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QUEERMONTON

NEW OUTLET FOR EXERCISE I

Edmonton fitness groups band together to offer LGBTQ specific training regimens

n the next few weeks, a new fitness program pilot is launching that will focus on the needs of LGBTQ folks, particularly those who are trans or non-binary. The Edmonton LGBTQ Fitness Program is a partnership between the Edmonton Men’s Health Collective (EMHC) and Blitz Conditioning, a local personal training studio.

The project has its genesis in Em Lamache, a personal fitness trainer at Blitz. After graduating from NAIT’s Personal Fitness Trainer program, Lamache wanted to work with the LGBTQ community and went to work at Blitz to make that dream a reality. While participating in Totally Outright (an EMHC project

that brings together masculine identified LGBTQ folks to do community projects), Lamache tossed around the idea of a group fitness project for LBGTQ folks. The response was overwhelmingly positive and the rest, as they say, is history.

Now, Lamache focuses on the training, Blitz provides the space, and EMHC provides fundraising and administrative support.

The goals of the program are twofold. The first is to create a safe and welcoming fitness space, as going to the gym can be difficult and potentially dangerous for trans and nonbinary people.

“We recognize that trans and

non-binary individuals are most likely to encounter barriers to fitness, particularly as it relates to finding change rooms that are safe for them and align with their gender identity,” says Brook Biggin, the founder of EMHC. Lamache notes that there are physiological changes to take into account when someone is undergoing hormone therapy.

The organizers are very respectful of pronouns, preferred names, body shape and size, and other considerations that might not be taken into account in traditional fitness spaces.

The second goal is to explore the effects that physical exercise has on the wider LGBTQ community.

“Our community is at a disproportionately higher risk of mental illness, specifically depression and anxiety,” says Mathew Thomson, the EMHC Social & Physical Health team lead. “It’s been pretty well documented for a few years now that physical activity can really help manage mild to moderate depression and anxiety.”

The hope is that the pilot can begin to quantify the effects that access to physical exercise has on physical, mental, and social health and encourage other cities to adopt similar programs.

The program is slowly rolling out over a number of phases.

The beta phase began last month and was a three week trial where participants came together three times a week for an hour of exercise. The beta phase allowed the program to work out any kinks and by all accounts was a success.

“So many people came to me

tion and as such, EMHC is rolling out a crowd-funding campaign to cover remaining costs.

The goal is to raise $4,500— this would keep the pilot afloat for the full six months and ensure accessibility for participants. Any shortfall would need to be made up through participant donations, which is less than ideal. Ultimately, the hope

Going to the gym can be difficult and potentially dangerous for trans and non-binary people. afterwards to tell me they have been waiting for an opportunity like this for a long time. That it was the first time they felt safe in a gym,” Lamache says.

The second phase of the project will begin in late August or early September, and is planned to be a six month pilot. The hope is to keep this project either free or by dona-

is that the pilot can be a springboard to launch an on-going community fitness initiative.

For information on how to donate or participate in the program, check out yegmenshealth.ca/fitness4all or the EMHC Facebook page: facebook.com/yegmenshealth.

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DYER STRAIGHT

Venezuela lingers near civil war T

President Nicolas Maduro’s unpopularity forces him to take drastic measures

here are two stories about the assault on Fuerte Paramacay military barracks in Carabobo state on Sunday. The Venezuelan government says that half the 20 attackers were killed or captured, and the rest are being hunted down. Sgt. Giomar Flores, who defected from the Venezuelan navy in June and now lives in Colombia, told The Guardian that the attack had been “a complete success.”

“We took four battalions and one put up resistance,” he says, claiming to be in direct contact with the leader of the attack, Capt. Juan Caguaripano. The rebels took “a large amount of weapons,” mostly assault rifles, and got away with no casualties.

Whichever story you believe, witnesses agree that large numbers of civilians living near the base in Valencia, the capital of Carabobo, spilled out onto the streets in support of the rebels.

Civil war in Venezuela is not yet a reality, but there is ample dry tinder lying around just waiting for a match.

The attack came just one week after the election of a “constituent assembly” by the supporters of President Nicolas Maduro’s beleaguered government. It’s hardly surprising that the opposition boycotted the vote, because the purpose of the new assembly is to rewrite the constitution and

save Maduro from defeat at the next election.

That’s not Maduro’s explanation for it, of course. He says it is the only way to bring “reconciliation and peace” to the country after months of political and economic crisis, but everybody outside his Socialist Party sees it as a constitutional coup.

The constituent assembly, which Maduro created by decree, consists exclusively of 545 Maduro supporters. There is no time limit on how long it will sit, nor any restrictions on what it can do. It can, for example, postpone the presidential elections that are due next year indefinitely. This matters a lot, since Maduro would certainly lose in a fair vote—recent estimates put his popular support at around 20 percent.

More immediately, it can dissolve the legitimate National Assembly, in which the opposition parties won a two-thirds majority in the December, 2015 election.

It has already fired ProsecutorGeneral Luisa Ortega, a member of the Socialist Party and former ally of Maduro’s who broke with him over his increasingly arbitrary behaviour.

The most threatening thing Ortega did was to open an investigation last week into the vote on July 30 that created the constituent assembly. Since only

Maduro’s supporters voted, that would seem irrelevant—but in mid-July the opposition had held an informal referendum in which seven million people voted against the constituent assembly.

Maduro therefore felt the need to claim that more than eight million Venezuelans had voted for the new assembly. Even that would not really be a very impressive turnout in a country of 30 million people—but then the company that supplied the voting machines, SmartMatic, said that the result had been deliberately inflated. At least a million extra votes had been added.

Antonio Mugica, the chief executive of SmartMatic, said that all previous elections in Venezuela using their machines had been conducted fairly.

“It is, therefore, with the deepest regret that we have to report that the turnout figures on [July 30] for the Constituent Assembly in Venezuela were tampered with,” he says.

prosecutors to investigate the other four directors of the NEC, but she is gone now and the investigation will not continue.

On Sunday, Luisa Ortega said, “This is a dictatorship,” and she is right. Maduro has concluded that he and his Socialist Party can only stay in power by suppressing all opposition, and he is probably right. The regime he inherited in

It may have been worse than that. Internal figures from the National Electoral Council (probably shown to Reuters by Luis Rondón, the only one of the five NEC directors who is not a government loyalist), show that only 3.7 million people had voted by 5:30 pm—and the polls closed at 7 pm. Ortega appointed two

2013 on the death of its founder, Hugo Chavez, was once genuinely popular and won free elections, but four years of falling oil prices, economic mismanagement and growing corruption have put an end to that.

The street protests against Maduro have lasted four months now, and at least 120 people have

been killed. Inflation is 1,600 percent, food and medicines are scarce, and the murder rate is among the highest in the world.

The generals are richly rewarded for serving the regime, but rankand-file soldiers earn a couple of dozen dollars a month.

Venezuela is a tinderbox. There are hundreds of thousands of devoted supporters of the “Chavista” regime, and the government has distributed weapons to them.

If the report that most soldiers did not resist the attack on the Valencia barracks is true, the

The most threatening thing Ortega did was to open an investigation last week into the vote on July 30.

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army may be about to split. The violence in the streets is mutating, with more police casualties as well as the daily toll of demonstrators.

There is no worse disaster for a country than a civil war, but Venezuela is drifting towards one.

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DISH / RAMEN

/ Steven Teeuwsen

Raising the standards of the typical ramen experience at Prairie Noodle Shop Prairie Noodle Shop 10350 124 St. 780.705.1777 prairienoodleshop.ca

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’ve probably had more people tell me how great ramen is than I’ve had actual bowls of ramen, the Japanese noodle soup that breeds fundamentalism in its adherents who extol it as one of the finest foodstuffs on God’s grey earth. And from

what I’ve heard from certain ‘ramen heads’—most of whom seem to have become radicalized while teaching in Japan— Edmonton is largely uncontaminated by convincing, much less compelling, noodle shops.

As for me, I don’t even know what I’m supposed to be looking for in a bowl of ramen. While my exacting specifications for a tureen of pho have been steadily shaped over hundreds of instances ingested here and

abroad, everything I know about Japanese noodles I learned from the movie Tampopo.

But I think I can safely say, after my trip to Prairie Noodle Shop—yet another vital station in 124 Street’s unreasonably diverse and unique food and drink scene—that I now have a standard for what ramen should taste like. Up until now, ramen has been a bland dalliance. Now I understand the line-ups that have previously

discouraged me from waiting for a seat in Prairie Noodle’s small-ish, chalkboard-intensive sub-street confines.

Truncated operating hours on a rainy holiday meant our window of opportunity was tight.

Co-diner and I strode in around noon and were not only easily accommodated, but actually seated beside people we knew who were cramming back a couple of quick baowiches— steam-bun “sandwiches”—before a kid’s birthday party.

The steamed rafts of local pork belly and shoulder, pickled shallots and Sylvan Star cheese looked tasty but

the whole point of this excursion was to further our ramen education. Co-diner ordered the Prairie pork shio and I the spicy garlic miso ramen ($15.50 each). I stupidly ignored the prescient voice within me that urged, “Get an extra umeboshi egg for $3!”

Umeboshi refers to Japanese pickled plums, which one would assume contribute meaningfully to the creation of umeboshi eggs. All I know is when I picked it up off my steaming bowl of spicy garlic miso ramen, I entered a heretofore unknown realm of sensory experience. Dark and salty on the outside, it retained a molten saffron-coloured centre that altogether was the most umami I’ve ever tasted at once.

And so it went with everything in the bowl, from the velvety pork-based miso broth with its slick of chili oil, to the chewy noodles that are a perfect example of whatever the Japanese word for al dente is, to the savoury chunks of pork shoulder, to the opulent slab of pork belly to the sweet corn, sesame and roasted garlic that rounded out the flavour profile.

That the overall effect was not as spicy as the name portended was all to the good, the better to taste every ingredient.

An additional smear of pureed roasted garlic was suspended above the soupline to add to my discretion. I used all of it.

Co-diner’s pork shio contained a lot of the same excellent ingredients, with a different pork broth variant and green onions in pursuit of a subtler, earthier flavour than my bowl. She took exception to the big rind of fat on her pork belly, which I happily relieved her of.

If Edmonton is truly without a worthwhile ramen shop, I’m thrilled to hear it. I liked Prairie Noodle Shop’s ramen plenty, so if it only gets better from here then I’m all over it. In the meantime, I will most certainly be back, at which time I will gladly take a dozen umeboshi eggs to go.

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ARTS / ANIME FEST

Animethon / Benjamin Sim

Animethon / Benjamin Sim

Fandom, friendship and engagement at Animethon 24 Fri., Aug. 11 - Sun., Aug. 13 Animethon 24 MacEwan University $25 - $55

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t started in the ‘90s, when some people discovered they shared a passion for Japanese culture and art. They decided to get together and form a club—the Banzai Anime Klub of Alberta. Since then, Animethon has grown from booking two classrooms in MacEwan’s downtown campus, to taking over the whole university for a weekend every year.

Mary Ng-Notton, an event organizer, says the guests this year range from voice actors of video games like Final Fantasy to anime favourites like DragonBall Z and Attack on Titan. Various musical talents including DJ TeddyLoid and Japanese rock (J-Rock) bands will also play several concerts throughout the weekend.

Now the fourth longest running anime convention in Canada, the event draws crowds of around 9,000, many of whom show up dressed as their favourite anime or video game characters for the convention.

The more serious fans even

change costumes each day they go, which means manufacturing up to three separate costumes with various components, wigs and embellishments.

Animethon also has a strong connection to the LGBTQ+ community, something they always devote guest selections to each year. This year, the convention will host cosplay duo Baozi and Hana from China, who have become gender-fluid cosplay role models for many that attend.

A new pilot event labelled the “Idol Showcase” will kick off the three-day festival on Friday, exhibiting more than a dozen dance cover groups from Alberta inspired by various anime shows and concerts.

Saturday will see more events cherished by convention goers.

The Edmonton Lolita Fashion Community, a Japanese subculture inspired by the Victorian and Rococo eras, will hold a fashion show to parade some new looks in the world of Lolita street fashion, which ranges from gothic, to sweet Lolita styles. A cosplay costume contest will also be held Saturday.

“Cosplayers will strut their stuff across the stage to show their efforts. Some have been practicing

a skit for it,” says Ng-Notton.

And finally, on Sunday the Orbis Orchestra will put on a classical concert with covers of soundtracks from various anime and game favourites.

While the lineup of guests will certainly keep the days packed, tight schedules make for a lot of work to keep the weekend running smoothly.

“Our attendance numbers go up every year, and we are inspired to provide more and more quality content to our fans,” NgNotton says.

As the longest running anime convention in Canada, new generations of cosplayers and anime lovers have added to the growing crowds each year, but the event is starting to see a much younger generation joining in the love of Japanese culture recently.

“It is only natural that some of our long time or older patrons are starting to bring in their children to share their love of these hobbies.

I am very proud that Animethon is a family friendly event so these parents can help our community grow,” says Ng-Notton.

Sierra Bilton arts@vueweekly.com

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ARTS / EXHIBIT

OPEN FOR INTERPRETATION

Morgan Wedderspoon incorporates image and text-based themes

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/ Morgan Wedderspoon

Fri., Aug. 11 - Sat., Sept. 9 Give Up and Party SNAP Gallery Free admission

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constant draw to visual art is the aspect of interpretation—when the artist’s vision and the viewer’s combine and a unique realization occurs. Give Up and Party is the newest exhibit at the SNAP Gallery and it aims to not only generate conversations on a surface level but allows

viewers the opportunity to visually dissect the images displayed.

Morgan Wedderspoon has been working on this exhibit for the last year and has put a generous amount of time and effort into bringing her vision to life. The exhibit itself is a mixture of image and text-based art with objects that incorporate everyday themes of decay and environmental entropy. When it came to the process of acquiring items needed for the exhibit, Wedder-

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spoon had no trouble as the majority of objects were found in her travels. Items such as animal bones, plastics and broken glass all meld into her work.

“Most of them are broken pieces of what they used to be,” says Wedderspoon.

The exhibit draws heavy inspiration from Margaret Atwood’s Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, where numerous themes of a theological nature are explored. By combining aspects of

the source material and her own visual flare Wedderspoon has created art in which the nature of the world is reflected. By splicing accumulated texts and her own personal writings into her work she aims to provide a layered experience and add to the commentary of the state of the planet.

“These objects are part of the background of daily life. It’s a kind of background information much like how the world looks at climate change, as background information,” says Wedderspoon.

The title of the exhibit itself is as open for interpretation as is the work. Wedderspoon toyed with themes like futility and the noncommittal tendencies of modern society.

“There’s a double meaning in it. Give up and Party, it’s like the idea of giving up to allow room for a different way of life,” says Wedderspoon.

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the New Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need - Naomi Klein

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Late Show - Michael Connelly

2. Ministry of Utmost

Happiness - Arundhati Roy

3. Last Neanderthal - Claire

Cameron

4. Man Called Ove - Fredrik

Backman

5. NIx - Nathan Hill 6. The Alice Network - Kate

Quinn

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Truly Madly Guilty - Liane Moriarty

8. The Scribe of Siena -

Melodie Winawer

9. Faithfull: A Novel - Alice

Hoffman

10. The Bosun Chair -

Jennifer Bowering Delisle *

3. Astrophysics for People in a

Hurry - Neil DeGrasse Tyson

4. Finding Gobi: A Little Dog

with a Very Big Heart - Dion Leonard

5. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons

from the Twentieth Century - Timothy Snyder

6. The Inconvenient Indian: A

Curious Account of Native People in North America Thomas King

7. Gutenberg’s Fingerprint:

Paper, Pixels and the Lasting Impression of Books - Merilyn Simonds

8. Keeping My Sisters’

Secrets: The Moving True Story of Three Sisters Born into Poverty and their Fight for Survival - Beezy Marsh

9. Our Place: Changing the

Nature of Alberta - Kevin Van Tighem *

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10. Welcome to Radio! Bob Layton *

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Heather Skinner arts@vueweekly.com HOMO-CIDAL Drag Show: Spice World // Sat., Aug. 12 (9:30 PM) Nothing calls back to the ‘90s quite like the Spice Girls. The film features the five ladies (playing the roles of themselves) as they are thrown into a series of fictional events that all lead up to a major concert at the Royal Hall in London. Like every good ‘90s film, Spice World contains a sprinkle of dream sequences, flashbacks and humorous asides. Spice World plays as part of the Metro’s film series HOMO-CIDAL, featuring a cult-film inspired drag troupe that will provide entertainment before, during and after the film.

(Metro Cinema at the Garneau Theatre, $13)

2. No is Not Enough: Resisting

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With this in mind she hopes to encourage reflection on the nature of how we as a society got to a certain point in terms of how we treat the planet.

Wedderspoon drew from the theme of lack of foresight from Atwood’s source material and it plays heavily in the thematic nature of the exhibit.

With the artist’s vision on broad display and borrowed themes from outside texts, Give Up and Party will surely stimulate audience’s interpretive understanding of how they view the world.

When asked about what she hopes attendees will take away from her work, Wedderspoon remains open-ended.

“People will look at the objects and have their own ideas different from mine of what it represents. I believe art should have room for subjective connections.”

Jake Pesaruk music@vueweekly.com

The Science Behind PIXAR Exhibition // Until Sun., Jan. 7 How does PIXAR manage to make such beautiful films? Is it magic? This exhibit looks into the award/ Supplied photo winning animation company’s process and showcases the science, technology, engineering and math concepts used to bring their films to the theatre. Interactive displays focus on each step of the production process such as rigging, modelling, animation and much more. If selfies are your thing, The Science Behind PIXAR exhibit also includes re-creations of WALL·E, Dory from Finding Nemo, and more. (Telus World of Science, $35.95 for adults)

Substratae // Thu. Aug. 10 until Fri., Sep. 22 Margie Kelk’s newest exhibit heads to the Harcourt House Gallery’s main gallery and doubles as her first stop-motion animated film. Showcased at several film festivals, Substratae takes inspiration from Kelk’s childhood and her travel to Iceland a few years ago. The film, features sculpted creatures from clay who interact with electronic components that symbolize hidden and underground energies. Folks curious for a taste can visit Kelk’s Vimeo account for the trailer. (Harcourt House, free admission) Re/Working Retirement book launch // Thu., Aug. 17 (7 PM – 9 PM) With the cost of living going up, those ready to retire find that they may not be able to like they had hoped.

Author Sandra Konrad went through this, and had to reinvent her career in her early sixties, a time typically associated with retirement. Her new book is an account of the numerous reasons and ways Canadian boomers stay in the workforce to the age of 70 and onward. (Audreys Books, free admission) VUEWEEKLY.com | AUG 10 – AUG 16, 2017

hot club edmonton TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 radical reels THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 the everly brothers experience Featuring the Zmed brothers

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terry o'reilly THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12 the steeldrivers SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14 port cities WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18

william prince THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7 the ennis sisters FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8 michael bernard fitzgerald FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15 calvin vollrath THURSDAY, JANUARY 11 lisa loebEB FRIDAY, JANUARY 12 magic pirate ship Starring the purple pirateE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1

frank warren SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3

samantha martin & delta sugar FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20

morton the magician in : ta da!

Created by Sheldon Casavant SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17

i got rhythm : the science of song SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22

josh ritter FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23 & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24

the small glories and ahi FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27 nashville hurricane THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2 birds of chicago FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3 alex*cubaA SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4 bobs & lolo SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5 vishtèn THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9 jadea kelly and sweet alibi FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10

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michelle & friends TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19

the east pointers SATURDAY, MARCH 3 lindi ortega FRIDAY, MARCH 16 kobo town THURSDAY, MARCH 29 fortunate ones FRIDAY, APRIL 13 amanda lindhout FRIDAY, APRIL 20 kamikaze fireflies SATURDAY, APRIL 21 beth portman and the good find TUESDAY, APRIL 24

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ARTS / EXHIBIT

WADING THROUGH THE LENS Last Resort utilizes stillness and beauty in uncertain places

Last Resort / Leanne Olson

Fri., Aug. 11 - Sat., Sept. 9 Last Resort SNAP Gallery Free admission

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eautiful and stimulating imagery can be found in the most unlikely of places. Alberta is known for a vast topographical landscape, which incorporates all manner of scenery. When it comes to the large scale it is not hard to find beauty in this province, yet the small scale requires a certain lens to look through.

Leanne Olson has spent the last three years of her life travelling the province to portray beauty in something no one would think twice to look into–water.

Olson has a vast history of working in photography, print and film and has utilized her experiences to display a love letter to settings that people would normally drive by in her exhibit Last Resort.

“I’m drawn to these places because they’re adapting to impact and surviving, with that I get to see the scale of change,” Olson says.

Olson has been carefully and tactfully taking photographs of the development of the miniature biospheres in lakes, rivers and other bodies of water in where nature and human impact intertwine. The result is a large collection of images shot through the water to portray images that encourage personal interpretation of what is being seen. Olson is aware that what is being shown in the photograph is not the most conventional of subjects as things like algae and other particles in the water add to the image.

“The water is still adapting to change it endures, some of the images can border on generating discomfort as well as being pleasing to the eye,” says Olson.

Aside from interpretation of the images on the viewer’s side, the photos also display an environmental message as Olson wanted to show how childhood lakes she grew up around have been changing due to human impact. This contrast was seen first hand as Olson accumulated photographs over years of wad-

ing in the water in rubber boots with her camera.

“Instead of being uncomfortable around places a person avoids you can find comfort in them,” says Olson.

The photographs will be in a minimalist display to encourage focus on the image itself and not the presentation. Time plays a heavy factor in Olson’s work as the images change with location and the degree of impact that they have endured.

“There is this illusion of lasting security and that nothing is going to change,” says Olson.

With this in mind each image will maintain its own identity and will give a sensation of both stillness and life. Olson hopes that audiences will dedicate time just as she did to look past the surface of the image and see what their minds conjure in reaction.

“I think when people see them they’ll see what they want to see,” she explains.

Jake Pesaruk music@vueweekly.com

OCICIWAN CONTEMPORARY ART COLLECTIVE Brittney Bear Hat & Richelle Bear Hat Emily Murphy Park, August 13 - October 15, 2017 Artist talk and picnic reception on Sunday, August 13 from 2-5 pm by the Centre parking lot in Emily Murphy Park

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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

• Gretzky is Everywhere; Jun 10-Sep 24 • WEEKLY DROPIN ACTIVITIES: Tours for Tots, Every Wed, 10-11am • Youth

Workshops, ages 13-17, Every Thu, 4-6pm • Kids’ Open Studio, Every Sat, 1-3pm • Summer ArtBreak Camp, Jul-Aug • Exhibition Tours; Every Sat-Sun, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm • Art for Lunch; 3rd Thu of the month, 12:1012:50pm • VIBE; 3rd Fri of the month, 5-9pm

FILM LE FRANÇAIS EN TÊTE (AN EVENING IN FRENCH) • TELUS World of Science, 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.ca/le-fran-ais-en-t-te • Featuring a TWOS staff scientist performing dazzling, live science demonstrations in French, followed by French-language screenings of a couple of beloved IMAX films • Aug 24, 6-9:30pm • $9.50-$22

CINEMA SERIES • Capitol Theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, 7000-143 St • fortedmontonpark.ca • Each film in the series is selected by artistic director Dana Anderson, who introduces the film each week. Every month features a new line up of popular movies from the past. This month: Singing In The Rain, 1952 (Aug 10), War of the Worlds, 1953 (Aug 17), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 1968 (Aug 24), The Untouchables, 1987 (Aug 31) • Every Thu until Oct 19, 7:30pm • $10 +GST (adv, online), $11.43 +GST (door)

HIDDEN FIGURES: LADIES NIGHT IN THE IMAX THEATRE • TELUS World of Science, 11211-142 St • 780.451.3344 • telusworldofscienceedmonton.ca • Arrive early and relax with a glass of wine or cold beer, and enjoy a sit down meal at the Purple Pear restaurant. Next, participate in engaging science activities inspired by the film. Finally, enjoy the film • Aug 17, 6-9:30pm • $11.95 (TWOSE Members receive special pricing)

HOOK: PAJAMA PARTY IN THE IMAX THEATRE • TELUS World of Science, 11211-142 St •

METRO • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109

(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

BALLROOM DANCE ASSOCIATION • Central Lions Recreation Center, 11113-113 St • 780.893.6828 • ebda.ca • An evening of ballroom, latin, country dancing • First Sat of every month, 8pm (doors) DANCE CLASSES WITH GOOD WOMEN DANCE COLLECTIVE • Muriel Taylor Studio at Ruth Carse Centre for Dance, 11205-107 Ave • info@ goodwomen.ca • goodwomen.ca/classes • Every Tue, Thu, Fri; 10-11:30am • $15 (drop-in), $65 (5 class pack), $100 (10 class pack)

DANCE LESSONS • Central Lions Recreation Centre, 11113-113 St • 587.521.3386 (Mon-Thu, 10am-noon) • Offering various dance mediums for everyone to try, including choreographed ballroom, line dancing, clogging and square dancing • Sep 2-3 (12:30pm & 5:30pm; 12pm & 5:30pm) • Free

FLAMENCO DANCE CLASSES (BEGINNER OR ADVANCED) • Dance Code Studio, 10575115 St NW #204 • 780.349.4843 • judithgarcia07@gmail.com • Every Sun, 11:30am-12:30pm

FRIDAY NIGHT STOMP! • Sugar Foot Ballroom, 10019-80 Ave NW • 587.786.6554 • dance@ sugarswing.com • sugarswing.com • Swing dance social • Every Fri-Sat, 8pm (beginner lesson begins) • $10, $2 (lesson with entry) • All ages

MILE ZERO DANCE DROP-IN DANCE & MOVEMENT CLASSES • Spazio Performativo, 10816-95 St • 780.424.1573 • mzdsociety@gmail. com • milezerodance.com/classes • Mile Zero Dance holds a number of drop-in dance & movement classes for people of all experience levels & ages; Mon: Professional Technique (10-11:30am), Contact Improv (7-9pm); Tue: Kids 6-10 (4:30-5:15pm), Toonie Yoga (5:306:45pm), Butoh (7-9pm); Wed: Noguchi Taiso (10-11:30am); Thu: Preschool 3-5 (10-10:45am), Beginner Contemporary (5-6:15pm); Sat: House (7-9pm) • $15 (regular), $12 (members), 10-class cards available for $100

Fri - Sat, Aug. 11 - 12 Wolf Children at Metro Cinema Wolf Children / Supplied photo

BIG PICTURE PHOTOGRAPHY • 10 Sturgeon Rd, St. Albert • The Happening: Art Show & Sale; Every Sat until Oct 7, 10am-4pm BLEEDING HEART ART SPACE • 9132-118 Ave • dave@bleedingheartartspace.com • Jennifer Berkenbosch; Sep 9-Oct 14

• bugeramathesongallery.com • In the Mood: artwork

by Kerensa Haynes; Aug 4-19

YUK YUKS PRO-AM SUMMER NIGHTS

ARGENTINE TANGO DANCE AT FOOT NOTES STUDIO • Foot Notes Dance Studio

Museum, St Albert Library, A Boutique Gallery Bar By Gracie Jane, Art Gallery of St Albert, Bookstore on Perron, VASA • artwalkstalbert.com • The art hits the streets again! Discover a place to enjoy, view and buy art to suit all tastes and budgets. Featuring returning artists and new ones • Aug 3, Sep 7 (exhibits run all month)

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 10345-124 St

telusworldofscienceedmonton.ca • There is nothing better than watching a beloved classic, curled up in cozy PJ's with family and friends. And breakfast • Aug 12, 8-11am • $9.95 (add a hot breakfast for $14)

DANCE

ARTWALK • Venues include WARES, Musée Héritage

BOREALIS GALLERY • 9820-107 St • The Dream We Form By Being Together; Jun 29-Oct 1

Empress Comedy Night: Highlighting the best stand-up Edmonton has to offer. New headliner every week • Every Sun, 9pm • Free • 13103 Fort Road • yukyuks.com • A night of hilarity featuring amateur and professional comedians • Aug 24, 8:30pm • $5

ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • Healing Process: artwork by various artists; Aug 3-Sep 2 • Dreaming of Canada: A Mail Art Project: artwork by various; Aug 12-Sep 30; Opening reception: Sep 7, 6-9pm

St • 780.425.9212 • metrocinema.org • Visit metrocinema.org for daily listings • ENDLESS SUMMER: Wolf Children (Aug 11-12); On Any Sunday (Aug 13-14) • FAVA: Video Kitchen (Aug 16); Main Course (Aug 30) • HOMO-CIDAL DRAG SHOW: Spice World (Aug 12) • REEL FAMILY CINEMA: Space Jam (Aug 12) • STAFF PICS: Lenny (Aug 28) • STRANGE CANADA: Exotica (Aug 31)

CAVA GALLERY • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • galeriecava.com • The Artist’s (Invisible) Work: artwork

by Caroline Blais; Jul 7-Aug 12 • Exhibition: artwork by Elise Almeida, Rénald Lavoie, Andrew Kaczynski and Patricia Trudeau; Jul 28-Aug 18 DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St • 780.686.4211 • dc3artprojects.com • The Arch: Plans For A Heterotopic Space Opera: artwork by Travis Mcewen; Sep 8-Oct 14

FAB GALLERY • Fine Arts Building Gallery,1-1 FAB (University of Alberta) • ualberta.ca/artshows • A Sculptor’s Life: artwork by Peter Hide; Aug 22-Sep 14 • Performative Documents and the Labouring Body: artwork by Michael Woolley; Aug 22-Sep 14 FRONT GALLERY • 12323-104 Ave • thefrontgallery.com • Excavating; Opening reception: Aug 24, 7-9pm; Artist Talk: Aug 26, 2pm

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Women's Hands Building A Nation: artwork by Chinook Guild of Fibre Arts; May 6-Aug 19 • Relocations: artwork by Sam Knopp; Jul 22-Sep 2 • Painted with Fire: artwork by Ken Lumbis; Jul 22-Sep 2

ALBERTA RAILWAY MUSEUM • 24215-34 St • 780.472.6229 • AlbertaRailwayMuseum.com • Open weekends May 20-Sep 4, 10am-5pm • $7 (adult), $6 (senior/student), $3.50 (child 3-12)/child under 3 free; $5 (train rides), $3 (motor car rides) ALLIED ARTS COUNCIL OF SPRUCE GROVE • Melcor Cultural Centre, 35-5th Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • Artwork by Margriet Hogue; Jul 31-Aug 19 • Artwork by Donna Miller; Aug 21-Sep 9; Reception: Aug 26, 1-3pm

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga. ca • for the time being: 2017 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art; May 27-Sep 10 • Cutline: From the Photography Archives of The Globe and Mail; Jul 1-Nov 12 • Zachary Ayotte + Nulle Part—Shelter; Jul 1-Oct 8 • Past Imperfect: A Canadian History Project; Jun 17-Oct 8

GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • Joe Fafard: Retailles: artwork by Joe Fafard; Jul 7-Aug 27; Artist reception (artist in attendance): Aug 10, 7pm

selection of gallery-represented artists; Jul 13-Aug 31

PICTURE THIS! FRAMING & GALLERY • 959 Ordze Rd, Sherwood Park • 780.467.3038 • info@ picturethisgallery.com • picturethisgallery.com • Canada Scapes & Spaces: artwork by various artists; Jul 1-Aug 31

PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES OF ALBERTA • 8555 Roper Road • PAA@gov.ab.ca • 780.427.1750 • culture.alberta.ca/paa/eventsandexhibits/default.aspx • Open Tue-Sat, 9am

REYNOLDS-ALBERTA MUSEUM • 6426-40 Ave, Wetaskiwin • history.alberta.ca/reynolds • 780.312.2065 • The McLaughlin Story: Discover how the McLaughlin family of risk takers helped shape Canada’s auto industry; Until Oct 9 SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • scottgallery. com • Summer Show: artwork by various artists; Aug 8-Sep 11

SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta PrintArtists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists. com • Give Up and Party: artwork by Morgan Wedderspoon; Aug 11-Sep 9; Opening reception: Aug 11, 7-9pm; Artist Talk: Aug 11, 6pm (SNAP Printshop on Jasper Ave) • Last Resort: artwork by Leanne Olson; Aug 11-Sep 9; Opening reception: Aug 11, 7-9pm

STRATHCONA COUNTY MUSEUM & ARCHIVES • 913 Ash St, Sherwood Park • strathconacountymuseum.ca • Showcasing Tales from the Oral History Collection; until Oct

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Daily activities, demonstrations and experiments • The Science Behind Pixar Exhibition; Until Jan 7 • Free-$117.95

VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa-art.com • Through The Paint: artwork by Cathy Bible, Miles Constable, Janet Sutano; Aug 1-Sep 2

WEST END GALLERY • 10337-124 St • 780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • Edmonton Gallery Walk; Sep 23-24 WOMEN'S ART MUSEUM OF CANADA • La Cité Francophone 2nd Pavillon, #200, 8627 Rue Marie-Anne-Gaboury (91 St) • 780.803.2016 • info@ wamsoc.ca • wamsoc.ca • Alberta Girls: Excerpts: artwork by Rhonda Grywacheski; until Aug 18 • Nidificate: artwork by Monique Martin; Sep 9-Oct 7

LITERARY AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • Sandra

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.426.4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca • Curious Things: artwork by Wei Li; Aug 10-Sep 22; Opening reception: Aug 10, 7-10pm • Substratae: artwork by Margie Kelk; Aug 10-Sep 22; Opening reception: Aug 10, 7-10pm

Konrad "Re/Working Retirement" Book Launch; Aug 17 • Shahla & Peter Nygaard "Decade of DIscovery" Book Launch; Aug 28 • Wade Sorochan "Fastest Tone Arm in the West" Book Launch; Aug 29

DOWNTOWN EDMONTON BOOK CLUB • Downtown Edmonton Community League, 10042103 St • facebook.com/declorg • Open to anyone who lives, works, or plays downtown and wants to meet new people, have great conversations, and read cool stuff • Every 2nd Wed, 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 ROUGE POETRY SLAM HOSTED BY BREATH IN POETRY COLLECTIVE • BLVD Supper x Club, 10765 Jasper Ave • Every Tue

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 11, 9:30am-8:30pm; Aug 12, 9:30am-4:30pm • Free

THEATRE CIRQUE DU SOLEIL–KURIOS: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES • Under the Big Top at Northlands Park • cirquedusoleil.com/kurios • Step into the curio cabinet of an ambitious inventor who defies the laws of time, space and dimension in order to reinvent everything around him • Jul 20-Aug 13 • Tickets starting at $49

EDMONTON INTERNATIONAL FRINGE THEATRE FESTIVAL • Throughout Old Strathcona • fringetheatre.ca • Featuring hundreds of plays, artists and more • Aug 17-27

GREASED 2 • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, West Edmonton Mall, #2061, 8882-170 St • 780.484.2424 • infoedmonton@jubilations.ca • edmonton.jubilations. ca • The T-birdies prepare for the big drag race with the Hot Rods, their rival boy gang • Jun 9-Aug 13 (Wed-Sun) • $33.25-$77.95 SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • citadeltheatre.com • When William Shakespeare falls in love with an engaged woman, their forbidden romance inspires the playwright’s most famous tragedy • Sep 16-Oct 8

Art for Knowledge Seekers For those who ask “why not?” instead of “why.”

Satisfy your thirst for knowledge with an AGA Membership.

Become an AGA Member and enjoy special guest lectures, artists’ talks, curators’ tours, adult drop-in art classes and books about art from ShopAGA. Discuss, connect and learn with your AGA.

LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St • 780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • August Group Selling Exhibition; Aug 1-31

LATITUDE 53 • Latitude 53, 10242-106 St NW • latitude53.org • Catastrophe, Memory and Reconciliation: artwork by Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo; Jul 28Sep 9 • Autospect: Kale Vandenbroek; Jul 28-Sep 9 LOFT ART GALLERY • 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • artsoc@telus.net • artstrathcona. com • Open Fri-Sun, Jul 21-Aug 13 (exc long weekend), 10-4pm • Artwork from local artists of the Society. Including the winning art entries from the three zone shows of the Art Community Art Clubs Association

Sign up for an AGA Membership before September 30, 2017 and recieve a free exhibition catalogue

LOTUS ART GALLERY • 10321-124 St • lotusgallery.com • A Look Around Us: artwork by various artists; Jul 28-Aug 31

MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • friendsofuah.org/mcmullengallery • Comfort: artwork by Kirsty Templeton Davidge and Anne Billy; Aug 14-Oct 1

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM • St Albert Place, 5 St Anne Street, St Albert • MuseeHeritage.ca • 780.459.1528 • museum@artsandheritage.ca • Take Your Best Shot: Youth Photo Exhibition; Jun 20-Sep 10 • Healing Process: artwork by various artists; Aug 3-Sep 2 • Dreaming of Canada: A Mail Art Project: artwork by various artists; Aug 12-Sep 30; Opening reception: Sep 7, 6-9

MUTTART CONSERVATORY • 962696A St • True North: Celebrating Canada 150: artwork by Sculptors Association of Alberta; Jun 22 -Sep 6 PAINT SPOT • 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Naess Gallery: Panel Discussion: artwork by various artists; Jul 6-Aug 16 • Artisan Nook: Mandala Love: artwork by Sonia Kandera, Jul 6-Aug 16

Art for Knowledge Seekers

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For those who ask “why not?” instead of “why.” Satisfy your thirst for knowledge with an AGA Membership. Become an AGA Member and enjoy special guest lectures, artists’ talks, curators’ tours , adult drop-in art classes and books about art from ShopAGA. Discuss, connect and learn with your AGA.

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12323-104 Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Summer Group Show: rotating exhibition of work by a

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Charlize Theron takes a shot at an espionage flick

MYSTERY/THRILLER

Atomic Blonde Directed by David Leitch Now playing 

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ore cold fusion than hot fission, Atomic Blonde tries to icily merge Berlin-noir and gritty spy-thriller—it’s as if whack-amole 1987 espionage flick No Way Out met Daniel Craig-era 007—but it remains more of a strut-about exercise in style. This is too often a slick, swaggering music video with a few fight sequences, not a frosty fall-of-thewall actioner.

It’s November 1989, and peroxide-blonde Lorraine Broughton (Charlize Theron) is sent to the German metropolis by MI6 just as the Iron Curtain’s falling down.

She’s got to track down a list of operatives—including one double agent, “Satchel”—that’s been stolen after it was procured by a Stasi informant, codenamed Spy-

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glass (Eddie Marsan). But she’s got to contend with MI6’s David Percival (James McAvoy), a rogue who may have gone quite rogue.

And French spy Delphine Lasalle (Sofia Boutella) has been notso-sneakily following Broughton around town.

For all of its end-of-the-PostWorld-War-II-Order setting, Atomic Blonde manages to leave Berlin as merely a cool, grungy backdrop—summed up by one shot of punks sitting on a burntout car by a graffiti-plastered wall—maybe because we rarely ever see or hear from any Germans. The movie’s more sound and design than anything else.

There’s the debriefing frame-story, offering mostly unnecessary exposition and long looks. There are Broughton’s slinky outfits and the snappy, if often predictable, playlist (“Blue Monday,” “Major Tom,” “99 Luftballons,” “London Calling,” “Under Pres-

sure,” etc.). There’s the spraypaint-style captions, all the neon, and the mood-lighting palette of fluorescent yellows, iceberg blues, and stoplight reds.

But then there’s Broughton’s stairwell fight, where this flick sparks into incandescence for 10 minutes. The camera often comes in so close to Broughton as she grapples, gouges, pants, slams, smashes, and staggers from one near-death punch-up with one Soviet foe to another, from stairwell to room to hallway. Determined to get Spyglass out alive but, bruised and battered, Broughton seems as bedraggled and beaten-down as Berlin itself. And for those 10 glorious, horrible minutes, this actioner seems to ask a deeper, darker question—what the hell is all this Cold-Warring really for?”

Brian Gibson film@vueweekly.com

ANIME

OF WOLF AND MAN

Mamoru Hosada’s poetic film pays attention to detail

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amoru Hosoda’s Wolf Children (2012) snaps and snarls at the savage strangeness of being half-wolf, half-human, but it’s no werewolf thriller. This is a deeply introspective, lyrical, Studio Ghibli-like (certain countryside moments recall My Neighbor Totoro and Only Yesterday) tale of one mother’s struggle to raise two kids who really can behave like animals. That’s because Yuki and Ame are the offspring of Hana and a man whom she fell in love with at university—a man who could turn into a Honshū wolf.

Yuki’s narration is a touching tribute to her mother’s per-

severance. Long shots of her parents in the sprawling city suggest the loneliness of urban life. Their father’s death, while out hunting for food for his young ones, is like a plangent howl—as rain teems down, this creature’s bagged and dumped into a garbage truck. His lover, her two children beside her, can only fall to her knees in a puddle; a stranger walks up and kindly tips his umbrella over this bereft family.

Silence abounds; the wordless sequences are stunning. Mother and children caper and race through snow in their first winter since moving to the countryside. Gardening means failing and trying again; Hana’s (the name means “flower”) determination and concern throb through most scenes. As Yuki (“happiness” or “snow”) tries to fit in at grade school, though, Ame (“rain”)

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turns to the mountains and forest for his education, following nature and not culture.

There are a few sloppy and sappy moments; the sweaters somehow tied around the siblings’ necks when they’re their lupine selves seem a too-cutesy touch. But the attention to romantic-poetry detail—flowers, spires of cloud, a parking lot during a rainstorm—is sublime. And this film’s willingness to linger, dwell, and draw out—a mother’s anguish, the shadowy faces of Yuki and Ame when they’ve turned away, inwards, towards their primal selves, just wanting, primally and desperately, your children to be fine—is extraordinary at times. Rarely has maternity, or maturity, been shown with such poetic force on screen.

Brian Gibson film@vueweekly.com

POP / VIRTUAL REALITY

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Brothers Nathaniel and Alex Rossol push the limits of the escape room with Space Station Tiberia

ifty years ago, good, clean, social entertainment usually entailed playing cards or board games with a handful of friends. Computing technology was just being revealed behind industry doors and it would be another decade before it began infiltrating our day-to-day lives. The concept of virtual reality was only percolating in the minds of an exceptional few.

Video games turned the world of entertainment on its head and despite the evolution of graphics and technological abilities, we remained separated from the action, engaging simply as a director of it from afar.

Today, you are the game. Virtual reality (VR) provides users with an immersive experience where you see, touch and hear everything in the manufactured environment of your choice. And thanks to Edmonton brothers Nathaniel and Alex Rossol, you no longer need to be alone in this wild new virtual world.

While the ability to plug into a virtual game and find others, possibly plugged into another computer on the other side of the world, Nathaniel and Alex have gone a step beyond and created technology that allows a group of people in the same room to interact physically and have those physical actions translate directly to their virtual world.

“Kind of like the holodeck in Star Trek, if you know that,” says Nathaniel, who received his PhD in computing science from the University of Alberta two years ago. “In my thesis I studied sensors for tracking human motion, which is 90 percent of what the challenges in VR are, so this was closely related in a lot of ways.”

Alex, who also graduated with a computing science degree from the U of A, says they grew up playing a lot of board and video games and he often tagged along with Nathaniel’s endeavours modifying the digital games. Keeping his ear to the ground with the evolution of VR technology, Nathaniel caught wind

of the Oculus Rift headset—a first of its kind—and as the initial development kits were being rolled out in 2015, convinced Alex they should buy one to explore the technology.

“We purchased the kit, upgraded the computer and after I tried out VR for the first time, I thought, ‘Oh, this is a game changer.’ There’s something quite immersive with the VR, technology hasn’t been like that before,” says Alex.

It’s the collaborative ability to interact with others and have it all translate into a virtual experience that the brothers explored and eventually finessed with Hospital of Horrors, a two-player virtual haunted house, which isn’t a game at all.

“That was a challenge to overcome initially. In the early playtests, people would be like, ‘Oh,

I’m not sure I did well,’ or ‘I’m not sure I figured it out,’ but no one says that about a normal haunted house. You don’t say, ‘I did bad at that haunted house,’ says Alex.

The brothers took their newly developed technology to eHub, the entrepreneurial centre at the U of A, where they met Tom Viinikka, an early BCom and MBA alumni working with the mentorship program there.

“This one was by far the biggest market, the farthest reaching and that’s what was also very interesting to me is that it was really new, cutting-edge technology and really big opportunities. And then, I liked them quite a bit too,” says Viinikka who founded vrCAVE with the brothers about 18 months ago.

Using feedback from Hospital of

Horror, Nathaniel and Alex started work on Space Station Tiberia, a longer, more collaborative escape room game that allows four players to engage at a time. Connecting people rather than leaving them to the easy solitude VR presents, was a key component of the development, along with ensuring VR sickness—something all three have experienced— was avoided at all costs.

“VR sickness is believed to be a form of motion sickness, so a game where you slide around using joystick controls or those kinds of things, that’ll make you sick right away. That or really the cheaper quality headsets that have a lot of latency. You move your head in reality, but it takes awhile for the visuals to catch up,” says Nathaniel.

With the technology in place, vrCAVE partnered with SmartyPantz Escape Rooms downtown and Space Station Tiberia debuted to the public last month, with a Calgary unveiling before summer is out. The team is in talks with another chain of escape rooms on the west coast, but have also been working on new material.

Hospital of Horrors has an upgraded version that is “a little tighter, a little more polished,” says Alex, and will be rolled out later this year. The brothers are in the planning stages using feedback theme ideas from early playtests of Space Station Tiberia.”

Jenny Feniak jenny@vueweekly.com

ARE YOU EXPERIENCED? A first-hand encounter with Space Station Tiberia

V

irtual reality is a tough thing to put into words.

It demands the same description as we’d use in reality, except the realities experienced are often ones we’re aware of, but would be very unlikely to visit.

Such is Space Station Tiberia, floating not far above planet Earth as we’ve seen it depicted by astronauts from spacecrafts that have actually launched.

Except, you’re the astronaut, complete with space gloves and a white helmet with a blacked out visor.

And it is amazing.

Virtual reality is all about the sensations and your perspective from within. It was one of the trippiest times I’ve had in awhile and boosting that was the fact I was there with three other people.

The nondescript room had

nothing more than a table along one wall with a couple laptops, and a handful of backpacks and headsets in the middle of the floor. There was absolutely nothing exciting about it, except the promise of what was to come.

And one by one, we were geared up and instantly morphed to a place I’d never have dreamt of visiting.

As Linda, one of the team players, puts it, “Opening the virtual space certainly transports to a whole new dimension.”

Sure does.

As I looked at my other three teammates, each was experimenting with their virtual hands, from fists to grasps and eventually fist bumps with each other, all in a white gridded court surrounded by limitless black space.

Our mission was announced

and in an instant, we found ourselves inside a space station surrounded by power controls and a few tools—flashlights, a laptop, a gas tank, power cell —all floating around free from gravity. Handling those was a challenge in itself, as was adapting to the windows below us, revealing the mottled blues and greens and browns of our planet from afar.

But, this is more than just a VR experience, it’s an escape room and we had to save earth.

As we adjusted to our virtual bodies and movements, there was some bumping into each other that you actually felt. While our minds worked to figure out how to solve our obstacles, virtual hands grasped and passed objects, pushed buttons and scrolled touchscreens. As the clock ticked, focus became im-

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mersed in our current reality and the task at hand.

Finally, we succeeded with the problems on board and were suddenly transported onto the outside deck with a massive meteor burning on the horizon.

Space rocks hurtled at us as we worked to find and maneuver necessary parts to fix and reactivate the lazer outside the deck. But as time ran out and the destructive forces increased, no amount of real scrambling was going to save this world.

I can only imagine how spectacular it would have been to blow up a giant, blazing rock … but we didn’t. The virtual challenges got the better of us and everyone died. #sorrynotsorry.

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Hard work and dedication has put Martin Kerr on the steady ascent to stardom

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o hear Martin Kerr play is to be reminded of the important parts of your own life, and of how much stimulating Edmonton street music is never recorded. It’s almost heartbreaking in way, but Kerr’s journey from busking at the farmers’ market to taking the stage at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival has involved a lot of planning and a lot of writing.

“It’s something I’ve wanted to do ever since I moved here,” Kerr says. “It’s such an iconic festival, when you see those 12,000 people on the hill with their candles waving … I’m going to get to play a couple songs before City and Colour on the closing night of the festival on the mainstage, so I’m really looking forward to that and hoping that I can get everyone’s attention.”

It’s a reward that’s been a long time coming for Kerr, whose latest album, Better Than Brand-New, hit number 10 on the Canadian album sales chart in July. Between playing house shows, a sold-out performance at the Winspear, and an opening spot for Sarah McLachlan, Kerr says it’s about giving an audience a moving and relatable experience.

“I try to write about what I’m feeling and what my reality is,” says Kerr. “I know that other people are going through the same things or have been through the same things and will relate to it.

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well, ‘write what you know,’ or journalists, too. As a songwriter, it seems to me that there’s not many songs, at least in the mainstream, that are talking about the realities of family life.”

Kerr’s music seems most comfortable in the same storytelling vein as folk icons like Cat Stevens and Gordon Lightfoot. It’s a sound that’s had a long time to mature.

It’s a busy life, and Kerr’s success is due in part to hiring friend, former tenant, and now executive assistant, Anthony Lovesey, who handles the logistical side of the business. But even with the extra help, it’s still difficult being both a dedicated recording artist and a dedicated father of three.

“It’s pretty intense right now but that’s another reason I turned to busking instead of touring was because I want to be a proper dad,” says Kerr. “I didn’t want to be seeing them once every couple of months.

I wanted to tuck them into bed every night. I get to do that and I get to make a living doing what I love as well.”

Kerr has been playing throughout Edmonton for the last decade. Originally from Oakham, England, Kerr left home after high school to travel the world.

He met his Edmontonian wife in China, began a longdistance relationship, and eventually moved with her to her hometown.

Discontent with a construction job, Kerr initially tried to get his music out in the usual way. A western Canadian tour, local shows, a CD release party, but none of it was taking.

“I wasn’t making any money,” says Kerr. “I was losing money, and as I looked around me I saw that almost everybody else was not making a living either. I figured I had to try something else. I started busking at the farmers’ market and on street corners and stuff. It was really the street performing that made my career take off. It wasn’t spectacular, but that’s how I started.”

It’s odd to see a musician come so far having eschewed the bar and club scenes, but perhaps that’s a testament to Kerr’s dedication and tenacity. In that sense, Kerr’s triumph is one for local music fans as well.

“That’s very much a communal success,” he says. “It’s due to lots and lots of people helping me, whether it’s just flinging a looney into my case when I was busking or being corporate sponsor of one of my shows. People have helped me on all different levels, but there are thousands of people that have helped me have a career. I think the biggest lesson I’ve learned is just to ask for what you want and what you need.”

Lucas Provencher music@vueweekly.com

FOLK ROCK

YEARNING FOR SOUNDS OF THE PAST

Kacy Anderson and Clayton Linthicum / Supplied photo

Kacy & Clayton draw inspiration from their family and musical forefathers Sun., Aug. 13 (1:05 pm) Kacy & Clayton Edmonton Folk Music Festival General day passes $85

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acy & Clayton’s latest record, Strange Country sounds like it could have been pulled from the ‘60s section of a vinyl shop, alongside Joni Mitchell, Simon & Garfunkel and Bob Dylan. Their sound embodies the folk revival of the 1960s in an authentic way, and it’s easy to wonder if the Saskatchewanborn second cousins are really from this decade.

“When we were both in middle years of school we realized we had somewhat similar taste

in music,” says guitarist and backup vocalist Clayton Linthicum. “We liked Roger Miller and Johnny Cash and we were both starting to get into traditional folk music, like Mississippi John Hurt, and the Carter Family and Doc Watson.”

The two cousins joined their musical abilities and formed their rurally-rooted folk duo, releasing their self-titled debut in 2011. But, they’ve been playing music together much longer than that.

“When I was nine or 10 years old, I played in a band with Kacy’s three older sisters,” Linthicum explains. “Kacy would have been around six or seven when she started singing with the

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Linthicum and his cousin Kacy Anderson grew up in a family with instruments and records close at hand. They were keen to find new folk, blues, country and bluegrass artists to peak their interest and fill their iPods.

“When I turned seven, for my birthday, my Dad brought me home a guitar. It was called Mark II, and it was made by Walmart,” he says. “He bought it on his way home from a trip to New Mexico. Now I have a 1951 Gibson J-50, and I treat it a lot better than I did that Mark II.”

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For Linthicum, collecting records is less about the profit potential and more about finding music of an era he and his bandmate love so dearly.

“I don’t really care so much about the value or if it’s like an original pressing, I just collect them to listen to. And mostly because the music that I like is only available on LPs—unless it was really popular, and reissued as, like, a greatest hits or something.”

Their newest album, The Siren’s Song comes out later this month to tide folk-lovers over until their next Edmonton performance at The Needle on September 25.

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When he and Anderson first joined together, they played gigs at small, local bars near where they grew up, experimenting with inspirations they found in old LPs. Lithicum was mostly drawn to country LPs from the ‘50s and ‘60s and old British folk albums.

“The thing about living in Saskatchewan, and really most of Western Canada, is that there’s a lot of country records in the second-hand stores, and when people die and their kids give away their record collections,” Linthicum says. “There’s usually a lot of country music in there. That’s probably what I have the most of, due to geographical circumstances.”

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MUSIC / MANTRA DOOM

TRANQUIL DOOM

Kyle Mcdonald and Christopher Lewis of Zaum // Don Levandier

Zaum returns home to Canada to supply a unique take on a established genre Sat., Aug. 12 Zaum w/ Flying Fortress, DRI HIEV and Pyramid/Indigo Brixx Bar and Grill, $10

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yle McDonald is the founder, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist of the Moncton-based duo, Zaum. His background as a sound engineer shows through in the the band’s mantra-doom sound.

On stage, he and bandmate Christopher Lewis provide the chest-rattling force of a full

ensemble with just two stage performers.

“When I approached the idea of the band I knew I wanted it to be a two person venture,” says McDonald. “I didn’t want it to sound like one, and it’s crafted in a way where that’s achievable live.”

As you will find on its 2016 album, Eidolon, Zaum’s sound plays double-duty. It achieves the density of traditional doom accented by a tranquil approach. Soft echoes, sludgy drumbeats and ethereal lyrics

lift and carry the songs, helping add a lightness to them.

This melody choice was deliberate and McDonald knew that there would be some risk.

“There was a slight worry that maybe we’d go too far in a certain direction and alienate aspects of the metal community,” McDonald says.

McDonald decided against playing it safe sonically, having seen firsthand how certain certain bands stuck to a strict code of conduct when performing under a determined genre.

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This is an integral reason why Zuam has toured throughout Europe—carving out its own niche and not being afraid to take chances. After a long absence from Canada, Zaum is returning with a Canadian tour, aiming to get back in touch with its home metal scene.

“It doesn’t feel like we’re doing this tour out of necessity, it feels natural being back here and we’re stoked for it,” McDonald says.

McDonald is mainly excited to be back in Canada, and is

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particularly keen on returning to Edmonton after a memorable performance last time through town.

With studio time planned in 2018, the band has no plans to cater their upcoming sonic ambitions to anyone but themselves.

“I mean it’s a self indulgent band sound-wise. If some people don’t like it, then so be it,” he says.

“We get to do what we want to do at the end of the day.”

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Lisa Anderson / Wed., Aug. 16 (5:30 PM) Taking a second to listen to Lisa Anderson’s Bandcamp page and immediately toes begin to tap and memories of warm summer days pop to mind. Her music is made of whimsy, wit, and sunshine. Rolling through her self-titled album lyrics that describe a desire to understand who she is and the world around her. Anderson brings a beautiful mixture of pop, rock, soul, jazz and folk to her lyrics and it’s the perfect package for summer. (Needle Vinyl Tavern, Gratuities accepted) Urban Fashion Wear/Concert / Fri. Aug. 11 until Sat. Aug. 12 Fashion and music go together like peanut butter and jelly. At this event, local urban designers and brands will be showcasing pieces they are most proud of and will include music performed by a few Edmonton-based musicians such as Rockchilld who performs hip hop, R&B beats from Nova Millz RDC, and mellow hip-hop/rap beats from OG Jonah. (Duggan Community Centre, $20) Fridays at the Legislature featuring The Hearts / Fri. Aug 11 (12 PM) When the Legislature isn’t filled with politicians, it’s serene grounds set against a backdrop of the iconic building plays host to a summer-only outdoor concert series that is held during lunch hour. This week’s event will feature a performance by The Hearts, a band who uses a stunning mix of retro-pop, folk-rock and electronica. Their music is elegant, creative, daring and undeniably heartfelt.

(Alberta Legislature Grounds) Melissa Etheridge / Wed., Aug. 16 (6 PM) Back in 1988, Etheridge took on the rock scene with a self-titled debut album.

Since then she’s had numerous hits such as “Come to My Window”, a song all about longing. If that’s not enough, Etheridge has even filled in for Billy Joe Armstrong of Green Day fame in the band’s rock opera, American Idiot. She brings energy into each performance, even when she’s playing on the stage solo with her guitar. (River Cree Resort and Casino, Tickets start at $49.99) Heather Skinner music@vueweekly.com

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Every Sun, 9pm BLIND PIG PUB Blind Pig Pub

Jam with Forever 51; Every Sun, 3-6:30pm BLUES ON WHYTE Lex Justice

& The Ocho Rios Trio; 9pm

SANDS INN & SUITES Open SHAKERS ROADHOUSE The

Sunday Happening Jam featuring The Todd James Band; 4pm

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ Zyppy; Every

Sun

BLUES ON WHYTE Slim

Ukulele Circle; 6:30pm; Free CHA ISLAND Karaoke Monday

Remembering Elvis–40 Years Later; 4:30pm (doors); $15 (door)

MYER HOROWITZ THEATRE

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN Happy Hour featuring Pat Maloney; 5:30pm PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Wild Rose Old Tyme

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

BLUES ON WHYTE Slim

Duncan; 9pm FESTIVAL PLACE The Canadian

Fiddle Project Featuring April Verch; 7:30pm; $15 FIDDLER'S ROOST

EL CORTEZ MEXICAN KITCHEN + TEQUILA BAR Resident DJs

Fiddle Jam Circle; 7:30-11:30pm

playing the best in hip-hop, dance and classics; Every Fri-Sat, 9pm; No cover

LB'S PUB Tuesday Night Open Jam Hosted by Darrell Barr; 7-11pm; No charge MAMA'S GIN JOINT

Tuesday Open Mic; Every Tue, 9pm; Starts Jan 3; Free NEEDLE VINYL

Thu - Sun, Aug 10 - 13 Folk Festival, All ages;

TAVERN Happy

Hour with Rising Star, Kaylin Kowalyshyn and friends; 5:30pm • Big Dreamer Jam featuring Sean Brewer; 8pm

Leon Bridges / Supplied photo

FESTIVAL PLACE Qualico Patio

Series: The Henry Girls, Kobo Town; 7:30pm; $8 Wednesdays Live Piano Karaoke featuring the Fab Tiff Hall; Every Wed, 8:30pm Karaoke Jockey Simonette; Every Wed, 7-11pm

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN Happy Hour featuring Lisa Anderson; 5:30pm • Mix Master Mike with Arlo Maverick, The Liberators, Mitchell Lawler, with Matthew Creeasian DJing; 8pm; $25 (adv)

Wednesdays hosted by ED; Every Wed, 9pm

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

Wednesday RIVER CREE Melissa Etheridge; 6pm (doors), 8pm (show); Tickets starting at $49.99 SHAKERS ROADHOUSE 4 Dollar

Bill Country Jam; 7pm TAVERN ON WHYTE Karaoke;

9pm

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ Late Fee; Every Wed

PINT DOWNTOWN Wild Wing

Wednesdays at the Pint with DJ Thomas Culture; Every Wed, 10pm RANCH ROADHOUSE DJ Shocker and Seelo Mondo; Every Wed

780.451.8890, cafeblackbird.ca CAFFREY’S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351-118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASK AND BARREL 10041104 St; 780.498.1224, thecaskandbarrel.ca CENTRAL SENIOR LIONS CENTRE 11113-113 St CENTURY CASINO–EDMONTON 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CENTURY CASINO–ST. ALBERT 24 Boudreau Rd, St. Albert, 780.460.8092 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 COMMON 9910-109 St COMMONWEALTH STADIUM 11000 Stadium Rd DENIZEN HALL 10311-103 Ave, 780.424.8215, thedenizenhall.com DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB 1111387 Ave NW, devaneyspub.com DUGGAN’S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DV8/MAMA’S PIZZA 7317-101 Ave NW EL CORTEZ MEXICAN KITCHEN + TEQUILA BAR 8230 Gateway Blvd, elcortezcantina.com EMPRESS ALE HOUSE 9912-82 Ave NW

ALL SHOWS 18+ UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED

AUG/11 VNV NATION W/ IVARDENSPHERE CONCERTWORKS PRESENTS

AUG/13 PALLBEARER W/ GOST, & BORYS

CONCERTWORKS & CROWN OF VISERYS PRESENTS

SEP/15&16 BREAKOUT WEST

MUSIC FESTIVAL

SEP/17 THE CAVE SINGERS LIVENATION.COM PRESENTS

W/ CHRIS CHEVEYO

SEP/19 ALLAN RAYMAN LIVENATION.COM PRESENTS

W/ GUESTS

SEP/26 DARK TRANQUILITY CONCERTWORKS PRESENTS

W/ WARBRINGER, STRIKER

OCT/6

UP+DT PRESENTS

OCT/7

PRESENTED BY 2017 UP AND DOWNTOWN MUSIC FESTIVAL (UP+DT)

OCT/8

PRESENTED BY 2017 UP AND DOWNTOWN MUSIC FESTIVAL (UP+DT)

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic Bluegrass jam

DIIV W/ PROVINCIAL ARCHIVE AND GUESTS DAN DEACON W/ GUESTS

REVEREND HORTON HEAT W/ MAD BOMBER SOCIETY & GUESTS

OCT/13 BLASPHEMY W/ RITES OF THY DEGRINGOLADE, FORTRESS, CROWN OF VISERYS PRESENTS BLACK MOURNING LIGHT METAL FESTIVAL 2017

SORGUINAZIA, ARES INFERNUS

OCT/14 REVENGE W/ ANTICHRIST (CANADA), XUL,

CROWN OF VISERYS PRESENTS BLACK MOURNING LIGHT METAL FESTIVAL 2017

FUNERAL OF GOD, SCYTHRA, GOATHAMMER

OCT/20 CATTLE DECAPITATION W/ REVOCATION, FULL OF HELL, ARTIFICIAL BRAIN DEDFEST X & CONCERTWORKS PRESENTS

THE STARLITE ROOM IS A PRIVATE VENUE FOR OUR MEMBERS AND THEIR GUESTS. IF YOU REQUIRE A MEMBERSHIP YOU CAN PURCHASE ONE AT THE VENUE PRIOR TO / OR AFTER THE DOOR TIMES FOR EACH SHOW.

VENUEGUIDE ALBERTA LEGISLATURE 10800-97 Ave NW THE ALMANAC 10351-82 Ave, 780.760.4567, almanaconwhyte.com ARCADIA BAR 10988-124 St, 780.916.1842, arcadiayeg.com ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL 7704 Calgary Trail South, 780.432.4611, atlantictrapandgill.com AUSSIE RULES KITCHEN & PIANO BAR #1638, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722, aussierulesedmonton.com BAILEY THEATRE 5041-50 St, Camrose, 780. 672.5510, baileytheatre.com BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLIND PIG PUB 32 St Anne St, St Albert BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BLVD SUPPER X CLUB 10765 Jasper Ave BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BORDEN PARK 7703 Borden Park Rd NW BORDERLINE SPORTS PUB 3226-82 St, 780.462.1888 BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 CAFE BLACKBIRD 9640-142 St NW,

MAIN ROOM

HAVE MERCY Whiskey

ON THE ROCKS Karaoke

TUE AUG 15

ENVY NIGHT CLUB Resolution Saturdays: top 40, throwbacks and club anthems

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

MAMA'S GIN JOINT Wednesday Karaoke; Every Wed, 9pm; Free

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

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

Metallica; 6pm; $55.50-$183

SIDELINER’S PUB Singer/

Lunchpail

Floor: DJ Chris Bruce spins

COMMONWEALTH STADIUM

HOWARD JOHNSON HOTEL

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Substance with Eddie

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main

BLUES ON WHYTE Trevor

Finlay; 9pm

Fiddlers Association: Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm Songwriter Monday Night Open Stage; Hosted by Celeigh Cardinal; Every Mon (except long weekends), 8:30pm

WWW.STARLITEROOM.COM

with resident DJs

FIDDLER'S ROOST Open Stage;

Marty Stuart; 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $39.50-$54.50; All ages

TICKETS FOR STARLITE ROOM SHOWS AVAILABLE ONLINE AT

EL CORTEZ MEXICAN KITCHEN + TEQUILA BAR Taco Tuesday

BAILEY THEATRE–CAMROSE

Monday Night Blues Jam hosted by the Dylan Farrell Ban; Every Mon, 8:30pm (sign up); No cover

10030 - 102 STREET

punk/garage/indie; Every Tue

WED AUG 16

HAVE MERCY Mississippi

Starliteroom starlitetoomyeg

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Chris Bruce spins britpop/

night; Every Mon, 9pm; Free 7-11pm

StarliteRoom

DJs

DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB Karaoke

DJs

DJs

Jamerama, with Tall Dark & Dirty; 7pm

ENVY NIGHT CLUB West Edmonton Mall, 8882 170 St 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 FIONN MACCOOL’S–DOWNTOWN 10200-102 Ave NW FIONN MACCOOL’S–MAYFIELD 10813-170 St NW FIONN MACCOOL’S–SKYVIEW 13580-137 Ave NW THE FORGE ON WHYTE 10549-82 Ave (Whyte Ave) GALLAGHER PARK 9505-96 Ave NW GAS PUMP NIGHT CLUB & BAR 10166-114 St HAVE MERCY SOUTHERN TABLE + BAR 8232 Gateway Blvd, havemercy.ca HOWARD JOHNSON HOTEL 15540 Stony Plain Road JT’S BAR AND GRILL 1107 Knottwood Road East L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 THE LEAF 9016-132 Ave MAMA’S GIN JOINT 11723 Jasper Ave, 780.705.0998, mamasginjoint.com

MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET 8101 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.2337 MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St MUTTART HALL 10050 Macdonald Dr, 780.633.3725 MYER HOROWITZ THEATRE 8900114 St NW 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 NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave 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 PINT–DOWNTOWN 10125-109 St NW PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave POURHOUSE BISTRO & TAPROOM 10354-82 Ave THE PROVINCIAL PUB 160, 4211-106 St RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St 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–WEM 8882-170 St, 780.444.1752, sherlockshospitality.com SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 SNEAKY PETE’S 12315-118 Ave SQUARE 1 COFFEE 15 Fairway Drive STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 1054581 Ave TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 TIRAMISU 10750-124 St UNION HALL 6240-99 St NW, 780.702-2582, unionhall.ca UPTOWN FOLK CLUB 11150-82 St, 780.436.1554 WILD EARTH BAKERY– MILLCREEK 8902-99 St, wildearthbakery.com WOODRACK CAFE 7603-109 St, 780. 757.0380, thewoodrackcafe. com Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com

LOWER HALL (BRIXX)

ALL SHOWS 18+ ONLY

AUG/10 ANCIIENTS W/ DEAD QUIET, & LABRADOODLE CONCERTWORKS PRESENTS

AUG/12 ZAUM W/ FLYING FORTRESS, DRI HIEV & PYRAMID//INDIGO CONCERTWORKS PRESENTS

AUG/23 THE AGONIST W/ JULIET RUIN, FORSAKEN RITE CONCERTWORKS PRESENTS

SEP/23 YAWNING MAN W/ ALEX PEREZ & THE RISING TIDE STARLITE ROOM & CONCERTWORKS PRESENTS

OCT/7

VUEWEEKLY.com | AUG 10 – AUG 16, 2017

PRESENTED BY 2017 UP AND DOWNTOWN MUSIC FESTIVAL (UP+DT)

AGENT ORANGE W/ FLATFOOT 56 & GET DEAD

music 17

EVENTS

WEEKLY EMAIL YOUR FREE LISTINGS TO: LISTINGS@VUEWEEKLY.COM FAX: 780.426.2889 DEADLINE: FRIDAY AT 3PM

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)

OPEN DOOR COMIC CREATOR MEETINGS

GROUPS/CLUBS/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

THE CARROT COFFEE FRIENDSHIP CLUB • Carrot Coffeehouse, 9351-118 Ave

ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey

• Have a cup of coffee with 55+ individuals single, divorced, or widowed who are looking to make new friends with neighbours in our local communities of: Delton, Eastwood, Parkdale – Cromdale, Westwood, Spruce Ave, and Alberta Avenue • Every Wed, 11am

DROP-IN D&D • Hexagon Board Game Café, 10123 Whyte Ave • 780.757.3105 • info@ thehexcafe.com • thehexcafe.com • 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 & Wed, 7pm • $5 (with drink purchase)

DROP-IN LARP • Jackie Parker Park • westernwinds.summerfrost.ca • Battle games and fighter practice using provided safe weapon boffer. An exciting way to get exercise while meeting new people with similar passions • Every Sat, 1:15pm • Free

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

Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, obad@shaw.ca; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free

PAINTING FOR PLEASURE • McDougall United Church, 10086 Macdonald Drive (south entrance) • 780.428.1818 • karenbishopartist@ gmail.com • mcdougallunited.com • A weekly group for those who like to paint, draw or otherwise be creative on paper • Every Thu, 10am-noon

RODA DE CAPOEIRA • Capoeira Academy, #103-10324-82 Ave • capoeiraacademy.ca • Brazil's traditional game of agility and trickery • Every Sat, 2:30pm • Free • All ages

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

FORT SASKATCHEWAN 45+ SINGLES COFFEE GROUP • A&W, 10101-88 Ave, Fort Saskatchewan • 780.907.0201 (Brenda) • A mixed group offering conversation and friendship • Every Sun, 2pm

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 • 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 • Norwood Toastmasters: Legion, 11150-82 St NW; Every Thu, 7:30-9:30pm • TM4PM Toastmasters Club: Scotia Place Conference Centre, Meeting Room B, 10060 Jasper Ave; 1022113.toastmastersclubs. org; Every Tue, 6:10-7:30pm • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); 780.463.5331 (Antonio); yclubtoastmasters@gmail.com; Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue each month

WOMEN'S CRICKET • Coronation Park Cricket pitch (north part of park) • incogswomens@gmail.com • Learn the game of cricket.

The group plays for fun and no experience is necessary. Kids and men welcome • Every Fri, 6:15pm • $5 (drop-in fee, adult), free (kids) LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS IGNITE CHANGE 2017: A GLOBAL GATHERING FOR HUMAN RIGHTS • MacEwan University - Robbins Health Learning Centre, 10810-104 Ave NW • Held in commemoration of the 150th birthday of Canadian Federation and the 140th anniversary of Treaty 6. Meant to direct and inspire its audience to make changes in their communities while providing an opportunity to network and build a deepened collective impact • Aug 21-25

QUEER

LOTUS QIGONG • SAGE downtown 15

AFFIRM GROUP • garysdeskcom@

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

hotmail.com • mcdougallunited.com • Part of the United Church network supporting LGBTQ men and women • Meet monthly at State & Main (101 St and Jasper Ave) for coffee and conversation at 12:30pm; Special speaker events are held throughout the year over lunch at McDougall Church

Thu., Aug 24 Public Art Picnic All ages; 5:307:30pm; Free

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Coming Events

Feed Kaleido With Your Food Truck & Trailer With over 60,000 festival goers and a variety of scheduling options, Kaleido Family Arts Festival is a great place to celebrate the excellent food you serve! www.kaleidofest.ca

1600.

Volunteers Wanted

Become a Volunteer Advocate and provide assistance to victims of crime and trauma in Strathcona County! Call Teddi at (780) 449-0153.

Can You Read This?

Help Someone Who Can’t!

Volunteer 2 hours a week and help someone improve their Reading, Writing, Math or English Speaking Skills.

Call Moncia at P.A.L.S. 780-424-5514 or email volunteers@palsedmonton.ca

18 at the back

2005.

To Book Your Classifieds, Call 780.426.1996 or email classifieds@vueweekly.com Artist to Artist

ART CLASSES FOR ADULTS, YOUTH, AND CHILDREN Check The Paint Spot’s website, paintspot.ca/events/workshops for up-to-date information on art classes for all ages, beginner and intermediate.

Register in person, by phone or online.

Contact: 780.432.0240 email: accounts@paintspot.ca

2005.

Artist to Artist

Embellish the Lampposts of 118th Ave Fall In Love With Kaleido, and let your inner artist be inspired to create a 3D Lamppost installation in Deck Out A Lamppost!

Sept. 15-17 on 118ave (Between 90-94 Streets) www.kaleidofest.ca/lampost/

ENJOY ART ALWAYZ www.bdcdrawz.com Check the site every two weeks for new work!

Create Within a Cube at Kaleido Think outside the box as a designer, sculptor, or creative, and create a 12x12x12 foot installation that will be displayed along 118ave (Between 90-94 Streets). www.kaleidofest.ca/12foot12/

EXHIBITION SUBMISSION REQUEST Artists interested in making a submission request to exhibit in 2018 in the Artisan Nook or the Naess Gallery at The Paint Spot are urged to visit paintspot.ca/galleries or phone 780.432.0240 for more information. Naess submissions deadline: 9PM, August 31; Artisan Nook: ongoing.

2040.

Music Instruction

Music Lessons $20 Hr Guitar - Bass guitar - Tenor Banjo - Ukele - Mandolin Call Tony 780.484.6806 30 yr exp

3100. Appliances/Furniture Old Appliance Removal Removal of unwanted appliances. Must be outside or in your garage.

Rates start as low as $30.

Call James @780.231.7511 for details

BOOK YOUR CLASSIFIED AD TODAY! CALL 780.426.1996

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 • 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 oneon-one in the Craft Room • 780.474.8240 • tuff69@telus.net • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance. Oneon-one meetings are also available in the craft room • Every Thu, 1-4pm

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 • pridecentreofedmonton. org/calendar.html • DROP IN HOURS: Mon-Fri 12-7pm; Closed Sat-Sun and holidays • TTIQ: (18+ Trans* Group) 2nd Mon of every month, 7-9pm • FIERCE FUN: (24 and under) Alternating Tue, 7-9pm, games and activities for youth • JAMOUT: (12-24) Alternating Tue, 7-8:30pm, music mentorship and instruction for youth • MEDITATION: (all ages) 3rd Thu of each month, 5:30-6:45pm • MEN’S SOCIAL CIRCLE: (18+) 1st and 3rd Thu, 7-9pm, for anyone masculine-identified • WOMEN’S SOCIAL CIRCLE: (18+) 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm, for anyone feminine-identified • MOVIES & GAMES NIGHT: Alternating Fri, 6-8:30pm • ARTS & IDENTITY: Alternating Fri, 6-8:30pm • MEN TALKING WITH PRIDE: (18+) Sun, 7-9pm, group for gay or bisexual men • CREATING SAFER SPACES TRAINING: Interactive professional development workshops, with full or half-day options • QUEER MENTORSHIP PROGRAM: (Youth: 12-24) (Adults-26+) Queer to Queer Mentoring

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, 7:309pm • 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, 5:30-6:15pm • BOARD GAMES: Underground Tap & Grill, 10004 Jasper Ave; One Sun per month, 3-7pm • ALL BODIES SWIM: Bonnie Doon Leisure Centre, 8468-81 St; One Sat per month 4:30-5:30pm YOGA WITH JENNIFER • 780.439.6950 • ThreeBattles.com • A traditional approach with lots of individual attention. Free introductory classes • Tue evenings & Sat mornings SPECIAL EVENTS

Today nearly every plains bison you see in southern Canada, whether in conservation or domestic herds, had an ancestor in Elk Island National Park. Celebrate conservation, culture and cuisine • Aug 19, 12-6pm • Free

CARIWEST • Downtown Edmonton • cariwest.ca • A colourful and vibrant festival where the city celebrates Caribbean music, culture, cuisine and more • Aug 11-13

CHAUTAUQUA • Festival Place, 100 Festival Way • festivalplace.ab.ca • A community celebration of Canada 150. Inspired by the Chautauqua tradition, a giant tent will be set up in the Festival Place parking lot and offer free workshops, presentations, displays and entertainment suitable for the entire family • Aug 5-20 DATE NIGHT–BON FESTIVAL • University of Alberta Botanic Garden, 51227 AB-60, Parkland County • botanicgarden.ualberta.ca • Light up the pond in the Kurimoto Japanese Garden with candles, and celebrate loved ones in a peaceful Japanese tradition • Aug 17, 6-10pm

DATE NIGHT–IMPROV COMEDY NIGHT • University of Alberta Botanic Garden, 51227 AB-60, Parkland County • botanicgarden. ualberta.ca • Audience inspired improv games with the University of Alberta Improv Group • Aug 10, 6-10pm • Adv tickets recommended

EDMONTON AIRSHOW • Villeneuve Airport, Range Rd 271 & Secondary Hwy 633, Villeneuve • edmontonairshow.com • The snowbirds are back! A celebration of flight and its rich history in Edmonton • Aug 19-20

EDMONTON LATIN FESTIVAL • Churchill Square, 9918-102 Ave in front of City Hall • edmontonlatinfestival.com • A vibrant, energetic, two day outdoor festival featuring Latin food, music, performances, artisan markets and more • Aug 19-20, 12-11pm • Free

FOODIE BIKE TOUR • Various locations throughout Edmonton • 780.920.3655 • info@ foodbiketour.com • foodbiketour.com • Indulge in the fine local foods and beverages of Edmonton while touring on a bike around the city.

Get a taste of Edmonton without the guilt as the calories are burned off • Aug 10, 12 • $99 (register via Eventbrite, limited space available) FRAGAPALOOZA 2017 • Leduc Recreation Centre, 4330 Black Gold Drive, Leduc • fragapalooza.com • A four day, non-stop video gaming extravaganza event. Bring a computer/ game console with games and play with hundreds of others • Aug 10-13

OLD STRATHCONA MILE • Beginning at United Cycle Parking lot (7620 Gateway Blvd NW) • A fun run • Aug 11 PERSEIDS PYJAMA PARTY • University of Alberta Botanic Garden, 51227 AB-60, Parkland County • botanicgarden.ualberta. ca • Bring a blanket or lawn chair, wear your cozy pyjamas and look up, way up, during one of the busiest times in the night sky • Aug 11, 8pm • Free with regular admission; No registration required PUBLIC ART PICNIC • Borden Park, 7703 Borden Park Road • bit.ly/2uWysT3 • Experience art al fresco in one of vEdmonton’s loveliest parks • Aug 24, 5:30-8pm • Free UKRAINIAN DAY • Ukranian Heritage

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 Edmonton Valley Zoo • Aug 13, 12-4pm • General admission

Village, 25 minutes or 50 km (30 miles) east of Edmonton along Highway 16 • history. alberta.ca/ukrainianvillage • Highlights include an afternoon concert featuring the best in Ukrainian dance and music groups, visit to the historical village, children’s activities, village market and the Ukrainian Village Food Festival • Aug 13, 9am-5pm

ANIMETHON 24 • Grant MacEwan

VOLUNTEER ROCK! • Heritage Amphithe-

ANIMAL MYTHBUSTERS! • Valley Zoo,

University, 10700-104 Ave NW • Three days of Japanese animation. Featuring panels, anime showings, a vendors hall, cosplay contest and more. Special guests include: Ray Chase (Noctis from Final Fantasy XV), Robbie Daymond (Tuxedo Mask from Sailor Moon) and Max Mittelman (Saitama from One Punch Man) • Aug 11-13 • $25-$55

ANNUAL DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL • Louise McKinney Park, 9999 Grierson Hill Rd • edmontondragonboatfestival.ca • Racing dragon boats • Aug 19-21

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Kristin Chenoweth 13 “Please continue” 14 OMG or LOL 15 ___ rock (genre for Emerson, Lake

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17 Activist org. that can’t decide?

19 Soccer team whose players are scarecrows?

21 Smartphone bill info 22 Basketball announcer’s phrase 23 D&D or FFXV, e.g.

25 ___ Plaines, Illinois 26 Chemistry suffix 28 PokÈmon protagonist Ketchum 30 “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius” author Dave 32 Fail to ever mention God in France?

36 Green with the clean version “Forget You” 37 Outdoor sporting gear chain 38 Orangey-brown, like some port 42 Food list with amortized appetizers and beveraged buyouts?

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51 Tool before down or cakes 53 Highlight reel segment 56 Dragging feeling 58 Spaghetti sauce brand you can only get in one place?

62 Megastore for all your ballet accessory needs?

64 Skin softener (“or else it gets the hose again”) 65 Compound with a hydroxyl group

FREEWILLASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): I hope you’re making wise use of the surging fertility that has been coursing through you. Maybe you’ve been reinventing a long-term relationship that needed creative tinkering.

Perhaps you have been hammering together an innovative business deal or generating new material for your artistic practice. It’s possible you have discovered how to express feelings and ideas that have been half-mute or inaccessible for a long time. If for some weird reason you are not yet having experiences like these, get to work! There’s still time to tap into the fecundity.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano defines “idiot memory” as the kind of remembrances that keep us attached to our old self-images, and trapped by them. “Lively memory,” on the other hand, is a feisty approach to our old stories. It impels us to graduate from who we used to be. “We are the sum of our efforts to change who we are,” writes Galeano. “Identity is no museum piece sitting stock-still in a display case.” Here’s another clue to your current assignment, Taurus, from psychotherapist Dick Olney: “The goal of a good therapist is to help someone wake up from the dream that they are their self-image.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Sometimes, Gemini, loving you is a sacred honour for me—equivalent to getting a poem on my birthday from the Dalai Lama. On other occasions, loving you is more like trying to lap up a delicious milkshake that has spilled on the sidewalk, or slow-dancing with a giant robot

teddy bear that accidentally knocks me down when it suffers a glitch. I don’t take it personally when I encounter the more challenging sides of you, since you are always an interesting place to visit. But could you maybe show more mercy to the people in your life who are not just visitors? Remind your dear allies of the obvious secret—that you’re composed of several different selves, each of whom craves different thrills.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Liz, my girlfriend when I was young, went to extreme lengths to cultivate her physical attractiveness. “Beauty must suffer,” her mother had told her while growing up, and Liz heeded that advice. To make her long blonde hair as wavy as possible, for example, she wrapped strands of it around six empty metal cans before bed, applied a noxious spray, and then slept all night with a stinky, clanking mass of metal affixed to her head. While you may not do anything so literal, Cancerian, you do sometimes act as if suffering helps keep you strong and attractive—as if feeling hurt is a viable way to energize your quest for what you want. But if you’d like to transform that approach, the coming weeks will be a good time. Step One: Have a long, compassionate talk with your inner saboteur.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Each of us comes to know the truth in our own way, says astrologer Antero Alli. “For some it is wild and unfettered,” he writes. “For others it is like a cozy domesticated cat, while others find truth through their senses alone.” Whatever your usu-

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al style of knowing the truth might be, Leo, I suspect you’ll benefit from trying out a different method in the next two weeks. Here are some possibilities: trusting your most positive feelings; tuning in to the clues and cues your body provides; performing ceremonies in which you request the help of ancestral spirits; slipping into an altered state by laughing nonstop for five minutes.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Would you scoff if I said that you’ll soon be blessed with supernatural assistance? Would you smirk and roll your eyes if I advised you to find clues to your next big move by analyzing your irrational fantasies?

Would you tell me to stop spouting nonsense if I hinted that a guardian angel is conspiring to blast a tunnel through the mountain you created out of a molehill? It’s okay if you ignore my predictions, Virgo. They’ll come true even if you’re a staunch realist who doesn’t believe in woowoo, juju, or mojo.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): This is the season of enlightenment for you. That doesn’t necessarily mean you will achieve an ultimate state of divine grace. It’s not a guarantee that you’ll be freestyling in satori, samadhi, or nirvana. But one thing is certain: Life will conspire to bring you the excited joy that comes with deep insight into the nature of reality. If you decide to take advantage of the opportunity, please keep in mind these thoughts from designer Elissa Giles: “Enlightenment is not an asexual, dispassionate, head-inthe-clouds, nails-in-the-palms disappearance from the game of life.

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1 Perfectly 2 Make upset 3 Fake Kazakh 4 Luxury hotel chain 5 Weak conditions 6 Letters on an envelope addressed to a company 7 Bakery sackful 8 ___ and feather 9 Report cards’ stats 10 “Everything Now” group ___ Fire 11 “The Wizard of Oz” scarecrow portrayer 12 “Uh...possibly...”

13 Rag on 18 Team Carmelo Anthony was drafted into in 2003 20 Aziz of “Parks and Recreation” 24 Louvre Pyramid architect 26 “Monsters, ___” 27 Ruby of “Do the Right Thing” 29 Shenzi in “The Lion King,” e.g.

31 Island “where America’s day begins” 33 Actor Idris of 2017’s “The Dark Tower” 34 Camp out in the elements 35 Low-cal Cadbury-Schweppes drink 39 “Don’t touch this wall!” sign It’s a volcanic, kick-ass, erotic commitment to love in action, coupled with hard-headed practical grist.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Some zoos sell the urine of lions and tigers to gardeners who sprinkle it in their gardens. Apparently the stuff scares off wandering house cats that might be tempted to relieve themselves in vegetable patches.

I nominate this scenario to be a provocative metaphor for you in the coming weeks. Might you tap into the power of your inner wild animal so as to protect your inner crops? Could you build up your warrior energy so as to prevent run-ins with pesky irritants? Can you call on helpful spirits to ensure that what’s growing in your life will continue to thrive?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The fates have conspired to make it right and proper for you to be influenced by Sagittarian author Mark Twain. There are five specific bits of his wisdom that will serve as benevolent tweaks to your attitude.

I hope you will also aspire to express some of his expansive snappiness. Now here’s Twain: 1. “You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” 2.

“Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.” 3. “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” 4. “When in doubt, tell the truth.” 5. “Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “My grandfather used to tell me that if you stir muddy water it will only get darker,” wrote I. G. Edmonds in his book Trickster Tales.

“But if you let the muddy water stand still, the mud will settle and

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Brands, Inc. 43 ___ Paulo (Brazil’s most populous state) 44 Dictionary cross-reference phrase 45 Doted on Doctor Who or Dothraki, maybe, with “out” 46 When some kids’ bedtimes are set 47 “Imagine” songwriter 52 He sang about Bennie and Daniel 54 Pennywise, for one 55 Bandleader Shaw 57 Reprehensible 59 It’s never mine alone 60 L.A. rock club Whisky a ___ 61 Young ___ (kids) 63 Eerie sighting ©2017 Jonesin’ Crosswords

the water will become clearer,” he concluded. I hope this message reaches you in time, Capricorn. I hope you will then resist any temptation you might have to agitate, churn, spill wine into, wash your face in, drink, or splash around in the muddy water.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 1985, Maurizio Cattelan quit his gig at a mortuary in Padua, Italy and resolved to make a living as an artist. He started creating furniture, and ultimately evolved into a sculptor who specialized in satirical work. In 1999 he produced a piece depicting the Pope being struck by a meteorite, which sold for $886,000 in 2001. If there were ever going to be a time when you could launch your personal version of his story, Aquarius, it would be in the next ten months.

That doesn’t necessarily mean you should go barreling ahead with such a radical act of faith, however. Following your bliss rarely leads to instant success. It may take years. (16 in Cattelan’s case.)

Are you willing to accept that?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Tally up your physical aches, psychic bruises, and chronic worries. Take inventory of your troubling memories, half-repressed disappointments, and existential nausea. Do it, Pisces! Be strong. If you bravely examine and deeply feel the difficult feelings, then the cures for those feelings will magically begin streaming in your direction.

You’ll see what you need to do to escape at least some of your suffering. So name your griefs and losses, my dear. Remember your near-misses and total fiascos. As your reward, you’ll be soothed and relieved and forgiven. A great healing will come. V at the back 19

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My boyfriend of eight months, K, and I are polyamorous. We started the relationship on that foot, and for a while I was the partner he spent the most time with. There have been ups and downs, but overall our relationship is solid and loving. However, recently we both started dating the same woman, L, and they have been spending more time together than with me due to my work schedule. They both reassure me that they love me and care for me deeply, but I am an anxiously-attached person and sometimes I have panic attacks when they spend more time with others or themselves and fear that they’re going to leave me.

I’m working on becoming more secure via books on cognitive behavioral therapy, and I’m looking into in-person therapy. This is my first serious relationship, but not his (I’m 22, he’s 35). And while K has been super patient with me, my worry and grasping is a point of friction in the relationship.

K has told me he doesn’t want to be solely responsible for my sexual satisfaction and my need for constant reassurances that he cares. The anxiety has been flaring up most strongly concerning sex—we’re all switches, and K and L are both professional dominants. I feel neglected if K doesn’t penetrate me but he penetrates L, or if L gets to penetrate K via a strap-on and I don’t. He’s very good about voicing what he desires, while I’m learning to speak up despite feeling like I’m just being needy and grasping again. I love both my partners, but I’ve been feeling sexually neglected—and with a high sex drive, it’s been quite painful. This is my first “trio rodeo” and I really want to make it work—I’ve seen a future with K for a while (the I-want-your-children kind), and L is joining those future visions. How can I find a way to create more opportunities for sexy-time and not ruin it with anxiety attacks?

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I’m always suspicious when two (or more) people claim to be deeply in love after dating for a short period of time, BELOVED, and eight months qualifies as a short period of time. Premature declarations of love—to say nothing of premature commitments—up the emotional stakes, which can place a strain on a newish relationship (or a trio of them) that it may not be strong enough to bear. Not yet.

You’ll feel a lot less anxious about this relationship, BELOVED, if you make a conscious effort to lower the stakes. In other words: Dial it way back, girl.

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where eight months equals LTR. It’ll reduce your anxiety levels and soothe your insecurities if you tell yourself you aren’t committed to K and L as life partners.

Not yet. This is the beginning of both these relationships. All you’re committed to right now is continuing to get to know K and L. You’re committed to dating them, you’re committed to exploring where this might go, you’re committed to enjoying your time with them, however long it lasts.

But you are not committed to them. Either of them. Not yet.

Committing yourself to therapy is a good idea, BELOVED. Everyone should commit to working on their emotional and mental health. You and your therapist can start by reevaluating whether a poly relationship is right for you in practice. In theory, you understand poly and you may want a poly relationship. (Particularly if it’s the only way you can have K.) But as someone with anxiety issues and hang-ups about all sex acts being divided up equally, poly may not be right for you, or it may not be right for you right now. After a little therapy (or maybe a lot), who knows?

(Also: Trying to portion out sex between three people like you would ice cream for three small kids—making sure each kid gets the exact same number and size of scoops—is unrealistic. Sometimes you’ll get more; sometimes you’ll get less. Eyeing those scoops too closely is only going to generate conflict.)

You’ve been at this rodeo for only eight months, BELOVED, and if these problems are already coming up, it might not be your attachment style or your anxiety. It’s possible this rodeo isn’t for you.

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This is about your Campsite Rule.

I think you should amend it. In 1984, when I was 20 years old, I met an LGBT rights activist who was 53. He was working with the group I contacted after I’d called the local youth crisis hotline here in Baton Rouge and got called a faggot. (I hadn’t realized they created youth crises rather than fixing them—my bad.) We had a summer fling (initiated by me), and then I went off to study in Europe. Because of him, I knew the difference between making love and getting your rocks off, and I moved through the world with the self-confidence he told me I deserved to have. I ended up working in national politics for 30 years, and I did all of it as an out gay man. I moved back home a few years ago and tried to find him with no luck. Finally, about a month ago, I did. He’s in his mid-80s now and under hospice care, but he does remember me. I got to tell him everything I’d done with what he taught me. I only got about a third of the way down the list before his

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eyes filled with tears—and pride.

To call that a special moment would be an understatement.

So here’s my suggested amendment: If you benefited from the Campsite Rule—if someone left you in better shape than they found you—look that person up and tell them what they meant to you. And if he’s alone and in hospice care, spend some time being there for him and holding his hand.

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Your old summer fling left you in better shape than he found you—the heart of my Campsite Rule—and the lessons he imparted had a hugely positive impact on your life. But instead of amending my Campsite Rule, CTOFA, which covers the conduct of older and/or more experienced people dating and/ or fucking younger and/or less experienced people, I’m going to amend my Tea and Sympathy Rule.

“When the younger person in an older/younger affair speaks of it in future years, they have a duty to be kind,” goes the Tea and Sympathy Rule, which covers the conduct of the younger/ less experienced partner. “If you were left in better shape than you were found, strive to do no harm in return. And don’t speak of your affair—not even kindly—if doing so will wreak havoc on the life of a former lover who honored the Campsite Rule.”

And today, by decree, I’m adding CTOFA’s amendment to the Tea and Sympathy Rule: “And if you benefited from the Campsite Rule—if years ago a lover left you in better shape than they found you—look that person up and tell them what they meant to you.”

Advice professionals often urge us to confront exes who did us wrong—many find closure in those confrontations—but we rarely talk about reaching out to people who did us right (in every sense of the term). My first truly serious boyfriend, who I met at college, was a wonderful and very sexy guy who helped me grow in so many ways. He definitely left me in far better shape than he found me—like CTOFA, I was able to express my gratitude to him before he died and I’m so glad I did. (R.I.P., Tommy Ladd.)

If you were lucky enough to have a Tommy in your life, dear readers, if you were lucky enough to have an early sex and/or romantic partner who left you in better shape than they found you, reach out to them and express your gratitude. You’ll be glad you did.

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