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POLITICALINTERFERENCE

FRONT Ricardo Acuña // ricardo@vueweekly.com

Overblown outrage

Balanced oil sands panel actually shows progress

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or 43 years, whenever the Alberta government had a challenge or problem it wanted to find solutions for, the strategy was always the same. They would pull together a bunch of wealthy male oil and gas executives, a few corporate CEOs and VPs from associated industries, and a handful of wealthy Conservatives, call them an advisory panel, and let them figure it out.

Of course, under those circumstances consensus was easy and the answers delivered by these so-called expert panels rarely varied. They somehow always seemed to land on the solutions that would prioritize ongoing and unfettered growth in the oil and gas sector, minimal to no regulations in the oil patch, self-monitoring and reporting by industry, next to no protection for workers, and a financial and tax regime that would facilitate greater concentration of wealth at the top.

Consultation is easy when the only people you consult with are those that agree with you, and after 43

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years of doing just that, the results for Alberta have been less than stellar. The province has the highest income inequality in the country, complete and utter dependence on one industry for our survival, the highest per capita greenhouse gas emissions in Canada, the laxest labour laws in the country, and a system of environmental regulations and monitoring that essentially amounts to the foxes watching the hen house.

So now the Alberta government has decided to try something a little different, and the province’s right wing extremists are losing their minds about it.

As part of its efforts to figure out specific policies that will facilitate the implementation of its Climate Leadership Plan, particularly in relation to the bitumen industry, emissions, and biodiversity, the government has pulled together an 18 member Oil Sands Advisory Group (OSAG) to meet, consult, and provide advice on how to move forward. Three of the group’s members will serve as cochairs, with the remaining 15 serving

as plenary panel members.

In keeping with past government practice, the bulk of panel members (seven out of 15) come directly from the oil and gas sector. Where the government has diverged from past practice is that, of the remaining eight panel members, two come from impacted municipal governments, two from Indigenous groups and communities, and four from environmental organizations. The three co-chairs of the group are Dave Collyer, former president of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP), Tzeporah Berman, an adjunct professor at York and long-time environmental activist, and Melody Lepine, Director of Government and Industry Relations for the Mikisew Cree First Nation.

There is no question that there is a good diversity of strong voices and incredibly well-qualified people on the panel, but there is also no question that in terms of sheer numbers the panel is still heavily weighted in favour of the industry. Not surprisingly, however, that weighting has not

President Erdogan uses attempted coup to solidify his own power

urkey’s democracy is dead. It was dying anyway, as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan took over media outlets, arrested political opponents and journalists, and even re-started a war with the Kurds last autumn in order to win an election. But once part of the army launched a coup attempt on Friday night, it was dead no matter which way the crisis ended.

It wasn’t a very competent coup atttempt. The first rule of coup-making is: arrest or kill the person you are trying to overthrow. The coup leaders should have been able to grab Erdogan, who was on holiday at the seaside resort of Marmaris, but they didn’t.

They didn’t shut down the internet and social media either, so Erdogan was able to use his cellphone to get a message out on FaceTime, calling on his supporters to defy the soldiers on the streets of Istanbul and Ankara.

They didn’t even shut down the broadcast media that sent Erdogan’s call out to the public.

The second rule of coup-making is: act as if you mean it. This usually means that you have to be willing to kill people—but the colonels behind the coup (the generals were all vetted

by Erdogan’s people) were largely reluctant to use lethal force.

This is laudable, in human terms, but if you are trying to overthrow the rule of a ruthless man who aspires to absolute control, it is a very bad mistake.

They took control of Istanbul airport, but they were chased out again by Erdogan’s supporters because they were

carry the day? Do they really feel that there are no Albertans who genuinely see themselves represented by the views of Berman and the other enviros at the table?

No matter what their particular contention is, their opposition to the make-up of the panel highlights their preference for only wanting to hear from Albertans that agree with them, and against genuine consultation and exploration of a broad range of alternatives in the public interest.

Yes, the panel is far from perfect and is probably too heavily weighted in favour of the industry and not weighted enough in favour of Indigenous communities, but it is a far cry better than any consultation or process set up over the last 40 years, and symbolizes an important step away from complete industry dominance of the policy-making process in this province. Any way you look at it, that is progress. V

reasonable step forward in the democratization process. He kept his promises about that, but gradually he went further, trying to Islamise the country against the strong opposition of the half of the population that favours a secular state.

Luckily for Erdogan the Turkish economy was booming, so he went on winning elections—­­­and he worked steadily to concentrate all power in his own office. He removed any officials who were not his avid supporters, attacked the freedom of the media, and

committed Turkey to unconditional support for the Islamist rebels in neighbouring Syria.

The rebel army officers may have been trying to stop all that, but it was a terrible mistake for which they will suffer severe punishment. So will anybody who is even suspected of having sympathized with them, and Erdogan will emerge as the all-powerful “Sultan” of a post-democratic Turkey. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta.

The views and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Institute.

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been enough to keep the province’s loud and radical right from screaming and yelling that, because the panel includes environmental activists the government is clearly on a mission to destroy the bitumen industry and put everyone in the province out of work.

They have particularly focused their attacks on co-chair Berman, who has been a high-profile spokesperson and organizer for campaigns against new pipelines, against unfettered growth of bitumen extraction, and in favour of Indigenous and environmental justice. The right wing outrage machine has been working overtime to convince Albertans that the appointment of Berman and other environmentalists to a panel charged with implementing developing environmental policy is tantamount to treason. What they don’t mention is that, although prolific, Berman’s work on behalf of the environment has been no more radical or extreme than has Collyer’s work in favour of unfettered development and against environmental regulations. If ever there was a case of seeking to balance out two divergent positions, the appointment of Berman and Collyer is it.

So what are they afraid of? That their ideas aren't sound enough to

not willing to shoot them—and Erdogan flew back into the city.

Maybe the coup-makers were just too short of troops to grab control of everything they needed to make the coup work. Maybe, also, they were afraid to order their troops to carry out a massacre because Turkey’s is a conscript army, and many of its young soldiers—basically civilians in uniform for one year—might simply refuse to kill their fellow citizens.

At any rate, they didn’t use massive violence in Istanbul (42 people were reportedly killed in Ankara), and so they were soon in retreat.

But there can be no happy ending to this episode.

Democracy would obviously have been dead if the rebels won. Almost exactly half of Turkey’s voters backed Erdogan in the last election, so a military regime would have had to stay in power for a long time. It would not have dared to hold a free election and risk Erdogan returning to power.

It would have been equally dead if the coup had partially succeeded and the army had really split, for that would have meant civil war. Mercifully that possibility has now disappeared, but democracy will be dead in Turkey even if the coup is utterly defeated.

A triumphant Erdogan will seize this opportunity to complete his take-over of all the major state organizations and the media, and become (as his followers often call him) the “Sultan” of Turkey. That is a tragedy, because five or ten years ago Turkey seemed well

on the way to being the sort of democracy, with free media and the rule of law, where a coup like this was simply inconceivable.

When Erdogan won his first election in 2002, promising to remove all the restrictions that pious Muslims suffered under the rigidly secular constitution, it seemed a

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Please share the High Level Bridge path The City of Edmonton calls them the “High Level Bridge safety rails”—a designation that becomes more ironic with each new crash or near miss on the birth-canal-narrow east-side sidewalk. Still, we’re going to have to live with them no matter how much we loathe them.

And, there’s a lot to loathe. Who, dear god, thought it was a good idea to squeeze the new rails inside the existing ones? We’ve lost precious space, and the woeful design leaves us with a pug-ugly fence-within-afence, enclosing what should be the most beautiful path in the city.

The project’s leisurely progress doesn’t help. They promised June completion. Halfway through the summer, and we’re still being funneled onto one sidewalk or the other, with Faraone Park a forlorn muddle of construction fences and

porta-potties.

Still, I can live with the barriers, because the alternative is much worse.

Studies show that suicide is often an impulsive act, and that barriers are effective. I have friends whose families have been touched by suicide, so I’m not about to grouse too much about the congestion.

Besides, I’ve managed to ride across the bridge almost every day, even on the east sidewalk during rush hour, with only a minute or two added to my commute. Given a modicum of prudence and patience, it’s truly not that bad. Things should be more bearable once both paths are finally open at the same time.

We’ve managed to share these two paths for decades, people. Slightly narrower paths require only slightly more consideration. Cyclists: slow down, and use your bell. Pass only

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when it’s safe to do so. Pedestrians: keep to the right of the line. If you’re wearing earbuds, try not to be completely oblivious. Got it? Okay then, we’re good to go.

Because if we can’t coexist, we’ll get saddled with a “solution” that will—I guarantee—suck far worse than the status quo. Pedestrians on one side, cyclists on the other?

This cyclist calls dibs on the west sidewalk. (Happy now? I didn’t think so.) Walk your bikes across? I’m not convinced I can ease congestion by doubling my width.

Suck it up, boys and girls. Cope with the status quo for now, and advocate for a better design in a few years. I’ve got my fingers crossed for that swanky upper-deck park.

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Veggies for a cause

The Green and Gold Community Garden supports Rwandan women

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here's an unlikely connection to Rwanda in south Edmonton: the Green and Gold Community Garden, which has supported the Tubahumurize Association since the garden was established by University of Alberta professor Dr Sarah Bowen and her husband in 2008. Located on the U of A farm on South Campus, the garden grows various vegetables that are sold at a weekly market on site. Payment is by donation—customers decide the fair market value for their purchases—and all funds are directed to Tubahumurize: a group that was founded to help socially and economically marginalized

women in Rwanda.

"I think that's why we get repeat customers all the time and new customers that come back and bring their friends: because they get not only fantastic fresh veggies, but they also get that really good feeling of they've actually donated as well," Jennifer Rees explains.

Rees was one of the dozen or so original volunteers at the garden when it was first established. Things are a lot easier now that they've had a few years to work in the originally hard, clay soil on the farm, and gained use of an irrigation system after the first dry, droughty summer.

The garden relies on support from the U of A's Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences (ALES) for the latter, Rees explains, as well as for greenhouse and storage space, and financial accounting.

This year, ALES is also allowing the garden to use the farm's orchard.

The garden sells its produce— which is all organic—through a market right on the farm. They also sell Rwandan crafts and handiwork, made by the women supported through Tubahumurize, and take special orders for handmade quilts. Rees notes that even though some of the volunteers put in over 10 or 15 hours

a week working at the garden (and they are always looking for more), no one takes anything for free; everyone buys what they take from the garden. To date, Green and Gold has raised over $210 000.

The market's now open for the season, and will run until Thanksgiving weekend in October.

"The public coming in to our garden to buy [produce] is a really nice bridge out to the community for the university as well, so that's a bonus," Rees says. "A lot of people that come out have never really seen wheat growing or canola growing; whatever the [ag-

Tue (7 pm – 8:30 pm) & Sat (11 am – 1 pm) (hours change slightly as days become shorter) U of A, South Campus greengoldgarden.com

ricultural] research is across the field, we can tell people what that is.

"It's an extraordinarily peaceful place to be, the garden itself," she continues. "Not to say it's not extraordinarily hard work, but it's got a really lovely culture of everybody there for the same reason. ... Every penny that we raise, and the purpose of us doing this work, is to raise money for women across the globe who need our help."

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REVUE // BUDGET DRINKS

Expand your tastes, without waste

Five cheap wines that are worth a try. And hey, you can always bathe in the stuff you don’t like

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or some, wine is usually a means to an end. Be it to celebrate, to commemorate, or even to purposefully debilitate, wine has many uses.

Nevertheless, it’s usefulness can be costly. Here are five affordable wine suggestions and ways to stretch said wine's ability to make your life better.

No Name Brand White Wine This may come as a surprise, but all the money saved from not designing labels and marketing went into the making this wine. At least it tastes that way. It has a breathy body and nice finish, nothing too fancy or offensive, just like the label. If you buy

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it, and don’t like it, you can use what is left of the bottle to clean your veggies. Even though you don’t like the taste, it still has alcohol in it and that is enough to kill certain bacteria from your greens and fruits.

Copper Moon Rose This is my go to campfire wine. It’s like drinking the juice from a fruit cup, but more bitter (and there is alcohol in it). At first, the initial feeling is that the tartness of it may be too much, but when it hits the back of your tongue, that is the payoff.

A bold fruitiness that keeps your mouth watering. If it has the oppo-

site effect on your mouth, you can use the rest of the bottle as a base for jellies, if jamming is your thing.

Fuzion Shiraz Malbec The label looks like the cover of an 80’s glam band album, but hey, it’s what’s inside that counts. It’s a bit spicy and peppery with hints of berries and the like. I’d consider it a meal wine, red meats, pasta... that kind of thing. If that isn’t your kind of thing then pour it in the tub and bath in it. The antioxidants in wine are great for your skin. Plus, you get to say that you bathed in wine. A pseudoBathory brag.

Eroica Riesling This is a wonderful friend to your mouth. It has a candied smooth taste which is complimented by a dry overall feel. While a bit more expensive (just under $15), it is worth the risk.

Goes well with a spicy pad thai.

Be that as it may, this vintage may not be your thing. If so, use it to get stains off your driveway. The acidity of the wine can help break down grease marks.

Yellow Tail Shiraz With a mild aroma of liquorice and a flavour that hints at red berries, this shiraz is a very drinkable wine.

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Good for a cold day if you need to warm up your innards.

If you are in a situation where your innards don’t want this around, consider this: How many times have you spilled red wine on a white shirt?

How many times have you thought of dying a shirt?

Well, take the rest of the bottle and whatever clothes you want to make redder and have at it. If you can’t drink it, wear it as my grandmother used to say (she never said that).

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REVUE // ETHIOPIAN

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The pleasures of sharing

Walia 10630–124 St

Walia offers mouth-watering Ethiopian food, with very little fuss

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thiopian restaurants have been a fixture on Edmonton’s diningout scene for so long now that it seems unnecessary to rehash descriptions of its distinctive style to what one must assume is a savvy, urbane readership that browses the occasional free weekly newspaper in search of things to do with their disposable income.

And yet, one mustn’t assume too much. Thus, an Ethiopian meal usually comprises a colourful variety of vividly spiced stewed vegetables, meats and pulses served on a big platter lined with a slightly sour, spongy, fermented flatbread called injera (normally made from an ironrich grain called teff), with more injera presented on the side for scooping up the food. As such, Ethiopian feasts work well as group meals which you can conclude by eating the tray-liner, which has absorbed the flavours of the meal. The complexity of these spices mirror Indian seasonings but are, you know, different. And like Indian food, Ethiopian cuisine can sometimes be intensely spicy.

If you aren’t hip to Ethiopian food, it will help to know these things before entering the unfussy premises of relative newcomer Walia, the menu of which is, it’s fair to say, not exactly self-explanatory. In fact, Walia sets itself apart from some of 124th Street’s destination restaurants for its cheerful lack of polish.

The interior is tidy and pleasant, with many of its low tables arranged under a faux veranda, its freshly painted walls decorated with African art and dominated by one big TV showing sports, with remnants of a birthday celebration festooning one end of the room.

The bill of fare, as stated, is an agglomeration of malapropisms and typos that makes it tricky to discern the difference between some dishes, or even what some of the dishes might contain. A chat with the friendly server about which were most exemplary of the kitchens abilities was likewise inconclusive. She did endorse the shiro, for instance, but then was forced to admit they were all out of it.

Luckily, there’s a certain amount of consistency between most Ethiopian menus, so I knew that a vegetarian combo ($15) would provide a good assortment and that special tibs ($15) usually means seasoned beef strips stir-fried with onions and peppers. I also knew from eating at Zembaba that dullet is not considered an entry-level Ethiopian dish as it’s fashioned from organ meats, a definite no-no for the meat-reluctant co-diner in my party of four. A conversation with the server about our need for another dish to round out the meal led to not really knowing what to expect for a third item.

The food took long enough that my co-diners and I visited and took in the faintly chaotic atmosphere with the proprietors’ adorable young children prowling the premises and woozy music blasting at various volumes through a big PA system until diners at another table asked that it be turned down a bit.

The food arrived not a moment too soon in a colourful basket called a mesob, the lid of which was removed to reveal a mouth-watering array of colours and textures in discrete mounds—turmeric-tinted cabbage and carrots, deeply green spinach cooked with melty wedges of potato,

pulpy piles of lentil stew in shades of yellow and red, simmered beets and a row of purple cabbage, and an order of special tibs divided in two for easy access from either end of the table, all arranged around a simple salad of lettuce and tomato wedges.

A separate pot of beef on the bone in a rich, dark red gravy that bespoke the meal’s fiercest spice level also arrived, and a different server ladled it onto the platter’s cardinal points.

We each grabbed a roll of injera and went to work.

No two ways about it, every bit of the meal was delicious from the

simple, sweet simmered beets to the spinach redolent of ginger and cardamom to the spicy stew of lentils dosed with paprika. The meat-reluctant co-diner even complimented the special tibs, the chewiness of which contrasted with the stewed softness of the other dishes. The beef on the bone was a bit messy to reckon with, particularly given the lack of side plates and the low table which forced us to eat between our knees, but this was a quibble.

The small cloud of fruit flies that attended the meal was more of a problem, but we soldiered on un-

daunted through two sides of injera before eating the sodden flatbread that lined the platter.

With four adult beverages for stanching the burn, the meal came to $76, before tip. If you’re looking for a new Ethiopian place to sample, I’d say Walia is as good as any you’ll find in town. And if you’re tired of the assured customer service chops and studied niceties of Edmonton’s vaunted destination restaurants, Walia will definitely provide you a change of pace.

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Taxing the pint

The new rules are confusing, but will (hopefully) help brewers

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ast week the Alberta government announced new rules regarding how much the government adds to the price of beer. Depending on who you listen to the new arrangement is either a protectionist attack on free trade, an insult to small Alberta brewers, or an attempt to help those same Alberta brewers.

Allow me to cut through the confusion. Some history is in order.

The announcement had to do with what is called the “mark-up” which is the amount the government takes from the sale of alcohol. It is not a tax on the breweries, as it is just added to the wholesale price. For years, Alberta has had a tiered mark-up for beer. Beer from small breweries would have less added to their price than large brewers— historically a gap of 50 to 70 cents per litre. The logic is that the smaller mark-up helps small breweries, who can’t take advantage economics of scale, to compete a bit more on price.

It sounds like a good idea, and it is. The problem is that because of Alberta’s privatized liquor retail system and a policy of having open borders —allowing any beer in the world to enter the Alberta market—the government had to grant the lower rates to every beer, regardless of where it was brewed.

In short, the Alberta government subsidized small breweries from around the world. This was a huge problem for Alberta’s nascent craft beer scene, stunting the growth of local production. It has long been a thorn in the side of Alberta breweries that imports get the same price

break they do.

So, last fall the new NDP government signaled a key policy change by restricting the lower mark-up rates (at this point a spread of $1.15 per litre) to beer produced in Alberta, BC and Saskatchewan.

The reason for including the latter provinces is Alberta’s membership in the New West Partnership.

The policy sparked a wave of protest from importers and Toronto’s Steam Whistle launched a lawsuit to stop the change, claiming it was a violation of trade rules. Last week’s response was the government’s attempt to address the lawsuit. It is a two-part strategy.

First they scrapped the long-

tage they have will disappear, making their life even harder. However, most of the established Alberta breweries are expressing cautious optimism that this manoeuvre will finally give them some needed competitive space vis a vis imports.

BC and Saskatchewan breweries, however, are joining their colleagues from other jurisdictions in railing against the change, calling it protectionist. Very quickly rumblings of a new lawsuit have been heard.

My take? In the short term, if the grant does what it promises this policy will help Alberta brewers by making their beer more price competitive. If the grant falls short, Alberta breweries will be in an even more disadvantaged place.

Every other province uses a variety of tools, including restricting the number of imported beer, guaranteed shelf space for local beer, and grants, to shelter their breweries from the full onslaught of competition with imports. So cries of protectionism do have a whiff of hypocrisy.

Mark-ups and grants are a crude and awkward way to assist Alberta brewers. But because Alberta has no government-owned liquor stores and has an open border, the government doesn’t have the tools other province’s have.

Will it work? I don’t know. What I do know is it will continue to generate controversy for some time to come. V Jason Foster is the creator of onbeer. org, a website devoted to news and views on beer from the prairies and beyond.

“If the grant falls short, Alberta breweries will be in an even more disadvantaged place.” standing tiered mark-up. Every beer sold in Alberta will now have a mark-up of $1.25 per litre (the existing top rate), regardless of where it is made or how big the brewery is. Second, they have promised to create a grant for Alberta brewers to an amount roughly equivalent to the former spread between the high and low rates. In other words, the grant will make Alberta breweries “whole”.

The goal of the two-pronged policy is to, in effect, restrict the lower mark-up to Alberta-made beer. At least we think. Some of the confusion in the announcement’s wake is due to the fact the government has not released any details on that grant. Some in the Alberta beer industry are nervous the cost advan-

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ood comedy is all about timing.

Like the bubbly trills in the opening ‘60s-inspired jazz music of Cocktails at Pam’s, it’s about maintaining a steady beat. Set-ups, punch lines, even looks to engage the audience —they all have to come at the right moment. It's not as easy as it sounds.

This is the 30th anniversary of Teatro La Quindicina’s Cocktails at Pam’s, which premiered at the fifth Fringe Festival. For those who remember previous iterations of the play or the lively ambience of the swingin’ ‘60s, nostalgia might shield you from some of its shortcomings.

The rest of us don’t have that luxury.

The title character is quintessential ‘housewife’ of the era, Pam Cochrane (Davina Stewart). Obsessed with performing the role of perfect cocktail party hostess, she’s taking her husband Julius (Jeff Haslam) along for the ride. The rest of the cast is made up of the couple’s nervous maid Rita (Beth Graham) and their guests.

First to arrive at the party is Cynthia Dallas (Julie Orton). The character is a young actress starring as Cordelia in King Lear at the Stratford Festival. After Cynthia's arrival, comes her love interest, Pam’s brother Leon (Andrew MacDonald-Smith).

Followed by a series of pairs: Virgil and Sara Black (Mark Bellamy and Leona Brausen respectively), Max and Denise Powell (Julien Arnold and Andrea House), and Lily Johnson (Mari Chartier) accompanied by her friend, Estelle Washington (Barbara Gates Wilson). With barely any plot to speak of (a game of charades here and some canapés there), the only structure left to cling to comes from the steady disintegration of Pam’s not so thick veneer of calm.

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Phantom of the Paradise / Mon, Jul 25 (9:15 pm) There are some who can sit through an opera, and those of us who can’t. For those of us slumped in those cushy theatre seats and copping some z’s, Metro Cinema will be screening the rock opera version of the classic, The Phantom of the Opera. The Phantom of the Paradise follows Winslow Leach, who celebrates the opening of his rock palace, The Paradise. When framed and convicted for drug dealing, his face becomes mangled in a freak accident. He de-

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Until Sat, Jul 30 Directed by Stewart Lemoine The Varscona Theatre, $29+ Designed by Chantel Fortin, the set pieces and props are reminiscent of classic ‘60s sitcoms such as I Dream of Jeannie or Bewitched, and pitch perfect for the setting. That being said, like those TV shows, there doesn’t seem to be much going on beneath the surface. Colourful cocktails and costumes brighten up the stage, but can’t possibly mask such bizarre and senseless bits as a tediously long, wild-eyed outburst from Estelle.

It seems she’s outraged by the depraved enjoyment of green pepper by the general public. This eruption foreshadows a much longer one that comes when the extent of Pam’s mental decline reveals itself, resulting in a supposedly humorous breakdown.

There is a clever bit of irony in the play when Virgil (dressed all in stylish black and wearing thick, round glasses) explains to Cynthia the ‘proper’ interpretation of her character’s motives in King Lear. When Cynthia asks if he works in the same business as her, Bellamy’s answering deadpan expression is spot on: “I work in the civil service.” However, it’s all but lost in the midst of slapstick antics like the maid’s awkward mishaps and Virgil and Sara’s pantomimed make-out sessions. Together with a handful of half-hearted laughs, it’s not enough to elevate Cocktails at Pam’s above a middling performance. With its seemingly random dialogue and haphazard gags, it never comes together to establish a comedic tempo that rivals that of a sparkling, ‘60s number.

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cides to ultimately take refuge in his palace, hide his damaged face behind a bizarre mask and plans vengeance against those who hurt him. (Metro Cinema at the Garneau Theatre) Rooted Art Show / Sun, Jul 24 (11 am–4 pm) Set in one of the most beautiful areas of the Devonian Botanic Garden–Grebe Pond–The Rooted Art Show will showcase 20 selected artists as they share their vision of the world. (Devonian Botanic Garden, regular admission) V ARTS 7

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Dance A Salute to our Military • Woody's, Jasper Ave and 117 St • Nov 26, 8pm (doors), 9:30pm (show) • $7 (door), $2.50 (military)

Blowin' Bubbles; Doing your best Bubbles • Woody's, Jasper Ave and 117 St • Bubbles Thee Ice Queens' birthday show • Aug 27, 8pm (doors), 9:30pm (show) • $7 (door)

D'bomme Squads Dirty 30s NYE • Woody's, Jasper Ave and 117 St • Dec 31

Flamenco Dance Classes (Beginner or Advanced) • Dance Code Studio, 10575-115 St NW #204 • 780.349.4843 • judithgarcia07@gmail.com • Every Sun, 11:30am-12:30pm

Gore-a-liscous Treats • Woody's, Jasper Ave and 117 St • Hallowe'en themed • Oct 29, 8pm (doors), 9:30pm (show) • $7 (door), $5 (for those in costume)

Higher Education • Woody's, Jasper Ave and 117 St • Hot for teacher and the teachings of Cheech and Chong • Sep 24, 8pm (doors), 9:30pm (show) • $7 (door)

Let's Have a Kiki with River City Revue Burlesque • Evolution Wonderlounge, 10220-103 St • bit. ly/29HZCmx • Jul 29, 8pm (doors), 9pm (show) • $10 (adv–available through RCR troupe member), $12 (door)

Nova Blues-Fusion Night • Shanti Yoga Studio, 10026-102 Ave • facebook.com/ novablues • Move to the blues and connect with great music and an enthusiastic and welcoming dance community. An introductory lesson begins at 9:15pm followed by a social dance at 10pm. No partner necessary. Please bring socks as shoes are not permitted • Jul 29, 9:15pm • $8-$12

Sacred Circle Dance • Riverdale Hall, 9231-100 Ave • Dances are taught to a variety of songs and music. No partner required • Every Wed, 7-9pm • $10

Sugar Foot Ballroom • 10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Friday Night Stomp!: Swing and party music dance social every Fri; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome.

Occasional live music–check web; $10, $2 (lesson with entry) • Swing Dance Social every Sat; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check the Sugar Swing website for info • $10, $2 lesson with entry Ultimate fondue... Cheez and nothing but Cheez • Woody's, Jasper Ave and 117 St • Minni D'bommes' birthday show • Jul 23, 8pm (doors), 9:30pm (show) • $7 (door)

FILM Batman: the Killing Joke • Scotiabank Theatre, West Edmonton Mall, West Edmonton Mall, 8882-170 St • Delving into the origin of DC Comic's iconic villain, the Joker • Jul 25

Capitol Theatre Cinema Series • Fort Edmonton Park • Enjoy classic films on the big screen • Every Thu, 7:30pm • $10.50 (+taxes & fees)

Cinema at the Centre • Stanley Milner Library Theatre, bsmt, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7070 • Film screening every Wed, 6:30pm • Free • Schedule: Being Canadian (Jul 27)

Cinema CAVA • Centre des arts visuels de l'Alberta, 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • cavalberta@gmail.com • galeriecava. com • Enjoy a repertoire of french movies.

Schedule: Nous autres, les autres (Aug 3), Persepolis (Aug 10) • First two Wed each month

Edmonton Film Society • Royal Alberta Museum, 12845-102 Ave • 780.439.5285 • edmontonfilmsociety@gmail.

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com • royalalbertamuseum.ca/movies • All Singing! All Dancing!: summer film series featuring The Merry Widow (Jul 25), You Were Never Lovelier (Aug 8), Can’t Help Singing (Aug 15), That Night In Rio (Aug 22), The Pajama Game (Aug 29) • $30 (membership for series), $3-$6 (one film, at the door)

From Books to Film • Stanley A. Milner, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • Films adapted from books every Fri afternoon at 2pm • Schedule: Jurassic Park (Jul 22), Bridge of Spies (Jul 29)

metro • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • 780.425.9212 • • Kung Fu Summer: Enter The Dragon (Jul 23-24, Jul 28), The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (Jul 30-31, Aug 4), Drunken Master (Aug 6-7, Aug 10) • Metro Bizarro: Belladonna of Sadness (Aug 24) • Music Doc: Eat That Question: Frank Zappa In His Own Words (Aug 2, 6, 8-9), 200 Motels (Aug 2), Searching for Sugar Man (Aug 30) • Reel Family Cinema: Muppets from Space (Jul 23), Kiki's Delivery Service (Jul 30, Aug 1), The Karate Kid (Aug 6), Howl's Moving Castle (Aug 27, Aug 29) • Staff Pics: Fight Club (Aug 22) • Turkey Shoot: Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice (Jul 21)

galLeries + Museums 26th Leduc West Antique Annual Exposition • Leduc • leducwestantique.com • Displays of vintage farm equipment, antique tractors, old cars and trucks, working scale models of various vehicles and demonstrations of threshing, plowing, wood cutting and planing. Fun for the kids as well, including a petting zoo rides and more • Jul 23-24 • $10 (per day, 13 years and up), $5 (per day, kids 6-12), free (kids 5 and under)

A.J. Ottewell Community Centre • 590 Broadmoor Blvd • 780.449.4443 • artstrathcona.com • Original Works: artwork by the Art Society of Strathcona County; Jul 15-Aug 14

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 10345124 St • bugeramathesongallery.com • Up Front Backroom: group show; until Jul 31 • New works by Alex Peck-Whyte; Aug 12-26 CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • savacava.com • Works by Krista Acheson Doucet, Patrick Arès-Pilon, Monique Béland and Rénald Lavoie; Jul 15-Aug 2

Chalk it Up on 118 Ave • 94 St and 118 Ave (street side) • 780.471.1580 • artsontheave.org • Join chalk artist Ian Morris and learn how to create your own 3D street art • Jul 23, 10am-3pm • Free; No registration required

dc3 Art Projects • 10567-111 St • 780.686.4211 • dc3artprojects.com • Gallery closed for renovations; Jul-Aug Devonian Botanic Garden • 5 kms north of Devon on Hwy 60 • devonian. ualberta.ca • Rooted Art Show: artwork by 20 selected artists, situated in Grebe Pond; Jul 24, 10am-4pm • Parkland County Art Show; Jul 29-Aug 1, 10am-6pm • Photographer’s Drop-in Morning; Jul 23, 7:30-10am • Regular admission

front gallery • 12323-104 Ave • thefrontgallery.com • Summer Salon III: group art show; Through Aug; Opening reception: Aug 4, 7-9pm Gallery@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona. ca/artgallery • A Question of Faith: artwork

by Bernhardt; Jul 8-Aug 28

Gallery at Milner • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/gallery-at-milner • On the Walls: Anti-Portrait: Mixed media works

by Justina Smith • In the Cases: Members' works from the Sculptors' Association of Alberta • Throughout Aug

Harcourt House Gallery • 3 Fl,

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft. ab.ca • Crafting Conscience; Jul 9-Oct 1 • Small Works: Paper Meets Cloth: artwork

by Margie Davidson; Jul 30-Sep 3; Artist reception: Aug 6, 2-4pm • Get Lost: artwork

by Ruth-Anne French; Jul 30-Sep 3; Artist reception: Aug 6, 2-4pm Alberta Railway Museum

10215-112 St • 780.426.4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca • Week o' Workshops: workshops featuring stop motion animation, comic page layouts, zines, and more; Jul 19-23, 10am-5pm; Free

Jurassic Forest/Learning Centre • 15 mins N of Edmonton off Hwy 28A, Township Rd 564 • Education-rich entertainment facility for all ages

Latitude 53 • Latitude 53, 10242-

• 24215-34 St • 780.472.6229 • AlbertaRailwayMuseum.com • Open weekends during the summer until Sep 2 • $5 (adult)/$3.50 (senior/student)/$2 (child 3-12)/child under 3 free; $4 (train rides)

Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • The Flood: artwork by Sean Caulfield; Feb 6-Aug 14 • A Parallel Excavation: artwork by Duane Linklater & Tanya Lukin Linklater; Apr 30-Sep 18 • The Unvarnished Truth: Exploring the Material History of Painting; Apr 30-Sep 18 • Allora & Calzadilla: Echo to Artifact: artwork by Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla; Jun 3-Aug 28 • Beauty’s Awakening: Drawings by the Pre-Raphaelites and their Contemporaries from the Lanigan Collection; Jul 23-Nov 13 • JASON DE HAAN: Grey to Pink: Jul 23-Nov 13 • BMO Children’s Gallery: Touch Lab: Leave your Mark: Opens Jul 24 • Open Studio Adult Drop-In : Wed, 7-9pm; $18/$16 (AGA member) • All Day Sundays: Art activities for all ages; Activities, 12-4pm; Tour; 2pm • Late Night Wednesdays: Every Wed, 6-9pm • Art for Lunch: 3rd Thu of the month, 12:10-12:50pm Art Gallery Of St Albert (AGSA)

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19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • Parallel Topographies: artwork by Etty Yaniv; Jul 7-30 • Pharmakon: artwork by Brad Necyk; Aug 4-27; Opening reception: Aug 4, 6-9pm

ArtWalk • Perron District, downtown St Albert. Includes WARES (Hosting SAPVAC), Musée Héritage Museum, St Albert Library, Art Gallery of St Albert (AGSA), Bookstore on Perron, VASA, Musée Héritage Museum, A Boutique Gallery Bar By Gracie Jane • artwalkstalbert.com • The art hits the streets again for its 15th year! Discover this art destination, a place to enjoy, view and buy art to suit all tastes and budgets. See returning artists and new ones • Aug 4, Sep 1 (exhibits run all month)

Bear Claw Gallery • 10403-124 St • 780.482.1204 • info@bearclawgallery.com • bearclawgallery.com • Summer Exhibition; until Aug

106 St NW • latitude53.org/patio • Patio Party: Members and guests are invited to relax, drinks in hand, on Latitude 53’s outdoor patio, while learning a bit more about contemporary visual culture; Every Thu until Aug 25, 5-9pm; $5 (suggested donation at the door) • Mystic Places: artwork by Joani Tremblay; Aug 4-Sep 10

Lando Gallery • 103, 10310-124 St • 780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • Lando Gallery July Group Selling Exhibition: Jul 6-30

Loft Gallery • AJ Ottewell Gallery, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • 780.449.4443 • artstrathcona.com • Open: Fri-Sun • ACACA Alberta Wide Show: Jul 15-Aug 14; Reception: Jul 23, 7-9pm (artist in attendance) McMullen GAllery • U of A Hospital,

The Big, Big Portrait Show: featuring almost 200 portraits; Jul 7-Aug 23 • Artisan Nook: Aerosol Soldiers: street artists’ repainted spray cans. Meet-up and trade: Aug 25, 5-8pm

Peter Robertson Gallery • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Summer Heat Group Show; Jul 21-Aug 21 • Provincial Archives of Alberta • 8555 Roper Road • PAA@gov.ab.ca • 780.427.1750 • culture.alberta.ca/paa/ eventsandexhibits/default.aspx • Marlena Wyman: Illuminating the Diary of Alda Dale Randall; Feb 2-Aug 20

Reynolds-Alberta Museum • 6426-40 Ave, Wetaskiwin • 780.312.2065 • reynoldsalbertamuseum@gov.ab.ca • history.alberta.ca/reynolds • Stan Reynolds: The Original Canadian Picker - Exhibition: An exhibit that provides

insight into Stan Reynolds and his love of history and preserving the past for future generations; Runs until Oct 11

Scott Gallery • 10411-124 St • scottgallery.com • Totems: artwork by Pat Service; Jul 9-30 • Penumbra: artwork by Marianne Watchel; Jul 9-30

sNAP Gallery • Society of Northern Alberta Print­- Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • ExChanged: artwork by Carolyn Mount; Jun 23-Aug 6 • Ashes Over Water: artwork

by Holly de moissac; Jun 23-Jul 30 • Connections: SNAP/Printmatters Portfolio; Aug 4-20 • The Garden of Earthly Delights: artwork by Juan Ortiz-Apuy; Aug 25-Oct 8 • New Works by Jill Ho-You; Aug 25-Oct 8 • A Modern Cult of Monuments: artwork by Colin Lyons; Oct 13-Nov 26 • To Do: artwork

by Graeme Dearden; Oct 13-Nov 26 • Snap Members Show & Sale: Dec 8-24

SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • Tanya Klimp; Jul 26Aug 20 • Charis Ng; Aug 23-Sep 10

Strathearn Art Walk • Park along Strathearn Drive between 89 St 91 St • strathearnartwalk.com • Art show & sale, plus music, food, beer and kids' activities • Sep 10, 12-7pm

Telus World of Science • 11211142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton. com • Free-$117.95 • Daily activities, demonstrations and experiments all summer • The International Exhibition Of Sherlock Holmes; Mar 25-Sep 5 • Make + Take Workshop; Jul 30, Aug 13, Aug 20, Aug 27

U of A Museums Galleries at Enterprise square • Main floor, 10230 Jasper Ave • Open: Thu-Fri, 12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm • China through the Lens of John Thomson (1868-1872): photos by John Thomson; Mar 18-Jul 31 • The Mactaggart Art Collection: Beyond the Lens: artwork by John Thomson; Mar 18-Jul 31 • Mactaggart Art Collection Symposium (at the TELUS

International Centre, Room 134, University of Alberta) Eleven international and local scholars will be discussing topics and presenting their research regarding the Mactaggart Art Collection; Jul 21, 8:30-11:30am; goo.gl/forms/FBWPyiFcJgYwA4n92 • My Heritage 2016 Exhibit: 78

8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • friendsofuah. org/mcmullen-gallery • Jes McCoy; Featuring interactive work, the exhibition examines the effect that the presence of communication and the way we communicate has on wellbeing; Jul 9-Sep 4

competitive original fibre art entries; May until Aug

Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery (MCPAG)–Stony Plain

Ave, St Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa-art. com • 30 Shades of Round A Journey of Mixed Media Mosaics: artwork by Helen Rogers; Jun 28-Jul 22 • Drawing on Life: artwork by Catherine Compston, Carroll Charest, Deltra Powney, Judy Martin, Sharon Moore-Foster, Daphne Cote, Nancy Corrigan; Jul 26-Aug 19

• 5411-51 St, Stony Plain • multicentre.org • Western Horsemen: The West We Build; until Jul 29

Musée Héritage Museum • St Albert Place, 5 St Anne Street, St Albert • MuseeHeritage.ca • 780.459.1528 • museum@artsandheritage.ca • Satisfaction Guaranteed; Jun 28-Sep 11 Muttart Conservatory • 962696A St • info@sculptorsassociation. ca • sculptorsassociation.ca/exhibits/ group-exhibits • Form 30: 3 Decades of the Sculptors' Association of Alberta; Jun 22-Aug 24 • $6.50-$12.50

Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts • 9225-118 Ave • 780.474.7611 • volunteer@thenina.ca • CN Where We Work III: Works by the Nina Collective; until Aug 2

Paint Spot • 10032-81 Ave •

VAA Gallery • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • visualartsalberta.com • Cattle Call; Jun-Aug VASA Gallery • 25 Sir Winston Churchill

Yard Gallery • 10986-128 St • amanda@chronicnostalgic.com • At least ten artists represented with lemonade and art; Jul 30-31, 10am-5pm; Free

Literary Audreys Books • 10702 Jasper Ave • 780.423.3487 • audreys.ca • Edmonton Launch of Settler Education; Jul 21, 7-8pm • Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" Midnight Release Celebration; Jul 30, 9pm • Tiffany Adair, Yukari Meldrum, Sharmila Pokharel & Pushpa Raj Acharya "Somnio" Poetry Reading; Aug 17, 7-8:30pm

780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Naess Gallery:

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Edmonton Story Slam • Mercury Room,10575-114 St • edmontonstoryslam. com • facebook.com/mercuryroomyeg • Great stories, interesting company, fabulous atmosphere • 3rd Wed each month • 7pm (sign-up); 7:30pm • $5 Donation to winner

Naked Girls Reading • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St NW • 780.691.1691 • There will be different themes each month.

For the month of July, the theme will be Travel Adventures • Every 2nd Tue of month, 8:30-10:30pm • $20 (door); $15 is the summer special at the door; 18+ only Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900 • Spoken Word Tuesdays: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathinpoetry@gmail.com Rouge Poetry Slam hosted by Breath In Poetry Collective • BLVD Supper x Club, 10765 Jasper Ave • Every Tue

Scrambled YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St • 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artists from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm

SCRIPT SALON • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Upper Arts Space, 10037-84 Ave • A monthly play reading series: 1st Sun each month with a different play by a different playwright

TALES–Monthly Storytelling Circle • Parkallen Community Hall, 6510-111 St • Monthly TELLAROUND: 2nd Wed each month • Sep-Jun, 7-9pm • Free • Info: 780.437.7736; talesedmonton@hotmail.com

Theatre Chimprov • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm • $12 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) • Until Jun Cocktails at Pam’s • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • teatroq.com • Teatro’s ultimate party piece in its first revival since 2001. Davina Stewart and Leona Brausen head a vast cast including Jeff Haslam, Andrew MacDonald-Smith, Cathleen Rootsaert, Julien Arnold, Barbara Gates Wilson, Andrea House, Mark Bellamy, Julie Orton, and Beth Graham • Jul 14-30 henry & alice into the wild • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615 109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • When times get tough, the tough go ... camping?

One of your favourite married couples is back in this much anticipated, hilarious follow up to the smash hit Sexy Laundry. When Henry unexpectedly loses his job, he and Alice are thrown into a midlife crisis and are forced to reconsider their dreams for a comfortable retirement. In an attempt to make the sparks fly again (and keep costs down), they forego their usual summer cottage for a humble campsite and a copy of Camping for Dummies • Jun 17-Jul 31 MAESTRO • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre • Improv, a highstakes game of elimination that will see 11 improvisers compete for audience approval until there is only one left standing • 1st Sat each month, 7:30-9:30pm • $12 (adv at rapidfiretheatre.com)/$15 (door) Once Upon A Mountie: Klondike Melodrama • Fort Edmonton Park, Fox Dr NW & Fort Edmonton Park Rd • fortedmontonpark.ca • An evening of hysterically accurate adventures in this completely improvised Klondike Melodrama show featuring members of the Canadian Comedy Award Winning Troupe, Die Nasty • Jul 22-23, 7:30-9:30pm • $22.05 (one night only), $39.90 (two night show) - available at Fort Edmonton Park website

Rock Around the Clock • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, #2690 8882-170 St • 780.484.2424 • edmonton.jubilations. ca • The 1950s brought many things, but perhaps one of the best was rock ‘n’ roll music. Tonight, take a look at a fun pastime from those days: the dance marathon. Join couples as they dance away the night to great music from stars like Fats Domino, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Bill Hailey, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and many more • Until Aug 21 • Adult: $67.95 (Wed, Thu, Sun), $77.95 (Fri, Sat); Senior/ student: $47.25 (Wed, Thu, Sun)

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Roche Limit took illustrator Kyle Charles to some weird places

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hen local artist Kyle Charles took up the artistic mantle of the best-selling comic book series Roche Limit, he wasn't just subbing in for a fellow artist, but supporting a new direction for the comic.

Michael Moreci’s nebulous and futuristic three volume graphic novel arc Roche Limit is a space exploration tale, described as a melding of Alien and Bladerunner. The series, which ended this month, does an excellent job of harmonizing the high action sci-fi moments with the not-so-subtle noir genre.

Charles took over the series for volumes two, Clandestiny, and three, Monadic, after his friend, local artist Vic Malhotra, had to end his contributions due to scheduling conflicts. Moreci also needed someone to approach the action and emotional story telling a little differently, Charles says.

And, as it turns out, Charles' life took a different turn as well. During his work on Clandestiny Charles went through some extreme personal experiences that made a substantial impact on his art.

“Life just got flipped upside down for me,” he says. “I had to go through getting over a loved one’s death and mild bouts of homelessness while I was drawing the book. Some of that book was drawn on the streets. Some of it

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was drawn on road trips, friend’s places or random people's kitchen tables while I was looking for sleep. It was a really weird and wild time.”

Charles truly believes that the intense experiences he had to face while working on the second volume of the series,“served the story best, visually.

“I obviously didn’t know what Mike was going to be writing, but with everything going on I felt more compelled to take risks,” he says.

The three-volume graphic arc begins with Roche Limit, which follows the story of Sonya and her search for her missing sister Bekkah on the crime-ridden colony of Roche Limit. Soon, it's discovered that Bekkah’s disappearance is linked to the insidious Black Sun cult that has plans to induce the colony into a maelstrom of carnage.

Clandestiny picks up 75 years after the events of Roche Limit and follows a crew of science and military personnel on a desolate planet plagued by the same malignant and murderous entity in Roche Limit.

The second installment differs in both the art and the narrative of its predecessor, but it also develops that contorted reality feel that Roche Limit introduced. In simplest terms, the narrative and Charles’ hallucinatory visuals will mess with your mind.

About a quarter of the way through

Clandestiny, the story takes a very outlandish turn and the art starts to express a very psychotropic tone— character’s anatomies become hazy and the environment starts to blur and almost disintegrate.

“I’m not shy about saying it, I take psychedelics,” Charles says, laughing.

“I guess I’m a fringe sort of artist. I read the script and I knew it was going somewhere and I wanted my mind to go somewhere else with it. So, I indulged and tried to find the false sense of reality the script was providing. It worked in the end.”

At the same time, every piece of Charles’ artistic arrangement is purposeful. For example, the line work, layout, and separating panels become very strange and dissonant as the events of Clandestiny unravel.

“There’s a part in the book in issue three where the characters find Stockton [a philanthropic main character in the series] dead in a tree. The pages leading up to it, if you pay attention, become more and more filled with madness and this intense feeling of reality coming apart at the seams,” Charles says.

Monadic, concludes the story by following the events of Clandestiny with the last remaining human city fighting for survival. The art and tone in Monadic somewhat rewinds back to the

LARGECon / Jul 22 – 24 There are comic book and anime conventions that can make a geek’s summer, but have you ever considered LARPing (live action role playing)?

Edmonton’s first community-wide event will feature a weekend of five individual games designed for players of all levels. The stories are vast, featuring questions about time travel, a run through a classic fantasy scenario and more. (Various locations throughout Edmonton)

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first volume, allowing that familiar noir feeling.

“I try to let my personal experiences influence and give motive to my art and line work,” Charles says. “Like, in Monadic I become more stable and life calmed down so my line work becomes more stable, stern, and heavy while the characters are brushed in a much more fluid and natural. I also felt too that those two things working against each other would make this eerie feeling of reality kind of being an illusion.”

While he enjoyed his time working

on Roche Limit, Charles is looking forward to moving on to other projects.

One of the latest pitches he is working on is called Cosmic Frankenstein, which he describes as a “Ziggy Stardust space opera.”

“I’m happy that the series is done,” he says. “When you’re in the middle of it, these projects become part of your life.

I think we did what we wanted with the story. That’s what I love about Roche Limit. It had this very finite feeling that couldn’t really last longer than it did, but it will always be with me.”

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Turkey Shoot: Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice / Jul 21 Love it or hate it, the Metro Cinema will be screening Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice. Get your jabs in with their always-hilarious Turkey Shoot, which features commentary. Attendees will shout out their opinions on such topics as: Sad Ben Affleck, Jesse Eisenburg’s twitchy Lex Luthor, and Wonder Woman stealing the whole movie. (Metro Cinema at the Garneau Theatre)

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SUPPORTING SCREEN CONTENT PRODUCERS New Edmonton Screen Industries Office must embrace digital media, say local industry pros

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t is a veritable clash of eras as city council and cross-tier media professionals try to bring the rudderless film commission into modernity.

In the spring of last year, then Edmonton film commissioner Brad Stromberg suddenly left his position. Earlier this month industry professionals representing film, television and digital media met with council hoping to band together to create the Edmonton Screen Industries Office.

Owen Brierley, the executive director of the Edmonton Digital Arts College, says council must take into account the changing nature of the industry. He's one of the core individuals who helped create the idea of a Screen Industries Office, and his focus has been on Edmonton's potential as a hub for digital production.

“Once upon a time digital media was considered the experimental stuff,” he says. “You do a film then you tack on some weird multimedia piece or whatever. That is not the case anymore. The multimedia, the digital media stuff is now an integral business sector of the creative industry. It is now on par, if not bigger than in some cases, the film and television industry.”

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From voice actors to motion capture performers to script writers to environment builders and animators, the digital media industry is not just taking off, it's been flying for a while, says Brierley. And a narrowly focused film commission would miss those opportunities, and do the city a disservice.

“It’s bigger than film,” Brierly says.

“Yes, there are filmmakers that are d e s p e r a te l y looking for assistance and a way to survive today's climate, just as much as newspapers are desperate to survive today's climate. The distribution models are changing and the audience appetites are changing. Do we need to do things to support the filmmakers? Absolutely. Part of that support is going to be in helping them transition into the new world order.”

Ava Karvonen is a filmmaker and

president of Reel Girls Media. She spoke to council at this meeting on behalf of IATSE Local 210 (the union behind entertainment). She argues the office should be modelled after Edmonton’s specific needs. Rather than try to lure big budget projects away from Calgary, Karvonen thinks that the city

knowledged support for the office and allowed the group to start laying the bureaucratic foundation for it. Work is still needed on a threeyear plan for the not-for-profit, and there isn't a proposed funding model yet.

Local filmmaker and producer Lindsey McNeil hopes this new office will be open enough to address the huge changes in the industry.

“There is no traditional film industry any longer, which is good because we’ve become very fragmented,” she says.

“From the gaming industry, to television, film, web production, digital content...all of that is converging. It is an amazing and immense job that people are taking on here.”

In McNeil’s eyes we are in an evolutionary state when it comes to entertainment media. She thinks it is time to embrace change and

“There is no traditional film industry any longer, which is good because we’ve become very fragmented” —Local filmmaker and producer Lindsey McNeil

should carve out its own niche by focusing on its specialized talents.

“Edmonton does the independant, the gritty. We will be doing stuff with slightly lower budgets,” she says. “But we will make it happen because we come up with solutions.”

Karvonen says the meeting with the city went very well. Council ac-

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would like the office to serve as a connection point. It would be a place where a feature film producer can access the right people to grow their product. Turn it into a game, an app or even just a website. She has confidence that Edmonton is the right city for this kind of network.

“I think Edmonton’s going to be on the map for cross-platform productions,” she adds.

One thing is for sure, the city is better off with some form of representation, and the sooner the better. According to Kurt Spenrath of Open Sky Pictures, if the city doesn't act quickly to act in support of the many talents it already has, it is going to lose some of them.

“I’m a believer in the city, but I’m also a believer in that professionals sometimes have to make hard choices,” he explained. “And if the city and the province don’t make an effort to create an atmosphere in which this business can thrive, and somebody else does...”

Edmonton loses out on a very lucrative business, and the momentum that's already there.

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Any tired notion that the selfidentified “ghost girls” can’t be as funny as the boys is put to rest immediately. Ghostbusters kicks off with a bang and its goofy plot races along at a perfect pace—just slow enough that it makes sense and we get to know the characters, but

fast enough that it never drags and we’re never left with too much time to analyze the ridiculous premise.

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Portrait of himself

Ross McElwee's personal journey in Photographic Memory

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oss McElwee seemed to drawl and dawdle his way onto the documentary scene around 1986 (in truth, he made a half-dozen nonfiction shorts and features in the 10 years before then; he’d even worked for DA Pennebaker). That’s when his Sherman’s March: A Meditation on the Possibility of Romantic Love in the South During an Era of Nuclear Weapons Proliferation started making the rounds. There, he retraced the civil war general’s path, only with side-trips to visit women from McElwee’s life or divulge his dreams of nuclear apocalypse. McElwee’s autobiographical approach is typically that of a rambling, affable storyteller—his docs are more fireside-chatty and personal essay-like than anything. Yet he also uses the camera as a desilvering mirror, reflecting himself, his past, his relationships, and time’s passing.

Bright Leaves (2003) saw the North Carolinian chew over family ties to the state’s tobacco industry, smoke out a Hollywood film about tobacco, and even try, however wispily, to connect with son Adrian—having him

sound-record a cancer patient McElwee was filming in her hospital bed.

Nearly a generation on from McElwee’s breakthrough, his most recent work, Photographic Memory (2011), begins with his fretful, dismayed, almost irritated wondering at the gulf between himself and Adrian now. In trying to figure out how he and this person he helped produce could have slipped so far from each other’s grasp, McElwee revisits his own early-manhood—in his 20s, he spent a year in Brittany, working as a wedding photographer’s assistant. Returning to Saint-Quay-Portrieux to retrace his youthful path via journal entries jotted down and old photos taken (“To be in control of these tiny, fragile slivers of life, caught spontaneously . . .”), capturing present-day interviews with locals, McElwee uses a camera with a memory card for the first time: “What if the camera’s memory fails? It’s bad enough that I don’t quite trust the memory of the cameraman.”

Critic Jessica Weisberg has argued that the "camera’s purpose” in Photographic Memory isn’t always

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clear—as if communicating the waywardness of Adrian and unsure in its questing, through forty years’ murk, for McElwee’s portrait of himself as a young man. While his son seems to keep scores of relationships on “life support” online, McElwee searches for old boss Maurice and French paramour Maud even as his wife—who helped him make the 1991 doc Something About The Wall—is notable by her absence. (In contrast to McElwee, whose style masks how carefully he melds his films and family life, the professional and personal mingled much more uneasily, it turns out, for Maurice.) Present yet absent is McElwee’s late surgeon father, who never really understood his son’s artistic avidity for photography and film.

McElwee worries that he, too, has become a skeptic about his son.

What perturbs McElwee most, perhaps, is his and Adrian’s drifting-apart, a separation reflected in technology— their father-son bond seems almost, like digital cameras and film, “random and abstract” now. The tangible, the physical, has somehow slipped out of reach in just a few years. An elegy for the materiality of film itself and the indefinable preciousness of a parentchild bond, McElwee’s latest work will be one of his last (he’s nearly 70).

But it lens-caps a career that brought a scruffy, ruminative, frayed humanity to the documentary form. And it strikes me that, in the end, the camera in Photographic Memory is not so much roving as at ease with itself, moving at its own pace, not shambling but ambling along, content in its own small, personal, unassuming search for meaning. V

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Kid Koala on finding a balance in life, and in art

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ric San, also known as Kid Koala, isn’t a kid anymore. Rather, he has them.

The turntablist, DJ and author of graphic novels is also a father to two rad young ones, Maple and Ruby.

San, who is currently in studio making his next album, says that life isn’t just about the music anymore and he wouldn’t have it any other way.

“It was a whole new perspective on everything and I realized that my brain split,” San explained about his foray into fatherhood. “One half used to just obsess exclusively about music and I could easily do that all day.

Then all of a sudden there is this new creature in your life and you really don’t want to miss any of it. And with

your work, it turns into this crossroads where you want to abandon it and go on this new adventure.”

Adventure is the thing for San. Be it DJ’ing or illustration or working on projects with other musicians, his heart is always in whatever he is working on. With the introduction of children, it is still wholly in it, just more focused.

“With my first album I could easily listen to 500 records and try to find the perfect layer of four high-hats to make one super high-hat,” San says.

“Then I would try infinite combinations of that because I had the time and patience to do it. But now I'm just more intuitive where if I started to go down that old route in the studio I’d

probably just scrap it and move on.

Now it is more about getting in that zone faster and making decisions.”

San has made touring a bit of an art form in its own right. Not being one to waste a minute, San fills any void he can with creation. Whether it is illustrating while waiting for a plane in Chicago, or mulling over compositions in his head in between sets he realizes that time, even down time, is of the essence.

“I’ve always really liked the multiple layers of creation,” San says. “I’ve always fed off different forms because I feel like, even though your core story might be the same, or your core intention may be the same, what each discipline allows you to do is express

it in this fun way that actually feeds into something else.

Dabbling in different forms keeps the creative juices flowing, he says.

"I found that if I was stuck on something in the audio studio, I’d go draw for a few hours, then go back to it and realize that the answer was so clear. It just offered a different angle. For example, a panel comic book page can be like a visual reference of a track. If it isn’t working, it isn’t balanced some how. You have to find that balance. I think of it all visually now.”

Ultimately, family is the keystone to his world now. Having them join him on tour when they can, San sees himself as a traveling troubadour with

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his family in tow.

And of course that changes how he works. There are things in life you can only learn through experience, he says. Working in family time has taught him to be more focused in his music, to get to the good ideas quicker.

“It's not because it was lazier work," he says. "I think it was just because I was able to synthesize everything I learned, everything over the years, because I just wanted to get it done and get some father-time in. I didn’t want to miss all these incredible things that are happening in front of me family wise.”

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Namaste Kisses

Singer/songwriter makes a spiritual connection at music festivals

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ast summer at the ArtsWells Music Festival in northern BC, I kissed about 15 people in one day.

Let me explain.

I got to spend a lot of time that summer on the west coast, playing music, enjoying nature, hanging out with amazing people. By the time I reached the town of Wells, I had already sung at four other groovy BC festivals in quick succession: Tiny Lights, Campbell Bay, Starbelly Jam and Kispiox. I had such a festival glow on by then that I was practically emitting light! But the kisses, you want to know about the kisses.

I don’t remember exactly how the idea came to be, but as soon as it popped into my head it was many things. It was interesting, fun, explorative, bold, raw, celebratory, adventurous and that list could go on for quite a while but mostly‚ it was about connecting. This was not a hedonistic act. I dubbed them ‘namaste kisses’ and presented them as such. Namaste translates loosely to, ‘the light in me recognizes the light in you’, or so a yoga teacher once told me. Yup, pretty groovy, these were spirit kisses. kisses, kisses, spirit kisses oh what a lovely concept this is but what the heck is a spirit kiss I’ll try to shed some light on this The body, the mind, the heart, the soul. We are all of these things, all of the time. We often use those four words to describe certain aspects

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of what we’re experiencing or to process things that have happened but they are all intrinsically linked and part of our greater whole.

I called them namaste kisses (or spirit kisses) to put a focus on what our spirits found in the experience.

To present them as such meant that anything happening on a physical, emotional or mental level was a subplot, phew! And the fact that each kiss was part of an art project style group of kisses also took the pressure off. They were expressions of openness, generosity, community, and pure human love. Spirit kisses are not first base kisses driven by lust. They are not trying to go anywhere except smack dab into the middle of the moment.

But even with all my talk of openness and pure human love, I know that a kiss is a powerful thing and not to be approached as trivial. I was careful to offer these kisses to people who were adults, people who I knew and trusted, and everyone was either single or had all the necessary ‘permission slips’ signed. And I think my intent would have been pretty clear even if I wasn’t calling them namaste or spirit kisses.

To me, life is a journey of collecting kindred spirits and connected moments. Where does my spirit most readily come out to play? In music, in nature, in the arms of a lover, and when I take chances and push myself just ever so slightly past my comfort zone.

These days, cell phones, the internet and social media encourage so many of our interactions to be digital, lazy, safe, buffered, muted, self directed, self controlled, contained, constrained, narrow, following paths of what is expected and rarely challenging. They all

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deliver a fast food style of engagement that lacks the hearty fibre of organic chemistry that can only be found in person. Our culture has grown addicted to the quick and easy dopamine hits we receive every time someone ‘likes’ our most recent photo or post. Everything is constantly speeding up but our souls still shine the brightest at a slower tempo.

Every kiss is an opportunity to slow down. Every kiss is an invitation to be brave and vulnerable. I would even go so far as to say that kisses are like snowflakes and no two are ever the same.

We have so many ways of hiding in plain sight. We have safe outfits and conversation topics, safe opinions and safe reactions. But certain things we do have the inherent ability to draw more truth from us.

More of our nougatty centre is revealed in a kiss. We can’t help but be ourselves when we kiss another person. There is nowhere to hide. A kiss brings the moment into focus and brings our inner self closer to the surface.

I am always on the hunt for those experiences where colours look brighter, ideas are blooming, inspiration is bountiful and everything seems possible. This is what draws me to music. This is what draws me to people. This is why I will always love music festivals. And this is why I kissed all those excellent humans that day.

And yes, I’m going to ArtsWells again this year. And no, I will not be setting up a kissing booth! Just like many of the best moments in life are, this was a beautiful and unexpected one off. V Originally published in BC Musician.

Coco Love Alcorn is an Ontariobased singer-songwriter. Her seventh album, Wonderland—an exploration of folk, soul, and the human spirit—launches September 16. cocolovealcorn.com #spiritsessions

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Industry boot camp kicks Project WILD artists into shape

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here's no rest for these Edmonton artists, as winners of Project WILD enter an intense industry boot camp.

Project WILD, which was once the PEAK Performance Project before the sponsoring radio station changed formats, considers itself a professional development program. Past winners of the now defunct PEAK portion are the Wet Secrets, Leeroy Stagger and Kyprios.

Currently knee deep in the program are Edmonton’s own the Dungarees and Ken Stead.

The project is in its first year of a seven year, $4.9 million program that

hopes to create international careers for emerging Alberta folk and country artists. Funded by Calgary radio station WILD 953 (and administered by the Alberta Music Industry Association), the project is financed through CRTC approved Canadian Content Development Funding.

For an artist like Stead, this is a big deal.

“It is offering me an opportunity to learn from industry professionals and peers about the crazy world that is the music industry,” Stead says.

“The money part is gravy because to me the prize was getting into the top 12 to go to boot camp and soak in all

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Before the interview, Stead had just completed orientation. He says he's the “most roots guy there” but Stead is still eager to soak up some knowledge from the bigger country stars.

Currently about to start the boot camp portion of the project, Rob Angus of the Dungarees knows that it won’t be easy.

“It is going to be really challenging and I'm looking forward to it,” Angus says. “It sounds like a lot of long days working with the other artists.

Writing, recording, collaborating.

And then there's lots of sessions and workshops with some real pros in the industry, from vocal coaches, to pro musicians, as well as style and performance coaches. They pretty much cover it all.”

The boot camp portion is being offered to the top 12 (out of over 200 applicants) as a $5000 development award. Angus explains it is as much about cowboy hats as it is about steel guitar solos.

“They really push you to think outside the box to get your name out there and expand your brand and your presence,” Angus says.

“Through quick personal videos, creative merch ideas, regular posts about what you're up to, even if it's not related to your music at all.”

As an independent artist, working on his own, Stead says it's easy to get stuck in a rut. This program has shown him how much more he can do.

“This project is really gonna shake up my world,” he says. “Everyone needs that from time to time.”

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First Fri of every month, 9pm

Flashback Friday; Every Fri MERCER TAVERN

Movement Fridays; 8pm

Thu; 7pm Thursdays: weekly punk, alternative and hardcore music; Every Thu, 8pm

HOWIE MILLER

KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE

Open stage with host Naomi Carmack; 8pm every Thu L.B.'S PUB Open Jam

JUL 22 & 23

16 MUSIC

Friday Nights: Video Music DJ; 9pm-2am SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

RIVERDALE HOUSE Hannah

Artzy Flowz: featuring DJs and artists teaming up; 9pm

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Emily & Jordan; 8:30-10:30pm; $10

Nick Nixon Band; 9pm

BORDERLINE SPORTS PUB

Live music; Every Fri; Free music each week with a different band each week; 8pm BRITTANY'S LOUNGE

CAFE BLACKBIRD Alfie

O’BYRNE’S IRISH PUB Live

music

CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK

RICHARD’S PUB Soul Train

Chronic Rock; 9pm

Live-Single and couple dance; Every Thu, 7:3010:30pm; Free

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Live

Turland's Rockabilly Thursdays & West Coast Swing Dance Lesson; 8-11pm SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL SQUARE Live at Lunch

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Evening with Peter Cetera; 7pm (doors), 9pm (show); Tickets start at $49.50

Sweet Vintage Rides; 9pm

Zappacosta–Two Nights; 8pm; $35

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Karaoke Thursdays with JR; Every Thu, 9pm-1am

COMING SOON: THE PROCLAIMERS, HONEYMOON SUITE, AND MORE!

RIVER CREE–The Venue An

NEW WEST HOTEL Canadian Country Hall of Fame Guest host Bev Munro (country); Every Thu, 7pm; No minors

SANDS INN & SUITES

TICKETS AVAILABLE AT CENTURY CASINO AND TICKETMASTER

ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL

APEX CASINO Jukebox

BOURBON ROOM Live

Jam by Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu; 7pm

FRIDAY AUGUST 26

Leigh; 9pm

Happy Hour featuring The Fronts; 5:30pm • Boogie Patrol with The Give Em Hell Boys and Billie Zizi; 9pm; No cover

NORTH GLENORA HALL

featuring local musicians; Every Thu, 11:30-1pm

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Horus with Demise Without Reason and Tales of the Tomb; 8pm; $15 (adv), $20 (door)

FRI JUL 22

BOHEMIA The Hi Strung Downers with guests; 9pm$10; 18+ only

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

ON THE ROCKS Stilletto;

9pm

Time Warp Late Night Throwback Dance Party with DJs Joses Martin & Thomas Culture VJ Owen; Every Fri, 11:30pm; $5 (door)

LIZARD LOUNGE Jam

open stage; 7pm

A MUSICAL CELEBRATION OF THE BAND

House Function Thursdays; 9pm

BLUES ON WHYTE Andy T &

NAKED CYBERCAFÉ Thu

FRIDAY JULY 22

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

hosted by Cody Forsberg; 7-11pm Night; Every Thu, 7-11pm

GAS PUMP Saturday Jam;

3-7pm HERITAGE AMPHITHEATRE, HAWRELAK PARK

Interstellar Rodeo: Featuring performances by Sam Roberts Band, Lord Huron, Jose Gonzalez, Cat Power, Sam Outlaw, Whitehorse and myriad others; Runs Jul 22-24 JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Chris

Cornell: Higher Truth; 7:30pm; $40.50-$86 at Ticketmaster LB'S PUB Troy Turner (blues); 9pm; No minors

Bluegrass Brunch featuring Spencer Murray Trio; 12:30pm; No cover • Kid Koala with Dane and Kurt Hustle; 8pm; $15 (adv), $20 (door)

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Thu, 7:30pm; Free

Sh!t$how Saturdays: Free Afternoon Concerts; 4pm

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EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE Karaoke;

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9pm FILTHY MCNASTY'S

Bands every Sat; this week: Campfire Hero's

DENIZEN HALL Taking Back

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Rural Routes (folk); 9pm DV8 TAVERN The Matadors;

MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET Live Local

CAFÉ HAVEN Music every

COMEDY AT THE CENTURY CASINO

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY The

Blue (rock) with Forbidden Rhythm, Debutaunt, Along with River and Castle, Puzzled Minds; 8pm; $15 (adv), $18 (door)

CAFE BLACKBIRD Erin

Your Whistle Karaoke Thursdays

Tzadeka; 4-6pm; No cover

MERCURY ROOM Sparrow

Ross; 7:30; $6

FILTHY MCNASTY’S Wet

Mojave Iguanas; 9pm

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Live

Diamond Mind (pop/rock) with Heaven For Real and Brunch Club; 7:30pm; $10 (adv or door)

Circle Jam; 7:30-11:30pm

CASINO YELLOWHEAD

music; 9:30pm

THE BUCKINGHAM

FIDDLER'S ROOST Acoustic

Open mic; 7pm; $2 CASINO EDMONTON

CASK AND BARREL

EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE

Edmonton's best solo musicians

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ Late Fee; Every Fri; Wooftop: DJ Remo & Guests; Underdog:

Happy Hour featuring Alright Gents; 5:30pm • Brisas del Palmar; 9pm; $12 (adv), $15 (door)

O'BYRNE'S IRISH PUB

Chronic Rock; 9pm

Mychela (pop/rock); 9pm

EL CORTEZ TEQUILA BAR AND KITCHEN Kys the Sky;

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9910 OAKK with Nick Degree and Casualdreams; 9pm; $10 (door)

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

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

Mychela (pop/rock); 9pm CASINO YELLOWHEAD

Mojave Iguanas; 9pm CENTURY CASINO Kenny

Shields and Streetheart; 7pm (doors); $59.95; No minors

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The Penske File with Julius Sumner Miller; 8:30pm; $10 (adv), $12 (door) SHAKERS ROADHOUSE

Stephanie Harpe Experience CD release party; 8pm; $10; No minors SHERLOCK HOLMES– DOWNTOWN Andrew Scott (alternative/country); 9pm

TASTE OF EDMONTON STAGE–CHURCHILL SQUARE Alyssa Reid,

Virginia to Vegas, Trevor Guthrie, DJ Thomas Culture; 7pm TD NORTH STAGE X Ambassadors; 9:30pm TELUS NORTH STAGE Ria

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CHA ISLAND TEA CO Ways

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Y AFTERHOURS Freedom

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Fridays

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Cody Mack (alternative/

SAT JUL 23 9910 Faith Healer with

Wares and We Knew; 9pm; $10 (adv) APEX CASINO Jukebox

Leigh; 9pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

with Harrison Brome; 9pm (doors); $23.63-$26.78; 18+ only

OPUS RESTAURANT AND BAR Boneyard (classic

Electric Fridays; Every Fri, 9pm; No minors

rock); 9pm

STARLITE ROOM Bob Moses

ON THE ROCKS Stilletto;

9pm

VIDA LATIN NIGHT CLUB

ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL

Joanne Janzen (adult contemporary/country/ pop); 9pm

Saturday Country Jam (country); Every Sat, 3pm

Saturday Electric Blues Jam with Rotten Dan and Sean Stephens (blues); Every Sat, 2-6pm; No minors

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Cody Mack (alternative/ SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM

NEW WEST HOTEL Early:

Sweet Vintage Rides; 9pm Hair of the Dog: Jo-Jo O' & The Woods (blues/rock); 4-6pm; no cover BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Brad

Bucknell and the oHNo band; 8-10:30pm; $10 BLUES ON WHYTE Andy T &

rock); 9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM

Joanne Janzen (adult contemporary/country/ pop); 9pm SNEAKY PETE'S Sinder

Sparks K-DJ Show; 9pm-1am TASTE OF EDMONTON STAGE–CHURCHILL SQUARE Jocelyn Alice, Van

Damsel, Mitchmatic; 7pm TD NORTH STAGE Matthew

Good; 9:30pm TELUS NORTH STAGE Wes

Mack; 8:30pm

Nick Nixon Band; 9pm

TWIST ULTRA LOUNGE

BOHEMIA Bummer Club

Mikey Wong and his lineup of guest DJs

BORDERLINE SPORTS PUB

Live music; Every Sat; Free

Classical

BOURBON ROOM Live

ROBERTSON-WESLEY UNITED CHURCH Summer

music each week with a different band each week; 9pm BRIXX BAR Philip Solo's

CD release party with Poltergeist and guests; 9pm (doors), 9:30pm (show); $15; 18+ only CAFE BLACKBIRD Alfie

Zappacosta–Two Nights;

afternoon of music and dessert; 3pm; $10 (780.482.1587 and at the door)

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ Chris Bruce spins Britpop/Punk/

Garage/Indie; Every Sat; Wooftop: Sound It Up! with DJ Sonny Grimezz spinning classic Hip-Hop and Reggae; Underdog: Hip Hop open Mic followed by DJ Marack THE BOWER For Those Who Know...: Deep House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests; every Sat THE COMMON Get Down

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every Sat; 9pm EL CORTEZ MEXICAN KITCHEN & TEQUILA BAR

Tonight We Dance with DJ Thomas Culture playing Classics, Hip-Hop, Dance and Indie Rock; Every Sat, 9pm; No cover EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE Rotating

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NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

FILTHY MCNASTY'S

Ryder; 8pm

Sacrilege Sundays: All metal all day

ON THE ROCKS Killer

Happy Hour featuring Sons of Saturn; 5:30pm • Big Dreamer Jam featuring Lucette; 8pm

HERITAGE AMPHITHEATRE, HAWRELAK PARK

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Tribute to Joe Cocker Keep It Greasy; 9pm; $5 (door) O’BYRNE’S Open mic every

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Band & Jordan Welbourne; 9pm REXALL PLACE Sting &

RICHARD'S PUB Mark

Ammar's Sunday Sessions Jam; Every Sun, 4-8pm

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Karaoke Monday PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Wild

Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Association: Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm RED PIANO BAR Swingin'

Mondays; 8-11pm SHAKERS ROADHOUSE

TASTE OF EDMONTON STAGE–CHURCHILL SQUARE Kira Isabella, Livy

Jeanne, Dan Davidson; 7pm TD NORTH STAGE The

SHAKERS ROADHOUSE

Sunday BBQ Jam Every Sunday hosted by the Marshall Lawrence Band (variety); Every Sun, 5pm; All ages

Francesco Yates; 8:30pm

TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul, Motown, Funk, R&B and more with DJs Ben and Mitch; every Sat; 9pm-2am Y AFTERHOURS Release

Saturdays

SUN JUL 24 BLUES ON WHYTE Andy T &

Nick Nixon Band; 9pm CAFE BLACKBIRD Craig

Cardiff; 7:30pm; $15 (adv), $20 (door) DANCE CODE STUDIO

Flamenco Guitar Classes; Every Sun, 11:30am12:30pm

TD NORTH STAGE Moist;

9:30pm TELUS NORTH STAGE

Shawn Hook; 8:30pm

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ Late Fee;

Every Sun

MON JUL 25 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Wooftop: Metal Mondays with Metal Phil from CJSR's Heavy Metal Lunchbox

SHAKERS ROADHOUSE

Crazy Dave's Rock & Roll Renegade Jam; 7:30pm TASTE OF EDMONTON STAGE–CHURCHILL SQUARE Delhi 2 Dublin,

Hell; 9:30pm

Open Mic Night hosted by Adam Holm; Every Mon

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

The Wild!, All Hands on Jane; 7pm

Celtic jam every Tue; 9:30pm

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A

Trews; 9:30pm

TASTE OF EDMONTON STAGE–CHURCHILL SQUARE One Bad Son,

O’BYRNE’S Guinness

DJ Shub; 7pm

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

NEW WEST HOTEL Trick

Ryder; 8pm

Monday Jam with $4 Bill; Every Mon, 8-11pm

Saturday Nights: Indie rock and dance with DJ Maurice; 9pm-2am

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Mother

NEW WEST HOTEL Trick

DV8 Suburban Hypocrites with Filthy Sinner; 8pm

MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey

Psyturdays: various DJs; 9pm

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L.B.'S PUB Tue Variety

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Peter Gabriel: Rock Paper Scissors; 8pm; $50-$250

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No cover Night Open stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm; No charge

DJs Velix and Suco; every Sat Wong every Sat

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Classic

Rock Monday

TELUS NORTH STAGE

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE RetroActive Radio: With LL

Cool Joe TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic Hip hop with DJ Creeazn every Mon; 9pm-2am

TUE JUL 26 BLUES ON WHYTE The

Whiskey Jerks; 9pm BRITTANY'S LOUNGE

Scrambled YEG: Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue- Fri, 5-8pm FIDDLER'S ROOST Fiddle

Jam Circle; 7:30-11:30pm FILTHY MCNASTY'S Filthy

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TD NORTH STAGE Coleman TELUS NORTH STAGE

Andee; 8:30pm

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Chris Bruce

spins Britpop/Punk/ Garage/Indie; Every Tue ON THE ROCKS Turn't Up

Tuesday

WED JUL 27 9910 God Module with

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Wiggly's Hot Shoes Blues Band; 9pm

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Randy and Mr. Lahey; 8pm; $20 (adv), $25 (door) NEW WEST HOTEL Trick PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic

Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; Guests and newcomers always welcome; every Wed, 7pm; $2 (donation, per person), free coffee available

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Wailin' Wednesday Jam with Hosts Wang Dang Doodle (variety); Every Wed, 7:30-11:30pm; All ages TASTE OF EDMONTON STAGE–CHURCHILL SQUARE Prozzäk, The New

TD SOUTH STAGE Tim

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE

Helman; 8:30pm

Scrambled YEG: Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue- Fri, 5-8pm

TILTED KILT PUB AND EATERY Live music

Wednesdays

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

9:30pm

FIDDLER'S ROOST Open

featuring host Naomi Carmack and guest; 9pm;

Qualico Patio Series presents The Young’uns & Kristie Rose & Fats Kaplin;

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MULEFEST 2016 DAY 1 THE FORGE PRESENTS

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AUG/5

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AUG/16

Wednesday's; Every Wed

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Wed

KELLY'S PUB Open Stage:

JUL/30

TELUS NORTH STAGE Scott

DJs

BLUEPRINT ALBERTA + PEEP THIS + STARLITE ROOM PRESENT

W/ MATT THE ALIEN, P.O.S., BIG CHOCOLATE & MORE

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Whiskey Jerks; 9pm

JUL/29

Electric, Lexi Strate; 7pm Karaoke; 9pm

NE OBLIVISCARIS W/ HARRISON BROME

RIVER CREE–The Venue

BOURBON ROOM Acoustic singer songwriter jam; Every Wed, 8pm

open mic with host Duff Robison; 8pm

JUL/22

Karaoke Wednesday RED PIANO BAR Wed Night

CONCERTWORKS.CA PRESENTS

W/ BLACK CROWN INITIATE, STARKILL

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TAVERN ON WHYTE

DRUID IRISH PUB Karaoke

JUL/21

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COMEDY Black Dog Freehouse • 10425-82 Ave • Underdog Comedy Show • Every Thu

Century Casino • 13103 Fort Rd • 780.481.9857 • Open Mic Night: Every Thu; 7:30-9pm

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Chris Sadleir; Jul 22-23 • Brian Link; Jul 29-30

Comic Strip • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Nick Vatterott; Jul 20-Jul 24 • Joe Zimmerman; Jul 27-31

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 • Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou. DJ to follow • Every Sun, 9pm

Empress Ale House • 9912-82 Ave • Empress Comedy Night: Highlighting the best stand-up Edmonton has to offer. New headliner every week • Every Sun, 9pm • Free

Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St • Comedy Groove every Wed; 9pm

Groups/CLUBS/meetings

FOOD ADDICTS • Alano Club (& Simply

Fort Saskatchewan 45+ Singles Coffee Group • A&W, 10101-88 Ave, Fort Saskatchewan • 780.907.0201 (Brenda) • A mixed group, all for conversation and friendship • Every Sun, 2pm

Habitat for Humanity Basic Tool Training Workshop & Info Session • Habitat for Humanity Prefab Shop, 14135128 Ave • 780.451.3416 ext. 232 • HFH. org • Tool Training Instructors will be helping attendees gain the confidence they need to come out to HH's build sites through careful instruction and hands-on practice • Aug 1920, 8:30am-4:15pm

• 8307-109 St • amnesty@edmontonamnesty.org • edmontonamnesty.org • Meet the 4th Tue each month, 7:30pm (no meetings in Jul, Aug, Dec) • Free

Argentine Tango Dance at Foot Notes Studio • Foot Notes Dance Studio (South side), 9708-45 Ave • 780.438.3207 • virenzi@shaw.ca • Argentine Tango with Tango Divino: beginners: 7-8pm; intermediate: 8-9pm; Tango Social Dance (Milonga): 9pm-12 • Every Fri, 7pm-midnight • $15

Babes In Arms • The Carrot, 9351-118 Ave • A casual parent group • Every Fri, 10am-12pm

Canadian Injured Workers Association of Alberta (CIWAA) • Alberta Works Health Centre, #600 12323 Stony Plain Road • canadianinjuredworkers.com • Injured Workers in Pursuit of Justice denied by WCB • Jul 26, 3pm

DeepSoul.ca • 780.217.2464; call or text for Sunday jam locations • Every Sun: Sunday Jams with no Stan (CCR to Metallica), starring Chuck Prins on Les Paul Standard guitars; Pink Floydish originals plus great Covers of Classics: some FREE; Twilight Zone Lively Up Yourself Tour (with DJ Cool Breeze); all ages

Drop-In D&D • Hexagon Board Game Café, 10123 Whyte Ave • 780.757.3105 • info@ thehexcafe.com • thehexcafe.com • An epic adventure featuring a variety of pre-made characters, characters that guests can make on their own, or one that has already been started. Each night will be a single campaign that fits in a larger story arc. For all levels of gamers and those brand new or experienced to D&D • Every Tue, 7pm • $5

Edmonton Gardening Vegetarian & Vegan Group • Call 780.463.1626 for Directions • A talk on building a lasagna garden with vegetarian potluck. There will be a demonstration & discussion on building a lasagna garden with compostable material with tour of greenhouse with over 50 varieties of herbs and garden vegetables • Jul 22, 5:30pm

EDMONTON OUTDOOR CLUB (EOC) • edmontonoutdoorclub.com • Offering a variety of fun activities in and around Edmonton • Free to join; info at info@ edmontonoutdoorclub.com

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Bldg, main floor Cafe, Or in confidence oneon-one in the Craft Room • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance. One-on-one meetings are also available in the craft room • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E: Tuff69@telus.net

Pride Centre of Edmonton •

Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-106 St • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

Open Door Comic Creator Meetings • Happy Harbor Comics, 10729-104 Ave • 780.452.8211 • happyharborcomics.com • Open to any skill level. Meet other artists and writers, glean tricks of the trade and gain tips to help your own work, or share what you've already done • 2nd and 4th Thu of every month, 7pm

Organization for Bipolar Affective Disorder (OBAD) • Grey Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, obad@shaw.ca; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free

Schizophrenia Society of Alberta, 5215-87 St • 780.452.4661 • schizophrenia.ab.ca • The Schizophrenia Society of Alberta offers a variety of services and support programs for those who are living with the illness, family members, caregivers, and friends • 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7-9pm • Free

Scrambled YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St • 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm Seventies Forever Music Society • Call 587.520.3833 for location • deepsoul. ca • Combining music, garage sales, nature, common sense, and kindred karma to revitalize the inward persona • Every Wed, 7-8:30pm

TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS) • Grace United Church annex, 6215-104 Ave • 780.479-8667 (Bob) • bobmurra@telus.net • Low-cost, fun and friendly weight loss group • Every Mon, 6:30pm floor, World Trade Centre, 9990 Jasper Ave; Contact: 780.462.1878/RonChapman@shaw.ca (Ron Chapman); 780.424.6364/dkorpany@ telusplanet.net (Darryl Korpany); Meet every

Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • Drop in hours: Mon, Wed 4-7pm; Fri 6-9pm; Closed Sat-Sun and Holidays • JamOUT: Music mentorship and instruction for youth aged 12-24; Every other Tue, 7-9pm • Equal Fierce Fit & Fabulous: recreational fitness program, ages 12-24; every other Tue, 6-8pm, every other Tue • Queer Lens: weekly education and discussion group open to everyone; every Wed, 7-8:30pm • Mindfulness Meditation: open to everyone; every Thu, 6-6:50pm • Men's Social Circle: A social support group for all male-identified persons over 18 years of age in the LGBT*Q community; 1st and 3rd Thu each month; 7-9pm • TTIQ (18+ Trans* Group): 2nd Mon of the month, 7-9pm • Art & Identity: exploring identity through the arts, a wellness initiative; Every other Fri, 6-9pm • Movies & Games Night: Every other Fri, 6-9pm • Thought OUT: Altview’s all-ages discussion group; every Sat, 7-9pm • Men Talking with Pride: Social discussion group for gay and bisexual men; Every Sun, 7-9pm

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

Schizophrenia Society Family Support Drop-in Group •

• Chamber Toastmasters Club: 6th

LECTURES/Presentations

G.L.B.T.Q Seniors Group • S.A.G.E

Cafe, 10123 Whyte Ave • 780.757.3105 • info@thehexcafe.com • thehexcafe.com • Meet new gamers. Go to the event solo or with a group • Every Mon, 5-11pm • $5 (one drink per person)

Toastmasters

2nd Fl, Canada Place Rm 217, 9700 Jasper Ave; Carisa: divdgov2014_15@outlook. com, 780.439.3852; fabulousfacilitators. toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level, McClure United Church, 13708-74 St: meet every Thu, 6:45-8:30pm; contact vpm@ norators.com, 780.807.4696, norators.com

Evolution Wonderlounge • 10220103 St • 780.424.0077 • yourgaybar.com • Mon: Drag Race in the White Room; 7pm • Wed: Monthly games night/trivia • Thu: Happy hour, 6-8pm; Karaoke, 7-12:30am • Fri: Flashback Friday with your favourite hits of the 80s/90s/2000s; rotating drag and burlesque events • Sat: Rotating DJs Velix and Suco • Sun: Weekly drag show, 10:30pm

Churchill Square • Celebrating all things Star Wars. Featuring lightsaber training for the young and young at heart. Guests must bring their own lightsabers (makeshift lightsabers are welcome) • Every Wed during the summer; 7-7:45pm for young padawans, 7-8:30pm for mature padawans • Free

Monday Mingle • Hexagon Board Game

• Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club:

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Lightsaber Training • Sir Winston

Amnesty International Edmonton

St. Jean: Pavillion McMahon; 780.667.6105 (Willard); clubbilingue.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 7pm

134), University of Alberta, 11104-87 Ave NW • museums.ualberta.ca • Eleven international and local scholars will be discussing topics and presenting their research regarding the Mactaggart Art Collection • Jul 21, 8:3011:30am • goo.gl/forms/FBWPyiFcJgYwA4n92

Humanity Prefab Shop, 14135-128 Ave • 780.451.3416 ext. 236 • vbatten@hfh.org • hfh.org/volunteer/vin • Learn about taking the next steps and what opportunities are available at Habitat for Humanity • Every 3rd Thu of the month, excluding Dec; 6-7pm • Free

Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue, Thu; 7-9pm

• Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings: Campus

Mactaggart Art Collection Symposium • TELUS International Centre (Room

Habitat for Humanity Volunteer Information Night • Habitat for

Lotus Qigong • SAGE downtown 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.695.4588 • Attendees can raise their vital energy with a weekly Yixue practice • Every Fri, 2-3:30pm • Free

Aikikai Aikido Club • 10139-87

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Done Cafe), 10728-124 St • 780.718.7133 (or 403.506.4695 after 7pm) • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm

Team Edmonton • Various sports and recreation activities • teamedmonton. ca • Bootcamp: Garneau School, 10925-87 Ave; Most Mon, 7-8pm • Swimming: NAIT Swimming Pool, 11665-109 St; Every Tue, 7:30-8:30pm and every Thu, 7-8pm • Water Polo: NAIT Swimming Pool, 11665-109 St; Every Tue, 8:30-9:30pm • Yoga: New Lion's Breath Yoga Studio, #301,10534-124 St; Every Wed, 7:30-9pm • Taekwondo: near the Royal Gardens Community Centre, 4030-117 St; Contact for specific times • Abs: Parkallen Community League Hall, 6510-111 St; Every Tue, 6-7pm and Thu, 7:15-8:15pm • Dodgeball: Royal Alexandra Hospital Gymnasium; Every Sun, 5-7pm • Running: meet at Kinsmen main entrance; Every Sun, 10am • Spin: Blitz Conditioning, 10575-115 St; Every Tue, 7-8pm• Volleyball: Stratford Elementary School, 8715153 St; Every Fri, 7-9 • Meditation: Edmonton Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave; 3rd Thu of every month, 5:30-6:15pm • Board Games: Underground Tap & Grill, 10004 Jasper Ave; One Sun per month, 3-7pm • All Bodies Swim: Bonnie Doon Leisure Centre, 8468-81 St; One Sat per month 4:30-5:30pm Woodys Video Bar • 11723 Jasper Ave

• 780.488.6557 • Mon: Massive Mondays features talented comedians • Tue: Domestic

bottle beer special only $3.75 all night long • Wed: Jugs of Canadian and Kokanee for $13; Karaoke with Shirley from 7pm-12:30am • Thu: Highballs on special only $3.75 all night long; Karaoke with Bubbles 7pm-12:30am • Fri: Comming soon: DJ Arrow Chaser's new TGIF Party • Sat: Pool Tournement, 4pm; Jager shots on special only $4; Coming soon, DJ Jazzy

SPECIAL EVENTS 26th Leduc West Antique Annual Exposition • Leduc • leducwestantique. com • Displays of vintage farm equipment, antique tractors, old cars and trucks, working scale models of various vehicles and demonstrations of threshing, plowing, wood cutting and planing. Fun for the kids as well, including a petting zoo rides and more • Jul 23-24 • $10 (per day, 13 years and up), $5 (per day, kids 6-12), free (kids 5 and under)

2016 Ukrainian Day • Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village • history.alberta.ca/ukrainianvillage • Witness history come alive as Alberta’s vibrant Ukrainian community commemorates the arrival of the first Ukrainians to Canada. Visitors are encouraged to bring a lawn chair for seating • Aug 7, 8:30am-5pm

Alley Kat Brewery Tours • Alley Kat, 9929-60 Ave • 780.436.8922 • alleykatbeer. com • Interested in how grain becomes beer?

Want to see the brewing process in action?

Alley Kat is always game to chat beer with folks • Every Thu-Fri, 12-5pm

Bead Market • Ramada Edmonton South, 5359 Calgary Trail • 780.486.7543 • Find unique beading supplies • Jul 23, 11am-5pm • Free Canadian Food Championships • Sir Winston Churchill Square, 100 St & 102 Ave • canadianfoodchampionships.ca • Events Edmonton has partnered with the World Food Championships (WFC) to host one exclusive qualifying event in 2016 for Canada.

The Canadian Food Championships is a yearlong search for Canada’s best cooks—from amateur to professional. The competition will determine who will be part of Team Canada at the World Food Championships. • Jul 22-24

Chalk it Up on 118 Ave • 94 St and 118 Ave (street side) • 780.471.1580 • artsontheave.org • Join chalk artist Ian Morris and learn how to create your own 3D street art • Jul 23, 10am-3pm • Free; No registration required DARK MATTERS Science of Sex • TELUS World of Science, 11211-142 St • 780.451.3344 • telusworldofscienceedmonton.ca/exhibits-events/events-calendar/darkmatters • An 18+ event, where the science is served on the rocks & the adults come out to play. The TWOS team bring back some of their most popular guest experts to explore the science of all things naughty & nice • Jul 21, 7-10pm • $17 (adv), $23 (door) Date Night: Craft Beer and Croquet II • Devonian Botanic Garden, 5 kms north of Devon on Hwy 60 • devonian.ualberta.ca • Because beer and lawn games rule summer, this popular event is offered twice in the Date Night lineup. Come to the Garden for an evening of relaxed pleasure • Jul 28, 6pm to dusk • $13.50 (adults), $7 (student with valid ID), $9.75 (seniors, friends of the garden, garden season pass holders)

Date Night: Ukrainian Night • Devonian Botanic Garden, 5 kms north of Devon on Hwy 60 • devonian.ualberta.ca • A Ukrainian dance performance, and of course, a perogie supper. • Jul 21, 6pm to dusk • $13.50 (adults), $7 (student with valid ID), $9.75 (seniors, friends of the garden, garden season pass holders) ECM Family Picnic in the Park • Grizzly Bear Lodge Park • Celebrate with the family and friends that have helped you raise your children • Jul 24, 11am-2pm • Free

Historic Walking Tour • Little White School, 2 Madonna Drive, St. Albert • artsandheritage.ca • Explore the Community and Discover St. Albert’s unique past on foot.

All historic walking tours meet at the Little White School and take 1-2 hours • Jul 21 (Downtown tour), Jul 27 (Mission Hill tour), 6:30pm • $2-3 donation K-Days • Northlands Park, 73 St & 116 Ave • 780.471.7210 • k-days.com • The biggest

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thing to hit town every summer, with a whole new attitude. Experience the sights and sounds of the fair with a midway, shopping, food and music with performances by Ria Mae, Jess Moskaluke, Shawn Hook, Moist, X Ambassadors, Monster Truck, the Trews and more • Jul 22-31

LARGECon • Various locations throughout Edmonton • largecon2016.com • Featuring a weekend of five individual games designed for LARP (live action role playing) players of all levels • Jul 22-24

Laser Shows • Telus World of Science, 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.ca • Returning to the planetarium dome for a limited time • Every Fri-Sat until Sep 4, 8:15pm & 9:30pm

Night Market Edmonton • Beaverhill House Park, Jasper Ave & 105 St • nightmarketedmonton@gmail.com • 780.934.1568 • nightmarketedmonton.com • Watch an old movie, eat some food, or shop at the vendor’s stalls • Every Fri, 7-11pm, May 20-Aug • Free

Park After Dark • Northlands Park, 7410 Borden Park • 780.471.7210 • northlandspark.ca • Featuring thoroughbred horse racing meets one of Edmonton's largest patio parities • Every Fri, 6:30pm

Photographer’s Drop-in Morning • Devonian Botanic Garden, 5 kms north of Devon on Hwy 60 • devonian.ualberta.ca • A chance to capture the early-morning light and stillness of the Garden, before it opens to the public for the day. Photographers at all levels of experience, from beginner to expert, are welcome. DBG Staff Photographer Paul Swanson will be on hand to answer questions • Jul 23, 7:30am-10 am • $13.50 (adults), $7 (student with valid ID), $9.75 (seniors, friends of the garden, garden season pass holders)

Pupusa Festival • Alberta Ave Community League, 9210 - 118 Ave • albertaave.org • A family oriented afternoon with live music, dancers, ethnic food, games, pupusa-eating contests and more. Take the opportunity to savour a different taste and to practice your Spanish • Jul 23, Noon-8:30pm • Free Slide the City • Victoria Park Rd NW • slidethecity.com • Featuring one of the largest water slides • Jul 23 Sourdough Raft Race • River Valley, starting at Terwillegar Park (northwest end of Rabbit Hill Rd, NW) ending at Rafter’s Landing • 780.406.0235 • sourdoughraftrace. com • Build a raft to participate in the fun.

Compete to win prize money in one of several categories • Jul 23, Toonie pancake breakfast at 9 am; Rafts launch at noon • Free (spectators), $150 (entry for large rafts) Sunny Summer Fair • Rutherford House Provincial Historic Site, 11153 Saskatchewan Drive • 780.427.3995 • rutherford.house@ gov.ab.ca • rutherfordhousehistoricsite.org • Try your hand at a variety of classic carnival games and activities. Play croquet, relax and listen to stories for all ages, try a scavenger hunt, or enjoy an afternoon of musical entertainment • Jul 24, 12-4pm • Regular admission Supra Pro Wake Tour • Shalom Park, Leduc County • priscilla.scollin@bonniercorp. com • events.bonniercorp.com • World class wakeboarders & wakesurfers, food, entertainment, jumbotron and more • Jul 23, 10am-4pm • $10

Taste of Edmonton • Sir Winston Churchill Square, 100 St & 102 Ave • tasteofedm.ca • Up to 40 local restaurants offer one savory and one sweet dish from their menu. There is a large stage on the Square with daily entertainment, too • Jul 21-30

Tiger Tails • Edmonton Valley Zoo, 13315 Buena Vista Rd • valleyzoo.ca • Celebrate the majestic tiger at the Edmonton Valley Zoo. Face painting, arts and crafts and more • Jul 24 • General zoo admission

YEG Market • 152 St and Stony Plain Road • yegmarket.com • Featuring a different theme each week. Included is fresh fruit, veggies, crafts and more • Ever Fri, 4-8pm, May 27-Sep 16 • Free

FREEWILLASTROLOGY ARIES (MAR 21 – APR 19): You now have more luxuriant access to divine luck than you've had in a long time. For the foreseeable future, you could be able to induce semimiraculous twists of fate that might normally be beyond your capacities. But here's a caveat: The good fortune swirling in your vicinity may be odd or irregular or hard-to-understand. To harvest it, you will have to expand your ideas about what constitutes good fortune. It may bestow powers you didn't even realize it was possible to have. For example, what if you temporarily have an acute talent for gravitating toward situations where smart love is in full play?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A directory published by the U.S. Department of Labor says that my gig as an astrologer shares a category with jugglers, rodeo clowns, acrobats, carnival barkers, and stuntpersons. Am I, therefore, just a charming buffoon? An amusing goofball who provides diversion from life's serious matters? I'm fine with that. I may prefer to regard myself as a sly oracle inflamed with holy madness, but the service I provide is probably more effective if my ego doesn't get the specific glory it yearns for. In this way, I have certain resemblances to the Taurus tribe during the next four weeks. Is it OK if you achieve success without receiving all of the credit you think you deserve?

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Over the course of a 57-year career, Japanese movie director Akira Kurosawa won 78 major awards for his work, including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oscars. Among the filmmakers who've named him as an inspirational influence are heavyweights like Ingmar Bergman, Werner Herzog, Bernardo Bertolucci, Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola, and Martin Scorsese. But Kurosawa wasn't too haughty to create lighter fare. At age 86, he departed from his epic dramas to create a 30-second commercial for a yogurt drink. Did that compromise his artistic integrity? I say no. Even a genius can't be expected to create non-stop masterpieces. Be inspired

by Kurosawa, Gemini. In the coming weeks, give your best to even the most modest projects.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Capricorns may be the hardest workers of the zodiac, and Tauruses the most dogged. But in the coming weeks, I suspect you Cancerians will be the *smartest* workers. You will efficiently surmise the precise nature of the tasks at hand, and do what's necessary to accomplish them. There'll be no false starts or reliance on iffy data or slapdash trial-and-error experiments. You'll have a light touch as you find innovative short cuts that produce better results than would be possible via the grind-it-out approach.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): My friend's 12-year-old daughter Brianna got a "B" on her summer school math test. She might have earned an "A" if it weren't for a problem her teacher had with some of her work. "You got the right answer by making two mistakes that happened to cancel each other out," he wrote on her paper next to question seven. I suspect you will soon have a similar experience. Leo. But the difference between you and Brianna is that I'm giving you an "A." All that matters in the end is that you succeed. I don't care if your strategy is a bit funky.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Have ever fantasized about being a different gender or race or astrological sign? Do you suspect it might be fun and liberating to completely change your wardrobe or your hairstyle or your body language?

The coming weeks will be an excellent time to experiment with these variables, and with any others that would enable you to play with your identity and mutate your self-image. You have a cosmic exemption from imitating what you have done in the past. In this spirit, feel free to read all the other signs’ horoscopes, and act on the one you like best. Your word of power is "shapeshifter."

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The Golden Goose Award is given annually to "scientists whose work may have been considered silly, odd, or obscure when first conducted," but which ultimately produced dramatic advances. Entomologists Raymond Bushland and Edward Knipling were this year's winners. More than 60 years ago they started tinkering with the sex life of the screwworm fly in an effort to stop the pest from killing livestock and wildlife throughout the American South. At first their ideas were laughed at, even ridiculed. In time they were lauded for their pioneering breakthroughs.

I suspect you'll be blessed with a vindication of your own in the coming weeks, Libra. It may not be as monumental as Bushland's and Knipling's, but I bet it'll be deeply meaningful for you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I hope it doesn't sound too paradoxical when I urge you to intensify your commitment to relaxation. I will love it, and more importantly your guardian angel will love it, if you become a fierce devotee of slowing down and chilling out. Get looser and cozier and more spacious, damn it! Snuggle more. Cut back on overthinking and trying too hard. Vow to become a high master of the mystic art of I-don'tgive-a-f*ck. It's your sacred duty to steal more slack from the soulanesthetizing grind.

JONESIN’ CROSSWORD

ROB BREZSNY FREEWILL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I regularly travel back through time from the year 2036 so as to be here with you. It's tough to be away from the thrilling transformations that are underway there. But it's in a good cause. The bedraggled era that you live in needs frequent doses of the vigorous optimism that's so widespread in 2036, and I'm happy to disseminate it. Why am I confessing this? Because I suspect you now have an extra talent for gazing into the unknown and exploring undiscovered possibilities. You also have an unprecedented power to set definite intentions about the life you want to be living in the future. Who will you be five years from today?

Ten years? Twenty years? Be brave.

Be visionary. Be precise.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Here's one strategy you could pursue, I guess: You could spank the Devil with a feather duster as you try to coax him to promise that he will never again trick you with a bogus temptation. But I don't think that would work, frankly. It may have minor shock value, in which case the Devil might leave you in peace for a short time. Here's what I suggest instead: Work at raising your discernment so high that you can quickly identify, in the future, which temptations will deliver you unto evil confusion, and which will feed and hone your most noble desires.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): After a cool, dry period, you'll soon be slipping into a hot, wet phase. The reasonable explanations that generated so much apathy are about to get turned inside-out. The seemingly good excuses that provided cover for your timidity will be exposed as impractical lies. Are you ready for your passion to roar back into fashion? Will you know what to do when suppressed yearnings erupt and the chemicals of love start rampaging through your soft, warm animal body? I hereby warn you about the oncoming surge of weird delight -and sing "Hallelujah!" for the revelatory fun it will bring.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I'm composing your horoscope on my iPhone after midnight on a crowded bus that's crammed with sweaty revelers. We're being transported back to civilization from a rural hideaway where we spent the last 12 hours at a raging party. I still feel ecstatic from the recent bacchanal, but the ride is uncomfortable. I'm pinned against a window by a sleepy, drunken dude who's not in full control of his body. But do I allow my predicament to interfere with my holy meditation on your destiny? I do not -- just as I trust you will keep stoking the fires of your own inspiration in the face of comparable irritations. You have been on a hot streak, my dear.

Don't let anything tamp it down!

MATT JONES JONESINCROSSWORDS@VUEWEEKLY.COM

“Breaking Story”-- putting the details back together.

Across

1 It may be dank 4 Civics field, for short 11 It gets laid down 14 “Now I get it!”

15 Surname on the sitar 16 Decorate with frosting 17 1967 hit by The Doors 19 Unpaid bill 20 Just meh 21 A bit of 22 “A Change is Gonna Come” singer Redding 23 Possesses 26 Hammer or sickle, e.g.

28 Part of one of the Ten Commandments 35 He followed Peyton as Super Bowl MVP 36 Boutros Boutros-Ghali’s birthplace 37 “TMZ” subject 39 Milhouse’s teacher 41 “Three Coins in the Fountain” fountain 43 Frank Herbert book series 44 River of forgetfulness in Hades 46 Three of ___ 48 Made the first play 49 T-Bone Walker’s genre 52 Cuban coin 53 7 1/2-foot Ming 54 Wise crowd 56 Texas city 60 Converse, e.g.

64 Woody’s ex 65 Long-running TV science show that hints at the other long entries 68 Business letters?

69 Caesar salad base 70 Treasure hunter’s need 71 Kickoff need 72 Pick-up area 73 Toilet paper layer

11 Comic-strip girl who debuted in the 1930s 12 Berry for the health-conscious 13 Halloween decorations 18 Swiss Roll lookalike 22 Expressed admiration 24 Compass tracing 25 “Chop-chop!”

27 Available without a prescription, for short 28 Achilles’ vulnerable spot 29 With more “years young” 30 Well out of medal contention 31 Distiller ___ Walker 32 Northern California town that once had a palindromic bakery 33 “___ Out” (musical based on Billy Joel songs) 34 “Chicago” actress Zellweger 38 Growing planes?

40 “I remember well ...”

42 ___ 500 45 French connections?

47 AKA, before a company name 50 “___ doin’?” (Joey Tribbiani greeting) 51 Got the highest score, in golf 54 Leave out 55 Jacob’s Creek product 57 Fast money sources 58 “The New Yorker” cartoonist Addams, for short 59 “In memoriam” bio 61 Burlap material 62 Administered by spoon 63 Catch sight of 65 What Elmo calls Dagwood in “Blondie” 66 “Wooly Bully” opening number?

67 Sapphire’s mo. ©2016 Jonesin' Crosswords

Down

1 Buds 2 Athens is there 3 Makes it?

4 L.A. clock setting 5 Bit of resistance?

6 Places down, as carpeting 7 Dope 8 Take money off the top 9 “___ comment?”

10 Acrimony

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Wedding night expectations Don't pressure yourself, or your spouse, to get the deed done

J

ust in time for wedding season, UK lingerie shop Bluebella released the results of their informal study on sex and weddings. In their online study, 52 percent of the 1000 people who responded said that they did not have sex the night of their wedding.

This doesn’t surprise me at all. In fact, I wonder how this is a thing that we still talk about. Times have changed dramatically from the days when the wedding night was the first time many couples had sex—or at least sex that was socially sanctioned. Most weddings receptions were simple affairs involving small, family get-togethers and couples would leave early to start their new life together.

Now, the elaborate wedding parties that used to be the domain of the

wealthy and the well-connected are the norm rather than the exception.

The average Canadian wedding costs $31 000. With all of the planning, partying, drinking, and excitement that goes along with such a big production, most couples are too tired, too drunk, or too focused elsewhere to be interested in sex after the party’s over. In fact, being too tired and too drunk were the top two reasons Bluebella survey respondents gave for sexless wedding nights.

The vast majority of couples have already had sex before their wedding, and most of them are already living together, so sex on the wedding night just doesn’t have the importance that it once did.

There’s nothing wrong with focusing on your party and your guests.

After all, a wedding is only a symbol

of that start of a long life together.

There is plenty of time for sex in all the following days and years. But if it feels important to you to have sex the night of the ‘I dos’, there are some things that can help make that happen.

Have a talk. While you can’t, and shouldn’t, force it, telling your spouse that having sex that day is meaningful for you will help increase the likelihood that it will happen. We often assume our spouse feels the same way we do, but that may not be the case. If one of you expects amazing sex and the other is planning to party until they pass out, disappointment and resentment can result.

Make a plan. Set up something ahead of time—a nice hotel room, some strawberries and champagne,

a sexy lingerie set, a fun and exciting toy. Have it set out somewhere as a reminder that sex is another important part of your celebration.

It still doesn’t guarantee it will happen, but after a busy and exciting day where your mind may have been elsewhere, it will help to bring you back to focusing on each other.

Limit the food and alcohol. This can be difficult if you are having a big party, but remember that excessive eating and drinking are the enemies of great sex. You can have an amazing time at your wedding without overdoing it. Enjoy your guests, enjoy the party, and keep the indulgence to a minimum.

Leave before you are completely exhausted. We all think that we can just push through, even when we are so tired we can’t keep our eyes open,

but it’s just not going to happen. Enlist help to ensure that all the loose ends like finishing up with caterers, closing the bar, and locking the venue, are all taken care of so you don’t have to be there until the bitter end.

Evaluate how much sex that day really means to you. Weddings are a once (or sometimes more than once) in a lifetime experience. There is plenty of time for lots of great sex in the days and years to come. Why not relieve yourself of the pressure to have an amazing party and great sex, and just enjoy? V Brenda Kerber is a sexual health educator who has worked with local not-for-profits since 1995. She is the owner of the Edmonton-based, sex-positive adult toy boutique the Traveling Tickle Trunk.

Dan savage savagelove@vueweekly.com

IN LOVE, BUT HEARTBROKEN

STILL

I’m sorry if my English is wrong. I’m writing from Germany, where I am being heartbroken and not knowing how to go on. I’ve been seeing a guy for a couple of months and slowly falling in love with him. “Peter” has always been very open to me about himself, his failed relationships, and his commitment issues. He talks frequently about his ex-boyfriend from five years ago and how being left created a deep fear of being left once again. He also had a relationship that ended a year ago. Yesterday he told me he’s still in love with the guy from one year ago but that his love is unrequited. He also told me that he values what we have but he can’t stop loving this other guy.

And he can’t promise me that this will change. I am in love and heartbroken at the same time, hopeful and fearful, and unable to get up for the last couple of days. Deep down, I fear I will get hurt. I already am hurt. I’m falling for someone who’s not able to love me back, who’s stuck in the past, but who wishes to change that in order to let me into his life. Should I stay and wait for Peter to get better even if it hurts to know he’s in love with someone other than me? Or should I leave him as so many others have and hurt him?

HEALING EROTIC LOVE PROBLEM MEANS EVERYTHING Peter could be lying to you.

That’s probably not what you wanted or expected to hear, HELPME, and you’ll find some more hopeful/less cynical advice further down, I promise. But when a guy with “commitment issues” tells you he’s struggling with the emotional fallout of a relationship that ended five years ago and still hopelessly in love with someone he hasn’t seen for a year… you have to entertain

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the possibility that he could be lying to you.

You always have to entertain that possibility—with new loves, old loves, blue loves.

When someone tells us they have “commitment issues,” we’re primed to hear this: “This boy is incapable of committing until healed (by a therapist, by a new love, by the passage of time).” But sometimes what they mean is this: “I have no interest in committing—not to you, not to anyone, not now, not ever.” But instead of owning up to that (because people who want to remain single are viewed as damaged?) or telling you he’s not seeking anything serious (because you might leave him, and he’s not done with your ass?), Peter invents/inflates a pair of past loves that render him incapable of loving you the way you deserve to be loved and blah blah blah and off the hook. Not a child-man who won’t commit, but a victim who would commit if he could commit but—sob!—he can’t commit.

But, hey, maybe he’s telling you the truth. Maybe he’s in love with Mr. One Year Ago. So tell him he can love you and love the other guy at the same time. Established gay throuples, stable straight poly quads, bi men with GFs and BFs, married lesbians who U-Hauled an adorable baby dyke—there are examples everywhere you look these days of people in love with more than one romantic partner. I don’t see why a person can’t be in love

with someone and still in love with an ex—think of it as a sort of semiposthumous/semi-poly relationship. You’ll be pioneers.

Give Peter permission to love his ex (pathetically and abstractly) while loving you too (intimately and tactilely), HELPME, and you might be able to love a commitment out of him.

BROTHER TROUBLE

I’m a gay male in my late 20s. My little sister’s husband, “Peter,” is my age and bisexual. I’m not one of those gay men who think bi guys don’t exist. And I know bi guys are just as capable of being monoga-

let him. I know it’s a bad idea, but Peter is hot. This is torture. What should I do?

BOY IS LOST Stop smiling, work harder to change the subject, avoid being alone in a room with Peter, and repeat after me: “My sister might be able to forgive her husband for sucking a dick, but she’ll never forgive him—or me—if that dick is mine.”

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I’m a gay guy in an open relationship and I’m on Recon, a gay hookup/dating site for guys into leather/ fetish/BDSM. My partner, who isn’t kinky, knows I have a profile there and it’s not a problem.

Today I got a message from a new guy, and when we exchanged face pics, I saw that he looks exactly like “Peter,” my boyfriend’s best friend’s fiancé! I asked him if that was him, and he stopped responding. What should I do? My BF doesn’t want to know much about my extracurricular activities, but this could make our next double date extremely awkward. We see this other couple a fair amount, and even though I think this guy is goodlooking, I would never sleep with him because of the social situation.

On the other hand, if I’m wrong and they’re not the same person, bringing it up with them could make things awkward, especially since I’m pretty secretive about my kinks and have zero desire to discuss them with my BF’s friends.

Repeat after me: ‘My sister might be able to forgive her husband for sucking a dick, but she’ll never forgive him—or me—if that dick is mine.’

mous as other guys—which isn’t that comforting when you think about it—and I don’t have a problem with my bi brother-in-law being bi. More importantly, my sister doesn’t have a problem with it.

But whenever I’m alone with Peter, however briefly, he starts telling me how much he misses dick. He wants to hear about the last “really great dick” I sucked and tells me he misses sucking dick. I smile and say dick is great for sure and make a halfhearted attempt to change the subject. The last time it happened was after my grandfather’s funeral. I’m pretty sure Peter wants to suck my dick, and I’m tempted to

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P.S. Additional information that might be relevant: Our engaged friends aren’t having sex, we’ve been told, and they’re making no moves toward actually planning a wedding.

REQUIRES EDUCATED CONSULTATION ON NEXT STEP Going silent after you asked, “Is that you, Peter?!?” is a pretty good indication that it was indeed Peter you were talking to. But while you know Peter was on Recon, RECONS, you don’t know exactly what he was doing there. Maybe he goes online to fantasize, swap pics, and jack off. Maybe Peter is on Recon with his fiancé’s blessing, just as you’re on Recon with your partner’s blessing (but, like you, he’s not comfortable discussing his kinks with friends). Maybe their relationship/engagement is on the verge of collapse and your partner’s best friend’s fiancé is trying to line up a new relationship before pulling the plug on the one he’s in now.

Since you don’t know what’s going on in their relationship, RECONS, keep your mouth shut and refrain from making assumptions or judgments. And the next time you have to interact with Peter and his fiancé socially, slap a smile on your face and talk about the weather, the election, the estrogen-enhanced, better-than-the-original Ghostbusters reboot, the new season of Difficult People, Zika, the Olympics—basically anything other than Recon, kinks, and wedding plans.

On the Lovecast, Dan chats with Wonkette’s Rebecca Schoenkopf about Bernie and Hillary and love and hate: savagelovecast.com. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter

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