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Rampant rape culture Returning to university was a non-event for most students in Edmonton this past week, but back-to-school festivities were full of controversy in other parts of the country.

At Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, orientation-week fun was interrupted when news of an offensive chant being taught to new students was brought to light. An Instagram video that was passed around showed the song being sung during SMU’s annual Turf Burn event, featuring 80 frosh leaders leading new students through the chant: “Y is for your sister, O is for ‘oh so tight,’ U is for underage, N is for no consent, G is for grab that ass—Saint Mary’s boys we like them young.”

As an introduction to university life, this chant sets an extremely bad precedent of what type of behaviour will be accepted or overlooked by college-age boys. It tells these students to go ahead and take what they want.

While the offensive chant is bad enough, Saint Mary’s University Student Association President Jared Perry claimed the chant had been taught to freshman students since at least 2009 and he himself had participated in it just this year. This revelation is even more shocking than the chant itself. The fact students have been taught this song for years and yet said nothing until now is proof that rape culture is alive and well among us—and some people don’t even want to realize it.

The idea that no one recognized the message of misogyny in these lyrics, as Perry claims, is ridiculous and the fact they didn’t come forward about it sooner is just sad. It’s more likely that people simply thought there was nothing wrong with a chant so long as they didn’t act on it. This is a common misconception and one that does more harm than good to our overall society.

What’s even more unfortunate is Saint Mary’s isn’t the only university to fall prey to something like this. A few days after it was reported in Halifax, it was revealed that a nearly identical chant had been performed at the University of British Columbia’s Sauder (School of Business) Frosh, a three-day event to welcome new students. Yet again, it appears the student leaders have been aware of the chant for many years and were told to keep it a secret or thought it wasn’t a big enough issue to make a fuss about.

These two events reveal a disturbing trend of student leaders being aware of the promotion of rape culture and yet doing nothing to fix it until they’re caught. As the main representatives of students on campus, they should be the first to put their foot down when something like this is happening.

In the wake of the news, Perry has resigned from his position, saying it would be easier for the organization to move towards fixing this issue without him there. This, along with the decision to order sensitivity training for all those involved with the chant, is a good start to fixing this problem—albeit a late one.

Some people may continue to argue that a simple chant taught to students is harmless and doesn’t mean they will act on it. But that’s just not true. When people start believing it’s OK to sing about things like not getting the consent of underage girls for sex, they might also start to take the words to heart and act on them. If this type of chant even convinces one person that it’s fine to commit rape, that’s one rape too many. V

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NEWS // TREE PLANTER'S DIARY

The hardest 12 cents you'll make

Tree planting is a way to make quick cash at the expense of your body and sanity

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ll around me are gnarled logs and stumps and dirt and jagged sticks, like a forest had been sucked up and spit out by a giant blender. The heat is making me dizzy and sweat is pouring off me in rivers, but I can't stop moving lest the million buzzing bugs around my face dig into my flesh with their bloodsucking mouths and proboscis. I smile and think for the thousandth time, "What the hell am I doing here?"

This spring, foolishly undeterred by stories of suffering, pain and complete mental and physical breakdown, my girlfriend and I joined an unwashed legion of dirtbags, misfits and Québécois to go tree planting in northern British Columbia. We had three wishes: to make some money, to get in shape and to spend as much time as possible in BC's rugged wilderness. Those wishes came true— but in an evil monkey's-paw kind of way.

The job is simple and primitively low-tech.

There's an area that needs trees, so you go plant those trees. Your only tools are planting bags, lashed to your hips and used to carry seedlings, and a shovel—I used a "D-handle," a stubby two-foot spade with a short, squat blade that looks like Paul Bunyan's teaspoon.

Use your shovel to poke a little hole into the dirt, plant a seedling green-side-up, close up the hole. Take two steps—do it again. Then do it 2000 more times.

Each little pine or spruce seedling we pounded into the ground is a balance for the rabid consumption of our forests. Anyone who lives indoors, enjoys the printed word or wiping after using the bathroom is using wood. In 2011, loggers cut down more than 4800 square kilometres of Canadian forest, equal to about 3.7 million truckloads of logs.

Much of that wood is exported, with the bulk going to the United States, Japan and China.

that's 10 Big Macs, twice as many calories as running a marathon.

The planting season goes by in a // Andrea Foht blur of eat, sleep, plant, repeat. The fatigue is incredible. We were barely able to Logging companies in BC are legally required to replant the forests they stay up past 8 pm in our tent before passing out (most nights I dreamt I was planting, cut down and they contract that work out to the 200 or so tree-planting companies which was cruel).

Injuries are routine and turnover is high. in the province. Every spring, thousands of hardy folk head into the cutblocks—gnarly Dozens of planters dropped out of our camp before the spring season finished, bowing out buzzcuts on nature's once-lush hairdo. Last year BC planters pounded in 215 806 000 with tendonitis in their forearms, annihilated feet or mental breakdowns. I lost a fingernail, trees, enough to cover 319 000 American the feeling in my left big toe and I still wake football fields.

The jury is still out on the environmental up most mornings with "planter's claw"—my benefits of tree planting. Yes, the trees suck fingers gripping for a shovel I stopped using carbon out of the atmosphere and planting weeks ago.

And nature shows no mercy. I worked trees is a no-brainer if the logging industry wants something to harvest in a hundred through delirious heat and drenching rain, through swarms of mosquitoes, blackflies, years—or if we want to fight the devastawasps and other hordes of unholy biting intion caused by the mountain pine beetle.

But you're replacing centuries-old forests, sects. For defence I went the ninja route, covwith all their diversity, with only one or two ering every square inch of my body except my species of trees; a cash crop that will be cut eyes and mouth. Hot? Yes, but worth it when I saw planters so annihilated by blackflies it down once mature. looked like they'd taken a rock-salt shotgun Biodiversity is the last thing on your mind blast to the face.

Other than money, which you can make a when you're planting. Good planters come in all shapes, sizes and ages, but they all have million easier ways, why do people do this one thing in common: they want to make a job? Well, you get the freedom of spending most of your time alone with nothing sepalot of money, fast. We were paid 12 cents a rating you from the sky. The days off, after tree, which seemed brutally little but added up to at least $200 a day for me once I got four days of punishment, are delicious—sitsome technique and endurance. Fast plant- ting comfortably in a patch of shade feels better than anything you could pay money ers, known as high-ballers, can make more than $400 a day. You can make enough for. And you'll work with the craziest, hardmoney in four months to travel third-world est-drinking and most passionate people in countries for the rest of the year, or pay a the world.

Will we be back? Absolutely. And if you've year's tuition.

Damn, though, you work hard for it. The read this and aren't scared, you should come too. average tree planter walks 16 kilometres a day carrying up to 40 pounds of seedlings, JOSH MARCELLIN JOSH@VUEWEEKLY.COM burning 5000 to 7000 calories in 10 hours—

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I was living on a farm [in Lloydminster] and then my dad moved to Nova Scotia. He had cancer and wanted to experience life before he knew he was going to die. So he brought me with him and I lived there for two years. So coming from the country into a city that far away from home was definitely a culture shock, and then moving back—all the friends that you did have in that small little school and then seeing them again—so much has changed in those two years, the formative years.

I’ve lived all across Canada since then. But I always come back to Edmonton. This place is a vortex.

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FRONT NEWS // WATER FLUORIDATION

EDMONTON’S FLUORIDATED WATER CONTINUES TO BE A CONTENTIOUS ISSUE

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t’s a scientific, moralistic and health-based question some Edmontonians want to make an election issue: should our tap water continue to be fluoridated?

Albertans For Food Safey—a group of citizens who believe it is a right to grow clean and natural food unimpeded—say definitely not.

If you're not quite up on your chemicals, hydrofluorosilicic acid (fluoride) is added to Edmonton's drinking water at 0.7 parts per million. Alberta Health Services states 0.7 to 0.8 ppm is a safe level for human consumption and other leading health organizations like Health Canada, the World Health Organization, Centers for Disease Control and both the Canadian and American Dental Associations agree small dosages of fluoride in drinking water are beneficial for preventing cavities and overall tooth decay.

Opponents counter that because fluoride bioaccumulates in the body, no dose is safe and claim it is linked to many side effects including asthma, mottled teeth, decreased IQ, diabetes and cancer.

"It doesn't kill you right away, so it's hard for humans to look past that and say, 'But 20 years later, what's this going to do to our bodies?' That's the problem," says Dana Blackwell, the founder of Albertans for Food Safety

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and a member of the Edmonton: Say 'No' to Fluoride group. She says when there are so many peer-reviewed studies available linking fluoridation to different diseases, it's ridiculous to hear people use themselves as a benchmark for health.

"You'll always get comments like, 'Well, I'm 70 years old and I've been drinking the water my whole life and I'm fine.' And it's like you don't know what your potential could have been. There's no way to look and measure and say, 'Where's the ultimate me who never drank any fluoridated water?'"

Curtis Penner, president of the Ermineskin Community League and also a mayoral candidate until his withdrawal a few weeks ago, thinks the studies used to support fluoridation are outdated. Part of his platform was speaking out against fluoridation in Edmonton and he says he did not expect to receive so much backlash about it.

"The biggest ludicrousy of the whole thing is how many people were calling me anti-scientific for having actually read any of the current science,"

Penner says. "I understand that we thought we were doing the world a favour when we began fluoridating in the '50s, '60s and '70s, but all of the pro-fluoridation science is now three to six decades old and all of the new science that is being conducted—outside of rah-rah reports by dentists—is finding detrimental effects to the nervous system."

He says federal and provincial health institutions probably haven't conducted any recent research so they won't have to acknowledge that fluoridation may be harmful.

"I think they have a deep problem in that they don't want to admit that it's not safe because they'll expose themselves to an incredible amount of liability," Penner says.

Aside from being a health issue, opponents say fluoridation is an ethical issue as our municipal government is administering it to people without consent.

"If we wish to force medicate the population, we should be 100-percent sure that it does not cause harm.

Not that we need to be 100-percent sure that it does before we stop forcing it into people's water," Penner

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says. "So there's a reverse rational."

He says there would be massive outcry if the government wanted to inject everybody's arm with a substance in a needle and citizens would demand proof it was 100-percent safe.

"And yet the reaction to those of us who are advocating the same principles be applied to the fluoridation of the water supply is we get called tinfoil-hat wearers and asked where is 100-percent, undeniable positive proof that it does harm all these people?" Penner notes.

Blackwell says we should be given a choice. "The automatic choice shouldn't be opting in," she says. "It's also about non-consensual medicating. They're saying this is for a medical reason, but what other substances do they put in the water that's to medicate people? Nothing."

But as an associate professor at the University of Alberta's School of Dentistry with a focus on pediatrics, Dr Maryam Amin says she only looks at the evidence and none of her research has proven that fluoridation is harmful.

"We have enough evidence to sup-

port that water fluoridation has a significant impact on reduction of dental-decay prevalence, especially in adult teeth. In baby teeth it's 40 to 50 percent and in adult teeth it's 50 to 60 percent reduction," she explains.

"There's not much evidence—even though they tried hard to find enough support—enough scientific evidence against fluoride."

Amin says a February 2012 study published by the National Cancer Institute says there is no documentation to link fluoride to cancer.

"One of the cancers that [those against fluoride] try to link fluoride to is osteosarcoma because fluoride has the same mechanism—in teeth when fluoride is deposited in the tooth structure, it will make it stronger against dental decay—so it has the same mechanism for bones. It would deposit in the bones as well," she notes. "To a certain level [it strengthens the bones], but when it goes beyond a certain level it could be carcinogenic. So when they looked at different studies, they tried to prove this. So that's a theory. Most of the positions against fluoride are more theory-based."

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Amin says most of the general population is at high or medium risk for cavities because of sugar consumption, baby bottles and poor oral hygiene—including brushing your teeth less than twice a day and not visiting the dentist every year.

But Blackwell says it should be up to the individual to take responsibility for their oral hygiene.

"You can go to the dentist, you can buy fluoridated toothpaste, you can go and get fluoride treatments," Blackwell says. "Mainly it's about avoiding refined sugars. People will say, 'Well not everyone can afford to go to the dentist.' Well I don't have benefits either and you don't need to go, plus it's only $200 a year.

Come on, I'm not being an elitist to expect that you could make it to the dentist once a year or once every couple of years."

One of the strongest voices against fluoridation is Irish environmental scientist Declan Waugh.

His research was influential in the Israeli Supreme Court's August ruling to ban fluoride in tap water as of 2014. Waugh's findings have

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linked fluoridated-water consumption to ATP depletion, vitamin-C deficiency, periodontal disease, diabetes, calcification of the major arteries, neurological disease, genetic damage, pineal-gland damage, osteoporosis, skeletal fluorosis, bone cancer, hypersensitivity and dental fluorosis.

Most European countries already refuse to fluoridate their water. But Canada and the US are two countries where fluoridation still has many sup-

porters. Grand Rapids, Michigan was the first place to introduce the practice in 1945 after scientists discovered fluoride ions bind to tooth enamel to make teeth stronger and more resistant to cavities. Over the next couple of decades, other American and Canadian towns and cities jumped on board. Edmonton introduced fluoridation in 1967.

One of Blackwell's friends is producing a film about the effects of fluoride. They're pushing to have the film

finished soon for two reasons.

"We've got kind of a double opportunity here," Blackwell says. "We've got an opportunity with the new candidates and then in the spring they'll be debating the new budget and a big part of that is they keep tossing around the number of $750 000."

That was the amount quoted for yearly savings from the cost of hydrofluorosilicic acid when Calgary ended fluoridation in 2011. But Blackwell thinks the savings could

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actually be much higher as that number doesn't take into account the cost of tanks, transportation and workers.

"So we're estimating that it probably costs the city between two and three-million dollars a year," she says.

"It's a lot of money that we could use for something important instead of just dumping this into our water which half the people either don't know about or don't want."

Ironically, not all opponents of fluoridation oppose fluoride itself.

"I actually think there's some credence to the notion that topical application of fluoride is good for the teeth," Penner says. "I think it does help harden teeth enamel. It's just that there's a reason that on the toothpaste bottle it says that you're supposed to spit it out. It's not meant to be ingested, it's bad for everything except basically your teeth enamel. So at home we brush with fluoridated toothpaste and we rinse our mouths out with the city water supply, which is, I think, all it's good for."

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Syria: an unexpected rabbit

Giving up control to chemical weapons a relief to both the US and Russia When someone pulls a rabbit out of a hat, it's natural to be suspicious. Magicians are professionals in deceit— and so are diplomats. But sometimes the rabbit is real.

On the morning of September 9, the world was heading into the biggest crisis in years: a looming American attack on Syria, a Russian response that could set off the first major confrontation between Washington and Moscow since the Cold War and the possible spread of the fighting from Syria to neighbouring countries. Or alternatively, a Congressional rejection of President Barack Obama's plans that would have left him a lame duck for the next three years.

By the next morning, all that had changed. A Russian proposal for Syria to get rid of all its chemical weapons was promptly accepted by the Syrian foreign minister, Walid al-Moallem, and the Senate vote on Obama's planned strikes on Syria was postponed, probably for weeks. If Syria keeps its word, the vote may never be held. What a difference a day makes.

Now for the cavils. Nothing has been signed. Nothing has even been written up for signature. Maybe Syria is just playing for time. Perhaps Obama will want to pursue the Syrian regime

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legally for the poison-gas attacks he claims it has already carried out (though he sounded very relieved on hearing the news and didn't mention any "red lines").

The sequence of events, so far as can be made out, was as follows. At the Moscow G20 summit last week,

could end up with Russian missiles shooting down American planes.

There was then silence until Monday, when John Kerry, the US Secretary of State, gave an off-the-cuff reply in London to a question about whether Syria's President Bashar alAssad could avoid an American attack.

What we do know is that everybody—Obama, Putin and Assad—is clearly desperate to avoid going to war and that gives us reason to hope.

Obama and Russian president Vladimir Putin had a one-to-one chat on the side at which one of them broached the possibility of persuading Syria to give up its chemical weapons entirely.

Which one isn't clear, and the idea was not pursued by either of them.

Yet both men had reason to want such a thing, for the alternative was that Obama would lead the United States into another Middle Eastern war, not exactly what he was elected for—or that he would not get Congressional approval to do so and end up completely discredited. Putin would feel obliged to respond to a US attack on his Syrian ally, but that

"Sure. He could turn over every bit of his (chemical) weapons to the international community within the next week, without delay," said Kerry with a shrug. "But he isn't about to."

Then Kerry got on a plane to fly home and halfway across the Atlantic he got a call from the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, saying that he was about to announce that Russia would ask Syria to put all its chemical-weapons storage facilities under international control, join the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and finally destroy them all.

The Syrian foreign minister happened to be in Moscow, so within an

hour he declared that Assad's regime "welcomes Russia's initiative, based on the Syrian government's care about the lives of our people and security of our country." By Monday evening Obama was saying the Russian plan "could potentially be a significant breakthrough," and the pot was off the boil.

The whole thing, therefore, was made up on the fly. That doesn't necessarily mean it won't work, but it is a proposal that comes without any of the usual preparation that precedes a major diplomatic initiative. The reason we don't know the details is there aren't any. What we do know is everybody—Obama, Putin and Assad—is clearly desperate to avoid going to war and that gives us reason to hope.

Two things have to happen fast if this rabbit is really going to run.

First, Syria has to sign the Chemical Weapons Convention and ratify the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention right away. That could be done within a week, and it would legally commit it to getting rid of all its chemical weapons and the factories that make them.

Secondly, the United Nations Secu-

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rity Council has to pass a resolution demanding that Syria reveal the size and location of its entire stock of chemical weapons and place them under international control. France has already put such a resolution on the Security Council's agenda; the test will be whether Russia vetoes it.

It probably won't.

There is a great deal of suspicion in Washington that this is merely a delaying tactic meant to stall an American attack and sap the already weak popular support in the United States for military action. Moreover, it will be hard to send international troops in to secure Syria's chemical weapons (at least 40 storage sites, plus some weapons in the hands of military units) unless there is a ceasefire in the civil war now raging all over the country.

But the American military will be pleased, because they were really unhappy about the job Obama was giving them and Obama himself looks like a man who has been granted a new lease of life. There will be time to try to make this work. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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Fabulous fundraiser Pride Centre gala the first in a decade

It’s going to be a gala in the true sense of the word // Eva Rinaldi.

sense of the word," he says. "EvSeptember 28 marks the return erybody will get a swag bag, a free of an event last seen in Edmonbeverage and an opportunity to parton's queer community more than ticipate and find something that they 10 years ago: a gala fundraiser for love." That could be anything from a the Pride Centre. If you've been in piece of art to a favourite entertainer. the city for a while, you might remember the last "The Curtain Rises" Celebrating community is especially party in 2001, celebrating the 30th key as the Pride Centre depends on anniversary of the Gay and Lesbian community support in order to funcCommunity Centre of Edmonton. tion. One of the primary reasons the Sadly, the GLCCE closed its doors GLCCE closed was due to a lack of in 2004 to be replaced with the community involvement and Wilson Pride Centre, and major gala events hopes this event will help showcase have been few and far between in the Pride Centre as a central compoour community ever since. nent of our community.

This year's event, called "Paint the For those of us who have been out Town Red," promises to fill that hole for a while, I think in a big way. The it might be hard to gala, held at the Saturday, September 28, remember what ATB Financial Arts doors open at 7:30 life was like beBarns, will feature ATB Financial Arts Barns fore we found our live entertainment, queer families: the live and silent auc- (10330 - 84 Ave) fear, the isolation, tions, food and will Dress: FABULOUS the loneliness. end with a dance (theme is Burlesque) The Pride Centre party. The organiz- Tickets: available at the Pride offers a beacon ers have placed a Centre and through Eventbrite of community to special emphasis those who are still on the entertainlooking for it. Even if we personally ment: all of the performers are from don't use the space, I think we have Alberta and, according to Mickey a responsibility to support it, to enWilson, the executive director of the sure those who are newly out or just Pride Centre, they collectively demneed a place to socialize have that onstrate the enormous diversity of support. This is doubly true if you are talent in Alberta's queer communifinancially stable: poverty is still a ties. There will be two entertainment massive issue in our community and stages: an indoor space featuring perwith recent economic developments, formances from Tony Olivares, Capicounting on government support is tal City Burlesque, Vocabella, Billy becoming more difficult.

ZeZe, Toni Vere and Hashmagandy In the meantime, an army of volunas well as drag performances and an teers and organizers are getting the outdoor space with a wide variety final touches ready for the end of the of buskers. Wilson notes that along month. Asked if there is one thing with raising money to support the he wants people to know about the centre, the goal of the night is to party, Wilson laughs and says, "I want have fun and celebrate Edmonton's people to know that this is going to vibrant queer community and the be a kick-ass event." You'll just have centre's place within it. to go and find out for yourself. V "It's going to be a gala in the true

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et's not mince words: RGE RD, the artisanal locavore dining room that recently took up residence in the old Blue Pear space just off 124 Street will not be everyone's idea of an optimal eating-out experience. All of the stereotypical take-downs of upscale eateries ostensibly apply here, from a higher-than-average price-point to portion sizes that reflect a greater concern with assembling premium ingredients than bursting belt buckles to menu descriptions that practically cry out for footnotes from Larousse Gastronomique.

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And though there's something undeniably fancy about terrines and verrines and microgreens, RGE RD exemplifies some fairly basic heartland attitudes about food—primarily that you should strive to eat in tune with the seasons, to enjoy what's at its best from the farms near where you live and to honour the effort that brought that food forth by making the most of everything nature offers. There's all that jazz about the dining table as a locus of kinship and community, but you can work that part out yourself.

A pair of faux swings—decoratively chained to the roof but actually grafted to the wall—greet you in the foyer of the small yet spacious dining room, which has a similarly spare, rustic feel, long on unfinished wood and the artful integration of agrarian appurtenances, such as the large wooden crank repurposed as a quasi-chandelier.

The fact the room looks like it only seats around 40 means generous space between tables, manageable ambient noise levels and a prompt-yeteasygoing service style, which means servers can linger tableside and elaborate on the evening's offerings and answer your many questions.

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To be honest, I sometimes feel overmatched in my abilities to describe a truly gourmet meal—it's the old tapdancing-about-architecture analogy, exacerbated by my brutish way with a fork and knife and, for that matter, a pen. And though my meal at RGE RD felt superior to my skills, I will do my level best.

Take, for instance, the green bean salad ($12) my co-diner and I split as an appetizer. An appealing tangle of green and yellow beans ringed with grill marks were deposited on a smear

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of tangy lemon curd and lavished with lightly sautéed mushrooms, pecorino romano cheese and a soft-poached egg. How can I adequately convey the distinctive flavour tone of each kind of mushroom, none of which I could identify by name, or the way that golden egg yolk coated the tender-crisp veggies like a rich dressing, or the way the cheese contributed a pungent, salty undertone? All I can say is I would gladly have pushed my co-diner over backwards in her chair to claim her portion.

The grilled Alberta whitefish and BC striped prawns ($12), attractively arrayed on a white ceramic teardrop, came with an eyedropper of house-made cayenne-habanero sauce that somehow didn't dominate the delicate flavour of the seafood, as well as marinated cubes of cucumber, some mixed greens and nasturtiums, which my co-diner was delighted discover packed a citrusy tang all their own.

If the appetizers seemed scaled for appetizing rather than slaking, the entrées we chose were generous enough to compensate. I rarely resist the chance to eat a nice piece of bison ($29) and the one the served me at RGE RD, sliced into thick, perfectly rare tranches, went well beyond nice. I think I actually went into Matrix bullettime as I lifted each morsel to my lips, accompanied by the mix of barley, garlic, fresh herbs and diced kohlrabi it rested on, and further topped with pickled walnuts, slices of shallot and a few juicy orts of pork jowl.

My co-diner wisely opted for the night's

preparation of Alberta beef—a five-ounce rib eye ($35) with mushroom-beef ragout (served in its own little saucepan) and dill-and-butterintensive mashed potatoes. The rib-eye scarcely required a knife, it was so tender, and the ragout was amply supplied with savoury jus, for all you gravy lovers out there.

After seeing such alchemy wrought with the appies and mains, we could hardly skip dessert and, though I was quite attracted to the sound of a gourmet s'more, my co-diner was intrigued by the maple verrine ($7), a layered dessert with a base of whisky jelly, a thick layer of just-sweet mocha cream and a crushed-wafer topping in the eponymous vessel, which more than satisfied.

Suffice it to say, with a cocktail, some wine— and you should definitely try a glass of the exquisite Stone Boat Duets—tax and tip, the meal tallied to more than $150. In this light, maybe you want to save RGE RD for a special occasion. But, if you enter into it in the right spirit, such a meal, where every element is carefully considered and assembled out of the local ingredients at their seasonal peak, is a special occasion.

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What a real pub scene looks like Edmonton's still got a ways to go

Manchester is every bit the British working-class city you might expect it to be. The people are unassuming, the architecture is an eclectic mix of impressive history and quirky modernist. It may not be the classic tourist destination, but once there, a visitor quickly recognizes its charms.

As I travelled there for a work conference this past summer, I almost immediately found its pubs to be alluring and admirable. Manchester has a lot to teach North American cities about how to encourage socializing in pubs.

My introduction came an hour or so after my flight landed as I found myself in the Waterhouse. The pub

dates back to 1877 and retains architectural features that are much older. The two-story pub is divided into multiple cozy rooms, has a casual feel and offers more than a dozen decently priced local cask ales. No TV in sight and not a single note of music to be found. All you could hear was the clinking of glasses and people chatting. Relaxing and refreshing.

I discovered fairly quickly this is something of a theme in Manchester pubs. Some are louder than others (including piping in canned music), but I don't think I saw a TV anywhere and the emphasis was always on the beer.

While in Canada most bars push shooters and cheap beer, Manchester pubs let the beer speak for itself. What I loved is that they don't try to talk you into anything.

If you ask about the different offerings, they give you a fairly straight description and then ask which you prefer. That's all.

Beer may be the focus, but that doesn't mean there is a uniformity in atmosphere. I hung out in places known for their sociability, such as the Lass O'Gowrie, as well as the more aggressive Salisbury, a pub catering to punks and metalheads who also happen to like good craft beer. The oddest pub might be the

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Temple, which is a tiny underground pub that took over what was once a subterranean public urinal. Barely eight feet wide and no more than 30 or 40 feet long, it offers a tight, intense beer experience, even if the beer selection is less impressive than other places.

I sat in low-key pubs that offered no more than a handful of quality cask ale; I also tipped pints in majestic rooms that screamed history.

I even frequented quirky, alternative pubs that welcomed all sorts of piercings and tattoos. Such is the makings of a quality pub scene.

Aside from the above-mentioned watering holes, one of my favourite stops was the Marble Arch.

A little off the beaten path, this seemingly always-busy pub has architectural features that give it a historical heft. Plus, they brew much of the beer they sell, and it is award-winning quality. I had a cheese platter pairing with a couple of beer that was divine.

Some places—especially closer to the historic parts of the city— emphasize their elegant historical features. For example, the Old Wellington Inn can trace its roots back to the 1500s. Meanwhile, newer pubs cater to a more cosmopolitan crowd, such as Bar Fringe, which has no interesting architecture and a decidedly modern feel.

Even the small towns in the area have amazing pubs. I took a day trip to Wigan, for example. Wigan is a very unassuming place, a former coal-mining town that has seen better days. I went both because I am a huge George Orwell fan (see: The Road to Wigan Pier),

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It might surprise you to hear that one of England's oldest remaining pubs stands in Wigan. The Royal Oak dates its origins to the early 1600s. It has had an exterior renovation recently, but the old wood, classic multi-roomed design and long stand-up bar harken back to its origins. It also does a good job of serving casks made by Wigan's two local breweries, Allgate and Prospect. Can you imagine a town of 80 000 in Canada that has two active breweries?

My time in Manchester taught me that a great pub scene requires three things. First, it needs a focus on local or regional beer, as it immediately gives the pubs a character that can't be found elsewhere.

Second, you need a diversity of atmospheres. Different pubs need to cater to different crowds without giving up the essence of what makes a good pub. Third, I think a good pub scene places conversation and sociality at the forefront.

Beer is a social drink, which means creating a space where people can talk, argue and discuss without feeling crowded out by loud music, a hockey game or the latest music video.

Based on all three points, we have a long way to go in Edmonton. Very few places score on even two of the criteria. But we can be heartened by the fact that if working-class Manchester can do it, working-class Edmonton can, too. 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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No easy answers

Brad Fraser's memorable Kill Me Now asks difficult questions

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hile the concept of care recognize that in practice they may be appealing from a aren't at all as straightforward or theoretical basis, the physical as easily enforced as they seem act of caring for someone—es- on the page. pecially if that person is physically disabled—is a difficult re- The cast helps keep the audience's discomality that most would prefer Until Sun, Sep 22 (7:30 pm; fort in check not to think Sunday matinees at 2 pm) by delivering about, let alone believable and Directed by Brad Fraser sympathetic undertake perLa Cité Francophone, $14 – $28 characters; they sonally.

W o r k s h o p West's production of Kill Me Now, the world premiere from Edmonton's own Brad Fraser, takes an unflinching look into the various acts, both emotional and physical, of care. The story centres on a physically disabled teenager, Joey (Mathew Hulshof) and his father (Dave Horak), who gave up a promising writing career in order to take care of his son. Regular fixtures in their lives are Joey's aunt Twyla (Melissa Thingelstad) and spastic, FAS-afflicted friend Rowdy (Patrick Lundeen).

Fraser's script delves into a host of hot-button issues: disability, both physical and mental, is obviously the focus, but there are also adultery, prostitution and drug and alcohol abuse to name just a few. I suspect some people will have difficulties with certain moments in the plot, though a reaction of shock and even outrage is precisely the point: Kill Me Now holds a mirror up to the audience's own preconceived notions and stereotypes about these issues, forcing you to face your hardcoded moral boundaries and

may be crude and unfiltered, with the aptlynamed Rowdy in particular offering outrageous, uncensored commentary on the proceedings, but this generates much-needed humour and is tempered by moments of real compassion. In the hands of less talented performers this story could have easily come off as offensive; this performance manages to toe the line without crossing it—or at least without crossing it so often as to alienate the audience. Special regard must be given to Hulshof for his adept handling of the unusual physical and vocal demands of his very challenging role.

At the heart of the story is the fundamental question of our rights—or lack thereof—over our own bodies. But Kill Me Now isn't there to offer an answer or present a moral treatise on the subject. Rather, it is a gritty, personal story of a family doing its best to grapple with these issues on a daily basis. And in this it succeeds, vividly and memorably.

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A difficult kind of love

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What's Cooking: Simmer S

ince Edmonton's Good Wom- allow artists to develop their en Dance Collective started pieces more fully based on the its What's Cooking? showings resources given to them by the audience [in the to celebrate first round].

I n t e r n a t i o n a l Thu, Sep 12 & Fri, Sep 13 (6 pm Also, we wanted Dance Day in dinner, 6:30 pm showings) 2010, the event PCL Studio Theatre the audience to has ballooned Arts Barns, $10 be able to check in over time, from a onesee how things night-only idea jam for the dance community develop and be able to reflect to spawn Simmer, a similarly on the changes. And, if people formatted follow-up to the an- haven't seen the original version nual April 29 presentations. The presented at the April event, What's Cooking? nights allow then it's extremely helpful for performance artists of all sorts the artist to have a fresh pair of to present works-in-progress to eyes on their work."

Audience members at Simmer an audience ready to offer feedback—and they all break bread are given written surveys to comment on the works presented, together, too.

"This will be our second stab at while live Q&A sessions follow Simmer," notes Ainsley Hillyard each performance. Presenting of Good Women. "We wanted to in this round will be actor Mari allow more time for growth, to Chartier, dancer Bridget Jessome

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and choreographer Jake Hastey.

Jessome's piece, Being here and not there, is a "very personal" solo work, says Jessome. "It has been shaped from the experience of graduating with a contemporary dance degree and moving back to Edmonton. Although that may sound humorous, the work is not," she notes. "In general, I'm hoping it remains honest, even if it is not entirely understood."

Perhaps most intriguing on the docket is Chartier's piece, based on her own imagining of a reallife version of 50 First Dates. After presenting the kernel of her idea at What's Cooking? back in April, her goal was to go on 50 dates with different suitors and create a one-woman show about her experiences in the style of verbatim theatre.

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"I feel like the last however many months has been like Mari's Dating Life on Steroids," says Chartier, who is an admitted avid fan of reality television.

"I realized very quickly that 50 was a stupid number. Say if you go on 50 dates, even if you go on two per week, that's 25 weeks, that's six months. You get exhausted. I think just as it started to get where I felt like it was overwhelming, that was when I met this really great guy— around date 12 or so. I felt like that's when the project had to change. Initially I just felt like if I found someone, he would just have to wait until I was done the project," she says. "But the idea of keeping something at bay to ultimately pursue the exact thing that I was keeping at bay was somewhat counterintuitive."

She notes that there was no disclosure of "the project" to the suitors while she went on the other 11 dates—her intent being to keep each outing a genuine experience. In reality, the dates ranged from hilarious to downright awful. While she's aware of the potential for some backlash (especially once this week's issue hits the stands), she's admittedly found something that made the whole experience worth it.

"When art is life, how does that mix? I think I've spent a lot of my artistic life making really safe, nice art, and I think it's time for me to start making something that's not mean or nasty, but something that's genuine and honest."

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Rapid Fire Theatre mances fresh. The second factor, he says, is continuing to bring new faces to the stage. Rapid Fire is looking to keep the same flame burning in the second year at its new venue and inspiring new improvisers— young and old—to join the ranks through public workshops.

"What any improviser brings, young or old, is their own unique perspective on the world and whatever story we might be telling," he says. "Everyone will have a different way. What I find to be one of the most challenging and satisfying things about improv is working with these new people, figuring out how we would tell a story together."

Looking forward to the new season, Rapid Fire is hoping to build on the momentum from last season in its new spot at the Citadel. Though Vanderhelm recalls they were "very scared" to jump the river from their former home of the Varscona Theatre, he says Rapid Fire has been able to keep its audience as well as build a new crop of nine-to-five fans. If audience members want to get a taste from the other side, workshops begin on October 1. Taking a chance might pay off—it did for Vanderhelm, at least.

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oe Vanderhelm has been improvising with Rapid Fire Theatre for 14 years. For Vanderhelm, current associate artistic director (youth), exciting things came from young beginnings—a theme constant for the company as it enters its 33rd season.

Vanderhelm and current Rapid Fire player Julian Faid won Rapid Fire's high-school tournament, the Nosebowl, when they were

16-years-old. As a prize, the artis- vember. I was definitely very young tic director at the time let the two and very, very happy to find a home perform with the regular lineup for away from home with Rapid Fire a month.

Theatre."

"One week Fri, Sep 13 (7:30 pm & 10 pm); turned into two Sat, Sep 14 (10 pm) Though the comweeks, which Zeidler Hall, $12 pany may be turned into a entering the bemonth, which turned into him not ginning of its middle-aged years, telling us to quit," he says. "And 14 Vanderhelm says the very nature of years of that, coming on this No- improv comedy keeps the perfor-

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t’s an interesting experience to perform in front of a bunch of people, a proportion of whom are actually asleep,” says Belinda Cornish, a longtime improviser in Die Nasty’s annual Soap-A-Thon. “Not just dozed off in the audience, they’re actually curled up in a sleeping bag.”

The kickoff event to the 23rd season of Die Nasty’s weekly

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high drama soap-opera acting,” promimprovised soap opera, the Soap-Aises Cornish, and it will feature the Thon is a challenge for not only the complete cast of characters—from cast members who make up 50 hours new hires who thought The Young straight of theatre on the spot, but it’s and the Nasty also a challenge, was their big albeit to a less- Fri, Sep 13 (7 pm) – Sun, Sep 15 (9 pm) break to those er extent, for Varscona Theatre, $16 (single admission), who have spent those diehard $50 (weekend pass) a lifetime playaudience meming a single role. bers who want to see the show in its entirety.

Though regardless of the yarn, “The people who stay for the whole the real feat is the circumstance unthing see the crazy hours,” der which it’s spun.

Cornish explains. “They “I’ve seen some of the most exsee the sometimes insane traordinary improv coming out stuff and sometimes the of truly, truly exhausted people,” absolutely beautiful and Cornish says. “[Performers] who remarkable things that have actually fallen asleep in the happen at five in the front row, then been called into a morning. Tips for those scene, literally come out of REM people would probably sleep, stepped on stage and perbe the same as the formed a sonnet.” actors use—not too So if you want to see the ecstasy and much coffee and lots the exhaustion, you better come preof water and snacks.” pared: teddy bear, vitamin water, trail The 21st edition of mix. Basically, the complete survival kit. the Soap-A-Thon will “There are audience members who recount the final days will sort of sit together and take it in of a cancelled daytime turns to sleep,” Cornish adds. “And soap opera, The then sometimes we run out and wake Young and them up because we’re dicks.” the Nasty.

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very festival has its own per- theatre or music or pottery. It was all sonality and I think Kaleido re- about edifying the community, and I ally has begun to find its soul," says think it's done that and more."

Christy Morin, the What began artistic director of Fri, Sep 13 – Sun, Sep 15 as a tiny festival the Kaleido Festi- 118 Ave, 90 – 94 St, free (donathat saw about val since its incep800 attendees in tions accepted) tion eight years its first year has Schedule at kaleidofest.ca ago. "When we since grown into a huge event: over started this festival we really wanted Edmonton to come 40 000 people visited last year's Kato our front porch and see where the leido, and Morin expects at least that artists live in Edmonton and enjoy our number this year. "People are really art—whether that was visual art or beginning to understand it as an ex-

ploratory experience," she notes.

Exploration is indeed key for Kaleido, which has always been a meeting ground of artistic mediums and genres across a multitude of cultures, in venues that range from the outdoor stage and coffeeshops to even rooftops and lampposts. In partnership with other festivals and groups in the city, this year's Kaleido will feature over 200 different events: plenty of live music, including a 14-piece Cuban band, as well as theatre, visual art galleries, a lantern parade, ballet,

shumka dancers, a poetry slam and a hip hop workshop.

"Really finding the right combination has been what makes Kaleido work," Morin says. "When do you get to sit outside, with a fire going, and watch ballet while you're eating popcorn?"

All events at Kaleido are free, though donations are gratefully accepted—especially this year, as the festival ran into some financial issues with a missed grant deadline. Morin encourages everyone to donate what they can to help pay for the cost of

hosting the festival's hundreds of performers and artists.

"This year's theme is Gusto," Morin says. "I think that really is how our production team and how the community have been living—really in the moment and really embracing life. I just encourage people to come out and take a peek at what Alberta Avenue is turning into. It's a great time to come out and get the vibe of what is to come."

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Edmonton Wowie Garneau Theatre, a venue switch from its usual haunt of Wunderbar. Along with performances by house band Field + Stream, Bradley Jordan, Colleen Brown and Craig Schram, Mick will be interviewing Trevor Anderson, Linda Ha (also known as the venerable Barber Ha) and mayoral candidate Don Iveson.

The Wowie's come a long way from its first—and nearly last—show.

Mick had envisioned the Edmonton Wowie as being a "strange" production—his first involved him standing on a desk staring longingly at his audience. There was also a video of a deer beating up a dog. Needless to say, the reviews were mixed at best; people didn't quite know what to make of what they'd witnessed.

"It eventually moved away from that to a more natural thing for me to be Jon Mick, standing up // Michael Kuby friendly and gregarious with people t's the last show, the last and have good conversation," Mick Wowie I'm going to do—prob- says. "I feel like it has changed into a ably," says local comedic force Jon more authentic version of something Mick of his late-night talk-show, as opposed to trying to be overtly strange like I had intended in the first the Edmonton Wowie.

Mick will be the first to admit he's incarnation of it."

Mick, who hopes that, if nothing made these kinds of statements before. In 2012 he else, the Wowie in its current form hosted Edmonton Sat, Sep 14 (7 pm) I Love You, which Garneau Theatre, $10 can simply be rewas meant to be membered as an his farewell to the City of Champions event where people could come, as he set off for Toronto. Well, he's drink a couple of beers and have a back in Edmonton now and just be- laugh. After a disappointing first run, cause he says this is the final Wowie it can be difficult to pick oneself back doesn't necessarily mean we've seen up and try again. Mick jokes it was masochism that pushed him to give the last of it.

"I feel like it's run its course and I the Wowie another go, but mostly, want to start doing another show. he just wanted to make it up to those We can't have too much going on who gave it a shot.

"Being humbled is a really good at once—or I can't anyway," Mick explains, whose future endeavours feeling and you're like, 'OK, now I include the second-annual St Mick's have something to prove,'" Mick says.

Muletide Extravaganza Christmas "Rather than resting on your laushow and working on a new comedy rels you want to prove yourself and album, due out in the new year. "If make it better the next time around.

I'm promoting too much or doing too I wanted to make it up to them, like a many shows I get on my own nerves." child who's disappointed their dad or At any rate, Mick has wrangled a something." lineup of local talent to cap off the MEAGHAN BAXTER series' three-show run at the historic MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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e live in a grid world: drive grid- grip of reason?

The joy of abstract, or in this case lined streets to cube-shaped houses, frequently work in cubicle "non objective" art (art that has no refoffices, look at rectangular screens erence to the natural world) is that it subdivided into a myriad of rectangu- offers a framework to evoke ideas— lar files. Yet, one glance outside of the not prescribe them. As a viewer, I let window and—if we are lucky enough my mind roam and discover intimate to see a tree—like a magic trick, the interpretations. grid disappears. It's mysteriously abFor me, Reynar's grids evoke the sent from nature.

Generated Line, an exhibition of prints city: life in a grid environment that is

by Baltimore-based Shawn Reynar ex- not merely physical. The clock, for inplores the tension between such or- stance, forms a psychological grid—a ganic and geometric paradigms. This table that people live by. Meanwhile, tension is not immediately apparent. Reynar's organic, out-of-control lines evoke nature's At first glance, Reycreative powers. nar's prints seem Until Sat, Sep 21 My meditations small and subdued. Works by Shawn Reynar are in part inThey would taste- SNAP Gallery duced by a 2008 fully fit into any law or accounting office. Yet, these works study published in the December issue (created through analogue and digital of Psychological Science where a team techniques) depict a battleground of of University of Michigan scientists demonstrated that interacting with opposing forces.

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As I stand gazing at Reynar's prints my Lines suddenly scatter across the image as if a schoolboy began to doodle musings take a darker turn. The grid in in his math class—or worse, entirely these works—no matter how subtle or lost control of his hand-motions. subdued—dominates. Free, spontaneOpening reception Thursday November 10 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.

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Through the Door Catherine Marchand Sept 10 to 28 The confrontation of geometric ver- struggle to survive between sidewalks. sus organic pervades nearly all works People move between blocks of time 10412 - 124 Street NW, Edmonton, Alberta in this show. Viewers can interpret charted on calendars. In both Reynar's 780.760.1ART (1278) • daffodilgallery.ca Opening reception Thursday November 10 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. this archetypal struggle of opposites show and the city, the grid wins. But info@daffodilgallery.ca Artists in attendance Saturday November 12 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.?? in a myriad of ways. Is it chaos strug- perhaps it's a Pyrrhic victory: our lives Follow us on Twitter @DaffodilGallery Gallery hours Tuesday to Saturday 10:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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t's 2008, in the non-fictional setting of met up to discuss the novel.

Simon Fraser University, in the non-fictional world of student newspaper The VUE WEEKLY: You worked at The Peak.

Peak, where The Dilettantes introduces Did you know when you were there that us to the fictional characters Alex and this might be the bedrock of a story you Tracy. They're editors at The Peak, and would write? as graduation looms, the appearance MICHAEL HINGSTON: I definitely left of new, sudden competition—a certain with that. I decided I was going to daily commuter newspaper popping up write a book about it a couple months on campus—threatens the paper's ex- before I graduated. I don't know when istence. Matters aren't helped by their the switch flipped, but I took a couple own insecurities classes in university and stunted social Sat, Sep 14 (2 pm) where I happened skills, tucked behind Audrey's Books to read campus that post-secondary novels, like Lucky shield of an ironic Jim by Kingsley worldview: it gives them a cool-cuke Amis—which is kind of the first campus exterior and borderline-arrogant bra- novel—and really loving that silly, lowvado, but threatens their ability to hold stakes but high-seriousness tone. And relationships, garner enough empathy at some point I just realized the student to make new friends or, really, function newspaper is such a ripe setting. I think outside the safety bubble that is the aca- I started out by looking for a book on demic world. the campus newspaper, or even a CaThe Dilettantes is a campus come- nadian campus novel, and at the time I dy—a fun, smart one—and if you've couldn't find anything on either count. ever been part of student journalism, And I think part of me felt like, 'That's or even just mercilessly judged the weird. Half your work would be done weekly end-product when it shows up for you if you set it here. It's so easy to across campus, there's a lot to dig in to populate a world like that.' and nod along with here.

It's also the debut novel for Michael VW: Did you find being a book reviewer Hingston, the Edmonton Journal's books made it harder to finalize the novel, and columnist as well as (full disclosure) an decide when it was done? occasional contributor to Vue Weekly. A MH: I don't know—I feel like the part of week before its official launch, Hingston my brain that reviews books was not

any help during the writing of it. Because so much of when you're reading is about these kind of chance feelings you get when you read a sentence a certain way, and then your brain holds that for later on, then if it's picked up again you have this endorphin thing where you're like, 'This is a good book because it did this thing.' And to see the behind the scenes of that, or to artificially create that, is impossible. I tried to do that, where I would plant an image, or something, and then subtly have it pay off later ... it's fine until you do another draft and you tinker with it and now you've forgotten what's supposed to trip off what later on. It all comes down to this scary gut instinct where you're just like, 'Yeah, this doesn't feel right anymore, I'm going to take it out.'

It was helpful, though, once I was bouncing it off of an editor, because they would kind of clue in to things.

And I found when they would say it back to me, then, as a critic, I would think about it: 'This is what they're pulling from it, and this is wrong, so I need to go re-triangulate it.' [That was] in the last couple months; by that point it was too late to do any big-picture changes anyway, so it was really just hoping for the best. And changing the five percent that was still up for grabs.

VW: In another interview, you’d said if

you were teaching the novel to a university class, the first discussion question you'd give is 'Are these people good?

Why or why not?' So I'd like to pose that to you.

MH: If you'd asked me when I started writing, I'd have probably said no. For all the reasons that anyone outside our generation is pretty quick to latch on to: they're shallow, and they're really narcissistic, and they're really demanding, and they expect certain things to be handed to them without ever being put in ... entitled, that's the world. They're dumb. They're not smart, and they think they're smart. And all of these complaints that come very quickly to mind, and if you deal with the Internet, it's lobbed at us all the time. And I get it, on one level, but the more I talk about the book, I'm really becoming attached to this really hopelessly naive idea that I think this might explain millennials to people. I hope that it shows that this is all a defence mechanism ... I think it's important that people realize that these are scared people. These are insecure people who are building defence mechanisms, lest the world see the flaws that they see about themselves.

If we're talking about empathy, all I feel about people even five years younger than me, is just empathy. I guess, on the one hand I want to tell them knock it off—I see through your shit. But I totally get why they do it.

And I think I probably still do it to an extent. It's a hard armour to take off.

As far as are they good characters? I think the best of them are trying, and they're at least aware of this problem of this flaw in their generation, even if they don't know how to fix it exactly.

PAUL BLINOV

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ARTS WEEKLY EMAIL YOUR FREE LISTINGS TO: LiSTiNGS@vueWeeKLy.COM FAX: 780.426.2889 DEADLINE: FRiDAy AT 3PM

DANCE GOOD WOMEN DANCE • PCL Studio Theatre, 1033084 Ave, 780.802.6867 • What’s Cooking? Simmer •

Sep 12-13, 6:30pm (dinner), 7pm (show) • $10 at tixonthesquare.ca

GOOD WOMEN DANCE • Sugar Swing Dance Studio,

7324-94B Ave • Fundraiser, battle it out with the first ever Community Dance Off. Join prominent local dance groups Sugar Swing, Good Women Dance Collective, and Grindstone Theatre for an evening of dancing, eating • Sep 20, 7pm • $15 (door)

ZUMBA BASHFIERY FRIDAYS • Central Senior Lions

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

FILM BLUE REVUE • Metro Cinema at the Garneau, 8712-109

St • Vue present sexy films, beer and burlesque • Sep 18, 7:30pm • $20 (adv)/$25 (door)

CINEMA AT THE CENTRE • Stanley A. Milner Library

Theatre, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.496.7000 • Amour (14A) Austria/France/Germany, 2012, French, English subtitles; Sep 18, 6:30pm

EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY • Royal Alberta Museum

Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave, 780.439.5285 • Indiscreet (1958, colour, PG); Sep 16, 8pm • $6 (adult)/$5 (senior)/$5 (student)/$3 (child 12 and under)

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

780.429.1671 • Doc Shop • Tues, Sep 17-Nov 19, 6-9pm • $445; 780.429.1671 to register

FEATURETTE FILM FÉTE • Stanley A. Milner Library

Theatre • A Pop-up Picnic, 5-7pm; a silent auction at Churchill Square; at the library: Introduction to the film makers and description of their work; presentation of Void Media’s debut concert film Ladies and Gentleman: The Frolics. Chat with the filmmakers, and free entry between 9-10pm to Improv Burlesque a la Carté at Britanny’s Lounge with the presentation of a Featurette Film Fête ticket stub • Sep 21, 7pm • $11 at TIX on the Square

only) • All Day Sunday: Art activities for all ages 3rd Sun each month, Sep 15, 12-4pm; free with admission • ART THERAPY: The Front and WICSOE (Walk-in Counselling Society of Edmonton) at the AGA (Art Gallery of Alberta); live painting by Jennifer Poburan, David Ross MacDonald (guitar), Kira Lynn Hladun (singer-songwriter); live, silent art auction, art by Tom Gale, Kari Duke, Doug Jamha, and others; Sep 20, 7pm (door); $50; E: kim.knull@ walkinedmonton.org

ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron

NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave,

780.442.2013 • fortedmontontickets.com • Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (STC) • Sep 12, 8-10pm • $10

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St, 780.488.6611 • Discovery Gallery: TAILS FROM A REJUVENATED FOREST: A narrative installation exploring the drive of nature to revive itself by ceramic artists Lisa McGrath and Mindy Andrews; Sep 14-Oct 19; opening: Sep 14, 2-4pm • Discovery Gallery: STATIC BLOOM: Botanical polymer clay wall art by St Albert artist Kristin Anderson; Sep 14-Oct 19 • Feature Gallery: HANGING

BY A THREAD: Group exhibit using textiles to explore the relationship between multiple generations of women; until Sep 28

CROOKED POT GALLERY–Stony Plain • 4912-51 Ave,

Stony Plain, 780.963.9573 • QUEEN OF HEARTS: Wheel and slab pottery by Jeannette Wright • Until Sep 28

DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St, 780.760.1278 •

THROUGH THE DOOR: Paintings by Catherine Marchand • Until Sep 28 • Opening: Sep 12, 5-8pm

DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St • WHAT MAKES A MAN: Featuring works by Craig Le Blanc and Travis McEwen • Until Oct 5 • Opening: Sep 13, 6-11pm

JEFF ALLEN ART GALLERY (JAAG) • Strathcona

KAASA GALLERY • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave;

Churchill Sq, 780.422.6223 • Manning Hall (main level public space): NOW YOU SEE IT: A giant word search puzzle by Megan Morman • Conversation with the Artist: Informal talk between Megan Morman and Kristy Trinier (AGA curator); Sep 15, 2pm; free with admission • 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 • RBC New Works Gallery: ISACHSEN, 1948-1978: Works by Aaron Munson and David Hoffos; Sep 14-Nov 24 • LADY SPIDER HOUSE: Sep 14-Jan 12, 2014 • Lecture: Ledcor Theatre, Lower Level: Geoffrey Farmer in Conversation: The Intellection of Lady Spider House: Pre-opening panel; Sep 13, 6pm; $20/$12.50 (member); free (student available at member and guest services

MARY'S

WEDDING

VAAA: Off-site location • OPEN PHOTO/OPEN DIGITAL 2013: Presented by VAAA, the Alberta Jubilee Auditoria featuring Alberta photos • Until Oct 12

LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St, 780.990.1161

• FALL ON 124 STREET: New works by gallery artists and secondary market works • Sep 12-Oct 12

LATITUDE 53 • 10242-106 St, 780.423.5353 • VISU-

ALEYEZ: Festival of performance art exploring vulnerability at Latitude and DT venues; until Sep 16 • In Your Face: Visualeyez Encore Patio: Sep 15, 4-9pm • ProjEx Room: ELSEWHERE: Paintings by Kristen Keegan; Sep 20-Nov 2; opening: Sep 20, 7-9pm

LOFT GALLERY–Sherwood Park • A.J. Ottewell Arts Centre, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park, 780.449.4443 • LAYERS OF ALBERTA–UNDERNEATH THE LANDSCAPE TO ABOVE THE SURFACE: Works by Anne McCartney • Until Oct 27, Sat-Sun 12-4pm MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112

EDMONTON STORY SLAM • Bohemia, 10217-97

St • Competitive storytelling event. Up to 10 tellers have 5 mins to tell their story. 5 audience judges pick the winner. Winner takes home the donations from the audience • Sep 18, 7:30pm • $5; donation

EMPRESS ALE HOUSE • 9912-82 Ave • Edmonton Launch: Release of Thea Bowering's first short story collection, Love at Last Sight; music by singer-songwriter Jody Shenkarek • Sep 18 • Creative Writing Pedagogy and CCWWP Info Session • Sep 17, 7-10pm • First-come, first-served; RSVP: swarwick@writersguild.ab.ca

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St, 780.902.5900 • Spoken Word Tue: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathinpoetry@gmail.com STANLEY MILNER LIBRARY • Centennial Rm, 7 Sir

Winston Churchill Sq • Zen monk, author, and punk rocker, Brad Warner will discuss his new book, There Is No God And He Is Always With You • $20

THEATRE BEST OF FRIENDS REUNION • Jubilations Dinner

Theatre, 8882-180 St, WEM, 780.484.2424 • Friends, one of the most popular sitcoms of all time set to hits from the '90s, and some timeless classics • Until Oct 27

CHIMPROV • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave

• Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show • Every Sat, 10pm, until Jul, 2014 • $12 (door, adv at TIX on the Square) • Opening: Sep 14-Jun, 2014

A CLOSER WALK WITH PATSY CLINE • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave, 780.483.4051 • Homage to Patsy Cline and her climb to stardom • Until Nov 3 DIE-NASTY SOAP-A-THON! • Varscona Theatre • 50 straight hours. One amazing story • Sep 13-15, 7pm (plays fifty straight hours 'til Sep 15, 9pm) DANCE FOR GRANDMA • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83

Ave • A tribute to our grandmothers, and your grandmothers... and you. A hilarious all new musical revue with Cathy Derkach and Jeff Haslam • Sep 20-28 • $16$25 at TIX on the Square

OPEN

KALEIDO FAMILY ARTS FESTIVAL • 118 Ave, betw 90 and 94 St, 780.471.1580 • Music, theatre, dance, literary arts, film and visual arts in found spaces (rooftops, alleys, streets, parks) in the Alberta Avenue area • Sep 13-15 • Free

EVERY

KILL ME NOW • La Cité Francophone Theatre, 8627-91

WEEKEND

St, 780.477.5955, ext 302 • Workshop West Theatre • A heartbreaking comedy about dealing with, caring for and saying good-bye to those you love, by Brad Fraser • Until Sep 22 • $28 (adult)/$22 (student/senior)/$14 (Sun 2pm) at tickets@workshopwest.org, Workshop West box office

IN SEPTEMBER

DON'T MISS YOUR CHANCE TO ENJOY THE PARK THIS SEASON!

LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT • Citadel's Shoctor Theatre, 9828-101A Ave, 780.425.1820 • Eugene O’Neill’s play, directed by Bob Baker, starring Brenda Bazinet, John Ullyatt, and Tom Wood • Sep 21-Oct 13

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KALEIDO FAMILY ARTS FESTIVAL • 118 Ave, betw 90 and 94 St, 780.471.1580 • Music, theatre, dance, literary arts, film and visual arts in various found spaces in the Alberta Avenue area • Sep 13-15 • Free

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE • 9351-118 Ave • vzenari@ gmail.com • Prose Creative Writing Group • Every Tue, 7-9pm

ROSE AND CROWN PUB • 1503-4 St, room upstairs

Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.944.5383 • ALBERTA FARM WOMEN: Paintings and photographs by Dawn Saunders Dahl; Display Cases: Edmonton Weavers' Guild, selected works; Display by the Edmonton Stamp Club; until Sep 30 • Display Cases: Edmonton Weavers' Guild works; until Sep 30 • Cubes: Edmonton Stamp Club display; until Sep 30

GARDEN:–2013 SERIES: A night of art, photos by Jonathan Havelock; live music by Shaun Bosch • Sep 14, 7pm • Free

LITERARY

BOHEMIA • 10217-97 St • Edmonton Story Slam! • Sep 18, 7:30pm • $5 (donation)

AT THE CAPITOL

• Artworks by Carol Brown, Pat Trudeau, Sandy Mitchell; until Oct 1

ISBE DOMAIN • 9529 Jasper Ave • THE SECRET

WEST END GALLERY • 12308 Jasper Ave, 780.488.4892 • Robert Savignac's paintings conjure up joyous visions of floral spaces • Sep 14-26 • Opening: Sep 14, 10am-5pm

LIVE THEATRE

313 8PM

LECTION D'INSTANTS: Works by Patricia Lortie-Sparks, Sep 14-Oct 16, opening: Sep 14 • Strathearn Art Walk: (91 St to 87 St on 95 Ave) Sep 14, 11am-4pm

Front Room Gallery: WESTERN HORSEMAN: ECONOMIC ACTION PLAN: Digital collages by Justin Shaw • Sep 12-27

VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert, 780.460.5990 • RURAL ALBERTA: Marilyn Jeffrey and David Scott; through Sep

OCTOBER

GALLERIE PAVA • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • COL-

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

VAAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St, 780.421.1731 • SURVIVORS AND FIFTEEN RESTLESS NIGHTS: Alexandra Haeseker and Derek Besant; curated by Ania Sleczkowska; until Oct 19 • Opening: Sep 12, 7-9:30pm • Artist Talk: Sep 14, 2pm

Michael Hingston's The Dilettantes; Sep 14, 2-4pm • Quartet 2013 Poetry Launch in Edmonton: Celebrating four poetry books with guest editor Micheline Maylor, (Whirr Click). The Quartet includes Music Garden, Jim Nason; Incarnate, Juleta Severson Baker; Reckless Toward Blossoming, Deborah Lawson; A Bitter Mood of Clouds, Vivian Hansen; Sep 16, 7-9pm

FRONT GALLERY • 12312 Jasper Ave, 780.488.2952 • Fundraiser: Sep 14-30; opening: Sep 14, 2-4pm • ART THERAPY: The Front and WICSOE (Walk-in Counselling Society of Edmonton) at the AGA, live painting by Jennifer Poburan, David Ross MacDonald (guitar), Kira Lynn Hladun (singer-songwriter); art auction, art by Tom Gale, Kari Duke, Doug Jamha, and others; Sep 20, 7pm (door); $50; E: kim.knull@walkinedmonton.org

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St • Main Gallery: FUNCTIONAL BUILDINGS: Nancy Anne McPhee brings together the work of Andrea Carvalho, Dan Gibbons and Kip Jones; Sep 12-Oct 18 • Front Room Gallery: WESTERN HORSEMEN, ECONOMIC ACTION PLAN: Works by Justin Shaw; Sep 12-27 • Opening: Sep 12, 8-10pm

BIRTH OF VENUS: Fashion and 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

AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • Book launch:

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: Sep 19, 7-10pm • Lecture Series: FAB 2-20: Forum for conceptual exploration, and discovery of the arts: Oscar Vázquez: Sep 12, 5pm

ART BUS TOUR PROGRAM–Edmonton/St Albert

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston

Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • RULES OF PLAY: Works by Witschl • Opening: Sep 13, 7pm, artist in attendance • Sep 13-Oct 10

FAB GALLERY • 1-1 Fine Arts Bldg, 89 Ave, 112 St,

Grove Art Gallery, 35-5 Ave, 780.962.0664 • OPEN ART COMPETITION: Until Sep 28; Gala: Sep 13, 7pm • Tour of four art locations in one day: AGSA, VASA (St Albert), Harcourt, DC3 • Sep 14, 12:30-5:30pm (variable) full itinerary of times and locations at ArtGalleryofStAlbert.com • $15/$10 (member) at Harcourt House, 780.426.4180

STRATHCONA COUNTY ART GALLERY @ 501 • 501

780.432.0240 • ARRAY: Abstract paintings group show; until Sep 30 • Artisan Nook: BASALT DALIK: Mosaic

CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTAS (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave, 780.461.3427 • Rachelle Comtois, Urmila Z. Das, Nathalie Shewchuk-Paré and Louise Amyotte; until Sep 17 • COLLECTION D'INSTANTS: Works by Patricia Lortie-Sparks; Sep 14-Oct 16; opening: Sep 14, 1-4pm • Works by Danièle Petit, Suzanne Gauthier, Sylvie Pinard, Katherine Restoueix and Françoise Fiset; Sep 20-Oct 1

Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave, 780.433.5807 • Encaustic mixed media paintings by Brandi Hofer • Until Sep 25

ALLIED ARTS COUNCIL–Spruce Grove • Spruce

Artists, 10123-121 St, 780.423.1492 • Main Gallery: GENERATED LINE: Series of prints by Shawn Reynar • Community Gallery: SUPER SPY NARRATIVES: Paintings of drawings of prints by Jessie Thomas • Until Sep 21

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 • Until Nov 3

780.482.2854 • New work by artist Ernestine Tahedl – RCA, OSA; Sep 21-Oct 4 • Opening: Sep 21, 2-4pm

GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library Main

MOVIES AT THE CAPITOL–Fort Edmonton,

show featuring landscape works • Through Sep

SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta Print-

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 12310 Jasper Ave,

GRAPHIC CONTENT • Metro Cinema at the Garneau •

109 St • Anniversary Week: Party and a year-in-review presentation: Sep 13 • Sat Morn: All-You-Can-Eat Cereal Cartoon Party: Sep 14 • Local comedian Jon Mick hosts a variety show; Sep 14 evening • Sep 13-19

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • TERRAIN: Group

MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GALLERY (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain,

ART IN OUR PARK • Riverbend Community League,

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

METRO CINEMA • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-

Edmonton Art Club Exhibition • Until Oct 26

St, St Albert, 780.460.4310 • TALL TALES: Ceramics by Alysse Bowd and mixed media works on paper by Wanda Lock; until Sep 28 • Preschool Picasso: Silly Stories: ages 3-5; Sep 14, 10:30-11:30am; $8 • Ageless Art: Watercolours & Words: Sep 19, 1-3pm; $12/$10 (member) • Artventures: Hilarious Hats: Sep 21, 1-4pm; $5

FROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley A. Milner, Centennial Rm, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.496.7000 • Invictus (STC); Sep 13, 2pm • True Grit (STC); Sep 20, 2pm Batman Returns; Sep 17, 7pm • $10 (adult)/$8 (student/ seniors)

780.453.9100 • CHOP SUEY ON THE PRAIRIES: Until Apr 27, 2014 • THE ART OF SEATING: 200 YEARS OF AMERICAN DESIGN: until Oct 6 • MILTON AND CHEADLE PLATES: Jun 24-Dec 9 • Orientation Gallery: 20TH ANNIVERSARY–TIME TRAVELLERS EXHIBITION: Sep 21-Nov 11

MISERCORDIA HOSPITAL • N/S and E/W Halls •

780.963.9935 • Paintings by Elizabeth Verhagaen • Until Sep 25

James Ramsay Park, Riverbend • Celebration of live music on 2 stages, art workshops, roaming performances and the Visual Art and Craft Market • Sep 21, 1-5pm

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave,

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

paintings by Cathy Jackson; until Sep 15; • WHAT’S YOUR HANG UP?: Craft by Edmonton Calligraphic Society Members; Sep 16-Nov 15

NINA HAGGERTY GALLERY • 9225-118 Ave • Kaleido Family Arts Festival; Sep 13-15 • CELEBRATING AFRICAN GRANDMOTHERS WITH ART: Portrayal of African Grandmother story from despair to hope as they raise the millions of AIDS orphaned grandchildren • Sep 20-26 PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave,

780.455.7479 • Artworks by Carolyn Campbell and Gordon Harper • Sep 21-Oct 8 • Opening: Sep 28, 2-4pm

PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES OF ALBERTA • 8555 Roper Rd • Photo exhibit showcasing the construction of the High Level Bridge and its historic profile • Until Sep 14; Tue-Sat 9am-4:30pm; Wed 9am-9pm; closed Sun and Mon • Free

VUEWEEKLY SEP 12 – SEP 18, 2013

STRAThCONA COuNTy MuSeuM ARChiveS • 913 Ash St, Sherwood Park • THE PAST SHOWS US THE WAY: Artworks by Aaron Paquette • Sep 22, 1-5pm; celebration: bannock, tea and activities in an authentic tipi. Aboriginal drummers, dancers and musicians at 4pm

SMIDSUMMER [A PLAY WITH SONGS] • Roxy, 10708-124 St • Broken Toys Theatre • Alberta premiere by David Grieg and Gordon McIntyre • Sep 17-29; Sep 17-18 (preview) • $20 (adult)/$16 (student/senior)/Preview: $13/ Tue: 2-for-1 POOL (NO WATER) • Timms Centre, 112 St, U of A • Studio Theatre • By Mark Ravenhill, about the fragility of friendship and the strength of resentment • Sep 19-28; Sep 18, 7:30pm (preview $5) • 2-for-1 Mon (door); Evening: $11 (student), $22 (adult), $20 (senior)/Mat: $11 (student); $17 (adult)/$15 (senior) at TIX on the Square

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

SARTRE'S SHORTS • C103, 8529 Gateway Blvd •

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • BODY

THEATRESPORTS • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Sep 13Jun, 2014 • $12/$10 (member) at TIX on the Square

WORLDS AND THE CYCLE OF LIFE: Revealing the Symphony Within; until Oct 14; $26.50 (adult)/$16.50 (child (3-12)/$23.50 (senior/youth/student) at door; prices incl general admission and admission for exhibit

UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS • Human Ecology Gallery: Main Fl, 116 St, 89 Ave: THE RE-

Surreal SoReal's adaptations of the short stories of Jean Paul Sartre • Sep 19-29

WAR HORSE • Jubilee, 11455-87 Ave • Broadway Across Canada • Based on the novel by Michael Morpurgo, adapted by Nick Stafford • Sep 17-22 • $49.80-$101.15 at TicketMaster

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REVUE // ORSON WELLES

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A B-grade

masterpiece Orson Welles had a Touch of Evil on late-’50s noir

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n 1958, outdoing Hitchcock at his peak, even with a script that infamously sees Charlton Heston in brownface (as a Mexican), Orson Welles opened Touch of Evil with the greatest long take on suspense to ever unspool so slowly, in the dark, behind a cinema's closed doors. (The studio recut the film, including scrolling the credits over this opening, but it was restored to much of what Welles originally wanted in 1998.)

It's existentialist meta-suspense, too—the camera tracks not just a couple in a car but the ticking-away

Welles on the case

of time itself, as a crude bomb (its the car's waved on into the US ... exegg-timer turned back three min- ploding just as the newlyweds stop utes) snuck into the trunk moves to kiss. Vargas: "This could be bad slowly along a crowded street, one for us." "Us?" she wonders. "Mexico, pre-dawn morning, I mean." towards Mexico's Sun, Sep 15 – Sun, Sep 22 And with border with the Directed by Orson Welles Welles' touch US. The fated ve- Metro Cinema at the Garneau of genius, that hicle passes Amerscene sets up Originally released: 1958 ican Susie (Janet the criminally Leigh) and Mexinational and can drug-enforcement officer Mike romantically personal, the crimeVargas (Heston); then they walk thriller blazing up around two lovpast it. After both couples reach the ers who just guided us through checkpoint, dealing with the officials, border-town Mexico. The snappy

patter and intricate plot of a '50s noir, roughed up a little and shifted just south of its usual SoCal setting, starts shooting past before we realize the deft character studies: spunky, sexy Susie talking tough and playing it cool even as a flicker of doubt over Vargas' potential to be jealous passes over her; grumbling and harrumphing Captain Hank Quinlan (Welles), the camera closing in his cane-leaning, rotund form and sweaty, baggy-eyed visage as he tries to solve the "death car" murders or just flirt with a fortune-

teller (Marlene Dietrich).

Hitchcock's 1960 chiller is eerily foreshadowed when Leigh's character stays at an abandoned roadside motel. A few of this pulp fiction's scenes are a little overripe, and Heston's never convincing. But it's cinema's most cannily alert detective of all—Welles' glorious cinematic eye, tracking and tailing—that solves the question in the end, mesmerizing us all along the route of what is the best B-movie script ever made?

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REVUE // BATMAN

Batman Returns And, unlike Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy, it recognizes how stone-serious and deadly dull Bruce Wayne/Batman (Michael Keaton here) tends to be. So the focus is mostly on the bird-like baddie and feline fury.

(There's one quaint '90s touch—the almighty CD, which DJ Bruce Wayne even scratches at one point, proves instrumental in Batman's thwarting of the Penguin.)

A different dynamic duo

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im Burton's sequel Batman Returns, coming out a good 10 years before everyone and their brother (Kenneth Branagh, Christopher and Jonathan Nolan, etc) began cranking out comic-book franchises, still ranks among the most fruitful marriages of high-brow auteurist style and pulp source material in the '90s.

It's a Burtonesque layer cake. At bottom, his take on German Expressionism, all towering skyscrapers,

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1930s touches (the Penguin often chelle Pfeiffer), just turned into Catlooks like a Prohibition-era tycoon), woman, stabbing and garburating long shadows and the stuffed animals in Selina's striking faces. Tue, Sep 17 (7 pm) Then the Gotham Directed by Tim Burton mousey, girly, dollhouse-y life; g r o t e s q u e r i e : Metro Cinema at the Garneau a toxic-wasted, the BeethovenOriginally released: 1992 long-orphaned white-haired, Scrooge-like (it's Oswald Cobblepot (Danny DeVito), aka Penguin, Christmas throughout) millionaire all beak-like nose and snaggle- Max Schreck—his name an homage toothed cackle; Selina Kyle (Mi- to the lead actor in German Expres-

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sionist classic Nosferatu. Topping it all off is a fissuring, fracturing fairytale—the Penguin plans the night-time kidnapping of rich parents' first-born sons from their beds, his gang of crazed clowns bringing them down to his sewer home via toy trains and rubber ducky.

Full of snappy, punning dialogue, bat-gizmos and a grinning darkness, Batman Returns is closer to the campy '60s series than it seems.

The story grapples with feminism via Catwoman (the Reagan '80s had seen a backlash against the new f-word).

The effect's a curious illumination of a woman as masochist and sadist— regularly harried, ill-used, submissive secretary by day turns leather-wearing, whip-cracking pseudo-villain by night—which veers away from simple sex-objectification or offensive "catty" stereotyping.

Batman Returns remains what most comic-book adaptations should aspire to—not F/X-laden block-busting but a bursting-out of characters into colourful, poppy life on screen, framed within a vivid, distinctive esthetic and some zippy, playful dialogue. Too bad that, more than 20 years later, bigger box-office business has made it harder to get the smaller stuff right.

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Peepin' 'cuz dad's possessed

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Fast forward to the present and he Lambert family can't seem to catch a break. In chapter one, Josh strange occurrences still run rampant and Renai dealt with their son Dal- in the Lambert household. They've ton falling into an inexplicable coma left the house from the first film and and being continuously terrorized by now live with Josh's mother, (which ghosts in an astral realm, which led is, of course, a historic home ideal for to Josh eventually using his own sup- all sorts of creepy nighttime scenes). pressed astral projecting abilities to The new dwelling doesn't make a difbring Dalton back from the Further— ference: ghosts continue to surface but something sin- Opens Friday and Renai (Rose ister has returned Byrne) begins to Directed by James Wan home with him. piece together  Insidious: Chapter what's going on 2, which reunites with her husdirector James Wan and screenwriter band, who's becoming more volatile Leigh Whannell (who's also back as by the day as the malevolent spirit Specs, one half of a blundering in- clinging to his body insists he murder vestigative duo that adds some flat his family—a plot point which rings a comic relief) does little to ease its little too familiar from stories such as audience into the chilling reality the Amityville Horror.

Lamberts continue to experience.

A flashback to Josh's (Patrick Wil- The film plays to the fear of the son) childhood gets things started, unknown: that unshakable feeling depicting the incident which led to of being watched and unexplained, paranormal investigator Elise Reiner disturbing events all happening at (who assisted the family in the first home, the one place that's supposed film) teaching Josh to forget the as- to be safe. In this case, the unknown tral realm he travels to in his sleep. It element is spookier than what's acturaises numerous questions, which will ally causing all the ruckus. Ghosts be answered in time—sort of. throughout the film are decidedly

less scary once you actually see them, thanks to some Halloweenquality makeup and costumes.

However, this second installment does have some solid moments of suspense and horror. A sequence that lands several of the characters in an abandoned hospital and subsequently into an even more dire predicament is especially well-done, while another thread from the first film re-shot from Josh's perspective in the Further makes for an intriguing bit of action.

Insidious: Chapter 2 has all the makings of a smart horror flick that relies less on blood and guts (there isn't really any to speak of) and more on the chilling creatures that hide in the dark when we close our eyes, but at times, the plot trips over itself and becomes muddled. Meanwhile, the acting hits all the necessary screams and ragged, terrified breathing, but doesn't always do the film justice—Wilson is a strong exception, while Byrne just does a lot of teary wimpering. Just don't think it's over yet—the ending sets up a strong possibility for Chapter 3.

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“‘BLUE JASMINE’ IS NOT TO BE MISSED.” -Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE

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-Joshua Rothkopf, TIME OUT NEW YORK

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FILM REVUE // ACTION

Riddick

MASCULINE INTUITION

“I feel the primal aspect of my work touches everyone on a basic level.”

MORLEY MYERS

Riddick, bravely walking through an Instagram-filter landscape

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iddick may look like a sci-fi flick, talk shadows how low-down and dirty the ride's like a tough-guy actioner, and walk like gonna get. There are plenty of fizzling onea late-summer, low-budget CGI blockbuster, liners, brutal behaviour and drawn-out slagbut it's a prison film. And too often it either offs that lead nowhere. The one woman, makes you feel trapped yourself—by labori- Dahl (Katee Sackhoff), it soon becomes clear, ous scenes, glare-downs, and an over-long is just there to be a sex doll—sure, she can punch and talk tough, but story—or it seems to be cashe's threatened twice tering to grizzled, hardened Now playing with rape (including by convicts, with its scuzzy, Directed by David Twohy Riddick) and, worse, the nasty view of women and,  camera slavers over her for that matter, men.

If this third movie in the franchise—follow- gratuitous nudity in the shower (though ing the same director's Pitch Black and The we're told, apropos of nothing, that she's Chronicles of Riddick—had stayed with its a lesbian). A general scuzziness and dingiCastaway-meets-Aliens setup, it could've ac- ness starts to creep over the picture like a tually been a daring addition to the pantheon mould ... soon, it's hard to get your heart-rate of guy-fights-ET-critters flicks. Ex-convict up over whether or not the coming wave of and murderer Riddick (Vin Diesel), a Furyan scorpo-aliens kill these scowling, sneering warrior, is left to die on a strange planet and bags of man-meat.

After a while, the slo-mo action shots seem the first half-hour's a nearly wordless, nature doc-like tracking of his efforts at survival, es- more and more affected, while the landscapes pecially as he fends off hyena-like dogs and a seem more and more like Spartacus-meetsscorpion-like venomous alien (that will even a-Creed-music-video on the green-screen. If eat its own disemboweled guts). The preda- only Riddick had avoided spending time on tor's become a prisoner of his nastily alien snakey, creepy non-characters, it could have environment, but then some bounty hunters ended up as something more than just a arrive, and the film has to go all talky and desert-planet variation, with space-lizards, on human on us.

Predators (2010).

Vin Diesel's gravelly voice, it turns out, fore-

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Fri, Sep 13-Thu, Sep 19, 2013 CHABA THEATRE–JASPER

6094 Connaught Dr Jasper, 780.852.4749

THE FAMILY (14A brutal violence, coarse language) DAILY 7:00, 9:10

THE BUTLER (14A) DAILY 6:50, 9:10 DUGGAN CINEMA–CAMROSE

not recommended for children) THU 10:00

RIDDICK (18A gory violence) THU 12:30, 3:20, 6:30, 9:20; ULTRAAVX: THU 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30

CINEPLEX ODEON WINDERMERE CINEMAS Cineplex Odeon Windermere, Vip Cinemas, 6151 Currents Dr, 780.822.4250

3D : THU 4:55, 7:05

CLOSED CIRCUIT (14A) THU 2:10, 4:30, 7:20, 9:45

ELYSIUM (14A gory violence) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video THU 6:40, 9:15

LEE DANIELS' THE BUTLER (14A) THU 12:40,

THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS CITY OF

3:40, 6:40, 9:40

BONES (PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec for

THE FAMILY (14A Brutal violence, coarse language)

young children) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video THU 6:45, 9:40

THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS CITY OF BONES

ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US 3D (G) THU 7:20

(PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young children) Closed Captioned THU 6:55, 9:55

THU 9:30

CINEPLEX ODEON SOUTH 1525-99 St 780.436.8585

WE'RE THE MILLERS (14A crude coarse language, sexual content) THU 7:00, 9:45; VIP 18+: THU 6:30, 9:20

ELYSIUM (14A gory violence) Closed Captioned Fri-Sat 2:25, 5:25, 8:05, 10:45; Sun 1:30, 4:25, 7:05, 9:45; Mon-Thurs 1:40, 4:15, 7:05, 9:45

GETAWAY (PG coarse language) Closed Caption &

DESPICABLE ME 2 (G) Closed Captioned

THE WORLD'S END (14A crude coarse language)

Descriptive Video THU 9:25

DAILY 6:45, 9:05; SAT-SUN, THU 1:50

THE SMURFS 2 (G) FRI 2:00; SAT 11:25, 2:00; SUN-

INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 (14A frightening scenes,

THURS 1:20

10:00; ULTRAAVX: THU 6:40, 9:30

THE BUTLER (14A) SAT-SUN, THU 1:30

PERCY JACKSON SEA OF MONSTERS (PG frightening scenes) FRI-SAT 12:05; SUN 12:55, 7:00; MON 2:00, 4:40; TUE-THU 2:05; 3D : FRI-SAT 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25; Sun 3:30, 9:45; MON 7:30, 10:00; TUE-THU

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

4:45, 7:30, 10:00

sexual content) FRI-SUN; TUE-THU 7:00, 9:20; SAT 2:00

THE WOLVERINE (14A violence) FRI-SAT 4:30; SUN

BEFORE MIDNIGHT (14A sexual content, coarse

RIDDICK (18A gory violence) VIP 18+: THU 7:00, PLANES (G) 3D : THU 7:10

violence, frightening scenes) THU 4:00, 6:55, 9:40

PACIFIC RIM 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) THU 3:45, 6:50, 9:45

MAN OF STEEL 3D (PG violence, not rec for young

CITY CENTRE 9

FRI-SUN, TUE 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:35; MON, WED-THU

INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 (14A frightening scenes, not recommended for children) FRI-SUN, TUE 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00; MON, WED-THU 4:00, 7:00, 10:00

BLUE JASMINE (PG substance abuse, coarse lan-

Closed Captioned FRI 1:50, 4:45, 7:25, 10:05; Sat 11:15, 1:50, 4:45, 7:25, 10:05; SUN 1:50, 4:50, 7:40, 10:15; MON-THU 1:50, 4:50, 7:35, 10:10

WE'RE THE MILLERS (14A crude coarse language, sexual content) DTS Digital FRI-SUN, TUE 12:10, 3:10, 6:10, 9:10; MON, WED-THU 3:10, 6:10, 9:10

THE WORLD'S END (14A crude coarse language)

children) THU 3:50, 7:30, 9:55

INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 (14A frightening scenes,

THIS IS THE END (18A gory violence, crude coarse

not recommended for children) Closed Captioned FRI-SAT 12:25, 3:00, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45; Sun 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15; Mon-Thurs 2:30, 5:05, 7:45, 10:15

FRI-SUN, TUE 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:05; MON, THU 4:20, 7:20, 10:05; WED 4:20, 10:05

RIDDICK (18A gory violence) Closed Captioned FRI-

4:10, 7:10, 10:10; MON, WED-THU 4:10, 7:10, 10:10

SAT 1:10, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50; Sun 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 9:40; Mon-Thurs 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:40; ULTRAAVX: FRI 2:05,

LEE DANIELS' THE BUTLER (14A) FRI-SUN, TUE

language, substance abuse) THU 4:20, 7:15, 9:30

THE HEAT (14A crude coarse language) THU 4:00, 7:10, 9:50

IN A WORLD... (14A) THU 7:00 SATYAGRAHA (PG violence, mature subject matter) Hindi W/E.S.T. THU 5:00, 9:00

JATT AIRWAYS (PG) Punjabi W/E.S.T. THU 4:45, 7:50 ZANJEER (PG violendce) Hindi W/E.S.T. THU 3:55,

4:55, 7:45, 10:35; Sat 11:20, 2:05, 4:55, 7:45, 10:35; Sun 1:35, 4:25, 7:15, 10:05; Mon-Thurs 1:35, 4:25, 7:20, 10:05

PLANES (G) FRI-SAT 12:35, 2:55; Sun 12:30, 2:50;

6:45, 9:35

Mon-Thurs 2:15; 3D : FRI-SAT 5:15, 7:30; Sun 5:05, 7:20; Mon-Thurs 4:40, 7:10

CHENNAI EXPRESS (PG violence) Hindi W/E.S.T.

WWE NIGHT OF CHAMPIONS–2013 (Classifica-

THU 4:30, 7:45

tion not available) SUN 6:00

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SWAN LAKE MARIINSKY LIVE 3D (Classifica-

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DATE OF ISSUE ONLY: THU, SEP 12

tion not available) WED 7:00

CLOSED CIRCUIT (14A) FRI 12:40, 3:05, 5:30, 7:55,

GETAWAY (PG coarse language) Closed Captioned THU 9:45

THE WORLD'S END (14A crude coarse language)

ELYSIUM (14A gory violence) FRI-SUN, TUE 12:05,

12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40; MON, WED-THU 3:40, 6:40, 9:40

THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS CITY OF BONES (PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young children) DAILY 9:50

EMPIRE CLAREVIEW 10 4211-139 Ave, 780.472.7600

WE'RE THE MILLERS (14A crude coarse language, sexual content) Closed Captioned FRI, MON-THU 6:45, 9:35; SAT-SUN 12:20, 3:20, 6:45, 9:35

ELYSIUM (14A gory violence) Closed Captioned FRI, MON-THU 6:35, 9:25; SAT-SUN 12:10, 3:05, 6:35, 9:25

LEE DANIELS' THE BUTLER (14A) Closed CapGRANDIN THEATRE–ST ALBERT Grandin Mall Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert, 780.458.9822

THE FAMILY (14A brutal violence, coarse language) DAILY 12:45, 2:50, 4:55, 7:05, 9:20

DESPICABLE ME 2 (G) DAILY 3:15 5:15 7:20 frightening scenes) DAILY 1:10 9:15 sexual content) DAILY 2:55 5:05 7:15 9:25

THE SMURFS 2 (G) DAILY 12:50 INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 (14A frightening scenes, not recommended for children) DAILY 1:00 3:00 5:20 7:25 9:30

PLANES (G) DAILY 1:20 3:20 5:10 7:10 WORLD WAR Z (14A violence, frightening scenes) DAILY 9:10

METRO CINEMA AT THE GARNEAU Metro at the Garneau: 8712-109 St 780.425.9212

METRO CINEMA ANNIVERSARY WEEK PARTY! FRI 7:00; free admission, free popcorn; all-ages

THE HARDER THEY COME (STC) FRI 11:00 free with admission to Anniversary Party; SUN 9:00

EDMONTON WOWIE (STC) Sat Morning All-YouCan-Eat Cereal Cartoon Party: SAT 10:00am, all-ages; (14A): SAT 7:00

TOUCH OF EVIL (PG not suitable for younger chil-

BLACKFISH (14A disturbing content) Customer Appreciation Night: MON 7:00; free admission and popcorn

THE ACT OF KILLING–Director's Cut (14A disturbing content, mature subject matter) Customer Appreciation Night: MON 9:00; free admission and popcorn

DESPICABLE ME 2 (G) THU 1:00, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10

LEE DANIELS' THE BUTLER (14A) Closed

THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS CITY OF BONES

BATMAN RETURNS (PG violent scenes) Graphic

(PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young children) DAILY 6:30, 9:30

Content: TUE 7:00

THE WOLVERINE (14A violence) Closed Captioned THU 1:10; 3D : THU 4:10, 7:15, 10:15

THE FAMILY (14A Brutal Violence,Coarse Language)

THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS CITY OF

Closed Captioned Fri-Sat 12:00, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40; Sun 2:10, 4:55, 7:45, 10:20; MonThurs 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:15

BONES (PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young children) Closed Captioned THU 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US (G) Closed Captioned THU 1:40; 3D : THU 4:20, 6:45, 9:00

WE'RE THE MILLERS (14A crude coarse language, sexual content) THU 1:50, 4:40, 7:30; Star & Strollers Screening: THU 10:30

THE SCHOOL OF ROCK (Pg) Sat 11:00 BLUE JASMINE (Pg) (Substance Abuse,Mature Subject Matter,Coarse Language) Fri-Sat 10:00; SunMon,Wed-Thurs 9:35; Tue 9:40

IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD (STC) MON 6:30

GETAWAY (PG coarse language) Closed Captioned

BECOMING TRAVIATA (PG) SAT 12:55

THU 2:30, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20

ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US (G) FRI 2:15; Sat

THE WORLD'S END (14A crude coarse language)

11:30, 2:15; Sun-Thurs 1:10; 3D : FRI-SAT 5:05, 7:40, 10:15; Sun 4:05, 6:50, 9:30; Mon-Thurs 4:00, 6:50, 9:30

Closed Captioned THU 2:15, 5:00, 7:50, 10:25

INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 (14A frightening scenes,

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LEE DANIELS' THE BUTLER (14A) FRI, MON-THU 6:35, 9:30; SAT-SUN 12:05, 3:05, 6:35, 9:30

ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US 3D (G) Digital 3d, Closed Captioned FRI, MON-THU 9:25; SAT-SUN 3:15, 9:25

GETAWAY (PG coarse language) Closed Captioned DAILY 9:20

ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US (G) Closed Captioned FRI, MON-THU 6:40; SAT-SUN 12:25, 6:40

RIDDICK (18A gory violence) Closed Captioned, On 2 Screens FRI, MON-THU 6:30, 6:50, 9:20, 9:40; SAT-SUN 12:00, 12:30, 3:00, 3:30, 6:30, 6:50, 9:20, 9:40

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PREVUE // SINGER-SONGWRITER

The old, weird blues

Ben Sures subverts expectations on Son of Trouble

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he interview hasn't even started before Ben Sures has declared that his latest record is not a blues album.

Jefferson's "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean," Sures ignored any interior promptings he might have had to keep it stylistically consistent. "(Stony Plain Records head honcho) Instead he added an African highlife Holgar Petersen says it isn't! (CKUA tune ("Where Are They Now"), and host) Grant Stovel says it isn't," he recorded a version of Boubacar practically yells over the phone, un- Traore's "Je Chanterai Pour Toi," as provoked. well as "La Luna Fri, Sep 13 (7:30 pm) That's Sures, alEn Tu Mirada," Ben Sures ways stirring it up which he sings in with someone or Festival Place, $20 Spanish. other, if only to "The thing about get a reaction. Of course Son of Trou- the vocals is every time we did a ble is a blues record, except that the take for the guide tracks we realEdmonton-based singer-songwriter ized that those were the ones we has stripped away the expected cli- should use. The vocals were fine; chĂŠs, even subverted them. Sures is it's not about great singing, it's well aware that he's using blues vo- about communication. Well, that cabulary all over the album, he's just or having some personality in them. making a point about perception.

But I'm no Ruth Brown, and you can Both Peterson and Stovel are right, quote me on that." in a sense; much as country music isn't We can also quote Sures on his feelcountry music anymore, Sures' blues ings for the blues, which are actually isn't anything like the blues we all ex- quite deep. They were his first love, pect to hear when the term is used. after all, and while he's wandered "There are certain types of blues far a-field in recent decades he's still fans who are like science fiction rooted in them. What he misses in geeks," Sures says. "They have these contemporary blues is the feeling of rules in their mind about how things weirdness, the surreality of the lyrhave to go, so they may like (Son of ics, the dark, probing subject matter Troubles') 'Pamela Pamela' because that someone like Robert Johnson it's true to the form, and the chords would bring to the table in songs like are where they're supposed to be. "Stones in My Passway."

"The blues that you'd hear from Also, it mentions the devil; they like stuff like that. They might be less im- back in the day just had the greatest pressed by the line 'Pamela Pamela I phrases in them," he points out. "Johnremember you in the basement. Your son wrote some great and strange hair cut like Betty Page and the rest stuff, and then it's down the line 60 is a pretty nice arrangement.' And the years later and people latch on to the next line is 'It didn't take much to get superficial. 'My girlfriend left me and you down the stairs.' So far totally in I'm drinking.' You can see why people the blues vein. But when I say 'but we get this one-dimensional idea of what gave it all when we got down there,' blues music is because so much of it and suddenly it's become mutual, it's is like that now."

TOM MURRAY balanced. They won't like that."

Son of Trouble turned out some- TOM@VUEWEEKLY.COM what differently from how Sures initially envisioned it. He went into the recording wanting to not overthink or belabour the process, but still working within the usual manner, ie recording bass and drums first, and then overdubbing guitars and vocals. Working with Toronto producer Don Kerr (who also recorded his last album, Gone to Bolivia), he found himself keeping all of the live takes, and cutting the record in a swift three days.

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At 23, Saskatoon-based folk musician Zachary Lucky has already toured Canada 10 times. He's on the road once again to promote his latest album, The Ballad of Losing You. Rather than get into the details, we'll let his answers do the talking.

cord shipped off to production before the end of May. It was a super quick turn around, but at the same time it was all very organic and natural. I don't think we could have planned the process any better—everything just fell into place, like it should.

VUE WEEKLY: How long did it take to make The Ballad of Losing You from the initial songwriting through to the end of the recording?

ZACHARY LUCKY: Things really started to come together around February or so. I was doing a handful of shows around Folk Alliance out in Ontario. At this point I had written a bunch of songs and sort of had in my mind that I wanted to make this record in March or April. While on tour in Ontario I had about a week off around Toronto and ended up with an apartment to myself which created the space and time to sit down and pen some songs—and it was in that time that I wrote most of the songs which ended up on TBOLY. There were a couple of older songs we decided to keep on the record as well. From there I got back to Saskatoon at the start of March and immediately started demoing all of the songs and working through them. We were into the studio by the start of April and spent about a total of six days tracking there. Spent three days mixing and mastering the record out in Vancouver in May and had the re-

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

ZL: Almost all of these songs were written in one sitting—those situations where you sit down with a guitar, pen and paper, and the song comes out top to bottom—music and words. I've always felt most comfortable writing songs like that because it feels like the song is writing itself. Whereas if I am writing music and then fitting words into it, it always seems forced. Writing these songs was very natural. It felt like a giant exhale, like I was clearing the air.

VW: What were the recording sessions like for this album?

ZL: We tracked the record out at Chad Mason's studio out in rural Saskatchewan. It was exactly the sort of space I wanted to make this record in: removed from the hustle and bustle of the city. The whole recording process was pretty organic and nothing ever felt too forced. We tracked the record over about six or seven days over the month of April

doing a couple days at a time.

VW: Is this the kind of thing you recorded live or did you piece it together one track at a time? Why? ZL: We tracked everything on this album separately. I think we would have considered doing the album live if we had all the musicians in the city at the same time, but just with how things went it made more sense to track things separately. To be honest, it all sort of just fell into place. We tracked my guitar and vocals together in a couple of days and Karrnel (who played fiddle) just happened to be stopping in Saskatoon for a couple of days after we finished the bed tracks. We convinced him to take one of his days in Saskatoon and come out to the studio to lay down some fiddle tracks. He had never heard the songs before and he did exactly what needed to be done, never too much or too little. That sort of kicked things off for the rest of the players to come in and sort of fill the space in the songs. One of the big things we had in mind for this record was how could we make space—to have five instruments playing at the same time—yet still have this openness to the songs and make them not feel too crowded. Everyone who played on the record was a total pro and they really did a great job of being conscious—knowing when to play and when not to. V

The Albertans Sat, Sep 14 (4 pm) With Scenic Route to Alaska, Mancub, Ian McIntosh The Buckingham (10439 - 82 Ave) Sun, Sep 15 (7 pm) With Jay Sparrow, the Nature Of The Artery The indie-rock four-piece calls Vancouver home, but its moniker pays homage to Wild Rose Country, and the Albertans are returning to Edmonton in the midst of promoting its latest album, Dangerous Anything. Prior to arriving, guitarist and vocalist Joel Bravo shared a succinct roundup of his recent soundtrack picks with Vue.

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hen Logan Kroeber picks for the band, as well as an eviup the phone, he and dent shift in style. bandmate Meric Long are driv"To me, it seems more harding through the mountains en edged somehow. The music route to Ashseems more land, Oregon, Fri, Sep 13 (10:15 pm) aggressive and one show into Part of Kaleido Family Arts darker, but I a tour that Festival don't know, at will take them Central Stage, 9210 - 118 Ave the same time through the it's super fun States, Canada, to play," KroeEurope and Japan by the end of ber explains, noting he and November. Plus, the duo made Long were both leaning towards its debut on the Late Show more obscure, prog-influenced With David Letterman a couple rhythms at the time. of nights earlier performing its Kroeber attributes part of the new single "Confidence." shift to Long's songwriting ap"At the end of the performance proach, which, as of late, has Letterman seemed to take a par- been done on an electric guitar ticular shine to me and was sort rather than acoustic, prompting of calling me out and pointing him to compose heavier riffs. at me and calling me kid and all Following the release of No Cothis weird stuff. It was just really lour in 2011, and the death of weird and awesome and proba- Chris Reimer in February 2012— bly never going to happen again," who had started out as a touring Kroeber laughs. guitarist with the Dodos before But there are other moments being brought on as a permafor the indie-rock duo to relish nent member—the band was in in aside from banter with late- a state of uncertainty about its night talk-show stars—the re- future and where exactly it was lease of its latest album Carrier headed if it were to carry on. being one of them. The album "The answer was not clear and marks a new beginning of sorts it just took a lot of work and

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when we finished working we realized we had all this crazy new stuff and I don't know what to attribute it to other than our work ethic," Kroeber says.

That diligent work ethic has led to the Dodos writing enough new material to forge ahead on another album, which the band has already laid down rough mixes for.

Where Carrier is a darker, moodier side of the band, Kroeber says these songs possess a lightness their predecessor did not.

"I think about it as light and effortless," he says. "I think it was just completing Carrier, finding a new record label and just getting on our feet again and having time to make a new record without any pressure. Carrier was already done, nobody was waiting for this next record to be made on any sort of timeline. We were just going to make it and I think getting through a more unknown period with making Carrier and getting past that and having no pressure on us, it was surprisingly inspired."

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Since Trent Reznor announced the hiatus of Nine Inch Nails in 2009, nihilistic cutters and misanthropes the world over have been waiting for their demigod to return, yet Reznor has kept very busy during the absence and it seems these 14 tracks mark his continuing evolution. NIN does not make happy music, and this is probably as content as it's going to get: the brilliantly mixed stutters in "Copy of A" or the dance-pop tinges of "Everything" give the impression Reznor has climbed out of the spiral

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For most of its 10 tracks, Girls, Like Wolves crashes along like a swirl of punk chords emerging from a shambling old garage down some twisting back alley.

and is now more mildly perturbed than suicidal. If anything is apparent with this record, it is that Reznor is far beyond wallowing in the mud and he has imbued himself and his music with a sharp focus not usually seen in someone you expect to be so chronically depressed. It's beautiful and tragic at the same time, but gone is the violence in Reznor's tragedy, and it's now less like venomous revulsion and more like dreary disappointment, with the electronics less distorted and manic and a news crispness to the sound that makes it, at times, danceable. It's the beautiful surprises that really make this record: "In Two" builds in a bayou blues riff plucked through stormy drones that excelerate into madness, while "I'm Still Here" closes with some saxophone punches. Oh, and Lindsey Buckingham plays on this record. Lindsey-Fleetwood-fuckingMac-Buckingham! If you were a bitter teen when you discovered NIN, hopefully you've slowed down and matured enough that this record still fits your malfeasance.

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The new record from Miesha & the Spanks is pretty great in that way, all hectic and urgent in the way the songs spill out of the speakers and into the air. For the most part, the music sounds just right without pushing too far past its stylistic borders, but the band also throws an unexpected twist or two out there (the girl-group garage-punk of "This Time" and the psychedelic wash of "Song 10" stand out at the album's centre).

By the time the record plays out with "Look At You (Baby Look At You)" and the title track, Miesha & the Spanks are back at it with a one-two punch of Stooges-like chords that strikes (and lights) the right note.

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Pink Wine's self-titled debut is a grimy LP full of fear and loathing wrapped up in a sweet-tasting shell.

Toronto stars heavily in Pink Wine's music, with references to Queen West sunrises on "Better Half" and a "graveyard of bottles on Richmond Street" on "I Like Pink Wine" reflecting the dirt under the glittering metropolis's surface. Vocalist Joel French leads listeners on this power-pop-punk journey of just scraping by and trying (and failing) to find a little tenderness.

In a bit of a thesis statement for the album, French croons "I get this hole inside my head it's something you won't ever fix" over Liam Doyle's guitar on "Point The Blame." Pink Wine is punk rock in its purest form: music for neurotic self-loathers who try to fill the holes inside them with drugs, love and music.

JORDYN MARCELLUS

// JORDYN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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AroarA

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f Alice Notley was church, we She's a real poet, she's never done would go. She has a way of dis- anything else—she doesn't teach an tilling what's true," says Ariel Engle, MFA program, she's a poet," Whiteone half of AroarA, a duo completed man adds. "She lives that life and by her husband Andrew Whiteman she's suspicious of strangers, as I of Broken Social Scene and Apostle would be. She was also exhausted but it was the right way to meet her and Hustle.

Notley, an acclaimed American actually. I would have been suspipoet, became the inspiration—or cious had she been all like, 'OK cool, let's hang out.'" rather, her book In The duo kept the Pines did—for Wed, Sep 18 (8 pm) Notley updated the new album of Avenue Theatre, $10 (advance), throughout the the same name. $12 (day of show) process, sending Whiteman has her early demos always had an astute interest in poetry and was im- for feedback. Engel notes that had mediately taken with Notley's work she not been satisfied with anything when he discovered it while attend- they wouldn't have continued—it all worked out in the end though, and ing the University of Pennsylvania.

"The material is very, for lack of a Notley expressed her gratitude to better word, gothic Americana and AroarA, stating its rendition of her there's lyrics in there that I rec- work was a gift.

"Once we had her OK, it was quite ognize from other songs and you know, it's just one of those things liberating because then as a singer ... where you're brushing your teeth one, I could shed the anxiety of havand you're like, 'I know what should ing to write my own lyrics which is its own thing," Engle says with a chuckhappen," Whiteman notes.

This apparent lightbulb moment le. "I felt free to inhabit versions of led to Whiteman posing to Engle the characters. I recommend it to everyidea of translating Notley's poetry body if you really respond to a work."

The 14 poems are not simply sung into song lyrics, restructuring them into new incarnations in the process. verbatim with a melody attached.

Engle was onboard—the pair just Whiteman and Engel have transhad to get Notley's blessing. White- formed Notley's words into something man was going to be in Paris (where new entirely while maintaining the Notley was located) on tour with old Americana essence prominent Broken Social Scene and came up throughout. Whiteman explains the with the plan to visit her at her home pagination of the book speaks to a folk-lyric sensibility and he sought out and invite her to lunch.

"I thought, well, most women don't words or phrases that seemed suitable really like when a strange man shows for a song and began to stitch each up at their door. Why don't you write track together—none of them are her a note?" chuckles Engle, who named as a result, just numbered.

"The current thoughts about austeered Whiteman toward a differthorship has gone and pushed to the ent approach. nth degree, so ... just the very act However, as he was leaving the of taking her words and rearrangnote for Notley, she emerged from ing them and making a hypothetical a taxi and he was starstruck for the folk song out of them is a huge step first time. Being a gentleman, he of- towards you know, making 'my work' fered to carry her bags and during or 'my stamp' and then you add muthat time, rambled off his plan. Not- sic to it," Whiteman adds. "Alice even ley was skeptical at first, as any writ- said, when we sent her the first few er would be of their work being used, ... 'Certainly this is not my work anymore; this is a transformation.'" but eventually gave the go-ahead.

"Alice, she's not cuddly; she's not a MEAGHAN BAXTER cuddly woman, y'know what I mean? MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

he dichotomy in the title project is, and when there are differof Braids' second album, ent people contributing, if you listen to Flourish // Perish, seems straight- what they bring, it becomes something forward: evocations of a blooming extremely unique. strength that comes saddled with vulnerability. Capable of grand achieve- VW: What was the recording process ments, but also of wilting away in a mo- like? Did you go into the studio with ment of poor fortune. the songs fully-formed, or build them The music plants itas you went? self in the uncertainty Sun, Sep 15 (8 pm) Why take that between those two With Mark Webber approach? polar ideas. Detatched Pawn Shop, $10 RSP: All of the from the shimmering songs, except guitars of the band's debut album, Na- for the first song and the last song ("Victive Speaker, Flourish // Perish shapes toria" and "In Kind") were written from synths and stuttering drum patterns the ground up. It was written in a little into lush, hypnotic rhythms. It came out room with no windows, in our backyard of a period of inner strife—longtime in Montréal. keyboardist Katie Lee quit during the album sessions—and finds the band in contemplative, exploratory territory.

As the band was wrapping up a European leg of touring, vocalist Raphaelle Standell-Preston answered some questions with Vue via email.

We took this approach of writing while recording because we wanted to do something that was entirely separate from what we had done with Native Speaker. We didn't want to write another indie-rock record. We felt more introverted as a band, more contemplative, more sensitive. Having big chords and drums and yelps just wasn't where we were at as a band. We wanted emotions to be captured when they happened, not ironed out. It's a very emotionally immediate and engaging album.

I think we're going to combine the two approaches on the next record and record in a place that has a bit more space.

PAUL BLINOV

PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

VUE WEEKLY: The album's been out for almost a month now. How's it feel to have it out there?

RAPHAELLE STANDELL-PRESTON: Relieving. I just want to write another one.

VW: Is it hard to let go of an album, to put it out to have interpretations placed upon it?

RSP: I usually start to feel uncomfortably exposed right before we release the record, probably because of the amount of interviews that pry into the process and your secrets. You have to remember that interpretations are subjective. You can't let others opinions affect your feelings about what you do.

That mentality is sometimes lost in the flurry of releasing something you've made. You kind of have to decide how you feel before you release it and put your armour on. But I tend to waver with doing that, so yes, it's hard, but we learn.

VW: Were you working on the Braids album at the same time as [StandellPreston's electro side-project] Blue Hawaii's Untogether? Do you think one of those projects had any influence over the other, or have you consciously tried to keep them as separate entities?

RSP: Yes, but I had a very different process with both the records, and the people of the projects influenced the music so much. They're such different things. Blue Hawaii was me working in a room alone until 5 am very quietly, usually on uppers, drinking lots of coffee and smoking too much. Braids was a very collective process, everyone was in the room, the lights were off for 80 percent of the time, we wrote the lines together, we're a band. Alex [of Blue Hawaii] and I are this strange experiment of an electronic project. I don't try to consciously keep them separate, but I find as I do the both of them more and more that they begin to take on their own identities and I become the vessel which furthers that individuality. It's just like discovering exactly what the

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Vaughn

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

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

CROWN PUB A Sexy Night

UNION HALL Celebrity

Y AFTERHOURS Release

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Reflections: The Tommy Banks Trio; 3:30pm; donations (door)

Classical

Saturdays

DJs

UNITARIAN CHURCH OF EDMONTON Edmonton Vocal Minority’s Meet the Choir NIght; 7-9:30pm

Saturdays with Lolcatz, Yaznil, Badman Crooks, Ootz

Saturdays: every Sat hosted

by DJ Johnny Infamous

Vienna; 7:30-8:30pm; free

Jamhouse Tues hosted by Chris Wynters, guest

J+H PUB Acoustic open

mic night every Tue hosted

by Lorin Lynne; Everyone will have 10-15 minutes to play

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

NEW WEST HOTEL 4’s A

Crowd (country)

O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam

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

OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK The Campfire Hero’s

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

SHERLOCK HOLMES– DT Tony Dizon SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Andrew Scott UNION HALL Trivium

and Devildriver, After the Burial, Sylosis; 6:30pm (door); $32.50 (adv) at Unionevents.com, Ticketfly. com, Blackbyrd

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

RED STAR Experimental

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

SUITE 69 Rockstar

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

stage hosted by Michael Gress and Cody Noula; Original artist showcase at 9pm

HOOLIGANZ Open stage every Wed with host Michael Gress; 9pm J+H PUB Acoustic open

mic night hosted by Lorin Lynne

LEAF BAR AND GRILL

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

MERCURY ROOM Little Flower Open Stage every Wed with Brian Gregg; 8pm-12 NEW WEST HOTEL Free classic country dance lessons every Wed, 7-9pm; 4’s A Crowd (country) OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Jason Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Wed; no cover

FRI SEPT 13

SONIC 102.9 PRESENTS...

ILL SCARLETT W/ GUESTS

SAT SEPT 14 LIVING WITH LIONS, SECRET RIVALS, THE EVIDENCE (CD RELEASE), & THE OLD WIVES

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

SUN SEPT 15

RED PIANO BAR Wed

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

BRAIDS W/ MARK WEBBER

WED Sep 18 ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL

Open stage Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12

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

AVENUE THEATRE

THE RIG Open jam every

PLAID TONGUED DEVILS

SHERLOCK HOLMES– DT Tony Dizon SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Andrew Scott ZEN LOUNGE Jazz

SAT SEPT 21

AroarA (pop rock), guests; 8pm; $810 (adv at Blackbyrd)/$12 (day of)

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 Funkafeelya

BRITTANY’S LOUNGE

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

CROWN PUB The Dan

Jam: musical styles from around the globe with Miguel and friends; musicians are invited to bring their personal touch to the mix every Wed

DUGGAN’S IRISH PUB Wed open mic with host Duff Robison

ELEPHANT AND CASTLE–Whyte Ave

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

FANDANGO’S Wed open

Wed hosted by Will Cole; 8pm -12am

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

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

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

BRIXX BAR Really Good...

Eats and Beats: every Wed with DJ Degree and Friends

THE COMMON The Wed Experience: Classics on Vinyl with Dane NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk

and ‘80s metal every Wed

RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed

TEMPLE Wild Style Wed:

Hip hop open mic hosted

by Kaz and Orv; $5

FRI SEPT 20

THE WORLD’S ONLY KLEZMER SKA BAND W/ HOT SUPER HOT & KABANA BIRD CJSR FUNDDRIVE THE SWITCHMEN MISERY MOUNTAIN BOYS THE MOANIN’ AFTER & MIKE MCDONALD

FRI SEPT 27 THE BLACKSTONE CD RELEASE W/ TALLEST TO SHORTEST, MAYDAY AND THE BEATCREEPS & THE COLLECTIVE WEST TUES OCT 1

GUTTERMOUTH

W/ AGENT ORANGE & THE DIRTBAGS FRI OCT 4

CANCER BATS & BAT SABBATH W/ DUSTY TUCKER

Devildriver

Tue, Sep 17 (7:30 pm) With Trivium, After the Burial, Sylosis Union Hall, $32.50 Answered by: Dez Fafara, lead vocals Hometown: Santa Barbara, California Genre: Metal Lastest album: Winter Kills (2013) Fun fact: Jon Miller (bass), John Boecklin (drums) and Jeff Kendrick (guitar) formed the band Area-51 in high school and became known for covers of songs by Metallica, Slayer and Pantera. They eventually recruited Dez Fafara, who was originally part of Coal Chamber.

First album Kiss, Alive

Last album Winter Kills

Favourite album Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath

First concert The Circle Jerks

Last concert Slayer

Favourite musical guilty pleasure Van Morrison V

VUEWEEKLY SEP 12 – SEP 18, 2013

FOR TICKETS- PLEASE VISIT WWW.YEGLIVE.CA

WEDNESDAY PINT NIGHT’S

$2.75 DOMESTIC PINTS

SAT SEPT 14 FREE SHOW 4PM

DIEUPONADAY W/ ECHOES OF APATHY

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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 • Dennis Ross; Sep 12-14 • Sean Baptiste; Sep 19-21

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 • TJ Miller; Sep 12-15 • Ruben Paul; Sep 18-22

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 • Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm FESTIVAL PLACE • Festival Place, 100 Festival

Way, Sherwood Park • 780.449.3378 • festivalplace.ab.ca • CBC's The Irrelevant Show • Sep 20 • $32 (table)/$30 (box)/$28 (theatre) at the Festival Place Box Office

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 KRUSH ULTRALOUNGE• Open mic following Singles Mixer, with co-host, Paul Sveen; call 780.914.8966 to get on roster • Sep 19, 9:15pm 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

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

• Mount Zion Lutheran Church, 11533-135 St NW • braintumour.ca • 1.800.265.5106 ext. 234 • Support group for brain tumour survivors and their families and caregivers. Must be 18 or over • 3rd Mon every month; 7-8:45pm • Free

CANADIAN INJURED WORKERS ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA (CIWAA) • Augustana

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

DOLLHOUSE MINIATURE SHOW AND SALE • Executive Royal Inn West, 10010-178 St • What’s in the Attic?: What can an Attic Room be used for?

There are many possible ideas including: Sewing room, Hobby room, Artist studio, or Storage room.

Come and see what the members have done with their Attics • Sep 15, 10am-4pm • $5 (adult)/$2 (7-15)/free (under 7)

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 NATURE CLUB • King’s University College, 9125-50 St • 780.710.6736 • Annual General Meeting: Meet the new executive, enjoy a slide presentation on the club’s activities this past year • Sep 20, 7pm; E: ecowise@live.ca EDMONTON UKULELE CIRCLE • Bogani

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

RUMORS ULTRA LOUNGE • 8230 Gateway

ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey Nuns Hospital, Rm

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

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

587.520.3833 for location • deepsoul.ca • Combining music, garage sales, nature, common sense, and kindred karma to revitalize the inward persona • Every Wed, 7-8:30pm

SHERWOOD PARK WALKING GROUP + 50

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

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 • Hike from historic Fort Ethier along the Bigstone Creek with hike leader JoAnne, 780.487.0645; Sep 15, 8:45am-3pm • $5 (carpool)/$20 (annual membership) WATER INITIATIVE KICKOFF MEETING • Remedy Café, 8631-109 St • Help build a water initiative. 80% of Albertans were unaware that the province held water conversations in 2013. We're looking for dedicated individuals to reignite this conversation • Sep 19, 5:30-6:30pm

FABULOUS FACILITATORS TOASTMASTERS CLUB • 2nd Fl, Canada Place, 9700 Jasper

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

FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican Church,

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

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

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

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CALL OF THE WILD OUTDOOR AND SPORTSMAN SHOW • Heritage Pavilion Street,

Stony Plain • Exhibits/seminars on hunting, fishing, camping, outdoor sports, and agriculture • Sep 13-15 • $10 (per day)/$20 (weekend)/free (kids 12 and under)

E-TOWN • Shaw Conference Centre • Intensive

festival of ideas for entrepreneurial-minded people featuring Chris Hadfield, speakers, entertainment • Sep 12-13 • Pre-register at yourconferencesolution. com/registration/e-town/index.html

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series: Norm Kneyeman • Sep 20, 7-8pm • General admission/free (member)

OSCAR VÁZQUEZ • FAB 2-20 • U of A Depart-

ment of Art and Design Lecture Series: Forum for conceptual exploration, and discovery of the arts • Sep 12, 5pm

TransplanT surgery • TELUS World of Science, 11211-142 St • Dr Lori West presents this

Fri evening lecture series focusing on the human body and healthy life styles • Sep 13, 7-8pm • Admission/free (member)

WHAT IS THE UNIVERSE MADE OF? • CCIS 1-440 snf PCL Lounge, U of A • gpsa.physics. ualberta.ca • The Case for Dark Matter and Dark Energy; public lecture by Cliff Burgess • Sep 18, 7-10pm • Free; reserve at gpsa-symposium. eventbrite.ca

QUEER BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725B Jasper Ave •

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

EPLC FELLOWSHIP PAGAN STUDY GROUP • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • eplc.webs.com • Free year

VUEWEEKLY SEP 12 – SEP 18, 2013

long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome

• 780.465.1941 • Membership breakfast • Sep 21, 9:30-11:30am • Free

EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220-103

Bring OuT yOur DeaD • Black Dog Freehouse • Vinyl swap and music sale: Record swap: an event offering the opportunity for vinyl collectors to come together as a community to peruse, trade, sell and purchase musical recordings • Sep 22, 2-8pm

St 780.424.0077 • yourgaybar.com • Open: Happy Hour: Wed-Fri, 4pm • Tue: Community Night: with various community groups, different activities • Wed: Karaoke, 7pm • Fri-Sat: 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 • Bowling: Ed's Rec Room, WEM: Every Tue, 6:30pm; until Apr 1, 2014; $15/ week • 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 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

G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E Bldg, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E: tuff @shaw.ca ILLUSIONS SOCIAL CLUB • Pride Centre,

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

INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campus-based

organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transidentified and queer (LGBTQ) faculty, graduate student, academic, straight allies and support staff • 3rd Thu each month (fall/winter terms): Speakers Series. E: kwells@ualberta.ca

LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408-124 St • edm-

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

MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB •

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

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

Church, 10804-119 St • 780.474.8240 • 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 AIDS WALK FOR LIFE • Sir Winston Churchill

Sq • aidswalkforlife.ca/Edmonton • Music by Bryan Finlay • Sep 22, 11am • Register online

AVONMORE COMMUNITY LEAGUE •

Avonmore Community Hall Playground, 7902-73 Ave

BUTTERFLIES BOWTIES–THYROID CANCER WALK/RUN • Hermitage Park, 2115

Hermitage Rd • Family Friendly pre-event 8:45 am Kids Caterpillar Crawl. Walk/run starts 9:15am • Sep 14, 845-10:45am • $35 reg on-line at the Running Room

CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION–AB • Steptember.ca • A team activity that runs for the month of September. Fundraiser, proceeds to help people with cerebral palsy and other disabilities.

Once a team is registered, each participant will be sent a ‘Steptember Kit’ which will include 1 pedometer • Sep 15 • Pre-register at Steptember. ca: $25 (adult)/$10 (child) COMMUNITY LEAGUE MEMBER APPRECIATION DAY AND WORLD CAR FREE DAY • Earth’s General Store, 9605-82 Ave • Sep 22, 10am-6pm (12-4pm, barbeque)

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) EPL SQUARED • Churchill Sq • epl.ca/squared • EPL Squared outdoor library festival featuring storytimes, live music with Michael Rault (12-1pm), Cadence Weapon (2-3pm), Jr. Gone Wild (4-5pm), Books2Buy book sale and more • Sep 14, 10am5pm HARVEST CELEBRATION • Enjoy Centre, St

Albert • Local food and social event; fundraiser for the Lois Hole Hospital for Women • Sep 21 • Tickets at royalalex.org/loisholehospital/harvest-celebration

ICE RIDE EDMONTON • Grant MacEwan University City Centre (front of Bldg 7 clock tower), 107 St, 104 Ave • greenpeace.org/canada/iceride • Greenpeace is holding a Global Day of Action in support of their new Arctic campaign. Critical mass bike ride surrounding the theme of the Arctic. Decorate your bikes, dress up; a mass mobilization of all who want to say no to Arctic drilling and yes for a clean and sustainable future • Sep 15, 2pm • Free INTERNATIONAL PEACE DAY–EDUCATION FOR PEACE • Grant MacEwan University, Robbins Health Center Bldg 9, 109 St, 104 Ave • Indoor Celebration at Grant MacEwan University • Sep 21, 1:30-3:30pm

JLS NIGHT MARKET • 102 Ave, 106 St • nightmarketedmonton@gmail.com • 780.901.8480 • Every Sat, 7-11pm; until Sep 28 • Email:nightmarketedmonton@gmail.com KALEIDO FAMILY ARTS FESTIVAL • Alberta Avenue area, 118 Ave, 90-94 St • artsAfestival featuring music, dance, theatre, film, literary, and visual arts • Sep 13-15

MOTORCYCLE POKER RALLY • 13509-127 St • 780.451.7799 • Fundraiser to support kids with cancer and incurable illnesses; 3 Amigods (band) • Sep 21, 9am (show); 11am-4pm (ride); 4-8pm (music) • $30 (full reg)/$15 (events, meals)

OPEN MINDS WALK–RUN • Rundle Park

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t's like online dating, version 2.0, and spartan in its focus: the range of potential matches is measured in distance from your present location instead of a questionnaire, and all you have to go on is a picture, a few bare lines of text, and the option to chat. So, it's not really basic at all.

It's Grindr, a free phone app that offers, gay, bi and curious men the ability to browse profiles of men in the same area—like a geocaching treasure hunt, but the potential prize is a consensual booty call. There are similarly minded apps for different sexual orientations, but Grindr remains the flagship of geosocial networking applications—which isn't the most erotic tech term, but this kind of app is changing the way we meet each other, be it for friendship or for more salacious encounters.

Jaime Woo, author of Meet Grindr, was introduced to the app soon after its launch.

"It was June 2009, so just three months after it came out," Woo recalls. "It was just this kind of shock and this amusement; you wanted to applaud, because it just seemed like such a clever idea. To merge GPScapability with cruising. To create a hook-up app that really brought cruising into the contemporary age. So I was fascinated with it, and like a lot of my friends, we were using it a lot."

By the time Woo started writing his book, the app had four and a half million users worldwide. Though his own writing often focuses on how technology and culture interact, he'd been waiting for something to come out that discussed its ramifications until inspiration came at a games confer-

ence in San Francisco.

"While I was there I was turning on Grindr, and all of a sudden a lightbulb went off in my head," he says. "I was like, wait a second, I'm at a games conference, I'm using Grindr ... could Grindr be a game? Is it like Farmville or any other of those things you spend a lot of time using every day and loving?

"And that's what gave me the real inspiration to tackle the book, and look at the design elements of Grindr. To frame it as a game, and think about rules and players and really lay this all out. Because that's the self-awareness and unpacking of the app I really hadn't seen anywhere. People would talk about if they liked using it, or some of the stories they had on it, but nobody's really saying, well, what does it mean that we're letting this app into our lives, for an hour and a half a day?"

That last statement is fact, too: the average Grindr user is on it for 90 minutes a day. That sort of time commitment, and its worldwide user count, lets Grindr cast a large shadow over apps like Blendr (a similar idea, but for men seeking women and women seeking men) or Tinder (which shows one match at a time, instead of having the option to browse everyone in the area).

Woo's impression of Grindr's head-andshoulders rise above the others is that these apps fail to take into account the difference between how straight and same-sex hook-ups happen.

"I think what those apps need to do is to better differentiate what works between gay men, or men who are looking to have sex with men, versus men who are looking for sex with women and women who are looking

for sex with men," he says. "Those are very different interactions: cruising culture obviously has its roots in the fact that gay sex was illegal, you could be imprisoned for it, you could lose your social status, you could be physically harmed for having gay sex, and there needs to be an anonymity to it. And for men who are looking for women, or women who are looking for men, those channels were always directed in different ways. You could go to the bar, and you could have a couple of drinks, you could take them home, and there weren't the same repercussions as men who were having sex with men.

"And even for just hooking up, the way that women and men interact with hooking up is very different from the way men and men hook up," he continues. "I think a lot of app designers have been quite lazy, and just said, 'Oh this works for Grindr, let's just target it towards men and women, and see if the exact same thing will happen.' Well, obviously not, right?

For all the articles we've seen about cruising culture, fundamentally, they're still different in terms of the perception of how these things are supposed to happen in society. Safety is obviously a big factor as well."

Woo notes not all Grindr users are looking to hook up, necessarily. He points to research about the other reasons it was used.

"One of the top reasons was to meet new friends, or to break into the LGBTQ community," he says. "It shows that people are trying to connect using any methods they can, including something known as a hook-up app.

Because they're trying to find their

community. So, to me, that was really interesting, too: that this thing that was primarily for cruising is being used by other people for other reasons."

Still, Grindr's generally perceived focus—judge book by hunky cover, fire a few chats back and forth, meet, if desired—has drawn its share of champions and detractors. Mitchell Smith seems somewhere in between. He recalls getting the app close to when it came out, but he's used it intermittently over that span, and notes its effect on hook-up and dating culture is that it takes away what would otherwise be the initial interaction.

"It's different from walking up to someone at a bar, or walking up to someone at a show," he says.

"You only know what they look like through a photo. And it's a little bit different than an online dating website, because you're only going off one profile picture until they start talking to you. There's no bio, there's no nothing. You're seeing someone close to you in your area, and you're judging them based off a photo—if they even have a photo—and then you're asking them what they look like. If they post a photo without their face in it, you're asking for a face picture."

That said, he agrees there are other applicable uses for the app.

"I think it's a good app to meet people," he says. "I can definitely say I've met a few really good people off of it. I've made a few friends that I probably wouldn't have met otherwise, just by talking to them and falling into a friendship after that.

It's definitely not just for hook-ups, it's not just for dating."

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Grindr's associations with hook-up culture, though, were a deterrent to Andrew Eirich, who was introduced to the app, "hilariously enough, from a straight girl that I didn't even know," he says. "She was telling me, 'Oh, my friends are on here, you should get it.'

And then she described it, and immediately I was like, 'That is of absolutely no interest to me.'"

"It combines a lot of things that people are really uncomfortable with," he continues. "I think it combines the issue of privacy, I think it combines also an issue of rejection and judgment, and I think, also, it affects people's emotions as well. You watch Sex in the City, and it was obviously a classic of the '90s, and triumphant in how it describes people's relationships and stuff, and I think that there's a lot of truth to saying you can't necessarily hook up all the time and be perfectly happy. I think the fact that Sex and the City made that pop culture, and made people understand that more, and that's how I've always kind of seen it too. " Still, Grindr's influence over the culture of dating and hook-ups seems to be in no danger of dissipating. If anything, it's more likely to ramp up as smartphone culture becomes ubiquitous—which, to Woo, suggests a need for more thought and discussion on why it is we're drawn to using them.

"We have to remember that Grindr is only four and a half years old, and yet it has such a cultural permeation," he says. "But we have to think about what these apps are doing, and why we use these apps."

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Advanced queer sex myths for people who know something about it: lesbian edition

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ow much do you know about queer sex? Google "gay sex myths" and you'll find all the basics for people who have never met a real live queer before: queers don't have sex with animals, not all gay men have anal sex, we're not pedos, etc. You, as a discerning reader of this fine newspaper, surely know more than the average Dick or Jane about the goings-on in queer bedrooms (or kitchens, public parks, stairwells) but do you know everything? I have been surprised by some of the crazy things I've recently heard about queer sex—even from queers! So without any further ado, may I present "Advanced queer sex myths for people who know something about it: lesbian edition."

Myth: Scissoring I am sure that there is a 20-yearold athletic baby-dyke reading this somewhere who scissors with her equally flexible girlfriend three times a week and is offended that I'm not validating her experience, but I've got to say that scissoring isn't a real thing. For those

not in the know: scissoring was invented by South Park writers and features two women opening their legs and mashing their labia together. This is not your garden variety humping but a porn fantasy gone wrong. To illustrate: make a "v" with the index and middle fingers on both hands. Now mash your finger webbing together.

Imagine your fingers are legs. Does that look remotely comfortable? I didn't think so.

Myth: Only butches wear strap-ons I, uh, did a lot of research for this question. I wanted to be thorough so I did some reading, some watching and some hands-on experimentation.

You know, for science. I can safely conclude that there is nothing hotter than a butch in a harness, except for a femme in one. In fact, pretty much anyone who puts on a harness is guaranteed to increase their hotness by at least 25 percent. These days, harnesses come in a wide variety of colours and designs so you're sure to find one you like.

Myth: We don't have sex with trans folk Sadly, lesbian communities are not immune from our own share of rampant transphobia. On the plus side, I'm sure the overlap between "lesbians who won't sleep with trans people" and "assholes" is pretty close to 100 percent.

Myth: Butches don't like to be penetrated If you've read Stone Butch Blues you are probably familiar with the stone butch stereotype: aggressively masculine, only tops, doesn't like any personal genital contact. Not every stone butch is the same and not every butch is a stone butch. Hell, not every lesbian who dresses in flannel is a butch, either. You don't even have to be butch to be stone! Essentially, remember the lessons from your first-year Women's Studies class: gender identity, gender presentation and how you like to fuck are not necessarily related.

Myth: Lesbians can't get STIs An ex once told me that lesbians were God's chosen children because, strictly speaking, we have the safest sex.

While I can't argue with her conclusion, "safest" sex does not equal "safe" sex. Sure, in most cases you have to try pretty effin' hard to get your girlfriend pregnant and while theoretically possible, HIV infection between two women having sex is so rare as to be practically non-existent, there are a whole host of other yummy infections, pustules and warts that we can pass on. So wrap that shit up, ladies, and don't forget to wash your dildos before you share them.

Myth: Lesbian bed death The jury is out on this one, folks. LBD is supposed to be a result of women's lower-sex-drive and desire for cuddling over three-hour sex marathons.

According to the theory, long-term couples will stop having sex in lieu of eating or watching TV or something equally banal. Does it happen? I'm sure it does, but I'm also pretty sure it happens to non-lesbians, too. LBD

just seems like gender essentialism with a dash of strategic lying: we don't want to make people jealous with how often we're getting it on.

Myth: Queers only ever think about sex I'm still stuck on butches in strap-ons ... sorry, what was the question?

Myth: We're better at it Sorry straight people: statistically speaking, queers are probably better at sex than you. Unlike you, our sex doesn't come with a handy illustrated guide ("insert tab A into slot B") and the resulting expectations. Before we knock boots, we have to talk it out a little: what do you like, where can I touch you, who comes first, where are the batteries and so on. In other words, we have to communicate and communication a better lover makes.

Don't get me wrong, I am sure there are individual straight people with mad sex skills, but as a whole, queers win the sex wars.

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I'm a Savage Lovecast listener, but I'm sending this question to your column because my boyfriend would FOR SURE recognize my voice if I called the show. I'm 25, I live in Portland and my boyfriend and I have been monogamous for five years. His dick is of average size.

It's not small enough for him to have dealt with the emotional baggage associated with "small dicks." Yet, I've had sex with big dicks and I would love to try one of those dick sheaths or extenders or whatever. But my boyfriend is a sensitive guy and I feel like I'm going to permanently fuck up our sex life if I ask for one. How can I propose this without him feeling like his manhood is insufficient? I've heard you talk about how it's best to share your kinks as if they were added bonuses—and not as if they were terminal cancers—but I can't figure out how to talk about this without hurting his ego. Advice?

Sincerely Loves Average Man "Getting a sheath onto her boyfriend's dick without hurting his feelings will be a bit tricky," says Matthew Nolan of OhJoySexToy.com. "No matter their size, lads around the world are brought up with dick insecurities. Having said that, a dick sheath isn't the worst thing in the world for her to bring to the table: it involves her boyfriend as a participant and it keeps his dick in the loop."

Matthew and his partner, Erika Moen, collaboratively create an informative, subversive and entertain-

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ing weekly comic that focuses on the world of sex—from sex-toy reviews to interviews with people in the sex industry to sharing sex-education lessons. They research and write the text together and Moen does all the drawing. Why comics?

"Sex education is typically very dry," Moen says. "A wall of text about abstract concepts and then some alien diagrams—it's really hard to relate that information to your own body.

Comics are especially well-equipped to teach people about their bodies, sexual options and reproductive choices because they combine images and text together, making subjects approachable and visually appealing. And, hey, adding in a joke or two helps make people feel included in the conversation instead of being lectured at."

In a recent comic, Nolan gave cock sheaths a try. Cock sheaths—for those of you who haven't visited a sex-toy shop in a while—are a popular new sex toy that allows an average dude to be huge and a huge dude to be ridiculous. They're pliable-but-firm hollow dildos that a guy wears over his dick. The dude slides his hard, lubed-up dick inside the sheath, pulls his balls through a ring at the base that prevents the sheath from sliding off and proceeds to bang away at his partner's hole(s) like a porn star.

That's the theory anyway.

"The dick sheaths I tried weren't the greatest thing for my partner and me," Nolan says. "They dull the senses and turn your dick into an unwieldy mess.

Despite owning a few, my preference is to use a big dildo on my partner instead of wearing a dick sheath."

But if it's a dick sheath you want, SLAM, Nolan has some advice about how to get one.

"SLAM should suggest going sex-toy shopping with her boyfriend," Nolan says. "She could tell her boyfriend she's in a filthy mood and fancies something big. She should put the emphasis on wanting him to give her some big-toy fucking and add that this is something that you can both do together. Have him help pick out different toys—like some big dildos— while saying encouraging things like 'Ooohh, wouldn't you like to fuck me with this one?' When you come across the cock sheath, add it to your cart explaining that it would be a perfect sextoy solution for your mood."

I'm going to break in here for a second: if you feel like your boyfriend might have a meltdown if you start talking about wanting something huge for a change—the implication being, of course, that he isn't able to provide you with that something on his own (how big are his forearms?)—head to the sex-toy shop without any stated agenda and see how he reacts to the cock sheaths on display. If he recoils from them, SLAM, you might wanna steer him over to the body paints and bondage gear. But if he seems intrigued and not threatened by the cock sheaths, ask him how he'd feel about fucking you with one of those, without seeming too hugely invested in being

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fucked by one of those yourself.

And what do you do if you manage to leave the sex-toy store with a cock sheath and a boyfriend whose ego is still intact?

"Be encouraging about enjoying the extra size and having him fuck you with toys," Nolan says. "When it comes to the sheath, keep it jovial—laugh about it and tell him he's sexy. A fun atmosphere can help alleviate insecurities. And by the time you're done and dusted, you'll know better if you prefer him with or without the sheath."

Go to OhJoySexToy.com to see examples of Moen and Nolan's work.

Their comic about pregnancy is particularly inspired and a great resource for parents who are having a hard time explaining where babies come from.

Follow them on Twitter at @PlusTenStrength and @ErikaMoen.

BADLY WANT BONDAGE

I am a 22-year-old heterosexual female. I may possibly be bi, but I don't know. I really like the dick, but I am attracted to women and fantasize about fucking a pretty woman with a strapon. I asked my boyfriend of a year if I could live out my fantasy, but he said he doesn't want me "fucking another woman like a man." I asked if maybe I could do this to him instead, but he said no. I like BDSM, but the most he'll do is hold my arms down and spank me. I've asked for other things—bondage, nipple clamps, paddles, etc—but he says that stuff takes too much time and the bother of it "kills the mood." I offered to

set up stuff beforehand—ropes already tied to the corners of the bed, for instance—but he doesn't want me to do that because "what if someone saw it."

Am I just being inconsiderate and selfish? Maybe I'm asking too much, but I felt that I was beyond honest about all of this before we started dating. My ex-husband (yes, ex-husband: I got married at 16 and divorced last year) was never OK with any of this, either, and would call me a freak when I opened up about my desires—so I made sure not to hide them from my current boyfriend when we met. Now what am I supposed to do? Just drop it? Or should I talk to him? How do I talk to him?

Confused And Sexually Denied Yes, CASD, you should drop it—and by "it" I mean "him."

You wasted five years of your life on a man who couldn't meet your needs and sex-shamed you about your perfectly ordinary, perfectly average kinks. You've been with this new guy for a year and he's revealed himself to be every bit as lazy, inconsiderate and sex-shamey as your ex-husband. DTMFA. There are tons of guys out there who would 1) be happy to indulge your kinks and 2) make lovely boyfriends and/or husbands. Go find one—or two or three or four.

On the Savage Lovecast, it's Bible study time with nondouchey Christian John Shore at savagelovecast.com. V @fakedansavage on Twitter

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very year at this time, the previews of new TV series start rolling in with the pundits placing their bets on the best new offerings. Sex nerds everywhere will want to take note of the top pick this season. Masters of Sex, which premières September 29 on Showtime, is about the personal and professional lives of sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson. Their story is a television producer's dream—period drama with '60s sets and costumes, scandalous work relationships, infidelity and loads of sex.

It's hard to imagine that the series could be anything other than entertaining, but it will be interesting to see how it portrays the famously controversial couple. Will they be depicted as bold visionaries, over-sexed pseudo-scientists or a little of both?

Masters was a professor of obstetrics and gynecology who set out to study and record what actually happens to the human body during sex. In the late '50s and early '60s, he and Johnson, his assistant who later became his research partner and then his wife,

observed almost 700 men and is still used by some. Their work professionals and individuals to women having sex in their lab. Us- paved the way for greater under- view relatively common experiing probes and monitors, they re- standing of sexuality in general ences as sexual dysfunctions.

Perhaps most controversial is corded their subjects' heart rates, and female sexuality in particular.

Masters and Johnson's book Hocirculation, muscle activity and other responses during a variety Groundbreaking as they were, mosexuality in Perspective, pubof sex acts and approximately 10 Masters and Johnson were highly lished in 1979. In it, they claimed controversial. Later sex research- to have provided therapy to 67 000 orgasms.

The work of Masters and John- ers criticized the lack of diversity men and women with same-sex attraction who son was revoexpressed a delutionary. They In the late '50s and early '60s, he and Johnson sire to be hetwere the first to actually ob- observed almost 700 men and women having sex erosexual. They claimed a sucserve and meain their lab. cess rate of at sure people's least 45 percent physiological responses during sex. Their re- amongst their research subjects in helping these people convert search gave us invaluable infor- and questioned whether results from homosexuality to heterosexmation about how sex actually obtained in a lab accurately re- uality. In his book Masters of Sex, works and opened doors for new flect people's real-life experience on which the Showtime series is ways to address sexual problems, of sex. Many have argued that based, Thomas Maier writes that which had previously been viewed Masters and Johnson's model of Robert Kolodny, head researcher as almost solely psychological. sexual response is overly simplis- at the Masters and Johnson instiTheir studies showed there is no tic and ignores the complexity of tute, told him he had never actuphysiological difference between sexual interactions and factors ally seen any of the case studies a vaginal and clitoral orgasm— such as cultural conditioning, at- that were included in the book challenging the prevailing Freud- traction, self-image and relation- and that Masters refused to proian notion that orgasm without ship issues. Some believe Mas- vide him with the research when penetration is inferior and less ters and Johnson's focus on the asked, leading him to wonder mature. They developed a four- physical is one of the factors that if it was real. Maier also claims phase model of sexual response led to a medicalization of sexual Johnson herself had grave reserthat became widely accepted and problems that has caused many vations about the validity of the

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research in the book. He says they both wanted to stop the publication of the book but neither of them spoke publicly about these concerns. Homosexuality in Perspective came to be used by advocates of gay-conversion therapy as supposed scientific proof that homosexual attraction can be changed. It continues to be quoted to this day, and it will be interesting to see if the TV series dares to address this issue and how they handle it.

There is no question Masters and Johnson were pioneers in their time, but there is much to question and criticize within their methods and body of work. The show may be an opportunity to reexamine their work from a new historical perspective. Or it may just be an opportunity to create a show with lots and lots of sex.

Unfortunately, neither Masters nor Johnson lived to see how they will be portrayed. Masters died in 2001 and Johnson just a few short months before the première, in July of this year.

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xploitation," that 12-letter word behind so much sex performed for a viewer's pleasure, is even easier to forget now that porn's drifted into cyberspace, where penises are pixellated on screens, breasts get flaunted on webcams overseas and the hype machine grinds out sex tapes of distant stars. But now, it seems, sexploitation's reached red-carpeted film festivals and the arthouse.

The adaptation of a French graphic novel about two young women in love, Abdellatif Kechiche's Blue Is The Warmest Color was the winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes this year and a runaway hit with critics. But as it rolls out in film festivals across the US and Canada (including Toronto and, in a few weeks, Edmonton), more controversy is heating up around the filming of its sex scenes.

Soon after the film took top prize at the Croisette, the graphic novelist, Julie Maroh, lambasted its sapphic sex as porn-like fantasy for guys and thought the absence of lesbian actors a shame. In a recent interview, the two leads, Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos, respectively, called the shoot "horrible" and noted Kechiche sometimes exerted "a kind of manipulation," particularly in the sexscene shoot, which went on for 10 days, and a fight scene where he had them actually hit each other for more than an hour. They doubt they'll work with him again.

The arthouse has been here before. In 1972, many North Americans saw porn as not only chic but art—it was the dazzlingly brief "Golden Age of Porn." New Yorkers and other urbanites swarmed theatres to see blue movies like Deep Throat (grossing well over $30 million) or Behind the Green Door (grossing $50 million), also reviewed seriously in mainstream publications. Deep Throat star Linda Lovelace, abused by her then-husband, never received a penny for her performance.

In the fall of 1972, acclaimed director Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris—with Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider getting it on in a Paris apartment, once with the help, in an infamous scene, of butter—was released. X-rated, it sparked controversy and cries of pornography, and was banned in Italy and, over here, in Nova Scotia; it also grossed $96 million and blew away some cineastes—

New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael famously gushed all over it. Schneider soon denounced the film, deeming it her one regret, saying she felt "raped and manipulated" by it, and calling Bertolucci a "gangster" and a "pimp." She didn't speak to Bertolucci—who himself came to wonder if she'd been too young at the time (20) and felt overawed or otherwise unable to speak up—for 15 years afterwards.

Recently, method-acting's gone raunchier, with more unsimulated or extremely realistic sex scenes in artsy films. (The reigning king of art-cinema hype and Cannes controversy, Lars von Trier, has been releasing preview-snippets of his explicit Nymphomaniac, with Uma Thurman, Charlotte Rampling, and Shia Laboeuf.)

But who's exploiting whom? To entice viewers, studios, marketers and some entertainment-industry writers red-light the smut while trading on the respectability of auteurdirectors. But even as actors get caught up, on set, doing something they regret in the name of art, are their confessions stoking more profitable controversy for the film? (Kechiche has responded to his co-stars' complaints, saying, via translation, "How indecent to talk about pain when doing one of the best jobs in the world! ... How, when you are adored, when you go up on red carpet, when we receive awards, how we can speak of suffering?") Still, in a male-dominated movie world, are some male auteur-directors being, on set, much like the pimping, voyeuristic Hollywood system they like to separate themselves from?

Porn smears over its many exploited or coerced young women and its usually misogynist outlook with the all-important "money shot," getting down-and-dirty for the sake of dollars. But is arthouse sexotica much better in its blurring of the lines between gruelling onset work and steamy on-screen sex, between the behind-the-scenes means and the beautyjustifying end? And is there any way to judge unless we go see, say, Blue Is The Warmest Color for ourselves, forking over the money to judge whether or not the product's actually just steamy expression, but risking our own consumer-complicity if it is, instead, seamy exploitation?

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Edmonton Chante The Festival’s team is presently looking for dynamic volunteers that are available during the next edition of Edmonton chante. If you would like to get involved, contact David Letky, at d.letky@acfaedmonton.ab.ca.

Thanks for your participation!

Line-X Edmonton

is in need of 3 Rubber Processing Machine Operators F/T Permanent $20.00/hr, 40 hrs/week, weekend shift work maybe required as needed; Completion of High School, Experience is an asset but willing to train.

Duties: Set up & operate machinery used for mixing, moulding & curing rubber materials or products, Load or feed rubber, pigments, filler, oil & chemicals into machines, Check & monitor processing conditions & product quality, Make minor repairs & maintenance, Able to follow direction & maintain safety practices & procedures.

Apply by Mail, Fax or E-mail jag@linexcoatings.com Fax: (780) 444-2715, Phone: (780) 487-9720, Employer: 1214646 Alberta Ltd. o/a Line-X Edmonton, Business/Work Location: 17395-108 Ave, Edmonton, AB T5S 1G2

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Fort Edmonton Park is in search of performers to terrify and delight audiences at our annual Halloween Spooktacular. Bring to life the bone chilling horror of our haunted houses as directed by Edmonton’s own theatrical legend Dana Andersen. This is a great opportunity to make connections, get experience working with professional actors, and have the kind of fun that only comes from making people wet themselves in terror.

Spooktacular runs October 25th and 26th, and rehearses Wednesdays through September and October.

Auditions held the last week of August. To audition, please send a recent photograph and resume to volunteer@fortedmontonpark.ca

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 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 Stars of Alberta Volunteer Awards Search The search continues for Alberta’s outstanding volunteers as nominations for the fourteenth annual Stars of Alberta Volunteer Awards are still open.

From students to seniors, volunteers are the backbone of our communities and you can help to recognize their selfless generosity.

Do you know local volunteers who are making a difference in your community? Consider putting their names forward for the 2013 Stars of Alberta Volunteer Awards!

Six awards will be presented in three categories, two each for youth, adult and senior at a gala celebration in Edmonton on December 5, 2013, International Volunteer Day. For more information, please visit www.culture.alberta.ca/volunta rysector/stars/default.aspx The deadline for nominations is Monday, September 16, 2013.

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

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

For more information please contact Melissa at 780-868-9210 Volunteering - Does your employer have a Day of Caring program?

We invite you to come and spend some time with us at Habitat for Humanity!

It’s easy to sign up a group of volunteers to work on one of our builds. Volunteers from beginners to garage “putterers�, to trades people come out and help us to build homes for families in our community. We provide all tools, equipment, safety gear and lunch. Volunteers work in small crews under the direction of our site supervisors. Our primary focus is safety and we have a fun, welcoming environment that’s great for an employee group to experience giving back to community together.

For more information, go to our website at www.hfh.org or contact Kim at 780-451-3416 ext 232.

Contact: Kim Sherwood Email: ksherwood@hfh.org Phone: 780.451.3416 Website: http://www.hfh.org Volunteering - Habitat for Humanity invites all women to build with us during Women Build Week: October 22-26 Are you a woman who has always wanted to volunteer on a Habitat for Humanity build site but were unsure if you had the necessary skills? You may be surprised how many women -- with no construction experience -- build homes with Habitat for Humanity. If you are a woman who wants to help families in our community, there is an important role for you on our build sites, whether you have no construction experience or a tool belt of skills. Your gift of time will give hard-working families an opportunity to build equity in a home and in their futures.

Volunteers are trained and equipped to perform every task accurately and safely by our expert site superintendents and crew leaders and will leave our build sites with an inspiring sense of accomplishment and satisfaction. We provide all tools, equipment and lunch.

All volunteers participate in onsite safety orientation/training. No minimum number of shifts required. Check our website www.hfh.org to register as a volunteer online , contact Louise Contact: Louise Fairley Email: lfairley@hfh.org Phone: 780.451.3416 Website: http://www.hfh.org Walking With Our Sisters Exhibit of Moccasin Tops, Edmonton 2013 Call Out for Volunteers: We are looking for volunteers to support this event starting Sept. 7- Oct. 17, 2013. Please contact Co-VolunteerCoordinator, Laura Sterling at: Laura.Sterling@metischild.com , or you can leave her a voicemail message if you have further questions at (780) 452-6100.

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 Email: ehammer@hfh.org Phone: 780.451.3416 Website: http://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 Email: Edmonton@roomtoread.org Phone: 780.425.4043 Website:

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“Walking With Our Sisters� Volunteers are needed for A Commemorative Art Installation for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women of Canada and the United States.

1,600 beaded moccasin tops have been created by just over 1,200 caring and concerned people to create one large collaborative art piece that will tour across Canada and the United States. They will be installed in a winding path over a gallery floor.

This project is about these women, paying respect to their lives and existence on this earth. They are not forgotten. They are sisters, mothers, daughters, cousins, grandmothers. They have been cared for, loved, and they are missing.

The Exhibit premieres at the Telus Centre’s Atrium at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, from October 2, 2013 through to October 14, 2013. We are looking for many volunteers to support this event. For more information about opportunities please contact Laura.Sterling@metischild.com or leave a message for Laura at (780) 452-6100 before September 15.

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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

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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

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

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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

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SPECIAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Instructions for proposals: The Artisan Nook, Located at Proposals must include CV/bio The Paint Spot, Edmonton, AB plus 5 – 10 examples of past Guitarists, bassists, vocalists, Looking for submissions of work (jpgs or links). Proposals pianists and drummers needed Holiday-themed craft/ artisan can be emailed, shared via for good paying teaching jobs. work for display/ sale Nov/Dec dropbox, or sent by mail. If Please call 780-901-7677 2013. Artists who craft small, emailing proposal, email must artistic objects are invited to not be larger than 5MB. submit exhibition proposals Address your email with the Tsunami Bros.

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1 Super guy?

6 Nigeria’s capital since 1991 11 On the double 14 Adjust to fit 15 “What’s Happening!!” role 16 Galena, for one 17 Following the “Whip It” band closely?

19 Put down the first card 20 Bar selections 21 Bumped into 22 Game played “with my little eye” 24 Fellas 25 Blogger Wheaton of interest to geeks everywhere 26 Where cats get chased 29 Film studio site 30 Fidel cohort 31 This, in Tijuana 32 Punk gymnast popular in the 1980s?

35 Telenovelas, in English 37 Joint owners’ pronoun 38 Slot machine spinners 39 Hero with a black mask and a big chin?

42 Fisher of “Arrested Development” 43 Choose 44 Creator of M and Q 45 Manager’s lists 47 Obama’s mother ___ Dunham 48 Breakfast drinks, briefly 51 Like grapefruit juice 52 Award bestowed by Queen Eliz.

53 Thought 54 Norm on a golf course 56 What haters of Miley’s August spectacle wanted from the media?

59 Compadre 60 Arctic dweller 61 Remains neutral?

62 1980s “truly outrageous” cartoon 63 “Melrose Place” actor Rob 64 Shannon formerly of “SNL”

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7 Orion feature 8 Mentalist Geller 9 Gin flavoring 10 Nervous state 11 Tennis racket string material 12 “Forgot About ___” (2000 single featuring Eminem) 13 End-of-proof abbr.

18 “Jaws” resort 23 11- or 12-year-old 25 What things could always be 26 Spock crewmate 27 Alex who starred in 2007’s “The Water Horse” (anagram of LEET) 28 Opposite of “avec” 29 Rio de ___ (Buenos Aires’ river) 30 Word after food or kangaroo 32 Powerful whirlpool 33 Plays over and over 34 Keyboard instrument 35 “___ It Up” (Bob Marley) 36 Very, melodramatically 40 TV host Graham and boxer Ken, for two 41 Bay Area football player, for short 46 “Journey to ___” (“Sesame Street” feature) 47 Aids a criminal 48 “Island of the Blue Dolphins” author Scott 49 Singer whose surname is Kilcher 50 Unwilling to be talked down to 52 Boo-boo 53 ___-European languages 54 Brown bag staple, informally 55 “Chances ___” 57 Boy king of Egypt 58 Sister of Khloe and Kourtney ©2013 Jonesin' Crosswords

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TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): Taurus musician David Byrne was asked by an interviewer to compose a seven-word autobiography. In response, he came up with 10 words: "unfinished, unprocessed, uncertain, unknown, unadorned, underarms, underpants, unfrozen, unsettled, unfussy." The coming days would be an excellent time for you to carry out similar assignments. I'd love to see you express the essential truth about yourself in bold and playful ways. I will also be happy if you make it clear that even though you're a work-in-progress, you have a succinct understanding of what you need and who you are becoming.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): The French word sillage means "wake," like the trail created behind a boat as it zips through water. In English, it refers to the fragrance that remains in the air after a person wearing perfume or cologne passes by. For our purposes, we will expand the definition to include any influences and impressions left behind by a powerful presence who has exited the scene. In my astrological opinion, Gemini, sillage is a key theme for you to monitor in the coming days. Be alert for it. Study it. It will be a source of information that helps you make good decisions.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): "Cataglottism" is a rarely used English word that has the same meaning as French kissing—engaging in liberal use of the tongue as you make out. But I don't recommend that you incorporate such an inelegant, guttural term into your vocabulary. Imagine yourself thinking, while in the midst of French kissing, that what you're doing is "cataglottism." Your pleasure would probably be diminished. This truth applies in a broader sense, too. The language you use to frame your experience has a dramatic impact on how it all unfolds. The coming week will be an excellent time to experiment with this principle. See if you can increase your levels of joy and grace by describing what's happening to you with beautiful and positive words.

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LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): This is Correct Your First Impressions Week. It's a perfect time for you to re-evaluate any of your beliefs that are based on mistaken facts or superficial perceptions. Are you open to the possibility that you might have jumped to unwarranted conclusions? Are you willing to question certainties that hardened in you after just a brief exposure to complicated processes? During Correct Your First Impressions Week, humble examination of your fixed prejudices is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself. PS: this is a good time to reconnect with a person you have unjustly judged as unworthy of you.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): This is a good time to free yourself from a curse that an immature soul placed on you once upon a time. I'm not talking about a literal spell cast by a master of the dark arts. Rather, I'm referring to an abusive accusation that was heaped on you, perhaps inadvertently, by a careless person whose own pain made them stupid. As I evaluate the astrological omens, I conclude that you now have the power to dissolve this curse all by yourself. You don't need a wizard or a witch to handle it for you.

Follow your intuition for clues on how to proceed. Here's a suggestion to stimulate your imagination: visualize the curse as a dark purple rose. See yourself hurling it into a vat of molten gold.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): The current chapter of your life story may not be quite as epic as I think it is, so my advice may sound melodramatic. Still, what I'm going to tell you is something we all need to hear from time to time.

And I'm pretty sure this is one of those moments for you. It comes from writer Charles Bukowski: "Nobody can save you but yourself. You will be put again and again into nearly impossible situations. They will attempt again and again through subterfuge, guise and force to make you submit, quit and/or die quietly inside.

But don't, don't, don't. It's a war not easily won, but if anything is worth winning then this is it. Nobody can save you but yourself, and you're worth saving."

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): The cosmos hereby grants you poetic license to be brazen in your craving for the best and brightest experiences ... to be uninhibited in feeding your obsessions and making them work for you ... to be shameless as you pursue exactly and only what you really, really want more than anything else. This is a limited-time offer, although it may be extended if you pounce eagerly and take full advantage. For best results, suspend your pursuit of trivial wishes and purge yourself of your bitchy complaints about life.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): At the last minute, Elsa Oliver impulsively cancelled her vacation to New York. She had a hunch something exciting would happen, so she stayed at her home in England instead. A few hours later, she got a message inviting her to be a contestant on the UK television show Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? In the days and weeks that followed, she won the equivalent of $100 000.

I'm not predicting anything quite as dramatic for you, Sagittarius.

But I do suspect that good luck is lurking in unexpected places and to gather it in you may have to trust your intuition, stay alert for late-breaking shifts in fate and be willing to alter your plans.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): "The only thing standing between you and your goal," writes American author Jordan Belfort, "is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it."

I don't entirely agree with that idea.

There may be other obstacles over which you have little control. But the bullshit story is often more than half the problem. So that's the bad news, Capricorn. The good news is that right now is a magic moment in your destiny when you have more power than usual to free yourself of your own personal bullshit story.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): Is the truth a clear, bright, shiny treasure, like a big diamond glittering in the sunlight? Does it have an objective existence that's independent of our feelings about it? Or is the truth a fuzzy, convoluted thing that resembles a stream of smoke snaking through an underground cavern?

Does it have a different meaning for every mind that seeks to grasp it? The answer, of course, is both. Sometimes the truth is a glittering diamond and at other times it's a stream of smoke. But for you right now, Aquarius, the truth is the latter. You must have a high tolerance for ambiguity as you cultivate your relationship with it. It's more likely to reveal its secrets if you maintain a flexible and cagey frame of mind.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): It's a good time to indulge in wideopen, high-flying, anything-goes fantasies about love—IF, that is ... IF you also do something practical to help those fantasies come true. So I encourage you to dream about revolutionizing your relationship with romance and intimacy—as long as you also make specific adjustments in your own attitudes and behaviour that will make the revolution more likely.

Two more tips: 1) Free yourself from dogmatic beliefs you might have about love's possibilities. 2) Work to increase your capacity for lusty trust and trusty lust. V *Oops! We ran this week's horoscope last week as well. Enjoy a double dose of the stars.

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