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August 7: Feist with Snowblink. Indie-pop star Feist is bringing her electric performance to The Banff Centre's Shaw Amphitheatre. She will be accompanied by the up-and-coming Canadian band Snowblink. Tickets are $50.

August 18: Whitehorse.

Come watch Canadian folk-rockers Whitehorse perform at The Banff Centre's Shaw Amphitheatre. Opening the show is Edmonton's own Wool on Wolves. Tickets are $25.

September 21: Performance in the Park. Serena Ryder has announced that she will perform in the rescheduled 'Performance in the Park' September 21st at the Cascade Gardens in Banff. She will be joined by rocker Adam Cohen, son of the legendary Leonard Cohen. A portion of the ticket sales will be donated to the provincial flood relief efforts. Tickets are $35.

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“We really need to move to an independent energy regulator in this province.”

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““I really love the idea of taking a listener on a journey.”

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NEWS EDITOR : REBECCA MEDEL REBECCA@VUEWEEKLY.COM

NEWS // FOREIGN WORKERS

Migrating north Veteran valour Foreign workers head to the Yukon and stick together to make ends meet REBECCA MEDEL REBECCA@VUEWEEKLY.COM

How can you tell Canadian veterans that the country they served has no special obligation to them once they’ve returned home injured?

That is exactly the Harper government’s response to six injured veterans who have served in Afghanistan, among other places, and filed a class-action lawsuit last fall in British Columbia against the federal government, seeking better compensation for injured soldiers.

The veterans represent all disabled Canadian soldiers and are asking for better treatment than what the New Veterans Charter grants them. They want hard-earned benefits for injured veterans like were given under the old Pension Act, not a lump-sum payment and low-income supplements to get them through the rest of their lives. Injured veterans are now only earning two-thirds of what they would have under the old Pension Act, according to a 2011 Queen’s University study.

The NVC received royal assent on May 13, 2005 and came into effect under the Conservatives on April 1, 2006. Fairwhistleblower.ca reports that the six Canadian Forces bases interviewed before the decision all said they would have preferred a life-long pension but it seems their opinion didn’t affect the government’s plan to pay off injured vets and then forget about them—except on Remembrance Day, of course.

One of the vets fighting for better benefits served for 32 years, has lost both of his legs and is suffering from depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. He was given a lump sum of $260 000, even though he’ll never be able to work again.

Equitassociety.ca, an organization helping pay the legal fees of injured vets, gives case studies like that of a reserve soldier in Afghanistan who had two severe injuries to his lower legs and had to end his dream of becoming a police officer. He received a lump-sum payment of $45 000 from Veterans Affairs Canada, which was originally only going to be $14 000. Another reservist was the victim of a mine explosion which injured most of his body and has received a payment of $41 000 with no other benefits. These injured men are receiving significantly less than they would with Workers’ Compensation, but they were not informed that as reservists they had the option to file for it.

Whether $41 000 or $260 000, these payments to vets are much less than many parliamentarians make in their yearly salaries. Stephen Harper should be ashamed of himself for making the men and women who have served the country he leads grovel and beg for a decent income to support themselves and their families after an injury.

In November 2005, Canadian Forces relocated to Kandahar to help the United States in the war on terror. Interesting that it was around that time that it was decided the country no longer had a special obligation to veterans. In fact, Ottawa acted quickly and secretly to ensure the government wouldn’t have to make much of a contribution to support returning injured vets.

The NVC even states: “The key to the New Veterans Charter is that it shifts the focus from a lifetime of disability to encouraging “wellness”—which is what our men and women really want most.”

But how can someone live a life of wellness when they can’t even support themself? The NVC is a joke. V

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hey never washed a dish in India. Now they’ve washed hundreds at Tim Hortons.

Richu Binu Vadath, a radiologist, and James Paul, a business management graduate, laughed over what little responsibilities they had in Kerala, India. They never thought they’d barely be making ends meet when they came to Canada.

The two men share a room in Riverdale, a neighbourhood of Whitehorse. In total, there are three men in a two-bedroom apartment. And they’re not the only ones cutting costs by living in sardinecan conditions. They’re part of a growing trend of migrant workers in Whitehorse’s service-sector industry who have bunked up two to a room to afford housing with their meagre salaries.

It’s the way Indian, Filipino and Korean migrant workers afford living in Whitehorse, says Ardie Cabardo, an immigrant who was one of the first Filipinos to arrive in Whitehorse 13 years ago. “We don’t really care to share a room. Our idea of privacy is different.”

Although both Vadath and Paul initially en-

India, I would make 500 rupees per day,” Paul says. That converts to around $8.67 in Canadian dollars. Vadath made only around $300 per month as a radiologist in India, he says.

Still, the men, who are in their twenties, feel like they’re losing their skills.

They both came to Canada to further their studies: Vadath pursued a certificate in brain-scanning technology in London, ON. Paul studied hotel management in Vancouver. But Vadath dropped his course hoping he would get permanent residency faster through the nominee program. He wants to volunteer as a radiologist soon to maintain his knowledge of the field.

Their challenges and sharing a room has bonded the two. They don’t have to sleep on the same bed because Paul works graveyard shifts while Vadath works during the day.

On the rare occasion they have the same time off, they would lay on the bed together. One would be on the phone, the other on a laptop.

“It’s not a big deal because in India we

“But there’s just one bathroom. And how would we deal with that because we’ll all wake up at the same time?” tered Canada with student visas, they now hold temporary-work permits. When they found out they could be channelled into permanent residency through the Yukon nominee program, they moved to Whitehorse.

Paul moved in 2011, Vadath arrived in June.

Paul and his other roommate used to each pay $500 rent before Vadath joined them.

“It was really hard,” Paul says. He would use his entire first bi-weekly paycheque just for rent and utilities.

Now the three roommates pay $350 each for their housing, electricity and Internet. But that’s still barely enough, Vadath says, and both he and Paul have stopped sending money to their families in India. “We’re spending more than we’re making,” Vadath says, laughing.

Luckily, their parents and loved ones don’t depend on remittances from them.

“Every child in India has a wish to study abroad,” Vadath says.

Despite their education and qualifications, the men have taken a step down in the hopes of gaining citizenship in Canada. Even with minimum-wage salaries, they’re still better off in this country.

“If I work in a job like Tim Hortons in

used to do the same thing. Four or five people would share a room, it’s like throwing fish all together—something like that,” Vadath says, chuckling.

The men remain positive despite their paycheque-to-paycheque lifestyle.

“Money’s not going to bring you happiness. It’s secondary, always,” Vadath says.

Not many immigrants are accepted to the Yukon Nominee Program (YNP), according to the territory’s education department, which administers the stream.

Only 721 workers were accepted to the program, with an additional 748 of their dependents brought to the territory, since its inception in 2007.

Those numbers initially might not seem high, but considering the Filipino community’s numbers in the Yukon, the program proves to be the most attractive stream towards immigration.

Approximately 2000 Filipinos live in the territory, while 53 percent of the people who use the nominee program are from the Philippines. Three Filipina women who also work in Whitehorse’s

service sector live the same way in an apartment just below Vadath and Paul’s.

They are also highly skilled workers who came to the Yukon with temporary-work visas. One was a midwife, the other a biologist and the third a nurse. They also each work two jobs.

Former midwife Maria Gualves has barely had a day off this summer. She came to Whitehorse through the Live-in Caregiver Program. She still hasn’t received her permanent residency, which is promised to nannies after they complete a two-year contract or 3900 hours of work. It’s been four years and she’s still waiting.

Gualves opens up her home to other Filipina nannies on the weekends. Sometimes three or four of them sleep in the living room on those days.

“I do it because I know all too well what it feels like, to have nowhere to go on the weekends,” she says. “We nannies would hang out in the library because that’s the only place you can stay for a long time.”

Like Paul and Vadath, they’re used to cramming into apartments.

“In the Philippines, that’s our culture,” she says. “If we can be six in the apartment, why not? Our rent would be even les.

“But there’s just one bathroom. And how would we deal with that because we’ll all wake up at the same time to work?”

Paul, Vadath and Gualves have moved around for years, going where they would most likely get permanent residency depending on the immigration policy of the time. Paul moved from Vancouver to Calgary to Whitehorse in the span of four years. Vadath initially arrived in Ontario in 2011, then moved to Saskatchewan before making his way to the Yukon.

Cabardo says that he’s met temporary workers from Alberta, Saskatchewan and BC who were attracted to the Yukon because of the nominee program.

Gualves, on the other hand, has travelled all over the world in search of a better life since 1989. She worked as a domestic worker in Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and Taiwan before making her way to Canada.

“You just scrape and scrape, every day,” she says.

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KRYSTLE@VUEWEEKLY.COM

This article previously ran in The Tyee on July 19

CURTIS AND ERICA

C: I would cling onto my grandpa’s pull-cart golf bag before I could walk, so that’s how I was introduced to the golf course. Got my first hole-in-one when I was 10-years-old.

E: And he says he’s not that good.

Vue: So what’s your handicap?

C: About a four.

Vue: What’s your passion in life [Erica]?

C: Cats.

E: No! I have three of them and I really like them.

Their names are Timber and Nala and Juno. They’re really cute. They all get along. They’re just sweet; sweeter than him.

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FRONT NEWS // TAR SANDS

Recent oil spill at Cold Lake steam project being poorly dealt with

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or more than six weeks, bitumen emulsion has been leaking out of the ground at a high-pressure cyclic steam project operated by Canadian Natural Resources Limited on the Cold Lake Weapons Range—also known as the CNRL Primrose project—and no one seems to know how to stop it.

The harmful substance has spilled into a nearby slough and impacted approximately 20.7 hectares of land (according to the latest report from the Alberta Energy Regulator reflecting data collected from all four Primrose sites in the area), posing ongoing risks to the environment, wildlife and waterways, despite its emergency status being lifted as of July 17. Approximately 6000 barrels have spilled. The spill also threatens traditional hunting territory of the Beaver Lake Cree and Cold Lake First Nations.

“According to our traditional hunting-territory map, the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range, CNRL Primrose site falls within our traditional hunting territory, and when animals are dying and water is being poisoned, our constitutionally protected rights are being infringed upon,” says Crystal Lameman, a member of the Beaver Lake Cree Nation and tar sands activist, in reference to Section 35 of the Canadian Constitution.

In response to the leak, which was reported to the AER on June 24 and

is the fourth of its kind linked to CNRL to occur in that area, a protest was held at the CNRL office in Calgary. Approximately 30 people representing Treaty 7, Cold Lake First Nation, Beaver Lake Cree and members of Greenpeace rallied in front of the building followed by a petition and sign delivery to the AER office. In addition to the immediate ramifications the spill has on the environment, it raises broader questions regarding the safety of in situ tar-sands technology.

“What they do is they put a pipe into the ground and they pump super-heated steam into the ground for weeks, if not months, and the purpose of that is to sort of melt the tar sands bitumen because of course it’s a very heavy, tar-like substance and doesn’t flow easily, so they pump this steam for months at a time to melt it out and then the idea is to suck it back out from the same pipe they were pumping steam into,” explains Mike Hudema of Greenpeace of the technology, which has been used in the province for nearly 30 years. “The danger of that, and the potential cause of some of these ruptures or blow-outs, is you’re pumping a lot of steam underground, which of course generates a lot of pressure. You hope that pressure comes back out the same pipe, but at this point it’s possible that it’s found other ways to the surface.”

The official cause of the incident is unknown at this point, but AER spokesperson Cara Tobin notes an investigation is now underway, and updates continue to be posted on the AER website as new information becomes available. The AER has also released several statements since the incident was reported, stating it is working alongside CNRL as well as Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development to ensure the incident is controlled, contained and appropriate mitigation measures are in place.

“It’s sad to say, but we’ve gotten used to pipeline spills ...”

“The company identified the leak on the 24th. How long before that it had been leaking will only be confirmed by us through our investigation process,” she says, noting the AER was aware of the other three releases that occurred at CNRL sites and ordered suspension of CNRL’s high-pressure cyclic steam stimulation operations within the Primrose East section of the project. “In response to this most recent incident the AER ordered CNRL to suspend the steaming operations within one kilometre of the incident and then

restrict steam operations through the north and south operations.”

Tobin adds that the AER must be confident an incident such as this will not happen again before the restrictions will be lifted and that personnel are working to control the release as best they can. However, it took 25 days for the AER to order CNRL to cease steaming operations in the area and it was nearly a month before the public was made aware of the order for CNRL to stop steaming due to the three previous incidents.

Lameman believes an investigation has come too little, too late. While she did not attend the protest last week, she has attempted to contact CNRL—who were unable to be reached prior to press time—to no avail. She was also denied access to the site despite it being on traditional territory. Lameman notes it wasn’t until a scientist from CNRL spoke to the Toronto Star on condition of anonymity that she was able to gain any information about the state of the site, which he described as chaos.

“It’s sad to say, but we’ve gotten used to pipeline spills and it’s really sad, but this adds even further to it when we say this isn’t a pipeline spill—this is an underground blow out, literally,” she says.

“They’re producing these tar sands on an active weapons range and this CFS process is so dangerous it requires seismic monitoring.”

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Hudema points out this type of spill occurred in 2009 and after a four-year investigation the cause remained undetermined. He believes not enough is known about the technology to operate it safely. As spills—of this nature or any other— continue to occur, another concerning point is the lack of consequences for companies responsible. An independent study was conducted by Kevin Timoney and Peter Lee—information was acquired from thousands of government documents obtained through Access to Information requests—that discovered 9262 environmental infractions in the tar sands region since 1996. Of these incidents, 4000 broke licensing conditions and only a fraction received any type of enforcement from the government—37 to be exact. That’s less than one percent.

“The Beaver Lake Cree and the Cold Lake First Nations should be allowed access to this site so we have some kind of independent verification and know what’s going on because we can’t trust the government or the company to give us factual information,” Hudema adds. “I think the second step is we really need to move to an independent energy regulator in this province because, again, we see an energy regulator that is very industry-biased.” meaghan baxter meaghan@vueweekly.com

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Boycotting Russia?

Countering the laws banning being pro-gay with LGBTQ solidarity

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Russia’s Putin government has garnered international attention and scrutiny for its recent anti-human rights laws. This government has passed a number of laws targeting lesbian and gay Russians. One law bans all public pro-gay speech and actions and another law enables police to arrest and detain any tourists or foreign nationals suspected of being lesbian, gay or “pro-gay.” These laws and the resulting anti-LGBTQ vio-

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lence that has erupted in the country are quite shocking and unnerving. It has also left many questioning why the Putin government has decided to target and threaten LGBTQ Russians and questioning how they can help those who may be in serious danger at the hands of the government and their fellow citizens.

These laws may be an indication of the growing power of religion in the country, and of the government’s

desire to appease religious communities. They may also be a product of a Russian society that is becoming more homophobic. Or they may be a political tool used to distract Russian voters from the worsening economic situation in the country.

It should be noted that all of these possible motives have been used to explain historical and contemporary Albertan and Canadian anti-LGBTQ laws and policies. With this comparison in mind, we may be able to stop chastising the Russian government and people for moving “backwards.”

Instead, we should realize that Canadian and Russian governments alike continue to target marginalized citizens in order to gain or maintain political power, and that Canadian and Russians citizens cannot be complacent in the oppression of any marginalized citizens.

Political motives aside, LGBTQ communities outside of Russia have become interested in the debate and have proposed a host of ways

to help Russian LGBTQ people. Solutions range from pressuring the Canadian government to sanction Russia, to asking for the boycott of Russian goods and services. Dan Savage and Cleve Jones have called for a boycott of Russian vodka.

Many have called for the boycott of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Boycotting the Olympics has historically been a tactic of political protest, in part because there are few events that garner such a level of international media and popular attention. Boycotts of the Olympics include fans/spectators, athletes and entire countries refusing to participate in the games.

Some have even suggested that the Winter 2014 games return to Vancouver, a city that is known for its vibrant LGBTQ community.

Yet a quick survey of recent Olympic Games reveals that people are selective about the kinds of humanrights violations that should motivate a boycott of the Olympics.

The 2008 Beijing Olympics were threatened with boycotts over the host country’s human-rights record.

Yet during the 2012 London games and the 2010 Vancouver games, concerns over the status of human rights in each country were lower on the priority list than possible problems with traffic jams in London, and the lack of snow in Whistler. This does not mean, however, that Britain and Canada have perfect human-rights records. Yet where were the calls for boycott over the Harper government’s abysmal treatment of aboriginal people, their lands and their rights?

Ultimately, we should not be using this moment to argue that Canada is a human-rights leader in the world, and that we are in a position to reprimand Russia and its people. Rather, the best form of solidarity that I’ve heard of is to offer support, both monetary and in action, to Russian LGBTQ socialjustice organizations. V

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Egypt: worse than a crime

Bloody force used against Muslim Brotherhood supporters not the way towards democracy Two massacres committed by the Egyptian army in one week. At least 130 people killed in the streets of Cairo for protesting against the military coup. It is worse than a crime (as the French diplomat Talleyrand remarked when Napoleon ordered a particularly counter-productive execution). It is a MISTAKE. It is also a crime, of course. The killing has been deliberate and precise: only trained snipers could produce so many victims who have been shot in the head or the heart. General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Adly Mansour, the tame president he has installed, tell the kind of lies that generals and politicians always tell when this sort of thing is going on, but the reports of the journalists on the scene leave no room for doubt: this is murder.

But it is, above all, a mistake. When the army fulfilled the demands of the anti-government demonstrators in Tahrir Square on July 3 by overthrow-

ing the elected president, Mohammed Morsi, after only a year in office, it must have known that his supporters in the Muslim Brotherhood would protest in the streets. And it must have had a plan for dealing with those protests. Soldiers always have plans.

The simplest plan would be just to wait the protesters out. The Muslim Brotherhood could put large numbers of people on the streets, but at least in Cairo an even larger number of people would go to Tahrir Square and support the coup. Use minimum force, contain the demonstrations by both sides and wait for people to get bored and go home.

In the meanwhile, push on with the process of rewriting the constitution to remove the Islamic bits inserted last year by Morsi’s party and hold a new referendum to ratify it. By the time fresh presidential and parliamentary elections are held early next year, the Muslim Brotherhood will presum-

ably have found more modern and moderate leaders to replace Morsi— and in any case the secular parties will win the election.

Was this really Sisi’s scenario for the future when he overthrew Morsi’s government? Perhaps: the army’s moderate behaviour in the first week after the coup could support that hypothesis. But it wouldn’t have taken long for the soldiers to understand that things were unlikely to work according to plan.

In this scenario, the turning point would have come when Sisi or his advisers finally realized that the Muslim Brotherhood could wait it out, too.

Whatever the intervening process, if the Brotherhood was really free to run again in the promised election next year, it might win again. That would be catastrophic for the army’s very privileged position in Egypt—so the Brotherhood had to be excluded from politics.

That is a charitable take on the army’s motives. The likelier explanation, alas, is that Sisi planned to ban the Brotherhood from the start. Democracy be damned: the “deep state”, that permanent collusion between well-fed Egyptian soldiers and bureaucrats and the foreign military and commercial interests who feed them, is making a comeback. And the political idiots on Tahrir Square are cheering it on.

Either way, the army’s political project now requires the massive use of force: the supporters of the Brotherhood must be driven from the streets, by murder if necessary, and its leaders must be criminalized and banned. And other political idiots, in Washington, London and Paris, are going along with that too.

President Barack Obama is uncomfortable with what is happening, but he won’t call it a coup because then he would be obliged to cut off $1.5 billion per year in aid to the Egyptian

army. Instead, he calls it a “post-revolution transition,” and promises that the United States will be a “strong partner to the Egyptian people as they shape their path to the future.”

Egypt is the biggest Arab country by far, and so long as the democratic revolution prospered in Egypt you could still say that the “Arab Spring” was changing things for the better, even despite the calamity in Syria. But it’s very hard to see how the Egyptians can find their way back from where they are now.

Even worse, the Egyptian coup is stark proof that political Islam cannot succeed by taking the democratic path. The message it conveys to devout Islamists all over the Arab world is that Osama bin Laden was right: only by violence can their political project succeed.

Thanks a bunch, General Sisi. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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FILM

FILM EDITOR : PAUL BLINOV PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

REVUE // DRAMA

Not quite fairy tale

Blancanieves a beautiful but overly campy take on Snow White

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panish writer/director Pablo possible cultural stereotypes. It Berger’s second feature trans- felt to me both pandering and acaports the titular Brothers Grimm demic, which is a rare enough comfairy tale—Blancanieves is a literal bination, I suppose. Perhaps it is too translation of Snow White—to a much the supposedly critic-friendly mythical 1920s Andalucia brimming film—the sort that brings out the with flamenco dancers, bullfighters unfriendly side of this critic. and other such regional kitsch. In Our heroine is one Carmen (Makeeping with the period setting, carena García), daughter of a beBerger relays his vaguely feminist loved toreador (Mexican actor Danrevision as a monochromatic silent iel Giménez Cacho) and a flamenco film, replete with title cards and an- dancer (Inma Cuesta). Mom dies in tiquated effects. I attended a num- childbirth, dad gets paralyzed by ber of film festivals over the course a bull named Lucifer, and so along of the last year where the film was comes Encarna (Maribel Verdú, Y screening and noTu Mamá Tamticed a consistently Fri, Aug 2 – Thu, Aug 8 bién Like Phylbién). divided response: Directed by Pablo Berger lis Nirdlinger in viewers seemed Metro Cinema at the Garneau Double Indemeither charmed or  nity nity, Encarna irritated. I fell more worms her way into the latter into the family camp—in part because of the film’s via her role as a kindly nurse, but incessant camp. she proves plenty wicked once she To give credit to the complexity of assumes the role of stepmother. both Berger’s motives and the film’s The most appealing, iconoclastic layered qualities, Blancanieves is spin on the familiar renditions of a peculiar beast, at once an obvi- Snow White is the way Berger imous labour of love—the film could bues Carmen with more agency and hardly have been easy to finance— grit. Gender restrictions be damned, and a work shrewdly calibrated to this Snow White is following Dad’s adhere to current cinephile fashion, slippered footsteps into the ring. such as retro formalism—à la Tabu, She becomes a great bullfighter.

The Artist and Guy Maddin’s entire What else? Oh, the dwarves. There career—and fairy tale re-visitation, are seven of them. I guess they’re evident in various other recent ver- kind of funny. sions of Snow White. It is an ostensible love letter to some Spanish I frequently felt frustrated by past but is shamelessly pitched to Blancanieves’ simplistic emotional an international market, sticking landscape and its insistence on closely as it does to the broadest slavishly appropriating silent era

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tics without bringing anything very fresh to the exercise (this is what I meant when I called it academic).

My favourite scene by far was the final, sombre one, tinged with tragedy and genuine mystery. Yet when I saw the film for the first time in

Toronto, Berger immediately took the stage afterwards for a Q&A and rather smugly confessed that he deliberately chose an ambiguous finale because he figured that would make the film seem smarter. So if it seems like I’m picking on the film, let

me say that it’s kind of asking to be picked on. If you’re willing to simply take pleasure in its handsomely photographed surfaces, you probably won’t feel as ornery.

the story, too.

The movie stuffs in one too many fight scenes in its latter half; the climactic reveal, after much of the sustained noir-ish atmosphere, seems over-the-top comic-bookish.

But by going more with anguish and small, unsettling scenes in a

honour-coded culture that clashes subtly with Logan’s animal instincts, The Wolverine edges towards being one of the most unassuming and oddly satisfying blockbusters of a clanging, banging summer.

JOSEF BRAUN

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his blockbuster season has tycoon’s business empire. And both a metal ring to it: Iron Man, a yakuza gang and a mutant named Man of Steel, Pacific Rim’s robots, Viper (Svetlana Khodchenkova) and now the adamantium bones have designs on Yashida’s grandand “snikt!” claws of The Wolver- daughter Mariko (Tao Okamoto). ine. Preferring to stay broody and small-time, though, this minimal- Wracked by guilt and grief, Wolist noir, with little dialogue and verine’s more wounded than hero no world-threatening schemes, here—rarely has the good guy been intriguingly sustains its culture so shot up in a comic-book flick. clash and blurring lines between And the action’s doled out sparingly early on—it’s mostly just a thrillman, beast and monster. ing blade-verWolverine, aka sus-blade duel Logan (Hugh Jack- Now playing on a bullet-train man), is still haunt- Directed by James Mangold ed by his necessary  killing of beloved Jean Grey (Famke Janssen). He’s tracked down up north by Yukio (Rila Fukushima), who says Yashida (Hal Yamanouchi), a man Logan saved during the bombing of Nagasaki, is dying. Logan comes to Japan and, though he rejects Yashida’s offer to take away his immortality, freeing him for a natural death, the sideburned eviscerator finds himself embroiled in a feud for the

roof.

There’s lots of fascinating other-ness, never reduced to weirdness—a mutant’s even more outsider in a culture where women are kept at arm’s length from men’s affairs. Yet in a movie where Logan’s easily blasted back to memories of a burning 1945 Japan, histories and cultures also overlap.

Yashida’s corporation seems little different from an in-fighting clan; Logan’s not far from a sword-flash-

Thwarted by ninjas!

ing samurai; Jean’s overshadowed by genes, as Logan’s pursued for his mutation as much as he’s demonized for it. Male honour and family respect come up against arrogant self-interest and moral rightness.

There’s a strain of Frankenstein-ian monstrousness coursing through

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The To Do List

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lthough set in 1993 Idaho, The To Do List starts generically, ticking off the boxes for a formulaic white-girl-has-to-loseher-virginity flick: uptight nerdy

girl; falls for pec-flaunting hunk; has cooler friends; lots of dirty sex talk; much humiliation of uptight nerdy girl. After a bland half-hour, though, writer-director

Maggie Carey’s feature debut gets cool about sex and refuses to moralize about Brandy Klark (Aubrey Plaza) as she makes her way through her personalized

sex-learner’s handbook. The mov- approach to sexucation, the males ie finds some laughs and even a around her start to look, interestlittle complexity in its pull-her- ingly, more pathetic. One’s a little self-up-by-her-bra-straps, screw- emotionally lost; another’s a fakit-yourself protagonist. Still, it’s a ing-it slacker; the hunk proves to long way from the plucky, strong- be rather boring. The movie sugwilled satire to gests that, postReagan ’80s be found in the Now Playing top students Directed by Maggie Carey and pre-Internet porn, young in this class of  comedy—Elecwomen were doing it—and figuring life out— tion (1999) and Easy A (2010).

Top high-school graduate Bran- more and more for themselves, dy, suddenly feeling the stirring as young men got a little bit left, of her libido after seeing a hunk and lost, behind. at a kegger, sets herself to studyBrandy breezes through her ing up, hands-on, most forms sexperimentation and the movie of sensual overload until she never reduces, to mere sex farce, has sex with the hunk himself. her summer trip through her Meanwhile, the movie fumbles to-do list. And for all the seenfor its sensibility, drops in too that-before antics or unmemomany winking references to 1993 rable stretches, there’s a certain (Beaches as the flick to see with poignancy to Cameron’s (Johnny your girlfriends, skorts, a framed Simmons) crush on Brandy and photo of Hillary Clinton, floral- a tender complexity to the film’s print tops, the “Roger Rabbit” final scene—where brainy, wordy dance) and plops down a lazy Brandy, still so sure of herself, can lose it all for a few moments gross-out gag. in that bawdy, body world of Brandy’s still the butt of nasty hormones ... and there’s nothing sexism at times—“bitch” and non-feminist, un-cool or stupid “slut” are tossed around loose- about it. ly—but as she perseveres in her BRIAN GIBSON no-nonsense, let’s-try-this next BRIAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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3” wide Before Midnight

Before Midnight

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Metro Cinema at the Garneau Their story already goes back some 18 years, but Before Midnight finds Jesse and Celine married, in their 40s with children of their own, vacationing in Greece where a seemingly innocent idea lays the seed of discontent that will grow into a potentially cataclysmic battle between a passive-aggressive husband and a more brazenly resent-

ful wife. Director Richard Linklater elegantly lets Before Midnight’s 12345 12 234 45 five sections play out in long takes, adding to the sense of the real, to the earned intimacy and organic burgeoning of tension. On Monday, August 5, Metro Cinema is pairing Midnight with its two prequels in a daylong triple-bill.

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Pacific Rim

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Guillermo Del Toro’s latest busts up city blocks and seems, in broad outline, to be Transformers versus Godzilla. The action sequences actually thrill in their rhythms, but there’s also Top Gun clichés and sputtering chemistry between The Conjuring two characters who come off, in  the movie’s clanky, clunky dancing around their romance, as WASP A “based on real events” and spunky Asian.

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film, The Conjuring director James Wan’s mature style is put to much better use here than it was in Insidious. The film derives a certain flavour from horror films of the ’70s, and its engagement is sustained to a substantial degree on account of version 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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The food of love

Chicken With Plums serves up the beauty of a broken heart Loren’s breasts is much more explicit yet tender). But mostly this adaptation—playing with sepia, silhouettes, slanted perspectives, angels of death and plumes of smoke—retains a sad dreaminess and a melancholy comic-ness without ever getting cartoonish.

Memories both rosy and wan

Back in 2007, Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud’s adaptation of Satrapi’s graphic memoir, Persepolis—mostly recalling her childhood in Iran and adolescence in exile—was an arthouse-circuit hit, grossing almost $27-million worldwide and nabbing an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature Film. Five years later, the pair’s adaptation of her Chicken with Plums—based on the last days of a tar-playing great-uncle—grossed not even $2-million worldwide and didn’t even open in Canada last fall, only coming here on disc this year.

The failure’s both strange— Chicken with Plums is as good a book in its way as Persepolis and a more ambitious film—and fitting, since the story’s about failure. The story’s also strange, though—perhaps too strange for distributors to eagerly boost, especially after animation of a childhood made ’80s Iran so much more palatable for Westerners. Instead, this liveaction film’s part-elegy, part-fable, unfolding in distant 1958 Tehran, about love lost, mourned and com-

memorated, over and over, through art ... “for it is through art that we understand life.”

The art is Nasser Ali-Khan’s music (his tar’s been changed to a violin).

When he can no longer play, his beloved instrument broken and irreplaceable—this is a film about the irrecoverable, the unforgivable and the unbearable—Nasser (Mathieu Amalric) decides to die. As the last eight days of his life tick away, the story curlicues back to a chance encounter glimpsed early on or raises the delicate whorls of Nasser’s moments with his children to the stained fingerprints of their future.

Suffused with longing and whimsy, Chicken with Plum’s tone can get a little stretched here and there—the US future of Nasser’s son Cyrus is too broadly drawn (though it adds a new twist to the stereotype of the obese American) and a graveside talk seems out of a mediocre mash-up of King Lear and Macbeth. And it can be a touch twee, even cautious, in places (the book’s rendering of Nasser’s erotic fantasy of nestling between Sophia

Nasser is particular to the point of eccentric stubbornness; he’s not much of a father, can be tetchy, and is obstinate—once he decides to die, he will. (If people here aren’t snappish and willful, then they’re unable to admit how shattered they are by heartache.) Yet he’s humanized more and more as his life ebbs, and it’s here that the film realizes something, through its flashbacks and flashforwards, that most movies about memory don’t. It’s the cinema’s ability to burnish but also darken, to cast a wan glow over the past, not just a rosy hue—to shade nostalgia with regret and ruefulness. We see the gleaming hopes of Nasser’s youth become tarnished; his sorrow and heartache make for great art—“At last you have managed to seize the sigh,” his violin-master tells him— but slowly sour his life.

“I’ve lost the taste, the joy, the savour,” Nasser says, explaining his self-exile, his drifting away from life. His once-upon-a-time desire thwarted, his one true love broken, he made himself a “monster,” his proud but neglected wife (Maria de Madeiros) tells him, but the film mostly—especially in its final grace notes—makes him a man again, through its heartfeltness and artfulness.

DENZEL WASHINGTON AND MARK WAHLBERG ARE AT THEIR BEST.” “

Joe Neumaier, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

★★★★★

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Larry King, LARRY KING NOW

SMART, TENSE AND TOUGH.

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The most entertaining action movie of the summer!”

Marshall Fine, STAR MAGAZINE

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Fri, AUG 2-Thu, Aug 8, 2013 CHABA THEATRE–JASPER

6094 Connaught Dr Jasper, 780.852.4749

Grown Ups 2 (PG crude content, not rec for young children) Daily 1:30 , 7:00, 9:10

The wolverine (14A violence) Daily 1:30, 6:50, 9:10 DUGGAN CINEMA–CAMROSE 6601-48 Ave Camrose, 780.608.2144

Grown Ups 2 (PG crude content, not rec for young children)

Epic (G) Daily 1:05; 3d: Daily 4:15, 6:50, 9:15 After Earth (PG violence, not rec for young children) Daily 3:45, 9:10

Now You See Me (PG coarse language) Daily 1:30, 4:10, 7:15, 9:55

White House Down (14A violence) Daily 1:15, 4:05, 7:05, 9:50

The Great Gatsby (PG violence, not rec for young children) Daily 1:50; 3d: Daily 5:00, 9:00

The Internship (PG crude coarse language, not rec for young children) Fri-Wed 1:35, 4:30, 7:20, 9:55 The Purge (14A violence) Daily 1:45, 4:40, 7:30, 9:35 Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (14A) Hindi W/E.S.T. Daily 12:50, 4:50, 8:45 Best Of Luck (PG violence) Punjabi W/E.S.T. Daily 1:10, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 Chennai Express (STC) Hindi W/E.S.T. Thu 1:10, 4:30, 7:50 Naughty Jatts (STC) Punjabi W/E.S.T. Daily 1:20, 3:55, 6:45, 9:25 =

CINEPLEX ODEON NORTH

Daily 7:15, 9:25; SAT-SUN, MON-TUE, THU 2:15

Despicable Me 2 (G) FRI-TUE 7:30; SAT-SUN, MON, TUE 2:30 The wolverine (14A violence) Daily 6:30, 9:10; Sat-Sun, Mon-Tue, Thu 1:30

RED 2 (PG violence, not rec. for young children) Daily 6:45, 9:20; SAT-SUN, MON-TUE 1:45 The Smurfs 2 (G) Daily 7:00, 9:15; SAT-TUE, THU 2:00 We're The Millers (14A crude coarse language, sexual content) WED, Aug 7-THU 7:20, 9:30; THU 2:20 CINEMA CITY MOVIES 12 5074-130 Ave 780.472.9779

The Croods (G) Daily 1:25, 6:40 Star Trek Into Darkness (PG not rec for young children, violence) Daily 1:00; 3d : Daily 3:50, 6:55, 9:40 Fast & Furious 6 (14A violence) Daily 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00

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MONSTERS UNIVERSITY (G) Fri, Sun-Tue, Thu 1:30, 4:10; Sat, Wed 11:05, 1:30, 4:10

THE LONE RANGER (PG violence) Fri-Tue, Thu 6:45, 10:00; Wed 10:00

ELYSIUM (14A gory violence) Thu 10:00 DESPICABLE ME 2 (G) Fri, Mon-Tue 11:45, 1:15; Sat 11:00, 11:45, 1:25; Sun 1:15, 2:40; Wed 11:10, 1:25; Thu 1:15; 3d : Daily 3:50, 6:20, 8:45 R.I.P.D. 3D (PG frightening scenes, coarse language, not rec for young children) Fri-Tue 1:00, 3:20, 8:20, 10:50; Wed 1:00, 3:20, 10:50; Thu 1:00, 3:20 PACIFIC RIM (PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young children) Daily 4:20; 3d : Daily 1:20, 7:20, 10:20 TURBO (G) Fri-Tue 11:40, 2:00, 4:15, 6:35, 8:50; Wed-Thu 11:40, 2:00, 4:15 WORLD WAR Z (14A frightening scenes, violence) Fri-Sat,

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THIS SUMMER’S ‘LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE’.”

-Claudia Puig,

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WAY, WAY WONDERFUL.

A JOYOUS MOVIE , THE BEST ONE I’VE SEEN IN A VERY LONG TIME.” -Joe Morgenstern,

STEVE CARELL TONI COLLETTE ALLISON JANNEY ANNASOPHIA ROBB SAM ROCKWELL MAYA RUDOLPH AND LIAM JAMES

11:00, 11:50, 1:10; Sat 11:15; 3d : Fri, Sun-Tue 4:00, 5:50, 7:10, 9:40; Sat 11:00, 4:00, 5:50, 7:10, 9:40; Wed-Thu 4:00, 7:10, 9:40 PERCY JACKSON SEA OF MONSTERS (STC) Wed 11:20, 1:50; Thu 1:50; 3D: Wed-Thu 4:30, 7:15, 9:55 RED 2 (PG violence, not rec for young children) Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:45, 6:40, 9:30; Thu 12:50, 3:45, 6:40 GROWN UPS 2 (PG crude content, not rec for young children) Fri-Tue, Thu 12:20, 5:20, 7:45, 10:15; Wed 12:20, 3:45, 7:35, 10:15 THE WOLVERINE 3D (14A violence) Fri-Tue, Thu 1:40, 7:40; Wed 7:40; Star & Strollers Screening: Wed 1:00; 3d : Daily 4:40, 10:40l 3d : Ultraavx : Daily 12:30, 3:30, 6:50, 9:50 THE HEAT (14A crude coarse language) Fri-Tue 12:40, 3:20, 6:30, 9:20; Wed-Thu 6:35, 9:20 THE CONJURING (14A frightening scenes, disturbing content) Daily 2:15, 5:00, 8:00, 10:45 2 GUNS (14A violence) Daily 12:00, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Earth (PG) Sun 12:45; Wed 11:00 My Dog Skip (G) Sat 11:00 WE'RE THE MILLERS (14A crude coarse language, sexual content) Wed 1:15, 4:00, 6:30, 9:10, 10:45; Thu 12:10, 2:45, 5:30, 8:10, 10:50 PLANES 3D (G) Thu 7:00, 9:25 Andre Rieu Live In Maastricht 2013 (G) Wed 7:00

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REVUE // SALVADORIAN

Mamenche’s Restaurant settles into new location

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id you let another International If you visited its previous location, Pupusa Day go by unobserved you know that Mamenche’s used to this past weekend? It certainly look a little like a Central American slipped by me, despite my yearly rummage sale inside, with copious resolution to mark it on next year’s colourful bric-a-brac lavished on calendar. I love the eponymous Sal- walls and tables, as well as wall stenvadorian comestible, a fresh-made, cils in English and Spanish imploring pan-fried flat-cake you to enjoy the food and ambiance made from corn Mamenche’s Restaurant flour, filled with 10831 - 101 St (primarily a couple mild white cheese 780.497.0037 of TVs showing and your choice hilariously overof savoury fillwrought Mexican ing (typically beans and/or seasoned telenovelas). The new venue is more pork), and served with a simple mari- spacious and less cluttered with sounated cabbage n’ carrot slaw called venir gewgaws but, troublingly, not curtido. Usually you also get a thin very well patronized the couple of tomatillo sauce and, if you’re really times I’ve been there lately. fortunate (or eating at Acajutla), a smooth, spicy avocado sauce.

At the very least, people should be Luckily, even if you missed official cruising Mamenche’s for their puceremonies (or the pupusa feast pusa fix—in addition to the expected mounted by the local Salvadorian pupusas, they also offer ones filled community at Alberta Avenue Hall with cheese and loroco—a vine bud on Saturday), you have a fairly broad that adds a little chlorophyll to the choice of venues for getting the food, mix—and, on one of my visits, cheese if not the pageantry, venerated the and spinach. At $3 – $3.50, they are world over on that special (and appar- a full-on snack bargain, and three or ently hard-to-remember) occasion. four of them would easily make a In addition to the aforementioned meal. If you listen, you can actually Acajutla, pupusas are available—and hear the cook slapping your pupusa hand-made to order—at El Rancho from hand to hand to ready it for the and the confusingly named Roma Bis- pan. If Acajutla makes the more flatro (both on 118 Avenue) and at the vourful pupusa (and they just might), new location of former 97th Street Mamenche’s are the more generous, denizen Mamenche’s, which now sits wide and well-stuffed, with lots of approximately across 101 Street from soft corn-dough around the copious Victoria High School. filling. As the server admitted, having

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to use frozen loroco doesn’t provide quite the authenticity furnished by the pupuserías of San Salvador, but the spinach pupusa’s dark green interior was a tasty textural alternative to the loroco pupusa’s cheesiness.

My co-diner seized on the tacos de res ($7.50 for two) as her entrée. They looked awfully good— a pair of soft tortillas laden with chunks of marinated beef, tomatoes, onions, slices of avocado and ticker-tape parade of cilantro. The tortillas were fresh off the griddle and a little melty, which is a rare treat in tortillas. The tacos took a squeeze of lime and hot sauce to reach their full potential.

After flailing at the scope of the menu, I more or less arbitrarily decided on the yuca con chicharrón ($9), despite the availability of fried tilapia, Salvadorian steak with bruschetta and a quarter chicken on the entrée list. There were also half-a-dozen dai-

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ly offerings on a menu board by the till that looked tempting.

I have to admit, I didn’t really understand the yuca con chicharrón.

I mean, it looked great when it arrived—dark cubes of fried fatty pork perched on a heap of fried cassava wedges, with a layer of curtido and thin tomato sauce in between. Was I missing instructions about how to make this combination of ingredients work? The pork was dense and oleaginous, the cassava wedges expertly deep-fried to an unoily golden brown, their starchy quasi-potato interior fluffy but a bit dry, and the curtido and sauce not really doing anything to mediate between them.

The parts just didn’t integrate for me, even with hot sauce.

A separate visit saw more satisfying results achieved with the enchiladas

Salvadoreñas ($7.50 for two). Supposedly edible by hand, enchiladas are housemade, fried corn-flour discs heaped with sliced chicken and hardboiled eggs, lettuce, curtido and crumbled feta cheese, with a side of tomato sauce. Good luck not feeding some to your lap—I relied on a fork and knife and still made a mess.

I’ve had good meals at Mamenche’s to fall back on, but my newbie codiner didn’t seem overly impressed (except for the affordable price-tag).

I also miss their fresh-squeezed juice beside my pupusas and the warm cinnamon-y rice pudding that used to come after. Hopefully this lull is all part of settling into the new digs and we’ll find Mamenche’s firing on all cylinders before the next International Pupusa Day rolls around.

SCOTT LINGLEY

SCOTT@VUEWEEKLY.COM

DISH 11

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wo years ago, Fort Edmonton Park The show will run for three nights, re-opened the doors of the historic and special guest Joe Flaherty will Capitol Theatre and offered Edmon- join the cast for each show. Flaherty ton audiences a beautifully restored is slated to play one of the bad guys venue and a new addition to theatre along with Mark Meer, and Anderson programming in the city. Now, with is looking forward to having his longtime friend join the pioneering artistic director Amanda Thu, Aug 1 – Sat, Aug 3 (8 pm) cast of Die-Nasty yet again.

Bergen stepping Capitol Theatre, $18, down, found- or $45 for all three shows “Joe and I met while working for ing member of Die-Nasty Dana Second City and Andersen has been appointed to the have since become good friends,” expost. Andersen’s premiere show as ar- plains Andersen. “I eventually talked tistic director will be The Full Mountie, him into coming to Edmonton to an improvised Klondike melodrama participate with Die-Nasty and he that will be performed by a cast drawn fell in love with the format and has started his own version in Los Angefrom the ranks of Die-Nasty.

“We’ve designed The Full Mountie les. When I approached him with The specifically for the Fort,” Andersen Full Mountie he offered up his time says. “We’re going to bring back the to come down and help me celebrate Klondike days while representing my new position here at the Fort.”

Andersen and cast have jokingly things that are iconic at Fort Edmonton Park. We will have characters like referred to The Full Mountie as a Klondike Kate, a corrupt mayor and “hysterically-accurate” show, and he’s his sidekick, Mounties, the school- hoping to kick off his run as artistic marm and the lady who works at the director with a production that embraces tradition, history and innovasaloon with a heart of gold.”

Not quite Due South, but probably way funnier

tion in order to take advantage of everything the venue has to offer.

“We’re going to try to keep things Edmonton-oriented, but there are many opportunities to expand programming,” Andersen explains.

“Vaudeville shows, variety shows, more improv. We want to make

sure there’s a lot of tradition involved while still diversifying things for audiences.

“The idea is to have people come to Fort Edmonton as a destination,” Andersen continues. “Have a cocktail, see a show, see the Fort and find a new hidden culture in the

valley of Edmonton. I hope this is the beginning of improv’s relationship with the Fort, and that we can use the medium to interpret the park to people in new and enjoyable ways.”

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PLAY: Toys + Age = Art

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LAY: Toys + Age = Art, currently on at dc3 Art Projects, is an exhibition filled with toys and references to childhood: a dollhouse; Atari-style joysticks; images of teddy bears and plushies; a recreation of the Mighty Men and the Barbie Doll Maker kits; a playroom. A compelling mix of two- and threedimensional works, PLAY quickly summons forgotten memories of games played in childhood, and the

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abuses these sometimes suffered at the hands of imagination.

At the entrance, viewers are greeted with a short film and a suite of photographs by Amalie Atkins, one of this year’s nominees for the Sobeys Art Prize and featured in Mass MoCA’s year-long exhibition of Canadian art Oh, Canada. Though not directly related, both film and photos contain the same cast of characters: a girl in a gingham dress and a wolf in a jump-

suit. The photographs form “Scenes from a Secret World”—a series of images without a set narrative, hung in a way that elicits a story where the missing gaps are filled in by the viewer. The escapism of playing dress-up and the possibility of choosing one’s own adventure—hallmarks of childhood—wonderfully prime expectations for what’s to come.

Down the hall and into the main space, Craig Le Blanc’s “One on

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One”—two smooth, black, nine- templates of bodies, legs and heads foot-tall joysticks—command atten- together to produce rubbings? Baker tion. Rather than being connected to does, and has recreated one such a game console, these incredibly se- kit in the form of a yellow and blue ductive and tactile forms are joined plastic twin bed where the body parts from 10 together by a short different male power cord. With- Until Sat, Aug 17 out power from dc3 Art Projects and female arthe game console chetypes can be inserted the joysticks are rendered analog. In their inability to into the frame. A sheet of paper is interface digitally, players must now then inserted at the headboard and interact one-on-one and play directly clamped down at the foot of the bed, with each other. and Candler invites visitors to literdc3 is a commercial gallery, though ally climb into bed to create the rubit’s not of the ilk we’re accustomed to bing. Once the rubbing is complete, seeing in Edmonton. Gallery founder visitors can take their newest friend and director David Candler takes big home with them, playing into both risks and shows provocative contem- childhood and adult fantasies of an porary works we’d be more likely to ideal playmate. see in an artist-run centre or public Packed with direct references to gallery. Perhaps the best example of childhood, the works in PLAY walk this is in Cindy Baker’s “Mighty Men the line between subversive and inand Mistress Maker,” a work that is nocent experiences. The way these both for sale and which he encour- works are read comes as a result of ages visitors to play with. age, encouraging viewers to look back and reconsider childhood with Remember those Mighty Men and a simultaneous sense of treachery Barbie Doll Maker kits that allowed and nostalgia. you to create new heros or fashion MEGAN BERTAGNOLLI statements by combining different MEGANB@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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Water Into Art

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atercolours tend to be loved as I fear the current AGA exhibifor the same reason they tion Water Into Art: British WaCustomizable and secure. storage to workspace. are disliked: as a medium they are From tercolours from the V&A, 1750capable ofSteel great softness 1950 does by focusing on motifs containers from 8' -and 53'. detail, making20'them perfectly suited of people and landscapes for this & 40' skids with optional 4' landings available. Mount with twist locks.

780collection 440 4037 | SEACAN.COM for easy-to-look-at subject mat- great of works. My bias ter while provocative or complex tends to be towards putting socontent often appears optional or cial context at the forefront with beside the point. Unfortunately, survey exhibitions such as these, this familiar idea also misses what but with this show in particular, is interesting about watercolours, such an orientation would have

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particularly brought the V&A col- around 1803 evoke the immelection to life. diacy possible in nature studies As the initial text in the exhibi- created outdoors, thanks to the tion explains, it was only in the portability and expressive capaearly years of the 19th century bilities of the medium. The meticthat watercolours were exhibited ulous detail with which this unfinished work alongside oil paintwas created ings, since it was a Until Sun, Nov 24 shows an inmedium previously Art Gallery of Alberta terest in raexcluded from the fine art realm and kept as a tool tional observation and recording, for scientific record keeping—a connecting back to watercolour’s way to document the distinct- roots as scientific documentaness of plant and animal spe- tion. Walking through Water cies. Text explains how the rise Into Art with this idea of ratioof the watercolour as a portable nality in observation in mind, medium came alongside the rise you can see artists grapple with of the amateur painter and land- the concept. This is clear in John scapes as a subject worthy of Constable’s “Study of Sky Effect” painting. However, it makes no (1833), which shows an attempt mention of how those develop- to bring together the expressive ments were the result of mass and emotive possibilities in the production as the reason for medium and the subject matter, the portability, industrialization as well as the former’s scientific and improving labour laws as the recording potential. The idea of reason the middle class existed rationality is further complicated and had time to paint, and an in- in watercolours created in and creasingly secular society having portraying British colonial explosome responsibility for why non- ration, which may have recorded religious subjects were painted. city and landscape, but also exoticized it.

When you visit this exhibition Nature studies in the exhibition, such as Cornelius Varley’s “Wa- of fascinating works, see through terfall near Capel Curig” from the immediacy and the detailed

observational appearance of the medium and its construction in this show, and you will uncover the fascinating subjectivities. The exhibition focuses of painting style and general motifs in the images to the detriment of the greater, more engaging story of how British artists understood people, urban and rural landscapes, and their country’s colonial pursuits. This snapshot into how people comprehended their world in Britain is, in many ways, best told in the portable, accessible medium of watercolour—who knew it could be so interesting?

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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 • 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 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

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

Heaven: The Chinese World in Maps, Pictures, and Texts from the Collection of Floyd Sully: Works from Floyd Sully's collection

Centre d’arts visuels de l’Albertas (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • VITALITY:

Gallerie Pava • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 •

Rhéa Pioffe, Carmon Mulligan and members of Northgate Seniors Painting Club • Until Aug 13

Crooked Pot Gallery–Stony Plain • 4912-51

Ave, Stony Plain • 780.963.9573 • Summertime Blues: Wheel and slab built, functional and decorative pottery by Bruce and Donna Wakeford; Aug 1-31; reception: Sat, Aug 3, 11-3pm

dc3 Art Projects • 10567-111 St • dc3art-

projects.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

Art Gallery Of St Albert (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstal-

Burlesque Events • Stanley Milner Library

Theatre, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Presents Melody Mangler and April O'Peel • Aug 9, 8pm (door, pre-show drinks), 9pm (show) • $20, proceeds to the Edmonton Burlesque Festival

Bailey Theatre–Camrose • sbaileytheatre.

com • Summer Movie Series presents: Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Apart (G) • Aug 12, 7pm • $7 (adult)/$5 (youth/senior)/$20 (family)

Churchill Square • The Princess Bride; interactive and outside; dress as the character they love, or love to hate. Bring your own chair • Fri, Aug 2, 7:30pm (pre-show); 9:30pm (dusk) • Free Edmonton Film Society • Royal Alberta Museum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave • Summer 2013 Series: Musicals for a Summer Night: until Aug 26 • The Harvey Girls (1946, colour, PG); Aug 12, 8pm • $6/$5 (senior/student)/$30 (membership for the series, 8 films) Edmonton Movie Club • Garneau Theatre,

8712-109 St • Gujarati Movie of the Year Kevi Rite Jaish (PG) • Aug 11, 6:15pm

From Books to Film • Stanley A. Milner

Library Centennial Rm, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • Cocoon (1985, PG-13); Fri, Aug 2, 2pm • Contact (1997, PG); Fri, Aug 9, 2pm

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 • Fatal Attraction (STC); Aug 10, 1:30pm

The Piano Film Series • Metro Cinema at the

Garneau, 8712-109 St • Features critically acclaimed feature-length films that revolve around the subject of the piano, this series coincides with the exhibition The Piano, at the AGA • $10/$8 (AGA and Metro member/ student/senior) at Metro Cinema box office • Thirty Two Short Films about Glenn Gould; Tue, Aug 13, 7pm

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-

106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Discovery Gallery: 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 • Static BlooM: Botanical polymer clay wall art by St Albert artist Kristin Anderson; Aug 3-Sep 7; reception: Sat, Aug 3, 2-4pm • 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 • Explore 100 years of Canada's railway heritage; walk through the railway cars, climb into the caboose, feel the driving wheels of the locomotive, and see how Canada has been brought together by rail. Take a train ride in the steam locomotive • Aug 3-5, 10am-5pm • $5 (adult)/$3.50 (student/senior)/$2 (child)/free (kids 2 and under); train rides $4 Allied Arts Council of Spruce Grove • Spruce Grove Art Gallery, Spruce Grove Library, 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • LIQUID LANDSCAPES–DIARY OF DREAMS: Works by Vanessa Kary; until 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

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HAPPY HARBOR COMICS v1 • 10729-104 Ave • 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

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 • Closing reception: Fri, Aug 2, 6-8pm 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 Jubilee Auditorium • The Road To......: Paintings by Mali Vargas, Sarah Bing, curated by Arlene Westen-Evans • Until Aug 28

Jurassic Forest/Learning Centre • 15

mins N of Edmonton off Hwy 28A, Township Rd 564 • Education-rich entertainment facility for all ages

Latitude 53 • 10242-106 St • 780.423.5353 •

ProjEx Room: YORK: By Sydney Lancaster and Marian Switzer; until Aug 31 • Main Space: Art Party: Megan Morman; until Aug 31 • Patio: Thursday Night Patio Party: ArtsScene; Incubator series artist is

Allyson McIntyre; music with Kris Harvey and Chester Fields; After Party at the Common; Aug 1, 5-9 • EIFF (Edmonton International Film Festival), music by DJ $hortee; Incubator Series artist is April Dean; After Party at the Common; Aug 8, 5-9pm

Marjorie Wood Gallery–Red Deer • Kerry Wood Nature Centre • Places: Works by Paula Sommers • Reception, artist in in attendance: Fri, Aug 2, 5-7pm

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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

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Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony

Plain • 780.963.9935 • multicentre.org • Tanya Harnett • Until Aug 28

Musée Héritage Museum–St Albert • 5 St

TIME TRAVEL TO ERAS WHEN EATING LOCALLY WASN'T A MOVEMENT BUT A WAY OF LIFE! DISCOVER THE ROLE OF FOOD IN THE PIONEERS' LIFESTYLE AND OF COURSE, YOU'VE GOT TO DO YOUR CHORES IF YOU WANT A TASTE OF PIE!

WWW.FORTEDMONTONPARK.CA bert.ca • Animal Spirit: Works by Joane CardinalSchubert, Jason Carter, Erik Lee Christophersen, Terry McCue, and Aaron Paquette; from the AFA collection; until Sep 7; coincides with the Alberta Indigenous Games in St Albert; Aug 4-8

Daffodil Gallery • 10412-124 St • 780.760.1278 • Off-Whyte–Whyte Avenue Art Walk Holdover Show: until Aug 4 • Blooming: Aug 6-31 • Until Aug 3

Art from the Streets–Red Deer • 4935-51

Enterprise Square Galleries • 10230

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

sNAP Gallery • Society of Northern Alberta

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

Alberta Skies: Works by Judith Hall • Jun 24-Aug 25 • First Friday: Artist in attendance; literary readings by Judith Moody and Carol Ritten Smith; Aug 2, 6:30-8:30pm

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Gallery at Milner • Stanley A. Milner Library

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

Kiwanis Gallery–Red Deer Public Library •

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Albert • Artworks by Ardath Buckaway, Martha Grell, Karen Blanchet, Mary Tkachuk • Aug 1-Sep 3 • Opening, artist in attendance: Thu, Aug 1, 6pm

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

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

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; until Aug 2 • 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

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Jasper Ave • Open: Tue-Fri 12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm • When the Sky Falls: Features more than a dozen meteorites from famous Western Canadian falls; presented by U of A Museums

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

Naess Gallery • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave •

780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Recollections: Installation work by Amanda McKenzie; until Aug 15 • Artisan Nook: Basalt Dalik: Mosaic paintings by Cathy Jackson; until Sep 15

Peter Robertson Gallery • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Summer Group Show: Painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking by gallery artists • Until Aug 31 Pro's Art Gallery • 17971-106A Ave •

780.486.6661 • First Impression: Paintings by Adrian Zorzut • Aug 6-30 • Reception: Aug 14, 6-9pm

Provincial Archives of Alberta • 8555 Roper Rd • Photo exhibit showcasing the construction of the High Level Bridge and its historic profile • Until Sep 14; Tue-Sat 9am-4:30pm; Wed 9am-9pm; closed Sun and Mon • Free Royal Alberta Museum • 12845-102 Ave •

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

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

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

Royal Alexandra Hospital–Gallery Wall • 10240 Kingsway Ave • Through My Eye: Photos by

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photographers from Images Alberta Camera Club • Until Aug 19 • imagery@yahoo.ca

Print­-Artists, 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:s 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

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 • Science Café: Do Art and Science Mix?: focusing on the blurring of boundaries between science and art, experts from both worlds will initiate a lively conversation among guests about how science and art mix; take part in the discussion; Aug 7, 6:30-8:30pm; free

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

VASA Gallery • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa.ca • Abstracts from 5 Miles: Artworks by Constable, Pat Wagensveld, Karin-Ann Bosma, Connie Osgood, Kristine McGuinty; through Aug

LITERARY Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca AGA Book Club: Books inspired by the exhibitions A

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

Carrot Coffeehouse • 9351-118 Ave • vzenari@gmail.com • Prose Creative Writing Group • Every Tue, 7-9pm Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900

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

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

THEATRE Driving Miss Daisy • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 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 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

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The Queenly lineage

Courting the darkness On ...Like Clockwork, Queens of the Stone Age find vulnerability among all the bravado

‘I

’ve gotta say, I’m a little disap- fog, “and God help you if the feelpointed,” Josh Homme dead- ing is bullshit,” he says, chuckling. pans. “When he told me it was The The first song he wrote, “The View, I thought it was the Whoopi Vampyre of Time and Memory,” Goldberg show. I thought I was reflects that mindset, in lyrics phoning in to talk to Whoopi.” like “Not exactly sure anymore / Being taken for Where’s this goan international Wed, Aug 7 (6:30 pm) ing to? / Can I daytime-televi- Queens of the Stone Age follow through? sion figure maybe With Deap Vally / Or just follow isn’t the best way Shaw Conference Centre, $63.75 you, for a while.” to start an interBut if that makes view, but Whoopi Clockwork sound I am not. We have to make do. like a dour tour de mope, stripped The Queens of the Stone Age bare of the swagger and attitude frontman seems in good spirits that’s helped define the band’s during a day of press down in LA, place in rock ‘n’ roll hierarchy, it’s shortly before beginning a sec- not. In contrast to the bleaknes ond leg of touring behind ...Like in “Vampyre” is the record’s lastClockwork. It’s the band’s most ac- written song, “Smooth Sailing,” claimed album in years—debuting which features swaggering groove at number one in the US probably and lines like “I blow my load over didn’t hurt, either—and it comes the status quo.” Or the single, “My in the wake of a bleak period that God Is the Sun,” a glorious, tramfound Homme courting a particular pling ode to rejuvenation, which darkness. In 2010, complications concludes that “Godless heathens during knee surgery almost killed always waltz on the sky ... ” him. There were a few bed-ridden It’s been noted that Queens write months of recovery, and a linger- songs like they were characters. ing depression that followed. For This bunch seem an odd-paired mix the period following that, he didn’t of vulnerability and bravado. want to write another record.

“Some of these songs have cerObviously, he’s come back around, tain character of, well, this is not but that period of malaise fills a happy ending story, and that’s ...Like Clockwork with bleak hues: just the way it is,” Homme says. for what’s ostensibly a hard-rock “But I also think that ... you gain record, it sure feels like there’s a some momentum and you get a bundle of exposed nerves getting little confident, or when it’s tough prodded here and it took its toll on after pushing on it for a while, you the band, with longtime drummer almost get a little angry that it’s Joey Castillo quit during the ses- not going better. So there’s a lot sions (Dave Grohl filled in). It was of characters that are struggling also the first Queens album made there. That are also like, pissed without Homme having an initial off at times, or finally confident at direction he wanted to go in: he other times. But I think the songs was just chasing feelings through a like ‘Smooth Sailing’ and stuff that,

the confidence became reckless, where it’s like I have nothing to lose, so who fuckin’ cares? I don’t know if that’s confidence as much as a little nihilistic.

“Where you have something like ‘Vampyre, that’s more, ‘I don’t know if I understand anything, and I don’t know if it’s going to be alright at all,’” he continues. “Then by the time [it gets to] ‘Smooth Sailing,’—which was the last song that got sang, the last song the lyrics got written for—it’s like, ‘Who fuckin’ cares, I’d rather just burn it all down.’

“Neither of those are maybe the most high-fivist, or positive thing in the world,” Homme concedes. “But I also think that’s not necessarily what’s important. It’s just that it would be real. And then, if nothing else, it is actually what it is.”

Another, albeit lesser influence on ...Like Clockwork was the band’s own past. In 2011, Queens of the Stone Age toured behind the reissue of its self-titled debut, playing the record in its entirety every night. Homme hoped it might bring his songwriting back to its robot-trance roots with Kyuss and early Queens. It had the opposite effect, though, pushing Homme into new territories, not the familiar retread he’d imagined.

“I was hoping it would be this sort of James Brown-trance rock ‘n’ roll record,” he admits. “And was fingers crossed [that if] playing the first record over and over again would do anything, just put me in that mindset, to just repeat, repeat, repeat.

Because I love that type of trance possibility for rock ‘n’ roll music.

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“It’s part of a problem of talking about something before you do it,” he sighs. “Whatever you say out loud you’re gonna do, for something like making music, for me, it always ends up being, ‘Cool, now I know it won’t be that, for sure.’

And so, that almost guaranteed it wasn’t going to be this robotic trance of a disco album.”

There are myriad guests on Clockwork—Grohl, Trent Reznor, Mark Lanegan, Brody Dalle, Scissor Sisters’ Jake Shears and even Sir Elton John, who called Homme up and told him he needed a real Queen on his record—though you’d be hard-pressed to pick any of them out of the mix. Guestheavy as Queens albums can be, bringing someone in for a shining moment of (vain) glory isn’t quite the point.

“I think a rumour of someone playing on something, in a lot of ways, has a negative ballooning effect,” Homme notes. “It blows up this perception, and whatever you think it’s going to be, I guarantee it won’t be that. And I also think that because we’re not like a hiphop or a pop group, it’s not about using someone’s name and saying ‘featuring so and so,’ and then they have this spotlight moment. I think we’re really saying we make someone part of our gang for a second.

And in that moment, you have to have the same endpoint, which is that the song sounds like it’s coming from a group of people. And that it doesn’t have this, ‘Featuring Elton John, hit it!’— Because that’s not really what the goal is. I mean, there’s much more of this marquee thing from a press perspective, but

really, for the most part, it’s taking the chance to play with people that you know and actually like.

And also, letting the pressure out of saying, ‘You have to contribute this massive thing that changes everything.’ Maybe that’s a little too much, and doing the same thing internally that people do externally.”

There is one name that stands out on the album’s guest list, not so much for star power as previous associations: Nick Oliveri, the shirtless, chin-bearded fellow who was essentially the second face of QOTSA until he was kicked out of the band back in 2004. He sings backup vocals here, his first appearance on a Queens album since his exodus, which certainly carries all sorts of projections of conflict resolution and buried hatchets.

But by Homme’s count, the friendship’s long been as strong as it was when they were playing side by side, and that’s been the case for most of the time that Oliveri’s been out of the band. Any lingering resentments are just projections from the outside.

“He was going to drop off some vinyl of his new record at the studio, and was like, ‘You want any backgrounds?’” Homme recalls. “And I think he was maybe even kidding, but ... it’s another one of those situations where it was like, why not just pop this balloon? It’s really made on the outside, y’know. I’ve been friends and on great terms [with Nick] for 10 years. If a vocal will crack the glass of that myth, that’s probably a good thing.”

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PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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The Subatomics ‘I

feel like this is the last goal in now lives out in Montréal, maka videogame,” Travis Bretzer ing music as Homeshake and playsays. “It’s itchin’ at-cha, you just ing guitar for Mac DeMarco. But gotta go get it.” seven years after its recording, the “This is like when you beat Grand EP—available on cassette at the Theft Auto, and you have all those show, or digitally on a recently created Subatomics pigeons to collect Tue, Aug 6 (9 pm) at the end,” Renbandcamp—still With the Allovers has bombastic ny Wilson adds, sitting across Wunderbar, $10 appeal, champifrom him in the oning the reckWhyte Ave coffee shop. “It’s like, I less abandon of lo-fi riffage. Only beat the game, I saw the ending ... ” one of the four songs here breaks “ ... You wanna get that 100-per- the two-minute mark. Nothing ever cent.” Bretzer concludes. slows down. (Also: the videogame You could consider, then, this Sub- analogy Bretzer and Wilson were atomics reunion show and its ac- riffing on is actually pretty apt— companying EP release as the band’s the EP’s named Big Smoke after a final achievement to be unlocked. character in Grand Theft Auto.)

As the garage-punk trio, Bretzer, Wilson and drummer Pete Sagar sav- There had been some previous ofaged the all-ages music scene around fers to see the EP released—Weird 2005. There was label interest for Canada’s Aaron Levin wanted to rea release, but by the time the band lease it as a seven-inch a few years managed to get a recording together back, but that didn’t quite pan out in 2006—“Pretty disorganized,” Wil- for a show & release combo. son recalls. “There was no business “I asked Peter about two years ago side, of course, just a bunch of high when the next time he’d be in town school kids”—the signed-with label, is, and he was really wishy-washy Montréal’s Zaxxon records, had fold- about it,” Wilson says. “He didn’t ed up, and the band dissolved. seem that interested, so I kinda All three went on to play differing, forgot about the idea, and I didn’t decidedly non-garage-punk types really care—it’s not like it’s high on of music: Wilson’s sugarglidin’ soul- the agenda. It’s just something.” pop recently got him signed to Then, after bringing it up with Hot Mint Records, while Bretzer’s lo-fi Plains promoter Aaron Getz a few Making Love is being released on months ago, the necessary factors NYC label Mexican Summer. Sagar, for an EP release show just seemed

to align on their own.

“One month ago [Getz] emailed me and was like, ‘Hey, we should do that thing you were talking about,” Wilson says. “And I talked to Peter, and it turned out Peter was coming to town in like a month.”

And, as stated, this is probably it for the Subatomics. None of its members still make thrashy garage-punk, nor is anyone giving much thought to the idea of a more permanent reunion. But the time spent in the band, its members’ first youthful foray into the music scene, certainly helped set a course towards making the music they all currently do.

“If we didn’t do this, I probably would not be doing music,” he says.

“Because that feeling, when we played [the band’s first show at] Ruckus, was the craziest feeling I’ve ever had in my whole life. I had like an out of body experience.”

“It’s a funny thing to mention, too,” Wilson adds. “Even at that time Travis and I had been close friends, and we wanted to have a band, and kind of formed the Subatomics loosely the previous year, but we fought so much about it, ... even before we played our first show, we sorta decided we didn’t want to play as a band. And then we got offered a show, and were like, ‘Fuck it, let’s do this.’”

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ike the mysterious, plane- (Calgary). But within the triangle stealing polygon of ocean shape those venues create will space it takes its name from, the also be secret after-party house inaugural Bermuda music fest shows, free for any who haplooks to float a few mysteries pen to find their whereabouts within its established confines. through rumour and chance. Or “I wanted multibuy the festivenue, and I want- Thu Aug 1 – Mon, Aug 5 val wristband and they’ll just ed it to be small Wunderbar, Baby Seal Club, and walkable, Empress, $10 – $15 tell you. kinda like Sled is, ($80 festival pass) “Originally I but not as big as bermudafest.com wanted to do Sled, I guess,” the a stage in the festival’s organizer, Daniel Lenz, back alley of Wunderbar, but explains. “I got the idea of stick- Craig’s landlord wouldn’t let it ing it with three venues and call- fly,” Lenz says. “So I tried to figing it Bermuda, and then I just ure out how else I could make it rolled with how to play on that unique and not just a bunch of concept.” shows at Wunderbar.”

It plays out like this: the triangle’s points are its three main Lenz admits there were some venues— Wunderbar, the Em- first-year festival complications: press and the Baby Seal Club— one of the original anchor venues, together forming a scalene area DV8, bailed when they moved across Old Strathcona. Each into the old New City space, and venue will carry a load of shows Lenz had already booked about over the festival’s five days, with 20 bands before Golden West— bands ranging from locals like happening out of town this same Jessica Jalbert and Fire Next Time weekend—announced itself. to out-of-towners the ChantBut still, as far as the outcroprelles (Victoria) and Jung People ping of new, indie music festi-

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vals popping up in town—in the span of about half a year we’ve seen or will see the first years of Hot Plains, Bermuda, Golden West and Up+Downtown Music and Art Festival—Lenz certainly seems to want Bermuda to stand out in both ambition and scope.

Beyond music, he sees a visualarts component—the festival’s 12 posters were all canvases done by local artists, to be auctioned off on Monday’s Empress show—as well as room for comedy and poetry within Bermuda.

And regarding the current wave of new festivals popping up in town, Lenz thinks it’s simply a matter of the present abundance of talent percolating in Edmonton.

“I think it speaks to that we have a ton of bands and a ton of comedians, painters,” he says. “A lot of people refer to it as a Dirt City, [with] nothing going on. I think whenever you do that, the arts usually thrives, because we don’t have a mountain half an hour away to go snowboarding on.”

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Dale Ladouceur

‘I

’ve never been more proud of that?’ ... it was just, I don’t know, anything that I have ever done an aligning of the planets or or ever been a part of,” states something. It just came together Dale Ladouceur of her new album quite easily and I’m really jazzed.”

Do Ya Think.

Do Ya Think, which Ladouceur “It truly is a snapshot of what co-wrote and co-produced alongside Bill Hobson, those songs are marks the third at that moment Sat, Aug 3 (8 pm) full-length alin time and you Roxy Theatre, $10 (advance), really have to $15 (door), $25 (with CD) bum released by remember that,” Ladouceur and she continues. “But every album her band, The Broke Ensemble. that I’ve done before, there’s al- It’s a rock-opera genre-bender ways been a, ‘Oh, why didn’t I do in which one song spills directly that?’ or ‘Oh, why didn’t I think of into the next to unravel a story-

line steeped in political and social insight. Ladouceur chuckles that releasing an album that is one complete body of work from start to finish seems to be the direct opposite of where the ostensibly single-driven music industry is headed, but it’s an idea she admits she’s always been fond of, and doesn’t appear to be phased by whether it’s on-trend.

“I really love the idea of taking a listener on a journey,” she says, noting she didn’t quite know where that journey would go or what the message would be when she began working on the album, but it gradually took shape as the process moved along. “I believe that in thinking of the songs on the album, you do what you can to survive and you try and make your way as peacefully as you can and have some kind of positive impact.”

Ladouceur admits she isn’t a deliberate songwriter who can sit down and make herself write a song—it’s got to come from a stream-of-consciousness that flows at its own pace.

“I’m a political animal; it matters very much to me what’s happening,” she says. “I love Canada; I love the wild. I care very much about the way our country’s headed. I care about inter-political actions between people, gender wars ... you just let it purge out onto the paper or onto a recording and then you write the second draft with your head or you edit, so some of this stuff comes from the gods and some of it came from me being irked or pissed off.”

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Golden West Music Fest P

Regardless of any pending nuptials icture this: camping alongside friends in the midst of an idyl- or not, Golden West is all about the lic country acreage with a lineup experience, which includes bands representative of of local talent providing the Fri, Aug 2 – Sun, Aug 4 a consistently exsoundtrack. panding pool of talArdmore, AB, $60 festival pass Sounds good, ent in Edmonton.

“I don’t think that right? This is precisely what’s in store from the the outdoor festivals have really inaugural Golden West Music Fest. represented what I would consider The weekend-long bash was inspired to be really awesome music comby the mega-wedding of Edmonton- ing out of Edmonton right now, so based artists Fish Griwkowsky and that’s been the primary motivator Dara Humniski in 2007—a three- for all of us,” Omoth says. “We all day camping party that occurred at love going to outdoor festivals and the acreage and still has folks talk- camping out, but we also love all ing to this day. It was a celebration this music that just isn’t there, so that land owner Kevin Bowman— building this thing is a validation along with many others who were of those interests. We want to see in attendance—wanted to recreate Camembert and camp.” for some time, and so they created The minds behind the event also the opportunity.

“We don’t have any weddings include Sean Borchert, Curtis Ross, planned yet, but I can’t say for sure Amelia Aspen, Amy Van Keeken that won’t happen,” jokes executive and Darren Radbourne, and the group already has plans for the fudirector Norm Omoth.

ture, such as turning Golden West into a certified non-profit. Omoth notes the support from the community has been overwhelming, including sponsorship from Long & McQuade and various donors stepping up to support the festival’s adopt-a-band initiative. A successful fundraiser was held back in May to give potential attendees a taste of what was to come musically—a lineup featuring Renny Wilson, Bebop Cortez, Mikey Maybe, DJ Sheri Barclay, DJ Aaron Getz, Betrayers, Prayers, the Get Down, Slates, the Lad Mags and more, plus a dose of comedy from Jon Mick and Craig Martell.

“It’s like Fish and Dara’s wedding but cranked all the way to 11,” Omoth says. “It’s a whole bunch of friendly people and a bunch of great bands in the middle of nowhere under the stars.”

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judge. That shit’s relaxing and it’ll be a beautiful landscape when I’m done).

Answered by: Jen McKerral, vocals Hometown: Sudbury, ON Formed: 2009 Genre: Country-soul Latest album: Hoots Deuce EP (2013) Fun fact: The band was named one of the Best Overlooked Acts of CBC’s Searchlight contest this year.

At home Morning: Michael Hurley is always a beloved companion to my morning coffee and jigsaw puzzle (Don’t

Noon: I’m obsessed with Angel Olsen right now. Her vocals are out of this world, and I throw on Half Way Home regularly and sing along, pretending I’m half as cool as she is. I met her after her show in Boston a few months ago but I was drunk and just gushed. It was embarrassing.

Night: Jonathan Richman is always a party—just try to not to have fun with that shit playing.

On the road Morning: The FemBots’ Calling Out

is a van favourite. Nobody wants to make decisions in the morning, so we throw it on and go. Everybody’s happy.

Noon: We’re a little more lucid at this point and trying to rap along to NWA as best as a bunch of white kids from Northern Ontario can.

Night: Nilsson Schmilsson [by Harry Nilsson] is a good sing-along record for driving back from a gig when at least a few of us are typically inebriated and searching out some sort of fast-food sustenance. If tempers are flaring or we’ve been bickering at one another, we throw on “Tiny Dancer” and drive in silence.V

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Linking fact and fiction

Flying Fox and the Hunter Gatherers find both on new album

Winnipeg gypsy-jazz ensemble Flying Fox and the Hunter Gatherers has been penning rock operas since 2007, and continues its narrative style on its latest EP, Fruit and Ash. Before a stop in Edmonton, lead vocalist, violinist and guitarist Jesse Krause explained the recording process to Vue, as well as the inspiration behind the EP’s themes.

VUE WEEKLY: How long did it take to make Fruit and Ash from the initial songwriting through to the end of the recording?

JESSE KRAUSE: Dragonfly came together over a year and a half of steadily rotating through new players, which inherently slowed down the process a bit. When we finally found the dudes we were looking for (that is Andrew Littleford and Kyle Wedlake), we had the discs in our hands five weeks after we agreed to make the recording. It was a whirlwind.

VW: When you were writing the songs, did you come at them in a particular way? Lyrics first? Music first?

JK: The lyrics came together before a lot of the music. The content has always been pretty important to me and this project in particular is connected more lyrically than it is musically.

VW: Did the songs come from one person fully formed, or were they sketches that were then filled out as a group?

JK: I usually come to the band with a lot of material worked out, but the arrangements get flushed out collectively.

wrong with introspection and made-up shit, I wanted to try and link our music to the real world.

All of these songs were at least in part written on the Sun, Aug 4 (8 pm) bank of the Wunderbar Assiniboine River, surrounded by vicious carnivores in the miniature jungle. Insect life cycles are by nature very melodramatic. Whenever I’ve felt like my life is getting unduly crazy, I look at these things and feel reassured that life does have room for that.

VW: How did you decide which

songs to include on the album?

Did you have an idea of what you wanted Fruit and Ash to be when you started, or did the finished shape emerge as the writing and recording went along?

JK: I had an idea of what the EP should be, but not necessarily a clear vision of what it would sound like. We’d been playing a bunch of songs that we had not recorded, and wanted to document the state of the union, especially given the new line up.

Though it does cover a lot of mu-

sical ground, the lyrical themes are really what dictated which tunes would make it on.

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

JK: I guess we began in Winnipeg with the alt-pop sound that is taking root here, headed south to pick up some bop before crossing the Atlantic to get back to our earlier gypsy-jazz influences, that’d be Paris, finally trudging east across the frozen Russian Steppes, looking for a vodka-fueled men’s choir. V

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? JK: We were on a pretty short timeline for this whole thing. It meant going in with a plan and getting it done. It makes for a more intense experience, but that’s always been our MO. VW:

The lyrics reimagine the human experience through the eyes of nature, particularly three insects and one fish. What inspired that concept and why did you want to use those animals as your characters?

JK: With a lot of our past material, I’d struggled with balancing truth with fantasy. Though it isn’t necessarily the be all and end all for music, I think a narrative is a vital part of a human life and it’s always been a focus of Flying Fox. Previously I dealt with a lot of fictitious and obscured personal stories, and though I don’t see anything VW:

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Common 9910-109 St Crown Pub 10709-109 St,

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Devaney’s Irish Pub 9013-88

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Early Stage Saloon– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain Electric Rodeo–Spruce Grove

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Elephant and Castle–Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave Encore–WEM 2687, 8882-170 St Fandango's 12912-50 St,

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Hilltop Pub 8220 106 Ave HOGS DEN PUB Yellow Head

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HOOLIGANZ 10704-124 St,

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Irish Sports and Social Society 12546-126 St,

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J+H Pub 1919-105 St J AND R 4003-106 St,

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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

10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 Rose and Crown 10235-101 St Roxy Theatre 10708-124 St Set Nightclub Next to Bourban St, 8882-170 St, WEM, Ph III Smokehouse BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge 1292397 St, 780.758.5924 Sportsman's Lounge 817050 St STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 Sugar Foot Ballroom 1054581 Ave Suite 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969 Treasury 10004 Jasper Ave, 7870.990.1255, thetreasurey.ca

Vee Lounge, Apex Casino–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert,

780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 Winspear Centre 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com Yellowhead Brewery 10229105 St Zen Lounge 12923-97 St

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

COMEDY The Bear’s Den/Connie's Comedy Fort Saskatchewan • Jamie Hutchinson, Ryan Ash, and Emily Marie • Aug 4, 7pm

Black Dog Freehouse • 10425-82 Ave •

Underdog Comedy Thu: Comedy show every Thu; until Aug 1, 8-10pm • No cover

Bohemia • 10217 97 St • Mega Ultra Turbo

Comedy II: The Sequeling • Aug 2, 8pm

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 • 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 • Mike Vecchione; until 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

Jubilee Auditorium • Jerry Seinfeld •

Aug 9, 7pm; Aug 10, 7pm and 10pm • $79, $99, $125 at TicketMaster

Krush Ultralounge/Connie's Comedy • 16648-109 Ave • Open Mic following

Singles Mixer starting at 9:15pm • Aug 15

Overtime Pub • 4211-106 St • Open mic

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

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

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 X-Wrecks Lounge/Connie’s Comedy • 9303-50 St • Travelling open mic • Aug 9, Aug 23, 7pm • T: 780.914.8966 to get on roster

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

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

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

Argentine Tango Dance at Foot Notes Studio • Foot Notes Dance Studio

Edmonton Needlecraft Guild • Avonmore United Church Basement, 82 Ave, 79 St • edmNeedlecraftGuild.org • Classes/workshops, exhibitions, guest speakers, stitching groups for those interested in textile arts • Meet the 2nd Tue each month, 7:30pm Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club • 2nd Fl, Canada Place, 9700

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

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

Historic walking tours–St Albert •

Little White School, 2 Madonna Dr • A walking tour of St Albert’s past • Aug 15, 6:30pm • Info: Roy Toomey at 780.459.4404 or royt@ artsheritage.ca

Home–Energizing Spiritual Community for Passionate Living • Garneau/Ashbourne

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

Lotus Qigong • 780.477.0683 • Downtown

• Practice group meets every Thu

NSAI Songwriters Group • The Carrot, 9351-118 Ave, 780.973.5311 • NSAI (Nashville Songwriters Association International) meet the 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association • Duggan Community Hall,

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

Organization for Bipolar Affective Disorder (OBAD) • Grey

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

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 40min walk through Centennial Park, a cool down and stretch • Every Tue, 8:30am • $2/session (goes to the Alzheimer’s Society of Alberta)

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)

Terra Informa Live Show • St John's

Institute, 11024-82 Ave • Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea; with performances by singer Sierra Jamerson and poet Gary Lee • Aug 1, 7-9pm • Free; all ages

780.604.7572 • Swing Dance at Sugar Foot Stomp: beginner lesson followed by dance every Sat, 8pm (door)

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)

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

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

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

PrimeTimers/sage Games • Unitarian St Paul's United Church • 11526-76

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

WOMONSPACE, 780.482.1794 • womons-

pace.ca • A Non-profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter

QUEER AFFIRM SUNNYBROOK–Red Deer

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

Bisexual Women's Coffee Group • A

SPECIAL EVENTS Animethon • Grant MacEwan City Centre

• 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 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

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

Campus • animethon.org • Theme: Seijin-Shiki (Coming of Age Ceremony), a Japanese celebration for when someone turns 20 featuring various entertainment by Kanon Wakeshima, Capella, DJ Shimamura • Aug 9-11

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

Cariwest • Downtown, Churchill Sq, and Shaw Conference Centre • Edmonton Caribbean Carnival • Fri Night: Costume Extravaganza (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 Bunji Garlin LIVE in Concert! Tickets at TIX on the Square; Aug 10 • Sun: Churchill Square’s Caribbean Village: Aug 11 • Aug 9-11 Corn Sale–Hope Mission • Edmonton Valley Zoo, 13315 Buena Vista Rd • Aug 17, 10am-4pm • Proceeds to Hope Mission Youth Shelter and Edmt and Area Land Trust

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 • 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 • Order a picnic from The Birch Patio, enjoy live music; Aug 8 • $11 (adult)/$6 (student)/$8 (senior)/$8 (friends of the Garden)/$8 (Garden season pass holder); incl admission to the Garden and entertainment; reserve dinner at 780.987.3054, x 2243

DeepSoul.ca • 587.520.3833; text:

780.530.1283 for location • Classic Covers Shindig Fundraiser • Every Sun: Sunday Jams with no Stan (CCR to Metallica), GarageGigs Tour; all ages • Fundraiser for local Canadian Disaster Relief, the hungry (world-wide through the Canadian Food Grains Bank)

Global Youth Assembly • U of A, 780.453.2638 • The John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights' Global Youth Assembly (GYA) is an international public forum on human rights for youth and young adults passionate about advancing a culture of peace and human rights • Aug 7-10 • $199/$59 (day pass) Heritage Day Classic Charity Poker Tournament • River Cree Casino • Presented by Assassin • Aug 4, 2pm; buy in: $200; Rebuys available; limited seating • Proceeds to Crystal Kids Foundation

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 • Aug 2, 6pm JLS Night Market • 102 Ave, 106 St • nightmarketedmonton@gmail.com, 780.901.8480 • Every Sat, 7-11pm; until Sep 28 • Email:nightmarketedmonton@gmail.com Ukrainian Day • Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village, 50km E of Edmonton, Hwy 16; 3km E of Elk Island National Park, 780.662.3640 • ukrainianvillage.ca • A celebration of Alberta’s vibrant Ukrainian community past and present. Starting with a pancake breakfast, and recognition pioneer families. Ukrainian Day concert featuring traditional and contemporary Ukrainian-Canadian music, art sale, village market, children's activities and Ukrainian Village Food Festival • Aug 11 • Admission on gate

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

G.L.B.T.Q Seniors Group • S.A.G.E

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

Waskahegan Trail HIKE • waskahegantrail.ca • Meet: NW corner Superstore parking lot, 51 St, Calgary Tr (carpool to trail) • waskahegantrail.ca • Hike the Battle River valley with hike leader JoAnne, 780.487.0645; Aug 4, 8:45am-3pm; $5 (carpool); $20 (annual membership) • Travel south of the city for a hike on the shore of Saunders Lake with hike leader Sandra 780.467.9572; Aug 11, 8:45am-3pm; $5 (carpool); $20 (annual membership)

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

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

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

Sugar Foot Ballroom • 10545-81 Ave,

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

Berg Lake • lionsbreath.ca; click on adventure • Depart from studio 301,10534-124 St, 780.990.6247 • Back Country Tent and Hike • Aug 30-Sep 2 • $199 +GST

Discover Downtown • edmonton-

Hands-on Bike Maintenance • Bike-

Society of Edmonton Atheists •

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

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

Mon, 7-9pm, each month; huges@shaw.ca

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

(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)

Canadian Injured Workers Association of Alberta (CIWAA) •

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

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 nonjudgemental 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 • HIV Support Group: Support and discussion group for gay men; 2nd

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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): To add zest to mealtime, you might choose food that has been seasoned with red chili peppers, cumin or other piquant flavours.

Some chimpanzees have a similar inclination, which is why they like to snack on red fire ants. Judging from the astrological omens, I’m guessing you are currently in a phase when your attraction to spicy things is at a peak—not just for dinner but in other areas of your life, as well. I have a suggestion: pursue rowdy fun with adventures that have metaphorical resemblances to red chili peppers, but stay away from those that are like red fire ants.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): The 19th-century English artist John Constable specialized in painting landscapes. The countryside near his home especially excited him. He said, “The sound of water escaping from mill dams, willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts and brickwork, I love such things. They made me a painter, and I am grateful.” Take a cue from Constable, Taurus.

Spend quality time appreciating the simple scenes and earthy pleasures that nourish your creative spirit. Give your senses the joy of getting filled up with vivid impressions. Immerse yourself in experiences that thrill your animal intelligence.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): This is Grand Unification Week for you Geminis. If your left hand has been at war with your right hand, it’s a perfect moment to declare a truce. If your head and heart have not been seeing eyeto-eye, they are ready to find common ground and start conspiring together for your greater glory. Are there any rips or rifts in your life? You will generate good fortune for yourself if you get to work on healing them.

Have you been alienated from an ally or at odds with a beloved dream or separated from a valuable resource? You have a lot of power to fix glitches like those.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): In an episode of the TV show Twin Peaks, special agent Dale Cooper gives the following advice to his colleague, Harry: “I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don’t plan it, don’t wait for it, just let it happen.” Now I’m passing on this advice to you, Cancerian. It’s a perfect time for you to try out this fun game. You are in a phase of your astrological cycle when you’ll be wise to intensify your commitment to self-care ... and deepen your devotion to making yourself feel good ... and increase your artistry at providing yourself with everything you need to thrive.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): Sergei Diaghilev was a Russian ballet impresario who founded Ballets Russes, one of the 20th centu-

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ry’s great ballet companies. At one point in his career he met French playwright Jean Cocteau. Diaghilev dared Cocteau to write a piece for a future Ballets Russes production. “Astonish me!” he said. It took seven years, but Cocteau met the challenge. He created Parade, a ballet that also featured music

by Erik Satie and sets by Pablo Picasso. Now let’s pretend I’m Diaghilev and you’re Cocteau.

Imagine that I’ve just told you, “Astonish me!” How will you respond? What surprising beauty will you come up with? What marvels will you unleash?

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): Since 1948, the chemical known as warfarin has been used as a pesticide to poison rats. Beginning in 1954, it also became a medicine prescribed to treat thrombosis and other blood ailments in humans.

Is there anything in your own life that resembles warfarin? A person or an asset or an activity that can either be destructive or constructive, depending on the situation? The time will soon be right for you to employ that metaphorical version of warfarin in both capacities. Make sure you’re very clear about which is which.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): “My heart was a hysterical, unreliable organ,” wrote Vladimir Nabokov in his novel Lolita. We have all gone through phases when we could have uttered a similar statement. But I doubt that this is one of those times for you, Libra. On the contrary. I suspect your heart is very smart right now—poised and lucid and gracious. In fact, I suggest you regard the messages coming from your heart as more trustworthy than any other part of you—wiser than your head and your gut and your genitals put together.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): The Holy Grail of skateboarding tricks is called the 1080. To pull it off, a skateboarder has to do three complete 360-degree revolutions in mid-air and land cleanly. No one had ever pulled it off until 12-year-old Tom Schaar did it in 2012. Since then, two other teenage boys have managed the same feat. But I predict that a Scorpio skateboarder will break the record sometime soon, managing a 1260, or three and a half full revolutions. Why? First, because your tribe is unusually geared to accomplish peak performances right now. And second, you have a knack for doing complex manoeuvres that require a lot of concentration.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): Can you think of ways that you have been colonized? Have any powerful institutions filled up your brain with ideas and desires that aren’t in alignment with your highest values? For instance, has your imagination become imprinted with condi-

tioning that makes you worry that your body’s not beautiful enough or your bank account’s not big enough or your style isn’t cool enough? If so, Sagittarius, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to get uncolonized.

There has rarely been a better time than now to purge any brainwashing that puts you at odds with your deepest self.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): An old Chinese poem tells us that “the true measure of a mountain’s greatness is not its height but whether it is charming enough to attract dragons.”

You and I know there are no such things as dragons, so we can’t take this literally. But what if we treat it as we might a fairy tale? I suggest we draw a metaphorical meaning from it and apply it to your life. Let’s say that you shouldn’t be impressed with how big and strong anything is; you shouldn’t give your mojo to people or institutions simply because they have worldly power. Rather, you will be best served by aligning yourself with what’s mysterious and fabulous. You’re more likely to have fun and generate good fortune for yourself by seeking out stories that appeal to your soul instead of your ego.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): The questions you have been asking aren’t terrible. But they could be formulated better. They might be framed in such a way as to encourage life to give you crisp insights you can really use rather than what you’ve been getting lately, which are fuzzy conjectures that are only partially relevant. Would you like some inspiration? See if any of these inquiries help hone your spirit of inquiry. 1) What kind of teacher or teaching do you need the most right now? 2) What part of you is too tame, and what can you do about it? 3) What could you do to make yourself even more attractive and interesting to people than you already are? 4) What is the pain that potentially has the most power to awaken your dormant intelligence?

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): “There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.” So says Ishmael, the hero of Herman Melville’s 19th-century novel Moby Dick. He is ostensibly referring to whale hunting, which is his job, but some modern critics suggest he’s also talking about the art of storytelling. I suspect his statement applies to a certain enterprise you are currently engaged in, as well. Can you wrap your mind and heart around the phrase “careful disorderliness,” Pisces? I hope so, because I think it’s the true method. Here are some other terms to describe it: benevolent chaos; strategic messiness; purposeful improvisation; playful experiments. 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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Now Hiring Full Time Deli Manager Blush Lane Organic Market is dedicated to providing our customers with certified organic and sustainable farmed produce, grown with care on our family orchard, local family farms and in the worldwide organic market.

Reporting to the Store Manager, you will supervise purchasing, receiving, merchandising, rotation and stocking of deli products for optimum sales and profitability.

Build and lead team of Deli Sales staff. Ensure staff is competent; sales-oriented; focused on customer service; and confident and content in their work.

We appreciate the interest of all applicants however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Please send resumes to hiring@blushlane.com

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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!

EIFF - Sept 26 to Oct 5 Play with us. Volunteer!

Thank-you to the many volunteers who donate their time and energies to create EIFF -- your smiling faces and genuine sincerity rank us among a handful of film festivals deemed to have the nicest people. Whether you’re a returning volunteer or brand new to the whole film fest scene, we welcome your help!

If you’re interested in volunteering please fill out the application at edmontonfilmfest.com

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

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

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

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

Habitat for Humanity 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

Habitat for Humanity invites The U of A Students’ Union all women to build with us is looking to hire an during Women Build Week: Operations Manager-Bars for August 20-24 Room At The Top and Are you a woman who has Dewey’s. If you can continue always wanted to volunteer on the smooth operation and a Habitat for Humanity build financial success of these two site,but were unsure if you had university licensed venues and the necessary skills? You may also attract new customers, we be surprised how many women want to hear from you!

-- with no construction Excellent health, retirement, experience -- build homes with and vacation benefits!

Habitat for Humanity. If you are We are also looking for a a woman who wants to help Kitchen Manager, Dewey’s families in our community, Supervisor, and a line cook for there is an important role for RATT. Help someone in crisis take on our build sites, whether Please •email Guaranteed 40hr.you Work Week + Overtime that first step towards a you have no construction val.stewart@su.ualberta.ca for solution. The Support • Paid Travel & Lodging • Meal Allowance experience or a tool belt of more information, and to apply Network`s Crisis Support skills • 4 Weeks Vacation • Excellent Benefits Package Centre is looking for volunteers Contact for more info about Edmonton`s 24-Hour Must be able to have extended stays away from home.forUp to the event: Distress Line. Interested or Louise 1600.

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AZ,Fairley DZ, 5, 3 or 1 with airbrake want to learn more? Contact 780-451-3416 Lindsay at 780-732-6648 or license and have previous commercial driving experience. lfairley@hfh.org visit our website: www.TheSupportNetwork.com Are you an animal lover?

Habitat For Humanity is WHARF Rescue is looking for building a pool of volunteers to Help the Canadian Breast volunteers help us with renovations at our Cancer Foundation create a We are a nonprofit animal newest ReStore. future without breast cancer rescue that provides shelter to Flexible hours, no experience through volunteerism. homeless,neglected animals necessary Contact 1-866-302-2223 or Please check If interested, please contact ivolunteer@cbcf.org for www.wharfrescue.ca Evan at ehammer@hfh.org or current volunteer for more information call (780) 451-3416 opportunities

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Apply at: www.sperryrail.com/careers and then choose the FastTRACK Application

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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

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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

Join us on September 8, 2013 at Laurier Park, Edmonton.

Walk for HER, Walk for HOPE, Walk for LIFE. We are looking for enthusiastic and dedicated volunteers to help out in various roles for the Ovarian Cancer Canada Walk of Hope.

There is something for everyone: event set-up, cheering on participants, assisting with registration are only few examples. Volunteers are vital in ensuring that everything runs according to plan on the Walk day.

Please contact Shauna shauna.occ@gmail.com for more information

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

Contact Natasha at 780-452-4661 ext 2

Universiade ’83 Foundation Grant Program, Edmonton: Due Sept 6 This is a great chance for Edmontonians running programs for sports, the arts, and culture to help fund themselves for the upcoming year.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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Old Appliance & Furniture Removal Removal of unwanted appliances and furniture.

Rates start as low as $30.

Call James @780.231.7511 for details

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

Contact: Kerri Tulloch Edmonton@roomtoread.org Phone: 780.425.4043 roomtoread.org/Edmonton

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.

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

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

president@sundancecanine rescue.com Please email resume to

president@sundancecanine rescue.com by August 7, 2013

Artist to Artist

Call for Artists/Artisans Carrot Coffeehouse Pop Up Market August 17th, 2013 10am - 4pm Contact Heather to reserve a spot carrotassist@gmail.com / 780-471-1580

Volunteering - Improve the Lives of Children in the Developing World

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Experienced bass player looking to play with established band.

Between the ages of 35 and 55. No heavy metal or punk but willing play 80’s power metal Call Tony 780-484-6806.

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

Daytime work; August 20th and 21st.

Contact Jason at jason.watt@businesscareer

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Bass guitar player looking for Top 40 Band Call Matt 780-484-6806

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

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

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

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Auction Wed & Fri 6pm 14912-128 ave 780-453-6964 Selling: Tools & Misc * Storage* Estate Items * Coins * Jewellery* etc *Last Friday of Month Large Grocery Auction* *Consignments taken*

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MEIER GUN AUCTION. Saturday, August 31, 11 a.m., 6016 - 72A Ave., Edmonton. Over 150 guns - Handguns, rifles, shotguns, wildlife mounts, hunting and fishing equipment. To consign 780-440-1860.

BOOKKEEPER REQUIRED. Full-time position, competitive salary, benefits.

Must have complete knowledge of accounts receivable, invoicing, accounts payable entering & paying bills, payroll & benefits. Fax resume 780-778-2444.

HUGE UNRESERVED Antique Auction.

Saturday, Aug. 10. John Deere 50 tractor & pedal tractor collection & much more!

10 a.m. Scribner Auction, 780-842-5666, Wainwright, Alberta; www.scribnernet.com.

OUTSIDE SALES PERSON for NAPA Store in Three Hills, Alberta. Automotive parts/service knowledge required and sales experience is valuable.

Resume to: dfox@napacanada.com.

UNRESERVED AUCTIONS. Aug. 11 Willingdon 780-367-2763: 1955 Chev Nomad, original, US car; 1955 Crown Victoria; numerous other vehicles, 30 collector tractors & antiques. Aug. 13 - Thorhild Coal Mine 780-398-2511: Cat D814A c/w #80 scraper; coal crusher; conveyor; approx. 7000 tons of slag coal; as new Case 7200 hoe drills.

Aug. 14 - Brent Sterling, Westlock, 780349-2250: JD 9610 combine, green lighted; Vertec 6500 dryer; 1988 tandem, 20’ box; sunflower 21’ disc; grain bins & more. Aug. 17 - Randy Ballas, Elk Point, 780-724-4294: JD 450C; 3 Deutz tractors, full line-up.

View online: www.prodaniukauctions.com.

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

COLLECTOR CAR AUCTION. 6TH Annual Red Deer Fall Finale. September 20 - 21, Westerner Park. Last year sold 77%. Only 100 spaces available. Consign today. 403-396-0304. Toll free 1-888296-0528 ext. 102; www.egauctions.com.

Coming Events CANADIAN COWBOYS ASSOCIATION 50th Anniversary Summer Celebration. Hosted

by Kyle Community Rodeo, August 10, 11, 2013. Saturday Alumni come & go exhibit bring your memorabilia to share for the day.

Sunday Pancake Breakfast. Contact Brad Strandquist 306-375-7459; Kyle Rec office 306-375-2331 or CCA office 306-721-2711.

Employment Opportunities NEED TO ADVERTISE? Province wide classifieds. Reach over 1 million readers weekly. Only $269. + GST (based on 25

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.

Email: rigmove@telus.net. Mail: H&E Oilfield Services Ltd., 2202 - 1 Ave., Wainwright, AB, T9W 1L7. For more employment information see our webpage: www.heoil.com.

HEAVY DUTY MECHANIC, Flagstaff County, Sedgewick, Alberta. Please contact Kevin Kinzer at 780-384-4106 or kkinzer@flagstaff.ab.ca. Competitive salary, benefits & pension plan.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Visit: www.awna.com/resumes_add.php.

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.

WANTED AUTOMOTIVE TECHNICIANS for a busy, modern, well equipped Ford dealership in Kindersley, Sask. Up to $40./ hour plus benefits. Mon. - Fri. work week.

Email resume: service@tisdales.com.

DISCONNECTED PHONE? Phone Factory Home Phone Service. No one refused! Low monthly rate! Calling features & unlimited long distance available. Call Phone Factory today! 1-877-336-2274; www.phonefactory.ca STEEL BUILDING - Sizzling Summer Savings Event! 20x22 $4,188. 25x24 $4,598. 30x36 $6,876. 32x44 $8,700. 40x52 $12,990. 47x70 $17,100. One end wall included. Pioneer Steel 1-800-668-5422; www.pioneersteel.ca.

STEEL BUILDINGS/METAL BUILDINGS 60% off! 20x28, 30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120, 60x150, 80x100, sell for balance owed! Call 1-800-4572206; www.crownsteelbuildings.ca.

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

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BUILDING SALES Representative wanted.

Estimating, sales, turnkey farm, commercial buildings. Contact Barry for more information.

Pinnacle Building Materials, Red Deer, Alberta; bwunsch@pinnaclebuildingmaterials.com.

TWO ONLY, immediate delivery. 20 X 76, 3 bedroom, 2 bath, four appliances, hardwood cabinets. Delivered for $109,900.; www.sshomes.ca. 1-877-887-2254.

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

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

DAY RATE Vac Drivers. Must have all tickets, have knowledge of an oil rig. Also need Class 1 Drivers for vac and water trucks but local work. Must relocate. Class 1 Drivers for gravel trucks and hauling swamp mats also.

Benefits after 3 months and competitive wages. Fax to 1-403-845-3903. Attention: Rick.

ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE for southeastern Alberta community newspaper. Experienced; highly motivated.

Provide current resume, minimum of three business references to: hpbrees@ brooksinthenews.com or fax 403-793-2288.

FACTORY DIRECT wholesale CSA certified modular homes. Manufactured/mobile homes and park model homes. We ship throughout western Canada. Visit us online: www.hbmodular.com or 1-877-976-3737.

PUBLIC NOTICE! Due to flooding a shortage of homes for fall is inevitable.

Buy now - while stock is available! Lowest prices/best service on SRI Homes. Call now.

1-877-341-4422; www.dynamicmodular.ca GRANDVIEW MODULAR HOMES now open in Red Deer & Airdrie! Showcasing high-end homes from Grandeur Housing and Palm Harbor Homes. Inquire about opening specials; www.grandviewmodular.com; 1-855-347-0417; 7925B - 50 Ave., Red Deer.

HOMES, COTTAGES & More. RTMI Ready to Move in. Call 1-888-733-1411; rtmihomes.com. Red Tag Sale on now!

For Sale METAL ROOFING & SIDING. Very competitive prices! Largest colour selection in Western Canada. Available at over 25 Alberta Distribution Locations.

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Real Estate ACREAGE FOR SALE. 20 acres 5 kms south of Olds. Near paved highway 2A. House, garage, heated shop, quonset, mature yard, water well, pasture mountain view. 403-556-7413.

Services DO YOU NEED to borrow money - Now? If you own a home or real estate, Alpine Credits will lend you money - It’s that simple. 1-877-486-2161.

CRIMINAL RECORD? Think: Canadian pardon. U.S. travel waiver. (24 hour record check). Divorce? Simple. Fast. Inexpensive. Debt recovery? Alberta collection to $25,000. Calgary 403-228-1300/1-800347-2540; www.accesslegalresearch.com.

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BANK SAID NO? Bank on us! Equity Mortgages for purchases, debt consolidation, foreclosures, renovations. Bruised credit, selfemployed, unemployed ok. Dave Fitzpatrick: www.albertalending.ca. 587-437-8437, Belmor Mortgage.

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12 Blithering fool 13 Zesty flavors 18 “Attention, please!”

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DIAPER PALS

I am a 28-year-old gay man living in a major East Coast city. I recently connected with a guy on a vanilla dating website and we are quickly developing a real interest in each other. After talking online for a bit, we exchanged numbers. Our first conversation was through text messages for the better part of six hours. The next night, we talked over the phone for an hour or two. And the third consecutive night was our first date. In that first text conversation, he stated that he is into “everything from mild to wild.” The comment came without solicitation from me, during a conversation that he initiated about sexual preferences (ie, top or bottom, dom or sub). This was a major turn-on for me, increasing my interest in him. I’ve had limited experience with BDSM, but I am looking to try more, so I was thrilled to receive this message.

I am very familiar with one kink: diapers. It’s a huge part of my sexual identity and I ideally want it to be part of a sex life with my partner. Normally I would wait until months into a new relationship to bring up the topic, but since he opened the door, should I talk about it now? Should I drop hints to see how he responds? Since this has the potential to be more than just a hookup, what’s the best way to proceed?

Nervously Anticipating Padded Pants In Erotic Situations I’ve long advised kinksters who are dating vanillas—or presumed vanillas (PVs), I should say, as it’s not uncommon for a presumed-to-be-vanilla partner to reveal kinks of their own after a partner discloses their kinks—to wait until the PV has gotten to know them before

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disclosing. (Ironically, of course, every kinkster is a PV until the moment of disclosure.) Since so many true vanillas have a kneejerk, negative reaction to kinks, it’s only fair that kinksters have a chance to let a new partner get to know them before opening up.

That way, a vanilla can weigh any prejudices they might have about kinky people (they’re dangerous and depraved, not BF or GF material) against what they’ve come to know (and like) about the kinkster they’ve been dating.

Sometimes it works out (the vanilla comes to enjoy the kink because it gives someone they care about pleasure, the vanilla grows to enjoy the kink themselves, the vanilla gives the kinkster a pass to enjoy their kink with others), and sometimes it doesn’t work out (the kink is a deal-breaking libido-killer and the kinkster winds up dumped).

But your case is different, NAPPIES, as the gentleman you’re courting has already disclosed his kinks. According to my treasured and frequently consulted copy of Emily Post’s Etiquette, the proper response to a disclosure of kinks by a suitor is the prompt disclosure of one’s own kinks.

Now, very few people who say they’re into “everything” are actually into every single thing. A Google search for “toaster fetish” pulls up 260 000 results. They’re not all pages created by sexual fetishists—some are pages created by kitchen-appliance aficionados—but some are sites created by actual toaster pervs. And just as your new boyfriend probably wasn’t thinking “even toasters!” when he said “everything,” NAPPIES, he probably wasn’t thinking “even diapers!” Because while diapers are a huge turn-on for you and other diaper fetishists,

they’re not something that leaps to mind when even a kinky person says “from mild to wild.”

And this presents you with a problem. As Emily Post put it: “A sexual fetish for an item of attire so strongly associated with childhood (indeed, with the nursery itself!) will give pause to even the most depraved of suitors.”

As such, NAPPIES, you may be

admit the newly acquired positive attention is fun (especially getting carded! Who? Me?!? Ha-ha!), I’m happy staying single and am not interested in developing any LTRs with the opposite sex. The weird thing is, the majority of guys doing any flirting with me seem to be much younger than I am. A wise, older female friend of mine once commented that men “don’t

As Emily Post put it: “A sexual fetish for an item of attire so strongly associated with childhood (indeed, with the nursery itself!) will give pause to even the most depraved of suitors.” within your rights to drop hints about your diaper fetish instead of flat-out disclosing it. Ask him if he really meant everything and see what he says. If he says, “Yes, everything,” then spill—or leak—your kink.

But if he hedges his bets, NAPPIES, let him get to know you a bit better, and explore some of his kinks, before disclosing your own.

NOT A COUGAR

Here’s the Reader’s Digest Condensed Version: I’m a sexually inactive (by my own choice) heterosexual female in my late 40s who up until recently used to be much heavier and in rapidly declining health. Since my Type 2 diabetes diagnosis, I have achieved substantial weight loss, a muchimproved diet, and a little Clairol Nice ’n’ Easy. I now look and feel infinitely better than I ever did in my late 20s. People in my apartment building have been doing double takes, and recently I even got carded at my favourite restaurant dining out with a female neighbour friend half my age! While I

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know what to make” of someone like me. OK, I think. So am I too narcissistic? I can’t seem to relate or really keep conversations going. Plenty of younger men in their 20s and 30s are nice looking, but I’ll be 50 next summer!

I’m Not A Cougar Though I’m Very Energized “The first thing I’d like to say to INACTIVE is congratulations on tackling her Type 2 diabetes with such determination and getting such fabulous results!” says Cindy Gallop, a former high-flying advertising executive who is now the founder and driving force behind MakeLoveNotPorn.com, a website and movement designed to blow up pornography.

Gallop is a fan of younger men, INACTIVE, and younger men are fans of Gallop.

“Of course she’s getting so much flirtatious attention from younger guys!” Gallop says. “There are many young men out there interested in and attracted to older women—but society considers that relationship model less so-

cially acceptable than the olderman/younger-woman version, which is why she’s so surprised.

Well, the good news is she can stay single, not embark on any LTRs with the opposite sex, and still have a lot of fun with younger men, without worrying about keeping conversations going— because the fun doesn’t need to involve much talking.”

If “sexually inactive by choice” was a choice you made back in your heavier, unhealthier days due to a lack of confidence, Gallop says that this is the perfect time for you to get back in the game—and younger men are the perfect playmates.

“INACTIVE is in her sexual prime, and she should go for it!”

Gallop says. “The age issue is purely a societal judgment and is irrelevant. Younger man (lots of stamina, very short recovery period) plus older woman (confidence, experience, knows what she wants) is a fantastic combination. And I speak as someone who knows.”

A couple of pro tips from Gallop for older women who are dating younger men: “Number one: apply the same filter to her dates that I do—regardless of how casual the relationship, he needs to be a very nice person. Number two: if she hasn’t been sexually active for a while, check out MakeLoveNotPorn.com. She should be aware of what she may encounter in younger men that’s been learned from porn, and how to talk about what she prefers in that context openly, honestly and lightheartedly.”

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