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"I get the vibe that a lot of people in university get it as a way of getting tuition paid for and for me it's more of a fun thing. I'd rather

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Call the cops on Brazeau When Conservative Senate House Leader Marjory LeBreton announced this week that an external audit of at least four senators' claims for secondary residence expenses would be conducted by an outside firm, NDP ethics critic Charlie Angus suggested it was time to call in the RCMP—he was not wrong.

Senators who sign a statutory declaration that their primary residence is more than 100 kilometres away from the capital region are allowed to claim up to $22 000 in living expenses a year when they are in Ottawa on parliamentary business. Questions have been raised about the validity of claims by Liberal senator Mac Harb and Conservative senators Pamela Wallin, Mike Duffy and Patrick Brazeau.

Brazeau claimed $36 701 in living expenses from March 1, 2011 to November 30, 2012. His office says he provided the committee with documentation in December 2012 to support his claim that his primary residence is in Maniwaki, entitling him to claim expenses for his secondary residence in Gatineau, QC. I'm not really sure why the Mounties haven't already been called.

There's that interview Brazeau did with CBC's The National in November 2005 where he explained to the reporter why he left his community two hours north of Ottawa to live in the city. There's the half a dozen letters to the editor of various newspapers, all signed "Patrick Brazeau, Ottawa." There's his 2006 interview with Jane Taber where he boasts

of welcoming aboriginal youth to Ottawa as a proud urban aboriginal. There's that Ottawa Citizen profile in July 2007, complete with colour photo of Brazeau with his wife and two young children, which described him as "Gatineau's Patrick Brazeau." There's that February 2008 feature in the National Post that opened in Brazeau's second-floor Ottawa office and closed with him explaining that his political aspirations were on hold for the moment because he was enjoying his family life in Gatineau with his wife and now three children. There's the November 2012 news reports containing interviews with several Maniwaki residents who were adamant Brazeau did not live in his father's house. And there's that 2007 Citizen piece again. The one where he admitted to the reporter, after taking him to visit what he described as his father's house in Maniwaki, that he didn't get back to visit very often.

Under Section 380 of the Criminal Code, anyone who defrauds the public or another person of property, money, valuable security or service by deceit, falsehood or other fraudulent means is guilty of fraud. It is the section used by provinces to pursue those identified as "welfare cheats" and by the federal government when going after alleged Employment Insurance frauds.

We need to see it applied with the same vigour in the case of Brazeau and any other public official who dips into the public purse. V

COMMENT >> ALBERTA'S TOP ONE PERCENT

Inequality rising

Premier's Economic Summit should have focused on rich-poor divide Three hundred Albertans, ostensibly from all walks of life, got together on February 9 at an invitation-only summit to discuss Alberta's economic future. Although a significant majority of those present came from corporate-funded right-wing think tanks, industry groups, large corporations, and Alberta's academic right, there were also a handful of union leaders, nonprofit organizations and community groups represented.

Given the neoliberal leanings of most of those in attendance, it is not surprising that the conversation, which was supposed to focus on Alberta's economic future, revolved largely around right-wing speaking points: more pipelines, increased efficiency in public services, the merits of a sales tax versus a progressive income tax system, public-private partnerships and downloading of human services to non-profits and the voluntary sector.

What is surprising, however, is that in a summit focused on the economy,

there was virtually no talk of what the crime rates and drug abuse. In esInternational Monetary Fund (IMF) sence, more equal societies not only has recently characterized as the bigperform better in terms of economic gest threat to economic growth in rich growth, but also in terms of virtually jurisdictions—growing inequality. every measure of societal well-being In the last couple of years, out there. not just the IMF, but also So if Premier Alison Redford the World Bank, the is sincere about her desire NCE to have a conversation with E Conference Board of R E F TER om Canada and numerous IN o@vueweekly.c Albertans about the future ricard o other organizations have of Alberta's economy and the Ricard pointed to a direct link bestructure and funding of our Acuña tween growing inequality and social services, it is blatantly irrereduced economic growth. As the sponsible not to dedicate a significant gap between a jurisdiction's wealthy portion of that conversation to the and everyone else increases—and the topic of how we deal with inequality. middle class disappears—the econoThis is especially the case in light of my slows down. analysis by the Canadian Centre for Other researchers, most notably Policy Alternatives and the Parkland Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett Institute of data released by StatsCan in their book The Spirit Level: Why at the end of January showing that More Equal Societies Almost Always Alberta has become, by far, Canada's Do Better, also draw direct links bemost unequal province, and Calgary tween inequality in rich countries and its most unequal city. a series of social ills: from reduced The analysis shows that between life expectancy and reduced health 1982 and 2010 the real incomes of the to higher levels of domestic violence, top one percent of earners in Alberta

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have increased by $320 000, while those of the bottom 90 percent have grown only by $3900. In Calgary, the top one percent saw their incomes grow by a whopping $570 000 over that time period, while the bottom 90 percent only saw a $2000 jump over the same 28-year-period.

As a result of this unequal growth, Alberta's richest one percent now make 18 times more than the bottom 90 percent, up from 10 times more in 1982. In Calgary the inequality is even more startling, with those at the top now making 26 times more than the bottom 90 percent. Edmonton has also seen a significant rise in inequality over the last 28 years, although nowhere near as drastic as Calgary's.

Unless something is done to reverse this trend, then inequality in Alberta will go nowhere but up. And as the research makes clear, that will only result in a stagnant economy, a reduced quality of life for all Albertans and a long list of destructive and expensive social ills.

To date, the Premier's conversation on Alberta's economy has been focused exclusively on the bottom line: what is the right mix of revenue growth, spending cuts, privatization and downloading of services required to balance our books in the short term? But that's the wrong conversation and the wrong question. Given the current statistics and trends—and the overwhelming consensus of research on the negative impacts of growing inequality— the question we should be asking is how do we restructure our tax system and improve our services to ensure maximum redistribution of wealth, increased opportunity and a more equal society over the long term? If that's not the conversation we're having, then we are really not going anywhere. V Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta.

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COVER // SUGAR BABIES

THE SUGAR TRADE

Edmonton students see being a sugar baby as an easy way to make some cash

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rom all over the world guys are messaging you. Some guys would just be like, 'Yeah, I just want to have sex with you and I'll give you an allowance for each month and it will be thousands of dollars.' But I'm just not into that so I'm like, 'No. Next,'" says 21-year-old sugar baby Mikayla (she asked that her name be changed for this article.) "Some of them want you to be their mistress if they're married and they would just fly you to wherever they live." These horny, high-rollin' guys are the sugar daddies Mikayla has met on the controversial dating website seekingarrangement. com.

"My friend told me about it last year and we were like, 'Oh yeah, we'll try it out because we're so sick of guys our age. They have no money or anything.'

And we were kind of broke so we both signed up," says the fourth-year U of A psychology student.

"We always meet up for dinner, so of course dinner's on them and I always get to choose where to go. I went to Ruth's Chris with one of them, or the Chop or whatever," Mikayla says.

"One guy that I went to dinner with was in his 60s and he thought he was so cool, but I had to read the menu for him because he couldn't even read it properly. And later he was talking about hooking up and I don't understand how he thinks that if he can't even see I'm going to hook up with this old guy."

Some have compared the website to young women and men prostituting themselves for dinners, shopping trips and vacations. Daddies and mommas state in their profile how much they're willing to spend on a baby each month in return for companionship and babies state whether or not they require a monthly allowance. Mikayla welcomes trips to the mall in place of a monthly allowance.

"Our second date is usually a shopping spree. For example, I met one guy at the Earl's on campus last Thursday and then that night we went to West Edmonton Mall and he spent $1600 on me just in one shopping spree. And we went to all my stores—he never even stopped me—I just felt bad after a while so I stopped myself. One guy paid for my hair appointment, my nails. Basically they just take care of you."

The U of A ranked fifth on Seeking Arrangement's top-20 list of Canadian universities that babies attend (125 sugar babies signed up from the U of A in 2012). But Seeking Arrangement's public relations manager Jennifer Gwynn says they don't target university and college students, despite the fact that students can upgrade to the premier membership for free.

"We didn't recruit anybody. We don't target anybody. I actually don't like that word because it seems like we're preying on somebody when, really,

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that's just the trend we noticed on our website," Gwynn says about the high number of post-secondary students now accessing the site.

"The sugar-daddy idea is not a new idea. It's kind of an urban legend, a myth that people hear about. They think about Mr Big from Sex and the City and Christian Grey (from 50 Shades of Grey) and they don't think that it's a real thing. And then they talk to people who are in this lifestyle and they realize that this actually does exist and they search Google for the website and they find us or they see us on TV or in a college newspaper."

Eighteen-yearold Georgia heard about the site on an episode of Dr Phil when he was talking to sugar babies and Seeking Arrangement's CEO Brandon Wade. She didn't take the doctor's advice—he condemed the practice—but instead signed up for the site in late December. The U of A freshman says she's now dating a 30-something-year-old engineer, but doesn't know or even care if he's seeing other girls.

"After I met him for the first time he actually deleted his account and I see him about once every two weeks, depending on how much time we both have. For the most part we just go out for dinner dates and that kind of thing."

Georgia went on a date with one other daddy but rejected him when he suggested a once-a-week hookup. So far she's only met for dates in public places. "It's going to take time before I'm willing to [go back to a daddy's place.] I completely have to be the one to initiate [physical contact] and I have to be the one to want it because otherwise it's not going to feel appropriate at all. ... I get the vibe that a lot of people in university get it as a way of getting tuition paid for and for me it's more of a fun thing. I'd rather just go out and have someone buy me dinner and buy me gifts. I don't ask for an allowance. It's not like that for me. It seems like a lot of other people use it for more necessity than I do."

All of Georgia's friends know what she's up to, but she hasn't told her family. "I feel like they might be a bit freaked

out.

I t ' s nothing creepy or anything like that, I just feel like they would find it strange that I'm dating someone in their 30s."

Mikayla's friends know about the men she sees, too—a lot of them are also using the site—but her parents only know that she goes for dinners and chats online with older men.

"My dad thinks it's so funny," she says. "He's like, 'These guys are so stupid. Why would they waste money without even meeting you?'"

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Mikayla admits she doesn't tell her parents what else she does for a few hundred dollars. "Sometimes I'll even just send pictures of myself and they'll send me money by email transfer so I don't even have to meet up with the guys and I get money sent to my account. I'll just do lingerie ones, no nudes. And I cut out my face so no one will even know [it's me]."

Not everyone is quite as nonchalant about the benefits of the service. Detective Dave Schening with Edmonton Police Service's Vice Section draws parallels between this sort of relationship and the way

women are often treated by the men they service as prostitutes and escorts. He says prostitution is the most dangerous profession there is and this site is not that far off.

"There's so many ideas that these guys will have and they expect the girl to carry them out. They're the piece of

m e a t .

They're the commodity and 'I'll do with you as I please because you're mine,' for whatever time slot they have and how much they've agreed to pay."

But Gwynn is adamant that Seeking Arrangement is not an escort service at all. She says it's a dating site like any other and the almost one percent of Canadians using the site—330 000 babies, daddies and mommas—are not their responsibility to check in on.

"If you're a prostitute or an escort, you're conducting a transaction.

You're not selective of who you're sleeping with," Gwynn says. "In our website, this is a relationship. People join up like any other website. They look for a relationship, but it just

happens to have a financial component involved.

They're completely different. One's a job, one's a lifestyle."

Gwynn says the relationships arranged on Seeking Arrangement are not ironclad contracts and to the contrary, are more traditional. "For a lot of them, there's an allowance involved and the average allowance is about $3000 per month for sugar babies. In regards of expectations, most of the relationships resemble any other type of boyfriendgirlfriend relationship; sex is not a requirement. In other relationships I'm sure the men aspire to sleep with the women, but it's definitely not an expectation or requirement by any means. If there's a connection, if there's chemistry, then it definitely will go down that road, but it's not something that's required."

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By City of Edmonton standards, at least, the "traditional" relationships sound a lot like an escorting service.

"These ads in themselves are not illegal. They're just chatting about companionship. 'Give me some money and I'll hang out with you.'

The City of Edmonton licences escorts. At face value escorts are when one person sells her time to be company," Schening says about the profiles on Seeking Arrangement and the ads they place.

"I think these girls are making uneducated, uninformed, naïve decisions. They think, 'All I have to do is hang out with this guy, maybe service him once in a while, and make some money.'

They're not realizing the fallout and the dangers. The risks outweigh the profits in my opinion."

But the profit is hard to resist for Mikayla, who is considering leaving the country to meet one of her daddies.

"I just had a guy messaging me from New York and he wants to fly me down there whenever I can come," she says.

"I said, 'Yeah, maybe next weekend.

But I want to bring a friend so that I feel more comfortable. And he's going to fly her down too."

Mikayla adds that she's not nervous about it like she was when he first suggested it, because her friend will be with her. She wants to have fun with this money while she can.

"Right now I have a student loan so I won't be worrying about paying it back until I graduate, so probably [won't use any money for tuition] because otherwise I'd have to save and I'm just using it for shopping or clothes and I'm also going on a vacation for spring break, so this guy sent me money for that," Mikayla says.

"I love the way I'm getting treated now. They'll even open up the door for me. They treat me like a princess.

I love it. It's so different from my real relationships in the past."

Georgia's having fun with her money too, but says she would never fly out of the country to meet a daddy.

"I don't use it out of need, I use it out of want. The minute that I don't feel comfortable I'll just end it."

U of A campus club Power To Change's leadership were uneasy when they heard that local students were becoming sugar babies to pay for their education. The club has

placed ads in the student newspaper to invite students to a Facebook forum about the subject.

"It's mostly to get people talking.

We're not doing it to end this happening on campus, but moreso to talk about it, see what people think, and our hope at the end of it is that through this there may be some people examining their own lives, their own sense of where do they get their purpose and their meaning in their life," says Melanie Dreger, one of the Christian group's advisors. "The discussion is just a healthy thing to get different points-of-view interacting with each other. I think no matter what kind of upbringing you've come from, or what kind of world view you've come from, it's always good to question it."

There are other ways students are paying for their education that EPS Staff Sergeant in the Serious Crimes Branch Jerry Nash has noticed at the 40-plus body rub centres in the city.

"When we do our licence checks with our partners from the City of Edmonton, different body rub centres, there are at times workers that are working at these locations that are registered students and we talk about what they're doing, how they're doing. Our bias is to persuade them to maybe find another line of work."

Nash and Schening don't consider body rub centres as safe employment. "Whether it's exotic dancing or stripping—whatever you want to call it—or it's escorting or it's body rub centres, or it's prostitution-related activities, is usually the woman—if it's a woman, the male if it's a male or transgendered—they're the commodity. We'll be quite candid—at times people will be working for themselves and they're making money for themselves. That's the vast minority, it's not the majority.

The majority of times it's some level of sexual exploitation."

But the girls don't think they're being exploited. "The guys that I usually meet up with don't say that they're into the sex or anything," Mikayla says. "They're moreso looking for a companion to go out for dinner dates with or the movies or just fun activities. And a lot of these guys work out of town and will come back maybe twice a month on the weekends. So they don't really know lots of people in the city so they just want a new friend or whatever. My friends always know where I'm going and with who. I always meet up with them in a public place. I'll never go back to their own house or a hotel with them even if they want to. I'll be like, 'Nope, I want to be in a public place.' So I think I'm pretty safe that way. And I always drive and I meet them there, I never let them pick me up. I try to do it in a smart, safe way and I tell them that I'm not down to just hook up and stuff like that. I want to be more of a companion."

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Murder mystery in Tunisia Difficult to pin down who killed human rights lawyer When somebody is murdered and his killer is unknown, the detective's first step is to ask: who had a motive? In classic murder-mystery novels and films, the usual answer was: almost everybody. That's the only way to keep the plot going for 250 pages/90 minutes.

But in real life, the suspects are generally few, and pretty obvious. So who killed Chokri Belaid?

The Tunisian human rights lawyer and political leader was assassinated outside his home as he left for work on February 6, and the country immediately erupted in violent anti-government demonstrations. His wife Basma said she would file murder charges against the ruling Ennahda Party and its leader, and the mobs in the street chanted the mantra of the Arab revolutions, "The people want the fall of the regime."

But the regime in question is the democratically elected government of a country that has already had its revolution. Tunisia was the birthplace of the "Arab Spring." It held its first free elec-

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The Ennahda-led transitional government has made some mistakes, as you would expect of inexperienced politicians, but it has shown no desire to subvert democracy. Indeed, the Islamic party formed a coalition with two secular centre-left parties after the election, and in the weeks before Belaid's murder it was deep in talks to broaden the coalition and bring other secular parties in.

Those other parties have now walked out of the talks, demanding the cancellation of the results of the 2011 election. That certainly does not serve Ennahda's interests, and the violent protests in the streets are even more of a problem, since they might trigger a military intervention to "restore order." (The Tunisian army is strongly pro-secularist.) In terms of motive, Ennahda has none. So who

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Century Casino • 13103 Fort Rd, 780.481.9857 • Open Mic Night: Every Thu; 7:30-9pm • Michelle Shaughnessy, Eddie Della Siepe, Derek Supple (MC); Feb 15-16 • Rob Ross, Chris Griffin, Kyle Jones (MC); Feb 22-23

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Bob Angeli; Feb 14-16 • That's Improv!

Feb 21-23

Comic Strip • Bourbon St, WEM, 780.483.5999 • WedFri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Ruben Paul; until Feb 17 • Erik Griffin; Feb 20-24

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.710.2119 • Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm

Filthy McNasty's • 10511-82 Ave, 780.996.1778 • Stand Up Sundays: Stand-up comedy night every Sun with a different headliner every week; 9-11pm; no cover

Overtime Pub • 4211-106 St • Open mic comedy

Dance Your Prayers Sweat Your Bliss • Roots on Whyte, 3rd Fl, Conference Centre, 8135-102 St • 780.932.1109 • Opening circle and group meditation/ inspired reading, one hour dance session, followed by a closing circle/dyad connection • Every Mon until Feb 18, 7:30-9pm • $15 (donation, pay-what-you-can)

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

Edmonton Bicycle Commuters • Crestwood School, 9735-144 St • edmonton.ca/cycling • On-Street Bike Routes 2013 • Feb 20, 6-8:30pm

Edmonton Nature Club • King's University College, 9125-50 St • Two naturalists travel through the Northwest Passage: monthly meeting with speakers Dave Ealey and Elisabeth Beaubien • Feb 15, 7pm (refreshments), 7:30 (meeting) • Admission by donation

Edmonton Ukulele Circle • Bogani Café, 2023-111 St, 780.440.3528 • 3rd Sun each month; 2:30-4pm • $5

Edmonton Young People in Alcoholics Anonymous • Expressionz Café, 9938-70 Ave • Every Fri, 7:30-8:30pm; doors at 7pm for coffee

Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club

River Cree–The Venue • Bob Saget • Feb 22, 7pm

• Canada Place, 2nd Fl, 9700 Jasper Ave, 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw.ca; fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs. org • Can you think of a career that does not require communication • Every Tue, 12:05-1pm

(door), 8pm (show) • Sold out

FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican Church, 8424-95

anchored by a professional MC, new headliner each week • Every Tue • Free

Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St • Sterling Scott every Wed, 9pm

Rumors Ultra Lounge • 8230 Gateway Blvd • Every Thu Neon Lights and Laughter with host Sterling Scott and five comedians and live DJ TNT; 8:30pm

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

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

Zen Lounge • 12923-97 St • 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 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm

Amnesty International Edmonton • 8307-109 St • edmontonamnesty.org • Meet the 4th Tue each month, 7:30pm (no meetings in Jul, Aug) E: amnesty@edmontonamnesty.org for more info • Free

Argentine Tango Dance at Foot Notes Studio • Foot Notes Dance Studio (South side), 9708-45 Ave, 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)

10 up front

Ave, 780.465.2019, 780.634.5526 • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm

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

Home–Energizing Spiritual Community for

Passionate Living • Garneau/Ashbourne Assisted Living Place, 11148-84 Ave • Home: Blends music, drama, creativity and reflection on sacred texts to energize you for passionate living • Every Sun, 3-5pm Lotus Qigong, 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every 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

Mill Creek Morning Al-Anon Family Group • Expressionz Café, 9938-70 Ave • Open to anyone who has been affected by somebody else's drinking • Meet every Wed 10-11am, admission by donation

Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-106 St, 780.458.6352,

One suspect is the Salafists, religious extremists who despise the Ennahda Party but absolutely hate militant secularists like Belaid. Many in the secular camp criticize Ennahda's founder and leader, Rachid Ghannouchi, for failing to "crack down" when Salafist fanatics attack peaceful political gatherings, and he must bear some blame here. But that's still a long way from plotting a murder.

Ghannouchi, like the leaders of other moderate Islamic parties across the Arab world, is reluctant to treat the Salafists as enemies (even though they are), because they both compete for the votes of pious Muslims. But he also argues, quite reasonably, that mass arrests and torture of Salafists in the style of the old regime is immoral and counter-productive. Just track down the ones who have committed specific crimes.

Grant MacEwan City Centre Cafeteria, 10600-104 Ave • 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

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

sAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP • Braeside Presbyterian Church bsmt, N. door, 6 Bernard Dr, Bishop St, Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • For adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional families • Every Mon, 7:30pm Sherwood Park Walking Group + 50 • Meet inside Millennium Place, Sherwood Place • Weekly outdoor walking group; starts with a 10-min discussion, followed by a 30 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)

the sol café • Expressionz Café, 9938-70 Ave • Meet Sundays 4:30-6:30pm

Tango Plus–Milonga • Expressionz Café, 9938-70 Ave, 780.905.8505 • Cristina and Vicente Munoz give a free beginners tango class • Meet the 4th Sat each month, 8-9pm • Followed by $12 dance

Sugarswing Dance Club • Orange Hall, 10335-84 Ave/Pleasantview Hall, 10860-57 Ave, 780.604.7572 • Swing Dance at Sugar Foot Stomp: beginner lesson followed by dance every Sat, 8pm (door)

Valentines Single Extravaganza • Palace Banquet Hall, 3223 Parson Rd • Eight Minute Date: Valentine's Single Extravaganza • Feb 15, 5:45pm • $45 (adv) 780.457.8535 We Should Know Each Other • Artery, 9535 Jasper Ave • An evening of conversation and ideas hosted by Beth and Megan Dart, and Mark Hopkins • Feb 24, 7-11pm

Wild Rose Antique Collectors Society • Delwood Community Hall, 7517 Delwood Rd • wildroseantiquecollectors.ca • Collecting and researching items from various periods in the history of Edmonton. Presentations after club business. Visitors welcome • Meets the 4th Mon of every month (except Jul & Dec), 7:30pm

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

Y Toastmasters Club • Queen Alexandra Hall, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to left) • Every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue each month. Help develop confidence in public speaking and leadership • Contact: Antonio Balce, 780.463.5331

LECTURES/Presentations 3 Speaker Series: Photographers • MacEwan's John L. Haar Theatre, 10045-156 St • The Society of Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC), Alberta North chapter present 3 local photographers • Feb 21 6pm (door), 7pm (presentation) • $10 (non-member)/free (GDC member, design students/ faculty: MacEwan, U of A, NAIT, NorQuest, Guru Digital Arts) Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt • epl. ca/freedomtoread • Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science, U of A • Chris Hedges speaks about injustice and corporate greed in America...and argues Canada is suffering the same disease of decay. Presented for EPL's Freedom to Read Week 2013 • Feb 24, 7pm • Free Dishcrawl Edmonton • To be announced • Experience a Taste of Westmount: Explore Edmonton's High Street and Westmount neighbourhood, sample dishes from four local restaurants, and connect with the restaurant owners, chefs, and fellow foodies • Feb 20, 7-10pm • $50 each (incl food cost) info: E: zoeg@dishcrawl.com

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Did the Salafists commit this particular crime? Possibly. Killing a militant secularist would be emotionally satisfying to them. But they are not actually the leading suspect in Chokri Belaid's murder.

The prime suspect is the old ruling elite, people who served the former dictator and have been deprived of power and opportunities for graft since the revolution. They can only regain their privileges if democracy fails, so violence in the streets, extreme political polarization, the discrediting of an elected government and a military take-over are precisely what they need.

The Constitutional Democratic Rally, the party whose members loyally served the dictator and were lavishly rewarded by him, was banned after the revolution, and some of its senior members are in jail or in exile. But there are still plenty of others around, and it would be astonishing if they were not plotting a comeback. The only viable route to that goal is to stimulate a civil war between the secular democrats and the Islamic democrats.

If this is where the logic takes us, why are some of the secular parties taking

to the streets? In some cases, no doubt, grief and rage have led them astray. In other cases, however, there is probably the cynical calculation that this is the most effective way to hurt the Islamic party, even if it had nothing to do with the murder.

Ennahda's response has been less than coherent. Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali, shocked by the news of the murder, offered to replace the government with a cabinet of technocrats and call early elections, but the party's founder and leader, Rachid Ghannouchi, said that the government should stay in place and track down the murderers.

Jebali is sticking to his guns, and the outcome is far from clear. The whole thing is a mess and Tunisians are justifiably concerned that their revolution has lost its way. But there is quite a good chance that they will be able to get the process of building a law-abiding democracy back on track without a major disaster, and it's certainly far too soon to say that their revolution was a mistake. V

Optimal Veg*n Diet • Stanley Milner Library Theatre, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.469.1448 • Presentation with Vesanto Melina • Feb 19, 7-9pm • Donation

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

Thoughtful Tuesday • Earth's General Store, 960582 Ave • Introduction to Permaculture Design; Feb 19, 7-9pm

Vegetarian, Vegan, and Raw Food Diets • Stanley A. Milner Library Theatre, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Talk presented by the Vegans and Vegetarians of Alberta • Feb 19, 7pm

Waskahegan Trail Hikes • Meet at McDonalds, Argyll Rd, 81 St • waskahegantrail.ca • Hike along the St. Albert River trail with Waskahegan Trail guide Bev, 780.469.7948 • Feb 24, 9:45am-2:45pm • Guests welcome; $20 (annual membership)

QUEER 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 EPLC Fellowship Pagan Study Group • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave, 780.488.3234 • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome FLASH Night Club • 10018-105 St, 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. sports and recreation • teamedmonton. ca • Hockey: at the Sportsdome • Blazin' Bootcamp: Every Mon, 7:30-8:30pm at Garneau Elementary School, 10925-87 Ave; $30/$15 (low income/student) • Badminton (Co-Ed): Every Wed, 6-7:30pm; St Vincent School, 10530-138 St; $5 (drop-in) • Cross-Country Skiing: Strathcona Wilderness Centre • Outdoor Skating: Hawrelak Park, Victoria Oval • Yoga: Gay/Lesbian yoga every Wed, 7:30-9pm, at Lion's Breath Yoga, 206, 10350-124 St; Instructor: Jason Morris; $10 (drop-in) • Indoor Cycling: Terwillegar Recreation Centre; drop-in • Running: Every Sun, 10am, at Kinsmen • Swimming–Making Waves: Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) pool, 11762-106 St • Volleyball: until May 2013 • Curling: Every Tue, 7pm at the Granite Curling Club, 8620-107 St • Bowling: Every Tue, 6:30pm; at Ed's Rec Room, WEM; $15/week • Martial Arts–Kung Fu and Kick Boxing: Every Tue, Thu, 6-7pm; GLBTQ inclusive adult classes at Sil-Lum Kung Fu

G.L.B.T.Q Seniors Group • S.A.G.E Bldg, 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 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 LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408-124 St, 780.488.5768 • Confidential peer support to people living with HIV • Tue, 7-9pm: Support group • Daily drop-in, peer counselling

MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geocities.com/ makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming.

Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu

Pride Centre of Edmonton • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave, 780.488.3234 • A safe, welcoming, and non-judgemental drop-in space, support programs and resources offered for members of the GLBTQ community,

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PrimeTimers/sage Games • Unitarian Church, 10804-119 St, 780.474.8240 • Every 2nd and last Fri each Month, 7-10:30pm St Paul's United Church • 11526-76 Ave, 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship) 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 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

SPECIAL EVENTS Avonmore Family Fun Day Playground Silent Auction • Avonmore Hall, 7902-73 Ave • Sleighrides, skating, games, food, silent auction fundraiser • Feb 18, 12-3:30pm

Chinese New Year • City Centre Mall, 102 St, 102 Ave, Lower Level next to the LRT Pedway, 780.428.4035 • ecbea. org • Year of the Snake: Entertainment and fun for the whole family • Feb 16, 11am-4pm • Free

Embrace Charity Benefit Concert and Silent Auction • Christcity Church, 14788-156 St, 780.419.7273 • Comedian Michael Jr with music by the Watoto Children’s Choir from Africa and more special guests! Concert and silent auction to benefit Hope Mission, Watoto Children's Choir Christian Blind Mission; presented

by Embrace Charity • Feb 22-23, 5pm (silent auction), 7pm (concert) • $15-$30 including service fees

Family Day • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave; Join in the free Family Day fun with music and dance from 16 countries; Feb 18, 2pm • Rutherford House, 11153 Saskatchewan Dr; Family Day Open House: step back in time to the Edwardian era as they make a craft; play old-fashioned games, and sample cookies baked in the wood-burning stove; Feb 18, 12-4pm

SILVER SKATE FESTIVAL • Hawrelak Park • silverskatefestival.org • Winter sports, activities, snow and fire sculpture, live music, folk trail; all-age winter celebration • Feb 15-18 • Free

Sunday Swing 'N' Skate • City Hall Plaza • Music, dancing, and free skate rentals • Feb, Sundays, 1-4pm • Billie Zizi and the Gypsy Jive; Feb 17 • River City Big Band; Feb 24

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Jude, laying down the law

Now playing Side Effects Directed by Steven Soderbergh

 "It's become absolutely horrible the way the people with the money decide they can fart in the kitchen, to put it bluntly. It's not just studios—it's who is financing a film. I guess I don't understand the assumption that the director is presumptively wrong about what the audience wants or needs when they are the first audience, in a way."

—Steven Soderbergh, January 2013

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artly out of frustration with the movie business and the current "tyranny of narrative" in cinema, the most prolific and assured indie-main-

stream-straddling American filmmaker of the last 15 years is retiring (to pursue painting and theatre). Steven Soderbergh offers Side Effects, from a script by frequent collaborator Scott Z Burns (The Informant!, Contagion), as his swan song.

Both Soderbergh and Burns mostly sidestep any didactic or predictable plotting with their visual- and moodmakeovers to an audience's genre expectations. The opening—a zoomin on a window in a city building, à la the beginning of Psycho—clues us in to this being a thriller, but the film then slips into an effective socialcommentary drama about pharmaceuticals. And even when it twists back to Hitchcockland, there's more than enough lingering spookiness about

a culture's dependence on prescription drugs and psychiatry to wrench Side Effects away from being a mere trickster-tale.

Soon after Emily (Rooney Mara) reunites with her husband (Channing Tatum), released after serving time for insider trading, she slips into depression. Dr Jonathan Banks (Jude Law) treats her, eventually prescribing a new drug, Ablixa, that seems to help, though it causes her to sleepwalk. Then, one evening, Emily does something that will destroy either her or Banks's life, though Emily's old ties to Dr Elizabeth Siebert (Catherine Zeta-Jones) suggest the truth's not what it seems.

Early on, Soderbergh's eye, crisp and cutting, slants us into Emily's mindset: a vertiginous shot of a building, look-

ing up from the sidewalk; shallow-focus close-ups or close-ups that offer a lot of negative space (echoing the cold, hollow world of Emily and Martin's pretty but empty bourgeois New York); slo-mo tracking of Emily's trancelike sadness.

Even when the film glides through investigation and thriller territory, Burns offers some sharp dialogue about the eerie everyday-ness of depression (if it's about not having much hope for the future, aren't many of us often depressed?) and murder (a decision you make over and over, day after day). The story flirts with the notion that easy, individual-based narratives (legal, medical) are simplistic delusions ... before it tightly ties up all the loose ends.

Acting-wise, the film's mostly Mara's and Law's, the former offering, amid

deceptive shots of her girlish youth (her slight frame and some of her outfits), some stunning scenes of nearcatatonic hopelessness, while Law embodies an over-worked, concerned doctor soon bound on saving himself. (The film's weak character-link and plot-point rests on Zeta-Jones's vamp, a too-chilly female out of Basic Instinct.) It's this constant, venal self-interest and save-my-career obsession—the flip-side of, say, a director getting out of the film business to spend some time on more personal passions—that, along with our possibly last glimpse of Soderbergh's sharp eye, over-drives Side Effects beyond mere thriller and into a social-chiller.

its burgeoning elderly population, and 2) with the immaculate, almost unbearably moving performances given by the two legendary French actors who star in the film.

author of such studies in total entropy as Benny's Video, both versions of Funny Games, The Piano Teacher, The Time of the Wolf and Caché—of exuding tenderness, but, true to its title, Amour does indeed convey a gesture of tremendous

generosity, intimacy and love. That gesture, which is more or less anticipated in the film's very first scene, is also delivered in a manner that's brutal, almost vicious in its impact.

So the film isn't as antithetical to Haneke's MO as you might think. It's simply that he seems to have created a protagonist who he can actually admire.

Or put it this way: if Amour is resonating emotionally with a far larger audience than Haneke's earlier work—and those five Oscar nominations, Best Picture among them, seems to imply as much— I would suggest that this has little to do with any supposed softening in Haneke's approach and everything to do with 1) the film's very timely concern with society's treatment of

has reached its nadir—though his decisions are not harmonious with those of the couple's daughter, played by Isabelle Huppert.

Moving through a series of hushed, crepuscular interiors photographed in muted tones by Darius Khondji, the film is executed with Haneke's customary austerity and chilly distance, yet it nonetheless functions as a tribute to marital devotion.

The couple's home feels lived in, in a haute bourgeois sort of way.

Things are from the get-go totally predetermined, but a wandering pigeon brings a little mystery to the proceedings. Amour is very much a chamber piece, devastating and quietly polemical.

BRIAN GIBSON

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Amour

Marital devotion

Opens Friday Directed by Michael Haneke Princess Theatre

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Jean-Louis Trintignant (The Conformist, Three Colors: Red) and Emmanuelle Riva (Hiroshima mon amour) play George and Anne Laurent, an octogenarian couple coping with the debilitating aftereffects of Anne's stroke.

They had previously been blessed with good health and independence, so the alarming rapidity of Anne's condition prompts painful pre-emptive decisions. Anne asks George to promise not to admit her to hospital or a nursing home. After Anne essentially loses the ability to communicate, it falls to George to decide when her suffering

JOSEF BRAUN

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My Neighbour Totoro / Porco Rosso ments of self-blame, from the eldest and the mother, are also deeply moving and may be semi-autobiographical (Miyazaki's mother spent some years in hospital, suffering from Pott's disease, before being nursed at home).

With the finest rhythm and pace of any Ghibli film, My Neighbour Totoro gently see-saws the faint aches of youth—echoed in the melancholy of a rainy afternoon or the streaks of tears on Mei's cheeks—with complete trust in the wonder of a nature-inspired imagination. The sisters and their newfound furry friend, in the blue of night, dance until rows of acorns spring into a giant tree, its canopy billowing up toward the clouds. Totoro perches on a treetop and plays an ocarina-like flute. In lulling, Ozu-like moments, the satoyama landscape (foothill farmlands and paddies) twinkles in its beauty, like the film itself.

Porco Rosso

Fri, Feb 15 (7 pm), Sun, Feb 17 (1:30 pm), Mon, Feb 18 (2 pm) My Neighbour Totoro

 Sat, Feb 16 (4:15 pm), Mon, Feb 18 (7 pm), Wed, Feb 20 (7 pm) Porco Rosso

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etro Cinema's Studio Ghibli retrospective returns with the exhilarating gust of magic that blew through cinemas in the late '80s, establishing the Japanese workshop as a fantastic force of modern animation. This masterwork, which almost didn't happen (only when the fledgling studio agreed to make Isao Takahata's children-caught-in-war classic Grave of the Fireflies did backers go along with the project), is paired with the Miyazaki film that seems to fly straight of the studio's name itself— "ghibli" coming from the Arabic "qibli," the gale-force wind that's whipped up in the Sahara before rushing across the Mediterranean.

No film bottles the wide-eyed, moody, exploring, strangely sensitive spirit of childhood like My Neighbour Totoro (1988). It also fizzes with the

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spirit of Miyazaki, and Studio Ghibli, at its simplest. (Spirited Away is Miyazaki's complex masterpiece.) When Satsuki and Mei arrive at their new home in the country with their father, we're let out into a childhood of frolics and explorations, where a rundown old home is fun, young Mei pistons down the big stairs on her little legs or gives a "hmph!" as she plucks up her courage, and the girls yell ahead into dark spaces to allay their fears.

Soon after the house's "soot sprites" scatter (only to return in Spirited Away as boiler-man Kamaji's servants), Mei, Alice-like, follows two scooting creatures into the woods. She falls down a hole onto the big-bellied, egg-shaped, cat-faced, tuft-eared Totoro. This guardian, an enigmatic protector that you can just sense, along with Mei and Satsuki, is a caring creature, rahr!s to speak. Only the girls can see him, though Totoro also seems to be a manifestation of their wish to be bigger, more commanding and never fearful. He can also summon a Cheshire-cat bus that smiles its toothy, mischievous grin in-between running from stop-to-stop on 12 legs.

This film's perfectly pitched at young children who've felt—and any adult who still even faintly remembers— that throbbing sting of concern for a parent (the sisters worry about their mother, convalescing in hospital). Mo-

1920s aviation-adventure Porco Rosso (1992) is more action-packed and manga-style, but its predictable plot points—punch-ups and air-battles—are secondary to Miyazaki-esque scenes of women's work, the indifferent beauty of nature and war as nightmare. The writer-director, fascinated by aviation since designing planes as a boy while his father worked as director of a factory that made parts for A6M Zero planes during the Second World War, transforms his boyish enthusiasm for winged weapons into an adult ruefulness about aero-warfare.

An ex-First World War ace, Marco Pagot, turned porcine by a magic spell, Porco Rosso ("Crimson Pig" in Italian) now soars over the Adriatic as a bounty hunter, rescuing the hostages of air pirates and otherwise thwarting the jeering buccaneers of the clouds. But then a cocky American, Donald Curtis, flies in, determined to knock Porco down a peg and woo the lady he loves. Still, this plot's less stirring than the sequence where the occasionally sexist male Pig finds himself surrounded in Milan's Piccolo factory by women making his new plane for him—from 17-year-old redhead Fio, who designs it, to her spirited grandmother. And there's a story this anti-Fascist pilot CONTINUED ON PAGE 13 >>

Lee Marvin in Point Blank

Tue, Feb 19 (7 pm) Directed by John Boorman Metro Cinema at the Garneau Originally Released: 1967

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both men respected the book, but what they constructed is so purely, adventurously cinematic as to resemble a violent, intricate, heartbroken puzzle/fever dream/temporal weave which the book scarcely suggests. The oneiric compression of exposition in that first mesmerizing montage, enveloped in composer Johnny Mandel's funeral brass. It's a fusion of genre and modernism more indebted to Last Year at Marienbad (1961) than anything in Hollywood's gangster pantheon. And its influence has proved immense: Point Blank is written into the DNA of The Limey (1999) and The Limits of Control (2009).

man in a prison cell is all shot up.

He collapses on the floor in a heap, hands twitching, staring at the ceiling, or at heaven, or into an abyss. Or, perhaps, into his own past—or future.

The injured man slides into the sea. Over the soundtrack a female voice speaks of Alcatraz's history.

And, just like that, the man is now in a suit, looking calm, no longer dying, on a ferry circling the infamous island penitentiary. (That voice belongs to a tour guide.)

Marvin was no one's idea of an arty The man will walk a very long halltype, yet he seemed to connect with way, heels clacking. We won't know Point Blank, perhaps because its comwhere that hallway is or where it pelling balance of violent vengeance leads, but the man arrives at a bungadrained of emotion and Walker's low occupied by his wife. He storms in, haunted pathos and abandonment  pistol in hand, grabs her, then rushes did justice to Marvin's own guilt to the bedroom and blows the hell out over surviving the assault on Mount of the empty bed. (Later he'll shoot a Tapochau during the Second World telephone.) "I'm  glad you're not dead," War, where most of his company was  says the wife. But is he?

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Heathering the storm Heathers drapes '80s high school in a surreal comic darkness It's hard to imagine the world Heathers seem poised to turn on that Heathers (1988) could Veronica, he convinces her to get have emerged out of: ostensisome pre-emptive revenge. She bly a dark high school comedy, thinks they're only going to make it's both ahead of its time and the lead Heather puke (which is completely grounded in its '80s apparently a really big deal in '80s setting. Plenty of now-non-PC high school); instead he slips her jokes slip into its runtime, some drain-o and she croaks. mixed in around a playT Which is also a pretty big ful, darkly surreal take deal in '80s high school, ASPEC on young love and the but not quite as big as m ekly.co vuewe volatile world of high you might think, at least l@ u a p school. It's like David not according to HeathPaul Lynch took a crack at diBlinov ers. Part of the movie's recting Mean Girls: a bizarre uniqueness is what you might comedy that somehow manages think the biggest concerns would to be both punchy and totally be—namely, that our protagonists by the book. just killed someone—but instead Veronica (Winona Ryder, perfectthat sits on the backburner while ly dry here) finds herself trapped, Veronica and JD's love story arcs unhappily a part of the most along. To cover their tracks, Vepopular clique in school; its other ronica forges a suicide note, and three members, all named Heaththe body pile only escalates from er, practise uninhibited cruelty in there, until a a gym full of stuthe lunchroom and try to hook dent's is about to get blown up up at college parties. (They also while Veronica realizes that this play croquette together.) Rebelall might be a bit much. lious outsider JD (Christian Slater) catches Veronica's eye when he, In its script, Heathers is most um, pulls a gun on some bullies in certainly a product of the '80s, the cafeteria, and then shows up at content to play fast and lose with her house. A relationship between homophobic slurs, teen suicide the two blossoms, and once the and guns in schools. Some of this

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would just never get through today. But if you can handle some of the more dated derogatory world views, there's an incredibly mischievous, devil-may-care sense of comedy at play, including perhaps the best delivery of a joke about teen sexuality ever filmed (it pivots on a bottle of mineral water that's brilliantly set up and delivered). It takes guts for director Michael Lehmann (whose career in feature films spiraled into more generic screen filler like The Truth About Cats & Dots and Airheads) and writer Daniel Waters (who co-wrote Batman Returns) to ignore more standard concerns like logic—outside of one particularly close call with the cops, nobody really worries about the real-world ramifications for increasingly killing off the jerks in school—and instead paint the film as a surreal, murderous portrait of young love.

So while it's full of teens offing teens and plenty of now-un-PC themes, it's also an often genuinely hilarious spin on the high school romance story, which only got more rote and boring from here on in. V

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afe Haven may be the first movie this century to spend too much time on developing the central relationship and not enough time on the action-packed climax. It is an uncommon criticism these days, but one I'm happy to make. With the power of a film based on a novel by the bestselling author Nicholas Sparks (The

Notebook) having long since been established, here we have a rare case of Hollywood deferring to an author's proven expertise in the area of wooing a female audience.

A slow, sunset-saturated romance, Safe Haven teases a dramatic finish for over an hour and a half, as Katie (Julianne Hough) runs away from her abusive, alcoholic husband. She quickly finds a quiet beach town in which to hide and a slightly goofy version of Josh Duhamel ... err, I mean Alex, played by

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later recounts to Fio in his camp at a cove, looking out into the sea-sky night—a reverie where, in the midst and mist of war, so many comrades and foes drifted up, up, and away from a prairie of clouds. Was it heaven or "hell" they were flying to?

Porco still wonders. Left behind, he was turned into a pig.

The ambiguous ending, too, takes us far from scenes that are a little too broadly comic (the movie's adapted from Miyazaki's short manga "The Age of the Flying Boat"). Porco Rosso's last moments are tinged with nostalgia for a time of honour and restraint, a time before the Second World War landed and made "air pirates" seem a quaint threat. The film's spell lingers in that air-pocket of history—before filthy, savage fascism's curse broke so many spirits across the globe.

the wife in favour of the wife's sister (a sumptuous Angie Dickinson), and Walker's revenge campaign eventually incorporates making the sister his own as well. Two sisters, and two men so close they may as well be brothers (of the Cain and Abel variety). The two men each love the same two women—perhaps as a way of loving each other. This isn't so far out a reading.

Just look at the way the men rush to meet each other at a crowded party.

It's much more of a love scene that anything involving the women.

But don't take my word for it—you can experience Point Blank for yourself next Tuesday, when Metro Cinema screens it as part of its Graphic Content series. With its painterly tableaux, saturated colours, dynamic framing and striking locales, the film, as much as the Stark novels, inspired the Parker comic series by Darwyn Cooke.

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It should be noted that Safe Haven does not provide an in-depth, realistic look into the psyche of a woman who has suffered through years of abuse. This is diet domestic violence, where the only residual effect seems to be the tendency to jump at loud noises. That being said, to the film's credit, Katie does get to play her own hero—another rare feature in Hollywood storytelling.

Is it a good movie? It's certainly not great. But in a theatre-scape almost completely devoid of romance and flooded, instead, with blockbuster shoot 'em ups and horror flicks, this movie is a safe haven for those looking for a little love this February.

KATHLEEN BELL

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“The best picture of the year.

‘Amour’ is a perfect storm of a motion picture.”

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Josh Duhamel, to fall in love with. Most of the film is stolen glances, and small talk; at one point, they actually get caught in the rain. Safe Haven has such a candy-coated glow that the cuts to Katie's husband, who is getting more and more reckless in his attempts to track her down, feel hacky—almost as if they're from another movie. As such, it's hard for the film to develop the mounting tension it needs as her husband gets closer and closer to finding her.

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ARTS

"Deveau and Conway have no easy task ahead of them, as Summer and Smoke is a demanding story arc, with intense scenes of dialogue and a never-ending emotional tug-of-war."

SUMMER AND SMOKE VUEWEEKLY.COM

PREVUE // THEATRE

Until Sun, Feb 24 (7 pm) Directed by Wayne Paquette TransAlta Arts Barns, $12.50 – $18

T

he persistence of love through time and distance resides upon our faculty of memory, but even if we forget about our past loves, all it takes is one small trigger to experience it anew.

A collaboration between Blarney and Promise Productions, Murielle places this dance between love and memory at the centre of its story: a very old woman remembering her past through a collection of returned love letters. As she reads them, they conjure memories from when she was young and in love.

Performer Alyson Dicey plays the young version of Murielle, acting out memories as they arise; she is joined onstage by an ensemble cast of her lover (Jesse Gervais) and six 'geniuses'—aspects of herself and her memories which serve to flesh out and shape past events.

Murielle is a purely movement-based show, with no dialogue or spoken words, though it does feature a live piano accompaniment com-

posed and performed by Joel Crichton. For those who are a little hesitant or unfamiliar with physical theatre, Dicey offers reassurance that the movement of the body is a universal language.

"The movement in the show is human expression. It's not so much set choreography, but a feeling to our bodies," she says. "It's storytelling without words. This show is so relatable to all types of audiences. No matter what their background, their age or even their language, because the choreography, and the movement, and the masks in this show speaks to people in a language that's accessible to all types of audiences."

Murielle was initially conceived by playwright Ellen Chorley and director Wayne Paquette about five years ago, but Dicey explains that the cast was also heavily involved in the show's creation.

"They knew they wanted to make it a mask and movement show; they pretty much knew how it would look," Dicey says. "But then as actors came on board, we helped create the show as well. The story is written by Ellen, but

we all helped create, as an ensemble, to make it really fit with our bodies."

In early October, Dicey and the other actors had a three-day workshop with Chorley, Paquette and choreographer Amber Borotsik to brainstorm some of the initial movements.

"We made a big soup of things that were possible, that we could maybe put into the show," Dicey explains.

Chorley then took these ideas away and worked on them over the next few months until the group rejoined in January; only in the last week or so has the show really attained its final form.

Murielle opens on Valentine's Day, a serendipitous occurrence that aligns perfectly with the show's central themes.

"It's almost a fable or fairy tale: a beautiful story of love, lost and found," says Dicey. "It's about memory for sure, but it's also about true love and how it floats around but it's never gone for good."

MEL PRIESTLEY

// MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

PREVUE // THEATRE

Where the Blood Mixes Until Mar 3 (8 pm; Sunday matinee 2 pm) Directed by Bradley Moss Roxy Theatre, $14.50 – $29

T

Heavy healing needed // Roy Timm Photography

hat the last residential school—a governmentestablished attempt to strip First Nations peoples of their culture through a chain of boarding schools now widely acknowledged to have been fraught with physical and sexual abuse—closed only 16 years ago seems lost on most Canadians.

"One of my sisters went to a residential school, and she's not even 40 yet. She's in her late 30s," notes Sera-Lys McArthur, sitting in the Roxy theatre lobby.

The show McArthur's opening, a co-production between Theatre Network and out-of-towners Theatre Aquarius and Western Canada Theatre, is Where the Blood Mixes, Kevin Loring's Governor General's Award-winning play that seeks to examine the residential school system through

ARTIFACTS Silver Skate Festival / Until Mon, Feb 18 We're in the midst of the annual Silver Skate festival, and this weekend finds its namesake sport taking centre ice: shorter skate races fill the Saturday—everything from sprints to a one kilometre

a trio of its survivors. Given the subject matter, the fact that a current of humour runs through its weighty drama seems like a feat in itself; adjacent to McArthur, fellow actor Michaela Washburn notes some comedy to be a necessary levity.

"I think that's how First Nations people have survived," she says. "I think that's how indigenous cultures have survived. It's inherent in our storytelling, before storytelling was written down. We have histories and legends of coyote and trickster and raven and it's present. So the ability to laugh at yourself, and the ability to learn from that and have a sense of humour in order to be humble."

For research, Loring took the cast to Lytton, where Blood is set. They saw the landmarks the play lingers on, like the bar and the "singing" bridge— "almost like a wind chime thing," McArthur notes, adding that that and other local sounds have been incorporated into the show's sound design.

They also spent two weeks rehearsing in Lytton's former residential school. Rather than tearing it down, the community's reclaimed the space (it hosts a daycare and administration offices). But both McArthur and Washburn note the gravity of

// Meaghan Baxter

being surrounded in that history.

"I'd actually never gone inside one before," McArthur says.

"The energy was palpable," Washburn adds. "It was still challenging, imagining the people in those halls, and imagining the atrocities that occurred, because especially in that area, those were some of the worst in Canada."

A script like this, Washburn continues, is a chance to expand the public awareness of what the residential school system was—McArthur notes that some of her friends, people who'd lived in Canada their whole lives, didn't even know what it was—and, in doing so, perhaps bring a sense of understanding to the depth and darkness of the shadows it's cast over First Nations cultures in Canada.

"And I think that's the biggest thing: people don't know," Washburn says. "People aren't aware, and I think I'd like to trust in humanity that we do have compassion for one another, and I do like to trust in the good of one another, but if we don't understand where each other's coming from, if we don't understand the actual history ... it's hard to see what we see today and say, 'Well, get over it and quit living off the government.'"

PAUL BLINOV

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PAUL BLINOV

// PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

speed-skating challenge to a 5 km fun race—while Sunday features a 10 km challenge and the Edmonton Winter Triathlon, which pairs skating with skiing and running for the ultimate outdoors enthusiast to test their mettle.

For those less interested in

outdoor sport, the weekend also features arts workshops, a folk trail adventure and Night Works in the Park, offering dance, music and "spectacles of light" to prove to you it's worth bundling up for and checking out. (Hawrelak Park) V

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PREVUE // IMPROV

REVUE // THEATRE

Blind Date Until Sun, Feb 24 (7:30 pm) Produced by Kevin McCollum Citadel Theatre

'T

he world is full of really nice men who really want to treat women well. They might be nervous about what the best way to do that is, but there's a genuine desire to do it well," claims Rebecca Northan, creator of the hit improv show Blind Date.

Now ladies, don't scoff

Not your // Greg Tjepkana just yet. average Northanblind maydate know what she's

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talking about.

After all, her show has featured approximately 300 different men—from all walks of life and pulled from audiences from Calgary to New York City.

"We see examples of bumbling idiot men in sitcoms who just don't get it, and that's certainly not been my experience at all. There's a lot of sweet, interesting men on the planet," she insists.

Mimi the clown, her character in Blind Date—a role that has been taken on by three other women as the show continues to expand, and will also feature Renée Amber during its Citadel run—is left waiting for hours for her date to show up, when she decides to find a new one amongst the audience. Prior to the show's start, Mimi mingles amongst the crowd during a cocktail

party in the lobby, scoping out potential candidates for her blind date. The show plays out differently each time as the newly aquainted pair navigate nerves, tension and potential romance.

Of course, asking someone on a date—even a staged one—is no easy feat. Northan admits she still gets nervous when she asks a fellow to join her onstage, but she quickly focuses on making sure her date is comfortable, helping them overcome their nervousness—a feeling that she says can quickly change the person she initially met in the lobby, and it's up to her to get them to open up again. Over the course of the 90-minute show, the men begin to loosen up and have fun, which Northan says is assisted by both the audience rooting for them and the clown nose she wears—a constant reminder that the scenario is just for fun.

"One of the things I like the most is hearing the audience fall in love with the guy," Northan says. "I have a ton of empathy for [men] because there's a real pressure on them to have their shit together all the time and seem like they should know exactly what to do next ... I think there's more pressure on them to present that 'masculine' facade of 'It's all good, I can take care of this.'

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Private Lives get a public airing // David Cooper Photography

Until Sun, Feb 24 (7:30 pm; 1:30 pm Sat and Sun matinee) Directed by Bob Baker Citadel Theatre, $35 – $73.50

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mbarking on your honeymoon only to discover you're situated right next door to your volatile, yet hard to let go of ex-spouse is far from the ideal way to begin a new marriage—or new life for that matter.

Yet, this is the predicament Elyot (John Ullyatt) and Amanda (Diana Donnelly) find themselves in. What's begun as a romantic—well, as romantic as one can feel when not entirely in love—getaway in France quickly sours when Amanda and Elyot discover they are staying next door to one another with their

new, much more conventional partners.

Amanda and Elyot quickly realize that despite their tumultuous and often toxic past, they are still in love. The pair decides to make a run for it, escaping to Amanda's flat in Paris, where sparks fly and emotions boil over.

From the faultless line delivery, you'd never know that the week before, the role of Victor, Amanda's new, slightly stuffy husband, faced a lastminute cast change when Tim Campbell had to bow out due to a family emergency. In his place is Jeff Meadows, who executed the role flawlessly and appeared as though he'd been part of the cast all along.

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ome actors seem to be born for certain roles, but much rarer is a script that's written expressly for a specific actor—let alone one written for a dozen particular people. The Missionary Position is the culmination of two years of work by University of Alberta's Lee Playwright in Residence, Greg MacArthur. MacArthur tailored each role specifically to the actor that would play it, and the end result is truly impressive.

Unapologetically dark, The Missionary Position makes a strong case against western involvement in the affairs of third-world nations, even in cases of catastrophic natural disaster. Inspired by a specific story that arose after the devastating Haitian earthquake in 2010, the play tells the story of a group of Christian mission-

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aries traveling to an unnamed Latin American country in order to set up an orphanage for children affected by the tragedy. Though it sounds like a noble task, it becomes quickly apparent that the reality of their actions is, in fact, appalling.

The script intersperses each characters' journey to their present situation in jail, faced with nine charges of human trafficking. It's hard to feel sympathy for any of them, as their motivations are almost wholly selfish and deeply misguided. The characters are either painfully naïve or willingly blind, and their hypocrisy is enough to foster more than a few snorts of derision amongst the audience.

And yet it's fascinating to watch this play out: the chemistry between the performers crackles with vitality and it's clear each one is as comfortable in the skins of their alter egos as they are in their own. Particularly notable perfor-

mances were delivered by Ben Gorodetsky as the crooked Canadian embassy rep, Mat Simpson as the smooth-talking felon, and Lianna Makuch as the hypocritical Christian ringleader, though every single cast member had their own engaging moments.

The phrase "We are white monsters" is projected across the stage at the outset of the play, making it immediately clear that the script is not out to mince words. But it's not overly pedantic or heavy-handed either—a fine balance is struck between the various aspects of the play's strong politics on the inter-relationship between religion, foreign aid and cultural imperialism. Backed by a solid performance by each cast member, The Missionary Position serves as a shining testament to what can, and should, be accomplished through the Playwright in Residence program.

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Noël Coward's 1930 comedic hit is revived with verve and charisma from the Citadel cast and crew, with the witty and pithy story driven home not only from its strong cast, but from the visually enticing set—particularly Amanda's flat in Act II and Act III where the production really hits its stride—and lavish period costuming.

Comedic timing is particularly integral to Private Lives' success and effectiveness, and the dry humour is delivered effortlessly through one-liners and jabs, coupled with Elyot and Amanda's flippancy towards one another and the sheer ridiculousness of their behaviour.

Donnelly and Ullyatt are playful yet powerful in their roles, fully encompassing the ups and downs of two people whose love for the other is all-consuming, yet they can't quite grasp how to get along with one another. Their emotions flip on a dime, transforming the sophisticated pair into sulky—or at times aggressive—individuals who

seem as though they could break at any moment. And they do, in a particularly raucous scene involving a chandelier and a fountain.

Donnelly begins the production as the picture of elegance. A statuesque, charming woman who quickly starts to reveal her steely, impatient streak to her new husband—one that becomes the catalyst of many arguments with Elyot, who Ullyatt portrays with just as much hostility and impatience, which proves to be a volatile combination. As toxic as they can be to one another, hurling hurtful insults and even physical blows, Donnelly and Ullyatt make it clear that there is love beneath it all, and it's difficult not to root for that, despite the couple's irresponsible and often spur-of-the-moment decisions and actions.

Overall, Private Lives is a playful story that, while not profound or incredibly deep, is a wildly entertaining and relatable look into relationships, and what fools love can turn us into.

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to be really upfront about 'I'm really nervous right now.'"

What about a version involving the ladies? As an experiment, Northan enlisted her brother Jamie, also an improv performer, to do a reverse version of Blind Date, which proved much more challenging than expected. Northan explains that in a dating scenario, the woman leads. If a man tries to, the woman feels threatened or feels he's doing the wrong thing. While there's no immediate plans to continue this version, Northan says it was an interesting and eye-opening experiment for the group.

However, Northan does plan to premiére a new show in 2014 called Legend Has It, which throws an audience member into a fantasy, Lord of the Ringsstyle scenario in which they get to play the hero, and battle Edmonton's own Mark Meer as the evil villain.

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Days of Wine and Roses Until Sat, Feb 23 (7:30 pm; 2 pm Saturday matinee) Directed by Amy DeFelice Varscona Theatre, $19.75 – 23.75

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do love the Irish plays, I have to admit," begins Amy DeFelice. Passionality is the "fake term" that emerges later; DeFelice has a "passionality for Irish plays."

She's hardly alone in that. Given that we now have an entire festival, Serca, dedicated to works from the Emerald Isle, it certainly seems that scripts from that nation have their uniform charms—a captivating mix of brutality and humour, chiefly—that resonate far beyond its island coasts.

"A lot of Irish writers write the human condition very well," Cody Porter says, seated beside DeFelice and fellow cast member Elena Porter in the Varscona's green room. "I mean, It's not necessarily that fantastical things are happening, but you see people's journey and trajectory in a realistic and relatable way. It's not done to be fantastic.

It's done to be realistic."

DeFelice

has kept herself pretty heavily involved with the Serca Festival of Irish Theatre over its four-year existence, and it was a show she directed there, Mojo Mickeybo (which, also starring Cody, later saw raves at the 2012 Fringe), that's led her now to Days of Wine and Roses.

In it, playwright Owen McCafferty reimagines JP Miller's teleplay of a couple facing an increasingly uphill battle with alcoholism. McCafferty shifts the original's characters from Americans to a pair from Belfast, tracing their arc in '60s London as a pair of outsiders eventually drawn to the bottle as much as to each other.

At its onset, Elena notes, her character Mona hasn't had a drop of drink in her life, and Cody's Donal is simply a casual drinker at best. The downward spiral isn't fast:

they fall in love, strangers in a strange land, they drink; they try to adjust to London life, they throw lavish parties, they drink; they start to realize something is wrong with all of this drinking, and they drink.

Not that it's all bottom-of-the-bottle gloom. The trio notes that part of the show's strength comes down to balancing its more brutal aspects with a sense of levity.

"That's one of the things I like about this play: there's actually a sense of humour sometimes," DeFelice notes. "Despite everything."

"So maybe it's an appreciation that, even when things are really dark, there's still something lively about it," Elena adds. "I find that this playwright is not afraid to be ugly. His characters don't have to be liked. Who's the one you want to root for? I don't know. ... There's no concern about how the audience will feel about the character after this scene.

This is the story. This is how they are. I love that, that it's not self-aware in that way, like, 'OK, wait, how are people going to think of me in this moment.' I don't care; it's not about that."

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The battle between love and alcohol // Sarah Van Tassel

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Horizon Stage, 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce Grove, 780.962.8995 • Follows Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse. While still remaining true to the original 1876 ballet by Tchaikovsky, this Canadian rendition is set in an 18th century historic fortress in the beautiful seaside town of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia • Feb 24, 2pm • $35 (adults), $30 (students/ seniors), $5 (eyeGo)

Schwab • PASSERIFORMS II: Paintings and mixed media works by James Trevelyan • Until Mar 16 • Artventures: Drop-in children's for ages 6-12, $5 each; Beautiful Birds: Feb 16, 1-4pm • Ageless Art: Art for mature adults; 1-3pm; $12 each; Charcoal Drawing: Feb 21

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Loft Gallery, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • Artwork by society members, and a gift shop of artist made items; open Feb-Jul

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Naturally Abstract: artwork by David Blaine, featuring abstract images discovered in natural environments • Until Feb 28

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• 9103-95 Ave, 780.461.3427 • PRENDRE LE FRANÇAIS PAR LES CORNES: Works by Sarah Cleary, Doris Charest, Gaston Charest, other members • Until Feb 26

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FAB GALLERY • Department of Art and Design, U of A, Rm 1-1 Fine Arts Bldg, 780.492.2081 • SPLIT SECONDS, SOFT EDGE: Sam Walrod's final visual presentation for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Painting; until Feb 16 • Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada; until Feb 16 GALLERIE PAVA • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 •

Retrospective of Nathalie Shewchuk-Paré's artwork • Until Mar 5

GALLERY 7 • Bookstore on Perron, 7 Perron St, St. Albert, 780.459.2525 • 69¢ LB.$1.52 K: Pastel works by Father Douglas • Until Feb 25 GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner

Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.944.5383 • DISPLAY CASES: BOTANICAL HEROINE: Polymer clayworks by Kristin Anderson • DISTANCE TO THE SUN: Photography

by Tyler Enfield; until Feb 28; Fundamentals of Photography (for new DSLR camera users) with Tyler Enfield: Feb 16, 1-4pm

CIRQUE DE L'EROTIQUE • Showgirls, 7103-78 Ave

Library • BORROWING ART: The Red Deer Public Library Art Lending Program • Until Feb 19

LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St, 780.990.1161

MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St, 780.407.7152 • THE SPIRIT OF AGING: Photographs by Sharon Moore • Until Mar 24

780.672.5510 • Nordlys Film and Arts Festival: Awardwinning films from around the world, local music and entertainment; Fri: Screening of Canada’s Monsieur Lazhar; Sat: screening of Music from the Big House, followed by Rita Chiarelli (blues music) • Feb 15-17 • $50 (weekend pass) at Bailey box office, online • The Man That Got Away; and other short films hosted by Trevor Anderson; Feb 22, 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $5 (door)/free (student)

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM–St Albert • 5 St Anne St, St Albert, 780.459.1528 • CATCHING THE LIGHT: The life and photography of Victor Post • Until Mar 31 NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave,

780.432.0240 • Works by Byron McBride; until Feb 15 • AFTER HOURS ‘13: Works by the Paint Spot staff; Feb 21-Mar 31; reception: Sat, Mar 2, 5-7pm

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave, 780.455.7479 • New paintings by Giuseppe Albi • Feb 21-Mar 13 • Opening: Feb 21, 7-9pm; artist in attendance

EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY • Royal Alberta Mu-

seum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave • A New Leaf (1970, 102 min, colour, PG); Feb 25, 8pm • Membership for each film: $6/$5 (senior/student); $30 (membership)

RED DEER COLLEGE LIBRARY • The Panels:

GRAPHIC CONTENT • Metro Cinema, Garneau

CONVERSATIONS WITH THE COLLECTION: until Mar 8 • PortHole Gallery ( just outside the Library front doors): CERAMICS: Works by Carlene Larue and Kt Furness; through Feb

Theatre • With guest curator Devin Bruce, looks at a film that is not a direct adaptation of a comic, but an inspiration, John Boorman's 1967 Lee Marvin action/ crime movie Point Blank • Feb 19, 7pm • $10 (adult)/$8 (student/senior)

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave, 780.453.9100 • RIVER'S EDGE: Until Apr 10 • INUUJAQ: Dolls of the Canadian Arctic; Until Apr 28

NORDLYS FILM AND ARTS FESTIVAL • nordlys-

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• WOMEN'S WORKS: Works by members of the Redwater ART Society • Open to the public every Thu and Fri, 11am-2pm • Until Mar 1

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OSCAR NIGHT AT THE VARSCONA • Varscona

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St, 780.488.3619 •

Theatre • Hollywood’s greatest night of glamour presented by Shadow Theatre and the ACME Theatre Company • Feb 24, 6:30pm • $27 at TIX on the Square

SELECTED WORKS 1995-2011: Artworks by Arlene Wasylynchuk • Until Feb 26

SNAP GALLERY • Society Of Northern Alberta Print

GLOBAL VISIONS FILM FESTIVAL • Garneau

-Artists, 10123-121 St, 780.423.1492 • AGAIN AND AGAIN: Printworks by Sukha Worob; artist talk: Feb 15, 6pm • THE COMPLACENCY OF SEEING: Printworks

by Rebecca Beardmore • Opening: Feb 15, 7-9pm • Feb 14-Mar 24

Theatre • Opening Night Gala Presented by Global Visions Film Festival featuring the Oscar nominated documentary and Western Canada premiere of How to Survive a Plague, guest speaker, complimentary beverage and food • Feb 28, 6:30pm • $18 at TIX on the Square

SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • Melcor Cultural Centre, 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove • SHINO QUEEN: Allied Arts Council AAC featured artist Ruby Serben • Feb 19-Mar 9 • Reception: Feb 23, 1-3pm

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186106 St, 780.488.6611 • Discovery Gallery: EARTHLY ELEMENTS: Charles Lewton-Brain and Les Manning in recognition of contributions and work; until Feb 16 • THE RECIPIENTS: Recipients of the 8th annual Alberta Craft Awards; Feb 23-Mar 23; reception: Feb 23, 2-4pm • Feature Gallery: GOLDEN EDGE: Artworks by 16 craft artists; until Mar 30

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Festival Ave, Sherwood Park, 780.410.8585 • NOMADIC BOUNCE: Works by Jason Baerg • Until Feb 24

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DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St • TOPOGRAPHIC SOUND: Very large photo-based works by Gary James Joynes; and Tritone (2013) a 100 day long decaying auditory chord and it's wall-based sculptural echo, a continuation of his Alberta Bienniale performance to its conclusion, and Ouroboros (2011), large installation exploring sacred sound and form through video installation and photography to date • Until Mar 16 EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ • 9938-70 Ave • Olive Tree

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 each month; 7pm • Comics Artist-in-Residence: with Kyle Sams; Every Fri 12-6pm and Sat 12-5pm; until Apr 7

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10329-83 Ave • Grindstone Theatre presents a two act improvised musical every other Fri, 11pm • Feb 22 • Tickets at TIX on the Square

BLIND DATE • The Club at the Citadel Theatre, 9828101A Ave • Improvised production, Rebecca Northan’s Mimi selects a lucky man in the audience to play her date, for for the evening • Until Feb 24, 7:30pm; no shows on Mon. Tue-Sun 7:30pm except Feb 23 at 4pm, and 9pm • Start at $35 at 780.425.1820, box office CHIMPROV • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, and one-act plays • First three Sat every month, 10pm, until Jul • $12 (door, adv at TIX on the Square)

DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • Presented by Trunk Theatre. Donal and Mona leave Belfast for a new start in 1960s London.

Strangers in an unfamiliar city, they fall in love with life, each other and the bottle • Feb 15-23; Tue-Sat 7:30pm; Sat mat 2pm • $22 (adult)/$18 (student/senior)/Preview: Feb 14: $11 (adult)/$9 (student/senior) DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave, 780.433.3399 • The live improvised soap opera • Every Mon, until May 27, 7:30pm (subject to change) • Tickets at box office HEY LADIES! • Roxy, 10708-124 St, other venues,

780.453.2440 • Theatre Network • Stars Davina Stewart, Cathleen Rootsaert, Leona Brausen • Mar 8, May 24

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC • John L. Haar Theatre,

Grant MacEwan University, Centre for the Arts, 10045155 St • Follows the universal subject of love, in all its wondrous, humorous and ironic permutations • Until Feb 16, 7:30pm, 2pm • $17 (adults)/$12 (student/senior)

THE MISSIONARY POSITION • Timms Centre, 112 St, 87 Ave, U of A • By Greg MacArthur. Politically contentious and provocative, as it follows a group of deeply committed young missionaries to a third world country to save children they perceive as lost • Until Feb 16 (no show on Sun) • $11-$22 at TIX on the Square, Timms box office MURIELLE • Westbury Theatre, TransAlta Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave • According to all accounts, Wednesday was forecasted to be like any other day. But when Old Woman Teller awoke, it immediately seemed like it would be radically different • Feb 14-24 • $18 (general/ adult); $15 (student/senior); $12.50 (child) RIDE THE CYCLONE • Citadel Maclab Theatre,

9828-101A Ave, 780.425.1820 • Musical comedy • Feb 22-Mar 10, Tue-Sun 7:30pm; Sun, Mar 3, Mar 10, 1:30pm • $35 at box office

SERCA FESTIVAL OF IRISH THEATRE • La cité francophone, 8627 Rue Marie-Anne Gaboury • Productions include Grumpus Gets Revenge written and performed by Ken Brown; Tristan and Isolde adapted

by Elizabeth Hobbs, Jessica Peverett, Nicole Schafenacker, choreography by Ainsley Hillyard; Medea adapted by Tom Paulin, directed by Mark Henderson; Winners by Brian Friel, directed by Frank Zotter • Feb 26-Mar 3 • $20 (adult)/$15 (student/senior); Festival pass (all four shows) $60 (adult)/$45 (student/senior)

PRIVATE LIVES • Shoctor theatre at the Citadel

Albert, 780.460.5990 • LET’S DANCE: Works by Karen Blanchet • Until Feb 23

Ave, Stony Plain, 780.963.9573 • Winter warmingcasseroles, tea pots, mugs and more: a variety of slab, wheel thrown, decorated works selected for display by gallery members • Through Feb

THE 11 O’CLOCK NUMBER! • Varscona Theatre,

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HAPPY HARBOR COMICS V1 • 10729-104 Ave •

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UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS • Enterprise Sq, 10230 Jasper Ave, 780.492.5834 • PASSION PROJECT: Extended run until Mar 2 • IMMORTAL BEAUTY: Extended run until Mar 2 • Gallery A: AWARENESS OF AN ALTERED WORLD: Richard Boulet and Sue Seright • Gallery B: FIGHTING NORMAL: Laurie MacFayden and Amy Willans • Until Mar 2; Closed Feb 16

CROOKED POT GALLERY–Stony Plain • 4912-51

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

STAGE STRUCK! • Walterdale Playhouse, 10322-83 Ave • Adult one-act play festival. Presented this year are Josh Greschner, Heather Morrow, Gerald Osborn, and a showcase of poetry and dance by Marcel Fayant.

Also, works by Alan Holmes and Stephen Gregg. All plays are adjudicated by Kenneth Brown • Feb 22, 7pm; Feb 23, 1pm, 7pm • Three-session festival pass: $32 (adult)/$28 (student/senior); Single session: $14 (adult)/$12 (student/senior)at TIX on the Square, door

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

ALBERTA SOCIETY OF ARTISTS–WALTERDALE GALLERY • Walterdale Playhouse, 10322-83 Ave,

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Wood Nature Centre • CELEBRATING ALBERTA: Works by members of the Alberta Society of Artists • Through Feb

BAILEY THEATRE–Camrose • 5041-50 St, Camrose,

St, St Albert, 780.460.4310 • MIGRATING COLONY: Charcoal drawings and raku installation by Erin

St, 780.465.3500 • JUST FOOD: Touring art exhibit exploring the human right to food • Until Mar 15, Mon-Fri 8:30am-4:30pm • Free

MARJORIE WOOD GALLERY–Red Deer • Kerry

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and Convocation Hall • Brown Bag reading with Stewart Lemoine • Feb 13 • Free

WUNDERBAR ON WHYTE • 8120-101 St,

KING’S UNIVERSITY COLLEGE • Atrium, 9125-50

Broadmoor, Sherwood Park • Works by members of the Edmonton Art Club, juried exibition • Until Feb 24; Sat-Sun 12-4pm

experiences from two cultures, two homes that are marked by his open, vulnerable, personal perspective • Feb 22-23, 8pm

UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA • Student Lounge, Arts

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LOFT GALLERY • Ottewell Art Centre, 590

WEN WEI DANCE–BRIAN WEBB DANCE COMPANY • Timms Centre, U of A • Seventh Sense:

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

UPPER CRUST CAFÉ • 10909-86 Ave, 780.422.8174 • strollofpoets.com • The Poets’ Haven Weekly Reading Series: every Mon, 7pm; Presented by the Stroll of Poets Society • $5

106 St, 780 423 5353 • Parka Patio: Feb 23, 8pm; $15/$12 (adv at latitude53.org/parka)

Auditorium • Vohon Ukrainian Dance Ensemble presents Kolektsiya featuring Baba Yaga • Feb 15, 7pm; tickets at TicketMaster

jam • 3rd Wed every month, 7pm (sign-up); 7:30pm (show) • $5

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM • Bsmt Gallery • CIRQUE D'HOFFMANN: Artworks by members of the ASA; artshow runs in conjunction with Edmonton Opera's Les Contes d’Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach •

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ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron

JOHNSON GALLERY–South • 7711-85 St, 780.465.6171 • Miniatures by Thelma Manary, Rita Briansky, Ann Huculak, Susan Gardiner, Olson; photos

by David Baine; graphite works by Glen Gaillet; watercolours by Jim Painter • Through Feb

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• Featuring Blue Belle Burlesque, guests • Feb 17, 7pm • $10 (adv); adult entertainment venue, nudity may offend

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.422.6223 • BEAUTIFUL MONSTERS: Beasts and Fantastic Creatures in Early European Prints; until Mar 3 • THE NEWS FROM HERE: The 2013 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art: Curated by Nancy Tousley; until May 5 • This Alberta Biennial showcases the work of several Alberta filmmakers and performance artists. Filmmakers with guest curator Nancy Tousley for an interactive Q&A session • All Day Sunday: Art activities for all ages 3rd Sun every month, 12-4pm; free with admission • Art for Lunch: Theatre Foyer: Casual and informative discussions about AGA exhibitions, held during the lunch hour, 3rd Thu every month • 5 ARTISTS, 1 LOVE: Black History Month art show, works by Pamela Parker, Phillip Risby, Lorien Maheu, Melissa Aytenfisu, and Blanche Thompson; until Mar 1 • Cold Night, Hot Date: Valentine's Event, intimate and elegant evening; 3 floors of passion-inspired food and cocktails; exhibition tours; art inspired activities and games; romantic films in the AGA theatre • Feb 14, 7pm; $95 (each)/$190 (couple)

JEFF ALLEN ART GALLERY (JAGG) • Strathcona Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave • LIFE THROUGH MY LENS: Photographs by Kevin Allen • Until Feb 27

ARTERY • 9535 Jasper Ave, 780.441.6966 • Literary Saloon: reading series the 2nd Thu every month; Oct-May, 7pm (door) AUDREYS BOOKS • 107 St, Jasper Ave • Stroll of Poets: Poets' Haven Weekly Series

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE • 9351-118 Ave • Prose Creative Writing Group • Every Tue, 7-9pm

HAPPY HARBOR COMICS • 10729-104 Ave • Open Door meeting: If you own any books by Scott McCloud like Zot!, Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics or Making Comics, bring them to the next Open Door meeting • Feb 14, 7pm

HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB • 15120 Stony Plain Rd, 780.915.8869 • Edmonton Story Slam: writers share their original, 5-minute stories; followed by a music

Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • A laugh-out-loud battle of the sexes by Noël Coward. An effervescent comedy of manners set in the 1930�s with classic romance, hilarity and elegance. A divorced couple runs into each other while honeymooning with their new spouses.

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SUMMER AND SMOKE • Walterdale Playhouse,

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WILDFIRE TEEN IMPROV FESTIVAL • Citadel

Ziedler Hall, 9832-101A Ave • Canadian Improv Games (grades 9-12) until Feb 16, 7pm; CIG finals: Feb 17, 2pm • The Nosebowl (grades 10-12) Feb 19-23, 7pm • The WildFire Jr (grades 7-9) Feb 26-Mar 2, 7pm • Tickets at TIX on the Square

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Don t crack The art of carving and stacking massive blocks of ice

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hen you're working with ice, you have one shot to get everything right.

With one false move, you can kiss your beautiful sculpture goodbye. Experience helps, but even experienced carvers have watched their creations crack and shatter before their eyes.

"Out of about 50 to 60 big sculptures that I've done, I've had four crashes, like completely gone," says Calgary's Scott Harrison, who's been carving for the past 12 years. In the case of such an unfortunate event, you hit the bar for a beer, he says with a laugh, but not before you leave a little something behind to commemorate your hard work. "You find the biggest piece that's broken off and you carve it into a tombstone, a 'rest in pieces' kind of thing, and then you walk away."

It can be a shattering experience watching 30 hours worth of carving, torching and chiseling hit the ground, but, if you ask Harrison, that's all part of the game.

"That's what makes it really fun. That's what really makes it exciting. You just go for it and put yourself out there. And, you just get one shot at it."

Last month, Harrison's sculpture "Sound of an Angel" came in third at the international ice carving competition in Lake Louise—a competition that he's won twice— while his submission for the Ice on Whyte Festival came in seventh. Although not in the top three, his seventh finish won him and his teammate a silver medal.

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There are so many cool events planned, I can't even begin to mention them all here. The best thing to do is visit silverskatefestival. org and plan your weekend of free family fun. If you're not around this weekend, you'll be happy to know that the festival will have an encore presentation next week-

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eading to Jasper with your sweetheart for a romantic Valentine's weekend? Then why not trade in the cheesy jewelry and expensive dinner for an outdoor adventure?

The temperatures are unusually high for February and, if you know where to go, you're sure to find inches upon inches of snow.

With conditions like that, there's no better time to get outside with your Valentine.

But what should you do, you ask?

Vue asked Tourism Jasper and Parks Canada just that question and here's what the two organizations had to say.

Wish upon a star Alisson Ogle, communications officer for Jasper National Park, recommends enjoying the park's dark, clear skies. "Take your valentine up to Pyramid Island at night, bundle up and go stargazing; watch the crescent moon, and maybe wish on a falling star."

Snuggle up on the chairlift Jeff Bartlett, of Tourism Jasper,

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had a score of 93.9 and the ninth place sculpture had a score of 78.1, warranting a bronze medal.

"That's the level of talent we have," she says.

Harrison's sculpture for the festival was his first attempt at an abstract design. It's a violin with a theatre mask above it and a treble clef that turns into the hand playing the violin.

"I wanted to do something new," says the high school teacher and former chef. "Half of the fun is planning something you've never done before."

Harrison plans his sculpture months in advance of a competition. First he comes up with an idea, then the design, and then he draws it out over and over again until it's ingrained in his mind.

That's a lot more affordable than buying blocks and practising the

suggests a trip to Marmot Basin.

"When I think of the romantic side of skiing, I always remember the old two-seater chair, like Marmot Basin’s Knob Chairlift. Unlike the new high-speed quad chairs that make sure you get an extra few laps on your favourite run, the twoseaters slow the day down and let you have some time together."

Cold air and hot chocolate If you're looking to ski, but you're not into shredding the slopes, Ogle has just the place for you and your sweetheart. "Work up a sweat crosscountry skiing around the trackset loop at Whistler’s, then stop at the Marmot Meadows warming hut for a snuggle and surprise your valentine with hot chocolate."

Enjoy silent trails For an added bonus, whether you're heading out cross-country skiing or snowshoeing, Bartlett points out that "there are so many kilometres of cross-country skiing and snowshoeing trails in Jasper, it’s easy to go out and not see another person.

That means it’ll just be the two of

design, he says, pointing out that blocks of ice weighing 300 pounds are $80 to $100 each and typical competitions require carvers to use 15 blocks. "Sometimes people maybe carve [their design] in styrofoam or maybe try and attempt small pieces of it, some of the more intricate stuff, but it's not really financially viable to drop $1500 to $2000 just to practise."

So, Harrison and carvers like him rely on their experience to get through to the end of a competition.

An important factor that carvers have to keep in mind is the temperature, he says. For instance, if it's zero degrees, the carver will use a completely different stacking plan than if it's -20 C. "If it's -20, think about dropping an ice cube into a warm liquid.

It cracks and then amplify that crack by 300 pounds of ice for

you surrounded by the mountain wilderness," he says, advising that you "pack a thermos of hot chocolate for brownie points and tackle a new trail and a new sport."

Leave Bigfoot tracks If you're looking to snowshoe, Ogle suggests heading out to Beaver Lake, off Maligne Lake Road. "[It's] so quiet you can hear each others’ hearts beat," she says.

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There's no shortage of outdoor activities to try this weekend, so grab your camera and your loved one, get outside and make some memories.

For more information on trails and equipment rentals, visit the Visitor Information Centre on Connaught Drive to talk to Parks and Tourism Jasper staff.

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each block," Harrison explains.

So, when the temperature drops well below zero, rather than using water to tack the blocks together, a carver will make a dry slush made with snow and water, and they will put that on the corners of the blocks to hold the sculpture together.

Because the success of a sculpture depends so heavily on the weather, Harrison says he always has more than one design and stacking plan ready to go. "I've been carving for 12 years now, so I understand, 'OK well if the weather's like this, I might need to change my idea.'" He says it's better to do that than attempt a sculpture that's sure to crumble.

"You don't want to invest 28 to 34 hours—three days—into something that just falls down. That's kind of poopy, to say the least."

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Or at least it won't be much longer, once the proprietorship of Won Jung Gak's new downtown premises gets around to changing the signage. For now, it's operating incognito, disguised as its predecessor, a fair-to-middlin' Vietnamese operation called Basil Leaf not far from The Brick on 100 Street.

The real cause for celebration is that Korean food has finally made its way across the North Saskatchewan River.

By some weird turn of fate, all of Edmonton's purveyors of bulgogi and other Korean comestibles that I've ever patronized have been situated to the south, including Won Jung Gak's original location in some godforsaken industrial area just off Argyll Road.

So to be able to straggle just a few blocks out of the downtown core and enjoy Chef Fu Chang Yang's lengthy bill of fare is a treat indeed.

The new digs are spacious and, to be honest, little altered from their Vietnamese incarnation, unless you take into account the greenish rings burned into the tabletops by teeming tureens of Korean soup. Things were slow but steady on a Friday night, which entitled the co-diner and me to friendly, attentive service above and beyond the call of duty. We certainly needed the help assembling our repast out of more than 100 menu selections of Korean

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and Chinese provenance.

My co-diner's imagination had been captured by ja jang myun ($9), a noodle dish topped with black bean sauce.

After some wrangling, and a little advice from our server, we decided to try out the kitchen on the fundamentals: beef bulgogi ($14) and dol sot bibimbap ($13.50). Rest assured that you can order your preferred dishes by number, rather than humiliating yourself trying to verbally replicate the perplexing syllables of Anglicized Korean, which are replete with doubled B's and J's all over the place.

I ordered Cass ($4.50), a generic, but light n' fizzy Korean lager ideal for washing down the robust, savoury and sometimes spicy flavours we were expecting to encounter, then looked on perplexed as the codiner asked for a glass of red wine, knowing as I did from harsh experience that there are just some places you don't order red wine. To be fair, it was a generous portion of wine for five bucks, but a whiff of it indicated it came from a bottle that had been open for some time and that, even at the peak of its freshness, it probably tasted a bit like fruit punch. My co-diner set it aside and made do with the provided green tea.

Things improved greatly from there.

At once we were provided with banchan, the traditional assortment of crunchy pickles, salads and veggies that start off any Korean meal. But even in this, Won Jung Gak outdid itself, offering not just bean sprout salad and kim chi, but the yellow-tinted

pickled daikon I usually associate with sushi, lightly blanched broccoli with chopped red pepper, fiery pickled turnip steeped in ginger, rice and black bean paste. But we didn't even get to sample the banchan before the rest of our food arrived, along with a sturdy pair of kitchen shears for dealing with recalcitrant noodles.

The bulgogi—shaggy masses of marinated beef tossed with carrots, shiitake mushrooms and green onions — came on a sizzling platter with a side of rice. The chef counterpoints the savouriness of soy sauce and sesame oil by adding fruit and honey to the marinade, which is every bit as delicious as it sounds. More quality control in keeping inedibly chewy rinds of gristle to a minimum would have enhanced the experience.

Bibimbap, if you're not familiar, is a preparation of sliced veggies—carrot, onion, mushroom, zucchini, spinach, sprouts—and, in this case, marinated beef served over rice with a fried egg on top. We had the "dol sot" version, with the above components served in a superhot stone bowl that causes the contents to become crispy, and I was surprised to see a layer of fresh chopped lettuce capping the dish. To eat, one squirts on a sweet and spicy condiment called gochujang, then mixes everything together—spreading around the creamy, soft egg in the process—to a very satisfying effect.

Last, but certainly not least, was the ja jang myun. Its long, spaghetti-like rice noodles were just barely discernible under a thick, light-absorbing layer of black bean sauce that also concealed slips of fried onion and chunks of roasted potato. If you're acquainted with Chinese black bean sauce, this is completely different, with a consistency a bit like hoisin, but much darker, and a complex, earthy flavour with just a hint of sweetness that my co-diner likened to molasses, while I thought it tasted a bit like cocoa. Either way, it was delicious and elevated an otherwise simple dish of noodles to memorable heights, though I found it a little troubling when I put the leftovers in the microwave the next day and the black bean sauce seemed to move across the plate and enfold everything in its inky embrace.

To be sure, there were lots of leftovers and, with the beverages, the tab still came in under $50. Chef Yang's son, who runs the front of house, cheerfully chatted us up at the till and promised to remember us so he could make sure we tried their most popular item, the seafood pancake, upon our return. Our return, I'll admit, is a foregone conclusion. I feel like my education in Korean cuisine—now more conveniently located than ever—is just beginning.

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I am squirrel, hear me bark Barking Squirrel Lager Hop City Brewing, Brampton, ON $14.95 for six-pack I spend a lot of time drinking intense, boundary-pushing beer, partly because it is my job, but also because I appreciate tackling the big flavours and aromas they offer. However, I regularly find myself pining for something simpler and more straightforward; something I can just sip without thinking too much. It offers a nice break from the hoppy, oaky, tart flavours those experimental beer might offer.

So, in my quest to find new beer that fit that chilled-out bill, I recently stumbled across something called Barking Squirrel by a relatively new Ontario brewery, Hop City. For the record, Hop City is owned

by Canada’s largest independent brewery Moosehead. Yes, the name is odd. I have no idea why they chose that name, but it certainly stands out—including the label, which is an angry looking squirrel glaring at a hop cone. It is available in the province on tap, in cans and in bottles. The brewery has four other beer, but this is the only one shipped to Alberta.

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I take a sip and find at first light toffee, toast and light brown sugar. The middle is a bit bready and the finish moderately sweet. This is not a bitter beer, but the hops are present enough to balance the malt and sharpen the finish a touch.

On the whole, this is a malt-accented beer that nicely walks the line between pale lager and darker, sweeter lagers like Oktoberfest and Bock. It is a classic sessionable beer. Nothing you want to spend too much time thinking about, but you can still enjoy during a conversation with your mates.

The flavour is subdued, but pleasant.

It is nothing to write home to mother (or your beer geek friends) about, but it does its job. It provides a simple, straightforward amber lager that goes down easily but still has enough flavour to keep you from getting bored. All told, it's a decent beer. V Jason Foster is the creator of onbeer.org, a website devoted to news and views on beer from the prairies and beyond.

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ven today, decades past its legendary days, Nashville remains the immutable beacon for country music of all stripes, from the mainstream hit-makers to the less formulaic alt-country aficionados. It's the city where you can tell strangers you're a professional songwriter, and their accompanying nod will be one of understanding, not sympathy— chances are pretty good that that's what they do, too.

But before Lindi Ortega relocated from Toronto's urban sprawl to the country music mecca, she dipped the toe of her trademark little red boots into the city's musical waters, tentatively spending

two months living out of a Nashville hotel—"the extended stay," as she puts it during a phonecall from the road— taking in the city vibe and prepping to record an album.

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industry, so there's a lot of commonality with everyone" Ortega continues. "And there's just great music being made there.

You can go out on any given night and walk in on some of the most amazing players. So that's inspiring. And then there's the history itself: on Broadway [Street] they still have the honky-tonks going on.

And you could walk into Robert's Western World, which is legendary, and see some awesome swing-country bands going on.

There's so much happening, and I am a person very much that's influenced by my surroundings."

The Nashville atmosphere has imbued her fourth album, Cigarettes & Truckstops, with an irrepressibly sultry stomp, highlighted by the strength of Ortega's soaring songbird pipes. It's her most critically lauded release to date, and, somewhat ironically, it's kept her away from her Nashville home that inspired it, as she's been busily zig-zagging the country in opening slots for the likes of kd Lang and Social Distortion.

Now she's headlining her own tour, but those opening slots have left an impression on Ortega.

After all, while Social D and its audience are far more expressly punk than Ortega—she notes doing an amped-up, more-rock version of her set for those gigs—there's a certain shared overlap in punk ethic between the likes of Ortega and Social D: it's the idea of the outlaw, perhaps best represented for both sides by a certain Man in Black. "[Ness] ended his set every night with 'Ring of Fire,' and we would end ours with 'Folsom Prison,' so there was a mutual love of the outlaw Johnny Cash there," Ortega says. "And I do think outlaw country is a punk movement in itself, in the country world.

It all makes sense."

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Sat, Feb 16 (8:30 pm) Blue Chair Café, $15 ManRayGun has been weaving one of the more interesting musical tapestries in this city over the last several years: the band is bent on exploring and twisting ideas into uncommon shapes, refusing to take the easy route with its songs.

As the group prepares for its fourth annual show at the Blue Chair, singer/ guitarist Everett LaRoi answered some questions about the band and its future.

VUE WEEKLY: You've got a new drummer

in Scott Lingley, reuniting the rhythm section of Old Reliable in a new musical environment. How has the change affected ManRayGun? EVERETT LAROI: Scott Lingley brings with him a unique palette of sounds and technical chops that has really reinvigorated some of the older tunes and made them feel new again. It never fails to amaze me just how much a song can change with a different drummer behind the skins. It's just a different feel. I have always been a firm believer in the idea that the best rhythm sections come from bass players and drummers who are friends. Basically, if your drummer and bassist don't get along your rhythm section will probably suck! That Tom (Murray) and Scott go way back together and are great friends was evident from the first song we played—they just locked.

VW: How close is the band to finishing the next album? Has a complete vision of the work emerged yet, or are you still sculpting the album out of all the ideas?

EL: It's still a ways off yet. We have about 15 new songs written for it, but we're still experimenting with sounds and production approaches. There's going to be some really sparse stuff and some really orchestrated stuff. We started recording basic tracks about three weeks ago and we're pretty stoked about how it's coming together. But ManRayGun is a group that likes to experiment in the studio. Once a song has begun to take shape lyrically and melodically and starts to sound finished, someone usually says "Well that's OK—how can we make this a little bit more fucked up?"

It sounds crazy, but another thing we've discovered is that sometimes we can get a better end result if we kinda get in each other's face a bit—just to stir things up creatively. The working title of the release is Outside Thoughts, and we plan to have it out by summer.

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VW: The band members are constantly engaged in a number of other projects.

How do you decide if an idea is something for ManRayGun or for a different group? Do musical ideas ever cross the boundaries of different projects?

EL: Yes, between the five of us there must be close to 20 bands we play in! How times change. When I first started playing music as a teenager my band was sort of like my tribe. Joining another band was frowned upon and viewed almost as an act of betrayal.

These days everyone plays in a bunch of groups and everyone's fine with it - except that it takes 20 e-mails to nail down a practice! In any case, it's actually very healthy because everyone is constantly enlarging their frame of reference by working in different genres and keeping their chops up by gigging and recording regularly. Sometimes I'll wonder if a song is for one group or for another, but usually it's pretty clear what project a song will work in. I have no issue with recording different versions of songs with different groups either and I expect that will happen soon.

VW: ManRayGun has turned this upcoming show at the Blue Chair into an annual event. How does a listening room like the Blue Chair affect the performance and the music? Is there anything that you do differently at this particular show to change it up from other gigs that you play?

EL: It's become a regular gig for us partially because it sells out every year but mostly because the food's so good (haha). Seriously, though, as a band we really just try to play to the room—not only in terms of who our audience is, but also what the room sounds like. You can't just play the same way everywhere you go, plus, that would be boring! As much as I like turning my amp to 10 and getting feedback, for some reason I have yet to feel inclined to do that at the Blue Chair! It is a great place to showcase quieter tunes (in part because of Kirby's skill behind the soundboard), so we plan to do some of that. Last year we did a 100 percent acoustic show (no amps). This year it's going to be a mishmash of new songs we're working on for the new album and a selection of tunes we've reworked with our new drummer.

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SOUNDTRACK

Cam Neufeld Sun, Feb 17 (7 pm dinner, 8 pm music) Cam Neufeld and the Road to Django Collective Blue Skys Cafe, $15 (advance), $20 (door); Dinner, $15

itative and perfect for a quiet session.

When I feel the need for something a little more active, I do what I call hotclub yoga. I dial in hotclub radio, an Internet station that plays the music of Django Reinhardt and other related bands for a more energetic yoga playlist.

Noon: By noon, I've ingested enough coffee to tweak my temples a little, which usually happens around the eight to 10 latte mark and I'm ready to dive into the field recordings I made while travelling the gypsy trail.

A part of my day is spent listening to and transcribing some of the people I met while travelling, like Johar Ali Khan from India, Nedim Nalbantoglu from Turkey and the Cherkezi Orchestra from Macedonia.

After logging some serious miles tracing the route of the gypsies through Turkey, India, the Balkans, France and Spain for two years, Edmonton-based fiddler Cam Neufeld had found his inspiration for The

Road to Django Collective. Before the show in Edmonton, which melds traditional fiddle tunes with blues, jazz and elements of the gypsy trail, Neufeld shared his soundtrack picks with Vue.

At home Morning: Ideally, my day starts at 6 am with an hour of yoga. My soundtrack to this is Anouar Brahem or Anoushka Shankar, both very med-

Night: Nothing beats dinner at home to the sounds of Chet Baker, and "My Funny Valentine" in particular, since it is that time of year again.

Moving from Cupid to the taxman: for the past number of years I've devoted the week it takes me to sort through everything to an exclusive Tom Waits playlist. It's the only thing that gets me through, especially songs like "Earth Died Screaming" from the album Bone Machine.

The ominous mood of the album seems perfect for doing income tax; I highly recommend it.

On the road Morning: On the road I like to start my day immersed in whatever world I happen to wake up in. Whether I'm in Istanbul waking up to the early morning call to prayer or hearing the tail end of an all-night jam session at a festival, there's something special about the music that emerges from the mist as the sun is coming up.

Noon: This weekend on a road trip to Grande Prairie with Kevin Jacobson of Back Porch Swing, I subjected him to four hours of Turkish music, including a bootleg album of Selim Sesler, the king of the gypsy clarinet players. I think Kevin enjoyed it as well!

Night: At night on the road (as much as I enjoy listening to recorded music) if I'm not performing, I like to seek out live music in whatever city I'm in. A memorable and inspirational concert recently was hearing seven Sufi bands from seven countries all performing on the same stage in an outdoor show as part of the Delhi International Arts Festival. V

PREVUE // METAL

In Flames by ourselves, especially since we'll both be away equally as much. We can spread the workload between us and the people who run it."

The playground days are over // Patric Ullaeus

Wed, Feb 20 (6:30 pm) With Demon Hunter, All Shall Perish, Battlecross Union Hall, $39.50

I

n Flames hearts Canada—big time.

"For us, it's like a bigger Europe almost; it's home," bassist Peter Iwers states fondly over the phone, prior to a gig in Kentucky.

The metal outfit from Gothenburg, Sweden has been back on the road since the beginning of February, with Iwers returning after sitting out several of In Flames' final 2012 dates to be present for the birth of his third child. Aside from welcoming a new

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addition to the family, Iwers, who is something of a foodie, keeps busy outside the band with the successful restaurant 2112—yep, named after the Rush album—which he coowns with bandmate Björn Gelotte.

"I always had a dream of starting some sort of restaurant, a smaller place when I got older was kind of the plan," Iwers says, explaining that this changed when Gelotte began talking about his own plans to open a pub a few years back. The casual hang-out is centered around burgers—including one named after the band—and beer. Lots of beer.

"We thought it would be easier to do something together than to do it

The balancing act will continue when In Flames' current tour wraps up, with plans to head into the studio and get right back to rehearsing and working on new material. Iwers says if all goes well, a new album could be in the cards for 2014. For now, the band is riding the momentum spawned from its most recent album, 2011's Sounds Of a Playground Fading, which marked the first recording done without any of the band's founding members. It followed the departure of guitarist Jesper Strömblad in 2010 due to substance abuse issues.

"We're a family and he's a close friend, and when a close friend has a problem of disease like this, it affects the whole family," Iwers says, adding that Nicolas Engelin rejoining the band to fill Strömblad's spot played a significant role in keeping the group afloat. "He was a member back in 1997 and the attitude and all the energy that Nicolas brought to the table is probably what saved us."

MEAGHAN BAXTER

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PREVUE // CLASSIC ROCK

The Northern Pikes FRI FEB 15

FUTURE ROOTS PRESENTS THE NORTHERN INVASION WITH

DOWNLINK

& BUTCH CLANCY FRI FEB 22

D.O.A. FAREWELL TOUR W/ NO PROBLEM, L.A.M.S. & PANIK ATTAK

Saskatoon's less sheepish hitmakers

Sat, Feb 16 (7:30 pm) Arden Theatre, $35

W

hile Saskatoon, SK has recently made the proverbial musical map thanks to the meteoric rise of a certain scruffy, bearded band, the city is also the birthplace of The Northern Pikes—one of Canada's top-selling rock acts of the late '80s and '90s.

Whether you were one of the diehard fans standing front row at the band's concerts or danced around to the Pikes in your living room as a kid thanks to it being a staple in your parents' album collection, the band has no doubt played a hand in shaping the musical landscape for a new crop of artists with hits like "She Ain't Pretty," "Things I Do For Money" and "Girl With a Problem."

After a hiatus from 1993 to 1999, the Juno Award-nominees have continued to release music, including a greatest-hits collection from its time with Virgin Records from 1984 to 1993, and three independent albums.

These days, the group—originally a four-piece—tours as a trio, as guitarist and vocalist Meryl Bryck left the band in 2007.

"He just doesn't have the desire to play live anymore. We thought long and hard about it and thought, well,

we still enjoy playing the three of us, so we just went out and did it on our own," says drummer Don Schmid, adding that Bryck's departure has been a loss vocally, but was not a detrimental change to the band's dynamic. "He sang a lot of songs without playing his guitar, so we were in some ways already a three-piece in terms of guitar, bass and drums, so the biggest thing we miss is his voice. It's been a challenge, but it's also a unique way to see the band now."

The trio, which is producing a documentary to mark its 30th anniversary next year, has begun experimenting further with onstage jamming, as well as new arrangements for some of its earlier material, which Schmid admits is a hit-or-miss process, but a good exercise in making the most out of a band's material.

"When I go to see concerts it's always interesting to see how groups or artists I go to see rearrange their stuff too ... sometimes a rearrangement of a song will work for some artists and sometimes they just don't," he says.

"It's all part of the live human factor.

You have to be sort of forgiving at a live show."

Whether it's a rearranged version or the nostalgia-inducing chords you re-

member, Schmid acknowledges it is precisely those songs that have gotten the band to where it is today, and cemented them in the status of Canadian classic rock—as well earning it place in the Western Canadian Music Hall of Fame. He notes that music doesn't have a shelf life: it's something that lives on in various forms to be shared with generations to come.

"It really does come down to the songs. Die-hard fans of any artist will really know a lot of things: they'll know the people's names in the band, but when it really comes down to songs you know and grew up with on the radio, well, think back to the Stampeders—how many people really know the names of those people in the band?" Schmid states, noting it's not about the people playing, but the music itself that draws audiences in.

He points to the current touring lineup of the Guess Who as a prime example: only one original member remains, but people still come to hear the hits they know and love.

"It's an interesting thing, music. It's hypnotic state you get into with songs. They affect you and become part of your life and they stick with you for all time."

SAT FEB 23

MEAGHAN BAXTER

W/ WILD ROSES, THE RHUBARBS & THE BLAME IT’S

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FIRSTS, LASTS AND FAVOURITES

Don Ross

First concert I remember going to see the symphony when I was a kid, but the first concert I remember buying a ticket to go see was Chicago at the Winnipeg Arena in 1972.

Part of Winterfest at Uptown Folk Club Fri, Feb 15 – Sun, Feb 17 Expressionz Cafe, $20 – $40 uptownfolkclub.ca

Growing up in a musical family meant plenty of influence and inspiration for Don Ross, but it wasn't until he began playing guitar at age eight that he began seriously pursuing music. Now having spent many years touring around the world and working in various facets of the music industry, Ross is making a stop in Edmonton as part of the lineup at this year's Winterfest at Uptown Folk Club.

Before the festival's kick-off, Ross shared his Firsts, Lasts and Favourites with Vue.

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Last album How Do You Do by Mayer Hawthorne.

Amazing new record that borrows heavily from '70s Motown.

First album The first LP I remember buying was actually a Christmas present for my older brother. It was James Gang Live in Concert, which I think still rates as one of the best live power trio records ever made. It was recorded at Carnegie Hall in 1971. I have some of the tunes on my iPhone now. The LP captured Joe Walsh at the top of his game as a guitarist.

Last concert Peter Gabriel's So tour at the Bell Centre in Montréal.

Favourite album It's hard to name a favourite; I have many. I'll always have a very soft spot for The Köln Concert by Keith Jarrett.

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Favourite musical guilty pleasure "You Shook Me All Night Long" by AC/ DC. V

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SAT, FEB 16, AVENUE THEATRE, OPEN SKY MUSIC FESTIVAL PRESENTS:

NEWSOUNDS

SOULJAH FYAH, THE BOOM BOOMS, THE SOULICITORS

Ghibli Clubs (Independent) 

SUN, FEB 17, AVENUE THEATRE

LINDI ORTEGA

& DUSTIN BENTALL & THE SMOKES W/ ERICA VIEGAS

MON, FEB 25, THE ARTERY

JUSTIN RUTLEDGE W/ THE PROVINCIAL ARCHIVE FRI, MAR 1, THE ARTERY

REUBEN AND THE DARK

After last year's Rare Pleasures found Ghibli's Thomas Michael chasing down a particular sound—a unified mash of disco and classical samples set into house music structure, all built from YouTube clips—2013 sees him diversifying his sonic platter. From classical, choral recordings that get reappropriated for the dance floor to more serenely rhythmic undertakings, the 10 songs on Clubs offer up an expansive, illuminating idea of dance music emerging in a new image.

The album opens with its strongest sound, "Vespers" setting a gorgeous choir sample to subdued thump: there's an atmospheric grandeur to the pairing, the somber, vocal sam-

W/ JORDAN NORMAN, AND F&M

FRI, MAR 8, AVENUE THEATRE

STEPHEN FEARING

W/ ARIANE MAHRYKE LEMIRE

SAT, MAR 9, THE ARTERY

BRASSTRONAUT W/ THE COLLECTIVE WEST, AND LOCOMOTIVE GHOST WED, MAR 13, AVENUE THEATRE

THE WHYTES & PORTAGE & MAIN

W/ WHITE ASH FALLS, AND THE YOUNG ALBERTANS

THUV, MAR 14, AVENUE THEATRE

NO SINNER

W/ GUESTS

UNION AND AVENUE PRESENT SAT, MAR 23, AVENUE THEATRE

BORN RUFFIANS

Fidlar Fidlar (Dine Alone)  Musically tolerable with raucous three-chord thrashers reminiscent of the days of early punk, it's the lyrics and vocals that kill Fidlar. Opener "Cheap Beer" is a song about getting hammered on shitty beer, and it

W/ THE ELWINS

 Emancipator's albums parallel his growth as an artist: alarmingly well thought out, organic and truly artistic.

With a commanding lack of words on the personal journey that occurs as layer after layer of Dusk to Dawn is revealed— and the jazz-fed inspiration of deceased Japanese producer, Nujabes—Emancipator stretches the possibilities and true experience of listening to music. Crisp snares, perfectly placed violin and sublime bass lines make his third a more lively and bright album than anything he's touched before. As he re-enters a token atmospheric trip-hop area the range and potential of Doug Appling is clear. The lush escape Emancipator's albums promise is unequaled in this genre.

With production this moving, it's a mystery why Emancipator remains a relatively undiscovered prize.

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Henry Wagons Expecting Company (Six Shooter) 

doesn't get much better than that.

"Stoked and Broke," talks with bravado about ditching school, getting high and the joys of joining the ranks of the unemployed, and the lyrics remain on that track throughout, with gems like "Whore" and "Wake Bake Skate" following. It could be that the point of this album was to be an in-your-face blur of expletives and ridiculous lyrics, but the gratuitousness of it all takes away from the band's potential.

Henry Wagons turns an ear towards the past on this set of country duets. But the time he's interested in is not the sweet heartbreakers of the '70s: there are a couple of those to be found here, but more often it harkens back to the dark undercurrent of Johnny Cash's more twisted work in the mid-'60s on albums like Sings the Ballads of the True West. Wagons' voice and guitars reverberate like they've sprung from the depths of hell, and his lineup of singing partners are just as shadowy. It's a brief—under 25 minutes—foray into dark, but welcome, company.

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FOUR IN 140

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HAYDEN

pling adding gravitas to the dancefloor oomph. And, as Clubs goes on, what emerges more than any particular sound or sample is the craft with which Michael has fused the spread of them together: the synthy, swirling rhythms of "Saint Germain" lets "Vespers"'s choral work linger an extra track as backing; the layer-bylayer reveal of sounds in "Krista"— bass synth, some string samples and, eventually, a chopped-up sax—keeps the whole thing shifting wonderfully; "Envy 1," reminiscent of the tracks on his Snowclone EP, is a potent, arcing composition: it rises into a funky peak, drops down to just an underwaterbass throb, then emerges again with a electronic-drum-bash-up. Even the lighter, conclusive sonic washes of "Sapphirine" can carry on headphones for its five-minute runtime; no matter what sounds Michael pairs together, he seems to find a way to gel them into a sum a few bass-thumps greater than the individual parts.

As Ghibli, Michael has quietly been navigating uncharted waters with less of a focus on genre and an eye for exploration, and with that in mind—and as its cover suggests—Clubs finds him all set to make some waves.

Emancipator Dusk to Dawn (Loci)

W/ LOU CANON

@CURTISTWRIGHT

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Local Natives Hummingbird (FAB)

& RAH RAH W/ SHORT OF ABLE

@VueWeekly: Great proof of a band moving forward. Building on Gorilla Manor with more seriousness caked with a distinctive poppy brightness.

SONIC 102.9 FM, AVENUE THEATRE, AND UNION EVENTS PRESENT FRI, APR 5, AVENUE THEATRE

YUKON BLONDE & ZEUS W/ GROUNDERS

Mogwai Les Revenants Soundtrack (Rock Action)

FRI, APR 13, AVENUE THEATRE

3 INCHES OF BLOOD & GOATWHORE

@VueWeekly: The soundtrack for a French zombie show might be the perfect fit for these post-rock Scots. Haunting & creepy.

W/ EYE OF HORUS, AND SILENT LINE

WED, APR 17, AVENUE THEATRE

W/ GUESTS PICKWICK W/ GUESTS DANIEL WESLEY FAMILY OF THE YEAR W/ GUESTS W/ GUESTS ROMI MAYES

Ivan & Alyosha All the Times We Had (Dualtone)

FRI, APR 19, AVENUE THEATRE

@VueWeekly: More Beatles than Dostoyevsky, Ivan & Alyosha have produced an optimistic LP of folk. Would make a fine soundtrack on a road trip to Siberia.

FRI, APR 26, HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB

Various Artists Son of Rogue's Gallery: Pirates Ballads, Seas Songs, and Chanteys (Anti-)

SAT, APR 27, THE ARTERY

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@VueWeekly: A who's who list of eccentrics from Tom Waits to Iggy Pop collaborate on this oddball mix of endearing folk of the high seas and the shore side.

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Eye of Horus Fri, Feb 15 (8 pm) Bring your head-banging and mosh pit A-game for a weekend kickoff featuring a metal lineup— including local act Eye of Horus, Stallord and more—that might just have your ears ringing until Monday. (Avenue Theatre, $15)

Souljah Fyah Sat, Feb 16 (8 pm) As the weather begins to heat up, so do the beats.

Edmonton-based Juno Award winners Souljah Fyah bring some upbeat reggae flavour to get things shakin'.

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The Pharcyde Thu, Feb 21 (8 pm) The rap group came out of left field in the early '90s, bringing a smart, decidedly weird vision to the conventional West Coast rap game. Twenty years later and it seems the group's offbeat sensibilities have worked out for the best. (Pawn Shop, $25)

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THU FEB 14 ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE No music this week (reserve for Valentine's day) AVENUE THEATRE Shane Philip, Mayday and the Beatcreeps, guests; 8pm BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Valentine's day; special menu (seatings with and without live music); Music: Blue Chair House Band; $75 (dinner and show) BLUES ON WHYTE Samantha Fish BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Velvet Hour: every weekday with Bill Bourne, Moses Gregg, Matt Blackie and guests; 4-7pm; no cover BRIXX Hosted by Christan and Justin of the Canyon Rose Outfit: The Ultimate Open Stage, open jam, open turntables E: kevin@ starliteroom.ca for more info CAFÉ HAVEN Joal Kamps, Eyland; 7pm; no cover CAFÉ TIRAMISU Valentine's Party: John Calverly and the Felt Hat String Band (Gypsy jazz quartet); 10pm; set menu; $49 CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Zoomers Thu afternoon

open mic; 1-4pm COOK COUNTY Pony Up Thu: Country, Rock Anthems and Top 40 Classics with Mourning Wood THE BOWER Thu: Back to Mine: Hip hop, funk, soul, rare groove, disco and more with Junior Brown and DJ Mumps DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Thu at 9pm J R BAR AND GRILL Live Jam Thu; 9pm JAVA EXPRESS–Stony Plain Acoustic/singer songwriter the 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7-10pm; no cover JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Valentine's Day: Love Supreme (funky RnB/ jazz); 8pm; $10 L.B.'S PUB Valentine Sweethearts Night: Joanne and Haley Myrol, Samantha King, Dana Wylie LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR Richard Monkman MORINVILLE COMMUNITY CULTURAL CENTRE Suzie Vinnick (folk); Valentine's Dinner and Show; 5:30pm NEW WEST HOTEL Canadian Country Hall of Fame Guest host Bev Munro NORTH GLENORA HALL Jam by Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu; contact John Malka 780.447.5111 OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Jesse Peters (R&B, blues, jazz, Top 40); 9pm2am every Thu; no cover PAWN SHOP Enslaved

(Winter Rite 2013 tour), Pallbearer, Royal Thunder, Ancient Wisdom PUB 1824 Sinder Sparks Show; 8-12pm RED PIANO Every Thu: Dueling pianos at 8pm RICHARD'S PUB Live R&B bands (dancing); 8pm RIC’S GRILL Peter Belec ( jazz); most Thursdays; 7-10pm THE RIG Every Thu Jam hosted by Lorne Burnstick; 8pm-close SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Tony Dizon SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Rob Taylor WUNDERBAR Valentine's Day: Whitey Houston, Brazilian Money, Concealer

DJs

Taking Back Thursdays KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE Open stage every Thu; 7pm; no cover LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Funk Bunker Thursdays LUCKY 13 Industry Night every Fri ON THE ROCKS Salsaholic: every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; salsa DJ to follow OUTLAWS ROADHOUSE Wild Life Thursdays RENDEZVOUS Metal night every Thu UNION HALL 3 Four All Thursdays: rock, dance, retro, top 40 with DJ Johnny Infamous

FRI FEB 15 ALICE HOTEL The Blooze Hounds ATLANTIC TAP The Derina Harvey Band

CASINO YELLOWHEAD Reservoir Cats (rock) CENTURY CASINO Prism, the Headpins; 8pm DEVANEY'S Stan Gallant DV8 Black Earth, the Chokeouts; 9pm EDDIE SHORTS Seven Suns ELEVATION ROOM Braden Gates (album release), Boreal Sons, Layten Kramer; 8pm; $10 EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ Winterfest–the Uptown Folk Club: Jim Hepler, Tim Isberg, Marina Marina, Rob Heath, Don Ross; 6pm; $20(Fri)/$40 (weekend pass) at door, adv at Alfie Myhre's Music, Acoustic Music Shop; 780.436.155, uptownfolkclub.ca HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB Crossroad Casuals (CD release), Leuven, A.J. Roulstone; 8pm (door); $10 (door)/$7 (adv)

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

AVENUE THEATRE The Glorification of the Fist III, Eye of Horus (metal), Silent Line,Annex Theory And Skyline; 8pm; $15 (adv) BLUES ON WHYTE Samantha Fish

JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Sandy Foster ( jazz singer and her band); 9pm, $15

CENTURY ROOM Lucky 7: Retro '80s with house DJ every Thu; 7pm-close

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE The McGowan Family Band; 10pm; $10

L.B.'S PUB The Threads; 9:30pm-2am

THE COMMON Uncommon Thursday: Rotating Guests each week

CAFÉ TIRAMISU Kevin Cook; 7pm

CROWN PUB Break Down Thu at the Crown: D&B with DJ Kaplmplx, DJ Atomik with guests

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE The Carrot by Moonlight: Red Hot Cool Blue; 7:30pm; $35 (adv at carrotassist@gmail.com)

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Thu; 9pm FILTHY MCNASTY’S

CAFFREY'S Green Eyed Blonde

CASINO EDMONTON Al Barrett (classic rock)

HIGHRUN The Salesmen

LIZARD LOUNGE Rock 'n' roll open mic every Fri; 8:30pm; no cover NEWCASTLE PUB Mister Lucky with Larry Kehl; 9pm; no cover NOORISH CAFÉ Blair Armstrong ON THE ROCKS Connors Road OVERTIME SHERWOOD

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PARK Dueling Piano's, all request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover PAWN SHOP Frequency Bass Party: Featuring Downlink with DJ Phatcat; 8pm; $23.15 (adv) PUB 1824 Every Fri & Sat, this week with; $5 RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Fri; 9pm2am ROAST COFFEEHOUSE + WINE BAR ROAST Presents: Artists in yhe Coffeehouse: Jenn Beaupre; 8pm ROYAL GLENORA CLUB Valentine's dinner/ dance: Don Berner Big Band (18 piece band) with Allan Gilliland, Audrey Ochoa, Doug Berner, Joel Gray, Kelly Alanna, Raymond Baril, Rob Thompson; tickets at 780.482.2371, E: David.Martin@ royalglenora.com SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Rob Taylor SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Tony Dizon SIDELINERS PUB The K-Tels; 9pm; no cover YARDBIRD SUITE Michael Musillami Trio; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $22 (member)/$26 (guest) at Ticketmaster.ca

plus residents Echo and Justin Foosh THE DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Fri; 9pm FLUID LOUNGE R&B, hip hop and dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Fri LUCKY 13 Every Fri and Sat with resident DJ Chad Cook NEWCASTLE PUB House, dance mix every Fri with DJ Donovan RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie, rock, funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri SET NIGHTCLUB Frequency Pre-party with special DJ STARLITE ROOM KLUB OMFG ZEN LOUNGE Amplified Fridays: Dubstep, house, trance, electro, hip hop breaks with DJ Aeiou, DJ Loose Beats, DJ Poindexter; 9:30pm (door) SUITE 69 Release Your Inner Beast: Retro and Top 40 beats with DJ Suco; every Fri TEMPLE Silence be Damned: with DJs Gotthavok, Siborg, Nightroad; 9pm THIRSTY CAMEL The Sinder Sparks Show with Stratosphere; 10pm 2am TREASURY In Style Fri: DJ Tyco and Ernest Ledi; no line no cover for ladies all night long

AVENUE THEATRE Souljah Fyah, the Boom Booms, the Soulicitors; 8pm; $14 (adv) BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair of the Dog: High Society (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover

L.B.'S PUB Sat afternoon Jam with Gator and Friends; 5-9pm

CAFFREY'S Green Eyed Blonde CASINO EDMONTON Al Barrett (classic rock) CHA ISLAND TEA CO Brian McLeod, Jey Witten (folk/jazz); all-ages welcome; 7pm CROWN PUB Acoustic blues open stage with Marshall Lawrence, 2-6pm; Evening: Tomas Marsh and the Fantastic Brown Dirt, 9pm BRIXX BAR The Dryland Band, the Whytes, Thompson Highway; 9pm DEVANEY'S Stan Gallant DV8 Slippyfist, Evoletah, Anavrin; 8pm EDDIE SHORTS High Society ELEVATION ROOM Krang, Clay Sample; 8pm; $5

BRIXX Silence Be Damned: Goth/Industrial with DJs Siborg and Gotthavok

ALICE HOTEL The Blooze Hounds ARDEN THEATRE The Northern Pikes; 7:30pm; $35

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Katosaurus Wrecks, the Able Kind; 4pm; no cover

ATLANTIC TAP The Derina Harvey Band

GAS PUMP Saturday Homemade Jam: Mike

THE COMMON Good Fridays: nu disco, hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation

SAT FEB 16

HORIZON STAGE The Wolak-Donnelly Duo

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat Open mic; 7pm; $2

Y AFTERHOURS Foundation Fridays

UNION HALL Ladies Night every Fri

HIGHRUN The Salesmen

JEFFREY'S CAFÉ HarleySymington ( jazz ); 9pm, $10

THE BOWER Zukunft: Indie and alternative with Dusty Grooves, Fraser Olsen, Taz, and Josh Johnson

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every Friday DJs on all three levels

HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB JP Cormier (bluegrass, Celtic); 8pm; $16 (adv)/$20 (door)

BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Evening: Samantha Fish

EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ Winterfest–the Uptown Folk Club: Sue Decker, Kayla Hotte and her Rodeo Pals, Uptown Foolery, Little Birdie, Martin Kerr, Allen Christie Band, Roger James, finale, 1pm-11, $30 (Sat)/$40 (weekend pass) at door, adv at Alfie Myhre's Music, Acoustic Music Shop; Guitar styles with Don Ross, 10am-12, $10

DJs

Chenoweth

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Sophie and the Shufflehounds; 9pm LOUISIANA PURCHASE Suchy Sister Saturdays: Amber, Renee or Stephanie with accompaniment; 9:3011:30pm; no cover NEW WEST HOTEL Country jam every Sat; 3-6pm O2'S–West Saturday Jam with the Jimmy Guiboche band every Sat, 1-5pm O’BYRNE’S Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm OLD TIMER'S CABIN Edmonton Blues Society: Great North Blues Band; 7:30pm; $5 (member)/$10 (guest) ON THE ROCKS Connors Road OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Dueling Piano's, all request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover PAWN SHOP Kingdoom (metal), No Heat Tomorrow, guests; 8pm PUB 1824 Every Fri & Sat, this week with; $5 QUEEN ALEXANDRIA HALL Northern Lights Folk Club: Scott Cook, Braden Gates & Jessica Heine; 7pm (door), 8pm (music); $18 (adv)/$22 (door); child 6-12 half price reimbursed at door; child under 6 are free RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano

Players every Sat; 9pm2am SCOUTS HALL–Drayton Valley Take the Earth Beneath Us, Marry Me, Murder, These Colours Don't Run, Bring Us Your Dead SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Tony Dizon SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Rob Taylor STARLITE ROOM Justin Martin; 9pm WINSPEAR CENTRE Blue Planet: film sequences from the BBC/Discovery series live performance by Òran, narration by Tommy Banks; 7pm YARDBIRD SUITE A/B Trio; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $14 (member)/$18 (guest) at Ticketmaster.ca

DJs 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 THE BOWER For Those Who Know...: House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests THE COMMON Get Down It's Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with resident Dane DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Sat; 9pm FLUID LOUNGE R&B, hip hop and dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Sat LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Collective Saturdays underground: House and Techno LUCKY 13 Every Fri and Sat with resident DJ Chad Cook NEWCASTLE PUB Top 40 requests every Sat

VENUE GUIDE ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St,

780.431.0179

ALE YARD TAP 13310137 Ave

ALICE HOTEL–Camrose 5078-50 St, Camrose, 780.672.2124

ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave AVENUE THEATRE 9030-

118 Ave, 780.477.2149

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-

76 Ave, 780.989.2861

BLUES ON WHYTE

10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981

BLUE SKYS CAFÉ 10575-

114 St

BOHEMIA 10217-97 St THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.4256 BRITTANY'S LOUNGE

10225-97 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 COFFEEHOUSE 9351-118 Ave, 780.471.1580

CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd,

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ROSE AND CROWN

780.463.9467

Plain Rd, 780.756.6010

13535-109A Ave

CASINO YELLOWHEAD

HIGHRUN 4926-98 Ave, 780.440.2233

O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave,

780.414.6766

CENTURY CASINO 13103

HOOLIGANZ 10704-

ON THE ROCKS 11730

Valley 4801-52 Ave, Drayton Valley

O2 JOES–North 13509-127

SET NIGHTCLUB WEM, Phase III, next to Bourban St

12464-153 St, 780 424 9467 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000

CHA ISLAND TEA CO

10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482

COMMON 9910-109 St CROWN PUB 10709-109

124 St, 780.995.7110, 780.452.1168

Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767

HORIZON STAGE 1001

St, 780.451.7799

Calahoo Rd, Spruce Grove

J+H PUB (Overdraught

St, 780.428.5618

Pub) 1919-105 St

DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB

J AND R 4003-106 St,

9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834

DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928

DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554

DV8 8307-99 St EDDIE SHORTS 10713-124 St, 587.521.1091

ELEPHANT AND CASTLE– Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave

780.436.4403

JAVA XPRESS 110, 4300

PAWN SHOP 10551-82

BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave

COMMUNITY HALL

SUITE 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969

L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100

PUB 1824 12402-118 Ave,

LEAF BAR AND GRILL

QUEEN ALEXANDRIA

TREASURY 10004 Jasper Ave, 7870.990.1255, thetreasurey.ca

St, 780.451.8890

9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE

10860-57 Ave

587.521.1824

HALL 10525 University Ave RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882170 St, 780.486.7722

Radisson Hotel South, 4440 Gateway Blvd

RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825

LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR

RENDEZVOUS 10108-

10132-104 St

149 St

LIZARD LOUNGE 13160-

RICHARD'S PUB 12150-

FILTHY MCNASTY’S

118 Ave

NEWCASTLE PUB 610890 Ave, 780.490.1999

RIC’S GRILL 24

FLUID LOUNGE 10888

Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700

FUNKY BUDDHA 10341-

82 Ave, 780.433.9676

HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB

15120A (basement), Stony

VUEWEEKLY FEB 14 – FEB 20, 2013

STARLITE ROOM 10030102 St, 780.428.1099

JEFFREY’S CAFÉ 9640 142

161 Ave, 780.457.3118

10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557

8170-50 St

SUGAR FOOT

LION'S HEAD PUB

8906-99 St

Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588

127 St

SPORTSMAN'S LOUNGE

Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814

9938-70 Ave, 780.437.3667

FIDDLER’S ROOST

OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK 100 Granada Blvd,

SIDELINERS PUB 11018-

PLEASANTVIEW

11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495

Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378

780.448.2255

SCOUTS HALL–Drayton

South Park Dr, Stony Plain, 780.968.1860

EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ FESTIVAL PLACE 100

O2'S–West 11066-156 St,

10235-101 St

NEW CITY 8130 Gateway Boulevard

NOORISH CAFÉ 8440109 St

NORTH GLENORA HALL

Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602

UNION HALL 6240-99 St VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286

Y AFTERHOURS 10028102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com

THE RIG 15203 Stony Plain

YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295

ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St,

ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St

Rd, 780.756.0869

780.482.5253

with DJ Sheri 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 Mkhai ZEN LOUNGE Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM Swing Dance Party: Sugar Swing Dance Club every Sat, 8-12; no experience or partner needed, beginner lesson followed by social dance; sugarswing.com 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 Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

SUN FEB 17 AVENUE THEATRE Lindi Ortega, Dustin Bentall and the Smokes, Erica Viegas; 8pm BEER HUNTER–St Albert Open stage/jam every Sun; 2-6pm BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Valentine Blues 5: Bonspiel, the Good Goddamns; 10pm; no cover BLUE SKYS CAFÉ Cam Neufeld and the Road to Django Collective (Balkan and Gypsy jazz dance party); 7pm (dinner), 8:30pm (music); $15 (adv)$20 (door); call Marianne at 780.424.4768 for tickets for just show or show and meal; tickets for the show (without food) also at Myhre's, Blackbyrd BLUES ON WHYTE Ross Neilsen and the Sufferin' Bastards 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; every Sun, 7pm CITY HALL Swing 'n' Skate: Skate to live swing

band; Billie Zizi and the Gypsy Jive; 1-4pm; free DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB Celtic open stage every Sun with Keri-Lynne Zwicker; 5:30pm; no cover EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ Winterfest–the Uptown Folk Club: Create your own workshop with Roger James; 1-3pm; $10 FANDANGO'S Singer songwriter open Stage every Sun NEWCASTLE PUB Sun Soul Service (acoustic jam): Willy James and Crawdad Cantera; 3-6:30pm O2 JOES–North Sunday Jam hosted by Andrew White; 4pm O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am ON THE ROCKS Millenia (live CD recording) RICHARD'S PUB Sun Jam hosted by Joint Chiefs; 4-8pm THE RIG Every Sun Jam hosted by Better Us then Strangers; 4-8pm WINSPEAR CENTRE Blue Planet: film sequences from the BBC/Discovery series live performance by Òran, narration by Tommy Banks; 2pm

DJs 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 guest DJs; 9pm-3am

MON FEB 18 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover BLOCK 1912 Monday Music night: Sweet Vintage Rides; 7:30pm BLUES ON WHYTE Grady Champion BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Velvet Hour: every weekday with Bill Bourne, Moses Gregg, Matt Blackie and guests; 4-7pm; no cover DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB Singer/songwriter open stage every Mon; 8pm FANDANGO'S Open mic Music Industry Night every Mon OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Monday Open Stage PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild

Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm; contact Vi Kallio 780.456.8510 RANCH ROADHOUSE Two12 Social Co (family day party) ROUGE RESTO-LOUNGE Open Mic Night with Darrek Anderson from the Guaranteed; every Mon; 9pm DEVANEY'S Jesse D

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay CROWN PUB A Sexy Night with DJ Pheonix and MJ with Sleepless DJ, DJ Breeze and more every Mon; 9pm-2am RANCH ROADHOUSE Family Day performance

by Las Vegas DJ Eric Cubeechee

TUE FEB 19 ATLANTIC TAP Open mic with Elain Hais BLUES ON WHYTE Grady Champion BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Velvet Hour: every weekday with Bill Bourne, Moses Gregg, Matt Blackie and guests; 4-7pm; no cover BRIXX BAR Ruby Tuesdays with host Mark Feduk; $5 after 8pm; this week guests: Quin & Frey (of September Stone) with guest Karlan Morrison DRUID IRISH PUB Open stage every Tue; with Chris Wynters; 9pm J+H PUB Acoustic open mic night every Tue hosted by Lorin Lynne; everyone will have 10-15 minutes to play L.B.’S Tue Blues Jam with Ammar; 9pm-1am LIT WINE BAR NEK Trio; 8pm; no cover O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm OVERTIME–Sherwood Park The Campfire Hero's (acoustic rock, country, top 40); 9pm2am every Tue; no cover SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Joanne Janzen SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Tony Dizon YARDBIRD SUITE Tue Night Sessions: Doug Berner Quartet; 7:30pm (door), 8pm (show); $5 (door)

Classical WINSPEAR CENTRE The Ten Tenors; 8pm

DJs

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

MORINVILLE COMMUNITY CULTURAL CENTRE Charlie Major (country); 7:30pm

CROWN PUB Underground at the Crown Tuesday: Trueskool and live hip-hop with residents Jae Maze, Xaolin, Frank Brown; monthly appearances by guests Shawn Langley, Locution Revolution, and Northside Clan

OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Jason Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Wed; no cover

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 SUITE 69 Rockstar Tuesdays: Mash up and Electro with DJ Tyco, DJ Omes with weekly guest DJs

WED FEB 20 ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12 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 Grady Champion BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Velvet Hour: every weekday with Bill Bourne, Moses Gregg, Matt Blackie and guests; 4-7pm; no cover CROWN PUB The Dan Jam: musical styles from around the globe with Miguel and friends; musicians are invited to bring their personal touch to the mix every Wed DEVANEY'S Duff Robison ELEPHANT AND CASTLE–Whyte Ave Open mic every Wed (unless there's an Oilers game); no cover ELEVATION ROOM Born Gold, guest; 8pm, $10 FIDDLER'S ROOST Little Flower Open Stage every Wed with Brian Gregg; 8pm-12 HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB Haven Band Jam featuring the Turtlenecks HOOLIGANZ Open stage every Wed with host Michael Gress; 9pm J+H PUB Acoustic open mic hosted by Lorin Lynne LION'S HEAD PUB Burger, Beer & Blues: Dr Blu; $15 (a burger, a beer, some blues)

NEW WEST HOTEL Free classic country dance lessons every Wed, 7-9pm

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:30-11pm; $2 (member)/$4 (nonmember) PUB 1824 Open jam session every Wed, hosted by Indigo Storm; 8pm RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed RICHARD'S PUB Live Latin Band Salsabor every Wed; 9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Joanne Janzen SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Ehren Flais UNION HALL In Flames, Demon Hunter, All Shall Perish, Battlecross; no minors; 6:30pm (door); $39.50 at unionevents. com, primeboxoffice. com, Blackbyrd WUNDERBAR Project HOPE Benefit Concert: Death By Robot, the Gibson Block, the JollyGood, the Gear Seabastian, special performance by Shelbi and Arron 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 THE COMMON The Wed Experience: Classics on Vinyl with Dane FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Latin and Salsa music every Wed; dance lessons 8-10pm 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

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): Afrikaner author Laurens van der Post told a story about a conversation between psychologist Carl Jung and Ochwiay Biano, a Pueblo Indian chief. Jung asked Biano to offer his views about white people. "White people must be crazy because they think with their heads," said the chief, "and it is well-known that only crazy people do that." Jung asked him what the alternative was. Biano said that his people think with their hearts.

That's your assignment for the week ahead, Aries: to think with your heart—especially when it comes to love. For extra credit, you should feel with your head—especially when it comes to love. Happy Valentine Daze, Aries!

beneath the convenient truths and the expired truths and the pretend truths?

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): Have you ever sent a torrent of smart and elegant love messages to a person you wanted to get closer to? Now would be an excellent time to try a stunt like that. Have you ever scoured the depths of your own psyche in search of any unconscious attitudes or bad habits that might be obstructing your ability to enjoy the kind of intimacy you long for?

I highly recommend such a project right now. Have you ever embarked on a crusade to make yourself even more interesting and exciting than you already are? Do it now. Raise your irresistibility! Happy Valentine Daze, Taurus!

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): Lately you've been doing exemplary work on your relationship with yourself, Virgo. You have half-convinced your inner critic to shut-the-frack-up unless it has a truly important piece of wisdom to impart. Meanwhile, you've managed to provide a small but inspired dose of healing for the wounded part of your psyche, and you have gently exposed a selfdeception that had been wreaking quiet havoc. Congratulations! I've got a hunch that all these fine efforts will render you extra sexy and charismatic in the coming week. But it will probably be a subtle kind of sexiness and charisma that only the most emotionally intelligent people will recognize. So don't expect to attract the attention of superficial jerks who happen to have beautiful exteriors. Happy Valentine Daze!

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): Happy Valentine Daze, Gemini! After careful meditation about what messages might purify and supercharge your love life, I decided to offer suggestions about what not to do. To that end, I'll quote some lines from Kim Addonizio's poem "Forms of Love."

Please don't speak any of them out loud, or even get yourself into a position where it makes sense to say them. 1) "I love how emotionally unavailable you are." 2) "I love you and feel a powerful spiritual connection to you, even though we've never met." 3) "I love your pain, it's so competitive." 4) "I love you as long as you love me back." 5) "I love you when you're not getting drunk and stupid." 6) "I love you, but I'm married." 7) "I love it when you tie me up with ropes using the knots you learned in Boy Scouts, and when you do the stoned Dennis Hopper rap from Apocalypse Now!" CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): This Valentine season, I suggest you consider trying an experiment like this: go to the soulful ally you want to be closer to and take off at least some of your masks. Drop your pretenses, too. Shed your emotional armour and do without your psychological crutches. Take a chance on getting as psychologically and spiritually naked as you have ever dared. Are you brave enough to reveal the core truths about yourself that lie

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LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): "Sex is a substitute for God," says writer Cathryn Michon. "When we desire another human being sexually, we are really only trying to fill our longing for ecstasy and union with the infinite." I agree with her, and I think you might too, after this week. Erotic encounters will have an even better chance than usual of connecting you to the Sublime Cosmic YumYum. If you can't find a worthy collaborator to help you accomplish this miraculous feat, just fantasize about one. You need and deserve spiritual rapture.

Happy Valentine Daze, Leo!

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): The coming days could be an animalistic time for you, and I mean that in the best sense. I suspect you will generate lots of favourable responses from the universe if you honour the part of you that can best be described as a beautiful beast. Learn fun new truths about your instinctual nature. Explore the mysteries of your primal urges. See what you can decipher about your body's secret language. May I also suggest that you be alert for and receptive to the beautiful beast in other people?

Happy Valentine Daze, Libra!

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): For the French Scorpio poet Paul Valéry, swimming had an erotic quality. He described it as fornication avec l'onde, which can be translated as "fornicating with the waves." Your assignment this Valentine season, Scorpio, is to identify at least three activities that are like sex but not exactly sex—and then do them with glee and abandon. The purpose of this exercise is to educate and cultivate your libido; to encourage your kundalini to branch out as it intensifies and expands your lust for life.

ROB BREZSNY // FREEWILL@vueweekly.com

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): This Valentine season, meditate on the relentlessness of your yearning for love. Recognize the fact that your eternal longing will never leave you in peace. Accept that it will forever delight you, torment you, inspire you and bewilder you—whether you are alone or in the throes of a complicated relationship. Understand that your desire for love will just keep coming and coming and coming, keeping you slightly off-balance and pushing you to constantly revise your ideas about who you are.

Now read this declaration from the poet Rilke and claim it as your own: "My blood is alive with many voices that tell me I am made of longing."

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): According to physicists Yong Mao and Thomas Fink, you can tie a necktie in 85 different kinds of knots, but only 13 of those actually look good.

I encourage you to apply that way of thinking to pretty much everything you do in the coming week. Total success will elude you if you settle on functional solutions that aren't aesthetically pleasing. You should make sure that beauty and usefulness are thoroughly interwoven.

This is especially true in matters regarding your love life and close relationships. Togetherness needs a strong dose of lyrical pragmatism.

Happy Valentine Daze, Capricorn!

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): "All these years I've been searching for an impossible love," said French writer Marguerite Duras late in her life. The novels and films she created reflect that feeling. Her fictional characters are often engaged in obsessive quests for an ideal romance that would allow them to express their passion perfectly and fulfill their longing completely. In the meantime, their actual relationships in the real world suffer, even as their starry-eyed aspirations remain forever frustrated. I invite you, Aquarius, to celebrate this Valentine season by taking a vow of renunciation. Summon the courage to forswear Duras's doomed approach to love.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): To avoid getting hacked, computer tech experts advise you to choose strong, hard-to-guess passwords for your online accounts. Among the worst choices to protect your security are "123456," "iloveyou," "qwerty," and, of course, "password." Judging by the current astrological omens, Pisces, I'm guessing that you should have a similar approach to your whole life in the coming days. It's important that you be picky about who you allow into your heart, mind and soul. Make sure that only the most trustworthy and sensitive people can gain access. Your metaphorical password might be something like this: m*y#s@t&e?r%y.

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Are you an animal lover?

WHARF Rescue is looking for volunteers We are a nonprofit animal rescue that provides shelter to homeless,neglected animals Please check www.wharfrescue.ca for more information Edmonton’s newest festival, SkirtsAFire, herArts festival is in need of helping hands to launch its first season! From March 7 to 10, Alberta Avenue (118th avenue) hosts a celebration and showcase of women’s stories and the female voice in art.

SkirtsAFire is looking for help leading up to and during the festival. Whether you can volunteer your time at the festival, a few hours stuffing envelopes, or one of your many valuable skills … as a wise woman once said, many hands make light work.

For more information about volunteering, or for information about the festival itself, please visit skirtsafire.wordpress.com

Habitat For Humanity Volunteer Orientation February 8, March 9 and 22 from 8:30am – 4:00pm at the Prefab Shop (13044 Yellowhead Trail).

We are hosting a tool training and information session for new volunteers - or not-new volunteers - who would like to gain some basic knowledge of tools and learn more about how our organization works! Over 80% of all our participants have said that it increased their comfort level to volunteer on an HFH build site by at least 75%.

You will have the opportunity to have your questions answered and meet some of our staff!

Habitat for Humanity invites all women to build with us during Women Build Week: Mar 12 16 at our St. Albert site .

If you are a woman who wants to help families in our community, there is an important role for you on our build sites, whether you have no construction experience or a tool belt of skills. We provide all tools, equipment and lunch. All volunteers participate in onsite safety orientation/training.

No minimum number of shifts required. Check our website www.hfh.org to register as a volunteer online or contact Louise Help someone in crisis take that first step towards a solution. The Support Network`s Crisis Support Centre is looking for volunteers for Edmonton`s 24-Hour Distress Line. Interested or want to learn more? Contact Lindsay at 780-732-6648 or visit our website: www.TheSupportNetwork.com 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 SACE is recruiting volunteers for our 24 hour crisis line. Please visit our website: www.sace.ab.ca The Brick Sport Central is searching for volunteers to donate their time helping with collection, inventory, repairing, as well as outfitting children in need of sports equipment. Call for more information and a tour 780-477-1166 Volunteers required for St. Albert's RunWild Marathon May 5, 2013 www.runwild.ca

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The Banff World Media Festival (BANFF) is the world's foremost television and digital media content creation event, bringing together over a thousand television professionals from dozens of countries. In a conference setting at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel. As a beneficial catalyst for growth and prosperity in Canada's television industry, BANFF could not happen without our invaluable team of volunteers!

The event will be taking place from June 9 – 12, 2013. Please have a look at our website for more information. www.banffmediafestival.com The Silver Skate Festival is looking for volunteers to help get Edmontonians skating, skiing, sledding and sculpting February 15 – 18 in Hawrelak Park.

Call (780) 488-1960 or visit www.silverskatefestival.org or email volunteer@silverskatefestival.org to apply.

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Akokiniskway Gallery of Rosebud, AB is currently accepting submissions and is sending out a call to artists from around the province and at all stages in their art careers. For more information on this call please contact the curator, Valerie Speer at vals@rosebudmerc.com 2013 marks the seventh year for the Alberta Screenwriters Initiative. The Alberta Association of Motion Picture and Television Unions (AAMPTU) are seeking submissions of feature film scripts of any genre, to a maximum length of 250 pages, from Alberta based screenwriters. This annual prize awards avid Alberta screenwriters a first prize of $1000 and a professional workshop with a carefully matched experienced story editor or screenwriter. The 2nd and 3rd place winners receives story notes, editorial feedback and $500.00 and $250.00 respectively. The deadline for this award is March 11, 2013.

For more information on the prize and submission guidelines, please contact Nicholas Mather at (780) 422-8174 or visit www.writersguild.ab.ca Art Gallery of St. Albert (AGSA), a contemporary public art gallery, seeks proposals from artists working in all styles and mediums for exhibition in the 2014 calendar year. Submissions must include an artist statement, CV and up to ten images of work. For full details head to: artgalleryofstalbert.ca/exhibitionsevents/call-for-submissions

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Call for Featured Artists - 2014 The Allied Arts Council of Spruce Grove welcomes all Alberta Artists to submit a proposal as a Feature Artist for a solo or group show to be held at the Spruce Grove Art Gallery located in the Melcor Cultural Centre at 35 – 5th Avenue, Spruce Grove. The portion of our gallery dedicated to our Feature Artists is about 32 feet of wall space. Application dealine is June 30, 2013. For details on application criteria please visit www.alliedartscouncil.com Calling all Artists! movement, music, visual, theatre, comedy, performing arts!

The Good Women Dance Society is calling for submissions for our 4th annual “What’s Cooking?”.

“What’s Cooking?” is an informal work-in-progress event in which artists get the chance to present their work and engage in valuable feedback discussions with the audience about their work. Audience members will be given written surveys about each piece of work, to both comment and critique the work shown, and there will be a short question and answer period following each piece.

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Calls to Artists :: Illuminite Edmonton on the Edge is excited to host illumiNITE for second year running! This year's event runs the entire February long weekend - February 16-18, 2013.

As part of the event, artists, designers and the creatively inspired are invited to join in the design competition that will create the outdoor gallery in the Alley of Light.

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Evanescence Gallery and Art Studio, 61 - 8 Avenue SE, High River, AB is offering Gallery Space to artists to display and sell their work for a nominal monthly fee. They are currently looking to add three more artist colleagues beginning February 1, 2013. Contact them at evanescencegallery@gmail.com or call 403-796-4873 for more information.

Send your submission with Blues in the subject heading line of your email. Please direct all submissions and inquiries to arlene@evanescencegallery.com.

McMullen Gallery - Call for Submissions We will be selecting 4 or 5 shows for the 2014 – 2015 exhibiting season. Submissions may be emailed or mailed and the deadline is Tuesday April 2nd @ 4pm. The McMullen Gallery is open to a wide variety of styles; both traditional and contemporary approaches that:Present highquality original artwork that is colourful, joyful, uplifting, soothing and / or inspiring.

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The Giovanni Fine Art Gallery is putting together an artist of the month feature that will highlight one Edmonton area arist's work, changing on a monthly basis beginning in January 2013.

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COMMENT >> LGBTQ

Where's the nightlife?

Rainbow flags does not a gay bar make

By now, you may have heard that that host a monthly queer night, Edmonton's gay bar scene has ofbut who refuse to identify themficially been cut in half. On Februselves as queer (or even queerary 5, Flash Nightclub announced friendly) and consequently are lessvia Facebook that they are closing. than-welcoming spaces the other Although Flash is being re30 nights each month. More placed by a venue called importantly, just because e Bar, it is unclear at this you're a straight-looking point whether—and to queer, feel confident m o eekly.c @vuew what degree—e Bar will enough to make out with ashley Ashley h whoever you want on the be a queer space. What rg Drybu is clear is that Edmonton's dance floor or have no probqueer spaces are continuing to lem taking over a straight dance shrink. club, doesn't mean everyone in our Unsurprisingly, the announcement community gets the same kind of has generated a lot of conversapass. tion. There's plenty of blame being More to the point, most everyone I tossed round: "If the queer comhave talked to agrees that we need munity wants gay bars, we need more queer spaces. So what does to support them; lesbians and gay queer space look like? Certainly men make the space unwelcoming there are non-commercial queer for each other; we don't need more spaces available (such as Qmunity gay bars in Edmonton anyway." RunLeague's upcoming all-ages queer ning through these conversations is dance party on February 16 at Bikea common theme: do we (although Works North), but for the most part, who exactly that "we" is changes I am thinking about queer commerwith every conversation) need more cial space. A number of friends have queer spaces and what should these imagined their dream queer space: spaces look like? On the one hand, good food and booze, chill environwe could see this closure as a sign ment, some karaoke and maybe a of progress: perhaps we don't need dance floor one night a week. There gay bars anymore. I'm reluctant to have been other non-club spaces agree with this assessment. I need that have opened (such as Junction only think of the venues in town or The Roost) but these have all

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since closed and apparently weren't quite what my friends had imagined.

What kind of responsibility does the queer community owe to queer businesses and how much responsibility do queer businesses have to the queer community? I'm certainly not a free-market advocate and most days I'm not sure about this whole capitalism thing, but I will say that no business is a charity and it needs to make a profit to stick around. Conversely, if there is a demand for it, a business should appear, but just because someone slaps a rainbow flag out front doesn't mean the queers are going to drop their hard-earned cash there. So what's going on?

Clubs and bars open and they don't make a profit. Non-clubs open and they also close. So are we as a community impossible to please, or are we just not an important market share? Do we feel that we are owed these spaces, or do not enough of us need these spaces to make them economically viable? I don't know the answers to any of these questions, but if queer spaces are important to us, our community needs a better business plan than just a rainbow sticker. V

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How to have the sex talk with a gay son; and advice on stereotypes I'm a 37-year-old single father with suggesting he is. I'm swimming in una 14-year-old son. I've raised him on familiar waters here with no life vest. my own basically since birth with Dad Under Duress help from some good friends and nearby family. Overall he's a good "In an ideal world, Dad Under Dukid: gets decent grades, rarely ress would take a slow and E G gets in trouble. Our relationroundabout way to encourA SAV ship isn't perfect—I work a age his son to come out to lot and he's a teenager, but him," says John Schwartz, m o .c ekly vuewe no major issues. Over the savagelove@ a correspondent for the Dan past year, however, I have New York Times, a father avage of three, and the author S become increasingly convinced that he is gay. I've found gay porn of Oddly Normal: One Family's on his laptop (yes, I snoop; I pay Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son the bill and I'm his dad), he's shown Come to Terms with His SexualZERO interest in girls and he has ality. "Instead of a direct confrontaways been a tad effeminate, though tion—are you gay or what?—DUD I know that's probably an unfair stecould make gay issues a reotype. I have no problem with gay part of the day's general people and I support full equality for conversation. Discuss issame-sex couples. And truly, if my sues like same-sex marson is gay, while I won't pretend it'd riage and stories in the be no big deal and not require a bit newspaper that bring of mental adjustment, I'd love him up LGBT themes. In that and support him fully. middle ground between My son has a friend, let's call him pushing and ignoring, his "Gomer," who comes over often. son might decide that Sometimes they're here when I'm his dad is safe to come out to." not, and often they're alone together Whenever possible, queer kids with the door closed. If Gomer were should be allowed to reveal their a girl, these things wouldn't be alsexuality on their own timetable, lowed. I've had the (straight) sex Schwartz emphasizes, but there are talk with my son, and he knows that times when a parent has to force I don't want him to be sexually acthe issue. For instance, if a not-yettive yet. But a friendship with a guy out gay kid is in crisis, or if a parent isn't sexual ... unless it is. I have no stumbles over evidence that a notspecific knowledge that anything yet-out gay kid is doing something has happened between them. Gomer risky, a parent can and should go the is a nice kid and I've met his parents. I "are you gay or what?" route. In your have no problem with them hanging case, DUD, you already know your out. But if my son were gay, I would son is gay—"Browsers don't lie," have a different, stricter set of rules says Schwartz—and the fact that regarding male friends. BUT HOW your son might be having sex in his DO I BROACH THE SUBJECT? room, thereby breaking dad's house He's a sensitive kid and I worry he'd rules, may rise to the level of "are lie or resent me. And if he's not gay, you gay or what?"

I worry I could seriously damage our "If he'd tell a hetero boy to keep relationship and hurt his pride by his door open, a gay boy should get

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the same message," says Schwartz.

"He's not being the monster and he's not being insensitive. He's being the dad. He should keep in mind, though, that if his son is already having sex with his buddy, telling him he can't do it at home is likely to send them off to places— to school, to a car—where getting caught could have bigger consequences than getting grounded."

Let's pause for a moment to recall why—generally speaking—parents frown on their straight kids having friends of the opposite sex in their bedrooms: an unplanned pregnancy can quickly derail two young lives.

more than straight ones," Joseph tells his dad. While your son might have had sex education in school, even the best sex-ed classes focus on male-female.

"There's less reliable information about gay sex than there is about straight sex," Joseph says, so gay kids turn to the Internet—or to porn—for information and, as Joseph points out, "half of it could be physically dangerous and the rest is poorly explained."

"If he's lucky," says Schwartz, "DUD lives near an LGBT centre with a youth program, which will help his son find a community and also get

In the last 24 hours of casual media consumption—cable news, daily papers, my Twitter feed, straight blogs, queer blogs—I've seen my fair share of tanned and chiseled Adonises.

I've also seen pictures and/or video of Bayard Rustin, Barney Frank, Harvey Fierstein, Harvey Milk, Daniel Hernandez Jr, Ian McKellen, Evan Wolfson, Jinkx Monsoon, Jared Polis, Bruce Vilanch, Alan Turing, George Kalogridis and more. All great guys, all of whom have made or are making a difference (leading the civil rights movement, leading the LGBT rights movement, making art, telling jokes, helping to defeat Nazi Germany, pushing the boundaries of drag as an art form), but not one of whom was, is or ever aspired to be an underwear model.

Images of perfect male bodies can fuel body-image issues in both gay and straight men. Gay men in particular are at higher risk of anorexia, bulimia, and "bigorexia," aka muscle dysmorphia, aka "gay dude who lives at the gym." So those images of tanned and chiseled Adonises can do harm. But if all one sees are images of tanned and chiseled Adonises, NAA, then that's all one is looking for.

Yes, the media—gay and straight—focuses too much on the young and the hot. But if you're not seeing gay men of all ages, sizes, shapes and colours, NAA, it's because you're choosing not to see them. Open your eyes. V

Images of perfect male bodies can fuel body-image issues in both gay and straight men. Gay men in particular are at higher risk of anorexia, bulimia, and "bigorexia," aka muscle dysmorphia, aka "gay dude who lives at the gym."

While a couple of gay boys can get into trouble, DUD, and while sexually transmitted infections are a concern, Gomer isn't going to knock up your son. So if your gut tells you that your son isn't ready and that he would be traumatized if you forced him to come out, DUD, you might wanna let him think he's pulling one over on his clueless straight dad. There aren't many perks to being a closeted gay teenager—a few sleepovers that the straight kids couldn't get away with might be a small consolation.

John Schwartz shared your letter with Joseph Schwartz, the gay son whose coming-out story John tells in Oddly Normal. Joseph thinks it's time for a gay sex talk.

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a healthy dose of sex ed and risk reduction. If not, he could be in for an uncomfortable conversation or two.

But the underlying message you'll be sending is that you care and that you're the dad."

Oddly Normal is a terrific book and any parent with a queer kid should read it—and since any kid could be queer, that means every parent should read it. You can follow John Schwartz on Twitter @jswatz, and there's a good interview with Joseph Schwartz at The Atlantic: tinyurl. com/oddlynormal.

What are the effects of perpetuating the myth that gay men should all be tanned and chiseled Adonises? Because that is all one sees.

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