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Puff, puff, progress What’s that smell? No, it’s not Justin Trudeau lighting up a joint. It’s the scent of the Liberal leader lighting up his opponents, giving Parliament Hill a lesson in the virtues of honest transparency. The debate continues to rage regarding whether Trudeau is fit to be Prime Minister, but he’s certainly showing politicians nationwide that the country is receptive to a little bit of honesty—even if the truth is unflattering.

The Conservative Party is unsurprisingly horrified by Trudeau’s admission in a Huffington Post interview that he has smoked marijuana as recently as three years ago when he had already been elected as an MP, and that it wasn’t a mistake. The fact Trudeau has played fast and loose with one of Canada’s most oppressive laws has led the likes of Justice Minister Peter MacKay to declare him “a poor example for all Canadians—particularly young ones.”

Following the interview, Trudeau keenly stepped away from the spotlight, opting for no further clarification on the matter. But the conversations carried on without him, as politicians across the country responded to the question of whether they’ve ever partaken. Most said no, of course, while the occasional politician admitted that—gasp!—they succumbed to peer pressure in college. It’s nice to know some politicians haven’t miraculously stayed on the straight and narrow from birth. Interestingly, the lighthearted tone of many responses, even from those who haven’t, suggests more and more politicians are relaxing their hatred for marijuana.

Some opponents, however, have used this opportunity to criticize Trudeau’s politics, calling him both a juvenile for making marijuana legalization his first major policy statement and a hypocrite for changing his mind after voting for harsher penalties in 2009. It’s more helpful to think of Trudeau’s philosophy towards marijuana less as a declaration of policy and more as a prelude to how he intends to approach politics moving ahead, when more critical policies are debated.

While his heartiest opponents will stick to their convictions regardless of whatever evidence may challenge them, Trudeau is merely acknowledging that sometimes politicians are wrong. Sometimes they spend a lifetime fighting for something, only to suddenly see a fallacy in their argument. Sometimes they take a pull off a joint at a dinner party. This isn’t the mark of a weak conscience; it’s the mark of somebody whose ideas and opinions are able to respond to a constantly evolving body of evidence.

Canadians are responding positively to this type of honesty. Trudeau’s admission has only increased his approval rating to a comfortable 38 percent compared to the Conservatives’ 29 percent. Maybe it’s just the result of Canadians finally being invigorated after a painfully monotonous parliamentary summer, but it appears Trudeau is very strategically latching on to a very real craving for change across Canada, with a vast majority in favour of relaxed marijuana laws.

But, more than anything, Canadians are looking for change in favour of a leader who, by his own public admission, makes mistakes. While our current leaders continue clutching their rapidly antiquating ideas with robotic conviction, Trudeau has taken a step towards a more fluid approach to making up his mind, acknowledging that his ideas may certainly change in the future. After all, he’s only human. V

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NEWS // EDUCATION CUTS

Back to school blues

University of Alberta faces program suspensions and admission cuts

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he final week before classes resume at the University of Alberta is undoubtedly busy at the best of times, but this year returning staff and students face a curveball.

Last week, it was announced the Faculty of Arts would be suspending admission to 21 of its undergraduate programs due to budgetary concerns. It was lowenrollment numbers that landed the programs on the list. Each program had 10 or fewer students enrolled as majors in each of the fall terms between 2005 and 2011.

"What we've proposed is to suspend enrollment in these 21 programs so that we can review them," explains Faculty of Arts vice dean Heather Zwicker, who notes the long-term effect on the budget would be incremental—but this shows the faculty where to direct the funding it does have.

This does not mean the programs are gone for good just yet, and the suspensions will not affect the 50 students who are already enrolled in the majors—the suspensions will only affect new enrollments, meaning students who have yet to begin their education at the U of A will not have access to them at this time.

"We are committed to seeing students complete these programs," Zwicker says. "It takes a little bit of fancy footwork in some cases, but we are committed to seeing people get through their degrees, and that includes people who are already slated to begin those programs in September."

"Our main concern was how these suspensions were going to affect the quality of our education and what it would mean for students in these departments and programs," says Kelsey Mills, council of department associations coordinator with the Collective Body for Arts Students, who has been consulting with faculty on the issue.

The review process the programs will undergo is likely to result in three rough categories: programs that will continue either because they are deemed to be truly low budget or possess a demographic implication not taken into account by numbers alone; programs that will continue to be offered, but will be altered in some way; and programs that will be recommended for termination.

The programs in question encompass a number from the Bachelor of Arts degree, including Classical Language, Middle Eastern and African Studies, and several other language-based majors; the Printmaking and Computing Science majors from the Bachelor of Design; Music History, BMus

School Music, Composition and Theory and World Music concentrations from Bachelor of Music as well as the Technical Theatre Major from the Bachelor of Fine Arts. The renowned Technical Theatre program is a quota program, meaning there's a capped number of students able to enroll each year—eight in this case—but Zwicker says, despite the intentionally small number, the program is still not filling.

"As we are with all of these programs, the faculty is working very closely with the department and we have also heard from other faculties and other institutions and members of the public and donors, and I actually believe we are going to be able to do something about the technical theatre program," she adds.

In order to continue offering the programs to students, it may be a matter of streamlining. There are 44 majors in the Bachelor of Arts alone, and program material can be accessed through a variety of avenues, becoming redundant— which could be a contributing factor to declining enrollment, along with lack of faculty in some cases.

"For example, with the language programs that were listed, the faculty's not saying studying U kr ainian language and literature or studying Russian language and literature is not important, b u t rather,

there's a potential to combine those into a Slavic studies major, so the courses and the content will still be offered, but what's on your degree at the end of the day might look a little different," Mills explains. "I guess it's just determining what's more important or what's more valuable: breadth or depth."

Of course, there's the quick assumption that arts-based degrees are not a valuable asset in today's economy, but both Zwicker and Mills are quick to quash the stereotype.

"I would argue we are in dire need of people who can communicate with others, analyze information and can give an informed opinion, and arts students are trained to do all of these" says Mills, a fifth year economics major with a minor in sociology, who, as an arts student, happens to be working in the oil industry for the summer. "They're going to graduate with these skills and these skills are transferable amongst diverse industries."

"These are programs that don't narrowly train you for a job. They train you for a career; they train you for a life," Zwicker notes.

"We have

people who are trained to think really carefully and really creatively about the world that we live in."

But it's not just the Faculty of Arts facing tough times: the Faculty of Science is enduring challenges of its own. This fall, there will be 300 fewer students enrolled in the faculty, with an additional 300 seats slated to be cut next year. Again, it all comes down to the budget.

"Some people mistakenly think there is an awful lot of fat in the system and it would be easy to find 50-ish million dollars or whatever the magic number is and things will be good. But the reality of the situation is that after four years of significant cuts there is no fat left in the system," says Dean Jonathan Schaeffer, who was unable to give an exact figure in terms of the monetary cuts, but does say it will be in the millions of dollars.

The provincial government was providing funding in order for the faculty to grow, but in 2010 that funding was capped at 6100 students per year—the current number was 6700, which will be down to 6400 this fall.

"I'm talking to you from the Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, the CCIS building."

Schaeffer says. "This was built by the government, $450 million dollars with the intent to grow the Faculty of Science to 7300 students, so we have the physical capacity to handle 7300 students, but what am I doing? I'm taking us from 6700 to 6400 to 6100 and I don't even know where the bottom is." His frustration is evident.

"Science is obviously the basis of what everyone wants to see in the economy and what people want to do," says Shauna Regan, president of the Interdepartmental Science Student Society and

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FRONT NEWS // CITY ELECTION

New to the race

Vacating councillors open the race to new candidates

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t's not often Edmontonians get Together, an organization which a shot at city council. So with assists new immigrant women in six seats open due to a string of overcoming barriers. a successful retirements and mayoral runs, woman in the non-profit sector, it's a rare opportunity for those she recently succeeded in advowho have waited in community cating for a women's committee leagues and business ventures to take their turn.

The open seats in Wards 2, 5, 10 and 11 (we'll talk about Ward 6 next week) are not just crowded, but populated with candidates who have never run in an election before, while incumbents like amarjeet Sohi, Ben Henderson, Bryan anderson and Ed gibbons remain unchallenged.

It's indicative of the political reality of city politics.

"If you're doing your research, there's a rare chance of knocking out an incumbent," says Richard Feehan, a candidate in Ward 10.

Between 1995 and 2010 the only new candidate to unseat an incumbent city councillor was Don Iveson. according to research by university of alberta political science professor Jim Lightbody, that fits the stats: incumbents win 86 percent of the time.

So, with open seats across the city, it seems Edmontonians of all backgrounds have flocked to collect the required 25 signatures and fill out their nomination forms.

The open race has attracted Edmontonians with a long list of volunteer work on community leagues, non-profits and volunteer start-ups—entrepreneurs and leaders in a variety of ways.

"For me this isn't a change in anything I've already done," Feehan says. an accomplished social worker, Feehan's work has centred around researching the structural limitations that prevent individuals from succeeding. "My whole career as a social worker, my emphasis has been on families and // Jill Stanton communities. So deciding to run is an extension of that."

It's a sentiment shared by the with the City of Edmonton. and other candidates entering the now she's running for election. electoral race as civic politics is a "Politics is in my blood," Bitar way to use success in other fields says. It's what she told her husto give back. band when he questioned why But with the frustrations and bar- she would want to move into riers the political arena can bring elected politics. to success, one might wonder why "Now he's my number-one volan accomplished individual would unteer," Bitar adds. She has been want to move into the political interested in running in the ward realm, where progress can often since its creation in 2010. be slow and marred by bureaucraDespite achieving numerous succy and big personalities. cesses with Changing Together, Sonia Bitar, a candidate in Ward the Federation of Canadian Mu11, is an accomplished judge, and nicipalities and now the women's the former director of Changing committee, Bitar is insistent that

people—and especially women— get involved at an elected level. "unless you're involved in decision-making, you can't make a difference," she says.

mayoral race seems to have inspired a few men in their late twenties to repeat Iveson's early success.

Dan Johnson has become known around the city as "The Can Man" due to the end-hunger initiative

People certainly know there's an election coming, and that there is not an incumbent.

for Zack Siezmagraff it was something else in his blood that inspired his run in Ward 10.

"I was diagnosed with testicular cancer last year," he explains.

"When you're 29, your mortality is not the first thing on your mind; it made me reevaluate where I was going with my life and what my passions were." as Siezmagraff contemplated the possibility of running, the decision by current Ward 10 councillor Iveson to run for mayor sealed his decision.

The departure of Iveson for the

he started in 2011.

"The biggest thing was Don Iveson running for mayor," Johnson says. "Ward 10 needed good leadership. I thought I could help."

Not everyone was so influenced by the lack of incumbents. While some candidates have moved Wards at the sign of an incumbent dropping out, David Dodge is one of the few to take on a returning councillor.

"Strategically it might not have been the best time," Dodge says.

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ward where someone is retiring?'"

But for Dodge, the former president of the Edmonton Federation of Community Leagues, the decision was more about the application of his experience after 18 years of volunteering in his community.

"This is about my life, it's the right time in my volunteer life and my professional life," he adds.

While Dodge will be taking on an incumbent, the lack of a councillor's history in other ridings could have a side effect on the tone of the campaign as it moves into higher gear this September: without incumbents there's no need to attack a candidate's council record. an avid council watcher, Ward 5 candidate Dan St Pierre got the feeling early on that there would be a shake up.

"I got the sense the incumbent was probably looking at running for mayor and I thought it was a unique opportunity to run a positive campaign," St Pierre says.

"This is me, these are my ideas."

It's a much different tone than the one set in 2010's election with the contentious and aggressive campaigning around the closure of the City Centre airport lands.

Ward 5 will see a very different race this year with six candidates who have never run before and Terry Demers, a former executive assistant to Ron Hayter and a candidate in Ward 3 in 2010.

Candidates who have already been out knocking on doors over the summer have noticed another subtle difference: people seem a bit more tuned in this time around.

"People at the door I think are more interested," says Ted grand in Ward 2. grand, who served as a representative to the Edmonton Federation of Community Leagues in addition to his extensive career as a product manufacturer, decided to run in early June and has been campaigning over the summer.

"People certainly know there's an election coming, and that there is not an incumbent," grand says. as September approaches, the race could get even more interesting. Nomination day, the day when all the paperwork needs to be in, is September 23 and many wards could see a crowded race to the finish line.

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Syrian dilemma

Questions about what to do about poison gas used to kill thousands in Damascus

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dilemma is by its very nature a choice between evils, and that is what now faces other countries over the use of poison gas in Syria. All the options may be "on the table", but none of them are good.

Nobody denies poison gas was used in rebel-held parts of Damascus on August 21, not even the Syrian government. Médecins Sans Frontières says 3600 patients with symptoms of poisoning were treated at three hospitals it supports in Damascus after the attack and that at least 355 of them died. The real total may be as high as 1000 dead. That's a whole week's normal death toll in the Syrian civil war in just one day.

After that, however, we run out of facts. The rebels claim that the Baathist regime was responsible, while the Syrian government says the rebels did it themselves in the hope of triggering foreign military intervention. Sending United Nations inspectors will not settle that argument: if nerve gas was actually used, it must have come from government stocks, but that doesn't mean that the regime did it.

Everybody knows the Syrian military have stocks of poison gas, but

what's happening in Syria is a civil war. The rebels have not overrun any of the known storage sites for Syrian chemical weapons, but they could have secret supporters inside those sites who smuggled some out to them.

thing he needs is foreign military intervention. Using chemical weapons could lead to just such an outcome and it would be exceptionally stupid for the regime to do so.

On the other hand, armies and regimes have done exceptionally

Chemical weapons are classed as "weapons of mass destruction" and there is an international treaty banning their use.

If you apply the old test of "who benefits?", the rebels, who are currently losing ground, have a strong incentive to get the Assad regime blamed for using illegal weapons. If that gets the United States and other Western powers to impose a no-fly zone or bomb the regime's military bases, it helps the rebel cause. So maybe they acted to provide the necessary "evidence": some of them are certainly ruthless enough.

It's easier to imagine the regime using chemical weapons: it's just as ruthless and it actually owns them.

But it is manifestly not to its advantage to do so. President Bashar al-Assad's troops are winning the war without them and the last

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stupid things in the past, particularly when they are isolated and under great pressure. The emerging consensus among Western governments, at any rate, is that Assad was responsible. So what to do about it?

France has already called for the use of force and the United States and Britain seem to be teetering on the brink: after a 40-minute phone call last Saturday, President Barack Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron agreed that "a significant use of chemical weapons would merit a serious response." But that is about the least they could say, in the circumstances.

Earlier in the week, Obama

warned publicly that people who "call for immediate action, jumping into stuff that does not turn out well, gets us mired in very difficult situations, (and) can ... actually breed more resentment in the region." If you liked America's wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, he is saying, you'll just love the one in Syria—and he knows the American public is not up for it.

US military intervention is unlikely to lead to the outcome American foreign policy really desires: the preservation of Syria's existing secular state, with a change of leadership at the top. If Assad is overthrown, he'll probably pull the whole edifice down with him. If the rebels win, it's almost certainly the Islamist radicals who will take over.

So if a military intervention is practically bound to end in tears, then why not just skip it?

Because chemical weapons are classed as "weapons of mass destruction" and there is an international treaty banning their use. If you let Assad get away with this, goes the argument, he will have breached an important international taboo on the use of WMD. Well, not really.

Biological weapons ("germ warfare") are truly horrifying weapons

of mass destruction, banned by treaty and nobody has ever used them. Nuclear weapons can kill by the billions; they have never been banned, but they haven't been used in war for 68 years now. Poison gas, however, is not really a weapon of mass destruction at all.

When gas was used in the First World War, it was always about capturing the next line of trenches. It was banned after that war, but it has been used a few times since: Italy used gas in Ethiopia in 1935; Japan used it against China in 1938; Yemen used it against rebels in the 1960s; and Iraq used it against Iran and Kurdish rebels in the '80s. In no case did the casualties reach "mass destruction" levels.

Napalm, fuel-air explosives and cluster bombs are just as nasty as poison gas and perfectly legal. The historic ban on poison gas is a valuable deterrent, but it has survived some previous breaches and preventing this one is not worth a war.

Especially if it is, from the point of view of the potential interveners, an unwinnable war. V

ence is often told that he is in fact male and gay. During this week's judging of the photo shoots, one of the judges applauds the gay male model for being "a man" in his photo. Tyra is quick to assert that of course the gay male model

to dress like women, and the female models are made to dress like men for their photo shoots.

When faced with such daily moments of policing, there is a lot of pressure for all people to police themselves in order to fit society's expectations of gender and sexuality. The third moment occurred as I was coming back to Edmonton from San Francisco.

Right before facing the Canada Customs Officer, my girlfriend and I quickly discussed whether we should tell the Customs Officer we were girlfriends or just friends. We feared by stating we are girlfriends, we would be met with a host of confused, prying and personal questions. Yet saying we were just friends was disingenuous and even sad. The Customs Officer did not have to say anything, we were already policing ourselves.

On a daily basis, we change our behaviours, mannerisms, dress and relationships in order to avoid social judgment, ridicule or violence. Resisting such policing may be impossible in some situations, but what we can do is resist policing each other. V

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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Policing sexuality

Pressure to fit societal and gender norms When discussing the ways in which gender and sexuality are policed and regulated in our society, we tend to focus on significant, sticking incidents including provincial laws that target LGBTQ people, or violent hate crimes.

Yet the policing and regulation of gender and sexuality most often happen in subtle, seemingly innocuous ways. Little moments in our lives—be they interactions with family or friends, colleagues or authorities, or the dialogue in a TV show or movie—reinforce which gender expressions and sexualities are socially acceptable.

For this week's column I would like to discuss three daily moments of gender and sexuality policing which I experienced over the past week to show that while these incidents may not be violent or particularly serious, they are powerful because they are subtle and unrelenting, and together they condition our lives in very personal and real ways.

The first moment happens quite often: when pulling up to a drivethrough window more often than not, the employee will call me "Sir" or "Mister" until they do

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a double-take and correct themselves, often in an embarrassed way by saying "I mean Miss?"

After several such incidents I finally realized they are only seeing the shaved side of my head.

Probably unconsciously, they as-

I can only imagine what cringe-worthy gender and sexuality policing will happen on next week’s episode when the male models are made to dress like women, and the female models are made to dress like men for their photo shoots. sociate shaved heads with men.

When they correct themselves, it may challenge their assumptions about gender expression, but I have already been reminded that my gender expression is confusing, and unnerving.

The second moment occurred as I was watching Tyra Banks dispense her wisdom on this season of America's Next Top Model. This season features male and female models. There remains one gay male model, of which the audi-

is a man, but what is truly worthy of praise, she continues, is that the gay male model is convincingly "straight" in his photo. No one questions what straight looks like. It is just assumed, with a sigh of relief, that because the gay male model is assuming a masculine body position in relation to a female model, he is successfully evoking straightness. I can only imagine what cringe-worthy gender and sexuality policing will happen on next week's episode when the male models are made

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fourth-year honours physiology student, adding the first mention of cuts to the faculty came in March when the provincial budget was announced, and that regular consultation between faculty and the ISSS will continue.

To make these cuts, the admissions average has been raised significantly.

Four years ago, a 72-percent average in high school was required to enroll in a general science degree. The required average has risen steadily over that

time, though, with it now sitting at 80 percent. To cut 300 more seats next year, it will be raised again, but that number has not been released.

"I think the cuts as a whole have been having a negative impact on what people think of the u of a in terms of how they spend money. In terms of students, I don't think it's good to have this perception that it's hard to get an education here or hard to get in. It's kind of elitist almost," Regan adds. "If we don't get an increase in grant funding I would imagine there needs to be

a lot more consolidation between the different faculties."

"I'm being forced to exclude highly qualified alberta students and deny them a university of alberta Faculty of Science education. This is devastating to me, personally," Schaeffer says. "We really don't want to be doing this, but I have to. as dean, it's my job to make fiscally prudent decisions to balance the books and this is one of the ways we have to do it."

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ometimes I wonder if there's a point to reviewing sushi restaurants, the working assumption being there are so many—and so many well-established—sushi joints in Edmonton that a truly sub-par establishment would cancel itself out almost instantly. Tiny portions, lousy selection, poor presentation, a hint of "low tide" in Japonais Bistro your sashimi— 11806 Jasper Ave that shit will not 780.760.1616 fly, not even on japonaisbistro.ca the prairies.

That said, not many sushi restaurants do the unexpected, which is mostly good. When I go out for sushi, I want the basics covered with maybe a little something fancy thrown in, like some novel maki or a new twist on an old favourite. But something about the name Japonais Bistro, which has been hung above the door of a nicely appointed dining room along Jasper Ave, not far from the Tin Palace and Famoso (and right around the corner from La Shish Taouk) since last spring, gave me the impression to expect something a bit different.

Their self-description as a purveyor of "modern Japanese cuisine" tended to heighten that expectation.

And certainly some interesting ideas pop out at you from the standard sushi fare on the JB menu, like "new-style" sashimi seared in olive oil with garlic, ginger and green onion, honey-plum tuna and spicy mango prawns—and that's just the appetizers. Moreover, the bistro further flouts convention by eschewing kimonos, colourful fabric pennants and paper-lantern illumination for a small army of servers clad in black (but not like ninjas), exposed brick

DISH and wood surfaces, and a soundtrack of loping acoustic jazz that was just audible over the low din of a pretty full dining room.

To get into the spirit of things, I decided on the sushi tortilla ($14.95) as the main event of my meal, with some miso soup ($2.95), goma ae ($6.95) and a chop chop roll ($7.95) to round things out, and the requisite fizzy Japanese lager to wash it down. My server, who wore a huge smile the entire time she was making her appointed rounds, told me a food order over $20 entitled me to take advantage of the Tuesday night special—a dollar a pop for fresh, raw oysters—and I noticed there were large trays of the self-same bivalves on ice on every table in eyeshot. I decided to save that for another visit.

The miso was miso—would you want it any other way?—served in exactly the same kind of black bowl it comes in at every Japanese restaurant, but well-supplied with chewy, subtly fishy wakame seaweed, which made it feel more substantial (and is a good non-dairy source of calcium).

Not long after came the sushi tortilla, which just looked like a big plate of fresh arugula at first glance— not necessarily a bad thing, as I do love arugula. Underneath all those healthy green rocket leaves, though, was a crisped wheat tortilla drizzled with honey and spread with pieces of raw tuna and salmon, avocado chunks, grape tomatoes, sliced red onion and an apt amount of creamy, mayo-type dressing. Though cut in quarters, it was a little awkward to

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eat since most of the toppings refused to stay on when I picked it up, and while the individual ingredients were certainly appetizing, they didn't really pop when brought together, and the subtle fish was slightly obscured by everything else. I noticed too late that the vegetarian version was a mere two bucks cheaper than the one with raw fish, which should give you an indication of how substantial the fish portion was. It was all very edible, but it wasn't going to scratch my sushi itch. Like so many things in life, it would have been better for sharing.

Far more successful on its own terms was the chop chop roll, which united velvety minced scallop bound in mayonnaise—but not too much— and beaded with crisp fish roe accompanied by avocado chunks in inside-out maki rolled in toasted sesame seeds. Dipped in a soy sauce with a nose-stinging dose of wasabi stirred in, it provided the flavours and textures I'd been longing for, with an astringent, palate-cleansing pickled ginger chaser.

The goma ae—perfectly blanched spinach spun into dense, deep green balls dressed with earthy, sweet black sesame sauce—also delivered as expected and, with company, I'd be tempted to try JB's suggestion of adding tuna and avocado. I have no doubt there are many such good ideas jostling about in Japonais Bistro's menu which, slightly pretentious moniker notwithstanding, won't run you that much more than what you find at your current favourite sushi outlet. Next time I'll take along some sushi-lovin' friends to help me confirm that definitively.

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Prince Edward Island boasts good brew, too Prince Edward Island has a well- tle sales in PEI liquor stores. deserved reputation for being a Of course, this doesn't mean the tourism hot-spot, and for its quaint beer wasn't good. In fact, Gahan rural landscapes complete with its has won multiple medals at the famous red soil. Everyone knows its Canadian Brewing Awards over primary exports have been delicious the years. But in 2012, the original potatoes and a certain red-headed owners of Gahan partnered with fictional character. a Charlottetown entrepreneur to But PEI as a brewing mecca? finance a major expansion projNot so much. In fact, the island ect. They renamed the brewery to of 150 000 people had only one highlight their geographic origins, brewery, and for built a new, largthe longest time Gahan Island Red er brewery and it was mostly a PEI Brewing Company, started pushing glorified brew- Charlottetown, PEI out to other Atpub. In July a $15.70 for four-pack of lantic provinces. nanobrewery 500-mL bottles opened up in ruI mention all this for the simple rearal PEI, but for the most part we can still confi- son that a couple of weeks ago the dently say PEI has a single brewing Gahan label finally reached Alberta. concern. That They have shipped all five of their current product line, which includes brewery is a red ale, an IPA, a honey wheat ale, a PEI Brewing pale lager and a blueberry beer.

C o m p a n y, formerly I picked up the Island Red Ale for called Gahan my first offering from this long sought-after brewery. It pours with Brewing. Gahan opened a classic red ale hue: medium red mahogany with a big, tight offin 1997, but until 2012 white head. The aroma offers subwas a small dued, slight caramel and toasty toffee along with a touch of fruit. brewpub that ofThe initial sip brings out sweet f e r e d toffee and a light nuttiness upsome botfront. A flirty toasted note surfaces as well, masking some delicate fruitiness. The middle sharpens somewhat, allowing a graininess to rise. The finish is deceptive, offering both sweet and dry simultaneously. I also pick up hints of a harsher form of graininess— not enough to damage the impression but slightly distracting.

Without question, the first sip of this beer was fantastic.

The slight toast balancing initial toffee sweetness is superbly finessed. As the glass emptied, some of that initial "wow factor" ebbed, but it remained a solid, interesting red ale. Too often I find red ales are either too flabby or too watery.

This version has a nice balanced body, some malt heft and the classic red ale sweet/ dry finish.

Move over, Anne: Gahan is here to add its name to the list of quality PEI exports. V Jason Foster is the creator of onbeer.org, a website devoted to news and views on beer from the prairies and beyond.

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Varied origins Tigernut can be found wild (it's often considered a weed) or grown as a crop, and are native to temperate and subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere such as Egypt (where it's been cultivated since the fourth century) or Southern Europe.

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Try for yourself Tigernut tubers are said to be tender with a sweet, nutty taste and can be eaten raw, roasted, dried, baked or in the form of tigernut milk or oil.

Small but mighty Aside from being edible, tigernut is used in the cosmetic industry in the form of oil. They are high in vitamin E, which aids in slowing the aging process of body cells, therefore promoting skin elasticity and reducing the appearance of wrinkles.

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Respect the master

The Grandmaster takes liberties with the story of a martial-arts legend sequences take on a dance-like quality accented by soaring musical scores, sumptuous cinematography which often slows down the lightning-fast brutality to slow-motion, offering a brief reprieve to take it all in before the melee begins again. Where many action films focus on bloodshed, the violence in The Grandmaster is considerably less abrasive, a testament to its filmmaker, Wong Kar-wai, who reinforces martial arts as just that, an art form meant to be respected.

But while the film is a visual success, its characters lack development. Yes, the focus is martial arts and its influence at that time in history, but we learn little about Ip Man beyond his powerful skills. His wife and children are present in the film, but we learn next to nothing about them—the death of his daughters is omitted from the film entirely.

Nobody stops Ip Man. Not even two nobodies.

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odern-day kung-fu aficiona- pares his life to the changing seados like Bruce Lee had to sons, with the first 40 years being learn from someone. That some- spring, leaving an ominous bit of one was Ip Man. foreshadowing that makes it clear The Grandmaster has the skel- something is about to change— eton of a biopic but takes nu- a shift that comes with the armerous creative rival of Gong liberties with Ip Opens Friday Yutian (Wang Man's story, par- Directed by Wong Kar-wai Qingxiang), a martial-arts ticularly a pseu-  master hailing do-romantic plot line. The film from northern opens in China in 1936, when Ip China. Gong Yutian has retired Man (Tony Leung) is 40. He com- and left his legacy in the hands

of Ma San (Zhang Jin) and states the South requires an heir as well, which weaves in an intriguing examination of the rift between the martial-arts styles practised in the north compared to those of the south—where Ip Man's deadly wing chun style originated.

Ip Man's most challenging adversary turns out to be Gong Yutian's daughter, Gong Er (Ziyi Zhang), who honed her father's remarkable skills, but was not allowed to become his heir due to her gen-

der. Zhang's character is fictional, but her own tribulations provide a captivating parallel story arc—which blends into Ip Man's in the form of the romantic plot line mentioned earlier. However, she is far more than the quintessential female love interest, with Zhang embodying a strong female lead who abolishes status quo in favour of her beliefs.

The Grandmaster's greatest strengths are its stunning visual qualities. Martial arts fight

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a promising generational clash, becoming Forrest Gump meets The Remains of the Day—Louis pops up at seemingly every '60s Civil-Rights flashpoint while his butler father recalls only how each president was moved by the black struggle. (This flip through a history book's pages breezes through romance, too—Louis takes four years to kiss the protester he's been hanging out with and then just a few more scenes to ditch her.)

It's Oprah who makes the movie interesting—Winfrey adroitly plays Cecil's wife, struggling with alcohol and loneliness as he's working long hours. Most home scenes bristle and crackle with life and complex, emotion-wracked characters, while so many White

The version audiences will see in North America has been trimmed down from its 133-minute original to 108 minutes, with text added to explain certain historical aspects of the film—which is often needed, particularly for those unfamiliar with Ip Man. There are moments when, even despite its visual strengths, the story begins to drag, and the final portion seems rushed as it does its best to wrap up the loose ends between Ip Man and Gong Er—by far the film's strongest characters, with each actor delivering strong physical performances that evoke an intense range of emotion without the aid of excessive dialogue.

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The Butler I

n its big-screen portraits of by the life of Eugene Allen) serves the past, Hollywood prefers to up 20th-century African-Amersubordinate political struggle to ican history through the eyes of personal emotion, promoting the one tuxedoed domestic serving individually heroic far above any a succession of white men in the system failures White House.

And, predictor social turmoil. Now playing Five years ago, Directed by Lee Daniels ably, that black butler, Cecil this starring-role  sense of history Gaines (Forest played its part Whitaker), lives in electing Barack Obama—an long enough to meet Obama— achievement unto itself, the me- as if his election marks the tridia's marquees told us, just be- umphal end of blacks' struggles. cause of his skin colour. That's (With such a racialized view of pohistory-writ-individually and ce- litical success, should it be a mark lebrity identity-politics, where of failure that this movie's written the person, not policy, matters by a white, Jewish guy?) But then, and the Prez is more than the the biggest problem with The military-industrial complex or Butler is its reduction, often bizarrely, of each president to how lobbying network.

Lee Daniels' The Butler (inspired he deals with the race Issue—so

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In 1923 Georgia, Cecil sees his mother taken by the plantation owner, who kills Cecil's protesting father. The owner's mother takes Cecil on as a servant; after he leaves for the North, he becomes a butler at a Washington DC hotel, where he's picked out for service at 1660 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Cecil's son Louis (David Oyelowo) rejects his father's quiescent approach and heads South, where he participates in a sit-in, buses with the Freedom Riders, hangs around MLK in a Memphis hotel and joins the Black Panthers.

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House scenes are whitewashed and inert. Ultimately, the cipherlike Cecil apparently regrets not only his estrangement from his son but also his own passivity.

But that's after the movie's had King preach to us about the political importance of black help, unnecessarily stated each administration in intertitles to awe us, and made a quiet, noble hero out of Cecil all along. A more grandiose version of The Help, The Butler stands there at the ready, eager to offer an after-dinner mint of simplified, sweetened history to make us—especially white Americans—feel good about how that whole racism thing turned out in the end.

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Mind the gap

The Canyons genuinely provocative, despite its flaws

He's probably sexting

Haute trash does not constitute new terrain for Paul Schrader.

Most famous for writing Taxi Driver (1976), the fiercely intelligent, industry savvy, consistently fascinating if at times taste-impaired filmmaker was raised in a Michigan Calvinist household, began his career as a critic, at one point lived out of his car, drank heavily and owned a gun. His work has plumbed prostitution, drug dealing, cat persons, boxing, Patty Hearst, the sex fantasies of Jesus and, on several occasions, pornography and murder. That Schrader's most recent, micro-budgeted film finds him in league with porn star James Deen, American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis and Lindsay Lohan to tell a story of deadly deals on Hollywood's periphery is not so surprising. Nor is it surprising that The Canyons, for all its considerable deficits, is interesting, entertaining and genuinely provocative—though perhaps not for the reasons you think.

The first scene finds wealthy producer Christian (Deen) and his live-in girlfriend Tara (Lohan) sharing drinks at the Chateau Marmont with Gina (Amanda Brooks) and Ryan (Nolan Gerard Funk), a struggling actor cast in the shitty-sounding horror flick Christian's financing. Constructed almost entirely of delightfully arranged singles and doubles, this is arguably The Can-

yons' best scene. Christian and Tara strike angular poses with phones in hand, while Gina and Ryan looking straight on, at times directly to camera, unencumbered and out of place. Ryan's faux-earnest and nervous, Tara looks uncomfortable, Christian seems bored and spices up the dull conversation by bragging about how he and Tara regularly shop online for others to join their sexcapades—evidence of which, rest assured, we'll see plenty later.

As the film progresses there will be more meetings in cafés, restaurants, studios, bungalows and hot tubs, and we will gradually becomes aware of the fact that everyone is fucking someone and no one is ever telling the truth to anyone else. Whether by trade or by nature, everyone in The Canyons is acting, or, more accurately, faking it. Which is one of the reasons why complaints about the film's variable performances often seem beside the point. And anyway, while Vancouver-born beefcake Funk is truly wooden—he seems to still be working on things like standing up, sitting down and walking—Deen is in his way well-cast and coldly compelling, and Lohan is transfixing. Laryngitic, fidgety, frequently on the verge of tears, she seems—appropriately for her character—almost always about to collapse. In a recent piece for

Film Comment, Schrader convincingly compared Lohan to Marilyn Monroe. Ultimately, I felt the film's flaws weren't due to the actors or the lack of resources or to the seedy sensationalism—ie: group sex, abuse, propositions, rape and more—but to the exhaustion of Ellis's imagination in the third act. It gets a little dumb. But there's much to engage with along the way.

The Canyons was released "day and date" in early August, meaning that it premiered in theatres the same day that it was available for viewing online. The film is peppered with images of abandoned, dilapidated Los Angeles cinemas—is Schrader thanking or mocking us for still going to the movies? "Do you really like movies?" one of its characters asks. After so many devastating career frustrations, does Schrader still like movies? I'm guessing yes, though he's ornery, and perhaps a little too jazzed to exploit the new economics of filmmaking, jumping at a quickie script from a name writer, employing consumer cameras, Kickstarter, Let It Cast, et al.

But it may be paying off. Schrader is in desperate need of some industrial cred, and online figures are ostensibly good. If making something as lurid as The Canyons gives Schrader the means to make another Blue Collar (1978) or Affliction (1997), it's all right with me. V

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The Iceman R

ichard Kuklinski was a real- is exhumed, halfway through, life New Jersey contract from behind a cell door by his killer, plying his trade for three brother, who warns him of the latent brutality decades, killing dozens and Sat, aug 31 – Wed, Sep 4 we've already been witnessdozens for the Directed by ariel Vromen ing for fortyDeMeo mob. Metro Cinema at the garneau This homifive minutes.)  Michael Shancidal slug-trail seeped out of non channels Kuklinski's childhood, when he that chilling gaze, but has little was beaten by his father and else to work with. The reports mother; a brother's death, cov- of Kuklinski's threats against ered up, was from injuries in- his daughters and abuse of his flicted by the father. (Kuklins- wife (played by Winona Ryder) ki's other brother was jailed for are downplayed in this treatthe murder of a young girl.) The ment. Mostly, Kuklinski's famIceman, though, mostly offers ily is just his bucolic other life, Kuklinski as flint-eyed Death, juxtaposed, Sopranos-lite, with a horror-film murderer who's his brutal work. That sadism's arisen from nowhere. (His past played breezily, though—Kuk-

linski recalled having a man pray for half-an-hour before he killed him; here, it's a minute, the scene played for quirk and not existential dread. If anything, Kuklinski's softened as the script plays up his supposed personal code—not killing women or children. This leads to two bravura scenes where his mask slips and he puts his family at risk, but otherwise the drama's gravitas is off-balance, especially when it veers away from the true story, sliding into the morass of a revenge-thriller.

Ray Liotta does good, if familiar, work as the crime boss DeMeo. Still, when Kuklinski

starts working with Robert Pronge (Chris Evans), a killer who drives an ice-cream truck, the movie skids towards horror-film territory.

The details of Kuklinski's capture are convoluted. and the efforts to paint Kuklinski as a family man under pressure seem strained themselves, fumbling attempts to squeeze blood and empathy from a cold gravestone. It's as if the movie, in too closely tracking an empty killer, a man who feels "nothin'," becomes a shell itself, a chalked outline of a body that never had a soul.

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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aying off his Dollars Trilogy, Sergio Leone's '60s thoroughbred of a horse opera, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, slow-bakes tanned-leather faces, parched lips, blistered, unwashed skin, dusty, dirty clothes and low-down characters into the Western—and the Civil War. Set in 1862, somewhere far south in the West (though shot in Spain), this showcase of Leone's style— long shots of tumbleweed landscapes juxtaposed with close-

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ups of Dickensian faces—could (Both Blondie and Tuco clean easily be called The Scowl, the or examine guns, caring for their instruments of death more Sneer and the Leer.

There's the cocky scowl of than for any human. and life's Clint Eastwood as Blondie cheap—until death's worth millions, when a ("The good"), dying-of-thirst n a r r o w - e y e d Sat, aug 31 – Wed, Sep 4 Blondie discovand seemingly Directed by Sergio Leone ers the name of heroic when he Metro Cinema at the garneau the grave where brings in want- Originally released: 1966 the gold's bured bandit Tuco ied.) The des... only to shoot him down, out of the noose, ert echoes the moral waste of after he's collected the reward the Civil War; alcohol-reeking money—the two split it. The armies vie for a bridge, Rebnasty sneer of Lee Van Cleef as els lie bloody and maimed, and angel Eyes ("The Bad"), a hired we hear of the North's prisonkiller hunting Confederate gold. camps, even as Enrico Morriand the sadistic leer of Eli Wal- cone's whistling, jangly score lach as Tuco ("The ugly"), a curs- spurs us along for the ride in ing, no-good son-of-a-bitch who this Spaghetti Western.

Eastwood, in one of his first pursues that "pig" Blondie after he leaves him in the desert, end- major films, was worried about Wallach upstaging him, and ing their partnership. he does. More comic than vilThe story, of course, belies lainous, Tuco's one hell of a the title—none of these men bullshitting, two-faced, backis much better than another. In stabbing rogue. and that's the Leone's view, the West was won galloping triumph of The Good, by simple thuggery and mer- the Bad and the Ugly—how cenary force—by sociopathic much it makes the bad in everymen drawing guns for blood one so damned compelling. and gold or, worse, by armies BRIAN GIBSON driven to senseless slaughter. BRIAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS CITY OF BONES (PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young children) Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30; Mon 12:45, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40; Tue-Wed 1:00, 3:55, 6:55, 9:55; Thu 1:00, 3:55, 6:55, 10:15 ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US 3D (G) Fri-Mon 12:40; Tue-Thu 2:30; 3d : Fri-Mon 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 10:05; Tue-Thu 5:00, 7:45, 10:05

KICK-ASS 2 (18A crude coarse language, gory brutal) Fri-Mon 1:35, 4:25, 7:25, 10:10; Tue-Wed 1:50, 4:50, 7:35, 10:10; Thu 1:50, 4:35, 7:25

2 GUNS (14A violence) Fri-Sun 1:25, 4:10, 7:05, 9:55; Mon-Tue

Man Of Steel (PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young children) Fri-Mon 1:35; 3d : Fri-Mon, Wed-Thu 4:40, 7:40; Tue 1:35, 4:40, 7:40

Turbo (G) Fri-Tue 1:45; 3d : Daily 3:55, 6:40, 8:55 The Heat (14A crude coarse language) Fri-Tue 1:25, 4:00, 7:10,

Tue-Thu 9:30

WE'RE THE MILLERS (14A crude coarse language, sexual content) Fri, Sun 2:10, 5:10, 8:00, 10:45; Sat 11:35, 2:10, 5:10, 8:00, 10:45; Mon 2:00, 4:35, 7:30, 10:10; Tue-Thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10

GETAWAY (PG coarse language) Fri-Sun 1:15, 3:35, 5:55, 8:15, 10:35; Mon 12:55, 3:10, 5:30, 7:55, 10:15; Tue-Thu 2:35, 5:15, 7:55, 10:15

THE WORLD'S END (14A crude coarse language) Thu 9:55;

5:15, 7:35; Tue-Thu 4:55, 7:10

RIDDICK (18A gory violence) Ultraavx: Thu 9:30 CLOSED CIRCUIT (14A) Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:25; Mon 2:10, 4:40, 7:05, 9:30; Tue 2:10, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50; Wed-Thu

2:10, 4:40, 7:15, 9:35

LEE DANIELS' THE BUTLER (14A) Fri-Mon 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50; Tue-Thu 1:00, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50

Rudy (STC) Sat 11:00 BLUE JASMINE (PG substance abuse, coarse language, mature subject matter) Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:45; Mon 1:20, 4:00, 6:50, 9:25; Tue-Thu 1:20, 4:05, 6:40, 9:25

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ELYSIUM (14A gory violence) Fri-Mon 3:40, 6:20, 9:20; Tue-Thu

THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS CITY OF BONES (PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young children) Ultraavx FriMon 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50; Tue-Wed 6:30, 9:30; Thu 6:30, 9:35

3:55, 6:45, 9:30; Wed-Thu 3:55, 6:45, 9:30

ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US (G) Fri-Sun 12:40; Mon 1:00;

Jatt Airways (PG) Punjabi W/E.S.T. Fri-Tue 1:30, 4:45, 8:00;

7:30, 9:45

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ELYSIUM (14A gory violence) Daily 1:45, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 DESPICABLE ME 2 (G) Fri, Sun-Thu 1:00; Sat 11:20, 1:00; 3d :

3d : Fri-Sun 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00; Mon 3:20, 6:10, 9:00; Tue-Thu

content) Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40; Mon 1:40, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45; Tue-Thu 6:30, 9:10; Vip 18+: Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:25, 6:30, 9:30; Mon 12:30, 3:20, 6:20, 9:15; Tue-Wed 7:00, 9:45; Thu 7:00, 10:00

GETAWAY (PG coarse language) Fri-Sun 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20; Mon 1:50, 4:20, 7:10, 9:40; Tue-Wed 7:10, 9:45; Thu 7:10, 9:25

THE WORLD'S END (14A crude coarse language) Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:10, 7:20, 10:10; Mon 1:30, 4:10, 7:20, 9:55; Tue-Thu 7:00, 9:40; Vip 18+ : Fri-Sun 1:10, 4:20, 7:30, 10:30; Mon 1:10, 4:05, 7:05, 10:00; Tue-Wed 6:30, 9:15; Thu 6:30

Daily 3:30, 6:15, 8:30

RIDDICK (18A gory violence) Vip 18+ : Thu 9:30; Ultraavx: Thu 9:30

scenes) Fri, Sun-Thu 1:30; Sat 11:30, 1:30; 3d : Fri-Wed 4:00, 6:50, 9:20; Thu 4:00, 6:50

PLANES (G) Fri-Mon 1:20, 4:00; 3d : Fri-Mon 6:45, 9:10; Tue-Wed

THE WOLVERINE (14A violence) Daily 1:20; 3d : Daily 4:10,

LEE DANIELS' THE BUTLER (14A) Fri-Mon 12:30, 3:30, 6:30,

THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS CITY OF BONES (PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young children) Ultraavx Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 7:00, 10:00; Thu 12:35, 3:35, 6:30; Thu 9:20 ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US (G) Daily 12:30; Sat 11:15; 3D : Daily 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:55

THE CONJURING (14A frightening scenes, disturbing content) Daily 9:40

KICK-ASS 2 (18A crude coarse language, gory brutal) Daily 2:40, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 2 GUNS (14A violence) Daily 2:30, 7:45 YOU'RE NEXT (18A gory brutal violence) Daily 5:20, 10:15 WE'RE THE MILLERS (14A crude coarse language, sexual

7:20, 9:40; Thu 7:20 9:30; Tue-Thu 6:50, 9:45; Vip 18+ : Fri-Sun 2:00, 5:10, 8:30; Mon 2:00, 5:10, 8:20; Tue-Thu 8:00

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BLUE JASMINE (PG substance abuse, coarse language, mature subject matter) Fri-Tue 12:50, 3:45, 7:20, 10:05; Wed-Thu 3:45, 7:20, 9:55

LEE DANIELS' THE BUTLER (14A) Fri-Tue 2:40, 3:40, 7:10,

for young children) Fri-Tue 12:20, 3:20, 6:50, 9:50; Wed-Thu 3:20, 6:50, 9:40

2:10, 5:00, 7:50, 10:30; Wed 5:00, 7:50, 10:30; Star & Strollers Screening: Wed 1:00

ELYSIUM (14A gory violence) Fri-Tue 12:30, 3:30, 7:00, 9:55; Wed

RIDDICK (18A gory violence) Ultraavx: Thu 9:30 PLANES (G) Fri, Sun-Thu 12:30, 2:00; Sat 11:40, 12:30, 2:00;

WE'RE THE MILLERS (14A crude coarse language, sexual

3:20, 6:55, 9:45; Thu 3:20, 7:00

3D: Daily 4:20, 6:45

content) Fri-Tue 1:20, 4:10, 7:35, 10:25; Wed 4:10, 10:15; Thu 4:10, 6:55

CLOSED CIRCUIT (14A) Fri, Sun-Thu 1:40, 4:40, 7:20, 9:45;

GETAWAY (PG coarse language) Fri-Tue 12:00, 3:00, 6:30, 9:30;

Sat 11:10, 1:40, 4:40, 7:20, 9:45

Wed-Thu 3:00, 6:30, 9:30

LEE DANIELS' THE BUTLER (14A) Fri, Sun-Thu 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:10; Sat 11:30, 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:10

ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US (G) DTS Stereo: Fri-Tue 12:10, 6:40; Wed-Thu 6:40; 3d: DTS Digital: Fri-Tue, Thu 3:10, 9:40; Wed 3:10, 9:35

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ELYSIUM (14A gory violence) Fri, Sun 2:05, 5:00, 8:05, 10:45; Sat 11:30, 2:05, 5:00, 8:05, 10:45; Mon 1:15, 4:05, 7:05, 9:45; Tue-Thu 1:15, 4:00, 7:05, 9:45

DESPICABLE ME 2 (G) Daily 1:45; 3d : Fri-Sun 4:15, 6:45, 9:40; Mon-Thu 4:15, 6:45, 9:15

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PERCY JACKSON SEA OF MONSTERS (PG frightening scenes) Fri-Wed 8:45

WE'RE THE MILLERS (14A crude coarse language, sexual content) Fri 3:20, 6:15, 9:15; Sat-Mon 12:20, 3:20, 6:15, 9:15; Tue-Thu 6:15, 9:15

ELYSIUM (14A gory violence) Fri 3:05, 5:55, 8:55; Sat-Mon 12:10,

THE SMURFS 2 (G) Fri-Mon 12:30; Tue-Thu 1:10 PERCY JACKSON SEA OF MONSTERS (PG frightening

3:05, 5:55, 8:55; Tue-Thu 5:55, 8:55

scenes) Fri-Sun 1:50; Mon-Thu 1:05; 3d : Fri-Sun 4:35, 7:20, 10:20; Mon 4:00, 6:35, 9:20; Tue-Thu 3:45, 6:35, 9:20

12:15, 2:45, 6:30; Tue-Thu 6:30

scenes) Daily 12:55; 3d : Daily 3:50, 7:10, 9:45

THE WOLVERINE (14A violence) Daily 1:00; 3d: Fri-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 10:00; Thu 4:00, 7:00

THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS CITY OF BONES (PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young children) Thu 10:00 ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS USD (G) Ultraavx Fri-Mon 12:35; Tue-Thu 1:45

ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US 3D (G) Ultraavx Fri-Mon

Fri-Mon 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, 10:45; Tue-Thu 2:10, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25

12:25, 2:55, 5:25, 7:55, 10:40; Tue-Thu 2:00, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20

violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young children) Fri-Mon 12:40, 3:45, 6:50, 9:55; Tue-Thu 6:40, 9:45

2 GUNS (14A violence) Fri-Mon 10:40; Tue-Thu 9:40 YOU'RE NEXT (18A gory brutal violence) Fri-Mon 8:15, 10:45;

ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US (G) Fri-Mon 12:00, 2:25; 3d : Fri-Mon 4:50, 7:15, 9:40; Tue-Thu 7:10, 9:35

KICK-ASS 2 (18A crude coarse language, gory brutal) Fri-Mon 9:35; Tue-Thu 9:25

RIDDICK (18A gory violence) Thu 9:30 WE'RE THE MILLERS (14A crude coarse language, sexual

Tue-Thu 8:00, 10:30

WE'RE THE MILLERS (14A crude coarse language, sexual content) Daily 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10

GETAWAY (PG coarse language) Daily 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10,

1:50, 4:50, 7:45, 10:30; Wed 4:50, 7:45, 10:30; Star & Strollers Screening: Wed 1:00

PLANES (G) Fri-Mon 12:45, 3:10, 5:40; Tue, Thu 1:00, 3:15, 5:30; Wed 3:15, 5:30; Star & Strollers Screening: Wed 1:00 THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS CITY OF BONES : The Imax Experience (PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young children) Fri-Mon 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:20; Tue-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15; Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:15

RIDDICK : The Imax Experience (18A gory violence) Thu 10:15

LEDUC CINEMAS 4702-50 St Leduc, 780.986-2728 Date of Issue only: Thu, Aug 29

We're The Millers (14A crude coarse language, sexual content) Thu, Aug 29: 1:00, 3:40, 7:00, 9:40

THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS CITY OF BONES (PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young children) Thu, Aug 29: 12:45, 3:40, 6:45, 9:40

PLANES (G) Thu, Aug 29: 2D: 1:10, 3D: 3:30, 7:10, 9:30; TUE 2D: 7:10, 3D: 9:30

Paranoia (PG coarse language) Thu, Aug 29: 12:50, 3:25, 6:50, 9:25

WETASKIWIN CINEMAS Wetaskiwin 780.352.3922 Date of Issue only: Thu, Aug 29

We're The Millers (14A crude coarse language, sexual content) Thu, Aug 29: 1:00, 3:40, 7:00, 9:40

PERCY JACKSON SEA OF MONSTERS (PG frightening scenes) Thu, Aug 29 2D: 12:55, 3D: 3:35, 6:55, 9:35

THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS CITY OF BONES (PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young children) Thu, Aug 29 12:45, 3:40, 6:45, 9:40

PLANES (G) Thu, Aug 29 2D: 1:10, 3D: 3:30, 7:10, 9:30

content) Fri-Mon 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15; Tue-Thu 7:15, 10:00

GETAWAY (PG coarse language) Fri-Mon 12:35, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10; Tue-Thu 7:35, 9:55

THE WORLD'S END (14A crude coarse language) Fri-Mon 1:55, 4:35, 7:20, 10:05; Tue-Thu 7:20, 10:00

PLANES (G) Fri-Mon 12:20; 3d : Fri-Mon 2:45, 5:10, 7:35, 10:00; Tue-Wed 7:30, 9:50; Thu 7:05

LEE DANIELS' THE BUTLER (14A) Fri-Mon 12:30, 3:35, 6:40, 9:45; Tue-Thu 6:30, 9:30

Rudy (STC) Sat 11:00 GRANDIN THEATRE–St Albert Grandin Mall Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert, 780.458.9822

PERCY JACKSON SEA OF MONSTERS (PG frightening DESPICABLE ME 2 (G) Daily 1:10, 3:15, 7:25 THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS CITY OF BONES (PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young children) Daily 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:05

We're The Millers (14A crude coarse language, sexual content) Daily 12:45, 2:55, 5:05, 7:15, 9:25

PLANES (G) Daily 1:20, 3:20, 5:10, 7:20 The Smurfs 2 (G) Daily 12:55, 3:00, 5:00 Kick-Ass 2 (18A crude coarse language, gory brutal) Daily 9:15 WORLD WAR Z (14A violence, frightening scenes) Daily 7:00 Double feature film, buy a ticket for World War Z and see Star Trek for free

STAR TREK : INTO DARKNESS (PG violence, not rec for young children ) Daily 9:10 Double feature film, buy a ticket for Star Trek and see World War Z for free

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DIRTY WARS (14A mature subject matter, not recommended for children) Fri 7:00; Sat 4:30; Sun 1:00, 7:00; Mon 9:00; Thu 9:30 FREE THE MIND (PG) Fri 9:00; Sat 12:45; Sun 2:45 THE SHEEPDOGS HAVE AT IT (STC) Fri 11:00; Mon 1:30 THE ICEMAN (14A gory violence, coarse language., not recom-

Sat, Wed 7:00; Mon 3:30

Thu 4:05, 7:30, 10:10

THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS CITY OF BONES: The Imax Experience (PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec

CINEPLEX ODEON SOUTH

PERCY JACKSON SEA OF MONSTERS (PG frightening

KICK-ASS 2 (18A crude coarse language, gory brutal) Fri-Mon

mended for children) Sat 2:30, 10:00; Wed 10:00

10:00; Wed-Thu 3:40, 7:10, 10:05

Rudy (STC) Sat 11:00

3:00, 5:30, 8:05; Tue-Thu 4:10, 6:55

scenes) Fri-Mon 1:35; 3d : Fri-Mon 4:20, 7:00; Tue-Thu 6:50

Riddick (18A gory violence) Thu 9:45 CLOSED CIRCUIT (14A) Fri-Tue 1:10, 4:05, 7:30, 10:20; Wed-

content) Daily 1:50, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20

THE WORLD'S END (14A crude coarse language) Fri-Tue, Thu

WEM 8882-170 St 780.444.2400

ELYSIUM (14A gory violence) Daily 1:40, 4:40, 7:30, 10:25 DESPICABLE ME 2 (G) Daily 1:20, 4:20, 6:50, 9:30 THE SMURFS 2 (G) Fri-Mon 12:30; Tue-Thu 1:35; 3d : Fri-Mon

THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS CITY OF BONES (PG

THE WORLD'S END (14A crude coarse language) Fri-Tue 1:00, 3:55, 7:25, 10:10; Wed-Thu 3:55, 7:25, 10:00

GETAWAY (PG coarse language) Fri, Sun-Tue, Thu 1:10, 3:20, 5:40, 8:05, 10:25; Sat 11:00, 1:10, 3:20, 5:40, 8:05, 10:25; Wed 3:20, 5:40, 8:05, 10:25; Star & Strollers Screening: Wed 1:00

SCOTIABANK THEATRE WEM

THE WORLD'S END (14A crude coarse language) Fri-Tue, Thu

scenes) Daily 5:20, 9:30

WE'RE THE MILLERS (14A crude coarse language, sexual

PERCY JACKSON SEA OF MONSTERS (PG frightening

7:15, 10:10

7:00, 9:40

3:10, 9:00; Mon-Thu 9:00

THE CONJURING (14A frightening scenes, disturbing content)

Satyagraha (STC) Hindi W/E.S.T. Fri-Tue 1:50, 5:00, 9:00;

4:30, 7:50; Wed-Thu 4:30, 7:50 =

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ELYSIUM (14A gory violence) Fri-Mon 4:30, 7:10, 9:50; Tue-Thu

Fruitvale Station (14A coarse language) Fri 9:00; Sat-Sun

2:55, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15; Tue-Thu 4:45, 7:25, 9:50

scenes) Fri-Mon 1:10

WHITE HOUSE DOWN (14A violence) Daily 4:05, 9:20 Chennai Express (PG violence) Hindi W/E.S.T. Fri-Tue 1:10,

GALAXY–SHERWOOD PARK

Mon-Wed 7:10, 9:10; Thu 9:10

THE SMURFS 2 (G) Fri, Sun-Mon 1:50; Sat 11:10, 1:50 PERCY JACKSON SEA OF MONSTERS (PG frightening

4:15, 7:30, 10:00

Wed-Thu 7:05

violence) Double Feature: Fri, Tue-Thu 6:25; Sat-Mon 12:30, 6:25

The Attack (14A) Fri 7:10, 9:10; Sat-Sun 2:00, 7:10, 9:10;

PLANES (G) Fri-Mon 12:35, 2:55; Tue-Thu 2:25; 3d : Fri-Mon

PERCY JACKSON SEA OF MONSTERS (PG frightening

NOW YOU SEE ME (PG coarse language) Fri-Tue 1:15, 7:05;

12:25, 6:10

1:00, 6:50; MON-Thu 6:50

Tue-Thu 6:45, 9:20

6:40, 9:20

Wed-Thu 4:45, 8:00

12:25, 2:45, 5:45, 9:20; Tue-Thu 5:45, 9:20

The Way Way Back (PG coarse language) Fri 6:50; Sat-SUN

DESPICABLE ME 2 (G) Fri-Mon 12:10, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:20;

In A World... (14A) Fri-Tue 1:55, 4:15, 7:30, 10:00; Wed-Thu

Jatt Boys Putt Jattan De (PG violence) Fri-Tue 12:55,

GETAWAY (PG coarse language) Fri 2:45, 5:45, 9:20; Sat-Mon

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Ultraavx: Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:40; Mon 1:40, 4:30, 7:10, 9:55; Tue-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00; Thu 1:35, 4:15, 6:55

9:50; Wed-Thu 4:00, 7:10, 9:50

Wed-Thu 5:00, 9:00

Tue-Thu 9:10

Monsters University (G) Fri 3:05; Sat-Mon 12:05, 3:05 Riddick (18A gory violence) Thu 9:00 STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (PG not rec for young children,

Fri, Sun 2:00, 4:45, 7:50, 10:30; Sat 11:25, 2:00, 4:45, 7:50, 10:30; Mon 1:30, 4:20, 7:00, 9:45; Tue-Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40

for young children) Fri-Tue 1:00; 3d: Daily 3:45, 6:50, 9:45

ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US 3D (G) Fri-Mon 3:15, 9:10;

YOU'RE NEXT (18A gory brutal violence) Fri-Mon 10:00;

violence) Fri-Tue 1:05, 3:50, 6:55, 9:40; Wed-Thu 3:50, 6:55, 9:40 scenes) Fri-Tue 1:20; 3d : Daily 4:10, 7:00, 9:55

THE WORLD'S END (14A crude coarse language) Fri 3:10, 6:05, 8:50; Sat-Mon 12:15, 3:10, 6:05, 8:50; Tue-Thu 6:05, 8:50

ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US (G) Fri, Tue-Thu 6:10; Sat-Mon

The Grandmaster (PG violence, not rec. for young children)

Pacific Rim (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended

Mon 12:05, 3:05, 6:05, 9:05; Tue-Thu 6:05, 9:05

1:25, 4:10, 6:55, 9:35; Wed 1:25, 4:10, 9:50; Thu 1:50, 4:45, 7:35, 10:10

Star Trek Into Darkness (PG not rec for young children, Iron Man 3 (PG not rec for young children, violence, frightening

YOU'RE NEXT (18A gory brutal violence) Daily 6:20, 8:50 LEE DANIELS' THE BUTLER (14A) Fri 3:05, 6:05, 9:05; Sat-

10:35

PRINCESS

PLANES (G) Dolby Stereo Digital, Sr Dolby Fri 2:45, 6:30; Sat-Mon THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS CITY OF BONES: The

THE GOOD, THE BAD and THE UGLY (STC) Best of the West: GOLDFINGER (STC) Sun 4:30 BLAZING SADDLES (PG not suitable for children, some coarse language) Calgary Arts Flood Rebuild Fundraiser: Sun 9:15

BLACKFISH (14A disturbing content) Mon 12:00, 7:00; Tue 9:30 BLOODIED BUT UNBOWED (STC) Music Docs: Tue 7:00 Empire Theatres–Spruce Grove 130 Century Crossing, Spruce Grove 780.962.2332

THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS CITY OF BONES: The Imax Experience (PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young children) Fri 2:50, 5:50, 8:50; Sat-Mon 12:00, 2:50, 5:50, 8:50; Tue 2:00, 5:00, 8:00; Wed 5:00, 8:00; Thu 5:00, 7:50

THE WORLD'S END (14A crude coarse language) Fri 3:10, 6:10, 8:40; Sat-Mon 12:20, 3:10, 6:10, 8:40; Tue 2:30, 5:30, 8:15; Wed 5:30, 8:15; Thu 5:15, 7:45 PLANES (G) Fri 6:40; Sat-Mon 12:50, 6:40; Tue-Wed 5:20; Thu 5:30; 3d: Reald 3d Fri-Mon 3:40, 9:15; Tue 2:20, 7:50; Wed 7:50

WE'RE THE MILLERS (14A crude coarse language, sexual content) Fri 3:50, 6:50, 9:20; Sat-Mon 1:00, 3:50, 6:50, 9:20; Tue 2:50, 5:50, 8:30; Wed 5:50, 8:30; Thu 5:20, 8:15

GETAWAY (PG coarse language) Fri 3:30, 6:30, 8:45; Sat-Mon 12:40, 3:30, 6:30, 8:45; Tue 2:15, 5:15, 7:40; Wed 5:15, 7:40; Thu 5:45, 8:30

LEE DANIELS' THE BUTLER (14A) Fri 3:00, 6:00, 9:00; Sat-Mon 12:10, 3:00, 6:00, 9:00; Tue 2:10, 5:10, 8:10; Wed-Thu

5:10, 8:10

ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US (G) Fri 6:20; Sat-Mon 12:30, 6:20; Tue-Thu 5:40; 3d: Reald 3d Fri-Mon 3:20, 9:10; Tue 2:40, 8:20; Wed-Thu 8:20 Riddick (18A gory violence) Thu 8:00

VUEWEEKLY aug 29 – SEP 4, 2013

fILM 19

PREVUE // FRINGE

ARTS Port Authority

B

y the time you read this, the Fringe festival grounds will have reverted back to the somewhat quieter block of Old Strathcona it is for the other 11 months of every year. But there is one final hurrah for the festival—which broke ticket sale records (again!) with 117 618 tickets sold, up from 112 006 last year: the holdovers.

Determined through a combination of critical acclaim, ticket sales and availability, the festival gives a handful of shows a few curtain-call performances. The Varscona Theatre and Holy Trinity Church do their own holdovers, too, and while some of them will have already happened by the time this story is printed, we’ve collected the ones that haven’t, as well our comments about them, for your perusal. (Plus, I swear we’ll go back to having arts coverage beyond the scope of this festival next week. Honest.)

At Westbury Theatre: God is a Scottish Drag Queen / Thu, Aug 29 (9:30 pm); Fri, Aug 30 (7:30 pm) What we said: Mike Delamont's stand-up is bubbly, charming and altogether refreshing: by taking the shape of a smarmy Scottish marm, God becomes a personable lady with a penchant for poking fun at her creations (ie: us). Delamont as God in this form is hilarious—smart, quick and enjoyable.

His easy rapport with his audience makes his own laughter contagious, and he tends to join in when you're giggling at him the most.

FAWNDA MITHRUSH

Jake's Gift / Sat, Aug 31 (7:30 pm); Sun, Sep 1 (2 pm) What we said: There's one

reason why Jake's Gift has become synonymous with the term "Fringe hit" and that's Julia Mackey's impeccable storytelling. ... This play could be performed on a bare stage without costumes and still wield the same profound effect that has garnered it praise across the country. This is a Canadian theatre gem that shines with its simplicity and grace. Bring Kleenex.

ANDREW PAUL

Port Authority / Sat, Aug 31 (5 pm); Sun, Sep 1 (4 pm) What we said: Holy feck these guys are storytellers. Take three Irishmen, give them an audience, and they'll talk for hours. ... As the scenes shift from man to man, you're caught between not wanting the story to end and eager to pick up where the next guy left off.

REBECCA MEDEL

Radio: 30 / Thu, Aug 29 (7:30 pm) What we said: The paragon of this

crisp, essentially one-man production is actor/writer Chris Earle himself, whose flawless presentation of radio man Ron— and not to mention his impeccable radio voice—carry this eerie dark comedy to its tense and jarring finale. While a slow burner might sidestep the lively Fringe atmosphere, Radio: 30 is engaging, thought provoking and definitely worth seeing.

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Weaksauce / Fri, Aug 30 – Sat, Aug 31 (9:30 pm) What we said: It's a special kind of devastation when everything in a romantic situation is working perfectly in our favour, before suddenly, catastrophically crashing down before us. ... Solo love stories too often falter under emotionally unaffecting performers, but Mullins drips with authenticity, and his genuinely anxious smirks, nostalgic sighs and snide observations pull you deep into his lovelorn memories.

RYAN STEPHENS

At Holy Trinity Church: Freud's Last Session / Thu, Aug 29 – Sat, Aug 31 (7 pm) What we said: Deftly acted, intelligently executed and wonderfully imagined, it places CS Lewis inside Freud's makeshift office in a London on the eve of the Second World War and lets the two analyze each other, trading wits and barbs on God, psychology, moral evolution and each other's personal failings.

An uncommonly good thinker of a show.

PAUL BLINOV

At the Varscona Theatre: Marvelous Pilgrims / Fri, Aug 30 (7 pm); Sat, Aug 31 (2pm & 7 pm); Sun, Sep 1 (2 pm) What we said: Stewart Lemoine's newest premiere is a whimsical mystery with a smack of the supernatural, feeling very much like a vintage fairy tale plucked off the pages of your grandmother's storybook. ... Atmospheric rather than affecting, go in expecting a frivolous romp and you won't be disappointed.

MEL PRIESTLEY

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A Picasso: Fri, Aug 30 – Sat, Aug 31 (9 pm) What we said: At the height of the German occupation of France, Pablo Picasso (Julien Arnold) is detained by the Reich's agents and forced to confirm the authenticity of three of his drawings by a mysteriously sympathetic interrogator

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(Shannon Blanchet). What follows is a fascinating game of verbal catand-mouse ... Through quick, witty banter Jeffrey Hatcher's script explores an easilyoverlooked but highly significant aspect of the Nazi regime (ie their accrual of a huge collection of artwork), which opens up a captivating examination of the interplay between art, politics, war and sex.

MEL PRIESTLEY

The Lonely Hearts: Sat, Aug 31 (11 pm); Sun, Sep 1 (7 pm) What we said: A based-on-true-events portrayal of poor Martha Beck, a social outcast who has the misfortune of falling in love with the nefarious Raymond Fernandez, a man who upon being released from prison decides to lure and murder lovesick women through the Lonely Hearts personal ads in the local paper—and make off with their money. ... This retelling strives to mix humour into the grisly tale, and while this aspect provides sufficient comic relief and is at times genuinely witty, it leans heavily on repetitive humour— particularly fat jokes, as Beck was often ridiculed for her size—a tactic that feels overdone by the show's end.

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he Edmonton and District Labour Council and the Canadian Labour Congress have been lobbying all levels of government for a number of years to improve the benefits of the Canada Pension Plan.

Labour’s proposal would see the benefits phased in over a 30 year period to double the CPP for all Canadians. Of course, this would mean an increase in premiums also phased in over a 7 year period of time. We believe both employer and employee can and should do this to increase contributions so that all Canadians can retire with dignity. At the end of the phased in period we would see a maximum increase of .09 cents per hour for the top wage earners, and those who are paid less would contribute less per hour. That’s roughly the cost of a coffee and breakfast sandwich each week.

Why is labour insisting on an increase? Simply put, on average Albertans receive about $583.00 per month or $6,995.00 per year from CPP and GIS in their retirement, which is hardly

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enough to live on. We are seeing more and more Canadians relying on provincial assistance programs or municipal social programs (such as food banks) to assist with their everyday needs. The Federal Government believes that instead of implementing labour’s solution we should invest in RRSP’s. The problem with RRSP’s or PRPPS (Pooled Registered Pension Plan) is that they are voluntary.

The reality is, 69% of Albertans putting money aside for retirement is just not feasible.

There are many employers that feel that they simply cannot afford to invest in pension plans whether it be an RRSP plan or a defined pension plan that increases with inflation. We see there are more and more attacks from employers who want to opt out of defined pension plans, using the excuse that they are just too costly.

We believe this option of the increase to the CPP would be the best way to ensure workers have a decent pension when they retire. Better yet, the CPP helps regular Canadians, not just a small group who can afford to put money aside or are fortunate enough to have a negotiated workplace pension plan.

(meaning it is guaranteed to deliver, as promised) for the next 75 years and recognized as one of the most stable pension plans in the world. So when you hear people saying “the plan won’t be around when I retire!”, rest assured that it will be there for you and for the next generation. So why is the government hesitant to increase something that is sound and a wise investment for the future of our young workers?

For more information on Labour’s plan please visit http://www.canadianlabour.ca/ action-center/together-fairnessworks/decent-pensions Brian Henderson, President EDLC

The Canada Pension Plan is totally portable from employer to employer and the plan is actuarially sound

A union that does things differently

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he Christian Labour Association of Canada (CLAC) is a union that acts a bit differently.

As Alberta Provincial Director Wayne Prins explains,“We believe the purpose of a union has changed over the years and the best model now is one of cooperation and partnership.When you advocate that way, it tends to create a positive, harmonious atmosphere in the work community.”

As Prins points out, not everybody understands that this model exists. Many are so used to unions which take an adversarial, “us versus them” approach.

“The problem with this ‘us versus them’ mentality is that it permeates the entire workforce, and there’s always this negative vibe at work. Instead, we view it as ‘We’re in this together and 98 per cent of our interests are aligned, so let’s work from that.’ It’s far more satisfying to view your work and your relationship with your employer that way,” Prins notes.

While some unions have been very politically active—sometimes neglecting their members in the process—CLAC doesn’t primarily exist to be political.

“We believe that a union should first and foremost bring value to their mem-

bers.We exist to add value to the lives of our members.”

CLAC brings value in a number of ways: “We provide training to enhance people’s skills, we provide educational grants to help people access trades school or skills upgrading.And we provide benefits and retirement vehicles,” Prins says.

As for the name, Prins explains that the Christian Labour Association of Canada was formed in 1952 by a group of Christians around a set of social justice principles.

61 years later, CLAC welcomes members from all faiths and belief systems.The set of principles, however, has remained the same:

Superstore Employees On

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They Deserve A Fair Contract And Here’s Why!

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uperstore employees have been engaged in a very difficult year of bargaining with their employer. The company’s refusal to offer a single improvement to their contract is not only extremely discouraging but confusing as well. Galen Weston, Executive Chairman of Loblaw, has bragged recently about the company’s growing success and we’d have to agree. There is a lot to brag about after all. They are expanding their business interests and diversifying their banners and products. And yet they are refusing to engage in any sort of meaningful discussion with their workers during this latest round of bargaining. Why is Galen, a man who sells himself to the Canadian consumer as “just a regular guy”, doing this to the very people who make his success possible?

Loblaw is indeed enormously successful and, in fact, they are growing and branching out into numerous ventures and making improvements to their business that almost surely will guarantee its success for many years to come. We may be able to be excited about this and congratulate them on their success if it weren’t for the fact that they continue to be so stingy and try to cut costs at the expense of their employees.

Loblaw continues to be Canada’s largest food retailer with sales over 30 billion dollars in 2012 and their most recent acquisition of Shoppers Drug Mart for 12.4 billion dollars. They have also enjoyed incredible growth in the “Joe” brand, which, measured by sales, is known to be “the largest clothing brand and children’s clothing brand in the country” with estimated sales at 1 billion dollars!

Loblaw can boast they have more than 14 million customers per week and this all leaves us to wonder; why on earth is Galen coming to his employees to fur-

“We believe that everybody deserves to be respected, and treated with dignity, and is entitled to a fair compensation for their work.

“There are a lot of people out there who aren’t members of a union. Some of them love their work and are treated very well by their employer, but others are not. For those people, we want them to know that there is a union out there that believes in worker advocacy.And at the heart of our representation is a total commitment to trying to build a positive partnership between the employees and the employer.”

ther line his pockets while raiding from theirs? Loblaw has been consistently profitable in recent years, even though the environment is arguably more competitive. Profits continue to be in the millions and millions of dollars.

The company has not provided a shred of evidence or data to suggest that they are unprofitable or not viable in Alberta. Loblaw has, in fact, grown in this province.

Superstores were able to afford and, in fact, insisted on providing their employees with unilateral wage increases over and above the collective bargaining agreement and contrary to the law in recent years.

In a leaked Loblaw memo dated February 21, 2013, Galen tells his management that Loblaw retail sales increased to 7.3 billion dollars in the 4th quarter of 2012. He also says that the company’s retail gross profit was 1.6 billion dollars, up 6 million dollars year over year and concludes by saying, “…we closed the year on plan…”

All indicators point to continued success for Loblaw in Alberta. Population is expected to continue to grow. Incomes continue to rise. We are witnessing a shift of power, influence, population, and wealth to western Canada that represents the biggest social-economic changes in Canada since Confederation. Loblaw should not bring an Ontario perspective to this region.

Loblaw may well yearn to expand and to grow more, but this goal should not be funded by underpaying its own workers who play an integral role in the massive profitability of the company. This approach is fraught with peril. Surely the Weston family and Loblaw would have no preference to have a Wal-Mart stigma or to create circumstances where they alienate customers and fail to attract and retain staff. We would hope that Galen understands that’s not a business model that could stand the test of time.

There is a very real possibility that Alberta Superstore employees will be on strike this September. We ask that you show your support for these hard working Albertans by not shopping at any of the Loblaw stores during that strike.

Positive change is possible with the help of consumers making the to decision to side with the workers and take their business elsewhere during this battle and we thank you in advance for being on the side of Superstore workers who are bargaining strong together.

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FILM FAVA • Film and Video Arts Society, 9722-102 St •

780.429.1671 • fava.ca • Video Kitchen: Saturdays: introductory class • Sep 7-Dec 14, 10am-2pm (no class Sep 28, Oct 12, Nov 9) • $695+GST; preregister at 780.429.1671

From Books to Film • Stanley A. Milner Library Centennial Rm, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • I, Robot; Fri, Aug 30, 2pm • The Informant!; Fri, Sep 6, 2pm From Books to Film • Stanley A. Milner Library Centennial Rm, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca

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; until 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; until Sep 7 • The Others: Exhibit of mythical creatures by ceramic sculptor, Dale Lerner; until Sep 7 • Static BlooM: Botanical polymer clay wall art by St Albert artist Kristin Anderson; until Sep 7 • Feature Gallery: Hanging by a Thread: Group exhibit using textiles to explore the relationship among multiple generations of women; until Sep 28

Alberta Railway Museum • 24215-34 St •

780.472.6229 • AlbertaRailwayMuseum.com • Open weekends during the summer • Celebrate the 100th Birthday of the Steam Engine 1392: Labour Day weekend: Aug 31-Sep 2 • $5 (adult)/$3.50 (student/ senior)/$2 (child)/free (2 and under); $4 (train ride)

Allied Arts Council of Spruce Grove •

Spruce Grove Art Gallery, Spruce Grove Library, 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • BEAUTY IN NATURE AND TAMED: Artworks

by Fran Mansell; until Sep 7

Art Bus Tour Program–Edmonton/St Albert • Tour of four art locations in one day: AGSA

projects.com • WHAT MAKES A MAN: Featuring works by Craig Le Blanc and Travis McEwen • Sep 5-Oct 5

Musée Héritage Museum–St Albert • 5 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1528 • Lace Up: Canada’s Passion for Skating: Travelling exhibit by the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Quebec; Sep 3-Nov 3

The Drawing Room • 10253-97 St • I am

Muttart Conservatory • 9262-96A St •

dc3 Art Projects • 10567-111 St • dc3art-

the Fire: Sculptural art installation by Ali Nickerson, Mackenzy Albright, and Rachelle Bowen • Until Aug 31

FAb Gallery • 1-1 Fine Arts Bldg, 89 Ave, 112 St • 780.492.2081 • show and dwell: Master of Design Graduate Exhibition 2013 featuring Hussain Almossawi, Michelle Heath, Hailley Honcharik, Mahshid Karimi (Industrial Design), Adolfo Ruiz (Visual Communication Design) • Until Sep 21 • Closing reception:Thu, Sep 19, 7-10pm

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

by Louise Piquette, Jacques Martel, Paulette Lefaîvre, Pauline Ulliac and Jody Swanson • Until Sep 3 • Rachelle Comtois, Urmila Z. Das, Nathalie ShewchukParé and Louise Amyotte; opening: Sep 6

City Hall • Main Fl, 1 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • The Art of Zhen, Shan, Ren (Truth, Compassion, Tolerance): International exhibit • Until Aug 31 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; until Aug 31 • Queen of Hearts: Wheel and slab pottery

by Jeannette Wright; Sep 3-28; reception: Sat, Sep 7, 11-3pm

Daffodil Gallery • 10412-124 St •

Scott Gallery • 10411-124 St • scottgallery. com • Summer TWO: Mix of contemporary and historic work • Through summer

Harcourt House Gallery • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St • Main Gallery: SMALL DISASTERS: Paintings by Andrea Kastner • Front Room Gallery: Ligaments and Ligatures: Katrina Bergmans’ soft sculpture installation; until Sep 6

ISBE Domain • 9529 Jasper Ave • The Secret Garden:–2013 Series: A night of art, photos by Jonathan Havelock; live music by Shaun Bosch • Sat, Sep 14, 7pm • Free

Megan Morman; until Aug 31

LOFT GALLERY • A.J. Ottewell Arts Centre, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • 780.449.4443 • artstrathcona.com • Artwork and gifts made by members of the Art Society of Strathcona County artists featuring Layers of Alberta” “underneath the landscape to above the surface by Anne McCartney • Sep 7-Oct 27, Sat-Sun 12-4pm McMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-

112 St • 780.407.7152 • Procession West: A photographic Visual Journey from Plains to Coast by Rob Pohl and Robert Michiel • Where Dragonflies Dance: Watercolours and graphite botanical paintings by Elaine Funnel • Until Oct 20

Misercordia Hospital • North/South and East/ West Halls • Edmonton Art Club Exhibition • Aug 31-Oct 26

Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain • 780.963.9935 • multicentre.org • Paintings

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

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

September 1 & 2 Let storytellers lead you into a land of delight and enchantment!

Listen to over 30 unique tales for the whole family

Koffee Café • 6120-28 Ave • 780.863.4522 • Glass Door Coffee House Reading Series: Monthly readings with new headliner • Last Thu each month, 7-9pm Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900

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

T.A.L.E.S.–STORYTELLING FESTIVAL • Fort

Featuring the Newfoundland folk trio: The Once August 31 & September 1 at 8pm Watch a performance like no other! Storytellers will share the stage with The Once.

Edmonton Park • fortedmontontickets.com; storyfestalberta.ca • Silver Tongues: 26 storytellers from across Canada: Morning Storytelling workshops (pre-register); afternoon storytelling, 1-5pm (cost incl with park admission); Sep 1-2 (Labour day weekend) • Anniversary Showcase: with Tololwa Mollel, Amanda Woodward, the Native Family Dancers, Chris Lindgren and Bob Barton (Sun, 3pm) • Youth showcase (Mon, 1pm) • Festival Concert: Capitol Theatre: the Once (folk music), storytellers: Renée Englot, Wendey Edey, Gail deVos, Marie Anne McLean, guest Bob Barton (Sat-Sun, 8pm)

T.A.L.E.S.–Strathcona • New Strathcona Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.400.3547 • Monthly Tellaround: 4th Wed each month 7pm • Free

THEATRE Best of Friends Reunion • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, 8882-180 St, WEM • 780.484.2424 • jubilations.ca • Friends, one of the most popular sitcoms of all time. Catch up with these lovable characters. Set to hits from the '90s, along with a few timeless classics • Aug 30-Oct 27

Kaasa Gallery • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87

Latitude 53 • 10242-106 St • 780.423.5353 • ProjEx Room: YORK: By Sydney Lancaster and Marian Switzer; until Aug 31 • Main Space: Art Party:

University of Alberta Museums •

Carrot Coffeehouse • 9351-118 Ave •

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

780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • Reopening Sep 7

telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • BODY WORLDS and The Cycle of Life: Revealing the Symphony Within; until Oct 14; $26.50 (adult)/$16.50 (child (312)/$23.50 (senior/youth/student) at door; prices incl general admission and admission for exhibit

Audreys Books • 10702 Jasper Ave • The Puzzle Box, book launch with The Apocalyptic Four. There will be cake and lots of puzzles • Aug 29, 7-8pm

Jurassic Forest/Learning Centre • 15

Lando Gallery • 103, 10310-124 St •

Telus World of Science • 11211-142 St •

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Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave • 780.433.5807 • Encaustic mixed media paintings by Brandi Hofer • Aug 30-Sep 25 • Reception: Tue, Sep 10, 6:30-8:30pm

Ave; VAAA: Off-site location • Open Photo/Open Digital 2013: Visual Arts Alberta, in partnership with the Alberta Jubilee Auditoria Society, presents Open Photo/Open Digital 2013, opening in Edmonton at the Kaasa Gallery, then moving to Calgary mid-October.

This contest and exhibition presents work by some of Alberta’s finest photographers, diverse in subject matter, styles and techniques • Aug 30-Oct 12 • Opening: Fri, Aug 30, 6-8pm

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

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 • Rural Alberta: Marilyn Jeffrey and David Scott; through Sep

Harris-Warke Gallery–Red Deer • 2nd Fl,

Sunworks, 4924 Ross St, Red Deer • 403.597.9788 • Alchemy: Paintings by Liz Sullivan and Shirley Cordes Rogozinsky • Until Sep 14 • Reception: Fri, Sep 6, 6-8pm; part of First Friday

The Studio • 11739-94 St • Works by Glen

780.421.1731 • Art and Life Foundation: Couples in art and life, curated by Ania Sleczkowska • Sep 5-Oct 19 • Opening: Thu, Sep 5, 7-9:30pm

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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

Shows us the Way: Artworks by Aaron Paquette; Sep 22, 1-5pm; Opening celebration: bannock, tea and activities in an authentic tipi. Aboriginal drummers, dancers and musicians at 4pm

VAAA Gallery • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St •

Gallery at Milner • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/art-gallery • Articulate: Sketchbooks by 31 art educators from Edmonton and St Albert schools; until Aug 31 • Alberta Farm Women: Paintings and photographs by Dawn Saunders Dahl; Display Cases: Edmonton Weavers' Guild, selected works; Display by the Edmonton Stamp Club; Sep 3-30 • Display Cases: Edmonton Weavers' Guild works; Sep 3-30 • Cubes: Edmonton Stamp Club display; Sep 3-30

Jubilee Auditorium • Kaasa Gallery: Open Photo Open Digital 2013: Presented by Visual Arts Alberta–CARFAC; Aug 30-Oct 11 • Opening: Fri, Aug 30, 6-8pm

10345-124 St • 780.482.2854 • bugeramathesongallery.com • RCA Artists: Peter Deacon, Michele Drouin, Donald Pentz, Scott Plear, Daniele Rochon, Ernestine Tahedl, Ken Wallace • Until Sep 7

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 • Sep 5

Albert • Artworks by Karen Blanchet, Martha Grell, Father Douglas; until Sep 3 • Artworks by Carol Brown, Pat Trudeau, Sandy Mitchell; Sep 5-Oct 1; opening: Thu, Sep 5, 6pm, artists in attendance

Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • Manning Hall (main level public space): Now You See It: A giant word search puzzle by Megan Morman, free • Water Into Art: British watercolours from the V&A, 1750-1950; until Nov 24 • New Acquisitions: Views and Vistas: until Oct 6 • BMO World of Creativity: Cabinets of Curiosity: Lyndal Osborne's curious collection; until Jun 30, 2014 • 19th Century British Photographs: From the collection of the National Gallery of Canada; until Oct 6

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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

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

Jeff Allen Art Gallery (JAAG) • Strathcona

St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • Animal Spirit: Works by Joane Cardinal-Schubert, Jason Carter, Erik Lee Christophersen, Terry McCue, and Aaron Paquette; from the AFA collection; until Sep 7 • Dream within a dream: Photos by Tyler Enfield, collage by Julie Nauman-Mikulski; until Aug 31 • Tall Tales: Ceramics by Alysse Bowd and mixed media works on paper by Wanda Lock; Sep 5-28; opening: Thu, Sep 5, 6-9pm; in conjunction with St. Albert ArtWalk

Naess Gallery • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Array: Abstract paintings group show; until Sep 30; reception: Aug 29, 5-7pm • Artisan Nook: Basalt Dalik: Mosaic paintings by Cathy Jackson; until Sep 15

Royal Alberta Museum • 12845-102 Ave •

Gallerie Pava • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • Le Réveil de la Muse: Works by Claudine AudetteRozon • Until Sep 11

(Art Gallery of St Albert), Harcourt House, DC3, VASA (Visual Arts Studio Association of St Albert) • Sat, Sep 14, 12:30-5:30pm (variable) full itinerary of pick-up times and locations at ArtGalleryofStAlbert.com • $15/$10 (member) at Harcourt House, 780.426.4180

Art Gallery Of St Albert (AGSA) • 19 Perron

Gaia: The Great Mother of All: Works by Sculptors’ Association of Alberta • Until Sep 3

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to s his attention rn tu n a g n a M n Da m and a new albu fatherhood, film

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o be honest, I just woke up," but they're cool with it because says a slightly groggy Dan they've been waiting for it."

Mangan with a raspy laugh.

Festivals have been Mangan's foall things considered, it's a war- cus this year, as the indie balladeer ranted start to the day, particularly took some much-needed time off for a Saturday morning interview. from the gruelling pace he's mainMangan is in Simcoe, ON where tained in following the success of he performed with Edward Sharpe Oh Fortune, released in 2011. The the night before album earned as part of gentle- Sat, aug 31 him two Juno men of the Road, Dan Mangan award wins— a five-show con- Part of Sonic Boom for New artist of cert series curatthe Year and alSat, aug 31 – Sun, Sep 1 ed by Mumford ternative album Northlands Park and Sons. In true of the Year—a sonicboomfestival.com festival fashion, spot on the long a good night's list for the 2012 sleep was not on the agenda.

Polaris Music Prize, three Western "The thing I love about [festivals] Canadian Music awards, and a CBC is it kind of allows everybody to Radio 3 BuCKY award for Best get their weird out," Mangan says, Song for "Rows of Houses"—Manwhose own festival experience has gan has won five BuCKY awards been largely from an artist's per- so far, making him the most decospective, with the exception of a rated recipient in its history. few visits to the Folk Festival back With such accolades comes the home in Vancouver. "I think a lot demand for tours, which took of people working trades or you Mangan back and forth between know, a nine-to-five type job, there Europe, North america and ausis a certain amount of working for tralia, playing for fans new and old, the weekend ... so you see people including two rather prominent out there and they're kind of go- young monarchs from England— ing crazy. They don't shower for a you may have heard of them. few days and they're camping and Mangan, ever humble, views himeverything's kind of dis- self as a little spoiled. Indeed, his gusting and awe- hard work has paid off and it's res o m e , sulted in him accomplishing much in his relatively short time in the limelight. However, the music industry is infamous for

Admit it: he's kinda dreamy

taking its toll, and Mangan decided to change gears in 2013, opting for a handful of festival appearances and oneoff shows over arduous full-blown tours.

"It's been kind of a trip to be off the tour and then get back in the saddle at these big festivals this summer," he says. "The time off this year has been kind of crucial and quite important to me, and I think it's sort of been a recharge that's been necessary for me and probably for the other guys as well. We were on the verge of the burnout."

Some time away from the road has allowed Mangan to apply his talents in other facets of the creative industry as well. He composed the score for Hector and the Search for Happiness, a film by Peter Chelsom starring Rosamund Pike and Simon Pegg slated for release in 2014. a film score was a first in itself for Mangan, but so was composing tracks that were entirely instrumental.

"You still have to convey things and usually lyrics is how I do that, so I had to figure out how, in a 20-second music thing, you can convey these different things when normally you have three to five minutes to do that," he says.

"It's kind of like the film as a whole is the same thing as an album ... it's also been interesting because it's not my baby. It's somebody else's vision that I've been a part of and usually I'm quite used to my dictatorial final say on everything creative, so that's been a trip to get inside someone else's head."

On top of an increasingly prolific music career, Mangan became a father this spring. "all of a sudden, you never sleep anymore. It's been a really enjoyable new experience," he says, although, tip-toeing around a sleeping baby has also curbed his ability to blast music throughout the house—which is where his studio comes in.

Over years on the road, Mangan has amassed a collection of gear and instruments which have lain rather dormant, waiting for him to have the time to unlock their potential. The opportunity has finally presented itself this year and Man-

gan found h i m self with a newfound ability to create with no immediate agenda or urgency, but rather, a chance to create just for the sake of creating.

"It means in sort of progressing towards the next record there's been a lot of experimenting with sound and stuff and it makes me very excited about another record," he adds.

Mangan's built his name in the indie folk-rock arena, his gravelly voice and politically charged lyrics becoming his hallmark, but sonically his new material has moved away from the tried-and-true guitar melodies to encompass a gamut of new sounds and instruments. It is not something that can be easily described, but the word Mangan finds himself reaching for time after time is "sharp."

"I don't want to use the word edgy; it's just sharp. It's kind of pointed and I don't know why that word comes to my brain," he chuckles, admitting he's uncertain where the seemingly natural transformation came from or what influenced it. "For the first few records I would write these songs on acoustic guitar and then invite people to be involved, so I feel like for the first time I'm writing songs where there's not even a guitar in it ... interpreting these songs for a live setting is going to be a challenge because it's like I spend an entire day creating this weird bed

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of sound and lay some lyrics over top of it. It's a different process and I can't say it's better or anything—it's just different."

While fans of the bearded troubadour can expect to hear a different aural palette on Mangan's upcoming record (he plans to start recording later this year), lyrically it's the same Mangan they've come to know and love as politics and social consciousness continue to be ever-present elements. Now that he's captured people's attention, Mangan feels it's time to get a few societal frustrations off his chest. However, he maintains the album will not take a dire or de-

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or most bands, getting out actually entertaining them rather on the road and touring is a than getting up there and just putmilestone of achievement, but ting on the same old show." the adventures take their toll and Murder By Death has been toura nomadic lifestyle can become ing on its latest album Bitter Drink, draining. That's not to say it's time Bitter Moon—its debut full-length to quit, but rather that it's impor- on Bloodshot Records—for nearly tant to know when it's time to ease a year. Turla notes that this has provided time to up. reflect on the This is the point Fri, aug 30 (9 pm) Muder By Death With 4onthefloor disc's dark, thehas reached. The Starlite Room, $15 (advance), matic soundblues-tinged indie- $18 (door) scape, not to mention, dig rock quintet has into the group's played more than 1000 shows, and while it will con- back catalogue and revive some of tinue touring, it will be at a much its older tunes. less feverish pace than the band "I think the thing is, you get used maintained in its early years. to playing the songs that people "We've been able to just enjoy want to hear, the songs you get ourselves, have our lives outside the most requests for; you want to drinking and performing and just please the people that pay to come relax basically, and I think that goes out and see you," Turla continues. a long way, being able to have a lit- "We never listen to our records tle of both," vocalist/guitarist adam unless we have to rehearse ... but Turla says prior to the band "getting we found songs we were so happy back in the saddle" and rehearsing and proud of ... it was cool to have for its latest six-week excursion. some pride in something you'd sort "The point of it should be fun when of forgotten about." you're out there and I think some people find out as they get older This forgotten material also redoing this they're just not that into vealed phases the band has gone it. I think if you leave a little bit of through over its 13 years in existime in between you get out there tence—whether it be minimalistic, and you actually enjoy playing ev- straight-off-the-floor recordings ery night and you get to see people or lush, complex arrangements. having a good time because you're Turla explains that this is usually a

reflection of a particular time for the band, and whichever method was chosen, it must have resonated with it in some way. However, he's currently begun work on new material for Murder By Death's next album.

"I have like 25 song fragments, which is probably the most I've ever had this early in the process and the issue is trying to figure out what am I trying to do next?

I think that gets a little harder," Turla says, noting the next record will be the group's seventh, and with each album it becomes increasingly more difficult to decide on a specific direction. "You're sort of forced to think, 'Well, what am I trying to do here? Why am I making an album in the first place?

What is the purpose of making an album?' So I think you have to get a little more complicated in your approach unless inspiration is just flowing out of you and that's why I like to wait when I'm writing because I don't want to feel like I'm making an album just to justify going on tour to make money ... I just don't want to think of it that way because it makes it have a pressure that removes all the fun from being in a band and it just turns into a day job."

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Little of this, little of that The Preying Saints meld minds on Salvation is Gone

Motörhead—there's a lot of hardcore and street punk mixed in there with greg's love of Hank Williams and my preoccupation with Tom Waits and '70s doom rock. I guess the steady influence is a general love of music that has a lot of passion and energy.

Three bands ending has meant either create the lyrics or to a new beginning for another. expand on concepts that he The Preying Saints combine has. Fernando Llanes (bass) members from the Ignitors, the and Ryan Two Sticks (drums) Firebrands and Los Cremators will use what transpires to reto create a new ally bring a Fri, aug 30 (8 pm) hybrid of honrhythm and With unwed Mothers, the ky tonk, ska, solid botarchaics, the get Down rockabilly and tom end to Pawn Shop, $10 punk—with a the piece. few surprises.

Nothing we ahead of the band's upcoming perform is the sole creation show, lead vocalist Paul Balan- of an individual member withchuk (with some insight from out input from the rest of the his bandmates) spoke to Vue band. It's really all about us about the recording process of getting together as a band to its latest album. come up with music that we're all excited to put out.

VUE WEEKLY: How long did it take to make Salvation Is Gone from VW: What are your lyrics influthe initial songwriting through enced by? Does one person write them or is it a collaborato the end of the recording?

PAUL BALANCHUK: Salvation is tive effort?

Gone is really a cumulative ef- PB: The lyrical content in our fort of all the songs in our set music is an expression of our that have stood the test of the individual life experiences and last few years of playing live lessons learned, without being shows, songs that for one rea- biographical or overtly literal son or another were popular in its form. Of course, when the from audience response or from song is about a gunfighter or our decision to include them to zombie apocalypse one has to represent the kind of music that read between the lines a little. we like to perform live.

The lyrics are either written by myself or greg, if not together.

VW: When you were writing the songs, did you come at them in VW: The album mixes a variety a particular way? Lyrics first? of musical styles. What's played Music first? a role in developing the band's PB: We write these songs as a sound? Who do you listen to collaborative effort. greg Ste- that's been a steady influence? fishen (guitar/backing vocals) PB: Our sound is really a result will either have lyrics in mind of four individuals coming toor a melody; at times greg gether to create music that we will have most of his input in would want to listen to when the piece figured out when we go out to see a live show. he presents it to us. at that The band are huge fans of point, I will work with him to the Misfits, Social Distortion,

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VW: What were the recording sessions like for this album? Is this the kind of thing you recorded live or did you piece it together one track at a time? Why? PB: The project was recorded as individual tracks over a nineday period at the Physics Lab by Terry Paholek. It was done this way to get a clean, professional result that we felt we needed to get to our supporters. Past releases were, for the most part, done live or with budget concerns and we wanted to put something out that was more of a representation of the effort we put into the band.

How did you decide which songs to include on the album?

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

PB: I guess you could say the finished shape of this release emerged as the songwriting progressed. It was not written with a contrived concept or theme in mind other than the songs we prefer when we play live. We wanted to give the folks that enjoy what we do live that experience with a cleaner studio sound.

VW:

VW: What kind of statement did you want to make about the band with this album?

PB: I guess at the risk of sounding unimaginative or trite, the statement we are trying to make is "Hey, we work hard, we play hard. Forget about the attitudes and outfits, all that bookby-its-cover crap. Leave your bra at home and we're gonna do our best to give you one helluva rock and roll show."

VW: If you were to trace the musical map that led you to Salvation Is Gone, what would it look like?

PB: The musical map of this album? It would probably look a lot like a cross between a Playboy magazine and an old automotive manual, with some late-night bus- depot poetry hidden in the pages so the bartender doesn't get the wrong idea. V

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pressing turn. Quite the contrary, actually: this might just be his most upbeat record yet, just in a different way than fans have become accustomed to.

Mangan may need to purge some frustration, but he's never been one to name names or point an accusatory finger at any one person or event. He prefers a much more subtle approach, painting the listener a picture and leaving it up to them to create their own interpretation of its meaning.

"If you start wrangling off politicians' names or something like that, you're dating yourself immedi-

ately," Mangan continues. "I think the issues we're struggling with now are similar to issues we've always been struggling with, so if you can, in a universal sense, create something where if people don't know exactly what you're talking about, they can feel what you're talking about. I think that's more pervasive and laterally relevant."

The lyrics shaping Mangan's recent material aren't tied to any particular facet of society. He explains that as a post-secondary grad in his 20s he was full of idealism as to why the world just can't seem to get along. As he's grown older, he's begun to understand why this may not be possible. Day-today discourse and discussion amongst people tends to fall short in terms of conversing over intangible elements of existence, and Mangan says it's rare to leave an exchange with another

person feeling as though you've had a profound, transcendent discussion.

Although, creative expression can be a powerful tool in conveying what words cannot.

"It's kind of like a smoke signal, people put something out into the world and here's the way I think about all these things and how I feel about it.

When that smoke signal goes up and people respond to you, you're like, 'Shit, that's exactly what I've always thought and I've never been able to articulate it,'" Mangan explains. "In that kind of cosmic connection people feel less alone, because they are able to send something out or receive something in return and that's great. I think that's times when we feel the best and most honest and the most alive." meaghan baxter

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ambassador Lucas Waldin and select musicians called Menagerie of Music and Ellis Hall Celebrates Ray Charles on Sunday and it all wraps up on Monday with Carnival of the animals featuring music from Strauss, Mozart and ESO Composer in Residence Robert Rival.

"We're hoping to keep the energy going and make it more exciting every year, to avoid the essence of coasting," Bernhardt chuckles.

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ob Bernhardt had not even heard final lead up to the event, an inof Symphony under the Sky tensive program for all involved. when he received the invitation to "It keeps you humble and keeps be part of it eight me learning, years ago. Now, Fri, aug 30 – Mon, Sep 2 which is what the Tennessee- Hawrelak Park I am especially happy about in based conduc- edmontonsymphony.com the profession tor feels right at home at a multifaceted festival he I've chosen: I'm always going to be believes complements his own di- a student, and that's great."

This year's six-concert—and verse music taste.

"I've grown up with classics and 60-piece—lineup gets underway by opera and ballet and rock 'n' roll delving into the classics of Mozart, and soul and jazz, so I get a chance Tchaikovsky and Dvořák on Friday to do a little bit of everything in night before moving onto Proms in this weekend," he says the morn- the Park (a little English pomp and ing after arriving in Edmonton to circumstance) and From Broadway begin rehearsals with the Edmon- to Hollywood on Satuday; a famton Symphony Orchestra in the ily matinee led by ESO Community

The program was assembled by Bernhardt and Rob Mcalear, ESO artistic administrator, and Bernhardt insists the program is capable of being accessible and enjoyable for all demographics, regardless of their prior experience or lack thereof with the symphony. While the songs of Ray Charles and tunes from the Sound of Music, Wicked and the Wizard of Oz may be more recognizable to many, Bernhardt notes that people will be surprised to realize they may know a little more Mozart and Tchaikovsky than they realize.

"People should not fear this concert if they would be afraid of a classical program because they'll know every melody and the whole idea of this is for first-timers and lifelong symphony goers to be comfortable and relaxed," Bernhardt says.

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Same Old newgrass band Tue, Sep 3 (7:30 pm) With Krysta Scoggins artery, $10, $20 (includes CD) Answered by: Smokey Fennell hometown: Fort Saskatchewan genre: Bluegrass Lastest album: The Same Old Newgrass Band Fun fact: Puns are his favourite form of humour

First album The Byrds' Sweetheart of the Rodeo was my first purchase and remains a favourite to this day.

Last album The Time Jumpers mainly because of the steel player, Paul Franklin..

Favourite album Dire Straights On Every Street is a favourite due to the addition of Paul Franklin on steel guitar.

First concert Credence Clearwater Revival was the first concert I went to see.

Their music is still legendary.

Last concert BB King at the Jubilee auditorium. I enjoy seeing musicians that still love performing.

Favourite musical guilty pleasure I really like swing music. Everything from the western swing of Bob Wills to the jazz of Django Reinhardt. V

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y attitude towards every- early in her career, she's spent thing right now is saying years honing her skills and gainyes," says Cayley Thomas. ing valuable performing experience So far, the zealous approach ap- along the way. as a child she began pears to be working for the local taking music lessons before comsinger-songwriter. Earlier this sum- pleting her classical voice training mer, Thomas, whose sound is a mul- through the Royal Conservatory of tifarious blend Music and moving on to study of blues, folk, Sat, aug 31 (8 pm) acting in the indie rock and With Mitchmatic Bachelor of Fine even country, artery, $10 performed at the arts program Canmore Folk Festival and made her at the university of alberta. The inaugural main-stage appearance idea was for each skill to compleat the Edmonton Folk Festival be- ment the other, allowing Thomas tween sets by Charles Bradley and to pursue different avenues as she Feist—all leading up to the release established herself as an artist. of her debut EP, Ash Mountains.

However, it was unfortunate cir"It was a gamble. I could have cumstances that were the catalyst done 10 tracks and it would have for her songwriting to take off a been mostly guitar and maybe little more than a year ago. other limited instrumentation, or I "My older brother passed away could do less with really high pro- in Edmonton about a year ago and duction quality and make it textur- it was a pretty public thing. There al and different," explains Thomas, was a city-wide search and unforwho opted for a five-song sampler tunately it was a suicide in the end, showcasing the breadth of her mu- so a huge part of my writing has sical style with tracks ranging from been directly or indirectly related stripped-down acoustic ballads to to that," Thomas explains, noting bluesy slide guitar, plus a little pop her songs on Ash Mountains are thrown into the mix. "That makes not an obvious ode to her brother, it sound totally incongruous, but but the incident was the underlyit doesn't come off that way," she ing pulse for a creative departure continues. "You aren't getting the that offered her something of an same song twice or even anything escape during a difficult time. close to the same song twice. It "You know, it's bringing a lot of wasn't necessarily my ambition meaning to people and that's somewith it but those five songs are thing I didn't really know I'd have the most developed ... it's a pretty the power to do, so when I speak good kind of representation of to people and they feel compelled who I am and what my sound is to tell me their story or how they and from there I have X amount were touched by something that of years to go on and try to create was part of a performance it's like, more full-length works."

'OK, this can be just entertaining or there can be something more to it.'"

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Cosmos Light" will make your ears perk up and "are we Ever Satisfied;" with its hurdy-gurdy synths, is reminiscent of the Beta Band's legendary three EPs. Mellow grooves of varying degrees highlighted by muted guitars and daydreamy vocals mate with cymbal-light drumming where rumbling toms align the backbone of this quasi-psychedelic production. a perfect example being the drowsy electro of "Lies," whose inspiration feels drawn from Berlin-era Bowie.

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Madchild / Thu, Aug 29 (8 pm) Yep, it’s the same guy who’s one-half of Swollen Members. He’s out promoting his new solo album Lawn Mower Man—he won’t actually mow your lawn though. That’s all you. (Union Hall, $20 in advance, $45 meet and greet)

Slates / Fri, Aug 30 (9 pm) The local punk outfit has been busy recording with Steve Albini, but the band is back for another show. Who knows? You might even get a preview of some new material. (Wunderbar, $10)

Collective West / Fri, Aug 30 (7:30 pm) Happenstance, fate, whichever you believe in, something brought this folk-inspired (and now Edmonton-based) fourpiece together from across the west. These days, it likes to dabble in subtle ballads, rowdy rock tunes and even the odd Kanye West cover. (Artery, $10 in advance, $15 at the door)

Behind Sapphire / Sat, Aug 31 (6 pm) The band began as a pair of awkward teenagers (we’ve all been there) huddled in a basement trying to string some melodies together— fast track to six years and three new members later and the folk-pop group is on a more polished path. (The Studio, $10 in advance, $15 at the door)

Liz Mandeville / Mon, Sep 2 and Tue, Sep 3 (9 pm) This one’s got the blues— well, when it comes to music, that is. Liz Mandeville’s musical style has been shaped since her early years thanks to influences from Mississippi John Hurt, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Muddy Waters and all the blues, jazz, soul and gospel in between.

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Blues on Whyte Uncle

Wiggly’s Hot Shoes Blues Band

Brittany’s lounge

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Nights; no cover

Fandango’s Thu Battle of

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FREE SHOW 4PM

WHITE PONGO W/ DEADWOODX

Jeffrey’s Café Guitars

to Go (duelling guitars); 8pm, $10

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

L.B.’s Pub Thu open stage:

the New Big Time with Rocko Vaugeois, friends; 8-12

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

Jam by Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu; contact John Malka 780.447.5111 Overtime–Sherwood Park Jesse Peters (R&B,

blues, jazz, Top 40); 9pm2am every Thu; no cover Red Piano Every Thu:

Dueling pianos at 8pm

richard’s pub Capital

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(jazz); most Thursdays; 7-10pm

The Rig Every Thu Jam

hosted by Loren Burnstick; 8:30pm-1am

Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Derina Harvey Sherlock Holmes– WEM Doug stroud Smokehouse BBQ Live

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Century Room Lucky

9:30pm-2am

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

The Common The

Common Uncommon Thursday: Rotating Guests each week

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

electric rodeo–Spruce Grove DJ every Thu FILTHY McNASTY’S Taking Krush Ultra Lounge

L.B.’s Coaster 44 (rock); Lizard Lounge Rock

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

New West Hotel Trick

Rider (country)

On the Rocks Rocket

Sauce

Overtime–Sherwood Park Dueling Piano’s, all

request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover PAWN SHOP The Preying Saints (rock, CD release), Unwed Mothers, the Archaics, the Get Down; 8pm; $10 (adv)

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

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Overtime Sherwood Park Dueling Piano’s, all

Fridays

SAT AUG 31 Artery Cayley Thomas (blues folk jazz; Ash Mountains EP release party), Mitchmatic; 9:30pm (music); $10 (adv)/$12 (door) Atlantic Trap and Gill

Duff Robison

Avenue Theatre Behind

Wild Life Thursdays

Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Derina Harvey

Blues on Whyte Every

rendezvous Metal night

Sherlock Holmes– Starlite Room Murder

Sat Open mic; 7pm; $2

Foundation Traditions

CASINO EDMONTON

WUNDERBAR Slates,

Disciples of Power, Death Assembly, Mortillery, Oceans of Fire; 6pm; $10 (adv at Blackbyrd)/$12 (day-of) Blues on Whyte Uncle

Wiggly’s Hot Shoes Blues Band

Bohemia Art + Muzak

curated by Gel Nails

Blue CHair Café Jessica

Heine, Grey Gritt; 8:30pm; $15 Brittany’s lounge

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

Goth/Industrial with DJs Siborg, Nightroad; 9pm

Café Tiramisu Live

music every Fri: G.W Myers; 7-9pm

Carrot Coffeehouse

Live music every Fri; Ken Stead; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door) CASINO EDMONTON

Shannon Smith (country rock); 9pm CASINO YELLOWHEAD

Doc Holliday (country rock); 9pm Duggan’s Irish Pub

Rob Taylor

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Atlantic Trap and Gill Avenue Theatre

Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Uncle Wiggly’s Hot Shoes Blues Band

BRIXX Wintercoast,

Jeff Morris, Braden Gates (alt folk); 7:30pm; $10 (adv)/$15 (door) Duff Robison

Black Dog Freehouse

by Death, 4onthefloor; 9pm; $15 (adv at Brixx, ticketfly. com)/$18 (door)

(metal, rock); By the Beard of Zeus, Black XIII; Love and Lies; 6pm; $5 (adv)/$10 (door)

Artery The Collective West,

What’s Wrong Tohei?, Gary Debussy

Classical Symphony Under the Sky–Heritage Amphitheatre Bob

Bernhardt (conductor), Denise Djokic (cello); 7pm; $40 (adult adv)/ $20 (child)/$25 (adult, grass seating)/free (child, grass seating)

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Every Friday DJs on all three levels THE BOWER Zukunft: Indie

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

THE Common Good

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

Mondrian Shift

Carrot Coffeehouse

Shannon Smith (country rock); 9pm CASINO YELLOWHEAD

Doc Holliday (country rock); 9pm Crown Pub Acoustic blues

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

hop and dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Fri

Legends Sports Bar

DJ Dayna; featuring special events every Fri

Classical Symphony Under the Sky–Heritage Amphitheatre Proms In

The Park: Bob Bernhardt (conductor), Mela Dailey (soprano), 2pm, $40 (adult adv)/ $20 (child)/$25 (adult, grass seating)/free (child, grass seating); Evening: From Broadway to Hollywood: Mela Dailey, Sydney Williams (soprano), Robert Uchida (violin), Strathcona Theatre Company Cast of Anything Goes, 7pm, $40 (adult adv)/ $20 (child)/$25 (adult, grass seating)/free (child, grass seating)

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THE BOWER For Those Who

DV8 The Press Gang, Zero

Pongo, Deadwoodx; 4pm; no cover

Fort Edmonton Park

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

The Once (Storytelling Concert with storytellers: Gail de Vos, Wendy Edey, Renée Englot, Marie Anne McLean); 8pm; $25

THE Common Get Down

Fusia coral De Cuba

Sat; 9pm

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

Druid Irish Pub DJ every

Bugaloo Live (Salsa, Merengue, Cumbia); 9pm; $10

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

Gas Pump Saturday

Fandango’s DJs night

Hilltop Pub Open Stage, Jam every Sat; 3:30-7pm

FLUID LOUNGE R&B, hip

WUNDERBAR Cowards,

Travis Bretzer

FILTHY McNASTY’S White

Rob Taylor

electric rodeo–Spruce Grove DJ every Fri

every Fri and Sat with DJ Stouffer

Studio Music

Foundation Behind Sapphire (jazz pop rock), the Frolics, Nature Of, Campus Thieves, Hungry Hollow; 6pm; $10 (adv at Blackbyrd)/$15 (door)

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Duggan’s Irish Pub

Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth

Fandango’s DJs night

Andrew Scott

Sessions: Alt Rock/Electro/ Trash with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic hip-hop and reggae with DJ Sonny Grimezz; Underdog: Dr Erick

The Druid Irish Pub DJ

every Fri; 9pm

Rose and Crown Pub

Sherlock Holmes– WEM Doug stroud

Glovebox (end of summer dance party); 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $10 at box office

Outlaws Roadhouse

WEM Doug stroud

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

Baily Theatre–Camrose

Blue CHair Café Blue Chair House Band; 8:30pm; $12

every Thu

Pawn Shop Kim Fai, Big

Daddy, DJ Omes

Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Derina Harvey

Rose and Crown Pub

Union Hall 3 Four All

request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover

Sapphire, guests; 8pm; $10 (adv)/$12 (day of)

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

Andrew Scott

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

On the Rocks Rocket

Hair of the Dog: Samara Von Rad (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover

On The Rocks Salsaholic:

Northlands Sonic Boom: Blink 192, City and Colour, Weezer, Passion Pit, Dan Mangan, the Weakerthans, the Sheepdogs, Mother Mother, Cold War Kids, Death From Above 1979, Yukon Blonde, Capital Cities / Phantogram, Family of the Year, Imaginary Cities, the Frank’s Red Hot Wrestling Pavilion; all ages; 11:30am (gates)

Union Hall Ladies Night

Lucky 13 Industry Night

every Fri

New West Hotel Country jam every Sat; 3-6pm; Late show: Trick Rider (country)

every Fri

Rendezvous pub Eternal

Prophecy, Silo; 8pm (door), 10pm (show); $8

Suchy Sister Saturdays: Amber, Renee or Stephanie with accompaniment; 9:3011:30pm; no cover

O’byrne’s Live band every

Bunker Thursdays

Level 2 lounge Funk

Louisiana Purchase

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

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

Open stage; 7pm; no cover

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SAT AUG 31

Jeffrey’s Café Rollanda Lee (jazz classics); 9pm; $15

Java Express–Stony Plain Acoustic/singer

songwriter the 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7-10pm; no cover

Acoustic Open mic every Fri, 10-15 mins to perform; 5:308:30pm, no cover; Late show: Every Friday: Headwind (vintage rock ‘n’ roll), friends, 9:30pm, no minors, no cover

Musical flavas incl funk, indie, dance/nu disco, breaks, drum and bass, house with DJ Gundam

Jam Thu; 9pm

J R Bar and Grill Live

Rider (country)

$2.75 DOMESTIC PINTS

Main Floor: wtft w djwtf - rock ‘n’ roll, blues, indie; Wooftop:

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

New West Hotel Trick

WEDNESDAY PINT NIGHT’S

Black dog Freehouse

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Naked Cyber café Thu

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Café Haven Music every

Kelly’s Pub Jameoke

FRI OCT 25

Suite 69 Release Your Inner

Thu; 9pm

Druid Irish Pub DJ every

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Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge

J+H Pub Early show:

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

Starlite Room KLUB

WUNDERBAR Faye Blais, Cadence, Nathan

Druid Irish Pub DJ every

Cook County Pony Up

indie, rock, funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri

HOGS DEN PUB Sinder Sparks Show; 8-12pm

Brixx Hosted by Christian

Zoomers Thu afternoon open mic; 1-4pm

RED STAR Movin’ on Up:

Blues every Thur: rotating guests; 7-11pm

Crown Pub Break Down

Thu; 7pm

Lucky 13 Every Fri and Sat with resident DJ Chad Cook

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

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

CARROT Coffeehouse

Archaics, Raptor Strike, Goodmorning Groove, the Haze, Tama Neilene, Strange Currencies, Civic Radio, Alberta Sunshine and the Terrific Happy Dance Band, the Peavees, For Susan, Crimson Murmur; Visual Art by Dove, Archer; Slam Poetry by Harleen Cheema, Siling Zhang, Skye Hyndman; 3-10pm; free, $5 merch/food passes available

Jeffrey’s Café Shay

every Fri and Sat with DJ Stouffer

FLUID LOUNGE R&B, hip

hop and dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Sat

Esposito (pop rock folk, singer/songwriter); 9pm; $10

Level 2 Lounge Collective Saturdays underground: House and Techno

L.B.’s The Normals; 9:30pm-2am

Lucky 13 Every Fri and Sat with resident DJ Chad Cook

Leaf bar and grill Sat jam with Terry Evans, and featured guests; host Mark Ammar

Newcastle Pub Top 40 requests every Sat with DJ Sheri

Rouge Resto-Lounge

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

Red Piano Back to School dueling piano show; 8pm-1am

RED STAR Indie rock, hip

Richard’s PUB Sun Jam

Wrestling Pavilion O’BYRNE’S Open mic every

Sun; 9:30pm-1am

hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests

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

ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge

The Rig Every Sun Jam

Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Mkhai

hosted by Better Us than Strangers; 5-9pm

Smokehouse BBQ Hair

Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge

Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M

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

Sugar Foot Ballroom

WUNDERBAR Good

Swing Dance Party: Sugar Swing Dance Club every Sat, 8-12; no experience or partner needed, beginner lesson followed by social dance; sugarswing.com Suite 69 Stella Saturday:

retro, old school, top 40 beats with DJ Lazy, guests

TEMPLE Step’d Up

Saturdays with Lolcatz, Yaznil, Badman Crooks, Ootz

Union Hall Celebrity

Saturdays: every Sat hosted

by DJ Johnny Infamous Y AFTERHOURS Release

Saturdays

Friday Brawl, Jerk Store (Vancouver), Raptor Strike, Rusty

Classical Symphony Under the Sky–Heritage Amphitheatre Afternoon

show: Family Matinee: Menagerie of Music, 2pm, free; Evening Show: Ellis Hall Celebrates Ray Charles, Motown and Beyond: Bob Bernhardt (conductor), Ellis Hall (vocals, piano); 7pm, $40 (adult adv)/ $20 (child)/$25 (adult, grass seating)/free (child, grass seating)

Blackjack’s Roadhouse–Nisku Open

Main Floor: Soul Sundays: A

Brunch: Jazz Passages Trio; 10am-2:30pm; donations Cha Island Tea Co

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

Celtic Music with House Band; 5-8pm

DV8 Mortillery, Besegra,

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

fantastic voyage through ‘60s and ‘70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy LeveL 2 lounge

Stylus Industry Sundays: Invinceable, Tnt, Rocky, Rocko, Akademic, weekly guest DJs; 9pm-3am

MON SEP 2 Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover Blues on Whyte Liz

Mandeville ‘

Bohemia Max Uhlich, Meatforce, Jordan Fritz

Fandango’s Sun Industry

Brittany’s lounge

Night: House mix with DJ JEZ LF; Show and Shine/open stage every Sun: hosted by Marshal Lawrence; 6-11pm

Newcastle Pub Sun Soul

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

Rider (country)

Northlands SONiC

BOOM: Blink-182, City and Colour, Weezer, Passion Pit, Dan Mangan, the Weakerthans , the Sheepdogs, Mother Mother, Cold War Kids, Death From Above 1979, Yukon Blonde, Capital Cities / Phantogram, Family of the Year, Imaginary Cities, the Frank’s Red Hot

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Blackest Sin, Burning Effigy, Vile Insignia; 9pm

Symphony Under the Sky–Heritage Amphitheatre Carnival of

the Animals: Bob Bernhardt, conductor), Michael Massey, Jeremy Spurgeon (piano), William Dimmer (narrator); 2pm; $40 (adult adv)/ $20 (child)/$25 (adult, grass seating)/free (child, grass seating)

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy

Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay Crown Pub A Sexy Night

DJs

Blue CHair Café Sunday

Classical

DJs

SUN SEP 1 mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett

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

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

Singer/songwriter open stage every Mon; 8pm; host changes weekly DV8 The Whiskey Shits

(Montreal punk)

Overtime–Sherwood Park Monday Open Stage PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

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

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

TUE SEP 3 Artery Same Old Newgrass Band (CD release, bluegrass country pop), Krysta Scoggins; 7:30pm; $10/$20 (incl CD at event) Avenue Theatre Kinnie Starr (folk, hip hop, rap), Kieran Strange, guests; 8pm; $10 (adv)/$12 (day of) Blues on Whyte Liz

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Bohemia Acoustic Tuesday:

New West Hotel Trick

Ashes of Apollo, guests

O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every

Elephant and Castle– Whyte Ave Open mic

Rider (country)

Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm Overtime–Sherwood Park The Campfire Hero’s

(acoustic rock, country, top 40); 9pm-2am every Tue; no cover Sherlock Holmes– WEM Amy Weymes WUNDERBAR Corinna

Rose, Ariane Mahryke Lemire

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: alternative retro

and not-so-retro, electronic and Euro with Eddie Lunchpail; Wooftop: The Night with No Name featuring DJs Rootbeard, Raebot, Wijit and guests playing tasteful, eclectic selections CRown Pub Underground

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

DV8 Creepy Tombsday:

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

featuring Burro

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

Brittany’s lounge

Suite 69 Rockstar

Velvet Hour: Live music in the afternoons hosted by Rob Taylor and Bill Bourne; MonFri; 4:30-8pm; no cover Brixx Bar Ruby Tuesdays with host Mark Feduk; $5; this week: Honey Badger, Jordan Jones Druid Irish Pub

Jamhouse Tues hosted by Chris Wynters, guest DV8 Underground

Proxy (Montreal punk; with members of Inepsy, Kontempt), Tarantuja, Messiahlator, Kro-Bonez; 9pm; $10 Fandangos Country

Music Showcase: Aboriginal Canadian winning performers of Canadian Country Music Week contest J+H Pub Acoustic open mic night every Tue hosted by Lorin Lynne; Everyone will have 10-15 minutes to play L.B.’s PUB Tue Blues Jam

with Darrell Barr; 7:3011:30pm

Leaf bar and grill

Tuesday Moosehead/ Barsnbands open stage hosted by Mark Ammar; every Tue; 7:30-11:30pm

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

WED SEP 4 ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL

Open stage Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12 Artery Paul Reddick (blues), guests; 7:30pm; $8 (adv)/$10 (door) BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Glitter Gulch: live music once a month; On the Patio: Funk and Soul with

Doktor Erick every Wed; 9pm Blues on Whyte Liz

Mandeville ‘

Brittany’s lounge

every Wed (unless there’s an Oilers game); no cover

Fandango’s Wed open stage hosted by Michael Gress and Cody Noula; Country Music Showcase: Aboriginal Canadian winning performers of Canadian Country Music Week contest Fiddler’s Roost Little

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

HOOLIGANZ Open stage

every Wed with host Michael Gress; 9pm

J+H Pub Acoustic open mic

night hosted by Lorin Lynne

Leaf bar and grill

Wed variety night: with Gord Matthews; every Wed, 8pm

New West Hotel Free

classic country dance lessons every Wed, 7-9pm; Trick Rider (country)

Overtime Sherwood Park Jason Greeley

(acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Wed; no cover

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:3011pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member) Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5

THE RIG Open jam every

Wed hosted by Will Cole; 8pm -12am

Sherlock Holmes– WEM Amy Weymes

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: RetroActive

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

THE Common The Wed

DV8 Underground

Brixx Bar Really Good...

Experience: Classics on Vinyl with Dane

NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk

and ‘80s metal every Wed

RED STAR Guest DJs

every Wed

TEMPLE Wild Style Wed:

Hip hop open mic hosted by Kaz and Orv; $5

VENUEGUIDE Accent European Lounge 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ARTery 9535 Jasper Ave Avenue Theatre 9030-118 Ave, 780.477.2149 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082 Blackjack's Roadhouse– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Dr, Nisku, 780.986.8522 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 Bohemia 10217-97 St THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; info@thebower.ca Brittany's Lounge 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 Brixx Bar 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 Café Haven 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca Café Tiramisu 10750-124 St CARROT Coffeehouse 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580 Casino Edmonton 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 Casino Yellowhead 12464153 St, 780.424 9467

Central Senior Lions Centre 11113-113 St Century Casino 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 Cha Island Tea Co 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 Common 9910-109 St Crown Pub 10709-109 St, 780.428.5618 Duggan's Irish Pub 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8130 Gateway Blvd Early Stage Saloon– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain Electric Rodeo–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 Elephant and Castle–Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave Encore–WEM 2687, 8882170 St Fandango's 12912-50 St, fandangoslive.com Festival Place 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FIDDLER’S ROOST 8906-99 St FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 Fluid Lounge 10888 Jasper

Ave, 780.429.0700 Fusia Coral de Cuba Edmonton Sun Bldg, 4990-92 Ave Gazebo Park Wilbert McIntyre Park, 104 St, 83 Ave Hilltop Pub 8220 106 Ave HOGS DEN PUB Yellow Head Tr, 142 St HOOLIGANZ 10704-124 St, 780.995.7110, 780.452.1168 J+H Pub 1919-105 St J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 Java xpress 110, 4300 South Park Dr, Stony Plain, 780.968.1860 jeffrey’s café 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 L.B.’s Pub 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 Leaf bar and grill 9016132 Ave, 780.757.2121 Legends Sports Bar and Tap House 9221-34 Ave, 780.988.2599 LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 Lit Italian Wine Bar 10132104 St Lizard Lounge 13160-118 Ave Naked Cybercafé 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 Newcastle PuB 6108-90 Ave,

780.490.1999 New City 8130 Gateway Boulevard noorish caFé 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 O2's–West 11066-156 St, 780.448.2255 Overtime Sherwood Park 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 Pleasantview Community Hall 10860-57 Ave Pub 1824 12402-118 Ave, 587.521.1824 Red Piano Bar 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 Rendezvous 10108-149 St Richard's Pub 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 Ric’s Grill 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 The Rig 15203 Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.0869 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253

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Sleaze w/ alterra, SEPT/14 Summer thrillhouSe, DeaD City DollS, Frankie mCQueen

SEPT/19

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UBk Bass Festival SEPT/26 blIss N esO SEPT/21

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Unwed Mothers

w/ guests

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DJs

Crown Pub The Dan Jam:

Wed open mic with host Duff Robison

SEPT/7

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

Eats and Beats: every Wed with DJ Degree and Friends

Duggan’s Irish Pub

murder by death W/ Guests

Red Piano Bar Wed

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

aug/30

Rose and Crown 10235101 St Set Nightclub Next to Bourban St, 8882-170 St, WEM, Ph III, setnightclub.ca Smokehouse BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924 Sportsman's Lounge 8170-50 St STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 Sugar Foot Ballroom 10545-81 Ave Suite 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969 Treasury 10004 Jasper Ave, 7870.990.1255, thetreasurey.ca Vee Lounge, Apex Casino–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 Winspear Centre 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com Yesterdays Pub 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 Zen Lounge 12923-97 St

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COMEDY 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 • Thu: 8:30pm; Fri: 8:30pm; Sat: 8pm and 10:30pm • Tim Koslo; Aug 30-31 • Ken Valgardson; Sep 6-7 Comic Strip • Bourbon St, WEM •

780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Hit or Miss Mondays: Amateurs and Professionals every Mon, 7:30pm • Battle to the Funny Bone; last Tue each month, 7:30pm • Angelo Tsarouchas; until Sep 1 • Rocky Laporte; Sep 4-8

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 Myer Horowitz Theatre • U of A •

Wayne Lee (Hypnotist) • Fri, Sep 6

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 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

workshops, exhibitions, guest speakers, stitching groups for those interested in textile arts • Meet the 2nd Tue each month, 7:30pm

Edmonton Ukulele Circle • Bogani Café, 2023-111 St • 780.440.3528 • 3rd Sun each month; 2:30-4pm • $5 Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club • 2nd Fl, Canada Place, 9700

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

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

• Expressionz Cafe, 9938-70 Ave • 780.437.3667 • expressionzcafe.com • First Sat each month featuring a speaker • Sat, Sep 7, noon-2pm • Admission by donation

Historic walking tours–St Albert • Little White School, 2 Madonna Dr • A walking tour of St Albert’s past • Aug 29, 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

Introduction to Tibetan Buddhist Mahamudra Meditation • Karma Tashi

Ling Society Centre, 10502-70 Ave • Calm Abiding and Insight: Meditation background helpful. Contact Andrew for info/registration at amgmitch@gmail.com; T: 780.437.3688 • Thu 7-8:15pm; Sep 5-Oct 24 • $40 (suggested donation)

Lotus Qigong • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu

MADELEINE SANAM FOUNDATION • Faculté St Jean, Rm 3-18 • 780.490.7332 • madeleine-sanam.org/en • Program for HIV-AID’S prevention, treatment and harm reduction in French, English and other African languages • 3rd and 4th Sat, 9am-5pm each month • Free (member)/$10 (membership); pre-register NSAI Songwriters Group • The Carrot, 9351-118 Ave • 780.973.5311 • nashvillesongwriters.com • NSAI (Nashville Songwriters Association International) meet the 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm

(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)

River Valley Vixen Boot Camp •

Berg Lake • lionsbreath.ca; click on adven-

sAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP •

• Mount Zion Lutheran Church, 11533-135 St NW • braintumour.ca • 1.800.265.5106 ext.

234 • Support group for brain tumour survivors and their families and caregivers. Must be 18 or over • 3rd Mon every month; 7-8:45pm • Free

Canadian Injured Workers Association of Alberta (CIWAA) •

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

EBDA ballroom dance • Lions

Senior Recreational Centre, 11113-111 Ave • 780.893.6828 • EBDA.ca • Sep 7, 8pm

Edmonton Ghost Tours • Meet in front 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) until Sep 12 • $10/$30 (2 adults and 2 kids)

Edmonton Needlecraft Guild •

Avonmore United Church Basement, 82 Ave, 79 St • edmNeedlecraftGuild.org • Classes/

Summer long drop-in, all girls boot camp • Various days and times throughout the week; info E: rivervalleyvixen@gmail.com • $20 • facebook.com/#!/rvvbootcamp

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

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

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

Society of Edmonton Atheists • Stanley A. Milner Library, Centennial Rm (bsmt); edmontonatheists.ca; E: info@edmontonatheists.ca; Monthly roundtable 1st Tue each month Sugar Foot Ballroom • 10545-81

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

Waskahegan Trail HIKE •

waskahegantrail.ca • Meet: NW corner Superstore parking lot, 51 Ave, Calgary Tr (carpool to trail) • waskahegantrail.ca • 10km

Corn Sale–Hope Mission • Edmonton

Valley Zoo, 13315 Buena Vista Rd • Aug 31, 10am-4pm • Proceeds from sale go to Hope Mission Youth Shelter and Edmt and Area Land Trust

Date Night • Devonian Botanic Garden • Movie Night: Gates 6:30pm, Movie at dusk (9pm); the charming "end of summer" film, Moonrise Kingdom • Aug 29 • $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, ext 2243

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

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

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

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

LECTURES/Presentations

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

Dogs Walking for Cats Walk • Earth's General Store (parking lot), 9605-82 Ave • Fundraiser, a 2.5km walk • Sun, Sep 8, noon • Proceeds to animal welfare; registration/ pledge forms at safeteam.ca, E: safeteamdirector@hotmail.com • facebook.com/ events/529412773792560/

MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB •

Easter Seals Drop Zone • Sutton

Great Expeditions • St Luke’s Angli-

canChurch, 8424-95 Ave • 780.469.3270 • Uzbekistan (2013): Presentation by Peter, Nuala and Ali Hackett • 1st Mon every month, Sep 2, 7:30pm • Suggested donation of $3

Hands-on Bike Maintenance • Bike-

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

Solar Energy–Direct Uses • Grant

MacEwan University, City Centre Campus, 105 St Bldg, Rm 6-118 • solaralberta.ca • A six-week evening class and Sat tour of solar installations: Going Solar at home or at work.

An overview of Alberta-specific solar technologies • Tue, Sep 10, 6:30-9:30pm • Free; preregister at solaralberta.ca

QUEER AFFIRM SUNNYBROOK–Red Deer

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

Beers for Queers • Empress Ale House, 9912 Whyte Ave • Meet the last Thu each month

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

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

(Edmonton Chapter) Hot buttered taber corn, Fire truck tours, Petting zoo, Pony rides, live music, more • Sat, Sep 7

G.L.B.T.Q Seniors Group • S.A.G.E

Organization for Bipolar Affective Disorder (OBAD) • Grey

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

Cycling: Terwillegar Recreation Centre; drop-in; E: 311@edmonton.ca • Swimming–Making Waves: Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) pool, 11762-106 St; E: swimming@ teamedmonton.c; makingwavesswimclub. 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

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

Bisexual Women's Coffee Group

Aikikai Aikido Club • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm

Brain Tumour Peer Support Group

Wild Rose Antique Collectors Society • Delwood Community Hall, 7515

Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association • Duggan Community Hall,

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

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

guided hike along a portion of the 309km Waskahegan Tr • Hike the Duhamel area of the Battle River with hike leader JoAnne 780.487.0645; Sep 1 • Hike around Trappers Lake through Elk Island National Park to Oster Lake with hike leader David 780.434.2675; Sep 8 • 8:45am-3pm • $5 (carpool)/$20 (annual membership)

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

EPLC Fellowship Pagan Study Group • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • eplc.webs.com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome

Evolution WonderLounge • 10220-

103 St 780.424.0077 • yourgaybar.com • Open: Happy Hour: Wed-Fri, 4pm • Tue: Community Night: with various community groups, different activities • Wed: Karaoke, 7pm • FriSat: DJ, hot dance floor • Sun: Tea Dance Beer Bust, 2pm • Grand opening: with DJ Chi Chi La Rue and a bevy of porn boys Sep 14; $15

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 • Cycling: Louise McKinney Park, terrace above River Valley Adventure Co; Thu, 6:30-8pm; For more info: cycling@ teamedmonton.ca • Blazin' Bootcamp: Every Mon and Thu, 7pm; $30/$15 (low income/ student); E: bootcamp@teamedmonton.ca • Running: Every Sun, 10am, at Kinsmen • 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

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

LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408-

geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu

Pride Centre of Edmonton •

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

PrimeTimers/sage Games • Unitarian

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

St Paul's United Church • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship)

WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 •

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

Woodys Video Bar • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Amateur Strip Contest; prizes with Shawana • Tue: Kitchen 3-11pm • Wed: Karaoke with Tizzy 7pm-1am; Kitchen 3-11pm • Thu: Free pool all night; kitchen 3-11pm • Fri: Mocho Nacho Fri: 3pm (door), kitchen open 3-11pm SPECIAL EVENTS The Bailey Harvest • Bailey Theatre •

Fundraising festival with host Danny Hooper, silent and live auctions, dance to follow with DJ Trubble • Sep 7, 7pm (door) • $100

Community League Member Appreciation Day and World Car Free Day •

Earth’s General Store, 9605-82 Ave • Sun, Sep 22, 10am-6pm (12-4pm, barbeque)

Cornfest • Callingwood Shopping Centre

parking lot • Marketplace at Callingwood in support of the Firefighters Burn Treatment Society

VUEWEEKLY aug 29 – SEP 4, 2013

DeepSoul.ca • 587.520.3833; text to:

780.530.1283 for location • Classic Covers Shindig Fundraiser • Every Sun: Sunday Jams with no Stan (CCR to Metallica), starring Chuck Prins on SG guitars: upcoming Century Casino show as well; GarageGigs Tour; all ages • Fundraising for local Canadian Disaster Relief, the hungry (world-wide through the Canadian Food Grains Bank)

Place Hotel, 10235-101 St • thedropzone.ca • Superheroes will descend down 29-storeys of the Sutton Place at the 8th Annual Easter Seals Drop Zone. Fundraiser to help Albertans with disabilities and special needs • Aug 29, 7:30pm

Edmonton Festival of Acceptance

• Louise McKinney Park • The Acceptance Rally: learn from each other, celebrate differences and experience, creating tolerance • Sun, Sep 8

EPL Squared • Churchill Square • epl.ca/

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Harvest of the Past & Harvest Food Festival • Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village, 8820-112 St • 780.662.3640 • ukrainianvillage.ca • Begins with a pancake breakfast; historical activities include flower and herb drying, feather stripping, making kapusta (sour cabbage), grinding wheat, quilting, and canning of produce from the museum’s heritage gardens • Sun, Sep 8 • Ticket: admission on gate

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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): You seem primed to act like a ram, the astrological creature associated with your sign. I swear you have that look in your eyes: the steely gaze that tells me you’re about to take a very direct approach to smashing the obstacles in your way. I confess I have not always approved of such behaviour. In the past, you have sometimes done more damage to yourself than to the obstruction you’re trying to remove. But this is one time when the head-first approach might work. There is indeed evidence the job at hand requires a battering ram. What does your intuition tell you?

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” is a raucous love song by the Scottish band the Proclaimers. In the chorus, the singer declares, “I would walk 500 miles / And I would walk 500 more / Just to be the man who walked 1000 miles / To fall down at your door.” In 2011, a Chinese woman named Ling Hsueh told her boyfriend Liu Peiwen she would marry him if he took the lyrics of this song to heart. In response, loverboy embarked on a 1000-mile hike to the distant city where she lived. His stunt seemed to have expedited the deepening of their relationship. The two are now wed. In accordance with your current astrological omens, Taurus, I encourage you to consider the possibility of being a romantic fool like Liu Peiwen. What playfully heroic or richly symbolic deed might you be willing to perform for the sake of love?

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): “The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness,” said the painter Joan Miró in describing his artistic process. I recommend a similar approach to you in the coming weeks. Identify what excites you the most and will continue to inspire and energize you for the foreseeable future.

Activate the wild parts of your imagination as you dream and scheme about how to get as much of that excitement as you can stand. And then set to work, with methodical self-discipline, to make it all happen.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): My vision of you in the coming week involves you being more instinctual, natural and primal than usual.

I have a picture in my mind of you climbing trees and rolling in the grass and holding bugs in your hands and letting the wind mess up your hair. You’re gazing up at the sky a lot and you’re doing spontaneous dance moves for no other reason than because it feels good.

You’re serenading the sun and clouds and hills with your favourite songs. I see you eating food with your fingers and touching things you’ve never touched. I hear you speaking wild truths you’ve bottled

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up for months. As for sex? I think you know what to do.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): The Japanese word senzuri refers to a sexual act of self-love performed by a man. Its literal meaning is “1000 rubs.” The corresponding term for the female version is shiko shiko manzuri, or “10 000 rubs.” Judging from the astrological omens, I’m guessing the applicable metaphor for you in the days ahead will be shiko shiko manzuri rather than senzuri. Whatever gender you are, you’ll be wise to slowww wayyyy down and take your time, not just in pursuit of pleasure but in pretty much everything you do. The best rewards and biggest blessings will come from being deliberate, gradual, thorough and leisurely.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): “A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct,” wrote science-fiction author Frank Herbert. I urge you to heed that advice. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you will oversee the germination of several new trends in the coming weeks. Future possibilities will reveal themselves to you.

You will be motivated to gather the ingredients and formulate the plans to make sure those trends and possibilities will actually happen. One of the most critical tasks you can focus on is to ensure that the balances are righteous right from the start.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): The Online Time Travel Mart sells products you might find handy in the event you travel through time. Available items include barbarian repellent, dinosaur eggs, time-travel sickness pills, a centurion’s helmet, a portable wormhole and a samurai umbrella. I have no financial tie to this store, so when I recommend you consider purchasing something from it or another company with a similar product line, it’s only because I suspect that sometime soon you will be summoned to explore and possibly even alter the past. Be wellprepared to capitalize on the unexpected opportunities.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): Mystic poets find the divine presence everywhere. The wind carries God’s love, bestowing tender caresses. The scent of a lily is an intimate message from the Holy Beloved, provoking bliss. Even a bowl of oatmeal contains the essence of the Creator; to eat it is to receive an ecstatic blessing. But those of us who aren’t mystic poets are not necessarily attuned to all this sweetness. We may even refuse to make ourselves receptive to the ceaseless offerings. To the mystic poets, we are like sponges floating in the ocean but trying very hard not to get wet.

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Don’t do that this week; Scorpio.

Be like a sponge floating in the ocean and allowing yourself to get totally soaked.

NOMINATE OUTSTANDING local volunteers for the provincial Stars of Alberta Volunteer Awards! Deadline for nominations is September 16, 2013. Full details at culture. alberta.ca/voluntarysector/stars.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): James Caan is a well-known actor who has appeared in more than 80 movies, including notables like The Godfather, A Bridge Too Far and Elf. But he has also turned down major roles in a series of blockbusters: Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Kramer vs Kramer, Blade Runner and Apocalypse Now. I present his odd choices as a cautionary tale for you in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. Don’t sell yourself short. Don’t shrink from the challenges that present themselves.

Even if you have accomplished a lot already, an invitation to a more complete form of success may be in the offing.

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CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): “What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real,” says a character in one of Miranda July’s short stories. I’m offering similar advice to you, Capricorn. The “something real” you would get by sacrificing “something wonderful” might seem to be the more practical and useful option, but I don’t think it would be in the long run. Sticking with “something wonderful” will ultimately inspire breakthroughs that boost your ability to meet real-world challenges.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): “There is more truth in our erotic zones than in the whole of religions and mathematics,” wrote the English artist Austin O Spare. I think he was being melodramatic. Who can say for sure whether such an extreme statement is accurate? But I suspect it’s at least a worthy hypothesis for you to entertain in the coming weeks, Aquarius. The new wisdom you could potentially stir up through an exploration of eros will be extensive and intensive. Your research may proceed more briskly if you have a loving collaborator who enjoys playing, but that’s not an absolute necessity.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): “This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.” So says a character in Oscar Wilde’s play The Importance of Being Earnest. I could envision you speaking those words sometime soon. Plain old drama could creep in the direction of passionate stimulation. High adventure may beckon and entertaining stories might erupt. Soon you could find yourself feeling tingly all over, and that might be so oddly pleasant you don’t want it to end. With the right attitude—that is, a willingness to steep yourself in the lyrical ambiguity—your soul could feed off the educational suspense for quite a while. V

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TJ LOGGING of Whitecourt, Alberta is now taking resumes for 2013 - 2014 logging season. Experienced buncher/skidder/limber/ process operators required. Please fax resume to 780-778-2428.

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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.

FIELD CLERK NEEDED for out of town work site (21/7 schedule).

Mature, flexible and positive communicator, understanding of importance of safety culture. Reporting to on-site foreman & Edmonton HO. Transportation to & from work site provided. Potential to grow with company; Jobs@CommandEquipment.com. Fax 780-488-3002.

ENVIROEX OILFIELD Rentals & Sales Ltd. is looking for a Class 1 Driver to join our team. Oilfield experience is required as well as valid safety tickets. We offer a great benefit package as well as a small company atmosphere. Please fax your resume and a current driver’s abstract 403-501-0387.

AN ALBERTA OILFIELD company is hiring dozer and excavator operators. Lodging and meals provided. Drug testing required.

Call 780-723-5051, Edson, Alberta.

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.

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.

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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.

BIG MOUNTAIN Sheet Metal and Gas Fitting in Rocky Mountain House requires 3rd or 4th year sheet metal mechanic. Email resume: bigmountain.sheetmetal@ gmail.com or fax 403-845-4811.

OPENINGS in Alberta areas for Highway Maintenance Class 1 or 3 Operators. Full-time and part-time positions available. Fax resume to Carillion Canada at 780-449-0574 or email: mcroft@ carillionalberta.ca. Positions to start Oct. 15, 2013. Please state what position you are interested in.

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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!

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The U of A Students’ Union is looking to hire an Operations Manager-Food, Kitchen Manager, and a SupervisorDewey’s. Excellent health, retirement, and vacation benefits!

Please email val.stewart@su.ualberta.ca for more information, and to apply

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Are you an animal lover?

WHARF Rescue is looking for volunteers We are a nonprofit animal rescue that provides shelter to homeless,neglected animals Please check www.wharfrescue.ca for more information As a non-profit, SATS can serve more elders over 65 years who need help with volunteer led transportation, if we can find more volunteer drivers! Please think of giving Volunteer managed Rides to elders. You are needed 8:00 to 8:00 pm seven days a week for three hours at your convenience. Two to three days of notice, in advance of a volunteer given ride, is given.

The elders always will be very appreciative of your time and your gas. For more details on gas re-imbursements call SATS at 780 732-1221 Become a Victim Services Volunteer Advocate!

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

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

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

Flexible hours, no experience necessary If interested, please contact Evan at ehammer@hfh.org or call (780) 451-3416

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Habitat for Humanity’s Volunteer Orientation and Basic Tool Training Session Have you often considered volunteering with Habitat for Humanity, but just need information about our program and some training on tools?

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

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

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

Contact 1-866-302-2223 or ivolunteer@cbcf.org for current volunteer opportunities Needed for our Long Term Care residence, daytime volunteers for various activities or just for a friendly visit!

Please contact Janice at Extendicare Eaux Claires for more details jgraff@extendicare.com (780) 472 - 1106

Ovarian Cancer Canada Walk of Hope - WE NEED YOU 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

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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 Volunteering - Habitat for Humanity requires Landscaping Volunteers!

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

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

Individual and group volunteers welcome.

Contact: Evan Hammer ehammer@hfh.org 780.451.3416 www.hfh.org Volunteering - Improve the Lives of Children in the Developing World Room to Read is changing the lives of children in Asia and Africa through literacy programs and gender equality.

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

Artists Wanted

Call for Artists: The 2nd annual Strathearn Art Walk is seeking artists to display and sell their work on 95 ave. in Strathearn on Sat. Sept. 14, 11-3.

All styles of work are considered and there is no fee to the artist for participation.

After a successful event last year popular demand called for an expansion in the number of display opportunities for artists.

Including the returnees from last year,organizers are looking to double the number of participating artists.

Please contact Andrew Struthers ajstruthers@gmail.com – for more information or to book your space before they fill up.

This event is sponsored by the Strathearn Community League.

Deadline is Sat. Sept. 7th.

Call for Proposals: Jackson Power Gallery, Edmonton Deadline: Ongoing The Jackson Power Gallery in Edmonton is seeking submissions for future exhibitions.

For further information, including photographs, gallery plan and submission requirements please contact: Paddy Lamb paddylamb@mac.com 780 499 7635

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Call for submissions: Equinox Vigil at Union Cemetery, Calgary In a nod to remembrance and reflection of the departed, Equinox Vigil invites artists to create work to be installed at Union Cemetery for the night of September 22nd.

Deadline for submissions is midnight, August 23rd. http://www.calgaryartsdevelop ment.com/content/callsubmissions-equinox-vigilunion-cemetery Call to Artists: Art from the Unknown, Edmonton It’s that time of year again!

MLA Rachel Notley is seeking artists for Art from the Unknown, 2013.

Deadline for Applications is Sunday, September 8th, 2013 This free event provides a nocost gallery space to new and emerging artists in our community. A new and emerging artist is defined as any artist, regardless of skill level, whose primary income does not come from selling their work. Low-income artists are especially encouraged to apply.

For more information: contact Heather Fernhout at 780-414-0702 or email

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Edmonton Arts Council Information Session : Edmonton Arts Council Information Session John Mahon Arts Administrators’ Sabbatical Fund (October 2013 deadline) Thursday September 5, 2013 6:30pm – 8pm Kerr Room Prince of Wales Armouries 2nd Floor, 10440 108 Avenue free event, but space is limited so registrations are requested Please register by email to Jana O’Connor joconnor@edmontonarts.ca 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 The Paint Spot, Edmonton would like to extend an invitation to your organization, club, society, school or association to make use of the many exhibition opportunities we offer to members of the Alberta art community.

We encourage individuals and curators, particularly those who are emerging, as well as groups, to make exhibition proposals to our galleries: Naess, Gallery, Artisan Nook, and the Vertical Space.

For further information on these three show spaces, please visit our website, www.paintspot.ca The 2013 Art in Transit program features 25 local and national projects on a variety of Pattison ‘urban screen’ and print media across Canada.

Pattison Onestop is now accepting proposals by artists and curators for original projects to include in our 2014 Art in Transit program.

For examples of past programming visit www.artintransit.ca.

Deadline for Submissions: October 14, 2013 Instructions for proposals: Proposals must include CV/bio plus 5 – 10 examples of past work (jpgs or links). Proposals can be emailed, shared via dropbox, or sent by mail. If emailing proposal, email must not be larger than 5MB. Address your email with the subject heading: Art in Transit PROPOSAL Send to: Sharon Switzer, Arts Programmer and Curator, Pattison Onestop 266 King Street West, Suite 300, Toronto ON, M5V 1H8

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

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1 Steak sources 5 Band with the 2006 album “Decemberunderground” 8 Deep gorge 13 “Excuse me...”

14 Jazz singer Simone 16 Word on a name tag 17 Kid’s beach toy 18 What the Dodge did as it struggled up the mountain?

20 Make a wrong move 21 Jon of “Swingers” 22 Have to pay 23 He may read up on changing diapers 25 Ocasek of The Cars 26 Digital camera dot 27 Dollar bill, in retro slang 32 Emerald is a variety of it 33 19th-century British prime minister 34 Elton John musical 35 Athletic boost “taken” by the four theme answers 36 Gray matter matter 37 Tesla model 40 Singer McCann and namesakes 42 Narnia’s chronicler 43 Hammerin’ Hank 44 Neighbor of N.Y. 45 Actor Harry Dean ___ 48 Chemistry suffix 51 Lands, as a fish 53 Shade 54 Place with crooked walls?

56 Web locale 57 Big boy band, briefly 58 Royal form of address 59 Took off 60 She played Carrie 61 GPS lines 62 Cutlass manufacturer, once

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1 Like many superheroes 2 “Gone With the Wind” surname 3 Piano control that makes strange noises?

4 T-shirt size choices, for short 5 First name in a Poe poem

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6 Cartoon mouse who “Goes West” 7 “Are you ___ out?”

8 “The Canterbury Tales” author 9 Cocks and bulls 10 Gravy Train competitor 11 Killed the dragon 12 Depeche ___ 15 Fluidless, as a barometer 19 Acquires 21 Hard to outwit 24 Rant 28 Commodores hit 29 High place where all the nitpickers go?

30 Cheers for toreadors 31 Zihuatanejo aunt 32 “About the Author” pieces 33 “___ Kommissar” (1980s hit) 34 Move in a curve 35 Bugs 38 Insisted on using, like a favorite brand 39 Like forks 40 Calif. paper 41 Country on the Gulf of Oman 43 Place in a group 46 Removed from the closet?

47 “Pressing” things 48 Has rightful title to 49 “The Square Egg” writer 50 God of love 52 Piano teacher on “Family Guy” 55 Quart divs.

56 West Coast airport, for short ©2013 Jonesin' Crosswords

I'm a cute, mostly straight, twenty-something, single and (safely) sexually active woman. This happens to me pretty often: I hook up with a guy, we start fooling around and we're both really into it. I reach down and he's full sail.

Things progress—clothes come off, etc—and, as is generally the polite order of things, the lady comes first. (This isn't the problem.) I'm not aggressive, but I'm not shy. I tell a partner what I like and how to do it. They are always happy to oblige. The thing is, after I get off, a lot of times, the guy is limp. (This is the problem.) They usually express frustration and indicate that they're very much turned on but it's just not working. Generally after a few times, they will stop having this problem and we will end up having lots of fun. So I don't think I'm doing anything "wrong" to kill the boners. I think maybe I'm just intimidating. In fact, I've been told so. Why does this happen and how can I reduce the awkwardness?

Should I talk about it or just ignore it? And should I keep trying to make him hard? Or will that just make his dick panic worse?

Fragile Ego Males PS the more a guy likes me, the more this seems to happen.

So ... you go to bed with a guy, he's at full sail and then you inform him that you, the lady of the hookup, will be coming first. You instruct him in the art of What I Like and How You Should Do It and by the time he's done—by the time he gets you off—that dick has sailed.

Or his dick sails are empty. Or something.

Why does this happen? I have three theories ...

Theory One: lots of straight guys make it into their mid-20s without ever having encountered a sexually assertive woman, FEM. A woman who advocates for herself in the sack, who knows what she likes and isn't too shy to ask for/insist on it, can come as a shock to a sheltered/indulged/entitled boy's dick systems. And while some deeply insecure guys (guys you wouldn't wanna waste your time and your twat on anyway) may find your assertiveness off-putting (or sailemptying or dick-limpening or whatever), it may be the case that even the more secure guys you go to bed with (guys you would wanna lavish your time and twattention on) could be thrown by their first encounter with a sexually assertive woman.

Theory Two: guys who throw themselves into making it happen for you could be losing their erections because they're focusing on pleasing you and getting you off.

Making it happen for a partner— particularly if you're making it happen with your mouth and it takes longer than 15 minutes—can be hard work. A guy can get wrapped up in giving someone pleasure, slip

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into a more service-oriented head space and then discover that his dick has wandered off when it's "his turn."

Theory Three: if you're going home with some guy at 3 am after a night of boozing and he spends the first 45 minutes eating your pussy, he may be spent by the time you get off.

And here's how you reduce the awkwardness when it does happen: acknowledge the situation without dwelling on it, don't treat it like a catastrophe and suggest taking a break—have some ice cream! Get a few hours sleep!— before having another go at it. And when you start in again, FEM, go with the impolite order of things, ie, he comes first next time.

PS The more a guy likes you, FEM, the more performance anxiety he may experience. And the more he likes you, the more invested he may be in—and the more distracted he may be by— getting you off.

him. Because he's my partner, not my possession.

Those boobs of yours? They're yours, GTFO, and you need to communicate to your boyfriend that there are times when you want him to grab your boobs and times when you don't want him to grab your boobs. Don't make the mistake of framing this conversation around his feelings. You are not "bringing it up" to see how to come to some sort of understanding or compromise. You're bringing it up to set a limit. And once that limit is set, GTFO, don't put up with the boob grabbing. If he leans in to grab your boob, move away, slap his hand, blast him with pepper spray—whatever it takes, in other words, to communicate your displeasure in an unambiguous manner. If he gets offended, let him. If he stays offended, leave him.

MOJO BOOST

I'm a 46-year-old homo who's fairly content most days living the single life. Since coming out when I was

Making it happen for a partner—particularly if you're making it happen with your mouth and it takes longer than 15 minutes—can be hard work.

BOOB GRAB

I've been in a relationship with my boyfriend for two years and we've been living together for one. Several times a day, in passing, he reaches his hand inside my shirt and quickly grabs a boob and then continues on his way. I could be cooking or studying or brushing my teeth and he just digs in there out of the blue and doesn't usually even acknowledge me before or after. In bed, he is very considerate and giving, GGG and all that—no complaints. I've tried to bring it up two or three times but he gets offended, so I drop it. Do I have a right to prefer an offhand kiss on the forehead or something more affectionate and less boob-grabby? Is this typical for LTRs? Am I a selfish prude?

Groped Too Fucking Often Before we talk about your boobs and what you can do about your asshole boyfriend—pepper spray?—can we talk about my husband's ass for a second?

It's a spectacular ass and I love to grab it. But my husband doesn't like to be grabbed in certain ways, in certain places or at certain times. So I don't grab his ass in those ways, in those places or at those times—despite how much I like to grab his ass. Because that spectacular ass of his?

It's his ass, not my ass and he gets to decide when, where and how it gets grabbed, touched, fingered, fucked, spanked, etc. And I respect his limits because I respect

20, I've been in a series of failed relationships and single for the last 10 years. I'm convinced I never really learned how to flirt. I get all tripped up when I see a PYT who I want to talk to. Add to the mix that I was diagnosed in '91 as poz.

I'm so afraid of rejection that I don't even try anymore. I'm good-looking, outdoorsy, adventurous and freespirited. I'm not afraid of exploring caves or rappelling off cliffs, but I'm a total wimp when it comes to interacting with a potential mate. I know there are younger guys who are attracted to older guys like myself. I'd love some advice on how to increase my mojo regarding flirting and dating.

Doing It Really Trepidatiously Nothing will boost your dating mojo like getting laid, DIRT, and that won't happen if you don't force yourself to take risks and talk to the next PYT—pretty young thing—who catches your eye. And remember: lots of twenty-something and thirty-something PYTs are poz themselves, DIRT, and lots of negative guys are willing to date poz guys. Putting yourself out there may result in some unpleasant rejection from jerks who are freaked out by your HIV status—but you don't want to date jerks, right? V On the Savage Lovecast, proper "slutiquette" and how to wean your boyfriend off "The Nipple Thing" at savagelovecast.com. @fakedansavage on Twitter

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