Backstreet Boys karaoke schtick a porcine makeover
On Thursday night, The Backstreet Boys proved that you can put makeup on a pig and that such a porcine makeover can work wonders. The lads (Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell, A.J. McLean and Kevin Richardson) who cornered the boy band industry with their take on spit-shined gawkery and nabbed the teen market […]
Teatro la Quindicina embraces The Bad Seed
Rhoda Penmark is the perfect child. She’s 8 years old and the ideal 50’s realization of what ’30’s movie moppet Shirley Temple might have been in those times. She’s modest, intelligent, sweet, loving and with her perfect braids and freshly pressed dresses, she is a proper daughter for her loving parents. At school she gets […]
WEEKEND MUSIC PREVIEW: Backstreet is back and it is all right
All the dance moves. All the hits. The 1990’s boy band to end all boy bands, the Backstreet Boys, still has all the mojo you could imagine, and they’re entering the second leg of their world tour, now intent on recapturing the hearts of their North American fans. They play Rogers Place (8pm, $110 and […]
Bob the Angry Flower
Wait, what? $750 per person per day?! NEXT COMIC: Costs less to go to K-Days in End of the Earth: Next: Bill Benson eavesdrops on Baby Boomers:
SOCIAL MEDIA HAPPENINGS
Get off my lawn! NEXT COMIC: Bob the Angry Flower makes my blood BOIL! Next: You WILL go to K-Days in End of the Earth:
End of the Earth
Be careful what you don’t wish for! NEXT COMIC: Bill Benson pokes Baby Boomers: Next: Bob the Angry Flower embraces cognitive dissonance:
MUSIC PREVIEW: Bar raised at Taste of Edmonton
Longtime locals should remember a time when the musical acts they booked at Klondike Days, Taste of Edmonton, The Works, and other summery general interest not-actually-music festivals came off like an afterthought on a low budget. In short, meh … Times have changed, and the live music bar seems to have been raised for these […]
YOUR FAVOURITE BAND SUCKS: Summer of Concert Cancellations in Edmonton!
The latest cancellation to plague Edmonton’s summer of 2019 concert schedule is Rob Zombie – who has pulled out of the CHAOS Festival at Kinsmen Park on July 26-27. No word on the reason beyond “unforeseen circumstances.” His replacement? The Cult. No shade on The Cult, a dependable British rock band, but they’re not in […]
Bob the Angry Flower
Click HERE to buy Bob’s new book! NEXT COMIC: Do you recognize any of the acts in our newest music festival? Next: Other animal-killing Calgary Stampede ‘sports’ in SOCIAL MEDIA HAPPENINGS:
SOCIAL MEDIA HAPPENINGS
Ow, oh, just a broken leg, I’ll just walk it off . . . said no horse ever NEXT COMIC: Bob the Angry Flower has a new book! Next: 2013 Music Festival Parody just as relevant today in End of the Earth:
End of the Earth
Ha! The only ‘real’ band on the bill is Jr. Gone Wild – not counting the tribute band Pull the Goalie. NEXT COMIC: Bell Benson takes a stand on horses killed at the Calgary Stampede: Next: Bob the Angry Flower now in BOOK FORM!
WEEKEND MUSIC: I will follow Death Cab for Cutie into the dark
I Will Follow You Into the Dark kills me every time I hear it. The 2005 song by Death Cab for Cutie is on the subject of literally undying love. It’s a perfect song with acoustic guitar, over which frontman Ben Gibbard sings a dark lullaby: “Love of mine, someday you will die, but I’ll […]
