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Stamping out the habit Alberta's got a 10-year plan to help Albertans kick the habit and stop lighting up cigarettes.

"Creating Tobacco-Free Futures: Alberta's Strategy to Prevent and Reduce Tobacco Use, 2012 – 2022" has a list of priorities for the next three years including introducing legislation that restricts the sale of flavoured tobacco; prohibits tobacco sales to minors; protects children from second-hand smoke in vehicles; amps up marketing about the dangers of tobacco use; trains health professionals to help others quit; and expands workplace, schoolbased and community tobacco-cessation programs. Quite a lot of priorities, but each one well worth it to make this harmful pastime less appealing—especially to young people.

Health Minister Fred Horne has said the project is an effort to make tobacco products less attractive to youth as part of the continued fight against cancer. That makes sense when StatsCan says most Canadians start smoking when they're teenagers and smoking leads to many health problems besides cancer—including heart disease, stroke and chronic respiratory disease—which puts a strain on our health care system.

The Canadian Cancer Society says there have been 25 600 cases of lung cancer in Canada in 2012—that's 62 men out of every 100 000 and 49 women from the same amount; 50 of those men will die from cancer as will 36 of the women. Unfortunately, second-hand smoke can also

be a cancer-causing culprit. So it's encouraging to see the government is prioritzing stamping out second-hand smoke as well. Children don't have the ability to leave if their parents or caretakers are smoking around them and they need someone to look out for their health.

The percentage of smokers in Alberta is above the Canadian average of 19.9 percent at 21.7 percent, but nowhere close to the 59.7 percent of people who smoke in Nunavut.

Only BC is below the national average at 15.8 percent. Still, this isn't a numbers game or any sort of a competition; it's life and death and there is nothing beneficial to health that comes from smoking. In fact, one cigarette can have the detrimental effect of increasing stiffness in the arteries of young adults (18 – 30-year-olds) by 25 percent. That was from one—just one—cigarette.

But don't think you're beyond repair if you're a smoker or hang out with a bunch of them. Apparently our bodies want to be healthy and eight hours after you quit you'll experience normal blood carbon monoxide levels, two days later your sense of taste and smell will improve and lungs will be functioning way better after two weeks. Hike in Banff anyone?

Warning signage, tobacco tax increases, bans on smoking in public areas and making more resources available to help smokers quit are also in the works.

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NEWSROUNDUP WHO'S THE BEST? A night out drinking can have disastrous results for the irresponsible bar-goer and sometimes for those who cross their path, but since 2010, an Edmonton project has been working to keep everyone safer.

This year 48 local "pubs, clubs, bars and lounges received Best Bar None accreditation for their commitment to customer safety and responsible service of alcohol," and became accredited for the 2013 year on November 20. The whole process is voluntary and means the watering holes went well beyond what is expected to make sure their guests stayed safe.

In the area of weapons, essential criteria to become accredited requires a written policy regarding weapons that are either found or removed from patrons, but it's desired that the venue has security surveillance or a camera that records both inside and outside and bonus points are given for having a scanning system or metal detectors at entrances.

When it comes to patron transportation, it's essential that each location supports a program like Designated Driver, #TAXI, or "My Safe Ride Home", it's desired that they have designated drop-off and pick-up areas and bonus points for documenting patrons who refuse safe transportation.

Although a good slew of bars went through the process to become accredited, including Hudson's (except on Whyte Ave), The Pint, The Druid, The Public House, The Rack and Filthy McNasty's, there were some surprising omissions like The Billiard Club, Black Dog and MKT.

NO LIGHT READING The memory of the 425-page omnibus Bill C-38 that Parliament implemented last spring seems to have a been a forerunner of what was to come as the House is now pushing Bill C-45: The Jobs and Growth Act—which is just as lengthy—that includes measures on the environment, Employment Insurance, income tax, pensions and judges' salaries, to name a few.

The Bill received its second reading on November 19.

Proposed changes to the Indian Act will give the government access to First Nations' land at any time under authority of the aboriginal affairs minister; in the case of the Canada Grain Act, independent grain producers will no longer be protected and inspections will decrease; and with the Fisheries Act, developers, including oil and pipeline, will not be responsible for any environmental damage they cause.

Opposition had only a couple of days—until November 21—to submit any amendments. The Liberals had over 3000.

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e've been putting all of our eggs in one basket and that's a pretty risky way to do business. The basket is oil and the eggs are Canada's dependence on it as a money-making resource. This is one of the major themes of the Parkland Institute's conference this year, "Petro, Power and Politics," which runs from November 23–25. Top thinkers will be presenting their views about the social, cultural, political and economical consequences connected to the development of Canada's oil and gas industry.

As a non-partisan research centre based at the University of Alberta, Parkland has been hosting a public conference every year for the past 16 years, and former Parkland director Gordon Laxer has been involved since the beginning. This year Laxer will be one of 19 speakers who will be presenting at the conference—the headliner is Ronald Wright, a well known writer and historian who will be sharing insights from his latest book, A Short History of Progress, at Friday's evening lecture. Laxer's "Dutch Disease Debate" will be held Saturday afternoon where he'll discuss how Dutch Disease—when a country's natural resources continue to be exploited at the expense of its manufacturing sector—relates to the situation

Canada finds itself in today.

"Half a million jobs have been lost in manufacturing in Canada since 2005 and manufacturing has a lot more jobs per million dollars invested than the oil industry. The oil industry directly doesn't produce that many jobs. It's very, very capital intensive," Laxer says. "So, for example, for every million dollars invested, manufacturing produces 20 times as many jobs as oil extraction. So what you're doing is driving out Canadian manufacturing and you're replacing it by this oil boom which is producing very few jobs."

According to Laxer, we have weakened our manufacturing sector and there's a danger that it won't come back. "The issue becomes the proponents of the oil sands saying, 'Well, that's just a regional thing. Manufacturing is getting hurt in Ontario and Quebec.' They don't admit that they're causing it," he notes. "The West is built on resources, but there are jobs in a lot of other sectors in Alberta that are being hurt by the sands."

It's easy to point out the oil industry's flaws, but coming up with a viable, alternative solution to oil dependence takes a bit of work. Laxer believes the skills used in Alberta's construction boom that came hand-in-hand

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with oil sands development could be transferred to retrofit the economy to become a "conserver" economy.

"Build a high-speed rail between Calgary and Edmonton. Retrofit housing and buildings to have high insulation," Laxer says. "With all of these things we would be emitting fewer greenhouse gases and then we should be charging higher roy-

alties on the existing oil and using that as a fund for green energy so that Alberta could become a leader in the world in producing green energy."

Another conference speaker, writer Jeff Gailus, has a similar plan that begins with demanding an honest accounting from politicians

about the costs and benefits of oil sands development.

"I think if we were to do that," he says, "we would likely conclude that the smart thing to do, the ethical thing to do, the right thing to do would be to not export tarsands oil, to put a cap on development, to CONTINUED ON PAGE 9 >>

COMMENT >>ALBERTA'S DEBT

Smart debt or recipe for disaster?

The Conservative push to put Alberta back into debt needs better planning Danielle Smith was outraged. Within a 48-hour period she referred to Alison Redford's government as fiscally incompetent, demanded a referendum, accused the Conservatives of betraying the legacy of former Premier Ralph Klein and even tried to throw around the "fiscal cliff" frame popularized by the anti-tax extreme right in the United States.

What had the Tories done to raise such ire in the leader of the Wildrose Party?

They announced that the province was looking at borrowing money in order to build much-needed public infrastructure in the province and to pay for some of the province's backlog of maintenance on existing infrastructure. In other words, Redford said her government was willing to go into debt to build and maintain capital projects.

Anyone who has spent any time at all looking at the rise of the extremist right in North America knows that they consider public debt the most evil of evils—the one thing a government should never incur. Their belief is that if a government cannot afford to pay for something in cash then they shouldn't pay for it at all.

In Alberta, Klein backed up that belief by passing legislation prohibiting the government from going into debt. Hardcore conservatives believe that Klein

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eliminated the province's net debt years fund infrastructure, essentially nothing The model proposed by Smith and the volatile price of oil for government revago and that it would be a violation of in the province was built between the Wildrose Party would now see us wait enues means that we don't know from the sacrifices made to accomplish that mid-1990s and the boom of 2006. The until the height of the next boom before one month to the next what payments to go back into a debt position. Smith's result of these policies was that, even we start paying for new capital projects we'll be able to afford. And nobody claims are emboldened by the fact though the province had no net fisand maintenance on existing infrastrucseems to be asking the question of how that, during last spring's provincal debt, by the time the boom ture. Once again, we would not only pay we will pay for the teachers, nurses and cial election, Redford vowed hit we had an infrastructure significantly more for it at that point, but doctors required to staff these new faciliCE deficit of over $7 billion. The would also have to deal with crumbling, in- ties when the government is unwilling to N E to balance the books and R E TERF om made no mention of putting IN rdo@vueweekly.c economy was picking up, our adequate, and over-crowded infrastructure pay for our current public service needs. rica o the province back into debt. population was The government's plan, as curRicard Acuña growing, and we rently stated, is just a recipe for Unfortunately, despite being sound In response to these attacks didn't have anywhere ongoing deficits, future service in theory, Redford's plan is also by the Wildrose, Redford has started near the infrastructure to cuts, and chronic understaffing playing with the semantics of what meet our needs. And beseriously flawed in practice. of public services. she promised in the spring. She is now cause Klein was also not What it comes down to once claiming that the province's books will borrowing to pay for mainagain is that if we are going to be balanced on the operating side of tenance, what infrastructure incur debt for capital projects things, but that infrastructure should be we had was grossly inadequate and baduntil then. That's not sound financial manand infrastructure, we must first reform considered as a separate item. Alberta's ly in need of repair. agement—it's short-sighted, inefficient our tax system and royalty regimes to Minister of Finance Doug Horner has Waiting for the government to have and counterproductive. ensure that we can make the payments tried to articulate the distinction as the cash in hand before paying for capital Unfortunately, despite being sound in and ensure proper staffing and service difference between paying for groceries projects meant that the government theory, Redford's plan is also seriously levels. Having a fair and progressive with a credit card and getting a mortwas only able to begin modestly reinflawed in practice. Incurring debt for tax system will provide stability to our gage on a house. The mortgage would vesting in infrastructure at the height capital projects and infrastructure mainrevenue stream and ensure that we can be smart and sustainable debt, the groof the boom. At that point, however, tenance can be smart, but only if you properly fund the services that Alberceries on credit would be irresponsible because of inflation and an alreadyhave the fiscal stability and predictable tans rely and depend on. Getting a fair and unsustainable. overheated economy, those projects revenue stream to actually make the share of our oil and gas wealth will alAlberta's recent history, for anyone cost on average anywhere from 10 to 25 payments in the long term. Right now low us to save for the future and ensure who has actually been paying attenpercent more than they would have just Alberta has neither. Our revenue base that we can offset whatever debt we intion, strongly supports Redford's case. two years earlier. From 2006 to 2008 is not enough to cover our current opcur to build new infrastructure. Until the Because of the Klein government's obthat meant between $4 billion – $5 bilerating expenses, never mind adding government is prepared to fix those two session with paying off existing debt lion that went to elevated costs rather debt servicing costs on top of that. Furthings, they have no business borrowing and their refusal to incur new debt to than more infrastructure. thermore, our fiscal dependence on the anything from anybody. V

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Let's be fair: there does seem to be the current military operation. some sort of pattern here, but it is That's the case that is made against Isnot very consistent. Five times in Israel. Does it hold water? Well, actually, rael since 1980 a right-wing governno, it doesn't. ment has called an election WITHOUT Begin's attack on the Osirak reactor launching a complementary military in 1981 may well have been an elecoperation. The right lost two of those toral stunt, although he was clearly elections outright (1992, 1999), more paranoid about the possibility of a or less tied two others (1984, 1988) nuclear weapon in Arab hands. But and won only one of them deciEhud Olmert, though undoubtsively (2006). edly a man of the right, was On the other hand, critics not leading a right-wing of Israel point out, three government in 2008. He om eekly.c w times since 1980 rightwas the leader of a new e u v e@ gwynn e n wing Israeli governments centrist party, Kadima, that n y Gw r have combined an election had been formed by defecte y D campaign with a major military ors from both the right-wing operation against some Arab or PalLikud Party and left-wing Labour. estinian target. And this combination, Moreover, Olmert had already reit has been argued, yields decisive signed in mid-2008 over a corruption electoral success for the right. scandal, and was merely acting as inMenachem Begin's government terim prime minister by the time the won the 1981 election three weeks "Cast Lead" operation was launched after carrying out a dramatic attack in December of that year. If it was an on the Osirak research nuclear reelectoral ploy despite all that, it didn't actor that France had sold to Iraq. In work. It was the right that actually won the view of most outside observers, the election in early 2009 and formed the reactor, which was closely supera government led by the Likud Party's vised both by the French and by the Binyamin Netanyahu.

International Atomic Energy Agency, It is equally hard to believe that Netwas not suited to the large-scale anyahu is seeking electoral gain by atproduction of enriched uranium and tacking Gaza this month. Every opinposed no threat to Israel, but the ation poll in Israel for months past has tack was popular in Israel. been saying that he is going to win the Ehud Olmert's coalition launched January election hands down. For him, the "Cast Lead" onslaught against the all the risk of "Operation Pillar of DeGaza Strip in December 2008 – Janufence" is on the downside: a major loss ary 2009. The three-week campaign of Israeli lives in the campaign, while of massive bombardments and some unlikely, could only work against him. ground incursions left 1400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis dead. The election So why is this happening now? was held a month later, and Binyamin Historians traditionally split into Netanyahu emerged as the leader of a two camps: those who see purpose new right-wing coalition. and planning and plots behind every event, and those who think most So here we go again, perhaps? Netanevents are just the random interyahu is still the prime minister and the action of conflicting strategies, impernext elections are due in January. What fect information and human frailty. better way to ensure success than to This latter approach is known in the go and bash the Palestinians again? A historical trade as the "cock-up theory week later, with 86 Palestinians and of history," and it is very attractive as three Israelis dead, his reelection is asan explanation for the current situasured: Israelis overwhelmingly support tion.

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keep the oil in Canada and to raise royalties and use the profits to transition to a clean energy economy. That would be in Canada's best interest."

Gailus will be giving two talks on Saturday: "Propaganda and Policy in the Petro State" and "Little Black Lies: Corporate and Political Spin in the Global War for Oil". He's tired of the "bullshit," not lies, that we're being fed in the oil-sands debate.

"They're not lying, they're not sitting around going, 'Well, we know technology's not going to solve all these problems, but let's say it anyway,'"

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Gailus says. "They honestly believe in a free market and in the virtue of corporations and in the blessings of technology that will solve all of these problems."

In his research, Gailus has found that all people are inclined to think like lawyers and find evidence to support their preconceived notions.

"So industry and government, if you decide to listen to their speeches, simply tell Canadians that the tarsands is being developed in a sustainable and responsible way and based on the evidence, really nothing could be farther from the truth," Gailus says. "But Canadians, because we also want to enjoy the economic benefits of a booming

Netanyahu, cruising home to an easy electoral victory in January, had absolutely no need for a little war with the Palestinians. Indeed, his strategy of continuously shouting "wolf" about Iran and its alleged nuclear weapons program has succeeded in distracting international attention from the Palestinians, leaving him free to expand Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank unhindered.

Similarly, the Hamas leaders who ruled Gaza had no interest in triggering a military conflict with Israel.

They had every reason to believe that the sweeping political changes in the Arab world were strengthening their position internationally and they had no need to remind Arabs of their plight. So how did this idiocy happen?

Another cock-up, of course.

Hamas has been trying to maintain calm in Gaza and extend a ceasefire agreement with Israel, but it has little control over various radical jihadi groups who build popular support by making utterly futile rocket attacks on Israel. Even if they kill a few Israelis, so what? How does that serve the cause?

Hamas faces the permanent political danger of being outflanked by more extremist rivals, so it cannot crack down too hard on the jihadis. Israel, fed up with their pinprick attacks, was looking for somebody to punish and since it couldn't locate all the jihadi leaders it decided to assassinate Ahmed al-Jabari, the head of the military wing of Hamas. Even though that was bound to end the ceasefire.

So then Hamas fired a few of its own rockets into Israel and Israel retaliated massively, and we were off to the races once again. A complete cock-up, and a pointless waste of lives.

But since the mini-war doesn't really serve the purposes of any major player, it will probably be shut down again fairly soon. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

economy, whatever it's based on, are willing to take at face value what government and industry are telling them."

But, in a democracy, decisions are supposed to be made based on the input of many voices. Parkland's conference is a way to join forces with others who want to challenge government and industry decisions and to sharpen the tool of knowledge about what is really happening in the oil sands.

To register, visit parklandinstitute.ca or simply show up at the U of A's CCIS building Friday at 6:30 pm to register before the first session. Rates range from $95 – $195.

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10332-81 Avenue • Learn about menstrual cycle charting and share your personal experiences in a supportive group environment • 1st Mon of the month from Oct-Apr, 6:30-8:30pm • $5 (suggested donation)

FOOD ADDICTS • St. Luke's Anglican

Church, 8424-95 Avenue • 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

Waskahegan Trail Hikers • waskahegantrail.ca • Yvette 780.756.3623 • Riverside hike along the N. Saskatchewan led by a Waskahegan Trail Association guide; Meet at Argyll McDonalds, Argyll Road, 81 Street • Nov 25, 9:45am-2:45pm

Vault Pub • 8214-175 Street • Comedy with Liam Creswick and Steve Schulte • Every Mon, at 9:30pm

Healing Circle • Call 780.570.0475 for location • Begins with a guided meditation moving into an affirmative state where healing on all levels occurs • Every Wed, 7-8pm

Wunderbar • 8120-101 Street, 780.436.2286 • Comedy every 2nd Mon

Home–Energizing Spiritual Community for Passionate Living •

Sterling Scott every Wed, 9pm

Zen Lounge • 12923-97 Street • The

Ca$h Prize comedy contest hosted by Matt Alaeddine and Andrew Iwanyk • Every Tue, 8pm • No cover

Groups/CLUBS/meetings Aikikai Aikido Club • 10139-87

Avenue, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm

Amnesty International Edmonton • 8307-109 Street • Meet the 4th Tue

each month, 7:30pm (no meetings in Jul, Aug, and Dec) E: amnesty@edmontonamnesty.org for more info • Free

Argentine Tango Dance at Foot Notes Studio • Foot Notes

Dance Studio (South side), 9708-45 Avenue • 780.438.3207 • virenzi@shaw.ca • Join Vincenzo and Ida Renzi every Friday at Foot Notes Dance Studio for an evening of authentic Argentine tango • Every Fri, 8pmmidnight • $15 (per person)

AWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP •

Garneau/Ashbourne Assisted Living Place, 11148-84 Avenue • 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 Thu

MADELEINE SANAM FOUNDATION

• Faculté St Jean, Rm 3-18 • 780.490.7332 • Program for HIV-AID’S prevention, treatment and harm reduction in French, English and other African languages • 3rd and 4th Sat, 9am-5pm each month • Free (member)/$10 (membership); pre-register

Meditation • Strathcona Library • meditationedmonton.org • Weekly meditation drop-in; every Tue, 7-8:30pm Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association • Duggan Commu-

nity Hall, 3728-106 Street • 780.458.6352, 780.467.6093 • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

Occupy Edmonton General Assembly • Grant MacEwan City Centre

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

Cafeteria, 10600-104 Avenue • A leaderless space where everyone is welcome to organize and/or assist with all forms of Edmonton based non-violent activism • Every Tue from 6:30-8:30pm & Sat from 2-4pm

Brain Tumour Peer Support Group • Woodcroft Branch Library,

Organization for Bipolar Affective Disorder (OBAD) • Grey

13420-114 Avenue• 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

Drop-in Meditation Classes •

Sherwood Park Community Centre (Mon); Amitabha Centre, 9550-87 Street (Tue, Fri) • info@meditationedmonton.org • Every Mon, Tue 7-8:30pm and Fri 10-11:30am

Edmonton Bike Art Nights •

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Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, 780.451.1755; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free

South Edmonton Vegetarian and Gardening Club • Park Allen

Hall, 11104-65 Avenue • 780.463.1626 • Vegetarian Potluck with John Schneider speaking on Instructions to construct a Straw Bale House (6:30pm). Bring vegetarian/ vegan/raw dish for six people plus a second dish if you bring a guest • Sun, Nov 25, 5pm • $6 per person

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AFFIRM SUNNYBROOK–Red Deer • Sun-

sential oils • Nov 24, 1-3pm

LIVING FOODS SUNDAY SUMMER SERIES • Earth's General Store, 9605-82 Avenue

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

• Every Sun, 6:50-9pm • Pre-register; $25 (each session); info: Robyn at rawrobyn@gmail.com

SOCIETY OF EDMONTON ATHEISTS

Sq • jledmonton.org • Documentary Screening • Thu, Nov 29, 6:30-9:30pm • $45

• Centennial Rm, (basement) Stanley A. Milner Library • Monthly roundtable 1st Tue each month • edmontonatheists.ca; E: info@edmontonatheists.ca

SUGARSWING DANCE CLUB • Orange Hall, 10335-84 Avenue or Pleasantview Hall, 10860-57 Avenue • 780.604.7572 • Swing Dance at Sugar Foot Stomp: beginner lesson followed by dance every Sat, 8pm (door) at Orange Hall or Pleasantview Hall WILD ROSE ANTIQUE COLLECTORS SOCIETY • Delwood Community Hall,

7517 Delwood Rd • Collecting and researching items from various periods in the history of Edmonton. Presentations after club business. Visitors welcome • Meets the 4th Mon each month (except Jul & Dec), 7:30pm

MISS REPRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION • Ledcor Theatre, 2 Sir Winston Churchill

PARKLAND INSTITUTE'S 16TH ANNUAL FALL CONFERENCE–PETRO, POWER AND POLITICS • U of A • parklandinstitute.

ca/fallconf2012 • Featuring The Traps of Progress with Ronald Wright, Nov 23, 7-9pm, $20 ($15 low income); Cleaning up the Petro Mess with Duff Conacher, Nov 25, 12-1:30pm, $15 ($10 low income); and additional speakers Andrew Nikiforuk, Angela Carter, Jeff Galilus, Anna Zalik, George Poitras, Tony Clarke, Terisa Turner, Gil McGowan, Cora Voyageur, Bob Barnetson, Gail Fraser, Sara Dorow and others • Nov 23-25 • $15 (per session)/$175 (full conference) at Earth's General Store or Audreys Books

RESILIENCY • City Hall, 102A Avenue, 100 Street • Presentation by author Thomas HomerDixon • Thu, Nov 29, 12pm • Free

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

Avenue at 7pm • Bowling: Ed's Rec Centre, West Edmonton Mall, Tue 6:45pm • Curling: Granite Curling Club; 780.463.5942 • Running: Kinsmen • Spinning: MacEwan Centre, 109 Street and 104 Avenue • Swimming: NAIT pool, 11762-106 Street • Volleyball: every Tue, 7-9pm; St. Catherine School, 10915-110 Street; every Thu, 7:30-9:30pm at Amiskiwiciy Academy, 101 Airport Rd

nybrook 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

G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E Building, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E: tuff @shaw.ca

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

ILLUSIONS SOCIAL CLUB • Pride Centre, 10608-105 ave • 780.387.3343 • groups. yahoo.com/group/edmonton_illusions • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri each month, 8:30pm

EDMONTON PRIME TIMERS (EPT) •

Unitarian Church of Edmonton, 10804119 Street • 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

INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus

• 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

Y TOASTMASTERS CLUB • Strathcona

Legion, 9020-51 Avenue • Meet every Tue, 7-9pm; helps members develop confidence in public speaking and leadership • Info: T: Antonio Balce at 780.463.5331

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HABITAT FOR HUMANITY VOLUNTEER INFORMATION SESSION • 13044 Yellowhead Trail • 780.451.3416 • E: skhoja@hfh.org • Information on Habitat for Humanity and tool training • Nov 28, 8:30am-4pm • Free

HIGGS BOSON: DISCOVERY OF THE CENTURY • L2-200 CCIS, Centennial Centre

for Interdisciplinary Science, University of Alberta • 780.492.1052 • E: suzette.chan@ualberta. ca • Lecture about the search for the Higgs boson, Alberta scientists' role in its potential discovery, and the quest for other new science • Nov 22, 4:30-5:30pm • Free

INTRODUCTION TO ESSENTIAL OILS •

Pixie Glassworks Studio, 9322-60 Avenue • Free workshop, explore some methods of using es-

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• Myer Horowitz Theatre, Students’ Union Building, U of A, 8900-114 St • Thomas Homer-Dixon's Alberta and the Coming Energy Transition: Shock, Innovation, and Resilience • Thu, Nov 29, 7-9pm • $5 at TIX on the Square, at Infolink Booths in HUB, SUB, CAB; proceeds to the U of A's Campus Food Bank and Green Grant programs

THOMAS HOMER-DIXON'S ALBERTA AND THE COMING ENERGY TRANSITION: SHOCK, INNOVATION • Myer Horowitz Theatre, Students

Union Building, University of Alberta • 780.492.9289 • E: sustainability@ualberta.ca • Part of the Sustainability Speaker Series • Nov 29, 7-9pm • $5 (Proceeds to U of A's Campus Food Bank and Green Grant programs)

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WOODYS VIDEO BAR • 11723 Jasper 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

91 Street • 780.436.3431 • Features handmade crafts, bake sale, cookie walk, and more • Nov 24, 9:30am-3:30pm • Free

ECAWAR'S TENTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION • Old Strathcona Community

Business Building Room 5-04 • Lecture by Jennifer Hunt, Montclair State University • Nov 29, 4pm • Free

canChurch, 8424-95 Avenue • 780.469.3270 • 1st Mon every month, 7:30pm • Suggested donation of $3

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

19TH ANNUAL FIRST MENNONITE CHURCH CHRISTMAS CRAFT FAIR & BAKE SALE • First Mennonite Church, 3650-

780.438.8888

FIRE IN THE HOLE: SOCIAL SCIENCE ETHICS AND THE US ARMY'S TERRAIN TEAM SYSTEMS • University of Alberta,

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

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EARTH'S GENERAL STORE • 9605-82 Avenue • 780.439.8725 • egs.ca/node/442 • Sprouting 101; Sun, Nov 25, 7-8:4pm; $20; preregister at Earth's General Store • Introduction to Kombucha Making; Sun, Dec 2, 7-9pm; $25

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A TALK ON THE FUTURE OF SOCIETY • Calder Public Library, 13303-127

CREATING A YOUTH DECLARATION FOR THE "IMPOSSIBLE NEIGHBOURHOOD" • Prince of Wales Armouries, 10440-

PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • A safe, welcoming, and nonjudgemental drop-in space, support programs and resources offered for members of the GLBTQ community, their families and friends • Daily: Community drop-in; support and resources. Queer library: borrowing privileges: Tue-Fri 12-9pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, closed Sun-Mon; Queer HangOUT (a.k.a.

QH) youth drop-in: Tue-Fri 3-8pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, youth@pridecentreofedmonton. org • Counselling: Free, short-term by registered counsellors every Wed, 5:30-8:30pm, info/bookings: 780.488.3234 • Knotty Knitters: Knit and socialize in safe, accepting environment, all skill levels welcome; every Wed 6-8pm • QH Game Night: Meet people through board game fun; every Thu 6-8pm • QH Craft Night: every Wed, 6-8pm • QH Anime Night: Watch anime; every Fri, 6-8pm • Movie Night: Open to everyone; 2nd and 4th Fri each month, 6-9pm • Women’s Social Circle: Social support group for female-identified persons +18 years in the GLBT community; new members welcome; 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm each month; andrea@pridecentreofedmonton. org • Men Talking with Pride: Support and social group for gay and bisexual men to discuss current issues; every Sun 7-9pm; robwells780@hotmail. com • TTIQ: a support and information group for all those who fall under the transgender umbrella and their family/supporters; 3rd Mon, 7-9pm, each month • HIV Support Group: Support and discussion group for gay men; 2nd Mon, 7-9pm, each month; huges@shaw.ca

EPLC FELLOWSHIP PAGAN STUDY GROUP • Pride Centre of Edmonton,

10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • eplc.webs. com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome

FLASH NIGHT CLUB • 10018-105 Street •

780.969.9965 • Thu Goth + Industrial Night: Indust:real Assembly with DJ Nanuck; 10pm (door); no cover • Triple Threat Fridays: DJ Thunder, Femcee DJ Eden Lixx • DJ Suco beats every Sat • E: vip@flashnightclub.com

G.L.B.T.Q SAGE BOWLING CLUB • 780.474.8240, E: Tuff@shaw.ca • Every Wed, 1:30-3:30pm GLBT SPORTS AND RECREATION •

teamedmonton.ca • Co-ed Bellydancing • Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary, 10925-87

JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY • 10242106 Street • 780.756.5667 • junctionedmonton. com • Open Tues-Sat: Community bar with seasonal patio • Beat the clock Tue • WINGSANITY Wed, 5-10pm • Free pool Tue and Wed • Karaoke Wed, 9-12pm • Fri Steak Night, 5-9pm • Frequent special events: drag shows, leather nights, bear bashes, girls nights • DJs every Fri and Sat, 10pm LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408-

124 Street • 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

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Hall, 10113-87 Ave • ecawar.org • Celebrate ten years of the peace movement in Edmonton with the Edmonton Coalition Against War and Racism (ECAWAR) with speakers, live music, displays, and a potluck supper • Sat, Dec 1, 1-7pm • Free

JUST CHRISTMAS • Alberta Avenue

Community Hall, 9210-118 Ave • Alternative Global Market Place and musical performances and ethinic food. Profits support international development projects • Nov 23 • Donation

FINE ART OF SCHMOOZY • Latitude 53, 10248106 Street • latitude53.org/schmoozy • Celebrating the coming end of the year, and the end of an era at The Fine Art of Schmoozy—the gallery’s annual fundraiser that looks forward to new beginnings • Nov 24 • $30-$50 (discount for Latitude 53 members) MOVEMBER MASQUERADE • Rutherford House Provincial Historic Site on campus, 11153 Saskatchewan Drive • 780.427.4033 • execdir@rutherfordhouse. ca • A Movember Shave Party like no other.

Includes keynote speakers from the U of A, live jazz music, food and wine. Hosted in the home of the most famous moustached man in Edmonton’s history: Alexander Cameron Rutherford, first Premier of Alberta and founder of the University of Alberta • Nov 30, 7-11pm • $60 (regular), $100 (couple), $40 (students) SNOWFLAKE ARTS & CRAFT FESTIVAL • Fulton Place Community Hall, 6115

Fulton Rd • A show with Edmonton Based artists. Offers only handmade items, that must be made by the artist themselves • Nov 25 • Free

FILM

REVUE // TRUE CRIME

Who are you?

The Imposter cleverly reframes a high profile, deeply strange case of identity theft

A lost son found ... or not

Fri, Nov 23 – Tue, Nov 27 Directed by Bart Layton Metro Cinema at the Garneau

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heekily edited, brilliantly structured, manipulative in the best sense of the word, Bart Layton's The Imposter is a true-crime documentary that unearths a high profile, already well-examined case of identity theft and somehow manages to render it only more mysterious, more generative of questions. And its questions are haunting, burgeoning in your mind as you go over the facts—or lack thereof. A boy disappears, leaving a black hole in a family; someone comes along to fill that hole, and that someone, against all common sense, is embraced by the family. Some kind of ex-

change appears to have taken place. A tacit agreement perhaps. It only falls apart when the outside world forces the issue, and then the tacit agreement becomes a crime, a violation, an outrage. At least, that's one reading of the events chronicled in The Imposter.

One of many.

The film's antihero—or, if you'd prefer, its villain that we're led to identify with—is serial impostor Frédéric Bourdin. Layton has told his story so that it's Bourdin we trust, because Bourdin's been caught, over and over, and speaks openly about his various deceptions. He's got nothing to lose. While the film's ostensible victims, excessively naïve, in some cases zombified, seem anything but credible. The bizarre, sensational story, if you missed it during its 15 minutes

back in the late 1990s, goes like this: 12-year-old Texan Nicholas Barclay goes missing in 1994. Three years and four months later someone is found in a phone booth in Spain, is taken into custody, and some time later this someone claims to be Barclay. Carey Gibson, Barclay's older sister, flies to Spain and, as promptly as legalities allow, takes Barclay home and reintegrates him into her extended family and community. But this Barclay, who was blonde, blue-eyed, born and raised American and only 16 years old, was, we now know, 23, FrancoAlgerian, of dark features and hair, and could barely speak English, and when he did speak had a heavy accent. What is going on here? After watching The Imposter I kept thinking about the moment when Gibson and

Bourdin first meet. Bourdin claims that Gibson showed him family photos, told him who everyone was, essentially began crash-coaching him in becoming her little brother. Did she have something to hide? Did she just need to have her brother back so desperately that she would willingly accept a substitute?

Bourdin: "I wanted to be someone else. Someone who was acceptable."

Barclay's mother: "My goal in life was not to think."

Crafting a deft braid of reenactments and interviews that owe something to the films of Errol Morris—another filmmaker obsessed with uncertainty—Layton's narrative builds slowly toward its larger ambiguities. The last act, which intro-

duces us to a wily detective named Charlie Parker, who proves Bourdin's ruse by way of studying his ears, is as engrossing as anything you'll see on a screen this year, featuring developments that, if you're not familiar with them, I won't spoil. Of course the film will leave you wanting more, much more. I keep thinking how much this story deserves a great writer to give us an exhaustive investigative, booklength essay, something as much about psychology, about need and grief, about secret violence and secret contracts, as it is about crimes and disguises and con artists. But The Imposter works beautifully as a lyrical, very cinematic introduction to this deeply strange story.

JOSEF BRAUN

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REVUE // ROM COM

Silver Linings Playbook Now playing Written and directed by David O Russel

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Looking for the silver linings

oes love actually make you crazy, or is it really the other way around?

Mental illness has been the psychic engine of some convincing modern romantic comedies—see Punch-Drunk Love (2002)—perhaps because it places an obstacle between lovers and coital consummation where, in a post-sexual revolution universe, there might otherwise not be. That's certainly the case with the tweaking twosome in David O Russell's Silver Linings Playbook, in which a manic schoolteacher (Bradley Cooper) newly released from a state hospital—where he was placed after nearly beating his wife's lover to death—meets a young cop's widow (Jennifer Lawrence) with im-

pulse control issues who's been flirting with nymphomania. He's adopted a program of blind optimism and is obsessed with reuniting with his estranged spouse; she's focusing her ferocious energies on preparing for a dance contest. Given that he's the subject of a restraining order, he needs a secret marriage-mending go-between; given that the sort of dance she has in mind generally works better with two people, she needs a partner. So they make a deal, go out on Halloween Raisin Bran-and-tea dates, crazy shit happens, more crazy people enter the picture, bumpity-bum-bum, da-ta-da-ta-da.

But when I say "crazy," I don't mean crazy-crazy, like real-life crazy, but rather that special we're-in-a-crazymovie kind of crazy that allows for ids to run rabid in the name of controlled comic chaos; not the sort of crazy that

leads to tragedy, despair or, in the case of John Cassavetes' movies, that most fragile, unnerving, eerily exhilarating sort of equilibrium. The characters in Silver Linings Playbook, based on Matthew Quick's eponymous novel, are only as crazy as they need to be to keep the story's central conceits afloat for the film's duration; as we near resolution, the craziness is fully contained.

Near the top of the film, our protagonist chucks a copy of For Whom the Bell Tolls through a window—not out, but through it—from frenzied disgust for its scandalizing, downbeat finale. He demands happy endings from his stories, and we know that come hell or high water—or in this case, flagrant, flailing dance floor amateurism and football triumph—he's going to get one. So yes, CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 >>

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REVUE // CLASSIC

Schindler's List brutality. The hammering of soldiers' boots up staircases and flashes of gunfire in windows say as much about the time's terror and tyranny as blood pouring from heads on pavement. The film's only indulgences are in reducing much of labour-camp commander Amon Goeth (Ralph Fiennes) to a psychosexual fetish and a too-Hollywood speech from Schindler at war's end.

Bleakness all around

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SHOCKING AND FASCINATING...

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SPELLBINDING!” – Christy Lemire, Boston Globe

A KNOCKOUT!”

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Mon, Nov 26 (7 pm) Directed by Steven Spielberg Metro Cinema at the Garneau Originally released: 1993

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he film that won Steven Spielberg his first Best Director Oscar is about another Oskar as "Direktor."

Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson) is a schmoozer, a suave organizer and a businessman with a dream—the money he'll bring back from the war in "two steamer trunks." For the first

SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK

– Marshall Heyman, The Wall Street Journal

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under its batshit guise of high neurosis, this is deceptively close to being a perfectly conventional rom-com.

And so what? The big picture feels a bit pedestrian, but scene-by-scene Silver Linings Playbook is giddily inspired. Cooper's nothing if not committed, a little scary, a lot talky, running around his parents' neighbourhood with a trash bag over his

grey 50%, white backgound

half of Schindler's List, this Sudeten German-born owner of a repossessed factory in Krakow denies himself any historical or moral perspective.

The war Schindler wants to profit from involves the liquidation of the Krakow Ghetto on March 13, 1943.

Steven Zaillian's incisive adaptation of Thomas Keneally's book, focussed by Janusz Kaminski's black-and-white cinematography, moves us with relentless force and close observation through urgent discussions and scenes of torso so he can sweat better. Lawrence brings nothing but wild conviction and drive to her secondary role. She's got feral Medusa stares, is seductive in a way that makes you want to remove sharp objects from the house when she comes over for dinner. And the supporting cast populates Russell's suburban Philadelphia milieu with memorable, distinctive neuroses of their own, most especially Robert De Niro, terrific as Cooper's OCD bookie dad, who's in-

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The film's many moments of documentary-like power—including the moment when the actors we've seen become the real-life survivors, there in living colour in Israel, 1992, placing stones on Schindler's grave—are turned against the Nazis' rules and regulations and mechanized slaughter. There is just so much taking stock—the typed documents, the stamped identity cards; the camera's inventory of persons shot by debauched sadist Goeth, of Jews trying to hide, of piles of possessions removed from seized suitcases, of Jews packed into train cars—as the scales of injustice weigh down.

Even as the camera moves us from each man (Schindler, becoming a protective Moses; Goeth, becoming casually shooting Death) reigning over his fiefdom to jostle and bump us among panicked crowds, lines of the neardead and fraying families, capitalism rubs up against fascism. Schindler reduces his Jews to workers who will make him money; the Nazis reduce their "Juden" to objects to be worked, shot, processed as corpses into pits, or rendered down into objects after death. And it's when Schindler starts to see his money as a means and mask for a moral purpose—helping fellow humans simply survive—that accounting becomes recounting, taking moral stock of the Holocaust.

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sanely superstitious about sports.

Russell's movies run on anxiety, urgency and carefully tuned babble, and everyone gets some great dialogue. The final scenes kind of blow it, the dance-off most of all, since it keeps cutting away to reaction shots to remind us how we're supposed to feel. But whatever, if you don't have a good time with Silver Linings Playbook, you're nuts.

JOSEF BRAUN

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REVUE // WOLVERINES!

Red Dawn

I'd like extra freedom on my sub, please

Now playing Directed by Dan Bradley

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he opening faux-documentary news-babble montage of the new Red Dawn fires a flurry of accusations at North Korea, rendering Kim Jong-un as much of a nuke-stackin' loose cannon as his pa. There goes that market!

But seriously, if you're ever in doubt about how bafflingly pointless studio remakes are conceived, rest assured that it is indeed all about markets.

When this post-Cold War Red Dawn was actually shot back in 2009 the bad guys were the Chinese; once some PR whiz pointed out that the Chinese spend a lot of dough on American exports, Red Dawn was rejiggered so that the Asian invaders originated from a much smaller communist republic, one where the only way anyone's likely to see this remake is via samizdat DVDs. No doubt it will be regarded as a comedy.

Which is a generous way of categorizing this slab of hoorah, arriving in theatres just in time to function as a balm for disappointed Republicans.

The original Red Dawn (1984), cowritten and directed by John Milius, his rep still aglow from Apocalypse

Now (1979) and Conan the Barbarian (1979), was not exactly a good movie.

OK, it's ludicrous. But it retains a certain awesome power as a wet dream for the National Rifle Association and time capsule of Reagan-era Hollywood. It also scared the shit out of me as a little kid, those first images of jellyfish-like Russian parachutes descending upon the field outside the windows of a high school, and the teacher getting plugged in the guts.

Milius may be a right-wing propagandist (or not; I'm not so presumptuous as to understand his politics), but he's also a real filmmaker. His Red Dawn captured something in the mid-'80s air, tapped into genuine fears and allowed a lot of kids to fantasize about ditching school, taking up arms, going camping forever and popping out of hidden pits to kill commies in the name of freedom. "Wolverines!"

Directed by stunt coordinator Dan Bradley and written by Jeremy Passmore and Carl Ellsworth—a go-to guy for remakes, Ellsworth's already got Disturbia (2007) and The Last House on the Left (2009) under his belt—it's rather difficult to see how this new Red Dawn speaks either to our times or to our subconscious de-

sire to go guerilla. The performances are more sober than those of Swayze, Sheen, et al, but they're also way less fun and lack silly hats. The new characters have certain advantages over the originals, such as actual military training, but they seem less emblematic of Milius' irony-free vision of grass roots survivalist gender-equalizing machismo—these new brothers don't actually drink the blood of the animals they kill.

"We inherited our freedom," says one of these new, wearisome Wolverines. "Now it's up to us to fight for it!"

A recruiting slogan if ever there was one, but what flags of freedom are flying in Red Dawn? Look no farther than the best scene in the movie: a pair of hungry Wolverines hide out in an occupied Subway; "Sandwich artist, fill this bag with subs!" one of them demands (an excellent line); they take the bag of fixins back to their fellow vigilantes, who feed on the footlongs in quarterbackian ecstasy. This is what American freedom tastes like: wonderbuns, under-ripe tomatoes and lunchmeat. And you, foolish foreign intruder, will pry them from our cold, dying hands.

JOSEF BRAUN

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VUEWEEKLY NOVEMBER 22 - NOVEMBER 28, 2012

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STILLSHOWING

REVUE // CLASSIC

To Kill a Mockingbird Fri, Nov 23 – Sun, Nov 25 Directed by Robert Mulligan Metro Cinema at the Garneau Originally Released: 1962

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here are things about the film version of To Kill a Mockingbird that make it feel rather dated, and oddly enough, some of these things probably never felt as dated as when the film debuted 50 years ago. While bleakly realistic about the lot of "coloured" folk in rural Alabama in the '30s, its chronicle of the trial of Tom Robinson (Brock Peters), the poor African-American accused of viciously raping a white woman, must have struck at least some of its first viewers as rather hokey and insufficiently ambiguous after the vivid cynicism of Otto Preminger's courtroom masterpiece Anatomy of a Murder (1959), which also featured rape and murder and that ugliest of questions: was she asking for 's courtroom brims it? Mockingbird's with caricatured crackers, a gallery of sneering, stupid white trash sent direct from Central Casting, while Peters' blatantly framed patsy feels so petrified and noble, so utterly innocent as to seem condescended to or pitied, rather than respected as a fully realized character with his own

story to tell.

But the thing that's easy to forget about To Kill a Mockingbird is that it's not really about the trial of Tom Robinson or even about the failed heroism of Robinson's attorney Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck, nicely understated). Doing its best to retain the point of view of Atticus' youngest child "Scout"

(Mary Badham), the narrator of Harper Lee's masterful source novel, the film invests much of its opening act to creating an equal parts nostalgic and unflattering portrait of its fictional Southern gothic setting, as seen by the children who run free in the town— and run scared from

local boogeyman Boo Radley (Robert Duvall, in his truly remarkable debut screen performance). Boo's even more of an outcast and scapegoat than Tom Robinson, but Boo's a white man, and when he finally emerges from the shadows to rectify a great

wrong, he's neither condemned nor lionized by his townsfolk. The sheriff opts to just let Boo be, and let the record show that the man Boo killed must have fell on his knife. So To Kill a Mockingbird is about two deaths, and two acts of skewed or mangled justice, one despicable, the other morally satisfying. It's left up to us to reconcile their coexistence.

JOSEF BRAUN

// JOSEF@VUEWEEKLY.COM

The Perks of Being A Wallflower Princess Theatre

 Adolescence is a minefield—both in real life and in plentiful cinematic misgivings about it—but Perks manages to create something honest and relatable through its strong plot and impressive young cast.

Searching for Sugar Man Princess Theatre

 The story of Sixto Rodriguez's brief time in the music industry—and, unbeknownst to him, subsequent rise in popularity after the fact—Searching for Sugar Man delves into a revealing look at the commerce of music. It's a striking, honest portrayal of a man who had all the potential in the world.

Glasses? Rifle? Classic Atticus

REVUE // VAMPING ON

Breaking Dawn Part 2 Now playing Directed by Bill Condon 

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h, that innocent day four years ago when I saw some flick called Twilight, was rather appalled by its glittering one-star-ness, and thought no more of it ... until I found out it was just the first part of a franchise slaking its insatiable boxoffice thirst by feeding on tweens' throbbing hearts. Now, sunset's arrived for this virgin-meets-vampire franchise—and Breaking Dawn Part 2 manages to be even more inert, banal and fawning than the first movie.

The saga's been little more than a smoldering look between Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson), but the long, lingering look of erotica meanders on throughout this finale. There are the many aerial shots (Northwest postcard-erotica) of alpine forests, wintry woods and yet more trees. There's the J Crew-erotica of nattily-dressed, super-bourgeois, snow-white people standing around and talking about love and family in a cottage furnished by the latest trends in interior design. (Although Bella and Edward, just for the skin-caressing shots of a threshold-crossing sex scene, do get their own forest-glade cottage, brought to them by Thomas Kinkade.

But this instalment still can't figure out

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how to create any heat amid the snow, the frosty, pale vampires and the stiff dialogue.)

The Sessions Princess Theatre

Then the movie finally stops wandering about, collecting various jugularjuicers to serve as "witnesses" to Bella and Edward's daughter being safely half-mortal, and slips into dreamy erotica about itself. And that's when this saga really finishes with a masturbatory flourish.

It turns out that the big climax, a battle between good and bad leecheswith-legs (the venomous Volturi), is itself a fantasy—a prophecy, with plenty of decapitations, of what could be. So peace, and the same boring status quo, returns. All that's left is more onanism: Bella uses a special playback power to remind us of all the intense stares between her and Edward from movies past. Then the last page of a book (by whom, I wonder?) appears, with the last word, "forever," highlighted (for dummies). And so the most selfregarding, self-stroking, self-mythologizing saga in recent Hollywood history ends—not with a bang but a moaning question, echoing forever, as it watches itself in the mirror: "Who's the fairest fantasist of all?"

 The Sessions is a sweet, moving work that approaches sex, disabled or otherwise, with a very rare combination of maturity, kindness and insight. It's also a lovely duet between two generous and talented actors.

Wreck-It Ralph

 Kids just love to destroy stuff, and that's a huge part of the appeal of Disney's Wreck-It Ralph. It's the story of a giant-fisted, gorilla-framed video game character who pulverizes windows and doors and develops a complex about it. The script leans on a few over-familiar plot twists, but the details are uniformly clever.

BRIAN GIBSON

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Winter in Vampireland

VUEWEEKLY NOVEMBER 22 - NOVEMBER 28, 2012

FILM WEEKLY FRI, NOV 23 - THU, NOV 29, 2012

CHABA THEATRE–JASPER 6094 Connaught Dr Jasper 780.852.4749 SKYFALL (14A violence) FRI-SAT 6:45, 9:15; SUN-THU 8:00 TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 2 (PG violence, disturbing content, not recommended for children) FRI-SAT 7:00, 9:15; SUN-THU 8:00

DUGGAN CINEMA–CAMROSE 6601-48 Ave Camrose 780.608.2144 TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 2 (PG violence, disturbing content, not recommended for children) DAILY 7:00PM 9:15; SAT-SUN, THU 2:00 RISE OF THE GUARDIANS (G) DAILY 7:10, 9:10; SAT-SUN, THU 2:10 LIFE OF PI (PG) DAILY 6:55, 9:25; SAT-SUN, THU 1:55 SKYFALL (14A violence) DAILY 6:45, 9:30; SAT-SUN, THU 1:50 FLIGHT (18A substance abuse) DAILY 6:50, 9:35; SAT-

SUN, THU 1:50

CINEMA CITY MOVIES 12 5074-130 Ave 780.472.9779 BRAVE (G) FRI-SUN, TUE 1:15; 3D: DAILY 3:50, 6:55, 9:10 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (G) FRI-SUN, TUE 1:40;

3D: DAILY 4:20, 7:10, 9:25

THE EXPENDABLES 2 (14A gory violence) DAILY 4:05, 9:50 HOUSE AT THE END OF THE STREET (14A violence) FRI-SUN, TUE 1:10, 4:00, 7:00, 9:30; MON, WED-THU 4:00, 7:00, 9:30

SUN 11:30, 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30; MON-THU 2:05, 4:50, 7:35, 10:15; Closed Captioned FRI 1:05, 1:40, 3:55, 4:30, 6:50, 7:20, 9:40, 10:10; SAT 1:05, 1:50, 3:55, 4:30, 6:50, 7:20, 9:40, 10:10; SUN 1:15, 1:45, 4:00, 4:30, 6:45, 7:15, 9:30, 10:20; MON-WED 1:15, 1:45, 4:00, 4:30, 6:45, 7:15, 9:30, 10:00; THU 1:45, 4:00, 4:30, 6:45, 7:15, 9:30, 10:00; Star & Strollers Screening: THU 1:00

LIFE OF PI 3D (PG) Closed Captioned, SAT 11:00; ULTRAAVX: FRI-SAT 12:30, 3:25, 7:15, 10:20; SUN 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10:20; MON-THU 1:25, 4:25, 7:20, 10:15 SKYFALL (14A violence) FRI-SAT 12:50, 4:10, 7:25, 11:00; SUN 12:30, 3:45, 7:00, 10:15; MON-THU 1:30, 4:45, 8:05; Closed Captioned: FRI-SAT 12:00, 12:25, 3:10, 3:40, 6:30, 7:00, 10:00, 10:30; SUN 11:35, 12:00, 2:45, 3:15, 6:00, 6:30, 9:15, 9:45; MON-THU 12:00, 2:30, 3:15, 6:00, 6:30, 9:15, 9:45

LOOPER (14A violence, coarse language) FRI-SAT 7:40, 10:35; Sun 9:10; MON-THU 6:20, 9:20 ARGO (14A) Closed Captioned FRI 12:55, 3:45, 6:35, 9:25; Sat 3:45, 6:35, 9:25; SUN-THU 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:40 SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK (14A coarse language) FRI-SAT 1:00, 4:05, 8:05, 10:55; SUN-WED 1:20, 4:15, 7:10, 10:05; THU 4:15, 7:10, 10:05; Star & Strollers Screening: THU 1:00 FLIGHT (18A substance abuse) Closed Captioned FRISAT 12:20, 3:35, 6:45, 9:55; SUN 12:25, 3:40, 6:55, 10:10; MON-THU 12:25, 3:40, 7:00, 10:10 PITCH PERFECT (PG language may offend, crude content, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned FRI-SAT 12:40, 3:50, 7:45, 10:45; SUN 6:55, 9:35; MON 1:10, 3:55; TUE-THU 1:10, 3:55, 6:55, 9:35; MON 10:20 LINCOLN (PG violence, language may offend, not recommended for young children) FRI-SAT 11:30, 2:50, 6:25, 9:45; SUN 12:20, 3:35, 6:25, 9:45; MON 12:50, 4:10, 7:55; TUE-THU 12:50, 4:35, 7:55 BALLET IN CINEMA: THE PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER FROM THE BOLSHOI BALLET (Classification not available) SUN 12:55 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: OTHELLO ENCORE (Classification not available) SAT 10:55

PARANORMAN (PG frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) FRI-SUN, TUE 2:00, 4:15; MON, WED-THU 4:15

TRUE ROMANCE (STC) MON 7:30

DREDD 3D (18A gory brutal violence) FRI-SUN, TUE 1:45, 4:10, 7:30, 9:40; MON, WED-THU 4:10, 7:30, 9:40

CFL 100TH GREY CUP LIVE ON THE BIG SCREEN (Classification not available) SUN 4:00

THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (14A) FRI-SUN, TUE 1:05, 4:35, 7:50; MON, WED-THU 4:35, 7:50

THE FLINTSTONES (STC) SAT 11:00

CHASING MAVERICKS (PG) DAILY 6:50, 9:20 SINISTER (14A gory scenes, frightening scenes) FRISUN, TUE 1:20, 4:25, 7:15, 9:55; MON, WED-THU 4:25, 7:15, 9:55 TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE (PG coarse language) FRI-SUN, TUE 1:25, 7:20; MON, WED-THU 7:20 THE MASTER (14A sexual content, nudity, coarse language) FRI-SUN, TUE 12:55, 3:45, 6:40, 9:35; MON, WED-THU 3:45, 6:40, 9:35 JAB TAK HAI JAAN (PG coarse language) Hindi

W/E.S.T. FRI-SUN, TUE 1:00, 1:30, 4:30, 5:00, 8:00, 9:00; MON, THU 4:30, 5:00, 8:00, 9:00; WED 4:30, 4:50, 8:00,

8:50

SON OF SARDAAR (PG violence) Hindi W/E.S.T. FRI-SUN, TUE 12:50, 3:55, 6:45, 9:45; MON, WED-THU 3:55, 6:45, 9:45

CINEPLEX ODEON NORTH 14231-137 Ave 780.732.2236 RISE OF THE GUARDIANS (G) Closed Captioned FRI 12:10, 2:35, 5:45; SAT 11:00, 12:00, 5:15; SUN 12:00, 5:15; MON-THU 12:10, 2:35; SAT-SUN 1:00, 3:20; 3D: FRI, MON-THU 5:00, 7:30, 10:00; SAT-SUN 5:45, 7:40, 10:00 RED DAWN (14A) FRI-SAT 12:50, 3:05, 5:50, 8:20, 10:45; SUN 12:50, 3:05, 6:00, 8:20, 10:40; MON-THU 12:50, 3:20, 6:00, 8:20, 10:40 WRECK-IT RALPH (G) Closed Captioned FRI, SUN-THU 1:20; SAT 11:15, 1:20; 3D: DAILY 3:50, 6:45, 9:15 TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 2 (PG violence, disturbing content, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned FRI, MON-TUE, THU 12:40, 1:40, 2:15, 3:30, 4:20, 5:00, 6:10, 7:00, 7:50, 9:00, 9:50, 10:35; SAT 11:10, 12:40, 1:40, 2:30, 3:30, 4:20, 5:10, 6:10, 7:00, 7:50, 9:00, 9:50, 10:35; SUN 12:40, 1:40, 2:30, 3:30, 4:20, 5:10, 6:10, 7:00, 7:50, 9:00, 9:50, 10:35; WED 12:40, 2:15, 3:30, 4:20, 5:00, 6:10, 7:00, 7:50, 9:00, 9:50, 10:35; Star & Strollers Screening: WED 1:00 LIFE OF PI 3D (PG) Ultraavx: DAILY 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 SKYFALL (14A violence) FRI 12:45, 4:00, 7:20, 10:30; SAT-THU 1:30, 4:40, 8:10; Closed Captioned: FRI 12:00, 1:30, 3:10, 4:40, 6:20, 8:10, 9:40; SAT 12:00, 12:45, 3:10, 4:00, 6:20, 7:20, 9:40, 10:30; SUN 12:00, 12:45, 3:10, 4:10, 6:20, 7:20, 9:30, 10:30; MON-TUE, THU 12:00, 12:45, 3:10, 4:00, 6:20, 7:20, 9:30, 10:30; WED 12:00, 3:10, 4:00, 6:20, 7:20, 9:30, 10:30; Star & Strollers Screening: WED 1:00 LOOPER (14A violence, coarse language) FRI-SAT 12:30, 3:00, 8:00, 10:40; SUN 3:40, 8:00, 10:40; MON-TUE, THU 12:30, 3:45, 8:00, 10:40; WED 12:30, 3:45, 10:40 ARGO (14A) Closed Captioned DAILY 12:20, 3:20, 6:40, 9:20 FLIGHT (18A substance abuse) Closed Captioned DAILY 12:15, 3:40, 6:50, 10:05 LINCOLN (PG violence, language may offend, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned DAILY 12:05, 3:15, 6:30, 9:45 THE FLINTSTONES (STC) SAT 11:00 BALLET IN CINEMA: THE PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER FROM THE BOLSHOI BALLET (Classification not available) SUN 12:55

1525-99 St 780.436.8585 HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA (PG) Closed Captioned FRI-SAT 12:05, 2:35, 5:00; SUN 12:40; MON-THU 12:50, 3:25 RISE OF THE GUARDIANS (G) FRI-SAT 11:30; SUN 11:45; MON-THU 12:05; 3D: FRI-SAT 2:05, 4:45, 7:35, 10:05; SUN 2:25, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55; MON-THU 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55 RED DAWN (14A) FRI 11:45, 2:15, 4:40, 7:05, 9:30; SAT 11:45, 4:40, 7:05, 9:30; SUN 1:30, 3:25, 6:50, 9:25; MONTHU 1:35, 4:05, 6:50, 9:25 WRECK-IT RALPH (G) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 11:50; MON-WED 12:15; THU 12:15; 3D: FRI-SAT 2:30, 5:20, 8:10, 10:45; SUN 2:55, 5:35, 8:15; MON-THU 2:55, 6:05, 8:40 TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 2 (PG violence, disturbing content, not recommended for young children) FRI-SAT 11:35, 2:20, 5:10, 8:00, 10:50;

LIFE OF PI 3D (PG) VIP 18+: FRI 4:30, 8:00; SAT-SUN 1:10, 4:40, 8:20; MON-THU 8:40; 3d: Closed Captioned: FRI 3:40, 7:00, 10:15; SAT 12:40, 3:35, 7:10, 10:15; SUN 12:30, 3:30, 6:50, 9:40; MON-THU 6:40, 9:30 SKYFALL (14A violence) VIP 18+: FRI 5:30, 9:00; SAT-SUN 2:10, 5:40, 9:20; MON-THU 6:30, 9:55; ULTRAAVX: FRI 3:30, 6:50, 10:05; SAT 12:10, 3:25, 6:50, 10:05; Sun 12:00, 3:10, 6:30, 9:45; MON-THU 6:30, 9:40 LINCOLN (PG violence, language may offend, not recommended for young children) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video FRI 3:50, 7:10, 10:25; SAT 12:20, 3:45, 7:00, 10:25; SUN 12:10, 3:25, 6:40, 9:55; MON-THU 6:30, 9:45 CFL 100TH GREY CUP LIVE ON THE BIG SCREEN (Classification not available) SUN 4:00

CITY CENTRE 9 10200-102 Ave 780.421.7020 SKYFALL (14A violence) Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI-SUN 12:10, 3:25, 6:40, 10:10; MON-THU 3:15, 6:35, 9:50 TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 2 (PG violence, disturbing content, not recommended for young children) Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital: FRI-SUN 12:30, 1:00, 3:30, 4:00, 6:30, 7:00, 9:30, 10:00; MON-THU 3:00, 3:30, 5:45, 6:15, 9:00, 9:30 LINCOLN (PG violence, language may offend, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned, DTS Digital FRI-SUN 12:00, 3:50, 7:10, 10:30; MON-THU 2:45, 6:40, 10:00 SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK (14A coarse language) Closed Captioned, DTS Digital FRI-SUN 12:40, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20; MON-THU 2:50, 6:00, 9:10 FLIGHT (18A substance abuse) Closed Captioned, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI-SUN 12:50, 4:05, 7:25, 10:35; MON-THU 3:10, 6:20, 9:50 LIFE OF PI (PG) Closed Captioned, DTS Digital FRISUN 12:35; MON-THU 3:45 LIFE OF PI 3D (PG) DTS Digital FRI-SUN 3:40, 6:45, 9:45; MON-THU 6:45, 9:45

TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 2 (PG violence, disturbing content, not recommended for young children) Digital Presentation: FRI 6:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:10, 9:40; SAT-SUN 1:00, 1:35, 2:00, 3:45, 4:20, 4:40, 6:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:10, 9:40; Digital Presentation MON-WED 4:30, 4:50, 5:20, 7:10, 7:30, 8:00; THU 4:30, 4:50, 5:20, 7:30, 8:00 LIFE OF PI 3D (PG) Digital 3d FRI 6:35, 9:25; SAT-SUN 3:50, 6:35, 9:25; MON-THU 4:40, 7:40

violence, disturbing content, not recommended for young children) DAILY 1:35, 4:25, 7:00, 9:25 RISE OF THE GUARDIANS (G) DAILY 1:20, 3:20, 5:15, 7:25, 9:20 LIFE OF PI (PG) DAILY 1:10 4:05, 6:40, 9:15

LEDUC CINEMAS 4702-50 St Leduc 780.986-2728 ALL NEW STATE OF THE ART DIGITAL

RED DAWN (14A) Digital Presentation FRI 6:45, 9:45; SAT-SUN 1:10, 4:25, 6:45, 9:45; MON-THU 5:00, 8:00

DATE OF ISSUE ONLY: THU, NOV 22

RISE OF THE GUARDIANS 3D (G) Digital 3d FRI 6:50, 9:15; SAT-SUN 4:10, 6:50, 9:15; MON-THU 5:15, 7:50

WRECK-IT RALPH 3D (G) THU, NOV 22: 7:00, 9:25

PITCH PERFECT (PG language may offend, crude content, not recommended for young children) Digital Presentation FRI 6:40; SAT-SUN 1:20, 4:00, 6:40; MON-THU 5:00 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4 (14A frightening scenes) Digital Presentation FRI-SUN 9:15; MON-THU 7:50 RISE OF THE GUARDIANS (G) Digital Presentation Sat-Sun 1:40 LIFE OF PI (PG) Digital Presentation SAT-SUN 1:00 WRECK-IT RALPH (G) Digital Presentation SAT-SUN 1:15

GALAXY–SHERWOOD PARK

SKYFALL (14A violence) THU, NOV 22: 6:45, 9:35 TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 2 (PG violence, disturbing content, not recommended for young children) THU, NOV 22: 6:55, 9:40

METRO CINEMA AT THE GARNEAU Metro at the Garneau: 8712-109 St 780.425.9212 TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (STC) FRI 7:00; SAT 2:30, 9:00; SUN 2:00, 7:00 THE IMPOSTER (14A) FRI, TUE 9:30; SAT 12:30, 5:00, 7:00; SUN 4:30, 9:30 MANBORG (18A gory violence) FRI 11:30 SCHINDLER'S LIST (STC) MON 7:00

2020 Sherwood Dr Sherwood Park 780.416.0150 RISE OF THE GUARDIANS (G) Closed Captioned SATSUN 11:40, 2:10; 3D: FRI-SUN 4:40, 7:15, 9:45; MON-THU 7:15, 9:40

WHO CARES (18A disturbing content) TUE 7:00

RED DAWN (14A) FRI 5:25, 7:55, 10:25; SAT-SUN 12:25, 2:55, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25; MON-THU 7:40, 10:05

THE WICKER MAN (2006)–TURKEY SHOOT COMEDY (14A frightening scenes, disturbing content) Sub-titled THU 9:30

WRECK-IT RALPH (G) SAT-SUN 11:30, 2:05; 3D: FRI-SUN 4:40, 7:20, 9:55; MON-THU 7:10, 9:50 TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 2 (PG violence, disturbing content, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned FRI 4:00, 4:40, 6:50, 7:30, 9:40, 10:20; SAT 11:05, 1:10, 1:50, 4:00, 4:40, 6:50, 7:30, 9:40, 10:20; SUN 1:10, 1:50, 4:00, 4:40, 6:50, 7:30, 9:40, 10:20; MON-THU 6:50, 7:30, 9:35, 10:10 LIFE OF PI 3D (PG) Closed Captioned FRI 4:00, 7:05, 10:10; SAT-SUN 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 10:10; MON-THU 7:05, 10:00 SKYFALL (14A violence) Closed Captioned FRI 3:40, 6:30, 7:00, 10:00, 10:30; SAT-SUN 11:55, 12:25, 3:10,

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EYES WIDE SHUT–INSPIRATIONS (18A) WED 7:00 MASS EFFECT: PARAGON LOST (STC) THU 7:00

EMPIRE THEATRES–SPRUCE GROVE 130 Century Crossing Spruce Grove 780.962.2332 WRECK-IT RALPH (G) Digital FRI 6:30, 9:10; SAT-SUN, TUE 1:10, 3:30, 6:30, 9:10; MON, WED-THU 6:20, 8:40 FLIGHT (18A substance abuse) Digital FRI 6:10, 9:20; SAT-SUN, TUE 12:00, 3:10, 6:10, 9:20; MON, WED-THU 6:10, 9:00

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PREVUE // DANCE

Pivoting on a Tempest Acclaimed dance company re-envisions Shakespeare Sat, Nov 24 (8 pm) Created by Kidd Pivot Presented by Brian Webb Dance Company Citadel Theatre, $22.58 – $38.33

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t all started with the idea of an onstage shipwreck and the challenge of using an existing script. When Crystal Pite's latest creation The Tempest Replica—produced under her company moniker Kidd Pivot— premiered last year in Frankfurt, Germany, critics hailed it as smart, energetic and mercurial.

Pite herself wasn't too sure about Shakespeare's Tempest at first, but found herself won over by the play in the end, and by Prospero.

"I think any director who works with The Tempest always identifies with the character of Prospero, because he's really putting on a show," Pite explains. "He has a relationship to his muse, Ariel, and he has a relationship to the monster, which I think echoes most of our own tensions. Seeing how Prospero deals with them—I find that really intriguing and inspiring."

The show consists of two distinct parts, the first a fast-paced re-telling of Shakespeare's tale through a "storyboard"-like presentation; dancers in full white suits and masks demonstrate the synopsis of the play with projected scene titles as a backdrop.

"The Replica characters are these

faceless, white, almost like the little plastic people you'd find in an architectural model," Pite says. As in her previous work, Dark Matters, the use of mask marked an esthetic that Pite wields as a leader in her field: her uncanny ability to draw the audience to connect with dancers' bodies in performance is a rare treat.

"Removing the face and the voice is a way to bring the audience's attention to the narrative inside the body— it's really relying on the body to tell the story. It's been interesting to find out all these things, like how much emotion is achieved even in just how much you tilt your head, or the angle of your ribs, or the position of your chest—we discover really interesting things about the body through the faceless body."

The second part of the show is more of a "real world" setting, when the dancers de-mask and are revealed as modern-day versions of the characters in the play, with Prospero remaining as the central figure.

"I wanted in our production to have the sense that Prospero is really manipulating the action through spectacle, the theatre itself is his island."

That sense of manipulation and control was something Pite had been trying to reconcile in her own life as The Tempest Replica started

to take shape. After the birth of her son in 2010, Pite found herself trying to balance life and art in completely new ways.

"Certainly, the sense of Prospero having to give up his art in order to connect with his daughter really resonated with me. I guess fundamentally that's what I was connecting to—it's that question of reconciling that ambition and that magic that I have in my life when I'm also trying to do the right thing for my family and my son."

With his own mercurial timing, when asked if the Replica process helped Pite resolve any of those feelings, her son pipes up in the other room.

"Do you think you could call me back in about five minutes?" Pite says. When we reconnect, she explains that she's taking a year off in 2013 after the Replica tour.

"It's sabbatical for me to take time to fill up on other art and see what I want to do next." Despite The Tempest being Shakespeare's last work, Pite knows she's got more creative juice in her—she just doesn't know what the future holds quite yet.

"Those questions are big right now," she says.

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REVUE // THEATRE

6.0: How Heap and Pebble Took on the World and Won Until Sat, Nov 24 (7:30 pm; additional 11:30 pm show on Fri, Nov 23) Directed by Trevor Schmidt Transalta Arts Barns, $21 – $26

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Skating on wood // Ian Jackson, EPIC

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hrust into a world where all ice has been eradicated, two European ice dancers decide to stage a comeback and adapt their sport to the wooden floor. OK, so it doesn't sound like the sort of plot in which you'd expect to find anything particularly meaningful, but Northern Light Theatre's season opener is much more than just gimmick.

In 6.0: How Heap and Pebble Took on the World and Won, Heap Krusiak (Jesse Gervais) and Pebble

Adverati (Amber Borotsik) spin the tale of their triumphant rise to fame and the aftermath of the global warming incident that took it all away. All the while they practice a difficult maneuver that is the climax of their new routine, which they hope will kickstart a new era of iceless ice dancing.

The grace the two actors are able to achieve is impressive— all the more so when you realize that when they fall or appear unsteady, it's completely on purpose. But aside from the remarkable physical performance, it's in the audience's changed reaction to Heap and Pebble's situation where the show's true brilliance

resides. The opening segment is hilarious—you just can't keep a straight face while watching the duo bravely attempt to maintain their dignity whilst miming skating on a wood floor. Similarly, throughout the show audience participation is used to pull in some good laughs. Yet by the end of the show, that laughter is replaced by genuine affection— somehow they are able to win us over in spite of ourselves.

Much of this is due to the great chemistry between the pair. A relationship that is deeply intimate yet not romantic, Pebble provides the stoicism needed by the overly effu-

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sive Heap. The script itself is quite lean and it's a real testament to the skill of these two actors that they can create such fleshed-out characters in so few words. Borotsik in particular has a very commanding stage presence in spite of her minimal lines, the perfect counterpart to Gervais' swagger and easy charm.

In spite of what might be suggested by the global warming plot device, this is not a political allegory but rather a fundamentally human—and surprisingly touching—story of learning to move on in the face of loss.

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PREVUE // THEATRE

The Juvyline Cubangbang Show Until Sun, Nov 25 (7:30 pm; Sun matinee 2 pm) Directed by Katie Hudson The TACOS Space, $15 – $17

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Third time's the third charm // Jake Prins

wo years ago, when director Katie Hudson first got her hands on the script for this colourfully titled play, The Juvyline Cubangbang Show was a seven-page start-up piece hosting two characters and the three giant central themes of death, love and hope.

Since then, Hudson has worked alongside playwright Jake Prins to see the play evolve through rehearsals, rewrites, new characters and two successful performance runs.

"I've directed two versions of this script previously," begins Hudson. "The script started as a submission to the University of Alberta's New Works Festival, where it was all about finding the script's legs for the first

time. We then presented the show for a second time at NextFest, and working on the play within the environment of an emerging artist festival was really wonderful."

This week, the duo's own Blue Sky Theatre Emporium will present the play as the first of four pieces in a performance series hosted by Punctuate! Theatre. Having had two runs already, Hudson is excited to debut the show's most recent incarnation to Edmonton audiences.

"The show is about what it feels like to have missed a chance," explains Hudson. "It's about what it feels like to doubt yourself. The script addresses that universal feeling of trying to figure out what to do when you're not sure what's going to happen."

rectorial challenges, as well as the reason behind why the play fits within Punctuate!

Theatre's mission to present rich and dynamic theatre. The most exciting aspect of this third run, however, has been the opportunity to work with a new cast.

"Going through this journey again with a new cast really changes what's being brought to the table," says Hudson. "It's been so interesting to be able to see this show through three productions. While I have had a directorial through line, I've been learning from each production and I really value the new energy that the cast brings. I think all of this works to really shape the production in the moment, so that even though this is the third mounting of the script, it's also very much its own unique production."

The unconventional style of the play is listed among Hudson's most rewarding di-

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PREVUE // IMPROV

Get Real Sat, Nov 24; Sat, May 18 (8 pm) Roxy Theatre, $16 – $21

sonal questions. Craddock and Berner first performed Get Real in June 2012 at Rapid Fire Theatre's Improvaganza festival, and while the first show went well, Craddock notes that they were still motivated to keep working on it.

he explains. "We do a show not about this person, not about Tim, and his situation specifically, but inspired by. either Chris Craddock nor Toby The emotions behind it are what we're Berner are strangers to long form after, to base our show on. We're not improv; the two veteran actors have looking to ask people to be vulnerable each worked extensively in the form, and then mock them." and their new projWhen asked about ect Get Real is yet his predilection for We do a show not about this person, not about another incarnation Tim, and his situation specifically, but inspired long form improv, of the endless possiCraddock offers a by. The emotions behind it are what we're bilities of improvised simple explanation. after, to base our show on. theatre.

"Long form improv Basically a sort of has the challenge to improv confessional, Get Real asks For those concerned that the show it that can keep me improvising until for audience members to contribute might be an exercise in public humiliI'm dead. And if it was just short form, peresonal stories about a moment in ation, Craddock adds that this is not for me personally, I would have quit by Bachelor of Arts | Political Science their life in which they experienced the case at all. now."

MEL PRIESTLEY change, either in their professional, "It's meant to be a respectful treatwww.MacEwan.ca/PoliticalScience // MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM emotional, or spiritual lives. ment of the big things that happen," "That's when people are most alive, I think, during a period of change," Craddock notes. The stories are reTHE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS AT ENTERPRISE SQUARE corded on a whiteboard, which is proPRESENT TWO NEW EXHIBITIONS FROM THE U OF A ART COLLECTION jected onto the wall behind the two actors, and they proceed to create a narrative under the directorial guidance of Bradley Moss.

"We use the stories that we're given to create a sort of multi-story, long form improv that intertwines and is AND hopefully hard to distinguish from a really funny, well-written play," Craddock explains. "You wouldn't think it would work, but it's fascinating. This impromptu document of this person's life."

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Remembering ManWoman M

anWoman and his art were an important part of Edmonton's nascent contemporary art scene in the 1960's and '70s. He continued to exhibit his art and to influence and provoke until his recent death, and was recognized with an Award of Excellence from Alberta's Lieutenant Governor Lois Hole in 2002. Edmonton artist Blair Brennan and Latitude 53 executive director Todd Janes share their thoughts on the death of the Canadian spiritual pop artist.

several times but I did not know him well. From these brief meetings, some of his lectures and, certainly, his artwork, I have constructed an idea of his character.

If we could dissect human brains post mortem and find therein people's last thoughts, I believe a disproportionately large number of brains would contain this phrase: "This isn't a good time for me!" and a list of ridiculously petty reasons that this person's death was poorly scheduled. If we could open ManWoman's brain, I believe that it would expel a hearty laugh.

As difficult as this time may be for ManWoman's loved ones, family and friends, I think we should laugh along with ManWoman.

Blair Brennan

M anWoman died on November 13, 2012. "Died" hardly seems the right word for someone who believed that our lives might be God's dream and that he himself might wake up somewhere after death and think, of his own life, "Boy, that was an interesting dream."

ManWoman wasn't always ManWoman. Patrick Charles Kemball was born in 1938. He had a series of religious visions that started in the mid-1960s and ManWoman was born with a sacred mission that involved his own personal enlightenment, the return of spirituality to art and, perhaps his most controversial undertaking, to re-sanctify the swastika.

Centuries before Germany's National Socialists, the swastika existed cross-culturally as a sacred symbol.

ManWoman incorporated swastika imagery in his art work and tattooed his body with over 200 swastikas. "Manny," as his friends called him, was a resident of Cranbrook BC, however he lived and worked in Edmonton from 1964 to 1975 where he was involved with Edmonton's premier

Blair Brennan is currently the writer in residence for Latitude 53 Contemporary Visual Culture.

Todd Janes

A poster of ManWoman's Spiritual Schmiritual

artist-run centre, Latitude 53. Latitude 53 presented a ManWoman retrospective, "Spiritual Schmiritual" in 1998. In the same year, while Latitude 53 and Edmonton's other seminal artist-run center, SNAP (Society of Northern Alberta Print Artists) shared the Great West Saddlery Building on 104 Street, ManWoman created a commemorative print for Latitude 53's 25th anniversary making use of SNAP's print-shop facilities.

Humans are, of course, the product of their experiences, but we are equally the sum of our influences. This is not more true of artists: it is just more visible as our art often reveals those influences. ManWoman is there as an example and influence for any of us who believe there is a place for the spiritual in art, especially those who believe that we can have some fun with this idea at the same time. I had met ManWoman

I think ManWoman first came to the city probably in the late '60s, early '70s. He used to teach art at the former Art Gallery of Alberta when it was the Edmonton Art Gallery, and did a lot of children's programs, so I think a lot of people who are now in their 40s-plus probably have very fond memories of him. He was quite admired and loved by the students.

I mean, he was an interesting man to look at, with lots and lots of tattoos. "Manny," as most people would call him, almost always wore yellow, a bright yellow. And also for a long time drove this big yellow Westfalia van. I think a GMC yellow-cube van after that.

He was very kind and gentle, and just a really warm spirit around peo-

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ple. I think anyone who actually got past his physical appearance with his tattoos and his third eye on his forehead: now, everyone has lots of tattoos, facial tattoos, it's not a big thing, but I think in the '80s and '90s it was quite different.

The very first exhibition Latitude ever had was in 1973, and it was in the basement of Rice Howard Way, where our first location was. And ManWoman did the very first exhibition at Latitude. It included a lot of his paintings at the time that have become much more iconic over the years: his cows in the field, his sunsets and things like that.

And then for our 25th anniversary, which was '98, ManWoman came back in and did a solo retrospective exhibition. ... There's a lot of humour in the work. The work is, I think, quite accessible, because people can take it at its face value and, slowly, they can return to it many times, and glean some other stuff out of fairly simple graphic, simple line drawings in the work.

Which is great. And for us, it was an incredibly popular show. We had thousands of people through for just that one show, and at a time when we probably saw about 20 000 people a year, it really increased attendance and the scope of what we did.

As someone who was brand new to Latitude at the time, I was quite surprised by the adoration and amazing loyalty that Edmontonians had to ManWoman. And I think that carried throughout his life: his energy and his respect by other people and how much he was adored speaks volumes about the man he was.

Todd Janes is the current executive director of Latitude 53.

PREVUE // MUSICAL

Legally Blonde: The Musical film starring Reese Witherspoon.

Flowers strived to bring a genuineness to Woods, similar to Witherspoon's portrayal, which she says turned Elle into a character audiences couldn't help but cheer for, something she felt was missing in Broadway renditions of the musical.

"She's strong-willed and she's kind ... she's generous and kind-hearted and she ends up finding out, you know what? I can do this. I wanted to go to law school to chase after this guy, but I'm smart, I'm getting this," Flowers adds.

Thu, Nov 22 – Sun, Dec 2 (7:30 pm) Directed by Janice Flower Arden Theatre, St Albert, $17 – $23

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on't let the blonde hair and copious amounts of pink fool you: there's more to Elle Woods than her perfectly coiffed and accessorized exterior.

Woods, a privileged, popular sorority sister majoring in fashion merchandising, seems to have it all, until her boyfriend dumps her unexpectedly for someone more "serious." When he heads off to Harvard law school, Woods decides to hit the books and get accepted to the

school herself, and, despite everyone's skepticism, she pulls it off.

However, getting into Harvard proves to be only half the battle for the bubbly blonde and she sets out to prove to everyone that she's more than a pretty face.

"There is a common misconception about the show that it's just sugary and there's not much to it—the typical blonde, right? We've all told a blonde joke at some point in our life, but you know, underneath there's so much heart and really quite a bit of substance underneath it," director Janice Flowers says of the musical, which was adapted from the 2001 feature

Bringing those qualities to the stage as Woods at the Arden Theatre is Madelaine Knight.

"She knows exactly who she is," she says of her character, who she believes is a positive role model for young girls. "Her path strays from time to time and her focus strays, but she's always true to herself.

She will never try and be something else, even though she's going to Harvard ... she, in the end is able to just do what's best for herself and leave what she thought was the best for herself behind to excel at something else."

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Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • Artwork is changed on approximately eight week rotations, the gallery includes a small gift shop of artist made items; open Oct-Dec, Feb-Jul

KIDD PIVOT • Citadel's Shoctor Theatre • Crystal

BRINSMEAD KENNEDY GALLERY • 10434-

reinterprets Shakespeare's The Tempest • Nov 24, 8pm

THE TEMPEST REPLICA • Citadel’s Shoctor

Theatre, 9828 101A Ave • Based on Shakespeare's The Tempest • Nov 24, 8pm • $35 (general), $20 (students/ seniors)

FILM BOHEMIA • 10217-97 St • Showing Sister Street Fighter • Tue, Nov 20, 7pm (door)

CINEMA AT THE CENTRE • Stanley A. Milner Library Theatre (basement) • Miss Bala Miss Bala (Mexico), 2011, 14A • Wed, Nov 28, 6:30pm

EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY • Royal Alberta Museum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave • $6 (adult)/$5 (senior 65 and over/student)/$3 (child) •

FROM BOOKS TO FILM SERIES • Stanley

A. Milner Library, Main Fl, Audio Visual Rm • 780.944.5383 • The Devil Wears Prada, PG; Nov 23, 2pm • Clueless, 1995, PG; Fri, Nov 30, 2pm

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY •

10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Feature Gallery: PASSAGES: a group exhibition exploring the passage of time; until Dec 24 • DELINEATE: new work by Medicine Hat clay artists Jenn Demke-Lange and Elizabeth Burritt; until Dec 1

ALBERTA RAILWAY MUSEUM • 24215-34 St

• 780.472.6229 • AlbertaRailwayMuseum.com • Open weekends during the summer

ALLIED ARTS COUNCIL OF SPRUCE GROVE • Spruce Grove Art Gallery, 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • THE COLOUR RED: Novelty show put on by the members of the Spruce Grove Art Gallery; until Nov 24

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • BMO Work of Creativity: METHOD AND MADNESS: Family-focused interactive exhibition created by Gabe Wong; until Dec 31 • BEHIND THIS LIES MY TRUE DESIRE FOR YOU: Mark Clintberg; Until Dec 30 • MISLED BY NATURE: CONTEMPORARY ART AND THE BAROQUE: Key artists include David Altmejd, Lee Bul, Bharti Kher, Tricia Middleton, Yinka Shonibare, Sarah Sze; until Jan 6 • BEAUTIFUL MONSTERS: Beasts and Fantastic Creatures in Early European Prints; until Mar 3 • IMPRINT: A selection of printmaking artists, whose work reveals an attention to different print-making technique, as well as an interrelationship; until Jan 6 • EDO: Arts of Japan’s Last Shogun Age: a wide variety of Edo period art forms with focus on prints known as ‘ukiyo-e’; until Feb 10 • PAUL FREEMAN: feature two life-size casts of stags whose antlers seem to have turned against them; until Feb 10 • All Day Sunday: Art activities for all ages 3rd Sun every month, 12-4pm; free with admission • Studio Y Youth Drop-in: Hybrid: Photographic Collage; Thu, Nov 22, 3:30-5:30pm; $10 • Adult Drop-in: Mold: Clay Sculpture; Thu, Nov 22, 7-9pm, $15/$12 (member) • Art for Lunch: Theatre Foyer: Casual and

122 St • Naturally Abstract: artwork by David Blaine, f eaturing abstract images discovered in natural environments • Until Feb 28

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY (Agnes

Bugera Gallery), 12310 Jasper Ave • 780.482.2854 • bugeramathesongallery.com • Leonard Cohen Artworks • Until Dec 1

CAFÉ HAVEN–SHERWOOD PARK • NVSart

is featured • Sep-Jan

CAFÉ PICHILINGUE • 4928-50 Stm Red Deer •

ALBERTA SAMPLER: Works by Harvey Brink • Until Nov 30

COMMON SENSE GALLERY • 10546-115

St • COLORING BOOK: Solo exhibit of sculptures by Walter Early • Nov 30-Dec 15 • Opening reception: Nov 30, 7-11pm, artist in attendance

CROOKED POT GALLERY–STONY PLAIN

• 4912-51 Ave, Stony Plain • 780.963.9573 • CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS: featuring handmade and wheel thrown holiday décor, and handmade tree decorations • Until Dec 28

DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St •

780.760.1278 • daffodilgallery.ca • Igor Postash illustrative drawings • Through Nov

EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ • 9938-70 Ave • Olive Tree

Project, Peg Barcelo-Jackson, Ginette D'Silva, Alice Dolphin, Dara Loewen • Ongoing

FAB GALLERY • Department of Art and Design, U of

A, Rm 1-1 Fine Arts Bldg • 780.492.2081 • TRANSITIONS: Work by Technical Staff from the Department of Art and Design; until Dec 1 • NIKA BLASSER: This exhibition is the final visual presentation for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Drawing & Intermedia • Until Dec 1

FRONT GALLERY • 12312 Jasper Ave • 780.488.2952

each month, 7am • Comics Artist-in-Residence: with Kyle Sams; Every Fri 12-6pm and Sat 12-5pm; until Apr • ThE GILBERT BOUCHARD MEMORIAL ART SHOW–VISIONS OF COMICS; until Nov 23

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-

112 St • Main Gallery: SYDNEY LANCASTER, NESTS: Part of the artist in residence program; until Nov 24 • Front Room Gallery: EVANN SIEBENS & KEITH DOYLE, ICARUSCAR: a screen-based sculptural installation involving the myth of a flying car; until Nov 24

HARRIS-WARKE GALLERY–RED DEER •

Sunworks Home and Garden Store, Ross St, Red Deer • 403.346.8937 • harriswarkegallery.com • CoNNECTING PLACES: Paintings by Galia Kwetny; until Dec 29 • Opening reception/First Friday: Dec 7, 6-8pm

HUB ON ROSS–RED DEER • 4936 Ross St, Red Deer • 403.340.4869 • hubpdd.com • MARKERTOPIA: Artwork by Sheldon Rabbit Wheatley • Until Nov 30

IRENE KLAR STUDIO • 15904-116 Ave •

Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/ art-gallery • BUILDING THE RING ROAD: Photographs

by Sarah Boileau; Nov 3-30 • EDMONTON POTTERS' GUILD: items created by the Edmonton Potters' Guild in the Gallery at Milner display cases; Nov 5-30

GALLERY ON MAIN– LACOMBE • 2nd level, 4910 50 Ave, Lacombe • 403.782.3402 • E: info@thegalleryonmain.com • RURAL TRAVEL: Paintings by Gail Scheuring • Until Dec 7 HAPPY HARBOR COMICS V1 • 10729-104 Ave

• COMIC JAM: Improv comic art making every 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7pm • OPEN DOOR: Collective of independent comic creators meet the 2nd & 4th Thu

Ave • 780.453.9100 • FASHIONING FEATHERS: Dead Birds, Millinery Craft and the Plumage Trade; curated

by Merle Patchett and Liz Gomez, show examines the effect of fashion's demand for beautiful feathers on bird populations at the beginning of the twentieth century; until Jan 6 • THE TSARS' CABINET: Two Hundred Years of Russian Decorative Arts under the Romanovs; until Jan 2

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • 780.488.3619 • Artwork by Wendy Wacko; until Nov 28 SNAP GALLERY • Society Of Northern Alberta

STRATHCONA COUNTY GALLERY@501

Seniors Centre, 10831 University Ave • IN OILS HUMAN EMOTIONS: Works by Neil Neli Farolan; until 28 • OUR WORLD ART SHOW: Works by Joyce Boyer, Dessirrie Plewis, Elaine Tweedy, Sylvia Godina; Nov 29-Dec 19; opening reception: Dec 12, 6:30-8:30pm

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 Public Library • BEYOND THE LOOKING GLASS: artwork by Roberta Murray; until Nov 25

LATITUDE 53 • 10248-106 St • 780.423.5353 •

latitude53.org • The Fine Art of Schmoozy: annual fundraiser; Nov 24

MANDOLIN BOOKS • 6419-112 Ave • nvsart.ca • NVSART: Textured abstract art; Oct-Jan

MARJORIE WOOD GALLERY • Kerry Wood Nature Centre, 6300-45 Ave • OKTOBER: Staff and Volunteers of the Kerry Wood Nature Centre; until Dec 12

MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440112 St • 780.407.7152 • REFUGE: PRINTED IMPRESSIONS: Group exhibition of graduate Printmaking students and staff from the U of A Printmaking Department • Until Jasn 13

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM–ST ALBERT • 5 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1528 • WIND

GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102

JEFF ALLEN GALLERY • Strathcona Place

GALLERIE PAVA • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 •

St. Albert • 780.459.2525 • A RETROSPECIVE: artwork featuring Marolyn Beck (medium of pencil crayon & watercolour); until Nov 26 • EXUBERANCE: Oil paintings

by Gail Seemann; Nov 27-Dec 21

Portraits by Gerry Rasmussen; until Nov 24

Print-Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • THE FORMATION OF THE WORLD: artwork by Fuki Hamada; until Nov 24

MISERICORDIA COMMUNITY HOSPITAL

GALLERY 7 • Bookstore on Perron, 7 Perron St,

QUIRKY ART CAFE • 6535-111 St • Recent

780.732.7848 • ireneklar.com • Open house featuring Irene Klar artwork hand-painted silk scarves, shirts and jackets, posters, etchings, embroidered cushion covers, journals, ornaments and more; Nov 24-Dec 1

• SILENT LAND: Recent Work by Tom Gale; opening reception: Nov 24, 2-4pm • COMMONPLACE BEAUTY: Works by Kari Duke; opening reception: Dec 1, 2-4pm; Dec 6, 5-8pm Artworks by Michel Allen • Until Jan 16

PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES OF ALBERTA • 8555 Roper Rd • 780.427.1750 • provincialarchives. alberta.ca • THE PEOPLE WHO BUILT ALBERTA: A Centennial for Alberta Workers: examining labour’s role in the growth and prosperity of the province • Until Dec 21

• Main Floor halls, 16940-87 Ave • 780.432.6678; wands@web.net • Edmonton Art Club Show and Sale; Dec 8-Jan 26

WORK, WIND PLAY: WEATHERVANES AND WHIRLIGIS: Wind-powered folk art from the collection of the Canadian Museum of Civilization • Until Jan 13

NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Kelsey Stephenson (etchings) • Until Nov 30 NINA HAGGERTY–STOLLERY GALLERY • 9225-118 Ave • 780.474.7611 • ninahaggertyart. ca • BOUND FOR GLORY: Handmade, altered, and transformed books • Until Jan 6

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • WANDERLUST: Artwork by Scott Cumberland; until Dec 4 • RETURN: Artwork by Joseph Hartman; until Dec 4 PROPAGANDA HAIR SALON • 10808-124 St • The Model, the Mystic and the Muscle: 11 new paintings by outro; until Jan 12

Nov 29 -Dec 2, 2012

• 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • PHOTOGRAPHY IN A STATE OF EXCEPTION: Documents of Contemporary War; Nov 2-Dec 21 • The Wordless Book and other deserts; Nov 2-Dec 21

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St

• STAR WARS Identities: The Exhibition: explores the amazing nature of human identity through the magic of the Star Wars universe and its legendary characters; until Apr 1

UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS

• Enterprise Sq, 10230 Jasper Ave • 780.492.5834 • museums.ualberta.ca • PERCEPTIONS OF PROMISE: Biotechnology, Society and Art: challenging viewers to consider the positive and negative possibilities of biotechnology in general and stem cell research in particular; until Jan 5

VAAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St •

780.421.1731 • THINK SMALL: VAA Bay 3rd Annual FUNdraiser/Membership Show: Visual Arts Alberta membership show and sale • Until Nov 24

VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St. Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa.ca • WILD ALBERTA: painters take a closer look at Alberta’s wild wonders, from the smallest insects to the vast Rockies • Until Dec 1

VELVET OLIVE LOUNGE • 4924-50 St, Red

Deer • Artwork by Erin Boake • Until Nov 30

WEST END GALLERY • 12308 Jasper Ave • 780.488.4892 • W.H. Webb • Until Nov 29

WHETSTONE POTTERY GUILD • Bellevue Community Hall, 7308-112 Ave • Christmas Show and Sale • Sat, Nov 24, 9:30am-3pm

LITERARY ARTERY • 9535 Jasper Ave • 780.441.6966 • Literary Saloon: reading series the 2nd Thu every month; Oct-May, 7pm (door)

AUDREY'S • 10702 Jasper Ave • 780.423.3487 • audreys. ca • 780.422.8174 • E: nquiring@writersguild.ab.ca • A Gathering of the Writers-in-Residence with Pierrette Requier, Marina Endicott, Jocelyn Brown, and Lynn Coady; an opportunity to meet some of the authors in residence, hear a sampling of their work, learn how to access the various programs running in the city and • Nov 22, 7-9pm • Free (WGA members), $5 donation (non- members) CANADIAN AUTHORS ASSOCIATION • Campus Saint-Jean, Pavillon Lacerte, Rm 3-04, 8406 Marie-Ann-Gaboury St (91 St) • canauthorsalberta.ca • Fri Evening Presentations: 8 pm, Free (members, first time guests), $10 (returning guests) • Sat workshops: 9:30am-4pm; $40 (member), $70 (non-member); lunch included • Kathy Jessup presents: Taking Control Preparing for a Successful Presentation and Soup to Nuts – A Performance Workshop; Nov 23-24 CARROT COMMUNITY ARTS COFFEEHOUSE • 9351-118 Ave • vzenari@gmail.com • Prose Creative Writing Group • Every Tue, 7-9pm

HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB • 15120 Stony Plain Rd •

6.0: HOW HEAP AND PEBBLE TOOK ON THE WORLD AND WON • TransAlta

Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave • By the Northern Light Theatre. It's been five years since Heap Cruziack and Pebble Adverati last laced up their skates and ice-danced competitively. But now, in spite of the extinction of ice-rinks due to global warming, the world champions are intent on a glorious comeback • Until Nov 24 • $27 (opening night), $25 (adult); $20 (student, senior), $15 (preview - free for students), Tue evening is Pay What You Will at the door

ATTEMPTS ON HER LIFE • Theatre Lab, Grant MacEwan University, Centre for the Arts Campus, 1st Fl, 10045-156 St • A roller-coaster of late 20th-century obsessions • Nov 28-Dec 2, 7:30pm (2pm matinee) • $11 (adults), $9 (students & seniors, 55+) BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO

BY RAJIV JOSEPH • Timms Centre, 112 St-87 Ave, University of Alberta • The lives of two American Marines and an Iraqi translator are entangled forever by an encounter with a foul-mouthed tiger that haunts the streets of war-torn Baghdad, searching for meaning, forgiveness, redemption and a bloody meal • Nov 28 (preview), Nov 29-Dec 8 (no show on Sun) CHIMPROV • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101 A Ave •

Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • First three Sat every month, 10pm, until Jul • $12 (door or buy in adv at Tix on the Square)

DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave •

780.433.3399 • The live improvised soap opera • Every Mon, until May, 7:30pm (subject to change) • Tickets at the box office

DISNEY’S ALADDIN JR. • Horizon Stage, 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce Grove • 780.962.8995 • A stage adaptation of the Disney hit film • Nov 28-30, 7:30pm; Dec 1, 2pm, 7:30pm • $22 (adults), $17 (students/ seniors) GET REAL • Roxy Theatre, 10708-124 St •

780.453.2440 • Presented by Big Tree Productions. By Toby Berner, Chris Craddock and Bradley Moss. Get Real starts with an audience member, an interview, an examination of change in the interviewee’s life – emotional, work, spiritual. Resulting in a long-form narrative improv that’s hilarious, touching and real • Sat, Nov 24, 8pm

JACK GOES BOATING • Varscona Theatre,

10329-83 Ave • Four likably adrift New York misfits desperately seek companionship and a romantic anchorage • Nov 7-Nov 25, 7:30pm (2pm matinees)

LEGALLY BLONDE • Arden Theatre • Sorority

star Elle Woods doesn't take no for an answer.

So when her boyfriend dumps her for someone "serious", Elle puts down the credit card, hits the books, and sets out to go where no Delta Nu has gone before: Harvard Law. Life on the east coast, is not what she expected and along the way Elle is forced to face some tough realities and learns there is more to her than meets the eye. Making new friends and establishing confidence as a budding lawyer Elle defies expectations yet stays true to her new self • Nov 22-Dec 2

THE LIST • Westbury Theatre, TransAlta Arts Barns, 10330 - 84 Ave • A woman who is a compulsive list-maker, reconstructs the events leading up to neighbours death • Nov 29-Dec 9 • $27 (adult); $20 (student/senior/artist); $15 (child under 18);Saturday matinees are Pay What You Will at the door OH SUSANNA! • Varscona Theatre • 10329-83 Ave • 780.433.3399 • The Euro-style variety spectacle with Susanna Patchouli and her divine co-host Eros, God of Love! Laughs! Music! Cocktails! • Runs the last Sat each month, until Jul, 11pm (subject to occasional change) THE OTHER SIDE OF THE POLE • King’s University College Theatre, 9125-50 St • 780.465.8306 • Presented by King’s Drama students. By Stephen Heatley with music by Edward Connell. Musical theatre story for all ages transforms folklore about Christmas into a moving story of restored relationships in family, community and workplace • Nov 22-24, 7:30pm • $15 (adults)/$10 (student/senior) at King’s Bookstore, door PRAIRIE BOWL THEATRESPORTS TOURNAMENT • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101

Shaw Conference Centre

780.915.8869 • Edmonton Story Slam: writers share their original, 5-minute stories; followed by a music jam • 3rd Wed every month, 7pm (sign-up); 7:30pm (show) • $5

GENERAL ADMISSION

RIVERDALE • 9917-87 St • Creative Word Jam • Every 3rd Sun of the month, 6-10pm • facebook.com/ group.php?gid=264777964410 E: creative.word.jam@ gmail.com

A Ave • Five of the fiercest improv teams from across Western Canada to battle it out for the title of best in the badlands. Featuring Outside Joke from Winnipeg, Loose Moose from Calgary, The Improv Guild from Calgary, Against the Wall from Red Deer and hometown heroes, Rapid Fire Theatre from Edmonton • Nov 30-Dec 2 • $12 at TIX on the Square

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900 •

PUSHED

Tickets for the Festival are available at the door

Adults Seniors (65+) Youth (13-17) Children (3-12) Infants Age (0-2)

$7 $3 $3 $2 Free

Groups of 10 or more should book in advance - please contact: GroupBookings@FestivalOfTrees.ab.ca FESTIVAL OF TREES 2012 PRESENTING SPONSOR

Poetry every Tue with Edmonton's local poets

T.A.L.E.S. STORY CAFÉ SERIES • Rosie’s

Bar, 10475-80 Ave • 780.932.4409 • talesstorytelling. com • 1st Thu each month; Sep-Jun

T.A.L.E.S.–STRATHCONA • New Strath-

cona Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.400.3547 • Monthly Tellaround: 4th Wed each month 7pm • Free

• Varscona Theatre, 10329 83 Ave • 780.433.3399 • By Jessica Peverett, presented

by Cold.dead.fish Theatre. Kate and Amelia meet in Lamaze class and strike up an unlikely friendship. As the evening progresses they bond over the high and lows of pregnancy and eventually get pushed to the limits of what they're willing to do to get what they want. Directed by Murray Utas, featuring Mary Hulbert, Jessica Peverett • Nov 28-Dec 2, 7:30pm; Dec 1-2, 2pm • $10 (Wed preview)/$15 (student/ senior)/$18 (adult)

T.A.L.E.S. TELLAROUND • Bogani Café, 2023111 St • Come to share a story, or to listen; hosted by Dawn Blue; 7-9pm; free; 2nd Wed each month

THEATRESPORTS • Citadel Theatre, 9828 - 101

UPPER CRUST CAFÉ • 10909-86 Ave •

NCIS • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, 2690, 8882-170

780.422.8174 • strollofpoets.com • The Poets’ Haven Weekly Reading Series: every Mon, 7pm; Presented by the Stroll of Poets Society • Nov 26 • $5

WUNDERBAR ON WHYTE • 8120-101 St •

780.436.2286 • The poets of Nothing, For Now: poetry workshop and jam every Sun • No minors

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A Ave • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm

St (WEM) • 780.484.2424 • Dr. Ducky and his colleague from Los Angeles, Hetty, are off to Canada to attend a conference with the Royal Canadian Navy investigative Services, where they run into trouble.

Ducky is accused of committing murder and has been given until the end of the conference to prove his innocence • Until Jan 26

DISH

Find a restaurant

Ditch the can Chef-inspired soup to get through the winter

ONLINE AT DISHWEEKLY.CA The chilly, not to mention long, winter months are a point of contention for many, but they are also the ideal time to dig into a piping hot bowl of soup.

Instead of reaching for the can opener, give your kitchen skills some credit and try one of these tasty recipes recommended by some of the city's top soup chefs. One recipe is more difficult, while the other is simple enough for even first-time soup makers.

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Carla Alexander MRKT Wild salmon tomato cream with jalapeño (Simple) This is a delicious, warming, spiced soup that uses Indian flavours and is perfect for the colder months. The masala, which is usually a combo of peppercorns, cloves, cinnamon, cumin and coriander ground and toasted, has ingredients in common with a lot of seasonal winter items such as French Canadian tourtiere, figgy pudding and eggnog. This soup is easy to make, and will be a sure hit at any potluck or family gathering.

Start with:

3 tbsp butter 1 cup cubed celery 1 cup cubed carrots 1 cup cubed onion 3 tsp dry oregano 3 tsp dry thyme 2 bay leaves 1 tbsp minced garlic 2 tbsp finely chopped jalapeños 1) Sauté until vegetables are soft, then add one cup of channa/chickpea flour. Turn

Cozido (More difficult)

off heat and thoroughly mix channa flour with other ingredients.Stir in two cans of stewed tomatoes. Add 3 tbsp of tomato paste.

2) Using a whisk, pour two litres of vegetable stock into a pot, making sure there are no channa flour clumps.

Let boil until channa flour is not noticeable (you will see little brown bubbles on top of the soup as it's boiling).

Let simmer on low heat for

15 minutes. Add sea salt and pepper to taste. Add 3 tbsp brown sugar.

3) Let this soup stand in the fridge overnight. The next day, reheat and thicken with half a cup of cornstarch mixture. Pour the hot broth over two cups of raw, cubed wild salmon, allowing the broth to cook the fish.

Add one and a half cups of whipping cream. Adjust seasoning to taste and enjoy.

This particular soup is derived from Brazil and is actually a brothy meat stew.

It is an extremely flavourful soup for meat lovers. I use Pembina double smoked bacon, Spring Creek beef brisket and Pembina spicy andouille sausage. Any mixture of meat will make a great Cozido.

Serves six to eight people.

In a medium-to-large pot, begin with:

3 tbsp bacon fat (remember, fat is flavour) 1 cup cubed celery 1 cup cubed onion 1 cup cubed carrot 1 cup sliced okra 1 head of green cabbage (sliced or rough chopped in cubes) 2 bay leaves 2 tbsp minced garlic 1 tbsp cumin (powder) 2 tsp smoked paprika 2 tsp hot paprika 1 tbsp dry thyme 2 tsp dry chili flakes 1) Allow these ingredients to be sautéed together on medium heat until your carrots are no longer crunchy. Okra is a vegetable

used in many ethnic dished and will naturally thicken your soup broth with time. If you rush this procedure, your vegetables will be crunchy, the okra will have a slimy texture and these flavours will not have time to "marry" and give each other flavour.

Stir occasionally to avoid ingredients burning or sticking to the pot.

2) Next, add: 1 cubed sweet potato (we add this vegetable now because it cooks faster than the rest and we want it to have texture and not be mushy.)

2 cans of baby corn—leave whole (optional) 2 cups of pork broth 2 – 3 cups of beef or chicken broth. (Note: I use what's on-

hand. The point of this soup is to have a rich meatiness.)

3 tbsp of sherry vinegar 3 tbsp brown sugar 3) Let boil for 15 minutes, season with sea salt and cracked black pepper and let simmer for 20 minutes. Put this meaty, brothy concoction in your fridge over night so all the flavours can combine. This soup can be eaten the same day it's prepared, but I assure you, it will always taste better tomorrow.

4) Finally, add: cubed smoked bacon, chopped braised beef brisket and chopped andouille sausage.

Taste again for seasoning and enjoy.

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High Level Diner

Roasted Parsnip Puree (Difficult) Ingredients:

1 1/2 lb fresh parsnips (peeled, 1/2 inch dice) 2 tbsp grapeseed oil 3 large cloves fresh garlic 2 tbsp butter 1 medium onion (julienne) 1 litre milk or cream 1 1/2 tsp sea salt 1/2 tsp fresh ground pepper 1/8 tsp fresh ground nutmeg 6 tbsp grated fresh Parmesan cheese 1) Preheat oven to 400 F. Peel and dice parsnips into 1/2 inch cubes, peel whole garlic cloves and toss in 1 tbsp of the grapeseed oil until everything is evenly coated. Bake in preheated oven for 20 – 30 minutes until soft and golden brown.

2) While parsnips are baking, julienne onions into 1/4 inch strips. Heat a heavy bottomed soup pot on medium-high with remaining grapeseed oil and butter.

Once oil is shimmering, add onions, stir until evenly covered in oil.

After a minute or two the onions will start to stick to the bottom of the pan and get darker in colour.

As the onions brown, continue stirring every couple of minutes, depending on your stove, you may want to lower your heat in order to avoid burning them.

3) Once they are a deep brown, after 15 – 25 minutes, your roasted parsnips should be ready.

Add milk or cream to the onions and continue to heat on mediumhigh setting. Add parsnips, salt, pepper and nutmeg to the pot and bring back to a simmer for a few

Debbie Parker minutes. Using a hand blender, puree until no more whole pieces of onion or parsnip remain.

4) Serve topped with fresh grated Parmesan cheese. For a dairy-free version, substitute soy milk or rice milk and use oil only for the cooking process.

Note: Try to keep vegetables a uniform size in order to have them cook evenly. When caramelizing onions, add a pinch of salt and sugar to the onions after the first few minutes to help draw out the remaining water and speed up the caramelizing process. If onions get too dry, you can always add a little bit of water (or white wine) to deglaze your pan and keep onions from burning.

Adam Stoyko Vegan Chickpea Coconut Masala Tomato Soup (Simple)

Ingredients: 1 small onion, medium dice (1/2-inch cubes) 75 ml canola oil 2 tbsp Garam Masala 1 tbsp crushed chili flakes 1 tsp coriander powder 1/2 tsp turmeric 400 ml canned diced tomatoes 400 ml canned crushed tomatoes 400 ml coconut milk 400 ml canned chick peas 1/4 cup dried fenugreek leaves 10 cardamom pods 1/4 cup raw sugar Salt to taste Mise en Place: 1 saucepot 1 wooden spoon 2 small bowls 1 large bowl Measuring spoons Measuring cup Knife 1) Dice onion, set aside in small bowl.

Measure out first four spices into separate small bowl.

Combine the rest of the ingredients in the large bowl. Now you're ready to start cooking.

2) Heat oil in saucepot over medium heat, add onion and sauté stirring frequently for 15 – 20 minutes, until onion reaches dark brown colour and crisp texture. Add spice mix and sauté, stirring frequently for 30 seconds to one minute.

Add large bowl of the rest of ingredients and bring to a simmer stirring often. Season to taste with salt and simmer for minimum of five minutes.

Notes from the chef: The mise en place is important because the onions tend to start browning very quickly just towards the end of their time sautéing, and will burn if the next steps of the process do not happen quickly. Timing is key, but other than that, this is a very easy recipe with minimal prep. Don't worry, even if you burnt your onions, the soup will still be just fine because the sweetness from the sugar and tomatoes will combat the bitterness. If you're clueless about the amount of salt to add, I suggest anywhere from a teaspoon to a tablespoon depending on taste and diet.

Have fun and keep cooking!

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Elm Cafe Roast Parsnip and Rosemary

Chael MacDonald (Difficult)

This is a great winter soup with an edge of refinement that will fit in nicely to a formal dinner if that's your thing. In order to execute it properly, you will need a really good blender. I'm not talking about a magic bullet. A Vitamix or similar, is a good investment as it's a solid piece of equipment that you will have in your toolshed for a long time. I use mine every day.

1) I like to start most soups with a lot of onions. It's a good way to build up a solid flavour base without obscuring the flavour of our feature ingredient.

Thinly slice the onions.

Melt the butter in a large pot (at least 6L) on the

stove. Add the onions, 50g of the salt, pepper and bay leaves to the pot.

2) Cook on medium-high until the onions wilt and start to release their liquid, then turn down the heat to medium-low and slowly cook the onions, stirring about every five minutes.

If you notice that the onions are starting to stick to the bottom of the pot or burn, reduce the heat further. Cook the onions until they start to turn a delicious-looking brown colour.

3) While the onions are getting delicious, preheat your oven to 375 F. Peel and dice the parsnips.

Toss the parsnips in the vegetable oil and the remaining salt and roast them in the oven until the edges get brown and crispy.

It should be somewhere around 25 – 35 minutes.

4) I usually have a few heads of roasted garlic kicking around in the fridge for occasions such as parsnip soup. If your supplies are depleted, you can roast the garlic at the same time as the parsnips.

Cut the head in half horizontally, and toss it in a little oil, salt and pepper.

Put the two halves back together and wrap them in foil. It might take a little longer than the parsnips, but you want to get it to a nice golden brown.

If you've never roasted garlic before, I'm sure Martha Stewart has a well researched method.

5) Let everything simmer together for a good half hour until everything is soft. Remove from heat and blend at high speed in batches that fill your blender about 3/4 full.

Be careful when starting the blender. Start it on a lower speed and then ramp up to high. This way you won't wind up in Emergency while someone else is wiping the soup off your ceiling. To be clear, blending hot soup can be dangerous—take care. Blend each batch on high for at least a minute, until it is silky smooth.

6) Once blended, adjust the seasoning with a bit of vinegar and honey. Serve with a drizzle of sweet cream or olive oil.

Tomato and Star Anise (Simple)

The star anise in this recipe really helps to deepen the flavour of the tomatoes and onions, accentuating the umami in both and lending a nice hint of winter spice.

3 medium yellow onions 110 g unsalted butter 75 g Kosher salt 3 g black pepper, fresh cracked 1.5 kg canned tomatoes 4 whole pieces of star anise 50 g brown sugar 3 L water 500 ml heavy cream Fresh basil for garnish 1) Start by dicing the onions fairly small. We won't be blending this soup, so you don't want the onions to be too big to start out with.

2) Sweat the onions in a large pot with the butter, salt, pepper and star anise. You want to cook the onions on medium low until they start to caramelize. Stir every once in a while to keep them from sticking and burning.

3) Empty the canned tomatoes into a mixing bowl and crush them up with your hands or a potato masher until they are quite smashed but still a little chunky. A hand blender speeds this process up greatly if you have access to one.

3) Once the onions

are nice and brown and delicious, add the tomatoes and the brown sugar to the pot, along with the water. Bring everything to a simmer, and reduce the heat to low. Throw a lid on the pot and let everything cook for about an hour, or until you forget about it, and then abruptly remember. Take out the star anise pods and finally stir in the cream.

4) The soup should be fairly brothy, but rich in texture. Garnish with torn basil leaves and serve with a dynamite grilled cheese sandwich.

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Phở destinations for carnivores, vegetarians and vegans

MIREPOIX - a traditional French culinary combination of onion, carrots and celery aromatics.

To me, Mirepoix is the foundation to all great cooking. These simple vegetables are where flavor begins, whether it’s a rich demi-glace at your favorite restaurant, your mother’s comfortable pot roast or that soul-warming pea soup that you just polished off.

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ed an array of delicious soups to the ethnic smorgasbord available to dinersout in Edmonton. But as much as I enjoy Chinese hot and sour and wor wonton, fiery Thai tom yum, and Korea's brimming table-top hot pots, there's none I love that's Vietnamese beef noodle soup to so well, nor seek out so regularly, as phở — me and you. (Incidentally, it's pronounced "fuh," not "foe." Feel free to insert your jokes about the Phở King restaurant on 118 Avenue here.)

I've spent the better part of a decade trying to parse the almost alchemical per to say nothing of its restorative qualities—but to little avail. fection of phở — It's simple enough to identify the components: seasoned beef broth, supple rice noodles, various cuts and grades of beef, crisp bean sprouts and a profusion of fresh herbs and side-seasonings that let you fine-tune the taste to your liking— but another thing entirely to describe how they work together in such glorious harmony, and yet another thing to nail down what makes one phở superior to another. But, indeed, not all phở is created equal.

The great thing is that Edmonton provides no shortage of opportunities to sample widely in pursuit of one's own ideal phở . In addition to the high concentration

of authentic noodle houses in Chinatown, there are Vietnamese gems scattered across the city map, often nestled inconspicuously in the nooks and crannies of the city's strip malls—places like Phở & Bún in Forest Heights, Phở Hoan Pasteur and Nha Trang in Kingsway, and my favourite of them all, Thài Bính in Queen Mary Park.

There's a truism in the world of goods and services that you must pick which two of three parameters you want—good, fast or cheap—because getting all three is impossible. The family-run Thài Bính (11220 - 109 Ave, 780.944.9496) puts the lie to that adage by providing quick service of an affordable product that's way better than good. The one parameter they may fall short on is convenience—it's a cash-only operation that's only open 11 am – 4 pm on weekdays and isn't open on Wednesdays, which makes weekends the easiest time to visit.

But man, a little inconvenience is worth it. Their phở (or its spicier, porkier cousin, bún bò Hu ) comes in two satisfying sizes ($7 regular, $8 large), with the expected selection of meats for inclusion your bowl, ranging from lean steak (which is dropped into the soup raw and cooked by the steaming broth) to fattier brisket ("the bacon of beef") to more suspect items like tripe and the enigmatic beef ball.

But, as I've suggested, meat is only part of the equation. Thài Bính's broth exemplifies the irreducible complexity of phở —the perfectly integrated aromas of cinnamon, star anise, lemongrass, charred onion and who knows what else. Each bowl contains ample skeins of chewy rice noodles for heft.

Then there's the liberal application of green onion and fresh cilantro to each serving, and the provision of heaps of sprouts, copious fresh basil and a lemon wedge on the side to add your discretion—the lack of such flourishes is a typical and tell-tale sign of sub-par phở . Livid red hot sauce (sriracha) and sweet, savoury hoisin are the finishing touches, also on an as-you-like-it basis.

By way of contrast, I decided to visit Veggie Garden (10582 - 100 St, 780.757.9060), Edmonton's one and only vegetarian Vietnamese restaurant, to see how their meatless variations on phở would fare. It also gave me a chance to indulge in their delicious and affordable green cilantro cakes ($3.99) and crispy & salty fried shiitake ($4.99), which is so tasty it should be made an honorary meat.

H u tíu chay ($6.99), their vegan phở variant, features fried tofu puffs, veggie "ham" and "chicken" slices, broccoli and carrots in a mushroom broth—oddly, no bean sprouts or basil were provided on the side. As with many vegetarian versions of traditionally meaty meals, it suffered slightly in comparison, but was tasty and filling enough on its own CONTINUED ON PAGE 25 >>

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BEER

Waiter, there's beer in my soup Soup and beer pairings for a blustery winter's day All this snow! All this damned cold weather! Clearly winter has once again returned to E-town. It all makes me want to go home, sit by the fire, eat a hearty bowl of hot soup, sip a glass of delicious ale and forget all that blizzard business.

You read that right. Soup and beer. Why not? Regular readers of Vue will know that I contend beer to be a highly versatile beverage for pairing with food. While not as well-known as wine as an accompaniment, beer's wider array of flavours and aromas actually—in my opinion —make it easier than wine to pair with dishes, even soup. Face it, all the ingredients that go into soup have been ably paired with beer on their own—so why not when in the form of liquid warming?

Let me give you a few examples to demonstrate my point. Take a hearty beef soup, chock-full of fall vegetables and a thick broth. Give me a robust, roasty stout with it any day. A glass of St Ambroise Oatmeal Stout or Yukon Midnight Sun Espresso Stout brings out the richness of the soup but then accents with a dark coffee roast—sharpening the overall taste of the soup. For particularly special moments, the oak-aged Ola Dubh, which brings the stout but adds some vanilla, rich woodiness and warming scotch spirits to add complexity.

Even our old friend chicken noodle soup can be improved with a side of a pint of beer. A Howe Sound Rail Nut Brown Ale, or maybe Alley Kat Amber would add a bit of nuttiness to the palate, and compli-

ment with some light caramel and toffee sweetness. Again, the combination adds another layer to the eating experience.

If you are wolfing down a spicy Thai soup, you want to cut that intensity with a crispy pilsner—kept properly cold to keep your tongue from burning. The most recent Big Rock seasonal, Saaz Republic Pilsner, might be a good choice. As would Czechvar, the Czech beer that was the original Budweiser (before the Americans stole the name and watered down the beer).

Tomato-based soups, such as minestrone or creamed tomato, take a bit more care to match. The acidity of the tomato takes some navigation. A German hefeweizen, with its earthy fruitiness, might counter the tomato well. Any of the classic German hefes will work—Paulaner, Hacker-Pschorr, etc—but the Weihenstephaner with its perfect balance of clove and banana, might be best.

You may have noticed that I haven't mentioned anything about creamy soups or cheese soups.

That's because I think those soups shouldn't just be matched with beer—they should be made with beer. It can be divine.

I think the best tasting soup I ever slurped was at a beer dinner at the Manor Bistro a couple of days ago to honour a craft-beer legend, Charles Finkel, owner of Pike Brewing. It was an English Stilton cheese soup topped

with a curls of roasted parsnip, both made with and paired by Pike's Naughty Nellie Golden Ale. The soup was sublime, offering a sharp earthy cheese character accented by crisp, sweet parsnip. The Naughty Nellie, both in and with the soup, added a bit of light fruitiness and increased the sharpness.

Any cheese appropriate for soup— cheddar, gouda, swiss, you name it—will fit a beer quite nicely. I am also starting to believe that almost any beer can work in cheese soup. I have had cheese soup with brown ales, stouts, amber lagers and even Belgian Trappists. As long as the base cheese-beer pairing is appropriate, the beer will work nicely as an ingredient.

Other soups could also benefit from a spiking of beer. Onion soup jumps out of the bowl if you add a darker ale to it, like a brown ale or a porter. An Innis & Gunn might also add some interesting features.

And that stout you are sipping with the hearty beef soup mentioned earlier?

Next time toss a bottle of it into the soup while cooking and find that it draws out the richness and earthiness even more.

I won't even mention what beer can do for stews, chilis and goulashes (which are really just very chunky soups after all).

So the next time a big snowstorm hits, call in sick for work, cook up a big pot of your favourite soup, crack open the appropriate beer and sit by the window watching all those poor souls who have to brave the icy roads and frigid temperatures. V

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terms, even if the tofu puffs seemed a bit anomalous in soup. For people like my co-diner—a relatively recent convert to vegetarianism who sometimes pines for the fleshy pleasures of a vermicelli bowl—Veggie Garden is a guilt-

less godsend. Even better, they're open seven days a week and the tirelessly chipper owner is friendly and welcoming as can be.

While I'm more than happy to endorse Thài Bính and Veggie Garden as worthy recipients of your soup-buying dollar, I

really want to encourage everyone to seek out the hidden Vietnamese gem in their neighbourhood and support the hell out of it. And then, of course, tell me all about it.

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s a kid, winter was the best. Weekends were spent jumping around in colourful one-piece snowsuits that protected you from the shocking sensation of icy crystals creeping down the back of your pants.

Recess was spent in the school yard making snow angels and snowmen. And afternoons, once out of the teachers' sight, were spent battling in massive snowball fights.

The neighbourhood kids would gather around, pick teams, make snowballs and then run around dodging, jumping, hiding, sliding, throwing and, of course, dinging each other with perfectly-packed ammo.

Ah! childhood ...

But wait!

Before you get too nostalgic, what if I told you there are now competitive adult snowball fights happening around the world? Would you once again don your one-piece snowsuit and run around slinging snowballs at your pals?

If you’re 18 years of age or older, you can do just that this weekend at the Yukigassen Canada National Championships in Jasper.

Yukigassen, which translates to snow battle, is a sport that was created in Japan during the late '80s, and is now so popular that tournaments can attract up to 28 000 spectators.

The sport is like a cross between dodge-

ball and capture the flag. Two teams of seven, all geared-up in CSA approved hockey helmets, face-off on a 40-metrelong court and attempt to either capture the opposing team’s flag or eliminate its team members by hitting them with snowballs.

On the court are three shelters per team and one shared shelter on the centre line, allowing team members a place to hide and catch their breath.

The match is broken up into three three-minute periods. In each period, both teams get 90 snowballs, for a total of 270 snowballs per team, per match.

It's not a free-for-all, though. There are rules and regulations.

"If you're a forward and you step over the wrong line, or if you're a defence and you step over the wrong line, then you can be out pretty quickly, without even seeing a snowball," says Carrie Ferguson, executive director of Yukigassen Canada. "So, if you don't read through the rules ahead of time, you will be in for some disappointment, I would say."

Edmonton's Matt Smith, captain of the Ball Fondlers, who won the Canadian Rockies Snow Battle in January, agrees.

He says January's event was a walk in the park for his team, who had previously played in the 2011 national championships at Fort Edmonton Park.

"We didn't lose a single round or game in Jasper, so we felt we had a pretty good advantage over the teams," he says, noting that most of his competitors came to the tournament completely green.

"Hopefully this year we have some good competition. It's always fun to play when you're striving for the win instead

of just doing the walk through."

Either way, though, Smith says his team has its sights set on victory, not only to take the title, but also to qualify for the 25th world championships in Japan.

To take the win, the Ball Fondlers will first have to beat-out Canada's reigning champions: the Grizzlies from Saskatoon.

To ensure the victory, Smith has set up a regulation-sized court on his acreage, so he and his mates can practise up.

"We made barriers out of plywood and painted them white instead of the standard snow barriers, because then we don't have to build them every year. So now we can run plays and get the feel for it again."

Although Smith admits he and his team are fairly competitive and are likely the only ones with a Yukigassen court of their own, he said it's all in good fun.

"Like, if a guy gets hurt playing us, we'll take him out for a beer after," he says, noting that there is potential for minor injuries, especially bruises.

To avoid some of those gut-wrenching injuries, Ferguson has some advice for the men.

"For the gentlemen ball throwers, if there are any sensitive areas they don't want to get hit by a snowball, they might want to plan accordingly. That's my PC way of saying, 'Wear a cup.'"

She also advises that teams wear white, as it's harder to see on the court, and she suggests that everyone prepare themselves for some good ol' fashioned ball jokes.

"Because it's snowballs, you can't take it that seriously. There are ridiculous ball jokes and team names. It's just a lot of fun."

To learn more about the championships, visit canadianrockiessnowbattle.ca or yukigassencanada.com.

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The rules of Yukigassen

For nine minutes, feel like a kid again, while throwing 270 snowballs and attempting to capture the opposing team's flag. // Robson Fletcher

Winning a match:

Winning a period:

Get off the court!

You're in!

There are three three-minute periods in a Yukigassen match. Within those three periods, there are numerous ways to win the battle.

• If a team wins the first two periods of a match, it is declared the winner.

• If each team wins a period, then it is the winner of the third period that takes the match.

• If the third period comes out in a tie and each team has won a period, all of the period points are tallied up and the team with the most points wins.

• If the match is still tied after tallying the points, the winning team will be decided in a shoot-out (or “victory throw”).

In a game of Yukigassen the following players are called out: • A player who is hit by a snowball.

• A player whose foot crossed an end line or sideline.

• A player who is a forward whose foot crosses his own team’s blue line.

• A player who makes an illegal snowball.

• A player who hides or carries a snowball inside his or her clothing or pinny.

• When two players hit each other simultaneously they are both considered out.

• A team wins a period by a score of 10-0 when one of its athletes captures the other team’s flag.

(If a flag is pulled just as the period’s ending whistle sounds, it is not considered captured.)

• A team wins a period by a score of 10-0 when it has eliminated all of the opposing team’s athletes.

• A team wins a period if it has more active players on the court than the opposing team when the ending whistle blows. Each team will receive one point for each active player.

• If both teams have the same number of active athletes on the court when the time expires, the period is declared a draw and each team is awarded one point per active athlete.

Under the following circumstances a player is NOT considered out: • When a player is struck by a crumbled snowball.

• When a player is struck by a snowball that has rebounded off of something first (another player, the ground, a flag, a shelter, a chateau, etc).

• When a player is struck by a snowball from an “outed” player, or a snowball that came from outside of the court.

• When a player is struck just as a period’s ending whistle is blown.

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Helmet use increasing among Canadian skiers and boarders

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someone not wearing a helmet.'"

Arkeveld says protective headgear, although not the be-all and endall of ski hill safety, is important in protecting skiers and boarders from major injuries.

"Just as we say, 'Stay in control.

Look for people ahead of you. Don't ski where you shouldn't be,' all those general rules that we have in the responsibility code, we think that a helmet just fits into that as one of those guidelines," Arkeveld notes. "It just helps to reduce the risk or possibility of injury."

According to the Canadian Paediatric Society—an organization calling for legislation making helmets mandatory on ski hills—a helmet can protect against neck trauma and sprains and fractures to the head.

Nova Scotia is the only province to legislate helmet use. That legislation came into effect November 1.

David Wilson, Nova Scotia's minister of health and wellness, told Vue last week that initially he hummed and hawed over the new legislation, thinking people should have the right to choose, but then he looked at the facts.

"There had been 11 serious head injuries [in Nova Scotia] between 2000 and 2011 related to skiing and snowboarding, and all of them had no helmets. So, we recognized there was an issue in our province over about a decade," he says.

The cost of those injuries to both the families and the health care system were enough for Wilson to support the legislation, he says, noting that it generally costs the province about $400 000 at the point of injury and then about the same amount each year to care for those injured individuals.

"So we thought it was time to bring in mandatory helmets," he says, adding that those caught without one now face a $250 fine. "We're trying to be progressive when we bring public policy forward and I think something like this just makes common sense."

Wilson says he encourages all of Canada's health and wellness ministers to consider legislation similar to Nova Scotia's, but Alberta's minister says that's not likely to happen here.

"There are no plans to bring this legislation into place at this time," Fred Horne, minister of health and wellness, writes in an email. "We support the use of education and voluntary helmet use as the means of increasing the rate of helmet use."

Arkeveld adds he and the ski council agree with Alberta's approach.

"Our concern with legislation," he says, "is that it's fixing a problem we don't really think exists at the moment. People are already making the decision on their own to wear helmets. So I just think [legislation] is unnecessary."

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en years ago, you'd only see kids donning helmets on ski hills, but these days, you're easily the odd one out if you hit the slopes without one.

It's unknown what caused the insurgence of protective headgear in the last decade, but there is plenty of speculation.

Some say it was the stories of highprofile people injured or killed in ski accidents, like British actress Natasha Richardson, who died after sustaining a head injury while skiing at Quebec's Mont Tremblant in 2009, or Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke who died last January following an accident during a training exercise in Utah.

Others chalk it up to advancing technology, with helmets becoming warmer and more comfortable. And others still, like Patrick Arkeveld, president and CEO of the Canadian Ski Council, say increased helmet use is the result of education.

"The ski areas and the different operator associations are doing such a good job of getting that message out there, that the industry seems to be addressing the issue through education," he says.

Survey results released by the ski council in February showed that 83.1 percent of Canadian skiers and boarders on the slopes wear a helmet on a regular basis.

That was compared to 79.9 percent in December of 2011 and 65 percent back in 2006.

Youth 14 years of age and under are the most likely to wear helmets, with 95.5 percent sporting headgear on the mountain.

"Through education alone, those numbers keep going up substantially every year, to the point where we're almost at everybody wearing helmets," Arkeveld says. "We're convinced that we'll look at this in a couple years and go, 'I don't remember the last time I saw

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s its title and cover—a car splitting into triple-vision on the open highway—imply, Measures of Progress is an album that finds its band, Wool on Wolves, embarking on a creative shift.

The five-piece is plugging in and stretching out, letting its folk roots dig past the genre's borders to bring back whatever inspiration sticks.

"There's significantly more instrumentation on this record, but we also left an awful lot on the cutting room floor," begins vocalist Thomas Reikie, speaking from the road, having just set out to tour the record (the van's past Leduc but not yet at Ponoka, heading west). Reikie says that the writing period for Measures— a followup to 2010's Grey Matter—spanned a year of dabbling in ideas and sounds, and then finding ways to fold those into the band's existing foundation.

"A lot of the thematic elements for the record came with this idea of understanding where we're coming from, the last record be-

ing kind of a folk-rock record. We didn't want to completely fluff off the folk-rock genre, because we love it," he says. "It's a big part of who we are. But at the same time, we wanted to grow, and we wanted to develop as songwriters and as musicians."

Part of the reason for the lengthy creative duration was the band's equal-say, try-everythingonce approach: if anyone had an idea within the band, or if producer Paul Arnusch or engineer Nik Kozub tossed something out there, the group would act on it en masse, try to flesh it out together, and ultimately decide together to keep or discard it. Reikie compares it to a group of painters working on one canvas: no idea was left untested, but they couldn't be precious with them either.

"It really took a bit of an adjustment with everybody to dispel that sense of ownership of songs when you bring an idea forward," Reikie says. "We really tried to eliminate that idea that it's my song or your song or anything like that. [We] tried to focus on what the sonic experience was going to be like for the listener, and really work on it collaboratively,

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and put more effort into what is this thing sounding like than having any kind of ownership over it individually. More of a collaborative ownership."

The resulting Measures certainly shows fruits of a band branching out: from the strings and swells that tilt into a rock kickdown on opener "Unsuspecting Ways," the horn blasts over evening grooves of "Midnight Avenue" or the slowburn, '60s-spy-chase vibe of "Francis!" its 10 tracks find a band emboldened by its new expansions.

"At no point during the process did we say, 'We're gonna be a rock band, so we can't put that banjo in,'" Reikie points out. "Or, conversely, we didn't say, 'We're only gonna be a folk band, so we can't put that distorted guitar in there.' It was definitely not that.

It was a very open experience.

It was the idea that we'd play something and, if it worked, we'd use it regardless of what it was.

We'd throw a vibraslap in there, or a marimba. Basically whatever made the song better, we would do our best—whomever it was— to make the song better."

PAUL BLINOV

// PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

NEWS // EDM

Rave on?

Electronic dance music comes under fire from all directions

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aves in Edmonton are "safe" ... for paid an additional $220 000 now. Despite a critical police report for police, AHS overtime, about last April's two-day Elements Mu- late-night transit and sic Festival at the Edmonton Expo Centre, more.

As entrepreneurs, the city backed away from banning large electronic dance music (EDM) concerts. EDM promoters are Council reviewed the Edmonton Police entitled to a level Service's Large Events Report and rec- playing field. And in ommendations this month. The report an effort to play by cited a variety of problems at Elements, the rules, Boodang from DJs that allegedly smuggled in says they have made drugs through an unsupervised entrance strides in addressing to an onsite medical staff that was over- safety concerns at their whelmed by the volume of overdoses. events. Boodang's two Council weighed whether concerts like it October shows employed a variety of harm-reduction are worth the risk.

But Elements promoters Boodang Mu- strategies, including an information sic Canada Inc and Connected Entertain- booth, free water for dancers to help ment say their events contribute to the prevent dehydration and text messages city's artistic and cultural vibrancy. This in encouraging patrons to behave respon- doing anything too techturn helps make Edmonton a more desir- sibly. According to Boodang, only four nical. He has a laptop able place for young people to visit and out of 10 200 attendees were treated in and a MIDI recorder, and live. The promoters also tout Elements' hospital for drug or alcohol problems (a he's just playing his shit. $10-million economic impact to Edmon- medical incident percentage of .000392). There's still button-pushers Because of ongoing efforts to address getting paid half a million. And ton, according to Conference Board of safety, and the relatively low number of in- not to say I'm not a button-pusher.

Canada estimates.

However, the ongoing necessity of strict cidents, raves in Edmonton will continue. As I'm just pushing a lot more buttons." compliance and, failing that, damage con- EDM is a global phenomenon, it's unlikely Deadmau5 will be pushing buttons at Emtrol might explain why Boodang and Con- prohibition would have proven to be an ef- pire Ballroom on December 27. nected have struggled to make the case fective or safe course of action anyway.

"We all hit play. It's no secret," he says. that raves are musically meritorious, artis"I'd rather see dance fests continue at "It's not about performance art. It's not tically profound or culturally significant. major public venues rather than driving about talent either."

At Elements, says the EPS report, there them underground where there might While even pop music tolerates its share were a total of 52 medical incidents, in- not be any paramedical help on scene," of lip-syncing and pyrotechnics, Deadcluding 22 transports to hospital for drug says Councillor Kerry Diotte. mau5's reductionism won't help narrow overdoses. One person will likely require the credibility gap dance culture has expeacute care for life. "If Alberta Health Ser- While dance music is at the height rienced since the disco era. Nor will it help vices did not plan as they did," reads the of its popularity, some veteran dance dispel the inescapable perception that— report, "the likelihood of someone dying acts are questioning the scene's in- in the apparent absence of art or talent— at the event from a drug overdose would creasing artifice. rave culture really is a drug culture after have been extremeall. While Zimmerly high, if not immiman has decried I'd rather see dance fests continue at major nent." drug use in the past public venues rather than driving them The numbers and (he made headlines underground where there might not be any testimony seem this year by callparamedical help on scene. damning, but they ing out Madonna also lack context. for perpetuating For one, the report ecstasy use at one doesn't define what an "incident" entailed An accomplished turntablist, LA's Z- of her concerts), his endorsement doesn't for each individual patron (all ODs or Trip (Zach Sciacca) says about 80 per- make the job of promoters like Boodang a few skinned knees?). Further, it's un- cent of the DJ's at this year's Coachella or Connected any easier. known whether the number of incidents played songs one after the other, all Driving raves back underground might versus number of tickets sold at Ele- unmixed, or songs that were premixed. offer them an opportunity for renewal, ments (16 566 attendees over two days) While he acknowledges that the crowd but there are already many great "unis unusual for an event its size. Police say was having a good time, the shortcuts derground" parties happening in Edraves are a burden to response services, run counter to his idea of DJing. monton. What these smaller shows but it's unclear whether they are worse "It's becoming more about the produc- may lack in lasers, PK Sound and big than any given Saturday night on Whyte tion of the show and the spectacle rather names doing dubious work, they make Avenue or downtown. Based on medical than the skills of the DJ," Sciacca writes up for with homemade décor, incredible needs alone, Elements' incident percent- on Australia's inthemix (inthemix.com. music and great people. As UK house age was .00313. au. "It's getting harder to see DJs mixing it music originator Terry Farley reminds Defining what constitutes a "rave" is also live in front of you. You wouldn't see the us in September's Faith Fanzine: "What problematic. If raves are concerts with Black Keys crowd surfing while the music people have to realize is THEY are the electronic dance music and light shows keeps playing. In electronic music, there is stars, the heroes of club culture—not where people may be taking drugs, then a grey area." the DJ. It's that magical moment when February's LMFAO show at Rexall Place One of the world's biggest EDM acts, you look around and everyone's smiling should have qualified. However, events Toronto's Deadmau5 (aka Joel Zimmer- and locked into the groove that makes designated as raves are uniquely and man) recently told Rolling Stone that this a great house party. Where you make strictly OMFG when it comes to scru- ruse is the new normal at dance shows. lifelong friends and get a passion for tiny, permits, security, services and cor- "David Guetta has two iPods and a mixer music that can last decades." responding costs. To ensure Elements and he just plays tracks. Like, 'Here's one YURI WUENSCH // YURI@VUEWEEKLY.COM moved forward, Boodang and Connected with Akon, check it out!' Even Skrillex isn't

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Deadmau5, who will be performing in Edmonton on December 27

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PREVUE // ROCK

Wildlife with a laugh, of playing new material on tour. "We're trying to sell it."

FRI NOV 23

STONE IRIS

W/ HEAVISIDE, BIG CITY SUPREME & THOMPSON HIGHWAY SAT NOV 24

MOVEMBER MUSTACHE PARTY THE APRESNOS, THE FROLICS, & THE RED CANNONS FRI NOV 30

SONIC BAND OF THE MONTH JAY SPARROW W/ MITCHMATIC, LOVE ELECTRIC & PHYSICAL COPIES

FRI DEC 7

FLATLINERS 10TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR W/ KNUCKLEHEAD, SLATES, BEN SIR & FRESHMAN YEARS SAT DEC 8

PULLEY & BELVEDERE W/ FIRE NEXT TIME, DOWN THE HATCH, & NERVOUS WRECK

Fri, Nov 23 (7 pm) With the Wooden Sky Royal Alberta Museum, $17 – $20

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ean Povinksy, at present, seems to find himself caught in a whole bunch of in-betweens. He's speaking from a wind-slapped cellphone on the side of an American highway, "either Nebraska or Iowa," though he isn't quite sure. His band, Wildlife, is on tour road-testing material for an album that's finished but a few months away from release; that album, its title yet-to-be-finalized, carries

the creative tension of being worked on with two different producers: Gus Van Go (who muscled-up bands like Priestess and the Stills), and Peter Katis (known for guiding albums from the likes of the National, Sigur Ros and Interpol.)

All of which to say that, presently, Povinsky and Wildlife seem to be floating in the grace period between big things. The horizon is exciting, but, for the moment, it's still the horizon.

"It's been going well, we've been splitting our set up half and half. We're excited to play them, I think," he says

The songs on Wildlife's debut Strike Hard, Young Diamond ripple with rock 'n' roll energy, bending youthful exuberance—joyful yelps over bursting riffs—around sharp lyricism. Povinsky notes that in approaching the followup the band was looking to heighten a lot of those same elements.

"We took some time off and went away for about a week to do a lot of writing," he recalls. "We knew all the things from our last record that we wanted to explore differently: especially in terms of sound, we went for really, really big, big sounds, [on] our last record ... we kind of wanted to push it even farther.

"We wanted to have a—hopefully— really cool mix between some really typical sounds and recognizable things, and some what-the-fuck-is-that kind of sounds," he continues. "And to make sure we bash those two things together enough that it was unique enough for our liking."

PAUL BLINOV

// PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

SOUNDTRACK

Smalltown DJs

FRI DEC 21

VILLAINIZER - END OF THE WORLD CD RELEASE PARTY W/ MORTILLERY, THE RETURN OF SIXGUNS OVER TOMBSTONE & GATEKRASHOR FOR TICKETS- PLEASE VISIT WWW.YEGLIVE.CA

CYGNETS VIDEO PREMIERE/SINGLE RELEASE PARTY & FINAL TRANSMISSION SATURDAY!!

Thu, Nov 29 (10 pm) With Grandtheft Mercer Tavern, $10 after 11 pm

SAT NOV 24

FREE SHOW 4PM

MY SISTER OCEAN W/ JEZIBELLE

DUAL VIDEO RELEASE

STAND UP COMEDY

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Pete Emes and Mike Grimes, known to the masses as Smalltown DJs, continue a wave of momentum that's carried them from emerging on Diplo's Hollerboard site in the mid2000s through worldwide tours and onto their track "Boom Ha" making an appearance on HBO's Girls. Before a stop at the Mercer Tavern, Emes shared his soundtrack for at home and on the road with Vue.

At home

On the road

Morning: Sam Cooke, Live at Harlem Square Club 1963 This is my favourite live recording ever. Of all the greats who have died before their time, Sam Cooke might be the most underrated.

Morning: Chromatics, Kill For Love Every time I listen I'm surprised by this record and hear something new. It sounds like the future.

Noon: Win Win, Double Vision This is a great new record by my buddies from Brooklyn—so diverse and fresh sounding. It's like ESG meets Tame Impala.

Noon: Big KRIT, Live from the Underground I just saw him play in September with Paul Wall & Slim Thug. He is one of my current favourites.

Night: Kendrick Lamar, Good Kid, mAAd City Best rap record of the year. I saw him at SXSW. He's the real deal.

Night: Fake Blood, Cells Such a talented producer and legendary DJ. I just got this and I can't wait to listen more. V

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PREVUE // DJ

Dane MacDonald

Dane MacDonald hard at work // Tristan Shouldice

Sat, Nov 24 (9:30 pm) Common Edit seven-inch release With Koosh and Raebot The Common, $10

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inyl is inconvenient, cumbersome, antiquated. Dane MacDonald couldn't be happier about it. The Edmonton DJ and producer is celebrating the release of Canadian Colours, the fifth seven-inch single in the Common Edit series (along with Sooke, BC's Koosh and Raebot from CJSR's Catch the Beat). The new disco 45 is available for $10, including admission, at the Common this Saturday.

Vue Weekly caught up with the Common's resident DJ and curator at Treehouse Records to learn why vinyl's grooves run so deep.

VUE WEEKLY: Why do you continue to support and play vinyl?

DANE MACDONALD:

Beyond sound quality and owning a piece of artwork, the beauty of vinyl is that it creates a connection to a time and place. All the best stuff is pressed to vinyl these daysâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;often exclusively. A few years ago, you had to sift through hundreds of records just to find a handful that were worth ordering. Now, almost everything our distributors carry is quality dance music.

VW:

VW: Wouldn't MP3s be more convenient?

VW:

Convenience will be the death of our society. Anything good should sort of be a pain in the ass. The digital market is flooded with music. Everything is more accessible, but it also makes MP3s more disposable. Owning a hard drive full of music doesn't appeal to me. A dedication to originality and hard-to-find, signature records is part of what makes you a DJ.

DM:

What was the inspiration behind the record label?

DM: Really, it was an excuse to throw a party and give music away. We never planned on distributing them, initially. They were mostly for giveaways and trades with friends. In talking to one of our distributors, we decided to list it. They sold so well we had to do a repress. Now, we always press 500.

You just toured Germany. How was that?

DM: The vinyl industry is still very strong in Europe, but I was surprised by just how few DJs I saw playing MP3s. You can go to the poorest, most-distant places and they still play records. They have a really strong sense of DJing as an art and culture.

YURI WUENSCH

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SLIDESHOW LEONARD COHEN SUN, NOV 18 / REXALL PLACE

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NEWSOUNDS Born Gold Little Sleepwalker (Audraglint)  Born Gold's Bodysongs practically vivisected the dancefloor with its kaleido-kinetic approach to dance music: lyrics of blood and wombs and sex and death set over a blitzkrieg of dazzling electro pulses and muscular pop-hook pulls. Its followup, Little Sleepwalker, offers the inverse of those elements: a focus shift from the movement of the body to the eye of the mind.

Sleepwalker's still rooted in the same electro-rhythms that powered Born Gold's earlier work, mind you—from the get go, look to the clicking drum rolls and shifting vocals that greet on opener "Pulse Thief" and previously released "That Way"—but here it's stripped down to moods and movements rather than a frantic BPM and tumbling walls of synth. It's like primary Born Gold member Cecil Frena's

Faunts Left Here Alone (Friendly Fire Recordings)  Three and a half years after Faunts released Feel.

Love.Thinking.Of., the band lets fans into its back catalogue with an EP featuring four previously unreleased tracks dating back to its 2005 debut. The glimpse into Faunts' past takes listeners through a surreal, melancholic soundscape that feels distinctly more mellow than the band's previous release. The pace

recorded a fevered dream: the music's more spacious, more internal, more adrift in its own thoughts, worries and desires. It's rhythmic electro music examining its vulnerability and inner demons from some dark, adjacent place. not your typical dancefloor fare, but it fares well regardless.

"That Way" sets lyrics like "Girl I know what you want / So let your eyes roll back / Sleepwalk through these woods / The wires pull down your mask" over a skittering pulse, while the interconnected "Ferocious Body" and "Against Silence" combine into a dreamily drifting look inwards.

"Sky Bicycle" ups the mood a little, taking a inquisitive beat along a joyfulif-sparse soundscape.

Sleepwalker could benefit, perhaps, from pulling on a broader spectrum of sound, but still, while it isn't stuffed with the same endless barrage of hyper-speed hooks that Bodysongs was, Sleepwalker still succeeds: if not with that same immediacy, then through presenting a viable and intriguing alternative with the same core elements.

PAUL BLINOV

// PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Hey Rosetta!

A Cup of Kindness Yet (Independent)  I'm no stranger to the melancholy of Christmas and neither, it seems, is Newfoundland's Hey Rosetta!, as the group's Christmas EP, A Cup of Kindness Yet, proves. Staying far away from the obnoxious bring-downs that would make up, say, Rod Stewart's Christmas album, Hey Rosetta! replaces them with meditations on the darkness and desperation that comes with the season, the taking-stockand-finding-yourself-wanting nature of the new year. At times it works brilliantly, such as on the EP opener "Carry Me Home," but most other times the album feels like an overly sincere version of the kitschy Christmas-rock offering Merry Axemas. The problem is that the EP often uses Christmas as shorthand for real emotion, relying on the baggage that people bring to the season to fill in the gaps of the band's artistic efforts. What you get is a collection of overwrought songs, embellished to the point that they don't ring true anymore and punctuated by familiar snippets of the season designed to let you know how you're supposed to feel.

BRYAN BIRTLES

// BRYAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

AC/DC Live at River Plate (Sony)

rarely wavers from languid, dream-like melodies, lulling the listener into submission. Not to say this is a bad thing, but it doesn't make for an overly diverse album, particularly when each song is so long—the longest clocks in at just under 10 minutes. Vocals are minimal throughout, allowing the sonic palette to take the spotlight, one song moving seamlessly into the next.

However, the differences between each are so minimal that it's hard to differentiate between tracks at times.

The press release screams that this is AC/DC's first live album in 20 years, but it's not the first live offering: there have been several live DVDs, including the show that this album is soundtrack to. Sonically it's pretty much what you'd expect at this point.

The band is tight as ever, but Brian Johnson's voice is degraded to the point of disappointment. Nowhere near as essential as an archival release from the Bon Scott-era could be.

MEAGHAN BAXTER

EDEN MUNRO

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FOUR IN 140

@CURTISTWRIGHT

Soundgarden King Animal (Universal) @VueWeekly: Between PJ and Soundgarden, drummer Matt Cameron's arms are going to fall off. Grunge doesn't want to die.

Various artists The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 OST (Atlantic) @VueWeekly: How these relatively respected artists sign up for this, I'll never know. Can only assume this thing's better than the actual saga.

Deftones Koi No Yokan (Warner) @VueWeekly: Another band that went away, but hasn't quieted much.

Dream metal from these guys has almost never sounded better.

Welcome back.

Slam Dunk Welcome to Miami (File Under: Music) @VueWeekly: Capturing the awesome chaos & energy of live performances on a studio album can be tough. This is a garage-rock slam dunk. Very cool.

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MUSIC WEEKLY

NAKED CYBERCAFE & ESPRESSO BAR Open stage Thu; all ages; 9pmclose; no cover

10pm (door); no cover FLUID LOUNGE Take Over Thursdays: Industry Night; 9pm

w/ Rude Geeks Thy Demon's Jest and OR, GANIC; 8pm; $10 BRIXX BAR Early Show: Silence Be Damned with Djs Gotthavok, Siborg and Nightroad; Late Show: XoXo to follow (every Fri)

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NEW WEST HOTEL Canadian Country Hall of Fame Guest host Bev Munro

FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Requests every Thu with DJ Damian

THU NOV 22

NORTH GLENORA HALL Jam by Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu

HALO Fo Sho: every Thu with Allout DJs DJ Degree, Junior Brown

OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Jesse Peters (R&B, blues, jazz, Top 40); 9pm2am every Thu; no cover

KAS BAR Urban House: every Thu with DJ Mark Stevens; 9pm

CARROT Live music every Fri: Christopher Nash; all ages; 7:30pm; $5 (door)

RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Fri; 9pm-2am

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Funk Bunker Thursdays

CASINO EDMONTON The Emeralds

ROSE AND CROWN PUB The Salesmen

LUCKY 13 Sin Thu with DJ Mike Tomas

CASINO YELLOWHEAD Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (variety)

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM THEATRE The Wooden Sky (rock), guests; 7pm; $17 (adv)/$20 (door)

DEADLINE: FRIDAY AT 3PM

ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE Jessica Smith (jazz/R&B), Andrea Willson (singer-songwriter); 9:30pm-11:30pm; no minors; no cover ARTERY James of Dark Wood (alt/folk EP release), Barobliq, Painting with Ella; 7pm (door); $10 (adv) AVENUE THEATRE Foam Lake (alt, hard rock), guests; 8pm; $10 adv BLUES ON WHYTE A Fist Full of Blues BOHEMIA Ramshackle Day Parade

PAWN SHOP Rebirth Brass Band; 10pm; $20 (adv) PUB 1824 Open jam session every Wed, hosted

by Norm; 8pm RANCH The Boys of Fall, Quentin Reddy; $25

ON THE ROCKS Salsaholic: every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; salsa DJ to follow

RICHARD'S PUB Live R&B bands (dancing); 8pm

OUTLAWS ROADHOUSE Wild Life Thursdays

RIC’S GRILL Peter Belec (jazz); most Thursdays; 7-10pm

OVERTIME–Downtown Thursdays at Eleven: Electronic Techno and Dub Step

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE An Evening of Soul: Brian McLeod (folk, jazz), 1000 Words for Water, Thompson Highway; 7pm; $10

WILD BILL’S–Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close

CAFÉ HAVEN Music every Thu; 7pm

DJs

CARROT CAFÉ Zoomers Thu afternoon open mic; 1-4pm DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Thu at 9pm EDDIE SHORTS Good Time Jamboree with Charlie Scream every Thu HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB The Switchmen (blues, country), Harlan Pepper, Gabrielle Papillon; 8pm; $7 (adv)/$10 (door) LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR Tangele J R BAR AND GRILL Live Jam Thu; 9pm JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Mike Letto (acoustic rock); $10 KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE Open stage; 7pm; no cover

STARLITE ROOM Walk off the Earth, guests; 8pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: wtft w djwtf - rock 'n' roll, blues, indie; Wooftop Lounge: Musical flavas incl funk, indie, dance/nu disco, breaks, drum and bass, house with DJ Gundam BRIXX Hosted by Christian and Justin of Canyon Rose Outfit: Open turntables; E: kevin@starliteroom.ca to book 30-min set CENTURY ROOM Lucky 7: Retro '80s with house DJ every Thu; 7pm-close THE COMMON Uncommon Thursday: Indie with new DJ each week with resident CROWN PUB Break Down Thu at the Crown: D&B with DJ Kaplmplx, DJ Atomik with guests

L.B.'S PUB Open jam with Kenny Skoreyko, Fred LaRose and Gordy Mathews (Shaved Posse) every Thu; 9pm-1am

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Thu; 9pm

MARYBETH'S COFFEE HOUSE–Beaumont Open mic every Thu; 7pm

FILTHY MCNASTY’S Something Diffrent every Thursday with DJ Ryan Kill

MONTY'S PIZZA Shelley Jones (jazz to R&B); 8-10pm; $8

FLASH NIGHT CLUB Indust:real Assembly: Goth and Industrial Night with DJ Nanuck; no minors;

ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ every Thu

RENDEZVOUS Metal night every Thu TAPHOUSE–St Albert Eclectic mix every Thu with DJ Dusty Grooves THIRSTY CAMEL The Sinder Sparks Show; every Thu; 8 - 12pm UNION HALL 3 Four All Thursdays: rock, dance, retro, top 40 with DJ Johnny Infamous

CAFÉ TIRAMISU John Calverley; 7:15-9pm

CENTURY CASINO Irish Rovers; sold out CITADEL THEATRE–The Club Beyond the Stage: Feels Like Home: Cabaret: Patricia Zentilli (singer), Don Horsburgh (piano); 8pm; $20 COAST TO COAST Open stage every Fri; 9:30pm DOW CENTENNIAL CENTRE–Shell Theatre Tyler Yarema; 7:30pm; $29.50 (adult) at TicketMaster, Dow ticket office ELEVATION ROOM Yores, Creaks, I Am Machi; 8pm; $8 FESTIVAL PLACE Chris Velan (folk); 7:30pm

WILD BILL’S–Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close

GOOD NEIGHBOR PUB T.K. and the Honey Badgers every friday; 8:30-midnight; no cover

FRI NOV 23

IRISH CLUB Jam session every Fri; 8pm; no cover

ARTERY Tiff Hall Band ( jazz, pop); 8pm; $10 AVENUE THEATRE Warning to Avoid (hard rock, rock), Indigo Joseph guests; 6pm; $10 (adv) BISTRO LA PERSAUD Blues: every Friday Night hosted by The Dr Blu Band; 8pm (music); drblu.ca

JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Jazzy Christmas: Randall MacDonald (jazz, show tunes, Christmas classics); $10 JEKYLL AND HYDE PUB Headwind (classic pop/ rock); every Fri; 9pm; no cover LIZARD LOUNGE Rock 'n' roll open mic every Fri; 8:30pm; no cover

PAWN SHOP Stone Iris (blues, R&B, rock), Heaviside, Big City Supreme; 8pm; $10

THE WOODEN SKY

PUB 1824 Every Fri & Sat; $5

STARLITE ROOM Wool On Wolves (CD release), the Great Bloomers; 8pm; Members and Guest Only!

(Memberships on sale at the door for $5) WILD BILL’S–Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close WUNDERBAR Boosh, Gary Debussy, Brad Sime; 9pm; $8 YARDBIRD SUITE Canadian Jazz Series: Mark Segger Sextet; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $18 (member)/$22 (guest)

W/ WILDLIFE, & AYLA BROOK

FRI, NOV 30, AVENUE THEATRE

TOM FUN

ORCHESTRA W/ WILD ROSE ORCHESTRA & THE FUZZ KINGS

YELLOWHEAD BREWERY Proud (pop, R&B, CD release party); 8pm; $15 (adv)/$20 (door)

Classical WINSPEAR CENTRE Elegance, Exoticism and Ecstasy; 7:30pm; $20-$79

FRI, DEC 7, THE ARTERY

WIL

DJs BAR-B-BAR DJ James; every Fri; no cover BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every Friday DJs on all three levels BLACKSHEEP PUB Bash: DJ spinning retro to rock classics to current BONEYARD ALE HOUSE The Rock Mash-up: DJ NAK spins videos every Fri; 9pm; no cover

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ The Kluane Grass featuring Chris Stevens, Jenny Lester, Marc Ladouceur, Steve Fisher, with Matt Hotte (bluegrass); 8:30pm; $15

MORINVILLE COMMUNITY CULTURAL CENTRE Christmas Festival: Brett Kissel; 8pm; $25 (adult)/$20 (senior)/$10 (student) at TIX on the Square

BLUES ON WHYTE A Fist Full of Blues

NEWCASTLE PUB One Way State

BUFFALO UNDERGROUND R U Aware Friday: Featuring Neon Nights

ON THE ROCKS Huge Fakers; 9pm; $5

CHROME LOUNGE Platinum VIP every Fri

BOHEMIA Funeral Rain Records presents: A Big Night in a Small Room,

FRI, NOV 23, ROYAL AB MUSEUM THEATRE ////////////// ALL AGES & LICENSED

BUDDY’S DJ Arrow Chaser every Fri; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm

W/ RYAN MCMAHON

SAT, DEC 1, AVENUE THEATRE

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KINGDOOM TUES, DEC 11, THE HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB

MIKE PLUME, SOLO SHOW

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THE COMMON Boom The Box: every Fri; nu disco, hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation plus residents Echo and Shortround

Nightroad; 9pm THIRSTY CAMEL The Sinder Sparks Show with Stratosphere; 10pm - 2am

THE DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Fri; 9pm

TREASURY In Style Fri: DJ Tyco and Ernest Ledi; no line no cover for ladies all night long

ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ every Fri

UNION HALL Ladies Night every Fri

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Shake yo ass every Fri with DJ SAWG

VINYL DANCE LOUNGE Connected Las Vegas Fridays

FLUID LOUNGE Hip hop and dancehall; every Fri

Y AFTERHOURS Foundation Fridays

FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Top tracks, rock, retro with DJ Damian; every Fri

SAT NOV 24

HILLTOP PUB The Sinder Sparks Show; every Thu and Fri; 9:30pm-close

ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage with Trace Jordan 1st and 3rd Sat; 7pm-12

JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY LGBT Community: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm

ARTERY Sol James (country, folk, jazz, R&B), guests; 8pm; $8 (adv)/$10 (door)

NEWCASTLE PUB House, dance mix every Fri with DJ Donovan O2'S TAPHOUSE AND GRILL DJs every Fri and Sat OVERTIME–Downtown Fridays at Eleven: Rock hip hop, country, top forty, techno REDNEX–Morinville DJ Gravy from the Source 98.5 every Fri RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie, rock, funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri

BAILEY THEATRE Jesse Peters Trio BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair of the Dog: Sol James (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Ben Sures, Shantel Koenig (bass/vocals), Stephanie Suchy (vocals/percussion); 8:30pm; $15 BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; evening: A Fist Full of Blues BOHEMIA Art + Muzak, with guest curator: Kristine Wray

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Fuzzion Friday: with Crewshtopher, Tyler M, guests; no cover

BRIXX BAR Dog's Mercury

SUEDE LOUNGE House, electro, Top40, R'n'B with DJ Melo-D every Fri

CASINO EDMONTON The Emeralds

SUITE 69 Release Your Inner Beast: Retro and Top 40 beats with DJ Suco; every Fri TEMPLE Silence be Damned: with DJs Gotthavok, Siborg,

CARROT CAFÉ Sat Open mic; 7pm; $2

CASINO YELLOWHEAD Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (variety) CENTURY CASINO The Drifters Featuring Rick Sheppard, Marvelettes Revue with Rhonda Franklin

CITADEL THEATRE–The Club Beyond the Stage: Feels Like Home: Cabaret: Patricia Zentilli (singer), Don Horsburgh (piano); 8pm; $20 COAST TO COAST Live bands every Sat; 9:30pm CROWN PUB Acoustic blues open stage with Marshall Lawrence, every Sat, 2-6pm; every Sat, 12-2am DEVON HOTEL PALS Acoustic Open Mic with Tim Harwill; Every Sat 4-6:30pm THE DISH NEK Trio (jazz); every Sat, 6pm ELEVATION ROOM The Old World Record, Natacha Homerodean, Dan Smith; 8pm; $8 FESTIVAL PLACE Alpha Yaya Diallos West African Summit (world); 7:30pm FILTHY'S My Sister Ocean, Jezibelle (video release party); 4pm; no cover GAS PUMP Saturday Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB Hot Super Hot (dance / tropical, world); guests; 8pm; $7 (adv)/$10 (door) HILLTOP PUB Sat afternoon roots jam with Pascal, Simon and Dan, 3:30-6:30pm; evening HOOLIGANZ Live music every Sat HYDEAWAY Marleigh and Mueller (classic pop/jazz/ musical theatre); 8pm; 3rd Sat each month; $10 IRON BOAR PUB Jazz in Wetaskiwin featuring jazz trios the 1st Sat each month; $10 L.B.'S PUB Sat afternoon Jam with Gator and Friends; 5-9pm EVERY SAT:

MYER HOROWITZ THEATRE Just Jazz: Edmonton Metropolitan Chorus (classical and jazz genres; 7:30-8:30pm; Advance: Adults $15: Students/Seniors $10; Children 12 and under $5 at TIX on the Square; Door: Adults $20, Students/ Seniors $15; Children 12 and under $10 NEW WEST HOTEL Country jam every Sat; 3-6pm O’BYRNE’S Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm ON THE ROCKS Huge Fakers; 9pm; $5 OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Dueling Piano's, all request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover

senior)/$5 (adv child 12 and under) at TixontheSquare.ca; $20 (door, adult)/$15 (door, student/senior); $10 (dppr. child 12 and under) MUTTART HALL, ALBERTA COLLEGE Edmonton Classical Guitar Society: ChromaDuo (Tracy Anne Smith and Rob MacDonald, guitars); 8pm; $25/$20 (student/ senior/ECGS member) at TIX on the Square, Avenue Guitars, Acoustic Music Shop, ADW Music WINSPEAR CENTRE Elegance, Exoticism and Ecstasy; 8pm; $20-$79

DJs

PAWN SHOP Movember Moustache Party: The Apresnos (hard rock, rock), The Frolics, The Red Cannons; $10

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: The Menace Sessions: Alt Rock/ Electro/Trash with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic hip-hop and reggae with DJ Sonny Grimezz; Underdog: Dr. Erick

PUB 1824 Every Fri & Sat, this week with: ; $5

BLACKSHEEP PUB DJ every Sat

RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm2am

BONEYARD ALE HOUSE DJ Sinistra Saturdays: 9pm

SIDELINERS PUB Sat open stage; 3-7pm

BUDDY'S Feel the rhythm every Sat with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm

STARLITE ROOM With Malice; 9pm (door), 10pm (band); $10 (adv)/$12 (door)

BUFFALO UNDERGROUND Head Mashed In Saturday: Mashup Night

WUNDERBAR J. Eygenraam, Vikingfell, City Of Champions; $10

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Sat; 9pm

YARDBIRD SUITE Canadian Jazz Series: Alexandre Côté Quintet; 8pm (door); 9pm (show); $18 (member)/$22 (guest)

Classical

LOUISIANA PURCHASE Suchy Sister Saturdays: Amber, Renee or Stephanie with accompaniment; 9:3011:30pm; no cover

ALL SAINTS' ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL Magic of Mozart: Edmonton Metropolitan Chorus (classical and jazz); 7:30pm; $15 (adv adult)/$10 (adv student/

HALO 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.HALO HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB 15120A (basement), Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.6010 HILLTOP PUB 8220-106 Ave, 780.490.7359 HOGS DEN PUB 9, 14220 Yellowhead Tr HOOLIGANZ 10704-124 St, 780.995.7110 HYDEAWAY 10209-100 Ave, 780.426.5381 IRON BOAR PUB 4911-51st St, Wetaskiwin J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JEFFREY’S CAFÉ 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 JEKYLL AND HYDE 10209100 Ave, 780.426.5381 JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY 10242-106 St, 780.756.5667 KAS BAR 10444-82 Ave, 780.433.6768 L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEGENDS PUB 6104-172 St, 780.481.2786 LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR 10132-104 St LIZARD LOUNGE 13160118 Ave MARYBETH'S COFFEE HOUSE–Beaumont 5001-30 Ave, Beaumont, 780.929.2203 MONTY'S PIZZA 1027 Potter Greens Dr, Lewis Estates, 780.481.1999 MORINVILLE COMMUNITY CULTURAL CENTRE 9502-100 Ave, Morinville MUTTART HALL, ALBERTA COLLEGE 10050 Macdonald Dr , 587.708.2044 MYER HOROWITZ THEATRE U of A, 8900-114 St NAKED CYBERCAFE & ESPRESSO BAR 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE PUB 6108-90 Ave, 780.490.1999

NEW CITY 8130 Gateway Boulevard NISKU INN 1101-4 St NOLA CREOLE KITCHEN & MUSIC HOUSE 11802124 St, 780.451.1390, experiencenola.com NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535-109A Ave O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 O2'S ON WHYTE 780.454.0203 O2'S TAPHOUSE AND GRILL 13509-127 St, 780.454.0203 OVERTIME–Downtown 10304-111 St, 780.465.6800 OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 PLAYBACK PUB 594 Hermitage Rd, 130 Ave, 40 St PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 1086057 Ave PUB 1824 12402-118 Ave, 587.521.1824 REDNEX BAR–Morinville 10413-100 Ave, Morinville, 780.939.6955 RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 RENDEZVOUS 10108149 St RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780-457-3117 RIC’S GRILL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235101 St ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM THEATRE 12845102 Ave

ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ every Sat FILTHY MCNASTY'S Fire up your night every Saturday with DJ SAWG FLUID LOUNGE Scene Saturday's Relaunch: Party; hip-hop, R&B and Dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Top tracks, rock, retro every Sat with DJ Damian

VENUE GUIDE ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ALL SAINTS' ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL 10035-103 St ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave AVENUE THEATRE 9030-118 Ave, 780.477.2149 BAILEY THEATRE 5041-50 St, Camrose, 780.672.5510 BISTRO LA PERSAUD 861791 St, 780.758.6686 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Drive, Nisku, 780.986.8522 BLACKSHEEP PUB 11026 Jasper Ave, 780.420.0448 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUE PEAR RESTAURANT 10643-123 St, 780.482.7178 BLUES ON WHYTE 1032982 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BONEYARD ALE HOUSE 9216-34 Ave, 780.437.2663 BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 1022597 St, 780.497.0011 BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca CAFÉ TIRAMISU 10750124 St CARROT CAFÉ 9351-118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464-153 St, 780 424 9467 CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 CHROME LOUNGE 132 Ave, Victoria Trail CITADEL THEATRE–The Club 9828-101A Ave

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COAST TO COAST 5552 Calgary Tr, 780.439.8675 COMMON 9910-109 St CROWN PUB 10709-109 St, 780.428.5618 DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DEVON HOTEL 1 Huron Street, Devon, AB THE DISH 12417 Stony Plain Rd, 780.488.6641 DOW CENTENNIAL CENTRE–Shell Theatre 870084 St, Fort Saskatchewan, 780.992.6400 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8307-99 St EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain EDDIE SHORTS 10713-124 St, 780.453.3663 EDMONTON EVENTS CENTRE WEM Phase III, 780.489.SHOW ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 ELEPHANT AND CASTLE– Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave ELEVATION ROOM 10349 Jasper Ave EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ 993870 Ave, 780.437.3667 FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FIDDLER’S ROOST 890699 St FILTHY MCNASTY’S 1051182 Ave, 780.916.1557 FLASH NIGHT CLUB 10018105 St, 780.996.1778 FLUID LOUNGE 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 FUNKY BUDDHA 10341-82 Ave, 780.433.9676 GOOD EARTH COFFEE HOUSE AND BAKERY 9942-108 St GOOD NEIGHBOR PUB 11824-103 St

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R PUB 16753-100 St, 780.457.1266 SECOND CUP–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 SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St, 780.453.6006 SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924 SPORTSMAN'S LOUNGE 8170-50 St STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 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 YELLOWHEAD BREWERY 10229 105 St VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 VINYL DANCE LOUNGE 10740 Jasper Ave, 780.428.8655, vinylretrolounge.com WILD BILL’S–Red Deer Quality Inn North Hill, 715050 Ave, Red Deer, 403.343.8800 WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours. com YELLOWHEAD BREWERY 10229-105 St, 780.423.3333 YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St

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HALO For Those Who Know: house every Sat with DJ Junior Brown, Luke Morrison, Nestor Delano, Ari Rhodes JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY LGBT Community: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Collective Saturdays NEWCASTLE PUB Top 40 requests every Sat with DJ Sheri O2'S TAPHOUSE AND GRILL DJs every Fri and Sat OVERTIME–Downtown Saturdays at Eleven: R'n'B, hip hop, reggae, Old School PALACE CASINO Show Lounge DJ every Sat PAWN SHOP Transmission Saturdays: Indie rock, new wave, classic punk with DJ Blue Jay and Eddie Lunchpail; 9pm (door); free (before 10pm)/$5 (after 10pm) RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Rezzo, DJ Mkhai SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M SUEDE LOUNGE House, electro, Top40, R'n'B with DJ Melo-D every Fri SUITE 69 Stella Saturday: retro, old school, top 40 beats with DJ Lazy, guests TEMPLE Oh Snap! Oh Snap with Degree, Cool Beans, Specialist, Spenny B and Mr. Nice Guy and Ten 0; every Sat 9pm UNION HALL Celebrity

Saturdays: every Sat hosted

by DJ Johnny Infamous VINYL DANCE LOUNGE Signature Saturdays Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

SUN NOV 25 BAILEY THEATRE Alpha Yaya Diallo BEER HUNTER–St Albert Open stage/jam every Sun; 2-6pm BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Sunday Brunch: Hawaiian Dreamers; 10am-2pm; donations BLUE PEAR RESTAURANT Jazz on the Side Sun 5:30-8:30pm; $25 if not dining BOGANI CAFE Edmonton Ukulele Circle; 3rd Sun of each month; 3:30-5pm; $5 fee

FESTIVAL PLACE The Barra MacNeils Christmas Show (celtic); 7:30pm

guest DJs; 9pm-3am SAVOY MARTINI LOUNGE Reggae on Whyte: RnR Sun with DJ IceMan; no minors; 9pm; no cover

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Rock and Soul Sundays with DJ Sadeeq HOGS DEN PUB Open Jam: hosted; open jam every Sun, all styles welcome; 3-7pm NEWCASTLE PUB Sun Soul Service (acoustic jam): Willy James and Crawdad Cantera; 3-6:30pm O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am

CENTURY CASINO John McDermott (Christmas show)

WINSPEAR CENTRE Edmonton Youth Orchestra; 2pm; $15 (adult)/$10 (senior/ student) at TIX on the Square

DOUBLE D'S Open jam every Sun; 3-8pm DV8 Attack Adict, No More Moments, Action News Team EDDIE SHORTS Open stage with Dan Daniels every Sun

DRUID IRISH PUB Open stage every Tue; with Chris Wynters; 9pm

BUDDYS DJ Arrow Chaser every

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

CROWN PUB Live Hip Hop Tue: freestyle hip hop with DJ Xaolin and Mc Touch

OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Monday Open Stage

MYER HOROWITZ THEATRE The Royal Canadian Artillery Band Hail to my Country–An Historic Fundraising Concert for Soldier On; 7:30pm; $10 (adult)/$5 (child) at rcaband.ca

DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB Celtic open stage every Sun with Keri-Lynne Zwicker; 5:30pm; no cover

ARTERY Half Moon Run (folk, punk), guests; 7:30pm; $12

O2'S TAP HOUSE AND GRILL Live rock band every Sun with Joint Chiess

CAFFREY'S–Sherwood Park The Sunday Blues Jam: hosted

by Kevin and Rita McDade and the Grey Cats Blues Band, guests every week; 5-9pm; no cover

CHA ISLAND TEA CO Live on the Island: Rhea March hosts open mic and Songwriter's stage; starts with a jam session; 7pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover

BRIXX BAR Ruby Tuesdays with host Mark Feduk; $5 after 8pm; this week guests:

DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB Singer/songwriter open stage every Mon; 8pm

Classical

DJs BACKSTAGE TAP AND GRILL Industry Night: every Sun with Atomic Improv, Jameoki and DJ Tim BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sundays: A fantastic voyage through '60s and '70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Stylus Industry Sundays: Invinceable, Tnt, Rocky, Rocko, Akademic, weekly

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MON NOV 26

ON THE ROCKS Teenage Gentleman and Thrillhouse; 9pm

YELLOWHEAD BREWERY Open Stage: Every Sun, 8pm

Quartet; 7:30pm (door), 8pm (show); $5

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Phat Tuesday in The Quarters, The Rooster Davis Group, New Orleans Jump & Boogie; 8-11pm

BLUES ON WHYTE Bill Durst

RICHARD'S PUB Sun Live Jam hosted by Carson Cole; 4pm

Consilience, OJ Pimpsons, National Security Council; 8pm; $10

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm ROSE BOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE Acoustic open stage every Mon; 9pm

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay CROWN PUB Mixmashitup Mon Industry Night: with DJ Fuzze, J Plunder (DJs to bring their music and mix mash it up) FILTHY MCNASTY'S Metal Mondays with DJ Tyson LUCKY 13 Industry Night every Mon with DJ Chad Cook

TUE NOV 27 BLUES ON WHYTE Bill Durst BOHEMIA Service:Fair,

LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR Brian McLeod O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm O2'S ON WHYTE DJ Grizz every Tue industry night OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK The Campfire Hero's (acoustic rock, country, top 40); 9pm-2am every Tue; no cover PADMANADI Open stage every Tue; with Mark Davis; all ages; 7:30-10:30pm PUB 1824 Karaoke every Tue; 8pm R PUB Open stage jam every Tue; hosted by Gary and the Facemakers; 8pm RED PIANO All request band Tuesdays: Joint Chiefs (classic rock, soul, R&B) every Tue REXALL PLACE Journey, Loverboy, Night Ranger; 6pm (door)/7pm (show); $20/$45/$55/$85/$115; all ages SECOND CUP–Summerwood Open stage/open mic every Tue; 7:30pm; no cover YARDBIRD SUITE Tue Night Sessions: Marc Beaudin

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: alternative retro and not-so-retro, electronic and Euro with Eddie Lunchpail; Wooftop: It’s One Too Many Tuesdays: Reggae, funk, soul, boogie and disco with Rootbeard

DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly, Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue RED STAR Experimental Indie Rock, Hip Hop, Electro with DJ Hot Philly; every Tue RED PIANO All Request Band Tuesdays: Classic rock, soul and R&B with Joint Chiefs; 8pm; $5 SUITE 69 Rockstar Tuesdays: Mash up and Electro with DJ Tyco, DJ Omes with weekly guest DJs

WED NOV 28 ARTERY The Fortelles; 9:30pm; $10 (door) BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Glitter Gulch: live music once a month; On the Patio: Funk and Soul with Doktor Erick every Wed; 9pm BLUES ON WHYTE Bill Durst BOHEMIA Words with Friends CHA ISLAND TEA CO

Whyte Noise Drum Circle:

Join local drummers for a few hours of beats and fun; 6pm CROWN PUB The D.A.M.M Jam: Open stage/original plugged in jam with Dan, Miguel and friends every Wed EDDIE SHORTS Electric open jam with Steven Johnson Experience every Wed ELEPHANT AND CASTLE– Whyte Ave Open mic every Wed (unless there's an Oilers game); no cover FIDDLER'S ROOST Little Flower Open Stage every Wed with Brian Gregg; 8pm-12 GOOD EARTH COFFEE HOUSE AND BAKERY Breezy Brian Gregg; every Wed; 12-1pm HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB Open stage every Wed with Jonny Mac, 8:30pm, free HOOLIGANZ Open stage every Wed with host Cody Nouta; 9pm NEW WEST HOTEL Free classic country dance lessons every Wed, 7-9pm OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Jason Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Wed; no cover 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; every Wed, 6:30-11pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member) PUB 1824 Open jam session every Wed, hosted by Norm; 8pm

piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 REXALL PLACE Paul McCartney (On the Run Tour); 6:30pm (door), 8pm (show); $29.50, $45/$65/$95/$165/$250 RICHARD'S PUB Live Latin Band Salsabor every Wed; 9pm SECOND CUP–149 St Open stage with Alex Boudreau; 7:30pm ZEN LOUNGE Jazz Wednesdays: Kori Wray and Jeff Hendrick; every Wed; 7:30-10pm; no cover

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: RetroActive Radio: Alternative '80s and '90s, post punk, new wave, garage, Brit, mod, rock and roll with LL Cool Joe 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 THE COMMON Treehouse Wednesdays FILTHY MCNASTY'S Pint Night Wednesdays with DJ SAWG FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Latin and Salsa music every Wed; dance lessons 8-10pm LEGENDS PUB Hip hop/R&B with DJ Spincycle NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed TEMPLE Wild Style Wed: Hip hop open mic hosted by Kaz and Orv; $5

RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling

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JUST CHRISTMAS An Alternative Global Market Place Alberta Avenue Community Hall 9210 118 Ave Friday Nov. 23 - 530 to 9pm Saturday Nov. 24 - 9:30 to 4pm For more information call 780-233-5594

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Help the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation create a future without breast cancer through volunteerism. Contact 1-866-302-2223 or ivolunteer@cbcf.org for current volunteer opportunities Interested in volunteering at Edmonton's Food Bank?

Lots of opportunities coming up for this holiday season including Save-On-Foods "Stuff A Bus", Candy Cane Lane.

Contact Judy at 780-425-2133 for more information

Across 1 Winner 6 Fair share for one of two 10 "___ Death" (Brad Garrett sitcom) 13 "Raw" Crayola hue 14 ___ Lama 15 Vince's agent, on "Entourage" 16 Painter best known for being tall and stringy?

18 Penn of the "Harold & Kumar" franchise 19 Loose-goose connection 20 City of Circus Circus and New York-New York 21 Spotted laugher 23 Scribble 24 Like hipster humor 25 Surf that's in charge of grilling the turf?

31 ___-baked potatoes 32 Old saying 33 "Paper Planes" singer 36 Barnyard noise 37 Food Network celeb ___ de Laurentiis 38 Sage, for one 39 Lb. and mg, e.g.

40 ___ belly 41 Classical architecture style 42 Really wants to get the stain out of a ticket?

44 Long-running Broadway musical, to fans 47 Dander 48 Slack-jawed 49 Jai alai basket 52 Roswell visitors 55 Greek goddess of night 56 Fast food chain run by Germany's Kohl?

59 Dr. Zaius, for example 60 Last-minute greeting 61 Jazz singer Cleo 62 "___ just what I've always wanted!"

63 ___ mater (brain part) 64 Family member, after tying the knot

Down 1 Castro's home 2 Managed care gps.

3 "Voulez-Vous" band 4 Sea, to Debussy

5 Aggravate 6 Tennis star Mandlikova 7 Draft picks?

8 ___ Cruces, NM 9 Caviar, e.g.

10 Action movie with a 2012 sequel 11 Qom resident 12 Purple shade 14 Like 17 Hotels usually don't allow them 22 "That's scalding hot!"

23 Ten beater 24 "Young Frankenstein" role 25 Stick under the seat 26 Knucklehead 27 Drei minus zwei 28 Sends off 29 One side of the Snake River 30 Big name in perfect 10s 33 Actress Suvari 34 Where eye color comes from 35 The basics 37 Disgruntled word 38 Solo in the Olympics 40 Annoyed, like a faucet in the night 41 Tel Avivan, for instance 42 Blair and Brown, for short 43 Kin's partner 44 Porch on "The Golden Girls" 45 One "Arab Spring" nation 46 Marching band group 49 Ivan the Terrible, e.g.

50 Free verse poet Pound 51 Heart-wrenching 52 Gold medal runner Zatopek 53 Skipjack, e.g.

54 Irish ___ 57 Critical hosp. area 58 Office computer system «2012 Jonesin' Crosswords

Meals On Wheels Be a Christmas Elf During the holiday season, Meals on Wheels serves all of their clients a free turkey dinner and deliver a Christmas gift as a wish of goodwill to lift up those who are alone over the holiday season. To volunteer please contact: 780-429-2020 or volunteer.general@mealsonwheels edmonton.org

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Meals On Wheels Christmas Elves In The Kitchen During the holiday season, Meals on Wheels serves all of their clients a free turkey dinner and deliver a Christmas gift as a wish of goodwill to lift up those who are alone over the holiday season. Come in and make the meals that make a difference.

Come on your own or put together a team to help our Red Seal cooks prepare homemade meals in our kitchen during the morning Monday through Friday throughout the holiday season.To volunteer please contact: 780-429-2020 or volunteer.general@mealsonwheels edmonton.org

Volunteers needed at the Carrot Calling all people who enjoy great coffee, art and community.

The Carrot Community Arts Coffeehouse is looking for some more barista-volunteers to join their coffee & art revolution on Alberta Ave - could this be you?

Available shifts are Thursdays from 10am-1pm. Go to www.thecarrot.ca or email carrotassist@gmail.com for more info

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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): "Don't think about making art, just get it done," said Andy Warhol. "Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art."

I encourage you to adopt that minimanifesto for your own purposes in the coming weeks, Aries. If you're not an artist, simply substitute the appropriate phrase for "making art." It could be "creating interesting relationships," "exploring exotic lands," "changing corrupt political institutions," "fixing environmental problems," or even "making money." The main point is: focus on doing what drives your quest for meaning and forget about what people think of it.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): A Jungian writer whose name I have unfortunately misplaced made the following observations: "In a man's psyche, the unconscious is experienced as chaotic, filled with violent and irrational processes of generation and destruction.

But to a woman's psyche, the unconscious is a fascinating matrix of sacred images and rituals which in their wildly contradictory meanings express the se-

cret unity of all life." After analyzing the astrological omens, I suspect that you Taurus men now have an unprecedented opportunity to experience your unconscious as women do. As for you Taurus women: you have the chance to get a vivid, visceral understanding of how true this description of the female unconscious is.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): Let's talk about the Decision. I'm referring to the Choice you have been dancing around and fretting about and analyzing to death. By my estimate, there are at least 15 different solutions you could pursue. But just seven of those solutions would meet the requirements of being intelligent, responsible and fun.

Of those seven, only four would be intelligent, responsible, fun and enduring. Of those four, only two would be intelligent, responsible, fun, enduring and the best for all concerned. I suggest you opt for one of those two.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): I'm not necessarily asserting that you need to edit yourself, Cancerian; only you can decide that. But I will state unequivoCONTINUED ON PAGE 41 >>

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cally that if there is in fact any editing needed, now would be a good time to do it. You will have extra insight about what aspects of your life might benefit from being condensed, corrected and fine-tuned. It's also true that the rectifications you do in the coming weeks will be relatively smooth and painless. So look into the possibilities, please. Should you calm your blame reflex? Downsize a huffy attitude? Shed some emotional baggage?

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): How many times have you been in love, Leo? Just once or twice? Or have you dived into the depths of amorous togetherness again and again over the years?

Whatever the case may be, I bet you have strong ideas about the nature of passionate romance and profound intimacy. That's natural and normal.

But I'm going to ask you to temporarily forget everything you think you know about all that stuff. I invite you to become innocent again, cleansed of all your mature, jaded, hopeful and resentful thoughts about the game of love. In my astrological opinion, there's no better way for you to prepare for what will come next.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): A medical research journal reported on a British woman who accidentally swallowed a felt-tip pen. It lay there in her stomach for 25 years. When surgeons finally removed it, they were surprised to find it still worked. I am not suggesting that anything remotely as exotic or bizarre will be happening to you, Virgo. I do suspect, though, that you will soon have an experience with certain metaphorical resemblances to that event. For example, you may retrieve and find use for an element of your past that has been gone or missing for a long time.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): "Sapiosexual" is a relatively new word that refers to a person who is erotically attracted to intelligence. Urbandictionary.com gives an example of how it might be used: "I want an incisive, inquisitive, insightful, irreverent mind. I want someone for whom philosophical discussion is foreplay.

I want a sapiosexual." In the coming weeks, Libra, I suspect you will be closer to fitting this definition than you've ever been before. The yearning that's rising up in you is filled with the need to be stimulated by brilliance, to be influenced by wisdom, to be catalyzed by curiosity.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): In 2007, the band The White Stripes did a tour of Canada. One of their final gigs was outdoors in St John's, NL. They came on stage, played one note—a C-sharp—and declared the performance over. It was the briefest rock show in history. Judging from the current astrological omens, Scorpio, I'm thinking it would be a good time for you to do some almost equally pithy things. You have the potential to be extremely concise

and intense and focused in all you do. I urge you to fulfill that potential. Pack every speech, gesture and action with a concentrated wealth of meaning.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): Your redesigned thrust vectoring matrix is finally operational. Love those new nozzles! Moreover, you've managed to purge all the bugs from your cellular tracking pulse, and your highresolution flux capacitor is retooled and as sexy as a digitally-remastered simulation of your first kiss. You're almost ready for take-off, Sagittarius! The most important task left to do is to realign your future shock absorbers. No more than a week from now, I expect you to be flying high and looking very, very good.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): The plot twists will be intriguing. The actors may be unpredictable, even erratic. Blossoming and decay will be happening simultaneously and the line between wisdom and craziness could get blurry. There's not nearly enough room in this little horoscope to describe the epic sweep of the forces working behind the scenes.

Are you willing to confront uncanny truths that other people might regard as too unruly? Are you brave enough to penetrate to the depths that others are too timid to look at, let alone deal with? I hope you are, Capricorn, because that will give you the power to ultimately emerge from the drama with your integrity shining and your intelligence boosted.

COMMENT >> HOMOPHOBIC SLURS

Casual homophobia

Calling something "so gay" now being monitored The last few weeks have been busy for the usage of four common homophobic queer news. There's the good news: four slurs—faggot, dyke, no homo, and so American states (Maine, Maryland, Mingay—across Twitter feeds around the nesota and Washington) saw electors world. The site then live streams the vote for marriage equality in the last tweets in real time; in other words, election. There's also the bad news: moments after someone tweets just in time for the Transgender "no homo," a picture of their Day of Remembrance on Novtweet will appear on the ember 20 (a day to honour home page. Sometimes .com ly those who have been murthe tweets update every k e e @vuew ashley dered because of transphobia), few seconds; other times, y Ashle h there is a veritable avalanche the Trans Murder Monitoring g r Drybu of tweets that scroll so quickly project announced that 2012 saw a 20-percent increase over 2011 in the they can barely be read. instances of trans murders worldwide The result is a constantly changing vis(265 compared to 211). The report does ual representation of the commonness concede that this increase could be a reof these words and phrases. Indeed, this sult of improved tracking and reporting, is the project's purpose. The site claims which leads to the depressing (and not that it is "designed as a social mirror to at all surprising) conclusion that trans show the prevalence of casual homomurders are vastly underreported. phobia in our society." The reflection in And, to echo Alexa DeGagne's last that mirror is rather ugly; the site, which Queermonton column, people wonder began tracking tweets in July and was why we're angry? launched in late September of this year, So this week, in a feeble attempt to has recorded over 4.1 million mentions distract myself from the rage, I want to of the word "faggot" alone. talk about a project that is fuelling anger into a positive intervention. It's called No The project began from research Homophobes, a project developed by such as school climate surveys, which the Institute for Sexual Minority Studies showed upwards of 70 percent of and Services (iSMSS) at the University youth heard homophobic slurs on a of Alberta. The project can be found at daily basis. These statistics align with nohomophobes.com and is simple and what participants in Camp fYrefly, a undeniably powerful. The site tracks yearly leadership retreat for LGBTQ

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youth here in Edmonton, report they experience. The site's emphasis on social media is an attempt to connect to youth in order to draw attention to the consequences of casual homophobia, explains Kristopher Wells, the associate director of iSMSS. "Words have the power to shape people's realities and possibilities in life. Through words, we learn that behaviours are OK, and this can lead to violence," he says.

So far, the site has garnered international attention from the United States to Cambodia as well as mentions in The Guardian, The Atlantic and The Economist. Wells goes on to say that he isn't sure that a site like this would have generated the response that it has even two years ago and credits changing attitudes of youth for making these kinds of conversations possible. "We see now a loud and clear repudiation of social conservatism that is led by our young people," he says, referring particularly to the US election results. "We're using social media for good." Phase two of the project is due to roll out later this month, with a PSA airing on Global.

If you're a Twitter user, you can join the conversation by using #nohomophobes when you see casual homophobia.

Otherwise, head over to nohomophobes.com for more information. V

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): Psychologists have done studies that suggest we subconsciously adopt the qualities of fictional characters we read about or see in movies. That's not a problem if those characters are smart, ethical, highly motivated people whose ideals are similar to ours. But if the heroes of the stories we absorb are jerks who treat others badly and make messes wherever they go, our imitative urges may lead us astray. Right now is a crucial time for you to be extra careful about the role models you allow to seep into your imagination. You're especially susceptible to taking on their attributes. I say, be proactive: expose yourself intensely to only the very best fictional characters who embody the heights you aspire to reach.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): "The fates guide him who will; him who won't, they drag." So said the ancient Greek philosopher Seneca, and now I'm passing it on to you. It's an excellent time for you to think about the issue. Ask yourself: have you been cooperating with fate so that it has maximum power to shepherd you? Have you been working closely with fate, giving it good reasons to consistently provide you with useful hints and timely nudges? Or have you been avoiding fate, even resisting it out of laziness or ignorance, compelling it to yank you along? Spend the next few weeks making sure your relationship with fate is strong and righteous.

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COMMENT >> SEX

Kick me baby one more time (in the balls) Martial arts instructor wants a bit more than student bargained for I am a 22-year-old straight female.

I used to babysit for a wealthy family, but their children have outgrown babysitters. The dad of this family is very into martial arts/fighting and has invited me over several times for "self-defence training." I have accepted his invitations a few times, and it has always started off as a normal workout in their home gym—treadmill, weights, swimming laps—but he is always pretty anxious to get to the self-defence part.

Often he will blindfold me and then come at me and I must then wrestle my way out of the situation using the moves I've learned.

I did this a few times, Dan, but I found it a bit unsettling. However, he never touched me inappropriately. Last time we did this, he told me he wanted to see how much pain he could take. He asked me to kick him in the groin with no protection until he couldn't take it anymore. I thought, "This is strange," but I was curious, so I did it. He was able to take it for a surprisingly long time. I haven't been back since, but for the last six months, he has been pestering me to come back. Recently, he suggested that we have what he calls a "competition." He will stand

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there, and I will kick him in the I don't think his ball-busting fetish is balls—or anywhere else I want— creepy. It's extreme, as fetishes go, and and if he gives up, I get $150. If I give there are definitely risks. But the risks up, by getting too tired, I give him are his. Paying you to kick him in the $20. His wife knows about the worknuts doesn't put his wife at risk (swiftouts, but he said he doesn't want me kick-to-sack is not a known mode of to tell her about the fighting.

STI transmission), it won't take food My question is this: is there a out of his children's mouths, E G A sexual component to this? and, as he presumably has V SA I have never heard of anyall the children he wants, m ball-busting-induced sterilthing like this before and I o .c ly k ee @vuew find it odd. But I am a poor savagelove ity might be a blessing/vasn Da college student, and for $150, ectomy in disguise.

Savage I'll stand there fully clothed and If you need the money, WKkick this guy in the balls! Please let BFM, and you don't think you'll be me know your thoughts. scarred by the experience, tell the Will Kick Balls For Money rich guy you'll consider doing this for him—you'll come over, remain fully There are no nonsexual components clothed, and kick him in the nuts—but to this, WKBFM, and if you've never only if he levels with you: he's getting heard of something like this before, off on this. If he can't level with you, well, you must be a new reader.

WKBFM, don't do this.

What we've got here is a rich guy atYou don't want this rich asshole to tempting to manipulate his kids' forthink he's successfully manipulated mer babysitter into doing sex work for you into doing sex work for him, him—no, scratch that. What we've got because once the session is under here is a rich guy who has already maway, you don't want him thinking, nipulated his kids' former babysitter "Well, if I could get her to do this, into doing sex work for him, WKBFM, I can probably get her to [remove and that's pretty fucking creepy. (Your her clothes, watch me masturbate, previous workouts with the blindfolds have sex with me]." If you go into a and the wrestling and the kicking? Unball-busting session without both paid sex work.) Don't get me wrong: of you having acknowledged what you're actually doing—you're sorta selling sex, he's definitely paying for sex—and he does try to get you to remove your clothes or watch him masturbate or have sex with him, WKBFM, you may find it difficult to say no. Being direct with someone ("No, I'm not taking my clothes off, asshole!") after you've accepted a dishonest premise ("Sure, rich guy, this isn't about sex, you're just testing yourself!") requires you to admit that you were being dishonest, too.

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to dishonesty, and a skilled manipulator will exploit that inhibition to get what he wants.

So tell him you'll play—you'll bust his balls—but you're not going to play along. He has to admit that this is about sex and he has to agree to honour your conditions: everything that happens is agreed to in advance, no special requests during a session, he remains fully clothed, you remain fully clothed, no recordings are made, and you get the $150—make that $250— whether or not he bails.

I am a 30-year-old straight man who has always known that he is a poly.

The woman I love is not a poly. She is a monogamous person. When we started being sexual, it was a strictly friends-with-benefits arrangement, although a sexually exclusive one, at her insistence, and I agreed to that because neither of us expected anything long-term to come of it. But we fell in love and now I can't imagine life without her. She is amazing and I love her like I've never loved any other woman. But she has asked me to betray my sexual identity by remaining sexually exclusive. If I cannot commit to that, she does not want to be with me. I am not asking the same of her: she does not have to sleep with other people to keep me in her life.

She is, however, insisting that I not sleep with other people to keep her in my life. Can someone who is poly be happy with someone who isn't?

Polyamorous Polymath You are not "a poly."

Poly is not a sexual identity, PP, it's not a sexual orientation. It's not something you are, it's something you do. There's no such thing as a person who is "a poly," just as there's

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no such thing as a person who is "a monogamous." Polyamorous and monogamous are adjectives, not nouns. There are only people—gay, straight, bi—and some people are in monogamous relationships, some are in open relationships, some are in polyamorous relationships, some are in monogamish relationships, some are in four-star-general relationships. These are relationship models, PP, not sexual identities.

So the question isn't, "Can a poly be happy with a monogamous?" The question is can you, despite your clear preference for non-monogamous relationship models, be happy in this relationship? Do you love your girlfriend so much that you're willing to pay the price of admission that she's demanding—you're willing to behave monogamously (adverb!)—in order to be with her?

Yes or no?

Since your girlfriend has already indicated that she's not willing to have a non-monogamous relationship with you (or anyone else), PP, the choice is yours to make. If you truly can't live without her, if she's the-one-you'regoing-to-round-the-fuck-up-to-theone, you'll have to be monogamous.

If that's not something you're willing or able to do—and "willing" and "able" are two different criteria, and you'll need to make an honest self-assessment on both counts—then end this relationship and go find someone whose romantic desires more closely align with your own. V Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage. @fakedansavage on Twitter

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