Bob the Angry Flower

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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 […]

MATILDA: It’s the adults that are revolting in delightful Citadel musical

MATILDA: It’s the adults that are revolting in delightful Citadel musical

What a joyful, merry, nasty, chaotic and thoroughly enjoyable romp is this adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Matilda: The Musical, currently settling in for three more weeks at the Citadel Theatre. The much-awarded winning musical is still playing in London’s West End. It was a big hit on Broadway, and it was there that Citadel artistic […]

Bob the Angry Flower

Bob the Angry Flower

What has Bob the Angry Flower been drinking? Next comic – Is End of the Earth suggesting that if you’re anti-immigration, you’re a racist? #KeepCanadaAwesome       Next: Our reporter Bill Benson covers the Academy Awards: