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“They’ve just sort of been targeting us for not really any good reason.”

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“ ... rancid odours, pictures that keep falling off the walls, and clocks that keep stopping at 3:07.”

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“Chronological time ceases.”

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“Everything’s ‘tortured’ in our sound cards.”

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Obscenity now!

We can disagree over whether uploading a video of a murder should be illegal, but the section of the law that Edmonton man Mark Marek has been charged under for posting a video on his website bestgore.com depicting Luka Magnotta in the act of murder is about as outdated as having a heart attack be your reaction to a knee-length skirt.

Section 163 of Canada’s Criminal Code bans anyone from producing and distributing, or possessing for the purpose of distribution, anything “obscene.” Oh, and “crime comics.”

The second part further bans, though only if you do not have lawful justification or excuse, selling or exposing to public view your obscenities, as well as prohibiting the exhibition of a “disgusting object or an indecent show.” It also bans advertisements of pretty much anything to do with abortion or “restoring sexual virility or curing venereal diseases.”

Then comes the third part, which allows for exemptions if the public good was served.

There are a few clauses that define crime comics—because this is actually really important, guys—and then a clause that explains at least some of what the law considers obscene. Namely, the “undue exploitation of sex” or sex and one of a laundry list of things that perennially shock upstanding old white men who write laws. Publicly, anyway.

The section dates back to 1892, coming right after a paragraph describing how a male performing an act of “gross indecency” with another male is liable to five years imprisonment—and a whipping.

The problem with the whole concept of this law is that what’s “indecent,” “obscene” or “disgusting” is highly dependent on your country, your society, your peers, your culture, your class, your upbringing, your religion and perhaps most importantly, your point in time.

And beyond all that, if I say something isn’t obscene and you say it is, there’s no objective standard we can weigh it against to find out who’s correct. It’s subjective. They teach you the difference in elementary school the first time you get into a really serious argument with another kid about how Batman’s cooler than Superman. Assuming the state allows you to read these crime comics, that is.

In 2013, we have different, looser standards about what’s obscene and what isn’t.

The abortion clause is still there but nullified elsewhere. Contraception was originally banned, but now it’s given out free at the Pride Parade—because nowadays, men are free not only to commit consensual acts of “gross indecency” with one another, but they can flaunt it on glittered rainbow floats that shut down major roads. There is still whipping, but it depends on whether or not you’re into that.

There might be good reasons to not allow people to flippantly distribute murder videos—surely, if the act is at least as bad as crime comics, we can find them. Once found, those reasons should form the basis of the ban, rather than allowing the state the discretion to arrest based on “obscenity.”

Section 163 is an outdated, largely irrelevant and unenforceable mess that comes down to the antithesis of a free society: “You can’t do that because I don’t like it.” It has to go. V

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FRONT // SEXISM

Redneck restraining order Sexism in country-music song embraces abuse and stalking

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arlier this year, country singer Brad Paisley was eviscerated for his attempt at a conciliatory approach to race relations with “Accidental Racist,” the first single from his new album, Wheelhouse.

While driving home from work the other day, I heard on the radio a country song by Tyler Farr called “Redneck Crazy,” which is at least as sexist as Paisley’s effort was racist. It is currently sitting at number 12 on the Billboard country charts.

A quick Google search didn’t turn up any objections from pundits, which was a surprise because of the ongoing efforts to raise awareness of casual sexism and rape culture. Indeed, it was just earlier this year when a concert featuring rapper Rick Ross was cancelled in Ottawa, following an outcry from Carleton University students who claimed his lyrics endorsed date rape.

Maybe there are no objections to Farr’s song because the same people working to raise awareness of sexism just aren’t big country-music fans. But whatever the reason, the song, and the lack of outrage, illustrates some of the tensions within country music.

Jada Watson, a doctoral student at L’Université Laval who studies country music, says, “There’s this tradition within the genre to push the boundaries with these more aggressive and violent narratives.

“Men get away with it, women tend not to,” she says, noting a Garth Brooks song about a man murdering his wife for cheating was a huge hit, while a Dixie Chicks song about killing an abusive husband was banned from many country-radio playlists.

The premise of “Redneck Crazy” is that some guy is upset that his lover was “gettin’ some on the side,” and is now spending the night with her new man. The song is the story of how he goes out to vent his anger at his ex-girlfriend: I’m gonna aim my headlights into your bedroom windows. / Throw empty beer cans at both of your shadows. / I didn’t come here to start a fight, but I’m up for anything tonight. / You know you broke the wrong heart baby, and drove me redneck crazy.

Farr says he’ll park his truck on her front lawn and “sit on the hood and drink” (pronounced draaaink), which provides the empties to throw at the house. If it all sounds sort of stalkerish, that’s because it is.

“To me, it’s a perfect example of what stalkers do, and illustrative of what happens

when a woman leaves a controlling, abusive partner and tries to form a new relationship,” says Jan Reimer, executive director of the Alberta Council of Women’s Shelters.

Farr does say, however, that he didn’t come to fight, but—and somehow I doubt slamming beers is going to help calm this impulse—is down for getting violent towards his ex and her new guy.

This sort of casual, pop-culture victim blaming enables people to justify their feelings and actions towards other people.

“Whether or not we want to admit it, art does influence people, and I’m sure that music lyrics have a huge impact,” Watson says.

Because of their cultural significance, Reimer says artists should use their position to be good role models instead of reinforcing negative ideas about masculinity.

“We know that any end in domestic violence is going to take a cultural shift, and we need men to take a leadership role in making that change, not in reinforcing bad behaviour,” Reimer adds.

In addition to being a story about stalking, the lyrics also give some insight into the singer’s past, and suggest he’s got a history of being awful, since his ex-girlfriend should “know” that he’s a stalking, potentially violent kind of guy: Did you think I’d wish you both the best, endless love and happiness? / You know that’s just not the kind of man I am. / I’m the kind that shows up at your house at 3 am.

In that case, it was probably his own behaviour that led her to find someone else. Is this victim blaming in its own way? Perhaps, but there’s a world of difference between the reflexive actions of infidelity and harassment.

Maybe his ex kept her new relationship on the side because Farr might go redneck crazy on her if she were to dump him.

“For women, the greatest risk is when they leave an abusive relationship, that’s when they’re the most likely to be killed,” Reimer says.

However, Watson says the narrative might not be quite so straightforward because the lyrics clash with the nature of the song— it’s a ballad—and the music video.

“The lyrics are quite strong. They’re really, really strong, and just looking at them, you would expect a really strong, angry man in the performance,” she says.

Creepy, not cute, behaviour //istock: © Kevin Russ

The music, however, doesn’t suggest that aggression is all there is to the song.

“It’s like this weird, romantic ballad in which the most harm he does is toilet paper her house,” Watson says, adding that as revenge goes, it could have been much worse.

While it does appear to endorse the stalking that Reimer noted, the contrast between the lyrics and music serve to make the song less straightforward, because it takes some of the edge off the creepiness and aggression.

Watson also points out that the aggressive lyrics—while perhaps alarming when sang by men—are actually becoming more popular among female stars after being off limits for years.

The history of popular music is littered with songs that endorse questionable relationship behaviour—from Justin Timberlake and Eminem to Garth Brooks and Tyler Farr—and as creepy as it is, and as objectionable as it might be, this sort of narrative has, in the end, been an empowering one for female singers in the country genre.

“They’re breaking down a lot of boundaries; that kind of allows for this very strong female voice, even if it’s violent,” Watson says.

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AARON & GUINNESS

I took a canoe up to my sister’s and we went canoeing down the Yellowknife River and we just stopped on the side of the riverbank and found a huge rock overlooking the river and slept outside.

It was beautiful. ... It was my first time that far north. The sun didn’t go down and it was awesome.

I’m travelling around this summer to the East Coast and playing my guitar. I’m going to busk.

I’ve never busked before.

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FRONT NEWS // SLUTWALK

Thigh-high exposure

Culture of slut-shaming brought to light by SlutWalk march

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rovocative, compelling the subject of sexual assault, and eloquent all at once, after recent controversy with SlutWalk Edmonton is gath- the group Men’s Rights Edering steam for its annual monton caught the attention march from the Legislature to of news sources across the Churchill Square, where par- country. ticipants will rally in support Parodying the popular antiof consent and against sexual rape campaign, “Don’t Be That assault and victim-blaming.

Guy,” the group put up similar Now in its posters, but third year, July 27, 12 pm with the sloSlutWalk has SlutWalk gan switched grown into an Legislature grounds to “Don’t international Be That movement, Girl” with marches being replicated and suggested womin cities across the globe. The en lie about sexual movement first took off in assault.

Toronto in 2011 after police The posters feaofficer Michael Sanguinetti ture messages declared that in order to not such as, “Just be victimized, “women should because you avoid dressing like sluts.” regret a one Sanguinetti’s comment night stand, prompted instant backlash and doesn’t mean has since become a prime ex- it wasn’t ample of the rape myth that consensuwomen ask for sexual assault al. Lying by wearing provocative cloth- a b o u t ing.

“It’s false for two very large reasons,” explains Danielle Paradis, the organizer of this year’s SlutWalk Edmonton. “The first reason would be that nobody asks to be sexually assaulted— it’s a crime done to somebody. s e x u a l No matter what they’re wear- assault = a ing, if they’re not consenting to crime.” sex then that’s sexual assault.

Para“The other reason is it im- d i s plies that only women walking s a y s around dressed provocatively M R E are the ones being sexually h a s assaulted, and that’s not the truth,” she says. been But even several years after p a r the birth of SlutWalk, rape t i c u myths remain a hotly debated larly focused on topic. This year, the same year SlutWalk recentthat saw the Steubenville High ly, with an adSchool rape case in Ohio and the suicide of student Rehtaeh Parsons in Nova Scotia, issues such as alcohol-facilitated sexual assault and victim-blaming d i t i o n a l have quickly surfaced in the r o u n d media, sparking conversations o f and gaining momentum world- p o s t wide. e r s Paradis says public aware- b e i n g ness has become particularly put up important since 2009, when next to statistics for alcohol-facilitated S l u t sexual assault were first seen W a l k to be on the rise. o n e s , “With alcohol actually comes but this a huge amount of victim-blam- t i m e ing, and there haven’t been any s h o w particular cases in Edmonton ing a right now, but ... there has defi- w o m a n nitely been a lot of alcohol- laying in a puddle of facilitated sexual assault that vomit, and featuring the meswe’ve been hearing about,” she sage, “How many more femalesays. specific legislation awareness campaigns and support netEdmonton audiences are al- works must there be before we ready thoroughly familiar with as a society collectively puke?”

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“Most of the time, they’re putting up posters by our posters, so they’re specifically targeting our event,” Paradis says.

“They had those before, but to put them beside ours was kind of a clear message.

“They’ve just sort of been targeting us for not really

any good reason, I suppose,” she adds.

But Paradis says the responses to the “Don’t Be That Girl” posters have been largely negative, demonstrating that most people disagree strongly with the group’s sentiment and recognize the need for movements such as SlutWalk.

The extensive media coverage of the posters has also been a plus, she says, with a direct spotlight being shone on the upcoming SlutWalk Edmonton march.

“Prior to the posters and the information and that coming out, there was very little attention,” s h e says.

“Men’s Rights E d m o n ton are a very s m a l l group of people— they’re getting a lot of atte n t i o n r i g h t now, but

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Some men are concerned about false rape allegations, but even still, most of them wouldn’t say that it’s appropriate to appropriate the poster that they did.”

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Though a counter-protest to SlutWalk by MRE is a definite possibility, Paradis says she isn’t overly concerned about the group.

“We’re aware that it could happen, definitely, and the biggest thing that we have is information just to counter their message,” she says. “Just say, ‘Look, we have information about men being sexually assaulted and men being made invisible because of this, and so why are you targeting this event that’s not trying to harm you?’

“They definitely are targeting our event, but we’re just focused on what we’re doing anyway, and it’s not really preventing us in any way. All they’re doing is skulking around, putting up posters beside ours. ... They’re just sort of buzzing around the publicity that we’re working for.”

But with the theme of this year’s SlutWalk being consent, Paradis says it’s more important than ever to relay the movement’s messages, and quash common rape myths permanently.

“Despite the darkness of the campaign—you know, sexual assault is an ugly topic— there’s a bright side in that we can teach people about consent, about what does it look like, what’s appropriate, what’s not appropriate, and that’s good for men and women to learn consent,” she says.

It’s a goal held by many local organizations, and among them is the Sexual Assault Centre of Edmonton (SACE). Stephanie Olsen, a public educator for SACE, says victim-blaming remains a huge obstacle for sexual assault survivors—a direct result of the perpetuation of rape myths.

But with education and time comes understanding, and Olsen says although the Edmontonians she educates are often unaware of the issues surrounding sexual assault, and sometimes even misinformed, she is more often pleasantly than unpleasantly surprised by the people she meets.

“I would say they have probably an average awareness, and I would say that the average awareness is, in fact, quite low,” she says.

“I think it’s an issue that often people just don’t have an awareness of—it’s just not on their radar. But in my experience, once you kind of point it out ... they tend to get it.”

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FRONT POLITICALINTERFERENCE

RICARDO ACUña // ricardo@vueweekly.com

Salary freeze a cold idea

Mayor asking government employees to take pay cuts not the way to ensure fiscal viability As the city council and mayoral candidates for Edmonton’s upcoming municipal elections begin compiling their platforms and campaign teams, outgoing mayor Stephen Mandel has decided to help them out with a suggestion about what the city needs in order to remain financially viable into the future.

“The time has come, I think, for government employees to accept the fact they’ve been remunerated very well over the last number of years and we need to gain control of the cost of our cities,” Mandel said last week.

While it’s admirable that the mayor is concerned about what will happen to expenditures and municipal taxes after his departure from city hall, it is a little difficult to take his concerns about costs growing out of control seriously.

This is, after all, the same person who eagerly negotiated a gift of over $120 million of tax revenues to a local billionaire for his profit-generating downtown arena

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project. At the same time, Mandel convinced Edmonton’s regional municipalities to kick in $25 million of funding from the provincial government toward the cost of the new arena. Whether you support public financing of a private facility or not, that is a whole lot of money to be throwing around for a mayor supposedly concerned about outof-control spending.

This is also the mayor who happily signed on to the federal government’s requirement that our southeast LRT extension be built as a full public-private partnership (P3). The argument was the city needed to make the project a P3 in order to get $400 million of funding from the federal government, but the mayor continues to support moving forward on the P3 even though the feds only ultimately came through with $250 million of that funding. Beyond the reduced accountability and transparency of a P3 versus a traditionally financed project, there

is the added concern that P3s are always more expensive—16 percent more expensive, on average, according to a recent academic study published in the Journal of the American Planning Association. Once again, this amounts to the city agreeing to subsidize a private company’s profits to have them design, build, operate and maintain what should be a nonprofit piece of public infrastructure. This decision was also made without the mayor once publicly wringing his hands about bringing the city’s costs under control.

It’s also important to remember Mandel’s key part in the decision by city council to completely privatize one of its most lucrative assets in 2009. That’s when city council, in a closed-door meeting, authorized Epcor to fully privatize its power-generating business and sell off shares in the new company, Capital Power. The year before the privatization, Epcor’s power

generation was responsible for about $110 million of the $130 million dividend that the company paid to the city. Once again, this represents a decision by city council, under the leadership of the mayor, to get rid of one of the city’s key revenue-generating assets and hand them over to the private for-profit sector.

It’s hard to fathom how, given just these three examples of the mayor supporting the transfer of City of Edmonton wealth and resources to the private sector, he can now even suggest that the salaries of city staff are what is spiraling our costs out of control. It’s also worth noting that all three of the current councillors running for mayor supported these give-aways in council (Karen Leibovici voted against the P3 LRT decision, but said it wasn’t because of the P3 component).

The City of Edmonton has a long and positive history of negotiating collective agreements with its employees that benefit the

public interest, meet the needs of the city and enable the retention of high-quality staff in a tight competitive job market.

There is no reason to doubt that this will continue to be the case.

Hopefully whoever makes up the new Edmonton City Council after the October elections will realize the real reasons for the city’s growing costs and let the collective bargaining process take its course, rather than arbitrarily deciding to punish city workers and negatively impact their work to compensate for bad council decisions of the past. The way to ensure Edmonton’s fiscal viability is to stop giving away our resources to the private sector, not to interfere with a working collectivebargaining process. V Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta.

GWYNNE DYER // GWYNNE@vueweekly.com

Motor City money issues

Detroit filing for bankruptcy doesn’t mean the end of a once prosperous metropolis

Boom-town times. Woodward Ave in ‘42 // Wikimedia Commons

As it happens, I was in Detroit this month. I went to see the art and the architecture, domains in which Detroit is still one of the richest cities in the United States. It’s broken and it’s financially broke, and now it’s officially bankrupt, too. But bankruptcy is actually a device for escaping from unpayable debt.

All over the world, Detroit’s bankruptcy is being used as an excuse to pore over what’s sometimes called “ruin porn”: pictures of the rotting, empty houses that still stand and the proud skyscrapers that have already been torn down. There’s even a self-guided tour of “the ruins of Detroit” available on the Internet: people take a melancholy pleasure in contemplating the calamitous fall of a once-great city.

Two-thirds of Detroit’s population have fled in the past 50 years, but there were specific reasons why Detroit fell into decline, and there

are also reasons to believe that it could flourish again—not as a major manufacturing centre, perhaps, but “major manufacturing centres” probably don’t have a bright longterm future anywhere. There are other ways to flourish, and Detroit has some valuable resources.

The events that triggered the city’s decline are well known. Large numbers of African-Americans from the southern states migrated to Detroit to meet the demand for factory workers during and after the Second World War. Being mostly unskilled, they started in the worst jobs—and even after they had acquired the skills, they stayed in low-paying jobs because of racial prejudice.

Spurned by the unions and victimized by a racist police force, they eventually rioted in the summer of 1967. Brutal policing made matters worse and hundreds were killed, but the worst consequence was

the fear that the violence engendered. The great majority of the whites just left town.

I first went to Detroit a couple of months after the riots, and driving into the city the fear was actually visible. The traffic lights are spaced far apart on Woodward Avenue, and as each light turned green all the cars would accelerate away—and then, if the next light was still red, they would slow more and more until they were barely crawling, but they dared not stop for fear of being attacked.

Then, finally, the light would turn green, and they would race away through the intersection—only to go through the whole process again as

This vicious circle has lasted half a century, exacerbated by much corruption and maladministration. This month’s declaration of bankruptcy is a brutal measure, for much of the debt being repudiated is the pensions of city employees, but it may give the city’s government enough leeway to begin rebuilding public services. If they are restored, much else could follow.

Let me explain what brought me to Detroit early this month. We were doing what we dubbed the “Rust Belt Art and Architecture Tour”: driving from Buffalo to Cleveland and then to Detroit, ending up in Chicago.

All over the world, Detroit’s bankruptcy is being used as an excuse to pore over what’s sometimes called “ruin porn.” they approached the next light. It was this unreasoning fear that caused the massive “white flight” to the suburbs and the hollowing out of Detroit.

The big automobile companies also took flight, and the new car plants were built elsewhere. As the jobs disappeared and the population dropped, the tax base fell even faster, for most of the people left behind in the city were poor or unemployed African-Americans. The city could no longer afford to provide good police or medical services, so even more people left.

All these cities took a terrible beating as the industries they were built on died or moved overseas (except Chicago, which is “too big to fail”).

But three generations ago, when they were the industrial heartland of the United States, they were very rich—at just the right time.

The first decades of the 20th century were the heyday of art deco, the most beautiful architectural style of the modern era. That was also the period when newly rich captains of industry could scoop up bucket-loads of new European and

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American art: impressionist, expressionist, abstract, the lot—and they lived mostly in what are now the Rust Belt cities.

So they put up dozens of art deco towers: the Guaranty Building in downtown Detroit is my candidate for the world’s most beautiful office building. They filled their homes with the best of modern art—and, in the end, donated most of it to the local art galleries. Even in Detroit, where so much has been lost, more than half of those buildings are still there. So is all of the art.

Other cities would kill for these assets. In a post-industrial economy where people have more choice about where they live, they are assets that can actually attract population—especially since, in Detroit’s case, the people who left didn’t go far. Most of them are still out there in the suburbs that surround Detroit.

The city of Detroit’s population has fallen from two million to 700 000 over the past 50 years, but the metropolitan area’s population has stayed stable at around four and a half million for all of that time. The job, really, is to bridge the devastated middle ring of lowincome Detroit housing and reconnect the outer suburbs with the city centre. Detroit can rise again.

It just takes the right strategy. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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Gaze into the abyss

The Act of Killing one of the year’s best, most despairing films

Remaking a massacre

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have rarely experienced a film at once so very good and so despairing. Each sequence of The Act of Killing struck me as vital, incisive, edited so as to contribute to the film’s immense cumulative power. And in the case of nearly every sequence, I couldn’t wait for it to end. That’s not a backhanded compliment. Texas-born, UK-based

Joshua Oppenheimer’s wildly idiosyncratic documentary about the massacre of as many as 2.5 million supposed Indonesian communists in the wake of the 1965 overthrow of President Sukarno is innovative, challenging and perversely brilliant.

It yields a flood of insights into the proliferation of evil in a permissive environment—among its executive

producers are Werner Herzog and Errol Morris. It is often very funny in a horrendous sort of way. It’s one of the best films you’ll see this year, easily. It’s simply hard to take if you try to maintain any faith in human goodness. It is a sustained gaze into the abyss.

The operating premise is a stroke of genius. Oppenheimer located

some men, self-described gang- and it is astoundingly close to Olisters, who were key players in the ver Stone levels of satire. There’s mass murders. Learning of how a scene in which a man recruited they remain proud of their actions, to play a torture victim relays a how they have remained revered personal memory of his stepfapublic figures in ther’s abduction and slaughter; Indonesia and Fri, Jul 26 – Thu, Aug 1 he smiles all the even held public Directed by Joshua while and is careoffice, and—this Oppenheimer ful to iterate that is essential— Metro Cinema at the Garneau he’s no commuhow they love nist. When they the movies, Op-  shoot his scene penheimer ofhis performance fered to facilitate their writing, directing and acting feels unbearably real. There’s a in reenactments of their osten- scene in which members of the still sible glory days. The Act of Killing, powerful Pancasila Youth paramilithankfully, is not the mere fruit of tary group help to reenact the total their amateur labours; rather, it’s destruction of a village, and one of best summed up as Oppenheimer’s the Pancasila members flatly de“making of.” It surveys the process clares how content he is to rape of casting and re-staging atrocities, anything that moves—especially if and the very gradual effect that this it’s under 14. But the most imporprocess has on one man in particu- tant sequence is saved for the close lar: Anwar Congo, who can seem of The Act of Killing, when Congo, like a gentle paternal figure one having reached the end of his cinmoment—he invites his grandsons ematic stroll down memory lane, to come watch him play one of his returns to a balcony where he murown victims, despite the fact that dered countless victims. His hair his role in the scene has clearly, has turned white, and as he shufperhaps irreversibly, traumatized fles around the space he is twice him—and the next brag about how overcome with the overwhelming he was so much more sadistic than need to vomit. He doubles over and makes the most horrific noises, but the Nazis. He’s not exaggerating. he just can’t seem to let the vomit There are, in The Act of Killing, clips come. Probably because he’s afraid from a TV talk show in which the that, if he does, it might never stop. cheerful host interviews Congo and JOSEF BRAUN others about their movie project, JOSEF@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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his is the story of Henry Spen- and Henry seems prone to fantasy. cer (Jack Nance), a factory print- He dreams of a lady in his radiaer, so wary of yet helplessly drawn tor, who has facial abscesses, sings to women. His orb-like eyes seem Fats Waller and does a dance that seems to give fixed on some unFri, Jul 26 – Mon, Jul 29 Henry permission seen abyss, their shape echoed by Directed by David Lynch to kill the ailing that of the lumpy Metro Cinema at the Garneau creature said to be his child. unnamed planet Originally Released: 1977 Inspired by Kafinside of which ka and the Surrea scaly man (legendary production designer Jack alists, David Lynch’s feature debut Fisk) pulls levers and apparently is a masterpiece of painstaking sends some spermatozoon-like craft and unfettered imagination. worm-thing down to earth. The Ordinary anxieties manifest as halworm-thing reappears in the guise lucinatory strangeness throughof Henry’s unexpected progeny; the out Eraserhead (1977): fear of excitable mother of his very ner- commitment and family, fear of vous girlfriend Mary (Little House’s death and decay, fear of sex and Charlotte Stewart) informs Henry women—Henry is seduced by the of his paternity during a family din- beguiling older woman who lives ner of man-made chickens. Henry across the hall, a character who assumes his responsibilities and will return in the form of Dorothy has Mary and the baby move into Valens in Blue Velvet (1986). They his tiny apartment where a framed make love in a steaming vat. photograph of an atomic explosion serves as the sole decoration. But With its sound design industrial baby gets sick, Mary disappears, drones and distant roller-rink mu-

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sic, its gorgeous black and white photography by Herbert Cardwell and Frederick Elmes—who would later shoot Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart (1990)—and its desolate landscapes of dirt mounds, monolithic buildings and dank puddles, the film offers an unusually immersive experience. Lynch initially studied visual art, and Eraserhead is as much sculptural object as it is movie.

I first saw Eraserhead when I was 17. I took someone—a beguiling older woman, in fact—to a midnight screening. When the lights came up she asked me if I liked her. She was offended that I took her to this thing, which admittedly may not be an ideal date movie. I stuttered some apology—while secretly reveling in what I’d just beheld—but she was inconsolable. I don’t know what happened to her—I hope she recovered—but Eraserhead has remained embedded in my murkiest gray matter ever since.

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Young hearts of darkness Peter Brook’s Lord of the Flies adds specificity to allegory

Boys will be boys?

“We’re not savages. We’re English!”

This line, spoken early in Peter Brook’s Lord of the Flies (1963), when the boys left stranded on a tropical island are still keen to institute some version of democracy, gets at something about this film I really like. Devoid of sound, image and behaviour, William Golding’s source novel can be read as an allegory, about how any social order carries within it the seeds of its own destruction, about how warlike instincts persist in us, waiting for opportunity, or permission. But once Golding’s story is rendered as cinema its inherent Englishness seems essential. The uniforms, the classism, the faux-politesse, the naïve patriotism, the bragging over whose father does what for a living: these elements endow the universality of Lord of the Flies with vivid specificity. That balance is so often crucial to movies, which tend to become flat, striving blindly to speak for all. Lord of the Flies is an exceptional film in numerous ways, and if you haven’t seen it, Criterion has released it in an excellent new package on DVD and Blu-ray.

It opens with some extremely economical exposition: images of boys at private school, in choir, at their dinner appear in a series of grainy

stills made grainier still when the camera zooms in. Then come images of rockets, an evacuation notice and planes. We’ve quickly been told all we need to know and the real drama can begin, with Ralph (James Aubrey) and Piggy (Hugh Edwards) traipsing through the jungles of the island on which they’ve been left to fend for themselves. They soon find other boys, including a choir, who memorably enter singing their way down the beach in their capes.

Organization is deemed key, and Ralph instantly wins the confidence of the others, becoming their foreman, much to the chagrin of Jack (Tom Chapin), the choir leader, who with time will wrestle control from Ralph and lead the others into precisely the sort of savagery he disparaged in that remark quoted at the top of this column. Jack’s a malevolent force in Lord of the Flies, which builds to scenes of frenzied murder, but there is surely some other, subversive version of this story in which we could imagine Jack as the antihero, embracing the ancient call for ecstasy, blood-letting, dance and the annihilation of every last vestige of soul-deadening civilization.

Brook was introduced to producer Lewis Allen as “a con art-

ist—but a con artist for art.” He managed to convince an entire crew, none of who had made a feature, to come to an actual island with a bunch of children, none of who were professional actors, and make a movie with minimal resources. Despite such a hubristic approach, the result exudes craft, precision and style: the incorporation of music that varies from a flute-driven theme to primal drumming to children singing “Kyrie eleison;” the omnipresent landscape swaying and looming over and gradually transforming the characters; the rays of light that break up on the water’s surface and the transfixing close-ups of boys’ faces, which so often go on longer than you expect, because Brook was always waiting for something real and unexpected to transpire. If the film still gives us the chills it’s partly because of this attention to the real, not improvisation per se— that’s too actorly a term—but rather flickers of genuine thinking, sweating, stumbling, singing, worrying. These characters never seem less than real kids, living it up while the adults are away— and ready to resume niceties the moment an adult shows up. V

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d Warren was the only non-ordained The Conjuring takes place on Rhode Island demonologist recognized by the Vati- in 1971. The Warrens are played by Patrick can. His wife Lorraine claims to be clairvoy- Wilson and Vera Farmiga, costumed to ant. The couple founded the New England resemble Puritans making some lame atSociety for Psychic Research in 1952 and tempt to look semi-hip. Their performances made a career out of conducting investiga- exude respect for the Warrens and their tions into—and, when required, interven- claims, though Wilson’s willingness to tions with—the paranormal. If their names let Ed come off as something of a wellring a bell, however faintly, it’s probably meaning square imbues the role with some on account of their pleasing texture. The most famous case, Now playing Warrens’ services are one involving a house Directed by James Wan solicited by Carolyn (Lili Taylor) and Rogin Amityville, Long Is-  er Perron (Ron Livland, the subject of a movie I used to sneak ingston), a workingbehind my parents’ couch to watch late at class couple who recently moved into an night when I was a child and it seemed to be enormous bargain-priced farmhouse with on TV all the time. their four rambunctious daughters. The The Conjuring, on which Lorraine War- house needs many repairs, but such tactile ren served as consultant, renders another concerns are quickly dwarfed by inexplicaof their remarkable cases into a “based on ble rancid odours, pictures that keep falling real events” horror film. To what degree off the walls, and clocks that keep stopping those real events have been exaggerated or at 3:07 am. Carolyn starts developing enorwholly invented, either by the Warrens or mous bruises she can’t account for and one by screenwriters Chad and Carey Hayes, is of the girls sees a figure standing behind hard to say. There were times in the second her bedroom door declaring that it wants half of The Conjuring where I felt that more her family dead. For a while, at least some restraint would have gone a long way to- of these unnerving developments could be ward helping me suspend my disbelief. Still, regarded as manifestations of the sorts of the film, directed by James Wan, is easily anxieties any family might feel when reloone of the most effective entries into the cating to a secluded place and starting a haunted house subgenre in years. new life without much financial security.

There is a ghost in this photo.

Like so many ghost stories, The Conjuring plays as a cautionary tale about dubious real estate investments.

Of course, the creepy incidents accumulate well past the point of ambiguity, and things get bad enough for the Warrens to call in an exorcist. But even as The Conjuring starts to exhibit full-on supernatural phenomena, Wan wisely measures the atmospherics. In keeping with the period, the film derives a certain flavour from horror films of the ’70s, in its use of devices such as ostentatious push-ins, for example— though an incredibly elaborate follow-shot feels very much of this century. There’s a clever POV shot taken from under a bed, and a sequence in the Perrons’ basement that shrewdly limits the soundtrack to only what is picked up by Ed’s microphone.

Wan’s mature style is put to much better use here than it was in the overrated, under-cooked and fussily designed Insidious, and thanks to Taylor especially—who really gets put through the ringer here— the film’s engagement is sustained to a substantial degree on account of the cast, which is not a claim most contemporary horror films, so often dependent on tired tropes and boo moments, can make.

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Youth of the Beast

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he film that established Seijun Su- example of how much his style flirts— zuki’s style, Youth of the Beast be- as much oddly as intriguingly—with gins with a staid, black-and-white noir camp than when a wild-eyed, trenchsequence—two bodies in bed; detec- coated woman’s crawling along inside tives investigating—and then pops into a house, begging for a fix. She tears the the bright colours, hectic melees, laby- stuffing out of a chair seat, then flips rinthine plots and location-hopping of over a railing, off the landing and onto Suzuki’s ’60s yakuza movies. A former the ground floor, still low-down desperate for her high. friend of the policeman who’s one of Thu, Jul 25 – Sun, Jul 28 Some fight scenes, those bodies in the Directed by Seijun Suzuki in their semi-absurd choreography and bed, convicted copMetro Cinema at the Garneau sound effects, seem turned-hitman Jo Originally Released: 1963 (Jô Shishido) slugs just one costume and shrugs his way away from the silliinto a job with one mob, only to slowly ness of the ’60s Batman TV series. And play it off against a rival organization. moments of stylized yet non-explicit It’s one disgraced man’s descent into sadism—a man whips a woman as the the criminal underworld to restore a wind whips up dunes into a yellow maeldead man’s honour. strom of sand outside—visually pulsate Suzuki pitches crime films towards the even as they morally wallow. (To push full-throated operatic. There’s no better critic Howard Hampton’s suggestion

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further, in scenes like these, it’s as if the quiet lyricism of Ozu’s ’50s family films is suddenly tripping out on ’60s psychedelia and crime-clan violence.) The ending’s both talky and callous.

Suzuki’s use of sets is playful again here—as Jo confronts mobsters in their backrooms, one-way glass shows an exotic dancer swaying in the club behind them all, or a more boring, shoot-’emup noir plays against a big screen in the background. And henchman Minami (Eimei Esumi), a simple-minded gangster, tragicomically cuts through the movie’s self-aware cool. Because, like its frenetic fights, Youth of the Beast spills over with a lot of genre-noise—a cloud of shifty double-crosses, sneering violence and overheated showdowns—but it has moments that swell into pulpy poetry.

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FEATURE // URBAN EATING

Greens go local

Lactuca continues the evolution of urban agriculture

// Kevin Kossowan

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ou can’t get much more local than buying lettuce that was grown two blocks away.

“Urban agriculture in Edmonton right now is figuring itself out,” says Kevin Kossowan, an entrepreneur and self-professed ‘stuff doer’ with a passion for our city’s regional food scene.

Kossowan is sitting across the table from me at the bustling Café Tiramisu on 124 Street, and on the opposite side of the street is the Grand Market, which runs every Thursday evening. Visit either the café or market and you’ll encounter Kossowan’s latest endeavour: Lactuca, which offers incredibly diverse salad green mixes grown in two Edmonton backyards.

Named after the genus for lettuce, Lactuca was started in spring 2012 by Travis Kennedy.

Having grown up with a background in agriculture and farmers’ markets, Kennedy decided to sell his excess crop at the local market—but he wasn’t prepared for how quickly the venture took off.

“He was selling out immediately,” Kossowan says. “He had no supply, basically. In hindsight it’s funny, thinking where we started.”

An active member of Edmonton’s online community and an avid grower himself, Kossowan had been posting pictures of his own abundant vegetable crop on Twitter; Kennedy bought the excess and sold it through Lactuca.

The pair has been expanding their business ever since.

“Our goal was 60 lbs a week this year,” Kossowan notes. “Now

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we’re sitting here going, ‘Oh shit.’

One week Travis harvested everything that needed to come out and had 67 lbs. I hadn’t even touched any of mine yet. We’re still in the process of figuring out what kind of capacity we have.”

Though one might assume the two growers each have massive backyards devoted entirely to greens, in actuality they supply Lactuca from a few raised beds in rather small spaces. The beds are covered with cold frames (basically just big windows) to protect seedlings during Edmonton’s frequent rain and hail storms, as well as to extend the growing season into early spring and late fall. (Kossowan is confident that with the right weather he’ll be harvesting greens into December.) Harvesting and reseeding occurs every week and the greens are planted extremely densely, as they only need to grow a couple of inches before being snipped off with scissors, washed in the big stainless steel sinks that sit in each of the growers’ garages and then packaged to be sold.

The most impressive part of this operation? Both Kennedy and Kossowan only devote one day a week to Lactuca.

“We can nerd out more than anyone else, guaranteed,” Kossowan says. “Meaning we grow 30 to 50 different varieties of salad green. We probably have, I’m going to guess, another 25 to 50 different items that go in the mix for aromatics and florals. So the biodiversity piece is ridiculous as far as product differentiation—we just grow stuff that’s hard to find,

and is challenging to restaurants.

We have chefs coming to my yard to do tastings.”

You can pick up Lactuca greens at the Grand Market on 124 Street every Thursday. Order a salad at one of the restaurants in that area and, increasingly, at other independent Edmonton restaurants and you may also find yourself munching on their salad mixes: in addition to Three Boars and Café Tiramisu, they also supply The Makk on 124, Elm Café, Red Ox Inn, Canteen,

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Corso 32, Kelly’s Pub and the just-opened RGE RD. Early this year the duo had plans to expand Lactuca into an acre of park space adjacent to the defunct Charles Camsell hospital.

Though they gained the permission of the developer, the community league and the city, one of the 11 stakeholders of the land was, in Kossowan’s words, “big, bold, caps-lock opposed” to the project and brought it to a standstill. The reason? It’s common

knowledge that there is asbestos in the hospital; this is partly why redevelopment of that land stalled out in the first place.

“I have no problem with growing there—they have to contain it in big plastic tents the whole time,” Kossowan says, speaking of the removal of asbestos from the building. “If it’s safe for the workers and the residents, it’s going to be fine for us.”

Despite this complication, Kossowan notes that it was probably better they didn’t immediately expand —given the exponential yield increase in just their own backyards, planting an acre of space would require scaling up significantly: hiring a crew to help with the harvest and greatly expanding their distribution.

“The great thing for urban agriculture is you could make this really big,” Kossowan says. He goes on to explain that there’s still a long way to go, however—growing salad greens is one thing, but Edmonton still won’t allow backyard chickens even though this is fine in bigger urban centres like Vancouver, New York and Seattle; residents of Portland, Oregon can even keep a goat in their yards.

“I think the future for urban ag is bright because there’s gonna be folks like us that are making pretty good money doing something that’s really kind of fun, and on a very limited time basis,” he says. “But ultimately, it goes all the way back to legitimately caring about people eating better.”

MEL PRIESTLEY

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Many names, same dog Pogo, dagwood dog, pluto pup, corny dog, dippy dog and cozy dog are all acceptable alternative names for the corn dog.

More meat If a regular hot dog is just a little too small for you, cornbrats offer a larger option, with a bratwurst wrapped in cornmeal batter rather than a standard wiener.

Battered goodness The spongy casing enveloping the juicy frank is generally made of a thick layer of cornmeal batter.

Debated beginnings The origin of the corn dog is debated, but they began appearing in the US in the '20s and were popularized on a national scale by the '40s.

Start the day off right There are breakfast variations of corn dogs which consist of a breakfast sausage deep-fried in pancake batter.

The big dog The guys behind the popular site Epic Meal Time, which delights in ridiculous culinary feats, did their own take on corn dogs. The Monster Meat Log, clocking in at 5800 calories, included 18 strips of bacon, bacon-grease mayo, a blanket of ground beef and three large hot dogs wrapped in cheese, which was all subsequently wrapped together in ground beef before being coated and fried in cornmeal batter. The handle was a wooden spoon. Want to see it for yourself?

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The Okanagan Valley is a very young wine region, even by Canadian standards (which is itself only a recent blip in wine’s timeline). Vines were first planted here in the early 1900s, but the grapes were grown to eat, not to make wine. In fact, the first British Columbian wines were made from loganberries, a type of berry common to Vancouver Island.

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Vessels of memory

Amanda McKenzie’s Recollections tackles big questions in miniature reliefs

Mini-memories

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magine the thrill. You are 24 and proudly clasp a university degree. A new life awaits. Yet, even with an engineering degree a job

hunt may be daunting, but if you are a fine arts major, it’s like being cast onto an ocean in a rowboat.

The university community is gone;

friends disperse. Only a handful of organizations support you, and one notable Edmonton business is among them. Since 1985,

The Paint Spot has been featuring of the present. Chronological work by emerging artists. These time ceases. Some photographs artists are often very much like are not even her own. She found Amanda McKenthem discarded zie, recent BFA Until Thu, Aug 15 in thrift stores. graduates for Recollections Her dollhouses whom the Naess are poetic: fluid Works by Amanda McKenzie Gallery offers a images that our The Paint Spot (Naess Gallery) first chance at mind creates professional solo when the word exposure. “home” is uttered.

McKenzie’s wood and mixedmedia reliefs, titled Recollections, McKenzie is representative were created during her last year of one of the many promising at the University of Alberta (2012). emerging artists that the Naess They were inspired by a dollhouse Gallery has discovered, so to she found lying forlornly in the cor- speak. In an unusual step, galner of the large university studio. lery staff—who are often artists “I was drawn to it,” McKenzie says, themselves—seek out and solicit “I wanted to make my own memo- non-commercial local art. That inries inside these small rooms.” cludes either emerging artists or She began to build wood re- established ones who are experiliefs: cube-shaped rooms filled menting with new directions. As with odds and ends such as bits Kim Fjordbotten, the owner exof shag carpet and wallpaper plains, they “look for work that’s scrounged from her family home challenging, that pushes boundaugmented by thrift store items. aries of what art-making is and She also bought dollhouse fur- what materials can do.” niture on Kijiji and began to silkEven the gallery mandate screen old family photographs pushes new directions; in a reonto transparencies. These soft, cent development, curators hazy images are backlit, so her have been invited to submit ex“dollhouses” create a moody, perimental projects. evening-by-lamplight effect.

The Paint Spot has developed All of McKenzie’s artworks (her a unique, community-friendly recent prints are featured in an- business model that works. The other show at SNAP Gallery) are store has attracted a loyal artinspired by transition: moving ist following for decades while away from her parental home, the Naess Gallery has served finding a new home in the collegial as a first exhibition venue for atmosphere of a university studio several generations of artists. and now an uncharted life ahead.

Fjordbotten laughs as she con“How are you going to find a siders more profitable uses of home?” wonders McKenzie as the gallery space. she creatively works through “We could franchise a Booster some of life’s biggest questions Juice!” she chides. “If I just woke by constructing miniature rooms up and counted money, I wouldn’t that serve as vessels of memory. be a happy person,” she adds The memories that fill her tiny more seriously. “My idea of sucrooms are not literal or photo- cess is that we all get to the fingraphic. Family snapshots are ish line together.” layered on transparencies—im- AGNIESZKA MATEJKO ages from the past overlay those AGNIESZKA@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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Exciting Times

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dmontonians looking for tists, cosplay burlesque dancers fresh entertainment options and musicians. might be excited to hear about “It’s not exactly a comedy show, a certain comedy/variety show but it’s not a music show either,” that’s been picking up steam on Creswick explains. “It’s both, and the west end. then some. TryExciting Times is Thu, Jul 25; Sat, Aug 3 (8 pm) ing to explain the brainchild of The Studio (10940 - 166 St) the show to Liam Creswick, $10 prospective arta local semiists has been professional stand-up comic a challenge, but when it works, who, with the help of a house which I’m happy to say it really jazz band, has been putting on has so far, audiences get a night monthly variety shows since of three to four different types February. The shows, hosted by of performers. It’s really rewardCreswick, have thus far included ing in that regard.” stand-up comics, improv, hypnoHaving already played host to

crowd favourites like Mitchmatic, Mikey Maybe, Craig Martell and Success 5000, Exciting Times has also featured blues artist Sonny Rhodes, the man who performed theme music for television’s Firefly. The next two shows will each feature comics like Lars Callieou and Neil Rhodes, along with musical guests like Democrafunk and Chip Tunes artists Boosh and Ben Intendo.

Creswick first tried out the idea of a variety show at the Hideaway two years ago, an experiment that accidentally re-

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sulted in a talent show. After sitting down with his brother Andrew, who would eventually put together the house jazz band that accomtpanies each show, they created a cogent idea of what they wanted to accomplish and, eventually, the show teamed up with the west-end venue the Studio.

“Imagine the Pawn Shop with Wunderbar’s sensibilities,” says Creswick. “The Studio already has a following, but it’s still relatively unknown. Five years ago, the Studio was just a jam space above the 97 Street bottle depot

that eventually got shut down because young bands started putting on all-ages shows without having their t’s crossed and i’s dotted. Now, they run this legitimate, incredible venue in the city. It’s an awesome space, location be damned.

“I know that the concept of a variety show is by no means a new idea, but I think we’ve tapped into something that works,” Creswick continues. “The shows are fun, affordable and packed with solid entertainers. It’s a spectacle.”

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ARTS ARTIFACTS Capturing Tease / Sat, Jul 27 (8 pm) Festival City is about to add to its festival calendar, but some fundraising needs to be done to make sure it’s able to get off the ground. Ladies from burlesque troupes throughout the city are coming together to fundraise for the inaugural Edmonton Burlesque Festival with performances by Jade Janvier, Maila Mustang, Scarlett O’Handfull, Banshee, Jesse Red Bang and MisSassy Sailor. The event also features photography

by Drew May and music sets from The Frolics and Los Cavaleras. (Artery, $15 in advance, $20 at the door) CBC Creative Nonfiction Prize Winner’s celebration / Thu, Jul 25 (7:30 pm) CBC Canada Writes along with its partners—the Canada Council for the Arts, enRoute magazine and the Banff Centre—have announced Mohan “Mo” Srivastava as the English-language grand prize winner of the CBC Creative Nonfiction Prize. Srivastava received the honour for his story The Gods of Scrabble and as the grand prize winner, he’ll receive $6000 from the

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Canada Council for the Arts, a two-week writing residency at The Banff Centre and will be published in the August edition of enRoute magazine.

Plus, Srivastava will be celebrated at the Banff Summer Arts Festival, an evening hosted by CBC Radio’s Russell Bowers and also featuring readings from the writers in The Banff Centre ’s Literary Journalism program. (Kinnear Centre, Banff)V

PREVUE // VISUAL ARTS

Adam Waldron-Blain does his best

A man and his violin

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dam Waldron-Blain has been spending his Saturday afternoons this month sequestered in a corner of the AGA’s RBC New Works Gallery, adorned in a suit, violin in hand, as a part of his own exhibition. For three hours a week, Adam Waldron-Blain does his best finds the visual artist engaging in durational performances,

playing a single sad love song for the Tube videos of himself covering varientirety of each afternoon, accom- ous songs (he’s also performed a verpanied by video and text., exploring sion in Banff). He’d learned violin as a heartbreak through art and repetition. youth but abandoned the instrument While he does, audiences freely for a time. Having taken it back up a drift in and out. Some, he notes, few years ago, he’s seen some skill don’t even want to enter the gallery, return, though Waldron-Blain notes trying to peer in mastering these from the door, Until Sun, Aug 18 (final live persongs isn’t quite what he’s after or do and quickly formance on Sat, Jul 27 [1 pm]) leave, not want- Artist Talk: Sun, Jul 28 (6:30 pm) here. He seems more interested at ing to disturb Art Gallery of Alberta what they likely getting at a place of vulnerability, see as a strangely personal moment. Another fellow, somewhere between performance Waldron-Blain recalls, kept checking and comment on performance.

“For me, the personal aspect of makup throughout the afternoon.

“It’s a funny situation to be in,” he ing those videos was about externalsays. “I don’t know if people like it or izing something, because when you not. I don’t really look at them while make music, make a performance, they’re watching me. And I’m so cu- make art, you’re taking what you feel rious about the crowds at the AGA, and you’re turning it into something because I work at an artist-run cen- that’s not a feeling,” he explains. “Mutre, and our audience is different. So sic is not a feeling; music is an object I don’t know who these people are that you publish and you give to other people. ... I think it’s transformation, who come and see it.” where it takes something personal The project initially began while and makes it into performance.”

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DANCE EBDA BALLROOM DANCE • Lions Senior Recreational Centre, 11113-111 Ave • 780.893.6828 • EBDA.ca • Aug 3, 8pm

FILM Bailey Theatre–Camrose • 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 • 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

with the Alberta Indigenous Games in St Albert; Aug 4-8

Art Gallery Of St Albert (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St

Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • Photography by Tyler Enfield as well as hand and computer created collage by Julie Nauman-Mikulski 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

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • New Location: 10345124 St • 780.482.2854 • bugeramathesongallery.com • New location Centre d’arts visuels de l’Albertas (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • Proposent Leurs Oeuvres: Rhéa Pioffe, Carmon Mulligan and members of Northgate Seniors Painting Club; Jul 26-Aug 13

Corridor Gallery–Red Deer • Downtown Recreation

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Discovery Gallery: Coming Up Next: Craft by emerging artists; until Jul 27 • FROM: Correspondence TO: TXT: Collage artist Anita Narwrocki offers her perspective on the state of written communication; Aug 3-Sep 7 • Tails from a Rejuvenated Forest: A narrative installation exploring the drive of nature to revive itself by ceramic artists Lisa McGrath and Mindy Andrews; Aug 3-Sep 7 • The Others: Exhibit of mythical creatures by ceramic sculptor, Dale Lerner; Aug 3-Sep 7 • 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 • alliedartscouncil.com • 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

The Artery • 9535 Jasper Ave • CAPTURING TEASE: Photos of burlesque performances by Drew May. Performances by the Frolics and Los Calaveras, and Maila Mustang, Jade Janvier, Scarlett O'Handfull, Miss Sassy Sailor and others • Aug 17 • $15 (online)/$20 (door) • facebook.com/ events/346884582106881/ Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston

Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • 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; until Nov 24 • New Acquisitions: Views and Vistas:

until Oct 6 • Late-night Wed: 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 27 • 19th 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 collection; until Jun 30, 2014 • Amateur Night at the Gallery: Outdoor Sculpture Terrace, 3rd Level: Say goodbye to The Piano with a little song and dance on your AGA’s Outdoor Sculpture Terrace, Featuring a karaoke open mic, tunes by GirlsClub DJs, button-making, trivia, and drinks from Dean Baldwin’s Bar Piano; Wed, Aug 14, 5-9pm; free with admission

Art Gallery Of St Albert (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • 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

sNAP Gallery • Society of Northern Alberta Print­-Artists,

VASA Gallery • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa.ca • Dream Series • Works

by Vanessa Kary; until Jul 26 • Abstracts from 5 Miles: Artworks by Constable, Pat Wagensveld, Karin-Ann Bosma, Connie Osgood, Kristine McGuinty; through Aug

10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • 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 • Tea Towel Printing Party: Printshop: Aug 3, 2-6pm; $20 • Drink and Draw: Drawzilla: rooted in the infamous Japanese Kaiju monster films; draw monsters rampaging through miniature cities in SNAP‘s printshop; Aug 24, 6-10pm

Strathcona County Art Gallery @ 501 • 501

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

Royal Alberta Museum • 12845-102 Ave •

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dc3 Art Projects • 10567-111 St • dc3artprojects.

com • 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

Weddings THROUGH TIME

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 Réveil de la Muse: Works by Claudine AudetteRozon • Until Sep 11

happyharborcomics.com • 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

Attend traditional

wedding ceremonies from a century-and-a-half ago!

Harcourt House Gallery • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St •

Multicultural Art Collective of Edmonton: The first ART SHOW: Eleven artists in co-operation with the Harcourt share their cultural traditions, and styles, hoping to bring attention to the contributions of immigrants to the community; Jul 27-Aug 2; reception: Jul 27, 7-10pm • Main Gallery: SMALL DISASTERS: Paintings by Andrea Kastner • Front Room Gallery: Walking the Text: Drawing installation, including prints and books by Mana Rouholamini • Aug 1-Sep 6 • Opening: Thu, Aug 1, 8-10pm • Artist Talks: Rouhalanin at 7pm, Kastner at 7:30pm

Renew your vows at the Park on Sunday, July 28!

Enjoy a romantic interlude

and stay overnight at the Hotel Selkirk

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

Jurassic Forest/Learning Centre • 15 mins N of Edmonton off Hwy 28A, Township Rd 564 • Education-rich entertainment facility for all ages Kiwanis Gallery–Red Deer Public Library • Alberta Skies: Works by Judith Hall • Jun 24-Aug 25 Latitude 53 • 10242-106 St • 780.423.5353 • ProjEx

Room: YORK: by Sydney 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 • Patio: Ladies of the North L53 Patio Party, Thu, Jul 25, 5-9pm;

bands: Service:Fair (6pm), Arrowz (7pm), DJs Prairie Dawn and Sloop Sean B; afterparty at the Common

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 • Tanya Harnett • Jul 27Aug. 28 • Reception: Jul 28

Brittany's Lounge • 10225-97 St • groundzerorevolu-

tion.com • Ground Zero: a revolution of word, image and sound featuring local and international authors, musicians and artists• Last Tue each month • Free

Carrot Coffeehouse • 9351-118 Ave • vzenari@

gmail.com • Prose Creative Writing Group • Every Tue, 7-9pm

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

St • 780.425.9730 • Ground Zero: A place of explosion, the center of rapid development, a new beginning. Local and international authors, musicians and artists • Last Mon every month

Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900 • Spo-

ken 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

Driving Miss Daisy • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • 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

HAPPY HARBOR COMICS v1 • 10729-104 Ave •

by Mali Vargas, Sarah Bing, curated by Arlene Westen-Evans • Until Aug 28

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

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

Gallery at Milner • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/art-gallery • Articulate: Sketchbooks by 31 art educators from Edmonton and St Albert schools • Until Aug 31

Jubilee Auditorium • The Road To......: Paintings

Art: As told by the Hart House Art Collection and The Piano

The 11 O’Clock Number! • Varscona Theatre, 10329-

Artworks by Bill Carstairs, Louise Piquitte, Peg McPherson • Through Jul

780.465.6171 • Works by Illingworth Kerr, Thelma Manarey, Robert Genn, Alex Janier, and Marion Nicoll; pottery by Noboru Kubo • Through July

Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca AGA Book Club: Books inspired by the exhibitions A Story of Canadian

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Gallery 7 • Bookstore on Perron, 7 Perron St, St Albert •

Johnson Gallery–South • 7711-85 St •

Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston

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

Gallerie Pava • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • Le

Jeff Allen Art Gallery (JAAG) • Strathcona Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave • 780.433.5807 • Instructors and Students: Come and view the works of the instructors and students of Strathcona Place Senior Centre • Until Aug 28 • Summer Hours: Mon-Fri, 9am-3pm

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Naked Cyber Cafe & Espresso Bar • 10303-108

Daffodil Gallery • 10412-124 St • 780.760.1278

NFB Film Club • Sprucewood Library • Monthly film

suzuki.heliotropia.net • Series of Four films by the renegade Japanese master will be shown over the months of June and July • Youth of the Beast (PG violence, not recommended for young children); Thu, Jul 25, 7pm; Jul 28, 4pm • Branded to Kill (STC); Sat, Jul 27, 9pm; Jul 31, 7pm

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

Storytellers (AGA travelling exhibition) Curated by Shane Golby from the collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts • Jul 25-Aug 18 • Reception: Thu, Aug 1, 7-9:30pm

Ave, Stony Plain • 780.963.9573 • Wood Fired Pottery: featuring wood fired pottery by Tammy Parks Legge; until Jul 31 • Summertime Blues: Wheel and slab built, functional and decorative pottery by Bruce and Donna Wakeford; Aug 1-31; reception: Sat, Aug 3, 11-3pm

Expressionz Café • 9938-70 Ave Olive Tree Project: Brian Zahorodniuk, Ginette D'Silva, Jane Chesebrough, Selena Phillips-Boyle, Lauri Ansell, Jose I. Marquez Lugo, Lesley Schatz Miciak

Shots to Kill: The Sixties Cinema of Seijun Suzuki • Metro Cinema at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St •

Naess Gallery • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Recollections: Installation work by Amanda McKenzie; until Aug 15 • Artisan Nook: Basalt Dalik: Mosaic paintings by Cathy Jackson; until Sep 15

Scott Gallery • 10411-124 St • scottgallery.com • Summer One: Works by gallery and guest artists • Until Jul 30

Crooked Pot Gallery–Stony Plain • 4912-51

From Books to Film • Stanley A. Milner Library, 7

series featuring animated and documentary films from the National Film Board of Canada • The Bodybuilder and I (STC); Jul 29, 6pm • Free

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

Centre • Nature in the City: Works by Carol Lynn Gilchrist • Until Jul 30

• Off-Whyte–Whyte Avenue Art Walk Holdover Show: until Aug 4 • Blooming: Aug 6-31

Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • Films adapted from books • X-Men-First Class (2011, PG); Fri, Jul 26, 2pm • Cocoon (1985, PG-13); Fri, Aug 2, 2pm

Musée Héritage Museum–St Albert • 5 St Anne

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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

St Albert ArtWalk • Perron District, downtown St

Albert: WARES (host SAPVAC), Musée Héritage Museum, St Albert Library, Old Hippy Furniture, Gemport, Art Beat, Art Gallery of St Albert, AGSA Rental and Sales Gallery, Hudson Madison, Mint Yoga and Athletic Wear, Auvigne and Jones, Bookstore on Perron, St Albert Constituency, VASA • ArtwalkStAlbert.com • First Thu of the month through to Sep; exhibits run all month • Aug 1

The Studio • 11739-94 St • Works by Glen Ronald,

Bliss Robinson, Debra Milne and guest artists • Until Dec 31, 12-5pm

Telus World of Science • 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • 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 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

VAAA Gallery • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.421.1731 •

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Eros and the Itchy Ant • Varscona Theatre •

780.433.3399 • teatroq.com • By Stewart Lemoine. Original music by Ryan Sigurdson. Starring Stewart Lemoine, Rachel Bowron and Ryan Parker, with Cathy Derkach, Jeff Haslam.

Romantic comedy set in present-day Canada. A piano teacher and a baker explore the possibilities of mutual attraction with a little intervention from a tart-tongued mezzo-soprano and a contemporary incarnation of the Greek god of love • Until Jul 27 • Tickets at TIX on the Square

The Full Mountie • Capitol Theatre, Fort Edmonton Park

• 442-5311 x2 • fortedmontonpark.ca • Improvised Klondike melodrama featuring artistic director, Dana Andersen, and cast members of the Canadian comedy award-winning improv troupe Die-Nasty! Joe Flaherty (from SCTV fame) will be joining cast for all three nights • Aug 1-3, 8pm • $18 (each)/$45 (all three shows)

Johnny B Goode: A Rock and Roll Reunion • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, 8882-180 St, WEM • 780.484.2424 • jubilations.ca • Back in high school, Johnny spent more time with his guitar then he did studying or socializing with other students. He was considered to be a "music nerd" and was teased by most of the other kids. In 1956, Johnny went on a school band trip to Ottawa, where he met another music student by the name of... Paul Anka. The two boys became friends and when Anka's career took off, he took Johnny with him • Until Aug 25 OH SUSANNA! Season Finale • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • 780.433.3399 • varsconatheatre.com/ ohsusanna • The Euro-Style Variety Spectacle brings its fabulous 14th season to a close with a special sneak preview of upcoming Fringe Festival shows, plus the accustomed mix of laughs, music, and cocktails! Hosted by international glamour-gal Susanna Patchouli, and featuring the myriad talents of the Compania del Mambo • Aug 3, 11pm-1am • facebook.com/events/394721473965054

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he culture around music was already shifting, influencing technology as well as being influenced by it, long before it was pegged as a casualty of the digital age. But today, when a song can be in exchanged as freely as a glance, so 2012, many questions remain around the addition to its commerce and transactions of mu- usual activities of artsic that any label weathering the ist management and releasing records, Six Shooter produced its winds of change is admirable.

Which makes it all the more re- first ever festival.

All roads lead markable that Six Shooter Fri, Jul 26 – Sun, Jul 28 home. Although Records has Interstellar Rodeo Six Shooter began not only held Heritage Amphitheatre in in Toronto and is its own since Hawrelak Park, sold out firmly anchored being founded there, Edmonton in 2000 by functions as a kind Edmonton-born Shauna de Cartier, of spiritual motherland to the combut pushed into new territory. In pany, and the Interstellar Rodeo

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launched over a sunny weekend in late July in the leafy embrace of Hawrelak Park, its first notes delivered by Michael Rault, another Edmontonian decamped to Toronto.

(All roads lead away.)

Interstellar Rodeo was enthusiastically embraced by music fans, praised for its eclectic lineup, good wine and food, intimate venue and relaxed vibe. This year’s Ro-

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deo sold out well in advance—an enviable feat for a young festival, and a triumph for a company with a staff of four and boundless ambition, its sense of purpose encapsulated in its tagline: “Life is too short to listen to shitty music.”

Six Shooter exists, to a large extent, on a continuum with de Cartier, who exudes warmth, grit, straightforwardness and unflappability, and has a disarming mellow chuckle she deploys frequently, in

response to both adversity and delight. Her passions dictate its roster; her values are the foundation of its reputation; her experiences and needs have outlined its structure and trajectory. But she doesn’t stand alone—Helen Britton is not a foil to de Cartier, but a force multiplier, and although they are business partners, the term seems inadequate in expressing the scope and intensity of their relationship. The women are two heads of the same beast.

“Trying to explain what I do and what Helen does doesn’t make any sense to anyone in the outside world,” de Cartier offers. “There’s not really an organization chart, like a pyramid or triangle—it’s more of a circle. We don’t really have titles,

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We’re not into that. There are different areas of responsibility, but the idea is that everyone’s contribution is important.”

De Cartier traces the origins of Six Shooter’s ethos back to Edmonton. “Coming out of university, I got an entry-level job at Phoenix Theatre, as their downtown publicist,” she recalls. “I loved it so much—I felt like I’d found my people, who I didn’t even know I was looking for! Because I’ve never felt, like: ‘Oh, I’m an outsider, I’m a loner, I don’t fit in’—that’s not it at all. But when I started working with this company, which very much defined itself by its passion for the art of the stage and its dedication and commitment to trying to create critically acclaimed work, I think those values—for art and the artist—were really instilled in me, at a fairly impressionable age.

That was transformative. I felt the value of art and the humanity of art; I discovered that by working at this little theatre company, and it never really left me.”

From there, de Cartier “hopped around more corporate-oriented jobs. I got offered a promotion.

The same week, I had a number of unsolicited job offers—it was really a weird time! But when that happens, you have to sit down and think, ‘What do I want? What are my goals in life?’ Because I could really see the path I was on, and where it was heading, and I realized that wasn’t really what I was all about. What I wanted from my life and my career was to do something where who I was and what I did was the same. I had that when I worked at Phoenix.

And I hadn’t had that since—it was close, but not there.”

One offer was from Captain Tractor. The band was looking for a manager, and they wanted de Cartier. “They‘d approached me before and I was like, ‘No! It’s not enough money, it’s too insecure, I’m doing an MBA and putting my husband through school—that’s crazy!’” de Cartier roars. “But because of the timing and the way the universe is, it was actually the one that had the most appeal to me. I knew that if I went down that path, I would be the same as my work; those two things would be in alignment.”

De Cartier worked furiously to absorb as much knowledge of the industry as she could. “Chris Wynters and Scott Peters in particular, and Aimee Hill; they really taught me the music business. Two years later, I started Six Shooter, and haven’t really looked back.”

She reconsiders: “Well, I look back occasionally, and think about where I’d be if I’d stuck with my corporate path. Probably would’ve made more money, and it would’ve been an exciting career, but it wouldn’t have had the same kind of meaning for me personally, where I can really get behind an artist who I think is worthy of my time and my resources, who I think is going to create a body of work

in their lifetime that is going to be lasting and important.”

No clearer touchstone for curatorial excellence could possibly exist, which is proven in the pillars of the label’s roster, a couple of musicians who, bound as they both are by de Cartier’s fierce devotion to them, needed very different things from their careers.

“I started Six Shooter Records, really, with two artists: Luke Doucet and Martin Tielli,” De Cartier states.

“I was managing Veal, Luke’s rock band, and we were looking for a deal with a label. We almost had one, but it fell through. So I started Six Shooter as a way to release Veal records. Then I was at the Edmonton Folk Festival in 2000—I come home every year for FolkFest, because I love it so much—and I was watching a workshop with Steve Dawson, Oscar Lopez and some other guy. I phoned Luke on my giant cell phone, which was the size of a shoe back then, and I said, ‘I’m at this workshop of guitar players, and you should be on stage with them!’ because I knew what a great player he was. And he agreed. I said, ‘I think you should make a solo record of more acoustic stuff!’ because he’s an incredible acoustic player, and Veal is this electric rock band. And he agreed. Four months later he was like, ‘Here’s my finished record!’” De Cartier laughs.

“That was Aloha, Manitoba.”

She does some mental arithmetic. “We’ve made 10 records over the span of 14 years—three Veal records, five solo records, and two Whitehorse records. And then we started a guitar festival!” she exclaims. “It’s been a really brave journey with him. He’s so talented, so smart, so dedicated, hardworking—just an amazing person with great integrity. And he’s really challenged me, and I’ve challenged him, throughout our career together— to shoot further, aim higher, keep moving. Tenacity is in his character.

As an artist, he’s very central to Six Shooter. He’s helped define what we’re all about.”

That autumn, while Doucet was finishing his debut solo album, de Cartier met Martin Tielli. “I move to Toronto earlier that year, I’m at a bar, and I meet Martin Tielli, who’s just there. Just met him at a bar!” She’s incredulous at the memory. “We’re talking and I say, ‘Hey Martin, I don’t know if you’ve ever considered making a solo record, but I have a label and I’d be so incredibly honoured if you would consider working with me, because the Rheostatics were and still are my favourite band of all time. So I thought that was a fairly audacious thing to say, and he just looked at me and said,”—de Cartier puts on a quiet, hesitant voice—“‘Really?’”

She had impeccable timing. “Turns out he’d just emerged from a twomonth writing binge where he wrote 70 songs. Obviously, that’s a lot of material, and the Rheostatics are a band that has three songwriters. We became friends, and he sent me demos of 35 or 40 of

those songs on cassette tape. Then we brought Michael Phillip Wojewoda into the conversation and narrowed it down and recorded again.

And that was We Didn’t Even Suspect That He Was The Poppy Salesman, which I think is a really important and amazing record and one of the ones of my entire catalogue I’m most proud of. And it was the first record I became super-involved with, because Martin let me. My opinion mattered; it was relevant to the process. And that was a real privilege.”

De Cartier still marvels at the improbability of her connecting with Tielli. “He has such a signature sound. Nobody sounds like him, he’s absolutely unique in this world. He’s probably the most talented person I’ll ever have the privilege to meet. And he’s one of the best examples I have of Six Shooter: I feel that all of the artists we’ve worked with are incredible people whose work needs a broader platform, and are worthy of our time, and our focus, and our love.

It always comes right back to that.

And I think one of those things that happens when you’re really clear on why you’re doing something, right from the get-go, is it informs every decision you make.”

While de Cartier was setting up shop in Toronto, Britton was finishing an International Business degree in Manchester after a girlhood in a rural Midlands village.

Her loose plan was to travel to North America and work on her Masters at a comparable school, which turned out to be Hamilton, and she eventually landed in Toronto, having fallen in with a group of new friends in the music industry, people like Sarah Slean and Jeffrey Remedios.

“I honestly never planned on a career in music, and I feel guilty saying that, because I know how many people crave it so much, and work so hard, and intern for free and all that, and it just got handed to me on a plate,” Britton says ruefully. She worked her way through a hodgepodge of music business jobs, large and small, as she settled her immigration status—receptionist at Zomba, rising to executive assistant to the president and promotions coordinator; running Jane Siberry’s office; projects with Paperback Records and Arts & Crafts; door and merch girl.

Britton and de Cartier wound up sharing office space, and one day de Cartier asked if Britton would consider helping her out.

“Shauna had just had a baby and her assistant had left,” Britton remembers. “She offered three afternoons a week. I think two weeks later she asked if I would be her business partner.”

De Cartier elaborates, “I think at that time I’d signed Christine Fellows, NQ Arbuckle, Ford Pier. I was also managing the Weakerthans, and starting to manage the Rheostatics. Helen came on board and CONTINUED ON PAGE 23 >>

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Caravan Palace settled for nothing less on Panic son fully formed, or were they sketches that were then filled out as a group?

HP: As I said, we are four co-composers, and the first step in making a song is spending time (a lot of it!) in front of a computer looking for ideas. So it resembles more the second option, even if we never finish a song with the whole live band, but between the four of us.

French electronic group Caravan Palace several processes, from the sketch to had no shortage of material to draw on the masterized track, you have to apply for its latest album, Panic—quite the to every song. And being four co-comcontrary in fact. The band’s collabora- posers doesn’t make the task any easier! tive approach resulted in 40 tracks to choose from, with the final count being VW: When you were writing the songs, pared down to 14. Before the band’s did you come at them in a particular stop in Edmonton, violinist and vocal- way? Lyrics first? Music first?

HP: We always beist Hugues Payen explained the re- Wed, Jul 31 (8 pm) gin with the music. cording process Pawn Shop, $20 We all are musito Vue. cians, more than authors or singers, VUE WEEKLY: How long did it take to so it’s natural for us to first create a make Panic from the initial songwriting mood and a specific “world” before we through to the end of the recording? go deeper with lyrics and lead melodies.

HUGUES PAYEN: Writing a Caravan Palace album takes about two years. There are VW: Did the songs come from one per-

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VW: What were the recording sessions like for this album? Is this the kind of thing you recorded live or did you piece it together one track at a time? Why? HP: Our music is a total non-live music at the beginning. Everything’s “tortured” in our sound cards. Sometimes we stick together two totally different things to make a third one. And sometimes, we need to record some live material, just to find a specific texture we can’t “recreate” with our computers.

VW: Were there any other songs written

that were left off the album? Why?

HP: A lot! Four brains working together

need to find a common way, so we all search the better and have to give up some interesting things, but not enough to spend dozens of hours on it. For the

second album, we made around 40 sketches of songs.

ing the wrong way.

VW: How

Why did you want to take that approach and how did it benefit the recording process?

HP: At the very beginning, we tried to involve some other producers to help find a good way to make our music, but we quickly noticed that it wasn’t a solution. We work a lot to have the technical level required to make our music sound good and well-structured. It maybe doesn’t work every time, but when it doesn’t, it’s our own fault, not someone else’s. It’s the same when it works, by the way.

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

HP: It was a very difficult job to choose the “good” songs to include on the album. We wanted a new way to make electro-swing, but at the same time, we had to satisfy the public. It’s the permanent second-album complex, so we decided to let our hearts speak and choose what we loved more than what was expected from us.

VW: What does the album’s title repre-

sent?

HP: Maybe an unconscious way to say, “We go in a way we don’t know where it leads.” Something scary when you make a second album—especially when the first was successful—is that nobody tells you what to do because they trust in what you do. That’s a good and a bad thing: you always need some backup at a moment, just to be sure you’re not go-

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VW: The band self-produced the album.

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

HP: One could imagine a bridge across the ocean between [the]US and Europe, and in the middle of that bridge would stand a nightclub, and several stages to perform. That album is a constant back and forth between our ‘30s/’40s swing artists discoveries, our frequent partying and the numerous gigs we did the last six years. V

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just saved my life. We just instantly connected. She made it possible to move forward.”

“We spent hours emailing and discussing our partnership in a lot of detail, which I think was really healthy,” Britton notes. “I was totally excited to be in. Shauna had this small baby, and I was in on the level where if she needed me to babysit, then I would do that. The baby was at the office, and if she was crying and the phone rang, I didn’t mind helping out on that front too, I think that was an attraction for Shauna—that I was all in, however we made this work for our lives. Our first business trip together was Midem. I’d do meetings in the morning and she’d be with the baby, then we’d swap halfway through the day, so there was always someone with the baby but meetings were happening all the time. I don’t think that’s something you get with every partnership.”

In return, de Cartier ceded much of the international work to Britton, which she often parlays into a family visit.

“Helen is incredibly organized,” de Cartier says. “I’m somewhat scattered. So she’s really able to pull everything together and give it structure. I’m kind of emotional. So it’s a good match for us, because sometimes I can be all caught up in the artistic realm of things and drop balls. She’s got that British, matter-of-fact common sense thing going on. Our artists immediately took to Helen, in terms of their confidence in her and her abilities.

It immediately doubled us.”

With the addition of Britton and with several new artists on the label, Six Shooter began to feel like its own animal. “In 2005, we signed a couple more bands and I thought, ‘This whole thing is not about me anymore’. Sure, I started the company, but it’s beyond that,” de Cartier chuckles. “It was never really about me—it was always about the artists. But Six Shooter

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has a reputation now. When it started, Six Shooter was about Luke Doucet and Martin Tielli and their brand and their reputation.

But as you start to build a roster, the label itself has a brand that is made up of the components of the individual artists, I think, but also of its staff and people at the actual label who make it work, who contribute to that.”

As of 2012, Six Shooter had enough of a reputation—for both an intense caretaking of artists and putting out a certain kind of textured, thoughtful, emotional, songwriter-focused music—to try to pull off a festival. (De Cartier had tried for 2011, but it didn’t come together.)

“We wanted to do something that reflected our own brand and philosophy and kind of music on a larger scale,” de Cartier offers.

“We felt we had the right skills and inspiration. And Edmonton was the perfect place—I was born and raised there, we had relationships there, I knew the venue and I knew it wouldn’t be a problem to get volunteers. It almost seems inevitable.”

As for programming, Six Shooter’s artist-friendly reputation and far-flung friendships made that relatively easy, even in the inaugural year—at least after finding a replacement for the original headliner, Sinead O’Connor, who’d canceled her whole tour.

While the festival went off without a hitch last year, this year’s Interstellar Rodeo has a much larger audience. But de Cartier’s vision and Britton’s Excel spreadsheets and logistical acumen will prevail, leaving nothing but a beautiful experience to linger, leaving the audience looking forward to next summer’s Rodeo.

And the ones after that.

“I’m sure in a few years it’s going to be like, ‘Remember when we didn’t do a festival? That was weird!’” Britton muses. “It’s going to become normal. In that way, I feel like it’s a momentous thing: we did a festival and it worked and it started a new leg of our business and I don’t know where that’s going to take us. I guess we’ll see. It could go anywhere.”

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Joaquin Diaz / Thu, Jul 25 (8:30 pm) Stuck in Edmonton for the summer? At least you can pretend you’re somewhere exotic with some traditional meringue music and Latin soul. (Blue Chair, $12)

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11217 Jasper Ave 11am - 6pm, Mon-Sat K-Days / until Sun, Jul 28 If you need a break from getting your stomach twisted on the midway, check out some of the music on the main stage. You can catch Colin James Thursday; Arkells and Matt Mays on Friday; local goth-rock group Cygnets and Platinum Blonde on Saturday and it all wraps up on Sunday with local blues-rockers the Red Cannons and Canrock stalwarts the Tea Party.

(Northlands Park)

Vibonics / Thu, Jul 25 (8 pm) Kitchen Sink is the new EP from this Toronto six-piece, but it’s also an apt description for its musical style—there’s an R&B vocalist, punk-funk guitarist, metal drummer, jazz-infused keyboardist, indie bassist and it’s all rounded out by a poet crafting its lyrics. (Haven Social Club, $7 in advance, $10 at the door)

Geoff Berner / Fri, Jul 26 (8 pm) He’s been given the Key to the City of Bruno, SK, studied the klezmer music style in Romania, run in federal and provincial elections as part of the Green Party and caused all kinds of controversy for his political humour. In other words, it should be an entertaining evening. You can also catch him on Saturday, July 27 at Rangeton Park as part of the annual Sasquatch Gathering. (Pawn Shop, $12)

Gigantour 2013 / Fri, Jul 26 (4:30 pm) Metal, metal and more metal. This year’s lineup features Black Label Society, Device, Hellyeah, Newsted, Death Division and, of course, Megadeth, continuing the summer tradition started by the band’s lead singer Dave Mustaine in 2005. (Rexall Place, $29 – $75)

Makin’ Gravy Outta Mud / Sat, Jul 27 (4 pm) Longstanding rivalries continue to be pushed aside in the wake of the floods that ravaged southern Alberta last month.

The Pawn Shop is offering its support in partnership with The Alberta Arts Flood Rebuild Campaign in the form of a benefit concert featuring Highkicks from Calgary as well as some local Edmonton artists like James Renton and Neighborhood Archers.

All proceeds from ticket sales and prize raffles will be donated to The Alberta Arts Flood Rebuild Campaign.

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Emberfield / Mon, Jul 29 (7 pm) The Vancouver-based indie-rock quartet is trekking across BC and Alberta to get the word out about its debut EP Lost and Dreaming. The band is sharing the stage with a local act at each stop, and the bill in Edmonton features Guilty Company and Make Out City. (Fandangos, $10)

Haven Farewell Weekend / Sat, Jul 27 (8 pm) This is it, folks. After tonight, Haven Social Club will be closing its doors for good. You’ve got one last chance to party the night away with music courtesy of Souljah Fyah and Joe Nolan.

(Haven Social Club, $7 in advance, $10 at the door)

Jr Gone Wild, Corb Lund / Sun, Jul 28 (7:30 pm) Continue the goodwill to fellow Albertans (and potential good karma) with home-province talent and fundraising. All proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to the Canadian Red Cross’s Alberta Floods fund. (Starlite Room, $40)

Don Brownrigg / Thu, Aug 1 (8 pm) Stylistic boundaries don’t seem to be something Don Brownrigg is familiar with—not that that’s a bad thing. His acousticdriven melodies draw from roots, folk, blues, country and even a little pop. (Artery, $17 in advance, $22 day of show)

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asquatch Gathering is reaching the looking to learn a few moves. end of its teen years, and to mark the “It’s not an easily pigeon-holed festival; big one eight, the festival is expanding its eclectic is probably the best word to use reach beyond strictly folk music. to describe it,” Armstrong adds.

This year, dubbed Sasquatch Gathering 18 (and I like it)—after a line in Al- As always, the festival maintains its ice Cooper’s “I’m Eighteen”—includes staunch commitment to leaving a small a strong rock and funk environmental footprint presence on its diverse Fri, Jul 26 – Sun, Jul 28 (which means no electricbill, which features Wild Rangeton Park, $75 weekend ity or generators allowed T & the Spirit, Dan Sil- camping pass and a “live light” mandate) ljer Band, Blind Roots, and will be kept small, sasquatchgathering.com the Threads, Scott Cook with only 400 weekend and I Am Machi, among camping passes availnumerous others. able. This is done to maintain the festival’s “I also thought, well, we’re 18 now, maybe strong sense of community and keep the we can be a bit more grown up,” says ar- event manageable for volunteers. tistic director John Armstrong. “I’ve always “You’re not packed tent-to-tent-to-tent been a rocker and it depends on who’s and it’s a better experience for everybody. available, who’s asking for gigs and what’s If the festival can survive at that size it’s out there. I guess with the booking it was a nice niche to have because most of the sort of a happy accident for me that I was festivals around Western Canada are quite able to get a lot of rockin’ sort of bands.” a bit bigger than Sasquatch,” Armstrong The “bigger, badder Sasquatch,” as Arm- says. “It’s small enough that there’s a real strong calls it, has added a burlesque sense of community and we don’t segrecomponent to its mainstage entertain- gate artists in any way so you know, after ment courtesy of Blue Belle Burlesque Wild T’s set he’s going to be wandering and River City Revue Burlesque, who will around saying hello to people and you can also be conducting workshops on Satur- go talk to your favourite musician and get day and Sunday. A butoh dance workshop them to sign a CD or even ask them about with Tony Olivares and belly dance work- their guitar tuning.” shop with former Vibe Tribe member Nan- MEAGHAN BAXTER cy Bromley will also be available for those MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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Modern Day Riot is the subversive sophomore album by the Antiheroes, a Toronto hip-hop duo looking to foment revolution against a music industry that thrives on mediocrity. Hamilton’s

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found his current bandmates.

The fresh start allowed Francisco to turn a pain into fuel for his lyrics, which reflect on difficult times while maintaining a sense of hope and upbeat energy. Open Letter, the group’s debut album, is saturated with catchy, straightforward rock melodies that get the job done but become interchangeable as the album goes on, with the exception of tracks like piano-driven “Wrecking Ball.” Francisco’s voice is strong and evocative, but as with the instrumentation, it feels as though he’s found his comfort zone and doesn’t stray far from it. Autumns Cannon has released a polished debut, but it will be interesting to see if it can push its own boundaries a little further in the future.

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BCASA Fuck You Shredder (Stomp)

With the title of the album being repeated 80 times, it’s pretty blatant that the Bill Cosby Anarchist Society of America really fucking hate Oroku Saki aka the Shredder, nemesis to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. We should all live our lives like this record: childish, hilarious and passionate. The BCASA have chucked together a half-hour tribute to everything that was super fuckin’ radical about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Most aspects of the ‘90s TV/ film heyday get a song: April O’Neil, KC Jones, The Technodrome, all shouted out through Beasties and Wu-Tang references and sliced with TMNT samples. Basically, if you were a suburban kid at any point in the ‘80s or ‘90s, you should hear this record. It’s a screaming pound-fest of quick-change cowabunga punk, with hooks and power that will knock you on your ass. Opening with a rap-battle verse from the Shredder himself, it then relentlessly splinters into neck breakers like “Fuck You Shredder” ( Parts 1 – 4) and “K.R.E.A.M. (Krang Rules Everything Around Me)” the record closes with a quick and dirty synth rap performed by guests Artcons and Murderface, tying together how totally radical the Turtles were. Uncompromising nerds beating the shit out of their instruments and worshipping the gods of their youth: it’s pretty hard not to be as super stoked on the TMNT as the BCASA.

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Opener “Modern Day Riot” is the Antiheroes’ mission statement, where the duo demands listeners “riot against this standard of mediocrity that so many have locked themselves in.” “So Easy” is a soulful attack on swag rap and on “Blow Up” the duo brings in D-Sisive to rail against a music industry where “It’s all lies, illusions / Maybe call it magic / Fake scenes / Fake things / Make your rap average.”

In the modern music world where everyone but musicians prevail, the Antiheroes are the real deal trying to eke out a living in an industry that rewards mediocrity.

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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

Blues on Whyte Anni

Century Room Lucky

Bistecca Terry Jorden;

6-10pm; no cover Blue Chair Café Joaquin

Piper

THE BOWER Thu: Back to

7: Retro ‘80s with house DJ every Thu; 7pm-close The Common The Common

Mine: Hip hop, funk, soul, rare groove, disco and more with Junior Brown and DJ Mumps

Uncommon Thursday: Rotating Guests each week!

Brittany’s lounge

Crown Pub Break Down

Velvet Hour: Live music in the afternoons hosted by Rob Taylor and Bill Bourne; MonFri; 4:30-8pm; no cover

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

Brixx Lightning Dust, guests;

Thu; 9pm

8pm

Café Haven Music every

Thu; 7pm

CARROT Coffeehouse

Druid Irish Pub DJ every electric rodeo–Spruce Grove DJ every Thu FILTHY McNASTY’S Taking

Back Thursdays

Zoomers Thu afternoon open mic; 1-4pm

Krush Ultra Lounge

Churchill Square Nuela

Level 2 lounge Funk

Charles

Cook County Pony Up

Thu: Country, Rock Anthems and Top 40 Classics with Mourning Wood

Druid Irish Pub DJ every

Thu at 9pm

DV8 The Chris Daly Show Early Stage Saloon– Stony Plain Open Jam

Nights; no cover

Fandango’s Thu Battle of

the Bands; 9pm

HAVEN SOCIAL Club

Vibonics with Don Welsh; 8pm; $7 (adv)/$10 (door) 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 Jamie

Henry Five (jazz); 9pm; $10

Open stage; 7pm; no cover

(fri single youth/senior); box office at Hawrelak Park open one hour before gates (Fri 3:30pm, Sat, Sun 11am) Weekend passes sold out

house, trance, electro, hip hop breaks with DJ Aeiou, DJ Loose Beats, DJ Poindexter; 9:30pm (door)

with accompaniment; 9:3011:30pm; no cover

J+H Pub Early show:

Suite 69 Release Your Inner

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

O’byrne’s Live band every

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 Luke and

Tess Pretty; 9pm; $10 K-Days–Rockin’

Koodonation Stage U4

4:30, 6:30pm; Arkells 8:15pm; Matt Mays 9:45pm; tickets at k-days.com l.b.’s pub The Fabulous Canol-Tones Lizard Lounge Rock

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

On the Rocks Mourning

Wood; 9:30pm

Overtime Sherwood Park Dueling Piano’s, all

request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover PAWN SHOP Crank City,

Hank and Lily, Geoff Berner, guests

Pub 1824 Live music every

Fri & Sat; 9pm

Red Piano Bar Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Fri; 9pm-2am Rexall Place Megadeth

Outlaws Roadhouse

Wild Life Thursdays

rendezvous Metal night

every Thu

Union Hall 3 Four All

Am Machi, fl3m & Beta Decay, Dan Silljer Band, The Party on High Street; weekend camping pass: $75 (adv)/$90 (gate); Fri night: $30 (adv)/$40 (gate); adv tickets at Blackbyrd, Permanent Records; Jul 26, 4pm-Jul 28, 7pm

Thursdays: rock, dance, retro, top 40 with DJ Johnny Infamous

Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Stan Gallant

FRI JUL 26

Tiramisu Bistro Live

Bailey Theatre–Camrose

$5 Fridays: Jenie Thai; 8pm (door); $5 (door) Blue Chair Café The

Sherlock Holmes– WEM Adam Holm

music every Fri: John Calverley; 7-9pm; no cover

WUNDERBAR Samantha

Carolines; 8:30pm; $15

Savage Smith, Lab Coast

Blues on Whyte Blues

DJs

on Whyte Anni Piper Bohemia ART + MUZAK,

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

THE BOWER Zukunft: Indie

Kelly’s Pub Jameoke

Night, karaoke with band the Nervous Flirts; every Thu, 8pm-12am

and the Lazy Bastards with James Boraski (dual CD release; Bringing Home The Blues); 9pm; $10

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

L.B.’s Pub Open jam with

Carrot Coffeehouse

The Druid Irish Pub DJ

Brixx Marshall Lawrence

Kenny Skoreyko, Fred LaRose and Gordy Mathews (Shaved Posse) every Thu; 9pm-1am

Live music every Fri; the Seven Forty-Five; all ages; 7:30pm; $5 (door)

Naked Cybercafé and Boardgame Emporium

CASINO EDMONTON Doug

and the Slugs (rock); 9pm

CASINO YELLOWHEAD

Jukebox Leigh (country); 9pm Devaney’s Irish Pub Duff

The Rig Every Thu Jam hosted by Loren Burnstick;

electric rodeo–Spruce Grove DJ every Fri Fandango’s DJs night every Fri and Sat with DJ Stouffer FLUID LOUNGE R&B, hip hop

Legends Sports Bar

Haven Social Club The

(jazz); most Thursdays; 7-10pm

every Fri; 9pm

Fandango’s Battle of the

NORTH GLENORA HALL

Ric’s Grill Peter Belec

THE Common Good

and dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Fri

Bands Jam

Smile

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

Robison

Canadian Country Hall of Fame Guest host Bev Munro

Dueling pianos at 8pm

Fridays

SAT JUL 27 Artery Capturing Tease,

Drew May Photography

Bailey Theatre The Overdue Blues Band; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $10 Black Dog Freehouse

Hair of the Dog: Jack The Bear with Wooden Horsemen (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover Blue Chair Café Blue

Chair House Band; 8:30pm; $12

Blues on Whyte Every

Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Evening: Anni Piper Bohemia DARQ Saturday Carrot Coffeehouse

Sat Open mic; 7pm; $2

CASINO EDMONTON

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

Velvet Hour: Live music in the afternoons hosted by Rob Taylor and Bill Bourne; MonFri; 4:30-8pm; no cover

richard’s pub Mustard

Y AFTERHOURS Foundation

Rangeton Park The Shyster, I

every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; salsa DJ to follow

Brittany’s lounge

Red Piano Every Thu:

every Fri

Sasquatch Festival–

Blue Moon Swamp 4:30, 6:30pm; Crystal Shawanda 8:15pm; Colin James 9:15pm; tickets at k-days. com

blues, jazz, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Thu; no cover

Union Hall Ladies Night

every Fri

Lucky 13 Industry Night

Koodonation Stage

Overtime Sherwood Park Jesse Peters (R&B,

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

On The Rocks Salsaholic:

Bunker Thursdays

Every Friday DJs on all three levels

Jam by Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu; contact John Malka 780.447.5111

Treasury In Style Fri: DJ

Jukebox Leigh (country); 9pm

curated by Ed Hunt

New West Hotel

alt; every Fri 9pm

Gigantour: Black Label Society, Device, Hellyeah, Newsted, Death Division; 3:30pm (door); $29, $39, $69, $75

K-Days–Rockin’

Thu open stage: fully equipped stage, bring your instruments and your voices; gaming everyday

TEMPLE Rapture–Goth/Ind/

Last Weekend: Canyon Rose Outfit, the Gibson Block, Blades of Steel, Mayday and the BeatCreeps, Cabana Bird, Zyla; 8pm; $7 (adv)/$10 (door) Highrun Pub FORM 10 (Indie rock); 8pm; no cover

DJ Dayna; featuring special events every Fri Lucky 13 Every Fri and Sat

with resident DJ Chad Cook

Pawn Shop Crank City,

Hank and Lily (comedy, punk rock), Geoff Berner, guests; 8pm; $12 (adv)

HOGS DEN PUB Sinder Sparks Show; 8-12pm

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

Interstellar Rodeo–

SET Nightclub Live SET

Hawrelak Park Jr Gone

Wild, Deep Dark Woods, Del Barber [Interlude], Alabama Shakes; 4:30pm (gate), concerts end at 10pm $59 (Fri single adult)/$44

Fridays: with DJTyco

Starlite Room KLUB

OMFG

Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge

Amplified Fridays: Dubstep,

CASINO YELLOWHEAD

Doug and the Slugs (rock); 9pm

Devaney’s Irish Pub Duff

Robison

FILTHY McNASTY’S Dan

Bourbonnais (of the Whytes), the A.W. Cardinal Duo; 4pm; free Fusia Coral Sophie Hunter

and Mike Chenoweth (of Sophie and the Shufflehounds, ALL ACOUSTIC SHOW); The Blazers Festival Place concert after-party; 9:30pm; free

Gas Pump Saturday Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth Haven Social Club The

Last Weekend: Souljah Fyah, Major Minor March, VERA, Joe Nolan, Jenie Nolan, Junstine Vandergrift; 8pm; $7 (adv)/$10 (door)

Hilltop Pub Open Stage, Jam every Sat; 3:30-7pm Interstellar Rodeo– Hawrelak Park

Mike Plume, Good Lovelies, Kurt Vile, M. Ward, Garifuna Collective, Danny Michel with the Garifuna Collective, Cr Avery [Interlude], Sarah Harmer, Shout Out Out Out Out; noon (gate); $79 (Sat single adults)/$59 (Sat single youth/senior) Irish Sports and Social Society Pete Kelly ISBE Domain CRBM Launch

Party: Cashew (hip hop), Raptor Strike, Brothers Grim, others

Jeffrey’s Café Chris

Andrews (jazz piano) and an all star band; 9pm; $10

K-Days–Koodonation Stage U4 at 4:30, 6:30pm; Cygnets 8:15pm; Platinum Blonde 9:15pm l.b.’s pub Sat afternoon

Jam with Gator and Friends; 5-9pm Leaf bar and grill Sat jam with Terry Evans, and featured guests; host Mark Ammar Louisiana Purchase

Suchy Sister Saturdays: Amber, Renee or Stephanie

New West Hotel Country

jam every Sat; 3-6pm

Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm

On the Rocks Mourning

Wood; 9:30pm

Overtime Sherwood Park Dueling Piano’s, all

request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover Pawn Shop Makin’ Gravy

Outta Mud: fundraiser for the Alberta Arts Flood Rebuild Campaign: Highkicks (alt rock), others; 4pm; $10 (adv)

Pub 1824 Afternoon: Open

stage every Sat: South of Sanity, 2-6pm; Evening: Live music every Fri & Sat, 9pm Red Piano Bar Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am River Cree–The Venue

Montgomery Gentry (country roots); 6pm (door), 8pm (show); $59.50 Sasquatch Festival– Rangeton Park

Early: Song Circle w/ Shelley Foss, Laurel-Lee McLure, Lisi Sommer and Jenie Thai, Miss Quincy and the Showdown, Bardic Form, 1-5pm; Evening: Blind Roots, Geoff Berner, the Threads, Wild T and the Spirit, Hank and Lily; 7pm; Sat day: $40 (adv)/$50 (gate); Sat after 5pm: $30 (adv)/$40 (gate); adv tickets at Blackbyrd, Permanent Records; Jul 26, 4pm-Jul 28, 7pm

Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Stan Gallant Sherlock Holmes– WEM Adam Holm Studio Music

FRI JUL 26

HANK & LILY ‘CRANK CITY’

W/ GEOFF BERNER & SERMON ON THE MOUNTAIN

SAT JUL 27 “MAKIN’ GRAVY OUTTA MUD” A FUNDRAISER FOR THE ALBERTA ARTS FLOOD REBUILD FUND FRI AUG 2

MARS AND VENUS FINAL SHOW! W/ DUSTY TUCKER,

FORESTER, & THRILLHOUSE

SAT AUG 3

INTO ETERNITY - EARLY SHOW W/ UNTIMELY DEMISE & GUESTS

DOORS 5PM

SAT AUG 3

TRANSMISSION MONTHLY ALTERNATIVE DANCE PARTY DOORS 9 PM

Foundation Five Years

Further (alt, hard rock, rock), Bootleg Saint, Cheap Date, Grain; $10 (adv)/$15 (door)

WED AUG 7

Upper Windermere Private Leisure Centre

REGGAE ROAD WARRIOR WORLD TOUR 2013 W/ GUESTS

Upper Windermere Annual Pool Party: DJ Kwake; 124pm; no cover

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Main Floor: The Menace Sessions: Alt Rock/Electro/ Trash with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic hip-hop and reggae with DJ Sonny Grimezz; Underdog: Dr Erick THE BOWER For Those Who

Know...: House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests

THE Common Get Down

It’s Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with resident Dane

Druid Irish Pub DJ every

Sat; 9pm

HOUSE OF DAVID GANG

SAT AUG 10 POWERCLOWN...

ALL MAIDEN.. ALL CLOWN!!

W/ L.A.M.S., BINGE ‘N PURGE & ONE LIFE ANIMAL

SUN AUG 11

WEST OF HELL W/ KRITICOS, KRYOSPHERE & BLEED

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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

Newcastle Pub Top

40 requests every Sat with DJ Sheri

PAWN SHOP Transmission

Saturdays: Indie rock, new wave, classic punk with DJ Blue Jay and Eddie Lunchpail; 9pm (door); free (before 1s0pm)/$5 (after 10pm); 1st Sat each month

WEDNESDAY PINT NIGHT’S

$2.75 DOMESTIC PINTS

SAT JUL 27

FREE SHOW 4PM

DAN BOURBONNAIS W/ A.W. CARDINAL DUO

RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge

Saturdays: global sound and

VUEWEEKLY JUL 25 – JUL 31, 2013

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aug/2

w/ drakeS theory & gueStS

aug/3 aug/9

dOG daze Of suMMeR INdIe fest ft. SIIIneS, BrotHer octopuS, I AM MAcHI and More!

aug/10

the Sword w/ gueStS

aug/16 aug/17

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w/ gueStS

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w/ gueStS

tueSdayS jul/30 ruby W/ Guest HOsts KatasauRus Rex

aug/9

dOG daze Of suMMeR INdIe fest ft. Los CaLaveras, L’ampersand and More!

aug/15 aug/16 aug/17

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Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Mkhai

7-9:30pm; $15 (adv)/$20 (door)

Vi Kallio 780.456.8510

Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge

Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M

O2 Joes–North Sunday Jam hosted by Andrew White; 4pm

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

Sugar Foot Ballroom

O’BYRNE’S Open mic every

WUNDERBAR The Cleaners,

Richard’s PUB Sun Jam

Heroin Hayride, Jesse LeBourdais

Swing Dance Party: Sugar Swing Dance Club every Sat, 8-12; no experience or partner needed, beginner lesson followed by social dance; sugarswing.com

Sun; 9:30pm-1am

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

DJs

The Rig Every Sun Jam

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Sasquatch Festival–

TEMPLE Step’d Up Sat:

Rangeton Park The Time

Union Hall Celebrity

Saturdays: every Sat hosted

by DJ Johnny Infamous Y AFTERHOURS Release

Saturdays

SUN JUL 28 Blackjack’s Roadhouse–Nisku Open

mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett Blue Chair Café Sunday Brunch: Jazz Passages Trio; 10am-2:30pm; donations Blues on Whyte Anni

Piper

Cha Island Tea Co

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

Celtic 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 Interstellar Rodeo– Hawrelak Park John

Fullbright, Interstellar All-Stars, Featuring Jim Cuddy, Danny Michel, And Quique Escamilla, Cr Avery, Skydiggers, Amelia Curran [Interlude], Elliott Brood, Rachel Sermanni [Interlude], Serena Ryder, Steve Earle and the Dukes; noon (gate); $79 (Sun single adult)/$59 (Sun single youth/senior) K-Days–Rockin’ Koodonation Stage

Klondyke Kapers - 4:30 & 6:30pm; the Red Cannons 8:15pm; Tea Party 9:15pm; tickets at k-days.com Newcastle Pub Sun Soul

Service (acoustic jam): Willy James and Crawdad Cantera; 3-6:30pm; The ‘Son’ day Soul Service: Willys’ son, B.J., has transverse myelitis; donations, and a silent auction; proceeds to B.J, 3:30pm

noorish café • Kirtan Songha with Kirtan Klan;

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

hosted by Better Us than Strangers; 5-9pm

Suite 69 Stella Saturday: retro, old school, top 40 beats with DJ Lazy, guests

Lolcatz, Yaznil, Badman Crooks, Ootz; 9pm

Rouge Resto-Lounge

Crown Pub A Sexy Night

Flies, Backporch Swing, Song Circle/Jam with Mikul Dorsey, Duane Elias, Miguel Ferrer, Breezy Brian Gregg, Steven Johnson, & Nadine Kellman, Jungal; 1-7pm; Sun: $30 (adv)/$40 (gate); adv tickets at Blackbyrd, Permanent Records

Starlite Room Corb Lund with Jr. Gone Wild and friends; 7:30pm; Edmonton for Southern Alberta Benefit; $40 at ticketfly.com Smokehouse BBQ Hair

of the Dog acoustic Sun Jam with Bonedog and Bearcat; every Sun; 2-6pm WUNDERBAR Homeshake,

Smokey, Caves

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

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MON JUL 29

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover

Blues on Whyte Grady

Champion

Brittany’s lounge

Velvet Hour: Live music in the afternoons hosted by Rob Taylor and Bill Bourne; MonFri; 4:30-8pm; no cover Devaney’s Irish Pub

Singer/songwriter open stage every Mon; 8pm; host changes weekly; this week: Brian Gregg Fandangos Emberfield,

Guilty Company and Make Out City; 7pm (door)

Overtime Sherwood Park Monday Open Stage PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

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

with DJ Pheonix and MJ with Sleepless DJ, DJ Breeze and more every Mon; 9pm-2am

TUE JUL 30 ARTERY The X-Factor Fundraiser: Raw Meet Productions; 7:30pm; $10 (adv) Atlantic trap and gill

Open Mic with Ehren Flais

Blues on Whyte Grady

Champion

Bohemia Acoustic Tue: Lou

Wreath, Zyla, Dan Smith, Salt Water Windows Brittany’s lounge

Velvet Hour: Live music in the afternoons hosted by Rob Taylor and Bill Bourne; MonFri; 4:30-8pm; no cover Brixx Bar Ruby Tuesdays

with host Mark Feduk; $5 after 8pm; this week guests: Katosaurus Rex

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 Leaf bar and grill

Tuesday Moosehead/ Barsnbands open stage hosted by Mark Ammar; every Tue; 7:30-11:30pm O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm Overtime Sherwood Park The Campfire Hero’s

(acoustic rock, country, top 40); 9pm-2am every Tue; no cover The Ranch Big Valley

Jamboree Kickoff Party: Cowboy Troy and Brett Kissel, DJ Shocker; 9pm (door), 10pm (show); $20 @ the Ranch box office 780.438.2582

Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Duane Allen Sherlock Holmes– WEM Party Hog Yardbird Suite Tue Night

LeBourdais, Blair Drover, Ben Sir

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Main Floor: alternative retro and not-so-retro, electronic and Euro with Eddie Lunchpail; Wooftop: The Night with No Name featuring DJs Rootbeard, Raebot, Wijit and guests playing tasteful, eclectic selections CRown Pub Underground at the Crown Tuesday: Trueskool and live hip-hop with residents Jae Maze, Xaolin, Frank Brown; monthly appearances by guests Shawn Langley, Locution Revolution, and Northside Clan

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

every Wed with host Michael Gress; 9pm

J+H Pub Acoustic open mic

night hosted by Lorin Lynne

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

DV8 Creepy Tombsday:

PAWN SHOP Caravan

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

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

Psychobilly, Hallowe’en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue

Suite 69 Rockstar Tuesdays:

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

WED JUL 31

Palace (big band), guests; 8pm; $20 (adv) at Blackbyrd, unionevents. com

Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:3011pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member) Pub 1824 Open stage

ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL

every Wed hosted by South of Sanity; 8-12pm

ARTERY Care-aoke and

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

Open stage Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12

silent auction in support of the Down & Dirty 5K Obstacle Course; 7pm BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Main Floor: Glitter Gulch: live music once a month; On the Patio: Funk and Soul with Doktor Erick every Wed; 9pm Blues on Whyte Grady

Champion

Brittany’s lounge

Velvet Hour: Live music in the afternoons hosted by Rob Taylor and Bill Bourne; MonFri; 4:30-8pm; no cover Crown Pub The Dan Jam: musical styles from around the globe with Miguel and friends; musicians are invited to bring their personal touch to the mix every Wed

THE RIG Open jam every

Wed hosted by Will Cole; 8pm -12am

Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Duane Allen Sherlock Holmes– WEM Party Hog Union Hall Talib Kweli;

9pm

Zen Lounge Jazz Wednesdays: Kori Wray and Jeff Hendrick; every Wed; 7:30-10pm; no cover

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Devaney’s Irish Pub

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

Elephant and Castle– Whyte Ave Open mic every

Brixx Bar Really Good...

Eats and Beats: every Wed with DJ Degree and Friends

Wed open mic with host Duff Robison

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

Sessions: 7:30pm (door), 8pm (Show); $5

Festival Place Patio

WUNDERBAR Jesse

Fiddler’s Roost Little

780.756.6010 Highrun Pub 4926-98 Ave, 780.440.2233 Hilltop Pub 8220 106 Ave HOGS DEN PUB Yellow Head Tr, 142 St HOOLIGANZ 10704-124 St, 780.995.7110, 780.452.1168 Irish Sports and Social Society 12546-126 St, 780.453.2249 ISBE Domain 9529 Jasper Ave NW 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 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 10132104 St Lizard Lounge 13160-118 Ave Naked Cybercafé and Boardgame Emporium 10303108 St, 780.425.9730

Newcastle PuB 6108-90 Ave, 780.490.1999 New City 8130 Gateway Boulevard noorish caFé 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A 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 10860-57 Ave Pub 1824 12402-118 Ave, 587.521.1824 Red Piano Bar 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 Rendezvous 10108-149 St Richard's Pub 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 Ric’s Grill 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 The Rig 15203 Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.0869 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE

Series: Doug Andrew; 7:30pm; $8

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

VENUEGUIDE Accent European Lounge 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ARTery 9535 Jasper Ave Avenue Theatre 9030-118 Ave, 780.477.2149 Bistecca 2345-111 St BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 1042582 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 10329-82 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 CARROT Coffeehouse 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580 Casino Edmonton 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 Casino Yellowhead 12464153 St, 780.424 9467 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 Fusia Coral 4990-92 Ave (Edmonton Sun Bldg, main fl), 780-468-2888 haven social club 15120A (bsmt), Stony Plain Rd,

VUEWEEKLY JUL 25 – JUL 31, 2013

10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 Rose and Crown 10235-101 St Sasquatch Festival Rangeton Park, Pembina River 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 1292397 St, 780.758.5924 Sportsman's Lounge 8170-50 St STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 Sugar Foot Ballroom 10545-81 Ave Suite 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969 Tiramisu BISTRO 10750-124 St Treasury 10004 Jasper Ave, 7870.990.1255, thetreasurey.ca Upper Windermere Private Leisure Centre 2004 Warry Link 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

art: 90 min guided walk • Mon-Wed, Fri at 1pm; Thu, 2:30pm (arrive 10 mins early) • Until Aug 23

a colony of bees in your back yard. Bring vegetarian, vegan or raw dish for 6 • Jul 28, 5pm (potluck), 6:30pm (talk) • $6 each

Edmonton Ghost Tours • Meet infront of the Rescuer statue next to the Walterdale Playhouse, 10322-83 Ave • A Ghostly Walk Through Old Strathcona. Tours are outside and walking; dress for the weather and wear walking shoes • Summer: Wed-Thu, 9pm; meet (15 mins early); No tours: Aug 5-8 • $10/$30 (2 adults and 2 kids)

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

Edmonton Needlecraft Guild •

COMEDY Black Dog Freehouse • 10425-82 Ave

• Underdog Comedy Thu: Comedy show every Thu; until Aug 1, 8-10pm • No cov==ser • 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 • 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 • Francis Dilorinzo; until Jul 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

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 •

Aug 10, 7pm and 10pm

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

Overtime Pub • 4211-106 St • Open mic

Lotus Qigong • 780.477.0683 • Down-

Jubilee Auditorium • Jerry Seinfeld • comedy anchored by a professional MC, new headliner each week • Every Tue • Free

Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St • Sterling Scott every Wed, 9pm

Rumors Ultra Lounge • 8230 Gateway

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

Vault Pub • 8214-175 St • Comedy with

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

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

town • Practice group meets every Thu

MADELEINE 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 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

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

Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association • Duggan Community Hall,

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

Organization for Bipolar Affective Disorder (OBAD) • Grey

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

Canadian Injured Workers Association of Alberta (CIWAA) •

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

Discover Downtown • edmonton-

downtown.com • Tours start at the park next to Evoolution, 104 St, 101 Ave • Discover Downtown's history, architecture and public

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

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

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

Society of Edmonton Atheists

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

South Edmonton Gardening Vegetarian and Vegan Group • Park Allen Hall, 11104-65 Ave • 780.463.1626 • Vegetarian potluck with Malcolm Connell speaking on saving the bee and depositing

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

U of A/Garneau History and Haunted Walk • Rutherford Historic

Mansion, 11153 Saskatchewan Dr • Exploring the history of the U of A, how it began and the many important historical figures; and about U of A’s many ghosts, including the little boy at Rutherford House, the scientist who is seen walking the halls of the Power Plant, and more • Summer: Tues, 9pm; no tours: Aug 5-8 • $10/$30 (2 adults and 2 Kids)

Valley of the 5 Lakes • lionsbreath. 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 to trail) • waskahegantrail.ca • Hike the Cooking Lake/Blackfoot Recreation area with hike leader Bev, 780.469.7948; Jul 28, 8:45am-3pm; $5 (carpool); $20 (annual membership) • Hike the Battle River valley with hike leader JoAnne, 780.487.0645; Aug 4, 8:45am-3pm; $5 (carpool); $20 (annual membership)

WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old

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

YEG Slut Walk • Alberta Legislature

Grounds (by the stairs), 107 St, 97 Ave • Protest march against sexual violence • Jul 27, 12-2pm

Y Toastmasters Club • Queen Alex-

andra Community League, 10425 University Ave (north door, stairs to the left) • Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue each month.

Help develop confidence in public speaking and leadership • Contact: Antonio Balce, 780.463.5331

LECTURES/Presentations Great Expeditions • St Luke’s Angli-

canChurch, 8424-95 Ave • 780.469.3270 • 1st Mon every month, 7:30pm • Suggested donation of $3

Hands-on Bike Maintenance • Bike-

Works South, 10047-80 Ave • Brakes, shifting and tire changing/flat repairs • Aug 2, 6-9pm at BikeWorks North (9305 111 Ave) • $20 (EBC member)/$25 (non-member); Pre-register E: courses@edmontonbikes.ca

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 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, 10608105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • eplc.webs.com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome FLASH Night Club • 10018-105 St •

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

G.L.B.T. 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 • Campus-

based 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

LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408-

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

MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu Pride Centre of Edmonton •

Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • A safe, welcoming, and non-judgemental drop-in space, support programs and resources offered for members of the GLBTQ community, their families and friends • Daily: Community drop-in; support and resources. Queer library: borrowing privileges: Tue-Fri 12-9pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, closed Sun-Mon; Queer HangOUT (a.k.a. QH) youth drop-in: Tue-Fri 3-8pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, youth@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Counselling: Free, short-term by registered counsellors every Wed, 5:30-8:30pm, info/bookings: 780.488.3234 • Knotty Knitters: Knit and socialize in safe, accepting environment, all skill levels welcome; every Wed 6-8pm • QH Game Night: Meet people through board game fun; every Thu 6-8pm • QH Craft Night: every Wed, 6-8pm • QH Anime Night: Watch anime; every Fri, 6-8pm • Movie Night: Open to everyone; 2nd and 4th Fri each month, 6-9pm • Women’s Social Circle: Social support group for female-identified persons +18 years in the GLBT community; new members welcome; 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm each month; andrea@ pridecentreofedmonton.org • Men Talking with Pride: Support and social group for gay and bisexual men to discuss current issues; every Sun 7-9pm; robwells780@hotmail.com • TTIQ: a support and information group for all those who fall under the transgender umbrella and their family/supporters; 3rd Mon, 7-9pm, each month • HIV Support Group: Support and discussion group for gay men; 2nd Mon, 7-9pm, each month; huges@shaw.ca

PrimeTimers/sage Games • Unitarian Church, 10804-119 St • 780.474.8240 • Every 2nd and last Fri each Month, 7-10:30pm St Paul's United Church • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship)

VUEWEEKLY JUL 25 – JUL 31, 2013

WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • womonspace.ca, womonspace@gmail.com • A Non-profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured Woodys Video Bar • 11723 Jasper Ave

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

SPECIAL EVENTS the Bounty in Beaver County •

Beaver County, 1/2 hr E of Edmt on Hwy 14 • facebook.com/BCBounty • Explore farms and markets, heritage and culture, family events, businesses and cuisine across Beaver County.

Destinations in and around Tofield, Ryley, Holden and Viking • Aug 9-11

Canadian Women’s National and Western Fast Pitch Championships • William F Lede Park, Leduc • softballalberta.ca • U21 “A” Women’s Canadian Fast Pitch Championship, Jul 24-28 • U21 “B” Women’s Western Canadian Fast Pitch Championship, Jul 25-28

Cariwest • Downtown, Churchill Square, Shaw Conference Centre • Edmonton Caribbean Carnival • Fri Night: Costume Extravaganza at the Shaw Conference Centre: $20 (adult adv)/$10 (child adv) at TIX on the Square; $25 (adult, door); Aug 9 • Sat: Caribbean Village; Grand Costume Parade (noon): Cariwest Fete: Sat Night Party: Music by Soca Sweetness and Drew Atlas with special guest: Bunji Garlin LIVE in Concert! Tickets for sale at Tix On the Square; Aug 10 • Sun: Churchill Square’s Caribbean Village: Aug 11 • Aug 9-11 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 • Learn some steps from the U of A Dance Club: Jul 25; reserve dinner at 780.987.3054, ext 2243 • It's Summer in Paris–Summer in Edmonton: celebrating with a long table dinner presented by the Birch Patio, a game of croquet, and other summer delights; Aug 1; 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)

Druids Day • Druids RFC Sherwood Park • pitchero.com/clubs/strathconadruidsrfc/• Rugby matches, kid activities and Silent Auction. For more info check out • Sat, Jul 27, noon-6pm Heritage Festival • Hawrelak Park •

heritage-festival.com/the-festival • Pavilions representing over 85 cultures from all over the world. Sample culinary delicacies, see creative performances, shop for crafts, artwork, and clothing • Aug 3, 12-9pm; Aug 4, 10am-9pm; Aug 5, 10am-7pm • Free, donation to Food Bank

From Hate to Hope • 110 St, 84 Ave •

Hate to Hope. Take a Stand. Show your Pride: Family friendly march and rally • Fri, Aug 2, 6pm • facebook.com/hate2hope?ref=tn_tnmn • facebook.com/events/456155351135415/

JLS Night Market • 102 Ave, 106 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 • Until Jul 28 • Tickets at 1.855.985.5000, ticketmaster.ca • K-Days Parade: Downtown Edmonton; Jul 19

Taste of Edmonton • Churchill Sq • tasteofedmonton.ca • Until Jul 27

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

YEG Fashion show • Stanley Milner

Library Edmonton Rm (lower level), 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Social awareness fundraiser in support of ALS. Featuring on-site makeovers, mini photo shoots, silent auction, accessory workshop, fashion show • Aug 18 1:30-4:30pm • $15

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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): “I have tried in my way to be free,” sings Leonard Cohen in his song “Bird on a Wire.” In other words, he has done the best he can to liberate himself from his unconscious patterns, bad habits and self-delusions. He hasn’t been perfect in his efforts, but the work he has done has earned him a measure of deliverance from his suffering. I recommend you follow his lead, Aries. Do your best to bring more relief and release into your life. Get rid of things that hold you back. Overthrow a pinched expectation and ignore a socalled limitation or two. By this time next week, I hope you will be able to say sincerely, “I have tried in my way to be free.”

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): “There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm,” wrote the novelist Willa Cather. According to my reading of the astrological omens, Taurus, you’re in a phase of your cycle when storm-learning isn’t your priority. The educational experiences you need most will unfold when you’re exploring the mysteries of peace and serenity.

In fact, I suspect that the deeper you relax, the more likely it is that you will attract life-changing teachings—lessons that can transform your life for the better and fuel you for a long time.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): Is there a message you’ve wanted to deliver for a long time but haven’t been able to? Are you bursting with thoughts or feelings that you’ve been longing to express but can’t find the right way to do so? Have you spent months carrying around a poignant truth that you have felt wasn’t ripe enough to be revealed? If your answer to any of those questions is yes, I believe the time will soon be at hand to make a move. But it’s important that you’re not impulsive or melodramatic as you initiate your breakthrough communications.

For best results, be full of grace and balance.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): Bees and other insects can see ultraviolet light, which is invisible to humans. When they look at flowers, they detect designs on the petals that you and I cannot.

For example, the evening primrose appears completely yellow to us, but it calls seductively to bees with a flashy star pattern at its centre. Many of the secret signs that flowers offer the pollinators are meant to guide them to where the pollen and nectar are. Let’s use this as our metaphor of the week, Cancerian. I am not predicting that you will be able to perceive a broader spectrum of light, but I do believe you will discern cues and clues that are hidden from most people and that have been imperceptible to you in the past.

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LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): “I was six-years-old when my parents told me that there was a small, dark jewel inside my skull, learning to be me.” So said the Leo science-fiction writer Greg Egan in his story Learning to Be Me. Let’s pretend that you, too, have a small dark jewel inside your skull that’s learning to be you.

It’s a good metaphor for what I believe has been happening all these years: you have been gradually mastering the art of being the best Leo you can be.

It hasn’t been easy. You weren’t born knowing how to be your beautiful, radiant, courageous self, but have had to work hard to activate your potentials. Now you’re moving into an especially critical phase of the process: a time when you have the chance to learn how to love yourself with greater ingenuity.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): “Dear Astrology Guy: Please tell me why I have to work so hard— meditate, reflect, read, analyze, poke, prod, investigate—to discover truths about myself that must be obvious to others. Why is it so hard for me to see where I need healing and where I need to let go? Why is it such an ordeal to grasp what is interfering with my wholeness when I can quickly pinpoint what other people’s issues are? —Overworked Virgo.”

Dear Overworked: I’m happy to report that you Virgos will soon be offered a gush of revelations about who you are, how you can heal and what strategies will best serve your quest to minimize your anxiety. Are you prepared to absorb some intense teachings? For best results, make yourself extra receptive.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): One of the world’s best race-car teams is McLaren. It wins about 25 percent of the events in which it competes. Its skilled drivers account for much of its success, but its technicians are also pretty sensational. During a pit stop in the middle of a race, they can change all four tires on the car in less than three seconds. Do you have helpers like that, Libra?

If you don’t, it’s time to intensify your efforts to get them. And if you do, it’s time to call on them to give you an extra boost.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): Let’s try an experiment. It’s risky, but I’m hoping you will do it with such flair that there will be no karmic blowback. What I propose, Scorpio, is that you have fun expressing more confidence than usual. I invite you to strut a bit, even swagger, as you demonstrate your command over your circumstances. Enjoy acting as if the world is your plaything ... as if everyone around you secretly needs you to rise up and be a bigger, bolder version of yourself. The trick, of course, will be to avoid getting puffed up with grandiose delusions. Your chal-

lenge is to be more wildly devoted to embodying your soul’s code without lapsing into arrogance.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): I suspect that you are longing to take a quantum leap of faith, but are also afraid to take that quantum leap of faith. You sense the potential of experiencing a very cool expansion, while at the same time you hesitate to leave your comfort zone and give up your familiar pain. In light of the conflict, which may not be entirely conscious, I suggest you hold off on making a gigantic quantum leap of faith.

Instead, experiment with a few bunny hops of faith. Build up your courage with some playful skips and skitters and bounces that incrementally extend your possibilities.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): Hoaxes exposed! Bluffs called!

Secrets revealed! Whitewashes uncovered! Curses banished!

Taboos broken! Those are the headlines I expect to see emblazoned in your Book of Life during the coming weeks. Can you handle that many holy disruptions?

Will you be able to deal with the stress that might come from having so much raucous success?

These are important questions, because if you’re not up to the challenge, you may scare away the transformations. So steel your resolve, Capricorn. Mobilize your will. Do what’s necessary to harvest the unruly blessings.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): The French novelist Flaubert declared that if you hope to write a book, you should first read 1500 books.

A Roman author named Petronius believed that the imagination does not work at its peak power unless it is inundated with reading material. I suggest you adopt their advice and apply it to your own field, Aquarius. Whatever skill or subject you want to master, expose yourself lavishly to the efforts of other people who have already mastered it. Flood yourself with well-crafted inspiration.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): Should you be worried that a venomous spider has crawled into your shoe while you were sleeping? Just in case, should you flip your shoe upside-down before putting it on each morning? My studied opinion: hell, no. The chances of you being bitten on the foot by a venomous spider lurking in your shoe are even less than the possibility that you will be abducted by an alien who looks like Elvis Presley and forced to sing a karaoke version of Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” at an extraterrestrial bar. And if you are going around filled with delusional anxieties like that, you will definitely interfere with life’s current predilection, which is to give you a cleansing respite from your fears as well as immunity from harm. V

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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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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!

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!

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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 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 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

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

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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

Wanted: Volunteer Board Members We are a non-profit charitable organization in search of volunteer board members.

Sundance Canine Rescue Society which has been in operation since September 2009 has recently received charitable status which requires a working board.

We are looking for board members with a range of expertise and are willing to be active in their governance roles. For a complete information package, please email

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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 .

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

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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 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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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

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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

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Employment Opportunities WELDERS, QUALITY CONTROL, Painters, Production Manager - Petrofield Industries Manufacturing facility for Tornado Hydrovac Trucks. Check out www.tornadotrucks.com. Call 1-403742-6121 or email: hr@petrofield.com.

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MINCO GAS CO-OP Ltd. Looking for: Gas Utility Operator, Serviceman/woman.

Permanent, full-time. Benefits/pension after probation. Gas distribution systems experience an asset. Apply to: minco@rjvnet.ca.

IMMEDIATE OPENING for a Shop Forman to oversee daily maintenance shop (Heavy Equipment) operations in a new state-of-the-art facility in Edmonton. Apply with resume by fax; 780-434-5373, or email; employment@parkpaving.com.

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

T.O.S. IN WHITECOURT, is looking for Class 3 Vac Haulers. Top wages paid. Experience would be an asset. To apply, please call 780-268-4444 or email: t.o.s@hotmail.ca.

WINCH TRACTOR OPERATORS. Must have experience operating a winch. To apply fax, email or drop off resume at the office.

Phone 780-842-6444. Fax 780-842-6581.

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

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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.

OIL BOSS RENTALS Inc. is currently seeking a Professional Salesperson for our Alberta-based oil and gas rental business.

We currently have two offices, one in Rocky Mountain House and the other in Lac La Biche. This individual has to be ambitious, driven, able to work independently and as a team. This position will involve some time away from home, approximately 10 nights a month spent in different areas of the province. This individual should be mechanically inclined, personable and with some problem-solving skills. The ideal candidate would have previous oilfield drilling or well-

TRUCKING/MIXED FARM Operation requires full-time Class 1 Driver. Cattle hauling, water hauling, and logging. Includes some shop duties. Competitive wages, year round fulltime employment. 780-656-0053, Michael.

FULL-TIME HEAVY DUTY Journeyman Mechanic required, CVIP licence. Home every night. $38/hour with benefits; debbie.lefeuvre@bg-rd.com or fax 403-342-7488.

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.

ALL ROUND EMPLOYEE required for cooking, cleaning and serving customers in small town friendly hotel. Includes small suite and meals. Phone Marg 403-857-9134, Youngstown, Alberta.

THE FAIRMONT PALLISER in Calgary, Alberta is searching for a Painter and Bellperson. Competitive wages and benefits. Visit: www.fairmontcareers. com to apply and to view all vacancies.

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1 “Rubaiyat” poet Khayyam 5 Unbuttered, like toast 8 Foil the plans of 14 Vincent of “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” 16 Medicine man 17 Extremely drab orchestra tunes?

18 Pulling an all-nighter 19 Not a silk purse source, in an old phrase 21 Clique member, often 22 Fall back, as the tide 25 Rap so ancient that fungus is growing on it?

27 Opulent residence 30 Greek letter 31 The Atlanta Braves’ div.

32 Destroy 33 Went ___ for the ride 35 Loud music that’s too deep to think about?

39 Succulent plants 40 “Arrested Development” surname 43 Big bygone bird 46 1998 Hyundai acquisition 47 Pic taken at arm’s length 48 Anti-label music that’s totally bogus?

52 S.E. Hinton classic 53 ___-do-well (scoundrel) 54 Border on the court 57 Let everyone else have a turn 59 Moronic offshoot of reggae?

63 Pink character on “The Backyardigans” 64 Sensitive to other’s feelings 65 Visualizing 66 Fast-spinning stat 67 Body shop removal

land” 9 “Cool,” once 10 “America’s Most Wanted” host John 11 Support group with 12 steps 12 Prepare for a factory upgrade 13 Amplifier setting 15 Progressive character?

20 “Someone Like You” singer 22 Pre-album albums, briefly 23 “Jackass” crew member Margera 24 Nothing to brag about 26 Is impossible 28 In a muddle 29 Sarah of “Roseanne” and “Scrubs” 33 Clock settings 34 Nerve 36 Easy-to-recognize word in speech recognition programs 37 Ache (for) 38 Air, to Germans 41 Pain in the neck?

42 Place a curse on 43 Jazz bassist Charlie 44 Early even score 45 Penguin from Antarctica 47 Cuts corners 49 From Baghdad, say 50 Comparatively peculiar 51 Dirt cluster 55 The Pistons, the Pacers, etc.

56 Founded, on town signs 58 It’s “a mass of incandescent gas,” in a TMBG song 60 Word ignored when alphabetizing 61 “Ich bin ___ Berliner” 62 %, for short

My only regret about waiting until after we starting seeing each other. booze, and I think many of us want I was 36 to get married was that He had forgotten to tell me that he to embrace that feeling and make all of my guests were too mature was a groomsman and I had to sit the most of it.” and settled down to engage in inthrough dinner with a table of peoJen, another friend, thinks it’s bediscriminate sexual shenanigans ple I had never met. But he came cause it’s a situation that encouragat my wedding. I consider drunken and led me off before dessert and es impulsive behaviour. “It’s like a bridesmaid/groomsman hookups we had some fun.” once-in-a-lifetime thing. You don’t to be as much a tradition go to a wedding every as throwing the bouquet.

They are rare I consider drunken bridesmaid/ weekend.

Although there was, sadly, and special and it feels none of that at my wedlike permission to go a groomsman hookups to be as ding, it seems that was an little wild.” Within reason much a tradition as throwing exception. A survey conthough, she cautions. “The ducted by misstravel.com last thing you want to do the bouquet. last month found that 67 is make such a spectacle percent of their single respondents Does she regret it? “Not for a of yourself that no one remembers had hooked up at a wedding. second,” she says. “In fact, I highly the bride and groom, just the fact I did an informal pole of my circle recommend it. But that reception that you got caught doing it in the of friends and found similar rehall had a private single-person coat closet.” sults. “I hooked up with the phobathroom with a lock on the In the midst of wedding season, tographer,” my friend Mona (not door. No one saw us go in or out don’t feel bad if you find yourself her real name) tells me, “I was the together. When you have a setup tempted to get it on with the usher maid of honour. Probably not the like that, you can get away with or the maid of honour—you’re not best decision since we ended up it. Doing it in a public bathroom alone. And you never know where leaving before he was done.” with stalls is just tacky.” it might lead. Two of my informal At least Mona had the grace friend-poll respondents met their to leave the party. Most of the Why do so many people hook spouses at a wedding and remain Miss Travel survey respondents up at weddings? Mona thinks a happily married to this day. V didn’t bother. The most popular number of factors combine to place to get your wedding freak make it the perfect storm for Brenda Kerber is a sexual health on? The bathroom. love connections. educator who has worked with lo“Guilty!” my friend Rachel (not cal not-for-profits since 1995. She is “Everyone is all dolled up and her real name) says. “I had sex with the owner of the Edmonton-based, looking lovely, “ she says. “The atmy new boyfriend at his friend’s sex-positive adult toy boutique the mosphere at weddings is generally wedding. It was just a few weeks Traveling Tickle Trunk. happy, upbeat and full of love and

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BJs ON THE SIDE

I’ve been mostly happily married for 15 years. I’m a straight man.

I love my wife. We used to have a great sex life. But after many years, children and just day-today reality, our sex life is now pretty unsatisfying. While my wife was barely GGG at the beginning, now she will not go down on me ever. We do have sex four to 10 times a month, but it is always plain vanilla. I went on Craigslist to look at the “casual encounters” ads, and after months of just looking, I replied to some. My only actual response admitted to being a man pretending to be a woman. Long story short, I let him blow me. I didn’t touch him. I just watched some straight porn while he blew me. I have done this a few times with different guys. I am not turned on by men at all, but I do enjoy the enthusiastic BJs when combined with straight porn. I can’t tell my wife about this, as it would end an otherwise good marriage.

Questions: 1) Does this make me gay, bi or neither? 2) Do I have to stop? I have been careful to keep it pretty safe, and since I am not really attracted to or interested in these guys, it just serves to satisfy a “disproportionate sex drive” situation without the risk of any emotional cheating. I’m pretty sure if I found a woman interested in an affair or a FWB situation, it would be a much riskier emotional tightrope. One more question, I guess. 3) What should I do?

Blow Job Secrets 1) I wouldn’t call you gay or bi, BJS, seeing as you’re concentrating on straight porn during those enthusiastic man-on-man blowjobs. What you describe sounds like a mild case of “situational homosexuality,” ie, something

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that otherwise straight men are sometimes forced to do “for gratification or release in a singlesex environment,” as the sex-ed website SexInfoOnline puts it.

You’re not locked in prison or stuck on a pirate ship or sweltering away in a shithole like Saudi Arabia, places characterized by “the prolonged absence of partners of the opposite sex.” You’re just a blowjob-deprived married man with access to the Internet who figured out that accepting blowjobs from gay or bi men is cheaper than paying female sex workers to blow you and less entangling than entering into an affair with a woman. But you probably don’t want to describe yourself as “situationally homosexual,” as that sounds pretty gay, so let’s just go with “opportunistically heteroflexible,” OK? 2) Yes, BJS, I’m afraid you do have to stop. I would be inclined to give you a pass if you were not having sex with your wife at all—or having sex with her once or twice a year, or if your wife announced she was asexual—but you and the wife are having quite a lot of sex. If you were to contract gonorrhea or syphilis from one of your male sex partners, BJS, you would almost certainly pass the infection on to your wife before you became symptomatic and got treated. (Sorry, BJS, but unless you’re using condoms during those blowjobs, they’re not “safe.”) If telling your wife about the blowjobs now would result in the end of your marriage, BJS, imagine the results if you have to tell your wife about the blowjobs after you’ve passed a sexually transmitted infection along to her.

3) You should get your wife’s permission—maybe she’d be down with outsourcing oral du-

ties she finds tiresome, maybe she’d like to have an adventure or two of her own—or you should knock it the fuck off.

SEXLESS STUPOR

I am a straight woman who has been with my fiancé off and on for 12 years. I have broken up with him repeatedly, each time after two years of being together, but we always end up back to-

find attractive, a guy who’s lousy in bed on those rare occasions when you do have sex, because you could see yourself being happy with him ... so long as you can wrap your morals around lying to him for the next three or four decades?

Don’t do it.

The amount of stress that will pile up over the years—all that working to convince him that

Sounds like a mild case of “situational homosexuality,” ie, something that otherwise straight men are sometimes forced to do “for gratification or release in a single-sex environment.” gether. The two-year point seems to be when I become so incredibly soul-crushed by our sexless relationship that I have to end it. Why is our relationship sexless? He is possibly asexual, my attraction to him is limited, he roughhouses and I am afraid he will hurt me and he is crap in bed when we do have sex. But I love him, I treasure our history, and I would love for our families to merge. I essentially can’t live without him. I had the opportunity recently to get sexual attention outside the relationship, and now I can see living a life with my partner while having a separate sex life that involves other people. This is something he would never agree to. I am currently trying to examine my morals to see if I can be OK with this arrangement. It is the only thing I can think of that will allow me to stay with him.

Wondering If Faithfulness Endures Would it be a good idea to marry a possibly asexual man you don’t

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you’re not only not having sex with him, WIFE, but that you’re not having sex with anyone else either—will soon outweigh the stress of one knock-down, dragout, open-and-honest conversation about the role of sex in your marriage. But instead of saying, “I’ll marry you, but only if I can fuck other people,” go with this instead: “Sex has never really been important to us as a couple.

It doesn’t define our connection, honey, and it never has.” Then tell him that you won’t consider any sex that happens outside the marriage—so long as it is safe and completely discreet— grounds for divorce. Hopefully he’ll agree, WIFE. If not, don’t marry him.

FURFAG REVISITED

In your response to FURFAG last week, the guy who has been in an online relationship with another furry guy who he has never met, you focused on their need to meet in person at least once (to confirm their connection) before

moving across the country to be with each other. Good advice for someone in a similar circumstance, perhaps, but I believe you focused on the wrong part of FURFAG’s letter. His real problem was revealed in the last part of his letter: “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?” That just screams POSSIBLE MEDICAL ISSUE. A 21-year-old man who is not aroused by visual stimuli and has never masturbated? This man needs to see his doctor and get referrals to an endocrinologist and a urologist. It is not normal for a 21-year-old man to have no sexual urges. (I know the asexuals will skewer me for this, but until someone has explored all possible medical and psychological explanations for a disinterest in sex, then I have to politely disagree with their assessment of their sexual orientation. The only places in nature where you find completely asexual creatures are in hive communities where there is a queen that does all the reproducing.) The likelihood of FURFAG having a spark with his online boyfriend when they do finally meet is nil if he didn’t find that spark with a gym sock at age 12.

Get That Checked Listen in as Dan gets drunk with NPR White House correspondent Ari Shapiro at Town Hall in Seattle: savagelovecast.com.

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