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EDITOR’S NOTE

The last Catholic pope

VicPD finds increase again ictoria City Council is curling its fingers around the newly approved 2013 city operating budget, and though increases will be stagnant for council wages, VicPD will be seeing yet another increase this term, despite DANIELLE the fact that the force remains POPE the highest paid per capita in news@ the province. mondaymag.com The Victoria Police Department requested a budget increase of 2.1 per cent, or $927,300 of a $43.7-million budget for 2013, which council gave preliminary approval to on Fri., March 8. VicPD says the proposed increase will largely go to cover rising wages as well as fund a new crime analyst position — with an expected salary and benefits of $85,000.

While the numbers are down from the 3.3per cent increase VicPD saw in its 2011 budget ($41,599,869) to its 2012 budget ($42,958,468), a report by the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General showed that, in 2010, VicPD’s cost per capita was $419 — the highest of all forces in the province.

Vancouver PD came in second highest at $356.

“We are sticking to the guidelines of what the city laid out for us in this budget, and we are cognisant of the city’s restraint,” says Cst. Michael Russell, VicPD spokesperson. “Our goal is to still provide the best policing possible to serve the region, while targeting our crime-reduction strategy.”

Victoria will be expected to pay $784,700 (84.6 per cent) of the $927,300 increase, while Esquimalt is being asked to pay $142,600 (15.4 per cent). Esquimalt Mayor Barb Desjardins told media that her council has seen the numbers but hasn’t incorporated them into its overall municipal budget yet, noting it’s premature to say how Esquimalt will respond.

“If you look at the cost allocation to us based on the funding formula, it’s been increasing each year because our assessments have gone up and Victoria’s haven’t gone up as ours have,” Desjardins told media.

According to a 2012 report from VicPD, police budgets across the province increased by 55 per cent from 2002-2009, though VicPD increased by 46 per cent. The average increase in police strength from 2002-2009 was 18 per cent, while VicPD increased by 12 per cent. The last police union contract expired last year, but called for a salary increase of 1.3 per cent, effective Dec. 31, 2012. While the original estimate to cover the rising wages was $1.5 million, $318,200 in operating-cost savings were found through reducing the cost of overtime, travel, supplies and uniforms.

The department has also decided not to have a backup radio system to CREST. This is the first active year of Victoria City Council’s 2012 decision to hold tax increases to 3.25 per cent or below for 2013, 2014 and 2015.

As of Friday, tactics for this year will include limit-

n 1595, Benedictine monk Arnold Wion published the freshly discovered prophecies of Saint Malachy, a 12th-century Archbishop of Armagh, Ireland. Allegedly discovered in the Vatican vault, Malachy’s vision detailed a list of 112 popes.

Interestingly, Malachy’s descriptions of the popes prior to 1590 are very accurate, while the rest have been more hit and miss with quite a few stretches of the imagination needed to make them fit at all. This GRANT tends to suggest that the prophecies are a forgery and McKENZIE were actually written in 1590 as a way to influence that year’s conclave selection of a new pope. editor@ However, that’s the rational me talking. If I was a mondaymag.com less cynical person who believed the church would never stoop to lying to its flock, then I have to be concerned about the upcoming election of a new pope — the Roman Catholic church’s 112th, and the last one on Saint Malachy’s list.

According to the prophecy, the 112th pope, identified as “Peter the Roman,” will allegedly bring the destruction of the city of Rome and usher in the beginning of the Apocalypse.

Yikes! In that case, let’s hope they elect a healthy two-year-old rather than another octogenarian.

Since I’m not a big fan of the Catholic church (or any organized religion) being responsible for my fate, there is another way to look at Malachy’s vision. Instead of the Apocalypse, perhaps he saw the end of the church’s influence over mankind; an enlightenment, if you will, where spirituality and belief in a higher power doesn’t mean following an organization’s unyielding interpretation of what that means.

Man has always had the inane ability to corrupt even the greatest of ideas. If you believe in Jesus of Nazareth as a wise and thoughtful prophet, then how can you dismiss his teachings and hate anyone simply because they are different from you? If you believe Jesus was the actual son of God, then how does the church’s corruption of His message make any sense at all?

Would God allow any pedophile to remain in a position of power, trust and influence? Would God allow a kingdom of gold and a silk-robed man on a throne to rule over our bodies, minds and spirits?

Spirituality will always be a part of us whether we attend church or not.

It’s human nature to question our existence, ponder the universe and try to make sense of the wonders around us. It’s comforting to believe that sometimes you need a higher power to take the wheel and steer for awhile when you’re feeling low or confused or heavily burdened.

But it’s time for the church to crumble and from its ashes perhaps the true message of God will be delivered: be kind to one another. Because, really, that’s all you need to know. M

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VicPD will see a 2.1-per cent budget increase this year, though the city will leave council wages stagnant to address the 3.25-per cent freeze on tax increases.

ing mayoral and council salary increases to zero, changing council taxable remuneration, limiting non-unionized staff salary increases to zero as well as limiting the police budget increase to two per cent for 2013.

For the 2014 and 2015 budgets, council will be requesting that the Greater Victoria Library Board limit budget increases for Victoria’s contribution to the library system to two per cent for 2014 and 2015, and will request the Victoria Esquimalt Police Board to limit Victoria’s share of the police budget to two per cent for 2014 and 2015.

A GRANT FOR MORE HOMES Speaking of budgets, the province announced this week that it will provide $400,000 in annual funding to the Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness to help people find and maintain stable, affordable housing.

The funding will be used to provide rent supplements for up to 103 individuals each year through the Streets to Homes (S2H) Program, a strategy that works with people experiencing poverty, mentalhealth, and/or substance-use challenges to secure private market housing obtained through a comprehensive landlord support system. Now in its third year, S2H provides the rent subsidy as well as case planning and supports to help participants remain housed and become self-sufficient. The expanded support will be in place until April 1, 2015.

“The Streets to Homes program has proven to be an effective way to move people from homelessness into secure housing and end the cycle of homelessness,” says Rich Coleman, Minister of Energy, Mines and Natural Gas, and Minister Responsible for Housing. “We recognize how important it is to the community to continue this work.” M

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Re: Street smarts (March 7-13, 2013) Technology once affected my stress level, as I was spending way too much time on the computer at my home, as well as the computers at the public library and Camosun.

I had to hit a rock-bottom before I could get the help that I needed.

After losing my home Internet and losing my Internet privileges at the public library and Camosun, I admitted that I was powerless over technology, that my life had become unmanageable. I came to believe that a power greater than myself could restore me to sanity. That was almost two years ago. To this day I have no home computer, no laptop, no iPod, no iPad and no cell phone. I still have a landline in case of emergencies; I still have an alarm clock with an AM/FM radio to wake me up in the morning; I still watch TV from time to time.

But when I leave my apartment, I know that I am free from my technology addiction.

I beat my technology addiction, and so can you.

RICHARD DAVID LEBRUN, VICTORIA

Equity of tax system a concern Re: Kieran Report I found your article on the provincial Liberals lowering income tax thresholds very interesting. I'm by no means a diehard NDP supporter, but the Liberals seem to have a far-right Republican philosophy with zero concern for the equity on the tax system.

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CONTENTS VOL. 39, NO. 11 March 14 - 20, 2013

NEWS & VIEWS

MONDAY LIFE

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THE WEEK

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FOOD & DRINK - PAM GRANT

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REPORT CARD

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GEORGIA NICOLS HOROSCOPE

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EDITOR’S NOTE

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LETTERS

MONDAY GUIDE

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KIERAN REPORT

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CITY WATCHDOG

CITY SOMETHING Black Grace fuses traditional Pacific and contemporary dance

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FILM Open Cinema goes bananas for Dole documentary

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THEATRE One-woman dark comedy with razor teeth comes to Belfry’s Spark Festival

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FILM & LIBATION Gigantically ordinary fairy tale

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS

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SOUL SEX

“I had been in an 11-yearlong relationship that was really flat. It was a sexless marriage,” says sex coach Jenny Ferry. “The amazing thing was that about three weeks out of that relationship, my sex woke up. And it was hungry.

And it was looking for the buffet.”

World Poetry Slam Champion Buddy Wakefield wants to talk about air and his lifelong quest “to observe reality as it is, not as you would like it to be.”

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NEWS & VIEWS > SEXUALITY

Soul sex

“Porn is often the main way we learn about sex . . . it’s dripping out of the pages of every magazine in the country.

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ment with what we really want, a life that’s connected to our body,� says Ferry. “Grounded, real and in the presransformation has been a ent moment — and fully embodied as big word for Jenny Ferry. a sexual being.�

Eight years ago, Ferry The program is designed as a threestepped — or rather, cata- hour workshop for singles and coupulted — into a quest she ples, though it’s likely not what you never knew she needed: to learn about think. Ferry, who resides in Arizona sex. Soul sex. and spends much of her time workHer wake-up moment came on shopping in the Pacific Northwest, is Valentine’s Day, 2005 — the day her quick to assert that she is not a sex daughter was born. Despite being ath- therapist or a marriage counsellor, letic all her life, Ferry says she was there is no nudity and everything that tangled in the delusions of profession- happens in the three-hour workshop al life and 70-hour workweeks and is completely PG. had drifted away from the wisdom of However, through simple instrucbeing in her body. But, “you can’t not tion, lively discussion and (PG-rated) be embodied when interaction, particigiving birth.� pants will drop into Then, everything their bodies, chalIf we can move accelerated. Ferry lenge their minds out of our survived a near-fatal and live just a little heads and into car crash (complete farther outside the our bodies, we with short-term brain box than before. The damage and PTSD), goal: learning how can all have a ended her marriage to gently push your more soulful with a “rage-o-saur� edges in a safe, judgexperience — husband and lost ment-free space, and her home — and her understanding how even if you are life savings — in the to skillfully recognize having the best aftermath. how you respond to sex you’ve ever “I took my daughsexual energy. ter. I took a deep “Most of us spend had, wouldn’t breath. I took the rav99.9 per cent of our you like to aged remains of my time in our heads, make it better? old life, and burned and that can go them,� she says. double during sex That’s when somebecause of the way thing began to stir. our society relates to it,� says Ferry. “I had been in an 11-year-long rela- “Porn is often the main way we learn tionship that was really flat. It was a about sex . . . it’s dripping out of the sexless marriage, and when I woke pages of every magazine in the counup to the fact that that was not what try. Yet we are scared stiff of our own I wanted in my life, I really had to sexuality, and there is nowhere that sit with that and think about what I really teaches us what healthy, soulful wanted to do,� she says. “The amazing sex looks like.� thing was that about three weeks out That question is one that Ferry gets of that relationship, my sex woke up. asked a lot: “What’s normal?� Her And it was hungry. And it was looking answer is always the same: whatever for the buffet.� feels right to you. “If we can move out Ferry wanted to indulge it, but had of our heads and into our bodies, we no idea where, in North American can all have a more soulful experience culture, a person could do that. — even if you are having the best sex “There are so many of us, myself you’ve ever had, wouldn’t you like to included, that have a sex life that make it better?� looks like feast or famine. As we know, The workshops are open to all that’s not the best way to nourish our- interested, though Ferry suggests selves,� she says. “I wanted to nourish bringing three great starting tools: myself, consciously.� curiosity (an open mind), compassion As a self-professed recovering (an open heart) and playfulness (an academic, Ferry poured herself into open body). And while the workshops books and “field research� to figure focus on sex, the principles can be it out. Skip ahead eight years, and incorporated into all areas of life. what she discovered has turned into “The great thing is that none of this a self-directed program and soon-to- is rocket science,� says Ferry. “This be-published book on the subject — is about creating a sacred container Soul Sex: contemplative, advanced sex where you can feel safe to learn what education for grown-ups. And Ferry is is really right for you.� M bringing her work to Victoria for the Join Intro To Soul Sex, Thurs., third time on March 21. “Soul Sex is about bringing mind- March 21, 6-9pm at 165 Cook. Tickets fulness into every aspect of our daily $30 until March 17, $40 after. Register lives; about living a life that’s in align- at http://introvicmar.eventbrite.com.

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STREET SMARTS What one question would you ask the new Pope?

KIERAN REPORT

Clark’s dithering threatens refinery s. Dithers is at it again.

This time, Premier Christy Clark’s flip-flopping is casting a shadow over a multi-billion BRIAN dollar proposal by KIERAN Victoria entreprebkieran@ neur David Black to mondaymag.com build a refinery outside Kitimat.

(Before I proceed, this qualifier: Yes, David Black owns this newspaper. No, we are not beer buddies. In fact, the last time we were in the same room together was a quarter century ago when I did a feature on him for another newspaper. I found him to be a tad stuffy.)

Last week, Black unveiled his megaproject at a conclave of the BC Chamber of Commerce, the Vatican of Free Enterprise.

He told the Howe Street cardinals that “the proposed refinery will be the largest on the west coast of North America and amongst the largest in the world.

Direct employment will be in the order of 1,500 full-time equivalent jobs with another 1,500 contract jobs to support

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the operations and maintenance. During the construction period it is expected that a workforce of 6,000 will be required for a five-year period.”

The project includes a $16-billion refinery, $6 billion for oil pipelines, $2 billion for natural gas pipelines and $1 billion for new tankers.

Black, who can read the headlines like the rest of us, threw in this caveat: “If B.C. remains set against a pipeline the oil will come to the refinery by rail. CN and the oil companies are keen on this.

A great deal of crude in North America is being moved by rail now. The costs are not that different in this case and no permits are required.”

Desperate for any glimmer of light in her long dark tunnel, the premier immediately burst into song. You know the tune: Canada Starts Here, Vote Liberal, ta-da.

“Our government wants to use every tool at our disposal to move the proposal forward,” she told the legislature.

“Without question, this would be the largest single private-sector investment in the history of our great province. And it would be, potentially, a tremendous game-changer for our children and their children.

“Our government takes the view that we should work together to address legit-

imate environmental and safety concerns and find a way to get to ‘Yes’ on projects that will grow our economy,” she gushed.

The NDP energy critic John Horgan accused her of simply seizing a “photo opportunity.” He also said: “Whenever someone comes to the table with (billions of dollars) you want to listen to what they have to say.”

Between then and now the premier introduced a disqualifier that must have the business community wondering — to borrow a famous legislature one liner — whether she is putting scotch on her corn flakes.

Now Clark is saying the plan falls short of meeting one of the conditions she set for approval of such projects — that B.C. must get a share of the economic action in exchange for the environmental risk.

“In terms of meeting that condition, Alberta and the federal government are still going to have to come to the table and talk to us,” the premier states in media reports this week.

We know that isn’t happening. Alberta Premier Alison Redford has told Clark to take a hike. And, a project with huge revenue producing promise is thrown in doubt because Clark is still having a hissy fit with Redford?

So much for getting to ‘Yes.’ M

Which is your best hat?

JESSICA ABELLS, Victoria

Have you ever done drugs?

TREENA SINKIEWICZ, Victoria

Will you visit Canada?

NANCY SMITH, Victoria

Nothing! I don’t care about the institution, nor the hullabaloo surrounding its leader.

CITY WATCHDOG

Film challenges street life assumptions im Freeman is an active drug user. She also happens to be the only harm reduction service provider who is able to reach some of the most deeply entrenched members of the street community here in the City of Gardens. Freeman hands out safer drug use supplies from her apartment, serving people in her community SIMON who would otherwise go without not only a NATTRASS clean needle, but the care, love, and respect snattrass@ she generously provides. mondaymag.com Freeman is just one of a dozen or more street-involved people featured in the recently released documentary, Transform Homelessness Advocacy Watch (THAW).

Commissioned by the Committee to End Homelessness, the film interviews a cross-section of people whose lives touch the streets, from addicts to advocates to business owners on the 900 block of Pandora.

The film’s opening image — four men pinning one hungry man to the ground for stealing a piece of chicken — is a visual summary of the question director Kim “Hothead” Hynes asks

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throughout: “Everyone has a story,” he says, “so why do we criminalize some and not others?”

THAW exposes a city that has abandoned the street community and a police force that continues to harass them. At the same time, and in direct contrast to the dog-eat-dog image projected onto street life, the film illustrates the network of street-involved people, social service providers and even business owners who support one another.

This support and the strength of street-involved people is the substance of Hynes’ film. “The idea of the THAW is that we have to watch out for each other, especially on the street. The street can help teach the community.”

It’s easy to nurture our assumptions about life on the streets of our city — to think that through media and images presented to solicit charity we can form an accurate image of that life.

THAW shows us a side of the street community that can’t be seen by passing someone on a corner or reading the news.

Neither the film’s creators nor the people it interviews play to stereotypes or ask for pity — instead, they encourage housed people to learn from the community that we so willingly ignore.

To find out about screening dates or to donate to the film, visit ctehv.wordpress.com. M

RON GEEZIN, Victoria

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Indoor public market gets go-ahead, floor plan for June Danielle Pope news@mondaymag.com

ocavores are celebrating this week as the Victoria Public Market at The Hudson has secured floor plans for its scheduled opening this June.

The space, located at 770 Fisgard, former home of the Hudson Bay Company, has committed over 70 per cent of its vendor space already and released rendered images and floor plans this week.

The group is still searching for a butcher and a few other food-related businesses to

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complete the year-round market, but the food-focused public venue announced it will feature a community kitchen at the heart of the space, and will also include affordable indoor day tables for farmers and small-scale producers six days a week, as well as an open-air farmers’ market on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

“This is going to be the tastiest place on Vancouver Island,” says general manager Maryanne Carmack. “We want to make [this] a one-stop shop for all of your grocery needs by providing the best local farms and food producers in the region.”

Current vendors include a sweet and savory pie shop, a Mexican kiosk featuring fresh churros and hot chocolate, a spice shop, Silk Road Tea, Salt Spring Island Cheese, WildFire Bakery, a seafood store and an array of restaurant outlets. This will add to the other businesses located at The Hudson, including Smoken Bones Cookshack.

Hours of operation are expected to be 9:30am-6:30pm Tuesday through Saturday, 9:30am-5pm Sundays, closed on Mondays, with larger farmers’ markets every Wednesday and Saturday. For more, see victoriapublicmarket.com. M

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OFF THE FRONT > PERFORMANCE uddy Wakefield is coming to Victoria.

For anyone who’s never heard of him, the signs posted in nearly every coffee shop around the city don’t help much: “Buddy Wakefield is appearing live at the Victoria Event Centre on March 18.” That’s all it says, along with a few important blurbs: “Buddy F*!@#^g Wakefield.”

–Ani DiFranco, “Buddy Wakefield.” –Saul Williams, “Buddy Wakefield…” –Mos Def. That’s it.

It doesn’t tell you Wakefield is the two-time Individual World Poetry Slam Champion featured on NPR, the BBC and HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, or that he has shared the stage with nearly every notable performance poet in the world, or that he has been signed to Ani DiFranco’s Righteous Babe Records.

And it certainly doesn’t tell you that when you hear Wakefield perform, the air trips out of your lungs like that time your best friend sucker-punched you hard in the arm, like when you found out your mom had cancer, like when you fell into your first kiss.

The whole world stops; sucks in air for a moment.

But the poster doesn’t DANIELLE POPE tell you that, or that Victoria is just one of the many stops news@mondaymag.com on his spoken-word world tour this year. And he won’t tell you these things either — even when you ask him. He’ll shift past the humdrum questions everyone doles out about “how do you find your creativity?” and “how did your craft evolve?” What he might tell you about, though, is air.

This past January, Wakefield was asked to give a TEDx Talk on that very subject.

“Everybody, take a deep breath through your nose and into your whole body,” he told the crowd in Utah. “Good. Do it again. OK, now y’all go ahead and continue to do that — forever. You’re gonna need it.”

The only thing Wakefield says he really wants to share with the world is called Vipassana — a Pali word that means to see clearly, “to observe reality as it is, not as you would like it to be,” and it’s a tool that Wakefield has used to transform his own journey.

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A FRIENDLY REMINDER: BREATHE “I have spent so much of this life eagerly adopting ways to heal all the things that I thought were wrong with me, when all I really needed was a technique like Vipassana.

A grounded starting point,” Wakefield says. “Clearly, I have not yet reached enlightenment beyond a few fleeting moments, but I’m trying, and I keep showing up, and I found something here I want you to have — it ain’t much, it’s just the eternal answer.”

Still, he knows not everyone will be a convert.

“For those who may fear change and unusual foreign names, please take note that Vipassana is a technique, not a terrorist,” Wakefield says during his talk. “Vipassana is work; a self-observation operation where mindfulness of breath leads to clearly observing the sensations that make up our personal biology. It’s a practical, reasonable tool that must be experienced, not just rationalized.”

The solution can seem simple, but those who have seen Wakefield perform know that air and breath is everything to the Washington-based, spoken-word magician. Now, he totes his message proudly: “Don’t you dare let something as subjective as a potentially cliché word like ‘meditation’ rip you off from sustainable joy — you’re better than that.”

“The idea is to stop holding on with your neck so tight, to let your head climb back down through your throat and into your body, so it can see just how good you look when you’re not compared to anything,” he says. “Pretend — inside your skin — you’ve got a friend who’s willing to give you everything you ever wanted in exchange for all you’ve ever been.

Because you do.”

The first time I’m introduced to Wakefield, a friend on Facebook forwards me a help-wanted ad that the poet has posted for a project needing an expert in chickens, poetry and proofing. The combination makes me laugh: I grew up raising chickens, took poetry as a major in university and have been copyediting my journalistic eyes off since graduation. Instead of sending any kind of CV, I shoot him an email saying how “charmed” I am by the specifics, and how he must have tailor-made the position for me. He agrees.

Maybe I wouldn’t have been so casual had I known what a big deal he is. Maybe it’s better I didn’t have a clue — then.

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Buddy can you spare a rhyme SLAM POET IS BREATHING THROUGH THE WORDS AND DELIVERING INSPIRATION rid of everything he owned, “moved to the small town of Honda Civic and set out to live for a living.” By 2003, he was touring poetry venues across North America and the world was getting its first taste of the man who would develop the “troubadour movement” of slam poetry. Since then, Wakefield has published his work in dozens of anthologies internationally, and his heart can be found nestled inside his own books through Write Bloody Publishing — including Henhouse, a play on Penthouse for chickens.

But while Wakefield also has three full-length, spokenword albums to his name (the most recent of which, Live at the Typer Cannon Grand, was released in 2009), performing was never a new concept to the 38-year-old. He’s been a busker in Amsterdam, a lumberjack in Norway, a street vendor in Spain, a team leader in Singapore, a re-delivery boy, a candy maker, a street sweeper, a bartender, a maid, a construction worker, a bull rider and a triathlete. And he has the fan base to prove it.

Wakefield has been hailed “the modern poetry slam role model,” and it’s a sentiment that is carried by members of Victoria’s slam community.

“It is a true honour to go from watching someone like Buddy Wakefield on YouTube to getting to open for him this time,” says Jeremy Loveday, who will perform along with Matthew Christopher Davidson (MCD) as Roadside Dogs. This will be the second time Loveday has had a chance to share the stage with Wakefield, and says it was a “huge moment” in his career when the poet was last in town in 2011.

Loveday, who is the director of youth outreach for the Victoria Poetry Project and the mentor for Victoria’s youth poet laureate, acknowledges that his own style has drawn inspiration from Wakefield, though he says no matter how many times he performs, nerves are still a relevant part of the process.

“I always have to be in a certain state of nervousness in order to perform well. If my stomach isn’t turning in knots, just a little, I won’t have the energy I need to share what I can,” Loveday says.

“But something tells me that won’t be a problem at all for this performance.”

If breathing through nerves is a reality for Wakefield, he could fool any audience out of thinking so.

“I have heard, that if you pull a bent breath through the second hole of a harmonica, tuned to the key of Georgia, while a train moves by on the tail end of dusk, there is a good chance we will finally know what it means to rest,” he says. “We, we have not yet rested.” M See Buddy Wakefield perform Mon., March 18 at the Victoria Event Centre (1415 Broad). Doors 7:30pm, show 8pm. Tickets $15/$12 students advance, $18/$14 students at the door, available at Solstice Café or by calling 250-220-1686. Learn more about the poet at buddywakefield.com.

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With over 50 fantastic entries to our second St. Patrick’s Day Limerick Contest, it was a difficult decision for the panel of esteemed judges to choose the top three winners.

Our generous hosts at the Irish Times Pub tempted us with black liquid encouragement to get into the poetic spirit, but sober heads prevailed. The judges included two local poets — Dave Morris and Jeremy Loveday — plus Monday editor-in-chief Grant J Victorious M McKenzie and Monday news editor Danielle Pope.

by Norma Alison After much wrestling, lively discussion and a few magic tricks, t we boiled the list down to three worthy efforts.

Is life in Victoria so glorious?

Les Desfosses wins First Place and a $50 gift certificate High costs make living laborious for f the Irish Times; Norma Alison wins Second Place and But let us not grumble ‘Bout bridges to crumble a $25 gift certificate to Baan Thai restaurant; and Ara Just live for the moment — victorious! Williams takes home Third Place and a $25 gift certificate W tto Kaz Japanese restaurant.

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THE OPEN MIKERS he Stone’s Throw restaurant in the Best Western on Johnson Street is being transformed into an intimate performance venue for one weekend only.

The 60-seat venue will be the backdrop for The Open Mikers — a showcase of local amateur comedians hosted by Mike Delamont.

Delamont hand-picked eight stand-up comics to perform at the showcase, giving them his personal stamp of approval, something he’s never done before outside his own shows.

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SAVAGE FAM amas Books and Infoshop is hosting influential indigenous hip hop/rap collective Savage Family Seowa on its “When the Lights Go Out” tour, Fri., March 15.

From the occupied territories now known as Washington State, Savage Fam’s music and message follows in the footsteps of Dead Prez, Public Enemy, Immortal Technique or Rage Against The Machine.

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Sean MacDonald has been dancing with New Zealand’s Black Grace since 1995.

BLACK GRACE ew Zealand’s leading contemporary dance company, Black Grace is making its Victoria debut this weekend at the Royal Theatre, presented by Dance Victoria.

Fusing traditional Pacific and contemporary dance in a unique way, Black Grace delivers a taste of Pacific culture, presented in a universally appealing way.

“We’re presenting Pacific ideas, but we try to make them have universal resonances,” says dancer Sean MacDonald, 40, who’s been with the company off and on since its inception in 1995.

Audiences will be amazed by the powerhouse company’s physicality and athleticism.

“It’s very physical,” says MacDonald. “It’s very percussive, with lots of speed . . . we’re athletes really. We do a half-marathon with every show.”

The program is a mixed repertoire, featuring two shorter length works beginning with Pati Pati, a mixture of excerpts from older repertoire that utlizes body percussion influenced

by Samoan Sasa (seated dance) and Fa’ataupati (slap dance).

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Amata — Act 3 is more of a lyrical nature. The piece premiered in 2007 featuring a cast of 12 women exploring the theme of change.

“It loosely means a new beginning,” says MacDonald. “It’s also based around weaving, mats and patterning.”

Closing the evening is the fulllength work Vaka, meaning “canoe or raft.” The hour-long work features electrifying duets and complex ensemble passages at break-neck speeds.

“New Zealand is very sportive, it’s very athletic,” says MacDonald.

“New Zealand dance stands out a bit that way as opposed to styles from other countries.”

“It’s very exciting, accessible work, that is great for people who haven’t seen lots of contemporary dance, which can be inaccessible for a lot of people.”

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A dark comedy with razor teeth AWARD-WINNING, ONE-WOMAN PLAY COMES TO BELFRY’S SPARK FESTIVAL

By Mary Ellen Green arts@mondaymag.com

hat started as a fiveminute piece for a playwrights’ cabaret at Toronto’s Theatre Passe Muraille has turned into an award-winning, 60-minute, one-woman play.

Written and performed by Haley McGee (and directed by Alisa Palmer, artistic director of the National Theatre School), Oh My Irma was the winner of best production at the 2011 United Solo Theatre Festival, the crown jewel of solo performance festivals.

Now it’s on its way to the Belfry Theatre, and running until March 17 in the studio theatre, for the annual Spark Festival of new works.

Described as a “dark comedy with

razor teeth,” Oh My Irma follows Mission clothesline. “The character just popped Bird, an awkward young character in a into my head. And that character really dire situation. dictated the story to me,” she “Comedy comes says. out of a need to McGee describes the characOH MY IRMA laugh because of ter as “someone who’s in their Spark Festival some deep undertwenties, but hasn’t accepted Wed. to Sat at 8pm lying pain, sorrow the fact that she’s gone through Sat. at 4pm, Sun. at or loneliness. What puberty. She’s very intellectual, 2pm in the studio I like about that is but very stunted.” $20 at belfry.bc.ca or that it rings true to But McGee’s career has been 250-385-6815 me and my obsesfar from stunted. After winning No late admission sion artistically the playwrights’ cabaret, she with the polarwas invited back to present a ity between hilar15-minute version. “Then they ity and despair. They exist in the same asked me to write 30. They just kept on moment.” asking for more,” says McGee. Oh My Irma “explores the realPasse Muraille artistic director Andy ly extreme things that one can do to McKim encouraged the development eradicate their loneliness,” says of the play and accompanied McGee to McGee. Banff, where the 60-minute version was At the beginning of the play, created. McGee then performed it at the N E W surveymonkey.com/s/mawards Mission Bird stands before the Edmonton Fringe Festival before Oh My New Cate gories! audience, having just returned Irma made its official debut as part of DEADL E from the scene of a crime, cov- Passe Muraille’s 2011 season.

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FAVOURITE LOCAL LIVE PERFORMANCE ❍ Kytami — V.I.C. Fest ❍ Towers and Trees — Canoe Brewpub ❍ Current Swell — Rock the Shores ❍ Jon and Roy — Phillips Brewery ❍ The Archers — Canada Day at the Legislature Other: _______________________________________ v

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❍ Kyle Kushnir (The Drowsy Chaperone) ❍ Lorene Cammiade (Rabbit Hole) ❍ Celine Stubel (A Christmas Carol and God of Carnage) ❍ Sara-Jeanne Hosie (A Closer Walk With Pasty Cline) ❍ Melissa Blank (The Crackwalker) Other: _______________________________________

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FAVOURITE DANCE PERFORMANCE BY A LOCAL COMPANY ❍ The Gift of Pandora’s Box (Ballet Victoria) ❍ Romp! In the Square (Suddenly Dance Theatre) ❍ The Boxers are Brief Boylesque (Less is Mo) ❍ Thief on 42nd Street (ZarYevka Ballet) ❍ The Damned Girl (Impulse Theatre) Other: _______________________________________

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FAVOURITE ART EVENT ❍ Throw Down (AGGV) ❍ Integrate Arts Festival (fifty fifty arts collective) ❍ Fernwood Pole Painting Project ❍ TD Moss Street Pain in (AGGV) ❍ Victoria Emerging Art Awards Other: _______________________________________

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LITERATURE FAVOURITE FICTION BOOK ❍ Floating Like the Dead - Yasuko Thanh ❍ Song of Kosovo - Chris Gudgeon ❍ The Charlatan Variations - David Gurr Other: _______________________________________

FAVOURITE NON-FICTION BOOK ❍ All the DIrt - Rachel Fisher ❍ Afflictions and Departures - Madeline Sonik ❍ Unbuilt Victoria - Dorothy Mindenhall ❍ Breakout from Juno - Mark Zuehlke ❍ The Zero-Mile Diet — Carolyn Herriot Other: _______________________________________

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Gigantically ordinary fairy tale JACK THE GIANT SLAYER IS A STRAIGHT-FORWARD RETELLING arts@mondaymag.com

scar-winning director Bryan Singer (Usual Suspects, X-Men) makes a flatfooted visit to the muse of his childhood in Jack the Giant Slayer, a relatively straight-forward retelling of the classic fairy tale about a young lad named Jack and the magic bean that gets him into so much trouble.

In this version, Jack (Nicholas Hoult Warm Bodies), is an inquisitive farm boy who finds himself attracted to Isabelle, the intrepid princess of the realm whose father the king (Ian McShane) is terribly over-protective. Things get exciting when a magic bean unexpectedly sprouts into a massive, sky-climbing plant that whisks the terrified princess up to the realm of the human-hating giants.

The king sends a rescue party under the charge of his head of security (Ewan McGregor), but things go awry when Isabelle’s fiancÊ, Roderick (Stanley Tucci), proves to be a treacherous weasel with plans for world domination.

The plot is a little slapdash, but it does chug along efficiently enough with the humans stumbling from one peril to another. Most of the live performers are so anemic that they are almost outacted by the well-characterized giants who dream of getting back to earth to exact a terrible revenge for their banishment several centuries earlier. But parents take note: these grubby, humanoid monsters, with bad teeth and truly terrible manners, may frighten young children. By a slick contrivance these monsters get back to earth, where a 100-strong army of these brutes lays siege to the king’s castle with alarming gusto.

This movie certainly looks like a fairy tale, but the feeling of magic is sadly lacking. Unlike, say, The Princess Bride, there is little charm or originality on offer, just an over-abundance of CGI special effects and underwhelming performances.

Although the movie’s approach is pleasingly old-fashioned, with none of the self-conscious pop-culture riffs of Shrek, its laboured attempts to be a “rousing adventure tale� are generic and mostly fail to sprout. M

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A step in the right direction SPY-THRILLER COMEDY DELIGHTS AT LANGHAM COURT THEATRE

By Mary Ellen Green arts@mondaymag.com

he Victoria Theatre Guild has another hit on its mastermind planning to sell state secrets hands with The 39 Steps. and the meaning behind the phrase “The Much in the same vein as its production of The 39 Steps.”

Drowsy Chaperone last season, Langham Court Nick Sepi and Toshik Bukowiecki Theatre goes all out with a clever set, strong cast round out the cast, each playing a muland plenty of whimsy. titude of characters with ease. At one The play moves at the pace of a freight train, with only point in the first act, they’re each carryfour actors playing more than 100 characters in over 30 ing two hats behind their backs and one scenes. Not an easy task for any theatre company, but the on their heads, switching back and forth crew at Langham pulls it off effortlessly, seamlessly between and without taking itself too seriously. The three characters with show, running until March 23, is a non-stop the flip of a cap. The THE 39 STEPS laugh fest and an entertaining night of comscene quickly devolves Langham Court munity theatre that is sure to sell out. into a shouting match Theatre The 10-person stage crew, led by stage before one of the charTuesday to Saturday manager Sylvia Lindstrom, who works acters calls out “Oi, just at 8pm behind the scenes on the myriad of splitget on with it” — comMatinee March 16 at second scene, set and costume changes, edy gold. These two 2pm definitely deserved the standing ovation actors deserve credit for Until March 23 it received opening night, as does the cast their seamless transiTickets are $21/19 at and the directing team of Keith Digby and tions between accents, langhamtheatre.ca Cynthia Pronick. Langham really raised costumes, and even genor 250-384-2142 the bar on community theatre with this ders. one, and although it wasn’t perfect opening The set, designed night, the missteps only added laughs to the and built by the recently already hilarious show. retired Bill Adams, boasts a revolving The story — based on the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film stage and black drapes — a blank canvas and 1915 novel by John Buchan (former governor general), that is forever changing, with set pieces and adapted for the stage by Patrick Barlow — follows rotating on-and-off stage as it revolves.

Canadian bachelor Richard Hannay (Alan Penty, the only Some of these set pieces serve double or DAVID LOWES actor that plays a single character), who meets a mysteri- even triple duty, while others, like simple Nick Sepi (back left), Toshik Bukowiecki, Alan Penty (front left) and Karen ous woman in an opera box at a show in London’s West window frames are hand held by cast End. The woman (Karen Brelsford, channeling Dr. Evil) members, adding to the physical comedy Brelsford play more than 100 characters in The 39 Steps at Langham Court. turns out to be a secret agent named Annabella, who latch- in this already funny show. es onto the unwitting Hannay for a place to lay low and out Sound and projection design by Kevin of sight of the thugs who are following her.

Stinson adds a modern multimedia aspect slow-motion strobe effects and the authentic Scottish mist, By the next morning, Annabella is dead and Hannay is to this time-honoured spy thriller, with projections on the add to the ambiance. on the lam, hell-bent on following the trail of clues she’s bank of black curtains serving to enhance the sometimes The 39 Steps is another step in the right direction for the left to the Scottish countryside, in search of a criminal simple set. Karrie Wolfe’s lighting design, especially the Victoria Theatre Guild. M

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EVENTS CALENDAR MUSIC THURS. MARCH 14 THE ADULTS-Geoff Lundstrom and Jason Cook provide a high-energy, groove-based party atmosphere every Thursday night at Canoe Brewpub (450 Swift). The Adults play something for everyone, from MGMT to Adele, OneRepublic to Kings of Leon (9-close, $5 after 9pm).

OPEN MIC-Dylan Stone hosts a brand new open mic night at The Breakwater Cafe and bistro (199 Dallas). 8:30pm. Free.

ARCHIE FISHER- Scotland's foremost troubadour. 8pm at Legacy Gallery (630 Yates). Tickets are $30 at rmts.bc.ca o4 250-386-6121.

FRI. MARCH 15 AN CLADDAGH- St Paddy's Day Friday party with Patrick and Patricia De Gabrielle: their instrumentation includes Celtic harp, classical guitar, mandolin, bass mandolin, Irish flute, violin, and percussion instruments, vocals and bass pedals. 8pm at Merlin's Sun Home Theatre (1983 Fairfield). $15. Call 250-598-7488 or email timgoley@telus.net for reservations. Reservations required.

SAVAGE FAM- Conscious indigenous hip hop/rap colelctive brings their "When the Lights Go Out" tour to Camas Books and Infoshop (2620 Quadra). 7pm. $TBA. See P. 13 THREE WIDE MEN- Fiddle and Celtic tunes after open mic at 8pm at James Bay Coffee and Books (143 Menzies).

By donation.

BLACKOUT BEACH- With WAND. 9:30pm at the Copper Owl (Formerly Castle Video Bar, 1900 Douglas). $12 at Ditch Records or $14 at the door.

CELTIC BREEZE- With Wind on the Waves. 7pm at Spiral Cafe (418 Craigflower). By donation.

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ST PADDY'S CONCERT -Featuring Irish dancers, and soloists Bill Baker, Robert Hall, Darlene Haynes, Bert Johnston and David Underwood.

Tickets $15/12. Tickets at Ivy's Books.

THE NYLONS- Acapella quartet with guests the Peninsula Singers. 7:30pm at Charlie White Theatre (Mary Winspear, Sidney). Tickets are $45 at marywinspear.ca or 250-656-0275.

SAT. MARCH 16 KASPER AND HOWE - James Kasper and Geoff Howe celebrate 10 years playing together. With guest Mike Demers. 7pm at Moka House (1633 Hillside). $7.

SUITE FOR FLUTE - Mary Byrne (flute), Karol Roessingh (piano), Damian Graham (drums) and Ryan Tandy (bass) play Claude Bolling's Suite for Flute and Jazz Trio. 7:30pm at Hermann's Jazz Club (753 View). $15/12.

MUSIC WORKSHOP- With Vancouver Island Music Awards producer James Kasper, teaching "How to Successfully launch and promote your album." 1pm at Larsen School of Music (1808 Cook). $40. Call 250-389-1988 to register.

SUN. MARCH 17 CANUS-Hot jazz with special guest Al Pease at Hermann's Jazz Club (753 View). 4-7pm. $12.

MCGILLICUDDY'S ST PADDY'S PARTY- McGillicuddys will be bringing the full on Celtic rockin’ psycho ceilidh to Lucky Bar (517 Yates). 8pm. $10.

WAYNE AND CEILIDH BRISCOEAn evening of Irish-influenced fiddling. After open stage at 7:30pm at Norway House (1110 Hillside). $5.

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CELTIC VESPERS- An hour of quiet music and reflection with Denis Donnelly on harp and Lanny Pollet on flute. 7pm at 10090 W. Saanich. By donation.

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A PLACE TO LISTEN- The world premiere of "Other Echoes Inhabit the Garden," an extended work for tenor sax and gated tape by Daniel Brandes.

7pm at James Bay United Church (517 Michigan). By donation.

IRELAND: WHERE SONG AND DANCE BEGAN-Will Millar, one of the original Irish Rovers hosts a special dinner theatre event with a three course dinner, music and dancing. 6pm dinner, 8pm show at the David Foster Foundation Theatre at the Oak Bay Beach Hotel (1175 beach). Fridays and Saturdays until April 20. $109 at 250-598-4556.

BLACK GRACE-Contemporary Pacific fusion dance from New Zealand. 7:30pm FRIDAY and SATURDAY at the Royal Theatre.

Tickets start at $29 at rmts.bc.ca. See story P.13.

THE OPEN MIKERS-Local awardwinning comedian Mike Delamont hosts a show of his favourite local amateur comics. FRIDAY and SATURDAY at Stone's Throw restaurant (642 Johnson). 7pm shows both nights are sold out. $15 tickets remaining for both 9:30pm shows.

STAGE THURS. MARCH 14 THE 39 STEPS - Langham Court Theatre presents Patrick Barlow's farcical adaptation of The 39 Steps, bringing to stage over 100 roles played only by 4 actors. Based on the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film. Starring Alan Penty, Karen Brelsford, Nick Sepi and Toshik Bukowiecki. Opens THURSDAY at 8pm and runs TUESDAY to SATURDAY at 8pm until March 23.

Preview WEDNESDAY, two for $20.

Regular tickets are $21/19 at 250-3842142 or langhamtheatre.ca/boxoffice.

SPARK FEST-The Belfry Theatre's festival of new works features A Brimful of Asha by Asha and Ravi Jain, nightly at 8pm. Until March 17 at 1291 Gladstone. Tickets $25 to 40 at Belfry.bc.ca or 250-385-6815. For full schedule, visit belfry.bc.ca/spark.

SPARK FEST-The Belfry Theatre's festival of new works features Oh My Irma, a one-woman show by Haley McGee which won Best Production at the 2011 United Solo Performance Festival. Nightly at 8pm until March 17. Tickets $25 to 40 at Belfry.bc.ca or 250-385-6815. For full schedule, visit belfry.bc.ca/spark. See P. 14.

CASTING FOR MURDER - St. Lukes Players presents a murder mystery

by Burnaby playwright Elizabeth Elwood. which takes place on a small privately owned Gulf Island. Opens WEDNESDAY and plays WED to SUN at 8pm until March 24 at St Luke's Hall (3821 Cedar Hill X). More information and tickets ($15/13) available at stlukeplayers.org.

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SAT. MARCH 16 YOMADA ST PATRICK'S DANCEThe Young Old Time Music and Dance Association presents a rip-roaring Irish dance with music by Crikeymor, and the Yomada house string band.

Dance calling by Craig Marcuk. All dances taught on the spot. 7pm at Kirk Hall (680 Courtney). $15/10 at Solstice Cafe.

MUSIC AND MOVEMENT WITH BARBIE IN THE PINK SHOESMomstown Victoria and Broadstreet Dance present a dance class, ballet demo and Barbie play area.1:303:30pm at Dance Victoria (2975 Quadra) Suitable for ages 0-6. $5.

FLAMENCO TABLAO-Featuring cantaor Vicente Griego and dancer Monique Salez alongside Alma de Espana. 7:30pm at Church of Truth (111 Superior). $18/15. flamecodelasisla.org or 250-384-8832.

CCPA AUDITION TOUR- The Canadian College of Performing Arts brings its national audition tour to Victoria. 11am at 1701 Elgin. Call 250595-9970 for more information.

DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS IMPROV- Paper Street Theatre improvises their way through a theatrical adaptation of the prolific fantasy game. 8pm at Intrepid Theatre Club (1609 Blanshard). $12 cash at the door.

TUES. MARCH 19 SIN CITY -This clever cast of improvisors is back with the third season of the live improvised weekly serial, Bedlam-by-Sea, set in a pub-hotel in a quaint seaside English village. Completely improvised and continues over 21 weekly episodes.

Directed live by Ian Ferguson, starring Kirsten Van Ritzen, Wes Borg, Morgan Cranny, Christina Patterson, Chris Gabel, Robert Conway, Karen Brelsford, Charlie de Pape, Alan Penty, Christine Upright and Bill Nance while new musical director Alexander Brendan Ferguson improvises live musical scores and technical director Theodore R. Sherman returns on lights and sound.

Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8pm at the Victoria Event Centre (1415 Broad).

Tickets are $15/12, cash only at the door.

SPARK FEST-The Belfry Theatre's festival of new works features One by Jason Carnew, opening TUESDAY at 8pm. Until March 23 at 1291 Gladstone. Tickets $25 to 40 at Belfry.bc.ca or 250-385-6815. For full schedule, visit belfry.bc.ca/spark.

SPARK FEST-The Belfry Theatre's festival of new works features Little One by Hannah Moscovitch. Opening TUESDAY at 8pm, and runs nightly until March 24. Tickets $25 to 40 at Belfry.bc.ca or 250-385-6815. For full schedule, visit belfry.bc.ca/spark

WED. MARCH 20

VOYAGE OF THE FOREST DREAMTheatre Inconnu presents The Voyage of the Forest Dream and The Amethyst Incident as dramatic readings of two maritime adventures. 8pm at the Maritime Museum of B.C. (28 Bastion). $20 at 250-385-4222.

THEATRICAL DOUBLE BILL- Two one-act comedies about language and tyranny. Lonesco's The Lesson and Hannah Moscovitch's Essay range from absurdist to satire.

8pm at Intrepid Theatre Club (1609 Blanshard). $20/15 until March 30.

Tickets at ticketrocket.org or 250590-6291.

JEREMY HOTZ- The Magical Misery Tour comes to the McPherson Playhouse. 7:30pm. Tickets $45.50 at rmts.bc.ca or 250-386-6121.

OPENING THE CALL - Halle Berry stars as a 911 operator who realizes that she has to take extreme measures to save the life of a girl who has just been kidnapped by the same psycho who killed an earlier 911 client of hers years ago. Starts Fri.

SCREENINGS MOVIE MONDAY - Screening A Summer in the Cage, an insightful documentary by a filmmaker who chronicles the terrible struggles that a close friend has with manic depression (a.k.a. bi-polar disorder).

Screening includes mental health professionals to lead a post-film discussion. 6:30 pm MONDAY in the 1900-block Fort. By donation. 595-FLIC. moviemonday.ca.

OPEN CINEMA- Presents Big Boys Gone Bananas!*, a look at how Dole attempted to intimidate Swedish filmmaker Fredrik Gertten. Doors at 5:30pm, screening at 7pm at Victoria Event Centre (1415 Broad). By donation. See Story P.12.

CINECENTA Cinecenta at UVic screens its films in the Student Union Building. Info: 7218365. cinecenta.com.

THE HOUSE I LIVE IN -(Wed., Mar. 13: 7:00 only & Thurs., Mar. 14: 7:00, 9:10) Here's a very wide-ranging look at the failure -- and destructive consequences -- of the war on drugs.

The Wednesday screening includes a panel discussion on Canadian drug policy. ★★★ ANNA KARENINA -(Fri.-Sat., Mar. 15-16: 3:15, 7:00, 9:30) English director Joe Wright reunites with Keira Knightley (Pride and Prejudice) to present a glossy and intriguingly stylized version of Tolstoy's classic tale of a doomed, adulterous love affair set amidst the aristocracy of 1870s Russia. With Jude Law and Emily Watson. ★★★★ BILLY ELLIOT -(Sat.-Sun., Mar. 16-17: 1:00 matinee) The gritty, working class backdrop and stellar performances make this fable about a young dancer make this a heartfelt and rather sublime British comedy. ★★★ THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY -(Sun., Mar. 17: 3:15, 7 & Mon., Mar. 18: 7pm) This long-expected Lord of the Rings prequel has a young Bilbo Baggins head off with a posse of dwarves to reclaim some treasure stolen by a mean old dragon named Smaug.

Hobbit fans will love it, people with less of a passion for those with hairy feet should merely be entertained.

With Ian McKellen, Ian Holm, Hugo Weaving, and Christopher Lee. HOLY MOTORS -(Wed.-Thurs., Mar. 20-21) People who like to challenge themselves with films that are "weird and perplexing" should enjoy this eccentric puzzle-pic from French auteur Léos Carax. "Electrifying" -Washington Post.

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LEO JULY 23-AUG 22 Your energy is going to really get a boost in the next six weeks because four planets are in your fellow Fire sign. (You guys like to hang together.)

In particular, it will trigger a desire to travel and explore new situations. All Leos will want to blow town to experience exciting change, thrilling adventures and learn something new. You want something different, fresh and stimulating to happen. Sudden and unexpected opportunities related to publishing, the media, medicine, the law and higher education might fall in your lap. You might travel unexpectedly. Be careful in all your arrangements because there is an unpredictable (even accident-prone) element present. This is the time of year when you want to grab life by the throat and go for the gusto.

VIRGO AUG 23-SEPT 22 This is definitely an interesting week because surprise gifts, goodies, cash and favours from others might suddenly

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Keep your eyes open! Fortunately, it looks like most of you will have a favourable surprise. Nevertheless, disputes about shared property, insurance and taxes could occur.

By the way, this same unpredictable but powerful energy will heighten your sex drive. (Yowsers!)

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LIBRA SEPT. 23-OCT. 22 Be on guard this week because all this fiery energy (see All Signs above) is taking place directly opposite your sign. For starters, this means partnerships and close friendships will be your primary focus for the next month. Because fair Venus is in this group, things can be cozy and friendly. However, fiery Mars will stir up trouble. It can make you impatient with others. You might also have a sudden upset or breakdown in a relationship. (The proverbial last straw.) Although you might find yourself dealing with “enemies” this month, at the same time, you have an opportunity to express resentments and unspoken complaints, something you’re often loath to do.

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SCORPIO OCT 23-NOV 21 You are amazingly determined, which is why many successful people have Scorpio in their charts.

When you decide to do something, you do it. One reason it’s easier for you is you tend to see life in black-and-white terms. Right now four planets are helping you to turn over a new leaf in your life.

You want to improve your job. You want to improve your future. You want to improve your health. Who knows where this will lead? (You might even clean the floor of your bedroom closet.) Yes, we’re talking making a life-changing difference! Guard against work-related accidents this week in particular. Incidentally, these accidents can be verbal as well as physical.

Slowly, slowly.

SAGITTARIUS NOV 22- DEC 21 You get the best boost of all 12 signs because the Sun, Venus, Mars and Uranus now urge you to have fun! Slip away on a vacation; enjoy love affairs and romantic escapades.

Participate in sports events; discover ways to express your creative energy in the arts or a craft.

Delight in playful activities with children. Although all these areas are hyped, this week these same areas will hold a surprise and possi-

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CAPRICORN DEC 22-JAN 19 Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) For the next month, your focus is on home and family. Many will be redecorating or renovating either by choice or, in a few cases, because you’re forced to. Real-estate opportunities might arise. If so, your window of opportunity will be brief and you will have to act quickly.

Family relationships, especially with parents, could be explosive.

Someone feels rebellious. (Could be you.) Small appliances might break down this week or minor breakages could occur because your home routine will be interrupted. But for many it will be an interruption for the better. (Fingers crossed.)

AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 “May you live in interesting times” was actually a Chinese curse. In the next month, you want to enlighten others. You want to communicate and tell your side of things. In fact, you’ll be quite aggressive in speaking up. This is a great month for writers, actors, teachers and anyone in sales and marketing because you can make money with your words, you’re full of original, inventive ideas. That’s the good news.

The bad news is this is an accident-prone time, particularly this week. Accidents related to ground transportation or hasty actions – even speaking without thinking – could cause regrets.

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Offer not available with TELUS Internet 6. HDTV input equipped television required to watch HD. Samsung HDTV offer available while quantities last and cannot be combined with promotional prices. TELUS reserves the right to substitute an equivalent or better product without notice. Manufacturer’s suggested retail price of 40” Samsung HDTV is $849. Cancellation fee for early termination of a service agreement will be $23/mo. for the Samsung HDTV and $10/mo. for the HD PVR and digital boxes multiplied by the number of months remaining in the term. Current rental rates apply at the end of the term. Rental equipment must be returned upon cancellation of service. TELUS, the TELUS logo, Optik, Optik TV and the future is friendly are trademarks of TELUS Corporation, used under licence. Samsung and the Samsung logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Samsung Canada. © 2013 TELUS.

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