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POLITICAL INTERFERENCE
BLATANT POLITICAL MANIPULATION
Do Kenney and Jean really care about equalization?
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s the race for the leadership of the United Conservative Party heats up, the front-runners Brian Jean and Jason Kenney have both decided to dust off that old favourite prairie bogeyman, equalization. Both Jean and Kenney frequently characterize the federal program as being unfair to Albertans, and regularly imply that Alberta would be in much better shape economically were it not for equalization. Both have now made a referendum on equalization a central part of their platforms, vowing to use the results of such a referendum as leverage in negotiating with
the federal government once the equalization program comes up for renewal in 2019. Kenney has gone so far as to suggest that he would use a 20 year-old Supreme Court of Canada reference, written in response to the possibility of Quebecers voting to secede from Canada, to force the feds to the negotiating table on equalization. The problem with equalization that they both point to is the federal government’s use of natural resource revenues in its calculation of a province’s fiscal capacity. It is that fiscal capacity calculation that determines if a province receives equaliza-
tion payments from the feds, and how much. Both Jean and Kenney contend that it’s not fair that Alberta’s natural resource revenues are included at all in that formula. This is certainly not the first time this issue has been raised by a prairie politician seeking a bump in the polls from a population that, whether it understands how equalization works or not, is always happy to cheer on a politician picking a fight with a Liberal government in Ottawa. What Jean and Kenney are not saying, however, is that besides political expedience, neither one of them actually believes in the promises they are making. Back in 2005 the Saskatchewan Legislature passed a unanimous motion calling on the then Liberal government of Paul Martin to adjust equalization by removing natural resource revenues from the formula. The NDP’s Lorne Calvert was Premier of Saskatchewan at the time, and the Saskatchewan Party’s Brad Wall was Leader of the Opposition. The anti-Ottawa rhetoric and discourse around the motion was almost identical to what Kenney and Jean are putting out there today. In response to the Saskatchewan motion, Stephen Harper, then leader of the Federal Opposition, promised that a Conservative federal government would move quickly to ‘fix’ equalization should they be victorious in the 2006 election.
Harper and the Conservatives did become government after the 2006 election, and moved very quickly to break their promise on equalization, opting instead to leave the formula exactly as it was. It is important to point out that both Kenney and Jean were part of that Conservative government, and despite their current outrage at the equalization formula, neither one of them actually cared enough back then in their capacity as MPs from Alberta to do anything about it. Especially Kenney, in his capacity first as Parliamentary Secretary to Stephen Harper, and then as a cabinet minister, certainly had the wherewithal to make equalization a priority, but he didn’t. So why now, when he has far less influence with the federal government, is he raising it as an issue? Perhaps Brad Wall’s trajectory on the issue can shed some light on the situation. Wall became premier of Saskatchewan in 2007 shortly after Harper, with the support of Kenney and Jean, reneged on his equalization promise. Within six months of becoming premier Wall had stopped advocating for a fairer equalization formula and even dropped a constitutional challenge against the feds on the issue that Calvert had launched just before the election. He didn’t take up the battle against equalization again until it became clear in 2015 that the Conservatives would lose government.
Wall’s, Kenney’s and Jean’s flipflops on the issue over the last 20 year make it perfectly clear that for these folks it’s not really about any unfairness or injustice to equalization, but rather about scoring cheap political points in the same shallow and manipulative way that prairie conservatives always have—by picking a meaningless fight with a Liberal government in Ottawa. And it is meaningless. Removing natural resource revenues from the equalization formula would have absolutely no impact on Alberta’s economy or government finances unless it was accompanied by a complete overhaul of the federal tax system. All it would accomplish is damage to the economies and government finances of the provinces that currently receive transfer payments. Is that the kind of spiteful screw-you attitude towards other Canadians that Albertans should be applauding from their politicians? Albertans should be insulted by the blatant manipulation that Kenney and Jean are subjecting them to on this issue. It’s not about fairness. It’s not about justice. And it’s certainly not about protecting Alberta and Albertans. It’s simply about manipulating Albertans’ dual hatred of Liberals and Ottawa for the sake of politics, and it is truly shameful. Ricardo Acuña ricardo@vueweekly.com
DYER STRAIGHT
Germany: tHE RISE OF THE RIGHT Direction of right-winged politics in Germany is ever-present
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ngela Merkel’s slogan in her campaign for a fourth term as Chancellor was terminally bland and smug—“For a Germany in which we live well and love living”—but it did the job, sort of. Her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is back as the largest party, so Merkel gets to form the next coalition government. But the neo-fascists are now in the Bundestag (parliament) too, for the first time since the collapse of Nazi Germany. It’s not Merkel’s fault, exactly, but the numbers tell the tale. The CDU had its worst result ever, down from 40 percent of the vote at the last election to only 33 percent this time. And it looks like the seven percent of the vote that the CDU lost went straight to the Alternative for Germany (AfD), the neo-fascist party, whose support was up from just under five percent last time to 12.6 percent this time. That makes the AfD the third biggest party in the Bundestag. All the other parties have sworn to have nothing to do with it, so Merkel’s party will have to seek
its coalition partners elsewhere. It will take at least a month to make the coalition deal, which will probably link the CDU with the business-friendly Free Democrats and the Greens, but that is not the big story. The rise of the hard right is. ‘Rise’ is a relative term, of course: only one German in eight actually voted for the AfD. That is still shocking in a country that thought it had permanently excised all that old Nazi stuff from its politics. If you look more closely, the AfD’s support was strongest in the same parts of the country that voted strongly for the Nazis in the 1933 election that brought Hitler to power. The AfD was founded by an economics professor who just wanted Germany to leave the Euro currency, but in the past four years it has been taken over by anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant ultra-nationalists, and they do sound a little bit like ‘You-Know-Who’ at times. Alice Weidel, the AfD’s coleader, has described Merkel’s government as “pigs” who
merely serve as “marionettes of the victorious powers of the Second World War, whose task it is to keep down the German people.” And the party’s other co-leader, Alexander Gauland, said in an election speech last week: “We have the right to be proud of the achievements of the German soldiers in two world wars.” That sort of comment might be interesting to debate in a university seminar on German history, but 72 years after Hitler’s death it is still too soon to say out loud in a Europe that was ravaged by German armies in the Second World War. Gauland, Weidel and their AfD colleagues are playing with fire and they are well aware of it. The truly alarming thing, however, is not the occasional echo of the Nazis in AfD rhetoric. It is the fact that Germany is conforming to a general trend towards the authoritarian, ultra-nationalist right in Western politics. Each country does it in its own historical style. The pro-
Brexit campaign in the United Kingdom last year was actually led by isolationist “Little Englanders”. Their implausible promise of a glorious free-trading future for the U.K. outside the European Union was just a necessary nod in the direction of economic rationality—but the Brexiteers won because enough people wanted to believe them. Similarly, Donald Trump fits comfortably into the American tradition: he is channelling American demagogues of the 1930, like Huey Long and Father Coughlin. The economic situation of American workers and the lower middle class today is close enough to that of the 1930s that they responded to his mixture of nationalism, dog-whistle racism and anti-bigbusiness thetoric by voting him into the presidency. In France, Marine Le Pen appealed to nationalism, antiimmigrant sentiment and the resentment of the long-term unemployed to win almost 34 percent of the vote in last May’s presidential election. She
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lost, but the more important fact is that one-third of French voters backed the neo-fascist candidate. And now, in German, the AfD. The common thread that runs through all these events, beyond the racism, nationalism and xenophobia, is economic distress. The economies may be doing well, but a large proportion of the people are not. The gap between the rich and the rest was tolerated when everybody’s income was rising, but that has not been true for thirty years now, and patience among the “losers” has run out. This is still early days, but the direction of the drift in Western politics is clear, and it is deeply undesirable. The only thing that will stop it is decisive action to narrow the income gap again, but that is very hard to do in the face of the currently dominant economic doctrine. Houston, we have a problem. Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries. Gwynne Dyer gwynne@vueweekly.com front 3
VEGAN/VEGETARIAN
Vegans and vegetarians unite at this year’s Vegtoberfest Sun., Oct. 1 (11 - 3 pm) Vegtoberfest Kickoff Market Earth’s General Store
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e all love food, and this is no different with the members of Edmonton’s Vegans and Vegetarians of Alberta (VVOA). Although Oktoberfest has a slight lean towards meaty and cheesy foods, the VVOA has created their own form of celebrated Bavarian culture. Vegtoberfest, a festival aimed at catering to vegans and vegetarians in Edmonton, will host a kickoff market made up of 15 food and lifestyle vendors as well as two all-vegan food trucks to celebrate the fall season. Beyond the bratwurst, beer is another product that is somewhat tricky to navigate as a herbivore. Certain lagers and stouts use a clarifying agent that often contains animal by-products. Board
member Nikki Krieger, who’s been a vegan for roughly three years and a vegetarian for eight, says though this can be difficult to navigate, there are multiple resources that exist. “There’s a really awesome website called barnivore.com,” Krieger says. “You can type in any brand of liquor and it will tell you whether it’s vegan or not.” She says the VVOA is also a valuable resource for those looking to learn about the details of certain products and preservatives, and whether they are vegan or vegetarian-friendly. Eric Swanson, executive director of VVOA, can attest to the amount of new knowledge he had to learn when making the switch, especially regarding by-products that may not be as clearly stated on the label. The biggest switch for Kreiger was learning how to still get the proper nutrients for her body such
as iron, zinc and calcium, without animal sources and by-products. “We have a private group [on Facebook] where members can just ask any sort of question in relation to vegan and vegetarian stuff,” she says. Many new vegans and vegetarians seek out the VVOA for a resource as well as a community. Swanson says he was the only one in his friends circle that was vegan when he switched five years ago, but things are changing. While the not-for-profit group has been around for roughly 30 years, the group has seen rapid growth that stands to speak for the fact that vegans and vegetarians are no longer a niche group in the city. Since 2015, the VVOA have increased by 1,000 members each year. This growth has inspired local businesses to cater to vegan and vegetarian diets and lifestyles.
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Swanson and Krieger both originally struggled to find places to eat out when they first became vegan. “Every five kilometres in the city now, there’s a restaurant you can go and get a vegan or vegetarian meal,” Swanson says. The reasons for switching food choices is different for everyone. Swanson switched to a vegan diet for his health. “I was having a lot of health concerns about having to get an operation for acid reflux and I was just like, ‘there’s got to be another way,’” he says. For Krieger, she became a vegan for more ethical reasons. But both say it’s not just about health and ethics. “It’s about everything,” says Swanson. “It’s about the environment, it’s about the animals, it’s about other people, it’s about the planet that we all share. It became like a force within me to share that with everyone.”
Both also tote the time-efficient and cost-effective benefits of their lifestyles. “In our busy society, we’re always on the go,” Swanson says. “We have meetings, we have school, we have work, we have children we gotta take care of and drive and get to places, but to be on a busy schedule you have to have food available so you can quickly eat it. In reality, you can go to H&W [produce] on a very nominal $45 a week.” With the number of vegans and vegetarians in the city steadily rising, the Vegtoberfest market has doubled since last year. But, they’ve essentially run out of space at Earth’s General Store parking lot, where the harvest market is held. The plan is to continue expanding and grow to a larger space for next year as VVOA numbers continue rising. Sierra Bilton sierra@vueweekly.com
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THAI DELIGHT
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Thai eatery has the potential to become a new Edmonton staple
LOFT Thai Eatery 5324 75 St. 780.466.5638 www.loftthaieatery.com
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he thing many people want from Thai food is authenticity—just so long as its evocative of the stalls and street carts of smelly old Bangkok, that’s all you’re asking. If you’ve ever had your stomach scorched by a steady diet of cheap, fresh, deliciously potent food as you backpacked your way through the infernal emerald free-for-all that is Thailand, you probably cherish the eye-watering curries, som tums and nam priks that sent your diaphragm into convulsions at first bite. Places like Syphay, Viphalay, Boualouang and Million Thai bob above the surface of Edmonton’s teeming Thai food-scape for me—you probably know of a nook somewhere near you that doles out the good stuff—and they all tick the authentic box, based on a rapidly fading memory of a Siamese romp a dozen years ago. But sometimes, it’s nice to be surprised by something new. LOFT Thai Eatery is an ambitious little venture on what looks like a pretty chanceless stretch of 75 Street, with a classy looking logo and a name that reflects the size, if not the altitude, of the dining area (ie: not all that big). It’s as though there’s no room for decoration, though the place gets by on its sleek new-restaurant austerity and floor-to-ceiling windows. The menu mixes up the expected (soups, curries, noodles) with some novel twists, most notably a sexy list of entrees that includes
braised short rib, baby back ribs, salmon and—oh my god—duck. Co-diner and I agree we must try the confit curry ($23), though I’m barely less insistent about the seafood drunken bucatini ($18). Our guest co-diners go the more trad route with pad thai ($18.50) and chicken in green curry ($15). And so it went with appetizers: Thai arancini ($9.50) for us, “zap” wings for them ($12.50). We agreed the appetizers were good but not great. Arancini are an Italian thing, usually, and “deep fried balls of rice full of cheese” doesn’t really get at how elegant they can be. The Thai version retained the expected breadcrumb coating on the outside, but was flecked with lemongrass pork on the inside and skipped the cheese. Ginger-cilantro aioli was judiciously dolloped on top. It tasted good, but didn’t update my understanding of arancini. “Zap” apparently designates a lime-tinged spiciness in northern Thai cuisine, but it didn’t inhabit the dry-spiced wings in any appreciable way. The entrees were another story entirely. First of all, the curried duck confit was gorgeously plated, a plump roasted duck leg draped across a palette of saffron, orange and red, which turned out to be yam puree, steamed carrot spears and a pool of sweet, spicy red curry harbouring secret lychee nuts, with a few shocks of bright green broccoli for contrast. The duck fell apart into lubricious tatters at the touch of the fork and married beautifully with the various smears. It bears noting that the excellent coconut rice on the side was topped with lots of fried shallots, because damn that tasted good.
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The seafood drunken bucatini was less flamboyant, but not less delicious. The licorice-and-coconut scented green curry shellacked on mussels, clams, shrimp, mushrooms and grilled bell peppers was just the right amount of spicy for the rather astute choice of bucatini (basically hollow spaghetti). It was my favourite dish of the night. I didn’t realize until leftovers the next day that the chicken green curry was similarly spiced and really quite tasty in its own right. The pad thai with plump shrimp and lots of sprouts tangled up in its rice noodles and tangy sauce was a completely respectable take on the dish. But the bucatini and the duck just blew ev-
erything out of the water. Now I want to try that short rib. People who live near LOFT, it’s on you to keep this place going until it catches on as a destination. Chef Chon Vichit-
vorakul clearly has a talent for unique Thai-accented entrees we’d all be fortunate to get to know better. Scott Lingley dish@vueweekly.com
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CANADIAN ARTS
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The AGA brings components of the National Gallery to Edmonton for the first time Sat., Sept. 30 Turbulent Landings: The NGC 2017 Canadian Biennial Art Gallery of Alberta
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or those that haven’t been to the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) in Ottawa, fret no more. The AGA’s new exhibit opening this weekend will give you a taste of some of the NGC’s great procurements from the last three years. Since 2010, the National Gallery has been running a biennial exhibition to feature new contemporary acquisitions to the collection from the previous two years. This year however, is the first year international artists will be included amongst several Canadians. And fitting with this new change, the theme for Edmonton’s exhibition covers some increasingly present issues in the world. 6 arts
“We’ve called the exhibition Turbulent Landings, and the idea is that most of the works in the exhibition somehow deal with contemporary, global issues around migration and immigration and questions of indigeneity,” says AGA Chief Curator Catherine Crowston. “We’ve purposely selected works that kind of have a dialogue with each other.” She says the AGA show is more thematic and narratively curated than Ottawa’s, simply because herself and NGC curator Jonathan Shaughnessy wanted to rationalize why the various works of video, sculpture, drawing, and painting made the trek to Edmonton as a ensemble. The artists featured are nearly half and half, with the majority being Canadian, both indigenous and not, and the other half making up several contemporary international artists, such as Brit-
ish director and screenwriter John Akomfrah. “[His] work explores the history of slavery and the movement of people from Africa to North America,” Crowston says, “but also ties that to global expansion and the impact of that on the environment.” She says one of the more interesting aspects they found when forming Turbulent Landings is that many Canadian artists are also working with quite similar themes and concerns to the international artists. Canadian filmmaker Kelly Richardson’s film Mariner 9 touches on themes of movement beyond earth, discussing climate change and the impact it has had and will continue to have on humanity. “On the one hand, Mariner 9 hints at grave concerns about where we are headed as a spe-
cies,” Richardson says via email. “On the other, it asks us to recognise that there is a great deal to fight for. But time is fleeting.” She attributes much of her inspiration for the piece to the increased frequency of natural disasters. “In recent weeks we have witnessed deadly hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean, their strength and frequency of which are tied to the effects of global warming,” she says. “In lesser dramatic, but equally worrying news given its implication, Scotland’s oldest snow patch dating back 300 years disappeared this week.” Fellow Canadian filmmaker Wael Shawky instead looks to the past and frames the Crusades through a Muslim perspective breaking down the concept of conquering people in the name of Christianity. Showing until early January of 2018, Turbulent Landings is
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a perfect example of how connected the world has become and how far-reaching the themes and issues touched on are. “Particularly now, when we’ve got the refugee crisis happening around the world and we’ve got lots of people moving,” Crowston says. “The idea of migration and immigration that we see now, in a contemporary context also links back to other histories of the movement of people, which was actually more about colonization.” The AGA was selected as the only gallery to host a component of the NGC’s contemporary pieces as a part of the biennial show. Crowston says the AGA is eager to show some of the new acquisitions to the NGC’s collections and to display international works in the company and context of Canadian artists. Sierra Bilton sierra@vueweekly.com
PERFORMANCE ART to induce a sort of audience seance. Sometimes that means poetry, and other times it means hypnotizing them with a looped theremin. “When I first started this project, I was asked to do some music,” says Houle. “I was asked to do a project in Markham, Ontario. When I did that, I asked about music. I was asking about hauntings, and murders, and all these things in the area that’s this sort of colonial park. So anyway, I ended up making work that was just sort of folk rock kind of music that spoke to this sort of colonial deaths and colonial things that were there, and I realized I was playing to this sort of colonial spirit.”
RIDERS OF THE SOUND Ghost Days conjures the haunts of Canada’s past
Sat., Sept. 30 (8 pm) Ghost Days Mile Zero Dance Donations given to Creating Hope Society Alberta
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f indigenous and colonial ghosts still wander around in the still hours of the night, Alberta’s got a lot of them. The Battle of the Belly River was here. So was the Frog Lake Massacre. Even Fort Whoop-Up down in Lethbridge could fairly be said to have taken men from either side, albeit by the fluid ounce.
With so many deceased and so much history left unknown, it takes a little imagination to fill in the gaps. Ghost Days, an experimental, multimedia, indigenous arts performance is designed to summon the spirits of Canada’s past and fill that imaginative gap. “I treat it like a band, so it’s kind of like these rotating kind of musicians coming in and performing Ghost Days,” says Calgary-based artist Terrance Houle. “Which is basically the idea that we’re creating art and
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music and whatever we kind of can, and use it as a conjuring to conjure colonial and non-colonial ghosts, indigenous spirits, non-indigenous spirits, and perform for them as an audience along with the living.” The project sees Houle collaborating with Métis artists like Cobra Jo Collins and Halie Finney. Ghost Days is a steadily accumulating work, and one that Houle has been officially adding to and refining for the last year. He uses video, music, and photos during his performance
Houle graduated from the Alberta College of Art and Design in 2003, and has been an artist of some note ever since. In 2004, his work was awarded Best Experimental Film at the Toronto ImagineNative Film Festival and in 2006, he received the Enbridge Emerging Artist Award. Descended from the Blackfoot and Sota Ojibway, much of Houle’s art deals with the sordid history and legacy of colonial Canada. Most recently, Houle’s art has become a slightly more family focused affair. With help from
his father and mother, Houle recently premiered the feature film of Ghost Days in Calgary. The film shows Houle taking a sledgehammer to bricks from the I-XL factory in Medicine Hat, and returning the dust to the clay hills they originally came from. Houle says the bricks are the same that built his junior high, and his mother’s residential school. “What I’m actually doing is a ritual to focus that live in the performance,” says Houle. “I try not to do too much beforehand beyond maybe getting dirt, some earth and things like that, and just kind of warming up my body to kind of use these radio waves. The performance is the ritual in a sense. It’s nice for the audience to be there and kind of experience something like that.” Ghost Days isn’t exactly about ghosts. It might sound like semantics, but Houle is quick to specify what he wants to get out of his audience. “Spirits,” says Houle. “I want to evoke the spirits in people. I want to invoke the spirits of the land and of our own histories and our own lives and have people think about those things. I don’t really want to say it’s a religious moment, but it’s a spiritual moment.” Lucas Provencher arts@vueweekly.com
THEATRE REVIEW
ART IMITATES LIFE, LIFE IMITATES ART Citadel season opener, Shakespeare in Love, captivates and transcends
Showing until Sun., Oct. 8 Shakespeare in Love Citadel Theatre
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n the first act, our Shakespeare confides in the urbane Christopher Marlow (just one of this play’s many historical figures), promising that his show will contain all the big tropes—romance, laughter, mistaken identity, gender bending and, of course, love. This romp doesn’t fail to deliver on any of those. At the outset, our eponymous playwright is mired in that viscous swamp known as “writer’s block,” unable to find the words (or the inspiration) to complete his upcoming comedy: Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate’s Daughter. An unfortunate title, yes, but one that we all know will surely be rectified by curtain call. Enter Viola, a wealthy merchant’s daughter with theatrical aspirations and a soft spot for the Bard. She’s been saddled with a repellent (albeit wealthy) fiancé; in between loveless courting rituals, she disguises herself as a man and doubles as both Shakespeare’s male lead and muse. Do they fall in love? Of course they do. Is there a sudden falling out in the second act, followed by a last-minute, show-saving recon-
ciliation? Indeed. Is it a little trite for modern audiences? Probably, yes. But then again, this is Shakespeare. The supporting players (many taking on dual roles in this ambitious production) are game with the material, approaching the script with an expert timing that make for the biggest laughs in the show. Citadel regular John Ullyatt channels the late John Inman in bringing a prissy flair to the power-mad Tilney; Sarah Constible transcends expectations offering us something topical in the role of Queen Elizabeth I. While the players are truly fabulous, the real triumph here is in the production design. Cory Sincennes’ set is a marvel; a rotating portal that allows the story to jump between the dozen or so settings that would otherwise mean a death sentence for a stage play. A film-to-stage production that captures both the magic of the original while offering us something fresh is a daunting task, one that Shakespeare in Love succeeds at. Lee Hall, the writer, does an excellent job at trimming the fat. However, it’s occasionally burdened by loyalty to the source
material: an excellent film, but a product of the ‘90s, to be sure. For instance, the gender bending jokes fall flat when—nearly 20 years after premiering on screen—droves of people now identify as transgender. Jolly good, but it does date the piece when a lot of the humour is derived from men pretending to be women, and vice versa. Moreover, the near-constant esoteric jokes that riff on the time period and audience’s knowledge of Shakespeare are tiresome. We get it—the play isn’t called Romeo and Ethel; there’s a balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet too; Shakespeare is now famous. Tee-bloody-hee. I’ll accept that I am in a minority on this one. Judging by the steady laughter and applause throughout, audiences no-doubt love being told they’re smart enough to be in on the joke, despite the fact that one needs but a cursory knowledge of the Bard in order to laugh along with the scholars. But that’s okay—you don’t need to wield an English degree to appreciate Shakespeare, or any theatre, for that matter. If well-crafted, theatre should (at the end of the day) elevate an audience. It’s okay to find some stuff a bit drab, while gravitating toward the
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lighthearted comedies that don’t force you to think too much. Escapism is not a sin (does anybody really enjoy The Tempest?). There’s a line repeated multiple times throughout by the Queen —“We do like a dog.” While we all laugh that someone of such education and esteem as Elizabeth I would be drawn to something so simple as a dog appearing onstage (there wasn’t
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a person who didn’t applaud whenever Tenacious Turtle, the greyhound turned actor, made his appearance). No matter how smart we like to think we are, we’re all just looking to be entertained. Shakespeare in Love does this beautifully. Especially the parts with the dog. Buchanan Hunter theatre@vueweekly.com arts 7
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MILE ZERO DANCE PRESENTS: GHOST DAYS • Spazio Performativo, 10816-95 St •
mzdsociety@gmail.com • milezerodance.com • An experimental art adventure combining video, performance, photos, and music to conjure spirits and ghosts as the evening's audience and collaborators • Sep 30, 7:30pm (door), 8pm (show) • Free (donations accepted; all proceeds will be donated to Creating Hope Society of Alberta)
SUNDAY EVENING FLAMENCO AT THE YARDBIRD • Yardbird Suite, 11 Tommy Banks Way • sundayflamenco.wordpress.com • Four artists will captivate with an evening of live flamenco dance, guitar, piano, and song • Oct 1, 6:30-9pm • $25 (adv, sundayeveningflamenco. bpt.me), $30 (door, cash only)
FILM 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 • Every Thu until Oct 19, 7:30pm • $10 +GST (adv, online), $11.43 +GST (door) EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY • Royal Alberta Museum, 12845-102 Ave • 780.439.5285 • edmontonfilmsociety@gmail.com • royalalbertamuseum.ca/movies • SCHEDULE: My Man Godfrey (Oct 2), Notorious (Oct 16), Midnight (Oct 23), The Shop Around the Corner (Oct 30),
Casablanca (Nov 6) • 8pm • $3-$6 ($35 for membership)
EDMONTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL • Landmark Cinemas City Centre 9, GAY FILM SERIES • Metro Cinema Garneau Theatre 8712-109 St Northwest • Celebrating the Alberta premiere of Lilies (Les Feluettes), Canada's first gay opera. A film series that showcases the best of gay cinema from both Hollywood and Canada in the last 20 years • Sep 30, Oct 2, Oct 4 • Free (available on Eventbrite)
GRAPHIC MEANS SCREENING • Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • events.abnorth@gdc.net • A film that explores graphic design production of the 1950s through the 1990s—from linecaster to photocomposition, and from paste-up to PDF. Presented by Graphic Designers of Canada Alberta North Chapter • Sep 29, 6:30-8:30pm • $12 (non-members) METRO • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712109 St • 780.425.9212 • metrocinema.org • Visit metrocinema.org for daily listings • 50 YearS aGO: The Dirty Dozen (Oct 1, Oct 3) • afternOOn tea: The Beguiled–2017 (Oct 1) • alberta Culture DaYS: Brokeback Mountain (Sep 30), Prairie Tales Redux (Sep 30) • EDMONTON OPERA: Brokeback Mountain (Sep 30), Tom at the Farm (Oct 2), Lilies (Oct 4) • KINK ON SCREEN: Secretary (Oct 1) • MUSIC DOC: We Are X (Oct 3) • QuOte-a-lOnG SerieS: Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (Sep 30) • REEL FAMILY CINEMA: The Secret of NIMH (Sep 30), Beauty and the Beast–2017 (Oct 7, Oct 9) • tibetan film feStival: The Last Dalai Lama? (Oct 8), Paths of the Soul (Oct 8)
RADICAL REELS • Arden Theatre • ardentheatre.com • The best sports action films from the annual Banff Mountain Film Festival will leave you wondering how–and perhaps why–exceptional athletes take on extreme sports • Sep 28, 7:30pm • $15-$20
3. Blackfoot Country (Poetry) Walter Hilderbrandt * 4. Nostalgia - M.G. Vassanji 5. Walking Through Turquoise (Poetry) - Laurie MacFayden * + 6. This Wound is a World - BillyRay Belcourt * + 7. Nuala: A Fable - Kimmy Beach *+ 8. Alice Network - Kate Quinn 9. A Legacy of Spies - John Le Carre 10. Annie Muktuk and Other Stories - Norma Dunning * + * ALBERTA AUTHOR + ALBERTA PUBLISHER List compiled by Audreys Books and the Book Publishers Association of Alberta
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ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga. ca • 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 • Gretzky is Everywhere; Jun 10-Sep 24 • Turbulent Landings: The NGC 2017 Canadian Biennial: curated by Catherine Crowston, Josee Drouin-Brisebois and Jonathan Shaughnessy; Sep 30-Jan 7 • WEEKLY DrOp-in aCtivitieS: Tours for Tots, Every Wed, 1011am • Youth Workshops, ages 13-17, Every Thu, 4-6pm • Kids’ Open Studio, Every Sat, 1-3pm • 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
ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • Dreaming of Canada: A Mail Art Project: artwork by various; Aug 12-Sep 30 • The Prairies, the Maritimes and a Few Lakes: artwork by Ken Housego; Sep 7-30 • Inside Painting: artwork by Peter Ivens; Oct 5-28; Opening reception: Oct 7, 2:30-5pm BEAR CLAW GALLERY • 10403-124 St • 780.482.1204 • info@bearclawgallery.com • bearclawgallery.com • Artwork by Maxine Noel; Oct 21-Nov 1
101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm; Sep 10-Jun 9 • $15 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square)
PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12323-104
CLOWN SHORTS 1 • L'Unitheatre, 8927-91 St NW • Two clowns happen upon a haunted house. One is excited. One is not • Sep 29, Oct 1 • $15 (adult), $12 (students and seniors 65+)
Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • The Artist's Studio: artwork by Joseph Hartman; Sep 21-Oct 10 • Artwork by David Alexander; Oct 14-Nov 4
PICTURE THIS! FRAMING & GALLERY • 959 Ordze Rd, Sherwood Park • 780.467.3038 • info@ picturethisgallery.com • picturethisgallery.com • The Great Fall Art Show: artwork by various artists; Sep 15-Oct 31
PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES OF ALBERTA • 8555
HEY LADIES! • The Roxy on Gateway (formerly C103), 8529 Gateway Blvd • theatrenetwork.ca • Edmonton’s premier comedy, info-tainment, musical, game, talk show spectacular that’s suitable for all sexes! • Sep 29, Oct 27, Dec 1, 8pm • $26 (call 780.453.2440) or TIX on the Square
SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • scottgallery. com • and light she lingers as your hostess: artwork by Gillian Willans; Sep 16-Oct 7 SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • The Story So Far: curated by Sara Norquay; Sep 21-Nov 4 • SNAP Annual Members Show and Sale; Nov 18
STRATHCONA COUNTY MUSEUM & ARCHIVES • 913 Ash St, Sherwood Park • strathconacountymuseum.ca • Showcasing Tales from the Oral History Collection; until Oct
ACCA CENTRE • 3530-91 St • 780.885.0505 • philippineartscouncil@gmail.com • philippineartscouncil.com/kalinangan • Kalinangan: workshops on Philippine arts; Sep 30, 1-7pm • Free
BOREALIS GALLERY • 9820-107 St • The Dream We Form By Being Together; Jun 29-Oct 1
VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave,
ACUA GALLERY & ARTISAN BOUTIQUE •
BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 10345-124 St • bugeramathesongallery.com • Road Less Travelled: artwork by Jane Everett; Sep 29-Oct 13
A. J. OTTEWELL CENTRE • 590 Broadmoor Blvd • Artists In Action!! During Cultural Days; Sep 30, 10am-3pm
Cava GallerY • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427
ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.
1. Runaway Wives and Roque Feminists: The Origins of the Women’s Shelter Movement in Canada - Margo Goodhand
• galeriecava.com • Fragile: artwork by various artists; Aug 18-Oct 14 • Members Exhibition: artwork by Béatrice Lefèvre, Sylvie Nadeau and Nadia Tanguay; Sep 29-Oct 14
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
MYSTERIOUS MAGICAL BRANDISHERS OF MAGIC • L'Unitheatre, 8627-91 St • A daredevil freak show of magic, chaos, and sorcery • Sep 29, Oct 1 • $20 (adults), $16 (students and seniors 65+)
THE ROOKIE CABARET • L'uniTheatre, 8927-91 St • An emerging artist showcase • Oct 1, 9pm • $10 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
THEATRESPORTS • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-
Fry Park, Diamond 2 • eileenbell.com/contact • Celebrating the launch of Dying on Second, the 4th book in E.C. Bell's paranormal mystery series, the Marie Jenner Mysteries • Sep 30, 2-4:30pm • Free
101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Sep 9-Jun 8 • $15
LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St •
10. Collected Tarts and Other Delicacies - Tabetha Southey
Cité Francophone, 8627-91 St • In collaboration with L’UniThéâtre, Alberta’s only professional francophone theatre, Edmonton Opera presents a staged reading of Michel Marc Bouchard’s iconic play Les Feluettes in French (with English supertitles) • Oct 14, 7-9pm • Free event (available at Eventbrite)
BOOK LAUNCH AT JOHN FRY PARK • John
Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • Quiet Stories from Canadian Places: artwork by Heather M. Cline; Sep 9-Oct 22 • Light in the Land–the Nature of Canada: artwork by Dr. Roberta Bondar; Nov 10-Dec 21
4. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End Atul Gawande
9. The Ghost Orchard - Helen Humphreys
LITERARY
LES FELUETTES STAGED READING • La
GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood
HUMAN ECOLOGY GALLERY • University of Alberta 1-15, Human Ecology Building • 780.492.3824 • Imagining a Better World: The Artwork of Nelly Toll; Sep 28-Mar 11
8. Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone Brene Brown
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 • Nidificate: artwork by Monique Martin; Sep 7-30
PATTYZEE@THEROXY • The Roxy on Gateway, 8529-103 St NW • theatrenetwork.ca • A series of five unique cabarets by actress/singer Patricia Zentilli, each with a different theme and special guests • Sep 30, 8pm • $26 (online or phone via Theatre Network)
thefrontgallery.com • Occupied People: artwork by various artists; Sep 13-Oct 4
FRONT GALLERY • 12323-104 Ave •
3. All We Leave Behind A Reporter’s Journey Into the Lives of Others - Carol Off
7. What Happened - Hillary Rodham Clinton
WEST END GALLERY • 10337-124 St • 780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • Mosaic: Contemporary Canadian Art: by various artists; Sep 16-Oct 5
tale of temptation, gestation and a foolish bargain • Sep 29-30 • $20 (adults), $16 (students and seniors 65+)
SHOCKERS DELIGHT • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • 780.433.3399 • teatroq.com • A bittersweet comedy that chronicles the evolving relationship of three graduates of the University of Continental North America, and their intertwined studies of golf, ballroom dancing, and 19th century furniture design • Sep 28-Oct 14
FAB (University of Alberta) • ualberta.ca/artshows • Graduate Design Group Show; Sep 26-Oct 14
2. Run, Hide, Repeart: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood Pauline Dakin
6. In Search of a Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey Payam Akhavan
St Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa-art.com • Feathers and Fur: artwork by Tammy Taylor; Sep 5-30
HUSHABYE • L'UniTheatre, 8627-91 St • A torrid
Spafford & Debby Waldman Double Launch; Oct 1, 2-4pm • Benjamin Hertwig "Slow War" with guest Lisa Martin; Oct 2, 7-9pm • Joe Calendino 'To Hell and Back' Book Launch; Oct 5, 7-9pm • Darryl Raymaker "Trudeau's Tango" Book Launch; Oct 10, 7-9pm
FAB GALLERY • Fine Arts Building Gallery,1-1
HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215112 St • 780.426.4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca • Turgor: artwork by Daniel Evans; Oct 5-Nov 24 • Soft Red/Hard White–15th Artist-In-Residence Exhibition: artwork by Jen Mesch; Oct 5-Nov 24
5. Spiders in Space - Todd Hirsch *
DOUBLE BILL: CHRIS & TRAVIS AND THE GREAT BALANZO! • L'UniTheatre, 8627-91
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
St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Daily activities, demonstrations and experiments • The Science Behind Pixar Exhibition; Until Jan 7 • Free-$117.95
9534-87 St • 780.488.8558 • info@acuarts.ca • acuarts.ca •
St NW • Dr. Professor Lavernius Cumquat unveils legitimate facts to halt the lurking dangers of social, political, and environmental “progress” • Sep 30, Oct 1 • $15 (adult), $12 (students and seniors 65+)
St NW • Award-winning improvised comedy, performed entirely in gibberish • Sep 30-Oct 1 • $20 (adult), $16 (students and seniors 65+)
BLEEDING HEART ART SPACE • 9132-118 Ave • dave@bleedingheartartspace.com • Jennifer Berkenbosch; Sep 9-Oct 14
GALLERIES + MUSEUMS
CLOWN SHORTS 2 • L'uniTheatre, 8927-91
Roper Road • PAA@gov.ab.ca • 780.427.1750 • culture.alberta.ca/paa/eventsandexhibits/default. aspx • Open Tue-Sat, 9am
TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142
Edmonton Non-Fiction Bestsellers
2. In Case I Go - Angie Abdou
• Melcor Cultural Centre, 35-5th Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • Open Art Competition; Sep 12-Oct 6 • Artwork by Ken Duncan; Oct 10-Nov 4
PAINT SPOT • 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • NAESS GALLERY: Toshiaki’s Art: Finding Expression in Time-Breeze; Aug 18-Oct 3 • ARTISAN NOOK: Some Paintings of Me: artwork by Dean Welsh; Aug 18-Oct 3
BIG PICTURE PHOTOGRAPHY • 10 Sturgeon Rd, St. Albert • The Happening: Art Show & Sale; Every Sat until Oct 7, 10am-4pm
Week of Sept. 18 - 24, 2017
1. Left-Handed Dinner Party & Other Stories - Myrl Coulter * +
ALLIED ARTS COUNCIL OF SPRUCE GROVE
10200-102 Ave • Sep 28-Oct 7
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ab.ca • Landmarks: artwork by Julia Reimer, Tyler Rock and Katherine Russell; Sep 2-Dec 24; Artist reception: Oct 21, 2-4 pm • Perch: artwork by Dena Seiferling, Stefanie Staples; Sep 9-Oct 14
AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • Karen
ST. ALBERT READERS' FESTIVAL: StarfeSt • St. Albert Public Library, 5 St. Anne Street, St. Albert • 780.459.1530 • sapl@sapl. ca • starfest.ca • The seventh St. Albert Readers’ Festival, where they travel back in time, explore the paranormal and the gothic, and learn from some of the best in the business • Sep 15-Nov 6 • $5 (events at the library), $10 (events at other venues), $45 (event with Terry O'Reilly)
WORDS IN THE PARK • Spark Gallery, 2257
780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • September Group Selling Exhibition: artwork by various artists; Sep 1-30
Premier Way, #116, Sherwood Park • Part of Alberta Culture Days. Featuring local authors, artisans, dance, music, kid's activities, interactive sessions, food, refreshments and more • Sep 30, 10am-4pm • Free
LATITUDE 53 • Latitude 53, 10242-106 St NW • latitude53.org • Visualeyez 2017: Awkwardness; Sep 26-Oct 1
THEATRE
LOFT ART GALLERY • 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • artsoc@telus.net • artstrathcona. com • Open Fri-Sun, Sep 9-Dec, 10-4pm • Artwork from local artists of the Society
MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • friendsofuah.org/ mcmullen-gallery • Comfort: artwork by Kirsty Templeton Davidge and Anne Billy; Aug 14-Oct 1
UBUNTU (THE CAPETOWN PROJECT) • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • citadeltheatre. com • Ghosts haunt a man and woman, continents apart, as they discover secrets of their past • Oct 11-22
A BASQUETTE QUESE • L'Unitheatre, 8627-91 St • An International Eccentric Performer’s story of a clown who confronts her insomnia with a series of bedtime antics • Sep 28, Sep 30 • $20 (adult), $16 (students and seniors 65+)
CHIMPROV • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-
MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM • St Albert Place, 5 St Anne Street, St Albert • MuseeHeritage.ca • 780.459.1528 • museum@artsandheritage.ca • Dreaming of Canada: A Mail Art Project: artwork by various artists; Aug 12-Sep 30 • The Prairies, the Maritimes and a Few Lakes: artwork by Ken HouseGo; Sep 7-30 • The Michel Band: curated by members of the Michel Band Council; Sep 19-Jan 7
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EDMONTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Hits and misses from this year’s Edmonton International Film Festival
Thu., Sept. 28 - Sun., Oct. 7 Edmonton International Film Festival Various venues The Other Side of Hope Directed by Aki Kaurismaki Oct. 3, 6:30 pm, Landmark Cinemas 9 City Centre Another dead (as-a-fish-in-a) pan dish from the top chef of wry, retro-looking movies. It’s an immensely powerful cultureclash dramedy where a Syrian stowaway, Khaled (Sherwan Kaji) and a budding restaurateur, Wikström (Sakari Kuosmanen), eventually cross paths in Helsinki. Finland’s bureaucratic refugeeadmission system is indifferent; Khaled’s story is harrowing. A fusion-food experiment’s bound to go wrong; a cross-border smuggling plan has to go right.
American rock’s joyously covered by middle-aged bands in hole-in-the-wall clubs; a ragtag band of nationalist fascists roams the near-empty streets. The film nudges together many other little contrasts, confusions, and moments of dread. A marvellously understated take on Europe’s migrant crisis, with two men searching for safe harbours in their lives. Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World Directed by Catherine Bainbridge Oct. 1, 6:45 pm, Landmark Cinemas 9 City Centre This intriguing record soon hits flat notes ... when it’s not needleskipping from one instrumental indigenous rocker or folk-singer to another (Link Wray, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Robbie Robertson, and more).
After a fascinating section about the pre-Civil War sound-mixing of indigenous and slave cultures— where Pura Fé, sings to a Charley Patton record, reveals the indigenous beat in the music— Rumble stutters into a series of blurb-bios. In even the best of these, metal-man Randy Castillo only gets a vague analysis of how Native drumming influenced his stick work. Dates are ignored. Context is scanty (how can a doc featuring activist John Trudell and noting the FBI’s targeting of Sainte-Marie never once mention the American Indian Movement?). Eras, regions, and disparate peoples and traditions jitter past. (There’s a mad hop from jazz singer Mildred Bailey to ‘60s footage of police brutality and the folk-music scene.) The effect? A flitting-about number with no clear throughline, offering up key musicians who happened to be “Indians.”
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Directed by Andrei Zvyagintsev Sept. 30, 1:30 pm, Landmark Cinemas 9 City Centre Director Andrei Zvyagintsev (Elena, Leviathan) returns with his usual accomplices, co-writer Oleg Negin and, behind the camera, Mikhail Krichman. This time, they study Russia’s chilly spiritual void through the lens of one middle-class trio’s breakup in 2012. Zhenya (Maryana Spivak), now with an older man, and Boris (Alexei Rozin), whose younger girlfriend is pregnant, are getting divorced. Their bitter, vitriolic arguments, while rarely still home together, lead their son, 12-year-old Alyosha (Matvey Nolvikov), to take drastic action. With wintry panoramas and slow, steady push-ins, Krichman leads us on and lures us along.
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WE ARE X – MUSIC DOCS TUES @ 7:00 WITH LIVE MUSIC PERFORMANCE BY GIRLS
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FRENCH & ENGLISH WITH SUBTITLES. FREE ADMISSION
FRI @ 4:00 FREE ADMISSION OF SALZBURG AT 6:30. JAPANESE & ENGLISH WITH SUBTITLES PRAIRIE TALES REDUX – AB CULTURE DAYS FRI @ 7:00 PRAIRIE TALES: A HISTORY BOOK DISCUSSION LILIES – EDMONTON OPERA WITH KRISTEN HUTCHINSON FOLLOWING THE SCREENING GAY FILM SERIES WED @ 7:00 Metro Cinema at the Garneau: 8712-109 Street
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This atmospheric allegory glacially hardens and forms the future of today’s Russia becoming an icy, irresolvable thriller. There’s a near-quizzical interest in how all these self-serving adults are managing their lives: Zhenya constantly checking her phone; a vicious outburst from her hermetic mother gives an appalling glimpse into Zhenya’s upbringing; Boris’ questions to a co-worker about hiding his divorce from their paymasters; his girlfriend, Masha, suddenly gripped by the fear he’ll leave her. First and last, this masterwork’s about Alyosha and the next generation—what are they inheriting? How many Russian families are being broken apart much like this one? A steadily absorbing, utterly chilling gaze at a society stuck in meltdown. Brian Gibson film@vueweekly.com
FRI, SEP 29–THUR, OCT 5
THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES FRI & MON: 7:00PM SAT: 3:45 & 7:00PM SUN: 3:45 & 6:15PM TUES TO THURS: 9:00PM
RATED: PG
BATTLE OF THE SEXES
FRI, MON TO THURS: 6:45 & 9:30PM SAT: 1:00, 3:30, 6:45 & 9:30PM SUN: 1:00, 3:30, 6:00 & 8:30PM MON TO THURS: 6:45 & 9:15PM
RATED: PG
THE GLASS CASTLE FRI & SAT: 9:15PM SUN: 1:15 & 8:30PM MON: 9:30PM
RATED: 14A, NRFC
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THE VIP REEL DEAL PASS $149 | THE SIXER (6-PACK) PASS $75 – available online. Single tickets to each film are available online or in-person at Landmark Cinemas 9 City Centre.
ROMANTIC ROAD
REBELS ON POINTE
A SWINGERS WEEKEND
Thursday, Sept. 28 @ 6:30pm Director: Oliver McGarvey | 90-mins. | Canada | $35
Friday, Sept. 29 @ 6:30pm Director: Bobbi Jo Hart | 90-mins. | Canada | $15
Friday, Sept. 29 @ 7pm Director: Jon E. Cohen | 90-mins. | Canada | $15
Rupert & Jan are living proof you can live your dreams no matter how odd, wild or crazy they might be - a rare glimpse into a uniquely inspired expedition that redefines later-life. Side by side, they drove for six months and covered over 5,000 miles. Though Rupert was at the wheel, Jan quietly propels the journey with a gentle strength and we witness their deep and lasting love grow stronger through this incredible experience. Guests: Oliver McGarvey (Director) and Rupert & Jan Gray attending.
The first-ever feature documentary celebrating the world famous Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo – an all-male comic ballet company – as they dance across Europe and North America. REBELS ON POINTE is a creative blend of gender, diversity, passion and purpose. A story which ultimately proves that a ballerina is much more than a beautiful body dancing – these dancers approach ballet as an act of rebellion in a tutu! Guests: Bobbi Jo Hart (Director) attending.
Lisa and Dan have the perfect jobs, the perfect kids, the perfect home and the perfect marriage. With a successful business and rock solid marriage, they believe their love to be invincible. So when they embark on a swingers weekend to celebrate their birthdays, they’re in it for the thrill and nothing more. They’ve also invited the youngest, coolest and hottest couple they know. Guests: Jon Cohen (Writer/Director) and Nicola Sammeroff (Writer) attending.
BIRTH OF A FAMILY
ORDINARY DAYS
LUCKY
Sunday, Oct. 1 @ 4pm Director: Tasha Hubbard | 80-mins. | Canada | $15
Tuesday, Oct. 3 @ 7pm | Directors: Jordan Canning, Renuka Jeyapalan & Kris Booth | 85-mins. | Canada | $15
Saturday, Oct. 7 @ 7pm Director: Oliver John Carroll Lynch | 90-mins. | USA | $35
OPENING NIGHT GALA!
CLOSING NIGHT GALA! Three sisters and a brother, adopted as infants into separate families across North America, meet together for the first time in this deeply moving documentary. Removed from their young Dene mother’s care as part of Canada’s infamous Sixties Scoop, Betty Ann, Ester, Rosalie and Ben were four of the 20,000 Indigenous children taken from their families. Three (3) of the four (4) siblings will be in attendance for Q&A following the film.
BLACK COP
Cara Cook is a bright, athletic, college student who disappears without a trace. Five (5) days play out three (3) times from a trio of perspectives. First told through the eyes of Cara’s parents, then the Detective assigned to find Cara presents his point of view and finally, the third act reveals what has happened to Cara. Three points of view. Three directors. Lensed by Edmontonian, Mike McLaughlin. Guests: Director, Kris Booth, will be in attendance.
Friday, Oct. 5 @ 7pm Director: Cory Bowles | 95-mins. | Canada | $15 It’s not easy being a black cop. Armed with the power of his badge, an antagonizing radio host for company, and some good old fashioned rage, the stage is set for a whirlwind day filled with vendetta and just desserts as this black cop targets the very community that justifies his fellow officers. Racial tension, law enforcement and social media are the focus in this hyper active thriller. Guests: Cory Bowles (Director) and Aaron Horton (Producer) attending.
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LUCKY follows the spiritual journey of a 90-year-old atheist and the quirky characters that inhabit his off the map desert town. Having out-lived and out-smoked all of his contemporaries, the fiercely independent Lucky finds himself at the precipice of life, thrust into a journey of self-exploration, leading towards that which is so often unattainable: enlightenment. John Carroll Lynch's directorial debut, LUCKY, is at once a love letter to the life and career of Harry Dean Stanton as well as a meditation on mortality, loneliness, spirituality, and human connection. Guests: Logan Sparks (Writer) attending.
Full Festival Program Available online at EDMONTONFILMFEST.COM PRINTED Program Guides available at… KNIFEWEAR: 10820 – 82 Avenue LANDMARK CINEMAS 9 CITY CENTRE: 10200 - 102 Avenue TIX ON THE SQUARE: 9930 – 102 Avenue
SPY ACTION/COMEDY
MEDIOCRE MEN OF MYSTERY
Second installment of Kingsman provides more action than content
ecently, Netflix bought Mark Millar’s company Millarworld, hoping to do with its caped kickassers what Disney’s doing with Marvel superheroes. That alternative comic-universe assault was well underway more than two years ago, when Kingsman: The Secret Service, adapted from a Millar series and grossing more than $400-million, smarmed and smugged its way through a cartoon-carnage boy-wonder version of James Bond. It was only at its best when it had some sly fun with, rather than trying to ape, 007 tropes. Now, in parachute-troops Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Eggsy (Taron Egerton) and company aren’t so self-satisfied this go-around, but the whole ‘he-bang! bam! boom!’ here is more of a garble of enjoyable and stupid fun. Even with its long, lagging bits, K:TGC can get so action-fixated that it can’t figure out how to make a good entrance: Eggsy struts out the front door of Kingsman HQ (a secret service doesn’t have any secret passages? Later, an explosive plot-turn hinges conveniently on the unlocked door to Eggsy’s manspy-cave), where he’s ambushed by ex-Kingman recruit Charlie, now robo-handed (this franchise likes spies with killer-prostheses). An elaborate cab-fight ensues—another action-sequence shot in a carefully whirl-around, see-every-
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thing-unfold way, as if Matrix bullet-time fights meet slo-mo replays of a domino set-up falling. Some of this choreographed cartoonishness can be amusingly loopy, as with meat-mincing, ’50shousewife-like Poppy (Julianne Moore), this instalment’s archvillain and Charlie’s boss. She lives in a jungle hideout that’s basically a Big Lebowski-like set, complete with diner and bowling alley, and she’s made Elton John her captive song-bird (the big action-climax offers the novelty of witnessing “Rocket Man’s” blowing-up bustout). But the novelty of Kingsman discovering its American counterpart, Statesman, soon grates— Statesman’s front is a bourbon distillery and its agents include one codenamed, flatly, “Ginger Ale.” One long-thought-dead agent’s resurrection is yet more sci-tech hokum in an overlong movie (The Golden Circle: eight percent longer than GoldenEye and 28 percent longer than Goldfinger!) that’s overstuffed with whiz-bang gadgetry. Once again, Kingsman is eager to pulp out its violence but, when it comes to sex, turns both prissy (no nudity; a sappy romance) and smutty (a tracker can only be put on a woman via her “mucus membrane”—cue the leering build-up to super-seducer Eggsy fingering his target). There are lip-smacking, profit-grossing plans for a threequel and a Statesman spin-off, so no doubt there’ll still be plenty of opportunities to keep this franchise repeatedly mediocre. Brian Gibson film@vueweekly.com
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here is a difference between a story being told about a group and a story told by that group. Black Women United, a support group for women of colour in Edmonton, is the first of its kind in the city. Its goal is to have a serious conversation about the realities black women face every day in Edmonton, and to rally around shared hopes for the future. They intend to start the conversation with a rally that will be held in solidarity for the March for Black Women being held in D.C. on the same day. As one of 18 across North America, and the only solidarity event in Canada, the importance of the rally is multifaceted. It comes at a time where race relations stand at an inflection point. While this is most stark in the United States, the rally is also an opportunity to recognize the experiences of black women in Canada. Four key speakers will join the rally to shine a light on problems that are often hidden from public attention, including incarceration rates, workplace discrimination, sexual abuse and exploitation, HIV, and domestic violence. “Canada is not as progressive as it likes to congratulate itself for being,” Junetta Jamerson begins while sitting next to fellow organizer Yodit Tesfamicael. Both women speak to multiple situations they themselves have experienced of covert work-
place racism and discrimination, physical and verbal abuse on the street, and sexual harassment and assault. Tesfamicael shares a story of her own experience. “A few years back I was just walking downtown, and completely out of nowhere a person took their bag, smacked me in the face, and then told me, ‘Go back to where you came from, you effin’ n-word.’ And that’s not uncommon,” she says. “It becomes very apparent to you, the value of your life and your worth. It’s really scary to not be seen as just another human being that has the same desires, wants and the same rights as everybody else.” For Jamerson, who has seen a couple decades more of experiences, both from her own life and some of the young girls that she supports, it is even more crushing. “There’s almost a jaded, or hardened aspect to how I feel, because it’s just always been this way,” she says. “The lower value placed on black lives, black female lives, is just endemic to North America. These societies, these settler states would not exist had not that belief been foundational to every institution they created—every policy and legislation they enacted.” Jamerson can speak to times she has been quieted and told to accept the dismissive and derisive ways she has been treated at past jobs when trying to speak up for herself. “It is not limited in the lower levels, this goes up to the highest halls,” she adds. There is a resounding impact of seeing your sisters, grandmothers, role models and daughters live through these experiences. “It is within the lived experiences that we share amongst ourselves,” Jamerson says. “It is within—I mean, I’ve lost count— at the number of black women who have endured unspeakable abuse at work, racism, the sexism
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and how it all comes together.” The ignorance around these situations makes it even more difficult to rally support and enact change. The two women then reference the lack of statistics to even prove to those who may question the frequency and severity of experiences like their own. “In the sense of the silence around it, we have a long ways to go to raise an awareness that this open season cannot continue. It cannot continue,” she says. Jamerson breaks down the lack of previous organized groups to two factors: lack of numbers and fear. The 2011 Census echoes this, reporting that only three percent of all Canadian females identify as black, making them a significant minority, much more so than in the U.S. “When you are seeing ‘just keep your head down’ as the way out, you’re not gonna organize,” Jamerson says. “Ever since there have been black women in this province, there have always been individual responses, but not collective, and not unified, and not political. That’s what we’re trying to change.” The systemic problems that exist for black Canadian women causes a cycle of poverty and violence that many indigenous women know all too well. It’s from these past tribulations that Black Women United have taken many lessons. “You see where the years of work, and sacrifice, and organizing indigenous women have been able to push their issues to,” Jamerson says. “It has been a colossal wheel to turn. We have so many of the same issues— they’re generational—that we haven’t begun to mobilize around. Regardless of who’s sitting in Ottawa, we have a lot of catching up to do.” Sierra Bilton sierra@vueweekly.com
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ANCESTRAL SOUNDSCAPES (From left) Matthew Cardinal, Kris Harper and Marek Tyler // JProcktor
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dmonton’s indigenous indie three-piece, nêhiyawak, is the sonic representation of the covenant between ancestral tradition and a contemporary culture. The band creates soundscapes that represents their cultural history. “We are Cree, so our approach to culture is in the very fabric of what we do,” drummer Marek Tyler says. “The songs are references just by us playing them. From song to song there’s material that makes those narratives.” After reuniting at a family dinner, Tyler and his cousin Kris Harper began jamming in Tyler’s basement. After the first couple of jams, the energy felt marvelous. “It just kind of blew on the coals of something. It’s like the feeling of meeting somebody new for the first time,” Tyler says. With only drums, guitar, and vocals, the sound was missing something. To remedy this, Tyler and Harper recruited bassist and keyboard player Matthew Cardinal into the mix. “He just evened everything out with his keys and bass. It was like we were leaning on one side of the boat and then everything just settled,” Tyler says. The moniker nêhiyawak comes from Cardinal’s father, Garry, an elder in the Cree community. The name translates to “Cree People.” “We’re accountable to Garry now and that means that if he sees that we’re not using the name right, then he can keep us accountable,” Tyler says. “He can say, ‘Look, boys, this is what I think.’ So if we’re going to make a band decision and we’re having a tough time with it, we have our elders like Garry, my
mom, and Kris’ mom to go to for guidance.” The band members stress that everything they do, whether it’s writing songs, releasing albums, or playing live, comes from a place of “respect, culture, identity, and distinctiveness.” “We hope that what we are doing is done in a good and respectful way and that we’re creating an environment that enables an intersection of culture, the teachings of our parents and our grandparents while also talking about our own upbringing,” Tyler says. “The work itself is indie rock, but It’s all about learning about culture. It’s not us versus them. It’s ‘we.’” That respectful doctrine has lead to many achievements for nêhiyawak including the very first
Edmonton Music Award for Indigenous Recording of the Year for the song “Tommaso.” “I think symbolically it’s important to recognize and support indigenous artists. We’re starting to see that perspective and narrative be more common. That’s what I like to see,” Tyler says. “If the legacy of that award for the other people who are coming down the pipe enables them to assert their narrative and join a conversation, then I think it’s a good idea.” The band also recently released a sound score for Conor McNally’s film ôtênaw, a documentary that tells the oral story of the city and deals with the history and treatment of the land, territory, and culture while also chronicling the layers of human residency on amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton).
ders. We need to use those to guide our artistic and business decisions and how we engage with the community and performance,” Tyler says. Ultimately, nêhiyawak’s goal is to represent and share its own identity while starting a conversation about culture. The upcoming show at 9910 is the perfect outlet. Cuban punk rockers Adictox and Mexican hard rock band Canibales will also be gracing the stage, giving the audience a chance to absorb the sounds of two fascinating cultures. “There is an indigenous narrative that we are not alone in,” Tyler says. “People around the world are part of it. So here’s an opportunity for people to hang out and learn.” Stephan Boissonneault stephan@vueweekly.com
“It documents a storyteller and the stories of the land that we are on right now just down the street in the flats by the bridge,” Tyler says. “We recorded all of those songs on a cassette on those lands that the stories came from. We were right there and that was actually the very first set of recordings we did as a band last fall.” (Score for the film) ôtênaw is a bewitching bulk of recordings, made up of the band’s unique approach to indie rock while fringing on the borders of minimalist noise rock. A full-length album with a title is ready, but yet to be released. The band is still searching for the right process to release it. It all comes down to accountability. “We must adhere to the protocols and teachings of our el-
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inyl lovers and collectors in Edmonton number enough to hold not one, but two show and sales every year. For buying, selling and trading some of the best lps around, look no further than the Edmonton Music Collectors Show. Picture a massive gymnasium full of boxes of records and people that just love talking music. The show will also have CDs, music-related DVDs, cassettes,
audio equipment and memorabilia as well as rare, collectible, current and aged vinyl. The brainchild of ardent collectors George Gawlak and Dave Chorley, the Edmonton Music Collectors Show is the sole trade show dedicated to vinyl in Northern Alberta with shows held in the spring and fall since 2012. Roughly 400 to 600 people turn out to the shows to get their hands in some boxes and search for the next gem to vaunt. Around 40 vendors, both commercial and private come to the show, though most are private collectors looking to thin out their own collections, only to most likely make room for others soon enough. The event attracts top-notch vendors from as far as Portland
to sell their vinyl and catch up with friends in the scene. Other vendors come from Calgary, Lethbridge, Camrose, Saskatoon, and Kamloops, among other places. Essentially, Richard Liukko of Freecloud in Edmonton says this is not your run-of-the-mill blowout sale. “While there are some people that show up with sale items, for the most part, this is where you find the collectibles, the rare, hard to find, and the cool titles.” Liukko says it’s a good way to see some new titles you may not have found as of yet, and meet some great like-minded people. While it’s often discouraged to go to the show expecting to sell your own collection, it is fair to bring along a small handful of your own pieces for a suggested
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swap. The opportunity to peruse some of the private collector’s LPs is a rare one at best. With record collecting gaining massive popularity in the last five years or so, there’s also something to be said about its ability to grip people for an entire lifetime. There seems to be an element of tactile memory to the craft that makes each collector’s experience unique and extremely memorable. Nearly everyone you speak to can remember the first album they obtained, and often the situation surrounding that moment. Gawlak’s been collecting and dealing since the ‘50s in England. He has strong memories of handing over a record on a drizzly London street and receiving two pounds or so back, which he would then take right to the market to find a new title. He also has memories of some of his most prized records, which he regrettably sold before moving to Canada. Liukko can still remember the man that he brought an extra newspaper to as a boy, who in recompense offered up some of his own personal records. “It was like The Dave Clark Five and The Animals, some really cool Brit-pop stuff,” he recalls. Other collectors have slightly different stories to tell about the genres that got them into the sport. Terry Primrose, who runs the record store at the 111 Avenue Super Flea Market, started his collection with Jimi Hendrix in the ‘80s, which has now grown to 18,000 records. Liukko, on the other hand, collected ska and punk albums. “When I think of music, I’m old enough to remember periods
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in my life, and memorable moments, and I can often relate that to the music that I was listening to,” Gawlak says holding the record of an obscure Jazz vocalist from the ‘50s. “It’s like, if you grab a record, you can have some kind of emotional attachment to this, because it’s an actual thing that you can look at and hold.” Gawlak also mentions the warmness and quality of the sound on vinyl, but he says it goes beyond just that. With the age and wear, often records aren’t perfect and can hold scratches in the tracks, but Gawlak finds this something that leaves him even more seduced by vinyl. “Sometimes you’ll buy a record, and you come home and put it on the turntable and there’ll be a little bit of surface noise or a bit of crackle halfway through a particular track. It’s like, ‘well alright, we’ve got through that little bit and now we’ve got the rest of the record to look forward to.’” He finds the authenticity and tactility of vinyl is what a lot of the younger music collectors crave. Liukko and Gawlak both say the show is a lot like a gathering of old friends and walking around there’s always interesting conversations and stories shared. But when it comes down to it, the rationale is simple: you love music. “There are literally billions of used records out there,” says Liukko. “So if you start looking, it could take you awhile, and if you’re patient, you could eventually find what you’re looking for and usually for an affordable price.” Sierra Bilton sierra@vueweekly.com
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EXPERIENCED PORNOGRAPHERS
Canadian icons continue their standard of excellence after 17 years together
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ime is getting to Carl “A.C.� Newman. He’s fronted the power-pop supergroup The New Pornographers (an eight-piece band that features Neko Case, Destroyer, and John Collins) for 17 years now and never dreamed it would take him this far. “It seems insane to me. That’s the thing with time. So much has happened in that period. I always think, ‘God, has it been 17 years? And then I’m like, ‘Yeah, 17 years of life has happened,’� Newman says over
the phone in his Upstate New York home. “I didn’t think past making the first album, Mass Romantic. Before the first record came out, Mint Records asked if there would be a second record and my honest answer was ‘I don’t know.’� There were many records after Mass Romantic with the latest, Whiteout Conditions, releasing this past April. Listening to the album reveals that Newman has not lost his pop songwriting edge. In fact, Whiteout Conditions may very well be The New Pornographers’ most cohesive work yet with almost every song playing at 160 bpm. It’s an aspect that was found on 2014’s Brill Bruisers and then expanded upon with the latest.
“That’s the one-cent version definitely. I basically took my favourite songs from Brill Bruisers and thought, ‘Let’s do more than that,� Newman says. Whiteout Conditions is absolutely a pop record, but in parts, it has elements of the late ‘60s krautrock genre. Just after the record’s release date, Newman called the new sound “bubblegum krautrock.� “This record was influenced by a vague memory of krautrock. We took a few elements from it, but we’re obviously still a pop band. It’s just our fate,� Newman says. It’s a new, weird sound for The New Pornographers, something Newman has strived to do with every record since Mass Romantic. “I’m always trying to write a new
kind of song or at least something that’s new to me,� Newman says. “I know that I’m always going to write a certain kind of song and that gives me the freedom to explore.� Those certain kinds of songs are always without fail, catchy little ear worms that have a way of burrowing into your mind. Whiteout Conditions is full of them. The chorus always grabs you and you can’t help but sing along or at least hum the melody. “Maybe my mind has a formula and I wish I knew what it was. It would be so much easier if my mind had a computer program to just make our records,� Newman says. The lyrics found on Whiteout Conditions encompass anxiety, depres-
sion, and fear, themes that have followed The New Pornographers’ sound since day one. “I feel like a lot of my songs have that element of trying to escape from the self,� Newman says. Trying to escape the ruminations and the part of yourself that tells you ‘You suck.’ Usually, the music is quite upbeat, but the lyrics can come from a dark place.� Whiteout Conditions is the first record not to feature singer-songwriter Dan Bejar, who has been a core songwriter for The New Pornographers since the first album. During the writing process, Bejar was busy with his own project, Destroyer. “I’m actually amazed that this is the first time it happened. For 12 years, I’ve been wondering what’s the record and band going to be like when we lose Neko or we lose Dan,� Newman says. “One month after Mass Romantic, Dan came over and said ‘Hey I’m moving to Spain.’ I was like ‘Well shit. I guess Dan isn’t in the band anymore,’ but he always came back.� Due to many members having other prospering projects, Newman became aware early on that The New Pornographers would not always have a full lineup on every single record. “In order for us to be a band, we have to have a slightly malleable lineup,� Newman says. “We couldn’t not play because a specific group of people weren’t there. It’s just life in The New Pornographers.� Stephan Boissonneault stephan@vueweekly.com
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Juliet Ruin rises from the ashes of former acts and takes metal by the horns
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ocalist Jessica Fleming’s R&B cover band wasn’t quite fulfilling her musical needs. Instead, she decided to seek out a more “passionate and honest� genre— metal. Fleming and her husband, Kent Geislinger, eventually formed Juliet Ruin, a local five-piece female-fronted power metal group with a lot of heart. Juliet Ruin’s sound is comparable to a muddier version of Alexisonfire, with Fleming guid-
ing the songs with her powerful voice while being backed up by Geislinger’s harsh screams and growls. “My voice has definitely evolved in the last five years,� Fleming says. “My band still finds ways to push me beyond what I can do every time we write. I’ll say ‘I can’t hit those notes,’ but we’ll find a way.� The band is set to release its debut self-titled EP, a collection of songs that focus on the “spirit of getting over some tough periods� each band member has been faced with in their lives. “We’re really open with each other so we talk about these kind of things during rehearsal,� Fleming says. “So the EP is about growing from hardship, rather
than let it eat you alive.� The album cover reflects the theme, with vines and other greenery encircling a dimly lit skull. It’s the perfect mix of beauty and harsh reality, much like Juliet Ruin’s sound. “Why dwell on the past and live in pain. It won’t do anything for you,� Fleming says. Usually, in a band, the core songwriter writes the lyrics and decides what the song is about. But in Juliet Ruin, every member has a part in the thematic process of each song. “The guys layout a skeleton of a song and we as a band discuss the kind of feeling is coming off the groove and I go from there,� Fleming says. “It’s a group effort
even though I’m the one putting the lyrics and the melody forth.� For Fleming, the crushing “Giants are Falling� track on the upcoming EP is about overcoming her fears after being raised in a strictly religious household. “That’s my personal interpretation of it, but I think it’s different for the guys,� she says. “I feel like it’s important to have a message or feeling with every song. Those are the songs that I, personally as a music fan, see as helping the human condition. I think that’s why my music exists.� Juliet Ruin has been gaining more recognition after every concert with it’s single “Rogue Down� receiving a nomination at the Edmonton Music Awards. “That was amazing. We were
blown away and I think we’re all still giddy on that,� Fleming says. “You really get to see the strength of the community support for underground musicians out there. When JFK [John Kennedy] gave his speech, the shout out he gave to the aggressive scene was just everything.� Juliet Ruin has become more than just a band for Fleming. It’s an outlet for her to escape her own personal apprehensions, especially when playing live. “I usually try to shake off my own personal anxiety and ride the wave to excitement,� she says. “The persona helps me for sure. I don’t have to worry about Jess and I can just be Juliet Ruin.� Stephan Boissonneault stephan@vueweekly.com
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SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Totally Tom Petty Tributes by Phil Dunget and Linda Maze; 9pm; $15 (adv)
Ominous Cloud CAFE BLACKBIRD Mbira Renais-
sance Band; 8pm; $15 CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK Electrik
Squirrels; 9pm CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat
SHERLOCK HOLMES– DOWNTOWN Quentin Reddy;
Open mic; 7pm; $2
9pm
Switch Band; 9pm
SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Jake
CASINO EDMONTON Jess Valdez CASK AND BARREL Evergreen;
WILD EARTH BAKERY– MILLCREEK Donna
S • 30
FE:
Math Debate, Wide Eyed, Max Uhlich; 8pm; $10; 18+ only
Antonik; 9pm BOHEMIA The Vital, Lovelet,
HORIZON STAGE Derina Harvey
Fri, 9pm
F • 29
SEWING MACHINE FACTORY
BLUES ON WHYTE Chris
CENTURY CASINO–ST. ALBERT
LA CITÉ FRANCOPHONE
THURS • SEP 28
with entertainment, Every Fri, 9pm
BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Sam Spades does Johnny Cash; 8:3010:30pm; $15
UNION HALL Wiwek; 9pm;
ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Jimmy AUSSIE RULES KITCHEN & PIANO BAR Piano Show; Every
SANDS INN & SUITES Karaoke
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair of the Dog: Sound Bodacious; 4-6pm; no cover
4-6pm; Free
IRONGATE PUB Bryant Sailor;
Whiffen; 8:30pm; $5
RIVER CREE–The Venue Steve Earle & The Dukes; 7pm (doors), 9pm (show); Tickets starting at $44.99
Sat, 9pm
Buckley; 9pm
Brothers Experience featuring The Zmed Brothers; 7:309:30pm; $34
ARDEN THEATRE The Everly
MacGregor and Sean Brewer & The Switchmen; 8pm; $12 (adv), $15 (door)
AUSSIE RULES KITCHEN & PIANO BAR Piano Show; Every
HAVE MERCY Resident DJs playing outlaw country, rock and retro classics; Every Fri-Sat, 10pm; No cover
ROGERS PLACE Nickelback:
COUNTERPARTS STRAY FROM THE PATH GIDEON
SEAN BREWER
ALIBI PUB & EATERY Jared
Ruin with Shark Infested Daughters, Black Friday and Tessitura; 8pm; $10 (adv)
with guests; 8pm; $10 (adv)
COMEBACK KID
WORST DAYS DOWN CUTOFFS
FRI SEP 29
7:30pm; $31-$35
Rhythm of Cruelty and Zad Kokar; 9pm; $10 (adv), $15
THE NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN & YELLOWEHEAD BREWERY PRESENT:
THE MENZINGERS
Shark Weak, The Unreliables & Toecutter Cult; 8pm; No minors
THE FORGE ON WHYTE Juliet
THE ALMANAC Les Deuxluxes
SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Big Daddy Thursday Jam with host
DESPERADO PILOTS
DV8 The Press Gang with
ON THE ROCKS Salsa Rocks: every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; Cuban Salsa DJ to follow
THE REC ROOM Fountain with
Thursdays with JR; Every Thu, 9pm-1am
NEW LABEL PRESENTS:
Weymes & The Attaboys; 9pm
FESTIVAL PLACE Digging Roots;
Sowan; 8pm
SANDS INN & SUITES Karaoke
FE:
DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Amy
Uncommon Thursday: Rotating guests each week
NORTH GLENORA HALL Jam by Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers every Thu; 7pm
Feed the Machine Tour; 6pm; $41 and up
FE - FREE SHOW:
Rave On; 9pm; Free
Main Fl: Rock N' Roll, Funk &
MOONSHINERS Moonshiners
W • 4
CENTURY CASINO–EDMONTON
Russell Johnston Wilderness of Manitoba with Lucas Chaisson and Soft March; 8pm; $15 (adv)
T • 3
Switch Band; 9pm
YARDBIRD SUITE Kent
Dreams - The Ultimate Tribute to Fleetwood Mac; 7pm; $29.95
LB'S PUB Open Jam hosted by
M • 2
(donations welcome) Sangster's Electric Band; 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $11 (members), $15 (guests)
Open jam hosted by The World Beat Band; Every Thu, 8-12pm
SUN • OCT 1
EL CORTEZ MEXICAN KITCHEN + TEQUILA BAR Resident DJs
Flashback Friday; Every Fri
HAVE MERCY Thigh Thursdays
DAILY speciALS
THE COMMON Quality Control Fridays with DJ Echo & Freshlan
GAS PUMP Live DJ; 10pm
FIDDLER'S ROOST Acoustic Circle Jam; 7:30-11:30pm
$4.00 Yellowhead $6.50 Select Wine
Remo, Noosh, Fingertips & guests; Underdog: Rap, House, Hip-Hop with DJ Babr; every Fri
CAFE BLACKBIRD Adam Rice
Karaoke; Every Thu, 7pm
happy hour specials 4-7PM
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ Late Fee; Every Fri; Wooftop: Selection Fridays with
EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE
EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE
LIVE MUSIC (NO COVER)
DJs
Little, Wine Alot (house, hip-hop and reggae music); Every Thu; No cover
noweth; 8-11pm; Free
Monday TO Friday 5:30-6:30PM
WINSPEAR CENTRE Harp & Cello; 7:30pm; $24-$82
playing the best in hip-hop, dance and classics; Every Fri-Sat, 9pm; No cover
BLVD SUPPER X CLUB B**ch A
FIONN MACCOOL'S–HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS Michael Che-
Happy Hour Shows!
Classical
$20; 18+only
Durand with Kathy Fisher; 7:30-9:30pm; $5 suggested donation YARDBIRD SUITE Dan Brubeck
Quartet; 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $22 (members), $26 (guests)
Rave On; 9pm; Free DENIZEN HALL Champ City Soundtrack; Every Fri-Sat DRAKE HOTEL Open Jam–
Saturdays; Every Sat, 2-5pm • House band; 5-8pm • Guest band; 8pm • No minors DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Amy Weymes & The Attaboys; 9pm DV8 Ground Level Falcons CD Release + The Able Kind &
Lutra Lutra; 8pm; No minors EMPRESS ALE HOUSE Bands at
the Empress; Every Sat, 4-6pm; Free; 18+ only THE FORGE ON WHYTE Decade
Of Decay with Display Of Decay, Apollyon, Tyrant and Mongol, Arctos; 7pm; $10 (adv), $15 (door) HAVE MERCY Resident DJs
playing outlaw country, rock and retro classics; Every Fri-Sat, 10pm; No cover HILLTOP PUB Open stage
hosted by Simon, Dan and Pascal; Every Sat, 4-7pm; Free IRONGATE PUB Bryant Sailor;
Every Fri-Sat, 7pm; No cover LB'S PUB Mark Ammar's
Saturday Sessions Jam; Every Sat, 4-8pm • Keep It Greasy–A Joe Cocker Tribute; 9pm; No minors THE LEAF The Barsnbands
Homemade Jam–hosted by Mike Chenoweth and The Usual Suspects; Every Sat, 3-7pm MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET Live Local Bands
every Sat NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN Soul Saturday Brunch with Sean Brewer; 11am; No cover • Sparrow Blue with No Witness and Hungry Hollow; 9pm; $10 (adv) ON THE ROCKS Stiletto; 9pm PARKVIEW COMMUNITY HALL
Dave Gunning & JP Cormier; 8pm; $24 POLISH HALL Piotr Nalepa:
Breakout Tour; 7pm; $20 (adult), $10 (students and seniors 60+) REC ROOM Vegas Wives;
9:30pm; Free SEWING MACHINE FACTORY
Wint, Space Classic, Owners, Dead Friends; 8pm; $10; 18+ only SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Totally
Tom Petty Tributes by Phil Dunget and Linda Maze; 9pm; $15 (adv) SHERLOCK HOLMES– DOWNTOWN Quentin Reddy;
9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Jake
Buckley; 9pm SOUTHGATE CENTRE (BESIDE CENTRE COURT) Around the
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ Chris Bruce spins
britpop/punk/garage/indie; Every Sat; Wooftop: Sound It Up! with DJ Sonny Grimezz spinning classic hip-hop and reggae; Underdog: hip-hop open Mic followed by DJ Marack THE COMMON Get Down It's Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with Wright & Wong, Dane EL CORTEZ MEXICAN KITCHEN + TEQUILA BAR Resident DJs
playing the best in hip-hop, dance and classics; Every Fri-Sat, 9pm; No cover ENVY NIGHT CLUB Resolution Saturdays: top 40, throwbacks and club anthems EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE
Rotating DJs Velix and Suco; every Sat MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey
Wong every Sat THE PROVINCIAL PUB Saturday Nights: Indie rock and dance with DJ Maurice; 9pm-2am SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM Swing
Dance Party: Sugar Swing Dance Club every Sat, 8-12; no experience or partner needed, beginner lesson followed by social dance; sugarswing.com TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul,
motown, funk, R&B and more with DJs Ben and Mitch; every Sat; 9pm-2am Y AFTERHOURS Live DJs; Every
Fri-Sat
SUN OCT 1 ALIBI PUB AND EATERY Open mic night; Every Sun, 6-9pm THE ALMANAC Sunday Song
Stage Hosted by Rhea March; Every Sun, 6:30-10pm; Free
Jam; Every Sun, 7-11pm SHAKERS ROADHOUSE The
Sunday Happening Jam featuring The Todd James Band; 4pm
BLUES ON WHYTE Dennis
DJs
Circle; 7:30-11:30pm
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ Zyppy; Every Sun
MON OCT 2 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Wooftop: Metal Mondays with Metal Phil from CJSR's Heavy Metal Lunchbox
BLUES ON WHYTE Dennis
Jones; 9pm DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB Karaoke
night; Every Mon, 9pm; Free FIDDLER'S ROOST Open Stage;
7-11pm HAVE MERCY Mississippi Monday Night Blues Jam hosted by the Dylan Farrell Ban; Every Mon, 8:30pm (sign up); No cover JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Joe
PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Wild Rose Old Tyme
Fiddlers Association: Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm ROGERS PLACE The Weeknd–
Starboy: Legend of the Fall 2017 World Tour; $59 and up SHAW CONFERENCE CENTRE
WINSPEAR CENTRE Music of
BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Sunday
ABBA; 7:30pm
Brunch with PM Bossa; 9am2:30pm; Cover by donations
DJs
BLUES ON WHYTE Chris
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Substance with
Montgomery; 7:30pm; $78-$86
Lost In the Stars; 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $24 (members), $28 (guests)
presents “Compete With The Beat”; Every Sun, 6pm; $10
Classical
Acoustic Jam; Every Sun, 12pm
MOONSHINERS Sunday Noon
WINSPEAR CENTRE Harp & Cello; 8pm; $24-$82
NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN Soul Sunday Brunch with Dempsey Bolton; 11am; No cover
DJs
SANDS INN & SUITES Open
YARDBIRD SUITE Tuesday Session: Andrew Glover Quartet; 7:30pm (door), 8pm (show); $5
DJs
NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN Happy Hour featuring Sean Brewer; 5:30pm • The Menzingers with Worst Days Down and Cutoffs; 8pm; $20 (adv) ON THE ROCKS Karaoke Wednesdays hosted by ED; Every Wed, 9pm PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic Bluegrass jam
presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; Guests and newcomers always welcome; every Wed, 7pm; $2 (donation, per person), free coffee available THE PROVINCIAL PUB Karaoke
Wednesday SHAKERS ROADHOUSE 4 Dollar
Bill Country Jam; 7pm TAVERN ON WHYTE Karaoke;
9pm WINSPEAR CENTRE The New
Pornographers; 8pm
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Chris Bruce spins britpop/
Classical
punk/garage/indie; Every Tue
MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH
EL CORTEZ MEXICAN KITCHEN + TEQUILA BAR Taco Tuesday
Music Wednesdays at Noon: Laura Veeze and Sarah Ho (Violin and Piano); 12:1012:50pm; Free
WED OCT 4
On The Stage Tour; 6pm; $33; All ages
HAVE MERCY YEG Music
Jamerama, with Tall Dark & Dirty; 7pm
NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN Happy Hour featuring Don Bartlett; 5:30pm; No cover • Desperado Pilots with Shae Ann; 8pm; No cover
Jam with Forever 51; Every Sun, 3-6:30pm
YARDBIRD SUITE Dean Mcneill's
SHAKERS ROADHOUSE
with resident DJs
UNION HALL I Prevail–Rage
FESTIVAL PLACE John Michael
Miranda Lambert: Highway Vagabond Tour; 7pm; $32 and up
Bonamassa; 8pm
BLIND PIG PUB Blind Pig Pub
World with Edmonton Opera; 11:30am-3pm; Free (part of Alberta Culture Days)
LB'S PUB Tuesday Night Open
NORTHLANDS COLISEUM
Sun, 9pm
Jamming; Every Sun, 2pm; No minors
GAS PUMP Karaoke; 9:30pm
Jam Hosted by Darrell Barr; 7-11pm; No charge
AUSSIE RULES KITCHEN & PIANO BAR Piano Show; Every
DRAKE HOTEL Sunday
Jones; 9pm FIDDLER'S ROOST Fiddle Jam
GAS PUMP Kizomba-DJ; 8pm
I Prevail with We Came as Romans and The World Alive, & Escape The Fate; 6pm; $33 (adv)
Antonik; 9pm
TUE OCT 3
BLUES ON WHYTE J. C. Smith;
ROBERT TEGLER CENTRE– CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY
9pm
Concordia Symphony Orchestra; 7:30pm
DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Wed open mic with host Duff Robison; 8pm
DJs
GAS PUMP Karaoke; 9:30pm
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ Late Fee; Every Wed
HAVE MERCY Whiskey
PINT DOWNTOWN Wild Wing
Wednesdays Live Piano Karaoke featuring the Fab Tiff Hall; Every Wed, 8:30pm
Wednesdays at the Pint with DJ Thomas Culture; Every Wed, 10pm
HOWARD JOHNSON HOTEL
RANCH ROADHOUSE DJ Shocker and Seelo Mondo; Every Wed
Karaoke Jockey Simonette; Every Wed, 7-11pm LEAF BAR & GRILL Wang Dang
Wednesdays; Every Wed, 7-11pm
Upcoming BIG Events SEPT 28 Fountain w. Rhythm of Cruelty and Zad Kokar SEPT 29 Funk Velvet w. Bikini Atoll Beach Party OCT 6
Forester with Nicolas Rage, Crooked Spies, Randy Handsome
OCT 7
UFC 216
OCT 10
Screaming Females w. Street Eaters, Feed Dogs and Preston
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Eddie Lunchpail TAVERN ON WHYTE
Classic hip-hop with DJ Creeazn every Mon; 9pm-2am
The Menzingers Needle Vinyl Tavern Oct. 4, 8 pm $20 (adv)
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VENUEGUIDE THE ALMANAC 10351-82 Ave, 780.760.4567, almanaconwhyte. com ARIA'S BISTRO 10332-81 Ave, 780.972.4842, ariasbistro.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 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 1042582 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 BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 CAFE BLACKBIRD 9640-142 St NW, 780.451.8890, cafeblackbird.ca CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351118 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 COMMON 9910-109 St 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 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 THE FORGE ON WHYTE 1054982 Ave (Whyte Ave) GAS PUMP NIGHT CLUB & BAR 10166-114 St HAVE MERCY SOUTHERN TABLE + BAR 8232 Gateway Blvd, havemercy.ca HILLTOP PUB 8220-106 Ave NW HORIZON STAGE 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce Grove, 780.962.8995, horizonstage.com HOWARD JOHNSON HOTEL 15540 Stony Plain Road JUBILEE AUDITORIUM 1145587 Ave NW, 780.427.2760, jubileeauditorium.com LA CITE FRANCOPHONE 8627-91 St L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 THE LEAF 9016-132 Ave MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH 10086 MacDonald Dr NW, mcdougallunited.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 MILL CREEK CAFE 9562-82 Ave NW
NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN 10524 Jasper Ave, 780.756.9045, theneedle.ca NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave NORTHLANDS COLISEUM 7424-118 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 THE PROVINCIAL PUB 160, 4211-106 St ROGERS PLACE 10214-104 Ave NW 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
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 10545-81 Ave TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 TIRAMISU 10750-124 St TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH 10014-81 Ave NW, 780.433.1604, trinity-lutheran. ab.ca 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 WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WOODRACK CAFE 7603-109 St, 780. 757.0380, thewoodrackcafe. com Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428
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ABSTRACTION IMAGES • Call Kashmir for location • 780.482.4279 (call in the morning) • If you like to work with abstract images, come share your work and related words • Last Thu of every month, 7:30pm • Free
AIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue, Thu; 7-9pm ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING FOR ELOPE MUSICAL THEATRE • The Playhouse, 10033-80
COMEDY BIG ROCK PRESENTS: DEVANEY’S COMEDY NIGHT • Devaney's, 11113-87 Ave • 780.433.6364 • stephen.f.mcgovern@gmail.com • Weekly open-mic hosted by Stephen McGovern • Sep 6-Apr 25, Every Wed, 8:30pm • Free
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE • 10425-82 Ave • Underdog Comedy Show • Every Thu
COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Thu-Fri: 8pm; Sat: 7:30pm & 10pm (until Apr) • Marvin Krawczyk; Sep 28-30 • Dar Germin; Oct 5-7
COMEDY ON THE ROCKS • On the Rocks, 11740 Jasper Ave • A weekly comedy show featuring rotating headliners and more • Every Sun, 7-8:45pm
COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Matt Iseman; Sep 28-Oct 1 • Preacher Lawson; Oct 5-8
EMPRESS ALE HOUSE • 9912-82 Ave • Empress Comedy Night: Highlighting the best stand-up Edmonton has to offer. New headliner every week • Every Sun, 9pm • Free
SUPPERTIME COMEDY! • Woodrack Café, 7603-109 St • amanda@thewoodrackcafe.com • thewoodrackcafe.com • Hosted by Daniel Marshall • Sep 28, 7-8:30pm • Free
Ave • Open to all, voting rights to members and memberships available • Sep 30, 7pm • All welcome
THE CARROT COFFEE FRIENDSHIP CLUB • Carrot Coffeehouse, 9351-118 Ave • 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
COFFEE WITH COPS • Carrot Coffeehouse, 9351-118 Ave • Edmonton Police Service invites the community to an open discussion • 1st Tue of every month, 10-11am
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, undereating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm
Bannock & Borscht Shumka Dance Centre Sept. 30 - Oct. 1 10 am - 5 pm Free
Saskatchewan • 780.907.0201 (Brenda) • A mixed group offering conversation and friendship • Every Sun, 2pm
LGNYEG • Happy Harbor Comics, 10729-104 Ave NW • happyharborcomics.com • Events may include guest speakers, movie nights, board game nights, video game nights and much more • First Thu of the month, 7-9pm • Free
LOTUS QIGONG • SAGE downtown 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.695.4588 • Attendees can raise their vital energy with a weekly Yixue practice • Every Fri, 2-3:30pm • Free 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)
MONTHLY MEDITATION AND VEGAN BRUNCH • Padmanadi Vegetarian Restaurant, 10740-101 St • info@vofa.ca • bit.ly/2hO97nq • First Sat of every month, 9am-12pm • Free (confirm via Facebook or email)
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)
GROUPS/CLUBS/ MEETINGS
FORT SASKATCHEWAN 45+ SINGLES COFFEE GROUP • A&W, 10101-88 Ave, Fort
NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-106 St • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm
ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey 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
SEEING IS ABOVE ALL • Acacia Hall, 10433-83 Ave NW • 780.554.6133 • Instruction into the meditation on the Inner Light. Learn a simple technique that will lift you above life's stresses • Every Sun, 5pm • Free
SEVENTIES FOREVER MUSIC SOCIETY • Call 587.520.3833 for location • deepsoul. ca • Combining music, garage sales, nature, common sense, and kindred karma to revitalize the inward persona • Every Wed, 7-8:30pm
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Volunteers Wanted
Become a Volunteer Advocate and provide assistance to victims of crime and trauma in Strathcona County! Call Teddi at (780) 449-0153. Call for volunteers Edmonton International Film Festival The Edmonton International Film Festival (EIFF) is looking for volunteers to help make our festival success! Please go to edmontonfilmfest.com/volunteer/ to download the application form and apply.
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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
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CONNECTIVITY: HEALTHY CITY LECTURE, WORKSHOP, AND WALK • Robbins Health Learning Centre, MacEwan University, 10810-104 Ave • christian@cqsquared.com • An event designed to engage Edmontonians on their opinions on the state of our communities with regard to health and well-being, and an exploration of how we can increase positive connections within our city • Sep 30, 9:30am-3:30pm • Free (RSVP via Eventbrite)
GREAT EXPEDITIONS TRAVEL SLIDE • St. Luke’s Anglican Church, 84240-95 Ave • 780.469.3270 (Gerry Staring), 780.435.6406 (John Woollard), 780.454.6216 (Sylvia Krogh) • Israel & Palestine (Oct 2) • First Mon of the month, 7:30pm • $3 donation (guests are asked to bring snacks to share); everyone welcome LANGUAGE OF PALESTINIAN TATREEZ • Edmonton Clinic Health Academy (ECHA) Room 2-190, 114 St & 87 Ave, U of A • Decoding and discussing the meaning and history of traditional tatreez embroidery patterns • Sep 29, 7-9pm • Free LET'S BE CANDID: AN INFILL Q+A WITH #YEGVOTE CANDIDATES • Hyatt Place Edmonton/Downtown, 9576 Jasper Ave • mariah@ infilledmonton.com • A come-and-go candidate forum focused exclusively on infill • Sep 28, 5-8pm • Free
OUR FABULOUS FOREST • Telus World of Science, 11211-142 St • Learn about forest fires, climate change impacts, the many uses of Canadian wood, super soils, remote sensing with drones, forest bugs (the good the bad and the ugly!), and much more • Sep 30, 11am-3pm • Included with admission to Telus World of Science
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AFFIRM GROUP • garysdeskcom@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 EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220-103 St • 780.424.0077 • yourgaybar.com • Mon: Drag Race in the White Room; 7pm • Wed: Monthly games night/trivia • Thu: Happy hour, 6-8pm; Karaoke, 7-12:30am • Fri: Flashback Friday with your favourite hits of the 80s/90s/2000s; rotating drag and burlesque events • Sat: Rotating DJs Velix and Suco • Sun: Weekly drag show, 10:30pm G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E Bldg, main floor Cafe, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.4235510 (Sage) • tuff69@telus.net • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Tue, 1-4pm
PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • pridecentreofedmonton.org/calendar.html • 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 • MEN’S SOCIAL CIRCLE: (18+)
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TEAM EDMONTON • Various sports and recreation activities • teamedmonton.ca • Bootcamp: Garneau School, 10925-87 Ave; Most Mon, 7-8pm • SWIMMING: NAIT Swimming Pool, 11665-109 St; Every Tue, 7:30-8:30pm and every Thu, 7-8pm • WATER POLO: NAIT Swimming Pool, 11665-109 St; Every Tue, 8:30-9:30pm • YOGA: New Lion's Breath Yoga Studio, #301,10534-124 St; Every Wed, 7:30-9pm • TAEKWONDO: near the Royal Gardens Community Centre, 4030-117 St; Contact for specific times • ABS: Parkallen Community League Hall, 6510-111 St; Every Tue, 6-7pm and Thu, 7:15-8:15pm • DODGEBALL: Royal Alexandra Hospital Gymnasium; Every Sun, 5-7pm • RUNNING: meet at Kinsmen main entrance; Every Sun, 10am • SPIN: Blitz Conditioning, 10575-115 St; Every Tue, 7-8pm• VOLLEYBALL: Stratford Elementary School, 8715-153 St; Every Fri, 7-9 • MEDITATION: Edmonton Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave; 3rd Thu of every month, 5:30-6:15pm • 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 25TH TIBETAN BAZAAR • Alberta Avenue Community League Hall, 9210-118 Ave • 780.479.0014 • info@gasamling.ca • gasamling.ca • A unique celebration of the Tibetan culture. Attendees can shop in the Himalayan market, sample delicious Tibetan food, receive instruction in meditation from a Tibetan monk and more • Sep 30-Oct 1, 10am-5pm • $5
BANNOCK & BORSCHT • Shumka Dance Centre, 10515-111 St • shumka.com • A community event celebrating Aboriginal & Ukrainian cultures. Featuring food, music, dance, crafts and displays. A special dance presentation of Ancestors and Elders will also be performed • Sep 30-Oct 1, 10am-5pm • Free
CELEBRATE CULTURE DAYS AT RUTHERFORD HOUSE • Rutherford House Provincial Historic Site, 11153 Saskatchewan Drive • rutherfordhouse@ gov.ab.ca • rutherfordhousehistoricsite.org • Enjoy paintings, drawings, photographs and prints displayed around the house • Sep 29, 12-4pm • Free
EMERALD DAY: EDMONTON • Louise McKinney Park, 9999 Grierson Hill Rd NW • gregory@ emeraldfoundation.ca • emeraldfoundation.ca • A day of environmental inspiration. Featuring a tree planting activity with Emerald Award recipient Roots for Trees, and more • Sep 30, 9am-5pm E-VILLE ROLLER DERBY PRESENTS: LIVING DEAD VS BOOM • Edmonton Sports Dome, 10104-32 Ave • e-villerollerderby.com • Sep 30, 6-9pm • $10 (adv, Mars & Venus or BrownPaperTickets.com), $15 (door); Kids 10 and under receive free admission
FOLK ART RETREAT AND UKRAINIAN FOLK AND CULTURAL FAIR • Carvel Hall, 52511 SH 770, Carvel • 780.488.8558 • info@acuarts. ca • acuarts.ca • Celebrating Alberta Culture Days and Canada’s 150th birthday. Featuring folk art workshops, art projects and more • Sep 30, 9:30am-4pm
LEAF EDMONTON PERSONS DAY BREAKFAST • Westin Edmonton, 10135-100 St NW • edmonton@leaf.ca • bit.ly/2fE1BKr • To help LEAF continue its mission of advancing substantive equality for women and girls in Canada • Oct 3, 7:30-9am • $65, $30 (student/senior/low-income)
LUNCHTIME LULLABIES • Main Floor Atrium of Enterprise Square, 10230 Jasper Ave • A multicultural showcase of soothing songs for children and babies brings together Cree lullabies, African folk songs, and opera. A free art exhibit, sample some bannock and more will take place • Sep 29, 11am-2pm • Free (part of Alberta Culture Days; tickets at Eventbrite)
PEER CONNECTIONS CRAFT SALE • University of Alberta Hospital Foyer • 780.414.6302 • Handmade items created by people with lived experience of mental illness or a mental health challenge. Proceeds go towards purchasing supplies for activity groups • Oct 4-6, 9:30am-4:30pm
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FREEWILLASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Conceptual artist Jonathon Keats likes to play along with the music of nature. On one occasion he collaborated with Mandeville Creek in Montana. He listened and studied the melodies that emanated from its flowing current. Then he moved around some of the underwater rocks, subtly changing the creek’s song. Your assignment, Aries, is to experiment with equally imaginative and exotic collaborations. The coming weeks will be a time when you can make beautiful music together with anyone or anything that tickles your imagination.
to overflow ... to surrender to the vitalizing pleasures of nonrational joy ... to grant love the permission to bless you and confound you with its unruly truths. For inspiration, read this excerpt of a poem by Caitlyn Siehl. “My love is honey tongue. Thirsty love. My love is peach juice dripping down the neck. Too much sugar love. Sticky sweet, sticky sweat love. My love can’t ride a bike. My love walks everywhere. Wanders through the river. Feeds the fish, skips the stones. Barefoot love. My love stretches itself out on the grass, kisses a nectarine. My love is never waiting. My love is a traveler.”
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Some newspapers publish regular rectifications of the mistakes they’ve made in past editions. For example, the editors of the UK publication The Guardian once apologized to readers for a mistaken statement about Richard Wagner. They said that when the 19th-century German composer had trysts with his chambermaid, he did not in fact ask her to wear purple underpants, as previously reported. They were ‘pink’ underpants. I tell you this, Taurus, as encouragement to engage in corrective meditations yourself. Before bedtime on the next ten nights, scan the day’s events and identify any actions you might have done differently —perhaps with more integrity or focus or creativity. This will have a deeply tonic effect. You are in a phase of your astrological cycle when you’ll flourish as you make amendments and revisions.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): One of the oldest houses in Northern Europe is called the Knap of Howar. Built out of stone around 3,600 B.C., it faces the wild sea on Papa Westray, an island off the northern coast of Scotland. Although no one has lived there for 5,000 years, some of its stone furniture remains intact. Places like this will have a symbolic power for you in the coming weeks, Cancerian. They’ll tease your imagination and provoke worthwhile fantasies. Why? Because the past will be calling to you more than usual. The old days and old ways will have secrets to reveal and stories to teach. Listen with alert discernment.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): It’s high time to allow your yearnings
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The United States has a bizarre system for electing its president. There’s nothing like it in any other democratic nation on earth. Every four years, the winning candidate needs only to win the electoral college, not the popular vote. So theoretically, it’s
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possible to garner just 23 percent of all votes actually cast, and yet still ascend to the most powerful political position in the world. For example, in two of the last five elections, the new chief of state has received significantly fewer votes than his main competitor. I suspect that you may soon benefit from a comparable anomaly, Leo. You’ll be able to claim victory on a technicality. Your effort may be “ugly,” yet good enough to succeed. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I found this advertisement for a workshop: “You will learn to do the incredible. Smash bricks with your bare hands! Walk on fiery coals unscathed! Leap safely off a roof! No broken bones! No cuts! No pain! Accomplish the impossible first! Then everything else will be a breeze!” I bring this to your attention, Virgo, not because I think you should sign up for this class or anything like it. I hope you don’t. In fact, a very different approach is preferable for you: I recommend that you start with safe, manageable tasks. Master the simple details and practical actions. Work on achieving easy, low-risk victories. In this way, you’ll prepare yourself for more epic efforts in the future. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Be realistic, Libra: Demand the impossible; expect inspiration; visualize yourself being able to express yourself more completely and vividly than you ever have before. Believe me when I tell you that you now have extra power to develop your sleeping potentials, and are capable of accomplishing feats that might seem like miracles. You are braver than you know, as
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sexy as you need to be, and wiser than you were two months ago. I am not exaggerating, nor am I flattering you. It’s time for you to start making your move to the next level. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you to take extra good care of yourself during the next three weeks. Do whatever it takes to feel safe and protected and resilient. Ask for the support you need, and if the people whose help you solicit can’t or won’t give it to you, seek elsewhere. Provide your body with more than the usual amount of healthy food, deep sleep, tender touch, and enlivening movement. Go see a psychotherapist or counselor or good listener every single day if you want. And don’t you dare apologize or feel guilty for being such a connoisseur of selfrespect and self-healing. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A queen bee may keep mating until she gathers 70 million sperm from many different drones. When composing my horoscopes, I aim to cultivate a metaphorically comparable receptivity. Long ago I realized that all of creation is speaking to me all the time; I recognized that everyone I encounter is potentially a muse or teacher. If I hope to rustle up the oracles that are precisely suitable for your needs, I have to be alert to the possibility that they may arrive from unexpected directions and surprising sources. Can you handle being that open to influence, Sagittarius? Now is a favorable time to expand your capacity to be fertilized. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You’re approaching a rendezvous with prime time. Any minute now
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you could receive an invitation to live up to your hype or fulfill your promises to yourself—or both. This test is likely to involve an edgy challenge that is both fun and daunting, both liberating and exacting. It will have the potential to either steal a bit of your soul or else heal an ache in your soul. To ensure the healing occurs rather than the stealing, do your best to understand why the difficulty and the pleasure are both essential. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 1901, physician Duncan MacDougall carried out experiments that led him to conclude that the average human soul weighs 21 grams. Does his claim have any merit? That question is beyond my level of expertise. But if he was right, then I’m pretty sure your soul has bulked up to at least 42 grams in the past few weeks. The work you’ve been doing to refine and cultivate your inner state has been heroic. It’s like you’ve been ingesting a healthy version of soul-building steroids. Congrats! PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): There are enough authorities, experts, and know-it-alls out there trying to tell you what to think and do. In accordance with current astrological factors, I urge you to utterly ignore them during the next two weeks. And do it gleefully, not angrily. Exult in the power that this declaration of independence gives you to trust your own assessments and heed your own intuitions. Furthermore, regard your rebellion as good practice for dealing with the little voices in your head that speak for those authorities, experts, and know-it-alls. Rise up and reject their shaming and criticism, too. Shield yourself from their fearful fantasies. V at the back 19
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I’ve been on the dating apps a while. What’s up with serial first daters?
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Back when people primarily met at parties, bars, clubs, etc., we established baseline physical/chemical attraction before learning someone’s name and long before a first date. (We eyeballed ’em, we said hello, we made a moment’s small talk.) With apps, however, we can’t establish baseline physical/chemical attraction until our first face-to-face meeting—until after that “first date,” which itself comes after we’ve swapped flirty messages, sent additional pics, and made a plan to meet. Since apps mean more “first dates,” it feels like we’re meeting a lot more “serial first daters” these days. We aren’t—it’s just that now we have to meet up with people to eyeball ’em, say hello, and make small talk. Don’t think of that first meeting with someone you met via an app as a “first date,” think of it as the pre-interview before the first date.
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CHEATS
My best friend is in a relationship with a really jealous, controlling guy. He guilt-trips her constantly and gets passive-aggressively mad whenever she tries to hang out with people besides him. When she complains about him, I want to say fuck him, he’s a dick, except… she’s having a full-on affair with another guy and seems not to feel bad about it! I don’t know what advice to give or how to make sense of the situation. What’s my responsibility to her? To her boyfriend? Maybe your best friend’s boyfriend is jealous and controlling because he senses—or because he knows—his girlfriend is cheating on him. Or maybe it didn’t occur to your best friend to cheat on her boyfriend until after he accused her of cheating for the millionth time—maybe she figured she might as well commit the crime since she was already being punished for it. Or maybe they’re both terrible people who deserve each other and neither is your responsibility.
PDA-AWAY
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little is okay. He feels it shouldn’t happen, as it may make people uncomfortable. Thoughts? I think this is something you and your opposite-sex partner should discuss over drinks in one of the thousands of straight bars in the San Francisco Bay Area.
THE KNOT
I feel like all my friends resent me for getting married. How do I make them feel less insecure about my new relationship? Ask yourself which is likelier: All of your friends—every single one of them—are so petty and insecure that they resent you for getting married or you were a megalomaniacal bride-or-groom-or-nonbinary-zilla and behaved so atrociously that you managed to piss off all your friends? If it’s the (less likely) former, make better friends. If it’s the (more likely) latter, make amends.
PINK RIOT
My brother’s fiancée told my mom that she doesn’t like my mom’s usual lipstick color and asked my mom to wear a shade she picked out for the wedding. My mom is 75 and wears cute pink lipstick. Is it wrong if both my mom and I wear the pink in solidarity? You should absolutely wear your mom’s shade in solidarity—and send me a pic of you two at the wedding, please! (Hey, person who asked the previous question, did you pull this kind of shit? Did you order your friends around the way this woman’s future DIL is ordering her around?)
RUNAWAY
Since my man and I got engaged, we’ve been fighting about wedding planning. We never fought until now. How can we move forward with the wedding without ruining our relationship? Best sex of my life, BTW. Elope. For your own sake, for the sake of friends and family members who will inevitably be sucked into your conflict about your wedding plans, for the sake of all that excellent sex … just fucking elope.
TOO SOON?
We are two lesbians in our 20s and ready to start a family. Will you be our sperm donor? Nope!
BLOW THE BUZZ
You’ve recommended marijuana to help women have better sex. I’ve tried it, but I often get so high that time seems to fracture. When that happens, I worry I’m missing orgasms. What should I do? Less!
GANJA LUBE
I want to try the new cannabis lubes. Should I tell my girlfriend first or just do it? It’s expensive, and I’m afraid she’ll say no since she doesn’t smoke the ganja.
Dan Savage savagelove@vueweekly.com Do not dose your girlfriend without her consent. If it’s smoke she doesn’t like, ask her how she feels about experimenting with pot edibles and spreadables. And if the answer is no, the answer is no. Spiking your girlfriend’s twat with pot lube without her consent is not an option—it would be an unforgivable and very likely criminal violation of her bodily autonomy. DO NOT DO IT.
BATSHIT KIDS
You are always talking about adult children coming out to their fundamentalist parents about being queer, poly, kinky, etc. But how should older adults handle coming out to their batshit fundamentalist adult kids, especially when these kids control access to grandchildren? Just as an adult child’s presence is their only leverage over their parents, your presence is your only leverage over your adult children. (Unless you’re sitting on a large family fortune, of course, and you can threaten them with disinheritance.) And just as queer kids are sometimes forced to lie to their parents—they sometimes have to tell hateful parents what they want to hear in order to avoid being cut off or thrown out—you may have to tell your kids what they want to hear (or not tell them what they don’t want to hear) in order to avoid being cut out of your grandchildren’s lives. It sucks, and I’m sorry—but once your grandchildren are grown, you can say whatever you like and tell your batshit fundamentalist adult kids to go fuck themselves.
WORK PROBLEMS
When is the best time to tell my married, ostensibly straight coworker that I want to have sexy gay times with his bubble butt? Hmm … maybe once you’ve updated your résumé, seeing as your gay trouble butt may get fired after you grab his straight bubble butt?
JUST DO IT
What are some ways to overcome shyness and tell your partner what you want? Think how soon you’ll be dead (soon!) and how long you’re gonna stay dead once you’re dead (forever!). Then tell your partner everything. Do it in an e-mail if you can’t do it face-to-face— but do it! Donald Trump is president and we could all be dead tomorrow. Don’t delay! Thanks to everyone who came out to the sold-out show in San Francisco. Savage Love Live is coming to Minneapolis, Minnesota, on October 6; Madison, Wisconsin, on October 7; and Royal Oak, Michigan, on October 8. For ticket info, go to facebook.com/ dansavage. On the Lovecast, Eli Finkel, author of The All-or-Nothing Marriage: savagelovecast.com. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter ITMFA.org
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