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GRASDAL'S VUE

How to begin How do we remember a man? The outpouring of public grief this past week is a rare attempt to grasp at defining a man's impact on us all. And if anything the week proved that despite our advances in communication we still often lack the ability to define the complexity of a man's life.

Jack Layton was a man in the service of the public. It's fitting that in his final letter to Canadians he attempts to address the numerous ways in which we knew him as a politician, a person afflicted with cancer, as a leader and as a Canadian. But what might be most striking is the ways in which we will not know Jack Layton.

As Layton prepared to take on the role we needed him to play, Canadians were expectant. With the coming Parliamentary session we knew he would bring passion, veracity and dedication. In many ways the grief felt this past week is in part for the man we will not be able to see perform in his greatest triumph as leader of Canada’s official opposition.

As we attempt to define what this man meant to each of us we are also attempting to define what it is he meant, and could have meant, to Canada.

People could deny his party, but those who had wit-

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nessed the change of the atmosphere as he entered a room, the attentiveness as you engaged him in conversation or the humour and veracity he could put into a speech could not deny his personality. In travelling across the country this spring, he won people over as a man dedicated not only to social change, not just to one idea, but to the participation of the people in the process of politics. Those who disagreed with him were not shut down and shut out, but told to participate to change the direction of the party or the country, and to hold him to account.

He was not perfect. Nor are any of us. Grief is not an easy process. It is often messy and undefined. It's not for us to decide how people choose to process the loss of a public voice. For many of us this is a time that we remember our own mortality, that we may not have the time to finish what we started, but it's the fact that we started that matters.

"Don’t let them tell you it can't be done" were his parting words to Canadians. Not to his party or his caucus, but to all Canadians. Where most Canadians have opted out of politics, and no longer think change is possible, Jack Layton's final message to Canadians was to believe. V

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

Comments from the website:

THIS WEEK'S POLL:

It's not obsessive compulsive disorder, it's the monster we all have inside us. I guess you should see it an come to your own conclusion. She is only 18 and a very insightfull 18 at that. This is her first play at the Fringe and I think it was very well done and very well written. Kudos Laurel Schell!!

What do you think of the expected protest of the Keystone pipeline by over 2000 people on the steps of the White House?

fanofhearts comment on review of The Heart of the Ceiling

Channel One had to be the most original, perfectly timed, comedic routine in the entire festival. I laughed and had moments of true revelation as these two (very funny) women went through their repertoire of familiar and not-so-familiar skits from TV's past, present and future. I want more! tomwj comment on review of Channel One

1. Civil disobedience is needed to stand up for environmental issues.

2. It's a waste of time on the part of protesters. Government won't listen to their demands.

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NewsRoundup MOMENTOUS VICTORY

WHAT THE FRACK? The Alberta Federation of Labour is calling for an investigation into the lobbying activities of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers. The labour organization is asking the Registrar of the Lobbyist Act to investigate evidence that the association has been heavily involved in the lobbying and communication efforts of the provincial government. "We have come into possession of a Government of Alberta briefing note that shows CAPP is using industry insiders to lobby the province on a communications strategy for shale gas, but has not registered those industry insiders as its lobbyists," says Nancy Furlong, secretary treasurer of the AFL

The presentation of this document follows just a week after the NDP found a cabinet briefing which revealed CAPP approached the provincial government to create a PR campaign favouring hydraulic fracturing. The document revealed a plan by the provincial government to demonstrate that shale gas extraction is environmentally sustainable. "There's a mounting body of shocking questions about the safety and sustainability of shale gas extraction. Other jurisdictions are studying the practice. The PCs don't really know if it's safe or sustainable—they're only consulting CAPP, who has a vested interest in pushing forward," says NDP MLA Rachel Notley.

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The Grassy Narrows First Nation has won a major victory in a decade-long effort to stop clearcut logging in traditional territory. The Government of Ontario wanted to approve development initiatives including logging and mining in the traditional areas of the Anishinaabe, developments which would infringe on the ability of the

Grassy Narrows First Nation to use the land for traditional purposes. The Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruled that the government does not have the right to approve developments as it would take away rights granted to the Anishinaabe in Treaty 3.

The Grassy Narrows First Nation is hopeful this is the first step in protect-

ing the boreal forest and guaranteeing rights granted in treaties.

"This will require protecting the way of life of the Anishinaabe who were here before the logging industry came to these lands and will be here after the logging companies have moved on to other forests," says Chief Simon Fobister.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.

All my very best, —Jack Layton August 20, 2011

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More than a facade Edmonton's local businesses should have a place in revitalization efforts Photos by Eden Munro

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t isn't a mall until you've got an Orange Julius. With this as a guiding sentiment Whyte Avenue will soon achieve the status of the city's largest outdoor mall. The presence of the newest Orange Julius franchise on the venerable avenue has brought mixed reactions: while many visitors to Whyte can be heard exclaiming their excitement as they pass under the glowing sign for ice cream, many are concerned about the lack of commitment to the unique character of the area.

"It'd be nice if there were some way to keep the character of the mom and pop operations and keep out corporations," says Tom Monto, owner of Alhambra Books. “People like the old buildings and like hanging out there, so that's made it more profitable but has attracted redevelopment that maybe isn't historical, and chain stores which will take away from the character.”

Alhambra was once located right on Whyte, but moved east of the railroad tracks when the shop needed a larger space.

It's a curse of Old Strathcona's success as a revitalization zone. As one of the first spots in the city to undergo the process, the Old Strathcona Business Association worked hard to improve the area's image as a place to develop business. Building on the efforts of the Old Strathcona Foundation in the early '70s to save the historical buildings on the avenue from destruction by a proposed freeway, the Old Strathcona Business Association worked to improve streetscape development and create

a welcoming environment for new business and customers. The groups have been so successful that Old Strathcona is one of the only urban outdoor heritage areas listed by the province. But the area may now be facing a problem of its own success.

"You're going to find a lot of local business having to move because the rent on the main street is just not affordable,” says David Gawdunyk, one of the co-owners of Permanent Records, an independent record shop just off Whyte Avenue. “In 10 years I

Association. "We do have a good relationship with long-term property owners, but during the boom there was a lot of property flipping and so some of the property owners are new property owners."

On 124 Street, there is an attempt to be selective about the businesses setting up. “We're not looking for pawn shops or cash stores or chains.

What we're fostering for our area is to be unique and independent as opposed to so many areas that are full of chains,” says Jeff McLaren,

In 10 years I think you'll be hard pressed to find local business on [Whyte] Ave. think you'll be hard pressed to find local business on the Ave.” As the operating arm of the Business Revitalization Zone, the business association has the ability to recruit new ventures and connect them with potential property owners and developers, but if a good relationship doesn't exist between the three groups there is not a lot the association can do to prevent a certain business from entering the area and potentially disrupting its unique character.

"We have a hard time accessing contact information for property owners—sometimes we're the last to know that something is coming," says Shirley Lowe, executive director of the Old Strathcona Business

executive director of the 124 Street and Area Business Association. "We'd consider looking at a chain depending on the design and what they're looking for. We're not actively going out of the way to pursue them."

Ultimately, the decision lies with property owners who accept the rent. "Technically, if a business wants to come in and the property owner wants that business there, we have no ability to say no," says Mclaren.

"If they meet all the requirements there's nothing we can do about it."

A lot of effort goes into defining the character and community atmosphere in business revitalization zones like Whyte Avenue, 124 Street and Alberta Avenue. Alberta Ave, as one of the newest revitalization

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zones, has received over $15 million as part of the city's storefront facade program which is used to encourage business and property owners to redevelop storefronts to be more welcoming. It parallels historical efforts such as 1979's renovation of the Tipton Block, the new home of Orange Julius. Over $400 000 was spent retaining the historical character and improving the integrity of the building.

But ensuring historical preservation and attractiveness of an area is about more than a improved facade: once you've built it, who will come? There is increasing economic evidence that the city may have an inherent interest in ensuring that local, independent businesses are a key part of revitalization efforts.

"Local business buys locally, local business keeps the money in the community," says Lowe. "We did a study five years ago and estimated conservatively that this area keeps $100 million in our local economy and that includes a lot of stuff so that means these businesses are supporting a lot of local businesses in the area."

A 2003 study by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance found that local businesses, in purchasing inventory, hiring employees and spending money in the area, contribute $45 to the local economy for every $100 spent at a local independent as compared to chains which spend $14 for every $100.

And supporting local independents may be the key to economic diversification and income growth. A recent

study by economists Stephan Goetz and David Fleming found that supporting local small businesses, as well as limiting the growth of corporate and market consolidation by large corporations, helped increase per-capita income growth. Studying 2953 US counties, they found that those with a higher density of locally owned small businesses had greater income growth between 2000 and 2007 than those with high levels of chains and big box stores.

"Technically [the city] can't support one business over another," says McLaren. "One way the city can support local business is by supporting the BRZs in terms of supporting the infrastructure, public space, the streetscapes, and creating the mainstreets that are unique areas.

In creating the public space where these areas are different than just a generic strip mall, there's a role for the city to play."

Still, Clint Anderson, co-owner at Permanent Records, wonders about the future of his own business and if potential expansion would force them further off the Ave. "Our capabilities are limited right now," says Anderson, and he wonders if it will be possible to look at other spaces on Whyte Avenue in the future if the current trend continues.

Gawdunyk echoes his concern: “I'm not sure what power [the association] has except to preserve the look of it, but it's all going to go to commercial big money stores in the next 10 years.

Who else can afford the rents?"

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Who are you working for?

The possibility exists that George W Bush was a spy In spy talk, a "sleeper" is somebody who in 1963. Since 1970 it has been led by lives his life in the target country, keepmembers of the Assad clan—the current ing his nose clean and climbing up president is Bashar al-Assad—and the ranks of the local hierarchy, the Alawite (Shia Muslim) sect until he reaches a position in they belong to dominates the which he can be of great sergovernment and the intelli.com weekly e@vue n n vice to his true employers gence services. y w g e Gwynn abroad. It's time to inquire if Alawites are only 10 percent Dyer of Syria's population, and are that description fits former US president George W Bush. seen as heretics by many in the Sunni The question arises because Bush's Muslim majority. The Baathist Party is as actions as president did much more for corrupt and incompetent as it is oppresIran's interests in the Middle East than sive, and Syria under its rule has fallen for those of the United States. Consider, into poverty and decay. It was bound to for example, a little-noticed recent develbe challenged by the "Arab spring," and opment in the five-month-old confrontanon-violent mass protests against the tion between pro-democracy protesters Baathist monopoly of power began all and the Baathist regime that rules Syria across the country in mid-March. with an iron hand.

The regime's response has been brutal.

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that the protesters are "armed terrorist gangs," Assad's government has sent the Syrian army into one city after another to crush the demonstrations. At least 1700 Syrian civilians have been killed, and an estimated 30 000 have been arrested.

The violence has been so horrifying that even the Baathist regime's former friends have denounced it.

Last weekend, for example, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu bluntly ordered the Syrian authorities to stop the crackdown, warning that if the military attacks on Syrian cities do not end, "There will be nothing more to discuss about the steps that will be taken." In diplomatic-speak, that is a very serious threat, and Turkey is Syria's most powerful neighbour.

Most of the Arab world has also denounced President Assad’s regime, including the Arab League, the Saudi Arabian, Jordanian and Egyptian governments, and Yasser Abed Rabbo, the secretary general of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), who said recently that the Baathist regime's actions are "a crime against humanity."

Even Russia and China voted for the United Nations resolution two weeks ago that condemned the Syrian government for "widespread violations of human rights and the use of force against civilians." However, the regime's only

real ally, Iran, remains loyal.

You can't assume that George Bush was in Iran's pay just because his invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq destroyed that country's two most serious enemies in the region, the Taliban regime in Kabul and Saddam Hussein in Baghdad.

It could just have been deep ignorance and ideologically driven blindness. But how else can you explain this?

Iraq, almost uniquely among Arab states, supports and defends the Baathist regime's actions in Syria. Last week, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki warned the protesters not to "sabotage" the Syrian state. And this Iraqi government was created and nurtured by the Bush administration.

Before the US invasion in 2003, Iraq was ruled by a rival branch of the Baath Party, led by Saddam Hussein. He was a cruel and murderous dictator, though not significantly more so than the Assad regime in Syria. And Saddam Hussein was Iran's worst enemy.

The Iraqi dictator was not working on nuclear weapons, as the Bush administration asserted, nor did he have any links to al-Qaeda, as it also claimed. George Bush had access to the output of the best (or at least the most numerous) intelligence agencies in the world, and they all privately knew that the claims were false.

Iraq had a nuclear weapons program before the first Gulf war in 1990 – 91, but it was comprehensively dismantled

by United Nations teams in the mid'90s, and Iraq was subsequently under a strict arms embargo right down to 2003. Moreover, far from being an ally of al-Qaeda, Saddam Hussein, the leader of a strictly secular regime, was a target for its assassins.

Yet the invasion went ahead anyway, Saddam Hussein was killed, and the United States devoted immense efforts to creating a new government. Almost 5000 American soldiers died in support of that enterprise (together with hundreds of thousands of Iraqis). Around half a trillion dollars were spent on it. All that to build a government, led by Nuri al-Maliki, that is a close ally of Iran, and Syria's only supporter in the Arab world.

There is a case to answer here, and a Congressional investigation into George W Bush's secret links to the Iranian mullahs whose cause he has served so well is long overdue. They could start by figuring out where Bush was really born. Tehran? Tabriz? Maybe the "Birthers" could help the investigators to establish the truth. V Gwynne Dyer is a London-based journalist. His column appears every week in Vue Weekly.

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PREVUE // DANCE

A year of dance

What's coming up in Edmonton's dance community? I'm glad you asked ...

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hough Vue previewed the theatre season a couple weeks back, we thought it high time to dedicate some ink to the other bodies taking over stages in town: both contemporary and classical. From La La La to a revamp of Swan Lake, there's plenty of save-the-dates in the 2011 – 12 dance line-up.

The National Ballet of Canada celebrates its 60th birthday with a crosscountry tour—the company visits September 19 – 20 with three pieces, respectively choreographed by ballet provocateur William Forsythe, the legendary Jerome Robbins and Kidd Pivot's incredible mastermind: Crystal Pite.

Brian Webb also begins his season September 16 – 17 at the Art Gallery of Alberta, with a new collaboration by dancer Lin Snelling, visual artist Shelagh Keeley, and musician Michael Reinhart titled Performing Book. Following that, BWDC presents Children and A Few Minutes of Lock on October 7 – 8 at the Timms Centre, where the radiant Louise Lecavalier performs two duets choreographed

by Canadian treasure Édouard Lock (more on him later) and British theatre legend Nigel Charnock.

Citie Ballet opens its season at the Timms with HOMAGE A GORECKI, PERE ET FILS on October 15 – 16, as intrepid guest choreographer Waldemar Bartkowski honours the music of Górecki in four movements.

The Royal Winnipeg Ballet visits

through four Western Canadian hubs: choreographers Brent Lott (Winnipeg), Nicole Mion and Davida Monk (Calgary), Robin Poitras (Regina) and Brian Webb perform on the tour, stopping in Edmonton on November 18 – 19.

Mile Zero Dance also presents its first salon of the season, The Wired Body, on November 26 at the Westbury Theatre in the TransAlta Arts Barns.

visits the Arden Theatre on October 29 – 30—a physically electric feast to heat the soul before winter's arrival.

In November, BWDC brings the Prairie Dance Circuit around again

Speaking of the Westbury, which is a great place to take in dance with its steep rake (you can actually see floorwork!), the Good Women Dance Collective present its first self-produced full-length evening with Convergence, December 1 – 3 on the Arts Barns stage, featuring work by Raena Waddell, Caileen Bennett, Jessalyn Britton, Natalka Lewis (Calgary), and a collaborative project with iDance.

Of course, later that month sees Alberta Ballet's take on the festive classic The Nutcracker, December 9 – 11 return to the Jubilee Auditorium.

Ringing in 2012 on January 18 is the most exciting presentation of the season: Montréal's La La La Human Steps with a brand new work by Édouard Lock. With its signature style of radicalized ballet, Lock's troupe is a definite jaw-dropper, not to be missed.

Mile Zero's second salon, Unplugged, follows on January 21 at the Westbury Theatre with a selection of short, cabaret-style works.

images less visually overwhelming in their linear mark-covered surfaces.

And unlike Rezansoff's March exhibition in Latitude 53's ProJex Room, the artist includes a couple pieces, such as "Wooded Reflection" that use negative space to form ghostly, unnerving, vacant space for a roughly formed

tales," looking to the Bible rather than memory, however, as source material. "Word Made Flesh" borrows its name from the first chapter of the book of John, and his interpretation is clear but singular: the highly textured image reveals grotesque shapes formed white, distinguished

La La La Human Steps stepping across the stage with an homage to Alice's journey down the rabbit hole in their surreal and campy Wonderland at the Jubilee Auditorium (October 27 – 29).

Closing off the month, Viver Brasil

Alberta Ballet remounts Jean GrandMaitre's Cinderella February 17 – 18 at the Jubilee, followed by a world premiere of Kirk Peterson's new Swan Lake on March 23 – 24.

March also sees the eighth annual Expanse Movement Arts Festival— this year trying their feet at the Westbury Theatre as well (March 8 – 11). BWDC brings back the acclaimed Sylvain Emard Danse with Fragments, Volume 1 (March 9 – 10), and Citie Ballet presents Mosaic I, March 2 – 3 at the Timms Centre.

Come April 27 – 28, Mile Zero's Artistic Director Gerry Morita will present the anticipated culmination of her graduate studies with new solo works on two evenings at the Timms Second Playing Space.

The Good Women will again be celebrating International Dance Day on April 29 with its third annual What's Cooking? forum of short new works—with a vegan buffet and lots of feedback to be shared.

May 11 – 12 will see the remount of Love Lies Bleeding (aka "the Elton John Ballet") at the Jubilee Auditorium—in case you missed it the first time around in 2010.

Citie Ballet closes out the season on June 2 with a new work by Artistic Director Francois Chevennement: Les Demoiselles De La Nuit. Essentially, it's a ballet for cats, with an original libretto by Jean Anouilh.

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REVUE // ART

EYES IN THE WILD Until Sat, Sep 3 Tim Grieco and Lisa Rezansoff SNAP Gallery

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eing greeted by something familiar is often an immediate source of comfort, but as printmakers Lisa Rezansoff and Tim Grieco express in Eyes in the Wild at SNAP Gallery, it has equal capacity to be dark, threatening and unnerving.

The subconscious-guided imagery in the exhibition takes viewers on a dark journey through Rezansoff's reinterpretation of childhood memories, while Grieco ruminates on some iconographic, weighty elements in the Bible. The former artist unites "memories and dreams of the mountainous landscape where she grew up" with a spontaneous approach to mark making, forming a playful balance to Grieco's darker approach and heavier subject matter.

The immediacy that results from an unfiltered approach to the etching process is clear in her work, notably in "Wolf Cat Owl Bear," which adorns SNAP's gallery window. Rezansoff's rough marks reveal familiar animal forms made monstrous by her rough, child-like, impulsive, line-based images, its title speaking to the immediate and direct expression common to subconscious-guided art making. Key to the visual cohesion of her entire series is the repetition of half circle shapes that form ominous clouds, rolling hills, and tempestuous swirling seas. This adds an element of playfulness to the images, complementing the simple and childlike animal, human and plant forms visible under thicker, violent, gestural lines that strike and circle these representational forms.

The repetition of the half moon shape also serves to make the busy

Rezansoff's rough marks reveal familiar animal forms made monstrous by her rough, child-like, impulsive, line-based images.

forest. These works successfully illustrate the compositional strength of her images, as well as balancing the more visually overwhelming works with these quieter prints.

Grieco's work meets his exhibition partner's conceptually through an exploration of "chaos" and "strange

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from the sludgy black painterly void that surrounds them. The violence and ugliness of the forms makes the case that the beginning of existence was more sludgy chaos than abstract elegance.

The artist approaches creation (Genesis), exile (Exodus), suffering (Job) and redemption and judgment

(Leviticus) as dark and turmoil-filled moments, and these works look as though they depict ancient moments through monstrous forms and roughly-textured abstraction in black and white, the subject matter forming the perfect fit for this exploration of the material and textural possibilities of his print medium.

While these artists connect in their respective approaches to the familiar through dark and foreboding interpretation, Rezansoff's work also forms a successful counterpoint to Grieco's gritty abstract biblical imagery through the surreal narratives she weaves of forest, fauna and wellused childlike illustrative style. Together, the artists paint an engaging picture of the haunting fluidity and disfigurement of stories interpreted through memory and mark.

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PREVUE // THE ART OF PARKING

IN/STALL/ED Sat, Aug 27 (11 am – 5 pm) Designated parking sites within McCauley (For a map, visit blog.latitude53.org)

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here aren't too many features of an urban environment as singly purposed as a parking space: not only can it be nothing but a space to put a car, it can only hold one at a time. In a city like Edmonton that is ruled by cars, parking spaces are ubiquitous because they're necessary. Cars come into the city centre on weekday mornings, they stay for a few hours and then they're gone.

Though downtown has started to show signs of life, there is plenty of unused and unusable space downtown at night and on weekends.

Calling attention to these spaces is a new installation art piece spearheaded

by Latitude 53 gallery, entitled IN/STALL/ ED. It will look at urban space in the McCauley area by repurposing for one day what these parking stalls are used for: instead of plopping a car into them, art installations will appear.

"IN/STALL/ED actually comes from an open source art project from San Francisco," explains Latitude 53's program assistant Kelta Coomber of the project's inspiration. "A group called Rebar does a series of public art projects that deal with forgotten urban spaces and they try and repurpose them for everyday people to enjoy and criticize how our cities are developed and the idea that there can be private space that no one

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Engaging critically with and calling attention to these forgotten spaces is the goal of the work and to do so Latitude 53 forced itself out of its comfort zone: instead of simply sticking with the visual art that the gallery is known for, it opened the installation to a wide swath of artistic practices.

"We'll have some performance artists, visual artists, people who are sculptures, painters," lists Coomber of IN/STALL/ ED's participants. "There's something extremely contemporary about taking urban spaces—no matter your background or artistic practice—and playing with that. We thought there would be a good diversity of people who could be included in the project without making any distinctions about what kind of artistic practices they needed to be doing" Getting art out of the gallery and plunging it into the middle of someone's life is another goal of the project, one that Coomber hopes will fulfill the longing that some people have for art in their lives.

"People want to be seeing art but a lot of people are going on the Internet and seeing people's art virtually, so I think [IN/STALL/ED is] a nice intermediary between the gallery space and a virtual look at art that people engage with now," she says. "Seeing it in the everyday I think will be very powerful for people."

Fringe Holdovers / Wed, Aug 24 – Sun, Aug 28 Of course you haven't had your fill of the Fringe yet, there's just not enough time in the day to see it all (far, far from it), and most of the biggest hits sold out early. Fortunately for those who missed a ticket, the Fringe, as always, is extending the party for a few more days with its selected holdover shows.

So If you couldn't scrounge a ticket for the touching, hilarious one handers The Surprise and Giant Invisible Robot, or Grim & Fischer's full-mask sentiment, the dames and PIs of Scarlet Woman, the 36-string melodies of 6 Guitars or pop and lockin' of Boygroove, or the burlesque-sexy history lesson of Tudor Queens—the latter of which actually had people scalping tickets, and a ticket-hungry post on Kijiji—now's your chance.

They're getting a brief second life, in a much bigger theatre (The Westbury), adding greatly to your odds of getting tickets this time. Don't fuck it up again.

There's also a quartet of shows seeing a second life at Holy Trinity Church—both of David Belke's Fringe submissions, Alexia Anybody and Forsooth, My Lovely, as well as the bizarre-but-touching This is Cancer and Jesus in Montana: Adventures in a Doomsday Cult—and a pair at the Varscona Theatre as well: Bells Are Ringing and Stewart Lemoine's latest, Mrs Lindeman Proposes. (Various Locations; fringethreatreadventures.ca or tixonthesquare.ca)

Madame Butterfly / Tue, Aug 23 – Sat, Aug 27 (8 pm) Mercury Opera is setting Puccini's well-known tragedy—though, really, what opera doesn't at least try to jerk some tears out of its patrons?—in post-Second World War Nagasaki, which is intriguing in and of itself. But the actual location of this production, in Via Italia in Giovanni Caboto Park, should add some unusually airy atmosphere to the likes "Un bel di," one of Puccini's finest arias, as wel as the rest of the score. (Via Italia, Giovanna Caboto Park [95 St NW - 109 Ave NW], $65)

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FILM Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) • Ledcor Theatre, 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • 14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s, A film by Michael Blackwood and Nancy Rosen, 1981; Thu, Aug 25, 7pm; Free with Gallery Admission

Edmonton Film Society(EFS) • Royal Alberta Museum, 12845-102 Ave • Calamity Jane (1953, 101 min., colour, PG); Mon, Aug 29, 8pm

Film Forum • Stanley A. Milner Library, Edmonton Room • Series of film screenings and public talks every month, facilitated by a guest speaker • Crash (1996) (R); Sat, Aug 27, 1:30pm Movies on the Square • Churchill Square • edmonton.ca/attractions_recreation/attractions/downtown/movies-onthe-square.aspx • Movies on a 3-storey high inflatable screen • How To Train Your Dragon; Sep 3, 7pm (pre-movie activities), 8:30pm (film) • Toy Story 3; Sep 4, 7pm (premovie activities), 8:30pm (film)

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS Agnes Bugera Gallery • 12310 Jasper Ave • 780.482.2854 • agnesbugeragallery.com • Memoryscapes: Landscapes, oil on canvas

by Greg Edmonson • Sep 3-16 • Opening reception: Sep 3, 2-4pm; artist in attendance

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Making a Spectacle of Myself: Metal works, retrospective of eyewear by Calgary artist Jackie Anderson; Sep 3-Oct 15; opening reception: Sep 3, 2-4pm • Victorian Inclinations: Metal works by Calgary artist Jennea Frischke; Sep 3-Oct 15; opening reception: Sep 3, 2-4pm • generation whY: Exploring the voices of craft makers 35 & younger; until Sep 24 • Discovery Gallery: Off the Floor: Contemporary rug hookings by Rachelle LeBlanc; until Aug 27 • Specimen: An exploration of insects by Calgary jewellery artist Erin Boukall; until Aug 27

Arseneault and Paul Jackson; until Sep 25 • Adult Drop-in: Found: Text Collage; Thu, Aug 25, 7-9pm; $15/$12 (member) • Adult Drop-in: Tape: Large Scale Drawing; Thu, Sep 1, 7-9pm; $15/$12 (member)

Art Gallery Of St Albert (AGSA) • Profiles, 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • reconFIGURE: artworks by Claire Uhlick and Samantha Williams; until Aug 27 • ARTificial: Artworks by Paul Bernhardt, Brenda Kim Christiansen, Eveline Kolijn, and Jordan Rule • Sep 1-Oct 29

ArtWalk–St Albert • Perron District, downtown St Albert • artwalkstalbert.com • The 1st Thu each month (Apr-Sep), exhibits run all month • Sep 1 Venues: WARES (Hosting SAPVAC), Musée Héritage Museum, Meese Clothing, Gemport, Art Beat Gallery, Art Gallery of St. Albert, Rental & Sales Gallery (AGSA), Satellite Studio (AGSA), Bookstore on Perron, Studio Gallery, Crimson Quill Gifts, Auvigne & Jones, Roche’s Fine Things and Concept Jewelry Design Common Sense Gallery • 10546-115 St • 780.482.2685 • commonsensegallery. com • Spill: artists are invited to Avenue Theatre with a few pieces of work. Paint and easels are provided so that people can make art while listening to the live music.

There will be a vote on the pieces at the theatre, the most popular pieces will be shown at one of the Common Sense Galleries; 2nd Sun each month

Crooked Pot Gallery– Stony Plain • 4912-51 Ave, Stony Plain, Alberta • 780.963.9573 • All Fired Up After 35 Years: Parkland Potters Guild and Crooked Pot Gallery 35th anniversary pottery show • Sep 3-30 • Open house: Sat, Sep 10, 11am-4pm

Enterprise Square • 10230 Jasper

time: Artworks by Strathcona Place’s instructors and students • Until Sep 21

• Until Aug 30

Jurassic Forest/Learning Centre

• 8555 Roper Rd • 780.427.1750 • culture. alberta.ca/archives • Open Tue-Sat, 9am4:30pm; Wed 9am-9pm • Sharing the Word: Display on the development and use of syllabics by missionaries in Western Canada • Until Sep 17 • Free admission

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

Kiwanis Gallery–Red Deer • Red Deer Library • Twisted: Pottery and digital art by Issy Covey • Until Aug 30 Latitude 53 • 10248-106 St • 780.423.5353 • latitude53.org • Main Gallery: Future Future Age(s): Featuring a cube containing Dawson City northern lights, quartz crystal balls, a tree trunk adorned in gold and a set of supposedly haunted mirrors–series of five sculptural installations by Jason de Haan; until Sep 9 • In/stall/ed: At designated parking stalls in the McCauley community: parking stalls in the McCauley community will be transformed into seventeen sitespecific installations that explore the publicprivate divide; Sat, Aug 27, 11am-5pm info at blog.latitude53.org

Loft Gallery • A. J. Ottewell Art Centre, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • 780.922.6324 • artstrathcona.com • Artworks by Joyce Boyer • Until Aug 28 Louie Photography Gallery • 10634-124 St • 780.488.1999 • larrylouie. com • Fading Lives: Three series of black and white documentary photographs by photographers Larry Louie, Jonathan Luckhurst and Gerald Yaum • Until Aug 31

McMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • In the Moment: Featuring Alberta landscapes

by Kristen Federchuk, Judith Hall, Judy Martin, Donna Miller • Until Oct 2

Michif Cultural and Métis Resource Institute • 9 Mission Ave, St

Ave, U of A • A New Ball of Wax ˆ Wimmin in Wax • Opening reception: Aug 26, 6-8pm • Aug 26-Sep 21, 7am-11pm

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

FAB Gallery • Department of Art and

Mildwood Gallery • 426, 6655-178 St

Design, U of A, Rm 3-98 Fine Arts Bldg • 780.492.2081 • Ryan Wolters: MFA Drawing and Intermedia • Matthew Arrigo: MFA Printmaking • Aug 30-Sep 24 • Opening reception: Thu, Sep 22, 7-10pm

FEB Canada Studio • 10425-79 Ave • 780.989.5599 • Calligraphic paintings by Silas Chen; artworks are based on Chinese primitive writings • Aug 27-Sep 4 • Opening reception: Aug 27, 11am, artist in attendance

Gallery at Milner • Stanley A. Milner

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

Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain • 780.963.9935 • Installation work by Sheri Chaba • Aug 26Sep 21 • Opening reception: Sun, Aug 28

Musée Héritage Museum–St Albert • 5 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1528

Alberta Legislature • 10820-98 Ave • 10820-98 Ave • The Legislature Presents: Cheongju Selection Exhibit: Artworks by Alberta artists presented as part of the 2009 Cheongj • Until Aug 26

Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/art-gallery • AN Art Show About Television: Mixed media artworks by Frank van Veen; until Aug 31 • You Looking At Me: A group exhibit by artists from the Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts; Sep 1-30

• St Albert History Gallery: Featuring artifacts dating back 5,000 years • The Mission Makers: Celebrating the ambitions, accomplishments and friendships of Archbishop Taché, OMI, and Father Lacombe, OMI; until Nov

Art Beat Gallery • 26 St Anne St, St

Gallerie Pava • Centre d’arts visuels de

Albert • 780.459.3679 • A Place Between: Artworks by Sharon Moore-Foster and Allison Argy-Burgess; until Aug 27 • The Heaths: Artworks by Fran, Karen, and Mel; Sep 1-30; Opening/Artwalk: Sep 1, 6-9pm

l’Alberta, 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • cava@ shaw.ca • CIrcle of Live: Paintings by Jerry Berthelette • Until Sep 13

• 780.496.8755 • edmonton.ca/muttart • The Argentum Project: Earthly Archetypes: Sculptors’ Association of Alberta's 25th Anniversary Show and Celebration; until Sep 6 • When Butterflies Dance: Watercolours by Elaine Funnell; until Sep 9

Artery • 9535 Jasper Ave • Heaven: artworks by Craig Talbot, Patrick Arès-Pilon, and Angela Talbot • Surreal Series: Artworks by Dawn Saunders Dahl • Opening: Thu, Aug 25, 8-11pm • Until Sep 25

Art from the Streets–Red Deer • 4935-51 St • Group show • Until Aug 30

Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • Sculpture Terraces: Works by Peter Hide and Ken Macklin • BMO World of Creativity: Drawn Outside: especially for kids; Until Jan 29, 2012 • Lawren Harris Abstractions; until Sep 11 • TRAFFIC: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980: Tracking the influence and diversity of Conceptual Art as it was produced in Canada during the 1960s and 1970s; until Sep 25 • Hoots, Cackles and Wails and Hunting Blind; Robin

Haggerty Centre–Stollery Gallery • Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, 9225118 Ave • 780.474.7611 • ninahaggertyart.ca • Artworks by Jacob Amon, and works from the NHCA Collective • Until Sep 1

Harcourt House • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.426.4180 • Main Space: Effections: We need to talk, video installation work by Immony Men; • Front Room: Making War: Artworks by Todd Tremeer; until Aug 27

Harris-Warke Gallery–Red Deer • Sunworks Home and Garden Store, Ross St, Red Deer • 403.346.8937 • harriswarkegallery.com • Soul Sisters and Satellite Siblings: Installation by Sabine Schneider and Glynis Wilson Boultbee • Until Sep 9 • Opening reception: Sep 2, 6-8pm

Jeff Allen Art Gallery • Strathcona Seniors Centre, 10831 University Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • Instructors and Students Show-

Muttart conservatory • 9626-96A St

Naess Gallery–Paint Spot • 1003281 Ave • Shifting Space: Etchings by Karolina Kowalski; until Aug 30 • Figurative Acrylic paintings and sculpture by Samantha Williams-Chapelsky; through Sep

Perron Bookstore–St Albert • 7 Perron St, St Albert • 780.459.2525 • a pound of puppies: Pastels by Father Douglas; Aug 25-Sep 29 • Opening reception/Art Walk: Sep 1, 6:30-8pm

Peter Robertson Gallery •

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Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery • 4525-47A Ave • reddeermuseum.com • Farm Show: A series of exhibitions newly created to explore contemporary farming issues; until Nov 13 • Farming Out Our Future: Changes that have had an impact on rural life in Alberta, 1950 to present; until Nov 13 • For Home and Country: 100 years of Community Service, exhibit of the Alberta Women’s Institute as the oldest continuing rural and small town women’s voluntary organization in Alberta; until Sep 4

Royal Alberta Museum • 12845-102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • Creatures of the Abyss: Featuring full-scale models of exotic sea creatures, several preserved specimens, and a host of interactive elements and multi-media presentations; until Sep 11 • Composed Exposures: Photographs by museum staff members; until Nov 25 • Wild Alberta Gallery: Wild by Nature: Every Sat and Sun, 11am and 2pm Sideshow Gallery • 9609-82 Ave • 780.433.1430 • sideshowgallery.ca • Take Me Home: Artworks by Judi Chan • Until Sep 3

SNAP Gallery • 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • Eyes in the Wild: Printworks by Tim Grieco and Lisa Rezansoff • Until Sep 3

Sylvan Lake Curling Rink • 4802-48 St, Sylvan Lake • 403.748.2904 • Medicine Hills Art show • Aug 26-28 • $3 admission (12 and under free)

Telus World of Science • 11211142 St • 780.451.3344 • SESAME STREET PRESENTS: THE BODY • Until Sep 5

VAAA Gallery • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.421.1731 • Galleries A and B: Alberta Spirit: Featuring award winning art works by the membership of the ACACA • Aug 25Oct 1 (closed for statutory weekend); opening reception: Fri, Sep 9, 7-9:30pm Visual Arts Alberta Association • 780.421.1731 • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave • Open Photo 2011: Off-site exhibition, the fourth annual photography competition and exhibition. Awards will be announced at the opening reception • Aug 25-Oct 2 • Opening reception: Thu, Aug 25, 6-8pm West End Gallery • 12308 Jasper Ave • 780.488.4892 • Artworks by Steven Armstrong • Through August

LITERARY Blue Chair Café • 9624-76 Ave • 780.469.8755 • Story Slam: 2nd Wed each month; closed in August

From Books to Film series • Stanley A. Milner Library, Main Fl, Audio Visual Rm • Screenings of films adapted from books every Friday afternoon, presented by the Centre for Reading and the Arts • A Time to Kill (1996) (R, violence and some graphic language); Fri, Aug 26, 2pm

Haven Social Club • 15120 Stony Plain Road • Edmonton Story Slam; no minors • Sign up after 7pm. Show starts at 7:30pm, 3rd Wed of every month

Riverdale • 9917-87 St • Creative Word Jam • Every 3rd Sun of the month, 6-10pm

12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • tf: 1.877.826.3375 • probertsongallery.com • Abstract paintings by Mitchel Smith • Sep 1-17 • Opening reception: Thu, Sep 8, 7-9pm

Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900 • Poetry every Tue with Edmonton's local poets

Picture This Gallery • 959 Ordze Rd, Sherwood Park • 780.467.3038 • PictureThisGallery.com • PRAIRIE POP ART: Pop art by Dean McLeod, and Steven Csorba

Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • Writers’ Corner: EPL’s Writer in Residence; featuring a different author each month; last Sun each month at 1:30pm

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T.A.L.E.S. STORY CAFÉ SERIES • Rosie’s Bar, 10475-80 Ave • 780.932.4409 • talesstorytelling.com • 1st Thu each month; Sep-Jun • Season Opener: A Taste of the Festival: A preview of the annual T.A.L.E.S. Storytelling Festival • Thu, Sep 1, 7-9pm • $6 minimum cover T.A.L.E.S. Storytelling Festival– River of Dreams Fort Edmonton Park, Whitemud Dr and Fox Dr • 780.932.4409 • talesstorytelling.com • Sun, Sep 4 and Mon, Sep 5 • Morning storytelling workshops: with Sean Buvala: Fidget, Flicker, Finesse: Improve Your Storytelling With focused Gestures and Movement on Sun, Sep 4, 8:30am-noon; The Five Keys to Energize Your Artist Marketing on Mon, Sep 5, 8:30am-noon; pre-register • Afternoon Festival Storytelling: Performances on four stages along 1905 Street, featuring Sean Buvala and storytellers Sun-Mon, 1-5pm; Try your mouth at storytelling: Open mic stage on Mon, 4-5pm • Sunday Evening Festival Concert: at Egge’s Barn with Sean Buvala, music by Maria Dunn, MC Chris Allen (CKUA); Sep 4, 8pm; concert tickets: $18 (adv)/$20 (door); advance tickets available by phone at 780.932.4409

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

WunderBar on Whyte • 8120-101 St • 780.436.2286 • Bi-weekly poetry reading presented by Nothing, For Now; all poets are welcome • Every 2nd Tue, 7pm (signup), 8pm (readings)

THEATRE Fringeopolis Holdovers • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave, 780.433.3399: • Mrs. Lindeman Proposes: Aug 25-26, 7pm; Sat, Aug 27, 2pm, 7pm • Bells Are Ringing: Thu, Aug 25, 7pm; Sun, Aug 28, 2pm; Tickets: $20 (adult)/$18 (student/senior) available at the door (cash only); adv tickets at TIX on the Square • Westbury Theatre TransAlta Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave: • Giant Invisible Robot; Stars and Hearts; Thu, Aug 25, 5:30pm, 9:30pm • The Surprise; Martin Dockery; Thu, Aug 25, 7:30pm; Fri, Aug 26, 5:30pm • Scarlet Woman; SunsetGun Productions; Fri, Aug 26, 7:30pm, Sat, Aug 27, 5pm • 6 Guitars; Chase Padgett Productions; Fri, Aug 26, 9:30pm, Sun, Aug 28, 5pm • Tudor Queens: A Burlesque; Send in the Girls Burlesque; Sat, Aug 27, 7pm; Sun, Aug 28, 9:30pm • Boygroove; !mPULSE Theatre; Sat, Aug 27, 9:15pm, Sun, Aug 28, 7:15pm; Tickets: $15 (adult)/$12 (student/ senior) • BYOV Holdovers: Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 10037-84 Ave • Jesus in Montana: Adventures in a Doomsday Cult; Barry Smith; Aug 24, 27, 7pm, Aug 25, 6:30pm; $12 • This is Cancer; PKF Productions; Thu, Aug 25, 8:15pm, Fri, Aug 26, 10pm; $15 • Forsooth, My Lovely; ACME Theatre Cavalcade; Thu, Aug 25, 10:30pm, Fri, Aug 26, 6:15pm, Sat, Aug 27, 4pm; $15 • Alexis Anybody; A play by Belke; Fri, Aug 26, 8:30pm; $12

Improv on the Ave • Avenue Theatre, 9030-118 Ave • 780.477.2149 • Featuring Rapid Fire Theatre's improvised comedy • Thu, Aug 25, 7pm

The Last Concert–Buddy Holly and Friends • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, 2690, 8882-170 St, Phase II WEM Upper Level • 780.484.2424 • jubilations. ca • Tribute to Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper, story about an impromptu show they put on for the locals at a truck stop • Aug 26-Oct 23

Madame Butterfly • Giovanni Caboto Park, 95 St, 109 Ave • mercuryopera.com • Mercury Opera presents Giacomo Puccini’s exotic love story and tragedy • Until Aug 27, 8pm • $65 at Zocalo Gallery, TIX on the Square (incl a nightly pre-performance reception)

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FILM

REVUE // FASCINATING EURO ART FILM

Nothing as it seems

Certified Copy makes ambiguity into something deeply moving Opens Friday Certified Copy Written and Directed by Abbas Kiarostami Princess Theatre

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n English writer (William Shimell) arrives late for his own book launch in Arezzo, Tuscany. The book (like the film we're watching) is called Certified Copy. It seems primarily concerned with art history, and its proposal, from what we can gather (the content of the writer's lecture is deliberately overshadowed by whispers and gestures exchanged between a woman in the audience and her son), addresses the slippery nature of authenticity and the inherent value of copies, or reproductions.

It's a subject at least as old as the essays of Walter Benjamin, yet technology has marched furiously ahead in such directions as to keep it from ever becoming dated. The writer is perhaps 50; he's tall, thin and handsome, chilly yet charismatic; he has a dry sense of humour and a healthy contrarian streak; he seems the antithesis of an academic while writing on subjects that are commonly the stock and trade of the academy.

(Could the model for this character be Geoff Dyer?)

The woman having such trouble concentrating on the writer's lecture (Juliette Binoche) is French but lives in Arezzo, where she runs an antique shop. She seems only slightly younger than the writer, and is very attractive, endearingly nervous, seductive yet moody; she's alternately flirtatious and argumentative, intelligent yet capable of emotional impulsiveness. She's purchased multiple copies of Certified Copy for the writer to

A shifting relationship

sign—that is, to certify. Her mischievous adolescent son (Adrian Moore) notes that she seems very drawn to the writer, even while she expresses serious doubts about the validity of his book's thesis. The day after the lecture, the writer arrives at the woman's shop and they go for a drive. (This is where you stop reading should you want to enter the film's second half without a net.) They find themselves in Lucignano, a medieval village where people go to get married, and it's here, in a moment of transformation so elegant, subtle and carefully graded, that the writer and the woman, who seemed in every way strangers, undergo a drama of re-marriage.

A café proprietor assumes they're a

How we shifted from one sort of relationship to another is fascinating and mysterious (though a second viewing reveals certain hints in the film's first half regarding what will transpire in the second), yet once that shift occurs there's nothing vague or undernourished about the ways in which the writer and the woman express their frustrations, argue, reminisce or negotiate their disparate needs as a married couple. In fact, for a film so draped in ambiguity, Certified Copy boasts one of the most resonant

and deeply moving—and at times very amusing—portraits of marriage I've come upon in a very long while.

This is partly due to the precision and unobtrusiveness of the director's hand, and partly to the seeming transparency of the acting. Shimell is an opera singer and has never acted before, and he seems all the better for it, giving a convincingly re-active performance. Binoche seems to have immersed herself fully into the role (she's joked that she was merely playing herself); she's unapologetic about her contradictions; she's an actress who understands her craft so thoroughly that her craft has merged completely with her being. There are moments in this film that make a

thing dangerous about taking instruction, submitting to direction, or simply watching a movie.

Such deliberately vague portent clings to every new realm of activity introduced in You Are Here: the discovery made by a bunch of people named Alan (not a typo) of a door where there should not be a door; the control centre where dispatchers give directions to individuals walking the city streets, emissaries whose trajectories are without apparent purpose save the avoidance of convergence; the prisoner (Anand Rajaram) who has pages of Chinese script shoved under the door and must then consult

a voluminous text entitled What To Do If They Shove Chinese Writing Under The Door; the abandoned things appropriated by a self-appointed archivist (Tracy Wright), each containing recorded information, in varying formats, that may or may not add up to anything yet compel her to provide them with a home.

Each realm of activity, or thought experiment, constitutes a plastic component of You Are Here's ornate circuitry—which is itself the film's protagonist. At times this circuitry hints at a critique of technology's promise to track and organize every last item in the world for posterity; at others it

alludes to forms of interconnectivity that can only be understood once the individual (ie: one of those emissaries told not to interact with the other emissaries) rebels against the dominant hegemony. Which is to say that You Are Here is playful, enigmatic and very cerebral. If the larger meaning strikes you as elusive, then you've just about got the point.

Press materials and clippings about the film keep invoking Jorge Luis Borges (though, given the film's interest in found things and urban geography, I think Paul Auster is a more apt literary allusion) and Charlie Kaufman (though, given the film's

couple, and so a couple is what they become, the parents to the woman's son, 15 years married, though apparently living apart.

strong case for Binoche as one of the finest living masters of the close-up; there is so much going on when the camera isolates her, and none of it feels forced.

Certified Copy is Abbas Kiarostami's first dramatic feature made outside of his native Iran. It's both easily recognizable as a Kiarostami film (the layers of performance especially) and as a European art film. Certain points of reference will quickly announce themselves to the cinephiles in the audience—the premise recalls Voyage to Italy and Last Year in Marienbad, while the temporal structure (the writer has to make an evening train), the emotional build, and the final moments recall Before Sunset—yet Certified Copy feels like the epitome of an organically developed story, something that emerged fluidly from a stray notion that must have initially seemed an improbable idea for a film. In that sense, we can locate within Certified Copy a sort of talisman: amongst all the mirrors, the various spoken languages and the inadequate translations that so clearly contribute to the film's themes, there is also a small part played by none other than Jean-Claude Carrière, who co-authored the scripts for the latter films of Luis Buñuel (so many of them founded in something illogical, yet nonetheless comment brilliantly on human behaviour). Carrière shows up to give a little marital advice to the writer, and you wonder if in some non-verbal way he was also present as a reminder to Binoche, Shimell and Kiarostami that strange things happen every day. That people fall in love and try to forge lives together is only one of them.

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REVUE // CIRCUITS AND THREATS

YOU ARE HERE Now playing Written and directed by Daniel Cockburn

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lecturer (RD Reid) stands before a projected image of rolling waves. He should like to instruct us in serenity and solitude. He warns us against the perils of allowing our eyes to follow the red dot darting across the screen, emanating from his laser pointer. The threat of the red dot isn't specified, but the lecturer's warning, stated at the very start of You Are Here, Toronto video artist Daniel Cockburn's feature debut, serves as a reminder that there may still be some-

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preoccupation with interlocking structures, I think Christopher Nolan is a more apt cinematic allusion), but such comparisons should come with one major caveat: each of these artists are storytellers (yes, Borges included), as engaged with narrative and character, with form and meaning, as they are with metaphor. You Are Here is fun, smart, inventive and enjoyably puzzling—to be sure, I recommend it—yet it's also pretty cold, and satisfies itself above all through the realization and careful arrangement of its concepts.

Josef Braun // josef@vueweekly.com

PREVUE // DEDMONTON

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Horror-centric fest returns for a fourth year Thu, Aug 25 – Sun, Aug 28 Dedfest Featuring Millenium Bug, Super, The Woman and more Metro Cinema at the Garneau

The Haskin family flees Y2K hysteria into a remote woodland cabin on the ominously titled Sierra Diablos mountains where they're shortly captured by a vicious clan of hillbillies.

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elgium sends a ravenous, bloodthirsty Santa set to unwrap a yuletide massacre. America is a wannabe superhero who has his derring-do all go awry in the most violent of ways.

International badass Snake Pliskin will, of course, escape from dystopian future New York. But of all the 14-odd titles that comprise this year's Dedfest—Edmonton's yearly splatterfest of horror flicks from around the globe, now entering its fourth iteration— perhaps the most curious is Millennium Bug, a little monster-tic flick that could and finally did manage to work itself into existence.

In Bug, the Haskin family flees Y2K hysteria into a remote woodland cabin on the ominously titled Sierra Diablos mountains where they're shortly captured by a vicious clan of hillbillies. But then a once-in-a-thousand-years giant insect hatches, and wreaks havoc on both groups as everybody just tries to survive the turn of the millennium.

Sure, maybe the subject matter seems a little dated 11 years after the Y2K scare. But the film also pulls from

a time that cinema's largely skipped past, especially the blood-n-guts genre: there's no CGI whatsoever. Animatronic monsters and miniatures make up the horror of Millennium Bug, filmed almost entirely in a large garage. "'Large' garage in the sense that you could get more than one car into it, yes, explains John Charles Meyer, an actor-turned-producer on the film. "But not large garage in that it was anything substantial for shooting a movie in. Fifty square meters. Not much."

Meyer, who plays one of the hillbillies, only returned to film somewhat recently after a particularly misfortunate year that saw his band break up, his previous work—as a political strategist—meet another loss to George W Bush, and his longtime relationship evaporate. So he moved to LA to re-

kindle a youthful love of acting, started going out on auditions, and started to work his way up.

The film itself, he notes was envisioned before the actual Y2K scare came and went, but weekend shoots and fundraising times took their clockwork toll.

Thus, with such a reduced filming location, there were some particularly timerestricting DIY tricks that were required to see the film through.

"Basically the way the production worked was they would build a set like the house that the Crawford family, my character's family, lived in, shoot all the scenes that took place in the house, then tear down the house, and build, y'know, for example, the well, or the forest—they actually built the forest in the garage. So it was, 'shoot all of the scenes that took place in that setting, tear it down, then build a new one.' In that sense it was phenomenal watching these guys do what they do."

Paul Blinov // paul@vueweekly.com

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COMMENT >> DVD

Coming out

The Killing is where Kubrick came into his own

The Killing: you just know this love story's going to end badly

The title of The Killing (1956) derisk getting caught again it better be scribes what, in one sense of the word, for a whopping payday. Two million, its characters hope to make, yet, in split between a small crew, about fits the more literal sense, it’s what they the bill, so Clay assembles a team wind up unexpectedly doing a consisting of a sniper (Carey), whole lot of once the maa betting window teller chinery of their elegantly (Cook), a cop (Ted de CorE CTIV sica), a bartender (Joe Sawplanned heist goes awry. D E T E m o ekly.c vuewe josef@ This was Stanley Kubrick’s yer) and—best of all—a Josef third feature, made when wrestler (Kola Kwariani) to Braun rob a busy race track. Part of he was just 28. It should be seen as his proper arrival, the first what’s meant to make the plan film so charged with the particular so effective is that no one player in brand of irony and almost singular the operation is able to fully see the rendering of architectural space that whole, but this reduction of a larger would come to define the director’s machine to its individual parts is also signature. Though hardly indicative part of what causes it to malfunction. of the towering and exacting disThe teller’s younger wife (Windsor) plays of ambition to come—see Dr tells her boyfriend (Edwards) about Strangelove (1964), 2001 (1968), Barthe plan and the boyfriend figures to ry Lyndon (1975), et al—The Killing is get in on the take; the sniper loses his also nimble and fleet and yielding of patience with a parking lot attendant cinematic pleasure in a way that Kuand fellow veteran (James Edwards), brick would never quite replicate. It lets fire a racist slur, and is eventually features camerawork from the great fired at himself.

Lucien Ballard and dialogue from Moving back and forth chronologhard-boiled author Jim Thompson— ically—tellingly, the film was an the source material is Lionel White’s inspiration for the young Quentin Clean Break—and a dream cast of acTarantino—we see parts of the plan tors that read like a film noir rogue’s play out from different perspective; gallery: Sterling Hayden, Marie Windnarrated by an anonymous voice who sor, Elisha Cook Jr., Vince Edwards, sounds a little too much like he’s narColeen Gray, and the unmistakable rating a trailer, it’s as though we’re Timothy Carey. The Killing is now medical students tracking the paths available on a great-looking DVD and of a cancer. The cynical masterstroke blu-ray from Criterion. in all this can be traced to the manCareer criminal Johnny Clay ner in which Kubrick manipulates the (Hayden) has already done a five-year viewer’s emotional connections: by stretch, so he figures if he’s going to The Killing’s brilliantly staged finale,

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we’re confronted with the fact that we’re far more invested in the fate of a suitcase full of cash than we are in the lives of several characters. Everything, finally, is grist for the mill.

As Clay memorably puts it, inadvertently foreshadowing the general shrugging attitude toward human endeavour in so much later Kurbick, “What’s the difference?”

The supplements on Criterion’s release are terrific, especially the interview with Robert Polito, author of the excellent Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson, concerning Thompson’s relationship with Kubrick.

(Among Polito’s most interesting insights are the connections he draws between Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me and Nabokov’s Lolita, which Kubrick would soon adapt.) But the obvious supplementary highlight on The Killing is Kubrick’s preceding feature, Killer’s Kiss (1955), also a strong, moody noir about a not-very-good boxer and a girl in trouble, which memorably features scenes of casual voyeurism, lusty television viewing, underwear fondling, more bad voiceover, and a long, messy, dirty fight involving an axe, a spear, and about a hundred mannequins in various states of assembly. It was also shot by Kubrick, who had by then wound down his career as a photographer for Look, and his memorable, seemingly spontaneous street imagery conveys a curiosity about the world that would rarely resurface in his later work. V

REVUE // NO ARNIE AND NO FUN

CONAN THE BARBARIAN Now playing Directed by Marcus Nispel

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teel versus sorcery, self-reliance versus hegemony, cold brutality versus hot sadism: there's plenty of dramatic conflict inherent in Robert E Howard's oft-revived and re-tooled Conan tales, yet the only discernible conflict in director Marcus Nispel's new Conan the Barbarian concerns the battle between the forces of inspiration and those of crass cynicism. The latter triumphs utterly.

Neither spectacularly awful nor awfully spectacular, this new Conan makes good on none of its promises nor builds any momentum. A protracted prologue (with narration from Morgan Freeman!), which follows our titular barbarian from the

Meh ... he's not so tough

womb (I mean this literally) through to childhood trauma, attempts to infuse the story with some psychology yet fails to produce a Conan half as

compelling as Schwarzenegger's far more single-minded embodiment.

Once adult Conan (Jason Momoa, not bad and plenty buff, though he'd

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surely look more at home jumping off the top rope than fencing with sand demons) sets out on his quest to avenge his father's gruesome death, the film shifts into a steady and mind-numbing series of fight sequences, none of which are very imaginative nor support a coherent set of rules regarding the magical powers of its baddies.

John Milius's 1982 Conan the Barbarian was an economical fantasy that thoughtfully embraced the savagery of its milieu and made its hero an emblem for its director's antiauthoritarian, neo-anarchist beliefs and its singularly self-adoring star's superman self-image. It was also extremely entertaining and well-structured (the script came from Milius and Oliver Stone) and functioned as an interesting foil to Apocalypse Now (which was scripted by Milius

and features a similar trajectory and virtually identical climax).

With its somewhat different narrative thrust ("arc" is too dynamic a term ... come to think of it so is "thrust"), the new Conan can't exactly be called a remake (despite echoes of the earlier film in the score and some of the choreography), but neither can anyone familiar with Milius's film help but compare the two.

The only things to recommend it are supporting performances from Ron Perlman as Conan's martyred dad and Rose McGowan as the goth sorceress daughter of Conan's adversary. Her inevitable demise during one of the film's umpteen endings is almost a disappointment, but hardly enough to invoke "the lamentations of the women."

Josef Braun // josef@vueweekly.com

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REVUE // EVERYMAN EVERYMAN EVERYMAN

OUR IDIOT BROTHER

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ou can't help but love a hippie and it's even easier when they're charming. Our Idiot Brother's titular character is both.

Paul Rudd's performance as Ned is nothing we haven't seen before— the everyman (the everyman who doesn't seem to age and seems to pop up on big screens every two months) who relates to both the audience and the plot so magically that entire movies are saved.

Altogether, this is a very weak movie. Stoner Ned gets out of prison early for good behaviour after being arrested for selling pot and attempts to rekindle his relationships with his lover as well as his

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true love, Willie Nelson, a hippiefied golden retriever. Learning that his lover is now his ex, and Nelson is being held captive, Ned must move back into his family's life.

Through his polite innocence and idyllic vision of life, Ned alienates his busybody family but, by the end of the film, they're (of course) won over. There's no ruining the plot with this cutesy Apatowian comedy—it's all seamlessly told in the 35-second trailer.

It's only the relatively star-studded cast filled out by Elizabeth Banks (40 Year Old Virgin), Rashida Jones (Parks and Recreation) and Zooey Deschanel (500 Days of Summer) that compensates for this juvenile sketch of a movie.

Curtis Wright // curtis@vueweekly.com

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nice mix of some old-fashioned imagination (anagrams, pranks, secret spaces) and newfangled effects (gizmos, gadgets, graphics), Robert Rodriguez's Spy Kids 4 is a rollicking, never obnoxious, often clever family flick. There's a little too much of the clichéd family-values business, though it's tweaked early on, with pregnant agent Marissa (Jessica Alba) trying to catch the Time Keeper just as her water's breaking. Marissa's stepmom to Rebecca (Rowan Blanchard) and Cecil (Mason Cook), who soon find themselves caught up in the spy game.

A few moments are strained, especially when the franchise's first generation (Alexa Vega and Daryl

Sabara) shows up to help out Spy Kids 2.0. The wordplay with "time"—though it culminates in a touching conversation with the super-villain, rather than the usual good-punching-evil set piece— becomes a bit wearing. Ricky Gervais provides great comic relief, though, as robodog Argo, while even the fart jokes are sophisticated—"Smells like lentils and desperation," muses a villain when he catches a whiff of Marissa's baby.

Spy Kids 4 plays smartly with the senses, too: there's a scratch-andsniff card so we can be nosy, too, while Cecil's hearing-impairedness is smoothly turned into a superability. Throughout, the film teetertotters nicely between old-school emotions (jealousy, regret, selfishness) and high-tech playfulness. brian Gibson // brian@vueweekly.com

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CONAN THE BARBARIAN 3D (18A gory

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THE HELP (PG mature subject matter, language may

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CRAZY STUPID LOVE (PG coarse language) Daily

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CONAN THE BARBARIAN 3D (18A gory violence) Digital 3d Fri-Tue 1:20, 4:15, 7:10, 10:05; Wed-Thu 7:10, 10:05

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fright night (14A gory violence, coarse language,

CRAZY STUPID LOVE (PG coarse language) Fri-Tue 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50; Wed-Thu 1:00, 4:00, 6:45, 9:50

SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD 3D

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30 MINUTES OR LESS (18A crude sexual content) Fri-Mon, Thu 12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:50, 10:10; Tue 12:45, 3:00, 10:10; Wed 3:00, 5:15, 7:50, 10:10; Star & Strollers Screening: Wed 1:00

not recommended for children) Daily 6:55, 9:25; Sat, Sun, Tue, Thu 1:55

RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES

language) Daily 9:20

fright night (14A gory violence, coarse language,

FINAL DESTINATION 5 3D (18A gory violence) Fri-Tue 2:45, 5:10; Wed-Thu 4:20

THE HELP (PG mature subject matter, language may offend) Daily 12:30, 3:40, 6:45, 10:00

ONE DAY (PG mature subject matter, coarse

spy kids: all the time in the world (PG)

Daily 7:05 9:05; Sat-Sun , Tue, Thu 2:05

passes Daily 1:50, 4:40, 7:50, 10:30

Ultraavx Daily 1:45, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20

6:45 9:15; Sat-Sun, Tue, Thu 1:45

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CONAN THE BARBARIAN 3D (18A gory violence)

CRAZY STUPID LOVE (PG coarse language) Daily

spy kids: all the time in the world (PG)

frightening scenes) 7:00 9:20; Sat-Sun, Tue, Thu 2:00

Sat, Sun, Tue, Thu 12:45, 3:00

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ill Creek Ravine twists lithely through the city, wrapping itself around buildings and roads like a valiant, organic bandage that cradles green and blue veins inside an urban body. It is a favoured path of joggers and dog-walkers, an oasis for tiny, colourful songbirds, and the secret kingdom of cautious deer. The ravine also meanders past a sturdy, white-stuccoed restaurant that, despite its cheeky name, is known to many: Unheardof.

This year marks the 30th anniversary of Unheardof. On a quiet afternoon, owner Lynn Heard sorts through a bowl of tiny, fragrant tomatoes while, in the background, a humming machine churns out glossy fuchsia Port-cherry sorbet. She admits that as a child she was an incredibly picky eater, but adds that her saving grace was a love of rare beef. A holiday in France awakened Heard's love of good food and upon her return to Canada she strove to recreate many French dishes. She discovered, however, that creating French cuisine at home was practically a full time job.

Subsequently, Heard's life diverged to the frenetically creative world of catering. "It was fun and we were successful," she recalls, "and the natural next step was to open a restaurant."

Presently, two chefs work in the kitchen alongside Heard. "One of our chefs traveled extensively in Europe," Heard explains, "and spent time in Michelin star restaurants." Heard and her team

lend a skilled and creative touch to Unheardof's menu. Perennial customer favourites include seafood bisque and turtle tart. "My personal favourite is duck salad," says Heard. "It was inspired by a sail I took in a New York harbour and I tried to recreate it here."

The menu changes frequently, and Heard describes it as eclectic. She adds, "We capitalize on seasonally available produce and Alberta-raised beef is a must. Some meats and shellfish are from out of province, but all of it is Canadian." Heard and her staff emphasize respect for their ingredients. "My philosophy is that too many ingredients can spoil a dish. A dish should have a central theme, an essence that stands out and allows it to be paired with wine."

Indeed, on the 30th of each month until October 2011, Unheardof offers five or six course menus paired with fine wines. Heard chooses wines for Unheardof's cellar and strives to include vintages from a wide geographic area. She explains that the United States, Australia, France and to a lesser extent Italy, South Africa and South America, are significantly represented on Unheardof's wine list.

Heard laments the lesser presence of Canadian wines and explains, "I wish we had more. Canadian wines are good, but the price of quality Canadian wine is substantially higher than wine of comparable quality from the US or Australia. It is difficult to justify being patriotic for such a high cost."

Heard resumes sorting the golden tomatoes in the mid-afternoon calm

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Gentle clatter and the scents of sage and butter emerge from the kitchen.

Heard credits her staff as inspirational. "It is easy to create new things and to bounce ideas off such an interactive and dynamic team. The nice thing about this business is that it's such an outlet for creativity." She adds, "It's like being an artist. You must do it for the love of food and not because you want to be wealthy." Indeed, Unheardof has flourished over the past 30 years because of a deep love of food.

Outside, Mill Creek weaves through groves of aspen and spruce. The clean, artistic lines of the creek etch an azure line through the grey-green trees, and the ravine melds with its urban surroundings, much like artistry and precision intertwine with aplomb in the realm of Unheardof.

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Strict regulations in European and American organic wine making can ensure a minimal amount of sulfites in the wine: some organic wine producers will not add any at all.

Supporting organic products and events in our local community has become a lifestyle for many. Farmer's markets and local food fests have created a large demand for locallysourced and organic products which supports the micro economy of local farmers growing food in an organic environment without hormones, food additives or antibiotics as well as local restaurants that serve it. V

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1) Popsicles were invented in 1905 by an 11-yearold named Frank Epperson, who had left a soda on the porch overnight with a stir stick in it.

When it froze, he picked the hardened soda up by the stick and found it tasted good. He named the treat an "Epsicle."

2) In 1924, Frank Epperson patented his Epsicle Ice Pop, but his children insisted he rename it the "Popsicle."

3) Twinned Popsicles were invented during the Great Depression so two children could have a treat for only a nickel.

4) Popsicle sticks are almost as famous as the

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iced deserts they're wrapped in, used for crafts and building projects and sold by themselves.

The sticks in name-brand Popsicles are made of birch.

5) Popsicles were one of the first products to have a loyalty program where people could save up wrappers—it was later changed to sticks— and send them in for prizes. Led by Popsicle Pete, Popsicle's reward program began in the 1930s.

6) "Popsicle"—an outtake released on the album Sand in the Vaseline—has got to be the worst song Talking Heads ever recorded. Seriously, it's just awful. V

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PREVUE // THESE GUYS ARE REALLY PRETTY

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with guitar riffs, and Darin just sits down with a pack of smokes and does it all at once.

Getting its start as the house band of a bar that guitarist and vocalist Shawn Creamer part owns in Toronto, the Beauties has become a real, touring band little by little. Now, with the release of its debut, self-titled album— recorded by Broken Social Scene sound man Marty Kinack—the band is set to share its radiance with the whole country. Creamer took the time to answer a few questions regarding the record by email.

VW:

How long did it take to make The Beauties from the initial songwriting through to the end of the recording?

SHAWN CREAMER: Many of the songs on the record had been in Darin's [McConnell, guitar and vocals] pocket for some time. As well as my song, "Heart of Stone." They weren't ready and needed everyone's input to get them there. Darin had a ton of songs. Derek and Paul write quite a bit, so their songs were written for the record. So that part was only a year. Mine and Darin's ... years.

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VW: When you were writing the songs, did you come at them in a particular way? Lyrics first? Music first?

SC: Everyone in the band writes, so the processes are all very different. I generally have an idea, a theme or a phrase. Then I start hammering it out over chords or lines. Jud tends to start

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Did you take the songs to the band fully formed, or were they sketches that were then filled out as a group?

SC: They are most often done songs, in some fashion, but we tear them down to bare bones and rebuild them together.

VW: What were the recording sessions like for this album? Did you record as a band live off the floor or did you piece it together one track at a time? Why? SC: We recorded off the floor as much as we could. There were certainly guitar and vocal overdubs. Even the vocal overdubs were often done with all of us in one room singing around one mic.

VW: Were there any other songs written that were left off the album?

SC: There were a lot of songs that were left off the album. We have enough material for a few records. We have a country record written. We didn't want to put that out first. We wanted to establish ourselves as a rock 'n' roll band. Which we are.

VW: The

way the band came together, as an almost non-band that turned into something real and now has a full length, is an interesting one. How does the way the band operates contribute to the way the record sounds?

SC: We were so comfortable with being a live band together that we went

into the studio with a tremendous amount of confidence. It didn't take long before we realized we were in uncharted territory together. We had to spend a few weeks learning how to communicate and be productive in that venue. Once we did, we related to each other in a whole new way. We found that exciting and it really contributed to the vibe of the record.

What was working with Marty Kinack as producer like? Why were you interested in working with him and what did he contribute to the process?

SC: We knew Marty from hanging out with the Broken Social Scene kids. He produced some records for Hayden and Apostle of Hustle that we really liked. Kevin Drew thought he would be perfect and put us together. Marty possesses a quiet authority, and a wealth of knowledge. He is also one of the funniest guys I know which helped keep things light. We love him very much.

VW:

VW: If you were to trace the musical map that led you to The Beauties, what would it look like?

SC: It would look like a bumpy road of wrong directions. This is the best band I've ever been in, with the most talented musicians. I'm a fan of these guys. I literally sometimes think about how lucky I am to be on stage and have such a good spot to watch them from.

BRYAN BIRTLES

// BRYAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

PREVUE // GASHES, BROKEN BONES AND FOLK PUNK

BEN DISASTER Fri, Aug 26 (7:30 pm) With Sean Foster High Level Streetcar (103 St and 84 Ave) $10

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ight now my bones rub against each other and when I play guitar, I force myself to play for a couple hours busking, but it kills." A floppy haired songwriter wearing a threadbare white T-shirt, Ben Disaster puts down his pint of beer to show me his ring finger. It's gnarled. Like a limb on an unruly tree, it grows crooked. He moves to bend it and it won't. At least not as well as it should.

Disaster comes from a punk-rock background. Having always been faithful to the untamed, in-the-moment essence of the genre, he hasn't always been kind to his body. And it's taking a toll on his music. Even

though he has been working on solo, acoustic-based folk-punk for a few years now, he hasn't lost the fire that can lead to, ahem, disaster.

Last summer he severed the main motor nerve in his hand on a broken beer bottle while performing.

He was told he'd never play guitar again, but in January his doctor revoked that dreary prognosis and told Disaster he could take off his brace. Things were going exceptionally well.

But that night his friend got jumped. In the fray, Disaster dislocated and fractured his finger, sending him back to physio. Not despite this, but because of this, Disaster is releasing a new self-titled seveninch. More experimental than previous efforts, the thrust behind the songs started in rehabilitation ses-

sions at the Royal Alexandra Hospital.

The record is being celebrated with an appropriate amount of grandeur, Disaster having booked the High Level Bridge Streetcar for the release party. With a stop planned in the middle of the bridge, he hopes to catch the fireworks over Telus Field.

"I found, not playing guitar, I was kind of robbed of something that would help get any kind of feelings I didn't understand out," Disaster reflects, saying that in trade, he got a chance to begin again.

"You can leave behind and forgive all your old problems, habits, bad things you've done, and you can let yourself become what you want to be, because you have an awesome chance to start over."

Kathleen Bell

// kathleen@vueweekly.com

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PREVUE // DON'T LABEL ME

AGAINST ME! Located in the heart of Old Strathcona, The Handmade Mafia features work produced by local designers, artists & crafters.

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In November of last year, however, the band cut ties with the major label that had released its last two records and found itself without a label for the first time since it stopped dubbing its own cassettes. After considering all the options—including possible reactions—Against Me! decided to form its own label, Total Treble Music.

"It's been positive," singer and founder Tom Gabel explains of response to the shift to a more DIY model. "We're definitely aware of the fact that no matter what label we've worked with over the years, someone has always had a problem with it, but there's not really anything you can say when you decide to put out your own records from now on."

It's stupid to record music to have no one hear it and just have it sitting in your closet on the shelf.

With its newfound freedom, Against Me! is doing what it's always done: put out records and go on the road. First up on Total Treble Music is a re-release of the band's final Sire album, White Crosses, with additional material forming a second disc, entitled Black Crosses. Releasing demos and alternate versions

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of songs is something the band has done for a while as a way for fans of the group to watch the progression of the songs that end up on the albums.

"We've always recorded an excess of material, so there's always recordings for every record and alternate versions of songs and songs that never made it past that step and I

think if fans are interested in hearing those versions, or hearing how songs grow and develop or unreleased stuff, then why not let them?" Gabel asks. "It's stupid to record music to have no one hear it and just have it sitting in your closet on the shelf."

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NEWSOUNDS

Slates Prairie Fires (Independent)  Prairie Fires represents an evolution for Slates. The group's first album was made up of songs that had been written for a previous band, the Secret Fires, and the sonic similarities between the two projects were evident, even with a new singer and an additional guitar player. Prairie Fires casts all of that baggage aside—not that it was ugly baggage, Secret Fires fucking ruled— for a more-organic sound, and a message that comes directly from the band's collective experiences instead of something that happened a while ago and is over now. The band won't shut up in interviews about the life-transforming a Solidarity Rock trip to Cuba that it took, but it turns out that it's for a good reason: the experience permeates the songs. In addition to a few numbers that reference the trip itself, the album as a whole aggressively stumps for loyalty, unity and authenticity of experience.

Bryan Birtles

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Dir En Grey Dum Spiro Spero (sun-krad )  Every band, it seems, wants to be the one to defy genre. Japanese band Dir En Grey is one of the few

to actually do so. Moving from fuzzy noise, a few growled vocals into a melodic, dream-like state, the album combines elements from hardcore to operatic overtures, and never does it seem discordant or harsh. Vocalist Kyo demonstrates powerful vocals that work with the guitar to pull each track together with a sense of movement and purpose. The presence of the growled vocals and heavy, fuzzed guitar, only serve to support the movement into the dreamlike state and ground it. All of the elements combine to create an album that comes together in a comprehensive, artistic manner.

Samantha Power

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Fleshgod Apocalypse Agony (Nuclear Blast) Agony opens slowly, sounding like the first notes of a theme to be played over the credits of an eerie horror movie. If this were the entire album, it would be worth listening to; unfortunately, it's not. As the overture continues, the first track, "Temptation," launches into the usual heavy death-metal drums-onspeed and growly vocals, but the underlying symphonic music continues as an operatic voice joins in what has become a rather hot mess of sound. In fact, for most of the first track, it sounds as though there are multiple songs playing at once and it continues that way throughout the album. It's so uncoordinated that it's as though half the band members thought they were writing the soundtrack to a superhero movie while the other half were trying to make a death-metal album. The end result is that the album lives up to its title.

Samantha Power

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Jeff Bridges Jeff Bridges (EMI)  It's tough to say where Bad Blake ends and Jeff Bridges begins here— the songs aren't far from the Crazy Heart soundtrack—but whatever the line is, it lands right on a sweet sounding, classic outlaw-country-type spot.

Eden Munro

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If that day with Black Sabbath seems like a dream to Larkin, the success of his own band, Godsmack, has been a

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THU AUG 25 Accent European Lounge Tiff Hall (R&B) and Rend (acoustic); 9:30pm-11:30pm; no minors; no cover Blues on Whyte Gary Martin and the Heavenly Blues bohemia Iskra, Six Brew Bantha, No Eulogy Brixx Bar Bingo Death Match with Dex and Gory; 9pm Café Haven Matt Beckler; 7pm (door) CARROT Café Zoomers Thu afternoon open mic; 1-4pm Churchill Square Every weekday (weather permitting): Breezy Brian Gregg (SW corner); 12-1:15pm The Docks Thu night rock and metal jam Druid Irish Pub DJ every Thu at 9pm dv8 Acoustic Chaos Thursdays: bring your guitars, basses, drums, whatever and play some tunes Edmonton Event Centre J. Cole; 8pm; tickets at Ticketmaster Empire Ballroom Back To School Dubstep; $30 at Blackbyrd Haven Social Club Sarah Cripps, guests J and R Open jam rock 'n' roll; every Thu; 9pm L.B.'s Pub Gordie Matthews (singer songriter showcase); 9pm Marybeth's Coffee House–Beaumont Open mic every Thu; 7pm Naked Cyber café Open stage every Thu, 9pm; no cover NEW CITY LEGION Fire Next Time, Audio, Rocketry; no minors New West Hotel Sonny and the Hurricanes (country) NORTH GLENORA HALL Jam by Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu Pawn SHop Bif Naked, guests; 8pm (door); $25 (adv) Rendezvous Auroch,Dire Omen, Oooze Ric’s Grill Peter Belec ( jazz); most Thursdays; 7-10pm Second Cup–Varscona Live music every Thu night; 7-9pm That's Aroma Open stage hosted by Carrie Dayand Kyler Schogen; 7-9pm Wild Bill’s–Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close Wild West Saloon Colleen Rae and Cornerstone

Classical Giovanni Caboto

Brixx Radio Brixx with Tommy Grimes spinning Rock n Roll; 8pm (door); no cover Century Room Lucky 7: Retro '80s with house DJ every Thu; 7pm-close Chrome Lounge 123 Ko every Thu THE Common So Necessary: Hip hop, classic hip hop, funk, soul, r&b, '80s, oldies and everything in between with Sonny Grimezz, Shortround, Twist every Thu Crown Pub Breakdown @ the crown with This Side Up! hosted by Atomatik and Kalmplxx DJ Druid Irish Pub DJ every Thu; 9pm electric rodeo– Spruce Grove DJ every Thu FILTHY McNASTY’S Punk Rock Bingo every Thu with DJ S.W.A.G. FLASH Night Club Indust:real Assembly: Goth and Industrial Night with DJ Nanuck; no minors; 10pm (door); no cover FLUID LOUNGE Thirsty Thursdays: Electro breaks Cup; no cover all night FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Requests every Thu with DJ Damian HALO Fo Sho: every Thu with Allout DJs DJ Degree, Junior Brown KAS BAR Urban House: every Thu with DJ Mark Stevens; 9pm Level 2 lounge Funk Bunker Thursdays Lucky 13 Sin Thu with DJ Mike Tomas On The Rocks Salsaholic: every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; salsa DJ to follow Overtime–Downtown Thursdays at Eleven: Electronic Techno and Dub Step rendezvous Metal night every Thu Sportsworld Roller Skating Disco: Thu Retro Nights; 7-10:30pm; sports-world.ca Taphouse–St Albert Eclectic mix every Thu with DJ Dusty Grooves Union Hall 123 Thursdays Wild Bill’s–Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close

FRI AUG 26 Avenue Theatre Hip Hop vs. Hardcore 3 (hard rock/rap); 8pm; all ages Blackjack's Roadhouse Carrie Day; 8:30pm; no cover Blue Chair Café Bill Werthmann; 8.30pm; donations; bike ride tour fundraiser

Park Mercury Opera: Giacomo Puccini’s Madame Butterfly; $65 at TIX on the Square, Zocalo Gallery

Blues on Whyte Gary Martin and the Heavenly Blues

DJs

Brixx bar Death Toll Rising, Abriosis, In the Mist of a Murder (death metal); 9pm

180 Degrees DJ every

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Black dog Freehouse Underdog: Underdog Sound Revue: garage, soul, blues with Stu Chell ; Main Floor: Soul/ reggae/punk/funk/junk with DJ Jaime Del Norte; Wooftop Lounge: Various musical flavas including funk, indie dance/nu disco, breaks, drum and bass and house with DJ Gundam

bohemia pizzarrhea, guests

VUEWEEKLY AUG 25 – AUG 31, 2011

CARROT Live music every Fri; all ages; Terry Morrison; 7pm; $5 (door) CASINO EDMONTON Souled Out CASINO YELLOWHEAD Suite 33 The Common 2 Year 2 Day Party: Golden Era; 8pm Churchill Square Every weekday (weather permitting): Breezy Brian Gregg (SW corner); 12-1:15pm Coast to Coast Open stage every Fri; 9:30pm DV8 Tarantuja, guests; 9pm Edmonton Event Centre Daddy Yankee; 8pm; tickets at Ticketmaster Expressionz Café Inner City Elegance (pop-punk trio); all ages; 7:30pm (door), 8pm (show); $10 Fluid Lounge Aiden Jamali (CD Release partY); 8pm FRESH START BISTRO live music every Fri; The Pretty Kids; 7-10pm; $10 GAS PUMP The Uptown Jammers (house band); every Fri; 5:30-9pm Irish Club Jam session every Fri; 8pm; no cover s Jekyll and Hyde Pub Headwind (classic pop/ rock); every Fri; 9pm; no cover Lizard Lounge Rock 'n' roll open mic every Fri; 8:30pm; no cover NEW CITY Legion Russ Rankin (Good Riddance), Freshmen Years, The Renegade Kid, Old Sins; 7pm (door), 9pm (music); no minors; $12 (adv) tickets at yeglive.ca/$15 (door) New West Hotel Sonny and the Hurricanes (country) On the Rocks The Mishaps; 9pm; $5 PAWN SHOP Private Citizen, Swear by the Moon, Rumble Cats, EDM (CD launch party); 8pm (door); $5 (adv) Red Piano Bar Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Fri; 9pm2am Starlite Room Assemblage 23, MELT, Virtual Terrorist and Options with DJs Gory and Lunchpail; 9pm Wild Bill’s–Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close Wild West Saloon Colleen Rae and Cornerstone WOK BOX Breezy Brian Gregg every Fri; 3:305:30pm

Classical Giovanni Caboto Park Mercury Opera: Giacomo Puccini’s Madame Butterfly; $65 at TIX on the Square, Zocalo Gallery

DJs 180 Degrees DJ every Fri AZUCAR PICANTE DJ Papi and DJ Latin Sensation every Fri BANK ULTRA LOUNGE Connected Fri: 91.7 The Bounce, Nestor Delano, Luke Morrison every Fri BAR-B-BAR DJ James; every Fri; no cover BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every Friday DJs spin on the main floor, Underdog and the Wooftop Blacksheep Pub Bash:

DJ spinning retro to rock classics to current BUDDY’S DJ Arrow Chaser every Fri; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm Buffalo Underground R U Aware Friday: Featuring Neon Nights CHROME LOUNGE Platinum VIP every Fri THE Common Boom The Box: every Fri; nu disco, hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation plus residents Echo and Shortround The Druid Irish Pub DJ every Fri; 9pm electric rodeo– Spruce Grove DJ every Fri FLUID LOUNGE Hip hop and dancehall; every Fri Funky Buddha–Whyte Ave Top tracks, rock, retro with DJ Damian; every Fri GAS PUMP DJ Christian; every Fri; 9:30pm-2am junction bar and eatery LGBT Community: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm Newcastle Pub House, dance mix every Fri with DJ Donovan Overtime–Downtown Fridays at Eleven: Rock hip hop, country, top forty, techno Rednex–Morinville DJ Gravy from the Source 98.5 every Fri RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie, rock, funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri ROUGE LOUNGE Solice Fri Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge Fuzzion Friday: with Crewshtopher, Tyler M, guests; no cover SPORTSWORLD Roller Skating Disco Fri Nights; 7-10:30pm; sports-world. ca Suede Lounge Juicy DJ spins every Fri Suite 69 Every Fri Sat with DJ Randall-A Temple Options with Greg Gory and Eddie Lunchpail; every Fri Treasury In Style Fri: DJ Tyco and Ernest Ledi; no line no cover for ladies all night long Union Hall Ladies Night every Fri Vinyl Dance Lounge Connected Las Vegas Fridays Y AFTERHOURS Foundation Fridays

SAT AUG 27 ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage with Trace Jordan 1st and 3rd Sat; 7pm-12 Artery Dub Vulture, Noisy Colours, Negrecia D'Souza; 8:30pm Avenue Theatre Everyday Sunday: with Zerbin and Aphesis (punk/pop); 3pm Beer Hunter Pub The Dangerous Guise (CD release); 8-10pm (meet and greet); 10pm-2am (music)

Bohemiai art+muzak CASINO EDMONTON Souled Out Brixx Bar The Able Kind, Nature Of and Jaime Zago CASINO YELLOWHEAD Suite 33 Coast to Coast Live bands every Sat; 9:30pm The Common 2 Year 2 Day Party: House Party; 9pm Crown Pub Acoustic blues open stage with Marshall Lawrence, every Sat, 2-6pm; Laid Back Saturday African Dance Party with DJ Collio, every Sat, 12-2am DV8 Tavern The Remones, guests; 9pm Eddie Shorts Saucy Wenches every Sat Empire Ballroom Fire Within featuring Trixtan Expressionz Café Open stage for original songs, hosted by Karyn Sterling and Randall Walsh; 2-5pm; admission by donation Filthy McNasty's Ritchie Paul and the Giant Child, Yevlumeel; 4pm; no cover Gas Pump Blues jam/ open stage every Sat 3:30-7pm Haven Social Club The Haven Social Club's 2nd Annual Barn Party Fundraiser: 11am (gate), 2pm (door) Located 10 mins W of Edmonton, 10 mins SE of Spruce Grove; tickets at the Haven Social Club, YEG Live HillTop Pub Sat afternoon roots jam with Pascal, Simon and Dan, 3:30-6:30pm; evening: Pascal le Cours and the Bad Characters (Acadian, reggae, rock 'n' roll); 9:30pm; no cover Hooliganz Live music every Sat Iron Boar Pub Jazz in Wetaskiwin featuring jazz trios the 1st Sat each month; $10 New City Legion Early show: Tour Wrap-Up Party: Mortillery, Crystal Mess; no minors; 7pm (door), 8-11pm (music); $7 New West Hotel Sonny and the Hurricanes (country); Jam Saturday afternoons O’byrne’s Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm On the Rocks The Mishaps; 9pm; $5 Open Sky Music Festival Kae Sun (folk reggae), Donavon Frankenreiter, Daniel Wesley, Souljah Fyah, Jon and Roy, Hayley Sales, Cas Haley and 25 more acts; $60 weekend (adv at Blackbyrd, YEG Live)/$70 (gate)/$40 (Sat or Sun) openskymusicfestival. com Red Piano Bar Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm2am Rendezvous Fear of City, Boulderfist, guest; 8pm (door); $10

Black Dog Freehouse Hair of the Dog: The Beauties (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover

Rexall Place Blink 182, Rancid, Against Me; 7pm; $59.50-$74.50 at UnionEvents.com, TicketMaster

Blue Chair Café Lionel Rault presents; 8.30pm; $10

River Cree–The Venue Lea Salonga; 8pm; $44.50

Blues on Whyte Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Gary Martin and the Heavenly Blues

Starlite Room Hale Hale, Southroot with Zero Something; 9pm West Side Pub West Side Pub Sat Afternoon: Dirty Jam: Tye Jones

(host), all styles, 3-7pm

Jamali

Wild West Saloon Colleen Rae and Cornerstone

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

Classical

GAS PUMP DJ Christian every Sat

Giovanni Caboto Park Mercury Opera: Giacomo Puccini’s Madame Butterfly; $65 at TIX on the Square, Zocalo Gallery

HALO For Those Who Know: house every Sat with DJ Junior Brown, Luke Morrison, Nestor Delano, Ari Rhodes

DJs 180 Degrees Street VIBS: Reggae night every Sat AZUCAR PICANTE DJ Touch It, hosted by DJ Papi; every Sat Bank Ultra Lounge Sold Out Sat: with DJ Russell James, Mike Tomas; 8pm (door); no line, no cover for ladies before 11pm

Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

SUN AUG 28 Beer Hunter–St Albert Open stage/jam every Sun; 2-6pm

Newcastle Pub Top 40 requests every Sat with DJ Sheri

Blackjack's Roadhouse–Nisku Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett

New City Legion Polished Chrome: every Sat with DJs Blue Jay, The Gothfather, Dervish, Anonymouse; no minors; free (5-8pm)/$5 (ladies)/$8 (gents after 8pm)

Blue Chair Café Sunday Brunch: Jim Findlay Trio 10:30am-2:30pm; donations

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Saturday evenings feature DJs on three levels; Main Floor: The Menace Sessions: Alt rock/ Electro/Trash with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic hiphop and reggae with DJ Sonny Grimezz

Overtime–Downtown Saturdays at Eleven: R'n'B, hip hop, reggae, Old School

Blacksheep Pub DJ every Sat

RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests

BUDDY'S Feel the rhythm every Sat with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm Buffalo Underground Head Mashed In Saturday: Mashup Night Druid Irish Pub DJ every Sat; 9pm electric rodeo– Spruce Grove DJ every Sat Fluid Lounge Scene Saturday's Relaunch: Party; hip-hop, R&B and Dancehall with DJ Aiden

PAWN SHOP Transmission Saturdays: Alt, DJ, punk-rock

Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M SPORTSWORLD Roller Skating Disco every Sat; 1pm-4:30pm and 7-10:30pm Suede Lounge DJ Nic-E spins every Sat Suite 69 Every Fri Sat with DJ Randall-A TEMPLE Oh Snap! Oh Snap with Degree, Cobra Commander, Battery,

Union Hall Celebrity Saturdays: every Sat hosted by Ryan Maier Vinyl Dance Lounge Signature Saturdays

junction bar and eatery LGBT Community: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm

Palace Casino Show Lounge DJ every Sat

Jake Roberts, Ten-O, Cool Beans, Hotspur Pop and P-Rex; every Sat

Blue Pear Restaurant Jazz on the Side Sun: Don Berner; 5:30-8:30pm; $25 if not dining Century Casino Little River Band; 7pm; $34.95 Crown Pub Band War 2011/Battle of the bands, 6-10pm; Open Stage with host Better Us Than Strangers, 10pm-1am DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB Celtic open stage every Sun with Keri-Lynne Zwicker; 5:30pm; no cover Double D's Open jam every Sun; 3-8pm Eddie Shorts Acoustic jam every Sun; 9pm Expressionz café YEG live Sun Night Songwriters Stage; 7-10pm

Soul Service (acoustic jam): Willy James and Crawdad Cantera; 3-6:30pm NEW CITY LEGION DIY Sunday Afternoons: 4pm (door), 5pm , 6pm, 7pm, 8pm (bands) O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am Open Sky Music Festival Donavon Frankenreiter, Daniel Wesley, Souljah Fyah, Jon and Roy, Hayley Sales, Cas Haley and 25 more acts; $60 weekend (adv at Blackbyrd, YEG Live)/$70 (gate)/$40 (Sat or Sun) openskymusicfestival. com On the Rocks Open Sky Music Festival Wrap Up Party; 9pm; $5 ORLANDO'S 2 PUB Open stage jam every Sun; 4pm Second Cup–Mountain Equipment Co-op Live music every Sun; 2-4pm Westside Pub Sun Blues Jam: hosted by Blues Curry and Javed; every Sunday, 3-7pm

Classical First Presbyterian Church Sunday Afternoon Concerts: Duo Majoya (organ duets); 1-2pm; free will offering

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

J and R Bar Open jam/ stage every Sun hosted by Me Next and the HaveNots; 3-7pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sundays: A fantastic voyage through '60s and '70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy. Dance parties have been known to erupt

Newcastle Pub Sun

FLOW Lounge Stylus

Sun SAVOY MARTINI LOUNGE Reggae on Whyte: RnR Sun with DJ IceMan; no minors; 9pm; no cover Sportsworld Roller Skating Disco Sun; 1-4:30pm; sports-world.ca

MON AUG 29 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover Churchill Square Every weekday (weather permitting): Breezy Brian Gregg (SW corner); 12-1:15pm Devaney's Irish Pub Singer/songwriter open stage every Mon; 8pm kelly's pub Open stage every Mon; hosted by Clemcat Hughes; 9pm New West Hotel Bobby Austin PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm Rose Bowl/Rouge Lounge Acoustic open stage every Mon; 9pm

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay Crown Pub Minefield Mondays/House/Breaks/ Trance and more with host DJ Phoenix, 9pm FILTHY McNASTY'S Metal Mon: with DJ S.W.A.G. Lucky 13 Industry Night every Mon with DJ Chad Cook

Enter to Win: 2 Tickets to the Completing The Circle Benefit September 16th at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium Featuring

Sawyer Brown, Anna Beaumont, Krystle Dos Santos & Reddnation!

Just drop off a non-perishable Food Bank Donation to the new VUE Headquarters at #200, 11230 119st any time between noon and 5, every Friday until Sept. 9 for a chance to win!

Completing the Circle benefits the Christmas Bureau, The Edmonton Food Bank, iHuman Youth Society & Butterfly Transitions & Healing Society For more information please visit www.onbeat.ca To purchase tickets please visit 1.855.985.5000 | ticketmaster.ca

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NEW CITY LEGION Madhouse Mon: Punk/ metal/etc with DJ Smart Alex New West Hotel Country music every Mon-Sat; Saturday afternoon Jam: Bobby Austin

TUE AUG 30 Brixx Bar Toxic Holocaust, Holy Grail, Weapon; 8pm Churchill Square Every weekday (weather permitting): Breezy Brian Gregg (SW corner); 12-1:15pm Druid Irish Pub Open stage every Tue; with Chris Wynters; 9pm L.B.’s Tue Blues Jam with Ammar; 9pm-1am New West Hotel Bobby Austin O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm Padmanadi Open stage every Tue; with Mark Davis; all ages; 7:3010:30pm Rexall Place Santana with Michael Franti, Spearhead; all ages ; 6:30pm (door), 7:30pm (show); $40, $60, $85.50 reserved seating

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: alternative retro and not-so-retro, electronic and Euro with Eddie Lunchpail; Wooftop: One Too Many Tuesdays with Rootbeard Brixx Bar Troubadour Tue: hosted by Mark Feduk; 9pm; $8 Buddys DJ Arrow Chaser every CRown Pub Live hip hop and open mic with DJs Xaolin, Dirty Needlz, Frank Brown, and guests; no cover DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly, Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Latin and Salsa music every Tue; dance lessons 8-10pm NEW CITY LEGION High Anxiety Variety Society Bingo vs. karaoke with Ben Disaster, Anonymouse every Tue;

no minors; 4pm-3am; no cover RED STAR Experimental Indie Rock, Hip Hop, Electro with DJ Hot Philly; every Tue

WED AUG 31 Artery The Wilderness of Manitoba, Stacy Lloyd Brown (alt folk/pop); 8pm; $10 (adv) BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Glitter Gulch: live music once a month Churchill Square Every weekday (weather permitting): Breezy Brian Gregg (SW corner); 12-1:15pm DV8 Tavern Our Sound Machine, Robbie Sinclair, Third Branch; 8pm eddie shorts Acoustic jam every Wed, 9pm; no cover Elephant and Castle–Whyte Ave Open mic every Wed (unless there's an Oilers game); no cover Festival Place Patio Series: The Flying

Crawdads, Marco Claveria Project; 7:30pm; $8 at the Festival Place box office Fiddler's Roost Little Flower Open Stage every Wed with Brian Gregg; 8pm-12 HAVEN SOCIAL Club Open stage every Wed with Jonny Mac, 8:30pm, free HOOLIGANZ Open stage every Wed with host Cody Nouta; 9pm New West Hotel Bobby Austin (country); Jam Saturday afternoons Nisku Inn Troubadours and Tales: 1st Wed every month; with Tim Harwill, guests; 8-10pm PAWN SHOP Matt Machete, Cloud Seekers, Strange Planes; 8pm Playback Pub Open Stage every Wed hosted

by JTB; 9pm-1am PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society;

PREVUE

Red Piano Bar Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 Second Cup–89 Ave Rick Mogg (country) Second Cup–Mountain Equipment Open mic every Wed; 8-10pm Winspear Centre Ray Lamontagne and the Pariah Dogs, Vusi Mahlasela; 7:30pm (door), 8:30pm (show); sold out

DJs BANK ULTRA LOUNGE Rev'd Up Wed: with DJ Mike Tomas upstairs; 8pm 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; Wooftop: Soul/Breaks with Dr. Erick Brixx Bar Really Good...

Eats and Beats: every Wed with DJ Degree and Friends BUDDY'S DJ Dust 'n' Time every Wed; 9pm (door); no cover The Common Treehouse Wednesdays

R Pub Open stage jam every Tue; hosted

by Gary and the Facemakers; 8pm

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

Second Cup–124 Street Open mic every Tue; 8-10pm

LEGENDS PUB Hip hop/ R&B with DJ Spincycle

SEcond Cup–Stanley Milner Library Open mic every Tue; 7-9pm

NEW CITY LEGION Wed Pints 4 Punks: with DJ Nick; no minors; 4pm3am; no cover

Second Cup– Summerwood Open stage/open mic every Tue; 7:30pm; no cover

NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed

SIDELINERS PUB All Star Jam every Tue; with Alicia Tait and Rickey Sidecar; 8pm Sportsman's Lounge Open stage every Tue; hosted by Paul McGowan; 9pm

Slow pitch for beginners on the 1st and 3rd Wed prior to regular jam every Wed, 6.30pm; $2 (member)/$4 (nonmember)

RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed

Ray LaMontagne & the Pariah Dogs Wed, Aug 31 (7:30 pm) / Winspear Centre ($39.50 – $55)

Starlite Room Wild Style Wed: Hip-Hop; 9pm TEMPLE Wild Style Wed: Hip hop open mic hosted

by Kaz and Orv; $5

VENUE GUIDE 180 Degrees 10730-107 St, 780.414.0233 Accent European Lounge 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ARTery 9535 Jasper Ave Avenue Theatre 9030118 Ave, 780.477.2149 BANK ULTRA LOUNGE 10765 Jasper Ave, 780.420.9098 Beer Hunter Pub 7522178 St BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082 Blackjack's Roadhouse–Nisku 2110 Sparrow Drive, Nisku, 780.986.8522 Blacksheep Pub 11026 Jasper Ave, 780.420.0448 Blue Pear Restaurant 10643-123 St, 780.482.7178 BLUES ON WHYTE 1032982 Ave, 780.439.3981 bohemia 10575-114 St 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 Casino Edmonton 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 Casino Yellowhead 12464-153 St, 780 424 9467 Century grill 3975 Calgary Tr NW, 780.431.0303 CHROME LOUNGE 132 Ave, Victoria Trail Coast to Coast 5552 Calgary Tr, 780.439.8675 Common Lounge 10124124 St Crown and Anchor 15277 Castledowns Rd, 780.472.7696 Crown Pub 10709-109 St, 780.428.5618 Diesel Ultra Lounge

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11845 Wayne Gretzky Drive, 780.704.CLUB Devaney’s Irish Pub 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 The Docks 13710 66 St, 780.476.3625 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8307-99 St Early Stage Saloon 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain Eddie Shorts 10713-124 St, 780.453.3663 EDMONTON EVENTS CENTRE WEM Phase III, 780.489.SHOW ‎ Electric Rodeo–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 Elephant and Castle–Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave Expressionz Café 993870 Ave, 780.437.3667 FIDDLER’S ROOST 890699 St FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 First Presbyterian Church 10025-105 St FLASH Night Club 10018105 St, 780.969.9965 FLOW Lounge 11815 Wayne Gretzky Dr, 780.604.

CLUB Fluid Lounge 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 FUNKY BUDDHA 10341-82 Ave, 780.433.9676 GAS PUMP 10166-114 St, 780.488.4841 HALO 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.HALO haven social club 15120A (basement), Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.6010 HillTop Pub 8220-106 Ave, 780.490.7359

VUEWEEKLY AUG 25 – AUG 31, 2011

HOOLIGANZ 10704-124 St, 780.995.7110 Hydeaway 10209-100 Ave, 780.426.5381 Iron Boar Pub 4911-51st St, Wetaskiwin JAMMERS PUB 11948-127 Ave, 780.451.8779 J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 jeffrey’s café 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 JEKYLL AND HYDE 10209100 Ave, 780.426.5381 junction bar and eatery 10242-106 St, 780.756.5667 KAS BAR 10444-82 Ave, 780.433.6768 kelly's pub 11540 Jasper Ave L.B.’s Pub 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEGENDS PUB 6104-172 St, 780.481.2786 LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 Lizard Lounge 13160118 Ave Marybeth's Coffee House–Beaumont 5001-30 Ave, Beaumont, 780.929.2203 Naked Cyber café 10354 Jasper Ave, 780.425.9730 Newcastle PuB 6108-90 Ave, 780.490.1999 New City Legion 8130 Gateway Boulevard (Red Door) New West Hotel 15025111 Ave, 780.489.2511 Nisku Inn 1101-4 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535-109A Ave O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 ON THE ROCKS 11730

Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 Open Sky Music Festival Hawrelak Park's Heritage Amphitheatre, 9930 Groat Rd; openskymusicfestival.com Orlando's 1 15163-121 St Overtime–Downtown 10304-111 St, 780.465.6800 Overtime Whitemud Crossing, 4211-106 St, 780.485.1717 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 Playback Pub 594 Hermitage Rd, 130 Ave, 40 St Pleasantview Community Hall 1086057 Ave REDNEX BAR–Morinville 10413-100 Ave, Morinville, 780.939.6955 Red Piano Bar 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 Rendezvous 10108149 St Ric’s Grill 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 Rose and Crown 10235101 St R Pub 16753-100 St , 780.457.1266 Second Cup–89 Ave 8906-149 St Second Cup–Sherwood Park 4005 Cloverbar Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929 • Summerwood Summerwood Centre, Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929 Sideliners Pub 11018-

127 St, 780.453.6006 Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924 Sportsworld 13710104 St Sportsman's Lounge 8170-50 St STARLITE ROOM 10030102 St, 780.428.1099 STEEPS TEA LOUNGE– Whyte Ave 11116-82 Ave Suede Lounge 11806 Jasper Ave, 780.482.0707 Suite 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969 Taphouse 9020 McKenney Ave, St Albert, 780.458.0860 Treasury 10004 Jasper Ave, 7870.990.1255, thetreasurey.ca Uncle Glenns 7666-156 St, 780.481.3192 Vinyl Dance Lounge 10740 Jasper Ave, 780.428.8655, vinylretrolounge.com Westside Pub 15135 Stony Plain Rd 780 758 2058 Whistlestop Lounge 12416-132 Ave, 780.

451.5506 Wild Bill’s–Red Deer Quality Inn North Hill, 7150-50 Ave, Red Deer, 403.343.8800 WILD WEST SALOON 12912-50 St, 780.476.3388 Winspear Centre 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WOK BOX 10119 Jasper Ave WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com Yesterdays Pub 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295

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

bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm

Groups/CLUBS/meetings Aikikai Aikido Club • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm AWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP •

comedy • Sep 2

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

Brixx Bar • 10030-102 St •

bohemia • 10575-114 St • art+muzak •

COMEDY bohemia • 10575-114 St • Open mic

780.428.1099 • Troubadour Tuesday's with comedy and music

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

Century Casino • 13103 Fort Rd • 780.481.9857 • Howie Miller; Aug 26-27 • Every Thu in September open amateur night at 7:30pm • Yuk Yuks presents Stan Thomson; Sep 2-3 COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Thu, 8:30pm; Sat, 8pm and 10pm • Sean Baptiste; Aug 26-27 Comic Strip • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Mark Viera; until Aug 28 • Hit or Miss Monday; Aug 29; 8pm; $7 • Brown on Bourbon; Aug 30, 8pm; $12 • Dov Davidoff; Aug 31; 8pm; $15.50 • Dov Davidoff; Sep 1-4

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

laugh shop–Sherwood Park • 4 Blackfoot Road, Sherwood Park • 780.417.9777 • laughinthepark.ca • Open Wed-Sat • Mike Dambra; Aug 25-27 • Mike Dambra; Aug 25-27 • Andy Canete; Sep 1-3

Aug 27

Brain Tumour Peer Support Group • Woodcroft Branch Library, 13420114 Ave • braintumour.ca • 1.800.265.5106 ext 234 • Support group for brain tumour survivors and their families and caregivers. Must be 18 or over • 3rd Tue every month; 7-8:45pm • Free

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

EXPRESSIONZ Open Market • 9938-70 Ave • 780.437.3667 • expressionzcafe. com • Open market focusing on arts and crafts, health products, well-being, and more. Speakers, open stage, poetry, theatre and other events scheduled during the market throughout the month • Every Sat, 10am-3pm

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

FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.465.2019/780.634.5526 • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and

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

MEDITATION • Strathcona Library, 8331104 St; meditationedmonton.org; Drop-in every Thu 7-8:30pm; Sherwood Park Library: Drop-in every Mon, 7-8:30pm

New Student in Canada? • Queen Elizabeth High School, 9425-132 Ave; and St Joseph Catholic High School, 10830-109 St • 780.474.8445 • Come to Newcomer Orientation Week (NOW, a summertime program that orients newly arrived students to their first weeks of secondary school), prepare for your first weeks in Canadian High Schools • Until Aug 25, 8:30am-3:30pm • Pre-register

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

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

Sharara Entertainment Group/ Shree Yoga • 9238-34 Ave • Grand Opening; open house: tea and juice at 1:30pm, Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at 2:30 pm, dance entertainment guests including Naresh Bhardwaj, Deepak Kumar, Amarjeet Sohi, Sohail Quadri • Sep 4 • Register at shararaentertainmentgroup@hotmail.com

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

Society of Edmonton Atheists • Stanley Milner Library, Rm 6-7 • Meet the 1st Tue every month, 7:15pm

Sugarswing Dance Club • Orange Hall, 10335-84 Ave or Pleasantview Hall, 10860-57 Ave • 780.604.7572 • Swing Dance at Sugar Foot Stomp: beginner lesson followed by dance every Sat, 8pm (door) at Orange Hall or Pleasantview Hall Taoist Tai Chi Society • Hawrelak Park, Site 4 • 780.489.4293 • western.canada. taioist.org • Awareness Day: Demonstrations of Taoist Tai Chi and free introductory class • Sat, Aug 27,2pm

WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old Strathcona Farmers' Market • Silent vigil the 1st and 3rd Sat, 10-11am, each month, stand in silence for a world without violence Yoga in the Park • St Albert’s Kingswood Park • Sat, Sep 10, 1-2:30pm • $20; register at 780.454.0701 ext 221; e: info@ gatewayassociation.ca (drop-ins are welcome)

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

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

EDMONTON PRIME TIMERS (EPT) • Unitarian Church of Edmonton, 10804119 St • A group of older gay men who have common interests meet the 2nd Sun, 2:30pm, for a social period, short meeting and guest speaker, discussion panel or potluck supper.

Special interest groups meet for other social activities throughout the month. E: edmontonpt@yahoo.ca

EPLC Fellowship Pagan Study Group • Pride Centre of Edmonton • eplc. webs.com • 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 • DJ Suco beats every Sat • E: vip@ flashnightclub.com

G.L.B.T.Q. (gay) African Group Drop-In) • Pride Centre, 9540-111 Ave • 780.488.3234 • Group for gay refugees from all around the World, friends, and families • 1st and Last Sun every month • Info: E: fred@ pridecentreofedmonton.org, jeff@pridecentreofedmonton.org

GLBT sports and recreation • teamedmonton.ca • Badminton, Co-ed: St. Thomas Moore School, 9610-165 St, coedbadminton@teamedmonton.ca • Badminton, Women's Drop-In Recreational: Oliver School Gym, 10227-118 St; badminton@ teamedmonton.ca • Co-ed Bellydancing: bellydancing@teamedmonton.ca • Bootcamp: Lynnwood Elementary School at 15451-84 Ave; Mon, 7-8pm; bootcamp@teamedmonton.ca • Bowling: Ed's Rec Centre, West Edmonton Mall, Tue 6:45pm • Curling: Granite Curling Club; 780.463.5942 • Running: Every Sun morning; running@teamedmonton.ca • Spinning: MacEwan Centre, 109 Street and 104 Ave; spin@teamedmonton.ca • Swimming: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St; swimming@ teamedmonton.ca • Volleyball: Mother Teresa Elementary School at 9008-105A; Amiskiwaciy Academy, 101 Airport Rd; recvolleyball@ teamedmonton.ca; volleyball@teamedmonton.ca • YOGA (Hatha): Free Yoga every Sun, 2-3:30pm; Korezone Fitness, 203, 10575-115 St, yoga@teamedmonton.ca

G.L.B.T.Q Seniors Group • S.A.G.E

Federation of Community Leagues, 7103-105 St • ytoastmasterclub.ca • 1st and 3rd Tue, 7-9pm; every month

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

LECTURES/Presentations

Illusions Social Club • The Junction,

Y TOASTMASTERS CLUB • Edmonton

Experience the Energy Tours– Fort Mcmurray • Oil sands Discovery Centre, junction of Hwy 63 and MacKenzie Blvd, Fort McMurray • See the inner workings of the oil sands industry • Aug: Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays • Sep: Fri, Sat, Sun

Show What You Grow • Blatchford Hanger, Fort Edmonton • Show your garden harvest and meet other gardeners, see what has been growing in Edmonton • Aug 26, 5:30-8pm • $5 per person for unlimited entries (incl weekend admission to Fort Edmonton Park); competition details at W: edmon-

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

INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campusbased 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

the junction bar • 10242-106 St • 780.756.5667 • Free pool daily 4-8pm; Taco Tue: 5-9pm; Wing Wed: 5-9pm; Wed karaoke: 9pm-12; Thu 2-4-1 burgers: 5-9pm; Fri steak night: 5-9pm; DJs Fri and Sat at 10pm

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

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

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

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

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

SPECIAL EVENTS Corn Maze • Garden Valley Rd, west of Edmonton • 780.288.0208 • edmontoncornmaze.ca • Open through to mid Oct • $10 (adult)/$8 (youth, 5-12)/free (under 5)Ghost

Tours–Old Strathcona • Meet at Rescuer Statue, next to Walterdale, 10322-83 Ave • 780.289.2005 • edmontonghosttours.com • Stories of the paranormal, deceased, spirits, and phantoms • Mon-Thu, until Sep 1, 9pm • $10 each (dress for weather and walking)

Two ONE-WAY Tickets To Broadway's Toonie Garage Sale • 35 Darlington Dr, Sherwood Park • twoonewaytickets.com • Fundraiser • Aug 26 , 6-10pm; Aug 27, 10-6pm

JONESIN'CROSSWORD

MATT JONES // JONESINCROSSWORDS@vueweekly.com

"Fill 'Er Up"--with the right letters.

FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19) I predict in the coming weeks you will be able to extract an unexpected perk from less glamorous responsibilities. You will decide not to ram headfirst into an obstacle. Instead, you'll dream up a roundabout approach that will be more effective at eliminating the obstacle. These departures from habit will show you precious secrets about how to escape more of your own negative conditioning in the future.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20) "Dear Astrologer: My life is stagnant and slow. Why has my karma been deprived of all motion? Will you predict my sorry state of stillness to be ended soon? Arvind Agnimuka, Taurus from Darjeeling." Dear Arvind: According to my analysis, members of the Taurus tribe are about to be roused out of their plodding rhythm by a bolt of cosmic mojo.

Get ready to rumble—and I mean that in the best sense of the word.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20) I found this unusual classified ad in a small California newspaper. "Wanted: Someone to travel backwards in time with me. You must be unafraid to see the person you used to be, and you've got to keep a wide-open mind about the past. I have made this trip twice before, and I don't expect any danger, but there may be a bit of a mess. Please bring your own 'cleaning implements,' if you know what I mean."

Gemini, I'm thinking you'd be the right person for this gig. The omens suggest you'll be doing something similar to it anyway.

Across 1 Build to a climax, perhaps 15 Her marriage to Lamar Odom was televised 17 "Go for it!"

18 "This is good" 19 MS enclosure 20 Sounds disappointed 21 "Biography" channel 23 Apt. ad stat 26 It gets struck after the show 27 Greek letters that look like tridents 28 Diamond settings 32 Radio tower tops 34 URL punctuation 37 Without a purpose 38 U may follow them 39 Frozen pops 42 Adds up 43 "One ___" (Joan Osborne hit) 47 Time zone for most of Eur. 48 Mao ___-tung 49 Catholic college in New York 50 Some practicers of Islam 52 Residential care worker, for short 54 WWII naval vessel 55 She played the devil in "Bedazzled" 60 Kept one's powder dry 61 Treaty sessions

Down 1 Item for a star search 2 He's a "really useful engine" 3 The comeback kids?

4 Character that rhymes with Pooh 5 Edgy 6 Ada's st.

7 Actress Dunaway 8 German equiv. of "miss" 9 Reagan's "Star Wars" program, for short 10 Washroom, casually 11 Suffix after neur- or psych12 Response to a ring 13 Person who sticks around 14 They may possess 50-footers 16 Platform used to play Metroid

22 When the clocks shift: abbr.

23 Author of the "Goosebumps" series 24 Does impersonations 25 "___ Nacht" (original German version of "Silent Night") 28 Least loopy 29 Burdens 30 Suit to ___ 31 Really fast plane, for short 33 Fixes 34 ___ Perignon 35 Prophetic 36 Classic Dave Brubeck song 40 Surfer of sorts 41 "___ says to the guy..."

44 Became the responsibility of 45 Camouflaged 46 Horny beasts, in two ways 49 ___ Ste. Marie, Mich.

50 His, to Henri 51 "The Sweetest Taboo" singer 52 Golfer K.J. 53 Drag racing assoc.

56 Tom Hanks movie with a Silly String fight 57 Eisenhower's command, for short 58 ___-LCD (display type on flat screens) 59 Bollywood actress Aishwarya ___ ©2011 Jonesin' Crosswords

LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22) If you're a typical Westerner, your sense of smell is underdeveloped. You just don't use it with the same level of acuity you have when you're seeing, hearing, tasting and touching. You may speak excitedly about an image or song or food, but you rarely do that with odors. You easily tolerate an ugly building or loud traffic noise or mediocre food, and yet you feel a deep aversion to an unappealing smell.

I want you to know it's an excellent time to upgrade your olfactory involvement with the world. You'd benefit greatly from the emotional enrichment that would come from cultivating a more conscious relationship with aromas.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22) "Enlightenment is simply this," said the Zen master. "When I walk, I walk. When I eat, I eat. When I sleep, I sleep." If that's true, Leo, the universe is virtually conspiring to maneuver you into situations where you can be utterly united with whatever you are doing in the present moment. You'll be less tempted than usual to let your mind wander away from the experience at hand, but will instead relish the opportunity to commit yourself completely to the scene that's right in front of you.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22) In August 2009, 120 scientists and their helpers staged a BioBlitz in Yellowstone National Park. Their goal was to find as many new species as they could in one day. To their surprise and delight, they located more than 1200, including beetles, worms, lichens and fungi that had never before been identified. An equally fertile phase of discovery could very well be imminent for you. All you have to do is make that your intention, then become super extra double-wildly receptive.

ROB BREZSNY // FREEWILL@vueweekly.com

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22) "Two dangers threaten the universe: order and disorder," said poet Paul Valery.

That's especially true for you right now, although the "danger" in question is psychological in nature and it's a relatively manageable hazard that you shouldn't stay up all night worrying about. Still, you really do need to figure out how to weave a middle way between the extremes of seeking too much order and allowing too much disorder. What would Goldilocks do?

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21) Readers of Reddit.com were asked to describe their lives in just six words. It would be a good time for you to try this exercise. You've reached a juncture in your unfolding destiny when you could benefit from a review that pithily sums up where you've been up until now, and where you've got to go next. To inspire, here are some of the most interesting from Reddit: 1) Early opportunities wasted, now attempting redemption. 2) Living my dream requires modifying dream. 3) Must not turn into my mom. 4) Insane ambition meets debilitating self-doubt. 5) Do you want to have sex? 6) These pretzels are making me thirsty.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21) Go where the drama is, but not to the melodrama. Place yourself in the path of the most interesting power, but don't get distracted by displays that are dehumanizing or narcissistic. You are in a phase of your astrological cycle when you have a mandate to intensify your excitement with life and increase your ability to be deeply engaged with what attracts you. I urge you to be brave and curious. For extra credit, be highly demonstrative in your expression of what you care about.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19) In his older years the agnostic actor WC Fields was caught reading the Bible by an old friend. Questioned at this departure from his usual behavior, Fields said he was "looking for loopholes." I suspect a comparable shift for you. In your case, you may be drawn to a source you've perpetually ignored, or suddenly interested in a subject you've long considered to be irrelevant. It's an excellent time to practice opening your mind.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18) I watched a Youtube video that showed eight people who ran two miles, ate 12 doughnuts, then ran another two miles. If you're in the mood for outlandish feats and exotic adventures (which I suspect you might be), I suggest you try something more life-enhancing, like making love for an hour, eating an organic gourmet feast, then making love for another hour. It's a good time for you to be wild about getting the healing you need.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20) In the out-of-print book In Portugal, AFG Bell defines the Portuguese word saudade as follows: "a vague and constant desire for something that does not and probably cannot exist, for something other than the present, a turning towards the past or towards the future; not an active discontent or poignant sadness, but an indolent dreaming wistfulness." It is imperative that you banish as much saudade from your system as you can. You can bring it back again later, but you need to clarify your desires for things that are actually possible. And that requires you to purge the delusional ones. V

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Coming Events

Get Involved, make a difference!

Help remove harmful debris from our local waterways, join 1000's of like minded Canadians on September 17th, 2011 from noon to 4 at Hermitage Park Ponds.

For more info please contact: shoreline.cleanup.hpp@gmail.com

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Volunteers Wanted

St. Albert Senior Citizens’ Club is a local non-profit organization currently recruiting to fill two vacant board member positions.

Submit resumes in confidence to board@stalbertseniorsclub.org.

The Canadian Cancer Society needs volunteers to drive clients to and from cancer-related treatment.

Volunteer in a homework club to help immigrant children & youth succeed in school! www.emcn.ab.ca or call Chissa@423.9516 Volunteer Orientation September 7th at 6:30 pm Horse Sense Training & Petting Zoo Visit: www.littlebits.ca for details

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Get in touch with Robin!

Share your story and give her your tip: robin@lite957.ca

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Musicians Available

Experienced bass player looking to play with established band.

Between the ages of 35 and 55.

Call Tony 780-484-6806.

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Looking for serious bass player for metal band. Paid shows/gigs involved.

Mand. serious dedication. Hard drug free.

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Mand. serious dedication. Hard drug free.

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Experienced music teacher, piano or guitar. Beginner Books included, 40 min lessons.

Flexible Schedule or Reg Time each week.

Free consultation Call 780-487-5949

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Music Instruction

MODAL MUSIC INC. 780.221.3116 Quality music instruction since 1981.

Guitarist. Educator.

Graduate of GMCC music program

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IF YOU'RE TIRED OF INEFFICIENT THERAPY. Therapeutic Massage. Open Saturdays. Heidi By appointment only 1-780-868-6139 (Edmonton) RELAX AND LET GO Therapeutic massage.

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Psychic Readings with Jason D. Kilsch Tarot, Psychic, Intuitive Medium $30/half-hour or $60/hour Leave msg 780-292-4489

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Furor over potential strip club reveals attitude toward sex The furor over the proposed strip club community concern, if it did go ahead, off Whyte Avenue died just as quickly I'm sure the city would ensure that as it started but it left me wondersignage was discreet. Most kids probing why the possibility of this ably wouldn't even notice that club opening up such a huge the club was there at all. The news story? busiest hours for the club News got out that the would be times when kids om eekly.c @vuew owners of X-Bar, a strip wouldn't even be around. brenda Brendear club on Yellowhead trail, Many people expressed conKerb had been granted a business licern that the strip joint would cense for the space that the Rehab hurt the neighbourhood and the Rock Club used to occupy on 81 Avenue businesses there because it would atand Calgary Trail. There was an eruptract the wrong type of people into the tion of media coverage and accompaarea. Who is the wrong type of person? nying comments. Some were positive, Are there only certain types of people but it seemed the majority was not just that go into strip clubs? And are those opposed to the idea of the club, but the types of people who don't go to gravely concerned about the effect on coffee shops and bookstores or will the neighbourhood. Why are we so unfrighten off the people who do? comfortable with this?

I was at a strip club on the city's West I'm not the biggest proponent of End just two weeks ago. I go occasionstrip clubs. There are some aspects of ally with my partner or friends to have the entire adult entertainment indusa drink and watch the dancers. I also try that make me uneasy too, but I do live and work on Whyte Avenue and wonder if the vociferous protest has patronize the businesses there. People much less to do with any legitimate seem to want to isolate the notion of a concerns for the neighbourhood than strip club as something seedy and sepawith our discomfort with anything to rate, but it's just not the case. They are do with sex in general. actually pretty mainstream and lots of I don't think there's any reason to people go to them. be concerned about the children who There is a legitimate concern about the live, shop and use services in the area. potential for drug use and violence but Businesses need to apply for city perisn't that a concern with any night club mits to put up signs and, given the that serves alcohol? I would actually

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be less concerned about the potential for drugs and violence at a strip club because of the heavy presence of security. Club owners know that they are watched more closely than other clubs that don't feature nude entertainment so they tend to keep a pretty tight lid on the potential for problems. The police told media that they haven't had problems with the X-bar's current location.

I agree that a strip joint doesn't really fit in with the character of the neighbourhood and with the existing businesses, but neither does yet another night club. Time and time again we've had violence in and around bars on Whyte Ave and repeated calls to limit the number of them. Why then, was there a huge collective sigh of relief when Councillor Ben Henderson announced that X-Bar would not be opening a strip joint in the old Rehab site, but just a dance club? I guess that naked women and people watching them just makes us nervous. We are OK with drinking. Sex and nudity with the alcohol, not so much. V

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Sweaty gym clothes could be the ticket straight to prison I'm unemployed in Oregon and trying pervs all over the world, some items to come up with simple ways to make would travel—via US mail or UPS rent. My dear wife and I would like or FedEx—through different jurisyour opinion on the legality of selling dictions. While there may not be a my teenage son's sweaty gym clothes statute in Oregon that you could be online. It sounds rather skeezy, I reprosecuted under for selling his alize, and I'm only half-joking E undies, Mississippi or Illinois here. If we had a nonsexual or Vatican City "may have SAVAG website with pictures that specific laws, too," says kly.com O'Connor, laws that you e weren't necessarily of my e w e @vu gelove son, would that be buffer sava could be violating.

Dan e enough? Would this be seen The biggest potential probg a v Sa as me whoring out the boy? He's lem: underpants huffers wanna up for it—as long as he gets his cut— know exactly whose underpants but could I go to jail for this? He is 14. they're huffing. That means you'll PIMPIN' OUT REAL TEEN'S LEFThave to include pictures and biographOVER, ACRID, NASTY DUDS ical info on your website, PORTLAND, and involving a minor—even a fake/ Speaking parent-to-parent, PORTbuffer one—in what many police ofLAND, informing your 14-year-old son ficers, district attorneys, judges and that there are perverts all over the some sex-advice columnists see as a Internet who would be willing to pay kind of gateway sex work will quickly him for his sweaty gym clothes wasn't add arrest, prosecution, incarceration, the best idea. Whatever you ultimatecrushing legal bills and a lifetime on a ly decide to do with his sweaty jocks, sex-offender registry to your current shorts and T-shirts—and I vote for troubles. Even if the authorities can't tossing them in the wash—dangling point to a particular law that criminalthe money your son could make caizes your home business, they'll find tering to the desires of online pervs something to charge you with. in front of him might inspire him to I'm sorry you're hurting right now, go into business for himself, whatever PORTLAND, but I think you should you decide to do. So keep an eye on come up with another way to make his Internet usage, okay? As for the rent. legal issues ...

"Selling a physical property— Six months ago, my 17-year-old son sweat—might be an issue," said told me that he was seeing [insert Chris O'Connor, a public defender in male name]. No biggie. What trouPortland, Oregon. "Also, he could be bles me: my son and his boyfriend [charged with] fraud and misrepresenare "furries" and open about it. The tation for selling clothing he says is boyfriend is 18 and sweet, but he's his 14-year-old son's but isn't." clearly the more dominant one. I'm Even if no dissatisfied customers worried that my son may not know go running to the chamber of comhow to say no to him. Adding to my merce, PORTLAND, there are other concerns: I found a dog collar in the potential problems. For instance, as kitchen with an engraved tag with your son's sweaty gym clothes make my son's name on it. Dog collars their way from his bedroom floor seem like a heavy activity for a lad, to the hands of underpants-huffing Dan, and today I noticed a bruise on

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his throat that's the size of a collar buckle. How do I ensure he is exploring safely without freaking him out?

WHY THIS FETISH? Go ahead and freak him out, WTF. Your son is being open with you about his sexuality—openly gay, openly furred, openly collared— and you shouldn't hesitate to be open about your concerns. You won't be able to talk him out of

Underpants huffers wanna know exactly whose underpants they're huffing.

his kinks, WTF, if they're his kinks (and not, say, a teenage affectation), so focus on the issues: power dynamics and sexual safety. Tell him it's important that he be able to say no to his boyfriend, and let him know that you're there for him if he has questions or concerns or needs a sounding board. Then ask him about the bruise on his neck.

Dog collars are harmless—lots of kids and kinksters wear 'em—but if he and his boyfriend are playing choking games with that collar, and that's where the bruise came from, that's a very dangerous activity and it has to stop immediately.

In your shoes, WTF, I would bark at the boyfriend about that bruise, too.

Furry, schmurry. It's erotic asphyxiation that you should be worried about.

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through a therapist? I realize that sounds close to the whole "ex-gay therapy" thing, and of course I don't want to go down that path, but I guess it's just hard for me to understand how someone can't form a sexual connection with another person and still be 100 percent OK psychologically.

2) How do I react the next time I see this friend? Should I bring it up? Not sure about the etiquette.

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1) Asexuality, according to asexuals and the people who love (but don't fuck) 'em, is a real sexual orientation ... or lack thereof. Usually. Because, you see, some asexuals do "experience attraction," according to Asexuality Visibility Network (asexuality.org), "[but] feel no need to act out that attraction sexually." So it's an orientation. Or a disorientation. Or something. But whatever it is, it's for real.

"I've been where your friend is," says David Jay, the founder of Asexuality Visibility Network. "He wouldn't have come out without spending a lot of time mulling it over, so respect that he's done a lot more thinking about this than you have. If he identifies as asexual or anything in the big wide spectrum, you should respect that, period."

First, I agree 100 percent with Jay. Second, it's entirely possible that your friend isn't really asexual, just as it's possible that I'm not really gay and Marcus Bachmann isn't really straight.

Your friend may have decided to identify as asexual because he can't deal with his sexuality or wants to opt out

because he finds the games required exhausting. Or he may actually be asexual. Whichever it is, you're not the sexual identity police. So long as your friend isn't externalizing an internal conflict and making other people miserable in the process—à la Marcus Bachmann—your friend doesn't need to be confronted or rescued. (And for the record: no one is "100 percent OK psychologically," and not everyone needs sex and/or a romantic relationship to feel content and enjoy life.)

2) "Hey, how's it going."

"Good, man, you?"

"Good. Did you see Rise of the Planet of the Apes?"

"Yeah—terrible."

"And James Franco was never shirtless—what's up with that?"

"You know, if you need tits with your science fiction, you should check out Misfits on Hulu. It's like Lost before it went to shit. And it's got tits—lots and lots of tits."

"I'll check it out—and, hey, I saw that blog post about you IDing as asexual.

If that's something you want to talk about, I'd love to learn more. But if it's not something you want to talk about, we can talk about other shit." V Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage.

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Community in Bloom Where needles and garbage once littered an overgrown abandoned lot, a community garden grows. Its purpose is more than just beautification. It restores a connection to the land and provides a source of pride for many in the Boyle Street community who are now able to grow some of their own food.

"For most of the gardeners it has become a lot more than just a curiosity or a summer pastime, but has really become part of their life in a very meaningful way: a valuable community that has sprouted from working alongside one another and that has grown steadily as we have watched the very seeds we have planted grow and fruit," writes Bethany Tulloch, the summer intern at the Mustard Seed church.

The garden has also had the serendipitous effect of bringing people together in other ways.

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"A good number of those working in the garden are without homes so we had to be creative in order for everyone to be able to enjoy some of the harvest. As a result, we decided to cook meals with what we were able to pick and enjoy dinners together—around a table, with great food and conversation, times of sharing and great satisfaction," says Tulloch.

In a neighbourhood where life is often tough, Peas Be With You Garden creates a tangible transformation. This change is so close, you can taste it. V Chelsea Boos is a multidisciplinary visual artist and avid flâneur. Back Words is a discussion of her explorations in Edmonton and a photographic diary of the local visual culture.

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