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Reporting on suicide T

he death of Winnipeg Jets forward Rick Rypien—who will be better remembered as a member of the Vancouver Canucks—was a tragedy. The 27-year-old hockey player, who had recently signed a oneyear deal with the Jets and was looking forward to a fresh start after a rocky few years in Vancouver, will be remembered for his pugilism, his fearlessness and his personal problems. Rypien took his first leave of absence from the Vancouver Canucks during the 2008-09 season. The reason given, at the time, was that it stemmed from a string of injuries he'd suffered. After shoving a fan in a 2010 game in Minnesota and taking a second leave of absence, rumours swirled that Rypien was struggling with mental health issues. Though it's not been said outright, it's likely that Rypien took his own life. The police in his hometown of Crowsnest Pass and hockey media all over the world are referring to the death as "sudden but not suspicious"—a near-transparent code for suicide. But is such a code necessary? His mental health issues were kept quiet by his team and the media out of respect for the player, and it's likely that the cause of death is being quieted for the same reason, but it does a great disservice to the millions of Canadians living with similar issues to continue to treat mental illness as if it is something to be hushed up, to be ashamed of. There is a general rule in the media that suicides aren't to be reported on. It's thought that reporting on a suicide could lead to copycats. If this is the case, however, why report on any crime at all? Why report a murder? Why report on rape or bank robbery? Is there no fear that others will commit similar crimes? We do not treat mental health in this country the way it ought to be treated: depression and other mental illnesses should be as normalized as diabetes, as normalized as any chronic health problem that needs to be managed so it doesn't become debilitating or, worse, fatal. We know what treatments alleviate the symptoms of mental illness; we need to remove the stigma of the disease so that there is no shame in accessing them. Suicide kills more people per year than motor vehicle collisions—aren't those lives worth something? It will take courage to change our society, but the benefit is great and the cost is a change in thinking. V

YOURVUE

Your Vue is the weekly roundup of all your comments and views of our coverage. Every week we'll be running your comments from the website, feedback on our weekly web polls and any letters you send our editors.

COMMENTS FROM WEBSITE "A four star review of this play is shameful. The show didn't even try to approach what Riel was fighting for ... just vague references of settlement disputes. There were some amazing singers, but the music was beyond even what they were capable of. Blocking was clumsy. Sound was sketchy. Most of the actors were visibly scared on stage. RED FACE! I don't think they meant to be offensive. But it was playing close to the line. The show is what it is. The Fringe has shows running the gamut of quality. But giving it a four star review is misrepresenting what the show is and will guide many people to a show they will NOT enjoy. Does no honour to what Riel means in Canadian History."

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As you may be aware, the 30th annual Fringe festival is upon us. Will you be taking in any theatre?

ChrisCrook comment on review of Hey Riel!

"I saw The Last Five Years on Saturday evening and was extremely impressed by Jamie and Cathy's performances. Both of them have fine, fine voices. As for David Wilson not being the right person to play Jamie, I totally disagree. It was a wonderful performance enhanced by the brilliant piano accompanist." Tricia 8123 comment on review of The Last Five Years

"Channel One women rule!" Rachel comment on review of Channel One

1. Yes, that's what the Fringe is all about. 2. No, I'm just here for the green onion cakes. 3. Yes, this is the only time of year I take in theatre. Check out vueweekly.com/yourvue to vote and comment.

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Plan B

Imperial Oil is stuck with a project going nowhere

hen Plan A stalls, you need a Plan B. And if Plan B is going to cost an extra $70M and threaten your project timeline, you start looking for Plan C, just to be on the safe side. Just ask Imperial Oil. In September, 2009, Imperial and US parent company Exxon Mobil announced the Kearle Module Transport Project, a $250M contract with a South Korean company to manufacture 207 preassembled modules for the Kearl Lake upgrader being built northeast of Fort McMurray. The plan had its critics. Some, like Edmonton Goldbar MLA Hugh MacDonald, Liberal critic for Employment and Immigration, wondered why Edmonton companies capable of the manufacturing were overlooked. "While we give them the royalty and tax concessions, our local companies are not even being given a fair chance to bid on the work," MacDonald stated in an interview with Vue last fall. Others were concerned with the transportation of the megaloads. Shipped to Vancouver, WA, the components were barged up the Columbia and Snake Rivers to the Port of Lewiston. The plan was to load them onto oversized semi-tractor trailers.

The loads, each weighing over 300 tons, and measuring 210 feet long, 24 feet wide and 30 feet high, would be trucked along US12 through Idaho and Montana, and north across the border to Fort McMurray. Imperial’s hopes to have the first of the megaloads in Kearl Lake before winter arrived were dashed by opposition from environmentalists and residents along the proposed route. Although bureaucrats in both states eventually approved transport permits, legal challenges continued into the spring. In March, 200 people were hired to break up the 33 modules at Lewiston into 60 smaller units. Imperial spokesperson Pius Rolheiser estimates this process will require 5000 to 6000 person-hours of work and cost of at least $500 000 per module. Using an alternative route from the Port of Lewiston, the smaller loads could be trucked up US Highway 95 to Coeur d'Alene, east along I-90 into Montana and north on Interstate 15 to Canada. Having spent over $21 million on road modifications, not to mention significant legal costs, the company is reluctant to abandon Plan A. Given

the go-ahead by the Idaho courts, the first megaload left the Port of Lewiston on April 11. Calling this first shipment a "test run" in a press release, Imperial/Exxon also launched a website for residents to track the shipment’s progress. "We've worked with state authorities for nearly three years to produce a plan that not only prioritizes safety, but also cre-

Exxon incomprehensibly failed to grasp how beloved this area is. Goliath can be stopped. ates minimal disruption to traffic, infrastructure and the environment," said Chris Allard, Kearl project manager in the release. Moments after departing, the megaload snapped off a 20-foot long tree branch at the Lewiston Rose Garden near the edge of town. The massive module pressed ahead, only to hit a guide wire and knock over a power line near Orofino about an hour later. Local media reported 1300 area residents lost power for over five hours and the highway was closed for an hour. The Idaho's Department of Transportation ordered the shipment halted. Meanwhile, the Missoula county commis-

NEWSROUNDUP HuMAN RIGHTS VS TRADE While Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been touring Latin American countries to promote new free trade deals, many in Canada are concerned about his disregard for promoting human rights. The goal of the tour as stated is to expand market access to increase job growth, but stops along the tour have included Hondurus, which the Latin American and Carribbean Solidarity Network states has been a place of drastic human rights abuse including murders of human rights defenders since the coup d'etat of president Manuel Zelaya in June of 2009. Canada has backed the government of President Porfirio Lobo of the National Party as well as a truth and reconciliation commission that occurred after

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early May, is wearing out its welcome with the locals. On July 19, a judge renewed the injunction halting the megaload's passage, agreeing with the plaintiffs that Montana's Department of Transportation failed to carry out adequate environmental assessments. While the judge lifted the cease order on further modifications along the route, he warned that Imperial proceed with these at their own peril, as they may never receive the permits. Environmentalists proclaimed victory. Bobby McEnaney is a land policy analyst for the Natural Resources Defense Council, a group claiming a membership

of 1.3 million environmental activists. "Exxon assumed that turning one of the most wild and scenic parts of the United States into an industrial transportation corridor was a fait accompli," he wrote on the NRDC website. "Exxon incomprehensibly failed to grasp how beloved this area is. Goliath can be stopped.” Last week, Imperial/Exxon announced Plan C. This will see the equipment shipped across the ocean, up the Columbia River to the Port of Pasco in Washington State and trucked along a different route. The Washington Department of Transportation is testing the route to make sure it can handle the load, but advises that permits could not be issued prior to mid-October, in any event, because of construction work on I-90 in the Spokane area. Imperial spokesperson Pius Rolheiser told Vue this week that 56 modules shipped directly from the Port of Vancouver have arrived at Kearl Lake and that eight of the 60 disassembled units from Lewiston have arrived in Alberta and are currently being reassembled in Nisku. MIMI WILLIAMS // MIMI@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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SAY NO TO COAL the new government was in place. The solidarity network is concerned Harper will be announcing a new free trade deal between Hondurus and Canada without concern for these actions. Human Rights Watch, an international rights organization, has called for investigations into threats against human rights defenders operating in the country, as well as investigations of police brutality. The tour is seen as an attempt to move Canada away from the debtplagued American economy and has included a stop in Brazil which has over 40 Canadian companies operating in the country, but no free trade agreement has been signed. Harper's visit to Honduras is the first by a foreign leader since the coup d'etat.

OUT OF CONTROL Environment Canada has released a forecast of Canada's carbon output for the next decade. The report indicates that any gains created by the phasing out of coal plants, expected to happen by 2015, will be undone by expansion in the tar sands. The report, Canada's Emmissions Trends, projected greenhouse gas output across sectors between 2005 and 2020. The report projects the tar sands will triple the 2005 level of emissions resulting in an output of 92 million

sioners and three environmental organizations filed for a restraining order to halt the megaload at the state border. After working out its transport kinks and riding out inclement weather, the megaload arrived at the Montana state line on April 28, just in time for that injunction to be granted. The megaload which has been sitting in the parking lot of the Lolo Hot Springs Lodge since

tonnes in 2020. Other sectors are expected to have emissions levels grow much more slowly, or even drop— electricity emissions are expected to drop by 31 million tonnes. Clare Demerse of the Pembina Institute has stated, "Because the ups and downs in emissions in other sectors largely cancel each other out, the bottom line is that virtually the entire projected increase in Canada's emissions between 2005 and 2020 will come from the oilsands."

The Council of Canadians is calling for Environment Minister Peter Kent to keep his promise and stop the expedited approval of a new coal plant. Maxim Power Corp, located near Grande Cache, was approved by the Alberta Utilities Commission despite incoming federal legislation that begins to phase out coal plants. The Pembina Insitute challenged the interim AUC approval of the plant, accusing the organization of attempting to skirt the new legislation. "After helping this coal plant to beat the federal deadline, the AUC has now also loos-

ened the standard for greenhouse gas pollution in Alberta," said Chris Severson-Baker, managing director of the Pembina Institute. "Approvals issued a decade ago included a requirement that the companies offset the plant emissions down to the level of a natural gas power plant.” The legislation phasing out new coal plants was adopted under former Environment Minister Jim Prentice and will phase out new coal plants by 2015. At the time the legislation was adopted Prentice anticipated a potential rush to build new plants that

were not compliant with regulations and the Pembina Institute believes this approval is evidence. The Pembina Institute has stated the decision to approve the plant does not meet conditions to address greenhouse gas emissions and does not contain justification for the necessity of the plant. Ecojustice lawyer Barry Robinson says, "One can only assume that it was the AUC's intent to assist Maxim in avoiding the pending federal regulations. It's difficult to understand how that can be in the interest of all Albertans."

QUOTE OF THE WEEK "He is prescribing exactly the poison that infects the American health system, which is two-tier, private, insurance-based health care. It is very, very troubling. We must stand up and oppose it." —Friends of Medicare executive director David Eggen on PC Leadership candidate Gary Mar's health care plan Edmonton Journal, Wed, Aug 17

VUEWEEKLY AUG 18 – AUG 24, 2011

COMMENT >> SOUTH AMERICA

An end to an experiment

South Africa's experiment in tolerance could be ended by the future ANC leader Julius Malema did something unusual and prosperity to South Africa's black on Saturday. The leader of the Youth majority, but it has only half-succeeded. League of South Africa's ruling AfSeventeen years after it took power, rican National Congress (ANC) one-third of the country's people are apologized for something he still living on less than $2 a day, had said. "We are a young and they are almost all black. people who will time and So there is a promising politi.com cal niche for somebody who ly again commit mistakes and k e e w e@vue gwynn are prepared to learn from articulates their anger and ade y w G nn those mistakes," he declared. vocates radical solutions, and r Dye There were only three things Malema has won the competition wrong with his apology. One was the to fill that niche. use of the "royal We": it was Malema He won it by being more radical than himself who said that the ANC should anybody else. He's the only prominent work to overthrow the government member of the ANC who has scolded of neighbouring Botswana, not some the president for not being sufficiently anonymous group of youths. Secondly, supportive of Robert Mugabe, the oche is not actually a youth: he is 30 years togenarian dictator who has reduced old. And thirdly, his remark was clearly neighbouring Zimbabwe to penury. He premeditated, and he is not really sorry advocates nationalizing South Africa's for making it. mining industry (by far the country’s Julius Malema is increasingly seen as biggest source of employment and a likely future president of South Afrevenue), and seizing the land of white rica: President Jacob Zuma has said that farmers without compensation. he is a good leader who is "worthy of He insists on singing "Shoot the Boer" inheriting the ANC." But this doesn't (the white farmer), the old apartheidnecessarily mean that Zuma really likes era "struggle" song, despite South AfMalema. Most of the ANC's leaders disrica's laws against hate speech and the like him, but they also fear him, for he fact that 1489 white farmers actually has the enthusiastic support of millions have been murdered since the end of of the poorest people in South Africa. the apartheid regime in 1994. So the poorest and most marginalized people The ANC's goal was to bring power in the country love Malema for his fe-

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rocity and recklessness, and that gives him enormous leverage within the party. Only once before has the ANC tried to discipline him, in May, 2010, when he was forced to make a public apology, fined, and ordered to take anger management classes after he "brought the party into disrepute" by criticizing President Zuma. But he didn't attend the anger management course, and before long he was back at it. After his latest outburst, calling for

nationalization of the mines, and the ANC is so afraid of him that it has said that nationalization "requires further study"—even though the party leaders know that it would cause the collapse of the South African economy. Does Malema understand that? Perhaps not: he only finished high school at the age of 21, with near-failing grades. But since his whole political strategy requires him to be a raving extremist, he would probably still be arguing for the same measures even if he understood

The poorest and most marginalized people in the country love Malema for his ferocity and recklessness, and that gives him enormous leverage within the party.

regime change in Botswana, which he said was "a foot stool of imperialism, a security threat to Africa and always under constant puppetry of the United States," ANC leaders called again for him to be disciplined, but it didn't happen. Malema made a semi-apology ("We should have known better"), but he did not abandon his plan to use ANC Youth League resources to support the opposition in Botswana. Neither did he repudiate his call for the

their consequences. Perhaps the heavens would fall if he got power, but so what? He would be in power, and that's what counts. It must also be acknowledged that the people who would lose in a South Africa ruled by Malema are not the people who support him, for they have absolutely nothing to lose, and there are a lot of them. The ANC's leaders know that, and dare not take him on directly. They scheduled a meeting on Monday

to discipline Malema for his most recent transgressions, but then they lost their nerve and cancelled it. So could this reckless, ruthless demagogue end up as the elected leader of South Africa? Yes he could, and that would be the end of the brave experiment in tolerance and democracy that South Africa has been living through for the past two decades. But it depends on two things: how well the economy is doing, and how badly the ANC is doing in the opinion polls. The two things are clearly linked: the better South Africa's economy is, the more popular the ANC will be. An ANC that is not afraid of losing power in the next election would never give Malema a chance to take power. But an ANC that foresees itself losing power in the next election—and after 17 continuous years in power, its popularity is eroding fast—might well turn to Malema in the hope of turning its political fortunes around. That's unlikely to happen in the next general election in 2014, but by the one after that it could be a real possibility. V Gwynne Dyer is a London-based journalist. His column appears every week in Vue Weekly.

COMMENT >> EDUCATION FUNDING

Lessons from Chile

Recent protests in Chile should be a clue on what to avoid On August 9, over 100 000 Chilchildren to attend, broad government eans—mostly high school and univerencouragement of private universities, sity students—took to the streets of institutes and colleges, and tuition Santiago to demand changes to rates that are out of reach for their government's education most Chileans. policy. The protest, which All of these policies stem ENCE coincided with a one-day INTERFER .com from the time of the Pieekly @vuew national strike by all stunochet dictatorship in ricardo o r Rica d dents in the country, was Chile, when Milton FriedAcuña man and his acolytes from the the latest in two months of strikes and actions by the country's Chicago School were given free students demanding a return to free, reign to use the country as a petri dish equitable and quality public education for his market fundamentalist policies: at all levels. Actions have included policies premised on the privatization marches, concerts, rallies and a hunof all public services, virtual eliminager strike by a number of students tion of taxes, and the supremacy of across the country. Many have been the free market. Subsequent governinjured, and over 900 were arrested ments have been unable / unwilling to in a single day as the government reverse many of these policies, and called in the riot squad, with water the new far right government of Secannons and tear gas, to put a stop to bastian Piñera has gone out of its way the protests. to continue moving them forward. The policies that the students are protesting are numerous, but they can The day after the mass demonstramost succinctly be defined as a neotions in Chile the six people vying for liberal, market-based education polithe leadership of Alberta's Progressive cy. They include a strong government Conservative Party gathered before a focus on charter schools, a voucher crowd of teachers at the ATA's annual system of school funding which resummer conference in Banff to debate sults in extensive government funding education policy in Alberta, and field for private schools and underfunding questions from teachers about their of public schools resulting in parents plans for the system should they win having to pay exorbitant fees for their the leadership and become Premier.

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All of the leadership candidates spoke at length about the value of education to the province, the value of Alberta's teachers, the need for stable and predictable funding for Alberta's school boards, and the need for "labour peace" between the province and its teachers. What was missing, however, was any genuine acknowledgment that the province's education system is currently heading in the wrong direction, and that fundamental changes are needed if Alberta is to avoid the litany of problems currently plaguing the Chilean education system. Ralph Klein and his successors brought to Alberta the exact same neoliberal economic theories that were imposed in Chile under the dictatorship, and the education system has not escaped their reach. Klein demonized teachers and their union, cut funding to public school boards, promoted the creation of charter schools, began giving public money to private schools and encouraged privatization by stealth through the introduction of Public Private Partnerships (P3s) for the building and maintenance of schools. Today the provincial government continues to focus on the expansion

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of charter schools as the future of education, continues to give public money to private schools, and continues to underfund the system resulting in ever higher school fees and increased fundraising for parents. None of the PC leadership candidates are addressing any of these issues in their platforms, which really amounts to an implicit endorsement of the system's current direction. Likewise the Wildrose Party's education policy reads almost like a direct translation of the Chilean policy. It is a policy premised on "competition" and "choice", which would see the provincial government divest itself of direct decision-making and authority over education, institute a voucher system where funding follows the student (even if the student goes to a private school), and strong support for charter schools. Interestingly, while both Wildrose and the PC leadership candidates speak of the need for stable and predictable funding for schools, none of them are willing to admit the fact that the system is currently underfunded and that more money is desperately needed. All but one of the leadership candidates are adamantly refusing to

look at the province's revenue stream from taxes and royalties, and Wildrose is actually talking about reducing taxes. If schools need more money, therefore, there is only two places it can come from: school fees and fundraising. Given the reality that we will be heading into a provincial election at some point in the next nine months, and the likelihood that one of these folks will end up as Premier, Albertans should be concerned. We need to take a close look at what's happening in Chile and ask ourselves if that's the future we really want for our education system, because that is where we are likely heading. Albertans are not likely to take to the streets in the tens of thousands to force a change in direction, but isn't a quality, free and fully public education system worth some action on our part? We have an opportunity today, through these leadership races and the upcoming election, to change the course of our education system. Let's not waste it. V Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta.

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Best of the Fringe

Vue's intrepid team of reviewers picks its winners

fter four and a half days, several sleep-deprived nights and countless green onion cakes, Vue Weekly's crack team of Fringe reviewers emerged from Old Strathcona with reviews of every Fringe show. Special thanks to the Next Act Pub for letting us set up and write reviews in a booth all weekend. You can scan the full list of reviews on edmontonfringe.ca, but here's what we deemed best of the fest: all of our five-star reviews and a smattering of four-star picks, too. Reviews by Bryan Birtles (BB), Paul Blinov (PB), Saliha Chattoo (SC), Megan Dart (MD), Michael Hingston (MH), Dan McKechnie (DM), Fawnda Mithrush (FM), Andrew Paul (AP), Madeline Smith (MS) and Marliss Weber (MW).

'33 (a kabarett) Venue 5, King Edward School

´´´´ Set amongst the turmoil of Nazi Germany, the one-man musical spectacle of '33 (a kabarett) is a stunning theatrical accomplishment. Using nothing but a microphone and a few props scattered around the stage, Bremner Duthie works his way through costume changes, song and dance numbers, a myriad of character transformations and an entire spectrum of emotions—all while openly including the audience as active participants in the show. Duthie's vocal and acting chops are both incredibly impressive, covering everything from a crass comedy routine to mournful songs of loss and desperation. The result is an entire variety show of undeniable entertainment. MS

[title of show] Venue 9, Telus Building

´´´´ Deconstructing an existing genre is like Fringe Festival 101, but this adaptation

What do you mean you don't have any money? of the hit Broadway-musical-aboutthe-making-of-a-Broadway-musical has the firepower and imaginative legs to go the distance. There are some rough moments early on, when the I-heart-New-York solipsism threatens to take over. But the show quickly hits its stride, as every peripheral event in the characters' lives—including early reviews (uh-oh)—gets cannibalized and tacked onto the script. Plenty of inside jokes for theatre nerds, too. It's hard to go wrong when your songs are this catchy, your premise this elastic and your youthful cast this damn

likable. MH Boygroove Venue 34, Upstairs at the Armoury

´´´´´ Do your inner 13-year-old girl a favour: rush over to the box office and buy yourself front-row tickets to Boygroove now. You'll want to make sure you're close enough to see these young boys' hips buck. Chris Craddock's 2002 Fringe hit returns under the direction of Trevor Schmidt, offering up a young cast of super talented triple-threat singers,

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dancers and actors who take you through the relentlessly hilarious, sometimes ominously dark world of boy bands. Updated from its earlier incarnation, Boygroove is a flawlessly executed satiric look at the rise and fall of a fictional foursome jaded by fame. MD

The Donnelly Sideshow Venue 7, Yardbird Suite

´´´´´ Based on the bloody history of Biddulph Township, Ontario, The Donnelly Sideshow feels like the kind of story your grandfather tells sitting by the fire: funny, charming and casually dark. Because it is drawn from true events, the rhythm of the show is somewhat odd, but Jeff Culbert's performance as Johnny O'Connell, a young witness to mass murder, is cheerfully sardonic and keeps the Sideshow moving at a steady clip. The show relates the complicated history of the Donnelly's feuds with nearly everyone within a hundred miles, but never loses the thread amongst all its many characters and changes of scene. The story is helped along by original music laden with clever wordplay. A satisfying show made

great by its historical relevance. DM Danny and the Deep Blue Sea Venue 35, La Cite Francophone

´´´´ Danny and Roberta are two very damaged souls. Danny is a trucker with a wicked temper who might have killed a man in a brawl the night before. Roberta is a single mother with a dark secret and suicidal tendencies. After meeting by chance in a Bronx pub, they head back to Roberta's place for the night, and discover that happiness is possible even for broken souls like theirs. Danny and the Deep Blue Sea will have you clenching your teeth and breathing sighs of relief as Corey Schmitt and Melanie Godbout masterfully walk the shaky tightrope between moments of blind rage and beautiful tenderness. Thanks to Jon Paterson and Kate Jesdat's direction, the show sails along at a breezy pace from one explosive moment to the next, until the lights go down and you realize you've been holding your breath for five minutes—a beauty of a production. AP CONTINUED ON PAGE 9 >>

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FLOP! (a one-man musical) Venue 9, Telus Building

Â´Â´Â´Â´Â´ "Look, it wasn't my idea to have Othello be played by a white guy in blackface." So begins Anton Lipovetsky's jubilantyet-tightly-wound odyssey through the world of failed theatre directing. Exiled from Toronto to a small-town high school in need of a last-minute replacement for their Romeo and Juliet production, Lipovetsky sings, stomps and generally sweats his way from auditions to opening night. His original script is sharp and endlessly quick on its feet, while his vulnerable, Ben Kweller-esque voice wears its desperation on its sleeve. Packed with belly laughs and ably developed characters, it's also got a heart of gold buried somewhere beneath all that panic. A total joy. MH

writing top-notch. As for what the show is about, well, imagine a giant invisible robot that rises from the depths of the sea and hides out in a kid's bedroom. Beyond that, you're just going to have to see it for yourself. And you should. Tonight. Go now. Robot says ... MW

Gordon's Big Bald Head: Eau de Humanity Venue 31, Varscona Theatre

Â´Â´Â´Â´ Buckle your seatbelts and prepare for a comedic rollercoaster ride as Chris Craddock, Mark Meer and Jacob Banigan work their improv voodoo magic. Nothing is sacred, and no joke goes too far as this top-notch trio randomly selects a show from the Fringe Program and performs it in its entirety. No Fringe show is safe in this long-form improv romp as the players shift seamlessly through multiple characters and story arcs to arrive at a stunning conclusion. The improv is so good you'll think it's scripted. Gordon's Big Bald Head is a juggernaut. AP

Giant Invisible Robot Venue 8, OSPAC

Â´Â´Â´Â´Â´ Giant Invisible Robot is the quintessential Fringe play. Creative, inventive, uniqueâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and the kind of show you'd never see in a traditional theatre company's season. This show is why you go to the Fringe. Jayson McDonald is one of the most talented performers I've seen in yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;his characters are deeply realized, identifiable but never clichĂŠ, and his

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Grim & Fischer: a deathly comedy in full-face mask Venue 3, Walterdale Playhouse

Â´Â´Â´Â´ The Wonderheads from Portland, Oregon do justice to their moniker. Kate Braidwood's beautifully crafted masks bring superb dimension to the story of Mrs Fischer (Braidwood), an aging senior who realizes that deathâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in

the form of an eerily long-faced Grim (Andrew Phoenix)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;is looking for her. Putting up the fight of her life, so to speak, Fischer engages in a whimsical, silly duel with Grim. Though this is a duel marred by a few too many campy jabs, the pop culture moments are outweighed by genuine sentiment and tenderness. This team is a unique physical

theatre gemâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a Fringe treasure. FM

Guernica Venue 26: Phabrik Art and Design Centre

Â´Â´Â´Â´ It's the story of a spark of inspiration, that instant of artistic realization

stretched across an intriguing, impressionistic hour of imagined art history: Guernica's examination of the horrific moment an unremarkable town became Picasso's fabled work is unique in its sense of foreboding darkness: the Spanish town's denizensâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;busCONTINUED ON PAGE 10 >>

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tling through in their own lives and conflicts, unaware of how soon they'll be forever swept away—are compelling characters to watch within the context, and their final, culminative sequence unfolds in a chilling sweep. PB

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Jason Venue 7, Yardbird Suite

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Jason has ample opportunities to become maudlin, but never takes them. Paul McKee's performance as the title character, a mentally challenged man applying for a place in a housing cooperative, is carefully measured, and it dances on the line between honest and overwrought without crossing into schmaltz. If it were a feature film, it would qualify as Oscar bait, but McKee's vulnerability sells Jason. He is helped by a script that is sensitive to its title character's concerns. The play only just avoids overstating the moral of accepting people regardless of abilities, and reveals surprising emotional depth as it develops. An unexpected winner. DM

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Clowns Morro and Jasp give audiences a look into one of the most awkward times in any young girl's life in this positively captivating comedy. While the awkward subject matter and nonexistent boundaries make this play slightly difficult to watch for the easily embarrassed out there, getting past that means being a part of a charming, hilarious and superb piece of theatre at this year's Fringe. Additionally, I have never seen audience participation done in such creative and uproarious ways. If clowning is an art form you enjoy—and honestly, even if it isn't— you do not want to miss this show. SC

Lavinia: A Modern Fairy Tale of Gigantic Proportions Venue 11, PCL Studio (Arts Barns)

´´´´ An epic tale of an eight-foot-tall girl whose imagination out-matches her height, Lavinia is a cleverly woven story of belonging and acceptance. With a heartfelt silliness suited to entertain audiences of any age, this one woman show takes you on an exhilarating, larger-than-life adventure to the madeup land of Boogfa, where imagination reigns and everyone fits in. From her charming physical antics to her rolling list of puppet friends and engaging audience participation, Lavinia shares an uplifting story of acceptance that will grow on you. MD

Mrs. Lindeman Proposes Venue 31, Varscona Theatre

´´´´ Belinda Cornish delivers a picture perfect performance as the lovely Nuala Lindeman in this touching homage to the unpredictable and romantic spirit of the Canadian wilderness. Things get complicated when Lindeman, an

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author, and Adam (Mathew Hulsof), her new assistant, decide to test run the plot line of her latest novel at the expense of her friend Margot. That's until Lindeman begins having second thoughts when the handsome and grounded Ed Napier (Jeff Haslam) comes into the picture. Mrs Lindeman Proposes is a pristine postcard of the not-so-simple life in the Rockies— just when you think you're in control, something steps out of the woods and surprises you. AP

Scratch: The Revengence Venue 1, Westbury Theatre

´´´´ What's better than an asshole triggerhappy super cop? Two asshole triggerhappy super cops, of course. In the same vein as last year, the second scripted version of improv hit Scratch is a smorgasbord of action movie characters and tropes. Unrepentant super cop Jason Block (Arlen Konopaki) and his ethnic sidekick Cabbie (Donovan Workun) are after Cyrus the Virus. Also, John Malkovich is in it. Of course. Konopaki and Workun complement each other perfectly, effortlessly jumping between a host of characters. Though one part of the story is puzzling until the very end, you will probably be too busy laughing at the hilariously offensive jokes and oneliners to care much. It's both homage and mockery, and will amuse both fans and cynics alike. MP

SmartArse Venue 5, King Edward School

´´´´´ Part sidesplitting comedy routine, part intricate slam poetry performance, and part absurd storytelling session, Rob Gee's SmartArse is a wonder of a oneman show. Gee masterfully combines portraits of his own family and school experiences with sketches poking fun at English culture, weaving together tales of family dinner disasters with a poem containing more 1980s pop culture references than have ever been contained in one place. With nothing but an empty stage to back him up, Gee manages to make his monologues both thoughtprovoking and unabashedly hilarious for the duration of his performance, making SmartArse a feat of endurance and theatrical entertainment. MS

The Surprise Venue 4, Academy at King Edward

´´´´ Martin Dockery's father has a secret. Once Martin finds out, what started as a routine get together quickly becomes the beginning of an important new chapter in Martin's life. An expertly told story full of twists, The Surprise will keep you captivated while you navigate through the different threads of this true and at times mesmerizing tale. Dockery has an uncanny ability to capture an entire scene's worth of emotion and meaning in a single movement. Full of little insights and fast paced dialogue, this play will have

you laughing one moment and rapt with attention in the next. SC

This is Cancer Venue 30, Holy Trinity Anglican Church (Sanctuary)

´´´´´ Bruce Horak's strange and beloved show returns to Edmonton to introduce us, once again, to the ugly but suave manifestation of one of humanity's most fearsome diseases. His dawning apprehension that we hate him is played with expert comic turn, but what really stands out how is much the show is about us, those gathered to watch it: when the little details about our own losses, as well as Horak's, start to emerge together, the show transcends theatre to become a heartbreakingly communal rumination on loss and love. PB

Tudor Queens: A Burlesque Venue 24, New City Legion

´´´´´ Ladies and Gentlemen, for your viewing pleasure, I give you The Tudor Queens: A Burlesque. It's the sultriest, sassiest, raunchiest history lesson you'll ever take, where Anne of Cleves sports an impressive blue dildo, and the rest of the gals sparkle and shimmy in black sequins and latex. This show hooks you with sex appeal, but then surprises with real, raw emotion, dramatic tension and first-class acting chops. Polished, world-class burlesque it's not. It's better, because of the emotional commitment of the performers and the clever, saucy script, and because it's a powerful celebration of sensuality and the female form, in all its shapes and sizes. And while the scantily-clad performers gyrate and demure, what impresses you most is not just their hotness, but their brains behind all the glitter. Now, that's burlesque. MW

Twenty-Five, A New Musical Venue 25, Wunderbar

´´´´ As I left this show, massaging my cheeks after grinning for 45 straight minutes, I heard a middle-aged person say "now, THAT was a great way to start the Fringe." Contrasting the assumption that a show like this might make people older than the eponymous age feel ancient, this show actually works to the opposite (and kind of makes you glad that you're out of that tortured, uber-dramatic stage of life). At the ripe age of twenty-four, Joel Crichton's song-writing panache is already irresistible, and is surely one of the great musical theatre voices of his generation—something that this song-cycle itself seems to set out to prove. His show examines the strife and guilt (yes, angst) that those on the precipice of ruling the next generation are feeling; as the world falls apart in natural disaster, political scandal and ecological hypocrisy, it's the twentyCONTINUED ON PAGE 11 >>

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somethings that take the brunt of the meta-beating. The songs are irreverent, wide-ranged and emotive. Performances by Richard Lee, Darren Paul and Joelle Prefontaine are seamless and honest. There are moments of comic self-reference, mournful reflection, boiling frustration, and of course, young, sweet love. Though the venue is sweltering, you still get chills in all the right places. FM

VIP Room Venue 13, Varscona Hotel - Rutherford Room

´´´´ Perhaps the most moving play to ever use boobs as a selling feature, VIP Room delivers a "semi-autobiographical" play about one man's descent into strip club addiction and the toll it took on his work, his family and his life. It is humorous,

touching, includes the aforementioned boobs and is perfectly paced to draw in even the frat boys who seemed to populate the audience I saw it with. BB

Fear Factor: Canine Edition Venue 8, OSPAC

sity of the human/animal connection, and gave us permission to feel their absence wholly. It was a hard hour, but cathartic and beautiful too. Don't go to this show expecting a fun time at the theatre, despite Grady's darkly comedic leanings. But do go, and bring Kleenex. Lots of it. MW

´´´´ For the love of God, don't go see this show if a) you have a pet, b) have ever experienced the death of a pet, c) are looking for a cheap Fear Factor rip off. Having recently felt like my soul ripped in two because of putting a dear cat to sleep, I was perhaps the wrong reviewer to see this gut and heartwrenching one-man-show—I spent the hour in paroxysms of grief. I can't help but respond to this show personally, because Grady's intensely personal story of the life and death of the love of his life—his dog, Abby—connected with every animal lover in the house. He helped us understand the inten-

The Supervillain Monologues Venue 13, Varscona Hotel - Rutherford Room

´´´´ Last year audiences couldn't get enough of The Supervillain Monologues and, lucky for them, it's been brought back for another year. A fastpaced and imaginative take on villainy, Supervillain Monologues delivers monologue after monologue without need for any overarching narrative. It has a seemingly too-short runtime, but the characterizations, puppetry and humour all shine. BB

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Portrait of the garage as an art exhibit

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here is a contingent of Edmontonians who scour the classifieds each weekend, ensuring they don't miss a single bargain or hidden gem at one of the garage sales that pop up in suburban back alleys. Fast and Dirty Curatorial Collective is exploring the thrill of the hunt with its upcoming pop-up art exhibition, The Garage Show, which will feature the works of local artists Adriean Koleric, Robert Harpin and Emily Soder-Duncan in two garages this coming Saturday and Sunday. Beyond creating more opportunities for local artists in a city where venues are limited, curators Jennifer Rae Forsyth and Kristen Hutchinson are interested in exploring what it means to show art in "unusual spaces in short durations" and how that transforms both artists' and viewers' experiences with art. "Garages are where you dump junk" and "where objects go to die", says Hutchinson, noting that the usual associations or uses for the space have been an interesting creative challenge for the participating artists. Harpin and Koleric were asked to collaborate for the installation they are creating for one of the two garages that house the exhibition. Despite having never worked together, their instant "Hall and Oates" like working connection, as Koleric described it, culminated in an exploration of the garage sale for this temporary work. Fast and Dirty made an inspired connection in Harpin and Koleric, seeing that both create work that plays with consumer objects and tools, like old toy figurines and instruction manuals, in their respective practices. It will be very interesting to see how they connect their related art-making practices, as well as the conceptual connec-

tions between the subject matter they work with and the consumption practices associated with that ubiquitous summer back-alley sale. Unlike her counterparts, SoderDuncan's work in the second garage explores personal rather than collective and consumer history. While the curators saw the pairing of Harpin and Koleric as an experiment in facilitating collaboration and a hands-off approach to curation, they were actively involved in working through the process of selecting new and existing work by Soder-Duncan. Rather than working with pre-fabricated and pop culture images and objects, the recent University of Alberta graduate mined her own personal and ancestral history, even borrowing objects from her mother's garage for the installation. True to its name, Fast and Dirty challenges the conventional parameters of curation often associated with pristine exhibition spaces and shows planned out months or years in advance. Like all their work, the curatorial collective embraces the risk of working in unusual spaces for art exhibitions and trusting the vision and follow-through of the artists they work with on a short time frame. All three artists in the show expressed their excitement about the opportunity to be pushed and to stretch their ways of creating art due to the tight timeline in which they are assembling their shows. "It takes away the over-thinking," Koleric enthuses. It will be well worth exploring the creative experiments in this weekend's Garage Show, which is sure to be filled with hidden surprises, and unlike the contents of many neighbourhood garages, more treasure than trash.

elf-curate or disappear." Those are the cryptic words of wisdom delivered by one Nik Worth to his sister Denise in the opening pages of Dana Spiotta's third novel, Stone Arabia. The irony is that Nik has done both. A Los Angeles musician whose career quickly withered and died on the vine in the early '70s, he's spent the ensuing decades obsessively cataloguing every last album, review and interview he makes, gets, and gives, in massive annual volumes that comprise what he calls The Chronicles. But he's already disappeared. The albums are real, albeit hand-printed and -distributed. The reviews and interviews, however, are complete fabrications. Nik doesn't even perform live anymore. He's created a fully formed life as a rock star on paper, perhaps to save himself from having to do it in real life. Yet most of Stone Arabia is spent not with Nik but Denise, his support pillar and number-one fan. She has problems of her own, mostly to do with a fear that her memory is failing her, something that's only heightened by visits to her increasingly dementia-addled mother. Mostly, though, her thoughts are with Nikâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and therein lies the problem. We spend so much time lingering on Denise's brother secondhand, it's like studying an approaching car through the rear-view mirror: you learn so much about the mirror itself (its cracks, its smudges of dirt) that the car itself remains blurry and indistinct. Structurally, too, there's something lacking, though it's hard to gauge who's at fault and why. On

the one hand, part of Denise's fascination with Nik's Chronicles is that they're meticulous, thorough, airtight. It was the one part of his life he could pin down. Her "Counterchronicles," on the other hand, which make up the bulk of the text, are all over the place. My guess is that this is intentionalâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Denise's actual life story kind of has to be messier than Nik's vacuum-sealed fictional one. That's what life is: messy. Indeed, the fact that Denise can find no such comfort in her own day-to-day existence is one of the sparks that fuels her. On the other hand, if that's the case, why give us Denise's account at all? Stone Arabia is short enough that almost none of its heroine's relationshipsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;with her boyfriend, with her daughter Ada's estranged father, or even with Ada herselfâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; are given much juice. Only her ties to Nik pay off. If the book were 90 percent Chronicles, with minimal framing from Denise's perspective (almost like liner notes, or an anthology introduction), I'm not sure much would be lost. And much would almost definitely be gained. There's one element of Denise's story that cannot and should not be expunged, however. That's her

ongoing, but largely undiagnosed, fragility in the face of mass-media tragedies. She can cry for days on end after reading a story in the paper, or seeing one choice picture on the local news. Denise thinks of it as merely "feeling too much," but these stories have more in common than she seems to realize. All are about people whose lives have arrived at a crisis pointâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;something that became inevitable, but which could have been avoided, had steps only been taken earlier. This is maybe true of Nik's situation, and definitely not true of her mother's. But Denise sees it all as a waste of free will; the only thing left to do now is take her lumps. "That was what I did," she thinks. "I endured." Along the way, Spiotta shows flashes of crackling wit. When Denise tries to inspect the fine print on a credit card statement, she realizes "[t]he first time you actually read the words on these things was to feel the last connection to your childhood die." But Stone Arabia strays from its course too often, and down too many detours, to let any real kind of narrative pleasure accumulate. Like Nik's scattershot discography, you tune in and out. MICHAEL HINGSTON

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sass of a lass named Jordana (Yasmin ÂŽ Paige, very good), whose mother is sick and who he idiotically tries to impress by bullying an overweight classmate. Once they start going out they arÂ´Â´Â´ range to lose their virginity together, but Oliver's absurd over-preparation GORY s his teacher speaks to the class winds up botching that too. Oliver's VIOLENCE about self-realization, Oliver Tate mother, YOUTUBE.COM/ALLIANCEFILMS Jill (Sally Hawkins), and his FACEBOOK.COM/ALLIANCEFILMS CONANTHEBARBARIANIN3D.COM YOUTUBE.COM/ALLIANCEFILMS YOUTUBE.COM/ALLIANCEFILMS YOUTUBE.COM/ALLIANCEFILMS FACEBOOK.COM/ALLIANCEFILMS FACEBOOK.COM/ALLIANCEFILMS CONANTHEBARBARIANIN3D.COM CONANTHEBARBARIANIN3D.COM CONANTHEBA YOUTUBE.COM/ALLIANCEFILMS FACEBOOK.COM/ALLIANCEFILMS CONANTHEBARBARIANIN3D.COM (Craig Roberts, pretty cute, but not a father, depressed hirsute marine bi!"#$%&'"#()*#&+,*#$)-*.&/-*&0-$(),-12&3&4"-5),6#27 show-off about it) is busy fantasizing ologist Lloyd (Noah Taylor), are both about his tragic death and the pageant quiet and non-confrontational types of mourning that would surely follow. and share a combined weight of maybe Oliver's 15, an only child, hyper-cul200 pounds. Oliver tries to intervene tured and pretty sure he's some kind by writing love letters to his mom in COMEDY

of genius. He makes a habit of such his father's name, while his father tries internal self-aggrandizement, though to influence Oliver's love life by making externally he's shy and uncertain, and him mix tapes. his school, the Welsh village of SwanJill and Lloyd's marital aridity is shaken sea and the rest of the free world are by the arrival of new neighbours, one of completely indifferent to the allure of whom is Jill's old flame Graham (Paddy his as-yet untapped potential. Considine), who in the years since they Submarine, the feature directorial desplit up has reinvented himself as a supbut of British television actor Richard posedly clairvoyant kung-fu mulleteer Ayoade (The IT Crowd), based on the with a celestial boogie van full of homeeponymous novel by Joe Dunthorne, made New Age self-help VHS tapes: "I is entirely Oliver's narrative, conveyam a prism," he intones. "I am light. I am ing both the events unfolding around lucid and delicious." (Needless to say, him and his often misguided interpretaGraham constitutes the film's funnest tions, a hybrid of fantasy and reality. It's sub-plot.) Graham is hardly a catch but a coming-of-age tale set in what seems Jill is so desperate for affection that he to be more or less the 1980s and is may just be the catalyst for dramatic peppered with start/stop, freeze-frame, change. Hawkins, Taylor and Consid flash-backy, multi-tiered pop storytelline all manage to bring a high level of ing techniques that echo Godard by maturity to these characters that risk way of Wes Anderson (and, arguably, becoming mere types. Gerardo Naranjoâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;see I'm Gonna ExArctic Monkeys' frontman Alex Turnplode). Not every chapter succeeds in er provides the necessary atmospheric advancing Oliver's tale or enriching him score for this montage-laden work. as a character, and some feel pretty geSubmarine actually often feels like a neric, but most are charming, and a few really great music video. The reservaCOARSE !"#$#%&'(")*+,,-+.(&/-,)0 LANGUAGE /+(&%""1'(")*+,,-+.(&/-,)0 of them are ingeniously comic. tions come when you start to wonder how long this or any string of music METRO CINEMA at the DIGITAL As he frets over his parents' troubling videos can be spun out. " !" SOUND 4USFFU /8 t '68-&9:;<-0"=>?-(7@A-/0"-B-16,2-C-DE))+-2'1-C-FE))-B-DE))+-26"-C-FE))-B-9E))+-G,!-C-DE))-B-9E))+ JOSEF BRAUN lack of sexual activity, Oliver stumbles // JOSEF@VUEWEEKLY.COM into his first love affair with a smart

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Nuanced melodrama

Relationship dynamics carry the unusual Potiche Opening Friday Potiche Directed by François Ozon Princess Theatre

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otiche starts off so preposterously you almost know it's going to be something special. As Mrs Pujol (Catherine Deneuve), adorned in vintage tracksuit, merrily jogs through a Disney-fied springtime wonderland, she gives the impression that she is painfully ditzy and removed from any suspicion of responsibility. Aside from her ludicrous poetry, she seems to have little ambition. Potiche progresses, and in the process Mrs Pujol and a wonderfully directed film win the audience over with moments of delicacy, moments of preposterousness and an intimate design. As she returns to her home and her real life, her self-induced acquiescence is palpable. Consenting to being the "potiche" for her industrious, relatively cheerless husband, Robert (Fabrice Luchini) and children, Mrs Pujol lovingly grips to a former glory as a trophy wife. Yet, there's something more. Her current self isn't exactly begging to be emancipated from a suppressed role in life, yet the

More than a trophy wife

plot, and Mrs Pujol's purpose, points toward something different. The relationship dynamics are what carry the film. At moments they are awkward and absurdly hilarious. When Mrs Pujol interacts with her children, we get a real glimpse into the way people treat this supposed trophy wife. As things progress, Mrs Pujol transforms and the characters follow accordingly. Watching it unfold, Potiche combines melodrama and commotion with fully formed

comedic nuance, making it rounded and complete. With the feel and comical undertones of Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums, Potiche reveals French comic objectives different than what North American audiences are used to. In its maturity and subtlety it strikes a special chord. Potiche is more of a common feeling film than comedies we've become accustomed to—far cleverer and much more full of meaning. CURTIS WRIGHT

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REVUE // DEATH STRIKES BACK ... AGAIN

FINAL DESTINATION 5

Okay, THIS destination is the final one.

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inal Destination 5 milks the crude base of horror—watching and waiting for someone to be killed—with gleeful cheesiness. Visions of gory death splatter in Sam's (Nicholas D'Agosto) head as he sits in a bus, en route to a

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company retreat, that's stopped atop a bridge; he convinces seven others to escape before the bridge collapses, but the Grim Reaper won't be cheated and starts picking off the "Lucky 8." So CGI crushes and shmushes bodies before our eyes. But in-between elaborate Rube Goldberg workplace accidents and the final 15 minutes (where Death's the last murderer standing as this Fate-

franchise loops back to the first movie), Final Destination 5 offers little else. It knows it's a one-trick ponyman of the Apocalypse, too—just before the credits, it offers a Jackass-like reel of the franchise's florid deaths. Most dialogue's so stilted and wooden, it collapses faster than the bridge. Comic touches are few and far-between. The actors go stiffly through the emotions. If the movie had played more with tricking Fate or trying to take it into one's own hands, or joked more about horror conventions or the franchise's own clichés (as when recurring franchise character William Bludworth's referred to as "Creepy Guy"), it could have been more than just a game of guess-howthe-next-person-dies. Instead, as a fullfledged film, FD5 is DOA. BRIAN GIBSON

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Odd couples, coupled

30 MINUTES OR LESS

Cul-de-sac intertwines a pair of strange relationships get stinko and touchy-feely with each other, and discuss life and women. This essentially sums up Cul-de-sac's premise: one odd couple meets another in a cold, vast, isolated setting. What unfolds is a film that snakes seamlessly between comedy, thriller, siege drama, horror and social critique, all of it truly inspired and amounting to what is probably the most sui generis project of Roman Polanski's career—yet, scripted by Polanski and his long-time collaborator Gérard Brach, it never feels indulgent or aimless. Every scene pulls us deeper into something.

Truly an odd couple

Cul-de-sac (1966) opens with the stark well-stocked wine cellar, a room full image of a road bisecting a flat landof George's bad paintings of Teresa scape and a car's slow approach. and a fridge containing about Slow because it's not being 900 eggs. Dickie invades driven but rather pushed E TIV the castle, devours many by Dickie (Lionel Stander), D E T E C eekly.com eggs and bottles of wine vuew a loud, shirtless, ogre-like, dvddetective@ and immediately asserts Josef middle-aged gangster with himself as a sort of paternal Braun authority figure; George and one arm shoved in a sling. Dickie's diminutive cohort, Albie Teresa comply with his demands, (Jack McGowran), sits up front, quietly even when he poses no immediate nursing a gut wound. They've somehow threat (though one of the film's most wound up at what looks like the very entertaining sequences finds Teresa ends of the Earth, following the teleresponding to a surprise visit from phone wires under the assumption that friends by suddenly ordering Dickie they must surely lead someplace worth around like he's their butler). A very going to. Echoing the dynamics of some weird sort of improvised family unit of the director's early short films, the falls into place, prompting a surprising pair resembles some variation on Beckintimacy between the two men, who ett's tramps; indeed, they are waiting, not for Godot, but for the mysterious and equally elusive Mr Katelbach to come and rescue them from perdition. As the tide rises and threatens to swallow the car, Dickie finally discovers a looming sign of salvation straight out of myth: an 11th-century castle, inhabited only by the nervous, pedantic, baldheaded George (Donald Pleasance) and the much younger, very attractive Teresa (Françoise Dorléac), the two of them married less than 10 months and living out here with many chickens, a

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´ I first saw Cul-de-sac when I was maybe 16, and it somehow came to emblematize something very seductive about the European 1960s for me. So, like a lot of people, I've been waiting for this one for a long time, and Criterion's DVD/blu-ray release rewards patience. The film, shot in black and white (and countless shades of grey) by Gilbert Taylor, is riddled with haunting images, alternating between hot sunlight and gloom, and Criterion's transfer is suitably gorgeous. The disc also features a terrific documentary about the film's arduous production and a vintage British television program featuring a fascinating and comprehensive interview with Polanski. V

disappointing comic delivery that makes you wish cineplexes worked like a pizza chain's money-back guarantee, 30 Minutes or Less is definitely less—much less. The story—delivery boy Nick (Jesse Eisenberg) and buddy Chet (Aziz Ansari) must rob a bank or Nick gets splattered; he's had a bomb vest strapped to him by Dwayne (Danny McBride) and Travis (Nick Swardson), buddies needing $100 000 for an assassin (Michael Peña) to kill Dwayne's rich dad (Fred Ward)—is never dark comedy, or bizarre bromance, or quirky heist movie. The pairing of Ansari and Eisenberg doesn't make for the panic-ridden

comedy 30 Minutes or Less requires. Instead they offer earnest, verbally overwrought concern that, along with the script's manic chattiness (never zippily delivered), comes off as an undercooked stew of stand-up lines bubbling up around a standard heist flick. Nothing quite works, other than a few attempts from beyond the main cast (one of the bystanders at the bank accidentally shoots another). The pacing's off and scene transitions are non-existent. Dwayne and Travis shift suspiciously from being losers to semicompetent criminals, the movie veers from buddies' antics to dramatic violence, and the whole thing whips past in 83 minutes, as if its quickness can excuse its non-funniness. BRIAN GIBSON // BRIAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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ven though the University of Alberta celebrated 100 years in the community back in 2008, some residents living near the university's campuses are still uneasy with the behaviour of both the institution and those attending it. From strained community relations in Garneau between residents and fraternity members to the south campus showdown between the university and surrounding community leagues, invisible fault lines circle the campus. The university has a long-range development plan that will guide its growth and development until 2030. What might have normally been an obscure planning document has caused bitter contention in the communities near the U of A's south campus, which have formed a lobby group called the South Campus Neighborhood Coalition to combat what they see as inadequate consultation and flat out un-neighbourly behaviour from the institution. "There's been a drastic change to the university's long-term development plan, and for that change, under the Post-secondary Learning Act, the university is required to have meaningful community consultation," explained Aspen Gar-

dens/Westbrook community league president Susan Field. "The thing that we have found is that their consultation won't even be meaningful; they will come, they

will inform and then they will leave. They had a session last November where they came in, we listened to a very obscure and ambiguous general plan that they were putting in

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Field lamented that the development of the large south campus area could be a "wonderful opportunity" that the U of A is instead squandering without community input. "All of the surrounding communities are mature, and this would also enhance the surrounding communities with community revitalization. The spin off to the communities could be so positive for the area and the city, but with no consultation [the communities] can't plan or do anything," Field said. "They have an opportunity to make this a world showcase." Garneau, which borders main campus, didn't express as much concern regarding consultation as its southern neighbours. Rather, community league president Paul Cachia expressed a sense of wariness towards the U of A's intentions as the institution continues to develop in areas of old Garneau. "That area in the north of Garneau has some very unique houses that the residents are interested in maintaining, and it's part of the history of Garneau," Cachia said, noting that for a sense of continuity, the community would like the university to keep even its own property maintained to match the historic esthetic. "The community is concerned about any expansion plans the university has. There isn't much concern that the university would annex land it doesn't already have there, but there are concerns that the university already owns a lot of houses west of 110th, and people have a concern of what the university is planning to do on the university's own property, because it will affect them." "They're always reminding the university that houses have historic relevance, but the university is just worried about expansion." Cachia, however, is more concerned about some of the students attending the university then the institution itself. Garneau has had a fractious relationship with some of the U of A's fraternities, and controversy over hazing allegations during the initiations of the Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE) fraternity that surfaced last school year didn't help. "The DKE's have never been great, and the fact that they got slapped down from the university is the way it goesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;they overstepped the bounds even as far as the university was concerned, so they got slapped down," Cachia said. "They really have a reputation that they â&#x20AC;&#x201D;to some extent, I thinkâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;they like, they want to uphold." According to Cachia, with the exception of the DKE's, the community has had improved relations with the fraternities, though he feels that there will always be a disconnect since students are only at university for a few short years while some community members have been in

the area for decades. Because of this disconnect, the community has been militant, leaning on the city to keep fraternity houses on the edge of the neighborhood. A zoning bylaw spells out certain areas that are ok for fraternity houses, but keeps them out of the rest of the neighbourhood unless they've been grandfathered in. "It was meant to keep frat houses out of the interior of Garneau," Cachia explained. "We want to keep single family homes with single family homes. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want fraternities gobbling up single family homes." Some fraternity members, however, feel that the zoning bylaw is treating them unfairly. The Zeta Psi fraternity purchased a house in

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Garneau with the intent to get it rezoned for fraternity housing, the community league moved against the plan and convinced city council to quash the idea. The Zeta Psi's recently moved into a new house in Garneau, this time on university property, not far from the house that drew the community league's ire. Zeta Psi fraternity president Pascal Visentin feels that the league was prejudiced in its actions. "The community league had an issue with it because they have a well known stigma against fraternities, and essentially they were painting us all with the same brush," he said, noting that when the league met to discuss the proposed fraternity house, it seemed to be responding to only the actions of a different fraternity. "They brought pictures of crazy parties, and none of which were us. They were all from one fraternity on campus. And essentially they were painting all 12 fraternities with the same brush, due to problems they had with one group." Visentin explained that fraternities are just groups of students who join together for many reasons, such as community involvement and service work. He said that restricting a group of students from living in a house near campus as an organization is unfair. "It boils down to constitutional rights. Of course I don't think it's fair. We're a registered not-for-profit organization, but they're treating it like a business or if someone wanted to build a condo, and I think that its unfair that they're treating it in the same vein." SIMON YAKULIC

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International sourcing

Are international students more than a source of income?

he University of Alberta has been pushing international recruitment in an attempt to boast its international profile, diversify the student body and perhaps to maintain a healthy revenue stream from the higher tuition that international students are charged. So far, the university estimates that 11 percent of the student body is international, though it will be pushing hard to meet its goal of 15 percent in the coming years. U of A Students' Union president Rory Tighe is supportive of the university's goal, however he noted that on-the-ground support might have to increase for the new arrivals. "I think it is very important to recognize that the U of A is trying to attract more international students, but we need to make sure we have those mechanisms in place for welcoming those new students. It's great as long as they have the support they need," Tighe said. "If they're missing home or concentrating on financials it's hard to concentrate on academics." Tighe's vice president (external) should know. Farid Iskandar was born in Egypt, came to Canada to attend the U of A and became a Canadian during the previous school year. He said that this has given the

U of A a "special place" in his heart, however he was critical of the effects of the university's differential tuition fee, where international students pay a much higher rate then Canadian students. "Differential tuition for international students is at an all time high, which

Differential tuition for international students is at an all time high, which is preventing a diverse group of international students from having access to Albertan postsecondary education.

is preventing a diverse group of international students from having access to Albertan post-secondary education. We are limiting the diversity that this campus can hold," Iskandar pointed out. "The differential tuition that international students have to pay is going to target individuals from specific socio-economic backgrounds CONTINUED ON PAGE 24 >>

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[that can pay the tuition], what other international students that are equally valuable to Alberta and to Canada will not be able achieve." Iskandar explained that the Students' Union is specifically against raising the differential tuition any higher, which he said would be "abhorrent" to the international diversity of the institution. While the provincial government used to direct post-secondary institutions to charge international undergraduate students the differential, that requirement ceased in 2003, although the U of A and other institutions continue to charge the differential anyways. U of A Registrar Gerry Kendal has defended the differential as a cost that goes back into international student scholarships and the university's international centre. He has also argued that lowering international tuition could reduce the university's value in the eyes of foreign students. Tuition for an international undergraduate student at the U of A will come to $19 338 this year in the Arts faculty, and even more for professional programs. A Canadian-born undergraduate will be paying $6689 a year in the Arts faculty. Iskandar pointed out that international students are valuable to campus in non-monetary ways.

"Differential tuition is about 250 per cent of what a Canadian student would pay for a regular, full-time equivalent course load. And it isn't regulated in any way by the government, and the U of A is capable of increasing or decreasing it," Iskandar said. "International students are a valuable asset to the university campus and campus Alberta, and increasing access to different international students and having a more affordable education for international students should be an important goal for the U of A." U of A associate vice president (international) Britta Baron is leading the university's charge to swell the ranks of international students. She explained that the U of A is in competition with American schools to attract the best and the brightest students the world can offer, and competition is "fierce." The U of A has been partnering with a number of schools overseas to increase its international profile and get the attention of foreign recruitsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;this summer students from the Indian universities of IIT Bombay, IIT Kharagpur and the University of Hyperbad joined students from the Chinese universities of Tsinghua, Zhejiang and Fudan to complete research internships at the U of A. Everything the U of A can do to lure students from other countries counts, and Baron noted that the U of A could improve its

odds with better international student housing. "We wish the university could do more in terms of providing housing on campus and international student dormitories. That would be helpful if we had more capacity, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not denying that," Baron said. "I wouldn't say that students are really suffering serious hardship in terms of housing, but it would make us more attractive if we had better facilities to offer housing on campus and in dormitories." According to Baron, the U of A has a more "comprehensive approach" to making international students feel at home then other institutions, and the benefits are felt throughout campus, with domestic students reaping the benefits from the opportunity to study with classmates from around the world. "Our program is one of the strongest in Canada," Baron said. "And our international centre is quite active." "We've really clicked our heels to find the best students, wherever we could find themâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;both undergraduate and graduate students. And that was the impetus to make the U of A a more international environment, which is also to the benefit of our own students who can then study with students from around the world and tap into brainpower from around the world." SIMON YAKULIC

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Hitting the pause button EPSB puts a two-year moratorium on school closures

f only people cared about school as much as they care about hockey, Edmonton Public Schools Board of Trustees chair Dave Colburn would be a happy man. While billionaire Daryl Katz is bitter about only managing to find $100 million in public money for a new hockey arena in downtown Edmontonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;so farâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the local public school board has been hit with a $29 million shortfall in provincial funding that will see almost 200 teachers laid off. While previous funding fluctuations caused the Edmonton Public School Board to close schools throughout the city in addition to layoffs, the current board has said no to that option and drawn a line in the sandâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;at least for two years. "We created a two year moratorium on school closures, and our intent is in those two years to find a way to support those schools rather then close them," Colburn explained. "This isn't a straightforward journey, with easy solutions. If there were easy solutions we wouldn't have closed 13 schools in the past seven years." The board will be looking at how to balance funding concerns alongside urban development concerns. Urban sprawl has begun to take greater prominence on the political radar in Edmonton, with the new subdivisions

spreading outwards from the Anthony Henday ring road and the services they require raising eyebrows. One way to attract families to a city's existing neighborhoods is by providing schools for childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;however, once neighborhood schools close down, a bus ride from the suburbs isn't much different from busing children from mature communities.

munity, Colburn believes that closures are especially hard-felt by students. "When a school is closed, that level of personal security, comfort and self esteem that comes from learning in a familiar environment is yanked from under the feet of children. We've certainly heard from parents who have found school closure was very disruptive to their lives," Colburn said.

Like in many of Alberta's small towns that lost their schools decades ago, losing a community school serves to discourage young families from taking up residence, and can slowly drain the life out of a community. Colburn wants to ensure families living near community schools that, for now at least, they won't have to worry. "By putting a moratorium on the closures we're signaling to our communities that we're not prepared to put them through the uncertainty of considering school closures while we're examining the whole processâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;we didn't think it was fair to close schools or consider closing schools while we're taking a step back and looking at it in an in depth fashion," Colburn said. "I think the board believes that school closures is the worst resort." Not only is closing a community school a disruptive affair for the com-

It seems that Edmonton Public has had a complete about-face, from a

"We are anticipating losing in the neighborhood of almost 200 teachers, and that's a direct consequence of the level of funding provided to us by the government last year," Colburn said. "If we did not have a $29 million shortfall we would not need to lay off staff, but the reality is the level of funding provided to us by the government last year was not sufficient to maintain our staffing levels." Colburn explained that the board will be dipping into its reserves to

Losing a community school serves to discourage young families from taking up residence, and can slowly drain the life out of a community.

board that approved school closures to a board determined to do anything but. This is largely due to the last board election, where fresh candidates beat incumbents when running on platforms against school closure. Colburn said that he heard the public opposition to closures "very clearly" during the election. What isn't so clear is what the board can do next. With school closures off the table, and a tight budget handed down from the provincial government, part of the public school system will need to feel cutbacks.

make ends meet, though money is running low. While it had $53 million in reserves in 2009, he estimated that the reserves will be exhausted next year, and the board will finish the 2011 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2012 school year in a deficit position. "It's fine for the government to say, 'Access your reserves,' when for boards across the province there are no reserves," Colburn said. "The current roller coaster ride is where one year we have reasonable funding from the province and then we have funding pressures and inade-

quate levels of funding in the province from the oil and gas sector. This is not working well for education." Colburn added that schools should be given predictable and stable funding, allowing for certainty in planning. Until that happens, he predicts tough choices are going to be made on a regular basis. "I think its fair to say that the administration has made the case that by closing schools we do save some money, but the board has come to the conclusion that closing schools is not simply a dollars and cents calculation. Closing schools has a fairly significant impact on the community, and as a board we feel we have an obligation to the community," Colburn said. "If we were to look at school closures as a means of raising funds to balance the books, we would have to close 29 schools. The impact on communities from aggressively closing schools at that level would be entirely unacceptable to Edmonton," Colburn said. "This board has heard from the public that we're reaching the saturation point with school closures. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re prepared to bite the bullet and try to tighten our belt and find other solutions rather then continue down this path." SIMON YAKULIC

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More than its parts

Library renovations demonstrate there's more to the building than its books

library is more than its books. It's a lesson that is becoming more apparent as information is primarily accessed online. Readers use their laptops, ereaders, and iPhones to read everything from their favourite classic to the recent edition of their favourite magazine. Instead of taking away from libraries, this information movement has actually created a reinvigorated mandate and some flexibility to the services a library provides. "Libraries are no longer just warehouses for rows and rows of books," says Joanne Grienier the executive director of management services with the Edmonton Public Library. "There's less of a need for long rows of stacks, so we're able to meet a greater demand to have more community spaces." The Edmonton Public Library is one of the few to continue to expand despite the flood of information online and a decline of library funding across North America. "We've got five major renovations, either complete renovation or two new branches, in the next three years and that's unheard of in the library world," says Grienier. "The city had been expanding so quickly just before 2008, so we're still growing to provide convenient access to customers."

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1964. The square building was designed before it could be conceptualized that computers would be an everyday part of our lives. Jasper Place hasn't been renovated in 21 years, and was originally built in 1961 when Jasper Place was its own municipality. The Mill Woods branch, which is also being updated, has seen a dramatic increase in visitors over the years. It's the only library to serve the southeast and has had a 5.6 percent increase in visitors since 2009, with a 19 percent increase in items borrowed. With the renovations the library will nearly double in size. Communities have grown and diversified and the renovations are allowing the libraries to be tailored to people's needs. The Highlands library renovations specify group study space, quiet areas, computer terminals and has free Wi-Fi access. Grienier explains that the space is built to reflect demographic changes and service needs from community groups and schools. "If there's an area with a strong seniors community, or a lot of teens, we might redesign with that in mind," she says. "It's not just age, it's how people use the space. People might want to chat and do homework, or a senior might want to have a book club." Services provided by the library are developed in conjuction with the community's needs and demographic shifts are studied to re-

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late needs to design. The Mill Woods renovation takes note that 17 percent of residents in the area speak another language at home—a higher rate than the rest of the city. "We do profiles of the community to understand what the needs are, so there could be a focus if there's a new immigrant community focused on welcoming newcomers. ESL conversation circles, book clubs, groups that simply want to meet in a public space ... and those are at a premium in the community," says Griener. "It's free of charge for one thing."

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And that is one important consideration in the continued relevance of libraries. Marzio Apolloni, chair of the board of directors of the Federation of Ontario Public Libraries defended the funding of libraries in 2008 during the recession saying, "There is significant evidence to demonstrate that libraries experience an increase of use up to 20 percent during an economic downturn. People know that no matter what is happening in the economy, they can get the information, services and assistance they need from the public library.”

Libraries are one of the last remaining free public spaces. "We have a membership fee but you can come in and read the paper," says Grienier. That mandate is reflected in the design considerations which state the building should, "Announce its unique role in the neighbourhood as a place for public use." With Alberta Municipal Affairs documenting that 48 percent of Albertans have used a library card in the past 12 months, that public space is in high demand. SAMANTHA POWER

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What's left behind

Academic capitalism takes over at Canadian universities

niversities play an integral part in the improvement of and reflection on society, but that relationship is changing due to the changing financial relationship with a university's main funder: the government. "University culture in Canada has been changing ideologically because the role governments have assigned to universities has shifted over the past 30 years to one designed to fulfill a specific part of the nation-state's social contract with the publicâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that of economic vitalization and viability in these global times," writes Smaro Kamboureli, a Canada Research Chair, and editor of the book Retooling the Humanities. Kamboureli wanted to better understand and document how this changing dynamic impacted research across Canada. She gathered academics at the University of Guelph in 2006 to "discuss how the humanities might effectively retool themselves to the culture of research without capitulating to it." It's a difficult balance. Kit Dobson an assistant professor in Mount Royal's English department and author of the chapter Mining the Valley of its Making worries about what universities are leaving behind. "The risk is that some kinds of research and thinking will no longer be done, because our system is not fostering it,"

Dobson says. His chapter in the recent book discusses the fact that anti-capitalist work, as well as, "historical textual scholarship and other modes that do not connect easily with the broader public," may be left behind. "Many thinkers have had their most profound influence long after their deaths, but researchers now increasingly have to demonstrate short-term impact," explains Dobson. "The risk is that some kinds of research and thinking will no longer be done, because our system is not fostering it." Even the primary granting council, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, has focused its efforts on making research focus on "economic viability" as their mandate for 2006 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2011 states. University departments are now run by managers, whose job it is to search for and balance funding, the culture of research dictates those who get funding are those with projects directly applicable to society at large.

"In itself, applicability is not a bad thing," says Dobson, "but what does it mean for something to be applicable? In today's climate, it usually means either that it generates income or that it is read or cited by many people." Economic viability of the humanities may not be readily apparent, but researchers can only do their projects when they have the funding, making them beholden to granting agencies like SSHRC. And with SSHRC, the primary funding agency for the arts, more closely aligning itself with the

"value-added" approach to learning, successful research projects are those that will add value in an economic sense, such as having a direct connection with a business or industry. Though Dobson believes a key solution to creating academic freedom is the tenure system, as university budgets shrink, contractual workers become more popular. While university operating budgets once received over 80 percent of funding from the government, that number now sits at 57 percent. It leaves institutions less

flexibility to hire and retain permanent staff. "Academic workers hired on contracts, for instance, will feel more and more pressure to produce work that is easily understood, has clear applicability, and that does less to challenge how we view the world," says Dobson. "The tenure system is not perfect, and I'm well aware of criticisms made of it, but, at present, Canadian universities should look towards renewing their complement of tenured and tenuretrack faculty in order to retain the open exchange of knowledge.â&#x20AC;? SAMANTHA POWER

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UC Berkley completed a study examining the link between high quality schools and sustainable communities. The aim of the study was to examine educational access in communities and increase educational equity in order to overcome "geographies of exclusion" which prevent people in low income communities from accessing educational resources. The study examined some of the barriers including the persistent "uneven geography of opportunity" in which

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research by sociologists consistently points to a correlation between poor life outcomes and living in a high poverty area. The study found that investment in transit infrastructure, housing and social services improved not only impoverished areas but increased the educational capacity of local schools. The report recommends several ways in which local policy must be developed to align the goal of urban development and educational achievement.

GOVERNMENT CAN LEARN FROM TEACHERS The Canadian Teachers Federation has released a report to promote the influence of teachers' expertise when writing education policy. "Increasingly, educational policy decisions are being informed by people with little or no background in public education," explains CTF President Mary-Lou Donnelly. "Often missing in the debate is the voice of teachers who play such an important role supporting, inspiring and educating our country's future generation." The report, "The Voice of Canadian Teachers on Teaching and Learning" revealed 60 percent of Canadian teachers were very concerned about ensuring students achieve their potential and "developing the capacity for critical thinking in students."

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"School budget and staff cuts are of great concern to teachers who worry about not being able to support their students," Donnelly explained. "They also say that their students' mental health issues have become a major challenge for teachers who have little or no support in dealing with them." The majority of teachers believe the most important improvement to education would be the reduction of class sizes. "This report aims to give expression to the collective views of teachers on K-12 education issues, with a view to informing and influencing education policy decisions to enhance the quality of education all students receive," said Donnelly. The survey involved 434 teachers from across Canada.

A COMING DEBT STORM Moody's Analytics has warned that student debt could be the next financial catastrophe to hit the US, and with Canadian student debt expanding Canada should have reason to worry as well. Moody's noted that as debt such as mortgages and other types of lending were tightened during the recent economic downturn, the student loan market expanded and lenders didn't tighten standards like they did in the auto sector and credit cards. As well, unlike other fields, loans are more like-

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ly to be given to students despite their credit rating or lack thereof. Moody's says: "Unless students limit their debt burdens, choose fields of study that are in demand, and successfully complete their degrees on time, they will find themselves in worse financial positions and unable to earn the projected income that justified taking out their loans in the first place." Moody's warns that if students are unable to find employment delinquency rates could rise drastically in the coming years.

As students prepare to head back to school, Alberta students are likely to simply be adding another job to their day. A new report by TD Canada Trust reveals Alberta students are most likely to be working this summer to cover educational costs. The report also shows that seven in 10 students work 11 hours a week during the school year to help cover costs. Despite this effort, 34 percent of students reported by anxious about their school financing. The number of students working during the school year rose 14 percent since 2010 and one quarter of students anticipate owing over $25 000.

UNEQUAL EDUCATION The Assembly of First Nations is calling for the end of inequities in Aboriginal education. In order to study the need for change, the federal government and the AFN have set up a threeperson advisory panel to travel across Canada and examine the state of education on reserves. The panel will make recommendations for the spring federal budget to improve the state of available education. Overall schools on reserves are receiving less money than those in the rest of Canada and often have to deal with a lack of infrastructure in the community itself. The AFN also released the one-year status report of its call to action on education, recruiting organizations across Canada to bring attention to the needs of Aboriginal education. "First Nations have set out clear targets in education and we are seeing positive signals from the federal government in terms of willingness to work with us, particularly our joint efforts on K-12," said National Chief Atleo. "This path needs to lead us to a statutory guarantee for fair, equitable funding for First Nation students, recognition of First Nation languages, cultures and stable and secure education systems."

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addled with piles of student debt and job-scare, lackluster economy, current college students and recent graduates are selling themselves to pursue a diploma or pay down their loans," reported the The Huffington Post this past July. "Seeking Arrangement: College Students Using 'Sugar Daddies' To Pay Off Loan Debt" examined the disturbing trend sweeping the US (and Canada, for that matter) in which university students develop relationships with older, wealthier men in return for subsidizing their education. The article focuses primarily on SeekingArrangement.com, a matchmaking web site that encourages users to identify themselves as tuition-indebted "sugar babies" and loan-relieving "sugar daddies." Four pages of statistics and exclusive interviews later, though, article author, Amanda M Fairbanks fails to properly address arguably the most accountable actor in this deplorable predicament: universities themselves. SeekingArrangement.com, Fairbanks explains, has begun to place pop-up ads that appear with search engine entries like "tuition help" or "financial aid." It also offers free accounts to women signing up with their school's .edu email addresses.But, Fairbanks

makes minimal reference to universities' role in propelling their students into sex work. That is not to say New York University is putting its students on the path toward prostitution. However, something must be said about the rising tuition prices in the United States and Canada despite a recession and a labour market with increasingly demanding post-secondary education requirements. Aside from universities playing a part in allowing the cost of education to creep steadily upwards, the majority have not amplified scholarships nor made financial assistance programs more accessible. In general, the former are limited to area of study, grade average, student characteristics and a myriad of other factors; the latter are equally restrictive and difficult to navigate. Moreover, many scholarships and financial assistance programs tend to be dependent on full-time study, which can make balancing a job on the side extremely stressful. “As many students work part- or full-time to reduce their borrowing, academic commitments can become more difficult to fulfill. Other students simply leave before completion at the first offer of decent employment as a way to stop accumulating debt," reports the CFS. Whether working during the school year in-

volves expensive dinners aboard yachts or flipping burgers, the concern remains the same: high university costs are turning students' focus away from their education. Debt can also translate into a noncareer-oriented mindset after the completion (or interruption) of a university degree. Many students take years to finish a degree, some represent the growing adult population that is moving back in with their parents. While there is nothing wrong with amassing diplomas or living in your parents' basement, but when it's become so commonplace it's considered the norm, there is cause for concern. Thirteen percent of American 25- to 34-year olds, for example, have

chosen to move back home, reports The Atlantic in its July/August issue. Although the sugar baby "solution" for loan burdens is far from being students' top choice for financial assistance, the way in which Fairbanks' interviewees describe this choice hints at the possibility that sex work for school may become more accepted as the root problem continues to be ignored. "I like the college girls more because I think of their student debt as good debt. At least it seems like I'm helping them out," says "Jack", a sugar daddy and member of SeekingArrangement.com. He considers himself a "humanitarian" because he is "helping young women in financial need," writes Fairbanks. Several of the eight "sugar babies" she inter-

viewed for the piece seem to see the situation in much the same light: they were reluctant to liken these relationships to prostitution. Regardless of whether sex is involved in these arrangements or not, euphemizing the nature of these relationships serves to support them. And it lessens the pressure put on universities to change the financial situations of their students. And students should place the burden of shame on their schools for allowing the emergence of such desperate situations. NATASCIA LYPNY

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emperature influences every aspect of eating, for the heat (or lack thereof) of a dish drives our perception of aroma, taste and texture. Every dish has an ideal temperature at which it should be served and, although hot dishes immediately spring to mind, a wide range of edibles are best served cold—ice cold, at that. Bubble tea is best served cold, and this Asian invention enjoys considerable popularity in Edmonton. It is hardly a new invention but perceptions of bubble tea as a "flash in the pan" persist. The beverage has existed since the early 1980s and two Taiwanese tea shops, one in Taichung and one in Tainan, purport to be bubble tea's natal kitchen. Bubble tea's popularity grew throughout the 1980s and 1990s; its sphere of influence slowly spread across China, Japan and Korea. Its North American prominence grew steadily and today, even small cities boast at least one purveyor of bubble tea. Case in point: Saskatoon is scarcely a gastronome's hub of multinational flavours (though, like many Western Canadian cities, this is changing). About 10 years ago, on a stiflingly hot July day, I noticed a sandwich board outside an Asian café that proclaimed bubble tea was for sale inside. I naively presumed that bubble tea was, essentially, carbonated

tea, but emerged with a newfound love and knowledge of the beverage. Though many variants exist, bubble tea is basically a tea base mixed with fruit and, sometimes, milk. The "bubbles" are marblesized tapioca or sago pearls, which may also be flavoured. These ingredients are blended into an icy, creamy brew and enjoyed with an oversized straw with which to vacuum up the capricious bubbles. Flash forward a decade and multiple bubble tea shops dot Canadian cities. Edmonton is home to several dozen such businesses. Bubble Buzz is a recent addition to this world of bubble-filled beverages and occupies a comfortable downtown spot on 104 street. Sisters Holly Mah, Brenda Mah-Tang, and their husbands Brian Wong and David Tang own this shop and were drawn to the business by their love of international culinary adventures. "We all love food and travel," explains Brenda, "and we've travelled around both Asia and North America. We've seen many excellent bubble tea shops all over the world and wanted to bring something like that here." "People are becoming more adventurous with food," observes Holly, "and our customers have been trying nonintuitive combinations of fruits in their

tea." Indeed, fruit is a large component of bubble tea, and Bubble Buzz's roster includes common fruits, like orange and melon, plus more unusual offerings, like jackfruit and avocado. "It's fun, people love the bubbles, and you can get really creative with it," says Brenda. Brian adds, "It's pretty healthy—better than a can of pop, that's for sure." The four proprietors observe that widespread usage of powders instead of whole fruits is a negative consequence of bubble tea's popularity. Brenda explains, "We wanted to stay away from syrups and powders and make sure that fruit was the main component." Thus, no powders are found in Bubble Buzz's kitchen and, instead, rows of fresh fruit rest on shelves, awaiting their fate. "The bottom line of bubble tea is that it tastes good and it's fun to eat," explains Brenda. She adds, "It's customizable for what each person likes and you're not restricted to a strict set of ingredients." Holly concurs and adds, "It's just fun and catching the bubbles with the straw is like a game." Indeed, this frosty blend of flavour and fun propelled bubble tea to international prominence and, presently, perpetuates its popularity. LS VORS

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many, it is virtually unknown on this side of the ocean. Which makes Creemore's decision to brew it annually even more interesting. (I am aware of only one other regular kellerbier made in Canada, by Trois

Creemore's version pours a hazy golden-orange with a bright white head that lingers through much of the tasting. It has a floral, grassy hop aroma and some sweet biscuit and bready malt. I also pick up a distinct yeast tingle as well. A little sulfur and fruitiness complements. The flavour is two-toned. At first there is soft bready sweetness and then rises a noted German hop bitterness. The hop is not as sharp as a German pils, but close. The beer tastes full and is not as clean as most lagers. This is due to the yeast, which offers both cloudiness and tangy accents to the flavour. It feels more like homebrew in its mouthfeel. The linger leans hoppy but remains full and a bit fruity. The beer has an almost hybrid character to itâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;part lager, part ale. This is the influence of the yeast. The hopping is a highlight, assertive enough to be a lead feature but not overpowering of the other complex flavours. I can honestly say you will not have tasted a beer in Canada quite like it. In a way I am sorry it doesn't have a six-pack on its own, as the two cans went down quite quickly. Maybe next summer. V

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Here comes the Sun

Chris Isaak's latest celebrates early rock 'n' roll Sat, Aug 20 (8 pm) Chris Isaak River Cree Casino, $59.50

hris Isaak's particular brand of lonely heart rock 'n' roll has always carried with it the air of nostalgia: he draws influence from simpler times, from purer sounds, from the very pioneers of rock 'n' roll, and the youthful inhibition that was first released into the musical world along with it. Always good for covers, Isaak's giving his inspiration a more direct homage now with the just-announced Beyond The Sun. It collects his takes on some beloved, legendary cuts from Memphis' Sun Records: Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire," "I Walk The Line" and Elvis' "Can't Help Falling in Love" both appear, among a sampling of the rest of the Sun Records roster and an Isaak original, too. It's all rather fitting from a man who built his musical career on the very same foundations as his heroes. Isaak notes the tour itself will include, "One suit covered in mirrors that weighs thirty-five pounds! ... a piano that catches fire & smokes and a twenty-foot-tall pin-up girl that blows up on stage"—hey, nobody said vintage rock 'n' roll can't have one hell of a stage show. He was saving his voice for the shows, but was also good enough to answer some questions about touring and tribute over email. VUE WEEKLY: I've read that Beyond the Sun was prompted, in part, by hearing of [American record producer; creator of Sun Records] Sam Phillips speaking highly of you in Oxford American. Did you have a chance to speak to him about it before he passed? CHRIS ISAAK: I was on tour with my band and we were heading to Memphis. My manager had set up a meeting and sadly Sam passed away before we ever got together. I love his music, and I love his individualism ... he just did it the way he felt was right, music and the way he lived. I loved that he broke all the rules and won, because despite what they show you in the movies that never happens! VW: What are some of your earliest memories of Sun records? CI: My parents had a small but really cool record collection that they kept in a cupboard. We had a funky record player that looked like a suitcase and folded out with two tiny speakers that were always scratchy ... and even on that get up, when you put on a record by Jerry Lee Lewis you felt like you were in the room with the band. I used to listen to those albums every day. We

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Chris Isaak, celebrating Sun Records

played those records 'til they skipped and then we stacked pennies on the turntable arm and kept playing! VW: You've obviously done numerous covers before. Has recording an full album of covers been on your mind for some time? CI: When I started out I was really determined to find my own sound and write my own songs, but I always have loved these songs. When I got home from a tour I would always sit in my stairway (it has a good echo off the concrete) and sing this music. When I was in Japan boxing years ago I sang Elvis' "I Forgot to Remember to Forget" so many times that my Japanese landlady who didn't speak English learned to sing it by osmosis! I have been loving this music since the minute I heard it and I was always wanting to sing it. If there is such a thing as a labour of love, this is it. If I sell a million or none, I am really glad I got to make this record. VW: I've also read that "Live it Up," an original on the album, was something you included to make sure there was a rock beat represented on Beyond the Sun. Was there, then, an overall

feeling you found yourself looking to capture while creating the album? CI: I told the band when we started this project that I didn't want to do a bar band version of these classics. I thought we needed to really know the music, I mean every little nuance. And the important thing to do once you finished was to forget it and play it the way you feel it and have fun. I'm really proud that we did the work and that we ended up having the fun. I don't think I ever had more fun in

body wouldn't have stopped us I think we would have just kept going! VW: There is, undeniably, some magic in this particular brand of rock 'n' roll, and one that's had a rather large influence on your own musical output. What continually draws you back to that sound? CI: I love the stripped-down honesty of the music. No tricks, no special effects and smoke and mirrors, just a couple of folks singing it and swing-

You gotta realize that I'm not just a guy who likes this music, this music really changed my life.

the studio. We were all in the room together, no headphones, and me singing the final vocals in the room. It might have been a lot of pressure but I think we just were having such fun playing and being able to hear the whole thing come alive that we just had a ball. When I listen back to the tapes of us recording it struck me that before and after almost every song somebody is laughing or making a joke. We recorded enough material for about three albums, and if some-

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ing it. Those songs from Sun are still the wildest and sweetest music I have ever heard. VW: What was it like, stepping into [legendary recording studio] Sun Studios to record the album? CI: OK, you gotta realize that I'm not just a guy who likes this music, this music really changed my life. I was in a small town with no background in show business, no connections and [I'd] never been in a band. And after

hearing this music it just changed everything. I didn't know if I would get famous or make a fortune, that wasn't even in my mind. Not even a bit. I was just so hungry to play that music, to have a band and get to sing that pretty or that wild. I dreamed about it, I mean REALLY dreamed about it. My folks bought all our clothes at the secondhand stores when I was younger and I remember trying to look like Scotty Moore, Elvis' guitar player. I was in deep. So when my drummer Kenney and I first walked into Sun we both just stopped and looked at each other. When we were recording at Sun we would play 'til the wee hours and we would sit there and say to each other "Who lives like us?" Everybody in the band just played their hearts out—I think you have to have a wooden heart if that room and all that magic that came before doesn't move you. I remember I was singing and in the middle of a take of a Carl Perkins tune. I looked up and there was a picture of Carl looking down at me from the wall. He was smiling, and the angle made it look like he was looking right at me. It made me happy. PAUL BLINOV

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eeting other people is at the core of Amanda Rheaume's style, and to her it's the best part about taking her music on the road. For the Ontario-based singer-songwriter who has toured throughout Canada and the US, as well as played for Canadian troops in Afghanistan, Dubai and Alert, Nunavut, other people's stories are an inspiration. "Everyone's lives are so different and that's fascinating," says Rheaume. "Being on tour, you kind of drop into someone's live for 12hours—meet them and learn about them."

Since getting her start as a 15-yearold, strumming an old acoustic guitar, Rheaume transformed herself into a pop songstress before rediscovering her roots and beginning to compose music with "more meat on

the bones." Her overarching goal, however, has always been to connect with people. "It's all on a human level," she says. "In a living room it's so intimate and the dynamics are so important. To go to a festival or something, the emotions are a lot bigger, so I want to bring the energy to even it out. I really like to connect with as many people as I can." Relating with her audience is sometimes a difficult role, Rheaume admits. After two visits to Kandahar to sing to the troops, she has an added respect for citizens in those difficult situations, and further, for her own good fortune. "I don't have to think about those things on a daily basis," she says. "I just wake up and hope I can get to my gig." CURTIS WRIGHT

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or over a decade, Volbeat has been plying its mix of punk, metal and rockabilly throughout its native Denmark and Europe, but it remained a relative unknown quantity in North America. Everything changed last summer when Metallica brought the band on tour, introducing Volbeat to the legions of Metallica fans on this side of the Atlantic. "Of course it meant a tremendous amount for us because who would be better to be on a support act in America besides Metallica? They're the biggest metal band of all time and to get the chance to open for those guys its probably once in a lifetime that you'll get that chance," says drummer Jon Larsen. "Most of the time the kids treated us really good. Every once in awhile we heard

Volbeat plays a mix of punk, metal and rockabilly

from the back, 'Yooooou suck!' but that's just part of being the opening act." That introduction opened a whole new side of the world to Volbeat and now the band is playing its own headlining tour. As Larsen explains, the metal heads on either side of the world are just as crazy, but fans over here in North America take care of each other just a little bit more. "You don't really see people really get hurtâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it may have happened, I'm

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not sureâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but some people in Europe can get pretty violent. If you go down they won't help you back up," he says. "If you're standing up near the front rail and you have to go to the bathroom or something, in Europe somebody else will probably stand there but it seems like people here will go, 'Oh hey, that was your spot,' and then they'll move. Which seems really nice." BRYAN BIRTLES

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NEWSOUNDS

JJ Grey and Mofro Brighter Days (Alligator Records) ´´´´ Bringing the sweaty, moving character of their studio burners to a different level, JJ Grey and Mofro’s Brighter Days perfectly captures the front porch soul and backwoods blues from the Jacksonville, FL six-piece in a great live experience. Grey’s smooth and dynamic voice retains a soulful rawness, while his rootsysoul band seamlessly backs in a live performance—getting lost in the moment is simple. Moments of Otis Redding's Georgia soul and touches of “Sweet Home Alabama” are all over this piece of magic. CURTIS WRIGHT

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Head Cat Walk the Walk ... Talk the Talk (Niji) ´´´ On first thought, Lemmy already seems to be exactly where he belongs: in Motorhead. Really, with the torn-up vocals and rapid-fire grindstone bass, he doesn't seem like the sort that could fit very easily into anything but the punk-metal storm that is his full-time job. But then, this is the guy who managed a credible acoustic version of "Ace of Spades" on Motorhead's latest album, and before Motorhead he plied his trade within the space-rock sounds of Hawkwind, so maybe the guy has some not-so-hidden talents beyond the ones he routinely turns up to 11. Walk the Walk ... Talk the Talk finds Lemmy teaming up with drummer

Slim Jim Phantom and guitarist Danny B Harvey for Head Cat's second old-school rock 'n' roll record. Lemmy still sounds like Lemmy—both in ragged voice and distorted bass— but Head Cat doesn't sound much like Motorhead, and it works. The trio isn't rewriting any rules here, but neither are the cover songs here simply recreations of the originals, with the group putting a decisive stomp on songs by Chuck Berry, the Beatles and Robert Johnson. In the midst of the throwbacks, though, there are a couple of originals that stand out as highlights in the mix: the rollicking "American Beat" and the slow blues of "The Eagle Flies on Friday." All in all, a pretty successful side project that strikes a fun note and lets Lemmy's roots show through.

Siskiyou Keep Away The Dead (Constellation Records) ´´´´

There's a chaos lurking just underneath the nimble folk of Siskyou's Keep Away The Dead. It emerges in lyrics—"Death to me, death to you," are the first words spoken on the album—and musically breaks through every few songs, from the joyous sonic eruption of "Twigs and Stones" to the dark lyrical uprising in "Revolution Blues." It's that chaos that ensures that this offshoot project of the Great Lake Swimmers comes across as lively folk music that's very much its own disctinct idea, and a very good one at that. PAUL BLINOV

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Theophilius London Timez are Weird These Days (Warner) ´´ An idyllic hipster soundtrack for online shopping, Timez are Weird These Days isn’t a hip-hop album, and shouldn’t really be known as such. Even if Brookyln’s Theophilius London has Kanye West on his speed dial, and dresses like a thrift store version of him, we shouldn’t be fooled. Something like the up-tempo, relatively empty songs from a closing scene in a floundering episode of Season 8 of Entourage, London cutely rhymes like the singer of TV on the Radio with no honest cover up—a trashy attempt to swoon like Morrisey and rap like a poor boy's Dizzee Rascal—Timez only real strong moment is “I Stand Alone.” which is loosely an unabashed indie-pop song. Otherwise, it’s basic rhyming over a throwback ‘80s break dancing and bubblegum pop. CURTIS WRIGHT

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oday is the best day of my life," says David Gogo. "I woke up alive again." And as the Canadian bluesman continues, an upbeat attitude prevails. The blues tends to be cold, known for sentiments like "You know you done me wrong baby, and you'll be sorry someday," from BB King's 1951 breakout "The Thrill Is Gone." After a 15-year old Gogo met legend Stevie Ray Vaughn—an artist whose

disposition was generally akin to King's—he looked at the genre with the greatest respect. "What really drew me when I was a youngster was the realness and the emotion of it," says Gogo. "It didn't seem contrived to me—for people like Howlin' Wolf, it didn't seem like there was any separation between art and life. The things that they were playing were the life that they were living." Now touring on his 11th album, Soul Bender, Gogo is at the point where his advice is the one worth seeking out. Walking a similar terrain of the blues, Soul Bender includes his

MUSICNOTES Jazz at the Lake / Thu, Aug 18 – Sun, Aug 21 Ah, summer, the time for heading out to the lake. But wait: what if you're out to hear some sweet jazzy sounds? It feels like the season's already slipping away, leaving precious little time to fit both the lake and jazz in before the snow falls. Unless you want to head out to Sylvan Lake for a little Jazz on the Lake, that is. (Sylvan Lake, jazzatthelake.com)

Bayonets!!! / Tue, Aug 23 (8 pm) Local stabby purveyors of excitable punctuation celebrate the release of

flexi-disc "Two Songs Regarding Faith Mountain," a precursor to the group's forthcoming full-length concept album Faith Mountain, sharing the night with Brooklyn's illustrious art-phone-punks Japanther. (Wunderbar)

Kris Ellestad and Jom Comyn / Thu, Aug 25 (8 pm) It's a double release, sunset party aboard Edmonton's High Level Streetcar. You can check out Ellestad's No Man Is Land right now (krisellestad.bandcamp.com/album/ no-man-is-land), but you'll have to wait until the night for Comyn's third EP, Sunstroke. The two will be joined

sought-after flavour, while taking on songs considered outside of the blues. Michael Jackson's "The Way You Make Me Feel" is proof of his inventive take. "There are certain themes in the blues that are pounded," laughs Gogo. "Pounded and pounded—after a while you're flogging a dead horse, lyrically. For a lot of the blues guys, that's what they know—bad women and bad whiskey. I try and look at it maybe a little deeper than that ... [though] I still like whiskey and women." CURTIS WRIGHT // CURTIS@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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Fri: David Gogo Band, Reba Russell Band, Kim Wilson’s Blues All-Stars featuring Billy Flynn and Kid Ramos; Fri: 4:30pm (gate), 5:30-10pm (show); $75 (non-trans 3 day pass, sold out)/$90 (transferable weekend pass)/$40 (Fri pass)/$45 (Sat pass, sold out)/$45 (Sun pass) at TicketMaster outlets, Permanent Records, Chateau Louis Hotel

BLUES ON WHYTE Boogie Patrol

BRIXX BAR Matt Landry and the Dryland Band, Jeremy Pudlowski and Small Town Knife Fight; 9pm

CARROT Live music

every Fri; all ages; Tim Chesterton/Alex Boudreau; 7pm; $5 (door)

CASINO EDMONTON The Normals

CASINO YELLOWHEAD Stars Tonight

CENTURY CASINO Chris Isaak; 8pm

CHURCHILL SQUARE

Every weekday (weather permitting): Breezy Brian Gregg (SW corner); 121:15pm

COAST TO COAST Open

stage every Fri; 9:30pm

DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB

For Boris, the Punk Rock Dog; 9pm

FRESH START BISTRO

J AND R Open jam rock 'n' roll; every Thu; 9pm

JAZZ AT THE LAKE– Sylvan Lake: Royal

FUNKY BUDDHA– Whyte Ave Requests

GAS PUMP The Uptown

live music every Fri; 7-10pm; $10

Canadian Legion: Johnny Summers Little Big Band (swing dance/concert); 8pm; $20

every Thu with DJ Damian

Jammers (house band); every Fri; 5:30-9pm

HALO Fo Sho: every Thu

HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB

L.B.'S PUB Open jam

KAS BAR Urban House:

MARYBETH'S COFFEE HOUSE–Beaumont Open mic every Thu; 7pm

Bunker Thursdays

LUCKY 13 Sin Thu with DJ Mike Tomas

ON THE ROCKS

Open stage every Thu, 9pm; no cover

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

NEW WEST HOTEL

OVERTIME–

NAKED CYBER CAFÉ

Herbs (country)

NORTH GLENORA HALL Jam by Wild Rose

Downtown Thursdays at Eleven: Electronic Techno and Dub Step

RENDEZVOUS Metal

Old Time Fiddlers every Thu

night every Thu

REXALL PLACE Taylor

SPORTSWORLD Roller

Swift; 7pm

RIC’S GRILL Peter Belec

(jazz); most Thursdays; 7-10pm

SECOND CUP– Varscona Live music

every Thu night; 7-9pm

SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Derina Harvey (Celtic/folk), A.J.; 9:30pm

STARLITE ROOM

Sum 41, guests; all ages; 6pm (door); $29.50 at UnionEvents.com, PrimeBoxOffice.com, Blackbyrd

Skating Disco: Thu Retro Nights; 7-10:30pm; sports-world.ca

TAPHOUSE–St Albert Eclectic mix every Thu with DJ Dusty Grooves

UNION HALL 123

Thursdays

WILD BILL’S–Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close

FRI AUG 19 APEX CASINO The

(pop/rock) 9pm

SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Lyle Hobbs;

9pm

Neko Rei, In Media Res, Simon Hoskyn Band, Strange Planes; 8pm; $10 (adv)

IRISH CLUB Jam session

every Fri; 8pm; no cover

JAZZ AT THE LAKE– Sylvan Lake: Sylvan Lake Lodge: H.O.T. Dixieland Jazz Band (concert & sing-along for residents), 2pm, free; Railway Park Promenade: The F-18's Farmers' Market, 5pm, free; Alliance Community Church: Michael Kaeshammer and his Trio, 8pm, $35; Lions Hall: Late Night Lions: Jazz Jam Session Jazz Club, 10pm, donation

JEFFREY'S CAFÉ The

Wee Hours (contemporary jazz); $10

JEKYLL AND HYDE PUB Headwind (classic pop/ rock); every Fri; 9pm; no cover

L.B.’S–St Albert The

Mason Rack Band Friday

LIZARD LOUNGE Rock

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

MUGGN'Z RESTAURANT The

Piano Man featuring AJ's Group

California Lane Change, Surviving Suzanne, The Blank Trio, Absolute Age, Brittney Grabill; 9pm

WILD BILL’S–Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close

WILD EARTH BAKERY Zanne Cameron, Greg Dust (jazz); 8:45pm

WILD WEST SALOON Steve Arsenault

WOK BOX Breezy Brian Gregg every Fri; 3:305:30pm

AZUCAR PICANTE DJ

Papi and DJ Latin Sensation every Fri

BANK ULTRA LOUNGE Connected Fri: 91.7 The Bounce, Nestor Delano, Luke Morrison every Fri

DJs spin on the main floor, Underdog and the Wooftop

BLACKSHEEP PUB Bash: DJ spinning retro to rock classics to current

BUDDY’S DJ Arrow Chaser

every Fri; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm

BUFFALO UNDERGROUND R U

Aware Friday: Featuring Neon Nights

CHROME LOUNGE

Platinum VIP every Fri

180 DEGREES DJ every

Thu

BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku

Connie GoGo; 8:30pm; no cover

RED PIANO BAR Hottest

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

APEX CASINO Paula

Perro (blues /rock), No Foolin'; 9pm

ATLANTIC TRAP AND GILL Chuck Rose (Celtic);

The Edmonton Show VI: Sugar Glider, Mitchmatic, A.O.K. (Assault of Knowledge), the Common Ground Collective; 7:30pm (door)

BEER HUNTER–Spruce Grove Organic Orbit (alte/electronic/rock); 9pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair of

the Dog: Spencer Jo (folk/punk), The River Ramblers (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover

BLUES FESTIVAL

Duffy Bishop Band, Dave Riley and Bob Corritore, Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band, John Nemeth Soul Revue, Nick Moss and the Flip Tops with Special Guest Guitar Shorty; Sat 1pm (gate), 2:30-10pm (show); $45 (Sat pass, sold out)

THE DRUID IRISH PUB

CASINO EDMONTON

DJ every Fri; 9pm

Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Evening: Boogie Patrol

BRIXX BAR My Sister

Ocean, Desousa Drive, Blunt Force Charm; 9pm

The Normals

ELECTRIC RODEO– Spruce Grove DJ every Fri

CASINO YELLOWHEAD

FLUID LOUNGE Hip hop

COAST TO COAST Live

FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Top tracks, rock, retro

THE COMMON

and dancehall; every Fri

with DJ Damian; every Fri

GAS PUMP DJ Christian;

every Fri; 9:30pm-2am

JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY LGBT Community: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm

NEWCASTLE PUB House, dance mix every Fri with DJ Donovan OVERTIME–Downtown Fridays at Eleven: Rock hip hop, country, top forty, techno

REDNEX–Morinville DJ

Gravy from the Source 98.5 every Fri

RED STAR Movin’ on Up:

AVENUE THEATRE

DJs

Trace Jordan 1st and 3rd Sat; 7pm-12

BLUES ON WHYTE

WILD BILL’S–Red Deer

Steve Arsenault

SAT AUG 20 ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage with

THE COMMON Boom The Box: every Fri; nu disco, hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation plus residents Echo and Shortround

Fri

WILD WEST SALOON

Foundation Fridays

AVENUE THEATRE

Fri

PAWN SHOP Degrassi

The Edmonton Show VI: Scenic Route to Alaska, Prairie Nights, The Common Ground Collective; 7:30pm

Y AFTERHOURS

9:30pm

ON THE ROCKS

TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close

LOUNGE Connected Las Vegas Fridays

180 DEGREES DJ every

stage hosted by Carrie Day, and Kyler Schogen; 7-9pm

Junior High '80s Party featuring Caitlin (Mistylicious), Spike (DJ Demanda), Rocket Sauce; 9pm (door); $10 (adv) at Blackbyrd

Night every Fri

DJs

ATLANTIC TRAP AND GILL Chuck Rose (Celtic;

Bonafide; $5

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

VINYL DANCE

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

9:30pm

TREASURY In Style

STARLITE ROOM

NEW WEST HOTEL Herbs (country)

Greg Gory and Eddie Lunchpail; every Fri

UNION HALL Ladies

(Celtic/folk), A.J.; 9:30pm

Fabulous Canola-Tones (blues); 9pm

THAT'S AROMA Open

with DJ Randall-A

SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Derina Harvey

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every Friday

FLUID LOUNGE Thirsty

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Funk

TEMPLE Options with

DV 8 TAVERN Benefit

EDDIE SHORTS River City Roosters (blues/R&B/ rock); 9pm

every Thu with DJ Mark Stevens; 9pm

ROSE AND CROWN PUB Stuart Bendall

BAR-B-BAR DJ James; every Fri; no cover

Thursdays: Electro breaks Cup; no cover all night

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

SUITE 69 Every Fri Sat

Mark McGarrigle (folk); 8pm

Indust:real Assembly: Goth and Industrial Night with DJ Nanuck; no minors; 10pm (door); no cover

with Allout DJs DJ Degree, Junior Brown

REXALL PLACE Taylor

Swift; 7pm

ROUGE LOUNGE Solice SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Fuzzion Friday: with Crewshtopher, Tyler M, guests; no cover

SPORTSWORLD Roller

Skating Disco Fri Nights; 7-10:30pm; sports-world.ca

SUEDE LOUNGE Juicy DJ

spins every Fri

Stars Tonight

bands every Sat; 9:30pm

Moonin'; 7pm

CROWN PUB Acoustic

blues open stage with Marshall Lawrence, every Sat, 2-6pm; Laid Back Saturday African Dance Party with Dj Collio, every Sat, 12-2am

DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB Mark McGarrigle (folk); 8pm

DV8 TAVERN All Strikes Reggae Night; 8pm

EDDIE SHORTS

K.C.Sindicate, Dave Carlson Band; Slave Lake fundraiser

EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ

Open stage for original songs, hosted by Karyn Sterling and Randall Walsh; 2-5pm; admission by donation

FILTHY MCNASTY'S

Jake Ian and the Haymakers, Free Elliott; 4pm; no cover

GAS PUMP Blues jam/ open stage every Sat 3:30-7pm

HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB

The Bridle Party, Mia Raven and Barobliq; 8pm; $10 (adv)/$12 (door)

VUEWEEKLY AUG 18 – AUG 24, 2011

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HILLTOP PUB Sat afternoon roots jam with Pascal, Simon and Dan, 3:30-6:30pm; evening: Wil (indie rock), 9:30pm, $10 (door) HOOLIGANZ Live music every Sat

IRON BOAR PUB Jazz

in Wetaskiwin featuring jazz trios the 1st Sat each month; $10

JAZZ AT THE LAKE–Sylvan Lake:

Lions Legacy Park Gazebo: H.O.T. Dixieland Jazz Band outdoor picnic concert, 11am-1pm; free; Jazz Goes To College: RDC Percussion, RDC Big Band, RDC Faculty Jazz Band (outdoor concert), 2-4pm, free; Lions Hall: Donald Ray Johnson Band (blues bash), 1-4pm, $20; Late Night Lions: Jazz Club Jazz Jam Session: 10pm, donation; Alliance Community Church: Tommy Banks Trio (jazz workshop), 4-5:30pm, free; Tommy Banks Trio, 8pm, $35

JEFFREY'S CAFÉ

Cecile Doo Kingue (contemporary blues, soul, and Afro rhythyms); $10

NEW WEST HOTEL Herbs (country); Jam Saturday afternoons

O’BYRNE’S Live band

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

ON THE ROCKS Bonafide; $5

PAWN SHOP

Transmission Saturdays: The Cygnets; 9pm (door), 9:30pm (show)

RED PIANO BAR

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

RIVER CREE–The Venue Chris Isaak

ROSE AND CROWN PUB Stuart Bendall (pop/ rock)

SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Lyle Hobbs SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Derina Harvey (Celtic/folk), A.J.

STARLITE ROOM

Edmonton vs. Calgary with Sonorous Odium, Kataplexis, Breathe Knives and Ides of Winter; 9pm

WESTSIDE PUB Sat

Afternoon: Dirty Jam: Tye Jones (host), all styles, 3-7pm

WILD WEST SALOON Steve Arsenault

WUNDERBAR Zero Cool

(punk/rock), Sufix and Punktured; 9pm

BLACKSHEEP PUB DJ every Sat

BUDDY'S Feel the rhythm every Sat with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm

BUFFALO UNDERGROUND Head

Mashed In Saturday: Mashup Night

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ

every Sat; 9pm

ELECTRIC RODEO– Spruce Grove DJ every Sat

FLUID LOUNGE Scene

Saturday's Relaunch: Party; hip-hop, R&B and Dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali

FUNKY BUDDHA– Whyte Ave Top tracks,

Classical

rock, retro every Sat with DJ Damian

MYER HOROWITZ THEATRE Raga-Mala

every Sat

Music Society: Kadamb Kathak Group, Rajan and Sajan Mishra (Hindustani vocal); 6:30pm; $20 (senior/student)/$15 (adult)/free (member)

DJs 180 DEGREES Street

VIBS: Reggae night every Sat

AZUCAR PICANTE DJ

Touch It, hosted by DJ Papi; every Sat

BANK ULTRA LOUNGE Sold Out Sat: with DJ Russell James, Mike Tomas; 8pm (door); no line, no cover for ladies before 11pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Saturday

evenings feature DJs on three levels; Main Floor: The Menace Sessions: Alt rock/Electro/Trash with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic hiphop and reggae with DJ Sonny Grimezz

GAS PUMP DJ Christian

HALO For Those Who Know: house every Sat with DJ Junior Brown, Luke Morrison, Nestor Delano, Ari Rhodes JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY LGBT

Community: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm

NEWCASTLE PUB Top

40 requests every Sat with DJ Sheri

NEW CITY LEGION

Polished Chrome: every Sat with DJs Blue Jay, The Gothfather, Dervish, Anonymouse; no minors; free (5-8pm)/$5 (ladies)/$8 (gents after 8pm)

OVERTIME–Downtown

Saturdays at Eleven: R 'n' B, hip hop, reggae, Old School

PALACE CASINO Show Lounge DJ every Sat

PAWN SHOP

Transmission Saturdays: Alt, DJ, punk-rock

RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Your

Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M

SPORTSWORLD Roller

Skating Disco every Sat; 1pm-4:30pm and 7-10:30pm

SUEDE LOUNGE DJ Nic-E spins every Sat

SUITE 69 Every Fri Sat with DJ Randall-A TEMPLE Oh Snap! Oh

Snap with Degree, Cobra Commander, Battery, Jake Roberts, Ten-O, Cool Beans, Hotspur Pop and P-Rex; every Sat

UNION HALL Celebrity

Saturdays: every Sat hosted by Ryan Maier

VINYL DANCE LOUNGE

Willie Campbell (bass), Rob Rio (keys), Jimi Bott (drums); Sun: 1pm (gate), 2:30-10pm (show); $45 (Sun pass) at TicketMaster outlets, Permanent Records, Chateau Louis Hotel

CROWN PUB Band War 2011/Battle of the bands, 6-10pm; Open Stage with host Better Us Than Strangers, 10pm-1am

DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB

Celtic open stage every Sun with Keri-Lynne Zwicker; 5:30pm; no cover

DOUBLE D'S Open jam every Sun; 3-8pm

EDDIE SHORTS Acoustic jam every Sun; 9pm

EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ

YEG live Sun Night Songwriters Stage; 7-10pm

HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB

Sheena Grobb, Danielle and the Deadbeats, guests

Y AFTERHOURS Release

J AND R BAR Open jam/ stage every Sun hosted by Me Next and the HaveNots; 3-7pm

SUN AUG 21

JAZZ AT THE LAKE–Sylvan Lake:

Signature Saturdays Saturdays

BEER HUNTER–St Albert Open stage/jam every Sun; 2-6pm

BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku

Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett

BLUE PEAR RESTAURANT Jazz on the

Side Sun: Audrey Ochoa; 5:30-8:30pm; $25 if not dining

BLUES FESTIVAL Sun: David Vest, Sean Carney Band, RJ Mischo with Mike Morgan and the Crawll, Diunna Greenleafe and Blue Mercy, Delta Groove Harp Blast with Bob Corritore, Randy Chortkoff, Mitch Kashmar and Big Pete Van Der Pluijm (harps), Kirk Fletcher and Paris Slim (guitar),

Sylvan Lake Library: Jazz for Kids: Jazzamatazz Band, 1pm, free; Lions Legacy Park Gazebo: Jazz Explosion and Flat Iron Jazz, 2-4pm, free; Marina Bay Community Room Waterside Deck: Johanna Sillanpaa Jazz Trio, 3-5pm, free; Karma's: Farewell Jam Session, 7pm, reserve at 403.887.1808; JAZZ PUB CRAWL: Bayview Café: Juanita Faas Jazz Duo; 11:30 a.m-2:3pm; Pete's At The Beach: Cornerpocket Jazz Trio, 1-4pm; Chef Francisco Pub: Caravan Latin Jazz Quartet, 1:30-4:30pm; Royal Canadian Legion: The Wee Hours" Organ Trio, 2-5pm; Lakers Pub: 73, Viviane Martin, 2-5pm; Chief's Pub: Steve Sherman Jazz Trio,

VENUE GUIDE 180 DEGREES 10730-107 St, 780.414.0233 ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 APEX CASINO 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave AVENUE THEATRE 9030-118 Ave, 780.477.2149 BANK ULTRA LOUNGE 10765 Jasper Ave, 780.420.9098 BEER HUNTER–Spruce Grove 700 McLeod Ave, Spruce Grove BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Dr, Nisku, 780.986.8522 BLACKSHEEP PUB 11026 Jasper Ave, 780.420.0448 BLUE PEAR RESTAURANT 10643-123 St, 780.482.7178 BLUES FESTIVAL Hawrelak Park Heritage Amphitheatre BLUES ON WHYTE 1032982 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10575-114 St BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464-153 St, 780 424 9467 CENTURY GRILL 3975 Calgary Tr NW, 780.431.0303 CHATEAU LOUIS 11727 Kingsway, 780 452 7770 CHROME LOUNGE 132 Ave, Victoria Trail COAST TO COAST 5552 Calgary Tr, 780.439.8675 COMMON LOUNGE 10124124 St CROWN AND ANCHOR 15277 Castledowns Rd, 780.472.7696 CROWN PUB 10709-109 St, 780.428.5618 DIESEL ULTRA LOUNGE 11845 Wayne Gretzky Drive, 780.704.CLUB

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DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 THE DOCKS 13710 66 St, 780.476.3625 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8307-99 St EARLY STAGE SALOON 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain EDDIE SHORTS 10713-124 St, 780.453.3663 EDMONTON EVENTS CENTRE WEM Phase III, 780.489.SHOW ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 ELEPHANT AND CASTLE–Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ 993870 Ave, 780.437.3667 FIDDLER’S ROOST 890699 St FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 FLASH NIGHTCLUB 10018-105 St, 780.969.9965 FLOW LOUNGE 11815 Wayne Gretzky Dr, 780.604. CLUB FLUID LOUNGE 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 FUNKY BUDDHA 10341-82 Ave, 780.433.9676 GAS PUMP 10166-114 St, 780.488.4841 GIOVANNI CABOTO PARK 9403-109A Ave HALO 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.HALO HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB 15120A (basement), Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.6010 HILLTOP PUB 8220-106 Ave, 780.490.7359 HOOLIGANZ 10704-124 St, 780.995.7110 HYDEAWAY 10209-100 Ave, 780.426.5381 IRON BOAR PUB 4911-51st St, Wetaskiwin JAMMERS PUB 11948-127 Ave, 780.451.8779 J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403

VUEWEEKLY AUG 18 – AUG 24, 2011

JAZZ AT THE LAKE–Sylvan Lake: 403.887.2345, JazzAtTheLake.com: Alliance Community Church, 4404-47 Ave; Bayview Café, Bay 9, 5100 Lakeshore Dr, Chateau Suites; Chef Francisco Pub, 4609 Lakeshore Dr; Chief 's Pub, 4707 Lakeshore; Fireside Restaurant, 4907 Lakeshore Dr; Karma's, 117 Lakeway Blvd; Lakers Pub, 4715 Lakeshore Dr; Lions Hall, 50A Ave, 51A St; Lions Legacy Park Gazebo, 50 St, 48 Ave; Marina Bay Community Room Waterside Deck; Pete's at the Beach, 4711 Lakeshore Dr; Royal Canadian Legion, 4916-50 Ave; Sylvan Lake Library, 4715-50 Ave; Sylvan Lake Lodge, 470047 Ave; Sylvan Lake Inn, 5004-33 St: JEFFREY’S CAFÉ 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 JEKYLL AND HYDE 10209100 Ave, 780.426.5381 JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY 10242-106 St, 780.756.5667 KAS BAR 10444-82 Ave, 780.433.6768 KELLY'S PUB 11540 Jasper Ave L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEGENDS PUB 6104-172 St, 780.481.2786 LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 LIZARD LOUNGE 13160118 Ave MARYBETH'S COFFEE HOUSE–Beaumont 5001-30 Ave, Beaumont, 780.929.2203 MUGGN'Z RESTAURANT 412, 6655-178 St MYER HOROWITZ THEATRE U of A, 780.445.7771 NAKED CYBER CAFÉ 10354 Jasper Ave, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE PUB 6108-90 Ave, 780.490.1999

NEW CITY LEGION 8130 Gateway Boulevard (Red Door) NEW WEST HOTEL 15025111 Ave, 780.489.2511 NISKU INN 1101-4 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535-109A Ave O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 ORLANDO'S 1 15163-121 St OVERTIME–Downtown 10304-111 St, 780.465.6800 OVERTIME Whitemud Crossing, 4211-106 St, 780.485.1717 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 PLAYBACK PUB 594 Hermitage Rd, 130 Ave, 40 St PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 1086057 Ave REDNEX BAR–Morinville 10413-100 Ave, Morinville, 780.939.6955 RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St RIC’S GRILL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235101 St R PUB 16753-100 St, 780.457.1266 SECOND CUP–Mountain Equipment 12336-102 Ave, 780.451.7574; Stanley Milner Library 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq; Varscona, Varscona Hotel, 106 St, Whyte Ave; 89 AVE 8906-149 St SECOND CUP–Sherwood Park 4005 Cloverbar Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929 ʸ Summerwood Summerwood Centre, Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929

SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown 10012-101A Ave SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM 8882-170 St SIDELINERS PUB 11018127 St, 780.453.6006 SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924 SPORTSWORLD 13710104 St SPORTSMAN'S LOUNGE 8170-50 St STARLITE ROOM 10030102 St, 780.428.1099 STEEPS TEA LOUNGE– Whyte Ave 11116-82 Ave SUEDE LOUNGE 11806 Jasper Ave, 780.482.0707 SUITE 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969 TAPHOUSE 9020 McKenney Ave, St Albert, 780.458.0860 TREASURY 10004 Jasper Ave, 7870.990.1255, thetreasurey.ca UNCLE GLENNS 7666-156 St, 780.481.3192 VINYL DANCE LOUNGE 10740 Jasper Ave, 780.428.8655, vinylretrolounge.com WALKABOUTPUB 1043982 Ave WESTSIDE PUB 15135 Stony Plain Rd 780 758 2058 WILD BILL’S–Red Deer Quality Inn North Hill, 7150-50 Ave, Red Deer, 403.343.8800 WILD EARTH BAKERY 8902-99 St WILD WEST SALOON 12912-50 St, 780.476.3388 WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WOK BOX 10119 Jasper Ave WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295

2:30-5:30pm; Sylvan Lake Inn: Morgan McKee Jazz Quartet, 3-6pm; Fireside Restaurant: Jim Guloien Jazz Quartet, 3-6pm

DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB

NEW WEST HOTEL

O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam

NEWCASTLE PUB Sun

EDMONTON EVENT CENTRE Volbeat Beyond

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

Hell/Above Heaven Tour, Anchored (hard rock/ metal); all ages; 7pm (door); sold out

NEW CITY LEGION DIY

KELLY'S PUB Open stage

Sunday Afternoons: 4pm (door), 5pm, 6pm, 7pm, 8pm (bands)

O’BYRNE’S Open mic

every Sun; 9:30pm-1am

ON THE ROCKS Amanda Rheume, Tiff Hall; $5

ORLANDO'S 2 PUB

Open stage jam every Sun; 4pm

SECOND CUP– Mountain Equipment Co-op Live music every Sun; 2-4pm

WALKABOUTPUB Open

Acoustic Mic and Audition for House Band; 3-8pm

WESTSIDE PUB Sun Blues Jam: hosted by Blues Curry and Javed; every Sunday, 3-7pm

DJs BACKSTAGE TAP AND GRILL Industry Night: every Sun with Atomic Improv, Jameoki and DJ Tim

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sundays: A fantastic voyage through '60s and '70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy. Dance parties have been known to erupt

FLOW LOUNGE Stylus Sun

SAVOY MARTINI LOUNGE Reggae on

Whyte: RnR Sun with DJ IceMan; no minors; 9pm; no cover

SPORTSWORLD Roller

Skating Disco Sun; 1-4:30pm; sports-world.ca

MON AUG 22

Singer/songwriter open stage every Mon; 8pm

every Mon; hosted by Clemcat Hughes; 9pm

NEW WEST HOTEL

Sonny and the Hurricanes (country)

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

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

ROSE BOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE Acoustic open

stage every Mon; 9pm

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main

Sonny and the Hurricanes (country)

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

PADMANADI Open

stage every Tue; with Mark Davis; all ages; 7:30-10:30pm

R PUB Open stage jam

every Tue; hosted by Gary and the Facemakers; 8pm

SECOND CUP–124 Street Open mic every

Tue; 8-10pm

SECOND CUP–Stanley Milner Library Open

mic every Tue; 7-9pm

SECOND CUP– Summerwood Open

stage/open mic every Tue; 7:30pm; no cover

SIDELINERS PUB All

Star Jam every Tue; with Alicia Tait and Rickey Sidecar; 8pm

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

SPORTSMAN'S LOUNGE Open stage

CROWN PUB Minefield

Classical

Mondays/House/Breaks/ Trance and more with host DJ Phoenix, 9pm

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Metal Mon: with DJ S.W.A.G.

LUCKY 13 Industry Night every Mon with DJ Chad Cook

NEW CITY LEGION

Madhouse Mon: Punk/ metal/etc with DJ Smart Alex

TUE AUG 23 AVENUE THEATRE

Brighter Brightest, Take Me to the Pilot, guests; 7pm

BLUES ON WHYTE Gary

every Tue; hosted by Paul McGowan; 9pm

GIOVANNI CABOTO PARK Mercury Opera: Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly; $65 at TIX on the Square, Zocalo Gallery

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main

Floor: alternative retro and not-so-retro, electronic and Euro with Eddie Lunchpail; Wooftop: One Too Many Tuesdays with Rootbeard

BRIXX BAR Troubadour Tue: Whiskey Rose and Danni B. H, hosted by Mark Feduk; 9pm; $8

Martin and the Heavenly Blues

BUDDYS DJ Arrow

CHURCHILL SQUARE

CROWN PUB Live hip

Chaser every

LACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Every weekday (weather permitting): Breezy Brian Gregg (SW corner); 121:15pm

hop and open mic with DJs Xaolin, Dirty Needlz, Frank Brown, and guests; no cover

BLUES ON WHYTE Gary

DRUID IRISH PUB Open stage every Tue; with Chris Wynters; 9pm

DV8 Creepy Tombsday:

Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover Martin and the Heavenly Blues

CHURCHILL SQUARE

Every weekday (weather permitting): Breezy Brian Gregg (SW corner); 121:15pm

L.B.’S Tue Blues Jam with Ammar; 9pm-1am NEW CITY LEGION

The Belushis, guests; no minors

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

FUNKY BUDDHA– Whyte Ave Latin and Salsa music every Tue; dance lessons 8-10pm

NEW CITY LEGION

High Anxiety Variety Society Bingo vs. karaoke with Ben Disaster, Anonymouse every Tue; no minors; 4pm-3am; no cover

prior to regular jam every Wed, 6.30pm; $2 (member)/$4 (nonmember)

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

RED STAR Experimental Indie Rock, Hip Hop, Electro with DJ Hot Philly; every Tue

SECOND CUP–89 AVE

WED AUG 24

Open mic every Wed; 8-10pm

BLUES ON WHYTE Gary Martin and the Heavenly Blues

CHURCHILL SQUARE

Every weekday (weather permitting): Breezy Brian Gregg (SW corner); 12-1:15pm

DV8 TAVERN The Belushis; 9pm

EDDIE SHORTS

Acoustic jam every Wed, 9pm; no cover

EDMONTON EVENT CENTRE Machel

Montano, Gyptian; 9pm

ELEPHANT AND CASTLE–Whyte Ave

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

FESTIVAL PLACE Patio Series: Boogie Patrol, Lucas Chaisson; 7:30pm; $8 at the Festival Place box office

FIDDLER'S ROOST

Rick Mogg (country)

SECOND CUP– Mountain Equipment

Classical GIOVANNI CABOTO PARK Mercury

Opera: Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly; $65 at TIX on the Square, Zocalo Gallery

DJs BANK ULTRA LOUNGE Rev'd Up Wed: with DJ Mike Tomas upstairs; 8pm

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; Wooftop: Soul/Breaks with Dr. Erick

BRIXX BAR Really Good... Eats and Beats: every Wed with DJ Degree and Friends

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

BUDDY'S DJ Dust 'n'

HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB

THE COMMON

Early Show: JJ Grey and Mofro, guests; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $22 (adv)/$25 (door)

HOOLIGANZ Open

stage every Wed with host Cody Nouta; 9pm

NEW CITY LEGION

Iskra, Contagium, Six Brew Bantha, No Eulogy, Kanker; no minors

NISKU INN Troubadours

and Tales: 1st Wed every month; with Tim Harwill, guests; 8-10pm

PLAYBACK PUB Open

Stage every Wed hosted by JTB; 9pm-1am

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; Slow pitch for beginners on the 1st and 3rd Wed

Time every Wed; 9pm (door); no cover

Treehouse Wednesdays

DIESEL ULTRA LOUNGE Wind-up Wed: R&B, hiphop, reggae, old skool, reggaeton with InVinceable, Touch It, weekly guest DJs

LEGENDS PUB Hip hop/ R&B with DJ Spincycle NEW CITY LEGION

Wed Pints 4 Punks: with DJ Nick; no minors; 4pm-3am; no cover

NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed RED STAR Guest DJs

every Wed

STARLITE ROOM Wild Style Wed: Hip-Hop; 9pm TEMPLE Wild Style

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

PREVUE GUITAR SHORTY

SAT, AUG 20 / HERITAGE AMPHITHEATRE, HAWRELAK PARK

Part of Edmonton's Labatt Blues Festival (bluesinternationalltd.com)

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19) Time magazine asked Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough why he started writing a biography of Pablo Picasso but never finished it. McCullough said it was because the famous artist turned out to be boring. He attracted a steady flow of new lovers, and he made hundreds of paintings, but he didn't actually live an interesting life. I'm urging you to be the anti-Picasso in the coming weeks, Aries. Put the emphasis on the quality of your adventures more than on what you produce. Regard your life as your most important work of art. TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20) "Let's celebrate the first time you cried naked in someone else's bed," is a message on an e-card I found at Someecards.com. You might want to send that proposal to yourself, Taurus. It's an excellent time to commemorate the rousing catharses of the past. You may find that revisiting the breakthrough epiphanies of yesteryear will help put you in the right frame of mind (and heart) to conjure up a fresh batch.

Across 1 Head of the Paris police? 5 "King" bad guy in Super Mario Bros. 10 Love, Latin-style 14 Former Israeli politician Abba ___ 15 On ___ (hot) 16 Ring around the holy? 17 Frequent activity for haberdashers? 20 Spanish national hero 21 Paving stuff 22 Quick ___ wink 23 Avenue in Oakland? 28 Make really happy 29 Town north of New York City 32 Strauss-Kahn's former org. 35 French vacation spot 36 Prefix meaning "skin" 37 Why Haim didn't want to party one night in the 1980s? 42 "Rolling in the Deep" singer 43 Mauna ___ (Aloha State volcano) 44 The Concorde, for one 45 "The Sound of Music" teenager 46 Soul singer Lou 48 Request from the most relaxing talk radio host ever? 54 "Licensed to ___" (Beastie Boys album) 56 Bailed out insurance giant 57 WWII hero Murphy 58 Designed for shooting gross globs? 63 "Whoa ___!" 64 Perot, formally 65 Collector's item? 66 Sandwich shop purchases 67 "Grumpy Old Men" actor Davis 68 Like ___ of sunshine

Down 1 Little giggle 2 Virus named for a Congolese river 3 You may take a powder with them 4 Put a stop to, as with a fight 5 Kal ___ (dog food brand) 6 Nonprofit's URL suffix 7 "What a display!" 8 River through Nebraska 9 Site for vows 10 They did theme to "The Living Daylights" 11 "Masters of the Universe" character 12 Automotive pioneer Ransom 13 Parks of civil rights fame

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GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20) Why is it so hard for Westerners of the last two centuries to feel the intimate presence of the divine intelligences? Every other culture in the history of the world has had a more vital connection with the realm of spirit. According to poet Gary Snyder, California's Yana Indians explained it this way: The gods have retreated to the volcanic recesses of Mt. Lassen, passing the time playing gambling games with magic sticks. They're simply waiting for such a time when human beings will "reform themselves and become 'real people' that spirits might want to associate with once again." Here's why I'm bringing this up, Gemini: I think that right now is a special time in your life when you have the power to become a "real person" with whom the spirits will want to have closer communion. CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22) I strongly advise you against purchasing and reading what some observers have called "the saddest book in the universe." It's a recipe book by Sonia Allison called Microwave for One (bit. ly/SadBook). No matter how inclined you might be to opt for excessive self-sufficiency right now, no matter how peeved you are at the human race for being so clumsy and ignorant, I believe you must keep trying to reach out and touch those who are touchable, even if they're barely so. You need what people have to offer you, even if it's sloppy, wimpy, or kooky. LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22) Science writer K.C. Cole asks this question: "How would you hold 100 tons of water in thin air with no visible means of support?" Here's her answer: "Build a cloud." What you have before you right now, Leo, is a comparable scenario. Your assignment is to materialize a phenomenon that from a certain viewpoint may appear to be laughably impossible. And yet, with the proper attitude on your part and nature's help, the project at hand is eminently achievable. It won't necessarily be fast and easy, mind you—but you wouldn't want it to be, because then it wouldn't be able to teach you all the precious wisdom it has to impart. VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22) "Dear Astrology Guy: Thank you kindly for your assistance. One of your horoscopes gave me a kick in the butt that propelled me free of a trap I had stupidly agreed to stay stuck in. At the same time, I also have to tell you to go to hell, because no one, including me, likes hearing the awful, embarrassing truth. As much healing as your words helped bring me, they also stung my pride. Love and hate, Virgo." Dear Virgo: You're welcome and I'm sorry. It's good to hear you're able to appreciate the gifts of paradox. Let's hope that will keep you creatively humble as you slip into an expansive building phase when your ego may be understandably prone to a bit of inflation. LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22) Newsweek reported a fact that few Westerners know about: Nigeria is accustomed

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to major oil spills. Every year since the 1960s, the Niger Delta has been slammed with a spill as extensive as the Exxon Valdez, which was the second biggest oil catastrophe in US history. "Large purple slicks cover once fertile fields," said Newsweek, "and rivers are clogged with oil leaked decades ago." My purpose in bringing this to your attention is not to depress you, Libra, but rather to inspire you. In the coming weeks, I hope you will make it your passion to uncover injustices you've been unaware of, including those close to home. I think you'll be amazed at how much this buoys your spirits. PS: You'll get extra credit if you actually take action to address the unfairness. SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21) In the song "Fantasy World," the lead singer of the band Pissed Jeans imagines himself in his happy place. "It's Friday night and Saturday morning in my fantasy world / Sitting near piles of clothes and drinking a soda / with a slice of pizza in my fantasy world." He's not describing some unrealistic paradise where he can fly like an eagle and seduce anyone he wants and find gold bars under his pillow in the morning. Rather, he's content with the simple, familiar pleasures. I urge you to follow his lead as you imagine and create your own fantasy world this week. Love what you've got. SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21) The highest unclimbed mountain in the world is Gangkhar Puensum, an almost 25,000-foot-tall beauty in Bhutan. It will remain free of human influence indefinitely, as local authorities are keen on preventing the environmental degradation that has occurred on popular peaks like Mt Everest, where climbers have left lots of trash. What's the equivalent in your sphere, Sagittarius? The most prominent unconquered prize? The Grail that still remains elusive? The virgin treasure your quest has not yet won? According to my analysis, you now have the potential to make tangible progress toward that goal. Unlike the case with Gangkhar Puensum, there are no rules or laws preventing you. CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19) "Mommy, are scientists real?" the boy asked his mother. "Yes, son, they are," she replied. "Do they make stuff that is dangerous?" continued the boy. "Sometimes they do," said the mom. "Then I want to be one when I grow up," concluded the boy. In the coming weeks, Capricorn, I see you as being like the boy. You'll be in the mood to brainstorm about what you might like to evolve into, and your fantasies will tend to move in the direction of what's most adventurous and exciting. I urge you to fully indulge in those flights of fancy. It's time to dream really big and really free. AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18) "I got expelled from college for cheating during my metaphysics final," joked Woody Allen. "I got caught looking into the soul of the guy next to me." Even if you're not taking a big test for a metaphysics class, Aquarius, I urge you to do a lot of what Allen claimed he did: Gaze into the souls of those around you. It's an excellent time, astrologically speaking, for you to escape the enclosed container of your own inner world and survey the raw truths and deep feelings that other people hold dear. PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20) "I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine," said pioneering geneticist JBS Haldane. I share that view, and I think it's good to keep in mind whenever we're tempted to rearrange our lives in accordance with the visions of those who predict the future, whether they be New Age prophets, indigenous elders, scientific experts, or political pundits. Nobody knows much of anything about how it's all going to unfold! The future is not set in stone, but is totally up for grabs. The sooner you make that an everyday reminder, the more aggressive you'll become about creating the life you want. Now is an excellent time to get the hang of it. V

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Perpetrators might benefit from compassion instead On Friday August 5, the Edmonton PoCentre fire shows that queers are at the instinct may be to point fingers and seek lice Service issued a news bulletin saying same time perceived as victims and perretribution. But witch-hunts rarely work that police were looking for a 17-yearpetrators, weak and strong. and revenge is not often satisfying or efold girl. The bulletin, which was fective. Should it be found that the fire disseminated to most major Queer communities such as was intentionally set to intimidate, scare news agencies, contained her ours have long histories of or debilitate our community, sending one name, a photo and also statbeing targeted and regulated guilty individual to jail for a longer period om eekly.c w ed that the girl was HIV posiby police and the law. Only of time will not stop instances of crime e u v alexis@ a tive and charged with aggra30 years ago, members of x against our community. le A ne our community were harassed, g a G vated sexual assault for failing As a society, we must stop hunting e D to disclose her HIV status to her humiliated and even arrested for and punishing the weak, be it a young sexual partners. While police have yet visiting bathhouses, and other gay esvulnerable girl with an illness or an to prove that the 17-year-old girl (who tablishments. Our relationship with the individual acting out of hate or fear. In has since been apprehended) is actually police has since improved in many ways both cases we need to ask whether the HIV positive, the incident feeds into soQueer communities such as ours have long histories cial perceptions of HIV and those living of being targeted and regulated by police and the with HIV as something or someone that law. Only 30 years ago, members of our community should be feared. On Wednesday August 10, a fire was were harassed, humiliated and even arrested for set at the Edmonton Pride Centre. Fire visiting bathhouses, and other gay establishments. investigators reported that the fire was intentionally set. EPS is currently attempting to determine whether the fire and in some cases we find ourselves on alleged perpetrators were disadvanwas motivated by hate, and whether the the other side of the law, seeking police taged (economically, socially, emotionperpetrator should be charged accordprotection against other citizens. Howevally, mentally or physically), or were ingly with a hate crime. er, we should keep a mindful and critical victims of violence, harassment or opThe almost simultaneous occurrence eye on how and why the police and the pression themselves. of these two events highlights how comjustice system are used in our communiOur justice and prison systems operplicated our relationships are with the ties because we were once on the other ate on the assumption that an individual police, the justice system and the media. side of that line. needs to be removed from society in orHIV/AIDS carries social stigma and indiBoth events have the potential to incite der to be rehabilitated. But in both cases, viduals with the illness have been vilified. fear, anger and uncertainty within our the individuals in question may benefit They are seen as predators that need to community and society in general. In refrom being better integrated and cared be ostracized and punished. The Pride action to the Pride Centre fire, our first for in our society. V

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Read the column to find out just how disgusting that is I went to Craigslist to look at the rubbing one out while fantasizing about the responses they've received from kinky shit people are into. And I found men who want to fuck their wives/ a picture of my sister. Her eyes are girlfriends. The harm comes, of course, blurred out, but one pic is of her nude when the wife or girlfriend is recogand one is of her giving head, and nized by a sibling, a coworker or there's a tattoo that's unique E an employer. to her and clearly visible. I'm G SAVA On the off chance that 99 percent sure it's her. The your sister's BF is posting ad was from her boyfriend, .com weekly private pics to CL without looking for a "horsecock" savagelove@vue Dan your sister's OK, SPD, you to stretch her pussy while Savage need to say something to her. he sits in the next room. It's She needs to know those pics are her business, but it's a mindfuck. I out there if she doesn't already know half want to call her out, shame her it, and if she does know they're out out of it. She just turned 22.

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Your sister is an adult, SPD, and adults are free to post what they like to CL, and adult females are free to stick whatever they likeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;mancock, horsecock, whatevercockâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in their pussies. It's hypocritical of you to enjoy the perversity on display at CL and then clutch your pearls in horror when you realize that someone you loveâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;gasp!â&#x20AC;&#x201D;is just as pervy as you are. So you're not going to call your sister out or shame her. But you are going to say something to her. There's a chance that your sister isn't aware that her boyfriend is posting her pictures to CL. Horsecocks, stretching pussies, the GF getting it on while he sits in the next roomâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that's all standard-issue cuckold fantasy stuff, SPD. There are women out there who are into cuckolding, of course, and there are women who've given their partners the OK to use their pictures in online personal ads seeking thirds for cuckold scenarios. However ... Lots of men with cuckold fantasies have posted pics of their actual wives and girlfriends to sites like CL without the consent of their actual wives and girlfriends. These guys don't seeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or refuse to seeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the potential harm in

there, she needs to know that she can be recognized. Your sister doesn't need to be called out, and she doesn't need to be shamed. What she needs is a heads-up from a concerned brother. Give her that, SPD, then butt the fuck out.

I'm a 20-year-old gay male and I entered into a relationship with a guy at the beginning of the summer. The sex has always been really good, but I'm worried about pleasing him. He disclosed early on that he has a foot fetish. Sex usually consists of him topping me while sucking my toes or me jerking him off while he's fondling the bottoms of my feet. I don't have any problem with him getting off to my feet. My problem with the whole ordeal is this: I don't know diddly about foot fetishism. I tried Google, but my results weren't much better than "Foot fetishism is the most common form of sexual fetishism from an otherwise nonsexual object or body part, and it's different depending on who you're fucking." Not very helpful. I've talked to my boyfriend about what I can do to make things better and what he likes, but he's so bashful about the subject that I haven't

gotten any information save "I prefer the soles of your feet." I have tried experimenting with things like footjobs (which didn't work out very well because I had no idea what I was doing), and not knowing what else to do is frustrating. I am currently studying in France until the end of August, and I want to surprise him with my newfound

It's possible that the stuff you're doing for him nowâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;sticking your toes in his mouth while he fucks you, jerking him off while he fondles your feetâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;fulfills all of his fantasies. knowledge on his kink and new ways to get him off. What should I know? What would you recommend? And could you fill me in on proper footjob technique? SEEKING ORGASM LEVEL ESCALATION

Male foot fetishistsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the straight ones, anywayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;will tell you that they react to feet the way most straight guys react to tits: aroused by the sight of 'em, want to do stuff to 'em. Some wanna suck 'em, some wanna fuck 'em and some kinksters wanna safely, sanely and consensually "torture" 'em. In other words, SOLE, it's different depending on who the woman with the tits in question happens to be fucking. Same goes for foot fetishists: Some wanna suck 'em, some wanna fuck 'em, some wanna "torture" 'em. (That's called "bastinado," and it should only be done safely, sanely and consensually.) To find out what a particular foot fetishist enjoys most, you'll have to ask the foot fetishist who's enjoying your feet. Your boyfriend probably finds it hard to talk about his fetish because he feels ashamed, needlessly so, and may have

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been rejected or mocked by previous partners when he opened up about his kink. (To avoid making his bashfulness worse, SOLE, avoid using terms like "problem" and "ordeal" when discussing his kink.) It's possible that the stuff you're doing for him nowâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;sticking your toes in his mouth while he fucks you, jerking him off while he fondles your feetâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;fulfills all of his fantasies.

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Keep doing what you're doing now, SOLE, and as his confidence levels about his kink and your relationship both grow, he'll become less bashful about discussing his kink. As for a proper footjob: bring the bottoms of your feet together and let him fuck the gap between your soles with his lubed-up cock, titty-fucking style, or have him lie on the floor while you sit on the edge of the bed and move the lubed-up sole of one of your feet back and forth across his cock until he blows his load. Have fun!

off the gay bashingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;you can watch it here: tinyurl.com/ricksick. Santorum hasn't laid off the gay bashing, as it's all he's got, so it looks like I'm going to have to go ahead and redefine his first name, too. (My apologies to Rick Dees, Rick Fox, Ricki Lake and all the other innocent Ricks out there.) The definition I proposed in my video was a little too long and involved, so I vote for adopting yours, HTH. Now "Rick Santorum" isn't just a vile and disgusting politicianâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;he's a vile and disgusting sentence. That said, I don't think someone would rick his or her partner out of gratitude; ricking someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;sucking the frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex out of someone's assâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is something a person would do only under duress or under orders from a cruel BDSM top. V

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If you do end up having to redefine the word "rick," which you threatened to do in your recent Funny or Die video, I have a suggestion: rick (v): to remove santorum orally. ("He was so grateful for the lay that he ricked his partner.") HAPPY TO HELP

PS Thanks for your efforts on behalf of equality for all. You're welcome, HTH, and in case anyone missed my Funny or Die videoâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; in which I threatened to redefine Rick Santorum's first name if he didn't lay

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HUB OF THE WHEEL Don't be fooled by the high chain link fence and junkyard of bicycles in the back alley. The Edmonton Bicycle Commuters Society is one of the most welcoming, accessible places in Edmonton. Recently, it started an artist-in-residence program, inspired by a trip the society's executive director Anna Vesala took to the San Fransisco city landfill. She remembers thinking, 'If they can create art out of garbage, why can't we make things out of discarded bikes?' And so it happened. Kim Smith and Leila Sidi are the co-artists in residence at the EBC and hold Bike Art Nights every Wednesday evening from 6 to 9pm from a little studio overlooking the BikeWorks bicycle workshop. Kim and Leila offer support on self-directed projects such as kinetic sculptures and jewellery, or welcome people to collaborate on various projects like a zine and DIY bike path markers. If you have the vision, they will help you find a way to make it happen.

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"Leila and I are both self-taught. If we want to do something, we just learn how to do it," says Kim, as someone silkscreens a T-shirt using an embroidery hoop for a frame, cheese-cloth for a screen and white glue for a stencil. Mostly though, the goal is that the Bike Art Nights become a forum for ideas and experiences that cyclists want to share, fostering a sense of community and encouraging a stronger local culture. Hopefully, the momentum will continue, culminating in a final event, featuring a silent auction of some work created and a sound installation. Visit the website at edmontonbikeart.weebly.com to see what else they're up to. V Chelsea Boos is a multidisciplinary visual artist and avid flĂ˘neur. Back words is a discussion of her explorations in Edmonton and a photographic diary of the local visual culture.

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