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Necessary research The University of Alberta has the capability to ban and remove people from its property. It's a part of the legislation and bylaws that all universities in Alberta operate under. The institution's properties are private. The University has its own security force, colloquially known as Campus 5-0. And, to get into the minutiae of policing, the University of Alberta has numerous rules and bylaws governing risk management—an entire department exists to ensure the university is not sued for anything that happens on its property. In order to hold an event such as a barbecue, students have to fill out form after form and make assurances nothing will go wrong. The idea that a university campus is where freedom of expression bubbles forth from an unending fountain of youth and spontaneity is a gross misrepresentation of the regulations, restrictions and general fear of risking funding and attention that encompasses many campuses today.

When Occupy Edmonton attempted to hold a protest on the U of A campus last Wednesday, they walked right into this culture of rules, regulations and fear, and were greeted by a wall of police officers preventing the group from even getting on campus.

The U of A is not the first university to remove undesirable protesters from its property. The University of Calgary

decided to oust anti-gay protester Bill Whatcott in 2005 and 2008. Whatcott then successfully brought the university to court stating his Charter rights had been violated. And they had. This past November a provincial court ruled Whatcott, a non-student, non-alumni, had his Charter rights violated when he was removed from campus in handcuffs.

The Occupy movement, and those students and faculty attempting public protest, should consider the success of this challenge. Across the country Occupiers have been thrown out of public and private parks. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association is currently working to call attention to the fact the removal of protesters has been done against their Charter right to freedom of assembly and expression and stated their concern in a submission to the UN special rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly and association. It looks like universities can be added to that state of concern.

In preventing protesters from gaining access to its property the University may have been attempting to teach protesters a lesson in the rules of proper protest on it's hallowed grounds, but here's hoping the administration is forced to do a bit more research into its own responsibility to uphold public discussion even when it doesn't occur within its own culture of rules and regulations. V

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BUDGET FOR RESULTS The provincial government has introduced Bill 1, results-based budgeting, as its first bill to the legislature this spring. The bill is intended to change the way budgeting is approached in the province, wiping the slate of all assumed expenditures by the government and starting from zero in each department. The approach has been criticized from all sides. The Alberta Party has said the process needs to be part of a larger cycle that helps to avoid financial decisions made for political rather than economic reasons, and that this new

TRAIN TO THE FUTURE approach does nothing to address the behind-closed-doors process of budgeting. "Budgets should be built in the open," says Alberta party leader Glen Taylor.

"Not appearing fully formed in the lockup room of the legislature on budget day."

AUPE President Guy Smith has stated that the results-based process can present dangers to the Alberta public service, and he is concerned that a results-based review could be used as an excuse to create greater privatization. "If every program provided by the Government

is going under the microscope, then this should give us an opportunity to see the true cost of privatized and contractedout services in every government department," says Smith. "Many of our members work shoulder-to-shoulder with contracted service providers, they can provide the frank insights the government needs to hear. My concern is that past reviews have been used as a premise for privatization, so we will be watching this process closely." Bill 1 will be debated in the upcoming session of the legislature.

necessary to bring Albertans living in poverty up to the poverty line. "The evidence has never been clearer," says Joe Ceci, coordinator of Action to End Poverty in Alberta. "Preventing and eventually putting an end to poverty makes more sense and costs considerably less than continuing to mitigate its effects. We have a choice in Alberta and now there is clear evidence; now is the time to take action."

With the Alberta spring sitting of the

legislature starting and an election on its way, Bill Moore-Kilgannon, executive director of Public Interest Alberta, is hoping there will be more in-depth provincial action on poverty: "The provincial government has a choice to make—they can go on claiming that the current approach to poverty is all we can do, or they can follow through on the commitment to invest in the public services and supports that will address the root causes of poverty."

A new survey by Edmonton Transit has put bus and LRT usage at an all time high. ETS ridership increased 5.2 percent from 76.3 million trips in 2010 to 80.3 million last year.

Weekday LRT ridership increased by over 3000 daily passenger boardings in 2011 and bus ridership by over 5000 daily boardings. "A five percent bump in ridership is a major increase," says Transportation Services Gen-

eral Manager Bob Boutilier who also stated the increased ridership can be attributed to a growth in LRT system enhancements.

Major capital investment has been made in transit to expand the LRT system south. The city will continue to invest its capital budget in 2013 and 2014 into the Southeast and West LRT expansions as well as extending the LRT line to NAIT.

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Poverty Costs A new report has detailed findings on the cost of poverty to the province.

The report, co-published by the Action to End Poverty and Vibrant Communities Calgary, reveals that the cost of poverty to Alberta in 2009 was 7.1 – 9.5 billion dollars. The report covers the external costs of poverty in terms of health care, crime and lost economic opportunities.

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NEWS // LOGGING

The Castle under attack

Logging has started in the Castle mountain area despite citizen action As the spring legislative session got under way this past Tuesday, Albertans were encouraged to participate in a phone-a-thon to call their MLA's to stop a logging project in Southern Alberta. It's only one attempt in a series of actions over the past two years to stop Spray Lakes from logging in the Castle Special Management Area—a designated special area meant to protect the forest from industrialization.

In the past year citizens have written petitions, made over 100 000 phone calls, and emails and letters have been sent to the Premier's office asking for the logging to stop and the Wildland Park designation to be given to Castle. But on February 1 logging

by Spray Lakes Mills began in the special management area.

While the "special area" designation doesn't prevent industrial activity from occurring, it is intended to stop additional industrial activity from occurring after the designation is given.

The "special area" designation was created in 1998 after years of consultation. Concluded in 2001 the process created 81 special areas which are designed to preserve outdoor recreation opportunities and tourism and are protected from unnecessary vehicle use and road development.

Castle Special Management Area has been designated as such since 1998

when an Alberta government press release declared the new designations to be "a major milestone in the preservation of Alberta's natural heritage for future generations."

Then early in 2010 the Minister of Sustainable Resource Development approved a plan for Spray Lake Sawmills to start clear-cut logging in July 2011. Just months before the decision by the minister of sustainable resource development, the Citizens' Initiative for Castle had been working for months on a draft proposal, which was submitted to the Minister of Tourism, Parks and Recreation on December 8, 2009. The proposal by the working group was for the Castle Special Place to become a protected area and designated as a provincial park.

In a response to the working group's proposal Cindy Ady, minister for parks at the time, stated, "I am very pleased to see that the Castle Special Place working group has successfully engaged the community and stakeholders in your process to explore how conserving this area could contribute to social, environmental and economic benefits to Alberta." It's a message that apparently failed to get through to the minister for sustainable resource development at the time, Ted Morton, and the subsequent minister, Mel Knight.

The working group, which was a selfselected group of interested members of the citizens initiative for Castle, had been working since 2008 to achieve the legislated status of WIldland and Provincial Park status for Castle.

The support for the Castle area has come from diverse sectors. Environmentally the Sierra Club prairie chapter has spoken out about the impacts tree removal will have on the grizzly population in the territory. The SouthWest corner of Alberta is part of the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem in the US's grizzly bear recovery effort. Alberta's grizzly bear status report found that the increased motorized access that is connected with logging lowers the positive effects of forest regrowth after logging that can sometimes stimulate the production of bear foods. "Adding logging roads and clear-cutting on top of that will only make the drain in the sink that much bigger," says Dianne Pachal, Sierra Club Canada's Alberta Wild Director stated in a press release earlier this year. Bear biologist Wayne McCrory was quoted by the Sierra Club as saying that despite the laws protecting Castle, bears are still under threat: "More than a decade of special management in the absence of those laws hasn't worked to turn

around the mortality sink."

Additionally, the watershed management in southern Alberta has been a controversial topic requiring special consideration. A 2004 watershed study on the Oldman river basin by the Guelph water management group found the Oldman River basin to be stressed by urban and rural contamination. According to the Alberta Foothills Network the Castle area provides one third of the annual water flow for Southern Alberta, including the Oldman River Basin and 70 municipalities.

Close to two dozen local businesses and tourist operators joined the protest against the logging project. The coalition of business owners showed up at the Lethbridge stop of Premier Redford's cabinet tour. "Alberta taxpayers will shortly be paying to pave the main access road in the Castle, including through the privately owned Castle Mountain Resort, only to have that road now go through clear cut logging," says Allan Brice of Alberta Fly Fishing Adventures.

A citizens consultation initiative to change the legislation, proposals to ministers, letters, petitions, phone calls and, in mid-January, four arrests after protesters refused to leave the proposed logging area after 20 days of action. The issue is now in court being heard by Court of Queen's Bench Jus-

tice Rosemary Nation, who concluded on February 3 that there should be court time to hear the arguments regarding closure of the Castle area for logging. Protesters are asking that the Premier use her authority under the Public Lands Act to shut down the logging project. Alberta Sustainable Resources Development can move the logging project to any alternative location according to the Forest Act without compensation to the company as long as they give 30 days notice.

"This is an issue that has galvanized support for protection of Alberta's environment," says Sarah Elmeligi, Senior Conservation Planner with the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society. In a press release on February 7 announcing the phone-a-thon campaign during the opening of the provincial legislative session, she said, "We're all speaking with one voice. Is the Premier listening?"

The court case involving the four protesters who were arrested, as well as members of the SRD will be heard on February 24. While the court case proceeds the logging area is closed off from public access and the public is not allowed to block SRD and Spray Lakes Sawmills from continuing their clear-cutting operations.

Four decades ago Norman Borlaug, ing at one percent a year if we manaccepting the Nobel Peace Prize for age irrigation and fertilizer use much his work on raising crop yields worldbetter than we do now. And if the wide (the "green revolution"), said: "I grain production expands, so does have only bought you a 40-year the meat production. breathing space to stabilize This takes no account of the your population." ecological damage done by In 1970, when Borlaug got removing even more land .com weekly his prize for postponing from the natural cycles, e u v @ e gwynn e n the onset of famine for 40 and it omits details like the n y w G years, the world's population looming collapse of most of Dyer was 3.7 billion. Today, it is 7 bilthe world's big fisheries. Given lion. The US Census Bureau expects the frequent forecasts of doom by only two billion more in the next 34 over-population, however, it is a suryears, and we might actually stabilize prisingly reassuring assessment. the population by the end of the cenBut this is a forecast that ignores tury—but we will have to feed almost the probable impacts of global warmthree times as many people as there ing on food production, and those were in 1970. How on earth can we will be dire. In some places a hotter do that? climate will actually increases food Actually, you don't need to panic production, but in far more places right away. The UN's Food and Agricrop yields will fall. cultural Organization (FAO) recently The rule of thumb is that we will estimated that the extra people can lose 10 percent of global food producbe fed, at least until we hit nine biltion with every rise in average global lion, if crop yields rise by one pertemperature of one degree Celsius. cent a year and the world's farmland Since we are virtually bound to see expands by 13 percent. an increase of two degrees Celsius There is enough potentially arable before global average temperature land for that, although it would instops rising (if it does), that's one-fifth volve cutting down the forests over of world food production gone. an area the size of South Africa.

It will be considerably worse in Grain yields probably can go on rissome places. In India, for example, a

rise of two degrees Celsius means a 25 percent loss of food production. In China, it will probably be worse than that. And a crash in food production doesn't just bring hunger. It brings chaos: collapsing governments, waves of starving climate refugees crossing borders, even wars between

taking stem cells from a cow, a sheep or a chicken and encouraging them to grow in a nutrient solution.

It's already being done in labs, but the quantities are small and the meat is still a long way from having the taste and texture that would make it a real candidate to replace meat from live animals.

would drop sharply (about one-fifth of global emissions from human sources come from meat production). About half the land that has been converted to grain-growing in the past century could be returned to natural forest cover. The famines and wars that would come with global food shortages could be postponed for decades, and even the warming itself might be stopped.

"Cultured" food may be commercially available in only a few years if the research is pushed hard. Indeed, the animal welfare group PETA has offered a million-dollar prize for anybody who can demonstrate lab-made meat in commercial quantities by June 30 this year, and they think that one of the research teams now working on the problem may claim the award.

But it isn't being pushed fast enough.

"There is very little funding," Professor Julie Gold, a biological physicist at Chalmers Technological University in Gothenburg, Sweden, told the Observer newspaper recently. "What it needs is a crazy rich person." V

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COMMENT >> MEAT

Cultured meat

Test tube meat may be the answer to famine

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Since we are virtually bound to see an increase of two degrees Celsius before global average temperature stops rising (if it does), that's onefifth of world food production gone.

countries that depend on the same river for irrigation water.

Military planners in many countries think that this may be the dominant factor in world politics in 25 years' time.

That will make it even harder to get global agreement on measures to stop further warming, so they are making contingency plans for really ugly outcomes. But what if you could make food production independent of climate?

Specifically, what if you could make meat production independent of climate? Don't use 70 percent of the world’s agricultural land to grow grain that feeds the animals we then kill and eat. Just grow the meat itself,

But those are details that can be sorted out with more research and more money. The point is that this could allow people to go on eating meat without trashing the climate in the process.

People are not going to stop eating meat: demand is going up, not down.

But if "cultured" meat can be made identical in taste and texture to "real" meat from animals, and if it can be grown in large quantities at a competitive cost, the ecological benefits would be immense. The political benefits might be even greater.

If half of the meat people eat was "cultured," greenhouse gas emissions

Gwynne Dyer is a London-based independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries. His column appears each week in Vue Weekly.

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COMMENT >> HOCKEY

Play it again, Sam

Looks like the Oilers are in need of new trade bait All in all, last week was a pretty a frustrated Sam Gagner took a eventful stretch for the Oilers. unique risk to improve his team's The first game of February fortunes. Just like in the 2012 was one for the reFaustian legend of bluescord books with an 8-4 man Robert Johson, Gagwin over Chicago and ner was contacted by a ly.com eweek ox@vu b an eight-point night for mysterious stranger who e th in oung & Dave Y s Sam Gagner. Another claimed to be the Devil e tl Bir Bryan Original Six team came to himself. The stranger told Edmonton and the Oilers beat Gagner to bring him a hockey the Detroit Red Wings 5-4 in a stick and meet him at a crossroads, shootout. The good fortune was where he would tape up the stick snapped, unfortunately, with a for him. Using the magical hockey 6-3 loss to Toronto at the Centre stick could give him unearthly powof the Universe Arena. ers. The catch? This "Devil" would claim Gagner's soul as payment Great (somewhat fictional) mofor using the occult object. "Why ments in (somewhat embellished) not?" thought the sceptical Oiler Oilers history forward, who humoured the odd During the 2012 All-Star break, fellow and brought his gear. "This

can't be real—and the team needs my help. Whatever."

The enchanted blade was dragged out when Gagner started the February 2, 2012 game against Chicago. We all know what happened next. Number 89 scored four goals and added four assists for an unheard-of eight points in a game.

This hasn't been done since Mario Lemieux in 1989. The Oilers won. Gagner even got three more points against Detroit two days later. This scared Sam, who texted this supposed "Devil". Here's the text-message transcript: Sam Gagner: This is scary. I didn't think it was real.

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

MEDITATION • Strathcona Library, 8331-104

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

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

Organization for Bipolar Affective Disorder (OBAD) • Grey

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

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 Vegetarians of Alberta • Bonnie Doon Community Hall, 9240-93 St • vofa.ca/ category/events • Monthly Potluck and book sale: bring a vegan dish to serve 8 people, your own plate, cup, cutlery, serving spoon • $3 (member)/$5 (non-member) • Feb 12 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

LECTURES/Presentations Curatorial Lecture Series • Royal

Alberta Museum Theatre, 12845-102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • How to Preserve Artifacts: Notes from the conservation lab: With Margot Brunn • Feb 15, 7pm • Free

Grant MacEwan University Fine Art Lecture • Grant MacEwan Centre for

the Arts, Rm 203, 10045-156 St • Lecture by Will Bauer • Feb 9, 12-1pm

Moving Beyond The Automobile • Metro Cinema, Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • Featuring The film, Moving Beyond The Automobile, and panel discussion exploring the solutions to the problem of automobile dependency • Feb 20, 4-6pm • Admission by donation

Visual Arts Forum • FAB 2-20, U of A • Sean Caulfield and Royden Mills in Conversation with Gavin Renwick • Feb 16, 5:15pm

QUEER AFFIRM SUNNYBROOK–Red Deer

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

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

BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725B Jasper Ave

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

EDMONTON PRIME TIMERS (EPT) •

Unitarian Church of Edmonton, 10804-119 St • A group of older gay men who have common interests meet the 2nd Sun, 2:30pm, for a social period, short meeting and guest speaker, discussion panel or potluck supper.

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

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

webs.com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome

FLASH Night Club • 10018-105 St •

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

G.L.B.T.Q Sage bowling club • 780.474.8240, E: Tuff@shaw.ca • Every Wed, 1:30-3:30pm

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price for one really good game.

S8tn: Anything else U want?

Sam Gagner: Can we make the playoffs??? :) S8tn: Sorry. Can't do it. If Oilers make playoffs, I have to give Calgary their souls back. DY Don't you forget about me

I know this week belongs to Sam Gagner. I was as excited as anyone to watch him almost singlehandedly decimate the Blackhawks on his way to tying an Oiler record set by two guys whose sweaters are in the rafters. But let's not forget about our other young guns, Taylor Hall and Jordan Eberle.

Since coming back from having his face stepped on by a skate—HIS FACE STEPPED ON BY A SKATE!— Hall has been on fire, scoring nine points in seven games, including a four-point, career-high night that meant absolutely nothing to any-

one coming as it did against the Chicago Blackhawks.

Eberle has been even better: over the same span, he's notched 11 points.

All of which just goes to show that when you're hot, you're hot.

It's no wonder the team has gone on a bit of a tear since the All-Star break—even Devan Dubnyk has stepped up to the plate, showing himself worthy of the promise he showed and battling, finally, for that number-one spot. Now we just need the veterans to start drinking from the same Gatorade bottle as the young'uns and we'll charge our way into the playoffs (it could still happen). BB Oilers Player of the Week

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GLBT sports and recreation •

teamedmonton.ca • Badminton, Women's Drop-In Recreational: St Vincent School, 10530-138 St; every Wed 6-7:30pm, until Apr 25; $7 (drop-in fee) • Co-ed Bellydancing • Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary, 10925-87 Ave. at 7pm • Bowling: Ed's Rec Centre, West Edmonton Mall, Tue 6:45pm • Curling: Granite Curling Club; 780.463.5942 • Running: Kinsmen • Spinning: MacEwan Centre, 109 St, 104 Ave • Swimming: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St • Volleyball: every Tue, 7-9pm; St. Catherine School, 10915-110 St; every Thu, 7:30-9:30pm at Amiskiwiciy Academy, 101 Airport Rd

G.L.B.T.Q Seniors Group • S.A.G.E Bldg, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4:30pm • Info: T: Jeff Bovee 780.488.3234, E: tuff @shaw.ca

SPECIAL EVENTS Alberta Winter Games • Fuhr Sports

Park, Spruce Grove • 2012awg.ca • Ceremony at 7pm • Feb 9-12 • $15: incl Park n’ Ride fr Spruce Grove Alliance Church, Links Golf Course, Memorial Composite High School, Stony Plain.

Shuttles at 5:30pm and every 15 mins

Birkebeiner Ski Festival • Cooking Lake, Blackfoot Provincial Recreation Area • canadianbirkie.com • A family-oriented crosscountry ski event • Feb 10-11 BRUNCH of Love • Fairmont Hotel Mac-

Donald, Wedgwood Rm, 10065-100 St • Freewill Shakespeare Festival Valentine fundraiser and live auction • Feb 12, 11am-2pm • $75 at 780.425.8086; E: gm@freewillshakespeare.com; W: freewillshakespeare.com

Illusions Social Club • The Junction,

Common Ground Festival–WINTER LIGHT • Giovanni Cabato Park • winterlight.ca • A

INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campus-

Gathering of Eagles Dinner, Silent/ Live Auction • Edmonton Coast Plaza Hotel,

10242-106 St • groups.yahoo.com/group/edmonton_illusions • 780.387.3343 • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri every month, 8:30pm based organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-identified and queer (LGBTQ) faculty, graduate student, academic, straight allies and support staff • 3rd Thu each month (fall/winter terms): Speakers Series. E: kwells@ualberta.ca

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

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

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

MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB •

geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu

Pride Centre of Edmonton

• Moving • 780.488.3234 • E: admin@ pridecentreofedmonton.org • Daily: YouthSpace (Youth Drop-in): Tue-Fri: 3-7pm; Sat: 2-6:30pm • Men Talking with Pride: Support group for gay, bisexual and transgendered men to discuss current issues; Sun: 7-9pm • HIV Support Group: for people living with HIV/ AIDS; 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm• TTIQ: Education and support group for transgender, transsexual, intersexed and questioning people, their friends, families and allies; 2nd Tue each month, 7:30-9:30pm • Counselling: Free, shortterm, solution-focused counselling, provided by professionally trained counsellors; every Wed, 6-9pm • Youth Movie: Every Thu, 6:30-8:30pm

St Paul's United Church • 1152676 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship) WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • A Non-

profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured

Woodys Video Bar • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Amateur Strip Contest; prizes with Shawana • Tue: Kitchen 3-11pm • Wed: Karaoke with Tizzy 7pm-1am; Kitchen 3-11pm • Thu: Free pool all night; kitchen 3-11pm • Fri: Mocho Nacho Fri: 3pm (door), kitchen open 3-11pm

warm gathering for the Year of the Dragon • Feb 10-11; Fri, 6-9pm, Sat, 12-9pm

10155-105 St • The Past/Present/Future: Aviation Museum’s fundraising dinner with presentations, and auction • Feb 17, 6pm • $50 at the Alberta Aviation Museum gift shop, door 780.451.1175

Love of Wine • Delta Edmonton South Hotel

• Valentine fundraiser for Kids Kottage Foundation: romantic ambiance, gourmet, chocolate buffet and wine, live jazz by Sandro Dominelli, performances

by VINOK Worldance • Feb 10, 7-10pm • $100

Metropolis • Churchill Square and the

surrounding streets • Edmonton International Winter Festival: Featuring six free-standing, heated temporary structures made from Aluma Systems construction scaffolding covered with white shrink wrap, entertainment and fireworks at midnight • Until Feb 20 (Churchill Square)

Night Works in the Park • Silver

Skate Festival, Hawrelak Park • Live music, dance and light spectacles; this year’s performances by Murdoch and Sparrow, Jason Kodie (folk pop), Allez Ouest (francophone folk rock), Terry Morrison (singer-songwriter), Neko Rei (electronica), F&M (songwriters), Donovan Workun and Atomic Improv, Psychic City (rock), Vibe Tribe (dance) • Feb 18-19, 6pm

Parka Patio • Latitude 53, 10248-106 St • latitude53.org/parka • Rooftop Winter Patio Party: Part of Common Ground Festival with DJs Axe and Smash, Josh Johnson, video projection, decor by Elemental Interiors • Feb 18, 8pm-late Silver Skate Festival • Hawrelak Park

• silverskatefestival.org • Featuring skate races, winter sport demonstrations, the Baba Yaga and The Firebird Trail, live performances, snow and fire sculpture • Snow Sculpture competition: Feb 17, 9am-6pm; Daily events: Feb 18-19, 9am10pm; Feb 20, 12-5pm

Swapopolis • Churchill Sq Community

Centre • At Metropolis Fashion Festival open at 5:30pm for patrons to shop the Hand Made Mafia’s Sale Market before the swapping commences. Clothing SWAP; • Before Feb 14, 6pm drop SWAP-worthy items at Bamboo Ballroom • Feb 17, 7pm • $20 to participate

Winterfest–Uptown Folk Club • Expressionz Café, 9938-70 Ave • 780.436.1554 • uptownfolkclub.ca • Featured Cindy Church, Wendell Ferguson, Shane Chisholm, Roger James plus 35 performers with original folk, country and bluegrass music • Feb 17-19 • $20 (Fri)/$30 (Sat)/$40 (both days)/$10 (Sun workshop) at Myhre's, Acoustic Music Shop , yeglive

FILM

FILM // SEX ADDICTION

Guilt and Shame

Director Steve McQueen on sex addition, NC-17 and a 'huge hypocrisy' Opens Friday Shame Directed by Steve McQueen Princess Theatre

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e meet Brandon (Michael Fassbender) staring up at his ceiling, naked save a thin bed sheet, blank expression masking his thoughts. there's a coldness to the image that rarely lifts, if it ever does: a promising young businessman at some nameless organization, Brandon's life is carefully controlled with one vice: an egregious, unappeasable addiction to sex, which he never seems to even remotely enjoy. And when his damaged but far livlier sister starts living on his couch, that careful façade starts to crumble, and the man enters a freefall into his addiction.

Shame is a film that's devoted to its conviction to portray a stark, unforgiving disease in a stark, unforgiving way. And despite Fassbender's slowburner performance, director Steve McQueen's overall vision—assisted by co-writer Abi Morgan—seems almost too icy in its execution: we see the problem very vividly, but get little of cause, or cure: we're simply given a long-look at an uncomfortable issue that rarely gets a glance. There's al ot of merit to that idea, but without much in the way of warmth, that can be difficult to take in. Shame never flinches, but watching it, you probably will.

He's probably thinking about sex

McQueen took a call with Vue during a press day back in December. One of the first things he asked about was the early reception to the film in Canada. It seemed like he was expecting criticism, though the movie's been met with pretty widespread praise. McQueen seems well aware that his work is far from everyone's cup of tea, but it's not something he seems to dwell on.

VUE WEEKLY: Do you wonder if there's going to be a backlash to one of your films before it comes out?

STEVE MCQUEEN: I do. But I think that with everything, and understandably so. That just happens. It happened with Hunger, absolutely. It happened with Shame; it's one of those things where, someone says yay, someone says nay. That's fine. Sometimes the

nays are interesting, so I embrace it all.

VW: What drew you to exploring Shame's ideas of sexuality?

SM: It's one of those things y'know where ... what drew me to Hunger was [that it was] one of these things that's been swept under the carpet.

This is a thing that no one ever spoke about. I mean, a lot of reviewers, for example, still don't believe—a lot

of people in general don't believe— there's such a thing as sexual addiction, that this is different from being promiscuous. This is not a want, that's a actual need, a necessity, it's the kind of situation where, y'know, you get people locked in a room for 72 hours looking at pornography and masturbating for those 72 hours, or going on a sexcapade. It's a serious condition that people are not taking seriously.

VW: Do you feel the NC-17 rating Shame's been given in America drives that point home, in a way?

SM: Absolutely. I mean, again, the shame of sex. It's kind of weird. It's totally old fashioned. Violence is not seen as shameful at all, but I've never held a gun in my hand and never shot somebody in the head, but that is deemed as being normal within the distribution of the films in the United States, meaning it will not get an NC-17. But some two people having sex, which the majority of people do, not shooting and killing each other, that is deemed as being unseemly, and thus is given the NC-17 rating. It's very strange.

VW: In talking to people with sexual addiction, did anything surprise you?

SM: Everything. I mean, because again, I was one of those people who maybe laughed at the idea of sexual addiction in the beginning. But then you find out CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 >>

REVUE // ART CONVERSING WITH ART

The Mill and the Cross Sat, Feb 11 – Wed, Feb 15 Directed by Lech Majewski Metro Cinema at the Garneau

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Portrait of the artist as Rutger Hauer

y painting will have to tell many stories," says the artist, slightly hunched, eyes watchful as an owl. "It must be large enough to hold everything." What is that everything? It is woodcutters and weeping women; Spaniards in red tunics on horseback flogging heretics; children, carrion birds and gallows; the shadow play of gears on fat faces; circles of dancers; the echo of wooden shoes on floorboards; the windmill in the Lord's position, high up on the narrow mountain, and the heavy-bottomed clouds receding into cold blue. There is much, much more.

But wait, this everything is a conflation of two different everythings:

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there's the painting, Pieter Bruegel the Elder's The Way to Calvary, completed in 1564, and there's the movie, Lech Majewski's The Mill and the Cross, completed in 2011, drawn from Bruegel and from Michael Francis Gibson's book of the same name. What's especially remarkable about Majewski's hybrid of art history, political history and formalist ensemble drama is the way it merges the composed with the naturalistic, the still and painterly with the fluid and cinematic. The Bruegel imbues the movie with monumental vastness and historical sweep; the movie makes you hear sounds and discover action in the painting. This is art conversing with art—and the conversation's well-met on both sides.

Majewski, who co-wrote the script with Gibson, follows the Bruegel in its insistence on conjuring narrative pri-

marily through the visual. Words are heard mostly as monologue, uttered by some pleasingly familiar voices: Rutger Hauer as Bruegel, Charlotte Rampling as Mary, Michael York as Nicolaes Jonghelinck, a banker and art enthusiast (we glimpse Bruegel's The Hunters in the Snow on one of his walls; it was actually painted in 1565, but I'll grant Majewski his poetic license) appalled by the treatment of the people of Flanders at the hands of the Spanish. Their voices enhance the movie's trance, luring us into its particular moment, where brutality is transformed into beauty by one who aspires to reveal multitudes on a single coherent canvas. Majewski has the distinct advantage of having a canvas that moves and talks and is 91 minutes long, but he uses that advantage well.

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GUILT AND SHAME

young guy. And he uses his income to facilitate his addiction, which is sex.

the real depths of what can happen, and you start questioning everything around you. You start questioning so many things. It's a real situation, one which is sort of, because of the Internet, more than anything else, is becoming an epidemic. And the character of Brandon is an archetype of a sex addict: he's controlling his environment, he's a

VW: Why Shame, and not something like guilt? What do you see as the difference between the two?

SM: The fact of the matter is that ... in interviewing people, myself and Abbey, this word, shame, kept coming up again and again. When it came out of their sort of sexual escapades, they'd feel this self-loathing and hate and

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shame for what they did. And when they recovered ... they would go on a binge again. So it was one of those translucent moments where they just felt real shame. Like when you have a situation where people aren't taking sex seriously, it's because there's a shame there. It's a very strange thing, where people are ashamed of sex and everyone does it. It's a huge hypocrisy.

PREVUE // BIEHN!

The cult of Biehn

Michael Biehn brings two films to town

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Fri, Feb 10 (7 pm [The Victim], 9:30 pm [The Divide]) Dedfest presents: Michael Biehn Metro Cinema at the Garneau

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told my agent when I was young I didn't want to be a movie star, I wanted to be an actor," Michael Biehn says. "And that's come to pass, for good and bad."

That Biehn's legacy is one of a cult actor was, at least in part, engineered by the man himsef. He's known best for the sort of roles more likely to get you panel slots at comic conventions than Oscar nods and tabloid flashes, though he's had a few brushes with more major limelight: Corporal Hicks in Aliens proved a classic role (an early draft of Alien 3 had him, rather than Ripley, as the protagonist), as did Kyle Reese in The Terminator, and The Abyss's Lieutenant Coffey was a role that the studio lobbied heavily to get Biehn an Oscar nomination for (it was ultimately unsuccessful).

But Biehn works more as he originally intended, popping up with comfortable regularity as (usually) a tough face in films—say, beside Sean Connery in The Rock, or as a small town Sheriff in Death Proof—or now, for the first time, in the director's chair: brought into town by Dedfest, Biehn's coming with a pair of movies, one of which is his own. The Divide features Biehn as part of the ensemble—an apocalypic, survivors-trapped-ina-bunker dark horror—while The Victim marks his first foray into directing. "[James] Cameron always told me I should direct," Biehn says, taking the call from LA. "I was always a little bit hesitant about it, because I was working a lot as an actor. I worked on Grindhouse with Robert Rodriguez and Tarantino, and it was just a blast. Robert's inspirational in the way that he just does it."

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Biehn's partner, actress Jennifer Blanc—also in on the phonecall— agreed to star, and took on the role of producer. She notes they had about a tenth of the original Terminator's funding to make their film and limited resources: one camera led to as much as 45 setups a day during a tight, five

week shoot.

The Victim stars both of them: Biehn plays Kyle, a recluse living out in the woods who finds his seemingly quiet existence interrupted by the arrival of Annie (Blanc) fleeing from her friend's killers, though her own innocence quickly becomes uncertain. In other words, it's a grindhouse flick, heart and soul.

"You watch it, you have fun while you're eating it and then it disappears," Biehn says. "It's a lot of fun when you're watching ... All the exploitable items I could think of that didn't cost any money are in here.

"I felt if I could take people's minds off the serious business that's going on in the world for 88 minutes, I've done my job."

Biehn and Blanc note that they pulled inspiration from Kevin Smith's DIY distributor route, taken to release his 2011 film Red State—"I really think it is the new model for theatrical releases. For small ones," says Blanc. "Not for 20th Century Fox, for Paramount, but for independent movies."—and have been pushing to get the film out to film fests and college campuses, the sort of places that Biehn's name and face would likely pull in some fandom. Though that status of "cult" recognition isn't something Biehn seems quite used to, even now.

"It's only really been recently, to tell you the truth," he says. "The word 'icon' has been creeping into the conversation for the last two years. I've started hearing it more and more. I've done three [major] movies: one was Terminator, one was Aliens and one was the Abyss, and I have children—who I consider children, who are 20, 22, 28, 25, and even young kids, 10, 12 years old—who will approach me and say, 'Aliens is my favourite movie of all time.' I've finally come to realize, well, these movies were made before these children were born, I've come to realize, I don't know if you want to call them classics, but they've become movies that have crossed generations. When kids come up to me and say Kyle Reese is their favourite character, they mean it."

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FILM // POP ROMANCE PORTMANTEAU

Chungking Express Sat, Feb 11 – Tue, Feb 14 Directed by Wong Kar-wai Metro Cinema at the Garneau Originally released: 1994

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ong Kar-wai knocked out his 1994 pop romance portmanteau Chungking Express (Chung Hing sam lam) over just three months. The project was a break from the lengthy postproduction of his period martial arts epic Ashes of Time (1994/2008), and indeed, Chungking unfurls with a dizzy, kittenish, revitalizing playfulness that runs counter to Ashes' more belaboured and intricate esthetic gestures, despite the fact that these films share many of the same themes and motifs: above all, young people trying on personalities; the durability and masochistic allure of sustained broken-heartedness and melancholy memories; and the comforts of quirky metaphors and magical thinking in times of loss. Yet for all that the film is pretty damned gleeful. It makes housework, breaking and entering and playing with toy airplanes look like an awful lot of fun. (The Mamas and the Papas on the soundtrack helps.)

The film's twin narratives, both set in the crowded, florescent-lit Babel-labyrinth of pre-hand-over Hong Kong, feature two police officers known only by their badge numbers, a pixie-like takeout kiosk clerk and a drug smuggler whose look was apparently modeled after Gena Rowlands in Gloria (1980), though something about the combo

A visionary esthetic at play

of her sunglasses, make-up, oversized overcoat and big blonde wig always makes me think she looks like a drag queen. The four stars, two of whom were hugely popular singers, were all East Asian box office gold at the time, but the face who remains most familiar to Western audiences also happens to be the one with the wounded eyes and the role most lovingly loaded with Wong's signature tropes. Tony Leung's No. 663 is a soft-spoken cop with a crying apartment, an "emotionally charged towel" and a giant stuffed Garfield doll to whom he talks while waiting for a flight attendant girlfriend who's never coming home. It's easy to imagine this character, or any of the others really, collapsing under the cuteness and wistful sentimentality of Wong's voice-over monologues, but each of the actors, perfectly in step with their director, very wisely plays it cool.

Perhaps the real star of Chungking Express is Christopher Doyle, the internationally beloved wild-man cinematogra8207–105 Street pher who developed what would become Edmonton, Alberta T6E 6G2 his singular, shooter-as-auteur approach 1.780.433.3329 while working in close collaboration on Wong's early features. Before revisiting the film to write this piece I hadn't seen Chungking in many years. I realized that MKTG32285_LOLASB.indd 1 nearly everything I remembered about it and held most dear had much to do with the way Doyle used the film's array of cramped locations, channelling his pentup energy into buzzy, brushstroke-like camera moves; the way he coasted down corridors with a wide-angle lens and adored his lovely young subjects in lyrical close-up. It was a visionary esthetic built largely on necessity—like most visionary esthetics. And it begs, down on all fours, to be seen on the big screen.

mother, infects the film from the start, and his camera's less a chronicler than a "barrier," as his cousin Matt (Alex Russell) suggests. But this found-footage, self-recording style increases the sense of unpredictability—what will we see next?—and the film soon spooks us not with scares out there, but horrors within.

And when Andrew, Matt and Steve (Michael B Jordan) find a strange, pulsing rock underground, it's not surprising that it's the internalizing, introspective, seething Andrew who best develops the telekinetic powers they're struck with.

deftly detailed, from shifting a car a few feet to dismembering a spider or levitation—not just of themselves but Andrew's constant companion the camera, floating eerily above him. Even as these awkward, sometimes foolish teens are trying to articulate their feelings, they're trying to extend their powers.

The story still doesn't bust free of highschool stereotypes—angry loner, bullies, pretty blonde—and its finale is a city-trashing, Hulk-scale cataclysm that's too fast and flashy to fully follow. But for much of its patient, intimate study of three young supermen who never quite grasp great responsibility, their lives turning more tragic than heroic, Chronicle offers a strangely realistic sense of how adolescents can become awfully, powerfully alien even to themselves.

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REVUE // WITH GREAT POWER ...

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ithout warning, nary a spine-tingle of hype, it came—with little bursts at first, then growing in strength, until ... it mutated into cliché. But by then, Chronicle is like its seemingly insignificant chronicler, Andrew (Dane DeHaan), coming out of nowhere to surprise with its power.

The story begins with a canny cameraconceit—Andrew's trying out his new camera, pointing it at the mirror on his door, when his abusive father pounds on it, demanding to know what he's doing. Andrew's everyday fear of his dad, combined with his sadness over his dying

What's more surprising is the film's careful pacing and (mostly) small scale, thanks to 26-year-old, first-time director Josh Trank and screenwriter Max Landis (son of director John Landis). The nearabsurdity, petty tricks, and slow "musclebuilding" of the trio's mental powers are

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PREVUE // COMEDY

The comedian reflects on leaving, not being an asshole, and the 'Strathcona Shitter'

By Bryan Birtles // bryan@vueweekly.com

From: you.email.jon@gmail.com Subject: YO Date: January 20, 2012 3:37:27 AM GMT-05:00 To: bryan@vueweekly.com Hey bud, I know it's 3:30, so im sorry if this alert wakes you up, but how would you feel about doing a different interview?

I feel like I kind of mis-represented myself. Also, sorry if I am over thinking this shit. I just REALLY don't want to seem like a dick, because throwing a going away party in your honour is already pretty dick-ish.

Thoughts?

Jon

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he Jon Mick who takes the stage to tell jokes is the Jon Mick in control, the one with the cojones to put it all out there and say, 'Fuck it.

You don't like it? Fuck it.' The other Jon Mick is the one sending emails at three o'clock in the morning, wondering if he struck the right tone in an interview, worrying that no one will come to his going-away show, Edmonton I Love You, because, 'What kind of asshole throws his own going-away show?' When he heads to Toronto, the first Jon Mick will lead the way. Tagging along will be the second.

Confidence is a necessity in standup comedy. Unlike musicians, actors, writers and artists who hone their craft in private, comedians make their mistakes in front of other people. And they make them over and over and over again before it starts to work.

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"I'll write a bit and I'll tell this joke 10, 15, 20 times to rooms in different ways before I even find, 'Aw, there's the rhythm,'" Mick recounts.

When the joke finally lands, however, its history is wiped away. "There's no other feeling that compares to that, there's no drug in the world that compares to that," Mick says. "The amount I fail just doesn't even compare to that."

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Growing up in Fort McMurray, Mick soon realized the oil industry wasn't in his future. He tried his hand at being an electrician, but that went nowhere. An interview at a meatpacking plant landed him the job, but he never showed up. He considered being a high school teacher, but quickly reconsidered. It seemed nothing could rouse his passions.

"I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life," Mick says. "I've been ob-

sessed with stand-up comedy since I was a little kid ... but it wasn't until recently that it was even in the realm of what I could be doing with my life."

A few false starts on Fort McMurray and Calgary open stages—he wasn't available for last-minute calls in Calgary because he lived 10 hours away, and eventually the promoter stopped calling—were followed by a move to Edmonton. For a while he languished, doing nothing until a friend signed him up—without his knowledge—for Hang Time, a comedy night hosted by Arlen Konopaki and Mike Robertson, two Rapid Fire improvisers and filmmakers.

"They were just really supportive and dug what I was doing and allowed me to come back continually to work on my act and get something together," he says. "Then I got the confidence to start going out to clubs."

In Edmonton, Mick found a supportive, underground art community. He started his own comedy night at the

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Wunderbar called The Delicatessen of Jokes and General Funnery, recorded an album called Who Knew?, and helped foster an alternative comedy scene that didn't have a place within Edmonton's established comedy clubs.

"I really wanted to perpetuate an environment that people could just do what they wanted to do," Mick says of The Delicatessen. "Between Mike and Arlen doing Hang Time and my night at the Wunderbar and various things around the city, it's fostered this community that didn't exist outside of the walls of those four or five clubs and a handful of open-mic nights. I'm pretty proud of that."

Once just a steppingstone in Mick's mind, Edmonton became his hometown. Instead of moving on, he became fully ensconced in the community he helped foster.

"There's so many awesome people and awesome bands and films and comedians, just a dizzying array of enter-

tainment that kind of goes unnoticed a lot of the time and it shouldn't go unnoticed. That's kind of what Edmonton I Love You is all about."

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"I feel like I'm sounding like an asshole."

Edmonton can be like an overprotective parent, the kind that wants you to succeed but doesn't want you to leave. It's a tendency that hasn't escaped Jon Mick, who insists on explaining that he's not throwing his own going-away party.

"This whole night is less about me and more about Edmonton," he says.

"I don't mean to say, 'I love you guys but I'm leaving you.' I don't mean it to sound like that. It's more like, 'I'm going to miss the shit out of you and you're great.' That's what I want it to be.

"But it's hard for people not to think, CONTINUED ON PAGE 17 >>

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It's hard for people not to think, 'Jon's throwing a big party for himself because he thinks everybody loves him.' No. No, no, no.

'Jon's throwing a big party for himself because he thinks everybody loves him.' No. No, no, no. I love all these people and all the people who supported me and that's what I'm doing this for."

The second Jon Mick could go on like this for hours.

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Not that he's never acted like an asshole.

This is a guy who's screamed at—and apologized for screaming at—comedy promoters. He's made enemies. He took a shit on someone's lawn—more than once.

"It started off as an emergency," he says. "I did it more than once—more than one emergency—and then I had this intense fear I'd be caught and demonized and the press would be like, 'Strathcona Shitter strikes again.' 'The city streets are being stalked by the Strathcona Shitter.'

"Not a proud moment."

The moments he's least proud of are the best fodder for his work, however.

His act is full of material that doesn't

show him in the best light: his propensity to sweat profusely on dates, his distaste for old people, his degenerate bucket list. These anecdotes are the second Jon Mick expressing himself through the first, the 3 am Jon Mick absolved through the bombast of his alter ego.

"I love that I can take something that was really embarrassing, that was like, 'Why am I doing this—what is wrong with me?' and instead of holding this shame, I tell people about it onstage," he says. "That's the beauty, that's basically my whole philosophy behind comedy: make it not so affecting. It's easier to let it roll off your back if you're able to laugh about it."

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But, as he's been asked before, if he loves Edmonton so much, why leave? The truth is, there isn't enough industry for everyone to make a go of it here.

"I already feel like being an entertainer is a pretty stupid career decision.

It's just financial ruin and emotional ruin, you distance yourself from your

friendships and the people you love, it's like, 'Why would I do this?'" Mick laughs. "The next logical step is to be somewhere that has a strong and healthy industry around it. And it's unfortunate that it can't happen here— or it could very well happen here but it isn't right now, and I'm hungry now.

There's only so much time I can spend not working."

Work is what Mick wants to do more than anything. Armed with contacts for comedy gigs and a few script ideas, the plan is to plunge in immediately, not stopping until he sees how far he can go. He hopes the work he does will speak for itself.

"It's unbelievable, that feeling. To have a room of people staring at you and laughing—and I know that that's a nightmare for some—I love it," he says.

"A guy's gotta chase his dream."

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PREVUE // ONE MAN, ONE CHAIR

REVUE // WAIT FOR IT ...

Moving Along

Worth the wait

A well-realized Godot makes for a classic thinker of a play Until Sat, Feb 11 (8 pm) Directed by Chris Bullough Arts Barns, Westbury Theatre, $19 – $23

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A man and his electro-chair

Thu, Feb 9 – Sun, Feb 26 (8 pm) Directed by Bradley Moss Theatre Network, $13.50 – $27

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doubt I would ever create a memoir, a book about me, so I think this is as close as I'll ever come."

The title of Moving Along, Chris Craddock's upcoming production, is disarmingly simple. The veteran playwright/actor/director lives a full life both on and off the stage, regularly moving from one project to the next—what better form for his collection of experiences and ruminations than a theatrical performance?

"The idea of the show is that it's semi-autobiographical," states Craddock. "I've remounted it many times, but every time I remount it I rewrite it, to sort of reflect where my life has come to this point. This is a fairly major remount, so it has got a fairly major rewrite."

Craddock first staged Moving Along in 2000 on a commission from Edmonton-based Theatre of the New Heart. It was then, as it is now, a site-specific piece: Craddock spends the duration of the 90-minute show strapped into an "electro-chair"—an armchair rigged to the show's lighting, which he controls. This particular remount, which Craddock counts as number seven, features the addition of a sound button to the chair, allowing him to control the show's sound design as well.

It may seem a daunting (or crazy) task to control both light and sound while also performing, but Craddock explains that the decision was rooted in practicality.

"In this modern theatrical world that we're in, it seems to me that lights are the editor," Craddock explains.

"We're all using lights as an editor: we change the lighting state and we're

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somewhere else now. And all this is, is just a really, really efficient way to do that. So it allows me to sort of cut the play, if you will, as if it was a film— we can go instantly elsewhere. And it's well-timed to my performance for obvious reasons, because I'm running it myself."

Though Moving Along is a sort of autobiography-in-progress, Craddock is quick to affirm that not everything in the show can be taken literally. "I like to add a little 'semi' in there, because for one thing it's all from my grossly personal point of view," he states.

"None of the people I'm talking about are there to defend themselves —it's just all me. So it's hard to say how true anything is, given the frailty of human memory. And some things are certainly exaggerated, and some things are rearranged somewhat in terms of their actual timeline, just for simplicity. Sometimes actual human life is too complicated to accurately depict."

"I don't pretend my life is especially interesting," he continues. "People don't see my show because they're hoping for a Roméo Dallaire-style talk about something they have never experienced. I think people come to this show to be reminded of their life. My life is maybe a bit odd, but it's perfectly regular, generally speaking. I had parents and we fought, and I had girlfriends and we fought.

"Oh wow, it's sounding really heavy now," he says, interrupting himself with a chagrined chuckle. "I should also say that it's hilariously funny.

I don't want people to think it's this dour kind of whiny thing—it's not; it's very much comedy. Because, you know, life is funny. Pain is hilarious, generally speaking. If you look at jokes, they generally have a chunk of pathos in them somewhere."

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amuel Beckett's works have long been go-to pieces for those wanting to take an insightful look into human nature. With characters that are downright fascinating and a plot that frustrates as much as it enlightens, Waiting for Godot is a classic thinking-person's play. The characters in the piece grapple with a number of issues, not in the least the worry of a meaningful existence.

The plot is structured around Estragon (Farren Timoteo) and Vladimir (Nathan Cuckow) who await the arrival of Godot to no avail. The piece starts with both characters convinced that there is something irritating them in their shoe or hat. Their stories both begin and end with them finding no tangible source to the bother, leaving them with an anxious desire to see something that simply isn't there. Eventually, they meet Pozzo (Glenn Nelson) and his slave Lucky (George Szilagyi) who help them colourfully pass the time.

The "je suis, j'existe!" dilemma dominates this piece. Waiting for Godot asks: if we spend most of our lives confidently hollering about how meaningful our existence is, why are we always searching for something bigger to tell us we're right? Pozzo needs pomp and spectacle in order to function, while Lucky has stripped his existence down

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to basic actions and noises. Estragon struggles with the loss of hope as blind faith wears him down, and each evening when a messenger arrives to say Godot will not come (but surely will tomorrow!), Vladimir begs him to relay one message: "Tell him you saw us. You did see us ... didn't you?"

The trick to a play like this is to capture the comedy without losing the expertly crafted tumultuous ride Beckett designed for his audience.

Save for a few scenes that definitely

could have been stronger, this production does it. The frustrated sense of time that is so hard to convey with this piece is flawlessly executed.

The acting is superb, with every cast member bringing a strong and wellcrafted performance to the stage.

While this isn't a simple piece for most to watch—it's long and does not yield easily to interpretation—it is a worthy challenge.

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REVUE // DATE!

Blind Date Until Sun, Feb 19 Created and performed by Rebecca Northan Citadel Theatre, $40.95 – $67.20

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rriving at Blind Date, you'll find a cocktail party already in full swing: the Rice Theatre lobby is filled with tables, drinks, and people drinking around tables, and through it all wanders a striking woman with a french accent and a red clown nose.

It's Mimi, who you may meet there, but will become much more acquainted with when it's time to head into the theatre, where, under a wash of Parisian accordion music, she plops down, solo, at a table for two. It's a simple, if unconventional beginning to a very charming, very clever and uproariously funny show that seems equal parts social experiment and quirky comedy.

Mimi tells us she's waiting for her blind date to arrive. She has been for hours. So she turns to us to find a new date, and based on who she's chatted up earlier, it could very well be you. Even if the thought of public

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participation makes your skin crawl, you'd be foolish to say no: Blind Date's well structured and impeccably executed by a performer who's an expert at taking care of whoever's sharing the stage with her (she's also backed by a pair of witty waiters with a knack for timing). There's plenty of safety built in, both in Northan's performance—she's adept at getting people to open up—and in the form of a time-out box onstage, where she and her guest can go to break out of the reality of "making up a little play" (as Mimi calls it), and discuss what's going on, performer to performer.

At its heart, the show is all about navigating tension: of getting to know someone new, and the worries and wonders about romance (Should I kiss her? Can I do that? In front of an audience of total strangers?). For us watching, the voyeurism of watching these moments play out are funny, tender, and honest in a way that theatre rarely reaches. From the outside, we know exactly what to do; if we were in Sam's shoes, we'd be sweating bullets.

On Saturday night, Mimi's date was Sam, a chemical engineer who's outer meekness hid ridiculous socks under business professional garb (he was there with a group from work) and whose pregnant wife was at home, the baby due this week.

That Sam's wife wasn't in the room perhaps made her spectre loom a little larger, and made him perhaps a bit meeker than he otherwise would've been with the romance of the date than if she'd been there—though perhaps the most hilarious tension of the night was watching Mimi clearly want to be kissed, and Sam squirm and try to talk his way around it. They didn't, in the end, but Northan's an improviser of the highest calibre, completely charming in character and impeccably skilled as performer: even Sam's hesitations played out brilliantly with her onstage. I've seen a lot of improv, but I've never seen an audience member so well taken care of on a stage. That alone says plenty. That it was all brilliantly funny to watch says more.

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PREVUE // THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM

Man of La Mancha Thu, Feb 19 – Sun, Feb 12; Thu, Feb 16 – Sun, Feb 19 (8 pm; Sunday matinees 2 pm) La Cité Francophone, $20 – $30

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he lasting relevance of the Don Quixote figure is in the Icaruslike flight of his aspirations: in heart, Quixote's a man so caught up in the romance of imagination that he simply insists it become his new reality, rejecting outright the harsh truths about his world, knighting himself and developing a most famous grudge against windmills. His is certainly a grandstanding take on the matter, but there's something very recognizable in the allure of getting lost in a dream. After all, we all do it on a smaller, less lifealtering scale: Quixote's simply the one who refused to constrain his daydreams to his head.

L'Homme de la Mancha (Man of La Mancha), the Tony-scoring musical adaptation opening this weekend en français (with English surtitles) is a spirited take on the Quixote story bolstered by another layer of meta-storytelling. It focusing first on the author, Cerevantes, a failed tax-collector turned-equally-failed poet who ends up in prison with his manuscript of Don Quixote de la Mancha, where he and his fellow prisoners slowly become wrapped up in the tale, embodying it for themselves as a way of escaping their own harsh reality.

"Don Quixote in the play, in the musical, is really a kind of device," explains director Guido Tondino. "And the play becomes seriously a dialogue between realism and idealism on some level, and I think that makes it quite exciting. I think it makes it more valid now than it did when it was [first] done; when it was done, there were more idealists than there were realists. And of course now,

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idealists are rather hard to find."

To navigate that tension between reality and fantasy, Tondino's grounded his production in a heavyhitter cast: Cervantes and Don are played by Réjean Cournoyer, most recently seen around these parts in the Citadel's productions of Beauty and the Beast and Sweeney Todd, and around him a slew of other local talents round out the roles: Brian Dooley, Joëlle Préfontaine and Melissa Thingelstad, among others.

The play becomes seriously a dialogue between realism and idealism on some level, and I think that makes it quite exciting. I think it makes it more valid now than it did when it was [first] done.

Tondino wasn't originally slated to direct La Mancha, but when Daniel Cournoyer stepped down as artistic director of L'Uni theatre, he was offered the role.

"At first I was a bit reluctant, I have to say, because I'm not that familiar with the musical genre; in fact often I'm not that thrilled by it. But in this particular instance, I've become deeply attached to the story, both of Don Quixote and of Cerevantes' life. And the prison, of course, is the prison of the Spanish Inquisition, so how can you beat that for drama?

It's not a typical musical comedy, and the second act is just so beautifully structured that I think people will be deeply touched as I was, and still am, working on it."

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“The writing is as electric as the chair and the performance will make you gasp.” FIVE STARS – The Edmonton Journal Starring: Chris Craddock Directed by: Bradley Moss Sound Designer: Dave Clarke

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PREVUE // DEEP DARK SATIRE

The Ecstatics // Ian Jackson, EPIC

Thu, Feb 10 – Sat, Feb 18 (8 pm; Weekend matinees 2 pm) Directed by Trevor Schmidt Arts Barns, Studio B, $20 – $27

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otal perfection is a pretty tenuous goal to set yourself. There's a lot of good to be had in bettering oneself, but when that betterment involves reaching toward arbitrary standards barely attainable if not completely unsustainable, the idea degrades into a bitter vortex of self-delusion.

All that said, to say that The Ecstactics takes those ideas and pushes them into extremes might still be underselling the level of dark satire at play in the script. Its two protagonists, a pair of anorexic nuns, are the last habits standing at a convent devoted to eating disorders and prayer. The other 128 members have died (three

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guesses why), but the pair continue on, devoted to their cause.

"It's the show [this season] where I'm like, 'I'm not sure what I'm going to do with this one, or how people will respond to it,'" director Trevor

Schmidt says. Exploring the ideas of the unattainable standard of beauty alongside religious fanaticism, it is, Schmidt notes, a buffoon clown show in form—not the kind of red nosers that jump into the audience and

banter in gibberish, mind you. Sisters Marguerite and Abegail share the clownish relationship of Joey and the Auguste, or "the dominator and the victim," Schmidt explains.

And the ideas at play, of faith and body image and their intersection here make for a tight line to walk for finding the proper tone—The Ecstatics is a comedy, albeit a pretty deep, dark one—a bit of a highwire act.

"You kind of have to leave your reverence at the door," Schmidt shrugs.

"The girls certainly left their vanity or pride at the door. We laugh a lot in rehearsal, 'cause it's so outrageous and funny, but we decided, 'Let's go all the way at first—we can pull things back, but better to go all the way and see what that is, and figure it out.' So there's been a couple of things where

we're like, 'Is that too far to go?' And we always say no," he laughs.

That said, Schmidt notes that it's not just an hour of religious mockery; The Ecstatics' commentary aims to be sharper than that. Taking place in the cozy studio B in the arts barns—the same small room that hosted NLT's 4th Graders Present an Unnamed Love Suicide last season—the audience will sit in actual church pews, borrowed from a nearby house of worship. The rest of the set, though, reaches for the same sort of extravagant extremes as the script.

"Hanging over it all is a 12-foot flourescent cross with disco globes all around it and a giant crown of thorns up above it that lights up," Schmidt says. "It's crazy."

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PREVUE // RARE SHAKESPEARE

Cymbeline

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hakespeare wrote 38 plays in his lifetime—give or take a few lost scripts and controversies of authorship—though probably half of those, maybe less, get staged regularly. It's your Macbeths, Romeo and Juliets and Twelfth Nights that most people think of when they think about the Bard.

And then there's an often passedover folio like Cymbeline, a laterperiod work that rarely sees any stagings at all—a detail that director Kate Weiss found appealing about approaching the script.

"Sometimes, when you direct Shakespeare, people will say to you 'Are you doing the traditional this and this, where Hamlet does such and such?' and you go, 'Huh not so much.'" she explains. "So what's kind of fun about this one is there's no 'traditional' business."

Weiss herself is hardly a traditional director. Chair of the unversity drama department, she's known for imagebased work and what she calls " nonliteral theatricality," that focuses on images and staging and stylized movement.

"I'm not really interested in your kitchen sink dramas," she says, "'Cause I like to work with much more extended theatrical metaphors, and this play is full of those."

It's also, quite simply, a very full show: its two and a half hour runtime (cut down, by Weiss, from the original five), carries a multitude of plots and plottings, focused around Imo-

gen, daughter of the titular British king, who falls for an orphan and secretly weds him, only to see him expelled from the kingdom, which kicks off a torrent of subplots involving Rome, England and—a Shakespeare staple—a nearby woods. Weiss notes it to be a play about forgiveness and reconciliation at its core, with lots of challenges to account for.

"It has every directing challenge you could possible have as a director," Weiss says. "It has these very romantic scenes, very dramatic scenes, very comic scenes, there's a war in the middle of it—Shakespeare just says, 'Armies pass on and off the stage', but what do you do with that when you have 12 actors?' I'm calling it a really dark fairytale, because it is like a fable."

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"It's been hard," Weiss says. "We've been working really hard, 'cause we have to. But his presence is there with us all the time."

She notes that they did consider halting the show (they've recast his role now), but ultimately reconsidered.

"In this case, we believed that—and you'll probably hear this from many theatre people—that the best way to honour someone who wanted more than anything else to perform Shakespeare, is to make that show happen. It didn't feel to us like he would've wanted us to stop."

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The Fairytale.

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hat started as a perceived long-shot application to curate a show of emerging artists at the Fifty Fifty Arts Collective in Victoria turned into an exhibition of over 15 Victoria and Edmonton artists during September of last year. The process of trying to create a version of the show in Edmonton, though, has taken on a life of its own for curator Maegan Rose Mehler.

With the success of show has come considerable challenge, and the hard work continues as Mehler and her dedicated friends prepare for the Edmonton incarnation of the exhibit, Easy Street, on February 11 in the Duchess Bake Shop's original location, 10720 – 124 Street, which is mid-renovation. "The art is the most important thing," says Mehler, "but the story of the show being about challenge has been an important part."

Edmonton has a small but mighty contingent of artist-run centres and galleries, but "small" becomes the defining characteristic when you're early in your artistic career and looking for a space to show your exhibit or artwork. After quickly exhausting conventional gallery opportunities for Easy Street, Mehler began pursuing alternative spaces, uncovering a whole new set of challenges, trying to locate owners of empty storefronts, finding spaces and having them fall through.

"They don't understand the advantage," says artist Leanne Olson, who also invested time and elbow grease to make these shows possible. She points to an important complexity when negotiating the search for unconventional exhibit space that Mehler encountered—the need to educate and advocate for the benefits

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of supporting the arts to the owners of these empty spaces.

While the exhibit title, Easy Street, is ironic in the face of this steep learning curve and constant instability faced by the curator, the theme she posed for the participating artists—challenge—is one that has bled beyond the art into the experience of making the show happen.

Thanks to the support of the Duchess Bake Shop, Mehler, Olson, and the many friends who have come out of the woodwork to help transform the bakery's original space into the rough and ready home for the show. Easy Street looks to be a reminder of how critical it is to adapt and create your own visual art opportunities, but also that it is only through community support that these innovations are possible.

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PREVUE // FIVE ERAS OF THE SAME GAL

Albertine in Five Times Wed, Feb 8 – Sat, Feb 11; Tue, Feb 14 – Sat, Feb 18 (8pm) Directed by Mary Jane Kreisel Walterdale Theatre, $12 – $16 AlbertA bAllet CompAny Artist: tArA WilliAmson.

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e seems to understand women, social situations, certainly the women in Quebec in certain time periods. He has this humanity that comes through: he doesn't mince words.

He cuts to the core of situations. I think sometimes we're afraid to put women into the dark ... the various moods we get into, the social situations we're in, how we get closed in or caged in, in Albertine, and how they would react to that."

Mary Jane Kreisel is talking about the works of Michel Tremblay. She's directing his Albertine in Five Times at the Walterdale, after previously assistant directing a version of the playwright's Les Belles Soeurs. It's a gig she was offered, however, in the aftermath of a misfortune.

"The original director passed away prior to the casting of the show," Kreisel explains. "The entire production crew had just about been lined up, and she was ready to go into auditions ...

They asked me to direct the show because I'd worked with her in the past."

fact, Les Belles Soeurs. And between the two shows, Kriesel seems well versed in Tremblay's uncanny understanding of, at the very least, certain types of women. Like Albertine, who here finds her entire lifespan spread out before her: featuring five actresses playing the titular woman at a different age, they go through her highs and lows, picking through Albertine's struggle to live a free life. There's an unusual level of overlap at play: the five eras of Albertine interact with each other as they go. Kreisel also notes the way time and space converge in the script: while we see each story play out on its own, the different Albertines talk to each other, bicker over the choices they've made and what proved to be worthwhile and what didn't—the older and wiser aren't easily able to convince their younger selves that a certain course of action isn't worth the trouble it'll cause.

"I think if we were to look at our own lives, if we were to go back to our own lives, if we could go back and meet ourselves earlier, would we make different choices?" Kreisel notes. "Would we confront ourselves and say, 'If you made the other choice, all of the various stages of us would be better off?'"

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• 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • On Location: Paintings by Mike Dendy, Christine Elmgren and Tom Yurko; until Feb 25 • Artist at Heart: Take it Outside: Feb 11, 10am-12pm; $15, pre-register • Artventures: Lovely Landscapes: Dropin art program for children 6-12; Feb 18, 1-4pm; $5

Bruce Peel Special Collections Library • Rutherford Library, U of A • I'm No Superman: The comic collection of Gilbert Bouchard: Until Feb 28

CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA

• 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • Group show • Until Feb 28

Crooked Pot Gallery–Stony Plain • 4912-51 Ave, Stony Plain • 780.963.9573 • Northern Lights: In celebration of the Alberta Winter Games-winter themed pottery and giftware • Until Feb 29 Daffodil Gallery • 10412-124 St,

780.760.1278 • Love and Other Myths: Artworks by Joe and Oksana • Feb 7-25 • Opening: Feb 9, 5-8pm • Artists in attendance: Feb 11, 2-4pm

FAB Gallery • Department of Art and Design, U of A, Rm 3-98 Fine Arts Bldg • 780.492.2081 • amass: Artworks by Andrea (visual presentation for the degree of Master of Design, painting) •

bearings: Artworks by Annie King (visual presentation for the degree of Master of Design, Drawing and Intermedia); Until Feb 18

FAB Gallery • Colin Lyons: MFA Printmak-

ing; The Alcuin Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada: This show covers books in eight categories (Children’s, Limited Editions, Pictorial, Poetry, Prose Fiction, Prose Non-fiction, Prose Non-fiction Illustrated, and Reference) published in 2010; Feb 28-Mar 28

Gallery at Milner • Stanley A. Milner

Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • Feathers and Flash: Acrylic on canvas paintings by Teresa Stieben; until Feb 28 • Postage Stamps as Messengers of Culture: Display by Anita Nawrocki (display cases) • Postage Stamps Collage Workshop: Feb 12, 2-4:30pm

Gallerie Pava • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427

• Le Rapprochement: Photos by Suzanne Bourdon, Paul Brindamour, Robert Fréchette and Iva Zimova–a collective of four photographers from Québec • Until Feb 22

HAPPY HARBOR COMICS v1 • 10729-104

Ave • Comics Artist-in-Residence: Paul Lavelleed available every Fri (12-6pm), and every Sat (125pm) until Apr 21 • Comic Jam: Improv comic art making every 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7pm • Open Door: a collective of independent comic creators, meet on the 2nd and 4th Thu each month, 7pm

Harcourt House • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St •

780.426.4180 • Main Gallery: discards: Works

by Griffith Aaron Baker • Front Room: Getting Anxious: Works by Margaret Witschl • Until Feb 25

Harris-Warke Gallery–Red Deer • Sunworks Home and Garden Store, Ross St, Red Deer • 403.346.8937 • Pictures from a Sick Mind: Works on paper by Ontario artist, Chris Shoust • Until Feb 12 Hub on Ross–Red Deer • 4936 Ross St,

Red Deer • 403.340.4869 • Tranquil Transitions: Artworks by Marjorie Robert and Sheldon Robert • Through Feb

Jeff Allen Art Gallery • Strath-

cona Seniors Centre, 10831 University Ave • 780.433.5807 • Undulations–The Series: Artworks by Linda Blezard • Until Feb 22

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 • The Gardens at Trevarno: Artworks by Sally Towers-Sybblis • Until Feb 26

Latitude 53 • 10248-106 St • 780.423.5353

• Main Gallery: Striking a Pose: Videos by Emmanel Licha, chronicles the exploits of the "War Tourist”; until Feb 11 • ProjEx Room: Pollination Proposition: Artworks by Nicole Rayburn; until Feb 11 • Winter Parka Patio Party: featuring a silent art auction, food, drink and DJs in the gallery and on the patio; Feb 18, 8pm-late; $12 (adv, non-member)/$15 (door)

McMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital,

8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • Pattern, form, detail: Photographs of natural and manufactured landscapes by Ronald Whitehouse • Feb 11-Apr 15 • Opening reception: Feb 16

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

bert • 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 • 5411-51

St, Stony Plain • 780.963.9935 • Capturing the Momentum: An exhibition running in conjunction with the 2012 Alberta Winter Games; Feb 9-12 • Economies of Scale–Our New Agricultural Landscape: Digital works by John Freeman; Feb 10-Mar 14; opening reception: Feb 12, 1-3:30pm

Musée Héritage Museum–St Albert

• 5 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1528 • St Albert History Gallery: Artifacts dating back 5,000 years • Slavic ST Albert: Based on the research work of Michal Mynarz; Feb 14-May 12; Reception: Feb 23, 7pm

Naess Gallery • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave

• 780.432.0240 • After Hours 12: Artworks by the staff of the Paint Spot • Through Feb

Peter Robertson Gallery • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • Simple equations, sticks, and mascots for dirty little cities: Paintings, sculptures by Clay Ellis; Feb 11-Mar 3 • Artist's Talk: Feb 16, 6pm; opening reception: 7-9pm

Royal Alberta Museum • 12845-102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • Narrative Quest: Until

Apr 29

Strathcona County Gallery@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • Blair Brennnan, Richard Boulet and Patrick Reed; until Feb 26

SNAP Gallery • Society Of Northern

Alberta Print­-Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • Artworks by Mark Franchino; until Feb 11 • Community Event: I Found LOVE at SNAP: Annual valentine card printing on the letterpress event; Feb 11-12 • Gallery Exhibition: Artworks

by Robin Smith-Peck and Marc Siegner; Feb 16Mar 17; opening reception: Feb 16

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; until Feb 20 • Discoveryland VAAA Gallery • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St •

780.421.1731 • Gallery A: Travelling Within Dreams: Paintings by Ricardo Copado • Gallery B: Body/Language: Large drawings by Daniel Evans • Until Feb 25

VASA Gallery • (Studio Gallery) 11 Perron

St, St Albert • 780.460.5993 • Fibre of Silk: Series by Samantha Williams-Chapelsky • Until Feb 25

LITERARY Artery • 9535 Jasper Ave • 780.441.6966 •

Literary Saloon: reading series the 2nd Thu every month; Oct-May, 7pm (door)

Audreys Books • 10702 Jasper Ave • 780.423.3487 • CAA Writer in Residence Jannie Edwards in the store every Wed; Until Apr 25, 121:30pm • Free travel tips on South and East Africa presented by the Adventure Travel Company; Feb 14, 7pm

By William Shakespeare, adapted and directed

by Kathleen Weiss • Feb 9-18, 7:30pm; Feb 16, 12:30pm • Tickets at Timms Box Office, TIX on the Square

DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83

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

The Ecstatics • Transalta Arts Barns Studio

B, 10330-84 Ave • 780.471.1586 • Northern Light Theatre • By Erika Hennebury and Ruth MadocJones; stars Elinor Holt and Gianna Vacirca; directed by Trevor Schmidt • Feb 10-18

Fool for Love • Varscona Theatre, 1032983 Ave • 780.434.5564 • Shadow Theatre • By Sam Shepard. In an abandoned motel Eddie and May play out their tainted romance, co-production with Calgary's SAGe Theatre, starring Shaun Johnston • Feb 15-Mar 4, 7:30pm, 2pm mat • $15 (previews); Fri-Sat night: $26/$23 (student/senior); Tue-Thu, Sun mat: $22/$20 (student/senior) Jump for Glee • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, 2690, 8882-170 St, Phase II WEM Upper Level • 780.484.2424 • It is time to put on a great show.

Unfortunately, there are transportation problems and only six people from William Mackenzie King High can make it to the event • Until Apr 1

L’HOMME DE LA MANCHA • La Cité Theatre, 8627 rue Marie-Anne-Gaboury • 780.469.8400 • L'UniThéâtre • By Dale Wasserman, adaptated by Jacques Brel; with English surtitles • Feb 9-19 • $25 (adult)/$21 (senior)/$16 (student) at TIX on the Square Merrily We Roll Along • Grant

MacEwan University Centre for the Arts and Communications, John L. Haar Theatre, 10045155 St • Book by George Furth; music and lyrics

by Stephen Sondheim; based on the Kaufman and Hart play • Feb 10-18, 7:30pm; Feb 12, 2pm and 7:30pm; no performance Feb 13 • Tickets at TIX on the Square

Moving Along • Roxy Theatre–Theatre Network, 10708-124 St • 780.453.2440 • By Chris Craddock, directed by Bradley Moss • Feb 9-26; Two-for-One Tue: Feb 14, Feb 21

Opening Night • Kinsmen Korral 47 Riel Dr • 780.668.9522 • By Norm Foster, dinner theatre presented by the St Albert Theatre Troupe • Feb 9-11, 16-18, 23-25 • $47 Red • Citadel Shoctor Theatre, 9828-101 A Ave • 780.428.2117 • By John Logan, directed by Kim Collier. New York in the late 50s – famous abstract painter Mark Rothko has been commissioned to create a series of murals at an upscale restaurant. Is Rothko selling out? Or is this his chance to reach the commercial audience he despises? • Feb 11-Mar 4 TheatreSports • Varscona Theatre,

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

Waiting for Godot • TransAlta Arts

Barns PCL Studio • Wishbone Theatre; by Samuel Beckett; directed by Chris Bullough • Two friends alone on a road, wait for someone • Until Feb 11, 8pm • $23 (adult)/$19 (student/ senior/Equity member) at Fringe Theatre box office, 780.409.1910

Haven Social Club • 15120 Stony Plain Rd • 780.915.8869 • Edmonton Story Slam: writers share their original, 5-minute stories; followed by a music jam • 3rd Wed every month • Feb 15, 7pm (sign-up); 7:30 pm (show) • $5 (registration from writers to support the Society) Leva Café • 11053-86 Ave • Greenwoods

present launch of Timothy Caulfield's new book, The Cure for Everything: Untangling the Twisted Messages about Health, Fitness and Happiness • Feb 9, 7pm

Haven Social Club • 15120 Stony Plain

Rd • 780.915.8869 • Edmonton Story Slam followed by a music jam; no minors; 7pm (sign-up), 7:30pm (show), 3rd Wed eacg month • Edmonton Story Slam celebrates 6th Anniversary: Theme this month: Valentine's Day: write an original, five minute story and present it; Feb 15

Riverdale • 9917-87 St • Creative Word Jam • Every 3rd Sun of the month, 6-10pm • E: creative. word.jam@gmail.com Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St •

780.902.5900 • Poetry every Tue with Edmonton's local poets

Stanley Milner Library • Edmonton Rm, Centennial Rm, Theatre Rotunda • Books2Buy: Book sale • Feb 10-12; Fri: 9am-8pm; Sat: 9am-5pm; Sun: 1-3pm Upper Crust Café • 10909-86 Ave • 780.422.8174 • The Poets’ Haven Weekly Reading Series: every Mon, 7pm presented by the Stroll of Poets Society • $5 WunderBar on Whyte • 8120-101 St •

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

THEATRE Albertine in Five Times • Walterdale

Playhouse, 10322-83 Ave • Directed by Mary Jane Kreisel • Five actors play the same woman and are present on stage all at once. Each signifies one of five ages in the life of Albertine, a working-class Québécoise woman • Until Feb 18, 8pm; Feb 12, 2pm; Feb 9: Two-for-One (door) • $12-$16 at TIX on the Square

Blind Date • Citadel Rice Theatre, 9828-101 A Ave • 780.428.2117 • Created and performed by Rebecca Northan, produced by Kevin McCollum.

Rebecca Northan plays Mimi, and one lucky man in the audience will play her Blind Date • Until Feb 19 BOEING, BOEING • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • Bernard has been deftly juggling three fiancées who are all flight attendants. His supersonic lifestyle hits turbulence when his old college friend visits and each of his three fiancées change their flight schedule • Feb 10-Apr 8 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 • $10/$5 (high school student)/$8 (RFT member at the door only)

CYMBELINE • Timms Centre, U of A, 112 St, 87 Ave • 780.492.2495 • U of A Studio Theatre •

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Find a restaurant

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Mama-mia! Vietnamese-a!?

// Bryan Birtles

Curiously-named restaurant transcends the confusion

Brookly Tomato's eyebrow crossing facade

Brooklyn Tomato 8205 - 83 St, 780.756.6688

I

f you spend any time at all in the Bonnie Doon area, you've no doubt run into Brooklyn Tomato. Standing near the corner of Whyte Avenue and 83 Street, the restaurant lies at the intersection of two of the neighbourhood's main thoroughfares, its sign rising above the traffic's motion, gleaming its leafy tomato logo into the surrounding area.

A name like "Brooklyn Tomato" and a sign featuring its plump namesake conjures up images of moustachioed pizza cooks spreading corn meal into an ancient New York pan, or at least hipster gardeners banishing aphids by releasing ladybugs. Instead, underneath the sign in small letters lie the intriguing words "Modern Vietnamese Restaurant." Such a curious ap-

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pellation for a Vietnamese restaurant deserved further inspection.

The restaurant itself consists of a long dining room, bright and impeccably clean. Touristy paddy hats line the walls along with paintings of pastoral Vietnam while a television played the news softly from the corner—somewhat of a comfort for someone taking lunch alone. The décor did suffer from a lost-in-time feel, stepping inside is akin to stepping into a small town diner with the restaurant's wood-paneled walls, vinyl chairs and formica tables.

Having come in well after the lunch rush, I was greeted immediately and service remained swift and attentive throughout the meal, though one gets the impression that such a thing isn't far from the norm. The waitress—later I would find out she's also the owner—was friendly, explaining

the menu and offering help where needed. She was happy to bring out water and, with an order for vegetable spring rolls ($5.45) and pineapple tofu ($13.95), whisked the menu away and was straight into the kitchen.

Without even enough time to decipher what sort of hologram Wolf Blitzer was playing with now, the

to cool. When they did, they were more than satisfactory: crisp outside and chewy inside, with a sweet chili sauce for dipping that didn't go too far into sweet or chili territory.

Not long after—and with a similar rising steam—the pineapple tofu arrived, accompanied by a plate of vermicelli, though rice or noodles are also options. A colourful mélange of

A colourful mélange of deep-fried tofu, red and green pepper, onion, celery and plenty of sweet pineapple, the dish throws a slow heat ... opening up the flavour.

spring rolls were out of the kitchen, piping hot to the touch and accompanied by a garnish of pickled carrot placed just so, which I subsisted on while waiting for the rest of the plate

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deep-fried tofu, red and green pepper, onion, celery and plenty of sweet pineapple, the dish throws a slow heat: it doesn't make you go bolting for the water to cool off, but comes

on gradually, making you a bit sniffly but opening up the flavour.

The vermicelli while fine was a little lifeless and spongier than usual. Cut into small bits but sticking together in clumps, it might have worked better to mix the whole dish together in the kitchen instead of serving its composite parts separately at the table.

Brooklyn Tomato—by the way, the name comes from the owner's daughter, named Brooklyn, though I still don't know where the "tomato" part comes from—serves standard Vietnamese fare under an atypical banner.

It's set apart by the quality of its food, but especially by the quality of its service. Attentive but not invasive, quick but with no corners cut, Brooklyn Tomato is a restaurant worth returning to even if it doesn't serve pizza.

Bryan Birtles

// bryan@vueweekly.com

PROVENANCE

BRYAN BIRTLES // BRYAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Six things about kimchi

AND THEN YOU WHAT?

NATIONAL PRIDE

There are hundreds of varieties of kimchi, but the best known are made with a baechu cabbage base, seasoned with brine and chili peppers, then put into a jar where it ferments. Traditionally, the jars were buried underground, but today they are normally put into the refrigerator.

Kimchi is the national dish of Korea.

Koreans eat, on average, 40 pounds of kimchi per person, per year. When Koreans are having their picture taken, the don't say "cheese," they say, "kimchi."

OLDER THAN MOSES Kimchi was made before history was recorded, and the earliest mentions of it come from 2600 – 3000 years ago.

It didn't start to resemble its current form until the 1600s however, when red chili was introduced from the New World. Early kimchi consisted of beef stock and cabbage only.

MIRACLE CURE Kimchi is low in calories, high in fibre and contains probiotic bacteria—the kind Jamie Lee Curtis loves to talk about. Although a 2005 study at Seoul National University found that when eaten in large quantities kimchi increases the risk of gastric cancer, other studies have shown that fermented cabbage can prevent the growth of cancer.

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DIFF'RENT STROKES Different types of kimchi are eaten at different times of the year. Originally this practice was a necessity, based on fermentation temperatures possible before the advent of refrigeration, but eating different dishes in different seasons has continued to the present day.

EMERGENCY MEASURES In 2010, heavy rainfall shortened the growing season and caused a shortage of cabbage and other kimchi ingredients in Korea. The price for ingredients as well as prepared kimchi skyrocketed and Korean newspapers called the price spikes a national crisis. In response, the Korean government reduced tariffs on importing cabbage so that kimchi could be created with foreign crops.

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WINE

Mything the point Wine myths that are so busted As much as writers try to cut through all the bullshit perpetuated by wine snobs, there's still a lot of misleading info out there. Take the old story about sniffing corks. This age-old ritual only yields a snootful of cork and no revelation, yet lots of people still think they're supposed to do it.

Myths about everything from wine storage to wine pairings abound, and people go on believing them because nobody tells them otherwise. Consider this myth-busting:

MYTH: Red wine is best with red meat

slap the word on the label and charge extra for no reason at all. Although some wineries use it legitimately for their better bottlings, without official regulations to set quality standards, be wary.

MYTH: "Single vineyard" is better

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Although the protein in red Taylor meat can soothe a savagely Eason tannic red wine, there's no rule against drinking white wine. Don't let the establishment lay guilt or shame on you, be the rebel. In fact, the creaminess of chardonnay is kinda refreshing with a juicy grilled sirloin.

MYTH: wine at room temperature

A long time ago when wine rules were born, room temperature in European wine cellars meant 16 – 18 degrees.

Room temperature now is considered to be about 23 degrees. But keep in mind that aroma and flavour of wine changes radically at different temperatures, and too much heat kills off a wine's subtleties and interesting characteristics. To demonstrate, try chilling a bottle of red wine for several hours (or better yet, freak out a waiter by asking for an ice bucket with your red). Taste it right after opening, then again every 10 minutes.

As it warms up, different flavours will emerge. This is also pretty remarkable with white wines, which are often served way too cold in restaurants.

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MYTH: All red wines can age

Fact: 90 percent of all wines are meant to be consumed within the first two years after bottling. For the most part, the remaining age-worthy 10 percent are cabernet sauvignon, syrah or Grenache-based wines, sturdy pinot noirs, some barrel-aged chardonnays, and dessert wines. Aging tames tannins and acidity, and allows the natural fruit to come forward.

MYTH: "Reserve" wine is better

In California, the word "Reserve" gets thrown around like promises at a political rally, but there's no official definition. This means Joe's Winery can

Single-vineyard wines (those that feature the name of the vineyard on the label) may be trendy, but they don't guarantee quality. These wines express the character of a certain vineyard—good or bad. Blending wines made from the fruit of multiple vineyards can actually improve a wine by balancing out its flavours, acidity levels, etc.

MYTH: Rinsing your glass at wine tastings is a good thing

I have no idea where this ritual came from, but there's no need to rinse.

Essentially, this exercise will only water down the flavour of the next wine. There is, however, one situation where you'd want to rinse: if you're changing from red to white wine because the red will discolour and change the flavour profile of the delicate white.

MYTH: Opening the bottle lets the wine breathe

Oxygen exposure can help tannic reds mellow out, but only if you pour the wine into a glass or decanter. Simply pulling the cork isn't gonna do squat because the space between the bottle neck and the wine is too small to give the wine enough air contact. Fruity reds and most whites don't usually need to breathe. V

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WEDDINGS

WEDDINGS // LITERAL FIREWORKS

Moments to last a lifetime

From airplanes to zombies: some particularly unique wedding ideas Big or small, lavish or speedy, most couples want their weddings to carry at least a twist of their own personality: sometimes that means pulling ideas from outside the traditional realm. Vue asked a number of Edmonton wedding professionals for the most lavish, unusual or flat-out ridiculous requests they've had from brides and grooms to be—the wedding projects that have turned out, for better or worse, to be the ones they'll remember for a long, long time. We heard back from plenty—not every imaginitive fancy went off without a hitch.

Big bucks

// Ashley Champagne

"I had one groom that wanted to rent sumo wrestler suits for the wedding reception and another that wanted to rent the Big Buck Hunter arcade game ... I convinced the [sumo suit] groom otherwise after seeing the bride's expression of horror. The arcade game we looked into getting but weren't able to on short notice."

—Sofia Morgandinho, Awespiring weddings and design

Zombies "The name of the bride and groom are Pam and Dave. And they are probably two of the most likable people that you'll ever meet. They're very trendy and fun and non-traditional. So they wanted invitations that reflected that they weren't going for a really traditional wedding. So we started by hiring a photographer that isn't typically a well-known wedding photographer; we hired Ashley Champagne. She's more of a commerical photographer.

"They chose her based on the fact that she doesn't do a lot of weddings.

So we came up with two different concepts. They liked the idea of the zombie, but they didn't want to send the zombie invitations out to the grandparents and some of the other family that may have been a little shocked by it. So we actually did two different photo shoots. The second one was also nontraditional, but is also a little bit more fun. The theme of the invitation with the zombies is ''til death do us part.'"

—Amy Maier, Head Over Heels Wedding & Event Planning

Airplane wedding "They were both air traffic controllers, and they had met at work, so they thought it would be fitting to have their wedding at the aviation museum, and 28 WEDDINGS

'Till death do they part ... and even then

then asked if they could possibly have it on the big plane they have outside, the commercial plane. And [the museum] said yes. [On an airplane], there's not much you can do for decoration.

Not much room for a wedding party— so the wedding party couldn't all stand up there, which was okay for them the bride couldn't be walked up by anybody or walked back down, 'cause it was a narrow aisle. But I think they

were happy to do it: it was something that had never been done."

—Julianne Cragg, A Modern Proposal

Bubbles "Once we had a request for a bubble machine ... used it for an hour, a guest slipped and cracked his head, ambulance was called. Moral of the story, VUEWEEKLY FEB 9 – FEB 15, 2012

don't use soap on a dance floor."

—Ryan Hargreaves, Revolution DJs and Limousines, Inc

Fireworks "Basically, the groom wanted to surprise the bride with fireworks. There was a big empty field, and the plan was to have someone, at midnight, be out in the field with the fireworks

lined up, ready to set them off and create this big spectacular show. So we had a white sofa in the middle of the field, with pillows and a blanket, for the couple to sit on and watch the fireworks together.

"So we let the groom know the fireworks were all lined up, that it was raining a little bit so we needed to hurry. He ran and grabbed his bride, went out to the field, sat on the couch, and basically waited, because we couldn't get the fireworks to light because they were wet. My staff were out in the field, and the florist was out there, and some of the guests, and they were trying to get these things to light, and they couldn't do it with a lighter.

So the florist went into the kitchen and was rummaging through the pantry and the storage closet and she found a blow torch—she took that out, and lit the fireworks with the blowtorch. But clearly she didn't have much training in setting off fireworks, and basically the fireworks started shooting all over he place. The first one shot across the ground and blew up 20 feet from where the bride and groom were sitting—that scared them—and then another one went shooting into the parking lot and hit someone's vehicle. The next one went up a tree, and then the rest of them started shooting up in the air and randomly all over the place.

"The florist and everyone went running for cover, obviously, and all the guests went running into the venue, and I was running through to get to the bride, who was carrying the massive, massive wedding dress which was super heavy—basically a ball gown. She had it hiked up and she was running through the wet field in the rain in her high heels with this big gown, so I ran out there and grabbed the big dress and the two of us were running and screaming through the field, and the groom just sat on the couch laughing, because he couldn't believe what had actually happened.

"We ran into the facility, and every single person was killing themselves laughing, including the bride, me, my staff, everybody. Obviously no one got hurt, but it was so funny. And the groom was bummed, because he wanted it to be really romantic, but it actually turned out to be one of the most romantic parts of the night. It's something that the two of them still, to this day, kill themselves laughing over."

—Jordan Broom, Atmosphere Wedding Planning & Design Paul Blinov

// paul@vueweekly.com

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Brides dream for hours of their perfect wedding day. Such dreams can come at a huge cost, but if you set your priorities and stay focused on a budget, you won’t end up paying for your big day for years to come.

When starting to plan for your upcoming nuptials, it is important to first sit down with your spouse-to-be — as well as with any other parties who may be contributing financially, such as parents or close relatives — to discuss your budget.

After an honest discussion, you can determine what your priorities will be for the big day (ie., where you want to funnel the most cash), and the areas where you should aim to keep costs as low as possible.

Choose your date carefully. Venues and wedding vendors are more willing to extend discounts for off-season and non-peak wedding dates. If any of your top priorities include a specific ceremony or reception venue, caterer or photographer, you may need to check their availability before choosing your date.

Save-the-date cards, invitations, RSVP cards, place cards…the list of printed materials your wedding could include goes on. Determine what is important to you; printed or electronic invitations, save-the-date, custom or store bought thank-you cards. Hand-making some or all of your printed materials means saving money and also gives you a chance to show off your creative flair. But before creating your mailed items, be sure to check postal rules. Oddly-shaped invites mean extra postage — sometimes up to several dollars per invite. Also, think about how many mailings you plan on doing: if you do a save-thedate, an invitation, an RSVP card, and a thankyou card, that’s four separate mail-outs and four times the postage.

As any married woman can tell you, the search for the perfect dress is not easy. What do you do when you find your dream dress and it’s way over budget? Luckily, there are several options. Websites such as www.preownedweddingdresses.com or www.smartbrideboutique.com are websites

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Sellers set their own prices, but most often they are at least 50% off the original pricing.

Another alternative is to have your dream gown custom sewn by an expert seamstress. There are seamstresses in most major cities who specialize in wedding dress replication.

Costs can add up quickly when it comes to the meal portion of the wedding. Rather than automatically choosing a dinner reception, think about a brunch or luncheon meal.

Often venues will offer a rental discount for morning time slots, and the menu pricing is sure to be budget-friendly. Service will also affect the pricing of a meal. If you would like full service (think white gloves & multiple served courses), expect to pay full pricing. However, buffet or family-style meals mean less labour costs and therefore a lower bill.

In terms of your wedding cake, most venues will have a cake cutting fee, to cover the costs of the slicing and serving the cake. If you decide to have an alternative to the traditional cake, such as cupcakes or a cookie buffet, no cutting is required! Rather than an open bar, have you considered a toonie bar? The guest pays a toonie, and you pay the rest. This is not only good for your pocket book, you’ll see less drinks being wasted.

Decor, including flowers, is another part of your wedding where you can be creative without sacrificing style. Make sure to talk to your florist about which flowers will be in season on your wedding date. Non-floral items in your bouquet not only help to save money, they add depth and character. Consider using seasonal items such as pinecones, berries or herbs. Be sure to recycle your bridal bouquets by using them on the head table, at the cake table, or wherever may need a pop of colour.

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Married to your beliefs Couples are changing tradition to reflect personal belief

Giuseppe and Me Getting married isn't the obvious next step it once was. Last year Statistics Canada decided to stop tracking marriage and divorce rates, partially due to funding, but also due to the changing nature of relationships. While marriage continues to play a defining role in economic planning of both society and the individual, it's becoming much less necessary for public and legal declaration of the joining of two people. Today, many couples are

taking the time to decide whether the step is even necessary.

"To me the whole thing was to have the family one spot to meet each other and acknowledge that it is a permanent situation," says Brenda Kerber who married her partner of over five years at the age of the 36.

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Couples are treating the decision to get married as more of a capstone after careers and economic priorities are set. Franki Harrogate had never set marriage as a priority in life, but realized that her partner was someone she could accomplish her goals with. "If it wasn't him, it wouldn’t have been anyone," says Harrogate.

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Budget Quick Tips: • Prioritize: Before diving into the details, sit down and note your top three priorities for the big day. This will help you remember what is important to you, and what you want to spend your budget on.

• The Date: Think off-peak season, as well as on a day other than Saturday. Think also about how the date will affect your guests; long weekends and holidays often mean your guests will have time off to come, but extra costs may be associated.

• Dream Dress: Have you found the dress of your dreams, but it’s beyond your budget? Consider having it duplicated by an expert seamstress for a fraction of the price.

• Catering: Dining is often the biggest bill of the day, so think creatively when it comes to what you plan to serve. Consider all meal types and variations (buffet vs. sit-down, dessert reception, brunch vs. luncheon vs. dinner) and then match to your budget.

• Shop Smart: Watch for decor on sale, buy in bulk, use coupons and shop at secondhand stores. Keep it simple with one or two types of flowers and focus on in season flowers.

• Photography: Ask your dream photographer if they would consider an hourly rate rather than a full-day session.

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The decision to get married is one couples are coming to later, but the decision is still rooted in the desire to publicly declare the joining of two lives and share in that celebration with family. "We wanted to have a public ceremony because we thought that it was a great opportunity to bring our communities together for a really wonderful occasion," says Sakura Saunders. "It was as much about them as it was about us."

Saunders married her partner in Toronto this past summer. As environmentalists and anarchists, the wedding was designed to not only be a celebration of the couple's love, but also of the political beliefs that existed within their relationship.

The wedding took place in a public park with a critical mass bike ride to the wedding dinner that had been postered with radical messages of love and silk screened red anarchy hearts.

"Having these highly visible messages made our wedding a demonstration promoting anarchy, which is just as much about dismantling state and corporate power as it is about mutual aid and love," says Saunders. "It was also an opportunity to expose our family to a bit of rebellion and get them to engage with us in these liberating actions."

Saunders' wedding is just one example of how couples can challenge

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the traditional Western white wedding to more accurately reflect the political beliefs upon which a relationship is founded. The idea of giving a bride away, as property, can be a rather alarming thought these days. Religious tradition has created the giving away of the bride to mean the father has cared for his daughter and that responsibility is now transferred to the husband.

Some families today see this tradition to mean the bride's family approves of the groom, but its traditional roots, and the exclusion of one parent or the other can cause problems and troubling throwbacks for any feminist.

"We emphasized quite strongly the ideas of partnership and used words like spouse rather than man and wife," says Harrogate who danced jointly down the aisle with her partner. "Our hands would support each other, clasped in partnership in our life together. No one person would be leading the other."

Kerber and her partner decided to each walk down the aisle with a parent.

"The concept of giving the bride is repulsive to me," says Kerber. "There was no way I was going to do it. At 36 years old I'm no one's property."

But Kerber didn't want to hurt her father’s feelings and so came up with the idea to have her father walk her down the aisle and her partner’s mother walk him. "Equality was a big aspect for our wedding. We wrote the same vows. We were agreeing to the same thing and pledging the same

thing," says Kerber.

The way the ceremony and reception look can also reflect the political belief that weddings shouldn’t be consumerist affairs that can cost in the tens of thousands of dollars. Saunders and her partner bought wooden wedding rings instead of buying into the gold and diamond industry that violates human rights, expropriates indigenous lands and causes environmental devastation. And the couple integrated an alternative gift registry where, instead of buying presents, guests could volunteer to help with different aspects of the wedding.

Legally there are very few requirements that need to be included for the marriage to be official. To get married in Alberta, both parties must publicly state: “I do solemnly declare that I do not know of any lawful impediment why I, (name) may not be joined in matrimony to (name); I call upon those persons present to witness that I, (name), do take thee, (name) to be my lawful wedded wife/husband/spouse.”

The statement must be made in front of a marriage commissioner—civil or religious—and two witnesses. Of course you must be of legal age, a citizen and not intend to marry your cousin (that's a legal requirement) but outside of those rules, your public declaration of love can look however you'd like, and reflect whatever political beliefs are important to you as a couple.

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3. The custom of tiered cakes emerged from a game where the bride and groom attempted to kiss over an ever-higher cake without knocking it over.

4. The Roman goddess Juno rules over marriage, the hearth, and childbirth, hence the popularity of June weddings.

1. Rain on your wedding day is actually considered good luck, according to Hindu tradition.

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6. The tradition of a wedding cake comes from ancient Rome, where revelers broke a loaf of bread over a bride’s head for fertility’s sake.

7. The first weddings comprised of a groom taking his bride by capture. He would take her somewhere hidden away so her relatives and villagers couldn’t find them. There they stayed for one moon phase and drank mead, a wine make from honey, to make them more amorous.

Thus, the word “honeymoon” was born.

8. Ancient Greeks and Romans thought the veil protected the bride from evil spirits. Brides have worn veils ever since.

9. In many cultures, the groom historically often kidnapped the bride. The groom’s friends would help him, leading to the modern-day groomsmen. At the altar, the groom always stood on the bride’s right side so his right hand—or his sword hand—would be free to fight a rival.

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Backflips, 360s and spread eagles are coaxed out of the young freestylers after a headlong pound through the snow-covered nubs of the mogul field.

With just a few cries of French-accented encouragement from their head coach Nicholas Bazin, the high performance core of Jasper's Freeride Ski Team make loops through the course; solidifying a trick, confronting the mogul run and practicing their timing.

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of Alberta's 14 freestyle clubs is where you'll be. Giving up your weekends is just the first step if you've aspirations to be the next Alexandre Bilodeau or Jenn Heil.

"The younger guys do one day a week for 20 weeks, the older kids are on a two-day program and the performance team does three days: Friday, Saturday, Sunday," Nic explains as skiers whisk past his vantage point between two takeoff ramps on Lift Line.

"Our program has them doing stuff every day of the week to ensure they are ready for weekend training."

Although skiing's a winter sport, being a freestyle skier isn't just a winter commitment. The sick Cab 7 you've seen pulled at a freestyle comp is the result of up to 12 months of slogging toward certification for that one trick alone.

It all begins with dryland training.

The trampoline is the usual starting point for any trick, says Jordie Ellen, Jasper Freeride Club's development team coach. Inverted manoeuvres (anything requiring the feet to come higher than the head) take the longest to learn, he explains, with the nuts and bolts of the trick tending to be put together on a trampoline and then taken to the water ramps.

With only three water ramps available to the hundreds of Albertan kids and teens seeking to use the facilities, the infrequent weekends the Jasper team spends at the distant ramps in Red Deer are precious.

"Our mandate is to successfully complete a number of water ramp jumps, then you're signed off to take the manoeuvre onto snow," Jordie explains.

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taken into competition.

But all this stickling for rules, designed to keep skiers safe, has put the sport into a perpetual state of chasing its tail. Since the late-1990s "new school" freestyle has exploded onto the scene, with slopestyle and half pipe dominating the Winter X Games and added to the line-up for the first time for the upcoming Winter Olympics in 2014.

With a frenetic dash to break records, land tricks that have never been completed in competition before and push past the limits of what is currently thought possible, the methodical many-month plod toward certification, one trick at a time, seems incongruous.

"What's happening is the pros are progressing so fast that the type of tricks they're wanting to do can't even be performed in competition yet," Jor-

die says. "At the moment they're trying to get a double backflip to be able to be judged in competition—currently it wouldn't even count."

With the recent death of Canadian superpipe pioneer Sarah Burke, there's no contention that well-considered safety measures are needed. Freestyle carries a risk, even when all things are done right; a fact that doesn't seem to be deterring the new generation of freestylers working their way up through the ranks.

Jasper's club, which started with fewer than 10 members in 1996, now has 54, ages six and up and "the numbers are growing and growing," Nic reveals.

"We're seeing a lot of athletes crossing over from racing who've trained with our Nancy Greene club or similar and now want to give freestyle a try."

A bonus of freestyle is that because it's relatively new, athletes are able to rise through the ranks more quickly, making provincial and even national team spots within reach if you're prepared to work hard and make sacrifices.

"Three of our past athletes are on the Alberta team," Jordie nods, "one's over with the BC team and we've got a brother and sister of an Alberta team member training with us. The provincial team seems achievable and it actually is."

Add to that the physical proximity of the Alberta mogul team, slinging themselves off the set of jumps beside our Saturday training session, and a provincial team spot seems within reach.

But with limited facilities like half pipes and water ramps available, cost and travel times are limiting factors for the up-and-comers. With national team spots dominated by French skiers, what Alberta needs for the new generation is infrastructure for freestyle training. Presently, it falls to the ski hills to stump up the cost—a buildit-and-hope-they-will-come approach.

And if the Jasper team's experiences are anything to go by, they will come.

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ith telemark skiing the real question seems to be, how low can you go? Well certainly that's the question for me as I take my first wobbly lunges across a normally easy green run at Marmot Basin.

With the encouragement of my easygoing Aussie instructor, Matt Ellis, I traverse again, attempting to copy his smooth descent into the tele stance and back up again.

Downhill foot forward, uphill foot back—check. I even throw in some bonus uncontrolled wobbling free of charge. Two traverses in the bag and one thing's clear: it's not as easy as it looks.

While telemark skiers are somewhat of a curiosity on a modern-day ski hill, time was it's what all the nonconformists were doing. From the late 1970s to the mid-'90s it was the in-thing to be free-heeling down a hill in a dashing orange jumpsuit. How times have changed.

"We're definitely a dying breed," Ellis tells me while riding the lift back up.

"People point as you're skiing down and will come up and ask questions when you're mid-lesson. It has got a very unique look to it and many haven't seen it before."

Ask 10 telemark skiers and you'll likely get 10 different answers as to how the sport began. The selfproclaimed daddy of telemark skiing was 19th century Norwegian, Sondre Norheim, who is most widely credited with inventing telemarking. Most likely it was around for years before coming to public attention; born out of necessity as intrepid cross-country skiers found the tele turn to be the best way to corner in deep snow with long, straight skis and floppy boots.

It wasn't until the Scarpa Terminator, the first plastic telemarking boot, hit the market in 1992 that ambition and equipment capabilities suddenly aligned and tele skiers finally had a boot that could turn a stiffer, fatter skier.

"My first season, people were still on leather boots and skis with no metal

edges," Ellis says. "I remember getting a set of proper tele skis for my first season in Whistler and the difference was amazing. I improved remarkably."

Round two and we're attracting some stares. "Look, telemarkers!" one woman exclaims as Ellis gracefully arches past and I sway along behind, demonstrating precisely how not to do a perfect tele lunge.

What I'm lacking, Ellis explains, is

the simultaneous push of both skis in opposite directions. While pushing the downhill ski forward or the uphill ski back individually seems fine, doing both together feels rather unsteady.

With this new tip in mind, I try again and things start to smooth out a little. "Now do that, but much more," Ellis calls as I pass the Dromedary intersection. "You really need to push those skis apart and get down lower."

As with alpine skiing, when it feels

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like you're moving a lot, you're barely in motion. The perfect tele stance, Ellis's tutelage reveals, requires a decent gap between front foot and back foot, quite a bit more weight on the uphill ski than feels right for a seasoned alpine skier and constant fluid movement rather than the staccato lunge and lock method I'm currently pioneering.

ed—my alpine skills have been the only thing keeping me on my feet.) A ski background also equals familiarity with the equipment, which feels much the same as alpine apart from lighter boots and detached heels.

"Tele's not that popular any more so the people you do get lessons have had to chase around to find somewhere

People point as you're skiing down and will come up and ask questions when you're mid-lesson. It has got a very unique look to it and many haven't seen it before.

But on our second pass down the hill, I have a revelation and hit that sweet spot while zipping across the snow, proudly hassling Ellis to admire my newfound skills.

I'm rewarded with the chance to try tele turns and resume switching between cursing and laughing while grappling with this new task.

"It helps to be a competent alpine skier who can parallel ski confidently before giving tele a go," Ellis says, going on to explain that he took the alternate route of telemarking first and alpine skiing second. (Not recommend-

they can learn and find equipment," Ellis divulges as the lifts close and cars start to trickle down the road. "If you're wanting a change or you're wanting to get into the backcountry or touring it's great ... It's fun to try something totally new on the ski hill."

As this jaded skier can attest—he's right.

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The prince later becomes king, ending a brutal civil war.

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So if the staggering distance gives you the shivers, consider this: the Canadian Birkebeiner, which happens annually at the Cooking Lake-Blackfoot Provincial Recreation Area each February (Feb 10 – 11 for 2012), actually offers several race distances to allow a gradual introduction to the sport. So you don't have to be a Norwegian warrior to participate.

"There's something here for everybody," says Glenda Hanna, general manager, "from the dedicated athletes who do the 55-kilometre tour ... to the weekend athletes who can do a 31-km tour ... to families and younger folks who might want to do the 13-km event to get a taste that isn't too grueling, and for the young ones, Ole's Tour, a 2.5 or 4 km event."

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Next weekend, Rabbit Hill is hosting its Family Winter Festival on Saturday, February 18. Snowboard demos, an ice climbing wall and an obstacle course are just a few of the featured events. DJ Fish Productions will be on hand to keep the tunes spinning and if you’re hungry, head for the BBQ and bake sale. All funds raised, including $1 from each lift ticket, will go to the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation. Rabbit Hill has partnered up with Silver Star Mountain Resort and some lucky lift pass purchaser that day will walk away with a family weekend package to Silver Star.

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Last weekend, Mikael Kingsbury continued his astonishing World Cup moguls dominance, winning gold and silver in Deer Valley, Utah. Meanwhile, across the pond in Chamonix, France, Jan Hudec pulled off an amazing downhill win, capturing gold for the first time in four years. For Hudec this was really special after a lengthy injury comeback involving six knee operations and recurring back pain.

Hudec knew something was up, he told reporters, because last Saturday he woke up feeling no pain for the first time in years. Fellow Canadian Erik Guay sweetened the moment for Jan finishing third and joining him on the podium for an emotional rendition of “Oh Canada”. The final Canuck in the race,

Benjamin Thomsen, finished fifth, an amazing result for Canada with only three competitors in the field of 64 skiers.

Up north in Moscow, Canada's Devon Kershaw pulled off an even bigger win, capturing gold in a 15km World Cup cross-country freestyle 60-man ski race. After a gruelling 36 minutes, he moved ahead, beating Russian competitor Ilia Chernousov by 0.9 seconds. Devon is the first male cross-country skier to win gold for Canada since 1988, when Pierre Harvey stepped onto the top tier of the podium. Of interest is that Pierre’s son Alex nearly joined Devon on the podium last weekend, finishing in fifth place and only six seconds behind the leading man.

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PREVUE // BREAKUP ALBUM

Swan song

Alice Kos emerges from a tumultuous year with You Missed It All

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relatable. So I feel if I can't write from some experience or some truth I've gained from my own life, it's hard for me to come up with something real."

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lice Kos didn't set out to make You Missed It All a breakup album. Or even to make it a full album, for that matter: originally a much-shorter collection of songs, You Missed It All's greater

shape and content came after the initial recording process was already finished.

"Initially I had a handful of songs that I knew I wanted to record, and we thought we'd put out an EP," the 29-year-old explains, in a voice that's chipper and melodic over the phone.

Kos recorded that batch of songs, then left for Africa for a four-month stint of volunteering. Then her personal life un-

spooled: her relationship with her husband was deteriorating, and a couple of months after returning to the continent, Kos and her then-husband, her high school sweetheart, separated.

The record she'd completed took a backburner position while she sorted through her personal troubles, but when it came time for Kos to return to the music, the tumult of that year

arranged itself into a revised and expanded batch of songs for release. She couldn't help but let the honesty of her situation come through in her writing.

"I'm in a place right now where I feel like I can't write a real song unless it's something I know about, y'know?" she says. "Unless it's something I've experienced in some way. And for me, it's important that my songs be somehow

The revised and finished You Missed It All carries a certain rawness in the melancholy air of its songs. Scored beautifully by Kos's backing band—bassist Tom Murray, Mike Silverman on percussion, violinist Scott Zubot and guitarist/ producer/mentor Everett LaRoi—it finds both quiet and loud moments of introspection as it explores the final steps of a relationship on its last legs.

The album's not just another songwriter's walk down Blood on the Tracks territory though: Kos's songs find their own take on the mourning-and-movingon process, and define it with her sharp eye for inner obervation.

That all said, Kos seems surprised with just how open-book the album she made seems to everyone else.

"I've been told that hearing it is like reading a diary, or correspondence between two lovers," she says. "I don't think I intended on it being so transparent, and I find that a bit unnerving, but because I feel I've moved past that heartbreak, I feel like I'm more comfortable with the notion of putting those songs out there now.

"It sounds silly, but I thought that I was a little bit more vague in my songwriting," she says with a laugh. "I didn't realize it was so completely spelled out while I was writing those songs.

But now I hear it and I just think, 'Well yeah, It is like a diary.' It's very much like a diary."

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PREVUE // METAL WITH FLOW

Iced Earth Sat, Feb 11 (8 pm) With Symphony X Starlite Room, $44.25

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ced Earth has long been a metal band with a certain malleability to its lineup. The roster has constantly shifted since the band began in 1984, with rhythm guitarist Jon Schaffer remaining the sole constant; around him no less than 28 other musicians have carried the Iced Earth banner for a time, then handed it off to the next one in line.

Stu Block, Iced Earth's current vocalist, is also the band's newest addition, having been recruited after on-againoff-again singer Matt Barlow quit for good in 2011. He's the band's sixth vocalist, and, in a Skype call, notes

he's found that being the new face in a band known for them is a fairly comfortable place to find one's self.

"It's pretty cool actually; everything from the loyal fanbase to the catalogue of songs to choose from, it's really cool," Block says. "I've been a fan of Iced Earth ever since [1995's] Burnt Offering, so it's been a great journey for me—y'know, big shoes to fill and all that stuff, but it's been a good time, the fans are really accepting, and I think they're really digging the new album."

That album, Dystopia, explores the Orwellian-sorts of controlling influences that would seek to hold sway on our personal lives. But, Block notes, it's just as much in reference to the current cresting wave of protest

the taxes we have to pay and all this kind of stuff. The people are feeling a bit ripped off right now, and don't know where to go."

Can we turn the temperature up a bit?

happening all over the world; Dystopia also explores what he sees as a worldwide sentiment of distrust.

"I think it's more of a veiled theme in regards to what's going on in the world today," he says. "There's a lot

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of corruption, a lot of things are happening in the world today that a lot of people aren't agreeing with. Sometimes I think that we feel like we're prisoners to our technology, that we're prisoners to our politicians, to

Two of the album's songs served as part of Block's audition for Iced Earth; when he was being considered for the gig, Block was flown to Schaffer's home studio where the two tested how their songwriting meshed.

"We were at his studio in Indiana, and I mean, the metal was flowin', man," Block says. "It was a really cool chemistry that we had with each other—it wasn't nerve-wracking. He's a very comfortable person to work with, he doesn't stress out or anything like that."

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LIVE MUSIC

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got a phone call inviting me to come to Lloydminister to play the Alberta Hotel with a guy I barely knew. No rehearsals, money's good, two evenings and a matinee. He says all I have to do is play a few licks and jam along. I say yes, he picks me up in his van at the appointed time.

We get to Lloyd where we're greeted by the 80-year-old hotel owner: skin and bones with lipstick, blue hair, dangling cigarette. The place is dingy. We spend an hour setting up, do a quick little sound check and then get our room keys. Thankfully we each have our own rooms, I retreat to my room and sit on the edge of what I hope is not a bedbug-filled mattress. I'm relieved to be alone for an hour before the gig.

At the appointed time I go down to the bar, we strap on our guitars, he turns on his amp and drum machine, we start playing the country hits for stragglers who may not even have realized there was anyone onstage. After about the third song, my fearless leader starts screaming at me between verses: "Play this!

Play that! No, not there!" on and on.

Every song becomes an epic scream fest from the lunatic bandleader—of a band of two. Finally the night ends, I am beat, dying to escape, I have a

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matinee and an evening performance the next day, one more night and then home.

At about 5 am the phone in my room rings—it's him. "Ben!" he yells "I've got the dry heaves!" I ask what he wants me to do about it; he says he doesn't know. I tell him to call me if it gets worse. An hour later, the phone rings again—same thing. "I've got the dry heaves! I need you to go to the drug store!" I go to his room, thinking in my naïve way that he has the flu or something, he explains to me he needs some 222s and could I go get him some? I walk to the highway where the grocery stores are, go to the pharmacy and explain I need some 222s, and the pharmacist asks if they are for me. I say no and she tells me she can't sell them to me.

It's news to me, having never bought them. I go to the next store and go through the same routine only this time I say they are for me. I get back to the hotel, give him two pills and leave the bottle on the dresser. It's still before 9 am, so I go back to bed.

I get another phone call—it's him. He wants me to take him to the hospital.

It's an old hotel without an elevator, so we spend forever getting down the stairs. The cab comes and every bump he complains. He looks bad and he's a stranger and I feel like I am in some nightmare and wish I would wake up. We get to the hospital. I have no idea what to do, so I sit and wait, all the time thinking to myself, "I don't even know his last name, does he have next of kin? Is he gonna die? Will I have to drive his van, pack up all his super heavy gear?" Finally I hear his voice from down the hall "Ben, Ben." I follow it behind a cur-

tain there he is in bed, some colour returned to his face, seemingly more normal than before, even happy to see me. He explains to me—prefacing with the fact he has never told anyone this before—that he's a codeine addict and forgot to bring his supply. He's been taking upwards of 90 pills a day for years, has a whole system back in Edmonton to avoid the pharmacies getting suspicious.

It's this great relief to him to share this with me.

We take a cab back to the hotel, the little old lady is waiting there telling us she has a business to run and we've already missed the matinee and could we please just pack up and go? Fine with me. For some reason I have the keys to both our hotel rooms, so I run upstairs, go into his room, get the codeine, bring it to my room and throw it in the garbage.

An hour into the two-and-half-hour trip back, he starts to get a little grumpy, a little owly and begins to get that junkie, "I'm your pal, can I have a buck?" vibe. He very expertly tries to disguise his growing tension and politely asks what I did with the 222s and if he could just have them it will get him home where he will start turning his life around. I politely explain that I threw them out at the hotel! He starts freaking out, screaming at me, "What were you thinking?!?!"

Finally we get back to Edmonton, he has somehow calmed down a bit. He says he'll make it up to me by getting us a gig at such-and-such a hotel. I can't remember the name, but I can remember it's the last place I would ever go inside, with or without this lunatic. He lets me out at home, all smiles. V

FIRSTS, LASTS & FAVOURITES

Steven Bowers

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First album

Rap Traxx 3, I was seven years old. We were driving through a small town in Newfoundland one hot summer day, and my mom bought a walkman for me and my brother at a gas station.

We each got to pick one tape, that's what I chose. I still know all the words to every song.

First concert

Growing up in Labrador meant not getting to see many bands. My first concert was probably the Tragically

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time being. The singer-songwriter appears this weekend at the first of many shows you'll be able to talk about when he's playing much bigger venues and you're all, "Yeah, but it was cooler when he was in intimate spaces." Bowers gave Vue the lowdown on some of his musical history. on the air. It was a pretty sweet birthday gift.

Last album

My wife and I have started a little vinyl collection, and our most recent purchase was Dan Mangan's Oh Fortune.

He signed it for her, and I'm pretty sure she's in love with him now.

Favourite album

It always changes. This morning, it's probably a tie between Townes Van Zandt's High, Low and In Between and Queen's Greatest Hits.

Last concert

Neil Young in Halifax with Wilco opening. I was doing a radio interview with ECFM in New Glasgow, NS, during a festival and my wife had the DJ surprise me with tickets while I was

Musical guilty pleasure

If I'm drunk and Titanic is on, there's a strong chance I will roll a tear when the boat goes down and Celine starts singing.

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Miesha and the Spanks Sat, Feb 11 (9 pm) Wunderbar

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o you like danger? Then you will love Miesha and the Spanks. Like the bastard child of Toni Basil and Johnny Ramone, Miesha and the Spanks is a band that will sing a song about cutting you, while cutting you. Singer/guitarist Miesha Louie gave Vue the lowdown on musical life at home and on the road.

At home

On the road Morning

Turbonegro, Apocalypse Dudes Pulling out of the residential side street you parked the van on and passed out in after the show in whatever city you're in, Tim Horton's being the closest and sometimes only coffee around, you have to start the first track right after the coffee is in your hand and you are pulling onto the highway. The intro to Apocalypse Dudes gets your basic motor skills functioning again and then the song to follow reminds you that yes, you are on tour, and yes, this is the best.

Morning

Ricca Razor Sharp, Causeways and Seaways He's been around forever, but I just recently discovered Ricca Razor Sharp and can't stop listening to it, particularly "Do You in the '80s." It reminds me of '80s/'90s-style hip hop, which I was in love with growing up, and is great in the morning for getting moving before work, or getting moving with a dance party in my basement suite (in the morning) post-rock 'n' roll show.

Noon

Starvin' Hungry, Cold Burns Straight up rock 'n' roll to get through the work day, be that at the restaurant where I cook (The Coup), or at home working on tours or other band business. There's a lot more I could toss in for the soundtrack of my afternoon, like C'mon, Cowpuncher and Bebop Cortez, but lately I'm putting this album on repeat.

Night

Whitey Houston, "I Got Fucked By Liberty Mutual" Getting ready to play or party, nothing beats dancing around singing along to "I got fucked by liberty mutual ..."

Noon

Hot Snakes, Suicide Invoice / Peaches, Teaches of Peaches This is another thing where we will blast through a million albums on the afternoon drive to wherever, probably Turbonegro a few more times in there, and some other weird ones that one of us might hate just to keep it interesting, but these two are staples. Hot Snakes for power driving, and Peaches for the sing alongs, "huh ... what ... right ... unh ..."

Sometimes when we have road-guests they don't really get it. We really like Peaches.

Night

C'mon, C'monpilation C'mon is probably our favourite band, and they put out a compilation of a lot of their singles a couple years ago. So some of our favourite songs that we only had on vinyl we now have as a road disc. So the song that we play, at the end of the night, after loading the gear, on the way to the party (even if that's the two of us parked on residential side-street drinking tecate and babbling about how awesome touring is until we fall asleep in the van), the song that we almost always rock out to is, "Peaches' Bathroom" by C'mon.

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NEWSOUNDS

K'naan More Beautiful Than Silence (Universal) 

Leonard Cohen Old Ideas (Columbia)  Since his first semi-retirement after 1992's The Future, Leonard Cohen's output hasn't measured up to his previous work. That's nothing to be surprised about: most artists lose a step as they age and fans were happy to hear or read anything from Cohen after he spent nearly a decade cooped up in a monastery on Mount Baldy. On Old Ideas, however, Cohen has returned. Maybe not up to his old form, but certainly he begins to approach it.

Pitching minimal arrangements, singing about God, love, sadness and redemption, Old Ideas sounds like it could be made up of B-sides from 1974's New Skin for the Old Ceremony. It's been posited that this album may not have happened, and certainly wouldn't sound the way it does, without Cohen's money troubles and subsequent touring. It's a sad idea, but if it's true, we're certainly the beneficiaries.

With Cohen back, legions of sensitive college kids can get laid again.

Of Montreal Paralytic Stalks (Polyvinyl)

K'naan's recent five-song EP veers off in a completely different direction from his Dusty Foot Philosopher days: it's more mainstream, more pop and more lyrically bland, though the songs admittedly still have a catchy quality to them. K'naan says he won't repeat his war story, but "Coming to America" sounds like it came out of the reject pile of his two previous records. Still, there is one standout song in "More Beautiful Than Silence," a quirky piece laced with nostalgia, witty wordplay and a cascading piano and violin outro that makes one hopeful that there is still much creativity left for K'naan's next full-length release.

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Kevin Barnes has never made a more insular, outside-repellant, playlist-unfriendly album than Paralytic Stalks, but, really, what else would you expect? His songwriting, particularly on the past few albums, has increasingly dwelt on his own damaged struggles, but even that's been hiding behind a sexed-up musical alter-ego and glammy Prince-ish funk numbers. Stalks, by comparison seems genuinely personal, Barnes really writing about himself directly, and like its meant to be taken as one chunky dose of fragmented pop. It's a lot to deal with.

Sonically, Stalks wanders: each tracks switches direction and intent at least a couple of times—except "Malefic Dowery" a tropical-sounding tune of regret that's probably the most focused thing he's written in years—his songs finding nuggets of melody or riff that get discarded just as quickly in the hunt for fresh ones.

The album's back half isn't as effective in its hunt for hooks, drifting towards Enomeets-Sgt Peppers-y sound collages more than what you might call songs. It doesn't all work, but when you hear Barnes wail lines like "I just can't get hard for reality / at least not mine," on "Ye, Renew the Plaintiff" you start to wonder if he just really needed to get some of this shit off his chest in whatever form it took. And with that in mind, Stalks as album as therapy could also be much, much worse than the mixed-bag fragments of vulerable pop he's given us here.

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Rococode, "Empire" Vancouver's Rococode isn't a band that shys away from big pop music. Unabashedly big: "Empire" has a couple different swoopy hooks, sweet cherub-sung vocals, a crunchy guitar kick and stomping riff sandwiched in there too. It probably won't surprise you, but you'll also find yourself humming along pretty quickly.

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The mononymously named pop chameleon Madonna changes her colours back to the '80s glory days: it's here in the bubblegum vocals, in the waves of synthy instrumentation, in the simple structure, in the dance-the-night-away content ... pretty much everything's a retread for her here, except the guest spots: Nicki Minaj drops a fast, sorta vapid verse while MIA's appearance adds some much needed space and groove to the mix. It's all a catchy end result, but even that double-guest slot isn't enough to make it stick out as anything other than rehash.

OLDSOUNDS Van Halen A Different Kind of Truth (Interscope) Originally released: 2012 So, Van Halen has finally released a new album with David Lee Roth on vocals. A 28-year break between albums is a big hurdle to clear—almost as big as the damage control necessary after the Van Hagar era—but the band doesn't flinch as it digs up the past and leaps into the future.

In a recent interview Roth suggested that Van Halen never really fit in, and that's a pretty fair assessment. Sure, there were legions of imitaters in the wake of the band's success, but through it all Van Halen just sort of did its own thing (including during the years after Roth's 1985 departure when Sammy Hagar replaced him and the band went on a middling journey through radio-friendly— and more sombre and far less fun— territory), never backing down in the face of criticism.

And so it is that the one true Van Halen* returns and unapologetically does its own thing once again, the past figuring heavily into an album of songs culled largely from the band's early days—several bits and pieces originated on the pre-Van Halen I demo tape that Gene Simmons produced—and filtered through three guys approaching 60 (Roth, Eddie and Alex Van Halen) and one about to turn 21 (Eddie's son Wolfgang).

The band doesn't hesitate as it blasts through the past, and it sounds just as it should: Roth squeals, yelps, grunts and ad libs while Eddie makes his guitar squeal, yelp, grunt and ad lib over top of the thunder that is the bass and drums.

But, like Roth says, the band never really fit in and so a Van Halen nearly

30 years past its glory days is unlikely to convert many non-fans (or worse, Van Hagar fans) with A Different Kind of Truth. But for those who've been waiting for this day since 1984, the news may be old, but it's also good.

The album starts off a little rough: musically, "Tattoo" sounds a lot like

solo Roth rather than top-notch Van Halen, and lyrically the singer offers up quite possibly the worst lines he's ever written in "Swap Meet Sally / Tramp stamp tat / Mousewife to momshell in the time it takes to get that new tattoo." (It's not all bad, as Roth's screams leading into the guitar solo are perfectly unrestrained and unrefined rock 'n' roll.)

But once that's over and done with, the album takes a decided upswing, carrying on like an unrepentent crazy uncle at the family barbecue. Roth offers up plenty of choice Rothisms— "How many roads must a man walk down before he admits he's lost?"

"Heroes aren't born, they're cornered / This corner is where we write the story" and "Hey, if everything is coming your way / You're facing the wrong lane" among them—while Eddie pummels his guitar throughout, from the heavy grinds of "China Town" and

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"Outta Space" through the classic VH pop of "Blood and Fire" and the boogie riffing on "As Is" and on to "Stay Frosty," the older, wiser cousin of Van Halen I's "Ice Cream Man." This is the longest running VH album with Roth, and it might have been tightened up some had one or two songs been left off—"Tattoo" and the stunted "You and Your Blues" would be good cuts (and maybe even "Honeybabysweetiedoll" as well)—but all in all A Different Kind of Truth lives up to the promise of the reunited Van Halen, and, even better, in a number of cases it surpasses any cautious expectations that may have preceded it.

No, the album's not going to make a whole lot of new Van Halen fans, but it stands up just fine in the mix of those first six Roth-era albums.

There aren't many clear hits here, but then a lot of Van Halen's best songs were always found in the deeper grooves of the band's albums, and A Different Kind of Truth feels a lot like an album of deep cuts. The band even nails its exit by closing the album with "Beats Workin'," a song as good as anything else in the VH catalogue. Maybe that's because the music originated back in 1976 on "Put Out the Lights," a track demoed when the band's creative blood was just beginning to pump at full blast, but, really, who cares? It's Van Halen, and, more importantly, it's not Van Hagar. V

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Variations for Winds

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46 MUSIC

VUEWEEKLY FEB 9 – FEB 15, 2012

MUSIC WEEKLY FAX YOUR FREE LISTINGS TO 780.426.2889 OR EMAIL LISTINGS@VUEWEEKLY.COM

DEADLINE: FRIDAY AT 3PM

THU FEB 9 ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE Seven Suns Acoustic, Lifted Spirit (acoustic rock, folk); 9:30pm-11:30pm; no minors; no cover ARTERY Noiselab: Wild Prairie Folk Club: opening night: The Collective West, The Living Daylights, Lindsey Walker; 7pm; $5 (door) BRITTANYS LOUNGE Kenny Hillaby hosts a jazz session night every Thu with Shadow Dancers, Maura and Jeanelle; no cover CARROT CAFÉ Zoomers Thu afternoon open mic; 1-4pm CHA ISLAND TEA CO Live on the Island: Rhea March hosts open mic and Songwriter's stage; starts with a jam session; 7pm DOW'S–SHELL THEATRE–Fort Saskatchewan On Stage with Jenie Thai ( jazz piano); 7:30pm; $15 (adult)/$10 (senior/ youth)/$5 (eyeGO) at Dow ticket outlet, TicketMaster DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Thu at 9pm EDMONTON EVENT CENTRE Benny Benassi, Sander Van Doorn; 9pm (door); no minors; $45$65 at Foosh, Shadified, Restricted Elite, Occultist

DJs 180 DEGREES DJ every Thu THE BILLIARD CLUB Throwback Thursdays: Industry Night todays and '90s hits with DJ UFC 143; launch party BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Underdog: Underdog Sound Revue: garage, soul, blues with Stu Chel; Main Floor: Soul/reggae/punk/funk/ junk with DJ Jaime Del Norte; Wooftop Lounge: Various musical flavas including funk, indie dance/nu disco, breaks, drum and bass and house with DJ Gundam BRIXX Radio Brixx CENTURY ROOM Lucky 7: Retro '80s with house DJ every Thu; 7pm-close CHROME LOUNGE 123 Ko every Thu THE COMMON So Necessary: Hip hop, classic hip hop, funk, soul, r&b, '80s, oldies and everything in between with Sonny Grimezz, Shortround, Twist every Thu CROWN PUB Break Down Thu at the Crown: D&B with DJ Kaplmplx, DJ Atomik with guests DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Thu; 9pm ELECTRIC RODEO– Spruce Grove DJ every Thu FILTHY MCNASTY’S Something Diffrent every Thursday with DJ Ryan Kill FLASH NIGHT CLUB Indust:real Assembly: Goth and Industrial Night with DJ Nanuck; no minors; 10pm (door); no cover

J R BAR AND GRILL Live Jam Thu; 9pm

FLUID LOUNGE Take Over Thursdays: Industry Night; 9pm

JEFFREY'S Jamie Henry Five ( jazz band, original music/contemporary covers); $10

FUNKY BUDDHA– Whyte Ave Requests every Thu with DJ Damian

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

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

LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR Karen Porrka Duo with Jamie Philp MARYBETH'S COFFEE HOUSE–Beaumont Open mic every Thu; 7pm

HILLTOP PUB The Sinder Sparks Show; every Thu and Fri; 9:30pm-close KAS BAR Urban House: every Thu with DJ Mark Stevens; 9pm LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Funk Bunker Thursdays

NEW CITY LEGION Bingo is Back every Thu starting 9pm; followed

by Behind The Red Door at 10:30pm; no minors; no cover

LUCKY 13 Sin Thu with DJ Mike Tomas

NEW WEST HOTEL Sonny and the Hurricanes

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

NOLA CREOLE KITCHEN & MUSIC HOUSE Every Thursday Night: Nick Martin; 10pm NORTH GLENORA HALL Jam by Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu RIC’S GRILL Peter Belec ( jazz); most Thursdays; 7-10pm SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Derina Harvey

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

RENDEZVOUS Metal night every Thu TAPHOUSE–St Albert Eclectic mix every Thu with DJ Dusty Grooves UNION HALL 3 Four All Thursdays: rock, dance, retro, top 40 with DJ Johnny Infamous WILD BILL’S–Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close

SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Party Hop

FRI FEB 10

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

APEX CASINO–Vee Lounge Catalyst (rock)

WUNDERBAR Shred Kelly, Feast or Famine, Dan Smith

Classical JUBILLEE AUDITORIUM Edmonton Opera The Mikado (Gilbert and Sullivan); 7:30pm

ARTERY A Bunch of Marys, Paul Bellows, The Cereal Killers, Occupy Ben Sures, Mike McDonald, Kim Upright, Duane Elias; 8:30pm; $10 (door) AVENUE THEATRE Last Horizon, Bring Us Your Dead, Promethean Labyrinth; 8:30pm; $10 (door)

BAILEY THEATRE– Camrose Frozen Rose Blues Festival: Marshall Lawrence, Myra Marshall Band, Jenie Thai; 7pm; $20/$35 (weekend pass) at Bailey box office

$18 (adv)/$22 (door)

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ The Ospreys; 8:30pm; $10

SIDELINERS PUB Wafer Thin Mints, The Living Daylights; 9pm

BOHEMIA Makin' Noise, Just Joe Clarke presents Spreadin' the Love featuring live painting by Just Joe Clarke, and music

by Sugarbear, Drkwtr, and guest, Shax, Type Cast, Lolcatz, Plunder, and Fido; 8:30pm; no minors; $10 (door) BRIXX BAR Early Show: Malibu Knights, One Bad Son 6pm (door); Late show: Options at 10pm CARROT Live music every Fri; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door) CASINO EDMONTON Mojave Iguanas (pop/rock) CASINO YELLOWHEAD Doc Holiday COAST TO COAST Open stage every Fri; 9:30pm THE COMMON Step In The Name Of Love: Valentine's Edition; 9pm DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB Rob Taylor DV8 The Choke Outs, Chimp Change, Uncultured; 9pm EDDIE SHORTS Breezy Brian Gregg, Nadine Kellman, Jon Forseth (drums), Moses Gregg (bass); 9:30pm (show); $5 EDMONTON EVENT CENTRE Ed Kowalczyk (Live), This Girl That Boy, Needles to Vinyl, The Bear Band; 8pm; no minors; $24.99-$34.99 at TicketMaster FESTIVAL PLACE Café Series: Sultans of String (world); 7:30pm; $18 at Festival Place box office, TicketMaster FRESH START BISTRO Ruth Blais and friends; 7-10pm; $10 GOOD NEIGHBOR PUB T.K. and the Honey Badgers every friday; 8:30-midnight; no cover HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB Steven Bowers with Omar Mouallem (folk/ rock)m A.O.K (Assault of Knowlege); 8pm; $10 (adv) IRISH CLUB Jam session every Fri; 8pm; no cover JEFFREY'S David Riddell Trio (instrumental jazz); $10 JEKYLL AND HYDE PUB Headwind (classic pop/ rock); every Fri; 9pm; no cover L.B.'S PUB Barry Campbell; 9:30pm-2am LIZARD LOUNGE Rock 'n' roll open mic every Fri; 8:30pm; no cover NEW CITY Mixtape Exchange: Flint Falsehood, guests; no minors NEW WEST HOTEL Sonny and the Hurricanes NOLA Early show: Alfie Zappacosta; 6:30pm, $20 (adv) Late Show: Billie Zizi and Gypsy Jive ON THE ROCKS Mourning Wood PAWN SHOP McGowan Family Band (Anniversary show), Swear by the Moon; 9pm; no minors; $10 (adv) at Blackbyrd RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Fri; 9pm-2am ROSE AND CROWN The Salesmen ST BASIL’S CULTURAL CENTRE Full Moon Folk Club: The Steel Wheels; 7pm (door), 8pm (show);

SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Derina Harvey SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Party Hop

STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION Punktured, Rebuild Repair, Practical Slackers; 8pm (door); $10 WILD BILL’S–Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close WUNDERBAR Free City Collective, Consilience, Souvs, Knibbs High Football Rules; 8:30pm YARDBIRD SUITE Keith Price Trio; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $14 (member)/$18 (guest)

Classical WINSPEAR Let's Fall in Love: ESO, Bruce Hangen (conductor), John Pagano (vocals); 8pm; $49-$85 at Winspear boc office

DJs 180 DEGREES DJ every Fri AZUCAR PICANTE DJ Papi and DJ Latin Sensation every Fri BAR-B-BAR DJ James; every Fri; no cover BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every Friday DJs spin on the main floor, Underdog and the Wooftop BLACKSHEEP PUB Bash: DJ spinning retro to rock classics to current BONEYARD ALE HOUSE The Rock Mash-up: DJ NAK spins videos every Fri; 9pm; no cover BRIXX BAR Options with Greg Gory and Eddie Lunchpail; every Fri BUDDY’S DJ Arrow Chaser every Fri; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm BUFFALO UNDERGROUND R U Aware Friday: Featuring Neon Nights CHROME LOUNGE Platinum VIP every Fri THE COMMON Boom The Box: every Fri; nu disco, hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation plus residents Echo and Shortround THE DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Fri; 9pm ELECTRIC RODEO– Spruce Grove DJ every Fri FILTHY MCNASTY'S Shake yo ass every Fri with DJ SAWG FLUID LOUNGE Hip hop and dancehall; every Fri FUNKY BUDDHA– Whyte Ave Top tracks, rock, retro with DJ Damian; every Fri HILLTOP PUB The Sinder Sparks Show; every Thu and Fri; 9:30pm-close JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY LGBT Community: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Fridaze: Lace N Bass Valentines Lingerie Party; 9:30pm NEWCASTLE PUB House, dance mix every Fri with DJ Donovan OVERTIME–Downtown Fridays at Eleven: Rock hip hop, country, top forty, techno REDNEX–Morinville DJ Gravy from the Source 98.5 every Fri RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie, rock, funk, soul,

hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri

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

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SUEDE LOUNGE Juicy DJ spins every Fri SUITE 69 Every Fri Sat with DJ Randall-A TREASURY In Style Fri: DJ Tyco and Ernest Ledi; no line no cover for ladies all night long UNION HALL Ladies Night every Fri VINYL DANCE LOUNGE Connected Las Vegas Fridays Y AFTERHOURS Foundation Fridays

SAT FEB 11 ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage with Trace Jordan 1st and 3rd Sat; 7pm-12 APEX CASINO–Vee Lounge Catalyst (rock) ARTERY Alice Kos (CD release: You Missed It All), Smokey8:30pm; $10 (adv) AVENUE THEATRE The Hooping Life (film); event to follow; 7:30pm

1001 Calahoo Road, Spruce Grove

2011/2012

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$25 adults, $20 Students & Seniors, $5 eyeGO

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BAILEY THEATRE– Camrose Frozen Rose Blues Festival: free open stage blues jam: 4-6pm; followed

by The Colloquials, The Bloozehounds, The Black Hyenas; $20/$35 (weekend pass) at Bailey box office; baileytheatre. com BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair of the Dog: Jom Comyn (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ John Wort Hannam; 8:30pm; $20 BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat afternoon Jam BRITTANY'S LOUNGE A night in light Latin: Marco Claveria; shadow dancing by Maura Fair Rae; 9-1am BRIXX BAR Desousa Drive, Distant Calm, Acheson, Lyndsay Burnett, Cody Nouta; 9pm CASINO EDMONTON Mojave Iguanas (pop/ rock) CASINO YELLOWHEAD Doc Holiday CENTURY CASINO Patsy Cline Valentines Show: Bonnie Kilroe (tribute); dinner and show COAST TO COAST Live bands every Sat; 9:30pm THE COMMON Heartbeats: Music for Lovers; 8pmLocation CROWN PUB Acoustic blues open stage with Marshall Lawrence, every Sat, 2-6pm; every Sat, 12-2am DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB Rob Taylor THE DISH NEK Trio ( jazz); every Sat, 6pm DV8 Alleycat Blues, the Strugglefucks and the Patterns; 9pm EDDIE SHORTS Saucy Wenches every Sat EDMONTON EVENT CENTRE Jersey Shore: Party, Pauly D; 9pm (door); no minors; $24.99-$49.99 at Foosh, Shadified, Restricted Elite, Occulist EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ Open stage for original songs, hosted by Karyn Sterling and Randall Walsh; 2-5pm; admission by donation FESTIVAL PLACE Rawlins Cross (Celtic); 7:30pm; $34 (table)/$32

VUEWEEKLY FEB 9 – FEB 15, 2012

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(box)/$30 (theatre) at Festival Place box office, TicketMaster

Filthy McNasty's Dissonance, Boulderfist; 4pm; no cover Haven Social Club Crestwood, Wacousta, Casper Hollands; 8pm; $10 (adv) HillTop Pub Sat afternoon roots jam with Pascal, Simon and Dan, 3:30-6:30pm; evening Hooliganz Live music every Sat Iron Boar Pub Jazz in Wetaskiwin featuring jazz trios the 1st Sat each month; $10 JEFFRey's Crowded City Skyline (Easy listening, indie rock); $10 Jubilee auditorium Gospel Night Concert l.b.'s pub Sat afternoon Jam with Gator and Friends, 5-9pm; Late show: The Tomatoes; 9:30pm-2am NEW CITY All the Way Serious: Danceparty; no minors New West Hotel Country jam every Sat; 3-6pm New West Hotel Sonny and the Hurricanes NOLA Early show: Alfie Zappacosta; 6:30pm, $20 (adv) Late Show: Billie Zizi and Gypsy Jive O’byrne’s Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm On the Rocks Mourning Wood Pawn Shop Early Show: No Witness, Death by Robot; 6pm

(door); $8 (adv)

Red Piano Bar Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am Rose and Crown The Salesmen St Andrew’s United Church TIME presents Synergy: featuring FORM, ‘Nuf Sed, J***Word Vocal Ensembles; 7pm; $16 (adult)/$13 (student) at the door, 780.482.7649 Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Derina Harvey Sherlock Holmes– WEM Party Hop Sideliners Pub Sat open stage; 3-7pm Starlite Room Iced Earth, Symphony X, Warbringer; 8pm; $42 Stencel Hall– Taylor College/ Seminary Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society: Spring Creek Bluegrass Band, Bix Mix Boys; 8pm; $25/$20 (member) at bluegrassnorth.com Studio Music Foundation Evoletah, A Hundred Years, Bad Acid WUNDERBAR Miesha and the Spanks, Ball and Chain, Ben Disaster; 8:30pm Yardbird Suite Yves Leveille Quartet; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $18 (member)/$22 (guest)

Classical Convocation Hall Looking Forward: New Works by Faculty Composers: new works

by Bashaw, Hannesson, Smallwood and Talpash; 8pm

FILTHY McNASTY'S Fire up your night every Saturday with DJ SAWG

Winspear Let's Fall in Love: ESO, Bruce Hangen (conductor), John Pagano (vocals); 8pm; $49-$85 at Winspear boc office

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

DJs 180 Degrees Street VIBS: Reggae night every Sat AZUCAR PICANTE DJ Touch It, hosted by DJ Papi; every Sat 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 hip-hop and reggae with DJ Sonny Grimezz

FUNKY BUDDHA– Whyte Ave Top tracks, rock, retro every Sat with DJ Damian HALO For Those Who Know: house every Sat with DJ Junior Brown, Luke Morrison, Nestor Delano, Ari Rhodes junction bar and eatery LGBT Community: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm Level 2 lounge Valentines StopLight Party: HUFM Saturdaze: Tianna J and D3viant; 9:30pm

Blacksheep Pub DJ every Sat

Newcastle Pub Top 40 requests every Sat with DJ Sheri

bohemia PüR LuV presents BlueRogue's Birthday: with DJ Heteroclite, DJ THB, DJ Eff, BlueRogue, DJ Murkie, Femmefunk; 9pm; no minors; $7 (door)

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)

Boneyard Ale House DJ Sinistra Saturdays: 9pm

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

BUDDY'S Feel the rhythm every Sat with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm Buffalo Underground Head Mashed In Saturday: Mashup Night Druid Irish Pub DJ every Sat; 9pm electric rodeo– Spruce Grove DJ every Sat

Palace Casino Show Lounge DJ every Sat PAWN SHOP Transmission Saturdays: Indie rock, new wave, classic punk with DJ Blue Jay and Eddie Lunchpail; 9pm (door); free (before 10pm)/$5 (after 10pm) RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests

ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Rezzo, DJ Mkhai Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M Suede Lounge DJ Nic-E spins every Sat Suite 69 Every Fri Sat with DJ Randall-A TEMPLE Oh Snap! Oh Snap with Degree, Cool Beans, Specialist, Spenny B and Mr. Nice Guy and Ten 0; every Sat 9pm Union Hall Celebrity Saturdays: every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous Vinyl Dance Lounge Signature Saturdays Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

SUN FEB 12 Avenue Theatre The Man and his Machine, Hhogwash, Autumn Effect, Negation; 7pm (door); $7 (adv)/$10 (door) Black dog Freehouse The Underdog: The Walking Dead Beer Hunter–St Albert Open stage/jam every Sun; 2-6pm Blackjack's Roadhouse–Nisku Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett Blue Chair Café Farley Scott's Jazz Passages Trio; 10:30am2:30pm; donations Blue Pear Restaurant Jazz on the Side Sun: Lionel Rault (guitar); 5:30-8:30pm; $25 if not dining

VENUE GUIDE 180 Degrees 10730-107

St, 780.414.0233

Apex Casino–Vee Lounge 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, apexcasino.ca/events/

Accent European Lounge 8223-104 St,

780.431.0179 ARTery 9535 Jasper Ave Avenue Theatre 9030118 Ave, 780.477.2149

Bailey Theatre– Camrose 5041-50 St,

Camrose, 780.672.5510

Bernard Snell Auditorium–1st fl foyer

Walter Mackenzie Health Sciences Centre, 112 St entrance

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

Convocation Hall Arts Bldg, U of A, 780.492.3611

Crown and Anchor 15277 Castledowns Rd, 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 870084 St, Fort Saskatchewan, 780.992.6400

DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8307-99 St Early Stage Saloon

Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411

Boneyard Ale House

Ave

Brittanys Lounge

9938-70 Ave, 780.437.3667

9216-34 Ave, 780.437.2663

10225-97 St (behind Winspear stage door) Brixx Bar 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 CARROT Café 9351-118 Ave, 780.471.1580

Casino Edmonton 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467

Casino Yellowhead

12464-153 St, 780 424 9467

Cha Island Tea Co

10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 CHROME LOUNGE 132 Ave, Victoria Trail Coast to Coast 5552 Calgary Tr, 780.439.8675

Common Lounge

Elephant and Castle– Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Expressionz Café

Ortona Armoury

Hydeaway 10209-100 Ave, 780.426.5381

Iron Boar Pub 491151st St, Wetaskiwin JAMMERS PUB 11948-127 Ave, 780.451.8779 J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 jeffrey’s café 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 JEKYLL AND HYDE 10209-100 Ave, 780.426.5381

John L. Haar Theatre Grant MacEwan, junction bar and eatery 10242-106 St,

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE

11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495

Lit Italian Wine Bar

FIDDLER’S ROOST

10132-104 St

FILTHY MCNASTY’S

118 Ave

First Presbyterian Church 10025-105 St FLASH Night Club

5001-30 Ave, Beaumont, 780.929.2203

8906-99 St

10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557

10018-105 St, 780.996.1778 FLOW Lounge 11815 Wayne Gretzky Dr, 780.604.

CLUB Fluid Lounge 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 FUNKY BUDDHA 1034182 Ave, 780.433.9676

Good Neighbor Pub 11824-103 St HALO 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.HALO

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780.756.5667 KAS BAR 10444-82 Ave, 780.433.6768 L.B.’s Pub 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEGENDS PUB 6104-172 St, 780.481.2786

BLUES ON WHYTE

124 St, 780.451.1390, experiencenola.com

HOOLIGANZ 10704-124

Holy Trinity Anglican Church

EDMONTON EVENTS CENTRE WEM Phase III, Electric Rodeo– Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave,

NOLA Creole Kitchen & Music House 11802-

13535-109A Ave O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767

10045-156 St

780.489.SHOW ‎

10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 Bohemia 10217-97 St

15120A (basement), Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.6010 HillTop Pub 8220-106 Ave, 780.490.7359 Hogs Den Pub 9, 14220 Yellowhead Tr

4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain Eddie Shorts 10713124 St, 780.453.3663

Blue Pear Restaurant 10643-123

St, 780.482.7178

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Lizard Lounge 13160Marybeth's Coffee House–Beaumont

McDougall United Church 10025-101 St Morinville Community Cultural Centre 9502-100 Av

Morinville

Myer Horowitz Theatre U of A Newcastle PuB 6108-

90 Ave, 780.490.1999 New City Legion 8130 Gateway Boulevard (Red Door) Nisku Inn 1101-4 St

9733-102 St

Queen Alexandra Hall 10425 University Ave orange hall 10335-84

Ave

Orlando's 1 15163121 St

Overtime–Downtown

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

Pleasantview Community Hall 10860-57 Ave

REDNEX BAR–Morinville

10413-100 Ave, Morinville, 780.939.6955 Red Piano Bar 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 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

Robertson-Wesley United Church 10209-

123 St

ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St,

780.482.5253

Rose and Crown 10235-101 St R Pub 16753-100 St, 780.457.1266

St Andrew’s United Church 9915-148 St St Basil’s Cultural Centre 10819-71 Ave Second Cup–89 Ave 8906-149 St

Second Cup–

Sherwood Park 4005

Cloverbar Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929

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Summerwood Centre, Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929

Shaw Conference

Centre Hall D, 9797 Jasper Ave Sideliners Pub 11018127 St, 780.453.6006 Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge 12923-97 St,

780.758.5924

Sportsman's Lounge 8170-50 St

STARLITE ROOM 10030102 St, 780.428.1099

STEEPS TEA LOUNGE– Whyte Ave 11116-82 Ave Stencel Hall–Taylor College/Seminary 11525-23 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

Vee Lounge, Apex Casino–St Albert 24

Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128

Vinyl Dance

Lounge 10740 Jasper Ave, 780.428.8655, vinylretrolounge.com Yellowhead Brewery 10229-105 St Wild Bill’s–Red Deer

Quality Inn North Hill, 7150-50 Ave, Red Deer, 403.343.8800 Winspear Centre 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 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

DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB Celtic open stage every Sun with Keri-Lynne Zwicker; 5:30pm; no cover Double D's Open jam every Sun; 3-8pm Eddie Shorts Acoustic jam every Sun; 9pm FILTHY McNASTY'S Rock and Soul Sundays with DJ Sadeeq Hogs Den Pub Open Jam: hosted; open jam every Sun, all styles welcome; 3-7pm McDougall United Church Gospel Music Month: every Sun through Feb; 10:30am; info at 780.428.1818, mcdougallunited.com Myer Horowitz Theatre For Band Lovers: New Edmonton Wind Sinfonia; 2:30pm; 780.434.7117 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 The Collective West, Ariane Mahryke Lemire ORLANDO'S 2 PUB Open stage jam every Sun; 4pm Pawn Shop Dark Funeral, Abigail Williams, Inquisition, Gigan; 7pm WUNDERBAR CJSR Monthly #1: Jom Comyn, Ghost Cousin, Sugarglider Yellowhead Brewery Open Stage: Every Sun, 8pm

Classical First Presbyterian Church RCCO Sundays at 3: cco.edmonton.ab.ca/ sundays_at_3.html Canadians Near and Far: Craig Humber (organ); 7-9pm; $20 (adult)/$18 (senior/student); available at TIX on the Square, McDougall United Church Pro Coro Canada: Canada Meet Sweden: premiere of David Mott’s Heart Meditations, Erik Westberg (conductor), David Mott (guest soloist) Winspear Variations for Winds: The Symphonic Wind Ensemble, The Northern Alberta Honour Band; 3pm; tickets at the Department of Music U of A, or at door

DJs BACKSTAGE TAP AND GRILL Industry Night: every Sun with Atomic Improv, Jameoki and DJ Tim BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sundays: A fantastic voyage through '60s and '70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy. Dance parties have been known to erupt FLOW Lounge Stylus Sun SAVOY MARTINI LOUNGE Reggae on Whyte: RnR Sun with DJ IceMan; no minors; 9pm; no cover

MON FEB 13 Avenue Theatre The New Cities, Take Me to the Pilot, Better Than Heroes; 7pm; $12.50 (adv) at Blackbyrd, Gateway Screen and Press

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover Blues on Whyte Michael Charles Devaney's Irish Pub Singer/songwriter open stage every Mon; 8pm New West Hotel Rodeowind PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm Rose Bowl/Rouge Lounge Acoustic open stage every Mon; 9pm WUNDERBAR Anti Valentine's Day

Classical Bernard Snell Auditorium–1st fl foyer Hear’s to your Health: Julianne Scott (Clarinet), Charles Pilon (viola), Patricia Tao (piano); program of Romantic chamber music; 5pm; free Convocation Hall Monday Noon Music: Free Convocation Hall Edmonton Chamber Music Society: Dido and Aeneas by Daniel Taylor's Montreal’s Theatre of Early Music (opera); 7:30pm; $35 (adult)/$25 (senior)/$10 (student) at door, TIX on the Square, The Gramophone; info at edmontonchambermusic. org, 780.433.4532 Winspear Chicago: Kevin Hearn; sold out

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay Crown Pub Mixmashitup Mon Industry Night: with DJ Fuzze, J Plunder (DJs to bring their music and mix mash it up) FILTHY McNASTY'S Metal Mondays with DJ Tyson Lucky 13 Industry Night every Mon with DJ Chad Cook NEW CITY LEGION Madhouse Mon: Punk/ metal/etc with DJ Smart Alex

TUE FEB 14 Artery Free Judges (hard rock), sir ma'am ma'am; $5 (door) blue chair café Valentines: House Band; seatings: 5pm, 5:30pm without music; 7pm, 7:30pm with the House Band; $50 (dinner only)/$65 (with music) Blues on Whyte Michael Charles

NEW CITY Valentine’s Day: Trusty Chords Tuesdays Kick-Off Party: Tanyss Nixi, Sherry-Lee Heschel, Jason Kodie (Capt. Tractor), Ayla Brooks; no minors; $5 (door)

and friends every Wed

New West Hotel Rodeowind

Elephant and Castle–Whyte Ave Open mic every Wed (unless there's an Oilers game); no cover

NOLA Jeff Hendrick O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm Padmanadi Open stage every Tue; with Mark Davis; all ages; 7:30-10:30pm R Pub Open stage jam every Tue; hosted by Gary and the Facemakers; 8pm REd Piano Valentine's Day: Katie Perman Trio ( jazz); 6:30pm (early seating), 7:45pm (late seating); $155/couple (3 course meal, rose) REXALL PLACE Simple Plan, Marianas Trench, All Time Low, These Kids Wear Crowns; $29.50, $45.50 Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Duane Allen Sherlock Holmes– WEM Andrew Scott Second Cup– Summerwood Open stage/open mic every Tue; 7:30pm; no cover WUNDERBAR Anti Valentine's Day; 8:30pm Yardbird Suite Tue Night Sessions: Thom Bennett Quartet; 7:30pm (door), 8pm (show); $5

Classical Shaw Conference Centre Valentine’s Gala: Edmonton Opera: music, decor, culinary delights; 630pm; tickets at Edmonton Opera box office, 780.429.1000

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: alternative retro and not-so-retro, electronic and Euro with Eddie Lunchpail; Wooftop: One Too Many Tuesdays with Rootbeard Buddys DJ Arrow Chaser every CRown Pub Live Hip Hop Tue: freestyle hip hop with DJ Xaolin and Mc Touch DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly, Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue NEW CITY LEGION High Anxiety Variety Society Bingo vs. karaoke with Ben Disaster, Anonymouse every Tue; no minors; 4pm-3am; no cover RED STAR Experimental Indie Rock, Hip Hop, Electro with DJ Hot Philly; every Tue

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Brixx Bar Ruby Tuesdays guest with host Mark Feduk; $5 after 8pm; Love Stinks: Budiman John Irving, Colin Close; 8pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Glitter Gulch: Pernell Reichert; 10pm; no cover

Edmonton Event Centre August Burns Red, Silverstein, guests; 6pm; $30

Blue Chair café Jessica Heine (singersongwriter); 8:3010:30pm; $15

Haven Social Club Valentine's Party: Mike Edel (folk/pop), Lindsey Walker, Justine Van Der Grift; 8pm; $10 (adv)

Blues on Whyte Michael Charles

Druid Irish Pub Open stage every Tue; with Chris Wynters; 9pm; Justin Wisser and Devin Phillips L.B.’s Tue Blues Jam with Ammar; 9pm-1am

Cha Island Tea Co Whyte Noise Drum Circle: Join local drummers for a few hours of beats and fun; 6pm Crown Pub The D.A.M.M Jam: Open stage/original plugged in jam with Dan, Miguel

Diesel Ultra Lounge Melo Green, Dream Chasers, Rocatella, Snipa eddie shorts Acoustic jam every Wed, 9pm; no cover

Fiddler's Roost Little Flower Open Stage every Wed with Brian Gregg; 8pm-12 HAVEN SOCIAL Club Open stage every Wed with Jonny Mac, 8:30pm, free HOOLIGANZ Open stage every Wed with host Cody Nouta; 9pm New West Hotel Rodeowind Nisku Inn Troubadours and Tales: 1st Wed every month; with Tim Harwill, guests; 8-10pm NOLA Jeff Hendrick Playback Pub Open Stage every Wed hosted

by JTB; 9pm-1am PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:30-11pm; $2 (member)/$4 (nonmember) Red Piano Bar Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 Second Cup–149 St Open stage with Alex Boudreau; 7:30pm Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Duane Allen Sherlock Holmes– WEM Andrew Scott WUNDERBAR Ben Sir Tour Kickoff

Classical McDougall United Church Sarah Woodman, Ian Woodman (viola and cello); 12:1012:50pm; free

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: RetroActive Radio: Alternative '80s and '90s, post punk, new wave, garage, Brit, mod, rock and roll with LL Cool Joe; 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 Diesel Ultra Lounge Wind-up Wed: R&B, hiphop, reggae, old skool, reggaeton with InVinceable, Touch It, weekly guest DJs FILTHY McNASTY'S Pint Night Wednesdays with DJ SAWG FUNKY BUDDHA– Whyte Ave Latin and Salsa music every Wed; dance lessons 8-10pm LEGENDS PUB Hip hop/ R&B with DJ Spincycle NEW CITY LEGION Wed Pints 4 Punks: with DJ Nick; no minors; 4pm3am; no cover NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed TEMPLE Wild Style Wed: Hip hop open mic hosted

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"I Oh You One"—or four, actually

Across 1 Multi-purpose shot, for short 4 "___ on a Plane" 10 E-mail from Nigeria, maybe 14 Big Band, for one 15 Start, as a riot 16 What programmers write 17 Cameraman's question about which talk show star to film?

20 Maritime patrol org.

21 Malaria-carrying fly 22 Concert memento 25 Darkest part of a shadow 29 Reagan aide Peggy and aviator Fred 34 Shrinking Asian body of water, with 63-down 35 Spanish NBA player who explodes in a volatile fuel mix?

38 Tell the cops everything 39 Coffee server 40 Title role for Peter Weller 42 They tow broken-down cars 43 Use a shiv 45 Menu phrase meaning "you can add pineapple to any item"?

47 Put on the payroll 48 Atones 49 Country on the Red Sea 51 Accompany 55 Genie's home 60 Song from Sarah McLachlan's "Surfacing" 61 Must decide which pitching feat to choose?

66 Ice skating jump 67 Save from peril 68 It's small and strummable 69 Side 70 Lower, like regions 71 1/525,600th of a yr.

Down 1 Introduction 2 Bridge part 3 Ripped jeans cover-up 4 Obedience school lesson 5 Dir. opposite SSE 6 Eight, in Essen

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7 Sportages and Spectras 8 Smurf suffix 9 Splinter group 10 Psychological patterns 11 Dove bar?

12 Super Bowl highlights?

13 Got together with 18 Getting older 19 Home of the Beavers, for short 23 MGM opening sound 24 "And I'm ready ___ right through the sky" (Richard Marx lyric) 26 Prickly bush 27 Tried to attack 28 Pond scum 30 Like some gases 31 "Girl with ___" (Renoir painting) 32 Night, to Noriega 33 Everett of "Citizen Kane" 35 Like annoying salesmen

LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS

36 "Glee" character Abrams 37 Take weapons from 41 Pie charts show them: abbr.

44 Flower that helps heal cracked skin 46 Musician's org.

50 Smoking alternative, once 52 Strong loathing 53 Talk show host Lake 54 Occupied 56 Undecided, in an angsty way 57 Old school pronoun 58 Shopping trip sheet 59 ___ A Sketch 61 Head cover 62 Fire 63 See 34-across 64 Election Day day: abbr.

65 "Love, Reign ___ Me" (The Who) ©2011 Jonesin' Crosswords

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TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): "Love loves to love love," wrote James Joyce in his 1922 novel Ulysses. "Nurse loves the new chemist. Constable 14A loves Mary Kelly. Jumbo, the elephant, loves Alice, the elephant. Old Mr Verschole with the ear trumpet loves old Mrs Verschoyle with the turnedin eye. The man in the brown macintosh loves a lady who is dead. His Majesty the King loves Her Majesty the Queen."

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CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): On average, an adult on planet Earth has sex 103 times a year.

But I'm guessing that in the immediate future,

Cancerians everywhere may be motivated to exceed that rate by a large margin. The astrological omens suggest that your tribe's levels of sensual desire may reach astronomical heights. Do you know anyone you're attracted to who might be willing to help you out as you follow your bliss? If not, be your own Valentine. One way or another, it's prime time to celebrate your relationship with eros.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): I'd love for you to be able to always give the best gifts you have to give without worrying about whether they will be received in the spirit with which you offer them. But that's just not realistic. I would also be ecstatic if you never had to tone down your big, beautiful self out of fear that others would be jealous or intimidated. And yet that's not a rational possibility, either. Having said that, though, I do want to note that now and then both of those pleasurable scenarios can prevail for extended lengths of time. And I believe you're now in one of those grace periods.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): In accordance with the astrological omens, here's what I wish and

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predict for you in the near future: You will be a connoisseur of temptations. By that I mean you will have a knack for attracting and playing with allurements and enticements. More importantly, you'll have a sixth sense about the distinction between good bait and bad bait— between provocative temptations that will serve your most fervent dreams and debilitating traps that will dissipate your integrity. And when you get a lock on the invigorating, ennobling kind, you will know just how to work with it so that it drives you wild with smart longing.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): Eliphas Levi was a 19th-century author and hermetic magician whose work has had a major influence on Western mystery schools. The great secret of magic, he said, is fourfold: "to KNOW what has to be done, to WILL what is required, to DARE what must be attempted, and to KEEP SILENT with discernment." Your assignment, Libra, is to apply this approach to your love life. How can you create a relationship with love that will be a gift to the world and also make you smarter, kinder, and wilder? KNOW what magic you CONTINUED ON PAGE 53 >>

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A simple declaration Not all of us get to say "I love you"

I am deeply conflicted about Valenwomen they were intended to marry. tine's Day. Every year I find myself If the man wanted the woman, he torn between resenting the barrage would pin her name to his sleeve to of advertisements urging me to buy show his devotion. This is supposedly stuff to prove I love someone how the term "wearing your and secretly relishing the heart on your sleeve" origichance to put on a gushy nated. Who knows if this display of affection for my is really true, but the idea om eekly.c @vuew partner. Last year, my ammakes me stop and think. brenda Brendear Wearing your heart on your bivalence about V-Day led Kerb me to some research which sleeve is no simple thing. To turned up some longstanding and show your true heart is to be vulactually pretty profound roots to nerable. It's difficult enough to openthis bizarre holiday. This year I went ly declare your feelings for someone looking for more, wondering if there when you know those feelings are remight be a way to embrace this seemturned, but what if you aren't so sure. ingly petty commercial affair in a way Asking someone to be your Valentine that is truly meaningful, even radical. means risking rejection. It's a brave There are a lot of different myths thing to show your heart to another. and actual historical rituals that It's not just rejection of your behave been linked to Valentine's Day. loved that you may be risking. What They seem pretty random but when if you love someone you're not supyou actually consider all of them toposed to love? What if the gender, gether, a common theme emerges: sex, race, social status or religion of they all have something to do with your beloved is not accepted by your declaring your love and/or defending family, your society or your governthat love. ment? In places all over the world For example, there was a practice in openly loving someone of your own the middle ages that some have tied sex can land you in jail, and someto Valentine's Day in which the names times even earn you the death penof all the available women in town alty. In some cultures women cannot were put into a bowl. Men would choose who they marry. Too often then draw a name and this was the we hear of women who are beaten

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have to do. WILL yourself to do it. DARE to be ingenious and inspired. And don't tell anyone what you're doing until you achieve your goal.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): After analyzing the astro data for this Valentine season, I realized that you could really benefit from being less sober, solemn, and serious about your intimate relationships. That's why I decided to collect some one-liners for you to use as you loosen up your approach to togetherness. Please consider delivering them to anyone you'd like to be closer to. 1.

"Let's go maniacally obsess about our lives in a soothing environment." 2. "We'll be best friends forever because you already know too much about me." 3. "It would be great if you would schedule your social events around my mood swings." 4. "I'm sorry I drunk-dialed you before realizing you were already in bed with me." 5. "I wanna do boring things with you." (All the one-liners come from Someecards.com.)

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): "The world is an oyster, but you don't crack it open on a mattress," said a character in Arthur Miller play. He was referring to the idea that if you're obsessed with sex and romance, your level of worldly accomplishment may be rather low. It jibes with what a friend in my youth told me when he noticed how much of my energy was engaged in pursuing desirable females: "They don't build statues in parks for guys who chase women." I realize you may not be wildly receptive to ruminating on these matters during the Valentine season, Sagittarius.

However, the omens suggest I advise you to do just that. It's a good time to fine-tune the balance between your lifelong career goals and your quest for love.

and even murdered because they were found with a person they were not supposed to love. Sadly, here at home, queer-identified people are frequently the subject of harassment and emotional and physical violence.

For so many of us, declaring our love is risking not only emotional vulnerability, but also loss of family, community and, in some cases, even our freedom and our very lives. Maybe a declaration of love isn't as simple as a trip to the Hallmark store.

So maybe this is the way that those of us who are conflicted can make peace with Valentine's Day. We can look at it as a celebration and a defense of our right to declare our love. Those of us who are able to openly declare and express our love without fear of loss or judgement can acknowledge the privilege we have. All of us can fight for and defend the right for everyone to enjoy the simple and basic human desire to have a Valentine. 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, sexpositive adult toy boutique the Traveling Tickle Trunk.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): Ancient Egyptians thought that drinking bear grease could stimulate ardour, while the Greeks believed that eating sparrow brains would do the trick. When potatoes first appeared in Spain in 1534, imported from the New World, they were used in love potions and worth more than $1000 a pound. The Asian rhinoceros was hunted nearly to extinction because its horn was thought to have aphrodisiac properties. Just in time for Valentine season, I'd like to suggest that you call on a very different kind of romantic stimulant that costs nothing and doesn't endanger any species: being a good listener.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): Maybe there is a soulmate for you in this world.

Maybe there isn't. But you can count on this: If that person is out there, you will never bond with him or her by clinging to a set of specific expectations about how it should happen. He or she will not possess all the qualities you wish for and will not always treat you exactly as you want to be.

I'm sure you already know this deep down, Aquarius, but hearing it from an objective observer like me might help liberate you further from the oppressive fantasy of romantic perfection. That way you can better recognize and celebrate the real thing.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): "We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love." So proclaimed Dr Seuss. I think this is an excellent meditation for you during this season of love. You need more permission to share your idiosyncrasies and eccentricities, and you need more freedom to ally yourself with people whose idiosyncrasies and eccentricities you're compatible with—and on behalf of the cosmos, I'm hereby giving you that permission.

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COMMENT >> SEX

The stubble hurts

But Dan asks what might have happened if that gay dude had been clean shaven I'm a 21-year-old gay male. My friend dislikes and carry on a detailed con"Marcelo" is friends with "Chad." Evversation about them with a guy on eryone who meets Chad assumes he's Grindr. Should we say something to gay. Never had a girlfriend, a Chad? Would letting him know E G dance major, dyes his hair he's been outed be the best A SAV blond/green/purple, got up course of action? Should at 2 am to watch Kate marry we have a gayvention? m o ekly.c vuewe CLOSET CASE CONFUSION William—I could go on. savagelove@ Dan Over four years at college, avage Chad hasn't "been outed," S this situation has gone from CCC, Chad outed himself. funny to sad as we realize he may Before Al Gore invented the Internet never come out and could pull a Marand ruined everything for everyone cus Bachmann and live a miserable forever, a college-age closet case had life with a miserable wife. Last night, to work up the nerve to visit the camMarcelo was on Grindr and got a mespus gay bar if he wanted some dick. sage from a guy who turned out to be (Or visit the cruisey bathroom in the Chad! Chad sent a face pic, Marcelo undergraduate library, but let's leave sent a faceless one back, they chatted. that one alone for now.) The closet It turns out that Chad is experienced case knew he was running a risk by enough to know his homosex likes and showing his face in the campus gay bar—even the gay bar three towns over—but going to the bar was the PRESENTS only way to get some dick. So the preGrindr college-age closet case would slip into a gay bar and, after pounding shots in a wildly successful effort to self-medicate against his inhibitions, wind up shirtless on the dance floor making out with some random dude.

There was a code of conduct for friends of closet cases when I was in college—which was, I'm sorry to say, just a couple of years before Grindr came along (cough, cough)—and a section that dealt with dance-floor make-out sessions: if you saw a guy who told you he was straight in class FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17 on Friday morning making out with some random dude on the dance floor of the campus gay bar on Friday night (or in the gay bar three towns over), WITH DJS KATRINA RAE you had a right—no, you had a respon& KAMILLE ANGEL sibility—to tap him on the shoulder, YES HOMO · NO COVER · smile and say, "Welcome out, dude." $3 DRINK SPECIALS · 18+ And if you had engaged in a little subterfuge—if you, say, ducked behind a

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post when you saw the closet case come in so he wouldn't spot you and flee the gay bar pre–shots/shirtlessmake-out-session—that was an understandable impulse and forgivable sin.

What Chad is doing on Grindr—sending out face pics, chatting about his homosex preferences—is the Grindrera equivalent of making out with a random dude on the dance floor of a campus gay bar. What Marcelo did was the Grindr-era equivalent of ducking behind a post. And now Marcelo has a right—no, a responsibility—to tap Chad on the shoulder and, without any sense of malice or triumph, say, "Welcome out, Chad."

I'm an 18-year-old male who is weird in the way of a bit of crossdressing and pegging. My girlfriend endorses these interests, and I love her for that.

Recently, a hot 22-year-old gay guy told me he was interested. I tried to tell him I was in a relationship, but we kissed. It sucked ass. His stubble hurt, he used too much tongue and I got nothing out of it. Do I tell my girlfriend? I worry that telling will make her worry, and the worry will cause distrust, and that distrust will ruin a great three-year run.

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First, after reading your letter, NOTBI, I was left wondering what would've gone down (you perhaps?) if the gay dude you made out with—after you tried so very, very hard to tell him you were in a relationship—didn't have a rough beard and use too much tongue.

Second, a girlfriend who endorses your interest in crossdressing and pegging is a girlfriend who might have endorsed your interest in a boy-on-boy make-out session. (Particularly if she could watch.) If you'd had the decency

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to ask for her permission, NOTBI, you wouldn't now be in the position of having to ask for her forgiveness.

Third, I think you should discuss this with your girlfriend, but I don't think you must. You're 18, you're not married, you (briefly) kissed a boy and you didn't like it. If you think coming clean would destroy your relationship and you're sure it's never going to happen again, stuff this one up your memory hole.

Fourth, if you do talk with your girlfriend, NOTBI, you might not wanna emphasize the beard/tongue details.

Not unless you want your girlfriend wondering the same thing I did after reading your letter: maybe if it had been a different guy, with a different tongue, a lot more than his tongue would've wound up in your mouth.

I (middle-aged, married, straight guy) recently attended a boring business conference where I ran into an old friend (middle-aged, married, straight guy). He came to my room for a moment, noticed a camera on a small tripod on the desk, and asked what I was shooting. Emboldened by a few beers, I told him about my hotel room routine: shoot myself naked and masturbating then upload pics to an amateur exhibitionist website. Since I had shared my little secret, he shared his: he gets naked in hotel rooms and masturbates while spanking himself with his belt. You can see where this is going. I whacked his ass while he took photos of me. There was no sucking or fucking—no physical contact at all—but his Catholic guilt came out afterward, and he started going on about how he had just had gay sex and cheated on his wife. To me, it was masturbation with a few toys (camera, belt and, OK, person). So here's

the question: did we have gay sex and cheat on our wives? Or was this just a wank with a few toys?

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Yes, dear readers, this could be a fake.

Every letter could be a fake.

OK, SAW, two guys beating off in a hotel room? Sounds pretty gay to me.

I mean, if a woman offered to help me out with my solo hotel room routine—mostly blogging and watching MSNBC, I'm sad to report—I'd take a pass, as that scene would be entirely too straight for me to get aroused.

Now, it's possible that your enjoyment of exhibitionism is so pure that the gender of the person or persons involved is irrelevant. That's not the case with my kinks, SAW, nor does it appear to be the case with your new spank buddy. And considering your friend's kink (punishment) and his faith (Catholic), I'm thinkin' the odds that your buddy has a few forbidden desires—perhaps gay ones—that led to his erotic obsession with being punished seem ... oh, I dunno ... kinda high.

It may not have been gay for you, but it was gay for him.

As for whether what went down in that hotel room constitutes cheating, SAW, you're asking the wrong person. Show your wife the pictures and ask her.

CONFIDENTIAL TO KOMEN: Fire the execs responsible, Nancy Brinker and Karen Handel, please. And to my readers: Planned Parenthood is under relentless political attack, and even a small, symbolic donation makes a difference: tinyurl.com/ppsavlove. V Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage.

BOB THE ANGRY FLOWER

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Not so Easy Street Maegan Rose is transforming an empty storefront into a gallery for a one-day exhibition called Easy Street. Far from easy, she has worked over 60 hours so far cleaning, painting and prepping the space after the original location fell through. Befitting of the toil it took to put this project together, the group exhibiton is the product of each artist's response to the theme of challenge in various mediums ranging from video and projection, to photo and sculptural based works. The show brings local artists Josh Holinaty, Rachelle Liette Bowen + Mackenzy Albright, Smokey Johnson, and Maegan herself together with a group of British Columbian artists that she worked with before recently moving to Edmonton.

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here," she tells me. Maegan's infectious enthusiasm and boundless passion is an inspiration to those around her. Her affection for this place brings new light upon it, and opens up possibilites that had not existed before. Its beauty lies in the small and unexpected happenings that bring this city alive, that create excitement and energy.

Wander down to the old location of Duchess Bake Shop at 10720 - 124 Street, which has graciously been donated, this Saturday between noon and midnight to support this very special show. V Chelsea Boos is a multidisciplinary visual artist and flâneur. Back words is a discussion of her dérives and a photographic diary of the local visual culture.

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