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Business as usual

Samantha Power / 25 Jan 2012

The Wildrose Party continues to uncover new public bodies that have illegally donated to the Progressive Conservative party. Read more »

A right to offend

New federal legislation will change restrictions on free speech

Jenn Prosser / 25 Jan 2012

As the house prepares for its first 2012 sitting, Bill C-304 is coming back for second reading. Read more »

Stuck in a rut

Democracies need a new way of doing things

Samantha Power / 25 Jan 2012

Established democracies appear to be stuck in a rut. Read more »

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Dish

Grapely creative

What to do with leftover wine

Taylor Eason / 25 Jan 2012

Although I rarely have leftover wine, the problem does afflict some. Read more »

Pioneer spirit

Driving Prairie Bistro's culinary triumphs

L.S. Vors / 25 Jan 2012

Prairie Bistro The Enjoy Centre 101 Riel Dr, St Albert 780. Read more »

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Arts

The Highest Step in the World

Paul Blinov / 25 Jan 2012

On August 16, 1960, a career American military officer named Joseph Kittinger stepped into a high-altitude weather balloon and let it climb the sky to the very edge…. Read more »

Lig & Bittle

Mel Priestley / 25 Jan 2012

At six feet, six inches tall, actor Paul Welch knows what it feels like to not fit in with a crowd—and standing next to his diminutive, five-foot co-actor…. Read more »

Take a chance on Mimi

Blind Date pulls an audience member onstage—yes, maybe you—to be its hero

 / 25 Jan 2012

Sat, Jan 28 – Sun, Feb 19 Blind Date Created and performed by Rebecca Northan Citadel Theatre, $40. Read more »

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Film

Fall films, and beyond

A final preview of 2012's cinematic schedule

Brian Gibson / 25 Jan 2012

Michael Haneke's Amour gazes at the relationship between an older couple and their daughter (Isabelle Huppert) after the mother suffers a stroke. Read more »

Prevue

Coming attractions 2012 - part 1

A preview of the coming year in film

Brian Gibson / 18 Jan 2012

Shadowed by dark nights of superhero franchises, blue-balled by smurfin' cartoon sequels, battleshipped by board-game adaptations, snow white-outed by fairy-tale flicks, jump street-jacketed by '80s remakes . Read more »

A Clockwork Orange

Josef Braun / 18 Jan 2012

Fri, Jan 20 (11:30 pm); Sun, Jan 22 (9:15 pm) Directed by Stanley Kubrick Metro Cinema at the Garneau Originally Released: 1971   As a teenager I suppose…. Read more »

2001: A Space Odyssey

Brian Gibson / 04 Jan 2012

It's a film Stanley Kubrick summarized simply: three monoliths are left by alien explorers (on earth, on the moon and orbiting Jupiter) to influence and alert them to man's evolution; the third ushers an astronaut into rebirth as a star-child heralding humanity's next epoch. Read more »

A year in reels

A pair of Vue's film critics offer their picks for the year's best films

Brian Gibson, Josef Braun / 04 Jan 2012

How do we make sense of the past? What paths does memory take en route to truth, trauma or transcendence? What patterns emerge? Many of my favourite films of 2011, listed below in no particular order (though the first is first for a reason), respond to this question by contrasting the unfathomably vast with the infinitesimal, deep history with willful amnesia, the beginning and end of everything with the harrowing loss of a single life. Read more »

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Music

Shane Philip

One man band arrives in Edmonton

Bryan Birtles / 25 Jan 2012

Sun, Jan 29 (9 pm) On the Rocks, $10 A one-man musical force, Shane Philip plays drums, guitar, digeridoo and many others while ensconced inside the musical cave…. Read more »

Chic Gamine

Montreal/Winnipeg vocal group comes to Edmonton

Bryan Birtles / 25 Jan 2012

Fri, Jan 27 (7 pm) Full Moon Folk Club, $18 Juno award-winning vocal quintet Chic Gamine has been vocalizing in front of audiences since 2007. Read more »

Greener pastures

Edmonton expat Daniel Moir finds inspiration on the coast

Paul Blinov / 25 Jan 2012

Fri, Jan 27 (9pm) Daniel Moir With Joe Nolan, Lou Wreath Wunderbar, $10 Though Daniel Moir calls Vancouver home these days, you can't hold leaving the Edmonton city…. Read more »

Coming In Waves

Trivium's latest came after a rediscovery process

Bryan Birtles / 25 Jan 2012

Fri, Jan 27 (7 pm) Trivium With In Flames, Veil of Maya, Kyng Edmonton Event Centre, $43. Read more »

Live from the cold

Gordie Tentrees and the recording of Naked in Scandinavia

Bryan Birtles / 18 Jan 2012

Gordie Tentrees Sat, Jan 21 Black Dog (4 pm) Northern Lights Folk Club (8 pm) Hailing from the Yukon, Gordie Tentrees has always had to go far and…. Read more »

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