NextFest celebrates growth of Edmonton’s arts community
Posted on June 1, 2011 By Adrian Lackey Culture, Family, Front Slider, Music, Visual Arts
With local outfits like U22 Productions and Next Gen and events like NextFest and Pecha Kucha, Edmonton has an explosive arts vibe these days. Maybe it’s the social networking or the sense of appreciation for the important things that sometimes comes about after a recession, but hardly a night goes by in E-town without a […]
U2 IN EDMONTON: Where the streets literally have no name
Posted on June 1, 2011 By Staff Front Slider, Music
It’s a beautiful day in Edmonton when love comes to town, where anticipation wasn’t better than the real thing – in a place where the streets literally have no name. Just ask the people walking down 82nd Avenue, or “Whyte,” as some folks insist on calling it. Perhaps Bono and the Edge and the Other […]
TRUE TALES OF THE ROAD: Tea with Bono
Posted on May 31, 2011 By Mike Ross Culture, Front Slider, Music, TV and Radio
Before the concert of this decade – tonight at Commonwealth Stadium – there was the concert of the last decade. It’s 1997 (we seem to be missing a decade) and U2 comes to Edmonton to play not one, but two shows at the stadium on the band’s Popmart tour. Local media greet the band on […]
U2 fever sweeps Edmonton
Posted on May 30, 2011 By Albert Smith Front Slider, Music
The floodlights are on at Commonwealth Stadium. They’re building something that looks like the timewarp machine from Contact. Is Jodie Foster coming? Something’s going on. You can feel the excitement in the air, the local media has gone on full paparazzi alert, fans are staking out the Fairmont Hotel Macdonald, the TV weather forecasters are […]
REVIEW: The misadventure of Lauryn Hill
Posted on May 29, 2011 By Mike Ross Culture, Front Slider, Music
Free advice for Lauryn Hill: Fire your soundman. Fire your bass player. Fire your drummer. Keep your backup singers. And for God’s sake, please chill out just a wee bit. These are really the only conclusions a discerning music fan can draw from Hill’s terribly disappointing show Saturday, May 28 at the Edmonton Event Centre. […]
Andrew WK recruits an X-Man
Posted on May 28, 2011 By Chad Huculak Culture, Front Slider, Music
Andrew WK has a new partner in partying. Gig City caught up with the Party Hard hitmaker backstage at the Pawn Shop Friday night as he rolled through with his mysterious new protégé/collaborator Aleister X to give Edmonton a show like no other. Flashing a warm smile, Wilkes Krier assures us he still loves to […]
Aboriginal Slave Lake benefit to raise spirits at Legislature bandshell
Posted on May 26, 2011 By Mike Ross Family, Front Slider, Music
When Ron Walker isn’t pow-wow dancing, he’s a youth worker who specializes in easing aboriginal kids through the culture shock of moving from small towns to the big city. More than 10,000 Slave Lake residents were put in that situation rather suddenly last week when a terrible forest fire destroyed a third of the town. […]
THEATRE: Love Song a rom-com for the lonely man
Posted on May 25, 2011 By Albert Smith Culture, Front Slider, Theatre
Perhaps you or someone you know was once in danger of becoming … chronically single. You’d get set in your ways, get a cat, maybe surf for porn a bit too much for your own good and often have dinner at the houses of friends who now all seem to come in pairs. They’d occasionally […]
TRUE TALES OF THE FOOD: Switchfoot meets the balut
Posted on May 24, 2011 By Albert Smith Front Slider, Music
It would’ve been nice to talk about the whole Christian rock thing with the Grammy-winning Christian rock band Switchfoot, which played at Rexall Place May 27 as part of YC Alberta , the annual Christian youth conference – but sadly, like the Rapture, it was not meant to be. The good news: One of the […]
NEW MUSIC: Ben Harper, The Trews and getting to a point
Posted on May 22, 2011 By Michael Senchuk Front Slider, Music
Completing an album that’s solid from front to back, stays true to your artistic vision… but also pushes some musical boundaries to garner new fans? It’s an incredible challenge. Are Ben Harper and The Trews up to it? Two time Grammy winner Ben Harper released his latest album, “Give Till It’s Gone”, last Tuesday (May […]
WORLD DOESN’T END: Hip Hop in the Dark a go tonight
Posted on May 22, 2011 By Staff Front Slider, Music
By most reports, the fourth annual Hip Hop in the Park yesterday at Louise McKinney Park was a smashing success. The beats were dope, the flow was, ah, also dope, and the hypemen were … hyping. Have to brush up on our hip hop lingo here. Co-organizer and hip hop enthusiast Melissa L.A. Bishop posted […]
Local rockers unite for Slave Lake Aid
Posted on May 20, 2011 By Albert Smith Front Slider, Music
Entertainers are in the unique position of being able to help others by doing exactly what they’d be doing anyway – entertain. Most civic-minded citizens volunteer for jobs that they don’t do every day, or aren’t necessarily qualified for, such as serve on the board of a community league or, say, grab a shovel and […]
