http://www.vueweekly.com/ Vue Weekly: Edmonton's 100% Independent News & Entertainment Weekly Bryan Birtles / bryan@vueweekly.com COVER Piss and vinegar. Vim and vigour. Let’s Dance is not one of those bands with members who can dick around with their levels, adjust their pedals and gaze at their shoes while they’re playing. They set what they need to set, and then they go off. They’re fucking on it, man. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://vueweekly.com/article.php?id=10307 Bryan Birtles / bryan@vueweekly.com MUSIC Allusions to being old abound when the members of Edmonton’s most, uh, mature pop-punkers the Old Wives get talking about themselves. Guitarist TS—who, along with drummer Darren Chewka  helps make up the one half of the band with any hair left—can’t help but mention it multiple times over the course of our interview. Like he says, the idea of a bunch of guys who are over 30 starting a pop-punk band might seem a little weird—especially when most aging punks move into country—but there’s nothing else the members would rather be doing, so in the spirit of punk rock they just did it.  Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://vueweekly.com/article.php?id=10308 Scott Harris / scott@vueweekly.com FRONT There are almost 400 entries on the list, and each year an average of 18 more are added. Most are names, while others are merely descriptions—”unknown man dressed in women’s clothing,” “unidentified cross-dressed male,” “unnamed transgendered person” and, most chillingly, “unnamed infant with ambiguous genitalia.” Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://vueweekly.com/article.php?id=10273 Bryan Saunders / bryansaunders@vueweekly.com FILM The Film And Video Arts Society of Alberta (FAVA) will be dimming the lights on its 25th anniversary celebrations soon, but rather than signaling the end of something, this dimming of the lights actually signifies that something exciting is about to happen. After all, the lights I’m talking about are in a movie theatre, and when the lights in a movie theatre go down, the show isn’t over; it’s just about to start. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://vueweekly.com/article.php?id=10302 Amy Fung / amy@vueweekly.com ARTS Imagining Science will be looked back upon as a landmark exhibition. With origins brewing from conversations between brothers Timothy Caulfield, Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy and Research Director at the Health Law Institute, University of Alberta and Sean Caulfield, Canada Research Chair in Printmaking, Department of Art and Design at the University of Alberta, the current Art Gallery of Alberta exhibit is a more direct result of a 2007 Banff Centre residency between international artists and scientists. At the center of the residency swirled questions concerning the legal, ethical and social implications in technological advances, and how these issues intersect within the realm between the arts and sciences.  Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://vueweekly.com/article.php?id=10295 Eden Munro / eden@vueweekly.com MUSIC There’s no denying that the music industry is in a different place today than it was even a decade or two ago. For the most part, the days of a band hammering away in a dingy, smoky club for three sets a night, brewing its chemistry and building up an audience one by one, are long gone. Sadly, that was once a vital part of a band’s development, slogging it out in the trenches until the right time for a full-on assault. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://vueweekly.com/article.php?id=10312 Jan Hostyn / jan@vueweekly.com DISH If you happened to wander into a little north-end eatery called Stephanie’s Thai & Lao Fusion Cuisine about 18 months ago, when it first opened, owner Stephanie Vayaphanh wants to apologize. She’s the first to admit that the food was inconsistent and, at times, downright dreadful. “Sometimes the food was uncooked; sometimes the food was still frozen.” The perils of learning on the job—or, in Vayaphanh’s case, learning while not on the job. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://vueweekly.com/article.php?id=10280 Bobbi Barbarich / bobbi@vueweekly.com SNOW ZONE ‘So I hear you’re a virgin,” said the blue-eyed sage to me as I struggled to put my split board in the ski box atop a battered Jeep Cherokee. I nodded meekly in reply. With a wise grin and a subtle nod he turned away, leaving me to wonder just who this man—with whom I had the pleasure of bursting my backcountry cherry—really was. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://vueweekly.com/article.php?id=10285 Eden Munro / eden@vueweekly.com ALBUM REVIEWS Everyone knows it: the biggest problem that Axl Rose is facing as he releases his first album of  new, original material since Use Your Illusion I and II landed back in 1991 is that 17 years is a really, really long time between releases—especially if your band dissolves around you and is replaced by a seemingly ever-shifting cast of new supporting players, and the album has been rumoured for release more times than can be imagined over the last decade.  Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://vueweekly.com/article.php?id=10316 CONTESTS Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://vueweekly.com/article.php?id=10327