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couple of weeks ago federal environment minister Catherine McKenna told CTV’s Evan Solomon that the Liberal government would not be setting new targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, opting instead to keep the targets that had been set by the Stephan Harper's Conservative government.

McKenna’s announcement was, not unexpectedly, met by a significant amount of anger and criticism from many of Canada’s environmental organizations and activists. This was, after all, the same party that spent years in opposition criticizing the Harper targets as inadequate, and the same minister who insisted her government saw those previous targets as a 'floor' that they would undoubtedly improve upon.

These criticisms of McKenna’s decision are, of course, all valid: especially given the rhetoric from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at numerous domestic and international conferences and photo ops insisting that Canada was entering a new era of climate responsibility and “bold action” on emissions.

The thing about emissions reduction targets in general, however, is that they have historically not really amounted to anything in Canada. Every set of targets established nationally by Liberals and Conservatives alike has resulted in absolutely zero action and no actual emissions reductions whatsoever.

In that context, the fact that Liberals decided to forego one more high profile announcement and photo op to announce a new more ambitious set of targets that they had no intention of meeting was somewhat refreshing.

According to a recent report by the Climate Action Network, we are currently on a trajectory to blow right past even Harper’s modest targets for 2030 by some 91 megatonnes of emissions. To put that number in perspective, Canada’s entire electricity sector emits 78.2 megatonnes of emissions annually.

Given that reality, the question Canadians should be asking is not why Trudeau did not set more ambitious targets, but rather whether he is prepared to take the truly bold actions necessary to meet the targets he has inherited.

Trudeau has suggested that his forthcoming national climate strategy will, at the very least, contain some form of national carbon pricing mechanism that will be negotiated with the provinces. A national price on carbon, whether in the form of a carbon tax or a cap-andtrade system, is long overdue and would be a welcome first step.

There has been no other hint or mention, however, of what else might be in the climate strategy,

and a carbon price alone will not bring us anywhere near to meeting our targets.

After more than 20 years of setting targets and doing absolutely nothing to meet them, we as a country are woefully behind. Nothing short of fairly drastic action will get us there—the kind of drastic action that Trudeau does not appear willing to even consider or acknowledge, much less implement.

There have been rumours circulating for the last few weeks now, for example, that Trudeau is all but ready to sign off on the controversial Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. This expansion would nearly triple the amount of Alberta oil produced and shipped west to Vancouver. Both Trudeau and Alberta’s Rachel Notley suggest that projects like these are necessary for national economic prosperity. That may or may not be the case.

What is unquestionably the case, however, is that the approval and construction of Kinder Morgan, or any other pipeline for that matter, is absolutely incompatible with the goal of meeting the existing emissions reductions targets. This is laid out clearly in a number of recent reports including one last spring by the Parkland Institute, CCPA and the University of Victoria, and a new one released just a few days ago by Oil Change International. The data shows unequivocally that there is no way we can build even one new pipeline and expand the oil sands accordingly while meeting our reduction targets.

In the end, McKenna and Trudeau are both right that targets are far less meaningful than the actions taken to meet them. The question is: are they prepared to take the action necessary to actually meet their targets? Recent history would suggest they are not. V Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta. The views and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Institute.

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And although all the countries in the United Nations General Assembly have equal rights, some are more equal than others.

Ban Ki-moon retires at the end of this year, and it’s time for the United Nations to choose a new SecretaryGeneral. By the end of this year’s session of the General Assembly in early October, we will know who it is. Which raises two questions: how do they make the choice, and why should anybody care?

The secretary-general of the United Nations is, in some senses, the highest official on the planet, but the selection process is hardly democratic.

In fact, it has traditionally been a process as shrouded in secrecy as a papal conclave.

It is the Security Council’s fifteen members who pick the candidate, although all 192 members of the General Assembly then get to vote on their choice. And even on the Security Council, it’s only the views of the five permanent members (the P5) that really count, because each of the five great powers has a veto and the others don’t.

This is why people with strong opinions and a record of taking decisive action don’t get the job. That sort of person would be bound to annoy one of the P5 great powers—Russia, Britain, China, France and the United States—or even all of them one after the other, so the entire system is designed to prevent a maverick with big ideas from slipping through.

The secretary-general must never come from one of the great powers (that might give him access to enough resources to make a nuisance of himself), and the successful candidate should not be charismatic.

The final choice is usually a “safe pair of hands,” some blameless diplomat from a middle or smaller power like the incumbent, a career diplomat from South Korea who ranks 32nd on the Forbes list of The World's Most Powerful People.

Candidates therefore tend to be relative unknowns. If you look through the current list of candidates, for example, the only two names you might recognise, even if you are a political junkie, are former New Zealand prime minister, Helen Clark, now Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, and Antonio Guterres, former prime minister of Portugal and later UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

But who is Irina Bokova, Natalia Gherman, or Igor Luksic? They are, in that order, a former acting foreign minister of Bulgaria, the current foreign minister of Moldova, and a former foreign minister of Montenegro.

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but you still didn’t know her name, did you?

Why so many Eastern Europeans (eight of the twelve candidates come from that region)? Because it’s Eastern Europe’s “turn” this time.

That region always missed out until the end of the Cold War, because the countries of Eastern Europe were effectively under Soviet control and therefore contravened the unwritten “no sec-gen from a great power” rule.

You might also ask why Eastern Europe is a whole separate region at all, given that its total population from Poland to Bulgaria is less than the population of Bangladesh, Brazil, Indonesia or Pakistan. Same reason: it used to be seen as a separate region because it was occupied by Soviet troops and most of its governments were ultimately controlled from Moscow. History looms very large at the UN. There is some progress. Half of this year’s candidates are female, and there is a strong feeling around the UN that it is high time for a woman to become secretary-general. There is also an attempt this time to make the process more “transparent,” but it is otherwise unchanged. The Security Council still comes up with a single candidate who doesn’t offend any of the great powers, and the General Assembly then rubberstamps its choice.

It’s basically a civil service job, suitable for persons of cautious disposition. How could it be otherwise? You only get what you pay for, and no great power is yet ready to pay the price in terms of its own sovereignty of having a powerful independent leader at the United Nations.

What would be the point of choosing such a leader anyway, so long as the UN has no military forces or financial resources of its own? It would only lead to frustration: the secretary-general can’t act independently of the will of the great powers because they designed it that way.

The job is still worth doing, and there is never a shortage of applicants. The secretary-general can speak out as the conscience of the world when there are massive violations of human rights, and once in a while she can actually organize a peace-keeping mission to stop the horrors (if all the great powers agree).

And she becomes, by virtue of her position, the most striking symbol of that more cooperative, less violent world that most politicians, diplomats and ordinary citizens actually aspire to. But we are still a very long way from the promised land.. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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ow do you spell ‘perogies’? Sorry, ‘pyrohy.’ ‘Pierogi’? It depends on whether your heritage is Russian or Ukrainian, Polish or Mennonite. It depends on whether the perogies you’re most familiar with come from the frozen foods section or from your Oma’s kitchen. In Edmonton, it depends on how the billboard for your local perogysupper-hosting church or community centre spells it.

According to Susanna Brytan, who organizes the perogy suppers at the St. John’s Institute, the correct term for boiled (not baked) potato-dough dumplings is actually ‘varenyky.’

“But if we put that on our billboard,” she says, “no one would no what we were talking about!”

(For the sake of simplicity, we'll use perogy from now on.)

Though it’s become a widespread tradition enjoyed by Edmontonians of diverse backgrounds, the perogy supper is not such a simple matter.

At St. John’s Institute, they’ve been hosting their perogy suppers since 2011, when the new building opened to the public. Though the institute has existed for over 50 years, Brytan says, the group wasn't very visible or engaged. Its reopening came with a new mandate to develop a stronger presence in the surrounding community, and perogy suppers became an important part of that endeavour. These days, Brytan expects around 120 people to show up for each

of the Institute’s twice-monthly events.

“Perogies are more of a big deal than we thought,” she says.

(Perogy suppers at St. John’s happen on Tuesdays to avoid a conflict of interest for anyone wanting to avoid eating meat on Fridays as per their cultural or religious dietary restrictions—but also wanting garlic sausage.)

Meanwhile, at St. Andrew’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church, an average perogy supper brings in 300 people from all over the city.

Though he passed on the torch a few months ago, Marshall was a volunteer coordinator for St. Andrew’s perogy suppers for 10 years. (The older man declined giving his last name—twice— with no explanation, but he was contacted through the church.)

St. Andrew’s has a supper every first Friday of the month, and each event is run by 25 volunteers. About 40 people get together once a month to “pinch” the St. Andrew’s homemade perogies by hand. “It’s a half-day affair,” he says; approximately three thousand perogy need to be prepared for a single supper.

The fixings and side dishes St. Andrew’s serves alongside their perogy are also homemade, including sausage, fried onions, coleslaw, rice pudding, and fruit crisps.

At St. John’s, only specialty perogy filled by request are made on-site, but the bulk of the perogy served at the Institute come from Baba Jenny’s Ukrai-

nian Foods, an independent Edmonton business. Like St. Andrew’s, St. John’s makes all it’s perogy-supporting dishes from scratch—desserts, salad, roasted potatoes, garlic sausage, caramelized onions, and real bacon bits. “Some people from the Ukraine don’t know what fake bacon is,” Brytan says. “The cardiac paddles come out after the meal.”

Joking aside, perogy suppers have a long and important history in Alberta.

“Perogies were a staple for the influx of Ukrainians into Canada,” Marshall says, and German, Russian, and Polish immigrants also made and ate perogies in copious volumes. Today, perogy suppers are still a staple of many communities. They take place year-round in Edmonton, even though many people associate them with fall—perhaps because communal meals at other times of the year have become so unusual.

“They started off as fundraisers,” Marshall notes, though he says that St. Andrew’s events do little more than break even these days. Brytan agrees.

“It’s been said that lots of churches and parish halls were built on perogies.” At St. John’s, perogy suppers bring in some money for the Institute, but they also serve as publicity.

In fact, St. John’s is becoming steadily better known for their perogy. The institute was part of six festivals this summer, including Taste of Edmonton and Bacon Fest, and they’ve been asked to take part in Heritage Festival next year.

And soon Edmontonians might not need to wait even two weeks between perogy fixes; Brytan says St. John’s is also looking forward to applying for restaurant zoning for their dining room.

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Perogy suppers around the city: St. John’s Institute: twice a month on Tuesdays http://www.stjohnsinstitute.com/ food/perogy-supper/ St. Andrew’s Ukrainian church: every first Friday of the month (except January, July, August) http://uocc-standrew.ca/events.asp Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral of St. John the Baptist: at least once a month, irregular Fridays http://uocc-stjohn.ca/events/ St. Basil the Great Ukrainian Catholic parish: see current calendar http://stbasilschurch.com/Current_ Calendar.pdf St. Josaphat Cathedral: see current calendar http://stjosaphat.ab.ca/newsevents/calendar/

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Try out beginner ballet, contemporary, pow wow, house and Cuban salsa wheel. Visit milezerodance.com for a detailed schedule of events. (Spazio Performativo [10816 –95 St], free) Pajama Jam 2016 / Sat, Oct 1 (6 pm) It’s not often that you can wear your favourite PJs outside of your home, but at this fundraising event, which raises money for CRIPSiE, you’re not only allowed to wear it but encouraged. Come in your PJs and bed head and en-

joy a cereal bar, cash bar, Nina Haggerty print making crafts, silent auction, silent videos on loop, child-friendly stories, dance party and more. There will be pizza too, because a pijama party isn’t complete without pizza! (Latitude 53, $10 suggested donation) Camsell Film Screening / Mon, Oct 3 (6 pm) If you’re from Edmonton, you’d have heard the stories about the now defunct Charles Camsell Hospital. Now the hospital is center stage in this short documentary produced by the Edmonton Heritage Council, which explores the many stories and perspectives of the hospital. Following the film, there will be a panel discussion on reconciliation and Camsell with some of those interviewed for the film, including former hospital patients and staff. (Stanley Milner Library, free) The Media Challenge / Wed, Oct 5 (7:30 pm) Local media personalities—from TV, radio, print, and social media—will make you laugh as they attempt stand-up comedy for the first (or second) time. Each persona has five-minutes on stage to woo the judges for a trophy prize and bragging rights.(ATB Financial Art Barns, $21)

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“We’ve been talking about it for a long time,” says festival co-founder Morgan Nadeau. “Just over a year ago we decided to start.”

It has been a nonstop focus ever since.

While the festival may be new to Edmonton, clowning is not. The capital city is home to some of the most prolific clown personalities including Michael Kennard (Mump of Mump and Smoot) and Jan Henderson. They, along with import Deanna Fleysher and Nadeau herself, will host a panel discussion that has Nadeau very excited.

“To say that I’m speaking on a panel with these people is amazing,” she says. “Jan and Mike trained with Richard Pochinko (late Canadian clown pioneer). It’s intense. They know what they are doing. They've been doing it their whole lives. We are really lucky to

have those two in Edmonton.”

Nadeau, who also runs Fool Spectrum Theatre (a not-for-profit clown theatre production company), is astounded by the strength of clown culture in Edmonton. While running clown cabarets throughout the city, she says she was never at a loss for acts.

But, of course, with all new things there were some hiccups along the way.

“Funding was tough,” Nadeau acknowledged. “As a new festival, we don’t have the credibility yet, so it is hard to get donations and grants. We ended up in the black though. We just learned the other day that we are just in the black.”

As well as a cacophony of shows (which includes pieces from all over North America) those attending can take part in clowning intensives, the aforementioned panel discussion, cabarets and more. This is something Nadeau takes pride in. Not only is it entertainment, it also educates those who might not be knowledgeable of

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EDMONTON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL • Royal Alberta Museum Theatre, 12845-102 Ave • esff.ca • Experiencing the best in Alberta short film • Oct 1, 6pm (doors) FAMILY FUN FILM FESTIVAL • Royal Alberta Museum Theatre, 12845-102 Ave • esff.ca • Families can come and enjoy an afternoon of family-friendly films.

During the intermission, in a carnival atmosphere, kids can have their faces painted, kids and families can shoot their own micro-short video in front of a green screen and more • Oct 2, 2pm (doors); 2:30pm (screening begins)

FROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley A. Milner, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • Films adapted from books every Fri afternoon at 2pm • Sched-

ule: Frost/Nixon (Sep 30)

GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park

GOTTA MINUTE FILM FESTIVAL • Stanley Milner

• 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • The Wild Party: artwork by Jason Carter; Sep 1-Oct 23

Library • gottaminutefilmfestival.com • Wait for it! Watch for it! For one week this fall, One Minute Silent Short Films will light up platform screens throughout the Edmonton Transit LRT system, bringing media art to Edmontonians ‘on the go’ • Sep 26-Oct 2

METRO • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • 780.425.9212 • Music Doc: AC/DC: Let There Be Rock (Oct 4) • REEL FAMILY CINEMA: Kubo and the Two Strings (Oct 1)

MOVIE NIGHT • McDougall United Church, 10086 Macdonald Drive (south entrance) • 780.428.1818 • mcdougallunited.com • Movies that are family friendly and always inspiring and entertaining. Popcorn and lemonade are available • Monthly, 7:30pm • Free

RADICAL REELS • Arden Theatre, 5 St Anne Street, St Albert • 780.459.1500 • ardentheatre.com • Huck-it!

Drop-it! Get stoked for this year’s presentation of the most outrageous films from the annual Banff Mountain Film Festival and beyond • Sep 29, 7:30pm • $20 (adult), $15 (student)

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS

GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl. ca/gallery-at-milner • On the Walls: Wallace Creations: Digital works by Elizabeth Wallace Reid; Sep 1-30 • In the Cases & cubes: Placement: Ceramic works by Terry Hildebrand; Sep 1-30

106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Crafting Conscience; Jul 9-Oct 1 • Transformation: Hooked Sculptures by Rachelle LeBlanc; Sep 10-Oct 15 • Mise en Scene: artwork by Triniruth Bautista and more; Oct 8-Dec 24; Reception: Oct 22, 2-4pm

JAKE'S GALLERY • 10441-123 St • karen@jakesframing.com • Sun and Earth: artwork by Jay Bigam; Sep 12-Oct 15

WALTERDALE THEATRE GALLERY • 10322-83

JEFF ALLEN ART GALLERY (JAAG) • Strathcona Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • Conversations with Nature: artwork by Charis Ng; Oct 3-Nov 2; Reception: Oct 5, 6:30-8:30pm

LATITUDE 53 • Latitude 53, 10242-106 St NW • latitude53.org • Ghost Dance: Artwork by Tony Stallard;

780.482.1204 • info@bearclawgallery.com • bearclawgallery.com • Nurturing the Spirit: New works in soapstone by Leo Arcand and Paintings by Jessica Desmoulin; Sep 24-Oct 6 • New Mixed Media Paintings

by Aaron Paquette and new Ceramic works by Dianne Meili; Oct 22-Nov 3 • New works by Jim Logan; Nov 5-17

BLEEDING HEART ART SPACE • 9132-118 Ave • dave@bleedingheartartspace.com • Artwork by Brandon Atkinson; Sep 10-Oct 15 • Open Walls Two; Oct 29-Nov 26 • Carly Greene; Dec 3-Jan 21 BOREALIS GALLERY LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY VISITOR CENTRE • 9820-107 St • 780.427.7362 • assembly.ab.ca/visitorcentre/borealis/CD1.html • Canada: Day 1: Explore first steps, first impressions and first experiences as a newcomer to Canada; Aug 27-Dec 4

Plain • multicentre.org • Pottery to Die For: artwork by the Parkland Potters Guild; Sep 25-Oct 28

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM • St Albert Place, 5 St Anne Street, St Albert • MuseeHeritage.ca • 780.459.1528 • museum@artsandheritage.ca • Weiller and Williams Co Ltd: Building a Livestock Empire: In 2015, the Musée Héritage Museum received a large donation of business and family items that had belonged to Leland Stanford (Lee) Williams, partner in one of Canada’s largest cattle-commission firms; Sep 20-Nov 13

PAINT SPOT • 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Naess Gallery: Emergent Life: paintings

by Twilla Coates & Ricardo Copado • Artisan Nook: Kaleidoscope: paintings by Sandie Kanak • Aug 30-Oct 11 PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper

(University of Alberta) • ualberta.ca/artshows • Graduate Design Group Show: A selection of work by students graduating with a Master of Design degree; Sep 20-Oct 22

FRONT GALLERY • 12323-104 Ave • thefrontgallery. com • Summer Salon III: group art show; Through Aug • Artwork by Matt Petley Jones: A solo show featuring work by Matt Petley Jones, an established landscape artist who uses bright gestural paint-strokes to capture unique Canadian landscapes; Sep 15-Oct 7 • Artwork

by Ira Hoffecker; Oct 14-Nov 10; Opening reception: Oct 14, 7-9pm

CRASH TO PAYWALL WITH BRIAN GORMAN • Strathcona County Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8600 • sclibrary.ca • Join Brian Gorman (communications professor, former journalist) for an analysis of what went wrong, what he sees as the future of journalism – and what all of this means for the media-consuming public • Sep 29, 7-8:30pm • Free (seating is limited, please register online, in person or call 780.410.8600)

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900 • Spoken Word Tuesdays: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathinpoetry@gmail.com

Park • 780.467.3038 • picturethisgallery.com • Terry Isaac; Sep 30-Oct 1 • The Great Fall Art Event: artwork

by Terry Isaac, Patrick Markle, Audrey Pfannmuller and more; Sep 15-Nov 15

PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES OF ALBERTA • 8555 Roper Road • PAA@gov.ab.ca • 780.427.1750 • culture. alberta.ca/paa/eventsandexhibits/default.aspx • Alberta Ballet & the Documentation of Performance: celebrating Alberta Ballet's 50th anniversary; Sep 1-Dec 17

REYNOLDS-ALBERTA MUSEUM • 642640 Ave, Wetaskiwin • 780.312.2065 • reynoldsalbertamuseum@gov.ab.ca • history.alberta. ca/reynolds • Stan Reynolds: The Original Canadian Picker - Exhibition: An exhibit that provides insight into Stan Reynolds and his love of history and preserving the past for future generations; Runs until Oct 11

THEATRE 11 O'CLOCK NUMBER • Venue TBA • grindstonetheatre.ca • This completely improvised musical comedy is based on the suggestions from the audience who will get to experience a brand new story unfold in front of them, complete with impromptu songs, dance breaks and show stopping numbers • Every Fri, starting Sep 30-Dec 9 & Jan 20-Jul 30, 11pm 10 OUT OF 12 • The Roxy on Gateway, 8529 Gateway Blvd • In this wry and engaging inside look at the makings of a play, the curtain is pulled back on a world unfamiliar to the public, yet very familiar to all practitioners of theatre – a technical rehearsal • Oct 4-16

BIG BOOM THEORY 3 : THE EARLY YEARS • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, #2690 8882-170 St • 780.484.2424 • infoedmonton@Jubilations.ca • edmonton.jubilations.ca • A day almost twenty years ago — Sheldon, Leonard, Bernadette and Penny all met each other, but didn’t know it. It’s not a Prequel…it’s a GEEKquel • Aug 26-Oct 23 (Wed-Sun) • $33.25-$77.95

BITTERGIRL: EDMONTON POETRY FESTIVAL THE MUSICAL • The Club, Citadel Theatre, 9828-101 A Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre.com • A howlingly funny musical on getting over getting dumped • Oct 4-30

CHIMPROV • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm • $12 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) • Until Jun

THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NiGht-tiMe • Shoctor Theatre, Citadel Theatre, 9828 101 A Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre.com • When a 15-year-old math genius with autism comes under suspicion for killing his neighbour’s dog, he decides to investigate the crime himself and makes some lifechanging discoveries • Sep 17-Oct 9

HUGO, THE SCAREDY-CAT CATERPILLAR • Arden Theatre, 5 St. Anne Street, St Albert • stalbert.ca/ exp/arden/events/hugo-the-scaredy-cat-caterpillar • Oct 4, 10:30-11:30am • $10 (adults), $5 (2yrs-17yrs), (under 2 is free)

MAESTRO • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • Rapid

Jasper Ave • Every Tue

Fire Theatre • Improv, a high-stakes game of elimination that will see 11 improvisers compete for audience approval until there is only one left standing • 1st Sat each month, 7:30-9:30pm • $12 (adv at rapidfiretheatre. com)/$15 (door)

SCRAMBLED YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St

SIMON AND GARFUNKEL STORY • Mayfield

ROUGE POETRY SLAM HOSTED BY BREATH IN POETRY COLLECTIVE • BLVD Supper x Club, 10765

• 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artists from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm

SON OF FRANCE WITH TODD BABIAK •

SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta Print-

FAB GALLERY • Fine Arts Building Gallery,1-1 FAB

AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave •

PICTURE THIS GALLERY • 959 Ordze Rd, Sherwood

cAVA GAllery • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 •

780.686.4211 • dc3artprojects.com • Storyland: artwork

by Tammy Salzl; Sep 9-Oct 15 • The Industry Show; Nov-Dec

Francophone 2nd Pavillon, #200, 8627 Rue Marie-AnneGaboury (91 St) • 780.803.2016 • info@wamsoc.ca • wamsoc.ca • Little Kitchens: artwork based on the kitchen; Oct 8-Nov 5; Opening reception: Oct 8, 2-4pm

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

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • scottgallery.com • Streamlight: Artwork by Lynn Malin; Sep 24-Oct 15 • Michael Matthews; Oct

DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St •

WOMEN'S ART MUSEUM OF CANADA • La Cité

Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Robert Christie; Sep 15-Oct 4 • And a Dark Wind Blows: Artwork by Steve Driscoll; Oct 14-Nov 1 • Holiday Group Show: artwork featuring Linda Lindemann; Dec 8-31, 11am-5pm

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 10345-124 St • bugeramathesongallery.com • Water Songs: artwork by Gisa Mayer; Sep 16-30 galeriecava.com • Members Art Exhibition: artwork by Jeannette Ouellette, Marc Neal, Françoise Fiset, Sarah Tam, Doris Charest and Patricia Trudeau; Sep 16-Oct 4 • Art Exhibition: Artwork by Claude Boocock, Zdenka Urmila Das, and more; Oct 7-25

780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • October Hues: artwork by Rod Charlesworth; Oct 1-13; Opening reception: Oct 1, 1-4pm

780.423.3487 • audreys.ca • Dawn Ius "Overdrive" Book Launch; Sep 29, 7-8:30pm • Tim Bowling "The Duende of Tetherball" Book Launch; Oct 7, 7-8:30pm

MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GALLERY (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony

BEAR CLAW GALLERY • 10403-124 St •

WEST END GALLERY • 10337-124 St •

MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston

St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • Reconstructions: artwork by Brenda Danbrook; Sep 1-Oct 29 • Art Ventures: Painting Landscape Reflections (Oct 15), 1-4pm; drop-in art program for children ages 6-12; $6/$5.40 (Arts & Heritage member) • Ageless Art: Oct 20, 1-3pm; for mature adults; $15/$13.50 (Arts & Heritage member) • Preschool Picasso: Positive/Negative Space (Oct 15); for 3-5 yrs; pre-register; $10/$9 (Arts & Heritage member)

Ave • albertasocietyofartists.com • Bridges: A Celebration of the 85th Anniversary of The Alberta Society of Artists; Sep 24-Oct 30; Opening reception: Oct 1, 2-4pm

LITERARY

St • 780.407.7152 • friendsofuah.org/mcmullen-gallery • InterCity: artwork by Allen Ball and Kim Sala; Sep 10-Oct 30

ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron

Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa-art.com • Authentic Art Exhibit; Sep 20-Oct 14

7-266 • amatejko@icloud.com • Between Here and There: Photography by Candace Makowichuk; Sep 8-Oct 21

• Melcor Cultural Centre, 35-5th Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • Days of Sunlight: Exhibition of works by Susan Casault; Oct 4-29 Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • Beauty’s Awakening: Drawings by the Pre-Raphaelites and their Contemporaries from the Lanigan Collection; Jul 23-Nov 13 • JASON DE HAAN: Grey to Pink: Jul 23-Nov 13 • Every Story Has Two Sides: artwork by Damian Moppett + Ron Moppett; Sep 17-Jan 8 • BMO Children’s Gallery: Touch Lab: Leave your Mark: Opens Jul 24 • Every Story Has Two Sides: artwork by Damian Moppett and Ron Moppett; Sep 17-Dec 31 • Open Studio Adult Drop-In: Wed, 7-9pm; $18/$16 (AGA member) • All Day Sundays: Art activities for all ages; Activities, 12-4pm; Tour; 2pm • Late Night Wednesdays: Every Wed, 6-9pm

VAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • visualartsalberta.com • Art + Activism: artwork by Mary Joyce, Paula Kirman and Juan Lopezdabdoub; Aug 31-Nov 26 VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St

MACEWAN UNIVERSITY • City Centre Campus,

ALLIED ARTS COUNCIL OF SPRUCE GROVE

Fri, 12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm • A Little Bit of Infinity Part 1; Aug 11-Jan 28 • A Little Bit of Infinity Part 2; Sep 22-Jan 28 • Opening Sep 30, 6:30-9pm; RSVP at bit.ly/2chXK1q

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.426.4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca • Artwork by Jill Stanton; Oct 7-Nov 25

Oct 7-Nov 13 • Game Start: Artwork by a community of collaborators; Oct 7-Nov 13

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-

U OF A MUSEUMS GALLERIES AT ENTERPRISE SQUARE • Main floor, 10230 Jasper Ave • Open: Thu-

Strathcona County Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8600 • sclibrary.ca • Oct 5, 7-8:30pm • Free (seating is limited – please register online, in person or call 780.410.8600)

UPPER CRUST CAFÉ • 10909-86 Ave • 780.422.8174 • strollofpoets.com • The Poets’ Haven Reading Series: this week with Neil Meili, Jo-Ann Godfrey, Nancy Mackenzie & Joyce Harries (Oct 3) • Most Mon (except holidays), 7pm, Sep-Mar; presented by the Stroll of Poets Society • $5 (door)

Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • The Simon & Garfunkel story tells the fascinating tale of how two young boys from Queens, New York went on to become the world’s most successful music duo of all time • Sep 6-Oct 30

THEATRESPORTS • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Sep-Jun • $12/$10 (member) at TIX on the Square

TOOPY AND BINOO: FUN AND GAMES • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave • jubileeauditorium. com • ToopyAndBinooOnTour.com • Oct 2, 1pm • $25.50-$29.50

WITNESS TO A CONGA • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • 780.433.3399 • varsconatheatre.com • Presenting a family torn apart by secrets and explosive revelations • Sep 29-Oct 15

Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists. com • The Garden of Earthly Delights: artwork by Juan Ortiz-Apuy; Aug 25-Oct 8 • Retrograde: artwork by Jill Ho-You; Aug 25-Oct 8 • A Modern Cult of Monuments: artwork by Colin Lyons; Oct 13-Nov 26 • To Do: artwork

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

SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • Feature: Artwork by Susan Casault; Oct 4-29 • Fireplace Room: Artwork by Malissa Lea; Through Oct STRATHCONA COUNTY MUSEUM & ARCHIVES • 913 Ash St, Sherwood Park • strathconacountymuseum.ca • From the Kitchen; until Oct 11

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Free-$117.95 • Daily activities, demonstrations and experiments all summer • Wild Africa; opens in late Oct • Angry Birds Universe: a blockbuster exhibition features unprecedented interactivity in an extreme hands-on environment that is both physically and mentally stimulating; Oct 8-Apr 17

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// GREEK BUSINESS

POP

Wisdom from Ragnar the Trader

Booth sales at Expo—or any gathering—requires a healthy dose of personality and passion

Ragnar the Trader at the Edmonton Comic & Entertainment Expo last weekend // Photo by Trent Wilkie

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hen it comes to selling your wares at conventions, the game is mostly a crap shoot. Some days are good. Some are bad. And some days, you sell a Darth Vader garter to Carrie Fischer. I’ll return to that thought in a moment.

In many ways, it is like following the circus. You go from town to town trying to grab the locals' attention.

And you are always on the move.

“I love travelling,” says the Nordic-

ly bearded Ragnar. “My main circuit is Winnipeg to Vancouver. Every major city in between there has some sort of convention. I get to go to all sorts of events and meet a lot of cool people. Every now and then I get to meet a famous person.”

Ragnar the Trader, as he goes by in real life and on his business card, mainly sells drinking horns and horn related paraphernalia. He is in his third year on the festival trail and feels like he shares a kinship with those who may procure a horn mug.

Be it some incarnation of the Highland Games, a new age market, or even a beer festival, Ragnar gets connected to wherever he happens to set up a booth.

“I’d probably still go to most of these events even if I wasn’t selling,” he says. “Sometimes when I’m at a show I use [my booth] as a basecamp. There are a few I go in blind, I don’t know anybody who has done it, I’ve barely heard of it. But I do it and see what happens.”

His season runs from March to November with December, January, and February as down months. That doesn’t mean it’s time off though.

“That's when I make a lot of this stuff,” Ragnar says, laughing. “I don’t make a lot of money in January and February but I work my balls off stockpiling.”

Ragnar is one of many characters who tries to make a living through the festival/convention circuit. You also have people like Daniel Schneider of Smashed Head Studios, who works part-time at his parents farm when he can, but then runs a booth selling his illustrations.

Also, there are people who have an actual business to represent. Brian

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Enter Sarah Chernik. During the Edmonton Comic and Entertainment Expo last weekend, Chernik sold Carrie Fisher one of her hand stitched garters. But she's also somewhat of a rookie. Her business is called Facets of Fantasy and is a collection of bridal, prom and elegant body accessories.

Aside from the Fisher sale, she knows things won’t always be that glorious. Afterall, there is a psychology to the illusive booth sale.

“I get every reaction,” Chernik says of her prospective customers. “I’ve done everything from stand at the back of the booth, to sit, to try to ignore them as they come up. I try all different sorts of things to see what will work.”

She used to be a convention denizen herself, so she understands on those who walk the floors. “I do recognize that a lot of introverts are in geek culture and they just want to be left alone to browse,” she adds.

In the end, it's all about the love of your particular offering. Be it Chernik’s superhero garters, Schneider’s graphic novels, Flowers’ board game cafe or even Ragnar’s drinking horns, chainmail, and beard combs, it is as much of a lifestyle as it is a business model. And as Ragnar puts it, “I don’t have to flip hamburgers.”

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Flowers is the owner of Table Top Cafe. He does his best to not only sell board games, but to inform people of his actual business.

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PREVUE //DOCUMENTARY

FILM

Former Edmontonian, artist Tim Okamura // image supplied

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// Art supplied by Tim Okamura

Former Edmontonian Tim Okamura squares up in HEAVYWEIGHTPAINT

ainted on the wall of Brooklyn’s iconic Gleason’s Gym is a quote by an ancient Roman poet: “Now whoever has courage, and a strong and collected spirit in his breast, let him come forward, lace on the gloves and put up his hands.” Exchange gloves for paint brushes, and that quote easily applies to artists in New York City's highly competitive scene.

That's the underlying theme in former amateur boxer and Gleason alumni Jeff Martini's feature length documentary HEAVYWEIGHTPAINT, opening the Edmonton International Film Festival this weekend. (Q&A to follow.) The film follows the lives of Tim Okamura and his friends—Jerome Lagarrigue, Joseph Adolphe, and Taha Clayton—as they navigate the often unpredictable world of New York’s arts scene.

Martini met Edmonton-born figurative artist Okamura at a gym in the neighbourhood of Williamsburg.

What started as a discussion for a short feature on Okamura would later turn into a much larger project, following the four artists over the course of five years.

“These artists, like boxers, train so hard to get to where they are,” says Martini, “but in the moment—in the

fight—you have to let go, like these artists let go of the stroke and become one with the moment. Then they stop and [assess] what they’ve done—like a boxer stops in between rounds—then go back to reacting and creating.”

For Okamura, surviving 25 years in New York—the last few years as a full-time artist—has not been easy.

“The one constant that you’re always going to battle as a creative person is fear,” says Okamura, “and that fear is going to keep you in [a box].”

The voice of fear will tell you not to leave home, he says, reflecting on his experiences in leaving home.

“I’ve experienced some absolutely dreadful lows over 25 years of being [in New York],” he adds. “Moments that almost broke me—but it’s that cliché of: ‘What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’”

He moved to New York in 1991, after graduating from the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary. Okamura was influenced by classic painters he’d long admired—seeing a Rembrandt for the first time while visiting The Met—but also by unknown street artists creating masterpieces on the sides of buildings. With the grit and pulse of the city reverberating on every corner, New York spoke

to him in a very personal way.

“It really grabbed me,” he says. “It was just one of the few times in my life where I felt just completely taken over by a passion for something and that was the city. I just loved it and I knew I had to be here.”

Okamura's work consists primarily of women of colour. That, combined with his mashup of influences and finely-honed technical abilities has as synonymous with New York as the inspirations that originally drew him there. While classic fine art has often neglected noble depictions of minority groups, for Okamura, it’s not so much about making a grand political statement as it is about his on-going search

for beauty. It just also happened to become a source of light for an underrepresented community.

“I wasn’t seeing very many—if any—representations of people of colour. [Growing up] a lot of my friends and the people I surrounded myself with were mostly minorities—friends from Guyana, Trinidad, Jamaica—that was my world,” he says. “For most artists that do figurative portraits, they usually end up painting their friends to start, so that’s how it started for me and it kind of branched out from there.”

The slow trajectory of his career has yielded some incredible experiences. In October 2015, Okamura

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was among 10 artists honoured at the White House for their contributions to social justice. His painting, “The Promise,” was selected to hang in the East Wing. But he understands that with growing exposure, comes increased responsibility. While he's a fighter, for him it's also about the worthwhile fight.

“I think that it’s important to continue to portray women of colour, people of colour, in a way that has a positive message as the backbone of the work. I love the balance of strength and beauty and that inner fire that you see in somebody’s eyes; that’s what I’m always after.”

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FILM 9

FILM PREVUE // FESTIVAL

The art of selection

HELL OR HIGH WATER

How the folks behind the EIFF make their choices

FRI 9:15PM SAT 3:30PM & 9:15PM SUN 3:30PM & 8:15PM MON–THUR 9:00PM

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etting your film into the Edmonton International Film Festival (EIFF) isn’t getting any easier.

EIFF board member Christian Zyp (who is also involved DEDfest, Edmonton’s premier horror film showcase) is part of the nucleus that helps shape the festival. This year it runs from September 29 to October 8 and is diverse in it's offerings. While not someone who has the final say of what stays and goes, he does play a role in making the festival what it is.

And what it is, is getting bigger.

“Submissions are at an all time high,” says Zyp. “Especially now that we are an Oscar qualifying festival.”

While submissions are a main part of the festival line-up, Zyp points out that some films have to be sought out.

Especially local and Canadian films.

Most of the films in contention for

RATED: 14A, CL, V

THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS

FRI, SEPT 30–THUR, OCT 6

FRI, MON–THUR 6:45PM SAT 1:30PM & 6:45PM SUN 1:30PM & 6:00PM

FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS

RATED: PG

FRI, MON–THUR 7:00PM SAT 1:00PM & 7:00PM SUN 1:00PM & 6:15PM

CAPTAIN FANTASTIC FRI 9:30PM SAT 4:00PM & 9:30PM SUN 4:00PM & 8:30PM MON–THUR 9:15PM

RATED: PG

RATED: 14A, CL, N

John Waters’ gloriously grotesque, unavailable-for-decades second feature comes to theatres at long last.

EIFF mini-reviews

SUNDAY, OCT. 9 AT 9PM OR SUNDAY, OCT. 16 AT 9:30 PM METRO CINEMA AT THE GARNEAU 8712-109 ST | METROCINEMA.ORG Contest closes on October 5 Winners will be notified by email

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PECHA KUCHA 26 THUR @ 6:30

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It’s easy to dismiss a movie that racks up 158 minutes on the road with wild teens as overlong and ragged. But Andrea Arnold’s travel-picaresque, while visually intoxicating, isn’t just an imagistic indulgence. There’s that title, dripping through the film: sex, money, Lady Antebellum’s song itself, and the shots of bees, lush fields . . . even a bear. American Honey turns the American dream into a grungy mixtape: Kids + Glengarry Glen Ross + Badlands = Smells Like Teen-Salesman Spirit.

Star (Sasha Lane, stellar indeed) joins a rag-tag troupe of late-teens to escape a broken-home life and follow seductive Jake (Shia LaBeouf). The pack of outsiders roves from city to city, selling magazine subscriptions door-to-door in a scheme overseen

by Krystal (Riley Keough). Star can’t sell people lies and sob-stories, but she can’t stop selling herself, either.

Arnold and cinematographer Robbie Ryan hit the interstate between searching-for-someone and independence for this young woman, crisscrossing a country where the poor-rich divide seems wider than the Grand Canyon (revealed here in a starkly unromantic moment). A searingly poetic tour of a land deliriously in thrall to its own myths of vast opportunity.

Grating a daughter’s officious, schmooze-heavy corporate culture against a father’s waggish antics, this comedy-drama—German director Maren Ade’s third feature—is sneakily, surreally heartfelt. After his beloved dog dies, Winfried (Peter Simonischek) visits his workbound, too-serious daughter Ines (Sandra Hüller) in Bucharest, but he soon starts adopting buck-toothed, louche persona Toni Erdmann around her and her colleagues. Ade tickles scenes out to bittersweet lengths; amid the clowning-around, moments of melancholic pensiveness abound. Skeptically observing business-consulting and globalization (watch for Winfried’s cultural encounter in rural Romania), Toni Erdmann is also sharp-eyed about the corporate world still being such a man’s world—a disturbing sex scene here’s about submissiveness and detachment. But there’s also a wildly bathetic karaoke scene and a bravura sequence—maybe, just maybe, the most wonderfully comic use of nudity on-screen ever— where people start going starkers.

Ade’s sticky mix of the foolish and the lonesome clings on afterwards, seeping slowly under the skin around your funny bone.

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Thru, Sept 29 - Sat, Oct 8 EIFF Landmark Cinemas 9, City Centre Mall, $15 - $149 “It’s like the grab-bag at a kid’s party,” Zyp explains. “What is in that fucking bag? You don’t know and you can’t wait to find out.”

In the end, it is just a group of likeminded people watching a bunch of movies according to Zyp. There is a loose idea of what they are looking for, but there isn’t some clandestine panel with a hidden agenda. It is just a group of people who love films.

“It is funny,” he says, laughing. “Most of the time we are just picking things that we like.”

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a screening at the festival are helped by representation or a distributor. But Zyp points out that some of the gems have to be hunted down.

“The good stuff we actively go out and find it,” he says. “You have to support local stuff too. I like getting out there and the whole idea of watching something from somebody who I’ve maybe never heard of before. That is what, for me, is exciting.”

While the final say is usually left up to a collection of others—EIFF producer Kerrie Long included of course— that doesn’t mean they don’t look for outside opinions. Long surrounds herself with those in the know and routinely asks for their views. Zyp was sent to a film festival in Austin, Texas a few years back to scout out possible entrants. It is in these types of situations that Zyp feels the magic happens.

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Brett Kissel: Stepping Inside the Circle Directed by Kelly Wolfert (Shown as a part of Studio A Spotlight on Alberta, a package of short films from the prairies.)

Sat, Oct 1 (5pm)  For Brett Kissel fans, this 20 minute short will be joyous. Follow Alberta’s golden boy as he travels from the humble beginnings on his parent’s farm to the iconic stage of the Grand Ol’ Opry. It is a testament to Kissel’s abilities and wherewithal. A true celebration of his accomplishments.

But here is the rub—it is not a documentary. It is a commercial.

I have interviewed Brett and know those who have worked with him.

He is a decent and talented fellow. He deserves everything he has worked hard for in the field of country music.

But to call this a film or a documentary, would be akin to calling a picture of a pizza a meal. While it is shot well, edited well, and does a good job covering Kissel’s road to Nashville, it lacks substance. It renders itself banal with its slow motion self indulgence.

It pains me to write this. I wish it were rad. I wish there was an ounce of pain or regret or hurt. But like so much modern country music, it is weighed down by cliché and the lack of a real depth.

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Directors: Brett M. Butler & Jason G. Butler | 96 min | Canada | $15

Director: Ned Crowley | 101 min | USA | $15

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Thursday, Sept. 29 at 7 p.m.

Director: Jeff Martini | 93 min | USA | $30 (Includes after-party!)

Follow the struggles of four Brooklyn-based figurative painters Jerome Lagarrigue, Joseph Adolphe, Tim Okamura, and Taha Clayton. Q&A with Director, Jeff Martini. All 4 artists are also attending! After-Party at Characters Fine Dining.

BELOW HER MOUTH Friday, Sept. 30 at 7 p.m.

Director: April Mullen | 94 min Canada | $15 One of the boldest, sexiest dramas of the year, this is the story of an unexpected romance between two women. Q&A with Director April Mullen.

DARK HARVEST Saturday, Oct. 1 at 7 p.m.

Director: James Hutson | 92 min Canada | $15 This is a gritty tale about the illusive pot industry, starring James Hutson and Cheech Marin in his first marijuana movie since the ‘80s. Q&A with Director James Hutson.

Former junior hockey star turned hitman, Tim Tucker returns home after a decade to take care of his brother and leave his criminal past behind.

Q&A with filmmakers the Butler brothers.

Lenny Freeman (Jim O’Heir, PARKS AND RECREATION) is a straight-laced, old-school accountant with a dream… to become a famous stand-up comedian. That is, until dead bodies start showing up. Q&A with Director Ned Crowley.

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Take a short lunch and watch a collection of short films carefully selected from the thousands of submissions received this year.

PUSHING DEAD Monday, Oct. 3 @ 7 p.m.

Director: Tom E. Brown | 110 min USA | $15 Dan’s been HIV positive for 22 years, successfully avoiding the dating scene and the inevitable “Hi, I’m positive” talk. This film is sweet, and funny with a dollop of Danny Glover. Q&A with Director Tom E. Brown.

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Director: Shaun Colon | 82 min USA | $15 This documentary follows the early history of the FAT WRECK CHORDS record label founded by Fat Mike that recorded more than 150 albums. Q&A with Director Shaun Colon.

FACE 2 FACE Thursday, Oct. 6 at 6:30 p.m.

Director: Matt Toronto | 88 min USA | $15 Over a series of video chats, Teel and Madison rekindle their childhood friendship and reveal gut-wrenching secrets along the way. Q&A with Director/Writer, Matt Toronto.

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Purty sunsets and tumbleweeds The Magnificent Seven reboot looks great, but the characters lack depth

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’60s American Western adapted from a ’50s Japanese samurai film, The Magnificent Seven offered a sometimes-smoldering melting-pot—a motley crew of

hot-shot mercenaries fights to save the common folk in a tumbleweed town. Antoine Fuqua’s update, rebooted and reshooted for the 21st century (Civil War PTSD; faux-femi-

nist gal standing up for all), is rootin-tootin’ self-aware of its grandeur.

It drawls out the build-ups to the mega-climax and refuses to tie-up the terse, macho dialogue to taut,

whip-smart action sequences.

The opening sets the blatant tone for a picture full of long looks and super-seething super-shooters: robber-baron Bartholomew Bogue, whose middle name must be Beelzebub, burns down Rose Creek’s chapel after sermonizing on dollars and democracy, has cronies gun down a few foolish dissenters in the street, and tells townsfolk they’ll sell their plots for $20 apiece or else get their own dirtpiles. Newly widowed Emma Cullen (Haley Bennett) gives all her savings to a warrant officer, Chisolm (Denzel Washington), riding on through, to procure his help; Chisolm recruits a few sobad-they’re-good men: card-playing rogue Josh Faraday (Chris Pratt), wanted Mexican Vasquez (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), veteran Goodnight Robicheaux (Ethan Hawke) and his knife-fighting buddy Billy Rocks (Byung-hun Lee), God-fearing frontiersman Jack Horne (Vincent d’Onofrio), and Comanche bowman Red Harvest (Martin Sensmeier).

It’s all nicely wide-screened for our appreciation: faded blues, dusty browns, and sunset-gilded horizons in many a grand-canvas shot of arroyo and prairie and the purty little

Now playing The Magnificent Seven Directed by Antoine Fuqua  town itself. And this neo-Western’s ever-conscious of itself as a glorious remake (the ending even offers a voiceover to make the titanic title super-explicit for us). It’s full of loooooong build-ups to shootdowns and shoot-outs, with the often-impressive grand finale— mini-warfare, complete with Gatling gun—galloping on and on.

Most historically implausible is that no 1870s American here ever remarks on Chisolm’s blackness, The Magnificent Seven ends up most cavalier about its basic premise. It shows scant concern for the townsfolk—especially in a guntraining scene—but trots ’em out now and then to pull at our heartstrings or have ’em hail their supershooting saviours. It’s as if the little lives being fought for are just there to magnify, by contrast, these men in all their quick-draw greatness.

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Storks depends too much on happy vibes

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fter birdwatching for an hour-anda-half in a darkened theatre, I’d love to field-report that, in Storks, the avian family Ciconiidae kicks ass. But the feathered species doesn’t stick its beaks in so much. Instead, apparently feeling that today’s web-browsers and phone-users aren’t exposed to enough cutesy-wutesy images of babies, this movie keeps unwrapping its Icarian infant-carriers’ bundles of joy to reveal just how awwwwww!dorable Homo sapiens minorus is.

The premise begins on corporate premises—a huge warehouse above the clouds from which the birds, out of the baby business for years now, fly out a stork-stock of packages worldwide.

Cornerstore’s top-bill, Hunter (voiced

by Kelsey Grammer), is planning to handover the boss-ness to Junior (Andy Samberg), but human orphan Tulip (Katie Crown), long a nuisance, accidentally restarts the old baby-making factory after one boy’s mail-in request for a brother. The job-anxious bird and hapless young woman pair up to secretly transport the tot to his far-off family over the weekend and return before anyone cries fowl.

The movie’s best when loony or tuney: Junior mushroom-cloud-blowing his mind at the prospect of becoming boss; the toupeed, “brah”-dropping Pigeon Toady (Stephen Kramer Glick-

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Obsessively, this movie returns us to babies as creatures of perfect cuteness.

Junior and Tulip’s l’il package—with hair cotton-candy pink, presumably to emphasize her gender while making young moviegoers crave a sugary snack—is so gah-gah glorious and doe-eyed that she brings out that supposedly millennia-spanning maternal instinct in Tulip and even the wolves lick her lovingly. A montage shows baby after baby hugged by welcoming, happy parents.

And so the story goes, milking bottle after bottle of sappy, nappy-happy baby sentiment. Storks just can’t wean itself off its cheap-and-easy, fallback formula.

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Golden timing timing Golden Animal Collective's Painting With offers shorter songs, and higher energy

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hat came first: the chicken or the egg? The chicken in question being a Golden Girls sample and the egg being the lyrics to the song "Golden Gal" from Animal Collective's 11th studio album, Painting With, which was released earlier this year.

"Golden Gal," the second last track of the album, opens up with an excerpt from the popular sitcom, The Golden Girls (the sample comes from "Rose the Prude" episode, for all you GG fans)—which aired 180 episodes over seven seasons in the late '80s/early '90s—in which we hear Dorothy deliver her typical sarcasm to Blanche.

Brian Weitz, or better known by his stage name Geologist, says that it was the egg, or in this case, the lyr-

ics, that came first, which were written by David Portner, aka Avey Tare, who was inspired by the Golden Girls for this song. "[Portner] wanted to use a sample from [the show] and he went on YouTube, and there's like a montage of Dorothy sarcasms," Weitz says over the phone. "... [Portner] put in [that specific sample] just as a placeholder, but we realized that we had to use it."

Unsurprisingly, the group—rounded out by Noah Lennox (aka Panda Bear) and Josh Dibb (aka Deakin)— stumbled across some obstacles in regards to copyright that had to be dealt with before Animal Collective could use that sample in the song.

"It was complicated. We had to nego-

tiate with the estate since two of the people from that clip are dead, so we had to negotiate with their estates and their children and what not," Weitz explains. "It was not easy and it was pricey, but we felt like we had to have it part of the song. It was worth it."

The experimental indie shapeshifters'—in its 15-year career, Animal Collective's albums have explored a plethora of genres—latest album follows 2012's Centipede Hz but this time the static hubbub of radio broadcast and ad samples is replaced with playful, high-energy hits.

That high-energy was inspired by the Ramones' albums, which featured catchy, high-energy songs within a shorter time frame—a sharp contrast

from Animal Collective's own trajectory in which songs typically clock out around the six-minute mark.

As such, creating those shorter songs was a challenge for the band, notes Weitz.

"That first Ramones record ... is unlike anything Animal Collective has ever done. When you put that record on from start to finish it's a bunch of short, high-energy songs and that high-energy is consistent [throughout]," says Weitz. "It's a kind of listening experience that people in the band were enjoying. That record was where our head was at."

Weitz and company accepted the challenge with open arms, he says, as it pushed the bandmembers to find an end point much more quickly

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"The conversation transitioned to: We've never done a record like that and it actually seemed very far from what would occur to us to do, because Dave and Noah as songwriters write longer, more stream of consciousness, meandering songs," he says. "My role on the record is to go into this formless ambience. So, for us, it was a challenge to make that kind of record."

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When life throws you lemons

Sat, Oct 1 Cheryl Fisher CD Release Blue Chair, $15

You make an album, at least that's what Cheryl Fisher did

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here is no doubt that artists can find inspiration anywhere, but for jazz musician Cheryl Fisher, the robbery of her most beloved possessions motivated her to make Quietly There, the first release in seven years.

She and her husband were living in Miami, FL, and their storage unit was robbed, explains Fisher during a telephone conversation. They had moved back to Canada, and when she finally got some of her packages, some of her scrapbooks were missing.

"One of the discs that actually did come [back] was a disc that I had compiled a few years earlier, like four or five years earlier, of all the songs that really touched me and that I wanted to, at some point, record," she says.

"And so, it was kind of like a mini-miracle in and of itself that this particular disc came [back] to me."

It was jazz musician and longtime friend, John Stowell, that pressed Fisher into going back into the studio to make Quietly There after having been away for some time. Fisher and her husband, Eric Allison (woodwinds), and Stowell (guitars) and his backing band went to the studio to record the album. She admits that those first few days in the studio were daunting having worked with some new musicians.

"It was fabulous, but a bit unnerving since I had not met any of them except for [Stowell]," she says of working with Stowell's band. "So to go into the studio unrehearsed and not knowing

anybody, except for my husband, Eric Allison, and John Stowell, it was a bit unnerving. They were, as I knew they would be, very good souls because they worked with Stowell. He's a pretty special musician in many, many ways.

We have a real symbiosis, because he plays with time a lot and I have the same kind of internal clock that he has, so it doesn't throw me. It was a magical synchronistic event that."

Fisher's sixth studio album is a collection of 12 "cover" songs that she has collected over the years, which were selected based off of the significance each track has had on her own life experience. As such, she describes the album as "mellow" and "reflective" as a result.

"I think it's necessary to sing all these songs with some life experience and I can't truly deliver a song unless it means something to me," Fisher says.

"The CD is full of reflective contemplation and it seems to be something of the whole story of life."

Some of the tracks were popularized by artists such as Nat Cole ("You're Looking At Me"), Tony Bennett ("It Amazes Me") and Phillis Kinney ("Let There Be Love"). The album's opener, and titled track, "Quietly There," was written by Johnny Mandel for the 1966 Paul Newman detective film Harper.

"It's a very engaged CD [for] all of life's progressions."

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FIRE NEXT TIME / FRI, SEP 30 (8 PM)

Some describe Edmonton’s Fire Next Time as punk, but its poetic lyrics, acoustic guitar and hints of banjo—and the occasional appearance of hipster beards—align them more within the genre of folk. Anyway, the boys are back from touring. (Brixx Bar & Grill, $10)

What did the whale say? We don’t know what the water mammal said, but we do know that Vancouver’s Said the Whale is on tour for its new album, Hawaii, which offers sunfilled pop-rock melodies. (The Needle, $27 in advance, $35 at the door)

OLIVIA WIK / SAT, OCT 1 (8 PM)

This multi-genre singer-songwriter has written more than 250 songs, some of which have been in collaboration with songwriters from Barbados, Finland, Spain, Sweden and Japan. (Cafe Blackbird, $10)

FUNK VELVET / SUN, OCT 2 (12:30 PM)

This Edmonton-based trio— formed by Nico Humby (bass/ lead vocals), Taylor Rault (drums) and Gareth Gilliland (guitar)—makes groovy funk music that melds the genres of jazz, swing, R&B and bluesrock. You’re in for some Tasty Snacks—which happens to be the name of its debut album.

(The Needle, free)

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Winnipeg’s Micah Visser is touring his lush folk-pop melodies in support of his latest EP, Forward, which was released on Sept 9. Opening acts include Logan Mills/ Aaron Lumley and Kevin Lockwood. (Bohemia, $10)

Of Ghosts and Gods is the latest album from this metal outfit, who’s been pumping out bodyslamming riffs since ‘91. (Starlite Room, $26)

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Hayden revisits Everything I Long For, 20 years after the original release made waves

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first saw Hayden 20 years ago in a bar in Waterloo, Ont. He was a spindly guy, all elbows and knees and he was opening for some band that was popular on Much Music, but I can’t remember the band's name.

His set was in support of his 1996 album Everything I Long For. It was a gruff and rough sound with glowing heart lyrics. I enjoyed it, but it was when he played a cover of the Pixies’ "Gouge Away" and from there on in I was hooked. I bought the album and ruined the tape listening to it.

On Sept. 30th Hayden will play the Myer Horowitz Theatre at the University of Alberta for a 20th anniversary

“I stopped reading the letters I was getting after a while because they were beginning to put pressure on me,” Hayden says. “In a way, I was having trouble dealing with my own life and my own insecurities and my own stress. In many ways I couldn’t handle the position I was in.

“At the time, I didn’t want to know my audience too much and I didn’t want to feel a responsibility towards them because I wanted to focus on my expression and being true to myself.”

This drive has lead him to release another seven albums and tour the world. He has grown personally (he is married with two children) and musically. With that in mind one might

celebration of his Everything I Long For. A little bit grunge and a little bit folk, the album was a mainstay in Much Music’s video rotation (for his single “Bad As They Seem”) and catapulted his career. It was a Canadian indie album made relevant by the music video station, and some (me) would say, 20 years ago was the last time Much Music was relevant.

The album is rife with real emotional depth. For Hayden, it came from a real place. This type of honesty attracted a lot of fans, fans who wrote him letters expressing exactly how his music made him feel. This, coupled with the quick success of the album, was a bit overwhelming for him.

think that revisiting something made so long ago might be weird. But the situation is a bit different.

“I’ve had such a good time playing this album live recently, mainly because 90 per cent of the songs I’ve never played in the last 18 years,” he says. “As opposed to someone going out and doing a greatest hits album or an album that was a huge hit for them and they just played the shit out of the material, this was a very unique situation. I’m discovering things about them each night and it is exciting.”

Never one to care too much for the business side of music, Hayden embraces this re-visiting wholeheart-

edly. While at times he wishes that the only connection that he has with his audience is through his music, he has done his best to muster up flashes of taking promotions seriously. It is in this maturing that he has come full circle.

“The really nice by-product of this tour was going back and looking at old material,” Hayden explains. “I read through at least 150 of the letters I was sent. And most of the stuff I hadn’t read before. I was very touched by a lot of it. It was eye opening but I felt like I was ready to hear what they were saying to me.”

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'One of these days and it won’t be long' Edmonton Symphony Orchestra brings in conductor Brent Havens to celebrate David Bowie immediately called us and said ‘are you doing this show?' It's interesting because we've been doing this since June of 2015. We were looking at his material, and then he passed away in January," Havens explained. “People are really going to want to hear this music in a special way. We’re celebrating this music and his life.”

To bring Bowie’s expansive catalog to life, he says he tread carefully. He wanted to add the orchestra, while still staying true to Bowie’s distinct sound.

“Finding that balance is a matter of making sure my arrangements work with the orchestra as another band member,” Havens explains. “I don’t try and reinterpret the music. These aren’t my ‘quote en quote’ versions

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he Edmonton Symphony Orchestra is once again teaming up with Cincinnati’s renowned conductor/arranger Brent Havens to present The Music of David Bowie—A Musical Odyssey.

The evening offers 18 arrangements that span the entirety of Bowie’s career, including familiar hits and deeper cuts. Havens incorporates a live

rock band (bass, guitar, drums, keyboard, backup vocals) as well as renowned vocalist Tony Vincent (The Voice, American Idiot Broadway) to round out the ensemble.

Many orchestras are after Havens' services to pay tribute to the 'Thin White Duke.'

"When he passed away, orchestras

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As for the Edmonton crowd, Havens has been quite impressed and expects nothing less this time around.

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The orchestra is fantastic, the hall is gorgeous, the audience really has a great time. It’s just a blast. We get to see all these great cities around the world and Edmonton is right up there.”

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Every Mon, 9pm

Monday

Letto (folk/rock); 9pm

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

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN Happy

MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Mike

DJs

KELLY'S PUB Open stage;

CASK AND BARREL North of

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

BILLIARD CLUB Why wait Wednesdays: Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover

SPACE JESUS & YHETI

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

HAVE MERCY Mississippi

KELLY'S PUB 104 Street Beats; Every Sat, 10pm; No minors

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

TAVERN ON WHYTE Karaoke;

Session: Mark Segger Quacktet; 7:30pm (door), 8pm (show); $5

GORGUTS LIVENATION.COM PRESENTS

OCT/25

Carach Angren; 7pm (doors); $26; 18+ only

TILTED KILT PUB AND EATERY

CONCERTWORKS.CA PRESENTS

OCT/22

Rock Monday

Open mic; 7pm; $2

Ellen Doty (jazz/pop); 7:30pm; Pay what you can (Suggested $28 for adults, $24 for seniors)

2-3:30pm

BIG WILD

W/ THE REAL SICKIES

STARLITE ROOM Kataklysm,

9pm

PRESENTED BY 2016 UBK AND UP + DOWNTOWN MUSIC FESTIVAL (UP+DT)

UBK PRESENTS

Roll Jam with Gator & Friends; 7:30pm

ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Duff

Robison; 9pm

ST. ALBERT COMMUNITY HALL Andrea House;

TOKYO POLICE CLUB

OCT/15

RED PIANO BAR Wed Night

Deighton with guests; 9pm; $10

PRESENTED BY 2016 UP AND DOWNTOWN MUSIC FESTIVAL (UP+DT)

W/ INTRONAUT, BRAIN TENTACLES

THE PROVINCIAL PUB Karaoke

Dave's Rock & Roll Renegade Jam; 7:30pm

Yvonne Jenkins with Kali Heatherington; 2pm; $15-$18

OCT/12

Wednesday

DOW CENTENNIAL CENTRE

KATAKLYSM

W/ TENNYSON, KNIGHT RIDERZ, UBK DJ’S

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

Peace Festival presents: Songs for Peace; 7-9pm; $20 (adv), $25 (door)

SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Crazy

OCT/9

NEW WEST HOTEL Hurtin

jam every Tue; 9:30pm

CONCERTWORKS.CA PRESENTS

W/ BORN RUFFIANS, THE ELWINS

Horsemen; 9pm

Stars!; 2:30pm; $30 (adult), $25 (student/senior)

ARCADIA BAR Danielle

OCT/8

Kraziness with host Ryan Kasteel; 8pm-2am

STANLEY A. MILNER LIBRARY THEATRE 2016 Edmonton

9pm

JUSTIN MARTIN W/ CARACH ANGREN

GAS PUMP Karaoke; 9:30pm

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Filthy GAS PUMP Karaoke; 9:30pm

OCT/5

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Mother

Circle; 7:30-11:30pm

UBK PRESENTS

W/ FAIITH

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Wed

HAVE MERCY Whiskey Wednesdays–Piano karaoke; Every Wed, 8pm; No minors

Bingo! Tuesdays

SEP/30

OCT/15 EYEDEA MEMORIAL SHOW & PRESENTED BY J-REDS & THE FORGE

DOCUMENTARY SCREENING

W/ DJ ABILITIES, CARNAGE THE EXECUTIONER, J-REDS

OCT/22

Mondays; 8-11pm SHAKERS ROADHOUSE

STARLITE ROOM IS PROUD TO PRESENT

BLACK MASTIFF

W/ BAD GUYS (UK), THE MOTHERCRAFT, DJAGG WIRE

Monday Jam with $4 Bill; Every Mon, 8-11pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A

OCT/27

Open Mic Night hosted by Adam Holm; Every Mon SIDELINER’S PUB Singer/ Songwriter Monday Night Open Stage; Hosted by Celeigh Cardinal; Every Mon (except long weekends), 8:30pm

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COMEDY

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

norwoodtoastmasters.org • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); 780.437.1136 (Mark) or 780.463.5331 (Antonio); yclubtoastmasters@gmail.com; Meet every Tue starting in Sep, 7-9pm except last Tue each month

Fort Saskatchewan 45+ Singles Coffee Group • A&W, 10101-88 Ave, Fort

Waskahegan Trail Association Guide Hike • waskahegantrail.ca • West Battle

Saskatchewan • 780.907.0201 (Brenda) • A mixed group, all for conversation and friendship • Every Sun, 2pm

LGNYEG • Happy Harbor Comics, 10729-104

Century Casino • 13103 Fort Rd •

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

780.481.9857 • Open Mic Night: Every Thu; 7:30-9pm

Lotus Qigong • SAGE downtown 15 Sir

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

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Chris Sadleir; Sep 30-Oct 1 • Tim Koslo; Oct 7-8

Comic Strip • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Dean Delray; Sep 28-Oct 3 • Tom Green; Oct 6-8

Dating Game • On the Rocks, 11743 Jasper Ave • With our host Sterling Scott, also with the Nervous Flirts. Fun, prizes, and maybe love • Oct 9, 7:30pm

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • Voted "Vue Weekly Best Comedy Night in Edmonton". Stand up comedy open mic hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm (8:30pm sign-up) Edmonton Comedy Festival • Various venues • 780.439.8809 • atbcomedy.com • Four days of funny featuring over 30 comics from across North America. • 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

Just for Laughs presents Jim Gaffigan - Fully Dressed • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave • jubileeauditorium.com • Oct 1, 7pm & 10pm • Tickets start at $39.50

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

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

Argentine Tango Dance at Foot Notes Studio • Foot Notes Dance Studio

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

LECTURES/Presentations

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)

Dementia Workshop • Old Timers Cabin,

Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association • Duggan Community Hall, 3728106 St • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

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

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

Painting for Pleasure • McDougall United Church, 10086 Macdonald Drive (south entrance) • 780.428.1818 • karenbishopartist@ gmail.com • mcdougallunited.com • Welcomes artists to join this weekly group who like to paint, draw or otherwise be creative on paper • Every Thu, 10am-noon Schizophrenia Society Family Support Drop-in Group • Schizophrenia Society of Alberta, 5215-87 St • 780.452.4661 • schizophrenia.ab.ca • The Schizophrenia Society of Alberta offers a variety of services and support programs for those who are living with the illness, family members, caregivers, and friends • 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7-9pm • Free

Scrambled YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 1022597 St • 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm

Babes In Arms • The Carrot, 9351-118 Ave •

Seventies Forever Music Society •

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

Drop-In D&D • Hexagon Board Game Café, 10123 Whyte Ave • 780.757.3105 • info@thehexcafe.com • thehexcafe.com • An epic adventure featuring a variety of pre-made characters, characters that guests can make on their own, or one that has already been started. Each night will be a single campaign that fits in a larger story arc.

For all levels of gamers and those brand new or experienced to D&D • Every Tue, 7pm • $5

Edmonton Needlecraft Guild • Avonmore United Church Bsmt, 82 Ave, 79 St • edmNeedlecraftGuild.org • Classes/workshops, exhibitions, guest speakers, stitching groups for those interested in textile arts • Meet the 2nd Tue ea month, 7:30pm EDMONTON OUTDOOR CLUB (EOC) • edmontonoutdoorclub.com • Offering a variety of fun activities in and around Edmonton • Free to join; info at info@edmontonoutdoorclub.com

Fertility Awareness Charting Circle • Remedy Cafe, 8631-109 St • faccedmonton@gmail.com • fertilityawarenesschartingcircle.org • First Mon each month (Oct-Jun), 6:30-8:30pm • $10 (suggested donation) • RSVP at faccedmonton@gmail.com

18 AT THE BACK

Wiccan Assembly • Ritchie Hall, 7727-98 St • The Congregationalist Wiccan Assembly of Alberta meets the 2nd Sun each month (except Aug), 6pm • Info: contact cwaalberta@gmail.com

Monday Mingle • Hexagon Board Game

(South side), 9708-45 Ave • 780.438.3207 • virenzi@shaw.ca • Argentine Tango with Tango Divino: beginners: 7-8pm; intermediate: 8-9pm; Tango Social Dance (Milonga): 9pm-12 • Every Fri, 7pm-midnight • $15 A casual parent group • Every Fri, 10am-12pm

River A60 to C (Schnee Hill): Meet at Superstore Calgary Trail NW corner parking lot, 5019 Calgary Trail NW; Oct 2, 9am-3pm • Gwynne and Chickadee Trail: Superstore Calgary Trail NW corner parking lot, 5019 Calgary Trail NW; Oct 9, 9am-3pm • Devon Trails: Superstore Calgary Trail NW corner parking lot, 5019 Calgary Trail NW; Oct 16, 9am-3pm

Call 587.520.3833 for location • deepsoul.ca • Combining music, garage sales, nature, common sense, and kindred karma to revitalize the inward persona • Every Wed, 7-8:30pm

TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS) • Grace United Church annex, 6215-104 Ave • 780.479-8667 (Bob) • bobmurra@telus.net • Low-cost, fun and friendly weight loss group • Every Mon, 6:30pm

Toastmasters • Chamber Toastmasters Club: 6th floor, World Trade

Centre, 9990 Jasper Ave; Contact: 780.462.1878/ RonChapman@shaw.ca (Ron Chapman); 780.424.6364/dkorpany@telusplanet.net (Darryl Korpany); Meet every Thu from Sep-Jun, 6-7:45pm • Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings: Campus St. Jean: Pavillion McMahon; 780.667.6105 (Willard); clubbilingue.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 7pm • Conquer Your Fear of Public Speaking: Norwood Legion, 11150-82 St; 780.902.4605; norwoodtoastmasters.org; Every Thu, Oct 13-Jun 29, 7:30-9:30pm; Guests are free • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club: 2nd Fl, Canada Place Rm 217, 9700 Jasper Ave; Carisa: divdgov2014_15@outlook.com, 780.439.3852; fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level, McClure United Church, 13708-74 St: meet every Thu, 6:45-8:30pm; contact vpm@norators.com, 780.807.4696, norators.com • Terrified of Public Speaking: Norwood Legion Edmonton, 11150-82 St NW; Every Thu until Jun, 7:30-9:30pm; Free; contact jnwafula@yahoo.com;

9430 Scona Rd • 780.450.4802 • edmonton@ carp.ca • Topics include "What is Dementia?", "Reducing the Risk", and "Living with Dementia" • Sep 29, 9am-1pm • $10 (includes a light lunch)

discussion invites you to explore the eternal nature of you! Discover you are a unique, eternal Soul.

Find out how love is stronger than fear and even death. Learn how to visit heaven. Free Spiritual Discussion • Oct 2, 2-3:30pm • Free book, Spiritual Wisdom on Life after Death for each guest

Women Grow Networking Series • St. Albert Rugby Club, 51 Riel Dr, St Albert • lisette. womegrow@gmail.com • Connect aspiring and current professionals in the cannabis industry.

The speaker for October is Elise Coppens from ABCann • Oct 6, 6:30-9pm • Tickets available at bit.ly/2aoFzdz QUEER Affirm Group • garysdeskcom@hotmail. com • mcdougallunited.com • Part of the United Church network supporting LGBTQ men and women • Meet monthly at Second Cup, Edmonton City Centre 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

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

SPECIAL EVENTS Alberta Culture Days 2016 at Rutherford House - Hopes & Dreams • Rutherford House Provincial Historic Site, 11153 Saskatchewan Drive • 780.427.3995 • rutherford.

House@gov.ab.ca • rutherfordhousehistoricsite. org • Exploring and imagining what that future could have been for the Rutherfords and others, and what our own future might be • Sep 30-Oct 2, 12-4pm • Free

Dig In St Albert’s Horticulinary Festival • Hole’s Greenhouses at the Enjoy Centre • diginstalbert.ca • Through a series of demonstrations and hands-on workshops, participants will learn how to grow food in an urban setting and to prepare and preserve their own produce • Oct 14-15

Square, Rm 2-926 • ccslaw@ualberta.ca • How do we know where to draw the line in limiting our freedom of expression? Join Professor Eric Adams as he explains the scope of freedom of expression under the Canadian Charter of Rights & Freedoms in relation to a number of recent local controversies • Sep 29, 12pm • Free (open to the public)

G.L.B.T.Q Seniors Group • S.A.G.E Bldg,

Edmonton Clown Festival • L'UniTheatre at La Cite Francophone, 8627 Rue Marie-Anne Gaboury • edclownfest.ca • Get into your micro-sized car with family and friends for a new festival dedicated to clowns. Featuring etertainment, classes panels and more • Sep 29-Oct 2

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

Edmonton Peace Festival • Various locations throughout the city • edmontonpeacefestival.org • Aiming to bring Edmontonians of all backgrounds to reflect on and celebrate peace • Sep 29-Oct 2

Fermented Foods Workshop 101 • Earth's General Store - Whyte, 9605-82 Ave • 780.964.8725 • Learn the basics to safely ferment foods - sauerkraut, kefir, cordito, etc • Oct 8, 7-9pm • $35 (in adv at Eventbrite)

Illusions Social Club • Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave • 780.387.3343 • pridecentreofedmonton.org • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri each month, 7-9pm

Downtown Charter Series - Freedom of Expression • UofA Enterprise

Glass ​Blowing ​C​lasses ​• Pixie Glassworks, 9322-60 Ave • 780.436.4460 • pixieglassworks.com/pages/classes • Offering three levels in each of: hollow body work, implosions, sculpture, pipe-making and beads. Call to book.

No classes on holidays • Every Mon, Wed-Thu, 6-9pm • $150

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) • South East Asia by Donna Hamar (Oct 3) • First Mon of the month, 7:30pm • $3 donation (guests are asked to bring snacks to share); everyone welcome

Grounding Trauma Conference Featuring Dr Gabor Maté and Daniel Maté • Ramada Inn and Conference Centre, 11834 Kingsway NW • becca@cast-canada.ca • An inquiry into how we can understand and help loosen the hold of the intergenerational trauma that manifests in the dysfunctions and mental/ emotional challenges faced by so many • Oct 4, 9am-4pm

Mohamed Fahmy • Arden Theatre, 5 St. Anne Street, St Albert • stalbert.ca/exp/arden/ events/mohamed-fahmy • Author and journalist, Mohamed Fahmy, will discuss Media in the Age of Terror and his incredible ordeal in being freed from imprisonment • Oct 1, 7:30-9:30pm Opera 101 Turandot • CKUA, 9804 Jasper Ave • an evening of discussion surrounding Edmonton Opera's upcoming production of Puccini's Turandot • Oct 5, 7-8:30pm • Free Policing the Police • UofA Law Centre, McLennan Ross Halls (Rooms 231 & 237) • ccslaw@ualberta.ca • Join Christy Lopez, a pioneer in the area of police oversight, as she discusses how changing police culture may require limiting what police officers can do in order to align with what they should do • Oct 5, 5pm • Free (open to the public); reception to follow; register at bit. ly/ccspolice

Second Saturdays Dance Seminar • Spazio Performativo, 10816-95 St • info@ milezerodance.com • milezerodance.com • A series of dance seminars with invited guest artists • Oct 8, Nov 19, Dec 10, 2-4pm • $20 (per class); Pre-registration important as readings will be emailed to participants

Spiritual Wisdom on Life After Death • Meeting Room Upstairs, Strathcona Branch, Edmonton Public Library, 8331-104 St • 780-490-1129 • eckankar.org • This spiritual

Pride Centre of Edmonton • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • Drop in hours: Mon, Wed 4-7pm; Fri 6-9pm; Closed Sat-Sun and Holidays • JamOUT: Music mentorship and instruction for youth aged 12-24; Every other Tue, 7-9pm • Equal Fierce Fit & Fabulous: recreational fitness program, ages 12-24; every other Tue, 6-8pm, every other Tue • Queer Lens: weekly education and discussion group open to everyone; every Wed, 7-8:30pm • Mindfulness Meditation: open to everyone; every Thu, 6-6:50pm • Men's Social Circle: A social support group for all male-identified persons over 18 years of age in the LGBT*Q community; 1st and 3rd Thu each month; 7-9pm • TTIQ (18+ Trans* Group): 2nd Mon of the month, 7-9pm • Art & Identity: exploring identity through the arts, a wellness initiative; Every other Fri, 6-9pm • Edmonton Illusions: cross-dressing and transgender group 18+; 2nd Fri of each month, 7-9pm • Movies & Games Night: Every other Fri, 6-9pm • Thought OUT: Altview’s all-ages discussion group; every Sat, 7-9pm • Seahorse Support Circle: facilitated meet up for families with trans and gender creative kids aged 5-14; 2nd Sun of the month, 3-5pm • Men Talking with Pride: Social discussion group for gay and bisexual men; Every Sun, 7-9pm

St Paul's United Church • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship) Team Edmonton • Various sports and recreation activities • teamedmonton.ca • Bootcamp: Garneau School, 10925-87 Ave; Most Mon, 7-8pm • Swimming: NAIT Swimming Pool, 11665-109 St; Every Tue, 7:30-8:30pm and every Thu, 7-8pm • Water Polo: NAIT Swimming Pool, 11665-109 St; Every Tue, 8:30-9:30pm • Yoga: New Lion's Breath Yoga Studio, #301,10534-124 St; Every Wed, 7:30-9pm • Taekwondo: near the Royal Gardens Community Centre, 4030-117 St; Contact for specific times • Abs: Parkallen Community League Hall, 6510-111 St; Every Tue, 6-7pm and Thu, 7:15-8:15pm • Dodgeball: Royal Alexandra Hospital Gymnasium; Every Sun, 5-7pm • Running: meet at Kinsmen main entrance; Every Sun, 10am • Spin: Blitz Conditioning, 10575-115 St; Every Tue, 7-8pm• Volleyball: Stratford Elementary School, 8715-153 St; Every Fri, 7-9 • Meditation: Edmonton Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave; 3rd Thu of every month, 5:30-6:15pm • Board Games: Underground Tap & Grill, 10004 Jasper Ave; One Sun per month, 3-7pm • All Bodies Swim: Bonnie Doon Leisure Centre, 8468-81 St; One Sat per month 4:30-5:30pm

Woodys Video Bar • 11723 Jasper Ave •

780.488.6557 • Mon: Massive Mondays features talented comedians • Tue: Domestic bottle beer special only $3.75 all night long • Wed: Jugs of

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Elevate Aviation Calendar Launch Party • Renaissance Edmonton Airport Hotel, 4236-36 St • elevateaviation@outlook.com • elevateaviation.eventbrite.com • A not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving the gender equality in the aviation sector • Oct 1, 6pm • $60 (general admission)

Nerd Nite #29 • The Needle Vinyl Tavern, 10524 Jasper Ave • edmonton.nerdnite.com • There may not be any Thanksgiving leftovers, but three lectures will be presented. Featuring: " PostIt processes: Map everyday workflow for fresh insight & adaptive change", " From 20 kids to 10,000 — how a vision for free soccer grew" and " I Got 99 Problems But Fake Gold Ain’t One" • Oct 12, 8pm (show) • $20 (adv), $10 (peanut gallery) • Event is 18+ only Oktoberfest • Expo Centre at Northlands • albertabeerfestivals.com • Teaching guests about beer while sampling some of the best food and drinks available • Sep 30-Oct 1 Red Shoe Crawl • Throughout Old Strathcona • redshoesocietyna.com • hello@redshoesocietyna.com • Red Shoe Crawl is a fundraising event where participants are provided food and drink tastings and store discounts • Oct 15

Run Without Borders • Emily Murphy Park, 11904 Emily Murphy Park Rd • rwbedmonton@gmail.com • events.runningroom.com • A run/walk to raise money for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières • Oct 16, 10am-1pm

Rutherford House Culture Days • Rutherford House, 11153 Saskatchewan Drive • history.alberta.ca/rutherford • Puts the spotlight on local talent in the arts and culture community • Sep 30-Oct 2

Ski & Snowboard Swap • Snow Valley • snowvalley.ca • Bring your gently used ski & snowboard equipment on Saturday, and then drop by the sale on Sunday to pick up something newto-you • Oct 15-16 St. Andrew's Quilting Group • St. Andrew’s United Church, 9915-148 St • An annual sale features a large selection of quilts – all sizes; small quilted items; afghans and ‘sew’ much more • Oct 15, 10am-2pm Strathcona County Alberta Culture Days • Agora, Community Centre, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • info@accsc. ca • accsc.ca • A full day of interactive and family-friendly activities for Alberta Culture Days • Oct 1, 10am-4pm • Free

Wholly Handmade • Strathcona Community Centre - The Agora, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • kingsleyevents@shaw.ca • kingsleyevents. com • Over 90 handmade artisans and crafters on display • Oct 15, 10am-5pm • Free (free two hour underground parking)

FREEWILLASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): What's the difference between a love warrior and a love worrier?

Love warriors work diligently to keep enhancing their empathy, compassion, and emotional intelligence. Love worriers fret so much about not getting the love they want that they neglect to develop their intimacy skills. Love warriors are always vigilant for how their own ignorance may be sabotaging togetherness, while love worriers dwell on how their partner's ignorance is sabotaging togetherness. Love warriors stay focused on their relationship's highest goals, while love worriers are preoccupied with every little relationship glitch. I bring this to your attention, Aries, because the next seven weeks will be an excellent time to become less of a love worrier and more of a love warrior.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): How will you deal with a provocative opportunity to reinvent and reinvigorate your approach to work? My guess is that if you ignore this challenge, it will devolve into an obstruction. If you embrace it, on the other hand, you will be led to unforeseen improvements in the way you earn money and structure your daily routine. Here's the paradox: Being open to seemingly impractical considerations will ultimately turn out to be quite practical.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Is it possible that you're on the verge of reclaiming some of the innocent wisdom you had as a child? Judging from the current astrological omens, I suspect it is. If all goes well, you will soon be gifted with a long glimpse of your true destiny—a close replica of the vision that bloomed in you at a tender age. And this will, in turn, enable you to actually see magic unicorns and play with mischievous fairies and eat clouds that dip down close to the earth. And not only that: Having a holy vision of your original self will make you even smarter than you already are. For example, you could get insights about how to express previously inexpressible parts of yourself. You might discover secrets about how to attract more of the love you have always felt deprived of.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I'm not asking you to tell me about the places and situations where you feel safe and fragile and timid. I want to know about where you feel safe and strong and bold. Are there sanctuaries that nurture your audacious wisdom? Are there natural sites that tease out your primal willpower and help you clarify your goals?

Go to those power spots. Allow them to exalt you with their transformative blessings. Pray and sing and dance there. And maybe find a new oasis to excite and incite you, as well. Your cre-

ative savvy will bloom in November if you nurture yourself now with this magic.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): One of your old reliable formulas may temporarily be useless or even deceptive. An ally could be withholding an important detail from you. Your favorite psychological crutch is in disrepair, and your go-to excuse is no longer viable.

And yet I think you're going to be just fine, Leo. Plan B will probably work better than Plan A. Secondary sources and substitutes should provide you with all the leverage you need. And I bet you will finally capitalize on an advantage that you have previously neglected. For best results, be vigilant for unexpected help.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Attention! Warning! One of your signature fears is losing its chokehold on your imagination.

If this trend continues, its power to scare you may diminish more than 70 percent by November 1.

And then what will you do? How can you continue to plug away at your goals if you don't have worry and angst and dread to motivate you? I suppose you could shop around for a replacement fear -- a new prod to keep you on the true and righteous path. But you might also want to consider an alternative: the possibility of drawing more of the energy you need by feeding your lust for life.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Thank you for all the entertainment you've provided in the past 12 months, Libra. Since shortly before your birthday in 2015, you have taken lively and gallant actions to rewrite history. You have banished a pesky demon and repaired a hole in your soul.

You've educated the most immature part of yourself and nurtured the most neglected part of yourself. To my joyful shock, you have even worked to transform a dysfunctional romantic habit that in previous years had subtly undermined your ability to get the kind of intimacy you seek.

What's next? Here's my guess: an unprecedented exemption from the demands of the past.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Are you able to expand while you are contracting, and vice versa?

Can you shed mediocre comforts and also open your imagination to gifts that await you at the frontier? Is it possible to be skeptical toward ideas that shrink your world and people who waste your time, even as you cultivate optimism and innocence about the interesting challenges ahead of you? Here's what I think, Scorpio: Yes, you can. At least for right now, you are more flexible and multifaceted than you might imagine.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You Sagittarians are famous for

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I believe that during the coming weeks you will have an extra amount of freedom from fate.

The daily grind won't be able to grind you down. The influences that typically tend to sap your joie de vivre will leave you in peace. Are you ready to take full advantage of this special dispensation? Please say YES YES A THOUSAND TIMES YES. Be alert for opportunities to rise above the lowest common denominators. Be aggressive about rejecting the trivial questions that trap everyone in low expectations. Here are my predictions: Your willpower will consistently trump your conditioning. You won't have to play by the old rules, but will instead have extra sovereignty to invent the future.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you can expect an unlikely coincidence or two in the coming days. You should also be alert for helpfully prophetic dreams, clear telepathic messages, and pokes from tricky informers. In fact, I suspect that useful hints and clues will be swirling in extra abundance, sometimes in the form of direct communications from reliable sources, but on occasion as mysterious signals from strange angels.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You know that inner work you've been doing with such diligence?

I'm referring to those psychospiritual transformations you have been attending to in the dark ... the challenging but oddly gratifying negotiations you've been carrying on with your secret self ... the steady, strong future you've been struggling to forge out of the chaos? Well, I foresee you making a big breakthrough in the coming weeks.

The progress you've been earning, which up until now has been mostly invisible to others, will finally be seen and appreciated.

The vows you uttered so long ago will, at last, yield at least some of the tangible results you've pined for.. V

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'Pink Viagra' turns one, and little has changed No drinking, no oral contraceptives, and high cost may be what’s keeping women many women away

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he prescription drug that was widely touted as the female Viagra just had its first birthday. After a year on the market, it looks the creators' dreams of revolutionizing the treatment of female sexual dysfunction have not been realized.

Addyi (the trade name for the drug flibanserin) had a long and bumpy road to market. The drug was originally brought to the FDA

by Boehringer Ingelheim in 2010 but was not approved because BI failed to show it had significant effect. A year later, Sprout pharmaceuticals bought the rights to the drug and applied again. In 2014, after another FDA rejection, Sprout launched a campaign called ‘Even the Score.’ They claimed the FDA was biased against women because it had approved 26 drugs to treat

male sexual dysfunction but not one for women. They enlisted the help of medical professionals, lobby groups, and even some celebrities, to pressure the FDA. In 2015, Sprout finally received the approval.

But after all of that, Addyi has not ‘evened the score’. Shortly after its approval, Sprout sold Addyi to Valeant pharmaceuticals. They claimed Valeant could provide the marketing support needed to make the drug widely accessible and affordable. That marketing campaign, however, never got off the ground. Valeant was hit with two class action lawsuits, one involving accusations of artificially inflating the prices of their drugs.

In an interview with Fortune Magazine, CEO of Sprout, Cindy Whitehead, said that selling the drug to

Valeant would make it possible for women to get Addyi for as little as $20 per prescription. It seems that worked out about as well as the massive marketing campaign. Currently, a 30-day supply of Addyi costs around $800 USD. There are other barriers for people considering taking Addyi. It cannot be combined with alcohol.

This is a drug that must be taken daily. It can't be taken only as needed. Effects are felt over weeks of use, not days. That means that if you are taking Addyi, you can't drink—at all.

Of even more concern is the fact that Addyi can't be combined with oral contraceptives. Considering that the target market is women aged 18 to 44, the exact population most likely to take oral contraceptives, that poses a major

problem.

In addition to all of these barriers, and in spite of the massive effort to get the drug approved, studies of flibanserin showed only marginal positive results. Women who took the drug reported, on average, one more sexually satisfying experience per month than women who took a placebo.

If they have to pay nearly $800 a month, can't drink, can't take oral contraceptives, and for all of this they may get only one more great sex experience than they would have had otherwise, it’s no wonder that women are not lining up to get this drug.

There's also a central problem around creating a ‘female Viagra’ that I rarely hear acknowledged.

These drugs are all meant to do something quite different than

what Viagra does. Viagra addresses a circulation issue that inhibits erections. All of the female drugs that have come up for approval to date address a much more complex problem—lack of desire and arousal. We don’t have a good understanding of what causes lack of desire in women but we know that it is rarely simply a physical issue. It’s an interplay of physical, emotional, social and relational causes. We really don’t know if it’s possible to create a drug that will do for women what Viagra did for men. V Brenda Kerber is a sexual health educator who has worked with local not-for-profits since 1995. She is the owner of the Edmontonbased, sex-positive adult toy boutique the Traveling Tickle Trunk.

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CHEATER'S REMORSE

I’m a guy, 35, and a cheating piece of shit. I’m engaged to a woman I love, but earlier this year I cheated on her.

I have no excuse. She discovered the dating app I used, and we worked through that. But she doesn’t know that shortly after her discovery, I went ahead and cheated. To my meager, meager credit, I did seek out only women who were looking for NSA hookups. But I quickly came to realize how big of a mistake this was, how much I love my fiancée, and that I’m a shitty person. I see a therapist, and he advised that, if I’m certain this was a one-time thing, and if I’m convinced that I’m happy with my fiancée, I should keep quiet.

I shouldn’t burden my fiancée with this knowledge. I’m inclined to agree but, dear God, the guilt. I feel like I’m not the person my fiancée thought I was. What do I do? Should I just accept this as a lesson learned and keep it to myself? Perhaps there’s selfishness at play here, since I’m trying to make myself feel better, but I’m struggling.

Can’t Personally Overlook Selfishness I’m with your therapist, CPOS— and, hey, it’s nice to see “keep your mouth shut about a one-time infidelity” make the jump from our finer advice columns (Dear Prudence, Dear Sugar, Savage Love) to some of our actual therapists.

While honesty (best policy) and confession (good for the soul) get all the positive press, there are times when unburdening yourself is absolutely the wrong thing to do. The person who confesses may wind up feeling better—because at least now they’re being honest—but the person to whom they’ve confessed can wind up feeling a whole lot worse. Some bur-

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dens should be borne not shifted. If your fiancée is going to inevitably find out, CPOS, better she find out about it from you. But if the secret can be kept and if living with the guilt motivates you not to cheat again, then you can keep your mouth shut with a semi-clear-ish conscience.

This advice is not a license for serial adulterers. If you can’t be faithful to someone—if that’s what you discovered when you had the affair—then you should extract yourself from the monogamous commitment you’ve already made to your fiancée and refrain from making monogamous commitments to anyone else in the future.

But if you honestly believe you can be faithful, CPOS, you don’t have to see yourself as a cheating piece of shit. A serial adulterer/ betrayer/liar is a cheating piece of shit; someone who cheated once, regrets it, and makes a good-faith, multi-decade effort not to do it again is a fallible human being.

on it every time, and it causes huge fights. He says he’ll stop, but he never does. Weighed against all his other good qualities, this isn’t that big of a deal. Clearly he’s not going to meet up with the women he’s chatting with. What makes me sad is that I adore him as he is—I love his big white belly, his bald head, and his rosy cheeks. I think I do a good job of communicating this to him. I guess I’m writing to you for some reassurance that I’m doing the right thing by letting this behaviour go and also for some insight into why he’s doing it in the first place.

tending to be Captain America or Poison Ivy to creative anachronists pretending to be knights and ladies to Donald Trump Jr. pretending to be a human being.

We can’t gloss over the racial/racist cultural forces that shaped your boyfriend’s kinks, of course, but it’s possible to explore those kinds of fantasies online or IRL without being a racist piece of shit. And a person can pretend to be someone of another race online—because it turns them on—without injecting racial hate into online spaces and/or thoughtlessly reinforcing damaging stereotypes about people of other races.

You’ve seen your boyfriend’s online chats, UGHERS, so you’re in a better position to judge whether he’s exploring his fantasies without making the world a worse place than it already is for actual black men.

If he’s being a racist piece of shit online, UGHERS, call him out on that. If he isn’t, stop policing his fantasies.

What makes me sad is that I adore him as he is—I love his big white belly, his bald head, and his rosy cheeks.

BF'S ONLINE CHATTING

My boyfriend of five years is a sweet, smart, handsome, loving, supportive, middle-aged, chubby white guy. We have a fulfilling sex life. When we first met, he shared a fantasy he had about watching me get fucked by a black guy. (He knows it’s not something I’m interested in IRL.) I’ve caught him several times posing online as a young, buff, handsome black guy looking for a “snowbunny.” I call him out

Upset Girlfriend Hates Eroticized Racial Secrets If this isn’t that big of a deal, UGHERS, why are you calling him out on it? Why are you monitoring his online activities/fantasies at all?

What your boyfriend is doing sounds relatively harmless—he’s pretending to be someone he’s not while flirting with other people online who are most likely pretending to be someone they’re not. (I promise you most of the “snowbunnies” he’s chatted with were other men.)

The world is full of people who enjoy pretending to be someone they’re not, from cosplayers pre-

HANG ON TO LOVE?

I am a 36-year-old Italian straight man. I love my girlfriend endlessly.

One month ago, she told me she has thoughts about missing out on the things she didn’t get to do in her teens. She is 29 years old now. Also, she says she feels only a mild love for me now and is curious about other men. Yesterday we met and cried and talked and made love and it felt like she still loves me passionately. But she also told me she

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had sex with a stranger a week ago and she is going for one and a half months to Los Angeles on her own.

Now I feel confused. I should hate her for what she did to me, I should tell her to fuck off, but I can’t do it.

I am so in love and I want to be together again after her trip. How do I exit this turmoil?

Pensive And Insecure Now You exit this turmoil by breaking up with your girlfriend.

She wants to get out there and do “things she didn’t get to do in her teens,” i.e., fuck other guys and most likely date other guys. This isn’t what you want, PAIN, you’ve made that clear to her, but she’s gonna fuck other guys anyway. You don’t have to pretend to hate her, PAIN, and you don’t have to tell her to fuck off. But you do have to tell her that it’s over—at least for now.

And once she goes, PAIN, don’t lie around tormenting yourself with mental images of all the things/men she’s doing in Los Angeles. Don’t put your life on hold—love life included—while she’s gone. You’re going to be single. So get out there, date other women, do some things/ women you haven’t done. If she wants to get back together when she returns, and if you still want to get back together with her, you can pick things up where you left off.

But you should act like it’s over while she’s gone, PAIN, because it most likely is.

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