Edmonton Bicycle Commuters’ new shop brings hope to blighted neighbourhood
The neighbourhood on 111 Avenue where Edmonton Bicycle Commuters has decided to open its second location in the city is, shall we say, a little rough around the edges. It’s a few blocks west of Commonwealth Stadium where many of the shop fronts sit empty. There’s a bottle depot nearby, and the tenant in the […]
TAG! YOU’RE IT! Fear and Loathing at the Anti Graffiti Symposium
Outside the meeting rooms at the Westin Hotel where the Anti Graffiti Symposium (TAGS) was held in Edmonton this past week, two large canvases were set up and a box with spray paint and colourful markers was placed beside them. Over the course of the two-day conference, the delegates, many of whom were police officers […]
LitFest keeps it real life – or thereabouts
Do bad fiction authors get more respect than good non-fiction writers? Certainly not at Edmonton’s LitFest, Canada’s only literary festival dedicated exclusively to non-fiction, which runs from Oct. 12-23. Will Ferguson, who returns to LitFest and gives one of its opening presentations on Thursday, Oct. 13 at the St. Albert Public Library, says there’s historically […]
Arts community guardedly optimistic about Redford administration
Artists, actors and art teachers believe Alberta’s new premier gets it when it comes to understanding the value of arts investment, but they worry the rest of her caucus might be harder to persuade. Alison Redford, who came from behind to take the Progressive Conservative leadership contest in the early hours of Oct. 2, promised […]
Was Edmonton actually Richler’s kind of town?
Ten years after his death, Mordecai Richler’s name remains mud in Edmonton for comments he made about the city in a 1985 essay for the New York Times on Wayne Gretzky, but questions remain about whether the legendary author was slaying the Alberta capital or actually celebrating it. The essay, called “King of the New […]
Graffiti fight a font of problems for Edmonton businessman
These days, Otto Weltzien wishes he’d never called the police about the graffiti outside his business. If he’d thought about that at the beginning, he might still have his interesting wall, he’d have his art … and he’d still have $16,500. Weltzien, 78, spent part of 2010 fighting an order by the city issued the […]
When it comes to Leg renos, province plans to keep you wading
After months of confusing signals that led many to fear late-night pool parties at the Legislature could be going down the drain, the province says visitors will still be able to wade in new pools that will replace the current ones in 2013. Concerns had been raised in the Legislature earlier this year about the […]
Edmonton Sci-Fi fans boldly go where everybody knows their names
In the era of online, you don’t just join a group that likes science fiction. You find the group that obsesses about the particular “Star Trek” series or Ray Bradbury books that you yourself obsess over. After all, if you love “Doctor Who” (Russell T. Davies-written episodes only) but hate it when people quote Kryten […]
Analog cable won’t end any time soon, says Shaw
*More: Analog TVs gather dust in thrift stores as digital switch approaches Analog television broadcasting will be a thing of the past in Edmonton next month, but analog cable could chug along for years in the city, according to a cable industry executive. As of September 1, 2011, cable service providers can, if they wish, […]
Edmonton’s smallest festival is a family affair
Almost a week after the Edmonton Folk Music Festival wrapped up, the love lived on at a south-side park on Saturday where Edmonton’s Littlest Folk Festival marked two decades of celebrating its founder’s birthday. Dave Cunningham, who many people know as the interim executive director of the Film and Video Arts Society of Alberta, hosts […]
