November 2009 ISSUE 73 The Only Magazine Dedicated to Alberta’s GLBT+ Community FREE SEXING AND SIZING UP Edmonton’s Exposure Festival 6TH Interviews with: ANNIVERSARY DOLLY PARTON EDITION! Jann Arden Buck Angel Tegan & Sara Three Days Grace And many more! COMMUNITY DIRECTORY • MAP AND EVENTS • TOURISM INFO >> STARTING ON PAGE 17 GLBT RESOURce • CALGARy • EDMONTon • ALBERTA www.gaycalgary.com GayCalgary and Edmonton Magazine #73, November 009 Table of Contents Table of Contents Publisher: ................................Steve Polyak 5 Settling In Editor: ...............................Rob Diaz-Marino Publisher’s Column Graphic Design: ................Rob Diaz-Marino Sales: .......................................Steve Polyak 7 Jann Arden is Free! Writers and Contributors New Management, New Album, and More Mercedes Allen, Chris Azzopardi, Dallas Barnes, Camper British, Dave Brousseau, Sam Casselman, Jason Clevett, Andrew 7 10 Hello Dolly! E Collins, Rob Diaz-Marino, Jack Fertig, Glen One-on-One with the Queen of Country Music G Hanson, Joan Hilty, Leah Kelly, Stephen A Lock, Allan Neuwirth, Steven Petrow, Steve P Polyak, Mark Randall, Pam Rocker, Romeo 13 Chelsea Boys San Vicente, Jerome Voltero, Dan Woog, and the GLBT Community of Calgary, 14 Out of Town Edmonton, and Alberta. 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We spent about an hour there, alerting the authorities, ensuring other Immediately after completing my last publisher’s column cars passed by safely, keeping the driver from freezing without a coat, and getting the October edition to press and online, we and giving a statement to the RCMP when they arrived. concentrated on completing our move to the new location. Aside from our little scare, we’re quite happy that the three hour trips between Calgary and Edmonton are not such a waste of time Prior to our press deadline we had only been moving smaller stuff anymore. Having a power connection in the car is a big advantage in boxes, but then when it came to the larger furniture, it got very over the lack thereof on the Greyhound. Being the tech geeks that we serious. We paid a visit to Budget and rented a cargo van first thing are, Steve has managed to rig his cell phone to act as a wireless hub in the morning. And then came, hands down, the most grueling so that his laptop can maintain a stable internet connection while we experience of my entire life. It was a solid 48 hours of loading, driving, are on the road. He’s able to get work done, and I’m perfectly happy unloading, and cleaning, with a reprieve of a mere 3 hours of sleep. as long as he’s playing some music for me. Despite the stereo in our Near the end of it I found myself in utter amazement that I was still second-hand car being hopelessly damaged, we managed to rig some functioning, that my body hadn’t given out from exhaustion after all computer speakers to work quite nicely in its place. So in our typical the heavy lifting, leaps and bounds beyond any limit that I assumed annoyingly resourceful, Macgyver-esque fashion, we’re set to go! I had. Even after it was all done, I had returned the cargo van and was driving home, I felt I could have probably kept going if I needed to. Halloween H1N1 But no, we forced ourselves to settle down in our old bed, in our new bedroom, and take a much deserved rest. In all the commotion of moving and driving, we had fallen behind on watching the local news, and knew nothing of the brouhaha surround- It took several days after that to sort out the random arrangement ing H1N1, and the vaccinations that were being made available in of furniture that had accumulated in our haste to get everything done. select locations. I showed up on a Monday evening at the clinic at the With most of our possessions tucked away, the first few days felt like old Children’s Hospital site (literally across the street from us) looking camping – minimal kitchen supplies, minimal toiletries, and a quickly to get my seasonal flu vaccination, only to be told the lines were so diminishing supply of clean clothes. It was such a relief to finally find long for the H1N1 vaccine that they had closed the clinic early. As those boxes with the things we needed, and to slowly start getting our a Diabetic I am considered a high risk group, so I felt compelled to lives back in order again. commit to getting this done despite the warning of a long wait. I tried again the next morning and followed the lineup as it wound down For the first few days we had to keep the cats locked up in the multiple hallways. Several people were carrying their lunches and downstairs bathroom while we removed some of the dangers to them, water bottles, a few even had their collapsible lawn chairs. People had like fiberglass, screws, and precariously balanced objects. By the time come with their kids, and were trying to keep the little ones enter- we were able to let them out, they were so cramped and stir crazy that tained and out of trouble. It felt almost like a procession of refugees this big new world was a welcome change for them. Getting used to from a disaster movie. the stairs went a lot more smoothly than I anticipated, and soon it seemed like they didn’t particularly miss their old locale at all.