(RERUN): What do homeless people think of public art?

(RERUN): What do homeless people think of public art?

Homeless people might have more important things to worry about than what they think of public art in Edmonton, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have opinions about it, or that their opinions aren’t as valid someone who isn’t homeless. Besides, they see it every day. They live here. During three days in the summer […]

MUSIC PREVIEW: K stands for koncerts

MUSIC PREVIEW: K stands for koncerts

Edmonton’s premiere summer exhibition gets underway on Thursday. Whether they call it K-Days, or Klondike Days, or Capital Ex, or whatever, it doesn’t really matter when you consider so much great music to be had throughout the city as part of the celebration, in particular on the K-Days grounds, and at Winston Churchill Square for […]

End of the Earth, by Chad Huculak

End of the Earth, by Chad Huculak

TALES OF THE WEED RUNNER: Snoop needs high grade Canadian

TALES OF THE WEED RUNNER: Snoop needs high grade Canadian

Better call the Weed Runner – Snopp Dogg is coming to Edmonton. He claims he smokes “81 blunts a day.” Assuming one gram of per blunt – a blunt is bigger than a joint, which is bigger than a spliff – he’ll need about six ounces while he’s here, and that’s if he doesn’t share. […]

Rock camp releases new blood on local scene

Rock camp releases new blood on local scene

Rita McDade is churning out rock musicians in dozens as the rock ‘n’ roll counselor of Garage Band, wrapping up the second annual round of intensive weeklong bootcamps with a show Friday night at Festival Place. Admission is free. Selections will include tunes by Pink Floyd, the Doors, Def Leppard, the Arctic Monkeys and a rendition […]

MUSICIZZLE PREVIZZLE: Snoop by any other name

MUSICIZZLE PREVIZZLE: Snoop by any other name

His voice is the very sound of laid-back California: Snoop Dogg – previously known as Snoop Doggy Dogg and recently rebranded as Snoop Lion – will be in town Monday and Tuesday at Union Hall for a pair of sold out shows (a few VIP tickets remain for the second show). Snoop needs no introduction […]

(RERUN): Parking Meter Fairy’s days numbered

(RERUN): Parking Meter Fairy’s days numbered

The breathless Parking Meter Fairy runs to catch a parking enforcement officer about to ticket an illegally parked car. “Am I too late to save him?!” The officer stops writing and mutters, “You could.” Oh, thank you, Parking Patrol Officer. Clink, clink, clink, clink go four quarters into the expired meter – good for 20 […]

End of the Earth, by Chad Huculak

End of the Earth, by Chad Huculak

WICKED: Are you a good witch or a bad witch?

WICKED: Are you a good witch or a bad witch?

Which witch is which? Which witch is wicked? And which wicked witch switched with which witch’s wicked sister? Say that five times fast. These are difficult questions posed in the Broadway musical Wicked, the touring show coming to the Jubilee Auditorium July 2-20. This is the story behind the story in The Wizard of Oz. […]

End of the Earth, by Chad Huculak

End of the Earth, by Chad Huculak

Mac DeMarco: ‘Might as well try something weird’

Mac DeMarco: ‘Might as well try something weird’

It was the strangest thing: A boiling mosh pit in a crowded, stinking, sweaty bar packed with millennials (what we’re calling “the kids today”) – not for punk, not for death metal, but for the sort of breezy easy listening music you’d be more likely to hear at that surf festival they used to have […]

REVIEW: Killer Queen defies the cynics

REVIEW: Killer Queen defies the cynics

When you get as big as Queen – all 250 million or so records sold – you can do whatever you want. And that includes hiring a new lead singer from one of the most popular television shows in the world – and then defying all cynical expectations that they’re just doing this for the […]