COME FROM AWAY: Dazzling new musical shows heart of Newfoundland on 9-11
In 2012, the visionary Toronto show business lawyer Michael Rubinoff and his two Canadian book-lyricist-composers Irene Sankoff and David Hein mounted a 45 minute workshop production that combined the horrors of 9-11 with the quite incredible warmth of the people of Gander, Newfoundland. The amiable Newfoundlanders had opened their hearts and homes to some 7,000 […]
LISTEN HERE: Ben Sures at the Yardbird
EXCLUSIVE Hear Edmonton folk hero’s new live album 2 days before official release! Ben Sures keeps it old-school! He sells CDs. He eschews drums from time to time. He is unconcerned with “singles.” Yet he has carved himself a unique place in the Canadian folk canon with his evocative and honest songs, some of […]
Bob the Angry Flower
Wolves always get a bad rap. Next comic: It’s a Shumka West Side Story in End of the Earth – North Side Story! Has Bill Benson ever been to the North Side?
Bill Benson
Don’t try this at home, kids! Drugs are bad, m’kay? Next comic: How can Bob the Angry Flower be so cruel? And in today’s End of the Earth, the Shumkas go rogue:
End of the Earth
Holy Polka, who knew the North Side was so tough? Next Comic: Bill Benson goes on the wagon: And now: Bob the Angry Flower makes his immigration policy clear:
MUSIC PREVIEW: Québécois chanteuse plays International Women’s Day
Cœur de pirate (aka Beatrice Martin) headlines Winspear Centre Friday night – it happens to be International Women’s Day – as part of the SkirtsAfire festival, an all-women arts festival in Edmonton. She’s touring to support her fifth album, last year’s En cas de tempête, ce jardin sera fermé. It means “In case of storm, […]
PLAYBOT: Women in theatre!
A quick analysis of other PlayBots in both local and foreign domains reveals a surprising fact: In recent times there have been as many good roles for women as there have been for men. Lots of plays with strong female characters, lots of productions written, directed and produced by women. A correction has occurred! Yet […]
Bob the Angry Flower
Is it a joke you want? Sorry, nothing funny in today’s episode of End of the Earth. RIP Keith Flint: Next: Bill Benson talks about ‘doing a good job’:
Bill Benson
Remember to not forget to vote! Next: Bob the Angry Flower dissects the modern joke: And there’s nothing funny about today’s End of the Earth. RIP Keith Flint:
End of the Earth
RIP Keith Flint Next: Bill Benson tackles politics. Again: And now in this week’s latest Bob the Angry Flower … make your own joke!
MUSIC PREVIEW: Young the Giant loved for both ‘Body’ and mind
This is what music freaks live for: A new rock band that shows way more depth than the over-saturated radio hit that brought them to the mainstream to begin with. Imagine! Young the Giant is such a band. These Californians made a splash in 2011 with the fairly straight-ahead rocker My Body – which hit […]
PLAYBOT: La Boheme Rhapsody
You could argue that the decadent, hard-living, unprotected sex-having “bohemian” culture of the late 1970s led directly to the tragic circumstances depicted in the musical Rent – which is set 10 years later and loosely based on the Puccini opera La Boheme, which was written 100 years earlier. In a further time twist, we return […]
