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OCTOBER 2014 The Calgary FREE ReportingJOURNAL on the people, issues and events that shape our city SWIGGIN’ IN STYLE Inside Calgary’s upscale beer halls Parental Alienation Tablet sight Curtis Glencross Is your child on your side of Doug Hagedorn’s new tablet How this Calgary Flame the equation? for the blind gets accolades made it to the NHL PAGE 6 PAGE 18 PAGE 26 CONTENTS OCTOBER 2014 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF MAX SHILLETO [email protected] GETTING STUCK BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE READY FOR DESIGN EDITOR IAN ESPLEN The truth about Parental Alienation TURKEY DAY Syndrome A few PHOTO EDITORS recipes to KASSIDY CHRISTENSEN P. 21 get you OLIVIA CONDON ready for FRONT OF BOOK EDITOR P. 6 the holiday ANDREW SZEKERES COPY EDITOR JESSICA PHILLIPS CITY EDITORS CAMERON PERRIER HALEY ANDERSON OPINION EDITOR TRAVIS BORSTMAYER ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITORS SARAH COMBER A WHO’S WHO OF YYC BREWERIES HANNAH CAWSEY get to know some of the people PROFILE EDITOR behind your favourite beer EVAN MANCONI FOOD EDITOR OLIVIA CONDON P. 12 STAFF REPORTER ALEXANDRA FISH P. 29 SPORTS EDITORS LUCAS SILVA DANIEL BALL FACULTY EDITORS YOUNG HOCKEY PLAYER GETS GEARED UP JANICE PASKEY PH: (403) 440-8744 how Kidsport got Nathan Robinson- [email protected] Cowan in the game SALLY HANEY PH: (403) 462-9086 [email protected] PRODUCTION & ADVERTISING Page 15 | OPINION Beer 101: Introduction A & E BRAD SIMM to home brewing PH: (403) 440-6946 Page 5 | Kids Come Last - An Page 16 | Drinking off the beaten Page 22 | Clint Pike: Calgary’s expert argues using the courts path band supporter The Calgary Journal to combat parental alienation Page 25 | New queer film event reports on the people, doesn’t work PROFILES creates buzz in local LGBTQ issues community and events that shape CITY Page 18 | Doug Hagedorn our city. It is produced by develops a new tablet technology SPORTS journalism students Page 8 | Ordinary people making for the blind at Mount Royal University. scientific breakthroughs - how you Page 26 | Curtis Glencross: ‘I never can become a citizen scientist thought I’d be playing where I am FOLLOW US ONLINE: Page 9 | Tenants vs. landlords: an FOOD right now’ @calgaryjournal uphill battle for security deposits - Page 28 | Athlete of the Month: facebook.com/CalgaryJournal Page 20 | Family Thanksgiving calgaryjournal.ca What are your rights? MRU’s Donella Lockhart Why my family plans this event three months in advance COVER: BEER Page 21 | Photographer: Kassidy Some yummy recipes LENS Christensen. you can make on your own Location: The National . Page 10 | Beer Goes Upscale Page 30 | Faces of Calgary Models: Thomas Rumble and Danielle Simm. 2 OCT 2014 CALGARYJOURNAL.CA THE FRONT LYRICS FROM BANDS PLAYING THIS MONTH COMMUTE, KIND OF PHOTO BY ANDREW SZKERERES July Talk performs at the 2014 X-fest. PHOTO: JUSTIN WILSON, STORY BY HANNAH CAWSEY It’s interesting how one small faulty piston can cause such a disastrous cavalcade of events. My Nevertime High Beach Season July Talk 2005 Subaru Legacy wagon had a piston bust a connecting rod, which in turn seized my engine. Oct. 9th, Dickens Pub $20 Oct.10th, Dickens Pub Oct.21st, MacEwan Hall $20 Here I was on my way back home, bursting out of my seams to sit down and binge watch the latest Song ‘Untitled’: Song ‘Midnights’: Summer Dress: season of Orange is the New Black. Then CRACK “I’d want this car to break “Drop out swinging, follow “This is life we’re living, life ain’t goes the connecting rod. The engine seized and I down, to spend the night with through, I’m feeling not bad always ‘bout forgiving performed my best Mr. Magoo driving skills all the you, and talk about where we about it, She’s my lady in a Summer way onto my neighbour’s lawn. “Jeeze, and we grew up and the things we Midnight’s catching up to me, Dress thought we had enough of damage on my lawn used to do.” for a minute I waited too.” The last thing that you’ll see from the snow storm,” my neighbour shouted as She’ll come looking for me” she came to check on me. All this and I had my Base out of Calgary, Nevertime Beach Season performs car scheduled for a regular maintenance check at High is a ska-infused punk rock with other bands part of the This Toronto band was Centaur Subaru the next day. I was expecting an band. They will be opening for Calgary-based Landlocked nominated for Breakthrough oil change – may be some light work – now I’m left Canadian punk band, Gob, at Music Agency. Group of the Year at the 2014 with a $5,000 fee for a new engine. Anyone want Dickens Pub. Juno awards. MEAL OF THE MONTH ARTIST SPOTLIGHT Patisserie Du Soleil Katrina Olson-Mottahed completed her degree Katrina Olson-Mottahed in photography at the University of Calgary. The So it’s October and you’re hankering for some majority of her work is linked to photographs – turkey, but want to avoid the gravy soaked dry whether she creates a mixed-media compilation turkey sandwiches? on top of a photograph or paints directly from a Then try the $12 open-face turkey sandwich photograph. from Patisseries du Soleil. Shoestring potatoes The above painting, created using chalk pastel, with a slice of cheese sits ontop of the turkey all charcoal and acrylic paint, is part of Olson- on top of a French baguette. Mottahed’s series “Anatomoto.” The series was Patisserie Du Soleil (2525 Woodview Dr. SW, 403 452- inspired by a collection of vintage photographs 8833. ) depicting Geishas. Olson-Mottahed says that almost all of her work center’s around female portraits that explore the contrast between highly sexualized roles for women in otherwise conservative cultures. “I’m so interested in this dichotomy between the roles that women play in different cultures,” says Olson-Mottahed, whose previous collection featured Middle Eastern belly dancers. Olson-Mottahed adds that this particular painting spoke to her because the Geisha had “such a sweet and sincere smile,” whereas the expressions of Geisha’s in other photographs Roast Turkey Sandwich - $8 appeared forced. PHOTO AND STORY BY SARAH COMBER/CALGARY JOURNAL PHOTO BY ANDREW SZEKERES/CALGARY JOURNAL Olson/Mottahed’s work can be found at Artpoint Gallery & Studio, 1139 11 Street SE. 3 OCT 2014 CALGARYJOURNAL.CA THE FRONT UPCOMING EVENTS THREE FACTS ABOUT BEER AND WINE FESTIVAL Still in the mood for a beer, wine and spirit festival even with Oktoberfest behind us? The 2014 Rocky Mountain Wine and Food Festival offers local, national and international wines, spirits and beer. Sample everything from Calgary’s own Big Rock Brewery to Yanjing beer from China to even Glenfarclas Scotch Whiskey. The event will also feature food from local restaurants and pubs such as Bottlescrew Bill’s to COBS bread. The event takes place will take place on Oct. 17 to 18 at the Stampede Park BMO Centre. PHOTO COURTESY OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN WINE AND SPIRITS KOMAGATA MARU Students, scholars and Sikh community leaders gather at Mount Royal University on Oct. 2-4th to commemorate 100 years since the of the arrival of the Komagata Maru ship and Sikh culture in Canada. The Komagata Maru incident, where a ship carrying 376 pas- sengers from Punjab was held in Vancouver harbor for two months in the summer of 1914 before being forced to return to India, only admitted 24 passengers to Canada. The three-day programme boasts presenters Harnarayan Singh of Hockey Night in Canada, Punjabi Edition and Shauna Singh Baldwin, director of the award-winning film Continuous Jour- ney; and many more. JIM PRENTICE This event is free and open to the public. PHOTO COURTESY OF HARNARAYAN SINGH’S TWITTER PHOTO COURTESY OF JIM PRENTICE’S FACEBOOK PAGE. Info at mtroyal.ca/ProgramsCourses/FacultiesSchoolsCentres/Arts/KomagataMaru STORY BY QUINTON AMUNDSON AND PAULINA LIWSKI 1 RETROSPECTIVE: SUMMER SNOW STORM Jim Prentice was a coal miner for seven years in the Crowsnest Pass. A Calgary Herald article quoted iPrentice, “I used to work double shifts, 16 hours at a time, in an underground chamber breaking rock with a jackhammer . I know there’s a little more 311 rock breaking to be done (in government).” calls out- numbered calls 74,000 Source: CBC News and Calgary Herald made during the homes 2013 Alberta Floods: without power; 2 2.5 more to the 2013 Jim Prentice the actor? According to International 27,000 to 13,000 Movie Database, there is an actor named Jim Alberta Floods Nearly Prentice, who shares the same birthdate — July 20, 1956 —and has the same hometown South 30 cm of Porcupine, Ont. snow fell during the storm. Tree But Prentice’s camp insists it’s not Alberta’s Sept average: debris premier. IMDB lists a 1996 low budget comedy My Summer Vacation, a film that focused on a young 4 cm. will still take man’s journey to find a male lover. Ten years later, weeks to an actor named Jim Prentice appeared in the 2006 clear short film Accidents. There is no photo on the site for actor Jim Prentice but we’d sure like to see one. 3 Jim Prentice’s high school academic performance wasn’t exactly sterling. He only had a 70.1 per cent Clean up: average in high school. However, that was enough $8,000,000 for him to enter the University of Alberta’s com- Over merce program. Today, he wouldn’t be accepted 5,000,000 as the average high school grade of students ap- dead trees plying for entrance was 86.6 per cent in 2012.