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How tough is it to find an apartment in St. John's these days?

(Spoiler: Very.)

According to the Canada Morgage and Housing Corporation, the vacancy rate is forecast to stick around one per cent in St. John's this year. The national average is 2.9 per cent. “With the vacancy rate remaining very low, expect demand to push average two-bedroom monthly rents to $725 by the end of this year and to $775 in 2011,” they say. We’ve heard of bidding wars, people taking apartments without looking at them, and other shady business.

Here’s some of what folks had to say about it at thescope.ca jhnewf: I have friends contemplating camping at Pippy Park while completing the summer semester at MUN. They were half joking, but it’s pretty hard going to find a spot to live.

Gregory Pike: The average cost of a two bedroom apartment in Montreal starts at $700. I could make considerably more money in Montreal than here, so I’m not sure what’s keeping me here.

Daniel Smith (Canadian Federation of Students): We hear horror stories all the time from students, particularly in St. John’s and Corner Brook, but also in other areas like Labrador City and Gander, about their difficulties in finding affordable housing while they go to school.

This has become a major concern for students and their families. It’s essential we strengthen our province’s safety net now to deal with the social challenges that wealth is going to place in our way.

Corey Q: Everything is going up except my pay cheque. Somethings’ gotta give, it's near time to buy a cabin in the woods.

Bob the Builder: Your paycheques aren’t going up because you’re working the wrong job. I’m an apprentice electrician with just barely two years experience, I’m definitely not very high up on the ladder let me assure you… and I get about $50,000 a year.

The problem is not the wages being too low, or not going up. My wage doubled in

the last 2 years. The problem is people are spending too much time in school doing bogus degrees that earn them little or no return on their investment. My advice: research the job market before you invest in education. freshprinceofdonair: I’m just curious to see how St John’s will look when everyone abandons the “bogus degrees” at MUN to become construction workers and electricians. Surely, the structural and electrical integrity of the average building will rise, at the cost of just about everything else. freshprinceofdonair: Many people would consider an electrician's job to be completely bogus, and in case you are wondering, I have nearly finished an Electrical Engineering degree at MUN. Francis: The St. John’s real estate market is the truest definition of a bubble—and bubbles always burst.

Reasoning: 1. Overall average wage of Newfoundlander’s has not gone up (Yes, building wages have increased, but that is a byproduct of the real estate bubble). People are going to be pretty strapped for cash on the monthly mortgage, thus spending less.

Spending less creates less revenue for other businesses, which leads to job losses, which leads to foreclosures.

2. Interest rates. A lot of St. John’s properties were bought in the middle of the recession when interest rates were abnormally low. Sure, that’s attractive at the time, but they will go up. When that happens, the variables are screwed and the fixed will be screwed… more foreclosures as people struggle to pay their mortgages on their wages that did not go up.

Personally, I think this bubble is the byproduct of greed on the part of homeowners and real estate agents.

Francis : I used to live in Toronto and thought it was hard to find an apartment there. Ha, what a joke.

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notes from st. john’s city hall

Got an opinion? Need to vent? We want to hear from you. Submit your anonymous accusation or confession at thescope.ca/rant. Submissions may be edited for length, grammar, spelling, legal, or obscenity reasons.

One submission will be printed each fortnight, but more submissions to Rant Farm can be found at thescope.ca/rant.

I love dogs. I, however, have absolutely no time for owners who let their dogs crap on my tiny bit of greenery in the front yard and then walk away. It’s owners that need a kick in the arse, not the poor dogs who have no choice where or when they do their business. Don’t be such lazy, dirty bastards leaving crap for others to step in the minute they walk out their front doors. It’s bad enough we have to deal with all the trash and litter thrown on our

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Development is all around us in St. John’s.

It can be everything from replacing a deck to building a skyscraper. There are many systems, rules, and processes which are in place to control, evaluate, and ultimately decide on the types of development which will be approved within St. John’s.

Here's what goes down before the shovel hits the dirt...

Before a proper application is submitted, any potential developer (including you!) has the right to discuss a proposal with the Planning and Development Department of the city.

The official ball starts rolling once an application is formally submitted. Once submitted, it will be reviewed by city staff, and passed Andrew along to the DevelopHarvey andrew@thescope.ca ment committee with recommendations.

These include a specific recommendation whether to approve or deny the application. They will often make other recommendations including asking the developer for additional information or details.

Any changes which would be required to either the Municipal Plan or development regulations are also noted. Some common requests for additional information include environmental assessments, land use assessment reports, view plane analysis, and traffic impact studies.

At the committee level, the application is discussed, and further recommendations

are made. These usually, but not always, follow those of city staff.

The recommendations of the Development Committee are then heard by council, and voted on at regular council meetings.

Depending on the type of application, there may be a need for a public meeting, or to notify residents of the area.

After any public hearings, or additional information is submitted, the application will come back to the Development Committee. Then they'll read any letters of support, or opposition to the development, and the comments of those who spoke at the public hearing.

This opportunity for input on developments is often under-used by the public.

Although the city has yet to progress to the point of making information on applications available online, they will make the application, including any maps submitted or prepared by city staff, which you can ask for.

Okay, so yeah, it's boring, but important.

I'll go through an example. Country Ribbon Inc. to develop a "Protein Conversion Plant" on Incinerator Road (near the intersection of Pitts Memorial Dr and the TCH). The plant will use offal material from an existing poultry plant on East While Hills Road to convert usable meal and fat for animal feed. ...Mmmm!

Anyway, here's what has gone down so far...

March 30th, 2010—The Development Committee makes a recommendation

(probably on the recommendation of City staff) for council to instruct city staff to write the provincial department of the environment and conservation and ask Country Ribbon for additional information on “methods that would be employed to control any potential odours” and “waste water disposal”.

April 5th 2010—Council votes to accept the recommendations of the Development Committee Report.

May 4th 2010—After receiving a letter from city staff, the minister of the environment and conservation put out an environmental assessment bulletin stating that Country Ribbon Inc. must prepare an Environmental Preview Report (EPR) for the proposed plant.

Now—We are currently waiting for this report to be completed. The minister also stated that the public will be invited to provide comments on the EPR when it is submitted.

I hope this is helpful for people to try and understand what I am only barely starting to after nine months of going to council meetings.

Any questions? Ask 'em online at ­thescope.ca.

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Some of our picks for the month

Written by Sarah Smellie.

Monday nights

Outdoor Movie Screenings Movies

Terri-Jane Maxwell of the Derby Girls

Saturday, July 3

Derby Girls Training Session Sports

The best thing to hit St. John's since decent weather, the 709 Derby Girls are a ferocious group of smokin' hot ladies who kick way more ass than you, and they do it on wheels. They may or may not let you hang out with them, you've got to audition to find out. If you need a primer on exactly what they're doing, you can sign up for a training session at Virginia Park Elementary on July 3rd, from 10am to 1pm. Cost is $20 or $35, if you want a t-shirt. Email 709derbygirls@ gmail.com with the subject "Training Registration" to reserve a spot. If you just want to try out for the league, try-outs are on the same day, at the same location, and they'll run from 2pm to 6pm. Those are free.

Saturday, July 24

Victoria Park Lantern Festival A little bit of everything

Oooh, it's Lantern Festival month! In case you've never been, the Lantern Festival is awesome, in the literal sense of the word. It's romantic and fun and exciting all at the same time, and is thus the summer's best event to which to bring your shyly smiling suitor, or the children that you and your suitor-turned-suited created. Heads up for the giant dragon lantern at the top of the park. If you'd like to make your own lanterns to contribute, the Friend of Victoria Park are holding lantern building workshops all month on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:30pm to 9:30pm at the Victoria Park Poolhouse. The festival happens on July 24th from 2pm to 11pm, in Victoria Park, though it's best when it's dark outside.

Who needs a downtown cinema when we've got parking lots to spare? Well, maybe that's the wrong question. Anyway. Downtown St. John's, The Nickel Film Festival and our beloved municipality of Legends have teamed up to provide you with outdoor film screenings every single Monday night in the month of July. They begin on July 5th, with a screening of the season finale of Republic of Doyle, followed by a bloopers reel. July 12th features eight short Newfoundland-made films, July 19th is The Bingo Robbers, and July 26th is the award-winning doc My Ancestors Were Rogues and Murderers. Screenings take place in the parking lot beneath The Ship, just beside Solomon's Lane. Showtime is 8:30pm and they're free. Bring lawn chairs, blankets, and popcorn.

July 2 to July 10

Sound Symposium Music

If I had a babysitter for a few days, say from July 2nd to July 10th, I'd be... heh, well, let's just keep things proper and say I'd be at the Sound Symposium. Specifically, I'd go check out Louise Moyes' new piece, Portscape, Friday July 2nd at the LSPU Hall, and I'd go see Kurai Mubaiwa and Curtis Andrews at the Cook Recital Hall at MUN, Saturday July 3rd at 8:30. I'd definitely catch the Complaints Choir on Sunday July 4th at 7:30 at the LSPU Hall, and I'd be sure to see Annie Dunning's Air Time at the Eastern Edge, opening at noon on Tuesday July 6th. I'd go have a listen to Pat Boyle's new work at the LSPU Hall that night, at 7:30, and the next day I'd probably hike up Signal Hill and have myself a bottle of wine and a little picnic while listening to the Harbour Symphony at 12:30. I'd come down for Women With Kitchen Appliances on Thursday July 8th at The Ship, 10:30pm. Alas.

Maybe in another 17 years.

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Holy F@S%! photo by Norman Wong

July 27 and July 28

Holy F@S%!

Music

Saturday, July 17

Georgetown Flea Market Second hand shoppin'

It is the best. Flea market. Ever.

Seriously. I've furnished half my house with scores from the Georgestown Annual Flea Market.

Pretty much everyone in the whole neighbourhood sets up a mini garage sale in front of their house and if you aren't sated by those, there's a giant mega sale in the middle of it all, at the corner of William and Hayward.

The whole shindig happens on Saturday July 17th from 10am until noon. If you want to donate stuff to sell, bring it to William and Hayward between 8am and 9:30am. If you, like everyone else in that area of town, are selling your Georgestown house and want to have your own sale that day, let the G-town Neighbourhood Association know at georgestownneighbourhood@gmail. com and they'll advertise it for you.

Holy F@$%! Holy F@$%! Holy F@$% are playing. You know, the wikkid electro craziness band, Holy F@$%? Holy f@$% they're good.

They almost won a Polaris Prize, Holy F@$% did. Yeah, Holy F@$%, eh? Catch Holy F@$% on Tuesday July 27th and Wednesday July 28 at The Rock House. Tickets range from $20 to $25. Brought to you by the kind folks at Mightypop—and Holy F@$%, guys, thanks.

July 29 - August 2

George Street Festival Music

You won't miss the George Street Festival, no matter how hard you may try. This year, its 26th, features a newly added Country Music night on Sunday August 1st. The rest of the nights, all five of them, will be exactly what you want from the George Street Festival: acts like April Wine, Buddy Wasisname & The Other Fellers, Charlie Major, and Rex Goudie will be rockin' the outdoor George Street stage Thursday July 29th to Monday August 2nd, beginning at 7pm each night. Tickets are 20 bucks each night, except opening night—aka the night Kujo, The Novaks and Our Lady Peace play—which is $30. The entire street, including all of its bars, is closed off to everyone but ticket holders, and ticket holders get access to every bar, beer, and bathroom their heart desires. The full schedule can be found at bit.ly/cjrGIB. Tickets go on sale on July 5th, and can be purchased at any NLC store or online.

SUMMER GUIDE

HOW TO HAVE A NEWFOUNDLAND ADVENTURE ON $20 (or less) We gave a few people a 20 dollar bill and a disposable camera and told them to go away and have a Newfoundland adventure. The only rule was to not use your own car (bumming rides was okay.)

Here are two that survived...

Angus Woodman Walked the Length of St. John’s

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like to walk. So for my adventure, I wanted to walk the length of the city.

Right from Mount Pearl to Torbay.

Now to some it may sound a touch crazy, but I assure you it’s a very nice walk. Thanks to the Grand Concourse trails, you can cover most of the distance in wooded paths, largely forgetting that you’re in the middle of a city. And depending on your chosen path, you can pass through any number of nice spots and make a day of it.

This is how my day went.

9:30am I leave the starting point, -- my brother’s house in Cowan Heights -- and head for the Mount Pearl border. I soon find the city limit sign and give it a high-five.

9:52am I wander back into Mount Pearl looking for an entrance to the first trail -the old train tracks. I think that perhaps I should’ve looked at a map before I left the house. Eventually, I find it.

This particular morning was a wet one.

The forecast claimed 2-4mm of rain. Enough to be annoying but not enough for me to cancel. This was a Newfoundland adventure, after all. So when I left the house in the morning and there was a little light rain I thought nothing of it. But then the clouds got darker. And darker. And darker. By midmorning it had gone from intermittent-wipers rain to super-fast-wipers rain.

Still, I kept walking. Surely it would stop.

10:31am I arrive at the Bowring Park gates. As I’m getting out my camera, trying to keep it sheltered from the rain, I hear a loud thunderclap. Inside, the park is empty.

It is nice to have the whole park to myself.

Myself, and the ducks that is. They don’t seem to mind the rain.

10:49am Walking the trail, my phone rings. I answer it, trying not to get it too wet, and hear the voice of my brother. He says, “You know it’s raining, right?” Thanks.

11:11am Just as I think the rain can’t get any worse, it gets turned up to 11. I am soaked completely from head to toe. And then the rain stops completely. It takes no more than a blink or two. Soon the trail is glistening.

11:47am Downtown, I stop at Atlantic Place to see how much of myself I can dry

off. I’m sure anyone who walked into the men’s room thought I was enjoying the hand dryers a little bit too much.

12:46pm After downtown, it head to Quidi Vidi Lake for lunch. I watch some rowing practise and eat my lunch. The Vienna Sausages go down smooth. (It’s just not a Newfoundland adventure without a tin of these!)

1:30pm From Quidi Vidi, I take the trail that runs along Virginia River. I veer off the trail for a bit and accidentally submerge both my feet just as they were getting dry again. Darn.

2:40pm The Virginia River trail ends and I head to Stavanger Drive. It is windy, busy, and I almost get hit by cars several times.

This street was not made for walking.

3:03pm Torbay! My task completed, I turn around and head for the closest bus.

In the morning I got soaked, and in the afternoon I got sunburnt, but overall it was a very good walk indeed. Turns out, in Newfoundland you don’t need $20 to have an adventure. All you have to do is go outside.

HOW MUCH DID IT COST? • Sandwich 3.29 • Banana 0.43 • Tin of sausages 1.09 • Biscuits 1.67 • Fruit bar 1.09 • Bus fare: 2.25 • Potato chips at Irving so I didn't feel like a mooch for using their bathroom: 1.46 Total: 11.84 - The remaining 8.16 will be put towards a new foot.

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Amy Joy

You know that Jim Carey movie Yes Man? It was kind of like that.

HOP SCOTCH

Chalk is cheap. So buy some and have a good old fashioned game of hop scotch. I’ve discovered though, that there’s a difference between townie hopscotch and a bay hopscotch. Tip: Use chalk to also write messages to people on the street.

Sidenote: After we finished our game we looked out the window to find a little old man hopping along the grid. You never know who’ll play the game after you’ve finished!!

SING WITH STRANGERS GO TROUTING

I really love to trout. For real. But I never catch anything. But that’s not going to stop me from trouting this summer. If you have never tried it, you should. The only thing I don’t like is putting the worm on the hook.

So if you’re like me, you might want to have someone else hook your worm. All you need is a rod. And if you don’t have a rod you can just borrow one! You can go to pretty much any pond. You’re sure to find some neat but gross garbage along the way, too. I found an old steering wheel and a bus seat. Good to sit down for a spell. Good photo ops. Tip: Be prepared for flies.

FOLLOW A JOGGER

If you’re brave enough – here’s something to try out. Put on your sneakers and your favorite Northern Reflections jogging suit.

Go out on your street. And wait for a jogger to jog past you. Follow them! You’ll get exercise, get a free jogging tour of the city, and have a laugh, too.

Tip: Stay far enough behind so you’re not creepy.

TAKE A FREE CLASS

I lucked out. I’m not kidding. I went to a store to find some apples (for some horses) and upstairs I saw a sign that said “Free Class.” I went up and joined in. The picture speaks for itself.

Tip: Maximum of three free classes. After that you’ll probably have to pay.

People (and animals and monsters) that you meet when you’re walking down the street. Richard – You’ll find Richard most nights of the week on the corner of George Street and Water Street. He sings a bit of Buddy Holly, some James Blunt, some Beatles. A lot of stuff actually. If you like to sing, you should sing a song with him.

If you don’t like to sing, have a chat with him. He’s awesome.

GO TO THE VINTAGE CAR NIGHT AT A&W

A&W gang – For free, I got to sit in my dream car. A volkswagon beetle. Aqua blue. It’s because on Thursday evenings at the A&W parking lot on Kenmount Road, they have a classic car night. It’s a great place to have a look at some old cars…and also chat it up with lovely car enthusiasts.

I had some great chats about turning an old VW bug into an electric car. I was told it’d be easy. So that just may be my next project. Tip: Buy a rootbeer! Yum.

GO TO GEORGE STREET

You don’t need cash to enjoy George Street.

Not all the time anyway. All you need is to find yourself a seat, maybe on the steps across from the stage, and people watch!

My favorite quotes on a Friday night: • As the police drove by with their lights flashing a guy says "i loves following the flashing lights."

• "George is unforgettable". This was said by George himself.

• (talking about what he'd do for a buddy) "I'd go to Jesus for him".

Tip: Buy Pocky for 2.00 and offer them to drunk people. You won’t believe how people react to Pocky.

Meantoons By John Meaney

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SING KARAOKE

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Karaoke Kops. Freeeeee karaoke. And The Kops are hilarious and look adorable in their uniforms. They’ll sing a duet with you. Or at least, they did with me.

GO SEE A GREAT SHOW

Go see a show!! Because there are TONS of GREAT bands in this city. TONS! Cover usually costs anywhere from $5 - $20. But maybe you can bribe your favorite band with a delicious soft serve ice cream from Jackman and Greene. I did.

HOW MUCH DID IT COST?

216 Water Street

• Ice cream at Jackman and Greene 3.00 • Rootbeer at A&W 1.80 • Peasoup at the gov’nor – Deeee-lish! (I didn’t get a pic of this!) 5.73 • Pocky – 2.00 • Chalk – 1.13 Total: $13.66….which means I can buy a beer somewhere!!!!!!

Transportation provided by: Amy Stoodley, Grant King and Allison White.

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sale scene right here: bit.ly/cQWbWE. So far, it's popular, and people keep it up to date, but you have to keep checking in to see what's going on - nobody sends out messages or anything.

Kijiji St. John's (stjohns.kijiji.ca) and ­nlclassifieds.com are both good spots to find yard sale announcements. Just search for "yard sale" and "garage sale" and you're bound to find a few. People often list their sales in the Telegram Classifieds and the Buy and Sell, too. SS

How To Compose A Harbour Symphony A few townie How-Tos by Sarah Smellie and Dana Cooper

How to catch caplin

When you hear that the caplin are coming in, get to the beach as early as you can.

The place’ll be blocked because it’s been on the radio all morning. These fish come into shore once a year to spawn. They are so numerous that their small, silvery bodies fill the waves and roll up on the beach in shoals. It’s a natural phenomenon that’s sad and cool at the same time. If you’ve never seen it, don’t miss it this year.

If you’re in town, Middle Cove is the beach for caplin, so much so that you’ll probably have to park in Torbay just to get a spot, and walk the rest of the way in. You don’t need to bring much in the way of tools. A net would be handy, but Sobey’s bags with holes poked in them have seen their fair share of the little guys gasp their last.

No matter what shore you end up at, the scene will be pretty similar. The beach will be dotted with the fires of families out for the day. The smell of fish frying will be on the air. Mothers will be watching their children like hawks. Only the continued vigilance of townie moms keeps us safe from the sea when we’re young.

Kids will be running around with fish clutched in their fists, rubber boots full of water and (probably) warm sweaters, because the caplin always choose the foggiest, mauziest days of midsummer to run themselves up on the beaches. That’s caplin weather, they say.

Besides frying fresh caplin on your beach fire, there’s lots to do with them. Traditional uses include bringing them home for Nan to fry up on the stove, pickling and drying them for later eating, digging shovelfuls of them into the garden to help the potatoes, or putting them whole on the barbeque, occasionally biting the head off one of the crispy fish to impress a child. DC

How to Pick Berries

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wards the end of the summer? Those are berry picker bums. Berry picking fever usually strikes with the first ripening of blueberries on the Avalon, at the beginning of August. Wild blueberries grow on low-lying, scruffy bushes in open, exposed places, like the back of Signal Hill. Blueberry season usually lasts until the beginning of September.

Also in the genus Vaccinium, partridgeberries (or lingonberries, or foxberries, or quailberries, or red berries) are like mini cranberries, and they ripen in mid-September. They grow on squat evergreen shrubs in dry, peaty soils and rocky, barren, and coastal areas. You should wait until after the first frost to pick them, as there's a little worm, the lingonberry fruitworm, that burrows into the fruit and lives there until it dies in the cold.

Over in the bogs, marshes and squishier meadows, you can find bakeapples from August into September. When ripe, they look like amber-colored raspberries, and they taste a bit like plastic bags. Accordingly, they usually wind up in jams and syrups alongside a hearty dose of sugar.

Strawberry and Raspberry U-Pick farms are easy to come by, although they'll likely come later this year on account of that nasty little overnight frost on June 17th. Lester's Farms estimates that their strawberry U-Pick will be ready by the end of July.

How to Find Good Yard Sales

If you're looking for a good deal, or a black velvet Jesus painting, you're going to want to hit up one of the many, many summer yard sales. You can start by driving down the road down the Conception Bay Highway where there are a number of permanent yard sales set up. These families have sheds upon sheds of stuff, from old clock radios and barn windows to bicycles and golf shoes. Just keep driving, they're impossible to miss.

As you probably expected, there is a Facebook group dedicated to the St. John's yard

"Here in St. John's, we have this wonderful bowl-shaped harbour which is nothing else but a wonderful auditorium," explains singer, musician, and Sound Symposium Coordinator Delf Hohmann. Every second year, the Sound Symposium exploits the harbour's acoustics with the Harbour Symphony, a daily symphony played by the horns of the ships that happen to be in the harbour.

Composers typically write the symphony with the hopes that six or seven boats will be down there to participate, explains Hohmann. Each boat gets its own timed score covered in symbols, placed at specific times, that indicate the type of horn blast to be played. "You have maybe a line for a long blast, a circle for a little woot," says Hohmann. "Once you've done it several times and you know which boats come into the harbour, you know the character of their horns. All the supply ships that go out to the oil rigs have fairly high-pitched horns compared to the coast guard vessels. The ice breakers have two horns, because they have to signal backwards, if there are ships behind them, when they slow down or speed up breaking the ice in front. There are actually vessels there that have three horns."

One the morning of the symphony, Hohmann hops on his bike and rides down the hill to talk to the ship captains and get the okay from the Harbourmaster. The Coast Guard does the countdown on the Ship to Shore radio. While on the boats, one person keeps time with a stopwatch, telling the other, the "player," when to sound the horn.

The result is not always what the composer had intended.

"The beautiful thing about the harbour symphony," chuckles Hohmann, "is that you compose a piece, and you know what it's going to sound like on paper, but there's always a compromise. Depending on the wind direction, the wind speeds, sometimes you get an echo that takes seven seconds, sometimes you don't have one at all. It can be an improvisation in terms of what nature does with it."

The ships' horns aren't always on cue, either. "When you push the button for the horn on the ship, sometimes it takes a while for the steam or the air to build up in the pipe, and so the horn just goes 'pfrrrrrt!'" he says.

"Some composers have, at times, not recognized their own piece, because it was so off!" he laughs. "They go off, and they huff and puff about it, but when we explain the story and all that can happen, they're happy about it." SS

HOW TO GET OFF THE ISLAND FOR CHEAP

Nope, sorry. You're not skipping through time back to the 1950s every time you throw your recyclables into the garbage, or watch NTV news. The island of Newfoundland is not like the island in Lost, though if you've been marooned here long enough, it can certainly start to feel that way. Here's how to get the hell out of here before you start seeing polar bears in the woods.

Recent start-up Porter Airlines has been getting rave reviews for its cheap flights, friendly customer service, and free in-flight booze. As of yet, Porter only flies to Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, and Halifax from St. John's, but their flights are genuinely cheap. They don't announce their discounts or promotions ahead of time, but they were happy to dole out the following insider advice: Every three to four weeks, they typically have specials where you'll get fifteen or twenty percent off all flights booked online, and they usually announce them, on their website, on Fridays or Saturdays. So keep an eye out.

WestJet is always a sure bet for a cheap and fun flight. As an added bonus, one of the guys in their 70s-era in-flight safety pamphlets is a dead ringer for Lionel Richie!

Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays are the cheapest days to fly WestJet. They just recently did away with seat sales and have instead made their prices uniformly lowered. As they explained to me, "there are seven different levels of pricing, and the difference between those levels has been made significantly smaller." Oh. Nobody was really sure about the math behind it, but the whole process yielded some pretty sweet deals. For example, once you're actually off the island, if you want to fly between Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto, your ticket will be 29$ on a Tuesday, Wednesday or Saturday as long as book it 21 days in advance.

And that's just the way it is now, that deal doesn't expire.

SUMMER IDEAS WORTH RECYCLING

Here are some ideas from last year's How To Have The Best Freaking Newfoundland Summer Ever. See it online at bit.ly/aQgTQw. Go fly a kite, go sea kayaking, call a payphone across town, eat a puffin, walk the Grand Concourse at night, watch the sunrise from Signal Hill, throw a mustache party, walk up Signal Hill ten times, rescue some of those snails on Long's Hill, hang out on the Holdsworth Court balcony, go swimming with the caplin at Beachy Cove, get a temporary tattoo sunburn, go on a streak, grow your own food, get an ice cream headache, buy a piece of local art, go hitchhiking, ride your bike out of the city, heckle a Shakespeare by the Sea production, etc.

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LIMITED RUN Saturday Jul 3, 11:15am Buzzards Steal Your Lunch (Sound Symposium) A film about Frank Pahl and his work, by Terri Sarris, LSPU Hall-3 Victoria St 753-4531 Monday Jul 5 at 8:30pm Republic of Doyle season finale plus a blooper reel (Reel Downtown) Outdoor movie screening, free, Solomon's Lane Monday Jul 12 at 8:30pm eight Newfoundland short films (Reel Downtown) Outdoor movie screening, free, Solomon's Lane Monday Jul 19 at 8:30pm The Bingo Robbers (Reel Downtown) Outdoor movie screening, free, Solomon's Lane Monday Jul 26 at 8:30pm My Ancestors were Rogues and Murderers (Reel Downtown) Outdoor movie screening, free, Solomon's Lane

DAILY SHOWINGS Call or check online for times and prices Avalon mall empire studios 12: 722-5775 Mount pearl empire cinemas: 722-5775 www.empiretheatres.com Cats & Dogs 2—Revenge of Kitty Galore: What CGI talking animal movie really needed a sequel? Not Garfield. Not Scooby Doo. Cats & Dogs, a ten year old comedy where cats attempt to take over the world.

(Coming July 30) Charlie St Cloud: Zac Efron sees dead people.

Well, dead person, as he only sees his brother's ghost. When a woman comes between them, Zac must decide if he can put undead bro before ho.

(Coming July 30) Despicable Me: A low-rent supervillain ends up babysitting some pre-pubescent moppets. Will his budding love for these children interfere with his plans to steal the moon? Featuring the voice of Steve Carell.

(Coming July 9)

Dinner for Schmucks: A group meets secrectly to mock human stupidity. Is it the Illuminati? No, just elitists who con idiots to attend dinner parties designed to mock them. Starring Steve Carrell (again).

(Coming July 30) Inception: Former Tiger Beat cover model Leonardo Dicaprio is a corporate spy who steals secrets from his victims' sub-conscious.

Directed by Chris Nolan.

Thankfully, Christian Bale isn't around to do his Batman voice. (Coming July 16) Mr Nobody: A man named Nobody envisions possible outcomes if he had chosen to live a different life.

Screenwriter Jacob Van Dormael decided that the character's original name, Metaphor-For-Wasted-Life, was too subtle. (Coming July 16) Predators: After pushing too many pencils and failing to get to a chopper of some kind, Sexual Tyranosaurus Adrien Brody fights off Predators in a way that would make Danny Glover proud. (Coming July 9) Ramona and Beezus: Beezus courts love. Ramona, her accident-prone younger sister, plays, draws and falls into a giant peanut butter sandwich. (Coming July 23) Salt: Salt is good...or is she? The KGB say she's a sleeper agent...or did they?

Salt hides from FBI in a basket of fries...or does she? I made that last part up...or did I? (Coming July 23) Solitary Man: Michael Douglas is all about the ladies. Unsurprisingly, this has a sour effect on his marriage. Can he reconcile his need for booty? (Coming July 2) The Kids are All Right: Mia Wasikowska has two mommies. Better yet, those mommies are Annette Benning and Julianne Moore.

Unfortunately, she discovers her biological father is perma-disappointment Mark Ruffalo. Mayhem ensues.

The Last Airbender: A century-old figure faces evil-doers with his uncanny ability to manipulate the four elements. Kinda like Captain Planet's Planeteers, only without that useless "heart" guy. (Coming July 1) The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Ever wish that Nicholas Cage replaced Mickey Mouse in Fantasia?

Wish granted! Cage is a wizard AND computer expert who must lay the mystical smackdown on anything in his way. (Coming July 14)

Mega-Corporation Requires Tears, Gets them Step one: Follow your heart and make a great movie. Step two: Ignore test audiences. Step three: ???? Step four: Profit!

By Adam Clarke

E

ver wonder why so much Hollywood product is about as unique as a slice of Wonderbread while Pixar continues to make memorable films? A large part of their success is that they don't listen to you.

That's because they know you're horrible!

North American films are regularly screened privately in front of test audiences before receiving a wide release. These test audiences of fifty or so random people (heretofore known as CHUDs) scrawl their opinions on comment cards. Films are subsequently re-shot or re-edited based on their reactions and then released to the public.

I once participated in a test screening for a film called Mambo Italiano. The version screened to myself and the rest of the CHUDs was a badly-paced, stupid comedy that made you feel sorry for all involved.

When the film was released in theatres, it had been miraculously transformed into a slightly different badly-paced, stupid comedy that made you feel sorry for all involved. My suggestion to add an accidentprone, jive-talking robot named Azztar to Mambo had fallen on deaf ears.

As crazy as it sounds, film studios have been doing this for decades and it never works. Just look at last year's The Wolfman, which was re-cut, re-scored and had new footage shot only to be reviled by critics and audiences upon release.

Pixar, as a rule, shuns this process and it shows. The acclaimed studio mass-produces

each and every one of their blockbusters with love. Sure, Pixar's a Giant Company owned by an Evil Computer Genius, but I defy you to tell me that films like The Incredibles, Wall-E and Up weren't created by people who cared. If anything, the gang at Pixar care too much, as evidenced by the fact that I can barely get through one of their movies without getting all misty-eyed.

That damn Luxo Lamp mascot of theirs is an emotional dictator who brings you to your knees before commanding you to "weep before Luxo!"

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he studio's latest release, Toy Story 3, is a welcome return of the plastic figurines who graced the past two movies.

Part of the reason that return is welcome is because this film is a sequel rather than another damned remake. Mostly, however, it's because Pixar has a largely unbeatable track record at this point, so they can more or less coast on their legacy if they wanted to. If Pixar produced a film called Poo On A Stick In Heatwave, it would make $70 million on its opening weekend from audience goodwill alone. I'm fairly certain that was the case with Cars.

Toy Story 3 begins as Woody the cowboy (voiced by Tom Hanks), Rex the dinosaur (voiced by Wallace Shawn), spaceman Buzz Lightyear (voiced by Grunt-Bot 5000) and all of the other toys steal their owner's cell phone. If Andy (voiced by John Morris) finds all of his old toys, he'll want to play with them, right? Except Andy is now get-

ting ready for college and is stuck with the chore of clearing all of his old toys out of his room before he leaves. Struck by sentimental pangs, Andy elects to take Woody with him, leaving the other toys safe in the attic so they don't get sold or thrown away.

A series of coincidences too convoluted to recap results in all of the toys being dropped off at Sunnyside Daycare. Woody is hostile to remaining there and sets off to return home while the rest are welcomed by the Sunnyside toys. Unfortunately, Sunnyside is ruled with cotton fist by a bitter toy bear (voice by Ned Beatty). Can Woody rescue the gang? Will he be able to return to Andy in time? Would it matter if he did?

Toy Story 3 is a superbly-made film that's heartbreaking, funny and, at times, legitimately suspenseful. That's the kind of film that can be made when you don't have to please randomly selected people off the street. While other studios continue to release boring, downright embarrassing films that cater to the CHUDs with cards, Pixar succeeds without influence from burnt-out execs and thoughtless marketing chotches.

Toy Story 3 deserves all the praise it's sure to get from audiences.

Also, the title character from My Neighbor Totoro appears in the film, which more or less made my week. What more could you ask for?

Movies! Movies! Movies!

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What is your most vivid sound memory?

We asked a few Sound Symposium artists.

The Sound Symposium—an International festival of new music sound audio acoustic and performing arts—takes place from July 2-10, 2010 Debashis Sinha One of my most vivid sound memories is a gas factory explosion in the city of Jamshedpur in India. I was 5 years old and something happened. All of a sudden everything started shaking in response to booms in the distance. My grandmother was lying on her charpoy and I remember her face vividly—surprise and bewilderment. I must have looked the same. We ran outside and she held me in her arms as we watched fire cross the sky. I am not sure what I thought, but I'll never forget it... Held in my grandmother's arms as the world ended.

RICK SACKS In 1970 I got a Chevy Blazer... I was getting ready to drive the truck back to university and bought some cassettes. I bought Bela Bartok's "Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste" after reading a terrific biography on this great composer. At one point there is a percussion part where the player plays slow to fast hits on one high note of the xylophone.

I threw the truck into park, jumped out and looked underneath to see if my muffler had fallen off.

MORITZ EGGERT My most vivid sound memory is sitting in the back of my mother's car, holding my ear to the window so the noise of the car would be amplified, and suddenly discovering that I was able to vividly hear any music I wanted in the white noise.

Angela ANtle (Sound Symposium complaints choir) Every spring, my father Elias gets out his fly rod and reel. There may still be snow on the ground outside but in the living room he sits in his lazy boy pulling the fishing line out by the arm length and then reeling it back in. As I remember it...this behaviour goes on for days...I can 'hear' the zeeep, zeeep, zeeep of the line being pulled out of the reel and the ZRRRRR RRRRzzzzzzzzZRRRRR RRRRzzzzzz as he reels it back in.

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Friday JULY 2 Alex Dinn Band (10pm); DJ Mark Power, Martini Bar Andrew Wrice & Danielle Trouble, 5pm, no cover, The Grapevine Bump, Club One Chris Hennessey (5pm); Bill Kelly (8pm), Acoustic Punters (11:30pm), O'Reilly's Irish Pub

Moran (8pm); Sons of Erin (11pm), Shamrock City Pub J Frost Plane Ticket Fundraiser: Dave Walsh, Danny Keating, The Rit, J Frost, Adam Baxter, William Jenkins, Michael Banks, RN Wagner, Rob Keyes, 9pm, $5, Distortion Karaoke, Hosted by Murf, Darnell's Pub Karaoke, Karaoke Kops Party Bar

D'arcy Broderick & Ron Kelly (5pm); Barry Kenny & Glen Harvey (8pm); Sons of Erin (11pm), Shamrock City Pub

Karl Wolf, DJ OTG, DJ Sina, 11pm, Dusk Ultralounge

Damian Follett; Des Gambin & Barry Davis, Green Sleeves

Night Music (Sound Symposium) King Pierson’s Bridge; plus jam session, 10pm, $5, The Ship

DJ Blurr, DJ Nu Rock, $5, Rock House

Michael Banks (Ont acoustic) Scanlan's

DJ Sina, Konfusion

Rob Cook (4:30pm);Fergus O'Byrne (8pm); Acoustic Punters (11:30pm), O'Reilly's Irish Pub

Filthy Fridays: DJ JayCee, Turkey Joe's

Sexual Saturdays: DJ JayCee, Turkey Joe's

DJ Fabian, no cover, 11am, Zone 216

Fresh Weekend: Crack The Foundation, Liberty Tones, The Rising Design, 10pm, $5, Junctions Hardcore Show: Weak Link, Nightmen, Monsterbator, Good News Everyone, 10pm, $5, Distortion Karaoke, Karaoke Kops Party Bar Mick Davis and the Skinny Jim`s (50s rock & roll) 11pm, $5, Fat Cat Blues Bar Night Music (Sound Symposium) AE Bridger; plus jam session, 10pm, $5, The Ship Sound Symposium: Louise Moyes: Portscape (dance); Joshua Fried: Radio Wonderland (live radio processing); Maryem Tollar, Ernie Tollar, Deb Sinha & Ian de Souza (contemporary and traditional Egyptian and Arabic music), featuring Roula Said (belly dancer), 7:30pm, $12/$17, LSPU Hall 753-4531 Tequila Rockingbirds, 10pm, $7, Tol's Timeout Lounge The Arbitrarys (BC pop), The Comuppins (rock), Janet Cull & Crystal McCarthy, CBTGs

Saturday JULY 3 Alex Dinn Band (10pm); DJ Nu Rock, Martini Bar Bump, Club One David Langmead Trio (classic rock, 90s, rock n roll covers) no cover, Trapper John's Pub Des Gambin & Barry Davis, Green Sleeves DJ Big Frank, Konfusion Fresh Weekend: The Troubletones, The Tropes, Ragged Ends, 10pm, $5, Junctions Hugh Scott (5pm); Bob Taylor, Carl Peters & Pat

Shawn Beresford & The Solution, Fat Cat Blues Bar Sound Symposium: Reveille Trumpet Collective featuring trumpets & piano, 7pm, $9/$14, Petro Canada Hall 753-4531 Sound Symposium: Eve Egoyan & David Rokeby: Surface Tension; Moritz Eggert (solo); Kurai Mubaiwa & Curtis Andrews (mbira & African percussion), 8:30pm, $12/$17, Cook Recital Hall 753-4531 Tequila Rockingbirds, 10pm, $7, Tol's Timeout Lounge The New Zazoo (ska), The Bonavista Chain Locker (gypsy jazz), Matt Hornell & the Diamond Minds (folk), CBTGs The-97-Fives, no cover, Rock House Vicar, Swords (epic metal), Monsterbator (rock), 11pm, $6, The Levee VJ Eric, DJ Fabian, 11pm, $5/$7 after 1:30pm, Zone 216

Friday JULY 9 Bic & The Ballpoints, 10pm, $7, Tol's Timeout Lounge Charity Silent Auction & Benefit (Arthritis Society) Siochana, The Insiders, 8pm-11pm, $10/$12, Club One Chris Hennessey (5pm); Bill Kelly (8pm), The Bishops (11:30pm), O'Reilly's Irish Pub Chris Kirby & The Marquee, Fat Cat Blues Bar D'arcy Broderick & Ron Kelly (5pm); Barry Kenny & Glen Harvey (8pm); Connemara (11pm), Shamrock City Pub Des Gambin; Chris Ryan & Chad Murphy, Green Sleeves DJ Fabian, no cover, 11am,

Zone 216 DJ Sina, Konfusion Filthy Fridays: DJ JayCee, Turkey Joe's Genemoney Benefit Show: Back to Copenhagen, Andrew Clarke, Billy Shea & The Jockey Club, Bobbie Macdonald, $5, CBTGs Karaoke, Karaoke Kops Party Bar Michael Banks (Ont singer-songwriter) The Franklin Hotel Night Music (Sound Symposium) Craig's picks; plus jam session, 10:30pm, $5, The Ship Sound Symposium: Workshop/ Performance featuring Ben Grossman (hurdy gurdy), Charles Hutton Choral Rm (Fri Jul 9 at 1:30pm) Sound Symposium: Complaints Choir; Mark Fewer & Aiyun Huang (violin & percussion); Joshua Fried; Kurai Mubaiwa & Curtis Andrews, $12/$17, Cook Recital Hall 753-4531 Steve Maloney & David Chafe: Enjoy the music of Nat King Cole, Van Morrison, James Taylor, Chet Baker, Otis Redding, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Ron Sexsmith, 8:30pm, $10, Bianca's Lounge The Domestics (folk) 5pm, no cover, The Grapevine The Vibe (10pm); DJ Mark Power, Martini Bar

Saturday JULY 10

Chris Kirby & The Marquee (blues) Fat Cat Blues Bar Chris Ryan & Chad Murphy, Green Sleeves DJ Big Frank, Konfusion Dusk Cape Spear Project (Sound Symposium) Moritz Eggert, 9:30pm, $10, Cape Spear (Rain venue Cochrane Street United Church) Gale (rock), Dawn Awakening (metal), Release the Hounds (hardcore), Junctions Hugh Scott (5pm); Bob Taylor, Carl Peters & Pat Moran (8pm); Connemara (11pm), Shamrock City Pub Karaoke, Hosted by Murf, Darnell's Pub Karaoke, Karaoke Kops Party Bar Michael Banks (Ont singer-songwriter) Bianca's Lounge Rob Cook (4:30pm);Fergus O'Byrne (8pm); The Bishops (11:30pm), O'Reilly's Irish Pub Sexual Saturdays: DJ JayCee, Turkey Joe's The Bonavista Chain Locker (gypsy jazz) CBTGs The Insiders, Club One The Vibe (10pm); DJ Nu Rock, Martini Bar

VJ Eric, DJ Fabian, 11pm, $5/$7 after 1:30pm, Zone 216

Friday JULY 16 Chris Hennessey (5pm); Bill Kelly (8pm), Greeley’s Reel (11:30pm), O'Reilly's Irish Pub

D'arcy Broderick & Ron Kelly (5pm); Barry Kenny & Glen Harvey (8pm); Kilkenny Krew (11pm), Shamrock City Pub

Dave Walsh (acoustic rock) no cover, Trinity Pub DJ Fabian, no cover, 11am, Zone 216

Karaoke, Karaoke Kops Party Bar

Paddy Barry, 5pm, no cover, The Grapevine Signal Hill, Club One Substance (Ottawa hardcore), Weak Link, Frontier, Distortion Wreckhouse Jazz & Blues Festival: Brad Jefford Trio Plus (4pm/$5); Darryl Collins Quartet (8pm); Worst Pop Band Ever (10pm), Martin Bar Wreckhouse Jazz & Blues Festival: Mary Barry Sixtet (7pm); Jeanne Rochette featuring Francois Bourassa (8:45pm), Masonic Temple

Chris Kirby (blues), Jerry Stamp, Jon Nines Band, The Monday Nights (folk rock),

Midnight Shift, 10pm, $7, Tol's Timeout Lounge

Kill Popoff (hard rock), Colonal Craze & The Hunch (hard rock), The Crooks (alt), 11pm, $5, CBTGs

Damian Follett , Green Sleeves

Oddly Enough, 5pm, no cover, The Grapevine

DJ Fabian, no cover, 11am, Zone 216

Punch in the Head Ago (rock), Origin of the Sound Band (psychedelic rock), Frankenstone, 9:30pm, Krugers Bar-CBS

DJ Sina, Konfusion

Rob Cook (4:30pm);Fergus O'Byrne (8pm); Greeley’s Reel (11:30pm), O'Reilly's Irish Pub

Wreckhouse Jazz & Blues Festival: Surviving the Glacier (7pm); Richard Underhill Quintet (8:45pm), Masonic Temple Wreckhouse Jazz & Blues Festival: James Hurley, James Wylie (8pm); Friends (9:30pm), Yellowbelly Brewery Wreckhouse Jazz & Blues Festival: Mopaya (8:30pm); H'Sao (10pm), Majestic Theatre

Quiet Elephant (indie pop) 11pm, $5, CBTGs The Chasers (10pm); DJ Mark Power, Martini Bar

Saturday JULY 24

One Power, The Ship

DJ Big Frank, Konfusion Feile Seamus Creagh: Fiddle Concert, Matt Cranitch, Daniel Payne, Billy Sutton, 8pm, $20/$25, The Elks Club Hugh Scott (5pm); Bob Taylor, Carl Peters & Pat Moran (8pm); Hagdown (11pm), Shamrock City Pub Justin Fancy & Chad Murphy, Green Sleeves Karaoke, Hosted by Murf, Darnell's Pub Karaoke, Karaoke Kops Party Bar Rob Cook (4:30pm);Fergus O'Byrne (8pm); Achora (11:30pm), O'Reilly's Irish Pub

Wreckhouse Jazz & Blues Festival: Planet Earth, 9:30pm, Dusk Ultralounge

Spank 2010 : Pride weekend fetish night, 11pm, $5/$7, Zone 216

Friday JULY 23 Billy & The Bruisers, Fat Cat Blues Bar Chris Hennessey (5pm); Bill Kelly (8pm), Achora (11:30pm), O'Reilly's Irish Pub D'arcy Broderick & Ron Kelly (5pm); Barry Kenny & Glen Harvey (8pm); Hagdown (11pm), Shamrock City Pub Damian Follett, Justin Fancy & Chad Murphy, Green Sleeves

George Street Festival: Masterless Men (5:30pm); Damian Follett & the Jersey Brotherhood (8pm); April Wine (9:30pm), $20,George St Karaoke, Karaoke Kops Party Bar

Ron Hynes, 9:30pm, Myx Meetings Centre-2393 Topsail Rd, CBS 834-6370

VJ Eric, DJ Fabian, 11pm, $5/$7 after 1:30pm, Zone 216

Filthy Fridays: DJ JayCee, Turkey Joe's

Ultimate Summer Bash: DJ NuRock, DJ Sina, no cover, Rock House

Wreckhouse Jazz & Blues Festival: Darrell Cooper Acoustic Trio (9pm); Morgan Davis (10:30pm), Fat Cat Blues Bar

Sexual Saturdays: DJ JayCee, Turkey Joe's

The Chasers (10pm); DJ Nu Rock, Martini Bar The Crooks (alt), AE Bridger (rock), The Bonavista Chain Locker (ugly folk), Pre-Raphaelites (pop), 10:30pm, $5, CBTGs

Miss Conduct, 10pm, $7, Tol's Timeout Lounge Overlay (rock), Wizard (hard rock), The Living Daylights (acoustic rock), Dave Walsh & The Worst Kind (alternative), 9pm, Fat Cat Blues Bar Tom Petty Tribute, Rock House

Saturday JULY 31 Bump (11pm); DJ Nu Rock, Martini Bar DJ Big Frank, Konfusion George Street Festival: Rex Goudie (8pm); Buddy Wasisname & The Other Fellers (9:30pm), $20,George St Hugh Scott (5pm); Bob Taylor, Carl Peters & Pat Moran (8pm); Kilkenny Krew (11pm), Shamrock City Pub Jetset Motel (CD release) The Ship Karaoke, Hosted by Murf, Darnell's Pub Karaoke, Karaoke Kops Party Bar Musique Non-Stop: Indie Dance Night with DJ Benjy, no cover, Distortion Overlay (rock) Fat Cat Blues Bar

Ultimate Summer Bash: DJ NuRock, DJ Sina, no cover, Rock House

Rob Cook (4:30pm);Fergus O'Byrne (8pm), O'Reilly's Irish Pub

VJ Eric, DJ Fabian, 11pm, $5/$7 after 1:30pm, Zone 216

Sexual Saturdays: DJ JayCee, Turkey Joe's VJ Eric, DJ Fabian, 11pm, $5/$7 after 1:30pm, Zone 216

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Kujo (rock) The Ship

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Friday JULY 30

D'arcy Broderick & Ron Kelly (5pm); Barry Kenny & Glen Harvey (8pm); Kilkenny Krew (11pm), Shamrock City Pub

Wreckhouse Jazz & Blues Festival: Kelly-Ann Evans Band (4pm/$5); Sandro Dominelli (8pm); Rich Brown's Rinsethealgorithm (10pm), Martini Bar

Missconduct (11:30pm); DJ Mark Power, Martini Bar

Best Kind, Green Sleeves

Filthy Fridays: DJ JayCee, Turkey Joe's

Wreckhouse Jazz & Blues Festival: Morgan Davis, pay-what-you can,Bowring Park Amphitheatre (Sat Jul 17 at 1pm)

Idlers (reggae / ska) Rock House

Saturday JULY 17

Jerry Stamp, Chris Kirby, The Jon Hines Show, $6, The Ship

Substance (Ottawa hardcore) Nightmen, Clocked In, Distortion

First Choice, 10pm, $7, Tol's Timeout Lounge

Wreckhouse Jazz & Blues Festival: Idlers, 11pm, Rock House

Feile Seamus Creagh: Accordion Concert,Jackie Daly, Graham Wells, Aaron Collis, 8pm, $20/$25, The Elks Club

Signal Hill, Club One

Filthy Fridays: DJ JayCee, Turkey Joe's

Wreckhouse Jazz & Blues Festival: Dominic Mancuso, 9:30pm, Dusk Ultralounge

Hugh Scott (5pm); Bob Taylor, Carl Peters & Pat Moran (8pm); Kilkenny Krew (11pm), Shamrock City Pub

Sexual Saturdays: DJ JayCee, Turkey Joe's

DJ Sina, Konfusion

Wreckhouse Jazz & Blues Festival: Lori Cooper Band (9pm); Keith Hallett (10:30pm), Fat Cat Blues Bar

DJ Sina, Konfusion

Missconduct (11:30pm); DJ Nu Rock, Martini Bar

Damian Follett, Best Kind, Green Sleeves

Wreckhouse Jazz & Blues Festival: Rowdy Blues (8:30pm); Matt Anderson (10pm), Majestic Theatre

Zone 216

DJ Big Frank, Konfusion

Karaoke, Hosted by Murf, Darnell's Pub

Cold River Choir, Quiet Elephant, Jeff Pittman, 11pm, $5, The Ship

Wreckhouse Jazz & Blues Festival: Patrick Boyle Trio (8pm); Grifith Hiltz Trio (9:30pm), Yellowbelly Brewery

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Portugal Cove, 895-1251

5 bates hill – 738 0008

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My evening dinner at Atlantica was superb.

The service was very friendly, professional and prompt, the atmosphere was relaxing yet sophisticated and of course, the food was exquisite. It is definitely worth your while going, even if it’s your one big splurge. I cannot wait to go back to Atlantica again.

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Epicurean Kitchen 27 Cookstown Road, 726-3000

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India Gate Fine Indian Cuisine

Gateway to superb

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We are known for our quality and consistency.

ALL YOU CAN EAT LUNCHEON BUFFET Monday - Friday 11:30 - 2pm

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Monday - Sunday 5pm - 10:30pm

TAKE OUT AVAILABLE Telephone: 753.6006 286 Duckworth Street www.indiagate.250x.com

Epicurean Kitchen is a foodie’s dream!

If you are a St. John’s foodie, you likely already know about it. Owner and chef Caroline offers ‘theme nights’ at the end of each month, with a five-course meal of beautiful, fresh and unique flavours the likes of which you simply can’t find anywhere in St. John’s. Don’t be put off by the less-than-fancy exterior—it’s really quite lovely inside and well worth a visit. I almost hate to share the secret! I think you have to ask to be added to the email list to get notices about each theme night.

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Avalon Mall Food Court, 579-5485

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I’m a real Thai food lover and I have to say I was pretty impressed with this place for a food-court spot. I tried the red curry dish and found it to be really flavourful and rich... It seemed like they were still getting up and running at the time, and several items on their menu were still not available. Is it as good as Thai food I’ve eaten in Thailand? Ha, of course not. But again, for a fast-food style place I have high hopes and will be back for sure once they have a few weeks under their belts to try some other dishes!

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Blackened salmon was awesome. Grilled veggies were okay. Service couldn’t have been better. Desert was great too! Will be back.

FOOD NERD

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10:01:03 PM: All right! I wish you could have heard that cork pop! I think I dislocated my shoulder too!

10:04:34 PM: Hmm.. strong berry aroma, but vaguely red wine-like.

Smells vaguely of old juice. #bouquet

How the war against child obesity is going to backfire.

few weeks back, author Harriet Brown wrote a fantastic piece for The Huffington Post1 on the unintended negative effects of the US’s enthusiastic “war” on childhood obesity. In case you, like myself, live in a cave and don’t already know these things, this battle has as its general the charming and rather fit first lady Michelle Obama. The goal is simple: to make the US a healthier, happier country by encouraging children to eat well and get plenty of exercise.

And who could argue with that? We all want our kids to be healthy, right? And who could do anything but swoon at the words of Ms Obama, she of buff upper arm and organic kitchen garden? A nation of healthy, active children is surely a good thing.

Andreae

The plague of Callanan childhood obesity is, dreae@thescope.ca apparently, an insidious enemy sweeping the land, worse than smoking and fossil fuels and Styrofoam and the Taliban combined. It’s enough to make you hover over your child, measuring her or his serving sizes and having her of his BMI charted fortnightly, clutching your carrot peeler in white-knuckled terror that your progeny might, despite your best efforts, end up being The Fat Kid. Well, you know what? She or he might.

And you know what else? Big friggin’ deal.

There are a whole lot of flaws in the discourse around childhood obesity. First of all, it’s not a plague. Are there more overweight children now than there have been in the past? Depends on which study you read. At my child’s school, which is an urban K-to-6 representing a fairly broad socioeconomic and cultural sample, there are a handful of larger kids, a handful of rather slight kids, and the rest are in the middle.

The larger of the kids climb endlessly up and down the playground equipment and tear around the soccer field along with their classmates, which leads me to believe that they’re just as fit as anyone else. They seem to have plenty of energy, which suggests that they probably eat as balanced a diet as their peers. So what’s the problem?

If they’re just as healthy as the other kids, why hassle them about the size of their jeans?

Because our culture seems to swallow, without question, the notion that heavier people are, each and every one, miserably unhealthy. And that they are unhealthy because they are heavy. And that they are heavy because they spend all day on the couch, living off of high fructose corn syrup and take-out hamburgers.

Well, dear reader, it’s horsecrap.

First of all, how much weight a body wants to carry depends on that body.

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Someone of my height but with a more delicate frame might be at her healthiest at 120 pounds. I’d probably perish if I got that thin. And I know plenty of women who outweigh me by half and who could still kick my ass in a dance-a-thon, and look gorgeous all the while. I say that if you can do that, you’ve got an ideal body.

I know plenty of people who might look like they’re at a “perfect” weight, but who would get winded doing the same uphill walk that I do every day. Size is a crappy indicator of overall health. It’s crappy to assume that if a larger-than-average person happens to be ill, that the illness is caused (or even exacerbated) by size. Your heart or knees might have to work harder to lug extra pounds around, while mine might be of tougher mettle.

It’s also crappy to assume that people who are of larger-than-average size eat crappy food all day. They probably don’t, and even if they did, it’s none of your business.

Now, take all this and apply it to children. Sweet, innocent, vulnerable schoolaged children. Of course, as parents we all want our kids to eat well. But we seem much less concerned about whether they eat happily. The very idea that children my daughter’s age are being taught that their health goal should be to avoid getting fat by avoiding any food with fat in it is just appalling. Anyone who knows kids (dare I add, especially girls), knows that the result of this message is not going to be a future of glowing health, but a constant judgment of friends’ lunches and the incessant comparison of one growing body to another.

Kids already spend their time comparing themselves to everyone around them (“Allison has lost more teeth than I have!” “Jessica’s hair is curlier than mine!” “You gave James more juice than you gave me!”). Do we really need to emphasize the differences in weight, too?

I do believe that certain foods are better for you than others. Garlic is good for your blood. Whole grains keep your digestive system happy. Yogurt and olive oil cure most ills. I also believe that chocolate cheesecake can help bandage, if not heal, a broken heart, and that salt meat and potatoes can bring together the generations in a harmonious state of mutual respect. Organic foods are generally better than non-organic foods, but there’s nothing wrong with a Super Mae West, either. Some of the foods I love are full of “bad” things, but dammit, they are oh, so very good.

Despite our culture’s insistence that everyone is a complete idiot, most people,

even children, know how to eat well. If children gravitate toward high-fat, caloriedense foods, it’s probably because they need them. They’re growing, after all, and that takes far more energy than does the commute from one’s office to one’s house.

Their brains are growing, too, and brains need things like fat and cholesterol to work properly. A person with a healthy relationship with her or his body will know when to eat more green vegetables or more protein or more fat just by listening to her or his body’s cues. But it’s practically impossible to have a healthy relationship with your body when you’ve grown up counting grams of fat and watching your every calorie and measuring yourself against an impossible goal.

We need to teach children that they need to eat good meals to make their bodies strong, so they can play soccer, or to do yoga, or to dance, or to dig up rocks, or to run up the stairs in order to slide down the banister fifteen times in a row, or whatever it is that makes them feel most alive.

And that they need to eat well in order to keep their brains growing, so that they can read, and write songs, and ask questions, and come up with answers, and make up stories. They should never have to hear the word “fat.” Or “overweight” Or “obese.”

They should hear “feel good,” and “have lots of energy,” and “sleep well at night.”

They should hear, “so you can have lots of fun.”

One more thing: the big kids know they’re big. Because kids notice everything. What they need to know is not that they’re bigger than the other kids, but that they’re wonderful, and that they’re as valued and as beautiful and as loved as any other kid.

None of us might ever say out loud that larger people are of lesser value than their more slender friends, but that’s what comes across every time we say, “I couldn’t possibly eat that; I’d be huge!” or “Too many burgers will make you fat, and you wouldn’t want that, would you?” Every time we mutter something under our breath when a larger-than-average person is seen in public eating anything other than carrot sticks. Every time we claim to feel guilty about something we’ve eaten. Our kids hear it, and they remember it, and they internalize it, and they repeat it. The effects of this are far worse than the effects of all the high fructose corn syrup and fast-food burgers in the world.

Auk Island Winery Black Crowberry Wine Twitter Review @thescopeNL

10:07:42 PM: I’m not drinking alone! I’m Tweeting a wine review. This is for public good. #lies 10:10:20 PM: First sip makes me want to kick my leg out straight… Second sip tastes like watered down cranberry juice… Not bad, but not red wine.

10:16:11 PM: Transparent!

And kind of pink:

By Elling Lien on The Scope's Twitter account on June 10, 2010 9:36:06 PM: I saw in the liquor store for the first time tonight. To be honest, usually I can’t stand local berry ‘wines’, but this one looked different.

9:37:06 PM: I try to think of my stupid old carbon footprint when I’m drinking and eating, so this bottle presented a great opportunity.

9:38:06 PM: Black crowberry, sez the back of the bottle, “is considered to be similar in taste to a red grape wine.” Not reassuring, but worth a shot...?

9:41:11 PM: Black crowberries grow wild in Newfoundland. It’s local, so it can’t be THAT bad. #famouslastwords

9:45:22 PM: They look like juniper berries. The needles are slightly different I think.

9:50:37 PM: Just so you know I’m totally serious about this review:

10:21:05 PM: I’m realizing I have no idea how to describe wine. Off to the Sensory User’s Manual!: www.bit.ly/aPJOxj 10:22:35 PM: Okay… Taste: Sweet. But perhaps I am “taste blind” says the Sensory User’s Manual.

10:25:22 PM: The feeling in the mouth (Following the SUM) is full. Not many tannins, I don’t think. There’s some acids goin’ on.

10:26:15 PM: It’s pretty awesome, for a wine that isn’t a wine at all.

9:44:58 PM: BTW: Black crowberries are the ones that grow close to blueberries that look like this:

9:46:34 PM: The .1 in the 12.1% is a little weird.

10:19:48 PM: The aftertaste is a bit rhubarby.

10:28:29 PM: Okay, so…

Aroma: Not so hot. Smells pretty strongly of fermented berries and only vaguely of a red wine-like thing.

10:31:31 PM: Taste: Good.

I’m no Pierre Brejoux (honhon-hon), but this wine and my tongue got along. It was acidic, but quite wine-like.

10:32:56 PM: Feeling: Full.

Ooo.. it’s getting easier to drink now.

10:35:17 PM: So! Auk Island Winery’s “Black Crow,” made from 100% local, wild black crowberries, is actually pretty good, and I’d recommend it. 13 bux++ 10:39:22 PM: A good alt to red wine, with a small carbon footprint, & made of wild berries (< pesticides). I give it an E for effort and an A- overall.

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Call in the reinforcements The people of the Battery are coming together to fix their neighbourhood, and have formed a new neighbourhood association to get it done.

By Martin Connelly.

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ast winter the storm surge came in hard and fast, like a one-two punch. First in January, and then again on February 5th storms pushing waves up to eight meters high ravaged The Battery and Quidi Vidi Village. On the morning of the 6th, while the rest of St. John's woke up to shovel out their cars, residents of Quidi Vidi and Outer Battery Road were already up, hoping desperately that their property wouldn't wash out into the harbour.

In the wake of the storms, deputy mayor Shannie Duff went on the record saying the city needed to help protect the areas, while Mayor O'Keefe told the CBC that "if you're talking about private property, then the private property becomes the responsibility of the private owner anywhere in the city."

Rebuilding the Battery became a matter of public debate. On the one hand, it was private property, and why should public money go into fixing up someone's shed?

On the other, the Battery is a crucial piece of St. John's heritage—its image is instantly recognizable, and is used widely by Tourism Newfoundland.

Walter Burry, an Outer Battery resident, put it this way: "It's the same story all over town. Council wants the place for a tourist attraction, but they won't put no money in it."

Beyond the fact that the city couldn't help with personal property, the big problem in all of this is that once you start doing repairs, the whole building needs to be brought up to code—and because the damages were done to harbour-side structures, it has to be an engineered design, which costs money.

Outer Battery residents and property owners held a series of emergency meetings, which eventually lead to the birth of the Outer Battery Neighbourhood Association (OBNA). “They were really in crisis,” said Elizabeth-Anne Malischewski, secretary of the Georgestown Neighbourhood Association. “Their place was falling into the ocean.” Malischewski offered practical advice about bank accounts, incorporation, and association constitutions, all of which needed to be settled before the association could gain official status, which it did on April 6th.

"We decided to come together to help people with repairs, to try, as much as possible, to keep things they way they are," said Joanne Butler, OBNA Secretary. "When the fishery ended, people kind of forgot about the Battery, and I think we kind of forgot about ourselves, too. The storm brought some immediacy to it.”

One of the buildings almost swept out

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it hasn't been wholly unhelpful. "What the city has agreed to do is act as a point of contact," said Duff. "Residents have to come in with a proper plan of what they intend to do stamped by an engineer, but once they have that plan the city will do it's best to facilitate the other required permits besides the city permits."

On the other side, the Outer Battery Neighbourhood Association is officially ratified, and moving forward with systematic deliberation. "The association's role is to facilitate for and help individuals," said Butler. "We have to be in compliance with code which is expensive and difficult. We want to do things right, and carefully."

For the time being, the OBNA is focusing on fundraising and organizing. Birds have come back to nest on the Battery, and it's illegal to disturb a nesting sea bird. “We never used to get the gulls in here,” said long time resident Ches Sweetapple, “they used to stay way out.” With the fishery gone, the seabirds have come inshore, and for now at least, they're doing their part to protect the structures that remain.

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Starting a Neighbourhood Association

Photo by Martin Connelly

to sea in February was Jack's Twine Store, which Loraine Michael, MHA for Signal Hill-Quidi Vidi, described as “the heart and soul of that community for over sixty years, as well as a popular St. John’s tourist attraction." Jack's Store straddles the line between public and private. Mr. Wells owns the property, but it serves as a community space, somewhere for weddings, parties, and naturally a scatter drop or two. Mr. Wells and his store also featured prominently in a Rooms exhibit, lending some credence to the claim of heritage value.

Starting in March, even before the OBNA was officially formed, residents started a grassroots fundraising effort to save the store, which was hanging precariously out into the harbour. The call went out on Facebook and Twitter, and the CBC aired a three part documentary about Jack by Chris Brookes, a fellow Battery resident (and OBNA chair). That fundraising campaign officially ended on June 19th, having brought in $6176. Future funds will go into the OBNA account, and will be available to the whole neighbourhood.

The same day, the OBNA held it's first public event, a public barbeque and sign unveiling. The sun was bright, the wind was blowing, and there were burgers and dogs on the grill. It was open to all, but mostly it was for the neighbourhood.

People talked politics, history, and they also talked about their children and grand

children. It was a community gathering.

Twine Shop owner Wells was on hand chatting in the parking lot. He didn't really want to talk about the store, but was positive on the subject of the new association.

"I've lived here 77 years," he said. "And it's bringing people together, people who never met one another met this year."

Halfway through the afternoon, the music stopped and people gathered in a loose semi-circle to watch Michael and Brookes unveil the new Outer Battery sign and collection box.

“The main purpose of this event is that we all get together,” said Brookes. “But we also have a new sign and a donation box.”

"Tourists who come to St. John's aren't coming to walk on Elizabeth Ave, " said Michael. "They're coming to walk through the Battery."

The sign relates the history of the neighbourhood and the inshore fishery, and it shows before and after photos of the damage. The hope is that some of the walkers (Parks Canada counted 84,000 on the North Head Trail between May 15th and December 15th, 2008) who pass by every summer will put a loonie or a toonie in the box. Without government support, this is how the OBNA hopes to raise the funds it needs.

Five months after the storm, a lot of the early questions have been answered. The city won't help the Battery financially, but

Think you might want to start your own neighbourhood association? You should. It's not that hard, and it's a great way to bring a community together, to rebuild, protest new condominiums, or even just organize a barbeque. The city doesn't have any guidelines for official recognition, but that actually makes it easier.

1) Talk to people. Decide why you want an association, and what you want to achieve.

2) Meet! Have a big meeting, let everyone weigh in. Then plan some more meetings, and find a space to have them .

3) Advertise the next meeting so more people come.

4) Define your neighbourhood. Neighbourhood boundaries are pretty vague a lot of times, to it's useful to have a map and some markers.

5) Adopt a constitution. In addition to Purpose and Boundaries, some things you need to decide are how the following will work: Membership, Voting Rights, Meetings, Officers, Finances, Committees, Amendments, and Termination. It's generally handy to use another association's constitution as a guide.

6) Once you've got a constitution, you need to elect a board (as defined by the above document). You can also establish committees at this point – fundraising and party planning are key.

7) Incorporate. This is actually really easy. Just go to bit. ly/bU6fsa, print out the form, fill it out, and submit it to the province with $70. Incorporating is a good idea because it means individuals can't be held personally responsible for anything the association ends up doing.

8) Get a corporate bank account (you're a corporation now, remember?). TD has Comunity/Not-For-Profit Plans. So does RBC 9) Start a website—if nothing else as a way to make the meeting minutes available. Also, I mean, it's 2010. Get with the program.

10) That's it, you're done. Onward to social action, be it justice or drinks!

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Theatre Classics by Candlelight: Tales to thrill and chill you include The Signal Man by Charles Dickens, The Rats in the Walls by HP Lovecraft &. The Cask of the Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe. Directed by Dave Walsh, Newman Wine Vaults-436 Water St 722-7287 (Tue Jul 6, 13, 20 & 27 / Wed Jul 7, 14, 21 & 28 at 8pm) Fairy Tale Mix Up: A high-spirited show for kids under 12. Written by Krista Hann and directed by Philip Goodridge, Cabot 500 Theatre-Bowring Park ( Sat Jul 3, 10 & 31 / Sun Jul 4, 11 & 24 at 2pm) Love's Labour's Lost (Shakespear by the Sea) Think ‘Sex and the City’, Elizabethan style. Directed

by Jennifer Deon, Harbourside Park 722-7287 (Sundays & Mondays at 6pm) Never Swim Alone (NL Box Office) Daniel MacIvor script. Starring Andy Cahill, Adam Clarke, Laura-Marie Smith. Directed by Christy Ring, $15/$20, Basement

Theatre-Arts & Culture Centre 729-3900 (Thu Jul 15 Sun Jul 18 at 8pm / Matinee Sun Jul 18 at 2pm) Oh Canada.... More Than Just Beavers (Spirit of Newfoundland) A musical tribute that explores the music and culture of this great land of ours. This two-act show includes a live band which captures the music of our country through comedy, character impersonations and audience participation, complete with a threecourse all-Canadian meal, $59.50+, Masonic Temple-6 Cathedral St 579-3023 (Fri Jul 2, Sat Jul 3, Tue Jul 6 Sat Jul 10, Tu Jul 13, Wed Jul 28 & Thu Jul 29 at 7pm) Our Celtic Spirit…Written in Crayon (Spirit of Newfoundland) A frazzled teacher and a less than ideal group of students discover what it means to be a Newfoundlander when they compete in a provincial cultural heritage fair competition in this musical comedy, $57.50+ (meal & show), Masonic Temple-6 Cathedral St 579-3023 (Fri Jul 16 & Sat Jul 17) The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged) (Shakespeare by the Sea) Three actors, 37 plays, 90 minutes, 153 laughs (ap-

proximately). Directed by Krista Hann and featuring Adam Long, Daniel Singer, Jess Winfield, and Jess Borgeson, Topsail Beach Amphitheatre-CBS (Sun Jul 11, 18 & 25 / Mon Jul 12, 19 & 26 at 6pm) Torbay Theatre: Inspired by the last battle of the Seven Years War, this outdoor play begins with 18th century soldiers guiding you to the play location.

Upon cresting the hill, you will arrive at the grand panoramic view of beautiful Torbay. Bring a chair or blanket and follow the adventure and take part in the liberation of Newfoundland, $5/$10/$15, Torbay Town Hall-1288 Torbay Rd (Sat Jul 24 & 31/ Sun Jul 25 at 1:30pm) Troilus & Cressida (Shakespeare by the Sea) Tragedy set during the Trojan War. Directed by Nicole Rousseau, Signal Hill National Historic Site-Field next to Visitor Centre (Fri Jul 16, 23 & 30 / Sat Jul 17, 24 & 31 at 6pm)

Dance & Performance Dzolali Drum & Dance Ensemble: With special guest Kurai Mubaiwa. Traditional music from Ghana

as well some music from Zimbabwe on mbira and marimba, Petro-Canada Hall (Tue Jul 20 at 7:30pm) Dzolali Drum & Dance Ensemble, Harbourside Park (Fri Jul 30 at 12:30pm) Latin Tuesdays, 8pm, $5, The Bella Vista Tango On The Edge: A social gathering to dance Argentine Tango, $5, RCA Club-10 Bennett Ave (Thursdays at 8:30pm)

Spoken & Written 5-Minute Story Slam (Storytelling Conference) We welcome stories related in any way to fog: foggy days, the mists of time, fog horns, fog banks, lost in the fog, living in a fog, condensation nuclei, various visibility hazards or drizzle, fo' shizzle! Have your foggy tale ready, Bitters Pub (Wed Jul 28 at 7:30pm) Book Launch: A Poem in my Soup: A Newfoundland Sampler with Select Poetry

by Geraldine Chafe Rubia, Chapters (Wed Jul 7 from 7pm-9pm) Book Launch: Haunted Waters: More True Ghost Stories of Newfoundland and Labrador by Dale Jarvis,

Martini Bar-upper level (Mon Jul 26 at 8pm) Book Launch: Star's Island

by Maggie O"Brien & Veselina Tomova, Johnson Geo Centre-175 Signal Hill Rd 737-7880 (Sun Jul 4 from 12pm-3pm) Rick Mercer's Adventures in Canadian Television: With Seamus O'Reagan & 8 Track Favourites, $45+, Arts & Culture Centre 729-3900 (Wed Jul 14 at 8pm) St John's Storytelling Circle: An open mic of local tales by local tellers w/ resident fabulist Dale Jarvis, $3, Crow's Nest Officer's Club (Thu Jul 8 at 7:30pm) The Boreal Poetry Garden (WANL) Join environmental artist and poet Marlene Creates as she leads a walking reading through the six acres of boreal forest where she lives in Portugal Cove, pausing at certain spots to read out site-specific poems. A small bonfire and refreshments will follow the walk, $10/$15, must register at 739-5215 (Wed Jul 21 at 7:45pm) Tunes & Tales of Newfoundland: Music and stories of legendary fiddlers Rufus Guinchard &

Emile Benoit plus the classic Tales from Pigeon Inlet with host Kelly Russell, $12, Crow's Nest-War Memorial, Duckworth St 488-3821 (Sundays at 8pm)

Comedy Laugh Hard: Stand up comedy, $2, The LeveeHoldsworth Crt (Sundays 8pm-11pm) Rob Pue: Stand up comedy, $20+, Yuk Yuk's-193 Kenmount Rd 726-9857 (Fri Jul 2 & Sat Jul 3 at 9:30pm) Bryan Hatt: Stand up comedy, $20+, Yuk Yuk's-193 Kenmount Rd 726-9857 (Fri Jul 9 & Sat Jul 10 at 9:30pm)

at 9:30pm, two show $20, Yuk Yuk's-193 Kenmount Rd 726-9857 (Thu Jul 1) Pro/Am Comedy Slam: Amateurs at 8pm & Bryan Hatt at 9:30pm, two show $20, Yuk Yuk's-193 Kenmount Rd 726-9857 (Thu Jul 8) Pro/Am Comedy Slam: Amateurs at 8pm then Darrin Rose & Eddie Della Siepe at 9:30pm, two show $20, Yuk Yuk's-193 Kenmount Rd 726-9857 (Thu Jul 15)

Pro/Am Comedy Slam: Amateurs at 8pm & Lisa Gay Tremblay at 9:30pm, two show $20, Yuk Yuk's-193 Kenmount Rd 726-9857 (Thu Jul 22) Pro/Am Comedy Slam: Amateurs at 8pm & Tony Krolo at 9:30pm, two show $20, Yuk Yuk's-193 Kenmount Rd 726-9857 (Thu Jul 22)

Never Swim Alone!

Darrin Rose & Eddie Della Siepe: Stand up comedy, $20+, Yuk Yuk's-193 Kenmount Rd 726-9857 (Fri Jul 16 & Sat Jul 17 at 9:30pm) Lisa Gay Tremblay: Stand up comedy, $20+, Yuk Yuk's-193 Kenmount Rd 726-9857 (Fri Jul 23 & Sat Jul 24 at 9:30pm) Tony Krolo: Stand up comedy, $20+, Yuk Yuk's-193 Kenmount Rd 726-9857 (Fri Jul 30 & Sat Jul 31 at 9:30pm) Pro/Am Comedy Slam: Amateurs at 8pm & Rob Pue

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music

The Fred Gamberg mural on the corner of Duckworth and Prescott Street has fallen into disrepair.

The elements have chipped away at the paint; graffiti has blacked out his face. The City of St. John’s is now undertaking a full

Who was

restoration.

Photo by Mark Bennett

fred Gamberg?

Words by Paul Ryan.

Interview by Mike Heffernan.

Fifteen years ago this year, on July

not have had otherwise. Danger: Falling

meant a lot of things to a lot of people:

10, 1995, Fred Gamberg died tragically

Rock, a compilation album he produced

punk rock, friendship, and the enthusi-

there are still plenty of thoughts of what

while swimming in Flatrock. He was

with Geoff Younghusband and Jonathon

asm of the early-90s in St. John's. It was

could have been, and for many of them it

twenty-three. A fixture of the local

Swyers, was, for many bands, their first

at the LSPU Hall where Fred organized

was still too difficult to be interviewed.

underground music scene, he was an

experience recording original music.

and promoted many shows, and for over

For Paul Ryan, admittedly shy and re-

aspiring musician (Noon Day Gun, Giver)

a decade, his wry smile reminded us that

served, talking about Fred Gamberg, who

and a tireless show promoter, offering

Peter Evans’ mural of Fred on the corner

music is transcendent, and for many it

he had met in high school, was a painful

young people opportunities they may

of Duckworth and Prescott Street has

represented hope and community.

process...

remember dreaming of Fred. I don’t remember the details, but I remember dreaming of him. It was kind of nice because it was almost like he was still around, but then I would wake up.

I don’t dream of him anymore, but I remember thinking, only a few years ago, that I’ll never speak to him again—he’s gone. Anything good that happens in my life I can’t tell him. I can’t go to him when I’m feeling down. If I broke up with a girlfriend, I used to call him and we’d just talk, and he would listen for hours. I guess when you’re younger those things can affect you more. Everyone will tell you, Fred was a talker. But he was also a listener. I remember him at a party standing up with a beer and just listening, enjoying the conversation. I don’t know if many people know that.

That’s probably what I miss most, that I don’t have his ear.

The first time I spoke to Fred was at a Halloween show in 1986. It was at the 301 Club at the top of Hamilton Avenue. They used to have shows down in the basement for all the punk rock kids, and upstairs was where the hard cases hung out. Dog Meat BBQ played. Tough Justice and Schizoid played. Fred was being Fred. He had on a trench coat and his hair was all messy. He wore the same Sid Vicious t-shirt as me. We started talking because we recognized one another from school, and we were there, at that show.

We clicked pretty quickly. We were fifteen and in a school with a bunch of jocks.

We kind of banded together.

Music was his thing. Music, music, music. That’s why we were drawn to him.

We were listening to whatever was on the radio and trying to figure this stuff out and Fred already had records and was listening to Brave New Waves, a late-night CBC Radio show. Have you ever heard of Touch and Go Records? Fred sent them an order for a Butthole Surfers’ tape, Rembrandt ­Pussyhorse. For them to figure out what it was he wanted, they had to read this long letter he had written them, a full page letter. He showed it to me. He talked about how he loved this band and that band, and he put in his two cents worth on where they took the wrong direction. That’s classic Fred Gamberg for you.

He always wanted to play music and be in a band. He loved music so much that he wanted to make it...

Fred was in the background of the local punk rock scene all the time, even when he was a teenager. There used to be Ploughshares of Youth, a downtown social action group, where young people got together and put off benefits for OXFAM. But it wasn’t until he was twenty that he started to get more involved.

Noon Day Gun was Fred’s first real band.

When they broke up he formed Giver with Renee Ruba and Frank Paul Nolan. Fred played drums. I think he started playing drums by just having a snare at home and practicing on that. I don’t know how good he was, but he wholeheartedly adopted a philosophy of do-it-yourself punk rock. He didn’t care if he couldn’t sing—he got up and sang. He didn’t care if he wasn’t the best drummer—he got up and played.

That’s how a lot of local bands got started, kids who couldn’t play a note but didn’t care either way.

There was a benefit concert, and Fred was one of the organizers. They needed an extra band to fill a time slot, and he called me up and said, “Paul, do you want to play at this show?”

I had my cousin’s guitar; I never had an amp. I said, “Sure.”

We called ourselves The Shitz. There was Richie Perez, Darryl Grace, Matt Clark, Dave Andrews, me and Fred. We never rehearsed. We got together twenty minutes before we went on. “We kind of know some Ramones. We might be able to play some Dead Kennedys.” I came up with a riff, and Fred wrote some lyrics.

People loved it. They were like, “when are you playing again?”

I think Liz Pickard liked it, too. [laugh] But I don’t think she thought it was good music, just the feeling it gave her.

Fred never thought he was some visionary who was going to change the world.

It was nothing like that. He did it for pure enjoyment. Let’s get up on stage and play a few songs. Let’s have a laugh, man—lets jam! Let’s go for it! F**k it!

We started to drift apart when we were in our early-twenties. He was involved in what he was doing, playing music and organizing shows, and I wasn’t. I was going to college and hanging out with a completely different crowd. Fred would meet kids who were in bands, put off a show and make sure they played.

You can ask anyone who was around then, when Fred passed away there was a

huge void left downtown. Nobody had the same kind of energy as he did. He wanted to go a step further and get some money together and bring bands here. It would’ve been only indie stuff. Maybe he would have, at some point. Who knows?

A lot of people who were in bands, people who are still playing in bands, respected Fred, and I could see that in the way they spoke to him. I remember going to this restaurant on Duckworth Street, Duckworth Lunch, and Fred sat down with Liz Pickard and Barry Newhook. It was just the way they spoke to him that I could tell they didn’t think of him as some little jackass. I used to judge people by how they treated him.

No one really mentions this anymore, but there used to be people downtown who were snotty and snarky to Fred. Some of them were part of the scene, but they’re not worth mentioning. They’re not around anymore. They didn’t make the scene. They were trying to be cool and punk and, I guess, for them, Fred didn’t suit the image.

But he did, very much.

Back in the early 90s, a lot more bands were playing, more than ever before.

Fred, Geoff Younghusband and Jonathon Swyers wanted to document that. That’s when the Danger: Falling Rock compilation was released by Best Dressed Records. The Grunge thing was going on and a lot of people figured that if a little band on an indie label could take off, then so could ours.

Fred was the production manager, I think.

I went down and he was there making sure the equipment was ready and people were showing up when they were supposed to.

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Among Fred’s closest friends,

They recorded at 333 Duckworth Street, a little place they used to call “Halfway to Hell.” It’s probably a law office now, but back then, it was just a jam space. For a lot of those bands, that was their first experiences recording. It was Fred who encouraged them and got them to get the $100 together to help pay for the whole thing.

That was the only thing they ever released. They printed some shirts with Fred’s face on them, which people now hold onto dearly. Those guys maybe had hopes of putting out more things, but it didn’t work out because Fred passed away.

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e were sat at the War Memorial talking and Fred came by. I asked him what he was doing.

He said, “I’m going swimming with a few friends.”

Later that evening, his cousin, Dave, called. “Were you talking to Fred today?”

His friends were looking for him. His clothes were found by the edge of the swimming hole, but they couldn’t find him.

I gave him some names, people I knew Fred was with.

It was a rainy kind of night—misty. I remember looking out my bedroom window and thinking, Jesus, Fred, what are you

after doing? Where are you after going?

Seven o’clock the next morning, I got the phone call. Fred had drowned.

I don’t think his parents truly knew what he was doing downtown. I don’t think they thought much of it. They had no idea so many people cared about their son. I mean, the church was full at the funeral. I went outside and people were gathered out there, too.

At the funeral, his father asked me, “Do you know what he was going to do with himself? Did he plan on leaving Newfoundland?”

As far as I knew, he was going to keep doing what he was doing. That’s what I told him.

A lot of bands got together and put off a show at The Loft trying to raise money for a headstone. They started by playing some of his tapes, a recording of his CHMR show, Over the Edge. Everyone just sat around, listening. People were crying, laughing.

Karmella Perez said to me, “You should say something.”

I really didn’t want to—I was just too shy. But I did.

“Everyone knows Fred liked to talk. In his kindergarten picture, he’s on the end, his head is turned and his hand is up covering his mouth, and he’s talking to the kid

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next to him.” By that time, all of our older friends had moved to the mainland. I was just about the only one left, and I wanted to say something about Fred from when he was younger, and that picture was him.

I think Fred’s parents would have liked to have seen me. They often asked my mother how I was doing. I regret not visiting them.

But it was just too difficult for me. I miss Fred very much. A lot of people miss him.

I think that’s what I would have said to them. Maybe someone else visited them. I don’t know.

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EVENTS 10th Annual Georgestown Flea Market: A neighbourhood-wide event, Hayward Ave & William St (Sat Jul 17 from 10am12pm) Canada Day Festival: David Langmead Trio, free, Pouch Cove (Thu Jul 1) Canada Day Scavenger Hunt : Visit the Vaults throughout the day to pick up your clues for a downtown St John's photo scavenger hunt. Digital camera required, free, Newman Wine Vaults-436 Water St 739-7870 (Thu Jul 1 from 10am-4pm) Colombian Dinner & Silent Auction (Refugee & Immigrant Advisory Council) Enjoy a Colombian meal, music with Salsa Roca, and dance from all over the world, $30, St Theresa's Parish Hall-120 Mundy Pond Rd 754-4122 (Thu Jul 29 at 7pm) Friends of Victoria Park Lantern Festival: Colourful lanterns made by community members light up Victoria Park accompanied by percussionists, musicians & fiery demonstrations. Last minute lantern building, food & live performances of many kinds, Victoria Park-Water St West (Sat Jul 24 from 2pm-11pm) Multi Family Yard Sale Fundraiser (NL Sexual Assault Crisis & Prevention Centre) 191 Brookfield Rd

(Sat Jul 17) Pippy Park SummerFest: An event for the whole family incorporating activities, music and dance by groups and independent dance artists. As well as the Family Stage near The Fluvarium, other locations include MUN Botanical Garden, Rainbow Riders, Admiral's Green Golf Course Clubhouse, and Mini Golf Course (Sat Jul 31 & Sun Aug 1 from 2pm-4pm) St John’s Pride: Flag raising at City Hall (Thu Jul 15 at 12pm); Opening reception at City Hall (Thu Jul 15 at 7pm); All ages masquerade ball, $8/$5 with mask at A1C Gallery (Fri Jul 16 at 9pm); Big gay boat tour – Details on Facebook Group tba (Sat Jul 17); Pride picnic at Bannerman Park (Sun Jul 18 from 12pm-5pm); Queertastic Spookfest – Details on Facebook Group tba (Mon Jul 19); Release of samesex sexual abuse pamphlet at Sexual Assault Crisis Prevention Centre (Thu Jul 20 at 12pm); Big gay bonfire at Middle Cove Beach (Thu Jul 20 from7:30pm-12:30am / Bus pick up 7pm from Bitters); Pride bowling, Plaza Bowl (Wed Jul 21 from 6:30-7:30pm); MSM blood drive at Canadian Blood Services-Wicklow St. Call ahead for an appointment 1-800-2-donate, (Thu Jul 22 from 12pm-4pm); Trivia/ Youtube karaoke at Bitters (Thu Jul 22 at 8pm); Guerrilla Queerfare– Details on Facebook Group tba (Fri Jul 23); Photo scavenger hunt –

Details on Facebook Group tba (Sat Jul 24); LGBT miniconference (Sat Jul 24 from 12pm-4pm); Pride dance, $10/$13, Star of the Sea (Sat Jul 24 at 9pm); Parade, Starts at Colonial Building (Sun Jul 25 at 1pm); Drag races, After parade at Scotia Centre then BBQueer at Eastern Edge Gallery to follow (Sun Jul 25)

LECTURES & FORUMS Sound Symposium: Lecture by Gayle Young, Charles Hutton Choral Rm (Wed Jul 7 at 10:30am) Symposium on Music, Dance & Place (MMAP) International and local music and dance scholars will present their research, followed by a musicians session at Bitters, free, Arts & Culture Centre 737-2058 (Jul 2 from 8:30am-4pm) Words in Edgewise: Bojan Furst presents "Street Photography in the Age of Paranoia." Rachel Landy will be doing something about dancing condoms, rap music and AIDS education in Africa, Eastern Edge Gallery-72 Harbour Dr 7391882 (Wed Jul 14 at 8pm)

DAYTIME MUSIC Auntie Crae’s Band, free-no purchase necessary,

Auntie Crae’s (Tuesdays at 12pm) Canada Day on George Street: Chelsea Parsons (1pm); The Crow's Nest Song Circle (1:30pm); Colleen Power (2:10pm); Newfoundland Set Dances (2:40pm); Blake Sisters (throat singing-3:10pm); Larry Foley & Pat Moran (3:25pm); Forgotten Bouzouki (3:55pm); Fergus Brown-O'Byrne, CharlotteAnne Malischewski, Danny Mills, Peter Mills (4:30pm); Denis Parker & John Clarke (5:05pm); The Dardanelles (5:35pm), George St (Thu Jul 1) Choral Evensong, free-will offering, Anglican Cathedral (Sundays at 6:30pm) Colleen Power, free, Newman Wine Vaults-436 Water St 739-7870 (Thu Jul 1 from 3pm -5pm) Dzolali Drum & Dance Ensemble, Harbourside Park (Fri Jul 30 at 12:30pm) Feile Seamus Creagh: Flute Concert: Conal O Grada, Gerry Strong, Danny Mills, $20/$25, The Elks Club (Sat Jul 24 at 2pm) Harbour Symphony (Sound Symposium) St John's waterfront (Fri Jul 2 Sat Jul 10 at 12:30pm) Noon Hour Concert (Sound Symposium) Maryem Tollar, Ernie Tollar, Deb Sinha & Ian de Souza (contemporary and traditional Egyptian and Arabic music) free, Harbourside Park (Fri Jul 2 at 12:35pm)

Sound Symposium: Umbrella Ensemble & Camille Renarhd: Reeds (New work

by Emily Doolittle for wind instruments & dancer), MUN Botanical Garden-306 Mt Scio Rd 753-4531 (Sat Jul 10 at 2pm) Sound Symposium: Workshop/ Performance featuring Tran Quang Hai (overtone singing), Charles Hutton Choral Rm (Thu Jul 8 at 1:30pm) The Great Casavant Organ: David Drinkell plays varied programs of sacred and secular works, free, Anglican Cathedral (Wednesdays at 1:15pm) Tuckamore Festival Prelude: Featuring Phil Roberts, free, St Andrew's Presbyterian Church (Thu Jul 29 at 12:30pm) Weaving the Wind: Celtic harp recital by Ed Kavanagh, $7, Basilica Museum-200 Military Rd (Thursdays from 1pm-2pm) Wreckhouse Jazz & Blues Festival: Parker Goudie Acoustic Duo, 12:30pm, pay-what-youcan, Murray Premises Courtyard

Blues Festival: The Instigators, pay-what-you can, Murray Premises Courtyard (Sat Jul 17 at 12:30pm) Wreckhouse Jazz & Blues Festival: Jeff Dyer Band, pay-what-you can, Murray Premises Courtyard (Sun Jul 18 at 12:30pm)

KIDS & TEENS Young Musicians, Open mic at Shamrock City Pub (Sundays at 2pm) Young Performers: Open mic with Denielle Hann, O'Reilly's Irish Pub (Sundays at 3pm)

MEETINGS & CLASSES

Clubs, Groups, Free Classes & Workshops

Wreckhouse Jazz & Blues Festival: The Skylarks, pay-what-you can, Murray Premises Courtyard (Fri Jul 16 at 12:30pm)

3rd Annual Scott Kelby Worldwide Photowalk: Join 50 other amateur photographers of all skill levels as we wander through historic downtown taking pictures as we go. At the end of the event we'll meet for a snack and share our adventure of the day. The top image of the day wins a prize, free but must register at www.worldwidephotowalk.com. (Sat Jul 24 from 1pm-4pm)

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Outs: Roller derby training and recruitment. Visit FB group for details, Virginia Park Elementary (Sat Jul 3 from 10am-6pm) Avalon Wesleyan Church: Weekly meet up in a casual atmosphere with coffee & contemporary music, free, Rabbittown Theatre-106 Freshwater Rd 576-6937 (Sundays at 10am)

Caregiver Conversations: A Support Group for Unpaid Caregivers, Seniors Resource Centre-Torbay Rd 726-2370 (Every third Monday) Channal: A peer support group for people with mental illness. We focus on recovery, 120 LeMarchant Rd 753-7710 (Tuesdays at 7pm & Wednesdays at 2pm)

Breastfeeding Support Group (La Leche League) The topic of discussion will be The Art of Breastfeeding and Avoiding Common Difficulties, babies welcome, free, Sobey's-Torbay Rd 437-5097 (Mon Jul 12 at 7pm)

Comic Artist Breakdown: Drop in comic-making welcoming individuals with all levels of cartooning experience, young and old, free, Anna Templeton Centre-278 Duckworth St 739-7623 (Fri Jul 2 from 7pm-9pm)

Business Info Sessions (NLOWE) This online seminar will teach you to identify potential markets, gather market intelligence and participate in trade missions. Free for women but must register 754-5555 (Wed Jul 14 at 9am)

For the Love of Learning: Free workshops in art, writing, theatre, journalism, yoga and Aikido for anyone aged 15-35, Gower St United Church-basement 722-8848 (Weekdays from 12pm-6pm)

Business Info Sessions (NLOWE) Start-up session looks at what there is to consider before starting a business. The growth session will help you set a vision for growth and examine logistical and financial steps. Free for women but must register 754-5555 (Wed Jul 28 at 9am & 9:30am) Capital Toastmasters: Improve self-confidence and overall leadership abilities for career and life, free, MUN Inco Centre-2014 687-1031

Free Hot Lunch: Mondays and Fridays feature a vegetarian meal. Tuesdays and Thursdays offer soup and fresh bread. Young adults aged 15-35 can come to Gower St United Church basement-99 Queen's Rd (2pm) French Friday: Welcome everyone, Franklin Hotel 726-4900 (Every Friday) Green Drinks: An informal get together for those who work, volunteer or have an interest in environment & conservation related issues, 7pm-9pm, no cover, The Ship (Last Wednesday of

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month) Interpretive Hikes (NAACAP) Walk along a productive trout system with naturalist John Gibson, Start at Quidi Vidi Lake-parking lot across from Legion (Tue Jun 29 at 10am-12pm); Learn about the effect humans have on our waterways, start at The Fluvarium (Wed Jul 7 from 7pm-8:30pm); Walk along one of the most important marshes for waterfowl in the city, start at The Fluvarium (Wed Jul 14 from 10am-11:30am); A countryside walk amidst natural landscapes and heritage homes, start at Railway Coastal Museum (Wed Jul 21 from 7pm8:30pm); A beautiful walk

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in the Town of Paradise, Start at Paradise Community Centre (Wed Jul 28 from 10am-2pm); Plastic Bag Forest Cleanup, Meet at Robin Hood Bay Regional Waste Management Facility-Admin building (Sat Jul 31 from 10am-1pm).

Rain or shine. Free and open to all. Call 726-9673 for more info Knit Wits: Drop in knitting social with help to get you started, free, Anna Templeton Centre-278 Duckworth St (Last Sunday of month from 7pm-9pm) Lantern-Making Workshops: Open workshops (no registration required) in preparation for the Victoria Park Lantern Festival,

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free-donations accepted, Victoria Park Poolhouse (Tuesdays & Thursdays from 6:30pm-9:30pm) Nar-Anon Family Group: For those who know or have known a feeling of desperation due to the addiction problem of someone close to them. Weekly meetings in St John's area. For more info call 726-6191 Newfoundland Horticultural Society: Monthly meet up, St David's Church Hall-Elizabeth Av (First Tuesday of month at 8pm) NL Horticulture Society: Where gardeners meet and grow together, St David's

Church Hall-Elizabeth Ave (Tue Jul 6 at 8pm) Overeaters Anonymous: Help is available and it’s free, no strings attached.

Weekly meetings in St John’s area. You are welcome, just as you are. For information call 738-1742 Seniors Bridging Cultures: Tea, guest speakers & conversation, Seniors Resource Centre 737-2333 (Thursdays at 2pm) Seniors Friendship Club, Seniors Resource Centre 737-2333 (Fridays at 2pm) Shambhala Meditation Group: Meditation helps us appreciate ourselves, others, and our world, free, Billy Rahl Fieldhouse-rear

Elizabeth Towers 576-4727 (Wednesdays 7:30pm & Sundays 10am) St John’s City Council Meeting: Refer to Council Agenda at www.stjohns.ca (posted Friday afternoon), Public welcome, City HallCouncil Chambers, 4th fl (Mondays at 4:30pm) St. John’s Farmers’ Market: Fresh local produce, international foods, arts & crafts, coffee, photography, waffles, sweet snacks, kids events and buskers, Lion’s Club Chalet-Bonaventure Ave (Every Saturday from 9am-2pm) (END NOV) Sunday Morning Bird Watch: Join Friends of the Garden volunteers on a 1-2

hour hike through garden trails, free, MUN Botanical Garden-306 Mt Scio Rd 737-8590 (Sunday Jul 11 & 25 at 8am) Super Trivia Night, Bitter's Pub (Thursdays from 8pm-11pm) The Pottle Centre: A social & recreation centre for consumers of mental health services. New members welcome, 323 Hamilton Ave 753-2143 The Rooms: Free admission, 9 Bonaventure Ave 757-8000 (Wednesdays 6pm-9pm) Thyroid Cancer Info: For survivors, family members & friends, Eastern Health Admin Offices-306 Water-

ford Bridge Rd (Sat Jul 24 from 10:30am-12pm) Trivia Night, Rose & Thistle (Tuesdays) Victoria Park Day Camp: Free for children aged 5 13, Victoria Park-register in pool house (Mon-Fri from 9am-4pm) Walk on Water: Get fit, meet people & learn the history of downtown, everyone welcome, free, Auntie Crae’s (Saturdays at

10am, rain or shine) Women's Accordion Circle: An informal environment for women of all ages to perform, experiment & share stories about making music, Arts & Culture Centre-2nd Fl, Old Gallery 746-2399 (Mondays at 7:30pm) Send press releases to listings@thescope.ca

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GALLERIES Openings Air Time (Sound Symposium) Annie Dunning's musical collaboration with pigeons celebrates urban ecology, Eastern Edge Gallery-72 Harbour Dr 7534531 (Sat Jul 3 at 12:30pm / Tue Jul 6 - Sat Jul 10 from 12pm-5pm)

If you have the desire to be part of an energetic, young team that publishes a monthly entertainment magazine, now is a great time to get involved. The Scope is looking for a responsible and goal-oriented account representative to take over and grow an established client base selling print and online advertising. Confidence, people skills, and a sense of humour are a must.

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Automatics Installation (Sound Symposium) Frank Pahl, A1C Gallery-8 Clift’sBaird’s Cove 753-4531 (Sat Jul 3 at 2:30pm / Tue Jul 6 / Thu Jul 8 / Sat Jul 10) Diane Landry (Sound Symposium) Installation: Le chevalier de la résignation infinie, MUN Music-Band Rm 753-4531 (Sat Jul 3 / Sun Jul 4 / Wed Jul 7 - Fri Jul 9) Frequent Mutilations (Sound Symposium) Sound Hike: Experience sound installation by Andrew O’Connor, Anna Templeton Centre-278 Duckworth St 753-4531 (Sat Jul 3; Mon Jul 5 / Thu Jul 8 / Sat Jul 10) New Works: Featuring Gerald Squires, George Horan and Julia Pickard, Gerald Squires Gallery-52 Prescott St 722-2207 (Opening Sun Jul 4 from 2pm-6pm with poems by Tom Dawe and music by Pamela Morgan) One Year Anniversary Exhibition: Celebrating a successful year and new works by Peter Lewis, Michael Kilburn, and Michael Greene, Peter Lewis Gallery-5 Church Hill 722-600 (Opening reception Thu Jul 8 from 7pm-9pm)

Continuing Exhibitions After Four: Annual current and retired faculty and staff exhibition, First Space Gallery-QEII Library Air Time: Annie Dunning presents a musical collaboration with pigeons that celebrates urban ecology, the overlooked and the potential of the everyday. It includes a video, soundtrack, sculptures, photos and a poster, Eastern Edge Gallery-72 Harbour Dr 739-1882 Annual Members Exhibit: A members' exhibit where the only criteria is excellence - all media, styles and themes are showcased, Craft Council-59 Duckworth St 753-2749 Edward Burtynsky: Oil: Contemporary photographer Edward Burtynsky has travelled internationally to chronicle the production, distribution, and use of this critical fuel, The Rooms-9 Bonaventure Ave 757-8000

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Man Rows Dory from Painting Motion, a new exhibition by Bruce Alcock runs till July 17 at Christina Parker Gallery.

Here to Stay: Cupids 1610…: Explore the early decades of English colonization in the region using rare original documents and archaeological artifacts that tell the story of Cupids and its settlers, The Rooms Metis Carver: Ancient Stories in Stone and Bone – ongoing exhibit by Albert Biles, Wild Things-124 Water St On Purpose: Jon Sasaki's recent work celebrates noble intentions, aspirations, and determination, while simultaneously conjuring up a bleak flipside of failure and purposelessness, Eastern Edge Gallery-72 Harbour Dr 739-1882 Palanquin Park: Bruce Montcombroux's work is about a searching for a place called home, while inventing maps that explore beyond geography to the possible intersection of place and belonging, Eastern Edge Gallery-72 Harbour Dr 739-1882

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Monday’s Company: These pieces were created during the last 12 months by an inspiring group of friends who meet Monday afternoons to paint, MUN Botanical Garden-Mt Scio Rd (Ends Jul 18)

Encountering Grenfell: A Life and Legacy: Providing medical care, education & skills in craft, agriculture & animal husbandry Wilfred Grenfell sought to improve conditions in NF, The Rooms-9 Bonaventure Ave 757-8000

Painting Motion: Bruce Alcock paints defining moments from his celebrated film, Vive la Rose, in an exhibition of new mixed media paintings on linen that explore themes of love and loss, Christina Parker Gallery-7 Plank Rd 7530580 (Ends Jul 17)

MUSEUMS A Tour de Fort: Interpretive panels tell the story of Fort Townsend, the 18th century symbol of England’s domination over the fishery, The Rooms-9 Bonaventure Ave 757-8000

New Works: St John's scenes & NL landscapes

by Hughes, Popova, Charapova, Bendzsa, Barrett, Po, Kaarsemaker, Horan, Tomova & McClellan, Red Ochre Gallery-96 Duckworth St 726-6422

Admiralty House Museum: 1915 navy wireless station now communications museum, 23 Old Placentia Rd-Mt Pearl 748-1124

Summer Show: Leyton annual group show, Leyton Gallery-Clift’s-Baird’s Cove 722-7177

Collecting Birds: A Beak Behind the Scenes: Use bird specimens to learn lots of fascinating facts about the diversity of our feathered friends, The Rooms-9 Bonaventure Ave 757-8000

The Gathering: view new works by Peter Lewis, Michael Greene, Michael Kilburn, Terri Leonard, Lyndon Keating, JJ Allwood & Peter Jackson, Peter Lewis Gallery-5 Church Hill 722-6009

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Close to Home: Mike Connolly's solo show looks at the wonders found "Close to Home," Leyton

Boyle’s Historical Walking Tours, Call 364-6845 for more info

Connections: This Place and Its Early Peoples: Polar bears on tundra, carnivorous plants in a bog, seabirds, sea mammals, sea life plus the people who made their lives here, The

[here]say: 26 signs on light poles, each featuring an audio story about that particular spot. Stand on the sidewalk, use your cellphone to dial the number on the sign, and hear the voices, Water St Johnson Geo Centre & Park: See Signal Hill’s 550 million year old geology & specimens of NF rocks, minerals & botanical park, 175 Signal Hill Rd 737-7880

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WELCOME, NEW SCOPE FONTS vital stats sans-serif, simple soft edges, welcoming clean, elegant The Scope’s headliner Created in 2009 for the Danish School of Media and Journalism

typography is a rich, complicated area of graphic design full of hisory, theory, nuance, and a deep disdain for Comic Sans. But, it's true, few honestly care.

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The Scope’s body Created in 1989 by sil, the

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With the relaunch of The Scope, the fonts Gloriola and Utopia were quietly switched. Now Aller and Charis sil will have their chance, and the change is momentous enough (to us anyway) that we’d like to tell you about them.

Strokes are the lines or marks that create letters; letters in serif fonts are capped with stroked ends.

Sans-serifs end cleanly.

1 lowercase numbers. Didn’t know numbers could come in lowercase, did you? Well, now you know. Lowercase numbers flow and fit into text more comfortably; just think about it, your usual string of numbers are like SUDDENLY TYPING IN ALL CAPS. Which isn't always good.

Uppercase numbers are called ‘lining figures’ for how their heights all match up, and lowercase numbers are ‘oldstyle.’

2 ligatures. Ligatures are special characters that replace some letter combos that don't work together. A common one is when an ‘f’ and ‘i’ run into each other, when the dot gets kind of lost at the top. Ligatures make it so text stays legible, and subtly, things are a little prettier.

Other possible ligatures include (but not available in Aller): Th, fj, ffj, fh What? Doesn’t everyone spell ‘fjord’ all the time?

3 quirks. Think of Aller as relaxed dude and dudette friends you can always have a drink and a laugh with: casual, fun, and youthful. Strokes in capitals ‘K’, ‘R’, ‘X’, and lowercase ‘k’, ‘x’, and (almost) ‘y’ refuse to join up. It prevents sharp angles and corners, which would go against Aller's calm demeanor. Remove the whimsically floating bit from capital ‘Q’, and you’re left with an ‘O’. The topleft of lowercase ‘t’ becomes a soft triangle.

An ampersand is a fancy ligature for ‘et’, which is Latin for ‘and.’

The ampersand returns to a form more like the latin ‘et’ than most fonts. Here’s some trivia for you: six-pointed asterisks are considered traditional, whereas some more modern typefaces like Aller feature five.

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Charis sil Regular,

Charis sil Italic,

Charis sil Bold,

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1 ligatures. Charis sil has similar ligatures to Aller, but less has been done to them. Ligatures typically get rid of the tittle when the letter 'i' joins up with anything, and nothing happens to the 'l' at all.

2 slav to cyrillic. With a full alphabet for both Latin and Cyrillic text, Charis sil can be used in countries across Europe and Asia with both Slavic and non-Slavic languages that need such characters. Not that we'll need it much, but it's still cool, right?

3 prə-nouns' thĭs. Why stop at Latin and Cyrillic, right?

Charis sil also has a full set of special pronunciation letters for phonetic European speech, as well as everything it needs to imitate tonal languages like Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, and Swahili.

What's with the universality? It's what the Summer Institute of Linguistics is all about: a non-profit, faith-based group "committed to serving language communities worldwide."

They translate signs, and adapt texts like biblical scripture or literature all around the world, but the group doesn't proselytize or establish churches. Nevertheless, The Scope certainly welcomes your fanatic devotion.

No joke: "tittles" is a typographic term for the dots above letters like 'i' and 'j'. For example: "Angelina Jolie" has more tittles than "Megan Fox." Charis sil is usable in such countries as Russia, Serbia, Ukraine, Mongolia, and that place Borat is from.

They have yet to cover High Elvish and Klingon.

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5km fun run (or 2.5 km walk/wheel) in support of Planned Parenthood’s violence prevention programs.

Sunday, July 18th

H.G.R. Mews Community Centre, Mundy Pond Road. Please join us after the race for lots of refreshments and our awards ceremony. Free technical running shirt for all participants who register before July 1st.

Registration fees: Individuals: $30 Teams: $150, up to 5 people; $10 each additional person.

Visit www.nlsexualhealthcentre.org for more information & to register online.

Please call Costa for more details @ 579-1009.

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free will astrology by rob brezsny

for july 2010

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GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20)

How well have you been attending to 2010's major themes, Gemini? Since we're midway through the year, let's do a check-in. I hope that by now you are at least 15 percent sturdier, stronger, and braver than you've ever been in your entire life, and at least 20 percent better organized and disciplined.

I hope that you have outgrown one of your amateur approaches and claimed a new professional privilege. Now write the following questions on a slip of paper that you will leave taped to your mirror for the next six months. "1. How can I get closer to making my job and my vocation be the same thing? 2. What am I doing to become an even more robust and confident version of myself?"

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CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22)

Let's do a check-in on your progress so far in 2010, Cancerian. The year's half over, and I'm wondering if you've been cashing in on the unique invitations that life has been sending your way. The way I understand it, you've been summoned to emerge from your hiding place and go wandering around in exotic and unfamiliar places. Events that in the past may have turned you inward toward thoughts of safety have in recent months nudged you out in the direction of the Great Unknown. Have you been honest enough with yourself to recognize the call to adventure?

Have you been wild and free enough to answer the call? If not, I suggest you find it in yourself to do so. The next six months will be prime time to head out on a glorious quest.

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LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22)

The year's half over, Leo. Let's take an inventory to see whether you've

been taking maximum advantage of the special opportunities life has been offering you. Consider these questions: Has the quality of your intimate alliances become especially intense, invigorating, and catalytic in recent months? Have you created lots of small miracles with the people you care about most? Have you been willing to risk more to get the most out of togetherness, even if it means dealing with shadowy stuff that makes you uncomfortable? If there has been anything missing from your efforts in these heroic tasks, get to work. Between now and January 2011, you'll have a mandate to go even deeper than you have since January 2010.

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VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22)

So how is 2010 going for you so far, Virgo? Have you been taking advantage of life's offers to help you move into a dynamic new phase of your relationship life? Have you been willing to set aside tired old strategies for seeking intimacy so that you can discover approaches you've never imagined before?

Have you been brave about overcoming the past traumas and hurts that scared you into accepting less than the very best alliances you could seek? I hope you've been pursuing these improvements, because this is the best year in over a decade to accomplish them.

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LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22)

Have you been doing a lot of sweating and grunting from sheer exertion in 2010? Have you thrown yourself conscientiously into the hardest, smartest labor you've ever enjoyed? I hope so, because that would suggest you're in rapt alignment with this year's cosmic rhythms. It would mean that you have been cashing in on the rather sublime

opportunities you're being offered to diligently prove how much you love your life. The next six months will provide you with even more and better prods, Libra, so please find even deeper reserves of determination. Intensify your commitment to mastering the work you came to this planet to do.

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SCORPIO (Oct 23 - Nov 21)

How's that project coming, Scorpio? You know, that assignment the universe gave you at the beginning of 2010 to loosen up, play more, and periodically laugh like a tipsy Sagittarius.

Have you been taking a sabbatical from the seething complications that in most other years are your rightful specialty?

Did you throw some of your emotional baggage off a cliff? Are you dancing more frequently? I hope you've been attending to all of this crucial work, and I trust that you're primed to do even more of it during the next six months. To take maximum advantage of your appointments with relief and release, you'll have to be even sweeter and lighter.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21)

Are you a dynamic bastion of stability yet, Sagittarius? Have you been growing deeper and deeper roots as you bloom in your power spot? Are you continuing to build your self-mastery as you draw abundant sustenance from the mother lode? You're halfway through 2010, the year when these wonders should be unfolding with majestic drama. The best is yet to come, so I recommend that you declare your intention to make the next six months be a time when you come all the way home.

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CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19)

What are the toughest pairs of opposites in your life, Capricorn? What are the polarities whose different sides rarely resonate with each other and too often threaten to split you in half? One of the distinguishing characteristics of 2010 is the fact that you are getting unprecedented chances to bring them together in ringing harmony, or at least a more interesting tension. What have you learned so far about how to work that magic? And how can you apply it in even craftier ways during the next six months?

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AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18)

You may still be gnawed by a longing for your life to be different from what it is. You might fantasize that you're missing a crucial element that would, if acquired, usher you into a Golden Age. But I've been analyzing the big picture of your destiny, Aquarius, and here's what I see: This year you're being offered the chance to be pretty satisfied with the messy, ambiguous, fantastically rich set of circumstances that you've actually been blessed with. The first half of 2010 should have inspired you to flirt with this surprising truth. The second half will drive it home with the force of a pile of gifts left anonymously on your doorstep.

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PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20)

The journal Nature recently marked the tenth anniversary of a great scientific triumph: the complete mapping of the human genome. There was a cloud over the celebration, however, because few practical health benefits have yet to come out of this revolutionary accomplishment. It has proved unexpectedly hard to translate the deciphered code into cures for diseases.

I offer this situation as a cautionary tale

for you, Pisces. The first part of 2010 has brought you several important discoveries and breakthroughs. In the coming months, even as the novelties continue to flow, it'll be your sacred duty to put them to use in ways that will permanently improve your day-to-day life.

Unlike the case of the human genome, your work should meet with success.

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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19)

How well are you capitalizing on this year's unique opportunities, Aries? Since we're halfway through 2010, let's take an inventory. I'm hoping you're well underway in the heroic task of conquering your past. It has been and will continue to be prime time for you to wean yourself from unresolvable energy-drains. So exorcise irksome ghosts, please! Pay off ancient debts! Free yourself from memories that don't serve you! You're finally ready to graduate from lessons you've had to learn and re-learn and re-relearn. The coming months will bring you even more opportunities to finish up old business that has demanded too much of your time and energy.

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Birthdays this month Happy birthday to Paul Habit, Adam Baxter, Martin Connelly, John Duff, Tara Fleming, Will Gill, Keith Dunne, Bart Pierson, Neddal Ayad, Phil Churchill, Ryan Davis, and Krissy Holmes.

Send birthday info to birthday@thescope.ca

Homework

We're halfway through 2010. Write a report about how your big projects for the year are progressing. Testify at Truthrooster@gmail.com.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20)

Now that we're midway through 2010, it's time to assess how well you're taking advantage of this year's good fortune. So let me ask you, Taurus: Have you been expanding your web of connections? Have you honed and deepened your networking skills?

Have you taken bold steps to refine your influence over the way your team or crew or gang is evolving? The first half of the year has been full of encouragement in these areas, and the coming months will be even more so.

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Horoscopes (NOW WITH ADDED DEMOTIVATION!)

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 Leo

(June 22 – July 22)

(July 23 – August 22)

Stay home today.

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This lovely 4 year old, SPAYED female has come to us due to allergies in the family. Good with children, cats and has lived with a dog. Drop by for a visit with Macy today!

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No one likes you.

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(August 23 – September 22)

(September 23 – October 22)

Don't make come up there.

Libra

No news is good news.

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Scorpio

(October 23 November 21)

You'll never win.

j Sagittarius (November 22 – Dec 21)

Give up!

L Capricorn

J Aquarius

p Pisces

n Aries

z Taurus

h Gemini

(December 22 – January 19)

(January 20 – February 18)

(February 19 – March 20)

(March 21 – April 19)

(April 20 – May 20)

(May 21 – June 21)

Lay off the sauce!

Urgh.

You're the worst!

None fond of you.

Sadness personified.

Twice the lameness!

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