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LGBTQ friendly foster care // 3

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Nightjar speakeasy off Whyte Ave. // 4

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“Palliative Care” installation at Latitude 53 / 6

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The absurd sarcasm of The Trouble With Women // 8

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Sophomore slump for Star Trek Beyond // 9

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Foster care for LGBTQ youth

Social enterprise Five/Fourteen seeks supportive and allied foster parents Canada’s first (and only) LGBTQ-focussed foster care agency has opened in Ontario and it’s about damn time.

Although there are a growing number of initiatives designed explicitly for LGBTQ street-involved youth (SAFQEY locally and YMCA Sprott House in Toronto come to mind), a similar approach has not been applied to youth in care, until now.

Five/Fourteen is based in Windsor and is a social enterprise dedicated to providing services and support to LQBTQ and gender non-conforming youth in foster care. It draws its name from both the anniversary of the decriminalization of homosexual acts in Canada as well as the date of Ontario’s Children and Youth In Care Day, both of which fall on May 14.

At the beginning of July, it received its operating license and is currently raising funds to house 60 youth by the end of the year.

The organization is run by husbands Chad Craig and Lucas Medina. According to its website, Five/Fourteen is in-

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spired by Medina’s tenure as a Crown ward who experienced abusive foster homes because of his sexual orientation. The organization grew out of his involvement with You Are Not Alone, a committee tasked with gathering the stories of LGBTQ youth in care.

This experience confirmed the necessity of an LGBTQ youth-specific organization; government is slow to change and provincial child welfare systems aren’t exactly bastions of progressive policy. In 2015, Five/ Fourteen was supported by Toronto’s Centre for Social Innovation’s Agents of Change program and was able to work with a sexual minority youth services expert to develop

their programming.

While many foster agencies do engage LGBTQ communities, Five/ Fourteen is different in its focus on youth. In a recent interview with the Windsor Star, Craig noted that often the focus of foster care agen-

in care is difficult to come by, in part due to the fact that the Federal government only began counting youth in foster care in 2011 and doesn’t separate out other identifying factors such as race or sexual orientation.

Five/Fourteen estimates the number of LGBTQ youth in Ontario to be in the thousands. Some research south of the border shows some more concrete numbers.

The Los Angeles Foster Youth Survey found that 13.4 per cent of youth in foster care were lesbian, gay, bisexual, or questioning and 5.6 percent were transgender; likewise, the Midwest Evaluation of the Adult Functioning of Former Foster Youth found that 11 per cent of

It might help challenge the ‘parental rights’ narrative that has recently re-emerged in the wake of the conversation about LGBTQ policies in Alberta’s education systems. cies is on attracting LGBTQ parents.

Instead, Five/Fourteen takes the opposite approach and tries to find affirming houses for LGBTQ youth, regardless if the parents are LGBTQ themselves or allies.

The exact number of LGBTQ youth

youth were lesbian, gay, or bisexual.

What we do know for sure is that Canada has one of the highest rates of youth in care in the world (thanks in part to our legacy of colonization).

What would such a service look like in Alberta? As far as I know, no similar organization exists in Alberta, although certainly there are individuals in the Alberta foster care system that support LGBTQ youth. It might help challenge the “parental rights” narrative that has recently re-emerged in the wake of the conversation about LGBTQ policies in Alberta’s education systems, for one (how many of you just snorted with disbelief upon reading that last sentence?).

And while I can already hear people arguing that this is a form of positive segregation, I hope we can all agree that, until our youth stop experiencing bullying and suicide ideation at levels that far exceed those of their straight and gender-conforming peers, organizations such as Five/ Fourteen are desperately needed.

GWYNNE DYER // GWYNNE@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Imagining Trump's first days in office

One possible future, one year from now, if the divisive Republican candidate wins in the US

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et us suppose that it is July 2017.

Let us suppose that Donald Trump, nominated as the Republican candidate for the US presidency exactly a year ago, won the November election—quite narrowly, perhaps, but the polls are certainly suggesting that such a thing is possible. So he was inaugurated six months ago, and has started to put his campaign promises into effect.

We may also assume that the Republican Party retains control of both houses of Congress. If it doesn’t, then Trump’s ability to execute his plans would be seriously circumscribed, but the surge of support that gives Trump victory would probably also give the Republicans a win in some close Senate races. The Republican majority in the House of Representatives, thanks to extensive gerrymandering, is practically fireproof.

Trump’s three most disruptive campaign promises were also the three that had the most appeal to his core voters, and he is implementing them fast. They are: a 40 percent tariff on all foreign imports, an end to free trade deals, and tight curbs on immigration—especially the famous “wall” on the Mexican border.

It won’t actually be a wall, of course.

It will be the kind of high-tech barrier that countries build when they are really serious about closing a frontier. There will be a ditch about

three metres deep and ten metres wide extending for 3,000 km along the US-Mexican border. It will have a three-metre-high razor-wire fence along the front edge of the ditch, facing Mexico, and another along the back edge.

The front fence has a high-voltage current running through it. The back fence carries the video and infra-red cameras and motion-sensors that detect attempts to cross the ditch, and the remotely controlled machine-guns that respond to those attempts. There are also landmines down in the ditch.

Why is it so lethal?

Because long experience has shown that the only way to really close a border is to kill people who try to cross it.

The “wall” is not yet finished in July 2017, of course. It will take several years to complete, at a cost of $30-50 billion. Already, however, there are daily deaths among the tens of thousands of Mexican protesters who gather at the construction sites—and a few among Mexican-American protesters

on the other side of the fence as well.

The Mexican government, faced with economic disaster as the millions of manufacturing jobs created in Mexico to export back to the United States evaporate, has broken diplomatic relations with Washington, as have several other Latin American nations. State Department experts are worried that a radical nationalist regime may come to power in Mexico,

gress, as is the bill to end the North American Free Trade Agreement (which is causing panic in Canada, 73 percent of whose exports go to the United States).

The new laws will go through in the end, and the most important casualty will be US-China trade (as Trump fully intends it to be). China is already in a thinly disguised recession, and the impact of the new trade measures will turn it into a political crisis that threatens the survival of the Communist regime.

Beijing will certainly respond by pushing forward with the proposed Regional Comprehensive Economic Pa r t n e r s h i p, which would include sixteen nations of the AsiaPacific region but exclude the United States. However, it may also manufacture a military confrontation with the United States to distract popular discontent at home with a foreign threat. The dispute over the South China Sea would do nicely.

Japan, which is starting a major military build-up after Prime Minister

It won’t actually be a wall, of course.

It will be the kind of high-tech barrier that countries build when they are really serious about closing a frontier.

but “establishment experts” are not welcome in the new White House.

Negotiations for a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership between the US and European Union have been broken off, and the TransPacific Partnership will never be ratified by Congress. The legislation for a 40 percent tariff on foreign imports is still making its way through Con-

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Abe finally removed the anti-war Article 9 from the constitution in March 2017, will be at America’s side in this confrontation, but its European allies may not. Trump’s pro-Putin posture has not gone down well in the EU, which worries about Russia’s intentions, and his demands that Europe’s NATO members pay more of the alliance’s costs have not helped either.

The European Union, still in shock after Britain’s Brexit vote in 2016, has been further shaken by the near-win of Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far right, anti-EU National Front, in the May run-off of the French presidential elections. The spectre of EU collapse comes nearer, and Europe has no time for America’s Asian quarrels.

In the United States, the economy is still chugging along despite the stockmarket crash of November 2016.

Trump’s big increase in the military budget, his huge expansion of infrastructure spending (with borrowed money) and the rise in the minimum wage have kept the machine turning over for the time being. The effect of declaring a trade war on the rest of the world is not yet being felt at home—but it will be.

And it’s only July 2017. Trump still has another three-and-a-half years in the White House. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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REVUE // SPEAKEASY

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Secret code required

Nightjar 8130 Gateway Blvd 780.293.6181

Nightjar owners are optimistic about their bar's speakeasy concept

hidden, unassuming venue than to make it something that’s secretive by nature?

“We walked in, and we immediately saw that the structure, the door, the room itself, it all lent itself to this speakeasy concept and the idea of a hidden bar in Edmonton,” says Yen. Despite previous high-profile failures, Yen and Bryant are optimistic about their chances. “I think now, when people come in here, they won’t see a cursed venue. They’ll see a beautiful, brand new bar,” says Bryant. But that relies on getting people in the door.

Nightjar offers secluded areas for small groups. // Photo by Steven Teeuwsen

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ust past Hudson’s on Whyte, and around the corner, there’s a simple black door, decorated by a small sign and a brass lion’s head doorknocker. To get through it, you’ll need a password.

But if you know the code word —and it changes weekly—you can descend a steep staircase beneath a sparkling chandelier, and find yourself in a sumptuous speakeasy lifted from the 1920s.

The Nightjar, a new bar on Gateway Boulevard, is the brainchild of David Bryant, Jason Yen and Scott Martin. Yen

and Martin have been long-time friends and business partners (they co-own the Provincial Pub on the southside), and Bryant, the new bar’s general manager, has been involved with the pair since getting drunk at a bar downtown where Yen used to bartend.

“I came in the next day, after embarrassing myself, and apologized to him," Bryant says. "He was in the middle of getting mad at a porter, and was just like, ‘You seem like a good kid, you should come work here.’ And so I did.”

After opening Provincial in 2015, the trio got a chance to check out an empty venue just off Whyte Avenue.

Some people think the spot—with its tiny street presence and high rent—is cursed. It was previously home to DV8 Underground, which lost the venue last year, and New City, which went out of business in 2013. But Yen and Martin immediately saw the potential to make the best of those features that made the space so challenging for other venues. After all, what better way to use the

In order to do that, Bryant established a marketing strategy built on mystery.

Two months before opening, he set up a Facebook page and Twitter for Nightjar and started making enigmatic posts about rumrunners and police searching for hidden speakeasies in the area.

“People were really intrigued by it.

There was a Reddit page devoted to figuring out what it was,” he says. He also set up an SMS blaster service that allows patrons to text a phone number and receive the week’s password. So far, it seems to be working, and the bar has had respectable weekend crowds since opening just before Canada Day. Despite the venue’s large size— close to 5000 square feet—they’ve succeeded in making the bar feel intimate.

A large hotel-style bar occupies one wall, while the rest of the room is filled with period-appropriate couches and armchairs, creating a series of smaller salons where groups can gather and effectively forget about any other customers. Smalls details—like the glit-

tering chandeliers with their dimmed lights, the ornate wallpaper and tin ceilings—complete the illusion.

That said, the Nightjar isn’t your typical craft cocktail bar. Instead, it seems to be an attempt to bridge the gap between high-end craft bars like North 53 and Whyte Ave’s more approachable, blue-collar establishments. The handful of cocktails listed on the menu are batch-brewed in advance, with liquor added just before serving, so that a round of drinks for a table of ten takes only a few minutes. Most come to the table in mason jars.

Cocktail nerds needn’t be disappointed, however.

“We have the bar bible behind the bar, so if you ask for it, the bartender can make it all from scratch,” says Bryant.

From scratch is right, too—order an off-menu mint julep, and you’ll hear the bar resonate with the sound of the bartender manually crushing the ice with a mallet.

There’s much to be impressed with at Nightjar, which offers a unique concept for the city’s hipster cocktail aficionados while remaining accessible to Whyte Avenue’s traditional clientele. There’s room for growth, too. Yen and Bryant hope to add more entertainment to their weekly lineup (there’s already live jazz on Tuesdays) perhaps by bringing in some Fringe shows or partnering with one of the local theatres for cocktail-and-a-movie nights. As long as they can keep people coming through that unassuming doorway, the bar could very well outlast expectations.

ALIX KEMP

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REVUE // INDIAN

With a pinch of fennel seed

Our reviewer knows what he likes, even if it's not rooted in traditional Indian cuisine

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t's so hard to find good Indian food in Edmonton," a friend of mine— let's call her Julie—said when I mentioned I had tried out an untested Indian restaurant in the west end. I'm not in a great position to argue because most of the Indian food I've eaten has come from within the city limits, so my ongoing experiment lacks a respectable control group.

This is merely to alert readers that my assessment of Indian food is possibly underinformed, as I've been satisfied with many Indian meals I've found locally. So perhaps you should take it with a grain of salt—or a pinch of fennel seed to help suppress flatulence— when I say that I think Namaste India, a new-ish Indian restaurant just off Stony Plain Road, is pretty good.

I should add that I did recruit a few co-diners to join me, one of whom has been to India multiple times and has experienced the giddy highs and gut-shattering lows of its culinary

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offerings and might know a thing or two about Indian cuisine. That said, his favourite kind of food seems to be "a lot."

Though this was my first trip to Namaste, I had been in its premises twice before in two prior incarnations as different, but equally ramshackle, Caribbean restaurants. The folks behind Namaste have taken rather more care to lay on a polished dining atmosphere from a fresh saffron paint job and brand new fixtures to a menu on which all of the food items are actually available for purchase. There is, of course, a cooler stocked with myriad import beers that is central to so many Indian food establishments.

My main co-diner and I were famished when we arrived to the mostly empty restaurant early on a Saturday evening. As we noted that the long list of entrees made with beef, lamb, fish, shrimp, paneer and pulses—as

well as dosas and, for some reason, pastas—seemed to top out just over the $15 mark, we also noted that there was no reason not to order the appetizer called "Gobhi 156" ($10) while we awaited our dining partners.

The other co-diners arrived just ahead of the appetizer, a plate of deep-fried cauliflower coated in a dark red sauce that made it look like truncated buffalo wings. We were all delighted to find the crispy coating and light, fluffy interior were complemented by the spicy, tomatoey sauce with a vinegar snap and quickly gobbled the generous portion. This boded well for the rest of the meal, comprising one selection by each of us.

One diner proclaimed her love of palak and decided she wanted it with beef ($14.50), while another wanted to try the chana masala ($10). I was curious about the coconut fish curry ($14) and the last to decide blurted out tandoori chicken ($14 for a half)

as the server stood patiently by. We also ordered plain ($2) and garlic ($2.50) naan bread and some raita ($4) for cooling our mouths, should it come to that, plus rice ($3).

The food came fast and all at once, in the usual small copper pots that look like they don't hold enough food until you try to eat it all. The beef palak—chunks of the eponymous meat simmered to fall-apart tenderness in a sauce of spinach, garlic, garam masala and ginger— was an excellent choice, with an appealing hint of sweetness about it.

The chana masala was likewise very toothsome, a stew of tender chickpeas in tomato-tamarind gravy that I might have been happy with were it the only dish on the table.

Tandoori chicken with its characteristic charred edges and livid pink tint wouldn't be my first choice ordinarily, but Namaste spiffed it up with the addition of a savoury cilantro chutney

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Namaste India 10049—156 St 780.757.7550 and bright orange pickled onions on the side. The Goan fish curry was a tad tame, despite the presence of many whole spices, so the soft morsels of mild whitefish and creamy sauce didn't make much of an impression.

We ate most of it anyhow, with big tranches of crisp, fresh-made naan— three pieces per order so there was plenty to go around. One co-diner volunteered that the meal could have been spicier overall, but that's probably just a matter of asking.

For just over $20 per person including tip, we were all satisfied to varying degrees and the highlights made me think a return trip (or take-out order) would reveal more winning dishes.

Plus I absolutely want to eat the Gobhi 156 again, even if I never find out what the hell the 156 part means. As I said, I may not know much about Indian food, but I know what I like.

SCOTT LINGLEY

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A different kind of buzz

Cannabis Cocktails offers THC infused recipes for imbibers Now Available Warren Bobrow 160 pp, $$27.99

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arren Bobrow is a brand ambassador, former bank executive and the author of four cocktail books.

His latest is Cannabis Cocktails, Mocktails and Tonics: The Art of Spirited Drinks and Buzz-Worthy Libations.

And if there were any doubts as to the possible commercial success of a book on cannabis drinks—I'm in New Orleans this week—and it's totally sold out.

One caveat Bobrow offers is that he cannot tell people the correct doses for the different strains or the risks inherent in using cannabis tinctures.

He offers up the Thai food spice principal: Start low, as "you can always add more spice." He suggests waiting an hour between drinks.

VUE spoke with the author about his training, his book, and reinventing himself at 50-years-old.

VUE WEEKLY: How did you get your start with cocktails?

WARREN BOBROW: I trained as a chef in the '80s. I started in television, that didn't work out so well. I always wanted to work in a kitchen so I got a job as a pot-scrubber. I worked my way up the line as an apprentice to become a saucier. Cock-

tails came easy to me after being trained in flavours.

VW: When did you know you wanted to write cocktail books?

WB: That came about after a Ministry of Rum event in 2010. The founder, Ed Hamilton, encouraged me into it. I left corporate banking in 2009, and there was a short window before I met Hamilton. I took classes with celebrated writers and instructors Andy Smith, at The New School, and with Alan Richman, at the International Culinary Center of New York.

The writing came easy to me. There is good writing out there, but I truly felt I could do better. I was going to write about food and wine. I didn't look at cocktails until I talked to Ed Hamilton.

The only ingredient missing from my last book Apothecary Cocktails: Restorative Drinks from Yesterday and Today was cannabis. Cannabis is a very dicey subject. I didn't want to make the book a 'get-high quick guide'.

VW: What's been the hardest part of this journey?

WB: I'm 55 now and I didn't know what I was going to do with my life until I was 50. I was 48 when I lost my banking job and I worked for two years without a pay cheque. When I left they gave me severance and I used that to reinvent myself. This has not been easy, financially.

VW: What's your favourite cocktail to make from the Cannabis Cocktails book?

WB: It's a well-made Absinthe Frappé. Good luck getting one in most places. The absinthe is usually terrible, the ice is even worse. I love to use Cuvée Edouard absinthe, and got permission to use it in the book. I infuse it with THC. I also love a Sazerac with the THC infused absinthe. V

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PREVUE // DEATH

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LOOK INTO THE LIGHT

Lee Henderson's upcoming installation at Latitude 53 forces some serious contemplation

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or many of us the words ‘palliative care’ bring up associations we’d rather forget, but for Torontobased multimedia artist Lee Henderson it was a fitting title for his new installation.

Designed to provide a space for people to contemplate their own mortality, “Palliative Care (19851992)” is set to appear next month at contemporary art gallery, Latitude 53. It features a 25-minute video compilation of every instance in all seven seasons of the classic TV series, The Golden Girls, where a character refers to the concept of death.

The fact that Henderson chose that particular show is no coinci-

dence. In a recent phone interview, he said he appreciated that the ‘80s sitcom wasn’t afraid of tackling heavy topics related to the advanced age of its four female protagonists. As he was going over the 180 episodes, he realized there were only four that didn’t mention death in some way.

He’s also noticed that the show has had a resurgence in popular culture and on social media (including a post about a puppet show adaptation in Toronto). Henderson attributes the comeback to the fact that many people, like himself, who watched the show and developed an attachment to it in the ‘80s,

now find themselves saying goodbye to their last grandparent.

When Henderson was putting together the video, he decided to cut each clip at the moment when “another word is spoken.” As a result, there are many “breaks” as he explained, where there is either silence or a laugh track.

The program’s sitcom format also ties into a running theme of humour in his art.

“My artwork is funny the way King Lear is funny,” he says. Not in broad, obvious strokes, but in the way laughter can sometimes be your only recourse when faced with the

knowledge that we’re all mortal.

Every aspect of the space Henderson has mapped out will allow viewers to step back from their busy lives and relax as they take in his work. The room is heated, lit with a warm glow and furnished with chaise lounges. The effect is that it calls to mind the Golden Girls setting in Florida. More than relaxing, Henderson hopes the exhibit can be a space that “slows the mind,” where people can come to mediate on these topics—and whatever else comes to mind. To him, there aren’t very many places in the fast-paced modern world to do so.

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In addition to verbal mentions of the concept of death such as: “will,” “exterminator” and “heaven,” there are also visual gestures, as when a character draws his finger across his neck, as well as a scene wherein a major character dies briefly and goes to heaven. In the clip you can see her walk towards a white light (shown in the image).

This installation will be exhibited alongside two works from Montreal artist Joani Tremblay entitled “Landscape Gaze and Breezy Erudition” and “What About Formal Freedom?” starting August 4.

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Belmont Block in Little Italy / On now Murals aren’t just great for Pokestops in the app Pokemon Go—they brighten our city and give it character, in that real reality kind of way. And there’s a new one in Little Italy, along the redeveloped Belmont Block. The mural adorns the south-facing wall of the 14-suite Belmont apartments in the McCauley area. (Belmont Block in Little Italy, 10767—95 St)

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Thurs, Aug 4 to Sat, Sept 10 Palliative Care Latitude 53

Off Whyte 2016 / Mon, Aug 1 – Wed, Aug 31 Off Whyte—the holdover show from the Whyte Avenue Art Walk—continues in a new venue thanks to Jake’s Gallery. Guests will be able to have friends, family, clients, and admirers vote for artists’ work via Twitter and Facebook using the hashtag #offwhyte.

Once art lovers post their choice artist online, Jake’s Gallery will choose the top 16 to participate in a month-long gallery showing with an artist reception on August 5. Let the paintbrushes fly and the thumbs hover over keyboards.

(Jake’s Gallery, 10441—123 St.)

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The Improv Power Hour Featuring Go 4 Broke Productions / Jul 29 (7 pm) At the Edmonton Fringe Festival in 2015, Cards Against Humanity and improv came together for the perfect mash up. Now your favourite Go 4 Broke (G4B) players are back to play the game again in this special preview before the Fringe. Spectators will be drawing cards from the deck, giving the players a scenario and then the actors will be making up a fast paced, hilarious scene based on the cards chosen. (Blues on Whyte, $11 in advance at YEGLive) V

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Dance 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)

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

Heritage Festivity Ballroom Dance Party • Central Lions Recreation Center, 11113-113 St • Aug 6, 7:45pm (doors), 8pm-midnight (dance) • $15

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 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: The Wave (Aug 3), Hello, My Name Is Doris (Aug 10), Banksy Does New York (Aug 17), 45 Years (Aug 24), Anomalisa (Aug 31) 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. com • royalalbertamuseum.ca/movies • All Singing! All Dancing!: summer film series featuring 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:

Bridge of Spies (Jul 29)

metro • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • 780.425.9212 • Kung Fu Summer: Enter The Dragon (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: 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)

galLeries + Museums 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

Show & Sale; Jul 30-Aug 1, 10am-4pm • $13.50 (adults), $9.75 (seniors), $7 (student), free (friends of the garden, garden season pass holders)

Reynolds-Alberta Museum • 6426-40 Ave, Wetaskiwin • 780.312.2065 • reynoldsalbertamuseum@gov.ab.ca • history.alberta.ca/reynolds • Stan

front gallery • 12323-104 Ave • thefrontgallery.com • Summer Salon III: group art show; Through Aug; Opening reception: Aug 4, 7-9pm

Reynolds: The Original Canadian Picker - Exhibition: An exhibit that provides

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 • Ambient Plagues: Artwork by Elaine Whittaker; Aug 4-Sep 23; Opening reception: Aug 4, 7-10pm

Jake's Gallery • 10441-123 St • karen@jakesframing.com • Off Whyte 2016: featuring #YEGartists; Aug 1-31; Opening reception: Aug 5, 7-9pm Jurassic Forest/Learning Centre • 15 mins N of Edmonton off Hwy

• 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)

28A, Township Rd 564 • Education-rich entertainment facility for all ages

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 • Every Story Has Two Sides: artwork by Damian Moppett and Ron Moppett; Sep 17-Dec 31 • 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 • VIBE: The gallery is transformed into a laidback lounge with Vibe, a pop-up live music showcase; Aug 19; 5-9pm

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Latitude 53 • Latitude 53, 10242106 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 McMullen GAllery • U of A Hospital, 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

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

Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery (MCPAG)–Stony Plain

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)

Musée Héritage Museum • St

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

Bleeding Heart Art Space • 9132118 Ave • dave@bleedingheartartspace.com • Artwork by Brandon Atkinson; Sep 10-Oct 15 • Open Walls Two; Oct 29-Nov 26 • Carly Greene; Dec 3-Jan 21

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

• 5411-51 St, Stony Plain • multicentre.org • Western Horsemen: The West We Build; until Jul 29 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 • RBC Emerging Artists Exhibition; Aug 4-Sep 1; Opening reception: Aug 11, 7-9 pm • Kaleido Family Arts Festival; Sep 9-12 • Yvonne DuBourdieu: Recent Work; Sep 13-15; Opening reception: Sep 15 6-8pm • Corrections Show; Oct 15-31

Paint Spot • 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Naess Gallery: 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

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 • Parkland County Art Show; Jul 29-Aug 1, 10am-6pm • Devon Pottery Guild

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

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; Opening reception: Aug 5, 7-9pm • Return To Sender​: 2​ 016 SNAP Members Print Exchange; Aug 4-20; Opening reception: Aug 5, 7-9pm • 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 • My Heritage 2016 Exhibit: 78 competitive original fibre art entries; May until Aug

VAA Gallery • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • visualartsalberta.com • Cattle Call; Jun-Aug

VASA Gallery • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa-art. com • Drawing on Life: artwork by Catherine Compston, Carroll Charest, Deltra Powney, Judy Martin, Sharon Moore-Foster, Daphne Cote, Nancy Corrigan; Jul 26-Aug 19

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 • 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

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 August, the theme will be "Erotica" witg guests Kitty Prrrv, Minni D'Bomme and Jezebel Sinclair with guest host • Every 2nd Tue of month, 8:3010:30pm • $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

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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

Strathcona County Library Annual Book Sale • Strathcona County Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8600 • sclibrary.ca • Pick up some great deals on gently-used books, CDs and DVDs. Proceeds go towards purchasing new materials for the Library’s collections • Aug 19 (9:30am-8:30pm), Aug 20 (9:30am4:30pm), Aug 21 1:00-4:30pm • Free

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 Big Boom Theory 3 : The Early Years • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, #2690 8882-170 St • 780.484.2424 • edmonton. jubilations.ca • Watch as Leonard and Sheldon meet for the very first time and witness the start of the Penny/Leonard (or Pennard) romantic saga • Aug 26-Oct 23 • Adult: $67.95 (Wed, Thu, Sun), $77.95 (Fri, Sat); Senior/student: $47.25 (Wed, Thu, Sun)

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

Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival • Venues throughout the Old Strathcona area • fringetheatre.ca • It's back for its 35th year.

This year's theme will be: That was Then, This is Fringe. Buskers, outdoor performers, artisans and vendors with over 1,600 live performances • Aug 11-21

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 The Improv Power Hour Featuring Go 4 Broke Productions • Blues on Whyte • Spectators will be drawing cards from the deck, giving the players a scene and then the actors will be making up a fast paced, hilarious scene based on the cards chosen • Jul 29, 7pm • $11 (adv at YEGLive.ca)

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) 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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REVUE // GRAPHIC NOVEL

Women's trouble Jacky Fleming’s sarcasm reminds us that Twitter trolls are nothing new

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hat they need is a fire hose ... women who smash windows need the birch. ... They need straitjackets, not the franchise.” —excerpts from Daily Express readers’ letters about suffragettes, circa 1913.

Just four generations ago, then, newspaper-printed comments about women agitating for their right to vote in England sounded little different from the abuse and vitriol streaming at so many females on today’s comment pages, Twitter feeds, and other online sounding-boards.

“Women’s trouble” is a passé euphemism for menstruation, but “The trouble with women is . . .” remains, sad to say, an opening phrase for plenty of enraged, retrograde opinions.

Cartoonist Jacky Fleming’s response?

An illustrated, forked-tongue-incheek herstory of the XX, or doublecrossed, sex—long characterized (and thus caricatured here) in the West as fairer or weaker or another creature altogether. Mingling great men’s thoughts about Eve’s daughters with cartoony riffs on women’s restrictions (see also: big dresses; corsets; embroidery; getting emotional; hysteria; marriage prospects; swimsuits), The Trouble with Women snakes Pythonesque absurd-sarcasm through a pithy exposé of 19th and early 20th century language about women (still with us, in un-brave new forms).

Even as she sketches out some important women you may not know about (Phillis Wheatley, Emmy No-

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ether, Eliza Grier), Fleming’s running jokes are sly—the many men noted as geniuses here implicitly questions why “genius” tends to be ascribed to the gender which can grow beards they can oh-so-thoughtfully stroke. Historical truth’s stretched or crimped: women were small-headed creatures kept inside on evenings “because of their poor night vision” and predilection for weeping, “sometimes hysterically.

“The first women lived in a Domestic Sphere,” Fleming writes above her drawing of a bustled-up woman trapped in a globe, but soon “[t]here were 6,722 Fallen Women.” And, in an exuberant two-page spread, a New Woman rides a bicycle here, there, and everywhere.

This is a delectable little crack-potted history of just how screwed-up we’ve been about 50 percent of the population, thanks to the patriarchy.

The Trouble with Women could serve equally as a coffee-table book for an anti-Trumper, a primer for undergrads on why feminism’s no f-word, or an anonymous reply to that person who once spouted off about the scourge of “political correctness.”

BRIAN GIBSON

POP@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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Midnight Release Celebration Harry Potter and the Cursed Child / Sat, Jul 30 Audreys Books will host a celebration for the newest release in the Harry Potter book series, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Events include magical activities and—as they put it—"ridikulus" entertainment. The eighth installment will not be a traditional novel, but the script from the play, which opened in London.

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The Science Behind Jurassic World / Thurs, Aug 4 Happy Harbor’s Lady Geeks uNite hosts paleontologists Angelica Torices and Katerine Bramble for a talk about the science behind the Jurassic World films. Discover what’s real or made up, and the impact of the movie version of these large creatures on science and society.

Fragapalooza 2016 / Thurs, Aug 4 – Sun, Aug 7 Time to get your computers ready, console controllers charged up, and game faces on. Leduc’s Fragapalooza is one of the biggest Local Area Network (LAN) parties around and features four days of non-stop gaming. Gamers bring their own computers, consoles and games while playing on a high speed LAN. Possible games include the Quake series, Starcraft and many more. Those with a competitive streak will be happy to know the event includes tournaments, and welcomes all skill levels. (Leduc Recreation Centre)

Animethon / Fri, Aug 5 – Sun, Aug 7 MacEwan University’s lawn will be filled with multi-coloured costumes as it once again plays host to Animethon. Celebrating everything Japanese animation, the convention takes over the 106 Street building all the way to the 109th Street building. Crowds are huge, with attendees from all over Alberta and beyond. The event includes screenings of popular anime, voice actors and music guests, a vendors hall, maid café, a fashion show and much more. (Grant MacEwan University)

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FILM

REVUE // SCI-FI

beam me out, scotty

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The newest installment in the Star Trek reboot lacks emotional connection Now playing Directed by Justin Lin 

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tar Trek Beyond begins with a light, comical scene that immediately sets it apart from the rest of the summer’s apocalyptic blockbusters. Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) leads a diplomatic mission to an alien planet and ends up getting attacked by adorable space-raccoons before Scotty beams him up to the Enterprise. It’s just the latest misadventure for the cleft-chinned captain, who leans on the fourth wall when he describes his life as

increasingly episodic.

Bored by his formulaic existence, Kirk decides to respond to a distress call from inside a nebula, and thus falls into a trap set by genocidal maniac Krall (Idris Elba). The next ninety minutes prove that Beyond’s first fifteen minutes were an anomaly. Kirk and crew fight Krall and company in a series of explosive encounters, culminating in a rushed last-minute reveal and a high-stakes climactic fight.

There are some cool moments along the way, like when the Enterprise crew destroys Krall’s swarm of space bees with the Beastie Boys’ song “Sabotage” (a call-back to 2009’s Star Trek). But it feels like every threat looms up to hope-

less levels only to get resolved quickly and easily.

The bigger problem is that Beyond lacks the emotional core of its two predecessors. The movie seems to want us to invest in the idea that the Enterprise crew is a family and Kirk would do anything to protect them. But it forgets the fact that Kirk leads thousands of his unnamed crew members to their deaths simply because he’s bored. At one moment, after being released from Krall’s prison, Sulu turns to Spock and says “He took Uhura!” But he didn’t just take Uhura! He also took the girl with the weird spider head that was the key to your whole deception. You should know her name!

It’s not at all clear how this latest installment goes “beyond” the scope of its predecessors. Really it just reproduces the same tired action movie tropes with barely a

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glaze of character development to hold everything together. In the end, Star Trek Beyond boldly goes where everyone has gone before.

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FILM REVUE // COMEDY

Time to get iced

The fifth installment of Ice Age proves this franchise is finished

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VUEFILM

n our planet’s past 2.5-billion years, there have been five major ice ages; in Planet Hollywood’s past fifteen years, there have been five increasingly minor Ice Age films.

Episodic, again, and often stickily sentimental, again, the franchise’s latest galumphs along, only perking up its comedy here and there. From a UFO-piloting squirrel playing pinball with our solar system to mammoths using a mountain ridge as a half-pipe to roll an asteroid-chunk into a volcano crater, Ice Age: Collision Course is too nutty and woolly an extinction-event tale, sketched out on too broad a comic canvas.

This time around, the Paleolithic Herd must somehow stop a giant asteroid from smashing into Earth.

Trudging alongside its most insipid characters, mammoths Manny and Ellie (voiced by Ray Romano and Queen Latifah) and daughter Peaches (Keke Palmer) and her fiancé Julian (Adam DeVine), this Ice Age instalment also whisks off to space occasionally to catch up on Scrat’s flying-saucer pursuit of his beloved acorn and soon throws in some dino-birds, flying up from a Lost World to pursue cyclopean weasel Buck (Simon Pegg), returning from the third Ice Age movie.

Buck’s romp through dino-land is something of a joyride and slothful Sid’s Granny (Wanda Sykes)

Now playing Directed by Mike Thurmeier, Galen T Chu  has her usual moments of cantankerous comedy. But the story keeps getting brought down by family-ties tedium: Manny and Ellie develop Advanced Empty-Nest Syndrome; Peaches and Julian lumber towards their wedding; sabretooth tigers Diego (Denis Leary) and Shira (Jennifer Lopez) worry about their feline-fearsomeness as parents. Shangri Llama and his hippy-dippy followers in “Geotopia” (a fallen asteroid’s interior) are only intermittently amusing; Sid’s newfound love interest not-so-slowly becomes tiresome. Even the quiphappy opossum pair, Crash and Eddie, come to be more twitty than witty. But that’s what happens the more the Scrat-frantics meet the pat antics here and the more the sappy congeals with the snappy.

Well before its midway point, it’s clear that IA V should be put on IV; by the movie’s end, it’s elephantine-obvious that it’s past time for this furry franchise to have its prehistoric plug pulled—it’s reached that age to be iced.

BRIAN GIBSON

FILM@VUEWEEKLY.COM

REVUE // HORROR

doors and floors KEEPING IT REEL Squeaky Lights Out offers a classic ghost story, but lacks expected twists VUEWEEKLY.COM/FILM

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here’s long been something scarily self-aware about horror movies in that too-homey space of the cinema, where you’re captive, inside yet surrounded by an artificial night. As the lights go down and only those projected images illuminate your mind’s eye, creatures come towards you in the dark. And with its title, Lights Out blazes forth its devilishly simple set-up—a demon-spirit that can only be seen in the shadows. But this not-all-that-scary movie intrigues mostly because of its surprising subtext—what lurks be-

neath those creaky floorboards: women’s efforts to be independent, an otherworldly abusive relationship, a traumatized family.

Spun from director David F Sandberg’s three-minute short, Lights Out sees one family haunted by a darkness-dwelling she-demon, Diana. First she slays Paul (Billy Burke), the second husband of Sophie (Maria Bello). Then she pursues Sophie’s kids, young Martin (Gabriel Bateman) and his older sister Rebecca (Teresa Palmer), in a tentative relationship with Bret (Alexander DiPersia).

It’s all more chilling than scary, with lots of squeaky doors and floors, a few mildly effective, predictable in-the-dark touches (a mannequin factory; the monstrous child-hunter in a closet and under the bed; a basement sequence), and that simple but maybe too onthe-nose horror-conceit (a cleverer twist on it can be glimpsed in the Weeping Angels of Doctor Who).

But at about 75 minutes of runrun-running time, this often claustrophobic chamber piece never drags. The plot is, beyond its oc-

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Now playing Directed by David F Sandberg  cult conceit, perfectly plausible (even the police show up in quickresponse time, though Child Protection Services is remarkably efficient and caring).

Swirling around this ghost-story are abandonment and abuse: mentally ill Sophie, whose first husband left her, is neglectful to Martin because she’s been sucked into an abusive relationship with possessive Diana. Rebecca, who left some time ago but remains reluctant to commit to Bret, finds herself returning home to try to help not just Martin but Sophie, with both mother and daughter struggling for self-reliance. And the family’s mired in a cycle of trauma and loss. But, blessedly, that cycle may not keep spinning its wheels, because the ending offers no higher-powered Hollywood sign of a sequel.

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ow much difference does amping up an 'and' make? The ampersand in Elvis & Nixon suggests a musical duo, a double bill, a two-man act.

Together at last: the King & the Pres, The Pelvis & Tricky Dick, Graceland’s Lord & Watergate’s Fool. But Elvis Aaron Presley, 35, really did meet Richard Milhous Nixon, 57, on December 21, 1970—there’s a black-andwhite photo of them shaking hands in the Oval Office. Still, you can’t ampersand-up a low-volume show; this movie doesn’t come off as much more than a hollow re-enactment of a historical footnote best left to your local café to use as one of its menu board’s daily trivia questions.

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Reportedly, Elvis’ dad and wife (unseen here) were none too happy about the sideburned songster spending $100 000+ on 32 guns and 10 Mercedes Benzes (unmentioned here), so Elvis (Michael Shannon) left town, brooding. After a stop in LA, he gets buddy Jerry Schilling (Alex Pettyfer) to fly with him to DC—the rock ’n’ roll star wants a Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs badge for his collection. Here, Elvis’ desire for the badge seems muddled up with vague concerns about Communism conquering America and all those Beatles-loving, trippy-hippie kids these days (though Priscilla Presley claimed her husband thought, with

the badge, he’d be able to enter any country any time with his own guns and drugs).

Mostly, E&N spins out the samespace oddity of the King-Pres meeting, shows everyday folk in varying degrees of celebrity-shock-and-awe, and offers moments of minor tabloidheadline incongruity (Elvis Visits Donut Shop in Black Neighbourhood!).

Scenes can be hokily sitcom-ish, as when the outlined protocol for meeting the POTUS is countered by the King’s own demands and riders. Elvis comes off as a kooky caped crusader (and gun nut) who’s occasionally canny, trading on his celebrity capital. Nixon (Kevin Spacey, very good) comes off as a grumpy, overcompensatingly macho Dickhead. Their summit meeting’s a competition of self-interests soon bridged by anti-Communist feeling, but by the end little has been declared about image, self-image, or notoriety. Elvis & Nixon is no can’t-miss, once-in-a-lifetime event but a cheap sideshow-attraction.

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ime is out of joint from the first moments of Alain Resnais’ Muriel ou le Temps d'un retour (1963), which discharge a battery of jumpcuts that give equal weight to a kettle, a chandelier, a cigarette, a gloved hand grasping a door handle, a smiling face. The face belongs to Hélène (Delphine Seyrig), a middleaged antique dealer working out of her apartment in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, which she shares with her son Bernard (Jean-Baptiste Thierrée), who has recently returned from service in Algeria. Surveying his home’s revolving furnishings, Bernard complains, “You never know which period you’ll wake up to in this place.”

Likewise you may not always be certain which moment goes where in Muriel’s fragmented chronology. Yet its most disorienting elements—the arrangement of shots, the overlay of sound from one scene on another, Hans Werner Henze’s anxiogenic, atonal score—never obscure the essentials of story. Rather, these strategies heighten our understanding of what really matters. Muriel is a film I’ve seen many times and continue to discover things in. It’s one of

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Resnais’ crowning achievements, and it has now joined his Night and Fog (1955), Hiroshima mon amour (1959) and Last Year at Marienbad (1961) as part of the Criterion Collection.

So what does really matter in Muriel? While the film, unlike Marienbad, inhabits a highly concretized world of real places and things, it shares with its predecessor a pervasive confusion about the past.

Hélène is visited by Alphonse (JeanPierre Kérien), a lover from 20 years ago determined to revive the longdormant affair. Alphonse is joined by his niece Françoise (Nita Klein), who is inquisitive and thus frustrated by the cagey characters surrounding her. One of those characters is, of course, Bernard, who has a girlfriend he won’t introduce to his mother and spends a lot of time in his atelier, where he works on a film project using material he shot in Algeria.

Unbeknownst to nearly everyone, Bernard is struggling to come to terms with an atrocity he participated in while there, an event which forms the film’s tenebrific center.

All these present-tense facts are rendered with perfect clarity. It’s

the past which becomes increasingly obscured. Jean Cayrol’s screenplay imbues virtually everything with significance. Much of Boulogne was destroyed during WWII, and it is now a site of ongoing reconstruction.

Hélène’s apartment is in the new part; Bernard’s atelier is in the old.

Boulogne is a port city, which means that, like every item in Hélène’s apartment, including the dishes she eats off of, is transient.

Hélène and Alphonse have conflicting stories about their shared history, and we will eventually come to learn that the narrative Alphonse supplies about his life in the interim is false. Even the Algerian conflict’s status as a “war” is ambiguous, since France refused to label it such. The film’s full title can literally be translated as “the time of a return,” but to look backward in Muriel is to become only more confused regarding the path that led us to the present.

Muriel evokes this dissonance of time and memory with techniques specific to cinema. It understands its movieness much more than most movies. And this is one reason why over 50 years later it continues to beguile, trouble and move us. V

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Jacqueline Olm plays Skymall in 2015 // Photo by Max Paran

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t’s 11 pm on a Saturday night and almost everyone on the bus is staring at them. There’s a group of seven, decked out in black and blue ripped jean jackets, with sewn-on band patches ranging from the hardcore punk band Choking Victim to the graphic death metal band Cannibal Corpse. Everyone is trying their hardest not to glare, but they can’t help it. A man with short red hair in thick spikes—known as liberty spikes for their resemblance to the Statue of Liberty—is slamming his fists down on his seat yelling, “I can’t wait to see Psychotik Tantrum. I haven’t seen them in fucking forever!”

His friends urge him to quiet down.

While they are all in the mood for musical mayhem, the other people on the bus are just trying to get home.

I have something in common with this group of amiable society-

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deemed hooligans—we are all on our way to a show at one of Edmonton’s most famous house venues. Clint’s Haus is a venue for all the local punks and metal heads to take asylum from their daily lives, flail while drinking cheap liquor, and support discordant local bands of the hardcore scene.

In the past five to eight years, house venues in Edmonton have been on the rise. Just this past year, the city lost the ARTery, the Pawnshop, and Wunderbar—three independent venues that were crucial to the Edmonton music scene. Many existing city venues have also been struggling to bring people out to smaller shows, all while house venue numbers have been staggering.

As the group of punks get off the bus, I follow them. One of the girls with a “Nazi Punks Fuck Off” back

patch pulls a Lucky beer from her pocket and cracks it open. We all turn a corner and suddenly the faint sound of drums can be heard.

“Oh shit. They’re on,” screams the man in the liberty spikes as he runs frantically down the street. He makes his stop on the right, where there is a house hidden by a growth of jungly trees. The sound of a crash cymbal echoes out of the open window and someone is growling into a microphone.

The front door is shut, and has not been open for quite some time. I enter the pandemonium through the backyard. There is a burger stand illuminated by blue light with a sign that reads “Flippin’ Burgz,” and close to 50 people are clustered near a wooden half-pipe. In the living room a mosh pit has grown and the walls are trembling from the intense resonance of guitar, bass, and drums.

Psychotik Tantrum finishes its set and leaves the sweltering room.

With house venues, it seems like musicians and music lovers alike have found a new way to come together and share their love of music. While Clint’s Haus hosts the hardcore genre, other house venues cater to different flavours of music as well. There’s Panch Haus for the electronic scene, Chess House hosting the indie/art rock scene, and Skymall and Taj House for the garage rock/psych fans.

While these venues are associated with specific genres, many house venues are open to welcoming artists from all different spectrums.

“My rule for Clint’s Haus is that if the band can send me a publicly linked recording of themselves, I’ll try and make a show for them or fit

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them on a bill,” says Clint Hoekstra, founder of Clint’s Haus.

As the founder of the Panch Haus, Cole Panchyshyn, has been running little house shows off and on for close to three years. He played his first live show at Chess House. When he recently bought his childhood home, he decided he wanted his own house venue.

“When I moved in there, I saw that there was a huge lack of venues in the city so I decided to help fill that void,” Panchyshyn says.

Unlike Clint’s Haus, Panch Haus provides a more relaxed vibe for musicians and supporters.

“We are very different than Clint’s,” Panchyshyn says. “That place is really aggressive. At our place you can just chill on the couch and listen to some good music. ... But, I get it. That kind of scene needs Clint’s Haus. None of

Big Ben at Skymall in 2016 // Photo by Max Paran

The Wares at Skymall in 2015 // Photo by Max Paran

The hot dog stand at Clint’s Haus in July 2016 // Photo by Stephan Boissonneault

those shows would ever be cool to go down at an actual venue.”

Panchyshyn is right. As I look at the holes in the wall as well as the badly scuffed and dented up floor from metal heads thrashing in the past mosh pit, I realize Clint’s Haus is the only place where people can collectively wreak this sort of musical havoc.

“We keep it going for the sake of party,” laughs Hoekstra as he ashes his cigarette.

This is in fact the second iteration of Clint’s Haus. Hoekstra was evicted from the old house, which was just near the Bonnie Doon area, for a cornucopia of different reasons like noise complaints and excessive damage.

At Clint’s Haus, it seems like anything goes, but this is not completely true. The house has three rules: no needles, no bigots, and no hanging out in the front yard.

Of course, sometimes shows can get out of hand.

“During a rowdy Blessed show at our old house we had a guy run through our drywall and hit a stud.

His head cracked open and he was bleeding pretty profusely. We called an ambulance, but I later found out he was fine and he kept partying, I obviously don’t want anyone to get hurt and I do everything in my power to make sure that happens,” Hoekstra says.

Every person who runs a house venue has their own reason for doing it,

but Hoekstra has two.

“The only notoriety that I’m interested in is just amongst the musicians themselves. I mean I want a place for the punks and groupies to hangout and give a chance to bands to play shows,” he says. “I also want to be that bridge for musicians to meet and collaborate with other musicians.”

A grindcore band that frequently plays Clint’s Haus called Hypertric has definitely experienced that connection Hoekstra was getting at. During the band’s first show at Clint’s Haus the members were approached

by Grimace, a Saskatoon crust punk band, to record a split EP with them.

“Grimace was the headliner of the show and they saw our set and drunkenly asked us to record with them.

We [were] like ‘yeah sure whatever,’ but it actually happened. That never would have happened if it weren’t for Clint’s Haus. Seems like everyone gets connected,” says Brett Paquin, the Hypertric guitarist.

More house venues seem to be popping up each year and some will agree that the number will continue to increase.

“House venues are definitely needed for the scene,” says one of the Skymall founders, Nolan Bossert.

“I truly think they help foster the scene and we’re gonna see more of them in the years to come. It’s exciting.”

Living Tour at Skymall in March 2015 // Photo by Max Paran

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f you were ever inside the Black Dog’s men’s bathroom during its glory days, then you definitely saw the stalls spattered with a bunch of local band logos. You may have also noticed one that had the word “upsidedowntown,” circling a black buffalo on a white background.

It comes from the local Canadiana rock band Upsidedowntown.

“The logo means nothing,” Jackson Vasicek says, laughing. “Like Rolling Stones have a tongue as their logo and it means nothing so we went pretty Canadian and chose a buffalo.”

Beginning in 2012, Upsidedowntown have been described as a mixture of Tragically Hip and the Ramones by some of its fans.

With the band’s first EP Car, Upsidedowntown introduced a new brand of rock to the Edmonton music scene.

The newest album Car…Too, which features an upside down Lincoln town car on top of a multicoloured rising sun background, adds another flavour to the genre with a more experimental rock feel.

In 2014, the band lost one of its original members, Tabetha Rae, and gained Scott Bartlett on bass, lead, and backing vocals.

“He didn’t only introduce a new sound to the band, but kind of a whole new confidence to it. He took us up a step for sure,” Vasicek says.

New members can always be challenging for a band. A new member can have a huge ego or something else detrimental to the band. Luckily, this never happened to Upsidedowntown.

“It’s unreal how well we get along with each other. I guarantee there is no band out there that has more fun playing together than we do,” Vasicek says.

The band has a wide range of influences, but after listening to Car and Car…Too it became very obvious that the Tragically Hip have a huge impact on the members.

With the recent news of Tragically Hip’s imminent end due to lead singer Gord Downie’s fight with brain cancer, band’s like Upsidedowntown are still shocked.

“They’re one of those bands where even if you don’t know the names to their songs, you know the words to like 10 or 20 of them. You can’t really see anything like that happening.

It’s a big deal. I’m going to both the shows in Edmonton.”

While lead vocalist and guitarist Aaron Formaniuk brings most of the ideas and riffs to the Upsidedowntown, the song writing progress is

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definitely a collaborative effort and everyone’s voice is heard.

“It’s never like ‘I want the drums this way.’ It’s always us just jamming and seeing what we come up with. It gives us room to grow and have that creative freedom.”

Bartlett wrote “Goodbye Roxy,” which is on the band’s latest record.

Initially the song sounds like a generic song about losing a girl, but about a minute in with the lyrics “early that morning at the crack of dawn, news came in that you were gone” and “better to burn out than to fade away,” it becomes very apparent that the song is about Edmonton losing the beloved Roxy Theatre to a fiery blaze close to a year ago. The song also features a tasty guitar solo near the end.

Upsidedowntown have certainly felt the hardship of being a band in Edmonton—a musical city that has copious amounts of bands, but difficulty in bringing out a big enough crowd to smaller shows.

“I find it harder than it was a couple years ago. I think every band can relate to playing a show for like two people,” Vasicek says, laughing. "Even if there’s no one we’ll have the same amount of energy we would have at a show for a hundred people.”

Currently the band is in the studio writing songs for another EP that will hopefully release next year entitled Fire Moon.

Vasicek promises the EP will have the same edge and style as the other albums, but it will consist of the good ole “straight forward rock n’roll.”

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Homage for the Hip

Exploring Edmonton's most Tragically Hip places, before their last concert Thu, Jul 28 and Sat, Jul 30 The Tragically Hip Rexall Place, $55 to $170 pour out of a cab or a car, I think of this line. Not to dismiss the awesome fun these people are sure to have, but to embrace the fact that this scene has been played over thousands of times and will do so thousands more.

The recruits are us and the flu is self imposed. Also, the song is pretty rad, just like those nights on the Ave.

Gord Downie in Edmonton on Feb 12, 2012. // Photo by Aven Hoffarth

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he Tragically Hip were more than just a bunch of freaky-deaky hosers singing songs about Canada.

As musicians their craftsmanship was impressive. From irreverent and intellectual lyrical poetry to rhythms and harmonies that transported one away to a place that only good music can. For some of us their music brings back strong memories and it does for me.

For example, I remember studying the lyrics to 100th Meridian in high school. Whenever I hear that song I’m taken back to a classroom, sitting behind a young lady I had a crush on.

The guitar solo reminds me of her hair for some reason. Anyway...

With that in mind, here is list of Edmonton landmarks and a whimsied connection between them and songs by the Hip: Place: Whyte Ave. Song: "Something On" (from Phantom Power) “Your imagination is having puppies, it could be a video for new recruits, just stare into the camera, and pretend you got the flu.”

Every time I see a group of semidrunk or freshly pre-drank partiers

Place: The Ice District Song: "Blow at High Dough" (from Up To Here) The driving bass, the rhythm, a tantric beat that gets you before you know what you got. “Well I ain't no movie star, but I can get behind anything.

Yeah, I can get behind anything.” And yes we did, full bore. There are too many lyrical references that connect to what will be Edmonton’s glossiest area of commercially social jive, but "Blow at High Dough" plays like a mantra to the district. “Well, sometimes the faster it gets, the less you need to know, but you got to remember the smarter it gets, the further it's going to go, when you blow at high dough.” I didn’t even know I wanted a vodka and lemonade! Success!

Place: The End of the World Song: "Bobcaygeon" (from Phantom Power) This one is more of a musical connection than a lyrical one. Sitting atop the horizontal pillar of cement as it planks out over the North Saskatchewan, images flood your head as memories flow from your heart.

You stare out into the rolling natural surroundings, your past is a story you tell yourself as you try to figure

out an ending that will leave you happy. Or something like that. Listen to the song without focusing on the lyrics. You’ll get what I mean. And yes, Hugh Dillon plays me in this specific daydream.

Place: The Legislature Grounds Song: "Wheat Kings" (From Fully Completely) From the acoustic intro to the abject acceptance of the lyrics “Nobody cares about something you didn’t do,” the song has a feel of grassroots idealism. Be it standing in the fountain, or trying to chase the purple demons by staring into the leg-lights, the grounds hold a ‘wait and see what tomorrow brings’ feel. "You can’t be fond of living in the last. If you are then there is no way that you are going to last." A modern treatise to what is and was, politically.

Place: Rundle Park refinery Song: "Morning Moon" (from We Are The Same) I used to joke that Edmonton is so cool that it makes its own clouds, until I realized that this offended some people. Anyway, there is a hint of magic to this song as it tells a story that could be about anything. Well, anything with heart to it. “The reactor’s down, I guess for Labour Day today. It’s the first day I ain’t seen a great plume of steam from across the lake, from across the lake. Hey, that’s a morning moon, yeah.” It’s hard to translate harmony and lyrics to page without having losing it’s lustre (just ask Facebook), but in "Morning Moon" there seems to be an air of discovery in it. Discovery through change. Through the plume of steam.

Behind it, only sky. Yeah.

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David Unsworth, Megan Keirstead; 7-11pm; $7 (door) BORDERLINE SPORTS PUB

Karaoke Thursdays; Every Thu; Free

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

Rock & Roll Jam with Gator & Friends; 8-11pm

Band; 9pm BOHEMIA Between

Brothers Grease Up Bohemia with Temporalysis & Puzzled Minds; 9pm; $10 (door); 18+ only BORDERLINE SPORTS PUB Live music; Every Fri; Free BOURBON ROOM Live

music each week with a different band each week; 8pm 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

RENDEZVOUS PUB

Tessitura, Driven To Exile, Within The Ashes, VanGost; 8pm SHAKERS ROADHOUSE

SHERLOCK HOLMES– DOWNTOWN Cody Mack

ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL

(alternative/rock); 9pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Mike Letto (folk/rock);

9pm

Hair of the Dog: Old Towns (folk/punk); 4-6pm; no cover

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM

BLUES ON WHYTE Uncle

STARLITE ROOM

BOHEMIA Astrakan; 8pm

MULEFEST 2016; 8pm (doors); $27.50-$50; 18+ only

BORDERLINE SPORTS PUB Live music; Every

TASTE OF EDMONTON– CHURCHILL SQUARE The

music each week with a different band each week; 9pm

TD SOUTH STAGE–K-DAYS

CAFE BLACKBIRD Carrie

CAFE BLACKBIRD Claudia

TIRAMISU BISTRO Live

Monster Truck; 9:30pm

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

CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK

Live music; 9pm

SMOKEHOUSE BBQ Live Blues every Thu: rotating guests, this week with: Graham Guest; 7-11pm

WILD EARTH BAKERY– MILLCREEK Live Music

CAMROSE REGIONAL EXHIBITION GROUNDS Big

Fridays; Each Fri, 8-10pm; $5 suggested donation

Valley Jamboree; Runs Jul 28-31; $110-$320

EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE Karaoke;

CASK AND BARREL Robin Woywitka & the Super 92; 4-6pm; No cover

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY

Danny Coady (adult pop/blues/country/hard rock/R&B/rock); 9pm

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

Caplan, Nadine Kellman, The Provincial Archive

CASINO EDMONTON Head

TAVERN ON WHYTE Open stage with Michael Gress (fr Self Evolution); every Thu; 9pm-2am TD SOUTH STAGE–K-DAYS

Over Heels (pop rock); 9pm CASINO YELLOWHEAD Mike

Dominey (pop rock); 9pm DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY

Tom Cochrane with Red Rider; 9:30pm

Danny Coady (adult pop/blues/country/hard rock/R&B/rock); 9pm

TILTED KILT PUB AND EATERY Karaoke

DV8 Fifteen Pounds Of

DJs

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Filthy

FILTHY MCNASTY’S Wet

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

HUMMINGBIRD BISTRO CAFE Bistro Jazz; Every

Thu, 7:30pm; Free KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE

Open stage with host Naomi Carmack; 8pm every Thu LATITUDE 53 Patio Series:

Gold Blooded Deejays with food by Rocky Mountain Ice House; 5-9pm

L.B.'S PUB Open Jam

hosted by Cody Forsberg; 7-11pm LIZARD LOUNGE Jam

Night; Every Thu, 7-11pm MERCURY ROOM Spencer

16 MUSIC

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE TASTE OF EDMONTON– CHURCHILL SQUARE Ben

Circle Jam; 7:30-11:30pm Your Whistle Karaoke Thursdays

Thu Main Fl: Rock N'

Roll, Funk & Soul with DJ Modest Mike; Every Thu; Wooftop Lounge: Dig It - Electronic, Roots & Rare Grooves; Underdog: Underdog Comedy Show THE COMMON The

Fuqn’ Fridays FIONN MACCOOL'S– DOWNTOWN Jake Ian and

GAS PUMP Saturday Jam;

DRUID IRISH PUB Tap Into

MEET ME AT YEG MARKET

Rocks: every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; Cuban Salsa DJ to follow SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE House Function

Thursdays; 9pm

pop/indie); 9pm; No minors

rock); 9pm Nova Scotiables; 9pm

DJs; Every Fri, 9pm

Sky; First Fri of every month, 9pm EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE

Flashback Friday; Every Fri

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

Bluegrass Brunch featuring Spencer Murray Trio; 12:30pm; No cover) • Maracujah; 9pm; $15 (adv), $20 (door) NEW WEST HOTEL Early:

Saturday Country Jam (country); Every Sat, 3pm • Later : Trick Ryder; 9pm NORTH STAGE–K-DAYS

Rachel Platten; 8:30pm ON THE ROCKS Heather mcKenzie Band; 9pm RENDEZVOUS PUB Bad

REXALL PLACE The

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

Tragically Hip: Man Machine Poem Tour; 8:30pm; $55-$170

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

Ryder; 9pm NORTH STAGE–K-DAYS

Tyler Shaw; 8:30pm O'BYRNE'S IRISH PUB

BLUES ON WHYTE Uncle

ON THE ROCKS Heather

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THE COMMON Quality Control Fridays with DJ Echo & Freshlan

Bands every Sat; this week: DARK

III (alternative/hard rock/ punk) with The Kevin Dowling Fitness Hour and Nolan Bossert; 8pm; $12 (adv), $15 (door)

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 24th Street Wailers; 8:3010:30pm; $15

Wiggly's Hot Shoes Blues

THE BOWER Strictly Goods: Old school and new school hip hop & R&B with DJ Twist, Sonny Grimez, and Marlon English; every Fri

MERCER TAVERN

NEW WEST HOTEL Trick

ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL

MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET Live Local

Movement Fridays; 8pm

APEX CASINO Vera (pop/

Happy Hour featuring North of Here; 5:30pm • Econoline Crush with Dead Honey and King of Foxes; 10:30pm; $18 (adv)

Rap, House, Hip-Hop with DJ Babr; every Fri

MERCURY ROOM Bob Log

open stage; 7pm NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

Hazenmore (alternative/ electronic/rock) with Post Script and Maria Phillipos; 8pm; $8 (adv), $10 (door)

Communicators, Medical Pilot, ShotGun, Milkers Wanted; 8pm

Cloudface; 8pm; $15 (adv)

9910 Refuge presents.

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

music; 9:30pm MERCURY ROOM Bears In

Bachelor/Ette Nite; 4-8pm

NAKED CYBERCAFÉ Thu

FRI JUL 29

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Live

EL CORTEZ TEQUILA BAR AND KITCHEN Kys the

& Country Music Festival; Runs Jul 29-31

& Country Music Festival; Runs Jul 29-31

Cap and Jordan Reid b2b Josh John; 9pm; $15 (adv)

HERITAGE PARK-STONY PLAIN Blueberry Bluegrass

LB'S PUB Rockzilla (rock/

ON THE ROCKS Salsa

9910 Cloudface with Night

DRUID IRISH PUB Live

Common Uncommon Thursday: Rotating Guests each week Thursdays; DJ and party; 9pm

DJs

the Haymakers; 7pm; No minors

Happy Hour featuring Mary-Lee Bird; 5:30pm • Global Collective, featuring Waymatea Ellis and Christian Mena; 9pm; $10 (adv), $15 (door)

Vaughn Band (alternative/ jazz/pop) with Abbey Rodeo and Katie Laine; 8pm; $8 (adv), $10 (door)

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DV8 Mandible Klaw LP release show with Anatomy Cats, Tÿre Iron & Iron Eyes; 9pm; $10; 18+ only

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Beets with Form 10 and Wrench; 8pm

FIDDLER'S ROOST Acoustic

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CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat

Open mic; 7pm; $2

CHA ISLAND TEA CO A Gentleman's Pact (folk/ punk/rock); 9pm

Thursday's; Every Thu

Every Thu, 7pm

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

Valley Jamboree; Runs Jul 28-31; $110-$320

3-7pm

DENIZEN HALL Taking Back Thursdays: weekly punk, alternative and hardcore music; Every Thu, 8pm

TICKETS AVAILABLE AT CENTURY CASINO AND TICKETMASTER

CAMROSE REGIONAL EXHIBITION GROUNDS Big

HERITAGE PARK-STONY PLAIN Blueberry Bluegrass

Of Saturn (folk) with Whyte Ave Womp Rats; 8pm

FRIDAY SEPT 30

Live music; 9pm

Thu; 7pm

CHA ISLAND TEA CO Sons

The Lonely

Day; 8pm; $10 CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK

CAFÉ HAVEN Music every

Valley Jamboree; Runs Jul 28-31; $110-$320

A Tribute to the Music of Roy Orbison

BOURBON ROOM Live

guests Tymo, Rille Ataka, Sleeping in Traffic; 7pm; $12-$50; 18+ only

music every Fri with local musicians

CAMROSE REGIONAL EXHIBITION GROUNDS Big

FRIDAY AUGUST 26

Sat; Free

Watchmen, Altameda, Doug Hoyer

BRIXX BAR Ninjaspy With

Koval with the Jazz Passages Trio; 8pm; $15

Orchard; 7:30pm; $15

A MUSICAL CELEBRATION OF THE BAND

Nova Scotiables; 9pm

Wiggly's Hot Shoes Blues Band; 9pm

SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL SQUARE Live at Lunch

CAFE BLACKBIRD The

JUL 29 & 30

rock); 9pm

Mike "The Party Hog" (blues/rock); 9pm

THE BUCKINGHAM Hush Pup (alternative/pop) with Waitress and Prince Bunny; 7:30pm; $10 (adv/ door)

HUNTER COLLINS

presents. Sinistarr; 9pm; $10 (adv) APEX CASINO Vera (pop/

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

Call 780.481.YUKS FOR TICKETS & INFO .....................................................................

9910 Future Roots

Paula Perro & The Project; 9pm; $10

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE

COMEDY AT THE CENTURY CASINO

SAT JUL 30

Edmonton's best solo musicians mcKenzie Band; 9pm

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

Friday Nights: Video Music DJ; 9pm-2am

SHAKERS ROADHOUSE

Saturday Electric Blues Afternoon Chili Jam; 2-6pm • Frankie & Jimmy with guest Kirby Sewel; 9pm; $10

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

SHERLOCK HOLMES– DOWNTOWN Cody Mack

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

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Mike Letto (folk/rock);

(alternative/rock); 9pm

VIDA LATIN NIGHT CLUB

9pm

Electric Fridays; Every Fri, 9pm; No minors

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM

Y AFTERHOURS Freedom

Mike "The Party Hog" (blues/rock); 9pm

Fridays

SNEAKY PETE'S Sinder

Sparks K-DJ Show; 9pm-1am

STARLITE ROOM

MULEFEST 2016; 8pm (doors); $27.50-$50; 18+ only Jul 29-30 TASTE OF EDMONTON– CHURCHILL SQUARE Born

Ruffians, Marlaena Moore, Scenic Route to Alaska TD SOUTH STAGE–K-DAYS

Simple Plan; 9:30pm TWIST ULTRA LOUNGE

Mikey Wong and his lineup of guest DJs

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

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DJs

TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul,

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

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

Saturdays

SUN JUL 31 BLUE CHAIR CAFÈ Brunch - Hawaiian Dreamers; 9am-2:30pm; By donation BOHEMIA A psychedelic

EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE Rotating

FESTIVAL PLACE 2016

Bingo! Tuesdays

MON AUG 1

GAS PUMP Karaoke;

Qualico Patio Series: Justine Vandergrift, The Imprints; 7:30pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Wooftop: Metal Mondays

Valley Jamboree; Runs Jul 28-31; $110-$320

FIDDLER'S ROOST Fiddle

9:30pm KELLY'S PUB Open Stage:

GAS PUMP Karaoke;

BLUES ON WHYTE Andre

L.B.'S PUB Tue Variety

KRUSH ULTRALOUNGE

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

Karaoke Kraziness with host Ryan Kasteel; 8pm-2am

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

Happy Hour featuring Fat Dave Johnston; 5:30pm • Big Dreamer Jam featuring Paul Woida; 8pm

Happy Hour featuring Cory D; 5:30pm

Bisson Band; 9pm FIDDLER'S ROOST Open FILTHY MCNASTY'S Classic

Rock Monday Happy Hour featuring Seven Suns; 5:30pm

NEW WEST HOTEL Trick

NEW WEST HOTEL Trick

Ryder; 9pm

Ryder; 9pm

O’BYRNE’S Guinness

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

ON THE ROCKS Killer Karaoke Monday

Celtic jam every Tue; 9:30pm

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Wild

SHAKERS ROADHOUSE

FILTHY MCNASTY'S

Sacrilege Sundays: All metal all day

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'

Crazy Dave's Rock & Roll Renegades; 7:30pm ST ALBERT–VARIOUS LOCATIONS Rock'N Ride;

7am-10pm; runs Aug 2-6

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

SHAKERS ROADHOUSE

Main Floor: Chris Bruce spins Britpop/Punk/ Garage/Indie; Every Tue

& Country Music Festival; Runs Jul 29-31

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

Tuesday

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN Jon

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A

HERITAGE PARK-STONY PLAIN Blueberry Bluegrass

Cleary and the Absolute Monster Gentlemen with Rooster Davis Group; 7pm; $20 (adv), $25 (door)

Mondays; 8-11pm

ON THE ROCKS Turn't Up

Open Mic Night hosted by Adam Holm; Every Mon

WED AUG 3

DJs

Patrol; 9pm

BLUES ON WHYTE Boogie

DJs Velix and Suco; every Sat

NORTH STAGE–K-DAYS

Victoria Duffield; 8:30pm

Cool Joe

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

MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey

O’BYRNE’S Open mic

TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE

Wong every Sat

every Sun; 9:30pm

THE PROVINCIAL PUB

ON THE ROCKS Live music;

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

RICHARD'S PUB Mark

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

9pm Ammar's Sunday Sessions Jam; Every Sun, 4-8pm

Psyturdays: various DJs; 9pm

SANDS INN & SUITES Open

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM

SHAKERS ROADHOUSE The Sunday Happening Jam featuring The Todd James Band; 4pm

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

Jam; Every Sun, 7-11pm

TD SOUTH STAGE–K-DAYS

Finger Eleven; 9:30pm

Cluckin’ Wednesdays

with Metal Phil from CJSR's Heavy Metal Lunchbox

DANCE CODE STUDIO

Sunday Night Live on the South Side: live bands; Free; All ages; 7-10:30pm

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Mother

featuring host Naomi Carmack and guest; 9pm; No cover

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

DV8 Cocaine Moustache Returns; 8pm

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

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Filthy

Main Floor: DJ Late Fee;

CAMROSE REGIONAL EXHIBITION GROUNDS Big

THE COMMON Get Down It's Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with Wright & Wong, Dane

EL CORTEZ MEXICAN KITCHEN & TEQUILA BAR

Every Sun

Stage; 7-11pm

DIVERSION LOUNGE

every Sat; 9pm

DV8 Out Of Order with Chips Ov Oi!DJagg Wire, and Kroovy Rookers; 8pm

evening of electronic experimentation; 8pm; Free (or pay what you can)

Know...: Deep House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests; every Sat

DRUID IRISH PUB Live DJs

Jam Circle; 7:3011:30pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE RetroActive Radio: With LL

Hip hop with DJ Creeazn every Mon; 9pm-2am

TUE AUG 2 BLUES ON WHYTE Boogie

Patrol; 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

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 THE BUCKINGHAM Cousins (pop/rock) with Shukov and Cham; 8pm; $10 (adv)

9:30pm

cafehaven.ca CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CAMROSE REGIONAL EXHIBITION GROUNDS 4250 Exhibition Dr, Camrose CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464153 St, 780.424 9467 CASK AND BARREL 10041104 St; 780.498.1224, thecaskandbarrel.ca CENTRAL SENIOR LIONS CENTRE 11113-113 St CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 CHVRCH OF JOHN 10260-103 St, 780.884.8994, thechvrchofjohn. com COMMON 9910-109 St CONVOCATION HALL Old Arts Building, University of Alberta, music.ualberta.ca DENIZEN HALL 10311-103 Ave, 780.424.8215, thedenizenhall. com DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DV8/MAMA'S PIZZA 7317-101 Ave NW EL CORTEZ 10322-83 Ave NW, elcortezcantina.com EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE 10220-103 St NW, 780.

424.0077, yourgaybar.com FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FIDDLER'S ROOST 7308-76 Ave, 780.439.9788, fiddlersroost.ca FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557

HERITAGE PARK–STONY PLAIN 5100-41 Ave, Stony Plain HILLTOP PUB 8220 106 Ave HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH 10037-84 Ave NW, 780.433.5530, holytrinity.ab.ca HORIZON STAGE 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce Grove, 780.962.8995, horizonstage.com HUMMINGBIRD BISTRO CAFE 8336-160 Ave, 780.401.3313, hummingbirdbistro.ca IRISH SPORTS CLUB 12546-126 St, 780.453.2249 J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JUBILEE AUDITORIUM 1145587 Ave NW, 780.427.2760, jubileeauditorium.com KELLY'S PUB 10156-104 St NW, 780.451.8825, kellyspubedmonton.com LATITUDE 53 10242-106 St NW L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR AND GRILL 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 LIZARD LOUNGE 11827 St. Albert Tr, 780.451.9180, facebook.com/ The-Lizard-Lounge MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH 10086 MacDonald Dr NW, mcdougallunited.com MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET 8101 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.2337 MUTTART HALL 10050 Macdonald Dr, 780.633.3725 NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN 10524 Jasper Ave, 780.756.9045, theneedle.ca NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999

AUG/5

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

AUG/6 AUG/13

RED PIANO BAR Wed Night

Live: hosted by dueling piano players Wailin' Wednesday Jam with Hosts Wang Dang Doodle (variety); Every Wed, 7:30-11:30pm; All ages

AUG/16

MISERY SIGNALS EIFFEL TOWER ENT. IS PROUD TO PRESENT

CHI CHING CHING PURE PRIDE ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS

PURE: AQUA CONCERTWORKS.CA PRESENTS

FOUR YEAR STRONG W/ SAFE TO SAY, LIKE PACIFIC, NORELL

ST ALBERT–VARIOUS LOCATIONS Rock'N Ride;

7am-10pm; runs Aug 2-6

AUG/26

TAVERN ON WHYTE

Karaoke; 9pm

STARLITE IS PROUD TO PRESENT

SNFU

W/ LAMS, TARANTUJA, ELDER ABUSE

TILTED KILT PUB AND EATERY Live music

SEP/10

Wednesday's; Every Wed

DJs

STARLITE ROOM PROUDLY PRESENTS

PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION W/ PUGNACIOUS, ETOWN BEATDOWN, SLUMLORD, CORVUS THE CROW, TYRANT

BILLIARD CLUB Why wait

Wednesdays: Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover

SEP/20

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ Late Fee;

Wing Wednesdays at the Pint with DJ Thomas Culture; Every Wed, 10pm

CONCERTWORKS.CA PRESENTS

W/ CHAD MICHAELS AS CHER TYLER AYERS, RAYE SUNSHINE

SHAKERS ROADHOUSE

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Wed open mic with host Duff Robison; 8pm

MULEFEST 2016 DAY 2

W/ DJ CHRIS ROKK, DJ STYLISS, DJ POOCHIE

Karaoke Wednesday

PINT DOWNTOWN Wild

THE FORGE PRESENTS

W/ DRIVE BY PUNCH, PROCESS, NECK OF THE WOODS, SPARROWS

THE PROVINCIAL PUB

Wednesdays

MULEFEST 2016 DAY 1 W/ NORMA JEAN, FALL CITY FALL, DUSTY TUCKER & MORE

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

Every Wed

NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 Ave NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave NORTH STAGE–K-DAYS 7515118 Ave NW O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 O'MAILLES IRISH PUB 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 PALACE CASINO 8882-170 St NW, 780.444.2112, palacecasino. com PINT–DOWNTOWN 10125-109 St NW PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave THE PROVINCIAL PUB 160, 4211-106 St RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St REXALL PLACE 7515-118 Ave NW RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St SANDS INN & SUITES 12340 Fort Rd, sandshoteledmonton.com SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Yellowhead Inn, 15004 Yellowhead Trail SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN 10012-101 A Ave, 780.426.7784, sherlockshospitality.com SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A 8519-112 St, 780.431.0091, sherlockshospitality.com SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM 8882-170 St, 780.444.1752, sherlockshospitality.com SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328

JUL/30

Ryder; 9pm

DRUID IRISH PUB Karaoke

THE FORGE PRESENTS

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

NEW WEST HOTEL Trick

VENUEGUIDE 9910 9910B-109 St NW, 780.709.4734, 99ten.ca ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 THE ALMANAC 10351-82 Ave, 780.760.4567, almanaconwhyte. com ARCADIA BAR 10988-124 St, 780.916.1842, arcadiayeg.com ARDEN THEATRE 5 St Anne St, St Albert, 780.459.1542, stalbert.ca/ experience/arden-theatre ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL 7704 Calgary Trail South, 780.432.4611, atlantictrapandgill.com THE AVIARY 9314-111 Ave, 780.233.3635, facebook.com/ arteryyeg BAILEY THEATRE 5041-50 St, Camrose, 780. 672.5510, baileytheatre.com BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 1042582 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLVD SUPPER X CLUB 10765 Jasper Ave BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BORDERLINE SPORTS PUB 322682 St, 780.462.1888 BOURBON ROOM 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; info@thebower.ca BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 THE BUCKINGHAM 10439 82 Ave, 780.761.1002, thebuckingham.ca CAFE BLACKBIRD 9640-142 St NW, 780.451.8890, cafeblackbird.ca CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523,

JUL/29

LIVE NATION.COM PRESENTS

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COMEDY AZUCAR Supper Club presents Comedy Night • 13062-50 St • With Andy Canete and Scott Porteous. Aug 17, 7:30pm • $5 admission

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

obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm

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, 14135-128 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 handson practice • Aug 19-20, 8:30am-4:15pm

LGNYEG • Happy Harbor Comics, 10729-104 Ave NW • happyharborcomics.com • Events may include guest speakers, movie nights, board game nights, video game nights and much more • 1st Thu of every month, 7-9pm

Lightsaber Training • Sir Winston

Comic Strip • Bourbon St, WEM •

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

780.483.5999 • Joe Zimmerman; Jul 27-31 • Barry Rothbart; Aug 3-7

Lotus Qigong • SAGE downtown 15 Sir Win-

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Brian Link; Jul 29-30 • Tim Koslo; Aug 5-6

The Dating Game • On The Rocks, 11743 Jasper Ave • Host Sterling Scott also with the Nervous Flirts. Fun, prizes, and maybe love • Aug 7, 7:30pm

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 Aikikai Aikido Club • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue, Thu; 7-9pm

Amnesty International Edmonton • 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

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 Needlecraft Guild • Avonmore United Church Bsmt, 82 Ave, 79 St • edmNeedlecraftGuild.org • Classes/workshops, exhibitions, guest speakers, stitching groups for those interested in textile arts • Meet the 2nd Tue ea month, 7:30pm

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

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ston Churchill Sq • 780.695.4588 • Attendees can raise their vital energy with a weekly Yixue practice • Every Fri, 2-3:30pm • Free

Monday Mingle • Hexagon Board Game 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)

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 Family Support Drop-in Group • 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

• Terrified of Public Speaking: Norwood Legion Edmonton, 11150-82 St NW; Every Thu until Jun, 7:30-9:30pm; Free; contact jnwafula@yahoo. com; norwoodtoastmasters.org • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); Sunshine Summer Club Schedule: Aug 2 (regular meetings resume in Sep); Contact: Mark 780.437.1136 or Antonio 780.463.5331 or email: yclubtoastmasters@ gmail.com

Women Grow Networking Series • St. Albert Rugby Club, 51 Riel Dr, St Albert • lisette.womengrow@gmail.com • bit.ly/2aoFzdz • Connect aspiring and current professionals in the cannabis industry • Aug 4, 7-9pm • $25-$35 (adv or at the door); bit.ly/2aoFzdz

QUEER 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

G.L.B.T.Q Seniors Group • S.A.G.E Bldg, main floor Cafe, Or in confidence one-on-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 Illusions Social Club • Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave • 780.387.3343 • pridecentreofedmonton.org • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri each month, 7-9pm Pride Centre of Edmonton • 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 • Edmonton Illusions: cross-dressing and transgender group 18+; 2nd Fri of each month, 7-9pm • Movies & Games Night: Every other Fri, 6-9pm • Thought OUT: Altview’s all-ages discussion group; every Sat, 7-9pm • Seahorse Support Circle: facilitated meet up for families with trans and gender creative kids aged 5-14; 2nd Sun of the month, 3-5pm • Men Talking with Pride: Social discussion group for gay and bisexual men; Every Sun, 7-9pm St Paul's United Church • 11526-76

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

Toastmasters • Chamber Toastmasters Club: 6th 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 Thu from SepJun, 6-7:45pm • Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings: Campus St. Jean: Pavillion McMahon; 780.667.6105 (Willard); clubbilingue.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 7pm • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club: 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

Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship)

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, 8715-153 St; Every Fri, 7-9 • Meditation: Edmonton Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave; 3rd Thu of every month, 5:306:15pm • 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 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 Animal Mythbusters • Edmotnon Valley Zoo, 13315 Buena Vista Road • 311 • edmonton. ca • Will touching a toad give you warts? Do vampire bats really exist? Do porcupines shoot their quills? Uncover the truth at the Valley Zoo • Aug 7, 12-4pm • Regular admission

Animethon 23 • MacEwan City Centre Campus, 10700-104 Ave • animethon.org • Animethon is Western Canada’s largest and longest-running event celebrating Japanese animation. Featuring panels, anime viewings for any fan, special guests of the voice actor and musical variety, vendors and so much more • Aug 5-7

Annual Fresh Air Market • Located 26 km south of Fairview on Highway 2, at the north end of the Dunvegan Bridge • history.alberta.ca/ dunvegan • Experience the time-honoured tradition of trading and gathering. Meet local artisans and their creations. Costumed interpreters will be offering tours of Historic Dunvegan's four fully restored historic buildings • Jul 31, 11am-5pm • Regular admission Cariwest: Edmonton Caribbean Arts Festival • Downtown Edmonton • 780.421.7800 • cariwest.ca • For three days, Edmonton will be steeped with the soul and spirit of the Caribbean islands. Say goodbye to the office, forget the daytimers, log off those computers and come free yuhself up to do the moves— wine, jump-up, dingolay, grind, whatever you wish. A parade kicks things off at noon • Aug 5-7

Clothing Swap for Mental Health • Lower Level of Mercer Warehouse 10359-104 St • cristinabianca@msn.com • Participants will bring four to a max of 20 (clean, gently-used) garments to the swap. Donation bins for Bissell Centre will also be provided. All net proceeds will be donated to the Canadian Mental Health Association • Jul 30, 11am-3pm • $5 (door or at Eventbrite)

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: An Evening of Paint • Devonian Botanic Garden, Parkland County, 5 kms north of Devon on Hwy 60 • 780.987.3054 • devonian2.ualberta.ca • Create your own masterpiece, with inspiration all around and guidance from an expert. Register in advance for the painting activity • Aug 4, 6pm until dusk • $13.50 (adults), $9.75 (seniors 65+), $7 (student)

Edmonton Airshow • Villeneuve Airport, Range Road 271 & Secondary Hwy 633 • deanh@rweevents.ca • edmontonairshow.ca • An entertainment spectacle that celebrates both the rich history and the modern evolution of aviation in Edmonton • Aug 6-7 • $25

Edmonton Kennel Club Dog Show • Whitemud Equine Centre, 12505 Keillor Rd • edmontonkennelclub.ab.ca • Aug 4-7

Edmonton Pokemon GO Kickoff • Alberta Legislature grounds • Gathering event for Pokemon GO trainers across the city • Jul 30 • Free

Fairy Berry Festival • Prairie Gardens, 56311 Lily Lake Road, Bon Accord; 25 km north of Edmonton • prairiegardens.org • Sprinkle a bit of magic and whimsy into this corn maze adventure to the farm! Fairies, pirates, homemade berry shortcake, folk music, and maze adventures in the Mindbender and Kidz Corn Mazes are all part of the family fun! The “Fairy Berries” are the most exquisite of the strawberry season—small, dainty and delicious • Jul 30-Aug 1

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Fragapalooza 2016 • Leduc Recreation Center, 4330 Black Gold Dr, Leduc • fragapalooza.com • Four days of non-stop video and computer gaming, featuring games like Starcraft II • Aug 4-7

Guided Tours of the Kurimoto Japanese Garden • Devonian Botanic Garden, 51227 AB-60, Parkland County • devonian. ualberta.ca • Learn about the history of the Kurimoto Japanese Garden and the symbolism behind the landscape features and structures • Aug 7: 11:30am & 1:30pm • Free with general admission

Harvest Festival • Bon Accord • bonaccord.ca/events.html • Something for all ages, starting with a slo-pitch tournament, followed by a parade, family games, petting zoo, pancake breakfast, teen dance and more • Aug 5-6 • Free (fair ticketed)

Heritage Festival • Hawrelak Park, 9330 Groat Road • heritage-festival.com • Come to Hawrelak Park for an annual celebration of Canadian cultural diversity. Eighty-five cultures at 60 outdoor pavilions feature non-stop international music, dancing, food, arts and crafts, costumes and more. Enjoy everything that Canadians have to offer by seeing where they came from • Jul 30-Aug 1

Japanese Tea Ceremony • Devonian Botanical Garden • devonian.ualberta.ca • Experience Japanese culture in a unique setting.

Japanese sweets and tea are provided to guests, as well as an explanation of the tea ceremony • Aug 7: 11:15am, 12:45pm, 1:30pm and 2:15pm • Adv tickets recommended, online at Matsukaze Chonoyu Association; $7.50 (does not include admission to the Garden)

K-Days • Northlands Park, 73 St & 116 Ave • 780.471.7210 • k-days.com • The biggest 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

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 Pollinator Planting • Terwillegar Recreation Center, 2051 Leger Road • Supporting our native pollinators. Planting native trees, shrubs, and wildflowers creates habitat for bees, butterflies, and other beneficial insects • Jul 29 (5-8pm), Jul 30 (10am-2pm) • Free (register at bit.ly/2aFNsJh) Rock’n August • Various locations around St Albert • rocknaugust.com • International vintage car show and music festival with street dance, kick-off breakfast and more • Aug 2-6

Rural Roots Fair • Beaumont Ag Society Fairgrounds, 5010-52 Ave, Beaumont • beaumontagsociety.com/ruralroots • Designed with families in mind, the event features a kids area, community booths, as well as presentations and demos from the other elements of the Ag Society • Aug 6-7 • Free; all ages 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 Twins & Triplets Parade • Whyte Ave • twins-triplets-plus-festival-parade.org • Featuring presentations, storytelling, music, nail painting and much more • Aug 6, 10am 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 (March 21-April 19): Free your body. Don't ruminate and agonize about it. FREE YOUR BODY! Be brave and forceful. Do it simply and easily. Free your gorgeously imperfect, wildly intelligent body. Allow it to be itself in all of its glory. Tell it you're ready to learn more of its secrets and adore its mysteries. Be in awe of its unfathomable power to endlessly carry out the millions of chemical reactions that keep you alive and thriving. How can you not be overwhelmed with gratitude for your hungry, curious, unpredictable body? Be grateful for its magic. Love the blessings it bestows on you. Celebrate its fierce animal elegance.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The people of many cultures have imagined the sun god as possessing masculine qualities. But in some traditions, the Mighty Father is incomplete without the revitalizing energies of the Divine Mother. The Maoris, for example, believe that every night the solar deity has to marinate in her nourishing uterine bath. Otherwise he wouldn't be strong enough to rise in the morning. And how does this apply to you? Well, you currently have resemblances to the weary old sun as it dips below the horizon. I suspect it's time to recharge your powers through an extended immersion in the deep, dark waters of the primal feminine.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): An Interesting Opportunity is definitely in your vicinity. It may slink tantalizingly close to you in the coming days, even whisper your name from afar. But I doubt that it will knock on your door. It probably won't call you seven times on the phone or flash you a big smile or send you an engraved invitation. So you should make yourself alert for the Interesting Opportunity's unobtrusive behavior. It could be a bit shy or secretive or modest. Once you notice it, you may have to come on strong -you know, talk to it sweetly or ply it with treats.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): [Editor's note: The counsel offered in the following oracle was channeled from the Goddess by Rob Brezsny. If you have any problems with it, direct your protests to the Queen Wow, not Brezsny.]

It's time to get more earthy and practical about practicing your high ideals and spiritual values.

Translate your loftiest intentions into your most intimate behavior.

Ask yourself, "How does Goddess want me to respond when my coworker pisses me off?", or "How would Goddess like me to brush my teeth and watch TV and make love?" For extra credit, get a tshirt that says, "Goddess was my co-pilot, but we crash-landed in the wilderness and I was forced to eat her."

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Be alert for white feathers gliding on the wind. Before eating potato chips, examine each one to see if it bears a likeness of Rihanna or the Virgin Mary. Keep an eye out, too, for portents like robots wearing dreadlocked wigs or antique gold buttons lying in the gutter or senior citizens cursing at invisible Martians. The appearance of anomalies like these will be omens that suggest you will soon be the recipient of crazy good fortune. But if you would rather not wait around for chance events to trigger your good luck, simply make it your fierce intention to generate it. Use your optimism-fueled willpower and your flair for creative improvisation. You will have abundant access to these talents in the coming weeks.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You have just begun your big test.

How are you doing so far? According to my analysis, the preliminary signs suggest that you have a good chance of proving the old maxim, "If it doesn't make you so crazy that you put your clothes on inside-out and try to kiss the sky until you cry, it will help you win one of your biggest arguments with Life." In fact, I suspect we will ultimately see you undergo at least one miraculous and certifiably melodramatic transformation. A wart on your attitude could dissolve, for example. A luminous visitation may heal one of your blind spots. You might find a satisfactory substitute for kissing the sky.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): For many years, my occupation was "starving artist." I focused on improving my skills as a writer and musician, even though those activities rarely earned me any money. To ensure my survival, I worked as little as necessary at low-end jobs -- scrubbing dishes at restaurants, digging ditches for construction companies, delivering newspapers in the middle of the night, and volunteering for medical experiments. During the long hours spent doing tasks that had little meaning to me, I worked diligently to remain upbeat. One trick that worked well was imagining future scenes when I would be engaged in exciting creative work that paid me a decent wage.

It took a while, but eventually those visions materialized in my actual life. I urge you to try this strategy in the coming months, Libra. Harness your mind's eye in the service of generating the destiny you want to inhabit.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You have every right to celebrate your own personal Independence Day sometime soon. In fact, given the current astrological omens, you'd be justified in embarking on a full-scale emancipation spree in the coming weeks. It will be prime time to seize more freedom and declare more autonomy and build

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more self-sufficiency. Here's an important nuance to the work you have ahead of you: Make sure you escape the tyranny of not just the people and institutions that limit your sovereignty, but also the voices in your own head that tend to hinder your flow.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Of all the forbidden fruits that you fantasize about, which one is your favorite? Among the intriguing places you consider to be outside of your comfort zone, which might inspire you to redefine the meaning of "comfort"? The coming weeks will be a favorable time to reconfigure your relationship with these potential catalysts.

And while you're out on the frontier dreaming of fun experiments, you might also want to flirt with other wild cards and strange attractors. Life is in the mood to tickle you with useful surprises.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You have a special talent for accessing wise innocence. In some ways you're virginal, fresh, and raw, and in other ways you're mature, seasoned, and well-developed. I hope you will regard this not as a confusing paradox but rather as an exotic strength. With your inner child and your inner mentor working in tandem, you could accomplish heroic feats of healing. Their brilliant collaboration could also lead to the mending of an old rift.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): "Where is everybody when I need them?" Even if you haven't actually spoken those words recently, I'm guessing the voices in your head have whispered them. But from what I can tell, that complaint will soon be irrelevant. It will no longer match reality. Your allies will start offering more help and resources. They may not be perfectly conscientious in figuring out how to be of service, but they'll be pretty good. Here's what you can do to encourage optimal results: 1. Purge your low, outmoded expectations. 2. Open your mind and heart to the possibility that people can change. 3.

Humbly ask -- out loud, not just in the privacy of your imagination -for precisely what you want.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Millions of Pisceans less fortunate than you won't read this horoscope. Uninformed about the rocky patch of Yellow Brick Road that lies just ahead, they may blow a gasket or get a flat tire.

You, on the other hand, will benefit from my oracular foreshadowing, as well as my inside connections with the Lords of Funky Karma. You will therefore be likely to drive with relaxed caution, keeping your vehicle unmarred in the process. That's why I'm predicting that although you may not arrive speedily at the next leg of your trip, you will do so safely and in style.V

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Stressing over the hubby's porn habit

Separating sex from climax and good communication will be essential for this worried wife Question: My husband has been watching pornography on and off and lying to me about it for our whole marriage—4 years. He said he needed it to be happy cause I didn't give him enough or the type of sex he wants, and that he can’t function without it daily. He also said that if our sex life doesn’t get better, he’d leave or cheat. I don’t feel comfortable with what he wants sexually and I feel betrayed by him being sexually fulfilled without me—like him orgasming without me means he doesn’t need me or that our relationship isn’t special. I would like it if there was no porn or masturbating. Is this unreasonable? I feel like sex is something special and how we are close and intimate. Please tell me if I'm crazy or ok for me to want that.

Answer: I think it's reasonable to

ask for, but not necessarily reasonable to expect. Abstaining from self-pleasure requires substantial self-discipline. It's no easy feat.

But I don't think porn or masturbation have to be a problem—with some big exceptions. Generally speaking, people like porn because it's immersive and stimulating, not because they are perverted. The problems come when they mistake porn for reality, are dependent on it for arousal/orgasm, or develop an unhealthy preoccupation/compulsion. And I actually do think it's OK for people to masturbate daily (without porn), so long as they are able and open to connect intimately with their partner and that their partners emotional and physical needs are met.

And orgasms aren't special; they are just a biological function and bodies find a way to get re-

lease, even in abstinence (i.e. Wet dreams). Masturbation and sex serve different functions: Masturbation is an efficient way of achieving a release and sex is about intimacy. Sex releases oxytocin, which is a hormone related to bonding and emotional connection. That’s what makes sex special­— not the orgasm. Porn, however is a personal thing. I completely think it's reasonable to not want it in your household. But realistically, he'll probably still watch it.

The much bigger problem is how he’s handled this. The fact that he's trying to blame you, is unaccepting of your sexual boundaries, and is trying to coerce you into activities you aren't comfortable with, tells me that there are deeper issues that need tending to. His response is emotionally abusive and there are much healthier ways for

him to manage his disappointment and porn dependency. While it’s healthy to communicate openly about each other’s sexual desires and pleasures, it’s imperative that you maintain your boundaries- You do not have to do things that you are uncomfortable with.

My suspicion is that sex is the symptom, not the cause of the problems and that if you felt genuinely loved and respected, you wouldn't be so worried about him masturbating. As well, people are often more comfortable exploring their partner’s sexual desires when they feel safe in their relationships. If he wants you to do something different, he should be focusing on making you feel cared for.

With that said, there are two processes that need to happen.

The first is rebuilding emotional safety, intimacy, and trust, which

will require significant insight and hard work on his part. The second is cultivating balanced expectations for each other, which may involve leaning to separate orgasm and intimacy so that you don't see masturbation (preferably without porn) as a betrayal or infidelity.

This is an opportunity to generate intimacy and openness in your relationship. But in the mean time, I would prepare yourself for him to slip up. And if the two of you acknowledge that likelihood, he'll be more likely to be honest and less defensive, which is the much bigger problem. V Brenda Kerber is a sexual health educator who has worked with local not-for-profits since 1995. She is the owner of the Edmontonbased, sex-positive adult toy boutique the Traveling Tickle Trunk.

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DISCLOSURE ISSUES

I’m 28 years old and live in the Midwest. I’m intersex, but I identify as female. I am not out about being born intersex. Due to surgeries and hormones, I look like a fairly attractive female. I have been hanging out with a chill hetero guy, and things are getting very flirty. Is it unethical of me to not disclose my intersexness to him?

IN NEW TERRIFIC EROTIC ROMANCE “We all have to make decisions about what we disclose to partners or potential partners and when we disclose it,” said Alice Dreger, historian of medicine and science, sex researcher, and author.

Dreger, for readers who may not be familiar with her, is the founding board chair of the Intersex Society of North America and the author of Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar’s Search for Justice.

Intersex, for readers who may not be familiar with the word, is an umbrella term covering dozens of different inborn conditions.

“They all involve someone having something other than the standard male or standard female body as those are defined by doctors,” explained Dreger. “There are lots of different ways to be intersex, including some so subtle that you might never even know you had that particular variation of development.”

So that chill hetero boy you’re thinking about disclosing your intersexness to, INTER? He could be intersex himself and not know it. But you do know it, and does “knowing it” obligate you to disclose?

“Lying is a bad idea, of course, but she’s not lying by presenting herself as a woman and identifying as a woman,” said Dreger. “She is a woman,

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just one whose body came with some parts that aren’t common to most women, or maybe lacking some parts that are common to most women (depending on her particular intersex condition).”

Dreger suggests making a mental list of the things a long-term partner might want, need, or a have a right to know about your history and your body. Then using your best judgment, INTER, decide what to share with him and when to share it.

“For example,” said Dreger, “if this chill hetero guy talks about wanting kids someday, and the letter writer is infertile, she might want to mention sooner rather than later that she was born with a condition that left her infertile. Do her genitals look or work differently than he might be expecting? If so, she might think about when it would be best to give him some guidance about how her body is a little different and what works best for her.”

Each of us has to balance our partner’s legitimate right to certain information, INTER, with our right to medical privacy as well as our physical and emotional safety.

“There’s no reason for her to feel like she has to announce, ‘I’m an intersex woman.’ She could opt to say, at some point, ‘I was born with congenital adrenal hyperplasia,’ or ‘I was born with androgen insensitivity syndrome,’ or whatever her specific condition might be, and then answer his questions,” said Dreger. “If the label ‘intersex’ were part of her core iden-

tity—a critical part of who she feels she is—then she might want to tell him early on, just as someone might talk about her ethnicity if that’s really important to her. But otherwise, she can disclose just like non-intersex people do with regard to fertility, sexual health, sexual sensation, sexual preferences, and sexual function—at a pace and in a way that promotes a good relationship and makes you feel honest and understood. And no one can tell her she has to use term ‘intersex.’ That’s entirely up to her.”

Follow Alice Dreger on Twitter @ AliceDreger.

you feel affirmed? Or would you be writing to ask me why your husband looks at porn of women with your exact body type when he can look at you? And is your husband sharing his porn with you… or are you combing through his browser history? Either way, PORN, if looking at what he’s looking at makes you sad… maybe you should stop looking at what he’s looking at? And if he’s not neglecting you sexually… if he isn’t just saying he finds you hot and sexy but showing you he does… why waste time policing his fantasies?

People enjoy what they have and fantasize about what they don’t. So long as we don’t take what we have for granted… it’s not a problem… unless we decide to make it one.

“We all have to make decisions about what we disclose to partners or potential partners and when we disclose it,” says Alice Dreger, historian of medicine and science, and sex researcher.

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My husband looks at porn… porn of women with a body type almost the polar opposite of mine… Example: big boobs and tattoos… Does that mean he’s no longer attracted to my body? I’m so confused… He says I’m hot and sexy, but what he looks at does NOT make me feel that way.

PERSONALLY OFFENDED REGARDING NUDES Is it possible your partner is attracted to… more than one body type?

Example: Your body type and its polar opposite?

And if your partner were looking at porn that featured women with your exact body type… would

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B U T T

What are your favorite uses for the butt plug besides putting it in your own butt or someone else’s butt?

FUN FAGGY QUESTION They make lovely paperweights, FFQ, and perfectly proportioned pacifiers for adult babies. But at our place, we use decommissioned butt plugs to play cornhole—which is a beanbag toss game that became popular in the Midwest some years after I moved to the West Coast.

(It’s true. Google it.) When I was a kid, we were instructed to run from drunk uncles at family picnics who suggested a little cornholing before dinner. But that was then.

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DYING WISH

We all have to die, Dan. How would you most like to go?

Genuinely Not A Threat GENUINELY NOT A THREAT In a tragic rimming accident.

GIVING, GAME, GOOD

My partner and I got married last weekend. For his vows, he wrote a hilarious, wonderful song. (He’s a professional singer in Los Angeles, so the song was pretty spectacular.)

I’m a Femme Dom who loves ropes, while he’s pretty vanilla. Despite that, we’ve had a dynamite sex life for the last eight years, in part because he’s so GGG. Early on, I got him to start reading your column, and that concept made a huge impression on him. Here’s the verse from his song/ vows that you inspired: “Now next I should obey you / But that one’s a little tricky / I’m what you call “vanilla”/ And on top of that I’m picky / Instead of blind obedience / I hope it’s understood / I promise to continue / Being giving, game, and good!”

Thanks for all you do!

BELOVED REVELS IN DAN'S LOVE EDUCATION Congrats on your wedding, BRIDLE, and thanks for a lovely note—one that will give hope to kink-discordant couples everywhere. Perfect fits, sexually speaking, are rare. But whip a little GGG into the mix, and that imperfect fit can become a perfect match!

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