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TRansgEnDER EqualiTy transsask raises awareness

FasT anD loosE Q+A with Acres of lions

JuRassic paRk 3D + sTokER films reviewed

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TRansgEnDER EqualiTy TransSask raises awareness. 4 / local

noT as sEEn on TvWhat it means to be a coroner in Saskatchewan. 6 / local

ThE RighT ToolsHere’s our thoughts on bringing tool libraries to the province. 8 / editorial

commEnTsHere’s your say on installing more highway cameras. 10 / comments

q + a wiTh acREs oF lionsHome(s), sweet Home(s). 12 / q + a

nighTliFE phoTos We visit 302 Lounge and Spadina Freehouse. 22-25 / nightlife

lisTingsLocal music listings for April 5 through April 13. 18 / listings

JuRassic paRk 3D + sTokER The latest movie reviews. 20 / film

on ThE bus Weekly original comic illustrations by Elaine M. Will. 26 / comics

onE baD sonSaskatoon expat rockers talk picking singles. 13 / arts

scRumpTious szEchuan We visit Rock Sugar. 16 / food + drink

musicThe Steel Wheel, The Casualties + The Tragically Hip. 17 / music

RosiE & ThE RivETERsLocal singers rejuvenate gospel. 13 / arts

on ThE covER: ThE DuDEsOn making it medium. 14 / coVer

gamEs + hoRoscopEsCanadian criss-cross puzzle, horoscopes, and Sudoku. 27 / timeout

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ikayla Schultz was at a crossroads in her life.

Years of confusion and shame and depression had worn her out. The pain she felt inside couldn’t be numbed, no matter how many drugs she took or how much booze she imbibed.

So when she found herself stand-ing in the basement of her house, staring up at a noose dangling from the rafters, Schultz knew she had a decision to make — to kill herself or to show the world who she really was. You see, in the decades preced-ing that pivotal day Mikayla wasn’t always known as Mikayla. She used to be a man.

“I knew I wanted to be a girl ever since I was five or six years old,” says Schultz, “but our society didn’t allow me to be what I wanted. Everyone around me was always telling me I was a boy. So I spent the

first 35 years or so of my life trying to conform to our culture’s expecta-tions of my genitals.”

“Try” being the operative word here. Sure, Shultz grew up doing what is considered stereotypical “boy” things, trying to project a masculine persona to the world. But inside, ev-eryday was a constant struggle.

“I played hockey for a total of two months before I quit,” she recalls. “I’d bear it through practice and then, when it was over, I’d stick around and watch figure skating practice from the sidelines, wishing I could do that.”

The struggle remained through her teen years and into adulthood until Schultz couldn’t hide who she really was anymore. “I was a student at SIAST when, socially, I made the decision to just do it,” she says. “One day friends of mine and I went out shopping. I bought a new outfit and showed up at school and said, ‘I’m Mikayla now,’ and that was it.”

She’s been known as Mikayla ever since. But it hasn’t been easy. In a society where people like Schultz — along with many others in the trans-community — are ostracized, marginalized, harassed and discrimi-nated against, life can be tough. So tough, in fact, that sometimes it seems pointless to go on.

“A lot of transpeople will tell you, once you get to know them, that they came to a point in their lives where they didn’t want to do it anymore,” explains Schultz. “They just want it to be over.”

That’s one of the main reasons the rate of suicide and attempted suicide are astronomically high in the trans-community. In fact, according to an ongoing health study in Ontario, 43% of all transgender people in that province had attempted suicide at one point in their lives. In America, the national rate of attempted suicide in the trans-community is 41%.

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For too long, we’ve gone unrecognized because we conformed to the ideal of the gender binary. but not any more.

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Compare that to Canada’s national suicide rate of under 1%, and obvious-ly there are some serious issues facing members of the trans-community. Issues Schultz knows all too well.

International Transgender Day of Visibility typically falls on the last day of March. But because this year the end of March just so happened to be a holiday, TransSask — a province-wide support and resource network for trans-identified and sex or gender diverse people — decided to start its Transgender Awareness Week a day early this year.

“Because the 31st is Easter Sunday, we organized our annual rally in Regina for Saturday the 30th,” says Schultz, who is director of TransSask Support Services.

The rally is designed to call atten-tion to the existence of, and problems facing, the trans-community here in Saskatchewan. “The community is not just about transsexuals like myself,” says Schultz. “It also includes transgender people, cross dressers, genderqueer, intersex individuals and more … We want to bring recogni-

tion to something that’s already here, that’s always been here. For too long, we’ve gone unrecognized because we conformed to the ideal of the gender binary. But not any more.”

So to help get the trans-commu-nity and its issues out there, Trans-Sask has decided to do a bit more than just hold a rally. On April 5th, they’re putting on Gender Failure. Featuring writer/storyteller Ivan Coyote and musician Rae Spoon, the show explores failed attempts at fitting into the gender binary.

Then, on the following day, there will be a series of talks and performances illuminating

personal stories from the trans-community. “The concept behind these talks is the Vagina Mono-logues,” explains Schultz. “So we’re calling it the Trans Monologues. What will happen is transpeople will get up and give a four or five minute anecdote about their expe-rience with gender.”

There are seven people in all performing these monologues, but they all have the same goal — to tell their stories and raise awareness so that, one day down the road, life

will become easier for people in the trans-community.

Mikayla Schultz knows that day isn’t going to be tomorrow. Or the next day.

You see, at the moment she is go-ing to through a medical transition to become female, and it’s been an uphill battle the entire way.

Contrary to what some people may think, transitioning isn’t as sim-ple as booking an appointment with a surgeon and going under the knife. Nope: there’s protocol, standards of care that have been established by the World Professional Association of Transgender Health. The first thing you have to do is visit a psychiatrist and be diagnosed with gender iden-tity disorder.

“You can’t get medical treatment unless you have a medical condi-tion,” says Schultz. “So you have to be diagnosed. But it took me two years to find a psychiatrist who would support my transition.”

Next comes the procedure to start changing hormones.

“I looked everywhere to find an endocrinologist who would do hormone therapy for me,” says Schultz. “We face a lot of discrimi-nation, and many people in the health care industry aren’t knowl-edgeable enough or simply aren’t willing to help.”

Eventually, though, Schultz found a doctor in Saskatoon who would give her hormone treatments.

And finally, after all the hormone therapy, comes surgery.

“One of the biggest concerns of the trans-community in Saskatchewan is the lack of health care,” admits Schultz. “We have to go out of prov-ince just to get operated on. It could take years and years for my transition to be complete.”

For Schultz, or anyone else following in her footsteps, this is simply unacceptable.

And that’s why Transgender Awareness Week is so important — it’s time for all people in Saskatch-ewan to affect change.

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f only Maureen Stinnen had brought a flashlight.Creeping through a dark,

fetid basement on a warm summer night in 1996, Stinnen really could have used one. Because somewhere out there in front of her, hiding in the darkness, was a dead body.

“Every step I took, I didn’t know where I was going,” remembers Stinnen. “I didn’t know if I’d get there or not.”

But the closer she inched towards the body — a suicide that had been in the basement for weeks — the stronger the smell be-came. The stench of decomposinghuman flesh is an aroma you can’t really ignore.

“Oh, the smell was just terrible,” says Stinnen. “And it was so dark down there. At that moment a lot of things were running through my mind.”

One of which, no doubt, was “what the heck was I thinking becoming a coroner?”

See, in the years before that day, Stinnen was a nurse in critical care and emergency at hospitals in Regina. She was used to seeing people injured and in critical condition. But being in a basement, fumbling around in the dark for a couple-weeks-old dead body was new to her. You see, that suicide call was her very first as a coroner. That’s why she was unprepared, without a

flashlight. “This is definitely not a glamorous job,” chuckles Stinnen. “The suicide was my first call of three that day. It certainly was a rude awakening.”

Rude, perhaps. But by no means the toughest call to which Stinnen has responded.

Stop for a moment and ask yourself something: what does a coroner do? What does their job entail?

If you’re anything like me or any number of other television/movie watchers out there, chances are your

thoughts immediately jumped to a scene we’ve all seen a thousand times.

In it, two detectives are standing in the city morgue, looking down at a dead body on a table. Everything

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noT as sEEn on Tvthe life and times of saskatchewan coroners by AdAm hAwboldt

you may be a perfect stranger, but you’re the one they’re looking to for … the facts of their beloved’s death.

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around them is white, metal, sterile. Across from them is a coroner with a clipboard or something, telling them the cause and time and circum-stances of the victim’s death. There are some quick revelations, the detectives thank the coroner and go out to catch the bad guy.

And though that sounds cool, that kind of scenario is wrong.

“Television doesn’t give you the sounds, the smells, the emotions that come with the job,” says Kent Stewart, Saskatchewan’s Chief Coro-ner. “It also doesn’t give you a time frame. Most people, when they think of coroners and, for example, DNA, they think we can do that stuff in five minutes during a commercial break. That’s what we call CSI Syndrome … that’s the type of perspective televi-sion gives you, even though it isn’t the proper perspective.”

So if television is — gasp! — painting an erroneous picture of coroners, what’s the proper one?

“We investigate any sudden and unnatural deaths, whether it be ho-micide, suicide or undetermined,” explains Stinnen. “It doesn’t matter. The initial call comes in through a 911 call. The police arrive at the scene. Once death is established, they call for us.”

And that’s when coroners spring into action. After arriving at a death scene coroners talk to the police and learn a bit about what may have happened. If there are family of the deceased around, they’ll talk to them. The coroners will examine the his-tory of the deceased, including past

medical problems or conditions, and survey the death scene, all before they look at the body.

“The body tells you a lot,” Stinnen says simply.

Indeed it does. Say, for ex-ample, the body has a bullet wound through the chest, there are bullet casings strewn about the scene, and an eyewitness they interview said they saw shots being fired. In that case, chances are the person on the ground was shot. In cases like this, a brief physical examina-tion of the body, a glimpse around the scene and an interview may be sufficient to close the coroner’s investigation quickly.

Sometimes it’s not that easy.“In those cases, if we feel the body

needs an autopsy, it goes to the pa-thologist,” explains Stinnen. “They do the autopsy and report back to us.”

Once the true cause of death is determined, the coroner’s job is over, right?

Wrong.Another thing television never

shows you is the behind-the-scenes work coroners do with the family of the deceased.

“It can be a real privilege to be with these families at a difficult time like that,” says Stinnen. “You may be a perfect stranger, but you’re the one they’re looking to for guidance. You’re the one they’re looking to for the facts of their beloved’s death.”

And while providing families with these facts is a part of the job and can be a privilege, it’s not

always the easiest thing to do. But much like the suicide Stinnen inves-tigated on her first day as a coroner, it’s not the most difficult thing she’s ever dealt with.

“We’re all human beings,” says Stinnen, “so if you investigate a child or a teenager and you have

a child that age, it brings a certain perspective and gravity to the situation.”

Stinnen pauses, thinks for a mo-ment and continues, “But it’s the young child deaths, they’re the hardest. Especially if it’s not related to a disease process, if it’s something untoward that

happened to them for no reason … that’s hard to swallow.”

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h ave you ever been midway through working on a project,

elbows-deep fixing something or other, when you suddenly real-ized you didn’t have the proper tools for the job?

Say you’re fixing up the backyard after the snow melts and you realize you need a chainsaw to get rid of an old, dead tree that has succumbed to our beautiful prairie winters. Or imagine that you’re doing some elec-trical work and need a soldering gun, but you don’t have one.

This is a common enough scenario that has happened to all of us at one time or another. And while you have a few immediate options you can enter-tain — drop some coin to buy a new tool that you may not use on a regular basis, pay premium dollars to rent, or call around to see if anyone you know has the elusive machine you’re look-ing for — we have a better idea.

We think it’s time to take a cue from some of our country’s larger cities, and build a tool library.

Now, stick with us, here — we know this might sound a little out there. But tool libraries, which have been popping up in the States for

around 20 years, and are start-ing to take off in Canada, offer a great service to our communities. Operating in a similar manner to a regular library, they would give residents of Saskatoon the oppor-

tunity to get their hands on, say, a belt sander, borrow it for a short period of time, and return it, for almost no cost whatsoever.

Here’s how it works: people who have tools just laying around, tools they never use that are just collect-

ing dust down in the basement, can donate these items to the library. This is good on two fronts: one, it will help people (karma!), and two, it’s a tax credit for you. So that’s a win-win situ-ation for those in a charitable mood.

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ThE RighT Tools FoR ThE Jobtool libraries are good for the community

This opens the door to eventually operating workshops … for people who want to channel their inner bob vila.

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What’s more, Canada’s newest tool library (the country’s fourth, located in Toronto’s Parkdale district) is offering a $5 discount on fees to people who donate tools, so why not implement that here as well?

And speaking of money, tool libraries are aimed at helping those who have less. Typically, annual memberships fall in the neighbour-hood of $50 a year. If 50 bucks is a little too steep, then membership is calculated to be commensurate with people’s incomes. Once you have a membership you’re free to borrow as many tools as you like, as often as you like.

Now, we know that tools, in the wrongs hands, can be dangerous. And yeah: people can be stupid. But don’t worry — the tool library has got you covered. In the begin-ning (because these things take time to get off the ground), the tool libraries are run by volunteers who are capable of teaching you how to get your angle grind on before heading out the door (after you sign a waiver, of course). Inexpen-sive tools, and a lesson to boot — sounds pretty good to us!

And if this thing really takes off, why not hire a staff of knowledg-able, handy people, and train them

on how to teach members how to use the tools? This opens the door to eventually operating workshops and classes for people who want to channel their inner Bob Vila.

Oh, and allocating an indoor work space for people in the com-munity is something else the tool li-brary could eventually provide. You know how terrible it is changing a headlight on your car in minus-40 degree weather — in your drive-way? Yeah, so do we. So that’s why we propose that the tool library also offers shop space for rent. Nothing long term, but for smaller projects where you just need a little larger area to get your handyman — or handywoman — action on.

Look, tool libraries will do won-ders for Saskatoon — they’ll pro-mote a sharing economy amongst our city’s residents, offer a place to grab those tools you need without spending a ton of money doing so, and offer those who might be a little more strapped for cash access to a wealth of knowledge and supplies. What’s not to love?

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on Topic: last week we asked what you thought about adding more highway cameras to saskatchewan’s roadways. here’s what you had to say:

– Would of been good idea if the story about highway cameras included the locations of the 200 in BC. Are they monitoring mountain passes or the highway the premier takes to the legislature???

– If they are gonna put up more cameras on highways that’s a great idea but I don’t think they need to tax it because I think we all know Im sure the government can afford to do it with the money they all rob us blindly for as it is

– Re highway cameras,all winter I saw drivers out in vehicles that had no business being on the road in bad weather. Until people start driving have duty 4x4s with traction control, the crappy little cars will keep sliding off the road,causing havoc.

– Definitely a good idea to get more weather cameras on the road. So many miles of desolate highway that its a good idea to know what you’re getting into. Come on Sask Party!!

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– Blame the overcrowding in jails on the Conservative Gov’t’s “tough-on-crime” laws. More people are being sent to prison now since judges don’t have as much discretion to give probation & suspended sentences because of more mandatory jail sentences. Canadian courts always had high-er conviction but lower incarcera-tion rates than American courts. Now that might change!! :0

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– There needs to be some legisla-tion for a law that has drivers yield to bus drivers when the bus driver needs to change lanes. Some people are courteous which is great but others are just plain ignorant towards bus drivers. Let’s help out our transit drivers! We all have places to be and we can all share the road.

– The present government PER-MITS Rip0ff Rents 4 landlords! Scew tenants 0n lease Devine!no up against the wall

– Don’t text and walk. You might fall into a pothole.

– People really don’t want comput-ers. Look how they’re used. They want telephone chatline news-paper classified TV VCR stereo. Every1 hates the computer layer!

– Happy Easter everybody!

– Happy Easter everyone! The Lord our saviour died for our sins, do your part to be kind and live to see his joy :D

– Radio personalities should just play music. All they ever do is talk about nothing. Blah blah blah blah blah blah.

– Saw a bit about employers mak-ing policy to not hire smokers. Bad road! Obese people next. Then those with genetic problems. Then the dull knives. Then...

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– The problem isn’t tobacco. Its our capacity for addiction. Wage a war on tobacco curb it to a large extent and obesity and hard drug epidemics break out. Despite the impacts tobacco was a lesser evil in the array. Tobacco isn’t a cause. Its a symptom!

– Rushing a buddy to the ER in a shopping cart is DOWNtown!

– Always remember peeps.. When push comes to shove EVERY-BODY can get a little DOWNtown! Even yer Mudda! Big up to all the DOWNtown dolls!

– In some ways I feel sorry for the old police chief. In the punk ass cop culture he never had a chance to mature as man like the rest of us old guys.

– Last July the police had their “rescue vehicle” rolling down 2nd Ave. While checking out the state of the streets this spring, I felt re-ally glad the city had a vehicle to use during a zombie apocalypse rather tha a few more graders to clear streets and steam trucks to open drains.

– To the elderly gent in Avalon who was using a pick axe Friday afternoon to open a city drain…you are one righteous dude..would have been nice to see city helping you

– Help your neighbor clear the snow

– Sask scientist reveals she was muzzled by federal employers Good job Harper let’s silence aca-demics and experts so you can keep your fingers in your ears and blindly push on with your anti environment agenda Cant wait to watch ur government fail good riddance

– Funny how people let the sh*t in their heads ruin a good thing. The text page sucks now. Too much advertising and those are essays not texts. Weiners!

– This is what happens when you put your faith on a groundhog. You get a late spring!

– Don’t take life so seriously you’ll never get out alive! ;-) (MRD)

– STUPID TOBACCO TAX HIKE!

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Acres of lions debut Home(s), their best record yet by Alex J mAcpherson

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…with this record we were trying to strip it down, make it a little more raw…

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rom the salvo of guitar chords that opens “Bright Lights,” it is clear

that Acres of Lions are trying to breathe new life into guitar rock. After two albums of polished pop-punk, the Victoria-based band is celebrating the release of Home(s), which uses the same infectious melodies thatanimated Working and Collections, while pushing back against the sparse and spiky riffs that have become de rigueur in the indie rock scene. Played fast and loose, the songs that make up Home(s) capture the band at a piv-otal moment: exhausted bya year on the road yet eager to embrace a future packed with beefy riffs and overdriven valves. I tracked down guitarist Tyson Yerex to talk about making the new LP.

Alex J MacPherson: First of all, Home(s) sounds like a pretty big departure from your last tworecords. Was that intentional, or just the evolu-tion of the band?

Tyson Yerex: I think with this record we were try-ing to strip it down,

make it a little more raw and live and real. At the end of the day that’s what’s connecting with peo-ple. Electronic music is still huge, obviously, but in the rock world the Foo Fighters are recording straight to tape — no editing, no Pro Tools — in Dave Grohl’s garage. That’s the kind of vibe we wanted to go for.

AJM: You spent basically all of last year touring. How did you manage to get the record written and recorded?

TY: In the summer we had about three weeks in Edmonton, where we were supposed to write the record. We got maybe nine songs done, but we didn’t have lyrics. Then we were back on the road, and I booked us a tour in November to get us out to Toronto to record. We had two weeks in the UK before that. Essentially we were coming up to this impending deadline, and

we didn’t have the songs done. We ended up finishing writing the record in London and flew back to Toronto and started recording it. The whole process was not entirely rushed, but there was a pressure of a deadline. We didn’t toil over every minute detail.

AJM: The sound of Home(s) is obviously different. Do you think the songs, and the songwriting, have changed, too?

TY: We’ve just grown into this sound. It isn’t like we sat down and said we wanted to sound like a dif-ferent band. They’re the same songs as the previous records; they’re just a reflection of us getting better as musicians. When I joined the band I wasn’t as good a guitar player or piano player as I am now. And it’s the same story for the rest of the

boys. I think it’s just what we’ve grown into.

AJM: Why call it Home(s)? What’s the significance of the extra ‘s’?

TY: The record was written entirely on the road. None of the guys have apartments in Victoria anymore. We call Victoria our home, but we don’t really live there. We live in the back of our van. And there are so many places that we wrote this record in that feel as much like home as Victoria does to us.

AJM: That echoes one of the big themes I kept coming back to, the idea of being sort of lost in time, the conflict between looking back with a certain nostalgia and looking forward, too.

TY: That’s pretty much exactly what it’s about. I think a lot of the song content is about missing home, and longing for those friends back home we don’t get to see. Missing the people you can’t be around but also being happy for the people you are around in whatever home we’re sitting in that week.

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ock and roll bands pick the singles, but they can’t pick

the hits. Which is why Kurt Dahl was surprised when “Scarecrows” started building steam.

“I’d be lying through my teeth if I told you I knew it was going to be a hit,” admits Dahl, who plays drums in One Bad Son, Saskatoon expats known for cloaking thoughtful songs in the guise of hard rock. “Picking singles is one of the most difficult things we do. It’s 100 percent guts. You’re totally rolling the dice, and it’s you career, your lives, that are on the table.”

“Scarecrows” is the second single from One Bad Son’s eponymous debut. Building from a gentle acoustic riff reminiscent of Guns N’ Roses’ “Patience” into a thundering, snarling rock cut, “Scarecrows” was never a likely contender. Dahl says some people advised against releasing it.

But he and his bandmates — Adam Grant, Adam Hicks, and Shane Volk — sensed that the song would strike the right chord.

They were right.While the band was on tour last

year, “Scarecrows” started climbing the charts. Their friends heard it on the radio. Their fans knew the words. Dahl suspects the song caught on because it is open and raw, and not an exercise in using postproduction to conceal a substandard song.

“When we wrote the album, we took each song down to acoustics and vocals, just to see if it works,” he says, referring to a trick made famous by the Rolling Stones. “You can really hide behind riffs, big drums, distortion. But really, the magic of rock and roll is that it can connect on this visceral level.”

One Bad Son chose to film the video for “Scarecrows” in Sas-

katchewan. In the winter. “There is the storyline and all that,” Dahl explains, “but hopefully we got that feeling when you step outside and the whole world is silent.” At one point, he recalls, the generator keeping the crew warm ran out of fuel. With few options and fading light, they walked to a nearby acreage. The owner gave the band some gasoline because his daughter was a One Bad Son fan.

“Rock and roll careers are made one fan at a time,” Dahl says, adding that he hopes “It Ain’t Right,” the next single, will generate a similar response. If it doesn’t, he adds with a laugh, “Bruce Springsteen slugged it out for years.”

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osie and the Riveters needed to make a record,

but not for the usual reasons. “For other bands, their product is their CD,” says Farideh, one of the women behind Saskatchewan’s preeminent 1940s-era gospel revivalist group. “For us, our performance is our product. That’s what people come for. The CD is basically take-home memorabilia of that night.”

Rosie and the Riveters emerged from a collective desire to breathe new life into classic gospel music. Farideh and her bandmates, Alexis Normand, Melissa Nygren, and Kiera Dall’Osto, who is not part of the current tour, have separate ca-reers in music but came together to celebrate the sound of four voices singing together.

“I think that at this time in the history of civilization, the human heart longs to see people coming together in unity and diversity,”

Farideh says of the band’s trade-mark harmonies. “We’re not all the same, but we can come together and make something harmonious. It’s the primal yearning of all human hearts. And hearing four voices coming together fulfills that longing.”

Rosie and the Riveters work hard to be inclusive. By remov-ing gospel music from its religious context, they are able to rejuvenate forgotten songs without alienat-ing anyone. “We sing gospel, but we don’t have a stated religious

belief that we’re trying to project,” Farideh explains. “What we want to do is explore this music, and the power and the history and the tradition of this music.”

And that history is a live his-tory. Gospel music has its roots in church services, celebratory gatherings focused on the uplifting power of music. A power that is all but impossible to capture on tape. Instead of spending hours working in the studio, Rosie and the Riveters decided to cut a live record. It was

simple and effective. “We took the best cuts, had it mixed, and that’s it,” Farideh laughs.

Like their performances, Rosie and the Riveters — Live feels ener-getic and spontaneous. It captures the group’s extraordinarily tight vocals without sounding forced. Although it lacks the visuals that have become an integral part of the group’s shows — the floral dresses, the crimson lipstick — Live hints at what audiences can expect. And, from the bluesy snarl of “Poor Men”

to the uplifting swells of “I’m a Pilgrim,” shows off just how much power can be generated by four voices and a guitar.

Rosie & The Riveters April 18 + 19 @ the bassment$12/16

onE baD son saskatoon expat rockers on writing songs and picking singles by alex J macpherson

RosiE & ThE RivETERs saskatoon singers rejuvenate gospel music by alex J macpherson


14apr 5 – apr 11


coVer

anny Vacon started playing rock and roll for the right reasons. “I

only wanted free beer,” the front-man of the Dudes laughs, his voice fuzzy after a long night of partying. “And, hopefully, a two-point better girlfriend. That’s all I wanted, man. Free beer and girls.”

Vacon formed the Dudes in the late 1990s. The band, which consists of Vacon, Bob Quaschnick, Brock Geiger, and Scott Ross, spent the next ten years loitering around the Calgary inde-pendent music scene. They released lo-fi recordings of soulful rock music, played hundreds of sweaty shows, and conducted plenty of research — Va-con’s term for drinking and having sex and basically having a good time.

In 2009, the Dudes released Blood Guts Bruises Cuts, an energetic romp through the annals of guitar rock over-laid with Vacon’s raw and emotionally charged vocals. It was an immediate success. Blood Guts Bruises Cuts cata-pulted the Dudes from dank rock clubs onto the brightly lit national stage, where their blithe irreverence and experiments with facial hair clashed magnificently with the sparkling indie rock that was flourishing at the time.

The Dudes have always been dif-ficult to pigeonhole. Blood Guts Bruises Cuts, which drew on influences as di-verse as Al Green and the Flaming Lips,

only deepened the mystery. Vacon and company present as a bunch of skinny rebels from the seamy underbelly of Calgary’s music scene (“We’re all just regular poor motherf**kers trying to string three chords together to make something happen,” he deadpans.) But their ability to weave elements of pop and soul into the fabric of rock and roll positions them as a sophisticated and progressive rock band, a group more

interested in making interesting music than conforming to prevailing trends.

“The idea of making it big is just totally not on our radar,” Vacon laughs. “I sometimes think about [what would happen] if we got a ton of money thrown at as, and were on a worldwide stadium tour. That sounds dreadful to me, to be honest.” The Dudes have played stadium shows, and Vacon knows a big stage and a big audience won’t corrupt the music he loves; he struggles to imagine the Dudes as a

serious commercial enterprise because he likes the stripped-down, do-it-your-self approach. It means he can keep having fun.

“I think that’s how you make it me-dium, which is where I’m most happy,” he explains. “We’re not the most talented of fellas, and it took us quite awhile to even learn our instruments. But time after time we keep getting on stage — and we’ve gotten pretty

decent. We’ve done our time in the van and it’s paid off, man. I love that people have recognized it. People give a s**t in a lot of places.” After a short pause he concedes, “In a lot of places they’re still idiots.”

Vacon, who cheerfully admits that he never thinks about business, is also extremely distrustful of the music in-dustry. “The whole industry is f**ked,” he says while attempting to justify the Dudes’ independent approach to mak-ing music. “Everyone’s got complete

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you don’t need anyone for anything, which to me is so amazing. you don’t need s**t anymore. you just need that song…

dAnny vAcon

photo: courtesy of cleA foofAt

danny vacon and the dudes play rock music for the right reasons by Alex J mAcpherson

making iT mEDium

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control of their lives now. You don’t need anyone for anything, which to me is so amazing. You don’t need s**t anymore. You just need that song, man, you need that album.”

That album is Barbers, Thieves, and Barbershops. Recorded and released last year, it picks up where its prede-cessor left off. Barbers, Thieves, and Barbershops recalls the history of loud guitar music while etching each song with Vacon’s unmistakably soulful vocals. If you hear the Dudes on the radio, you will probably be listening to “American Girls,” which shows off the band’s ability to play infectious pop punk and write cheeky songs about delicate ideas — in this case, the vortex between infatuation and repulsion. But “American Girl,” which collects several stories from time spent south of the 49th parallel, is not Vacon’s favourite song on the album, and he was surprised when radio stations started playing it.

Vacon’s favourite song on the record is “Tear It Up,” which pairs a slithering guitar riff with the strongest vocal performance he has ever deliv-ered. It is also a good representation of the band’s sound. “But,” he reconsid-ers, “it’s hard to say: every song’s just a tiny little part of you.” Like “Saturday Night,” the band’s raucous ode to long nights spent watching hockey. “If you fact check all the hockey references in the song, the purists will be pleased to know that each of those moments

actually happened on Saturdays,” he writes in an e-mail. “I’m proud of that.”

The strongest song on Barbers, Thieves, and Bartenders is “Good Times,” Vacon’s homage to Calgary and the “crazy life we get to lead.” Landing somewhere between a loose Rolling Stones ballad and something the Counting Crows might write, the song captures the mixed emo-tions that creep to the surface as Saturday night fades into Sunday morning. “Good Times” also features

a piano solo by Dan Moxon, who fronts Vancouver-based rock outfit Bend Sinister. A refreshing break from the rock instrumentation that has for years shaped the Dudes’ sound, the collaboration with Moxon reflects Vacon’s desire to surround himself with like-minded people.

“Canada’s a giant country, but the music scene is relatively small,” he says. “You hit the road for long enough and you’re going to meet so many talented musicians.” Vacon had his first “serious bro-down” with Moxon, whom he describes as “one of the most talented MFs in the whole country,” at a festival in the Yukon. When the Dudes traveled to Vancouver to cut Barbers, Thieves, and Bartenders, Vacon didn’t hesitate to make the call. “I just hit him up one day: ‘Dan, we need you in the studio for a thing,’” he recalls. “Without having heard any of the songs he just came in and threw down. Some guys are actually that amazing; I don’t know if I could do that.”

Recording in Vancouver offered the Dudes more than a Moxon-led breakdown, however. It gave them a chance to focus. “I don’t want to speak for the other boys, but my life is amaz-ing,” Vacon muses. “There’s so many damn [highs] in Calgary, and when you record in town you can get easily distracted, you know? When you don’t have your awesome woman to come home to and you don’t have the opportunity to go for beers with your favourite people, you have to buckle down. You develop a tight-knit thing with your band: you’re away from home, sleeping in s**tty circumstances and it’s all about making some rad tunes. And then getting back to what you love.”

Which means research. Vacon loves documenting it almost as much as he loves living it. The cover of Barbers, Thieves, and Bartenders is a collage of party photos. One shows a man painted bright blue, another a terrible abdominal bruise. There are photos of people passed out in hotel rooms and photos of people urinat-ing outside. The best one features drummer Scott Ross wearing a leather jacket, pink briefs, and a big smile. “First of all,” Vacon points out, “that is a cheap-ass way of making a cover. And it tells such a great story. Honestly, I could sit down for hours and tell you the story behind every single picture.”

When I ask about Ross’ hotel hallway escapades, Vacon laughs. “I don’t even remember what town we were in. We woke up in the morning and he’s like, ‘Alright guys, see you in a bit.’ He just grabbed his suitcase and walked down the hall of whatever hotel we were in. I was laughing my head off. You have to keep it light on the road.”

Plus, he adds, “Life is serious and if you live that way you’re not going to have s**t to write about. Or if you do, it’s going to be something that no one wants to hear.” This is the beauty of what Vacon calls “making it medium.” He and the Dudes started playing music for the right reasons. And they still are.

The Dudes w/ the Zolas April 13 @ Amigos$10 @ ticketedge.ca

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food + drink

16apr 5 – apr 11

scRumpTious szEchuan

lET’s go DRinkin’ vERb’s mixology guiDE

mango maRgaRiTa

Chances are you’ve had a mar-garita. Heck, chances are you’ve had one too many margaritas at some point in your life, because, to put it simply, they are fun and delicious. To make them just a tad more fun, why not try this interesting mango spin?

ingREDiEnTs

1 1/2 oz tequila1 oz mango liqueur1/2 oz lime juice

DiREcTions

Begin by pouring the tequila, mango liqueur and lime juice into a blender. Add a cup of ice, then blend until smooth. Poor the concoction into a margarita glass, and garnish with a slice of mango.

irock sugar makes one heckuva mapo tofu by AdAm hAwboldt

photos courtesy of adam hawboldt.

f you’ve never eaten mapo tofu, you’re missing out.

A delicacy of Szechuan cuisine, the dish is basically tofu cooked in a spicy chili-and-bean oil. Toss in some fermented black beans, some minced meat, veggies and sometimes — not often, but sometimes — a few water chest-nuts, and what you have is a plate of absolute deliciousness.

But as yummy as this dish may be, its name leaves much to be desired.

See, ma stands for “mazi,” which in China means a person disfigured by pockmarks, while po translates into something along the lines of old woman or crone. So basically mapo tofu means pockmarked crone’s tofu.

Which, while not overly appetiz-ing, is an apt name considering the dish’s origins.

See, legend has it that once upon a time an old, pockmarked widow lived on the outskirts of the Chinese city of Chengdu. Her house was located near a road where many traders passed. Many of these traders weren’t what you’d call wealthy, especially the ones who peddled in cooking oil. So they’d

often carry tofu and beef with them and ask the old, pockmarked woman to cook them a tofu dish. Using the ingredients the traders brought with them, the woman created the dish known as mapo tofu. It was such a hit

that, eventually, she opened a restau-rant and became famous.

Or so goes the legend.The only reason I mention this, or

even know the legend for that matter, is because mapo tofu is, hands down, one of my top five favourite dishes. Like, ever.

There’s something about the way it blends savoury with spicy (and healthy) that makes me smile in anticipation of having it again.

And if you want to try some delectable mapo tofu, do yourself a huge favour and swing by Rock Sugar on 8th Street. Seriously. You have to give it a try.

What makes this dish stand out, first off, is the beef. Unlike many other restaurants (who overcook the beef and make it rubbery), the beef was cooked to perfection. The other big component is the vegetables. With a medley of onions, green onions, and green and red peppers, there’s a freshness to this mapo tofu that makes it special.

Oh, and there’s the subtle cilantro as garnish.

Put that all together and you have a dish fit for the food gods. So if you want to try something new and spicy

and all-kinds of good, make haste and beeline for Rock Sugar.

rock sugar 3110 8th st e | 306 955 6667

…mapo tofu is, hands down, one of my top five favourite dishes.

AdAm hAwboldt

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17apr 5 – apr 11

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Coming upnext Week

ThE sTEEl whEEl

Every year The Steel Wheels em-bark on a tour they call “SpokeSongs.” But this isn’t your average everyday tour. Instead of hopping on a bus or into a van, this quartet from the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virgina strap all their gear to bicycles and pedal approximately 500 miles to play, on average, about 10 shows. But that’s not the only thing that’s unique about this band. Playing an infectious brand of roots/Americana, The Steel Wheels (which consists of Trent Wagler, Jay Lapp, Brian Dickel and Eric Brubaker) fuse elements of blues, bluegrass, old-time and fiddle music to create a sound that reminds you of the moonshine-soaked past while being relentlessly modern at the same time. Check out the Steel Wheels when they take their talents to The Bassment next week.

@ the bAssmentsunday, april 14 – $18/23

The Casualties are a throwback band, the kind of act that takes you to another time and place. In the case of this New York punk outfit, their music takes you back to the early ‘80s, when streetpunk, a working class style of punk, rose up in rebellion against what many saw as the pretension of the first wave of British punk. Back then, the scene was dominated by bands like Sham 69, Cockney Rejects and The Exploited. These days, The Casualties are keeping the tradition alive, play-ing in-your-face punk consisting of single-note guitar lines and short solos. Aggressive but melodic, the music of The Casualties (who released their first demo in 1990) is angry and loud and all kinds of good. Check them out when they rock Amigos later this month. Tickets available at www.ticketedge.ca

ThE casualTiEs

Known to many as simply “the Hip,” this rock band from Kingston, Ontario have been cranking out studio albums and touring since they formed way back in 1983. Among those records were instant Cana-dian classics like Up to Here, Day for Night and Fully Completely. Led by frontman Gord Downie, the Hip is still going strong after all these years. In fact, they recently released their latest studio record, Now for Plan A, which debuted at #3 on the Canadian Albums Chart. These iconic rockers have now hit the road to criss cross the country playing shows. They’ll be stopping in Saskatoon for one night, and one night only, when they rock the Credit Union Centre. Tickets for the show are available through Ticketmaster.

– by Adam hawboldt

TRagically hip

@ AmIgos cAntInAwednesday, april 17 – $12

keep up with saskatchewan music. saskmusic.org

@ credIt unIon centresaturday, July 6 – $34.75+

sask music pREviEwThe Saskatchewan country Music Awards and Country Music Festi-val will be held on April 26-28, 2013 in Saskatoon. Events include the Songwriter’s Spotlight, Roots Cafe, Cabaret, and the Country Gospel Show and Brunch. For weekend passes or individual event tickets, please see http://www.picatic.com/scmaawaards2013; for more information please see http://www.scma.sk.ca

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The most complete live music listings for Saskatoon.

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FRiDay 5House dJs / 6Twelve Lounge — Funk,

soul & lounge DJs liven up the atmo-

sphere at 6Twelve. 9pm / No cover

JoHn Jerome and tHe Congregation, tHe Foggy notions, Heat rub / Amigos

Cantina — Some funky, infectious tunes

for your soul. 10pm / Cover TBD

Piano Fridays: david Fong / The

Bassment — Come check out Fong tickle

the ivories of the Kinsman Yamaha S6

grand piano. 4:30pm / No cover

Piano series: JeFFery straker / The

Bassment — Folk/pop/cabaret music

done right. 9pm / $15/$20

gong sHow / Béily’s UltraLounge — The

first Friday of the month. 9pm /

$5 cover

riPPertrain / Buds — Come out for a

rockin’ good time. 10pm / $6

tHe martyr index, vulture kult, dead voiCes / Fez on Broadway — Hard-driv-

ing rock and roll. 9pm / Cover TBD

CesCHi, FaCtor, soso / The Hollows

— A rocking live set from three amazing

talents. 10pm / $10

dJ eCleCtiC / The Hose — DJ Eclectic

pumps snappy beats. 8pm / No cover

dJ sugar daddy / Jax — Featuring this

local crowd favourite. 9pm / $5

red moon road / Lydia’s — Down-home

roots music from Winnipeg. 10pm / $5

dJ big ayyy & dJ HenCHman / Outlaws

Country Rock Bar — Round up your

friends ‘cause there’s no better country

rock party around. 8pm / $5; ladies in free

before 11pm

red & tHe Fellas / Prairie Ink — Pop/

jazz fusion music. 8pm / No cover

legendary rHytHm and blues revue / Somewhere Else Pub — Rhythm and

blues done with flare. 9pm / No cover

mitCH / Stan’s Place — Come rock the

night away. 9pm / No cover

dueling Pianos / Staqatto Piano Lounge

— Terry Hoknes, Neil Currie and Brad

King belt out classic tunes and audience

requests, from Sinatra to Lady Gaga.

10pm / $5

Party roCk Fridays / Tequila Nightclub

— Featuring DJ Dislexik. 9pm / Cover

TBD

Hustle & tHrive / Vangelis — A local hip

hop duo that’s all kind of good. 10pm / $5

saTuRDay 6House dJs / 6Twelve — Resident DJs

spin deep and soulful tunes all night. 9pm

/ No cover

we were lovers w/Friends eleCtriC / Amigos Cantina — A pop group with an

ethereal sound you can dance to. 10pm /

Cover TBD

tHe Cookers w/ben sCHenstead / The

Bassment — A smooth jazz quintet from

Toronto. 9pm / $15/20

austen roadz + dJ Ctrl / Béily’s

UltraLounge — With over 25 years of DJ

experience, Austen Roadz throws down

a high-energy top 40 dance party along

with DJ CTRL every Saturday night. 9pm

/ $5

riPPertrain / Buds on Broadway —

Come out for a rockin’ good time. 10pm

/ $6

sCant intone / Fez on Broadway —

Constantine Katsiris experiments with

modern audio. Also appearing is Slime

Street, Sexy Preacher and more. 9pm / $7

dJ kade / The Hose & Hydrant — Saska-

toon’s own DJ lights it up with hot tunes.

8pm / No cover

dJ sugar daddy / Jax Niteclub — Able

to rock any party, this local crowd fa-

vourite has always been known to break

the latest and greatest tracks in multiple

genres. 9pm / $5 cover

sePtember long / Lydia’s Pub — Infec-

tious jam-rock music. 10pm / $5

skylab / Lydia’s Upstairs Loft — A night

of atmospheric tunes. 9pm / $5

ClutCH / Odeon Events Centre — Come

check out the Earth Rocker World Tour.

6:30pm / $32.50 (theodeon.ca)



friends ‘cause there’s no better country

rock party around. 8pm / $5

malusi mabaleka / Prairie Ink —

Acoustic alt-folk music. 8pm / No cover

legendary rHytHm and blues revue / Somewhere Else Pub — Rhythm and

blues done with flare. 9pm / No cover

mitCH / Stan’s Place — Come rock the

night away. 9pm / No cover




requests, from Sinatra to Lady Gaga.

10pm / $5

sexy saturdays / Tequila Nightclub —

Featuring DJ Dislexik. 9pm / Cover TBD

(ladies get free cover before 11pm)

dumb angel, mitCH greir / Vangelis —

Laid-back acoustic music.10pm / $5

sunDay 7industry nigHt / Béily’s UltraLounge

— Hosted by DJ Sugar Daddy; this crowd

favourite has always been known to

break the latest and greatest tracks in

multiple genres. 9pm / $4; no cover for

industry staff

dJ kade / The Hose — Saskatoon DJ

lights it up with hot tunes. 8pm /

No cover

blues Jam / Vangelis Tavern — The

Vangelis Sunday Jam is an institution, of-

fering great tunes from blues to rock and

beyond. 7:30pm / No cover

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monDay 8saraH smitH / Buds — A talented song-

stress from Ontario. 10pm / $6

metal mondays / Lydia’s Pub — Swing

by, listen to some killer music and get in

on some concert giveaways. 9pm

TuEsDay 9saraH smitH / Buds on Broadway — A

talented songstress from Ontario playing

rock, blues, acoustic. 10pm / $6

dJ sugar daddy / The Deuce — A local

crowd favourite. 9:30pm / $4 cover

verb Presents oPen stage / Lydia’s

Pub — The open stage at Lydia’s is a

chance for bands, solo artists and even

comedians to showcase original material.

9pm / No cover

oPen miC / Somewhere Else Pub — Come

out to show your talent. 7pm / No cover

radio radio / Vangelis — An electro hip

hop band from Nova Scotia.10pm / $10-

12 (picatic.com/radioradio)

wEDnEsDay 10HumP wednesdays / 302 Lounge &

Discotheque — Featuring DJ Chris Knorr.

9pm / No cover until 10pm; $3 thereafter

kerry duwors, leanne zaCHarias / The Bassment — One is a violinist, the

other a cellist. Together they’re all kinds of

good. 8pm / $15/20

imagine no bullying ConCert / Broadway Theatre — Featuring Donny

Parenteau, Jay Semko, Codie Prevost, Jef-

fery Straker and more. 7:30pm / $22

saraH smitH / Buds on Broadway — A

talented songstress from Ontario playing

rock, blues, and acoustic. 10pm / $6

tHe avenue reCording ComPany Presents oPen miC / The Fez — Hosted

by Chad Reynolds. 10pm / No cover

dJ kade / Hose & Hydrant — Saskatoon

DJ lights it up with hot tunes. 8pm / No

cover

dr. J ‘souled out’ / Lydia’s Pub — Dr. J

spins hot funk and soul every Wednesday

night. 9pm / No cover

wild west wednesday / Outlaws

Country Rock Bar — Come out and ride

the mechanical bull! 9pm / $4

CJww karaoke / Stan’s Place — Your

talent, aired on the radio! 9pm / No cover




requests. 10pm / No cover

ThuRsDay 11HigH sCHool big band nigHt / The

Bassment — Featuring Bedford Road,

Centennial and Walter Murray. 5pm /

$7/10

miCHael wood band / Buds — An up-

and-coming rock band. 10pm / $6

tHrowbaCk tHursdays / Earls — Come

experience the best in retro funk, soul,

reggae and rock. 8pm / No cover

tHunder riot w/Conky sHowPony / The Fez — Come dance the night away.

9pm / $5

dJ kade / The Hose — Saskatoon DJ

lights it up with hot tunes. 8pm / No cover

dJ sugar daddy / Jax — Local DJ Sugar

Daddy will be rocking! 8pm / $5; free

cover with student ID before 11pm

k-os / Odeon — An innovative rapper

from Toronto. 7pm / $24.50 (theodeon.ca)

kenny wizz / TCU Place — The world’s

#1 Michael Jackson impersonator. 8pm /

$39+ (tcutickets.ca)

triPle uP tHursdays / Tequila — Fea-

turing DJ Stickman. 9pm / Cover TBD

FRiDay 12House dJs / 6Twelve Lounge — Funk,

soul & lounge DJs liven up the atmo-

sphere at 6Twelve. 9pm / No cover

CFCr membersHiP drive / Amigos

Cantina — Featuring The Wizards, The

Seahags and The Triplophonics. 10pm / $5

Piano Fridays: ross nykiForuk / The

Bassment — Come check out Nykiforuk

tickle the ivories. 4:30pm / No cover

HigH sCHool big band nigHt / The

Bassment — Featuring Holy Rosary, North

Battleford’s Comprehensive, and Prairie

Spirit SD. 7:30pm / $7/10

dJ aasH money / Béily’s — DJ Aash

Money throws it down. 9pm / $5 cover

tHe nigHtrain / Buds on Broadway — A

Guns n’ Roses tribute band. 10pm / $6

dJ eCleCtiC / The Hose — Eclectic

pumps snappy beats. 8pm / No cover

dJ sugar daddy / Jax — This local

crowd favourite is sure to have you on the

dance floor in no time. 9pm / $5 cover

Pernell reiCHert band / Lydia’s Pub

— A Vancouver-based three-piece band.

10pm / $5

dJ audio / Odeon Events Centre — It’s

time for the Black Out Party. 9pm / $15



friends. 8pm / $5; ladies free before 11pm

tHe standards trio / Prairie Ink —

Pop/jazz fusion music. 8pm / No cover

aaron adair / The Refinery — Come

check out the AANALOG release party.

7:30pm / $20 (picatic.com)

tHe mules / Somewhere Else Pub and

Grill — Come rock the night away. 9pm /

No cover

urban outlaws / Stan’s Place — Rock to

get your weekend started. 9pm / No cover




requests. 10pm / $5

Party roCk Fridays / Tequila — Featur-

ing DJ Dislexik. 9pm / Cover TBD

saskatoon’s CHildren’s CHoir / Third

Ave United Church — Performing music

by Bach, Verdi and Pergolesi and more.

7:30pm / $25

saTuRDay 13House dJs / 6Twelve — Resident DJs spin

deep and soulful tunes. 9pm / No cover

tHe dudes / Amigos Cantina — Also ap-

pearing is The Zolas. 10pm / $10

Piano series: don griFFitH live by request / The Bassment — A talented

local pianist. 9pm / $15/20

austen roadz + dJ Ctrl / Béily’s —

Austen Roadz throws it down with DJ

CTRL. 9pm / $5 cover

tHe nigHtrain / Buds on Broadway — A

Guns n’ Roses tribute band. 10pm / $6

dJ kade / The Hose — Saskatoon’s own

DJ lights it up. 8pm / No cover

dJ sugar daddy / Jax Niteclub — Fea-

turing this local favourite. 9pm / $5 cover

bluessmytH / Lydia’s — Some heavy

blues for you. 10pm / $5


— Round up your friends. 8pm / $5

no Hurry trio / Prairie Ink — Easy lis-

tening and classic rock. 8pm / No cover

urban outlaws / Stan’s Place — Come

rock the night away. 9pm / No cover

tHe mules / Somewhere Else Pub and

Grill — Sweet rock for your weekend.

9pm / No cover



King belt it out. 10pm / $5

sso: disney in ConCert / TCU Place

— All the magical songs from your

favourite Disney movies. 7:30pm / $40-75

(tcutickets.ca)

sexy saturdays / Tequila Nightclub —

Featuring DJ Dislexik. 9pm / Cover TBD

(ladies get free cover before 11pm)

bass invaders / Vangelis — Some funky

bass for your face. 10pm / $5


20apr 5 – apr 11

film

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Jurassic Park celebrates its 20th anniversary with a 3d edition by AdAm hAwboldt

The dinosaurs are, dare i say, even better in 3D.

AdAm hAwboldt

iT’s baaack...

@adamhawboldt

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o you remember where you were the first time you saw

Jurassic Park? Do you remember your reaction?

I do.The year was 1993. Not yet a

pimply teen, I convinced my friend Joke (that’s not his real name, but it’s what everyone — even his dad — called him) to abandon his Super NES long enough to come to the movies with me. There was a film about dinosaurs I wanted to see. Joke hemmed and hawed, but he eventually relented and we went to see Jurassic Park at the theatre in Sydney, Nova Scotia.

The movie blew my mind. So much so, I remember at one point leaning over my popcorn and whispering to Joke, “This is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen, b’y.”

Fast forward 20 years. Joke is now known to all as

Michael, my pimples have come and gone, and Jurassic Park is back on the big screen, this time in 3D.

I hadn’t watched Jurassic Park since that day in 1993, and to be completely honest, I’d forgotten exactly how the movie unfolds.

Yes, I remember the feeling I had the first time I saw it. Yes, I remember how all-out awesome the dinosaurs were. And yes, I remember thinking, “If they were still here, I’d totally like to ride a T-Rex.”

But as for the rest of the movie, all I really remember is an island, Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern.

And there’s a reason for that, but more on it in a minute. For now, let’s quickly refresh our memories of what happens in Jurassic Park.

Basically, it all takes place in an island theme park off the coast of Costa Rica. The theme park, full of dinosaurs cloned from strands of fossilized DNA, is the brainchild of billionaire John Hammond (Richard Attenborough).

But what good is an island of dinosaurs if nobody sees them? So Hammond invites a group of

experts to witness and give scientific approval to his biological marvels. There’s jabbering mathematician Ian (Goldblum), paleontologists Alan and Ellie (Sam Neill and Laura Dern), two of Hammond’s grandchildren, and a lawyer named Martin Ferrero (Donald Gennaro.) The group takes a helicopter to the island and behold, firsthand, the wonders of the Bra-chiosaurus, the Velociraptor, and the mighty T-Rex. Things are okay, until the dinosaurs start to run amok. Then all hell breaks loose and people die. That’s the basic gist of the movie.

The dinosaurs are, dare I say, even better in 3D. Seriously, if

you’re anything like me and forget a lot of the action in the movie, there are parts that will make you jump out of your seat. Literally. Just wait and see.

But remember when I told you I’d get back to the reason I forgot

most of the movie? Well, here it is: the characters in it are terrible. There’s no substance to them. Ultimately, they serve no more of a purpose than all those teenagers who were murdered in the Hallow-een movies.

But the 3D is pretty cool.

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DiREcTED by Steven Spielberg

sTaRRing Jeff Goldblum, Laura Dern,

Sam Neill + Richard Attenborough

127 minuTEs | pg

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irector Park Chan-wook has been called brilliant. He’s been

called a master stylist, a provoca-tive filmmaker, an auteur.

And anyone who has seen any of this South Korean director’s movies knows he deserves all that praise — and then some.

With films like Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Joint Security Area, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance and Oldboy under his directorial belt, Park has proven himself time and time again to be a master of his craft. A virtuoso.

But here’s the thing about virtuoso foreign directors: they sometimes land with a thud when they turn their attention to making English movies.

Think Ingmar Bergman’s The Touch, Fellini’s Casanova, Jean-Luc Godard’s King Lear. Yessiree, the list of foreign filmmakers who have flopped in English is long, varied and esteemed.

So how did Park fare with his first English-language film, Stoker?

Well, that depends who you ask.Some people absolutely love the

movie — one of my friends told me it was the best film they had seen in

years, while another mentioned how thought-provoking it was.

But I had also heard the film was disappointing. Boring. Confusing. Pretentious in a “second-rate Hitch-cock-meets-Lynch kind of way.”

Needless to say, Stoker is one of those movies that’s going to divide audiences. And for good reason: the story unfolds slowly, in small twists and subtle turns. It’s quietly seduc-

tive and abruptly violent. Symbols pile upon symbols. The timeline gets smudged, then smudged again. Ten-sion mounts, then ebbs.

At the heart of the story is the narrator, India Stoker (Mia Wa-sikowska), a teenager on the verge of adulthood who just lost her father in a fatal car accident. Mia lives at home with her mom, Evelyn Stoker (Nicole Kidman), and is completely crestfallen in the wake of her dad’s death.

Here mother? Not so much. See, Evelyn is what you’d call an ice

queen. The death of her husband doesn’t seem to have affected her much. And as a result (or is it from something else?), India and Evelyn are very distant from one another.

The house they live in ain’t home sweet home.

Then one day, out of the blue, a stranger named Charlie arrives at the door. He’s the brother of the deceased, but there’s a catch.

Neither India nor Evelyn has heard his name mentioned before.

The more these three central characters interact and circle each other, the more secrets are re-vealed. It soon becomes apparent that Evelyn has a thing for Charlie. And Charlie has a thing for India. And India, well, go to the theatre and find out for yourself.

If you’re anything like me, it will be worth it. No, Stoker isn’t nearly as good as Park’s Korean-language films. It’s not nearly as raw and visceral. And, unlike his other films, it’s not the kind of movie that crawls under your skin like a slow-moving virus and sticks with you for weeks.

But it is pretty good and smart and stylish. Remember to pay attention.

Stoker is currently being screened at Roxy Theatre.

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5. They are not gentleman

9. Flinch slightly

10. Unruly demonstrations

12. Break one’s heart

13. Place in the

right position

15. Neck bone

16. Female pig

18. A little way away

19. Range of vision

20. Forecast word

22. One who plays in

the NHL

23. Carve letters on

25. Became less painful

27. Wrath

28. Lens cover

29. Hush money

32. Showing favouritism

36. Nighttime, in poetry

37. Treat with contempt

39. Needing to be paid

40. Food

42. Fuss

43. Extremely urgent

44. Close acquaintance

46. Angry protest

48. Artist’s mishap

49. Tailors’ joints

50. Part farthest from

the middle

51. Bacon’s partner

Down 1. Concealment

2. Units of a curling game

3. Hole in one

4. Dreamily thoughtful

5. Group of spectators

6. Light breeze

7. Slay

8. Brews tea

9. Like a candle

11. Animal trap

12. “For Heaven’s ___!”

14. Walked on

17. 1300 hours

20. Peddlers peddle them

21. Be filled with longing

24. Arched bone

26. Nearly certain

28. Go on a drinking spree

29. Hamburger meat

30. Raises children

31. Before it is too late

32. Jet engine housing

33. Everyday expressions

34. Subtle emanations

35. Suggestive look

38. Military training group

41. Bit of bird food

43. Compete in cars

45. Remind constantly

47. Score points

in cribbage

aRiEs march 21–April 19

Choices will confront you at every

turn this week, Aries. Be very care-

ful what you choose: some of these options

could have negative ramifications.

TauRus April 20–may 20

Gossiping busybodies will be

swirling all around you this week,

Taurus. Try your best to tune them out, or

else prepare to be annoyed.

gEmini may 21–June 20

Feeling confused lately, Gemini?

Been faced with a load of options

— all unfamiliar? Don’t worry — things

are going to clear up in the days ahead.

cancER June 21–July 22

You will form a new relationship

this week. It may be romantic, it

may be friendly, heck, it may even be pro-

fessional. But whatever it is, embrace it.

lEo July 23–August 22

Have you been feeling stressed

lately, Leo? If so, let off some

steam. Go out, have a few wobbly-pops,

and have some fun — for now.

viRgo August 23–september 22

If you’re having a hard time

following a path you’ve chosen,

don’t quit, Virgo. Yes, it may be bumpy but

the trip will be worthwhile.

libRa september 23–october 23

Is there an old friend you haven’t

spoken to in a while, Libra? If so,

make the time to get in touch this week.

There may be big news you need to hear.

scoRpio october 24–november 22

Travel, travel, travel: that should

be your mantra this week,

Scorpio. Whether it’s the physical act or

the planning, it doesn’t matter. Just do it.

sagiTTaRius november 23–december 21

If you are single and see someone

who catches your eye this week,

be bold and say hello, Sagittarius. If you’re

not single, beware of temptation.

capRicoRn december 22–January 19

You may be coming to a cross-

roads in your life, Capricorn. Don’t

get bent out of shape trying to decide

which road to take. Trust your gut.

aquaRius January 20–february 19

Others’ attitudes towards you may

be changing this week, Aquarius.

You may not know why, but here’s a hint:

perhaps it isn’t them that’s different.

piscEs february 20–march 20

Don’t get too handsy with

people this week. Contrary

to what your friend Tina may say, it’s

not nice if it’s not asked for.

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