Posted on August 30, 2012
By Mike Ross
Culture, The Latest, TV and Radio
Peter Brown just missed out on becoming an actor when he realized “I wasn’t talented enough to make it fast and I didn’t love it enough to be a waiter and make it slow.” So then he fell back on narrowly avoiding a PhD from Cambridge University, deked around the opportunity to work for the […]
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 14, 2012
By Rob Drinkwater
Culture, Film
There’s no popcorn or soda for sale at Alberta’s most important movie theatre. There’s no marquee out front to say what’s playing. Inside, there are state-of-the-art digital and 3-D projectors, Dolby sound, leather reclining chairs and movies so new they’re not even in regular theatres yet. Crowds are never a problem. Most times there’s only […]
Posted on August 14, 2012
By Mike Ross
Comedy, Culture, Front Slider, Theatre
It’s always nice when an ex-Edmontonian comes back to visit. Break out the good bong. And show your love for Wes Borg when he returns to this year’s Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival – running Aug. 16-26 at innumerable theatres around town – the first time since his friend and partner Joe Bird died suddenly […]
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. […]
Posted on August 8, 2012
By Mike Ross
Culture, Music
We’re going to have to start calling them General Tractor now. Major Tractor, at least. Chris Wynters, co-founder of the venerable local Celtic rock band Captain Tractor, has been named the new executive director of the Alberta Music Industry Association (AMIA), it was announced Tuesday. He replaces outgoing director Kennedy Jenson. As a musician with […]
Posted on August 6, 2012
By Mike Ross
Culture, Music, The Latest
Corb Lund is writing a new paradigm for country music. Not to put too highfalutin a point on it, but it’s a direction that favours honesty and critical thinking to a level hitherto unseen in the redneck stereotype you hear in most popular country music on the radio today. In a world of polarized politics […]
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 18, 2012
By Wayne Arthurson
Culture, Front Slider
People of a certain age know the name Bellini. He’s the towel wearing guy that would appear in the odd episode of Kids in the Hall. But Bellini (Paul Bellini is his full name) is more than just that towel wearing guy or the second most famous person from Timmins (Shania Twain is #1). He’s […]
Posted on July 5, 2012
By Maurice Tougas
Culture, Music, The Latest, Theatre
Edmonton is unique amongst Canadian cities in that we have five seasons: winter, spring, summer, fall and festival. Festival season is roughly defined as beginning with The Works Art and Design Festival and Edmonton International Jazz Festival in June, and ending with the Symphony Under the Sky near Labour Day. After that, it’s back to […]
Posted on July 2, 2012
By Mike Ross
Culture, Music, The Latest, TV and Radio
K-97 midday host Melissa Wright has a tacit agreement with her mother – she won’t talk about her mom on the air, and her mom won’t listen just in case she does. As it happened, one afternoon both mom and grandma were in the car and flipped on the radio just in time to hear […]
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 […]
