REVIEW: Evil Clowns Slaughter Shakespeare in Disturbing New Play
Posted on January 31, 2020 By Colin MacLean Entertainment, Front Slider, Theatre

The audacious new production from Theatre Network will have you helpless with laughter – as long you don’t mind humour that is outrageous, dark and discomforting. It’s called The Society for the Destitute Presents Titus Buffonius – and it’s a clown show. There are no red noses or seltzer bottles. It’s bloody, bawdy and grotesquely […]
End of the News
Posted on January 27, 2020 By Chad Huculak Comics, Front Slider

Available at the finest coffee shops
Bob the Angry Flower
Posted on January 27, 2020 By Stephen Notley Comics, Front Slider

Game over, man! GAME OVER!
Gender Wars Reach Fever Pitch in Hilarious Happy Birthday Baby J
Posted on January 24, 2020 By Colin MacLean Entertainment, Front Slider, news, Theatre

Here’s a play for those of us who are endeavouring to come to grips with the increasing complexities of living in a gender-diverse society where sexuality is expressed in a very fluid and ever-changing manner. Even the lexicon of describing this rainbow-coloured world is full of traps for those who may have missed the subtleties […]
CONCERT REVIEW: Renewed Alexisonfire Rocks Edmonton
Posted on January 23, 2020 By Danielle Paradis Entertainment, Front Slider, Music, music

The pit was packed for Alexisonfire in Edmonton – but keep your hats to yourself! That was just one of the messages from this very accessible Canadian post-hardcore band, which played Rogers Place Wednesday night – just two months after its singer Dallas Green was in same building with City and Colour. While their initial […]
SOCIAL MEDIA HAPPENINGS
Posted on January 22, 2020 By BILL BENSON Comics, Front Slider

WOOOOOOSH! What?
MUSIC PREVIEW: Colditus Winterruption
Posted on January 22, 2020 By Michael Senchuk Entertainment, Front Slider, Music

The biggest gigs this weekend are all part of the inaugural Winterruption festival, which stretches from Thursday all the way through Sunday, with some pretty big names in some common, and some not so common, venues. Opening night – Thursday – sees Toronto’s Weaves (above) headline a monster lineup at the Starlite Room. The indie […]
LISTEN HERE: Is it worth feeling sad and sorry all the time? Yikes!
Posted on January 17, 2020 By Mike Ross Entertainment, Front Slider, music, Music

“I care a lot more about the song than I do about her.” Whoa, man. That’s a dark burn from Edmonton songwriter Scott Deshane, frontman of a band called Yikes. He’s talking about his melancholy new song Tighter – about a personal and once-painful break-up. He says he wrote song several years ago with his […]
REVIEW: Emotional Impact of Disability Probed in Pulitzer-Winning Play
Posted on January 17, 2020 By Colin MacLean Entertainment, Front Slider, Theatre

Cost of Living is about society’s marginalized people isolated by poverty or disability. It features four excellent performers who fashion fully-functioning characters out of subjects that are anything but functional. The play deeply probes the problems of living with disability, and the loss and the sacrifice that entails. It minutely examines the lives of people […]
MUSIC PREVIEW: Alexisonfire, not broken up after all, returns to Edmonton
Posted on January 15, 2020 By Mike Ross Entertainment, Front Slider, Music

There are few things that can boost a band’s popularity more than breaking up. You do the tearful farewell tour, a lot of your fans show up to see you off, you make some retirement money, and everyone’s happy. Yet still a bit sad – until of course said band gets back together again. Behold […]