture, the cattle must be a bullock (steer) or castrated bull, processed at a slaughterhouse in Kobe, Nishinomiya, Sanda, Kakogaway or Kimeji in Hyōgo Prefecture, possess a marbling ratio (BMS) of level 6 or higher, obtain a meat-quality score of four or five and the gross weight of beef yielded from one animal must be 470 kg or less.

Purity is essential These prized bovines were used primarily as work animals after being introduced to Japan in the second century, and due to the country's typography, small regions of isolated breeding were created.

Rare delicacy There are approximately only 3000 head of cattle certified as Kobe beef each year, which is the reason for the meat's high price and status.

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Don't be fooled In North America (where the trademark on the beef is not recognized or protected), what is often labelled as Kobe beef is not the real deal, as true Kobe beef is extremely expensive—a small steak could set you back several hundred dollars—and there are tight import restrictions on the meat.

The limited availability has resulted in Kobe-style beef items popping up in restaurants throughout the continent. This meat is often the result of domestically raised wagyū cattle being crossbred with Angus cattle and tends to have a darker appearance and bolder flavour. V

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FEATURE // WCFW

Who says Alberta isn't fashionable?

Photos by: Meaghan Baxter

Western Canada Fashion Week continues its evolution

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t's often difficult for Edmontonians to picture their fair city as a fashion capital, or even one that has any fashion scene to speak of, but for the past eight years, Sandra Sing Fernandes has been nurturing the city's aspiring designers through the growing prominence of Western Canada Fashion Week.

Fernandes, executive producer and creative director of the biannual week-long event is no stranger to the fashion industry, having spent a large portion of her career working in none other than fashion mecca New York City. The Grant MacEwan dance graduate studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology and School of Visual Arts while there, going on to work as a model and designer herself before relocating back to Edmonton in 2001. However, there was little-to-no progression in Edmonton's fashion scene since she left the city 15 years prior— a disheartening fact she was determined to change. Fernandes set to work applying the

industry know-how she had accumulated during her time in New York, where she ran her company Studio Ze, building Western Canada Fashion Week (originally known as Edmonton Fashion Week) from scratch out of her studio/shop, Planet Ze in Old Strathcona, which hosted the first event in 2005 featuring 10 designers.

Eight years later, WCFW is the third-largest fashion event in the country, showcasing emerging and established designers along with the best in hair and makeup artistry, further nurturing the growing fashion and design community in Edmonton and Western Canada.

Of course, pulling off an eight-day fashion event featuring more than 50 designers and 400 models in shows and competitions is no easy feat, and immediately after the lights went down on this season's final

show, preparations began for the next one in September, not to mention events in Calgary and Vancouver in the near future.

"I think our mission is, right now, not just to do fashion week, but to really promote 24-7 because we're finding we'll get a lot of people's attention right at this time, but then it kind of dies out. So our big mission is to keep it going and keep the excitement going," Fernandes says as she prepares for the secondlast night of shows during what has been a week of 18-hour days—yet she maintains an unwavering sense of energy and enthusiasm for the event. WCFW has brought her down to "ground zero" again, allowing her to go through a career process with emerging designers that she herself went through.

"That's where I think my circular knowledge—that I've been fortunate enough in my life to have—has really helped me," she adds. "I never expected I'd be using it in this way at this point, but life is funny."

//Tracy Grabowski

SANDRA FERNANDES "I think Edmonton's an unusual city when it comes to talent ... but it's what's done with that talent because you can have talent anywhere; if it's not nurtured and brought up then nothing happens with it."

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SUPPORT THE EDMONTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION Kingsway Mall and the Edmonton Public Schools Foundation have partnered to encourage, mentor and challenge students to put their design skills to the test at the third annual Ready to Shine student fashion show.

One objective of the Ready to Shine initiative is to raise funds for the Edmonton Public Schools Foundation.

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STYLE // CANADIAN APPAREL

Consuming fashion

Disposable clothing makes it difficult for Canadian designers to produce quality in quantity

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anada's place in the world of fashion is growing, but designers and apparel producers here face tremendous competition from cheap sources in Asia. Like other western nations, Canada has embraced fast fashion. This is a term that Lori Moran, lecturer in the department of Human Ecology at the University of Alberta, uses to describe what has happened since apparel production moved to China.

"This idea of companies like Zara and H&M—these are companies that have a really rapid turn-around," she says. "They kind of condition consumers to always be looking for the next new thing because they replenish their stock so quickly and they don't repeat those items."

Labour in China is cheap, and Moran says that initially when clothing production moved there from North America in the '70s, the quality was pretty cheap, too. She says now the quality has improved some while the prices remain low—encouraging shoppers to continuously keep buy-

much cheaper," Bissonnette says. It's now gotten to the point where she says it's cheaper to buy a $10 T-shirt than to sew your own clothing.

The introduction of free-trade agreements sent production jobs away from Canada to Third World countries, and that led to the Canadian fashion industry becoming depleted. Although some of the tariffs on importing fabric have been eased, it's still expensive for Canadian designers to create quality clothing at home. The transportation of the fabric takes time and in this industry, time is of the essence.

"The taxes on things coming into // ©iStockphoto.com/Liuser Canada harken back to another era when we did produce more fabric in ing. where fabric cost 70 to 90 percent Canada," Moran says. "So to encour"There is some criticism that we of the cost of the garment, that was age people to use what was made have become too reliant on these really important. ... second of all, you here, they made it more expensive to cheap imports in the sense that many have the cut of your clothes," she import goods." consumers seem to think that it's disnotes.

Bissonnette adds that it's tough to posable clothing," Moran says. "It's Up-to-date fashions were imporcompete with cheap labour. "So when so low priced that if it doesn't last a tant but sometimes, even though the we talk about Canadian fashion—we long time or you get tired of it, you clothes might look stylish, the fabric are suffering with other countries, feel it's OK to get rid of it because was poor quality if the wearer was we're not the only one—with the fact you didn't spend that much on it." not part of the upper classes. But that if somebody goes into business right now, how It hasn't always can they comThere is some criticism that we have become too been this way. Prepete with an reliant on these cheap imports in the sense that industrial revoluequivalent that tion, before clothing many consumers seem to think that it's disposable produces debegan being masssigns in Canada clothing. produced, Anne Bisbut then has it sonnette, assistant produced elseprofessor of Matewhere, which rial Culture and Curatorship also in as clothing production became even reduces the cost significantly? So if the Human Ecology department at quicker, it meant that even the workyour shirt is $200 because you make the U of A, says there were a couple ing classes started looking stylish, it here compared to the shirt that's things that distinguished people by although the quality was not there. $15 because it's produced elsewhere, their clothing.

"So when we start to have ready-tohow do you compete with that? So "It was the quality of the cloth— wear, that's because you have a stanthat is something that in the past 25 something we don't understand todardized system where the garments years has completely changed not day because everything is made of might not fit you super well, but they only designers in this country, but rather crappy fabric—but in an era fit you well enough and the price is also production and sales."

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It's easier for designers in Europe as Italy is a major fabric exporter for high-end fashion. Canada's selection of importers includes those who dominate in cheaper textile production like China, India and Turkey.

"So if you're a Canadian fashion designer, what you have available to you is a selection not as great as if you were working in Europe," Moran says.

Then there are the environmental problems that come hand-in-hand with fast fashion.

"It's encouraging people to be on the lookout and really be searching for the next new thing on a shorter and shorter cycle," Moran adds. "Retailers typically would have changed what they had in the store by seasons, and then they would try to get consumers interested in the back-toschool season and the cruise season to try and get people to buy summer clothes in winter. They came up with all these different buying seasons throughout the year to keep people interested in buying more."

The result of maintaining a continuous cycle of producing and buying also creates a lot of waste. Moran says cut-and-sew operations are leaving as much as 30 percent of the fabric on the floor. And then there's the factor of all the travel required for the clothing to be restocked every two weeks and the attitude of consumers that this clothing is disposable—much of it ends up in landfills when the wearer is done with it.

Moran thinks this cycle of fast fashion will continue to be the norm until more people demand sustainability in the way apparel is produced.

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Fernandes describes Western Canada Fashion Week as an incubator for young designers. Anyone can submit an application for the event—schooled in design or not—and the WCFW team provides the venue accompanied by a highquality atmosphere for the designers to show off their work to prospective buyers, and gain all-important exposure for their brand.

Fernandes explains that part of the preparation process is assisting aspiring designers in choosing their models as well as hair and makeup professionals to enhance their collections.

"The designer, when they come in, they have their choices of models and their choices of their music of what they're doing. We try to help them if they have questions, but often they're going through their process of learning how to pick better models and we don't control those parts of the shows," Fernandes says, adding she and her team will offer guidance based on observation, but in the end the choice is left up to the designers.

The goal is to facilitate connections between designers, models, agencies and hair and makeup professionals to allow each to benefit from the experience and further their development in the industry, regardless of which stage they happen to be in. Alongside preparing each show, Fernandes is in charge of the nationally-distributed magazine Phabrik, which brings attention to the growing local and national scene.

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"We want to be world class," she sates. "So we certainly work at getting unique products that are coming out in the marketplace before other people get them because we want to have that cutting edge. We don't want to be behind because we're from Alberta."

Moving into next season, which hits the runway starting September 19, Fernandes (who is already looking forward as far as 2014) will be investigating ways to begin forging industry relationships even earlier through continuing to involve post-secondary students in areas such as technical aspects of the show or photography. However, sometimes young people don't realize there are opportunities in these fields, she notes, and she plans to work with local high schools to foster an outlook that she describes as creation versus destruction.

"There's a lot of kids that are attracted by our industry and there's so many opportunities," she adds. "If we can get them out there to experience that, I think that can spark things for them."

WCFW has come a long way from its early days, with designers and Edmontonians' focus on fashion growing along with it, but Fernandes admits there are still challenges in not only gaining recognition for the city as a fashion powerhouse, but for Edmontonians to realize the talent that exists here.

Fernandes was told from the getgo by naysayers that WCFW would never last, and she says there have been times when she's doubted it herself, but she believes in the city and its diverse talent pool, and this alone keeps her advocating for WCFW and those who benefit from it. It's difficult for an emerging designer to compete with the multi-million dollar advertising campaigns of household names, but she believes that the support needs to start at a local level in order for that talent to flourish, and there have been cases—such as 2013 WCFW designer Angélique Chmielewski—who have gone on to find success in larger markets like New York.

"All of the west has been underrated for fashion and I think there's always been a lot of talent in the west for lots of things.

I think Edmonton's an unusual city when it comes to talent ... but it's what's done with that talent because you can have talent anywhere; if it's not nurtured and brought up, then nothing happens with it," she says, adding Toronto and Vancouver are starting to wake up and take notice of Edmonton, but yet it can still be difficult to fill seats at WCFW because Edmontonians often don't believe there's quality work to be shown. "We think it's crap. It's not crap; there's great stuff and we have to support that in every city, so our motto is local-global."

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Sun, Apr 7 (6:30 pm) With Orange Goblin, Lionize, Kyng Union Hall, $34 After giving fans a taste of its new material over the course of the last two years, Clutch's 10th studio album, Earth Rocker, was released in March. Since then, Clutch has been on the road supporting the release throughout Europe and North America. Prior to its stop in Edmonton, bassist Dan Maines discussed the recording process with Vue. VUE WEEKLY: How long did it take to make Earth Rocker from the initial songwriting through to the end of the recording?

DAN MAINES: The songwriting process began a little over two years ago. We played two new songs, what ended up being "Unto the Breach" and "The Wolfman Kindly Requests" in our sets supporting Motörhead in early 2010. Over the course of that tour and another tour in 2011 supporting Thin Lizzy in the UK, we had most of the album written and were playing rough versions in our sets. We began a pre-production stage in the summer of 2012 with Machine the producer. This involved getting complete final versions of the songs plus writing a couple songs that we felt would complete the record.

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DM: The way we approach writing is usually just getting together in our rehearsal space and jamming on an idea. It can be a riff, a drum beat or just a chord progression. We jam on that as a band and see if it develops into anything. We record everything that seems like a good platform for Neil to take home and work on for lyrics.

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? DM: The way the producer Machine likes to record is to have as much of the material completely written as possible prior to going into the recording studio. We also recorded each instrument separately, starting with drums and bass and then moving on to guitars and vocals.

VW: Were there any other songs written that were left off the album? Why? DM: We went into the recording session having made the decision the album was going to be 10 songs long. We had more than 10 songs written and decided to record what we had and make the final cut after hearing all of the final mixes. In the end we put 10 straight-up rockers on the album, split down the middle with a slow-paced acoustic track called "Gone Cold." So, yes, we have extras, but no plan of what to do with them as of yet.

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

DM: The idea was to make an album of 10 songs that were generally faster in tempo and a bit more aggressive production-wise from what we have done in recent years.

You produced the album with Machine. What drew you to him and what did he bring to the process?

DM: We wanted to change gears and put ourselves in a recording atmosphere that differed from our last two releases, From Beale St to Oblivion and Strange Cousins From the West. Both of those were recorded the traditional way of recording a song multiple times as a band and picking out the best take.

Machine works in a very different way. Having worked with him in 2004 for Blast Tyrant, we were familiar with his style.

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VW: If you were to trace the musical map that led you to Earth Rocker what would it look like?

DM: One of the elements of each album we put out is the idea of not repeating ourselves. Each album we make in a way is a reaction to the albums made previously. Clutch has now been together as a band for over 20 years, and I think Earth Rocker has elements of everything we've done in those years and more, with a sound and energy that mirrors our live shows. V

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ultiple lifetimes of experience playing for some of the country's most established artists have coalesced to form Belle Starr, a triple-threat fiddle trio that's bringing the backing instrument front and centre.

"We've all played in Celtic bands, we've all played in rock 'n' roll bands, we've all played in bluegrass bands," says Kendel Carson, one third of Belle Starr, which also includes Stephanie Cadman and Miranda Mulholland—all three also being

accomplished solo artists in their own right. "It's very much three front-people in a band, and we've all been sidemen, so we know how to be sidemen but yet we know how to step a bit forward for this song or that song, so the balance is a pretty wonderful thing so far."

The trio—named after the infamous 19th-century outlaw—has released its self-titled debut full-length album.

What unfolds on the disc is a curated blend of cover songs and original instrumental compositions that allows the group's top-notch fiddle skills to take over as the primary set of voices.

began when Belle Starr was in its infancy and just finding its feet as a collective, and Carson recalls she and her bandmates specifically determining that instead of each member bringing their own songs to the group—something she notes can be difficult because feelings and opinions can prevent open discussion—they would choose ones that spoke to them as a whole.

"We specifically made an album of other people's songs so that there wasn't already one person's singular voice as a writer or the speaker, and we found that it was the smoothest way to figure out what we sounded like together," Carson notes of the covers, which include spirited renditions of Bruce Springsteen's "Tougher Than The Rest" and "Be A Man"

by Justin Rutledge. As for the originals, it was a matter of writing in a way that would allow the three fiddles to cooperate rather than compete. "We'd just sort of jam together and either come up with harmonies it if made sense for the tune, or else just really arrange it in a unique fashion that would let the fiddles take the forefront ... it really does put such a distinct stamp on the songs we play because fiddle is as prominent as most of the vocals throughout the record."

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The relatively new act has been playing together since only last summer, but now has its first appearance at Canadian Music Week in the books, and is ready to release its debut full-length album accompanied by a tour across western Canada. All of its members—the lineup being rounded out by lead guitarist Michael James, drummer Kurtis Schultz and bassist Josh Eygenraam—had been involved with various other musical endeavours and became acquainted with one another

through various circles, but it wasn't until Adams returned from a four-month-long trip through India and Southeast Asia that she decided to seek out a band.

"While I was travelling the creative juices were just flowing, so I wrote a lot when I was away and started writing out band parts without really having a band to go on," says Adams, who previously performed as a solo acoustic artist and as part of the folk group Floating Feathers, adding that the time away prompted her to concentrate even more on music when she returned home. "I saw so many different kinds of music, you know, not necessarily stuff that was incorporated into my writing, but ... for people it's just their life.

They just love playing so much and they were playing on the street and playing with whoever, and you could see that it just made them so happy. I just wanted to play as much as possible when I got back."

Once Adams teamed up with the guys, the creativity continued as new instrumental possibilities unfolded and new perspectives were voiced. Soon the foursome teamed up with Stew Kirkwood at Sound Extractor Studios— where Schultz is also a sound engineer—to lay down the tracks of what would become its gritty yet soulful debut. The songs have got plenty of attitude and dynamic rock riffs, but Adams was looking to make the personal, observational lyrics driving the melodies about more than typical angst-ridden topics of love and heartache.

"I mean, it's not bad to write love songs, but I think it's unfortunate that for a lot of people, that's the go-to and thematically that's all they write about. I think we live in a pretty crazy time and people have a lot more to say, but they don't really challenge themselves to put it into their writing or their music," she says, noting Janis Joplin as an influence of her own vocal style and music. "She doesn't have any proper technique or training in her vocals, they're just scratchy and she's this little party animal, but it just comes off as really cool. I think it's fun to play with the natural inflections that come out in your voice and not try and mould it into something it's not."

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over songs can be a tricky beast to tackle. It's inevitable that listeners will compare a band's rendition to the original tune, and there's a fine line between straying too far—which can pay off, if it's a longshot from the band's usual style and is effectively reinvented—and sticking too closely to a beloved classic and falling short.

However, Toronto indie-rock act Zeus is back just over a year after the release of its breakout sophomore album, Busting Visions, with a deluxe version of the disc accompanied by its latest EP, Cover Me. The multifarious collection of seven cov-

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ers includes "Who Is It?" by Michael Jackson, "Vasoline" by Stone Temple Pilots and "Ignition" by R Kelly.

"It's a pretty strange collection of songs," multi-instrumentalist Mike O'Brien admits. "We just sort of wanted to reflect all the different sides of our band and the music we listen to and maybe some of the influences that aren't as obvious."

The band works out of its own recording space in Toronto called Illegal Studio, which gave it plenty of time to experiment with a variety of tracks. O'Brien says the EP began as a recording exercise above all else as Zeus began to work towards a new album. Together, the band broke down the production of various tracks to see how the artist pieced it together before reworking

it. Some, like "The Ballad of El Goodo" by Big Star, wavers little from the original, acting as Zeus's homage to what O'Brien calls a forgotten classic, while others outside the rock genre exude aspects of Zeus's own style without making the song unrecognizable.

"We don't have as much experience in modern R&B for example, so it's kind of fun to listen to those songs from a different angle in terms of production and see what elements make up that song and then attack it from that angle," O'Brien explains, admitting the Jackson track was particularly challenging for the group. "Covering Michael Jackson is a risky thing to do to begin with ... it's hallowed ground and whenever you're going there you don't want to fuck up. But you know, we're also trying to bring a sense of humour to it as well. We love Michael Jackson, it's no secret that he's someone all of us listen to a lot and have listened to over the years. I think that song in particular Carlin (Nicholson) always wanted to try covering, and I think also to pick a song that is from a later era of his career that people might not know as well was something that we found more interesting that covering, say, 'Billy Jean.' " MEAGHAN BAXTER

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ob Wright is nursing a hangover when he answers his phone. Just a mild one, he figures, just the cost of attending a punk show the night before. Nothing to ruin a day over, and besides: Wright's been playing in punk and rock bands for a long time.

Being versed in the full spectrum of groggy morning-afters comes with the territory.

In Greenback High, Wright isn't the only scene veteran: pretty much everyone in the band has already spent years in scrappy, spirited groups delivering punk rock to the masses. Greenback High formed in 2011, but its members have collectively logged time in the likes of DOA, the Vicious Cycles, the Von Zippers, The Jolts, Les Tabernacles and The James T Kirks.

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"A bunch of us dummies got together and decided to play some rock 'n' roll music," he recalls. "[The band] just kind of came out of mutual friendships and mutual appreciations for some of the same records. Just wanting to start a new band, and play music with new people."

With that in mind, you have to wonder: does one's lasting enjoyment of punk rock, endless bar-chord riffing in bars across the country, change as the years add up?

"I still get that same feeling and rush of adrenaline from playing punk rock and from playing rock 'n' roll," he says, after pausing to mull it over. "I don't think that element of it has changed whatsoever. Maybe because we've all been in bands for years, there's maybe a slightly more thoughtful approach to the songwriting. But at the same time, we try not to overthink it too much, and just bang it out. At the end of the day, it's the same three chords that Chuck Berry was using, y'know?

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putting our own stamp on it."

When the band rolls into town, it'll be the first time Wright, an Edmonton expat, has brought his new band to Alberta. Greenback High has a freshly pressed single to tout, and while here it'll do two shows in one day: an afternoon set at Filthy McNasty's, and an evening slot at Wunderbar. Same double-show structure goes for Calgary.

"We're travelling 1500 kilometres to come play for 30 minutes," he says of doubling up the band's gig-to-day ratio. "So it would feel like a bit of a shame if we didn't try to maximize it, I suppose. We're basically risking our lives to come play for a grand total of an hour a day, which is pretty hilarious when you put it into perspective.

In a punk-rock band, you spend so much time and energy and your own money just to go up and play in front of 100 people. But I wouldn't change it. We're travelling all this way, so we gotta maximize our kill count."

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GOTH AND INDUSTRIAL EVERY FRIDAY AT 10PM

NOW HIRING SERVERS

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Rotten, Snakebite, Fight To Swill

SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Amy Weymes

EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ Uptown Folk Club: Blu and Kelly Hopkin; 7:30pm (door); $12 (adv at Alfie Myhre's, Acoustic Music Shop/$15 (door)

SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM AJ

ENCORE Figure, Stratus and Subscape FANDANGOS Drew Gregory HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB Sweet Alibi (country, R&B), Erica Viegas, Jessica Denise; 8pm (door); $7 (adv)/$10 (door) HIGHRUN PUB Sophia and the Shufflehounds HOGS DEN PUB Sinder Sparks Show; 8-12pm HORIZON STAGE Sagapool; $34 at TicketMaster JEFFREY'S CAFÉ John Caverly and the Felt Hat String Band (jazz); 9pm; $15 LBS PUB Oil City Sound Machine

SIDELINERS PUB Cold Cruiser; 9pm; no cover STARLITE ROOM Sonic 102.9FM 8th anniversary party: USS, Owls by Nature STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION Black XIII, Black Collar, Elements, Autumn Effect (metal); 8pm; $15 (adv) WUNDERBAR Stepmothers, Ben Disaster, The Nancees, Miek Headache YARDBIRD SUITE Walt Weiskopf, Peter Zak Quartet; 8pm (door); $18 (member)/$22 (guest)

Classical

OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Dueling Piano's, all request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover PAWN SHOP Forester, Mars and Venus, Bomb Squad Rookie, White Pongo, Thrillhouse PUB 1824 Every Fri & Sat; $5 RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Fri; 9pm2am RENDEZVOUS PUB Without Mercy, until Dawn, Immunize, Bleed; 8pm (door); $12 RICHARD'S PUB The Fab Tiff Hall RIG Marshall Lawrence and the Lazy Bastards

UNION HALL Ladies Night every Fri

GAS PUMP Saturday Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth

Y AFTERHOURS Foundation Fridays

SAT APR 6 ARTERY Smile for the Bullet, Heroes Start Here, Drainbed, more; 6pm; $15 (adv at Blackbyrd) AVENUE THEATRE Smile for the Bullet, Heroes Start Here, Drainbed; 6pm; $15 (adv)

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Ellen McIlwaine; 8:30pm; $20

THE BOWER Zukunft: Indie and alternative with Dusty Grooves, Fraser Olsen, Taz, and Josh Johnson THE COMMON Good Fridays: nu disco, hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation plus residents Echo and Justin Foosh

FANDANGOS Netty Mac FILTHY MCNASTY'S Free Afternoon Concerts; 4pm; Raptors, Greenback High; no cover

DJs

NEW CITY Sinners, Freaks and Geeks; Burlesque with Holly von Sinn, Kiki Quinn, Samantha Rose, forbsie Flare, LeTabby Lexington, Delilah Ledouche, San Quentin, Bootsy Cline; 9pm (door); $8 (door); no minors

(non-member) Open stage jam with host Tommaso Zillio (Edmonton Guitar); last Sat each month, 2-5pm; admission by donation

TREASURY In Style Fri: DJ Tyco and Ernest Ledi; no line no cover for ladies all night long

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

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every Friday DJs on all three levels

ON THE ROCKS Hamburger

TEMPLE Silence be Damned: with DJs Gotthavok, Siborg, Nightroad; 9pm

WINSPEAR CENTRE Raga Mala Music Society: Mohan Veena Guitar (VM Bhatt; 8pm

LIZARD LOUNGE Rock 'n' roll open mic every Fri; 8:30pm; no cover

NOORISH CAFÉ Sparrow Grace

Inner Beast: Retro and Top 40 beats with DJ Suco; every Fri

BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Evening: Big Hank's Birthday Bash BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Back Porch Swing 10th Anniversary Party; 8pm; $10 (door) BRIXX Leave the Living, Heat Death of the Universe CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK The Enduros

HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB Belle Starr, Jeffery Straker, Tatam Reeves (alt country); 8pm (door); $7 (adv)/$10 (door) HIGHRUN PUB Sophia and the Shufflehounds HOOLIGANZ PUB Dead City Battle of the Bands: Paperraygunexperiment, Tomas Marsh, Ill Beats, Sweet Vintage Rides; 8pm; $10 IRISH CLUB Stan Gallant JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Jess Smith (acoustic) with Daniel Bourbonnais, Bo Aganaba; 9pm; $10 L.B.'S PUB Sat afternoon Jam with Gator and Friends; 5-9pm LOUISIANA PURCHASE Suchy Sister Saturdays: Amber, Renee or Stephanie with accompaniment; 9:3011:30pm; no cover NEW CITY Mindil Beach Markets, Waves Upon Us, Micelli; 8:30pm; $10 (door)

THE DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Fri; 9pm

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat Open mic; 7pm; $2

NEW WEST HOTEL Country jam every Sat; 3-6pm

ELECTRIC RODEO– Spruce Grove DJ every Fri

CENTURY CASINO Myles Goodwin and April Wine; $59.95

O’BYRNE’S Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm ON THE ROCKS Hamburger

RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie, rock, funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri

CROWN PUB Acoustic blues open stage with Marshall Lawrence, 2-6pm; Evening: Down to the Crown: Marshall Lawrence presents great blues with Trevor Duplessis, Mad Dog Blues Band, every Sat 10pm2am, $5 (door)

STARLITE ROOM KLUB OMFG

DEVANEY'S Alesha and Brendon

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Amplified Fridays: Dubstep, house, trance, electro, hip hop breaks with DJ Aeiou, DJ Loose Beats, DJ Poindexter; 9:30pm (door)

DV8 Action News Team, Indifferent Daze

FLUID LOUNGE R&B, hip hop and dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Fri LUCKY 13 Every Fri and Sat with resident DJ Chad Cook

SUITE 69 Release Your

EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ Afternoon: Uptown Folk Club: Blu and Kelly Hopkins duo arrangements/style and successful jamming at 1pm, $5 (member/$10

OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Dueling Piano's, all request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover PAWN SHOP Doom, Dayglo Abortions, Messiahlator, Falsehood PUB 1824 Every Fri & Sat; $5 QUEEN ALEXANDRA HALL Northern Lights Folk Club: Chris Trapper; 7pm (door); $18 (adult adv at TIX on the Square, Acoustic Music, Myhre's)/$22 (adult door)

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 9030118 Ave, 780.477.2149 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku 2110 Sparrow Drive, Nisku, 780.986.8522 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 962476 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 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 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 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464-153 St, 780.424 9467

CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 COMMON 9910-109 St CROWN PUB 10709-109 St, 780.428.5618 DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8307-99 St EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 ELEPHANT AND CASTLE– Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave ENCORE 2687, 8882-170 St EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ 993870 Ave, 780.437.3667 FANDANGO'S 12912-50 St, fandangoslive.com FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FIDDLER’S ROOST 890699 St FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 FLUID LOUNGE 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB 15120A (basement), Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.6010 HOGS DEN PUB Yellow

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Head Tr, 142 St HOOLIGANZ 10704-124 St, 780.995.7110, 780.452.1168 IRISH CLUB Edmonton Irish Sports & Social Society, 12546-126 St, 780.453.2249 J+H PUB (Overdraught Pub), 1919-105 St J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JAVA XPRESS 110, 4300 South Park Dr, Stony Plain, 780.968.1860 JEFFREY’S CAFÉ 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 JOHN L. HAAR THEATRE Grant MacEwan University, 10045-156 St L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR 10132-104 St LIZARD LOUNGE 13160118 Ave MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH 10025-101 St NAKED CYBERCAFÉ AND BOARDGAME EMPORIUM 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE PUB 6108-90 Ave, 780.490.1999 NEW CITY 8130 Gateway Boulevard NOORISH CAFÉ 8440109 St 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 QUEEN ALEXANDRIA HALL 10425-10425 University Ave RED LINE DINER 300 St Matthews Ave, Spruce Grove RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 RENDEZVOUS 10108149 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 10235101 St

SET NIGHTCLUB Next to Bourban St, 8882-170 St, WEM, Ph III, setnightclub. ca SIDELINERS PUB 11018127 St SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924 SPORTSMAN'S LOUNGE 8170-50 St STARLITE ROOM 10030102 St, 780.428.1099 STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION 10940166A St SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave SUITE 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969 TREASURY 10004 Jasper Ave, 7870.990.1255, thetreasurey.ca UNION HALL 6240-99 St VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St

Red Line Diner Carrie Day; 7-11pm

Open stage/jam every Sun; 2-6pm

Red Piano Bar Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm2am

Blackjack's Roadhouse–Nisku Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett

rendezvous pub Turtletown Rescue fundraiser: Ides Of Winter, Kryosphere; 8pm (door); $12 RiG Cold Crusier Sideliners Open stage and jam for all ages Wunderbar The Get Down, Greenback High, Nervous Wreck Yardbird Suite Walt Weiskopf, Peter Zak Quartet; 8pm (door); $18 (member)/$22 (guest)

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: The Menace Sessions: Alt Rock/ Electro/Trash with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic hip-hop and reggae with DJ Sonny Grimezz; Underdog: Dr. Erick THE BOWER For Those Who Know...: House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests THE Common Get Down It's Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with resident Dane Druid Irish Pub DJ every Sat; 9pm Encore Encore Saturdays: Sound and Light show every Sat FLUID LOUNGE R&B, hip hop and dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Sat Level 2 Lounge Collective Saturdays underground: House and Techno Lucky 13 Every Fri and Sat with resident DJ Chad Cook Newcastle Pub Top 40 requests every Sat with DJ Sheri PAWN SHOP Transmission Saturdays: Indie rock, new wave, classic punk with DJ Blue Jay and Eddie Lunchpail; 9pm (door); free (before 10pm)/$5 (after 10pm); 1st Sat each month RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Mkhai Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M Sugar Foot Ballroom Swing Dance Party: Sugar Swing Dance Club every Sat, 8-12; no experience or partner needed, beginner lesson followed by social dance; sugarswing.com Suite 69 Stella Saturday: retro, old school, top 40 beats with DJ Lazy, guests TEMPLE Oh Snap! Oh Snap with Degree, Cool Beans, Specialist, Spenny B and Mr. Nice Guy and Ten 0; every Sat 9pm Union Hall Celebrity Saturdays: every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous

Blue Chair Café Sunday Brunch: PM Bossa; 10am-2.30pm; donations

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

Rouge Resto-Lounge Open Mic Night with Darrek Anderson from the Guaranteed; every Mon; 9pm

DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB Celtic open stage every Sun with Keri-Lynne Zwicker; 5:30pm; no cover DV8 Wilt, Runeblade, Gatekeeper John L. Haar Theatre Aaron Bailey's release concert of his debut album, Time; 7:30pm; $21.75 (adult)/$16.75 (senior) Newcastle Pub Sun Soul Service (acoustic jam): Willy James and Crawdad Cantera; 3-6:30pm O2 Joes–North Sunday Jam hosted by Andrew White; 4pm O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am On the Rocks Devon Coyote, guests Pawn Shop Broadway Calls, Greater Than Giants, Old Wives, the Weekend Kids; 8pm; $8 (adv) Richard's PUB Sun Jam hosted by Carson Cole; 4-8pm The Rig Every Sun Jam hosted by Better Us than Strangers; 5-9pm Union Hall Clutch, Orange Goblin, Lionize, Kyng; 6:30 pm (door) no minors; $34 at Blackbyrd, Unionevents.com Wunderbar Craig Martell and Jon Mick (album release)

Classical McDougall United Church Choral Saint-Jean: Ce beau printemps–This Beautiful Spring; 3-5pm; $20/$15

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sundays: A fantastic voyage through '60s and '70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy LeveL 2 lounge Stylus Industry Sundays: Invinceable, Tnt, Rocky, Rocko, Akademic, weekly guest DJs; 9pm-3am

MON APR 8 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover Blues on Whyte Scott Holt Brittany's

Beer Hunter–St Albert

Devaney's

Overtime Sherwood Park Monday Open Stage PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm; contact Vi Kallio 780.456.8510

Arden Miss Caledonia; 8pm; $35

SUN APR 7

Fandangos Dr Blues

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

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

Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

Irish Pub Singer/ songwriter open stage every Mon; 8pm this week: Nadine Kellman

(door)/8pm (show); $29.50/$39.50/$65.50 Yardbird Suite Tue Night Sessions: Andrew Glover Quartet; 7:30pm (door), 8pm (show); $5

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: alternative retro and not-so-retro, electronic and Euro with Eddie Lunchpail; Wooftop: It’s One Too Many Tuesdays: Reggae, funk, soul, boogie and disco with Rootbeard

DJs

CRown Pub Underground at the Crown Tuesday: Trueskool and live hip-hop with residents Jae Maze, Xaolin, Frank Brown; monthly appearances by guests Shawn Langley, Locution Revolution, and Northside Clan

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

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

Crown Pub A Sexy Night with DJ Pheonix and MJ with Sleepless DJ, DJ Breeze and more every Mon; 9pm-2am

RED STAR Experimental Indie rock, hip hop, electro with DJ Hot Philly; every Tue

Wunderbar Sidney York

TUE APR 9 Atlantic trap and gill Open Mic with Ehren Flais Blues on Whyte Scott Holt Brittany's lounge Velvet Hour: every weekday with Bill Bourne, Moses Gregg, Matt Blackie and guests; 4-7pm; no cover Brixx Bar Ruby Tuesdays with host Mark Feduk; $5 after 8pm; this week guests: Druid Irish Pub Jamhouse Tues hosted

by Chris Wynters J+H Pub Acoustic open mic night every Tue hosted by Lorin Lynne; Everyone will have 10-15 minutes to play Jubilee Auditorium Michael Jackson History; $71.35 L.B.’s Tue Blues Jam with Ammar; 9pm-1am O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm Overtime Sherwood Park The Campfire Hero's (acoustic rock, country, top 40); 9pm2am every Tue; no cover Richard's PUB Darryl Matthews Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Derina Harvey Sherlock Holmes– WEM Jimmy Wiffen Starlite Paganfest: Ensiferum, Tyr, Heidevolk, Trollfest, Helsott Winspear Randy Bachman’s Vinyl Tap Tour; 7pm

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

WED APR 10 ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12 Artery Stef Lang, Lana Lenore; 7:30pm; $8 (adv) BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Glitter Gulch: live music once a month; On the Patio: Funk and Soul with Doktor Erick every Wed; 9pm Eric Ruppel 780.884.5176 eruppel@ualberta.ca Blues on Whyte Scott Holt Bohemia Renny Wilson, Brazilian Money, Ghost Cousin Brittany's lounge Velvet Hour: every weekday with Bill Bourne, Moses Gregg, Matt Blackie and guests; 4-7pm; no cover Crown Pub The Dan Jam: musical styles from around the globe with Miguel and friends; musicians are invited to bring their personal touch to the mix every Wed

Michael Gress; 9pm J+H Pub Acoustic open mic night hosted by Lorin Lynne New City In My Coma (alt rock trio), guests; 9pm New West Hotel Free classic country dance lessons every Wed, 7-9pm Overtime–Sherwood Park Jason Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Wed; no cover PAWN SHOP The Dudes, the Zolas, Daniel and the Impending Doom PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:30-11pm; $2 (member)/$4 (nonmember) Pub 1824 Open jam session every Wed, hosted

by Indigo Storm; 8pm Red Piano Bar Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 Richard's PUB Live Latin Band Salsabor every Wed; 9pm; Darryl Matthews THE RIG Open jam every Wed hosted by Will Cole; 8pm-12am Zen Lounge Jazz Wednesdays: Kori Wray and Jeff Hendrick; every Wed; 7:30-10pm; no cover

Classical Winspear Centre We Praise Thee, O God: A Farewell Celebration for Dr J. Harry Fernhout: King's University College Concert Choir, Chamber Choir and Community Chorus: Melanie Turgeon (conductor), Joachim Segger (piano/organ), , Da Camera, John Brough (conductor), Jihwan Cho, (baritone), Brian Jones (percussion); 6:30pm (reception), 8pm (music)\; $20/Adults $15 (senior/student)/$5 (child under 12) at King's Bookstore 780.465.8306, Winspear box office 780.428.1414

DJs

Devaney's Duff Robison

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: RetroActive Radio: Alternative '80s and '90s, post punk, new wave, garage, Brit, mod, rock and roll with LL Cool Joe

Elephant and Castle– Whyte Ave Open mic every Wed (unless there's an Oilers game); no cover

Brixx Bar Really Good...

Eats and Beats: every Wed with DJ Degree and Friends

Fandangos Open stage

THE Common The Wed Experience: Classics on Vinyl with Dane

Fiddler's Roost Little Flower Open Stage every Wed with Brian Gregg; 8pm-12 HAVEN SOCIAL Club Open stage every Wed hosted by the Turtlenecks, 8:30pm, free HOOLIGANZ Open stage every Wed with host

SAT APR 6

DOOM

W/ DAYGLO ABORTIONS, MESSIAHLATOR & FALSEHOOD

SUN APR 7

BROADWAY CALLS

W/ GREATER THAN GIANTS, THE OLD WIVES & THE WEEKEND KIDS

WED APR 10

THE DUDES W/ THE ZOLAS &

DANIEL & THE IMPENDING DOOM FRI APR 12

FIRE NEXT TIME

TOUR KICK OFF W/

ACRES OF LIONS, BEN DISASTER AND RATTLE RATTLE MON APR 15

THE CASUALTIES

W/ SPECIAL GUEST TBA NO PROBLEM & INTENSIVES

TUES APR 16

BISON B.C.

THE ‘LOVELESSNESS’ TOUR W/ QUIETUS & GUIFES

SAT APR 20

PROTO-PUNK LEGENDS

DEATH W/ MORALS, PANIK ATTAK & THE ALLOVERS FOR TICKETS- PLEASE VISIT WWW.YEGLIVE.CA

RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed TEMPLE Wild Style Wed: Hip hop open mic hosted

by Kaz and Orv; $5

Friday, April 12 www.jonathanedwards.net The Haven Social Club (15120A Stony Plain Rd.)

Suzy Bogguss Colleen Rae with Special Guest

Friday, May 3

FORESTER, MARS & VENUS, BOMBSQUAD ROOKIE, WHITE PONGO, AND THRILL HOUSE

NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed

Jonathan Edwards

www.suzybogguss.com

FRI APR 5

WEDNESDAY PINT NIGHT’S

$2.75 DOMESTIC PINTS

SAT APR 6 FREE SHOW 4PM

GREENBACK HIGH

W/ GUESTS THE RAPTORS

www.colleen-rae.com

Century Casino Showroom (13103 Fort Road) Tickets: 780-420-1757 www.tixonthesquare.ca www.ckua.com/events

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): Art cannot be modern," said Austrian painter Egon Schiele. "Art is primordially eternal." I love that idea.

Not all of the artifacts called "art" fit that scrupulous definition, of course. Katy Perry's music and the film Wreck-It Ralph may have some entertainment value, but they're not primordially eternal. I bring this up, Aries, because I think you have entered a particularly wild and timeless phase of your own development. Whether or not you are literally an artist, you have a mandate to create your life story as a primordially eternal work of art.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): "All my best ideas come from having no answer," said pioneer filmmaker John Cassavetes, "From not knowing." I hope that testimony cheers you up, Taurus. As hard as it may be for you to imagine, you are on the verge of a breakthrough. As you surf the chaotic flow and monitor the confusing hubbub, you are brewing the perfect conditions for an outburst of creativity. Rejoice in the blessing of not knowing!

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): Sant is a Hindi word that comes from a Sanskrit verb meaning "to be good" and "to be real." Personally, I know a lot of people who are either real or good. But few are both. The good ones tend to be overly polite and the real ones don't put a high priority on being nice. So here's your assignment, Gemini: to be good and real; to have compassionate intentions even as you conduct yourself with a high degree of authenticity; to bestow blessings everywhere you go while at the same time being honest and clear and deep. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you have the power to pull off this strenuous feat.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): Let's take a look back at the first three months of 2013. How have you been doing? If I'm reading the astrological markers accurately, you have jettisoned a portion of the psychic gunk that had accumulated in you during the past six years. You have partially redeemed the shadowy side of your nature and you have to some degree ripened the most immature part. There's also the matter of your heart. You have managed some healing of a wound that had festered there for a long time. So here's my question for you: is it possible for you to do more of this good work? The target date for completion is your birthday.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): Naturalist Charles Darwin formulated the theory of evolution, which has been one of history's most influential hypotheses. A crucial event in his early development as a scientist was a five-year boat trip he took around the world

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when he was in his twenties. The research he conducted along the way seeded many of his unique ideas. The writing he did established his reputation as a noteworthy author. And yet before his journey, his father tried to talk him out of embarking, calling it a "wild scheme" and "a useless undertaking." Did your parents or other authorities ever have a similar response to one of your brilliant projects? If so, now would be a good time to heal the wound caused by their opposition.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): I've got three sets of affirmations for you, Virgo. Say them out loud and see if they might work for you. 1) "I will be engrossed in fascinating experiences that feed my curiosity, but I will not be obsessed with grueling frustrations that drain my energy."

2) "I will be committed to love if it opens my eyes and heart, but I will not be infatuated with maddening conundrums that jiggle my fear." 3) "I will give myself freely to learning opportunities that offer me valuable lessons I can use to improve my life, but I will be skeptical toward roughedged tests that ask far more from me than they offer in return."

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): "Pole of inaccessibility" is a term that explorers use to identify places on the Earth that are hard—and interesting!—to get to. On each continent, it's usually considered to be the spot that's farthest from the coastline. For instance, there's a pole of inaccessibility near the frozen centre of Antarctica. Its elevation is over 12 000 feet and it has the planet's coldest average temperatures. As for the oceanic pole of inaccessibility, it's an area in the South Pacific that's most remote from land. By my reckoning, Libra, you would benefit from identifying what your own personal version of this point is, whether it's literal or metaphorical. I think it's also a great time to transform your relationship with it.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): Every April, the ancient Romans celebrated a festival known as Robigalia.

Among the rites they performed were ceremonies to exorcize the god of rust and mildew. I suggest you consider reviving that old practice, Scorpio. You would benefit from spending a few days waging war against insidious rot. You could start by scrubbing away all the sludge, scum and gunk from your home, car and workplace. Next, make a similar effort on a metaphorical level. Scour the muck, glop and grime out of your psyche.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): "You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you. That's

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where I'll be waiting." Tinkerbell says that to Peter Pan in J M Barrie's famous story. Sometime soon, I think you should whisper words like those to a person or animal you love. It's time for you to be as romantic and lyrical as possible. You need to bestow and attract the nourishment that comes from expressing extravagant tenderness. For even better results, add this sweetness from French poet Paul Valéry: "I am what is changing secretly in you." And try this beauty from Walt Whitman: "We were together. I forget the rest."

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): Naturalist John Muir (1838 – 1914) had an ecstatic relationship with the California wilderness. He studied it as a scientist and he worshiped it as a mystical devotee. During the course of his communion with the glaciers and peaks of the Sierra Nevada mountains, he came close to seeing them as living entities that evolved over long periods of time. "Glaciers move in tides," he wrote. "So do mountains. So do all things." With Muir as your inspiration, I invite you to identify the very gradual currents and tides that have flowed for years through your own life, Capricorn.

It's prime time to deepen your understanding and appreciation of the big, slow-moving cycles that have brought you to where you are today.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): American author William Faulkner won a Nobel Prize for literature, an indication that he had abundant talent. The prose he wrote was often experimental, cerebral and complex. He was once asked what he would say to readers who found it difficult to grasp his meaning "even after reading it two or three times."

His reply: "Read it four times." My counsel to you, Aquarius, is similar. When faced with a challenging event or situation that taxes your understanding, keep working to understand it even past the point where you would normally quit.

There will be rewards, I promise.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): "Dear Rob: I just consulted an astrologer and he told me that my planets are very weak because they're in the wrong houses and have bad aspects.

Please tell me what this means. Am I cursed? Is there any way to remedy my afflictions? - Paranoid Pisces."

Dear Pisces: whoever told you that nonsense is an incompetent astrologer. You shouldn't heed him. There's no such thing as one's planets being weak or being in the wrong houses or having bad aspects. There may be challenges, but those are also opportunities. Luckily, the coming weeks will be prime time for you Pisceans to overthrow the influence of inept "experts" and irresponsible authorities like him. Reclaim your power to define your own fate from anyone who has stolen it from you. V

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Coming Events

OIL CITY DERBY GIRLS All tickets are $10.00 in advance and $15.00 at the door, Kids under 10 are free!

Next up: All Stars VS Saskatoon Roller Derby League Apr 27 @ Oil City Grindhouse 14420 112 street Doors at 6pm Visit www.oilcityderbygirls.ca for more information

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Help Wanted

Needed: Experienced tattoo artist & experienced body piercer for busy shop on Whyte Avenue.

Contact Rick or Cody @ 780-628-4813 Strange City 10522-82 ave

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Volunteers Wanted

Are you an animal lover?

WHARF Rescue is looking for volunteers We are a nonprofit animal rescue that provides shelter to homeless,neglected animals Please check www.wharfrescue.ca for more information Habitat For Humanity - St. Albert Experience Community Hands’ On! Beginners to trades people welcome, groups and individuals welcome. We provide all tools and equipment. All volunteers participate in onsite safety orientation/training. No minimum number of shifts required. Check our website www.hfh.org to register as a volunteer online or contact Louise.

Help someone in crisis take that first step towards a solution. The Support Network`s Crisis Support Centre is looking for volunteers for Edmonton`s 24-Hour Distress Line. Interested or want to learn more? Contact Lindsay at 780-732-6648 or visit our website: www.TheSupportNetwork.com Help someone in crisis take those first steps towards a solution. The Support Network`s Crisis Support Centre is looking for volunteers for Edmonton`s 24-Hour Distress Line. Interested or want to learn more? Contact Lindsay at 780-732-6648 or visit our website: www.TheSupportNetwork.com Help the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation create a future without breast cancer through volunteerism. Contact 1-866-302-2223 or ivolunteer@cbcf.org for current volunteer opportunities Join us as a volunteer...

The 2013 Edmonton International Fringe Festival seeks volunteers to fill positions on a variety of teams. A minimum of 16 hours gets you a t-shirt,show opportunities, program guide, invite to the Wrap Party and more!

To apply online visit www.fringetheatre.ca or call the volunteer hotline at 780-409-1923 Kids Now is looking for volunteer coach-mentors to deliver after school leadership and life skills program to junior high kids.

Volunteer commitment is just 1.5 hours a week for a 10-week session For more information on coach mentoring or to apply for April sessions please visit www.kidsnowcanada.org Room to Read is changing children's lives in the developing world through literacy and gender equality. Join us in planning events to support our work, and spreading the word about our amazing results.

Edmonton@roomtoread.org www.roomtoread.org SACE is recruiting volunteers for our 24 hour crisis line. Please visit our website: www.sace.ab.ca

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Share Your Love of Art With Preschool Children ARTS FOR TOTS ARTISTS/Workshop Facilitators wanted to lead a workshop to our Preschool kids Honorarium & materials fee paid email: volunteeramity@telus.net 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 The Brick Sport Central is searching for volunteers to donate their time helping with collection, inventory, repairing, as well as outfitting children in need of sports equipment. Call for more information and a tour 780-477-1166 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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$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 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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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.

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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Artist to Artist

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.

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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

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Old School Bass Player Available to play classic rock, country, blues & some originals.

Contact Waylen at 780-477-3488

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Guitarists, bassists, vocalists, pianists and drummers needed for good paying teaching jobs.

Please call 780-901-7677

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

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.

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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Psychic Readings with Tarot -$40 an hour (intro rate) Psychic Reiki - $40 (using Reiki I read your energy helping you get clearer emotionally / goals / relationships) HOME BASED by appt ..call or text me @ 7802924489 jasondkilsch.com

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MEIER - 2 DAY Classic Car & Truck Auction. Saturday & Sunday, May 4 & 5, 11 a.m.

Both days. 6016 - 72A Ave., Edmonton. 150 Classics. Consign today, call 780-440-1860.

PYRAMID CORPORATION is now hiring! Instrument Technicians and Electricians for various sites across Alberta. Send resume to: hr@ pyramidcorporation.com or fax 780-955-HIRE.

COLLECTOR CAR AUCTION! 6th Annual Calgary Collector Car Auction, May 10 - 11, Grey Eagle Casino. Over 100 pieces of memorabilia selling No Reserve. All makes & models welcome. Consign today 1-888-296-0528 ext. 102; EGautions.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.

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MILLWRIGHT AND MACHINIST Program combined. 16 week course gives entry level skills.

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DO BUSINESS in Yukon! 1,831 sq. ft. prime ground floor retail space on the Main Street in Whitehorse, Yukon, next to Starbuck's.

For floorplan/photos, call 1-867-333-9966.

POSITIONS REQUIRED for new outdoor aquatic centre in Spirit River, Alberta. Pool Manager, Lifeguards; http://townofspiritriver.ca. Contact Bonnie at 780-864-3998.

80% COMMISSION TRAVELONLY has 500 agents across Canada. Business opportunities with low investment, unlimited income potential, generous tax/travel benefits. Run your travel company, full-time, part-time from home. Register for free seminar; www.mytravelonly.ca. 1-800608-1117 ext. 2020.

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COMPUTING CAREER = Great Career. Study computer technology programs at GPRC, Grande Prairie campus. Novice to expert. Circuit design and robotics lab, data communications and networking lab. Diploma/University transfer. 1-888-539-4774; www.gprc.ab.ca.

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WANT TO GENERATE some extra revenue this spring? We are hiring short term, seasonal brokers for 4 - 6 weeks contracts in May to pull our hopper bottom trailers. Enjoy excellent rates on all kms and loading/unloading. Interested?

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CONSORT GUN & Hobby Show - Lions 38th Annual. April 13 & 14, Sportex, Consort, Alberta. Saturday, 10 - 5:30. Sunday, 10 - 3:30. 2000' of display & trade tables in the arena & curling rink. Firearm licence testing & boating exams available. Admission: $5 adult; $3 youth. Info: 403-577-3818.

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STEEL BUILDING - Blowout Clearance Sale! 20x22 $4,188. 25x26 $4,799. 30x34 $6,860. 32x44 $8,795. 40x50 $12,760. 47x74 $17,888. One end wall included. Pioneer Steel 1-800-668-5422; www.pioneersteel.ca.

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The end of HIV?

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By that time, it's far too late to use While the Mississippi and French Why am I not jumping for joy? While this treatment. The virus has had a lot cases are great news for individual it's encouraging, the drug is not the of time to replicate and is at levels too patients and do provide some valucure that some have proclaimed it high to fight in this way. able insight into the nature of HIV, I'm to be. We have known for decades afraid we are a very long way from that this was possible. Since the early In order for this treatment to be truly proclaiming a cure for AIDS. V '90s similar treatments, called PEP, effective, there would need to be effecBrenda Kerber is a sexual health have been available to people who tive large-scale public awareness cameducator who has worked with local may have been exposed to HIV, such paigns to make people understand the not-for-profits since 1995. She is the as health-care workers and police ofimportance of getting tested regularly owner of the Edmonton-based, sexficers. These cases add only a little and widespread access to free, anonypositive adult toy boutique the Travmore insight. Even if this tells us that mous testing. We would also need to eling Tickle Trunk. this treatment works every time with change the testing protocol. The test

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COMMENT >> SEX

Gynandromor ... what?

When to fulfil your fetishes and when to just shut up about them I am trying to understand some a new mom (or a new dad) wants to ing a guy with a mustache made me sexual fantasies I have. They involve contemplate. So, again, shut the fuck think of kissing my uncles Ray, Bill, having sex with a woman who has up and beat the fuck off for now.

Jerry, Jimmy, et al, and ... ick.) He went a penis. Sometimes I fantasize In a year or maybe two, after ahead and grew one while I was out E G A that my wife grew a penis. your sex life has kicked of town for two weeks. It's his face, of V SA The fantasies started when back into gear, your wife course, and I certainly don't control m might be willing to either o we first tried pegging a few .c him. But I control my face and I rely k wee e@vue years ago. We recently had savagelov explore your fantasies fused to press mine to his—or press Dan our first child and can no lonthrough role-play games any other part of my body to any part e Savag ger find the time for such kinky or give you a pass to get with of his—until the mustache was gone. sex. These transsexual fantasies have a woman with a dick.

It was gone the next day. Maybe you caused a large strain in our relationship and I don't understand why I Fantasies are subjective and personal. Some are am having them or what I should do more common than others—a desire to be spanked, about them. I do not want to engage for instance—but even the most common sexual in a relationship with another person, fantasies appeal only to small subsets of people.

I just want to know if it's normal to have these fantasies.

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Normal? No, most men don't fantasize about their wives sprouting penises, CBH, so your fantasy isn't normative. But no one's sexual fantasy is. Fantasies are subjective and personal. Some are more common than others—a desire to be spanked, for instance—but even the most common sexual fantasies appeal only to small subsets of people.

Here's what you should do about your fantasies for now: shut up and fantasize about them. Your sex life has taken a hit because you're new parents; odds are good that your wife doesn't have the time or energy for sex right now without you also asking her to do something impossible (grow a penis) or something risky (give you the OK to get this fantasy fulfilled elsewhere). And considering what that pegging awoke in you, CBH, your wife may be experiencing a bad case of pegger's remorse right now. She may worry where your fantasies will ultimately lead, eg, cheating or leaving. That's not something

To understand more about your fetish, google "gynandromorphophilia."

My boyfriend recently became interested in motorcycles which makes me nervous for his safety. We had a good talk about it and he settled on a motorcycle/scooter hybrid that looks like a motorcycle but goes only 80 kilometres per hour. Now he's looking into upgrading to a full motorcycle. I don't feel betrayed, but I am genuinely worried for his safety in taking a motorcycle on the freeway. However, it's his life, we don't have kids and I certainly don't control him. How do you deal with your fear over a loved one's safety when they choose to do something that makes you nervous?

Wants Improved Motor Practices My husband recently became interested in growing a mustache, which made me nervous for my sanity. (All of my uncles had mustaches when I was a kid, and the thought of kiss-

could take the same approach with your boyfriend?

I am a 29-year-old straight male. I was introduced to FetLife—and to BDSM generally—by my former girlfriend, who has a profile on the site.

The relationship ended a year ago and things got tempestuous. We tried to be friends, but she changed her mind, and now we don't speak. I joined FetLife recently and here's where it gets awkward: after our breakup I occasionally looked at her profile.

When she posted a couple nice photos of herself, I stupidly liked them.

Now she's messaged me a couple times and I am terrified. There are no pictures on my profile, so she doesn't know it's me. Now I don't know what to do: ignore the messages or come clean or what?

Ex Currently Keeping Secret We can't stop our exes from checking out our online personal ads, blogs, websites, Tumblrs, etc, but you stepped over the line when

you liked your ex's photos. That act amounted to initiating contact with a woman who made it clear that she no longer wished to be in contact with you. You could respond to her messages with, "Hey, it's me," but she may feel that you tricked her into getting back in contact. Having her messages ignored might also upset her, ECKS, but a non-response from a presumed stranger will be less upsetting than a hello from you. There are lots of lurkers and flakes on dating sites and it's pretty common to send one or two messages to someone and never hear back. So don't respond.

I'm a 20-year-old full-time college student, studying the wonderful world of engineering. I work two jobs and participate in athletics. As you can imagine, with all of this going on, I have little time to myself, let alone time to spend finding someone to share that precious time with. But I recently became what you would call "involved" with a member of the faculty. He's 20 years older than I am and we have so much in common that it should be illegal! Should I cut the cord now? Or should I continue enjoying the hottest, sweetest, most thoughtful person I've ever met?

Sincerely Smitten Student Hesitates Enjoy.

And if your hot, sweet, thoughtful faculty member honours the Campsite Rule, ie, he leaves you in better shape than he found you (no diseases, no unplanned pregnancies, no avoidable drama/trauma), you are in turn obligated to honour the Tea and Sympathy Rule, ie, when you speak of this in future years—and you will—you will be kind (no nuttiness,

no anger that a relationship that was unlikely to work out long-term didn't wind up turning into an LTR, no sabotaging his academic career by naming names and institutions in a tell-all post on FuckedMyProf.tumblr.com).

Have fun, SSSH. You've given a lot of great advice, Dan, but I have to take issue with your recommendation to Socially Interactive Sister. She was thinking about hiring someone to relieve her 22-year-old brother of his virginity. Why would you recommend a sex worker when you could recommend the services of a professional surrogate partner therapist? These professionals work hand in hand with licenced sex therapists and have training in order to work therapeutically with folks just like SIS's brother. I don't doubt that many sex workers have dealt with these situations, and I'm sure many are good at it, but surrogate partner therapists receive training within a curriculum designed for people like SIS's brother and others. Additionally, you incorrectly associate sex work with the movie The Sessions, which clearly deals with surrogate partner therapy. Sex work and surrogate partner therapy are not the same. This will make it more difficult for those of us working in this field who are trying to legitimize surrogate partner therapy. I have no issue with sex work, but SPT is truly different. You can find more info at surrogatetherapy.org.

Advocate For Surrogate Partner Therapy Thanks for sharing, AFSPT. V Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage. @fakedansavage on Twitter

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