WHAT’S GOING ON: Here are Some Live Entertainment Listings!
Posted on November 9, 2021 By Mike Ross Entertainment, Front Slider, music, Theatre
Is it safe to go out and be live entertained again? Who knows?! Make your own decisions. We’re all grown-ups here. Too bad for the real Jason Kenney that Jason Kenney’s Hot Boy Summer has SOLD OUT its entire run at the Grindstone Theatre Nov. 10-21. I’m sure they could sneak the Premier in to […]
Bob the Angry Flower
Posted on November 8, 2021 By Stephen Notley Comics, culture, Front Slider
Out of order
HOCKEY: In the Box with Brent & Craig
Posted on November 3, 2021 By Brent Oliver & Craig Douglas Front Slider, News, news
Magnificent Seven Seven and one for your FIRST PLACE (in the Western Conference) Edmonton Oilers, and the boys from In The Box have plenty to say about it. Was the Flyers game their only losing effort for the foreseeable future? Is Koskinen really that good? Why is the culture of hockey a cesspool of enablers […]
Bob the Angry Flower
Posted on November 1, 2021 By Stephen Notley Comics, Front Slider
From around the Earth
Bob the Angry Flower
Posted on October 25, 2021 By Stephen Notley Comics, Film, Front Slider
What’s in the box?
Bob the Angry Flower
Posted on October 18, 2021 By Stephen Notley Comics, Front Slider
There goes the plan
HOCKEY: In the Box with Brent & Craig
Posted on October 18, 2021 By Brent Oliver & Craig Douglas Front Slider, news
It Takes Two To Make a Thing Go Right Two games in and the Oil are unbeaten. 82 and 0 here we come! In all seriousness, the Oilers looked very good in their opening week pulling off a shootout against the godless Canucks and a complete bloodbath beatdown of the hated Flames on Hockey Night […]
HOCKEY: In the Box with Brent & Craig
Posted on October 13, 2021 By Brent Oliver & Craig Douglas Front Slider, News
Hype Springs Eternal We’re back, and this time – with a sponsor! In The Box’s filthy reviews of Oilers play is now brought to you by the fine folks at Home & Away – opening soon in the old Mercer Tavern. As per tradition, Craig & Brent get a bunch of musician friends and local […]
Kerrie Long Moving On After 17 Years as EIFF Producer
Posted on October 12, 2021 By Jason Husak Entertainment, Film, Front Slider, news
The 2021 edition of the Edmonton International Film Festival is a wrap – after showcasing dozens of films from around the world, some of them Oscar contenders – and now producer Kerrie Long has decided to give up the job. She’ll be stepping back to focus on working with the business community of Edmonton, while […]
Bob the Angry Flower
Posted on October 11, 2021 By Stephen Notley Comics, Front Slider, news
Scientific truth is beyond loyalty
REVIEW: EIFF Closer Holy Frit! Explores Art of Christianity
Posted on October 7, 2021 By Colin MacLean culture, Entertainment, Film, Front Slider
The art of stained glass goes back to ancient Egypt when artisans wound molten glass around a clay core. Traditionally bits of different coloured glass are assembled into a whole and the result in the churches of the world is art. In this century leaded glass windows in churches have gone through a fall from […]
EIFF REVIEW: Dogsville a Touching Doc on Good Dogs
Posted on October 5, 2021 By Colin MacLean Entertainment, Film, Front Slider, news
It’s all spelled out in the opening frame: Dogs are perfect. Always perfect. Screening Saturday as part of the Edmonton International Film Festival, Dogsville is an hour-long documentary about competitive dog training – leading to the IFCS World Agility Championship in the Netherlands. It’s also a probing look at the trainers behind the competitions, and […]