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The University of Alberta is the latest in-stitution to get sucked into the maelstrom that is Edmonton's downtown revitalization, doing so at the risk of becoming a casualty of the city's plans.

Staring longingly as new towers and devel-opments sprout up north of the river, it's no secret that the university has been eager to dip its fingers into the lucrative pie that is Edmonton's future downtown core. Already sporting Enterprise Square, the university has yet another opportunity to cement its presence downtown as an anchor tenant of the future Edmonton Galleria Project, which will serve as the new home of its departments of music and art and design. It's a win-win, says university provost and vice-president Carl Amrhein in a recent blog post, "bringing the vibrancy of the university downtown and the downtown vibrancy to the U of A."

But such a move comes as a sacrifice to the school's integrity, with the potential to do more harm than good in finding an

audience for music and fine-arts students. There's already a ri� between some of the university's many faculties, and much has been made over the past five years about the school's apparent neglect of arts and fine arts. One of the current problems is vis-ibility; the limited display space on campus means visitors and students from other fac-ulties have few chances to see much work from their artistic peers.

The university's solution? Further separate these students and their output from the rest of the student body by housing them downtown, leaving them essentially forgot-ten by their most important audience.

Meanwhile, MacEwan University—for so long fractured into small campuses in the far reaches of the city—is making the proper move to consolidate their fine-arts students downtown, adding a much-needed creativity incubator to the downtown core and creating a more cohesive student body in the process.

The downtown revitalization has under-standably led many to wonder about its ef-fect on areas south of the river, particularly the established culture of Old Strathcona and the university. The U of A and its surrounding areas have together created a distinct vibe that thrives in part due to the university's ar-tistic presence, and in no way should that be tainted by the promise of a booming down-town. The worst thing we can do as a city is to start putting all of our eggs in one basket when we can so easily have two.

But it's so easy to become intoxicated, as Amrhein notes in his blog post, when you "imagine the vibrancy that 5000 art, design and music students, faculty and sta� will bring to the downtown core."

This vibrancy is already coming, but the University of Alberta doesn't have to be at its forefront. V

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The downtown revitalization has

understandably led many to wonder about its e�ect on areas south of the river.

The struggle for equality among First Na-tions children has long been a labour of

love for activist Cindy Blackstock, who has dedicated her career to fighting what she says is nothing short of discrimination against Can-ada's most vulnerable children.

A�er years of witnessing the underfunded government services available for First Na-tions children, helping to launch a human-rights complaint and eventually being placed under surveillance by the Canadian govern-ment, Blackstock says it's high time Canadians put their collective feet down and call for an end to the injustice plaguing aboriginal com-munities.

"I don't understand how a wealthy country like ours would give a child less because of who they are," she says. "That's a simple con-tradiction to what Canada stands for, for me, and it's in contradiction of the values of good Canadians.

It's time we stopped putting up with it."Blackstock, an associate professor at the Uni-

versity of Alberta's Faculty of Extension and executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada, has re-cently been named the recipient of the uni-versity's annual Community Scholar Award for her staunch e�orts advocating for equality for First Nations children in Canada.

But she says the honour reflects more than just her own career's work. The award, coupled with the success of Edmonton's recent Truth and Reconciliation event—which boasted a turnout of around 5000 attendees—may just signal a new hope for First Nations children across the country.

"I made the pledge there that I would stand with this generation of children, in the com-pany of many others ... to ensure that this gen-eration of children does not have to undergo the hardship of inequality like all the other generations that came before them," she says.

"People are waking to the past injustices, but what they're not so aware of is that these in-justices can continue to pan out in the lives of children today, and that's what we need to take action on."

Anastasia Lim, executive director of Uni-versity Relations, says Blackstock's Commu-nity Scholar Award was based largely on the amount of impact she's had on the external community, which Lim says has been vast. Blackstock has been acknowledged interna-tionally for her human-rights advocacy, even being recognized by the Nobel Women's Ini-tiative, and acting as an advisor to UNICEF re-garding the United Nations' Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

"The committee felt that her reach into the community abroad, and the impact, was insur-mountable," Lim says.

"[It was] based on the fact that she started with her research, and how she spanned out her scholarly experience to the external com-munity and raised awareness. She made that movement and needle go forward for advo-cacy for children, taking down barriers to care, for health care for aboriginal children."

Blackstock's e orts have been ongoing for decades, dating back to her years working alongside the federal government to docu-ment the inequalities in child welfare, and reveal how those inequalities led to rising amounts of First Nations children entering foster care unnecessarily.

But she says her plans to foster equality for First Nations children took a turn for the worse when she and the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada came up with evidence-based solutions to increase funding from the federal government and found the government unwilling to commit.

"Canada was running a budget surplus in the billions of dollars and still they didn't do any-

thing," Blackstock says.Laws on child welfare, education and health

are set by provinces and apply on First Na-tions reserves, but are funded by the federal government, and Blackstock says many of her attempts to remedy the situation—including filing the human-rights case—were derailed by the government using legal technicalities.

But when the Canadian Human Rights Tribu-nal began hearing the case a little more than a year ago, Blackstock says she felt a renewed hope for the outcome.

"It's the first time in the developed world we know of where government like Canada has been on trial to face allegations it's racially discriminating against this generation of kids," she says.

"We expect the ruling to be out later this year, and I'm pretty confident the tribunal's going to find the discrimination, just as every other in-dependent body that's looked at it has found."

Blackstock's Community Scholar award will be presented to her May 13 at a ceremony in City Hall, along with similar awards going to U of A community members including the Mixed Chorus for their community performances, and alumnus Jim Hole for his advocacy e�orts on campus.

Blackstock says although Canada still has a long way to go before its First Nations children achieve the equality they should have had years ago, she remains steadfast in her deter-mination and positive for the country's future.

"I really believe that with every generation comes a chance to create Canada anew. We have the chance to make ourselves good and great as our children want us to be as a coun-try and as adults," she says.

"We're trying to do a much better job about getting the word out, but I absolutely believe in the goodness of Canadians."MICHELLE [email protected]

Fighting for the vulnerableCindy Blackstock's lifework advocating for First Nations children is seeing results

NEWS // FIRST NATIONS

Cindy Blackstock has been tirelessly speaking up for First Nations children


Edmonton could be a hero in the history of climate change. While

our provincial and federal politicians have only been paying lip service to the reality of a warming planet, mu-nicipal leaders know it's serious and they're doing something about it. Ed-monton has the political will and the talent to do great things—but o�en lacks support from higher govern-ments.

Scientists are as sure that humans are causing climate change as they are that cigarettes cause cancer, ac-cording to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. This is not news. The world has known since at least the 1992 Rio Earth Summit that we need to kick our ad-diction to cheap and dirty fossil fuels. The consequences were, and still are, well understood: it's more damaging economically, environmentally and socially to do nothing than it is to control our collective CO2 output.

Our response? According to the In-tergovernmental Panel on Climate Change co-chairman Thomas Stocker, there's been a 61-percent global in-crease in greenhouse-gas emissions since world leaders committed to tackling their carbon habits back in '92.

"A two-degree rise in temperature has become extremely ambitious be-cause we've lost time—this info was available 20 years ago," Stocker said in Edmonton last week. "If we wait another 10 years then 2.5 degrees will be ambitious. The message is that we need to start now."

Green EdmontonThe high-ranking Swiss climate scien-tist was in town as a keynote speaker at Zero 2014, a three-day confer-ence focused on the transition to a low-carbon future hosted by the City of Edmonton and Alberta's Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation. The conversation at the event was not if we're causing cli-mate change, but what we're doing about it.

The fact that this conversation was happening in Edmonton is significant. The city has not historically been

green, its policies o�en more reac-tionary than visionary. Edmonton's GHG emissions climbed 38 percent between 1990 to 2008 when many other North American municipalities were working aggressively to cork their emissions. Much of Edmonton's carbon gain can be attributed to a near 25-percent population increase, a boom in business thanks to the oil sands and a corresponding lack of political will to seriously regulate emissions.

Mayor Don Iveson, following Stock-er's detailing of the hard facts of cli-mate science, signalled to the assem-bled crowd of business and political leaders that Edmonton is making a sharp turn in their carbon course.

"The questions of climate change must be on the mind of leaders in government, business and civil so-ciety—they're very much on our minds," Iveson said. "We'll be transi-tioning Edmonton to a low-carbon future. We understand the role that fossil fuels play now, but we know we have to transition."

He listed Edmonton's ambitious projects: its world-class waste-management system that generates enough electricity for 4600 homes and will soon divert 90 percent of trash from landfills with the waste-to-biofuels facility; the Blatchford de-velopment at the old City Centre Air-port will house up to 30 000 people as well as being carbon-neutral and powered 100-percent by renewable energy; the expanded LRT system will have six spokes from downtown to the city edges by 2040; an ambi-tious switch from coal to natural gas and eventually solar for electricity generation.

Right place, right timeAlberta's capital city is in the right place at the right time to be a world leader in climate innovation. The leadership is in place. Iveson and the newly-elected council seem to have the appetite to invest in long-term infrastructure, like improved public transit and carbon neutral develop-ments, that could make Edmonton

a greener city for decades to come. These kinds of investments take guts as well as public support—things Edmonton's new council and mayor seem to have a healthy supply of.

"We have to be willing to make that initial investment—to put some skin into the game," said Edmonton City Manager Simon Farbrother at Zero 2014. "We have to make decisions that won't have an immediate payo¢; the benefits will be decades later. And that takes leadership and social commitment."

Edmonton has aggressive goals to halve emissions from city operations by 2020 and be carbon neutral by 2040. The city also aims to slash all emissions, both public and private, by 17 to 20 percent by 2020. Efficiency—like retrofitting older structures and making sure new developments match Leadership in Energy and Environmen-tal Design standards—will play a big role, as buildings use two-thirds of en-ergy in Edmonton compared to just a third for transportation.

But the most ambitious move is weaning o¢ fossil fuels. Edmonton currently gets 95 percent of its en-ergy from non-renewable resources, mainly coal. Coal is twice as dirty as natural gas, so moving away from it would be a big step. Although elec-tricity only counts for a fi�h of en-ergy used in Edmonton, it accounts for 43 percent of all GHGs. More than 70 percent of Alberta's electric-ity comes from coal—emissions from this alone are nearly equal to all oil sands production.

Iveson raised some eyebrows at Zero 2014 when he said we could make the switch from fossil fuels to solar power. But it's not as far-fetched as you might think. Edmon-ton is Canada's third-sunniest city, just behind Winnipeg and Calgary. And, somewhat counter intuitively, solar panels work most efficiently in cold temperatures. Sun? Cold? Check and double-check.

Edmonton's Renewable Energy Task Force, part of the city's 2012 The Way We Green environmental strat-egy, conservatively estimates that current renewable energy technol-ogy, mainly solar, could generate 20 percent of the city's energy needs. Coupled with strict energy efficiency for both new and existing buildings, big investments and innovations in solar could help Edmonton transition from fossil-fuel electricity.

Along with solar power, Edmonton seems to be focusing on the right targets. The ambitious, $3-billion LRT project would have the dual benefits of reducing transportation emissions as well as encouraging denser popu-lation growth in the core. Growing the city inwards and upwards uses much less energy than planning the city like you'd pour a pancake.

Farbrother says it can be difficult to

make those gutsy long-term invest-ments when working with the city's "archaic" tax system. Edmonton gets nearly 60 percent of all revenue from property taxes, a system that encourages urban sprawl as the city is all but forced to approve additional suburban properties to add cash flow to the city. The city manager also noted that provincial funding is split one-third each for Edmonton, Cal-gary and the rest of province. That's a simple system that's convenient politically, but doesn't make much sense in a complex world.

Edmonton and Calgary have been struggling to get a big-city charter fi-nalized with the Alberta Government that would, among other things, give cities more independence to gen-erate revenue besides the current property tax and provincial funding models. But dealing with the po-litically unstable Alberta PCs—with their revolving door leadership and hyper-partisan ways—has made this a lengthy chore.

Provincial and federal leadership lackingIt's that uncertainty in commit-ment—from the Progressive Con-servative's foot-dragging on the city charter to their federal counterpart's reluctance to take real steps to cut national GHG emissions—that makes Edmonton's challenge doubly diffi-cult.

Canada lacks a unified GHG reduc-tion strategy, a strong framework that provides clear policies and tar-gets. Alberta, as part of their 2008 Climate Change Strategy, promised to create both an Energy Efficiency Act and a Climate Change Adapta-tion Strategy. We're still waiting on those. This uncoordinated approach means that towns and cities don't have access to best practices and, more importantly, focused federal and provincial leadership and funding for green initiatives.

"Lack of coordination between gov-ernments in Canada has hindered both the e¢ectiveness of e¢orts to reduce GHG emissions and their ef-ficiency (the cost per unit of reduc-tions)," states a 2011 report by The Conference Board of Canada titled "Greenhouse Mitigation in Canada."

The carbon elephant in the room is that Edmonton's growth, both in population and GDP, is driven largely by the oil sands. Oil-sands growth disproportionately influences both the environment and public policy. Last year the oil and gas sector, thanks to aggressive oil-sands expan-sion, became the leading emissions source in Canada for the first time.

The federal government has admit-ted it will badly miss its Copenhagen commitment to reduce emissions 17 percent below 2005 levels. Ste-phen Harper has repeatedly delayed

regulating the oil and gas sector, only vaguely saying we'll see standards "in the coming years."

Alberta is by far the biggest pol-luter in Canada with GHG emissions nearly equal to the rest of the coun-try combined. The province has out-lined a carbon mitigation strategy, but it only plans to reduce emissions 14 percent below 2005 levels by 2050. That's well below the 80 per-cent reductions recommended inter-nationally.

And 70 percent of Alberta's reduc-tion is supposed to come from carbon capture and storage technology that would pump GHGs from oil-sands production deep underground—a "business-as-usual" win for industry that doesn't factor in that 80 percent of CO2 from fossil fuels comes from the tail pipe, not production, so real reduction in GHGs would be minimal.

There are bits and pieces of good news. National regulations on coal power-plant emissions will hopefully take a bite out of Alberta's dirty en-ergy output by 2015. And there have been signs that Alberta, with some political will, could make the switch to natural gas plants within a decade. But the provincial and federal gov-ernments have stated clearly that their priority in Alberta for the next few decades is not to take steps to reduce the worst polluting province in the country—but to make sure there are enough workers to develop the oil sands.

Edmonton looks to other citiesWhile leadership may be lacking from higher governments, Edmonton's still has to accommodate the 52 people who move to the city every day. To do this efficiently, they've had to look at other cities. Boston and Portland, despite bulging populations, have slashed their GHG emissions and aim to reduce their carbon output 80 percent by 2050 through efficiency programs and renewable energy.

Vancouver, which already has one of the lowest GHG emissions per capita of any city in the world, has the audacious plan to be the world's greenest city by 2020.

"Boston moved beyond question, questioning the [climate] science a long time ago," says Brian Swett, Chief of Environment and Energy with the City of Boston. "If presented with the evidence that the do-noth-ing scenario is unacceptable, I can't see how any mayor or legislator would want their legacy to be that they were informed but didn't act."

Climate change is by far the most complex problem humanity has ever faced. It requires coordinated interna-tional e¢orts. But cities like Edmon-ton simply can't a¢ord to wait for that e¢ort to come from above.JOSH [email protected]

Edmonton's great green shi�Edmonton eyes carbon-neutral future despite lack of leadership from higher governments

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The Spanish parliament still has to pass the new citizenship law, but the cabinet has already approved it and Minister of Justice Alberto Ruiz-Gal-lardón is sure there won't be a prob-lem. "In Spain, a clear majority realize we have committed a historical error and have an opportunity to repair it, so I am sure that law will pass with an immense majority in parliament," he said.

Historical apologies are in fash-ion—ex-South African president F W de Klerk apologized for apartheid, ex-British prime minister Tony Blair apologized for the slave trade and the Irish potato famine, and Pope John Paul II apologized for the Cru-sades, the Inquisition and the church's historical oppression of women—but Spain isn't just saying sorry for expel-ling its Jews 522 years ago. It's o�er-ing to give their descendants back their citizenship.

1492 was a busy year for Ferdinand and Isabella, joint monarchs of the recently united kingdom of Spain. Christopher Columbus, Isabella's fa-vourite explorer, discovered the New World, Spain's armies concluded the seven-century-long campaign of the Reconquista by destroying the last Muslim kingdom in the peninsula, Granada—and Ferdinand decided to expel all the Jews from Spain.

Spain's Jews were given only four months in 1492 to choose between becoming Christian or leaving their homes forever. Most le�, settling in Muslim-ruled North Africa and the Ottoman Empire or in other parts of Christian Europe. They kept their Spanish language in the form of Ladi-no—Castilian written in the Hebrew script—and became know as Sep-hardic (ie Spanish) Jews.

Ladino is now a dying language, but the Sephardim have retained their distinc-tive identity and are estimated to number up to a third of the world's 13-mil-lion Jews today. Spain's planned new law potentially covers almost all of them, for it is written very broadly.

Applicants for Spanish citizenship need not speak Ladino or even be religious. They need only be able to show a link to Sephardic culture (it could be as little as a Sephardic fam-ily name). In most cases, however, the simplest route to Spanish citizen-ship would be to have a local rabbi certify their Sephardic ancestry, or to get certification of their Sephardic heritage from a recognized Spanish-

Jewish community.Gallardón insists that there are no

political motives behind this initiative, and you can actually believe him. His great-grandfather, Spanish ambas-sador to Romania during the Second World War, saved many Sephardic Jews from the Nazis by giving them Spanish visas, so it's sort of a family tradition. And to make the current of-fer more inviting, Gallardón has said the applicants can keep their existing

citizenship as well.Spain's justice minister reckons that

only about 150 000 Sephardic Jews will take him up on the o�er (which will remain open for two years), and he doesn't think that many of them will actually want to move to Spain. But he promises that the govern-ment will not be strict in deciding who qualifies as Sephardic—"We are opening the door," he said—and he may be surprised by how many actu-ally apply.

What Gallardón has not taken into account is the fact that Spanish citizen-ship is, for practical purposes, citizen-ship in all 28 member countries of the European Union. A Spanish passport-holder can enter Britain, France, Ger-many, Sweden or any other EU country without a visa, take up residence, get a job or start a business there. What's not to like about this o�er?

Almost half of Israel's Jews are Sep-hardim, and Israel is a country where

second passports are in great de-mand. The big Sephardic com-munities in the United States and Mexico will probably not be tempted, but the

remaining Sephardic Jews in Muslim countries, including Turkey, certainly will be. Gallardón is thinking mostly about symbolism, which is impor-tant—but his o�er will also have a real impact on many people's lives.

Portugal, which expelled its Jews shortly a�er Spain did, is also trying to make amends, though on a less grand scale. Last year it changed the law, and now grants citizenship to Sephardim who can demonstrate a connection to the Portuguese Jewish community. How much further might this example

spread? Not very far, alas. Most of the great expulsions of

history have occurred in the con-text of war, like the compulsory "population exchange" of the Greek minority in Turkey and the Turkish minority in Greece a�er the First World War, or the expulsion of 10 million Germans from their ances-tral homes in eastern Europe at the end of the Second.

Even the expulsion of the Muslim mi-nority from Spain in the course of the 16th century fits that model, although the wars of the Muslim conquest and the Christian reconquest were long over by then. The real history is a good deal more complex, but the view of the average Spaniard is that the Mus-lims arrived as conquerors and when they lost they had to leave.

It's because the Jews of Spain and Portugal were entirely blameless and ruthlessly victimized that there is broad popular support in both these countries for this act of apol-ogy and belated recompense. All credit to Spain and Portugal for do-ing it—but it probably wouldn't be happening even there if it seriously inconvenienced the majority. V

Gwynne Dyer is an independent jour-nalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

Spain: a handsome apologyThe o�er of citizenship for displaced Sephardic Jews opens up all of the EU

DYERSTRAIGHT GWYNNE DYER // [email protected]

Spain isn't just saying sorry for expelling its Jews 522 years ago. It's o�ering to give their descen-

dants back their citizenship.

Oh, Alberta. It's easy to forget some-times that, despite my queer bubble, I live in a province that tosses around queer issues like a poisonous hot po-tato.

You have likely heard that on Feb-ruary 26, people across the country were encouraged to wear a pink shirt to show their support for anti-bully-ing initiatives. Then-premier Alison Redford and other politicos joined in. Although downplayed, it's important to note the original act of bullying that inspired Pink Shirt Day was an act of homophobia.

On April 7, the Legislative As-sembly voted down Motion 503, a non-binding piece of legislation that would require a school board to al-low the creation of a gay-straight al-

liance if students chose to organize one. Education Minister Je� Johnson, along with 30 other PC and Wildrose MPs, voted against it. On April 14, news broke that a taxpayer-funded Catholic school in Alberta, one that had just received $7 million from the government to expand and mod-ernize, requires teachers to abstain from "homosexual relations." That same day, Danielle Smith released a statement saying that schools can-not discriminate against teachers or students, ending with the kicker, "You cannot be fired as a teacher or expelled or disciplined as a stu-dent based on your sexual orienta-tion." Nice sentiment, but seems like more empty words. What we seem to have here is a problem of theory

and practice. In theory, bullying and homophobic discrimination are bad. But conservative factions in the prov-ince—of both the progressive and flowered variety—just can't bring themselves to do anything about it. This is Alberta's version of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Catholic and secular schools shouldn't be allowed to over-ride the choices of queer students and teachers. Attempts to o�er support for students in the form of GSAs, however, are a violation of the Catholic school system’s religious be-liefs. If you are confused about the math at work here, be assured you are not the only one.

At least one teacher is hopeful that more will be done to support queer

students in the province. Kerry Ma-guire is a teacher and GSA advisor at Jasper Place High School and EPSB's consultant for sexual orientation and gender identity. She organizes a monthly GSA roundtable discus-sion for students and was joined this month by Smith and several other Wildrose MPs to discuss the rejec-tion of Motion 503.

"The students blew me out of the water with their poignant and thoughtful remarks and well-cra�ed answers to Smith's questions," Ma-guire says. "Their message of why all Alberta students deserve the right to have a safe space in their schools was clear and well understood by the Wildrose members."

Student members of the Jasper

Place GSA repeatedly emphasize how GSAs create a sense of safety for all students. Grace, a Grade 12 student, says, "It's hard for any student to find a comfortable place in school in gen-eral. I feel comfortable in my GSA at Jasper Place and feel safe to be me."

David, a Grade 11 student, argues that Catholic schools need GSAs more than anyone else. "As Catholic schools have refused the implementation of GSAs as it is against their doctrine," he says, "it makes one wonder how ter-rible students who may be struggling with sexuality and/or gender identity must feel as it is yet another voice tell-ing them that they are not normal."

With any luck, MPs will start to show this kind of empathy and com-passion as well. V

You're sitting in a restaurant, pe-rusing the wine list, and you

think, "Wow, these prices are exorbi-tant. I'll just have a beer."

I'm willing to bet that if you've ever found yourself in that situation, you were either sitting in a chain restau-rant or you've got unrealistic expecta-tions of the cost of wine. Or both.

I recently dined at Murrieta's on Whyte Avenue and was disconcerted by the prices I found on their wine menu. While the by-the-glass list was reasonable and on par with the average, their bottle prices seemed high—in particular, they sell a mass-produced Cabernet Sauvignon from California, J Lohr Seven Oaks, for $63. This wine is nothing special —probably half a dozen places around town have it on their wine menu: the Keg sells it for $42 a bottle. You can buy a bottle in the liquor store for around $25, so the math is pretty obvious: Murrieta's is charging about

a 300-percent markup. Is this reason-able? To answer that, I decided to give Edmonton's restaurant community a chance to present their approach to wine pricing.

"The bottom line is, we have to pay our bills," says Patrick Saurette, owner of The Marc Restaurant. "In the hospitality business there are two controllable costs: your labour cost and your cost of goods. We all agree that you have to make a living and I will go to bat for the industry in the sense that we work on an enormous-ly razor-thin margin."

Saurette has put a great deal of thought into the pricing of his wine list. He follows a formula for his "hot button" wines—the low and mid-priced wines forming the bulk of his total wine sales. His by-the-glass wines are all priced between $11 and $15 for a standard six-ounce pour,

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THE DREAMING TREE 2010 ChardonnayBy Dave Matthews and winemaker Steve Reeder$18.99

They say: “An exciting collabora-tion between Dave Matthews and acclaimed winemaker Steve Reeder, The Dreaming Tree cap-tures the spirit of California’s wine country. United by their shared passion to make quality wine acces-sible to everyone, the two friends set out on a journey to the unique characters and rich fl avours that give the region its rare charms.”

When Dave and I fi rst met we talked about making a Char-donnay that captured the fl avour of the Central Cost. With its big fruit, loads of spice and distinct citrus notes, we think this wine lives up to that promise. We hope you agree. —Steve Reeder.”

Musical pairing: “Crash into Me” if you’re feeling nostalgic and want the full band. If you want Matthews solo try “I’m Alive.” Kenny Chesney sings on it, but it’s still from his solo days.

Aroma: There was a distinct dusty and aged quality to this one with a hint of fruit, but nothing was prominent. My co-drinkers concurred.

Initial taste: The Dreaming Tree is dry and tangy, as well as slightly bitter if it sits around in your mouth too long. There were subtle notes of spice, but the aforementioned citrus was diffi cult to pinpoint. “It’s bland and uninspired, like his music,” quipped one of my co-drinkers—I wouldn’t go quite that far, but he’s a tough one.

Later: This wasn’t a wine that grew on any of us as we worked our way through the bottle. The fl avours remained too mild and the dusty, aged characteristic that was detected in the fi rst sni� began to creep into the fl avour. Wine gets better with age, but it shouldn’t taste like the cellar it’s been in.

On the plus side, the philosophy behind the wine is com-mendable. The bottles are manufactured using clean-burning natural gas and the labels are recycled. You can also recycle the cork.

Other possible musical pairings: Unlike the others, The Dreaming Tree does pair well with its namesake musician.MEAGHAN [email protected]

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DISHLet’s face it, a large percentage of us are not trained sommeliers and have no

idea how to properly taste wine, or what a lot of the jargon associated with it means—despite the great information available in our wine column. With that in mind, we decided to round up a few bottles named a� er, or made by, musicians and see what we thought. We’ve provided our simple, laypersons’ opinions as well as some recommendations as to what music to pair with each wine.

THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON 2010 Cabarnet SauvignonBy Wines that Rock$22.30

They say: “Aromas of black currant and cherry are followed by rich fl avors of cassis, toasted vanilla bean, and hints of chocolate. Enjoy this rich dry red wine with hearty chicken dishes, beef and lamb, and red sauced pasta.”

Musical pairing: Dark Side of the Moon. Duuuh. To see if its fl avours sync up a la Wizard of Oz.

Aroma: Like red wine: sharp and purple-smelling. So far, so good. It isn’t o� ering the complexities of the great void of space, but also, it hasn’t gone o� . Then again, David Gilmour just sang “run, rabbit, run.” Does he mean towards or away from the bottle?

Initial taste: We aren’t in Kansas anymore. Tart, nosy, purple-tasting fl avours dri� across the upper reaches of your mouth, sharp and shallow. The fruit fl avour congregates at the top of the palette, giving it all a somewhat airy, e� ervescent feel, while fl avour quickly fades from the lower regions of my facecave. I suppose that makes sense: it is trying to represent one of the headiest, dri� ing-through-outer-space-while-probably-high albums of all time. But that sharp upper-tartness makes the more jarring aural sounds and shi� s of the album even harsher on your wine-buzz. Clare Torry’s vocal ri� age on “Great Gig in the Sky” pairs well with pretty much anything, though, so if nothing

else, you can just loop that track and dri� into your wine-buzz quite merrily that way.

Later: Once “Money” arrives on Dark Side, I kind of realize this is a $10 bottle of wine trying to pass itself closer to the $20 range thanks to the Floyd branding. Sing it with me, folks: “Money! It’s a crime ... “

Other possible music pairings: The earlier, murkier Pink Floyd would probably match here. Try Atom Heart Mother. You can stare at the cows on the album cover, and drink, and really, like, wonder what they would think of this music. Who? The cows, maaaan. Do cows even, like, get music? Does listening to music like, change how a cow’s milk turns out? Some-one’s done that research, right? Like, duuuuude. Who do we call about that?PAUL [email protected]

FORTY LICKS MERLOT (50TH ANNIVERSARY BOTTLE)

2011 MerlotBy Wines That Rock$23.99

They say: “Please allow us to introduce the 50th Anniversary edition of our custom cra� ed Merlot. It’s Rock ‘n’ Roll in a bottle. Fill your glass, turn up the volume and enjoy the taste of the Rolling Stones.”

Musical pairing: The Rolling Stones—Forty Licks to be exact.

Aroma: The aroma was so vague that even a� er trying for several minutes, all I could smell was a hint of oak—maybe.

Initial taste: When the wine fi rst hit my tongue, there was not much fl avour to speak of and was defi -nitely not as aggressive as you would expect from something that claims to be rock ‘n’ roll in a bottle. It also did not taste like the Rolling Stones, for that matter. I let it linger for a moment and began to pick out fl avours that seemed to resemble oak and spice, but it all seemed a little muddled and diluted. The chocolate mini eggs I had on hand paired well enough, with their a� ertaste providing a little more fl avour to a fairly lacklustre wine.

Later: It took me more than one go to get this wine fi nished, and day two provided a more pungent aroma, but just barely. The acidic character of the wine came through stronger than it had during my fi rst couple of glasses, but the fl avour was still too muddled to make any element of the wine stand out.

Other possible music pairings: This Merlot lends itself more to mild folk than anything by the Stones. Listening to the band’s music with Forty Licks Merlot felt o� , as the wine is much too passive and mild for rock music. I suppose if it were to pair with any Rolling Stones song, “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” would fi t the bill, if for nothing else than the fact this Merlot is not satisfying in the least. MEAGHAN [email protected] CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 >>

I like to keep readers of this fi ne paper updated on some of the interesting beer trends in the city. A strange entity has appeared over the past year or so in local breweries and fi ner liquor stores. The so-called “growler” is not a grumpy customer, nor is it a reference to the Australian slang word for female pri-vate parts. In the case of beer it refers to a two-litre bottle of draught beer that is becoming a big rage among cra� -beer fans.

Let me explain the concept. You pur-chase a two-litre bottle, roughly shaped like an old moonshine jug. The cost is usually about $10. You get it fi lled with your favourite beer, dispensed from a tap system just like those found in bars. Go home, consume the beer, clean the bottle and return to the brewery/store and get it refi lled. Repeat as o� en as desired. The cost of each fi ll is roughly the same cost as a six-pack, sometimes cheaper.

So what is the big deal? Well, in a nutshell it is a great way to get fresh draught beer at home without having to buy expensive keg equipment. Draught and bottled beer have subtle taste dif-ferences. The carbonation is quieter and the body more rounded in kegged beer. Bottled beer can be sharper in its over-all impression.

There is lots to argue for growlers. Fresh. Good for sharing. An interesting party talking point. Cra� -beer fans have really taken to the idea and growler fi lling stations have been popping up around the city. They are a fun and a novel way to experience di� erent beer, but like anything, you need to watch for the downsides and prevent them. The following are three common issues with growlers that require your attention.

First, growlers are not perfectly sealed. This means even before you open it, a slow ingestion of oxygen will

occur. As a consequence, if you leave it sitting in your fridge for three weeks before opening it, the beer will both be fl at and the oxidation process will have started. Once you pick up that growler, start drinking

Then there is the issue of the size of the bottle. It fi ts approximately a six-pack of beer. For one person in one night, that would be a heck of a lot of beer. Obviously that makes it well-suited for sharing with friends, but what you need to know is that once you crack it open, the beer is going to deteriorate rather quickly. As you pour, oxygen en-ters the bottle to replace the dispensed beer and oxygen creates oxidation: a stale, cardboard-like taste. In such a large bottle, oxidation can start to show within 48 hours. So, in short, once you start pouring be sure to fi nish the beer within a day or two.

The third issue is cleaning. Growl-ers get re-used over and over. Most growler stations require the customer to clean their own bottle. They might give it a quick rinse, but that is all. The risk is yours.

As a homebrewer I take the issue of cleanliness seriously. An improperly cleaned bottle can trash a beer quickly, even over a couple of days. If you are going to partake in the growler game, be sure you know what you need to do to keep your growler clean.

The fi rst step is make sure you rinse it out immediately a� er emptying it. I don’t mean the next day, or even a cou-ple hours later. I mean rinse it out min-utes a� er fi nishing it. That will prevent residual beer from drying and creating a possible home for little critters.

As necessary as quick rinsing is, it is not suffi cient. You also need to make sure any micro-organisms that might have worked their way into the bottle

get wiped out. There are a number of ways to do that. Before the next fi ll you can do a rinse with some kind of sani-tizer. Bleach is intense, environmentally disastrous and a bit of an atomic bomb, but is an easy source for sanitization. There are, however, some less crazy op-tions that are just as e� ective. Go to a homebrew shop and ask for a sanitizer. They will give you a few options, includ-ing hydrogen peroxide (not the kind you buy at London Drugs), iodine or other acid cleaners. All of them are quite ef-fective and I would recommend you use them before every fi ll.

Overall, growlers can be an interest-ing way to experience cra� beer. A

particularly good option are the local breweries. Alley Kat, Yellowhead and Hog’s Head all have growler stations you can use, and it is the best way to get the freshest possible beer around. Some better liquor stores also have growler stations, including Little Guy in Sherwood Park, Keg and Cork on the Southside, Wine and Beyond and some

Liquor Depot locations. If you follow my advice around how

to handle growlers, I am convinced you will fi nd the growler experience enter-taining and eclectic. V

Jason Foster is the creator of onbeer.org, a website devoted to news and views on beer from the prairies and beyond.

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with most falling at the lower end of that spectrum. This is comparable to most restaurants around town, independent or otherwise; the by-the-glass list at Murrieta's is similarly priced. The di�erence resides in the specific wines on o�er: "The indepen-dent restaurants o�er innovation and much deeper wine lists, and innova-tion in their food," Saurette says.

Chains and independents also tend to di�er in their pricing of bottles and higher-end wines. Saurette is of-ten happy accepting a flat amount of money for these bottles, dispensing with his formula and therefore selling the more expensive wines for signifi-cantly less than usual.

"What I find is people look at me, par-ticularly when they come from out of town, and it's as if they've discovered the mother lode on the wine list," he says. "But it's drinking better, and it brings our customers back. It's a sim-ple philosophy and I think it's proved to be working really well for us."

The Marc's wine list is priced so that the price per ounce decreases with larger serving sizes, meaning that it is more economical to order a bottle instead of a glass (provided you want to drink that much). This is common in restaurants, whereas wine bars o�en price their wines by the ounce: the per-ounce price is simply multi-plied by the serving size, like a six-ounce glass or a 26-ounce bottle.

"My by-the-glass list is really the thing

that I baby the most," says Sheri Somer-ville, owner of Somerville Wine Room. "I work really hard at not having over-laps—if I see my wine on somebody else's list I try to get rid of it, because I think that's unimaginative. I couldn't run a business if I had to do it any cheap-er—or I could serve swill; I could serve wines that I would never drink and that are mass-produced and chemically-enhanced. But I would rather close my wine bar than serve those."

Somerville prices her wines with only a one-time markup on the wholesale price; she averages around $11 for a six-ounce glass and $40 for a bottle. The industry standard markup is two to three times higher than wholesale, and o�en more on the trendy or higher-end wines—so for her prices to be the same as average with only a one-time markup, means that they are more ex-pensive wines to begin with. Wholesale prices vary slightly depending on how restaurants order their wines: if they order directly from the warehouse they pay true wholesale but must also order full cases, have room to store those cases and be able to receive the order whenever it shows up at their door. In-stead, many restaurants order through a liquor store, paying a marked-up price in exchange for the service of being able to order split cases, get product recommendations and arrange delivery times in advance.

Probably the most overlooked factor when criticizing a restaurant's wine pric-es is the sheer amount of investment capital it takes to open a restaurant, never mind the daily overhead; there's a

reason so many restaurants fail in their first couple years.

"When you come to a restaurant you are paying for the experience of the restaurant," Somerville says. "You're paying to be served; you're paying to be greeted; you're paying to have ev-ery wish granted before you can think to ask for it. You're paying for your water to be refilled nine times. You're paying for the music I have carefully chosen. You're paying for the atmo-sphere. The notion that we could just charge you what you can buy it for in the store—that means I'd invite you to my house, not my business."

Returning to that seemingly over-priced bottle of J Lohr Seven Oaks on Murrieta's list: how do they justify their wine prices, and the inclusion of such humdrum bottles?

"You can find that wine every-where—that's why it's cheaper else-where," says Je� Beerwart, general manager of Murrieta's in Edmonton. "There's a lot of bottles that are a lot more a�ordable than that, that you don't know, that you kind of should be trying and should be drinking."

"When everybody goes through a wine list, even for me there may be wines I'm not familiar with," he con-tinues. "But once you see three, four or five wines that you are familiar with, it kind of relaxes you. You're like, 'OK, so now I just have to ask the waiter about what should I try: this is what I like, but I'm looking for this price point.'"

While this motive is understandable,

it isn't always plausible—the bottle in question is one of the cheaper Cabernet Sauvignons on Murrieta's list, so a customer must be willing to either spend more money or try a completely di�erent type of wine; ad-ditionally, many of the other bottles on their list are quite common and widely available.

This is disappointing, especially given how fortunate Albertans are with the sheer number of wines that are avail-able in our province: the only province in Canada with a privatized system, Alberta liquor stores can stock pretty much anything available on the interna-tional market, while the other provinc-es are limited to the products that the government chooses to import. Alber-tans are spoiled for choice; I would have expected even chains to take advantage of such a situation, but sadly this is just not usually the case.

"I don't know how they get away with it; they have marketed them-selves brilliantly and that person should get a raise," Somerville says. "I've seen a couple of my high-end wines, big award-winning wines, over 35 dollars more at a couple of Ed-monton restaurants. We just laugh, because it's like really—you don't think you're gonna get called out on that? I'm really cognizant—I direct people to the places I buy my wine from and I know they will go in and see how much it costs."

Yet as we've seen, they do indeed get away with it—or else why would those prices remain so high?

"Sometimes Edmontonians get so wrapped up in the hype around a place that they stop trusting their own taste buds and their own in-stincts," Somerville adds. "You can wow people; you can jeuge them with a fancy light show and lots of noise and loud music and a happen-ing scene—and they're drinking swill. Or they're drinking wine that's been open all week."

"I want people to sit in the car at the end of the day and go, 'You know what? That was pretty good,'" Saurette says. "And their wallet is not that empty. Chances are they're going to talk about us then, and come back with a lot more frequency when we treat them fairly."

Customers must educate them-selves: about wine and about what it costs. If you're dining somewhere and the wine prices don't sit well with you, speak up—so long as you're po-lite about it, restaurant managers and owners are usually more than willing to discuss their business, especially if they have nothing to hide; a�er all, it's their livelihood. Chances are good that you will leave such discussions with a better perspective on the situ-ation—and if the markup is unjusti-fiably high, they need to hear about it: they won't change if they have no reason to do so.

Above all, as a consumer, remem-ber that one thing speaks louder than any words: your money. Choose where you spend it wisely.MEL [email protected]

ERIK TURNER ROCKER RED 2011 MerlotBy Erik Turner$30.45

They say: “As a young rocker I was seduced by the big beat, the bombastic guitars and jamming endlessly into the starry night. I have dedicated my life to all of this, and more. The essence of the music I love is reflected in Rocker Red—this Merlot is hot, sexy and perhaps a little dangerous.

Maybe a Red from the wrong side of the tracks, but definitely a Rocker that will make you laugh, love and stay out too late. Certainly the best excuse to open a bottle! So make some unforgettable memories with friends and lovers ... and don’t forget to rock out to your favourite music with Rocker Red!

This Merlot is rich in berries, spice earthy botanicals and a tannic backbone with a wonderful dense colour structure to match its aromatic character. The intensity of the fruit and oak are harmonious in the glass!”

Musical pairing: Warrant, obviously, or some equally raucous hair metal from the ‘80s and ‘90s.

Aroma: The first whi� evokes a slightly acidic aroma mixed with the oaky quality the wine’s lengthy description claims it has.

Initial taste: Lush and full-bodied, just like Erik Turner’s hair—or at least how his hair was back in Warrant’s heyday. The quality that came forward first is a rich, oaky flavour followed by a sweet tartness that imparts essences of raspberries and blackberries. “It tastes like dirt, but in a good way—like it’s been aged a bit,” mused my co-drinker, who works in the hospitality industry and does know her way around her reds.

I wish I could have detected a hint of cherry somewhere in the mix, because that would have lent itself perfectly to some “Cherry Pie” song references, but, alas, there was none. A�er allowing the wine to linger in my mouth for a moment, a sharp, acidic bite punched its way forward and made my cheeks pucker a little. However, it’s a bite that was still palatable and did not overwhelm the wine’s other qualities.

Later: Rocker Red is less dry than what I always assume I’ll get from a Merlot, and as my co-drinker and I made our way through the bottle, the bite of the wine’s acidity became more subtle and the oaky berry flavours came to the forefront. Overall, it’s a flavourful concoction that

makes for decent table wine, but we both agreed it isn’t something we’d be willing to fork over $30 for.

Other possible music pairings: Rocker Red Merlot is a wine that claims to be sexy and badass, but those terms seem like a cry for attention in a wine that asserts itself as a rebel when it just really isn’t one. A�er a few minutes of Warrant, our soundtrack switched to a mix of indie pop that including Broods, MØ, Grizfolk and Electric Suns, which seemed better suited for a bottle of wine. Save the hair metal for cheap beer and wine coolers.MEAGHAN [email protected]

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It was the day of his wedding and Kyle Postmus didn’t know how to tie his bow tie. As it turned out, only two other people at the wed-ding on that hot August day in 2013 did know. One was Kyle’s husband-to-be, Chase Stampe, who for conventional reasons (the tradition of avoiding seeing your fiancé before the ceremony) ob-viously couldn’t come to his as-sistance.

“That just about caused a break-down,” Stampe remembers. “It took about half an hour to find someone.” In the end, it was Stampe’s grandmother who came to the rescue.

In the grand scheme of things, that may sound like a pretty mi-nor issue—but on your wedding day, even something so minor as struggling to tie a bowtie can seem catastrophic.

For many, the day of the wedding is full of anticipation, emotions and pressures real and perceived. So it’s understandable that many couples approach the big day with mixed feelings—excitement, stress, trepidation, joy.

Even with all the major decisions made and all the right supports in place, that one little misstep may make it feel like everything’s amiss. On the surface, everything

is going along smoothly, but in-side the bride’s or groom’s head thoughts about commitment, in-laws, the events of the day itself, stage fright or any number of oth-er things may rear up.

It’s that emotional cocktail of the wedding day that reality TV shows, like WEtv’s infamous Bridezillas, capitalize on. That’s why Edmonton wedding plan-ner Jennifer Bergman stresses to couples that they need to take the time to sit back and enjoy the moment.

It may sound trite, she admits, but that’s often the single most important advice she doles out. “Everyone says the day goes by so quickly,” She says. “It’s impor-tant to keep perspective. There’s only so much you can control. It’s more important to enjoy the day instead of worrying about the details, you have to take time to soak it in.”

That, she adds, is why many couples hire a planner in the first place. Stampe agrees. One of the best decisions they made, he says, was hiring Bergman to plan their wedding. “From the engage-ment right through to the wed-ding, having Jennifer there gave us time to process everything and make decisions. On the day itself it meant we didn’t have to worry about anything.”

Even with a planner, of course,

there are still things that can go wrong. The trick is to find ways to make the best of it. Bergman re-calls one wedding where a power outage nearly put the reception in jeopardy.

“It turned into a really neat mem-ory for the couple,” Bergman re-calls. “Fortunately we had just finished dinner, so the dance was next. All the centerpieces were candles and the best man al-ready had an acoustic guitar so it wound up being this very inti-mate, unique experience.”

For all the planning, sometimes giving in to the spontaneity of a moment leads to the most memo-rable events of the day. Julianne Cragg, another Edmonton wed-ding planner, says she isn’t usu-ally surprised at the receptions she coordinates. “You come to expect it—okay, who’s dancing, who’s singing?” She says.

But occasionally something will catch her pleasantly off guard—like when she arranged R&B singer Lindsey Nagy’s wedding last summer. “I’d asked her if she wanted to sing but she said she would rather just enjoy the day,” Cragg remembers. “I didn’t know, the guests didn’t know, but all of a sudden she’s up there.”

Needless to say the performance was a memorable one. But vocal

Relaxing and letting go of the day’s stresses can lead to great memories

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skills or not, there are plenty of ways to inject some of your own personality into the event.

Stampe and Postmus wrote their own vows, and it’s some-thing Stampe recommends to other couples. “What’s impor-tant,” he says, “is that it comes from you, it’s personal. If it comes from the heart, even if you’re not a poet, your partner knows what you mean.”

For many couples, the wedding is more than just an affirmation of their feelings, it’s an expres-sion of who they are together. When each half of the couple comes from widely different cul-tures, that can be tricky.

“I’m East Indian and he’s Croa-tian,” Sandy Kang explains. The fusion of the two cultures, she says, “was like nothing our fam-ily and friends had seen. It was

unique to us.”

With over 400 guests to ac-commodate, selecting a venue that suited their tastes and had enough capacity wasn’t easy, Kang recalls, but in the end they went with the Enjoy Centre at Hole’s Greenhouse. It set the stage perfectly, she says. The way the glass ceiling was lit up against the night sky was breathtaking. Combined with a creative culinary experi-ence and a live Croatian band, “It was like a total out of body experience. Looking back at the videos, it’s like, wow, this really happened.”

Big weddings aren’t necessarily the norm these days, but Berg-man says venues are in limited supply in general in Edmonton. As an alternative to that, the destination wedding is becom-ing more and more popular.

“We were torn between doing

a destination wedding and one here,” admits Kang. “Originally we were thinking of getting mar-ried in Croatia and having a big party when we came back. But then we thought, if we’re going to have a big party here, why don’t we just get married here?”

For Stampe and his spouse, who now call Vancouver home, Edmonton was the right choice for them as well. “Being from Vancouver, you might think it seems a little funny that we came to Edmonton to get mar-ried. But there are places in Edmonton that are very pictur-esque,” says Stampe, noting that the setting at Fort Edmon-ton was perfect for them. “And, Edmonton is home.”

That feeling of being home can lend a certain air of comfort. Surrounded by the right people, in the right place, with only one big thing to do that day, all the stresses and pressures can melt away.

“People worry about stuff that really doesn’t matter,” says Cragg. “Those are things they will usually forget. Remember it’s one day; what’s important is to get married.”

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The franchise for wedding reality TV shows seems endless. Just to give an idea, here is a sample of several of the shows in the growing canon. At least 12 dif-ferent reality shows have aired on the topic at one point or an-other since 1996.

Longest running: A Wedding Story (1996 – 2007)

First aired on TLC in 1996, this show followed brides as they planned and made their way to the alter for their wedding day.

Weirdest: My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding

(Runner-up: My Big Fat Redneck Wedding)

Delving in to the lives of gypsy families on one of the most emo-tionally charged days of any-one’s life, this show purportedly aimed to reveal the culture and character of American gypsies.

Strangest spinoffs: Say Yes to the Dress

Not one, but two spinoffs of this show have been created, one subtitled Bridesmaids, the other, Atlanta. Yes, the city of Atlanta has its very own version of the show.

As with any TV show, this list comes with a disclaimer: these shows may or may not help you prepare for a wedding. Side ef-fects include: rethinking every-thing you are doing, obsessing about a wedding you can’t af-ford, ending up on the wildest imaginable goose chase, end-ing up in a reality TV show, and being completely turned off of weddings altogether.

To amuse, horrify and possibly prepare yourself and your be-trothed further, Google “wed-ding reality shows” and enjoy the results.

1. Book the venue early.If having the right setting is important, give yourself time to � nd and reserve it. Wedding planner Jennifer Bergman says Edmonton has an ongoing challenge with limited capacity.

2. Sample everything.If you’re going to make your guests eat it, suggests Kang, you should try it ahead of time. That’s the only way to know for sure if it’s something you want, with no surprises on the day of the wedding.

3. Let your personality come through.Whether it’s personally composed vows or a wedding that re� ects the cultural backgrounds of the couple, this is a day to share who you are—both individually and as a couple—with your friends and family.

4. Take the time to visit with your guests.If you don’t take time to go around and thank people, says Stampe, some of the people who came to see you may be too politely shy to visit your table. You invited them; let them know what it means to you that they came.

5. Embrace the spontaneous moments.Power outages, bowties, impromptu performances—these are things that people will remember. Don’t stress, keep perspective and go with the � ow.

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

2. According to tradition in many countries (derived from Roman belief), the wedding ring is worn on the left ring �nger because the vein in the left ring �nger, referred to as the vena amoris, was believed to be directly connected to the heart, a symbol of love.

3. Queen Victoria started the Western world’s white wedding dress trend in 1840 – before then, brides simply wore their best dress.

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

5. In many cultures around the world -- including Celtic, Hindu and Egyptian weddings -- the hands of a bride and groom are literally tied together to demon-strate the couple’s commitment to each other and their new bond as a married couple (giving us the popular phrase “tying the knot”).

6. 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.

7. 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.

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

9. The �rst weddings comprised of a groom taking his bride by capture. He would take her somewhere hidden away so her relatives and villagers couldn’t �nd them. There they stayed for one moon phase and drank mead, a wine made from honey, to make them more amorous. Thus, the word “honeymoon” was born.

10. Early Roman brides carried a bunch of herbs, such as garlic and rosemary, under their veils to symbolize �delity and fertility and to ward off evil. These herbs served as a precursor to the modern bridal bouquet.

11. In many cultures, the groom historically often kidnapped the bride, and the groom’s friends would help him, leading to the modern-day groomsmen. At the alter, the groom always stood on the bride’s right side so his right hand—or his sword hand—would be free to �ght a jealous rival!

12. “Matrimony” is from the Latin matrimonium, from matrem (“mother”) + mo-nium (“action, state, condition”).

13. Every year has interesting popular wedding dates. In 2010, it was 10-10-10 and in 2011, 09-10-11! Possibility the most popular wedding day in history was 7-7-7 – a number known for luck, religious symbolism, numerology symbolism and it happened to fall on a Saturday!

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hese aren't monsters—not really. For if these people

are monsters, well, then we all are.The newest project from The

Maggie Tree will have you ponder-ing such questions at length: the experimental and collaboratively-created Monstrosities presents three separate stories of women with signifi cant physical abnormali-ties, rendering her "other" and apart from the mainstream world. They are monsters—or are they?

Paramount in each piece is the relationship of each woman to media, because it's not just how individuals react to these abnor-malities but also how society re-acts to them, how they are put on display or hidden away. Appropri-ately, Monstrosities is fundamen-tally multimedia: T Erin Gruber has created a series of projections to accompany each woman's perfor-mance, fleshed out by Aaron Mac-ri's sound design and Tessa Stamp's set and costumes. These video and sound clips blend artfully with each woman's performance, supporting her words and actions rather than overriding them.

Amber Borotsik opens the show as a woman with a vibrant, carefree online persona—she punctuates her collo-quial narration with hair-tossing, spar-kly photo-booth-style video clips. We watch her prepare for a date with her beau—and then we watch it again as the show shi� s and exposes her fragil-

ity and the profound artifi ce on which her life is based.

Reality television is arguably our modern day equivalent of the circus freak show; Vanessa Sabourin draws upon this in her fi erce, unnerving piece, co-written with Jill Connell. Cagey yet resolute, Sabourin's character is a self-described Manticore: "I was not a freak—I was a mythical creature," she declares, with a sense of power that is

later proven fl eet-ing and false as she faces the cruel reality of televi-sion exploitation.

The show's ten-sion and stakes fi nd their climax

in Kristi Hansen's performance, whose wry, cigarette-puffi ng mono-logue is delivered alongside docu-mentary footage of a woman with a similar physical trait as Hansen her-self, and who has decided to wear her monstrosity, like Hansen, openly and without shame—albeit in a very di� erent way.

Monstrosities is a powerful, fas-cinating show, o� ering a brutally honest perspective on deviations of the human body. Startling, touching and so very, very human, this is not a collection of pithy sympathy or trite preaching, but rather an open, honest dialogue. It will make you squirm, and good—these are things that we, collectively, need to stop shying away from under pretensions of false modesty or shame. So take a look, and make it a good one. MEL [email protected]

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There's something so delightfully charming in watching a group of

people honk, quack and fl ap their way through a Broadway musical.

The young folks at Grindstone The-atre, who have previously been cut-ting their teeth with the weekly improvised musi-cal The 11 O'Clock Number, have just mounted their fi rst full-length produc-tion: Honk!, a 1993 musical of the classic fairy tale The Ugly Duckling.

There are no surprises in this story, but its familiarity adds to its charm. What might be most startling is the number of poultry-themed puns sprinkled throughout this produc-tion—Anthony Drewe's book and lyrics never resist a chance for silly wordplay. The tale begins in a nest on a lake, where selfl ess mother duck Ida (the lovely voiced Kayla Nickel) is sitting on her clutch of ready-to-hatch eggs, one of which is distinctly di� er-ent than the rest. While never ex-plained as to how that particular egg ended up in her nest, its inhabitant is indeed di� erent than the yellow bow-tied youngsters that emerge from the others, right down to his voice—not a chipper quack, but a sustained, o� -key honk. Enter Ugly, played disarm-ingly by Mathew Bittro� .

What follows is a coming-of-age story as Ugly learns his place in the

world. Though this is a cast of anthro-pomorphic characters, rest assured it's more fun than garish—the ani-malistic side is kept low key, implied by their words, gestures and clever costuming (by Marie Muggeridge).

George Stiles' mu-sic (performed live by Grindstone mu-sical director Erik Mortimer) has the feel of hallmark Broadway show tunes; the twist is that the musical numbers are ani-

mal-themed and performed by barn-yard residents—and they're rather delightful: when else will you see a dancing frog backed up by a line of can-can dancers?

We've seen these animal tropes before: there's the cunning cat (David Johnston), chatty barnyard birds (Nicole English does a fantas-tic chicken laugh), a goofy turkey (Elisa Benzer), and a fl ock of avia-tor geese. It's fun picking out the humanity amongst these animal caricatures of stock characters, and although Honk!'s central message of tolerance could come across as a bit saccharine, in this treatment it's more fun than hackneyed.

"I like my honk. I like being di� er-ent," says Ugly. Indeed, wee bird—this is an insight some humans need to embrace as well. MEL [email protected]

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RAW artists / Thu, May 1 (8 pm) The multifarious indepen-dent arts organization planted its roots south of the border but is spreading into Canada with the first international showcas-es being held in Vancouver and Montréal last summer. Toronto, Ottawa, Winnipeg and, yes, Ed-monton will be added to the list this year for an event that brings together artists across

genres in order to foster posi-tive growth. This means fashion, music, visual art, film, you name it. The roster for Edmonton’s launch includes photographer Fish Griwkowsky, Middle Men filmmaker Matt Marshall, cor-set designer Elise Truong and musician Jenie Thai, among nu-merous others. For a full lineup visit rawartists.org/edmonton/revolution. (Starlite Room)

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Depending on your pop culture touchstones, you might know

Wallace Shawn as The Princess Bride's arrogantly intelligent Vizzini ("Inconceivable!"), or as a version of

himself in My Dinner With Andre, or, the jittery voice of Toy Story's Rex, or innumerable other one-o roles (the guy's popped up on Gossip Girl, even). He's immediately recognizable

as an actor, but performance marks a limited representations of Shawn's place on the cultural pantheon, given that he's also one of North America's fi nest publishing thinkers, an essayist and playwright quietly but frequent-ly celebrated for a depth of thought as important as any of the characters

he's played."His father was the editor of The

New Yorker," Ian Leung muses, in a downtown cafe "He comes from writ-ing stock, and that's what he started out trying to be. He only became an actor when the people he was work-ing with said, 'We need you to be in this.'"

Shawn's writing is deeply question-ing in tone, concerned with the op-erations of the world at large and how we operate within it, resisting or succumbing to social and political rhythms. And The Fever, a one-hand-er stage script of Shawn's that Leung

is directing, hones in on that: it fi nds its unnamed char-acter—originally performed by Shawn himself—in a delirious

tailspin of thought, cycling through First World guilt from a Third World hotel room in an unnamed country. (The role here will be performed by Melissa Thingelstad, no stranger to solo shows.)

"I saw it when a Toronto production toured the country and came to the Phoenix Theatre in 1993," Leung says. "I was struck with how outspoken a play it was, how candid he was about his thoughts about how the world works. I found myself very much in

sympathy with him."Looking at Leung's own produc-tion history, you can see why—ask-ing those big questions about status quo seems to be the fulcrum of his company, Theatre No. 6. Back in 2009, he created U: The Comedy of Global Warming, a multimedia smorgsaboard of considerations about climate change. Now, a� er a few years absent from our stages, The Fever marks the beginning of a return for Theatre No. 6: this show will be followed up in a few months by another, a production of Michael Healey's controversial Proud, which follows Stephen Harper attempting to navigate his own majority govern-ment.

Leung's staging The Fever in the cozy Living Room Playhouse, akin to how Shawn fi rst performed the work in the living rooms of friends before he ever took it to a proper stage. That proximity, Leung notes, between au-dience and actor, is important to the more confrontational aspects of the questions Shawn's asking.

"I think it lets the play live as it is," he says. "Because I don't think it's written to be done in a great big hall. It's hard for me to imagine how you would approach it. It doesn't let you distance yourself from the thought process."PAUL [email protected]

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Even though criticism is always hard to listen to, if the right

person says the right thing at the right time, it can change your whole perspective.

When Ains-ley Hillyard, founding mem-ber of the Good Women Dance Collec-tive, was train-ing at Grant MacEwan, Heidi Bunting, her in-structor at the time, noticed something was off right before her final showcase.

"I was 18 and I think I had just bro-ken up with my boyfriend—some-thing really stupid and childish," Hillyard explains. "So I was sad—still doing the class but not as well as I could. And [Bunting] came up to me and was like, 'What's wrong with you?'"

While Hillyard brushed it off as simply having a bad day, Bunting's reply made her reevaluate how she approached performance. "She was like, 'Well, you know what,

Ainsley? We're performing and the work is bigger than you and you have to meet it.'"

In an effort to facilitate those moments of artistic clarity, Good

Women is ready to c e l e b r a t e five years of What's Cooking?—an informal, w o r k - i n -p r o g r e s s s h o w c a s e . With lunch and dinner

catered by the Pourhouse Bier Bis-tro, What's Cooking? is an opportu-nity for artists across all disciplines to present a five to 10 minute frag-ment of their work followed by an open dialogue with the audience to get constructive feedback.

All are welcome, including those who know very little about con-temporary dance.

"Our favourite people to come are the people who know nothing about dance," Hillyard says. "They have such fresh eyes to look at the work,

they ask the most interesting ques-tions and make the most bold state-ments about what's happening."

Still, bold statements are some-times tough to take, regardless of the speaker's good intentions. Over the past four years Hillyard has picked up some tricks on how best to approach these kinds of conversations.

"For me, even when I'm giving criti-cal feedback, I always pose things as questions," Hillyard says. "If [the artist] is being asked a question, it's less likely that they feel they have to defend themselves and more likely that they'll just want to an-swer the question. It makes for a better dialogue, too, because it's not a definitive 'I didn't like that.'"

And it's that conversation that makes What's Cooking? so con-structive and, perhaps, revelatory.

"It's really special to come into somebody else's process while they're still creating," Hillyard adds. "It's kind of a gift to see how other people create, what their steps are and where they're com-ing from." KATHLEEN [email protected]

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EBDA BALLROOM DANCE • Lions Senior Recreational Centre, 11113-113 St, 780.893.6828 • May 3, 8pm

THE GOOD WOMEN DANCE COLLECTIVE • PCL Studio, 10330-84 Ave: What's Cooking?; Apr 27, noon (lunch), 12:30 (show); 6:30pm (dinner), 7pm (show); $10 (show)/$15 (day pass) • Artery, 9535 Jasper Ave: Next Up! Good Tunes with Good Women: Karaoke Party, silent auction; May 3, 8pm; $5 (adv)/$10 (door); $20 (for song of your choice, Good Women as back-up dancers)

MacEWAN UNIVERSITY • 10045-156 St • Blues Dance event; [email protected] • $65 • May 1-22, 6:30-8pm

MILE ZERO DANCE • Metro, 8712-109 St • Reeling and Flashdance: Mirages, Apr 26, 2pm; Pièces De Résistances; Apr 27, 2pm; International Dance Day: Flashdance, Jodie Vande-kerkhove's quick choreography lesson before the show; Apr 29, 7pm • Apr 26-27, 29 • Admission to Mirages, and Pièces De Résistances: donation; tickets for Flashdance: $10 (door)

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FILMFROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley Milner Library Audio Visual Rm, main fl , 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.496.7000 • Philomena (2013, PG); Apr 25, 2pm

THE CAPITOL THEATRE–Fort Edmonton • The Public Enemy (STC); Apr 24 • Pride and Prejudice; May 1

CINEMA AT THE CENTRE • Stanley Milner Library Theatre, bsmt, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.496.7000 • The Great Beauty (14A) 2013, Italy; Apr 30, 6:30pm

EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY • Royal Alberta Museum, 12845-102 Ave • Movie Series: Show Boat (1951, colour, PG) Apr 28, 8pm

EDUCATED REEL • Metro Cinema, 8712 109 St • Hungry For Change, local food activist, writer and educator, Gail Hall, '85 BA, discussion after fi lm • Apr 24, 7pm • $6 (adv)/$8 (door, student/senior cash)/$10 (door, adult)

IMAX THEATRE • TELUS World of Science, 11211-142 St • Island of Lemurs: Madagascar 3D (G) Fri-Sat 11:00am, 1:10, 3:25, 4:35, 6:55; Sun 11:00am, 1:10, 3:25, 4:35; Mon-Thu 3:10 • Jerusalem 3D (G) Fri-Sat 2:15, 5:45; Sun 2:15; Mon-Thu 4:20 • Rocky Mountain Express (G) Sat-Sun 12:00 • Apr 25-May 1

DOCUMENTARY–DOCTORED • Royal Alberta Museum, 12845-102 Ave • The Edmonton Chiropractic Society: YEG Movie Premiere • Apr 30, 6-9:30pm

GALLERIES + MUSEUMSALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St, 780.488.6611• Discovery Gallery: COALESCENCE: Ceramic artworks by Brenda Danbrook; until May 3 • Feature Gallery: FURNISH: Contemporary hand-crafted home furnishings and accessories; until Jul 5

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ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.422.6223 • BMO World of Creativity: CABINETS OF CURIOSITY: Lyndal Osborne's curious collection; until Jun 30 • HIGH ADVENTURE: Byron Harmon on the Columbia Icefi eld; until Aug 17 • LAWREN HARRIS AND A.Y. JACKSON–JASPER/ROBSON 1924: until Aug 17 • INSTINCTIVE BREAK: Installation by Andrew Frosst; until Jun 8 • BOWER-BIRD, LIFE AS ART: Works by Lyndal Osborne: until Apr 27 • STRANGE DREAM: Artworks by Jill Stanton; until Dec 31 • Art on the Block: The art of the hunt: May 2, $125

ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert, 780.460.4310 • FRAGILE ELEMENTS: Works by Susan Casault, Peter Ivens, and Teresa Stieben; until Apr 26 • HIGH ENERGY 19: RE-IMAGINING St Albert High School student artworks; May 1-24; opening: May 1, 6-9pm

BEARCLAW GALLERY • 10403-124 St, 780.482.1204 • WOODLAND TREASURES: Featuring artworks by the Woodland School Painters • Until May 9 • Spring Gallery Walk/opening reception: Apr 26, 1-4pm

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 10345-124 St • FIELDS TO FORMS: Works by Les Graff; Apr 24-May 6; artist opening: Apr 24, 6-9pm; Apr 26, 1-4pm • Artwalk: Apr 26, 10-5pm; Apr 27, 1-4pm

CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave, 780.461.3427 • COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION: Members’ artworks; until Apr 29 • EXUBERANCE: Works by Doris Charest, Mormand Fontaine, Keith Nolan, Zoong Ngyuen, Dana Rayment; May 2-13; reception: May 2, 7-8pm

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DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St, 780.760.1278 •

THE BIRDS AND THE BODY: Works by Ben Sures; until Apr 27; opening: Apr 24, 5-8pm • NEIGHBOURHOODS: Works by Bruce Allen; Apr 29-May 2; artist reception: May 1, 5-8pm, with live music

DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St • YEG SOUND ART & NOISE FESTIVAL: Sean Caulfi eld projected artworks, part of Wind Rose Lamentations release. Performances by Wind Rose, K.M. Toepfer, Scott Smallwood, DNE, Aaron Macri, Skrunt Skrunt, Borys, Raimundo Gonzales, Gene Kosowan, Ocra, Bong Sample, Wayne DeFehr • May 4, 2pm • $5

DIXON GALLERY • 12310 Jasper Ave, 780.200.2711 • Richard Dixon's Studio and Gallery featuring historical Canadian works, antique jade sculptures and jewellery, 17th Century bronze masterworks, and works by Richard Dixon

DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY (DUG) • 10332-124 St • 47TH ANNUAL SPRING SHOW: Recent works by gallery artists Tony Scherman, Wilf Perreault, Tim Okamura, Bev Petow, Les Thomas, John Capitano, Mara Korkola, Eliza Griffi ths, Nathan Birch, Harry Savage, Fabian Marcaccio, Iris Nardini, Robert Scott, more • Apr 26-May 10 • Opening: Apr 26, 2-4pm

DRAWING ROOM • 10253-97 St • SHELL: Works by Leanne Olson and Dara Humniski • Until Apr 26

ENTERPRISE SQUARE GALLERIES • 10230 Jasper Ave • FRESH PAINT: A Snapshot of Painting in Edmonton; until Apr 26 • LET US REMEMBER THAT WE ARE ALL RELATED: mixed-media works on paper by Carl Beam; until May 24 • KIYAS ASPIN: Works by Alberta artists Jane Ash Poitras, Dale Belcourt, Joane Cardinal-Schubert, Edward Harpe, Faye HeavyShield, Alex Janvier, George Littlechild, Ann McLean, Kimowan Metchewais, Ken Swan, Sam Warrior, and Lauren I. Wuttunee; until May 24 • AGA at Enterprise Square Galleries: REGIONS OF DISTINCTION: Works by the Edmonton membmers of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts; Apr 25-Oct 26; opening: Apr 24, 7pm

FAB GALLERY • 1-1 Fine Arts Bldg, 89 Ave, 112 St, 780.492.2081 • AFFINITIES: Bachelor of Fine Arts Graduate Show 2014; until May 3; opening: Apr 24, 7pm • Rutherford Library: BOOK AS WEAPON OF CHANGE II: Works by the U of A Sculpture class, winter 2014; until May 10; reception: Apr 26, 2pm-Apr 27, 5pm

GALLERIE PAVA • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • CÉLÉBRONS LES LIENS: Works by Karen Blanchet; until Apr 29

GALLERY 7 • Bookstore on Perron, 7 Perron St, St Albert, 780.459.2525 • NATURE’S AWAKENING: Featuring paintings by Nathalie Shewchuk-Peré and collages by Sylvia Grist • Until Apr 26

GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.944.5383 • GIVE IT SOME THOUGHT: Silkscreen prints by Joanne Madeley; May 1-31 • SLOW IT DOWN: Paintings by Meghan MacMillan; until Apr 30 • Display Cases: SMALL VICTORIES: The Students’ Design Association of the U of A; until Apr 30

GALLERY ON MAIN–Lacombe • MY TUSCAN ADVENTURE: Works by Elaine Tweedy • May 3-23 • Opening: May 3, 5-9pm

GALLERY WALK • Gallery Walk Galleries: Bearclaw, Bugera Matheson, Daffodil, Douglas Udell, Front, Garage Photographic, Lando, Peter Robertson, Scott, West End • Apr 26, 10-5pm; Apr 27, 1-4pm • First Thu Event: Galleries open late for an informal gathering of culture lovers the 1st Thu ea month

GRAY GALLERY • 9-11238, Robbins Health Learning Centre, 104 Ave, 109 St, 780.907.2816 • IN MEDIAS RES: Works by Gillian Willans, Tianna Mapstone-Lung, Tracy Suter • Through Apr

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St • Main Gallery: JJ Levine, Queer Portraits • Front Room Gallery: Josée Aubin Ouellette • Until May 23

HUMAN ECOLOGY BUILDING–U of A • 1st Fl Gallery • COLOUR CATCH: Aesthetic experiences through West African Textiles and Nature • Until Jul 20

JEFF ALLEN ART GALLERY (JAAG) • Strathcona Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave, 780.433.5807 • FROM THE PAST TO THE FUTURE: Works by Joyce Bjerke and Ethel Gulka • Until Apr 30

KING’S UNIVERSITY COLLEGE • 9125-50 St • LIFE2: Portrait photos of parolees; curated by Mark Power • Until May 3, Mon-Fri 8:30am-4:30pm

LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St, 780.990.1161 • SPRING ON 124 STREET: Paintings by Waclaw Pietucha, photos by Steven Friedman; until Apr 30 • Lando Art Auctions Preview: May 2-4; Fine Art Auction: May 4, 2 pm

LATITUDE 53 • 10242-106 St, 780.423.5353 • Main Space: BLOWN UP: Video-game art about war in the Middle East by Wafaa Bilal, Harun Farocki, and Mohammad Mohsen, curated by Vicky Moufawad-Paul; May 2-Jun 14; Curator’s Talk: May 2, 7pm; followed by opening reception • ProjEx Room: OURS: Installation by Jennifer Tellier and Brittney Bear-Hat; May 2-Jun 14

LOFT GALLERY • AJ Ottewell Gallery, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • 790.559.4443 • artstrathcona.com • Open: Sat-Sun 12-4pm • Art by Beth Gillard, and ASSC members • Until Apr 27

MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St, 780.407.7152 • MEASURING A YEAR: BY THE MINUTE: Knitted sculpture, installation by Margie Davidson; until May 16

MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GALLERY (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain, 780.963.9935 • Sculpture Installation by Kelly Johner • Apr 25-May 21 • reception: Apr 27, 1-3:30pm

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM–St Albert • 5 St Anne St, St Albert, 780.459.1528 • HANDS ON NATURE: DISCOVER BIODIVERSITY: Until Jun 8

NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave, 780.432.0240 • Artisan Nook: COLOURS, TEXTURES AND PHOTOGRAPHY: Works by Ana Feher; until May 17 • Vertical Space: THE TWO CONTRARY STATES OF THE HUMAN SOUL: Paintings by Father Douglas, until May 7

NINA HAGGERTY CENTRE • 9225-118 Ave • Community Arts Night: Learn techniques, become familiar with new mediums; Every Tue until Jun 10, 6:30-8:30pm; Pre-register at 780.474.7611

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave, 780.453.9100 • CHOP SUEY ON THE PRAIRIES: Until Apr 27 • WESTERN THREADS: Contemporary Fibre Art, wall art, whimsi-cal dolls, colourful quilts, stunning wearable art and pictorial

rugs; until Aug 4

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • LAKE'S EDGE: Loretta Kyle and Pamela Thurston • Until May 3 • Wayne MacKenzie: Designer Goldsmith; Apr 24-27 (ph for appt) • Gallery Walk: Apr 26, 10am-5pm; Apr 27, 12-4pm

SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta Print -Artists, 10123-121 St, 780.423.1492 • SHIFT: Printworks installation by Heather Huston; Apr 24-May 31; opening: Apr 24, 7-9pm • OUT OF THE ETHER: Printworks series by Joanne Madeley; Apr 24-May 31; opening: Apr 24, 7-9pm

STRATHCONA COUNTY ART GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • DUALITY IN A DIAPHANOUS LANDSCAPE: Works by Local glass artist Manola Borrajo • Until Apr 27

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • Events: Science Research and Educational Showcase; May 3, 10am-4pm

VAAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St, 780.421.1731 • Gallery A: HOMETOWN DREAMS: Paintings by Linda Crad-dock; until May 3 • Gallery B: LABYRINTH OF THE ETERNAL ARCHETYPE: Installation by Shyra Desouza; until May 3

VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert, 780.460.5990 • Works by Wanda Resek and Bette Lisitza; through Apr

WALTERDALE–ASA Gallery • Walterdale Playhouse, 10322-83 Ave • THE ARTIST LENS • Until May 18

WEST END GALLERY • 12308 Jasper Ave, 780.488.4892 • SPRING GALLERY WALK: Apr 26, 10-5pm; Apr 27, 12-4pm • Cityscapes by Fraser Brinsmead; May 3-15

WORKS GALLERY • 10635-95 St • YMCA Community Canvas Works Gallery: Don Wheaton YMCA–DT, 10211-102 Ave: Jenny Keith's nature-inspired paintings; until May • Jackson Power, 2nd fl . 9744-60 Ave: THE SISTERHOOD OF LONGING: Encaustic paintings and mixed media instal-lations by Marlena Wyman • THE MEMORY ROOMS: History based works by Caitlin Richards, Patrick Arés-Pilon, and Mallory Gemmel; Apr 25-May 4; opening: Apr 25, 7-10pm; performance by VINE Choir at 8pm; closing reception: May 3, 4-7pm; performance by musician Dave Wall at 5pm • Open: Apr 26-27, May 1-4; 12-4pm

LITERARYTHE ARTERY • 9535 Jasper Ave • Cheatin' & Hurtin': Jim Helper, Clint McElwaine, Jannie Edwards, Val Brandt, Anna Marie Sewell; Apr 26, 5pm • The Poetry Party: Mary Pinkoski, Tim Bowling, Iman Mersal; Apr 26, 7pm; $10 (member)/$15 (non-member) • Part of Poetry Festival

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • The Red Gala: Kimmy Beach, Jeanette Lynes, Steven Heighton, Hugh McMillan, Capital City Burlesque • Apr 25, 7:30pm (door), 8pm (event) • $30 (member)/$40 (non-member)

AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • Glass Buffalo Magazine Presents Words and Purport; Apr 24, 7pm • Book signing with Joe Woodcock, Keremeye'us: A Walking Journey Across America; Apr 25, 12pm • Edmonton Poetry Festival's Café: Reading Venue Event: Three Bananas L'espresso Café; Apr 27, 1:30pm • Launch of Bonnie Hutchinson's Transitions: Pathways to the Life and World Your Soul Desires; Apr 29, 7pm • Donna Milner signs Somewhere In Between; Apr 30, 12pm • Mothers of Invention: Readings by authors Theresa Shea, Jessica Kluthe, and Lisa Martin-DeMoor; May 3, 1:30pm

BICYCLETTE CAFÉ • French Twist: by RAFA: Jocelyn Verret, Giselle Lemire, Ariane Mahrÿke Lemire, Melissa Morelli Lacroix, Medgine Mathurin, Mary Pinkoski • Apr 24, 8pm

CBC CENTRE STAGE • CBC at Noon, New Books: Deborah Lawson, Michael Penny, Hendrik Slegtenhorst, Shawna Lemay, Randy Kohan • Apr 25, noon

CITY HALL • Centre Stage: CBC at Noon, Conduit: Peter Midgley Pushpa Raj Acharya, Ella Zeltserman, Rita Espeschit; Apr 24, noon • Market Fresh Poetry–Fresh Produce: Skye Hyndman, Harleen Cheema; Apr 26, 10am • Part of Poetry Festival

FACULTY CLUB • U of A Press: Literary Cocktails Poetry Event: new books by E. D. Blodgett, Dennis Cooley, Melissa Morelli Lacroix, and Stephen Scobie • Apr 24, 4pm • Part of Edmonton Poetry Festival

HARCOURT • Master Classes: Dead or Distant: Steven Heighton; Apr 25, 5pm; free (member)/$10 (non-member) • Part of Poetry Festival

KOFFEE CAFÉ • 6120-28 Ave • April Glass Door Coffee House Reading Series: Jeanette Lynes, Michael Gravel (poets); Kaz Mega (slam artist); Megan Keirstead (singer-songwriter), Jannie Edwards (host); Open Mic • Apr 24, 7pm • $7

POETRY FESTIVAL • Various venues; edmontonpoetry-festival.com/schedule/; until Apr 27 • The Red Gala: at the AGA: with Capital City Burlesque, poetry by Kimmy Beach, Hugh McMillan, Jeanette Lynes, Steven Heighton, and silent auction; Apr 25, 8pm; $30 (Poetry Festival member)/$40 (non-member)

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St, 780.902.5900 • Spoken Word Tuesdays: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: [email protected]

STRATHCONA COUNTY LIBRARY • 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park, 780.410.8600 • 8th Annual Evening of Poetry: Celebrating National Poetry Month: readings from Margaret Macpherson (writer-in residence), and other Alberta poets; open mic session to share work. Wine and cheese (adult-only) • Apr 25, 6:30-8:30pm • $5 at Library check-out desk, door

THEATRETHE 11 O'CLOCK NUMBER • Varscona, 10329-83 Ave • Improvised Theatre by Grindstone Theatre • Every Fri until Jul 26

THE BRITISH INVASION • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, WEM, 780.484.2424 • Until Jun 15

CHIMPROV • Zeidler Hall, Citadel, 9828-101A Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show • Every Sat, 10pm, until Jul • $12 (door, adv at TIX on the Square) • Until Jun, 2014

CONTRACTIONS • PCL Studio Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave, 780.471.1586 • Northern Light Theatre • By Mike Bartlett • An Orwellian depiction of absolute power with a savage twist to end the negotiations • May 2-10; Preview May 1

THE CRACKWALKER • Arts Barns, 10708-124 St • Kill Your Television • Set in Kingston, Ontario, a look at four down-and-out individuals battered by poverty, mental illness, and addiction • Apr 30-May 11

DIE-NASTY • Varscona 10329-83 Ave • Live improvised soap opera • Every Mon, 7:30pm • Until May 26

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE • La Cité Theatre, 8627-91 St • Two ONE-WAY Tickets To Broadway • Musical comedy by Bob Martin and Don McKellar • Until Apr 27 • $15 (stu-dent)/$20 (senior)/$25 (adult) at TIX on the Square

EAST OF BERLIN • C103, 8529-103 St • Punctuate! Theatre • Dark comedy by Hannah Moscovitch; starring Jamie Cavanagh, Andréa Jorawsky, and Matthew Hulshof • Apr 30-May 4, 7:30pm; Apr 30 (preview): by donation; May 4, 2pm • $20/$15 (student/senior/industry) at TIX on the Square, door

THE FEVER • Azimuth, 11315-106 Ave • A stranger in a strange land wakes in a state of delirium • Apr 23-May 4

HAIRSPRAY–THE BROADWAY MUSICAL • Mayfi eld Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave • Musical comedy about a big teenaged girl with big hair and a big heart • Until Jun 15 • Tickets at 780.483.4051

HONK! • Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave • Grindstone Theatre, 10330-84 Ave • Musical adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s the Ugly Duckling, by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, • Until Apr 26 • $25/$20 (student)/$70 (family of four) at TIX on the Square

IN THE HEIGHTS • Arts Barns • Scona Theatre Co • New Broadway musical by Lin Manuel Miranda; starring Aidan Burke, Jade Robinson Olivia Aubin, Evans Kwak • Until Apr 26, 7:30pm; Sat: 1:30 and 7:30pm • $15 (preview)/$20 (student)/$25 (adult) at TIX on the Square

MAMMA MIA • Jubilee, 11455-87 Ave • Writer Catherine Johnson's sunny, funny tale unfolds on a Greek island paradise • Until Apr 27

MISTAKES WERE MADE • Varscona, 10329-83 Ave • By Craig Wright, starring Glenn Nelson, and Erica Conway • An

off-Broadway producer has one night to stage an epic produc-tion about the French Revolution • Apr 30-May 18 • $23-$27 (adult)/$21-$24 (students/senior)

MONSTROSITIES • Varscona, 10329-83 Ave • Maggie Tree's exploration of 3 women's freaky stories and lives • Until Apr 26

MUMP & SMOOT–ANYTHING • Roxy, 10708-124 St • By Michael Kennard and John Turner • Until Apr 27 • $23-$29 at 780.453.2440

THE MUSIC BOX • Capitol Theatre, Fort Edmonton • Bass Caravan and the Roving Company of Curiosities • May 2-3 • $30-$25 (adult)/$15-$20 (child 12 & under)

NINO NINA SHOW • Expressionz, 780.450.6462 • Variety show • Last Sun ea month, 5:30pm (door), 7:30pm (show) • $10 (door)

ROMEO AND JULIET • Citadel • By William Shakespeare with the participants of the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program • Until Apr 27

SCRIPT SALON • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 10037-84 Ave • The Five Stages Of Death by Blaine Newton • May 4

SHREK THE MUSICAL • Strathcona Christian Academy Secondary School, Sherwood Park • Apr 29-May 2 • Tickets at scafi nearts.com

SHRUNKEN SHEADS • Kinsmen Hall, 47 Riel Dr, St Albert • St Albert Theatre Troupe • By M.Z. Ribalow • Apr 24-May 10, 6pm; Apr 27, May 4; Sun: 5pm (door), 5:45pm (buffet), 7pm (show) • $47.50 at box offi ce, 780.222.0102

THEATRESPORTS • Citadel Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Until June • $12/$10 (member) at TIX on the Square

THE VIP KIDS SHOW • Varscona, 10329-83 Ave, 780.433.3399 • Music, comedy, art, puppets with Kate Ryan, Davina Stewart, Donovan Workun, Dana Andersen, Cathy Derkach, friends • May 4, 11am • All Seats $6 VIP Pass $60

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April 30 - May 18, 2014

by Craig Wright


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22 FILM VUEWEEKLY APR 24 – APR 30, 2014

FILM FILM EDITOR : PAUL [email protected]

We call it the golden age, but most of the movies were

silver, like smoke, and smoking is something you will see a great deal of here. Gold is precious, rarefi ed, but Hollywood was churning out movies like bratwurst back then. The studios sought to mirror the assembly line in their mode of production, with tal-ent working under contract and given little choice as to their projects, most o� en asked to repeat whatever they got right the last time. The stories then, as now, were o� en romantic, but we needn’t be—this was, and is, an industry. Which makes it that much more amazing how truly glori-ous the results could be.

Maybe what separates the Ameri-can cinema of the 1930s, '40s and '50s apart from what came later has to do with some particular alchemi-cal magic drawn from the tensions between the restrictions and com-mercial imperative of the studio system and the untameable drives of the talent to be creative, to en-tertain at a higher level, to tell a truth or two, or even to make art—a dirty yet persistent word. Censor-ship breeds subtle subversion, so many of the most durable golden age movies found ways of o� ering us sex, violence, moral ambiguity, social commentary and artfulness that could be more sophisticated than what’s generated under more permissive circumstances. What would eventually be termed fi lm noir is defi ned by such subversions. So there’s an interesting irony here: golden age movies are for me a kind of comfort food; I turn to them when I just want to sink into the

pleasures of pure movieness. And yet so many of these movies are trou-bling, dark, compli-cated, riddled with neuroses, shadow and despair; while others, though far lighter in tone, use dazzling artifi ce as a way of speaking cleverly to life’s in-herent absurdities.

Inspired by the premiere of Citadel Theatre’s Make Mine Love, Metro Cinema has curated a sextet of gold-en age classics. Some you likley al-ready know. Others have fallen out of fashion, even amongst cinephiles. Me, I think you should see all of them. But if you must pick and choose, I hope the following will help with that.

Made in the midst of the Depres-sion, Frank Capra’s multi-Oscar-winning screwball comedy It Hap-pened One Night (1934) turned class resentment into romance, pitting Clark Gable’s newly unemployed news hound against Claudette Col-bert’s runaway heiress. The banter is delicious, even if some of Gable’s digs at Colbert’s privilege wind up feeling awfully close to mere sex-ism. The story takes the shape of a road movie. At one point the unlikely lovers-to-be are picked up by a guy who can improvise a song out of any topic, whether hitchhiking or tonsils. He’s the embodiment of this movie’s giddily inventive spirit: you feel like they could have thrown anything into the plot and made it sing.

Orson Welles’ thinly disguised por-trait of news magnate William Ran-dolph Hearst, Citizen Kane (1941) is one of the most astonishing directori-al debuts in fi lm history, a relentlessly inventive examination of power, mon-ey and loneliness, brought to life by an unduly talented cast of thespians and a few outright geniuses, such as cinematographer Gregg Toland and composer Bernard Herrmann. It failed to recoup its investment and was for some years RKO’s bête noire. It would eventually be rediscovered, hailed a masterpiece, and spend decades at the top of the British Film Institute’s poll of the greatest fi lms of all time, though all this would occur too late to do doomed Welles much good.

Proof that nothing spells top-shelf entertainment quite like fatalism, back-stabbing, claustrophobia and greed, The Maltese Falcon (1941), remarkably faithful to Dashiell Ham-mett’s hardboiled novel, stars Hum-phrey Bogart as Sam Spade, a private dick who sleeps with his partner’s wife, never saw a billfold he didn’t like, and mostly seems as cold as the grave-digging implement he’s named

a� er. He’s also charmingly cagey, vulnerable to femmes fatale and a master of repartee. (When accused of always having a smooth explanation, Spade retorts, “What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?”) Bogey keeps extremely good company: Mary As-tor, Sydney Greenstreet, Elisha Cook and Peter Lorre—as an inimitable gardenia-smelling dandy so aroused by danger, riches and the promise of the body-searching Bogart.

Midway through cinema’s fi rst centu-ry two big, brilliant pictures appeared that delighted audiences by tarnish-ing the very idols they came to adore. Sunset Blvd. (1950) was Billy Wilder’s direct strike against the fallacy of Hol-lywood’s romantic vision of itself, a hi-lariously sour tale, told by a dead man, of glamour corroding in the wilderness of musty old mansions, brimming with crime, sex, vanity and delusion. Wil-liam Holden’s screenwriter becomes the boy toy to Gloria Swanson’s batty and aging silent fi lm star—it was high time for attention to be drawn to the industry’s callousness toward ac-tresses. All About Eve (1950) had one

of those too, though Bette Davis was considerably younger than Swanson, and the theatre was supposed to be more forgiving of age than the movies. Davis is a queen of the stage, but she’s uneasy about being in her 40s—her boyfriend’s eight years younger—and that unease is exacerbated by the ar-rival of Anne Baxter’s pretty young sy-cophant. Eve isn’t as stylish or outré as Sunset Blvd., but you could watch and listen to Davis and George Sanders forever—while Baxter’s husky malice lays the groundwork for much of Kath-leen Turner’s career.

On the Waterfront, the fi nal selec-tion in Metro’s sextet, is, appropri-ately, a fi lm that in certain ways sig-nals the end of the sort of theatre we see in Eve, of Hollywood’s golden age, of the studio system and the old romantic idea of the movies. This ar-resting drama about work, violence and union corruption in New York’s waterfront was founded in reportage and used real locations and real long-shoremen, but the most thrillingly real thing about it was its lead actor. As disgraced ex-boxer Terry Malloy, Marlon Brando is nothing less than a revelation, a fountain of nuance, seemingly hyper-masculine yet so vulnerable, even e� eminate in his tenderness. His attention to behav-iour and impulse would help change acting. He is also, quite simply, a mar-vel to behold. JOSEF [email protected]

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Make Mine Hollywood: Selec-tions from the Golden AgeSat, Apr 26 – Tue, May 6Metro Cinema at the Garneau

One of the things that irked me about Spike Jonze's Her was its

failure to consider any number of consequences generated by its ee-rily close-to-reality science fi ction premise. By contrast, Transcendence, which shares a key narrative element with Her—its protagonist's beloved is an omnipresent immaterial being who exists solely via the supernatural realm known as the Internet—bends over backward to consider all sorts of grandiose consequences of living in a world where such love is possible. The problem is that consider is all Transcendence does. The fi lm, written by Jack Paglen, checks o a lot of big ideas that we should probably all be thinking about, but is ultimately just as so� -headed as Her, while bear-ing little of that fi lm's distinctions. Her sacrifi ced coherence in favour of some resonant knowingness about the nature of love and possession. Transcendence sacrifi ces coherence for the veneer of intellectual and/or spiritual he� —and for a nonsensical

third act full of big-ass explosions and sundry special e ects.

The portentously named Dr Will Caster (Johnny Deep), a genius in the realm of artifi cial intelligence, gets shot by radical anti-AI activists. At fi rst it seems he's going to be OK, but then a doctor with an astonishingly poor bedside manner informs him that the bullet was laced with isotopes and he's going to die from radiation poisoning in a matter of weeks. A devastatingly brief window of time, but just enough time for Evelyn (Rebecca Hall), Will's partner in love and science, to encode Will's memories, ideas, emotions—in short, his consciousness—and up-load the whole package into PINN, or Physically Independent Neural Net-work, the Casters' revolutionary AI program. So Will's fl esh perishes, but his mind, or some facsimile, lives on in the cloud. He's everywhere, all the time, and, it seems, all-powerful. He makes a bunch of money fast, and sets up Evelyn with an entire desert town,

and, apparently, all its inhabitants, to continue their research, which, need-less to say, has the capacity to take over the world!

Evelyn is our Dr Frankenstein, her hubris driven equally by grief and sci-entifi c vision, her fundamental inno-cence underlined by the fact that she wears Keds with every outfi t. Will is her disembodied monster, HAL 9000 with a handsome synthetic visage, a novel spin on the abusive, controlling spouse, Big Brother as bad husband.

There are other characters to com-plicate and crowd Transcendence : a soundly scepti-cal neurobiologist pal (Paul Bettany)

who conspicuously wears a cross around his neck, a wise old former col-league (Morgan Freeman) and a fed (Cillian Murphy) who keeps a watch-ful eye on the Casters' mad science, which could one day prove useful to the Department of Defense.

The fi rst hour is very intriguing, if poorly paced—so many scenes are a few lines too long, and there's a great deal of padding—but then the script devolves into ungovernable plotti-ness. First-time director Wally Pfi ster, already famous as Christopher No-lan's regular cinematographer, opts to emphasize spectacle, whether it be clouds of infectious nano-dirt reach-ing up out of the earth or a diamond-like drop of dew sliding o a sunfl ow-er in slow-motion, the former being an empty conceit designed solely to look freaky and thrilling, the latter being an empty stab at profundity. JOSEF [email protected]

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characters to com-plicate and crowd Transcendencea soundly scepti-cal neurobiologist pal (Paul Bettany)

Now playingDirected by Wally Pfi ster

Canada's rich regional variations on the hoser-buddy movie—Fubar's

head-banging Terry and Dean, boozer-bros Bob and Doug Mackenzie, the teammates of Les Boys—fi zzle out east with what should be (but isn't) the smoked-out spli -end of a cult Nova Scotia mockumentary series. Trailer Park Boys: Don't Legalize It jags and lags, o ering no buzz at all to its trips into road-movie, bromance and stoner-comedy territory.

Bud buddies Julian (John Paul Trem-blay), Ricky (Robb Wells), and Bubbles (Mike Smith), out of jail, gather at the local dump to mourn Ricky's father. But Julian's into the drug-piss trade (getting clean urine samples so people can cheat their tests), Ricky's growing dope in a subdivision and Bubbles lives a cramped existence under J-Roc's (Jona-than Torrens) stoop ... when he's not

biking around Sunnyvale Trailer Park to sell chicken, beers and smokes. But when Ricky hears of the government's plans to legalize pot, Julian has to make a delivery of his bladder bottles and Bubbles gets word his parents died, leaving him their estate, the trio reunite for a trip to Ottawa via Montréal and Kingston. They're pursued by nemesis Lahey (John Dunsworth) and his gut-baring crony Randy (Patrick Roach).

When scenes aren't stilted, they're not funny, either; there's nothing in-teresting about the mockumentary style here. Scenes spin their wheels and the plot goes nowhere fast, dis-appearing into a white-out of con-frontations and male posturing. The story's beats—the truth of Bubbles' inheritance; Julian getting ripped o ; the three Dartmouth amigos becom-

ing best buds again—are hit so pre-dictably, they may as well be tinny-sounding rimshots. Ricky's climactic speech is especially amateurish, com-ing o as a disjointed diatribe about 4/20 pot pride that's less logical and articulate than most online comment-board rants. And there's nothing big-screen about a single shot here.

It's all a rather genial, homegrown failure at a scheming-and-conning crop of a comedy. Only fi sh-bowl-spectacled Bubbles and white wanna-be gangsta J-Roc are amusing; there's poignancy in a few scenes with Bub-bles, whom Smith manages to push beyond caricature. But from the fi rst pu to the last toke, this played-out product's about as stale and low as a cheaply manufactured high can go. BRIAN [email protected]

Trailer Park BoysREVUE // CAN-COM

Now playingDirected by Mike Clattenburg

CAPITOL THEATRE–Fort Edmonton

Fort Edmonton Park, fortedmontonpark.ca THE PUBLIC ENEMY (STC) THU, APR 24

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (STC) THU, MAY 1 S

CHABA THEATRE–JASPER

6094 Connaught Dr Jasper, 780.852.4749 DRAFT DAY (PG coarse language) FRI-SAT 7:00, 9:05; SUN-THU 8:00; SAT-SUN 1:30

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (14A sexual content, coarse lang) FRI-SAT 9:05; SUN-THU 8:00

RIO 2 (G) FRI-SAT 6:50, 9:20; SUN-THU 8:00; FRI-SUN 1:30; FRI 7:00; SAT 1:30, 7:00; SUN 1:30

CINEMA CITY MOVIES 125074-130 Ave 780.472.9779

FROZEN (G) FRI-SUN, TUE 1:30; 3D: DAILY 4:00, 6:45, 9:15

ROBOCOP (PG coarse language, violence, not rec for young child) FRI-SUN, TUE 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00; MON, WED-THU 4:30, 7:20, 10:00

RIDE ALONG (PG violence, coarse language) FRI-SUN, TUE 1:55, 4:25, 7:30, 9:55; MON, WED-THU 4:25, 7:30, 9:55

THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) FRI-SUN, TUE 1:20, 3:55, 6:35, 9:10; MON, WED-THU 3:55, 6:35, 9:10

THE NUT JOB (G) FRI-SUN, TUE 1:10; 3D: FRI-SUN, TUE 3:10, 5:10, 7:20, 9:30; MON, WED-THU 4:10, 6:40, 9:10

POMPEII (14A) FRI-SUN, TUE 1:50, 4:10, 6:45, 9:15; MON, WED-THU 4:10, 6:45, 9:15

3 DAYS TO KILL (14A) FRI-SUN, TUE 1:35, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45; MON, WED-THU 4:15, 7:00, 9:45

THE WIND RISES (PG) FRI-SUN, TUE 1:15, 4:05, 6:40, 9:20; MON, WED-THU 4:05, 6:40, 9:20

LE WEEK-END (14A coarse language) FRI-SUN, TUE 1:45, 4:20, 7:25, 9:50; MON, WED-THU 4:20, 7:25, 9:50

2 STATES (PG) Hindi W/E.S.T. FRI-SUN, TUE 1:25, 5:00, 8:30; MON, WED-THU 5:00, 8:30

JATT JAMES BOND (STC) Punjabi W/E.S.T. FRI-SUN, TUE 2:15, 5:15, 9:15; MON, WED-THU 5:15, 9:15

DISCO SINGH (PG) Punjabi W/E.S.T. FRI-SUN, TUE 2:00, 5:30, 9:00; MON, WED-THU 5:30, 9:00

CINEPLEX MANNING TOWN CENTRE15531-37 St

THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN 2 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young child) THU 7:00, 10:15

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (PG violence, not rec for young child) FRI-SUN 2:00, 5:00, 8:30; MON, WED-THU 8:30; TUE 8:35; 3D: FRI-SUN 12:30, 3:40, 6:40, 10:00; MON-THU 6:40, 10:00

RIO 2 (G) Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:10, 6:20; MON-WED 6:45; 3D: FRI-SUN 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40; MON, WED-THU 7:00, 9:40; TUE 6:50, 9:40

TRANSCENDENCE (PG violence) FRI-SUN 1:10, 4:10, 7:20, 10:10; MON-WED 7:20, 10:10; THU 7:20, 10:10

HEAVEN IS FOR REAL (PG) FRI-SUN 1:30, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30; MON-THU 6:50, 9:30

THE QUIET ONES (14A frightening scenes) FRI-SUN 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20; MON-THU 7:30, 10:20

TRAILER PARK BOYS: DON'T LEGALIZE IT (18A substance abuse) FRI-SUN 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:10, 10:30; MON, THU 7:40, 10:15; Tue 7:45, 10:20; WED 7:40, 10:10

THE QUIET ONES (14A frightening scenes) FRI-SUN 1:20, 3:50, 7:10, 9:50; MON-THU 7:10, 9:50

OCULUS (14A violence, frightening scenes) FRI-MON, WED 9:10; TUE 9:25

GOD'S NOT DEAD (PG) FRI-SUN 12:50, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20; MON-THU 6:30, 9:20

CINEPLEX ODEON NORTH14231-137 Ave 780.732.2236


CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (PG violence, not rec for young child) DAILY 12:40, 3:40, 6:45, 9:50; 3D: DAILY 1:10, 4:15, 7:20, 10:25

DIVERGENT (PG violence) DAILY 12:50, 3:55, 7:10, 10:20

BEARS (G) DAILY 12:15, 2:10, 4:20, 6:20, 8:30

NOAH (PG violence, disturbing content, not rec for young child) FRI-WED 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:40; THU 12:30, 3:30

RIO 2 (G) FRI, SUN 12:00, 1:20; SAT 11:10, 12:00, 1:20; MON-THU 12:20, 1:20; 3D: DAILY 4:00, 6:40, 9:10

TRANSCENDENCE (PG violence) FRI-TUE, THU 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15; WED 4:40, 7:30, 10:15; Star & Strollers: WED 1:00

HEAVEN IS FOR REAL (PG) DAILY 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10

THE OTHER WOMAN (14A crude content) THU 6:50, 9:30; FRI, SUN-WED 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30; SAT 11:00, 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30; THU 1:30, 4:10

THE QUIET ONES (14A frightening scenes) FRI 1:00, 3:20, 5:50, 8:20, 10:40; SAT 1:00, 3:30, 5:50, 8:20, 10:40; SUN, TUE-THU 1:00, 3:20, 5:50, 8:15, 10:40; MON 1:00, 3:20, 8:00, 10:40

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (14A sexual content, coarse lan-guage) FRI-TUE, THU 2:00, 7:00; WED 7:00; Star & Strollers: WED 1:00

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: COSÏ FAN TUTTE (Clas not avail) SAT 10:55

TRAILER PARK BOYS: DON'T LEGALIZE IT (18A substance abuse) FRI-SUN 2:30, 5:30, 8:10, 10:35; MON-THU 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 10:35

THE QUIET ONES (14A frightening scenes) DAILY 4:30, 9:20

OCULUS (14A violence, frightening scenes) FRI, SUN, TUE-THU 2:20, 5:20, 8:00, 10:30; SAT 3:20, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45; MON 2:20, 5:20, 10:30

BRICK MANSIONS (PG violence, coarse language) FRI 1:40, 3:50, 6:10, 8:30, 10:45; SAT 11:20, 1:40, 3:50, 6:10, 8:30, 10:45; SUN-THU 1:40, 3:50, 6:05, 8:25, 10:40

SUPER DUPER ALICE COOPER (14A coarse language) MON 7:00

ICE AGE: THE MELTDOWN (PG) SAT 11:00

CINEPLEX ODEON SOUTH1525-99 St 780.436.8585

THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN 2 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young child) THU 7:15, 10:25; THU 7:00, 10:20

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (PG violence, not rec for young child) FRI 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10; SAT 12:50, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10; SUN 12:10, 3:35, 6:35, 9:35; MON-WED 3:30, 6:40, 9:40; THU 3:30; 3D: FRI-SAT 1:20, 4:30, 7:40, 10:50; SUN 1:20, 4:25, 7:25, 10:30; MON-WED 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 10:05; THU 12:55, 4:05; 3D: THU 6:40, 9:40

THE LEGO MOVIE (G) FRI-SUN 12:05; MON-THU 1:05; 3D: FRI-SAT 2:35; SUN 2:30; MON-THU 3:35

DIVERGENT (PG violence) FRI 12:35, 3:45, 6:55, 10:05; SAT 12:35, 3:45, 6:50, 10:05; SUN 12:35, 3:40, 6:45, 9:50; MON-THU 1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15

BEARS (G) FRI-SAT 12:00, 2:05, 4:10, 6:20, 8:20, 10:25; SUN 1:25, 3:30, 5:35, 7:40, 9:45; MON-THU 1:50, 3:55, 6:00, 8:10, 10:10

NOAH (PG violence, disturbing content, not rec for young child) FRI-SAT 1:05, 4:15, 7:20, 10:35; SUN 1:05, 4:10, 7:15, 10:20; MON-THU 2:45, 6:20, 9:25

RIO 2 (G) FRI 1:45, 4:25; SAT 11:10, 1:45, 4:25; SUN 1:35, 4:10; MON-THU 1:15, 3:45; 3D: FRI 11:55, 2:30, 5:05, 7:35, 10:15; SAT 2:30, 5:05, 7:35, 10:15; SUN 2:05, 4:45, 7:15, 9:50; MON-TUE, THU 1:40, 4:20, 7:15, 9:50; WED 1:40, 9:50

TRANSCENDENCE (PG violence) FRI 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30; SAT 11:15, 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30; SUN 1:40, 4:35, 7:20, 10:05; MON-THU 1:30, 4:25, 7:10, 10:00

HEAVEN IS FOR REAL (PG) FRI-SAT 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:45, 10:20; SUN 12:20, 2:50, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25; MON-THU 1:45, 4:20, 7:35, 10:00

THE OTHER WOMAN (14A crude content) THU 7:30, 10:05; FRI-SAT 12:00, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40; SUN 12:00, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20; MON-WED 1:50, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10; THU 1:50, 4:25

THE QUIET ONES (14A frightening scenes) FRI-SAT 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:20; SUN 12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 10:15; MON-WED 1:55, 4:40, 7:20, 9:50; THU 1:55, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (14A sexual content, coarse language) FRI-SAT 12:30, 3:00, 5:25, 7:55, 10:30; SUN 12:55, 4:30, 7:05, 9:30; MON-THU 2:25, 4:55, 7:25, 9:55


TRAILER PARK BOYS: DON'T LEGALIZE IT (18A substance abuse) FRI-SAT 1:00, 3:25, 5:50, 8:10, 10:50; SUN 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00; MON-WED 1:35, 4:15, 6:45, 9:20; THU 4:15, 6:45, 9:20; Star & Strollers: THU 1:00

THE QUIET ONES (14A frightening scenes) FRI-SAT 5:25, 8:05, 10:40; SUN 5:00, 7:35, 10:10; MON-WED 6:25, 9:15

OCULUS (14A violence, frightening scenes) FRI 12:25, 3:05, 5:35, 8:15, 10:45; SAT 5:35, 8:15, 10:45; SUN 5:25, 8:00, 10:30; MON-WED 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30; THU 2:00, 4:45, 9:45

THE RAID 2: BERANDAL (18A gory brutal violence) FRI-SAT 6:55, 10:10; SUN 6:40, 9:55; MON-WED 6:15, 9:45

THE PRINCESS BRIDE (PG) SUN 12:45

BRICK MANSIONS (PG violence, coarse language) FRI-SAT 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20, 10:45; SUN 12:50, 3:05, 5:30, 7:55, 10:15; MON-WED 1:25, 3:50, 6:35, 9:35; THU 3:50, 7:05, 9:35; Star & Strollers: THU 1:00


NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: KING LEAR (Clas not avail) THU 7:00

CINEPLEX ODEON WINDERMERE CINEMAS

Cineplex Odeon Windermere, 6151 Currents Dr, 780.822.4250

THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN 2 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young child) VIP 18+: THU 8:00; 3D: THU 7:00

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER 3D (PG violence, not rec for young child) VIP 18+ FRI 6:30, 10:00; Sat 2:00, 5:30, 9:00; SUN 1:00, 4:30, 8:00; MON-WED 7:45; THU 9:00; 3D: FRI 4:00, 7:10, 10:20; Sat 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20; SUN 12:30, 3:40, 6:45, 10:00; MON-WED 6:45, 9:50; THU 6:45, 9:50

DIVERGENT (PG violence) FRI 7:20; SAT 12:30, 6:50; SUN 12:40, 7:00; MON-WED 6:50

NOAH (PG violence, disturbing content, not rec for young child) FRI 3:50, 10:30; SAT 3:40, 10:00; SUN 3:50, 10:10; MON-WED 10:00

RIO 2 (G) SAT 12:20; SUN 12:40; 3D: FRI 3:30, 6:10, 8:50; SAT 2:55, 5:40, 8:15, 10:45; SUN 3:15, 6:00, 8:40; MON-WED 7:00, 9:35; THU 6:50, 9:30

TRANSCENDENCE (PG violence) FRI 4:20, 7:30, 10:45; SAT 1:10, 4:10, 7:20, 10:10; SUN 1:10, 4:00, 7:10, 10:05; MON-THU 6:40, 9:45VIP 18+: FRI 5:30, 8:45; SAT 3:00, 6:30, 9:45; SUN 3:00, 6:30, 9:50; MON-WED 8:45

THE OTHER WOMAN (14A crude content) FRI 3:40, 6:30, 9:15; SAT 12:00, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40; SUN 12:50, 3:30, 6:10, 9:00; MON-THU 6:35, 9:20; VIP 18+: FRI 4:30, 7:30, 10:45; SAT 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:30; SUN 2:00, 5:30, 9:00; MON-WED 6:45, 9:45; THU 7:00, 9:45

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (14A sexual content, coarse language) FRI 3:30, 6:20, 9:00; SAT 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:15; SUN 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 9:40; MON-THU 7:10, 9:40

TRAILER PARK BOYS: DON'T LEGALIZE IT (18A substance abuse) FRI 4:10, 6:45, 9:45; SAT 12:10, 2:45, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05; SUN 1:40, 4:15, 6:50, 9:30; MON-WED 7:20, 9:55; THU 7:30, 10:00

BRICK MANSIONS (PG violence, coarse language) FRI 4:30, 7:00, 9:30; SAT 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:10, 10:30; SUN 1:00, 3:20, 5:50, 8:15; MON-WED 7:00, 9:30; THU 7:20, 9:55

LANDMARK CINEMAS 9 CITY CENTRE10200-102 Ave, 780.421.7018

BRICK MANSIONS (PG violence, coarse language) FRI-SUN, TUE 12:10, 3:15, 7:10, 10:05; MON, WED-THU 3:15, 6:45, 9:45

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (PG violence, not rec for young child) DAILY 3:45; 3D: FRI-SUN, TUE 12:45, 3:45, 6:50, 9:55; MON, WED 6:50, 9:55

DOM HEMINGWAY (14A crude coarse language, sexual content) FRI-SUN, TUE 12:50, 3:50, 6:35, 9:35; MON, WED-THU 3:50, 6:35, 9:20

DRAFT DAY (PG coarse language) FRI-SUN, TUE 9:40; MON, WED 9:10

THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN 2 (PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young child) THU 7:00, 10:15

GOD'S NOT DEAD (PG) FRI-SUN, TUE 12:05, 3:10, 6:25, 9:40; MON, WED-THU 3:10, 6:20

NOAH (PG violence, disturbing content, not rec for young child) FRI-SUN, TUE 12:00, 3:00, 6:20, 9:20; MON, WED-THU 3:00, 9:00


THE OTHER WOMAN (14A crude content) FRI-SUN, TUE 12:20, 3:20, 7:00, 10:00; MON, WED-THU 3:20, 6:15, 10:00

THE QUIET ONES (14A frightening scenes) FRI-SUN, TUE 12:40, 3:40, 7:15, 9:50; MON, WED-THU 3:40, 7:05, 9:40

TRAILER PARK BOYS: DON'T LEGALIZE IT (18A substance abuse) FRI-SUN, TUE 1:00, 4:05, 7:20, 10:15; MON, WED-THU 4:05, 7:10, 9:50

TRANSCENDENCE (PG violence) FRI-SUN, TUE 12:30, 3:30, 6:45, 9:45; MON, WED-THU 3:30, 6:30, 9:30

ONE WEEK (PG coarse language) TUE 4:00

LANDMARK CINEMAS 10 CLAREVIEW 4211-139 Ave, 780.472.7600

300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE 3D (18A gory brutal violence) FRI-SUN 9:20; MON-THU 8:50

A FIGHTING MAN (14A) FRI 7:05, 9:35; SAT-SUN 12:00, 3:00, 7:05, 9:35; MON-THU 6:35, 9:05

BEARS (G) FRI 6:45, 9:00; SAT-SUN 12:05, 2:45, 6:45, 9:00; MON-THU 6:30, 8:30

BHOOTHNATH RETURNS (PG) FRI 7:45; SAT-SUN 1:00, 4:30; MON-THU 7:15

BRICK MANSIONS (PG violence, coarse language) FRI 7:10, 9:45; SAT-SUN 12:20, 3:10, 7:10, 9:45; MON-THU 6:40, 9:15

DIVERGENT (PG violence) FRI 6:40, 9:40; SAT-SUN 12:15, 3:15, 6:40,

9:40; MON-THU 6:10, 9:10

THE LEGO MOVIE (G) SAT-SUN 2:45; 3D: FRI 6:55; SAT-SUN 12:05, 6:55; MON-THU 6:25

NEED FOR SPEED (PG not rec for young child) FRI-SUN 6:50, 9:40; MON-THU 6:20, 9:10

NOAH (PG violence, disturbing content, not rec for young child) FRI-SUN 6:35, 9:35; MON-THU 6:05, 9:05

MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN (G) SAT-SUN 2:55; 3D: SAT-SUN 12:00

SON OF GOD (14A brutal violence) FRI 6:30; SAT-SUN 12:10, 3:20, 6:30; MON-THU 6:00

MUPPETS MOST WANTED (G) SAT-SUN 12:10, 2:50

THE OTHER WOMAN (14A crude content) FRI 7:00, 9:45; SAT-SUN 12:30, 3:05, 7:00, 9:45; MON-THU 6:30, 9:15

THE RAID 2: BERANDAL (18A gory brutal violence) FRI-SUN 9:30; MON-THU 9:00

GALAXY–SHERWOOD PARK2020 Sherwood Dr Sherwood Park 780.416.0150


CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (PG violence, not rec for young child) FRI 6:20, 9:35; SAT-SUN 12:00, 3:10, 6:20, 9:35; MON-WED 7:10; 3D: FRI 4:00, 7:10, 10:20; SAT-SUN 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20; MON-THU 6:30, 9:40

DIVERGENT (PG violence) FRI 6:30, 9:45; SAT-SUN 12:05, 3:15, 6:30, 9:45; TUE-THU 6:40, 9:50

BEARS (G) FRI 4:40, 6:50, 9:00; SAT-SUN 12:10, 2:20, 4:40, 6:50, 9:00; MON-THU 7:25, 9:30

RIO 2 (G) SAT-SUN 11:50, 2:30; 3D: FRI-SUN 5:10, 7:50, 10:25; MON-THU 7:15, 9:55

TRANSCENDENCE (PG violence) FRI 3:45, 6:40, 9:40; SAT-SUN 12:40, 3:45, 6:40, 9:40; MON-THU 6:45, 9:35

HEAVEN IS FOR REAL (PG) FRI 5:00, 7:40, 10:15; SAT-SUN 11:45, 2:25, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15; MON-THU 7:20, 10:00

THE OTHER WOMAN (14A crude content) FRI 4:35, 7:20, 10:05; SAT-SUN 1:50, 4:35, 7:20, 10:05; MON-THU 7:00, 9:45

TRAILER PARK BOYS: DON'T LEGALIZE IT (18A substance abuse) FRI 4:30, 7:00, 9:30; SAT-SUN 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30; MON-THU 6:50, 9:20

BRICK MANSIONS (PG violence, coarse language) FRI 5:05, 7:30, 9:55; SAT-SUN 12:15, 2:35, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55; MON-THU 7:30, 10:00


GRANDIN THEATRE–ST ALBERT Grandin Mall Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert,

780.458.9822DATE OF ISSUE ONLY: THU APR 24

TRANSCENDENCE (PG violence) DAILY 1:45 4:30 7:10 9:35

MR PEABODY AND SHERMAN (G) DAILY 12:55 2:45 4:35

DIVERGENT (PG violence) DAILY 6:40 9:20

MUPPETS MOST WANTED (G) DAILY 12:40 2:55 5:10

NON-STOP (PG coarse language, violence) DAILY 7:25 9:30

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER 3D (PG violence, not rec for young child) DAILY 1:15 4:00 6:50 9:25

RIO 2 (G) DAILY 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:05

METRO CINEMA AT THE GARNEAU Metro at the Garneau: 8712-109 St 780.425.9212

MAKE MINE LOVE GALA (PG) Signing In The Rain–Citadel: FRI 7:00

REELING: DANCE ON FILM SHORTS (STC) Mile Zero Dance: SAT 2:00; All Ages

FINDING VIVIAN MAIER (PG) SAT 4:00; all ages

IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (STC) SAT 7:00; MON 7:00

DANCE ON FILM SHORTS 2 (STC) Mile Zero Dance: SUN @ 2:00; All-Ages

THE MALTESE FALCON (STC) SUN 4:00; THU 9:15

SUNSET BLVD (STC) SUN 7:00; WED 7:00

THE GREAT BEAUTY (14A, nudity) Italian w/ English Sub-Titles SUN 9:15; MON 9:15; WED 9:15

FLASHDANCE (STC) Mile Zero Dance Party: TUE 7:00 LANDMARK 7–SPRUCE GROVE

130 Century Crossing, Spruce Grove 780.962.2332 BEARS (G) FRI, MON, WED-THU 6:45, 8:50; SAT-SUN, TUE 1:00, 3:00, 6:45, 8:50

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (PG violence, not rec for young child) SAT-SUN, TUE 3:40; 3D: FRI, MON, WED 6:50, 9:45; SAT-SUN, TUE 12:40, 6:50, 9:45; THU 6:30, 9:30

DIVERGENT (PG violence) FRI, MON, WED 6:30, 9:30; SAT-SUN, TUE 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30

HEAVEN IS FOR REAL (PG) FRI, MON, WED 7:10, 9:40; SAT-SUN, TUE 1:10, 4:00, 7:10, 9:40; THU 6:50, 9:10

THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN 2 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young child) 3D THU 7:00, 10:05

RIO 2 (G) SAT-SUN, TUE 4:10; 3D: FRI, MON, WED 6:40, 9:10; SAT-SUN, TUE 1:30, 6:40, 9:10; THU 6:20, 9:00

THE OTHER WOMAN (14A crude content) FRI, MON, WED 6:20, 9:00; SAT-SUN, TUE 12:45, 3:20, 6:20, 9:00; THU 7:10, 9:50

TRANSCENDENCE (PG violence) FRI, MON, WED 7:00, 9:50; SAT-SUN, TUE 12:50, 3:50, 7:00, 9:50; THU 6:40, 9:20

PRINCESS10337-82 Ave, 780.433.0728

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (14A sexual content, coarse lang)

FRI 6:50, 9:10; SAT-SUN 1:00, 3:15, 6:50 , 9:10; MON-THU 6:50, 9:10

THE LUNCHBOX (PG) FRI 6:55 & 9:05; SAT-SUN 2:00, 6:55, 9:05; MON-THU 6:55, 9:05

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The opening newsreel footage tells of an epidemic of prison riots across the US, and contains a stern message from Prison Association spokesman Richard A McGee about the lamen-table conditions that will continue to prompt such riots if le� unchanged. Opening a fi lm with real-life report-age was not uncommon in crime fi lms of the period, but Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954) was more grounded in reality than most: producer Walter Wanger had recently done time for shooting Jennings Lang, who had been having an a� air with Wanger's wife, the ac-tress Joan Bennett. Wanger received a light sentence, but those four months were more than enough to make him understand that the penal system was in appalling shape. Overcrowd-ing, underfunding and the place-ment of highly dangerous, mentally ill convicts in with regular o� enders were chief among the problems Wanger gained fi rst-hand knowledge of, though it's the unfair placement of prisoners in solitary confi nement, and the inhumane treatment received while there, that prompts the titular riot in this bleak, bracing, sometimes savage politically driven actioner. In the intervening 60 years things have only gotten worse. The same day that Riot comes out on DVD and BD from Criterion, PBS will broadcast a new documentary entitled Solitary Na-tion, which concerns the deep trauma su� ered from long-term placement in solitary, and the consequences for everyone, both inside and out.

Riot was directed by Don Siegel, a specialist in clean, male-centred, brutal thrillers, like The Big Steal (1949), Invasion of the Body Snatch-ers (1956), The Lineup (1958) and, most famously, Dirty Harry (1971). It was shot in Folsom Prison, cast with relative unknowns, kept on the cheap, though it doesn't look it. The scenes of violence are framed and

edited in such a way that nothing is lingered over yet everything looks like it really, really hurts. There's hardly what you could call a hero in the fi lm, but Dunn (Neville Brand), the convict who leads the riot and announces the prisoners demands—which just happen to match those repeatedly fi led by the prison's war-den—is an extremely compelling protagonist, not a good guy, but a guy giving a reasonably intelligent voice to a good cause, while the war-den (the wonderful character actor Emile Meyer) is a weary, hardboiled yet sympathetic fi gure caught be-tween a chaotic mutiny led by socio-paths and a greater authority willing to resort to violence, murder and trickery to restore an unsustainable veneer of order.

It all works best when most of the artifi ce is stripped down to a mini-mum. Herschel Burke Gilbert's mar-tial score is exciting, but it also gets in the way of what makes Siegel's work tick. For all its chaos, Riot in Cell Block 11 is in a sense a procedural, showing us step-by-step how a riot is staged, maintained and, fi nally, undone. It is thus never more riveting then when simply showing us action unimped-ed by style or fl ash. The convicts clamouring for better treatment in this fi lm are men with almost nothing le� to lose—"We're rotting to death," declares Dunn—men whose daily ex-istence has been reduced to numbing austerity. Riot does their story justice when it too feels austere, numb and scarily go-for-broke. V


FILM

Inside the big houseDon Siegel's prison fi lm lays out the making and breaking of a riot

ASPECT RATIO JOSEF BRAUN // [email protected]

While Kevin Saunderson has long been a fi gurehead of Detroit

techno, it's worth remembering that he is in fact a native New Yorker. He happened to be attending high school in Belleville, Michigan in the mid-80s when he met two fellow outsiders, Juan Atkins and Derrick May. Together, the trio began tinkering and performing—and what was once a fringe genre has become a global phenomenon.To so� en the edges of techno's futuristic philosophy and raw, pulsing, minimalist aesthetic, Saunderson has imbued it with a sense of soul as a DJ and producer. With in-fl uences ranging from Chaka Khan and Evelyn "Champagne" King to McFadden & Whitehead and Sister Sledge, along with DJs like the late Larry Levan, Saun-derson says New York grooves have al-ways been part of his palette."I wanted to do songs, with a groove, vocal and melodies, but I wanted songs that could be played in clubs," Saunder-son explains. "I wanted to be able to do di� erent mixes or remixes that could capture di� erent areas of the record or usage by the style or type of DJ." To that

end, he formed Innercity with Chicago vocalist Paris Grey in 1987 and achieved his greatest commercial success as re-sult."We got a lot of club play, but never that much radio—and that's specifi cally be-cause it was ahead of its time," he says. "But we barely hit the Top 40 in the US."Part of the problem, he says, was the

American label's misguided attempt to sell Innercity as a black group to a black audience. De-

spite techno being championed by three African-American men from Detroit, one of America's most important cities for black music, it likewise has never held a strong connection to black audi-ences. Hip hop, Saunderson says, spoke more to the black experience in mid-80s America."Hip hop was very street-related. It was easy for hip hop to take over. It was huge," he explains. "Techno wasn't even looked at as black music, especially by black youth. They would hear records from Europe and say, "Oh, that techno? That's not happening. We ain't into that, it's too fast, not funky enough, etc. "The European stu� sounded more

commercial, so it wasn't like our music," he continues. "Those DJs started brand-ing themselves here and getting sup-port from MTV … we didn't get that. We were only a handful of black artists making techno and house. It's disap-pointing that urban communities, espe-cially in America, got le� out. We kind of got lost in our culture, but it expanded throughout the world."

It has also expanded to many other places, like Alberta, where Saunderson is paying his fi rst visits to Edmonton and Calgary this month. For prairie electron-ic-music enthusiasts with techno bucket lists, the dates have been a long time coming. "As small as the world is, it's still pretty large," Saunderson says. "My early vision was for the whole world to hear this sound because I thought it was missing, but I'm glad because you still fi nd new territories and di� erent crowds that weren't ready fi ve years [ago], or even 20. Sometimes you're surprised at just how good those new places can be."Kevin Saunderson presents Innercity Bad Girls, a tribute to the late Donna Summer, is out this month.YURI [email protected]

26 MUSIC VUEWEEKLY APR 24 – APR 30, 2014

MUSIC MUSIC EDITOR : EDEN [email protected]

Sat, Apr 26 (7:30 pm)With the Johnny Clegg BandFestival Place, sold out

South African singer-songwriter Jesse Clegg got his start on the road at an early age. His father is Afro-pop musician Johnny Clegg, and Jesse spent the fi rst six years of his life on tour with him. Now he's embarking on his fi rst North American tour and will be sharing the stage with his father on select dates, including the one at Festival Place. Prior to the show, Jesse shared his soundtrack picks with Vue.

Jesse CleggOn the roadMorning: Kasabian. With their heavy electronic beats and edgy lyrics, this band makes great driv-ing music, especially when you are at the beginning of a long trip.

Noon: The Waterboys. This is a clas-sic band and one that I love listening to at any time of day. Their Celtic infl uences, jangling guitar and piano sounds, as well as Mike Scott's pro-found lyrics, make them perfect for losing yourself in thought while you stare out of the bus window, watch-ing all the towns pass you by.

Night: Bob Dylan. Dylan wrote songs about politics, people, places and events. His music is rooted in history and yet always maintains its universality. I like listening to his work at the end of a long day of travelling because, despite my own experiences on tour, I am al-ways linked to a greater context or group of people. His work gives me a sense of perspective and chal-lenges me to question my own po-sition within a place or culture. V

At homeMorning: De� ones. It's great to wake up to some alternative rock and De� ones are one of my all-time favourite bands. Their music gets me psyched and ready to take on the day.

Noon: José González. I really love this guy's voice and songwriting ideas. I listen to his music over the course of a day to chill out or to get perspective on things. He has an amazing soulfulness to his lyrics that really hits home.

Night: Radiohead are always a good op-tion. Every time you listen to this band, you hear something new in their song-writing or production ideas. They also encapsulate an interesting ambience that sets the mood for reflection on a the day's events.

Kevin SaundersonPREVUE // TECHNO

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First album When I was a kid, I would say aroung age eight or nine, I bought the Paula Abdul cassette, as well as C&C Mu-sic Factory and Mitsou. A few years a� er, at around 10 years old or so, I got the EMF tape, Jean Leloup and the Best of the Doors. These were my fi rst steps away from the pure poppy stu� . Then high school happened and things got crazy. I listened to a whole bunch of stu� . I remember at some point, the more obscure a band was, the more stoked I was.

First concertIt was the fi rst time Lollapalooza stopped in Montréal in 1994. I had just turned 15 and was pretty into al-ternative bands. I was excited to see Beastie Boys, Smashing Pumpkins and Boredoms. I will remember forever the Beastie Boys' mosh pit, which was also my fi rst mosh pit. It was pure insanity for me; imagine a 90-lb girl in a mosh pit of thousands of people—I loved it

so much! That day I got hooked on live concerts. The following years I would go see all the shows I could in my area. Being a minor, I couldn't see all the shows but I still managed to see one to two a month. It is funny to realize that 20 years later, my life still revolves around being at or doing live concerts. Even my day job is somewhat related to that. Thank-you, Lollapalooza, and sorry to the 13-year-old boys whom I sold some rolled tea ''joints'' to.

Last albumThe last two I got my hands on are Beastmilk, Climax, and Impure Wil-helmina, Black Honey. Both of these albums are amazing and I can't stop listening to them.

Last concertI went to see Topon (my better half and also band mate in Fuck the Facts) play a solo set. That was just a few days ago. The show was at a nice lit-tle café in Ottawa and was with two

other noise / ambient bands. Nowa-days I fi nd it refreshing to go see non-metal concerts. I am very fond of smaller venues and DIY spaces.

Favourite albumThere is not one album that sticks with me forever. I like certain albums a lot for a few years and then I don't have the same connection to them. The past years, Impure Whilhelmina has been one of my favourite bands, as well as Jérôme Minière

Favourite musical guilty pleasureListening to indie pop stations at my work when I have to do lots of com-puter stu� . It makes me type faster! I can work and not focus too much on the music and more on the work while still getting some tunes going. Funny enough my supervisor goes for techno to help his productivity; some of this ends up crossing over to my everyday music listening. That is how I discov-ered Santigold. She is pretty rad! V

Tue, Apr 29Filthy McNasty's, free

Answered by: Melanie Mongeon, vocalsHometown: Ottawa, ONGenre: MetalLastest album: Amer EPFun fact: The group originally started out as a solo project for guitarist Topon Das, and has existed in di� erent confi gurations since 1998.

Fuck the Facts

Homer, Mary Shelley and HP Love-cra� —do they ring a bell? If not,

they're the authors who wrote The Od-yssey, Frankenstein and The Shadow Out of Time, among numerous other infl uential literary works. They also happen to play a role in the inspiration behind Tribune's latest album, Tales. "I've always been a reader. The fi rst book I think I ever read was The Hob-bit," says lead vocalist Bryan Baker while en route to Aurora, ON for the next stop on the Vancouver-based metal group's current tour. "I do read more contemporary stu� as well, but I've always had a so� spot in my heart for old stories, mythology and that kind of stu� ."Although, this isn't the fi rst time lit-erature has made its way into Baker's lyrics—previous releases have usually had a reference in a line or two—it is the fi rst time Tribune has focused an entire album on one concept, an idea that formed a couple of years back a� er penning what is now the title track for the melodic yet darkly aggressive disc.

"It's all kind of dark stu� and I've al-ways really been attracted to dark art," Baker notes of the authors' re-spective oeuvres. "Maybe not Homer so much, although his stu� is certain-ly tragic. But Shelley and Lovecra� especially are very dark, just in terms of the tones in their stories. I've always like that kind of stu� and I'm sure anyone who's a big fan of heavy metal would concur there's something powerfully attractive to the dark side."

It's a little dangerous, Baker says, adding it's a natural attraction because the dark side is something that's so out-side of what we know in our day to day lives. Lovecra� 's work in particular is prevalent among metal bands and has been a strong infl uence on Baker. "It's certainly not the fi rst album of ours he's had an infl uence on—I mean, Lovecra� is heavy metal," he says, emphasizing his point by not-

ing Lovecra� 's work o� en focused on darkness and anger. Reminding new generations of these stories and fi gures is important, too. Not to mention, the fact reading can actually be kind of cool.

"It sort of feels like each genera-tion of metal mu-sicians has tried to do that in their

own way. You look back to the Mas-ter of Puppets album and there's some Lovecra� infl uence on that," Baker adds. "I think bands, especially within heavy metal, have always been trying to do that because, let's fact it, there is a certain amount of heavy metal fans that are, shall we say, sort of meat-headish. I think you always want to encourage young kids get-ting into metal to think, to keep us-ing their brains. Just because you're a metalhead doesn't mean you have to be a stereotypical one."MEAGHAN [email protected]

TribunePREVUE // METAL

like each genera-tion of metal mu-sicians has tried

Sun, Apr 27 (8 pm)Rendezvous Pub, $10

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MUSIC

The Good Lovelies have an unoffi -cial fourth band member on the

road these days—an 18-month-old little girl named Annabelle.

"We call her Annie. She's a good partner in crime," says her mom, Caro-line Brooks, who makes up the folk-roots trio alongside Kerri Ough and Sue Passmore. "She comes with us all the time. Her frequent-fl yer miles are quite impressive. She started touring with us when she was nine weeks and we have done a lot of shows since she was born, so well over 100 shows now. She also just came along to Australia with us, too, so she's a very well-travelled little soul—and extremely easy going. I'm very, very lucky I've been told."

It's got to the point that if Annie isn't at a show, something feels out of place because she keeps the ladies entertained backstage and on the long drives in between gigs.

"She just really brings a lot of joy to touring," Brooks adds, with An-nie's voice audible in the background over the phone. "We're pretty happy in general, but she also brings this extra layer of ridiculous laughter. She

just learned to say booger and we all fi nd it super entertaining ... it's going to get annoying pretty quick I'm sure, but right now it's pretty cute."

The Good Lovelies are about to hit the road again for an eight-show run that will take the ladies (plus a new touring upright bass player by the name of MJ Dandeneau of Oh My Darling) from Vancouver to Winni-peg—and, yes, Annie will be in tow.

Brooks admits she doesn't fi nd balancing being a mom and a touring musician diffi cult, though, consider-

ing she's got help and support from her band mates.

"I was talking to Jill Barber re-cently about this because she's been touring with her little guy for a while now and it's pretty amazing because we get to spend basically the whole day with our kids. Unlike nine-to-fi vers who have to be away from their kiddos for eight hours a day we get to spend all day with them and we're away from them for sound check and the show and that's pretty much it," Brooks ex-plains. "I'm super lucky that I travel with women who are so supportive

... we also get to have an extended family in a way."

Of course, there's also the matter of promoting the band's live album, Live at Revolution, as well as some new material while on the road, too. The Good Lovelies plan to have a new al-bum out early next year and will be road testing a few of the new tunes, along with some new covers—past selections have included Leonard Co-hen's "Halelujah," and "Heebie Jeebies," a '40s tune that makes use of the la-dies' three-part harmonies.

"I think Kerri puts it really well: she has said to our audiences that it's fun to pick a cover because you can go outside your comfort zone in terms of the type of music that you're per-forming," Brooks says, noting a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Co-rin Raymond will be among the new batch. "We also do a song by Bruce Springsteen, which wouldn't neces-sarily be associated with a Good Love-lies sound, but it's nice when we're picking these songs that we have an opportunity to look at the song from our own vantage point—we like to joke that we "Good Lovelify" it." MEAGHAN [email protected]

The Good LoveliesPREVUE // FOLK-ROOTS

Brooks admits she doesn't fi nd balancing being a mom and a touring musician diffi cult, though, consider-

Sat, Apr 26 (7:30 pm)With Beth PortmanHorizon Stage, sold out

Lovely, just lovely.

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SUNPARLOUR PLAYERSW/ THE FORTUNATE ONES, AND WHISKEY SHEIKHS

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'I have the least amount of 20s angst that I have had, probably,"

says folk-pop singer-songwriter Jor-dan Klassen, whose most recent al-bum, Repentance, was inspired by the coming-of-age decade, and the highs and lows that come with it.

Klassen just turned 29, so he's get-ting near the end of the tumultuous and uncertain phase, one that the thoughtful prose in his lyrics com-pares to spring, a season in which the ugliness is replaced with new, beauti-ful growth.

"I think the questions of life are not small ones, at least for me it was my 20s that I kind of had to ask them and I don't know, just a lot of unsuredness for me, too," Klassen recalls. "Being raised with a faith and fi guring that out—that was years. Who are you and who do you want to be and who do you want to marry and all those things. To me it's just very chaotic."

He can't pinpoint exactly what caused the angst to subside and what it took for him to reach the state of content-

ment he's at right now, but admits it's been a long process of learning who he was—a journey that's subjective for everyone and can't be forced, no matter how hard you try.

"One morning you wake up and you're like, I'm in a lot less of a panic than I was fi ve years ago, you know?" he says.

Repentance serves as a comfort of sorts to the "Peter Pan generation," one that doesn't quite seem to know how to grow up. Klassen is quick to note he does love his generation and isn't "anti-milennial" by any means, but he does think it's a generation that's had it pretty darn good.

"We haven't really been through a lot of darkness like I think a lot of other generations have. Everything is very convenient for us and because everything is so good I think there are just so many options open," he muses. "I remember reading this Sylvia Plath poem and she was talking about how she had this dream where she was

looking at this fi g tree and she was trying to decide which fi g to eat, but as she stood there pondering, all the fi gs dried up and fell to the ground, and I think it's like that. I think that we have so many options and so little clear conscience as a society as to who people are. You're allowed to be whoever you want to be and you can be whatever you can to be, and then you're just kind of stuck there going, 'Well, what do I do now?'"

Entering his 30s is slightly terrifying, Klassen says, but he was more scared of it in previous years, buying into the ageism of our society and the notion that youth is ideal. It was actually 27, however, that was the roughest year for him.

"It just felt old. It's also the age that all the famous rock stars died and they had already accomplished

so much," Klassen adds, referencing the infamous 27 Club whose mem-bers include Kurt Cobain and Jimi

Hendrix. "It just felt like an age that you should have a solid career and should be making good money or something."

Although, Klassen's doing well for himself these days as he continues to tour Repentance and work towards his next album—although, he's not sure that the seasonal theme will stick.

"I recorded Repentance actually in 2011, so it's been a lot of time for me and what I listen to has changed," he explains, ticking o� Haim, the Nation-al and High Violet as examples. "I'm not as into kind of like quirky pop and I just want to make something a bit more serious, I think." MEAGHAN [email protected]

PREVUE // FOLK-POP

so much," Klassen adds, referencing the infamous 27 Club whose mem-bers include Kurt

Wed, Apr 30 (8 pm)Artery, $12 (advance), $15 (door)

Jordan Klassen BMBSHL / THU, APR 24 (9 PM) Brenna MacQuarrie—that's BMB-SHL to you and I—spent the bet-ter part of last summer holed up in her basement tinkering with melodies on her laptop. It turned out to be time well spent, be-cause the electro-pop songstress is releasing her self-titled debut album. (The Common)

THE MOTORLEAGUE / FRI, APR 25 (8 PM) Sure, the rock four-piece is playing in support of its 2013 release Ac-knowledge, Acknowledge, but have you checked out the Taco Thursday section on its website? The Mo-torleague's had some interesting culinary adventures, that's for sure. (Pawn Shop, $10)

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THU APR 24ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE Live Music every Thu; this week: Alexander Michael Leggett

ARTERY Miss Quincy (CD release, alt blues rock), guest; 7:30pm; $8 (adv)/$10 (door)

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Fred Larose Song Writer's Evening; 7pm (door); no cover

BLUES ON WHYTE Reverend Raven and the Chain Smokin Altar Boys

BRITTANY'S Michael Chenoweth (acoustic tribute to the greatest folk-blues singer-songwriters of the twentieth century); every Thu, 8-11pm; $8

CAFÉ HAVEN Music every Thu: this week: Crowded City Skyline; 7pm

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Thu Open Mic: All adult performers are welcome (music, song, spoken word); every Thu, 1:30-3pm

CHA ISLAND TEA CO Bring Your Own Vinyl Night: Every Thu; 8pm-late; Edmonton Couchsur�ng Meetup: Every Thu; 8pm

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EXPRESSIONZ Open Stage hosted by Dr Oxide; 1st Thu each month, 7:30pm-10:30pm

J R BAR Live Jam Thu; 9pm

JEFFREY'S Mars Hill Trio (instrumental guitar trio); 8pm; $10

KELLY'S Jameoke Night with the Nervous Flirts (sing-along with a live band); every Thu, 9pm-1am; no cover

L.B.'S Thu open stage: the New Big Time with Rocko Vaugeois, friends; 8-12

LIVE AT SLY'S–THE RIG Every Thu Jam hosted by Lorne Burnstick; 8pm-12am

NAKED CYBERCAFÉ Thu open stage; 8pm; all ages (15+)

NORTH GLENORA HALL Jam by Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu; contact John Malka 780.447.5111

RED PIANO Every Thu: Dueling pianos at 8pm

RICHARD'S PUB Blue Thursdays (roots); hosted by Gord Matthews; 6:30-9pm

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

SHERLOCK HOLMES–DT Joanne Janzen

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U of A Amy Weymes

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Party Hog

SMOKEHOUSE BBQ Live Blues every Thur: rotating guests; 7-11pm

STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION Jump Ya Bones Tour: Ninjaspy, Samandriel, Grounded Star

TAVERN ON WHYTE Open stage with Micheal Gress (fr Self Evolution); every Thu; 9pm-2am

WUNDERBAR The Sweathearts, Master Splinter, the Chokeouts, Kicked Out

YARDBIRD The Music of Celebration–The Music of Exile: Gateway Big Band (directed by Allen Jacobsen), with Reckie Loyd (percussion); 7:30pm (door); 8pm (show); $15 (adult)/$10 (student)

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DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Thu Main Fl: Throwback Thu:

Rock&Roll, Funk, Soul, R&B and 80s with DJ Thomas Culture; jamz that will make your backbone slide; Wooftop: Dig It! Thursdays. Electronic, roots and rare groove with DJ's Rootbeard, Raebot, Wijit and guests

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

THE COMMON Uncommon Thursday: Rotating Guests each week!

FILTHY MCNASTY’S Taking Back Thursdays

KRUSH ULTRA Open stage; 7pm; no cover

LEVEL 2 Funk Bunker Thursdays

ON THE ROCKS Salsa Rocks: every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; Cuban Salsa DJ to follow

OUTLAWS ROADHOUSE Wild Life Thursdays

UNION HALL 3 Four All Thursdays: rock, dance, retro, top 40 with DJ Johnny Infamous

FRI APR 25APEX CASINO Colleen Rae; 9pm

ARTERY Greg MacPherson (alt rock), The Rick Reid Band, guests; 8pm; $15 (adv) /$18 (door)

ATLANTIC TRAP AND GILL Dirty Seas

AVENUE THEATRE Element Orange (alt rock), the Wisers, Call Apollo, guests; 8pm (door); $12 (adv)/$14 (day of)

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Mike Clark Band; 7pm (door); $10

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Justine Vandergrift Band, Erin Faught; 8:30pm; $10

BLUES ON WHYTE Reverend Raven and the Chain Smokin' Altar Boys

BOHEMIA Diatessaron, Jindalee, the Whiskey Sheikhs, You Are An Explorer; 9pm; $5 (door)

BOURBON ROOM Dueling pianos every Fri Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 8pm

BRITTANY'S Jazz evening every Fri after work; 5-8pm

BRIXX BAR The River and the Road, Towers and Trees, Our Good Wolf; 9pm

CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK Green Eyed Blonde

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Live music every Fri: Jim Penny; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door)

CASINO EDMONTON The Oddibles (rock); 9pm

CASINO YELLOWHEAD Nervous Flirts (Jameoke, Karaoke with a band); 9pm

CENTURY CASINO Harlequin; $29.95

CKUA PERFORMANCE SPACE Live Broadcasts: The Celtic Show featuring the Beautiful Hearts; 6-9pm

DUGGAN'S Andrew Scott

DV8 Micelli, Math Debate, Power Buddies with Johnny 2 Fingers and the Deformities; 8pm

J+H PUB Every Friday: Headwind and friends (vintage rock 'n' roll); 9:30pm; no minors, no cover

JEFFREY'S Trio Bembe (Latin); 9pm; $s10

LIVE AT SLY'S–THE RIG Wayne Allchin Band; 9pm-1am

MERCURY ROOM/BLUE SKYS Jimmy Wiffen Band; 7:30-10pm; $15 (adv)/$18 (door); kids under 12 free

NEWCASTLE PUB Sophie and the Shuf�ehounds; 9pm; no cover

NOORISH CAFÉ Kevin Marsh; 7-9:30pm

O'MAILLE'S Dwayne Allen; no cover

ON THE ROCKS Rock ‘N’ Hops Kitchen Party: Noize Boyz with DJs

OVERTIME Sherwood Park

Jason Greeley and Johnny Quickstad (guitar duo); 9pm-2am; no cover

PAWN SHOP Sonic Band of the Month: Russ Dawson (pop), Pistols at 20 Paces, Motorleague, Royal Tusk; 8pm (door); $10 (adv)

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

RENDEZVOUS Crash Titan-Diabolikal; 8pm




SIDELINERS South of Sanity; 9pm; no cover

STARLITE ROOM The Todd James Band featuring Chantal Burn and Hammered by Sound; 8:30pm; $10

STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION Dayglo Abortions, Bogue Brigade, Knuckledown, the Hippie Critz

TIRAMISU BISTRO Live music every Fri; 7pm

WUNDERBAR Rude Nite Out Act II

YARDBIRD International Jazz Series: from Seattle/Los Angeles: Dave Peck Trio; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $22 (member)/$26 (guest)

Classical FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Royal Canadian College of Organists, Edmonton: Organ in Concert Series: Tim Pyper (organ); 8pm; $25 (adult)/$22 (senior)/$15 (student) at TIX on the Square, door

GRANT MACEWAN ALBERTA COLLEGE CAMPUS Kiwanis Music Festival

WINSPEAR CENTRE ESO: The Cocktail Hour: Music of the Mad Men Era: Steven Reineke (conductor), Ryan Silverman, Nikki Renée Daniels (vocals); 8pm

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every Friday DJs on all three levels

THE BOWER Strictly Goods: Old school and new school hip hop & R&B with DJ Twist, Sonny Grimez, and Marlon English; every Fri

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

DRUID DJ every Fri; 9pm

ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ every Fri

FLUID LOUNGE R&B, hip hop and dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Fri

MERCER TAVERN Homegrown Friday: with DJ Thomas Culture

RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie, rock, funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri

SET NIGHTCLUB NEW Fridays: House and Electro with Peep This, Tyler Collns, Peep'n ToM, Dusty Grooves, Nudii and Bill, and specials

SOU KAWAII ZEN Ampli�ed Fridays: Dubstep, house, trance, electro, hip hop breaks with DJ Aeiou, DJ Loose Beats, DJ Poindexter; 9:30pm (door)

SUITE 69 Release Your Inner Beast: Retro and Top 40 beats with DJ Suco; every Fri

UNION HALL Ladies Night every Fri

Y AFTERHOURS Foundation Fridays

SAT APR 26APEX CASINO Colleen Rae; 9pm

ATLANTIC TRAP AND GILL Dirty Seas

"B" STREET BAR Rockin Big Blues and Roots Open Jam: Every Sat afternoon, 2-6pm

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Afternoon: Blues Jam: with Rott'n Dan and Sean Stephens; complimentary bowl of chili; noon; no cover; Evening: Mike Clark Band; 7pm (door); $10

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair of the Dog: Lindsey Walker (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover

BLATCHFORD HANGAR–Fort Edmonton Park Rock the Fort: Totally Tom Petty host the Women of Rock; The Rock and Roll Society of Edmonton: Aerosmith Rocks, Punch Drunk Cabaret, Andrew Grose (comedy); 6pm (door), 7:30pm (music)

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Saturday Afternoons go Live!: World Music Brunch with the Hawaiian Dreamers, 1-3pm, donations; Evening: Kat Danser Trio featuring Dee Brown and Dale Marchand; 8:30pm; $20

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Sat Afternoon Jam: with Rott'n Dan and Sean Stephens, complimentary chili, noon, no cover

BLIND PIG Live jam every Sat; 3-7pm

BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Evening: Reverend Raven and the Chain Smokin Altar Boys

BOURBON ROOM Live Music every Sat Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 8pm

CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK Green Eyed Blonde

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat Open mic; 7pm; $2

CASINO YELLOWHEAD Nervous Flirts (Jameoke, Karaoke with a band); 9pm

CELLAR LOUNGE–Petroleum Club Jazz @ the Cellar: Edmonton Jazz Festival Society's Showcase of live jazz last Sat ea month; this month: Modo Trio, God Save the Trio; 8-11pm; $10 (adv at TIX on the Square)/$12 (door)

DUGGAN'S Andrew Scott

DV8 Hip Hop in the Park: DJ Baggylean, Doobyis, Jaze Dubya; live painting; 9pm; $10 (door) fundraiser for the HHITP Festival

FESTIVAL PLACE Johnny Clegg Band; sold out

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Free Afternoon Concerts: The Isotopes, Everyday Things, Change the Way; 4pm; no cover

GAS PUMP Saturday Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth

HILLTOP Open Stage, Jam every Sat; 3:30-7pm

HORIZON STAGE–Spruce Grove The Good Lovelies, Beth Portman; 7:30pm; $35 (adult)/$30 (student/senior)

IRISH SOCIETY Eric Martin; Rose of Tralee: Irish Club Function; $30 (meal, roses), music by Mark McGarrigle

JEFFREY'S The JQ (jazz) 9pm; $15

LEAF BAR Open Stage Sat–It 's the Sat Jam hosted by Darren Bartlett, 5pm; Evening: River Valley Search Party

LIVE AT SLY'S–THE RIG Wayne Allchin Band; 9pm-1am

LEGENDS Open mic and jam every Sat with Nick Samoil and the Kyler Schogen Band; 3-6pm

O’BYRNE’S Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm

O'MAILLE'S Dwayne Allen; no cover

ON THE ROCKS Noize Boyz with DJs

OVERTIME Sherwood Park

Jason Greeley and Johnny Quickstad (guitar duo); 9pm-2am; no cover

PAWN SHOP Ladyhawk 10th Anniversary (alt rock), Shotgun Jimmie, the Lad Mags, Stepmothers; 8pm (door); $12 (adv)

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

RICHARDS PUB The Terry Evans Sat Jam: every Sat; 4-8pm




STARLITE ROOM Early Show: Ironstorm (Wrathwind CD release), Mortillery, Gatekrashor, Bleed; 7pm; $10

BRIXX Late Show: Electric Religious, Until Red, Puttin' on the Foil, Big City Supreme; 9pm; $10

STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION Blues Legend Sonny Rhodes, Stephanie Harpe Experience, Boogie Patrol; 8pm

WUNDERBAR Messiahlator (metal punk), Chronobot, Slave Lake; 9pm (door); $8 (adv)/$10 (door)

YARDBIRD The Best Of Alberta Jazz Series: from Calgary/Edmonton–Double Bill: Joanna Borromeo and Nuela Charles; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $18 (member)/$22 (guest)


HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH ThingNY's This Takes Place Close By (contemporary opera); 7:30pm; $20 (adult)/$15 (student/senior)/$10 (NME member) at TIX on the Square, door

ROBERT TEGLER STUDENT CENTRE Jubiloso! Bells of Concordia Concert; 7:30pm

WINSPEAR CENTRE ESO: The Cocktail Hour: Music of the Mad Men Era: Steven Reineke (conductor), Ryan Silverman, Nikki Renée Daniels (vocals); 8pm

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

BOHEMIA DARQ Saturdays: Goth/Industrial/Electro hits with DJs Neo Zeo and the Gothfather; $5

THE BOWER For Those Who Know...: Deep House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests; every Sat

THE COMMON Get Down It's Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with resident Dane

DRUID DJ every Sat; 9pm

ENCORE–WEM Every Sat: Sound and Light show; We are Saturdays: Kindergarten

FLUID LOUNGE R&B, hip hop and dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Sat

LEVEL 2 Collective Saturdays underground: House and Techno

MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey Wong 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); 1st Sat each month

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

ROUGE Rouge Sat: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Mkhai

SET NIGHTCLUB SET Saturday Night House Party: With DJ Twix, Johnny Infamous

SOU KAWAII ZEN Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM Swing

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Dance Party: Sugar Swing Dance Club every Sat, 8-12; no experience or partner needed, beginner lesson followed by social dance; sugarswing.com

SUITE 69 Stella Saturday: retro, old school, top 40 beats with DJ Lazy, guests

TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul, Motown, Funk, R&B and more with DJs Ben and Mitch; every Sat; 9pm-2am

UNION HALL Celebrity Saturdays: every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous

Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

SUN APR 27ARTERY Afternoon: High Noon Brunch, live music; Evening: Trevor McNeely (EP release, folk rock), Lucas Chaisson, Alex Vissia; 7pm (door); $8 (adv)/$10 (door)

BAILEY THEATRE–Camrose The Bailey's Buckaroos Classic Country Extravaganza; 1pm (door), 2pm (show); $12 at Bailey box of�ce

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Sunday BBQ Jam: Hosted by Marshall Lawrence; 4-8pm; no cover

BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Sunday Brunch: Hawaiian Dreamers; 9am-3pm; donations

CHA ISLAND TEA CO Open mic with March Music Inc; Every Sun 7pm

CKUA PERFORMANCE SPACE Folk Routes: Kacy and Clayton; 10am-noon

DIVERSION Sun Night Live on the South Side: live bands; all ages; 7-10:30pm

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Celtic Music with Duggan's House Band 5-8pm; Late show: Sarah Smith

FESTIVAL PLACE Sherwood Park Music Festival Assoc presents the 2014 Grand Concert; 2pm; EVENING: Tilo Paiz and Friends; Supporting Blind Athletes; 7:30pm

HOG'S DEN Rockin' the Hog Jam: Hosted by Tony Ruffo; every Sun, 3:30-7pm

LIVE AT SLY'S–THE RIG Every Sun Jam hosted by Steve and Bob; 6-10pm

NEWCASTLE PUB The Sunday Soul Service: acoustic open stage every Sun

O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am

ON THE ROCKS Blues Night

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RENDEZVOUS Tribune; 8pm

R. OUSE HOUSE CONCERTS 100 Mile House; 7:30-10pm; $20 to artist

RICHARD'S PUB Sunday Country Showcase and jam (country) hosted by Darren Gusnowsky

RITCHIE UNITED CHURCH Jazz and Re�ections: Charlie Austin Trio3:30-5pm; silver collection at door

SHAW CONFERENCE CENTRE Ellie Goulding, Conway, Rudimental; 7pm (door)/8pm (show); $39.50 at livenation.com

SQUARE 1–Sherwood Park Kyler Schogen Band; 8pm

YARDBIRD Monday Night Big Band

Classical GRANT MACEWAN–Alberta College Campus Kiwanis Music Festival

OLD STRATHCONA PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE Cosmopolitan Chorus Concert with guest Robert Clark (tenor); 2:30pm; $10 (adv)/$12 (door)

ORTONA ARMOURY Chenoa Anderson (Krishna's Flute CD release), Ian Crutchley (electronics); 2:30-5pm; $20 (incl CD and reception)

ROBERTSON WESLEY UNITED CHURCH The Italian Masters: Alberta Baroque Ensemble featuring Robert Uchida (violin); 3pm; $25 (adult)/$20 (student/senior)/at Gramophone, TIX on the Square, door

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sundays: A fantastic voyage through '60s and '70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy

LEVEL 2 Stylus Industry Sundays: Invinceable, Tnt, Rocky, Rocko, Akademic, weekly guest DJs; 9pm-3am

MON APR 28 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover

BOURBON ROOM Bourbon Idol; 7pm

CKUA PERFORMANCE SPACE Roys’ Record Room: Spring Fundraiser edition of Roy's Record Room; 6-7pm

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Mon singer-songwriter night: hosted by Sarah Smith; 8pm

EMPRESS ALE HOUSE Hot Plains warm-up party: Camembert; 9pm

NEW WEST HOTEL Hurtin' Horsemen (country)

PLEASANTVIEW HALL Acoustic instrumental old time �ddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm; contact Vi Kallio 780.456.8510

ROUGE Open Mic Night with Darrek Anderson from the Guaranteed; every Mon; 9pm

STARLITE ROOM Unionevents.com: The 1975, guests; 7pm; $25 at Blackbyrd, Unionevents.com


DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay

DV8 T.F.W.O. Mondays: Roots industrial,Classic Punk, Rock, Electronic with Hair of the Dave

TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic Hip hop with DJ Creeazn every Mon; 9pm-2am

TUE APR 29BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Tue Jam with Big Dreamer; 7pm (door); no cover

BOHEMIA Andy Brown (folk pop), Tyler Butler; 8pm (door); $10 (adv)


DRUID Open Stage Tue; 9pm

L.B.'S Tue Variety Night Open stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm

LEAF BAR Tue Open Jam: Trevor Mullen

LIVE AT SLY'S–THE RIG Jam hosted by Rockin' Randy every Tue, 7-11pm

MANDOLIN BOOKS Jessica Post; 8pm

MERCER TAVERN Alt Tuesday with Kris Harvey and guests

NEW WEST HOTEL Tue Country Dance Lessons: 7-9pm; Hurtin' Horsemen (country)

O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Open Stage every Tue

RED PIANO Every Tue: the Nervous Flirts Jameoke Experience (sing-along with a live band); 7:30pm-12am; no cover; relaxed dress code

RICHARD'S PUB Tue Live Music Showcase and Open Jam (blues) hosted by Mark Ammar; 7:30pm

ROSE AND CROWN Sarah Smith

SANDS HOTEL Country Western Dance featuring Country Music Legend Bev Munro; every Tue, 8-11pm

SHERLOCK HOLMES–DT The Derina Harvey Band

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Mike Letto

YARDBIRD Tue Session: Dave Babcock Quartet; 7:30pm (door)/8pm (show); $5


DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: alternative retro and not-so-retro, electronic and Euro with Eddie Lunchpail; Wooftop: The Night with No Name featuring DJs Rootbeard, Raebot, Wijit and guests playing tasteful, eclectic selections

BRIXX Metal night every Tue

DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly, Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue

RED STAR Experimental Indie rock, hip hop, electro with DJ Hot Philly; every Tue

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

WED APR 30ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12

ARTERY Jordan Klassen (singersongwriter, alt pop), guests; 8pm (door); $12 (adv)/$15 (door)

AVENUE THEATRE Andrew Allen (pop), guests; 6pm (door); $12 (adv)/$15 (day of)

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Robbie's Reef Break Wed: Host Rob Taylor with guests every Wed, 7-10pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Glitter Gulch: live music once a month: Brass Buttons; 9pm; On the Patio: Funk and Soul with Doktor

Erick every Wed; 9pm;


BRITTANY'S Jazz evening every Wed; 8-11pm

DUGGAN'S Wed open mic with host Duff Robison

ELEPHANT AND CASTLE–Whyte Ave Open mic every Wed (unless there's an Oilers game); no cover

LIVE AT SLY'S–THE RIG Open jam every Wed hosted by Will Cole; 7-11pm

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

NEW WEST HOTEL Hurtin' Horsemen (country)

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

PLEASANTVIEW HALL Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:30-11pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member)

RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5

SHERLOCK HOLMES–DT The Derina Harvey Band

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U of A Rob Taylor

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Mike Letto

WUNDERBAR Mitchmatic, Sam the Living, Ghost Cousin

ZEN LOUNGE Jazz Wednesdays: Kori Wray and Jeff Hendrick; every Wed; 7:30-10pm; no cover


DJs BILLIARD CLUB Why wait Wednesdays: Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: RetroActive Radio: Alternative '80s and '90s, post punk, new wave, garage, Brit, mod, rock and roll with LL Cool Joe

BRIXX Eats and Beats

THE COMMON The Wed Experience: Classics on Vinyl with Dane

NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed

RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed

ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave AVENUE THEATRE 9030-118 Ave, 780.477.2149 "B" STREET BAR 11818-111 St BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES 12402-118 Ave BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku 2110 Sparrow Dr, Nisku, 780.986.8522BLIND PIG 32 St Anne St, 780.418.6332 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BOURBON ROOM 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; [email protected]'S LOUNGE 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011BRIXX 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523CAFÉ TIRAMISU 10750-124 St CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood ParkCARROT 9351-118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464-

153 St, 780.424 9467 CELLAR LOUNGE–Lower Level Edmonton Petroleum Club 11110-108 St CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 COMMON 9910-109 StDIVERSION LOUNGE 3414 Gateway Blvd, 780.435.1922DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8130 Gateway BlvdEARLY STAGE– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, 780.963.5998 ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, 780.962.1411 ELEPHANT AND CASTLE–Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave ENCORE–WEM 2687, 8882-170 St EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ 9938-70 Ave, 780.437.3667 FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 10025-105 St FLUID LOUNGE 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 GRANT MACEWAN–Alberta College Campus 10050 Mac-Donald Dr HILLTOP 8220 106 Ave

HOGS DEN Yellow Head Tr, 142 St HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH 10037-84 Ave HORIZON STAGE–Spruce Grove1001 Calahoo RdIRISH SPORTS CLUB 12546-126 St, 780.453.2249 J+H PUB 1919-105 St J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JAVA XPRESS 110, 4300 South Park Dr, Stony Plain, 780.968.1860 JEFFREY’S 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 KELLY'S 10156-104 St L.B.’S 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 LEGENDS 9221-34 Ave, 780.988.2599LEVEL 2 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR 10132-104 StLIVE AT SLY'S–THE RIG 15203 Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.0869MANDOLIN BOOKS 6419-112 Ave MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 AveNOORISH CAFÉ 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535-109A Ave

O2'S–West 11066-156 St, 780.448.2255O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766OLD STRATHCONA PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE 8426 Gateway Blvd O'MAILLES 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St AlbertON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 ORTONA ARMOURY 9722-102 St OVERTIME–Sherwood Park 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 PLEASANTVIEW HALL 10860-57 Ave RED PIANO Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118RIC’S GRILL 24 Perron St, St Albert, 780.460.6602ROSEBOWL/ROUGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St RITCHIE UNITED CHURCH 9624-74 AveROBERTSON WESLEY UNITED CHURCH 10209-123 St ROBERT TEGLER STUDENT CENTRE 7128 Ada Blvd R. OUSE HOUSE CONCERTS Sherwood Park acreageSANDS HOTEL 12340 Fort Rd,

780.474.5476 SET NIGHTCLUB Next to Bourban St, 8882-170 St, WEM, Ph III, setnightclub.caSIDELINERS 11018-127 St SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924SQUARE 1–Sherwood Park 993 Fir St, Sherwood Park, 780.705.4321STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION 10940-166 A St SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave SUITE 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969 TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404VEE LOUNGE, Apex Casino–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128WEST END CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH 10015-149 St WINSPEAR 4 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.28.1414WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256 YARDBIRD 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428 YEG DANCE 11845 Wayne Gretzky Dr ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St s

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COMEDY Black Dog Freehouse • Underdog Comedy show: Alternating hosts • Every Thu, 8-11pm • No cover

CENTURY CASINO • 13103 Fort Rd • 780.481.9857 • Open Mic Night: Every Thu; 7:30-9pm

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Thu: 8:30pm; Fri: 8:30pm; Sat: 8pm and 10:30pm • Brian Work; Apr 24-26

COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Hit or Miss Mondays: Amateurs and Professionals every Mon, 7:30pm • Battle to the Funny Bone; last Tue each month, 7:30pm • Andy Hendrickson; until Apr 27

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

EDEN EXOTIC NIGHTCLUB/CONNIES COM-EDY • T*ts & Giggles 2: Open comedy mic be-tween dancers • Apr 30, 9pm • Call 780.914.8966 to get on the roster

EMPRESS ALE HOUSE • 9912-82 Ave • Empress Comedy Night: featuring a professional headliner every week Every Sun, 9pm

FIONN MACCOOLS/CONNIE'S COMEDY • 4485 Gateway Blvd • Small Pints Saturday Comedy with Howie Miller closing the show • May 3, 7pm • Call 780.914.8966 to get on the roster

KRUSH ULTRALOUNGE/CONNIES COMEDY • Komedy Krush: following a Capital City Singles Mixer with guest Danny Martinello; Apr 24, 9pm • Call 780.914.8966 to get on the roster

OVERTIME PUB • 4211-106 St • Open mic comedy anchored by a professional MC, new headliner each week • Every Tue • Free

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • Comedy Groove every Wed; 9pm

GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGSAIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL EDMONTON • 8307-109 St • edmontonamnesty.org • Meet the 4th Tue each month, 7:30pm (no meetings in Jul, Aug) E: [email protected] for more info • Free

ARGENTINE TANGO DANCE AT FOOT NOTES STUDIO • Foot Notes Dance Studio (South side), 9708-45 Ave • 780.438.3207 • [email protected] • Argentine Tango with Tango Divino: beginners: 7-8pm; intermediate: 8-9pm; Tango Social Dance (Milonga): 9pm-12 • Every Fri, 7pm-midnight • $15

BRAIN TUMOUR PEER SUPPORT GROUP • Mount Zion Lutheran Church, 11533-135 St NW • braintumour.ca • 1.800.265.5106 ext. 234 • Support group for brain tumour survivors and their families and caregivers. Must be 18 or over • 3rd Mon every month; 7-8:45pm • Free

CANADIAN INJURED WORKERS ASSOCIA-TION OF ALBERTA (CIWAA) • Augustana Lutheran Church, 107 St, 99 Ave • canadianinjured-workers.com • Meeting every 3rd Sat, 1-4pm • Injured Workers in Pursuit of Justice denied by WCB

EDMONTON ATHEISTS • Stanley Milner Library, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Monthly round-table discussion group. Topics change each month, please check the website for details, edmonton-atheists.ca • 1st Tue, 7pm; each month • May 6, Roundtable discussion, guest speaker Bradley Peters from Dying with Dignity will be presenting information about the organisation and the status of physician assisted dying in Canada

EDMONTON NEEDLECRAFT GUILD • Avonmore United Church Basement, 82 Ave, 79 St • edmNeedlecraftGuild.org • Classes/workshops, exhibitions, guest speakers, stitching groups for those interested in textile arts • Meet the 2nd Tue each month, 7:30pm

EDMONTON UKULELE CIRCLE • Bogani Café, 2023-111 St • 780.440.3528 • 3rd Sun each

month; 2:30-4pm • $5

FAIR VOTE CANADA–EDMONTON CHAPTER • Boston Pizza meeting rm, bsmt, 10854 Whyte Ave • fairvote.ca • Fair Vote Canada–the Edmonton Chapter's Annual General Meeting: Free pizza at 6pm; screening of a short, funny film, elect a new board • Tue, Apr 29, 6pm

FERTILITY AWARENESS CHARTING CIRCLE • Justisse-Healthworks for Women, 10145-81 Ave • justisse.ca • Meeting • 6:30-8:30pm • $10 (donation)

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

LOTUS QIGONG • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu

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

THE MANKIND PROJECT • 10256-112 St • menmentoringmen.ca • A support group for men to talk and be heard, be acknowledged and recognized for the gifts you offer, challenge yourself and other men. A group of men committed to better themselves, their families, and their communities • Sun, Apr 27, 9:30am-4pm • Sun, May 4, 9:30am-4pm • Sat, May 10, 9:30am-4pm

NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-106 St • 780.435.0845 • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-106 St • nawca.ca • Annual Spring Show & Competition: Wood art, Crafts, Retail Booths, Demonstrations, Food; Apr 26-27, 10am-5pm; free admission and parking

ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, 780.451.1755; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free

SAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP • Braeside Presbyterian Church bsmt, N. door, 6 Bernard Dr, St Albert • For adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional families • Every Mon, 7:30pm

SEVENTIES FOREVER MUSIC SOCIETY • Call 587.520.3833 for location • deepsoul.ca • Combining music, garage sales, nature, common sense, and kindred karma to revitalize the inward persona • Every Wed, 7-8:30pm

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

SONGWRITERS GROUP • The Carrot, 9351-118 Ave • 780.973.5311 • nashvillesongwriters.com • NSAI (Nashville Songwriters Association In-ternational) meet the 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm

SOUTH EDMONTON GARDENING VEG-ETARIAN AND VEGAN GROUP • Parkallen Hall, 11104-65 Ave • Vegetarian potluck with talk by Scott Mcphee, and a Mercedes 300D converted to run on reclaimed Vegetable oil • Bring Vegetar-ian/Vegan/Raw dish for six people • Apr 27, 5pm; 6:30pm (speaker) • $8 each

SUGAR FOOT SWING DANCE • Sugar Swing, 10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Swing Dance Social every Sat; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Oc-casional live music–check the Sugar Swing website for info • $10, $2 lesson with entry

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM • 10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Friday Night Stomp!: Swing and party music dance social every Fri; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check web • $10, $2 (lesson with entry)

TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS) • Grace United Church annex, 6215-104 Ave • Low-cost, fun and friendly weight loss group • Every Mon, 6:30pm • Info: call Bob 780.479.5519

TOASTMASTERS • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club: 2nd Fl, Canada Place, 9700 Jasper Ave; 780.467.6013, [email protected]; fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • Westend TNT Toastmasters: Trinity United Church, 8810 Meadowlark Rd; Public speaking: Parliamentary practice based on Robert's Rules of Order; vpm-2291@toastmastersclubs.

org; weekly meetings every Tue, 7-9pm (Jul-Aug off) • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level, McClure United Church, 13708-74 St: meet every Thu, 6:45-8:30pm; contact [email protected], 780.863.1962, norators.com • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue ea month; Contact: Antonio Balce, 780.463.5331

WASKAHEGAN TRAIL HIKE • waskahegantrail.ca • Meet at the NW corner of Superstore parking, 51 Ave, Calgary Tr; Carpooling available from here • 9km guided hike on the East Battle River portion of the Waskahegan Trail. Contact: Hike leader David 780.434.2675 • Apr 26, 8:45am-3pm • $5 (carpool); $20 (annual membership)

WICCAN ASSEMBLY • Ritchie Hall, 7727-98 St • The Congregationalist Wiccan Assembly of Alberta meets the 2nd Sun each month (except Aug), 6pm • Info: contact [email protected]

WILD ROSE ANTIQUE COLLECTORS SOCI-ETY • Delwood Community Hall, 7515 Delwood Rd • wildroseantiquecollectors.ca • Collecting and researching items from various periods in the his-tory of Edmonton. Presentations after club business. Visitors welcome • Meets the 4th Mon of every month (except Jul & Dec), 7:30pm

WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old Strath-cona Farmers' Market • Silent vigil the 1st and 3rd Sat, 10-11am, each month, stand in silence for a world without violence

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS CARP ADVOCACY • Norwood Legion Audito-rium, 11150-82 St • CARP meeting, advocating for social change that will bring financial security, equi-table access to health care, and freedom from age discrimination; with Susan Eng as guest speaker • May 2; 12:30-1pm (register), 1-3pm (presentation) • $5 (member)/$10 (non-member); pre-register at 780.450.4802; E: [email protected]

FAITHS COMING TOGETHER • U of A Campus • Featuring workshops and panels; featuring kenote speakers Amir Hussain, and Dawn Waring • May 1-4 • Pre-register at edmontoncpwr.ca

FERMENTED FOODS WORKSHOP 101–INTRODUCTION • King Edward Community League Smalll Hall, 8008-81 St • Discuss how and why these foods are so important for your health and the planet's, the basics of safe fermenting and how to adapt recipes. Together we'll make a batch of cordito (Mexican sauerkraut) and find recipes for preserving your garden bounty through fermenta-tion • May 7, 9pm • $25 EventBrite https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/fermented-foods-workshop-101-introduction-tickets-11082466957

GREAT EXPEDITIONS • St Luke’s Anglican Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.469.3270 • 1st Mon every month: Holland & Germany (2013), presentation by Enneke Lorberg; May 5, 7:30pm • Suggested donation of $2

INCOME INEQUALITY FORUM • Stanley Milner Library, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.496.7000 • Tackling the Widening Income Gap in Edmonton and beyond with Ricardo Acuña, Helen McFadyen, Ken Ward, Janet Keeping • Apr 27, 12-3pm

IN MY LIFETIME: A GLOBAL STORY OF HOPE, CHANGE & POSSIBILITY • Lister Cen-tre, Maple Leaf Rm, U of A • Aga Khan Foundation of Canada will share stories of progress and pos-sibility, and dispel common misconceptions about international development • Apr 26, 9:30-11:30am

SEEING IS ABOVE ALL • Acacia Hall, 10433-83 Ave, upstairs • 780.554.6133 • Free instruction into the meditation on the Inner Light • Every Sun, 5pm

TAI CHI SHOWCASE–INTERNATIONAL QIGONG/TAI CHI DAY S• Hunyuantaiji Academy, 5222-86 St • practicalmethod.com • HUNYUANTAIJI ACADEMY 5222-86 St • Celebrate Qigong, Chen Tai Chi, Weapons and Foundations: Apr 26, 1-3pm; free • Seminar: Introduction to Silk Reeling and Detailed Qigong: Apr 27, 9am-noon, 780.413.0454, leave a message

QUEERAFFIRM SUNNYBROOK–Red Deer • Sun-nybrook United Church, Red Deer • 403.347.6073 • Affirm welcome LGBTQ people and their friends, family, and allies meet the 2nd Tue, 7pm, each month

BEERS FOR QUEERS • Empress Ale House, 9912 Whyte Ave • Meet the last Thu 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 • 11725 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6636 • Tue with DJ Arrow Chaser, free pool all night; 9pm (door); no cover • Wed with DJ Dust’n Time; 9pm (door); no cover • Thu: Men’s Wet Underwear Contest, win prizes, hosted by Drag Queen DJ Phon3 Hom3; 9pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Fri Dance Party with DJ Arrow Chaser; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Sat: Feel the rhythm with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm

EPLC FELLOWSHIP PAGAN STUDY GROUP • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • eplc.webs.com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome

EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220-103 St • 780.424.0077 • yourgaybar.com • Community Tue: partner with various local GLBT groups for different events; see online for details • Happy Hour Wed-Fri: 4-8pm • Wed Karaoke: with the Mystery Song Contest; 7pm-2am • Fri: DJ Evictor • Sat: DJ Jazzy • Sun: Beer Bash

G.L.B.T. SPORTS AND RECREATION • teamedmonton.ca • Blazin' Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary School Gym, 10925-87 Ave; Every Mon and Thu, 7pm; $30/$15 (low income/student); E: [email protected] • Mindful Medita-tion: Pride Centre: Every Thu, 6pm; free weekly drop-in • Swimming–Making Waves: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St; E: [email protected]; makingwavesswimclub.ca • Volleyball: Stratford Junior-Senior High School (west end): every Tue, until Apr 29, 7-9pm, $65 (season), $35 (Half season), $5 (drop-in) • Martial Arts–Kung Fu and Kick Boxing: Every Tue and Thu, 6-7pm; GLBTQ in-clusive adult classes at Sil-Lum Kung Fu; [email protected], [email protected], sillum.ca

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

ILLUSIONS SOCIAL CLUB • Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave • 780.387.3343 • edmontonillu-sions.ca • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri each month, 7:30-9pm

INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campus-based organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-identified and queer (LGBTQ) faculty, graduate student, academic, straight allies and support staff • 3rd Thu each month (fall/winter terms): Speakers Series. E: [email protected]

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

OUTLOUD–LGBT YOUTH GROUP • St Paul's United Church, 11526-76 Ave • Group for LGBT teens from religious backgrounds • Meet the 1st and 3rd Wed ea month, 7-9pm • Until Jun 18 • Free

PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Cen-tre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • A safe, welcoming, and non-judgemental drop-in space, support programs and resources offered for members of the GLBTQ community, their families and friends • Daily: Community drop-in; support and resources. Queer library: borrowing privileges: Tue-Fri 12-9pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, closed Sun-Mon; Queer HangOUT (a.k.a. QH) youth drop-in: Tue-Fri 3-8pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, [email protected] • Counselling: Free, short-term by registered counsellors every Wed, 5:30-8:30pm, info/bookings: 780.488.3234 • Knotty Knitters: Knit and socialize in safe, accepting environment, all skill levels welcome; every Wed 6-8pm • QH Game Night: Meet people through board game fun; every Thu 6-8pm • QH Craft Night: every Wed, 6-8pm • QH Anime Night: Watch anime; every Fri, 6-8pm • Movie Night: Open to everyone; 2nd and 4th Fri each month, 6-9pm • Women’s Social Circle: Social support group for female-identified persons +18 years in the GLBT community; new members welcome; 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm each month; [email protected] • Men Talking with Pride: Support and social group for gay and bisexual men to discuss current issues; every Sun 7-9pm; [email protected] • TTIQ: a support and information group for all those who fall under the transgender umbrella and their family/supporters; 3rd Mon, 7-9pm, each month • HIV Support Group: Support and discussion group for gay men; 2nd Mon, 7-9pm, each month; [email protected]

PRIMETIMERS/SAGE GAMES • Unitarian Church, 10804-119 St • 780.474.8240 • Every 2nd and last Fri each Month, 7-10:30pm

ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship)

WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • womons-pace.ca, [email protected] • A Non-profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newslet-ter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured

WOODYS VIDEO BAR • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Amateur Strip Contest; prizes with Shawana • Tue: Kitchen 3-11pm • Wed: Karaoke with Tizzy 7pm-1am; Kitchen 3-11pm • Thu: Free pool all night; kitchen 3-11pm • Fri: Mocho Nacho Fri: 3pm (door), kitchen open 3-11pm SPECIAL EVENTS ACCELERATE AB • U of A's Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science (CCIS), Rm 1-430 and 1-440 • accelerateab.com • Startup. Scale. Celebrate.: Celebration of entrepreneurship and tech startups in Alberta • Apr 30-May 1 • $60 (adult)/$25 (student); pre-register

AINT SAFE NO MORE RELEASE/#FUERZAVALPO YEG FUND-RAISER • Azucar, 13062-50 St • Fuerzavalpo YEG charity fundraiser to help the earthquake and fire affected families in Chile with FLK Unlimited (rap collective) • Apr 25, 7-11pm (YEG fundraiser); 11-12pm (performance • Free, donations for fundraiser

caN MaN DaN aND Yess • Northgate Lions Rec Centre, 7524-139 Ave • Can Man Dan wrestles in a professional wrestling match to raise money, food and awareness for YESS • Apr 25, 7:30-9:30pm • $20 (door)/$17 (adv)/$12 (child); some of the ticket sales will be donated to YESS

CHILD HAVEN • Meridian Banquet Centre, 4820-76 Ave • East Indian Dinner; benefit to support Destitute children and women in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Tibet • May 4, 3-8:30pm, 4:45pm (dinner) • $60 (adult)/$20 (child 5-12)/free (4 yrs and under) at 780.454.6216 • childhaven.ca/fundraiser_edmonton.html

DEEPSOUL.CA • 587.520.3833; text to: 780.530.1283 for location • Classic Covers Shindig Fundraiser • Every Sun: Sunday Jams with no Stan (CCR to Metallica), starring Chuck Prins on Les Paul Standard guitars: upcoming Century Casino show as well; Twilight Zone Razamanaz Tour; all ages • Fundraising for local Canadian Disaster Relief, the hungry (world-wide through the Canadian Food Grains Bank)

DOG WASH FUNDRAISER • Pet Planet Riverbend, 9:30am-3:30pm; Heritage Sq, 9am-3pm • Alberta School of Dog Groomers, Calgary Tr: 9am-2pm • Cuddles and Bubbles Grooming: 9am-6pm • Gallerie Beaumont Pet Planet: 10am-6pm • For Paws Ltd, Leduc: 9am-3pm • Mutts Adored, Stony Plain: 9am-3pm • E & E Kennels (Stony Plain)12 Boulder Blvd., Stony Plain, AB 9am-5pm • In support of ACTSS (Animal Cancer Therapy Subsidization Society) • May 3

EARTH DAY FESTIVAL 2014 • Earth's General Store (parking lot), 9605-82 Ave • Educational booths, presentations, food and demos • Apr 27, 12-14pm • facebook.com/events/733832303313947/

EDMONTON COTTAGE LIFE & CABIN SHOW • Edmonton Expo Centre, 7515-118 Ave • Making the most of cottage life with sports, food an decor • Apr 25-27 • $12 (adult)/$7 (youth 13-17yrs)/free (child 13); $18 (Weekend Pass)/$9 (senior, Fri only)

GRAVITY AND GRAVITAS: DR. ROBERTA BONDAR • Shaw Conference Centre, Hall C, 9797 Jasper Ave • Canada's First Female Astronaut, Dr. Roberta Bondar, shares her professional and personal experiences–Live and In-Person • Apr 24, 8:30-9:30am • $69/$30 (student) at apegaevents.com/apegaforms/bondar

JANE'S WALK YEG • janeswalk.org/canada/edmonton • Various walks for details on all the walks, go to: www.janeswalk.org/canada/edmon-ton • Launch: at City Hall Plaza on May 2, noon • May 2-4 • Free

MAYOR’S CELEBRATION OF THE ARTS • Winspear Centre • Bringing together the business community, artists, media and arts appreciators to honour the contributions Edmonton artists make to our city • Mon, Apr 28

UNPLUG & RECHARGE MEDITATION • Muttart Tropical Forest Pyramid, 9626-96A St • myearthmantra.com • Learn How to Meditate: Beginners, experience meditating in the Tropical Forest • Tue, Apr 29, May 6, 7-8:30pm • $75; pre-register at 311, code #509797

THE YEGGIES • Avenue Theatre, 9030-118 Ave • Comedy, film/screen, food truck, pop, theatre • May 9, 7pm • $25 (adv)

EVENTS WEEKLY EMAIL YOUR FREE LISTINGS TO: [email protected] FAX: 780.426.2889 DEADLINE: FRIDAY AT 3PM

34 AT THE BACK VUEWEEKLY APR 24 – APR 30, 2014

400. Courses/ClassesEPL Free Courses:

Edmonton ABCheck out the Free Online Interactive Instructor Led

Courses offered through the Edmonton Public Library.

Some of the courses for visual artists would include:

Creating WordPress Websites,Secrets of Better PhotographyBeginning Writer’s Workshop

many more…For a list of Free Courses visit:

https://www.epl.ca/learn4lifeFor information and instruction

on how to get started https://www.epl.ca/learn4life

1005. Help WantedCook Thai Cuisine

Jing Jai Thai Cuisine at 12556-132 Ave. Edmonton is seeking a Cook, Thai Cuisine. Duties include prepping and

cooking Thai food such as stir fry and curry dishes, prepare sauces, soups, deserts. Full

Time permanent position. $12.50-16.00 per hr. 2-3yrs

experience is preferred. please email resume to

[email protected]

Greenline Distribution

seeks full time driverMust have a clean driver’s

abstract, able to drive a 5 ton cube truck. Experience

preferred but not necessary.40 hrs per week. Interested

parties please contact Mike Garth at

[email protected] or at 780-707-0476

Kitchen Helper Thai Cuisine Jing Jai Thai Cuisine at

12556-132 Ave. Edmonton is seeking a Kitchen Helper.

Duties include prepping Asian foods, cutting vegetables, stocking shelves, general cleaning, operating rice

cookers, and other kitchen equipment. Full Time permanent position.

$11.00-13.00 per hr. 1-2yrs experience is preferred. please

email resume to [email protected]

1600. Volunteers WantedBuild a home with Habitat for

Humanity!All Habitat Volunteers

participate in onsite safety orientation & training.

Beginners to trades skill levels, groups and individuals welcome. No minimum

number of shifts required. Visit www.hfh.org to register as a

volunteer. We provide all tools, equipment and lunch!

Follow us on Facebook /HabitatEdm and Twitter

@HabitatEdm

Can You Read This?

Help someone Who can’t!

Volunteer 2 hours a week and help someone improve

their Reading, Writing, Math or English Speaking

Skills.

Call Valerie at P.A.L.S780-424-5514 or email

[email protected]

Help the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation create a future without breast cancer

through volunteerism. Contact 1-866-302-2223 or [email protected] for

current volunteer opportunities

1600. Volunteers WantedGive some, Get some. Come

have some fun, a little exercise and be recognized.

We require volunteers almost every day of the week to help

at various bingo locations around the city (WEM,

Castledowns, south side). You give your time (4-6 hour shift) and we recognize your efforts.

You do not need any experience as everything will be taught to you and you will

be completely supported. Calll Christine at 780-953-1510 or

email at [email protected] for

more informationBingo is a smoke-free and

friendly environment.

Habitat for Humanity hosts Women Build Week June 17 -

21, 2014 Are you a woman who has

always wanted to volunteer on a Habitat for Humanity build site, but were unsure if you had the necessary skills?

Contact Kim at 780-451-3416 ext 232 or [email protected]

or register online at our website!

Habitat for Humanity Tool Training Workshop and Info

SessionHave you often considered volunteering with Habitat for Humanity but just need more information about our charity

and some guided practice with the tools we use on site? Sign

up for our original Basic Tool Training and Volunteer

Information Session! Visit our website at

www.hfh.org/volunteer/learn-tools

Help someone in crisis take those fi rst steps towards a

solution. The Support Network’s Crisis Support

Centre is looking for volunteers! Interested or want to learn more? Contact Maura at 780-392-8723 or visit our

website: www.TheSupportNetwork.com

Help someone in crisis take those fi rst steps towards a

solution. The Support Network`s Crisis Support

Centre is looking for volunteers for Edmonton`s 24-Hour

Distress Line. Interested or want to learn more? Contact Lindsay at 780-732-6648 or

visit our website: www.TheSupportNetwork.com

Needed for our Long Term Care residence, daytime

volunteers for various activities or just for a friendly

visit!Needed for our Long Term Care Residence, weekday

morning volunteers for various activities. Especially for

assisting with transporting residents to rehab, church

services and hairdresser within facility. All volunteers must pass a Police clearance.Please contact Janice at

Extendicare Eaux Claires for more details

[email protected](780) 472 - 1106

Options Sexual Health Association is looking for pro-

choice and sex-positive volunteers to attend events

and festivals all summer long and beyond! Comprehensive

training will be held throughout April. Please visit our websitewww.optionssexualhealth.ca to fi ll out an application form

Room to Read is changing children’s lives in Asia and

Africa through literacy programs and gender equality. Join our Edmonton team and help us plan events to support our work, and spread the word

about our amazing [email protected]

www.roomtoread.org

1600. Volunteers WantedStreetFest wants to celebrate a very special milestone with its favourite people! Volunteer for

the 30th Annual Edmonton International Street Performers

Festival, running July 4 - 13, 2014 in Sir Winston Churchill Square. Make friends, have

fun, win prizes and gain access to a post-festival party in exchange for a minimum of

20 volunteer hours!Join a community 30 years in

the making! For more information and to apply, visit www.edmontonstreetfest.com,

email [email protected], or call Volunteer Coordinator

Liz Allison-Jorde at 780-425-5162

The Canadian Cancer Society’s strongest asset is our

dedicated volunteers. By offering the most meaningful opportunities for you to make

the biggest difference as a volunteer, we’re having more impact, against more cancers, in more communities, than any

other cancer charity.For more information on how

to get involved: http://www.cancer.ca/en/get-

involved/volunteering/ways-to-volunteer/?region=ab#ixzz2vac

GwaEX

The Edmonton Pride Festival is a 10 day festival (June 5-15,

2014) with over 40 different events. It takes many

dedicated and passionate volunteers to make these

events a success. If you are looking for a rewarding

volunteer experience, want to contribute to the LGBTQ

Community and be part of one of Canada’s largest Pride

Festivals, we hope you will be able to help and volunteer! Get

involved at www.edmontonpride.ca!

The Works - Volunteers Needed

Apply Early & Win!All volunteers who hand in

their application by Thursday May 15 will be entered into a draw to win an exciting early

bird prize! There are so many ways to get involved! Contact:

[email protected]

Volunteer Opportunities at WWT

Interested in volunteering for us? The perks are great! We

are currently looking for volunteers for PlaySlam 2014

taking place on May 2nd. If you are interested, email

[email protected] or call 780-477-5955 ext *11.

Are you a theatre artist looking for free rehearsal space? If you volunteer for us, you get three hours of free space at EPIC* Underground (our basement rehearsal hall) for every hour that you volunteer. *Formerly

known as the Third Space (11516 103 Street)

Volunteer with us! Team Edmonton is run by volunteers, and we always

welcome new people to help us promote LGBT sports and

recreational activities. Volunteers can assist during particular events or can take

advantage of other short-term and ongoing opportunities.

If you are interested in becoming a volunteer, or if you

would like more information, please email

[email protected].

2005. Artist to ArtistAll you poets out there, do you

know about the CBC Poetry Prize? First Prize: $6000 and 4

runners-up get $1000. Deadline is May 1. Check it out here.

http://www.cbc.ca/books/canadawrites/literaryprizes/poetry

2005. Artist to Artist

1st Assistant Director required for a motion picture

to work with main director.Action adventure fi lm. 1st assistant director must be

willing to travel to occasionally to Jasper National Park

(township) to assist main director.

1st Assistant director must be able to use the Arrifl ex fi lm

camera.The 1st assistant director must reside in the Edmonton Area.

(or soon will be)For more details, contact Craig at [email protected],

or at 1-613-484-7063.(director would like to thank

those who have contacted me)

A New Award for Emerging Artists raises the profi le of

the Arts in Red Deer!

For more information contact Diana at

[email protected](403)348-2787

Hours: Monday to Wednesday, 9am to 4:30pm

Assistant Film Producer required to assist main Film Producer with funding, must

reside in Edmonton area only, must have experience with Telefi lm Canada funding (as

main producer, needs second producer to acquire funds). Must be willing to travel to

Jasper National Park to assist producer on location. Female preferred. The project is an

action adventure fi lm.Contact Craig at

[email protected] or 1-613-484-7063 for more

information

Call For Submissions: The 2014 Calgary Biennial

This event will take place in numerous venues around the Calgary between December

2014 to January 2015. If you’re interested in being part of the biennial, you can apply before

May 1st.For more information, check

out the website:http://calgarybiennial.ca/

Call to Makers, Mercer Collective: A Maker’s Market

You must MAKE, BAKE or CREATE what you sell. You

can not be a reseller of goods not produced by you.

Costs:$60 per market

December show is $200

Additional FeesTable Rental is available at

$10 per show. Please specify 6 ft or 4 ft. Limited quantities

available.

Show Dates:March 29,April 26,

Sept 27,October 25, November 22

December 13-14 – $200

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Calling all talented Canadian artists! Artailer is an

innovative online gallery dedicated to showcasing and selling the work of new and emerging Canadian artists.

Inviting all artists who wish to turn their passion into a career to submit their art for review. For more information, please

see the FAQ page on our website (www.artailer.ca), or

contact us directly: [email protected]; 416-900-4112

Figure Drawing with Daniel Hackborn

With live models. Tuesday evenings, 6-9PM, until June 24. Instruction available 1st

Tuesday of the month.Drop-in sessions, $15. The

Paint Spot, 10032 81 Avenue 780.432.0240

www.paintspot.ca.

2005. Artist to ArtistCommunity Arts Program Application Deadline: May

1stCommunity art is valued for its ability to bring people together

in shared, collaborative, creative experiences to

express the things that have meaning to us. The principles behind community art projects are artistic exploration, active participation and intentional

inclusiveness that allows communities to tell their own

stories.For more information head to

www.edmontonarts.ca

Gallery @ 501 Presents: Art Object D’Sport Call for EntryIn celebration of the Canada

55+ Games (to be held in Strathcona County, Sherwood Park, AB), Gallery @ 501 will be hosting the exhibition Art

Object D’Sport, July 7 – August 31, 2014

Art Object D’Sport is an open call for entries from artists and

artisans across Canada. DEADLINE – Friday June 23rd

at 6:00 pm

Further information contact Brenda Barry Byrne,

Curator,Gallery @ 501brenda.barry-

[email protected]/artgallery

Live Model Figure DrawingDrop-in sessions every

Tuesday, February 11 – June 24, 6-9PM. $15/session;

11-pack only $150. Instruction by Daniel Hackborn available 1st Tuesday of each month.

Save 20% on supplies. Reserve your seating – space is limited. 10032 81 Avenue,

Edmonton; ph. 780.432.0240. www.paintspot.ca;

[email protected] OR [email protected]

Marking the Valley A juried art exhibition

Call to artists Leave Your Mark on the Capital Region River

ValleyVisual Arts Alberta-CARFAC is partnering with the River Valley

Alliance to showcase the Capital Region River Valley

through your artwork.Submission Guidelines can be

downloaded at: http://visualartsalberta.com/

marking-the-valley/

Deadline for this juried exhibition: May 30th, 2014

Now entering its 7th year, Alberta Culture Days is

becoming our province’s largest celebration of our heritage, arts and cultural

diversity. This year, you can continue playing a lead role in

putting culture centre stage during the last weekend of

September!

The Government of Alberta is providing funding to

organizations to put on events September 26–28, 2014. The

application deadline is Monday, April 28, 2014.

Visit the ‘Get Involved’ section at AlbertaCultureDays.ca for

full details.

Paintings done especially for sale, its a type of pop art and they’re female. 26 to choose

from, 16” x 16”. Triangle Lips

Mr. Jim Willans 780-438-1969

The Edmonton Arts Council is inviting visual artists in the Edmonton area to submit a proposal to become the fi rst artist-in-residence hosted by the City of Edmonton’s Offi ce

of the City Clerk. The successful artist will

commence duties in late June 2014, for an anticipated six-

month period (terms negotiable/fl exible). Deadline:

April 25th, 2014For more info, please visit:

www.edmontonarts.ca

2005. Artist to ArtistPhone-In Professional

Development with Sydney Lancaster

Wednesday May 28th: 6:30 – 8:00 a tele-conference

Professional Development Workshop with Sydney

LancasterLimited to 12 participants from small centres of Alberta that do

not have access to Professional Development

talks and participants living in major centres that have issues

of access.FREE: RSVP as soon as

possible as this PD workshop will fi ll up fast! RSVP to

[email protected] or by telephone to

1.866.421.1731 providing name, full address, email

address, land line telephone number…

RAW: Natural Born Artists is an indie arts organization for

artists, by artists. We focus on spotlighting indie underground

talent to the public. It will be featured in Edmonton for the

fi rst time this May 2014.

If an artists wants to be considered, they can build an

artist profi le on www.rawartists.org ! Make

sure they indicate that they are an Edmonton area artist to be considered for this opportunity in May! Once they show their work in their locale, they are

automatically eligible to Showcase in any RAW

location across Canada and the US.

For additional information please email or call Kaley Bird

the Edmonton Showcase Director at 1.780.264.3650.

The City of Lacombe requires an artist is to create a low

maintenance, hardy, weather resistant, permanent three-

dimensional artwork that integrates a water feature (fountain, spray, burbler, or

aeration system). Budget:22,500 CAD

Eligibility:All Canadian Visual Artists

Completion:2014Deadline for Submissions:

May 30, 2014, NoonFor more information contact

the City of Lacombe’s Recreation & Culture Manager, Sandi Stewart at 403.782.1266

or [email protected]

The Friends of the Alberta Jubilee Auditoria Society is

pleased to announce a call for submissions for their Rotating Art Exhibition Program: if you

are an artist interested in showing your work in the Kaasa Gallery; the Alcove

Gallery or the Lower Lobby (Southern Alberta Jubilee

Auditorium) please head to:http://visualartsalberta.com/blo

g/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Call-

for-submissions-AJAS_2014.pdf

Deadline for proposals is May 12

Volunteer couples needed for comedy show. Cal Nino at

780-450-6462

Works to Work Summer Internship

The Works is currently looking for hardworking, enthusiastic individuals to join the team for

summer 2014!The Works to Work program,

an Enbridge Art Internship, is a unique leadership and

professional development program that connects

theoretical with practical learning.

For more information about the internship, please visit

www.theworks.ab.ca and click “Education”

2010. Musicians AvailableBlues musician likes to jam in

the key of F, but knows no songs in that key. Do you? Contact [email protected]

2010. Musicians Available

Making Music Fun for All Ages - Piano lessons offeredCentral Edmonton (private)

Wendy Jensen is a classically trained musician of 30 years from Edmonton, AB. Upon popular demand from fans,

Wendy is now offering piano lessons for beginner students

in the downtown area.Wendy’s mission is to make

learning music fun for students of all ages. Wendy is now

booking lessons for: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

evenings from 4 PM-8 PM and Saturdays 11:00 AM-3:00PM.

Lessons can be booked hourly for $50 or $25 per every half hour (plus cost of materials) - For a limited time only, Wendy

is offering a special rate of $150 for 4x 1hr lessons. Book

now for your free initial interview.

Your lesson plan can include: Learning how to read music

Learn basic music theoryLearn to play the piano

Learn specifi c pieces of music (music coaching)

Coaching for the emerging artist

Improving stage performance & presence

How to organize events/concerts

How to promote your music & build your network

What’s in a brand name?Learning the basics of the music industry (copyright

infringement, etc)Visit www.wendyjensenca.com

for more information

Veteran blues drummer available . Infl uences include BB King, Freddie King, etc.

780-462-6291

2020. Musicians Wanted

Auditions for Pro Coro Canada 2014/15

Auditions for singers wishing to be on the sub-list will take

place on Sunday 27 April, in Room 1-29 of the Fine Arts Building at the University of

Alberta, starting 2pm.

For more information, please inquire at the Pro Coro Offi ce

Guitarists, bassists, vocalists, pianists and drummers needed for good paying teaching jobs.

Please call 780-901-7677

Jah-LeLe Band seeks female vocalist, drummers, guitarist, bass guitarist, keyboardist,

trumpet players (Men or Women), must be talented in the genre of reggae music.

Musicians must have their own instruments. If interested,

please contact:Jones (main):780-757-4757

Collins: 780-802-2139Albert: 780-680-1959

MODERN RECORDERAmateur recorder player seeks same to play/develop/perform modern and atypical repertoire (incl. pop, jazz, rag, rock, folk,

klezmer, etc.). Avoiding the comfort of ancient music.

For more info contact Jan at [email protected] or

780-428-9495

Seeking a musician to participate in a unique

exchange. A offering of a short live show, in swap for a

holonomic design (art) created for the musician.

To take place this summerContact and more detail

through www.facebook.com/intuitcreations

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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): If for some inexplicable reason you are not simmering with new ideas about how you could drum up more money, I don't know what to tell you—except that maybe your mother lied to you about exactly when you were born. The astrological omens are vir-tually unequivocal: if you are a true Aries, you are now being invited, teased and even tugged to increase your cash flow and bolster your financial know-how. If you can't ferret out at least one opportunity to get richer quicker, you might really be a Pisces or Taurus. And my name is Jay Z.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): You remind me of a garden plot that has recently been plowed and rained on. Now the sun is out. The air is warm. Your dirt is wet and fertile. The feeling is a bit unsettled because the stu� that was below ground got churned up to the top. Instead of a flat surface, you've got furrows. But the overall mood is expectant. Blithe magic is in the air. Soon it will be time to grow new life. Oh, but just one thing is missing: the seeds have yet to be sown. That's going to happen very soon. Right?

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): Here's an excerpt from "Celestial Music," a poem by Louise Gluck: "I'm like the child who buries / her head in the pillow / so as not to see, the child who tells herself / that light causes sadness." One of your main assignments in the coming weeks, Gemini, is not to be like that child. It's true that gazing at what the light reveals may shatter an illusion or two, but the illumination you will be blessed with will ultimately be more valuable than gold.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): Would you like to forge new alliances and expand your web of con-nections and get more of the support you need to fulfill your dreams? You are entering the Season of Networking, so now would indeed be an excellent time to gather clues on how best to accomplish all that good stu�. To get you started in your quest, here's advice from Dale Carnegie: "You can make more friends in two months by becoming inter-ested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): Does Ja-maican sprinter Usain Bolt run faster than any person alive? As far as we know, yes. He holds three world records and has won six Olympic gold medals. Even when he's a bit o� his game, he's the best. At the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, he set the all-time mark for the 100-metre race—9.69 seconds—despite the fact that one of his shoelaces was untied and he slowed down to celebrate before reaching the finish line. Like you, Bolt is a Leo.

I'm making him both your role model and your anti-role model for the foreseeable future. You have the power to achieve some-thing approaching his levels of excellence in your own field—especially if you double-check to make sure your shoelace is never untied and especially if you don't celebrate victory before it's won.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): In his unpublished book The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, John Koenig coins new words that convey ex-periences our language has not previously accounted for. One that may apply to you sometime soon is "trumspringa," which he defines as "the temptation to step o� your career track and become a shepherd in the mountains, fol-lowing your flock between pas-tures with a sheepdog and a rifle, watching storms at dusk from the doorway of a small cabin." To be overtaken by trumspringa doesn't necessarily mean you will literally run away and be a shepherd. In fact, giving yourself the luxury of considering such wild possibilities may be a healing release that al-lows you to be at peace with the life you are actually living.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): "The supreme pleasure we can know, Freud said, and the model for all pleasure, orgasmic pleasure, comes when an excess tension built up, confined, compacted, is abruptly released." That's an observation by philosopher Al-phonso Lingis. I bring it to your attention, Libra, because I expect that you will soon be able to har-vest a psychospiritual version of that supreme pleasure. You have been gathering and storing up raw materials for soul-making, and now the time has come to express them with a creative splash. Are you ready to purge your emotional backlog? Are you brave enough to go in search of cathartic epiphanies? What has been dark will yield light.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): The potential turning points that might possibly erupt in the com-ing days will not become actual turning points unless you work hard to activate them. They will be subtle and brief, so you will have to be very alert to notice them at all, and you will have to move quickly before they fade away. Here's another com-plication: these incipient turning points probably won't resemble any turning points you've seen be-fore. They may come in the form of a lucky accident, a blessed mistake, a happy breakdown, a strange healing, a wicked gi§ or a perfect weakness.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): If you happen to be an athlete, the coming week will not be a good time to head-butt a referee or take performance-enhancing drugs. If you hate to drive your car anywhere but in the fast lane,

you will be wise to try the slower lanes for a while. If you are habit-ually inclined to skip steps, take short cuts and look for loopholes, I advise you to instead try being thorough, methodical and by-the-book. Catch my dri§? In this phase of your astrological cycle, you will have a better chance at producing successful results if you are more prudent than usual. What?! A careful, discreet, stra-tegic, judicious Sagittarius? Sure! Why not?

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): My interpretation of this week's astrological data might sound eccentric, even weird. But you know what? Sometimes life is—or at least should be—down-right unpredictable. A§er much meditation, I've concluded that the most important message you can send to the universe is to fly a pair of underpants from the top of a flagpole. You heard me. Take down the flag that's up there and run the skivvies right up to the top. Whose underpants should you use? Those belonging to someone you adore, of course. And what is the deeper meaning behind this apparently irrational act? What exactly is life asking from you? Just this: stop making so much sense all the time—es-pecially when it comes to culti-vating your love and expressing your passion.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): You need to take some time out to explore the deeper mysteries of snuggling, cuddling and nuz-zling. In my opinion, that is your sacred duty. It's your raison d'etre, your ne plus ultra, your sine qua non. You've got to nurture your somatic wisdom with what we in the consciousness industry refer to as yummy warm fuzzy wonder love. At the very least, you should engage in some pro-longed hugging with a creature you feel close to. Tender physi-cal touch isn't just a luxury; it's a necessity.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): Your body contains about four octil-lion atoms. That's four with 27 zeroes a§er it. Believe it or not, 200 billion of that total were once inside the body of Martin Luther King, Jr. For that matter, an average of 200 billion atoms of everyone who has ever lived and died is part of you. I am not making this up. (See the math-ematical analysis here: tinyurl.com/AtomsFromEveryone.) As far as your immediate future is concerned, Pisces, I'm particularly interested in that legacy from King. If any of his skills as a great communicator are alive within you, you will be smart to call on them. Now is a time for you to ex-press high-minded truths in ways that heal schisms, bridge gaps and promote unity. Just proceed on the assumption that it is your job to express the truth with ex-tra clarity, candor and grace. V

FREEWILLASTROLOGY ROB [email protected]

•• auctions ••

MEIER-2 DAY Classic Car & Truck Auction. Saturday & Sunday, May 3 & 4, 11

a.m. both days. 6016 - 72A Ave., Edmonton. Consign today, call 780-440-1860.

COLLECTOR CAR AUCTION! 7th Annual Calgary Collector Car

Auction, May 9 - 10, Indoors Convention Center Grey Eagle

Casino. Over 100 pieces of memorabilia selling No Reserve.

All makes & models welcome. Consign today 1-888-296-0528

ext. 102; EGauctions.com.

PUBLIC AUCTION. City of Cold Lake: Equipment,

trucks, Bobcat, shop items, etc. 1515 - 16 St., Cold Lake, Alberta. May 3, Saturday, 11

a.m. Scribner Auction, 780-842-5666; www.scribnernet.com.

WHEATLAND AUCTIONS Consignment Auction. May 3, 10 a.m. in Cheadle, Alberta. Farm

equipment, vehicles, heavy equipment, RVs, etc. Consign now! Phone 403-669-1109;

www.wheatlandauctions.com.

CLOSEOUT AUCTION. Wel-lington Garden Centre. Saturday,

May 3, 10 a.m., 13648 - 142 St., Edmonton. Final closeout of garden centre, fountains, garden

furniture, greenhouse fixtures, new fireplaces, plus a complete

2012 Tutti Frutti Kiosk at 11 a.m. For details: www.foothillsauc-tions.com or 780-922-6090.

AUTO/TOOL AUCTION. Sat-urday, April 26, 11 a.m. Auto’s, golf cart, tools, parts, surplus,

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“I Take It Back”- which will change my response.WEBCAM-LAND

My son is 19, but due to some phys-ical and social disabilities (mostly unseen), his emotional maturity level is closer to 14, though he is quite intelligent. After a lifetime of therapists, specialized educa-tion and other interventions, he is now a freshman in college far from home. His dad and I are paying for his tuition, room and board, and books. He was expected to use his summer job earnings for personal expenses. His lack of social skills makes him dependent on alcohol and cigarettes to form his social life, and that plus his immaturity (imagine sending your son to col-lege at age 14) means he went through his mon-ey quickly. But he is still drink-ing and smok-ing and getting high. When he was home for his last break, I asked him how he affords to do this, and he wouldn't tell me. You can imagine what went through my head. (Drug dealing?) I asked if it was safe and legal, and he said yes. After some snooping, I learned that he is using a webcam service for chats with men who offer "tips" for sexual viewing. I suppose this is techni-cally safe and legal, but because I'm unfamiliar with the technology involved, I don't know if he is put-ting himself at risk emotionally or if screenshots can be captured that can affect his future career, rela-tionships, etc. I'm a longtime fol-lower of your column, podcast and books, and I hope that someday my son and I will be as close as you and your mother were. So tell me, Dan: what would Judy Savage do?Worried Over Repercussions Re-garding Incriminating Employ-ment Deal

Webcamming—aka camwhor-ing—is widely regarded as the safest form of sex work. Webcam-mers aren't in the same room with their clients (unlike strippers, lap dancers, escorts, foot-fetish-party girls, pro doms, etc), and cammers have the ability to instantly block creepy, rude or abusive viewers. But there are risks, WORRIED, chief among them how easily viewers can take screengrabs and record videos of a cammer's ses-sions. So if your son is planning on a career as a teacher or a cop or a politician, it's possible that pics and videos could come back to haunt him.

But with so many young people out there swapping dirty pics and videos (and so many old people do-ing it, too), and with so many stu-dents camming their way through college (getting naked online is ar-guably less of a risk to someone's future prospects than crushing student-loan debt), a time when everyone will have a few incrimi-

nating images circulating online is quickly coming. And at that point—which will likely coincide with your son's entry into the workforce—a few stray dirty pics, videos or GIFs won't be the career-ending scandal that it is today.

Now here's what Judy Savage, my late mom, would've said if she discovered that one of her four kids was camwhoring to pay col-lege expenses: "You're an adult, and I can't tell you what to do. You are going to make your own choices and you're going to make your own mistakes. But you do have to listen to my concerns. You owe me that." Hesitating to hear

Mom out would result in a single raised eyebrow—a move that had a paralyzing effect on me and my siblings—and then Mom asking if we would rather talk about her four C-section scars instead.

We always chose to hear her out.So have a conversation with your

son, WORRIED, but first familiar-ize yourself with the technology and the phenomenon that is cam-ming. The New York Times wrote a great story on the risks and re-wards of camming ("Intimacy on the Web, With a Crowd," Septem-ber 21, 2013), and the first episode of HBO's Real Sex reboot, Sex//Now, focuses on camming. Check-ing out both might help you have a more informed, less freaked con-versation with your son about how he's paying for his booze, ciga-rettes and pot.

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Try C-SPAN. If C-SPAN doesn't work, try golf—playing it, watch-ing it, reading about it. If golf doesn't work, try Ambien.

PANTY PARANOIAI'm a girl in my mid-20s living in a large city. After listening to some of your older podcasts, I decided to hop on Craigslist to see if there were any boys that might like to buy my used undies. I posted a few ads and got tons of responses. Money has been tight, so why not? I met up with a guy and exchanged

a pair for $50. Score! I went home and replied to a few more and met another guy the next morning for another $50. Both guys seemed nice and I felt exhilarated after I walked away. But once I got home, I was extremely paranoid about the risk of being followed. I was up most of the night and constantly looking out the windows to make sure no one was there. My boy-friend is OK with me doing this; he just wants me to be safe about it. I think I was pretty safe. I set up a separate email account and I met them in public in the daytime. My boyfriend offered to go with me to meet these guys and hang

back where he wouldn't be seen. I'm fine with this, but we work differ-ent schedules, so it's not real-istic. And I don't think having someone with me would ease

my concern about being followed home. I looked into the sites that allow you to sell the goods online and mail them, but those don't re-ally work for me. You have to pay to use all of those sites. You also have to pay to set up a PO box and have a way to accept payments. (PayPal also displays some of your personal info.) I don't really have a lot of time to dedicate to sell-ing my panties. I just want to do it every once in a while for some spare cash. So is there anything else I could do to feel a little safer? Will this paranoid feeling go away after a few interactions? Or is my brain trying to tell me that I'm not cut out for this kind of thing? And exactly how dangerous is this?Pensive And New To Intense Exciting Salaciousness

There are thousands of women out there selling their used panties on-line and you never read about one being stalked or murdered by a collector, PANTIES, but the news is full of stories of women being mur-dered by their boyfriends and hus-bands. I don't mean to downplay the risks—or play fast and loose with the math (there are tens of millions of women with boyfriends and husbands)—and most women who sell their panties online aren't meeting their customers face-to-face. But if you don't want to go the website route, here's how you can sell your panties in person more safely: get the Uber app on your phone and order a car after you make a sale. Having a driver drop you a mile away will cost you $5 or $10, PANTIES, but the peace of mind will be worth the price.

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