WHAT’S GOING ON: Road Trip!
Pack your bags, load up on the liquids, and gas up your truck – it’s time for a trip out of town. Not too far, what with gas prices what they are, eh. Let’s stick to Alberta. First up is the perennial favourite Blueberry Bluegrass Festival July 29-31, in Stony Plain, Alberta, just 41 km […]
REVIEW: John Fogerty Rocks Edmonton – With His Kids
A packed lower bowl down at Turtle Island was transported through time and space to a psychedelic 1960’s influenced evening of peace and love in the presence of a surprisingly hard-rocking old man named John Fogerty. It’s hard to imagine the 77-year-old CCR founder rocking out harder than he did at Rogers Place on Wednesday […]
INTERVIEW: Bif Naked Triumphs Over Adversity – Again
Bif Naked possesses superhuman optimism to go with her hard-won success. Like that time she got breast cancer – she was a little young for it when she was diagnosed in 2008 – and thought she might die. She says, “People were like, oh, the Grim Reaper’s in the air. And I’m like, phh, hey, […]
REVIEW: Hamilton Brings Fantasia of American History to Life in Edmonton
The experiment was to see if one could understand and enjoy Hamilton without knowing any of the backstory – other than that it was created by and stars a guy whose name I can never remember (Lin-Manuel Miranda, had to look that up) and has something to do with the American Revolution. The answer is […]
