Verb Issue R45 (Sept. 14-20, 2012)

Issue #45 – september 14 to september 20

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sailing the seven seaswith hey Ocean!

+the good fight rick langlais puts it all on the line to help kids

a family affair family of the year put out their best album

resident evil & 360 film reviews

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on aesthetics Rebecca King, and Saskatchewan’s fashion scene. 3 / LocaL

a Born fighter Rick Langlais chats to Adam about faith, and helping out kids. 4 / LocaL

holy craPReligious groups get tax breaks, but why should they? 5 / editoriaL

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Q + a with ceremonyAnthony Anzaldo talks to Alex about innovation. 8 / Q + a

nightlife Photos Tamara visits the Welcome Week festivities at the U of R. 15 / nightLiFe

live music listingsLocal music listings for September 14 through September 22. 14 / Listings

resident evil: retriBution & 360Adam reviews the latest films. 16 / FiLm

on the Bus Weekly original comic illustrations by Elaine M. Will. 18 / comics

family of the yearHow four roommates made their best album yet. 9 / arts

cathedral freehouse reviewGreat global fare! 12 / Food + drink

musicJohn Fogerty, Cory Woodward& Stars. 13 / music

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the dutiful sonJerry Sereda talks music, mothers and moving forward. 9 / arts

on the cover: hey ocean!David Vertesi tells Alex about the band’s latest album . 10 / cover

game & horoscoPesCanadian criss-cross puzzle & weekly horoscope readings. 19 / timeout

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rebecca king balances form and function. by alex J macpherson

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My goal was … to do what I loved.

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esigning clothes has — and always will be — about balancing form

and function. From French haute couture houses to companies that make department store clothes, designers are interested in maxi-mizing both utility and beauty.

Rebecca King, a Saskatchewan-born fashion designer, has found that balance, no small achievement considering her cynical view of an industry she describes as fickle and cutthroat. In a career spanning eight years, King has developed a style that is eminently wearable yet deeply interesting. By weighing her desire to push boundaries against the exigencies of business, King has carved out a niche for herself in Western Canada.

“I think it’s really hard for a lot of designers,” she says, sipping a glass of water in a crowded coffee shop early on a Sunday morning. “They want to be creative and they want to do whatever they want — that’s why they are a designer. But it’s just too much for most people. It’s always been a strong point of mine that my clothes are different but wearable, and I naturally had that balance in my style. And sometimes I don’t like that about myself, but it works for me and my line.”

King, who is 26, was born in Hudson Bay, a town of about 1,600 people nestled against the Manitoba border. Her mother is an interior designer, her father an art teacher. Today, King can’t remember a time when art was not a priority.

“It’s something my parents culti-vated,” she says. “We did posters for Remembrance Day once a year. Dur-ing poster week, the week before the poster was due, we could skip school and stay home. We all had stations of materials and paper. I was taught the technique of art and design. That’s what was important to my parents.”

A career in design was never a question for King, who started sew-ing in high school. After graduation, she spent two years studying fashion at Marvel College in Edmonton. The experience was unfulfilling.

“They taught you how to sew and they taught you how to craft, and you played a lot with portfolio design,” she says. “But it was never explained what you could do [after college].” Eventually, King ended up in Saska-toon where, with little to go on, she started making clothes.

Today, King is best-known for her tailored jackets, coats for women who seek the ideal blend of originali-ty and practicality. Like all designers, King goes through phases — “Last year I was just gaaah over brown and red together,” she laughs, “but now I’m in love with burgundy” — but certain influences keep cropping up.

“There are some cuts I’ve always been into,” she admits. “A tuxedo cut, longer in the back, or the little shoul-

der tabs — those army details.”Lately, King has been experiment-

ing with what she calls “old man fabrics.” Tweeds and houndstooths, in other words. “I love it,” she says. “I love the flat caps, I love the sweaters, I love the suspenders.” It may seem incongruous for a fashion designer like King to obsess over men’s cloth-ing from decades past, but her off-beat taste is the key to her success.

Rather than repurpose old ideas for a new generation, she blends influences while skirting labels like “military inspired.” From epaulets to elbow patches, her best pieces incorporate a wealth of ideas without sacrificing the originality that her clients have come to expect.

“If you look at my lines, you can see what I like pretty quickly,” she says. “But people say, ‘That’s a Rebecca King.’ There’s a style to it you can pick out — it might be the tailoring, it might be the colours or the tones.” Whatever it is, King has created an army of loyal followers, people who seek the perfect balance between form and function.

“I think what everybody wants is something they can wear a lot,” she muses. “Something not so bold that they can wear it once, but something that has a bit of an edge.”

King’s success is an example of how local entrepreneurs can bolster their brands by offering first-rate service.

“I try my best but I don’t have a team working behind me that per-fects all these things,” she says.

“What I do have is that I’m local. You can come back to me at any time.

If your seam breaks, I’ll fix it for you. I’m always here if something happens.”

Because King works on a rela-tively small scale, she is able to form lasting relationships with her clients, some of whom have been buying her clothes for years.

Unlike some businesspeople, who equate expansion with success, King is happy working alone. Moving to a factory-style manufacturing process would involve an enormous outlay of cash and a significant loss of control.

It’s hard to be a designer when you’re spending time worrying about hiring sales reps, she says. Even if it wasn’t a conscious choice, King sees herself as a designer first — and a designer always.

“I never thought about what I was doing,” King says, reflecting on her life which now includes a husband who is studying architecture in Cal-gary and an unborn child.

“I think it’s good that I didn’t know what I was getting into — oth-erwise I wouldn’t have done it. My goal was always to do what I loved. And it still is my goal. I just take the next logical step. I don’t plan ahead. I just see what comes up and make smart decisions all the way along.”

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t all started with a message.

A message that changed Rick Langlais’ life. For many years, Langlais had been a troublemaker. A loose cannon stomping the urban terra. A wild man who sold copious amounts of drugs, solved problems, collected money, even overdosed a couple times.

“I pushed the limit at every turn, in everything I did,” admits Langlais. “And I ran into a lot of problems, caused a lot of trouble.”

By the early 1990‘s, however, the hard and loose lifestyle of the streets had become too problematic, too troublesome for Langlais. He knew it was time to change — or else.

The thing is, change rarely comes easy. So in a last ditch effort to go straight, Rick turned to God for a helping, guiding hand. It worked.

“From then on, without a shadow of a doubt, I knew there was some-thing bigger out there for me,” says Rick. “And more than anything I wanted to give other people an avenue out like I found. I wasn’t sure

how I was going to do that. At first I thought about making a fight club because I was into sh*t like that. So I started looking around for a space.”

That’s when the message came.It was from a man named Bernie

Dirk, who owned a pool hall and a pawn shop in Saskatoon’s west end. Some of Bernie’s “tenants” in an up-stairs poker room were three months behind on their rent and were being aggressive and hostile.

“Bernie sent [a] message that he’d heard I was looking for something; I sent a message back saying ‘I’m not interested, Bernie, I’m changing,’” remembers Langlais.

But Langlais hadn’t changed so much he didn’t need help straight-ening out, so he went to see what Bernie wanted to talk about. Turns out, what Bernie wanted was to get rid of his tardy tenants. And that’s exactly what Langlais did — right then and there. With the help of his fists, Langlais convinced the tenants to leave the upstairs poker room for good.

Now Langlais had the fight-club

space he wanted. A month or two passed. Not much

happened up there in Langlais’ new space. Punching bags were punched, people came to fight with mouth-guards and boxing gloves — that sort of thing. Then one day some kids showed up.

“They wanted to hit the bags,” says Langlais, “but I told them to get lost. They asked for something to eat and got the same answer.”

Next day the same group of kids showed up again.

And again, the day after that.“That third time they came this

little guy named Lloyd looked up at me with these big brown eyes and said, ‘Please mister, can I have some food? I’m real hungry,’” recalls Lan-glais. “I remember being real hungry when I was young, so I told the kids to stand there. Don’t move. Don’t even breathe. Then I ran downstairs three flights to the pool hall.”

Rick came back with cookies for the kids. Told them not to come back.

The next day, around 3 o’clock, Langlais heard something that

sounded like a herd of buffalo com-ing up the steps. When he went to investigate, what Langlais saw was a long line of kids snaking up the stairs, all of them looking for cookies.

“That first group of kids went to school and told everybody,” chuckles Langlais. “I should’ve seen that

play coming.”What Langlais couldn’t have seen

coming, though — at least not at the time — was the way one magnani-mous act can ripple the waters of your life.

Rick Langlais is a fighter. Always has been, probably always will be.

His dad called him Rocky (after the undefeated pugilist Rocky Mar-

ciano) because he said his son came out of the womb fighting. When he grew up, Langlais fought in the streets for pride and honour. He’s had his throat slit, was stabbed, shot and stuck with a needle. He fought for his life, and went toe-to-toe with pimps and abusive parents.

For the past 22 years, beginning not so long after the day he gave those cookies away, Langlais has been fighting tooth and nail to keep the Hands On Street Ministries afloat.

Since opening its doors in 1992, Hands On has had one simple mission — to serve the needs of Saskatoon’s inner-city youth. On any given day, at any given hour, Langlais and his staff can be found providing food, clothing and a safe haven for

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anywhere between 50 and 100 youth a day.

“It’s all for the kids,” says Langlais. He pauses. “I had it pretty rough growing up, so I hate seeing any kid suffer or be in need.”

And because of the work Langlais does, there won’t be any shortage of children in attendance on September 25th, when the Hands On celebrates the grand opening of its new facility on Avenue F.

And what a facility it is.Inside, there is a video game

room, a rec room with a pool table, a baby supply room, a study room, kitchens, an enormous walk-in food room, even a garage at the far end of the facility in which Langlais plans to teach local kids how to restore classic cars.

“When we moved in here, we didn’t have the funds to do what we wanted,” says Langlais. “But people started volunteering, equipment started showing up and the next thing you know we went from ‘let’s just touch it up’ to ‘let’s renovate the whole place.’”

But a building like that isn’t easily renovated. Especially when the entire thing — the facility, the programs, the food, etc. — relies on either donations or money from Langlais’ own pocket.

“Has it been a struggle?” asks Langlais, of keeping Hands On Street Ministries open. “Absolutely!”

And he has the paperwork to prove it.

Sitting behind a desk in his office, Langlais stares at a security monitor hanging on the opposite wall. He keeps a close eye on what’s happen-ing in each room in the Hands On building. His eyes dart up and down and all around. To his right, on the desk in front of him, is a stack of bills.

For a brief moment, Langlais looks away from the monitor, runs his gnarled, battle-scarred hands through the stack, smiles and says, “Look at these bills … What am I going to do with them? I already took an extra mortgage out on my house.”

But Langlais isn’t worried.

“We’ll find a way,” he answers, when asked how he’ll pay the bills. “This place runs on 100 percent faith.”

Faith in humanity. Faith in the kindness of others. Faith that some-how, some way, Hands On will come up with the $5,000 they need for the kitchen, the $945 for the garage door, the more than $3,000 for the flooring and money for the rest of their big-ticket expenses.

Even with all those expenses looming, Langlais still isn’t worried.

“[T]his is what I love,” he explains. “Everything will be alright.”

Again Langlais pauses. As he rubs away the goosebumps forming on his arms, you can almost see his passion. The heart he wears on his sleeve.

And you can’t help but hope he’s right.

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iving tax exemption to religious organizations isn’t a new concept.

In fact, the Bible— in Genesis 47:26 to be precise — talks of how priests’ lands were exempt from paying the Pharaoh’s tax in Egypt. In medieval times, the Roman Catholic Church and the throne of England were so close that the church was exempt from all taxes. And somehow (perhaps by the grace of god?) tax ex-emptions have been grandfathered into modern-day common laws. To this day, religious organizations in Saskatchewan receive exemptions from various forms of taxation.

We think that’s unfair.

Since anything to do with religion can be a touchy subject, let’s take the whole issue of faith out the equa-tion, and simply look at religious groups merely as non-profit charities for a moment. Like other non-profit organizations, these groups receive tax breaks because they a) work to relieve poverty, and b) benefit the community in a way the courts have said are charitable.

Those aren’t our words or ideas — they’re ripped straight from Canada’s Income Tax Act.

That’s all well and good, but we think churches should be subject to all the same tax rules that govern non-profit organizations.

For instance, all religious organizations receiving tax exemp-tions should be required to keep open books. They should be able to demonstrate, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that they are providing a valuable and tangible service to their communities. If not, adios tax breaks.

What’s more, like other non-profit organizations with tax exemptions, religious groups should keep their political beliefs to themselves. If a church wants to rail against marriage equality, for example, they shouldn’t be able to rely on a public subsidy to help them do so. And before you think: “That kind of stuff doesn’t hap-pen here in Canada” — think again.

Earlier this year, the United Church of Canada raised the issue of boycotting Israeli products. Then in August they came out in opposition to the Northern Gateway pipeline.

We don’t mean to pick on the United Church, they’re just a good recent example of faith groups en-gaging in political advocacy.

Now don’t get us wrong, free speech is important and we sup-port it wholeheartedly. If you’re a religious organization and you want to espouse your politics, go for it. Get out there and scream from the rooftops.

But don’t expect the rest of us to help pay for it. It’s simply not fair.

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–Texting while driving prohibition is a novel idea, sadly the use of cel-lular phones without a hands-free device hasn’t been deterred by a similar action. Stupid people will continue to do idiotic things that endanger others no matter what the law states, all because they live to serve their own wants.

– Verb editors have some nerve saying texting and driving really isn’t that bad. Tell that to someone who has lost a loved one because of it.

– It is dumb to just wait to see if someone does something that doesn’t warrant them having a licence. It presumes everyone’s great until proven distracted, but that “proving” part could result in someone getting hurt or injured.

– It is absolutely ridiculous that reading papers while driving isn’t illegal. Small dogs on laps can be equally distracting. But I don’t know if your way is the best to go about addressing the problem

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california recast ceremony talk innovation. by alex J macpherson

Being able to play Canada now … is very important for us.

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ll of the best punk rock bands are from California. From Bad

Religion and Black Flag to Social Distortion and Green Day, Cali-fornia has produced legions of tal-ented musicians, songwriters, and performers. And Ceremony, one of the Golden State’s more recent exports, are no exception. Formed in the Bay Area in 2003, Cer-emony have made their name by releasing hardcore infused with a wealth of influences. Unlike some bands, which build careers on dressing up the same four-minute rager in different clothes, Cer-emony count among their influ-ences Joy Division and Tom Waits. Their latest record, Zoo, is the sort of record people who don’t like hardcore like. To find out more, I caught up with guitarist Anthony Anzaldo to talk about California, Canada, and making the best record of their career.

Alex J MacPherson: Let’s talk about California. What’s your take on the punk scene today? Anthony Anzaldo: Well, I feel there’s no better geographical area to

be in this subgenre of rock music. I think that California has brought the best punk music to the world. There’s a lot of history in where we come from, with Berkeley and Gilman Street and the Bay Area — there’s never been a lack of inspiration, that’s for sure.

AJM: I agree, absolutely. How do you feel you fit into that scene?

AA: Obviously, I come at Ceremony from a different perspective than I do with the Dead Kennedys or Black Flag or AFI or Operation Ivy — these

bands I loved growing up. I guess that would be a better question for a fan, I suppose. These are legendary bands that have transcended punk and made musical history; I don’t think we’re near any of those bands. Also, we’re current, so there’s no nostalgia factor.

AJM: At the same time, those bands influenced your music without dominating it. You seem to have lots of outside influences that give your music an interesting twist. Can you tell me a bit about that?

AA: Bands that have influenced us, that we look up to from California, honed in on one style. We are able to use what they’ve done as a frame of reference. We’re into all sorts of stuff. We always talk about what bands we can all agree on outside of punk: the Pixies, the Cramps. And sometimes I bring a song to practice influenced

by something else, and someone else in the band who isn’t too familiar with that scene put something on top of it. That gives it another twist.

AJM: How does this record fit into the arc of your career?

AA: It was the first time we worked with a producer, John Goodmanson, who is amazing — he has a great frame of reference for things that we do. He was able to give us a really great range of sounds we could pull from. It was the first time we had an outside influence to make us look at things a little differently. It was also the longest we ever took to record a record. And it was the first time we recorded outside of the Bay Area. For that month, our only focus was mak-ing this record.

AJM: What does breaking into Canada mean to you?

AA: A lot. For one, we want to go everywhere. Canada is geographi-cally really accessible for us. It would

be great to be able to, on a US tour, do two weeks in Canada. We’ve had trouble in the past about not being able to get into Canada. I think a lot of fans of ours missed out on a big chunk of our existence. Being able to play Canada now, and hopefully do well, is very important for us.

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family of the yearhow four roommates made the best album of their career. by aLex J macPherson

he best song on Loma Vista, the latest record by Family

of the Year, is called “Living on Love.” Driven by sunny synthesiz-ers, surf guitars, and washed out vocals, the song is a metaphor for the Los Angeles-based band — an ode to living in the moment.

“Living on Love” began life as a sketch, a throwaway idea singer Jo-

seph Keefe called “F*** my Life.” His brother, drummer Sebastian Keefe, dreamt up the chorus — “Living on love / Living on love and libations” — and a joke was transformed into a signature song.

“That was written when we were all living together,” laughs Christina Schroeter, who, along with James Buckney, rounds out Family of the Year.

“We were on and off tour, and we were seriously all living together in a small apartment, literally living on love and libations. We were drinking and partying and writing music — making the best of a time that could have been horrible.”

“When you’re broke and living in LA trying to be something creative,

it can be really dark,” she continues, “but I think we try to look at the upside of what’s going on.” This senti-ment forms the heart of Loma Vista, a record that was created in spite of relative misery, not because of it.

Family of the Year have been making music for quite a while; Loma Vista, an album of irrepressible optimism intertwined with deeply nostalgic sounds, is their best yet. Schroeter, the only member who grew up in California, attributes the band’s distinctive sound to the Golden State

itself. “It feels really good to be there,” she laughs.

“When we’re on tour long enough, we look forward to the light at the end of the tunnel. It fills you with this really warm feeling.”

The band’s sound, a spacey mélange of acoustic guitars, vintage synthesizers, and languid vocals, is inspired by the long trail of California music. Today, the band can’t imagine making music anywhere else.

Pointing to the rigours of everyday existence, Schroeter says she and her bandmates live for the moment. “I think being in a band … you’re always striving to be a little bit better. You forget to open your eyes, look at where you are, and enjoy what you’re doing.”

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the dutiful son Jerry sereda talks music, mothers, and moving forward. by aLex J macPherson

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The most important thing to me about live shows is really engaging the audience.

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f Jerry Sereda’s mother loved him any less, he would still

be teaching high school in Win-nipeg. In early 2007, shortly after Sereda jettisoned his dream of becoming a working musician, his telephone started to ring.

“I got a phone call one day from my mom,” Sereda says, laughing at the memory. “She said ‘I entered you in this talent contest.’ I told her no way I’m doing another talent contest. She said, ‘I’m your mother and you’re doing this contest.’”

Ever the dutiful son, Sereda showed up and sang his heart out. No stranger to losing singing contests, Sereda was astonished when he placed third. In retrospect, he says, it was probably because he wasn’t playing to win — he was playing to

sate his mother. His good luck con-tinued when the first two acts sank out of sight. Then, he says, “I started getting my name out there.”

Now, three years later, the hard work is starting to pay off. Since his de facto victory, Sereda has released a brace of albums and is preparing

for a third. His upbeat country-rock songs have won multiple awards and, more importantly, built the

foundation for a long career. “It’s country music with an edge,”

Sereda says, pointing to his live performance. “The most important thing to me about live shows is really engaging the audience.”

Sereda, who takes a cue or two from his hero Garth Brooks, is an en-

thusiastic performer. “I want to leave the people thinking, ‘I don’t believe I just saw that,’” he says.

And while Manitoba may not be the high citadel of country music, Sereda uses it to his advantage. “I get that question a lot,” he laughs. “If I were to go to New York and stand in the middle of Times Square and start screaming, no one would even look … In Manitoba, if I started screaming the whole town would know almost instantly.”

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setting sailhey ocean! embark on the voyage of their lives. by alex J macpherson

f rancis Beaufort was a man of stubborn practicality. Concerned that one sailor’s

squall was another’s stiff breeze, Beaufort devised the scale that now bears his name as a way of measur-ing wind speed and wave height. From the dazzling beauty of calm seas to the raging pulse of the most powerful hurricanes, the Beaufort scale quantifies experience and defines the undefinable.

Were he alive today, Beaufort would probably be driven to chart the career of Hey Ocean!, a pop band from Vancouver. Like the sea, which flits between moments of benign tranquility and terrifying violence, Hey Ocean!’s music is sometimes placid, sometimes aggressive, and always surprising. Capable of trans-forming raw emotion into deeply sophisticated pop songs, Hey Ocean! represents the pinnacle of indie rock. And, like Beaufort himself, they have a special relationship with the

sweeping expanses of water that cover the planet.

For David Vertesi, Ashleigh Ball, and David Beckingham, the sea is more than a metaphor for the scale and scope of their music. It is a reference point, the standard against which all things can be measured. It is a canvas for emotions and a constant source of inspiration. It is integral to everything they do.

“I think that no matter where you’re from, whether you’re from New York or L.A. or Paris or Vancou-ver, every city, every location has a big effect on how you make music, the imagery you use and what your reference point is,” Vertesi, who plays bass and sings in the band, says. “In our music, we talk about the ocean, the mountains, and the northwest. It’s the framework for the things we’re going through. Every-body has a different framework, but I think some of the core stories and struggles are the same.”

Hey Ocean! have always been a Vancouver band. In fact, Vertesi doubts the band could exist in a different city. But now, Hey Ocean! are leaving their home behind. After ascending the ladder of success, Ver-tesi and his bandmates are perched on the brink of international success. But it’s not at all clear whether the vehicle to which they’ve harnessed their hopes and dreams, a new re-cord called IS, can stay afloat.

Hey Ocean! have spent the past several years cultivating a reputation as one of Canada’s most important pop bands. Rooted in the low-fi, high-energy rubric familiar to fans of independent music, Hey Ocean! have set themselves apart by craft-ing sophisticated yet accessible pop songs that they play with teenage intensity. But if their first two records, Stop Looking Like Music and It’s Easier to Be Somebody Else, represent the apotheosis of DIY garage pop, IS is something else entirely.

“It was very intentional,” Vertesi says of the band’s new, more pol-ished sound.

“It was very much something we worked on. With this album, we knew it would sound quite different from our previous records, but we

never want it to sound like a different band. And that’s one of the reasons we’re so proud of it and so excited about it — it’s the next step in our journey. And the next album will be different from this album, just as this one is different from the last.”

This is an understatement. Put

simply, IS is what happens when a preeminent independent band known for its unimpeachable in-tegrity signs a major label contract. Unlike the band’s earlier efforts, which astonished people because no one expected that music of such

emotional depth could emerge from an ad hoc recording studio, IS is burnished and buffed by all manner of professional equipment. Although the album’s sonic profile will be instantly familiar to listeners of mainstream radio, it may shock some of the band’s more passionate fans.

[W]e’re so proud of [the latest album] and so excited about it — it’s the next step in our journey.

davId vertesI

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Vertesi isn’t convinced, though. In fact, he questions whether the band has strayed far at all.

Pointing out that he, Ball and Beckingham surprised their label by being “very hands-on,” Vertesi says signing with Universal doesn’t neces-sarily ruin their indie credibility. He wonders whether public perception of his band corresponds with reality. “We’ve had people tell us ‘you’re DIY, stick it to the man,’” he laughs. “It really wasn’t that kind of vision. It wasn’t a big decision that we made. It was more like, every time we came to certain situations we just made a decision over and over again.”

And the decisions that influenced IS shouldn’t upset anyone, mainly because this may be the best batch of songs Hey Ocean! have ever com-mitted to tape. From “Make a New Dance Up,” an ode to starting over powered by a four-on-the-floor beat, sparkly guitars, and punchy horns, to the richly adorned yet charmingly

unaffected ballad “Islands,” IS is rich and luscious, an apt demonstration of how professional recordings don’t have to sound lifeless.

Vertesi, who produced most of the record, hopes the slick outer layer won’t turn anyone away. “At the end of the day, I think people can tell when you’re being honest, when you’re making music that’s true to yourself, and they find that alluring,” he says. This is becoming more and more difficult as the forces of deeply commercialized boilerplate radio hits align themselves against individual-ity and depth, both intellectual and emotional. But, Vertesi laughs, “You have to sweep all that crap aside and figure out what the core of what you’re doing is.”

In this case, the core idea is simple. IS is about grappling with the demands of success, which equate to leaving and loss. The record cap-tures Vertesi, Ball, and Beckingham in a moment of vulnerability — the

instant when one epoch ends and another begins. This is plain on “Jolene,” the album’s standout track. A pulsating, infectious pop song driv-en by an upbeat guitar riff, “Jolene” is about recognizing that the sea “is the hardest thing to leave.”

To move forward, Hey Ocean! must spend more time away from their home in Vancouver, their muse and the site of their earliest success-es. The future will undoubtedly be difficult; sailing through uncharted waters is never easy. But if IS is any indication, Vertesi, Ball, and Becking-ham are well on their way.

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let’s go drinkin’ verB’s mixology guide

Pimm’s cuP cocktail

The Pimm’s Cup is a summer-time favourite in England, and with its fruity and very refresh-ing flavours, this beverage is best served with friends and patios. Like sangria, you can add dif-ferent fruit to cater to your own tastes, but here is a classic recipe.

ingredients

1.5 oz Pimm’s No. 1 lemon-lime Sodasliced cucumberlime wedge

directions

Put some ice in a tall glass. Add the Pimm’s No. 1 and a few slices of cucum-ber before topping up with lemon-lime soda. Give it a stir and garnish with a lime wedge. Other popular additions include apple, strawberry, orange, lemon, basil or mint. You can also substitute lemonade or ginger ale for the soda.

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worldly food at cathedral village freehouse. by JessIca bIckford

Photography courtesy of danielle tocker.

if there is something that can be said about the Cathedral Village Free-

house it’s that it strives to be part of Regina’s arts community. And with a menu as eclectic as the atmosphere, the Freehouse has always been a popular spot to hang

out – especially in the summer on their patio. I met up with sous chef Chelsea Leece, who shared a few of her favourite dishes with me.

Luckily I brought along an extra appetite because the Middle East eats platter was huge!

Piled high with curried pita wedges, Armenian crackers, falafel, and dishes of sundried tomato hum-mus, roasted garlic artichoke dip, and baba ganoush, this dish offered a

bit of exotic flavour. Everything was lovely, perfectly seasoned and with a nice mix of tastes and tex-tures. This is a fantastic dish to share over a long evening and a few drinks with friends.

A deconstructed Italian caprese salad arrived next. This dish had

classic tastes with a modern presen-tation, and was served with some crispy grilled bread to add some nice crunch.

The bocconcini slices were creamy, and the Roma tomatoes were firm and covered in fresh and fragrant basil. A sweet and sticky balsamic reduction tied all of the flavours together nicely — this was a beautiful, light option.

Lake Diefenbaker steelhead trout

rounded out the savoury selections. Served on a mix of wild and basmati rice, the pan-seared trout fillet was flaky and fresh tasting, and perfectly seared on the outside.

The side of roasted tomatoes was beautifully sweet and the roasted corn salsa was refreshing. Every-thing was lightly drizzled with an herb oil, which added a distinctive brightness to all of the components.

The best way to finish off a meal, in my opinion, is with something sweet and a nice drink. A Pimm’s cup was my beverage of choice, and this summer cocktail gave me fond memories of living in England. The gin-based liqueur mixed with Sprite and cucumber was slightly sweet and intensely refreshing.

My dessert was a panna cotta — thick and creamy with a mildly sweet flavour. A mango sauce added a tropical twist and a bit of tartness, as well as a splash of colour.

Chelsea says that she loves being a part of Regina’s arts community, and that the staff at the Freehouse are all fun and welcoming. They want the restaurant to be a place

where people come to hang out and eat delicious globally inspired cuisine.

With fresh sheets changing about once a month and lots of fun events, the Freehouse is a great place to spend a long evening with a table full of friends.

cathedral village freehouse2062 albert st. | (306) 359 1661

[The] Pimm’s cup … gave me fond memories of living in England.

JessIca bIckford

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Coming upnext Week

John fogerty

Before this Californian became a solo act, he was part of one of the most iconic bands of the late 60’s and early 70’s. Maybe you’ve heard of them — Creedence Clearwater Re-vival? Yep, that John Fogerty. The guy who Rolling Stone magazine ranked not only the #40 best guitarist of all time, but also the #72 best singer. His solo hits include “Centerfield” (perhaps the greatest baseball song ever penned) and “Jambalaya,” and now he’s returning to his CCR roots as he sets out on the first ever Cross-Canada Revival tour, performing the music of the legendary Creedence Clearwater Revival. Don’t miss this music icon and this incredible show when it comes to Regina. Tickets available at Ticketmaster.

@ the brandt centreFriday, sePtember 21 – $28-83.50

Do yourself a favour: next time you’re near the Internet search for Cory Woodward’s song “Have You Ever.” When it’s loaded, close your eyes and just listen. And if your first thought is, “Holy smokes, this guy sounds like the bastard son of Bruce Springsteen,” don’t fret — you’re not alone. But Woodward is by no means a Boss clone. With a rich, smoky voice and downhome electro folk/rock sensibilities all his own, this singer/songwriter from Vancou-ver has been making quite a name for himself on the Canadian music scene. Having released his new al-bum, The Truth, earlier this summer, Woodward is now hitting the road to promote it. Check him out when he lands in the Queen City.

cory woodward

It all started back in the late 90’s, when two friends from Toronto – Torquil Campbell and Christopher Seligman – went to New York and recorded a catchy, electro-pop album called Nightsongs. Soon they recruited childhood friend Evan Cranley, who in turn recruited guitar-ist Amy Millan, before they all moved to Montreal and found drummer Patrick McGee. As the band members were added, Stars’ sound began to evolve towards a vibrant, beautiful and soaring instrument-based indie pop. With their sixth studio album, The North, Stars’ music is getting more mature and infectious. They’ll be swinging through Regina while on tour with Metric. Tickets available at Ticketmaster.

– by adam hawboldt

stars

@ creatIve cIty centrewednesday, sePtember 26 – $10

@ the brandt centreFriday, november 16 – $42.50+

sask music PreviewThe BreakOut West Festival runs from September 27-30 in Regina, and features some of the best musicians, performing in many different genres, from BC to Manitoba. Many of these acclaimed artists, some of whom have been nominated, will wind up the festival at the Western Canadian Music Awards on the 30th. The WCMAs will feature performances by Dan Mangan, Said The Whale, Jason Plumb and The Northern Pikes.

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friday 14Dennis DeyOung / Casino Regi-

na — DeYoung helped found Styx, one

of the most influential rock bands of all

time. Now he’s reprising his role and

dusting off the hits. 8pm / $65/60

DJ Pat & DJ Kim / Habano’s Martini &

Cocktail Club — Local DJs spin top 40

hits every Friday night that are sure

to get you on the dance floor. 9pm / $5

cover

alain lalOnDe / The Hookah

Lounge — Come check out this dope lo-

cal DJ/producer as he does his thing and

spins the kind of sound that’ll make you

wanna dance. 7pm / $5 cover

wOnDerlanD / McNally’s Tavern — A

night of classic rock and one-hit-won-

ders from one of the finest acts in

town. 10pm / $5

thunDer rOse / The Pump

Roadhouse — Making their

debut on the Pump Stage,

these Saskatoon musi-

cians will be playing all

the classics and plenty of

new hits too. 8pm / TBD

albert / Pure Ultra

Lounge — Appearing

every Friday night, come

listen to Albert as he does

his spinning thing. 10pm /

$5 cover

alex runiOns / Whiskey

Saloon — This Regina-based urban

country rocker’s star is on the rise. In

2009 he released his self-titled debut

album, and since then things have cer-

tainly been looking up. Come check out

his heart-felt, melody-driven version of

urban country music. 8pm / $10 cover

DJ lOnghOrn / Whiskey Sa-

loon — Come check out one of Regina’s

most interactive DJs as he drops some

of the best country beats around. 8pm /

$10 cover

saturday 15regina symPhOny Orchestra gala / Conexus Arts Centre — Join patrons of

the RSO to hear selections from Culli

more, Brahms, Glinka, and Sibelius. 8pm

/ $33+ @ RSO Box Office

DJ nOOr / The Hookah Lounge — Born in

Kuwait and exposed to the international

club scene at a young age, this talented

DJ knows how to rock a crowd. 7pm /

$5 cover

wOnDerlanD / McNally’s Tavern — A

night of classic rock and one-hit-won-

ders from one of the finest acts in town.

10pm / $5 cover

thunDer rOse / The Pump Road-

house — Making their debut on the

Pump Stage, these Saskatoon musicians

will be playing all the classics and plenty

of new hits too. 8pm / TBD

DrewsKi / Pure Ultra Lounge — Doing

what he does best, every Saturday night.

Come on down and dance the night

away with this local DJ. 10pm / $5 cover

alex runiOns / Whiskey Saloon — This

Regina-based urban country rocker’s

star is on the rise. In 2009 he released his

self-titled debut album, and since then

things have certainly been looking up.

Come check out his heart-felt, melody-

driven version of urban country music.

8pm / $10 cover

monday 17mOnDay night Jazz / Bushwakker

Brewpub — Featuring The Project, a

talented local group led by guitarist Jay

Harmon. 8pm / No cover

tuesday 18PatricK Krief / The Artful Dodger —

From Montreal, this singer/songwriter

plays intensely personal songs that will

leave you speechless. 7:30pm / Tickets

$15 at the door, $10 in advance

(ticketedge.ca)

trOubaDOur tuesDays / Bocados —

Come check out some live tunes

from local talents every week,

then bring an instrument and

partake in the open mic/jam

night. 8pm / No cover

KaraOKe tuesDay / McNal-

ly’s Tavern — Famous live

music venue offers its

patrons a chance to share

the stage. 8pm /

No cover

wednesday 19weDnesDay night fOlK / Bushwakker

Brewpub — Featuring The Tom Savage

Trio, a popular group from Kingston,

Ontario, that plays dirt road rock and

roll. 9pm / No cover

thursday 20branDy mOOre / The Artful

Dodger — This singer/song-

writer puts on a show with

soul. 7pm / Tickets $10 in

advance, $15 at the door

Ps fresh / The Hookah

Lounge — DJ Ageless

started spinning in Mon-

treal, DJ Drewski started

in Saskatoon. They both

landed in Regina and have

come together to sling some

bomb beats. 7pm / No cover

OPen mic night / King’s Head

Tavern — Come out, play some

tunes, sing some songs, and show Re-

gina what you got. 8pm / No cover

DJ lOnghOrn / Whiskey Saloon —

Come check out one of Regina’s most in-

teractive DJs as he drops some of the best

country beats around. 8pm / $5 cover

chris henDersOn / Whiskey Saloon

— Whether this singer/songwriter is

slowing things down with tracks like

“Follow the Signs” or speeding it up with

rollicking tunes like “I Miss the Old You,”

he and his band are always high-energy,

consummate country musicians. 8pm /

$5 cover

friday 21JOhn fOgerty / Brandt Centre —

Performing the music of

Creedence Clearwater

Revival, this former

lead singer of CCR

is currently in the midst of the first ever

cross-Canada Revival. 7:30pm / Tickets

$28–83.50 (www.ticketmaster.ca)

hey Ocean! / The Exchange — When

Ashleigh Ball (vocals/flute/guitar), David

Beckingham (vocals/guitar), and David

Vertesi (bass/vocals/guitar) take to the

stage, you can expect to get songs with

compelling lyrics, sweet harmonies, ut-

terly infectious melodies, not to mention

a stage presence that is dynamic

and simply kickass. 8pm /

Tickets $13

(www.ticketedge.ca)

DJ Pat & DJ Kim / Habano’s Martini

& Cocktail Club

— Local DJs

spin top 40 hits

every Friday

night that are

sure to get you

on the dance floor.

9pm /

$5 cover

alain lalOnDe / The

Hookah Lounge — Come check

out this dope local DJ/producer as he

does his thing and spins the kind of

sound that’ll make you wanna dance.

7pm / $5 cover

albert / Pure Ultra Lounge — Appearing

every Friday night, come listen to Albert as

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

chris henDersOn / Whiskey Saloon

— Whether this singer/songwriter is

slowing things down with tracks like

“Follow the Signs” or speeding it up with

rollicking tunes like “I Miss the

Old You,” he and his band

are always high-energy,

consummate country

musicians. 8pm /

$10 cover

DJ lOnghOrn / Whiskey Saloon

— Come check out

one of Regina’s most

interactive DJs as he

drops some of the best

country beats around. 8pm /

$10 cover

saturday 22mighty POPO / The Artful Dodger —

This rising star on the Canadian music

scene has received critical acclaim for

his genre-busting solo work. 7:30pm /

Tickets $15 at the door, $12 in advance

(ticketedge.ca)

DJ nOOr / The Hookah Lounge — Born

in Kuwait and exposed to the interna-

tional club scene at a young age, this

talented DJ knows how to rock a crowd.

7pm / $5 cover

DrewsKi / Pure Ultra Lounge — Doing

what he does best, every Saturday night.

Come on down and dance the night

away with this local DJ. 10pm / $5 cover

chris henDersOn / Whiskey Saloon —

Whether this singer/songwriter is slow-

ing things down with tracks

like “Follow the Signs”

or speeding it up

with rollicking

tunes like “I

Miss the

Old You,”

he and his

band are

always

high-

energy,

consum-

mate coun-

try musicians.

8pm /

$10 cover

John fogertyCourTEsy of ThE arTIsT

Brandy mooreCourTEsy of ThE arTIsT

Patrick kriefCourTEsy of ThE arTIsT

hey ocean!CourTEsy of ThE arTIsT

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the u of rThe University of Regina’s Welcome Week Festival

what it is / Three days of fairs, concerts, movies and gameslive music / An amazing line-up featuring many stellar bands kept the tunes coming all daybeverages / Courtesy of the beer gardens, a great way to enjoy get-ting back into the swing of things

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henever you sit down to watch a movie based on a

video game there should be an unwritten agreement between you, the movie-goer, and whom-ever made the film.

The movie-goer must be willing to suspend a need for plot and a

desire for pitch-perfect dialogue. And in return they should expect to see copious amounts of action and an as-close-to-the-original-as-you-can-get rendering of their favourite video games. For the director’s part, well, he or she simply has to deliver on what the audience expects.

If you’re the type of person who can hold up your side of this agree-ment, chances are you’ll enjoy the hell out of a movie like Resident

Evil: Retribution.Picking up where Afterlife left

off, this flick — the fifth install-ment of the franchise — is big on violence and special effects.

Though, contrary to what you’d expect from the Resident Evil fran-chise, Retribution has Alice (Milla Jovovich) living in suburbia, taking

care of her adorable little daughter. Not to worry. The deadly virus

created in earlier films by The Um-brella Corporation — you know, the one that turns people into zombies — hasn’t gone anywhere. And it isn’t long before the zombie apoca-lypse comes to suburbia in search of brains and flesh.

Naturally, Alice’s kick-ass-now-and-take-names-later mentality takes over and all hell breaks loose.

But it isn’t zombies she’s after. I mean, sure she’ll kill any that come her way, but the main antagonist is the malicious artificial intelli-gence program, the Red Queen, that runs biological weapon simulations for Umbrella.

Early in the film we see Alice fighting her way through the Tokyo simulation and, as far as movie-game flicks go, it’s pretty rad. For that matter, nearly all the fight scenes are fun to watch. With a lot of slow-motion shots that’ll leaving you saying “Wow! That was cool” and more than enough zombies be-ing blown away to stay true to the video game, the fight scenes are by far the best thing about this movie.

Now, I know some of you love this franchise — more than $670 million in box office gross will attest to that. But me, I’ve never been able to make the video-game-

into-movie agreement needed to thoroughly enjoy a film like this.

I mean, is it really that diffi-cult to give us a coherent plot and decent dialogue? To date, nearly every video-game movie has fallen short in these two areas. And Ret-ribution is no different. The plot is muddled, the story is about as interesting as an 800-page book on wallpaper and the dialogue is stilted.

As for the acting? Well, let’s just say that Jovivich, Sienna Guillory and Michelle Rodriguez have all

seen better days.So the verdict on Retribution? If

you’re a fan of the first four films (or a big fan of video-game flicks in general), you’ll like this movie.If you’re anything like me … not so much.

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Better off deadResident Evil: Retribution doesn’t offer much. by adam hawboldt

photo: courtesy of screen gems

[T]he fight scenes are by far the best thing about this movie.

adam hawboldt

FiLm


@adamhawboldt

[email protected]

resident evil: retriBution

DIrECTED By Paul W. S. Anderson

sTarrIng Milla Jovovich, Sienna

Guillory + Michelle Rodriguez

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hen done right, multi-narrative ensemble movies

can be terrific.Think about it. Amores Perros,

Babel, Crash — all terrific ensemble movies that weave a multitude of story lines around a central theme.

So you can understand my excite-ment when I first heard about the movie, 360.

First off, it’s directed by Fernando Meirelles. You know, the guy respon-sible for the utterly amazing City of God.

On top of that, it was written by Peter Morgan (The Queen, Frost/Nixon), and stars Anthony Hopkins, Rachel Weisz, Ben Foster and Jude Law.

Not that I’m a huge Jude Law fan or anything. But that’s not the point.

The point here is that I was really looking forward to watching this movie. That is, until it started. And from that point on, I was really look-

ing forward to watching the final credits roll down the screen.

It’s not that 360 was a terrible movie. Because it’s not. It’s just that 360 is so, I don’t know … under-whelming? No. Underwhelming isn’t the right word, but it’s close enough.

Set in Paris, London, Vienna, Colo-rado and a few other places I can’t re-

member at the moment, 360 features a whole bunch of parallel stories running together side by side.

You have the story of a husband (Jude Law) and a wife (Rachel Weisz) who are both criminally unfaithful. Then there’s the story line about a grieving man (Hopkins) in search of

his runaway daughter. There’s a dentist (Jamel Debbouze)

who has the serious hots for one of his employees, a story about Slove-nian hookers and Russian mobsters, and another about a sex offender (Ben Foster) who has recently been released from prison.

And to be completely honest,

each story is beautifully shot and visually stimulating. What’s more, there are a couple of incredible per-formances in this flick.

Case in point: Hopkins and his gut-wrenching, soul-bearing mono-logue during an AA meeting. Foster is excellent, too. As is Weisz.

But for all that goodness, there was something missing. Something intangible and microscopic.

Actually, the more I think about it, the more I believe that something was syphilis.

Seriously. Hear me out.See, 360 is based on Arthur

Schnitzler’s play Reigen. Written more than a hundred years ago, Schnitzler’s play focuses on a bunch of different sexual attractions and indiscretions that link together more than a handful of stories.

And the tie that binds all those re-lationships together, the thing that all the people have in common, is that, in the end, everybody (and I do mean everybody) winds up with syphilis.

Too bad there’s nothing like that in 360. No aha! moment, no surprise ending or central glue that holds the whole thing together.

It’s as though the stories just linger there, on their own. Out there some-where in the cinematic ether.

Which honestly was kind of shocking to me. I mean, with the abundance of talent attached to this project — from the actors to the direc-tor to the writer — this should have been a surefire Hollywood home run.

Instead, it turned out to be a foul ball.

360 will open at the Regina Public Library September 20th.

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sPinning in circles360 skims the surface of love and life. by adam hawboldt

[360 has] [n]o aha! moment, no… central glue that holds the whole thing together.

adam hawboldt

360

DIrECTED By Fernando Meirelles

sTarrIng Rachel Weisz, Jude Law +

Anthony Hopkins

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aries march 21–april 19

Feel like having an ad-venture, Aries? If so, then now is the week to do it.

So put yourself out in the world, and take a short journey. It doesn’t have to be far, but you’ll want to go.

taurus april 20–may 20

You know those weeks where you’re lazy and don’t feel like doing any-

thing? Well, this ain’t one of those You’ll be full of get-up-and-go, so pursue whatever you want.

gemini may 21–June 20

Sometimes a one-track mind can be detrimental, but not this week. Stay fo-

cused on whatever task you have at hand, and good things could happen. Trust the universe.

cancer June 21–July 22

Stop, and take a look around you. See anything you like? If so, take a men-

tal picture and use it later this week as a calming point because things are going to get crazy soon.

leo July 23–august 22

Be careful what you say this week, dear Leo. You might come off as boastful

or arrogant if you aren’t mindful of the words that are coming out of your lion mouth.

virgo august 23–september 22

Change, real change, rarely comes without a struggle. Remember that, Virgo. Be-

cause even though this week might be difficult at times, the silver lining will present itself if you ride it out.

liBra september 23–october 23

Don’t go where the path leads this week, Libra. Instead, get off the path

altogether and stomp the terra. Leave your mark. Blaze your own trail, and laugh while you do so.

scorPio october 24–november 22

Lately, has it felt as though you’ve been taking crazy pills? Like everything

around you doesn’t make sense? If so, get used to it. You might find the next few days to be very perplexing.

sagittarius november 23–december 21

Much like Ron Burgundy, you’re kind of a big deal Sagittarius. Act accord-

ingly. Don’t get too big of a head, it might just float away, but remember not to sell yourself short, either.

caPricorn december 22–January 19

“Goonies never say die!” Remember that, Capricorn, because you may need

to adopt that mentality for the next week or so. If things get tough, repeat it as your mantra.

aQuarius January 20–february 19

If you want to acquire new wisdom, start by looking in the mirror and being hon-

est with yourself, Aquarius. All real wisdom stems from being truthful, so ask yourself the hard questions.

Pisces february 20–march 20

Be prompt this week, Pisces, it may be incredibly important. Give yourself

time to get ready and always be on time. “Those who are tardy do not get a fruit cup.”

horoscoPes september 14 – september 20

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