MUSIC PREVIEW: Bohemia rises again
There’s good news on the local venue front, for a change. After being closed for a couple of weeks, having changed hands in the meantime, Bohemia re-opens Friday night to a stage packed with original Canadian indie bands. The new owner is Kevin Mattern, a contractor, entrepreneur, and small business revitalizer. Apparently there’s already been […]
The Who reschedules Edmonton to May
We’ve waited this long – a few more months isn’t going to matter, is it? The Who, which had to cancel its Oct. 3 date in Edmonton due to Roger Daltrey’s illness, has rescheduled the show for Sunday, May 8 at Rexall Place. After a bout of viral meningitis, the 71-year-old singer is said to […]
Elements of Harmony at Edmonton Expo
In her excitement, her wing accidentally brushed a precious, fragile goblet precariously perched on the edge of a shelf – sending it crashing to the stone floor of Castle Expo. Bloodied, embarrassed and 30 gold coins short, the sad little Pegasus flew back to Equestria – along the way catching a glimpse of Discord. He […]
Edmonton Expo a Magical Place
For one weekend, the streets of Edmonton were barren of nerds. Did they get beamed up into some Star Trekian rapture? No. Did they all move to Vulcan and start coffee shops and grow ops? No (not all). Did they decide en masse to go underground into a series of catacomb based lairs where video […]
Kelly Clarkson cancels Canadian tour
It’s been a bad couple of weeks for the concert scene in Edmonton – and probably worse for the artists that have been forced to cancel their shows. Now Grammy-winning former American Idol star Kelly Clarkson has had to pull out of the entire Canadian leg of her “Piece by Piece” tour – on doctor’s […]
MUSIC PREVIEW: The Tea Party brews anew
After a multi-year sabbatical, The Tea Party is back at it and strong as ever. A new album and a new tour take the darlings of the 1990s Canadian rock scene to the Winspear Centre on Friday. Hard rock with heavy influences of blues, progressive rock, and world music, the group took the country by […]
How rude! Sonic Manners Movement video offends
A worthy quest to bring good manners back into public discourse has ironically backfired for one local radio station – to judge from at least one complaint. Who, you ask, could possibly be offended by Sonic 102.9 FM radio’s video to promote the “Manners Movement?” It’s a harmless parody of 1980s gangsta rappers wherein a […]
INTERVIEW: James Marsters rocks beyond Spike
While some entertainers use comic-cons as a way to promote their work, James Marsters uses them to make friends. “I’ve met people who worked on the Mars Rover and who helped build the Hadron Collider,” says Marsters, who plays Spike in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He’s one of the guests at the Edmonton Comic and […]
Kevin Hart to joke in Edmonton
Kevin Hart is now in that rare league of comedians who can perform in hockey arenas – and he’s coming to Edmonton’s arena, the old arena, that is, Rexall Place, on Nov. 22. Tickets are $49.50 to $125 and go on sale Friday. The 36-year-old actor and comic, who’s been just about everywhere and on […]
Stop the presses: AC/DC rocks Edmonton!
After so many decades there really aren’t many jokes left to make about AC/DC’s predictability. The band is simply unapologetic in its approach, holding steady to the same chords the band has followed since the early 1980s. Some would argue that the ’70s records stick to the same formula, but the Bon Scott era saw […]
