REPORT: Boonstock biggest bush party in Alberta

Posted on June 30, 2012 By Derek Neil Pluim Front Slider, Music

The dusty grounds of the Boonstock Music and Arts Festival are alive with promiscuity and debauchery this weekend. Going down in Gibbons, Alberta, about 40 km North of Edmonton, the eighth annual event is supposed to be an exhibition of diverse live music – but it’s also a celebration of tattoos, as intoxicated concert goers […]

Sunday steampunk bike ride embraces apocalypse with style

Posted on June 23, 2012 By Derek Neil Pluim Film, Visual Arts

Steampunk is first and foremost a literary genre, a 19th Century view of the future – steam powered, mechanical and pre-electronic. And everyone dresses well. “It’s like Mad Max meets Marie Antoinette,” explains Cory Richards, a salesperson at Sanctuary Curio Shoppe (10310 81 Avenue), which is hosting Edmonton’s first steampunk bicycle ride on Sunday, June […]