LIVE COMEDY

HEY LADIES, GET FUNKY

Leona Brausen, Cathleen Rootsaert, and
Davina Stewart: together, as the Beastie Boys sang in “Hey Ladies,” they’ve got more hits than Sadaharu Oh. And that’s the somewhat laboured segue we’ve chosen to lead into this item about Hey Ladies, their live stage
fusion of daytime women’s TV and nighttime sketch comedy. (Think The View, only with slightly less outrageous comic characters.) The show was a huge hit when it premiered last month, and the second episode, filled with music, gossip, wine, and even
acupuncture, takes place February 8 at
the Roxy.

ART INSTALLATION

LIKE, WoW!

Conventional wisdom says if you’re at home playing World of Warcraft, you’re a socially stunted nerd. But if you come to the Art
Gallery of Alberta this Saturday from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. and play World of Warcraft, you’re an artist! Or at least you’ll be part of an art
installation—specifically Demian Petryshyn’s Generation, which examines the way millions of young men have become more comfortable conversing with each other through the medium of a videogame than by talking face to face. Even if the event is not a success, it’s nice to see the AGA reaching out to the mage community.

VISUAL ARTS

STICK FIGURES IN LOVE

You know that comic strip Love Is? The
saccharine cartoon that runs every day in the Edmonton Sun? The one Homer Simpson once described as being about “two naked eight-year-olds who are married”? Well, the stick-figure drawings in Edmonton artist Kat Vedah’s exhibition Love Is Simple are sort of like that, except her captions are more along the lines of “You’re not like me” and “I hate you.” Her work goes on display at
ArtsHab this week alongside Eat Mine Raw by
Shelley Rothenburger, another artist whose work takes a humourous approach to
relationships.