REVIEW: Billy Idol shows off his age in short River Cree concert
It’s a shame that Mythbusters isn’t running on the telly these days, because if there’s one popular fabrication that needs to be debunked, it’s that being a sexagenarian has absolutely nothing to do with sex. All they have to do is trot out Billy Idol as Exhibit A – and silence those age-shaming social media […]
Bob the Angry Flower
And cheddar cheese is Soylent Orange! NEXT COMIC: Lots of great food at K-Days, in End of the Earth: Next: Bill Benson gets hacked by Russians:
SOCIAL MEDIA HAPPENINGS
Ha, ‘hackers’ NEXT COMIC: More cannibalism in Bob the Angry Flower: Next: A great K-Days idea from End of the Earth:
End of the Earth
K can stand for anything you want! NEXT COMIC: Russian ‘hackers’ in SOCIAL MEDIA HAPPENINGS: NEXT: Bob the Angry Flower turns BLUE (again):
Italy comes alive in Walterdale romance
The Light in the Piazza is a rarefied experience. It’s not a brash, glitzy Broadway show. Although some of its demands are operatic, it’s not an opera. It’s more of an operetta. Adam Guettel’s music is lush, but quite complex with unsuspected harmonic shifts. To give you an idea of what it calls for in […]
MUSIC PREVIEW: Founds Grounds Abounds
Two of the city’s most extraordinary promoters, Double Lunch Productions and Sweaty Palms, have joined forces to put on an epic series of shows called the Found Grounds Music Series at the Backstage Theatre (Old Strathcona Arts Barns), during the city’s Found Festival. Friday’s show is perhaps the pinnacle with Jessica Jalbert. She is of […]
LISTEN HERE: Ken Stead in Trouble
If you’ve got trouble, wait, don’t run! This kind of trouble is lots of fun! This familiar commercial for the old board game may offer insight into the mindset of local singer-songwriter-rocker Ken Stead when he wrote a song called Trouble. It deals with man (or woman, depending) who finds himself in a real relationship […]
Bob the Angry Flower
Proud! NEXT COMIC: Bros also prideful in End of the Earth: Next: SOCIAL MEDIA HAPPENINGS goes deep:
SOCIAL MEDIA HAPPENINGS
Well, happy Canada Day anyway! NEXT COMIC: Bob the Angry Flower is proud: Next: Going bro in End of the Earth:
End of the Earth
How else would you know your beer is cold? NEXT COMIC: Bill Benson waxes poetic on Canada Day: Next: Bob the Angry flower is full of something today:
WHO NAMED THE BAND: The Dungarees fit perfectly
Naming a country band is just as difficult as naming a rock band. It’s like branding a cow – to use a simile country folk may be familiar with. The cow doesn’t want to be branded. It resists the branding iron, because it hurts. Yet once the scar has healed the cow barely notices the […]
Opera NUOVA’s Secret Garden blooms in dark musical at Festival Place
Many remember Frances Hodgson Burnett’s beloved 1911 novel The Secret Garden as a great read from their childhood. It’s about a hidden garden that flowers and brings new life to all who enter. A new production of the Lucy Simon (music) and Marsha Norman (book & lyrics) 1991 musical from Edmonton’s Opera NUOVA – in […]
