Posted on September 18, 2012
By Stuart Adams
Front Slider, Visual Arts
“Organic” is an odd word to describe abstract metal sculpture, but the term was overheard several times at the opening of “Samskara” by Isla Burns, at the Peter Robertson Gallery until October 2. There was another popular description among first night viewers – “tactile.” The sculptures almost invite you to touch them, the smaller ones […]
Posted on September 15, 2012
By Scott Lingley
Dining, Food, The Latest
Change, they say, is the only constant thing in life. They have obviously never been to Savoy’s Health Café (11010 51 Avenue, 780.437.7718), which has been operating out of the same hole-in-a-strip-mall location across from Southgate for the best part of two decades. In truth, the Savoy is not exactly the same as it has […]
Posted on September 11, 2012
By Mike Ross
Front Slider, Theatre, Visual Arts
For fashionistas pondering the impending autumn installment of Western Canada Fashion Week, the answer to the question of “Why Edmonton, of all places?” is simple – why not? No other city in the West has managed to mount a fashion festival that covers Western Canada and survive for eight years. Not Calgary. Not Winnipeg. Edmonton’s […]
Posted on September 9, 2012
By Mike Ross
Culture, Family, The Latest, Theatre
The horses nuzzle their trainers affectionately, they object when you stop scratching them, they roll around on the ground like giant dogs – it sure seems like the stars of Cavalia are having a great time. But we never know, do we? We can only guess. It’s no stretch to imagine that these well-hung stallions […]
Posted on September 4, 2012
By Mike Ross
Comedy, Front Slider, TV and Radio, Visual Arts
We may drive down Mark Messier Trail, meet at the Wayne Gretzky statue and pause beside the Rollie Miles mural – so maybe it’s time we erected a Monument to Melonville. That’s what Avenue magazine is after in its determined campaign to pay sculptural tribute to the great Canadian comedy series SCTV, which has its […]
Posted on September 4, 2012
By Stuart Adams
Culture, Front Slider, Visual Arts
Abstract metal sculpture leaves a lot of people cold – pun intended. But there’s a lot to be discovered and enjoyed if you don’t have to ask the classic “But what does it mean?” question, or need to identify a recognizable object in the work. Catherine Burgess’s “Absence|Presence” installation is up at the Art Gallery […]
Posted on September 4, 2012
By Maurice Tougas
Family, Music, The Latest, Theatre, Visual Arts
Look up. Look wa-a-a-ay up. Just try not to walk into a lamppost as you are serenaded by live music being played from the rooftops along Alberta Avenue during the Kaleido Family Arts Festival. And that’s just one treat in a cornucopia of artistic endeavours for both enjoyment and participation, running all weekend in and […]
Posted on August 29, 2012
By Scott Lingley
Dining, Food, The Latest
Not since Le Charles Mansion has a Vietnamese restaurant been so woefully named. I really meant to ask the server at Brooklyn Tomato (8205 83 Street, 780.756.6688) what that borough and that fruit-vegetable had to do with pho or bun or cha gio. Then I got distracted by the huge bowl of food they put […]
Posted on August 28, 2012
By Maurice Tougas
Family, Music, The Latest
In some of the more mature – meaning “old” – countries, celebrating the 100th anniversary of a building would seem rather gauche. Maybe 150 years, certainly 200, but a mere Century? Please. But this is Alberta, where we have a different concept of what constitutes old. Here, the centennial of a building is reason to […]
Posted on August 24, 2012
By Barry Hammond
Culture, Film, Front Slider, Visual Arts
Paint. The thickness of it. The sensuousness of its colours. The textures of its application. The weights and balances, lines of force, harmonies and dissonances of its composition on a plane. The resonances of emotions and ideas it leaves hanging in the eye and the mind. These are the subjects – foreground and background – […]
Posted on August 16, 2012
By Mike Ross
Comedy, Front Slider, TV and Radio, Visual Arts
Gird your loins, adventurers, for an upcoming “Comic-Con” exhibition of pop culture is bringing in the REAL Batman – which, as everyone knows, is Adam West. The star of the popular TV 1960s series – and lately as Mayor Adam West on Family Guy – is just one of the special guests expected at Edmonton […]
Posted on August 9, 2012
By Stuart Adams
Culture, The Latest, TV and Radio, Visual Arts
Blair Brennan’s first official act as the new Writer-in-Residence at Latitude 53 was to post a quote from well-known GQ Style Guy Glen O’Brien (which first appeared in Artforum magazine): “Art writing should be art or shut the fuck up, you’re bringing me down.” You might guess that it won’t all be sweetness and light. […]
