Hark, good citizens: Ol’ Mack is Back at the Walterdale
Roll up, roll up, good sirs, and cast yon sideways glance at this middling trifle we emblazon with the status of “Hotpick.” T’was in olde London town that a beggar named Macheath – Mack the Knife – strove to wed a comely maiden named Polly. Suffice said, her father, the King of the Beggars, did […]
Hot picks: Advantage, indie bands!
It’s Saturday, and Gig City suggests ye denizens of olde Champe Towne quaff a few brews, watch some footie and maybe catch one of the dozen or so decent plays in town these days. What’s that? Music, you ask? Oh, if you insist. The selection is eclectic and marvellous. Wild-T and the Spirit are doing […]
ALAN JACKSON: That country twang thang
Y’know, these days, FM radio country has all the street cred of party politics. Let’s face it, country and western and alt. country get the respect. They’re about less tangible concepts, like artistic expression, challenging the intellect and the spirit of independence. The kind of schmaltzy fun that Alan Jackson has cranked out for three […]
Rob Zombie, Slayer announce tour date in Edmonton
Hell? In July? In Edmonton? Faulty allusions to the state of our weather notwithstanding, it will indeed be Hell on Earth July 31 when Rob Zombie and Slayer hit Champ City on tour. The bands confirmed the tour dates Sunday night as part of the Hell on earth Tour. Tickets go on sale via Ticketmaster […]
Hot Picks, March 26: Closing Soon
Far be it from we few, we proud few, we Gig City few, we…….er, we went off on an odd 1940s British war movie tangent there for a minute…… Sorry. It’s just so damn classy ’round here! You see, we were pondering what to do with our Saturday, aside from the usual comfy couch positions, […]
Hot Picks, March 20
Today Gig City is all about adding some class to your drab little lives. Now, usually these days, that’s a metaphor for gay and fabulous. But we mean the old-fashioned kind of classy. Classy, not flashy, and most certainly not trashy. Old-fashioned classy can be entertaining! We promise. First, pop over to The Arden Theatre […]
CELEBRITY DOPE: Gilbert Gottfried steps on a duck
Gilbert Gottfried has been fired as Aflac Inc.’s duck mascot after he made jokes about the Japan earthquake on Twitter. Sample (since deleted): “I just split up with my girlfriend, but like the Japanese say, ‘They’ll be another one floating by any minute now.’” Too soon? He’s done this sort of thing before. Shortly after […]
Hot Picks, March 2
We’ve got a great idea for Down With Webster – a Juno-nominated, seven-piece, rock-rap group from Hyphen-ville, Ontario playing tonight at the Edmonton Event Centre. You remember their hit? Highly anticipated at this show will be the inevitable performance of Rich Girl$, which is a rappified version of the Hall & Oates 1977 classic Rich […]
Hot Picks, March 1
Just how much funk is TOO MUCH funk? Three-alarm Funk? Four-Alarm Funk? Don’t accuse the members of Five-Alarm Funk of being too eclectic – that’s kind of the whole point, as writer Damon Sparks discovered when he chatted with the band. Five-Alarm Funk plays tonight at Haven Social Club, that little slice of basement music […]
CELLO MELLOW: Stinson returns home for Muttart Hall show tonight
Hailed by The New York Times as a musician with “conviction and flair” and by The New Yorker as an “unusually adept contemporary-music specialist,” reknowned local Cellist Caroline Stinson returns to Edmonton in a performance with pianist Sarah Ho on Sunday, Feb. 27. The concert at Alberta College’s Muttart Hall, 10050 Macdonald Drive, will also […]
Metro’s next Edmonton Tonight keeps things eclectic
Painter Eric Visser, cellist Josephine van Lier, and CKUA music programmer Baba Singh will be among the guests of the next Edmonton Tonight, Friday, Feb. 25 at 10:30 p.m. at Metro Cinema. Host Tom Bernier will welcome Visser and van Lier, a creative couple who will chat about how the arts played a major role […]
A ditzy sorority chick gets dumped by her snobby boyfriend, so she goes to Harvard to study law – and becomes one of the greatest legal minds of our generation. And she’s singing the whole time. All you need is an adorable Chihuahua and we have musical magic! Legally Blonde, the Musical, has been a […]
