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Samantha Power

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Commerce, naturally Recently it was revealed a new cafe would be opening in the river valley, in Louise McKinney park. It's an idea that has continued to crop up—development of the natural space in the heart of our city. The repeated reasoning is that more people would come to enjoy the space, people who never come to the river valley. Wouldn't it be great to attract all Edmontonians to this beautiful space if they could have a cup of coffee and a glass of wine and observe nature?

It's hard to begrudge Edmontonians for wanting to develop local spaces, but it's a proposition that deserves serious reflection as to what we want our river valley to become. While this first cafe is a small space in Louise McKinney Park, owned by local operators, it is the first step in starting commercial development along one of the largest stretches of parkland in North America.

Developing a local business occasionally over the stretch of parks and walking trails may seem inoccuous, but it has the potential to become the next commercial zone welcoming Starbucks across the trail from a Second Cup. One only has to look at the recent decision by city council to engage Daryl Katz in the mega-complex

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that will be the downtown core, an area city council is also interested in bringing more people to and increasing usage of.

The development of Strathcona along Whyte Ave is another cautionary tale: while local businesses give the stretch of street character and serve Edmontonians with a unique experience, there is not one locally-owned coffee shop left on that strip. Not to mention the continued problems the city has ensuring proper policing and bylaw enforcement occurs.

Of course this development will increase usage of the space, but is it the type of usage that we want? And the question remains: why aren't you there already? To quote one man interviewed in the Edmonton Journal, "It's an area many Edmonton residents never visit— one man on a Segway tour told him he'd never been there before during the 70 years he has lived in the city."

The source of Edmonton's self-esteem issue—where we consider ourselves to be less than a great city, because we are not Toronto or Vancouver or Montréal—becomes evident when you realize people aren't using what already exists.

It's difficult to improve a city if you're unwilling to get out and experience it in the first place. V

Your Vue is the weekly roundup of your views on our coverage. Every week we'll be running your comments from the website, feedback on our weekly web polls and letters sent to our editors.

WEBPOLL RESULTS

COMMENTS FROM POLL

A Canadian boat headed to Gaza has been detained in Greece. The boat was carrying 30 Canadian volunteers as well as medical supplies to assist Palestinians being held under seige in Gaza. The Canadian government has so far remained silent on its support of the initiative and its assistance to the volunteers. Should the Canadian government help in assisting Palestinians in Gaza?

66.7% We have an international responsibility to protect and assist people under threat.

33.3%

The dispute in Gaza has nothing to do with Canada. We should stay out of it.

"This conflict is too polarized for me to care anymore. The feds shouldn't have an opinion because it is not their place. They need to worry about CANADA'S best interests FIRST. I am happy we live in Canada, other people should be also."

"The criminal blockade of Gaza by Isreal is an issue clearly in need of Canada's historic role of leading peacekeeping initiatives. The flotillas are just such an initiative."

THIS WEEK'S POLL

Edmonton's SOS Fest

happened this past week. This year the Fest was scaled back from three days to just one.

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COMMENT >> HEZBOLLAH

True lies

Conspiracies sometimes more than a theory Here we go again. The Special Tribuworking for Syria were arrested. The nal for Lebanon, a United Nationsnon-violent "Cedar Revolution" broke backed body investigating the killing out, demanding an end to Syrian medof Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq dling in Lebanese politics and the Hariri in 2005, has accused withdrawal of Syrian troops four people of his murder. from the country. And in They all belong to Hezbolthe end the Syrians left and om eekly.c w lah, the militant Lebanese e a pro-Western government u v e@ gwynn e n Shia movement that Israel took power: mission accomn y Gw r e and the United States define plished. y D as terrorist. But they are probBut there was actually no eviably not guilty. dence against the four Lebanese genSpecial tribunals of this sort have erals, and as one of its first acts the no intelligence agents of their own.

Special Tribunal for Lebanon, creIn practice, they rely heavily on inforated in 2009, ordered their release. mation supplied to them by national So who had organized the killing of intelligence services that they trust.

Hariri, then? Well, accusing the SyrBut they are judges and lawyers and ians had worked pretty well for the other unworldly types, and they don't Western intelligence agencies. So seem to understand that there is no maybe they decided to blame Hezsuch thing as a trustworthy intellibollah now, and see if that worked gence service. too.

Immediately after the explosion that Hezbollah came into existence in killed Rafiq Hariri and 22 other people response to the long Israeli occupain Beirut in 2005, Western and Israeli tion of southern Syria (1982-2000). It intelligence services said that the has the support of most of Lebanon's Syrian government was behind it, and Shias, who dominate the south. And it that the Iranians were behind them. gets arms and money not only from Well, of course. The main aim of the Syria but also from Syria's ally, Iran.

US and Israel at that time was to get During the last Israeli attack on Syrian troops out of Lebanon, where Lebanon, in 2006, Hezbollah fought they had been stationed since shortly the Israeli army to a stand-still in after the start of the Lebanese civil southern Lebanon. But its leadership war in 1975. has always been intelligent and subtle, Four Lebanese generals accused of and the notion that it would let itself

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become a tool for some ham-fisted Syrian operation to kill the Lebanese prime minister seems simply unbelievable to most Lebanese.

The judges of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon were persuaded by evidence that Western intelligence services pointed them towards, particularly about mobile phone calls allegedly made by Hezbollah officials. So arrest warrants have now been issued for Mustafa Badreddin, Hezbollah's chief

Arab terrorist group based in Syria to carry out the operation. So Syria was under pressure too—but then in 1990 Saddam Hussein attacked Kuwait, and Washington needed the Syrians as allies in the war to liberate it.

Suddenly the whole Iran-Syria case was abandoned, and the new suspect was Libya.

Libya under Moammar Gaddafi was an enemy of the West, so new evidence was found linking Libyan in-

One man, a Maltese shopkeeper called Tony Gauci whose testimony apparently linked al-Megrahi to the suitcase that contained the bomb, was later found living in Australia on several million dollars that the United States had paid him for his testimony. operations officer, and three other Hezbollah officials.

They probably had nothing to do with Hariri's assassination. It's more likely that they are being framed by Western intelligence agencies because Hezbollah is seen as a serious threat to Israel. If this sounds paranoid, consider the case of the Lockerbie bombing.

The bombing of Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 killed 270 people, most of them American. At first US intelligence blamed Iran, claiming that it used an

telligence agents to the attack. Gaddafi was brought to heel, and one Libyan intelligence officer, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, was tried by an international court and sentenced to life in prison. Alas, the new "evidence" was then gradually discredited as key "witnesses" turned out to be incredible.

One man, a Maltese shopkeeper called Tony Gauci whose testimony apparently linked al-Megrahi to the suitcase that contained the bomb, was later found living in Australia on several million dollars that the United States had paid him for his testimony.

NewsRoundup Pre-determined conclusions An independent parliamentary committee has determined there is an increase in anti-Semitic activity across Canada, but critics accuse the report of having a pre-determined outcome.

The Canadian Parliamentary Committee to Combat Anti-Semitism worked for two years compiling its conclusions to reveal there should be action taken on university campuses to counter Isreali Apartheid weeks, the adoption of a concise defintion of anti-Semitism and training police to better act against antisemitism. However groups such as Independent Jewish Voices, a national human rights organization, believe the commit-

Gwynne Dyer is a London-based journalist. His column appears every week in Vue Weekly.

SAMANTHA POWER // samantha@vueweekly.com

WHOSE SCIENCE? tee ignored and excluded several voices, undertaking an unethical review by not using proper research methodologies and selecting primarily pro-Israel lobby groups to report to the committee.

Professor Michael Keefer believes the committee ignored evidence that was presented, saying, "Despite receiving testimony by Canadian university administrators that anti-Semitism is not a significant problem on Canadian campuses, the report devotes pages to anecdotal claims by pro-Israel advocacy groups whose clear aim is to stifle campus discussion of Israeli human rights abuses by labeling it 'anti-Semitic.'"

SHARING THE WORKLOAD Generational change is helping improve the gender gap claims a new Statistics Canada report. While women still do the largest share of unpaid housework in the home, more men are taking on domestic responsibilities than in generations past.

The study compared the late baby boom generation to Generation X and Y, when they were in the ages between 20 – 29.

Men in the late baby boom generation were found to do 1.4 more work hours outside the home than women, but by

Another, Ulrich Lumpert, admitted that he had lied to the tribunal about supplying Libya with timers for the bomb. And so on.

In 2007 the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission announced that it would refer al-Megrahi's case to the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh (the Libyan was being held in a Scottish prison) because he "may have suffered a miscarriage of justice."

To avoid all this coming out into the open in a new trial, al-Megrahi was released in 2009 and sent home on the grounds that he was a dying man who wouldn't last three months. (He's still alive.)

If Western intelligence agencies played this kind of game over the Lockerbie bombing, what's to stop them from doing the same over the murder of Hariri? And why would they want to do that? Because Hezbollah and its Christian and Druze allies now dominate the Lebanese government, and are seen as a threat to Israeli and American interests.

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Generation Y that had narrowed to 0.4 hours. Men continue to contribute more time to paid work, while women of Generation Y are doing 53 percent of the housework.

The report also indicated Generation Y (born 1981 – 1990) is more likely to live at home and delay living with a partner.

At ages 20 – 29, 51 percent of Generation Y lived at home, in comparison to 31 percent of Generation X at the same age.

The Alberta Environmental Monitoring Panel released its report on necessary improvements to effective environmental monitoring. The panel was composed in January by the Alberta government in response to the federal Royal Society of Canada review, which determined environmental monitoring with regards to the tar sands developments' impact on water was severely deficient.

Despite the panel's determination to have science be the driving force behind any future monitoring developments in the Lower Athabasca region and in tar sands projects, the panel itself has been plagued by accusations of being less than independent and scientific.

The controversial decision to keep

Bruce Carson, who has been alleged to be involved in a conflict of interest situation with the federal government and Aboriginal reservations, was criticized by Aboriginal and environmental groups in Alberta. As well, the early departure of Dr Helen Ingram, a water policy expert, who left due to her concerns over the required clearance of communication of the panel's investigations by the environment minister's department and that there were so few scientists on the committee.

Linda Duncan, Edmonton-Strathcona MP and Critic for Aboriginal Affairs, is concerned over the lack of coordination with the federal government. "First Nations in the Mackenzie River Basin have

been forced to sue the federal minister for four years of failed compliance with duties to designate critical woodland caribou habitat, a species they rely on for subsistence," says Duncan. "Promised government action to protect the fisheries, Mackenzie River Basin and Aboriginal treaty and constitutional rights is still awaited as expansion of the oil sands developments continue, majorly unabated."

The Alberta panel has recommended an arm's length monitoring commission to be a science-driven, independent organization, a publicly-accessible monitoring system for monitoring data and reports and increased Aboriginal input into monitoring.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK "Let's do our best to fight for our rights and the rights of the little boy in Samson."

— Assembly of First Nations Chief Shawn Atleo on the shooting of Ethan Yellowbird.

CBC, July 12, 2011

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A sign of things to come

Back-to-work legislation a signal of future lowered workplace standards

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anada's postal workers may be back at work, but labour advocates are warning that the battle for Canadian work standards has only just begun. After the federal government passed back-to-work legislation against locked-out postal workers in June, labour advocates are concerned workers have lost the right to collectively bargain for their employment conditions and that Canadians will have to accept lower work standards.

While collective bargaining has been determined by the Supreme Court to be a right held by Canadians, the back-towork legislation enacted by the federal government begins to erode it.

"The court has ruled that Canadians have a constitutional right to engage in collective bargaining and that governments should not lightly interfere with that right," says David Doorey, a professor of labour law with York University. "While the court has wrestled with the question of how far that right should be taken, it is clear that a majority of the judges are uncomfortable with governments that restrict collective bargaining for political purposes and absent compelling reasons to do so."

CUPW has decided to take the backto-work legislation to court over issues of constitutionality and Doorey believes CUPW stands a chance of getting a favourable ruling. "It's impossible to predict what this court will do with the Canada Post legisla-

tion," says Doorey, "But I wouldn't be surprised at all if the court were to object to the process by which this legislation was enacted and to some of its provisions, including the wagefixing provisions, which were completely unnecessary and politically motivated."

But even if CUPW were to win concessions over issues of constitutionality there is a threat over the current treatment of public sector workers in Canada. "It's a danger sign to workers across the country," says Rachel Notley, current NDP MLA in the Alberta legislature and a former labour relations officer with the United Nurses of Alberta. Notley, like many labour advocates believes the bargaining process was not allowed to take its course. "[The government] didn't take into account it was the corporation itself that chose to lock people out," says Notley. "They didn't engage arbitration, which is not the best-case scenario, but they didn't even do that."

The final offer selection mandated by the back-to-work legislation means the Conservative government will be picking the arbitrator who will then choose one side's proposal in its entirety. This creates tremendous pressure for CUPW to submit to concessions they would not have during bargaining, as author David Camfield describes in a Canadian Centre for

Policy Alternatives briefing document.

"With this law the Conservatives are sending a signal to unionized workers: if you resist the concessions that employers demand, you risk ending up with an even worse outcome," writes Camfield.

While Canadian governments have a history of injecting themselves into

influence the establishment of workplace rules and thereby gain some control over a major aspect of their lives, namely their work."

But it's not only labour advocates who believe collective bargaining should be allowed to run its course to create labour equity. Early in the development of the back-to-work leg-

With this law the Conservatives are sending a signal to unionized workers: if you resist the concessions that employers demand, you risk ending up with an even worse outcome. the collective bargaining process, Doorey believes the back-to-work legislation was deliberately provocative.

"By imposing wage levels below what the employer was prepared to offer, granting itself the unilateral right to select an arbitrator sympathetic to the government and employer's position, and setting parameters to restrict the arbitrator's discretion," he says, "the government is directly injecting itself into the collective bargaining process to a degree rarely seen in modern Canadian labour law."

This outcome goes against the reasoning behind the Supreme Court's decision in 2007 which ruled that the right to collective bargaining should exist as it "enhances the human dignity, liberty and autonomy of workers by giving them the opportunity to

islation, Conservative MP Brent Rathegeber wrote on his website that he too had concerns over its use. Rathegeber's background in labour law on the employment side compelled him to voice that he believes back-towork legislation does not result in fair judgements for the employment side: "I am leery of back-to-work legislation because I cynically suspect that many unions favour such legislation, believing they will fare better under binding arbitration than they would at the bargaining table."

Notley believes that collective bargaining should be allowed to go through its course as it results in less workplace disruption. "It will probably mark several years of some real dysfunctional relations as a result," says Notley.

For Denis Lemelin, national president of the CUPW, the greater concern this legislation signals is the growing use of the financial crisis as an excuse to lower working conditions: "It's the fight between big corporations to use the financial crisis to create new working conditions for workers in the country."

CUPW attempted to minimize workplace disruptions and continue essential economic activity by holding rotating strikes.

Doorey believes the economic debate extends beyond work stoppage's impact on the financial crisis. "The great victory of the contemporary political right is that they have managed to convince so many working folks that they are better off without collective bargaining," he says.

With the income gap between Canadians growing, Doorey believes most Canadians sense that they are falling behind, but due to the increased pressure on public sector unions and regressive legislation, such as that just passed against CUPW, Canadians are less likely to do anything about poor working conditions.

"It's more than just renewal of the collective agreement put forward," says Lemelin. "We must have a social debate around what society we want in this country." samantha power // samantha@vueweekly.com

Historic headache

Can Edmonton do more to preserve its heritage?

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ordon Harper is facing an uphill battle. The man behind the campaign to save the former Bank of Montreal building at the corner of 101 Street and Jasper Avenue strikes a balance between maintaining optimism while keeping his expectations low.

"I'm just hoping that the city can enter into a dialogue with GE and that GE can be persuaded of the value of the property," he says. He knows the odds are against him.

Edmonton doesn't have a particularly good track record when it comes to preserving historic buildings. The Heritage Canada Foundation is a national non-profit organization established by the federal government in 1993 to encourage the preservation of nationally significant historic, architectural, natural and scenic heritage.

Each year, the foundation issues a Top 10 Endangered Places list to bring national attention to sites at risk due to neglect, lack of funding, inappropriate development and weak legislation.

They also issue a list of the nation's worst heritage site losses each year.

We've made both in the past decade.

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In 2005, the Central Pentecostal Tabernacle Church at 116 Street and 107 Avenue was on the endangered list while Lessard House at 11936 - 100 Ave made it in 2006. Both buildings have been razed with condominiums put up in their places. Lessard House was on the 2006 list of the nation's worst heritage losses; the Arlington Apartments at 106 Street and 100 Avenue on 2009's list.

"Their hearts are in the right place and people in the planning department are attempting to do the right thing, but it seems the system is built in such a way that it makes it incredibly difficult," Heritage Canada spokeswoman Carolyn Quinn told the Edmonton Journal in 2009.

Edmonton's historic resources management program provides incentives to encourage the restoration and rehabilitation of historic resources. In order to qualify for designation as a municipal historic resource, the building must first be listed on the inventory of historic resources.

"Once it is designated a municipal historic resource, the property is pro-

tected from demolition and inappropriate alterations through a bylaw," explains David Holdworth, one of two principal heritage planners with the city. Owners are eligible for a variety of financial incentives to renovate the property while preserving its heritage.

While properties on the inventory have no such protection or access to funds, city planners are happy to work with owners who are seeking the higher designation.

Because provincial legislation requires that compensation be made to the owner of the site or building when a heritage designation is made by the municipality, it is very rare that the designation process doesn't start with the owner of the property. And even that is sometimes not enough, as the case of the Arlington Apartments made very clear.

The five-storey, red-brick structure on the corner of 106 Street and 100 Avenue was a prestigious address when it was built in 1909. The first apartment building in Edmonton, it was grandly decorated with a pressed

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metal cornice along the roof's edge, scrolled eave brackets, a recessed arch doorway and wooden sash windows on the front and rear facades.

The property was allowed to slide into disrepair from around the 1970s until 1995, when it was granted provincial historical designation. Municipal designation followed in 1998, with the city and province providing $375Â 000 and $147Â 000, respectively, in grants to the owner for renovations. That fall, Capital Health declared the building unfit for habitation and tenants were told to leave because the heating system was broken. Although the system was repaired before the tenants had to vacate, problems continued and tenants received multiple judgments in court against the owner.

On April 5, 2005, the building was destroyed by arson. Nobody has ever been charged with the crime. The city and the property owner battled about salvaging the building's original facade for years and by 2008 the building had deteriorated so much the city declared the Arlington a safety hazard that had to be demolished. The Arling-

ton experience did prove educational, if nothing else.

"There is now a maintenance clause put in place for every property on the Register," says Holdsworth. Such a clause may have averted many of the Arlington's pre-fire woes.

The Edmonton historical board advises city council on heritage and preservation issues. The board includes citizens appointed by council and representatives from the Northern Alberta Pioneers and Descendant's Association and the Edmonton and District Historical Society. Martin Kennedy is the board's vice chair. He acknowledges there are systemic hurdles in fights to save a building. Asked if a change to provincial legislation might bolster the city's ability to preserve our heritage buildings, he isn't so sure.

"There's always going to be a problem when you're designating a building against an owner's wishes," he explains. "There's a very small pool of developers who are committed to heritage preservation. What we really need to do is grow that pool."

Mimi Williams

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ARTS

Director Linette J. Smith finds a way to take this wonderful otherworldly feeling even further by letting her background as a dancer influence some of her choices.

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PREVUE // THEATRE

Homegrown controversey

Edmonton joins in on Canada-wide readings of controversial play Fri, Jul 15 (8 pm) Homegrown Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts Free; donations to SummerWorks encouraged

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atherine Frid's Homegrown got its first taste of controversy before the curtain even rose.

At the 2010 SummerWorks festival in Toronto—known for presenting works on the artistic edge, both in theatre and music—Homegrown's somewhat sympathetic exploration of the playwright's true-life relationship with Shareef Abdelhaleem—one of the "Toronto 18" convicted of plotting to detonate bombs in Toronto and Ontario—ignited a maelstrom of discussion. After a few newspaper profiles drew attention to its content before the play had opened, Andrew MacDougal, speaking for the Prime Minister's Office, said, "We are extremely disappointed public money is going towards funding plays that glorify terrorism."

The head of SummerWorks, artistic producer Michael Rubenfeld, disagreed and defended the play, and after awhile (and a pretty lukewarm critical reception), the tumult calmed itself. But now it's resurfaced: in the weeks leading up to this year's SummerWorks, the company learned that its $48 000 federal grant, one it had been receiving from the Department of Canadian Heritage for five years, wasn't going to be renewed for the 2011 festival. That grant constituted about 20 percent of the total SummerWorks budget, and the fest was left looking for ways to scale back while scrambling for private donations before its August 4 opening.

The Heritage Minister's office has denied there's a connection between the festival's defunding and the PMO's criticism of Homegrown. But Canadian artists, in large numbers, have drawn the opposite conclusion, especially coming in a summer that's been filled with forboding news about arts and government funding, televised attacks on artists from right-wing media and, in particular, a statement from Finance Minister Jim Flaherty warning artists not to count on grants as they have in the past.

"One thing I'd say, and maybe it's different than it used to be, is we actually don't believe in festivals and cultural institutions assuming that year after year after year they'll receive government funding," Flaherty told CBC News on June 28.

In response to the funding cut, Frank Moher, artistic director of Western

A scene from the original SummerWorks run of Homegrown

Edge theatre in Nanaimo, BC, announced a local reading of Homegrown, and the idea spread: Toronto playwright Michael Healey took it further, helping to organize staged readings of Homegrown across the country, including in Edmonton.

Our local production is being headed up by Garett Spelliscy, an independent artrist whose inquiries into whether or not anyone in Edmonton was going to put on a production led to him being given the reins. "[Healey] directed me to Northern Light [Theatre], and Trevor Schmidt, who'd originally inquired about it," Spelliscy says. "And then I realized there was an ongoing discussion among the professional theatres about how to do this right.

"I don't run a professional theatre, and I don't have a board, and I wrote a letter to the people that were in that ongoing conversation, and I sort of came out guns blazing, because I'd read about everything going on."

The Edmonton reading of Homegrown—directed by Spelliscy and featuring locals Michele Brown, Michael Peng, Jamie Cavanagh and Jason Chinn— is set to be focused on discussion more than outright protest: while Homegrown and SummerWorks' funding seems to some like a cautionary warning of what could be in store for the arts in Canada, this reading is a chance for audiences to assess the work for themselves, instead of going by the buzz of hearsay and controversy.

"A lot of people feel that there's a culture war," Spelliscy notes. "I think it's better for everybody if we all get in the same room, and it's not about accusations, it's not about protesting anything. It's really about hearing the play and hearing what it's all about, from the horse's mouth."

It is, undeniably, a far more complicated issue than simple political dismissal of a play's content, but a larger one of funding—Spelliscy points out that Heritage Canada itself lost 45 million dollars in the most recent budget—and, as some see it, ideological difference. Canada wide, the artistic reception to SummerWorks'

cut hasn't been mild. On the phone from Nanaimo, Moher notes that he took the finance minister's comments to be a somewhat grim statement to Canadian artists.

"I understand that to be intimidation," Moher says. "It's saying, 'And you be careful too. Don't you do anything we don't like, or we'll take away your funding as well.'

"My original notion was to say to the Conservative government, 'Look, any attempt to suppress a work of art will only cause it to spread more widely,'" he continues of his own decision to stage the play. "Like cutting back blackberry bushes, they only grow more widely. And that's what happened. So I think, as far as I'm concerned, that purpose has already been accomplished. However, I think it was important early in the tenure of this majority government to push back, as to whether we would sit back and take this political manipulation of arts funding. To which we have said, 'No, not so much.'"

Edmonton audiences, like those across the country, will get to make up their own minds on Friday.

"The play itself, in terms of its content, is controversial," Spelliscy says.

"The Prime Minister's Office's comments, they raised questions and issues for people, the way the play was talked about in the media, and what happened at the Heritage Ministry, and the finance minister's comments about arts and culture funding, they're not all the same thing. They're part of a big controversy, and they're all contributing factors. But one thing doesn't necessarily lead to the next thing and to the next thing.

"And so people here, because I think we're a little bit more objective than the groups in Toronto, because it's not our town, it's not our festival, we think it's really worthwhile to read this play," he continues. "We think it's a public service to Edmontonians and Edmonton theatregoers, because they now have the opportunity to make up their own mind, and we wanted to focus the event on that."

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call to artists

Call to Artists - Request for Qualifications Borden Park Public Art Project Budget:

$212,000 CAD (maximum, all inclusive)

Eligibility:

All Canadian and international visual artists

Deadline:

4:30 pm on Thursday, August 25, 2011

Installation:

Summer 2012

Call Callto toArtists Artists--Request Requestfor forQualifications Proposals

Highlands Branch Library Public Art Project Budget:

$39,500 CAD (maximum, all inclusive)

Eligibility:

All Canadian visual artists

Deadline:

4:30 pm on Tuesday, August 25th, 2011

Installation:

March 2013

Call to Artists - Call for Portfolios The Edmonton Arts Council public art program invites artists to submit their portfolios to be kept on file for direct calls.

Deadline: ongoing.

Visit our website to download the complete public art calls:

http://publicart.edmontonarts.ca/calls/ The public art competitions listed above are held in accordance with the City of Edmonton policy “Percent for Art to Provide and Encourage Art in Public Areas” (C458C).

For more information, contact the Edmonton Arts Council: p: (780) 424–2787 | e: publicart@edmontonarts.ca

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REVUE // VISUAL ARTS

The medium is more

Tribute to Marshall McLuhan offers playful interpretations Until Sat, Jul 23 Spaces and Places: Visioning McLuhan at 100 Curated by Aidan Rowe Latitude 53 Contemporary Visual Culture

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lthough Marshall McLuhan is a household name for the CBClistening set, his ideas about how technology and media shapes our lives have faded from niche ubiquity, beyond his famous lines, "The medium is the message," and, "Global village."

The works that are able to meet the challenge of taking on the complexity and nuance of McLuhan do so brilliantly.

In honour of the 100th anniversary of McLuhan's birth, Latitude 53 and curator Aidan Rowe have on offer an exhibition of artwork inspired by the visionary thinker.

At first look, it is impossible not to notice how this show made the challenging L-shaped gallery space work to its advantage, seamlessly applying strong design skills to the construction of an art exhibition. Beyond energizing the gallery space and setting up a clear

flow through the room through wellmade art placement decisions, Rowe's use of quotations around the room aids the McLuhan rookie in finding a way into the artworks' theory-based conceptual centres. However, despite the exemplary strengths found in the exhibition design, the selected artwork is not always able to do more for its audience than looking like it belongs in the space.

That being said, the works that are able to meet the challenge of taking on the complexity and nuance of McLuhan do so brilliantly. Amanda RT Thomson's "Great Journeys of our Times" transposes historic North American journeys through the filter of a program like Google Maps' directions. The middle of three works on paper, "The incredible 1804 – 1806 journey of Lewis and Clark, in which these heroic men led an expedition and found their way from Missouri, to the West Coast ... in 129 parts" is broken down into starting point, ending point, total distance, total estimated time and the concise directions to get there. This cold, computer-generated structure is a startling and humorous contrast to the historic narrative of heroism conventionally applied to Lewis and Clark and their journey.

The stripping bare of their pilgrimage to the West Coast through the unsentimental information spit out of a direc-

tion-generating program is at once funny and unsettling. Thomson's absolute removal of narrative from the epic journeys, with the exception of each work's title, calls into question what happens to phenomenological experience or memory of our own epic journeys when sifted through technology.

Meaning as negotiable is also explored in the interactive design work

by Master of Design student Cindy Coldwell. "Entitle" asks gallery visitors to scan the provided barcode or visit entitle.ca to rename artwork in the exhibition space and share it online via their smart phone or laptop. This work affirms personal interpretation of artwork, encouraging viewers to become participants and share their appraisal of works in the gallery. In addition, this work speaks to the soft empowerment that the Internet allows through the provision of space for somewhat anonymous expression and opinionating.

These are just a couple of the works that shine in providing critical, playful art and design interventions in conversation with McLuhan's ideas, in spite of sharing space with works more vacant in meaning. On the whole, this exhibit is definitely worth a visit, providing opportunities to explore relationships with technology and media for the McLuhan expert and rookie alike.

Carolyn Jervis

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PREVUE // VISUAL ARTS/THEATRE

YEAR OF THE RABBIT Thu, Jul 14 – Sun, Jul 24 (7:30 pm) Catalyst Theatre, $15 – $20

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here's a certain yin-yang harmony that synchs up when sitting down with Bridget Ryan and Jason Carter: she has an animated vivaciousness about her, a natural talker and trained musical-theatre actress whose charisma carries the morning hours on CityTV's Breakfast Television; Carter, who works behind the camera at the same channel, is a little more reserved but no less engaged in conversation, jumping in to clarify points and help further any points she makes.

Theirs seems a partnership forged in mutual respect, but one that could also very well be predetermined by some otherworldly astrological link.

That is, after all, what's grounded their past artistic endeavours together—they've done a rabbit-themed combination art show/cabaret before (his art, her music), published a children's book on the matter, and now return to it with their upcoming Year of the Rabbit, a cabaret-meets-art show that sees her stringing-together a loosely-plotted thread through a medley of '80s songs inspired by the

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sculptures and canvases that will fill the Catalyst Theatre, crafted by him.

Traditional theatre seating will be forgone for a more immersive audience experience. Art in the round, if you will, or, musical theatre in the gallery.

"The first carving that I did of a rabbit," Carter says, "was, I don't know, probably my 15th carving: saw a rabbit in there, carved him and instantly fell in love with the carving itself. Did some research, found out he was a trickster character that I'd been drawn to, and since then I've carved, easily, 40 rabbits."

Carter's first solo show sold out completely— Mayor Mandel owns one of his rabbits—which Carter and Ryan attribute to a loose narrative they wrote for the show, which viewers followed through the gallery—it's been turned into a children's book Nanabozho: The Trickster Rabbit and expanding to canvas has given Ryan further direction for her music.

"The way he paints, the images that you see, have to be reflected in the music," Ryan says. Her "Hare band" is being enlarged from previous outings into a fleshed-out five members.

There's also a link to charity: a portion

Proper Hare Band etiquette: one orange glove

of sales, both of admission and of any art sold, will go toward the Youth Emergency Shelter Society.

Within both art and song, Carter and Ryan are examining the mythos of the rabbit figure in its five astrological elements—earth, fire, metal, water and wood—as well as from the titular astrological year (which we happen to be in presently). Following that same thread, her song selection pulls from his works in the same way.

"There's probably 70 songs jammed into about 90 minutes," Ryan continues, noting some are fragments of songs, while others are full versions. "'Renegade' from Styx, man? That's a smashing song," she says, with Carter adding, "You can't cut that one down."

Paul BLinov

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DANCE MOVEMENTS DANCE • Con Boland Gardens, 10107-89 St • Affair, A Jazz Soiree • Jul 17, 4:30pm • $35 at T: 780.415.5211, TIX on the Square; dress to impress, wear white VINOK DANCE • Chateau Louis Hotel and Conference Centre, 11727 Kingsway • Klondyke Kapers: Music, songs, dance and verve of the Gold Rush Era, evoking the atmosphere of a Klondike Saloon featuring a BBQ, a floor show, and Klondike Liz • Jul 20, 5pm • $75, proceeds to Vinok's artistic and educational programming

FILM EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY(EFS) • Royal Alberta Museum, 12845-102 Ave • There’s no Business Like Show Business (PG); Jul 18, 8pm • Swing Time (PG); Jul 25, 8pm

FILM FORUM • Stanley A. Milner Library, Edmonton Room • Series of film screenings and public talks every month, facilitated by a guest speaker • Gimme Shelter (1969) (14A); discussion facilitated by Lori Walter; Jul 16, 1:30pm

FROM BOOKS TO FILM SERIES • Stanley A. Milner Library, Main Fl, Audio Visual Rm • Screenings of films adapted from books every Fri afternoon presented by the Centre for Reading and the Arts • Whats Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) (PG); Jul 15, 2pm • The Iron Giant (1999) (PG); Jul 22, 2pm

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS AGNES BUGERA GALLERY • 12310 Jasper Ave • 780.482.2854 • agnesbugeragallery.com • SUMMER SHOW: Artworks by Tanya Kirouac, Scott Plear, Scott Pattinson, Jane Brookes, Luc Bernard, Hashim Hannoon • Until Jul 23 ALBERTA AVIATION MUSEUM • 11410 Kingsway Ave • 780.451.1175 • albertaaviationmuseum.com • Edmonton Indy Week: Airliner Pull: Jul 16, 10am-4pm • Soap Box Tech and Tune: Jul 16, 10am-4pm • Race Week Edmonton Soap Box Derby: Jul 16 • Vintage Wings of Canada North American P-51 Mustang: Jul 16, 10am-4pm • T-Bird Tour: Starting at Radisson Hotel Edmonton South 4440-Gateway Blvd to Alberta Aviation Museum; Jul 16, 4-5pm • Rock and Roll Sock Hop: Jul 16, 7pm; proceeds to the Edmonton Aviation Heritage Society • Mustang Madness: Jul 17, 10am-4pm

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • GENERATION WHY: Exploring the voices of craft makers 35 & younger; Jul 16-Sep 24; opening reception: Jul 16, 2-4pm • Discovery Gallery: OFF THE FLOOR: Contemporary rug hookings by Rachelle LeBlanc; Jul 16-Aug 27; opening reception: Jul 16, 2-4 pm • SPECIMEN: An exploration of insects by Calgary jewellery artist Erin Boukall; Jul 16-Aug 27; opening reception: Jul 16, 2-4pm

ALBERTA LEGISLATURE • 10820-98 Ave • SMALL BEGINNINGS EXHIBIT: Artworks by artists from Brooks and the community of Newell • Until Jul 27

FACTURED; until Aug 21 • SARAH FULLER: MY BANFF: in the RBC New Works Gallery; until Aug 7 • BMO World of Creativity: DRAWN OUTSIDE: especially for kids; Until Jan 29, 2012 • LAWREN HARRIS ABSTRACTIONS; until Sep 11 • TRAFFIC: CONCEPTUAL ART IN CANADA 1965-1980: Tracking the influence and diversity of Conceptual Art as it was produced in Canada during the 1960s and 1970s; until Sep 25 • All Day Sunday: My Edmonton: Jul 17, 12-4 pm; free with admission • $5 Warhol Wednesdays for Creative Age Festival Seniors: Seniors who bring in an AGA issued coupon, receive $5 admission for up to two seniors on any Wed, until Aug 17 • Soup Can Drive: collecting cans of soup throughout the duration of Andy Warhol: Manufactured, to be donated to Edmonton’s Food Bank • Marshall McLuhan’s Birthday: Jul 20, 7pm; free • Adult drop-in: Pop! Mixed Media Collage; Jul 14, 7-9pm; $15/$12 (member)

ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • Profiles, 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • THE MONSTER IN YOUR CLOSET: Mark Goodchild, Chung Cheuk Hung, Laura O’Connor, Psychotic robotic art collective: Tristan McClelland & Christopher Zaytsoff (C. Robot & T. McClelland) until Jul 30 • ARTernative for teens: Jul 14, 6pm • Artventures: Jul 16, 1pm;

ASA GALLERY • Walterdale Playhouse, 10322-83 Ave • 780.426.0072 • Art in the Lobby: Recent works by Donna Miller • Until Jul 16 CAFÉ PICHILINGUE–Red Deer • 4928-50 St • 403.346.0812 • Artworks by Jodi Benson • Until Jul 29

CENTRE D'ARTS VISUELS DE L'ALBERTA • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • MULTIMEDIA: Artworks by Father Douglas, Madeleine Bellmond, Greg Lewis, and Claire Chauvet • Until Jul 26

CROOKED POT GALLERY–Stony Plain • 4912-51 Ave, Stony Plain • 780.963.9573 • JUICED! A TRIBUTE TO DRINKING AND POURING VESSELS: Pottery by Tammy Parks-Legge • Until Jul 30

EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ • 9938-70 Ave• 780.437.3667 • expressionzcafe.com • NIGHT OF ARTISTS–FAB FOUR: Magazine launch, art exhibit and live entertainment: Featured performers: Tiff Hall and Pulse; featured visual artists at nightofartists.com • Until Jul 30 GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner

RED DEER MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY • 4525-47A Ave • reddeermuseum.

403.340.4869 • hubpdd.com • TAKE FLIGHT: Group show • Until Jul 29

com • FARM SHOW: A series of exhibitions newly created to explore contemporary farming issues; until Nov 13 • FARMING OUT OUR FUTURE: Changes that have had an impact on rural life in Alberta, 1950 to present; until Nov 13 • FROM OUR COLLECTION: Objects and artifacts from Central Alberta’s history; until Jul 30 • ALBERTA WIDE 2011–SPIRIT OF ALBERTA: Art show; until Aug 7

JEFF ALLEN ART GALLERY • Strathcona Seniors Centre, 10831 University Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • Landscapes, flowers, buildings and abstracts by Liz Andrusiak • Until Jul 27

JURASSIC FOREST/LEARNING CENTRE • 15 mins N of Edmonton off Hwy 28A, Township Rd 564 • Education-rich entertainment facility for all ages

KIWANIS GALLERY–Red Deer • Red Deer Library • TWISTED: Pottery and digital art by Issy Covey • Until Jul 29

LATITUDE 53 • 10248-106 St • 780.423.5353 • latitude53.org • Main Gallery: SPACES&PLA CES:VISIONINGMCLUHAN@100: Artworks dedicated to the centenary of Marshall McLuhan's birth; until Jul 23 • ProjEx Room: VITULAZIO: Works by Barbara Prokop; until Jul 23 • Rooftop Patio: Martina MacFarlane (M.A.D.E. in Edmonton) on Jul 14; Geoff Lilge (FSC Consulting Engineers) on Jul 21; Paul Smith (Coup Boutique and Duchess Bake Shop) on Jul 28 • Summer Incubator Series: Paul Smith; Jul 25-30 • Martina MacFarlane until Jul 16 • Geoff Lilge Jul 18-23; openings every Thu, 5-9pm/ artist talks every Thu, 7pm • DRAW–DRAWing the Community Together at Harcourt, SNAP, and Latitude 53; Jul 30, 12-5pm (Harcourt and SNAP); 12pm-12am (Latitude)

LOFT GALLERY • A. J. Ottewell Art Centre, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • 780.922.6324 • artstrathcona.com • SUMMER ART SHOW: Landscapes and florals by Gail Farewell, Penny Lamnek, Anne McCartney, Linda Nelson, Dessirrie Plewis • Until Jul 31 MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • SIZE DOESN'T MATTER: Artworks by Spyder Yardley-Jones • Until Jul 31 • Opening reception will be during the Works Art and Design Festival MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GALLERY (MCPAG)–STONY PLAIN • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain • 780.963.9935 • POINT OF DEPARTURE: Artworks by Lyndal Osborne • Until Jul 27

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der Way, Red Deer • 403.341.4641 • WEEKEND ART MARKET: Group show • Until Jul 29

GALLERIE PAVA • Centre d’arts visuels de l’Alberta, 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • cava@ shaw.ca • RÊVES, RÉALISATION ET ACCEPTATION DE SOI: Artworks by Sylvie Nadeau • Until Jul 20 G. MICHAEL'S HAIR–Red Deer • 4702 Ross St, Downtown Co-op Plaza • WE'RE STILL HERE: Artworks by Jessie Pettit, and Paul Boultbee • Until Jul 29

HAGGERTY CENTRE–Stollery Gallery • Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, 9225-118 Ave • 780.474.7611 • ninahaggertyart.ca • KINGDOM COME: A KIND OF RETROSPECTIVE: Curated by Harold Pearse, paintings

by Louis O' Coffey • Until Jul 23 • Opening reception: Jul 14, 5-7pm

HARCOURT HOUSE • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir

HARRIS-WARKE GALLERY–Red Deer •

Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga. ca • Sculpture Terraces: Works by Peter Hide and Ken Macklin • ANDY WARHOL: MANU-

Sunworks Home and Garden Store, Ross St, Red Deer • 403.346.8937 • harriswarkegallery.com • THE JUMPERS: Paintings by Erin

ARTERY • 9535 Jasper Ave • DEVIATION:

HUB ON ROSS ART GALLERY– Red Deer • 4936 Ross St, Red Deer •

Albert • 780.651.8176 • Aboriginal Veterans Display • Gift Shop • Finger weaving and sash display by Celina Loyer • Ongoing

Artworks by Brent Irving • Through Jul

bert • 780.459.3679 • THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY: A cartoonist retrospective of personalities, royalty and politicians by Yardley Jones • Until Jul 30

Csorba • Jul 15-Aug 30

Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • FLOWING LINES: Paintings by Trevor Sale • Until Jul 29

• 780.426.4180 • Main Space: RE-CHARGED: artworks by members • Until Jul 16 • DRAW–DRAWing the Community Together at Harcourt, SNAP, and Latitude 53; • Edmonton’s Artist Run Centres host Annual Draw Event kicking off at Harcourt House and SNAP and will then conclude with an evening party at Latitude 53; Jul 30, 12-5pm (Harcourt and SNAP); 12pm-12am (Latitude)

ART BEAT GALLERY • 26 St Anne St, St Al-

Boake • Until Jul 29

• Mel Heath, Joan Healey, Fran Heath, Larraine Oberg, Terry Kehoe, Darlene Adams, Sandy Cross and Victoria, Pottery by Naboro Kubo and Victor Harrison • Ongoing

MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GALLERY–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain • 780.963.9935 • Installation works by Sarindar Dhaliwal and Lyndal Osbourne • Until Jul 27

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM–St Albert • 5 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1528 • St Albert History Gallery: Featuring artifacts dating back 5,000 years • THE MISSION MAKERS: Celebrating the ambitions, accomplishments and friendships of Archbishop Taché, OMI, and Father Lacombe, OMI; until Nov

MUTTART CONSERVATORY • 9626-96A St • 780.496.8755 • edmonton.ca/muttart • THE ARGENTUM PROJECT: EARTHLY ARCHETYPES: Sculptors’ Association of Alberta's 25th Anniversary Show and Celebration • Until Sep 6

NAESS GALLERY–Paint Spot • 10032-81 Ave • THE SILENCE OF BIRDS: Sculptures

by Maggie Morris • Until Jul 30

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • IN THE STUDIO: Artworks by Violet Owen • Until Jul 26 PICTURE THIS GALLERY • 959 Ordze Rd, Sherwood Park • 780.467.3038 • PictureThisGallery.com • PRAIRIE POP ART: Pop art by Dean McLeod, and Steven

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ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • Wild Alberta Gallery: WILD BY NATURE: Every Sat and Sun, 11am and 2pm SNAP GALLERY • 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • CO-EXIST: Artworks by Japanese artist Ryuta Endo • Artist talk: Jul 14, 6pm (Japanese), 6:30pm (English) • Opening reception: Jul 14, 7pm • Jul 14-Aug 9 • DRAW–DRAWing the Community Together at Harcourt, SNAP, and Latitude 53; Jul 30, 12-5pm (Harcourt and SNAP); 12pm-12am (Latitude) SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • Melcor Cultural Centre, 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • GONE TO THE DOGS: Pantings by Father Douglas • Until Jul 30 • Opening reception: Jul 16, 1-4pm

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • 780.451.3344 • SESAME STREET PRESENTS: THE BODY • Until Sep 5 VAAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.421.1731 • LAND OF VARIED PERSPECTIVES: Textile work by Alberta's Hand Weavers, Spinners and Dyers of Alberta organization • Jul 14-Aug 20 (closed for August long weekend) • Opening reception: Jul 28, 7-9:30pm • Weaving demonstrations: Jul 16, 1-4pm; and Jul 23, 1-4pm VASA GALLERY • (Studio Gallery) 11 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.5993 • RENDEVOUS WITH ART: VASA Artist Run Centre featuring studio artists Bruce Allen, Miles Constable, Douglas Fraser, Monk, BruceThompson, Frank van Veen, Pat Wagensveld, and Diane Way • Until Jul 30

VELVET OLIVE LOUNGE–Red Deer • 4924-50 St • 403.340.8288 • GRILLED: Paintings by Paul Boultbee and Glynis Wilson Boultbee • Until Jul 29

VISUALEYEZ 2011 • Latitude 53, 10248106 St • Performance Art Festival • Jul 15-22 WHYTE AVE ARTWALK • Whyte Ave, Old Strathcona • 780.432.0240 • art-walk.ca • An outdoor studio and gallery featuring hundreds of working artists • Jul 15-17, 10-5pm

and Twelfth Night • Until Jul 24, 8pm; matinees on Sat and Sun at 2 pm • $23 (adult)/$15 (student/senior); $35 (festival pass) available at TIX on the Square, at Park box office (opens at 7pm; 1pm for matinees)

HARD DAY'S KNIGHTS • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, WEM • 780.484.2424 • jubilations.ca • Featuring songs of the Beatles • Until Aug 21

THE SCENT OF COMPULSION • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • 780.433.3399 • By Stewart Lemoine, stars Davina Stewart, Jeff Haslam, Julien Arnold, Vincent Forcier, Farren Timoteo, Kristi Hansen, Andrew MacDonald-Smith, Kristen Padayas, and Amber Bissonnette • Tue-Sat, until Jul 23, 7:30pm; Sat mat at 2pm • Wed-Sat 7:30pm: $27 (adult)/$22 (student/senior); Sat afternoons: $15; Tue 7:30pm: pay-what-you-can; tickets at TIX on the Square

SEXY LAUNDRY • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre. ca • By Michele Riml, starring Eddie Mekka from Laverne and Shirley • Until Jul 24 STREETFEST–Edmonton International Street Performers Festival • Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.425.5162 • edmontonstreetfest.com • Escape To Someplace Magical: Outdoor performances and Late Night Madness performances, daily Troupe du Jour group shows, artistic face-painters, colourful rovers, Be Your Own Busker workshops, and Kids’ World activities for the young and young at heart • Until Jul 17

THEATRESPORTS • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre's 30th Anniversary Edition • Every Fri, 11pm • $10 at TIX on the Square, door • $10 at TIX on the Square, door. The final four Theatresports shows of the season until Jul 29 WICKED • Jubilee Auditorium • By Stephen Schwartz And Winnie Holzman; based on the novel by Gregory Maguire; directed by Joe Mantello • The untold story of the witches of Oz. Long before Dorothy drops in, two other girls meet in the land of Oz. One, born with emerald-green skin, is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. WICKED tells the story of their remarkable odyssey, how these two unlikely friends grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good • Jul 20-Aug 7 YEAR OF THE RABBIT–HARE BAND CABARET • Catalyst Theatre, 8524 Gateway Blvd • 780.420.1757 • Celebrate the year of the rabbit with a double-bill from Jason Carter, and Bridget Ryan • Jul 14-24 • Tickets at TIX on the Square, portion of ticket and art sales go to the Youth Emergency Shelter Society (YESS)

LITERARY DV8 TAVERN • 8307-99 St • Book release for Chris Walter (punk author), with Zero Cool (alt), Kroovy Rookers • Jul 15, 8pm HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB • 15120 Stony Plain Road • Edmonton Story Slam: Story Slam with On Spec Magazine: A wild night of stories of the Fantastic; onspec.ca; Jul 20; no minors • Sign up after 7pm. Show starts at 7:30pm, 3rd Wed every month RIVERDALE • 9917-87 St • Creative Word Jam • 3rd Sun every month, 6-10pm

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PREVUE // SO YOU THINK YOU CAN TRANS-CANADA?

Take the long road and drive it Road doc looks at the realities of bands trying to tour Canada Now available online A Bend in the Road cinematicscars.com/abendintheroad.htm

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he poster bills it as "The True Story of Every Canadian Touring Band," and that grand statement might actually not be too far off the mark: every interview in A Bend in the Road, a road-warrior doc that obsessively interviews the bands encountered or played with by Vancouver's Bend Sinister as they made their way across the country in 2007—from Edmonton's own Wet Secrets to Milton, Ontario's Most Serene Republic— seems to basically say the same thing: if you're looking to cross the country with your band, then you probably shouldn't be in it for the money or prestige. Instead, traversing the TransCanada comes off as a rather romantic ideal, if an ultimately difficult one that can be as fracturing for a band as any other force: three dates into the tour, Bend Sinister's bass player quits due to mounting anxiety attacks. The band simply has to replace him and continue on without missing a gig.

A Bend in the Road is currently available for free online; filmed by Sinister frontman Dan Moxon and Edo Van Breemen of openers the Clips (who've since broken up; Van Breemen went on to form Brasstronaut), the footage sat unused for years until they found writer/filmmaker Nicholas Friesen, who compiled the mound of footage into a finished product. Freisen took a phone call with Vue to discuss approaching a doc from the outside, and

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why any band would even set out to cross the Trans-Canada from end to end, given that none of this seems like uncommon knowledge.

VUE WEEKLY: What was it like, approaching a doc from the outside?

NICHOLAS FRIESEN: For me it was kind of easy to look at, because I had no emotional attachment to it. Certain people, if they shoot it themselves, they get really precious about this scene or that scene, but for me it was literally like, I need to tell the type of story that Dan wants to be shown in this film, and just to go through it, interview by interview and performance footage by performance footage, and finding what was necessary to tell the story of Canadian bands on the road. If something was repetitive,

sometimes I'd put it in to hit the point home, but if a lot of bands would give the same generalizations, I would nix their interview altogether. Some people get a lot of screen time, 'cause they have a lot of really interesting insights, and some people just have one quote here and there.

VW: Are you yourself a musician?

NF: I've dabbled, a little. But I've found I was better at working with and sticking behind the camera and stuff like that.

VW: In asking whether it's worth it to tour the country, most bands that are shown on the doc say that, economically, no, it's not worth it. They seem to take this real grin-and-bear-it attitude. Given that—and it seems that

it's pretty common knowledge that that's how it is—what's the appeal of crossing the country at all?

NF: Well, I think making any kind of art in Canada is really ... you've got to do it because you love it, right?

Whether it's performance art or a play or a film, or being in a band, there's very few bands—and even bands that are signed to labels, half the time they don't get tour support. So it's really hard; you've got to apply for touring grants and that. Even someone like Buck 65: he has to take a day job on CBC during the drive, because touring is the only way he can make money.

He's on Warner Brothers records, he's not selling enough records, he's got to go out and tour all year long, but touring doesn't have a dental plan, so he's gotta get a day job.

They do it because they have to: they don't know anything else. This is a film that you show to people who don't quite understand why people do things for no money. If you show them enough people from across the entire country who are just doing it, and going out for love.

I think there's one point that's made in the film: a guy from a band called the Doers, Sean Maxi, he says, you look at the size of Canada, and it's the population of California. Per area, there's just not enough people coming out to see shows—and plus, you're competing with every other band that's coming to town, bigger bands and smaller bands and whatever bands that are in town.

VW: Bend Sinister is a good example of a band that's been doing a lot for a long time, but still hasn't really made

a huge impact, all things considered.

NF: You watch the doc, and their bass player quits during the tour, which just makes for great storytelling— that was the other easy part, that's kind of the through-line of the film.

And then throughout the film, the two guitar players are talking about how their bassist stabbed them in the back, how it's like that scene in The Godfather, blah blah blah. And then, six months after this tour, they both quit the band. It blew my mind. Dan is essentially trying to keep this band going; Jason Dana who's the drummer on that tour who [had] literally just joined, he and Dan are the only members still in Bend Sinister [from that time].

Whenever [Dan] would come through town, we'd meet up, 'cause I'd be mailing him different cuts of the film, and when he'd come to town, we'd sit down and talk about it, and we'd email or talk on the phone. He's like, "I don't know man, the rest of the band doesn't know why I'm still putting time into this film, because they weren't involved with it."

They're a phenomenal group, and they're doing so many great things in Vancouver and they tour and they tour and they tour, and it takes three or four tours to really get the word out about your band.

Bend Sinister has been together for probably the last decade or so, and keeping that name out there. Kudos to Dan for not changing the name every time there was a lineup change, because that's how you're gonna lose ... "Oh, who's that?

They used to be Bend Sinister."

Paul Blinov

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STILL SHOWING

Midnight in Paris  Princess Theatre Woody Allen's latest gets into something especially personal to the writer-director: fantasy. What makes it resonate, though, is its understanding that even in fantasy our longing for that distant, obscure thing must reach its terminal point, and we have to start again, negotiating with the real world, or some rough approximation of it.

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Tree of Life  Princess Theatre Terrence Malick's new work is an elliptical, headlong exploration of memory and meaning. He's strayed farther from the familiar than ever before, giving us a (semi-autobiographical?) film made of glimpses, reveries, music and disembodied voices surrounding a family in Waco, Texas in the 1950s.

X-Men: First Class  X-Men: First Class smartly grounds the comic-book-movie genre's pop-fiction and flashy effects in a historical era of clashing superpowers and political paranoia.

Some solid acting and lean storytelling push it into fine summer-flick form.

REVUE // MALE-IT-IN FANTASY

HORRIBLE BOSSES

A trio of victimized employees, abused by bad comedy

Now playing Directed by Seth Gordon

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movie called Horrible Bosses isn't likely to be subtle and this comedy falls down on the job with a blatant thud of mediocrity. Never dark enough, witty enough or smart enough—the line "[She's] had the crazy fucked out of her" is gunning for top-spot in 2011's Laziest Misogyny Jokes—the murder-your-boss plot also lags and jags, never focussing

much on the title targets.

Instead, we're stuck with the trio of victimized employees (Justin Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis), who get some good lines, but they're scattered in amongst a tossed salad of bullshitting-guys dialogue. Lots of swearing, panicking and some threeyear-old anal-fixation jokes are added for spice. Of the caricatured-villain bosses, only Colin Farrell's is odiously funny, and the screenwriters persist in trying to find humour about

a guy being sexually harassed to the point of rape. Then, late in a movie that long ago slid out of view of any semi-thoughtful humour or a realistic sense of LA working life, there's a Hollywood executive male-it-in fantasy: a guy has phone sex while involved in a car chase. Now that's movie multitasking. Still, sticking to the movie's one basic job—being funny—would've been better.

Brian Gibson

// brian@vueweekly.com

NEWS // FILM

Fin

Sneak Preview closes

J

uly 20 marks a melancholy occasion for cinephiles in Edmonton: Sneak Preview, Edmonton's longstanding stronghold in the video store and rental realm is closing its doors, selling off as much of its 18 000-titlestrong inventory as it can until it shutters the doors.

In a press release, co-owner Trevor Smith states, "It's a sad day for the in-

dependent business community, and another uncertain step into the new age of movie consumption. It's going to be a long dry spell without quality alternative cinema in the existing digital landscape ... One can only hope passionate film festivals and online auteur sites like MUBI provide us cinephiles a future home."

Since 1982, Sneak Preview's special-

ized in bringing the obscure, the foreign, the indie and the classics into the hands of those locals who'd have little luck finding them elsewhere. But with the movie rental market headed toward a crash, even for the niche-films market, Sneak Preview's hardly alone in its extinction sentiment.

Paul Blinov

// paul@vueweekly.com

VUEWEEKLY JUL 14 – JUL 20, 2011

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REVUE // NOAH'S ARK STINKS

ZOOKEEPER

Which is the real animal?

Now Playing Directed by Frank Coraci

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n keeping with this week's trend of unsubtle yet misleading titles, Zookeeper should've been called Hey Kids, Watch A Pudgy Man Take Pratfalls And Act Like An Alpha Asshole— There'll Be Talking Animals! Pudgy Man, naturally, is Kevin James, and from the first scene (where a blonde who makes Paris Hilton seem like Al-

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fred Einstein rejects his proposal on a beach at sunset), he seems immensely, boringly non-human.

But surrounding him with talking animals, including the Obviously African-American one, doesn't help. Their dialogue is inane. The story's pacing is off. Shots are rote and the storyline's dull. Certain scenes—gorilla and man bromancing at a restaurant; gorilla and man rowing sculls—succeed only in making those before them stink slightly less pungently. But when No-

ah's Ark advises its favourite Mr Zookeeper on how to be an alpha male to win back the vapid girl, it's licence for our sweetly stupid Man-Child to become an abusive Dick-Head. Still, in the end it's all OK, because the real lesson is: Feel Free To Be Yourself, Kids (But Always Rigidly Conform To Primitive Heterosexual Gender Roles), And Ignore Captive Animals Who Tell You Otherwise! Suck on that, Aesop.

Brian Gibson

// brian@vueweekly.com

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violence, not recommended for young children) Digital 3d Daily 1:10, 4:20, 8:00; Thu 1:10, 4:20, 6:55

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 (PG violence, frightening scenes,

CHABA THEATRE–JASPER 6094 Connaught Dr, Jasper, 780.852.4749

TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (PG violence, coarse language) Daily 1:30, 6:30, 9:25

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (PG frightening scenes, violence, not recommended for young children) Daily 1:30, 6:45, 9:15

not recommended for young children) No passes Daily 12:00, 1:00, 3:00, 4:00, 6:00, 7:00, 9:00, 10:00

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Digital 3d, No passes Daily 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Ultraavx, No passes Daily 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:45

CINEMA CITY MOVIES 12 5074-130 Ave, 780.472.9779

Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs. Evil (G) Daily 1:45, 3:50, 6:30, 9:05

THOR 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes) Digital 3d Daily 1:05, 3:55, 7:00, 10:00

TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (PG violence, coarse language) Daily 11:40, 2:50, 6:15, 9:45

TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D

PRIEST (14A violence) Daily 9:10

(PG violence, coarse language) Digital 3d Daily 12:20, 3:40, 7:10, 10:30

RANGO (PG) Daily 1:20, 6:35

THE HANGOVER PART II (18A nudity, crude

RIO 3D (G) Digital 3d Daily 1:50, 4:20, 6:45, 9:00

FAST FIVE (14A violence) Daily 1:15, 4:00, 6:55, 9:40

LIMITLESS (14A) Daily 1:40, 4:25, 7:15, 9:35 SOMETHING BORROWED (PG sexual content, coarse language) Daily 1:35, 4:15, 6:40, 9:30

WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (PG violence, not recommended for young children) Daily 1:30, 4:30, 7:05, 9:50

sexual content) Digital Cinema Fri-Sun 11:00; Mon-Wed 10:35; Thu 9:30

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES (PG violence, frightening scenes) Daily 12:15, 3:15, 6:20, 9:20

BRIDESMAIDS (14A crude content, coarse language, sexual content) Daily 1:20, 4:10, 7:15, 10:10

WINNIE THE POOH (G) Daily 11:45, 1:30, 3:20, 5:15, 7:05

HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A coarse language, crude

SOUL SURFER (PG) Daily 4:10, 9:15

sexual content) Fri-Tue, Thu 12:50, 3:20, 6:00, 8:20, 10:50; Wed 1:00, 3:20, 6:00, 8:20, 10:50

JUDY MOODY AND THE NOT BUMMER SUMMER (G) Daily 2:00, 4:45, 6:55

BAD TEACHER (14A coarse language, crude

DELHI BELLY (14A coarse language, sexual con-

LARRY CROWNE (PG) Daily 9:00

tent) Hindi W/E.S.T. DAILY 1:55, 4:40, 7:10, 9:55

Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (STC) Hindi W/E.S.T. DAILY 1:00, 4:10, 7:20

Forever And A Day (PG) Daily 1:25, 4:05, 6:50, 9:20

sexual content) Daily 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15

Captain America: The First Avenger 3d (STC) Digital 3d No passes Thu 12:01

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9:50

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ZOOKEEPER (PG) Daily 11:50, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50

CARS 2 3D (G) Digital 3d Daily 12:10, 2:45, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20

GREEN LANTERN 3D (PG frightening scenes,

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) No passes Fri, Sun-Thu 11:30, 12:30, 2:25, 3:40, 5:50, 6:50, 9:00, 10:00; Sat 11:30, 12:25, 2:25, 3:35, 5:50, 6:45, 9:00, 9:55

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Digital 3d, No passes Daily 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Ultraavx, No passes Daily 11:00, 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, 11:00

CARS 2 3D (G) Digital 3d Fri-Wed 11:50, 2:25,

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Digital 3d, No passes Daily 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) No passes Daily 12:35, 1:30, 3:30, 4:30, 6:30, 8:00, 9:30

WINNIE THE POOH (G) Daily 1:10, 3:40, 7:15

DUGGAN CINEMA–CAMROSE 6601-48 Ave, Camrose, 780.608.2144

Bad Teacher (14A coarse language, crude sexual content) Daily 7:05, 9:15; Sat, Sun, Tue, Thu 2:05

guage, sexual content) Fri-Sun, Tue, Thu 11:00, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:25; Mon 1:15, 4:10, 7:30, 10:25; Wed 12:30, 3:15, 10:30

Horrible Bosses (14A coarse language, crude

X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (PG violence, coarse

Zookeeper (PG) Daily 6:50 9:05; Sat, Sun,

language, not recommended for young children) Daily 10:40

Tue, Thu 1:50

WINNIE THE POOH (G) Daily 11:00, 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00

HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A coarse language, crude sexual content) Fri-Sat, Mon-Tue, Thu 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 8:30, 11:00; Sun 1:00, 3:20, 6:00, 8:30, 11:00; Wed 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 8:15, 9:40 sexual content) Fri-Sat, Tue-Wed 1:05, 3:35, 5:55, 8:20, 10:45; Sun-Mon 1:05, 3:35, 5:55, 8:20, 10:50; Thu 3:35, 5:55, 8:20, 10:45; Star & Strollers Screening: Thu 1:00

tion not available) Sun 6:00

CITY CENTRE 9 10200-102 Ave, 780.421.7020

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) No passes, On 2 Screens, Dolby Stereo Digital, DTS Digital, Child Admission Price DAILY 12:30, 12:45, 3:30, 3:45, 6:30, 7:15, 9:30, 10:15

ZOOKEEPER (PG) Child Admission Price, Bargain Matinee, DTS Digital, Stadium Seating Daily 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20

sexual content) Daily 6:55 9:10; Sat, Sun, Tue, Thu 1:55

GALAXY–SHERWOOD PARK 2020 Sherwood Dr, Sherwood Park 780-416-0150

ZOOKEEPER (PG) Daily 1:30, 4:15, 7:10, 9:50 CARS 2 3D (G) Digital 3d Daily 1:15, 4:00, 6:45, 9:35

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) No passes Daily 12:40, 1:30, 3:50, 4:45, 7:00, 8:00, 10:10

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Digital 3d, No passes Daily 12:00, 3:15, 6:30, 9:40

TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D

guage, sexual content) Daily 1:20, 4:10, 7:15, 10:15

WINNIE THE POOH (G) Daily 12:15, 2:15, 4:15, 7:00

HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A coarse language, crude sexual content) Daily 1:50, 4:25, 7:30, 10:05

BAD TEACHER (14A coarse language, crude sexual content) Daily 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 9:55 LARRY CROWNE (PG) Daily 9:30

GRANDIN THEATRE–St Albert Grandin Mall, Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert, 780.458.9822

780.433.6759

Zookeeper (PG) No passes Daily 12:45, 2:45, 4:45, 6:45, 8:55

Transformers: Dark Of The Moon (PG violence, coarse language) Daily 12:35, 3:25, 6:15, 9:05

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) No passes Daily 1:20, 4:05, 7:00, 9:30

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TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D

The Zookeeper (PG) Thu, Jul 14: 12:50, 3:35, 6:50, 9:35

Horrible Bosses (14A coarse language, crude

Admission Price, Dolby Stereo Digital, Stadium Seating Daily 12:15, 3:15, 7:00, 10:00

sexual content) Thu, Jul 14: 1:00, 3:30, 7:00, 9:30

Cars 2 (G) Thu, Jul 14: 12:55, 3:40, 6:55, 9:40

PARKLAND CINEMA 7 130 Century Crossing, Spruce Grove, 780.972.2332 (Spruce Grove, Stony Plain; Parkland County)

sexual content) Daily 1:20, 3:50, 7:10, 9:40

Winnie the Pooh (G) Daily 7:10; Sat, Sun,

Cars 2 (G) Daily 1:15, 4:05, 6:45, 9:25

Tue, Thu 1:10, 3:00

Transformers: Dark Of The Moon (PG

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (PG violence, frightening scenes,

Transformers: Dark Of The Moon (PG violence, coarse language) Fri-Wed 3:15, 6:35,

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violence, not recommended for young children) Digital 3d Fri-Tue 1:20, 4:00, 7:30, 10:15; Wed 1:20, 4:00, 10:15; Thu 1:20, 4:00, 7:30

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) No passes Daily 11:30, 3:00, 6:30, 9:45 Daily 2:00, 5:30, 9:00

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Ultraavx, No passes Fri 12:00, 3:30, 7:00, 10:30; Sat-Wed 12:00, 3:30, 7:00, 10:15; Thu 12:00, 3:30, 7:00

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Digital 3d, No passes Thu 10:15

TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (PG violence, coarse language) Digital Cinema Daily 11:45, 3:15, 6:45, 10:20

TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D (PG violence, coarse language) Digital 3d FriTue, Thu 12:15, 3:45, 7:15, 10:45; Wed 12:25, 3:45, 7:15, 10:45

BRIDESMAIDS (14A crude content, coarse language, sexual content) Fri 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50; Sat, Tue-Thu 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 10:00; Sun-Mon 11:45, 2:30, 10:00

X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (PG violence, coarse language, not recommended for young children) Daily 10:20

HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A coarse language, crude sexual content) Daily 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:40

BEGINNERS (14A) Bargain Matinee, Child

violence, coarse language) Digital 3d Fri-Wed 12:50, 4:20, 8:10; Thu 3:15, 9:45

GREEN LANTERN 3D (PG frightening scenes,

Bad Teacher (14A coarse language, crude sexual content) Daily 5:30, 7:30, 9:25

(PG violence, coarse language) Thu, Jul 14: 12:40, 3:45, 6:40, 9:45

Bad Teacher (14A coarse language, crude

CARS 2 3D (G) Digital 3d Daily 11:15, 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:30

WINNIE THE POOH (G) Daily 11:00, 1:00, 3:00,

BAD TEACHER (14A coarse language, crude

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7:00, 9:40; Wed 4:20, 7:00, 9:40; Star & Strollers Screening: Wed 1:00

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ZOOKEEPER (PG) Fri-Tue, Thu 1:20, 4:20,

MONTE CARLO (G) Daily 1:05, 3:20

language, sexual content) Bargain Matinee, Child Admission Price, Dolby Stereo Digital, Stadium Seating Daily 12:40, 3:40, 6:45, 9:45 sexual content) Bargain Matinee, Child Admission Price, DTS Digital, Stadium Seating Fri-Wed 12:25, 4:00, 7:25, 9:55; Thu 12:25, 4:00, 10:10

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Cars 2 (G) Daily 12:55, 3:00, 5:05, 7:10, 9:10

BRIDESMAIDS (14A crude content, coarse

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THE HANGOVER PART II (18A nudity, crude

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Bad Teacher (14A coarse language, crude sexual content) Daily 7:05, 8:55; Sat, Sun, Tue, Thu 1:05, 2:55

Cars 2 (G) Daily 7:00, 9:20; Sat, Sun, Tue,

HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A coarse language, crude

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BRIDESMAIDS (14A crude content, coarse lan-

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(PG violence, coarse language) Presented in 3D Daily 6:30, 9:30; Sat, Sun, Tue, Thu 12:30, 3:30

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(PG violence, coarse language) Digital 3d Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 12:40, 4:00, 7:30, 10:50; Mon 12:15, 3:30, 7:10, 10:45; Thu 1:10, 4:30, 8:00

Wwe Money In The Bank 2011 (Classifica-

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Tue, Thu 1:05, 3:10

Larry Crowne (PG) Daily 9:00

TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D

violence, not recommended for young children) Digital 3d Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 11:55, 2:40, 5:20,

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Zookeeper (PG) Daily 7:05, 9:10; Sat, Sun,

Midnight In Paris (PG) Daily 7:00, 9:10;

(PG violence, coarse language) Digital 3d Daily 11:50, 3:05, 6:25, 10:00

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crude sexual content) Daily 7:00, 9:05; Sat, Sun, Tue, Thu 1:00pm 3:05; Movies for Mommies: Tue, Jul 19: 1:00

Transformers: Dark Of The Moon (PG

scenes, not recommended for young children) No passes, Digital 3d, Dolby Stereo Digital, Stadium Seating, Child Admission Price DAILY 12:00, 3:00, 7:00, 10:00

Zookeeper (PG) Daily 1:40, 4:10, 6:40, 9:10

(PG violence, coarse language) Fri-Sun, TueThu 12:10, 3:30, 7:00, 10:15; Mon 11:45, 3:00, 6:30, 10:00

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 3D (PG violence, frightening

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BRIDESMAIDS (14A crude content, coarse lan-

SUPER 8 (PG coarse language, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Fri-Sat, Mon-Thu 2:25, 5:25, 8:10, 10:45; Sun 2:25, 10:15

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TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON

BAD TEACHER (14A coarse language, crude

ZOOKEEPER (PG) Daily 11:30, 2:00, 4:30, 7:15,

CINEPLEX ODEON NORTH

8:10, 10:50; Mon 11:55, 2:40, 5:20, 7:50, 10:30; Thu 12:45, 3:30, 10:00

not recommended for young children) Daily 6:40, 9:20; Sat, Sun, Tue, Thu 12:40, 3:20

Horrible Bosses (14A coarse language,

BAD TEACHER (14A coarse language, crude sexual content) Fri-Wed 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:40, 10:30; Thu 12:00, 2:30, 10:30 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) An Imax 3d Experience No passes Daily 10:30, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:45

Wwe Money In The Bank 2011 (Classification not available) Sun 6:00

The Metropolitan Opera: Il Trovatore Encore (Classification not available) Mon 6:30

Captain America: The First Avenger 3d (STC) Ultraavx, No passes Thu 12:01

WETASKIWIN CINEMAS Wetaskiwin, 780.352.3922

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Transformers: Dark Of The Moon 3D (PG violence, coarse language) Thu, Jul 14: 12:40, 3:45, 6:40, 9:45 Cars 2 (G) Thu, Jul 14: 12:55, 3:40, 6:55, 9:40 The Zookeeper (PG) Thu, Jul 14: 12:50, 3:35, 6:50, 9:35

Horrible Bosses (14A coarse language, crude sexual content) Thu, Jul 14: 1:00, 3:30, 7:00, 9:30

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few months ago, I had a conversation with a beer educator based in Vancouver. Twelve years ago, they were living in Edmonton and wanted to kickstart beer appreciation in town.

So they hosted a few tastings, tried to get restaurants to consider beer dinners, pleaded with liquor stores to bring in more craft beer. They worked hard to promote good beer in town.

Nothing doing. They got very frustrated with the lack of openness among Edmonton beer drinkers, and they eventually drifted to Vancouver's burgeoning scene.

I have been doing my own version of beer education and awareness (including here in these fine pages) for about five years. In fact Vue was my first gig.

I don't know if the editors knew it at the time, but they were leaders in recognizing that beer had potential in this town. When I started, my humble biweekly column was a lonely, solitary voice for good beer. Today our city offers a variety pack of beer venues, locations, events and clubs. As a homebrewer, beer writer and educator, it warms my mash tun to think of it all.

I don't wish to overstate the growth of Edmonton's beer scene—we have a long way to go to match up with Vancouver,

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Toronto or Montréal, let alone the beer meccas of Portland or Denver. But, damn it, we've come a long way, baby!

With that caveat, let's spend a few moments basking in all the good beer in Edmonton. There is a little something for everyone in town, even those of you who aren't so sure about beer.

Edmonton has quietly developed an impressive stable of microbreweries: we now can boast four Edmonton region brewers—fewer than only the behemoths of Montréal, Vancouver and Toronto. What I like is that each has its own personality: veteran Alley Kat is about high quality and offers a range of styles to fit any palate, including the adventurous Big Bottle series; Amber's Brewing is about being local and different, presenting a very "Edmonton" face to its quirky pepper berry and maple syrup labels; upstart Yellowhead brews a single beer, a golden lager crafted with exacting traditional German methods; Calmar's Roughneck offers a pair of English-inspired beers designed to maximize balance.

On the brewpub side, we could use some work, however, with only the Brewsters chain to satiate us. To all you budding entrepreneurs out

there, here is an untapped market, just waiting for someone to step in and satisfy thirsty Edmontonians.

Want a delicious craft beer to match with your fine dining experience? A few years ago Edmonton's quality restaurants offered a beer selection that I would describe—charitably—as anemic.

Today more than a few restaurants can claim a beer selection that deserves the term "beer menu." While it is still spotty—plenty of restaurateurs lag pathetically behind when it comes to their perceptions of beer and fine dining—it is now possible to go out for dinner and receive beer options as numerous as wine.

Urban Diner, Sugar Bowl, Manor Café and Continental Treat deserve particular mention.

Until recently, a slightly middle-aging beer geek like myself mostly had to explore their beer adventures at home. That's because while Alberta has long had the best liquor store beer selection in the country—a selection that has increased exponentially in the past three years—there were no pubs or bars offering anything closely resembling decent draught beer. Why spend $8 for a can of Guinness, when you can sample three different stouts at home for the same price?

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Edmonton's pub owners should still, on the whole, be embarrassed by their lemming-like offerings. Come on, do I really need six pubs on one street offering the exact same taps? Ever heard of market differentiation? However, I have grown more optimistic on this front in the last year or so. Without question the market leaders here are the Sugar Bowl with its hip Euro-café feel, and the keeping-it-real ethos of Wunderbar. But there are increasing numbers of pubs and cafés that have figured out that a real beer selection means a more diverse customer base that knows how to exercise loyalty. Slowly, ever so slowly, I feel I can branch out my locations for a pint or two with friends.

Recent developments that are particularly encouraging to me are the spontaneous growth in beer aficionado events. The monthly cask nights (one at Sugar Bowl, the other at Next Act) have quickly become not-to-miss traditions in town. We are also seeing a smattering of beer dinners, beer tastings and real beer festivals appear.

And now we have the launch of Beer Geeks Anonymous, a club that hopes to further beer appreciation with its monthly gatherings. Plus, we shouldn't

forget that Edmonton is home to one of Canada's oldest, largest and most vibrant homebrew clubs, the Edmonton Homebrewers' Guild. You could fill up your beer social calendar pretty easily these days.

And, yes, I promised you beer skeptics something too. Here it is: with more types of beer and more places to drink them, you are more likely to stumble across something you actually like. The world of beer is broad, with flavours for every palate. It's just that, until recently, too many of those flavours were unavailable in Edmonton.

Why do I think this is happening? In short, because of you. Beer drinkers in town are demanding good beer and slowly, oh so slowly, the pub, restaurant and liquor store owners are responding. Keep it up and more good things will flow. Like more good beer.

But, fellow beer-ians, our work is not done. Did you know Calgary recently opened a new beer bar with 105 beers on tap? We cannot allow such an act to go un-matched. Continue to rise up and demand craft beer. You have nothing to lose but your boring macro-lagers!

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BEER // HISTORY

The suds of time

Beer is not only a part of our history, it's a part of our identity or better or worse, beer forms a part of the bedrock of Canadian identity. Its influence is ubiquitous: from nationalistic brand names to sponsorship of and promotion of hockey, from advertising featuring our myriad landscapes or the rant of "Joe Canada," beer reflects to us and in some ways defines what it means to be Canadian.

Beer and Canada's association isn't simply a product of the advertising age, however—our acquaintance goes way back. According to beer historian Greg Evans, beer has been brewed in Canada since the 1620s, when Jesuit missionaries in Quebec began to brew the stuff. By 1647, the group had built the first formal, full-time brewery in Sillery, a town just west of Quebec City that was eventually amalgamated by the provincial capital. In those days, says Evans, beer was not simply the "Dutch courage" it is today, it was a part of everyday life.

"Up until the early-1900s, beer was considered a dietary staple," he explains. "People enjoyed drinking it and they certainly enjoyed the effects it had on them, but when you consider the quality of water in those days which was not always wonderful, if you consider other liquids that could be contaminated and were often off, beer was a stable and relatively safe beverage to drink. You get some carbohydrates and get some protein, you can partially sustain yourself on beer and the brewing process makes beer antiseptic so it was a safe drink."

The brew moved its way west, quenching the thirst of loggers in Ontario, farmers and ranchers across the Prairies, miners and more loggers in British Columbia. Anywhere young, unattached, transient working men were to be found, beer would be there. By the 1800s, Canada had a

thriving brewing industry right across the country, with hundreds of breweries pumping out variations of barley, hops and water.

The beginning of amalgamation in the Canadian brewing industry may have seemed benign enough, but it had far-reaching implications, not only on business but also on taste. In 1910, 14 Quebec-based breweries banded together to form the National Breweries Limited. By the 1930s, amalgamation was in full swing: independent breweries could no longer compete with the industrial juggernauts that were forming all around them and were forced to join the amalgamated companies or create amalgamations of their own. By the 1960s, only three were left standing.

"The late-1960s to the late-1970s is the period when the big breweries of the day—Molson, Labatt and Carling O'Keefe—controlled something like 95 percent of the market," Evans says.

"Outside of import beers you were pretty limited with what you could consume, and to a lot of people everything tasted the same. You couldn't tell one beer from another beer."

Everything would change in 1982. In that year, John Mitchell opened a microbrewery behind his bar the Troller Pub in Horseshoe Bay, BC. It was the first craft brewery in Canada. Later, in 1984, Mitchell and Paul Hadfield opened Spinnakers in Victoria, Canada's first brewpub. In 1985, Ed McNally's Big Rock Brewery started production and Alberta was in the game.

Craft brewing, and the ethos of local, interesting beers it professed, started to make headway across the country.

This development, Evans asserts, stemmed from a variety of factors.

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was important, the willingness to experiment with new foods on the West Coast had an impact, and the blandness of Canada's beer offerings at the time played a role, but it's the increased ability to travel that may have opened the eyes of Canadian beer drinkers to the possibilities that were out there and caused them to demand more from their domestic beers.

"That's a time period where a lot of young people were travelling overseas and they came back from Europe and went, 'You should see the variety they have over there.' They came back here and there wasn't much of any-

thing," Evans says. "People were growing tired of having no choice and the beers here were so bland."

Now that every region of Canada has a plethora of microbrewers, it might be easy to forget the risks that pioneers like Mitchell, Hadfield and McNally took to reinvigorate the beer industry in Canada, says Evans.

"These guys put everything they had on the line to start breweries and brewpubs," he enthuses. "They were brave souls to try this and now look where we are: it's a thriving industry."

Canada has a long history of people willing to brew cold, refreshing beer

for hardworking Canadians and it could be that hard work, that dependence on natural resources and the effort that takes, that has embedded the beverage deep inside the Canadian psyche.

"Beer has been with us in this country for so long and it was always popular," Evans says. "After a hard day's work in the mine or in the forest or on the ranch, when you finally knock off for the day beer is there, it's part of that reward at the end of a hard day.

It's straightforward, it's relatively inexpensive and it is what it says it is."

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ALLEY KAT

Established: 1994, Edmonton Notable products: Aprikat, Alley Kat Amber Ale, Charlie Flint's Organic Lager, Full Moon Pale Ale

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word of mouth—South Korea. It's the individuality the beer espouses that keeps Herbst focused.

"We try to make bigger tasting beers. From our point of view there's no point in making something that's really mild and non-distinctive because why would you buy it?" asks Herbst. "If you want a McDonalds hamburger, you go to McDonalds. Why would I try and make something that tastes like a McDonalds hamburger if I'm in a hamburger restaurant? Might as well make something that's distinctive and my own.

That's what we're trying to do."

think I had my first beer at eight," jokes Neil Herbst as he sips on Alley Kat's popular Charlie Flint Lager. Little did that youngster know that his older form would not only enjoy the taste and experience beer provides, but that, with his wife Lavonne, he'd also start his own microbrewery one day.

Becoming a very recognizable brand in Edmonton, Alley Kat has morphed into something special for the city—an imprint in the local beer scene that is a purveyor of something If you want a McDonalds hamburger, you go to unique and someMcDonalds. Why would I try and make something thing that is strongthat tastes like a McDonalds hamburger if I'm ly identified with the in a hamburger restaurant? Might as well make city it's from. something that's distinctive and my own.

"We had an interest in brewing," Herbst recalls. "We felt there was room for a new miThe hamburger analogy rings true for beer crobrewery in Edmonton—there was only one consumers tired of the often tasteless standard microbrewery in town, Flanagan and Sons. We brews that dominate the shelves at liquor stores thought there was room for a brewery with and the taps in bars. Akin to a watered-down craft-brewed beers—beers with a bit higher flabeer in Herbst's eyes, he sees a trend happening vour profile." for microbreweries and beer consumers in genSince then, Flanagan and Sons has closed its eral—a drift that he can't help but smile about. doors—a development that, curiously, hurt Al"Especially lately, people are understanding ley Kat because it made consumers less likely what the difference is between a microbrewery to wander to the local end of the beer aisle. The and a major producer," says Herbst about both microbrewery persevered, however, and eventuflavour and marketing schemes. "At Alley Kat ally found itself at the forefront of Edmonton's we do what we love. We brew beers that are beer community. As of today, Alley Kat delivers distinctive, in the style we love and that we are its products throughout Alberta, into Saskatchproud to drink."

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WINE

Wine for beer lovers

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YELLOWHEAD BREWING

It may masquerade as a wine, but at barley wine's heart is a brew

When is a wine also a beer?

When is a wine not a wine? When it's a ing process and desired complexity, barley wine, funny enough. Thanks to it is considered a brewer's crowning some categorical vagaries and broad achievement. While it's typically definitions, "barley wine" is a bit of a made from a pale ale, it will often be misnomer. It is, in fact, a strong ale crammed with twice the grain for with alcohol strength as high colour and flavour, with inVIDI as 12 percent, which likely tense hoppy bitterness. This VENI, gives it its name. These can be balanced out with ly.com caramelized sugars, making rich, full-flavoured brews eweek u v s@ u ikeang can also range considerably m barley wine best enjoyed Mike in colour—from a cloudy after a meal, akin to a dessert Angus amber to deep brown, almost wine, or with a cigar. black—and flavour, depending on the Its most reputable origins come from craftsmanship. Like wine, it can be laid 17th-century England, with modern down and aged, gaining complexity versions being Whitbread's Gold Laand value over the years. bel, Bass's No 1 and Fuller's Vintage Because of its challenging brewAle. While this rare style of beer can

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Edmonton's own Alley Kat makes Olde Deuteronomy Barley Wine and, at 9.4 percent alcohol, it's as good a place a place to start as any. Other notable Canadian breweries include Halifax's Garrison Brewing Ol' Fog Burner, Toronto's Mill Street and Dieu du Ciel from Montréal. Jasper's Grizzly Paw and Victoria's Driftwood Brewery make a barley wine, though you'll probably have to visit the breweries themselves for a sample. You may even find some available from the US—like Lagunitas Olde Gnarly and Rogue Old Crustacean—where craft breweries are years ahead of our own in terms of innovation, microbrew culture and marketability.

While many have referred to these heavy-hitters as winter holiday sippers, their complexity and full-bodied flavour makes them ideal for yearround food pairings, from strong cheeses like gorgonzola and sharp cheddar to spicy gumbos, or rich desserts including cheesecake or dark chocolate.

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be harder to come by here, North American brewers are now producing ambitious, new-style barley wines that you can find at specialized beer retailers.

Established: 2010, Edmonton Notable products: Yellowhead Lager

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cott Harris has served beer fit for a king, but the only patrons in his brewing life these days are Edmontonians.

After attending the celebrated Doeman's Academy in Germany in the late 1990s, Harris was asked to help a team of brewmasters create beer for the Royal House of Bavaria—a rarity for a brewmaster in general, never mind a foreigner. A once-in-a-lifetime

supply, malt and discerning beer crowd for inspiration. Just the way he likes it, Harris directly influences each batch from Yellowhead, realizing that it's a giant task to get to mass-production levels.

"We care more about Edmonton than what people in Brussels or Argentina are going to care about. We believe in going the extra mile," says Harris. "I don't see within my own lifetime we'd be able to make Yellowhead into a huge national or international brewery. Prefer to stay local, prefer to stay

We try to make it a full experience here. Come by for a tour and you get a tour, there is a tasting room, many special events. We're very communityminded. experience, Harris went on to work at a number of smaller and larger breweries in Germany, knowing that his true calling was at home in Alberta. Returning home to Yellowhead Brewing, Harris loves the ideas of the smaller brewery.

"I have worked at larger breweries, I just prefer to do something that I have more personal control over," says Harris. "I am a hands-on person—I prefer to open and close valves themselves as opposed to pushing buttons."

Currently focusing on only a single beer, Harris is personally devoted to each and every drop of his beloved Yellowhead Lager, with no current plans for other brews, but several ideas floating around his head. Yellowhead Lager, unlike high-quantity lagers, is preservative and additive free, something noticeable in every sip. Harris looks to Alberta's water

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top quality—the two just don't mix."

Staying local and staying small has always been in the cards for the brewery. Housed in the former Maverick Brewing Company building, the Yellowhead name is a nod to an early Edmonton-brewed beer.

As another salute to the city, Yellowhead is focused on creating a beer experience, rather than just another drinkable thing. Harris notes that on Saturdays in the summer, citizens are invited to come by the brewery after the farmer's market.

"We try to make it a full experience here. Come by for a tour and you get a tour, there is a tasting room, many special events. We're very community-minded. And you can pick up a six-pack of Yellowhead for the rest of the week," he laughs.

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PREVUE // FREAKS AND GEEKS

Geek out

New beer club raising the profile of craft beer in Edmonton Next meeting: Wed, Jul 27 (7:30 pm) Wünderbar Hofbrauhaus edmontonbeergeeksanonymous.ca

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hile charcoal-coloured clouds wept down on a dismal Wednesday evening—the sort of weather that sweeps an evening's schedule clean in lieu of staying in and, thus, out of it—a warm, buzzing crowd trickled through the downpour to assemble in the cozy dim of Wünderbar Hofbrauhaus.

Bunched in loose circles of seating and conversation, some wore shirts emblazoned with brewers' logos while others were less visually beer-friendly though no less chatty—some, too, had probably just wandered in to get out of the rain, but found themselves intrigued into staying as a tall

various local breweries and other fellow imbibers committed to enjoying beers a little more unique than tapwater-thin lagers and mass-produced ales.

Groendahl's personal road to beer geekery brewed up over time: two years ago, he built up a beer cooler while working "at a fine wine store," and found himself with a bit of a following. He frequents cask nights and other hops-friendly events around town. Beer Geeks, his own evening of celebrating the nuances of craft beer, first came together in his backyard.

"We always would go down to the Sugarbowl and have a pint of something, and we always find time to go to the cask nights," he explains. "And then we decided this was getting a little expen-

fellow in a classy golf hat detached himself from the crowd and took to the stage's microphone, welcoming the assembled crowd to the inaugural meeting of Edmonton Beer Geeks Anonymous.

"Beer Geeks is just a term that me and my friends adopted for ourselves, because we never really thought of anything else," explains Shane Groendahl, the hatted man, a few days after the event. "We're geeks at our dayjob, working at the university, so it's just a matter of extending that."

He estimates some 60 people wandered in and out of Wünderbar that night from all facets of the Edmonton beer community: home brewers, the

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After an "equalizer beer" whetted our palettes, we were introduced to the hops-heavy punch of Yukon Brewery's Double Trouble IPA.

sive, so [we would] sit in my backyard.

But then we realized we're not out in the community anymore, and that's something we wanted to maintain."

At the first Beer Geeks night, pints were poured of a beer previously unseen in Alberta, and which may never return again; after an "equalizer beer" whetted our palettes, we were introduced to the hops-heavy punch of Yukon Brewery's Double Trouble IPA. Pints of that, as well as any other beer were cheap all night, as conversation percolated around the room. Groendahl worked his way through every circle he could, and halfway through returned to the microphone to give

some stats for the veteran geeks about the IPA, numbers involving specific brewing gravities, and the mix and types of hops and malts involved.

"As you progress as a beer geek— and this is what I did in the past few years—you start to get intrigued by these different things: what does that number mean?" Groendahl says.

"What's the scale, or what are the different types of malts or hops, what do they do, how do they effect it? Once you start getting into that thing, you're basically doing what, in my mind, the

brewer wants you to find out, especially in terms of craft beer: there's such care and attention taken to making these small batches of beer."

That trend, of rare craft beers finding their way into pint glasses around town, is one that Groendahl wants to continue with these monthly events, alongside guests. July's upcoming meeting (on the 27th) will feature an appearance from Jim Pettinger, owner of beer stronghold Sherbrooke Liquor, who will discuss craft beer and its state here in Edmonton.

Most of all, Groendahl wants Beer Geeks Anonymous to be accessible to anyone: if the numbers and conversations intrigue you down a path of deeper appreciation for craft brews, fantastic, but in the end he just wants to offer a night where people can discuss and enjoy beer in all its intriguing forms.

"I don't care if you regularly drink some cheap lager, I still want you out," he says. "I don't want to hold anything over anybody's head."

sion and [the big beer brands] almost become the expected beer."

tory makes you feel attached," he says.

"It makes you proud of these guys."

From the icons on the beer boxes to the character of Amber herself, every detail of the finished product is a testament to Edmonton. As the flavours of Amber's make their way throughout Alberta and slowly filter into Saskatchewan, Gibbon still

struggles with the concept of making citizens as proud of Amber's as he is.

"This city has a lot of great beer people and a lot of great bars," says Gibbon. "How do we get people to demand Alberta beer?"

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BEER // LOCAL

Established: 2007, Edmonton Notable products: Sap Vampire Maple Lager, Australian Mountain Pepper Berry, Lunch Pail Ale

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ine sucks," Jim Gibbon smiles as he begins to tell me an extensive oral history of beer. He has theories on how alcohol (read: beer) was used to purify water in ancient times—this is why Jesus turned water

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into wine, he laughingly insinuates. But as Gibbon moves onto into a detailed history of Amber's Brewing Company, you begin to understand how far one's love of beer can travel.

It started with a trunk full of photographs from a motorcycle trip Gibbon's grandparents took in the 1920s. The photos represent a piece of Gibbon's history, but also represent the idea of a man and his community, written through the language of craft beer. He has managed to turn his aspirations into success: Amber's Sap Vampire Maple Lager is currently the highest selling beer of over 200 at Calgary's Craft Beer Market Restaurant and Bar—a marvelous feat considering the dominant marketing power that macrobreweries have.

"Microbreweries have to work five times as hard because we have to earn the trust of the consumers," says Gibbon. "People see a lot of ads on televi-

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A fourth-generation Edmontonian, Gibbon believes in his beer and Amber's philosophy of being "something Edmonton can be proud of." It's his own history, as well as Edmonton's, that has inspired his line of beers. "His-

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BEER // LOCAL

ROUGHNECK BREWING Established: 2007, Wizard Lake Notable products: Brewmaster's Choice India Pale Ale, Brewmaster's Choice Brown Ale, Traditional Lager

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icrobreweries versus large scale breweries are, at least to Terry Cameron, a matter of a tasty David versus a watered-down Goliath. Cameron—who wears every hat within his company, Roughneck Brewing, from the sales and marketing to the brewing itself—knows he can't compete directly with the big three, so he competes in the only way microbreweries can: by producing beer in smaller batches with bigger taste and higher care. As he admits, however, you can ensure quality but that doesn't inevitably mean the sales will follow.

"They're giants all right," says Cam-

eron about Molson, Labatt and Sleemans, which own the greatest share of Canadian beer. "You can brew the beer

and get that down. That's the easy part. The hardest part of the whole business is the marketing. Probably

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more important than the product."

As a stroke of genius—or perhaps luck—Cameron recently teamed up with Amber's Brewing, becoming the company's brewmaster. And for what at first glance might seem like a conflict of craft-beer interest for Cameron, the strength of the deal should help propel both companies.

"Two heads are better than one," says Cameron about his new relationship with Jim Gibbon and Amber's Brewing. "We can throw ideas off of each other."

The alliance should not only help the two beer companies, but should help propel the craft-beer market in general. Cameron echoes the craft-beer mentality, saying, "Look at Molson or Labatt or whatever. They can come up with a new label, same fricken beer.

It seems like something different, people are like, 'I gotta get that! I gotta get that!'"

Cameron loves his beer and it seems brewing comes to him naturally.

Even if he doesn't have the marketing machine the big companies have, the craft-brewing ethic continues to inspire not only him, but also beer drinkers and brewers throughout Alberta.

"I look at Big Rock or even Neil at Alley Kat and think of what great things they've done, which helps a lot," Cameron says. "Craft beer is underappreciated, but I think that's starting to turn around. It's getting better."

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ADVENTURE

CANOE // NORTH SASKATCHEWAN RIVER

Paddle

'till your arms

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Traversing the original Trans-Canada Highway by canoe

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n 1862, near the historic Victoria Trail—the oldest road still in use in Alberta today—the Reverend George McDougall founded a Methodist mission to the Cree. By 1864, the Hudson's Bay Company moved into the same site, founding Fort Victoria. By the turn of the century, the Victoria Settlement—as it came to be known—was a bustling centre of commercial and missionary activity, and the nucleus of an English-speaking Métis community in the area. It suffered a rapid decline soon after and has all but vanished.

The site lies on the north bank of this country's original Trans-Canada Highway—the North Saskatchewan River—just south of Smoky Lake.

Traversed by fur traders on their way to York Factory from Edmonton House or Fort Augustus and farmed

by Métis settlers who travelled Victoria Trail into Edmonton House on Red River carts, the historic nature of the settlement is preserved in the buildings that form the provincial historic site, Victoria Settlement: an 1864 HBC clerk's quarters and a 1906 Methodist church.

Setting out from nearby the site of Edmonton House—whose final location was just south of the Legislature up the Old Fort Road until it was dismantled in 1915—myself and six others made the three-day jour-

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ney by canoe to Victoria Settlement.

The first day was clouded by a curtain of smoke blown in from forest fires raging in British Columbia. After getting our bearings out on the water, it became clear that the first day would be tough paddling—we couldn't see each other at times across the river, much less the upcoming bends or any dangerous rocks or outcrops.

Paddling along a river is a meditative process: the rhythmic strokes, the breathing, the forward motion, the repetitive nature of the movement putting you in tune with your body's strengths and limitations. By the time we stopped for lunch, our group had mastered forward-motion after a number of instances of spinning and flailing. We had figured out when and how best to switch sides with the paddles, how to steer from the back, how hard we could paddle without losing our breaths. It wasn't bad for a pack of city boys.

We stopped for the day only a few hours outside of Fort Saskatchewan.

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morning. We found a sandy island to pull the canoes into, dug a hole on the beach and set about collecting driftwood for a fire. When it got dark, we let the fire burn low and headed into our tents, arms aching from a half day of paddling.

I once found myself at a major interchange on Highway 1 somewhere in rural Manitoba. It was the middle of the night and I was trying to get to Sault Ste Marie as quickly as possible, but Lake Superior stood in my way. I was struck there, under a wide canopy of stars, by the vastness of the prairies, by the fact that the road I was on stretched from one end of the country to the other, that its length and breadth touched lives so far removed from my own as to be inconceivable.

Thieves and murderers, businesswomen and police officers, potato farmers, wheat farmers and plumbers all lived near, drove on and used this road every day, all across the country.

Families careened down it on the way to see relatives, the kids screaming and being shushed along the way. I could see the whole of Canada, this impossible dream of a single nation across disparate cultures, landscapes and time zones held together by this ribbon of pavement.

Such was my feeling waking up that second day, on a small island in the river. It was the same river that lazily flowed past my downtown Edmonton apartment, but it was altogether different. This one was more powerful; this one wasn't simply the river that I had to cross to get to Whyte Ave, this was the one that stretched from Rocky Mountain House to Hudson's Bay, that carried fur traders and missionaries and helped birth a nation. Looking east to west would bring you through three provinces, through countless generations of explorers, through decades of Canada Day fireworks shimmering on its surface.

The morning was misty, a combination of lingering smoke and morning fog, and the sun rose in the east a hazy orange orb. As we drank chewy coffee and collected beer cans off of the beach, crushing them and lining canoe bottoms with them, we reflected that it'd be another tough day of paddling.

At least we had the whole day. After the first day's lazy meandering and steep learning curve, the second was a race. My canoe, packed mostly with tents and backpacks and three people, remained firmly in the middle while the one with the heavy cooking gear languished in the back. The one with all the beer only got faster, losing ballast as the day went on.

Around noon we learned that we could lash the three canoes together with our emergency ropes, forming a behemoth we christened "megaboat," which was able to float down the river in a straight line as long as someone ruddered it with a paddle. It was a perfect platform to drink beer, eat trail mix, listen to tinny reggae from an iPod connected to speakers

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and take pictures of peregrine falcons swooping amongst the riverbank's trees. Unlashing the boats, we decided we'd paddle another hour before stopping at an island for lunch.

Spotting the island in the distance, we maneuvered the canoe toward its banks. Where the river split around the island's jutting face it swirled ominously, sucking leaves and grasses, dragonflys and mosquitoes into its dark depths. We headed for the left side of the outcrop, but were pulled toward the right by the current. At the last moment, we realized we wouldn't make the landing—and now an outgrowth of tree roots threatened to decapitate us.

Instead of ducking, we grabbed on, our legs remaining in the boat, pulling it downward until it started to fill with water. The canoe capsized and we were left waist-deep in the river, clinging to tree roots.

We sprang from our positions, grasping the boat and flipping it. Most of the gear remained and was kept safe in dry bags. Some was floating away and we set out to retrieve it, soggy running shoes slipping on the river's rocky bottom. After grabbing the coats and empty beer cans that threatened to float away, we emerged from the river cold and covered in dirt.

Luckily our clean clothes remained unsoiled inside the dry bags, so we quickly changed into them before gathering sticks to plant in the sand near the fire to hang our sodden gear.

After an hour of eating, attempting to dry the clothes without burning them and taking good-natured abuse, the clothes remained damp but it was time to go.

After paddling until my shoulders felt loose in their sockets, we began to search for a suitable place to stop for the night. With no islands nearby, we figured we'd have to stop on the riverbank, and searched for some flat land. On the north shore there was a suitable location and we pulled in, got a quick fire going near the bank and climbed a steep incline to a plateau where we could set up our tents.

When it began to get dark—and once the fire had finally dried all the clothes that we had wet earlier in the day—we noticed on the south bank an enormous house constructed of rough-hewn logs, large windows making up its north face, a warm glow emanating through the fog. That's when it started to rain.

It was only a drizzle, but after a cold, wet day spent paddling, staring up at the shelter of the house before turning back to see our anemic fire and skeletal tents being rinsed in rain was maddening. We also worried that what we were doing was illegal, that we were camped out on somebody else's land, that the people in the log house would call the RCMP— or worse, their neighbours—who would come find us with shotguns under their arms, "Get off my land," dripping venomously from their lips.

After a quick dinner, we tucked into our sleeping bags, the golf claps of drizzle hitting the nylon roofs of the tents above us.

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The next morning the sky had cleared considerably and all of us looked forward to our final day of paddling and first in the sun. The beer canoe was almost empty, but with little more than half a day to go before we reached Victoria Settlement, we'd be able to pick up more soon.

Making breakfast proved to be difficult: though the sun was out, the ground remained soggy and there was no dry kindling to be found in the area. We also wanted to keep a low profile, so we couldn't go searching too far for any wood that might have been sheltered from the downpour.

After gathering together the damp twigs and sodden logs we had nearby and trying to get them to light, I—in a fit of pique, and without thinking clearly—used a slosh of cooking fuel and a carefully-dropped match to get the fire to go.

After a breakfast of oatmeal and berries, it was time to hit the river once again. One of the more interesting

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aspects of canoeing is that you can't stop doing it. Once you're out there on the water, once you've escaped the bonds of the city and are a few days into your trek, there's no calling it off.

Short of helicopter rescue, hitchhiking or a sheepish phone call—if you can find reception—you must continue to your destination. Turning back isn't an option—the river only flows one way.

By noon we were only kilometres away but so famished we had to stop.

Finding a grassy island whose banks looked easy to alight upon, we settled in and, working against the wind, managed to get a camp stove going to make a large pot of soup and potatoes. Lunch finished, we pressed on to our destination, fingers raw and shoulders aching.

We crept toward a barge someone had tied near the settlement and saw a sign hanging out over the bank directing us in. We set our canoes in that direction and rode the momentum of the river up the sandy bank. We took a look at where we'd come: the settlement is much as it must have been at

the turn of the century, except not very full. Wooden buildings—some of the oldest in Alberta—dominate the area, a teepee was set up in a field and everywhere were felt the competing ghosts of commerce and religion, the two forces that shaped Western Canada.

After a quick look around, we collapsed in a heap.

Canada was built on the canoe: without it and without this country's vast system of rivers stretching from Hudson Bay to the West Coast, there would be no continent-spanning country. Even if you're more accustomed to city life, there's no more elegant way to get back to nature and back to this country's roots than by hopping into a canoe and paddling until your arms fall off. Surviving the exhaustive amount of work it takes to maneuver the thing is worth it in terms of scenery, accomplishment and reconnecting with what made this country great in the first place.

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he clouds are foreboding at Waterton Lakes National Park in Southern Alberta. The Rockies loom hard and heavy above us, tearing at the underbelly of the grey sky. Hunkered into the protection of the cabin with about eight other brave souls, we survey the wind-whipped whitecaps lapping the marina.

During peak season, Waterton Shoreline Cruises runs a boat at 9 am and 10 am to Crypt Lake Landing.

As we reach the dock at the end of our 12-minute ride, we're issued warnings about bear country and wildlife sightings. The captain seems to get a sadistic thrill from scaring his passengers with stories of bears and people falling to their deaths over the edge of waterfalls. The message is clear: be

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careful.

Before we step off the boat, I see a thin gap in the clouds bleeding blue skies beyond. The forest welcomes us with its unmistakable smell and a chorus of birds sing our arrival. After a few steps, we're greeted by the first of an ongoing parade of wildflowers.

There are so many, we lose count of the varieties—wild rose, Indian paintbrush, and sparrow's egg lady slipper are just a few. The sun starts to break through the clouds more frequently as we climb through the alpine meadows.

We strip off some layers and catch our breath where the trees open up to a view of a 30-foot cascade of roaring

water, the first of many falls we'll see.

Things are definitely looking up.

There's a reason Crypt Lake is rated so highly in guidebooks and publications—it's spectacular and it has everything you could ask for. Starting in the trees, there's a side path to HellRoaring Canyon and Falls.

Higher up, the forest opens into glades and meadows that allow dizzying views of the jagged mountains on either side of the valley. Waterfalls come in all sizes and intensities and are seen from far, near and by walking across some of the more trickling variety. Those looking for exercise will be satisfied with the CONTINUED ON PAGE 33 >>

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switchbacks that make up a good portion of the 700 vertical metres gained while walking nine kilometres in.

You're likely to see wild critters ranging from the wee to the scary. We see plenty of chipmunks along the way and at the last river crossing before we reach the lake I make my first marmot sighting. Pleased with himself and unbothered by the humans in the vicinity, he soaks in the sun on his rocky perch.

The grand finale of the hike starts with a steel ladder that takes us into the mouth of a tunnel. For about 20 metres, we walk through the mountain itself, with only a few feet of rock making up the tunnel wall on the inside and a sheer cliff on the outside.

The narrowing gap opens onto a rocky promontory. From there, we follow a thin ledge, hundreds of feet up the side of the cliff. With no harnesses or clips, we hold tightly to the cable support bolted into the mountain.

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we make the right steps and make it to the ridge. The adrenaline surge makes the payoff all the more sweet.

We're at the top of the 160-metre waterfall we've been spying for the last half of the hike. From this vantage point we gaze across the valley to the mountains all around. Over the ridge, Crypt Lake is cerulean blue and icy cold. Snow creeps down the mountain backdrop into the clear waters.

Perfect.

But perfection never lasts. Being a popular hike, the campsites near Crypt

Lake are full up and we have to catch the 5:30 pm shuttle back across the lake or we're stranded. Because we're Ferdinand-the-Bull-style hikers, that doesn't give us much time to relax before we have to get back on the trail.

The time constraints of the shuttle are an unfortunate aspect of Crypt Lake. Another small drawback is the fact that this trail can't be a loop. We cover the same ground on the way down. Tromping down the mountain is faster than the way up, and we get to the landing minutes before the shuttle.

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With that sore but satisfied feeling, I munch an apple and enjoy the sun's warmth. A butterfly lands on my toe, hinting at the invisible ripples caused by our actions. But just as quickly it's gone, leaving behind only a sense of satisfaction at the day.

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WATERTON CLASSICS There are plenty of things to see and do in Waterton besides Crypt Lake.

Those looking for easier days can take shorter treks up Bear's Hump or the free shuttle to Red Rock Canyon. For more strenuous hikes, the AkaminaCarthew pass has some of the most stunning views in the Rockies. Many locals prefer these trails to the busier Crypt Lake.

Check in at the information centre for ongoing activities including the ever-popular interpretive evenings and the yearly knapweed rodeo (July 24 this year), an attempt to eradicate the invasive species from the Blakiston Fan, the glacier-carved flats leading up to the lakes. Prizes are awarded for tallest weed, biggest root system and the like.

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backwoods trails for the experienced adventurer. Most of the biking is done along the paved roadways, making it more a commute to a destination than a leisurely excursion. However, the Stuckless Pond trail was recently modified to allow mountain biking along with hiking.

This single-track 10 km ride around the

There are over 100 km of hiking opportunities throughout the park, ranging from quick onehour jaunts along well-maintained pathways to multi-day backwoods trails for the experienced adventurer. pristine panoramic views that appear around each corner.

The first thing that should be noted is that it rates as one of the most wonderful places on Earth in terms of natural beauty. As someone who enjoys getting away from the masses, I rate this part of Canada as the place to add to anyone's to-do list. I had travelled here several years back and still maintain it as being one of my best travel experiences ever.

This time I returned to rediscover what exactly that magnetic attraction was.

There are over 100 km of hiking opportunities throughout the park, ranging from quick one-hour jaunts along well-maintained pathways to multi-day

circumference of the pond provides for some challenging climbs over varied terrain, but well worth it. The highlight of my ride was veering upon a caribou that I shared the trail with for a short distance.

For those more inclined to water adventures, there are plenty of opportunities to kayak, swim and snorkel within the calm inlets found within the Park.

There are also various boating tours, ferry shuttles and whale watching excursions that can be booked. Saltwater swimming is best at Shallow Bay and Lomond, and freshwater swimming at Trout River Pond. Boat tours float be-

neath the towering cliffs of fjords carved by glaciers, passing by waterfalls, marine inlets, sea stacks and sandy beaches.

Trout River Pond is the most accessible of the fjord lakes for sea kayaking, and probably the safest. Bonne Bay, Rocky Harbour, and St Paul's Inlet are all common kayaking areas as well.

For those wanting to do some camping along the way, there are four campgrounds (Trout River, Lomond, Green Point and Shallow Bay) that are suitable for launching and landing a kayak.

A number of primitive campsites are also accessible by water, such as the three sites at Green Gardens and the one at Stanleyville. These sites are reserved on a first-come first-served basis, and a permit must be purchased in advance.

Hiking from the seashore up into the Long Range Mountains is a bit like travelling into the past to a time when Newfoundland was covered with Arctic plants and animals. The strenuous trails are long with many steep sections that should only be attempted by those with previous backpacking experience.

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warden on the day prior to hiking. The trail fee includes this orientation as well as the rental of a VHF telemetry unit that aids in the location of potentially lost hikers. Reservations are required and the routes are only open July 1 to October 15.

There are two unmarked routes often referred to as the "map-and-compass" traverses, Long Range and North Rim, each providing the ultimate hiking challenges The Long Range Traverse covers 35 km and takes an average of four to five days to hike, whereas the North Rim

Traverse covers 27 km and takes an average of three days to complete. Each route begins at the same point with a steep four km and 600 m hike up the gorge. It takes approximately four to five hours to reach the top of the Long Range plateau, where the first primitive campsite is located, and typically the first overnight stop. From here the trails veer separately, with the Long Range ending at the Gros Morne Trail, and the North Rim following a thicker route of vegetation at the opposite end.

One of the most memorable experiences to take home is the spotting of wildlife in its natural habitat. Common wildlife sightings in the park include lynx, black bear, caribou, Arctic hare, marten and moose. The moose population is one of the highest concentrations in North America and road fatalities are very common. As well, there are over 200 species of birds, 700 species of plants and an ocean full of whales which can often be viewed from the shorelines. Recently, Piping Plovers have returned after a 35year absence.

The one thing that should be noted is that this is nature's playground, operating under nature's rules and regulations. Although the park is well maintained and well staffed, there is a vast expanse of land to explore, and with it being along the Atlantic shores there's always the unpredictability of changing weather patterns. Even the most experienced outdoor explorers must adhere to certain guidelines when delving into the deep wilderness or overnight excursions.

For those not daring or experienced enough to attempt this on their own, Gros Morne Adventures is a well-established tour operator located within the park that offers a variety of outdoor op-

tions. Its professional and certified guides will lead you to areas often unattainable on your own.

After a few days roughing it in the outdoors, a more pampered experience might be the way to end your journey.

There are a few accommodation and dining options worth noting, such as the Sugar Hill Inn in Norris Point. It offers a taste of civilization within the wilderness, with superb accommodations, exquisite cuisine and a generous bar selection. The Ocean View Hotel in Rocky Harbour is a bit dated, but has a fine dining restaurant and a fabulous local showcase of music and comedy called Anchors Aweigh.

The great thing about Gros Morne is that there is something for everyone, although three recommendations are visits to the desert-like Tablelands, the fjord waters of Western Brook Pond and the hike up Gros Morne Mountain. Enjoy your experience, knowing you'll be back for more.

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Getting There Deer Lake is the closest airport with frequent year round scheduled service, and increased summer service. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s regular bus service that connects to the nearest park entrance some 32 km away. If driving, there is year-round ferry service from Nova Scotia.

Fees Day Pass: $9.80 (spring to fall), $7.80 (winter) per person

Camping: $18.60 to $25.50 per site Backcountry Camping: $9.80 per person

Wilderness Hiking: $24.50 reservation fee plus trail fees ranging from $68.70 to $122.60 Viking Trail Pass: $44.10 weekly per person

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OUTDOORSINSIDER Cup runneth over Start with the third annual Edmonton Canada Cup cross-country mountain bike race (edmontoncanadacup.com), then add on-site food and beverage, musical entertainment, a kids race and one garden gnome, and you've got a lot more than just a race.

But wait a minute, you ask, did that say "gnome"? This year the event has added a single-speed race with a gnome as top prize, matching singlespeed's intense style of riding (no granny gears) with its irreverent race culture. Of course, top calibre national competitors will be on hand for all disciplines, providing a great opportunity to witness an elite sporting event that usually occurs far from large urban centres.

The race, happening July 23, is fast becoming a local institution—there's even been talk that the city is considering permanent signage for the course to make it accessible to anyone who wants to test themselves on a World Cup trail.

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Camping 101 Nature deficit disorder is slowly creeping into our cultural heredity. Some kids now grow up without ever camping in a tent in the wilderness—an experience that used to be a fundamental Canadian rite of passage.

"People have become really disengaged with nature," says Alisson Ogle, manager at the Palisades Stewardship Education Centre in Jasper. "It's important to develop these connections because people protect what they care about."

Thankfully, the Palisades Centre and Jasper National Park are coming to the rescue with "Camping 101" courses to introduce young families and recent immigrants to camping and being in the wilderness. Two of the three courses have already taken place, June 24 – 26 and July 8 – 10, but there is still one more to come on July 22 – 24. Participation is open to anyone who wants to learn basic wilderness skills and enjoy one of our greatest national assets. For more information or to register, contact the Palisades Centre at 780.852.6192.

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Smart city, dumb bylaw Alberta will soon have a new surfing and kayaking hotspot, the Harvie Passage. Designed with eddies and wave features, the weir redevelopment on Calgary's Bow River is set to open in summer 2012, offering a fantastic new white-water venue within Calgary city limits. For the present, however, it remains closed as hydraulic testing and safety and signage programs are refined.

The city showed great vision and forethought in embracing the concept and turning a former hazard into an outdoor attraction. Yet it makes the

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city look reactionary to have an old municipal bylaw banning backyard skate ramps.

A new skatepark strategy goes before council this fall, at which time they will hopefully reassess this antiquated bylaw and allow skateboarders to recreate freely in their own backyards.

Check out the Calgary Association of Skateboard Enthusiasts website, calgaryskateboarding.com, for more information or to support local advocacy opposing the bylaw.

Jerks unite All right, I'm a jerk—at least when I'm

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being tailgated by some impatient driver who wants to speed through a national park. Not all species share our urban traffic savvy, and an antler sandwich at 120 kilometres per hour just isn't my taste.

Earlier this spring, Banff National Park had to reduce speed limits due to high animal mortality. Yet still I've seen drivers flying through the parks at well over 100 km/hour. So, a plea to Parks visitors: follow the posted limits, especially in animal zones. Flash your hazards and slow down if you see animals near the road. Don't pull over.

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PREVUE // TRAVELOGUE DANCE MUSIC

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Handsome Furs' latest goes behind the Iron Curtain Vue's conversation with Boeckner veered from music to film when discussing a photo Boeckner put on Twitter, of David Lynch holding a copy of Sound Kapital. Talk of film peppered the conversation thereafter.

On the David Lynch photo: "[The] director who worked on [our] last video, Scott Coffey, he's worked with David Lynch for maybe 15 – 20 years. He's shot some films of his own; he was the giant rabbit in Inland Empire and was in Mulholland Drive and a couple other David Lynch films.

And, yeah, Lynch was talking with him about the video, and it's the one degree of separation thing, but I guess David Lynch really likes our album, and really, really liked our video.

"That is up there with the best moment for me where playing music has taken me. It's pretty amazing. I grew up obsessively watching David Lynch movies and watching Twin Peaks. I was born in British Columbia, Vancouver Island, and lived in this tiny town that basically had a lot of similarities with the town of Twin Peaks, and I think David Lynch, his films just became huge in my subconscious and development as a quote-unquote artist."

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hen I was a kid, it was the end of the Cold War, and I was fascinated, just totally fascinated by the idea of this large, loose connection of countries being the enemy to the West," explains Handsome Furs' Dan Boeckner. "In my hometown, there was this satellite station, like a big telecommunication centre, and I remember being in elementary school right before the Berlin Wall came down and our science teacher basically saying that if there was a nuclear strike, that Cowichan Lake was like a secondary target, and that we would most assuredly just be vaporized.

"So combine that with a steady diet of really crappy American movies like Red Dawn and Top Gun and stuff like that, and I got fascinated with communists, [the] Communist Bloc."

Moreso than with Boeckner's other musical projects, that fascination with the Cold War climate has bled primarily into Handsome Furs. His previous, now-on-indefinite-hiatus main act Wolf Parade certainly expressed a weariness with the North America he saw around him—"Modern world

i'm not pleased to meet you / You just bring me down" went the refrain from the Boeckner-penned "Modern World" off of that band's debut Apologies to the Queen Mary—but it's the Furs, Boeckner and his wife, writer Alexei Perry, that has leveled its gaze to find inspiration in the former Iron Curtain and beyond. The band's debut album Plague Park kept to this side of the Cold War border, named for a park that sits overtop a mass grave in Helsinki, while 2009's Face Control saw the band go further East, commenting on the club scene in Eastern Europe, and start to document the things its members saw on their travels.

The latest, Sound Kapital, lyrically grounds itself in the band's past two years of touring deep in Eastern Europe, travels through the Balkans, other old Bloc states, and China.

Boeckner makes use of the stonefaced delivery of '80s new-wave music, pairing it with newer, pulsing electronica territory—it's the first album, Boeckner says, that the band has written entirely on keyboards, as opposed to the usual, guitarbased approach—to make passionate, dance-worthy music with a little

more worldly substance to it. For all of its riffs and rhythms, Kapital is essentially a travelogue of the bands' past two years.

Both Boeckner and Perry keep tour journals—hers is published on the band's Tumblr account—but their level of documentation found new peaks during the past few treks through Europe. They weren't only storing the mental memories for later songwriting purposes, but finding multiple methods of recording the world around them as they experienced it.

"Face Control was written ... where I'd just get back and try and remember things that we did. I'd have a few things written down and then sort of piece together what were then memories of being there," he says. "But when we started touring China in 2009 and then again in 2010, I started just obessively documenting everything on a small video camera, and in writing and with audio recordings, and when we were back at the hotel, if we had a couple hours off, I'd try and work up a demo that sort of represented those things."

The appeal of using songwriting as a travel record is its honesty, Boeckner

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notes.

"It's hard to explain," he says. "As I was singing about these things that I wrote, it felt real. It felt like I could invest a lot of passion and meaning into the delivery, as opposed to sitting at home and writing metaphorical fictions, which is I think the default setting for indie rock right now. As much as the '80s was like, 'I am a mechanical being, I get in my car, I drive to the discotheque, I feel nothing,' y'know, that became sort of a style in which to sing. That sort of detached new wave style—I think the modern analogue to that in indie rock is these vague, impenetrable metaphors that might mean something, but also might just mean nothing at all.

"And for me, on this new record, writing about a really simple song like 'Serve the People'—that's fairly simple lyrically, but it's about friends that we have in Burma, and their experiences, and that to me feels like something I want to project into the world, [rather] than some sort of precious, look-at-how-smart-I-am metaphorical vagueness."

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On the upcoming remake of Red Dawn: "[Laughs] I heard about that. Wasn't it [now about] the North Koreans?

Fucking ridiculous. The world doesn't need that right now. But I'll watch it for sure."

On other film news: "I just found out this a few days ago, but you know Guillermo del Toro?

I'm kind of obsessed with this news story, but he was working on this dream project, he was making At the Mountains of Madness, an HP Lovecraft story. A multi-milliondollar project, and the studio shut it down; I guess Universal shut it down because they wanted to release it under a PG-13 rating, and he wanted an R-rated picture. And he wouldn't back down, and they wouldn't back down, so they shit-canned the project—they'd spent a million dollars in pre-production, and I just found out they took all the money they were going to spend on that project, and they're now making a feature-length film, about the board game, Battleship. In fucking 3D. That story kind of sums up how completely bankrupt consumer media culture is. It's crazy." V

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THE GRAPES OF WRATH

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aving embarked on a successful career as a solo musician and record producer, Kevin Kane still found that he couldn't get his former band the Grapes of Wrath out of his head. It's not like he wanted to concentrate on the old band: after an acrimonious breakup, the Grapes of Wrath hadn't played together in 18 years, though individual members had played with each other in various guises. It was just that there was something about the band Kane kept coming back to, even if it was unconsciously.

"I remember I had had a couple of dreams where I was playing onstage with Chris [Hooper, drums] and Tom [Hooper, bass and vocals] and in the dream I was playing a black Telecaster with white bindings which I didn't own. One day a friend calls me up and gives me a black Telecaster with white bindings and I thought, 'Wow, this is really spooky,' because it had come just after I'd been having this dream," he recounts.

"About a year after that point Chris and Tom and I were onstage together again. I guess it literally was in the back of my mind."

Once the band did get back together in 2010, Kane says that from the second song everything seemed to just fall into place. The whole band fell back into the same grooves it always had and now, a year later, things are only getting better. Even though there was no inkling that

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the reunion would happen nearly two decades on, and no guarantee that it would go as well as it has, Kane explains that it makes sense that once it did happen the group would figure itself out.

"When I first met Chris it was in 1977 and we were both 13 years old and we started playing together and Tom started playing with us and he was 11 or 12: we were literally learning to play our instruments together," he says. "We learned how to be a band as a band. I've played with other people since then and so have they but the gears were formed off of each other, so when we get together the machine works in a certain way that it doesn't work with anyone else."

As to the most important question of whether or not there will be new Grapes of Wrath material, Kane is coy, saying that such a question is really up to the industry.

"The industry isn't what it once was, obviously.

It's just become a very different thing," he says.

"We've certainly discussed it, and we're open to it, it's just a matter of how we could make it happen. That's something we're mulling over and looking at.

"We want to try some new musicâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;this has gone so well in terms of playing the old stuff that I'm sure we're all curious to see what we can come up with."

Bryan Birtles

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PREVUE // MOTÖRHEAD MEETS RITCHIE VALENS MEETS BILLY RAY CYRUS

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hat do Motörhead, Ritchie Valens and Billy Ray Cyrus all have in common? Somehow, perhaps rather unbelievably, the sources behind "Ace of Spades," "La Bamba" and "Achy Breaky Heart" all mean something to country music—at least something to New Country Rehab guitarist "Champagne" James Robertson.

"Ritchie Valens could show that music was just good, clean fun. I always look to people like him to remind myself not to take life too seriously.

Motörhead? Yeah, be silly, be loud, be aggressive—more of the have-fun attitude," says Robertson. "Just because it's fast and loud doesn't mean it has to be negative. To me, Motörhead represents a different edge of the same side of the coin."

Granted, this answer came when I asked who the bedmates that created New Country Rehab would be. A pause for reflection is necessary; it's difficult enough defining country music, nevermind "new" country.

"New country in itself is a genre, or was a genre, but I think it's still going," says Robertson. "It was really popular in the '90s—like Billy Ray Cyrus and stuff like that that was trying to bridge the gap between '70s country

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like George Jones with a straight-up pop and rock mentality."

OK, that's how Hannah Montana's father fits in here. But is he invited to the sleepover?

"He keeps knocking, but he can't come in," says Robertson, laughing over the outrageous "country" success of Cyrus's massive hit.

So, with all this confusion, we now have a heavy-metal band coupled with a '50s pop symbol who enjoys the occasional Latin riff, that ultimately won't let sugary pop melodies under the covers. But what does New Country Rehab actually represent?

"The most important thing is that we do love country music," says Robertson. "It's important to us that that shines through, but there's also other elements that shine through ... we wanted to play good honest music by four people ... and a lot of things fall under that umbrella."

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PREVUE // FRIENDLY INDIE ROCK

WHISKEYFACE Sat, Jul 16 (4 pm) With Matt McKeen Filthy McNasty's, free

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dmonton's Whiskeyface is celebrating the release of its first fulllength album this Saturday with an afternoon CD release party at Filthy McNasty's.

Original members vocalist/guitarist Garrett Craigs and drummer Steven James met in high school, and started Whiskeyface in 2007 after running into each other at parties and realizing their musical similarities. "[James and I] started meeting at parties and talking late at night about each other's favourite music—the Replacements, Pavement—and realized we liked each other's style," Craigs explains. "Once we started jamming, we had the same feel, and it didn't matter how technical it was or whether you were playing the right thing. Just play it and getting it down worked for us."

With the addition of bassist Frank Pirker (the Wild Dogs), Whiskeyface released its debut EP Our Past is Bronzed in 2010, and is now following up with its first full-length, The Soothing Absence of Light. Recorded with Jesse Gander at Vancouver's Hive Creative Labs, the band took the advice of

friends the City Streets, Falklands and Slates—all who have recorded with Gander—to record the new album.

The title of the album reflects late nights spent in good company, Craigs points out. "[The title] has a lot to do with late nights with friends. With this album it's obvious there was some heartbreak, too, but Soothing Absence of Light gets right into that: everything being OK once your day's over, once you're done, you go out for the night.

Everyone can relate to how good it feels to be done for the day, just forget about it and go on."

Set to be released on Clamour Records (run by Rick Reid of the City Streets), it's just one more perk of running a band within a tight circle of friends.

"Around the time we were getting ready to put out our first EP, we did a short tour with [the City Streets] and also played their going-away show," Craigs explains of the family atmosphere between the bands that make up Clamour. "They asked us to be a part of it, and it just felt natural.

They're like our best friends."

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PREVUE // UKULELE REPARTEE

THE BURNING HELL Wed, Jul 20 (9:30 pm) With Wax Mannequin, Manraygun Haven Social Club, $12 – $15

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The Burning Hell's Mathias Kom cooling down

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or all of the dry-wit observation and world-weary grins that seem to be in bottomless abundance in Mathias Kom's songwriting, his latest album as the Burning Hell might be the first time he's turned that worldwizened wit to face the mirror. Flux Capacitor sees Kom writing about himself more than ever before in its folksy-worldy songs, 11 tracks as witty and self-deprecating as they are singable, led by ukulele and what sometimes feels like a small European orchestra. Introspection, it seems, suits him just fine.

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of the many-membered Burning Hell spent the past few weeks blitzing through Europe before the band's Canadian tour. Kom kindly found some time while in Latvia to answer some questions over email.

VUE WEEKLY: In writing what's now become Flux Capacitor, were there any ideas you wanted to explore, or ideas you found emerging from the collection of songs? More than on previous albums, there seems to be more songs directly about you and your past.

MATHIAS KOM: It all started with the song "My Name Is Mathias"—after I wrote that, it was hard to imagine how it would fit by itself on a record without other songs that also dealt with my own life. I'd always wanted to write autobiographical songs, but I'd been too nervous in the past to talk about myself directly; it seemed like such a self-indulgent thing to do. And maybe it is, but on the other hand, I can't just keep writing songs about animals and conferences forever.

VW: ...And then there's also a song about Back to the Future ("Like an Anvil") and the album's title. On your blog, you allude to it being related to turning 33?

MK: "Like An Anvil" is a song that uses the imagery of filmmaking in general

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and Back to the Future in particular as metaphors for being afraid of aging and death. I've always found that movie compelling because Marty is accidentally thrown into a situation where he has to change the past back to what it was before he arrived in order to avoid being erased from existence in the future. And let's not forget Doc Brown's assassination by Libyan terrorists, which Marty prevents in the future by writing a letter in the past with his future knowledge.

Complicated stuff, and a killer soundtrack. Anyway, the point is that I'm interested in how human beings cope with getting old, addressing past mistakes and planning for an uncertain future.

VW: Does getting older make you want to examine your life in your songs any more?

MK: I've been thinking a lot about my past because I'm starting to really feel the aging process for the first time in my life, and feeling more and more removed from the invincibility I was pretty sure I possessed when I was in my 20s. Songwriting is a fun and possibly even therapeutic way to deal with all of that, and gives me another opportunity to make fun of myself, which I enjoy a lot.

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PREVUE // DON'T CALL IT A COMEBACK

IDYL TEA Sat, Jul 16 (8:30 pm) With Mike McDonald, Sherry-Lee Wisor, Dennis and Steve Lenarduzzi, The Artery, $12

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dmonton indie-pop band Idyl Tea never broke up. Though the band hasn't played a show since 1995, none of the members ever considered the band really over, just on a long hiatus.

Why? Well, nobody was abandoned in Los Angeles à la the Sex Pistols, nobody announced the breakup on

Craig [Metcalfe, drums] moved to Pincher Creek and at the moment we all live in different cities but we like to joke that we never broke up because we always said that door is always open."

The door opened a lot wider when the group gathered to digitize a number of demos and reel-to-reel recordings before they had a chance to deteriorate to the point that they'd be unplayable.

"Once we got together we thought,

Once we got together we thought, 'What are we gonna do? Sit around and talk about the old days?'

Let's get some drums and some amps and make some music.

album that contains one disc of unreleased material and another of new stuff. The older stuff was sometimes difficult to get at—the group needed to learn how to "bake" reel-to-reel tapes in order to finagle sounds off the deteriorated masters—but creating the new stuff turned out to be a breeze.

"It was almost kind of freaky in a way—which is a terrible adjective.

When we started playing, after about 20 minutes you felt like you were slipping into something familiar, like meeting up with an old friend or family member," LaRoi says. "Even if you haven't seen them in years you slip right back into that familiar kind of chemistry."

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the radio à la the Smashing Pumpkins and certainly nobody was informed by fax that the band was finished, à la the Pixies. As guitarist and vocalist Everett LaRoi explains, the band never really shut down, it just went its separate ways.

"We'd just been together for 11 years and we thought maybe we should do some other stuff, try out playing with some different musicians," he says of the band's temporary demise. "So we did part ways and Hank [Engel, bass and vocals] moved to Sudbury and

The formerly idle Idyl Tea

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'What are we gonna do? Sit around and talk about the old days?' Let's get some drums and some amps and make some music," LaRoi recounts. "Rather than playing old stuff, we just did what we always did: someone played a song and we worked out an arrangement for it and they were actually sounding great and we figured maybe we should do something with it."

What the group ended up doing with it was creating Song That's Not Finished Yet / The Unthology, a double

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PREVUE // ODE TO OIL

THE BITUMONT PLAYERS Fri, July 15 (8 pm) With Magnolia Buckskin, Robin Woywitka and Wacousta Artery, $8

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bout 90 kilometres north of Fort McMurray lies Bitumont, a historic site that doesn't get the tar sands credit it deserves. The greatest aspect of its rich history, perhaps, is that the site was the first commercial separation and refining spot in Alberta. This plentiful history spoke to a collection of Calgary musicians.

"It's kind of a weird part in Alberta's past—we don't really talk about the history of the oil sands very much, but there were some pretty interesting characters," says David Martin of the Bitumont Players. Martin, who was nominated for a CBC literacy award in

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2008 for his poem "Bitumount Debitage," isn't necessarily a tar sands enthusiast for the commercial reason, but like the other members in the Bitumont Players, he has an attachment to the exploration site.

"It's about what that strange history inspires in us, rather than documenting it. There's a connection to the sound of the band and our own personal connection to the area. And there's a quirky feel—we're not your traditional country and western band," says Martin. "The same that there's a hidden story to Alberta's oil sands, there's hidden edges to Alberta roots music .. some of it can be a bit more out there."

Martin laughs as I suggest that the quirkiness and clever band name

could carry over into playing corporate events for oil companies— "We don't have any sponsorship like that. We're not singing any government songs or oil ditties or postcards to the oil sands"—noting that the strange, hardly recognized part of Alberta's roots is an interesting angle for a band. But the Bitumont players, like Bitumont, is tied to roots.

"It's the same ideas when we're songwriting," says Martin. "The little stories, the little weird things that get swept away—you pick up the pieces and can connect people to parts of their province and their history that they aren't really aware of. Things on the periphery."

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Mars and Venus / Fri, Jul 15 (9 pm) I guess it's safe to say that playing your third show as a band in Tijuana, Mexico gives you some sort of street cred.

That takes some serious cojones. Punk rock influenced by Thrice, Strung Out, Moneen, Alexisonfire, Avenged Sevenfold and ... U2. (Starlite Room, $10) Fatality / Fri, Jul 15 (9 pm) With a name like Fatality, you've got to be a metal band. Thrash metal to be exact.

But fret no more: it's not all doom and gloom. Toronto's Fatality like to party, as evidenced by the band's album Beers From the Grave. (New City) The Apresnos / Fri, Jul 15 (9 pm) If you're in Spruce Grove on July 15, I can safely guarantee you that this is the place to be if you like clean-cut, polished rock. Releasing a new EP, Deny, Deny, Deny, the Apresnos play—that's right—clean-cut, polished rock. And to top it off, they dress well. (Beer Hunter, Free) Leduc Blues Fest / Sat, Jul 16 (5 pm) Blues fans south of Edmonton are in for a treat as the first annual Leduc Blues Fest features legendary British blues band Savoy Brown as the headliner. Go to sirensthecharity.com for more information. (Leduc Rec Centre, $30)

Dawn in the City / Sat, Jul 16 (8 pm) Dawn in the City won a contest to open for Platinum Blonde and even though the group probably doesn't sound like PB, its funked-out blend of Otis Redding, Jackie Wilson and Stevie Wonder is very likely going to get your soul shaking. (River Cree Casino, $24.50)

Edmonton: the Musical / Thu, Jul 21 – Sun, Jul 24 (7 pm) Here's the skinny: gather 27 local bands, 10 local actors and make a musical about Jake and his search for love. Featuring Red Shag Carpet, Light Travels, Fendercase, Erica Viegas, Greater than Giants and more. (Avenue Theatre, $28) Marco Claveria / Thu, Jul 21 (3 pm) Other than patio beer, nothing tastes quite like Latin music in the summertime. If you enjoy it—and who doesn't?—Marco Claveria's your man. And if that doesn't quite whet your appetite, consider this: Claveria has opened for Al Green. Yes, that Al Green. (Haven Social Club, $10)

Christa Couture / Sat, Jul 16 (8 pm) Releasing her new Loved and Lost EPs, Christa Couture captures an intimacy and honesty that few singers can. The talent has been noticed by CBC radio listeners, earning her a Top 10 spot on the station's charts, while back in 2008 she was nominated for "Best Folk Acoustic Album" at the Canadian Aboriginal Awards. A talent not to be missed. (Haven Social Club, $10)

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Handsome Furs Sound Kapital (Sub Pop)  "When I get back, when I get back home ... I won't be the same no more," utters Dan Boeckner in a mixture of resigned sigh and reserved indignation. It's the opening line on Sound Kapital, Handsome Furs' third and possibly best LP, and serves as a thesisencapsulation of what's to come: tales of travel, taken down in the moment and crafted into songs with that same observational intensity, songs that kick up the kind of gut-level sentiment that rises when you know something's amiss in the world around you.

Boeckner and bandmate/wife Alexei Perry have reshaped the Handsome Furs' sound around keyboards and electronica—guitar, while still prominent, is relegated to supporting duty instead of spotlight focus—and it's a shift in sound that pays off in abundant returns. While the band pulls some hallmarks of '80s Euro-club styles—at times, Sound Kapital feels like Kraftwerk, albeit by way of actual human warmth and passion, and maybe some punk attitude tossed in for good measure—never does it feel like retro posturing for the sake of the pose. Sound Kapital is a self-sovereign creation, one that draws on the strengths of early electro dabblers and upgrades them with warm waves of sound and rallying anthems. It's thrilling stuff.

"When I Get Back," the opener, mixes

hopeful sentiment with a world-wizened lyricism, in front of pulsing synth and textured drum-machine beats.

"Damage" starts with a recording of a hostage situation Boeckner and Perry overheard on a cabbie's police scanner in Manila, and builds and compresses with urgency until it erupts in fury of guitar and bitter sentiment near the tail end. The piano-led "Serve the People" slow-burns through spaceysynth rumbles as Boeckner wearily describes how, "Kids are making noise with the generators on / 'til the cops said move along."

The album's crowning moment, though, is "Repatriated": a reflection-byway-of-declaration-of-independence, it benefits greatly from its analogue keyboard investment and Boeckner's howling croon. The instrumental backing is textured and ever-twisting in small ways, with keyboards and guitars offering up little riffs and one-off barbs of noise that keep even its slower moments feeling lively. Boeckner's always been a guitarist who crafted guitar riffs that seem to percolate in subtle, shifting ways, and that's translated well in the keyboard-heavy delivery, which the Furs make good use of. There are the ghosts in these machines, and Boeckner and Perry release them here in all of their joyful sorrows.

Paul Blinov

Sublime with Rome Yours Truly (Fueled by Ramen)  Like a fallen rap icon, Bradley Nowell's name and legacy have made substantially more money since his death than he could ever imagined when he was alive. After all, the "27 Club" member died just months before "What I Got" and "Santeria" chilled the airwaves. And now, the same year that another Sublime greatest hits package hits shelves (Icon) with all those same old songs, a band that at first seemed to die when Nowell died has returned: Sublime with Rome finds vocalist Rome Ramirez latching onto the major successes made by the band from before he was allowed to cross the street unattended.

Taking on the "with Rome" for legal reasons and the "Sublime" for monetary reasons, Sublime and its talented 23-year-old guitar player/karaoke singer sounds bafflingly similar to what fans came to love and haters came to hate, returning too many years later.

Likely, with a sour taste in their mouths, fans may enjoy the ska, reggae, surf rock panache Sublime is known for—"Panic," "PCH" and "You Better Listen" are actually decent songs. And if you can get past the sacrilege and the fact that Nowell didn't really get to play his most popular songs live, you have a good-enough album that fit better in the '90s. Yours Truly floats by effortlessly, yet notably missing the one-two Nowell and his band created. A middling, decidedly formulaic album, Yours Truly done by any other band would've sufficed.

And if you can't get past that and recall a time 15 years ago when this stuff flew free, Yours Truly is a tried, tested and true rekindling of old songs, old riffs, and old memories that feebly claim to be paying homage to someone who was probably too easygoing to ever really give a shit anyway.

Curtis Wright

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Brian Eno and Rick Holland Drums Between the Bells (Warp)  There's a funny thing about poetry set to music: as much as it seems intuitive that it would work well, it often doesn't. Lyrics are not poetry—if they were, then they would be complete unto themselves, with no use for music to complete the artistic statement. While the music and poetry on Eno and Holland's record often seem to work just fine alone, the album as a whole lacks cohesiveness. It works best on a song like "Glitch" where the voice has been processed to match the mood of the music—as a robotic voice that enunciates the feeling of a problem within the human "machine"—but otherwise, it's just two halves competing for space.

Bryan Birtles

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VUEWEEKLY JUL 14 – JUL 20, 2011

LIVESOUNDS SLIDESHOW

Christian Hansen & the Autistics Jul 8, 2011 / The Artery

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QUICKSPINS WHITEY HOUSTON

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Redlight Kings Something for the Pain (Hollywood)

SLIDESHOW

SOS Fest Jul 10, 2011 / Whyte Avenue

Aims for the cheap seats But will be remembered for Ass raping Neil Young

Lindi Ortega Little Red Boots (Last Gang) Dolly Parton-esque Great! but Lindi doesn't have Her gigantic hits..

Roxanne Potvin Play (Black Hen) A pleasing pop disc Nothing new, but it's charming Play whilst gardening

Com Truise Galactic Melt (Ghostly) He's so prolific By the time I'm done this bit He's got four new tracks

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TEMPLE Oh Snap! Oh Snap with Degree, Cobra Commander, Battery, Jake Roberts, Ten-O, Cool Beans, Hotspur Pop and P-Rex; every Sat

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St, 780.414.0233

Accent European Lounge 8223-104 St,

780.431.0179 ARTery 9535 Jasper Ave

Agricentre–Radway

Hwy 28 NE Edmonton Avenue Theatre 9030118 Ave, 780.477.2149

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9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 The Docks 13710 66 St, 780.476.3625

Dow's Shell Theatre– Fort Saskatchewan 8700-

84 St, Fort Saskatchewan, 780.992.6400 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DV8 8307-99 St

Early Stage Saloon– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave,

10765 Jasper Ave, 780.420.9098

Stony Plain

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82

St, 780.453.3663

Ave, 780.439.1082

Blackjack's Roadhouse–Nisku

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Eddie Shorts 10713-124 EDMONTON EVENTS CENTRE WEM Phase III,

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Elephant and Castle–Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave

Blue Pear Restaurant 10643-123

Empress Ale House

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9938-70 Ave, 780.437.3667 Festival Place 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378

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12464-153 St, 780.424.9467 CHROME LOUNGE 132 Ave, Victoria Trail Coast to Coast 5552 Calgary Tr, 780.439.8675

Common Lounge 10124-124 St

Crown Pub 10709-109 St, 780.428.5618

Diesel Ultra Lounge

11845 Wayne Gretzky Drive, 780.704.CLUB

Devaney’s Irish Pub

9912-82 Ave, 780.758.2754

Expressionz Café

FIDDLER’S ROOST 8906-99 St

FILTHY MCNASTY’S

10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 Flower FEST 53210 RGE Rd, 55A, Near Seba Beach • 780.429.3624 • littleflower.ca FLOW Lounge 11815 Wayne Gretzky Dr, 780.604.

CLUB Fluid Lounge 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 FUNKY BUDDHA 1034182 Ave, 780.433.9676 GAS PUMP 10166-114 St, 780.488.4841 GIBBONS HOTEL 5010-50 Ave, 780.923.2401

Good Earth Coffee House 9942-108 St HALO 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.HALO

haven social club

15120A (basement), Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.6010

Hideout–Red Deer 411-

37400, Hwy 2, Red Deer, 403.348.5309 HillTop Pub 8220-106 Ave, 780.490.7359 HOOLIGANZ 10704-124 St, 780.995.7110 Iron Boar Pub 491151st St, Wetaskiwin JAMMERS PUB 11948-127 Ave, 780.451.8779 J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 jeffrey’s café 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890

JEKYLL AND HYDE 10209-100 Ave, 780.426.5381

junction bar and eatery 10242-106 St,

780.756.5667 KAS BAR 10444-82 Ave, 780.433.6768 kelly's pub 11540 Jasper Ave L.B.’s Pub 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100

Leduc Blues Festival

Black Gold Service Centre–Leduc (aka Leduc Rec Centre Curling Club) 4330 Black Gold Dr, Leduc LEGENDS PUB 6104-172 St, 780.481.2786

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE

11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 Lizard Lounge 13160118 Ave

Marybeth's Coffee House–Beaumont 5001-30 Ave, Beaumont, 780.929.2203

MOTION NOTION MUSIC and ARTS FESTIVAL Near Drayton Valley, 1-888-222-6608, motionnotion.com

Naked Cyber café 10354 Jasper Ave, 780.425.9730

Newcastle PuB 6108-

90 Ave, 780.490.1999

New City Legion 8130

Gateway Boulevard (Red Door) Nisku Inn 1101-4 St

NORTH GLENORA HALL

13535-109A Ave O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 Orlando's 1 15163-121 St

Overtime–Downtown

10304-111 St, 780.465.6800 Overtime Whitemud Crossing, 4211-106 St, 780.485.1717 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 Playback Pub 594 Hermitage Rd, 130 Ave, 40 St

Pleasantview Community Hall 10860-57 Ave

REDNEX BAR–Morinville

10413-100 Ave, Morinville, 780.939.6955 Red Piano Bar 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 Rendezvous 10108149 St Ric’s Grill 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602

ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St,

780.482.5253

Rose and Crown

10235-101 St R Pub 16753-100 St , 780.457.1266

Rusty Reed's House of Blues 12402-118 Ave, 780.451.1390

Second Cup–Mountain Equipment 12336102 Ave, 780.451.7574;

Stanley Milner Library

7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq; Varscona, Varscona Hotel, 106 St, Whyte Ave ; 89 Ave: 8906-149 St

Second Cup– Sherwood Park 4005

Cloverbar Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929

• Summerwood

Summerwood Centre, Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929

Sherlock Holmes •

WEM • Downtown: 10012-

101A Ave

sShrine Temple 4510142 St

Sideliners Pub 11018127 St, 780.453.6006

Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge 12923-97 St,

780.758.5924

Sportsworld 13710-

104 St

Sportsman's Lounge 8170-50 St

STARLITE ROOM 10030102 St, 780.428.1099

STEEPS TEA LOUNGE– Whyte Ave 11116-82 Ave Suede Lounge 11806

Jasper Ave, 780.482.0707 Suite 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969 Taphouse 9020 McKenney Ave, St Albert, 780.458.0860 Treasury 10004 Jasper Ave, 7870.990.1255, thetreasurey.ca

Vinyl Dance Lounge 10740 Jasper

Ave, 780.428.8655, vinylretrolounge.com West Side Pub 15135 Stony Plain Rd

Whistlestop Lounge 12416-132 Ave, 780.

451.5506

Wild Bill’s–Red Deer Quality Inn North Hill, 7150-50 Ave, Red Deer, 403.343.8800

WILD MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL– Hinton Entrance

Ranch, 8km N Hinton • wildmountainmusicfest.ca

WILD WEST SALOON

12912-50 St, 780.476.3388 Winspear Centre 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WOK BOX 10119 Jasper Ave WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com

VUEWEEKLY JUL 14 – JUL 20, 2011

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Random Rab; tickets at Foosh (Whyte), at Ticketweb.ca; runs Jul 14-18 Newcastle Pub Sun Soul Service (acoustic jam): Willy James and Crawdad Cantera; 3-6:30pm NEW CITY LEGION DIY Sunday Afternoons: 4pm (door), 5pm , 6pm, 7pm, 8pm (bands) O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am Old Strathcona Gazebo Park Stage Artwalk: Brittney Grabill; 4pm

Night every Mon with DJ Chad Cook NEW CITY LEGION Madhouse Mon: Punk/ metal/etc with DJ Smart Alex

TUE JUL 19 Blues on Whyte Grady Champion BRIXX Nathaniel (folk) Druid Irish Pub Open stage every Tue; with Chris Wynters; 9pm

On the Rocks Big Rock Jam: Boy 'n' Gurl, Katie Perman; 2-8pm

Haven Social Club New Country Rehab (folk), Democrafunk, Danielle and the Deadbeats, Calum Graham (folk); 8pm; $10 (adv)

ORLANDO'S 2 PUB Open stage jam every Sun; 4pm

L.B.’s Tue Blues Jam with Ammar; 9pm-1am

Rexall Place Katy Perry, Janelle Monae, DJ Skeet Skeet; sold out

O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm

Shell Theatre–Dow Centennial Centre Reality 7; 5pm Wunderbar Caileen Lewis, DoT, Matt McKeen; 9pm; $5 Second Cup–Mountain Equipment Co-op Live music every Sun; 2-4pm

DJs BACKSTAGE TAP AND GRILL Industry Night: every Sun with Atomic Improv, Jameoki and DJ Tim

Padmanadi Open stage every Tue; with Mark Davis; all ages; 7:30-10:30pm R Pub Open stage jam every Tue; hosted

by Gary and the Facemakers; 8pm Second Cup–124

Sidecar; 8pm

no cover

Sportsman's Lounge Open stage every Tue; hosted by Paul McGowan; 9pm

RED STAR Experimental Indie Rock, Hip Hop, Electro with DJ Hot Philly; every Tue

Starlite Room Handsome Furs, Diamond Dust (rock); 8pm; $18 at PrimeBoxOffice.com, UnionEvents.com, Blackbyrd, Brixx Wunderbar Tequila Mockingbird, George Ireland, The Boxcar Social; 9pm; $8

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: alternative retro and not-so-retro every Tue; with Eddie Lunchpail; Wooftop: From dub to disco: One Too Many Tuesdays with Rootbeard Brixx Bar Troubadour Tue: hosted by Mark Feduk; 9pm; $8 Buddys DJ Arrow Chaser every CRown Pub Live hip hop and open mic with DJs Xaolin, Dirty Needlz, Frank Brown, and guests; no cover DV8 Creepy Tombsday:

WED JUL 20 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Glitter Gulch: The Pernell Reichert Band (folk); 9pm Blues on Whyte Grady Champion Race Week Music Festival–Yellowhead Brewery Series Cars and Guitars: Brandon Isaak at 8pm; Brent Parkin at 9:30pm; $5 (door) Race Week Music Festival–Rice Howard Way Street Party–Rock’n Wednesday: hosted by Clayton Bellamy; Race Week Music Festival Street Party Kick-Off with Brent Parkin at 2-3:30pm; The Twisters, Come Out Swingin at 3:45-5:40pm; Paul Pigat and Cousin Harley at 6-8pm; Race Week All Star Bluesabilly Jam featuring Brent Parkin, Jim Guiboche, Paul Pigat, and others at 8:15-10pm

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BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sunday Funday: with Phil, 2-7pm; Sunday Night: Soul Sundays: '60s and '70s funk, soul, R&B with DJ Zyppy FLOW Lounge Stylus Sun

FREEHOUSE Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover

Nisku Inn Troubadours and Tales: 1st Wed every month; with Tim Harwill, guests; 8-10pm Playback Pub Open Stage every Wed hosted

by JTB; 9pm-1am PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; Slow pitch for beginners on the 1st and 3rd Wed prior to regular jam every Wed, 6.30pm; $2 (member)/$4 (nonmember)

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: RetroActive Radio Wed: alt '80s and '90s, Post Punk, New Wave, Garage, Brit, Mod, Rock and Roll with LL Cool Joe; Wooftop: Soul/breaks with Dr Erick

kelly's pub Open stage every Mon; hosted by Clemcat Hughes; 9pm MOTION NOTION MUSIC and ARTS FESTIVAL • Main Stage: Skechtasy, Electrypnose, Yann, OT-KUN; tickets at Foosh (Whyte), at Ticketweb.ca; runs Jul 14-18

Brixx Bar Really Good... Eats and Beats: every Wed with DJ Degree and Friends BUDDY'S DJ Dust 'n' Time every Wed; 9pm (door); no cover

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm

The Common Treehouse Wednesday's Diesel Ultra Lounge Wind-up Wed: R&B, hiphop, reggae, old skool, reggaeton with InVinceable, Touch It, weekly guest DJs

Rose Bowl/Rouge Lounge Acoustic open stage every Mon; 9pm

The Burning Hell / Wed, Jul 20 / Haven Social Club, $12 – $15

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NEW CITY LEGION Bum Tickins, DJ Nick Kouremenos; no minors; no cover

BANK ULTRA LOUNGE Rev'd Up Wed: with DJ Mike Tomas upstairs; 8pm

Devaney's Irish Pub Singer/songwriter open stage every Mon; 8pm

Lucky 13 Industry

HOOLIGANZ Open stage every Wed with host Cody Nouta; 9pm

DJs

Blues on Whyte Grady Champion

FILTHY McNASTY'S Metal Mon: with DJ S.W.A.G.

HAVEN SOCIAL Club Open stage every Wed with Jonny Mac, 8:30pm, free; Late Show: The Burning Hell (folk/ rock), Wax Mannequin, Manraygun, 9:30pm (door), $12 (adv at Blackbyrd)/$15 (door)

Wunderbar Fire Next Time, Audio/Rocketry Tour Kickoff; $7

BLACK DOG

Crown Pub Minefield Mondays/House/Breaks/ Trance and more with host DJ Pheonix, 9pm

Good Earth Coffee House Breezy Brian Gregg every Wed; 121pm

Second Cup– Mountain Equipment Open mic every Wed; 8-10pm

MON JUL 18

FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: every Mon with DJ Blue

Fiddler's Roost Little Flower Open Stage every Wed with Brian Gregg; 8pm-12

Second Cup–89 Ave Rick Mogg (country)

Sportsworld Roller Skating Disco Sun; 1-4:30pm; sports-world.ca

BLACK DOG

Festival Place Patio Series: Annie Lou, Flying Fox and the Hunter Gatherers; 7:30pm; $8 at Festival Place box office, TicketMaster

Red Piano Bar Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5

SAVOY MARTINI LOUNGE Reggae on Whyte: RnR Sun with DJ IceMan; no minors; 9pm; no cover

Wunderbar Northcote, The Fight, Patrick Swan; 9pm; $5

Walsh; every Wed; 7-11pm; admission by donation

Street Open mic every Tue; 8-10pm SEcond Cup–Stanley Milner Library Open mic every Tue; 7-9pm Second Cup– Summerwood Open stage/open mic every Tue; 7:30pm; no cover SIDELINERS PUB All Star Jam every Tue; with Alicia Tait and Rickey

VUEWEEKLY JUL 14 – JUL 20, 2011

Psychobilly, Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue FUNKY BUDDHA– Whyte Ave Latin and Salsa music every Tue; dance lessons 8-10pm NEW CITY LEGION High Anxiety Variety Society Bingo vs. karaoke with Ben Disaster, Anonymouse every Tue; no minors; 4pm-3am;

eddie shorts Acoustic jam every Wed, 9pm; no cover Elephant and Castle–Whyte Ave Open mic every Wed (unless there's an Oilers game); no cover Empress Ale House Ol' Smashy (rock); 8pm (door) Expressionz Café Open stage with Randall

LEGENDS PUB Hip hop/ R&B with DJ Spincycle NEW CITY LEGION Wed Pints 4 Punks: with DJ Nick; no minors; 4pm3am; no cover NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed Starlite Room Wild Style Wed: Hip-Hop; 9pm TEMPLE Wild Style Wed: Hip hop open mic hosted

by Kaz and Orv; $5

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

COMEDY Brixx Bar • 10030 - 102 St • 780.428.1099 • Troubadour Tuesday's with comedy and music

Ceili's • 10338-109 St • 780.426.5555 • Comedy Night: every Tue, 9:30pm • No cover

Century Casino • 13103 Fort Rd • 780.481.9857 • Shows start at 8pm Thu-Sat and late show at 10:30pm on Fri-Sat • $12 (Thu)/$19 (Fri/Sat) • Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club presents: Damonde Tschritter; Jul 15-16 • Yuk Yuk's Comedy Clup presents: Scott Dumas; Jul 22-23

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Thu, 8:30pm; Sat, 8pm and 10pm • That's Improve; Jul 15-16 • Jon Charles; Jul 22-23 Comic Strip • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; FriSat 10:30pm • Sean Patton; until Jul 17 • Hit or Miss Monday: Jul 18, 8pm; $7 • Brown on Bourbon: Jul 19, 8pm; $12 • John Beauhler; Jul 20-24 • Hit or Miss Monday: Jul 25, 8pm; $7 • Brown on Bourbon: Jul 26, 8pm; $12 • Tom Simmons; Jul 27-31

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 • Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm hydeaway • 10209-100 Ave • Super Awesome Comedy: Talk Show with Scott Belford on alternative weeks: Wed, Jul 27

laugh shop–Sherwood Park • 4 Blackfoot Road, Sherwood Park • 780.417.9777 • laughinthepark.ca • Open Wed-Sat • Amateur night every Wed • Adam Norwest; Jul 14-16

River Cree–the Venue • rivercreeresort.com/thevenue.php • Whose Live Anyway? Improv comedy and song with Ryan Stiles, Greg Proops, Chip Esten, and Jeff B. Davis • Jul 23

Groups/CLUBS/meetings Aikikai Aikido Club • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm

AWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP • Braeside Presbyterian Church bsmt, N. door, 6 Bernard Dr, Bishop St, Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • For adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional families • Every Mon 7:30pm

Brain Tumour Peer Support Group • Woodcroft Branch Library, 13420-114 Ave • braintumour.ca • 1.800.265.5106 ext 234 • Support group for brain tumour survivors and their families and caregivers. Must be 18 or over • 3rd Tue every month; 7-8:45pm • Free

CALM ABIDING MEDITATION RETREAT • Providence Centre, 3005119 St • Tibetan Buddhist monk Kushok Lobsang Dhamchöe leads a one-day retreat • Sat, Jul 23, 10am-4pm • Donation; Pre-register/E/info: Elke at elke.kriegel@ gasamling.ca

CHESS FOR STUDENTS • Roving ChessNuts Training Facility, 203, 12013-76 St • 780.474.2318 • Learning and playing opportunities for students Kindergarten through Grade 12; tournaments, including team matches for elementary schools. All levels; E: societyofchessknights@shaw.ca

EXPRESSIONZ Café • 9938-70 Ave • 780.437.3667 • Marketplace: Artisans and creative businesses; 1st Sat every month, 10-3pm • Old Time and Country Rock Jam/Dance: 2nd Sun every month, 1-5pm

LECTURES/Presentations Are You on the Strathcona County Family Tree? • Strathcona

Library, Community Rm (upstairs), 104 St, 84 Ave • fairvotealberta.org • Monthly meeting • 2nd Thu each month; 7pm

County Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8600 • Spend an afternoon with local historians and explore the recently-constructed Strathcona County Family Tree • Sat, Jul 16, 2-4pm • Free, pickup tickets at the library

FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's An-

Eco Paint Demo Day • Raising Spac-

glican Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.465.2019/780.634.5526 • 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

es (Mexx Lighting Warehouse), 10045-81 Ave • Presentation: Information VOC paint, healthier choices (zero VOC synthetic, zero VOC natural, milk, clay), trends, colours, and techniques • Sat, Jul 16, 2-4pm

Fair Vote Alberta • Strathcona

Home–Energizing Spiritual Community for Passionate Living • Garneau/Ashbourne Assisted Living Place, 11148-84 Ave • Home: Blends music, drama, creativity and reflection on sacred texts to energize you for passionate living • Every Sun 3-5pm

Lotus Qigong • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Wed

MEDITATION • Strathcona Library, 8331-104 St; meditationedmonton.org; Drop-in every Thu 7-8:30pm; Sherwood Park Library: Drop-in every Mon, 7-8:30pm Mill Creek Ravine–Walk • Meet at Earth's General Store, 96 St, Whyte Ave • safeteam.ca • 5km walk, fundraiser for Saving Animals From Euthanasia (SAFE) Team • Sat, Jul 23, 12pm

Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-106 St • 780.458.6352, 780.467.6093 • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm; through the summer

Organization for Bipolar Affective Disorder (OBAD) • Grey Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, 780.451.1755; Group meets every Thu 7-9pm • FREE outdoor movement!

Sherwood Park Walking Group + 50 • Meet inside Millennium Place, Sherwood Place • Weekly outdoor walking group; starts with a 10 min discussion, followed by a 30-40 minute walk through Centennial Park, a cool down and stretch • Every Tue, 8:30am • $2/session (goes to the Alzheimer’s Society of Alberta)

Society of Edmonton Atheists • Stanley Milner Library, Rm 6-7 • Meet the 1st Tue every month, 7:15pm Sugarswing Dance Club • Orange Hall, 10335-84 Ave or Pleasantview Hall, 10860-57 Ave • 780.604.7572 • Swing Dance at Sugar Foot Stomp: beginner lesson followed by dance every Sat, 8pm (door) at Orange Hall or Pleasantview Hall

Winspear Centre–Summer Tours • Learn about the Winspear Centre's lobby, chamber, and backstage areas • Jul-Aug; Mon, Jul 18, 10am WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old Strathcona Farmers' Market • Silent vigil the 1st and 3rd Sat, 10-11am, each month, stand in silence for a world without violence

Yoga in the Park • St Albert’s Kingswood Park • Sat, Aug 13, Sep 10, 1-2:30pm • $20; register at 780.454.0701 ext 221; e: info@gatewayassociation.ca (drop-ins are welcome) Y TOASTMASTERS CLUB • Edmonton Federation of Community Leagues, 7103-105 St • ytoastmasterclub.ca • 1st and 3rd Tue, 7-9pm; every month

Edmonton Transit Historical Tours • Tours depart from North Entrance of City Hall, 9920-103A Ave • takeETS.com • Board one of the historical fleet buses and be entertained with stories of Edmonton’s birth and development, listen to the the stories behind the areas we pass every day • Until Aug 6

Experience the Energy Tours– Fort Mcmurray • Oil sands Discovery Centre, junction of Hwy 63 and MacKenzie Blvd, Fort McMurray • See the inner workings of the oil sands industry • Jul 15-17, 22-24, 29-31

QUEER AFFIRM SUNNYBROOK–Red Deer • Sunnybrook United Church, Red Deer • 403.347.6073 • Affirm welcome LGBTQ people and their friends, family, and allies meet the 2nd Tue, 7pm, each month

Bisexual Women's Coffee Group • A social group for bi-curious and bisexual women every 2nd Tue each month, 8pm • groups.yahoo.com/group/ bwedmonton

BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725B Jasper Ave • 780.488.6636 • Tue with DJ Arrow Chaser, free pool all night; 9pm (door); no cover • Wed with DJ Dust’n Time; 9pm (door); no cover • Thu: Men’s Wet Underwear Contest, win prizes, hosted by Drag Queen DJ Phon3 Hom3; 9pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Fri Dance Party with DJ Arrow Chaser; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Sat: Feel the rhythm with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm

EDMONTON PRIME TIMERS (EPT) • Unitarian Church of Edmonton, 10804-119 St • A group of older gay men who have common interests meet the 2nd Sun, 2:30pm, for a social period, short meeting and guest speaker, discussion panel or potluck supper. Special interest groups meet for other social activities throughout the month. E: edmontonpt@yahoo.ca G.L.B.T.Q. (gay) African Group Drop-In) • Pride Centre, 9540-111 Ave • 780.488.3234 • Group for gay refugees from all around the World, friends, and families • 1st and Last Sun every month • Info: E: fred@pridecentreofedmonton.org, jeff@ pridecentreofedmonton.org

GLBT sports and recreation • teamedmonton.ca • Badminton, Co-ed: St. Thomas Moore School, 9610-165 St, coedbadminton@teamedmonton.ca • Badminton, Women's Drop-In Recreational: Oliver School Gym, 10227-118 St; badminton@teamedmonton.ca • Co-ed Bellydancing: bellydancing@teamedmonton.ca • Bootcamp: Lynnwood Elementary School at 15451-84 Ave; Mon, 7-8pm; bootcamp@teamedmonton.ca • Bowling: Ed's Rec Centre, West Edmonton Mall, Tue 6:45pm • Curling: Granite Curling Club; 780.463.5942 • Running: Every Sun morning; running@teamedmonton.ca • Spinning: MacEwan Centre, 109 Street and 104 Ave; spin@teamedmonton.ca • Swimming: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St; swimming@ teamedmonton.ca • Volleyball: Mother

VUEWEEKLY JUL 14 – JUL 20, 2011

Teresa Elementary School at 9008-105A; Amiskiwaciy Academy, 101 Airport Rd; recvolleyball@teamedmonton.ca; volleyball@teamedmonton.ca • YOGA (Hatha): Free Yoga every Sun, 2-3:30pm; Korezone Fitness, 203, 10575-115 St, yoga@teamedmonton.ca

WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • womonspace.ca, womonspace@gmail.com • A Non-profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area.

Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured

G.L.B.T.Q Seniors Group • S.A.G.E Bldg, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors that have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Wed, 1-3pm • Info: T: Jeff Bovee 780.488.3234, E: tuff @shaw.ca

Woodys Video Bar • 11723 Jasper

Illusions Social Club • The Junction, 10242-106St • groups.yahoo.com/ group/edmonton_illusions • 780.387.3343 • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri every month, 8:30pm

INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus •

Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Amateur Strip Contest; prizes with Shawana • Tue: Kitchen 3-11pm • Wed: Karaoke with Tizzy 7pm-1am; Kitchen 3-11pm • Thu: Free pool all night; kitchen 3-11pm • Fri: Mocho Nacho Fri: 3pm (door), kitchen open 3-11pm

Youth Intervention and Outreach Worker • iSMSS, U of A • 780.248.1971 • Provides support and advocacy to queer youth 12-25; you don't need to be alone

Campus-based organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-identified and queer (LGBTQ) faculty, graduate student, academic, straight allies and support staff • 3rd Thu each month (fall/winter terms): Speakers Series. E: kwells@ualberta.ca

Youth Understanding Youth

the junction bar • 10242-106 St •

4th Annual Green Festival • De-

780.756.5667 • Open daily at 4pm, food service available from the eatery until 10pm; rotating DJs Fri and Sat at 10pm; Movie Monday; Wingy Wed 5-9, and Karaoke at 9pm; free pool Tue-Thu

LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408124 St • edmlivingpositive.ca • 1.877.975.9448/780.488.5768 • Confidential peer support to people living with HIV • Tue, 7-9pm: Support group • Daily drop-in, peer counselling MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu

Pride Centre of Edmonton • 9540-111 Ave, Norwood Blvd • 780.488.3234 • Daily: YouthSpace (Youth Drop-in): Tue-Fri: 3-7pm; Sat: 2-6:30pm; jess@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Men Talking with Pride: Support group for gay, bisexual and transgendered men to discuss current issues; Sun: 7-9pm; robwells780@hotmail.com • HIV Support Group: for people living with HIV/AIDS; 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm; huges@ shaw.ca • Seniors Drop-In: Social/support group for seniors of all genders and sexualities to talk, and have tea; every Tue and Thu, 1-4pm; tuff@shaw.ca • TTIQ: Education and support group for transgender, transsexual, intersexed and questioning people, their friends, families and allies; 2nd Tue each month, 7:309:30pm; admin@pridecentreofedmonton. org • Community Potluck: For members of the LGBTQ community; last Tue each month, 6-9pm; tuff@shaw.ca • Counselling: Free, short-term, solution-focused counselling, provided by professionally trained counsellorsevery Wed, 6-9pm; admin@pridecentreofedmonton.org • STD Testing: Last Thu every month, 3-6pm; free; admin@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Youth Movie: Every Thu, 6:30-8:30pm; jess@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Prime Timers Games Night: Games night for men age 55+; 2nd and last Fri every month; 7-10pm; tuff@shaw.ca • Art Group: Drawing and sketching group for all ages and abilities; every Sat, 11am-2pm; tuff@ shaw.ca • Suit Up and Show Up: AA Big Book Study: Discussion/support group for those struggling with an alcohol addiction or seeking support in staying sober; admin@pridecentreofedmonton.org; every Sat, 12-1pm • Youth Understanding Youth: LGBTQ youth under 25; Every Sat, 7-9pm; yuyedm.ca, yuy@shaw.ca

St Paul's United Church • 1152676 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship)

• yuyedm.ca • Meets every Sat, 7-9pm • E: info@yuyedm.ca, T: 780.248.1971

SPECIAL EVENTS vonian Botanical Gardens, Parkland County, 5kms north of Devon, Hwy 60 • Go green at the Devonian Botanic Garden • Jul 17

Alberta Historic Festival • Alberta Legislature, 10820-98 Ave, and various venues • Step back in time with a free guided tour led by a costumed tour guide • Until Jul 17

Capital EX–Northlands Park • A carnival atmosphere electrifies the city's longest-running summertime exhibition • Jul 22-31 Devonian Botanical Gardens • Parkland County, 5kms north of Devon, Hwy 60 • Rose Day: Jul 24 • In the Classroom: Parkland County Art Show featuring artworks by artists from the Parkland Country Art Club; Jul 29-Aug 1 • Devon Potter's Guild Art Show: Works by Devon Pottery Guild members in the Crafter’s Workshop; Jul 30-31

Edmonton Indy • City Centre Airport • Jul 22-24 • Single day standing room pass available at TicketMaster

The Handmade Mafia • Strathcona Baptist Church, 8318-104 St • Monthly community handmade market • Jul 15-16 Heritage Festival • William Hawrelak Park, 9330 Groat Rd • A celebration of heritage • Jul 30-Aug 1 Heritage Weekend • Fort Edmonton Park, Fox Dr, Whitemud Dr • Keep your family history alive–take in these events • Jul 30-31

Historic Festival • Festival features special events and activities at Museums and Historic sites in Edmonton and across Northern Alberta • Until Jul 17

International Street Performers Festival • Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 100 St, 102 Ave •edmontonstreetfest.com • Until Jul 17

Lap the Track • Edmonton Indy Track, City Centre Airport • 10 km race; fundraiser for spinal cord research and treatment • Sun, Jul 17, 6pm • Pre-register at lapthetrackedm.com

Sourdough River Festival • Terwillegar Park to Rafter’s Landing, North Saskatchewan River • sourdoughraftrace.com Sunday pancake breakfast in support of YESS. Canoers; large comedy rafts launch to water-fight down the North Saskatchewan • Jul 16-17 Taste of Edmonton • Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Edmonton's restaurants create menus that allow all to sample their culinary delights • Jul 22-Aug 2 walk for animals • Meeting at Earth's General Store, 96 St, Whyte Ave • safeteam.ca • A 5km walk through Mill Creek Ravine • Sat, Jul 23, 12-3pm

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JONESIN'CROSSWORD

MATT JONES // JONESINCROSSWORDS@vueweekly.com

"Nose Job"—whaddya say?

FREEWILLASTROLOGY ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19) You have permission from the universe to dwell less on what needs to be resisted, protested and overcome. Instead you have license to concentrate on what deserves to be encouraged and invited in. It may not be as easy to accomplish as it sounds. There are many influences around you that are tempting you to draw your energy from knee-jerk oppositionalism and cynical naysaying. So in order to take full advantage of what life is offering you, you will have to figure out how to rebel in a spirit of joy and celebration.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20) "Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions," said the seer Edgar Cayce. That's your thought for the week. Not just in dreams, but in your waking life as well, you will be experiencing insights, hearing stories and getting messages that provide useful information for the crucial questions you have not yet framed, let alone posed. I hope I will expedite your work on formulating those pertinent questions.

ROB BREZSNY // FREEWILL@vueweekly.com

powers-that-be are giving you clearance to display your beautiful, glorious self in its full radiance. Extra bragging is most definitely allowed, especially if it's done with humor and wit. A bit of preening and swaggering is permissible as well.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21) "Dear Rob Brezsny: Please, sir, if you could do me a cost-free favour and tell me something special about my upcoming future, I would be amazingly glad and would spread good will about you everywhere. My age is 34 and I am sharply eager to know in detail about my next five years at least—any big good or bad predictions. Kindly be very specific. – Fayyaz Umair Aziz, First-Degree Scorpio." Dear Fayyaz: I'm happy to inform you that your future is not set in stone; you have the power to carve out the destiny you prefer. And it so happens that the next four weeks will be prime time for you Scorpios to formulate a clear master plan (or reformulate your existing one) and take a vow to carry it out with impeccability.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21) One of my read-

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20) "The most important

Across 1 Hit in the ring 4 Llama lookalike 10 "___ la Vida or Death and All His Friends" (Coldplay album) 14 "Can ___ now?"

15 Play ___ (feign death to trick a predator) 16 "The pressure ___" 17 "Black Swan" footwear 19 NPR correspondent Totenberg 20 "I'd Rather Go Blind" singer ___ James 21 LA's area 23 Schedule abbr.

24 Emotional debate topic 28 Photographer Adams 29 Apprehensive feeling 30 Toast at a bar mitzvah 35 Business execs who crunch numbers 36 Bubble gum sold in pouches 40 Tramp's companion 41 Do story time for (the kids) 42 Deck out 44 Packs down 48 It may be answered with "Who, me?"

53 1988 Dennis Quaid remake 54 "___ Johnny!"

55 Cough syrup amts 57 Figure skating move 59 What you might say after hearing 17-, 24-, 36or 48-across?

62 Other, in Spanish 63 Complete 64 Genetic material 65 Reasons 66 Anne Rice vampire 67 Lovemaking

Down 1 Agree 2 First name in mystery authors 3 "Love Is a Wonderful Thing" singer Michael 4 Mimic 5 Auction section 6 "Hey, over here!"

7 Take ___ in the dark 8 Actress Kaley ___ of "The Big Bang Theory" 9 "...sure plays ___ pinball" 10 Sports announcer Scully

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11 Question asked many times in "Marathon Man" 12 "Reversal of Fortune" family name 13 Wreath-like garlands 18 Back muscles 22 Non-solid state: abbr 25 Taco ___ 26 Stomach trouble 27 Quite 31 Possess, to a Scotsman 32 ___ Khan 33 Birth control option 34 ___ World Peace (Ron Artest's newly-proposed name) 36 Talk smack about 37 Image worship 38 Greek wrap 39 Anorak, eg 40 Didn't attract attention 43 Traditional Japanese drama 45 Tall tale 46 They're playing to the camera 47 Lying on one's back 49 Pelvic floor exercise 50 "Fame" actress Cara 51 Egg holders 52 Astronaut's outerwear 56 Lay's competitor to Pringles 58 "___ in 'zebra'" 60 Shooting org.

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CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22) The great-grandson

ers sent me an interesting tale. He said the teacher Rudolf Steiner "once had a devotee who complained that after years of meditating and studying sacred texts he had not yet had a spiritual experience. Steiner asked him if he'd noticed the face of the conductor on the train on which they were riding. The man said no. Steiner replied, 'Then you just missed a spiritual experience.'" This is a good tip for you to keep in mind. It'll be a time when you could dramatically expedite and intensify your education about spiritual matters by noticing the beauty and holiness in the most mundane things.

of a slave, Cancerian Thurgood Marshall (1908 – 1993) was America's first African-American Supreme Court Justice. According to Thurgood, a play about his life, his unruly behavior as a school kid played a role in launching him toward his vocation.

As punishment for his bad behavior, his teacher exiled him to a storage room where he was instructed to study the US Constitution. I foresee a version of this scenario playing out in your immediate future.

Mischief could lead to opportunity. Blessings might evolve out of shenanigans. Bending the rules may bring rewards.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19) I've got two inspirational messages to quell your worry about how long everything seems to be taking to unfold for you. First comes this fact: While some oak trees begin growing acorns after two decades, many don't produce a single acorn until they're 40 or even 50 years old. Your second message is from poet Robert Bly: "I know a lot of men who are healthier at age 50 than they've ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone." Keep the faith, Capricorn— and continue your persistent efforts.

thing in acting is honesty," said Hollywood actor George Burns. "If you can fake that, you've got it made." The same thing is true about life itself in the coming weeks. The more you dispense the raw truth—even if you have to push yourself to do it—the more successful you'll be. Being a fount of radical authenticity might feel like a performance at first, but it'll eventually get easier, more natural.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22) Do you mind if I call you "The Original Liontamer"? More than any other sign of the zodiac, you have the power to control the wild, ferocious forces of the unconscious. You're the fluid flowmaster in charge of making the beastly energy behave itself. Here's a tip to help you soothe the savage rhythms with maximum aplomb: Mix a dash of harmonious trickery in with your charismatic bravado.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22) You have maybe 10 more days left to locate the healthiest possible gamble for the second half of 2011. I'm referring to a smart risk that will bring out the best in you, expand the hell out of your mind, and inspire you to shed at least 10 percent of your narcissism and 15 percent of your pessimism. Trust your gut as much as your brain, Virgo. It will be important to have them both fully engaged as you make your foray all the way out there to the edge of your understanding.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22) "He got a big ego, such a huge ego," sings Beyonce in her song "Ego." "It's too big, it's too wide / It's too strong, it won't fit / It's too much, it's too tough / He talk like this 'cause he can back it up." I would love to be able to address that same message to you in the coming days. I'd love to admire and marvel at your big, strong ego.

This is one of those rare times when the cosmic

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AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18) Russia has more psychic healers than medical doctors. While licensed physicians number around 640 000, there are 800 000 witches and wizards who use occult means to perform their cures. Personally, I prefer a more balanced ratio. I feel most comfortable when there are equal amounts of officially sanctioned practitioners and supernaturally inspired mavericks. That helps keep both sides honest and allows me to avoid being led astray by the excesses and distortions of each.

May I recommend a similar approach for you in the coming week?

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20) "The most frequently leveled criticism of Jimmy Fallon is that he laughs too much." So begins a New York Magazine profile of the late-night talk show host. "He laughs before jokes, after jokes, during jokes." Cynics point to this as proof that he's suffering from a profound character defect. But there is another possibility, says New York: "Fallon laughs so much because he’s just having a really good time." You're primed to have a Fallon-like week—a period when the fun is so liberating and the play is so cathartic and the good times are so abundant that you'll be in a chronic state of amusement. In response, people addicted to their gloom and doom might try to shame you.

I say: don't you dare let them inhibit your rightful relief and release. V

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COMMENT >> ALT SEX

What's in the bag?

Advice on how to take your sex toys on vacation Planning a summer trip and wondering plane with a dildo. But if you have a whether you can bring your sex toys toy that could be used as a weapon with you? You're not alone. Believe it like a heavy glass dildo or a cane, you or not, this is one of the questions I get might want to check that. No point in asked most. We're so much more comraising concerns. fortable with toys than we ever used to I've travelled with toys all over the be, but we're still not willing to world and I always put them in my risk having them exposed to checked baggage. I'm certainly public view during airport senot embarrassed about them, curity screening. So what can but why risk the hassle of kly.com uewee v you do if you'd like to take having my toys pulled out @ a d bren a d n your toys on holiday without e and examined? r B embarrassing incident?

Kerber I asked my friend Janet, who My friend Janet agrees but adds, works at airport security for some tips.

"Take out batteries or lock vibrators "Only 100 mL allowed," she said, "Carry if they are rechargeable. If your bag travel-sized bottles of lube if you plan comes down the belt vibrating it's our to keep it in your carry on." Lube is exjob to go through the bag and find pensive and having it confiscated is a out what is causing it." She had some bummer, especially when you may not more great advice if you want to do be able to find your favourite lube in the your best to ensure that no one will drugstore at your vacation destination. be going through your private things.

When it comes to toys, remember "Make sure you have a personal name that they are not prohibited so they tag on your bag as well as the airline won't take your toys away from you. tag. The last thing you want is for your An article from the SFGate last month bag tag to fall off and be tagless at an quotes Transport Safety Administraairport. Then when you have to talk tion spokesman Nico Melendez who to the airline about your missing bag says that "Inspectors are doing their they will ask you what's inside the bag job. They are trained professionals so they can identify it." and they know a vibrator when they She's absolutely right. This happened see one. They will not confiscate a to me when my bag was lost on a trip vibrator." After all, sex toys are not back to Edmonton from Amsterdam. weapons. No one ever hijacked a The man at the baggage claim desk

asked me what was in the bag so they would know it was mine. I am a sex-toy educator and I just came back from Amsterdam, what do you think was in the bag? So I told him, "Well, there are some clothes, underwear, a couple of cock rings, a vibrator, some Dutch erotica, that sort of thing."

Janet thinks my forthright attitude is exactly the approach to take. Being nervous about your bag will only make security personnel suspicious.

"Just be confident," she says. "You are never going to see this person [the inspector] again. And there is nothing wrong with having sex toys."

Carol Queen, one of my favourite sex educators and authors offers the same advice in the article from the SFGate, noting that it's not the vibrators that create the issues, it's the shame and embarrassment about the vibrators. "There's no reason to be embarrassed. If an inspector asks you about it, look him in the eye and tell him it's your vibrator."

So don't be nervous, pack your toys and your lube and have a great time on your summer vacation. V

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Brenda Kerber is a sexual health educator who has worked with local not for profits since 1995. She is the owner of the Edmonton-based, sex-positive adult toy boutique the Traveling Tickle Trunk.

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COMMENT >> SEX

Monogamish

Savage hits back at angry 'monogamous' emailers I'm a 20-year-old straight male, but which your brother's desires, however this isn't really about me. devoutly wished, could be consumI was recently back home for a family mated? event while my younger brother, age Unless something much, much 14, was away on a mission trip with squickier is going on back home, your his church. My iPad died while I was brother isn't a danger to your father, home and my mother told me to CAS, nor is your father a danlook in the kitchen drawers ger to your brother. The only E G SAVA for a charger. I couldn't find danger I can see is in the one there, so she told me to false choice you've laid out .com weekly e@vue v check my brother's bedside in your letter. Saying somelo e g sava Dan table. I opened the drawer thing to your brother will Savage only poison your relationship and, with a little digging, found a charger. with him; saying something to I also found a few pictures of gay porn your father will certainly kill his relaand a couple of pictures of male celebtionship with his son. And destroying rities with their shirts off that had been either relationship over what is most clipped from magazines. It isn't the likely a temporary bonerstorm-of-pugay porn I have a problem with, I fully berty-induced obsession—an obsessupport him coming into his sexuality, sion that will soon be a distant and whatever it might be, but then I found unpleasant memory for your brotha few things that were a bit more diser—seems a bit extreme. turbing: I found a picture of our father If those pictures weren't in a place in his swim trunks, and another one of where your parents might also find a fully naked man with a cutout phothem, CAS, I would advise you to stuff to of my father's face glued over the this one way down the ol' memory original model's face. Needless to say, I hole. But there they are, in a place was freaked out. I put everything back where Mom and Dad—BUT ESPEwhere I had found it, including the CIALLY DAD—might find 'em. So charger, and haven't said anything to you're going to memorize this and him about it. Now I'm in a tough spot. say it your brother ASAP: "Hey, kiddo, I know that telling my brother I found Mom told me to look in your nightthe pictures would mortify him, and I stand drawer for an iPad power cord. feel like telling my father would be a I found one—along with what looked complete dick move. like gay porn. I didn't peruse your Any help you can offer me would be porn collection too closely because I a big help. wanted to respect your privacy. But Concerned And Scared you need to get that stuff out of the house before Mom or Dad finds it. It's I can appreciate why those pictures cool with me if you're gay, and I love squicked you out—a family member you and it makes no difference—but lusting after a family member? Ughleaving porn around is not how you ers—but I don't understand exactly want to come out to Mom and Dad, what it is you're afraid of, CAS. While OK?" your brother appears to have an inThen tell him that grown-ups don't appropriate and—fingers crossed— keep porn in their bedside tables anyfleeting sexual obsession with your more: the Internet is for porn, and he father, can you picture a scenario in can access all the porn he likes safely

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and discreetly on his iPad. I would like to know why my husband is divorcing me to marry an 87-yearold woman.

Extremely Humiliated

Only your husband knows the real

Not one of these three couples—not one of these six "traditionally married" straight people—is actually in a monogamous relationship. reason, EH, but if I were to hazard a couple of guesses: either this woman is extremely wealthy or your husband is a gerontophile. Sadly, neither makes this situation any less humiliating for you. But try to look at the bright side: no one who hears what your husband has done—and no one who knows you both personally—is going to think there's something wrong with you.

I am a 43-year-old mother of three, married for almost 20 years. Three years and one child in, my husband confessed that he had a penchant for being a BDSM sub. My reaction was, "OK, I'll try it, but if you want to explore that with pro doms, be my guest." Which he did.

Fast-forward a dozen years. I'm going bonkers because my husband is impotent. And don't tell me ED can be fixed, because in our case it couldn't.

And don't tell me there are alternatives (oral, manual, toys), because all of those are just not the same for me.

My body needs a fully functioning and capable man. So my husband gives me his "blessing" to take a lover. I didn't even have to ask! I just needed to be miserable and depressed for a dozen years!

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away, and I see him a few times a year; the other is local. The problem is that they are both married to spouses who don't know. Like me, neither of my lovers is interested in divorce. That's the good news. The bad news is that I'm not happy with the integrity of these situations. I know that what I am do-

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ing is considered despicable by many people, despite the fact that I'm probably a marriage-saving device for both of these women. (Their husbands are happier, I'm not trying to steal their husbands, and I'm not a financial burden on either of them.) I would love to find someone in an honest open relationship, but this has so far eluded me. So I guess my question is: how do I set up a situation with more integrity when the world isn't really ready for people like me?

Normal Soccer Mom From Afar

The answer NSMFA seeks is obvious—there are hard-up single men out there, married men in honest open relationships, men in the organized swinging movement, and she should go fuck some of them—but I'm including NSMFA's problem in the column for all the smug monogamists sending me angry letters in the wake of Mark Oppenheimer's recent feature about monogamy and its discontents in The New York Times Magazine ("Married, with Infidelities," June 30, 2011). While regular readers of Savage Love know where I stand on monogamy—with the realists, monogamous or not—not many readers of The New York Times knew

where I stood.

Anyway, smugsters, here's what I think is interesting about NSMFA's letter: everyone involved is perceived to be in a monogamous relationship, by their friends, family members, neighbours, bosses, coworkers, elected representatives, etc; two of the women involved—the duped wives of the men that NSMFA is seeing on the side— may actually believe themselves to be in monogamous relationships. But not one of these three couples—not one of these six "traditionally married" straight people—is actually in a monogamous relationship.

Just something to keep in mind, monogamists, before you hit "send" on your email to me about your beautiful, deep and meaningful monogamous relationship, about how your parents never cheated on each other, about how none of your married friends would ever cheat on their spouses, and about how people like me have no idea what real love means because we're not in monogamous relationships, etc, etc, etc.

Because you just never know, do you? V Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger. com/savage.

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You may think I'm naive, but I feel that corporatization is choking the heart of Old Strathcona. Without being a fear monger, I must warn that if we don't protect the historical and sometimes ill-kept buildings, the vitality and unique character of this neighbourhood will be lost. A good mix of businesses is essential to the sustainability of this area. For this, old buildings are important, not just as an archaic idea of esthetics or sense of wistful nostalgia. As Jane Jacobs once said, one of the factors necessary to generate diversity in a city is "buildings that vary in age and condition, including a good proportion of old ones so that they vary in the economic yield they must produce."

Redevelopment was recently proposed for the Chapman Brother's Building, a 1901 wood frame building located at 10423 - 82 Ave, originally home to the Great West Saddlery Company store. Archibald Benjamin Chapman managed the store, and in 1912, bought the firm, renamed it AB Chapman and Company, and continued making and selling harnesses. After his death in 1918 Chapman's sons changed the company name again, this time to Chapman Brothers Ltd. As the car and the tractor gained in popularity, the brothers diversified and began selling western wear. The building still has its boomtown front, multi-paned windows, bracketed parapet

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and imitation brick siding that is actually pressed tin. The Chapman Brothers Building was designated a registered historic resource in 1976.

More than 10 long-standing local businesses on Whyte Avenue have closed or moved in the last couple years, including Southside Sound, the Paint Spot, Nokomis, Le Papier and Eden Lilly.

In their place, fast food restaurants and chain stores find a foothold, creating a vicious cycle, squeezing out more cherished small businesses.

While many of these shops were able to hold out for a while, the change seems to be taking its toll on the streetscape of the city's favourite historical district. With so many businesses moving out, the risk is that important heritage buildings will be torn down, our collective history will be erased and the street will no longer be the destination it is now.

If you're down on the avenue this weekend, look around and notice some of the architecture produced when Edmonton was first born and the wide variety of buildings we so often take for granted. V Chelsea Boos is a multidisciplinary visual artist and avid flâneur. Back words is a discussion of her explorations in Edmonton and a photographic diary of our local visual culture.

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