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WORDS FROM THE WIZARD WELCOME TO THE HOUSE OF TARG - WE’VE BEEN EXPECTING YOU… THANKS FOR JOINING US!!– We’ve got a great month of events, games and delicious food planned - we pride ourselves on providing you with the city’s best selection of classic arcade/gaming action, served up with a refreshing beverage and paired with an order of our world-famous handmade perogies!! Check out our monthly PEROGRAM for info on all of our upcoming events and be sure to check out all of the entertaining columns and information in this month’s zine - we hope you enjoy all the hard work that goes into this monthly publication, collect em all! We’ll be out in our community fundraising and entertaining quite a bit over the next month - stop by our TARG booth at your local fest/event to sign our 73’ VW Beetle, play a couple classic games, grab a Perogi Wizard Box and say hi - we are always glad to see you, let’s have some fun!! - YOGI WORD OUT ABOUT THIS UNIQUE AND AMAZING STORE CAUSE I HAVE A HUNCH THAT YOU & ME AREN’T THE ONLY POTATO CHIP AFICIONADOS OUT THERE. I HOPE YOU ARE HAVING A GREAT VACATION & THAT CHIPS ARE AVAILABLE WHEREVER YOU ARE Sincerely – your #1 fan – CHIPNUT HELLO CHIPNUT: you have just violated THE restraining order. You will be hearing from my HOLA SLO’: I HAVE BEEN lawyer. TRYING TO GET AHOLD OF YOU BUT YOUR ANSWERING MACHINE SAYS THAT YOU ARE ON VACATION. EDITORS NOTE- HOPEFULLY YOU ARE SLO’ TOM is currently on CHECKING YOUR MESSAGES vacation. We hope you can WHILE YOU ARE AWAY make it through August BECAUSE I JUST MADE without his helpful insight. He AN AMAZING DISCOVERY. will be back next month to SO THERE IS THIS PLACE answer all of your questions. - CALLED SUBWAY, I THINK until then our advice is to eat THEY MAKE BREAD OR perogies, play pinball, change SOMETHING BUT GUESS your underwear at least once WHAT THEY ALSO SELL? a week & most importantly - YA MAN - CHIPS… LIKE I’M remember to remove your giant TALKING THE SHANGRI LA OF back pack before boarding the SNACKS, THE BUCKINGHAM Loser Cruiser (OC Transpo). PALACE OF POTATOES, THE MECCA OF MUNCHIES. IT IS REALLY QUITE SOMETHING TO BEHOLD - EVERY IMAGINABLE FLAVOUR IS AVAILABLE. I REALLY HOPE YOU CAN HELP GET THE YOU KNOW WHEN THEY SAY THAT “CELEBRITIES” ARE PEOPLE TOO. IT’S TRUE, THEY ARE. THEY CAN BE AWESOME, RANDOM AND DOWNRIGHT BIZARRE IF THEY WANT TO BE, JUST LIKE THE REST OF US. I’VE NEVER BEEN ONE FOR CELEBRITY FANDOM, BUT ODDLY ENOUGH I HAVE HAD TEN ENCOUNTERS. THEY’VE ALL BEEN PRETTY SWEET. HERE THEY ARE: 1. NARDWUAR: him come out of a trailer. We looked at One of my fav interviewers & music each other, and I said “Hey you’re Ducky encyclopedia. A friend & I went to see from Pretty In Pink!”, he replied “Why yes, his band, The Evaporators perform a I was!”. I replied “Right on, cheers!” and doubleheader at The Dom. Between biked off . sets we ended up at Sasha’s Chip Truck eating and chatting music and touring. Ran home to grab a copy 6. WOODY HARRELSON: of my bands demo tape before the Woody is a vegan second gig & he ended up playing environmentalist. My dad works the whole tape on his radio show & in the pulp and paper industry. sent an email to tell us! They ended up working on a project together, & hung out in NYC for a 2. LESLIE NEILSEN: weekend. Got to listen in on one of their convo’s at my Dad’s work. Close In Grade 11 I did my co-op at enough to a celebrity encounter? Amberwood Entertainment. Leslie Neilsen owned a share of the company & did voices on Zeroman, 7. ED ROBERTSON: Katie & Orbie and other of their You know him from the Barenaked cartoons. He came in one day to Ladies. Ed rules. Super friendly, & hang. I busted out a Naked Gun big pinball head. He comes into Targ quote, screwed it up, & he patted whenever he’s in town to catch up & me on the shoulder & said “You’ve play some games. got good taste, kid.” 8. GLENN HUMPLIK & 3. MATTHEW PERRY: PHIL GIROUX: If you didn’t know, Perry spent his If you’re around my age, you childhood growing up in Ottawa. A few probably grew up watching months ago he came into my other Glenn and Phil on The Tom job (gift shop in an offi ce building) & Green Show on Rogers 22. grabbed a soda. Turns out the owner They’re regular’s at Targ. of the building’s childhood friend is Friendly & funny guys. Matthew Perry. We chatted briefl y about Ottawa. Nice dude. 9. LARS FREDERIKSEN: 16 year old me was stoked 4. OMRI KATZ: to meet Lars at the old Capital You might remember Omri from Music Hall after Rancid played. Eerie Indiana & Hocus Pocus. I We ended up getting Subway saw him on a plane with his Dad together, and talked Ottawa punk, going from Switzerland to Spain when I & exchanged emails, where I sent was 10. To nervous to say anything, my aunt him a bunch of Ottawa tunes. After a few went over, and asked if it was him. Ended up email exchanged we lost touch. shaking his hand and getting a signature. 10. SPARTICAT: 5. JON CRYER: I know his secret identity, but will never Better known as Ducky from Pretty In Pink reveal! Met Sparticat many times over the or Alan from Two & A Half Men. Was biking years. One of the best mascots in sports! through the Glebe a few years ago & saw WELCOME TO THE SECRET UNIVERSES OF MY TOY COLLECTION. BAND doors@8pm ***EARLY START/ THUR AUG 17 - House of TARG and EARLY FINISH*** Whitewater Brewing present: THE SICK THINGS w/sg HUNDRED PACER + REX FRI AUG 25 - House of TARG, Birling and HECK - check out his wicked show Beaus All Natural present: NEEDLES// featuring MTL power/pop newcomers PINS w/sg STEVE ADAMYK BAND + A GUIDE TO ALL THE CONCERTS TAKING PLACE AT SICK THINGS, currently in the studio AUDIO VISCERAL + NECK - let’s stoke with our good friend and legendary the kids, raise some dough for FOR HOUSE OF TARG THIS AUGUST. Canadian producer SIR IAN BLURTON PIVOTS SAKE & ramp up the excitement joined by local heavyweights HUNDRED for the BEAU’S OKTOBERFEST BLACK PACER and REX HECK, let’s get FOREST stage with this mega punk show Doors@8pm ***EARLY START/EARLY nuts!! Doors@8pm ***ROCK n ROLL ***FUNDRAISER*** FRI AUG 4 - House of TARG and Beaus FINISH*** EXPLOSION*** All Natural present: ZAUM w/sg FLYING SAT AUG 26 - House of TARG, Ottawa FORTRESS + MUFFLER CRUNCH + FRI AUG 11 - House of TARG and Beaus FRI AUG 18 - House of TARG, Val Ska Syndicate and Ashton Brewing MONOBROW - We love to get HEAVY at All Natural present: PUBLIC ANIMAL w/ Halla Holdings and Beau’s All Natural present: VOICE OF THE PEOPLE Ska Nite House of TARG and it shows!! This bill is sg THüNDERKOK + WORLD WAR 4 - present: SCREAMER w/sg WARSENAL w/sg NILE GOOVE + DJ’s LONGSHOT stacked with some of the thickest sounds Sir IAN BLURTON, Canada’s Sub-Zero + BLACK TOWER - another night of and SNAPPY - The monthly Ska and you will ever experience - super pumped Guitar Hero is back with his incredible killer metal brought to you by TARG Reggae night at House of TARG!!! for the return of our pals ZAUM as part band. Prepare to be amazed by top wizard VAL - the best in true metal all Featuring Dj’s and live bands playing the of their cross country tour, don’t miss notch musicianship & swollen, fuzzy hard the way from Sweden, SCREAMER best Ska and Reggae music to make you this night of doom/stoner/metal/rawk!!! hitting riff action. Joining this killer bill are make their House of TARG debut joined move ***DANCE PARTY ALERT*** ***SERIOUS HEAVIOSITY*** sweet hometown thrash masters WW4 by MTL thrash/speed metal masters and metal maniacs THüNDERKOK - WARSENAL and Ottawa punk/metal SAT AUG 5 - House of TARG and Ashton things are gonna get messy!! ***LOUD*** wizards BLACK TOWER - get stoked!! WED AUG 30 - House of TARG and PBR Brewing present: PSYCH NITE: w/ THE ***METAL MADNESS*** present: CHRIS CORNELL TRIBUTE ORANGE ALABASTER MUSHROOM + SAT AUG 12 - House of TARG, BENEFIT FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION BLVE HILLS + EXPANDA FUZZ - Join us Ashton Brewing and Shade Nyx’s SAT AUG 19 - House of TARG, CHORD - 100% of this show’s proceeds will go for the 3rd edition of PSYCH NITE as we Theatre Macabre Burlesque present: Productions and Ashton Brewing to the OTTAWA DISTRESS CENTRE welcome Kingston Psych/Garage legends CELEBRATE PRIDE! TAKE 2! It’s that present: ANCIIENTS w/sg DEAD to help train volunteers with SAFEtalk THE ORANGE ALABASTER MUSHROOM time of year again - Shade Nyx and her QUIET + LONGHOUSE + CLAVIUS - and ASIST (applied suicide intervention - get ready for a night of sweet tunes Theatre Macabre are celebrating their Somewhere between sheer, apocalyptic training) so they can help anyone with plus wicked visuals brought to you by the 2nd year anniversary of outstanding heaviness and precise riffi ng, lays suicidal ideation and help prevent suicide genius mind of PHIL OSBORNE, things events at House of TARG and what otherworldly ANCIIENTS, a Vancouver- attempts. Musicians participating in this are gonna get weird!! ***PSYCHEDELIC*** better way to celebrate than with PRIDE based rock juggernaut forging crushing event and covering songs by CHRIS during PRIDE month?! Settle in for a heavy metal evocative of veterans CORNELL are members of: RED RAILS, A WED AUG 9 - House of TARG, CKCU night of amazing performances and HIGH ON FIRE and contemporary sonic DARKER DAY, DEFINED, MERDARAHTA, and PBR present: WHATEVER’S COOL unmatched talent - Ottawa’s favourite craftsmen OPETH.