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Peaceful assembly The Occupy movement continues to grow. In downtown New York over 700 people were arrested as protesters attempted to bring the protest to New York's boroughs. The Transit Workers Union joined the protest, refusing to transport protesters to jails and holding centres.

Marines came to protect the protesters. And the New York General Assembly, as the group has been dubbed, released a statement about why they're occupying Wall Street.

What's interesting is not what the statement says—although it is important—but the process by which it was created. Hundreds of people participated in the process. In small groups and through numerous meetings and discussions, the hundreds of people gathered in Liberty Square had conversations about what each person was concerned about. And it

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was easy. Dispatches from activists who have joined the protests state that, for a large number of people in the Square, this is their first time protesting or participating in political conversations. Many have not discussed ideas of anti-classism, anti-oppression, white privilege, alternative methods of organizing, or alternative economies to capitalism.

This has led to many very uncomfortable realizations for many of the protesters who are not white males, who have had to have those conversations again and again to ensure that it is recognized that not everyone experiences the world the same way. These ideas are not taught in classrooms—for many this is their first conversation about creating alternative worlds, and expressing that right to free speech they've heard about. Cornel West,

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professor of religion and African American studies at Princeton, after speaking to the crowd stated that democracy is a process: "It's a democratic process, it's a non-violent process, but it is a revolution ..."

Not everyone is in the street. There have been numerous online conversations about people's financial situation. Calling themselves the "99 percent" people are listing their massive debt, their complete inability to secure employment, and the failure of a social safety net to provide health care or any assistance at all. People are discovering they are not alone in their concerns.

As the Occupy-movement grows, protests have already begun in five cities, nine more will start before October 15, and countless others internationally and if all that happens is a conversation about the alternatives we can explore, it's hard to call the movement a failure. V

Your Vue is the weekly roundup of all your comments and views of our coverage.

Every week we'll be running your comments from the website, feedback on our weekly web polls and any letters you send our editors.

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COMMENTS FROM THE WEB POLL

The omnibus criminal bill put forward by the Conservatives will greatly increase mandatory minimum sentences. It also increases the severity and length of sentences for juvenile offenders. Is this a move in the right direction for Canada's criminal justice system?

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There has to be a better way to help juvenile offenders than this.

How will they learn to become a productive member of society if they do not remain a part of it? This does not mean they are not held responsible for their actions, but rather [that they are] taught how to conduct themselves to use their talents to become more than just a common criminal.

The war on drugs is a war on taxpayers, First Nations peoples and on common sense. Legalize it.

The Conservatives are pulling on fears—rehabilitation is more of a prevention mechanism, particularly as it relates to repeat offenders, than stronger sentences are a deterrent.

What do you make of the Occupy Wall Street movement?

1. I sympathize with their position and am supportive of their efforts.

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3. They're a bunch of whiners.

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ENVIRONMENTALLY INADEQUATE Environment commissioner Scott Vaughan released a damning audit on Canada's environmental action plans. Vaughan's report outlines the federal government's lack of knowledge on greenhouse gas emissions, tar sands pollution and a scattered approach to climate change, calling it, "Disjointed, confused and non-transparent."

Vaughan's report also makes note of the repeated warnings from Fisheries and Environment Canada as to the lack of data required to monitor and assess the impact of tar sands operations in Northern Alberta.

Based on this report, Greenpeace campaigner Mike Hudema is calling on Environment Minister Peter Kent to put all tar sands operations on hold until proper monitoring can be implemented. "The responsible reaction would be to put a hold on all tar sands projects that were approved without proper environmental assessment," says Hudema.

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INSUFFICIENT INQUIRY "Federal Environment Minister Kent should also offer a full apology to all the communities living in the tar sands region who have been inundated with the toxic impacts of tar sands projects that were approved with 'incomplete, poor or misleading information.'"

Matt Horne, director of the Pembina Institute's climate change program expressed concern over Vaughan's findings that Canada will not be able to make its climate change targets, nor does it even have a method of monitoring policy impacts. "The Commissioner's findings are especially relevant when looking forward to Canada's 2020 commitments," says Horne. "Canada will fail to live up to those commitments unless it addresses the serious gaps in the ambition, implementation and monitoring of its climate change plans."

This is Vaughan's first report as the auditor appointed to the environment. Vaughan is responsible to the Auditor General's office.

Two more groups have pulled out of the BC's Missing Women Commission. The Women's Memorial March Committee and the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre released a statement this week stating that funding was not sufficient to support the women's group's full participation in the process. The inquiry has lost seven participants due to lack of funding, or

concerns over the process of the inquiry. The inquiry is expected to wrap up by December 31 of this year, but with so many groups withdrawing from the process, or unable to participate, many are questioning what the results will bring. BC Premier Christy Clark has made clear she will not be intervening in the commission, nor providing funding for participants.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK "Telling one's recipients to start influencing the decision-makers a certain way looks like a campaign, sounds like a campaign, and stinks like one, too."

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COMMENT >> SAUDI ARABIA

Passengers to the ballot box

Women can vote, but can't drive; what's happening in Saudi Arabia?

It's amazing how much subtext you ceive 10 lashes for the crime of driving can pack into a single word. Consider while female. Boo. And then on Thursthis recent announcement by King Abday the king overturned the court ruldullah of Saudi Arabia: "Women will ing and spared the woman. Hurray. be able to run as candidates in And on and on, in an endless the municipal elections and counterpoint of progressive will EVEN have the right to measures and conservative vote." Well, hurray. crack-downs. m o .c weekly e@vue On the other hand, you So what is actually going gwynn e Gwynn could easily accuse the 87on here? What we are seeDyer ing are a few surface manifesyear-old monarch of dragging his feet on reform, because he waittations of the struggle that is going ed until this year's municipal elections on among the Saudi elite about how to were almost upon the country (they respond to the "Arab spring." The prowere held on Thursday) before andemocracy movements are operating nouncing that women could vote the right along Saudi Arabia's frontiers, in next time, in 2015. Boo. Jordan, in Yemen, and most frightenBut that's not fair to King Abdullah. ingly in Bahrain. Everyone agrees that He's actually moving fast on women's something must be done—but what? rights, because 2015 will be only eight In the case of Bahrain, where a years after Saudi Arabian men were allargely Shia protest movement lowed to vote for the first time, in the threatened to infect Saudi Arabia's 2007 municipal elections. And women own Shias (who live mostly in the will henceforward also be eligible for eastern province, where the oil is), appointment to the Shura Council, the the answer was clear. Bahrain's dem150-member unelected congress that ocratic movement was crushed by the king consults with on matters of force, with much of the force being public concern. Hurray. supplied by Saudi troops that Riyadh Hang on a minute. Two days after lent to Bahrain's ruling family. Indeed, Abdullah made that announcement, a it was probably Saudi pressure that Saudi court sentenced a woman to reswung the balance in Bahrain in fa-

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vour of an armed crackdown.

Elsewhere, what happens beyond the borders is of less importance, for Saudi citizens know that they are vastly richer than Yemenis or even Jordanians. But they are probably not entirely immune to dreams of democracy, so what should be done to strengthen their immune systems?

When King Abdullah returned from three months' medical treatment abroad in February, he announced a vast new package of welfare measures, including education and housing subsidies and 15 percent pay raises for government employees. Total cost: about $36 billion. That's about $1300 for every man, woman and child in the country.

Thus began the latest round in the perpetual tug-of-war between those (including the king) who feel that some economic and political concessions are necessary to head off worse trouble, and others (including much of the royal family and most of the religious establishment) who believe that even one step back from the status quo would put the regime on a slippery slope.

This is an argument that breaks out inside any autocratic regime whenever change threatens, and it's clear which side Abdullah is on, but he has very limited space for manoeuvre.

His first priority is to keep his immediate family—around 22 000, at last count—in the style to which they have become accustomed, and their expectations are very high.

If they collectively decide that his decisions are endangering their privileges, they will remove him. In a system of succession that does not have a strict rule of primogeniture, that is easily done.

Then he must contend with the ulema, the senior religious authorities of the Wahhabi sect of Islam that the Saudi ruling family has been allied to for more than a century. Their support is vital to the regime's legitimacy, and it would certainly weaken if Abdullah carried out reforms that conflicted with their austere and deeply conservative vision of Islam.

If, despite all that, he chooses to make major reforms to the political system, he cannot even be sure that they will stop the slow decline in the ruling family's authority. When 40

percent of those in the 20 – 24 age group have no work, and fully half the country's population is under-19s who will be looking for work in the next two decades, you cannot call the system stable no matter how good the welfare system is.

There is a striking difference in what the pro-democracy movements have led to in the one-party dictatorships of the Arab world and in the traditional monarchies. In the dictatorships, mostly military, the outcome has been revolution and regime change: Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, perhaps soon Syria. In Jordan and Morocco, by contrast, there is a good chance that the outcome will be much democratization backed by a stable constitutional monarchy.

Such an outcome is unlikely in Saudi Arabia, which has a great deal further to travel. On the other hand, there is not much visible demand for full democracy in the kingdom; maybe some cosmetic measures will suffice. King Abdullah is old and ill, and he is hoping that will be enough. V Gwynne Dyer is a London-based journalist. His column appears every week in Vue Weekly.

COMMENT >> WATER

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Alberta cities weigh water markets

The AUMA is taking a sober look at water licenses, resources and the impact on urban areas When over 500 city councillors and mayors got together at their annual convention in Calgary, it was an opportunity to drink some coffee and beer with a number of them and chat about the future of the most important liquid in Alberta: water.

Last week, the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association (AUMA)—the umbrella organization that represents all of Alberta's cities and towns—initiated a vital discussion about the future of water policy in Alberta that should matter to everyone.

The AUMA released "Water Primer and Discussion Paper," which looks at many issues facing access to clean, safe drinking water. The paper explores current and future policies on how we decide which stakeholders have licences to take water from our rivers and how to best preserve this limited resource in the face of growing demands and declining water levels due to climate change. In particular, the paper discusses the pros and cons of the provincial government's plans of establishing a market to allocate water throughout Alberta.

Environment Minister Rob Renner and many other ministers and PC leadership candidates were at the AUMA convention to speak to and answer questions

from the delegates. While it remains to be seen who is going to become the next environment minister, one thing is certain: the PC party is planning to convince Albertans that we need to create a water allocation market. Premier-designate Alison Redford has already been quoted in the media saying she is, "Open to having water markets where necessary" and that she would set up, "An expert panel to present options to Albertans."

Many people are unaware that the

water they are not using to the highest bidder. Needless to say, this puts even more pressure on our rivers and makes sure water will only go to those with the most money.

The AUMA report shows that many cities have been proactive and are investing in infrastructure improvements that better utilize water and cleans the water to be put back into the hydrological cycle.

The problem for many cities is that the

People in Edmonton and across the province may soon be forced into a provincial water market if the corporate lobbyists are successful in convincing the provincial government to go down this road.

province has already established a water market in the South Saskatchewan River Basin. Any municipality, farmer or large business that needs water can no longer get a license from the province. Instead, they must purchase this license from an existing license holder. While the government says that this encourages water conservation, the net effect is to encourage existing licence holders that have been given the right to take water from our rivers for free, to sell off any excess

costs of meeting new water and waste water management regulations are being put on municipalities. Norm Boucher, the mayor of Medicine Hat, estimates that new standards could cost his city as much as $100 million.

Shawn Patience, the mayor of Fort McLeod has very real concerns about the water market. "We are using around 70 percent of our current water license but this will soon be used up as the town will be growing if the new RCMP college

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is ever built. We tried to purchase more water rights but the province told us that we could not until we became more efficient. In the end, the water market is going to pit cities against farmers—there has to be a better way."

While water issues are most contentious in Southern Alberta, people in Edmonton and across the province may soon be forced into a provincial water market if the corporate lobbyists are successful in convincing the provincial government to go down this road.

Linda Sloan, Edmonton city councillor and newly-elected president of the AUMA, says, "I have never understood the logic of turning one of our essential resources into a private commodity.

I believe that cities and towns will want to see a better system that prioritizes the needs of people and the environment, not just for those with the deepest pockets who will end up controlling our water."

I also had a chance to speak with Paul Hinman and Guy Boutilier from the Wildrose Party, who were also hanging around the AUMA convention. Paul Hinman was quoted in the media earlier saying about water markets, "Albertans have spoken out loudly about it. It's divisive

on regions, on industry and on people."

However, when I asked him to clarify what he meant by these earlier quotes, he said he thought that "the current system does not allow the market to function properly so he thinks it would work better if the free market was allowed to work efficiently."

The AUMA is looking for feedback on its water discussion document by the end of the year, so the time is now to inform people and speak out to our city councils about the serious implications of a water market. Similarly, if Alison Redford follows through on her plan to set up an expert panel then we need to get ready to join this conversation.

After all, we should not just let the lobbyists for the global water companies and market fundamentalists be the one's buying the politicians their drinks.

Bill Moore-Kilgannon // pialberta.org

The AUMA Water Primer and Discussion document is available at auma.ca.

Bill Moore-Kilgannon is the Executive Director of Public Interest Alberta and is on the steering committee for the Our Water Is Not For Sale network found at ourwaterisnotforsale.com.

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Issues at the intersection

Edmonton's Anarchist Bookfair wants to draw the connections between political issues Fri, Oct 7 6:30 pm: Jen Rogue—Refusing to Wait: Anarchism and Intersectionality 9:30 pm: Energetic Action, Dutch Hey Wagon, Rhythm of Cruelty, Lost Cat Sat, Oct 8 11 am – 6 pm: Book fair open 9 pm: Dance Dance Post Revolution Dance Party Sun, Oct 9 12 pm – 5 pm: Book fair open All events at The Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre 8426 - 103 St edmontonanarchistbookfair.ca

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ividing the world by topic wasn't working for Jen Rogue. A queeranarchist-communist-feminist, Rogue recognized that the world does not break down into easy categories. "Intersectionality is a wholistic approach," explains Rogue, on the phone from Austin as she prepares to travel to Edmonton to deliver the keynote address at the Anarchist Bookfair this year.

The co-author of the article "Refusing to wait: Anarchism and Intersectionality," Rogue recognized that anarchism could inform feminism, just as feminism could inform anarchism. "I felt

like in anarchist philosophy, and in the work I was doing, it was hard to find anarchist ideas and theories that rang true to me in terms of gender."

While many activists and philosophers will attempt to prioritize struggles, Rogue advocates the idea that there are beneficial outcomes to various philosophies of resistance: "Hierarchy is not a good way to organize a society by gender, and a patriarchal hierarchal society is not compatable with anarchism. Intersectionality is compatible because it argues against hierarchies of any kind."

It's also an approach that reflects the impossibility of disconnecting issues from their real-world intersections. As Rogue explains, the pro-choice movement must address race, class and ability as all of those issues impact a woman's access to abortion and freedom of choice. "You can't seperate it out because gender doesn't work like that in the world," says Rogue. "All these other experiences impact gender and how gender works."

Intersectionality itself has existed in academia since the '70s, but it has rarely been applied to activism and organizing. That's where Rogue's approach differs. With over 10 years working in various political movements

Rogue saw the need for philosophy to apply in life. And in Rogue's experience both the anarchist world and the organizing world have been receptive to her original paper and the discussions that have come out of it. As she and co-author Deric Shannon write, "Anarchism as a political philosophy—and as a movement against all forms of structured domination, coercion and control—seems well-suited for an intersectional practice."

With growing discontent around recessionary trends, Rogue is hopeful the conversation can become about more than economics. "The working class is diverse," she says. "There are so many ways of framing struggle in order to not leave people behind, so as to be a wholistic struggle."

It's part of the reason the collective behind Edmonton's bookfair chose Rogue as a keynote speaker. Bjorge explains that there is a need for the labour movement and economic analysis to adopt more integrated approaches: "There's a gap between transgender and queer rights as workers and transgender and queer issues as a hermetic group in the left."

As her keynote at the Anarchist Bookfair this weekend will be her first time speaking on the subject of intersectionality outside of the States,

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Rogue is looking forward to conversations that may differ from the political environment of the US, and which will assist in the further growth of her definition of intersectionality and its application to political orgnanizing.

"You can't drop the template of how you talk about race in America onto other countries," she says. "What is going on in other countries, how does intersectionality support those struggles and how does it fall short?"

The organizing collective behind the bookfair has always attempted to bring in diverse speakers for the keynote address and, as the bookfair has grown, it's become known as a space for discussion.

Discussion is even more important this year as international governments attempt to deal with the weight of collapsing economies and austerity measures are debated in more jurisdictions and the organizers of the Anarchist Bookfair are hopeful it will lead to an increased climate of debate at this year's bookfair. "The working class institutions that protect their interests are under attack, unions, welfare, women's shelters have been attacked by austerity measures," says Mikhail Bjorge, a member of the Edmonton Anarchist Bookfair collective. "I think more people are being drawn to radical revolutionary politics and to have an analysis of the way the world could work."

The local bookfair grew out of the organizing happening in the anti-globalization movements 10 years ago, but is a pluralist bookfair, not pushing any particular ideology. Instead it's a space for discussion.

"There's the view that the bookfair should be an outreach event," says Bjorge. "To have conversations show-

ing that we're not crazy 19th-century people interested in chaos or blowing things up. What we're interested in is a radical form of economic democracy."

The bookfair itself is structured to encourage that discussion, with workshops held throughout the day, attendees will have the chance to converse with Rogue at her workshop on the Saturday of the fair. A unique opportunity and remnant of the history of anarchist bookfairs, which emphasized the ability to access alternative information unavailable in mainstream, capitalist stores. A bookfair replete with pamphlets and zines may seem odd in a culture that emphasizes blogs and online conversation, but it's rooted in the history of anarchism and its position outside the mainstream.

"Lots of the capitalist bookstores simply wouldn't carry our books," says Bjorge. "Anarchist literature tended to be pamphlets produced by organizations, unions, revolutionary organizations or revolutionary book publishers which the mainstream wouldn't hold or they'd be academic studies of revolutionary unions and they'd be incredibly expensive." And Bjorge makes clear the demand for the information is there with vendors doing pretty well at the bookfair.

Bjorge comments that Edmonton is known as a space for having a strong anarchist movement and a group of people who produce good literature on proletarian life and the potential for revolution. "Having an event like this where we can look at ways to fight back and look at anarchism as an alternative—I think we'll see more people come out." V SAMANTHA POWER // SAMANTHA@VUEWEEKLY.COM

COMMENT >> OILERS

Season's greetings Hockey's back and predictions abound

Summer in Edmonton is waning, if not The Head says: "With the first overall finished for the year. Our winter surpick in the 2012 draft the Edmonton vival plan is kicking in with another Oilers are proud to select ... " KEVIN MARTIN, OWNER OF THE LOBBY season of Edmonton Oilers hockey and DVD SHOP, "DEDFEST" CO-ORGANIZER, DJ another year of In The Box. We'll try our darnedest to chronicle the experiFirst off, Ryan Nugent Hopkins will ence of following a very cherished but henceforth be referred to as "The problematic team. As is tradition, we'll Nuge." Not "RNH," Not "Young drop the ITB puck with some preRyan" or any other ridiculous dictions. We've got our own nickname ... He's The Nuge. predictions and a couple Got it? Good. "guest" predictions from our m ekly.co vuewe OK, so, The Nuge, and upcoming Oiler fan panel. @ x o b inthe oung & Taylor, and the other six Dave Y s Birtle Bryan Ryans on the team will not Historically, most of my premake the playoffs this year. I'm dictions have been utter garsorry, believers, but we're still two bage—a deadly combination of opyears away from a solid squad. Look timism and myopia. So this year, I'm at the arc of the Chicago Blackhawks, lowering expectations. Here's about as Pittsburgh Penguins and the like. Last high as I'll set the bar: I expect to see place for a couple years + great draft the team grow and improve. There are picks = five-year plan for competing exciting young forwards either debutfor the Cup. ing this year or following up on promThis team is going to go through ising starts so this expectation could another season of growing pains and be realized. Here's what I don't like: end up in 12th in the West, if they're the team's defence is shaky at best lucky. And ... I'm very fine with this. and I really don't feel good about Tom As long as the Oilers can steal a win Gilbert being the "top" d-man by proxy from a great team here and there, and (get well soon, Ryan Whitney). beat the Canucks whenever they see Faster predictions: Hemsky traded. them, Brent is happy.

Horcoff shows leadership, plays well BRENT OLIVER, AGENT, PAQUIN ENTERbut is still under appreciated and overTAINMENT WINNIPEG, STILL A MASSIVE paid. RNH impresses. Lander is a find.

OILERS FAN Gilbert disappoints. Taylor Hall avoids the sophomore jinx. No one knows I don't really do realism—I'm a sports what to do with Sam Gagner. The fan. So here goes: "The Nuge" will beat national anthem doesn't really sound out Mark Scheifele for the Calder, Taythe same. Oilers finish 24th overall.

DAVID YOUNG, IN THE BOX CO-AUTHOR lor Hall will not fight, but will get 30 SINCE DAN CLEARY WAS AN OILERS goals and 40 assists, almost doubling ROOKIE his point total from last year, Ryan Smyth will add significantly to the With the Oilers already setting a amount of his blood that is already record pace for injuries and Tambo mixed in with the ice at Rexall. simply not addressing the one issue We may be within a five-year plan to every hockey fan in this city knows compete for the Cup, but I think we is our biggest downfall—yes, demight be entering into year three of fence—this year's theme is simply it. This could be the year where—like to survive. With Sam Gagner out for the Blackhawks in 2008—we barely at least a month to start and Gilmiss the playoffs, coming ninth or bert Brule on waivers this week, it 10th in the West. And what did the appears our starting centres will be Hawks do two years later with their Shawn Horcoff, RNH, Eric Belanger young, hungry, high draft picks? They and Anton Lander. Here's hoping the won the Cup. BRYAN BIRTLES, IN THE BOX CO-AUTHOR two rookies can make a great impresLOOKING TO BEAT THE SOPHOMORE sion and maybe this could be the year SLUMP our beloved team finally wins the one trophy that has eluded us: the Calder.

The Oilers are in an odd spot this High hopes, yes, but more realistic year—they have a ton of top-end dethan making the playoffs. veloping talent, but the weaknesses in There is still time for Tambo to desgoal (specifically Nikolai Khabibulin), a perately grab an unsigned defenceterrible bottom six and a real lack of man off waivers to fill a serious hole true top-four defencemen past Ryan but if nothing changes we'll be in for Whitney (who is, of course, hurt) sugsome painful nights. gests to me that they won't really vie Either way here's the good: the refor a playoff spot this year. Chuck in turn of Ryan Smyth, watching the kids the recent and future injuries and I see grow another year and seeing the guys them with about 35 wins and finishwearing real jerseys again and not the ing 12th in the west. I could be wrong, practice gear from the last two to though. three seasons. And the bad: defence They could finish 15th. Again. and setting a new record for injuries.

JUSTIN AZEVEDO, CALGARY FLAMES FAN The Heart says: finishing someAND BLOGGER (MATCHSTICKSANDGASOwhere between eighth and 12th LINE.COM). THIS IS FOR "BALANCE." V place in the West.

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VUEWEEKLY OCT 6 – OCT 12, 2011

UP FRONT 9

EVENTS WEEKLY

ART THERAPY PRESENTATION • St

Stephen's College, 8810-112 St, U of A • Learn about art therapy as a profession • Oct 6, 2pm • Free; RSVP Lily Chong, lchong@ualberta.ca

AWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP •

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

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

Connecting City-Regions • Robbins

Health Learning Centre, Grant MacEwan University, Rm 9-102, 109 St, 104 Ave • 780.492.9957 • Airports, High Speed Rail, and the City panel with Douglas Baker, Paul Benedetto, and Paul Craik • Oct 12, 7pm • Free

COMEDY Brixx Bar • 10030-102 St • 780.428.1099 •

Troubadour Tuesday's with comedy and music

Ceili's • 10338-109 St • 780.426.5555 • Comedy

Night: every Tue, 9:30pm • No cover

Century Casino • 13103 Fort Rd • 780.481.9857 • Open amateur night every Thu, 7:30pm

Edmonton Bike Art Nights • Bike-

Works, 10047 80 Ave, back alley entrance • Art Nights • Every Wed, 6-9pm

Edmonton Ghost Tours • Meet at

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Chris Warren; Oct 6-8 • Phil Mazo; Oct 13-15

Rescuer Statue, Walterdale Playhouse, 10322-83 Ave • 780.289.2005 • Walking tour through Old Strathcona with theatrical stories of the paranormal, strange spirits and phantoms • Mon-Thu, Oct 10-31, 7pm • $10

Comic Strip • Bourbon St, WEM •

Fair Vote Alberta • Strathcona Library,

780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Ruben Paul; until Oct 9 • Bobby Slayton; Oct 13-16

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

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 •

FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican Church,

Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm

Festival Place • 100 Festival Way,

Sherwood Park • 780.464.2852 • festivalplace. ab.ca • The Lorne Elliott music and comedy show; Oct 16, 7:30pm •$32 (cabaret table)/$30 (cabaret box)/$28 (cabaret theatre) at Festival Place box office, TicketMaster

Jubilee Auditorium • 11455-87 Ave • An Evening with Kathy Griffin • Oct 12, 7:30pm • $49.50/$69.50/$95.50 laugh shop–Sherwood Park • 4

Blackfoot Road, Sherwood Park • 780.417.9777 • laughinthepark.ca • Open Wed-Sat • Simon King; Oct 6-8 • Kerry Unger; Oct 13-15

River Cree–The Venue Enoch,

Whitemud Drive, Winterburn Rd • 780.484.2121 • Don Burnstick • Oct 14, 7pm (door), 8pm (show) • $24.50

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

8424-95 Ave • 780.465.2019/780.634.5526 • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm

The Green Market Place • Expressionz

Café • 9938-70 Ave • 780.437.3667 • Focus on Environmental sustainability featuring workshops, speakers, goods, services; performances each week • Every Sun, noon-5pm

Home–Energizing Spiritual Community for Passionate Living • Garneau/Ashbourne

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

SEESA •9350-82 St • 780.468.1985 • South East

Edmonton Seniors Association Activity Centre's fall rummage, craft and bake sale • Oct 15, 10am-3pm; Oct 16, 11am-3pm

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)

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

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

(main foyer) • edmonton.ca/thewaywegreen • Lunch Hour Speakers Series: Sustainability in the Alberta Classroom: The Power of Having Youth Involved in Real Sustainability Projects with the Jasper Sustainability Club for Youth, Jasper Junior/Senior High School • Oct 11 • Free

QUEER AFFIRM SUNNYBROOK–Red Deer

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

BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725B Jasper Ave •

Doon Community Hall, 9240-93 St • vofa.ca/ category/events • Monthly Potluck: Bring a vegan, dish to serve 8 people, your own plate, cup, cutlery, serving spoon • $3 (member)/$5 (non-member) • Oct 16, 5:30pm

WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old

Strathcona Farmers' Market • Silent vigil the 1st and 3rd Sat, 10-11am, each month, stand in silence for a world without violence

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

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) •

Edmonton Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall • Winspear •

Unitarian Church of Edmonton, 10804-119 St • A group of older gay men who have common interests meet the 2nd Sun, 2:30pm, for a social period, short meeting and guest speaker, discussion panel or potluck supper. Special interest groups meet for other social activities throughout the month. E: edmontonpt@yahoo.ca

Interactive lecture series • Grant

EPLC Fellowship Pagan Study Group • Pride Centre of Edmonton • eplc.

LECTURES/Presentations

MacEwan University CN Conference Theatre, Rm 5-142, 105 St Bldg, 105 St, 105 Ave • E: inquiry@elari.org • Presented by Maien Elar • We Are on the Fulcrum: Laws of Distraction; Deceptive Control of Human Health; Voice Equals Choice • Oct 11, 7:30-10pm (Q&A at 9:30pm)

Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association • Duggan Community Hall,

The Way We Green • City Hall City Room

Vegetarians of Alberta • Bonnie

Lotus Qigong • 780.477.0683 •

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

Ave: Food Matters; Oct 6, 7pm; foodmatters. tv; donations • Woodcroft Library, 13420114 Ave; Forks Over Knives; Oct 13, 7pm; forksoverknives.com; donations

Bisexual Women's Coffee Group

Complimentary pre-concert info sessions in the Studio (Stage Door back of bldg) • Oct 6, 6:307:30pm (before Four Guitars, One Orchestra)

MEDITATION • Strathcona Library, 8331-

VegeFilms • Idylwylde Library, 8310-88

VegeDemo–Athletics • Earth’s General Store, 9605 82 Ave • Info session by vegan athletic enthusiast, Eric Pentland • Oct 11, 7:15pm • Donations

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 Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu

Sydney Poitier Talk • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave • Sydney Poitier • Oct 13, 8pm • Tickets at TicketMaster

Room to Read • Sutton Place Hotel

Ballroom, 10235-101 St • roomtoread.org/ emilyleysedmonton • Talk by Emily Leys • Oct 13, 7:30pm • $10

CA Bridging Your bridge to an accounting career.

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, Femcee DJ Eden Lixx • DJ Suco beats every Sat • E: vip@flashnightclub.com

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: St Vincent School, 10530-138 St; E: bad.min. ton_st.vincent@hotmail.com, T: 780.914.9678; every Wed 6-7:30pm; $7 (drop-in fee) • 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 Bldg, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors that have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4:30pm • Info: T: Jeff Bovee 780.488.3234, E: tuff @shaw.ca Illusions Social Club • The Junction, 10242-106 St • groups.yahoo.com/group/edmonton_illusions • 780.387.3343 • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri every month, 8:30pm

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St Paul's United Church • 11526-76

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

WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • womonspace.ca, womonspace@gmail.com • A Nonprofit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured Woodys Video Bar • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Amateur Strip Contest; prizes with Shawana • Tue: Kitchen 3-11pm • Wed: Karaoke with Tizzy 7pm-1am; Kitchen 3-11pm • Thu: Free pool all night; kitchen 3-11pm • Fri: Mocho Nacho Fri: 3pm (door), kitchen open 3-11pm

SPECIAL EVENTS Autumn in the Woods • Woodvale Community League, Woodvale Golf Coarse • 780.496.2997 • Gala and Silent Auction; John Berry (MC) • Oct 14, 6:30pm (door) • $50 (adv at the Mill Woods Seniors Activity Centre; incl buffet dinner, silent auction, performances) BE A BABY HERO • terracentre.ca • Diaper

drive, collect diapers in a team-to-team face-off in support of teen parents in Edmonton and surrounding communities • Oct 12-29

BLOSSOMS OF LOVE FASHION SHOW

• Ukrainian Youth Unity Centre, 9615-153 Ave • mapleleafap.wordpress.com • Gifts of Hope: Auction, Ukrainian buffet featuring designers, Tressa Heckbert, Natasha Lazarovic, Kelsey MacIntyre, and Designer Coats from Ukraine. Dez Melenka (MC). Fundraiser for Maple Leaf Safe House in Ukraine; aim is to prevent human trafficking • Oct 15, 5pm, 6pm (buffet) • $50 at 780.469.4277

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) Edmonton Timeraiser • TransAlta

Arts Barns • www.timeraiser.ca/edmonton. html • Amy van Keeken’s Rock n Roll Sing-ALong • Oct 15, 7pm (door); volunteer matching at 8pm; art auction at 9pm; live music at 10pm • $20 at timeraiser.ca

Fashion with Compassion • Shaw Conference Centre, Hall D • 780.418.6996 • fashioncompassion.ca • big city, bright lights • Oct 13 • $100 (Luncheon ticket)/$250 (dinner tickets) GOOD WORDS FOR AFRICA • Southminster-Steinhauer United Church, 10740-19 Ave • 780.417.2754/780.434.4173 • Scrabble Benefit: Grandmothers of Alberta For A New Generation–The GANG is holding a fundraiser • Oct 15, 1-4:30pm HBOC Society Conference • Greenwood Inn • Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer: Info on hereditary breast and ovarian cancer featuring speakers Kelly Metcalf, Cynthia Hanford, Dionne Warner, and more • Oct 22, 8-5pm; show your support by wearing jeans • $70 (incl networking breakfast: 7:30-9am, lunch, wine and cheese social: 4-5pm) • Preregister by Oct 14 at HBOC, T: 780.488.4262, E: hbocsociety@telus.net Monster's Ball • The Artery • A Halloween Costume Fashion Show: Burlesque show by members of the Hook 'Em Revue Burlesque; Live Body Painting demonstration by Perry Medinaa at 9pm; From Pinup Sailor to Sweeney Todd; 30+; Halloween Costumes up for auction; 11 local artists with their featured pieces for sale • Entry by donation (nonperishable food or cash) • Oct 8, 9pm • In support of The Edmonton Food Bank, Crystal Kids and Laura's Literacy Campaign. food donations, old toys, books, or board games Night of a Thousand Veils • Chateau Nova Hotel, 159 Airport Rd • 780.461.7061 • sirensthecharity.com • S.I.R.E.N.S. Fundraiser featuring Hadia (belly dancer), with Chef John Barry (MC) • Oct 14, 7pm (dinner) • $75 (incl dinner, entertainment, silent/live auction) Tinets/ info: Maureen at 780.461.7061

LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408-124 St • edm-

Pop Culture Fair • Alberta Aviation Museum, 11410 Kingsway Ave • 780.916.4601 • popculturefair.com • Culture Fair: Featuring Toys, collectables, Music and video games • Oct 16, 10am-4:30pm

MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu

Together: Disability Pride Rally

livingpositive.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

Available exclusively on the University of Lethbridge Calgary and Edmonton campuses: Calgary Suite 1100, Rocky Mountain Plaza 615 Macleod Trail SE 403-571-3360 Calgary.campus@uleth.ca www.uleth.ca/calgary

the junction bar • 10242-106 St • 780.756.5667 • Free pool daily 4-8pm; Taco Tue: 5-9pm; Wing Wed: 5-9pm; Wed karaoke: 9pm12; Thu 2-4-1 burgers: 5-9pm; Fri steak night: 5-9pm; DJs Fri and Sat at 10pm

each month, 7:30-9:30pm; admin@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Counselling: Free, short-term, solution-focused counselling, provided by professionally trained counsellorsevery Wed, 6-9pm; admin@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Youth Movie: Every Thu, 6:30-8:30pm; jess@ pridecentreofedmonton.org

Pride Centre of Edmonton • Mov-

ing • 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 • TTIQ: Education and support group for transgender, transsexual, intersexed and questioning people, their friends, families and allies; 2nd Tue

• Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.454.0701 • Self Advocacy Federation: Celebrating relationships and equality through education, dance, art and storytelling • Oct 7, 12pm • Free

WINTER LIGHT GALA LAUNCH PARTY

• Jubilee Auditorium, Main Lobby & Outside • Gala Launch Party: Become a founding member of the Society, preview festival activities, enjoy a ‘pre-snowfall’ event that anticipates Edmonton’s winter season with light displays, fires, and entertainment; live music by Andrea House and Chris Smith, a new winter poem

by Anna Marie Sewell • Oct 15, 7-10pm • Paywhat-you-can (door); bring a winter clothing donation for Share the Warmth

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REVUE // RESONANT HIGH SCHOOL PORTRAIT

All the young dudes

Terri examines high school alienation without wallowing in it unflatteringly lit and very funny, as well as oddly sweet and lived-in.

Reilly is often cast in the supporting bit as that guy that the central character slowly becomes friends with.

It's because it's hard not to want to become friends with John C Reilly.

Terri is played by Jacob Wysocki, a young actor with obvious talent

becomes clear that Terri, scripted by Patrick Dewitt from a story by Dewitt and Jacobs, is firmly grounded in reality, its depiction of idiotic bullying, misguided cries for help, exploratory sadism, peculiar alliances between unlikely friends, horny fumblings in home economics, and nights spent in the shed getting wasted on stolen whisky and uncle's meds and making

This is a film that's attuned to the pain of alienation without wallowing in despair.

Terri, meet Reilly

Fri, Oct 7 – Wed, Oct 12 Terri Directed by Azazel Jacobs Metro Cinema at the Garneau

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erri's eponymous hero is a rotund teen living in some warm, semi-rural place with only an uncle who tends to wander around in a medicinal fog for a guardian. With his wavy locks and formidable neck, Terri cuts something of a Wildean profile, but whatever air of sophistication such qualities might generate is undercut by his calm refusal to engage in social or academic life.

He wears Crocs and socks and old-

school pajamas everywhere—less out of resignation, he claims, than for sheer comfort. He's exiled from the school gymnasium for declining to participate. He observes other teens going about their activities with the same anthropological distance and wonder he brings to his new habit of murdering mice so as to witness the feeding habits of local birds of prey. He's also regularly late or absent for class, a casual transgression that inadvertently becomes a route out of his troublesome solitude, because cutting class means going to the principal's office, and Terri's principal, Mr Fitzgerald, takes a special interest in Terri.

Fitzgerald is a middle-aged married man, but both his stagey manner of asserting authority and his calculated attempts to "reach out"—by aiding and abetting Terri's class cutting through regular appointments; by offering snacks and high-fives and peppering their consultations with an earnestly intoned "Dude ... "—render him less a teacher or father figure than an overgrown peer or passive-aggressively needy big brother.

Fitzgerald is played by John C Reilly, and if you start watching Terri and find yourself feeling unsure whether or not it's supposed to be a comedy, Reilly doesn't seem to have any such doubts. He's understatedly goofy,

but, equally important in a character study such as this, he simply has a marvelously expressive face and body that, however outsized, conveys inner depths even when doing almost nothing. Walking through the woods in his PJs, Wysocki's Terri could almost be walking through a dream, and there are moments where director Azazel Jacobs' keen eye for low-key, ordinary strangeness pleasingly heightens that feeling. But as it goes along it

awkward attempts at sexual posturing all resonating deeply with my experience of high school at least.

This is a film that's attuned to the pain of alienation without wallowing in despair—yet neither does it offer bullshit uplift. It merely suggests that, if we stay alert, there is almost always some chance for each and every one of us to connect.

Josef Braun // josef@vueweekly.com

REVUE // SUNRISE, SUNSET

Day in, day out

Crowdsourced Life in a Day gets tedious Fri, Oct 7 – Wed, Oct 12 Life in a Day Edited by Kevin Macdonald Metro Cinema at the Garneau

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ife in a Day is what happened when YouTube, LG Electronics and Ridley Scott's people solicited video clips from the world at large— "crowdsourcing," they call it—documenting whatever it was they did on July 24, 2010. The filmmakers received 80 000 submissions, a total of 4000 hours of material from 192 countries.

The resulting 95-minute feature film, edited by Last King of Scotland director Kevin Maconald, is a truly tremendous something, a work of sweeping banality on a global scale.

There's a montage of ordinary people waking up. There's a montage of

ordinary people brushing their teeth.

An adolescent shaves his face for the first time and cuts himself, and yes, it's about as tedious as it sounds. People work, go fishing, make cheese, slaughter a cow, get their hair cut and get married—rather amusingly, an Elvis impersonator gives the bride away to another Elvis impersonator. A guy confesses to his grandma over the phone that he's gay. A woman asks her dog what shirt she should wear. "Isn't he pretty?" a nursing mother asks with regard to her baby boy. Sure, he's, you know, a baby. "Wasn't that fun?" a gentleman in Virginia asks after he's supplied us with a demonstration of his building's perfectly normal elevator. Um, no. It wasn't. It was an elevator. And it was boring.

a woman has a Skype-date with her husband who's soldiering abroad; an Afghan photographer gives us a tour of Kabul that's meant to highlight its positive side. Meanwhile, a father confesses to keeping his mentally handicapped son chained up all day long. At times it's like an ultra-cheapo spin on Koyaanisqatsi with a sense of self-importance and interconnectivity borrowed from Babel. Mostly it's like, well, watching YouTube, except that you don't get to navigate the site and you're stuck watching it for an hour and a half without a pee break and no amount of sombre string-laden scoring can make it any more cinematic. I suppose I could imagine three-minute bits of Life in a Day being played between movies on cable.

Josef Braun

Current events are acknowledged:

// josef@vueweekly.com

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REVUE // US POLITICS

THE IDES OF MARCH Opens Friday Directed by George Clooney

a highly conspicuous, strategically placed scene of intimacy between he and his true-blue wife.

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ased on Beau Willimon's play Farragut North, which was loosely based on the 2004 Democratic primary campaign of Howard Dean, The Ides of March concerns a young press secretary's education in the sort of compromise, corruption and throat-cutting that the weary sages tell us is essential to getting ahead in politics. But Stephen Meyers (Ryan Gosling) has it both ways—he's simultaneously idealistic and shrewd—so when push comes to shove his fangs push their way out of his gums and he proves to be the all-too apt pupil of his immediate superior (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the opposition's poacher (Paul Giamatti), the manipulative journalist

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The politics of sneaky meetups

(Marisa Tomei) he thought was his pal and, of course, the charismatic candidate he works for, Pennsylvania Governor Mike Morris (director

and co-scripter George Clooney), who mostly stays in the film's margins until its final act, until then entering the foreground only for

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Much of the pleasure to be had in The Ides of March emerges from the initial buzz of the promise of victory emanating from Morris' camp, of which Meyers is the behind-thescenes star. A couple of beautifully realized scenes find Meyers flirting with a smart, lovely intern named Molly (Evan Rachel Wood). Clooney has assembled a magnificent cast and, with the help of cinematographer Phedon Papamichael, he crafts some superb flights of ping-pong dialogue in carefully composed close-ups. For much of the first half, there's a slightly expositionheavy quality to the dialogue that feels weirdly stagey yet gradually makes sense as you start to glean

just how much of what we're hearing and seeing is illusory or fundamentally full of shit. And herein lies the film's weakness: it is precisely as cynical as you'd expect a movie about US politics from Clooney and his regular producer/collaborator Grant Heslov to be, while lacking in any specific or especially poignant revelations. Everything is tweaked to play neatly into the narrative schema, including an unexpected death that constitutes the limpest sort of plot twist (the reason it's unexpected is because there's no reason to expect it). Clooney is a fine directorial talent, but the material—occasionally clever but never wise—is finally more shallow than it clearly wants to be. Still, worth checking out if you're curious.

JOSEF BRAUN // JOSEF@VUEWEEKLY.COM

REVUE // BUDDIES VERSUS CANCER

50/50 Now playing Directed by Jonathan Levine

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dam (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is the type of healthy, successful mid-20s professional who seems to have his path in life charted well ahead of himself: jogs regularly, is employed in a job he seems to like or at least care deeply about, and has a girlfriend who seems quickly heading towards "live-in" status. When back pains turn out to be a rare cancer with half-half odds, things get, understandably, somewhat more sombre in his day-to-day. He seems to be squirming his way through, a quintessential nice guy who'd like to just brush this aside and say he'll be fine, except he really can't say.

But what makes 50/50 one of the most touching, effective buddy-gets-

Laughing through the tough times

a-potentially-fatal-illness movies ever made is its sharp injection of humour into a situation that's almost never portrayed with any. It's sincere in how it handles the weight of its sub-

ject matter, certainly, but not in the stuffy sense of a film with its cap in its hands amongst a glib and stuffy air of drama; instead, it finds a wicked sense of humour in back-and-forth banter

which makes it seem like more of a particularly poignant Judd Apatowtype flick than heavy drama.

In particular, through a rotating cast of well-chosen players—Anna Kend-

rick as an inexperienced psychiatrist, an elderly pair of fellow chemo patients with a taste for pot-macaroons, the flimsy artist girlfriend—Seth Rogen seems particularly well deployed here, his usual fratty manchild archetype meshing well with the scenario, as both a guy fumbling to alleviate some of his friend's stresses of being diagnosed while going through his own process of trying to deal.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt's performance is a grounded arc of self-denial, humour and a growing sense of fear.

Jonathan Levine's direction is inviting, too: hand-held close ups give the feeling of intimacy with the characters, their facial ticks and looks, as they try to figure out how, exactly, to keep their chins up in the face of a potentially dire circumstance. Laughter isn't a cure, but 50/50 proves it can certainly be a salve.

Paul Blinov // paul@vueweekly.com

REVUE // ROM COM

WHAT'S YOUR NUMBER?

Shock!

Now playing Directed by Mark Mylod

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redit where credit's due: as paintby-numbers as the plot of What's Your Number? is, within the rom-com genre, it's one of the few in recent years that's done decent work in emphasizing the latter side of that hyphen. It's actually laugh-out-loud funny, intermittently, with a particularly good run coming near the end as every clichéd romance movie moment—running across town in the dress, knocking open the church doors, the big speech—comes to a head.

When it's not putting comedy first, though, the lengthy, dawdling script doesn't fare so well. We follow the pro-

miscuous Ally Darling (Anna Farris), 19 ex-lovers to her name, who gets spooked about a study that says chances at happily settling down drop off greatly after having slept with 20 people. She challenges herself to make the next one The One, then almost immediately sleeps with her ex-boss who is most definitely not him, and decides hunting down her exes to see which one's become husband material is the best course of action.

There's a hunky neighbour helping her track them down, who she tells time and time again she has no interest in sleeping with. Of course she doesn't.

Still, What's Your Number? doesn't even do much with that typical premise, seeming for the most part blindly

unaware that it's as off-the-shelf as the next rom-com genre flick: sure, Farris can hold down a comic lead, but everything around her is handled pretty sloppily by director Mark Mylod, who seems content to let this flick flounder in mediocrity. Framing a joke is as important as the joke itself, and with a few exceptions— the quick flashback to a Criss Angel-type magician ex-boyfriend who pulls a coin from behind her ear, then, during sex, a handful of change from other places too, or an all-too brief Andy Samberg cameo—it languishes, slowly unfurling a plot you can map out from the start, leaving Ferris to try and punch up a wafer-thin script without much help at all.

Paul Blinov // paul@vueweekly.com

VUEWEEKLY OCT 6 – OCT 12, 2011

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IDES OF MARCH (14A coarse language) Daily 1:40, 4:20, 7:40, 10:10

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“PITCH-PERFECT. ONE OF THE BEST OF THE YEAR. I GIVE ‘50/50’ AN ‘A’.” “★★★★ ‘50/50’ IS CONSISTENTLY, UPROARIOUSLY FUNNY. PERFECT ENDINGS RICHARD ROEPER

ARE HARD TO COME BY: ‘50/50’ HAS ONE.”

CHRISTY LEMIRE

“★★★★ ‘50/50’ WINNINGLY DEMONSTRATES THAT

PROFOUND EMOTION AND WIDE-RANGING HUMOR CAN CO-EXIST IN THE SAME MOVIE.” CLAUDIA PUIG

“★★★★ ‘50/50’ DELIVERS 100 PERCENT.” “A LAUGH-OUT-LOUD COMEDY DAN JEWEL

LIFE&STYLE

THAT DEMANDS TO BE SEEN.”

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AND HEARTFELT.

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‘50/50’ IS SOME KIND OF MIRACLE.” PETE R T R AV E R S

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Date of issue only: Thu Oct 6:

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ARTS

PREVUE // HUMAN STEPS

Let's dance

Louise Lecavalier brings A Few Minutes of Lock to town

Louise Lecavalier returns to some old choreography Fri, Oct 7; Sat, Oct 8 (8 pm) Children & A Few Minutes of Lock Created by Louise Lecavalier & Fou Glorieux Timms Centre for the Arts, $20 – $35

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here are few faces in contemporary dance as recognizable as Louise Lecavalier's.

The iconic Canadian performer— with her signature acid-blonde mop and frenetic movement style—was the identifying image of Montréal's La La La Human Steps for nearly two decades, during its seminal period as one of world's most high impact and daring dance companies throughout the '80s and '90s.

Around the same time Lecavalier became known for her work with David Bowie, joining him on his 1990 Sound & Vision tour, followed by collaborations on The Yellow Shark concert with Frank Zappa and Michael Apted's Inspirations.

Now 52, Lecavalier has spent over 10 years away from La La La and the choreography of its choreographic master, Édouard Lock.

Desiring to revisit the work that shaped her career, Lecavalier is taking her own troupe, Fou Glorieux,

on a two-year world tour with a program that presents just 15 minutes of selections from La La La's now-archived repertoire, along with Children, a 50-minute duet created

by Britain's Nigel Charnock.

"At first I was not sure at all that I wanted to put these pieces together," explains Lecavalier, who has not performed

"I think when I quit the company I forgot about everything. When I actually started looking at the videos I would think, 'Wow, that's really dark. Can I do that? Is that still me?' It felt so far away suddenly," she says. "I chose two pieces from Salt because it was a shock for me to see them again. At the time La La La was going more towards ballet and

When I actually started looking at the videos I would think, 'Wow, that's really dark. Can I do that?

Is that still me?' in Edmonton since she last toured here with La La La nearly 15 years ago. "In the end the piece by Nigel was very theatrical, and Edouard's was very pure dance, so I thought the contrast would be good.

In a way they're saying the same things: it's about a woman and a man together.

Children is very simple choreography— not in the sense that it's easy, but simple. ... I like the unpretentiousness of it."

Though the weight of the current program is on Charnock's piece, Lecavalier vividly discusses the process of re-learning Lock's work—all short excerpts of duets, all learned from tapes of her old performances.

pointe shoes, and I was the last contemporary dancer in bare feet. [Lock] made something for me that was kind of a hybrid—a strange connection he didn't explore with anyone else, because after that he went totally ballet."

When she approached Lock with the idea to resurrect some of his duets, he suggested she also include something from 2, one of his personal favourites.

"I thought this would be a tough one.

But 2 came back very fast, this one was in my body. It was further away in time but as soon as I touched it, I remembered. It was nice to do."

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PREVUE // MENTAL HEALTH EXPLORATIONS

MICHEL AND TI-JEAN

FAR FROM CRAZY

// Ian Jackson, EPIC Photography

PREVUE // KEROUAC MEETS QUEBEC

A meeting of minds

Until Sun, Oct 23 (8 pm) Roxy Theatre, $13.50 – $27

I

n a bar down in St Petersburg, Florida, 1969, Jack Kerouac sits alone. It's a month before a lifetime of drinking will finally claim his life, not that he has the faintest inclination; he's drinking, shooting pool and trying, with passing fancy, to write something, when in walks a young long-haired fellow. His name is Michel Tremblay, and he's just published a play called Les Belles-soeurs, which will go on to shape Quebecois drama and, really, the Canadian canon of theatre for generations to come. And he's on a pilgrimage down to St Petersburg to track down Kerouac.

It's a meeting of legendary, literary minds that in reality never actually happened. But the script of Michel and Ti-Jean carefully posits that, had the two ever crossed paths, there

would've been much to discuss.

"It's a classic 'what if?' scenario," says Brian Dooley, his head shaved bare to fit the proper, styled wig of Kerouac.

"What if I put Tremblay and Kerouac in the room together?' and going, 'Hmm, there's some similarities and some parallels in their lives.'"

Dooley's seated for lunch near the Roxy Theatre, on a break from rehearsal. Across from him, the production's Tremblay, Vincent Hoss-Desmarais, nods his agreement.

"My first reaction, was 'oh, OK, Tremblay meeting Kerouac—although it did not happen, it works. It can work," Hoss-Desmarais says. "'Cause you can dramatize the existence, even the fictitious existence of a meeting of two great minds. And as I read the play, I realized that it was very wellconstructed by George Rideout, that it was a very tight play, and the suspense is brought about very gradually."

Tremblay, who still lives in Quebec, gave his approval to the script before its 2010 maiden voyage in Montréal's Centaur Theatre (Playwright Rideout had sought his approval before staging the production). Hoss-Desmaraisis played him then; he's come along for this reprise, to open Theatre Network's 37th season.

Both actors speak to the importance of interpreting their roles, rather than trying to perfectly embody them— Hoss-Desmaraisis notes that when he asked the real Tremblay his thoughts on Kerouac, he noted he'd read On The Road at the time, though wasn't as reverent as this scenario supposes him to be. Not that it detracts from this fictional meeting, however.

"Although the reason for their meeting is fictitious, and the meeting is fictitious," Hoss-Desmaraisis says, "the two characters are constantly brought back to natural and real moments in their lives, which makes it naturalistic."

"I find it fun and intriguing as an exercise from the creator's point of view," Dooley adds. "And to capture that, and reignite that sort of pleasure, that's our biggest challenge, in a way, so you're not there going, 'Hmm, he doesn't look like Jack Kerouac,' That's not the point.

Give over to the construct a little bit."

Paul Blinov // paul@vueweekly.com

Until Sun, Oct 16 (8 pm) Living Room Playhouse, $20

M

ental illness is such a prevalent part of modern society that it boggles the mind that such important subject matter usually gets a broad, surface-level exploration in the culture we take in. Rarely is there so much as a veritable flashlight shone into the subject's yawning depths; instead, it's left to be understood at a distance, and rarely with any sort of closer inspection.

Nicholas Mather and Jenna Greig found themselves caught on the concept, though, while coming up with a second work for their newly-formed Rabid Marmot Productions. Following their debut—a showcase of Jonathan Larson's pre-Rent musical Tick, Tick ... Boom! back in June—now having officially taken up a co-residence with Azimuth Theatre in the Living Room Playhouse and looking for subject matter to conjure up an original work this time, they found themselves returning to mental health as subject matter they both wanted to tackle.

"Between the two of us, mental illness seemed to be a topic that we both felt was important to get people talking about," Mather explains. "In today's society, there's a lot of stigma around the subject; both Jenna, who's artistic directing, and I, we've both been touched by mental illness in some ways. We wanted to shed light on the different perspectives around mental illness; if we can

get people talking about it, and just show different sides of mental illness, and push past the labels that people are given when they're diagnosed."

They put out a call to both emerging and established playwrights for short scripts on the subject; they got back 62 responses, which they eventually whittled down to the eight selections that comprise Far From Crazy, a mix of scenes and monologues that offer a deeper look into the many shades of mental illness. (And give something more tangible to the cause, too: the show's Sunday matinee will donate all its proceeds to the Canadian Mental Health Association).

"Just the range was amazing," Mathers says, of the scripts they received. "We received some submissions where people are like, 'I've never really written a play in my life but I saw your posting and I thought it was so important that it inspired me to write and submit something.' And we've received other submissions where it's established writers going, 'Yeah, I know a few people who are afflicted with mental illness, and this is dedicated to my friend.'

"Some of the plays are very dramatic, and some of the plays have some humour in them, as some people who are afflicted with mental illness try to cope with it by finding humour in the situation. It's a nice mix, I think."

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BOOK ON TAPE

explains Wilkie. "The show is from the perspective of somebody who puts a tape in a tape player, puts on headphones, and is listening to a book on tape being read."

"It's a heavy narrative. And it's done in the vein of a B-novel, like a sci-fi, '70s, early '80s B-novel—it's very heavyhanded, very campy."

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rent Wilkie has been a busy guy this year. He's already written and performed in two full plays—Gargamel opened at the TransAlta Arts Barns back in February, and he did a one-man show, Aachen, at this year's Fringe Festival.

Now, Wilkie has written a third show to top off his year's toils: Book on Tape follows suit with his previous works, as a campy comedy incorporating strong multimedia elements.

"I loved listening to books on tape when I was younger," states Wilkie.

"I've always been a reader, and when I can't read I just like to still be involved in reading.

"I was listening to a biography of Friedrich Nietzsche, and it was being

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read by Charlton Heston," he continues, with a chuckle. "You could hear the spite in his voice, but you could tell he was paid the big bucks to do it. It's a sort of crossover media, that you could hear something in somebody's voice, in the medium of a book on tape."

Both of Wilkie's previous shows were dependent upon pre-recorded sound and video segments to flesh out their scripts, and Book on Tape steps up that multimedia angle even more.

"Basically, the show is a book on tape,"

Wilkie admits that his script is rather convoluted, involving time travel, selfreferential humour and a whole lot of futuristic nerds with "really stupid names" and ornamental lightsabers.

"At first it's like a plate of blended food," Wilkie explains. "And then, slowly, everything comes apart, and you realize, 'Oh, that's broccoli! Oh, that's spinach! Why did he put broccoli ... ,' you know, that sort of thing. So it's all disassembled in the end—but everything does make sense.

MEL PRIESTLEY // MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

VUEWEEKLY OCT 6 – OCT 12, 2011

Northward ho!

Rapid Fire Theatre brings improv to 118 Ave Thu, Oct 6 (7:30 pm); first Thu of each month Theatresports North Avenue Theatre, $10 Thu, Oct 6 (9:30 pm) RFT Sock Hop Avenue Theatre, $10 (18+)

T

he arts community is at the forefront of revitalizing the area around 118 Avenue and 90 Street, with the Avenue Theatre ground zero for the renaissance.

"Avenue Theatre is an awesome space," states Amy Shostak, artistic director of Rapid Fire Theatre. "They're programming a ton of great stuff. It's just a matter of getting the word out, I think. And people are still a bit tentative about coming down there. Even if they live on the north side, like maybe further north, they're still kind of like, '118 Ave? I don't want to go there!'"

Rapid Fire's weekly improv show, Theatresports, just launched its 31st season at its regular location, the Varscona Theatre just off Whyte Avenue. However, this year will also see the formal addition of a north end Theatresports venue at Avenue Theatre.

"Last season we'd been doing a monthly show there, but it was just a casual show, kind of like a jam show," states Shostak. "We really want to commit to

doing a really great show there and get the local audience involved, because we found that we were just bringing people from the south side to our jam show. So we really want to engage the north side community."

Shostak adds that she's excited about the possibilities of the new show's earlier start. "We're hoping we'll be able to bring more of a 'prime time' kind of audience," she says, "People who have jobs!"

To commemorate the new venue, Rapid Fire will be hosting a Sock Hop fundraiser after the inaugural show.

"We have a great friend from Winnipeg named Mama Cutsworth, and she's gonna be playing a bunch of '50s and '60s music," says Shostak. "We also have the Sugar Swing Dance Club, and there's going to be Lindy Hopping and 1950s dancing. People can buy a dance with either a professional dancer or with a Rapid Fire improviser."

Though the north-end show will be starting on a monthly basis, Shostak hopes they will get enough interest to increase to a weekly show.

"It's not Whyte Ave, but it's going to be," states Shostak, "if enough people commit to living over there and taking their work over there."

MEL PRIESTLEY // MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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REVUE // ENDURINGLY RELEVANT

// David Cooper

DEATH OF A SALESMAN

The saddest everyman

Until Sun, Oct 16 (7:30 pm) Directed by Bob Baker Citadel Theatre, $51.45 – $82.95

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ven though the ending of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman hasn't surprised anyone since its 1949 Broadway debut, there are still unexpected glimmers of hope throughout the Citadel Theatre's current production of the

show—which is not only an indicator of the calibre of this production, but also a true testament of the enduring relevancy of the script itself.

Admittedly, Death of a Salesman is a safe choice for kicking off the Citadel's mainstage series. The play was recognized from its inception as a remarkable piece of drama; it has been studied extensively for decades by academics

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If this particular performance feels protracted, it is not the fault of the actors, as each of them provides an astute rendering of their respective characters. Tom Wood does a particularly outstanding job as Willy Loman, deftly shouldering the weight of every scene on his stooped shoulders. Willy's increasingly agitated shifts between present reality and past memory become almost excruciating to watch; bearing witness to Willy's spiral toward his inevitable demise is what makes this play so compelling and, simultaneously, so frustrating.

These shifts are punctuated by changes in staging: wispy tree-like forms are lowered at the sides of the stage to indicate the shift from reality to fantasy, a device that artfully exemplifies the script's references to the elms that once surrounded the Lomans' now tenementencircled house, as well as the forest encroaching on Willy's mind.

Death of a Salesman is firmly set in the 1950s, yet there is a real relevance to the contemporary. The play revolves around the timeless conflict between father and son: one's recognition of fallibility in the other and the resulting crisis of reconciling ideal to actuality. Because of this, the play feels cathartic, especially to those who have dealt first-hand with an aging relative; there is no simple solution to any familial conflict, and any aforementioned glimmers of hope are only our own futile desires.

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Hamlet (Solo) / Fri, Oct 7 (7:30 pm) Hamlet is one of Shakespeare's most complicated, cerebral and celebrated characters, and the play that shares his name is filled with equally tricky moral questionings and supporting characters in their own states of emotional bewilderment. In Hamlet (Solo), Raoul Bhaneja embodies all of that himself, putting on a one-man rendition of the entire script. It's already been a global hit— including its time as an Edmonton Fringe holdover back in 2008—so if you want to see one guy scramble through not just one character's incredible emotional range, but about a dozen, track down a ticket to this one-night reprise. (The Arden Theatre, St Albert, $25)

Irrelevant Show Taping / Fri, Oct 7 (7:30 pm) CBC Radio's Irrelevant Show, featuring a rich spread of Edmonton's comic dynasty, tapes its shows-to-air live, to garner a hearty recording of fresh laughter with the help of audiences like you—well, if you decide to embrace an evening of mirth and show up to Friday night's recording of the freshest batch of radio sketches, that is. (La Cité Francophone, $20 )

Party like It's 1969! / Fri, Oct 7 (9-ish) Michel and Ti-Jean takes a timewarp back to the '60s to imagine a fictional meet up between Québécois playwright Michel Tremblay and legendary beat writer Jack Kerouac. You, too, can pretend to be from the '60s and meet people pretending to be the same after the curtain falls on Friday's performance. The Roxy will change from theatre to a love-in to celebrate the Michel's opening, and the price is included in your admission to the play, or you can fork over a single Wilfrid Laurier to get in afterward. Costumes recommended. (Roxy Theatre, $5)

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6, 7-9pm; $15/$12 (AGA member) • Lectures and Artist Talks: Ledcor Theatre: Michael Fried, poet, art historian, art critic, and literary critic, will speak on photography and its importance in contemporary art; in conjunction with 19th Century French Photographs; Oct 15, 2pm; $15/$10 (AGA member)

Art Gallery Of St Albert (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • ARTificial: Artworks by Paul Bernhardt, Brenda Kim Christiansen, Eveline Kolijn, and Jordan Rule • Until Oct 29 • Artventures: Layering Landscapes: art drop-­in: child 6-­12; Oct 15, 1-4pm

ART SOCIETY OF STRATHCONA COUNTY • A. J. Ottewell Art Centre/Loft Gallery, 590

Brian Webb Dance Company • Timms Centre for the Arts, 87 Ave, 112 St • Louise Lecavalier • Oct 7-8 • $35 (adult)/$20 (student/ senior) at TIX on the Square

Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • 780.922.3179 • Fall Show and Sale • Oct 14-16 • Reception: Fri night; artists in attendance • Society meetings/ demos: 2nd Tue each month, 7pm

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Talents of Ukraine • Jubilee Auditorium,

11455-87 Ave • 120 years of Ukrainians in Canada: Song and Dance Company of Ukraine “Donbas” • Oct 14 • Tickets at TicketMaster

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Arden Theatre • 5 St Anne Street, St Albert • 780.459.1542 • Radical Reels • Oct 16, 7:30pm • Tickets at Arden box office Cinema At the Centre • Library Theatre,

Stanley A. Milner Library basement, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • Centre for Reading and the Arts showcases little-known films every month • Suspiria (US, 1977, STC) • Oct 12, 6:30pm

Home Movie Day • Stanley Milner Library,

Edmonton Room • Co-presented by Edmonton Public Library, the Provincial Archives of Alberta and the University of Alberta • Oct 15; 12 noon-4pm (home movie inspections with archivists); 2-4pm (screening of home movies) • E: amarquis@epl.ca

Movies on the Square • Churchill

Square • Movies on a 3-storey high inflatable screen • Marmaduke; Oct 8, no pre-movie activities; 7pm (film) • Shrek-Forever After; Oct 9, no pre-movie activities, 7pm (film) • Free

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS Agnes Bugera Gallery • 12310 Jasper Ave • 780.482.2854 • Refraction: Abstract paintings, acrylic on canvas by Ernestine Tahedl; until Oct 7 • Encaustic floral paintings on panel by Janice Mason Steeves; Oct 15-28; reception: Oct 15, 2-4pm, artist in attendance

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY •

10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • Making a Spectacle of Myself: Metal works, retrospective of eyewear by Calgary artist Jackie Anderson; until Oct 15 • Victorian Inclinations: Metal works by Calgary artist Jennea Frischke; until Oct 15 • Natural Flow: Contemporary Alberta Glass: until Dec 24

Alberta Society of Artists • Wal-

terdale Playhouse, 10322-83 Ave • 780.426.0072 • Peaks of the Canadian Rockies: Artworks by members of the Alberta Society of Artists in celebration of the society’s 80th anniversary • Runs in conjunction with Walterdale's theatre performance of Reasons to Be Pretty Oct 12-22; Oct 15, 22, 10am-3pm • Reception: Oct 11, 7pm

Art Beat Gallery • 26 St Anne St, St

Albert • 780.459.3679 • Artworks by John H. Burrow • Through Oct • Reception: Oct 6, 6-9pm; meet the new owner

Artery 9535 Jasper Ave • 780.441.6966 • Artworks by Denise Lefebvre • Opening reception with F&M and 100 Mile House, guests • Oct 7, 7pm; $12 (adv)/$15 (door) Art from the Streets–Red Deer •

4935-51 St • Group show • Through Oct • Reception/First Friday: Oct 7, 6-8pm

Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) • 2 Sir

Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • Sculpture Terraces: Works by Peter Hide and Ken Macklin • BMO World of Creativity: Drawn Outside: especially for kids; Until Jan 29, 2012 • 19th Century French Photographs: until Jan 29 • Prairie Life: Settlement and the Last Best West, 1930-1955: until Jan 29 • A Passion for Nature: Landscape Painting from 19th Century France: Oct 15-Feb 20 • State of Nature: Oct 15-Feb 20 • RBC Painting Competition: Manning Hall: until Oct 10; free • RBC New Works Gallery: Arlene Wasylynchuk: Saltus Illuminati: Oct 15-Jan 15 • UP NORTH: Artworks by four contemporary artists from three circumpolar countries: Jacob Dahl Jürgensen, Simon Dybbroe Møller (Denmark), Ragnar Kjartansson (Iceland), and Kevin Schmidt (Canada); until Jan 8 • Studio Y Youth Drop-in: Landed: Watercolour Resist Painting: Oct 6, 3:30-5:30pm; $10 • Adult Drop-in: Tone: Drawing with Light; Oct

ArtWalk–St Albert • Perron District, downBibliothèque Saint-Jean • Campus

Saint-Jean, 8406, rue Marie-Anne Gaboury, 91 St • 780.465.8775 • Project Kenya 2011: Photos, artifacts and info about Project Kenya and partner, Me to We • Until Oct 23

Café Pichilingue–Red Deer • 4928-50 St, Red Deer • 403.346.0812 • Artworks by Russell Smethurst • Through Oct • Reception/First Friday: Oct 7, 6-8pm CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 •

Imagine: Artworks by Lucie Tettamente, Curtis Johnson, Ute Rieder, and Françoise Fiset; until Oct 11 • Painting from Within: Artworks by Annette Ayre, Louise Piquette, Normand Fontaine, and Crystal Riedeger and Louise Halvorsen; Oct 14

Centre Gallery • Allen Gray Continu-

ing Care Centre, 5005-28 Ave • Oil paintings

by Rune Anderson and Watercolours by Lois Anderson • Until Oct 31

Common Sense Gallery • 10546-115

St • 780.482.2685 • 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

Enterprise Square • 10230 Jasper Ave,

U of A • ECAS, The Edmonton Contemporary Artists' Society's Nineteenth Annual Exhibition: featuring painting, sculpture and photography by member artists; open daily, until Oct 16, 11am-5pm • Glimpses: Paintings by Elaine Andersen, Bette Lisitza, Wanda Resek, Lorraine Schuld, Pearl Westfall, Victoria Wirth; until Oct 19; reception: Oct 6, 6:30-9pm

FAB Gallery • Department of Art and

Harris-Warke Gallery–Red Deer •

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Deer • 403.340.4869 • All the Art We Do: Group show • Through Oct • Reception: Oct 7, 5-7pm

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Hub on Ross–Red Deer • 4936 Ross St, Red Jeff Allen Art Gallery • Strathcona Se-

niors Centre, 10831 University Ave • 780.433.5807 • Seasons: Paintings by Charles Beck • Until Oct 27

Jurassic Forest/Learning Centre • 15 mins N of Edmonton off Hwy 28A,

Township Rd 564 • Education-rich entertainment facility for all ages

Kiwanis Gallery–Red Deer • Red Deer Library • Out of the Hole: Artworks

by Robin Byrnes • Through Oct • Special Presentation/First Friday: Featuring Red Deer author, Judith Moody; Oct 7, 6:30-8:30pm

Latitude 53 • 10248-106 St • 780.423.5353 • FOMD Laboratory: Embodied Projections: Residency and show with Canadian performance artists Margaret Dragu and Freya Björg Olafson; Oct 7-29 • DRAWn Together: Collection of sketchbooks; curated

by Mary Ann Dobson • ProjEx Room: The Open Crowd: Artworks by Andrea Williamson; until Oct 29

Loft Gallery • A. J. Ottewell Art Centre, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • 780.922.6324 • HANG ALL THAT ART: Annual Fall Exhibition, Show and Sale: Silent auctions • Oct 14, 1-9pm; Oct 15, 10-5pm; Oct 16, 11-4pm

McMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital,

8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • Shifting Patterns: Artworks by Alex Janvier, George Littlechild, Bert Crowfoot, Paul Smith, Dawn Marie Marchand, Dianne Meilli, Heather Shillinglaw, curated by Aaron Paquette • Oct 8-Dec 4 • Opening celebration: Oct 13, 3-7pm; opening remarks by Elder Tony Alexis; drumming/round dance by Thundering Spirit

Michif Cultural and Métis Resource Institute • 9 Mission Ave,

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

Mildwood Gallery • 426, 6655-178 St • 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 • 541151 St, Stony Plain • 780.963.9935 • Paintings by Loraine Ure • Until Oct 26

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

Design, U of A, Rm 3-98 Fine Arts Bldg • 780.492.2081 • Cindy Couldwell: MDes Visual Communication Design/Jenna Hill: MDes Industrial Design • Until Oct 29 • FAB, 2-20: Visual Politics and the Gym: The Adventures of Feminist Figure Girl, lecture by Lianne McTavish; Oct 6, 5:15pm

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

780.488.2952 • natural habitat: Artworks by Jeff Sylvester • Through Oct

Peter Robertson Gallery • 12304

Front Gallery • 12312 Jasper Ave •

Gallery at Milner • Stanley A. Milner

Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • Out There: Group exhibit by Kim Lew, Camille Louis, and Andrea Soler; until Oct 31 • Reception: Oct 15, 2-4pm • Origami Festival display in the cubes near the AV Room; until Oct 31

Gallery IS–Red Deer • 5123 48 St, Alexander

Way, Red Deer • 403.341.4641 • His Hands ... my hand: Pastel paintings by David Coates • Until Oct 29 • Reception: First Friday: Oct 7, 6-9pm

Gallerie Pava • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • Xoxo From Paris: Artworks by Elaine Berglund • Until Oct 19

Gallery Walk–124th Street Area •

Agnes Bugera Gallery, Bearclaw Gallery, Peter Robertson Gallery, Scott Gallery, Snap, and Daffodil Gallery • 780.488.4892 • gallery-walk.com • Fall Gallery Walk • Oct 15, 10am-pm; Oct 16, 12-4pm

Haggerty Centre–Stollery Gallery •

Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, 9225-118 Ave • 780.474.7611 • Carving Ground: Artworks by Cheryl Anhel and Lisa Rezansoff • Until Oct 14

Harcourt House • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.426.4180 • Main Space: Fire Successional: Installation by Tiki Mulvihill • Front Room Gallery: Narrative paintings by Kevin Friedrich • Both shows until Oct 7 • Main Space: PileDriver: Series of paintings by David Janzen; Oct 13-Nov 12; reception: Oct 13, 7-10pm • Front Room: Personal Matter: A study of portraiture through the various inanimate possessions by Stacey Cann; Oct 13-Nov 12; reception: Oct 13, 7-10pm, Artist talks: Stacey Cann at 6:15pm; David Janzen at 7:15pm

artworks based on memories of his military mission in Afghanistan • Oct 6-Nov 5 • Reception: Oct 13, 7-9:30pm

Sunworks Home and Garden Store, Ross St, Red Deer • 403.346.8937 • Homesickness Harmony and the Poetics of Hope: Installation by Red Deer artist, Robin Lambert • Until Oct 21 • Reception: Oct 7, 6-8pm; part of Red Deer’s First Fridays

Naess Gallery • Paint Spot, 10032-81

Ave • 780.432.0240 • Pastel paintings by David Shkolny • Through Oct Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • tf: 1.877.826.3375 • Temporary City: Paintings by Gordon Harper; until Oct 11 • Abstract paintings by Phil Darrah; Oct 15-Nov 1; reception: Oct 15, 2-4pm, artist in attendance

Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery

• 4525-47A Ave • Farming Out Our Future: Changes that have had an impact on rural life in Alberta, 1950 to present; until Nov 13 • From Our Collection: Objects and artifacts from Central Alberta’s history; through Oct • James Bower and the United Farmers of Alberta: through Oct • Reception/First Friday: Oct 7

Royal Alberta Museum • 12845-102

Ave • 780.453.9100 • Composed Exposures: Photographs by museum staff members; until Nov 25 • Wild Alberta Gallery: Wild by Nature: Every Sat/Sun, 11am and 2pm

SNAP Gallery • 10123-121 St •

780.423.1492 • Gallery: Artworks by Sonia Higuera; until Oct 8 • Artworks by Alexandra Haeseker; Oct 13-Nov 26; reception: Oct 13 • Unveiling of the 2012 SNAP Calendar, hand printed on SNAP’s letterpress; Oct 15-16

SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • Senior’s Show and Competition; until Oct 22 • Reception: Oct 8, 1-4pm

TELUS World of Science • 11211-142 St • Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition: human stories told through artifacts recovered from the wreck site of the Titanic and extensive room re-creations • Opening: Oct 8 VAAA Gallery • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St •

780.421.1731 • Galleries A and B: Al Henderson's

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• 4924-50 St, Red Deer • 403.340.8288 • Pressed: Artworks by Carol Nault • Through Oct • Reception/First Friday: Oct 7, 6-9pm • 780.421.1731 • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave • Light Horse Tales of an Afghan War: Artworks by Al Henderson; reception: Oct 6

West End Gallery • 12308 Jasper Ave • 780.488.4892 • Spectaculaire: Artworks by JeanGabriel Lambert; until Oct 6 • Artworks by Joanne Gautheir; Oct 15-27

LITERARY ARTERY • 9535 Jasper Ave • 780.441.6966 • On lit a l'artere with Barobliq Featuring: Francois Pare, Pierrette Requier, Josee Thibeault. LitFest celebrates nonfiction in both official languages; Oct 13, 6:30pm; $20 (adv)

Blue Chair Café • 9624-76 Ave • 780.469.8755 • Story Slam: 2nd Wed each month Edmonton Anarchist Bookfair •

Cosmopolitan Music Society, 8426 Gateway Blv • Access radical books, independent documentaries, and participate in workshops • Oct 7-10 • Refusing to Wait: Anarchism and Intersectionality: Talk by Jen Rogue, Oct 7, 6:30-8pm; vendors 6:30-10pm; vendors/workshops: Oct 9, 11-6pm; Oct 10, 12-5pm

From Books to Film series • Stanley

A. Milner Library, Main Fl, Audio Visual Rm • 780.944.5383 • Screenings of films adapted from books, presented by the Centre for Reading and the Arts • The Shining (1980, 14A); Oct 7, 2pm • The Haunting (1963, PG); Oct 14, 2pm

Grant MacEwan University • City Centre Campus, Rm 5-205 • Making Writing your Business with Marty Chan (EPL's Writer-in-Residence) • Oct 15, 2-4pm • Free; pre-register: mail@writersguild.ab.ca

Greenwoods Books • 7925-104 St •

780.439.2005 • Wayne Johnston and Anita Rau Badami • Oct 11, 7pm

Happy Harbor Comics Vol 1 • 12226

Jasper Ave • 780.452.8211 • The 24 Hour Comic Challenge: local creators produce a 24 page comic on the spot in 24 hours; in support of Literacy Alberta • Oct 8-9

LitFest: The Edmonton Nonfiction Festival • Venues throughout downtown

Edmonton • 780.498.2500 • litfestalberta.org • What's The Big Idea?–Alberta Book Fair • Oct 12-23 • Tickets/passes at TIX on the Square

Leva Cappucino Bar • 11053-86 Ave • The Olive Poetry Reading Series • Oct 11, 7pm, open mic to follow

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

Spruce Grove Library • 35-5th Ave • 780.962.4423 • A Taste of Scots: LitFest event with readings and stories from Ken McGooga's new book, How the Scots Invented Canada • Oct 15, 2-4pm • Free Sutton Place Hotel • Ballroom, 10235-

101 St • Room to Read initiative, talk by Emily Leys • Oct 13, 7:30pm • $10

T.A.L.E.S. MONTHLY STORYTELLING CIRCLE • Venue T.B.A. • 780.932.4409 • Tell

stories or come to listen • 2nd Wed of the month; until Jun 2012, 7-9pm • Free event

T.A.L.E.S. STORY CAFÉ SERIES • Rosie’s Bar, 10475-80 Ave • 780.932.4409 • 1st Thu each month, open mic opportunity • Until Jun, 2012 • $6 (min) Upper Crust Café • 10909-86 Ave •

780.422.8174 • The Poets’ Haven Weekly Reading Series: Stroll of Poets Society every Mon, 7pm

Whitemud Crossing Library • 145 Whitmud Crossing Shopping Centre, 4211-106 St • The Novelist's Road Map with Marty Chan (EPL writer in residence) • Oct 6, 7pm 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 (sign-up), 8pm (readings)

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BOOK ON TAPE (The Play) • TransAlta Arts Barns, PCL Studio Theatre, 10330-84 Ave • 780.409.1910 • By Trent Wilkie; stars Joleen Ballendine and Trent Wilkie • Oct 6-9, Oct 12-15, 8pm • $10 (PG +14) at Fringe Theatre box office

Chimprov • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • First three Sat every month, 11pm, until Jul 2012 • $10/$5 (high school student)/$8 (RFT member at the door only) CLASSY DAMES • C'est Sera, 8239-104 St •

780.471.1586 • Northern Light Theatre's fundraiser; an exclusive evening filled with fashion and fun • Oct 12, 5:30-9pm • $40; adv tickets T: 780.471.1586

The Curse of Pigeon Lake • New Capitol Theatre, Fort Edmonton Park • 780.442.5311 • By Nick Green, music by Joel Crichton. A haunted and hilarious musical by playwright Nick Green. Four friends sit around the camp fire, spinning scary stories hoping to out-spook each other • Oct 15-16, 21-23 Death of a Salesman • Citadel Shoc-

tor Theatre, 9828-101 A Ave • 780.428.2117 • Mainstage Series: By Arthur Miller, directed by Bob Baker, starring Tom Wood, Brenda Bazinet, John Ullyatt. The story of Willy Loman’s pursuit of the American Dream – the everyman struggling to keep his family, hopes, and dreams alive • Until Oct 16

DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • 780.433.3399 • The live improvised soap opera • Every Mon until May, 2012, 7:30pm (subject to change) • Tickets available at the box office

Far From Crazy • Living Room Playhouse/

Azimuth Theatre, 11315-106 Ave • Presented by Rabid Marmot Productions • Eight playwrights, eight new works; a collection of short plays aiming to shed light on mental illness • Until Oct 16; talk-back session: Oct 9 (matinee) net profits of the matinee performance go to the Canadian Mental Health Association • $20 (door, TIX on the Square_

FOUR LADS WHO SHOOK THE WORLD: THE BEATLES STORY PART 1 • Mayfield

Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • The story of the Beatles early beginnings in 1957 thru to their last performance in America in 1966 • Until Nov 6

Hamlet (Solo) • Arden Theatre, St Albert

• Experience a new kind of Shakespeare with Raoul Bhaneja; directed by Robert Ross Parker • Oct 7, 7:3pm • $25 at Arden Theatre Box Office, TicketMaster

The Hoof and Mouth Advantage •

Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • 780.433.3399, 1 • Co-written by Jocelyn Ahlf and Stewart Lemoine. Stars Cathy Derkach and Andrew MacDonald-Smith as a scheming pair of disenfranchised entertainers on the loose in the remote Southern Alberta settlement of New Kansas • Oct 6-22, Tue-Sat: 7:30pm, Sat: 2pm • Wed-Sat evenings: $27 (adult)/$22 (student/senior); Oct 7, 7:30pm: Two-For-On; Sat afternoons: $15; Tues evenings: Pay-What-You-Can; tickets available at TIX on the Square

Jake’s Gift • Horizon Stage, 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce Grove • 780.962.8995 • Oct 12, 7:30pm • $25 (adult)/$20 (student/senior)/$5 (eyeGo)

The Last Concert–Buddy Holly and Friends • Jubilations Dinner Theatre,

2690, 8882-170 St, Phase II WEM Upper Level • 780.484.2424 • 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 • Until Oct 23

Michel and Ti-Jean • Theatre Network–

Live at the Roxy, 10708-124 St • 780.453.2440 • Theatre Network • By George Rideout; directed

by Bradley Moss; stars Brian Dooley and Vincent Hoss-Desmarais • Until Oct 23 • $13.50-$27

Party Like It's 1969! • Roxy Theatre, 10708-124 St • Theatre Network's psychedelic "Autumn" of Love After Party • Oct 14, 10:30pm, immediately following Fri's show of Michel & Ti-Jean • Incl in the cost of show/$5 (party only); costumes appreciated

Penny Plain • Citadel Maclab Theatre, 9828-101 A Ave • 780.428.2117 • Rice Alternative Series: Created and performed by Ronnie Burkett, commissioned by the Citadel Theatre, cocommissioned by the National Arts Centre World Premiere. Penny Plain is blind, but hears plenty about the state of mankind. When her companion dog Geoffrey leaves to live as a man, Penny sits waiting for the world to end • Until Oct 9

reasons to be pretty • Walterdale Playhouse, 10322-83 Ave • 780.439.2845 • By Neil LaBute, directed by Sarah Van Tassel • Oct 12-22 • $12-$16 at TIX on the Square [sic] • Catalyst Theatre, 8529-103 St • By

Canadian playwright Melissa James Gibson.

Three neighbors come together to discuss, flirt, argue, share their dreams, and plan their futures while pushing the limits of their friendship to the max • Until Sep 30, Tue-Sat 8pm; Sat-Sun 2pm • $20 (student/senior)/$22 (adult) at door, TIX on the Square

TheatreSports • Varscona Theatre,

10329-83 Ave • Improv runs every Fri, until Jul 2012, 11pm (subject to occasional change) • $10/$8 (member)

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ith money tight thanks to the ongoing recession, and with sustainability becoming a lifestyle instead of simply a buzz word, the time is ripe for a consignment clothing store like Red Pony to open its doors on Whyte Avenue. A unique and independent boutique in an everincreasing sea of chain stores in the city's retail heart, Red Pony caters to clothing aficionados in search of a bold and distinct style.

Owner Rod West—who also owns the nearby Acoustic Music Shop— sees what Red Pony does as helping to combat the wastefulness endemic in North America.

"I was reading a stat not too long ago that North Americans throw out two billion pounds of clothing a year—that's substantial and most of it goes into the landfill," he says.

"There's certainly an abundance of clothing out there that people want to resell and I kind of like the business model because we're, I wouldn't say anti-consumer, but we're not part of the problem, we're part of the solution by offering preworn clothing."

As a consignment store, Red Pony offers a place for people with clothing they've tired of, grown out of or simply no longer want, to give it new life instead of simply throwing it out. But the store isn't simply a dumping ground for old things.

"We're very selective with what we take," explains West. "It has to be recent styles from within the last two years, it has to be in season and, since

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we're on Whyte Avenue, we're going for a funky element, people who have an individual style. People who want to be funky, want to be different, want to stand out a little bit."

In the future, West is hopeful that Red Pony can grow to be not only a consignment boutique but a place that local designers can show and sell their latest work. That sort of

community building is important to West, a veteran in Whyte Ave's ultra-competitive retail environment.

"In any business—especially if you're an independent business in Edmonton on Whyte Avenue—you have to band together," he says. "Our mandate is to support local when we can and when it makes sense to for sure."

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ias must be minimized when dining out. Ideally, one would approach an eatery with an "eternal sunshine of the spotless mind" outlook and delve in to the menu and subsequent victuals without expectations. Bistro La Persaud, tucked away at the bottom of a hill in La

Cité Francophone, opened in early 2011 to great fanfare. I endeavoured to push other reviews out of my mind, such that my evening would authentically represent the La Persaud experience.

Dinner commences with two Gallic standards: moules à la provençal ($16) and steak tartare ($15). The mussels bask in their open shells, swimming in a saffron-hued broth of butter, serrano and parsley. It's

well worth the effort to extricate these supple and savoury bivalves from their calciferous shells. The sweet, finely minced steak tartare sports a tiny, speckled quail's egg; the rich yolk binds the meat, allowing one to scoop it up on crisp, house-made chips.

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meat (much of which is from local producers) and vegetarian dishes.

Salmon with quinoa risotto ($24) presents a thick slice of fork-tender fish atop a hillock of toothsome and creamy quinoa. A pat of citrus butter slowly melts, thereby anointing the salmon with sunny, subtle acidity. A small puddle of butternut squash puree stands out both in whisper-smooth texture and vivid blonde hue.

Quinoa and English pea risotto ($20) is a riot of engaging textures that progress from smooth to crunchy to mealy. A small handful of fragrant porcini mushrooms and wafer-thin shavings of parmigianoreggiano luxuriate in their buttery surroundings. It is an enviable creation that presents the proper spectrum of textures, colours and flavours.

Oxtail tortellini ($19), however, veers from La Persaud's well-crafted path. The tortellini, while attractively presented in green pea puree and crowned with a tuft of micro greens, are overly salty and a bit too chewy. The deep and rich flavour of oxtail should be distinct but instead is difficult to discern.

Redemption returns with a cheese platter ($14). One may select three cheeses from a small roster that includes both European and Québécois fromage, and we partake in Ubriaco al Prosecco, Valdeon, and Chèvre Noir. Ubriaco is aged in prosecco grape skins and is characterized by sweet and understated vibrancy. Valdeon is a bleu that

blends cow and goat milk but, regrettably, tastes primarily of ash and salt. Chèvre Noir features a muted bite, an orange-blush body, and a thin, black rind.

Lemon tart ($10), the final chapter, is a burst of lively citrus topped with a dollop of crème fraiche and a delicate tuille. The surrounding pastry is properly flaky without being fragile—tasty on its own and yet not overshadowing its lemon curd cargo. I wish there was just a bit more crème fraiche, for its voluptuous verve effortlessly complements each morsel of citrus. Bistro La Persaud continues—deservedly so—to ride a wave of popularity in both print and digital media. Approaching La Persaud's menu with an impartial mind and palate is immensely rewarding, for it becomes a voyage of discovery and, like all uncharted territory, the tour itself is inimitable.

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WINE

Giving thanks

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Wine is an integral part of any Thanksgiving feast

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So, let's focus on some broad guidelines. If Thanksgiving dinner is an all-day affair in your home, focus on wines with lower alcohol content. White wines and sparkling wines generally have a lower alcohol content, and double as great aperitifs. For a great palate-cleansing sipper that will stimulate everyone's appetite, try a Sauvignon Blanc that will be dry, light-bodied, and full of mouthwatering, acidic zip. Sparkling wines are

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also a terrific way to kick off a dinner party. Traditionally dry and bubbly, these wines are not only fun to drink but also a complement to pre-meal appetizers and conversation.

As we turn our attention to the meal itself, let's look at what we're trying to achieve with our wines: they can either complement the meal or help balance the variety of taste sensations, from the

herbal and savoury turkey and stuffing to the buttery richness of gravies, potatoes and roasted vegetables, to the crisp sweetness of cranberry sauces and pumpkin pie.

A good complement to Thanksgiving dinner is a heavier, oaked Chardonnay with buttery, toasted notes. At the other end of the spectrum, white wines like Grüner Veltliners and Rieslings are classic pairings that will cut through the oils in turkey and gravy with their acidity while providing a spicy flare. Rieslings are particularly handy because they come in a variety of styles from dry to off-dry to sweet, depending on your (or your guests') tastes.

As for red pairings, again think about what you're trying to achieve. Unlike steak or roasts, turkey is complemented by lighter reds like Pinot Noir and Beaujolais, which won't overwhelm your appetite like Cabernet Sauvignon or an Australian Shiraz. If you're craving Shiraz's spiciness to accompany your meal, try a French Rhone blend (which typically features Shiraz or Syrah).

Another excellent choice of reds is Spain's Tempranillo grape, also labelled Rioja or Crianza. These medium-bodied, fruit-forward wines carry an earthy, herbal character that carries Thanksgiving's taste spectrum without overtaking it in any one area.

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PREVUE // RELATIONSHIP SONGS

Soft underbelly of song

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Montréal's Snailhouse encases slow-crawling fiction

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ike Feuerstack's wary of generalities. The Montréal-based artist peppers conversation with cautious qualifiers ("tends to" being a favourite) and sharply distinguishes the private from the universal.

He seems hyper-aware of exception, plurality, the hermetic nature of the self and the effort it takes to muster connection.

This scrupulousness is present in his songwriting, in the precision and concerns of his lyrics and the elegant structures and textures in his unhurried, soul-inflected beauty rock. Sentimental Gentleman, Feuerstack's sixth Snailhouse outing, is elaborate but without ostentation, and, as his moniker suggests, a world in miniature, intimately drawn, worried-over, crafted in heedful, earthy strokes.

"Snailhouse tends to be, at its conception, an inner, introspective thing that turns outwards later on," Feuerstack says. "Something inside that ends up on the outside. I think of

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songs as collages taken from many incidents in life, put into stories.

One piece may be about a romantic relationship, another may be about a coworker, and then I roll all these different things together. They tend to come from an autobiographical self but are turned into fiction."

He elaborates, "I think of an album as a book of short stories, with individual songs having roles and form-

Feuerstack may worry that his creative breadth and labour could be overlooked if his work was to be perceived as simply a regurgitation of his being. Yet Snailhouse songs are so emotionally faithful to reality, with nuances in relationships of all kinds discerned with such acuity and sensitivity, that, with the addition of craft and the synthesis of a range of musical influences, they're

I think of an album as a book of short stories, with individual songs having roles and forming relationships with each other. ing relationships with each other. As in books of short stories, the order of placement to one another gives it meaning."

Feuerstack's analogy is thorough and sincere. "People seem to think songwriters are more direct, somehow, that we're less diverse or spectral in our literary voice then any other literary voice. People tend to interpret it as conversational, in a way." He tidies up the distinction: "I think I often use a narrative voice speaking to people in general, on an intimate topic."

a persuasive likeness of intimacy.

And that odd likeness of intimacy, the one between creator and receiver, is fascinatingly potent. Fiction elevates fragments of existence— our profusion of roles, shuffling perspectives, nattering thoughts, collections of references—beyond pastiche, locating the self in the maelstrom. Fiction closes the gap between us walking islands of selfness, even if only for three minutes in a song.

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TODAY I CAUGHT THE PLAGUE AT HOME Thrice, The Alchemy Index Vol IV: Earth Something about the shuffling feet, clicking guitar case locks and rootsy acoustic instruments on this EP is quite soothing; helps to ground me in reality for the day.

Circa Survive, Blue Sky Noise When at home I spend my days doing graphic design work, and so I like to listen to albums that give creative energy and I feel that, for me, this is one of the best.

Tue, Oct 11 (8 pm) Wunderbar With a name long enough to give editors conniptions, Ottawa's Today I Caught the Plague has been bandying its freewheeling brand of hardcore across Canada since 2007. Just before touching down in Edmonton, singer Dave Journeaux took the time to soundtrack his life both at home and on the road.

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City and Colour, Little Hell This album, as well as Bring Me Your Love took over my life for small periods of time, and they still find their way into regular rotation. Not sure exactly why I enjoy City and Colour so much while travelling the long roads, but it just seems to fit.

Sights & Sounds, Monolith This album just pumps me up—great pre-show energy.

Radiohead, In Rainbows After a long night of screeching guitars, pounding drums and screaming vocalists, Radiohead's In Rainbows is just what the doctor ordered.

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BRIAN MCLEOD Sat, Oct 8 (7 pm) Giovanni School of Music Recital Hall (10528 Mayfield Road) $15 – $25

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hough Brian McLeod's grounded himself locally—playing Edmonton Folk Fest, or gigging around town with our city's U-22 young artists collective—a bulk of his aboutto-be-released debut, Door of My Heart, started to take shape while he was overseas, teaching yoga in New Zealand.

"I did a lot of writing while I was there, but my life was more about yoga," the 23-year-old recalls. "But I played every day, and I lived in such a quiet environment that it was so good for writing."

McLeod notes that music has been a part of his life as far back as memory allows him to recall; his father was a casual musician with a few CDs to his name, so a music-friendly household guided his formative years. McLeod started playing guitar when he was 12, though it wasn't until he came back from New Zealand and met Rhea March, executive director of U-22, then musician Dale Ladouceur, that recording an album started to seem a tangible goal.

Heart—an inventive, guitar-driven album that easily shifts its weight from soaring blue-eyed soul to more grounded singer-songwriter works—collects the songs McLeod's written over the past few years. "So High," a tower of tumbling guitar plucks written when he was 16, stretches back the farthest.

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I did a lot of writing while I was there, but my life was more about yoga.

releases as being a little more focused, written within a tighter timeframe, the 13 tracks assembled here do all share some thematic similarities McLeod sees in the hindsight of bringing them together.

"I guess they're all love songs," he notes of what unifies the album.

"These ones in particular are more about my love relationship with life, but not about a particular person. I think it's very universal in that respect, like, it's universal questions and answers that everybody has inside their hearts. So I'm just opening it up, and putting it on display."

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Dan Mangan Oh Fortune (Arts & Crafts)  Dan Mangan's always been an unusually sharp example of the singersongwriter: packing clever hooks with world-wizened lyrics that seem awash in personal details while still being capable of delivering on some universal insight. I suppose that's really the name of the game, but Mangan's always been a little better, his songwriting a bit tighter and more confident, with more going on under the surface than. Oh Fortune, his third full-length, only further chisels that reputation into marble.

Even the quieter numbers on Oh Fortune are rarely simple. "If I Am Dead"

places acoustic strumming front and centre, but adds in a slow, shuffling drum, high whistling, solitary brass and, eventually, a swell of shreddedguitar white noise that drifts in and out like a distant radio signal. When he does go big—the celebratory frantic guitar breakdown at every chorus peak in "Post-War Blues," the waltzing updraft that "Helpful As You Can Be Without Being Any Help At All" swells to—it proves even greater. Mangan's skill as an arranger has grown both in size and uniqueness; Oh Fortune sees him pushing his introspective writing deeper than he's managed in the past. and the bigger, splashier moments to newer peaks.

"People don't know what they want / They just know they really want it / I should know better by now / There's only so much to go around," he croons in "How Darwinian." It's a glib statement, but Mangan's intentions don't seem nearly so dire, or simple. He's well-versed in pointing out some of the imperfections of the world at large, but his skill is in doing so in a way that doesn't drag you down into their sentiment.

Mister Heavenly Out of Love (Sub Pop)  After you get over the boring and overly-derivative first track "Bronx Sniper"—it takes some big, stupid balls to sing a line like, "No one gets out of here alive," and think it's a good idea—Mister Heavenly's debut album Out of Love moves into some interesting territory. Blending doo wop, honky tonk, a little outlaw country with more contemporary sounds, Out of Love takes old musical forms and, far from updating or "reinventing" them, forcefully mates them with the last 10 years of indie rock. It's like if a car is cool, and a truck is cool, then an El Camino is the most badass thing there is, right?

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Youth Lagoon The Year of Hibernation (Fat Possum) 

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The title is apt: The Year of Hibernation really does sound like the warm, wandering dreams of a months-long snooze. Youth Lagoon brainchild Trevor Powers locks in on echoing pop melodies, crafting tracks that ripple and shimmer through riptides of grainy synthesizer, gentle drum machine rhythms and quiveringly reverb vocals; The world's quietest "Oh oh oh" refrain anchors "July" before building to a colourful guitar and shouted-across-the-roomvocals high. Youth Lagoon makes bedroom pop smaller and more preciously than most bands would dare, and while it occasionally weighs a little heavily on that preciousness (the twee whistle and keyboard pink intro of "Afternoons"), it's more often worthwhile, turn-off-lights-and-drift-along listening.

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Landon Coleman Single Life (Independent)  Expanding upon the ideas he first presented in last year's A Dusty Dove EP, Single Life continues Edmonton expat Landon Coleman's obsessions with art and movement, his former home of Edmonton and his adopted home of Ottawa. The instrumentation on Single Life has been expanded, presenting a more nuanced and layered version of the music Coleman makes, music that can best be described as "very pretty folk," which I hope won't rob it of its innate masculinity. It's just that if this album comes just before Leonard Cohen in your iTunes like it does mine, well, that's probably a pretty good place for it.

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Blending it together

Edmonton's NN melds influences into punk soup on new album

Hindi Zahra / Fri, Oct 7 (8 pm) Born in Morocco and raised in France, Hindi Zahra is a self-taught musician who mixes gypsy rhythms with French chanson. It's smoky, it's exotic, it's exciting.

(Haven Social Club, $17)

Enslaved / Fri, Oct 7 (8 pm) Celebrating the 20th anniversary of Norwegian extrememetal band Enslaved, this tour should prove to be the group's most evil yet. (Starlite Room, $27.75)

This week's On the Record is brought to you by the letter "N"

way? Lyrics first? Music first?

A: We always start with music first. We did try to put music to lyrics a couple times but it always led to a wall. Our singer/lyricist Carms will usually write/ test lyrics as we experiment with the song. We meet each other at the end.

Fri, Oct 7 (9:30 pm) NN With Morals, Suicidal Cop New City, $10

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elebrating the release of its first full-length album, Princes, Edmonton punks NN will be headlining a show at New City, where attendance gets you the CD. Prior to the group's show, singularly-named drummer Anton outlined the course the band took to make Princes.

Vue Weekly: How long did it take to make Princes from the initial songwriting through to the end of the recording?

Anton: It took about a year. We started around May 2010 and had the majority of the songs done by December. After our first recording session in January 2011 we decided we needed a couple more songs. We wrote a few more and found two that fit. We finished recording May 2011. Agreeing on album artwork and the title is what delayed the release. At that point the name Princes was a perfect fit.

VW: When you were writing the songs, did you come at them in a particular

VW: Did the songs come from one person fully formed, or were they sketches that were then filled out as a group?

A: They usually start with someone bringing in a riff and a loose vision.

We'll jam on it and see what works and what doesn't. The song will usually morph from the original concept into something good or something we never play again.

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? A: We recorded live off the floor with the exception of the vocals which were tracked later. There were a number of reasons for recording the record this way. Recording live off the floor gave more of a raw natural sound. We like the little imperfections that can be caught off a live recording. Time and expense were also factors.

VW:

VW: Were

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

A: Yes, many songs didn't make the cut. We felt some were just not good enough to release and then we had some that we were not happy with.

Either not happy with the end product or it was not complete in our eyes.

VW: How did you decide which songs to include on the album? Did you have an idea of what you wanted Princes to be when you started, or did the finished shape emerge as the writing and recording went along?

A: We didn't have an idea or concept for the album. Our only plan was to write new songs. We had a stock of six to seven songs we had been playing for a couple years. Once we started playing live shows we decided we needed new material. Over the next year we experimented and pushed our limited musical abilities. In the end we had 10 songs we were very happy with.

VW: You

recorded this album with Nik Kozub. What was that like and what does he bring to the process?

A: We love Nik. We found a mutual comfort level with him. He was honest when he thought something wasn't working and had to be redone/rewritten to work. We had heard a lot of the recordings of bands he had worked with and knew if anybody could capture us it would be him. We're very happy with his work and look forward to working with him again.

If you were to trace the musical map that led you to Princes, what would it look like?

A: To be honest our musical map would be all over the place. Each member has a type of music that influences them above all others. When we get together we end up blending it all together.

Blues, new wave, punk, mainstream, oldies, etc. We wrote a few songs together that worked and kept going.

Princes was the end result. V

Jenny Allen and Leslie Alexander / Sat, Oct 8 (4 pm) After a chance meeting two years ago, folk artists Jenny Allen and Leslie Alexander haven't stopped touring together. Now the touring duo swings through Edmonton on its way back through the Prairies. (Black Dog, free)

The State of the Industry / Tue, Oct 11 (8 pm) The Alberta Music Industry Association is pulling together a panel of local artists and industry pros to talk about, well, the state of the music industry. You know, stuff like where it's at, where it's going and what you need to know to get there. Nik Kozub's hosting the session, and that dude knows his stuff so take a notebook, listen up and ask questions. (Brixx, free for Alberta Music members, $10 for non-members)

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Matt Andersen / Wed, Oct 12 (8 pm) If you come from a town where everyone plays an instrument—like Perth-Andover, NB, a place where you could throw a party and have nine fiddlers out— you'd better be damn good if you're going to have the audacity to call yourself a musician. Lucky for blues guitarist Matt Andersen—who happens to be from Perth-Andover, NB—he is. (Myer Horowitz, $31)

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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

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

Blacksheep Pub DJ

every Sat

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

White Party with Steve Aoki, Sander Van Doorn and more; 8pm

Druid Irish Pub DJ

Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Tony Dizon;

electric rodeo– Spruce Grove DJ every

Sherlock Holmes– WEM Alesha and

Brendon

Starlite Room

Maracujah (reunion show)

every Sat; 9pm

Sat

Fluid Lounge Scene Saturday's Relaunch: Party; hip-hop, R&B and Dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali

FUNKY BUDDHA– Whyte Ave Top tracks,

Christian every Sat

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

Community: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE

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

Union Hall Celebrity Saturdays: every Sat hosted by Ryan Maier

Vinyl Dance Lounge Signature Saturdays

Y AFTERHOURS Release

Selectro Saturdaze: 9:30pm

Saturdays

Newcastle Pub Top 40 requests every Sat with DJ Sheri

SUN OCT 9

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)

Overtime– Downtown Saturdays

at Eleven: R'n'B, hip hop, reggae, Old School

Palace Casino Show Lounge DJ every Sat

PAWN SHOP

Transmission Saturdays: Indie rock, new wave, classic punk with DJ Blue Jay and Eddie Lunchpail; 9pm (door); free (before 10pm)/$5 (after 10pm)

RED STAR Indie rock,

hip hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests

Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge Your

Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M

SPORTSWORLD Roller

Skating Disco every Sat; 1pm-4:30pm and 7-10:30pm

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

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

Blue Pear Restaurant Jazz on

the Side Sun: Don Berner (sax); 5:30pm; $25 if not dining

Blue Chair Café

Sunday Brunch: Jim Findlay Trio; 10:30am2:30pm; donations

Century Casino The Zombies and Acoustic Strawbs; 8pm; $44.45 at TicketMaster

Crown Pub Band War 2011/Battle of the bands, 6-10pm; Open Stage with host Better Us Than Strangers, 10pm-1am Diesel Ultra Lounge Final

Destination: Dons vs.

Divas; 9pm

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

VENUE GUIDE 180 Degrees 10730-107 St, 780.414.0233 Accent European Lounge 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ARTery 9535 Jasper Ave Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) Ledcor Theatre, lower level, Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.429.1000 Avenue Theatre 9030118 Ave, 780.477.2149 BANK ULTRA LOUNGE 10765 Jasper Ave, 780.420.9098 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082 Blackjack's Roadhouse–Nisku 2110 Sparrow Drive, Nisku, 780.986.8522 Blacksheep Pub 11026 Jasper Ave, 780.420.0448 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 962476 Ave, 780.989.2861 Blue Pear Restaurant 10643-123 St, 780.482.7178 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 boneyard ale house 9216-34 Ave, 780.437.2663, boneyardalehouse.com bohemia 10575-114 St Brixx Bar 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 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 10124-124 St Crown and Anchor 15277 Castledowns Rd,

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780.472.7696 Crown Pub 10709-109 St, 780.428.5618 Diesel Ultra Lounge 11845 Wayne Gretzky Drive, 780.704.CLUB Devaney’s Irish Pub 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 THE DISH 12417 Stony Plain Rd, 780.488.6641 =Dow's Shell Theatre–Fort Saskatchewan 8700-84 St, Fort Saskatchewan, 780.992.6400 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8307-99 St Early Stage Saloon 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain Eddie Shorts 10713124 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 9938-70 Ave, 780.437.3667 FIDDLER’S ROOST 8906-99 St FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 FLASH Night Club 10018-105 St, 780.969.9965 FLOW Lounge 11815 Wayne Gretzky Dr, 780.604.CLUB Fluid Lounge 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 FUNKY BUDDHA 1034182 Ave, 780.433.9676 GAS PUMP 10166-114 St, 780.488.4841 Giovanni School of Music Recital Hall 10528 Mayfield Rd HALO 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.HALO

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haven social club 15120A (basement), Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.6010 HillTop Pub 8220-106 Ave, 780.490.7359 Hogs Den Pub 9, 14220 Yellowhead Tr HOOLIGANZ 10704-124 St, 780.995.7110 Hydeaway 10209-100 Ave, 780.426.5381 Iron Boar Pub 491151st St, Wetaskiwin JAMMERS PUB 11948127 Ave, 780.451.8779 J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 jeffrey’s café 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 JEKYLL AND HYDE 10209-100 Ave, 780.426.5381 junction bar and eatery 10242-106 St, 780.756.5667 KAS BAR 10444-82 Ave, 780.433.6768 kelly's pub 11540 Jasper Ave L.B.’s Pub 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 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 610890 Ave, 780.490.1999 New City Legion 8130 Gateway Boulevard (Red Door) Nisku Inn 1101-4 St NOLA Creole 11802124 St, 780.451.1390, experiencenola.com NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535-109A Ave O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766

ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 Orlando's 1 15163121 St Overtime–Downtown 10304-111 St, 780.465.6800 Overtime Whitemud Crossing, 4211-106 St, 780.485.1717 PAWN SHOP 1055182 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 Playback Pub 594 Hermitage Rd, 130 Ave, 40 St Pleasantview Community Hall 10860-57 Ave REDNEX BAR–Morinville 10413-100 Ave, Morinville, 780.939.6955 Red Piano Bar 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 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 Riverbend Library 460 Riverbend Sq, Terwillegar Dr ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 Rose and Crown 10235-101 St R Pub 16753-100 St, 780.457.1266 St Basil’s Cultural Centre 10819-71 Ave Second Cup–Mountain Equipment 12336102 Ave, 780.451.7574; Stanley Milner Library 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq; Varscona, Varscona Hotel, 106 St, Whyte Ave 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 11018127 St, 780.453.6006 Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924 Sportsworld 13710104 St Sportsman's Lounge 8170-50 St Stanley A. Milner Library 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.944.5383 STARLITE ROOM 10030102 St, 780.428.1099 STEEPS TEA LOUNGE– Whyte Ave 11116-82 Ave Suede Lounge 11806 Jasper Ave, 780.482.0707 Suite 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969 Taphouse 9020 McKenney Ave, St Albert, 780.458.0860 Treasury 10004 Jasper Ave, 7870.990.1255, thetreasurey.ca Vinyl Dance Lounge 10740 Jasper Ave, 780.428.8655, vinylretrolounge.com Westside Pub 15135 Stony Plain Rd 780 758 2058 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 Yellowhead Brewery 10229-105 St, 780.423.3333 Yesterdays Pub 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295

Double D's Open jam every Sun; 3-8pm Eddie Shorts

Acoustic jam every Sun; 9pm

Expressionz café Songwriters Stage, various hosts; all ages; 7-11pm

Hogs Den Pub Dirty

Jam: hosted by Tye Jones; open jam every Sun, all styles welcome; 4-8pm

Newcastle Pub Sun Soul Service (acoustic jam): Willy James and Crawdad Cantera; 3-6:30pm NEW CITY LEGION DIY Sunday Afternoons: 4pm (door), 5pm , 6pm, 7pm, 8pm (bands)

O’BYRNE’S Open mic

every Sun; 9:30pm-1am

On the Rocks Long Weekend with Mourning Wood; 9pm; $5 ORLANDO'S 2 PUB

Open stage jam every Sun; 4pm

Pawn Shop Long

Weekend Bash: Old Sins, Nervous Wreck, The Freshman Years, On Your Mark; 8pm (door); $5 (adv) at Blackbyrd

Second Cup– Mountain Equipment Co-op Live music every Sun; 2-4pm

Yellowhead Brewery Open Stage:

Every Sun, 8pm

Classical Winspear Centre

Goodwill Mission from Taiwan

MON OCT 10 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sleeman

Mon: live music monthly; no cover

Blues on Whyte Jack

De Keyzer

Churchill Square

Every weekday (weather permitting): Breezy Brian Gregg (SW corner); 121:15pm

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

EDMONTON EVENT CENTRE Opeth, Katatonia

(hard rock/metal); all ages; 7pm (door); $34 at Blackbyrd

kelly's pub Open stage

every Mon; hosted by Clemcat Hughes; 9pm

New West Hotel Rockin' Randy

NOLA CREOLE KITCHEN Jeff Hendrick

The Love Jones Band; 6-9pm

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

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

Rexall Place Avril

Lavigne; The New Cities, Evan Taubfield; 6:30pm (door), 7:30pm (show); $37.50, $49.50

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

Starlite ROOM

Thanks for the Metal: Miskatonic, Section Eight, guests

DJs BACKSTAGE TAP AND GRILL Industry Night:

every Sun with Atomic Improv, Jameoki and DJ Tim

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main

Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay

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

Mondays/House/Breaks/ Trance and more with host DJ Phoenix, 9pm

FLOW Lounge Stylus

Metal Mon: with DJ S.W.A.G.

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

Suede Lounge House Party onJasper: with DJ Melo D and friends; 7pm (door)

Temple Reform School

4 with Gory, Lunchpail

Crown Pub Minefield

FILTHY McNASTY'S

Lucky 13 Industry Night every Mon with DJ Chad Cook NEW CITY LEGION

Madhouse Mon: Punk/ metal/etc with DJ Smart Alex

TUE OCT 11 Blues on Whyte Jack De Keyzer

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

Long and McQuade National

Steel "Bad Boy Blues": Featuring songs and stories in the round performed on vintage National guitars (acoustic event): Doc and Big Dave; 5pm

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

jam every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm

High Anxiety Variety Society Bingo vs. karaoke with Ben Disaster, Anonymouse every Tue; no minors; 4pm-3am; no cover

New West Hotel

RED STAR Experimental

O’BYRNE’S Celtic

Rockin' Randy

NOLA CREOLE KITCHEN Jeff Hendrick

The Love Jones Band; 6-9pm

Padmanadi Open

stage every Tue; with Mark Davis; all ages; 7:30-10:30pm

R Pub Open stage

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

WED OCT 12 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main

Floor: Glitter Gulch: live music once a month

jam every Tue; hosted

by Gary and the Facemakers; 8pm

Blues on Whyte

Second Cup–124 Street Open mic every

Every weekday (weather permitting): Breezy Brian Gregg (SW corner); 12-1:15pm

Tue; 8-10pm

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

Second Cup– Summerwood Open

stage/open mic every Tue; 7:30pm; no cover

SIDELINERS PUB All

Star Jam every Tue; with Alicia Tait and Rickey Sidecar; 8pm

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

Yardbird Suite Tue

Night Sessions: Don Berner Quartet; 7:30pm (door), 8pm (show); $5

Jack De Keyzer

Churchill Square

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

Fiddler's Roost

Little Flower Open Stage every Wed with Brian Gregg; 8pm-12

HAVEN SOCIAL Club

Early Show: Terra Lightfoot, guests; Open stage every Wed with Jonny Mac, 8:30pm, free

HOOLIGANZ Open

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

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

Classical Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA)

Edmonton Opera–Opera 101: A Guide to the opera presented by Jeff McCune; 7-9pm; preregister at 780.429.1000

McDougall United Church–Banquet Hall Music Wednesdays at Noon: Amelia Kaminski and Byron Myhre (fiddler); 12:1012:50pm

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

Classical

stage every Wed with host Cody Nouta; 9pm

Riverbend Library Symphony

Myer Horowitz Theatre Matt

Lounge Wind-up Wed:

101: informative and interactive intro to the symphony with D.T. Baker; 7pm; free , preregister at epl.ca

Anderson; 8pm; tickets at TicketMaster

DJs

and Tales: 1st Wed every month; with Tim Harwill, guests; 8-10pm

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

New West Hotel Rockin' Randy

Nisku Inn Troubadours

NOLA CREOLE KITCHEN Jeff Hendrick

The Love Jones Band; 6-9pm

Playback Pub Open

Stage every Wed hosted

by JTB; 9pm-1am

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; Slow pitch for beginners

Diesel Ultra R&B, hiphop, reggae, old skool, reggaeton with InVinceable, Touch It, weekly guest DJs

LEGENDS PUB Hip hop/R&B with DJ Spincycle

NEW CITY LEGION

Wed Pints 4 Punks: with DJ Nick; no minors; 4pm-3am; no cover

NIKKI DIAMONDS

Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed

RED STAR Guest DJs

every Wed

Starlite Room Wild Style Wed: Hip-Hop; 9pm TEMPLE Wild Style

Wed: Hip hop open mic hosted by Kaz and Orv; $5

PREVUE Terra Lightfoot

Wed, Oct 12 (6 pm) / Haven Social Club, $10 – $12

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JONESIN'CROSSWORD

MATT JONES // JONESINCROSSWORDS@vueweekly.com

"Aftermath"--finally calling it quits

FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19) "Do unto others as they wish," advised French artist Marcel Duchamp, "but with imagination." You're in a phase of your astrological cycle when you can tune into the needs and cravings of others, and then satisfy those needs and cravings in your own inimitable and unpredictable ways. Don't just give the people you care about the mirror image of what they ask for; give them a funhouse mirror image that reflects your playful tinkering.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20) Winner of the American Book Award in 1963, William Stafford wrote thousands of poems. The raw materials for his often-beautiful creations were the fragments and debris of his daily rhythm. "I have woven a parachute out of everything broken," he said in describing his life's work. You are now in a phase when you could achieve a comparable feat. You have the power to turn dross into sweetness, refuse into treasure, loss into gain.

Across 1 "You are not!" retort 6 Antlered beast 9 First word of two Springsteen albums 13 Skeezy type 14 "___ So High" (Blur song) 16 "Peek-___!"

17 Dorothy's aunt's precipitation is surprisingly mild?

19 "Te ___" (hymn title) 20 Miss Scarlet's game 21 Record player parts 23 "The Fifth Beatle" Sutcliffe 25 The guy who always dyes eggs in springtime?

27 Cigarette ingredient 28 Palme ___ (Cannes Film Festival prize) 29 Tool that breaks ground 30 Humble dwelling 32 It's a little dirtier than "bum" 35 Hail ___ 39 Fictional spy who's really a giant department store founder?

42 Cubs all-time home run leader 43 Attachable brick brand 44 Spot in the water 45 Emerald, for one 47 Hot Topic founder ___ Madden 49 Some fish bait 50 Command for this flan-like dessert to jump in my mouth already?

55 "...___ and buts were candy and nuts..."

56 Shout after an unhappy return 57 Perched upon 59 "Squawk Box" network 60 Announcement/event of September 2011, or what happened to the theme answers 64 End in ___ 65 Swiss painter Paul 66 Flightless birds 67 Rick of the radio 68 Pig's digs 69 Late jazz musician who insisted he was from Saturn Down 1 Word in many beer names 2 Give guns to 3 Full of a liquid metal 4 Insignia 5 Turn-of-the-century place to get high 6 Key near F1 7 ___ Apso

46 BACK

8 Seaweed varieties 9 Nightmares 10 "Divided by" symbols (BE OIL anagram) 11 French city where Joan of Arc died 12 Claim on some Chinese menus 15 Alan ___ (pseudonym used by film directors) 18 Roman emperor who fiddled around 22 Role reprised by Keanu in 2003 23 Wild guesses 24 Deed not to be done 26 Rub out 31 Competes on the street 33 Bad toupee 34 Thread holder 36 Baseball Jr. nicknamed "Iron Man" 37 "___ Cakes" (Food Network show) 38 8-bit units 40 Herbal remedy from trees 41 Rosie, et al.

46 Brain waves monitor: abbr.

48 Tail end 50 Seed plant (DC CAY anagram) 51 ___ Carlo 52 "Memories of You" pianist Blake 53 Cambodian currency 54 Like some needs 58 Where North Shore surfers go 61 Richard of 1990s talk show fame 62 Egypt and Syr., from 1958-1961 63 "Don't do drugs" ad, for short ©2011 Jonesin' Crosswords

LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20) Is there something you've always wanted to create but have not gotten around to it? Now would be an excellent time to finally get that project off the ground.

Is there any big mysterious deal you've thought about connecting with but never have? Any profound question you've longed to pose but didn't? Any heart-expanding message you've wanted to deliver but couldn't bring yourself to? You know what to do.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22) The experiences you're flirting with seem to be revivals of longforgotten themes. To illustrate the spirit of what you're doing, I've resurrected some obsolete words I found in an 18th-centry dictionary.

Try sprinkling them into your conversations; make them come alive again. "Euneirophrenia" means "peace of mind after a sweet dream." The definition of "neanimorphic" is "looking younger than one's true age." "Gloze" is when you speak soothing or flattering words in order to persuade. "Illapse" means the gradual or gentle entrance of one thing into another.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22) An old Egyptian saying declares that "the difference between a truth and a lie weighs no more than a feather." I suspect that your upcoming experiences will vividly demonstrate the accuracy of that statement. There will be a very fine line between delusional nonsense and helpful wisdom. Which side will you be on? To increase your chances of getting it right, be a stickler for telling yourself the heart-strong truth.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22) What's the most practical method of acquiring wealth? One out of every five Americans believes that it's by playing the lottery. While it is true, that you now have a slightly elevated chance of guessing the winning numbers in games of chance, I don't recommend that you spend any time seeking greater financial security in this particular way.

A much better use of your current cosmic advantage would be to revitalize and reorganize your approach to making, spending, saving, and investing money.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22) The Jet Propulsion Laboratory landed two robotic vehicles on Mars in 2004. They were expected to explore the planet and send back information for 90 days. But the rover named Spirit kept working for over six years, and its companion, Opportunity, is still operational. The astrological omens suggest that any carefully prepared project you

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launch in the coming weeks could achieve that kind of staying power, Libra. So take maximum advantage of the vast potential you have available. Don't scrimp on the love and intelligence you put into your labour of love.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21) "I don't want to play the part of the mythical phoenix again," my Scorpio friend Kelly has been moaning as she prepares for her latest trial by fire. "I've burned myself to the ground and risen reborn out of the ashes two times this year already. Why can't someone else take a turn for a change?"

While I empathized, I thought it was my duty to tell her what I consider to be the truth: more than any other sign of the zodiac, you Scorpios have supreme skills in the art of metaphorical self-immolation and regeneration. Besides, part of you actually enjoys the heroic drama and the baby-fresh feelings that come over you as you reanimate yourself from the soot and cinders.

Ready for another go?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21) When she was seven years old, my daughter Zoe created a cartoon panel. It showed an orange-haired girl bending down to tend to three orange flowers.

High overhead was an orange five-pointed star.

The girl was saying, "I think it would be fun being a star," while the star mused, "I think it would be great to be a girl." I urge you put a picture of yourself where the girl was in Zoe's rendering.

Getting your imagination to work in this way will put you in the right frame of mind to notice and take advantage of the opportunities that life will bring you. Here's your mantra, an ancient formula the mystics espouse: "As above, so below."

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19) Years ago, I discovered I was eligible to join MENSA, an organization for people with high IQs. Since I'd never gotten any awards, plaques or badges, I thought I'd indulge in this little sin of pride. Not too long after I signed up, however, I felt like an idiot for doing it. Whenever I told someone I belonged to MENSA, I felt sheepish about seeming to imply that I was extra smart. Eventually I resigned. But then I descended into deeper egomania—I started bragging about how I had quit MENSA because I didn't want to come off like an egotist. Please avoid this type of unseemly behavior in the coming week. Be authentically humble. It'll be important for your success.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18) Right now good fortune is likely to flow your way as you seek out experiences that are extra interesting and colorful and thought-provoking. This is no time for you to be shy about asking for what you want or timid about stirring up adventure.

Be louder and prouder than usual. Be bolder and brighter, nosier and cozier, weirder and more whimsical. The world needs your very best idiosyncrasies and eccentricities!

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20) There is a slight chance a psychic will reveal that you have a mutant liver that can actually thrive on alcohol, and you will then get drunk on absinthe every day for two weeks, and by the end of this grace period, you will have been freed of 55 percent of the lingering guilt you've carried around for years, plus you will care 40 percent less about what people think of you. You'll feel like a wise rookie who's ready to learn all about intimacy as if you were just diving into it for the first time. But get this: There's an even greater chance that these same developments will unfold very naturally. V

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Coming Events

Lite 95.7 Community Scoop Mental illness affects 1 in 4 Canadians, and can be difficult to understand. So, Rabid Marmot Productions has put together an event called "Far From Crazy".

It runs from October 5th to the 16th at the Living Room Playhouse on 113 st and 106th avenue.

For more information on cost and times, head to www.rabidmarmot.ca

Lite 95.7 Community Scoop The Green Market is the place to be if you value the environment.

There will be displays of ecofriendly products and services.

It goes Sunday, October 9th at Expressionz Cafe on 99th street and 70th ave.

For more details head to: www.greencrusader.onefireplace. com

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Citie Ballet requires volunteers for October performances at Timm's Centre.

Contact 780-983-0829 for more information Come Help Save A Pet's Life!!

The Animal Cancer Therapy Subsidization Society (ACTSS) is looking for volunteers to help with our 11th Annual Halloween Extravaganza fundraising event on October 28th, 2011. It's a dinner, silent auction, pet & people costume contest and more for approx. 300 people. For more info please visit www.actss.ca and contact liawatkin@shaw.ca or call 780-231-1731 Do you like to meet new people, help others and want to be a part of a dynamic team working toward changing Alberta for the better?

Rick Newcombe, the NEW Edmonton Meadowlark Wildrose MLA Candidate is looking for Volunteers to be a part of his campaign team.

Sign up at http://ricknewcombe.ca

It’s Coming

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Exposure 2011 is looking for Volunqueers to assist with this year's festival, running from October 20 - 23. Email: volunteer@exposurefestival.ca for more information The Learning Centre Literacy Association is seeking volunteers tutors to help adults develop reading,writing and/or math skills.

Skills required: High School level reading/writing/math.

Boyle Street Community Services Contact: Denis at 780-429-0675 dl.learningcentre@shaw.ca The Learning Centre Literacy Association is seeking volunteers tutors to help adults develop reading,writing and/or math skills.

Skills required: High School level reading/writing/math.

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COMMENT >> ALT SEX

The red light fades

Amsterdam is cleaning up the de Wallen district "By order of city council, starting business. A group of 14 owners of September 1, our hours will be 9 am 23 Amsterdam sex shops lost their to 10 pm daily," reads the sign fight against city council and the in the window. In the next enforcement of the Shop window, the same sign in Opening Times Act began Dutch is propped against earlier this month. .com ly k a miniature Statue of e e @vuew brenda Liberty with a blindfold As the man in the shop Brendear told me, the Shop Opening around her eyes. Instead of b Ker a torch in her upraised hand, Times Act has actually been she holds a vibrator. I am in Amsteraround for 40 years but it was not dam, checking out the city before enforced. It was only at the beginvisiting the world famous Venus ning of 2011 that Amsterdam city Berlin and EroFame sex toy trade council decided to force the sex shows. These signs in a tiny sex toy shops on the red light district to shop in de Wallen, better known as comply with the Act. This is just one the red light district, have caught part of the effort, ongoing for the my attention. last three to four years, to clean up "City council thinks the crime in de Wallen and deal with the crimithis area is related to the sex businal activity and money laundering nesses," the man at the store told that has been linked to some of the me. "For 40 years, shops here have businesses in the red light district. been opening and closing whenever In 2008, the city refused to renew they wanted but now we have to prostitution licenses for almost 70 close at 10 pm." percent of the buildings that rent Until just a few weeks ago, this rooms to sex trade workers in the shop was open until 2 am, as were district. The city then bought the most of the businesses in the red buildings, shutting down the majorlight district. The biggest traffic, and ity of the prostitution in the area. the most sales, happened between 9 There's a noticeable difference. pm and 2 am when the red light was When I was in the city five years bustling with people. Closing just as ago, the red window frames cast a the evening starts has already taken glow over the entire area which exa big bite out of this little shop's tended for many blocks. Now, it's

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much darker, seeming almost partially abandoned, with only the occasional building lit up in red, working women posing in the windows.

It was 9:30 pm as I chatted with the man in the little sex shop. Would everything be closing down in the next 30 minutes? His store would be, he said, but a lot of the bigger businesses would stay open.

"The sex clubs are supposed to close too, but they choose to do what they want," he said. "Those big clubs can afford to pay the fines, we can't."

The fine for staying open starts at 500 euros for the first offence and gets progressively larger for each violation. That's a high price to pay for a small shop that's already hurting from a recession and the slow but steady drain of tourists from Amsterdam's red light. Many of these small shops won't be able to handle the loss of income and will be forced to close, and the lights in the toy shops may be the next to go out. V Brenda Kerber is a sexual health educator who has worked with local not-for-profits since 1995. She is the owner of the Edmonton-based, sex-positive adult toy boutique the Traveling Tickle Trunk.

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Mummy issues

Dan turns to an expert in Saran Wrap and duct tape for this one I am an 18-year-old straight male. I are women out there who prefer have a hodgepodge of birth defects tongues, toys and touch to vaginal that affect my genitalia: severe hypenetration. On the Savage Lovepospadias (my urethra—my piss cast, I took a call from a woman slit—is at the base of my penis), miwho was worried she would never cropenis (less than two inches) and find a partner because, although anorchia (I was born without she enjoys other kinds of sex, E testes). I have never been she's physically incapable G A SAV naked around anyone else. I of vaginal intercourse; don't really like being naked there's a new dating webm o ly.c eweek ve@vu lo by myself, to be honest. e site for straight men and g a v sa Dan Lately, my sex drive has women "who cannot enSavage gage in sexual intercourse" skyrocketed. It is driving me up the wall. Couple this with the (2date4love.com); and if you fact that women see me as attracfall in love with a woman who entive, and I'm not doing well. It's frusjoys vaginal intercourse, sex shops trating that sexual situations are sell strap-on dildos to men, too. presenting themselves to me and In short, MUJ, you have options. there's nothing I can do. I've recently You also have role models. started college, and it's endlessly "One of the most validating and frustrating to see my friends havreassuring experiences someone ing relationships and being sexually with genital difference can have," active. I know that casual sex/flings says Devore, "is to meet with othwill never be an option for me, but I ers who share their birth history am dying over here! and have dealt with the same issues Messed Up Junk of self-acceptance, shame and isolation, and the challenge of intimate "His story is one that is very familiar relationships." to us," says Tiger Howard Devore, HEA hosts an annual conference vice president of the Hypospadias and it's coming up, MUJ. If you and Epispadias Association (HEA). can get your ass to Chicago over "He should know that he is not rare the weekend of October 21 – 23, I and many with his kind of genital strongly encourage you to attend difference have learned how to HEA 2011. communicate about their difference "Connecting with others who share to potential intimate partners." his difference is the best way to end You're right, MUJ: Casual sex/ his isolation and begin his healing," flings—shucking off your clothes says Devore. "At the conference, and jumping into bed with a girl he'll get expert information from you've just met—may never be an doctors and psychologists, and he'll option for you. But you know what? meet men who have grown up just Drunken college hookups last an like him and have faced the same hour or two, while the communicafears and overcome them." tion skills you're going to have to HEA offers financial aid to men develop to navigate your sex life who otherwise wouldn't be able to will last a lifetime. attend—an experience that is life You will have a sex life, MUJ, and changing and, in some cases, life there is a lot you can do. There saving—and I've made a donation so

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I'm a 26-year-old girl from Austria currently seeing a guy who likes to tie me up and gag me. It is just cuffs and ball gags so far, and I am enjoying it!

Recently he sent this text message: "Mummification sounds fun." In his case, "sounds fun" means "I wish to try it." I looked it up online. Holy! I was scared after watching this video of a guy wrapping a woman first in cling film and then in duct tape!

Face and everything! It seemed like out of a horror movie! I texted him

The only way to get over your feelings of terror, if you want to explore this, is to try it while taking things very, very slowly.

back: "I realize this could be a lot of fun for you, but I don't think I can do that." He's never mentioned it again.

I feel awful for denying him. I tell myself it's about trusting the other person—yes, we have safe words!— but I just can't shake off the feeling of creepiness! Is there anything I can do to get over being terrified? Was it fair to say, "Not gonna happen"?

Because I Am Scared

ing Saran Wrap/duct tape combo," says Fox. "Pace yourselves! Begin with Saran Wrap only, just from the shoulders to the ankles. If she freaks, the boyfriend cuts her loose and it's over. If the scene goes well, they can add a little more next time. Eventually, she may find the restriction and sensory deprivation provides a heightened sense of sexual awareness and makes her extremely horny."

"BIAS should know that it was absolutely OK for her to say, 'Not gonna happen,'" says Tynan Fox, kinkster, activist, and blogger (tynanfox. com). Fox, just 27, has been into mummification for more than a decade—he's been on both sides of the duct tape—but says he can appreciate why even some bondage

I moved in with a friend of a friend when I was desperate to find housing in a new city. The guy I live with would be an ideal roommate except he sometimes makes homophobic comments. I never told him I'm gay—I didn't feel the need up front and now I don't feel comfortable— but homophobia is not the reason I

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fans aren't into it.

"Many people are claustrophobic," says Fox, "and they can't stomach the idea of being wrapped up, and who can blame them? Mummification is extreme play. But her boyfriend is being completely appropriate—she said she wasn't interested, he hasn't mentioned it again—and they should both be commended for their open and honest communication."

The only way to get over your feelings of terror, if you want to explore this, is to try it while taking things very, very slowly.

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am writing you. The situation goes deeper.

In the midst of my online exploits, I found an Xtube channel for a guy who is most certainly my roommate.

He wears a mask in the videos, but the voice and build are the same, same tattoos, and his bedroom is unmistakable. In the videos, he fucks himself silly with massive dildos— MASSIVE—while begging for cock.

Part of me wants to pull one of the videos up the next time he makes a comment. Part of me loves the idea of giving this homophobe a good fucking. What would you do?

Roommate's Anal Movies Your living situation sounds like a setup for a great porn parody, RAM. (When a Stranger Comes: "The assstretching amateur porn is coming from inside the apartment!") It also sounds like an opportunity. If you're into this guy—and, having watched his videos (thanks for the link), it looks like you could literally walk right into this guy—why not seize that great, big, gaping opening created by your little discovery?

The next time your roommate makes a homophobic remark, RAM, tell him you're gay, tell him you don't appreciate his comments and tell him you're somewhat mystified by his remarks in light of his body of work. Then roll the tape.

There's a chance—a slim chance— that he's not gay and just enjoys anal play, sexual transgression and the attention he gets from men online. Here's hoping you wind up fucking some sense into your roommate and an apology out of him. V Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage.

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Coming Soon

Without the small local businesses that made up the urban landscape for the last hundred years, downtown Edmonton would not be what it is today.

A striking visual record of our diverse cultural and commercial history exists in the City of Edmonton's collection of beautiful vintage signs. The Edmonton Heritage Council is breathing new life into the iconic antique neon signs that enriched Edmonton's visual culture such as Mike’s News Stand, Georgia Baths, WW Arcade, The Pantages, Princess Theatre, Cliff’s Auto Parts and Canadian Furniture.

Since the discovery of neon in 1898 and the invention of the Moore tube in the early 1900s, neon signs have been made by artisans who hand-bend glass tubes. A cottage industry sprung up between the 1920s and 1960s, when neon signs were most popular. Now, Edmonton is among many cities such as New York and Las Vegas who are restoring their

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neon signs and building museums for them to live.

David Holdsworth, a heritage planner with the Sustainable Development Department hopes to turn the Telus Building on 104 Street and 104 Avenue into an Outdoor Neon Sign Museum.

"Anyone who has a neon sign from Edmonton’s past is encouraged to donate it ... so all Edmontonians can enjoy the art, beauty and heritage preserved in these neon creations."

He will hold an information session at 7 pm on Tuesday, October 25 at Queen Alexandra School for people who are interested in seeing some of the plans for this illuminating project. v Chelsea Boos is a multidisciplinary visual artist and avid flâneur. Back Words is a discussion of her dérives and a photographic diary of the local visual culture.

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