Bob the Angry Flower
You know it’s your time when it stops. NEXT COMIC: Guilt and forgiveness in End of the Earth: NEXT: Bill Benson wonders what oil the fuss is about:
SOCIAL MEDIA HAPPENINGS
Long and leaky NEXT COMIC: Bob the Angry Flower reminds everyone to check the batteries on their smoke detectors: NEXT: Someone has a new girlfriend in End of the Earth:
End of the Earth
Luck o’ the Irish! NEXT COMIC: Bill Benson ponders the Shape of Oil: NEXT: Bob the Angry Flower feels human!
IN IT FOR LOVE: Herb Alpert and Lani Hall Perform in Edmonton next Spring
Trumpeting legend Herb Alpert was the “A” in A&M Records, and when he and his partner Jerry Moss sold their company to PolyGram in 1992, they each wound up with several hundred million dollars. Then there’s the royalty and licensing fees for all that music by the Tijuana Brass in the 1960s, including that one […]
Scary Good Alice Cooper Returns to Edmonton in Spring 2020
Like all of us, the older Alice Cooper gets, the scarier he looks – which works out well for the original King of Shock Rock. Even if it’s more burlesque these days, as much laugh as scream, the 71-year-old rocker is still going strong – thanks to clean living in his senior years (a contrast […]
REVIEW: Richard III feels like Trump I
If ever a play was written for our times it is Shakespeare’s Richard III – even if it was penned in 1593. Now is a time when global politics seems to be sliding deeper into cynicism and gaslighting. “Don’t believe what you’re seeing and hearing – just believe ME!” This production is another in a […]
LISTEN HERE: Clayton Congregation Comes Together
Clayton Bellamy has been several things to many people: A solo act, a member of the highly-decorated country-rock band The Road Hammers, a short-lived CISN Country radio announcer, and now the leader of “The Congregation” – new project he says “doesn’t have a sniff” of country. Take him at his word. It’s more like the […]
CONCERT REVIEW: Morrissey Shows Up in Edmonton
The joke here is that people were taking bets on when Morrissey would cancel his Edmonton show – again. This guy is George “No Show” Jones-famous for cancelling concerts. But no! Although he’d postponed the previously scheduled April show here, the Pope of Mope fulfilled his contract for the make-up date Thursday night in Edmonton, […]
Student Climate Strike draws counter-protest – FROM INSIDE THE BUILDING!
There have been few protests in Edmonton as large and lively as the Student Climate Strike on Sept. 27. More than 4,000 people, the majority of which were students who skipped school, converged on the Alberta Legislature to demand action on climate change – only to be faced with a sign in a window of […]
OLD MAN MIKULA’S CONTROVERSIAL OPINIONS: 2 Recent Edmonton Lows
Low No. 1 In a beef-handed attempt at alleviating climate anxiety while simultaneously highlighting research done by the institution, the University of Alberta purchased billboard space extolling the virtues of climate change. It is citing a study that says in a runaway climate apocalypse, barley will require 10-60% less water to grow. The barley is […]
MUSIC PREVIEW: Shinedown, you crazy diamond
Florida act Shinedown blitzkriegs through the city Friday night as part of their “Attention Attention” World Tour, supporting their 2018 album of the same name. A concept album, it finds an individual in the throes of negativity and charts their course to becoming reborn as a new and positive one. The alt-hard rock band was […]
Bob the Angry Flower
Coming to a big screen near you! NEXT COMIC: Just a few millimeters of fur in End of the Earth: NEXT: Bill Benson reviews Joker:
