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AUG. 20-26 THE ALISON OMALLEY PILL a a a a a a a a a a a JOURNAL edmontonjournal.com BOOKS ARTS SUNDAY, AUGUST 22, 2010 B7 SCOT PILGRIM S. THE WORLD I UNIVERSAL PICTURES PRESENTS A MARC TALK FLMS PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD' MICHAEL. CERA MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD KERAN CHRIS EVANS ANNA BRANDON ROUTH JASON SCHWARTZMAN PRODUCERS EXECUTIVE RONALDO VASCONCELLOS A MILES DALE MARC PLATT ERIC: GITTER NIRA PARK EDGAR WRIGHT BASED ON GRAPHIC THE NOVELS PRESS OF BRYAN LEE PG AURCO RECORDS A BY MICHAEL BACALL EDGAR WRIGHT NOW PLAYING DIRECTED EDGAR WRIGHT A PICTURE UNIVERSE SOUNDTRACK IN SCREENPLAY DO DON VIOLENCE poor 6 2010 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS Check Theatre Directories or www.universalpictures.ca for Locations and Showtimes Glad to be singing the blues Seriously ill 4 years ago, Curtis Salgado hits the festival stage tonight CONCERT PREVIEW Curtis Salgado Big Band What: Labatt Blues Festival Where: Heritage Amphitheatre Hawrelak Park When: Tonight at 8:30 Tickets: sold out ROGER LEVESQUE Special to The Journal EDMONTON Curtis Salgado may have his quibbles over the ups and downs of show business but more than anything, he's just happy to be alive.

"I'm rich in friends and famous in the eyes of God," chuckles the singer and harmonica man now based in Portland, Ore. It was only four years ago that he found himself staring down some heavy health issues, which came to include liver and lung cancer. Some good friends in music- -Bonnie Raitt and Steve Miller among them marshalled forces and held a series of benefits to pay his medical bills, and he got a transplant in the nick of time. In the end, Salgado made a full recovery, or a Clean Getaway, as he put it in the title of his 2008 album. "I had a couple of miracles happen and I beat some astronomical odds, so it's hard not to think about it every day," he says.

Salgado insists he was more focused on getting his career going again with Clean Getaway, and that the songs reflected little of his ordeal. Still, you have to wonder if a little subconscious effort wasn't at work, given the sheer intensity of the songs. He was thrilled to be working with the Los Angeles session greats of The Phantom Blues Band, who have backed up Taj Mahal, B. B. King, Raitt and others.

Most of it was recorded live off the floor, and some tracks on the album even use CITY CENTRE 9 CINEMAS Third Floor, Phase. 2, 10200 102nd 780-421-7020 Eat Pray Love (PG, Language may offend) 12, 3:20, 6:45, 10 The Expendables (18A, Brutal violence) 12:10, 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 Vampires Suck (14A, Crude content) 12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:20, 9:40 Piranha 3-D (18A, Gory scenes, brutal violence, nudity) 12:25, 2:55, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Salt (14A) 12:30 Dinner for Schmucks (14A) 3:45, 7:30, 10:20 Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (PG, Violence) Fri. 3:30, Mon. 12:40, 3:30, 9:45 The Other Guys (PG, Coarse language, crude sexual content, not recommended for young children) 12:50, 3:50, 7:10, 10:05 Inception (PG, Violence) 12:05, 3:25, 6:50, 10:10 The Switch (PG, Mature subject matter, not recommended for young children) 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 8, 10:35 CLAREVIEW 10 CINEMAS 4211 139th Ave.

780-472-7600 The Other Guys (PG, Coarse language, crude sexual content, not recommended for young children) 1:40, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 Step Up 3-D (PG) 6:55, 9:30 Eat Pray Love (PG, Language may offend) 12:30, 3:30, 6:35, Mon. 12:30, 3:30, 6:35, 9:40 The Expendables (18A, Brutal violence) 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:35 Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (PG, Violence) 1:20, 4, 6:45, 9:25 Despicable Me 3-D (G) 1:15, 3:50 Vampires Suck (14A, Crude content) 1, 3:15, 6:40, 9:20 Lottery Ticket (PG, Violence, language may offend) 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 9:55 The Switch (PG, Mature subject matter, not recommended for young children) 12:50, 3:40, 7:05, 9:45 Nanny McPhee Returns (G) 12:20, 3:00, 6:30, 9:15 Piranha 3-D (18A, Gory scenes, brutal violence, nudity) 2, 4:50, 7:30, 10 GALAXY CINEMAS 2020 Sherwood Sherwood Park 780-416-0150 his very first vocal take. "It was so much fun these guys. It was like one of those great studio the old days.

They just what I wanted, never never too little." Certain tracks do have and sound that's reminiscent tage soul recordings The disc's range and garnered wide acclaim, this year Salgado was the Blues Foundation Soul Blues Male Vocalist. While Clean Getaway more toward soul, he's being pigeonholed in or another. "It's all under the same If you look at my other have covered the gauntlet and blues from old roll to gospel and funk." It's true, Salgado is a artist. Alongside work ALL Piranha 3-D (18A, Gory scenes, brutal violence, nudity) 2:05, 4:30, 7:30, 10:05 The Switch (PG, Mature subject matter, recommended for young children) 1, 4:05, 6:40, 9:25 Vampires Suck (14A, Crude content) 1:20, 4:20, 7:05, 9:30 The Expendables (18A, Brutal violence) 1:45, 4:25, 7:25, 10:10 Eat Pray Love (PG, Language may offend) 12:30, 3:30, 6:45, 10 Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (PG, Violence) 1:05, 4, 6:50, 9:35 The Other Guys (PG, Coarse language, crude sexual content, not recommended for young children) 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 9:50 Cats Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore 3-D (G) 12:45 Dinner for Schmucks (14A) 12:50, 3:50, 7 Salt (14A) 9:45 Inception (PG, Violence) 3:15, 6:30, 9:55 Despicable Me (G) 1:40, 4:15, 6:55, 9:20 California blues singer GARNEAU 8712 109th St.

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3:20, 7:10, 9:20 WHO'S NANNY WORKING) TITLE www.nannymcphee.com Check Theatre CONCERT REVIEW Jimmie Vaughan What: Labatt Blues Festival When: Friday night Where: Heritage Amphitheatre, Hawrelak Park TOM MURRAY Special to the Journal EDMONTON SUPPLIED Curtis Salgado and his big band close out Edmonton's Labatt Blues Festival today. working with playing with bands from played exactly too much and a spareness of vinfrom the '60s. impact have and earlier happy to win award for Best does lean weary of one category umbrella. records, they of rhythm school rock 'n' multi-faceted in many less- er-known groups, the most famous parts of his musical apprenticeship included stints with Boston's Roomful of Blues and later, a short time with Carlos Santana. He was even the main inspiration for John Belushi's role in The Blues Brothers movie years before he made his solo recording debut in 1991.

Today, he finds the realities of touring a bit of a struggle. "Being a musician is kind of like being a migrant farm worker. The crops are in during the summertime, you play every market there is to play and you're left looking for more work in the winter when the festivals go away. But it seems that a lot of people are coming out to see the show either way." Salgado already has a dozen tracks down for his next album, again with the Phantom Blues Band, due out early next year. He says there will be a couple of those numbers on the bill when he appears here today for the first time with a full band.

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1:10, YOUR NANNY? Emma Thompson MCPHEE NOW PLAYING Directories or www.universalpictures.ca for Locations and Showtimes The forest fires in B.C. may have produced all the smoke, but the opening night of Edmonton's Labatt Blues Festival had the fire. Sounds like a far too clever newspaper line, but in this case it was completely true. The audience certainly must have known that something was up; they were lining to get in as early as 8:30 a.m. according to producer Cam Hayden.

Their instincts that something good would happen off the top were rewarded by Ottawa's Monkeyjunk, who finished up an early (5:30 start) set with their burning version of Chuck Berry's Thirty Days. The front of the stage was crammed at this point withdancers; as one onlooker noted, the trio had passed all expectations for an opening act. Candye Kane's set was part bordello blues, part Norman Vincent Peale positivism, goodhumoured, exuberant, boisterous and upbeat. Dressed a bit like a madam who had raided a drag queen's closet, Kane had the outsized personality to go with her stature. If at times she sounded like she was using her stage show as personal therapy, or to instruct the crowd on life lessons, she was also warmly inclusive.

Her own upbringing provides grist for her lyrics, and if there's anyone who could turn a song with a title like White Trash Girl into an anthem, it's Kane. She's also appealingly brash: I Put a Hex On You was sly and knowing, with serpentine guitar figure from guitarist Laura Chavez, who also tore it up on the unapologetic I'm a Bad, Bad, Girl. subject for 7:05, 9:45 (G) Crude 5:30, 7:45, Brutal 6:55, 8, 12:15, 2:40, 4, Language may 12:20, 3:30, 6:40, screening World (PG, 7:30, 10:15 Coarse content, young 7:20, 10 3:50, Revenge of (14A) 2, 5, 12:30, Wed. 12:05, 1:10, CINEMA 7 780-962-2332 scenes, 6:55, Thu. (G) 7, Thu.

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Chavez and Kane made for quite the combination; headliner Jimmie Vaughan would have had to have hit the stage doing back flips to beat it. There was no need for the veteran Austin guitarist to do any of that, though; a commanding stage presence, all Vaughan had to do was bend his string into the first solo of the night to grab attendees at the sold out Heritage Amphitheatre. From a couple of instrumentals at the top he and his five-piece band delved into mixed bag of early rock, r'n'b and the deepest of blues, with Vaughan's guitar at times subordinate to a couple of great sax men. Vaughan also knows how to pick the obscure gems, probably one of the reasons why he isn't marked up simply as a retro artist. Johnny Ace's, How Can You Be So Mean and What Makes You So Tough were killer, but it was on the slower numbers that things really began cooking.

Vaughan was also generous with his band, turning the spotlight over on a few numbers. Saxophonist Doug James sang a rollicking Yes Indeed, and long-time Vaughan collaborator Lou Ann Barton came on for a version of a song often sung by his little brother, Stevie Ray, I Tried Pretty Baby. The Switch (PG, Mature subject matter, not recommended for young children) 12:15, 3:20, 7:20, 10:15 Nanny McPhee Returns (G) 12, 3:20, 6:45, 9:40 Vampires Suck (14A, Crude content) 12:20, 3:30, 7:25, 9:55 The Expendables (18A, Brutal violence) 12:10, 1:15, 3:10, 4:20, 7, 7:45, 9:50, Mon. 12:10, 3:10, 7, 7:45, 9:50, 10:40 Eat Pray Love (PG, Language may offend) 11:45, 3:15, 6:40, 10; Thu. 4:10, 7:20, Star Strollers screening Thu.

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