REVIEW: Food so good, it’s almost rare
Safron’s Caribbean 8307 118 Avenue 780.474.9005 At 2:30 p.m. on a Tuesday afternoon, just two blocks from the infamously sleazy old Cromdale Hotel, 118 Avenue feels about as far from the Caribbean as you could get. In the middle of March, of the sun, the surf and the poverty, the adjacent neighbourhood offers only the […]
FISHEYE: Pockets of low resistance
Without getting into a debate about how they you might spell them, the things my Slavic friends and I made and stuffed with various goodness we called perogies, and upon them soon laid dollops of sour cream and crispy bacon, eating them until our bellies hurt. Our regular photo of the day (potd) feature from […]
FISHEYE: Oh sure, you hate me now
You may not think so now, but at least some part of you will eventually miss the unintentional beauty of winter, creeping into every crack, running down every wall. Our regular photo of the day (potd) feature from Fish Griwkowsky is a visual diary and memoir of his life in and out of the city.
Local media celebs strut their ‘stuff’ at Fashion Week
My personal philosophy of never saying no to anything has turned into some pretty strange stunts. I’ll stop short of swallowing and then vomiting up a live goldfish like that idiot from Jackass (like to see him try that with Lucy the elephant), but almost anything else goes. So when I was asked to be […]
FASHION WEEK IN PHOTOS: The Witching Hour
GigCity covers fashion like a thick black burka covers an Afghani maiden. So thank God we live in Canada, in Edmonton, where women can wear what they want, practical or not, and where the fashionistas among us – you know who you are, darling – are privileged to witness the FABULOUS twice-yearly event called Western […]
ART: Lawren Harris’ Canadian perspectives
Let there be no doubt: the Art Gallery of Alberta is a great place to go for a slice of Canadiana. If you were to compare Lawren Harris’ early and later work, you might be surprised by how the Group of Seven artist’s perspective shifted over time. That change is the focus of a retrospective […]
FISHEYE: Man’s bassist instincts
This is our very own Tom Murray, playing stand-up bass during Smokey’s show at the Empress yesterday afternoon. You can read Tom’s work for us HERE. Our regular photo of the day (potd) feature from Fish Griwkowsky is a visual diary and memoir of his life in and out of the city.
Edmonton arts haven loses lease, landlord says it doesn’t fit in
A city arts haven is closing, with its landlord pulling the lease because it doesn’t fit the company’s idea of a tenant. Naked Cyber Cafe and Espresso Bar has been a venue for Edmonton performers and artists in the former Birks Building on Jasper Ave. for a decade, but the downtown coffee shop is closing […]
ARTS: Greg Swain’s frighteningly interesting approach
Greg Swain’s two floors of windows are both lure and beacon. Stuck in the middle of one of the city’s many attempts to wrestle east downtown demographics away from bottle-pickers, the City Market Apartments building where Swain creates, north of Canada Place, is worth a story itself, later. But the artist is certainly one of […]
FISHEYE: A standout work of art
Here’s another red-cyan 3D for you, this one of the patient Pioneer Family standing behind the Royal Museum, created by Ole Holmsten. Our regular photo of the day (potd) feature from Fish Griwkowsky is a visual diary and memoir of his life in and out of the city.
