Bill Benson
MORE NEW COMICS HERE! Bob the Angry Flower gets political: End of the Earth rides Funicultron:
End of the Earth
READ MORE NEW COMICS! Funicultron, meet Barry R. Wall – the latest ‘bot in Bob the Angry Flower: Bill Benson has a secret friend:
The Cardiac Shadow: Human spirit soars above Nazi atrocity in harrowing play
Dr. Sigmund Rascher has not been forgotten. He was the Nazi monster who used human subjects without their consent for extreme experiments. One of his most barbaric practices was designed to determine the best way to warm Luftwaffe pilots who had been shot down into the North Sea. To measure the human body’s ability to […]
The nerve of Minerva lives on in magical new play
The name Houdini still hovers over the world of magic – almost 100 years after his death. The master of “escapology” took the hocus pocus out of the ancient prerogatives of priests and charlatans and turned it into show business gold. Houdini ruled over Broadway, Vaudeville and musical halls. So much so that names such […]
Jim Gaffigan takes whitebread comedy to new heights at Rogers Place
Thousands of well-dressed suburban upper-middle class white couples in Edmonton decided to venture out in the cold for evening date Friday night in the company of fellow thoroughly white American comedian Jim Gaffigan – smack in the middle of his “Quality Time” Tour. They made a wise choice. Gaffigan reasserted his A-list status at Rogers […]
REVIEW: Blue collar drama a play for our times at the Citadel
With her Pulitzer Prize-winning play Sweat, playwright Lynn Nottage has created a gritty work that dramatically captures the tensions and pervasive feelings of anger and despair that have gripped middle America. This is a play for our times – an insightful work based on the lives of real people – putting a human face on […]
MUSIC PREVIEW: Odds are pretty good
Here’s a blast from the fairly recent past: The XTC-like Vancouver quartet that called themselves Odds. Not THE Odds, just Odds, as in probability. Like what are the odds that Odds would rule the 1990s with such offbeat anthems as Heterosexual Man, Eat My Brain, and Someone Who’s Cool – and then disappear without a […]
PLAYBOT: Escapist theatre – literally
Famed Edmonton magic-user Ron Pearson was behind all those weird Fringe sideshows: Spider Lady, Cobra Girl, and the terrifying Headless Terror! Now he’s been trying his sleight-of-hand at play-writing, the latest of which is called Minerva – Queen of the Handcuffs. The world premiere runs Jan. 15-27 at the Roxy on Gateway. Based on the […]
Bob the Angry Flower
READ MORE COMICS! (Click the thumbnail to see the whole comic): Bill Benson, by Fish Griwkowsky: End of the Earth, by Chad Huculak:
Bill Benson
READ MORE COMICS! (Click on the thumbnail to see the whole comic): Bob the Angry Flower, by Stephen Notley: End of the Earth, by Chad Huculak:
End of the Earth
READ MORE COMICS! (Click thumbnail to see the whole comic): Bill Benson, by Fish Griwkowsky: Bob the Angry Flower, by Stephen Notley:
Who? Yes! No, not Yes – The Who comes to Edmonton!
On the idea of The Who touring with just two original members, fans have generally shrugged their shoulders and responded, “Well, ‘alf a Who is better than no Who at all.” Now what about The Who with an orchestra? For that’s exactly what Pete Townshend and Roger Daltry have cooked up for their latest tour: […]