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+better safe than sorry Inside the world of saskatchewan preppers.

zakk wylde legendary guitarist talks new project, bringing metal to the children

winter’s tale + let the fire burn Films reviewed

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culture entertainmentnews + opinion

better safe than sorry A look at Saskatchewan preppers. 4 / local

heart (and arms) of a champion Tracey Arnold talks arm wrestling technique. 6 / local

police protectionOur thoughts on putting cameras on cops. 8 / editorial

commentsHere’s what you had to say about legal-izing assisted suicide. 9 / comments

Q + a with zakk wylde Legendary guitarist on his new show. 10 / q + a

nightlife photos We visit McNally’s Tavern + O’Hanlon’s Pub. 18 / nightlife

live music listingsLocal music listings for February 14 through February 22. 16 / listings

winter’s tale + let the fire burn We review the latest movies. 20 / film

on the bus Weekly original comic illustrations by Elaine M. Will. 22 / comics

wingfield lost & found Wingfield’s back, and better than ever. 11 / arts

little spice on theprairie We visit Caraway Grill. 14 / food + drink

musicKat Danser, These Estates + Heart15 / music

bar room rockColdest Night of the Year on their debut EP. 11 / arts

game + horoscopesCanadian criss-cross puzzle, weekly horoscopes and Sudoku. 23 / timeout

on the cover: solidsBlame confusion. 12 / feature


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magine this: it’s a Sunday, just before twilight. You’re sitting in your house,

on your couch, watching your favourite television program. It’s the season finale. And just as the show is about to reach a climax, the power flickers, comes back on, flickers again and goes out. The television dies, the lights go dark.

A strange sound echoes through your house. A low continuous rumble like a nearby passing train.

You get up off the couch and go to the window. Off in the distance a fe-rocious tornado is funneling towards your house, tearing up everything in its path.

Panic sets in. You dart down to your basement, taking the stairs two steps at a time, and shut yourself in a room with no windows. You crawl under a table or cover yourself with a mattress or blanket, and wait out the storm.

When you emerge from your basement, your house is destroyed. The roof is torn off, the kitchen decimated. Lumber and appliances are littered across your yard. Every-where you look, for as far as the eye can see, things are reduced to rubble. Streets are blocked with debris.

Stuck in a situation like this, most of us wouldn’t know what to do,

wouldn’t know what to think. We’d be up s**t creek without that prover-bial paddle.

But not Tammy. She’s ready for something like this to happen. A tornado, flood, massive power out-age, a total global economic collapse.

Tammy is ready because Tammy is a prepper.

According to Oxford’s online dictionary, a prepper is a person who believes a catastrophic disaster or emergency is likely to occur in the future and makes active preparations for it, typically by stockpiling food, ammunition, and other supplies.

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And if you’ve seen any of the television shows or documentaries about these folks, at times they tend to come off as lunatics, or paranoid, doomsday nut jobs who take things way too far.

But that’s not always the case.“People need to realize that all

preppers aren’t gun-slinging red-necks,” says Tammy, as she wanders up and down the aisles of her local grocery store. “We’re not all camped out behind concertina wire with our guns and supplies. I mean, there are a few people like that in Saskatchewan — we’re talking the concrete bunker crowd here — but not a lot of them.”

And Tammy should know. She is a member of the Saskatchewan Preppers Network, so she’s been in contact with every kind of prepper you can think of. But most of them, she says, are more like her. Most of them are people who would rather be safe (and prepared) than sorry — in case of a natural disaster or, say, a serious emergency. People who cultivate old-world skills, who get back to the basics. Or, as she puts it, a lot of preppers are simply about “get-ting back to good old common sense. Not depending on outside sources for their daily bread.”

Standing in the toilet-paper aisle of her local grocery store, Tammy looks around. “Look at this — Scope, pit stick, sanitizer,” she says. Chuck-les and, under her breath, repeats the word sanitizer. “I know so many people that get freaked

out about germs. They’ll run and pay, what is it? Something like $6.99 for a bottle of poison because they’re told it works. They’re convinced it works. They don’t think about these things. They don’t realize that if you want to really sanitize your hands

all you need is vinegar. It’s cheap, it’s non-carcinogenic, and it’s an acid. It kills 100 percent of bacteria. Same as lemon juice … People don’t realize these things anymore.”

But Tammy does. That’s why she makes her own lip balm, her own laundry soap, her own toothpaste and shampoo. That’s why she has a living room full of aloe vera plants, and a garden where she grows everything from potatoes to onions to Chinese snow peas the size of your hand.

See, Tammy has chosen to de-crease her dependence on modern society. To decrease the chance of encountering the chemicals and food additives in the things we purchase. But that’s not all.

Along the way, she has also learned how to can food and how to

perform minor medical and first-aid treatments — just in case.

”Come a natural disaster, like a flood or the tornado you were talking about, guess who has food?” asks

Tammy, still roaming the grocery store. “Guess who has water? Guess who has medical supplies and the skill to treat wounds?”

You can almost picture Tammy pointing to herself when she says this. You can also imagine her as the type of person who would have a serious contingency plan if a natural disaster did occur.

Imagine that, and you’d be right.“I have an older home in town,”

says Tammy, who lives in Grenfell. “Most of these older houses have a cold room or a storage corner. So down there I have 72 hours worth of food, water, batteries, basic first aid materials, that kind of stuff. So if we have to bug in, we’d be fine.”

Bug in is prepper terminology that means if something happens, like a major power outage or storm,

you’re prepared to stay where you are, hunkered down in your house. Bugging out, as you’d guess, means the exact opposite. It means getting the hell out of Dodge if your home is destroyed.

Tammy is prepared for that, too.

“I have a bug out bag packed and stored under the stairs,” she says.

“In it, there’s a small first aid kit, 500-feet of paracord, which is handy in all kinds of strange situa-tions.” When asked what paracord is used for, Tammy chuckles and says, “Have you ever tried to hang a tarp with toothpicks? Paracord is ridiculously light. It’s like having instant rope. It’s small, lightweight, easy to deal with. If you have to, say, grab a horse and throw a halter on it, you can craft one out of para-cord. You can make a clothesline, you can hang a tarp to sleep under.”

Tammy’s bug out bag also includes a change of clothes, extra shoes, warm socks, granola bars and bottles of water until she can get to a decent water source.

And if by chance she has to bug out, the plan is for her and her family to get to the farm they own outside of town. There, there are more provi-sions. More food and supplies.

That’s Plan A. But what if something more

serious happens. Like, say, the mega volcano underneath Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming erupts?

“That’s the biggest threat we have here in Saskatchewan,” says Tammy. “Luckily we’re outside the blast zone, outside the worst of the ash zone. But if that happens, what my family and I have agreed upon is we all get our gear and meet up at the farm, then decide from there. If it came right down to it, and there was absolute destruction in this area, there’s another party I know that has an alternate location in northern Manitoba … so that would be the next destination.”

But Tammy hopes it never comes to that. She hopes she lives the rest of her life in safety, growing her vegetables, making her household products, trading heirloom seeds and other things with others on the Saskatchewan Preppers Network.

And if that doesn’t happen, if some natural disaster swings in and wreaks havoc — she’ll be ready.

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hen Tracey Arnold steps to an arm wrestling table,

she’s focused. The crowd around her dissolves. Sometimes she doesn’t really see her opponent. Just the arm on the table in front of her.

Her mind is clear. She’s deep in her own head, lost in the moment. But she’s ready. Tracey Arnold is always ready.

That’s because when she’s not competing, Arnold is training. Some of the time that involves being at the gym, working with an exercise ther-apist who has developed workouts that are specifically geared towards arm wrestling. “Your core plays a huge factor in arm wrestling,” says Arnold, “so when I’m in the gym, I’m

working on my core. I do a well-bal-anced exercise [regime] that allows my strength and stamina to peak when I’m going into the major event at a competition.”

Other times she’s in the garage of one of the other members of her arm wrestling club, doing table work and practicing technique. Putting herself in different positions and dif-ferent situations. Training her mind and body to react without having to think. “When you take the element of stopping to think out of the equation, you’ll react faster,” explains Arnold. “We call it hitting first. You want to start fast, catch your opponent off guard. If you do that, you have the advantage.”

There are times when Arnold steps to an arm wrestling table she

knows her opponent, knows what they’re going to do before their hands ever lock.

But that’s not always the case. If Arnold doesn’t know her opponent, hasn’t seen her compete before, there’s a feeling-out process that takes place.

A process that is almost instanta-neous, but oh so important.

The history of arm wrestling is an ancient one. Paintings, thousands of years old, show what appears to be an arm wrestling contest on an Egyptian tomb. Across the Atlan-tic Ocean, on these shores, arm wrestling developed from a Native American game where competitors used their arms (and other parts of

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their bodies) to unbalance and pin their opponent.

In 1952, a journalist named Bill Soberanes organized the first recorded arm wrestling competition

in Petaluma, California, at a place called Gilardi’s Saloon.

That’s the history, according to the Ultimate Arm Wrestling League.

Tracey Arnold’s history with the sport begins much later than

that. It begins a few years after a tragic accident.

In 1990, Arnold and her family were involved in a serious car crash. Her father died. The rest of her

family had extensive injuries. As for Tracey, she suffered nerve damage and severe injuries to her spinal cord, heart, pelvis, limbs and face. Injuries that left her paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair.

She was 12 years old.“Before the accident I was very

active and competitive in sports,” she remembers, “but after it, being injured like that, there wasn’t a lot that I could do.”

Not the type of person to be held down, Arnold learned to walk again. Then, a handful of years after the accident, she walked up to an arm-wrestling table (with the help of a cane) for the first time to compete.

“It was 1996. I entered a tourna-ment and won,” says Arnold.

After that, she was hooked.

“You can usually tell what technique someone’s going to use when they grip up,” says Arnold. “If someone grips lower on the hand, that means they’re going for a hook.”

If you’ve ever arm wrestled across a kitchen table, chances are you used the hook technique. That’s when you curl your wrist as hard as you can, get your body over your arm while keeping close proximity to your torso, and push down with your arm and body.

If someone grips your hand higher, chances are they’re going for a toproll. This technique relies more on leverage than strength. What you do in the toproll is put pressure on your opponent’s fingers so their hand opens up, whereby making it easier to pin their hand.

Then there’s the press, one of the purest power moves in arm wres-tling. Here, you want to get your opponent’s palm facing up, your hand on top, then simply use brute strength to “press” your opponent’s hand to the table.

In the raw and competitive world of arm wrestling, many competitors have a signature style or favourite technique they use, others become more well-rounded.

Tracey Arnold falls into the latter category. “I train everything,” she says. “I want to be ready and be able to adapt to anyone’s style. If I know my opponent is stronger in one technique I want to be able to use another. For example, if they’re good at hooking, I’m not going to hook with them. I’m going to try to toproll them, get the advantage.”

Not only does Arnold train all techniques, she also trains and com-

petes with both hands. A natural righty, Arnold has won numerous national championships in both the right- and left-hand categories in her weight class.

She’s also competed in a slew of arm wrestling world champion-ship tournaments, with her best results coming in 2010 at the XXXII World Armwrestling Champion-ships in Mesquite, Nevada. There, she won silver in the Disabled Ladies Left 60+kg division and a bronze in the Disabled Ladies Right 60+kg division.

“At worlds I usually compete in the open class, but that year I competed in the disabled and it was tough,” says Arnold. “The way they broke down the weight, I ended up

competing against women who out-weighed me by about 100 pounds. So yeah, winning those medals, that was probably the high point of my career so far.”

But her career isn’t over yet. There are more competitions to en-ter, and provincials are just around the corner. Then nationals. And worlds. In the meantime, Arnold will be training, getting ready for whatever is thrown her way.

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he idea of police of-ficers wearing small, portable cameras on

their uniforms isn’t anything new.From small town America to Eu-

ropean metropolises, police agencies are making a strong push for their law enforcement officials to start wearing body cameras, arguing that doing so protects both officers and the public.

We agree with this practice, which is why we are advocating that our police services in Sas-katchewan outfit their members with recording devices.

Recording officers is something we are all familiar with. So often we see news reports of criminal activ-ity, where a shaky cell phone video represents a bystander’s perspective of the events. Unfortunately, those

don’t always have the audio quality necessary to understand what’s going on, nor do they always show what transpired beforehand. A small camera on an officer, though, would provide a more complete picture, not to mention holding both the public and the police accountable for their interactions with one another.

A nice idea, sure. But will it actu-ally work?

The answer is yes. Case in point: the city of Rialto, in southern Cali-fornia. There, the police force have used miniature video cameras and microphones to record police inter-action with civilians. The cameras attach to the police officer’s collar. Police are expected to activate the cameras whenever they leave the pa-trol car and the videos it records are automatically uploaded to a central

server back at headquarters. Think of it as a visual evidence locker or something of the sort.

But not everyone on the forces gets a camera during a shift. To determine whether or not these gadgets work, it was decided that only half the officers on shift will wear a camera, which would permit the department to do a comparative study of incidents with and without a recording device.

The results, to date, have been nothing short of staggeringly impres-sive. According to the study, in the first 12 months the cameras were in use the Rialto police department experienced an 88 percent decrease in the number of complaints filed against their officers.

What’s more, the study also showed that Rialto police officers

used force about 60 percent less often. Oh, and when force was used, it was twice as likely to come from a cop without a camera.

And to mitigate concerns that officers would only switch on their cameras after an incident has transpired, the devices featured a “pre-event video buffer.” This means that the apparatus records and holds the most recent 30 seconds of film whenever the camera is turned off; by extension, it would also likely capture whatever event occurred that prompted an officer to turn on his or her camera in the first place.

Because the results of this and other trial runs have been so favour-able, most major cities in Canada are lobbying for their law enforce-ment officials to use body cameras. Calgary started rolling them out en

masse last August. Body cameras have also been tested in Edmon-ton, Ottawa and Toronto. Oh, and Montreal and Vancouver are also considering equipping their officers with the devices.

Putting cameras on officers protects the public while also protecting the police, and does so with great success. And we should be doing it here.

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– Yes people should be able to determine when and how they die if they are suffering and should be able to seek out medical assistance to do so why is this even still a conversation we are having in 2014? Doesn’t it seem outrageous that the government has a say in the proper ways you can die? So stupid.

– Taking your own life is a sin so no, doctor’s should be making you comfortable and helping you get better not killing you

– Canada is behind the times on this one. Permitting doctors to perform end of life rites for people who have explicitely expressed those wishes should be allowed. We should not be punishing medical personnel from follow-ing patients orders that are within reason. Agree that it gets tricky when it involves a young person or a child who has a terminal illness, especially if they are in pain but this is a conversation Canadians need to have.

– Agree with the editorial “Dying with Dignity” I think this is long overdue in Canada. There are obvious problems with a system that permits assisted suicide but there’s just as many problems with a system that prevents it - people suffering unduly and dying in long prolonged agony.

– Euthanasia is a tricky subject to talk about because what do you do if its a young kid or maybe some-one with a mental health problems how do you make sure that they understand what they are choos-ing to do.

– YES! Let’s embrace legalizing eu-thanasia in Canada Sue Rodriguez suffered horribly, as have count-less other people and we need to change things to help them.

off topic

– Re mandatory flu shots Be very careful what you wish for. Every time citizens are coerced is one step closer to the camps. We are not taught that the Nazis were So-cialists- who thought that the Na-tion was more important than the individual. And the fact that Drs aren’t getting flu shots should be a clue as to how effective they really are. But they can wear masks as a precaution.

In response to “For our protection,” Edito-

rial, #113 (January 31, 2014)

– I just finished reading your arti-cal “Sex Work In Saskatchewan” A very good read and a informa-tive viewpoint that needed to be said out loud, I have a few friends in said industry who share those very same viewpoints. I tip my hat to you for putting it out there! :) Salute, Kaine

In response to “Sex work in Saskatchewan,”

Local, #113 (January 31, 2014)

– Thanks for featuring a tribe called red. These guys are huge so amazing and it’s great to see them getting some attention in local media.

In response to “Past & Present,” Feature,

#114 (February 7, 2014)

sound off

– Low income Families survive through kindness and Carry it foward ... While some senators

Duff it up,wallen those go hungry? ... WAKE UP !

– Budget release is so stupid idiot is up there taking more of my money wearing new shoes because of traditioN? Get a new tradition.

– Bus drivers and their dam games, figure they can drive whenever they feel like. REALITY CHECK- you have a schedule to run, stay on schedul Truth Is Power-Try It

– Loving Canada does not mean you are duty bound to love Mr. Harper.

– I notice a few things about the Olympics. Winter Olympics is mostly a white folk thing. Athletes are incredibly self involved. God it all burns planet!

– Let’s go Canada you’re doing so great! Sochi 2014!!!

– Men’s hockey tomorrow can’t wait LET’S GO CANADA!

- Go canada go bring home the gold :)

– Mark McMorris Saskatchewan is so proud of you! Great job, we love you!!

– Free beer in Olympic village if you scan your Canadia passport. Canada has won the Olympics all ready lol

– Loving Canada or pimping out Canada to Big Oil ...

– All you people who think you’re morning people, not lazy, go get-ters, all that! Lets see ya do it with-out a drug caffeine. If you can’t’ go home with your sh*t!

– I was LIVING Happily EVER after...UNTIL the JONESES moved in ON EITHER side of ME.

– Happy birthday to me!

– What type of car does Luke Sky-walker drive? A Toy-Yoda!

– Spring is on its way. I can feel it in my bones.

– MBC without Into The Night program And that cool DJ... What now ? No radio...

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he long and storied history of rock and roll is flush with great

guitar players. Very few of them, however, changed the way people think about their instrument. One of these is Zakk Wylde, the New Jersey-born axe-slinger who rose to prominence as an integral part of Ozzy Osbourne’s band, and later as the frontman of Black Label Society. His mastery of the blistering guitar lick and the fuzzed-out wah wah solo have made him a legend among guitar players. But like most other titans of rock and roll, Wylde has a soft side. His first solo album, 1996’s Book Of Shadows, was closer in spirit to “Tangerine” than “Rock and Roll.” Since then, Wylde has emerged as a quiet champion of the acoustic guitar. Last year, Black Label Society released a collection of acoustic songs called Unblack-

ened, which set the stage for the guitarist’s latest venture, a concert tour titled “An Evening With Zakk Wylde.” Last week, I called Wylde to learn more about his love of acoustic music, his memoir, and his wicked sense of humour.

Alex J MacPherson: How did you come up with the idea for “An Evening with Zakk Wylde”?

Zakk Wylde: Well, we just did it origi-nally to go out and do a thing promoting the book, when it came

out in paperback. I was like, instead of doing that why don’t we do a gig? And it’ll be a combination of, you know, us jamming, doing a stripped-down version of it, the acoustic-type thing, and then a storyteller gone hor-rendously wrong meets George Carlin

thing. And then us doing the musical stylings of Black Label. That’s basically how it came about.

AJM: So it’s not quite a concert and not quite a reading, but something in between?

ZW: Yeah. We jam and then I read a bunch of stuff from the book and tell some goofy-ass stories, so it turns into basically a stand-up routine. Then it goes back to jamming. It’s another excuse to go out and see the Black Label family and have a good time, man.

AJM: What’s the appeal of a night like this, rather than a full-on concert?

ZW: It’s definitely cool, when you hear how that song came about or what-ever. I’m still a huge massive fan, and if I went and saw Robert Plant and he was doing something like this, talking about how these songs came about and telling some goofy-ass stories, some Zeppelin stories, we’d all be crack-ing up and having a good time. And then obviously we get to jam … So in between doing the record, earning my next Nobel Peace Prize, and coming up with the cure for cancer and world hunger — that’s before brunch — and before I clean the dog run I was like, see if we can fit this Canadian run in so we can hang out with our Canadian Black Label family.

AJM: You’ve recorded quite a bit of stripped-down acoustic material. Do you find that certain songs better lend themselves to that treatment?

ZW: I would think definitely. Actually, you know what? I can take any of the heavy songs and make them mellow, I really can. So for me it’s really no big deal. I definitely dig it. Like, what I did on The Song Remains Not The Same: tweak all the songs, take heavy songs and make them mellow. So it’s defi-nitely cool. When we did Unblackened and stuff, it was like taking a trip down memory lane with some of these songs, you know what I mean? And when we come up there on the book run we’re definitely going to be playing a bunch of songs that usually never see the light of day, which is always fun.

AJM: So both are appealing, albeit for different reasons?

ZW: I think if you ask most musicians it’s the same. I mean, I love doing both. As much as I love listening to “Black Dog” with Zeppelin, I love listening to “Going To California,” too.

AJM: And then there’s the book, Bringing Metal to the Children: The Complete Berzerker’s Guide to World Tour Domination. Awesome title, by the way. What made you decide to write a book?

ZW: Writing the book? That came about because me and [co-writer] Eric [Hendrikx] were just sitting around talking about these ridiculous stories all the time. It was just kind of like, we’d always end it with ‘we need to write a book someday.’ And we finally did. So that’s what came about.

AJM: Did you have an idea of where you wanted it to go, or was it more about getting the stories down on record somewhere?

ZW: Put it this way: when we started writing it, it was a guitar instruction book and then equipment and then studio and then goofy stories. Then we just started the book and we were literally crying laughing, just us taking the piss out of a funny story about how ridiculous something can be, and then just us making fun of that. Then I was like, the whole book needs to be this.

Just so you could pick it up, anywhere in the book, and start going, you got to be f**king kidding me. It’s just ridiculously stupid — and the whole thing is I’m not making up any of the stories. These actually really happened and you just go, you got to be kidding me. No. It’s not worth making it up. The tsunami of stupidity and ridiculous-ness that you run into, that is the music business? It’s an endless supply.

AJM: The music business is that bad?

ZW: It really is, man. The thing is with the music business there is no real qualifications or anything like that. It’s like, whoever your manager is, you’ve known him since high school. Yeah, but he runs an automotive shop, a garage! I know, he doesn’t know contracts, he doesn’t know how the music business works, but he knows how to read, write, add, and subtract — he’ll be fine. There are no qualifica-tions. I mean, if you’re going to have somebody weld something, you’ve got to have a license to be a welder. If you’re going to be a doctor, you’ve got to have a degree. Whereas if you’re in the music business, you just need to show up. [Laughs]

AJM: Okay, so given how crazy it is, what has allowed you to flourish in it?

ZW: Um, a lot of payola? No, be-tween hookers, drugs, and money — cocaine, all that stuff — it’s basically just payola, and buying your way into happiness. That’s what I tell all the kids. I go, you definitely want to practice, that’s definitely a must. But I say, the way Uncle Zakk wins all these guitar awards, between the ice sculp-tures, the strippers, the hookers, the money? I go, mind you these awards cost a lot of money to win, but at the end of the day you play to win. At the end of the day, you just practice and work hard — and don’t ever lose your sense of humour, man.

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hris Matchett has spent more hours than he’d like

to count perched on a stool in O’Hanlon’s, sipping pints and tak-ing the pulse of the crowded bar. He has seen people gossiping and argu-ing, flirting and fighting. Struck by the act of watching strangers’ lives unfolding in front of him, Matchett started thinking about how the nightlife staves off the cold reality of morning, if only for a few hours. His stories of massive highs and

crushing lows became the source material for the songs he was writ-ing with Coldest Night Of The Year.

“It’s just something that every-body can relate to, I think. It grabs you right away,” Matchett says of the band’s 2013 debut, which chronicles late nights of debauchery, lust, and tumescent dreams spilled all over the battered hardwood floor. “One of the comments I’ve heard the most is, I can totally put myself into that song because I’ve been there. That’s exactly what I was looking … as long as you can capture something everybody can relate to, you’re going to have some success.”

Coldest Night of The Year was formed in late 2012 by Matchett, Carl Johnson, Garret Matheis, and Jon Wolfond. The four Regina-based musicians had played in a number of bands, including Library Voices and Geronimo. According to Matchett, the idea of forming a straightforward

rock group sprang from their collec-tive desire to have fun, play loud, and not worry about the results. But when they finally plugged in their guitars, the result exceeded their expectations. “Honestly, we felt like a bunch of high school kids doing our first band,” he says with a hearty laugh. “There were no egos involved; we just got together and jammed.”

Coldest Night Of The Year played its first show in November 2012. Just two months later the band was cut-ting its debut at Blue Door Recording in Regina. Coldest Night Of The Year emerged as a stripped-down celebra-tion of grimy guitar rock. “There’s so much you can do with a simple for-mula, as long as it’s honest,” Matchett says. “We wanted to keep it as simple as we could; we didn’t want to make a record that portrayed anything we couldn’t do live onstage.”

The songs on Coldest Night Of The Year transform Matchett’s idle

observations into universal truths; on the record, individual experiences become touchstones of life in the city. By casting the impossible freedom of a night out against the lingering regrets of the morning after, Matchett and his bandmates created a record that anybody who has ever braved the frigid Saskatchewan night for a glass of beer in a rowdy pub will instinc-tively understand. “Nice To Have You Around” is a propulsive ode to the all-consuming power of young love, “Invisible Again” an epitaph for a night gone badly wrong. To better capture the swirling emotions that accompany a night out, “Sail Away” contains a sample of bar noise Johnson recorded at O’Hanlon’s using his iPhone and an empty pint glass.

“It’s basically what I’ve always done,” Matchett says of his tendency to write songs about strangers’ lives. “Like, I didn’t pick up a guitar until I was thirty years old. So I had to go

with write what you know and feel natural about it because I didn’t have any real formula. So it’s always just been me telling stories that I’ve seen the best way I could.” After a pause he adds, “and putting a little bit of auto-biographical stuff in whenever I could sneak it in.” It is a simple formula, but rock and roll is simple music. Rock and roll is music for the moment, and few records capture this better than Coldest Night Of The Year. It is a handbook for everyone who likes to get drunk, meet someone special, and spend Sunday afternoon reliving the highs of Satur-day night in Saskatchewan.

Coldest Night of the YearFebruary 22 @ the exchange$10 @ the door

arts

w ingfield Lost and Found is the seventh play in a

series that has been running for almost thirty years. Conceived, developed, and produced by actor Rod Beattie, writer Dan Needles, and director Douglas Beattie, the Wingfield one-man play chronicles the adventures of Walt Wingfield, a stockbroker who gives up his life in the city for the solitude of a farm in rural Ontario. Although the plays are written about a very specific part of the country, their explora-tion of universal themes — the tri-als of farming, family, and friends — has won fans across the country.

“What we found was that farming is pretty much the same in terms of its ethos and values all across the country and, in fact, all across North America and perhaps farther afield than that,” explains Douglas Beattie, who has been directing the series since the first play, Letter From Wingfield Farm,

opened in 1985. “We have been able to strike a chord in many, many regions, and not just where farming is done but also where farming is remembered. So it’s had quite a remarkable success in urban areas as well.” Much of the series’ success is due to its simple formula. A one-man show that cap-tures the essences of a few recurring characters, the Wingfield series dives deep into the heart of what it means to live and work in the country. Which is not surprising, considering the series started life as a newspaper column about that very subject.

“It was called ‘Letter from Wingfield Farm,’” director Douglas Beattie says of Needles’ column, which was published in the Shelburne, Ontario Free Press & Economist and syndicated across the province. “It was a kind of barnyard fantasy and it was the first appearance of Walt Wingfield. I suggested to him that these might be the basis for a play or a show of some sort, and he agreed.

Then the idea went away for awhile but a couple of opportunities arose in 1984 to try a performance of it. We got to work and to make a long story short, the original play opened in its current form in 1985 and was popular enough that it begged a sequel — and begged another sequel after that.”

And four more after those. Wing-field Lost and Found develops a theme explored in Wingfield On Ice and Wingfield’s Inferno: the terrible power of nature, and the heartbreak felt by people who are forced to rely on it for survival. The play opens with Walt Wingfield — played by Rod Beattie, who has performed Wingfield plays more than 4,500 times — contending with a terrible drought and a dry well, the perennial fears of everyone who relies on water for agriculture. As the play unfolds, Walt’s quest for a fresh source of water merges with the less pressing though far from unimportant demands of his family and friends. The

various storylines are united by the theme of things lost and things found. In addition to hiring diviners and well-drillers, Walt must search for a lost piece of jewellery and deal with the mysterious disappearance of a friend’s musical ability.

“We try and get a natural issue, an agricultural issue, and combine it with personal issues,” Beattie says of the play which, like all Wingfield plays, is framed as a series of letters read by the editor of a small town newspaper. “In this play, we have four or five instances of things which are lost and then after a search found in interesting ways.” Wingfield Lost and Found follows the same pattern as its predecessors, but the seventh installment also introduces new themes and a variety of colourful new characters, including a retired water witch named Delbert. At the same time, Wingfield Lost and Found provides longtime fans of the series

with an update on their favourite characters — Walt, his wife Maggie, Freddy, Don, and the Squire.

Beattie isn’t sure if he and his longtime collaborators will create an eighth play in the series (“I think Dan’s phrase for Wingfield is that we’re resting the fish, and as I’m not a fly fisherman I’m not quite sure what that means,” he says), he is confident that Wingfield Lost And Found will appeal to nearly everyone. “There’ll be a combination of newcomers and old friends, but even the old friends are forgetful so we’re very care-ful to unobtrusively provide all the information people need to feel as if they’re up to speed as we go along,” he says. After a pause he laughs and adds, “So don’t miss the first ten minutes or so.”

Wingfield Lost & Foundthrough march 2 @ globe theatre$37+ @ globe theatre box office

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ouis Guillemette and Xavier Germain-Poitras did not make a conscious

decision to start another band. The blistering duo Solids emerged not from some primal desire to explore the freedoms and challenge the limitations of stripped-down guitar rock, but from the simple fact that its members tended to show up early for jams. In early 2010, Guil-lemette and Germain-Poitras were playing with several bands in Mon-treal, Quebec, including the hard-core group Expectorated Sequence. Because musicians are notoriously tardy and because everybody hates waiting around for other people to show up, the pair started picking up their instruments and making noise. “Me and Xavier would be arriving earlier at jams and we’d be, like, playing some softer stuff, still heavy but more poppy, alternative music,” says Guillemette, whose frenetic drumming is the perfect counter-point to Germain-Poitras’s hazy riffs and overdriven power chords. “And then after we started doing songs, we recorded the Generic Dogs EP, and then we did our first show. And that’s when we under-stood that we were into something maybe a bit bigger than we thought we were getting into.” Without any real plan, the two musicians created

a paradox, a band inspired by and committed to soaring melodies and tidal waves of noise, each threaten-ing to consume the other.

The rock and roll duo is not a revolutionary idea. Bands have been stripping away excess for years; in the early 2000s, the White Stripes dem-onstrated the viability of the form by popularizing skeletal electric blues on a global scale. More recently, Canadian groups like Japandroids and the Pack

A.D. have injected minimalist rock with maximalist energy, transforming simple songs into towering expressions of pure, unalloyed emotion. Not sur-prisingly, Solids have been compared to these and other bands, including the Los Angeles-based punk duo No Age. But Guillemette and Germain-Poitras are not confined by the duo format, nor do they seem particularly attached to it. “At first we actually wanted a bass player,” Guillemette says, adding that

keeping things simple was a logistical choice as well as an aesthetic one. “We wanted to be, like, a power trio. Xavier played in a band and they were like six or seven dudes, and we were kind of tired of playing in those [kinds of bands]. We’re not really excluding the fact that maybe one day we’ll get more people, but right now there’s just the two of us and it’s great that way.”

At the same time, the limitations of playing as a duo — four arms, four feet,

two brains — haven’t impeded Solids’ quest to make as much noise as pos-sible. Guillemette is no slouch behind the drum kit or the microphone, and Germain-Poitras has developed an inventive style of guitar-playing that makes six strings sound like twelve — or more. “He plays through a bass amp and a guitar amp,” Guillemette says of his musical partner’s technique, which produces a melody on the high strings and a thundering bass line on the

lmontreal duo solids perfect skeletal guitar rock on blistering debut

feature

blame confusion

We’re mostly jam dudes. We’re not lyricists or anything, and that’s why sometimes we tend to put more effort on the music…

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lower ones. “He has this weird strum-ming and playing of the guitar where you have the bass and all the single notes at the same time.” Although the group rapidly earned a reputation for unhinged live performances, Solids struggled to capture the energy and intensity of a live performance on tape. The Generic Dogs EP and a pair of split singles only hinted at the raw power of the band’s live show. That changed with the October, 2013 release of

Blame Confusion, the band’s debut full-length and the best expression of their musical vision to date.

“All the [early] recordings we did, we recorded with Jace Lasek from the Besnard Lakes and all those guys,” Guillemette says. “But it was a bit qui-eter, softer. We really wanted to have the angry punk-rock sound that we have live and I think we actually had the chance to pull it off with [producer] Adrian [Popovich]. He was really like,

it needs to be louder, it needs to be more aggressive with feedback! And that’s where we went.” Blame Confu-sion plays on the tension between soaring melodies and crushing noise. By filtering familiar chord progres-sions and melodic ideas — particularly those reminiscent of alt-rock from the 1990s — through a seemingly endless array of overdriven tube amps, Solids produced a record that is both familiar and jarring. Put another way, Blame Confusion is an apt demonstration of how achingly beautiful melodies can coexist with fractious noise. Just before the thick layers of feedback and distortion threaten to become overwhelmingly claustrophobic, the melody bursts through layer after layer of grime and fuzz and chaos.

Perhaps the best example of this comes midway through “Terminal,” the last track on Blame Confusion. The song begins as a collection of stately guitar chords awash in electronic noise before building into a straightforward mid-tempo rocker. As the song launch-es into its middle section, Germain-Poitras’s melody, a simple collection of notes played high up the neck, is submerged beneath an expanding ocean of noise — until it starts to lunge for the surface, each note somehow refusing to be drowned in static. It is a beautiful moment, and it is not unique: Blame Confusion is littered with such moments of melodic triumph, each a testament to the raw power of simple guitar riff.

Solids’ mastery of the soaring rock riff is a direct result of their apparent unwillingness to do much else. “We’re mostly jam dudes,” Guillemette says. “We’re not lyricists or anything, and that’s why sometimes we tend to put more effort on the music than the lyr-ics. Sometimes we get too much into the music and forget. Like, oh yeah, we should put more lyrics in this.” (The songs on Blame Confusion tend to cover such topics as being young and living in the moment with little regard for to-morrow or next week.) Since the very beginning of the band, Guillemette and Germain-Poitras have written songs by getting together, turning the volume up, and punishing riff after riff. “When we started it was really completely out of the blue, just going into the jam space to smoke weed and drink Red Bulls and just, like, jam and jam and jam. We’d be playing for like 45

minutes straight without thinking and then holy s**t, we have a really nice riff there. It’s always like that.”

Perhaps more than anything else, Blame Confusion captures all of the in-tense excitement and anxious energy that accompanies an all-ages show in a grimy basement. Both Guillemette and Germain-Poitras grew up in the suburbs and spent their weekends attending ad hoc shows by long-forgotten hardcore bands, and both musicians harbour fond memories of the experience. “I kind of miss that vibe,” Guillemette says, adding that he and Germain-Poitras are interested in playing more all-ages shows, to share their own excitement with a new generation of music fans. “Playing bars is really great but there’s no, like, kids — there’s energy but it’s not the same thing as getting all of those kids into the show.”

But for now he and Germain-Poitras must content themselves with playing bars and clubs, the staple of every working rock band’s life. After self-releasing Blame Confusion in Octo-ber, the two musicians were surprised when a pair of record labels called, Dine Alone in Canada and Fat Possum in the United States. Both labels will re-release the record to a much wider audience in 2014, a move that will allow the band to spend even more time on the road. More importantly, the promise of more exposure and more tour dates enabled Guilllemette and Germain-Poitras to do something every professional musician dreams of — quit their day jobs. “It’s not really about the money; it’s about surviving,” Guillemette says. “But leaving jobs and being able to make a bit of a living with music? I mean, I’m 28 and I find it kind of weird to actually make a bit of money to live during the year. It’s a big thing for us. We’re really happy but we’re still trying to figure it out, how everything’s going to work.” After a pause he laughs and says, “Doesn’t get any better than this, I guess.”

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food + drink

s a relative newcomer to Regina’s growing list of Indian restaurants,

Caraway Grill may appear to have the odds stacked against it: its location is not ideal for foot traffic (you’ll find Caraway tucked into an unremarkable building on the edge of downtown, just before a bridge), its exterior is plain and grey, and the interior is small and simple, seating just about 30 people.

But the food — oh my god, the food is good.

Words aren’t able to do justice to how juicy and succulent the tandoori shrimp are, how tender and rich the lamb bhuna tastes, or how melt-in-your-mouth the homemade spice-infused chicken in the masala curry is.

Even something seemingly as simple as naan bread stands out: brushed in butter and fresh garlic, the dough retains a perfectly crispy

base and pillowy surface after being baked to perfection in the restau-rant’s clay oven.

Owner Parveen Singh has a wealth of experience from working in five-star restaurants in both Delhi and Canada — something that is clear through the careful presentation and complex layers of flavour he incorporates into each plate.

Unlike some ethnic restaurants that try to tie western influences into their dishes, Caraway Grill aims to make diners’ experiences wholly authentic. Singh has done away with the idea of a buffet, and has created a small but sound menu instead — with everything pre-pared fresh in the Caraway kitchen, right down to the spices the chefs roast themselves.

“We serve very authentic food — everything we serve here is what we would eat back at home,” he said. “Customers who have travelled to India tell me that the food they ate over there tastes just like ours.”

Caraway Grill blends together both spicier southern and milder northern Indian flavours in its dishes — mean-ing that the food certainly has the kick you’d expect from it, but is mild enough for the most part that you’re

able to savour your meal instead of having to gulp down water.

Their starters and main courses are a mix of vegetarian and meat dishes, from favourites like tandoori and butter chicken to aloo gobi and spinach paneer. The first thing that really stood out to me when Singh carried out our first course of tandoori shrimp and juicy chicken tikka was just how lovely everything looked aesthetically: the neatly ar-ranged pieces, the arty garnishes of paprika-dusted onion and lemon, and all the wonderful colours of the spices and chutneys. The bites themselves are extremely tender and really deeply infused in spices, while the side of mint chutney adds a bright, refreshing boost to the rich-ness of the rest of the plate.

The aloo tikki arrived in an elegant way, too — two king potato and green pea cakes piled carefully on top of chickpeas and swirls of tamarind chut-ney and yogurt sauce.

My two mains, the chicken masala and the lamb bhuna (a new addition to the menu) both had extremely com-plex layers of spices to them as well, alongside fresh, sautéed vegetables and juicy meat that tasted like it had been slow-cooked for days.

I washed everything down with a tall glass of mango lassi — smooth and creamy, it helps cut through the heat of the dishes a lot. Though truthfully, coming from someone with a fairly low tolerance to spice, the way it’s used in this instance is really not overwhelm-ing in the least.

Singh says that the kitchen is always glad to kick up the heat a notch for customers who like their foods extra spicy, but that the dishes come fairly mild otherwise (for Indian food, at least).

I’ve never been to India myself, so the closest I’ve ever come to experi-encing the ‘real’ taste of South Asia is through ethnic restaurants that have set up shop in North America. I’m prob-ably not the most reputable authority, then, on whether Caraway Grill is as authentic as it gets, but what I do know is that I can’t remember the last time I had Indian food this good.

caraway grill1625 broad street | (306) 522 4243

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caraway grill brings authentic Indian cuisine to regina, from must-have masala to tempting tandooriby mJ deschamPs

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let’s go drinkin’ verb’s mixology guide

tamarind margarita

While tamarind is a common in-gredient in sauces and chutneys in South Asia, here in North America not everyone is familiar with the tangy fruit. If you’re looking for a unique sweet and sour cocktail however, look no further (although the tamarind itself might be tricky to find at some supermarkets).

ingredients

1 ½ oz. agave tequila½ oz. triple sec½ oz. lime juice½ oz. simple syrup½ oz. tamarind puree

directions

Add ingredients to a shaker with ice and mix. Dip the rim of a wide glass into lime juice and twist into salt to create a rim. Strain the contents of the shaker into the glass. @verbregina

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Coming upnext Week

kat danser

Kat Danser is the “Queen of the Swamp Blues.” An Edmonton-based musician, this singer/songwriter/gui-tar slinger creates blazing songs that drip with the spirit of blues, roots and gospel. A touring machine, Danser has played the where’s-where of the Canadian festival circuit. From Massey Hall in Toronto to the Vancouver Island Music Fest to the Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival, she has wowed crowds with her deep blues tunes and formidable stage presence. Her most recent album, Baptized by the Mud, is an infectious, interesting study in the dichotomy of church blues, in the idea that blues music is devilish while church songs are angelic. Danser will be appearing at the Artesian on 13th later next week. Don’t miss it. Tickets through www.picatic.com.

@ artesIan on 13thsaturday, february 22 – $15+

There’s nothing fancy or preten-tious about Regina’s “bourbon rock” trio, These Estates. It’s just three guys — John Cameron, Mason Pitzel and Matt Carr — on stage with loud guitars and an unkempt, riff-friendly punk rock sound that’s hard to ignore. The kind of sound that takes you back to a time when, as the band’s friend Tommy Dski once said, “the total sum of a band’s ambition was to play guitar, sing a song, rock a show, drink a beer and maybe one day get in a van.” That’s These Estates in a nutshell. They are raw, energetic, down-to-earth and proud of it. If you want a badass night out with some badass music, they’ll be playing The Exchange along with Coldest Night of the Year and Tree-beard next weekend.

these estates

It’s been a wild, up-and-down ride for sisters Ann and Nancy Wil-son — better known collectively as Heart. After paying their dues and learning their trade throughout the late-’60s and early ‘70s, the Wilson sisters rose to fame in the mid-’70s playing a brand of music influenced by hard rock, heavy metal and folk. Their popularity waned in the early-’80s, then skyrocketed again in the late-’80s before they … well, you get the point. It’s been a roller-coaster ride for Heart, but along the way they have become Rock and Roll Hall of Famers and pioneers who inspired women to pick up their guitars and rock the hell out. They’ll be in Regina this summer. You should probably be there. Tick-ets through Ticketmaster.

– by adam hawboldt

heart

@ the exchangesaturday, february 22 – $10

@ brandt centremonday, June 23rd – $59.50+

sask music previewSaskMusic is pleased to announce the fourth intake of the Investment Pro-gram, which supports the production of commercially viable sound record-ings for promotional use and/or a commercial release. Applications, which are due by March 17, 2014, are currently being accepted for Single/Demo Sound Recording, and Commercial Sound Recording (Album). The Program is funded by Creative Saskatchewan Inc. For more information and to ap-ply, please visit http://www.saskmusic.org/funding/investment-programs.

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friday 14Belle Plaine and the UnreqUited love / Artesian on 13th — Playing a

collection of song for the broken hearted.

8pm / $15(advance)/$20(door)

SPellBoUnd ConCert / Artful Dodger

— Featuring an Eric Clapton Tribute band.

8pm / Cover TBD

one YoUng’n, gilviS and Fever / George Reed Auditorium (Orr Centre) —

Rock from the 50s and 60s along with and

Elvis tribute artist. 8pm / $25+

dJ Pat & dJ Kim / Habano’s Martini &

Cocktail Club — Local DJs spin top 40 hits

every Friday night that are sure to get you

on the dance floor. 9pm / $5 cover

Big Chill FridaYS / Lancaster Taphouse

— Come out and get your weekend

started with DJ Fatbot, who’ll be doing his

spinning thing every Friday night. 8pm /

Cover TBD

matt taYlor trio / Lancaster Taphouse

— Playing smooth jazz for Valentine’s

Day. 9pm / Cover TBD

BreaKdown PartY Band / McNally’s

Tavern — Playing classic rock and roll

favourites. 10pm / $5

Craig moritz / Pump Roadhouse —

Rockin’ country all night long. 9pm /

Cover TBD

alBert / Pure Ultra Lounge — Appearing

every Friday night, come listen to Albert

as he does his spinning thing. 10pm / $5

SoUl ShaKerS / Sip Nightclub — Gritty

energetic R&B music. 9pm / Cover TBD

dJ longhorn / Whiskey Saloon — Come

check out one of Regina’s most interactive

DJs as he drops some of the best country

beats around. 8pm / Cover TBD

Steve giBSon Band / Whiskey Saloon —

A British country artist. 9pm / $10

saturday 15diamond rio / Casino Regina — A

chart-topping country group from the U.S.

Also appearing: Raquel Cole. 8pm / $40+

(ticketbreak.com)

rSo ShUmiatCher PoPS PreSentS: the oSCarS / Conexus Arts Centre — Music

from the greatest motion pictures. 8pm /

$82.95 (mytickets.reginasymphony.com)

dan SillJer Band / McNally’s

Tavern — Funk/soul/rock guitar styling.

10pm / $5

Craig moritz / Pump Roadhouse —

Rockin’ country all night long. 9pm /

Cover TBD

waFFlehoUSe / Pure Ultra Lounge —

Doing what he does best, every Saturday

night. 10pm / $5 cover

SoUl ShaKerS / Sip Nightclub — Gritty

energetic R&B music. 9pm / Cover TBD

milKman’S SonS / Western Pizza (Broad-

way Ave.) — Dance and have fun with

one of Regina’s hottest classic/modern

rock bands. 8:30pm / No cover

Steve giBSon Band / Whiskey Saloon —

A British country artist. 9pm / $10

sunday 16valdY / Artesian on 13th — A fix-

ture on the Canadian pop and folk

music scene for over 30 years. 8pm /

$20(advance)/$25(door)

dangeroUS CheeSe / McNally’s Tavern

— It’s the Prairie Sky Dog Rescue Fund-

raiser! 7pm / $5+

monday 17oPen miC night / The Artful Dodger —

Come down and jam! 8pm / No cover

halFwaY to hollYwood, andrew mitChell mUSiC, tangean wall / The Club — A pop-punk headliner

with a whole lot of rock to open. 7pm /


tuesday 18StorY tellerS FeStival / Artful Dodger

— Come out and sing some karaoke. 8pm

/ Cover TBD

a triBe Called red / The Exchange —

An electronic trio that’s all kinds of good.

8pm / $15(advance)/$20(door)

northCote / O’Hanlon’s — Original folk

music that’s hard to resist. 9pm / Cover

TBD

wednesday 19wedneSdaY night FolK / Bushwak-

ker Brewpub — Featuring the talents of

Keiffer and the Curiosity Club. 9pm / No

cover

BrYan adamS / Conexus Arts

Centre — Come join this legendary

Canadian rocker on his Bare Bones Tour.

8pm / $57+

waYBaCK wedneSdaYS / McNally’s

Tavern — Live 80s glam-rock by Leather

Cobra. 9:30pm / No cover

thursday 20CommentS and ConCernS / Artesian

on 13th — Also appearing: LASKA and

Corey Ruecker. 8pm / $10

StorY tellerS FeStival / Artful Dodger

— Featuring Revenge of the Trees. 8pm /

Cover TBD

deCiBel FreqUenCY / Gabbo’s Nightclub

— A night of electronic fun. 10pm / $5

PS FreSh / The Hookah Lounge — DJ

Ageless started spinning in Montreal, DJ

Drewski started in Saskatoon. They both

landed in Regina and have come together

to sling some bomb beats. 7pm / No cover

oPen miC night / King’s Head Tavern

— Come out, play some tunes, sing some

songs, and show Regina what you got.

8pm / No cover

iron BiSon, PiCKPoCKet, the JUmP oFF / McNally’s Tavern — Come out and sup-

port local bands. 8:30pm / $5

third degree Birnz / Pump Roadhouse

— Saskatchewan’s ultimate party band.

10pm / Cover TBD





friday 21StorY tellerS FeStival / Artful Dodger

— It’s Funky Friday with Mirange. 8pm /

Cover TBD

ChilliwaCK / Casino Regina — An iconic

Canadian rock band. 8pm / SOLD OUT

an evening with zaKK wYlde / The

Exchange — Black Label Society front-

man doing his solo thing. 8pm / $37

(ticketedge.ca)

dJ Pat & dJ Kim / Habano’s Martini &

Cocktail Club — Local DJs spin top 40 hits

every Friday night that are sure to get you

on the dance floor. 9pm / $5 cover

Big Chill FridaYS / Lancaster Taphouse

— Come out and get your weekend

started with DJ Fatbot, who’ll be doing his

spinning thing every Friday night. 8pm /

Cover TBD

wonderland / McNally’s Tavern —

Playing one-hit wonders and classic rock.

10pm / $5

go For the eYeS, the FortUnate iSleS / O’Hanlon’s — Come out for a rockin’,

funkin’ good time. 9pm / Cover TBD



10pm / Cover TBD

alBert / Pure Ultra Lounge — Appear-

ing every Friday night, come listen to

Albert as he does his spinning thing.

10pm / $5 cover





alex rUnionS / Whiskey Saloon — A

Regina-based urban country musician.

9pm / $10

saturday 22Kat danSer / Artesian on 13th — Play-

ing roots, blues and gospel. 8pm /


marK BeriBe Beat gallerY / Artful

Dodger — A launch party with DJ Czech.

8pm / Cover TBD

theSe eStateS, ColdeSt night oF the Year, treeBeard / The Exchange — A

night of hard-hitting rock. 8pm / $10

BUFFalo narrowS / Lancaster Taphouse

— A five-piece group playing everything

from bluegrass to gypsy jazz. 9pm / Cover

TBD

wonderland / McNally’s Tavern —

Playing one-hit wonders and classic rock.

10pm / $5



10pm / Cover TBD

waFFlehoUSe / Pure Ultra Lounge —

Doing what he does best, every Saturday

night. 10pm / $5 cover

alex rUnionS / Whiskey Saloon — A

Regina-based urban country musician.

9pm / $10

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re you ready to be confused and a wee bit baffled?

Good. Let’s dive head-first into a synopsis of director Akiva Golds-man’s Winter’s Tale.

Where to begin? Well, in the beginning, naturally. The story opens in 1895. Two Russian immigrants (Matt Bomer and Lucy Griffiths) are turned away at Ellis Island. They have an infant son with them. And instead of taking him with them, they put him in a model ship and toss it in the Northern Atlantic because, well, that’s exactly what good parents should do.

Fast forward 21 years, and we see the infant as a young man. His name is Peter Lake (Colin Farrell). Peter isn’t exactly a model citizen. Living in New York, he is a professional thief. When we first meet Peter he is running away from a gang of thugs, hench-men of a crime boss named Pearly

Soames (Russell Crowe). Once upon a time ago Pearly was Peter’s mentor, but the two had a falling out and now his henchmen are hot on Peter’s tail.

Just as they are about to nab him a white horse with wings appears

and flies Peter to safety. Because, you know, Pegasus (or whatever the creature’s name is) is one heckuva getaway driver.

From there things get stranger. Turns out, the flying horse tells Peter to pull off one last heist. Natu-rally, he listens to the horse and

ends up breaking into a town house to rob a safe. Once inside he sees a young girl named Beverly (Jessica Brown Findlay), who is playing Brahms and coughing herself to death from tuberculosis. It’s love at

first sight. After all, how couldn’t you fall in love, on the spot, with a girl who is literally hacking up her lungs. Peter and Beverly hit it off, a love story ensues, then Pearly comes after them and … oh, did I mention that Pearly is a demon who answers directly to the Judge aka

Lucifer aka Will Smith with really sharp teeth?

Then the movie jumps to 2014 and Peter (who hasn’t aged a day) is trying to find out what happened to Beverly. He hooks up with a food writer (Jen-nifer Connelly) who helps him piece together the past and, well, the story just gets more ludicrous from there.

Needless to say, Winter’s Tale (adapted from Mark Helprin’s 800-page book of the same name) is NOT one of the best movies of the year — despite a stocked cast that also includes William Hurt and Eva Ma-ria Saint. Heck, it may be one of the most disappointing, perplexing and plodding movies of the year … so far.

The only redeeming qualities about the film are the cinematography (rather lovely) and the acting of Colin Farrell, who does his best to keep the audience awake and alert during an otherwise ordinary yawnfest.

Other than that, Winter’s Tale is one of those movies that — unless you love magic realism, undying love and a whole lot of what-the-hell-just-happened-there moments — you should probably avoid like the plague. Just sayin’.

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…colin farrell … does his best to keep the audience awake and alert…

adam hawboldt

Photo: courtesy oF warner bros. PIctures

Winter’s Tale is stale, boring and baffling by adam hawboldt


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a tale best left untoldwinter’s tale

directed by Akiva Goldsman

starring Colin Farrell, Russell Crowe,

Jennifer Connelly + Jessica Brown

Findlay

129 minutes | pg

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kay, here’s the scenario. It’s Philadelphia in the mid 1980s. Members

from a radical group called MOVE are holed up in a row house. For the past little while they’ve had loudspeakers outside their house, bothering local citizenry with protests and unsavoury language. Some time ago they built a bunker atop the house.

You’ve been tasked with the job of getting them out of there. What do you do?

Do you evacuate the neighbour-hood and start spraying the roof with powerful water hoses? Do you start lobbing tear gas canisters into the building? Open fire and pump hundreds of rounds into the house hoping that’ll drive them out?

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, too bad. It won’t work. It didn’t work.

So what did the Philadelphia authorities do?

They dropped a bomb on the house. I s**t you not. On May 13th, 1985, somebody came up with the brilliant idea of dropping a bomb on top of the MOVE house. It started a fire and the order was given to “let the fire burn.”

The result was catastrophic. Of the 13 people in the house (six of whom were kids), only two lived — one adult and one child. Everyone else burned to death.

Did I mention that this home was in a residential neighbourhood, a lot of which was destroyed by the fire?

This bombing is at the heart of Jason Osder’s powerful documen-tary, Let the Fire Burn. But that’s not the only thing the film looks at. It also tells the story of MOVE (a back-to-the-basics black libera-tion group), of a 1978 shooting of a

police officer in which nine MOVE members were arrested (still won-dering how nine of them pulled the trigger) and of the antagonistic relationship between the group and the Philadelphia police/City Hall in the years and months leading up to May 13th, 1985.

Told through old news footage, interviews with the lone surviv-ing child and footage from a long, drawn-out public inquest, Let the Fire Burn is the kind of documen-tary that comes along and punches you square in the gut. It’s gripping, it’s shocking. At times, it’s jaw-droppingly confounding. But man, is it good!

Thorough, too. Not limited in scope, the documentary is a cacophony of voices — many con-tradicting each other, vehemently denying to claim responsibility for the incident (and the incidents that led up to the bombing). Who fired first? Who issued the order to “let the fire burn?” Who … ah hell, you get the idea.

Let the Fire Burn is the kind of documentary that raises more questions than it answers. Heck, it doesn’t even answer the question of what were the philosophical mo-tives of MOVE (they were known

to reject technology and raise their children on a diet of raw food). But that doesn’t matter, not in the least, because Let the Fire Burn is a film that will blow your hair back, rouse your anger and make you think about what kind of world we really live in.

Let the Fire Burn will open at Regina Public Library on February 20.

Let the Fire Burn is the kind of documentary that comes along and punches you square in the gut.

adam hawboldt

Photo: courtesy oF ZeItgeIst FIlms

they let it burn, but why?

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Let the Fire Burn a gripping documentary about moVe, a bomb and Philadelphia in the ‘80s by adam hawboldt

let the fire burn

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horoscopes february 14 - february 20

© walter d. feener 2014

sudoku crossword answer key

a b

aries march 21–april 19

New opportunities will come

your way this week, Aries. Run,

do not walk, to embrace them. You won’t

be sorry.

taurus april 20–may 20

There may be some serious

changes just around the bend,

Taurus. Brace yourself: not all of them may

be for the better.

gemini may 21–June 20

At some point this week you’ll

have an urge to undertake a

creative project, Gemini. It’s important

you give into that urge.

cancer June 21–July 22

You may have some revealing

conversations with friends and

family this week, Cancer. Be careful not to

be indiscreet.

leo July 23–august 22

Something will occur this week

that might alter your life, Leo. It

could appear to be something subtle, but

don’t underestimate its importance.

virgo august 23–september 22

Opt for light-hearted banter

over intense personal discussion

this week, Virgo. There’s no need to get

too serious.

libra september 23–october 23

If a chance to travel comes your

way this week, Libra, it’s impor-

tant to jump at it. You could be in need of

a change of scenery.

scorpio october 24–november 22

You could come across a host of

new people this week, Scorpio.

Be cautious. Some will be great, others …

well, not so much.

sagittarius november 23–december 21

If there’s a social gathering with

friends or co-workers this week,

Sagittarius, be sure you’re there. You don’t

want to be square.

capricorn december 22–January 19

Expect a strong boost to your ego

and self-confidence later in the

week, Capricorn. Be careful not to let it go

to your head.

aQuarius January 20–February 19

Energy, enthusiasm, motivation:

all three will be available to you

in abundance this week, Aquarius. What

you do with it will be up to you.

pisces February 20–march 20

Your physical and mental energy

may not be in tip-top shape this

week, Pisces. Try not to let that hold

you back.

sudoku answer key

a

b

8 2 1 7 3 5 4 9 66 7 9 4 8 1 3 2 53 5 4 2 6 9 1 8 77 9 8 1 5 2 6 4 35 4 6 3 9 7 2 1 81 3 2 6 4 8 7 5 99 1 7 5 2 3 8 6 44 8 3 9 1 6 5 7 22 6 5 8 7 4 9 3 1

8 6 9 2 5 7 1 4 32 4 1 9 8 3 7 5 67 5 3 4 6 1 2 9 85 7 4 8 9 6 3 2 11 2 8 3 7 4 9 6 53 9 6 5 1 2 8 7 44 3 5 7 2 8 6 1 99 1 7 6 3 5 4 8 26 8 2 1 4 9 5 3 7

8 7 5 9 6 2 5 4 2 9 1 8 7 6 4 6 3 7 2 1 3 6 8 5 44 3 9 1 2 5 8 7 9 3 1

9 7 4 2 4 7 5 3 4 6 1 85 7 9 6 1 8 3 6 5 6 2 4 5 7 2 8 1 99 1 3 2 8 3

across 1. Reasons against

5. Boyfriend

9. Ring used in a

throwing game

10. Things to mow

12. Colour that is a blend

of red and blue

13. Kitchen emanations

15. Some paintings

16. Sickly pale

18. Take on cargo

19. Sault ___ Marie,

Ontario

20. Animals with partly

webbed feet

22. Girl previously mentioned

23. Silvery fish

25. Caulking material

27. Medicinal salve

29. Drinking binge

32. Crescent-shaped object

36. Unrefined rock

37. Having a

bluish-grey colour

39. Gave birth to

40. Emotional tie

42. Plural of is

43. Nothing more than

44. Prearranged situations

46. Think logically

48. Horses and lions have them

49. Braid of hair

50. Plastic construction set

51. Shade trees

down 1. One who plays

on ice

2. Apologetic exclamation

3. Nothing

4. In a worried state

5. Having empty spaces

to be filled in

6. Organ of hearing

7. Military acronym

8. Reveal one’s identity

9. To some extent

11. Hindu holy man

12. Sumptuously

furnished

14. Appear to be

17. Having sharp corners

20. Digs for minerals

21. Canadian guitarist

Greenwich

24. Be sorry

26. Consumed

28. Muse of music and

lyric poetry

29. Cries uncontrollably

30. Introduction

31. Tourist’s car

33. Academic paper

34. Fortunetelling card

35. Paradise

38. Catch a cow

41. Sahara sight

43. Sir’s counterpart

45. Score points in cribbage

47. Pipe elbow

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