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Judgment lapse?

A “profound lapse” in judgment is how Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo MLA Mike Allen has described his actions in St Paul, Minnesota on July 16 when he was picked up the night before in a police sting to nab johns. Two undercover female police officers were posing as prostitutes when Allen was arrested after he answered a backpage.com ad to pay them cash for sex. He was in Minnesota to represent Alberta’s trade interests, but seeking out the flesh trade on a Monday night seems like a bit of a stretch.

Allen says he has no excuse for his actions, it was just a judgment lapse. Actually, that is an excuse and it’s tiring and overused.

It’s implying that, for the most part, a person makes good judgments, but this time something happened to make the brain turn off reason. Allen consciously made the choice to respond to the Backpage ad and his judgment-lapse excuse wouldn’t cut it for other types of crime and abuse.

For example: “I’m sorry for rear-ending that car in front of me, officer, I had a profound lapse of judgment when I had a few drinks and decided to drive home”; “I’m sorry I left my dog in the car for two hours with the windows rolled up while I went shopping and he died of heatstroke. I’m really not a terrible person who shouldn’t be allowed near animals, I just had a profound lapse of judgment”; “I’m sorry I punched that guy in the face. I just looked at him and had a little lapse of judgment when I let my fist do the talking.”

So when it comes to buying sex from prostitutes, what makes Allen different from any other person who has made a decision to do something illegal? How did he know the prostitutes weren’t underage? How did he know they weren’t being coerced into prostitution by a violent pimp? How did he know they hadn’t been trafficked? But I’m sure risking his family, his reputation and his job were worth it just in case the women involved loved their jobs and chose to do that line of work. Even then, buying sex still has a lot of legalities to work around (like, get caught and you’re in trouble).

It would be interesting to know what exactly this ad was advertising since it was the human trafficking unit that arrested him. If Allen agreed to pay for sex from women advertised as Russian or Asian, for example, then he can’t even use the excuse that he thought they were consenting adults—to be fair, he hasn’t tried that yet—because there’s no one who hasn’t heard of the multi-billion dollar human-trafficking industry that exists in North America.

Joy Smith is a very vocal Conservative MP who is against human trafficking. A Conservative MLA like Allen has surely heard a thing or two about how human trafficking operates and destroys lives. In fact, the Journal reports that he told the Calgary Herald in 2005 that the police needed to do more about crime in Fort McMurray as he’d even been offered sexual favours getting out of his car in the morning.

Allen has resigned from his post and is waiting to see if charges will be laid. He’s lost his job and his reputation—his family is a personal issue that we don’t know about—and he’ll have the stigmatization of being a john forever. V

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NEWS // CITY ELECTION

The candidates’ causes

Those running for mayor shine light on the issues that matter to them

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he fluoridated-water issue flared over Twitter last weekend as mayor-hopeful Curtis Penner defended his stance against it, 140 characters at a time, in what might be Edmonton’s first 2013 municipal election kerfuffle. But whatever side you’re on, the affair is proof that, months ahead of the election, Edmontonians are invested in the race.

Fluoridated water, widely supported by public-health organizations around the world while, like most things in science, having scattered studies that suggest potential harm, is likely not to be the most important issue of the election despite the recent spike on #yegvote. But of course, Penner is not only concerned with fluoridation.

“Councillor Leibovici is the president of the Canadian Federation of Municipalities,” Penner says, “and [they are] forecasting that we, by 2018, will have a $20-billion infrastructure deficit in Edmonton.

And so our crumbling infrastructure is something that council absolutely needs to address, and that they’ve been failing to address.”

Penner also believes that a cost-saving measure for the LRT expansions could be, in the short term, to go with a BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) system, where for a lower cost and the same right-of-way corridors, buses could provide a similar service. But front and centre in his campaign is fighting a perceived lack of interest on the part of the city in the wishes of community leagues, specifically addressing the sale of parks in favour of development.

These aren’t the only important things to talk about in this election, and while the issue of the “crumbling infrastructure” is identified to some degree by all candidates, there’s plenty more they’re hearing about during door knocking, from wasteful spending to art.

“Regardless of what your view is on art, one of the things that keeps coming up are the talus balls,” Kerry Diotte says. “Because people look at that and they say, ‘That’s $600 000, and it went to a California artist.’ The new installation at Commonwealth, it went to a Parisian artist. I believe in the one percent for public art—we’re an artistic city and it’s one of our core industries. But those kinds of big installations have to go to local artists.”

Diotte’s also heard people who are worried about federal and provincial cuts and believes this gives impetus to the idea of reining in spending.

“I voted against three budgets because they were double the rate of inflation. The people who are most hurt by that are seniors and people on fixed incomes. A lot of people with a lot of money, maybe they can afford to pay it. But it really hurts those in our society who are disadvantaged, and I don’t think that’s fair.”

Regardless of what your view is on art, one of the things that keeps coming up are the talus balls. Because people look at that and they say, ‘That’s $600 000, and it went to a California artist.’

As the mayor’s designate on the 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness, and the lead on the Affordable Housing Initiative, helping the disadvantaged has been just one aspect of candidate Karen Leibovici’s 12 years as a councillor. She’s also helped to develop the city’s vision, has been on the Police Com-

mission twice and has worked on the Bar Safe initiative.

First and foremost for the next term, she says, will be the importance of the mayor bringing together a cohesive council that will see at least five new faces. It’ll be a tough four years if that doesn’t happen.

Leibovici also identifies keeping the momentum of the city going and ensuring we’re viewed provincially, nationally and internationally as a globally competitive city as two important issues to think about in the next election.

“I would like to see a city that’s grown more confident of itself,” she says. “I’d like to know that Edmonton is considered as a home for all and that people are welcome when they come to our city. I’d like to see the city become a destination point for people to come, to visit, to stay. And I’d like to know that we’re also fiscally sustainable as a city and that we are able to have a quality of life that is second to none.”

The last of the four candidates, Don Iveson is no stranger to the question of the city’s image and talks about its future.

“How we’re going to carry on with the LRT is a big question for people,” Iveson says.

“They’re passionate about it and they want to see it pushed ahead, and I think people are going to want to know how exactly we’re going to approach that and the financial implications, but they’re impatient to see it done.

“There’ll be a big conversation about growth and how we create more options for housing, especially within the established footprint of the city,” Iveson adds.

“So as buildings age and are ready to be replaced in some of our older neigbourhoods, what sorts of opportunities for new types of housing that may be more affordable to families with children— how do we make those more feasible?”

The common thread uniting the candidates is the deliverance of core services.

Whether it be potholes or safe playgrounds and clean parks, Iveson believes that citizens need to be confident that council is taking care of it.

Promises about cities’ core services are the meat and potatoes of municipal election campaigns. And a lot of people don’t vote because last time, the meat came out burned and the cook forgot to boil the potatoes. But some years, you get a full cast of brand-new faces asking for a chance. This is one of those elections.

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I’m from Northwest Territories. I moved here about 20 years ago to get my shoulders fixed. I dislocated my shoulders forest-fire fighting in Yellowknife. So I had to come down here to get them fixed and there was a two to three year waiting list before I could get an appointment to get it done. So I ended up staying here and never moved since. I’ve seen so many changes downtown ... everywhere.

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Small businesses packing their boxes Members of Edmonton’s niche small-biz market talk about survival

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n the age of big chain stores and disposable everything, three Edmonton shops with niche-market offerings share their struggles— two are closing while one is still going strong after 30 years—and the reasons why face-to-face retail operations are still an important part of a community.

Maggie Walt has been designing her own clothing line for a long time, and for the past 10 years she and partner Rob McGrath have been operating Maggie Walt Design on Jasper Avenue.

She works with a small factory in Bali that makes her creations a reality, but now there’s a big closing-sale sign out front of the store and all of her regulars have been notified that as of August 3 it will be closed.

“People are going to the box stores and they’re buying their really low-priced items and I’ve never understood that concept,” Walt says. “When I see that you can buy a dress for $15 or $25, then I wonder where is that being made?

“I just can’t support that kind of thing. You know that is really rock-bottom labour and I can’t even buy two metres of fabric for that in Asia. Why wouldn’t you go and buy a really beautiful piece from some independent retailer that you’re going to wear?

Just buy one piece that you really love instead of 10 cheap things that I call disposable clothing.

There are some really loyal people in Edmonton that really try and support that, but it’s small.

We need more of those people.”

Increased rent and too many stagnant months during the year—McGrath says December, June, July and August are the times they see most shoppers— were catalysts for the decision to close the retail location and focus on selling Walt’s clothing online and at pop-up locations.

“There’s a few things that have resulted in us deciding to close the retail store that we have here on Jasper. One of them is the building was sold a couple years ago and it’s been nonstop, relentless conflict with the new owner and it keeps us awake at night. It’s just not worth it,” McGrath says. “There’s other things as well. We’re in boom times and as an employer, the downside to that is it’s really hard to find people to work in our store.”

The pair have put a lot of time and effort into the web store over the past year and about 85 percent of the product is now available online. As of August, they’ll be headed to Victoria to set up in a pop-up location and they’ll be leaving their Edmonton home for good and aren’t sure where their next stop will be.

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“We’re like gypsies. I always have been, actually. I don’t need a house. I don’t know where I want to live,” Walt says. “To me Bali’s like my second home, but like I’ve been saying to Rob, I’d really like to open a little shop in Kathmandu in Nepal. I think that there’s a need for some really funky, wearable clothing for tourists and expats and the Nepali that can afford it. I’m not talking about my high-end stuff, but my more casual travel wear.”

Walt and McGrath will still come back to Edmonton from time to time to set up pop-up shops as Walt says she’s always loved working with her customers hands on. “So I resisted going online, really resisted it.” But as McGrath points out, the last few years have been tough and it’s time to move on.

“Pretty much anybody in retail these days that we know of, certainly small businesses in retail, you might hear the economy is booming here, but people are still very careful with their spending.”

Details about a farewell fashion show on July 20 can be found at maggiewalt.com.

Artifacts Trading Company, north of Whyte Avenue on Gateway Boulevard, is closing its doors, too. It’s not so much a declining clientele base that caused owner David Lalonde to retire, but a short supply of handmade items from Asia that he and wife Jeong-ae have been selling for the past 33 years.

“You can’t get the product anymore. All the old is gone and all the old wood to make old things is gone,” Lalonde says. “So now the good line I use all the time has been homogenized and plasticized.

I think the worst thing that probably happened is television, because now everybody sits around and watches soaps instead of doing weavings and their crafts.”

Lalonde met his wife when he was living in Korea years ago and they decided to sell antiques and other handmade items in Edmonton.

“At that time, Korea was called a blocked-goods country; you couldn’t take money out of the country. So instead of changing it on the black market to US dollars and then changing it back to Canadian when we got here, I’d been living there for a while so I said, ‘Hey, why don’t we just [sell] their antiques?’” Lalonde recalls.

“Korea was a colony of Japan, so if you wanted good Japanese furniture you bought it in Korea because it had been a colony for so many years and Koreans wouldn’t touch it with a 10-foot pole.”

Lalonde laments that the older generation of Edmontonians appreciated handmade things, while

the younger tend to favour pre-fabricated furniture and decorations.

“What blows me away with this younger generation is the old dressers from the ‘40s and ‘50s, solid oak, nobody wants them. ‘I want an Ikea.’ So those old dressers I have some that are 100 years old and they’re as good as when they were first used and now, heck, Ikea stuff you get three years out of it and you’re happy.”

Artifacts will remain open until Lalonde finds a buyer for the building, but he says it’s good to be moving on.

“This is time consuming. I enjoy meeting people and I’ve always been a people person, but it’s time. For the last two years we’ve only been open four days a week as it is.”

Alice Powell at Ascendant Books also enjoys interacting with her customers in person, and has been doing so for 30 years since she opened the then-tiny metaphysical bookstore with a friend.

“You get so much from talking to people person-to-person and body language and energy, so I hope it doesn’t get to the point where everything’s online for that reason,” she says.

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“The girl and I that started it, we passionately love books. We didn’t know that much about metaphysics, either one of us, and we both went through some really horrific tragedies in our lives and I think it was searching for the answer like ‘Why did this happen?’ I wanted to make sure it didn’t happen again, not really realizing that’s kind of what metaphysics is about. I know for myself, I [also] ended up having Crohn’s disease and I healed myself through a lot of work and understanding of my body, how your emotions affect your body and all that stuff.”

The store is now in its third and largest location on 124 Street and Powell says that being part of a niche market is a positive thing even though she has to compete with larger box and online bookstores.

“With our jewelry and stones and stuff, one of the things I try and

do is make sure that our prices are good. We’re very fortunate in that we have these wonderful suppliers and their prices are reasonable ... and I try and bring in unusual things. Sometimes it’s hard.

For example, if I sold just books, I don’t think I’d still be here.”

Powell says she doesn’t make a lot of money in this business, but she does it because she loves it. So she recognizes the importance of supporting other small businesses as well.

“When Greenwoods’ was around, if I didn’t have a book, I would recommend they go to Greenwoods’ or Audreys, or I would phone them and ask them if they had the book because I really do support being a small business and Edmonton-owned. I really do support that and I think most small businesses do because it just makes sense to help each other out.”

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No fear at the border

DOMA has a postive impact on queer Canadians heading south This week, I am writing from sunny Seattle where I am vacationing while my wife attends a conference. I had originally intended to write something silly and fun (“Packing: how many sex toys do

enough media coverage already and I resent that gay marriage is the focal point of queer progress.

However, two things—tiny, insignificant things, really—occurred while on this trip that have forced me to consider what DOMA means from a personal, rather than political, perspective.

There has been enough media coverage already and I resent that gay marriage is the focal point of queer progress. you need on the road, anyway?”) but I find that I cannot stop thinking about DOMA. I promised myself that I would not write about DOMA. There has been

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The first happened at the border.

Entering the US has always been a terrifying experience for me. I have had too many friends strip-searched, harassed or delayed seemingly for no reason other than being queer to believe that there is anything safe or easy about the world’s longest undefended border. This was the first time since I was married last year that I had gone to the States and I started the painful process of

thinking about my wife as my girlfriend, hardening my heart against a new legislative reality. And then I remembered: Washington State legalized gay marriage. DOMA has been repealed. That border guard could still be a homophobic bigot, but he did not have the law on his side. My relief was extraordinary.

The second occurred a few nights later at a restaurant. A table full of dykes next to me was talking about the difficulty of finding a masculine style suit cut for a woman’s body. I, being insatiably chatty, leaned over and offered a suggestion and was told that both couples at the table were getting married, one in a matter of weeks.

They were acting so fast because they had waited so long and wanted to get it done in case marriage was taken away again, like in California. I cannot describe to you how they glowed, or how excited they were when they heard that I was married. I had forgotten what a big deal this still is.

All of this may seem achingly self-evident to you, gentle reader, but these were the first times I had felt the emotional resonances of this decision in a very real way. A good friend of mine, T, has blogged about how much queer anti-marriage rhetoric lacks “a conceptualization of the heart.” In other words, in our haste to denounce marriage as a distraction, we must also remember that celebrations of love—in whatever constellation—are, at their heart, about community.

So while I still think there are many important issues that the queer community needs to tackle, and I am still not convinced that gay marriage isn’t a way to regulate bodies, relationships and desires, I will remind myself to be more aware of issues of the heart in this conversation.

DOMA hopefully represents a sea change in the American culture wars and I found a small reason to celebrate that. V

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A frog in the pot

Developing and developed countries alike face the prospect of running out of food and water

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f you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water, so they say, it will hop right out again. Frogs aren’t stupid. However, if you put a frog in a pot of cool water, and gradually turn the heat up under it, the frog will not notice what’s happening. It will happily sit there until the water boils and it dies.

Now, I have never carried out this experiment personally—I prefer my frogs’ legs fried—so I can’t vouch for the truth of it.

It’s just a story environmentalists like to tell. Besides, I already knew that human beings have trouble in detecting slow-moving threats. You can watch us failing to do it every day: we persistently ignore the fact that we are running into trouble at a civilizational level, even though the evidence is all around us.

The foundation of every civilization is an adequate food supply: human beings simply cannot live at the density of population that civilization implies without a reliable agriculture. But the supply of good agricultural land is limited, and the number of human beings is not.

You can postpone the problem for a while by increasing the yield of the available land: irrigate it, plant higher-yielding crops, fertilize the soil artificially, use pesticides and herbicides to protect the crops as they grow. But even

these techniques have limits, and in many cases we have reached or exceeded them. So we are running into trouble. Why isn’t anybody taking action?

Governments everywhere are

only two degrees C higher. China would lose an astounding 38 percent, even though most of it is in the temperate zone. And all that is before their underground water sources are pumped dry.

The developed world’s governments do nothing, because until recently they secretly believed that the catastrophe would mostly hit countries in the former Third World. well aware of the problem: we are now seven-billion people, heading for an estimated 11 billion by the end of this century, and the food situation is already getting tight. So tight, in fact, that the average price of the major food grains has doubled in the past 10 years. But everybody finds local reasons to ignore that fact.

The developing countries know that they are under the gun, because the standard predictions of global warming suggest that it is the tropics and the sub-tropics where the warming will hit food production first and hardest.

A (still unpublished) study carried out by the World Bank some years ago concluded that India (all of which is in the tropics or sub-tropics) would lose 25 percent of its food production when the average global temperature is

Most governments in the developing countries know the facts, but the short-term political imperative to raise living standards takes precedence over the longer-term imperative to curb the warming. So headlong industrialization wins the policy debate every time, and we’ll worry about the food supply later.

The developed world’s governments do nothing, because until recently they secretly believed that the catastrophe would mostly hit countries in the former Third World. That would unleash waves of climate refugees, plus local wars and a proliferation of failed states, but the rich countries reckoned that they would still be able to feed themselves— and their military could hold the other problems at bay.

But what is becoming clear,

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just in the past few years, is that the developed countries will also have trouble feeding themselves. Part of the problem is that many of them depend heavily on underground aquifers for irrigation, and the water is running out.

It’s running out even faster in China, India and the Middle East: for example, grain production has dropped by a third in Iraq and Syria in the past 10 years. But it is hitting the big producers in the developed countries, too, and especially the United States.

For example, the amount of irrigated land in Texas has dropped by 37 percent since 1975. The amount in Kansas has fallen by nearly 30 percent in the past three years. And now it is becoming clear that the impact of warming will also be much greater than anticipated in the developed countries.

In these countries, the problem is extreme weather causing massive floods and prolonged droughts—like the heat wave that hit grain production in the US Midwest last summer, or the coldest spring in 50 years in England, which has cut wheat yields by a third.

Combine the steep fall in irrigation, the crop losses to wild weather and the diversion of large amounts of cropland to

grow biofuels instead of food, and it is not at all certain that the developed world will be able to grow enough food for its own citizens in five or 10 years time.

So are the leaders of these countries launching crash programs to stop the warming, cut down on water losses and end the lunacy of biofuels?

Of course not. The smarter ones just reckon that since their countries will still be rich, they will buy up whatever food is available elsewhere and feed their own people that way. It will be other people, in other countries, who go hungry.

And the slower ones? They’re just frogs. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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 Clues are everywhere in Room 237

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here is a moment in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980) in which novelist Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) gazes into a scale model of a labyrinth that lies just outside the walls of the Overlook Hotel, the remote ski resort where he and his family are spending the winter. In that model he sees the real thing, and in that real thing he will eventually become lost and perish. The labyrinth is a trap. The movie is a labyrinth. The trap is the movie.

Based on the novel by Stephen King, The Shining was Kubrick’s one stab at horror. It’s a story of familial collapse, writer’s block and cabin fever. (It may also be a ghost story, though that’s up for debate.) But after you see Rodney Ascher’s remarkable essay film Room 237, named after an especially troublesome room at the Overlook, you might start to believe that The Shining is also about the Holocaust, the colonization of the Americas and how NASA faked the moon landing. The film is structured around interviews with five subjects who each have exceedingly elaborate theories about the film’s real meanings, theories based on architectural inconsistencies, typewriters, canned foods, posters, carpeting and the number of vehicles in a parking lot. Ascher weaves these interviews into a symphony of fringe scholarship and film clips, a beguiling, immersive homage to obsessive interpretation and the looming power of a work of art in which no seemingly inexplicable detail can possibly be the result of mere accident.

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Tim Kirk during last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, where Room 237 screened to the delight of the city’s most ardent cinephiles. We met at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel, which, though located in the heart of Canada’s biggest city, retains just enough aging luxury to evoke the appropriate creepiness.

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VUE WEEKLY: In the press notes for Room 237 you mention how you guys would take walks with your children to discuss The Shining.

There’s something creepy about that. I guess because, amongst the apparently infinite number of readings one can apply to the film, it is also a parable about families falling apart.

RODNEY ASCHER: Absolutely. One of the interesting things about re-watching The Shining over the course of 30 years is noting how your relationship to it changes. As a kid, Danny is your surrogate. Yet once you have kids, Jack becomes this cautionary figure. Perhaps in another 30 years I’ll be identifying with the ghosts.

You spend enough time immersed in something and you start to demand that the mirror world makes sense in the way the real world is supposed to make sense.

So by the time Juli Kearns is addressing the impossible geography of the Overlook Hotel, these windows that shouldn’t be there, I’m thinking, “I know this is fiction, but still, if those windows aren’t logical then there must be a reason!”

RA: That’s because other movies don’t have as concrete a sense of space as The Shining. Perhaps they’re shot with long lenses and the background is often just a blur.

But here you have this film shot with wide-angle lenses and long takes that are snaking through hallways, so you get a strong sense of this being a real space.

TK: I’m really drawn to your thought there, that as a viewer entering a cinema, especially with someone like Kubrick, who has a reputation of being in control of every frame, you feel like there’s this unwritten contract that this world is going to make sense. So that Kubrick messes with that contract is one of the things that’s so compelling about The Shining.

RA: And so generative of exegesis.

Your roles in this project seem primarily curatorial. But as you began compiling these different readings, were there any that you were especially persuaded by?

TIM KIRK: There were moments with almost everyone where suddenly the hairs would go up on the back of the neck and you’d think, “Oh my god, are they right?

And what does that mean with regards to this film, the universe and how I understand life?”

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spent hours listening to these interviews. I didn’t always understand what the subjects were talking about when we were deep in discussion. But then I would start lining up the audio with the footage, and suddenly think, “Right on the money.” I would almost always believe everything while I was working on the film.

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Some might think that 100 minutes is a lot of time to talk about metaphors and secret messages in The Shining, but it could have been three-hours long and still we would have only grazed the tip of the iceberg.

I think about Zodiac, another movie that deals with obsession and the unanswerable, and is on the long side. I’ve heard people complain about Zodiac’s length, but my response is always, “How can you expect to get a strong feeling for the accumulation of suspicion and paranoia and obsessive investment without that duration?”

RA: Such a great sense of time passing in Zodiac.

VW:

VW: I felt similar with 237. A 75-minute version would never have the punch of something that, in the best possible sense, is overstaying its welcome just a little. It needs to have that feeling that maybe it could go on forever.

RA: Which is why we tried to end it like a circuit, going back to the beginning.

Going back to the way The Shining changes over time, when I first saw the film I was a small child and it scared the hell out of me.

Coming back to it as an adult, the effect was very different. It started to annoy me that Nicholson already seems bonkers at the beginning of the film, and thus there’s no real suspense. Yet after seeing 237 I came to the conclusion that maybe that’s why The Shining is one of those films you obsessively re-

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watch, because you’re not watching to experience a dynamic narrative arc—you’re watching it as an ambient experience. There is no arc. Because Jack’s always been there.

RA: I know people say that Jack seems crazy at the beginning, but every time I watch the film I’m always rooting for him, hoping he’s going to get his act together. This time we’re going to work through things! [Everyone laughs] Critics have really responded to your film, and I think one reason for this is that, not to be disrespectful to your subjects, but Room 237 feels like a parody of film criticism, of how certain critics can get to a point where we’re so determined to stake a claim that we analyze minutia as though it’s the essence of the text.

RA: That makes a lot of sense, though it’s not something we talked about.

TK: We wanted to let our subjects present their ideas as best we could.

RA: I’ve read some critics who say that idea A is baloney, while idea B is really meaningful. And it seemed that they weren’t aware that both ideas came from the same person.

To get back to your earlier question, the truth is that as I did my own research everything started to become equally plausible for me. Even the fake moon-landing theory. John Fell Ryan says that this is the great trap: once you start looking for clues, you just keep finding them.

And they never stop appearing.

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he lip that Pacific Rim circles “kaiju”s coming out of a dimensionisn’t the one you might expect. al breach in the Pacific, Del Toro Yep, Guillermo Del Toro’s latest finds wrenching little moments: busts up city blocks and seems, in Raleigh’s (Charlie Hunnam) grief; broad outline, to be Transformers Mako’s (Rinko Kikuchi) memory of versus Godzilla. herself as a bluedressed, redBut it’s paying Now playing m o r e l i p - s e r - Directed by Guillermo Del Toro shoed girl surviving, in a vice to the new  global-market Hiroshima-like Hollywood—catering to East Asia landscape, a kaiju attack; a jaegermultiplexes with a Hong Kong set- kaiju battle where metal arm and ting, Japanese lead and super battle bestial tail shear through a building robots. Still, given its idiosyncratic to stop at a desk, nudging the balls touches, horror-humour and abil- of a Newton’s cradle into clickity to find suspense in battlebot- clack motion. There’s an oddballversus-monster fights, it’s easier to scientist subplot and some sci-fi overlook Pacific Rim’s Top Gun (or noir in Hong Kong’s mean streets Top Go Shogun?) clichés and sput- (complete with a Chinatown altering chemistry between two char- lusion). Horror-humour caps the acters who come off, in the mov- film’s pregnancy metaphor (the ie’s clanky, clunky dancing around kaiju are breach-birthed). The their romance, as WASP hunk and subtext is intriguingly conflicted—industrial-factory technology spunky Asian.

In a futuristic (2020s) Earth (steel, fire) and video-game fightwhere “jaegers”—battlebots con- ing beat Darwinian evolution (the trolled by two mind-melded pilots kaiju adapt to the jaegers’ moves) inside—defend the planet from even as communing human brains,

repressing memories and feelings, best primordial lizard brawn.

The action sequences actually thrill in their rhythms, moving from the titanic blows and slashes of metal titans and reptilian behemoths to the tiny human workers within as water, wind and rain slashes down outside. The film finds its suspense in those seconds of lag-time between lithe human motion and the robot shells’ weightier response.

But the jaeger pilots’ squabbling between missions is so predictable, glib one-liners kick in near the end, and Raleigh and Maki, bonded in battle and to their fatherly mentor Stacker (a captivating Idris Elba), can only put heads together (literally this time) after it’s all over. It’s as if a cross-cultural kiss between these two heroes would be too femininely sweet for this macho, iron-man blockbuster to handle.

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ook! Down there, in the gut- a soap, to buddies Lenny Feder ter! Straining harder for laughs (Adam Sandler), Kurt McKenzie than a constipated stand-up comic (Chris Rock), Marcus Higgins (Daon the cruise-ship circuit ... cruder vid Spade), and other guys optithan a corporacally slobbering tion’s excuses, Now playing all over a dance a p o l o g i e s a n d Directed by Dennis Dugan teacher. passing-the-buck for an oil spill ...  Among all the and lazier than cartoonish, cartoonish jua slumber party v e n i l e, fo r c e d , for sloths ... it’s a slithering beast! mean-spirited and overacted skits It’s a sludgy piece of dreck! It’s a that mostly SNL alumni are put steaming pile of—no, wait, it’s the through here, the closest blot of sequel to that steaming, oozing pile script-ink splatter to a plot is a of shtick—Grown Ups 2! sneer-off between some frat-boys Trickling along like the aftermath and the four idiot-men-children the of the deer-piss scene it starts camera persists in sluggishly hangwith, then actually ouroboros-ing ing around with. It all climaxes—if up its own clenched-with-gay-pan- you don’t count Lenny’s “burp snic-“jokes” sphincter with a repeat- art” just before shagging his hot, ed “burp snart” (the triple-jump cleavage-y, oh-so-hormonal wife of farts) gag, Grown Ups 2 com- (Salma Hayek)—with a fight at an pletes its downward destiny with ’80s party. It makes sense this Isome sickening ogling of wives and don’t-give-a-frick flick—which at girlfriends. Cleavage is this flick’s times, if you squint, seems almost pubescent obsession, from Eric like a spoof of a bad, late-in-theLamonsoff (Kevin James) virtually franchise comedy, say, a Friedbergstill suckling at his mom’s breast Seltzer parody of the last Amerias he hangs out with her to watch can Pie movie—would end amid

a nostalgic simulation of the adolescent time that these characters are stuck in. Now, if only we could actually send this movie back there, where it could battle with Caddyshack II, Meatballs Part II, Police Academy 2, Porky’s Revenge, Revenge of the Nerds II and Teen Wolf Too for worst comedy sequel of that era. Just remove it from the annals of film-comedy in this century, for the sake of all that’s actually humorous.

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Hollywood dreams

A troubled awakening adolescence plays out in Grown Up Movie Star

An uncomfortable situation

“I’m not being selfish, Ruby,” her mother tells her. Moments later, the same woman will abandon her daughters and her husband, leaving a tiny Newfoundland town to go pursue some desperately held, probably impossible dream of stardom down in Hollywood.

Of course she’s being selfish and, in a way, it points to reasons why Ruby is the way she is, or maybe more accu-

rately, how Ruby could be in 30 years’ time: bored in and weary of her small town, still painfully wishing on the notion of being a star. At her mother’s age, she could leave to pursue it just as recklessly, but now, barely a teenager, she’s trapped here.

But a rote escape-the-small-town/ coming-of-age story this isn’t. Grown Up Movie Star (2010), a Canadian fea-

ture that went to Sundance and won a World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Acting yet, to my knowledge, never opened on an Edmonton screen, focuses in on the minutiae, yielding incredible beats of family dysfunction that turn from playful to violent in a flash, of botched sexual awakenings, of the pressure-cooker adolescent urgency of wanting to be taken seriously

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Western remake of Kurosawa’s woeful, suffering meek of the famous Seven Samurai (1954), earth, uttering lines like, “But the John Sturges’ The Magnificent Seven children, they cry because they are was poorly received in 1960. The hungry.” The film’s attitude to womfilm’s since been is early-’60s come a re-broad- Sat, Jul 20 – Wed, Jul 24 condescending, too. And certain cast American Directed by John Sturges classic, despite or Metro Cinema at the Garneau moments feel staged, almost somehow because Originally Released: 1960 of its melting-pot: mopey; a scene a Russian-accented where one gunhero and a German-accented kid man infiltrates the bandits is stiffly gunslinger in a gang of seven shoot- implausible. The film’s last hour ers out to help a village of Mexican shuffles its feet a little in the vilfarmers, persecuted by Calvera (Eli lage.

Wallach) and his bandits. At its most interesting, this horse opera pushes Still, in its first half, when it’s a the gunslinger life to its limit, won- round-up-the-gang picture, dusty dering if his solitary, death-filled life trails take us through iconic sets: has any point. strung-out houses and shacks leadThe Mexicans are too often the ing up to a hilltop cemetery; a sa-

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Not that the rest of her family is any more grounded. Aside from 11-yearold Rose—honestly the most sensible person onscreen—Grandpa’s an everything-phobe who prefers to discipline kids by way of the belt, and Dad’s an

ex-NHLer who played one game before being busted bringing a couple pounds of pot across the border, and seems totally ashamed in his present-day dabbling in homosexuality. The volatile parent-daughter struggles they have are the movie’s most engaging backand-forths. There’s also another thread here, of Ruby’s attempts at sexual awakening, that quickly just spreads into another layer of confusion for the girl to pretend she has under control.

So much of Grown Up Movie Star is about appearances and the shame in admitting the truth of what’s behind them, and its exploration of those ideas is compelling and well-thought out, rarely overstating what can simply be shown in a look or a change in temperment. Right up until its final moments, anyway, where it sags under the weight of trying to button the film on an uplifting note. Given how volatile everything’s been in the moment-tomoment, a sunny projection seems over-simplifying and hard to believe.

But the movie’s a well-imagined addition to the CanCon canon regardless, worth watching for Maslany’s acting prowess and a stumble-by-stumble look at a particularly damaged adolescence in progress. V

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already. Especially when the adults around you get to act out in their own stunted developments. It’s now streaming on Netflix.

Tatiana Maslany—now earning considerable acclaim for a playing multiple clones on BBC America’s sci-fi thriller Orphan Black—imbues Ruby with a vivid mix of coy, adolescent curiosity and inexperience: the kind of girl who can convince everyone in the room she’s the most experienced person there until, in private, it becomes painfully clear that she’s just totally bullshitting. She’s confusing because she hides her own confusion so well: “Take pictures of me, send them off to Hollywood so I can get discovered,” she tells her dad’s increasingly interested wheelchair-bound photographer friend, as if it were just that easy. In her own way, she’s already becoming a celebrity: the kid getting whispered about in the gossip a tiny community thrives on.

loon where the kid, Chico (Horst Buchholz), takes a drunken, desperate lunge at respectability with leader Chris (Yul Brynner). In the film’s series of standoffs, the best come early on: an armed coachride to that cemetery and a railyard showdown—all hats, fence posts and hard stares—between a blustery fool and long, lean, mean knifethrower Britt (James Coburn).

Elmer Bernstein’s famous theme boot-spurs the mood. As the seven are gathered, on-the-run Lee (Robert Vaughan) proves intriguing. Although there can be too many of the steely one-liners, there’s some good tough talk in there, too (“I want him buried, you want him buried and, if he could sit up and talk, he’d second the motion. Now that’s as unanimous as you can get.”).

The Magnificent Seven is a Western of temporary illusions and togetherness. Wracked by their life of living and killing by the gun, seven loners unite, for a short while, to try to help restore a manly pride and courage to a true, self-sustaining community, grounded in one place.

Soon, just two surviving loners ride on, with one ruefully echoing the last lines of Kurosawa’s film: “Only the farmers won. We lost. We always lose.”

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Pieta as a child. Jang Mi-sun doesn’t say much, but it’s clear she wants the chance to redeem him as the loving maternal figure she never was in life.

And so the first hour or so of Pieta is built on distrust and violence, Kang-do refusing to let her in, subjecting her, in one particularly brutal scene, to a horrifying, approachingoedipal test of her devotion. But the second half, where his guard is down, is a more intriguing, nuanced Mama says you’re being a cock, man meditation on the situation. This is a ee Kang-do lives a rather cozy, revenge film, certainly, but one that rather solitary, rather violent prefers to complicate the morals of existence in collecting on overdue that matter: if you go through the payments for loan sharks. The bor- motions of a relationship, adopting rowers—almost all of them here the roles of mother and son some having taken the money to lease 30 years late, is it enough to make that bond real? small industrial Fri, Jul 19 – Thu, Jul 25 To redeem a bruwork machines— Directed by Kim Ki-duk tal man? What if have been forced that was never to sign an injury Metro Cinema at the Garneau quite the plan insurance claim: if  at all? For all they can’t pay the of the violence massive returns demanded—and they really can’t— in its front-end, Pieta’s best when Kang-do cripples or kills them and subjecting the very idea of revenge collects that instead. And Pieta, the to an affecting moral scrutiny in its Golden Lion-winning 18th feature later moments. Almost everybody written and directed by South Ko- attempts or achieves some coldrea’s Kim Ki-duk, is quick to ensure served payback here, but nobody we start with as little remorse for walks away with the satisfaction him as he has for his victims until an they were looking for. older woman appears, claiming to PAUL BLINOV be the mother that abandoned him PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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MAN OF STEEL (PG violence, frightening scenes,

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Look with your mouth Xu Hu 's unassuming decor hides culinary delight

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f the best Vietnamese restaurants are often the least esthetically appealing—and the Southeast Asian nation itself boasts nigh-infinite proofs to this hypothesis—Xu Hu hits the ground running, expectations-wise, for its ersatz interior. Xu Hu That isn’t to say 10548 - 97 St the 97 Street eatery—chanceless- 780.426.7775 ly positioned on the west side of the block between perennial faves Pagolac and the Golden Bird— completely lacks pizzazz.

Two sizable good-luck kitties wave ceaselessly to you from the till, though they’re dwarfed by the rippling bronze stallion guarding a giant clockface nearby. The array of remaindered art on the neutralshaded walls ranges from watercolour pears to a stampede of horses and Chinese characters in faux mother of pearl, broken up by unconvincing plastic foliage. An accumulation of newspapers in front of a plexi-glass sneezeguard bespeak the decommissioned nature of the sandwich counter surmounted by paper globes in the back corner.

The huge flat-screen TV next to the waving kitties seems to be a consolation for the proprietor who, on a slow weeknight, was nonetheless audibly dissatisfied with both the Blue Bombers’ and the Alouettes’ efforts.

The most important decoration in such a setting is the array of condiments at hand on every table— you’ll need sriracha and hoisin for your soup; if you’re like me, you like to put at dollop of chili paste in your fish sauce before you dump it on your bowl of vermicelli; extra points are granted for white pepper, red rice vinegar, homemade satay sauce and toothpicks, alongside the requisite soy sauce. In this respect, Xu Hu gets full marks.

Xu Hu ’s menu is actually pretty long, with a great variety of soups and grilled dishes, as well as vermicelli and sizzling platters—in fact Hu , the city halfway down Vietnam’s coast that was once its

capital, is the namesake of bun bo hu t, the spicy pork cousin of the country’s national dish, beef noodle soup (ph ). It’s not unusual to see these items on the same menu, but what I don’t see on every Vietnamese menu are bánh xèo and b t chiên ($6.95 each) and Xu Huê had both, with a slightly luridlooking photo illustration to attest to their respective compositions.

Bánh xèo is a fluffy crepe made with rice flour, coconut milk and turmeric, panfried and folded over a filling of prawns, sliced pork and sprouts, then, to further complicate matters, served with a bunch of fresh herbs, only some of which I recognized, lettuce leaves and fish sauce. How exactly you’re supposed to take a hunk of the crisp but somehow delicate, steaming hot crepe and its cargo of fillings, load it into a lettuce leaf, pile it with basil, rau ram and sawleaf, then dunk it into a small cup of sauce was beyond me, doubtless to the amusement of anyone who happened to notice. It was a bit oily, but not less delicious for it with the crunchy lettuce and deep-green herbs adding texture and chlorophyll. The crepe was truly stuffed with shrimp, pork and sprouts and, ultimately, so was I. B t chiên is considerably less complicated to eat, and a possible respite for vegetarians at Vietnamese restaurants who are tired of having vermicelli with tofu. Cubes of rice cake are panfried, then mixed with eggs, cilantro and green onions, and drizzled with a light sauce of soy and vinegar. It’s a bit crunchy outside, a bit creamy inside and surprisingly satisfying for its simple composition. Both it and the bánh xèo offered excellent value for the money, but you might want to consider sharing them rather than trying to hog a whole order down by yourself.

A later visit gave me the chance to sample the four colour vermicelli ($9.95) which was generous in terms of colours—grilled pork, grilled beef, grilled prawns and spring rolls—but wasn’t as zestily herbed as I expected, given the abundance of herbs lavished on my other two dishes. Let’s assume the reliance on chopped lettuce to add crunch to the skeins of chewy noodles and abundant savoury meats was a regional variant, rather than a case of chintziness.

A diner at an adjacent table leaned over to inform me in hesitant English that she eats at Xu Hu two to four times a week. While my own assessment may hold some weight, that endorsement might clinch the deal for Vietnamese food lovers who are looking for authentic eats—and who don’t mind a lessthan-splendid dining room in which to enjoy them.

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An experiment in styles The successful melding of hops and witbier

I wrote about Deschutes Brewery It is a dark yellow beer with a and one of their classic beers a few thick, deep haze. Its thin head is weeks ago—I was very happy they unimpressive, but does find a way hit the Alberta market. I was also to leave a bit of Belgian lacing to well-aware of its credit. The some of their Chainbreaker White IPA aroma starts off well-respected Deschutes Brewery, Bend, Oregon as classic witbeer, and chose $20 for a six pack bier: orange, citto review one to rus, lemon and bring people’s ata bit of peppery tention to them. dryness. But then I also pick up a But that was before I learned about grapefruit hop aroma. They mix Chainbreaker White IPA. After sampling well together. this beer I quickly realized I needed to I take a sip and first get fruitiness break my informal rule of not reviewing dominated by lemon, orange and light the same brewery in a short time span. berry. The body is soft due to the Why? Well, because this is one of wheat, while the middle has a zing to the most original and interesting beers it with some pepper and lemon zest.

I have tasted in a long time. As the name implies, it tries to blend two different styles. The base beer is a Belgian Witbier, which is a refreshing white wheat beer with a spicy, citrus accent—think Hoegaarden or Blanche de Chambly. They then try to add enough hops to the beer to give it the bitterness of an India Pale Ale, a decidedly hop-forward style.

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The back end brings out grapefruit hop into thinking it is not bitter enough flavour and a noticeable but muted for an IPA. But the website claims bitterness. The linger is a pleasant it is 55 IBUs, which is comfortably mix of fruit, spice and grapefruit-like in the IPA range. I think the muted hop character is a bitterness.

This is an in- The body is soft due to the by-product of how triguing beer. well they melded wheat, while the middle The flavours the hops into the has a zing to it with some witbier character. meld well and It merges together complement pepper and lemon zest. each other nicely and creates a very special, nicely. The refreshing quality of witbier is not unique drinking moment. V overtaken by the hops, yet the hops aren’t boring. Neither overwhelms Jason Foster is the creator of onbeer. the other, which is the trick here— org, a website devoted to news and views on beer from the prairies and one they perform admirably.

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hen asked about his curatorial that’s how they exist in the world,” philosophy, David Candler de- he says. “So I’m really interested in mures with a joke: “Mostly get an where the work comes from, why idea and allow it to ferment and pick that particular person has to commuat the back of my brain for years and nicate in that way, put that thing out years and years and years until I had a in the world that way.” space to play.”

His relatively new gallery, open The art he shows represents contemsince last September, was a long porary work of a type not typically time in the makseen in Edmonton’s ing. The idea Thu – Fri (6 pm – 9 pm) commercial spaces. to open what The work is brazen, & Sat (11 am – 6 pm) became dc3 Art defiant, sometimes dc3 Art Projects Projects has loud and sometimes been with Can- (10567 - 111 st) sinister. It’s work that dler—who is a dc3artprojects.com demands a reaction, doctor by day good or bad, not at the Cross Cancer Institute— something you buy to match a couch. since the early ‘90s, though his Paintings by Montreal-based Tammy love of art stretches even further Salzl, as part of the current exhibition back. Upon completing his medical PLAY: Toys + Age = Art, provide a school exams, Candler headed to perfect example: normal, even banal, Mexico to gain some much-needed portraits if only glanced at, the mottled head space. What he found became skin tones and slightly off perspectives a near-obsession. draw the viewer in before discomfit“I was desperate to learn something ing them with their ghastliness. Even else,” he says. “I got down there and upon being horrified, however, one has was just blown away by these small trouble looking away. galleries showing installation art and “I tend to be drawn to work that different aspects of contemporary pulls me in and pushes me away at versions of what the pre-Columbian the same time,” Candler says of his history of that area held. It never personal tastes. “I’ve worked at creatstopped after that.” ing a different kind of space for viewIn those “pre-Internet” days Can- ing work, and the work that I want to dler sought out books, magazines show is work that I want to see.” and auction catalogues wherever he As he says, he’s more interested in could, gradually building up a vast showing work that interests him than knowledge of the contemporary art showing work he knows he can sell. scene the world over. Bypassing the But why so long from idea to execuRembrandts, Matisses and Gauguins tion? Why hasn’t Edmonton had this of the past, Candler felt a strong pull kind of commercial space since the to the contemporary, art that eluci- early ‘90s? dated the now.

“I wanted somebody else to do it,” “The artists that I’m drawn to, the Candler says. “When nobody else did ones that I think have the most to for 25 years I decided I didn’t have any say, they’re generally people who more excuses it was time to step up have no choice in doing what they and do it.” do. They have to communicate in the BRYAN BIRTLES way that they communicate because BRYAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM Gallery man David Candler // Bryan Birtles

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Nick Shostak, 83 years young

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ick Shostak is a vibrant 83-yearold who appears to be living proof that age is truly just a number.

He still works full time (by choice), remains active in his community and continually strives to stay engaged, not allowing creativity or opportunity

to wane just because of his age.

His grandaughter, Amy Shostak, a local artist and member of popular improv troupe Rapid Fire Theatre, was inspired by Nick—or Dido, as she calls him—as well as by a trip to China—where she witnessed

vibrant community parks team- or grandparent along.

“I know for my relationship with ing with activity from all generations—to create the Slow Flash my grandfather, he is such a doer Mob. The initiative is powered and he’s 83 ... he’s got a drive that’s through Make Something Edmon- amazing and he doesn’t want to ton in partnership with Creative stop,” Shostak says. “Retirement Age, a local group that encourages isn’t interesting to him.” the city’s senior citizens to be- Sat, Jul 20 (Noon – 4 pm) During the Slow Flash Mob, particicome engaged Louise McKinney Park, free pants young and old in the arts. Rapid Fire Theatre can try their hand at is also acting as co-presenters of activities such as zumba, swing dancing and a jam circle—which means the event.

“I know [senior citizens] spend a learning a new skill— all while taklot of time by themselves, and it ing advantage of one of Edmonton’s makes me worried for when I’m many public parks. These natural a senior citizen and I think about green spaces are often underused, what I would want to happen Shostak notes, with the exception and things I would want in my of organized festivals throughout the life,” Shostak says of encouraging year. And while Shostak attributes more intergenerational interac- much of what she saw in China’s tion in the community. Partici- urban parks to people not having pants in the Slow Flash Mob are outdoor spaces at their homes, the encouraged to bring a grandchild diversity of activity occurring there is

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something she believes is achievable in Edmonton.

“It was so inspiring to see the parks full of people, and doing activities with people of all different ages and activities that weren’t programmed or put on by anyone. That just happened to be part of that necessary drive to create,” Shostak says, acknowledging that people having private outdoor spaces at home can be a deterrent from venturing out into public ones, and that increased programming from community leagues may be a step towards bringing more people out into shared spaces.

“I don’t think people give recreation enough time in their schedules,” she says. “I think people plan things with their immediate friends and family, but they don’t think of the larger community.”

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hey meet in the aftermath of a children’s piano recital. “You’re not one of the parents, are you?”

Maxine, the kids’ teacher asks Franklin, a baker by trade, sitting all by his lonesome. He isn’t—he’d been hoping to hear an early piano piece from his youth—but regardless, there’s a politely awkward warmth to the exchange. And the

joy of Eros and the Itchy Ant, the Stewart Lemoine script now seeing its second revival with Teatro La Quindicina, is how that little spark of intrigue gets fanned into a full on romantic blaze over the course of 90 minutes. Both of them soon descend into a madcap madness in trying to figure out how to appeal to the other, and it’s a gleefully

over-the-top onstage romp made teacher Wanda; she adjudicates all the better for its increasingly a group of six-year-olds with the sort of volatile harsh-truth that ridiculous moments.

Indeed, the story stays simple so would make adults sob. And osas to ground its tensibly just a more ridiculous Until Sat, Jul 27 (7:30 pm) zealous Greek elements: Lem- Written & Directed by fellow with a oine takes the in- Stewart Lemoine deity’s name, nocent, infatuated Varscona Theatre, $16 – $28 Jeff Haslam’s stage of love and Eros serves as sets it on a rollera riotous fourthcoaster course, scaling plenty of wall-ignoring narrator—giving mepeaks and loops on the route to ringues to the audience, watching romance. Maxine’s soon trying scenes from afar, stepping in as to get into the head of ants and needed, possibly even really being trying to dig into the deeper in- his namesake figure. Watching him terpretations of a beginner piano play six-year-old Kevin for a piano ditty while Franklin’s absentmind- lesson is brilliantly realized.

It all builds to a manic tortured opedly baking just far too many meera/nightmare of Maxine’s, adeptly ringues for realistic consumption. staged and performed (written by The cast—two holdovers from Ryan Sigurdson), complete with previous runs, two brand new to Greek gods and, yes ants. Yet Eros the script—do wonders to further never gets lost in its more ridiculous energize the material, and the script moments; the method to all the madgives them all something to dig into. ness here is deeply satisfying.

Eros is one of Lemoine’s more Ryan Parker’s adept at channeling the anguished-in-love anguished-by- madcap scripts of (relatively) remusical-memory character, while, cent, but in being so, it captures the as Maxine, Rachel Bowron skillfully emotional tumult of that first ronavigates the script’s delicate line mantic ignition in all the high-flying of silly and heartfelt with comic uncertainties. Love makes people aplomb. Cathy Derkach gets to play do craaaazy things, and Eros makes with a more slow-burn, grounded it a charming joy to watch. ridiculousness of high standards as PAUL BLINOV Maxine’s fellow, far blunter piano PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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in Edmonton do; we will be having workshops at Harcourt House and the Nina Haggerty Centre. There will be hands-on things to do as well as exhibitions to look at.”

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magine a pub crawl, but instead of alcohol, you’re there to binge on visual art. This decidedly more palatable idea forms the premise behind a venture started by Stacey Cann, the community education coordinator of Harcourt House.

“Half of our gallery staff actually don’t own vehicles and we were talking about how we never actually get to make it out to some of the regional galleries,” Cann says. “So we decided that if there was enough people in a

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similar boat that it would be a plans to do these throughout the fun idea to rent a bus, and have it year, as there are plenty of venues be really affordable so that peo- to explore in Edmonton and its ple would be able to go to those surrounding municipalities.

“Each location is responsible for galleries, but also have more of a group experience.” what they Sat, Jul 20 (12:30 pm pick-up at would like The first Art Bus Art Gallery of St Albert; 1:15 pm tour happened to do,” Cann pick-up at Harcourt House), $15 in June: about 15 explains. people piled into a “This next yellow school bus and visited a one is actually at the same time handful of galleries in the greater as another event that is happenEdmonton area. So long as there ing, called Illuminate. It’s something continues to be interest, Cann that some of the artist-run centres

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In addition to these two venues, the upcoming Art Bus will also visit the Art Gallery of St Albert, VASA and the SNAP Gallery.

Cann notes that even if you do have a car, Art Bus is also great for providing inside information on gallery exhibits as well as meeting other like-minded people. She has been busy lining up venues for future tours, and has also considered doing a bicycle or walking tour of Edmonton’s public art.

“We’re really hoping to build a community of people who are interested in art and who go to not only one gallery, but who are interested in the whole regional art scene,” Cann says. “We’re hoping the bus tours will bring some new people in and show them that we’re here, and that the other galleries are here, and have a good time while we’re doing it.”

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tion; until Jun 30, 2014

by Arlene Westen-Evans • Until Aug 28

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Art Gallery Of St Albert (AGSA) •

Jurassic Forest/Learning Centre •

Musée Héritage Museum–St Albert •

Zumba Bash Fiery Fridays • Central

19 Perron St, St Albert, 780.460.4310 • Transcience: Annelise Vobis’ installation works; until Jul 27 • Animal Spirit: Works by Joane Cardinal-Schubert, Jason Carter, Erik Lee Christophersen, Terry McCue, and Aaron Paquette; from the AFA collection; Jul 25-Sep 7; coincides with the Alberta Indigenous Games in St Albert; Aug 4-8 • Ageless Art: 3d Needle Felting for mature adults; Jul 18, 1-3pm; $12/$10 (member); registration required • Artventures: Soft Sculpture Monsters: Drop-in art program for children aged 6-12; Jul 20, 1-4pm; $5/child • ARTernative: Art for teens (13+): Organic Sculpture: Jul 18, 6:30-8pm

FILM

Art Gallery Of St Albert (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert, 780.460.4310 • Photography by Tyler Enfield as well as hand and computer created collage by Julie NaumanMikulski feature in this fascinating exhibition.

Dream Within a Dream opens a window to an illusionary realm where myths and story book legends unfold and where dreams are limitless realms to be explored. • Opening: Aug 1, 6-9pm, in conjunction with St Albert ArtWalk

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DANCE Senior Lions Centre, 11113-113 St • Shake your body to the Latin beat, and freestyle dance to live DJ music. Featuring Tamico Russell, Ike Henry, DJ Rocko and Zumba instructors Dru D., Manuella F-St., Michelle M., Sabrina D. and Cuban Salsa instructor Leo Gonzales • 3rd Fri each month • Jul 19, 7pm• $20 (online)/$25 (door)

Bailey Theatre–Camrose • Hansel & Gretel: Witch (14A); Jul 22, 7pm • $7 (adult)/$5 (youth/senior)/$20 (family) • Brighton Rock (R); Jul 29, 7pm; $7 (adult)/$5 youth/senior) Edmonton Film Society • Royal

Alberta Museum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave • Summer 2013 Series: Musicals for a Summer Night: until Aug 26 • State Fair (1945, colour, PG); Jul 22, 8pm • First Love (1939, PG); Jul 29, 8pm • $6/$5 (senior/student)/$30 (membership for the series, 8 films)

Film Forum • Stanley A. Milner Library • A series of film screenings followed by facilitated discussions; running through the summer for 18+ • Drop-in; no registration • The Searchers (STC); Jul 27, 1:30pm From Books to Film • Stanley A.

Milner Library, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.496.7000 • Films adapted from books • Silver Linings Playbook (2012, 14A); Jul 19, 2pm • X-Men-First Class (2011, PG); Jul 26, 2pm

NFB Film Club • Sprucewood Library •

Monthly film series featuring animated and documentary films from the National Film Board of Canada • Grace, Milly, Lucy–Child Soldiers (STC); Jul 22, 6pm • The Bodybuilder and I (STC); Jul 29, 6pm • Free

Shots to Kill: The Sixties Cinema of Seijun Suzuki • Metro Cinema at the

Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • Youth of the Beast (PG violence, not recommended for young children); Jul 25, 7pm; Jul 28, 4pm • Branded to Kill (STC); Jul 27, 9pm; Jul 31, 7pm

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY •

10186-106 St, 780.488.6611 • Discovery Gallery: Coming Up Next: Craft by emerging artists; until Jul 27 • Feature Gallery: Hanging by a Thread: Group exhibit using textiles to explore the relationship among multiple generations of women; Until Sep 28

Alberta Railway Museum • 24215-34 St, 780.472.6229 • AlbertaRailwayMuseum.com • Open weekends during the summer Allied Arts Council of Spruce Grove • Spruce Grove Art Gallery, Spruce

Grove Library, 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.0664 • HORSIN’ AROUND: Artworks

by Dianna Hanna; until Jul 27 • LIQUID LANDSCAPES–DIARY OF DREAMS: Works by Vanessa Kary; Jul 30-Aug 17; reception: Aug 10, 1-3pm

Art Bus Tour • Harcourt House, SNAP,

Nina Haggerty, VASA, Art Gallery of St Albert • Runs parallel to Illuminate, a free community event and exhibition that highlights some of the artist run and community based art spaces in Edmonton and ends at the reception for Illuminate at Harcourt House Gallery • Jul 20, 12:30-6:15pm • $10 (member of participating galleries)/$15 (non member); info E: harcourtcomed@shaw.ca, T: 780.426.4180

Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.422.6223 • This Alberta Biennial showcases the work of several Alberta filmmakers and performance artists. Filmmakers with guest curator Nancy Tousley for an interactive Q&A session • The Piano: Video projections, performances and sculptural installations by contemporary artists; until Aug 18 • Water Into Art: British watercolours from the V&A, 1750-1950; Jul 20-Nov 24 • New Acquisitions: Views and Vistas: Jul 20-Oct 6 • Late-night Wednesdays: Dean Baldwin’s Bar Piano built from a baby grand; until Aug 14, enjoy a complimentary cocktail on the Gallery’s outdoor Terrace; Every Wed, 5-9pm • New Works Gallery: ADAM WALDON-BLAIN: does his best: The amateur musician is presented through performance, video and text, with all of their flaws and imperfections; until Aug 18; Performances: Jul 20, Jul 27 • 9th Century British Photographs: From the collection of the National Gallery of Canada; until Oct 6 • BMO World of Creativity: Cabinets of Curiosity: Lyndal Osborne’s curious collec-

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Kiwanis Gallery–Red Deer Public Library • Alberta Skies: Works by Judith Hall • Until Aug 25

Lando Gallery • 103, 10310-124 St,

780.990.1161 • Summer on 124th Street: New works by gallery artists and secondary market works • Until Jul 23

Latitude 53 • 10242-106 St, 780.423.5353 •

ProjEx Room: Circles of Confusion: Installation by Kyle Whitehead; until Jul 20 • Patio:

Hosted by interVivos; 5-9pm; afterparty at the Common • ProjEx Room: YORK: by Sydney

5 St Anne St, St Albert, 780.459.1528 • Transforming Tradition: Contemporary Aboriginal Artists Re-envision Traditional Crafts: Traditional works by 1st Nation artists who bring their own interpretations to their work; until Aug 25

Naess Gallery • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave,

780.432.0240 • Recollections: Installation work by Amanda McKenzie; until Aug 15 • Artisan Nook: Basalt Dalik: Mosaic paintings

by Cathy Jackson; until Sep 15

Provincial Archives of Alberta • 8555 Roper Rd • Photo exhibit showcasing the construction of the High Level Bridge and its historic profile by decade • Until Sep 14; Tue-Sat 9am-4:30pm; Wed 9am-9pm; closed Sun and Mon • Free

Crooked Pot Gallery–Stony Plain

• 4912-51 Ave, Stony Plain, 780.963.9573 • Wood Fired Pottery: featuring wood fired pottery by Tammy Parks Legge • Until Jul 31

dc3 Art Projects • 10567-111 St •

PLAY:Toys+Age=Art: Cindy Baker, Joe Becker, Jude Griebel, and more; artists who use childhood games and toys as elements within their work • Until Aug 17

Daffodil Gallery • 10412-124 St, 780.760.1278 • Works by Judy Leila Schafers; until Jul 21 • Off-Whyte–Whyte Avenue Art Walk Holdover Show: Jul 23-Aug 4 Expressionz Café • 9938-70 Ave Olive Tree Project: Brian Zahorodniuk, Ginette D’Silva, Jane Chesebrough, Selena PhillipsBoyle, Lauri Ansell, Jose I. Marquez Lugo, Lesley Schatz Miciak

FAB Gallery/Bruce Peel Special Collections Library • U of A Campus •

All under Heaven: The Chinese World in Maps, Pictures, and Texts from the Collection of Floyd Sully: Works from Floyd Sully’s collection • Opening at the FAB Gallery: Jul 18, 4:30-6:30pm

Gallerie Pava • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427

• Le Réveil de la Muse: Works by Claudine Audette-Rozon; Jul 20-Sep 11

Gallery 7 • Bookstore on Perron, 7 Perron St, St Albert • Artworks by Bill Carstairs, Louise Piquitte, Peg McPherson • Through Jul • Opening: Jul 4, 6pm; artists in attendance Gallery at Milner • Stanley A. Milner

Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.944.5383 • Articulate: Sketchbooks by 31 art educators from Edmonton and St Albert schools • Until Aug 31

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Johnson Gallery–South • 7711-85 St, 780.465.6171 • Works by Illingworth Kerr, Thelma Manarey, Robert Genn, Alex Janier, and Marion Nicoll; pottery by Noboru Kubo • Through July Jubilee Auditorium • The Road To......: Paintings by Mali Vargas, Sarah Bing, curated

Book Traders • 345 Woodvale Rd W • Meet the Author: Book signing with local author, JY Lilly; signing copies of her new book A Shard of History • Jul 27 1-4pm Carrot Coffeehouse • 9351-118 Ave • vzenari@gmail.com • Prose Creative Writing Group • Every Tue, 7-9pm Naked Cyber Café • 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 • GROUND ZERO: A place of explosion, the centre of rapid development, a new beginning. Local and international authors, musicians and artists • Last Mon each month Koffee Café • 6120-28 Ave, 780.863.4522 • Glass Door Coffee House Reading Series: Monthly readings with new headliner • Last Thu each month, 7-9pm

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Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St, 780.902.5900 • Spoken Word Tuesdays: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathinpoetry@gmail.com T.A.L.E.S.–STRATHCONA • New Strathcona Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park, 780.400.3547 • Monthly Tellaround: 4th Wed each month 7pm • Free

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Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • Grindstone Theatre presents a two act improvised musical every other Jul 26, 11pm • Tickets at TIX on the Square

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Harcourt House Gallery • 3 Fl,

Harris-Warke Gallery–Red Deer • Sunworks Home and Garden Store, Ross St, Red Deer • 403.346.8937 • Little Fears: Works by Laura O’Connor • Until Aug 3

University of Alberta Museums • museums.ualberta.ca • Human Ecology Gallery: Main Fl, 116 St, 89 Ave: The Re-Birth of Venus: Fashion & The Venus Kallipygos: Explores the influence of art on fashion through the study of Venus Kallipygos, and its pervasive influence on dress • Until Mar 2, 2014

Ave, St Albert, 780.460.5990 • Dream Series • Works by Vanessa Kary • Until Jul 26

Ave • COMIC JAM: Improv comic art making every 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7pm • OPEN DOOR: Collective of independent comic creators meet the 2nd & 4th Thu each month; 7pm 10215-112 St • Illuminating: Harcourt House, Nina Haggerty, FAVA, and Guru Digital Arts College: FAVA: run a scratch animation; Guru Digital: full gallery illumination; Harcourt House: light workshops; Nina Haggerty: light painting and the construction of a collaborative lantern. All culminate at Harcourt House Gallery at 5pm for an enlightening celebration; Jul 20, 12-5pm

Telus World of Science • 11211-142 St • BODY WORLDS and The Cycle of Life: Revealing the Symphony Within; until Oct 14; $26.50 (adult)/$16.50 (child (3-12)/$23.50 (senior/youth/student) at door; prices incl general admission and admission for exhibit

VASA Gallery • 25 Sir Winston Churchill

Centre d’arts visuels de l’Albertas (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave,

Corridor Gallery–Red Deer • Downtown Recreation Centre • Nature in the City: Works by Carol Lynn Gilchrist • Until Jul 30

The Studio • 11739-94 St • Works by Glen Ronald, Bliss Robinson, Debra Milne and guest artists • Until Dec 31, 12-5pm

VAAA Gallery • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St, 780.421.1731 • ACAD in Edmonton: 10 Alberta College of Art & Design up and coming artists present exciting new work created in a diverse range of 2D & 3D media; until Jul 20 • Storytellers (AGA travelling exhibition); Jul 25-Aug 18; reception: Aug 1, 7-9:30pm

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • New Location: 10345-124 St, 780.482.2854 • bugeramathesongallery.com • New location

780.461.3427 • Venez Voir les Oeuvres: Father Douglas, Elaine Berglund, Jerry Berthelette, Andrée Audette and guest Joyce Bjerke; until Jul 23 • Proposent Leurs Oeuvres: Rhéa Pioffe, Carmon Mulligan and members of Northgate Seniors Painting Club; Jul 26-Aug 13

@ 501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • Surface Tension: Curated by Brenda Barry Byrne, works by Sean Caulfield and Royden Mills; until Aug 11

WWW.FORTEDMONTONPARK.CA Lancaster and Marian Switzer; Jul 25-Aug 31; opening/Latitude 53 Patio: Jul 25, 5-9pm • Main Space: Art Party: Megan Morman; Jul 25-Aug 31

McMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St, 780.407.7152 • Illuminating Peace: Installation by Amy Loewan, with the aim to dissolve cultural boundaries and promote human understanding • Until Aug 12 Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51

St, Stony Plain, 780.963.9935 • multicentre.org • Field Notes: Works by David Shkolny • Until Jul 24

Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain, 780.963.9935 • multicentre.org • Tanya Harnett • Jul 27-Aug. 28 • Reception:

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Royal Alberta Museum • 12845-102

Ave, 780.453.9100 • Chop Suey on the Prairies: Until Apr 27, 2014 • The Art of Seating: 200 Years of American Design: until Oct 6

Royal Alexandra Hospital–Gallery Wall • 10240 Kingsway Ave • Through My

Eye: Photos by photographers from Images Alberta Camera Club • Until Aug 19 • imagery@ yahoo.ca

sNAP Gallery • Society of Northern Alber-

ta Print­-Artists, 10123-121 St, 780.423.1492 • Community Gallery: Patterns of Rememory:

By SNAP’s 2012 Emerging Artist in Residence, Amanda McKenzie • Main Gallery: Music for Teacups: By Haviland and Colagiovanni; until Aug 3

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Driving Miss Daisy • Mayfield Dinner

Theatre, 16615-109 Ave, 780.483.4051 • By Alfred Uhry. Starring Michael Learned (the Waltons). Set in 1948 Georgia; a humorous story of the unexpected relationship between a Southern matriarch and her soft spoken chauffeur • Until Aug 4

Eros and the Itchy Ant • Varscona Theatre, 780.433.3399 • By Stewart Lemoine.

Original music by Ryan Sigurdson. Starring Stewart Lemoine, Rachel Bowron and Ryan Parker, with Cathy Derkach, Jeff Haslam.

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PLAY US A TUNE Lightning Dust reimagines its Fantasy on third record

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hen Amber Webber sent her a drum machine and synthesizers partner Josh Wells the bare on it. I just thought, ‘I don’t know bones of a new song she’d com- about this’ but then I sang over it posed, she wasn’t exactly sure what and liked it.” she’d get back.

As Webber The last two al- Thu, Jul 25 (8 pm) points out a bums the duo had Lightning Dust number of done as Lightning times in the With Louise Burns Dust were as difconversation, Brixx Bar & Grill, $15 ferent from each this isn’t a other as they were band that takes from the band they’re best known itself too seriously. Or, probably for playing in, psychedelic rockers more accurately, Lightning Dust Black Mountain. Their self-titled isn’t so sold on a particular sonic 2007 debut was a muted, acous- point of view that it’s not intertic affair, while 2009’s Infinite ested in exploring outside of it. As Light took them down stranger much as Webber enthuses about paths. Both Webb and Wells felt her love for folk and country muthat they were due for a musical sic she’s also an unabashed fan of shake up, and the song that would Beyoncé and Daft Punk, and she’s eventually be called “Reckless and unafraid to let that out.

Wild” made a complete break from Wells, who drums in Black what came before.

Mountain, is similarly happy to “Being precious with your music explore outside of his comfort really doesn’t get you anywhere,” zone, in this case with the old Wells says from Vancouver, where drum machines and vintage synthe duo resides when not on tour thesizers that make up the bulk with Black Mountain or Lightning of the latest album, Fantasy.

Dust. “I told Josh to go to town “Josh found this (Akai) MPC with it but I have to admit it was (drum machine) on Craigslist and a little shocking when he first it was cool to see him doing all of sent back the song and there was this really robotic stuff that was

so different from what he does in Black Mountain,” Webber says.

“For me it was pretty fun as well, because I was able to ditch the guitar and just sing, which is something I’ve wanted to do for a while.

In Black Mountain I get to sing really loud over a rock band, and this is kind of like that in a way.”

Wells’ drum machines and synths have also affected the way that Webber approached the new album.

“I have a tendency to sing quietly, with little subtle touches, but now I have to sing louder. On the record I was also able to double vocals, make them thick with three different harmonies over top, but live shows are a different thing. I have to think of a way to make my voice get over.”

Lightning Dust’s personality remains constant on Fantasy even if the gear doesn’t. The album is just as minimal as their other two releases, the bare bones of melodies hanging over skeletal arrangements, the burbling synths sounding not unlike Suicide or John Carpenter’s score for Assault on Precinct 13. While Wells’ constructions have a robotic element

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to them there’s also a warmth that only old analogue synths can give, and Webber’s voice doesn’t sound any colder for lack of acoustic guitar behind it. Critics have had a fun time finding influences, from Kate Bush to Bat For Lashes, Cocteau Twins to Coco Rosie, but for Webber the album harkens back to when she was younger, and her older brother turned her on to electro pop like Depeche Mode and the Cure.

In order to replicate the sound of Fantasy the duo are bringing a couple of auxiliary members on the road to play synthesizers and drum pads, while Wells focuses on keyboards and Webber sings.

“It’ll be a big change not having the acoustic to play,” she admits. “I could use a something in front of me to help, I guess. I understand bands that dress up and hide their identity like Daft Punk or the Knife or whatever. You’re in costume, you get to play a role and people aren’t just staring at you. That’s what you sign up for as a musician, though. I should probably get over it.”

It isn’t often that Lightning Dust tours Canada, and rarely does the duo even make a big point of

playing in Vancouver. Wells and Webber seem satisfied to bring it out when the mood hits, and that usually seems to involve shows in Europe and the US, where they find themselves in two very different kinds of venues. Webber is hoping that the slightly harder sounds of Fantasy will be a little more amenable to the rock clubs they usually find themselves in when in the States.

“When we’re in Europe we usually end up in these small theatres where everyone is attentive. The older, quieter stuff usually gets lost in the clubs, so hopefully this one translates better.”

Whether it does or not you can be sure that Wells and Webber won’t necessarily be revisiting the same sounds on their next album.

“That wouldn’t be any fun, just doing the same thing over and over again. I wouldn’t be satisfied with that. I’m also not sure what we’ll do after this; maybe on the next album we’ll get nostalgic for back-to-the-basics acoustic guitar music. You never know.”

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Alex Goot ther solo or with collaborators, but out original music, and he released is now out from behind the screen his debut full-length In Your Atmofor his first headlining North Ameri- sphere in 2012. So far, Goot’s origican tour. nal material has been received just “It’s crazy because as well, if not now I’m doing things Thu, Jul 25 (5 pm) better, than his that I wished I was Starlite Room, $19.50 covers. able to do and now “Songs that I Famous online and IRL I’m literally doing tend to cover here is no doubt technology has them,” says Goot, who will be per- come and go. It’s like bubble gum: forever changed the way we go forming a mix of cover songs and the flavour goes away and it’s gone, about our daily lives and, while it original material throughout the tour. but people will tend to react to the has its downfalls, it has also made “If I told my past self what I was going original ones and hold onto them,” Goot says. “They’re a part of my identhe world just a little bit smaller to be doing, I’d be very surprised.”

However, Goot admits there was tity, so I think it’s sustaining when I and new music more accessible than ever before. It’s also allowed aspiring never a Plan B—music was all he go out and play shows. Now people sing along to my original songs.” artists to get their names out to the wanted to do.

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Jordie Lane

Keeping his peaches in the air

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I was in Toronto in February and with the windchill or something it got down to -15 C I think one day.

I’d never been in temperatures below like two degrees in my life ...

I’d never seen snow before, either.

I was like a kid in a candy shop,” laughs Australian folk artist Jordie Lane of his experiences with Canadian weather.

Thankfully, Lane’s current venture to Canada is likely to be less frigid. He’s making the trek up from his current residence in LA (he recently relocated from Australia) to promote Live at the Wheaty. A live album wasn’t something Lane had planned on releasing, but during what became his unofficial farewell tour of Australia, a stop in Adelaide at the Wheaty became

life to it I guess,” he says. “In the the ideal gig to feature.

“All these crazy, weird characters studio I approach it really differcame out of the woodwork and we ently, a lot more methodically decided to leave the show unedit- and so it’s a battle to try and get ed, so half the album is stories and that real, true-life element.” talking and interacting with the auHowever, Lane dience members,” Wed, Jul 24 (7 pm) appears to be Lane says, noting breaking his it was the sound With the Weber Brothers own average technician at the Artery when it comes venue who had approached him about recording the to studio sessions, as he’s been show for archival purposes, which recording two separate projects he then decided to release once he in Los Angeles and Nashville. Each has been recorded by a different heard the finished recording.

One such character was a man producer—complete strangers to known as Lucky, who kept heckling one another, as well as to Lane up Lane during the show. The good- until recording began. It’s an experinatured jabs turned into Lucky re- ment, and a bit of a gamble, considquesting Lane make up a song for ering the opposing styles of each: him on the spot—which Lane hap- the LA-produced disc encompasses a psychedelic sound influenced by pily obliged.

“The crowd just sort of went wild the ‘60s and ‘70s, while the Nashand it just got more and more ri- ville one has a much more countrydiculous as the show went on and folk feel, complete with pedal-steel we just thought, that’s such a huge and upright bass.

“They’re kind of meant to be like part of what I do or what I am,” he says, adding that live shows are two strangers having an arranged much more a part of his music than marriage, which I’m bringing tostudio albums are. He releases one gether,” he chuckles. “The experiabout every two years, whereas for ment is maybe they won’t want to the past five years, he’s been aver- sit together and they’ll be released aging close to 200 shows each year as separate entities on their own— in Australia. either way, hopefully the beginning “I kind of feel like I’ve worked of next year.” out how to do [live shows], so MEAGHAN BAXTER there’s a lot more freedom and MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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Jay Arner

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e woke up to one of the hotel workers knocking on our door, saying there was no electricity,” Jay Arner recalls.

He’s discussing his ill-fated Sled island experience: the Vancouver musician and his band had made it through some pretty unbearable conditions—“The worst rain I’ve ever driven in,” he notes, of the route between Lethbridge and Calgary—to get into Cowtown and spend an evening watching bands and hoping for the best. Then the morning came, sans power.

“We just went down to the hotel lobby,” he continues. “There was supposed to be a breakfast, but since there was no elec-

tricity, it was like they just put The total DIY approach, he whatever out, so there were notes, was a goal he had from all these slap-dash sandwiches. the album’s outset. He was used And there were a bunch of can- to writing on multiple-instrudy apples. That was the strang- ments from times in in previous bands where est thing: he functioned as there were Fri, Jul 19 (9 pm) people at the With Renny Wilson, chief songwriter.

And as a guy hotel freaking Animal Teeth well-versed in out, and peo- Wunderbar, $10 recording other ple on cellphones being bands—“I don’t very agitated, but they were want to use the word ‘engineer,’ because that implies schooling,” holding candy apples.”

When Sled was officially can- he laughs—including the likes celled shortly thereafter, with of Mount Eerie, No Gold and it went Arner’s scheduled show Apollo Ghosts, he did it all with (he notes Sled Island offered to a relatively simple PC set up in pay him anyway, but he refused). a tiny rehearsal hall.

“I wanted to indulge the things Still, his trip to Alberta wasn’t all for naught: he ended up playing a that I was really into, and I house party with the Ketamines in guess not consider other peoCalgary, and then taking part in Ed- ple,” he says. “Just do it totally monton’s own Shred Island show- solo: in performing it, in how case for bands in similar post-Sled I would view the music. Not positions. And now he’s back again, think about what other people touring behind his self-titled, self- would think.”

“I really like recording by myproduced, self-recorded and selfplayed debut album. On it, over self,” he continues, “because I can a bedrock synth and guitar lines, go really fast, and it’s just fun, Arner goes big on dreamy pop and I feel at home. And confident. drifts: its 10 songs deliver strong So I just wanted to do an album hooks with a soft touch. He’s per- where it was that, uninterrupted.” forming with a band, but the songs PAUL BLINOV PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM are exclusively his.

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Back in the ‘80s, vinyl was the id you know that CJSR’s Catch the Beat might be medium for DJs. While electronic North America’s longest running dance music has since progressed dance-music radio program? With to laptops and MP3s, Wells isn’t the show’s original airdate of entirely sure it amounts to progress.

“Nowadays, I am convinced the 1986, it’s a claim current co-hosts Bryan Wells and Bart Petrus (DJs only way a new label can prove Bron and Moe that they are for Lowe, respec- Sat, Jul 20 (9 pm) real is to release physical format tively) feel con- With Jesse Bru, Bron, Moe Lowe music,” states fident making. and Dane Wells. “ReleasIf nothing else, The Common, $7 Catch the Beat’s ing records takes longevity speaks to Edmonton’s money and time, which helps endeep roots in dance music. sure that quality is of the utmost Paying homage to those halcyon importance. There’s something days, the duo is excited about the inherently disposable about digital debut release on their Heart to Heart files. Collectable wax has a better imprint. Strictly limited to 300 cop- chance of standing the test of time.”

Wells’ current obsession with ies, the vinyl-only label’s first single comes from friend, DJ, beat maker seminal dance singles bears out and fellow Canuck Jesse Bru with this philosophy. Since discovering remixes by Germany’s Christopher a secret trove of classic records at a secondhand seller just over Rau and the Ukraine’s Vakula. a year ago, he’s developed a finer appreciation for house music’s formative years.

“There’s an underlying honesty about it that really speaks to me. everything must go!

Back when, producers had barebones studio setups, limited production knowledge and virtually no framework for any genres to guide them.

With no rules, DJs pushed creativity to the limit. That ‘less is more’ simplicity translates extremely well Final 2 weeks to today’s dance floors.”

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Heart label, in name and concept, really speaks to the passion he and Wells share for quality, underground dance music. He says playing vinyl on Catch the Beat week over week with Wells, and fellow co-host Ian Rae (aka DJ Raebot), never gets old.

“It’s an amazing outlet and freedom to play whatever music we are into at the moment, whether it’s a new release or classic find,” Petrus says.

“Because of the show’s legacy, proper curation is really important to us.

Heart to Heart really emerged from the show and discussions about artists we’d like to help expose by releasing their music.”

This includes people like their West-Coast confidant Mr Bru, aka Jesse Brow, who Petrus was privileged to see and hear perform at Montréal’s Mutek festival this spring. In addition to the pride and joy of watching a truly international audience groove to Heart to Heart tunes, Petrus says his Mutek pilgrimages are always celebrations of great music amongst good friends.

“There’s nothing quite like seeing people react in a positive way to music you’ve had a hand in releasing, especially because Jesse is immensely talented and deserves his success. I remember looking around the room and thinking, ‘Yes! This is what it’s all about.’”

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You may not know her by name, but Sarah Neufeld’s sophisticated violin has been heard extensively for the last decade as a member of super-giants Arcade Fire and experimental post-rock group Bell Orchestre. On her debut instrumental solo album, Hero Brother, Neufeld strips

away the extraneous indie-rock sheen in favour of her lone violin. Hero Brother is complex, shifting pace and mood constantly without notice, which can be tiring and even bothersome as background music.

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“Come On Eileen,” “Physical,” “Red Red Wine,” “Karma Chameleon”; as the list goes on, you know they’re getting sweeter.

As in blandly saccharine, granulated from midi-sounding trumpets and soullessly soulful latin guitars to half-heartedly fit familiar melodies into a muddy euro-pop-in-the-tropics mold.

It’s hard to quantify why this even got made, if I’m being totally honest: for a guy whose big smash hit basically went all in on cheeky personality, this whole thing is devoid of so much as a wink that feels spontaneous or genuine. May Angela, Pamela, Sandra and Rita forgive him for what he’s done.

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Brixx Hosted by Christian and Justin of the Canyon Rose Outfit: The Ultimate open stage, open jam, open turntables E: kevin@ starliteroom.ca for info

Lyle Hobbs

Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Derina Harvey Sherlock Holmes– WEM The Rural Routes Smokehouse BBQ Live Blues every Thu: rotating guests; 7-11pm Union Hall Flosstradamus, DJ Sllink; 9pm (door); $26 (adv)

DJs Black dog Freehouse Main Floor: wtft w djwtf - rock ‘n’ roll, blues, indie; Wooftop Lounge: Musical flavas incl funk, indie, dance/nu disco, breaks, drum and bass, house with DJ Gundam

Cook County Alee (CD

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

Druid Irish Pub DJ every Thu; 9pm

Secrets; 9pm

electric rodeo–Spruce Grove DJ every Thu

Early Stage Saloon– Stony Plain Open Jam

FILTHY McNASTY’S Taking

Fandango’s Thu Battle of the Bands; 9pm

Garneau Theatre The Culture Collective: showcase, featuring some of the best talents in Edmonton’s Film, Performing Arts and Music communities. Prepare for an evening of music, dance, film and much more, featuring Live performances and screenings from Nuela Charles, Cygnets, Amy Shostak, Michael Maxxis, Capital City Burlesque, Unwed Mothers and more; 7pm; $10 (adv)

J R Bar and Grill Live Jam Thu; 9pm

Java Express–Stony Plain Acoustic/singer songwriter the 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7-10pm; no cover

Jeffrey’s Café Holiday Monday (folk, jazz); 8pm; $10 Kelly’s Pub Jameoke Night, karaoke with band the Nervous Flirts; every Thu, 8pm-12am

L.B.’s Pub Open jam with Kenny Skoreyko, Fred LaRose and Gordy Mathews (Shaved Posse) every Thu; 9pm-1am Lit Wine Bar Dino Dominelli; 8pm; no cover

Naked Cybercafé and Boardgame Emporium Thu open stage: fully equipped stage, bring your instruments and your voices; gaming everyday

New West Hotel Canadian Country Hall of Fame Guest host Bev Munro

NORTH GLENORA HALL Jam by Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu; contact John Malka; 7-10pm; 780.447.5111

Overtime Sherwood Park Jesse Peters (R&B, blues, jazz, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Thu; no cover

Red Piano Every Thu: Dueling pianos at 8pm

Haven Social Club Make Out City, I Am Machi, Blind Horses; 8pm; $7 (adv)/410 (door)

HOGS DEN PUB Sinder Sparks Show; 8-12pm

J+H Pub Early show: Acoustic Open mic every Fri, 10-15 mins to perform; 5:30-8:30pm, no cover; Late show: Every Friday: Headwind (vintage rock ‘n’ roll), friends, 9:30pm, no minors, no cover

Jeffrey’s Café Alfie Zappacosta; 9pm; $35

K-Days–Rockin’ Koodonation Stage: Burton

Lizard Lounge Rock ‘n’ roll open mic every Fri; 8:30pm; no cover

Overtime Sherwood Park Dueling Piano’s, all request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover

PAWN SHOP Stone Iris (tour kick-off party), Our Sound Machine, Open Air; 8pm; $10 (adv) Pub 1824 Live music every Fri & Sat; 9pm

Radway Alberta Agricentre Grand North American Old Time Fiddling Competitions: hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Association; Jam and dance; 7-11pm; jamboree and dance (proceeds go to the Kids with Cancer Society

Red Piano Bar Hottest

Back Thursdays

dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Fri; 9pm-2am

Krush Ultra Lounge

rendezvous pub Hellborn

Open stage; 7pm; no cover

Death Engines

Level 2 lounge Funk

RExall place Reba

Bunker Thursdays

Lucky 13 Industry Night every Fri

On The Rocks Salsaholic: every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; salsa DJ to follow

Outlaws Roadhouse Wild Life Thursdays

rendezvous Metal night every Thu

Union Hall 3 Four All Thursdays: rock, dance, retro, top 40 with DJ Johnny Infamous

FRI JUL 19

Lucky 13 Every Fri and Sat with resident DJ Chad Cook RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie, rock, funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri

Starlite Room KLUB OMFG

Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge Amplified Fridays: Dubstep, house, trance, electro, hip hop breaks with DJ Aeiou, DJ Loose Beats, DJ Poindexter; 9:30pm (door)

Suite 69 Release Your Inner Beast: Retro and Top 40 beats with DJ Suco; every Fri

TEMPLE Rapture–Goth/Ind/alt; every Fri 9pm

Old Towns, White Chocolate Hurricane, Paperlife

Brittany’s lounge Velvet Hour: Live music in the afternoons hosted by Rob Taylor and Bill Bourne; Mon-Fri; 4:308pm; no cover

Brixx Silence Be Damned: Pale Blue Dot, Go For the Eyes, Jezebelle; Goth/Industrial with DJs Siborg, Nightroad; 9pm

Café Tiramisu Bob Cook; 7-9pm; no cover

Carrot Coffeehouse Live music every Fri; this week: Emma Perri; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door)

CASINO EDMONTON Trace Jordan (rock and by request); 9pm

CASINO YELLOWHEAD

Artery Death By Robot (CD release party, electronic rock), Tanner Gordon and the Unfortunates, Boxcar Glory Hole; 8pm; $10 (adv) Bailey Theatre–Camrose An Evening Of Gospel Music: Harry Rusk and Don Bouvette; 6pm (door), 7pm (show)

Black Dog Freehouse Hair of the Dog: Nadine and The Black Wonders (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover

Blue Chair Café Bomba Duo (Mario Allende percussion, Chris Andrew keys); 8:30pm; $15 Blues on Whyte Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Evening: Ross Neilsen Band

Bohemia DARQ Saturday

O’byrne’s Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm

Overtime Sherwood Park Dueling Piano’s, all request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover

Pawn Shop After Dark Custom Motorcycles: Weedeater (metal), Naam, Pinkish Black, Black Thunder; 8pm; $15 (adv)

Pub 1824 Afternoon: Open stage every Sat: South of Sanity, 2-6pm; Evening: Live music every Fri & Sat, 9pm

Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Derina Harvey Sherlock Holmes– WEM The Rural Routes Starlite Room All Else Fails (Fucktropolis EP release party), All Else Fails, Tyrant, Eternal Prophecy, Black Collar, Silence the Machine; 9pm; $15 (adv, free copy of All Else Fails CD)

(rock), Arrival of Autumn, Cultured by Fire, Zengines, Drainbed; 7pm; $10 (adv)/$15 (door)

Temple Step’d Up Sat:

(Tel Fyr split 7’ release)

Classical

Angel; 9pm

Temple Rapture (goth/ industrial/alt); every Fri, 9pm WUNDERBAR Renny Wilson, Jay Arner, Animal Teeth, Bleating Hearts

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every Friday DJs on all three levels

THE BOWER Zukunft: Indie

Rojos (country rock); 9pm

The Club at the Citadel Dan Bern and Colin Priestner (folk); 8:30-10pm; $25

Crown Pub Acoustic blues

THE BOWER For Those Who Know...: House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests

of Power, Holoshock; 9pm; $10 (door)

Early Stage Saloon– Stony Plain The Shufflehounds (rockin’ R ‘n’ B)

FILTHY McNASTY’S The Dirrty Show, guest Shiv Shanks; 4pm; no cover

Central Senior Lions Centre Zumba Bash Fiery

Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth

Fridays: Latin beats with Tamico Russell - Ike Henry - DJ Rocko; 3rd Fri each month; Jul 19, 7pm; $20 (online)/$25 (door)

Haven Social Club

The Druid Irish Pub DJ every Fri; 9pm

electric rodeo–Spruce Grove DJ every Fri Fandango’s DJs night every Fri and Sat with DJ Stouffer

DJs

Devaney’s Duane Allen

Gas Pump Saturday

nu disco, hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation plus residents Echo and Justin Foosh

Ursula Oppens (piano works by Schumann, Bolcom and Ravel); 8pm; $12 (adult)/$5 (child/ student) at TIX on the Square

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

and alternative with Dusty Grooves, Fraser Olsen, Taz, and Josh Johnson

THE Common Good Fridays:

St James United Church–Mulhurst, Pigeon Lake Alberta Pianofest:

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)

DV8 Iron Kingdom, Guardians

HungryHollow, Crowded City Skyline, Lindsey Walker; 9pm; $10 (door)

Hilltop Pub Open Stage, Jam every Sat; 3:30-7pm Jeffrey’s Café Alfie Zappacosta; 9pm; $35

K-Days–Rockin’ Koodonation Stage: Carly Rae Jepsen; tickets at k-days.com

l.b.’s pub Sat afternoon Jam with Gator and Friends; 5-9pm; Oil City Sound Machine Leaf bar and grill Sat jam with Terry Evans, and

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American Old Time Fiddling Competitions: hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Association; Competitions begin at 10am; supper followed by an evening dance 7-11pm

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Radway Alberta Agricentre Grand North

rendezvous pub

Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Derina Harvey Sherlock Holmes– WEM The Rural Routes

CD RELEASE

Netherward, Kriticos, Phantom Limb, IronStorm; 8pm; $10

Lyle Hobbs

CASINO EDMONTON Trace Jordan (rock and by request); 9pm

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Red Piano Bar Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am

Rose and Crown Pub

Pianofest: Ursula Oppens (piano works by Schumann, Bolcom and Ravel); 8pm; $12 (adult)/$5 (child/student)

Neilsen Band

SAT JUL 20

jam every Sat; 3-6pm

Wunderbar Todos Caeran

Bailey Theatre–Camrose

Bohemia Darren Williams,

Fridays

New West Hotel Country

XIII; 9pm

Muttart Recital Hall– Alberta College Alberta

Blues on Whyte Ross

Y AFTERHOURS Foundation

Suchy Sister Saturdays: Amber, Renee or Stephanie with accompaniment; 9:30-11:30pm; no cover

Brixx With Malice, Black

Navigators; 8pm; $20 (adv)/$25 (door)

Blue Chair Café Felt Hat String Band (Gypsy jazz); 8:30pm; $10

every Fri

Louisiana Purchase

McEntire; 7:30pm

Classical

$5 Fridays: Tabasco Cat; 8pm (door); $5 (door)

Union Hall Ladies Night

featured guests; host Mark Ammar

Lolcatz, Yaznil, Badman Crooks, Ootz; 9pm

Atlantic trap and gill

Rojos (country rock); 9pm

3 (TN3, with Bob Wootten) 9:30pm; $$20 (adv)/$25 (door)

Dayna; featuring special events every Fri

Tyco and Ernest Ledi; no line no cover for ladies all night long

Uncommon Thursday: Rotating Guests each week!

Nights; no cover

Shufflehounds (rockin’ R ‘n’ B)

Fandango’s The Tennessee

Legends Sports Bar DJ

Treasury In Style Fri: DJ

Zoomers Thu afternoon open mic; 1-4pm

Thu at 9pm

Early Stage Saloon– Stony Plain The

l.b.’s pub The Blazers

The Common The Common

DV8 By Divine Right, the Wet

Therapy

Cummings; tickets at k-days.com

CARROT Coffeehouse

Druid Irish Pub DJ every

and dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Fri

(metal), West of Hell, Ironstorm; 9pm; $10 (adv)/$12 (door)

Layne L’Heureux; 7pm

release party); 8pm (door), 10pm (show) $10 (adv, incl free signed copy of her CD)

FLUID LOUNGE R&B, hip hop

DV8 Major Chaos with Failed

Wunderbar Holy Grail

Century Room Lucky 7: Retro ‘80s with house DJ every Thu; 7pm-close

Café Haven Jim Nowhere,

Devaney’s Duane Allen

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 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–WEM Every Sat: Sound and Light show; We are Saturdays: Kindergarten

Fandango’s DJs night every Fri and Sat with DJ Stouffer

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

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PALE bLuE Dot jul/20 with mALiCE, bLACk xiii jul/23 DAn bouRbonnAiS (of the Whytes) CD releAse w/ DARRyL mAthEwS

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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);

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American Old Time Fiddling Competitions: hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Association

ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge

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Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Mkhai

rendezvous pub Explain, Harvest the Infection, guest; 8pm; $10

Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge

Richard’s PUB Sun Jam

Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M

hosted by Andrew White and the Joint Chiefs; 4-8pm

Sugar Foot Ballroom

The Rig Every Sun Jam hosted

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 Step’d Up Saturdays with Lolcatz, Yaznil, Badman Crooks, Ootz Union Hall Celebrity Saturdays: every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous

Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

SUN JUL 21 Artery Petunia and the Vipers (folk), Amy van Keeken; 7:30pm; $10 (adv)/$12 (door) Blackjack’s Roadhouse–Nisku Open

by Better Us than Strangers; 5-9pm

Smokehouse BBQ Hair of the Dog acoustic Sun Jam with Bonedog and Bearcat; every Sun; 2-6pm WUNDERBAR Justine Vandergrift, HRDWTR, Jey Witten

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 JUL 22 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett

Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover

Blue Chair Café Sunday

Blues on Whyte Anni

brunch: Jim Findlay Trio; 10am2:30pm; donations

Blues on Whyte Ross

Piper

Bohemia Ramshackle Day Parade

Homicide, the Old Wives, Thoroughbred Racing Pigeon, Elder Abuse; 7pm; $10 (adv)

featuring DJs Rootbeard, Raebot, Wijit and guests playing tasteful, eclectic selections

Wunderbar Doctor Jokes

CRown Pub Underground

free comedy night

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

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

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

TUE JUL 23

DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly, Hallowe’en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue RED STAR Experimental Indie rock, hip hop, electro with DJ Hot Philly; every Tue

Atlantic trap and gill

Suite 69 Rockstar Tuesdays:

Open mic with Ehren Flais

Mash up and Electro with DJ Tyco, DJ Omes with weekly guest DJs

Blues on Whyte Anni Piper

Brittany’s lounge Velvet Hour: Live music in the afternoons hosted by Rob Taylor and Bill Bourne; Mon-Fri; 4:308pm; no cover

Brixx Bar Ruby Tuesdays with host Mark Feduk; $5 after 8pm; this week guests: Dan Bourbonnais (of the Whytes, CD release), Darryl Mathews; 9pm Druid Irish Pub Jamhouse Tues hosted by Chris Wynters, guest

J+H Pub Acoustic open mic night every Tue hosted by Lorin Lynne; Everyone will have 10-15 minutes to play K-Days–Rockin’ Koodonation Stage: Classified; tickets at k-days.com

L.B.’s Tue Blues Jam with Mark Ammar; 7:30pm-11:30pm

WED JUL 24 ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12

Artery The Weber Brothers (rock), Jordie Lane; 7:30pm; $10 (adv) BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Glitter Gulch: The Fuzz Kings; On the Patio: Funk and Soul with Doktor Erick every Wed; 9pm

Blues on Whyte Anni Piper

Bohemia Wednesday Wednesdays! Featuring Kool AD (DJ), Mitchmatic, Mikey Maybe

Brittany’s lounge Velvet Hour: Live music in the afternoons hosted by Rob Taylor and Bill Bourne; Mon-Fri; 4:308pm; no cover

Neilsen Band

Brittany’s lounge

Cha Island Tea Co Live

Velvet Hour: Live music in the afternoons hosted by Rob Taylor and Bill Bourne; Mon-Fri; 4:308pm; no cover

Leaf bar and grill Tuesday Moosehead/ Barsnbands open stage: Every Tue; 7:30-11:30pm

Churchill Square Taste

Café Haven Steel Audrey, Adrian Glynn of the Fugitives)

O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every

Crown Pub The Dan Jam:

on the Island: Rhea March hosts open mic and Songwriter’s stage; starts with a jam session; every Sun, 7pm

DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB Celtic Music with Devaney’s House Band 5-8pm

Fandango’s Sun Industry Night: House mix with DJ JEZ LF; Show and Shine/open stage every Sun: hosted by Marshal Lawrence; 6-11pm K-Days–Rockin’

Koodonation Stage: Dallas Smith and Chad Browlee (country); tickets at k-days.com

Devaney’s Irish Pub Singer/songwriter open stage every Mon; 8pm; host changes weekly; this week: Jesse D

K-Days–Rockin’ Koodonation Stage: Down with Webster; tickets at k-days. com

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic

Service (acoustic jam): Willy James and Crawdad Cantera; 3-6:30pm

instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm; contact Vi Kallio 780.456.8510

O’BYRNE’S Open mic every

Rouge Resto-Lounge

Newcastle Pub Sun Soul

Sun; 9:30pm-1am

ON THE ROCKS OTR Rocks on for Southern Alberta; 8pm

Open Mic Night with Darrek Anderson from the Guaranteed; every Mon; 9pm

The Studio Music Direct Hit (pop punk), Lipstick

Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm

Overtime Sherwood Park The Campfire Hero’s (acoustic rock, country, top 40); 9pm-2am every Tue; no cover

Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Stan Gallant Sherlock Holmes– WEM Amy Weymes Starlite Room The Matadors; 9pm

WUNDERBAR Old Strathcona Record Club: Garage Psyche and Soul DJ Night

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

the Funk (9-piece band at Taste of Edmonton); 8:30pm musical styles from around the globe with Miguel and friends; musicians are invited to bring their personal touch to the mix every Wed

Devaney’s Irish Pub Wed open mic with host Duff Robison

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

Fandango’s Wed open stage hosted by Michael Gress and Cody Noula; Original artist showcase at 9pm

Festival Place Patio Series: Joaquin Diaz, Richard Perso; 7:30pm; $8

Main Floor: alternative retro and not-so-retro, electronic and Euro with Eddie Lunchpail; Wooftop: The Night with No Name

Fiddler’s Roost Little

haven social club 15120A (bsmt), Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.6010

New City 8130 Gateway Boulevard noorish caFé 8440-109 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 Red Piano Bar 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 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

Flower Open Stage every Wed with Brian Gregg; 8pm-12

HAVEN SOCIAL Club Open stage every Wed hosted by alt weeks: the Turtlenecks/Rain ‘n Men; 8:30pm, free

HOOLIGANZ Open stage every Wed with host Michael Gress; 9pm J+H Pub Acoustic open mic night hosted by Lorin Lynne K-Days–Rockin’ Koodonation Stage: Dragonette; tickets at k-days.com

Leaf bar and grill Wed variety night: with guitarist, Gord Matthews; every Wed, 8pm 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

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

Pub 1824 Open stage every Wed hosted by South of Sanity; 8-12pm

Red Piano Bar Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 THE RIG Open jam every Wed hosted by Will Cole; 8pm -12am

Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Stan Gallant Sherlock Holmes– WEM Amy Weymes Starlite Room El-P, Killer Mike, Despot, MC Kool Aid; 9pm (door); $22.50 (adv) at Unionevents.com, Ticketfly. com, Blackbyrd

Zen Lounge Jazz Wednesdays: Kori Wray and Jeff Hendrick; every Wed; 7:3010pm; no cover

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

Brixx Bar Really Good... Eats and Beats: every Wed with DJ Degree and Friends THE Common The Wed Experience: Classics on Vinyl with Dane NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed

RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed

TEMPLE Wild Style Wed: Hip hop open mic hosted by Kaz and Orv; $5

VENUE GUIDE Accent European Lounge 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ARTery 9535 Jasper Ave 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 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 1032982 Ave, 780.439.3981 Bohemia 10217-97 St THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; info@ thebower.ca Brittany's Lounge 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

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Central Senior Lions Centre 11113-113 St 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 8130 Gateway Blvd 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–WEM 2687, 8882-170 St Fandango's 12912-50 St, fandangoslive.com Festival Place 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FIDDLER’S ROOST 8906-99 St FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 Fluid Lounge 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700

VUEWEEKLY JUL 18 – JUL 24, 2013

Hilltop Pub 8220 106 Ave HOGS DEN PUB Yellow Head Tr, 142 St HOOLIGANZ 10704-124 St, 780.995.7110, 780.452.1168 J+H 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 L.B.’s Pub 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 Leaf bar and grill 9016-132 Ave Legends Sports Bar and Tap House 9221-34 Ave, 780.988.2599 Leaf bar and grill 9016-132 Ave LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 Lit Italian Wine Bar 10132-104 St Lizard Lounge 13160118 Ave Naked Cybercafé and Boardgame Emporium 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 Newcastle PuB 6108-90 Ave, 780.490.1999

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 Smokehouse BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924 Sportsman's Lounge 8170-50 St STARLITE ROOM 10030102 St, 780.428.1099 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 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 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours. com Yesterdays Pub 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 Zen Lounge 12923-97 St

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

COMEDY Black Dog Freehouse •

10425-82 Ave • Underdog Comedy Thu: Comedy show every Thu; until Aug 1, 8-10pm • No cover • facebook.com/ events/548897305157220/

BRIXX Comedy and Music once a month as a part of Ruby Tuesdays Century Casino • 13103 Fort Rd •

780.481.9857 • Open Mic Night: Every Thu; 7:30-9pm

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Leif Skyving; Jul 19-20 • Chris Heward; Jul 26-27 • Bob Angeli; Aug 2-3 • Brian Work; Aug 9-10 Comic Strip • Bourbon St, WEM •

780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Hit or Miss Mondays: Amateurs and Professionals every Mon, 7:30pm • Battle to the Funny Bone; last Tue each month, 7:30pm • Felicia Michaels; until Jul 21 • Francis Dilorinzo; Jul 24-29 • Battle to the Funny Bone; Jul 30, 7:30pm; $8 • Mike Vecchione; Jul 31-Aug 4 • Nick Vatterott; Aug 7-11

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119

• Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm

Filthy McNasty's • 10511-82 Ave •

780.996.1778 • Stand Up Sundays: Stand-up comedy night every Sun with a different headliner every week; 9-11pm; no cover

Overtime Pub • 4211-106 St • Open mic comedy anchored by a professional MC, new headliner each week • Every Tue • Free

and caregivers. Must be 18 or over • 3rd Mon every month; 7-8:45pm • Free

stretch • Every Tue, 8:30am • $2/session (goes to the Alzheimer’s Society of Alberta)

Canadian Injured Workers Association of Alberta (CIWAA) •

Society of Edmonton Atheists

Discover Downtown • edmonton-

South Community Garden Bike Tour • Meet at U of A Sustain S.U. Com-

Augustana Lutheran Church, 107 St, 99 Ave • canadianinjuredworkers.com • Meeting every 3rd Sat, 1-4pm • Injured Workers in Pursuit of Justice denied by WCB

downtown.com • Tours start at the park next to Evoolution, 104 St, 101 Ave • Discover Downtown's history, architecture and public art: 90 min guided walk • Mon-Wed, Fri at 1pm; Thu, 2:30pm (arrive 10 mins early) • Until Aug 23

Edmonton Needlecraft Guild

• Avonmore United Church Basement, 82 Ave, 79 St • edmNeedlecraftGuild.org • Classes/workshops, exhibitions, guest speakers, stitching groups for those interested in textile arts • Meet the 2nd Tue each month, 7:30pm

Edmonton Ukulele Circle •

Bogani Café, 2023-111 St • 780.440.3528 • 3rd Sun each month; 2:30-4pm • $5

Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club • 2nd Fl, Canada Place,

9700 Jasper Ave • 780.467.6013, l.witzke@ shaw.ca • fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs.org • Can you think of a career that does not require communication • Every Tue, 12:05-1pm

FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican

Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.465.2019, 780.634.5526 • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm

Historic walking tours–St Albert • Little White School, 2 Madonna

Dr • A walking tour of St Albert’s past • Jul 25 • Aug 15 • Aug 29 • Sep 12, 6:30pm • Info: Roy Toomey at 780.459.4404 or royt@ artsheritage.ca

Home–Energizing Spiritual Community for Passionate Living •

Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St • Ster-

Garneau/Ashbourne Assisted Living Place, 11148-84 Ave • Home: Blends music, drama, creativity and reflection on sacred texts to energize you for passionate living • Every Sun, 3-5pm

Rumors Ultra Lounge • 8230

town • Practice group meets every Thu

ling Scott every Wed, 9pm

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

Vault Pub • 8214-175 St • Comedy with

Liam Creswick and Steve Schulte • Every Thu, at 9:30pm

Wunderbar • 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 • Comedy every 2nd Mon X-Wrecks Lounge/Connie’s Comedy 9303-50 St • Open mic with

Dave Stawnichy; call 780.914.8966 to get on roster • Jul 19, 7pm

Zen Lounge • 12923-97 St • The Ca$h

Prize comedy contest hosted by Matt Alaeddine and Andrew Iwanyk • Every Tue, 8pm • No cover

Groups/CLUBS/ meetings Aikikai Aikido Club • 10139-87

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

Amnesty International Edmonton • 8307-109 St • edmon-

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

Argentine Tango Dance at Foot Notes Studio • Foot Notes

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

Berg Lake • lionsbreath.ca; click on ad-

venture • Depart from studio 301,10534-124 St • 780.990.6247 • Back Country Tent and Hike • Aug 30-Sep 2 • $199 +GST

Brain Tumour Peer Support Group • Mount Zion Lutheran Church,

11533-135 St NW • braintumour.ca • 1.800.265.5106 ext. 234 • Support group for brain tumour survivors and their families

Lotus Qigong • 780.477.0683 • DownMADELEINE SANAM FOUNDATION • Faculté St Jean, Rm 3-18 • 780.490.7332 • madeleine-sanam.org/en • Program for HIV-AID’S prevention, treatment and harm reduction in French, English and other African languages • 3rd and 4th Sat, 9am-5pm each month • Free (member)/$10 (membership); pre-register

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

munity Garden, 11018-89 Ave • Come see the bounty that is growing at some of the community garden sites operating in the City of Edmonton. Tour includes: Sustain S.U. garden, Parkallen garden, Allendale garden, Strathcona Rail garden, Campus St. Jean garden, ending at the new French Quarters Farmer’s Market • Sun, Jul 21, 11am-4pm • Free; Pre-register required at: sustainablefoodedmonton.org/cg-bike-tourregistration/

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

Sustainability Walking Tour

• 114 St, and 87 Ave, U of A Campus • 780.492.9289 • sustainability.ualberta.ca/ Projects/CampusSustainabilityTours.aspx • Every other Wed until Aug 28 • University of Alberta’s Office of Sustainability for our free summer walking tours on beautiful North Campus. Discover the green buildings and environmentally-friendly features that make the University of Alberta a recognized leader in campus sustainability • Free, online registration; E: sustainability@ualberta. ca • Jul 31

Valley of the 5 Lakes • lions-

breath.ca; click on adventure • Depart from studio 301,10534-124 St • 780.990.6247 • Jasper Bike Adventure • Aug 23-25 • $199 +GST

Walking Alberta • Mill Creek Swimming Pool, 8200-95A St • St Albert Trekkers Volkssport Club walking on mostly dirt trails, but some paved pathways and residential streets. 6km, 10km available • Aug 6, 6:30pm Waskahegan Trail HIKE •

waskahegantrail.ca • Meet: NW corner Superstore parking lot, 51 St, Calgary Tr (carpool from there to trail) • waskahegantrail.ca • Hike the valley of the Battle River with hike leader, Elizabeth, 780.672.2873; Jul 21, 8:45am-3pm • Sunday hike in the Cooking Lake/Blackfoot Recreation Area with hike leader Bev, 780.469.7948; Jul 28, 8:45am-3pm • Enjoy the rugged beauty of the Battle River valley with hike leader JoAnne, 780-487.0645; Aug 4, 8:45am-3pm • $5 (carpool); $20 (annual membership)

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

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

FLASH Night Club • 10018-105 St •

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

G.L.B.T. sports and recreation

• teamedmonton.ca • Hockey: Queer Hockey League (QHL): edmontonqhl.com • Blazin' Bootcamp: Every Mon and Thu, 7pm; $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 • 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 • The Edmonton Storm– Women's Tackle Football: edmontonstormfootball.com; info: Edmontonstorm@ teamedmonton.ca • 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

INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campusbased organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-identified and queer (LGBTQ) faculty, graduate student, academic, straight allies and support staff • 3rd Thu each month (fall/winter terms): Speakers Series. E: kwells@ualberta.ca

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 • 1152676 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship) WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • wom-

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

Woodys Video Bar • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Amateur Strip Contest; prizes with Shawana • Tue: Kitchen 3-11pm • Wed: Karaoke with Tizzy 7pm1am; Kitchen 3-11pm • Thu: Free pool all night; kitchen 3-11pm • Fri: Mocho Nacho Fri: 3pm (door), kitchen open 3-11pm

SPECIAL EVENTS ADT 6-on-6 Memorial Soccer Tournament • Millhurst Community Hall, 5811-19A Ave • Fundraising event in support of Cross Cancer Institute in memory of Anthony David Troncoso • Jul 26-27 • Free

Date Night • Devonian Botanic Garden • Stroll the Garden till dusk, enjoy a dinner special at the Birch Patio, and take in a different amusement every week • Every Thu Night • Jun-Aug • $11 (adult)/$6 (student)/$8 (senior)/$8 (friends of the Garden)/$8 (season pass holder); incl admission to the Garden and entertainment • A Japanese menu at the Birch Patio, and a mini-drumming workshop for you and your date on some very big Taiko drums; July 18 • Learn some steps from the U of A Dance Club: Jul 25 • Reserve dinner at 780.987.3054, ext 2243 DeepSoul.ca • 587.520.3833; text to: 780.530.1283 for location • Classic Covers Shindig Fundraiser • Every Sun pm–Sunday Jams with no Stan (CCR to Metallica), GarageGigs Tour; all ages • Fundraising for local Canadian Disaster Relief, the hungry (world-wide through the Canadian Food Grains Bank) dreamcatcher's open house

• 53044 RR #213 Ardrossan • 780.809.1047 • Animal Assisted Wellness: Psychological and counselling services staffed by Registered Psychologists and Social Workers and animals • Jul 24, 1-4pm

Farewell Celebration & Fashion Show • Fashion Underground:

WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old

LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408-124 St •

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

YEG Slut Walk • Alberta Legis-

edmlivingpositive.ca • 780.488.5768 • Confidential peer support to people living with HIV • Tue, 7-9pm: Support group • Daily drop-in, peer counselling

Maggie Walt Design ( Jasper Ave) event with Booming Tree ( Japanese Taiko drumming duo), Harley Symington Trio ( jazz), Carrie Day (folk); dance • Sat, Jul 20 • $20

MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB

JLS Night Market • 102 Ave, 106

Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association • Duggan ComOrganization for Bipolar Affective Disorder (OBAD)

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

River Valley Vixen Boot Camp

LECTURES/ Presentations

Make Something Edmonton– Culture Collective • Garneau

Theatre, 8712-109 St • Crowdfunding Event • Jul 18, 5pm • $10 (door)

munity Hall, 3728-106 St • 780.435.0845 • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

• Grey Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, 780.451.1755; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free • Summer long drop-in, all girls boot camp • Various days and times throughout the week; info E: rivervalleyvixen@gmail.com • $20 • facebook.com/#!/rvvbootcamp

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

Seventies Forever Club • Call 587.520.3833 for location • deepsoul.ca • Combining music, garage sales, nature, common sense, and kindred karma to revitalize the inward persona • Every Wed, 7-8:30pm Sherwood Park Walking Group + 50 • Meet inside Millennium

Place, Sherwood Place • Weekly outdoor walking group; starts with a 10-min discussion, followed by a 30 to 40-min walk through Centennial Park, a cool down and

Strathcona Farmers' Market • Silent vigil the 1st and 3rd Sat, 10-11am, each month, stand in silence for a world without violence lature Grounds (by the stairs), 107 St, 97 Ave • Protest march against sexual violence • Jul 27, 12-2pm • facebook.com/ events/462221580530791/?fref=ts

Great Expeditions • St Luke’s AnglicanChurch, 8424-95 Ave • 780.469.3270 • 1st Mon every month, 7:30pm • Suggested donation of $3

QUEER AFFIRM SUNNYBROOK–Red Deer

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

Beers for Queers • Empress Ale

House, 9912 Whyte Ave • Meet the last Thu each month

Bisexual Women's Coffee Group • A social group for bi-curious

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

BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725B Jasper

• 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 femaleidentified persons +18 years in the GLBT community; new members welcome; 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm each month; andrea@ pridecentreofedmonton.org • Men Talking with Pride: Support and social group for gay and bisexual men to discuss current issues; every Sun 7-9pm; robwells780@ hotmail.com • TTIQ: a support and information group for all those who fall under the transgender umbrella and their family/

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St • nightmarketedmonton@gmail.com • 780.901.8480 • Every Sat, 7-11pm; until Sep 28 • Email:nightmarketedmonton@ gmail.com • facebook.com/#!/events/398830093565798/ ?context=create

K-Days • Northlands Expo Centre and

Grounds, 7515-118 Ave • Jul 19-28 • Tickets at 1.855.985.5000, ticketmaster.ca • K-Days Parade: Downtown Edmonton; Jul 19

National Zoo Keeper Week • Edmonton Valley Zoo, 13315 Buena Vista Rd • 780.442.5311 • Talk with Valley Zoo keepers about the care they provide for the animals each day • Until Jul 20

Queersummer Night's Dream • St Stephen's Anglican Church, 11725-93 St • A performance and art event from QTPLGB (Queer, trans, pansexual, lesbian, gay, and bisexual) communities and invite connection, collaboration and conversation among folks from all aspects of the community • Sat, Jul 20, 8-10pm • $5-10 (donation) • facebook.com/events/418509904915073/ Taste of Edmonton • Churchill Sq • tasteofedmonton.ca • Jul 18-27

Taste of the Past–St Albert •

Father Lacombe Chapel, Saint Vital Ave, St Albert • Discover history by tasting it; guided tour lead by costumed interpreters, sample fried bannock and blueberries, borscht, lemonade, and olde fashioned ice cream, traditional fiddle music, and make a craft • Jul 21, 12-5pm • Admission by donation to the Food Bank

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FREEWILLASTROLOGY

ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): The 19th-century Italian composer Gioachino Rossini was a prolific creator who produced 39 operas. Renowned for his lyrical melodies, he was sometimes referred to as the “Italian Mozart.” So confident was he in his abilities that he bragged he could set a laundry list to music. I trust you will have comparable aplomb in the coming weeks, Aries, since you will be asked to do the equivalent of composing an opera using a laundry list for inspiration. This will be a different challenge than making lemonade out of lemons, but it could be even more fun and interesting.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): Is the grass really greener on the other side of the fence? Or is its more vivid hue just an optical illusion caused by your inability to see the situation objectively? Judging from my analysis of your current astrological omens, I suspect that you’re not deluded. The grass really is greener. But it’s important to note the reason why this is true, which is that there’s more manure over on the other side of the fence. So your next question becomes: are you willing to put up with more crap in order to get the benefits of the greener grass?

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): You know the voice in your head that’s kind of a sneaky bastard? The voice that sometimes feeds you questionable advice and unreliable theories? Well, I suspect that this voice might be extra active in the coming week. But here’s the weird thing: it might actually have a sound idea or two for you to consider acting on. For once, its counsel may be based on accurate intuition. So don’t completely lower your guard, Gemini. Maintain a high degree of discernment towards the sneaky bastard’s pronouncements. But also be willing to consider the possibility that this generator of so much mischief could at least temporarily be a source of wisdom.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): We keep million-dollar works of art in well-guarded museums. Paintings created hundreds of years ago are treated with reverence and protected as if they were magical treasures. Meanwhile, beautiful creatures that took nature eons to produce don’t get the same care.

At least 5000 animal and plant species are going extinct every year, in large part due to human activities. Among the recently lost works of art are the Madeiran Large White butterfly, West African black rhinoceros, Formosan clouded leopard, golden toad and Tecopa pupfish. I’m asking you not to allow a similar discrepancy in your own life, Cancerian. The astrological omens say that now is a perfect moment to intensify your love for the natural world. I urge you to meditate on how crucial it is to nurture your interconnectedness with all of life, not just the civilized part.

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LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): Hurry up, please. It’s time. No more waffling or procrastinating. You really need to finish up the old business that has dragged on too long. You really should come to definitive decisions about ambiguous situations, even if they show no sign of resolution. As for those nagging questions that have yielded no useful answers: I suggest you replace them with different questions. And how about those connections that have been draining your energy?

Re-evaluate whether they are worth trying to fix.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): “This morning I walked to the place where the street-cleaners dump the rubbish,” wrote painter Vincent van Gogh in one of his letters. “My God, it was beautiful.”

Was he being ironic or sarcastic?

Not at all. He was sincere. As an artist, he had trained himself to be intrigued by scenes that other people dismissed as ugly or irrelevant. His sense of wonder was fully awake. He could find meaning and even enchantment anywhere. Your next assignment, Virgo—should you choose to accept it—is to experiment with seeing the world as van Gogh did.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): I believe you will undergo a kind of graduation in the next four weeks, Libra. Graduation from what? Maybe from a life lesson you’ve been studying for a while or from an institution that has given you all it can. Perhaps you will climax your involvement with a situation that has made big demands on you. I suspect that during this time of completion you will have major mixed feelings, ranging from sadness that a chapter of your story is coming to an end to profound gratification at how much you have grown during this chapter.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): What’s your favourite sin, Scorpio? I’m talking about the mischievous vice or rebel tendency or excessive behaviour that has taught you a lot. It may be the case that now and then this transgressive departure from normalcy has had redeeming value and has even generated some interesting fun. Perhaps it puts you in touch with a magic that generates important changes, even if it also exacts a toll on you. Whatever your “favourite sin” is, I’m guessing that you need to develop a more conscious and mature relationship with it. The time has come for it to evolve.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): The Sagittarian writer and artist William Blake (1757 – 1827) made drawings of many eminent people who had died before he was born. Julius Caesar was the subject of one of his portraits.

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Others included Dante, Shakespeare and Moses. How did Blake manage to capture their likenesses in such great detail?

He said their spirits visited him in the form of apparitions. Really?

I suppose that’s possible. But it’s also important to note that he had a robust and exquisite imagination. I suspect that in the coming weeks you, too, will have an exceptional ability to visualize things in your mind’s eye. Maybe not with the gaudy skill of Blake, but potent nevertheless. What would be the best use of this magic power?

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): How close do you really want to be to the people you care about?

I invite you to think about this with unsentimental candor. Do you prefer there to be some distance between you? Are you secretly glad there’s a buffer zone that prevents you from being too profoundly engaged? I’m not saying that’s a bad thing. It might be correct for who you are right now. I merely want to suggest that it’s important for you to know the exact nature of your need for intimacy. If you find that you actually do want to be closer, spend the next four weeks making that happen. Ask your precious allies to collaborate with you in going deeper.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): I love your big, energetic thoughts. I enjoy watching as your wild intuitive leaps lead you to understandings that mere logic could never produce.

I have benefited many times from the Aquarian tribe’s ability to see angles no one else can discern. In the immediate future, though, I hope you will be a specialist in analyzing the details and mastering mundane mysteries. I’ll be rooting for you to think small and be precise.

Can you manage that? I expect there’ll be a sweet reward. You will generate good fortune for yourself by being practical, sensible and earthy.

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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 Pile O Bones Sept 21 @ Oil City Grindhouse 14420 112 street Doors at 6pm Visit www.oilcityderbygirls.ca for more information

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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

As a non-profit, SATS can serve more elders over 65 years who need help with volunteer led transportation, if we can find more volunteer drivers! Please think of giving Volunteer managed Rides to elders. You are needed 8:00 to 8:00 pm seven days a week for three hours at your convenience. Two to three days of notice, in advance of a volunteer given ride, is given.

The elders always will be very appreciative of your time and your gas. For more details on gas re-imbursements call SATS at 780 732-1221

Become a Victim Services Volunteer Advocate!

Work in conjunction with the RCMP to provide immediate assistance, support, information and agency referral to victims of crime and trauma in Strathcona County and provide support to victims through the criminal justice system. Please contact Stacey at 780-410-4331 or by email at Stacey.grilo@strathcona.ca for more information!

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): Is it a river or a creek? Is it a mountain or a hill? It’s important for you to decide questions like these— preferably on the basis of the actual evidence rather than on wishful thinking. I’m not saying that the river is better than the creek or that the mountain is better than the hill. I simply want you to know that it’s important to be clear about which it is. The same principle applies to other experiences you’ll soon have. Is the catalytic person you’re dealing with a temporary friend or a loyal ally? Is the creation you’re nurturing just a healthy diversion or is it potentially a pivotal element in transforming your relationship with yourself? Is the love that’s blooming a transient pleasure or a powerful upgrade that’s worth working on with all your ingenuity? V

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FIRST AID VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Her Majesty’s Volunteer Service seeks First Aiders to attend to patrons, staff, volunteers, artists and secret agents at From Fringe With Love, August 15 - 25.

Minimum Standard First Aid (SFA) and CPR Level C certification or a professional designation that includes emergency medical training is required. A copy of your current SFA/CPR certificate or a copy of current registration from your regulating college (i.e. ACP, CARNA, CLPNA, CPSA) must accompany First Aid volunteer applications, and First Aid volunteers must be 18 years of age or older.

From Fringe with Love is powered by Her Majesty’s Volunteer Service before and throughout the Festival. For a minimum commitment of four shifts during the 11-day Festival, Fringe volunteers receive a T-shirt, a Festival loot bag, a program guide, an exclusive invite to the Festival Wrap Party, and opportunities to attend shows.

To apply online, visit www.fringetheatre.ca , or call the Volunteer Hotline at (780) 409-1923 for more information!

Habitat for Humanity invites all women to build with us during Women Build Week: August 20-24 Are you a woman who has always wanted to volunteer on a Habitat for Humanity build site,but were unsure if you had the necessary skills? You may be surprised how many women -- with no construction experience -- build homes with Habitat for Humanity. If you are a woman who wants to help families in our community, there is an important role for you on our build sites, whether you have no construction experience or a tool belt of skills Contact for more info about the event: Louise Fairley 780-451-3416 lfairley@hfh.org

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Habitat For Humanity is building a pool of volunteers to help us with renovations at our newest ReStore.

Flexible hours, no experience necessary If interested, please contact Evan at ehammer@hfh.org or call (780) 451-3416 Habitat for Humanity requires Landscaping Volunteers!

Flexible hours, no experience necessary If interested, please contact Evan at ehammer@hfh.org or call (780) 451-3416 Habitat for Humanity’s Volunteer Orientation and Basic Tool Training Session Have you often considered volunteering with Habitat for Humanity, but just need information about our program and some training on tools?

We are hosting a tool training and information session for new volunteers - or not-new volunteers - who would like to gain some basic knowledge of tools and learn more about how our organization works!

Contact for more info about the event: Louise Fairley 780-451-3416 lfairley@hfh.org 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

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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 Support local farmers and your community. SouthWest Edmonton Farmers Market is seeking volunteers to help with set up, market activities and take down each Wednesday.

This is fun, vibrant and community-oriented place and you get to be outside!

For more information please contact Melissa at 780-868-9210 Universiade ’83 Foundation Grant Program, Edmonton: Due Sept 6 This is a great chance for Edmontonians running programs for sports, the arts, and culture to help fund themselves for the upcoming year.

The applications for this opportunity are due September 6th, so start getting those submissions ready.

You could get up to a maximum of $10,000 for your program and projects.

Check out the City of Edmonton website for more information: http://edmonton.ca/for_resident s/universiade-83foundation.aspx

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Volunteers needed for the Open Minds Walk & Run event September 21.

Contact Natasha at 780-452-4661 ext 2

Volunteer at K Days From July 19 – 28, Northlands hosts Edmonton’s biggest summer celebration K-Days!

Join us as a volunteer and get up close and personal with the excitement. This year, K-Days means a rollicking good time for folks of all ages, packed with remarkable rides, funky fireworks, rocking concerts and strikingly-interesting exhibits.

Volunteer positions that are available include arrival ambassadors, to parade helpers, to the children’s farm and beyond. Your enthusiasm will help us make events like the parade a celebration of our community for our live and television spectators.

Volunteer at one of the top 25 ranked fairs in North America!

Visit us at www.northlands.com/volunteer s where you can fill out an online application form or call the volunteer hotline at 780-491-3400. Gear up and apply today!

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Volunteering - Improve the Lives of Children in the Developing World Room to Read is changing the lives of children in Asia and Africa through literacy programs and gender equality.

Join our Edmonton team and help us plan events to support our programs, and spread the word about the fantastic results we are achieving. Skills in event planning, PR, marketing, graphic design are needed, but not essential. We welcome all volunteers. If this sounds interesting, email us at Edmonton@roomtoread.org Contact: Kerri Tulloch Edmonton@roomtoread.org Phone: 780.425.4043 roomtoread.org/Edmonton Volunteering - Habitat for Humanity requires Landscaping Volunteers!

New houses with bare yards need love and our energetic volunteers will be beautifying yards for our families by planting trees, laying sod, building fences and decks and putting the finishing touches on our completed homes. This is an active opportunity open to volunteers of all skill levels.

Previous volunteers really enjoyed strengthening friendships and building new ones and knowing they had put in a good day of work.

Individual and group volunteers welcome.

Contact: Evan Hammer ehammer@hfh.org 780.451.3416 www.hfh.org

Volunteers Wanted

Volunteering - Improve the Lives of Children in the Developing World Room to Read is changing the lives of children in Asia and Africa through literacy programs and gender equality.

Join our Edmonton team and help us plan events to support our programs, and spread the word about the fantastic results we are achieving. Skills in event planning, PR, marketing, graphic design are needed, but not essential. We welcome all volunteers. If this sounds interesting, email us at Edmonton@roomtoread.org

Walking is not easy for elders as their joints do not work well anymore...so we need younger walkers with a vehicle to help drive them to important appointments within Greater Edmonton area. We reimburse gas monies of $10.00 a trip! It is easy to help them! They make the walking and driving entertaining: Look up www.satsofedmonton.org or call 780 732-1221 and/ or drop in at 9907-108 Avenue to register to drive

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Attention skilled creatives!

A stop-motion animated film is being produced in Edmonton and is looking for artistic interns to work on the project.

Hours are flexible; positions include roles in art department, special FX, animation, and audio. Please send CVs and/or forward any questions to scott@scottportingale.com.

For more information please visit www.scottportingale.com/ethos .

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Call to Artists - Quarters Armature Mid Block Crossing Public Art Project Open to all Canadian and international visual artists, is held in accordance with the City of Edmonton policy “Percent for Art to Provide and Encourage Art in Public Areas” (C458C).

Budget: Two artists will each be selected and receive $75,000 CAD (maximum, all inclusive) Deadline for Submissions: 4:30 pm on Tuesday, August 13, 2013 Installation: Summer 2014 For more information, contact the Edmonton Arts Council: phone (780) 424–2787 or email: publicart@edmontonarts.ca

Call to Edmonton Artists – Boyle Street Projections This is a call for to Edmontonbased Artists for Boyle Street Projections, a Living Local digital art project, sited in the Aspen Gallery at the Boyle Street Plaza.

The project will be ongoing after the opening on November 15, 2013. Boyle Street Community League welcomes proposals for this Living Local Project which could include any form of computergenerated visual media, or images taken from other sources, that aims to stimulate exchange in relation with the local context and socio-cultural issues.

Deadline: 4:00 pm on July 19, 2013. www.heartofboylestreet.ca For more information, contact the Boyle Street Community League: phone (780) 422-5857 or email boyleprojections@heartofboylestreet .ca

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FLEX YOUR CREATIVE INSTALLATION MUSCLE Add to the theme of creative use of space through participation in Kaleido Family Arts Festival’s 24 hr DECK OUT A LAMPPOST contest on September 14.

Gather a group of 1-3 artists, email kaleido.installation@gmail.com for an application form, and then send a small proposal along with your application.

Deadline for entries is July 31st SPECIAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: The Artisan Nook, Located at The Paint Spot, Edmonton, AB Looking for submissions of Holiday-themed craft/ artisan work for display/ sale Nov/Dec 2013. Artists who craft small, artistic objects are invited to submit exhibition proposals SUBMISSION DEADLINE: September 30, 2013.

For further information, contact Michelle at 780 432 0240 accounts@paintspot.ca www.paintspot.ca/galleries Transitory Public Art Program 2014 The Edmonton Arts Council, on behalf of the City of Edmonton, is seeking local applications from a Lead Artist(s) and/or Curator interested in participating in the Transitory Public Art Program 2014.

Budget: $30,000.00 maximum per proposal Deadline for Submissions: 4:30 PM on Friday October 25, 2013 Installation: Project Complete

by December 2014 For more information, contact the Edmonton Arts Council Dawn Saunders Dahl, Public Art Program Officer phone:(780) 424–2787 ext 229 email:publicart@edmontonarts .ca dsaundersdahl@edmontonarts.ca

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Musicians Wanted

August 2013 - Call for Submissions/Entries to 3rd Annual Memphis Bound Blues Challenge.

Entry deadline will be early September 2013. Watch for more details.

Edmonton Blues Society conducts their search for two Northern Alberta blues acts, one Solo/Duo act and one Band, to represent EBS and Alberta at the 30th International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee early 2014.

Acts must reside in Alberta from Red Deer, north between BC and Saskatchewan borders. or more info email: ibc@EdmontonBluesSociety.n et Rules and past winners at www.EdmontonBluesSociety.n et Guitarists, bassists, vocalists, pianists and drummers needed for good paying teaching jobs.

Please call 780-901-7677 Singer /songwriter looking for mature musicians to collaborate with in songwriting and performing.

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

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Edmonton business requires 2 actors (playing the role of a married couple in their late 20s) for a role-playing exercise.

Daytime work; August 20th and 21st.

Contact Jason at jason.watt@businesscareer

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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES ESTABLISHED IN 2000, Taxi and Courier Company for sale. 6 vehicles, established contracts. Call 780-939-2729 between 9 a.m.

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REFLEXOLOGY PROGRAM, fun and relaxed learning. Register now limited space. Starting September 21 & 22, 2013. Certificate on completion. 403-340-1330.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES CASH DAILY for outdoor work! Guys ‘n Gals 16 years and up! No experience necessary; www.PropertyStarsJobs.com.

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MORGAN CONSTRUCTION & Environmental Ltd. - Looking for experienced Heavy Equipment Operators, Foreman and Project Managers for work in oilfield & heavy civil construction projects. Competitive wages, full benefits & opportunity for year round work. Please apply online at www.mcel.ca under the career section.

SEEKING A CAREER in the Community Newspaper business? Post your resume for FREE right where the publishers are looking.

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AN ALBERTA OILFIELD construction company is hiring dozer and excavator operators.

Lodging and meals provided. Drug testing required. Call 780-723-5051, Edson, Alberta.

INTERIOR HEAVY EQUIPMENT Operator School. No Simulators. In-the-seat training. Real world tasks. Weekly start dates. Job board! Funding options. Sign up online! iheschool.com. 1-866-399-3853.

OPENINGS in Alberta areas for Highway Maintenance Class 1 or 3 Operators. Fulltime and part-time positions available. Fax resume to Carillion Canada at 780-4490574 or email: mcroft@carillionalberta.ca.

Positions to start Oct. 15, 2013. Please state what position you are interested in.

NOW LOCATED in Drayton Valley. BREKKAAS Vacuum & Tank Ltd. Wanted Class 1 & 3 Drivers, Super Heater Operators with all valid tickets. Top wages, excellent benefits. Please forward resume to: Email: dv@brekkaas.com. Phone 780-621-3953. Fax 780-621-3959.

NEW ZEALAND, Australia, Europe: Dairy, beef, sheep, hog & cropping opportunities for young adults (18-30). Apply now!

AgriVenture arranges job & host, work permit, trainee wage, flights & insurance.

Ph: 1-888-598-4415; www.agriventure.com.

VAC & STEAM Truck Operator. Valid Class 1 or 3, Safety Tickets, Top Wage, Benefits, Camp Work, Experience an Asset. Email/Fax Resume: 780-458-8701, bryksent@telus.net.

FULL-TIME MEAT CUTTER required at Sobeys in Olds, Alberta. 40 hours per week. Competitive wage. Benefits. Fax resume to 1-403-556-8652 or email: sbyc125olds@sobeys.com.

HIGH LEVEL SUPER A is currently recruiting for Full-time Meat Cutter. Applicants must possess the people skills and work ethic required to maintain positive relations with employees and customers. Applicants must have a minimum of two years retail meat cutting experience. The successful candidate must have completed Grade 12 (or equivalency) and must be able to provide a clean security clearance. If you have the skills and abilities to meet our expectations, forward your resume in confidence to: High Level Super A, 10300 - 103 Ave., High Level, AB, T0H 1Z0. Fax 780-926-4620. Email: calvin. missal@tgp.ca.

WEEKLY INNISFAIL Province newspaper in Alberta seeks reporter for two-person newsroom. See ad on www.jeffgaulin.com or contact lsmaldon@olds.greatwest.ca.

REPORTER/PHOTOGRAPHER needed for Lakeside Leader weekly newspaper in Slave Lake, Alberta. Please contact Joe McWilliams at 780-849-4380. Email: joemac27@hotmail. com

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FOR SALE METAL ROOFING & SIDING. Best prices! Hi-Tensile TUFF-Rib/LOW-Rib 29ga.

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STEEL BUILDING - DIY Summer Sale! Bonus days extra 5% off. 20x20 $3,998. 25x24 $4,620. 30x34 $6,656. 32x42 $8,488. 40x54 $13,385. One end wall included. Pioneer Steel 1-800-668-5422; www.pioneersteel.ca.

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TRAVEL GRIZZLY BEAR TOUR on Saturday July 27th fly and cruise to the Khutzemateen near Prince Rupert. Jet from Edmonton, cruise the west coast, and return home the same day.

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relationship” stuff—but I don’t think two people who’ve never met in real life (IRL) should be planning a future together. Attraction is about more than just shared interests, emotional compatibility and kinks in common.

There’s an ephemeral, unquantifiable aspect to attraction, something that can only be established

Maybe I’m behind the times—maybe I just don’t get this “online relationship” stuff—but I don’t think two people who’ve never met in real life should be planning a future together.

I fell in love with his personality two years before we traded pics.

He is totally OK-looking, average, and I am fine with this because he’s a sweetheart. He’s also four years my senior. I’m working on my bachelor’s and trying to get into graduate school. He swears that no matter where I go, he’ll follow me. Is this a strange relationship? I know it’s unorthodox, but is it a bad move? I don’t want to ruin his life. What if we meet and try gaying it up and I’m not into it? (“Ha! You ruined your life.

I’m not even into men.”) It’s my senior year and I think I love him. I’m certainly more fond of him than any other relationship I’ve been in. Sex doesn’t hold a big interest for me and porn doesn’t do ANYTHING for me—gay, straight, it’s like watching a sweaty, breathy anatomy class. I’ve never even masturbated. Am I going about this wrong?

Fella Unsure Regarding Feelings About Gayness Maybe I’m behind the times— maybe I just don’t get this “online

when you’re face-to-face/tongueto-tongue with someone. Call me old-fashioned, but I don’t think you can know for sure that it’s love—a love worth moving across the country for—until you’ve tasted each other’s spit.

Don’t get me wrong: I think it’s great that you two got together, FURFAG, and I don’t doubt that there’s a real connection. One of the wonderful things about the Internet is the way it brings people with rare kinks together.

And sometimes people with uncommon kinks have to go to uncommon lengths to be together—which can include taking a big risk like moving across the country to be with the furfag of your dreams.

But before you do that—or before you let him do that—you need to meet in person at least once to establish that 1) You’re actually in love with each other, and 2) You’re actually into men. You can’t resolve those doubts until you’ve acknowledged them, FURFAG, which means a truth-telling, doubts-airing, non-role-playing

Skype session is in order.

TOPS AND BOTTOMS

I’m a 19-year-old gay guy in a relationship with an 18-year-old gay guy (for nearly four years). My boyfriend and I have a good sex life, but I rarely get to top him.

We’re both versatile on paper, but the actual act of getting penetrated is almost always painful or uncomfortable for my boyfriend, even with plenty of lubrication and preparation. I’m frustrated because I know it’s not his fault, but I sometimes feel that he isn’t putting in enough effort to try to bottom for me. Additionally, it’s hard for me to understand how he feels because bottoming is never painful for me and I enjoy it a lot.

We’ve discussed the possibility of me topping another guy (alone or in a threesome), and he isn’t opposed to the idea, but I’d much rather it be him. Is there any way we can make bottoming pleasurable for him?

Ready To Top The best way to determine if your boyfriend is a natural-born top— not into getting fucked, never will be into getting fucked—is to sideline your dick for the time being.

Explore his ass, and his capacity to experience anal pleasure, without fucking him. Get some small anal toys that aren’t designed for inand-out play, RTT, but set-and-forget play—a few butt plugs, one or two small vibrating eggs. Pop one in his ass and then let him fuck yours. If you can take the pressure off your boyfriend while getting a toy in him, RTT, he may begin to associate having something in his ass with pleasure. If he can do that, he may be able to graduate to your cock. Good luck.

KINKY TWINKY

I’m a 21-year-old gay boy with a kinky side that I keep pretty private. (Total twink—you wouldn’t know what I’m into by looking at me.) I went to London in June to get with a guy who has an amazing dungeon. I spent a week being his slave boy and getting tied up and caged, and I had a blast. He posted some pictures of me to his porny Tumblr, which I was OK with, but some gossipy vanilla boys I go to school with recognized me even though my face was blurred out.

NO! What do I say to them?!?

Kinked Twink “I had a blast.”

This week on the Savage Lovecast: When gays ATTACK! Find it at savagelovecast.com.

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