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Occupy halifax: The first to be disassembled in Canada. Police acted on eviction orders, removed the tent city and arrest-ed 14 people from the municipal park that had been occupied for close to a month. Protesters have stated their desire to find a new location and many Haligonians are upset at the timing of the eviction, which occurred on Remembrance Day.

Occupy calgary: With approximately 20 – 30 regular occupiers, the encampment was served an official eviction notice on November 15. Protesters have been told to pack up their tents in 24 hours and not to occupy the park at night. So far, no action has been taken to move from Olympic Plaza, a public park.

Occupy edmonton: Celebrating its one-month anniversary on the privately owned park downtown, the encampment has been served warnings by the park’s owner Melcor, but no action has been taken to remove the tents despite a call by Mayor Mandel for Melcor to request a formal removal. The Occupy Edmonton site received a $7500 donation from Occupy Wall Street in New York to buy winter tents.

Occupy Toronto: Occupiers received their eviction notice Tuesday morning. There are over 300 tents in St James Park, with estimates of 200 – 400 protesters participating in the community that includes a theatre, a comprehen-sive library and three Mongolian yurts.

Occupy winnipeg: Protesters occupying Memorial Park, just outside the legislature, appear to be the only encamp-ment to have not been served with an eviction notice or threat of one, though the legislature has stopped the oc-cupiers use of legislature washrooms. With 50 – 60 protesters using the space regularly, nightly general assemblies, outlined demands, and a plan to stay until January 1, 2012, Occupy Winnipeg seems ready to take on the winter.

Mayor Stephen Mandel believes it's time for Occupy Edmonton to vacate the downtown park they have occupied for over a month. Should Occupiers be removed from the park?

15.4% yesthey are beginning to put themselves at risk.

50% Nothe Occupiers have had a positive impact on the area and the group isaccomplishing its aims.

34.6%They should move to another area or continue the protest in a different way.

"Winter will remove them from the park. There are far fewer of them than there were. Ignore them and they will go away."

After over 200 people were arrested during a surprise raid on Occupy Wall Street by New York police early Tuesday morning, many Canadian Occupy sites are facing similar threats from city officials. The complete destruction of what had become a small community, complete with medic tents, a library and a theatre,

came as a blow to occupiers who are planning a mas-sive action for the two-month anniversary of the Oc-cupy movement. Here in Canada, winter weather is pressing in and anxious city officials are putting pres-sure on Occupy sites to be taken down. Here's a look at the state of the encampments:

"No Mayor Mandel and his spending maniac cronies should be removed from city hall before we have to declare bankruptcy."

"Is it safe to live in a world where the 'economy' is more important than life of the planet? People die whether camping in a park or not. Close the camps, subdue the majority, find a 'safe' place to play with cyber bucks."

The freedom to assemble is protected by the Charter—the Constitution, in the US—as is the right to free speech. Like all freedoms and privileges, they come with responsibili-ties, but the right itself must be maintained.

This week New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended his decision to send in New York police to forcibly evict Occupy pro-testers by saying, "The 1st Amendment pro-tects speech. It does not protect the use of tents and tarps to take over a public space." Where one begins and the other ends is be-coming a point of debate across North Amer-ica as cities look to evict protesters from the public, and sometimes private, spaces they have chosen to occupy.

In Halifax this debate is taking root. Protest-ers were evicted from a public, city-owned park. While protesters explore their options, lawyers have speculated on where it leaves rights. In an article from Open File Halifax, lawyer Derek Bell argues "removing tents (but leaving people in the park) would not inhibit the 'physical gathering' of people," but lawyer Ranjan Agarwal states, "the government can-not make laws or take action to infringe oth-erwise 'peaceful assembly' without violating the Charter ... It's hard to see how municipali-ties could argue that disassembling the tents isn't an infringement of section 2(c)."

It's easier to understand an eviction from a private property perspective: a company or person owns that property and they no longer want protesters occupying it. Mayor Mandel has made clear it’s not the city's job to remove protesters from the park owned by Melcor until Melcor makes clear they no longer want protesters there. That's their right.

But in Halifax protesters were occupying public land. As were protesters in Oakland, where mayor Jean Quan explained her eviction of protesters by saying, "In New York City, it's interesting that the Wall Street movement is actually on a private park, so they're not, again, in the public domain, and they're not infringing on the public’s right to use a public park." So Quan wants protesters on private property, while Bloomberg and Mandel want them off private property, though it's hard to imagine either would be too impressed with Occupy taking up residence on public property. So where does that leave those looking to express their right to assemble? Can we only assemble on our own property? Perhaps, in order to express our right to as-semble, we'll have to start buying up plots of land, assemble in our own homes, stay out of the public's way. It's hard to believe that's the intent behind the Charter's guarantee to our right to assemble. V

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"We will not build two (nuclear) bombs in the face of (America's) 20 000," said Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadine-jad in response to an International Atomic Energy Agency report this week that accuses Iran of doing just that. He called Yukiya Amano, the head of the IAEA, a US puppet, say-ing: "This person does not publish a report about America and its allies' nuclear arsenals."

Well, that's true, actually. Amano will never publish a report about America's nuclear weapons (only 5133 of them now, actually). He hasn't said anything about Israel's, Britain's and France's weapons of mass destruction either. And his report is largely based on in-formation fed to him by Western intel-ligence agencies.

But apart from that, Amano is as im-partial and free from US influence as you would expect a career Japanese diplomat to be. Only cynical people will see any resemblance to Colin Powell's performance at the United Nations in 2003, when the US defense secretary held up a test tube and assured us all that Iraq really was working on germ warfare.

Iraq was allegedly working on nuclear weapons, too: former President George Bush's famous "smoking gun," which

also subsequently went missing. And on the basis of this "intelligence" about Iraq's "weapons of mass destruction," the United States and its more gull-

ible allies invaded the country. Hundreds of thousands died, no weapons were found, and nothing was learned. Here we go again.Fool me once, shame on

you. Fool me twice, shame on me. The same intelligence agencies

are producing the same sort of reports about Iran that we heard eight years ago about Iraq's nuclear ambitions,

and interpreting the information in the same highly prejudiced way.

Many people in the West realize that they are being hustled into yet another attack on a Middle Eastern country, but they don't really worry about it too much. After all, it will only be air strikes, and we all know that an air-only war is practically casualty-free for the side with air superiority. Look at Libya, for example.

But how many citizens of the United States or Britain know that Iran has 10 times as many people as Libya? Maybe one in 10, maybe one in 20. How many know that Iran is a partially democratic, technologically proficient state with no history of attacking its neighbours, not a tinpot dictatorship run by a vicious loon? About the same number. How many realize that the war would not end with a few days of air strikes? Prac-tically none.

The interesting exception to all this is Israel, where people do know those

things, and where there is a vigorous debate about whether attacking Iran is a good idea. A lot think it is not, and that also goes for both of Israel's intel-ligence agencies, Mossad and Shin Bet. Meir Dagan, the recently retired head of Mossad, said last January that an at-tack on Iran was "the stupidest idea" he had ever heard.

So Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Ehud

Barak, who do both want to attack Iran (or rather, have the United States do it for them), have gone public. If the Western powers don't act at once, they warn, then Iran will get nuclear weapons and Armageddon will be just around the corner.

There are two things wrong with this proposition. One is the evidence. If you believe it all, it shows that Iran wants the knowledge and equipment that would let it build a nuclear weapon very quickly if necessary: an Israeli nuclear threat, a military coup in nuclear-armed Pakistan that brings young Shia-hating officers to power, whatever.

The evidence does NOT show that Iran is actually building a nuclear weap-on now, or has any present intention of doing so. And having the knowledge and equipment that would let you do so fast in an emergency is entirely legal under IAEA rules.

The other problem with the accusa-tions against Iran is the logic behind them. Building a nuclear weapon now would be extremely costly for Iran in terms of economic sanctions, global diplomatic isolation and the like if it be-came known. But it would be complete-ly pointless from a deterrence point of view if it remained secret.

Deterrence is the only logical reason that Iran would ever want nuclear

weapons, since it would be suicidal for it to attack anybody with them. As Mahmoud Ahmadnejadi pointed out (above), it would have at the most a few nuclear warheads. The United States has thousands of them, Israel has hundreds of them, and even Paki-stan has dozens.

If Iran's leaders were completely logical in their thinking, they wouldn't waste a minute thinking about nuclear deterrence. They'd just rely on the fact that their military can completely shut the Gulf to oil traffic and bring the global economy to its knees if anybody attacks them. However, they are still a lot more rational than their Western counterparts—or at least than their Western counterparts can afford to seem in public.

You heard about that recent ex-change between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and US President Ba-rack Obama that went out on an open microphone? Sarko said "I can't stand (Netanyahu) any more. He's a liar." And Obama replied: "You're sick of him? I have to deal with him every day." What about? One gets you 10 that it's about bombing Iran. V

Gwynne Dyer is a London-based jour-nalist. His column appears every week in Vue Weekly.

Nuclear theatreLogical thought reveals Iran has a better weapon than nukes

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Where do we go from here?The Parkland Conference will look at class, economic rights and the Occupy movementOn Tuesday, November 16 over 500 citizens gathered in New York City to discuss what they would do next. The night before, over 200 people had been arrested when the New York po-lice department raided the encamp-ment that had become a small city in Zuccotti Park. Showing up at 1 am on Tuesday morning, with no warn-ing, and no compromise on the evic-tion notice, the hundreds of people who had taken Zuccotti Park as their home were thrown out. But it didn't stop them. With quick succession they moved from Zuccotti Park to protest outside City Hall, through the streets of New York and back outside Zuccotti where their tents and be-longings had unceremoniously been loaded into seven dump trucks. What happens next is still up in the air, but it doesn't appear to be the end of a movement.

With over 500 standing in the streets later that day to hold one of the largest general assemblies the protest has witnessed, Occupy events continue in over 2000 cities world-wide, and in cities where occupiers have been kicked out the conversa-tion is not about a loss, but about how to continue.

It's a conversation Leo Panitch be-lieves is a long time coming. With the riots in London, the removal of workers' rights in Wisconsin, and in Canada, the continuing conversation around the Occupy movement Pan-itch believes we need to engage a deeper analysis to what is happening.

"I want to talk about what led us to the current moment," says Panitch. "We need a finer-tuned analysis than blaming Harper or the Tea Party or the bankers. The kind of inside job analysis of Wall Street, which is just that Wall Street greed is to blame."

Panitch, an author and political sci-ence professor at York University, will be delivering the keynote address at the Parkland Conference this week-end, at which he hopes to continue the conversation about the historical moment we are facing.

Panitch believes this is not only a stand against neoliberalism, but also a conversation about how people have become indebted to a system that does not grant them the freedom of economic rights. For example, he says post-secondary education provided class mobility, but it failed to build freedom in the economic sense.

"Part of the struggle was to win the

right of students to have credit cards and become debters which bound them all the more into financial capitalism," explains Panitch. "It was important for them to go, but the means given to go there was one in which they could only go there via be-

coming indebted. So people who may study very radical law courses have to work for a corporate law firm."

This indebtedness has prevented the sharing of creativity with work-ers movements. "People developed the capacity to go on to university, but they lost the capacity to go into working class organizations and make them creative alternatives to capital-ism," says Panitch.

But the world has been without an alternative to capitalism for over 30 years. A class analysis is not a popu-lar approach to politics these days. It's viewed as old-school, in Panitch's words, and words like socialism and

communism are not seen as viable al-ternatives to a capitalist model. But that's not necessarily a bad thing, be-cause creativity that has been lost is beginning to emerge in new ways.

"People are stumbling through what this could be," says Panitch. "I think

it's right when people say, 'Don't box us into a set of demands.' What we need to do first is build a movement, and develop people's political capac-ity and to understand the world we live in and how it might be changed."

That's what Occupy has become about: understanding how to reclaim democratic power. "Some of it is na-ive," says Panitch, as change can't

come without a structural approach to the current democratic system.

"People who are adamantly opposed to building organization, who are al-lergic to building new parties and participating in an election—some of that inspires them, the notion of changing the world without tak-ing power," says Panitch. "But I think they're wrong, too."

That doesn't mean the movement has to know where it's going. The possibility to discover new methods of representation—new mobiliza-tions—exists, but Panitch says that attaching it to a specific politician or organization could just end in disap-pointment.

"I do think, yes, we don't need to tie ourselves down to knowing where we need to go, but I do think we need to start building to get some-where else."SAMANTHA POWER// [email protected]

We need a finer-tuned analysis than blaming Harper or the Tea Party or the bankers. The kind of inside job analysis of Wall Street, which is just that Wall Street greed is to blame.

Class Dismissed:Capital's War on Workers and Democracy Nov 18 – 20, 2011Maier Learning Centre, University of Alberta campusNon-member $135/ $110 students, low-income Individual tickets for certain sessions available

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The evidence does NOT show that Iran is actually building a nuclear weapon now, or has any present intention of doing so. And having the knowledge and equipment that would let you do so fast in an emergency is entirely legal under IAEA rules.

This is the fi rst In The Box this season where we provide a weekly update with no wins to report. The past week, the Oilers fi nished o� their big road trip with losses to Origi-nal Six teams with Stanley Cup banners hanging from the ceiling. The Oilers lost 6-3 to Boston (last year's champs) then lost 3-0 to Detroit (2008 champs) then lost 6-3 to Chicago (the 2010 champs). If you're going to lose, you may as well lose to the best.

DEAR MAYOR MANDEL ...Here's a crazy solution to the arena question. Why should the city just hand over money to a private enter-prise? Why not add some conditions to the funds?

The biggest problem I have with mon-ey going to the Katz Group to build a

new arena is that public tax dol-lars will be used to prop up a

private businessman so he can earn more profi ts. The spin doctors tell us that the

arena will be funded with public money because it rep-

resents an investment—the new building will continue downtown revi-talization and reap economic benefi ts for many more people and businesses. But why not look at this funding as a conditional loan instead?

Here's my idea:• Provide the agreed $120 million and the remaining $100 million as a loan—with a condition. • The condition? Once the new arena

is built and the team moves in, start the clock and give the Oilers and the Katz Group six full seasons to win a Stanley Cup.• If they win the Cup within the agreed six seasons, the "loan" is paid o� . If not, the money is to be paid back. Consider this a performance incentive.

If the Oilers want city money, the peo-ple of Edmonton would like a Stanley Cup in return. DY

GREAT SCOTT!Scott Hennig and I don't agree on much, but his arguments against fund-ing a new arena in Edmonton through taxpayer money are sound. In a letter to city council from October 24, Hen-nig smashes the fallacies that the Katz Group—and, frankly, many city coun-cillors—have thrown out surrounding the Oilers and the arena. Amongst the many other arguments Hennig presents, perhaps the most convincing regards the proposed community revitalization

levy, or CRL. A CRL, he argues, is simply "a complicated bit of accounting trickery to get taxpayers to unknowingly buy a for-profi t company a new building." Downtown has never been so hopping in all of the two decades I've lived in Edmonton—what makes the city think that a new arena will spur development that wouldn't have been there in the fi rst place? And, with all new tax rev-enue going toward paying o� the arena, who will pay for the services inside the CRL like fi re, police, ambulances and street cleaning? The money will have to come from somewhere—it will come, Hennig suggests, from increased taxes citywide. Visit bit.ly/hennigletter to read the full text of the letter. BB

CURSE OF THE NEW ARENA?The long and painful negotiations for a new Oiler arena continue. But do we want one? How have other NHL teams who have "moved on up" fared? Here's a review of some recent arena upgrades

and the team performances in their new digs:• 2010: Pittsburgh Penguins move to Consol Energy Centre. Team superstar Sidney Crosby su� ers head injury in the new rink in January of 2011; he hasn't played since.• 2007: New Jersey Devils move to the Prudential Center. They haven't advanced past the fi rst round of the playo� s since then and even missed the playo� s last year. They won three Cups in the old building.• 2003: Phoenix Coyotes move to Job-ing Arena. Today they have no owner.

Why do we want a new building? DY

OILER OF THE WEEKRyan Smyth: Three goals, one assist in three losing games. Honourable men-tion to Coach Renney for a little righ-teous anger a� er the Chicago game. DYLadislav Smid: This "Oiler of the Week" award is long overdue for Laddy—his play so far this year has been unreal. BB

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MICHAELONDAATJE

The celebrated author of The Cat's Table and The English Patient is

coming to Edmonton’s Winspear Centre, Nov. 22 at 7:30 PM.

Tickets on sale online and by phone at the Winspear box office (780-428-1414) or Tix on the Square (780-420-1757).

Reserved Seating: $25 (plus GST and service fee)

Students and Seniors: $15 (plus GST and service fee)

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Brixx Bar • 10030-102 St • 780.428.1099 • Troubadour Tuesdays with comedy and music • Comedy and Music Collide 9: feat Comedians Mike Dambra, J.P. Fournier, Jimmy Zenn, Kathleen Kelly; Nov 22, 8pm

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

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

CoMeDy FaCtory • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Vilmos; Nov 17-19 • Bob Angeli; Nov 24-26

CoMiC strip • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Ryan Belleville; until Nov 20 • Hit or Miss Monday: Nov 21, Nov 28, 8pm; $7 • Stand Up Edmonton: Nov 22, Nov 29, 8pm; $12 • Greg War-ren; Nov 23-27 • Michael Loftus; Nov 30, 8pm; $15.50

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

Filthy MCnasty's • 10511-82 • 780.996.1778 • Stand Up Sundays: Dan Quinn; Nov 20, 9pm; no cover • Stand Up Sundays: Paul Myrehaug; Nov 27, 9pm; no cover

laugh shop–sherwood park • 4 Blackfoot Road, Sherwood Park • 780.417.9777 • laughinthepark.ca • Open Wed-Sat • Faisal Butt; Nov 24-26

FILMDowntown DoCs • Stanley A. Milner Library Theatre (basement level) • 780.944.5383 • Prosecutor (2010, STC), Uncommon Hero (4 minutes) • Nov 24, 6:30pm

eDuCateD reel: alBerta’s lost histories • Garneau The-atre, 8712-109 St • Tom Radford and Trevor Anderson; followed by Q & A • Nov 17 • $6 (adv)/$10 (door)

FroM Books to FilM series • Stanley A. Milner Library, Main Fl, Au-dio Visual Rm • 780.944.5383 • Father of the Bride, G, novel by Edward Streeter • Nov 18, 2pm

Future Visions youth MeDia Day • Metro Cinema, Garneau, 8712-109 St • Hosted by Matt Wood, Jillian Elizabeth; short videos by inner city youth; DJ Creeasian, hip hop dancers Rhythm Speaks • Nov 17, 10:30-2:30pm

MaD City ChiCkens • Whitemud Crossing Library, 4211-106 St • Film screening • Nov 20, 3-5pm • Free

GrOups/CLuBs/MEEtInGs aikikai aikiDo CluB • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm

awa 12-step support group • Braeside Presbyterian Church bsmt, N. door, 6 Bernard Dr, Bishop St, Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • For adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional families • Every Mon 7:30pm

Cha Island Tea Co • 10332 81 Ave • Games Night: Board games, and card games • Every Mon, 7pm

eDMonton BiCyCle CoMMut-ers • BikeWorks, 2nd Fl, 10047-80 Ave (al-ley entrance) • edmontonbikes.ca/calendar/more/diy_retroreflective_clothing/ • DIY Retroreflective Clothing • Nov 18, 6:30-9-:30pm •$5 (member)/$10 (non-member); pre-register E: [email protected]

eDMonton Bike art nights • BikeWorks, 10047 80 Ave, back alley en-trance • Art Nights • Every Wed, 6-9pm

eDMonton nature CluB • Royal Alberta Museum • edmontonnatureclub.ca • Monthly meeting speaker series: The Future of Songbirds of the Boreal Forest with Erin Bayne • Nov 18, 7pm, 7:30pm (presentation) • Donation

FooD aDDiCts • St Luke's Anglican Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.465.2019 • 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

hoMe–energizing spiritual Community for passionate living • Garneau/Ashbourne Assisted Living Place, 11148-84 Ave • Home: Blends music, drama, creativity and reflection on sacred texts to energize you for passionate living • Every Sun 3-5pm

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

MeDitation • Strathcona Library, 8331-104 St; meditationedmonton.org; Drop-in every Thu 7-8:30pm; Sherwood Park Library: Drop-in every Mon, 7-8:30pm

northern alBerta wooD CarVers assoCiation • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-106 St • 780.458.6352, 780.467.6093 • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

organization For Bipolar aFFeCtiVe DisorDer (oBaD) • Grey Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, 780.451.1755; Group meets every Thu 7-9pm • FREE outdoor movement!

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

sugarswing DanCe CluB • Or-ange Hall, 10335-84 Ave or Pleasantview Hall, 10860-57 Ave • 780.604.7572 • Swing Dance at Sugar Foot Stomp: beginner lesson followed by dance every Sat, 8pm (door) at Orange Hall or Pleasantview Hall

Vegetarians oF alBerta • Bon-nie Doon Community Hall, 9240-93 St • vofa.ca/category/events • Monthly Potluck: Bring a vegan, dish to serve 8 people, your own plate, cup, cutlery, serving spoon • $3 (member)/$5 (non-member) • Nov 20

woMen in BlaCk • In Front of the Old Strathcona Farmers' Market • Si-lent vigil the 1st and 3rd Sat, 10-11am, each month, stand in silence for a world without violence

your relationship with the unConsCious anD your own new Book • Trinity Lutheran Church, 10014-81 Ave • jungforum.com • Presentation by Kelly Polanski • Nov 18, 7pm • $15 (member)/$10 (student/senior member)/$20 (non-member)

LECturEs/prEsEntatIOns BuDDhisM in Daily liFe • dia-mondway.org/edmonton • A weekend with Lama Ole Nydahl: A weekend full of lectures focusing on various Buddhist Topics • Nov 18-20

Class DisMisseD: Capital's war on workers anD DeMoCraCy • Maier Learning Centre (ETLC), U of A • parklandinstitute.ca/fallconference2011/ • Parkland's 15th Annual Fall Conference: Class Matters with Leo Panitch, Allan Sears, Richard Wilkinson and Ahmad Shokr by skype, Joan Sangster, Stephanie Bloomingdale, and others • Nov 18-20 • Tickets/info: parklandinstitute.ca/fallconference2011/register/

eDMonton syMphony orChestra at Carnegie hall • Winspear • Complimentary pre-concert info sessions in the Studio (unless otherwise noted), open to the public, light refreshments provided. Enter through Winspear Stage Door (back of bldg) • Nov 20, 12:30-1:30pm (before Dvorak's violin concerto) • Nov 26, 6:30-7:30pm (Founders’ Room) (before Juliette Kang plays Brahms)

FinDing Cases in FaMily law • Alberta Law Libraries, 2nd Fl, Law Courts Bldg, 1A Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Presented by Alberta Law Libraries: Demonstration on how to use books, encyclopedias and free online data-bases to find judgments on family law • Nov 22-23 • Drop-in

FestiVal oF iDeas • Winspear Centre, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • An Evening with Michael Ondaatje • Nov 22, 7:30pm • Tickets at tixonthesquare.ca, tickets.winspearcentre.com

great expeDitions • St Luke’s Anglican Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.454.6216 • 3rd Mon every month, 7:30pm • Paraguay (2009) by John and Eleanore Woollard • Nov 21 • $3

Journey to ForgiVeness • Westin Hotel, Downtown Edmonton • rivercommunity.ca/lindhout • An Evening with Amanda Lindhout. Fundraiser supports the integration of refugee families in Edmonton and communities in Zambia, Africa • Nov 23, 7:30pm • $30 at TIX on the Square

MiChael onDaatJe • Winspear Centre • Festival of Ideas: An Evening with Michael Ondaatje, with moderator Marina Endicott. Michael Ondaatje reads from his book, The Cat’s Table, Q-and-A session; book signing to follow • Nov 22, 7:30pm • $15-$25 at Winspear box office, TIX on the Square

puBliC art proFessional De-VelopMent series • Budgeting: Featuring Craig LeBlanc, award-win-ning public artist, and Dara Humniski • Nov 30, 6-8pm; free; pre-register online at Eventbrite.com

the story oF stuFF • Tory Lecture 11 Theatre Rm, U of A • 780.492.9289 • storyofstuff.org • Sustainability Speaker Series, presentation with Annie Leonard • Nov 17, 7pm • $5 at tixonthesquare.ca

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

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

eplC Fellowship pagan stuDy group • Pride Centre of Ed-monton • eplc.webs.com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome

Flash night CluB • 10018-105 St • 780.969.9965 • Thu Goth + Industrial Night: Indust:real Assembly with DJ Nanuck; 10pm (door); no cover • Triple Threat Fridays: DJ Thunder, Femcee DJ Eden Lixx • DJ Suco beats every Sat • E: [email protected]

g.l.B.t.Q. (gay) aFriCan group Drop-in) • Pride Centre, moving • 780.488.3234 • Group for gay refugees from all around the World, friends, and families • 1st and Last Sun every month • Info: E: [email protected], [email protected]

g.l.B.t.Q sage Bowling CluB • 780.474.8240, E: [email protected] • Every Wed, 1:30-3:30pm

glBt sports anD reCreation • teamedmonton.ca • Badminton, Women's Drop-In Recreational: St Vincent School, 10530-138 St; E: [email protected], every Wed 6-7:30pm, until Apr 25; $7 (drop-in fee) • Co-ed Bellydancing: [email protected] • Boot-camp: Garneau Elementary, 10925-87 Ave. at 7pm; [email protected] • Bowl-ing: Ed's Rec Centre, West Edmonton Mall, Tue 6:45pm; [email protected] • Curling: Granite Curling Club; 780.463.5942 • Curling with Pride–Funspiel: Granite Curling Club; Nov 26; $45; at [email protected] • Running: Kinsmen; [email protected] • Spinning: MacEwan Centre, 109 Street and 104 Ave; [email protected] • Swimming: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St; [email protected] • Volleyball: every Tue, 7-9pm; St. Catherine School, 10915-110 St; every Thu, 7:30-9:30pm at Amiskiwiciy Academy, 101 Airport Rd • Gay/Lesbian Yoga: at Lion's Breath Yoga Studio, 206, 10350-124 St; every Wed, 7:30-9pm; until Dec 21; [email protected].

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

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]

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

liVing positiVe • 404, 10408-124 St • edmlivingpositive.ca • 1.877.975.9448/780.488.5768 • Confiden-tial peer support to people living with HIV • Tue, 7-9pm: Support group • Daily drop-in, peer counselling

Making waVes swiMMing CluB • geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu

priDe Centre oF eDMonton • Moving • 780.488.3234 • Daily: YouthSpace (Youth Drop-in): Tue-Fri: 3-7pm; Sat: 2-6:30pm; [email protected] • Men Talking with Pride: Support group for gay, bisexual and transgendered men to discuss current issues; Sun: 7-9pm; [email protected] • Counsel-ling: Free, short-term, solution-focused counselling, provided by professionally trained counsellorsevery Wed, 6-9pm; [email protected] • STD Testing: Last Thu every month, 3-6pm; free; [email protected] • Youth Movie: Every Thu, 6:30-8:30pm; [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 • womonspace.ca, [email protected] • A Non-profit lesbian social orga-nization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with member-ship. Confidentiality assured

wooDys ViDeo Bar • 11723 Jas-per 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 artz relieF FroM the thieF • Expressionz Café, 9938-70 Ave • 780.437.3667 • expressionzcafe.com • Fundraiser, silent auction, performance by Bobby Cameron • Nov 17, 7pm (door) • $10

BlaCk anD white • Festival Place, 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • festivalplace.ab.ca • Gourmet dining stations, live and silent auctions and entertainment featuring Rock n’ Roll puppeteer Lee Zimmerman. Fundraiser for community based performing arts opportunities at Festival Place • Nov 19

ChristMas on the sQuare • Sir Winston Churchill Square • Holiday Light Up: Music, entertainment, family activities • Nov 19, 3-6pm

Just ChristMas 2011 • Alberta Avenue Community Hall, 9210-118 Ave • 780.233.5594 • justchristmas.org • Alternative Global Market Place for quality fair trade arts, handmade crafts and other goods • Nov 18, 5:30-9pm; Nov 19, 9:30am-4pm

light up your liFe • WestView Health Centre–Stony Plain • Tri-Com-munity Palliative/Hospice Care Society: Light Up Your Life Silent Auction: Items include hand-crafted creations, quilts, gift baskets, art, wood-working and col-lectibles • Nov 23, 12-7pm

Make it! the hanDMaDe reVo-lution • Alberta Aviation Hangar, 11410 Kingsway Ave • makeitedmonton.com • Handmade clothing, accessories, art, jewellery, treats and more; music by local bands all weekend • Nov 17-20 • $5 (door)/kids are free

pre-ChristMas Bazaar • St Andrew's Ukrainian Orthodox Cultural Centre, 9831-75 St • Tea, bazaar and bake sale • Nov 19, 1-3pm

pregnanCy awareness Month • Holt Renfrew Café, 10180-101 St • 780.222.2950 • Modern Mama’s Modern Bump Brunch • Nov 20, 12pm • $39 at modernmama.ca

pure speCulation FestiVal • crystalkids.org • Comics, games, movies, TV, fantasy, science fiction and horror writing with guests, authors, panels, cos-tumes, vendors, demos. Fundraiser for Crystal Kids • On Spec party on Nov 19, with Sarah Lillian (singer-songwriter), 9:30pm • Nov 18-20

Leadership Candidate Kitchen Table Talks

Get to know the leadership hopefuls before the March vote!

Nathan CullenThursday, Nov. 17, 6:30 - 8:30 pm

McKernan Community League, 11341 78 Ave

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Opens FridayMelancholiaDirected by Lars von Trier

Birds tumble softly from the ether; a woman gazes at her hands as

they give off sparks; a horse collapses to the ground like an old barn; a wom-an clutching a child sinks deeper into a darkened golf course; a bride sinks into the surface of a stream or trudg-es through forest only to be snared

by roots. All of this unfolds in ex-tremely slow slow-motion, as though some collective will is urging time to a standstill. And you can see why: the end is nigh. Mind you, it'll take a while to actually get there.

Had I, for whatever reason, had to exit the theatre after the prologue of Melancholia, an astonishing, kind of devastating sequence heavily indebt-ed to more masters of contempo-rary photo-based art than you could squeeze into a year at the Interna-

tional Center of Photography, set to the romantic bombast of Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde," I would surely have thought I'd seen the first 10 min-utes of some rapturous masterpiece. But I stayed, or rather stuck it out, and remembered I was in Lars Land, a place where flights of genius are undermined by lengthy digressions imbued with didacticism, smugness, cynicism and sadomasochistic projec-tions of the author's disorders onto the opposite sex.

Lars von Trier: maker of some unfor-gettable images, brilliant conceptual-ist, shit storyteller. I think I've done the image bit, so let's get to Lars the con-ceptualist. Melancholia has two parts, two sisters, two disasters. Justine (Kirsten Dunst) shows up two hours later for her insanely lavish wedding reception at a castle. Once she arrives things just get worse: mom (Charlotte Rampling) delivers the most wither-ing wedding speech in history before

locking herself in the bathroom and Justine slips ever deeper into debilitat-ing depression. She can barely make it through the night, though disappear-ing for long spells, telling off her boss and jumping some nervous stranger's bones seems to help. By dawn, the damage is unrepairable. The groom leaves without her.

After the wedding, Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg) determines to take care of Justine, who's now verging on cata-tonic—there's a painful scene where Claire simply can't get Justine to step into a hot bath ... and that bath looks pretty nice! Claire becomes increas-ingly preoccupied with the news that a planet called Melancholia has been hiding behind the sun and now seems to be on a collision course with Earth. As apocalypse looms, Claire, under-standably, becomes hysterical, while

Justine is increasingly becalmed and not nice at all.

As I summarize all this I realize how much I admire the raw ideas behind Melancholia, the balance of it, that juxtaposition of the individual crisis with the infinite that makes it the ni-hilist cousin to The Tree of Life. As I think through my experience of Mel-ancholia I have to admit that it was definitely made by someone who re-

ally, really gets depression. The prob-lems all come in the way we meander through the story without pace or punctuation, the way we're meant to bask in the ostensibly clever portraits of one-dimensional or only semi-co-herent characters who are mostly just assholes. Everyone, generally, is cruel, though the men tend to be weaklings while the women at least have a cer-tain integrity—and, as with so much von Trier (see Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, et cetera), that in-tegrity is what ensures their doom. So we watch and we wait for von Trier to do whatever it takes to twist his plots so as to completely screw over his heroine (though Dogville attempted to reverse this somewhat). And the waiting can be tedious.JoseF BrAun// [email protected]

revue // THe enD oF THe worLD

Melancholia and the infinite sadnessLars von Trier's apocalyptic concept beautiful but tedious

I was in Lars Land, a place where flights of genius are undermined by lengthy digressions imbued with didacticism, smugness, cynicism and sadomasochistic projections of the author's disorders onto the opposite sex.

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Fri, Nov 18 – Thu, Nov 24Directed by Gereon WetzelMetro Cinema at the Garneau

The El Bulli restaurant has been repeatedly voted the best in the world. Found just outside of Cat-

alonia, Spain and guided by head chef Ferran Adrià, it specializes in crafting incredibly inventive combina-tions of flavours and formats from scratch, and to do so, shuts down as a restauraunt for six months a year. During that time, everyone transplants to Bar-celona to develop another from-scratch menu for the coming half-year.

The idea of getting a peek inside the experimental kitchen in that six-month development period is, of course, an intriguing premise for foodies or just gen-erally curious types. But El Bulli: Cooking in Progress offers a somewhat bland, particularly frustrating approach to documenting one of the world's most boundary-pushing kitchens.

The first problem is, simply, that at this level of kitchen experimentation, there really isn't much

excitement to see in the day to day. Adrià and his team try ingredients out methodically, preparing, for example, mushrooms in every possible method they could be prepared in, and with every combination brought to Adrià for discussion and approval or not. It's obviously a very precise art, but clinical to watch, like sitting in on scientists doing basic microscope research and making notes all day.

The second problem is a more frustrating one: the content itself is perhaps dry, but director Gereon Wetzel's choice to film it almost completely in static, behind-the-scenes shots presented without context—no interviews, no overdubbed voices, just a few explanatory blocks of text at the start—is a pretty lacklustre way to tell this story, especially if you're not already familiar with El Bulli. We barely get a sense of Adrià, how his mind works, though his chefs bringing him samples offers perhaps the only moments of interest. Still, as a film, Cooking in Progress will only pique the interests of the most-devoted, well-versed foodies.PauL BLInov// [email protected]

Revue // kITcHen nIGHTMaRe

eL BuLLI: cookInG In PRoGReSS

Iron chefs

Now openDirected by Dennis Dugan

Hey. I see what you did there. You just glanced at the headline up there, rolled your eyes

and went, "Jack and Jill? Like I'd ever see that." I get it: you think you're better than that. You saw the commercials on TV—probably while you were watching It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, or the British version of The Office ("I watched it before the American one came out")—and you thought to yourself, "I'm way too sophisticated for something Adam Sandler made."

You know what? Fuck you. This is a funny movie. For an hour and a half I didn't have to think about the impending collapse of worldwide society, I didn't have to reflect on how increasing funding

for prisons while decreasing funding for rehabili-tation programs will lead to higher—not lower—crime rates, and I wasn't once reminded about the amount of work I had to do over the weekend. That's all I really ask from Adam Sandler.

Is there an extended diarrhea joke? There is. Does Al Pacino rap in it? He does. In addition to Sandler's turn as his own sister, does it feature a cross-dressing David Spade as a Snookie-like Bronx loudmouth? Unfortunately, yes it does. That part was disconcerting, I'll grant you, but that's not enough reason to look down on Jack and Jill like you're better than it—you're not.

It's not that bad—at times, it's even funny. Let's just say, that while it's no Happy Gilmore, it's cer-tainly no Grown Ups.BRyan BIRTLeS// [email protected]

Revue // TwInS

Jack anD JILL

Sandler on Sandler

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Tue, Nov 22 (9 pm)Directed by James McTeigueMetro Cinema at the GarneauOriginally released: 2006

On the face of it, on one side of the domino, V For Vendetta, a movie

adaptation that plays as a pop-culture update of Orwell's 1984, with elements of Dumas, Zorro and The Phantom of the Opera, clicks along quite smoothly. The Wachowski brothers' script pares Alan Moore and David Lloyd's 1980s comic series down to two storylines, often crosscut by director James McTeigue. There's twentysomething Evey's (Natalie Portman) entanglement with V (Hugo Weaving), a Guy Fawkes mask-wearing mastermind-rebel, and lead detective Eric Finch's (Stephen Rea) pursuit of V and discovery of the horrible government experiment that created the man they deem a "psychotic

terrorist." And from the snappy red-and-black colour scheme, some noble politi-cal ideas emerge: the force of compas-sion for fellow victims of oppression; the passing of the torch to the next generation of rebels.

Behind the mask, on the other side of the domino, as all the pieces fall into place, V's plan is so airtight, so fateful (even his death is basically noble sui-cide, carefully planned), and so slickly executed, that both V and the movie start to feel as fascist and oppressive as the Big-Brother-meets-religious-fun-damentalist UK government (slogan: "Strength through unity, unity through faith") they oppose. V is the erudite master-man who lectures and teaches wide-eyed Evey, who does little. The final image, of the public looking up, en masse, at V's triumph, is collective idol-worship. This isn't anti-fascism (and certainly not anarchism, as in Moore's

work) but American-style superhero reverence by the masses, with pseudo-political overtones—what eclipses all is "the man, and what he meant to me."

Still, though we're five years removed from the film's purposeful and acciden-tal "war on terror" resonances (hooded and orange-suited prisoners; a bomb on a London Underground train) and the Holocaust allusions are unneces-sary, the film's bombastic, slick presen-tation of political ideologies and rebel-lion remains rousing entertainment (if overlong, with a few overwrought mo-ments). There's more than flash to the fireworks, though not much more—viewing it beyond its political veneer, V For Vendetta's verily a vivid video-game version of vox-populi vengeance against villains.BrIan GIBSOn// [email protected]

FILM // FawkeSy

v FOr venDeTTa

Fri, Nov 18 – Mon, Nov 21Directed by Eric RohmerMetro Cinema at The Garneau

eric Rohmer's The Green Ray (1986 winner of the Venice festival's Gold-

en Lion) should come with a bottle of wine and a baguette—c'est très French. In other words, it's about words—talking about doing, talking about ways of talk-ing and talking about ways of feeling. Ro-hmer, the last (and most conservative) of the French New Wave directors, pushes such Frenchness to the limit because the woman we follow, Delphine (Marie Rivière, also co-writer with Rohmer) is beset by ennui—a kind of restlessness or boredom.

Delphine's a secretary, just broken up with her fiancé. During her six weeks of summer vacation, she's unsettled and dis-satisfied. Trapped in a bubble of melan-choly, she drifts from Paris to Cherbourg, to the Alps, and to Biarritz. She seems flighty, impassioned (offering a defence of not eating meat that's quasi-logical and quasi-mystical), sad (she breaks into tears at times), unsure and, to some, "difficult," though she protests she's not (only seeming to prove their point).

It's easy to feel irritated by Delphine (though she, and the film, never lapses into self-pity), but Rohmer's doggedly observing—with seemingly prosaic

camerawork that conflicts subtly with semi-improvised conversations and sud-den cuts between days—a young single woman's dissatisfaction with her era's unromantic expectations. The film, one in Rohmer's "Comedies and Proverbs" se-ries, very gradually leads us to the lines from Rimbaud's verse quoted at the be-ginning: "Ah! Let the time come / When hearts are enamoured!"

The Green Ray, unfolding only in day-light, sparkles off rather beautifully, letting out a quiet exhalation in its final 20 minutes, when we see that Delphine has no interest in playing the usual sex-

ual-fling card-game—"My hand's empty ... I don't have anything"—with men. The "green ray" of the title (and at the heart of a discussed Jules Verne novel) is an emerald light at sunrise or sunset, rarely seen. It lies beyond words, reflect-ing the rare connection between a man and woman that cannot be pursued—it flashes forth or it doesn't. In that spectral moment, Delphine's hazy romantic ideal-ism becomes clear, her flickering hope ig-niting the end of Rohmer's film with the glint of poetry.BrIan GIBSOn// [email protected]

revue // BeSeT By ennuI

THe Green ray

Fri, Nov 18 (11 pm)Directed by David FincherMetro Cinema at the GarneauOriginally Released: 1999

Our unnamed narrator (Edward Norton) holds a position that

could only have emerged in the late 20th century: he's something called a recall coordinator, which basically means he negotiates the degree to which products have to annoy, maim or kill buyers before the manufac-turer actually has to do something about it. It's a brilliant occupation for the protagonist of a film that's aged so well that its time is still coming into being. The first rule of Fight Club is—however macho/obnoxious/show-offy it may seem—don't under-estimate Fight Club.

Off the top, our young Narrator's already reached an advanced state of yuppie zombification; his insomnia renders everything "a copy of a copy of a copy," debilitating sleeplessness being an apt response to a world conspiring to keep one simultane-ously lulled from disruptive critical thinking and excited by the possibil-ity of perpetual shopping. Then Nar-rator meets Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), a soap salesman and projectionist, slipping big dicks into family films. He has silly spiky hair, dresses like a trailer park pimp, and waxes anti-establishment philosophy; he's also handsome and sculpted and wants to get physical with Narrator, prompt-ing what we might deem an ultra-masculine friendship, gay romance,

or a solipsism so overpowering as to induce prolonged hallucinations. These guys start their titular club in basements and backstreets and it grows or catches until all over Amer-ica men are denouncing their identi-ties, pounding the shit out of each other, and waiting for cues to launch spectacular acts of terrorism.

So Fight club's trajectory is itself novel: boy meets girl; boy meets boy; boys fight (for fun/self-betterment); second boy steals girl; first boy finds himself; everything goes bananas. The film didn't initially "perform," but it established director David Fincher as a masterful, if over-eager, manipu-lator of industrial light and magic: the walk-in IKEA catalogue, the camera's vertiginous swoops, the fantasy air collision. Who else could have told this unruly, audacious story with such vigour? In its perverse depiction of mental illness, leading up to its big twist, this adaptation of Chuck Palah-niuk's eponymous novel is actually an outstanding adaptation of Philip K Dick, the oft-adapted, rarely appre-hended author whose schizophrenia imbued so much of his science fiction. Fight Club suggests that schizophre-nia might be the natural result of pro-longed exposure to late capitalism. And I almost believe it. If you want to believe you should check out Friday's Gateway Student Journalism Society special late-night screening. But be warned: discussions may spill out into the parking lot and get fisty. JOSeF Braun// [email protected]

FILM // reMeMBer THe FIrST TwO ruLeS

FIGHT cLuB

Now playingDirected by Tarsem Dhandwar Singh

Set in 1228 BC, Immortals tells the story of how a fierce peasant with

an unlimited gym pass rose up against and ultimately defeated a sadistic war-monger with a lot of help from body-buttered Aryan deities. Apparently it's all based on Greek myths, though departures from the source material are conspicuous and most often really dumb. One could argue that director Tarsem Dhandwar Singh (the artist for-merly known as Tarsem Singh, or plain old Tarsem—his name just keeps get-ting longer) is very much in his element; he clearly prefers the god's eye view whenever possible and finds countless opportunities here to have his actors strike poses modeled after the cover paintings of fantasy novels.

Theseus is bulgingly embodied by fu-ture Superman Henry Cavill, while his antagonist King Hyperion is played by Mickey Rourke, who seems to be chan-neling Brando in Apocalypse Now, what with his croaky voice muttering out from the gloom, his munching of chest-nuts, the crumbs stuck in his scraggily beard, and his looming over a basin of

water as he interviews an unfortunate minion. The two first meet when Hype-rion, like Thulsa Doom in Conan, slaugh-ters mom before Theseus's eyes. "Wit-ness hell," says Hyperion, whose route to mega-evil was earlier explained as the result of his despair over the death of his entire family during a plague. The gods did nothing to save them, he com-plains, so why bother with faith?

Turns out Hyperion's got a point, be-cause the gods can actually intervene when the mood strikes them, and in fact do so several times throughout Immortals, whose multiple deus ex machinas add up to an apologia for fun-damentalists and constitute a defense for all those who choose to interpret religious texts literally. An odd sort of suspense, or perhaps anti-suspense, is at work here: no matter how heroic or resourceful Theseus and his friends are made out to be, none of it really mat-ters because every time they're in big trouble the gods just swoop down and take care of business, climaxing in a cage match with some butt-ugly titans that involves a lot of exploding heads and makes no sense whatsoever. JOSeF Braun// [email protected]

revue // ZeuS DaMn IT

IMMOrTaLS

c'est très French

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Opens FridayDirected by George Miller

Penguins live a harsh, cold life. They deal with extreme storms, vicious

sea lions, opportunistic skua and now, for reasons that are lost to their little penguin world, their home is melting at a violent rate. Good thing they're so cute, or else Happy Feet Two would be a really depressing movie.

Without tackling the issue head on (Mumble doesn't set out to stop greenhouse gas emissions), the enviro-conscious animators at Warner Bros ad-dress the effects of rising temperatures

in the coldest place on earth, in this, our second run-in with the adorable world of these singing, dancing but flightless birds. With the potential effect of cre-ating a legion of tiny environmentalists hell bent on saving their favourite car-toon characters, Happy Feet Two starts with shattering icebergs causing giant waves in the southern ocean threatening the lifestyle of all the frozen animals that populate the Antarctic. When the rapidly melting bergs crack and shift, they trap the emperor penguin population in a deep pit with no way out.

The only emperors to escape are Mumble, owner of the original happy feet, his son and his son's fluffy friends.

The rest of the movie is one giant, pro-tracted struggle to save the species, interspersed with big dance numbers and this strange, unfortunate attempt to demonstrate how all life is intercon-nected using two krill voiced by Brad Pitt and Matt Damon.

In an inspiring feat of animation, the re-creation of the ice spilling into the sea and the swirling swarm of krill is sur-prisingly vivid. And the dance numbers, including the entire emperor penguin population (yes, they all have happy feet now) are big and fun.

But the obstacles between Mumble and saving his friends are stretched out to the point where adults (and kids too) are bound to get a little restless. Throw

in a churning mass of morals—save the environment, be yourself, and the moti-vational "if you want it, you must will it and if you will it, it will be yours"—Hap-py Feet Two is overstuffed and a little heavy for the genre. It is a little harsh

and cold to say, but no matter how wide-eyed and fluffy, baby penguins lose their charm somewhere around the 90 minute mark. KathLeen BeLL// [email protected]

Revue // Dance oF the PenGuInS

haPPy Feet two

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hugO 3D (STC) Digital 3d, No passes wED-Thu 12:30, 3:15, 7:45, 10:30

immORTALS 3D (18A gory brutal violence) Digital 3d FRi-SAT 12:00, 2:40, 5:20, 7:55, 10:45; Sun 12:00, 3:05, 6:50, 9:45; mOn-Thu 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 10:05

JACk AnD JiLL (PG) Digital Cinema FRi-SAT 1:20, 3:45, 6:00, 8:20, 10:40; Sun 12:20, 2:50, 5:45, 8:00, 10:20; mOn-TuE 1:20, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40; wED-Thu 1:20, 3:40, 6:20, 9:40

ThE muPPETS (G) Digital Cinema, No passes wED-Thu 12:10, 2:50, 6:50, 9:25

ThE TwiLighT SAgA: BREAking DAwn PART 1 (PG disturbing content not recommended for young children) Digital Cinema, No passes FRi-SAT 12:45, 1:10, 1:40, 3:40, 4:00, 4:30, 6:40, 7:10, 7:30, 9:35, 10:10, 10:30; Sun 12:45, 1:30, 3:30, 4:30, 6:15, 7:15, 7:30, 9:00, 10:00, 10:30; mOn-TuE 12:15, 12:45, 1:15, 3:15, 3:45, 4:15, 6:00, 6:30, 7:00, 9:15, 9:45, 10:00; wED-Thu 12:15, 1:10, 3:15, 4:10, 6:00, 7:00, 9:15, 10:00

ThE TwiLighT SAgA: BREAking DAwn PART 1 (PG disturbing content not recommended for young children) Ultraavx, No passes FRi-SAT 11:30, 2:10, 5:00, 8:00, 11:00; Sun 11:30, 2:10, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30; mOn-Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30

TOwER hEiST (PG coarse language) Digital Cinema FRi-SAT 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:05, 10:40; Sun 12:55, 4:05, 6:40, 9:35; mOn-TuE 12:25, 3:30, 6:15, 9:00; wED-Thu 12:50, 3:50, 7:05, 9:45

wwE SuRvivOR SERiES–2011 (Classification not available) Sun 6:00

PARAnORmAL ACTiviTy 3 (14A frightening scenes) Digital Cinema FRi-SAT 8:15, 10:50; Sun 7:40, 10:15; mOn-TuE 7:15, 9:20

in TimE (PG coarse language, violence) Digital Cinema FRi-SAT 11:45, 2:50, 5:35, 8:25, 11:00; Sun 12:25, 3:30, 6:15, 9:00; mOn-TuE 12:40, 3:50, 7:05, 9:45; wED-Thu 1:15, 4:00, 6:35, 9:10


50/50 (14A coarse language) Digital Cinema FRi 3:10, 5:45, 8:30, 10:55; SAT 5:45, 8:30, 10:55; Sun 3:10, 10:05; mOn-TuE 3:25, 6:45, 9:35

mELAnChOLiA (14A) Digital Cinema FRi-SAT 1:35, 4:35, 7:45, 10:40; Sun, wED-Thu 1:05, 4:10, 7:05, 10:05; mOn-TuE 1:05, 4:05, 7:00, 10:00

J. EDgAR (PG language may offend) Digital Cinema FRi-SAT 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10:30; Sun-wED 12:45, 3:45, 6:50, 9:55; Thu 4:15, 7:20, 10:20; Star & Strollers Screen-ing: Thu 1:00

ThE SLEEPing BEAuTy LivE–BOLShOi BAL-LET (Classification not available) Sun 1:00 cIty centRe 9

10200-102 ave, 780.421.7020ThE TwiLighT SAgA: BREAking DAwn PART 1 (PG disturbing content not recommended for young children) Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital, Stadium Seating, On 2 Screens, Closed Captioned, No passes FRi-TuE 12:00, 12:45, 3:00, 3:45, 6:30, 7:00, 9:30, 10:00; wED-Thu 12:00, 3:00, 7:00, 10:00

ThE muPPETS (G) Closed Captioned, Dolby Stereo

Digital, DTS Digital, Stadium Seating wED-Thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45

LikE CRAzy (PG coarse language) Closed Captioned, DTS Digital, Dolby Stereo Digital DAiLy 12:55, 3:55, 7:10, 10:10

immORTALS 3D (18A gory brutal violence) Digital 3d, Dolby Stereo Digital, Stadium Seating FRi-TuE 12:35, 3:35, 6:55, 9:55; wED-Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:30, 10:30

JACk AnD JiLL (PG) Digital Presentation, DTS Digital, Stadium Seating FRi-wED 12:15, 3:15, 6:15, 9:15; Thu 12:15, 3:15, 9:15

PuSS in BOOTS (G) Closed Captioned, DTS Digital, Stadium Seating DAiLy 1:10, 4:10, 7:25, 10:25

J. EDgAR (PG language may offend) Closed Captioned, Dolby Stereo Digital, No passes, Stadium Seating DAiLy 12:25, 3:25, 6:50, 9:50

A vERy hAROLD kumAR 3D ChRiSTmAS (18A substance abuse, crude content) Dolby Stereo Digital, Stadium Seating, Digital 3d, Closed Captioned FRi-TuE 1:15, 4:15, 7:30, 10:30

hugO (STC) Digital 3d, Dolby Stereo Digital, Stadium Seating wED-Thu 12:35, 3:35, 6:55, 9:55

hAPPy FEET TwO (G) Digital 3d, Dolby Stereo Digital, DTS Digital, Stadium Seating DAiLy 1:05, 4:05, 7:20, 10:20

cLaRevIew 104211-139 ave, 780.472.7600

PuSS in BOOTS 3D (G) Digital 3d FRi 7:05, 9:20; SAT-Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:05, 9:20; mOn-TuE 5:20, 7:40; wED-Thu 5:20, 7:35

A vERy hAROLD kumAR 3D ChRiSTmAS (18A substance abuse, crude content) Digital 3d FRi 7:30, 10:00; Digital 3d SAT-Sun 1:40, 4:45, 7:30, 10:00; Digital 3d mOn-TuE 5:25, 7:50; Digital wED-Thu 5:25, 7:50

TOwER hEiST (PG coarse language) Digital Presenta-tion FRi 6:45, 9:15; SAT-Sun 1:20, 4:10, 6:45, 9:15; mOn-TuE 5:10, 8:10

J. EDgAR (PG language may offend) Digital Presenta-tion, No passes FRi 6:35, 9:30; SAT-Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:35, 9:30; mOn-Thu 4:45, 7:45

JACk AnD JiLL (PG) Digital Presentation FRi 7:15, 9:40; SAT-Sun 1:50, 4:20, 7:15, 9:40; mOn-Thu 5:50, 8:10

immORTALS 3D (18A gory brutal violence) Digital 3d FRi 7:10, 9:50; SAT-Sun 12:50, 3:40, 7:10, 9:50; mOn-Thu 5:40, 8:20

ThE TwiLighT SAgA: BREAking DAwn PART 1 (PG disturbing content not recommended for young children) Digital Presentation, No passes, On 2 Screens FRi 6:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:10, 9:45; SAT-Sun 12:30, 1:00, 1:30, 3:45, 4:15, 4:30, 6:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:10, 9:45; mOn-TuE 4:50, 5:15, 5:30, 7:45, 8:00, 8:15; wED-Thu 4:50, 5:30, 7:50, 8:15

hAPPy FEET TwO (G) Digital 3d, No passes FRi 6:50, 9:15; SAT-Sun 1:15, 4:00, 6:50, 9:15; mOn-TuE 5:00, 7:45; wED-Thu 5:00, 7:30

ThE muPPETS (G) No passes, Digital wED-Thu 5:15, 8:00

ARThuR ChRiSTmAS 3D (G) Digital 3d, No passes wED-Thu 4:40, 7:40

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PuSS in BOOTS (G) Presented in T3D DAiLy 7:10; SAT-Sun 1:45

JACk AnD JiLL (PG) DAiLy 7:15, 9:15; SAT-Sun 2:20

immORTALS (18A gory brutal violence) DAiLy 7:20, 9:30; SAT AnD Sun 2:40

ThE TwiLighT SAgA: BREAking DAwn PART 1 (PG disturbing content not recommended for young children) FRi-wED 6:50 9:10; SAT-Sun 2:00

hAPPy FEET TwO (G) DAiLy 7:00 9:05; SAT-Sun 1:00 3:00

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780.416.0150A vERy hAROLD kumAR ChRiSTmAS (18A substance abuse, crude content) FRi 4:10, 8:00, 10:35; SAT-Sun 1:20, 4:10, 8:00, 10:35; mOn-TuE 8:00, 10:35

PuSS in BOOTS (G) wED-Thu 7:40, 10:20

hAPPy FEET TwO 3D (G) Digital 3d, No passes FRi 3:50, 7:10, 9:50; SAT-Sun 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 9:50; mOn-TuE 7:10, 9:50; wED-Thu 6:50, 9:50

ARThuR ChRiSTmAS 3D (G) Digital 3d, No passes wED-Thu 6:40, 9:30

PuSS in BOOTS 3D (G) Digital 3d FRi 3:30, 6:40, 9:30;

SAT-Sun 12:00, 3:30, 6:40, 9:30; mOn-TuE 6:40, 9:30

immORTALS 3D (18A gory brutal violence) Digital 3d FRi 4:40, 7:40, 10:20; SAT-Sun 12:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:20; mOn-TuE 7:40, 10:20

immORTALS (18A gory brutal violence) wED-Thu 7:50, 10:35

hugO 3D (STC) Digital 3d, No passes wED-Thu 7:10, 10:05

JACk AnD JiLL (PG) FRi 4:20, 7:50, 10:10; SAT-Sun 1:10, 4:20, 7:50, 10:10; mOn-TuE 7:50, 10:10; wED-Thu 7:45, 10:15

ThE TwiLighT SAgA: BREAking DAwn PART 1 (PG disturbing content not recommended for young children) No passes FRi 4:00, 4:30, 7:00, 7:30, 10:00, 10:30; SAT-Sun 1:00, 1:30, 4:00, 4:30, 7:00, 7:30, 10:00, 10:30; mOn-Thu 7:00, 7:30, 10:00, 10:30

ThE muPPETS (G) No passes wED-Thu 7:20, 10:10

TOwER hEiST (PG coarse language) FRi 3:40, 7:20, 10:05; SAT-Sun 12:50, 3:40, 7:20, 10:05; mOn-TuE 7:20, 10:05

in TimE (PG coarse language, violence) FRi 3:55, 6:50, 9:45; SAT-Sun 12:20, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45; mOn-TuE 6:50, 9:45

J. EDgAR (PG language may offend) FRi 3:20, 6:30, 9:40; SAT-Sun 12:10, 3:20, 6:30, 9:40; mOn-Thu 6:30, 9:40 GRanDIn theatRe–St aLBeRt

Grandin Mall, Sir winston churchill ave, St albert, 780.458.9822

JACk AnD JiLL (PG) No passes DAiLy 1:05, 3:15, 5:05, 7:15, 9:05

TOwER hEiST (PG coarse language) FRi-TuE 1:20, 3:20, 5:20, 7:20, 9:20

ThE muPPETS (G) No passes wED-Thu 1:20, 3:20 5:20, 7:20, 9:20

PuSS in BOOTS (G) DAiLy 1:30, 3:30, 5:20, 7:10, 9:00

ThE TwiLighT SAgA: BREAking DAwn PART 1 (PG disturbing content not recommended for young children) No passes DAiLy 1:45, 4:25, 7:00, 9:30

hAPPy FEET TwO (G) In digital 3D No passes DAiLy 1:00, 3:05, 5:10, 7:25, 9:25

LeDuc cIneMaSLeduc, 780.352.3922

ThE TwiLighT SAgA: BREAking DAwn PART 1 (PG disturbing content not recommended for young children) DAiLy 7:00, 9:40; FRi 3:45; SAT/Sun 1:00, 3:40

PuSS in BOOTS (G) Digital 3d DAiLy 6:55; FRi, SAT, Sun 12:55, 3:25

TOwER hEiST (PG coarse language) DAiLy 9:30

JACk AnD JiLL (PG) DAiLy 7:05, 9:20; SAT-Sun 1:05, 3:20

hAPPy FEET (G) In digital 3D DAiLy 6:50, 9:15; SAT-Sun 12:50, 3:15

MetRo cIneMa at the GaRneau Metro at the Garneau: 8712-109 St, 780.425.9212

EL BuLLi: COOking in PROgRESS (PG) FRi, Sun, TuE, Thu 7:00; SAT 2:45, 9:00; Sun 12:45; mOn 9:00; wED 7:00, 9:00

ThE gREEn RAy FRi 9:00; SAT 12:45, 7:00; Sun 2:45, 9:00; mOn 7:00

gATEwAy TO CinEmA: FighT CLuB (18A brutal violence) FRi 11:00

AFRiCA uniTED (14A) Sun 4:30

gRAPhiC COnTEnT: v FOR vEnDETTA (14A coarse language, violence) TuE 9:00

TuRkEy ShOOT: ThE hAPPEning (STC) Thu 9:30

LE hAvRE (PG) FRi 7:00

RESuRRECT DEAD: ThE mySTERy OF ThE TOynBEE TiLES (PG coarse language) FRi 9:00

EL TOPO (STC) FRi 11:00

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780.972.2332 (Spruce Grove, Stony Plain; Parkland county)

ThE TwiLighT SAgA: BREAking DAwn PART 1 (PG disturbing content not recommended for young children) DAiLy 7:00, 9:20; SAT-Sun, TuE 1:00, 3:20

hAPPy FEET TwO (G) DAiLy 7:10, 9:15; SAT-Sun, TuE 1:10, 3:15

ThE muPPETS (G) wED-Thu 6:45, 8:50

JACk AnD JiLL (PG) DAiLy 7:00, 9:00; SAT-Sun,

TuE 1:00, 3:00; Movies for Mommies: TuE 1:00

immORTALS (18A gory brutal violence) DAiLy 6:50, 9:10; SAT, Sun-TuE 12:50, 3:10

PuSS in BOOTS 2D (G) Presented in 2D FRi-TuE 6:45; SAT-Sun, TuE 12:45, 2:50

TOwER hEiST (PG coarse language) DAiLy 6:40, 8:55; SAT-Sun, TuE 12:40, 2:55

PuSS in BOOTS 3D (G) Presented in 3D DAiLy 7:10, 9:05; SAT-Sun, TuE 1:10, 3:05

PARAnORmAL ACTiviTy 3 (14A frightening scenes) FRi-TuE 8:50

PRInceSS10337-82 ave, 780.433.0728

mARThA mARCy mAy mARLEnE (14A sexual violence, disturbing content) DAiLy 6:50, 9:10; SAT, Sun 2:00

ThE guARD (14A coarse language) DAiLy 7:00, 9:00; SAT, Sun 1:00

ScotIaBanK theatRe weMweM, 8882-170 St, 780.444.2400

A vERy hAROLD kumAR 3D ChRiSTmAS (18A substance abuse, crude content) Digital 3d FRi-Sun 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:45; mOn-wED 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:15; Thu 12:55, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:15

hAPPy FEET TwO (G) Digital Cinema, No passes FRi-Sun 12:15, 3:00; mOn-TuE, Thu 12:30, 3:15; wED 3:30; Star & Strollers Screening: wED 1:00

FOOTLOOSE (PG coarse language) FRi-SAT 12:40, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20; Sun 11:35, 2:15, 10:00

PuSS in BOOTS 3D (G) Digital 3d DAiLy 1:00, 4:00, 6:45, 9:15

immORTALS 3D (18A gory brutal violence) Digital 3d FRi-Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:40, 10:30; mOn-Thu 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:20

JACk AnD JiLL (PG) FRi-Sun 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 7:30, 10:00; mOn-TuE 2:00, 4:50, 7:30, 10:00; Digital Cinema wED-Thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:30, 10:00

ThE muPPETS (G) Digital Cinema, No passes wED-Thu 12:45, 3:50, 7:10, 9:45

ThE TwiLighT SAgA: BREAking DAwn PART 1 (PG disturbing content not recommended for young children) No passes FRi-TuE 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30; wED 3:45, 7:30, 10:30; Digital Cinema: Thu 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 7:00, 9:30, 10:00; FRi-Sun 7:15, 10:15; mOn-wED 7:00, 10:00; Ultraavx: FRi-Sun 11:30, 2:10, 5:00, 8:00, 11:00; mOn-Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30; Star & Strollers Screening: wED 1:00

TOwER hEiST (PG coarse language) FRi-mOn 1:10, 4:10, 6:50, 9:40; Digital Cinema TuE-Thu 1:10, 4:10, 6:50, 9:40

wwE SuRvivOR SERiES–2011 (Classification not available) Sun 6:00

ThE mETROPOLiTAn OPERA: AnnA BOLEnA–EnCORE (Classification not available) mOn 6:30

PARAnORmAL ACTiviTy 3 (14A frightening scenes) FRi, Sun 12:20, 2:40, 5:15, 7:45, 10:20; SAT 3:30, 5:30, 7:45, 10:20

in TimE (PG coarse language, violence) FRi, Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15; SAT 1:00, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15; mOn 12:45, 3:45, 10:30; TuE 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10

J. EDgAR (PG language may offend) FRi-Sun 12:00, 3:20, 6:40, 9:50; mOn 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:50; Digital Cinema TuE-Thu 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:50


hAPPy FEET TwO An imAx 3D ExPERi-EnCE (G) No passes FRi-Sun 11:30, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30; mOn-Thu 1:45, 4:15, 7:00, 9:30

wetaSKIwIn cIneMaSwetaskiwin, 780.352.3922

JACk AnD JiLL (PG) DAiLy 7:10, 9:20; FRi, SAT, Sun 1:10, 3:25

ThE TwiLighT SAgA: BREAking DAwn PART 1 (PG disturbing content not recommended for young children) Thu, nOv 17: 10:00pm; DAiLy 7:00, 9:40; FRi 3:45; SAT-Sun 1:00, 3:40

hAPPy FEET (G) Digital 3D DAiLy 6:50, 9:15; SAT-Sun 12:50, 3:15

TOwER hEiST (PG coarse language) DAiLy 9:30

PuSS in BOOTS 3D (G) Presented in 3D DAiLy 6:55; SAT-Sun 12:55, 3:25

FILM WEEKLYFri, NOv 18, 2011 – Thu, NOv 24, 2011

ARTSPREVUE // DANCE

Prairie heartbeatFour artistic directors celebrate the Prairie Dance Circuit

Fri, Nov 18 & Sat, Nov 19 (8 pm)Prairie Dance CircuitJohn L Haar Theatre, $20 – $35

It's surprising to hear Brian Webb say that he's spent the last year learning how to exercise.

Exercise properly, that is, a� er one's su� ered a major heart attack. Webb's brush with death last fall forced him to rethink the way he moves—it's essen-tially meant that the 60-year-old contemporary dancer had to start doing real cardio.

"When you have a heart attack, part of your heart dies, and you need to strengthen the rest of it. In reality I'm in better shape now than I have been for several years, but it's a lot of work," says Webb, who will pres-ent his solo 30% gone as part of the second annual Prairie Dance Circuit. The piece, featured on the same bill as four other works by artistic directors of dance companies in Calgary, Winnipeg and Regina, is Webb's exploration of his coronary episode, recovery and subsequent revised outlook on life and, well, death too.

"There was a part of me that thought I was going to be a hedonist all my life. Well, guess what? Sorry pal, you're as vulnerable as anybody else is," he jokes.

Though last year's inaugural run of the Circuit pre-sented emerging artists from each of the directors' cities, this year the directors programmed their own works to tour through the provinces (it's the fi rst time in decades that Webb has performed in Win-nipeg, he notes).

"One of our strongest commonalities that we have as dance curators—and this is the only part of the country where this is really true—is that we're all dance artists as well. In our second year of the Cir-cuit, we really wanted to celebrate the fact that yes we're dance presenters, but we're fi rst of all and primarily dance artists."

Brent Lott of Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers performs a duet with Sara Roche titled The Oc-casion of Our Passing, and Calgary's Nicole Mion of Springboard Performance adds Quiver to the mix. A duet performed by James Gnam and Jenn Jaspar, Quiver is described in the choreographer's notes as a solo piece, but it's actually been per-formed di� erently each time: by a man, a woman, and also as a duet.

Davida Monk's Under Cover of Darkness is per-formed by Hillary Maxwell, and Robin Poitras of Regina's New Dance Horizons presents another, very Prairie-themed solo, titled so� foot.

"We're all leaders in our communities. Why? Be-cause we've all been around for so fucking long," Webb points out, with a laugh. "So we have resources. And we have knowledge. We're really interested in building the sense of the prairie dance community with the Circuit, and not just in our own locales."

As for his continuing education at the gym, Webb looks back on the heart attack with his signature, unquiet pen-chant. He recently stepped down from his position on the Canada Dance Festival to minimize stress, affi rming that he's not in denial about what happened, but he is certainly defi ant about it.

"I'm a fi ghter," he says. "Of course it's frightening, life is frightening though, right? But it's also amazing. Happiness takes a lot of work. I don't think happiness is a constant state. Life is a lot of work on many levels, and moments of joy make it worthwhile. And one of the things that makes me really joyful is when I'm dancing, so it's all worthwhile for me."FAWNDA MITHRUSH// [email protected]

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Pure Speculation Festival / Sat, Nov 19 – Sun, Nov 20One for the geekiest among you: in its own words, Pure Speculation "cel-ebrates a wide array of popular culture entertainment media—comics, games, movies and TV, fantasy, science fi ction and horror writing." In execution, that means panel discussions (this year including one on "Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse" and a couple featuring Vue's news editor Samantha Power) guest speakers, and gaming, among other myriad geek wonders. It's more nerdiness than you can handle, but all of it raises funds for local Crystal Kids charity, which o� ers safe recreation for inner-city youth. So, y'know, nerdiness with cause. (Grant MacEwan Robbins Health Centre, $20 – $35)

Hey Ladies! / Fri, Nov 18 (8 pm) Davina Stewart, Leona Brausen and Cathleen Rootsaert return to the Roxy Stage with their fi nal show of 2011, delivering gi� s, gabs and guest perform-ers to the assembled masses. They promise it will be "the least boring and/or annoying and/or embarrassing thing you do this holiday season," and, let's be honest, they're probably right. (Roxy Theatre, $25)

Night of Artists / Fri, Nov 18; Sat, Nov 19In its 15th anniversary, the Night of Artists is displaying more than 500 origi-nal works by local artists, presenting a live painting performance by one Lewis Lavoie, and o� ering up performances from the likes of Andrea House, The Retrofi tz, Dana Wylie and many more. It's all in support of Kids with Cancer. (Italian Cultural Centre, $9.25 – $75)

I'm No Superman & Ally Sloper /Until Feb, 2012In tribute to the late local arts writer Gil-bert Bouchard, the Rutherford Library is hosting I'm No Superman: The Comic Collection of Gilbert Bouchard. The exhibit o� ers insight into Bouchard's impact on the arts and culture scene in Edmonton as well as examining the increasingly heralded artistic format of the comic book. Fittingly, I'm No Super-man will run alongside Ally Sloper & C.H. Chapman examining "Ally" Sloper, a legendary victorian comic-strip fi gure. (I'm No Superman: Rutherford South Foyer; Ally Sloper: Bruce Peel Special Collections Library)

Sat, Nov. 12 – Sun, Dec. 4 (7:30 pm, Sunday matinees 2 pm)Written and performed by Daniel MacIvorDirected by Daniel BrooksCitadel Theatre, $20 – $61.75

There's a certain set of distinct characteristics in a Daniel MacIvor

show. Dark humour? Definitely. Dys-functional characters? Check. Simul-taneously breaking down and bricking up the fourth wall? You bet. A happy ending? Not so much.

But MacIvor assures us that his new work, This is What Happens Next, does indeed have a happy ending. "I defy you to find me a happier ending," he says, pausing a moment before adding, "But one has to pay a price for happy endings."

That ominous postscript confirms that this is not an anomaly in his much-lauded career. A master of the solo per-formance, MacIvor has penned and per-formed a number of shows dwelling on recurring themes, which are invariably dark: addiction, family dysfunction and death, to name but a few.

"It's what I know," says MacIvor, with an air of wry resignation. "It's my par-ticular, personal résumé. It's what I lived, so it's the filters through which I experience life on earth."

Five years ago, MacIvor publicly

called it quits on performing. He was burned out from too many years of a rock 'n' roll lifestyle, performing in sev-eral solo shows at once and spending too much time on the road.

Yet his break didn't exactly go as planned, and after his attempt to "go get a real life" ended in disaster, Ma-cIvor contacted longtime collaborator Daniel Brooks and began work on a new solo show.

Perhaps more than an inability to live a "normal" life, MacIvor's return to performing was an unavoidable conse-quence of his creative process. "I start on my feet, with notes, and Brooks in-terrogates me," he explains. "I take on the voice of a character, and I'm not even sure the details of the character when I start. It's not until into that process that I start developing what one might think of as a script."

MacIvor has a knack for employing di-rect address in an unusual manner. He often acknowledges and addresses the audience directly, but in so doing the audience becomes another character; the fourth wall is broken, yet there's a persistent distance between the guy on stage and the people in the crowd.

"We actually call the character 'Me,'" states MacIvor. "It's me, and he's speak-ing to the audience as the people in the room tonight. But there's also a level,

another level, a storytelling level. "It started off as an exploration of

what storytelling was, and what its im-portance was, and what the pros and cons of storytelling were," he continues, "and then developed from that, over the course of a number of workshops, into a play about the nature of will, of willful-ness, and I guess the difference between willfulness and willingness. And in the midst of all that there's an actual story that's told, about a kid, a seven-year-old kid, and his dad and various things that happen to him. And there's a giant in it."

The title of This is What Happens Next is as much a reference to the anatomy of storytelling as it is an allusion to Ma-cIvor's own life. It is also, as he goes on to explain, a kind of treatise on the no-tion of time itself.

"If one is making an effort to be pres-ent, and live in the moment, then sto-rytelling becomes a problem," states MacIvor. "Storytelling isn't really about the moment, the now; storytelling is about the next. So one always has to be always thinking ahead to the next in order to tell stories.

"The idea of This and Next are really important ideas inside the show," he continues. "The Next somehow qualifies This, and makes This impossible, because we're always thinking of Next."Mel PrIesTley// [email protected]

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The French term for it is "mot dit": spoken word, the theme

that artistic director Daniel Courn-oyer has given to L'UniThéâtre's 19th season of francophone theatre in Edmonton.

"It's all about throwing it back to the playwright," Cournoyer ex-plains. "In theatre we wouldn't have theatre if we didn't have our playwrights. And it's all about the actors taking those words and pull-ing them from the page and coming alive."

To launch his first offering of mot dit, he's selected Grace et Glo-ria (Grace and Gloria, in English; all of L'Uni's mainstage shows are surtitled in English, a surprisingly decent way to take in theatre). It follows the sentimental relation-ship that forms between Grace, an aging cancer patient who's spending her remaining time at home (while all around her real estate develop-ers bulldoze her property, and to her, the last reminders of her fam-ily), and Gloria, a caregiver with her own familial tragedy lurking in the recent past, assigned to help her out in her twilight hour.

The show, written by Tom Ziegler and translated by Michel Tremblay, did a large national tour a few years back, but Cournoyer didn't book it for his season. "I wasn't sure why," he says, "but I think I was keeping it for myself, quite honestly."

Grace et Gloria was also a chance for Cournoyer to work with Thérèse Dallaire again. A 74-year-old actress in the francophone community, she hasn't been seen on the L'Uni stage in more than a decade, at least not in a role of this size.

"An older actress with a lot of talent," Cournoyer says, of Dal-laire. "When you're working with the different people, sometimes you're thinking, 'What would be a great part or a good play to work with Thérèse again?,' and Grace and Gloria just seemed to be the logi-cal fit, considering Thérèse's age. I thought, this is a really fun part for her, and she can really sink her teeth into it.

"That was one of the big motiva-tors behind it," he continues. "It's a great story, it's a comedic tragedy ... we go through a series of emotions, but I think its structure overall hits a lot of the chords we're trying to hit when we're doing theatre."PAul BlINov// [email protected]

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when Michael Peng picks up the phone, he's just in from the

backyard, where he's been battering suitcases with a sledgehammer. "Sam-sonites are built well," he observes with a chuckle. "Not just commercial bullshit. They're well made."

Peng is damaging carry-ons in prepa-ration for Falling: A Wake, his sledge-hammer approximating the impact of cargo hitting the Earth after falling from an airliner's cruising distance, the remnants of which the play's two fig-ures, Harold and Elsie, find scattered about their farm one night when a plane explodes overhead. They also

find the lifeless body of a young man, still strapped into his seat, and while waiting for authorities to show up, they find themselves drawn to him, exploring their own damaged connec-tion through his story.

Playwright Gary Kirkham, a friend of Peng's, based it on the emotional tumult he went through after losing a close friend in the 1989 Lockerbie Bombing; in that way, it's Kirkham's way of sifting through those feelings of loss.

"Gary had been raised in the church or with a faith of some sort, and he just threw it all away as a result of that, because it made no sense to him that there was a God if God allowed those things to happen," Peng notes. "Part of the events of the play is them

trying to wrestle with this notion of God, that there's somebody in control of all of this, and that God allows this kind of shit to happen. So In a lot of ways, I think the play is Gary's work-ing out of what it means, if anything, to try and connect things to personal meaning or faith or belief that there's some purpose behind it all."

For wishbone Theatre's take on Falling, Peng's made some subtle shifts—some of the more anglo turns of phrase from Kirkham's native southern Ontario are replaced with more localized terms, so they don't distract, with the goal of maintaining the script's intimacy. Given the cozy size of the PCL studio and the two-character structure of the play, Peng notes that every little nuance of each performer is on full display as the sto-ry unspools itself.

"I think audience members are go-ing to see two very seasoned, very mature performers map out that in-terior world like they've never seen," he says, "In the sense of being able to read every expression, furrowed brow, turn of the head, tension in the hands, it's all really important for the show, because of all of the deep things that the characters are experiencing." PAul BlINov// [email protected]

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DanceBolshoi Ballet series • Cineplex Odeon North and South locations • Sleeping Beauty, live from the Bolshoi Ballet stars David Hallberg, Svetlana Za-kharova • Nov 20, 1pm • $19.95/$17.95 (senior)/$9.95 (child) Brian WeBB Dance company • John L. Haar Theatre, 10045-155 St • Prairie Dance Circuit featuring Brian Webb • Nov 18-19 • Tickets at TIX on the Square mile Zero • TransAlta Arts Barns Westbury Theatre, 10330-84 Ave • 780.424.1573 • The Wired Body: Mile Zero Dance Salon curated by Amy Fung • Nov 26, 8pm • $15 (member)/$20 (general) at door shumka Dancers • Jubilee Audito-rium, 11455-87 Ave • Shumka’s Red Boots and Bubbly New Works Gala • Nov 19 • Tickets at TicketMasterVinok WorlDance–christmas around the world • Grand Ballroom, Chateau Louis Hotel, 11727 Kingsway • 780.454.3739 • Until Nov 20 • $70 (Nov 17)/$75 (Nov 18-20)/$39 (child)

GaLLeRIeS/MUSeUMSagnes Bugera gallery • 12310 Jasper Ave • 780.482.2854 • Paintings by David Wilson and Gabryel Harrison • Nov 19-Dec 3 • Opening: Nov 19, 2-4pm, artist in attendance alBerta craFt council gallery • 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • NaTural FloW: CoNTemporary alBerTa GlaSS: until Dec 24 • SalTalK: Clay works by Jim Etzkorn; until Dec 3 art gallery oF alBerta (aga) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • BMO World of Creativity: DraWN ouTSiDe: especially for kids; Until Jan 29 • 19Th CeNTury FreNCh phoToGraphS: until Jan 29 • prairie liFe: SeTTlemeNT aND The laST BeST WeST, 1930-1955: until Jan 29 • a paSSioN For NaTure: Landscape Painting from 19th Century France: until Feb 20 • STaTe oF NaTure: until Feb 20 • RBC New Works Gallery: Arlene Wasylynchuk: SalTuS illumiNaTi: until Jan 15 • up NorTh: until Jan 8 • All Day Sunday: 3rd Sun every month, 12-4pm • Refinery: special event: Nov 19, 9pm-2am; $25/$20 (AGA member) • Art for Lunch: remember me Fondly: Nov 17, 12:10-12:50pm • Studio Y Youth Drop-in: Appropriate: Acrylic Painting: Nov 17, 3:30-5:30pm; $10 • Adult Drop-in: Bend: Drawing with Wire: Nov 17, 7-9pm; $15/$12 (member) • Special Artist Lecture: Ledcor Theatre: Kevin Schmid, a Sign in the Northwest passage; Nov 26, 2pm; $15/$10 (member) • AGA Book Club: Green Studio, Lower Level: late Nights on air by Elizabeth Hay: Nov 24, 7pm; free; pre-register art gallery oF st alBert (agsa) • 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • aFGhaNiSTaN ThrouGh my leNS: Photos by David Bowering; until Nov 26 • Art Gallery of St. Albert’s Satellite Studio, 130, 15 Perron St: GuilDeD 2011–Cele-BraTiNG The arTiST: Community art show; until Nov 19 artshaB stuDio gallery • 3rd Fl, 10217-106 St • 780.439.9532 • arTShaB oNe & FrieNDS: Works by ArtsHab artists and guests • Reception: Nov 18, 5-11pm • Nov 19, 10am-4pm, Nov 20, 12-2pm centre D’arts Visuels De l’alBerta • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • perCepTioN • Nov 18-Dec 6 • Reception: Nov 18, 7-8:30pm the country craFt Fair • St Albert Place, 5 St Anne St • Nov 19, 10am-5pm; Nov 20, 11am-4pm crookeD pot gallery–stony plain • 4912-51 Ave, Stony Plain • 780.963.9573 • uNique aND quirKy: Ceramic works by Catherine Boggs and Aurelia Sanders • Until Nov 30 DaFFoDil gallery • 10412-124 St, 780.482-2854 • Works by Samantha Wil-liams Chapelsky • Until Nov 30 Douglas uDell • 10332-124 St • 780.488.4445 • BurDeN oF iNNoCeNCe act 2 & 3: W Printmaking orks by Natalka Husar • Nov 19-Dec 3 eDmonton potters’ guilD • Alberta Avenue Community Centre, 9210-118 Ave • 780.426.5642 • FireD up: Pottery Show and Sale • Nov 26, 10am-5pm FaB gallery • Department of Art and Design, U of A, Rm 3-98 Fine Arts Bldg • 780.492.2081 • TaSTy: Alexa Mietz (print-

making) • GarDeN oF The ForKiNG paThS: Alma Visscher (drawinginter-media) • Until Dec 3 • Reception: Nov 17, 7-10pm Front gallery • 12312 Jasper Ave • 780.488.2952 • Paintings by Verna Vogel • Until Nov 22 gallery at milner • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • Deep ruST: Photos by Pamela Anthony and Darrin Hagen • eC-CleCTiC mix: poTS aND WhaT-NoTS: Edmonton Potters' Guild (display cases, near AV Room) • The pure SpeCula-TioN FeSTival DiSplay (science fiction, AV Room display); until Nov 30 gallerie paVa • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • TraNSCeNDaNCe Sur uN air De: Works by Doris Charest and Danièle Petit • Until Nov 23 harcourt house • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.426.4180 • ThroW aWay your TeleviSioN: Student Art and Design art and poster show • Nov 18-30 • Opening: Nov 18, 8-10pmirene klar stuDio • 15904-116 Ave • 780.732.7848 • Handpainted silk scarves, jackets, artworks • Nov 18-20, 10am-4pm italian cultural centre • 14230-133 Ave • 780.453.6182 • opeNiNG NiGhT vip Gala: Art show, fashion show, entertainment. In Support of Kids with Cancer: Nov 18, 6:30pm (door) • The aFTerNooN STroll: Featuring performers and artists; Nov 19, 11am (door)-4pm • The 15th aNNiverSary parTy: Art show, fashion show, entertain-ment; Nov 19, 7pm (door) • Nov 18-19 • Tickets at TIX on the Square JeFF allen art gallery • Strathcona Seniors Centre, 10831 University Ave • 780.433.5807 • SereNiTy ii: Watercolours by Yumiko Hoyano • Until Nov 25 latituDe 53 • 10248-106 St • 780.423.5353 • TaxoNomia: Maria Whiteman’s Science-fantasy photographs; Artist Talk: Nov 18, 7pm • WorKiNG orDer: Works by Karen Zalamea; Performance: Nov 26, 2pm; Artist Talk: Nov 26, 2pm • Both shows: until Dec 17 mcmullen gallery • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • ShiFTiNG paTTerNS: Various artists • Until Dec 4 multicultural centre puBlic art gallery (mcpag)–stony plain • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain • 780.963.9935 • Paintings by Loraine Stephanson • Until Nov 30 musée héritage museum–st albert • 5 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1528 • TaKe your BeST ShoT: Youth (8-18yrs) photo exhibition; Nov 22-Feb 5 • Presentation: Nov 25, 7pm naess gallery • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • urBaN TWiST: Group show • Until Nov 29 • Reception: Nov 17, 5-7pm peter roBertson gallery • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • aNoTher STill-liFe: Works by David Cantine • Until Nov 23royal Bison craFt anD art shoW • 8426 Gateway Blvd • Until Nov 17 royal alBerta museum • 12845-102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • CompoSeD expo-SureS: Photographs by museum staff members; until Nov 25 • a river ruNS ThrouGh iT: Until Feb 5 • CompoSeD expoSureS: Until Nov 25 • NarraTive queST: Until Apr 29 scott gallery 10411-124 St • 780.488.3619 • my mouNTaiN home: Works by Wendy Wacko • Until Nov 22 snap gallery • 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • Gallery: The miNe FielD: Works by Alexandra Haeseker; until Nov 19 spruce groVe art gal-lery • 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • 30Th aNNiverSary ShoW: Works by members of Allied Arts Council of Spruce Grove • Until Nov 26 • Reception: Nov 19, 1-4pm strathcona county art gal-lery • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • half-Breed mythology: Sitting Bull and the Moose Jaw Sioux by Dana Claxton • Until Dec 30telus WorlD oF science • 11211-142 St • TiTaNiC: The arTiFaCT exhiBiTioN: human stories told through artifacts recovered from the wreck site of the Titanic and extensive room re-creations • Until Feb 20 Vaaa gallery • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.421.1731 • v-Bay: Art auction fundraiser, proceeds to VAAA's exhibition, education programs; until Dec 1 • Closing reception: Dec 1, 7-9:30pm West enD gallery • 12308 Jasper Ave • 780.488.4892 • Works by W.H. Webb • Nov 19-Dec 1

LITeRaRYauDreys Books • 10702 Jasper Ave • 780.423.3487 • CAA Writer in Residence Jannie Edwards: every Wed, 12-1:30pm • Poetry Night: Tim Bowling and Alexis Kienlen reading; Nov 17, 7:30pmDish anD the runaWay spoon

Bistro • 12417 Stony Plain Rd • Writers Guild–NaNoWriMo Writer's Open Mic–two-minute readings • Nov 28, 7-9pm • Free; pre-register: nanoopenmic2011.eventbrite.com, deadline: Nov 23 Queen oF tarts Bakery anD Bistro • 10129-104 St • 780. 421. 4410 • Fictionistas: Where Fine Literature Meets Delicious Pastries with authors, Wendy McGrath, Gayleen Froese, Genni Gunn, Alison Preston, and Sue Sorenson • Nov 25, 7:30-10:30pm riVerDale • 9917-87 St • Creative Word Jam • 3rd Sun every month, 6-10pmrouge lounge • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900 • Poetry every Tue with Edmonton's local poetst.a.l.e.s.–strathcona • New Strath-cona Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.400.3547 • Monthly Tellaround: 4th Wed each month 7pm • Free upper crust caFé • 10909-86 Ave • 780.422.8174 • The Poets’ Haven Weekly Reading Series: every Mon, 7pm pre-sented by the Stroll of Poets Society Winspear centre • An Evening with Michael Ondaatje: interview with Michael Ondaatje, reading from, The Cat’s Table, Q and A session, book sign-ing follows • Nov 22, 7:30pmWunDerBar on Whyte • 8120-101 St • 780.436.2286 • The poets of Nothing, For Now: poetry workshop and jam every Sun • No minors THeaTRe Big anD small • Festival Place, 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • 780.449.3378 • Interactive show for chil-dren • Nov 18-19, 11:30am • $22 (adult), $16 (child) at Festival Place box officeBless you Billy WilDer • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • Shadow Theatre, by David Belke, stars Kendra Connor and Troy O’Donnell, directed by John Hudson • Until Nov 20 • Tickets start at $15 chimproV • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • First three Sat every month, 11pm, until Jul • $10/$5 (high school student)/$8 (RFT member at the door only) common grounD arts soci-ety • Avenue Theatre, 9030-118 Ave • 780.477.2149 • The Edmonton Show VII: Cabaret style variety show • Nov 18, 7:30pm (door), 8pm (show) corner gasseD 2 • Jubilations Din-ner Theatre, 2690, 8882-170 St, Phase II WEM Upper Level • 780.484.2424 • Until Jan 21 Die-nasty • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • 780.433.3399 • Improvised soap opera • Every Mon, until May, 7:30pm (subject to change) Falling: a Wake • TransAlta Arts Barns, PCL Studio Theatre, 10330-84 Ave • 780.409.1910 • Wishbone Theatre • By Gary Kirkham, directed by Michael Peng, stars Brian Dooley and Holly Turner, featuring Jamie Cavanagh • Until Nov 27 • $20 (adult)/$15 (student/senior/Equity member)/$15 (preview) at Fringe Theatre Adventures box office grace et gloria (grace anD gloria) • La Cité Theatre, 8627-91 St • 780.469.8400 • L'UniThéâtre, English surtitles by Tom Ziegler, translation by Michel Tremblay, stars Thérèse Dallaire • Nov 17-20; Nov 24-27 • $25 (adult)/$21 (senior)/$16 (student) at TIX on the Square, [email protected] laDies! • Roxy, 10708-124 St, and various other venues throughout Edmonton • 780.453.2440 • Starring Davina Stewart, Cathleen Rootsaert, Leona Brausen • Nov 18 letters in Wartime • Water-works' Theatre, 5002-53 Ave, Wetask-iwin • Wetaskiwin Theatre Society • By Kenneth Brown and Stephen Scriver • Nov 17-20 • $15 the rocky horror shoW • Citadel Shoctor Theatre, 9828-101 A Ave • 780.428.2117 • Book, music and lyrics by Richard O’Brien, directed by Leigh Rivenbark • Until Nov 20 theatresports • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • Improv runs every Fri, until Jul, 11pm (subject to occasional change) • $10/$8 (member) this is What happens next • Citadel Rice Theatre, 9828-101 Ave • 780.428.2117 • Created by Daniel Brooks and Daniel MacIvor, written and per-formed by Daniel MacIvor, directed and dramaturged by Daniel Brooks, a Neces-sary Angel’s production • Until Dec 4 the tortoise Versus the hare • Dow's Shell Theatre–Fort Saskatch-ewan, 8700-84 St, Fort Saskatchewan • 780.992.6400 • Family Series: Presented by Missoula Children’s Theatre, by Jim Caron, music by Greg Boris, lyrics by Jim Caron • Nov 19, 3pm, 5:30pm • $10 (adult)/$7.50 (senior/youth) at Dow ticket outlet, TicketMaster the WeDDing singer • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • Until Feb 5

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Nomiya 3803 Calgary Trail, 780.462.1300

The Chan family's vision for Nomi-ya was "Izakaya," which means a

place to meet a� er work for drinks and food—even the name, Nomiya, means "place for drinks." The decor of the restaurant refl ects this vision with dark wood, tables and comfy booths to create a relaxing environment.

Manager Wing Chan shares with her family a passion for food. "My mom had a bowl of ramen in Asia and loved it," she says of the restaurant's gen-esis. "My mom knew that ramen was lacking in the Edmonton market and thought that it would be a great pair-ing with our long winters."

The ramen broth is made in-house with no preservatives, no salt and no MSG, while the noodles are brought fresh from Japan, though Nomiya has plans to make its own in the future. One of the more interesting ramens is the Tsukemen, which means "dipping noodles." This is not your typical style of eating ramen: the noodles, meat and vegetables are served in a sepa-rate bowl and are then dipped in the miso broth. This style began in 1954

and is called mori soba (noodles in one bowl and broth in another). The Shoyu and Shio ramen are served in the typical way with the noodles, broth and the rest of the ingredients in one bowl.

The family wasn't sure that serving just ramen would be enough, so they decided to o� er curry, sushi and tapas as well. As Chan explains, they wanted to "shy away from items that are typi-cally available in Japanese restaurants but still o� er some of them." I have been searching for Japanese curry ever since I became addicted to it in Tokyo, so I was happy to fi nd someone in Ed-monton that serves it. Japanese curry has a thick brown broth with chunks of potatoes and carrots which master sushi chef Ono Masaaki makes from scratch. Served with rice and a crispy fried pork cutlet, it's the perfect fall comfort food.

With 30 years experience as a su-shi chef, Masaaki was responsible for creating most of the rolls and tapas on the menu. It's fascinating to sit at the sushi bar and watch him create his masterpieces. "Presentation is im-portant to how the food tastes," Chan

says, "and Ono's food presentation is incredible." His Tuna Tataki is accom-panied by fresh vegetables like the nagaimo—a Japanese yam. Its texture is similar to a jicama but it has a more refreshing, grainy taste and balances the tuna presentation well.

Chan's principles for Nomiya are to "serve good food, maintain the utmost standards in the kitchen and provide good customer service." She loves that the restaurant is small so she can ask customers what they thought of their meal and receive immediate feedback. She has 15 employees and most are trained at all stations in the kitchen so they can help each other during the lunch and supper rush. It's especially important that each employee be able to manage the ramen station because it must be served immediately so it's hot and fresh.

A hot bowl of ramen is a great way to contest the approaching cold weather. This winter, let the steam from a pip-ing hot bowl of ramen defrost your body and mind as you slurp the so� noodles and embrace the relaxed at-mosphere of Nomiya.SERENA BECK// [email protected]

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I'm not sure if the noun has of-ficially morphed into a verb: to oak. And I don't think it's an official adjective yet, since "oaky" still sends my spell check into gyrations. Oakiness, an indefinable yet ubiquitous pres-ence in wine that's derived from wood barrels, is something hated or loved by many a drinker. Winemakers use oak during fermentation and/or aging to soften harsh corners and enliven an otherwise boring wine. Much like a chef has herbs and spices, vintners possess a full pantry of oak tools that create the flavours in your glass.

Invented long ago from wood plenti-ful in Europe, the sturdy, rotund oak barrel began as easy transport for wine. Vintners soon discovered that soaking in the barrel's oily and tannic belly improved the flavour and body of its contents and also preserved it. But it's not just good seasoning—technology later revealed another advantageous angle: micro-oxygenation. This geeky term means the porous wood allows a minute amount of oxygen to seep through its walls, coaxing the wine to higher levels of Zen.

If you've sensed vanilla or smoke ema-nating from your glass, it didn't start with the grape. It started in the forest. Oak trees, like the fruit they're influenc-ing, vary by locale, with wine barrels originating in France, the United States and increasingly Eastern Europe. A wine poured from a French oak barrel evokes rich, elegant vanilla; American oak, sweet coconut and earthy tobacco; and Polish or Hungarian (aka "European") offer profiles similar to French yet not as powerful. After it's felled, the wood

staves are air-or kiln-seasoned for two to three years to tame the intensely ar-omatic, obdurate slabs. Then they travel to the toaster. Like marshmallows over a healthy campfire, barrel makers roast the oak to caramelize and tighten the wood's pores, a process called "bousi-nage." The deeper the toast, the more intense the flavour imbued to the wine while it ages. Winemakers mostly choose medium toast—proffering hon-ey and spicy butteriness—and heavy toast, which introduces robust cocoa, coffee and clove.

These newly roasted barrels emerge richly infused and, with each year of use, that intensity wanes. After three

to five vintages, the wine has seeped out most of the oils and tannins, rendering the barrel "neutral" and essen-tially useless for winemak-

ing. Each barrel costs $400 (American) to $1200 (French),

so it's a hefty investment to craft a better beverage.

Some wineries, however, take the cheap route. A few years ago, less expen-sive oak spirals, staves and chips were added to the spice rack. Blasphemy in the hallowed "premium" category, most winemakers admit these shortcuts pro-vide some raw wood flavour but less of the barrel's subtle, sweet richness.

But does all this experimentation and money birth a better wine? Michael Eck-stein, winemaker at Franciscan Oakville Estate, offered me barrel samples of the same wines aged in American, European and French oak. The decidedly discern-ible differences floored me. A merlot in French tasted more subtle and elegant than that aged in a Hungarian barrel, and a cabernet in American oak emerged as-tringent and green compared with the soft, vanilla-infused French version. But the malbec sampling supershocked. Its French rendering reeked of beefy, funky earth, and the American oak displayed layers of fruit and softness. Same malbec, completely different results because of the company it kept for 18 months. Go figure—maybe that's what prison is like.

With this exercise, I learned that, like cooking, a wide variety of oak ingre-dients allows you to fashion a tastier wine. Oak, whether you like it or not, is only a tool but, kinda like salt and pep-per, it's basic and essential. V

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By adulthood, most of us have forgotten the exhilarating expe-

rience of running full tilt down a hill. Other activities may substitute for this sensation, but few recreate the same raw quality as hurtling forward on your own two feet, carrying mo-mentum to the near point of falling, chest out, legs churning to keep up.

I remember an old church hymn about building houses on the sand. Attending the Banff Mountain Fes-tival (from October 29 – November 6) at the Banff Centre feels different: high on a hill embedded in rock, like faith of unclear denomination, far from the churches of my youth. How do we rekindle the desire to run and rediscover that sensation?

The settled history of Alberta stretches back some 150 years. Banff is even younger, settled after the discovery of hot springs and a sub-sequent first wave of tourism-driven commerce back in the late-1800s. The advent of culture is more recent still, or at least the articulation of this culture. But whatever that cul-ture was then or is now, it owes a lot to the landscape and, significantly, the Rocky Mountains.

"At some point it became apparent that what we were experiencing was a kind of tribal gathering of people from around the world who were really passionate about mountains," says Bernadette McDonald, direc-tor of mountain culture at the Banff Centre from 1988 to 2006. But that doesn't mean the notion of mountain culture was always readily accepted.

"You wouldn't believe the conversa-tions that happened in my office over the years—'Mountain culture, what does that mean?' In fact, someone once said to me, 'Isn't that kind of an oxymoron?'"

The idea for a festival germinated out of a meeting of the executive of the Banff chapter of the Alpine Club of Canada back in 1974, recalls alpine historian and author Chic Scott. They were kicking around ideas for what to do in the shoulder season, and Scott

suggested a film festival. "I planted the seed and John [Amatt, festival di-rector from 1974 to 1984] raised the baby," he quips.

What started as a weekend event grew over the years into its present nine-day gathering of filmmakers, writers, artists, adventurers and, of course, the audiences who support it. Over 10 000 attend the festival each year.

Then there's the festival as inter-national export. The Banff Film Fes-tival World Tour boasts more than 600 dates in 32 countries around the world, from Antarctica to Japan to Wales, reaching over 245 000 people.

"What happens here [in Banff] is

the import," McDonald describes. "The export is recreating those mountain culture experiences in hundreds of places, sometimes on very flat ground. Which is interest-

ing because initially we weren't sure it would work.

"It turns out it doesn't matter if it's Edmonton, AB, or Madison, WI, or the South Pole, there is a core group of people who are passion-

ate about the mountains whether they are personally active, environ-mental advocates, painters, writers, filmmakers or photographers. That community is huge."

Yet despite this success, Scott argues there's something missing. "Personally I feel that the Banff Mountain Festival has been remiss in promoting Canadian mountaineering and Canadian mountain culture," he

says. "There has been very little Ca-nadian content.

"It's a first rate show ... but I think there are ways we can incorporate more of our story—and people want to learn that. People come from all over the world and they go away without learning anything about Can-ada. Although we are very modest and very interested in the big interna-tional stories, we want to hear a little bit of our story too."That story has its origins in the small mountain towns where culture and sports cross-pollinate. While festivals like Banff's capture a Kodak moment of mountain culture, how

SNOW ZONE // MOUNTAIN CULTURE

The trickle downDoes mountain culture run downhill in Banff?

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You wouldn't believe the conversations that happened in my office over the years—'Mountain culture, what does that mean?' In fact, someone once said to me, 'Isn't that kind of an oxymoron?'

Mountain culture has been growing in Banff since the late 1880s

24 SNOWZONE VUEWEEKLY NOV 17 – NOV 23, 2011

The fi rst time I went skiing, I arrived knock-kneed and quivering at the

top of a bunny hill in Austria a� er un-tangling myself from an unforgiving drag li� . Staring down into the white void ahead, dotted with novice ski-ers and boarders in various states of disarray, I suddenly realized I had no clue what I was doing. The desire to throw myself down a hill with things strapped to my feet had escaped me.

Hundreds of feet below (or so it felt) was nirvana, that little patch of fl at snow which heralded the free-dom to stand up without sliding o� backwards, sideways or generally in the wrong direction. "You just need to feel the snow," piped up the more-experienced skier beside me, clamping his goggles fi rmly onto his face be-fore shooting o� at what seemed like Mach 10.

Moments later, while tumbling head over heels down the tiny slope, I felt the snow. I felt it in my eyes, ears, hair, down my neck, in my pants—every crevice was well acquainted by the time I rolled to a stop. "No, no, no," sco� ed my instructor, totally uncon-cerned about the 50 or so bones I'd likely just broken and the rest of his class strewn face down in the snow. We were picked up and frog marched back to the li� , where the weaker members

of the herd fell back, questioning their commitment to something so uncom-fortable, cold and slippery.

So why go back up? Well, for the most part, stubbornness—it's one of the true virtues of any snow sports enthusiast. Sure, we fall. Yes, we cartwheel down hills like broken rag dolls. Without a doubt, we overesti-mate our abilities and come to a stop

at the top of a precipice we don't know how to tackle. But, by God, we have fun doing it.

What you can't predict during those fi rst few hours doing "pizzas" and "French fries" with your skis or side-slipping on your board while falling more times than you can imagine, is the ultimate freedom that you'll later fi nd. The slopes that felt like a battle for survival start to provide playgrounds in which to swoop and soar over the frozen ground. That re-lentless pain in your legs and feet be-

comes a satisfying slow burn, telling you that you pushed yourself to the brink and made it back again.

Skiing and snowboarding are about snatching those moments when you're right on the edge of what you can handle. You are the master of your destiny. You choose where to go, how fast, when to turn, whether to hit that jump or snake through those trees, whether to cruise down a green run or

tackle a black. There's no speed limit, no rules of the road, nobody telling you what to do.

This winter, trade security for pow-der, the future for the moment and boredom for the pure exhilaration of carving your mark into fresh, un-explored whiteness. As your heart pounds in your chest, your muscles ache and your breath pu� s out in ragged gasps, you'll know you're truly alive.KATE IRWIN// [email protected]

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Sure, we fall. Yes, we cartwheel down hills like broken rag dolls. Without a doubt, we overestimate our abilities and come to a stop at the top of a precipice we don't know how to tackle. But, by God, we have fun doing it.

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to give you my interpretation of all the weather experts' predictions for the upcoming winter snow falls and temperatures.

Let's start with the long-winded ex-planation. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (the US government branch focusing on "oceans and the atmosphere" tells us, "La Niña conditions have returned ... indicted by a strengthening of nega-tive sea surface temperatures across the eastern half of the Equatorial Pa-cifi c and an increase in below-average subsurface ocean temperature anom-alies in the Eastern Pacifi c, coupled with the fact that the atmospheric circulation across the Pacifi c also con-tinues to exhibit characteristics of La Niña. Impacts associated with La Niña are now indicated during the autumn, winter and spring months." Wow, a simple "La Niña is back" would have worked for me.

Typically La Niña brings above-av-erage snowfalls and cooler tempera-tures, but there seems to be some debate on just how typical this year will be. A reliable source has always been AccuWeather's long-range fore-caster Joe Bastardi. Unfortunately, af-ter 32 years of service with them he recently retired and now resides with WeatherBELL Analytics. This service commands a $16.99/month subscrip-tion (well above my research bud-get!), so on we go.

The Joe-less AccuWeather has a simple prediction calling it, "Another brutal one." Researchers there expect the volatile La Niña weather patterns to be similar to last year. That could be good news for our Rocky Moun-tain resorts, with plenty of precipita-tion once again.

In contrast, the Farmer's Almanac has a dire warning for Western Can-ada: "This will be a winter of clime and punishment. We are forecasting

the upcoming winter will be cold to very cold, from Alberta east across Saskatchewan." But it isn't all bad because, "Another active storm track over the Pacifi c Ocean will guide sys-tems into southern and central Brit-ish Columbia and western Alberta, giving them a wetter-than-normal winter." This sounds great for Ed-monton snowboarders and skiers, who generally head west into the Rockies to take advantage of any extra snowfl akes. But, anyone living in Lloydminster should buy an extra pair of long johns.

Environment Canada's forecast somewhat contradicts this. They pre-dict that British Columbia's interior and Alberta will be colder and drier than normal. Not a lot of text with their predictions, so I'm only relying on maps and numbers here.

In search of something more positive, I headed for a ski and snowboard site, where researchers for On The Snow are pinning their hopes on a repeat of last year's La Niña weather. "We all know how great last season's National Weather Service predictions were," they say. "It can easily be that way again."

As I tap away I'm painfully aware of the slow start to the season so far. Of the major Alberta ski resorts, Marmot Basin and Lake Louise are open on very limited terrain and Sun-shine Village has delayed its opening to November 18, due to a lack of the white stu� . Marmot and Louise defi -nitely have an advantage, with snow-making equipment that's been run-ning around the clock, but recently steady snowfalls at all resorts have given Sunshine a chance to catch up. Over the border in BC, the snow is yet to fl y, with all resorts predicting a December opening.

So if it's going to be another La Niña year, I say bring it on. Just like last year's Warren Miller movie, maybe we're in for another Wintervention.HART GOLBECK// [email protected]

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3) Use a fl at iron to melt wax in a zig-zag pattern on your board. Buy your wax from an actual shop. Using candle wax will result in you not going anywhere. It's the wrong kind of wax.

5) Now that the wax is cool, scrape of any excess, leaving a nice, even surface.

6) Don't forget to scrape the wax o� your edges, as it's pretty hard to stop if you leave them waxed. CRAIG JANZEN // [email protected]

4a and 4b) Using the fl at iron, spread the wax evenly on your board, then go grab a beer while the wax cools.

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Over the summer, Marmot Basin add-ed two new lifts. While we were all en-joying our summer vacation, the on-hill operations team was feverishly install-ing new towers and chairs for the up-coming season. First, the team replaced the Upper Paradise triple with a much longer and faster high-speed quad. The new chair is approximately 70 percent longer, with the loading area near the intersection of "Old Road" and "Roll Out." The nice thing is you no longer have to ski like mad across the flats when trying to access the old chair

from the mid-mountain Paradise Cha-let. This left the hill with an extra triple chair, which was refurbished and rein-stalled, replacing the dreaded T-bar in the lower "School House" beginner area. Fear not beginners, this chair will be much slower than normal and, with the added easy loading and unloading areas, you and your buddies should have a safe ride up. At the end of your ski day, the new chair also offers a much more comfortable return trip to the tiered parking lots than clomping up in heavy ski boots. V

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Unlike like last year, Edmonton's hills and the nearby mountain resorts are relying heavily on snowmaking equip-ment to get the season started. An enormous effort has been put in to allow for opening slopes as planned. Here in the city, only Snow Valley is open, with Rabbit Hill, the Edmon-ton Ski Club and Sunridge only days away. In the alpine areas, Marmot Ba-sin, Lake Louise, Nakiska and Norquay have been blasting snow guns around the clock for weeks. Norquay was the first to open (weekends only), with Lake Louise, Marmot Basin and Nak-iska following suit. All openings are on limited terrain, with only a rail or two to grind for boarders. The snow hasn't

been forthcoming over the border in British Columbia either, with hesitant openings for the big resorts scheduled at the start of December. But for most snow enthusiasts, limited terrain is better than no terrain—a point prov-en by the steady lineups spotted on webcams at Marmot Basin and Lake Louise last weekend. Greatly reduced lift-ticket prices didn't hurt the turn-out either. Big White, near Kelowna, is really trying to attract the early season skiers by offering "free" skiing from opening day, December 3, until December 15. The catch? You have to book a room for at least two nights, but all guests, double or quad occu-pancy, qualify for free lifts. V

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honest are they to the spirit of the community? Scott feels that per-haps such events can become too manufactured. Ensconced at the lofty Banff Centre, it's easy to forget that down below there is a town grappling with the realities of day-to-day living in the mountains.

As Robert Sandford points out in The Weekender Effect, those realities aren't getting any easier, as more and more people place greater demands on com-munities and fragile ecosystems.

"The most important thing about Banff to me is the people I meet on the street," says Scott. "Remember that book you got when you were six years old and it was the little town and there was the fireman and the baker? Well, we almost have a com-munity like that here."

When it comes to the value of moun-tain community, McDonald whole-heartedly agrees. "That ridge down the western edge of Alberta helps define us and it's incredibly important to acknowledge the fact that we are a mountain province," she asserts. "Some of the best biologists, artists, climbers and experts in the world in certain fields live in that little corner [of our province]."

It's knowledge, McDonald stresses, that's one of the key exports of the festival, through grants awarded to budding artists, giving them access to filmmaking and writing programs.

For embattled mountain communi-ties, the ability to tell their own, engaging stories is critical, argues Scott. "We have to start telling our own stories and we have to support that if we want a genuine community with real things."

That may be the next great chal-lenge for a festival born and bred in the Alberta mountains, which has now become one of the province's most esteemed cultural products. John Porter, renowned alpinist and former producer of the Kendall Film Festival, has called it, "The best mountain festival in the world."

As the trend of escalation in "ex-treme" culture suggests, being the best means never letting up; never falling prey, as festival-award-winning short film The Wolf and the Medallion analogizes, to the cultural wolves of complacency, exhorting its audience to "never stop running."

That is how I end up racing down-hill, full tilt, breath coming in frosted gusts, shoes kicking up gravel at the road's edge, legs moving of their own accord faster and faster, shedding origins and objectives, direction and denomination. I think about the short span of life and the future I'm passing on to my children, I think about the Alberta they will inherit and the cul-ture they will know and be influenced by. As we sow, so shall we reap.

And I run on.JErEmy DErkSEN// [email protected]

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The Banff Mountain Film Festival world tour stops in Edmonton

from January 6 – 8, but it only brings a small selection from the many films that show in Banff. Among some of the best that may not make it to Edmon-ton, here are a few to seek out.

Coldforgemotionpictures.comThe festival's grand prize winner is a har-rowing account of cold weather moun-taineering and the physical and emo-tional toll exacted by winter ascents. In February 2011, climber and photographer Cory Richards and two colleagues made the first successful winter ascent of one of Pakistan's 8000 metre peaks—a jour-ney which near killed them. Cold tells their story. As well as picking up top hon-ours in Banff, it has won accolades from four international film festivals and last week snagged an an Austrian film prize.

Downhill Affairrightonbrother.comA short but poignant look at love in the

workplace, with a twist—the couple in question are professional freeskiers Zack Giffin and Molly Baker. Tracking their risky endeavours, the film puts a different slant on the nature of big mountain adventure and the impacts for those who undertake it.

Origins: Obe and Ashimareelrocktour.com/filmsObe Carrion was one of sport climbing’s biggest rising stars in the early 2000s. From a rough childhood in Philly, Car-rion had swaggered onto the world stage. Then, abruptly, he vanished. His path to redemption crosses with that of nine-year-old Ashima, a young climb-ing phenom he takes on as a student. A touching tale fraught with the complex-ity of sport and youth development.

Treeverseuncagethesoul.com/uncategorized/treeverse/Simple adventuring at its best. Two men tackle a one-kilometre transect through the forest canopy, through a

grove of oak trees along the perim-eter of a pasture in northwest Or-egon. Watch this and you’ll look at trees differently.

CARCAcarca.caIt has been a long uphill struggle for the Canadian Avalanche Rescue Cat As-sociation but the time has now come to tell their story. In a field dominated by dogs, acceptance of felines is slow to come but the innovative founders will not rest until CARCA has achieved its mandate. This film documents the first successful rescue mission by a CARCA cat, and subsequent innovative testing for cat deployment. (Warning: rated R for cat lovers.)

BoomThe unheralded work of avalanche crews is set to classical music in this simple, joyous film. Turn up the volume and enjoy. JErEmy DErkSEN// [email protected]

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Urban design plays a larger role in our environment than simply

the arrangement of infrastructure. It is the art of creating a city, and these concepts of design help shape society in addition to the urban landscape.

The elements of urban design deal with the management of pubic envi-ronments and, in turn, this influences the way the public interacts with its surroundings.

The features of the city we encoun-ter every day were not a random placement on Edmonton's land-

scape. They are a thought-out and meticulously-planned aspect of the urban environment that, for better or worse, impacts everyone living here.

"Urban design plays a critical role in the health and wellbeing of the peo-ple living in cities," says Dr Theresa Garvin, associate professor in hu-man geography at the University of Alberta. "There is growing evidence worldwide that it is not just physical infrastructure that is important."

This physical infrastructure, which can come in the form of roads, sew-

ers and electricity, is a vital ele-ment of urban design but, according the Garvin, social infrastructure is equally important. It contributes to the health of the general population and, ultimately, becomes the life of the city.

"Those parts of a city experiencing decline, or where buildings are van-dalized, often represent a downward spiral of negligence and decay," she says. "However, there are other ar-eas where people like to go. These places have interesting buildings

and streetscapes, and are spaces that encourage social interaction, a sense of belonging and a sense of pride in a city."

From an industry perspective, Shafraaz Kaba, partner at Manasc Isaac Architects, an Edmonton-based firm whose vision is to co-create an enriched quality of life, says design, but more specifically architectural and urban design, focuses on provid-ing a place to meet the needs of the public as well as the environment.

"The role of good design in an ur-

ban environment is basically to bal-ance esthetics and visual interest with safety, creating connections for ease of mobility, and [to] protect from the local weather and microcli-mate," he says.

To weigh in on urban design in Ed-monton, Vue Weekly asked students and recent grads from post-second-ary institutions around the city to share their thoughts on the best and worst it has to offer.MEAGhAN BAxtER// [email protected]

"It's just inefficient use of space and I think it creates a society depen-dent on vehicles. It breaks away a sense of community that should exist."—Patrick Lefevbre

"As you go south, it loses a bit of a community and it's just a bunch of houses."—Matthew Zilinski

"I find the sprawling nature of Edmonton to be its worst feature. Miles and miles of sprawling neighbourhoods with no central gath-ering area seems a shame, and short-sighted."—Em Poole

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"There's some very good initiatives that have been coming up in trying to revitalize the downtown area, but the perception that I have, as well as from classmates, is the designs are controlled by a very small group of people and it doesn't allow for very much expression from local artists, small fi rms, and I don't know if the recognition is there for the smaller fi rms doing really great, sustainable design."—Jennifer Livermore

Twenty-four hour bus service is a necessary element in good urban design to allow life to extend past sundown. How can the downtown core expect to have any life or culture if you can't take a bus past midnight?"—Davis Levine

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"There are few large municipalities that have such an expanse of uninterrupted green space. If it could be linked up with cultural des-tinations, historic sites and existing parks, an incredible network of trails and paths could enhance the quality of life for Edmontonians while promoting walking, biking, cross-country skiing and other methods of sustainable transportation."—Kira Hunt

"I would have to give a lot of credit to the promenade around Vic-toria Park and the river valley. It's very user friendly and promotes walking and activity."—Jennifer Livermore

"We get this huge reputation of being the largest green belt in North America but it's very false. If you look at places like New York, you can walk for half an hour and hit four different commu-nity parks that are all being used. They're very exciting places to be. The river valley helps but it could be a lot more dynamic and a lot more exciting."—Vanessa Zembal

"The best design feature of the city is the river valley. The idea of large swathes of unmaintained nature slicing through cities is cur-rently very popular in landscape/urbanism, and Edmonton is already far ahead of that trend. Not only do we have that swath of wilder-ness, it is tightly integrated into our civic identity. Ensuring that the valley maintains its wild character, while carefully allowing develop-ment in the already populated areas, is vital going forward."—Greg Whinstance-Smith

"[Edmonton's best feature is] the river valley, the fact that you can access it at any point and it goes forever."—Emma Sandorn

"From what I've seen I find that the most inspiring places to be include Old Strathcona. It's a physically interesting place and close proximity to the university. It's really lively too."—Em Poole

"I don't really like Whyte Ave. There is nothing special there for me. I grew up in Germany and Germany is an old country so the cities are really historical, and I compare it all the time with other countries. Many people say Whyte Ave is something different, but for me it's nothing."—Marsieh Hkodady

"Some of the finest design features in this city are some of the older buildings ... buildings that use brick as a primary building material. There is a sense of strength and character portrayed through these build-ings that a building of glass and steel can never duplicate."—Colton Ponto

"In my mind, the worst design features are those that do not enhance the public realm. These include buildings and landscapes that are cheaply made and use flimsy materials, designs that do not respond to the needs of the existing neighbourhoods and big box stores drowning in parking lots."—Kira Hunt

"The worst in my opinion is the sprawl. We have such a small population versus some of the other ma-jor cities around the world and they're embracing density in how they live and community ... We haven't changed the way we're living so how can we really expect design to change?"—Jennifer Livermore

"The city's worst feature is our dependence on cars; it's very hard to conveniently live here without one. Sprawl is an obvious reason, however, better public transit would significantly improve things. Once the approved new LRT lines are complete, the bus routes should be re-planned and optimized. Significantly subsidizing fares and/or passes may also be required, as these seem to be rising to ludi-crous levels."—Greg Whinstance-Smith

"South Edmonton Common. If you want to bike there or walk around there, you feel unsafe. You have to go in a car to get from store to store. It's just not a conversational, nice place to be."—Emma Sandorn

"Urban sprawl elevates a car culture which is unsustainable and destroys many aspects of developing a true community. The downtown airport continues to put restrictions on height limitations for buildings in the downtown core, which subsequently limits our ability to combat urban sprawl. —Davis Levine


"I like the retrofitting idea, I think it's good, I like how they're developing the downtown area. I think the older part of town has a better com-munity feel."—Matthew Zilinski

"I don't think there's really a theme. Setting up a theme for each area or ward and then creat-ing a theme and building buildings based on that would be beneficial."— Chanthou Nguy

"I would redesign Churchill Square if I could. It seems like a waste to have such a fantastic central location that just doesn't get used to its potential."—Em Poole

Marsieh Hkodady is a business student at NAIT who works in a collaborative proj-ect called Students In Free Enterprise—SIFE—an international organization that works to create ways to find sustainable options for locally and internationally.

Kira Hunt is a landscape architecture technology student at NAIT.

Patrick Lefevbre is a fifth year environmental studies student at the Univer-sity of Alberta.

Davis Levine is a fourth year bachelor of design student majoring in visual communications design at the University of Alberta

Jennifer Livermore is a second year artchitectural sechnology student at NAIT.

Chanthou Nguy is a fourth year business student at NAIT who works in a collaborative project called Students In Free Enterprise—SIFE—an interna-tional organization that works to create ways to find sustainable options for locally and internationally.

Colton Ponto is in his third year of the design studies program, majoring in illustration at Grant MacEwan University and serves as the Design Students Organization (DSO) president

Em Poole is a second year Landscape Artchitecture Technology student at NAIT and Bachelor of Fine Art graduate from ACAD in Calgary.

Emma Sandorn is a human dimensions of environmental management stu-dent at the University of Alberta.

Greg Whinstance-Smith is in his fourth year in the BEDS program at Dal-housie University and is back home in Edmonton for a work term. BEDS is a senior undergraduate program in the Faculty of Architecture.

Vanessa Zembal is a 2011 graduate of human ecology from the University of Alberta.

Matthew Zilinski is a third year civil engineering student at the University of Alberta.

"I have heard that the art gallery has been described as sort of like putting a Band-Aid on things. I love the art gallery. It's fantastic."—Vanessa Zembal

I love the new Art Gallery of Alberta. I'm not so sure about the Churchill Square, but the art gallery is fantastic."—Em Poole

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'There's a certain fascination, I think, that our whole culture has

with the automobile," Mark Browning says. "It's been that way since rock 'n' roll started, right? There's this con-nection between the musical genre and the automobile. I don't even really care about cars myself. I drive a Kia, like, a cheap little car. I keep it messy. I don't even take it to the car wash. It doesn't really mean anything to me specifically. But there is a fascination I have with people's obsession with the automobile and the romanticization of the automobile, and how the automo-

bile has transformed not only parts of our culture, but our entire landscape. I find that really fascinating, and I think there's something about that that translates really well into an art form, and in particular, rock 'n' roll."

Browning would certainly be the one to know, though you could be forgiven for thinking the vehicular obsession was his own. As the front-man of Ox—a band that sounds like Neil Young hitching a ride from Big Star, with Bruce Springsteen riding shotgun—he's been peddling highway tunes all across this country for close to a decade now. The freedom gained behind the wheel has always been a motif in the music he's made: from Ox's first release, 2003's Dust Bowl Revival there was "Stolen Car"—a Young-like piano ballad that erupts into a full-on celebration of open-road freedom, "In a Camaro ridin' shotgun

/ Like it was 1979"—right through to this year's tUCo, Ox songs find direc-tion on the endless roads and high-ways that pave their way across North America, the strange comfort of an all-night drive, the joy of an endless

highway to vanish on, as channelled through measured electric guitar licks and smoky, bittersweet harmonies.

"There's this freedom idea," Brown-ing reiterates. "People feel like, if they have a car, they're free. And people who don't have one feel like they're constrained somehow. There's this thing where you're 16 [and] you get

a driver's license: you're able to go wherever you want and there's this sense of freedom—there's something about rock 'n' roll that does that as well. I feel like there's a connection between them."

Ox began in Vancouver, but after seven years in the coastal city and a handful of albums, Browning up-rooted and moved on.

"I love Vancouver. It was a great city to be starting out in as a band in its own market," he says. "But it became really difficult, being based there, as far as wanting to do more

regional shows."The difficulty, Browning points out,

was in hitting the road for a small tour when the next big population base lay beyond the Rocky Moun-tains. But even then, the idea of being a country-crossing band with no fixed address was starting to wear thin on him; Browning wanted to park himself somewhere.

"I wanted to start settling a little bit into having [my] own place," he says. "It just seemed like living in Vancou-ver, touring, we'd end up giving up our apartments, we'd spend three months on the road, we'd go to Europe, we'd do Canada. We'd basically live out of our parents' houses [and] in other places for a week here and there, liv-ing off couches and friends' places, and that kind of thing. ... I started to feel

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like if I had my own place somewhere, at least I could be paying a mortgage and have my own building to go back to, and if I wanted to take two months and just stay there, I could do that."

So Browning returned to Sudbury, where he'd grown up, and bought a little building that used to be a retail front. Now it's Cosmic Dave's Record Factory, a vinyl store that Browning runs with bandmates Ryan Bishops and Brian Dunn.

"It's the hipster-douchebag crowd, and I love that," he says of his clien-tele. "It's all the music that I like, and it's all the music that they like. It's real-ly cool; there's enough of a scene here in Sudbury that I can make a decent turnover just selling records. It took me some time, but I've finally got my-self set up so that I can keep making my own albums and sit here and listen to music all day."

There's a recording studio in the back of Cosmic Dave's, which is where Ox recorded tUCo. The album is, fittingly for the band, the soundtrack to a road movie. Less fittingly, it's the score to a movie that doesn't exist yet. Brown-ing's friend, filmmaker John Milne, pitched a very loose film concept to him, wherein Browning and the band would be featured, and asked him to devise the music for it. But beyond that, Browning found Milne a little evasive on the larger details, such as even a tentative storyline.

"I started to ask him, 'What's it re-ally gonna be about, as far as the plot goes?' And he'd just sort of evade the question: 'Oh, it's a road movie, man,'"

Browning recalls.Based on what he'd been given to

work with—a couple of photos of ob-scure road flicks featuring figures like Dennis Hopper, Keith Carradine and Peter Fonda—Browning developed his own tentative plotline to carry the songs: about a band crossing the country while disintegrating in a whirl of internal turmoil. Sort of like Hard Core Logo for the alt-country set.

"I felt like, all right, if I'm going to be involved in this, I want more informa-tion," Browning says, "but given that the information is not forthcoming, let's just treat it as an exercise. He's given me a little bit to go on, let's just start sitting down and writing some music, and see how it all goes."

The movie may yet appear some-day—Milne insists it's still on the back-burner, Browning notes—but crafting tUCo's soundtrack has provided ample mileage for Ox's own creativity.

"The truth is, I don't think [Milne] had anything in mind in the first place," Browning continues. "It started to become about a band, and I'd already decided the name of the next Ox re-cord was going to be tUCo, and he liked the idea of the band in the film being called tUCo. That gave me more freedom, because basically, now, if it was a band that was in this film, and the band was actually called tUCo, the songs that were coming out could just be that band's songs. They don't have to necessarily connect to the plotline. They could just be the kind of songs that band would write."PaUl BlInov// [email protected]

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"When I was a little kid, I used to make fun of Bruce Springsteen, 'cause my dad was a big Bruce Springsteen fan. I made fun of all his songs being about cars and girls and New Jersey. But as I grew a little bit older, I started to really appreciate Bruce Springsteen. I started to really get that a lot of his songs are actually referencing cars, and he's really good at that. And I think that influenced me a little bit, especially on the first album I did, with "Stolen Car." There was certainly something there that I saw drawing from Bruce Springsteen. It's complicated; I feel like I'm starting to get to the point where I don't want to do it anymore. I'm consciously trying not to write about cars anymore. Because it comes so natu-rally; it's easy for me to write about them."

"It's funny; sometimes I don't know if they know that I'm that band. I've started to actually say, 'Hey, that's my record.' Most people seem to know. People in Sudbury know that I'm Ox. Especially the people that are coming in here; they're part of the scene, so we know each other a little bit better than an anonymous customer coming in. Once in a while I get someone from out of town coming in, and they actually have sought out the record store because they've seen us play somewhere else and they're coming through town and they thought, 'Let's go find his record store and buy his record' kind of thing. So, it happens sometimes. It's a little weird. It feels good though."

"The van we used to drive is an Aerostar, a '94 Aerostar. We drove it basically into the ground. We crisscrossed the country with it, and finally, we retired it. It's in the back garden behind our store here in Sudbury. It's not quite wired up, but the idea was going to be that, because we have a recording studio in there, we were going to hardwire the stereo system in the van to the studio, so that a band could go sit out in the van, and listen to their tracks, sitting in the vehicle ... people say 80 percent of people out there listen to music in their vehicle. So it's important that your mixes sound good in the car."


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As the frontman of the Constan-tines for more than a decade, Bry

Webb's Clint-Eastwood-chewing-gravel voice was the battle cry of underground Canadian punk. Last summer, however, with a baby on the way and a desire to stop the endless cycle of touring that comes with making a living as a group, Webb announced that the band was on an indefinite hiatus. He moved back to his hometown of Guelph, took a job at the local community radio station and just, well, did what he set out to do: spend more time with his family.

Provider, Webb's first solo album, is the record of his time spent at home, dedicated to his infant son Asa. It's a 180-degree turn from the Constan-tines: quieter than an Easter vigil, Pro-vider is an intimate and loving record, a far cry from the angry-young-man exu-berance of Webb's former band. It's a

sound that took nearly a year to learn, says Webb.

"I didn't write music for a long time—I was in a really weird headspace with music," he says from his office at CFRU in Guelph. "I remember seeing Steve [Lambke, Constantines guitarist and vocalist] at a show—he was on tour as Baby Eagle and he played in Guelph—and he asked me what I'd been up to and the only way I could put it was that I was just trying to figure out how to make music again. That's what the last year has been about."

The birth of his son became the cata-lyst for figuring it out, Webb says: he would make music for the person he'd helped bring into the world. Tucking into a studio for two weekends this past August, Provider was recorded live off the floor, capturing the moment it was made and nothing more—a pro-cess that was important to Webb.

"As a band starts making a bit of money and has support behind it you can afford to spend more time

in a studio and obsess about details and overdub things—I'd lost sight of that moment that is a song for a while," he says. "What I'm trying to get back to is just enjoying that mo-ment of making a song with a band, with other musicians."

Being asked to open for Feist on her Canadian tour came as a welcome sur-prise to Webb, who was happy to leave touring life behind for the stability of a job. Now, however, he may consider going on the road again—but on his own terms.

"I like touring when it's healthy and sustainable and it doesn't feel like it's compromising your quality of life too much," he says. "I do love travelling and I love driving and I love meeting people and travelling with musicians. I have lots of friends all over the place that I want to see again—I just want to be as easy on our family as I can be."BryAn BIrtleS// [email protected]

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Fri Nov 18 (8 pm)With TasseomancyBrixx, $19.25

'I went to my first punk show when I was 18, and I remember it be-

ing a pivotal experience," says Katie Stelmanis. "I'd never really liked rock music or punk music, but I think I just didn't listen to it properly. I was in this small venue, and just confronted with this massive wall of sound—it was so much power, and I loved it. I didn't understand why I loved it, but I guess that was the beginning of hearing mu-sic in a completely different way. "

Up until that show—by Calgary's Red Hot Lovers—Stelmanis's musical inter-ests had been locked in the realm of opera, spent upon the pursuit of beau-tiful, pure sounds. Something about its antithesis, though, about being encom-passed by punk squalls in a tiny, sweaty venue, offered a different resonance to her, and almost a decade onward, Stelmanis finds herself pursuing a more present, in-the-moment take on music fronting Austra, a band that offers up

danceable slabs of synth pop that run heavy with electronic pulses and Stel-manis's potent voice. (Feel it Break, the band's debut, earned them a Polaris prize shortlisting this past year.)

thinking of music in terms of dance-floor gravity seems the focus of Stel-manis's songwriting now, her and the band looking to maximize the live impact of what they release. Lyrics, she notes, are used less for their own poetry than for carrying the weight of the song's particular rhythms.

"I don't really consider myself to be a lyricist or a poet in any respect, and

I think that it's like letting the words flow almost subconsciously is the most effective way for me to write. And I find that often the lyrics will somewhat re-flect ideas that I'm having on some sub-conscious level. But I try not to focus on it too much, and I try to stick with words that may just have powerful meanings, like powerful phrases that I'll repeat or use over again that may not make sense in the larger scope of the song, but words that can just re-flect a particular vocal line that may be happening at the time."PAUl BlInov// [email protected]

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Sat, Nov 19 (8 pm)Bonnie Ste-CroixHaven Social Club, $15

Bonnie Ste-Croix's latest album, Canadian Girl, has the capacity

to unite musicians across the coun-try: made up of songs written with a specific province or territory in mind, each song also includes a guest art-ist or group of artists from that area. Each song was also recorded in the area it was about. It's a momentous undertaking that Ste-Croix discusses in advance of her upcoming appear-ance in Edmonton.

Vue Weekly: How long did it take to make Canadian Girl from the initial songwriting through to the end of

the recording?Bonnie Ste-Croix: I began the first recording work for Canadian Girl in May 2010 with the first song (the BC song) being recorded on June 22nd. The final song (the Yukon song) was recorded on February 27, 2011 and then mixing began. We mixed in March and continued the tweaking on the songs until master-ing at the end of April. So from May 2010 to May 2011 for the recording (travelling etc), mixing and master-ing. The songwriting is harder to pin down as some songs were ideas long before the album started and a few were written completely within the year before. A number of songs were also written on the road, long after a number of provinces were done.

VW: When you were writing the songs, did you come at them in a particular way? Lyrics first? Music first?BS: I wish I had a simple format for songwriting, but songs seem to come to me in different ways at dif-ferent times. From having to pull over my car (for example, I began writing "You Are The Reason" while driving my car and had to pull over

and pull out my recorder to get it down before I forgot!) [to] sitting down in my home and pondering the province or territory I was writ-ing for (ie 'If I Could Sail" was writ-ten after I recorded all the Western provinces and I was in Halifax and wanted to write a sea shanty song for Newfoundland). I always say that all my songs come with a ready-made video in my head—I always "see" the stories in my mind, all the characters and all the colours. Some of the ideas come from a simple mo-ment where a phrase (usually with the melody) strikes me and I build a song around it, others come as a story that I "see" and then write, but each one is different in the way it in-troduces itself to me.

VW: To what extent did the guest musicians influence the way the song was written? Did you write each song with a person or group of people in mind?BS: I think I chose the artists to suit the songs and the style of the song so that it would all fit together. I wrote the songs with the stories and places in mind and chose guest art-ists who could bring out the charac-ter of the songs.

VW: What were the recording ses-sions like for this album? How did recording in different locations af-fect the final outcome?BS: Each and every recording session was fabulous! I can say that with complete sincerity! They were the highlight of the album. The admin-istrative work was tough, but the travel and recording sessions made every step of it worth it. Each re-cording session had a sense of com-munity to it—it felt creative, collab-orative and unique.

Because my producer and I had re-corded tracks and I brought them on a hard drive, we had something that allowed for some continuity in the recording, then in each studio we were able to freely be creative while still having some of that continuity that is so important to creating a cohesive album. Even if we replaced the existing tracks, we still had the idea in mind so that the recording style would be consistent. Then, ev-ery studio and each artist/group of artists was able to have complete freedom to add their flavours and talent. It just seemed to work out so easily—which in a way is surpris-ing given the number of variables we were dealing with, but I'm so happy it did!

Recording in different locations did affect the songwriting a lot though—if I didn't write with the history or stories of the area in mind, then I often used the geography and land-scape of the area metaphorically in

the songs. I have always maintained that I am deeply influenced by the geography around me when I write and I think this album proved that theory to be true. The natural land-scapes of Canada are deeply embed-ded in the songs through metaphor or inspiration.

VW: Were there any other songs writ-ten that were left off the album?BS: Yes, there was one song that I had thought to use for the Yukon and I ended up writing "The Letter" which was inspired by my anticipa-tion of travelling there. I did write other songs along the way, but they didn't replace songs.

VW: How did you decide which songs to include on the album? Did you have an idea of what you wanted Canadian Girl to be when you start-ed, or did the finished shape emerge as the writing and recording went along?BS: Some of the songs were a given as I wrote them for the album or for the area/province/territory, other songs were songs that felt impor-tant to me that I wanted to include (like "You Are The Reason")

I definitely knew that I wanted the album to be a folk-roots style mu-sical strand across the country—I

didn't want it to be a "travelogue" style though ... I wanted it to be sto-ries and songs that people could re-late to and that felt authentic to me as a person and a singer.

VW: You worked with Bill Bucking-ham to produce the album. What drew you to him and what did he bring to the process?BS: Bill is the producer I worked with on my last album and I simply loved working with him. He is so talented and was able to listen to my ideas and work with them in a way that always made them better than even I thought they could be.

He brought years and years of ex-perience, a genius capacity to pro-duce and a heartfelt openness to what I was trying to do. He really believed in it.

VW: If you were to trace the musical map that led you to Canadian Girl, what would it look like?BS: Having lived in many parts of Canada and travelled it extensively, I had this feeling that all of Canada is my hometown—that is really the idea that spawned the album. I wanted to do something musically that could represent that and use my writing and songs to celebrate this land that I love so well. V

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A mari usque ad mareCanadian Girl documents a journey from sea to sea

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Bonnie Ste-Croix, lookin' to catch out


Fri, Nov 18 (8 pm)With Scenic Route to Alaska, ManraygunPawn Shop, $15

Black Dogs Blue Giants, the first re-lease by Jeff Stuart & the Hearts,

found a band in the midst of shaping itself. The six-strong lineup came to-gether as the album did; what started as guesting spots became permanent memberships with creative input; what began as an idea of beefing up Stu-art's solo act transformed into a fuller, multi-bodied endeavour.

"As we were making the first record, we were experimenting with what the band was really going to be all about," explains Jeff Stuart, nursing a pint in at the Empress. "We sort of built the band as we built the record. And with this record, we had a lot more of a concise idea of what we wanted to do and just had to figure out how to execute it. It was just a lot more intentional, I think."

Around the table, Dwayne Martineau and Christopher Quesnel agree; this as-sembled half of the band, having now finished their sophomoric Equal Parts Moonlight and Reason—an album that really does feel like a fully envisioned album—seem to share one mind while discussing their new album's nuances.

The three note it to be cinematic in scope, an astute assessment: through-out it, strings swell as if carefully scor-ing the emotion of a scene, and guitars rise out of the muscular folk mix to reinforce a refrain or add a dazzle of something new before falling back into lockstep, like characters passing by a camera's lens.

"I feel like we pushed ourselves more, musically, on this record, because we knew more what we were good at, and what we could do, whereas the first record came out of this idea of trying new things and getting there," Quesnel says, "This time around, we were trying new things but we knew where we stood."

Martineau, who assembled the art-work—of a hood-wearing figure sur-rounded and obscured by mist, with hints of a rocky background rising up behind them—notes he pulled his in-spiration from what stood out most about the completed album: its feeling of spaciousness.

"I find there's a lot of statements about space, which I found really comforting and fresh, in the age of turning on any radio station and literally there's so much compression on the audio that there's no moments of silence, there's not a breath, there's nothing that

speaks quieter than any of the loudest parts," he says, the other two nodding their agreement. "On these, everything breathes, and it's a statement about musical space. And then I found, I guess thematically too, a lot of the narrative had to do with spaces and places."PaUl BlInov// [email protected]

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FIRST alBUMThe first album I ever owned was Linda Ronstadt's Living in the USA. It was released in 1978 and I was seven years old. I played it on my very own Fisher-Price record player in my bed-room. I rocked out with Linda.

FIRST ConCeRTThe first concert I saw was Roy Orbison at the Centre and the Square in Kitchener, Ontario with my family. I think I was around the age of eight or nine years old.

laST alBUMPink's Greatest Hits ... So Far!!! is the last album I bought back in the spring. I was on tour in Ontario and wanted some kick-ass pop music for the drive.

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Fri, Nov 18 (8 pm)The Junction Bar, $12

award-winning singer-songwriter Kate Reid will leave her idyllic

home on Bowen Island for the harsh winter swells of Edmonton this week-end in support of her third album, Doing it for the Chicks. That kind of commitment ought to be rewarded.

laST ConCeRTThe last concert I saw was the Eagles at GM Place last year ... oh man, I am so old school! I have wanted to see them since I was a kid and it was AWESOME.

FavoURITe alBUMMy favourite album is Ferron's double album, Impressionistic. Fer-ron is a huge inspiration for me. I love her lyrics and the way she de-livers them.

MUSICal gUIlTy PleaSUReMy favourite musical guilty pleasure is listening to any top 40 country-music station, especially when I'm driving through Alberta.

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NEWSOUNDSStormzone Zero to Rage (SPV)

Good classic heavy metal in the tradi-tion of the British New Wave can sometimes be hard to fi nd without go-

ing back to the classic bands. Thankfully Stormzone brings the quality and techni-cal skill necessary to execute some great classic metal tracks on the band's third album Zero to Rage. The classic elements are evident in vocalist John Harbinson's channeling, without attempting an imper-sonation, of Bruce Dickinson and Dio. Combined with a driving rhythm guitar section there's defi nitely an Iron Maiden feel to the album. While Harbinson has powerful vocals throughout, there are a few tracks where he attempts to reach out of his vocal range and those grate a little, but the album is tightly produced and is a solid entry into the tradition of classic heavy metal. SAMANTHA POWER// [email protected]

Said the WhaleNew Brighton EP(Hidden Pony)

As a between-al-bums teaser from Said the Whale, the four songs on New Brighton o� er more of a victory lap than

any sign of an immanent departure in sound. That's not such a bad thing: this band built its name trading in well-cra� ed, vocal-driven pop rock with deceptively simple song structures and inescapable hooks, so, uh, no hurry getting away from that. The title track coasts into heavier ter-ritory as it builds, while "Sandy Bay Fishing Song" rides a shanty-shuffl e through the course of a Decemberists-like tale of mer-chant woe. That one o� ers the most hints of ambitious steps forwards—"Lines" is a simple sing-song, "Little Bird" a stripped down closer—but even though Said the Whale don't seem to be in a hurry to make any ambitious steps forwards, that's hard-ly to the detriment of the niche the band fi nds itself in now.PAUL BLINOV// [email protected]

Steel PantherBalls Out(Universal Republic)

All lies. This wan-nabe hair-metal joke band goes all out insisting that it won't suck itself—it's right there in the

chorus, "Help me please, get on your knees / 'Cause it won't suck itself" (featur-ing Nickelback's Chad Kroeger sharing the lead vocals)—but this album does, in fact, suck. Does today's world really need to relive the worst misogynistic hair met-

al cliches? No, it does not.EDEN MUNRO// [email protected]

Greg MacPhersonDisintegration Blues(Disintegration)Greg MacPherson's penchant for tak-ing a few sparse strands of sounds and weaving them into something rich and a� ecting has never seemed more well-developed, or devastatingly em-ployed than on Disintegration Blues. It doesn't matter if he's singing about a house party—"We'll pour ourselves

100 drinks / And we'll dance away the fl oor / Who gives a shit what anybody thinks?" goes the grandiose, tipsy chorus of album launcher "Party at Greg's"—his innermost defeats on the incredible, weighty "Snowman" or feeling out a sad tropical-island jam on "Crackdown"; MacPherson wraps Disintegration Blues's engaging emotions around simple, sweeping instrumentation to maximize the potency of both.PAUL BLINOV// [email protected]

Drake"Take Care (Featuring Rihanna)"

Some uptempo r&b keyboards and a driving drumkit beat—not to mention Rihanna's

smoky hook—buoy Drake's autotuned confessional of pined-a� er lost love.

Nickelback"When We Stand Together"

The world's most maligned band play to their so� er side, replacing the cock-

rock for more inspira-tional grandstanding. As always, there's a nagging feeling you've heard this before, by Nickelback before. Trust yourinstincts.

LOONIEBINPAUL BLINOV // [email protected]

chorus, "Help me please, get on your knees / 'Cause it won't suck itself" (featur-ing Nickelback's Chad Kroeger sharing the lead vocals)—but this album does, in fact, suck. Does today's world really need to relive the worst misogynistic hair met-

al cliches? No, it does not.EDEN MUNRO// [email protected]

band play to their so� er side, replacing the cock-

rock for more inspira-tional grandstanding. As always, there's a nagging feeling you've heard this before, by Nickelback before.

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Harmonically Yours / Thu, Nov 17 (8 pm) To most people, the harmonica is that spit-fi lled instrument your uncle insists on pulling out around the campfi re and then "wailing" on in a fashion that makes you wonder whether the harmonica is an instrument or a joke perpetuated on people everywhere. Well, fear not for your ears this week as Robert Bonfi glio returns to play harmonica with the ESO. Harmonica with the symphony? I know, crazy right? But skeptics will be put in their place this Thursday. (Winspear Centre, $20 – $75)

Wunderbar fundraiser / Sat, Nov 19 One of the city's best—and friendliest—venues for live, underground music was delivered a devastating tax bill and will not be able to stay open without host-ing a fundraiser. "A fundraiser for a busi-ness?" you may ask. It's a little uncon-ventional, but so is Wunderbar. To keep this city's best-beer-selection-having, weirdest-rocking venue open, let's all open up our hearts and our wallets. 'Tis the season, a� er all. (Wunderbar)

Ruby Jane / Fri, Nov 18 (7 pm) At only 16, Texas-based fi ddler Ruby Jane may not be able to have a beer a� er the show, but she has already played the Opry and the Ryman, as well as with Willie Nelson and Marty Stuart. I guess that's a fair trade. (Full Moon Folk Club, $18)

Death From Above 1979 / Sat, Nov 19 (8 pm) Back a� er an extended hiatus, Death From Above 1979 is here to teach you the lesson about rock 'n' roll you apparently didn't learn the fi rst time around. And with a portion of all proceeds going toward the Youth Emergency Shelter, it's a pretty good lesson to learn. (Edmonton Event Centre, $40)

Arkells Motown Revue / Thu, Nov 17 (8 pm) What do you get when you cross Hamilton rock band the Arkells with the sound of '60s Motown? I have no fucking idea, but I would like to fi nd out. (Brixx, $10)

Sea of Sound Festival / Nov 18 – Nov 20 Though it seems like only yesterday that I said to myself, "You know what this place needs more of? Music that is out there—and I mean really out there," the Canadian Electroacoustic Music Commu-nity—perhaps the country's leading ad-vocates of electroacoustic music—is now 25 years old. To celebrate, the Communi-ty is joining forces with the University of Alberta Department of Music, the Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society and Tonus Vivus Society for New Music to present the inaugural Sea of Sound Festival, a three-day extravaganza of new music. (Catalyst Theatre & New City)

Daniel Sky / Thu, Nov 24 & Sat, Nov 26 In support of his latest album, Spider Milk, Daniel Sky will make two stops in Edmonton. Oh by the way, I looked up "spider milk" for you on Google—to save you the trouble—and there's no such thing. Did you know, though, that scientists have crossed spider silk with goat's milk and that the resulting fi bres are twice as strong as Kevlar? (Haven Social Club & Black Dog)

Jill Barber / Tue, Nov 22 (8 pm) Juno nominee Jill Barber will bring her new-est album Mischievous Moon to Ed-monton at the end of November. The album debuted at number-one on the Canadian jazz charts and held that po-sition for a lucky 13 weeks. (Myer Horowitz Theatre, $31.50)

Fire Next Time / Sat, Nov 19 (8 pm) Do you like whisky? Do you like wine? Do you like songs about the aforemen-tioned alcoholic beverages? Well, you're in luck because Fire Next Time has got you covered. (Avenue Theatre, $10)


THU NOV 17Accent europeAn Lounge Jamie Henry (folk / singer-songwriter) and Laura Swankey (folk / singer-songwriter); 9:30pm-11:30pm; no minors; no cover

Avenue theAtre Carly Rae Jepsen, Matt Webb, guests; 7pm; $16.50 (adv)/$20 (door)

BLues on Whyte Too Slim and the Taildraggers

BrIXX Legendary Arkells Motown Review, San Sebastian; 8pm (door); $10 (door)

cArrot cAfé Zoomers Thu afternoon open mic; 1-4pm

chA IsLAnd teA co Live on the Island: Rhea March hosts open mic and Songwriter's stage; starts with a jam session; 7pm

century cAsIno Shanneyganock; $29.95

the common Open Till Close; 8pm

druId IrIsh puB DJ every Thu at 9pm

dv8 Acoustic Chaos Thursdays: bring your guitars, basses, drums, whatever and play some tunes

edmonton events centre LIGHTS, Nightbox; all ages; 7pm (door), 8:30pm (show); $27.50 at livenation.com, TicketMaster

eXpressIonz cAfé ARTZ I: hosted by Peter North: Bobby Cameron, Tom Roschkov, John Armstrong, Kelly Pikula, other ARTZY guests; fundraiser for Expressionz, Artz Thief Relief Benefit Concerts

hAven socIAL cLuB Craig Cardiff (folk, rock), Hector Fector, Simon Hoskyn; 8pm; $15 (adv) at Blackbyrd

J r BAr And grILL Live Jam Thu; 9pm

Jeffrey's cAfé Alee (country pop); $10

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

mAryBeth's coffee house–Beaumont Open mic every Thu; 7pm

neW cIty compound Audio On Fire: feat members of Audio/Rocketry, Fire Next Time, Owls By Nature, White Beauty; no minors; 8pm (door); $8

neW cIty LegIon Bingo is Back every Thu starting 9pm; followed by Behind The Red Door at 10:30pm; no minors; no cover

noLA creoLe KItchen & musIc house Early Show: Thea & Tiff–T & T, 6-9pm; Late show: Every Thursday Night: Nick Martin; 10pm

north gLenorA hALL Jam by Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu

rIc’s grILL Peter Belec ( jazz); most Thursdays; 7-10pm

sherLocK hoLmes–downtown Derina Harvey

sherLocK hoLmes–Wem Party Hog

thAt's AromA Open stage hosted by Carrie Day and Kyler Schogen; alternate weeks; 7-9pm

WILd BILL’s–red deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close

WILd West sALoon Robert Rowan

WunderBAr Seth Anderson, Rusty, Troy Snaterse, Dan Smith; 8:30pm

Classical myer horoWItz theAtre Made In Canada: New Edmonton Wind Sinfonia; 7:30pm

WInspeAr centre Edmonton Symphony Orchestra: Harmonically Yours: Robert Bonfiglio; 8pm; $20-$75

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

BrIXX Radio Brixx with Tommy Grimes spinning Rock n Roll; 8pm (door); no cover

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

chrome Lounge 123 Ko every Thu

the common So Necessary: Hip hop, classic hip hop, funk, soul, r&b, '80s, oldies and everything in between with Sonny Grimezz, Shortround, Twist every Thu

croWn puB Breakdown @ the crown with This Side Up! hosted by Atomatik and Kalmplxx DJ

druId IrIsh puB DJ every Thu; 9pm

eLectrIc rodeo–spruce grove DJ every Thu

fILthy mcnAsty’s Something Different every Thursday: with DJ Ryan Kill

fLAsh nIght cLuB Indust:real Assembly: Goth and Industrial Nightwith DJ Nanuck; no minors; 10pm (door); no cover

fLuId Lounge Thirsty Thursdays: Electro breaks Cup; no cover all night

funKy BuddhA–Whyte Ave Requests every Thu with DJ Damian

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

KAs BAr Urban House: every Thu with DJ Mark Stevens; 9pm

LeveL 2 Lounge Funk Bunker Thursdays

LucKy 13 Sin Thu with DJ Mike Tomas

on the rocKs Salsaholic: every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; salsa DJ to follow

overtIme–downtown Thursdays at Eleven: Electronic Techno and Dub Step

rendezvous Metal night every Thu

sportsWorLd Roller Skating Disco: Thu Retro Nights; 7-10:30pm; sports-world.ca

tAphouse–st Albert Eclectic mix every Thu with DJ Dusty Grooves

unIon hALL 3 Four All Thursdays: rock, dance, retro, top 40 with DJ Johnny Infamous


FRI NOV 18Arden theAtre Profiles On-Stage: Kevin Fox; sold out

Art gALLery of st. ALBert Songs for Solo Voice and Cello: Kevin Fox; sold out

Avenue theAtre Raised Fist Productions: Display of Decay, Great White Shark Fight and Mongol, Opiate of the Masses, Waking Mayhem; 6:30pm; $10 (adv/$12 (door)

BLue chAIr cAfé Chris Trapper, Chloe Albert, Lisa Nicole Grace; 8:30pm; $20

BLues on Whyte Too Slim and the Taildraggers

BrIXX BAr Austra with Tasseomancy; 8pm

cArrot Live music every Fri; all ages; Bedouin Beats; 7pm; $5 (door)

cAsIno edmonton X-Change (pop/rock)

cAsIno yeLLoWheAd The X-Band (latin)

coAst to coAst Open stage every Fri; 9:30pm

devAney's IrIsh puB Doug Stroud

edmonton event centre The Tea Party, The Reason; no minors; 8pm (door), 9:30pm (show); $35

festIvAL pLAce Bruce Conte of ‘Tower of Power’ (blues); 7:30pm; $36 (table)/$34 (box)/$32 (theatre)

fresh stArt BIstro Darrell Barr; 7-10pm; $10

gAs pump The Uptown Jammers (house band); every Fri; 5:30-9pm

hAven socIAL cLuB Colin Close (folk; CD release), guests; 8pm; $10 (adv at Blackbyrd)/$12 (door)

horIzon stAge Monica Munro, Kyle Mosiuk; 7:30pm

IrIsh cLuB Jam session every Fri; 8pm; no cover

Jeffrey's cAfé Jerrold Dubyk (sax led jazz); $10

JeKyLL And hyde puB Headwind (classic pop/rock); every Fri; 9pm; no cover

LB's–st Albert Trace Jordan Band (singer-songwriter)

LeveL 2 Lounge/y Afterhour Joey "Nokturnal" Welshman Memorial Fundraiser; 9:30pm

LIzArd Lounge Rock 'n' roll open mic every Fri; 8:30pm; no cover

morInvILLe communIty cuLturAL centre The Polyjesters; 7:30pm; $25 for adult)/$20 (student/senior) at door, tixonthesquare.ca, morinvillecentre.ca

the nest–nAIt Tupelo Honey, the Steadies; 5pm; no cover

neW cIty compound Rend (CD release party), Blunt Force Charm, Letters to Elise; no minors; 8pm (door); $10

noLA creoLe KItchen & musIc house Early show: Thea & Tiff–T & T, 6-9pm; Late show: AC Dixie–The Sounds of New Orleans, 9:30pm-midnight

on the rocKs Mustard Smile 2.0; 9pm; $5

pAWn shop Jeff Stuart and the Hearts (CD release), Manraygun, Scenic Route to Alaska; $15 at Blackbyrd

Queen ALeXAndrA communIty hALL Northern Lights Folk Club: Brock Zeman; 7pm (doors), 8pm (concert); $18 (adv adult)/$22 (door adult) at TIX on the Square, Acoustic Music, Myhre's Music; child 6-12 half-price (door); child under 6 free

redneX–morinville Open Monday Jamz: Big Mike and Kixxsin

red pIAno BAr Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Fri; 9pm-2am

rose And croWn The Kickit Bros (unplugged)

st BAsIL's cuLturAL centre Full Moon Folk Club: Ruby Jane, Braden Gates (U22 artist); 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $18 (adv at Acoustic Music Shop, TIX on the Square)/$22 (door)/child under 12 half-price (door only)

sherLocK hoLmes–downtown Derina Harvey

sherLocK hoLmes–Wem Party Hog

stArLIte Mayhem Hate, Abigail Williams, Keep of Kallesin; 8pm; $34 at Blackbyrd


WILd West sALoon Robert Rowan

WunderBAr The Latitudes, Behind Sapphire, Leuven; 8:30pm; $5

yArdBIrd suIte Butcher, Müller, van der Schyf; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $18 (member)/$22 (guest)

Classical cAtALyst theAtre Sea of Sound Festival: New Electroacoustic Performances from Alberta; 8pm

DJs AzucAr pIcAnte DJ Papi and DJ Latin Sensation every Fri

BAnK uLtrA Lounge Connected Fri: 91.7 The Bounce, Nestor Delano, Luke Morrison every Fri

BAr-B-BAr DJ James; every Fri; no cover

BLAcK dog freehouse Every Friday DJs spin on the main floor, Underdog and the Wooftop

BLAcKsheep puB Bash: DJ spinning retro to rock classics to current

BoneyArd ALe house The Rock Mash-up: DJ NAK spins videos every Fri; 9pm; no cover

Buddy’s DJ Arrow Chaser every Fri; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm

BuffALo underground R U Aware Friday: Featuring Neon Nights

chrome Lounge Platinum VIP every Fri

the common Boom The Box: every Fri; nu disco, hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation plus residents Echo and Shortround

the druId IrIsh puB DJ every Fri; 9pm

eLectrIc rodeo–spruce grove DJ every Fri

fILthy mcnAsty's Shake yo ass every Friday: with DJ SAWG

fLuId Lounge Hip hop and dancehall; every Fri

funKy BuddhA–Whyte Ave Top tracks, rock, retro with DJ Damian; every Fri

gAs pump DJ Christian; every Fri; 9:30pm-2am

JunctIon BAr And eAtery LGBT Com-munity: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm

neWcAstLe puB House, dance mix every Fri with DJ Donovan

overtIme–downtown Fridays at Eleven: Rock hip hop, country, top forty, techno

redneX–morinville DJ Gravy from the Source 98.5 every Fri

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

sou KAWAII zen Lounge Fuzzion Friday: with Crewshtopher, Tyler M, guests; no cover

sportsWorLd Roller Skating Disco Fri Nights; 7-10:30pm; sports-world.ca

suede Lounge Juicy DJ spins every Fri

suIte 69 Every Fri Sat with DJ Randall-A

tempLe Options with Greg Gory and Eddie Lunchpail; every Fri

treAsury In Style Fri: DJ Tyco and Ernest Ledi; no line no cover for ladies all night long

unIon hALL Ladies Night every Fri

vInyL dAnce Lounge Connected Las Vegas Fridays

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SAT NOV 19ALBertA BeAch hoteL Open stage with Trace Jordan 1st and 3rd Sat; 7pm-12

Artery Painting With Ella (album release), Paul Cournoyer; all ages; 8pm (door); $10 (adv) at Blackbyrd

Avenue theAtre Fire Next Time (country, folk, rock), The Give 'Em Hell Boys, The Living Daylights, Miek Headache; 8:30pm; $10 (door)

BLAcK dog freehouse Hair of the Dog: Ox and Forrest City Lovers (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover

BLue chAIr cAfé Chris Trapper, Chloe Albert, Lisa Nicole Grace; 8:30pm; $20

BLues on Whyte Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan;

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Evening: Too Slim and the Taildraggers

Bone Yard ale House Dawn In The City (funk, soul, rock & roll)

Brixx Bar Saber Stagger industries Launch Party: Vanity Red, No Witness, Reflex Ark; 9pm; $10 (adv)

Bunker sports puB Open Jam every Sat afternoon; hosted by the Recollection Blues Band; 3pm

Casino edMonton X-Change (pop/rock)

Casino YelloWHead The X-Band (latin)

Coast to Coast Live bands every Sat; 9:30pm

CroWn puB Acoustic blues open stage with Marshall Lawrence, every Sat, 2-6pm; Laid Back Saturday African Dance Party with Dj Collio, every Sat, 12-2am

devaneY's irisH puB Doug Stroud

tHe disH NEK Trio ( jazz); every Sat, 6pm

eddie sHorts Saucy Wenches every Sat

edMonton event Centre Death From Above 1979, guests; all ages; 8pm (door); $40 at Unionevents.com, Ticketmaster.ca

expressionz Café Open stage for original songs, hosted by Karyn Sterling and Randall Walsh; 2-5pm; admission by donation

filtHY MCnastY's Tarantuja, Rapid Loss; 4pm; no cover

Gas puMp Blues jam/open stage every Sat 3:30-7pm

Haven soCial CluB Bonnie Ste. Croix (folk), guests; 8pm; $15 (adv at Blackbyrd)/$20 (door)

Horizon staGe Kevin Fox; 7:30pm

Hilltop puB Sat afternoon roots jam with Pascal, Simon and Dan, 3:30-6:30pm; evening

HooliGanz Live music every Sat

Horizon staGe Kevin Fox (songwriter); $25 (adult)/$20 (student/senior)/$5 (eyeGo)

iron Boar puB Jazz

in Wetaskiwin featuring jazz trios the 1st Sat each month; $10

JeffreY's Café Mike McCormick (contemporary/classic jazz); $10

lBs puB Sat afternoon Jam with Gator and Friends; 5-9pm

level 2 lounGe Selectro Saturdaze: Bitchin ladies (Mama Miche and Kenzie Clarke); 9:30pm

neW West Hotel Country jam every Sat; 3-6pm

nola Creole kitCHen & MusiC House Early Show: Thea & Tiff–T & T, 6-9pm; Late Show: AC Dixie–The Sounds of New Orleans; 9:30pm-midnight

o’BYrne’s Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm

on tHe roCks Mustard Smile 2.0; 9pm; $5

paWn sHop Early Free Show: Feast or Famine, Oh Messy Life, On Your Mark; 7pm

rednex–Morinville Open Monday Jamz: Big Mike and Kixxsin

red piano Bar Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am

rose and CroWn The Kickit Bros (unplugged)

sHerloCk HolMes–downtown Derina Harvey

sHerloCk HolMes–WeM Party Hog

sideliners puB Sat open stage; 3-7pm

starlite rooM Hey Ocean, The BElle Game, Democrafunk; 9pm; tickets at Blackbyrd

West side puB West Side Pub Sat Afternoon: Dirty Jam: Tye Jones (host), all styles, 3-7pm

Wild West saloon Robert Rowan

WunderBar Wunderbar vs. The Taxman: fundraiser; 12pm-2am

YardBird suite Gary Smulyan Trio; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $22 (member)/$26 (guest)

sClassical CatalYst tHeatre Sea of Sound Festival: Early Seminar: Recent Trends in Electroacoustic Music in Canada with Kevin Austin, 12:30pm; Evening: JTTP Winning works with 8-channel Diffusion, 8pm

ellerslie road Baptist CHurCH Barbershop Goes Broadway: Grove City Chorus; 2pm and 7:30pm; tickets at tixonthesquare.ca

first presBYterian CHurCH RCCO–Early Music: with Josephine van Lier (piccolo/Baroque cello), Eila Peterson, (recorder), Marnie Giesbrecht (harpsichord), guests The Sackbone Express (directed by Eila Peterson); 4pm; admission by donation

HolY trinitY anGliCan CHurCH Music of Muses: i Coristi Chamber Choir, Irene Apanovitch (conductor); 7:30pm; $20 (adult)/$15 (student/senior)

neW CitY roadHouse Sea of Sound Festival: Late-Night Concert: Trio Latitude, BEAMS Allstars, Wijit; 10pm

DJs azuCar piCante DJ Touch It, hosted by DJ Papi; every Sat

Bank ultra lounGe Sold Out Sat: with DJ Russell James, Mike Tomas; 8pm (door); no line, no cover for ladies before 11pm

BlaCk doG freeHouse Saturday evenings feature DJs on three levels; Main Floor: The Menace Sessions: Alt rock/Electro/Trash with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic hip-hop and reggae with DJ Sonny Grimezz

BlaCksHeep puB DJ every Sat

BoneYard ale House DJ Sinistra Saturdays: 9pm

BuddY's Feel the rhythm every Sat with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm

Buffalo underGround Head Mashed In Saturday: Mashup Night

druid irisH puB DJ every Sat; 9pm

eleCtriC rodeo–spruce Grove DJ every Sat

filtHY MCnastY's Every Friday with DJ SAWG

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

funkY BuddHa–Whyte ave Top tracks, rock, retro every Sat with DJ Damian

Gas puMp DJ Christian every Sat

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

JunCtion Bar and eaterY LGBT Community: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm

neWCastle puB Top 40 requests every Sat with DJ Sheri

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

overtiMe–downtown Saturdays at Eleven: R'n'B, hip hop, reggae, Old School

palaCe Casino Show Lounge DJ every Sat

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

red star Indie rock, hip hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests

rouGe lounGe Rouge Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Rezzo, DJ Mkhai

sou kaWaii zen lounGe Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M

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

suede lounGe DJ Nic-E spins every Sat

suite 69 Every Fri Sat with DJ Randall-A

teMple Oh Snap! Oh Snap with Degree, Cobra Commander, Battery, Jake Roberts, Ten-O, Cool Beans, Hotspur Pop and P-Rex; every Sat

union Hall Celebrity Saturdays: every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous

vinYl danCe lounGe Signature Saturdays

Y afterHours Release Saturdays

SUN NOV 20Beer Hunter–st albert Open stage/jam every Sun; 2-6pm

BlaCkJaCk's roadHouse–nisku Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett

Blue CHair Café Sunday Brunch: Jim Findlay trio; 10:30am-2:30pm; donations

Blue pear restaurant Jazz on the Side Sun: Jeff Henrick; 6pm; $25 if not dining

CroWn puB Band War 2011/Battle of the bands, 6-10pm; Open Stage with host Better Us Than Strangers, 10pm-1am

devaneY’s irisH puB Celtic open stage every Sun with Keri-Lynne Zwicker; 5:30pm; no cover

douBle d's Open jam every Sun; 3-8pm

eddie sHorts Acoustic jam every Sun; 9pm

expressionz Café Songwriters Stage, various hosts; all ages; 7-11pm

filtHY MCnastY's Dan Quinn; 9pm;no cover

Haven soCial CluB Po' Girl (folk), Peter Mulvey; 8pm; $20 (adv at Blackbyrd)/$25 (door)

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

JuBilee auditoriuM Feist, Bry Webb; all ages; 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $39.50, $55

neWCastle puB Sun Soul Service (acoustic jam): Willy James and


Crawdad Cantera; 3-6:30pm

new city compound Calista, Dead Cat Bounce, guests; No Minors; 8pm (door); $8

new city LeGion DIY Sunday Afternoons: 4pm (door), 5pm, 6pm, 7pm, 8pm (bands)

o’ByRne’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am

on the RockS The Steadies; 9pm; $5

oRLAndo'S 2 puB Open stage jam every Sun; 4pm

pouRhouSe BieR BiStRo Singer-songwriter open stage with Jay Gilday; every Sun, 9pm-close

RoBeRtSon-weSLey united chuRch WindRose Trio; 2pm; $20/$15 at TIX on the Square, door

wundeRBAR The Geese, Zerbin, Ben Gorodetsky, Dylan Howard; 8pm

yeLLowheAd BReweRy Open Stage: Every Sun, 8pm

Classical convocAtion hALL Academy Strings (Copland's Appalachian Spring); 2pm; free

FiRSt pReSByteRiAn chuRch RCCO–Sundays at three: Early Music Alberta Society, Wendy Markosky (organ and harpsichord); 3pm; $20 (adult)/$18 (senior/student) at TIX on the Square, Winspear, door

mcdouGALL united chuRch Path of Wonder: Pro Coro Canada: Michael Zaugg (conductor); 2:30pm

winSpeAR centRe Edmonton Symphony Orchestra: Dvorák's Violin Concerto: Benjamin Beilman (violin), Jeremy Spurgeon; 2pm; $20-$65

DJs BAckStAGe tAp And GRiLL Industry Night: every Sun with Atomic Improv, Jameoki and DJ Tim

BLAck doG FReehouSe Main Floor: Soul Sundays: A fantastic voyage through '60s and '70s funk, soul

and R&B with DJ Zyppy. Dance parties have been known to erupt

FiLthy mcnASty'S Rock and Soul Sundays: with DJ Sadeeq

FLow LounGe Stylus Sun

SAvoy mARtini LounGe Reggae on Whyte: RnR Sun with DJ IceMan; no minors; 9pm; no cover

SpoRtSwoRLd Roller Skating Disco Sun; 1-4:30pm; sports-world.ca

MON NOV 21BLAck doG FReehouSe Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover

BLueS on whyte Ross Neilsen

devAney'S iRiSh puB Singer/songwriter open stage every Mon; 8pm

JuBiLee AuditoRium Rita Macneil and the Von Trapp Children's Seasonal Concert; 7pm; tickets at TicketMaster

noLA cReoLe kitchen & muSic houSe Marco Claveria Trio; 6-9pm

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

RoSe BowL/RouGe LounGe Acoustic open stage every Mon; 9pm

Classical convocAtion hALL Monday Noon Music: Organ and Early Music, featuring the new Krapf Memorial Portative Organ; free

DJs BLAck doG FReehouSe Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay

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

FiLthy mcnASty'S Metal Mondays with DJ Tyson

Lucky 13 Industry Night every Mon with DJ Chad Cook

new city LeGion Madhouse Mon: Punk/metal/etc with DJ Smart Alex

TUE NOV 22BLueS on whyte Ross Neilsen

BRixx Comedy and Music Collide 9: Comedians: Mike Dambra, J.P. Fournier, Jimmy Zenn, Kathleen Kelly; 8pm; free before 8pm $5 after

cAtALySt theAtRe Feels Like Home: cabaret about the ups and downs of love with Patricia Zentilli (vocals), Don Horsburgh (piano); $20 at TIX on the Square

dRuid iRiSh puB Open stage every Tue; with Chris Wynters; 9pm

L.B.’S Tue Blues Jam with Ammar; 9pm-1am

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

muttARt hALL–Alberta college campus of macewan university MacEwan University Outreach Big Band Concert: Jeff Bryant (director), O'Leary High School Big Band with Shayne Billey (director); 7pm; free

myeR hoRowitz Jill Barber; 8pm; tickets at primboxoffice.com

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

R puB Open stage jam every Tue; hosted by Gary and the Facemakers; 8pm

SpoRtSmAn'S LounGe Open stage every Tue; hosted by Paul McGowan; 9pm

yARdBiRd Suite Tue Night Sessions: Doug Organ Trio; 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: One Too Many Tuesdays with Rootbeard

BRixx BAR Troubadour Tue: hosted by Mark

Feduk; 9pm; $8

BuddyS DJ Arrow Chaser every

cRown puB Live hip hop and open mic with DJs Xaolin, Dirty Needlz, Frank Brown, and guests; no cover

dv8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly, Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue

Funky BuddhA–whyte Ave Latin and Salsa music every Tue; dance lessons 8-10pm

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

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

WED NOV 23BLAck doG FReehouSe Main Floor: Glitter Gulch: live music once a month

BLueS on whyte Ross Neilsen

chA iSLAnd teA co Whyte Noise Drum Circle: Join local drummers for a few hours of beats and fun; 6pm

eddie ShoRtS Acoustic jam every Wed, 9pm; no cover

FiddLeR'S RooSt Little Flower Open Stage every Wed with Brian Gregg; 8pm-12

hAven SociAL cLuB Early show: Treelines (pop/rock), Portage and Main, guests at 7pm; $10 (adv) at Blackbyrd; Later: Open stage every Wed with Jonny Mac, 8:30pm, free

hooLiGAnz Open stage every Wed with host Cody Nouta; 9pm

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

pLAyBAck puB Open Stage every Wed hosted by JTB; 9pm-1am

pLeASAntview community hALL Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society;

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

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

RoyAL ALBeRtA muSeum theAtRe Wil (alt folk rock), C.R. Avery, guests; 7:30pm; $20 (adv)/$26 (door)

Classical mcdouGALL chuRch Music Wednesdays at Noon: David Grainger Brown (classical guitar); free

DJs BAnk uLtRA LounGe Rev'd Up Wed: with DJ Mike Tomas upstairs; 8pm

BLAck doG FReehouSe Main Floor: RetroActive Radio: Alternative '80s and '90s, post punk, new wave, garage, Brit, mod, rock and roll with LL Cool Joe; Wooftop: Soul/Breaks with Dr. Erick

BRixx BAR Really Good... Eats and Beats: every Wed with DJ Degree and Friends

Buddy'S DJ Dust 'n' Time every Wed; 9pm (door); no cover

the common Treehouse Wednesdays

dieSeL uLtRA LounGe Wind-up Wed: R&B, hiphop, reggae, old skool, reggaeton with InVinceable, Touch It, weekly guest DJs

FiLthy mcnASty'S Pint Night Wednesdays: with DJ SAWG

LeGendS puB Hip hop/R&B with DJ Spincycle

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

nikki diAmondS Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed

Red StAR Guest DJs every Wed

StARLite Room Wild Style Wed: Hip-Hop; 9pm

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

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1500. Help Wanted — Alta.

Are you looking for an opportunity to present your ideas

to an audience of over 500 people? Edmonton's NextGen

is currently accepting presentation submissions for Pecha Kucha Night 12, to be held on February 2, at Metro Cinema at the Garneau. For more information please visit www.edmontonnextgen.caDeadline for submissions is

December 16th 2011

Bells will be ringing November 17th - December 24th for the

2011 Christmas Kettle Campaign.

We are looking for volunteers to come out and ring in Christmas

to help us reach our goal of $450,000.

We have 9000 volunteer hours to fill. If you have some time we would love to have you out

Call 780-423-2111 ext 241 or email:

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Change for Children needs 25 volunteers to sell 50/50 tickets at

the Dec 1st Oil Kings game. Contact

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"How you found out about your parent's divorce?"

Family therapist Vikki Stark is conducting a study of the impact in children of how they learned about their parent's divorce. If you are an adult who was a

child/teen when your parents were divorced or are currently a

child/teen of divorce - help kids in the future through your

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P.A.L.S. Project Adult Literacy Society needs volunteers to work

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The Salvation Army Christmas Kettle Campaign Needs You!

Our goal is to raise $450,000 to help the many families in

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9000 volunteer hours. Campaign runs from Nov 17 - Dec 24, Mon -

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CALL FOR ENTRANTS!STAGE STRUCK! 2012

Submissions for ADFA/Edmonton adult one-act play festival, February 24/25,

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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19) If you go into a major art museum that displays Europe's great oil paintings, you'll find that virtually every masterpiece is surrounded by an ornate wooden frame, often painted gold. To me, the enclosure is distracting and un-necessary. I urge you to take my approach in the coming weeks. Push and even fight to get the goodies exactly as they are, free of all the irrelevant filler, buffers and pretentious puffery.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20) "Judge a moth by the beauty of its candle," said the 13th-century poet Rumi. More prosaically put: evaluate people according to the nobility and integrity of the desires they're obsessed with. Do you want to hang around with someone whose primary focus is to make too much money or build a shrine to his own ego? Or would you prefer to be in a sphere of influence created by a person who longs to make a useful product or help alleviate suffering? It's an excellent time to ponder these issues, and then take action to ensure you're surrounded by moths that favour beautiful candles.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20) In Santa Cruz there used to be a nightclub that enforced a strict policy forbidding its patrons from dancing. The one time I went there, the music was loud and infectious, and I naturally felt the urge to move in vigorous rhythm. Moments after I launched into my groove, a bouncer accosted me and forced me to stop. I think this situation has certain resemblances to the one you're in now. Some natural response mechanism in you is being unduly inhibited; some or-ganic inclination is being unreasonably restrained or dampened. Why should you continue to accept this?

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22) During the time a blue crab is growing to maturity, it sheds its exoskeleton an average of once every 18 days for an entire year. You're in a phase with some similarities to that period of rapid ripening. Your commitment to change doesn't have to be quite as heroic, but it should be pretty vig-orous. Could you manage, say, two moltings over the course of the next 30 days? If done in a spirit of adventure, it will be liberating, not oppressively demanding.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22) "Progress isn't made by early risers," wrote author Robert Heinlein. "It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something." That's exactly the kind of progress you are in an excellent position to stir up in the coming weeks. You don't have to match the stress levels of the Type A people who might seem to have an advantage over you, and you won't help yourself at all by worrying or trying too hard. The single best thing you can do to supercharge your creativity is to think of yourself as a "happy-go-lucky" person while you go around dreaming up ways to have more fun.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22) "Our elders know you don't find the answer by asking thousands of questions," says an essay on the website of the environmentalist group The Last Tree. "The wise way is to ask the right question in the beginning." I recommend this approach for you in the coming weeks. Given the spar-kly mysteriousness that now confronts you, I know you may be tempted to simultaneously try a lot of different routes to greater clarity. But the more effective strategy in the long run is

to cultivate silence and stillness as you wait expectantly for the intuition that will reveal the simple, direct path.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22) In a review of James Gleick's book The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, The Week magazine reported that "the world now produces more information in 48 hours than it did throughout all human history to 2003." From that dizzying factoid, we can infer that you are more inundated with data than were all of your ancestors put together. And the surge will probably intensify in the coming weeks. You are in a phase of your astrological cycle when you'll be asked to absorb and integrate a voluminous amount of interesting stuff. Don't be hard on yourself if you sometimes need to slow down to digest what you've been taking in.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21) In his poem "Ode to the Present," Pablo Neruda tells us how to slip free and clear into the luxuri-ously potent opportunity of the present moment. The here-and-now is so ripe and willing, he says, so malleable. "Take a saw to its delicious wooden perfume," he continues, and then "build a stair-case. Yes, a staircase. Climb into the present, step by step, press your feet onto the resinous wood of this moment, going up, go-ing up, not very high ... Don't go all the way to heaven. Reach for apples, not the clouds." Such good advice for you, Scorpio! It's a perfect time to learn more about the magic of the present mo-ment as you free yourself from "the unrepairable past."

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21) Seminal psychologist Carl Jung wasn't afraid of applying his scholarly analytical skills to the phenomena of pop culture. Late in life, he even wrote a thoughtful book on UFOs called Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies. To be as thorough and careful about an elusive subject, he wrote an afterword to his main argument, to which he added an epilogue, which in turn was followed by a concluding supplement. I hope that you are as scrupulous in wrapping up loose ends in the coming week, especially when you're dealing with enigmas and riddles. As you seek resolution and completion, go well beyond the bare minimum.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19) A great deal of land in the Netherlands has been reclaimed from the sea by human effort. But the system of dikes is not a foolproof guarantee against flooding. That's why more people are building homes that can float if they have to. "We are actually trying to move away from fighting against the water," says architect Koen Olthuis. "We are beginning to make friends with the water." I recommend you adopt this as a useful metaphor. During the coming months, you should be doing a lot of foundation work. What can you do to add buoyancy?

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18) According to my old philosophy professor Norman O Brown, "Our real choice is between holy and unholy madness: open your eyes and look around you—madness is in the saddle anyhow." Let's take this hypothesis as our starting point. I propose that in the coming weeks you make an effort to get more accustomed to and comfortable with the understanding that the entire world is in the throes of utter lu-nacy. Once you are at peace with that, I hope you will commit

yourself to the sacred kind of lunacy—the kind that bestows wild blessings and perpe-trates unreasonable beauty and cultivates the healing power of outlandish pleasure.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20) It won't be enough to simply maintain your current levels of strength and clarity in the com-ing weeks. To stay healthy, to keep up with the rapidly evolving trends swirling in and around you, you will have to actively push to get stronger, clearer and smarter. No pressure, right? Don't worry, the universe will be conspiring to help you accomplish it all. To trigger the boost you'll need, imagine that you have a reservoir of blue liquid lightning in the place between your heart and gut. Picture yourself drawing ju-diciously from that high-octane fuel as you need it, bringing it first to your heart and then to your brain. V

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Lately, I've been thinking a lot about nudity. More specifically, why we have such a strong reaction to it in our culture. Recently, the US 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Federal Communications Commission was in the wrong when it fined CBS half a million dollars after Janet Jackson showed her nipple for less than a second during the Superbowl half-time show in 2004.

Nipplegate, as it soon became known, has to be the best example of North American culture's obses-sion with nudity. This split second flash of female breast became the eye of a huge storm that raged for weeks, spawning countless TV and newspaper stories and making the term "wardrobe malfunction" a per-manent part of our lexicon. Almost eight years later, it's still making the news.

I was happy to hear about the rul-ing, thinking that this was proof that a glimpse of nipple is no big deal, but that's actually not the case. The 3rd Circuit Court didn't even touch the nipple. It ruled that the FCC had a policy of allowing "fleeting" indecency (ie things that happen on live shows) and only changed that policy after the Superbowl inci-dent. According to the court, it was unfair of them to fine CBS under a policy that did not exist at the time of the broadcast. The court didn't challenge the policy, just the right to enforce it at that time. So that policy, a direct reaction to the Su-perbowl incident, remains in place with the result that now, almost every live broadcast coming out of the US has a five-second delay so it can edit out every curse word and

every tiny, even accidental, glimpse of bare breast or butt.

As I write this, I am working at the Taboo Naughty but Nice Show

in Calgary. Taboo is one of the few public venues in Alberta where sex is talked about openly and

positively. Yet even at this big sex expo, nudity is strictly

forbidden. It is made very clear to

each exhibitor and entertainer that everyone must, at the very least, wear g-strings and pasties. You can be mostly naked, but not all naked.

Contrast this with the Venus sex expo that I recently attended in Berlin. Full nudity was the norm. Models and entertainers were not only fully naked, they were often engaging in various sex acts on stage in front of the audience. Nu-dity is commonplace in Germany. Women often sunbathe naked and it's not at all unusual to see fully naked people in ads on billboards and on TV.

Why such a dramatic difference? There is no magical thing about a naked person that causes someone to feel or act in a certain way. If nudity itself caused us to be filled with lascivious desire and to lose all control, the Venus Expo should have been a complete free-for-all. It wasn't. It was obvious that ev-eryone there was titillated by what they were seeing, that's why they were there, but I never saw anyone getting out of control and hurting

performers or anyone in the crowd. The difference is in how we perceive nudity and what it symbolizes.

When nudity is present all the time, it becomes normal and unremark-able. It's when things are hidden that they become intriguing. Every 12-year-old boy who finds it more excit-ing to sit through Fashion Television in the hopes of a fleeting glimpse of boob than to surf the web for porn

knows what I'm talking about. It's a bizarre twist of human nature that we always want what we can't have. So did the furor over nipplegate backfire? If it's that which we can't have which is the most desirable, stepping up attempts to limit our ex-posure might only serve to make to more enticing. V

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I'm 21 years old and in a monogamous relationship. I lost my virginity to my boyfriend, and it was a really great experience. I was drawn to BDSM even before I began having sex, and he's been happily fulfi lling my needs. However, he revealed fairly early on that he also enjoys being submissive during sex. I asked him to explain what sort of dominance he was looking for, but he said he'd rather show me. Recently he tried to steer a sex ses-sion in that direction—me dominating him—but I felt nervous and self-conscious. I felt like I was failing a pop quiz. How do I become more comfortable with being a dom? Any tips for fi rst-time doms? Or am I just not cut out for this?NOT QUITE A DOM

There are a lot of skilled, confi dent BDSM tops out there—people who are exclusively dominant or switch—who got into it for the same reason you've started to explore your domi-nant side, NQAD: to please a submis-sive and/or switch partner.

But "show me" is not how a couple incorporates BDSM into their sex life. Maybe he's having a hard time articulating his desires because he's shy, or maybe he's insecure, or may-be he mistakenly believes that sex—even logistically complicated sex—should just "happen naturally."

So here's my first tip: force him to talk about what sort of BDSM or D/s play he's interested in. A lot can be assumed during a strictly vanilla sexual encounter—far too much is assumed, far too often—but what goes on during a sexual encounter involving BDSM has to be specifi-cally and explicitly negotiated. If

he's too shy to have a face-to-face conversation about his kinks, do it over email. If he doesn't feel com-fortable sending emails (they live forever on a server, they can be for-warded), tell him to you write you a letter, read it in his presence, then tear it up.

Second tip: the less a newbie dom has to fake during BDSM sex,

NQAD, the less daunting the role feels. Instead of pretending that you're a menacing and experi-

enced dom, incorporate what's really going on—

your boyfriend is so submissive that he's submitting to his submis-sive girlfriend, and how perverted is that?—into your play and dirty talk. Then your unfamiliarity with the dom role becomes something you're bringing to the scene, NQAD, not something that's causing you to fail at it.

Third tip: a blindfold is an inex-perienced dom's best friend. Not ready to visit your local BDSM sex shoppe? An ACE bandage will do the trick. You'll feel much less self-con-scious if he can't see you fumbling with rope, suppressing a nervous giggle, or searching high and low for a mislaid key to the handcu� s.

I recently made friends with a guy who is in his fi rst sexual relationship. He comes to me, his best male buddy, with questions, and I try to make sure he's informed and being safe. But he's asked me a question about oral sex that I don't know how to an-swer. What is a man supposed to do when he's about to ejaculate during oral sex? I feel like there should be a polite version of "Where do you want it?" that a guy can say to a woman,

but I'll be damned if I can think of it.SEXUAL ADVICE XACTLY OUR NEED

When your friend is getting close—when he's approaching "orgasmic inevitability," as the sex research-ers call it—he should say, "I'm get-ting close." (Duh, right?) And just as he's passing the point of orgasmic inevitability—his mother kicking down the bedroom door and leading a SWAT team into the room couldn't keep him from ejaculating—he

should say, "I'm coming."At that moment, the blowjob be-

stower—your friend's new GF, in this case—can remove the dick from her mouth and point it at her tits or over her shoulder or at his mother. Or she can leave it in her mouth, let him come, and then decide if she wants to spit or swallow. She's the decider.

I'm a 24-year-old straight girl, and vaginal sex does nothing for me. I've never been molested and I don't take pills. I feel sexual pleasure in other parts of my body and experience clitoral orgasms, but as far as get-ting fucked by a dick goes, it's about as interesting as a fi nger in a fi st. Through googling, I've found oth-ers with this issue, and the general response to us seems to be that it's a surmountable mental problem—which is vague and unhelpful.

So I'm asking for the opposite. Is there scientifi c research about this? Is there hope? Or do I just have to

learn to deal? It is lonely and de-pressing to experience the gold stan-dard that is vaginal sex as a kind of animate masturbatory aid. Also, at what point do I tell my partners I have this malfunction?WRONG TYPE FREAK

"I'd recommend that she spend some time exploring her vagina, trying dif-ferent positions, experimenting with placing pressure on the posterior and anterior walls of her vagina, and

with friction on her cervix," says Mer-edith Chivers, an assistant professor of psychology, a clinical psychologist and a sexuality researcher at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario. "The best position to do all this is with her on top, controlling the speed, depth and trajectory—for lack of a better word—of the thrusts, and pairing this with clitoral stimulation."

If you decide to give vaginal inter-course another shot, Chivers also recommends that you warm up with lots of oral sex, toys, masturbation and the other stu� you enjoy. That way you'll be "engorged, erect and lubricated, and subjectively turned on" before penetration.

Chivers also wonders if you've dis-covered your G-spot. "If she hasn't found her G-spot, fi nding it might be a watershed moment," says Chivers. "For some women, G-spot stim is as-sociated with experiencing intense 'vaginal' orgasms and ejaculating." Finding the G-spot can be tricky,

Chivers adds, and it's best to at-tempt it when you're very aroused. "Stimulate the anterior wall of the vagina (side nearest the belly but-ton) about fi ve centimeters in," says Chivers, by using a "come here" mo-tion with the index fi nger.

And if you try all of that—or if you've already tried that—and it doesn't work?

"Perhaps it simply is the case that for her, like a substantial minority of women, vaginal penetration is not all that fulfi lling," says Chivers. "If so, I would strongly recommend that she reinterpret her lack of inter-est in vaginal sex as a preference—one that is not uncommon—and not a malfunction."

"As for telling her partners," says Chivers, "I suppose it depends on the nature of the relationship and whether or not she's willing to be GGG and have vaginal sex to satisfy her partner, even though this may not be her fi rst choice on the menu."

In other words, WTF, if penetration doesn't cause you emotional or phys-ical distress—if it's something you can take or leave—tell a new partner early on about your strong preference for other forms of sex. Then indulge the dude in vaginal intercourse when you're up for it, or he's desperate for it, while incorporating lots of clitoral stimulation during the act.

Meredith Chivers tweets on sex and gender research, sociopolitical issues relating to sexual and gender minori-ties, and psych research in general. Follow Chivers—and learn from her—on Twitter @QSagelab. (And you can follow me at @fakedansavage.) V

Find the Savage Lovecast(my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage.

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On a recent trip to Europe, I spent a week in Venice at the 54th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Of course, my favourite pieces were the humble ones that I discovered in every-day places.

While exploring a narrow street, a glimpse of colour caught my eye and my curiosity drew me through the doorway and into an open courtyard. This site specific installation was created by one of the artists representing Bangladesh in the country's first ever exhibition at the Venice Biennial. The country didn't have a permanent pavilion of museum quality, as most of the other countries do—its art was housed in an abandoned residence turned gallery, making the ex-perience feel almost like trespassing.

That is the beauty of the unexpect-ed. The element of surprise gives the viewer the thrill of discovery that is lacking in most of the art that hangs lifeless in museums, divorced from the energy that created it. V

Chelsea Boos is a multidisciplinary visual artist and flâneur. Back Words is a discussion of her dérives and a photographic diary of the local visual culture.

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