Bill Benson
When I became a man, I put away childish things . . . NEXT COMIC: There are scarier things than dragons in Bob the Angry Flower: Next: Another great new invention in End of the Earth:
End of the Earth
End of the Earth is in summer reruns – now chug your Giant-Ass Mouth Beer! NEXT COMIC: Bill Benson gets in touch with his inner nerd: Next: Bob the Angry Flower slays the wrong dragon:
REVIEW: Silence screams #MeToo from a thousand years ago
Silence, the season closer for the U of A’s Studio Theatre, takes us back 1,000 years to the time of King Ethelred, known to history as “The Unready” – who ruled the English from 966 to 1016 AD. Moira Buffini’s sprawling saga is set in the shadow of the end of the world. Like many […]
WEEKEND MUSIC: A match made in folk music heaven
Imagine, if you will, two of Western Canada’s most outstanding folk artists on tour together. Then imagine if they decided that instead of doing separate sets, one opening for the other, they’d play on each other’s songs, together. It’s not The Twilight Zone. It just what Michael Bernard Fitzgerald and J. J. Shiplett have decided […]
Bob the Angry Flower
We demand to see the full uncensored comic! NEXT COMIC: Baseball’s been very very good to End of the Earth: Next: Bill Benson throws out his back watching too much TV:
Bill Benson
Ow, poor Bill! NEXT COMIC: Bob the Angry Flower redacts the redactions: Next: Collegiate summer baseball season is here – in End of the Earth:
End of the Earth
Edmonton Prospects home opener on May 25! NEXT COMIC: Bill Benson watches TV so you don’t have to: Next: Omigod! Bob the Angry Flower is [REDACTED]:
Grindstone on the nose! Comedy fest an off-Whyte hit
The Grindstone Comedy Theatre & Bistro is a lively little off-Whyte oasis in the otherwise boring squalor of the 81st Avenue area east of 102 Street – in the fringe of the Ritchie neighbourhood that wouldn’t be out of place in Stettler. But with this weekend’s inaugural Grindstone Comedy Festival, it’s clear this club is […]
REVIEW: Life is a Cabaret, old chum!
Edmonton’s ambitious ELOPE Musical Theatre company is attempting to take us back to 1930s Germany in a new production of the classic musical Cabaret. As we enter the Westbury Theatre in the ATB Financial Arts Barns – where the show plays until May 11 – we immediately find ourselves in the “Kit Kat Club,” a […]
LISTEN HERE: Dancing to Joni Mitchell
Hear music from Alberta Ballet’s The Fiddle & The Drum Joni Mitchell was the first pop star that Canadian ballet-meister Jean Grand-Maitre pitched to do a ballet. Jean has since done so-called “portrait” ballets about Elton John, Sarah McLachlan, Gordon Lightfoot, k.d. lang, and The Tragically Hip – but Joni was the first. Ten […]
Bob the Angry Flower
Time for a Fireball now! NEXT COMIC: Fire of a different sort in a vintage End of the Earth: Next: What’s with all the geese in Bill Benson?
Bill Benson
Also: HONK! NEXT COMIC: Seems to be some kind of Game of Thrones reference in Bob the Angry Flower: Next: Wildrose Sloth appears in classic 2015 End of the Earth comic:
