Holy s—! Edmonton metal band Striker to open for Metallica
Posted on August 15, 2012 By Mike Ross Front Slider, Music
Striker – an Edmonton speed metal band very much in the vein of early Metallica – has won the opening spot for this weekend’s Metallica concerts in a contest sponsored by the Bear radio station. They’ll play Friday and Saturday at Rexall Place. The band wasn’t immediately available for comment, but posted this statement on […]
FRINGE CITY: The Return of the Borg
Posted on August 14, 2012 By Mike Ross Comedy, Culture, Front Slider, Theatre
It’s always nice when an ex-Edmontonian comes back to visit. Break out the good bong. And show your love for Wes Borg when he returns to this year’s Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival – running Aug. 16-26 at innumerable theatres around town – the first time since his friend and partner Joe Bird died suddenly […]
FOLK FEST WRAP: Dr. John rocks in his dragon socks
Posted on August 13, 2012 By Barry Hammond Front Slider, Music
Dr. John wears dragon socks inside of snakeskin shoes. Perfect. It’s the little details that help create some favourite memories of Edmonton Folk Music Festival, which wrapped up its 33rd edition at Gallagher Park on Sunday. In a workshop called “Treme” – after the New Orleans district hard hit by Hurricane Katrina – Dr. John […]
Alexisonfire farewell tour to hit Edmonton in December
Posted on August 9, 2012 By Albert Smith Front Slider, Music
It just wouldn’t be a proper break-up without a farewell tour. The principal members of Alexisonfire – singers Dallas Green and George Pettit – have obviously buried the hatchet long enough to get together and just come back to say goodbye. The briefly reunited Canadian punk rock band will include Edmonton on its farewell tour, […]
PREVIEW REVIEW: Fringe plays get one minute of fame
Posted on August 7, 2012 By Mike Ross Front Slider, Theatre
Imagine you’re a big time movie director alone on an elevator with a mime for one minute. Better yet, imagine you’re a big time movie director stuck in an elevator with a horde of actors, comics, dancers, singers, musicians and don’t forget mimes, each of whom have an amazing story pitch. You will be rescued […]
ANNOUNCING: Jeff Dunham, Wintersleep, The Wiggles
Posted on August 7, 2012 By Albert Smith Comedy, Front Slider, Music
One of the biggest stand-up comics who gets away with murder because he can blame it all on his racist puppets is returning to Edmonton. You guessed it: Jeff Dunham – along with Walter, Peanut, Jose Jalapeno on a Stick, Melvin the Superhero Guy and the ever-loving Achmed the Dead Terrorist, and many more! – […]
BRING MONEY: Heritage Festival running hot and heavy all weekend
Posted on August 4, 2012 By Mike Ross Dining, Family, Front Slider
The Servus Heritage Festival, Edmonton’s most delicious festival, is going hot and heavy at Hawrelak Park all weekend – and judging from the madding crowds on opening day Saturday, this could be a record breaker. Attendees are advised to bring: – More money than you think you need, which is converted into “Heritage Euros,” better […]
Heritage Festival to be a backyard BBQ for 340,000
Posted on August 1, 2012 By Maurice Tougas Dining, Family, Front Slider, Music
Jack Little has a lot on his plate right about now. He’s getting ready to host a party, which requires food and drink, some music and a whole lot of dancing. This is no backyard BBQ. Little is the executive director of the much-loved Edmonton institution, the Servus Heritage Festival. If the weather holds, he’s […]
NEW FESTIVAL NAME: K stands for Klondike, you nitwits
Posted on July 30, 2012 By LH Thomson Comedy, Culture, Family, Front Slider
The most anti-climactic, waste-of-money contest in city history has wrapped up and we have a new fair name. The winner? No one, really. When Northlands announced a couple of months back that they’d be looking for a new name for Capital Ex, the collective yell for a return to the silly-but-lovely tradition that was K-Days […]
WHO NAMED THE BAND: Shout Out Out Out Out a spacey echo
Posted on July 24, 2012 By Mike Ross Front Slider, Music
Edmonton’s Shout Out Out Out Out is another band that displays the rare phenomenon known as “rockonomatopoeia.” The band sounds like its name. Shout Out Out Out Out member Whitey Houston, aka Lyle Bell, asks us to imagine using a Space Echo – one of several pieces of vintage musical equipment this band uses (and […]
FOOD: A ‘taste’ of Edmonton is about right
Posted on July 22, 2012 By Scott Lingley Food, Front Slider
Some, not me, have seen fit in the past to deride A Taste of Edmonton as the River City’s Festival of Small Portions, a pay-to-play agglomeration of lean-to food factories cranking out small bites for ticket-wielding foodies clogging up a Sir Winston Churchill Square desperately in need of shade. But of course, that’s the point—to […]
BOOKS: Win insight into the world of Paul Bellini
Posted on July 18, 2012 By Wayne Arthurson Culture, Front Slider
People of a certain age know the name Bellini. He’s the towel wearing guy that would appear in the odd episode of Kids in the Hall. But Bellini (Paul Bellini is his full name) is more than just that towel wearing guy or the second most famous person from Timmins (Shania Twain is #1). He’s […]
