Posted on June 13, 2011
By Mike Ross
Culture, Front Slider, Lit
Minister Faust used “Kush” to describe the African quarter of Edmonton long before it became the buzzword for pretty much any strain of high grade marijuana. The Kingdom of Kush was an area near present-day Somalia – the Horn of Africa – around 1,000 B.C. So all you potheads can stand down. The Alchemists of […]
Posted on June 12, 2011
By Michael Senchuk
Culture, Front Slider, Music
British rock and east coast folk rock are taken out for a walk and then stood on their head by two artists – the Arctic Monkeys, whose fourth album was released last week, and Cape Bretoner Carmen Townsend, who’s coming to Edmonton later this week. The Arctic Monkeys’ new album title, “Suck It and See” […]
Posted on June 11, 2011
By Rob Drinkwater
Culture, Front Slider
There was an image that appeared in just about every news story about last weekend’s protest at Churchill Square over the arena agreement between the City of Edmonton and Oilers owner Daryl Katz. It was on the placards the protesters carried — a black-and-white, stencilled portrait of Katz wearing a top hat and with the […]
Posted on June 10, 2011
By Adrian Lackey
Culture, Front Slider, TV and Radio
Alberta’s oil sands got some major visibility on the Thursday, June 9, 2011 edition of the Daily Show with Jon Stewart … replete with correspondent Wyatt Cenac drenched in fake blood. Watch it on the Comedy Network website here (about one minute into the second segment). But that was about the toughest question the energy […]
Posted on June 9, 2011
By LH Thomson
Culture, The Latest, Theatre
Usually in Shakespeare, the less-reputable characters are the bloodsuckers. At the Freewill Shakespeare Fest this year? Well, it’s in Hawrelak Park, so you…(bzzz)…do the (thwack!) math on (smack!, damn skeeters!) that one. Oh, get over it. Bring bug juice to the shows from June 30 to July 24 and revel in the one reason good […]
Posted on June 9, 2011
By Staff
Comedy, Culture, Front Slider, Theatre, TV and Radio
We’ve crunched the numbers and come to a startling conclusion that most people knew already – Edmonton is a funny city. The nominations for the Canadian Comedy Awards that came out June 8 revealed a disproportionate weight of local comic talent, largely thanks to a core group of improvisers and the locally-produced television show CAUTION: […]
Posted on June 9, 2011
By Mike Ross
Culture, Music, Theatre
You can take the “gay” out of gay pride, but you can’t … complete this sentence without getting into trouble. That the Edmonton Pride Festival doesn’t have the word “gay” in its title is a little bothersome. It seems like another step in the neutering of the English language – suggesting there may be a […]
Posted on June 5, 2011
By Rob Drinkwater
Culture, Front Slider, TV and Radio
YouTube is full of TV antenna MacGyvers offering advice on how to make your own set of rabbit ears capable of receiving digital signals for when broadcasters in many Canadian cities switch to digital-only signals on Aug. 31. And inside the engineering department at Global Edmonton, operations manager Peter Wugalter is trying them all. There’s […]
Posted on June 5, 2011
By Michael Senchuk
Culture, Music, The Latest
The Black Lips and Raleigh, two bands in almost diametrically opposed genres and nearly a continent apart, have crafted superb albums that have one thing in common: they’ll appeal to anyone who likes good music. Atlanta’s Black Lips will release a sixth studio album, “Arabia Mountain”, on June 7 (Vice). The quartet combines garage rock […]
Posted on June 4, 2011
By Andrea Scharner
Culture, Front Slider, Music, Visual Arts
It’s one of the most mindblowingly cool nights of entertainment and arts this city has to offer and, in a way, perhaps the most quintessentially Canadian event E-Town could stage. It’s not high profile, but there’s more on offer than at a lot of festivals. OK, so it must be brutally obvious we’re talking about […]
Posted on June 1, 2011
By Adrian Lackey
Culture, Family, Front Slider, Music, Visual Arts
With local outfits like U22 Productions and Next Gen and events like NextFest and Pecha Kucha, Edmonton has an explosive arts vibe these days. Maybe it’s the social networking or the sense of appreciation for the important things that sometimes comes about after a recession, but hardly a night goes by in E-town without a […]
Posted on May 31, 2011
By Rob Drinkwater
Culture, The Latest
For the last few years in early June, TV, radio and newspaper reporters in Edmonton have telephoned local bicycle organizations, wondering if there will be a naked bicycle parade somewhere in the city. The annual World Naked Bicycle Ride, which is intended as a protest against car-centred culture and to promote bicycle transportation, routinely makes […]
