REVIEW: Boatload of blarney, great music in new Newfoundland musical
With the astounding success of Come From Away – a musical about Newfoundlanders who took care of stranded travelers after 9-11 – it was just a question of time before another Newfoundland musical should heave into sight. The new work, with its sights set on Broadway (say the producers), has settled in for a four […]
MUSIC PREVIEW: Rocketman’s farewell hottest ticket in Edmonton
Sir Elton John rolls into town this weekend in the midst of his three-year, 300-plus date Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour. At Rogers Place for a two-nighter Friday and Saturday, the legendary Rocketman had a slew of successive hit singles in the 1970s and 1980s, including Crocodile Rock, Daniel, Pinball Wizard, Don’t Go Breaking My […]
OLD MAN MIKULA’S CONTROVERSIAL OPINIONS: 5 Ways to Autumn in Edmonton
Autumn is a bittersweet time in Edmonton. Our hazy smoke-filled summers are fleeting, and it can be difficult to come to terms with the fact that the solar terminator has been perpendicular to the equator resulting in the Northern and Southern hemispheres being equally illuminated, and it is now fall. Denim legs are sewn onto […]
Bob the Angry Flower
Just use your time machine, man! NEXT COMIC: Wildrose Sloth also displays lust in End of the Earth: THIRD COMIC: Bill Benson can’t decide who not to vote for:
SOCIAL MEDIA HAPPENINGS
Wait, is that an NDP endorsement? NEXT COMIC: Bob the Angry Flower endorses having a happy birthday! THIRD COMIC: The (slow) return of Wildrose Sloth in End of the Earth:
End of the Sloth
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 […]
