Posted on August 4, 2012
By Mike Ross
Dining, Family, Front Slider
The Servus Heritage Festival, Edmonton’s most delicious festival, is going hot and heavy at Hawrelak Park all weekend – and judging from the madding crowds on opening day Saturday, this could be a record breaker. Attendees are advised to bring: – More money than you think you need, which is converted into “Heritage Euros,” better […]
Posted on August 1, 2012
By Maurice Tougas
Dining, Family, Front Slider, Music
Jack Little has a lot on his plate right about now. He’s getting ready to host a party, which requires food and drink, some music and a whole lot of dancing. This is no backyard BBQ. Little is the executive director of the much-loved Edmonton institution, the Servus Heritage Festival. If the weather holds, he’s […]
Posted on July 30, 2012
By LH Thomson
Comedy, Culture, Family, Front Slider
The most anti-climactic, waste-of-money contest in city history has wrapped up and we have a new fair name. The winner? No one, really. When Northlands announced a couple of months back that they’d be looking for a new name for Capital Ex, the collective yell for a return to the silly-but-lovely tradition that was K-Days […]
Posted on July 25, 2012
By Maurice Tougas
The Latest, Visual Arts
Would it be unbearably clichéd to say that Mary Poppins just wasn’t my cup of tea? Yeah, it probably would. But I’m going to use it anyway, because that’s the best way I can describe the Broadway Across Canada production of the hit musical playing at the Jubilee until July 29th. There’s nothing actually wrong […]
Posted on July 22, 2012
By Scott Lingley
Food, Front Slider
Some, not me, have seen fit in the past to deride A Taste of Edmonton as the River City’s Festival of Small Portions, a pay-to-play agglomeration of lean-to food factories cranking out small bites for ticket-wielding foodies clogging up a Sir Winston Churchill Square desperately in need of shade. But of course, that’s the point—to […]
Posted on July 12, 2012
By Stuart Adams
The Latest, Visual Arts
Whether you’re a full-blown art-o-holic nurturing an art habit, or a raw newbie with four bare walls, the annual Art Walk will have something for you when the streets of Old Strathcona turn into a mammoth studio visit this weekend. Friday through Sunday, art-o-holics will revel in the opportunity to not only view acres of […]
Posted on July 7, 2012
By Mike Ross
Music, The Latest, Theatre, Visual Arts
Edmonton can’t be the only city that has such a boneheaded habit of badly naming and then constantly renaming its festivals, buildings and streets. On July 10, organizers of the Capital Ex festival released the six choices to replace the name Capital Ex, which had in turn had replaced Klondike Days. They are: – EdFest […]
Posted on July 5, 2012
By Mike Ross
Front Slider, Music, Visual Arts
There are some very sad people in Edmonton this week. First came word that guitarist Brent Macnab died suddenly late Tuesday night, from an apparent heart attack – just days after seeming as normal as ever at an area jam session. The one-time member of the Models and Famous Blue Raincoat was 53 years old. […]
Posted on July 1, 2012
By Stuart Adams
Culture, Front Slider, Visual Arts
A painting by Les Automatiste artist Jean-Paul Riopelle may have sold for $2.2 million at a recent auction in Paris – but it is the work of the group’s driving force Paul-Emile Borduas (above) that really stands out in a new exhibition at the Art Gallery of Alberta. The Automatiste Revolution: Montreal 1941-1960 exhibit, up […]
Posted on June 29, 2012
By Scott Lingley
Dining, Food, Front Slider
A Mexican restaurant in Edmonton has a few natural obstacles to overcome in finding an appreciative audience. The big one is that it’s located in Edmonton, where for many years the parameters of Mexican cuisine were defined by Tacos of the Bell and Time variety and Chi Chi’s, gringo-friendly precursor to the modern Chili’s, where […]
Posted on June 23, 2012
By Derek Neil Pluim
Film, Visual Arts
Steampunk is first and foremost a literary genre, a 19th Century view of the future – steam powered, mechanical and pre-electronic. And everyone dresses well. “It’s like Mad Max meets Marie Antoinette,” explains Cory Richards, a salesperson at Sanctuary Curio Shoppe (10310 81 Avenue), which is hosting Edmonton’s first steampunk bicycle ride on Sunday, June […]
Posted on June 23, 2012
By Stuart Adams
The Latest, Visual Arts
Edmonton’s newest arts award went to painter Arlene Wasylynchuk as she won the first $10,000 Eldon & Anne Foote Edmonton Visual Arts Prize, presented by the Visual Arts Alberta Association (VAAA) on June 20. “I’m really honoured,” said Wasylynchuk. “It was a great group to get short-listed with and it’s great for the city to […]
