REVIEW: Michelle Obama thrills Edmonton fans with familiar inspirations
The numbers are in! Michelle Obama is the coolest First Lady in American history – a fact she made plain before a crowd of thousands of women in Rogers Place on Friday night. Biggest book tour ever. Certainly Eleanor Roosevelt is in the running for coolest wife of an American president. So is Abigail Fillmore. […]
Lungs filled with doom in dark comedy
The Shadow Theatre production of Duncan Macmillan’s Lungs was supposed to open on March 13. But then the production blew up, losing its Montreal-based director and two local stars. When we finally got to see the show on Friday March 22, the directing credit was split between the assistant director Emma Houghton and Shadow Artistic […]
MacEwan cast aces Broadway classic
So, there’s this Damon Runyon guy, an ink-stained sports scribe crankin’ it in the Big Apple of the 1930s. When he’s not covering the likes of Babe Ruth or Jack Dempsey, six’ll get ya’ five, his battered Smith Corona is churning out tales of Nathan Detroit, Harry the Horse, Nicely Nicely Johnson, Good Time Charlie […]
MUSIC PREVIEW: PUP socks!
Next Wednesday, March 27, the venerable Starlite Room hosts a sold out show with the Toronto punk rock quartet PUP. Originally going under the name Topanga, the brood’s eponymous debut album was released in 2014 after signing with Hollerado’s label, Royal Mountain Records, and produced by Dave Schiffman (Rage Against the Machine, Weezer). It was […]
THEATRE PEOPLE: Fearless Dove takes a flying leap
A rock musician turning into an actor is rare enough in this town to be noteworthy. Consider the curious case of Dove Brown, longtime bassist for Jr. Gone Wild lately spotted on stage at the new Grindstone Comedy Theatre. He plays the Paul Shaffer to Dana Andersen’s Letterman in the improvised talk show Up Late […]
Bob the Angry Flower
Now what reporter would have the balls to call the Supremor’s policies ‘appalling?’ NEXT COMIC: Speaking of appalling lies, check out the latest End of the Earth: And now: Bill Benson scores an unintentional shot at ‘The Giving Tree.’
Bill Benson
In case you missed the horrible subtext in ‘The Giving Tree.’ Next comic: Bob the Angry Flower’s lies finally catch up to him: And now: End of the Earth paints a grim picture of the new regime:
End of the Earth
Aw, we missed you, Ralph! Next comic: Bill Benson plays ‘The Giving Tree.’ And Bob the Angry Flower literally cries crocodile tears!
REVIEW: Anxieties speak louder than words in Small Mouth Sounds
Six distressed souls find their way to a silent spiritual retreat in upstate New York. They hope to find relief from their troubled lives – casting off the mental and emotional baggage they have picked up along the way. There, amongst the mosquitoes (and what sounds like a pack of ravening wolves and one pissed […]
MUSIC PREVIEW: Streetheart survivors pay tribute to their fallen leader
Some classic rock bands get grief from fans for continuing under their old name after the loss of their lead singer. But put yourself in their shoes: You work hard your whole life, share all the good times, the bad, help make your band much more than the sum of its parts – and then […]
Can we still listen to Michael Jackson? Short answer – No
Anyone who made it all the way through HBO’s harrowing four-hour Leaving Neverland documentary might have a tough time hearing Michael Jackson music now. Not everybody feels this way, of course, and let’s not judge, but to hear such sickening detail of how Jackson secretly abused and used little boys removes any shred of doubt […]
REVIEW: Lynyrd Skynyrd brings out a little redneck in Edmonton
There weren’t a lot of Confederate flags spotted at the Lynyrd Skynyrd concert in Edmonton on Tuesday night. Maybe four in a crowd of thousands at Rogers Place – not counting the one hanging from lead singer Johnny Van Zant’s microphone. Sure, it was a bit distracting – but not enough to take away from […]
