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Vuepoint Dyer Straight ZeitGeist Bob the Angry Flower

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FILM // 16 16 DVD Detective

MUSIC // 41/ 44 Enter Sandor 49 Music Notes 50 New Sounds 51 Old Sounds 51 Quickspins

The Outsiders: folk and metal thrive on the music fringes

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BACK // 52 52 Free Will Astrology 54 Queermonton 55 Alt.Sex.Column

EVENTS LISTINGS 14 Arts 39 Film 42 Music 53 Events

Cirque du Soleil brings Alegría to town

I Am Love is a rich, ravishing romance

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EDITORIAL

Vuepoint Stumbling to truth samantha power

// samantha@vueweekly.com

hile claiming an increase in unreported crime this week, Stockwell Day provided Canadians with a sound bite not only proving the hypocrisy of doing away with the long-form census, but inadvertently calling attention to a serious, marginalized issue—unreported sexual assault and hate crime. As Day stumbled through his defense of an increase in unreported crime, he could not seem to hit on the very real issue of unreported sexual assault and hate crimes existing in the homes and personal lives of the very populations Conservative budget cuts will directly impact. Sexual abuse and violence is estimated to go unreported up to 90 percent of the time according to a Statistics Canada study. Sexual abuse often happens in the home, 83 percent of the time against women and more likely by someone they know. So it is hard to see how Day's defense of the Conservative's dedicated budget increase of 27 percent toward prisons over the next two years will have any effect on women affected by violence. At the

same time, the closure and removal of women's advocacy groups across Canada will dramatically impact women's ability to escape this abuse. Womanspace in Lethbridge, one of the groups axed this past budget session, made the argument that the financial planning it provided women gave them the skills and knowledge to become independent and one could then presume, in an abusive situation, get out of the household doing them damage. Similarly, as part of its economic stimulus plan this week, the Native Womens Association will be advocating for the Canadian government to dedicate resources to bring down the over 13 percent unemployment rate suffered by aboriginal women and who are three times as likely than nonaboriginal women to suffer abuse in the home. Considering Day's sudden and emphatic concern over unreported crime, NWAC and the Status of Women Canada should soon look forward to his support for greater funding for economic programs, education and culturally directed child welfare programs to empower women to become independent and move away from violence. V

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RETRACTION Vue Weekly apologizes for inaccurate details reported in the article "Don't rock the buffalo" (June 10 - June 16, 2010). The five men integral in establishing the park were not "Fort Saskatchewanites," as stated, but from the local area including Lamont County. The suggestion the story gives of recent 4x4 incursion in the park is inaccurate; in fact, off-roading is illegal in all national parks. And although all animals roam freely within park boundaries, it is extremely rare that a camper might witness "the cycle of life" within 10 feet of their tent. For safety reasons, the park discourages wildlife from frequenting camping areas. Finally, the $5.80 rate quoted for camping at Sandy Beach is actually the group campsite, per person rate. The rate for individual sites is $25.50. For current rates and bookings, check pccamping.ca. For more information about the park itself, visit pc.gc.ca/elkisland. V

Letters

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PODCAST >> Citizen journalism and the municipal election

I hope we get people from various neighbourhoods talking and writing about things important to a pocket of a neighbourhood that will be really important.

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COMMENT >> CRTC

COMMENT >> LATIN AMERICA

Public defender

Wars of distraction

Despite reputation, CRTC occassionally stands up for the public I recently found my way into a media and zations. This is a huge win. As Canadians technology industry conference where I increasingly connect to the internet using "accidentally" bumped into the chair mobile devices, it's impossible to overof the CRTC, Konrad von Finckstate the importance of this ruling enstein. Surprisingly our confor ensuring we have access to versation couldn't have been the open Internet. more different from the exSecondly, on June 15, media a media.c giant Quebecor announced periences I've had at CRTC c ti ra c demo hearings, where commission- steve@ the launch of a 24-hour rightSteve ers bear down on you with wing news channel modeled afn o Anders condescending glares, like feuter the Fox News network in the dal lords. Our interaction conveyed US. Teneycke is now leading this to me that this man knows what the CRTC Canadian right-wing news network, to be is: a politically contested space. called Sun TV. Many media commentators, myself inRather than accepting the need to comcluded, have been critical of the CRTC pete on a level playing field like Al Jazeera over the years. At times they seem to see English and other broadcasters do, Quethemselves as a mediator between indusbecor applied to the CRTC for a coveted tries rather than a public watchdog. When Category 1 License, meaning cable opthey do make a decision that incorporates erators across Canada would be forced to the public interest they often do so with a carry this Fox-style channel, which would conflicted and weak-willed approach. amount to a subsidy of millions, maybe If the CRTC's weak nod to the public even tens of millions, of dollars. interest doesn't inspire confidence in the Despite the involvement of a key Conserinstitution, two very recent rulings should. vative operative, and the political pressure On June 30 the CRTC extended its Trafthat inevitably comes with that, it appears fic Management (Net Neutrality) rules the CRTC is listening to the public interest to mobile wireless data services. This rulcommunity. In July the CRTC sent a letter ing was made in response to requests by to Quebecor denying them Category 1 carOpenMedia.ca through its partner The Cariage until at least October 2011. nadian Internet Policy and Public Interest When I bumped into another not so Clinic (CIPPIC), two public interest organifriendly CRTC commissioner recently

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he quipped that the CRTC makes its rulings and the government overrules them if they don't like them. "That's how it works," he said. This was an interesting and unsought admission from what is supposed to be an independent regulatory commissioner, that he accepts the government's ability to undercut the authority of the expert body that is intended to regulate our media. The CRTC recognizes its own limitations within a highly contested space, and feels political pressure from the Conservative government, which is very cozy with big media and big telecom companies. These companies also bombard the CRTC with their own arguments and narratives. Commissioners attend their conferences, the firms have a small army of lobbyists and indeed there is a revolving door between the CRTC and industry that means many decision-makers come from the industry they are supposed to regulate. But recent rulings suggest that the CRTC can do the right thing when faced with public pressure. If the public is engaged en masse, the CRTC can be transformed into the public institution it is supposed to be. V Steve Anderson is the national coordinator of OpenMedia.ca.

Chavez champions war with Colombia

On July 22, President Alvaro Uribe of bring "a hundred years of tears," but he Colombia accused Venezuela of allowing seems willing to risk it. left-wing Colombian rebels to have bases Uribe's motive is fairly transparent. His on the Venezuelan side of the 2000 km successor, Juan Manuel Santos, elected border between the two countries. Venin May, is also a conservative politician, ezuela's president, Hugo Chavez, replied but he is widely seen as much more immediately by giving all Colombian open than Uribe to a reconciliation diplomats 72 hours to leave the with Venezuela. As Brazil's Presicountry, moving troops to the dent Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva border, and warning that the put it, “(Santos) has given sigUS and Colombia are plannals that he wants to build ning to invade Venezuela. .com peace. Everything was going ly k e e w e@vue Both men are being thorwell until Uribe made this gwynn e y oughly disingenuous. Vendenunciation.” w G nn ezuela at least turns a blind Very well, but then why did Dyer eye to the dozens of camps that Hugo Chavez fall for it? He is surFARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces rounded by yes men, but surely there of Colombia) maintains in Western Venmust be somebody left in his entourage ezuela near the Colombian border, if it who would point out to him that Uribe's does not actively supply and support last-minute accusations against Venezuethem. But why did Uribe wait until the la are spoiling tactics intended to underlast month of his eight years in office to mine Santos' forthcoming peace initiabring this up? tive. So why didn't Chavez just maintain Chavez's behaviour is equally perverse. a dignified silence and wait until August He detects an impending attack and puts 7, when Uribe leaves power and Santos the Venezuelan armed forces on "maxitakes over? mum alert" at least once a year, last Partly because Chavez is constituyear he even threatened to invade Hontionally incapable of maintaining a duras to reverse an alleged coup there, dignified silence, but also because he but normally it's just bluster that blows is more vulnerable politically at home away after a few days. This time, he warns that a war with Colombia would CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 >>

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News Roundup ECONOMIC FUTURE OF ABORIGINAL WOMEN

ith the economy being top priority at the annual Council of the Federation meeting this week, the Native Women's Association of Canada would like the 13 premiers to hold discussion on how aboriginal women fit into the economic picture. While the Canadian government is concentrating efforts on bringing down the unemployment rate from eight percent, the NWAC is concerned about the 13.5 percent unemployment rate for aboriginal women. NWAC believes the Council of the Federation meeting is an ideal gathering to make its arguments on behalf of aboriginal women as the solution to the poor societal and economic standing of aboriginal women is going to cross provincial boundaries and require federal support. NWAC president Jeannette Corbiere Lavell says, "The ultimate aim of the Action Plan for Aboriginal Women and the work of the Native Women’s Association of Canada are to reduce the violence and vulnerability experienced by aboriginal women and girls. The full and equal participation of aboriginal women in economic development will provide long term, sustainable economic growth and prosperity not only for families and communities but for Canada as a whole." NWAC is supportive of the Status of Women Canada's call for an economic

framework for aboriginal women. NWAC is additionally advocating for social services to assist women at risk of victimization, income and housing support to increase self-sufficiency and equal access to justice supports. NWAC argues women are the heads of families and an increase in their safety and self-sufficiency increases the family's chances at economic and societal success. Aboriginal women are twice as likely to be leading families as compared with nonaboriginal women, and are more likely to be heads of one parent families. They more often list the reason for leaving school to be because of family commitments. NWAC is thus advocating for greater social services support and culturally appropriate models of care within the child welfare system.

SEPARATE OIL AND STATE

Greenpeace protest came the same day Premier Stelmach announced his main priority at the Council of the Federation meeting would be to promote the benefits of the tar sands. Stelmach is going to be promoting the tar sands contribution to Canada's GDP and the creation of jobs in other provinces. Greenpeace's banner drop was meant to call attention to the close relationship between oil executives and government highlighting the many senior oil industry executives who work for and with government as well as numerous regulations that allow companies to self-monitor environmental issues in the tar sands.

PIPELINE

he Polaris Institute has released a corporate profile on Enbridge after the company's pipeline spilled over 20 000 litres of oil from Alberta's tar sands in a Lake Michigan tributary last week. Polaris revealed it was not an uncommon occurrence for the company, which is currently involved in a period of rapid expansion, expecting over seven billion dollars in projects to come online in the next year. Polaris reports that between 1999 and 2008 Enbridge reported 610 spills across the US and Canada which resulted in 21 million litres of hydrocar-

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bons being released into the environment. Enbridge is currently engaged in the regulatory process to build a new pipeline from the Alberta tar sands to Kitimat in BC—a project that is receiving staunch opposition from environmentalists and aboriginal groups. Earlier this month the Pembina Institute released a report stating the Kitimat pipeline has not received the critical environmental assessment of its operations that similar pipelines such as the Mackenzie Valley pipeline have received.

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK "One statistic that concerns us is the number of unreported crimes." — Stockwell Day, president of the Treasury Board

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Day of remembrance

Prison Justice Day calls attention to failures of incarceration LAURA COLLISON // LAURA@vueweekly.com

ugust 10 marks the 35th anniversary of Prison Justice Day—a day of remembrance of those who have died in prison. The first day, held in 1975, at Ontario's Millhaven prison was in memory of Edward Nalon who died of suicide in segregation on August 10, 1974. He spent over 60 days there for refusal to work. Though he had been approved for transfer from segregation the previous week, he had not been told and he had not been removed. After slashing his arm, Nalon tried to use the emergency buzzer in his cell to contact the guards, but it, along with all of the others in the unit, had been disconnected. Today prisoners and allies see PJD as an international day of remembrance and of resistance against a destructive system. Prisoners and allies refuse food, strike and take time to commemorate those who have lost their lives to prison. The Correction Service of Canada (CSC) does not recognize PJD, so prisoners who refuse work or don't attend programs can jeopardize their parole application. While conditions today have improved, there is still much to resist, including the use of segregation and treatment of

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than ever before. Venezuela is in a mess, and Chavez needs a foreign enemy fast to draw the public's attention elsewhere. It's not all Chavez's fault. This year has brought Venezuela its worst drought in a hundred years and the huge dam that supplies 73 percent of its electricity has the lowest water level ever, so rolling power cuts blackout large parts of the

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mental health isues. This was brought to harsh light in the case of Ashley Smith, who died of suicide in segregation in a New Brunswick prison in 2007. Correctional investigator Howard Sapers titled his report of Smith's case, "A Preventable Death." Smith was initially arrested as a youth on a small charge and sentenced to a small amount of time. But her mental health issues were met with punishment, extensive time in segregation, rather than treatment which steadily increased her sentence. Sapers points to CSC's response to Smith's mental health issues, use of segregation and the failure of the guards to assist her as she was dying as major factors in her death. Tragic events could be avoided if problems are addressed in a way that holds inmates accountable for their actions, but is supportive, rather than punitive, says Tracie Cheesman, who was recently released from the Edmonton Institution for Women. In order for people to achieve rehabilitation while in prison, Cheesman explains there is a need for staff to know and respond to inmates on a personal level. "If Jane doesn't show up for work three days in a row, in addition to the pay cut and reprimand, someone should be asking what's going on with her. What's causing this behaviour?"

As of 2008, 11 percent of inmates in federal prisons had previous mental health diagnosis, but 30 percent of female inmates had been previously hospitalized for psychiatric care. Long wait lists for programs means people aren't getting the treatment they want and need, explains Cheesman. Not only does this mean inmates are missing the benefits, the frustration and disappointment that can come from being denied access can lead to acting out, which can result in reprimands, including segregation. Rather than call for more programming and staffing, Cheesman says there is a need to prevent people from being incarcerated in the first place. The latest report from the International Centre for Prevention of Crime called for governments to give greater priority to prevention in public safety strategies. They point to such things as stable funding for local community organizations and programs and policies that support children and families as effective ways to prevent crime. Speaking with a woman still incarcerated and wishing to remain anonymous, she says that Prison Justice Day is more about preventing abuse. "We're not looking for sympathy, but for recognition of human beings who have died fighting for their right not to be abused." V

country daily. The devaluation of the Venezuelan currency last January was ultimately his fault, on the other hand, and that is making even his loyal supporters among the poor really ratty. The Venezuelan army is arresting shopkeepers every day for putting up their prices, but what else are they to do when imported goods cost twice as much in bolivars as they did last year?

armed forces may also be over-confident and eager to try out their new toys— Chavez has bought them $2 billion worth of Russian arms—but if it came to a real war, Venezuela would lose. The Colombian army has been in combat almost continuously against wellarmed local insurgents for the past halfcentury. It is also three times as big as the Venezuelan army, which has no combat experience whatever. And the oilfields around Maracaibo that provide most of Venezuela’s income are very close to the border, whereas all of Colombia's major cities are far to the west of it. If I were a Venezuelan general, I would be urging Hugo Chavez to do nothing that risks provoking a war with Colombia. Maybe Venezuelan generals really are saying that to him. But he doesn’t appear to be listening. V

So when Uribe made his accusation about Venezuelan support for FARC, Chavez promptly and deliberately misinterpreted it as a Colombian threat to invade Venezuela and overthrow him (allegedly with US support). The threat of war can keep people in line for years, as the Cold War amply demonstrated. It will serve Chavez's purposes admirably, so long as it doesn't slide into a real war. But it might, because the ColombianVenezuelan frontier is mostly unmarked, and there are armed bands of guerillas crossing it all the time. The Venezuelan

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

COMMENT >> INTERNET LAW

BOB THE ANGRY FLOWER

Under lockdown

Since its introduction two months ago, the DVDs. The first establishes an exception government's copyright reform package has to circumvent DVD protection to gather generated widespread debate over whether a short clip for educational purposes. The it strikes the right balance. The digital Canadian government has promoted lock provisions have been the most the benefits of C-32 to the educacontentious aspect of the bill, tion community (the bill includes with critics fearing that anytime a broad new fair dealing excepa digital lock is used, it would tion for education), yet teachm ekly.co trump virtually all other rights. ers or students engaging in the vuewe t@ is e mg Last week, the US introduced same conduct would violate l e a h Mic changes to its digital lock rules the law in Canada under C-32. Geist that leave Canada with one of The second permits documenthe most restrictive approaches in tary film makers to circumvent DVD the world. protections to gather a short clip. There is The US rules are found in the Digital Milno similar exception found in the Canadian lennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which feabill, which has led the Documentary Organitures a triennial review process that allows zation of Canada to conclude that C-32 puts the US Copyright Office and Librarian of "documentarists in an untenable situation" Congress to mitigate the danger the law since they will not be able to use as source poses to legitimate, non-infringing uses of material any content behind a digital lock. copyrighted materials by identifying new The third grants a specific exception to exceptions. anyone circumventing DVD protection to The latest review concluded last week collect clips for non-commercial videos. with the introduction of new exceptions The Canadian government has touted its that target popular consumer products "YouTube" user-generated content remix such as DVDs, smartphones and e-books. exception as an example of forward-looking The exceptions, which make it legal to cirelements in the bill that grants Canadians cumvent the locks, are narrow in scope, but the right to create remixed work for nonthey provide US consumers with far more commercial purposes under certain circumrights than those found in Bill C-32. stances. However, unlike in the US, those Three years ago, the US established a new rights are lost once the desired conspecific exception to allow consumers to tent is placed under a digital lock. legally unlock their cellphones so they Finally, the US rules also contain an excould keep their phones when switching ception for e-books designed to facilitate providers. Last week, it extended the exaccess for the sight impaired. The Canadian ception even further, granting consumers rules do not contain a similar exception. the right to "jailbreak" their phones. That Given the restrictions on distributing move allows consumers to install applicircumvention tools, the US exceptions cations of their choice without requiring are hardly a panacea. Yet when compared Apple's prior approval. to Bill C-32, they will leave Canadian conThe Canadian rules on cellphones and sumers wondering why the government digital locks pale by comparison. While the has proposed a bill with digital lock rules inclusion of an exception for unlocking a far more restrictive than those found in phone was promoted as an illustration of the US. V a pro-consumer element of C-32, there is no equivalent to the US rule for jailbreaking Michael Geist holds the Canada Research phones in Canada. Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. More noteworthy were a trio of excepHe can reached at mgeist@vueweekly.com tions involving circumventing the locks on or online at michaelgeist.ca.

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REVUE // COLOURS RESTAURANT

Good horse sense

// Chelsea Boos

A day at the ponies is a good time for getting dressed up SHARMAN HNATIUK // SHARMAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

t was a sunny Saturday afternoon when three girlfriends and I dressed up in our best vintage looks and donned our derby hats; we were off to the races. Colours Restaurant at Northlands racetrack is one of the largest restaurants in town; it is also one of the busiest. A reservation is a hot ticket at the racetrack, as Colours can fill up weeks in advance. With seating for up to 700 people, the tiered-level layout offers perfect sightlines for a full view of the racetrack. We made sure to make our grand debut half an hour before the first race. Since all of us were racing first-timers, our waitress had a gaming host named Lori stop by with some programs and give us some betting instruction. She explained how to read a program for each race and how to place a bet. As complete rookies

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to the races we were torn over choosing a horse with a fun name or a jockey with a fun jacket colour and design. After watching the first race we felt settled in enough to order drinks and appetizers. We decided on the antipasto from the features menu ($13) and the sweet potato fries ($7). The fries were, of course, a great choice, but it was the assortment of meats and cheeses that had me smiling—the chef who decided to add cheese curds got a definite smile from me. At each table is a personal television which lists the horses and updates the odds. By showing the horses in the upcoming races, we also decided to place bet on which horses we thought were pretty. Thankfully the screens and the sign in the infield showed the all important MTP—minutes to post—which updated us with how much time we had until betting closed and the horses lined up. With betting stations at the entrance

to the restaurant, the excitement of going to place a bet and running back to the table in time was contagious. Sitting in the middle of the restaurant I was able to peer down on other diners to see what they had ordered. While the steak sandwich appeared to be a popular choice, Lena and I decided on the beef souvlaki ($11) and Tawnya and Katie chose the California Club Croissant ($11) which was one of the specials of the day. Thankfully the staff know how to serve up food and drinks perfectly between races. We were so caught up in deciding on horses that when we arrived back from placing our table bets our lunch had arrived. I found the souvlaki served with rice and salad a nice, light-tasting meal perfect for a sunny afternoon. My lovely ladies across from me both enjoyed their breakfast sandwiches, especially Tawnya, who was excited to find a thick slice of back bacon amongst the filling. Between sipping margaritas, wine

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spritzers and a drink feature called a banana boat, our afternoon at Colours was more exciting than I could have imagined. With approximately 20 minutes between races we managed to fill the time with drinking/bidding/drinking/ winning/losing. I could have spent all nine races in the restaurant, but we finally bid farewell to our exclusive table and were excited to promenade outside for some sunshine and a closer look at the horses and the action on the track. I was shocked to realize how many people were out near the track. I never realized how popular the races are, and was surprised to see how full the restaurant gets on race days. While there are other food options at the racetrack, the setting at Colours definitely makes it the place to be to watch and to eat. They recommend that reservations be made two weeks in advance, but there is an option for hungry last-minute race-goers. While the races started at 1 pm that day, starting at noon staff take names for cancellations and no-shows. Those who don't arrive at Colours by the end of the first race forfeit their table to

those on the wait list. Unfortunately patrons cannot call to be added to the waitlist, you have to be there in person starting an hour before to get your name on the list. Overall I had a riot at the races. The food was tasty, but it was the atmosphere, the view, and the excitement that made our Saturday at the races a good contender for one of my best days this summer. Plus, any excuse to bust out costumes and receive nothing but compliments and smiles had us all excited to book ahead for another day for dinner and drinks. I learned a couple of things from my outing at the races. One, make sure to book early for a reservation at Colours. Two, after all of us bet wrong on the $50 000 purse in the eighth race, go with tradition and bet on a grey horse. V WED (5 PM – LAST RACE); FRI (5:30 PM – LAST RACE); SAT, SUN & HOLIDAY MON (12 PM – LAST RACE) COLOURS RESTAURANT BORDEN PARK ROAD, 780.471.3380

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Anchors away

San Francisco craft brewer lives up to expectations Anchor Porter Anchor Brewing Company, San Francisco, California $14.99 for six pack There are days when I realize I am an incredibly lucky person. I am a beer writer in the province with the best beer availability in Canada, offering an impressive array of craft brewers from Canada, the US and Europe (with a smattering of other locations). What is ly.com eweek even better is that I sometimes get adint@vu tothep vance notice that a particularly exciting Jason beer will be reaching Alberta shelves. It is Foster like finding your Christmas presents before they go under the tree. And then there are the times when I get hit completely by surprise. One such example happened recently. I was in my favourite beer store looking for some beer to audition for possible reviews. As I scanned the shelf hoping to find something to pique my curiosity I saw a brown box with very familiar handbell shaped bottles. Those distinct bottles can only mean one brewery—Anchor Brewing from San Francisco. This is the brewery that THE ALMOST STOUT >> Anchor's porter is dark single-handedly resurrected a style—steam beer (I and chocolatey // Jason Foster reviewed Anchor Steam way back in 2006—check the Vue archives). The first taste impression is a nut brown ale— I quickly realized it was Anchor Porter—the other sweet, nutty and chocolate. Then a quiet dark flagship from this important craft brewer. Where sharpness slips into the picture, which slowly transthe hell did this come from? I didn’t ponder that forms into a soft-coffee roastiness in the linger. question long, choosing instead to quickly relieve Sweetness persists until the finish. It is kind of like the shelf of the weight of one six-pack. I had my a mocha coffee. I also pick up a whisp of sourness, next review candidate. not enough to really notice, just a smidge to give Anchor Porter is considered one of the classic verthe beer a 1700s English feel. sions of a robust porter—the world’s first megaOverall it did not disappoint. It is a very well beer so named because it was adored by London-armade porter. It was a bit thinner and sharper than ea working class men, like stevedores and porters. I expected, as porters do need some body heft to It is the almost-stout beer. I have been coveting hold up the other flavours. But this is nitpicking. It Anchor’s version for years. demonstrates the robust end of the porter style So my long-anticipated sampling began. The beer with confidence. I sure am glad I went to the liquor tumbled out a deep, dark chocolate brown formstore that day. V ing a silky and rocky tan head. It smells of dark chocolate with nuts mixed in, along with a touch Jason Foster is the creator of onbeer.org, a website of light roast and the faintest hint of coffee nosedevoted to news and views on beer from the prairies tickler sharpness. and beyond.

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LIQUOR

One tequila, two tequila ... The blue agave-based drink is a summertime staple

Tequila is true summer liquor. Maybe because it's made in the scorching heat of Mexico, or maybe because it's the base of that quintessential warm weather drink, the margarita, either way, tequila is unrivalled in its ability to evoke images of white sand beaches, azure skies and turquoise waters. (OK, maybe rum comes close. Still, work with me on this.) Tequila is made by distilling m the fermented juice of the ekly.co vuewe agave, a succulent plant na- livingproof@ Mel y tive to Mexico. By law, tequila e must be made from at least 51 r P iestl percent blue agave, a species that yields the highest quality liquor; the best tequilas are 100 percent blue agave. A prototypical tequila-like liquor was made by the Aztecs prior to the arrival of the conquistadores. Known as "octli" or "pulque," this crude beverage was essentially a form of agave wine—it was made from fermented agave juice. When the Spanish arrived and colonized Mexico, they brought with them the practice of distillation. The first version of tequila was made around the middle of the 16th century, and by 1600 it was being massproduced by Don Pedro Sánchez de HEAT WAVE >> Margaritas and summer are like a horse and carriage // File Tagle, the "Father of Tequila." Our contemporary style of tequila wasn't made rest of the world, sales grew significant(In contrast, mezcal is mainly produced until the early 19th century, however; ly in the late 1990s and early 2000s. in and around the Oaxaca area.) The José María Guadalupe de Cuervo pioThe beginning of the 21st century also centuries-old distilleries and fields of neered this style, and his name lives on witnessed the rise of several "ultra-preblue agave surrounding Tequila are recas José Cuervo, the biggest-selling brand mium" tequilas, especially brands that ognized on the UNESCO World Heritage of tequila in the world. have celebrity involvement, including PaList. Tequila was first exported to the United trón (Dan Aykroyd), Cabo Wabo (Sammy A final word, about the infamous worm States in 1873 by Don Cenobio Sauza, Hagar), and Tres Rios (Vince Neil). in the bottle of tequila: it's just a marfounder of Sauza Tequila, the second bigTequila production is limited to the keting scam. Supposedly this "tradition" gest tequila brand in the world. Though Mexican state of Jalisco, in and around started when one of these worms, which it became a fairly popular liquor throughthe aptly-named city of Tequila, where out the US and, to a lesser extent, the the vast majority of blue agave grows. CONTINUED ON PAGE 11 >>

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TEQUILA STYLES There are several different styles of tequila, which differ based on their treatment after distillation: Blanco (white) Tequila is bottled immediately after distillation and is usually not aged in oak at all, giving it sharp flavours of fresh agave and making it a good base for cocktails and mixed drinks, especially margaritas. Reposado (rested) Tequila is aged in oak for a minimum

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of two months and a maximum of one year. It is pale yellow in colour and a touch mellower than blanco, but still usually best served in cocktail form. Añejo (aged) Tequila spends between one and three years aging in oak, which turns it a dark yellow and imbues it with rich flavours of caramel, butterscotch, dried fruits and coffee. These premium tequilas are best enjoyed on their own, either neat or on the rocks.

Maduro (extra-aged) Tequila is aged for a minimum of three years in oak. It is an ultra-premium style with very rich, complex, sweet flavours—and it sure ain't cheap. Oro (gold) Oro tequila is a poor man's añejo—it is blanco tequila that attempts to replicate the añejo style with the addition of colour and flavour, so it isn't nearly as complex as a true añejo. However, you can sometimes find good values in this category.

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can infest agave crops, accidentally fell into a bottle of tequila. However, this just isn't plausible—during the initial stages of tequila production the worm would have been roasted and crushed along with the agave; it seems pretty impossible that an intact worm could have fallen into a bottle during the finishing stages. I advise you to stay away from any bottles that have creepy crawlies floating inside: if they have to use invertebrates to sell the product, the tequila is probably crap— not to mention they just look gross. V

RECIPES Classic Margarita

1 1/2 oz tequila, blanco or reposado 1 oz fresh lime juice 1/2 oz Cointreau Ice Salt Lime wedge

PROVENANCE

The history of peanut butter As with many other foods, there are conflicting histories of peanut butter; who invented it and how it was produced. Africans were known to grind peanuts and herbs into stews from as early as the 15th century. The Chinese have been crushing peanuts into creamy sauces for centuries. Yet the origin of the peanut itself is not disputed. Peanuts came from South America, then found their way to Africa through Spanish explorers who conquered the southern continent. The production of peanut butter, as we know it, seems to have developed simultaneously in Australia and the United States around 1890. But even here, who developed what is hotly debated. In 1890, an unknown St Louis physician supposedly encouraged the owner of a food company, George A Bayle Jr, to process and package ground peanut paste as a nutritious protein substitute for people with poor teeth who couldn't chew meat. Around the same time, a doctor from Battle Creek, named John Harvey Kellogg, patented a process for creating a similar peanut paste as a protein source

for vegetarians. Unfortunately, his product wasn't particularly tasty, so he and his brother turned their attention to making breakfast cereals. Actually, it was an employee of Kellogg's who took the failed concept and ran with it. Joseph Lambert, made hand-operated peanut grinders to make peanut butter in 1896. Lambert ultimately created the Lambert Food Company. His company, by the way, is still making peanut butter and is the oldest company of its kind. Peanut butter is one of the most-natural products. By law, it must be at least 90 percent peanuts. They are first roasted then cleaned before being ground. Salt, and sugar are the only other ingredients. Of course, stabilizers are now added to prevent the peanut oil from separating, and preservatives are added to commercially produced and sold products. PeTE DESROCHERS

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Rim a margarita, martini or lowball glass with salt by running a lime wedge around the edge of the glass, then lightly dipping the glass in a saucer that's been lined with salt. Fill the glass with ice, then add the tequila, lime juice and Cointreau. Stir a few times until well chilled. Garnish with lime.

Tequila Sunrise

1 1/2 oz tequila, blanco 1/2 oz triple sec 4 oz orange juice 1/2 oz grenadine Slice of orange Maraschino cherry Fill a chilled highball glass with ice. Pour in the tequila, followed by the triple sec and then the orange juice. Stir. Tilt the glass and pour the grenadine quickly down the side—it should sink to the bottom of the glass and then slowly rise, making the drink look like a sunrise (hence the name). Garnish with the orange slice and maraschino cherry. V

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REVUE // HOME (IN)SECURITY / CONTROL

Neighbourhood watch

Double-header at Harcourt House feeds on fear and control ers" sentiment is turned inside out in Ziemann's worlds, and the looming fear, perpetuated by the media, of our friends and neighbors is here turned towards the mundane. Calling upon our voyeuristic intuition to peer into open windows, each of Ziemann's model houses appear like any house you would find across the prairies, with detailing down to the weathered couch on the front porch to the rubble and garbage bags strewn beneath. It is only upon our own closer inspection, our need to invade past public and into private territory, where we are satisfied with stories of kidnapping, weapons and bomb preparations, and signs of security disturbances.

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itting in her home in Regina and watching a documentary on PBS about suicide bombers, Sylvia Ziemann was shocked to witness the presence of a female bomber. Portrayed as sentimental, seeking revenge for the loss of her family and her children, the story of the female suicide bomber rocked Ziemann, who recognized that it was the form as much as the content that was disturbing her. Channeling the fear imposed on viewers by an ever-aggressive news media, Ziemann premieres Home (In) Security, her series of voyeuristic sinisterisms that date back to 2005. Included in the array of works is her initial reaction in the form of "Bomber Woman," a barbie doll figurine with Ziemann's face dressed up as a suicide bomber. The piece hangs alone, neither contextualized or politically correct, but it is the starting point for how someone far removed from international politics can begin to engage in interwoven issues and identities as filtered through a hyperbolic media. One piece in the corner shows an elderly woman, Ziemann's mother,

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS >> Home (in)Security invades private territory asleep in bed as the sky outside her window explodes with gunfire. Her mother, who grew up in the midst of the Second World War, began having nightmares of being back in Nazi Germany when the Iraq War began being televised. Another piece, "Garage," recalls news stories and childhood memories of news stories of

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young girls disappearing from nearby residential neighborhoods, only to resurface months or years later, having been living trapped and hidden beneath secret bunkers. Fairy tale-like in assemblage, with direct references to folk myths such as Little Red Riding Hood and Hansel and Gretel, the "beware of strang-

Playing off the psychology of fear in collapsing the us versus them mentality of how the media portrays good and evil, the terror is here made mundane, injected into each humdrum isolated house, and calls into question our preoccupation with homeland security and personal security as more fear mongering than actual protection. In contrast to the insecurities of control in Ziemann's main space show, Edmonton-based painter Paul Bernhardt's large-scale paintings play

up the folly of control through largescale impositions across our horizon. Taken from sketches overlooking oil derricks, airport terminals and power stations, Bernhardt finds an internal conflict playing out in three large landscapes that delve into the wretched and the beauty of these overarching mechanics and lifeblood of modern society. Building from earlier works, including his pieces currently in the Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art: Timeland (at the AGA until August 28), Bernhardt's landscapes are saturated with textures bleeding out of architectural spectres. His palette distorts what one sees into an abstraction of smells and taste, conjuring sentiments of cool aqua steels and acidic orange rusts. As a strange, yet comforting complement to each other's exhibitions, the paired viewing experience of Ziemann and Bernhardt drives home the simple fact that control and security are both decorative illusions. V Until Sat, Aug 28 Home (In)Security and Control Works by Sylvia Ziemann and Paul Bernhardt Harcourt House (3rd Floor, 10215 - 112 St)

PREVUE // ALEGRIA

Beyond the big top Cirque Du Soleil brings Alegría to town Paul Blinov // paul@vueweekly.com

armen Ruest's high heels look like a balancing act. Far from the type of thing you'd willingly pop on for a busy July day of interviews and visiting old friends at the Street Performer's Festival, they're fashionably uncomfortable-looking, strikingly tall and boosting her height by several inches. She also seems perfectly at home wearing them. Casual and unpained at the very end of her day, it's perhaps telling: Ruest has been a stiltwalker for decades, and with Cirque Du Soleil since its very beginning 26 years ago. She's now a director of creation for the company, and doubtful the sort

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of title you get by keeping your feet firmly planted on the ground. "I'm not from Montréal; I'm from a tiny city east of Montréal," she says, in a distinct Québécois accent, of her Cirque beginnings, "When I moved to Montréal, for dance classes and teaching dance, this is when I first met the first street performers of Montréal. I fell in love with these beautiful crazy free spirits. Call it what you want, but it was very special, and it became the flame of my heart. It nourished my passions." Back then, they were a tight-knit circus group called the High Heels Club, and performed in and around Montréal; Now, Cirque Du Soleil manufactures its wonders on a global scale, sending 21 different productions out into the

NOT YOUR TYPICAL CARNIES >> Cirque Du Soleil comes to town world, including the soon-to-arrivein-Edmonton production Alegría. Now a staple Cirque show, borne as

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much out of the growing pains of company growth as celebratory circus act, the show was created in the wake of technical frustrations plagu-

ing Cirque's resident show in Vegas. Alegría came as an impassioned, joyful release afterwards. "Once the creative team finished the [Vegas] show, they were going back to create a Big Top show, and they all promised to each other, 'Ah, let's do it with pleasure.' So it was a relief," Ruest explains. "The Spanish use [the term alegría] in a way for a relief. And this is how the creators were feeling; they were having too much trouble in the technique in the theatre of the Vegas show … and Alegría! Arrived like that." It's since been expanded from a Big Top show (performances happening in a huge tent, capable of holding a few thousand people), to an arenaready one. Ruest was in charge of the first of Cirque's adaptations to arenas a few years ago, and for Alegría she worked in casting and as a stiltwalking coach—she notes she's "never worked CONTINUED ON PAGE 13 >>

COMMENT >> VISUAL ART

Summer visits

Sneak peaks at artists' works in progress improve the art scene through dialogue I've written before about studio visits, making, and it was positive to see a space most particularly in the form of detailed for experiments and works in progress. reports with artists whom I was lucky enough to meet on the fly. From my first Perhaps in this instant age, where anyvisit with the great Alex Janvier to the one and everyone can self-publish their dozens that have come since, the studio thoughts, ideas and images with hardly a holds a mystery that engages with filter, the concept of intellectual kneadmy critic's side, fuels my curatoing seems out of date or simply out rial side and still enraptures of fashion. the part of me that simply But the live exchange will enjoys the simple pleasure never be replaced, and I prekly.com of looking at art. fer the face to face studio uewee my@v a In the uncharted and seemvisit. Talking about art in any y Am ingly brief history, the studio descriptive tone will never do Fung the work of art any justice, as it visit is often the undocumented exercise between an artist's worksignores the experience of the work, in-progress and that of an outside eye. but talking about an artwork with its In other disciplines, especially performaker is another experience in and of mance-related mediums such as theatre itself. There is always an ungauged and or dance, this would be the equivalent often illuminating conversation that will of a workshop, a salon or a showcase have to happen between the artist and of unfinished work for feedback and the guest, and that to me holds the kernotes. Visual art has little to no equivanel for the basest raw material of any lent of such. The artist, and if they're art work I have ever witnessed. lucky, their production team, works ofEngaging in a series of visits this sumten in isolation from outside eyes until mer that will continue on through the the day of install. The opening is thus rest of August, I have sat in many a the unveiling, with a sizable amount of well-lit studio, basement studio, living pressure attached, and I believe this is room, spare bedroom, public cafe and a fundamental crisis in the visual art kitchen table discussing the work by world—that not enough process and some of Alberta's finest as well as some feedback has occurred before the work of the province's newest artists. With gets thrown into the public eye, a public no other purpose than to simply glance that doesn't necessary want to have to inside their working studio or portfolio, play catch up with the ongoing art hisand to hear the artist speak about the torical conversation that is most gallery work from his or her own words, the and museum-level art. experience has always been worthwhile The more opportunities for visual artand memorable. Purely from a point of ists to show their works-in-progress, the discovery, it's completely fascinating to better, as communication in and around view and learn the chronology of an artthe art world can only approve. Studio ist's portfolio. Often knowing an artist by critiques appear to be a regular exercise a particular style from a recent show or when in art school, forcing students to a series of work, to get a greater sense verbally enunciate a word or two about of its formation and connection from their work, or God forbid, defend their earlier works, artists, residencies and work to questions. One translation of moments and memories in social and that has surfaced as of late: Latitude 53 pop history, creates a richer network of recently began showing a members' seties and dissonances that are unearthed, ries that lasts for a few days at a time, and inform all of our stories. V and the one I've caught so far, by Marc Seigner, appears to be quite different Amy Fung is the author of from his known body of work in printPrairieArtsters.com

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more than six months at the same job" in the company and the list of titles she has held (performer, costume designer, casting, producer) reads more like a general outline of the jobs available in the Montréal-based company than an individual's CV. Alegría was created more than a decade ago, but Ruest finds the plotline nestled in and among its acts, one about the balance of power shifting from old generations to younger ones, is as relevant today as it ever was. "At this moment [in 1994] in the world, there were a lot of changes about how the power was utilized in

society," she says. "So they wanted to talk about that in the show, the changes and power. And the word 'globalization' had just appeared. So it was important to show the changes of power, the changes …where the old ones were versus the young generation coming, and the challenge of both, and how they can relate together, and make a good changes for the future." V Wed, Aug 11 – Sat, Aug 14 (7:30 pm); Sun, Aug 15 (1 pm & 5 pm); Tue, Aug 17 – Sat, Aug 21 (7:30 pm); Sun, Aug 22 (1 pm & 5 pm) Alegría Presented by Cirque du Soleil Rexall Place, $40 – $100

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Jonas St. Micheal; looking into his rural Quebecocis and Canadian identity; until Sep 4 • The Rooftop Patio Series: Latitude 53 Board of Directors with artist Gerry Dotto; Thu, Aug 5, 5-9pm • Patio finale: with hosts Blackbyrd Myoozik and Gravity Pope and artist Elaine Wannechko; Thu, Aug 12, 5-9pm • Community Gallery: Summer Members' Series: Meet the artists each Thu at the rooftop patio; until Aug 14

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St • 780.407.7152 • Walden: A text and image installation by Michelle Lavoie • Until Aug 15

Albert • 780.460.4310 • Family Resemblance: Photographic inventories of moths and butterflies, marked with logos and branding from the corporate world of biotechnology and forestry by Clint Wilson • Aug 5-28 • Opening reception and ArtWalk: Thu, Aug 5, 6-9pm

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• 403.309.8405 • reddeermuseum.com • Alberta Wide 2010: Looking Forward: until Sep 5 • Landmarks: Until Aug 29 • From Red Deer's Attics: Clothing collection; until Oct 12 • Glass 2009: Artworks from the collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts; opening reception: Fri, Aug 6, 7-8:30pm

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Blue Chair Café • 9624-76 Ave • 780.469.8755 • Story Slam: 2nd Wed each month; no event in Aug

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ecarrot/ • Writer's circle meets every Tue, 7-9pm • Critique circle on the last Tue each month

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Charles Scheideman's book signing of his new book Policing the Fringe: The Curious Life of a Small-Town Mountie • Fri, Aug 6, 1-4pm

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780.453.9100 • Natural Selections: Royal Alberta Museum Scientists offer various views on Alberta’s biodiversity; until Oct 13 • Wildlife Photographer of the Year; until Jan 9, 2011

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Hub ON ROSS–Red Deer • 4936 Ross St, Red Deer • 403.340.4869 • Interpretations of Nature: Artworks by Waskasoo employees • Aug 6-31 • Opening reception: Fri, Aug 6, 5-7pm

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Centre, 10831 University Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • Artworks by Joan Chambers • Until Aug 27

Johnson Gallery • Southside: 7711-85 St;

Heath, Joan Healey, Fran Heath, Larraine Oberg, Terry Kehoe, Darlene Adams, Sandy Cross and Victoria, Pottery by Naboro Kubo and Victor Harrison • Ongoing Imagery: Photos by Dave Bowering of Haunting Imagery Studios • Until Aug 15

Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery (MCPAG) • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain • 780.963 9935 • The Light of the Lakeland–Colours in the Mountains: Watercolours by Patricia Coulter • Until Aug 25 • Reception: Sat, Aug 21, 7:30-8:30pm

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St Albert • 780.459.1528 • Local Lenses: Nature photographs by Dave Conlin, Al Popil, and Peter Stahl • Until Aug 27

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Stollery Gallery • Nina Haggerty, 9225-118 Ave • 780.474.7611 • You Looking at Me?: Linocut prints, self portraits by the Nina Haggerty artists • Until Aug 5

Telus World of Science • Margaret Zeidler

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Ave • 780.455.7479 • Photographs by William Anderson, Brianna Hughes and Joseph Hartman • Opening: Sat, Aug 7

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SCOTT GALLERY 10411-124 St • 780.488.3619 •

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780.460.5993 • Oil and Water: Artworks by Diane Way and Monk • Aug 5-28 • Opening reception: Thu, Aug 5, 6-9pm, artist in attendance

Star Theatre, 11211-142 St • 780.451.3344 • telusworldofscience.com/edmonton • Sultans of Science: Inventions that Transformed the World; until Sep 6 • Inventor’s Workshop: daily, 12:30-4:30pm • U2 at TWOS, Full-Dome Experience set to the music of U2; daily until Sep 6 • Tales of the Maya Skies: full-dome show in the Margaret Zeidler Star Theatre daily at 12pm, 2pm, 4pm, 6pm • IMAX Theatre: The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest (PG, not recommended for young children); opens Aug 6

780.465.6171 • johnsongallery.ca • Works by Ann Melaughlin, Joe Haire, Dave Ripley, Rochelle Colgan, Jewellery by Wendy Risdale, pottery by Noboru Kubo • Northside: 11817-80 St; 780.479.8424; Works by Audrey Pfannmuller, Dan Bagan, serigraphs by Isaac Bignall, ink drawings by Joan Barry, prints by Toti, pottery by Noboru Kubo

Deconstruct: Artworks by Evan Smibert • Opening reception: Fri, Aug 6, 6:30-8:30pm

St Anne St, St Albert • Buffalo Mountain: Four large granite sculptures by Aboriginal artist Stewart Steinhauer • Until Sep 30

wood Park, • 780.467.3038 • PictureThisGallery.com • Canada Scapes and Spaces: Artworks by Brent Heighton, Dean Mcleod, Jonn Einerssen, Murray Phillips, Bern Will Brown, Elsie Baer, Dominick Modlinski, Gregg Johnson, Jean Peters, Audrey Pfannmuller and Roger D. Arndt • Through Aug

PROFILES GALLERY–St Albert • 19 Perron St, St

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ca • Under Construction: Every Sat through the summer meet, visit and watch the artist at work • Erin Cayley; Sat, Aug 7, 10am-2pm

• FIBRE OLYMPICS: Fibre artworks by the membership of the Hand Weavers, Spinners and Dyers of Alberta (HWSDA); until Aug 28 • Open Photo 2010; Aug 12Sep 23; opening reception: Thu, Aug 12, 6-8pm

Velvet Olive Lounge–Red Deer • 4924-50 St, Red Deer • Artworks by Corinne Anderton • Opening reception: Fri, Aug 6

Buy: Book sale presented by the Edmonton Public Library with outdoor programs • Fri, Aug 13, 10am-7pm

Haven Social Club • 15120 Stony Plain Rd •

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

Stanley A. Milner Library• 7 Sir Winston

Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • Centre for Reading: From Books to Film; every Fri, 2pm • Teen Movie Scene: movie club for teens; 1st and 3rd Thu every month • Writers’ Corner: EPL’s Writer in Residence; hosts a different author each month; Last Sun of each month at 1:30pm

Stony Plain Exibition Grounds • Cowboy

Poetry Gathering featuring Ed Brown, Cowboy Celtic (band) , Dwayne Cannan, Doris Daley, Doll Sisters, Horse Crazy Cowgirl Band (music), Ed Peekeekoot (music), Tony McKeese, Hugh McLennan, Rodney Nelson, Kayla Patrick (music) and many more • Aug 13-15 • $65 (weekend pass)/$30 (Fri)/$35 (Sat)/$15 (Sun) at 780.668.5578, gate

THEATRE Alegria • Rexall Place • Presented by Cirque du Soleil

• Aug 11-22 • $40-$80 (adult)/$32-$64 (child 12 and under)/$36-$72 (military, senior/student) at cirquedusoleil. com/alegria, 780.451.8000

Dragonfly • Armoury, 10310-85 Ave • Musical docudrama about kids on the street. A Dragonfly Production in partnership with the Youth Emergency Shelter Society. Written by Rob Heath, directed by Glenn Nelson • Aug 12-2, 7:30pm • $12 available at 780.409.1910; in person at Central Box Office (TransAlta Arts Barns), tickets. fringetheatre.ca

Fringe Theatre Festival • Various venues

throughout Old Strathcona • fringetheatreadventures. ca • We'll Show You Ours: Featuring Fringe Theatre local, national and international; Kidsfringe; Outdoor artists; vendors and artisans • Aug 12-22 • $6 Program Guide available at Edmonton Safeway locations, Audreys Books, Greenwoods’ Bookshoppe, Wee Book Inn, TIX on the Square, tickets.fringetheatre.ca/

Greased • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, 2690, 8882-170 St, WEM • 780.484.2424/1.877.214.2424 • Until Aug 15

TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE • Mayfield Dinner

Theatre, 16615-109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre. ca • The story of Mitch, an accomplished journalist, and Morrie, his former college professor. Production stars Jamie Farr (MASH) • Until Aug 29

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Trailer Trash In the age of YouTube, movie trailers are more watched—and worse—than ever

Dinner for Schmucks

REVUE // I AM LOVE

Love is all

glowing centerpiece around which all are seated for a surprise announcement. The old man declares that he shall promptly retire and leave his empire under the care of not only his son but also his grandson Edoardo (Flavio Parenti)—apparently it takes two normal men to replace this titan of industry. You might presume the younger Recchi was selected to counter the elder with a modern sensibility toward business. In fact, it's dad who will soon gallop toward globalization—and immediately thereafter to the bank— while the son clings to the past and his probably idealized memories of gramps lunching daily with the sweaty labourers. As I Am Love continues, Edoardo proves to be hopelessly, even tragically, out of step with the events transpiring either openly or clandestinely around him.

I Am Love a rich, ravishing romance

COOKING WITH LOVE >> I Am Love a melodramatic throwback Josef Braun // josef@vueweekly.com

he folding Paris of Inception is impressive and all, but does it or anything else in cinemas this summer have anything on the rapturous images of spot-lit haute cuisine, lustful bodies entwined in sun-soaked idyll or the magnificent architectures of Italian cities and Tilda Swinton's face found in Luca Guadag-

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nino's I Am Love? Does it say something about the tendencies of grand spectacle in today's adult fare that the beauty, scale and ecstatic reveries of I Am Love finally feel like a bit of a beard for a story that's arguably even more ridiculous than that of Inception? Whatever the case, I'm hardly immune to this stuff, so please take my critical reservations with a grain of the finest sea salt gathered from the shores of France.

It opens in wintry Milan, where the snow is virginal and cozily all-enveloping and causes no chill. The family of an aging textiles magnate gathers for his birthday. The house is a labyrinth of luxury. As dinner is served we tour the Recchi family photos, the dusk-lit furniture, the collections of Morandis. After the meal the patriarch rises to speak, the only illumination being the hard light bouncing off the long dining table, an ominously

The other, more discreet inciting incident in I Am Love's riveting first act is the late arrival of Edoardo's new friend Antonio (Edoardo Gabbriellini), another son of money, another naïve dreamer. He shows up to drop off a little something he prepared—Antonio turns out to be an inspired chef—before slipping away again into the night. Edoardo says he fell in love with Antonio—manly, Italian, platonic love, lest you get any funny ideas—after he tried his cooking. A similar sequence unfolds for Emma (Swinton), Edoardo's beatific, hyper-organized, elegantly tailored, Russian-born mother, whose life becomes altered by Antonio's visionary prawns, bathed in warm light, fresh herbs and glistening olive oil. Food is foreplay, followed by spontaneous shoplifting, and I Am Love, charging forward not only on the legs of Guadagnino's colour-rich,

zoom-drunk, almost cubist approach to coverage, but also the heart-pounding rush of the John Adams pastiche score, whisks Emma and the rest of us away to a hidden paradise of earthly delights straight out of Lady Chatterley. High style locks into step with dizzy romance in I Am Love, and as long as Emma and Antonio's erotic frolicking remains hidden from the twin forces of judging outsiders and sober storytelling, Guadagnino's immaculate mise en scène, a glorious throwback to the heights of midcentury melodrama—especially the films of Douglas Sirk and European art cinema, especially the films of Luchino Visconti— carries us along on operatic waves of alluring symmetry that discourage consideration as to how deeply silly some of this feels. Then the third act starts and that silliness shoots up from below I Am Love's delicate crust, delivering a combo-plate of familial apocalypse and overwrought wish fulfilment. The joys of I Am Love flutter ravishingly before our senses for a solid 90 minutes or so, but the pains of I Am Love burp upward in the last 30 and continue long after you've left the theatre. Should we recklessly throw ourselves into this fatty feast even if it all feels rather flimsy in the afterglow? Of course! V Opens Fri, Aug 6 I Am Love Directed by Luca Guadagnino Written by Guadagnino, Barbara Alberti, Ivan Cortoneo, Walter Fasano Starring Tilda Swinton, Flavio Parenti, Edoardo Gabbriellini Garneau Theatre (8712 - 109 St)

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COMMENT >> DVD

In living colour

The Red Shoes and Black Narcissus see gorgeous restorations The last time I heard an audience collecbefore—I hadn't—but also for several tively gasp during a movie wasn't very kids who probably weren't especially long ago, it's just that the movie concerned with the arduous work they were watching was over 60 involved in correcting the shrinkyears old. Of course, it looked age, dirt and mould damage like new. The restoration of that had compromised the The Red Shoes (1948) by original negative—Technicolm ekly.co vuewe the UCLA Film & Television or being a three-strip process ctive@ te e d d Archive and Martin Scors- dv means you basically restore f e s Jo ese's Film Foundation has the same movie three times. Braun Nah, I think those kids sat mesbeen making the rounds since its 2009 Cannes premiere. I saw it merized before this deeply sinister, with a full house at the Cinematheque 134-minute fairy-tale-turned-backstage Ontario last summer. It's difficult to deballet melodrama about the costs of scribe the sort of rapture it aroused, not artistic devotion because it was fascinatonly for older patrons clearly familiar ing and otherworldly, beautiful and fluid, with the work, nor for younger ones who because whether they know it or not may or may not have seen The Red Shoes The Red Shoes fulfills the promise of the

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movies like very few movies do. Criterion's DVD and Blu-ray reissue of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's masterpiece delivers the fruits of this restoration, with all its depth, warmth and detail, its velvet shadows, startling hues and creamy hair, right to your home. The story is so carefully structured that home video rewards viewing it chapter-by-chapter, though you may find it hard to hit pause. As the charismatic and nefarious impresario Boris Lermontov—deliciously played by Anton Walbrook—says while synopsizing his Red Shoes ballet: "Time rushes by. Love rushes by. Life rushes by ... " The rush of The Red Shoes emerges from its stylized condensation of a life in art, of rowdy youth quickly slipping away

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in favour of discipline, of the happy busyness of collaboration, of the ephemeral triumphs of theatre, captured through the use of real dancers, most notably our heroine, Vicky—played by the utterly natural Moira Shearer—gliding through deliriously artificial, subjectively rendered choreography—Jack Cardiff's camerawork is itself balletic—and colours so vivid as to resemble a dream more than reality. Watching the restored Red Shoes you begin to sense how Cardiff's achievements with Technicolor—there really was no one better—signaled a fork in the road for how movies might look. We took the other route, I think, striving for fidelity rather than expression. At least

that's how it seems these days, when most large-scale filmmakers reluctantly embrace digital cinematography only as it approaches greater precision and crisper resolution. But things change. Time rushes by. At least the red shoes keep dancing. Powell-Pressburger's Black Narcissus (1947) has also been lovingly reissued by Criterion. Cardiff's Technicolor imagery echoes Vermeer and Caravaggio to evoke yet another tale of troubled devotion, not to art but to God. Deborah Kerr's Sister Clodagh is sent up a mountain to build a convent on top of CONTINUED ON PAGE 40 >>

REVUE // CHARLIE ST CLOUD

Dead in the clouds

the obviously bonkers guy who lives at the cemetery and is regularly seen talking to thin air. But then she goes missing on a test run of her around-the-world voyage. Oh but then she's back, and her and Charlie have a great date. Oh but then it turns out she's not back, Charlie just saw her ghost—or whatever, she doesn't actually die, but again, that dead thing is less a legitimately thought-through device than it is a chance to be maudlin at every available opportunity—and now he has to go save her. If any of that sounds in the least bit appealing, please, take up head trauma as a hobby immediately. V

Zac Efron gets his pout on in Charlie St Cloud David Berry // david@vueweekly.com

or everyone who thought M Night Shyamalan really missed out on the melodramatic, Nicholas Sparks-ian love story aspect of The Sixth Sense, there is now Charlie St Cloud. It's a movie with a lot of Zac Efron pouting, one of the most annoying "cute" little kids in recent memory, an absolutely unrestrained sense of saccharine sentimentality, some of the most overly affected names in recent cinema and some debatable necrophilia. Its target market, far as I can tell, is the type of people who leave with armfuls of stuff from the angel booth at Capital Ex, preferably those whose hobbies also include

head trauma. Charlie St Cloud opens with our hero (Efron), a world-class sailor, winning some race with his little brother, using totally rogue and unpredictable yachting moves. A little while later, he's worried about affording to pay for school—the St Cloud's are the unique single-parent family that can afford to buy and maintain a boat to support their world-class sailor of a son, and yet struggles to provide for his education, despite the fact he has a scholarship—but before we can get bogged down with much of that, he and his brother are in a car accident. Despite a brief crossover to the other side, Charlie survives, but his brother bites it. Cue life being ruined.

CHOPPY WATERS >> Efron yachts like this Unfortunately, that's not the last of the little brother: because Charlie was briefly dead—I think: they never actually explain this, because apparently talking to dead people is just one of those things that happens on the reg—he can see and

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hang out with the little dude, and ends up five years later being the caretaker at the local cemetery, meeting his brother for a game of catch every day at sunset. But then he meets this cute, world-class sailor girl who rather inexplicably likes

Now playing Charlie St Cloud Directed by Burr Steers Written by Craig Pearce, Lewis Colick Starring Zac Efron, Amanda Crew

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Schmucked it up

Dinner for Schmucks' script unaware of its at-odds themes

WHAT A SCHMUCK >> Steve Carell goes to dinner David Berry // david@vueweekly.com

hen the entire comedic premise of your movie is that making fun of idiots is funny, it qualifies as a pretty odd choice to also have a sentimental subplot about how morally horrible it is to make fun of idiots. But those are basically the two dominant themes of

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Dinner for Schmucks, thrown up there in such a smug and self-satisfied way that you have to assume writer David Guion and Michael Handelman are either too dumb or too lazy to care about their dissonance. Schmucks is essentially a Catholic experience, flip-flopping between scenes where we watch a moron do moronic things that are supposed to be funny and scenes that pile on the schmaltz and remind us how terrible we are for laughing at morons. This is embodied in Steve Carell's Barry, an impossibly over-the-top buffoon who makes dioramas out of dead mice and is pathologically incapable of reading other people, those two facts contributing most of his comedic work. But wait: most of the dead mice-oramas he makes are devoted to his ex-wife, who ran off with his IRS superior, fellow idiot and mind-reader Therman (Zach Galifianakis, who is in danger of doing the Jack Black funny-to-tired nosedive barely a year after he first came to prominence)! And he's good-natured and sweet and stuff! So despite the fact he's a caricature created for the sole purpose of getting us to laugh at him, feel sorry for him! This might be a little more palatable if the film did more showing than telling, but the only consequence to making fun of idiots in the film seems to be that you'll have to deliver a saccharine speech. Or at least that's all that hap-

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pens to Tim (Paul Rudd), our conflicted hero, who's supposed to be bringing Barry to the titular dinner to get a chance at his promotion. Dragging Barry around—which actually takes up about four-fifths of this overlong film—seems to make Tim's life more difficult, but it's all a feint: a perfect example is a business lunch that Barry ruins by dragging along one of Tim's old flames, but which is saved by the fact the Swiss executive also plays the same game. Thank god Tim stands up to them all for being such shits later, or I just wouldn't know what to think. All this would be mostly moot if Schmucks was actually funny, but the presence of some Mel Brooks-ian Yiddish in the title is a heavy clue about how tired most of the comedic premises are here. It takes a powerful script to torpedo the comedic talent on display here—besides those mentioned, Larry Wilmore, Ron Livingston, Kristen Schaal and Jemaine Clement pop up, the latter the only one who can rise above his material as a ridiculous artist parody—but Dinner for Schmucks is more than up for the task. V Now Playing Dinner for Schmucks Directed by Jay Roach Written by David Guion, Michael Handelman Starring Steve Carell, Paul Rudd

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Welcome to the 2010-2011 edition of The Season, Vue’s authoritative guide to the Arts in Edmonton. Collecting the year's listings of theatre, visual art, opera, dance, and more;

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September 2010

art GALLERIES/MUSEUMS: SEP 2010 Agnes Bugera Gallery • 12310 Jasper Ave

• 780.482.2854 • agnesbugeragallery.com • Artworks by Monica Shelton; Sep 11 - 24, 2010; opening reception: Sep 11, 2 - 4 pm, artist in attendance • Artworks by Jane Everett; Sep 25 - Oct 8, 2010; opening reception: Sep 25, 2 - 4 pm, artist in attendance

Alberta Craft Council • 10186 - 106 St •

780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Feature Gallery: For the Love of Craft: A juried ACC member exhibition; Jul 10 Sep 25, 2010 • Discovery Gallery: Aerial Landscapes: New works by Edmonton fibre artist Linda McBain Cuyler; Jul 24 - Sep 4, 2010 • Discovery Gallery: Inspired: New work inspired by a tour of South Korea in Sep 2009 by four Calgary metal artists; Linda Chow, Crys Harse, Kari Woo and Simon Wroot; Sep 11 - Oct 30, 2010

Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) • 2 Sir

Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • Reframing a Nation; until Jan 30, 2011 • Jonathan Kaiser: Celestial Bodies: Aug 15 - Oct 11, 2010 • Edward Burtynsky OIL: Sep 18, 2010 - Jan 2, 2011 • Play on Architecture! BMO World of Creativity: Ongoing • All Day Sunday: Sep 12, 12 - 4 pm; free with admission • Art for Lunch: Jonathan Kaiser: Thu, Sep 16, 12:10 - 12:50 pm; free admission • Artist Talk: Edward Burtynsky: Sat, Sep 18, 2 pm; tickets available at youraga.ca

Art in Our Park • James Ramsey Park •

780.437.7108 • Festival and Art Sale: The Riverbend Community League hosting mainstage performances and performances throughout the park, demonstrations, and an artists' showcase and sale • Sat, Sep 18, 2010, 2 - 5:30 pm

Centre d'arts visuels de l'Alberta •

9103 - 95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • Vitality: Artworks by Jane Ash Poitras (mixed media), Sébastien Guillier (photos), Pauline Ulliac (oils), guest artist Reinhard T. Blum (pastels); Aug 20 - Sep 7, 2010; opening reception: Aug 20 • Impression: Artworks by Denise Parent (photos), Sharon Rubuliak (quilts), Curtis Johnson (mixed media) Sep 10 - 21, 2010; opening reception: Sep 10 • Celebration: Artworks by Jeannine Chalifoux (pastels, watercolours), paintings by Group Les pinceaux de l'amitié, Nathalie Shewchuk-Paré, and Suzanne Gaultier; Sep 24 - Oct 12, 2010; opening reception: Sep 24

Common Sense Gallery • 10546 - 115 St

• 780.482.2685 • commonsensegallery.com • Fact and Fancy: Narrative paintings by Jessica Plattner; Sep 10 Oct 8, 2010; opening reception: Fri, Sep 10, 7pm • Spill: artists are invited to Avenue Theatre with a few pieces of work. Paint and easels are provided so that people can make art while listening to the live music. There will be a vote on the pieces at the theatre, the most popular pieces will be shown at one of the Common Sense Galleries • 2nd Sun each month

Fine Arts Building Gallery • Department of Art and Design, U of A, Rm 3-98 Fine Arts Bldg • 780.492.2081 • J.C. Heywood: A Life in Layers: Travelling exhibition from the Burnaby Art Gallery • Aug 31 Sep 25, 2010 • Opening reception: Sep 16, 7 - 10 pm (tentative)

Gallery At Milner • Stanley A. Milner Library, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383/780.496.7031 • Look Up: Oil paintings by B. Raynard • Sep 1 - 30, 2010

Haggerty Centre - Stollery Gallery • Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, 9225 - 118

Ave • 780.474.7611 • ninahaggertyart.ca • Staff Infection: Aug 10 - Sep 2, 2010 • KaleidoFestival: Repetition (Redux) Canada World Youth (Sep 23); Sep 7 - 29, 2010

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

Harris-Warke Gallery–Red Deer •

Sunworks Home and Garden Store, Ross St, Red Deer • 403.346.8937 • harriswarkegallery.com • The Burning Project: Installation by Peter Allen; Aug 16 - Sep 17, 2010; opening reception: Sep 3, 6 - 8 pm • Zygomatic Major: Paintings by Bryan Heck; Sep 27 - Oct 29, 2010; opening reception: Oct 1, 6 - 8 pm

Jeff Allen Art Gallery • Strathcona Seniors Centre, 10831 University Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • Instructors and Students Showtime: Paintings in various media, fibre art, pottery and woodwork by the instructors of Strathcona Place Senior Centre and their students • Sep 1 - 24, 2010

Latitude 53 • 10248 - 106 St • 780.423.5353 • lati-

tude53.org • ProjEx Room: Not Another Fucking Landscape: Curated by Anthony Easton, featuring landscape photography by Zachary Ayotte, Ted Kerr, Amie Rangel and Marshall Watson; Jul 30 - Sep 4, 2010; Curator's

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Talk: Anthony Easton: Sat, Jul 31, 2pm • Main Gallery: Series of photographs regarding rural Quebecois and Canadian identity by Jonas St. Micheal (Gore, Quebec); Jul 30 - Sep 4, 2010; Artist talk: by Jonas St Michel: Jul 30, 7pm (before the reception); opening reception: Jul 30, 8pm • Visualeyez: Canada's Annual Performance Art Festival: The theme for the 11th annual festival in 2010 is "Food"; Sep 15 - 21, 2010

with Gene Walz • Fri, Sep 10, 7 pm • Free • Tickets available at youraga.ca

ter Builder Mainstage Series subscription information available at citadeltheatre.com

Cinema At the Centre • Stanley A. Milner

Blacklisted: Sold Out • Theatre

Loft Gallery • The Loft, 590 Broadmoor Blvd,

Downtown Docs • Stanley A. Milner Library

Library • 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl. ca • Centre for Reading and the Arts showcases littleknown films every month in the Library Theatre. Titles to be announced

Sherwood Park • 780.922.3179 • artstrathcona.com • Operated by the artists of The Art Society of Strathcona County, artwork is changed about every eight weeks, the Gallery includes a gift shop of artist made items. Society meetings on the 2nd Tue each month at 7 pm

Theatre, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl. ca • A new series in the Library Theatre featuring documentary films from the National Film Board (NFB) and classics from Edmonton Public Library collections • Thu, Sep 23, 2010, 6:30 pm

McMullen Gallery • U of A Hospital, 8440 -

Edmonton International Film Festival • Empire City Centre 9 Cinemas, 10200 - 100

112 St • 780.407.7152 • Essence: The Language of Flowers: Paintings and photos by Allison Argy Burgess, Sharon Moore Foster and Dawn Leblanc • Aug 21 - Oct 24, 2010 • Opening reception: Aug 26, 7 - 9 pm

Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery–Stony Plain • 5411 - 51 St, Stony Plain

• 780.963.9935 • Paintings by Christine Wallewein; Aug 27 - Sep 22, 2010; opening reception: Sun, Aug 29, 2010 • Painting installation by Isabella Orzelski-Konikowski; Sep 25 - Oct 27, 2010; opening reception: Sep 26

Muttart Conservatory • 9626 - 96A St

• MuttartConservatory.ca • Evolution: Sculptures by members of The Sculptors Association of Alberta • Jul 1 - Sep 6, 2010

Naess Gallery • 10032 - 81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Installation by Edward van Vliet • Through Sep, 2010

Profiles Gallery–St Albert • 19 Perron

Provincial Archives of Alberta • 8555 Roper Rd • 780.427.1750 • culture.alberta.ca/archives • Archival Records and Climate Change Exhibit • Sep 9 Dec 18, 2010 • Opening reception: Thu, Sep 9, 7 - 9 pm

Royal Alberta Museum • 12845 - 102 Ave •

780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca • Wildlife Photographer of the Year: until Jan 9, 2011 • Alberta Arts Days 2010: Interact with local artists (Nancy Schulz, Nicole St. Jean, Jill Stanton, Amanda Priebe, Claire Uhlic and Aaron Paquette) who will be creating artworks within the museum. Guided tours on Sat and Sun of the artworks found in and around the Museum (Indoor Art Tours at 10 am and 1 pm; Outdoor Art Tours at 11:30 am and 3 pm); Sep 17 - 19, 2010

SCOTT GALLERY 10411-124 St • 780.488.3619 • scottgallery.com • Summer Salon II: Artworks by Leslie Poole, Lynn Malin, Yuriko Kitamura • Aug 14 - Sep 17, 2010

SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35 - 5 Ave,

Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • Close-Ups: Artworks by members of the Allied Arts Council; Aug 23 - Sep 4, 2010; Opening reception: Aug 28, 1 - 4 pm • Open Art Competition: Artworks by artists over 18 in Alberta; Sep 7 - 25, 2010; opening reception: Sep 10, 7 pm • Seniors Show: Artworks by artists over 55 in Alberta; Sep 27 - Oct 16, 2010; Opening reception: Oct 2, 1 - 4 pm

VAAA Gallery • 3rd fl, 10215 - 112 St • 780.421.1731 •

Hand Weavers, Spinners and Dyers of Alberta: exhibition of textile work from the provincial organization • Sep 9 Oct 9, 2010 • Opening reception: Sep 9, 7 - 9:30 pm

Comedy: Sep 2010 Comedy Factory • 3414 Gateway Blvd •

780.469.4999 • thecomedyfactory.com • Headliner: Darryl Rhoades • Sep 23 - 25, 2010

Comic Strip • WEM, Bourbon St • 780.483.5999

• thecomicstrip.ca • TJ Miller; Sep 1 - 5, 2010 • Tommy Johnagin; Sep 8 - 12, 2010 • Charlie Murphy Live!; Sep 15, 2010, 7:30 pm and 9:30 pm; tickets: $34.95 • Craig Shoemaker; Sep 16 - 19, 2010 • Steve Byrne; Sep 22 - 26, 2010 • Reno Collier; Sep 29 - 30, 2010, 8 pm; $15

Dance: Sep 2010 Pilobolus Dance • Jubilee Auditorium,

11455 - 87 Ave • 780.428.6839 • albertaballet.com • Pilobolus Dance Theatre: Alberta Ballet, with the Fluid Movement Arts Festival and the Brian Webb Dance Company • Sep 21-22, 2010 • Tickets available at Alberta Ballet box office; single tickets for select performances available at Alberta Ballet's box office

FILM: Sep 2010 Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) • 2 Sir

Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • Warner Bros Cartoon Film Night screening and talk

Ave, 3 fl, Edmonton City Centre Mall West • 780.423.0844 • edmontonfilmfest.com • More than a hundred films— hand-picked from the festival circuit and from nearly 800 submissions! Parties! Filmmakers, actors, writers, directors—all in Edmonton; Sep 25 - Oct 2, 2010 • Full Schedule and Ticketing info available Sep 7, 2010; allaccess Festival pass or a 6-Pack (6 films for the price of 5) at discounted prices during Hot August Deals

FAVA • 9722 - 102 St • Open House: Come and

celebrate Alberta Arts Days at The Film and Video Arts Society - Alberta (FAVA). Discover the place where independent film, video and media artists spring into action. Tour the facilities, see professional gear demonstrations and find out what FAVA is all about • Sat, Sep 18, 2010, 2:30 - 5:30 pm

From Books to Film • Stanley A. Milner

Library, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl. ca • Weekly showings of films adapted from books • Every Fri at 2 pm; Sep 3 - Dec 17, 2010

LITERARY: Sep 2010 Café Haven • Sherwood Park, 9 Sioux Rd •

780.417.5523 • cafehaven.ca • Story Slam in the Park: Storywriters read/perform 5 minute, original stories • Sep 14, 2010; 2nd Tue of the month; starting again in Sep 2010 • $5 (reader registration; into the hat for the Slam Off)/$5 (suggested audience contribution; pass the hat)

Haven Social Club • 15120 Stony Plain Rd

• 780.915.8869 • Edmonton Story Slam • No cover; followed by a music jam • 3rd Wed every month; Wed, Sep 15, 2010; Sign up at 7 pm; Show starts at 7:30 pm • $5 (registration from writers to support the Society) • Winner walks out with all the audience donations

Idylwylde LibrARY • 8310 - 88 Ave •

780.496.1808 • Children's Author Visit: Sheree Fitch, author of Kisses Kisses Baby-O and If I Had a Million Onions, will share her stories and poems • Wed, Sep 22, 2010, 1 pm

Stanley A. Milner Library • Centre for

Reading and the Arts - Main fl • epl.ca • Bookin' It Booktalks for Adults; Thu, Sep 23, 2010, 2:30 pm and 12:15 pm • Writers' Corner: EPL's Writer in Residence hosts a friendly and supportive gathering with a different guest author each month to answer your questions and offer advice; last Sun of each month at 1:30 pm

Storytelling Festival: Cultures Connect • Fort Edmonton Park, Whitemud Dr

and Fox Dr • talesstorytelling.com • Workshops in the morning. Storytelling throughout the park in the afternoon featuring storytellers from across Canada with guest Cindy Campbell • Sun evening (8pm) concert at Egge's Barn with Cindy Campbell and Maria Dunn; concert tickets: $15 (adv, TALES 780.932.4409)/$16 (door) • Sep 5 - 6, 2010

T.A.L.E.S. STORY CAFÉ SERIES • Rosie's Bar, 10475 - 80 Ave • 780.932.4409 • talesstorytelling.com • Season Opener: Cultures Connect: Festival Teaser: A preview of the annual T.A.L.E.S. Storytelling Festival (Sep 5 - 6t) at Fort Edmonton Park • Thu, Sep 2, 2010, 7-9 pm • Cover charge: Pay-what-you-will ($6 min)

T.A.L.E.S. MONTHLY STORYTELLING CIRCLE • Centennial Rm, Stanley Milner Library •

780.932.4409 • talesstorytelling.com • Tell stories or come to listen • 2nd Fri of the month; Sep 2010 - Jun 2011, 7 - 9 pm • Free

THEATRE: Sep 2010 An Afternoon of One-Acts • Dow

Centennial Centre's Shell Theatre - Fort Saskatchewan, 8700 - 84 St, Fort Saskatchewan • 780.992.6400 • fortsask.ca/ftsk_thingstodo/Shell_Theatre.aspx • Fort Series: Presented by the Sheeptown Players, an Alberta Arts Days Celebration Event • Sun, Sep 19, 2010, 1 pm, 2 pm, 3 pm and 4 pm • Free

Billy Bishop Goes to War • Citadel

Maclab Theatre, 9828 - 101 A Ave • 780.426.4811 • citadeltheatre.com • Written and composed by John Gray in collaboration with Eric Peterson, directed by James MacDonald, starring John Ullyatt; filled with rousing songs • Sep 18 - Oct 10, 2010 • Classic Landmarks Mas-

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Network–live at the Roxy, 10708 - 124 St • 780.453.2440 • theatrenetwork.ca • Roxy Performance Series: Featuring the original six founding members of sketch comedy troupe: Sheldon Elter, Dana Andersen, Ryan Parker, Jeff Halaby, Matt Alden and Aaron Macri • Sep 2 - 5, 2010 • Tickets available at Theatre Network's box office, 780.453.2440

DARK STAR: THE LIFE and TIMES OF ROY ORBISON • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615 -

109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Sep 7 - Nov 7, 2010 • Season ticket packages from $229

DIE-NASTY SOAP-A-THON • Varscona Theatre, 10329 - 83 Ave • 780.433.3399 • die-nasty.com • 18th annual live improvised soap opera presents 50 non-stop hours of improv comedy featuring guests from Rapid Fire Theatre, Mostly Water Theatre and The School of Night from the UK • Running continuously from Fri, Sep 10, 7 pm to Sun, Sep 12, 9 pm • Tickets and weekend passes available at the box office EURYDICE • Timms Centre, U of A Campus •

780.492.2495 • drama.ualberta.ca/studiotheatre.cfm • Studio Theatre • An imaginative re-telling of the Orpheus myth from the point of view of the young bride who dies on her wedding day, by Sarah Ruhl • Sep 23 - Oct 2, 2010 • Subscriptions start at $53 (student)/$83 (adult) at the Timms Centre for the Arts box office

sÀ la gauche de Dieu • La Cité Franco-

phone, 8627 rue Marie-Anne-Gaboury • 780.469.8400 • lunitheatre.ca • L'Uni Théâtre • By Robert Marinier • Sep 23 - 25, 30, 2010; Oct 1 - 2 2010, 8 pm; Sep 26, Oct 3, 2010, 2 pm

HEY LADIES! • Theatre Network–live at the Roxy,

10708 - 124 St • 780.453.2440 • theatrenetwork.ca • Roxy Performance Series: Starring Leona Brausen, Cathleen Rootsaert, Davina Stewart • Fri, Sep 24, 2010 • Tickets available at Theatre Network's box office, 780.453.2440

HOMELESS • Alberta Avenue, 118 Ave between 92

- 94 St • artsontheave.org • Jeremy Baumung's new oneman show; a funny, moving journey through the lives of those who society tries its best to forget. Directed by Kenneth Brown. Part of the Kaleido Family Arts Festival • Sep 10 - 12, 2010

The Importance of Being Earnest •

Dow Centennial Centre's Shell Theatre - Fort Saskatchewan, 8700 - 84 St, Fort Saskatchewan • 780.992.6400 • fortsask.ca/ftsk_thingstodo/Shell_Theatre.aspx • Fort Series: an Alberta Arts Days Celebration Event • Sep 17 18, 2010, 7:30 pm • Tickets: $15.50 (adult)/$10.50 (senior/ youth) available at 780.992.6400, TicketMaster

JAILBAIT • Varscona Theatre, 10329 - 83 Ave •

780.471.1586 • northernlighttheatre.com • Northern Light Theatre • Dark play, by Deirdre O'Connor, based on the relationship between grown men and teenage girls, directed by Trevor Schmidt • Sep 17 - 26, 2010 • Tickets: $20 (adult)/$18 (student/senior); Preview: $15 (adult/senior)/free (student); Opening Night: $25 (everyone, incl reception)

Kaleido Family Arts Festival • art-

sontheave.org • KaleidoFest.ca • Arts festival bringing art to the streets • Sep 10-12, 2010 • Free

Mamma Mia! • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455 - 87 Ave • Broadway Across Canada • Season Special Musical that combines ABBA's greatest hits with a tale of love, laughter and friendship • Sep 28 - Oct 3, 2010 • Season subscriptions include Grease and Legally Blonde the Musical, with option to purchase Mama Mia!, packages start at $106.80, available at 1.866.532.7469, BroadwayAcrossCanada.ca

Max and Ruby: Bunny Party! • Jubilee

Auditorium, 11455 - 87 Ave • Touring musical • Sat, Sep 18, 2010, 1 pm • Tickets at TicketMaster

MOSTLY WATER • Theatre Network–live at the

Roxy, 10708 - 124 St • 780.453.2440 • theatrenetwork. ca • Roxy Performance Series: Mostly Water Theatre mix live stage performance with video shorts, musical guests, games, prizes and more, producing a game/talk show unlike anything you have seen before • Sat, Sep 25, 2010 • Tickets available at Theatre Network's box office, 780.453.2440

Night at the Museum of Rock and Roll • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, 8882 - 170 St • 780.484.2424 • jubilations.ca • Aug 20 - Oct 24, 2010; seating: Wed - Sat: 6:15 - 6:40pm; Sun: 5 pm

MUSIC: Sep 2010 Accordion Extravaganza Festival

• 780.462.8345 • edmontonaccordion.com • Sep 24 - 26, 2010 • Accordion Grandstand Concert: Sep 24, 7:30 pm at Central Lions Seniors Recreation Centre, 11113 - 113 St • Sat - Sun festival events 9 - 4 pm at South East Edmonton Seniors Centre (SEESA) 9350 - 82 St • Sat Night Dance with The Cimarrons: 8 pm at SEESA • Tickets:

$15 (Accordion Grandstand Concert)/$15 (Sat Dance)/$6 (Sat/Sun Day)/free (kids 12 and under, day) available at TIX on the Square door

Arden Theatre • 5 St Anne St • 780.459.1542 •

ardentheatre.com • Season launch with Danny Michel (singer/songwriter folk-rock-country-blues-fusion) • Sep 24, 2010, 7:30 pm • Tickets on sale Aug 9, 10 am at the Arden box office

Beaumont Blues Festival • BADAS Fair

Grounds, 1 mile west of Beaumont on 50 Ave • beaumontblues.net • Featuring Amos Garrett, Boogie Patrol, Gordie Johnson, Paul Pigat, Kelly Hoppe • Youth at the Blues: Fri, Sep 3, 5 - 11 pm; $5 (free with weekend pass) • Sep 4 - 5, 2010, 1-11 pm, gates at noon • Tickets: $65 (2-day weekend pass) $35 (adult day)/$25 (senior/student day) available at Town of Beaumont office

Country Music Week • Various locations •

countrymusicedmonton.com • ccma.org • Featuring Songwriters' Café presented by SOCAN, new artist showcase, open mic night, CCMA Gala Dinner and Awards, jam session, CCMA Awards Show; Sep 8 - 12, 2010 • Winspear Centre: Hall of Honour Induction Ceremony: hosted by Jason McCoy and Michelle Wright, performances by Jaydee Bixby, Dean Brody, Hey Romeo, Carolyn Dawn Johnson and Crystal Shawanda; Fri, Sep 10, 2010; tickets: $40 available at winspearcentre.com

Dow Centennial Centre's Shell Theatre - Fort Saskatchewan • 8700 - 84 St, Fort

Saskatchewan • 780.992.6400 • fortsask.ca/ftsk_thingstodo/Shell_Theatre.aspx • Professional Series: Chilliwack • Fri, Sep 24, 2010, 8 pm • Tickets: $42.50 (adult)/$39.50 (senior/youth) available at 780.992.6400, TicketMaster

Edmonton Chante Festival 2010 •

Various locations • 780.469.4401 • edmontonchante. ab.ca • Canada's best Francophone musical acts from roots to rock. There will be concerts in a number of bars, restaurants, cafés and lounges in Old Strathcona • Sep 23 - Oct 2, 2010

Egge's Barn • Fort Edmonton Park • taless-

torytelling.com • T.A.L.E.S. Storytelling Festival Concert: With guest teller Cindy Campbell; music by Maria Dunn with some of Western Canada's finest storytellers • Sun, Sep 5, 8 pm • Tickets: $15 (TALES 780.932.4409)/$16 (door)

Festival Place 100 Festival Way, Sherwood

Park • 780.464.2852 • festivalplace.ab.ca • Wishbone Ash (pop-rock); Sep 17, 2010, 7:30 pm; tickets: $40 (table)/$36 (box)/$34 (theatre) • Marc Cohn (singer-songwriter); Sep 18, 2010, 7:30 pm; tickets: $50 (table)/$46 (box)/$40 (theatre) • Classic Albums Live Presents: The Beatles Abbey Road (pop - rock); Sep 24, 2010, 7:30 pm; tickets: $36 (table)/$34 (box)/$30 (theatre) • Hemingway Corner (pop-rock); Sep 25, 2010, 7:30 pm; tickets: $36 (table)/$34 (box)/$30 (theatre) • Tickets available at Festival Place box office

FULL MOON FOLK CLUB • St Basil's Cultural

Centre, 10819 - 71 Ave • fmfc.org • Crystal Plamondon Band • Sep 17, 2010, 7 pm (door), 8 pm (show) • Tickets: $17 (adv)/$20 (door)/$10 (child under 12, door) available at TIX on the Square

Horizon Stage • 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce Grove

• 780.962.8995 • Alberta Arts Days–U22 Concert: Calum Graham, Lyra Brown, Alanna Clarke, Lucas Chaisson; Sat, Sep 18, 2010, 7:30 pm; tickets: $20 (adult)/$15 (student/senior)/$5 eyeGO • Splash'N Boots; Sun, Sep 19, 2010, 2 pm; tickets: $15 (all ages) • The Beatlemaniacs; Thu, Sep 30, 2010, 7:30 pm; tickets: $35 (adult)/$30 (student/senior)/$5 eyeGO • Tickets available at Horizon Stage box office, TicketMaster

Jubilee Auditorium • 11455 - 87 Ave •

Crowded House, guests; Wed, Sep 1, 2010, 7:30 pm; tickets: $39.50 and $69.50 available at TicketMaster • Johnny Reid; Sep 13-16, 2010, 7:30 pm; tickets: $20, $40, $60 at all TicketMaster

Kaleido Family Arts Festival • art-

sontheave.org • KaleidoFest.ca • Arts festival bringing art to the streets • Sep 10 - 12, 2010 • Free

Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society • Pleasantview Community League, 10860 57 Ave • bluegrassnorth.com • Acoustic Bluegrass Music Jam; acoustic music circle. Slow pitch for beginners: 1st and 3rd Wed prior to regular jam • Every Wed, 6.30 pm • Tickets $2 (member)/$4 (non-member)

Northern Lights Folk Club • Queen

Alexandra Community Hall, 10425 University Ave • northernlightsfc.ca • Tracey Grammar • Fri, Sep 24, 2010 • Tickets: $18 (adv) • Season package info by T: 780.288.8111; ticket outlet info at northernlightsfc.ca

Provincial Archives of Alberta • 8555 Roper Rd • 780.427.1750 • culture.alberta.ca/archives • Arts Day Celebration: The Original Order Café: The Wheat Pool • Sat, Sep 18, 2010 • Tickets required for entry; please call 780.427.0356

Sonic Boom • Northlands Park • sonicboom-

festival.com • Alternative music festival, with Mother

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Mother, Wintersleep, Weezer, Arkells, Bad Religion, Rise Against, Tokyo Police Club and more • Sat, Sep 4, 2010, 11:30 am (Gates) • $83 at TicketMaster, unionevents.com

Stanley A. Milner Library • Centre for

Reading and the Arts, Main Fl • epl.ca • Celebrate Alberta Arts Days: The Global Voices Choir presents the music and stories of many cultures • Sun, Sep 19, 2010, 1:30 pm • Drop-in

Storytelling Festival - Concert •

Egge's Barn, Fort Edmonton Park, Whitemud Dr and Fox Dr • talesstorytelling.com • Maria Dunn with storyteller Cindy Campbell • Sep 5, 2010, 8 pm • Tickets: $15 (adv, TALES 780.932.4409)/$16 (door)

Winspear Centre • Sir Winston Churchill Sq•

winspearcentre.com • Los Lobos, John Hiatt and The Combo • Sep 1, 2010, 7:30 pm; tickets: $59.75 available at Winspear box office • Carlton Showband; Sep 20, 2010, 7 pm; tickets: $50.50 available at Winspear box office

CLASSICAL MUSIC: Sep 2010 Cosmopolitan Music Society of Edmonton • Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre,

8426 Gateway Blvd • Chop Builder Bootcamp with Raymond Baril, Dr. Anglea Schroeder and Garry Silverman • Sat, Sep 25, 2010, 9 am - 6 pm • $40 (Pre-register by Sep 17); E: generalmanager@cosmopolitanmusic.org

Edmonton Raga-Mala Music Society • Royal Alberta Museum, 12845 102 Ave

• 780.445.7771 • edmontonragamala.ab.ca • Mysore Manjunath (violin), Ronu Majumdar (bansuri), Arjun Kumar (mridangam), Ramdas Palsule (tabla) • Sep 11, 2010, 7 pm

Edmonton Symphony Orchestra– Symphony Under the Sky • Heritage

Amphitheatre, Hawrelak Park • 780.428.1414 • EdmontonSymphony.com • Bach, Beethoven and Brahms on Sep 3, 2010, 7 pm; $29 (adult reserved)/$20 (adult, grass adv)/$25 (adult, grass day-of )/$13 (child reserved)/ free (child grass) • The Celtic Spirit: Sep 4, 2010, 2 pm • John Williams' Greatest Hits: Sep 4, 2010, 7 pm; $29 (adult reserved)/$20 (adult, grass adv)/$25 (adult, grass day-of )/$13 (child reserved)/free (child grass) • Family Matinee: Sep 5, 2010, 2 pm; $12 (adult)/free (child) • The Piano Men: Sep 5, 2010, 7 pm; $35 (adult reserved)/$25 (adult, grass adv)/$30 (adult, grass day-of )/$15 (child reserved)/free (child grass) • Great Canadian Song Book: Sep 6, 2010, 2 pm; $29 (adult reserved)/$20 (adult, grass adv)/$25 (adult, grass day-of )/$13 (child reserved)/ free (child grass)

Edmonton Symphony Orchestra

• Winspear Centre, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.428.1414 • edmontonsymphony.com • Midweek Classics: Jens Lindemann plays Bach and Vivaldi; Sep 15, 2010, 7:30 pm • Robbins Pops: Jens Lindemann at the Pops; Sep 17 - 18, 2010, 8 pm • Saturday Masters: Mozart's Turkish Concerto: Corey Cerovsek (violin), Bill Eddins (conductor); Sep 25, 2010, 8 pm • Robbins Lighter Classics: Flamenco and other Spanish Delights; Sep 30, 2010, 8 pm • Tickets available at Winspear Centre box office

Jubilee Auditorium • 11455 - 87 Ave • Beijing

Opera: 2010 Beijing Opera Festival • Traditional Beijing Opera: Sep 10, 2010, 7:30 pm • Beijing Opera with Symphony Orchestra: Sep 11, 2010, 7:30 pm • Tickets available at TicketMaster

Stanley A. Milner Library • Main Fl, 7 Sir

Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • Celebrate Alberta Arts Days: The Global Voices Choir • Sun, Sep 19, 2010, 1:30 - 2:30 pm • Drop-in

SUNDAYS @ THREE • Winspear Centre, Sir

Winston Churchill Sq • RCCO, Edmonton Centre Sundays @ Three Organ Recital Series: French organist Frederic Champion • Sep 26, 2010, 3 pm • Tickets: $25 available at the Winspear box office • Season subscriptions: $50 available at TIX on the Square; E: rcco@rcco. edmonton.ab.ca for information

October 2010 October 2010

art GALLERIES/MUSEUMS: OCT 2010 A. J. Ottewell Art Centre–Sherwood Park • 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • 780.922.3179 • artstrathcona.com • Fall Show and Sale: Works by members of the Art Society of Strathcona County • Oct 22 - 24, 2010 • Fri night reception; artists in attendance

Agnes Bugera Gallery • 12310 Jasper Ave

• 780.482.2854 • agnesbugeragallery.com • Artworks by Jane Everett; Sep 25 - Oct 8, 2010; opening reception: Sep 25, 2 - 4 pm, artist in attendance • Artworks by Alain Attar; Oct 9 - 22, 2010; opening reception: Oct 9, 2 - 4 pm, artist in attendance • Artworks by Darrell Underschultz; Oct 23 - Nov 12, 2010; opening reception: Oct 23, 2 - 4 pm, artist in attendance

Alberta Craft Council • 10186 - 106 St •

780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Feature Gallery: Prairie

Excellence: A juried touring exhibition of fine craft from Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba; Oct 2 - Dec 18, 2010 • Discovery Gallery: Inspired: New work inspired by a tour of South Korea in Sep 2009 by four Calgary metal artists; Linda Chow, Crys Harse, Kari Woo and Simon Wroot; Sep 11 - Oct 30, 2010

Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) • 2 Sir

Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • Reframing a Nation; until Jan 30, 2011 • Jonathan Kaiser: Celestial Bodies: Aug 15 - Oct 11, 2010 • Edward Burtynsky OIL: Sep 18, 2010 - Jan 2, 2011 • Henri Matisse: A Celebration of Light and Line: Oct 30, 2010 - Feb 13, 2011 • Laura St. Pierre: Urban Vernacular: Oct 29, 2010 - Jan 16, 2011 • All Day Sunday: Oct 10, 12 - 4 pm, 2010; free with admission • Final day for The Art of Warner Bros Cartoons and MC Escher: The Mathemagician; Mon, Oct 11, 2010 • Art for Lunch: Oct 21, 12:10 - 12:50 pm; free admission

Centre d'arts visuels de l'Alberta

• 9103 - 95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • Celebration: Artworks by Jeannine Chalifoux (pastels, watercolours), paintings by Group Les pinceaux de l'amitié, Nathalie ShewchukParé, and Suzanne Gaultier; Sep 24 - Oct 12, 2010; opening reception: Sep 24 • Women in Art: Artworks by Béatrice Lefevre (clay), Ute Rieder (watercolours, acrylics), Claude Boocock (acrylic), and Louise Piquette (watercolours); Oct 15 - 27, 2010; opening reception: Oct 15 • Symbiosis: Artworks by George and Judy Kubac (watercolours, mixed media), Sylvie Pinard (paintings), Doris Darbasie (mixed media, watercolours), Jacques Rioux (photos), Françoise Fiset (fibre art); Oct 29 - Nov 9, 2010; opening reception: Oct 29

Common Sense Gallery • 10546 - 115 St

Edmonton Design Exposed • Various

locations through Edmonton • madeinedmonton. org • How a Decade is M.A.D.E.: A 10-day celebration of M.A.D.E.'s 10th year of art and design exposure in Edmonton featuring lectures, film screenings and exhibitions • Oct 14 - 23, 2010

Fine Arts Building Gallery • Department of Art and Design, U of A, Rm 3-98 Fine Arts Bldg • 780.492.2081 • Artworks by Ben Williamson (Master of Fine Arts in Painting) • Wind From The East: Contemporary prints from China • Oct 5 - 30, 2010 • Opening reception: Fri, Oct 8, 7 - 10 pm

Gallery At Milner • Stanley A. Milner Library, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383/780.496.7031 • I Human: Artist's group exhibit • Oct 1 - 29, 2010

Haggerty Centre - Stollery Gallery • Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, 9225 - 118 Ave • 780.474.7611 • ninahaggertyart.ca • Halloween Show: Artworks by Kib Sreng and the Nina Haggerty Centre artists collective • Oct 5 - Nov 1, 2010

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

780.426.4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca • Main Space: 12 Point Buck: Leila Armstrong and Chai Duncan, a collaborative duo explore representations of nature • Front Room: Artworks by local artist Jenny Keith-Hughes; Sep 9 - Oct 9, 2010; opening reception: Sep 9, 7 - 10 pm • Main Space: Artist in Residence Exhibition: Artworks by local artist Neil McClelland • Front Room: Paintings by local artist Duncan Johnson; Oct 14 - Nov 13, 2010; opening reception: Oct 14, 7 - 10 pm

Harris-Warke Gallery–Red Deer •

Sunworks Home and Garden Store, Ross St, Red Deer • 403.346.8937 • harriswarkegallery.com • Zygomatic Major: Paintings by Bryan Heck; Sep 27 - Oct 29, 2010; opening reception: Oct 1, 6 - 8 pm

Jeff Allen Art Gallery • Strathcona Seniors Centre, 10831 University Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • Paintings by Jean Roth • Oct 5 - 29, 2010 • Opening reception: Oct 6, 6:30 - 8:30 pm

Latitude 53 • 10248 - 106 St • 780.423.5353 •

latitude53.org • Main Gallery: Works by Kristi Malikoff • Oct 1 - Nov 13, 2010

McMullen Gallery • U of A Hospital, 8440 -

112 St • 780.407.7152 • Essence: The Language of Flowers: Paintings and photos by Allison Argy Burgess, Sharon Moore Foster, and Dawn Leblanc; Aug 21 - Oct 24, 2010; opening reception: Aug 26, 7 - 9pm • The Crooked Trees of Alticane: Paintings by Ken Dalgarno; Oct 30 - Dec 24, 2010; opening reception: Nov 4, 7 - 9 pm

Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery–Stony Plain • 5411 - 51 St, Stony Plain • 780.963.9935 • Painting installation by Isabella OrzelskiKonikowski; Sep 25 - Oct 27, 2010; opening reception: Sep 26 • Paintings by Geneva Moore; Oct 29 - Nov 30, 2010; opening reception: Nov 7

Naess Gallery • 10032 - 81 Ave • 780.432.0240

• paintspot.ca • Impressions in Wax: Wimmin in Wax members Kim Blair, Jane Montgomery, Catherine, Izabella Orzelski-Konikowski, Monica Dery, Diane Plasse', Sirkka Kadatz, Aurelia Lucy Saunders, Lorna Faye Kemp, Catheryn Seiifrit, Glenda Hope Lewisch • Through Oct, 2010 • Opening reception: Oct 7, 5 - 7 pm

Profiles Gallery–St Albert • 19 Perron

St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artsheritage.ca • Guilded: Nine Guild Members, with St Albert Place Visual Arts Council (SAPVAC) annual juried community exhibition, highlighting the art of selected guild artists (Guilds within SAPVAC: Potters, Painters, Quilters, Paper Arts and Floral Arts Society); Sep 2 - Oct 2, 2010 • Fun House: Cartoons, photography, paintings and film by Jack Jensen, George Tosczak, Ross Lynem, Paul Murasko & TBA (film artist); Oct 7 - 30, 2010

Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) • 2 Sir

Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • Film: Manufactured Landscapes; Fri, Oct 1, 7 pm; free; tickets at youraga.ca • Film: Petropolis; Fri, Oct 15, 7 pm; free; tickets at youraga.ca

Cinema At the Centre • Stanley A. Milner

Library • 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl. ca • Centre for Reading and the Arts showcases littleknown films every month in the Library Theatre. Titles to be announced

Downtown Docs • Stanley A. Milner Library

Theatre, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • A new series featuring documentary films from the National Film Board (NFB) and classics from Edmonton Public Library collections • Thu, Oct 28, 2010, 6:30 pm

Edmonton International Film Festival • Empire City Centre 9 Cinemas, 10200 - 100

Ave • 780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca • Wildlife Photographer of the Year: until Jan 9, 2011 • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Larger than life pop-up book exhibition; Oct 9, 2010 - Jan 2, 2011

Ave, 3 Fl, Edmonton City Centre Mall West • 780.423.0844 • edmontonfilmfest.com • More than a hundred films— hand-picked from the festival circuit and from nearly 800 submissions! Parties! Filmmakers, actors, writers, directors—all in Edmonton; Sep 25 - Oct 2, 2010 • Full Schedule and Ticketing info available Sep 7, 2010; allaccess Festival pass or a 6-Pack (6 films for the price of 5) at discounted prices during Hot August Deals

SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35 - 5 Ave,

From Books to Film • Stanley A. Milner

Royal Alberta Museum • 12845 - 102

Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • Seniors Show: Artworks by artists over 55 in Alberta; Sep 27 - Oct 16, 2010; Opening reception: Oct 2, 1 - 4 pm • Paper People: Papier-mâché artworks by Twyla McGann; Oct 18 - Nov 6, 2010; Opening reception: Oct 23, 1 - 4 pm

VAAA Gallery • 3rd fl, 10215 - 112 St • 780.421.1731 • Hand Weavers, Spinners and Dyers of Alberta: exhibition of textile work from the provincial organization; Sep 9 - Oct 9, 2010; opening reception: Sep 9, 7 - 9:30 pm • Shape and Form: Featuring artists Linda Willard, Julie Anne Hage and Terra Wedman's ceramic work that focuses on the number three as a visual draw. Also, featuring visual artist Dennis Brown who ventured into creating conceptual images based on an idea, a feeling, a memory or significant life event; Oct 14 - Nov 13, 2010; opening reception: Oct 14, 7 - 9:30 pm

West End Gallery • 12308 Jasper Ave •

780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • Landscape paintings by Rod Charlesworth; Oct 2 - 14, 2010 • Landscape paintings by W.H Webb; Oct 16 - 28, 2010

Comedy: Oct 2010 Comic Strip • WEM, Bourbon St • 780.483.5999

• thecomicstrip.ca • Reno Collier; Oct 1 - 3, 2010 • Jon Lovitz Special Presentation; Oct 15 - 17, 2010, 8 pm and 10:30 pm; sold out • Robert Kelly; Oct 20 - 24, 2010 • J Chris Newberg; Oct 27 - 31, 2010

FESTIVAL PLACE • 100 Festival Way, Sherwood

Park • 780.449.3378 • festivalplace.ab.ca • Cafe Series: Chuck and Albert • Oct 13, 2010, 7:30 pm • Tickets: $18 available at Festival Place box office

Horizon Stage • 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce Grove • 780.962.8995 • The Gizmo Guys • Sat, Oct 16, 2 pm • Tickets: $15 (all ages) available at Horizon Stage box office, TicketMaster

Maclab Centre for the Performing Arts–Leduc • 4308 - 50 St, Leduc • maclabcentre. com • Family Series: Gizmo Guys; Sun, Oct 17, 2010; tickets: $10 at TIX on the Square, Leduc Recreation Centre

Winspear Centre • Sir Winston Churchill

Square • 780.428.1414 • Just For Laughs is proud to present Cho Dependent, Margaret Cho's new show; Sat, Oct 2, 2010, 7 pm; tickets: available at the Winspear box office • Laugh for Life Gala: Comedian Tim Hawkins with performance painter Lewis Lavoie and recording artist Lianna Klassen; Sat, Oct 23, 2010, 6 pm (silent auction), 7 pm (main event); tickets: from $34 at LaughforLife.ca

Dance: Oct 2010 Brian Webb Dance Company • Timms

Centre for the Arts, 87 Ave, 112 St • 780.420.1757 • bwdc. ca • Zip Zap Zoom & Rossini Cards: Ballet Jazz de Montreal • Oct 7 - 8, 2010, 8 pm • Tickets: $30 (adult)/$20 (student/senior)

Cheremosh Ukrainian Dance Company • Edmonton Expo Centre, Northlands •

cheremosh.ca/gala/index.html • The Art of Cheremosh Gala: Featuring dance performances, 3-course dinner and live music by the Mill Creek Colliery Band • Sat, Oct 30, 2010 • Tickets: $125 available by T: 780.616.5335 or E: gala@cheremosh.ca

Virsky • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455 - 87 Ave • boe-

narts.com • Dance Company of Ukraine • Oct 14 - 15, 2010, 7:30 pm • Tickets: available at TicketMaster

FILM: Oct 2010

Library, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl. ca • Weekly showings of films adapted from books • Every Fri at 2 pm; Sep 3 - Dec 17, 2010

Home Movie Day • Stanley A. Milner Library,

Edmonton Room • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • Sat, Oct 16, 2010, 12 pm; Home movie inspections with archivists (noon - 4 pm); Screening of home movies (2 - 4 pm)

Remembrance Day Film Series • Stanley A. Milner Library, Edmonton Room • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • Every Wed, Oct 27 - Nov 10, 2010, 2 pm

Film Discussion Group • Whitemud

Library, 145 Whitemud Crossing Shopping Centre, 4211 - 106 St • 780.496.1822 • Talk about movies with other movie buffs. We talk about different films each month • Tue, Oct 19, 2010, 7 pm • Pre-register with Ben T: 780.496.1822 E: bjanke@epl.ca

LITERARY: Oct 2010 Café Haven • Sherwood Park, 9 Sioux Rd •

780.417.5523 • cafehaven.ca • Story Slam in the Park: Storywriters read/perform 5 minute, original stories • Oct 12, 2010; 2nd Tue of the month • $5 (reader registration; into the hat for the Slam Off)/$5 (suggested audience contribution; pass the hat)

Edmonton Anarchist Bookfair •

Ukrainian Centre, 11018 - 97 St • edmontonanarchistbookfair.blogspot.com • Access radical books, see independent documentaries and participate in skill-share workshops • Oct 1 - 3, 2010

Haven Social Club • 15120 Stony Plain Rd •

780.915.8869 • Edmonton Story Slam: LitFest partners with Edmonton Story Slam. Participants will be invited to bring works of non-fiction • Oct 20, 2010

LitFest: The Edmonton Nonfiction Festival • Alberta Book Fair, 7 Sir Winston

Churchill Sq • 780.498.2500 • A celebration of true stories includes readings of award-winning nonfiction, film, music. Focusing this year on extraordinary local food and the writing that it inspires, and on the delicate balancing act of oil and water • Oct 14 - 24, 2010; special events on Sep 20 and Oct 7 • Festival passes and tickets: individual events $10 and up, available at TIX on the Square

Stanley A. Milner Library • Centre for

Reading and the Arts - Main fl • epl.ca • Bookin' It Booktalks for Adults; Thu, Oct 21, 2010, 2:30 pm and 12:15 pm • Stomp Around Haunted Alberta: 2nd fl; Book talk by author Barbara Smith from her collection of fictional ghostly tales set in real Alberta locations; Sat, Oct 23, 2010, 2 pm

T.A.L.E.S. MONTHLY STORYTELLING CIRCLE • Centennial Rm, Stanley Milner Library •

780.932.4409 • talesstorytelling.com • Tell stories or come to listen • 2nd Fri of the month; Sep 2010 - Jun 2011, 7 - 9 pm • Free

T.A.L.E.S. STORY CAFÉ SERIES • Rosie's Bar, 10475 - 80 Ave • 780.932.4409 • talesstorytelling.com • Skeletons In The Closet • Oct 7, 2010, 7-9 pm • Cover charge: Pay-what-you-will ($6 min)

THEATRE: Oct 2010 Any Night • Westbury Theatre, TransAlta Arts

Barns • 10330 - 84 Ave • 780.448.9000 • fringetheatre.ca • Fringe Theatre Adventures • A young woman suffering from night terrors and sleepwalking is drawn into a tender romance with the young man living above her. But how does he know her so well? Part romance, part

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thriller, Any Night is an exploration of that thin line between trust and fear • Oct 21-31, 2010 • Tickets: $23 (adult)/$19 (student/senior); Fringe Adventure packages: $62 (adult)/$51 (student/senior)

Billy Bishop Goes to War • Citadel

Blithe Spirit • Memorial Arts Centre, 5206 - 50

St, Wetaskiwin • 780.352.8383 • wetaskiwintheatresociety.com • Waterworks' Players–Wetaskiwin Theatre Society • Comedy classic by Noel Coward; Novelist Charles Condomine has re-married but is haunted by the ghost of his late first wife • Oct 28 - 30, Nov 5 - 7, 2010, 8 pm • Tickets: $15 (Fri-Sat); $35 (Sat dinner theatre; must be purchased one week in adv), available at Dr Hewko's Office, The Jelly Bean, How Sweet It Is

DARK STAR: THE LIFE and TIMES OF ROY ORBISON • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615 -

109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Sep 7 - Nov 7, 2010 • Season ticket packages from $229

DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 10329 - 83 Ave •

780.433.3399 • Live improvised soap opera continues its spectacular 20th season featuring passion, drama, betrayal, revenge and a dazzling array of the city's finest comedic talents • Every Mon, Oct 25, 2010 - May 2011, 7:30 pm • Tickets available at the box office

DIE-NASTY 20TH SEASON PREMIERE •

Varscona Theatre, 10329 - 83 Ave • 780.433.3399 • dienasty.com • Live improvised soap opera launches its spectacular 20th season • Mon, Oct 18, 2010, 7:30 pm • Tickets at the box office

EURYDICE • Timms Centre, U of A Campus • 780.492.2495 • drama.ualberta.ca/studiotheatre.cfm • Studio Theatre • An imaginative re-telling of the Orpheus myth from the point of view of the young bride who dies on her wedding day, by Sarah Ruhl • Sep 23 - Oct 2, 2010 • Subscriptions start at $53 (student)/$83 (adult) at the Timms Centre for the Arts box office

À la gauche de Dieu • La Cité Francophone, 8627 rue Marie-Anne-Gaboury • 780.469.8400 • lunitheatre.ca • L'Uni Théâtre • By Robert Marinier • Sep 23 - 25, 30, 2010; Oct 1 - 2 2010, 8 pm; Sep 26, Oct 3, 2010, 2 pm

Hank Williams LIVE 1952 • Festival Place,

100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • 780.449.3378 • festivalplace.ab.ca • Musical theatre starring Joe Matheson (country) • Oct 8, 2010, 7:30 pm • Tickets: $36 (table)/$34 (box)/$30 (theatre) available at Festival Place box office

High Society • John L Haar Theatre • MacEwan Main Stage season • Oct 29 - Nov 6, 2010 • Tickets: available at TIX on the Square mid Sep, 780.420.1757

The Infinite Shiver • Varscona Theatre, 10329 - 83 Ave • 780.433.3399 • teatrolaquindicina.com • Teatro La Quindicina • Set in postwar Edmonton, a Broadway style musical comedy. Book by Jocelyn Ahlf and Andrew MacDonald-Smith, lyrics by Farren Timoteo, original music by Ryan Sigurdson (who leads the live band), starring co-writers Ahlf and MacDonald-Smith with Shannon Blanchet and Kendra Connor, directed by Farren Timoteo • Oct 7 - 23, 2010, 7:30 pm • Tickets: $57 (adult)/$48 (student/senior) available at TIX on the Square

Intimate Apparel • Citadel Shoctor Theatre, 9828 - 101 A Ave • 780.426.4811 • citadeltheatre.com • By Lynn Nottage, directed by Philip Akin; an Obsidian Theatre Production. Esther, a lingerie seamstress, looks for romance and fulfillment and the means to pursue her dreams • Oct 2 - 24, 2010 • Classic Landmarks Master Builder Mainstage Series subscription information available at citadeltheatre.com

MUMP AND SMOOT CRACKED • Theatre

Network–live at the Roxy, 10708 - 124 St • 780.453.2440 • theatrenetwork.ca • By Michael Kennard and John Turner, starring Michael Kennard and John Turner, directed by Karen Hines, music by Greg Morrison • Oct 5 - 6, 2010 (Previews); Oct 7 - 24, 2010 • Tickets available at Theatre Network's box office, 780.453.2440

Night at the Museum of Rock and Roll • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, 8882 - 170 St • 780.484.2424 • jubilations.ca • Aug 20 - Oct 24, 2010; seating: Wed - Sat: 6:15 - 6:40pm; Sun: 5 pm

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OH SUSANNA! - HALLOWEEN SPECIAL

• Varscona Theatre, 10329 - 83 Ave • 780.433.3399 • varsconatheatre.com/ohsusanna • The Euro-style variety spectacle premieres with its annual salute to All Hallows Eve with an evening of spooky songs, creepy cocktails and Halloween humour, guided by international glamour-ghoul Susanna Patchouli and her co-ghost Eros, God of Love. Prizes for best audience costumes • Sat, Oct 30, 2010, 11pm

Perfect Pie • Walterdale Theatre, 10322 - 83 Ave • 780.439.2845 • walterdaleplayhouse.com • By Canadian playwright Judith Thompson, directed by Mary Jane Kreisel • Oct 6 - 16, 2010 • Tickets: Subscriptions start at $72 (adult)/$62 (student/senior); Flex Pass: $45 (3 tickets in the season) available at TIX on the Square at 780.420.1757

Studies in Motion: The Hauntings of Eadweard Muybridge • Citadel

Shoctor Theatre, 9828 - 101 A Ave • 780.426.4811 • citadeltheatre.com • By Kevin Kerr, directed by Kim Collier, choreography by Crystal Pite, composed by Patrick Pennefather. A presentation from the Electric Company Theatre, Vancouver. Part of the Rice Theatre Series; for mature audiences, content and language may not be suitable for all patrons; audience advisory: nudity, strobe • Oct 30 - Nov 14, 2010 • Rice Theatre Series subscription information available at citadeltheatre.com

Tom Jones and the Temple of Doom • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, 8882 - 170 St •

780.484.2424 • jubilations.ca • Oct 29 - Jan 22, 2011; seating: Wed - Sat: 6:15 - 6:40pm; Sun: 5 pm

Under Cover • Stanley A. Milner Library, 7 Sir

Winston Churchill Sq • 780.439.3905 • concretetheatre. ca • Concrete Theatre explores the challenges faced by teenagers of Middle Eastern descent in Canada through Ella, who chooses to wear the hijab to her High School • Oct 29 - 30, 2010 • Touring Junior and Senior High Schools: Oct - Nov 2010

MUSIC: Oct 2010 Arden Theatre • 5 St Anne St • 780.459.1542 • ar-

Grove • 780.962.8995 • John Lee Sanders • Fri, Oct 8, 7:30 pm; tickets: $25 (adult)/$20 (student/senior)/$5 eyeGO • Foothills Brass with Autorickshaw (jazz, folk, world ); Tue, Oct 19, 7:30 pm; tickets: $20 (adult)/$15 (student/senior)/$5 eyeGO • Oliver Jones Trio (jazz); Fri, Oct 29, 7:30 pm; tickets: $35 (adult)/$30 (student/ senior)/$5 eyeGO • Tickets available at Horizon Stage box office, TicketMaster

Jubilee Auditorium • 11455 - 87 Ave • Great Big Sea, guests • Sat, Oct 30, 2010, 7:30 pm • Tickets: $45.50, $59.50 available at TicketMaster

Maclab Centre for the Performing Arts–Leduc • 4308 - 50 St, Leduc • maclabcentre. com • Performance Series: Dala • Sat, Oct 16, 2010 • Tickets: $27 (adult)/$22 (student/senior) at TIX on the Square, Leduc Recreation Centre

Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society • Pleasantview Community League, 10860

- 57 Ave • bluegrassnorth.com • Acoustic Bluegrass Music Jam; acoustic music circle. Slow pitch for beginners: 1st and 3rd Wed prior to regular jam • Every Wed, 6.30 pm • Tickets $2 (member)/$4 (non-member)

Northern Lights Folk Club • Queen

Alexandra Community Hall, 10425 University Ave • northernlightsfc.ca • Martin Simpson; Sat, Oct 2, 2010; tickets: $18 • Ron Hynes; Sat, Oct 16 2010; tickets: $18 • Season package info by T: 780.288.8111; ticket outlet info at northernlightsfc.ca

WINSPEAR CENTRE • Sir Winston Churchill

Sq • winspearcentre.com • Winspear Presents Series: Broken Social Scene; Oct 9, 2010, 8 pm; tickets: $34 available at Winspear box office • STARS with Young Galaxy; Sun, Oct 31, 2010, 7 pm; tickets: $32.50 available at the Winspear box office

CLASSICAL MUSIC: Oct 2010

Convocation Hall • U of A • fwalive.ualberta.

ca/home/category/events/ • FolkwaysAlive!: Matt Glaser (fiddle), in concert with Byron Myhre, Daniel Gervais, Clint Pelletier, and Travis Switzer • Fri, Oct 15, 2010, 8 pm

montonchambermusic.org • Jacques Thibaud Trio and Anton Kuerti (piano) • Sat, Oct 9, 2010, 8 pm • Tickets: $30 (adult)/$20 (senior)/$10 (student) available at TIX on the Square, The Gramophone, door

Dow Centennial Centre's Shell Theatre–Fort Saskatchewan • 8700 - 84 St,

Edmonton Classical Guitar Society • Muttart Hall, Alberta College, 10050 Macdonald

Edmonton Chante Festival 2009 •

Edmonton Social Planning Council • Maple Leaf Room, Lister Centre, U of A Campus • edmontonsocialplanning.ca • 70th Anniversary Fundraising Gala: Maria Dunn • Oct 28, 2010, 6 pm • Tickets available at edmontonsocialplanning.ca

FESTIVAL PLACE • 100 Festival Way, Sherwood

Park • 780.449.3378 • festivalplace.ab.ca • Cafe Series: Jayme Stone (singer-songwriter); Oct 7, 2010, 7:30 pm; tickets: $18 • Cafe Series: Ray Bonneville (blues); Oct 8, 2010, 7:30 pm; tickets: $18 • Colin Linden (blues); Oct 9, 2010, 7:30 pm; tickets: $36 (table)/$34 (box)/$30 (theatre) • Charlie Major (country); Oct 12, 2010, 7:30 pm; tickets: $40 (table)/$36 (box)/$34 (theatre) • The Sojourners (blues); Oct 15, 2010, 7:30 pm; tickets: $32 (table)/$30 (box)/$28 (theatre) • The Amazing Love Song Tour: Richie McDonald and John Berry (country); Oct 17, 2010, 2 pm and 7:30 pm; tickets: $40 (table)/$36 (box)/$34 (theatre) • The Celtic Tenors; Oct 21, 2010, 7:30 pm; tickets: $40 (table)/$36 (box)/$34 (theatre) • Paul Reddick and the Sidemen (blues); Oct 23, 2010; tickets: $36 (table)/$34 (box)/$30 (theatre) • Cafe Series: Susan Werner (singer-songwriter); Oct 27, 2010, 7:30 pm; tickets: $18 • Tickets available at Festival Place box office

FULL MOON FOLK CLUB • St Basil's Cultural Centre, 10819-71 Ave • fmfc.org • The Gift: A Tribute to

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Horizon Stage • 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce

dentheatre.com • Inti-Illimani with Francesca Gagnon (Latin American folk music meets the voice of Cirque du Soleil); Oct 1, 2010, 7:30 pm • The Robert Cray Band (blues guitarist/singer); Oct 7, 2010, 7:30 pm • Carolyn Dawn Johnson (country star); Oct 8, 2010, 7:30 pm • Barney Bentall and the Grand Cariboo Opry (original and reinterpreted classics); Oct 21, 2010, 7:30 pm • Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir (a capella ensemble); Oct 29-30, 2010, 7:30 pm; also playing a special kids show as part of the Family Series at 2 pm • Tickets on sale Aug 9, 10 am at the Arden box office

Fort Saskatchewan • 780.992.6400 • fortsask.ca/ftsk_ thingstodo/Shell_Theatre.aspx • Professional Series: John Lee Sanders; Sat, Oct 9, 2010, 8 pm; tickets: $32.50 (adult)/$29.50 (senior/youth) • Professional Series: Barney Bentall and the Grand Cariboo Opry; Sat, Oct 22, 2010, 8 pm; tickets: $39 (adult)/$36 (senior/youth) • Professional Series: Oliver Jones Trio; Sat, Oct 30, 2010, 8 pm; tickets: $37 (adult)/$34 (senior/youth) • Tickets available at 780.992.6400, TicketMaster

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the music of Ian Tyson; Oct 8, 2010, 7 pm (door), 8 pm (show); tickets: $17 (adv)/$20 (door)/child under 12 ½ price (door only) • Lynn Miles with Keith Glass; Oct 29, 2010, 7 pm (door), 8 pm (show); tickets: $17 (adv)/$20 (door)/$10 (child under 12, door) available at TIX on the Square

Alberta Baroque Ensemble •

Robertson–Wesley United Church, 10209 - 123 St • 780.467.6531 • Haydn and Company: Elizabeth Koch (flute), Allene Hackleman (horn) • Sun, Oct 24, 2010, 3 pm • Single tickets: $25 (adult)/$20 (senior/student) • Tickets available at the Gramophone, TIX on the Square, door

THE EDMONTON CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY • Convocation Hall, U of A Campus • ed-

Dr • 780.489.9580 • edmontonclassicalguitarsociety.org • Jérôme Ducharme, guitar • Fri, Oct 15, 2010, 8 pm • Tickets: $25 (adult)/$20 (student/senior/member) available at TIX on the Square, Avenue Guitars, Acoustic Music Shop, ECGS and at the door

Edmonton Opera • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455 87 Ave • 780.429.1000 • edmontonopera.com • Puccini's La Bohème, with the Edmonton Opera Chorus and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra • Sung in Italian with English supertitles • Oct 23, 26, 28, 2010, 7:30 pm • Season subscriptions are on sale at Edmonton Opera's box office; single tickets go on sale Sep 15, 2010

Edmonton Raga-Mala Music Society • Royal Alberta Museum, 12845 - 102 Ave

• 780.445.7771 • edmontonragamala.ab.ca • Purnima Chaudhuri and Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay: Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (Khayal), Samir Chatterjee (tabla), Saibal Bandyopadhyay (harmonium), Shruti Bandyopadhyay (surmandal), Purnima Chaudhuri (thumri), Samir Chatterjee (tabla), Pankaj Mishra (sarangi); Oct 16, 2010, 7 pm • 'Sangam' Meeting Of The Rivers–Hindustani Vocal Festival: Uday Bhawalkar (dhrupad), Manik Munde (pakhawaj); Oct 17, 2010, 6:30 pm

Edmonton Recital Society • Mut-

tart Hall, Alberta College, 10050 MacDonald Dr • edmontonrecital.com • Main Series: Featuring Natalia Shamayeva (harp); Tue, Oct 19, 2010, 7:30 pm; tickets: $30 (adult)/$20 (senior/student) available at TIX on the Square • Featuring Martin Kasik (piano); Thu, Oct 28, 2010, 7:30 pm; tickets: $30 (adult)/$20 (senior/student) available at TIX on the Square

Edmonton Symphony Orchestra

• Winspear Centre, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.428.1414 • edmontonsymphony.com • Sunday Showcase: The Four Seasons: Julianne Scott (clarinet); Oct 3, 2010, 2 pm • Symphony Specials: ESO Gala: Cirque de la Symphonie; Oct 5, 2010, 7:30 pm • Masters: Fialkowska plays Chopin: Anu Tali (conductor), Janina Fialkowska (piano); Oct 15, 2010, 7:30 pm; Oct 16, 2010, 8 pm • Robbins Pops: Mysterioso: Music, Magic, Mayhem, and Mirth; Oct 29 - 30, 2010, 8 pm • Tickets

available at Winspear Centre box office

Lois Hole Library • 17650 - 69 Ave •

780.442.0888 • Sunday Afternoon Music: live musical performances • Sun, Oct 3, 2010, 2 -3 pm • Drop-in

Pro Coro Canada • McDougall United

Church, 10025 Macdonald Dr • procoro.ab.ca • Spectacular A Cappella: music for chamber choir • Sun, Oct 3, 2010, 2:30 pm • Tickets: $30 (adult)/$25 (senior/ student) available at Winspear box office

U of A Music at Convocation Hall •

Convocation Hall, U of A • music.ualberta.ca • Jacques Despres (piano), Joanne Perron (cello) • Sun, Oct 17, 2010, 2pm • Tickets: $20 (adult)/$15 (student/senior)/ special rates available for visiting school groups • Tickets available through the Department of Music's office, 780.492.0601, at the door on the day of the event

U of A Music at Winspear • Winspear

Centre • music.ualberta.ca • Symphonic Wind Ensemble • Thu, Oct 21, 2010, 8pm • Tickets: $20 (adult)/$15 (student/senior)/special rates available for visiting school groups • Tickets available at the Department of Music office, 780.492.0601, or at the door on the day of the event

November 2010

art GALLERIES/MUSEUMS: nov 2010 Agnes Bugera Gallery • 12310 Jasper Ave

• 780.482.2854 • agnesbugeragallery.com • Artworks by Darrell Underschultz; Oct 23 - Nov 12, 2010; opening reception: Oct 23, 2 - 4 pm, artist in attendance • Sculptures by Patrick Meagher; Nov 13 - 26, 2010; opening reception: Nov 13, 2 - 4 pm • Artworks by Jerry Heine; Nov 27 - Dec 10, 2010; opening reception: Nov 27, 2 - 4 pm, artist in attendance

Alberta Craft Council • 10186 - 106 St •

780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Feature Gallery: Prairie Excellence: A juried touring exhibition of fine craft from Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba; Oct 2 - Dec 18, 2010 • Discovery Gallery: words, wit, wisdom and wool: Inspired by words and expressed in three dimensional fibre works by Red Deer artist Matt Gould; Nov 6 - Dec 24, 2010

Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) • 2 Sir

Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • Edward Burtynsky OIL: Sep 18, 2010 - Jan 2, 2011 • Henri Matisse: A Celebration of Light and Line: Oct 30, 2010 - Feb 13, 2011 • Laura St Pierre: Urban Vernacular: Oct 29, 2010 - Jan 16, 2011 • Symbolist Muse: Nov 20 Mar 13, 2011 • Reframing a Nation; until Jan 30, 2011 • Play on Architecture! BMO World of Creativity: Ongoing • Final day for Piranesi's Prisons: Sun, Nov 7, 2010 • All Day Sunday: Nov 14, 12 - 4 pm; free with admission • Art for Lunch: Thu, Nov 18, 12:10-12:50 pm, 2010; free • Refinery: Late Night Art Party: Sat, Nov 20, 2010; tickets at youraga.ca • Art in Context: In-depth courses on current AGA exhibitions; Tue, Nov 30, 6 pm, 2010; $25/$20 (AGA member)

Centre d'arts visuels de l'Alberta

• 9103 - 95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • Symbiosis: Artworks by George and Judy Kubac (watercolours, mixed media), Sylvie Pinard (paintings), Doris Darbasie (mixed media, watercolours), Jacques Rioux (photos), Françoise Fiset (fibre art); Oct 29 - Nov 9, 2010; opening reception: Oct 29 • Exuberance: Artworks by Sharon L Williams (oils and watercolours), Emma Cayer (oils and watercolours), Jacques Martel (oils and acrylics), Laura Watmough (oils), Deborah Lenihan, (jewellery); Nov 12 - 23, 2010; opening reception: Nov 12 • Fantasy: Artworks by Jeannette Ouellette (acrylics and watercolours), Keith Nolan (acrylics), Marie-Joëlle Driard (watercolours), and Yves Caron (photos); Nov 26 - Dec 7, 2010; opening reception: Nov 26

Common Sense Gallery • 10546 - 115 St •

780.482.2685 • commonsensegallery.com • Spill: artists are invited to Avenue Theatre with a few pieces of work. Paint and easels are provided so that people can make art while listening to the live music. There will be a vote on the pieces at the theatre, the most popular pieces will be shown at one of the Common Sense Galleries • 2nd Sun each month

Fine Arts Building Gallery • Department of Art and Design, U of A, Rm 3-98 Fine Arts Bldg • 780.492.2081 • Artworks by Patrick Reed (Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking) • Artworks by Megan Hahn (Master of Fine Arts in Drawing and Intermedia) • Nov 9 - Dec 4, 2010

Gallery At Milner • Stanley A. Milner Library, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383/780.496.7031 • Khmer Rouge Prison: Photographs by J. Ness • Nov 1 - 30, 2010

Haggerty Centre - Stollery Gallery • Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, 9225 - 118 Ave • 780.474.7611 • ninahaggertyart.ca • Artworks by Maria Pace-Wynters and Deborah Cardinal • Nov 4 - 28, 2010

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

780.426.4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca • Main Space: Artist in Residence Exhibition: Artworks by local artist Neil McClelland • Front Room: Paintings by local artist Duncan Johnson; Oct 14 - Nov 13, 2010; opening reception: Oct 14, 7 - 10 pm • Main Space: Artworks by local artist, Julian Forrest • Front Room: Artworks by Ian Forbes; Nov 25 - Dec 17, 2010; Opening reception: Thu, Nov 26

Harris-Warke Gallery–Red Deer •

Sunworks Home and Garden Store, Ross St, Red Deer • 403.346.8937 • harriswarkegallery.com • Annual Fundraiser: Nov 5 - 19, 2010 • Ceramics by Sheila KelbaWarawa; Nov 29 - Dec 31, 2010; opening reception: Dec 3, 6 - 8 pm

Jeff Allen Art Gallery • Strathcona Seniors Centre, 10831 University Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • Artists Planting Seeds of Hope: Landscapes, florals and still lifes using mixed media and print making by students of the Mustard Seed Program under the instruction of Laura Foster • Nov 3 - 26, 2010 • Opening reception: Nov 10, 6:30 - 8:30 pm

Latitude 53 • 10248 - 106 St • 780.423.5353 •

latitude53.org • Main Gallery: Works by Kristi Malikoff • Oct 1 - Nov 13, 2010 • The Fine Art Of Schmoozy: Annual gala fundraiser and silent auction: Nov 27, 2010

McMullen Gallery • U of A Hospital, 8440 - 112 St • 780.407.7152 • The Crooked Trees of Alticane: Paintings by Ken Dalgarno • Oct 30 - Dec 24, 2010 • Opening reception: Nov 4, 7 - 9 pm

Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery–Stony Plain • 5411 - 51 St, Stony Plain •

780.963.9935 • Paintings by Geneva Moore; Oct 29 - Nov 30, 2010; opening reception: Nov 7

Naess Gallery • 10032 - 81 Ave • 780.432.0240 •

paintspot.ca • Documenting the Ephemeral: Paper instalation by Claire Uhlick • Through Nov, 2010 • Opening reception: Nov 7, 5 - 7 pm

Profiles Gallery–St Albert • 19 Perron St,

St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artsheritage.ca • Your Thoughts, Like Stars: Installation of books by Edward Van Vliet • Nov 4 - 27, 2010

Royal Alberta Museum • 12845 - 102

SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35 - 5 Ave,

Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • Paper People: Papier-mâché artworks by Twyla McGann; Oct 18 - Nov 6, 2010; Opening reception: Oct 23, 1 - 4 pm • Reflections: Artworks by members of the Allied Arts Council; Nov 8 - 20, 2010; Opening reception: Nov 13, 1 - 4 pm • Christmas Store: Artworks by members of the Allied Arts Council of Spruce Grove; Nov 22 - Dec 23, 2010; Opening reception: Nov 26, 7 pm

VAAA Gallery • 3rd fl, 10215 - 112 St • 780.421.1731 • Shape and Form: Featuring artists Linda Willard, Julie Anne Hage and Terra Wedman's ceramic work that focuses on the number three as a visual draw. Also, featuring visual artist Dennis Brown who ventured into creating conceptual images based on an idea, a feeling, a memory or significant life event; Oct 14 - Nov 13, 2010; opening reception: Oct 14, 7 - 9:30 pm • Persona: Featuring visual artists Debra Bachman Smith and Roxanne Driediger. Debra Bachman Smith explores an unconventional approach to painting and still life that expresses the human condition in terms of transience and psychological states of being. Roxanne Driediger's life sized paper dolls are centered around dress up games, the daily costume made for different social and work settings, of both private and public relevance; Nov 20 - Dec 18, 2010; opening reception: Nov 20, 7 - 9:30 pm

West End Gallery • 12308 Jasper Ave •

780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • Market scenes and party scenes by Claudette Castonguay • Nov 20 Dec 2, 2010

Dance: Nov 2010 Alberta Ballet • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455 - 87

Ave • 780.428.6839 • albertaballet.com • The Sleeping Beauty, Canadian Premiere with choreography by Kirk Peterson, accompanied by the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra • Nov 5 - 6, 2010 • Subscriptions for the 2010/2011 Season are on sale now; single tickets for select performances available at Alberta Ballet's box office

Brian Webb Dance Company • John L

Haar Theatre, 10045 - 155 St • 780.420.1757 • bwdc.ca • Prairie Dance Circuit: Choreographer Jason Stroh premieres a new solo work with dancer Hilary Maxwell • Nov 19 - 20, 2010, 8 pm • Tickets: $30 (adult)/$20 (student/senior) available at TIX on the Square, 780.420.1757

Mile Zero Dance • Art Gallery of Alberta, 2 Sir

Winston Churchill Sq • 780.424.1573 • Bodies in O: Dance portraits inspired by oil production and consumption • Nov 20, 2010, 8 pm

Moscow Ballet's–Swan Lake • Jubilee

Auditorium, 11455 - 87 Ave • moscowballetcanada.com • Staged by artistic director, Vladimir Troschenko • Nov 15 - 16, 2010, 7:30 pm • Tickets at TicketMaster

Vinok World Dance • Chateau Louis Hotel,

11727 Kingsway • 780.452.7770 • vinok.ca • Christmas Around the World 2010: Dinner theatre with host local singer/actor Timothy J. Anderson, and the Vinok dancers performance of folk culture with live music • Nov 16 - 21, 2010 • Tickets: on sale Sep 1, 2010; T: 780.454.3739 or E: info@vinok.ca

FILM: Nov 2010 Cinema At the Centre • Stanley A. Milner

Library • 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl. ca • Centre for Reading and the Arts showcases littleknown films every month in the Library Theatre. Titles to be announced

Downtown Docs • Stanley A. Milner Library

From Books to Film • Stanley A. Milner

Library, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl. ca • Weekly showings of films adapted from books • Every Fri at 2 pm; Sep 3 - Dec 17, 2010

Remembrance Day Film Series • Stanley A. Milner Library, Edmonton Room • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • Every Wed, Oct 27 - Nov 10, 2010, 2 pm

LITERARY: Nov 2010 Café Haven • Sherwood Park, 9 Sioux Rd •

780.417.5523 • cafehaven.ca • Story Slam in the Park: Storywriters read/perform 5 minute, original stories • Nov 09, 2010; 2nd Tue of the month; starting again in Sep 2010 • $5 (reader registration; into the hat for the Slam Off)/$5 (suggested audience contribution; pass the hat)

Haven Social Club • 15120 Stony Plain Rd

• 780.915.8869 • Edmonton Story Slam • No cover; followed by a music jam • 3rd Wed every month; Wed, Nov 17, 2010; Sign up at 7 pm; Show starts at 7:30 pm • $5 (registration from writers to support the Society) • Winner walks out with all the audience donations

Stanley A. Milner Library • Centre for

Reading and the Arts - Main Fl • epl.ca • Bookin' It Booktalks for Adults • Thu, Nov 18, 2010, 2:30 pm and 12:15 pm

T.A.L.E.S. CONCERT • Catalyst Theatre, 8529 - 103 St • 780.932.4409 • talesstorytelling.com • Undaunted Enchantments: An evening of tales for adults, featuring Tellers from T.A.L.E.S. CD launch for the T.A.L.E.S. CD, Undaunted Enchantements • Thu, Nov 25, 2010, 7 - 9:30 pm • Tickets $15

T.A.L.E.S. MONTHLY STORYTELLING CIRCLE • Centennial Rm, Stanley A. Milner Library

• 780.932.4409 • talesstorytelling.com • Tell stories or come to listen • 2nd Fri of the month; Sep 2010 - Jun 2011, 7 - 9 pm • Free

T.A.L.E.S. STORY CAFÉ SERIES • Rosie's Bar,

10475 - 80 Ave • 780.932.4409 • talesstorytelling.com • War And Peace; open mic opportunity • Nov 4, 2010, 7 9 pm • Cover charge: Pay-what-you-will ($6 min)

THEATRE: Nov 2010 The Ash Girl • Concordia University College of

Alberta, Tegler Auditorium, 7128 Ada Blvd • 780.479.9269 • A lyrical and thought-provoking take on Cinderella by Timberlake Wertenbaker, directed by Patricia Darbasie • Nov 18 - 20, 7:30 pm; Sun, Nov 21, 2 pm; Pay-whatyou-can Preview: Wed, Nov 17, 7:30 pm • Tickets: $10 (adult)/$8 (student/senior) available at the door

Blithe Spirit • Memorial Arts Centre, 5206 - 50

St, Wetaskiwin • 780.352.8383 • wetaskiwintheatresociety.com • Waterworks' Players–Wetaskiwin Theatre Society • Comedy classic by Noel Coward. Novelist Charles Condomine has re-married but is haunted by the ghost of his late first wife • Oct 28 - 30, Nov 5 - 7, 2010, 8 pm • Tickets: $15 (Fri-Sat); $35 (Sat dinner theatre; must be purchased one week in adv), available at Dr Hewko's Office, The Jelly Bean, How Sweet It Is

CABARET • Catalyst Theatre, 8529 Gateway Blvd •

Two One-Way Tickets to Broadway Productions present Kander and Ebb's Cabaret • Nov 11 - 20, 2010 • Tickets available at twoonewaytickets.com

A Christmas Carol • Citadel Maclab Theatre, 9828 - 101 A Ave • 780.426.4811 • citadeltheatre.com • Adapted by Tom Wood, based on the story by Charles

Dickens, directed by Bob Baker and Geoffrey Brumlik • Nov 27 - Dec 23, 2010 • Robbins Family Series subscription information available at citadeltheatre.com

The Crucible • Horizon Stage, 1001 Calahoo

Rd, Spruce Grove • 780.962.8995 • Arthur Miller's The Crucible presented by Horizon Players • Nov 18 - 20, 2010, 7:30 pm • Tickets: $20 (adult)/$15 (student/ senior)/$5 eyeGO; available at Horizon Stage box office, TicketMaster

DARK STAR: THE LIFE and TIMES OF ROY ORBISON • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615 -

109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Sep 7 - Nov 7, 2010 • Season ticket packages from $229

DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 10329 - 83 Ave •

THE FOURTH GRADERS PRESENT AN UNNAMED LOVE-SUICIDE • Studio B in the

TransAlta Arts Barns, 10330 84 Ave • 780.471.1586 • northernlighttheatre.com • Northern Light Theatre • The re-counting of the death of two fourth graders as told by their poetic and darkly fascinating classmates, by Sean Graney • Nov 2 - 14, 2010 • Tickets: Opening: $25 (adult/student/senior, incl opening night reception); All other performances: $20 (adult)/$18 (student/senior); Season subsciptions are now available

The Frog Prince • Dow Centennial Centre's

Shell Theatre, 8700 - 84 St, Fort Saskatchewan • 780.992.6400 • fortsask.ca/ftsk_thingstodo/Shell_Theatre.aspx • Family Series: Presented by Missoula Children's Theatre • Sat, Nov 13, 2010, 3 pm and 7 pm • Tickets: $13 (adult)/$8 (senior/youth) available at 780.992.6400, TicketMaster

GREASE • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455 - 87 Ave • Broad-

way Across Canada • Musical set in the '50s. Danny and Sandy, the girl next door, fall in love • Nov 9 - 14, 2010 • Season subscriptions include Grease and Legally Blonde the Musical, with option to purchase Mama Mia!, packages start at $106.80, available at 1.866.532.7469, BroadwayAcrossCanada.ca

HARD CORE LOGO: LIVE • Theatre Network–

live at the Roxy, 10708 - 124 St • 780.453.2440 • theatrenetwork.ca • Co-produced with November Theatre and Touchstone Theatre, adapted by Michael Scholar, Jr, based on the book by Michael Turner, original music by Joe "Shithead" Keithley of D.O.A., lyrics by Michael Turner. The story of an ill-fated reunion tour of one of punk rock's most notorious bands • Nov 16 - 17 (Preview); Nov 18 - Dec 5, 2010 • Tickets available at Theatre Network's box office, 780.453.2440

High Society • John L Haar Theatre • MacEwan Main Stage season • Oct 29 - Nov 6, 2010 • Tickets: available at TIX on the Square mid Sep, 780.420.1757 The Loud and Queer Cabaret • La

Cité Francophone, 8627 rue Marie-Anne-Gaboury • 780.477.5955 ext 301 • workshopwest.org • Presented by Workshop West Theatre • Nov 12 - 13, 2010

U of A Campus • 780.492.2495 • drama.ualberta.ca/ studiotheatre.cfm • Studio Theatre • Three friends hunt for love and sex in the city under the fearful grip of a serial killer stalking young women, by Brad Fraser, guest director John Kirkpatrick • Nov 4 - 13, 2010, 7:30 pm; matinee on Nov 11 • Subscriptions start at $53 (student)/$83 (adult) at the Timms Centre for the Arts box office

WOMEN WHO STEAL • Varscona Theatre, 10329 - 83 Ave • 780.434.5564 • Shadow Theatre • Canadian Premiere by Carter Lewis, starring Coralie Cairns, Jeff Haslam, Karen Johnson-Diamond, directed by John Hudson. Adult situations and language • Nov 3 - 21, 2010 • Tickets: Opening, Fri/Sat night: $26 (adult)/$22 (senior/student); Sun - Thu: $22 (adult)/$18 (senior/ student); Preview: $12 (everyone); Tue: two for one; Sat 2 pm matinee: Pay-What-You-Can; Under 18: $10 anytime. Single tickets/subscriptions available at TIX on the Square, Shadow Theatre 780.434.5564, Varscona box office 1 hour prior to show

MUSIC: Nov 2010 Arden Theatre • 5 St Anne St • 780.459.1542 • ar-

dentheatre.com • Lunch at Allen's (Murray McLauchlan, Cindy Church, Marc Jordan and Ian Thomas); Nov 3, 2010, 7:30 pm • Kat Danser (swamp blues, CD release party); Nov 5, 2010, 7:30 pm • Montreal Guitar Trio with California Guitar Trio; Nov 13, 2010, 7:30 pm • Tickets on sale Aug 9, 10 am at the Arden box office

Dow Centennial Centre's Shell Theatre–Fort Saskatchewan • 8700 - 84 St,

Fort Saskatchewan • 780.992.6400 • fortsask.ca/ftsk_ thingstodo/Shell_Theatre.aspx • Professional Series: An Acoustic Evening with Michelle Wright; Fri, Nov 5, 2010, 7:30 pm; tickets: $42.50 (adult)/$39.50 (senior/ youth) • Professional Series: International Guitar Night; Tue, Nov 16, 2010, 7:30 pm; tickets: $28.50 (adult)/$25.50 (senior/youth) • Tickets available at 780.992.6400, TicketMaster

FESTIVAL PLACE • 100 Festival Way, Sherwood

Park • 780.449.3378 • festivalplace.ab.ca • Kevin Breit and the Sisters Euclid (jazz); Nov 5, 2010, 7:30 pm; tickets: $32 (table)/$30 (box)/$28 (theatre) • Professor Louie & The Crowmatix (pop-rock); Nov 6, 2010, 7:30 pm; tickets: $36 (table)/$34 (box)/$30 (theatre) • Cafe Series: Sue Foley and Peter Karp: He Said - She Said (blues); Nov 7, 2010, 7:30 pm; tickets: $18 • Cafe Series: John McDermott: Raised on Songs and Stories (Celtic); Nov 11, 2010, 7:30 pm; tickets: $18 • Jim Byrnes with Steve Dawson (blues); Nov 12, 2010, 7:30 pm; tickets: $36 (table)/$34 (box)/$30 (theatre) • Zachary Richard (singer-songwriter); Nov 13, 2010, 7:30 pm tickets: $40 (table)/$36 (box)/$34 (theatre) • Cafe Series: Archie Fisher (folk); Nov 17, 2010, 7:30 pm; tickets: $18 • Battlefield Band 2010 (Celtic); Nov 19, 2010, 7:30 pm; tickets: $36 (table)/$34 (box)/$30 (theatre) • The Duke Robillard Band (blues); Nov 27, 2010, 7:30 pm; tickets: $36 (table)/$34 (box)/$30 (theatre) • Cafe Series: Songwriters Circle with Rob Heath, Chloe Albert and Carrie Hryniw (singersongwriter); Nov 27, 2010, 7:30 pm; tickets: $18 • Tickets available at Festival Place box office

FULL MOON FOLK CLUB • St Basil's Cultural

rue Marie-Anne-Gaboury • 780.469.8400 • lunitheatre. ca • L'UniThéâtre: Théâtre français de Toronto, Théâtre La Rubrique and Théâtre du Tandem • By Jean-Rock Gaudreault • Nov 18 - 20, 2010, 8 pm; Nov 21, 2 pm

Centre, 10819-71 Ave • fmfc.org • John Reischman and the Jaybirds; Nov 12, 2010, 7 pm (door), 8 pm (show) • tickets: $17 (adv)/$20 (door)/child under 12 ½ price (door only) • Marc Atkinson Trio, Jim Hepler (opening); Nov 26, 7 pm (door), 8 pm (show); tickets: $17 (adv)/$20 (door)/$10 (child under 12, door) available at TIX on the Square

The Mating Season • MacEwan Theatre Lab •

Horizon Stage • 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce

Une maison face au Nord • La Cité, 8627

Nov 3 - 7 2010 • Tickets: available at TIX on the Square mid Sep, 780.420.1757

• 780.433.3399 • varsconatheatre.com/ohsusanna • The Euro-style variety spectacle with Susanna Patchouli and her divine co-host Eros, God of Love! Laughs! Music! Cocktails! • Sat, Nov 27, 11 pm

Grove • 780.962.8995 • The Wright Songs: An Acoustic Evening with Michelle Wright; Sun, Nov 7, 2010, 7:30 pm; tickets: $40 (adult)/$35 (student/senior)/$5 eyeGO • International Guitar Night; Fri, Nov 12, 2010, 7:30 pm; tickets: $25 (adult)/$20 (student/senior)/$5 eyeGO • The Barra MacNeils (Celtic); Fri, Nov 26, 2010, 7:30 pm; tickets: $35 (adult)/$30 (student/senior)/$5 eyeGO • Tickets available at Horizon Stage box office, TicketMaster

Studies in Motion: The Hauntings of Eadweard Muybridge • Citadel

Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society • Pleasantview Community League, 10860 -

OH SUSANNA! • Varscona Theatre • 10329 - 83 Ave

THE SUPER GROOVY '70S PART 2: KEEP ON TRUCKIN' • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615

- 109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Nov 16 Feb 16, 2011 • Season ticket packages from $229

Tom Jones and the Temple of Doom

• Jubilations Dinner Theatre, 8882 - 170 St • 780.484.2424 • jubilations.ca • Oct 29 - Jan 22, 2011; seating: Wed Sat: 6:15 - 6:40pm; Sun: 5 pm

UNIDENTIFIED HUMAN REMAInS AND THE TRUE NATURE OF LOVE • Timms Centre,

VUEWEEKLY // AUG 5 – AUG 11 2010

57 Ave • bluegrassnorth.com • Acoustic Bluegrass Music Jam; acoustic music circle. Slow pitch for beginners: 1st and 3rd Wed prior to regular jam • Every Wed, 6.30 pm • Tickets $2 (member)/$4 (non-member)

Northern Lights Folk Club • northern-

lightsfc.ca • Queen Alexandra Community Hall, 10425 University Ave • Dennis Lakusta; Sat, Nov 6, 2010; tickets: $18 • Wise and Weathered (Catherine MacLellan, Raghu Lokanathan, Kim Barlow); Sat, Nov 20, 2010; tickets: $18 • TransAlta Arts Barns, 10330 - 84 Ave • Homefest • Sun, Nov 7, 2010 • Tickets: $15 • Season package info by T: 780.288.8111; ticket outlet info at northernlightsfc.ca

CLASSICAL MUSIC: Nov 2010 Alberta Baroque Ensemble • Robert-

son–Wesley United Church, 10209 - 123 St • 780.467.6531 • Baroque Chamber Music Treasures: Fundraiser for the Alberta Baroque Music Society with Susan Flook (violin), Heather Bergen (violin), Anna Kozak (violin), Colin Ryan (cello), Tammy-Jo Mortensen (harpsichord,

THE SEASON // 25

organ), Elizabeth Faulkner (flute), Beth Levia (oboe) • Sun, Nov 14, 2010, 3 pm • Single tickets: $25 (adult)/$20 (senior/student) • Tickets available at the Gramophone, TIX on the Square, door

Alberta Choral Federation • al-

bertachoralfederation.ca • Music Conference • RDC Mainstage, Red Deer: MCA opening concert featuring pianist Angela Cheng; Thu, Nov 4, 2010, 7:30 pm • RDC Mainstage, Red Deer: Alberta Honour Band and Alberta Youth Choir; Fri, Nov 5, 2010, 8 pm; tickets: $10 • Capri Centre's Santano Rm, Red Deer: MCA choral concert; Sat, Nov 6, 2010, 3 pm; tickets: $10

Arden Theatre • 5 St Anne St • 780.459.1542 •

ardentheatre.com • Alexander Sevastian (accordion); Nov 7, 2010, 11am brunch, 12pm performance • Tickets on sale Aug 9, 10 am at the Arden box office

Cosmopolitan Music Society of Edmonton • Winspear Centre • Lest We Forget

... A Musical Tribute • Sun, Nov 7, 2010, 7:30 - 10 pm • Tickets: $20, available at Cosmopolitan Music Society 780.432.9333, Edmonton and area Legion Branches, and TIX on the Square • E: generalmanager@cosmopolitanmusic.org

THE EDMONTON CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY • Convocation Hall, U of A Campus •

edmontonchambermusic.org • Paolo Pandolfo (viola da gamba) • Sat, Nov 27, 2010, 8 pm • Tickets: $30 (adult)/$20 (senior)/$10 (student) available at TIX on the Square, The Gramophone, door

Edmonton Classical Guitar Society • Muttart Hall, Alberta College, 10050 Macdonald

Dr • 780.489.9580 • edmontonclassicalguitarsociety.org • Irina Kulikova, guitar • Fri, Nov 19, 2010, 8 pm • Tickets $25 (adult)/$20 (student/senior/member) available at TIX on the Square, Avenue Guitars, Acoustic Music Shop, ECGS, and at the door

Edmonton Raga-Mala Music Society • Horowitz Theatre, 8900 - 114 St, U of A Campus • 780.445.7771 • edmontonragamala.ab.ca • Dance With Live Music: Rama Vaidyanathan (bharathanatyam), Ramamoorty Sriganesh (nattuvangam), Indu Nair (vocal), Arun Kumar (mridangam), G. S. Rajan (flute) • Nov 20, 2010, 7:30 pm

Edmonton Symphony Orchestra

• Winspear Centre, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.428.1414 • edmontonsymphony.com • Symphony Specials: Chantal Kreviazuk (singer/songwriter); Nov 1,

2010, 7:30 pm • Symphony for Kids: Platypus Theatre's "Emily Saves the Orchestra"; Pre-concert Activities from 1 - 1:45 pm; Nov 6, 2010, 2 pm • Sunday Showcase: Saint-Saëns' First Cello Concerto: David Eggert (cello), Christopher Taylor (bass trombone); Nov 21, 2010, 2 pm • Masters: Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto: Elmar Oliveira (violin); Nov 12, 2010, 7:30 pm; Nov 13, 2010, 8 pm • Robbins Lighter Classics: ESO Showcase; Nov 18, 2010, 8 pm • Midweek Classics: Haydn's Surprise Symphony: Lucas Waldin (conductor); Nov 24, 2010, 7:30 pm • Saturday Masters: Rolston and Fewer play Brahms; Nov 27, 2010, 8 pm • Symphony Specials: Michael Kaeshammer's The Days of Christmas: Michael Kaeshammer (piano); Nov 30, 2010, 7:30 pm • Tickets available at Winspear Centre box office

Edmonton Youth Orchestra •

780.436.7932 • eyso.com • Eric Harvie Theatre, Banff Centre for the Arts: Banff Senior Orchestra • Sun, Nov 14, 2010, 2 pm • Winspear Centre: Senior and Intermediate Orchestras; Sun, Nov 28, 2 pm; tickets: $15 (adult)/$10 (senior/ student) • Tickets available at TIX on the Square

FESTIVAL PLACE • 100 Festival Way, Sherwood

Park • 780.449.3378 • festivalplace.ab.ca • Daniel Taylor (classical singer) • Nov 14, 2010, 7:30 pm • Tickets: $24 (table)/$22 (box)/$18 (theatre) available at Festival Place box office

Lois Hole Library • 17650 - 69 Ave •

780.442.0888 • Sunday Afternoon Music: live musical performances • Sun, Nov 7, 2010, 2 -3 pm • Drop-in

Pro Coro Canada • McDougall United

able at the Department of Music office, 780.492.0601, or at the door on the day of the event

December 2010 December 2010

art GALLERIES/MUSEUMS: DEC 2010 Agnes Bugera Gallery • 12310 Jasper Ave

• 780.482.2854 • agnesbugeragallery.com • Artworks by Jerry Heine • Nov 27 - Dec 10, 2010 • Opening reception: Nov 27, 2 - 4 pm, artist in attendance

Alberta Craft Council • 10186 - 106 St •

780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Feature Gallery: Prairie Excellence: A juried touring exhibition of fine craft from Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba; Oct 2 - Dec 18, 2010 • Discovery Gallery: words, wit, wisdom and wool: Inspired by words and expressed in three-dimensional fibre works by Red Deer artist Matt Gould; Nov 6 - Dec 24, 2010

Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) • 2 Sir

Centre d'arts visuels de l'Alberta

Church, 10025 Macdonald Dr • procoro.ab.ca • Voices United: Male and female voices with Trent Worthington (conductor) • Sun, Nov 21, 2010, 2:30 pm • Tickets: $30 (adult)/$25 (senior/student) available at the Winspear box office

• 9103 - 95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • Fantasy: Artworks by Jeannette Ouellette (acrylic and watercolour paintings), Keith Nolan (paintings), Marie-Joëlle Driard (watercolours) and Yves Caron (photos); Nov 26 - Dec 7 • Miniatures and More: Featuring more than 35 artists; Dec 10 - 23, 2010; opening reception: Dec 10

U of A Music at Convocation Hall

Common Sense Gallery • 10546 - 115 St •

• Convocation Hall, U of A • music.ualberta.ca • The Enterprise String Quartet with Janet Scott Hoyt • Mon, Nov 1, 2010, 8pm • Tickets: $20 (adult)/$15 (student/ senior)/special rates available for visiting school groups • Tickets available through the Department of Music's office, 780.492.0601, at the door on the day of the event

U of A Music at Winspear • Winspear

Centre • music.ualberta.ca • Symphonic Wind Ensemble with the U of A Concert Band • Tue, Nov 23, 2010, 8pm • Tickets: $20 (adult)/$15 (student/senior)/special rates available for visiting school groups • Tickets avail-

Fine Arts Building Gallery • Department of Art and Design, U of A, Rm 3-98 Fine Arts Bldg • 780.492.2081 • Artworks by Patrick Reed (Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking)/ Artworks by Megan Hahn

Recovery Acres (Calgary) Society presents

“Expressive and a delight to watch” -Washington Post “Beautiful and refined, exemplifies, loyalty to the classical vocabulary.”

-New York Times

“...kaleidoscopic costumes ...the dancing was paramount...” -Dallas Morning News

November 15-16 Jubilee Auditorium For tickets contact: 780-451-8000 or www.ticketmaster.ca www.moscowballetcanada.com 26 // THE SEASON

VUEWEEKLY // AUG 5 – AUG 11 2010

(Master of Fine Arts in Drawing and Intermedia); Nov 9 - Dec 4, 2010 • Artworks by Anna House (Master of Fine Arts in Painting)/ Artworks by Lindsay Knox (Master of Fine Arts in Drawing and Intermedia); Dec 14 - 23, 2010 and Jan 4 - 15, 2011; opening reception: Dec 16, 7 - 10 pm

of vessels • Dec 2, 2010 - Jan 29, 2011

Gallery At Milner • Stanley A. Milner Library,

Royal Alberta Museum • 12845 - 102

7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383/780.496.7031 • Forest Rhythms: Acrylic paintings by Gail Echlin • Dec 1 - 30, 2010

Haggerty Centre–Stollery Gallery • Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, 9225 - 118 Ave • 780.474.7611 • ninahaggertyart.ca • Totemic Manifesto: Clay artworks by the Nina Haggerty Centre artists collective • Dec 2 - 23, 2010

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

SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35 - 5 Ave,

Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • Christmas Store: Artworks by members of the Allied Arts Council of Spruce Grove • Nov 22 - Dec 23, 2010 • Opening reception: Nov 26, 7 pm

780.426.4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca • Main Space: Artworks by local artist Julian Forrest • Front Room: Artworks by Ian Forbes • Nov 25 - Dec 17, 2010; opening reception: Thu, Nov 26

VAAA Gallery • 3rd fl, 10215 - 112 St • 780.421.1731

Harris-Warke Gallery–Red Deer •

West End Gallery • 12308 Jasper Ave •

Sunworks Home and Garden Store, Ross St, Red Deer • 403.346.8937 • harriswarkegallery.com • Ceramics by Sheila Kelba-Warawa; Nov 29 - Dec 31, 2010; opening reception: Dec 3, 6 - 8 pm

Jeff Allen Art Gallery • Strathcona Seniors

• Persona: Artworks by Debra Bachman Smith and Roxanne Driediger • Nov 20 - Dec 18, 2010 • Opening reception: Nov 20, 7 - 9:30 pm

780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • Market scenes and party scenes by Claudette Castonguay; Nov 20 Dec 2, 2010 • Christmas Calendar Show: Artworks by gallery artists selected to produce an artwork for West End Gallery's 2011 Calendar; Dec 4 - 31, 2010

Centre, 10831 University Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • Christmas Show and Sale: Artworks by previous exhibitors in the gallery in 2010 • Dec 1 - 22, 2010

Dance: Dec 2010

McMullen Gallery • U of A Hospital, 8440

Ave • 780.428.6839 • albertaballet.com • The Nutcracker• Dec 10-12, 2010 • Subscriptions for the 2010/2011 Season are on sale now; single tickets for select performances available at Alberta Ballet's box office

- 112 St • 780.407.7152 • The Crooked Trees of Alticane: Paintings by Ken Dalgarno • Oct 30 - Dec 24, 2010 • Opening reception: Nov 4, 7 - 9 pm

Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery–Stony Plain • 5411 - 51 St, Stony Plain • 780.963.9935 • Paintings and drawings by Mary Joyce • Dec 3, 2010 - Jan 11, 2011 • Opening reception: Dec 5, 2010

Naess Gallery • 10032 - 81 Ave • 780.432.0240 •

paintspot.ca • Mixed Media works by Natalie Shuchuck • Through Dec, 2010

Profiles Gallery–St Albert • 19 Perron

St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artsheritage.ca • Vessels: Ceramic vessels by Candice Ring, Mindy Andrews, Suzette Knudsen, Mary Swain; and Pierre Bataillard's paintings

Alberta Ballet • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455 - 87

Mile Zero Dance • Catalyst Theatre, 8529

Gateway Blvd • 780.424.1573 • BOOM: A Mile Zero Dance Salon curated by Kathy Ochoa. An evening of innovative short works from varied disciplines • Dec 5, 2010, 8 pm • Tickets: $10 (member)/$15 (non-member) available at the door

FILM: Dec 2010 Cinema At the Centre • Stanley A. Milner

Library • 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl. ca • Centre for Reading and the Arts showcases littleknown films every month in the Library Theatre. Titles to be announced

Downtown Docs • Stanley A. Milner Library

FAVA • Metro Cinema, 9828 - 101A Ave • fava.

ca • FAVA Freshworks: Experience new works of independent, artist-driven film and video art by FAVA members; see what's cutting edge in your community. Presented by FAVA and Metro Cinema • Sat, Dec 11, 2010, 7 pm • Tickets: $10 (adult)/$8 (student/senior)/$6 (FAVA member)

From Books to Film • Stanley A. Milner

Library, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl. ca • Weekly showings of films adapted from books • Every Fri at 2 pm; Sep 3 - Dec 17, 2010

LITERARY: Dec 2010 Café Haven • Sherwood Park, 9 Sioux Rd •

780.417.5523 • cafehaven.ca • Story Slam in the Park: Storywriters read/perform 5 minute, original stories • Dec 14, 2010; 2nd Tue of the month; starting again in Sep 2010 • $5 (reader registration; into the hat for the Slam Off)/$5 (suggested audience contribution; pass the hat)

Haven Social Club • 15120 Stony Plain Rd

• 780.915.8869 • Edmonton Story Slam • No cover; followed by a music jam • 3rd Wed every month; Wed, Dec 15, 2010; Sign up at 7 pm; Show starts at 7:30 pm • $5 (registration from writers to support the Society) • Winner walks out with all the audience donations

Stanley A. Milner Library • Centre

for Reading and the Arts - Main fl • epl.ca • Bookin' It–Booktalks for Adults • Thu, Dec 16, 2010, 2:30 pm and 12:15 pm

Strathcona County Library • 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8600 • sclibrary.ab.ca • Words in the Park: A one-day indoor event where people can meet local authors and enjoy an afternoon of book buying, entertainment and refreshments in the new library in the Community Centre • Sat, Dec 4, 1-4 pm • Free admission

T.A.L.E.S. MONTHLY STORYTELLING CIRCLE • Centennial Rm, Stanley Milner Library •

780.932.4409 • talesstorytelling.com • Tell stories or come to listen • 2nd Fri of the month; Sep 2010 - Jun 2011, 7 - 9 pm • Free

T.A.L.E.S. STORY CAFÉ SERIES • Rosie's Bar,

10475 - 80 Ave • 780.932.4409 • talesstorytelling.com • A Gift To Last; open mic opportunity • Dec 2, 2010, 7 - 9 pm • Cover charge: Pay-what-you-will ($6 min)

THEATRE: Dec 2010 A Christmas Carol • Citadel Maclab Theatre, 9828 - 101 A Ave • 780.426.4811 • citadeltheatre.com • Adapted by Tom Wood, based on the story by Charles Dickens, directed by Bob Baker and Geoffrey Brumlik • Nov 27 - Dec 23, 2010 • Robbins Family Series subscription information available at citadeltheatre.com

DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 10329 - 83 Ave •

Fall Festival of Scenes and One Acts • Concordia University College of Alberta

• Tegler Auditorium, 7128 Ada Boulevard • Phone 780.479.9269 • Fri, Dec 3 - 4, 7:30 pm; Sun, Dec 5, 2 pm • Pay-what-you-can

HARD CORE LOGO: LIVE • Theatre Network–

HEY LADIES! • Theatre Network–live at the Roxy,

10708 - 124 St • 780.453.2440 • theatrenetwork.ca • Roxy Performance Series: Starring Leona Brausen, Cathleen Rootsaert, Davina Stewart • Fri, Dec 10, 2010 • Tickets available at Theatre Network's box office, 780.453.2440

Irving Berlin's White Christmas

• Festival Place, 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • 780.449.3378 • festivalplace.ab.ca • Presented by Festival Players, music and lyrics by Irving Berlin, book by David Ives and Paul Blake • Dec 17 - 30, 2010 • Tickets: $32 (adult)/$20 (child); Meals are available for some shows of this production, for a separate additional charge: to make meal arrangements contact the Festival Place box office at 780.449.3378 at least 48 hours before the date

of the show

Jack and the Beanstalk • Westbury

Theatre, TransAlta Arts Barns • 10330 - 84 Ave • 780.448.9000 • fringetheatre.ca • Fringe Theatre Adventures Family Theatre: Musical theatre rendition of the fairy tale classic • Dec 3-12, 2010 • Tickets: $18 (adult)/$15 (student/senior)/$12.50 (child); Family Adventure packages: $49 (adult)/$41 (student/senior)/$34 (child under 12)

MOSTLY WATER • Theatre Network–live at the

Roxy, 10708 - 124 St • 780.453.2440 • theatrenetwork. ca • Roxy Performance Series: Mostly Water Theatre mix live stage performance with video shorts, musical guests, games, prizes and more, producing a game/talk show unlike anything you have seen before • Sat, Dec 18, 2010 • Tickets available at Theatre Network's box office, 780.453.2440

Much Ado About Nothing • Walterdale

Theatre, 10322 - 83 Ave • 780.439.2845 • walterdaleplayhouse.com • By William Shakespeare, directed by Anne Marie Szucs • Dec 1 - 11, 2010 • Tickets: Subscriptions start at $72 (adult)/$62 (student/senior); Flex Pass: $45 (3 tickets in the season) available at TIX on the Square at 780.420.1757

OH SUSANNA! CHRISTMAS SPECIAL •

Varscona Theatre, 10329 - 83 Ave • 780.433.3399 • varsconatheatre.com • The Euro-style variety spectacle's annual Christmas bash, hosted by enchanting elf Susanna Patchouli and the ever-jolly Eros, God of Love, featuring seasonal songs, holiday humour, and plenty of eggnog • Sat, Dec 18, 2010, 11 pm

SAVAGE IN LIMBO • Timms Centre, U of A

Campus • 780.492.2495 • drama.ualberta.ca/studiotheatre.cfm • Studio Theatre • Five lost souls in a seedy bar may have one last call for their dreams of a better life. A one-act play by John Patrick Shanley, directed by Kim McCaw • Dec 2 - 11, 2010; matinee Dec 9 • Subscriptions start at $53 (student)/$83 (adult) at the Timms Centre for the Arts box office

THE SUPER GROOVY '70S PART 2: KEEP ON TRUCKIN' • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615

- 109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Nov 16 Feb 16, 2011 • Season ticket packages from $229

Tom Jones and the Temple of Doom • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, 8882 - 170 St •

780.484.2424 • jubilations.ca • Oct 29 - Jan 22, 2011; seating: Wed - Sat, 6:15 - 6:40pm; Sun, 5 pm

MUSIC: Dec 2010 Arden Theatre • 5 St Anne St • 780.459.1542 •

ardentheatre.com • Jazzy Christmas with PJ Perry & Bill Mays • Dec 10, 2010, 7:30 pm • Tickets on sale Aug 9, 10 am at the Arden box office

Dow Centennial Centre's Shell Theatre–Fort Saskatchewan • 8700 - 84 St

Fort Saskatchewan • 780.992.6400 • fortsask.ca/ftsk_ thingstodo/Shell_Theatre.aspx • Fort Series: A Country Christmas with The Gates Family and Visions Country Gospel • Sun, Dec 5, 2010, 7 pm • Tickets: $25 (adult)/$22 (senior/youth) • Professional Series: An Elvis Christmas starring Roy LeBlanc, World Champion Elvis • Fri, Dec 3, 2010, 7:30 pm • Tickets: $37.50 (adult)/$34.50 (senior/ youth) • Tickets available at 780.992.6400, TicketMaster

FESTIVAL PLACE • 100 Festival Way, Sherwood

Park • 780.449.3378 • festivalplace.ab.ca • A Freddy Cole Christmas (jazz); Dec 3, 2010, 7:30 pm; tickets: $36 (table)/$34 (box)/$30 (theatre) • The River City Big Band: A Jazzy Christmas; Dec 5, 2010, 7:30 pm; tickets: $32 (table)/$30 (box)/$28 (theatre) • Tom Jackson: Singing for Supper Christmas Concert; Dec 10, 2010, 7:30 pm; tickets: $36 (table)/$34 (box)/$30 (theatre) • The Rankin Sisters: A Maritime Christmas (Celtic); Dec 9, 2010, 7:30 pm; tickets: $60 (table)/$58 (box) /$56 (theatre) • Songs of John: Mark Sterling plays the music of John Lennon (pop-rock); Dec 11, 2010, 7:30 pm; tickets: $36 (table)/$34 (box)/$30 (theatre) • Tickets available at Festival Place box office

MacEwan Music Concert • John L Haar

Theatre • MacEwan Music Big Band Concert (Grant MacEwan University and U of A Big Bands) • Dec 6, 2010 • Tickets: available at TIX on the Square mid Sep, 780.420.1757

Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society • Pleasantview Community League, 10860

CLASSICAL MUSIC: Dec 2010 Alberta Baroque Ensemble • Robert-

son–Wesley United Church, 10209 - 123 St • 780.467.6531 • Music for a Festive Season: Jolaine Kerley (soprano), U of A Madrigal Singers • Sun, Dec 5, 2010, 3 pm and 7:30 pm • Single tickets: $25 (adult)/$20 (senior/student) • Tickets available at the Gramophone, TIX on the Square, door

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Cosmopolitan Music Society of Edmonton • Old Strathcona Performing Arts

Centre 8426 Gateway Boulevard • A Very Cosmopolitan Christmas • Sat, Dec 4, 11, 2010, 7:30 - 10 pm; Sun Dec 5, 12, 2010, 2:30 - 4 pm • Tickets: $10 (adv adult)/$7 (adv student/senior) at door; $12 (adult)/$9 (student/senior) • E: generalmanager@cosmopolitanmusic.org

Da Camera Singers • First Baptist Church,

10031 - 109 St • Tidings of Joy: Christmas concert featuring Ottorino Respighi's "Lauda per la Nativita del Signore" as well as works by Sir John Tavener, Henryk Górecki and Arvo Pärt • Dec 19, 2010, 3 pm • Tickets: $20 (adult)/$15 (student/senior)

Edmonton Recital Society• Muttart Hall, Alberta College, 10050 Macdonald Dr • edmontonrecital.com • Main Series: Featuring: Daniel Bolshoy (classical guitar) • Sun, Dec 5, 2010, 7:30 pm • Tickets: $30 (adult)/$20 (senior/student) available at TIX on the Square

Edmonton Symphony Orchestra

• Winspear Centre, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.428.1414 • edmontonsymphony.com • Symphony Specials: Handel's Messiah: Richard Eaton Singers; Dec 3 - 4, 2010, 7:30 pm • Canadian Tenors–Perfect Gift: the Canadian Tenors; Dec 6 - 7, 2010, 7:30 pm • Family Christmas Concert; Dec 19, 2010, 1:30 pm, 3:30 pm • Robbins Lighter Classics: Glad Tidings - A Lightly Classical Christmas: Bob Bernhardt (guest conductor), Archbishop Richard Smith (narrator); Dec 16, 2010, 8 pm • Robbins Pops: Christmas Pops: Robert Bernhardt (conductor), Times Three (vocal trio); Fri, Dec 17, 2010, 8 pm • Tickets available at Winspear Centre box office

Horizon Stage • 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce

Grove • 780.962.8995 • Richard Eaton Singers: Handel's Messiah • Sat, Dec 18, 7:30 pm • Tickets: $35 (adult)/$30 (student/senior)/$5 eyeGO; available at Horizon Stage box office, TicketMaster

Lois Hole Library • 17650 - 69 Ave •

780.442.0888 • Sunday Afternoon Music: live musical performances • Sun, Dec 5, 2010, 2 -3 pm • Drop-in

Pro Coro Canada • Winspear Centre, Sir

Winston Churchill Sq • 780.428.1414 • procoro.ab.ca • A Pro Coro Christmas: Jeremy Spurgeon on the Davis Concert Organ, Trent Worthington (conductor) • Dec 12, 2:30 pm • Tickets available at the Winspear Centre for Music, variety of ticket prices

U of A Music at Convocation Hall

• Convocation Hall, U of A • music.ualberta.ca • Trio Voce • Sat, Dec 4, 2010, 8pm • Tickets: $20 (adult)/$15 (student/senior)/special rates available for visiting school groups • Tickets available through the Department of Music's office, 780.492.0601, at the door on the day of the event

January 2011

art GALLERIES/MUSEUMS: Jan 2011 Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) • 2 Sir

Fine Arts Building Gallery • Department of Art and Design, U of A, Rm 3-98 Fine Arts Bldg • 780.492.2081 • Artworks by Anna House (Master of Fine Arts in Painting) • Artworks by Lindsay Knox (Master of Fine Arts in Drawing and Intermedia) • Dec 14 - 23, 2010 and Jan 4 - 15, 2011 • Opening reception: Dec 16, 7 - 10 pm

Gallery At Milner • Stanley A. Milner Library, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383/780.496.7031 • Sunrealm: Acrylic and graphite paintings by Pat Wagensveld • Jan 4 - 31, 2011

Haggerty Centre - Stollery Gallery • Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, 9225 - 118

Ave • 780.474.7611 • ninahaggertyart.ca • iHuman group exhibition • Jan 5 - 30, 2011

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

780.426.4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca • Main Space: Installation by local artist Sherri Chaba • Front Room: I make my own friends: Local artist Cynthia Fuhrer • Jan 6 - Feb 12, 2011 • Opening reception: Thu, Jan 6, 7 - 10 pm

Harris-Warke Gallery–Red Deer •

Jeff Allen Art Gallery • 10831 University Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • Artworks by

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Douglas Lester; Jan 4 - 25, 2011; opening reception: Jan 12, 6:30 - 8:30 pm • Landscape and portrait paintings, collage and photos by Elizabeth Verhagen; Jan 28 - Feb 23, 2011; opening reception: Feb 9

22, 2011, 8 pm • Tickets: $30 (adult)/$20 (student/senior) available at TIX on the Square, 780.420.1757

Latitude 53 • 10248 - 106 St • 780.423.5353 •

• Tales from Ukraine: With the ESO and narrator Gene Zwozdesky • Jan 13, 2011, 8 pm

latitude53.org • Main Gallery: Works by Jason de Haan • Jan 14 - Feb 12, 2011

McMullen Gallery • U of A Hospital,

8440 - 112 St • 780.407.7152 • Photo-abstracts by David Baine • Jan 8 - Mar 13, 2011 • Opening reception: Jan 13, 7 - 9 pm

Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery–Stony Plain • 5411 - 51 St, Stony Plain

• 780.963.9935 • Paintings and drawings by Mary Joyce; Dec 3, 2010 - Jan 11, 2011; opening reception: Dec 5 • Artworks by Lucy Doull; Jan 14 - Feb 16, 2011; opening reception: Jan 16

Naess Gallery • 10032 - 81 Ave • 780.432.0240 •

paintspot.ca • Drawings and paintings by Justina Smith • Through Jan, 2011

Profiles Gallery–St Albert • 19 Perron

St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artsheritage.ca • Vessels: Ceramics by Candice Ring, Mindy Andrews, Suzette Knudsen, Mary Swain, and Pierre Bataillard's paintings of vessels • Dec 2, 2010 - Jan 29, 2011

Royal Alberta Museum • 12845 - 102

VAAA Gallery • 3rd flr, 10215 - 112 St •

780.421.1731 • Tumulus's Trees: Fantasy Artworks by Ricardo Copado and the study of hills and mounds by Robert Dmytruk • Jan 6 - Feb 12, 2011 • Opening Reception: Jan 6, 7 - 9:30 pm

Cheremosh Ukrainian Dance Company • Winspear Centre, Sir Winston Churchill Sq

Mile Zero Dance • The ARTery, 9535 Jasper Ave • 780.424.1573 • BUST: A Mile Zero Dance Salon curated by Shawn Pinchbeck. An evening of innovative short works from varied disciplines • Jan 29, 2011, 8 pm • Tickets: $10 (member)/$15 (non-member) available at the door

LITERARY: Jan 2011 Café Haven • Sherwood Park, 9 Sioux Rd •

780.417.5523 • cafehaven.ca • Story Slam in the Park: Slam Off–the competition from the previous months' winners; Storywriters read/perform 5 minute, original stories • 2nd Tue of the month; Jan 11, 2011 • $5 (reader registration; into the hat for the Slam Off)/$5 (suggested audience contribution; pass the hat)

Haven Social Club • 15120 Stony Plain Rd

Freeman on the Land • Living Room Play-

house, 11315 - 106 Ave • azimuththeatre.com • By Steve Pirot• Jan 18 - Feb 5, 2011 • Tickets available at the box office, 780.454.0583

HEY LADIES! • Theatre Network–live at the Roxy,

10708 - 124 St • 780.453.2440 • theatrenetwork.ca • Roxy Performance Series: Starring Leona Brausen, Cathleen Rootsaert, Davina Stewart • Fri, Jan 14, 2011 • Tickets available at Theatre Network's box office, 780.453.2440

780.471.1586 • northernlighttheatre.com • Presented by Northern Light Theatre and Shadow Theatre • By playwright, Leif Olson-Cormack, inspired by the truelife events surrounding NBC's To Catch a Predator television show, world premiere • Jan 21 - Feb 6, 2011 • Preview: $15 (adult/senior)/free (student); Opening: $25 (adult/student/senior, incl opening night reception); all other performances: $20 (adult)/$18 (student/senior); season subsciptions are now available

780.932.4409 • talesstorytelling.com • Tell stories or come to listen • 2nd Fri of the month; Sep 2010 - Jun 2011, 7 - 9 pm • Free

T.A.L.E.S. STORY CAFÉ SERIES • Rosie's Bar, 10475 - 80 Ave • 780.932.4409 • talesstorytelling.com • Silk Road • Jan 6, 2011, 7 - 9 pm • Cover charge: Paywhat-you-will ($6 min)

August: Osage County • Citadel Shoctor

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DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 10329 - 83 Ave •

T.A.L.E.S. MONTHLY STORYTELLING CIRCLE • Centennial Rm, Stanley Milner Library •

Arden Theatre • 5 St Anne St • 780.459.1542

Centre for the Arts, 87 Ave, 112 St, • 780.420.1757 • bwdc. ca • Relay: Ame Henderson/Public Recordings • Jan 21 -

Playing Space, Timms Centre for the Arts, University of Alberta • 780.477.5955 ext 301 • workshopwest.org • Presented by Workshop West Theatre • Jan 19 - 23, 2011

Mama Mio • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, 8882 - 170

THEATRE: Jan 2011

Brian Webb Dance Company • Timms

The Canoe Theatre Festival • Second

• 780.915.8869 • Edmonton Story Slam • No cover; followed by a music jam • 3rd Wed every month; Wed, Jan 19, 2011; Sign up at 7 pm; Show starts at 7:30 pm • $5 (registration from writers to support the Society) • Winner walks out with all the audience donations

Dance: Jan 2011 • ardentheatre.com • CIRCA: Australia-based show features the classic charm of traditional circus injected with contemporary dance • Jan 28, 2011, 8 pm • Tickets on sale Aug 9, 10 am at the Arden box office

- Feb 20, 2011 • Classic Landmarks Master Builder Mainstage Series subscription information available at citadeltheatre.com

Theatre, 9828 - 101 A Ave • 780.426.4811 • citadeltheatre.com • By Tracy Letts, directed by Bob Baker, starring Fiona Reid and Brenda Robins. When the large Weston family unexpectedly reunites after Dad disappears, the homestead explodes in a maelstrom of repressed truths and unsettling secrets. Extremely strong language, mature themes, smoking • Jan 29

St • 780.484.2424 • jubilations.ca • Jan 28 - Apr 3, 2011; seating: Wed - Sat: 6:15 - 6:40pm; Sun: 5 pm

MEAT PUPPET • Varscona Theatre, 10329 83 Ave •

Mozart: Ze Komplete Hystery •

Westbury Theatre, TransAlta Arts Barns • 10330 - 84 Ave • 780.448.9000 • fringetheatre.ca • Fringe Theatre Adventures presents Rainer Hersch's take on the character of Wolfgang Amadeus using costume, comedy and piano playing • Jan 20 - 30, 2011 • Tickets: $23 (adult)/$19 (student/senior); Fringe Adventure packages: $62 (adult)/$51 (student/senior)

The Music Man • John L Haar Theatre • Mac-

Ewan Main Stage • Jan 21 - 29 2011 • Tickets: available at TIX on the Square mid Sep, 780.420.1757

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OH SUSANNA! • Varscona Theatre • 10329 - 83 Ave

• 780.433.3399 • varsconatheatre.com • The Euro-style variety spectacle with Susanna Patchouli and her divine co-host Eros, God of Love! Laughs! Music! Cocktails! • Sat, Jan 29, 11 pm

The Spiral Dive Trilogy • La Cité Francophone, 8627 - 91 St • 780.477.5955 ext 301 • workshopwest.org • Presented by Workshop West Theatre • Jan 6 - 23, 2011

THE SUPER GROOVY '70S PART 2: KEEP ON TRUCKIN' • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615

- 109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Nov 16 Feb 16, 2011 • Season ticket packages from $229

Tom Jones and the Temple of Doom

• Jubilations Dinner Theatre, 8882 - 170 St • 780.484.2424 • jubilations.ca • Oct 29 - Jan 22, 2011; seating: Wed Sat: 6:15 - 6:40pm; Sun: 5 pm

MUSIC: Jan 2011 Arden Theatre • 5 St Anne St • 780.459.1542 •

ardentheatre.com • Quartango; Jan 20, 2011, 7:30 pm • Loudon Wainwright III; Jan 26, 2011, 7:30 pm • Tickets on sale Aug 9, 10 am at the Arden box office

Dow Centennial Centre's Shell Theatre–Fort Saskatchewan • 8700 - 84

St, Fort Saskatchewan • 780.992.6400 • fortsask.ca/ ftsk_thingstodo/Shell_Theatre.aspx • Fort Series: An Evening of Bluegrass with Curtis Appleton and Friends; Sat, Jan 8, 2011, 7:30 pm; tickets: $ 15.50 (adult)/$10.50 (senior/youth)/ $5 eyeGO • Professional Series: DALA with Kaitlyn-Marie Robertson and Billie Jo Smith; Sat, Jan 22, 2010, 8 pm; tickets: $25.50 (adult)/$22.50 (senior/ youth) • Tickets available at 780.992.6400, TicketMaster

FESTIVAL PLACE • 100 Festival Way, Sherwood

Park • 780.449.3378 • festivalplace.ab.ca • Cafe Series: Sultans of String (world); Jan 14, 2011, 7:30 pm; tickets: $18 • Kiran Ahluwalia, Rhythm of Rajasthan (world); Jan 27, 2011, 7:30 pm; tickets: $36 (table)/$34 (box)/$30 (theatre) • Carlene Carter (country); Jan 22, 2011, 7:30 pm; tickets: $36 (table)/$34 (box)/$30 (theatre) • William Joseph (pop-rock); Jan 28, 2011, 7:30 pm; tickets: $40 (table)/$36 (box)/$32 (theatre) • Tuck and Patti ( jazz); Jan 21, 2011, 7:30 pm; tickets: $36 (table)/$34 (box)/$30 (theatre) • Front Porch Roots Revue (folk); Jan 15, 2011, 7:30 pm; tickets: $36 (table)/$34 (box)/$30 (theatre) • Songs are like Tattoos: A Tribute to Joni Mitchell (folk); Jan 29, 2011, 7:30 pm; tickets: $32 (table)/$30 (box)/$28 (theatre) • Tickets available at Festival Place box office

FULL MOON FOLK CLUB • St Basil's Cultural

Centre, 10819-71 Ave • fmfc.org • Tremoloco with special guest: Rick Shea • Jan 21, 2011, 7 pm (door), 8 pm (show) • Tickets: $17 (adv)/$20 (door)/$10 (child under 12, door) available at TIX on the Square

Horizon Stage • 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce

Grove • 780.962.8995 • The Shirleys; Sat, Jan 15, 7:30 pm; tickets: $25 (adult)/$20 (student/senior)/$5 eyeGO • Masabo; Sat, Jan 22, 2 pm (family); tickets: $15 (all ages) • The Nylons; Wed, Jan 26, 2 pm, 7:30 pm; tickets: $30 (adult)/$25 (student/senior)/$5 eyeGO • Tickets available at Horizon Stage box office, TicketMaster

MacEwan Music Concert • John L Haar

Theatre • MacEwan Music Showcase Band Concert • Jan 7, 2011 • Tickets: available at TIX on the Square mid Sep, 780.420.1757

Maclab Centre for the Performing Arts - Leduc • 4308 - 50 St, Leduc • maclabcentre. com • Performance Series: Sultans of String • Fri, Jan 21, 2011 • Tickets: $27 (adult)/$22 (student/senior) at TIX on the Square, Leduc Recreation Centre

Northern Lights Folk Club • TransAlta Arts Barns, 10330 - 84 Ave • northernlightsfc.ca • Blue Bird North (Karla Anderson, Rob Heath, John Wort Hannam, John Mann) • Sat, Jan 15, 2011 • Tickets: $18 • Season package info by T: 780.288.8111; ticket outlet info at northernlightsfc.ca

CLASSICAL MUSIC: Jan 2011 Alberta Baroque Ensemble • Robert-

son–Wesley United Church, 10209 - 123 St • 780.467.6531 • Brilliant Baroque: Robin Doyon (trumpet) • Sun, Jan 16, 2011, 3 pm • Single tickets: $25 (adult)/$20 (senior/ student) • Tickets available at the Gramophone, TIX on the Square, door

Arden Theatre • 5 St Anne St • 780.459.1542 •

ardentheatre.com • On Stage Series: Evgeny Starodubtsev 2009 Honens Laureate (classical piano); Jan 23, 2011, 11am brunch, 12pm performance • Tickets on sale Aug 9, 10 am at the Arden box office

Cosmopolitan Music Society of Edmonton • Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre 8426 Gateway Boulevard • Cosmo Luau: A Luau dinner, dancing and frivolity • Sat, Jan 29, 2011, 6 - 11:45 pm • E: generalmanager@cosmopolitanmusic.org

THE EDMONTON CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY • Convocation Hall, U of A Campus •

edmontonchambermusic.org • Tafelmusik Baroque Ensemble • Sat, Jan 29, 2011, 8 pm • Tickets: $30 (adult)/$20 (senior)/$10 (student) available at TIX on the Square, The Gramophone, door

Edmonton Recital Society • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 10037 - 84 Ave • edmontonrecital. com • Emerging Artist Series: Featuring Jason Cutmore (piano) • Sun, Jan 2, 2011, 3 pm • Admission free; donations welcome

Edmonton Symphony Orchestra

• Winspear Centre, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.428.1414 • edmontonsymphony.com • Saturday Masters: Saint-Saëns' Second Piano Concerto: Dubravka Tomšič, Gregory Vajda (piano); Jan 8, 2011, 8 pm • Concerto for Percussion: Colin Currie (percussion), Bill Eddins; Jan 22, 2011, 8 pm • Robbins Lighter Classics: Tales from Ukraine; Jan 13, 2011, 8 pm • Symphony for Kids: Roald Dahl's Little Red Riding Hood; Pre-concert Activities from 1 - 1:45 pm; Jan 15, 2011, 2 pm • Late Night with Bill Eddins: Late Night Percussion: Colin Currie (percussion); Jan 21, 2011, 9:30 pm • Midweek Classics: Violin and Viola: Andrew Wan (Concertmaster of the Montreal Symphony), Charles Pilon (viola); Jan 26, 2011, 7:30 pm • Sunday Showcase: Grieg's Piano Concerto: Gilles Vonsattel (piano), Scott Whetham (Tuba); Jan 30, 2011, 2 pm • Tickets available at Winspear Centre box office

photos by Elizabeth Verhagen; Jan 28 - Feb 23, 2011; opening reception: Feb 9 • Watercolours and coloured pencil works by Julie Drew; Feb 24 - Mar 31, 2011; opening reception: Mar 9

sculptural everyday objects; Feb 24 - Mar 26, 2011; opening reception: Feb 24, 7 - 9:30 pm

Latitude 53 • 10248 - 106 St • 780.423.5353 •

FESTIVAL PLACE • 100 Festival Way, Sherwood

latitude53.org • Main Gallery: Works by Jason de Haan; Jan 14 - Feb 12, 2011 • Works by Mathieu Valade; Feb 25 - Apr 2, 2011 • 53 Ways To Leave Your Lover: An antiValentines Day fundraiser; Feb 19, 2011

McMullen Gallery • U of A Hospital,

8440 - 112 St • 780.407.7152 • Photo-abstracts by David Baine • Jan 8 - Mar 13, 2011 • Opening reception: Jan 13, 7 - 9 pm

Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery–Stony Plain • 5411 - 51 St, Stony Plain

• 780.963.9935 • Artworks by Lucy Doull; Jan 14 - Feb 16, 2011; opening reception: Jan 16 • Collage, mixed media paintings by William Quast; Feb 18 - Mar 16, 2011; opening reception: Feb 20

Profiles Gallery–St Albert • 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artsheritage.ca • The Woods are lovely, dark and deep: Artworks by Susan Casault, Kathryn Manry, Judith Martin, Arlene Wasylynchuk, Lesley Roy • Feb 3 - Apr 2, 2011

VAAA Gallery • 3rd fl, 10215 - 112 St • 780.421.1731

• Tumulus's Trees: Fantasy Artworks by Ricardo Copado and the study of hills and mounds by Robert Dmytruk; Jan 6 - Feb 12, 2011; opening reception: Jan 6, 7 - 9:30 pm • Reflections: Artworks paintings of water by Kathryn Manry, Jinzhe Cui's memory photos and Kim Bruce

Comedy: FEB 2011 Park • 780.449.3378 • festivalplace.ab.ca • The Second City presents Stephen Harper the Musical • Feb 3, 2011, 7:30 pm • Tickets: $32 (table)/$30 (box)/$28 (theatre) available at Festival Place box office

Maclab Centre for the Performing Arts–Leduc • 4308 - 50 St, Leduc • maclabcentre. com • Family Series: Sheldon Casavant • Sun, Feb 20, 2011 • Tickets: $10 at TIX on the Square, Leduc Recreation Centre

Dance: Feb 2011 Alberta Ballet • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455 - 87

Ave • 780.428.6839 • albertaballet.com • Four Seasons and Cantata accompanied by Gruppo Musicale Assurd • Feb 15 - 16, 2011 • Subscriptions for the 2010/2011 Season are on sale now; single tickets for select performances available at Alberta Ballet's box office

Brian Webb Dance Company • Timms

Centre for the Arts, 87 Ave, 112 St • 780.420.1757 • bwdc. ca • Under the Skin: A new full-length collaborative work for 12 dancers from Wen Wei Dance and the Beijing Modern Dance Company; Feb 26 - 27, 2011, 8 pm; tickets: $30 (adult)/$20 (student/senior) available at TIX on the Square, 780.420.1757 • Pteros Tactics: Toronto Dance Theatre examines the instant of

desire as described by Anne Carson in her essay Eros the Bittersweet; Feb 26 - 27, 2011, 8 pm; tickets: $30 (adult)/$20 (student/senior) available at TIX on the Square, 780.420.1757

Dow Centennial Centre's Shell Theatre–Fort Saskatchewan • 8700 - 84

St, Fort Saskatchewan • 780.992.6400 • fortsask.ca/ ftsk_thingstodo/Shell_Theatre.aspx • Professional Series: Ballet Jorgen Canada's Coppelia: A Doll Comes To Life • Sun, Feb 27, 2011, 2 pm • Tickets: $38.50 (adult)/$34 (senior/youth) • Tickets available at 780.992.6400, TicketMaster

LITERARY: Feb 2011 Haven Social Club

• 15120 Stony Plain Rd • 780.915.8869 • Edmonton Story Slam • No cover; followed by a music jam • 3rd Wed every month; Wed, Feb 16, 2011; Sign up at 7 pm; Show starts at 7:30 pm • $5 (registration from writers to support the Society) • Winner walks out with all the audience donations

T.A.L.E.S. MONTHLY STORYTELLING CIRCLE • Centennial Rm, Stanley Milner Library •

780.932.4409 • talesstorytelling.com • Tell stories or come to listen • 2nd Fri of the month; Sep 2010 - Jun 2011, 7 - 9 pm • Free

T.A.L.E.S. STORY CAFÉ SERIES • Rosie's Bar, 10475 - 80 Ave • 780.932.4409 • talesstorytelling.com • Love Bites • Feb 3, 2011, 7 - 9 pm • Cover charge: Paywhat-you-will ($6 min)

Edmonton Youth Orchestra • Muttart Hall, Alberta College • 780.436.7932 • eyso.com • 30th Annual Northern Alberta Concerto Competition: Strings, Woodwinds and Brass • Sun, Jan 9, 2011 • Tickets available at TIX on the Square

SUNDAYS @ THREE • First Presbyterian Church,

10025 - 105 St • RCCO, Edmonton Centre Sundays @ Three Organ Recital Series: German organist Gregor Simon • Jan 9, 2011, 3 pm • Tickets: $15 at the door, TIX on the Square • Season subscriptions: $50 available at TIX on the Square; E: rcco@rcco.edmonton.ab.ca for information

U of A Music at Convocation Hall

• Convocation Hall, U of A • music.ualberta.ca • Bill Street (sax) with Roger Admiral (piano) • Sun, Jan 23, 2011, 3pm • Tickets: $20 (adult)/$15 (student/senior)/special rates available for visiting school groups • Tickets available through the Department of Music's office, 780.492.0601, at the door on the day of the event

U of A Music at Winspear • Winspear

Centre • music.ualberta.ca • Making Music: A Department of Music Fundraiser • Mon, Jan 24, 2011, 8pm • Tickets: $20 (adult)/$15 (student/senior)/special rates available for visiting school groups • Tickets available at the Department of Music office, 780.492.0601, or at the door on the day of the event

February 2011

art GALLERIES/MUSEUMS: FEB 2010 Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) • 2 Sir

Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • Henri Matisse: A Celebration of Light and Line: Oct 30, 2010 - Feb 13, 2011 • Symbolist Muse: Nov 20 - Mar 13, 2011

Gallery At Milner • Stanley A. Milner Library, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383/780.496.7031 • Exile of the Trees: Paintings by Ricardo Copado • Feb 1 - Mar 1, 2011

Haggerty Centre - Stollery Gallery • Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, 9225 - 118

Ave • 780.474.7611 • ninahaggertyart.ca • Artworks by Murray Allen and the Nina Haggerty Centre artists collective; Feb 4 - 28, 2011 • Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts 8th Birthday Sale and Auction in Feb

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

Harris-Warke Gallery–Red Deer •

Sunworks Home and Garden Store, Ross St, Red Deer • 403.346.8937 • harriswarkegallery.com • Book of Hours: Installation by Susan Delaney • Jan 10 - Feb 11, 2011 • Opening reception: Feb 4, 6 - 8 pm • Paintings by Leila Bjerland; Feb 21 - Mar 25, 2011; opening reception: Mar 4, 6 - 8 pm

Jeff Allen Art Gallery • Strathcona Seniors Centre, 10831 University Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • Landscape and portrait paintings, collage and

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THE 39 STEPS • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615

- 109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Feb 11 Apr 10, 2011 • Season ticket packages from $229

his father dies leaving them penniless. Play adapted by Richard Ouzounian, based on the classic novel by Charles Dickens, guest director Brian Deedrick • Feb 10-19, 2011; matinee Feb 17 • Subscriptions start at $53 (student)/$83 (adult) at the Timms Centre for the Arts box office

Another Home Invasion • Citadel Rice

Mama Mio • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, 8882

THEATRE: Feb 2011

Theatre, 9828 - 101 A Ave • 780.426.4811 • citadeltheatre. com • A one-woman show that explores the delicate and real challenges of aging with humour, by Joan Macleod. Directed by Richard Rose, starring Nicola Lipman; a Tarragon Theatre Production, originally co-produced with Alberta Theatre Projects. Part of the Rice Theatre Series; for mature audiences. Content and language may not be suitable for all patrons • Feb 12 - Mar 6, 2011 • Rice Theatre Series subscription information available at citadeltheatre.com

August: Osage County • Citadel Shoctor

Theatre, 9828 - 101 A Ave • 780.426.4811 • citadeltheatre. com • By Tracy Letts, directed by Bob Baker, starring Fiona Reid and Brenda Robins. When the large Weston family unexpectedly reunites after Dad disappears, the homestead explodes in a maelstrom of repressed truths and unsettling secrets. Extremely strong language, mature themes, smoking • Jan 29 - Feb 20, 2011 • Classic Landmarks Master Builder Mainstage Series subscription information available at citadeltheatre. com

The Barber of Barrhead • Westbury

Theatre, TransAlta Arts Barns • 10330 - 84 Ave • 780.448.9000 • fringetheatre.ca • Fringe Theatre Adventures Family Theatre • Collaboration between Edmonton Opera and Fringe Theatre Adventures, set in the Alberta Klondike and tells the story of Figaro, a barber and jack-of-all-trades who tries to unite the young Al with his love Rosie. A stepping stone into the world of opera for children as well as adults • Feb 17 26, 2011 • Tickets: $18 (adult)/$15 (student/senior)/$12.50 (child); Family Adventure packages: $49 (adult)/$41 (student/senior)/$34 (child under 12)

La chaise perdue • La Cité Francophone, 8627 rue Marie-Anne-Gaboury • 780.469.8400 • lunitheatre. ca • L'Uni Théâtre • By Louis-Dominique Lavigne et Luc LeBlanc (Tournée pour jeune public) • En tournée en Alberta: Feb 22/Mar 25, 2011, de même qu'en Colombie-Britannique

COMMUNION • Theatre Network–live at the Roxy, 10708 - 124 St • 780.453.2440 • theatrenetwork.ca • By Daniel MacIvor, starring Natascha Girgis, Kate Ryan, Sarah Sharkey, directed by Marianne Copithorne • Feb 1 - 2, 2011 (Preview); Feb 3 - 20, 2011 • Tickets available at Theatre Network's box office, 780.453.2440

DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 10329 - 83 Ave •

780.433.3399 • Live improvised soap opera continues its spectacular 20th season featuring passion, drama, betrayal, revenge, and a dazzling array of the city's finest comedic talents • Every Mon, Oct 25, 2010 - May 2011, 7:30 pm • Tickets available at the box office

Freeman on the Land • Living Room Play-

house, 11315 - 106 Ave • azimuththeatre.com • By Steve Pirot• Jan 18 - Feb 5, 2011 • Tickets available at the box office, 780.454.0583

HARD CORE LOGO: LIVE • Theatre Network–

JEKYLL AND HYDE in concert • La Cité

Francophone, 8627 rue Marie-Anne-Gaboury • Two One-Way Tickets to Broadway Productions present Wildhorn's Jekyll and Hyde • Feb 17 - 26, 2011 • Tickets available at twoonewaytickets.com

Jeremy Fisher • Dow Centennial Centre's Shell

Theatre - Fort Saskatchewan, 8700 - 84 St, Fort Saskatchewan • 780.992.6400 • fortsask.ca/ftsk_thingstodo/ Shell_Theatre.aspx • Family Series: Concrete Theatre presents Jeremy Fisher by Mohamed Rouabhi translated by Mieko Ouchi • Family Day, Mon, Feb 21, 2011, 3 pm; Feb 25 - 26, 2011 • Tickets: $15 (adult)/$10 (senior/youth) available at 780.992.6400, TicketMaster

LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL • Jubilee

Auditorium, 11455 - 87 Ave • Broadway Across Canada • Legally Blonde follows sorority star Elle Woods, an underestimated blonde who doesn't take "no" for an answer • Feb 22 - 27, 2011 • Season subscriptions include Grease and Legally Blonde the Musical, with option to purchase Mama Mia!, packages start at $106.80, available at 1.866.532.7469, BroadwayAcrossCanada.ca

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby • Timms Centre, U of A Campus

• 780.492.2495 • drama.ualberta.ca/studiotheatre.cfm • Studio Theatre • Nicholas Nickleby, a feisty young man who devotes himself to supporting his family after

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- 170 St • 780.484.2424 • jubilations.ca • Jan 28 - Apr 3, 2011; seating: Wed - Sat: 6:15 - 6:40pm; Sun: 5 pm

MEAT PUPPET • Varscona Theatre, 10329 83 Ave

• 780.471.1586 • northernlighttheatre.com • Northern Light Theatre and Shadow Theatre • By playwright, Leif Olson-Cormack, co-produced with Shadow Theatre, inspired by the true-life events surrounding NBC's To Catch a Predator television show, world premiere • Jan 21 - Feb 6, 2011 • Season subsciptions are now available

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OH SUSANNA! • Varscona Theatre • 10329 - 83 Ave • 780.433.3399 • varsconatheatre.com/ohsusanna • The Euro-style variety spectacle with Susanna Patchouli and her divine co-host Eros, God of Love! Laughs! Music! Cocktails! • Sat, Feb 26, 2011, 11 pm

La peau d'Élisa • La Cité Francophone, 8627 rue Marie-Anne-Gaboury • 780.469.8400 • lunitheatre.ca • L'Uni Théâtre • By Carole Fréchette • Feb 3 - 5, 2011; Feb 10 - 12, 8 pm; Feb 6 - 13, 2pm

Rabbit Hole • Walterdale Theatre, 10322 - 83 Ave • 780.439.2845 • walterdaleplayhouse.com • By David Lindsay-Abaire, directed by Kristen M Finlay • Feb 9 19, 2011 • Tickets: Subscriptions start at $72 (adult)/$62 (student/senior); Flex Pass: $45 (3 tickets in the season) available at TIX on the Square at 780.420.1757

THE SUPER GROOVY '70S PART 2: KEEP ON TRUCKIN' • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615

- 109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Nov 16 Feb 16, 2011 • Season ticket packages from $229

Swimmy, Frederick and Inch by Inch • Horizon Stage, 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce Grove • 780.962.8995 • The Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia bring the fables of Leo Lionni to life • Sat, Feb 19, 2 pm (family) • Tickets: $15 (all ages) available at Horizon Stage box office, TicketMaster

Swimmy, Frederick and Inch by Inch • Arden Theatre, 5 St Anne St • 780.459.1542 • ardentheatre.com • The Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia bring the fables of Leo Lionni to life • Feb 20, 2011, 2 pm • Tickets on sale Aug 9, 10 am at the Arden box office

Trudeau Stories • Arden Theatre, 5 St Anne

St • 780.459.1542 • ardentheatre.com • Written and performed by Brooke Johnson a humorously touching one-woman play in which Johnson plays both herself and the famous PM • Feb 9, 2011, 8 pm • Tickets on sale Aug 9, 10 am at the Arden box office

Up To Here • La Cité Francophone, 8627 - 91

St • 780.242.4104 • Firefly Theatre presents music, comedy, flying food and of course, Girls on Drapes. Not intended for children • Feb 19, 2011, 8 pm • Tickets: $28 (adult)/$25 (seniorΘstudent) available at TIX on the Square, 780.420.1757

The Wizard of Oz • Memorial Arts Centre,

5206 - 50 St, Wetaskiwin • 780.352.8383 • wetaskiwintheatresociety.com • Waterworks' Players–Wetaskiwin Theatre Society • By L Frank Baum • Feb 17 - 19, 24 - 26, 2011, 8 pm • Tickets: $15 (Fri-Sat); $35 (Sat dinner theatre; must be purchased one week in adv), available at Dr Hewko's Office, The Jelly Bean, How Sweet It Is

MUSIC: Feb 2011 Arden Theatre • 5 St Anne St • 780.459.1542 • ar-

dentheatre.com • Red Stick Ramblers; Feb 24, 2011, 7:30 pm • Justin Hines (folk, easy rock); Feb 25, 2011, 7:30 pm • Tickets on sale Aug 9, 10 am at the Arden box office

Dow Centennial Centre's Shell Theatre–Fort Saskatchewan • 8700 - 84 St,

Fort Saskatchewan • 780.992.6400 • fortsask.ca • Professional Series: Revv52; Sat, Feb 5, 2011, 2:30 pm; tickets: $35 (adult)/$32 (senior/youth)

FESTIVAL PLACE • 100 Festival Way, Sherwood

Park • 780.449.3378 • festivalplace.ab.ca • Memeza Africa (world); Feb 4, 2011, 7:30 pm; tickets: $32 (table)/$30 (box)/$28 (theatre) • The Lost Fingers (pop-rock); Feb 5, 2011, 7:30 pm; tickets: $32 (table)/$30 (box)/$28 (theatre) • Cafe Series: Asani; Feb 12, 2011, 7:30 pm; tickets: $18 • Cafe Series: Wyatt Easterling (country); Feb 25, 2011, 7:30 pm; tickets: $18 • Mark Sterling: 12th Anniversary Blues Show; Feb 26, 2011, 7:30 pm; tickets: $36 (table)/$34 (box)/$30 (theatre) • Tickets available at Festival Place box office

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FULL MOON FOLK CLUB • St Basil's Cultural

Centre, 10819-71 Ave • fmfc.org • Vishten; Feb 11, 2011, 7 pm (door), 8 pm (show); tickets: $17 (adv)/$20 (door)/ child under 12 ½ price (door only) • Wendel and Wheat, Steve Palmer (opening); Feb 25, 2011, 7 pm (door), 8 pm (show); tickets: $17 (adv)/$20 (door)/$10 (child under 12, door) available at TIX on the Square

VUEWEEKLY // AUG 5 – AUG 11 2010

Horizon Stage • 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce

Grove • 780.962.8995 • Sons of Maxwell (Celtic, country, pop, folk); Sat, Feb 5, 7:30 pm; tickets: $25 (adult)/$20 (student/senior)/$5 eyeGO • Pat Braden and Digawolf: A Place to Call Home; Sun, Feb 6, 2 pm; tickets: $25 (adult)/$20 (student/senior)/$5 eyeGO • Tickets available at Horizon Stage box office, TicketMaster

Maclab Centre for the Performing Arts–Leduc • 4308 - 50 St, Leduc • 780.980.1866 • maclabcentre.com • Sons of Maxwell; Fri, Feb 4, 2011; tickets: $27 (adult)/$22 (student/senior) at TIX on the Square, Leduc Recreation Centre

Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society • Pleasantview Community League, 10860 -

Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • Symbolist Muse: Nov 20 - Mar 13, 2011

Gallery At Milner • Stanley A. Milner Library, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383/780.496.7031 • Alberta Sculptor's Association a group exhibit • Mar 2 - 30, 2011

Haggerty Centre–Stollery Gallery • Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, 9225 - 118 Ave • 780.474.7611 • ninahaggertyart.ca • Line drawings by Mark Munan and the Nina Haggerty Centre artists collective • Mar 5 - 30, 2011

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

780.426.4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca • Front Room: Artworks by Noni Boyle; Feb 24 - Mar 26, 2011 • Front Room: Series of large scale drawings by local artist, Arlene Wasylylchuk • Mar 31 - Apr 23, 2011 • Opening reception: Thu, Mar 31, 7 - 10 pm

Northern Lights Folk Club • Queen Al-

Harris-Warke Gallery–Red Deer •

exandra Community Hall, 10425 University Ave • northernlightsfc.ca • Good Lovelies; Sat, Feb 5, 2011; tickets: $18 • Dale Nikkel and April Verch; Sat, Feb 19, 2011; tickets: $18 • Season package info by T: 780.288.8111; ticket outlet info at northernlightsfc.ca

CLASSICAL MUSIC: Feb 2011 Cosmopolitan Music Society of Edmonton • Old Strathcona Performing Arts

Centre 8426 Gateway Boulevard • Choral workshop: with clinician Laurier Fagnan • Sat, Feb 5, 2011, 9 am - 5 pm • E: generalmanager@cosmopolitanmusic.org

Da Camera Singers • First Baptist Church,

10031 - 109 St • In Paradisum: Exploration of the Requiem featuring the music of Bach, Brahms, Fauré, Howells and Lloyd-Webber • Feb 27, 2011, 3 pm • Tickets: $20 (adult)/$15 (student/senior)

Edmonton Opera • 780.429.1000 • edmon-

tonopera.com • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455 - 87 Ave • Mozart–The Abduction from the Seraglio with the Edmonton Opera Chorus and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. Sung in German with English supertitles • Feb 5, 8, 10, 2011, 7:30 pm • Season subscriptions are on sale at Edmonton Opera's box office; single tickets go on sale Sep 15, 2010 • TransAlta Arts Barns, Westbury Theatre: Rossini revised! – The Barber of Barrhead; a collaboration between Edmonton Opera and Fringe Theatre Adventures. Sung in English with English dialogue • Feb 15 - 26, 2011, various times • Season subscriptions are on sale at Edmonton Opera's box office; single tickets go on sale Sep 15, 2010

Edmonton Recital Society • Muttart

Hall, Alberta College, 10050 Macdonald Dr • edmontonrecital.com • Main Series: Featuring Caroline Stinson (cello) with Sarah Ho (piano) • Sun, Feb 27, 2011, 7:30 pm • Tickets: $30 (adult)/$20 (senior/student) available at TIX on the Square

Edmonton Symphony Orchestra

• Winspear Centre, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.428.1414 • edmontonsymphony.com • Robbins Pops: Love Will Keep Us Together: ESO performs songs of romance, Steven Reinek(conductor); Feb 11 - 12, 2011, 8 pm • Symphony Specials: Warner Bros. Presents Bugs Bunny At The Symphony; Feb 19, 2011, 2 pm, 7:30 pm; Feb 20, 2011, 2 pm • The ESO Presents: Rafał Blechacz (piano); Feb 22, 2011, 7:30 pm • Masters: Beethoven's Eroica Symphony: Bill Eddins (piano); Feb 25, 2011, 7:30 pm; Feb 26, 2011, 8 pm • Tickets available at Winspear Centre box office

Edmonton Youth Orchestra • Win-

spear Centre • 780.436.7932 • eyso.com • Senior and Intermediate Orchestras in concert, Michael Massey (conductor) • Sun, Feb 27, 2011, 2 pm • Tickets: $15 (adult)/$10 (senior/student) available at TIX on the Square

FESTIVAL PLACE • 100 Festival Way, Sherwood

Park • 780.449.3378 • festivalplace.ab.ca • The Nathaniel Dett Chorale (classical vocal group) • Feb 6, 2011, 7:30 pm • Tickets: $32 (table)/$30 (box)/$28 (theatre) available at Festival Place box office

Pro Coro Canada • McDougall United

Church, 10025 Macdonald Dr • procoro.ab.ca • Music From Space: Conductor: Richard Sparks • Sun, Feb 13, 2011, 7:30 pm • Tickets: $30 (adult)/$25 (senior/student) available at the Winspear box office

U of A Music at Convocation Hall

• Convocation Hall, U of A • music.ualberta.ca • The Kilburn Concert Series: presents Ilya Kaler (violin); Sat, Feb 5, 2011, 8pm • Early Music; Fri, Feb 11, 2011, 8pm • Tickets: $20 (adult)/$15 (student/senior)/special rates available for visiting school groups • Tickets available through the Department of Music's office, 780.492.0601, at the door on the day of the event

March 2011 March 2011

art GALLERIES/MUSEUMS: mar 2011 Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) • 2 Sir

Sunworks Home and Garden Store, Ross St, Red Deer • 403.346.8937 • harriswarkegallery.com • Paintings by Leila Bjerland • Feb 21 - Mar 25, 2011 • Opening reception: Mar 4, 6 - 8 pm

Jeff Allen Art Gallery • Strathcona

Seniors Centre, 10831 University Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • Watercolours and coloured pencil works by Julie Drew • Feb 24 - Mar 31, 2011 • Opening reception: Mar 9

Latitude 53 • 10248 - 106 St • 780.423.5353 •

latitude53.org • Main Gallery: Works by Mathieu Valade • Feb 25 - Apr 2, 2011

McMullen Gallery • U of A Hospital, 8440 -

112 St • 780.407.7152 • Photo-abstracts by David Baine; Jan 8 - Mar 13, 2011; opening reception: Jan 13, 7 - 9 pm • The Forest: Artworks by members of the Alberta Society of Artists; curated by Chris Carson; Mar 19 - May 22, 2011; opening reception: Mar 24, 7 - 9 pm

Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery–Stony Plain • 5411 - 51 St, Stony Plain

• 780.963.9935 • Collage, mixed media paintings by William Quast; Feb 18 - Mar 16, 2011; opening reception: Feb 20 • Parkland County Art Collection; Mar 18 - Apr 12, 2011; opening reception: Sun, Mar 20

VAAA Gallery • 3rd fl, 10215 - 112 St • 780.421.1731 • Reflections: Artworks paintings of water by Kathryn Manry, Jinzhe Cui's memory photos, and Kim Bruce sculptural everyday objects; Feb 24 - Mar 26, 2011; opening reception: Feb 24, 7 - 9:30 pm • Elementals: Installation and illustration work by Daniel Evans; pictographs by Seka Owen; photos by Anne Marie Resta; Mar 31 Apr 23, 2011; opening reception: Mar 31, 7 - 9:30 pm

Comedy: MAR 2011 FESTIVAL PLACE • 100 Festival Way, Sherwood

Park • 780.449.3378 • festivalplace.ab.ca • Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers 2011 • Mar 3 - 6, 2011, 7:30 pm • Tickets: $34 (adult)/$24 (child) available at Festival Place box office

Dow Centennial Centre's Shell Theatre–Fort Saskatchewan • 8700 - 84 St,

Fort Saskatchewan • 780.992.6400 • fortsask.ca/ftsk_ thingstodo/Shell_Theatre.aspx • Professional Series: Roman Danylo • Sat, Mar 19, 2011, 7:30 pm • Tickets: $27 (adult)/$24 (senior/youth) available at 780.992.6400, TicketMaster

Dance: MAR 2011 EXPANSE DANCE FESTIVAL • Theatre

Network–live at the Roxy, 10708 - 124 St • 780.453.2440 • theatrenetwork.ca • Movement arts festival features dance, physical theatre, circus arts, performance art. Featuring local, national and international dance and body based performance artists • Mar 3 - 6, 2011 • Tickets available at Theatre Network's box office, 780.453.2440

Ipsita Nova Dance Projects • Arden

Theatre, 5 St Anne St • 780.459.1542 • ardentheatre.com • Classic Indian dance with a contemporary edge • Mar 20, 2011, 11am brunch, 12pm performance • Tickets on sale Aug 9, 10 am at the Arden box office

Margie Gillis Dance Foundation •

Arden Theatre, 5 St. Anne St • 780.459.1542 • ardentheatre.com • THREAD: New choreography to explore the concept of aging • Mar 16, 2011, 8 pm • Tickets on sale Aug 9, 10 am at the Arden box office

LITERARY: Mar 2011 Haven Social Club • 15120 Stony Plain Rd • 780.915.8869 • Edmonton Story Slam • No cover;

followed by a music jam • 3rd Wed every month; Wed, Mar 16, 2011; Sign up at 7 pm; Show starts at 7:30 pm • $5 (registration from writers to support the Society) • Winner walks out with all the audience donations

T.A.L.E.S. ALBERTA STORYTELLING RETREAT • 780.932.4409 • talesstorytelling.com •

Workshops, story circles, details available soon on the T.A.L.E.S. website • Spring 2011

T.A.L.E.S. MONTHLY STORYTELLING CIRCLE • Centennial Rm, Stanley A. Milner Library

• 780.932.4409 • talesstorytelling.com • Tell stories or come to listen • 2nd Fri of the month; Sep 2010 - Jun 2011, 7 - 9 pm • Free

T.A.L.E.S. STORY CAFÉ SERIES • Rosie's Bar,

10475 - 80 Ave • 780.932.4409 • talesstorytelling.com • Mad Hatter • Mar 3, 2011, 7 - 9 pm • Cover charge: Paywhat-you-will ($6 min)

THEATRE: Mar 2011 THE 39 STEPS • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615 -

109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Feb 11 - Apr 10, 2011 • Season ticket packages from $229

An Almost perfect Thing • La Cité Fran-

cophone, 8627 rue Marie-Anne-Gaboury, 780.477.5955 ext 301 • workshopwest.org • Presented by Workshop West Theatre, by Nicole Moeller. A writer decides he will be the one to get the story of a young girl who has been silent since she escaped being held against her will for seven years • Mar 31 - Apr 17, 2011 • E: boxoffice@workshopwest.org

Another Home Invasion • Citadel Rice

The Bremen Town Musicians • Maclab

Centre for the Performing Arts - Leduc, 4308 - 50 St, Leduc • maclabcentre.com • Family Series: Presented by the Maritime Marionettes • Sun, Mar 13, 2011 • Tickets: $10 at TIX on the Square, Leduc Recreation Centre

La chaise perdue • La Cité Francophone, 8627

rue Marie-Anne-Gaboury • 780.469.8400 • lunitheatre.ca • L'Uni Théâtre • By Louis-Dominique Lavigne et Luc LeBlanc (Tournée pour jeune public) • En tournée en Alberta: Feb 22/Mar 25, 2011, de même qu'en ColombieBritannique

duction commissioned by the Citadel Theatre. A darkly romantic musical set in Notre Dame Cathedral about a tormented priest, a beautiful dancer and the deformed bell ringer. Suitable for those 12 years of age and up • Mar 5 - 27, 2011 • Classic Landmarks Master Builder Mainstage Series subscription information available at citadeltheatre.com

King Arthur's Kitchen • Arden Theatre,

5 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1542 • ardentheatre. com • The Arden Family Series presents Axis Theatre's production • Sun, Mar 27, 2011, 2 pm • Tickets on sale Aug 9, 10 am at the Arden box office

Mama Mio • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, 8882 - 170 St • 780.484.2424 • jubilations.ca • Jan 28 - Apr 3, 2011; seating: Wed - Sat: 6:15 - 6:40pm; Sun: 5 pm

NEXT YEAR'S MAN OF STEEL • Varscona

Theatre, 10329 - 83 Ave • 780.434.5564 • Shadow Theatre • World Premiere by David Belke, starring John Wright, directed by Wayne Paquette • Mar 16 - Apr 3, 2011 • Tickets: Opening, Fri/Sat night: $26 (adult)/$22 (senior/ student); Sun - Thu: $22 (adult)/$18 (senior/student); Preview: $12 (everyone); Tue: two for one; Sat 2 pm matinee: Pay-What-You-Can; Under 18: $10 anytime. Single tickets/subscriptions available at TIX on the Square, Shadow Theatre 780.434.5564, Varscona box office 1 hour prior to show

OH SUSANNA! • Varscona Theatre • 10329 - 83 Ave

• 780.433.3399 • varsconatheatre.com • The Euro-style variety spectacle with Susanna Patchouli and her divine co-host Eros, God of Love! Laughs! Music! Cocktails! • Sat, Mar 26, 11 pm

Twelfth Night • MacEwan Theatre Lab • Mar 16 - 20 2011 • Tickets: available at TIX on the Square mid Sep, 780.420.1757

MUSIC: Mar 2011 Arden Theatre • 5 St. Anne St • 780.459.1542 •

ardentheatre.com • Emilie-Claire Barlow (jazz vocalist) • Mar 25, 2011, 7:30 pm • Tickets on sale Aug 9, 10 am at the Arden box office

Dow Centennial Centre's Shell Theatre–Fort Saskatchewan • 8700 - 84

St, Fort Saskatchewan • 780.992.6400 • fortsask.ca/ ftsk_thingstodo/Shell_Theatre.aspx • The Arrogant Worms: 20th Anniversary Tour; Thu, Mar 10, 2011, 7:30 pm; tickets: $33 (adult)/$30 (senior/youth) • Professional Series: Calvin Vollrath; Sat, Mar 12, 2011, 7:30 pm (The Release Party); Sun, Mar 13, 2011, 2 pm (The Fiddle Gala); tickets: $27.50 (adult)/$25.50 (senior/youth) • Tickets available at 780.992.6400, TicketMaster

FESTIVAL PLACE • 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • 780.449.3378 • festivalplace.ab.ca • Cafe Series: The Fugitives (folk); Mar 5, 2011, 7:30 pm; tickets: $18 • Jason McCoy's One Man Show (country); Mar 11, 2011, 7:30 pm; tickets: $36 (table)/$34 (box)/$30 (theatre) • Carlos del Junco and The Blues Mongrels (blues); Mar 25, 2011, 7:30 pm; tickets: $36 (table)/$34 (box)/$30 (theatre) • Cafe Series: The Joe Defendants: Steve Pineo, Tim Leacock and Kit Johnson (singer-songwriter); Mar 26, 2011, 7:30 pm; tickets: $18 • Pavlo, Rik Emmett and Oscar Lopez (world); Mar 27, 2011, 7:30 pm; tickets: $60 (table)/$58 (box)/$56 (theatre) • Tickets available at Festival Place box office

DOG • Theatre Network–live at the Roxy, 10708 - 124

FULL MOON FOLK CLUB • St Basil's Cultural

Company • John L Haar Theatre • MacEwan Main Stage • Mar 11 - 19, 2011 • Tickets: available at TIX on the Square mid-Sep, 780.420.1757

DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 10329 - 83 Ave •

St • 780.453.2440 • theatrenetwork.ca • Presented by Surreal SoReal Theatre • A 1950's Homelife Nightmare by Jon Lachlan Stewart, directed by Bradley Moss • Mar 17 - 27, 2011 • Tickets available at Theatre Network's box office, 780.453.2440

An Evening with Uncle Val • Fringe

Theatre Adventures, Westbury Theatre, TransAlta Arts Barns • 10330 - 84 ave • 780.448.9000 • fringetheatre.ca • Fringe Theatre • Uncle Val, an indignant 70-year-old retired fisherman is trapped in the city and struggles to figure out what life has left to offer him • Mar 3 - 13, 2011 • Tickets: $23 (adult)/$19 (student/senior); Fringe Adventure packages: $62 (adult)/$51 (student/senior)

THE GERTRUDE STEIN PROJECT • Timms

Centre, U of A Campus • 780.492.2495 • drama.ualberta. ca/studiotheatre.cfm • Studio Theatre • Stein's avant garde text with movement, sound and image motifs, directed by Beau Coleman • Mar 31 - Apr 9, 2011 • Subscriptions start at $53 (student)/$83 (adult) at the Timms Centre for the Arts box office

Honk! • Concordia University College of Alberta,

Tegler Auditorium, 7128 Ada Boulevard • 780.479.9269 • Book and lyrics by Anthony Drewe, music by George Stiles. A funny musical adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen story The Ugly Duckling directed by Caroline Howarth and Ryan Sigardson • Pay-what-youcan Preview: Wed, Mar 16 • Mar 17 - 19, 7:30 pm; Sun, Mar 20, 2 pm • Tickets: $10 (adult)/$8 (student/senior) available at the door

Hunchback • Citadel Shoctor Theatre, 9828 - 101

A Ave • 780.426.4811 • citadeltheatre.com • By Jonathan Christenson and Bretta Gerecke, adapted from Victor Hugo's novel; a Catalyst Theatre World Premiere pro-

Centre, 10819-71 Ave • fmfc.org • Madison Violet; Mar 11, 2011, 7 pm (door), 8 pm (show); tickets: $17 (adv)/$20 (door)/child under 12 ½ price (door only) • Jonathan Edwards; Mar 25, 2011, 7 pm (door), 8 pm (show); tickets: $17 (adv)/$20 (door)/$10 (child under 12, door) available at TIX on the Square

Horizon Stage • 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce Grove

• 780.962.8995 • Trevor Panczak; Sat, Mar 5, 7:30 pm; tickets: $25 (adult)/$20 (student/senior)/$5 eyeGO • David Myles; Fri, Mar 25, 7:30 pm; tickets: $25 (adult)/$20 (student/senior)/$5 eyeGO • Tickets available at Horizon Stage box office, TicketMaster

MacEwan Music Concert Series • John L Haar Theatre • Jazz Choir/Jazz Combo Concert; Mar 20, 2011 • Composition Concert; Mar 26, 2011 • Percussion Concert; Mar 27, 2011 • Tickets: available at TIX on the Square mid Sep, 780.420.1757

Maclab Centre for the Performing Arts–Leduc • 4308 - 50 St, Leduc • maclabcentre. com • The Arrogant Worms • Fri, Mar 11, 2011 • Tickets: $33 (adult)/$30 (student/senior) at TIX on the Square, Leduc Recreation Centre

Northern Lights Folk Club • north-

ernlightsfc.ca • Queen Alexandra Community Hall, 10425 University Ave: Karen Savoca; Sat, Mar 5, 2011; tickets: $18 • TransAlta Arts Barns, 10330 - 84 Ave:

VUEWEEKLY // AUG 5 – AUG 11 2010

Martyn Joseph; Sat, Mar 19, 2011; tickets: $25 • Season package info by T: 780.288.8111; ticket outlet info at northernlightsfc.ca

CLASSICAL MUSIC: Mar 2011 Alberta Baroque Ensemble • Robert-

son–Wesley United Church, 10209 - 123 St • 780.467.6531 • Baroque Strings: Caroline Stinson (cello), Erich Buchmann (violin) • Sun, Mar 6, 2011, 3 pm • Single tickets: $25 (adult)/$20 (senior/student) • Tickets available at the Gramophone, TIX on the Square, door

Choralfest • albertachoralfederation.ca •

Muttart Hall, MacEwan Alberta College Campus: Jazz Spotlight Concert; Fri, Mar 4, 2011, 7:30 pm; tickets: $10 • McDougall United Church; North Spotlight Concert; Sat, Mar 12, 2011, 7:30 pm; tickets: $10

Cosmopolitan Music Society of Edmonton • Old Strathcona Performing Arts

Centre 8426 Gateway Boulevard • CMS Series - Tuesday Band concert: Sat Mar 19, 2011, 7:30 - 10 pm • CMS Series - Wednesday Band: Sun, Mar 20 2011, 2:30 - 4 pm • Tickets: $10 (adv adult)/$7 (adv student/senior); $12 (door adult)/$9 (door student/senior)

THE EDMONTON CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY • edmontonchambermusic.org • Convocation

Hall: Shanghai Quartet • Sat, Mar 5, 2011, 8 pm; tickets: $30 (adult)/$20 (senior)/$10 (student) available at TIX on the Square, The Gramophone, door • McDougall United Church, 10086 Macdonald Dr • Tallis Scholars • Thu, Mar 24, 2011, 8 pm • $30 (adult)/$20 (senior)/$10 (student) available at TIX on the Square, The Gramophone, door

Edmonton Classical Guitar Society • Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Sq

• 780.489.9580 • edmontonclassicalguitarsociety.org • Los Angeles Guitar Quartet • Wed, Mar 16, 2011, 8 pm • Tickets: $50 and $40 available at the Winspear box office at 780.428.1414

Edmonton Recital Society Holy Trinity

Anglican Church, 10037 - 84 Ave • edmontonrecital. com • Emerging artist series: Featuring: Ms Cheung, accompanied by Sarah Ho (piano) • Sun, Mar 20, 2011, 3 pm • Admission free; donations welcome

Edmonton Symphony Orchestra

• Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.428.1414 • edmontonsymphony.com • Robbins Lighter Classics: Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush; Mar 3, 2011, 8 pm • Symphony for Kids: Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush; Pre-concert Activities from 1 - 1:45 pm; Mar 5, 2011, 2 pm • Symphony Specials: Don't Eat the Yellow Snow - The ESO plays Zappa; Mar 15, 2011, 7:30 pm • Robbins Pops: Ben Vereen's one-man show paying tribute to Sammy Davis Jr; Mar 18 - 19, 2011, 8 pm • Masters: Duruflé's Requiem: Sasha Cooke (mezzo-soprano), Bonaventura Bottone (tenor); Mar 25, 2011, 7:30 pm; Mar 26, 2011, 8 pm • Tickets available at Winspear Centre box office

Horizon Stage • 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce

Grove • 780.962.8995 • Jorge Miguel (flamenco guitar) • Sat, Mar 26, 7:30 pm • Tickets: $25 (adult)/$20 (student/ senior)/$5 eyeGO; available at Horizon Stage box office, TicketMaster

Pro Coro Canada • McDougall United

Church, 10025 Macdonald Dr • procoro.ab.ca • Founders Concert: Michael Marc Gervais returns to celebrate Pro Coro's 30th anniversary • Sun, Mar 20, 2011, 2:30 pm • Tickets: $30 (adult)/$25 (senior/student) available at the Winspear box office

SUNDAYS @ THREE • Winspear Centre, 4 Sir

Winston Churchill Sq • RCCO, Edmonton Centre Sundays @ Three Organ Recital Series: UK organist David Titterington • Mar 6, 2011, 3 pm • Tickets: $25 available at the Winspear box office • Season subscriptions: $50 available at TIX on the Square; E: rcco@rcco. edmonton.ab.ca for information

U of A Music at Convocation Hall •

Convocation Hall, U of A • music.ualberta.ca • Music of Today: featuring Faculty Composers; Fri, Mar 4, 2011, 7pm • Jacques Despres (piano); Fri, Mar 11, 2011, 8pm • Tickets: $20 (adult)/$15 (student/senior)/special rates available for visiting school groups • Tickets available through the Department of Music's office, 780.492.0601, at the door on the day of the event

U of A Music at Winspear • Winspear

Centre • music.ualberta.ca • The Choral of Bach • Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 8pm • Tickets: $20 (adult)/$15 (student/ senior)/special rates available for visiting school groups • Tickets available at the Department of Music office, 780.492.0601, or at the door on the day of the event

April 2011

art GALLERIES/MUSEUMS: apr 2011 A. J. Ottewell Art Centre–Sherwood Park • 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • 780.922.3179 • artstrathcona.com • Spring Show and

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Sale:Works by members of the Art Society of Strathcona County • Apr 15 - 17, 2011 • Fri night reception; artists in attendance

Gallery At Milner • Stanley A. Mil-

ner Library, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383/780.496.7031 • Show Off: an open submission Teen Art Show • Apr 1 - 30, 2011

Grant MacEwan University • Centre for

the Arts and Communications, 1st fl studios • MacEwan Fine Art Graduates' Exhibition • Apr 18 - 20, 2011, noon - 6 pm • Opening reception: Apr 16, s2 - 5 pm

Haggerty Centre–Stollery Gallery • Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, 9225 - 118 Ave • 780.474.7611 • ninahaggertyart.ca • Architectural works by Raj Bagwe and the Nina Haggerty Centre artists collective • Apr 5 - 30, 2011

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

780.426.4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca • Front Room: Series of large scale drawings by local artist, Arlene Wasylylchuk • Mar 31 - Apr 23, 2011 • Opening reception: Thu, Mar 31, 7 - 10 pm • Main Space: The Wedding: Large scale narrative paintings by Mona Sharma • Front Room: The After-Image (SwanSongs): Large chromogenic prints by Fiona Annis • Apr 28 - May 28, 2011 • Opening reception: Thu, Apr 28, 7 - 10 pm

Harris-Warke Gallery–Red Deer •

Sunworks Home and Garden Store, Ross St, Red Deer • 403.346.8937 • harriswarkegallery.com • Ceramics by Julia Schumacher • Apr 4 - May 6, 2011 • Opening reception: May 6, 6 - 8 pm

Jeff Allen Art Gallery • Strathcona

Seniors Centre, 10831 University Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • Artworks by Armond Jones, Edmonton Needle Craft Guild; Apr 1-27, 2011; opening reception: Apr 13 • Artworks by Johanna Wray's students; Apr 29May 25, 2011; opening reception: May 11

Latitude 53 • 10248 - 106 St • 780.423.5353 •

latitude53.org • Main Gallery: Works by Mathieu Valade; Feb 25 - Apr 2, 2011 • Noxious Sector; Apr 15 May 14, 2011

MacEwan • Location: TBD • macewan.ca/design-

studies • Design Studies Grad Show • Apr 2011 • Check for further updates at macewan.ca/designstudies

McMullen Gallery • U of A Hospital,

8440 - 112 St • 780.407.7152 • The Forest: Artworks by members of the Alberta Society of Artists; curated by Chris Carson • Mar 19 - 22, 2011 • Opening reception: Mar 24, 7 - 9 pm

Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery–Stony Plain • 5411 - 51 St, Stony Plain

• 780.963.9935 • Parkland County Art Collection; Mar 18 - Apr 12, 2011; opening reception: Sun, Mar 20 • Painting, scupture and collage by Susan Rogers, Wanda Cracknell and Gail Marsden; Apr 14 - May 11, 2011; opening reception: Sun, Apr 17

Profiles Gallery–St Albert • 19 Perron St,

St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artsheritage.ca • The Woods are lovely, dark and deep: Artworks by Susan Casault, Kathryn Manry, Judith Martin, Arlene Wasylynchuk, Lesley Roy; Feb 3 - Apr 2, 2011 • Adaptation and Alteration: Works by Byron McBride and Ryan McCourt; Apr 7 - 30, 2011

VAAA Gallery • 3rd fl, 10215 - 112 St • 780.421.1731 • Elementals: Installation and illustration work by Daniel Evans; pictographs by Seka Owen; photos by Anne Marie Resta; Mar 31 - Apr 23, 2011; opening reception: Mar 31, 7 - 9:30 pm • Voices: Artworks by Al Henderson; an exploration of memories of Canada's military missions in Afghanistan; Apr 28 - May 28, 2011; Opening reception: Apr 28, 7 - 9:30 pm

Dance: APR 2011 Alberta Ballet • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455 - 87

Ave • 780.428.6839 • albertaballet.com • Serenade and Vigil of Angels • Apr 1 - 2, 2011 • Subscriptions for the 2010/2011 Season are on sale now; single tickets for select performances available at Alberta Ballet's box office

Mile Zero Dance • Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, 9225 - 118 Ave • 780.424.1573 • International Dance Day: Final presentation of choreographic sessions with artists from the centre • Apr 29, 2011

FILM: Apr 2011 Provincial Archives of Alberta • 8555 Roper Rd • 780.427.1750 • culture.alberta.ca/archives • Archives Film Night • Fri, Apr 15, 2010

LITERARY: Apr 2011 Edmonton Poetry Festival • The Artery

and other downtown venues • edmontonpoetryfestival. com • A week of words out loud, from poetry slams to café readings, from workshops to walkabouts. Poets from across Canada will cross paths with local talent • Apr 25 - May 1, 2011 • Many events are free

Haven Social Club • 15120 Stony Plain Rd

• 780.915.8869 • Edmonton Story Slam • No cover; followed by a music jam • 3rd Wed every month; Wed, Apr 20, 2011; Sign up at 7 pm; Show starts at 7:30 pm • $5 (registration from writers to support the Society) • Winner walks out with all the audience donations

T.A.L.E.S. MONTHLY STORYTELLING CIRCLE • Centennial Rm, Stanley Milner Library •

780.932.4409 • talesstorytelling.com • Tell stories or come to listen • 2nd Fri of the month; Sep 2010 - Jun 2011, 7 - 9 pm • Free

T.A.L.E.S. STORY CAFÉ SERIES • Rosie's Bar, 10475 - 80 Ave • 780.932.4409 • talesstorytelling.com • Horsin' Around • Apr 7, 2011, 7 - 9 pm • Cover charge: Pay-what-you-will ($6 min)

THEATRE: Apr 2011 THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615

- 109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Apr 19 Jun 19, 2011 • Season ticket packages from $229

THE 39 STEPS • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615

- 109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Feb 11 Apr 10, 2011 • Season ticket packages from $229

DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 10329 - 83 ave •

Disney's Jungle Book Kids • Horizon

Stage, 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce Grove • 780.962.8995 • Musical presented by the Horizon Players • Apr 28 - 30; May 5 - 7, 7:30 pm; Apr 30, 2 pm • Tickets: $20 (adult)/$15 (student/senior)/$5 eyeGO • Tickets available at Horizon Stage box office, TicketMaster

EMERGING COMPANY SHOWCASE • Living Room Playhouse, 11315 - 106 ave • A new work from Surreal SoReal Theatre • Apr 28 - May 14, 2011; Tickets available at 780.454.0583 (box office)

Festival théâtre jeunesse de l'Alberta • La Cité Francophone, 8627 rue MarieAnne-Gaboury • 780.469.8400 • lunitheatre.ca • Les jeunes albertains • 22 édition • Apr 29, 30; May 1, 2011

THE GERTRUDE STEIN PROJECT • Timms

HEY LADIES! • Theatre Network–live at the Roxy,

10708 - 124 St • 780.453.2440 • theatrenetwork.ca • Roxy Performance Series: Starring Leona Brausen, Cathleen Rootsaert, Davina Stewart • Fri, Apr 1, 2011 • Tickets available at Theatre Network's box office, 780.453.2440

Little Women, the Musical • Citadel

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up • Apr 30 - May 22, 2011 • Classic Landmarks Master Builder Mainstage Series/Robbins Family Series subscription information available at citadeltheatre.com

Mama Mio • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, 8882 - 170 St • 780.484.2424 • jubilations.ca • Jan 28 - Apr 3, 2011; seating: Wed - Sat: 6:15 - 6:40pm; Sun: 5 pm

MOSTLY WATER • Theatre Network–live at the

Roxy, 10708 - 124 St • 780.453.2440 • theatrenetwork. ca • Roxy Performance Series: Mostly Water Theatre mix live stage performance with video shorts, musical guests, games, prizes and more, producing a game/talk show unlike anything you have seen before • Sat, Apr 2, 2010 • Tickets available at Theatre Network's box office, 780.453.2440

NEXT YEAR'S MAN OF STEEL • Varscona

OH SUSANNA! • Varscona Theatre • 10329 - 83 Ave

• 780.433.3399 • varsconatheatre.com • The Euro-style variety spectacle with Susanna Patchouli and her divine co-host Eros, God of Love! Laughs! Music! Cocktails! • Sat, Apr 30, 11 pm

Les Parfait Inconnus • Westbury Theatre,

TransAlta Arts Barns, 10330 - 84 Ave • 780.448.9000 • fringetheatre.ca • Fringe Theatre Adventures Family Theatre: Quebec's zany medley of circus acts, comedy and electrifying music • Apr 8-17, 2011 • Tickets: $18 (adult)/$15 (student/senior)/$12.50 (child); Family Adventure packages: $49 (adult)/$41 (student/senior)/$34 (child under 12)

PERVERT • Varscona Theatre, 10329 83 Ave •

780.471.1586 • northernlighttheatre.com • Presented by Northern Light Theatre • A gritty play set in a porno shop by Stephen Massicotte • Apr 8 - 19, 2011 • Tickets: Preview: $15 (adult/senior)/free (student); Opening: $25 (adult/student/senior, incl Opening night reception); All other performances: $20 (adult)/$18 (student/senior); Season subsciptions are now available

PUBLIC SPEAKING • Theatre Network–live at the

Roxy, 10708 - 124 St • 780.453.2440 • theatrenetwork.ca • World Premier of Chris Craddock's one-man tour-deforce, manipulating sound to tell his story. Directed by Bradley Moss • Apr 19 - 20, 2011 (Preview), Apr 21 - May 8, 2011 • Tickets available at Theatre Network's box office, 780.453.2440

Rearview • La Cité Francophone, 8627 rue Marie-

Anne-Gaboury • 780.469.8400 • lunitheatre.ca • L'Uni Théâtre • By Gilles Poulin-Denis • Théâtre La Troupe du Jour • Apr 14 - 16, 2011, 8 pm; Apr 17, 2011, 2 pm

Rick: The Rick Hansen Story • Citadel

Shoctor Theatre, 9828 - 101 A Ave • 780.426.4811 • citadeltheatre.com • By Dennis Foon, directed by Robb Paterson; a Manitoba Theatre for Young People production in partnership with The Rick Hansen Foundation. This play takes a look back to the beginning of Rick Hansen's story and the moments leading up to a life-altering event. Suitable for those 10 years of age and up • Apr 2 - 17, 2011 • Robbins Family Series subscription information available at citadeltheatre.com

Spring One Act Festival • Tegler Audi-

torium, 7128 Ada Boulevard • Phone 780.479.9269 • Concordia University College of Alberta • Fri, Apr 1, 7:30 pm; Sun, Apr 3, 2 pm

Squabbles • Memorial Arts Centre, 5206 - 50 St,

Wetaskiwin • 780.352.8383 • wetaskiwintheatresociety. com • Waterworks' Players-Wetaskiwin Theatre Society • This play, by Marshall Karp, pits a father in law against a mother in a comedic succession of squabbles • Apr 28 - 30, May 5 - 7, 2011, 8 pm • Tickets: $15 (Fri-Sat); $35 (Sat dinner theatre; must be purchased one week in adv), available at Dr Hewko's Office, The Jelly Bean, How Sweet It Is

The Three Musketeers • Citadel Maclab

Theatre, 9828 - 101 A Ave • 780.426.4811 • citadeltheatre. com • A new adaptation by Tom Wood, based on the story by Alexandre Dumas, world premiere directed by Bob Baker • Apr 2 - 24, 2011 • Classic Landmarks Master Builder Mainstage Series subscription information available at citadeltheatre.com

The Threepenny Opera • Walterdale The-

atre, 10322 - 83 Ave • 780.439.2845 • walterdaleplayhouse. com • Book and lyrics by Bertolt Brecht, presenting the English adaptation by Marc Blitzstein. Music by Kurt Weill, directed by Curtis Knecht with music direction by Sally Hunt • Apr 6 - 16, 2011 • Tickets: Subscriptions start at $72 (adult)/$62 (student/senior); Flex Pass: $45 (3 tickets in the season) available at TIX on the Square at 780.420.1757

True Love Lies • Citadel Rice Theatre, 9828 - 101 A Ave • 780.426.4811 • citadeltheatre.com • By Brad Fraser, directed by Ron Jenkins • A new comedy of bad manners that shatters our illusions about the "perfect" Canadian family • Apr 23 - May 15, 2011 • Rice Theatre Series subscription information available at citadeltheatre.com

MUSIC: Apr 2011 Arden Theatre • 5 St Anne St • 780.459.1542 •

ardentheatre.com • Bettye Lavette (soul, funk) • Apr 15, 2011, 7:30 pm • Tickets on sale Aug 9, 10 am at the Arden box office

FESTIVAL PLACE • 100 Festival Way, Sherwood

Park • 780.449.3378 • festivalplace.ab.ca • Alpha Yaya Diallo (world) • Apr 17, 2011, 7:30 pm • Tickets: $32 (table)/$30 (box)/$28 (theatre) available at Festival Place box office

FULL MOON FOLK CLUB • St Basil's Cultural

Centre, 10819-71 Ave • fmfc.org • Chuck Brodsky, Scott Cook (opening) • Apr 8, 2011, 7 pm (door), 8 pm (show) • Tickets: $17 (adv)/$20 (door)/$10 (child under 12, door) available at TIX on the Square

MacEwan Music Concert Series • John L Haar Theatre • Songwriters' Concert; Apr 2, 2011 • Guitar Concert; Apr 3, 2011 • MacEwan Music Big Band Concert (Grant MacEwan University and U of A Big Bands); Apr 4, 2011 • Tickets: available at TIX on the Square mid Sep, 780.420.1757

Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society • Pleasantview Community League, 10860 -

Recital Series: Canadian organist Janet Chung • Apr 10, 2011, 3 pm • Tickets: $15 at the door, TIX on the Square • Season subscriptions: $50 available at TIX on the Square; E: rcco@rcco.edmonton.ab.ca for information

780.426.4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca • Main Space: The Wedding: Large scale narrative paintings by Mona Sharma • Front Room: The After-Image (SwanSongs): Large chromogenic prints by Fiona Annis • Apr 28 - May 28, 2011 • Opening reception: Thu, Apr 28, 7 - 10 pm

780.963.9935 • Painting, sculpture and collage by Susan Rogers, Wanda Cracknell and Gail Marsden; Apr 14 May 11, 2011; opening reception: Sun, Apr 17 • Parkland Potters Guild 4th Biennial Exhibition; May 13 - Jun 8, 2011; opening reception: Sun, May 15

• Winspear Centre • music.ualberta.ca • The University Symphony Orchestra; Mon, Apr 4, 2011, 8pm • World Music Sampler; Thu, Apr 7, 2011, 8pm • Tickets: $20 (adult)/$15 (student/senior)/special rates available for visiting school groups • Tickets available at the Department of Music office, 780.492.0601, or at the door on the day of the event

Harris-Warke Gallery–Red Deer •

Profiles—St Albert • 19 Perron St, St Albert •

May 2011

Jeff Allen Art Gallery • Strathcona Seniors

U of A Music at Winspear

May 2011

art GALLERIES/MUSEUMS: May 2011 A.J. Ottewell Art Centre–Sherwood Park • 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park •

780.922.3179 • artstrathcona.com • Student Art Show, Competition and Sale: Presented by the Art Society of Strathcona County; May 13 - 14, 2011; Friday night reception with student artists in attendance and presentation of awards • Mothers' Day Art Show and Tea: Artworks by members of the Art Society of Strathcona County; May 8, 2011, 11 am - 4 pm; artists working on site

Gallery At Milner • Stanley A. Milner Library, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383/780.496.7031 • Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild Exhibit • May 3 - 31, 2011

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

Sunworks Home and Garden Store, Ross St, Red Deer • 403.346.8937 • harriswarkegallery.com • Ceramics by Julia Schumacher; Apr 4 - May 6, 2011; opening reception: May 6, 6 - 8 pm • Our Fathers: Installation by Lucienne Partridge et al; May 16 - Jun 19, 2011; opening reception: Jun 3, 6 - 8 pm Centre, 10831 University Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • Artworks by Johanna Wray's students; Apr 29 - May 25, 2011; opening reception: May 11 • Creative Age Festival: Rich Gossen; May 31 - Jun 29, 2011; opening reception: Jun 8

780.460.4310 • artsheritage.ca • High Engery XVI: Works by St Albert High School students • May 5 - 28, 2011

VAAA Gallery • 3rd fl, 10215 - 112 St • 780.421.1731 • Voices: Artworks by Al Henderson; an exploration of memories of Canada's military missions in Afghanistan; Apr 28 - May 28, 2011; Opening reception: Apr 28, 7 - 9:30 pm

Dance: May 2011 Alberta Ballet • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455

Latitude 53 • 10248 - 106 St • 780.423.5353 •

- 87 Ave • 780.428.6839 • albertaballet.com • Sarah McLachlan • May 13 - 14, 2011 • Subscriptions for the 2010/2011 Season are on sale now; single tickets for select performances available at Alberta Ballet's box office

McMullen Gallery • U of A Hospital,

LITERARY: May 2011

latitude53.org • Main Gallery: Noxious Sector • Apr 15 - May 14, 2011 8440 - 112 St • 780.407.7152 • The Forest: Artworks by members of the Alberta Society of Artists; curated by Chris Carson; Mar 19 - 22, 2011; opening reception: Mar 24, 7 - 9 pm • Size Doesn't Matter: Artworks by Spyder Yardley-Jones; May 29 - Jul 31, 2011; opening reception will be during the Works Art and Design Festival

Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery–Stony Plain • 5411 - 51 St, Stony Plain •

Edmonton Public Library • Lois Hole

Library • epl.ca/b2e • 6th Annual Books2Eat Gala: Fundraising event unites literary and culinary worlds, as local chefs showcase their talents through edible book creations. The night includes a silent auction, cake auction, food, wine and music - all in support of the new Clareview Library • May 14, 2011 • Tickets: Call 780.496.7051 for information

Northern Lights Folk Club • Queen

Alexandra Community Hall, 10425 University Ave • northernlightsfc.ca • Lennie Gallant • Sat, Apr 2, 2011 • Tickets: $18 • Season package info by T: 780.288.8111; ticket outlet info at northernlightsfc.ca

CLASSICAL MUSIC: Apr 2011 Alberta Baroque Ensemble •

Robertson–Wesley United Church, 10209 - 123 St • 780.467.6531 • Bach - Handel - Telemann: Lidia Khaner (oboe), Charles Pilon (viola), Sarah Schaub (soprano) • Sun, Apr 17, 2011, 3 pm • Single tickets: $25 (adult)/$20 (senior/student) • Tickets available at the Gramophone, TIX on the Square, door

Cosmopolitan Music Society of Edmonton • Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre

8426 Gateway Blvd • Monday Band at the Boston Pops: Fri, Apr 8 - 9, 2011, 8 - 10 pm; tickets: $20 • CMS Series Cosmo Chorus: Apr 16, 8 - 10 pm, Apr 17, 2:30 - 4:30 pm, 2010; tickets: $10 (adv, adult)/$7 (adv, student/senior); $12 (door, adult)/$9 (door, student/senior) E: generalmanager@cosmopolitanmusic.org

THE EDMONTON CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY • Convocation Hall, U of A Campus •

edmontonchambermusic.org • REBEL Baroque Ensemble • Fri, Apr 1, 2011, 8 pm • Tickets: $30 (adult)/$20 (senior)/$10 (student) available at TIX on the Square, The Gramophone, door

Edmonton Opera • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455

- 87 Ave • 780.429.1000 • edmontonopera.com • Puccini – Tosca, with the Edmonton Opera Chorus and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. Sung in Italian with English supertitles • Apr 9, 12, 14 2011, 7:30 pm • Season subscriptions are on sale at Edmonton Opera's box office; single tickets go on sale Sep 15, 2010

Edmonton Recital Society • Mut-

tart Hall, Alberta College, 10050 MacDonald Dr • edmontonrecital.com • Gala Concert: featuring: Georgy Tchaidze (piano) • Mon, Apr 11, 2011, 7:30 pm • Tickets: $40 (adult)/$35 (senior/student) available at TIX on the Square

Edmonton Symphony Orchestra

• Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.428.1414 • edmontonsymphony.com • Masters: Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto: Nobuyuki Tsujii (piano), Jean-Marie Zeitouni (guest conductor); Apr 29, 2011, 7:30 pm; Apr 30, 2011, 8 pm • Tickets available at Winspear Centre box office

Horizon Stage • 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce Grove • 780.962.8995 • Jasper Wood (violin) • Fri, Apr 1, 7:30 pm • Tickets: $25 (adult)/$20 (student/senior)/$5 eyeGO; available at Horizon Stage box office, TicketMaster

Pro Coro Canada • Winspear Centre, 4 Sir

Winston Churchill Sq • 780.428.1414 • procoro.ab.ca • Good Friday at The Winspear: St. John Passion, JS Bach, Richard Sparks (conductor) • Fri, Apr 22, 2011, 7:30 pm • Tickets available at the Winspear Centre for Music, a variety of ticket prices

SUNDAYS @ THREE • All Saints Cathedral, 103

Ave • RCCO, Edmonton Centre Sundays @ Three Organ

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Haven Social Club • 15120 Stony Plain Rd

• 780.915.8869 • Edmonton Story Slam • No cover; followed by a music jam • 3rd Wed every month; Wed, May 18, 2011; Sign up at 7 pm; Show starts at 7:30 pm • $5 (registration from writers to support the Society) • Winner walks out with all the audience donations

T.A.L.E.S. MONTHLY STORYTELLING CIRCLE • Centennial Rm, Stanley A. Milner Library

• 780.932.4409 • talesstorytelling.com • Tell stories or come to listen • 2nd Fri of the month; Sep 2010 - Jun 2011, 7 - 9 pm • Free

T.A.L.E.S. STORY CAFÉ SERIES • Rosie's Bar,

10475 - 80 Ave • 780.932.4409 • talesstorytelling.com • Wild Women • May 5, 2011, 7 - 9 pm • Cover charge: Paywhat-you-will ($6 min)

THEATRE: May 2011 THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615 -

109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Apr 19 - Jun 19, 2011 • Season ticket packages from $229

CAIRNS and SPROULE TOGETHER AGAIN AT LAST • Varscona Theatre, 10329 - 83

Ave • 780.434.5564 • Shadow Theatre presents a play will be specially selected for John Sproule and Coralie Cairns • May 25 - Jun 12, 2011 • Tickets: Opening, Fri/Sat night: $26 (adult)/$22 (senior/student); Sun - Thu: $22 (adult)/$18 (senior/student); Preview: $12 (everyone); Tue: two for one; Sat 2 pm matinee: Pay-What-You-Can; Under 18: $10 anytime. Single tickets/subscriptions available at TIX on the Square, Shadow Theatre 780.434.5564,

Varscona box office one hour prior to show

THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN • Timms

Centre, U of A Campus • 780.492.2495 • drama.ualberta. ca/studiotheatre.cfm • Studio Theatre • By Martin McDonagh • May 19 - 28, 2011 • Subscriptions start at $53 (student)/$83 (adult) at the Timms Centre for the Arts box office

DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 10329 - 83 Ave •

Disney's Jungle Book Kids • Horizon

Stage, 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce Grove • 780.962.8995 • Musical presented by the Horizon Players • Apr 28 - 30; May 5 - 7, 7:30 pm; Apr 30, 2 pm • Tickets: $20 (adult)/$15 (student/senior)/$5 eyeGO; available at Horizon Stage box office, TicketMaster

EMERGING COMPANY SHOWCASE • Living Room Playhouse, 11315 - 106 ave • A new work from Surreal SoReal Theatre • Apr 28 - May 14, 2011; Tickets available at 780.454.0583 (box office)

From Cradle to Stage: An Evening of One-Acts • Walterdale Theatre, 10322 - 83 Ave

• 780.439.2845 • walterdaleplayhouse.com • The evening will feature two new works by local playwrights who have worked with professional dramaturges before their works are given to our directors for casting and interpretation • May 18 - 28, 2011 • Tickets: Subscrip-

tions start at $72 (adult)/$62 (student/senior); Flex Pass: $45 (3 tickets in the season) available at TIX on the Square at 780.420.1757

at TicketMaster • George Thorogood and the Destroyers, guests, Wed, May 19, 2010, 7:30 pm (show); tickets: $45, $65, $85 available at TicketMaster

HEY LADIES! • Theatre Network–live at the Roxy,

Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society • Pleasantview Community League, 10860 -

10708 - 124 St • 780.453.2440 • theatrenetwork.ca • Roxy Performance Series: Starring Leona Brausen, Cathleen Rootsaert, Davina Stewart • Fri, May 20, 2011 • Tickets available at Theatre Network's box office, 780.453.2440

Little Women, the Musical • Citadel

Maclab Theatre, 9828 - 101 A Ave • 780.426.4811 • citadeltheatre.com • Book by Allan Knee, lyrics by Mindi Dickstein, music by Jason Howland, directed by Bob Baker. A musical suitable for those 10 years of age and up • Apr 30 - May 22, 2011 • Classic Landmarks Master Builder Mainstage Series/Robbins Family Series subscription information available at citadeltheatre.com

MOSTLY WATER • Theatre Network–live at the

Roxy, 10708 - 124 St • 780.453.2440 • theatrenetwork. ca • Roxy Performance Series: Mostly Water Theatre mix live stage performance with video shorts, musical guests, games, prizes and more, producing a game/talk show unlike anything you have seen before • Sat, May 21, 2011 • Tickets available at Theatre Network's box office, 780.453.2440

OH SUSANNA! • Varscona Theatre • 10329 - 83 Ave

PUBLIC SPEAKING • Theatre Network–live at the

Squabbles • Memorial Arts Centre, 5206 - 50 St,

Théâtre des abonnés (pièce communautaire) • La Cité Francophone, 8627 rue

Marie-Anne-Gaboury • 780.469.8400 • lunitheatre.ca • L'UniThéâtre - Rencontre intergénérationnelle • May 12 - 14 2011, 8 pm; May 15, 2011, 2 pm

True Love Lies • Citadel Rice Theatre, 9828 - 101

Northern Lights Folk Club • TransAlta Arts Barns, 10330 - 84 Ave • northernlightsfc.ca • UHF (Shari Ulrich, Bill Henderson, Roy Forbes) • Fri, May 6, 2011 • Tickets: $25 • Season package info by T: 780.288.8111; ticket outlet info at northernlightsfc.ca

CLASSICAL MUSIC: May 2011 Da Camera Singers • First Baptist Church,

10031 - 109 St • Earth Songs: Inspired by the beauty of the Earth, featuring works by Canadian composers R. Murray Schaffer and Ruth Watson Henderson • May 15, 2011, 3 pm • Tickets: $20 (adult)/$15 (student/senior)

Edmonton Symphony Orchestra

• Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.428.1414 • edmontonsymphony.com • Symphony for Kids: Al Simmons' Symphony Party; Pre-concert Activities from 1 - 1:45 pm; May 7, 2011, 2 pm • Saturday Masters: Tchaikovsky's Polish Symphony: Joseph Macerollo (accordion), Jean-François Rivest (conductor); May 14, 2011, 8 pm • Robbins Lighter Classics: Tom Allen's Classical Goodtime Variety Show; May 19, 2011, 8 pm • Sunday Showcase: Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto, Jan Lisiecki (piano), Eric Buchmann (violin); May 29, 2011, 2 pm • Midweek Classics: Angela Cheng (solo piano); May 25, 2011, 7:30 pm • Tickets available at Winspear Centre box office

Edmonton Youth Orchestra • Win-

spear Centre • 780.436.7932 • eyso.com • Senior and Intermediate Orchestras: The Thelma Johannes O'Neill Memorial Concert featuring winners of the 30th Northern Alberta Concerto Competition • Sun, May 1, 2011, 2 pm • Tickets available at TIX on the Square

Vocal Arts Festival • Convocation Hall,

U of A Campus • vocalartsfestival.ca • Vocal Gems Concert: Vocal Arts Festival Opening Night; Fri, May 20, 2011, 7:30 pm • Song Soiree: Italian and Spanish Artsongs; Wed, May 25, 2011, 7 pm • Classic Broadway; Fri, May 27, 2011

June 2011

art GALLERIES/MUSEUMS: Jun 2011

A Ave • 780.426.4811 • citadeltheatre.com • By Brad Fraser, directed by Ron Jenkins • A new comedy of bad manners that shatters our illusions about the "perfect" Canadian family • Apr 23 - May 15, 2011 • Rice Theatre Series subscription information available at citadeltheatre.com

Gallery At Milner • Stanley A. Milner Library,

MUSIC: May 2010

Sunworks Home and Garden Store, Ross St, Red Deer • 403.346.8937 • harriswarkegallery.com • Our Fathers: Installation by Lucienne Partridge et al; May 16 - Jun 19, 2011; opening reception: Jun 3, 6 - 8 pm • The Jumpers: Paintings by Erin Boake; Jun 27-Jul 29, 2011; opening reception: Jul 8, 6 - 8 pm

Jubilee Auditorium • 11455 - 87 Ave • David

Gray, guests; Sun, May 16, 2010, 7:30 pm; tickets available at TicketMaster • Gene Watson and Danny Hooper; Tue, May 18, 2010, 7 pm; tickets: $55 available

7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383/780.496.7031 • Aboriginal Teen Art exhibit: Artworks by Edmonton Public School Students; Jun 1 - 17, 2011 • The Works Art and Design Festival 2011; Jun 2 - Jul 7, 2011

Harris-Warke Gallery–Red Deer •

Jeff Allen Art Gallery • Strathcona Seniors Centre, 10831 University Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • Creative Age Festival: Rich Gossen; May 31 - Jun 29, 2011; opening reception: Jun 8

McMullen Gallery • U of A Hospital, 8440

- 112 St • 780.407.7152 • Size Doesn't Matter: Artworks by Spyder Yardley-Jones • May 29 - Jul 31, 2011 • Opening reception will be during the Works Art and Design Festival

Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery–Stony Plain • 5411 - 51 St, Stony Plain

• 780.963.9935 • Parkland Potters Guild 4th Biennial Exhibition; May 13 - Jun 8, 2011; opening reception: Sun, May 15 • High Art 11: Memorial composite Art Program Students Exhibition; Jun 10 - 21, 2011 • Installation works by Sarindar Dhaliwal and Lyndal Osbourne; Jun 25 - Jul 27, 2011; opening reception: Sun, Jun 26

NEXTFEST 2011 • Theatre Network–live at

the Roxy, 10708 - 124 St; and various other venues throughout Edmonton • 780.453.2440 • theatrenetwork. ca • Celebrate Nextfest's 16th birthday—an 11-day celebration of theatre, music, film, visual art, dance, NiteClubs, cabarets and more featuring hundreds of emerging local, national and international artists • Jun 2 - 12, 2011 • Tickets available at Theatre Network's box office, 780.453.2440

Profiles—St Albert • 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artsheritage.ca • Field Doll: Works by Heather Benning • Jun 2 - Jul 2, 2011

VAAA Gallery • 3rd flr, 10215 - 112 St •

780.421.1731 • Diversity 2011: Artworks by membership in conjunction with the Works Art and Design Festival • Jun 16 - Jul 16, 2011 • Opening Reception: Jun 16, 7 - 9:30 pm

Dance: Jun 2011 Mile Zero Dance • North Saskatchewan River • 780.424.1573 • Streaming: A site-specific installation about Edmonton's river. Part of The Works Festival of Art and Design • Jun 24 - 26 and Jul 1 - 3, 2011

NEXTFEST 2011 • Theatre Network–live at

FILM: Jun 2011 Dreamspeakers Film Festival • Metro

Cinema, Ziedler Hall, 9828 - 101A Ave; Stanley A. Milner Library Theatre, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • dreamspeakers.org • Celebrating the arts, films, songs and stories of Aboriginal people working in the film and television industry • Jun 1 - 4, 2011 • Screening are held throughout the festival; screening tickets: $7 each • Opening Night: Wed, Jun 1, 2011; tickets: Opening Night $20

LITERARY: Jun 2011 Haven Social Club • 15120 Stony Plain Rd

• 780.915.8869 • Edmonton Story Slam • No cover; followed by a music jam • 3rd Wed every month; Wed, Jun 15, 2011; Sign up at 7 pm; Show starts at 7:30 pm • $5 (registration from writers to support the Society) • Winner walks out with all the audience donations

T.A.L.E.S. MONTHLY STORYTELLING CIRCLE • Centennial Rm, Stanley Milner Library •

780.932.4409 • talesstorytelling.com • Tell stories or come to listen • 2nd Fri of the month; Sep 2010 - Jun 2011, 7 - 9 pm • Free

T.A.L.E.S. STORY CAFÉ SERIES • Rosie's Bar,

10475 - 80 Ave • 780.932.4409 • talesstorytelling.com • Celtic Ceilidh • Jun 2, 2011, 7 - 9 pm • Cover charge: Paywhat-you-will ($6 min)

THEATRE: Jun 2011 THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615 -

109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Apr 19 - Jun 19, 2011 • Season ticket packages from $229

CAIRNS and SPROULE TOGETHER AGAIN AT LAST • Varscona Theatre, 10329 - 83 Ave

• 780.434.5564 • Shadow Theatre presents a play that will be specially selected for John Sproule and Coralie Cairns • May 25 - Jun 12, 2011 • Tickets: Opening, Fri/ Sat night: $26 (adult)/$22 (senior/student); Sun - Thu: $22 (adult)/$18 (senior/student); Preview: $12 (everyone); Tue: two for one; Sat 2 pm matinee: Pay-What-YouCan; Under 18: $10 anytime. Single tickets/subscriptions available at TIX on the Square, Shadow Theatre 780.434.5564, Varscona box office one-hour prior to show

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Freewill Shakespeare Festival- 2011 • Heritage Amphitheatre, Hawrelak Park • 780.425.8086 • Shakespeare returns for Free Will Player's 23rd season in the Park. Shows to be announced in Spring 2011 • Jun 28 - Jul 24, 2011, 8 pm; matinees on Saturdays and Sundays at 2 pm • Tickets: $23 (adult)/$15 (student/senior); $35 (festival pass) available at TIX on the Square

Let There Be Height • La Cité Francophone,

8627 - 91st St • 780.242.4104 • Firefly Theatre • Firefly's Aerial Cabaret fundraiser featuring professional and upcoming aerialists, special guests and a silent auction • Jun 10 - 11, 2011, 7 pm (door), 8 pm (show) • Tickets: $30 (everyone) available at TIX on the Square, 780.420.1757

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS • La Cité Franco-

phone, 8627 rue Marie-Anne-Gaboury • Two One-Way Tickets to Broadway Productions present Menken's Little Shop of Horrors • Jun 9 - 18, 2011 • Tickets available at twoonewaytickets.com

NEXTFEST 2011 • Theatre Network–live at the

Roxy, 10708 - 124 St; and various other venues throughout Edmonton • 780.453.2440 • theatrenetwork.ca • Celebrate Nextfest's 16 birthday—an 11-day celebration of theatre, music, film, visual art, dance, NiteClubs, cabarets and more featuring hundreds of emerging local, national and international artists • Jun 2 - 12, 2011 • Tickets available at Theatre Network's box office, 780.453.2440

8 - 29, 2011

Harris-Warke Gallery–Red Deer •

Sunworks Home and Garden Store, Ross St, Red Deer • 403.346.8937 • harriswarkegallery.com • The Jumpers: Paintings by Erin Boake • Jun 27 - Jul 29, 2011 • Opening reception: Jul 8, 6 - 8 pm

Jeff Allen Art Gallery • Strathcona

Seniors Centre, 10831 University Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • Landscapes, flowers, buildings and abstracts by Liz Andrusiak • Jul 5 - 27, 2011 • Opening reception: Jul 13

McMullen Gallery • U of A Hospital, 8440

- 112 St • 780.407.7152 • Size Doesn't Matter: Artworks by Spyder Yardley-Jones • May 29 - Jul 31, 2011 • Opening reception will be during the Works Art and Design Festival

Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery–Stony Plain • 5411 - 51 St, Stony Plain

• 780.963.9935 • Installation works by Sarindar Dhaliwal and Lyndal Osbourne; Jun 25 - Jul 27, 2011; opening reception: Sun, Jun 26 • Basic Elements: Paintings by Pam Wilman Adeline Rockett, Yuriko Kitamura and Joanne Moore; Jul 29 - Aug 23, 2011; opening reception: Sun, Jul 31

Profiles—St Albert • 19 Perron St, St Albert

- 109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Starring Eddie Mekka from Laverne and Shirley • Jun 28 - Aug 21, 2011 • Season ticket packages from $229

• 780.460.4310 • artsheritage.ca • Field Doll: Works by Heather Benning; Jun 2 - Jul 2, 2011 • The Monster in your closet: Artworks by Mark Goodchild, Chung Cheuk Hung, Laura O'Connor, Psychotic robotic art collective: Tristan McClelland and Christopher Zaytsoff (C. Robot & T. McClelland); Jul 7 - 30, 2011

Sprouts: New Play Festival For Kids • Stanley A. Milner Library Theatre, 7 Sir Win-

Salisbury Greenhouses–Sherwood Park • 52337 Range Rd 232, Sherwood Park •

SEXY LAUNDRY • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615

ston Churchill Sq • 780.439.3905 • concretetheatre.ca • New short plays for kids and their families featuring local playwrights; additional storytelling, craft, music and art activities • Jun 11 - 12, 2010, 1 pm (activities), 2 pm (plays) • Tickets: $5 available at TIX on the Square; free for kids 3 and under

MUSIC: Jun 2011 NEXTFEST 2011 • Theatre Network–live at

CLASSICAL MUSIC: Jun 2011 Cosmopolitan Music Society of Edmonton • Winspear Centre • CMS Season

Finale: gala season finale • Sun, Jun 5, 2011, 7:30 - 10 pm • Tickets: $12 (adv, adult)/$10 (adv, student/senior); $15 (door, adult)/$12 (door, student/senior) available from CMS at 780.432.9333

Edmonton Symphony Orchestra

Mile Zero Dance • North Saskatchewan River • 780.424.1573 • Streaming: A site-specific installation about Edmonton's river. Part of The Works Festival of Art and Design • Jun 24 - 26 and Jul 1 - 3, 2011

LITERARY: Jul 2011 Haven Social Club • 15120 Stony Plain Rd

• 780.915.8869 • Edmonton Story Slam • No cover; followed by a music jam • 3rd Wed every month; Wed, Jul 20, 2011; Sign up at 7 pm; Show starts at 7:30 pm • $5 (registration from writers to support the Society) • Winner walks out with all the audience donations

THEATRE: Jul 2011 Freewill Shakespeare Festival

• Heritage Amphitheatre, Hawrelak Park • 780.425.8086 • Shakespeare returns for Free Will Player's 23rd season in the Park. Shows to be announced in Spring 2011 • Jun 28 - Jul 24, 2011, 8 pm; matinees on Saturdays and Sundays at 2 pm • Tickets: $23 (adult)/$15 (student/senior); $35 (festival pass) available at TIX on the Square

OH SUSANNA!–SEASON FINALE • Varscona Theatre • 10329 - 83 Ave • 780.433.3399 • varsconatheatre.com/ohsusanna • The Euro-style variety spectacle with Susanna Patchouli and her divine co-host Eros, God of Love! Laughs! Music! Cocktails! • Sat, Jul 31, 11 pm

SEXY LAUNDRY • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615 - 109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Starring Eddie Mekka from Laverne and Shirley • Jun 28 - Aug 21, 2011 • Season ticket packages from $229 - 83 Ave • 780.439.2845 • walterdaleplayhouse.com • By Canadian playwright John Lazarus, directed by Linette Smith • Jul 6 - 16, 2011 • Tickets: Subscriptions start at $72 (adult)/$62 (student/senior); Flex Pass: $45 (3 tickets in the season) available at TIX on the Square at 780.420.1757

MUSIC: Jul 2011 Northern Bluegrass Circle Music

- 112 St • 780.407.7152 • Alberta Lightscapes: Featuring artworks by Donna Miller, Judy Martin, Judith Hall, Kristen Federchuk • Aug 6 - Oct 2, 2011 • Opening reception: Aug 11

Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery–Stony Plain • 5411 - 51 St, Stony Plain • 780.963.9935 • Basic Elements: Paintings by Pam Wilman Adeline Rockett, Yuriko Kitamura and Joanne Moore; Jul 29 - Aug 23, 2011; opening reception: Sun, Jul 31 • Installation work by Sheri Chaba; Aug 26 - Sep 21, 2011; opening reception: Sun, Aug 28

Profiles—St Albert • 19 Perron St, St Albert •

780.460.4310 • artsheritage.ca • Visual Sensation: Works by Claire Uhlick and Samantha Williams • Aug 4 - 27, 2011

VAAA Gallery • 3rd fl, 10215 - 112 St • 780.421.1731 • Textile work by Alberta's Hand Weavers, Spinners and Dyers of Alberta organization • Jul 22 - Aug 27, 2011 • Opening reception: Jul 22, 7 - 9:30 pm

THEATRE: Aug 2011 SEXY LAUNDRY • Mayfield Dinner Thatre, 16615

- 109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Starring Eddie Mekka from Laverne and Shirley • Jun 28 - Aug 21, 2011 • Season ticket packages from $229

MUSIC: Aug 2011 Jazz at the Lake • Various locations in Sylvan

Lake Town • 1.866.887.5550 • JazzAtTheLake.com • Family-friendly jazz festival includes headliner concerts, swing dance, jazz for kids, jazz workshop, outdoor picnic concerts, blues bash, late night Lions jazz club, pub crawl, farewell jam session and more. Many events are free • Aug 18-21, 2011

dance

Village of Idiots • Walterdale Theatre, 10322

McMullen Gallery • U of A Hospital, 8440

music

DANCE: Jul 2011

Centre, 10831 University Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • Artworks by Strathcona Place's instructors and students • Aug 3 - Sep 21, 2011

music

7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383/780.496.7031 • The Works Art and Design Festival 2011; Jun 2 - Jul 7, 2011 • Flowing Lines: Paintings by Trevor Sale; Jul

works.ab.ca • Jun 20 - Jul 7, 2011

Jeff Allen Art Gallery • Strathcona Seniors

theatre

Gallery At Milner • Stanley A. Milner Library,

The Works Art and Design Festival 2011 • Various venues throughout Edmonton • the-

Sunworks Home and Garden Store, Ross St, Red Deer • 403.346.8937 • harriswarkegallery.com • Soul Sisters and Satellite Siblings: Installation by Sabine Schneider and Glynis Wilson Boultbee • Aug 8 - Sep 9, 2011 • Opening reception: Sep 2, 6 - 8 pm

dance dance

art GALLERIES/MUSEUMS: JUL 2011

Strathcona • 780.432.0240 • art-walk.ca • An outdoor studio and gallery featuring hundreds of working artists • Mid Jul, 2011, 10 - 5 pm

Harris-Warke Gallery–Red Deer •

dance

July 2011 July 2011

Whyte Ave Artwalk • Whyte Ave, Old

art GALLERIES/MUSEUMS: Aug 2011

performing arts

Convocation Hall: • Song Soiree: German Lied; Wed, Jun 1, 2011, 7 pm • Aria Extravaganza; Fri, Jun 3, 2011, 7:30 pm • An Afternoon of Sacred Song; Sun, Jun 5, 2011, 4 pm • Featured Opera Performance; Jun 10 - 11 • Song Soiree: Ukrainian, Czech and Russian songs; Wed, Jun 8, 2011, 7 pm • An Afternoon of Light Opera; Sun, Jun 12, 2011, 2 pm • Song Soiree—English Artsong; Wed, Jun 15, 2011, 7 pm • Timms Centre • Mainstage Operas of the VAF • Jun 21 - 26, 2011

• Diversity 2011: Artworks by membership; Jun 16 - Jul 16, 2011; part of the Works Art and Design Festival; opening reception: Jun 16, 7 - 9:30 pm • Textile work by Alberta's Hand Weavers, Spinners and Dyers of Alberta organization; Jul 22 - Aug 27, 2011; opening reception: Jul 22, 7 - 9:30 pm

August 2011

music

Vocal Arts Festival • vocalartsfestival.ca •

VAAA Gallery • 3rd fl, 10215 - 112 St • 780.421.1731

theatre performing arts

• Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.428.1414 • edmontonsymphony.com • The ESO Presents: Pieter Wispelwey plays cello with Bill Eddins (piano); Jun 1, 2011, 7:30 pm • Late Night with Bill Eddins–Late Night 1900s: Jun 3, 2011, 9:30 pm • Saturday Masters: Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony: Pieter Wispelwey (cello); Jun 4, 2011, 8 pm • Masters: Ravel's Daphnis and Chloé: Bill Eddins (piano solo); Jun 17, 2011, 7:30 pm; Jun 18, 2011, 8 pm • Robbins Pops: Hollywood's Red Carpet: Richard Kaufman (conductor), and the ESO present Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated music; Jun 10 - 11, 2011, 8 pm • Tickets available at Winspear Centre box office

780.922.3179 • Salisbury Show and Sale: Artworks by members of the Art Society of Strathcona County in support of SAFFRON • Jul 2011

Society • Pleasantview Community League, 10860 -

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FILM WEEKLY FRI, AUG 6 – THU, AUG 12, 2010

crude sexual content, not recommended for young children) FRI�TUE, THU 12:20, 12:40, 3:45, 4:00, 7:00, 7:30, 9:45, 10:15; WED 12:20, 12:40, 3:45, 4:00, 7:00, 7:30, 10:15, 10:30

STEP UP (PG) DAILY 1:30, 4:20, 7:45, 10:20 s

CHABA THEATRE�JASPER 6094 Connaught Dr, Jasper, 780.852.4749

THE KARATE KID (PG violence, not recom-

mended for young children) DAILY 1:30, 6:45, 9:05

SALT (14A) DAILY 1:30, 7:00, 9:05 CINEMA CITY MOVIES 12

5074-130 Ave, 780.472.9779

KHATTA MEETHA (PG violence) Hindi W/E.S.T.

7:00, 10:00

CATS AND DOGS: THE REVENGE OF KITTY GALORE (G) DAILY 12:30, 2:50 CATS AND DOGS: THE REVENGE OF KITTY GALORE 3D (G) Digital 3d DAILY 11:30,

2:00, 6:50, 9:30

DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS (14A) DAILY 1:00, 4:10, 7:15, 10:20

FRI�SAT 1:15, 4:35, 7:45, 11:00; SUN�THU 1:15, 4:35,

CHARLIE ST. CLOUD (PG mature subject mat-

MEL KARA DE RABBA (PG violence) DAILY

RAMONA AND BEEZUS (G) DAILY 11:50

7:45

1:10, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30

JONAH HEX (14A, violence) FRI�SAT 4:45, 9:50, 11:50; SUN�THU 4:45, 9:50 THE A�TEAM (PG, coarse language, violence, not

recommended for young children) FRI�SAT 1:40, 4:15, 7:10, 9:40, 12:10; SUN�THU 1:40, 4:15, 7:10, 9:40

THE KARATE KID (PG violence, not recom-

mended for young children) DAILY 1:05, 4:00, 7:00, 9:55

KILLERS (PG violence, coarse language) FRI�SAT 4:20, 9:10, 11:30; SUN�THU 4:20, 9:10

MARMADUKE (G) DAILY 1:25, 3:40 GET HIM TO THE GREEK (18A substance

abuse, crude sexual content) Daily 1:45, 4:25, 7:25, 10:00

ter) DAILY 12:10, 3:15, 6:40, 9:20

SALT (14A) DAILY 1:20, 4:30, 7:45, 10:30 INCEPTION (PG violence) FRI�WED 11:30, 12:00,

3:00, 3:30, 6:30, 7:00, 10:15, 10:30; Thu 11:30, 3:00, 5:00, 6:30, 9:30, 10:15; Star & Strollers Screening: THU 1:00

THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE (PG violence, frightening scenes) FRI�TUE, THU 12:15, 3:20, 7:20, 10:10; WED 12:15, 3:20, 10:10 DESPICABLE ME 3D (G) Digital 3d DAILY 11:40, 2:15, 6:35, 9:25

PREDATORS (18A gory violence) DAILY 7:20,

STEP UP 3D (PG) Digital 3d, No passes DAILY 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45

DUGGAN CINEMA�CAMROSE 6601-48 Ave, Camrose, 780.608.2144

CATS AND DOGS: THE REVENGE OF KITTY GALORE (G) DAILY 7:00 9:00; SAT, SUN, TUE, THU 2:00

DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS (14A) DAILY 6:50, 9:05; SAT, SUN, MON, TUE, THU 1:50

CHARLIE ST. CLOUD (PG mature subject mat-

ter) DAILY 7:05, 9:10; SAT, SUN, MON, TUE, THU 2:05

SALT (14A) DAILY 6:45 9:15; SAT, SUN, TUE, THU 2:05

THE OTHER GUYS (PG coarse language, crude sexual content, not recommended for young children) DAILY 7:10 9:20; SAT, SUN, TUE, THU 2:10

EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY Royal Alberta Museum, 102 Ave, 128 St, 780.439.5284

EASY TO LOVE (PG) MON 8:00 GALAXY�SHERWOOD PARK 2020 Sherwood Dr, 780.416.0150 Sherwood Park 780-416-0150

THE OTHER GUYS (PG coarse language, crude sexual content, not recommended for young children) DAILY 1:15, 4:10, 7:05, 9:50

STEP UP 3D (PG) Digital 3d DAILY 1:05, 4:00,

10:25

6:55, 9:45

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE (PG violence)

CATS AND DOGS: THE REVENGE OF KITTY GALORE 3D (G) Digital 3d DAILY 12:20,

DAILY 3:10, 7:10, 10:25

GROWN UPS (PG crude content, language may

2:30, 4:35, 6:50, 9:15

THE OTHER GUYS (PG coarse language,

crude sexual content, not recommended for young children) DAILY 6:50, 9:10; SAT, SUN, TUE, THU 12:50, 3:10; Movies for Mommies: TUE 11:00am

CHARLIE ST. CLOUD (PG mature subject matter) DAILY 7:15, 9:25; SAT, SUN, TUE, THU 1:15, 3:25

DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS (14A) DAILY 6:55, 9:20; SAT, SUN, TUE, THU 12:55, 3:20

SALT (14A) DAILY 7:10, 9:15; SAT, SUN, TUE, THU 1:10, 3:15

DESPICABLE ME 3D (G) DAILY 7:05, 9:00; SAT, SUN, TUE, THU 1:05, 3:00

CATS AND DOGS: THE REVENGE OF KITTY GALORE 3D (G) DAILY 7:00, 9:05; SAT,

SUN, TUE, THU 1:00, 9:05

INCEPTION (PG violence) DAILY 6:45, 9:30; SAT,

SUN, TUE, THU 12:45, 3:30

PRINCESS 10337-82 Ave, 780.433.0728

SOLITARY MAN (14A coarse language) DAILY 7:00; SAT�SUN 1:00

THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE (18A brutal violence, disturbing content) DAILY 9:00; SAT�SUN 3:00 WINTER’S BONE (14A) DAILY 7:15, 9:15; SAT�

SUN 2:00

SCOTIABANK THEATRE WEM WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.444.2400

THE OTHER GUYS (PG coarse language, crude sexual content, not recommended for young children) DAILY 11:40, 2:30, 5:10, 8:00, 10:40

STEP UP 3D (PG) Digital 3d DAILY 12:30, 3:20,

7:00, 9:45

SEX AND THE CITY 2 (14A sexual content, not recommended for children) DAILY 6:35, 9:45

offend) FRI�TUE, THU 12:20, 3:50, 6:55, 9:40; WED 12:20, 3:50, 9:40

DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS (14A) DAILY 12:50,

SHREK FOREVER AFTER (PG) FRI�SAT 2:00, 4:45, 7:05, 9:20, 11:40; SUN�THU 2:00, 4:45, 7:05, 9:20

TOY STORY 3 (G) DAILY 12:45, 3:55, 7:05, 10:00

CHARLIE ST. CLOUD (PG mature subject mat-

2:00, 4:30, 6:50, 9:20

CAESAR & CLEOPATRA�Encore Presentation (Classification not available) WED 7:00

SALT (14A) DAILY 1:50, 4:35, 7:15, 9:55

1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 10:15; WED 4:10, 7:15, 10:15; Star & Strollers Screening: WED 1:00

SHREK FOREVER AFTER 3D (PG) Digital 3d FRI�SAT 1:00, 3:45, 6:50, 9:00, 11:20; SUN�THU 1:00,

3:45, 6:50, 9:00

ROBIN HOOD (14A) DAILY 1:20, 6:55 LETTERS TO JULIET (PG) DAILY 1:50, 6:45

CITY CENTRE 9 10200-102 Ave, 780.421.7020

THE OTHER GUYS (PG coarse language,

3:50, 7:10, 10:00

ter) DAILY 1:00, 3:55, 6:40, 9:20

INCEPTION (PG violence) DAILY 12:15, 3:25, 6:45,

10:05

THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE (PG vio-

crude sexual content, not recommended for young children) Dolby Stereo Digital, No passes, Stadium Seating DAILY 1:00, 3:50, 7:00, 10:05

lence, frightening scenes) DAILY 1:30, 4:05, 6:50, 9:40

IRON MAN 2 (PG violence, not recommended for HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON (PG vio-

INCEPTION (PG violence) DTS Digital, Stadium Seating DAILY 12:00, 3:20, 6:40, 10:00

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE (PG violence)

DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS (14A) Dolby Stereo

GROWN UPS (PG crude content, language may

young children) DAILY 1:35, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00

lence) FRI�SAT 1:30, 4:10, 6:30, 8:50, 11:10; SUN�THU 1:30, 4:10, 6:30, 8:50

CINEPLEX ODEON NORTH 14231-137 Ave, 780.732.2236

THE OTHER GUYS (PG coarse language, crude sexual content, not recommended for young children) DAILY 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20

Digital DAILY 12:50, 3:45, 7:15, 10:10

STEP UP 3D (PG) No passes, Stadium Seating, Digital 3d DAILY 12:30, 3:15, 6:45, 9:50

CATS AND DOGS: THE REVENGE OF KITTY GALORE (G) No passes, Stadium Seating,

STEP UP 3D (PG) Digital 3d DAILY 1:10, 4:00,

DTS Digital DAILY 12:15, 2:45, 5:20, 7:50, 10:25

CATS AND DOGS: THE REVENGE OF KITTY GALORE (G) DAILY 12:10, 2:20, 4:40

tent) Stadium Seating, DTS Digital FRI�SUN,TUE�THU 12:40, 3:30, 7:10, 10:15; MON 12:40, 3:30, 10:15

7:00, 9:40

CATS AND DOGS: THE REVENGE OF KITTY GALORE 3D (G) Digital 3d DAILY 12:40,

3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 9:45

DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS (14A) DAILY 2:00, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30

CHARLIE ST. CLOUD (PG mature subject matter) FRI�TUE, THU 1:50, 4:15, 6:35, 9:10; WED 4:15, 6:35, 9:10; Star & Strollers Screening: WED 1:00

SALT (14A) DAILY 12:20, 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:15 INCEPTION (PG violence) DAILY 12:05, 1:00, 3:20, 4:20, 6:50, 8:00, 10:10 THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE (PG vio-

CHARLIE ST. CLOUD (PG mature subject

ter) No passes DAILY 1:20, 3:20, 5:15, 7:15, 9:20

SALT (14A) No passes DAILY 1:35, 3:30, 5:25, 7:30,

violence) DAILY 12:00, 3:30, 7:00, 10:30

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UNDERCOVER CAT >> Can't save The Revenge of Kitty Galore Brian Gibson // brian@vueweekly.com

ats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore passes the way a pet lover hopes euthanasia goes for their beloved feline or canine—a blur of motion, moments drifting by in a numbing fog, then the blissful end, free of pain at last. In movie-vet terms, this doggone talkie's many diamond-studded collars short of Bolt but still not as barking bad as Marmaduke (which was the inhumane cinematic equivalent of stuffing puppies in a sack and slowly drowning them for 90 minutes). The formulaic spy story has secretagent cats and dogs teaming up to thwart Kitty Galore's diabolical plan to turn all pooches on their owners. A pigeon flaps along as the requisite smart-mouthed buddy. From the 007 opening (neither homage nor parody—more like a lazy screen-saver) to

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a brothel, but the Himalayan winds that endlessly sweep through the sisters' habits seem to carry whispers of the past. Ceiling fans and birdcages create strange geometries within the drafty convent walls. Repressed memories of youth, innocence and lust seep in the cracks. There's a sense of vertigo running through the movie, not only in the images of steep cliffs and looming towers but in the emotional dynamics incited by the precarious attempt of eclipsing one world with another. This colonialist strategy doesn't finally fare very well for the church in Black Narcissus, but it works wonders for Powell and his crack production team, who

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the Hannibal Lecter psycho-cat Mr Tinkles, any allusions for adults are stiff. And the kids' stuff rarely goes beyond the novelty of cats and dogs zipping off one-liners at a frenetic pace. Some of the post-production 3D is like 3½D, keeping humans in one plane while pushing their backgrounds into another. The movie's in a limbo between animation and reallife, with the animals gizmo-jetting around through specific areas of San Francisco for whizbang stunts that could be made inventive if they were animated instead of CGI-d. The plot isn't even daring enough to lead the top dog and prima caterina into talking-animal cinema's first interspecies romance. The voice cast—including Wallace Shawn (!?!) and Roger Moore as spymeowster Tab Lazenby—must've found the movie an easy way to cash in while

filmed this achingly gorgeous and exotic tale not in the Himalayas but entirely at London's Pinewood Studios. Powell would often utilize locations to stunning effect—see bombed-out Canterbury in A Canterbury Tale (1944) or Chesil Beach in The Small Back Room (1949)—but he and Emeric Pressburger seemed to understand that the struggle of spirit and flesh they sought to depict would need to be realized in a heightened and highly controlled setting. The only aspect of Black Narcissus that leaves me a cold has something to do with its somewhat airy idea of India. I suspect this has something to do with Rumer Godden's source novel, since Jean Renoir's The River (1951)—also based on a Godden—has the same effect on me while being in virtually every sense

remaining anonymous. There are a few decent jokes ... OK, one: "Today's seminar is on sexual harassment in the workplace—doberman or not, don't pinch her." Sadly, this is the feature debut of Newfoundlander Brad Peyton, whose gothic animations (including the short-lived CBC series What It's Like Being Alone) in the early '00s raised some hopes he'd become Canada's Tim Burton. Instead, with Cats & Dogs 2, he's hit the big-time as a factory boss overseeing production of a forgettable, clunky CGI tinkertoy. V Now playing Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore Directed by Brad Peyton Written by Ron J Friedman, Steve Bencich Featuring James Marsden, Nick Nolte, Christina Applegate

a completely different sort of work—indeed, one shot on location in India. Nonetheless, each of the major characters, most of whom are British, are more complex than their archetypes would have it, and are played to the hilt, not only by Kerr but also Kathleen Byron, as Sister Ruth, and David Farrar, as Mr Dean, who becomes the object of Ruth and perhaps Clodagh's desire. Bryon and Farrar would be able to consummate their love in The Small Back Room, but in the meantime the peculiar tension they develop here remains deeply satisfying. Powell called this his most erotic film and he may he right. It's certainly his most neurotic film—Peeping Tom (1960) excepted— and deserves to be seen and re-seen for the arresting ways it conjures the unconscious at the very top of the world. V

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olk Fest and Metal Fest on the same weekend? Well, at least they didn't have to worry about booking entanglements. Which is kind of sad, really, because in the best of worlds you know that you'd want to see Ooze play after Calexico on the mainstage at the Folk Fest, or Vivisect do a workshop with Levon Helm. Oh, what a tormented version of "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" we would have heard! Or maybe Levon would lend those ragged, soulful vocals on a cover of Gorgoroth's "Revelation of Doom," with Ricky Skaggs adding tasty mandolin licks. Alas, it is not to be. Heavy metal may have gained audiences in leaps and bounds in the last few years, but it's still very much a ghettoized form of music in North America, whereas Europe boasts any number of massive outdoor festivals that dwarf our own Folk Fest. Edmonton doesn't lack for bands, or a concentrated scene, but it does lack for interest outside of it. It's a question of respectability, really, and metal only receives that respect when attendance figures and merch sales are high enough to warrant it. "The thing is, we're sick of the metal community being pushed aside," sighs Art Szabo, metal musician, talent buyer for the Starlite Room and co-originator of the idea for Metal Fest. "There's so much talent in this city, but bands rarely get the opportunity to play

Greil Marcus wrote in more than just a few plachis book Invisible Rees. We have this incredpublic about how leftible cross range of bands ists were responsible at our festival, from black for a great deal of the metal to grindcore, classic folk resurgence of the metal to weird techie stuff '50s, and the genre, as to psychedelic. Other wide and deep as it's scenes, like folk, have had become, is still very an impact, and it's time much steeped in those we showed Edmonton politics. Heavy metal's just how good ours is." resurgence never had a The quality of Edmonsingle defining political ton metal isn't in doubt, thrust to it; from Liberbut Szabo isn't the only tarians to Satanists, far veteran to wonder why right and even racist betheir scene is marginalliefs to varying shades ized. Is it because the of the left, metal ideolfolk music community is ogy can't be quite so eastighter, better organized, ily pigeonholed. that they're able to sup"There are a lot of port their own, while the paradoxes in the scene," metal scene here can't? acknowledges Gabby Maybe; there's a network SNAP! >> Cyn Mecredi of Kriticos takes out some anger // Eden Munro Riches, founder of for under-the-radar folk Heavy Metal on Cammusicians, glossy magazines, clubs and out of town I'd open my door so they could pus at the U of A and host of CJSR's long non-profit societies that groom talent chill at my place." running metal show, Mind Compression. until they're able to make the leap to the This might be the biggest difference be"You can see many different ideas and folk-fest circuit. They provide couches tween the two genres; folk fans will buy political stances, it's not universal or or spare rooms, home-cooked meals and the albums, diligently attend shows and coherent." sometimes even rides to the gig. tell their friends about the music they love, Commercial radio keeps to the tried Aspiring metal musicians on the road but metal fans go the distance. It's the difand true formula of Iron Maiden, AC/ don't get quite the same treatment. ference between admiration and zealotry, DC and a few others, but rising bands "The promoter might not be taking care enjoying music and living out the dreams can't get a break, except on independent of the bands," says singer Cyn Mecredi of demanded by music. Both types of fans stations. CKUA is invaluable to the variKriticos, one of the local bands on the bill see themselves as part of an extended ous clubs and the Folk Fest for helping at Metal Fest. "Someone will usually make community, but the demands of metal to promote new talent, but mainstream sure that you get fed and wasted. Most of are more than just an ordinary fealty; it rerock stations are as leery of new metal as the time when bands were coming in from quires a blood oath that seems irrational to they are local anything else. CJSR, how-

ever, boasts three metal shows, where new releases by locals Striker, Death Toll Rising, Begrime Exemious and Miskatonic are put into constant rotation "CJSR does help," Szabo acknowledges, "and people do listen to those shows, but that's not the point. "Bands really have to start helping each other out, bottom line. This is something that needs to happenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;we can sometimes get them shows, and CJSR can play their records, but the bands themselves really need to communicate with each other and help each other out. What we need is for the community of musicians to band together." "It's generally supportive," adds Mecredi, "but some people only go to their friend's shows, and that's not really cool; they should be supporting everyone." Oddly enough, Tom Russell, a respected and critically acclaimed Texas-based songwriter who claims much more than just the folk world for influences, is somewhat leery of the notion of community. "To have a community is a good thing, and Canada definitely has a great folk one that's a legacy from the European tradition, much better than the States. However, it's not always something that's healthy for a songwriter or band. The New York scene of the '60s was tight knit, but it was brutal and competitive; I mean, whatever happened to Fred Neil and Phil Ochs? Ochs committed suicide, Neil just faded away. It was the competition, and especially the presence of Dylan, who wiped everyone out with his apocalyptic songs. That's something you never read about. CONTINUED ON PAGE 44 >>

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Meanwhile, back on the hill ... the folkies hold the fort for all it's worth Have we mentioned that there's this other festival going on over the weekend, an outdoor one that takes place in Gallagher Park? Sure, you won't get your ass kicked by blazing metal riffs or blast beats, but there's something to be said for the presence of Levon Helm, surely one of the most anticipated performers in recent years. Correctly referred to by one writer as "the only drummer that can make you cry," the ex-Band member is currently undergoing an astonishing career resurgence, highlighted by the fact

that he only recently recovered from a near fatal bout of throat cancer. He'll be playing on Friday at 9 pm on the main stage. Bobby "Blue" Bland is also in the "can't miss" category; the 80-year-old singer, once a valet and driver for BB King, is opening 7 pm on Wednesday at the main stage for the often inscrutable Van Morrison, who used to cover Bland's songs as a young musician in Belfast. Van himself is weighted by certain expectations from some of his audience, or dismissed out of hand by others; he's a true eccentric,

however, and someone known for delivering a transcendent performance when he sets his mind to it. Hopefully a few numbers from his Astral Weeks, which he recently did a live re-recording of? He resides in the cult category, but Tom Russell should really have a broader audience. His songs have been covered by the likes of Ian Tyson, Nancy Griffith, kd lang and Johnny Cash, and his own records are a swirl of influences, from Tex-Mex to country, folk to blues and rock. His latest album, Blood and Candle Smoke, was done in collaboration with

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Calexico, with whom he'll do a workshop (stage 6) on Friday at 6 pm. Russell's concert is Friday at 8 pm, stage one, and Calexico plays the main stage the same day, just after Levon Helm. Two local acts make their debuts at the Folk Fest this year, and both are Sunday morning, 11 am concerts; Colleen Brown at stage seven, Jeff Stuart & the Hearts at stage one. Directly after is a concert that hasn't been mentioned much, but is actually of serious interest to music nerds; producer, arranger and Brian Wilson collaborator Van Dyke Parks is play-

ing noon on Sunday at Stage one. For some of us, Alejandro Escovedo encapsulates everything that Ryan Adams is claimed to be by his supporters. This time around he's bringing the Sensitive Boys, and likely playing material from his recently released Street Songs of Love album; his concert takes place Saturday at 2 pm on the main stage. At 6 pm the same day, also on the main stage, are Dailey and Vincent, just about the hottest thing going in bluegrass at the moment, and well deserving of the accolades they've received. V

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BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Fri DJs spin Wooftop and Main Floor: Eclectic jams with Nevine–indie, soul, motown, new wave, electro; Underdog: Perverted Fri: Punk and Ska

CROWN PUB 10709-109 St, 780.428.5618 DIESEL ULTRA LOUNGE 11845 Wayne Gretzky Drive, 780.704. CLUB DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8307-99 St, DV8TAVERN.com EDDIE SHORTS 10713-124 St, 780.453.3663 EDMONTON EVENTS CENTRE WEM Phase III, 780.489.SHOW ELECTRIC RODEO�Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 ENCORE CLUB 957 Fir St, Sherwood Park, 780.417.0111 FIDDLER’S ROOST 8906-99 St FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 FLOW LOUNGE 11815 Wayne Gretzky Dr, 780.604.CLUB FLUID LOUNGE 10105-109 St, 780.429.0700 FUNKY BUDDHA 10341-82 Ave, 780.433.9676 GAS PUMP 10166-114 St, 780.488.4841 GOOD EARTH COFFEE HOUSE 9942-108 St HALO 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423. HALO HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB 15120A (basement), Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.6010

HILL TOP 8220-106 Ave, 780.490.7359 HOOLIGANZ 10704-124 St, 780.452.1168 HYDEAWAY 10209-100 Ave, 780.426.5381 IRON BOAR 4911-51st St, Wetaskiwin IVORY CLUB 2940 Calgary Trail South JAMMERS 11948-127 Ave, 780.451.8779 J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JEFFREY’S CAFÉ 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 JEKYLL AND HYDE 10209-100 Ave, 780.426.5381 KAS BAR 10444-82 Ave, 780.433.6768 KNOX�METROPOLITAN UNITED CHURCH 8310-109 St L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEGENDS 6104-172 St, 780.481.2786 LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 LION’S DEN PUB�Red Deer Quality Inn North Hill, 7150-50 Ave, Red Deer LIVE WIRE 1107 Knotwood Rd. East MARYBETH'S COFFEE HOUSE–Beaumont 5001-30 Ave, Beaumont MORANGO’S TEK CAFÉ 10118-79 St NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10354 Jasper Ave

NEWCASTLE PUB 6108-90 Ave, 780.490.1999 NEW CITY 10081 Jasper Ave, 780.989.5066 NIKKI DIAMONDS 8130 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.8006 NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 O'MAILLE'S 398 St Albert Tr, St Albert, 780.458.5700 ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 ORLANDO'S 1 15163-121 St OVERTIME Whitemud Crossing, 4211-106 St, 780.485.1717 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 PLANET INDIGO�Jasper Ave 11607 Jasper Ave; St Albert 812 Liberton Dr, St Albert PLAY NIGHTCLUB 10220-103 St PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave REDNEX BAR�Morinville 10413100 Ave, Morinville, 780.939.6955, rednex.ca RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St RIC’S GRILL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St

PLAY NIGHTCLUB The first bar for the queer community to open in a decade with DJ's Alexx Brown and Eddie Toonflash; 9pm (door); $5; playnightclub.ca REDNEX�Morinville DJ Gravy from the Source 98.5 RED STAR Movin’ on Up Fri: indie, rock, funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson ROUGE LOUNGE Solice Fri SPORTSWORLD Roller Skating Disco Fri Nights; 7-10:30pm; sports-world.ca STOLLI’S Top 40, R&B, house with People’s DJ STONEHOUSE PUB Top 40 with DJ Tysin TEMPLE Options Dark Alt Night; Greg Gory and Eddie Lunchpail; 9pm (door); $5 (door) WILD BILL'S�Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close WUNDERBAR Fri with the Pony Girls, DJ Avinder and DJ Toma; no cover Y AFTERHOURS Foundation Fri

SAT AUG 7 180 DEGREES Dancehall and Reggae night every Sat ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage with Trace Jordan 1st and 3rd Sat; 7pm-12 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair of the Dog (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover

VENUE GUIDE 180 DEGREES 10730-107 St, 780.414.0233 ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave AVENUE THEATRE 9030-118 Ave, 780.477.2149 BANK ULTRA LOUNGE 10765 Jasper Ave, 780.420.9098 BILLY BOB’S Continental Inn, 16625 Stony Plain Rd, 780.484.7751 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 1042582 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOOTS 10242-106 St, 780.423.5014 BRIXX 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464153 St, 780 424 9467 CHATEAU LOUIS 11727 Kingsway, 780 452 7770 CHRISTOPHER’S 2021 Millbourne Rd, 780.462.6565 CHROME LOUNGE 132 Ave, Victoria Trail COAST TO COAST 5552 Calgary Tr, 780.439.8675 COLAHAN'S 8214-175 St, 780.487.8887 COPPERPOT Capital Place, 101, 9707-110 St, 780.452.7800 CROWN AND ANCHOR 15277 Castledowns Rd, 780.472.7696

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RUSTY REED'S HOUSE OF BLUES 12402-118 Ave, 780.451.1390 SECOND CUP�Mountain Equipment 12336-102 Ave, 780.451.7574; Stanley Milner Library 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq; Varscona, Varscona Hotel, 106 St, Whyte Ave SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St, 780.453.6006 SPORTSWORLD 13710-104 St SPORTSMAN'S LOUNGE 8170-50 St STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 STEEPS�College Plaza 11116-82 Ave, 780.988.8105; Old Glenora 12411 Stony Plain Rd, 780.488.1505 STOLLI’S 2nd Fl, 10368-82 Ave, 780.437.2293 TAPHOUSE 9020 McKenney Ave, St Albert, 780.458.0860 WHISTLESTOP LOUNGE 12416132 Ave, 780. 451.5506 WILD BILL’S�Red Deer Quality Inn North Hill, 7150-50 Ave, Red Deer WILD WEST SALOON 12912-50 St, 780.476.3388 WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295

BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE 2110 Sparrow Dr, Nisku, 780.955.2336 Sophie and the Shufflehounds (blues/roots) BLUES ON WHYTE Maurice John Vaughn BRIXX Get Busy, Hands of Stone, Southroot; 9pm CARROT Open mic Sat; 7:309:30pm; free CASINO EDMONTON X-Change (pop/rock) CASINO YELLOWHEAD Toshi Jackson and the Silhouettes (Supremes tribute) COAST TO COAST Live bands every Sat; 9:30pm CROWN PUB Acoustic Open Stage during the day/Electric Open Stage at night with Marshall Lawrence, 1:30pm (sign-up), every Sat, 2-5pm; evening: hosted by Dan and Miguel; 9:30pm-12:30am THE DRUID IRISH PUB Sat DJ at 9pm EDMONTON FOLK FESTIVAL Alejandro Escovedo and the Sensitive Boys, 2-3pm; Dailey and Vincent Vieux Farka Toure, Sarah Harmer, Brandi Carlile, Colin Hay, 6pm-12:30am GAS PUMP Blues Jam/open stage every Sat 3-6pm, backline provided HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB The Dusty Tucker Band, Ashley Sacha, guests; 7:30pm (door); $10 (door) HILLTOP Open stage/mic Sat: hosted by Sally's Krackers Sean Brewer; 3-5:30pm IRON BOAR Jazz in Wetaskiwin featuring jazz trios the 1st Sat each month; $10 IVORY CLUB Duelling piano show with Jesse, Shane, Tiffany and Erik and guests JAMMERS Sat open jam, 3-7:30pm; country/rock band 9pm-2am JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Brenna MacQuarrie (jazz/soul/RnB/ pop); $10 L.B.’S Kyler Schogen; 9:30pm2am LYVE ON WHYTE Maple Tea; 8pm (door); $5 MORANGO'S TEK CAFÉ Sat open stage: hosted by Dr. Oxide; 7-10pm

DJs AZUCAR PICANTE Every Sat: DJ Touch It, hosted by DJ Papi BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sat DJs on three levels. Main Floor: Menace Sessions: alt rock/electro/trash with Miss Mannered BUDDY'S DJ Earth Shiver 'n' Quake; 8pm; no cover before 10pm CENTURY ROOM Underground House every Sat with DJ Nic-E EMPIRE BALLROOM Rock, hip hop, house, mash up ENCORE CLUB So Sweeeeet Sat ESMERALDA’S Super Parties: Every Sat a different theme FLUID LOUNGE Sat Gone Gold Mash-Up: with Harmen B and DJ Kwake FUNKY BUDDHA�Whyte Ave Top tracks, rock, retro with DJ Damian HALO For Those Who Know: house every Sat with DJ Junior Brown, Luke Morrison, Nestor Delano, Ari Rhodes LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Signature Sound Sat: with DJ's Travis Mateeson, Big Daddy, Tweek and Mr Wedge; 9:30pm (door); $3; 780.447.4495 for guestlist NEWCASTLE PUB Top 40 Sat: requests with DJ Sheri NEW CITY LIKWID LOUNGE Punk Rawk Sat with Todd and Alex NEW CITY SUBURBS Black Polished Chrome Sat: industrial, Electro and alt with Dervish, Anonymouse, Blue Jay PAWN SHOP SONiC Presents Live On Site! Anti-Club Sat: rock, indie, punk, rock, dance, retro rock; 8pm (door) PLANET INDIGO�Jasper Ave Suggestive Sat: breaks electro house with PI residents RED STAR Sat indie rock, hip hop, and electro with DJ Hot Philly and guests RENDEZVOUS Survival metal night SPORTSWORLD Roller Skating Disco Sat; 1pm-4:30pm and 7-10:30pm STOLLI’S ON WHYTE Top 40, R&B, house with People’s DJ

STARLITE ROOM 2nd Annual Metal Fest: Weapon, Pain Reborn, Gyibaaw, Wormbox, The Dead Cold, Kriticos, Capture The Hills TAPHOUSE�St Albert Chris Ford, Drowning Ophelia, Kyle Night; 9:30pm WEM�Newcap Stage Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA): local, up-and-coming country music artists (RBC Emerging Artists Project); 2pm; every Sat until Sep 11 WILD BILL’S�Red Deer UFC 117; 8pm; $10 (adv); $15 (day of ) WILD WEST SALOON Gary Shade WUNDERBAR BEAMS: Philip Dickau; agaperaygunexperiment led by Philip Jagger; Condoleezza Rice Paddies collective with Bill Damur, Gene Kosowan and Will Truchon; 9pm; $7/$5 (BEAMS member) at door; beams.ca

O’BYRNE’S Open mic Sun with Robb Angus (Wheat Pool); 9:30pm-1am ON THE ROCKS Christian Hansen and the Autistics, White Lightning, Elliott; 8pm; $10 ORLANDO'S 2 Sun Open Stage Jam hosted by The Vindicators (blues/rock); 3-8pm RUSTY REED'S HOUSE OF BLUES Rusty Reed's open stage; Sun 3-7pm SECOND CUP�Mountain Equipment Co-op Live music every Sun; 2-4pm WUNDERBAR BEAMS: Shawn Pinchbeck, The Hobophobes with Ben Charlton, Jessica McCarrel, Sarah-Lynn Wilson (experimental noise); flEm; 7pm; $7/$5 (BEAMS member) at door; beams.ca

DJs BACKSTAGE TAP AND GRILL Industry Night: with Atomic Improv, Jameoki and DJ Tim BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sun Afternoons: Phil, 2-7pm; Main Floor: Got To Give It Up: Funk, Soul, Motown, Disco with DJ Red Dawn BUDDY'S DJ Bobby Beatz; 9pm; Drag Queen Performance; no cover before 10pm FLOW LOUNGE Stylus Sun NEW CITY SUBURBS Get Down Sun: with Neighbourhood Rats SAVOY MARTINI LOUNGE Reggae on Whyte: RnR Sun with DJ IceMan; no minors; 9pm; no cover SPORTSWORLD Roller Skating Disco Sun; 1-4:30pm; sportsworld.ca WUNDERBAR Sun: DJ Gallatea and XS, guests; no cover

BUDDY'S DJ Dust 'n' Time; 9pm FILTHY MCNASTY'S Metal Mon: with DJ S.W.A.G. FLUID LOUNGE Mon Mixer LUCKY 13 Industry Night with DJ Chad Cook every Mon NEW CITY LIKWID LOUNGE Daniel and Fowler (eclectic tunes)

TUE AUG 10 BLUES ON WHYTE Donald Ray Johnson BRIXX Troubadour Tue: with Crooked Brothers, Jake Ian and Hoboheme; host Mark Feduk; 8pm CROWN PUB Underground At The Crown: underground, hip hop with DJ Xaolin and Jae Maze; open mic; every Tue; 10pm; $3 DRUID IRISH PUB Open stage with Chris Wynters; 9pm

BLUE PEAR RESTAURANT Jazz on the Side SunL Bob Tildesley (trumpet); $25 if not dining BLUES ON WHYTE Connors Road B�STREET BAR Acoustic-based open stage hosted by Mike "Shufflehound" Chenoweth; every Sun evening CROWN PUB Latin/world fusion jam hosted by Marko Cerda; musicians from other musical backgrounds are invited to jam; 7pm-closing DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB Celtic Music Session, hosted by KeriLynne Zwicker, 4-7pm EDDIE SHORTS Sun acoustic oriented open stage hosted by Rob Taylor EDMONTON FOLK FESTIVAL Te Vaka, 2-3pm; Aterciopelados Four Men and a Dog, Jakob Dylan and the Three Legs, John Prine, Finale, 6-11pm HYDEAWAY On Your Mark and friends, Chris Fithen, Roy G.

REXALL PLACE Backstreet Boys, Shawn Desman, Dan Talevski; all ages; 7:30pm (show); $39.50, $55, $75 ROSE BOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE The Legendary Rose Bowl Mon Jam: hosted by Sean Brewer; 9pm

NEW CITY LIKWID LOUNGE Wax Mannequin O’BYRNE’S Celtic Jam with Shannon Johnson and friends OVERTIME Tue acoustic jam hosted by Robb Angus RUSTY REED'S HOUSE OF BLUES Tue Open stage acoustic session with Marshall Lawrence; Tue 8pm-12

HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB Open stage with Jonny Mac, 8:30pm, free LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Open mic LYVE ON WHYTE Crowded City Skyline, guests; 8pm NEW CITY Circ-O-RamaLicious: Gypsy and circus fusion spectaculars; last Wed every month NEW CITY SUBURBS Punk Rock Pub Wed OVERTIME Dueling pianos featuring The Ivory Club

RUSTY REED'S HOUSE OF BLUES Wed with Danny Coady Band; 8:30pm-12 SECOND CUP�Mountain Equipment Open Mic every Wed; 8-10pm STEEPS TEA LOUNGE�College Plaza Open mic every Wed; hosted by Ernie Tersigni; 8pm

SECOND CUP�124 Street Open mic every Tue; 8-10pm

STEEPS TEA LOUNGE�Whyte Ave Open mic every Wed; 8pm

SECOND CUP�Stanley Milner Library Open mic every Tue; 7-9pm

TEMPLE Wyld Style Wed: Live hip hop; $5

STEEPS�Old Glenora Every Tue Open Mic; 7:30-9:30pm

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: CJSR’s Eddie Lunchpail; Wooftop: with DJ Gundam BRIXX Troubadour Tue: The Balconies and Sean Brewer, hosted by Mark Feduk; 9pm; $8 BUDDY'S DJ Arrow Chaser; 9pm ESMERALDA’S Retro Tue; no cover with student ID FUNKY BUDDHA�Whyte Ave Latin and Salsa music, dance lessons 8-10pm

UNION HALL Backstreet Boys afterparty hosted by the Backstreet Boys, live DJ set by Nick Carter; no minors; $10 (adv)

NEW CITY LIKWID LOUNGE ‘abilly, Ghoul-rock, spooky with DJ Vylan Cadaver

Classical

WED AUG 11

WINSPEAR CENTRE Edmonton Symphony Orchestra presents Musician Showcase; noon; free

GOOD EARTH COFFEE HOUSE Breezy Brian Gregg; noon-1pm

RIVER CREE Wed Live Rock Band hosted by Yukon Jack; 7:30-9pm

RUSTY REED'S HOUSE OF BLUES Blue Mon: Jammin' with Jim Guiboche; 8pm-12

KNOX�METROPOLITAN UNITED CHURCH The Toronto Welsh Male Voice Choir; 7pm; $20 (door); info at 780.434.5524/780.436.6460

FIDDLER'S ROOST Little Flower Open Stage Wed with Brian Gregg; 8pm-12

L.B.’S Ammar’s Moosehead Tue open stage; 9pm

SUN AUG 8

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm

FESTIVAL PLACE Patio Series: Ky Babyn U-22 (pop/rock), Jesse Dee and Jacquie B (jazz); 7:30pm $8

RED PIANO BAR Jazz and Shiraz Wed featuring Dave Babcock and his Jump Trio

DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB Open stage Mon with Ido Vander Laan and Scott Cook; 8-12

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Who Made Who–The Rock and Roll Resurrection: The Maykings (revive The Who), The Dirty Dudes (revive AC/ DC); 10pm; no cover

EDDIE SHORTS Goodtime jamboree Wed open stage hosted by Charlie Scream; 9pm-1am

HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB Andrew Allen, Daniel Huscroft; 7:30pm (door); $10 (adv) at YEG Live

SPORTSMAN'S LOUNGE Open Stage hosted by Paul McGowan and Gina Cormier; every Tue; 8pm-midnight; no cover

NEW CITY This Will Hurt you Mon: Johnny Neck and his Job present mystery musical guests

CROWN PUB Creative original Jam Wed (no covers): hosted by Dan and Miguel; 9:30pm12:30am

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society every Wed evening

BLUES ON WHYTE Donald Ray Johnson

BEER HUNTER�St Albert Open stage/jam every Sun; 2-6pm

COPPERPOT Live jazz every Wed night: Eta Eteroma Jr

EDMONTON EVENT CENTRE Airbourne, Social Code, Bleeker Ridge; 8pm (door); $35.20 at TicketMaster, Livenation.com

Y AFTERHOURS Release Sat

ON THE ROCKS Love Junk

RUSTY REED'S HOUSE OF BLUES Boogie Patrol

NEW CITY Open Mic Sun hosted by Ben Disaster; 9pm (sign-up); no cover

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Eclectic Nonsense, Confederacy of Dunces, Dad Rock, TJ Hookah and Rear Admiral Saunders

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

WUNDERBAR Featured DJ and local bands

REXALL PLACE Foo Fighters

NEWCASTLE PUB Sun Soul Service (acoustic jam): Willy James and Crawdad Cantera; 3-6:30pm

BAR WILD Bar Gone Wild Mon: Service Industry Night; no minors; 9pm-2am

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

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

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

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Babbu Maan; 6pm

no cover

DJs

MON AUG 9

NEW CITY SUBURBS Black Polished Chrome Sat: DJs Blue Jay, Dervish and Anonymouse (electro/alt/industrial)

PAWN SHOP Quartered, All Else Fails, Fringe, Miskatonic, I.E.D

J AND R BAR Open jam/stage every Sun hosted by Me Next and the Have-Nots; 3-7pm

SHAW CONFERENCE CENTRE Scorpions, Domenica; all ages; 6:30pm (door), 7:30pm (show); $55 at Ticketmaster

TEMPLE Oh Snap!: Every Sat, Cobra Commander and guests with Degree, Cobra Commander and Battery; 9pm (door); $5 (door)

PALACE CASINO�WEM Rule of Nine

Biz, Farewell Apollo; 6:30pm

RED STAR Tue Experimental Indie Rock, Hip Hop, Electro with DJ Hot Philly

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Glitter Gulch Wed BLUES ON WHYTE Donald Ray Johnson BRIXX Really Good… Eats and Beats: DJ Degree every Wed, Edmonton’s Bassline Community; 6pm (music);

DJs BANK ULTRA LOUNGE Wed Nights: with DJ Harley BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest Wed Night: Brit pop, new wave, punk, rock ‘n’ roll with LL Cool Joe BRIXX Really Good... Eats and Beats with DJ Degree and Friends BUDDY'S DJ Dust 'n' Time; 9pm; no cover before 10pm DIESEL ULTRA LOUNGE Windup Wed: R&B, hiphop, reggae, old skool, reggaeton with InVinceable, Touch It, weekly guest DJs FLUID LOUNGE Wed Rock This IVORY CLUB DJ ongoing every Wed; open DJ night; 9pm-close; all DJs welcome to spin a short set LEGENDS Hip hop/R&B with DJ Spincycle NEW CITY LIKWID LOUNGE DJ Roxxi Slade (indie, punk and metal) NEW CITY SUBURBS Shake It: with Greg Gory and Eddie Lunchpail; no minors; 9pm (door) NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed STARLITE ROOM Wild Style Wed: Hip-Hop; 9pm STOLLI'S Beatparty Wed: House, progressive and electronica with Rudy Electro, DJ Rystar, Space Age and weekly guests; 9pm2am; beatparty.net WUNDERBAR Wed with new DJ; no cover Y AFTERHOURS Y Not Wed

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COMMENT >> RUSH

Alive all along

Sandor finds out that Rush never goes away OK, it's safe to admit it now. Lee tells the camera, in a told-you-so kind You can post it on Facebook, let people of way, that the filmmakers had been know about it on Twitter. warned that their film idea would Rush has moved from music be ruined by just how boring the geekdom to being, gulp, hip. three of them were. I just finished watching Rush: But that's the point. That, for Beyond the Lighted Stage, the never buying into into the fact ly.com k e e w @vue outstanding documentary from that a rock star needed to act steven filmmakers Sam Dunn and Scot Steveonr like a rock star, Rush have done McFadyen and they've managed something far more counterSand to make Rush, who for years have culture than trashing hotel rooms been identified with white-suburban-male and doing lines of coke off the breasts nerdiness, come off as iconoclasts. of hookers. The documentary is exhaustive in show(OK, Lifeson did get arrested in 2004 in ing us that Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee and Neil Naples, Fla, charged with resisting arrest Peart were anything but enfant terribles. and intoxicated disorderly conduct, and In fact, in the final scene of the doc, with that's left out of the film.) the three members gathered over dinner, Yes, the band got the übergeek tag slapped

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on it by the critics that bothered to write about them in the 1970s—of course, writing epics about snowbeasts, Ayn Rand novels and mythology just helped that along. But there's a deeper subtext in Beyond the Lighted Stage. A myriad of guests are brought in to wax poetic about Rush. Smashing Pumpkin Billy Corgan, looking as indie as possible with a scraggly beard and a toque right out of 1975, complains how bands like Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd have been discussed to death, while no one really talks about Rush's legacy. Jack Black talks about Peart's dark persona—even though the doc reveals that, away from the stage, he's extremely introverted—and how Rush stands the test of time. But maybe the most powerful voice of all is Trent Reznor; he doesn't talk about Rush as a guilty pleasure or as any kind of cultural phenomenon. He talks about recording techniques, about how a power trio decided

to use keyboards and synths and keyboards to fill the midrange—and how that created a massive shift in music as a whole. And it hits you. Rush isn't geeky. Rush is ... gulp. Cool. I grew up with Rush because it was always on my older brother's turntable. I knew 2112 before "Baa Baa Black Sheep." And it stuck with me. My first rock show was Rush, Maple Leaf Gardens. I went down with some friends and we paid $50 each for tickets from a scalper. But, as I grew into a little fanboy who started writing about bands because I could get into shows, I leaned towards the underground and Rush went from the front carton of the record collection to being a guilty pleasure, to being something you only talked about with someone you've known for a long time. I have seen more punk acts in sweaty bars than I can count ... I've gone to raves, metal shows, been kicked in the face in mosh pits. But, all the while, the Rush

collection was never mothballed. When I went to California, away from those who would judge me, I went and saw Rush play an outdoor amphitheatre in Concord, just outside San Francisco. I've seen Rush in Toronto and Calgary, too. And each time I see them, it's a reminder that before I went gaga about the Future of the Left or obsessed over Les Savy Fav, before I'd ever heard of Suicide or Kraftwerk or the Fall, my musical heroes were three guys who came from close to home. I've written about Rush before, I've interviewed Lee in the past, I've reviewed the band's records. But I've never come clean and told the world that, I'm a fan. This movie made me really think about what a hypocrite I've been. It still doesn't mean that I'm not a coward. After all, it's easy for me to write this all now; once Jack Black gives the band his blessing, for me to dive in is all too easy. But I get the feeling I'm not the only one. V

METAL FEST

in Recreation, Sport and Tourism. "It's still a very underground music, and that's part of the appeal; it hasn't been co-opted." It's also been much maligned; attempts to set up an outdoor festival called Harvesting Hell last year turned into a major headache for promoters, as they were turned down by worried county officials, who denied them both Red Deer's Benalto Fair Grounds and Parkland County's Bent River Ranch. In the end, laying tarps in front of a stage is a fairly sedate activity, but moshing is an alarming one to an outsider. In an interview done before Ronnie James Dio and Black Sabbath brought their Heaven and Hell tour to Edmonton a few years back, the late Dio mused on the difference between metal fans and musicians from the classic bands they listen to. Many younger metal fans are committed to the form itself, while Dio and his various band mates in Sabbath, Dio and Rainbow grew up on classic rock 'n' roll— Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, doo wop and rhythm & blues. "We got a good grounding in so many other forms of music growing up, because there was no metal then," he noted. "One thing about many metal bands and fans is that many just listen to metal; I don't say that to disparage them, it's just a fact. The biggest problem with that is how it closes you off from the rest of the music world." Dio hastened to add that he was touched by how steadfast his fans have been to him, but it points to how far the music has travelled since he had a hand in codifying many of its rituals. Szabo is also cognizant of the fact that metal bands can't just exist in a vacuum; for him, the future lies in allying with other local music scenes. In the meantime, he'll be focused on drawing attention to the community he's long been a part of. "We're telling these bands that we're watching out for them, and that we care." V

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"There are two sides to it, really. Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul and Mary) made a good case for community nurturing songwriters, but I disagree. In the end I had to move away to El Paso, because I didn't want the pressure of people telling me how to write songs. I wanted to do them the way that I wanted. It's like Van Gogh standing outside the artist's community in order to come up with what he did. In the end you have to go back to the community to play your music, but until then it's best to stand alone." Russell's songs have been covered extensively in the folk and country world, but he's as much an outsider to the mainstream as Obituary and Meshuggah, and he frankly has no problem with that. What he's arguing is that the community makes claims on a particular scene, consciously or subconsciously finding a particular sound that musicians are pushed to adopt. While much of the city itself is oblivious to it, Edmonton has a range of bands happily finding their own sound, even if they're relatively unheard. "Metal lineups are always the same," says Mecredi. "They always try and put together bands that have a similar sound. That's great, I mean, I love metal more than anything, but it would be nice to see some variety. We just played a gig like that, where it was all mixed up, and we had a lot of fun—we need more like that." The blame shouldn't necessarily rest with just metal promoters; after all, your average hip-hop, folk or jazz promoter isn't going to think of Kriticos for their next gig. It does point to something, though; metal fans and musicians do take pride in their exclusion from the rest of the music world. It's a double-edged sword; as Russell says, exclusion allows an artist to follow their muse to places where commercial considerations won't allow, but it also closes doors. "If (veteran local band) Dead Jesus had to worry about being commercial, you wouldn't see them using animal products from a slaughterhouse as part of their act, or the lead singer self-mutilating himself," laughs Riches, who is currently working on a paper about mosh pits for her degree

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Fri, Aug 6 (7 pm) & Sat, Aug 7 (6 pm) Metal Fest With Weapon, Divinity, This is War, Kriticos and more Starlite Room, $12 – $20 Tickets available at Blackbyrd Myoozik and Starlite Room

THE BREAKDOWN >> SCORPIONS When the Scorpions takes the stage at the Shaw Conference Center on Tuesday, August 10, it will be Edmonton's last chance to feel their sting: the band announced before this tour commenced that this would be its last, and barring any revivals or reunions, that'll be it. In honour of Scorpions' final performance in our city, Vue breaks down what exactly makes up the band. — David Berry

• Inclement weather • Strangely sentimental power ballads • Original members • Sting puns • Regret they didn't come up with the umlaut thing first • Learning new bassists' names Tue, Aug 10 (6:30 pm) / Scorpions / Shaw Conference Centre / $55

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PREVUE // AIRBOURNE

Flying high

Globetrotting band finds success on multiple continents

THUNDERSTRUCK >> Airbourne taps into fellow Aussie band AC/DC's three-chord formula for rock 'n' roll // Supplied Mike Angus // mikeangus@vueweekly.com

hen Australian classic metal band Airbourne sold 450 000 copies of its 2007 release Runnin' Wild—an astounding feat in the digital age—the band knew it had to keep its momentum going and stay, um, airborne. So at the end of 2009, the band returned home to begin working on what would become its latest album No Guts, No Glory, released this past March. Having toured the material relentlessly since January, Airbourne has returned to Canada, bringing its metaltinged brand of classic rock to excited audiences this summer before heading Down Under to play the band's home country for the first time since 2007. "At the end of October, it will be the first time playing at home in two years," enthuses guitarist David Roads over the phone. "Things are happening for us back home, mainstream radio's had us on high rotation for the first two singles, so it's time to get back there for a tour." For the writing and recording of No Guts, the band returned to its hometown of Warrnambool to begin preproduction. "We spent a few months at an old pub called the Criterion that's now closed. The owner, our old boss when we used to do bar work, gave us the keys for it and we went in and set up base and spent a few months putting all the material together," Roads explains. "From there, we went to Melbourne. We write on the road as much as we can, so when we got some time to go to Melbourne

we went to a studio we liked for three months. From there we went to Chicago to the producer's studio." The album's producer, Johnny K, was key to the finished album, if a bit of an odd choice for the band, which was looking to capture a more classic style of rock recording. "Johnny's a young guy who's worked with Avenged Sevenfold and Disturbed—I think we were the first rock act he'd worked with," Roads speculates. "He was really good, 'cause we wanted to go back to analogue recording, which can be a tedious process with a lot of breakdowns and maintenance with those machines. But he was really keen—he became like a fifth member of the band." For a band that has such old school aspirations, it shows how a proven formula can still produce results, even in the digital age. "Analogue still has a better, warmer sound, a classic sound. You listen to the old records of your favourite bands and they catch that warm, live sound that we wanted on this one. We also recorded live together, to try and capture what we do on stage," Roads explains. "We're pretty tight as a band, when it comes to recording live it wasn't too hard to get takes right. "At the end of the day, we try not to venture too far; it's just trying to keep it simple and keep it rocking." V Tue, Aug 10 (7:30 pm) Airbourne With Social Code Edmonton Event Centre, $35.20

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traditional instruments to celebrate sound for sound's sake, which often means that it sounds like what one might imagine goes on inside a serial killer's head, but it can also be curious and beautiful. With music constructed from cellphone tones as well as some described as "a computer choking on pieces of glass while having an epileptic seizure," you can bet that these shows will have a mix of both. (Wunderbar, $7)

Mon, Aug 9 (9 pm) / Grimes Giedi Prime is the home of militaristic House Harkonnen in Frank Herbert's Dune, but Geidi Primes is the home of the esoteric space-pop of Montréal's Grimes. You'll have a chance to soak up her ethereal jams when she comes to town with fellow Arbutus Records electro-pop wonders Pop Winds. Melange is not required, though some form of prescience wouldn't hurt to help you keep up. (Wunderbar, Free) —DAVID BERRY

Sat, Aug 7 (9 pm) & Sun, Aug 8 (7 pm) / BEAMS Better known as the Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society, BEAMS exists to promote electroacoustic music to the people of Alberta and raise the profile of this avant garde and esoteric form of music, which is exactly what the group will be doing at its upcoming two-night stand at the Wunderbar. What is electroacoustic music you ask? It's imaginative music that utilizes non-

Sun, Aug 8 / Melanie There's no doubt about it at this point— like she sang in her 1971 hit "Brand New Key," Melanie has definitely "done all right for a girl." Playing in a daytime session this Sunday at the Folk Fest, the well-known flower child has made appearances at Woodstock, the Isle of Wight Festival and the Glastonbury Fayre—precursor to today's Glastonbury Festival. Now she's bringing her act to festival city—though she'll likely leave her famous rollerskates at home in Nashville. (Folk Fest) —BRYAN BIRTLES

Fri, Aug 6 (9 pm) / illScarlett / Taphouse Bar and Grill / $17 – $24 In the band's latest press release, illScarlett is described as a musical Voltron, combining various forms of commercial rock and reggae to form a gigantic robot that pummels audiences into ecstatic submission. But which member of the band would be which body part? After rigorous analysis, we're proud to present the Extremely Unauthorized Voltron/illScarlett Breakdown:

Head: Will Scarlet, dagger-thrower extraordinnaire and right hand of Robin Hood.

Body: John Doerty, who provides structure to illScarlett's sound with his bass guitar.

Right Arm: Drummer Swavek Piorkowski, whose own arms keep the reggae band synchronized.

Right Leg: Lead guitarist Will Marr, to keep his dubious dreadlocks safely out of sight.

Left Arm: Lead singer Alex Norman, who looks like the sort of dude who would have a panther's face in place of a fist if he could.

Left Leg: Keyboardist Anthony Carone, who sometimes moonlights with the band at live shows.

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New Sounds Arcade Fire The Suburbs (Merge) 

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here do you go after catharsis? That's what the Arcade Fire's Funeral debut, written, recorded and released while three deaths happened within band members' families, felt like: a joyous exaltation of minor-key orchestra pop, an acknowledgement of adult life's bittersweetness while at the same time casting it off, rising up and beyond it. It also launched the band into the indie-rock stratosphere, and while the 2007 follow-up Neon Bible graced plenty of best of year lists, it was missing Funeral's rise-from-the-ashes mentality: the sense of wonder and hope had disappeared, and a broader thematic scope brought that soaring emotion back down to earth with a sense of distrust and fear that permeated the lyrics and the musical tone. Now, the Arcade Fire is trying to rise above again. In the wake of further personal tragedy—vocalist/multiinstrumentalist Régine Chassagne is Haitian, and was deeply affected by the earthquake that crippled the country last year—The Suburbs casts off some of

Neon Bible's world-weary bleakness in favour of a return to a more uplifting, personal approach. It's a good thing. That's not to say the band's gone all wide-eyed. The theme of modern disaffection is apparent in the album title and songs like "Sprawl I" and "Suburban Life,"—apparently based on vocalist Win Butler and his brother/guitarist Will's recollections of growing up in a Houston suburb—though the focus seems aimed at youth. The kids Arcade Fire used to sing about with wonder have grown-up jaded, and the band doesn't seem thrilled about it: "Rococo"'s staccato chorus balances out lyrics about modern youths who "Eat right out of your hand / Using big words that they don't understand," while album-highlight "Sprawl II (Mountains beyond Mountains)" has Chassagne sighing, "Quit these pretentious things / And just punch the clock." Still, the melodies and score are simply gorgeous here, and elevate the lyrics to somewhere beyond just bemoaning the world they see. The band's introduced a more electronic element here, and it works quite well; the digital-blip backbone of the beautiful "Half Light II," takes the heavy sentimentality of '80s pop—high-emotion strings, buzzing synth, dance beats—and uses it to boost up the weary resignation of lines like "This city's changed so much since I was a little child / Pray to God I won't live to see the death of everything that's wild." "Empty Room," one of the album's straight-up rockers, begins with a flurry of strings that blazing guitars rise up to match with the ralling cry of "And my life is coming / but I don't know when." And that's sort of how The Suburbs goes: it's more about the struggle than the cathartic pay-off, but hearing the band rally against the world with hope, trying to move on instead of accepting what they see, is a solid step in that direction. V

Alejandro Escovedo Street Songs of Love (Fantasy)  For many, the act of songwriting consists mainly of stringing a few chords together and then topping them off with melody and lyrics, and while that surely does fall into the category of music, it also tends to miss the mark where magic is concerned. And magic is absolutely a valuable ingredient when it comes to capturing something special on tape. In the case of Alejandro Escovedo, there is indeed magic to be found in the grooves of his latest, Street Songs of Love. It's there in the songs to be heard, though the magic is not always an easy thing to spot: it goes far deeper than just those strung-together chords and the melody on top. Escovedo has a way with words, peeling layers back and revealing an inner core that is wrought with emotions both optimistic and uncertain—"I'm in love with love / And it broke me in two / I'm in love with love / Look out babe, it's gonna break you too" he sings on opener "Anchor"— and he can write a melody that cuts nicely over a few chords—"Down in the Bowery" settles into a comforting melancholy with its first strummed chords. But Escovedo's also standing side by side with a trio of players as worn in as he is himself, locked into a groove that is united but never complacent. The band—and Escovedo should most certainly be included in the lineup, as he is entrenched with the others rather than a solo artist leading a bunch of hired guns—can be heard at its best on "This Bed Is Getting Crowded," where writhing drums and bass start the movement, punctuated by a ringing electric guitar and staggered handclaps before Escovedo's voice enters with a long list of confused questions—"All these arms and legs and limbs / Who do you want me to be?" and "Am I here with you? / Are you here with me? / Or are we both here with him?" among them—and one frantically urgent confession: "Call it what you want / But it don't feel like love to me." It's what goes on around those words that kicks the song into another world, though: that bed of bass and drums coupled with the push and pull of the guitars from Escovedo and bandmate David Pulkingham walks the border of chaos, and it heaves and gasps for air right alongside Escovedo's voice, which itself begins to bend and crack as the song carries on. Street Songs of Love finds Escovedo right where he's been for some time now: at the top of his game. The record is a fairly stunning example of what can happen when an artist is willing to collaborate, not only in the songwriting, but also in terms of breathing life into the music with the sort of musical details that come with an honest effort in the name of the song from all involved. Eden Munro

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Alejandro Escovedo plays the Edmonton Folk Music Festival's main stage Sat, Aug 7 at 2 pm.

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The Mystery Jets Serotonin (Rough trade)  The Mystery Jets' shined-up dancerock stylings come off as lyrically bland. The music is lively and colourful, built with a myriad of instruments and techniques, but this too is diluted by the flat, overly deliberate mix. It's easy to imagine the Mystery Jets putting on a really fun show, but the recordings feel a little superfluous when measured against the immense tide of similar albums out there already. All that to say that the album isn't bad at all, shining best when the occasional Fleetwood Mac-like influence appears. Those '80s radio tricks that come through on songs like "It's Too Late to Talk" and "Show Me the Light" save the album from the dogs of ubiquity. Joe Gurba

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Jill Hennessy Ghost in my Head (Master Rock) 

E d m o n to n - b o r n Hennessy—former star of Crossing Jordan—is a folkie at heart; her new album is bolted together in all the right places, but it lacks the sort of identity that might help it stand apart from the pack of gentle folk music. It's inoffensive, and will probably go down fine when she takes the stage at the Folk Fest this weekend. Eden Munro

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Jill Hennessy plays the Edmonton Folk Music Festival on Sat, Aug 7 (11 am and 3 pm) and Sun, Aug 8 (11 am and 4 pm)

Lorn Nothing Else (Brainfeeder) 

Milwaukee-based producer Lorn is in good company. With his first official album released by Flying Lotus’ new label, BRAINFEEDER, and mastered by CLARK, we can only assume that his work is appreciated by fellow electronic hip-hop producers. It’s easy to perceive that the sound fonts on Nothing Else are painstakingly honed with careful attention to a signature sort of dark hype, if you will. The percussion has a staggered swagger throughout most the disc. Overall, the tone of the instrumentation does not depart from the forlorn aesthetic of a cemetery or rain-drenched alley. Though the album could use some shift in inflection, Lorn has certainly perfected what he does best. Joe Gurba

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ALBUM REVIEWS Van Morrison Astral Weeks (Warner Bros)

ing melange of old memories that we're not entirely sure if Morrison wants to escape or not. As Lester Bangs Originally released: 1968 so perfectly put it, a lot of Astral Weeks is "about people It's kind of hard to believe that stunned by life, completely m the same man who released overwhelmed, stalled in their ekly.co e w e u v david@ "Brown Eyed Girl" could put skins, their ages and selves, d i v Da y out Astral Weeks less than paralyzed by the enormity of Berr a year later. I guess that song what in one moment of vision has stuck around for a reason— they can comprehend," and the openalthough I'm just ing song sets that cynical enough particular stage to think that it beautifully. has as much to We probably do with a lot of reach our apex, unimaginative though, at "Mabrown-eyed girls dame George," and their admira 10-minute ers as much as suite that at any kind of songonce points to craft—but it's and transcends still a wholly difa lot of themes ferent thing from on the album. this sprawling, Morrison has weary, intricate claimed it's not and effervescent actually about album. They both a drag queen, share a certain HURTS SO GOOD >> So says Doc Sham-rock but if that's true romantic bent, sure, "Brown Eyed Girl" the song actually loses a considerable is the naïve intoxication of young love amount: it's a pretty punishing—in the up against the lived-in, patched-up sentiheartachingly beautiful sort of way— ments of someone resigned as much as meditation on the inexorability of movexcited to do it all again. ing on regardless, but the idea of a kind Heaven knows precisely what made him of weathered but still dignified drag grow up so much in a year, although Asqueen, observed with a delicate eye that tral Weeks was recorded at the tail end drifts somewhere between a respectful of a host of legal troubles with his old kind of love and a depressed kind of pity, label. Still, though, if that affected Morpushes it into other territory entirely. rison, it's nearly impossible to pick out. That's particularly true since so many Although really anything is kind of hard of the other songs on Astral Weeks to pick out: lyrically, it was written, as the mine similar territory. They all have name might imply, largely as a stream their affects without equalling "Madame of consciousness exercise, and on top of George," although the pervasive mood that deals more in image and impression of songs like "Cyprus Avenue" are part of than concrete story or sentiment. And what help set the mood for that (there's then there are the times where Morrivery much a reason that, despite this son just seems to be content bouncing being Morrison's best, few of the songs around words in a kind of childlike mixever show up on greatest-hits compilature of tones and styles, as with the endtions). The exception to both of those ing of the title and opening track. rules is "Sweet Thing," which is the most Although that, of course, comes at the direct line you can draw to "Girl," but still tail end of a song that seems properly shimmers with a kind of wisdom that overwhelmed by nostalgia, a meanderblows the latter out of the water. V

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Square wavey basslines '90s movie soundtrack rave Gets modern facelift

So dirty and cool She'd give you herpes and you'd Wear it like a badge

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PREVUE // WAX MANNEQUIN

Within limit

Wax Mannequin finds that rules can enhance his sound Mike Angus // mikeangus@vueweekly.com

fter my last tour to Europe, I got home and my sequencer had been pried open [by airport customs and security]. So some of the most important buttons of my machine weren't working, so it gave me a chance to play without any backup or band, just my guitar. It's been a good change for me for a while." So Wax Mannequin (aka Chris Adeney) explains the most recent phase of his musical muse: a series of sudden inspirations, actions and reactions. This is part of the creative process for the selfdescribed iconoclast. "If I do something really over the top, I'll have to counter it with something equally obscure or subtle," Adeney ruminates about his recent album, Saxon—a stripped-down, restrained collection of Tom Waits folk romps. "I knew that based on the material I'd written, I wanted it to be restrained. I'm someone who always reacts against myself." This is a not-so-stunning admission from an artist known to perform in costumes, as characters and pronounced, ironic personas; his current tour across the prairies and BC (dubbed the Western Canadian

WAX MANNEQUIN >> Not actually wax, nor a mannequin // Supplied Candle Release Tour) even sees him selling candles in the shape of his own likeness, inspired by Karl Marx souvenirs he saw in Germany. "It's my newest merchandising thing," he giggles. "They're scented and shaped like my head." With Saxon, recorded with Andy Magoffin, Adeney felt he had some of the strongest songs he'd written, but understood that he needed to work within

some limits rather than expanding himself beyond. "I've learned a lot about limits or restraints or something," he confesses candidly. "I think up until this point I'd been pushing myself to the limit with every album in some direction, exploring the range of what I could do. "With Saxon, rather than pushing my limits, I was working within my limits to come up with the strongest album I could. In that way I think it's my most accessible record, I would hope. "I think it's a mistake to limit yourself as a songwriter too early," he continues when asked about Saxon's inspiration. "I think we should always challenge ourselves to go to a place we're not entirely comfortable with, and get comfortable. Or fail. I think people are too worried about sounding cool, and when you worry about that too much you're not gonna evolve as a writer. I'm a grown up now, and I had an extended childhood which I got to play a lot, but not grow up too soon. I'm glad I made some of the mistakes I made along the way." V Tue, Aug 10 (8 pm) Wax Mannequin New City

HOROSCOPE ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19)

should give your best, brightest, most The ancient Greek god Dionysus did not, focused attention to every phase of evin fact, encourage people to get sloppy ery adventure you have. The foreplay drunk and do stupid things. His prefer- and the aftermath are just as important ence was that they free themselves to the total revelation as the height from their inhibitions by imbibof the action. This is a time in ing moderate amounts of alyour long-term cycle when cohol. With this medicinal Y you can't afford to scrimp on spur, they might get unstuck OLOG m completion and closure and R T S .co from their worn-out behav- A resolution. weekly l@vue freewil iour patterns and invite reRob y CANCER ( Jun 21 – Jul 22) freshing doses of wildness ezsn r B into their lives. Healing was the August is Banish Your Superintention. Keep these thoughts in stitions Month, Cancerian. To celmind in the coming weeks, Aries. ebrate this auspicious festival, purge yourself of every irrational belief and TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20) In unfounded fear you can stand to live her 1960 song "This Bitter Earth," Di- without. But also keep in mind that you nah Washington sings, "If my life is like may have to keep a crazy delusion or the dust that hides the glow of a rose two, at least for a while. You've become / What good am I, heaven only knows." so used to your chronic anxiety that it I bring this to your attention, Taurus, might be risky to get rid of it all at once. because you now have the power to So proceed deliberately, casting off one prove once and for all that your life is false belief today and another quaint not like the dust that hides the glow of a fallacy tomorrow and a third rotten figrose. So please get out there and reveal ment of your imagination next week. By the glory of the world you inhabit. By September 1, you may be surprised to week's end, you may be able to say, as see how high you've ratcheted up your Washington does in the final line of the level of fearlessness. song, "This bitter earth may not be so bitter after all." LEO ( Jul 23 – Aug 22) For a special episode of her TV talk GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20) show, Oprah Winfrey wanted a stage set More than one-third of adults under that was fabricated out of chocolate. It 35 confess that right after making love, took workers 1400 hours to construct they tweet or text message or check it. When the day came to unveil the their Facebook pages. In the coming decadent monument, Oprah offered her week, I strongly advise you not to do audience members the chance to tear it that or anything remotely like that. You apart, eat it and take it home as plunder.

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They dismantled it in half an hour. Let this be a cautionary tale, Leo. I dearly hope that the creation you're beginning to work on will endure for a long time far past the time it makes its initial splash.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22)

New Age author Bob Frissell wrote a book called Nothing in This Book Is True, But It's Exactly How Things Are. It contains a host of seemingly far-fetched theories about UFOs, crop circles, ascended masters and monuments on Mars, all of which adds up to a beguiling Theory of Everything about the hidden nature of reality. If I had to give a title to the next chapter of your story, it might be "Nothing That's Happening Will Make Much Sense Until It Has Finished Happening, Whereupon It Will Yield a Burst of Insight about the Big Picture of Your Destiny."

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22)

One of the best ways to cultivate your own radiant brilliance or native talent is to look for excellence in other people. So if you suspect there's some half-hidden or partially dormant reservoir of genius within you, I suggest you make it a point to identify the genius in everyone you know. Whether it's your cousin's knack for flower arrangement or your coworker's telepathic capacity to read the moods of people she wants something from, you can fuel your own luminosity by noticing and appreciating others'.

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Imagine you and I and a bunch of our friends are seven years old. We're playing the rough game "King of the Mountain" on a huge pile of dirt. Today, you're the strongest one, warding off all challenges to your authority, pushing away everyone who tries to knock you off your place at the top. It's like you have extra power you've never displayed before; as if you're drawing on reserves of determination and stamina that were previously unavailable. I believe this is a metaphorically accurate portrayal of your actual life right now.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21)

My Sagittarius friend Lisa dreamed she was at a party with Jon Carroll, a writer she admires. In the dream, she tried to insinuate her way into the conversation with comments she thought were flattering to Jon. But he ignored her. Finally she opened an oversized picture book she had with her and showed him a striking photo of a huge nest containing a speckled, glittery dragon's egg. This caught his eye. He took her to a table where they pored over this fascinating image together. Learn from Lisa's dream, Sagittarius. To captivate the attention of the people you're interested in, appeal not to their vanity but to their imagination.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19)

Homeboy Industries is an organization in East Los Angeles that helps former gang members find jobs. One of its most successful programs has trained over a

hundred ex-cons as solar panel installers. That's the kind of dramatic conversion I'd like to see you make in your own life, Capricorn, getting face to face with the most messed-up part of yourself and conspiring to transform it into something brighter and more useful. Now would be an excellent time to dive into that worthy project.

AQUARIUS ( Jan 20 – Feb 18)

I'm all in favor of you pumping up your yearning and stoking the fires of your ambition and fantasizing in explicit detail about a fantastic dream, on one condition: The object of your craving has to be real and achievable. The longing you feel must empower you, not demoralize you. The vision that gets you activated each morning must be something you can actually manifest by carrying out a detailed, step-by-step master plan. If you're willing to satisfy these provisions, you have my go-ahead to get more than a little wild with desire.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20)

When you try to communicate with a baby, you get nowhere if you talk as you normally do. You have to speak a different language. And that brings us to your current challenge, Pisces. Life is currently sending you signals that will remain incomprehensible if you insist on interpreting them from the viewpoint of a rational adult. To decipher the encrypted code, you'll have to get into a mindset that is equal parts child, animal and angel.

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Long live the Queenie

gained by queering who gets to be the Queen? How do our own complicated identities get bleached out in the face of dominance as the Royal Family?

Writer, performer and educator Valerie ing a black woman who has the duration Mason John, better known as Queenie, of the play to convince the audience that was given her nickname a while ago she is the Queen of England. Helping by a group of gay male friends Queenie's character out on stage is from San Francisco who said a small cast of identities, includthat she was the biggest ing a young , innocent and black queen they had ever known. Michael Jackson performing Years later, while maybe not lines such as "You'll be all white ly.com k e e w ue ted@v as wild as she once was (who in the morning." While the play d Te is?) but just as fabulous, the has a humorous premise, queers Kerr name Queenie has stuck. will pick up on the interesting This year, as part of the 29th annuideas around history, family, citizenal Edmonton International Fringe Festival, ship, belonging, people and populations Queenie will be bringing her camp sensibilbeing disappeared and the ways instituities to tackle another royal highness, the tions such as the Royal Family replicate Queen of England. In the North American and inflict societal violence that come up premiere of her one-woman show, Brown in the play, making Brown Girl in the Ring a Girl in the Ring—Queenie will be playfunny and thought-provoking experience.

Through doing the work to write the play she started to understand herself better. "I am not black, I am coloured, we are all coloured," says Queenie, sharing something she realized at the time. She also started to see how people of colour are disappeared from history including African descendant Princess Sophie Charlotte who upon marrying King George III of England became the Black Queen of England. She has been nearly written out of history. Queen Sophie's story helped inspire Queenie to imagine and play on the theme, "What if a black woman really was the next Queen of England?" The play, braiding together humour, facts and contemplation, premiered in London to one critic writing that Brown Girl in the Ring is, "A royal meditation of bigotry from a

Fringe play queers up the Royal Family to explore identity

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Queenie wrote the first incarnation of Brown Girl in the Ring more than 10 years ago in the UK where she lived. The play was part of a theatre experience in which playwrights created work around their own cultural references. At the time she was thinking about how growing up the Royal Family (all white) dominated the cultural space, and how being the only black person in her adoptive white family was impacting her. Questions came up: how does the dominant, omnipresent image of the Queen in schools and on our money inform those who cannot see themselves in her majesty's portrait? How is the Royal Family the ultimate symbol of heterosexism? Not only do they reproduce, they reproduce living gods. And, what can be

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royal highness with a difference." A decade later, now located in Edmonton, Queenie decided to revisit the play and rework it for Canadian audiences. Along the way, Queenie has provided herself a chance to learn more about Canada including the pride of Tim Horton's and the shame of how aboriginals are treated. She sees how Canada is no different than the UK in the ways we wish—as a society—to not discuss some things. "Sweep it under the rug" is a reoccurring line in Brown Girl in the Ring referring to the ways in which difference—all kinds of difference: race, sexuality, religion, class and others—are not properly discussed in polite society. Through her art Queenie carves out a space for people to have these discussions. While it is ultimately up to you whether you believe that Queenie's character is the Queen of England the journey that leads you there may tell you a lot about yourself and the society you live in. The Queen is Dead, Long Live Queenie. V

COMMENT >> ALT SEX

Goo it up

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talk about that stuff. So what's the deal with all these products? Mostly, no matter how they sell themselves, they are lube with a little IcyHot thrown in. The most active of the active ingredients in K-Y's Intense (and some others) appears to be niacin, also known as vitamin B3, and, yeah, that could work. Niacin gets a lot of press for its cholesterolfighting properties, but it causes such an intense flushing/prickling/skin-on-fire sensation that many people find it intolerable. The same capillary-dilating action that causes the flush ought to have a noticeable effect when applied to an organ that relies on plentiful blood flow to the surface in order to function properly. And according to their literature, it does, in about 75 percent of women who try it. I wouldn't take that to mean that 75 percent of women get the sky rockets in flight promised in the commercials, though. Many no doubt feel something but don't necessarily ex-

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