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• Fringe review: Szeretlek: A Hungarian Love Story

  17-08-2017 22:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  Szeretlek: A Hungarian Love Story
  • 3 stars out of 5
  • Academy at King Edward
  Myque Franz and Zita Nyarady front this two-hander, a sweet and romantic tale. 
  Szeretlek, which means I love you in Hungarian, tells the story of Nyarady’s grandparents. Through monologues, mask, narration, movement and even sound clips of her 90-year-old grandmother, the audience travels to Hungary in the 1940s.
  Franz and Nyarady rely on audience participation in this show, but the technique does
  
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• Fringe review: Ain't True and Uncle False

  17-08-2017 22:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  Ain’t True & Uncle False
  • 3 stars out of 5
  • Stage 4 Academy at King Edward
  Paul Strickland offers a twist on the one-man show filled with autobiographical stories.
  He intersperses a touching account of his grandfather’s death with a fairy-tale style story about a trailer park filled with colourful characters near a pea-processing plant. The show is built around a corny joke about how the peas are processed.
  The Kentucky native speaks in the voices of some of the
  
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• Fringe review: Picnics at the Asylum

  17-08-2017 22:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  Picnics at the Asylum
  • 2 stars out of 5
  • Stage 6, Telus Phone Museum
  Los Angeles-based Angela Neff’s one-person show is a study of her father, a larger-than life character who was much better with strangers than his own family.
  The story takes us from Neff’s early childhood, when her dad would entertain the neighbourhood with his guitar playing, to her her early 20s, when he was preaching on skid row after several stints in a psychiatric facility.
  Neff does a good job of
  
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• Fringe review: Get Me The F- Out of Edmonton

  17-08-2017 22:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  Get Me The F- Out of Edmonton
  • 4 stars out of 5
  • Stage 8, Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre
  Back when the Fringe was the newest, coolest thing on the block, there was this insanely good theatrical troupe out of Edmonton called Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie. They did sketch comedy and songs, and they packed ‘em in.
  Several decades later, who should wash up on the shores of the Fringe but Wes Borg, one of the original Trolls? His show description promises “old tunes, ne
  
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• Health minister, Alberta dental association at odds over new fee guide

  17-08-2017 22:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  Health Minister Sarah Hoffman blasted the provincial dental association Thursday for failing to act aggressively enough in its new fee guide to reduce costs for patients.
  Hoffman said the guide calls for a three-per-cent reduction in fees across the board, a figure that is way too low for some procedures that currently cost twice as much as they do in neighbouring provinces. 
  “I’m making my opinion very clear … that I’m not satisfied. I don’t think Albertans w
  
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• Don't turn left off Whyte Avenue! Valley Line traffic impacts released

  17-08-2017 21:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  Motorists will wait an average seven minutes if they want to turn left from eastbound Whyte Avenue and head north on 83 Street once the Valley Line LRT starts operating.
  That’s during the morning rush hour and one of the more extreme examples from a set of traffic predictions released Thursday afternoon.
  The average wait time for that move is 80 seconds now. But fortunately, motorists will have another option. They can turn early at 85 Street, slipping by the west side of Bonnie Doon Mall,
  
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• Fringe preview: Meet Olive Copperbottom, Penny Ashton's well-toured Charles Dickens musical spoof

  17-08-2017 21:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  With her new musical spoof Olive Copperbottom: A New Musical by Charles Dickens and Penny Ashton, the New Zealand comic and celebrant is celebrating a 10th anniversary.
  Ashton’s first appearance at the Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival was in 2007 with her signature show Hot Pink Bits and she has returned four times in the ensuing decade.
  Ashton recalls she was doing performance poetry at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2006 when British solo artist Jem Rolls told her “all
  
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• Improv and standup artist uses audience members in Fringe act

  17-08-2017 21:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  Yes, Virginia, there is a field of dreams for comics.
  Los Angeles standup comic and improviser DK Reinemer, who is bringing his latest show Help!!! I’m American to the Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival, found his field of dreams in Bellingham, Wash., back in 2002.
  “I was doing improv and standup in Bellingham and Ryan Stiles saw us.
  “There was a whole group of us doing improv.
  “He asked if he built us an improv theatre, would we run it, and we said yes,&
  
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• Fringe preview: Grandfather's wartime letters lend five distinct voices to A Soldier's War

  17-08-2017 21:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  When Josh Ramsden’s poignant drama A Soldier’s War premièred at Regina’s Globe Theatre in 2016, it played to rave reviews and standing ovations.
  With its run at the Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival, A Soldier’s War has come much closer to home.
  Ten years ago when he learned his grandfather John Ramsden was frail, Josh Ramsden came to Calgary to be with his grandfather for the man’s final six months.
  Ramsden said, like so
  
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• First Alberta dental-fee guide in 20 years to pressure dentists to lower prices

  17-08-2017 21:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  A dental fee guide is being released today following a review of prices in Alberta for dental services, the first one in 20 years.
  Alberta Dental Association and College president Mintoo Basahti said Thursday morning the guide will be put pressure on dentists to lower fees.”Our is goal is to build trust with Albertans” through better transparency and communications, he said. 
  Basahti suggested this might lead to lower pay for dentists’ employees. “This will change th
  
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• Running in the streets: Thousands set to race in 25th Edmonton Marathon weekend

  17-08-2017 20:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  Close to 5,000 runners will bound downtown streets Aug. 19-20 during the 25th Edmonton Marathon weekend.  
  Multiple distance running events, including a one kilometre kids fun run, will run through the city streets throughout the weekend culminating in the full marathon Sunday morning at 7:00 a.m.
  The first running of the marathon 25 years ago — then called the Alberta Capital City Marathon — was a different course and saw a little bit varying weather than what is expected on Su
  
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• Fringe preview: Playwright reveals something of herself in The Wallaby Way

  17-08-2017 18:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  With the Canadian première of her new show The Wallaby Way, Fringe veteran Gemma Wilcox is finally about to take centre stage.
  This is the British solo artist’s sixth visit to the Edmonton International Theatre Fringe Festival in eight years. But with each of those previous visits she hid behind her alter ego Sandra, a woman navigating relationships which started with The Honeymoon Period is Officially Over (2009 and 20014), Shadows in Bloom (2010 and 2015) and Magical Mys
  
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• First Alberta dental-fee guide in 20 years aims to put 'downward pressure' on costs

  17-08-2017 18:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  A dental fee guide is being released today following a review of prices in Alberta for dental services, the first one in 20 years.
  The Alberta Dental Association and College said in a release that the guide “will allow dentists to create downward pressure on their costs of services.”The Alberta Dental Association and College is releasing a dental fee guide today for the first time in 20 years. #ableg #abhealth
  — Keith Gerein (@keithgerein) August 17, 2017The guide is being rele
  
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• Shania Twain coming to Edmonton in 2018

  17-08-2017 18:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Country music superstar and five-time Grammy Award winner from Timmins, Ont Shania Twain is coming to Edmonton in May 2018 as part of her 2018 Now Tour.
  Twain will play two shows at Rogers Place on May 9, 10, 2018. Tickets go on sale Friday, August 25 at livenation.com. Prices range from $59.95, $89.95, $139.95, $189.95, plus service charges. It marks Twain’s first tour since “Rock This Country” back in 2015.  Last week, Twain was named as the halftime performer at this ye
  
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• Jagr to Edmonton Oilers? Iginla? "I'm thinking it's going to be pretty quiet," Chiarelli says

  17-08-2017 17:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  Oilers now banking on internal improvement
  This in from Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli, talking to Reid Wilkins of 630 CHED Inside Sports about the Leon Draisaitl signing, sounded like a GM who was done his work for the summer. 
  Asked if he was going to make any other moves before the season, Chiarelli said, “I’m thinking it’s going to be pretty quiet.” 
  My take
  This will be bad news to the many fans who yearn for the Edmonton Oilers to sign up Jaromir Jagr, or maybe
  
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• International street food inspires Dogwood Cafe dinner Aug. 26

  17-08-2017 17:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  Taste Alberta presents another in its series of locally inspired meals — Prairie on the Plate —at the Dogwood Cafe at Riverside Golf Course (8630 Roland Rd.) on Saturday, August 26. It costs $29 per person and features specialties by chef Stuart Whyte. Think international street foods such as Mexican street corn, spicy Brazilian-style chicken hearts, and Thai green papaya salad.
  The event, with a cash bar, is from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. and tickets are available online through eventb
  
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• 10 things to do in Edmonton this week: OneRepublic, The Gift, and Open Farm Days

  17-08-2017 15:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  Rock fest
  It has to be said that we’ve been sadly negligent in our treatment of classic Canadian rock bands. After all, when they’re gone, who among us will sing of the adventures of the boys in the bright white sports cars, or take up the mantle of Metal Queen? Nobody, which is why you need to make your way down to Hawrelak Park this weekend to see 5 Man Electrical Band, Tom Cochrane with Red Rider, Lee Aaron, Prism, Sass Jordan, Chilliwack, Trooper (and more), as they remind us of
  
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• Metallica storms and thunders over Commonwealth Stadium

  17-08-2017 15:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  A nightmare of apocalyptic mythology and orgasmic fire, Metallica’s Commonwealth Stadium show lit up legacy with explosions to cap their North American WorldWired tour now witnessed by hundreds of thousands — the band’s first on the continent in eight years.
  As Avenged Sevenfold’s M. Shadows put it in their superb opening set, Metallica is the last of the metal acts that can fill a stadium as they did Wednesday night, mining 36 years of thrash, planet-roping hard rock and
  
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• Edmonton ready to issue full picture of Valley Line LRT traffic

  17-08-2017 15:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  City officials have promised to release detailed predictions Thursday for exactly where vehicle traffic will be impacted the most when the coming Valley LRT Line opens.
  The release is expected to get down to the expected number of minutes and length of the queue for each turn and every direction, on major intersections all down the line.
  The Edmonton Journal pushed for early release, hoping the information would help residents plan ahead and give context as council weighs new road projects or ot
  
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• Thursday's letters: More than growing pains at Slave Lake clinic

  17-08-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “Slave Lake’s unique health clinic — a remnant of the Redford years — hits the five-year mark,” Aug. 12
  When the family care clinic (FCC) opened, the community was promised 15 “primary-care providers:” eight doctors and seven nurse practitioners.
  Today, there are five doctors accepting new patients in a radius of 120 kilometres in an area that serves more than 14,000 people. The number of nurse practitioners has fluctuated greatly with anywhere from
  
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• Opinion: If city charters allow deficits, who will clean up the mess?

  17-08-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Alberta government recently proposed giving Calgary and Edmonton more powers – changes that have been articulated in new, draft “city charters“for the two cities.
  Here’s what taxpayers need to know about the proposed changes.
  First, the good news — the proposal doesn’t contain any major new taxes. Many observers thought the government might include new taxing powers for Alberta’s largest cities in new charters — perhaps a new municipal sales ta
  
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• Prospects fall to Swift Current setting up deciding game for WMBL title

  17-08-2017 07:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Prospects pride themselves with their stellar defence, but it let them down against the Swift Current 57s on Wednesday.
  With a chance to win their first Western Major Baseball League championship in franchise history, the Prospects committed four errors, and it cost them dearly as Swift Current came from behind to post a 6-4 victory in Game 4 of the best-of-five series in front of 3,226 spectators at ReMax Field.
  The is now tied 2-2 with Game 5 on Thursday night in Swift Current (7:
  
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• The Cult of Hockey: Signings of Draisaitl, McDavid signal second coming of Edmonton Oilers dynasty

  17-08-2017 05:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers absolutely hit the jackpot when they won the lottery and selected Connor McDavid #1 overall in the 2015 draft.
  But hockey history teaches us that it always takes two to tango, in the long, difficult dance to hoist the Stanley Cup. As talented as McDavid surely is, he can’t do it all himself. He will need a “Number Two”, to borrow a Star Trek term.
  And so it was, when on August 16th 2017, the Oilers announced the 8-year, 68-million dollar contract extension f
  
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• Man dies after collision in southwest Edmonton

  17-08-2017 04:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man died on route to hospital after a collision in southwest Edmonton on Wednesday afternoon.
  Sgt. Mike Keef said a one man was involved in a crash at 62B Avenue and 183 Street at approximately 1:30 p.m. and the collision is being investigated by southwest division members.
  Keef said the homicide section was consulted but is not actively investigating at this time.
  The medical examiner has been contacted but an autopsy has yet to be scheduled.
  The identity of the driver has not been relea
  
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• Former Spruce Grove bylaw officer charged with sexual assault of minor

  17-08-2017 03:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 48-year-old man has been charged with sexual assault and sexual exploitation after a youth came forward with allegations that were said to have occurred in August, police said Wednesday.
  Thomas Ledrew, 48, of Spruce Grove, was arrested and charged on Aug. 9.
  Ledrew is expected to make his first appearance in Stony Plain provincial court on Sept. 13.
  An RCMP spokesperson confirmed Ledrew had been employed by the City of Spruce Grove for 15 years, first as a firefighter before being hired as a b
  
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• Winning is the Eskimos answer to CFL's divisional disparity

  17-08-2017 03:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  WINNIPEG – Eight games into the season and the Edmonton Eskimos are only facing their second different West Division opponent in the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Thursday.
  With two of their seven wins coming against the B.C. Lions, the undefeated Eskimos are sitting with a 7-0 record thanks to an early run through an East Division that has only managed to combine for that same number of win up to this point.
  Never has the disparity between East and West been more apparent, along with the accom
  
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• Eskimos looking to extend unbeaten streak at Investors Group Field

  17-08-2017 03:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  WINNIPEG – The Edmonton Eskimos are looking for their fourth-straight road win to start a season for just the second time in 37 years.
  And the first-place club (7-0) couldn’t have picked a better place to do it than against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (5-2) on Thursday (6:30 p.m., TSN, 630 CHED) at Investors Group Field, where the Eskimos have yet to lose.
  Since the Bombers’ new home opened ahead of the 2013 season, Edmonton is 5-0 against them in the regular season, and 6-0 if y
  
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• Chief Know It All draws good post for Canadian Derby

  17-08-2017 03:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  Who knows what Clayton Wiest did so wrong in a previous life. Or maybe he’s just broken too many mirrors, walked under far too many ladders and had way too many black cats cross his path.
  Because when it comes to the Canadian Derby post draw which was held Wednesday at Northlands it’s been nothing but bad luck after bad luck.
  Until this year anyway.
  “I was sure we were going to get the outside post again. It always seems that happens. But we got post four for Saturday’s D
  
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• Fentanyl crisis continuing to kill more than one Albertan per day

  17-08-2017 03:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  Fentanyl overdoses killed 119 more Albertans during the second quarter of the year as the province remained beset by a high rate of more than one death per day to the illicit narcotic, a new report shows.
  The latest toll, revealed Wednesday in health ministry’s new quarterly analysis of the opioid crisis, was significantly higher than the 85 fatal overdoses recorded in the same three months of 2016.
  Nonetheless, health officials said they were relieved to see no significant increase of num
  
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• Ratio rationale: Eskimos getting creative in managing injuries

  17-08-2017 02:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  WINNIPEG – With all the moving parts on an injury depleted Edmonton Eskimos depth chart, it’s a wonder the club can survive the Canadian Football League’s ratio requirements in any given game let alone lead the pack with a 7-0 record.
  With 18 starters or their replacements on the injured list for Thursday’s game against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (6:30 p.m., TSN, 630 CHED), the Eskimos are looking to start off the 2017 season the same way they closed out their 2015 Grey Cu
  
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• Edmonton economy to get free kick if it can host 2026 FIFA World Cup

  17-08-2017 02:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton could add to its impressive portfolio of hosting international sporting events and get a handy free kick to the economy if it can secure some 2026 FIFA World Cup matches.
  A list of 44 proposed host cities — including Edmonton and Calgary — was released Tuesday by the United Bid Committee of the U.S., Mexico and Canada, the muscle behind the push to have the world’s largest sporting event split between three nations.
  In all, seven Canadian cities have shown interest in
  
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• Will Fildebrandt now be sympathetic to other "flawed" politicians?

  17-08-2017 02:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  You have to wonder what MLA Derek Fildebrandt thinks of recall legislation now.
  You have to wonder how he’d react if he was on the receiving end of a legislatively approved movement to have him fired.
  After the past week of revelations about his real and alleged misdeeds, Fildebrandt would seem to be the ideal candidate for recall — if we had such a law.
  Keep in mind Fildebrandt has been a big supporter of such a law whereby disgruntled voters in a constituency could sign a petition
  
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• Police offer tips to keep children safe after girl nearly abducted

  17-08-2017 01:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police held a news conference Wednesday to urge parents to educate their children about what to say if someone tries to snatch them after a five-year-old girl narrowly escaped abduction by a stranger on Saturday.
  The five-year-old girl was riding her bike with her older brother near 157 Street and 99 Avenue when, at around 8:15 p.m., a man approached her before taking hold of the handlebars on the girl’s bike and leading her away.
  The girl’s older brother ran to a nearby hom
  
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• Alberta's occupational health and safety act under review

  17-08-2017 01:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s occupational health and safety act will undergo its first comprehensive review since it came into effect more than four decades ago, the government announced Wednesday.
  Labour Minister Christina Gray said the review will examine everything from compliance and enforcement to employee engagement and prevention, to make sure standards and practices better reflect modern workplaces.
  “We are still seeing too many stories of workplace incidents that could have been avoided,&
  
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• Paula Simons: Secrecy surrounds demolition of Edmonton heritage homes

  17-08-2017 01:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  In 2016, Edmonton city council allowed the demolition of 12 different heritage buildings on the city’s official Inventory of Historic Resources
  And the pace of demolition seems to be speeding up.
  Council green-lighted the demolition of another nine buildings on the historic resources inventory in the first half of 2017.
  That’s 21 of the city’s most special heritage buildings, gone in less than 18 months.
  Of those, 15 were private homes while 16 were commercial buildings.
  They i
  
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• Terry Jones: Oilers go all-in with Draisaitl contract

  17-08-2017 00:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  It was worth the wait for Leon Draisaitl.
  Eight years at $8.5 million a year has to be viewed as the upper and outer limits of what the Edmonton Oilers alternate superstar was going to get with Connor McDavid receiving $12.5 million a year.
  But he got it.
  The Oilers got him.
  And there was never really a doubt, even though a few fans insisted on getting themselves twisted into pretzels because Drasaitl didn’t get done the day after McDavid.
  The Draisaitl deal got done Wednesday morning (eve
  
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• Old meets new in Mark Henderson’s upcoming art exhibit

  17-08-2017 00:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  Past and present collide in an upcoming acrylic exhibition by emerging artist Mark Henderson.
  From vanished landmarks to gleaming new skyscrapers, Henderson’s large works — combining photography, painting and collage — explore destruction, death and rebirth in Edmonton’s changing downtown core.
  As a kid growing up in the city’s Beverly community, Henderson (who goes by “Hende”) loved drawing and doodling. He thought he might become an architect. Since hi
  
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• A Midsummer Night's Fringe sprouts in Old Strathcona

  17-08-2017 00:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  Like a well-tended garden, the annual Edmonton International Fringe Festival grows yearly in colour and complexity.
  To get the very most out of the 36th annual event, which kicks off today in Old Strathcona and features 42 venues with 1,600 performances, make sure to assemble your Fringe tools (trowel, fertilizer, transit tickets, festival guide) before you hit the site. Here are a few tips for minimizing weeds and maximizing this year’s harvest.
  Ticket Purchase
  Tickets range in price from
  
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• Getting to the guts of the Fringe

  17-08-2017 00:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Asking what makes the Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival so fringe-y is like wondering what makes Canada so Canadian.
  Nation-wise, is it free health care? Beaver tails? Sunny ways? Fringe-wise, it could be that the 220 shows in the 2017 lineup are not juried or censored, are artist-accessible, and audience-affordable. The fact that the festival puts $1 million every year into the pockets of the artists involved — the ticket price goes right back to them — is another compe
  
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