The remarkable Louis O’Coffey provides inspiration on canvas
At 74, Louis O’Coffey would be remarkable even if he’d never become an artist who’s had his work displayed at numerous galleries. When he was born in Fort McMurray in 1937, the average person with Down syndrome didn’t survive into their 20s. Even nowadays they typically reach what is considered old age in their 50s. […]
Pressure-wash graffiti gets a free pass
Fans of street art in Edmonton are accusing the city of hypocrisy over a decision to allow Octane Motorsports to promote the Indy with graffiti-style stencils on city sidewalks. The stencils aren’t made with paint. Rather, they were done with a pressure washer which blasts hot water over the stencils, effectively cleaning the message into […]
Scalping tickets legal in Alberta, government has no plans to stop resales
Two years ago a firestorm erupted in the concert ticket business when complaints alleged that Ticketmaster, which had recently purchased the online ticket reselling business TicketsNow, was automatically diverting customers from its own website to the scalping one. The outrage over the perceived conflict of interest grew so loud that new legislation was drafted in […]
Edmonton indie film asks age-old query: Dude, where’s my bike?
Filmmaker Curtis Cleveland has lived in both Vancouver and Edmonton, and Cleveland says it was easier shooting the feature-length upcoming movie The Bike Heist here than it would have been in Vancouver. “It’s almost impossible to do a low budget film there now because the city is almost spoiled,” Cleveland told an audience of bicycle […]
Neon museum to light up downtown Edmonton
Edmonton appears close to inking a deal with Telus for use of its building on 104 Street and 104 Avenue to display the city’s collection of vintage neon signs, several sources close to the project say. Duncan Fraser, a senior planner with the city’s department of sustainable development, said this week that a deal is […]
High cost of security keeps AGA closed at night
Maybe you work downtown and really want to catch the latest exhibition at the Art Gallery of Alberta. You get out the office door swiftly at 5, but you’re hungry and need to grab a quick bite so that your growling stomach won’t echo through the exhibition halls. It doesn’t leave much viewing time once […]
Urban design mag goes national, finds niche in souls of Canada’s cities
Back in 2004, Matthew Blackett figures more people knew about the buttons he sold to promote his then one-year-old magazine about urban planning and design in Toronto than actually knew about the magazine itself. The buttons featured the unique tile pattens specific to each stop on the Toronto Transit Commission subway system and they were […]
