Cameron Crowe’s Pearl Jam documentary digs deep
Pearl Jam, has it really been 20 years? The latest film from director and former Seattle music journalist Cameron Crowe, Pearl Jam Twenty, recounts the story of the ‘90s grunge group’s origins and staying power. Crowe’s film is more than a documentary, more than a concert film – it’s a personal portrait and an unabashed […]
Local artist scores $5,000 commission from AGA
Dara Humniski is going to be covered in acrylic paint for an entire week – and you get to watch. The 29-year-old Edmonton artist has been awarded a $5,000 commission to paint two giant blank walls inside the Art Gallery of Alberta, a total of nearly 700 square feet on the West and North walls […]
INTERVIEW: Mudhoney also celebrates ‘Twenty’
It’s been 20 years since Seattle’s grunge scene hijacked the North American pop charts. Tributes have been pouring in all year for Nirvana’s iconic 1991 album Nevermind, while the documentary Twenty (which screened Thursday at Garneau Theatre as part of the Edmonton International Film Festival) celebrates the two-decade anniversary of Pearl Jam’s debut Ten. The […]
EIFF STAR WATCH: Pearl Jam, Omi Vaidya, Brenda Fricker, Joshua Leonard – and you!
It wasn’t a coincidence – it was a conspiracy! The fact that Pearl Jam had a day off on the same night that EIFF screened the new Pearl Jam documentary, Twenty, was “not an accident,” confirms EIFF programmer Guy Lavallee. “It was very specifically targeted to play between the Calgary and Edmonton shows. But they […]
GIGGLE CITY: Harland Williams comes from a happy place
Like many Hollywood stars whose stand-up comedy made them into a Hollywood star, Harland Williams still goes out on the road to do stand-up comedy, from time to time. He does it to pay the bills, to maintain the lifestyle to which he has become accustomed, but that’s not all. “I love it,” he says. […]
Graffiti fight a font of problems for Edmonton businessman
These days, Otto Weltzien wishes he’d never called the police about the graffiti outside his business. If he’d thought about that at the beginning, he might still have his interesting wall, he’d have his art … and he’d still have $16,500. Weltzien, 78, spent part of 2010 fighting an order by the city issued the […]
EDMONTON RADIO: Up! Yours!
After a summer of no radio whatsoever – except for a sample in Montana where I learned that things could be much worse – I tortured myself by listening to nothing but Up! 99.3 FM for two entire weeks. This is the worst radio station in Edmonton. It contains the highest ratio of bad songs […]
THEATRE: Comely wenches cross swords, egos in Heroine
Ahoy, mateys: Thar be something mighty fishy about Heroine – a ripping yarn about a pair of comely wenches what pillaged the high seas in the misty days of yore, got scurf’d to the brig and marked with the black spot for a date with the hempen halter. The play about female pirates opens Friday […]
After 11 years, urban DJ Arlo Maverick rides into the sunset
For 11 years, Marlon Wilson has been Edmonton’s go-to guy for fresh urban sounds. This month, the Politic Live emcee will bid farewell to The Urban Hang Suite, his weekly Saturday night radio show on CJSR 88.5 FM. The Suite will air one final time from 11 p.m. Sept. 24 until 3 a.m. the next […]
ART: Does this look like $350-million worth of museum?
All right, someone has to say publicly what plenty of us are thinking: the proposed design for the Royal Alberta Museum looks like a high school. Even the distance perspective drawing looks, at best, like the front of a mid-sized city airport. This? This is what we’re getting for $350-million in taxes? Keep in mind […]
Kori Wray auditions for Canada’s Got Talent – and now she waits
Kori Wray is an old hand at TV talent contests. The Edmonton singer made the top 100 on three different seasons of Canadian Idol, was on PopStars and went to Nashville as part of a Canadian talent and model search – and now she’s a hopeful for the inaugural season of Canada’s Got Talent. Edmonton […]