End of the Sloth
Posted on September 23, 2019 By Staff Comics, Front Slider
Wildrose Sloth is a little slow. NEXT COMIC: Bill Benson endorses the NDP, sorta: THIRD comic: Bob the Angry Flower shares a birthday with a famous author, sorta:
MUSIC PREVIEW: Ghost brings Swedish spookypop to Edmonton on Death tour
Posted on September 19, 2019 By Mike Ross Entertainment, Front Slider, Music
For a band few people have ever heard of to suddenly appear in Edmonton’s biggest indoor concert venue is worth noting. The band Ghost plays Monday, Sept. 23 at Rogers Place. It’s a smaller-sized concert bowl, but still. Several thousand fans who already know this theatrical Swedish hard rock band are expected to turn up […]
Bob the Angry Flower
Posted on September 17, 2019 By Stephen Notley Comics, Front Slider
How about robots? NEXT COMIC: Creeps who harass women in End of the Earth: THIRD COMIC: Bill Benson is talking to himself again:
SOCIAL MEDIA HAPPENINGS
Posted on September 17, 2019 By BILL BENSON Comics, Front Slider
Can’t one be both? NEXT COMIC: Bob the Angry Flower contemplates OMNICIDE! THIRD COMIC: Sexual harassment satire in new End of the Earth:
End of the Earth
Posted on September 17, 2019 By Chad Huculak Comics, Front Slider
Based on actual online exchanges! NEXT COMIC: Bill Benson is of at least two minds today: THIRD COMIC: Bob the Angry Flower realizes that killing everything is not a good idea after all:
LISTEN HERE: The Royal Foundry wants to WAKEUP from bad dream
Posted on September 12, 2019 By Mike Ross Entertainment, Front Slider, Music, music
EXCLUSIVE! Hear Edmonton band’s new single several hours before release! The counterintuitive trick about empathy and validation is that you do NOT want to comfort someone with the old tropes: “Don’t worry about it! Everything’s going to be fine! You can do this! Believe in yourself!” – because then you’re dismissing the feeling. Sometimes everything […]
MUSIC PREVIEW: Indie star Lissie stars at the Starlite Room
Posted on September 11, 2019 By Michael Senchuk Entertainment, Front Slider, Music
From her home base on her farm in Iowa, Lissie has become an indie sensation. The Indiana-born country-folk artist seen every one of her first four studio albums grab a spot in the top 15 of the US Folk chart, and the last two have accomplished the same feat on the US Indie chart. Many […]
Bob the Angry Flower
Posted on September 10, 2019 By Stephen Notley Comics, Front Slider
The pen is mightier than the sword. NEXT COMIC: Men talk sports, trucks, beer and more in End of the Earth: THIRD COMIC: Don’t mess with Bill Benson or he’ll EMAIL you!
SOCIAL MEDIA HAPPENINGS
Posted on September 10, 2019 By BILL BENSON Comics, Front Slider
Clear your browser history right now! NEXT COMIC: Small hand holding big pen in Bob the Angry Flower: THIRD COMIC: What do real men talk about in End of the Earth?
End of the Earth
Posted on September 10, 2019 By Staff Comics, Front Slider
Not all at the same time NEXT COMIC: Bill Benson is a DOXER for hire! THIRD COMIC: Bob the Angry Flower jumps on Trump:
OLD MAN MIKULA’S CONTROVERSIAL OPINIONS: Guide to E-Scooters in E-Town
Posted on September 8, 2019 By Tim Mikula Comedy, Entertainment, Front Slider, Life, life
In mid-August, publicly available E-Scooters were dropped off by rival companies Bird and Lime in the dead of night. Scooters have finally been wrenched from the hands of feckless early 2000s pop punks, automated, monetized, and thrust into the clammy grip of the average consumer. They came with no instruction, save a lengthy user agreement […]
REVIEW: Million Dollar Quartet a superb show from the supergroup that never was
Posted on September 7, 2019 By Colin MacLean Entertainment, entertainment, Front Slider, Theatre
On December 4, 1956, four great rockabilly artists met in Sam Phillips’ primitive Sun Recording Studios in Memphis. Two of the four, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis, were there laying down a recording under Phillips’ direction. Johnny Cash dropped in, as did Elvis, who by that time was becoming one of the top acts […]