RESTAURANT REVIEW: Vegan Vietnamese delights at Veggie Garden
Right next door to where Oriental Veggie House once hung out its cruelty-free shingle as pioneer purveyors of mock meat cuisine in a Chinese style, the Veggie Garden Restaurant (10582 100 Street, 780.757.9060) has now set up shop. The place vends Vietnamese and Chinese delights in which the feature roles are assayed by stunt doubles […]
BOOKS: All the Dirt on organic farming: not for everyone, says Heather Stretch
When Edmonton expat Heather Stretch comes to town this week to promote All the Dirt, the book she co-wrote about organic farming, she’ll obviously be keen to share her knowledge with folks passionate about sustainable local agriculture who might want to follow in her muddy footsteps. But she has another audience in mind as well […]
Silver Skate Festival wins winter festival derby in a walk
There is one major winter festival left in the winter festival season to ease us into springtime (now that wasn’t so bad, was it?) – and many hardcore hibernal celebrants agree that the Silver Skate Festival is the best. The 22nd annual event happens Friday through holiday Monday at Hawrelak Park. This is no frivolous […]
Edmonton Bicycle Commuters’ new shop brings hope to blighted neighbourhood
The neighbourhood on 111 Avenue where Edmonton Bicycle Commuters has decided to open its second location in the city is, shall we say, a little rough around the edges. It’s a few blocks west of Commonwealth Stadium where many of the shop fronts sit empty. There’s a bottle depot nearby, and the tenant in the […]
Mill Creek Adventure Walk not just another winter festival
Another weekend, another winter festival. The local citizenry has come to expect this sort of thing, even take it for granted. And it’s not enough to erect a pile of odd-looking giant tents or throw up a bunch of snow sculptures and expect instant festival magic like you’re the Frozen Fringe or something. Discerning Edmontonians […]
Year of the Dragon to be a good year for China, Edmonton
The dragon is the only creature in the Chinese Zodiac that isn’t real. What does this mean for the year ahead? Who knows? Celebrants attending this weekend’s Year of the Dragon Carnival at City Centre Mall and in Churchill Square should at least know this: China itself IS the dragon. The new year begins Monday, […]
FROZEN FESTIVAL: Ice on Whyte to be the Works of the Winter
Winter in Edmonton is becoming a frozen funhouse mirror of the summer festival season – so that must make the Ice on Whyte Festival the “Works of the Winter.” Opening Friday at the rarely-used End of Steel Park (that chunk of land with the stranded CN caboose across the street from the Yardbird Suite), the […]
Edmonton visual artists debut shows at Latitude 53, AGA
It’s hard not to be amazed – or sometimes amused — by the manner in which visual artists try to convey their intent. After all, many of them are typical introverted artsy types at heart, as Ursula K. Le Guin once accurately noted, and not prone to self –promotion. So sometimes the descriptions are as […]
