Posted on May 9, 2011
By Rob Drinkwater
Culture, Front Slider
It was the weekend’s greatest party in Edmonton, and you missed it! On Saturday night, 54 delegates from cities across the Prairie provinces and the Yukon who were in the city for the Youth Summit on Sustainable Transportation boarded their own private LRT car outfitted with turntables and lights for a dance party that shook […]
Posted on May 4, 2011
By Mike Ross
Culture, Front Slider, Theatre
Are Edmonton theatre people a bunch of pussies when it comes to their critics – or is it the other way around? Just wondering. The following exploration all started with Facebook. In an effort to get fresh local arts material for GigCity.ca, I sent “friend” requests to as many Edmonton musicians, artists, writers and actors […]
Posted on May 4, 2011
By Chad Huculak
Culture, Front Slider, Music
Europe has spawned many extreme metal acts who extol the virtues of their Viking forefathers. Singapore’s Rudra is taking a different angle: they’re bringing ancient Eastern philosophy into the mix. The band plays a style it refers to as Vedic metal, which fuses black metal, death metal, and Indian classical music with lyrics derived from […]
Posted on April 26, 2011
By LH Thomson
Culture, TV and Radio
The call went out early, as it has with many a pop culture phenomenon, as it had with Must-See TV Thursdays, with Don Cherry broadcasts, with Samatha Taylor’s Video Hits: How can we turn SUN TV into a drinking game? That, after all, is the best thing you can do with a television set: tune […]
Posted on April 23, 2011
By Rob Drinkwater
Culture, Front Slider
It might have been due to liquor laws that discouraged visible drinking, or perhaps it was because street-level property on Jasper was once too valuable, but there was a time when downtown Edmonton’s fanciest bars and restaurants were located in basements. Like today’s downtown restaurants, the customers were well-heeled and worked in the then newly […]
Posted on April 20, 2011
By Mike Ross
Culture, Film, Front Slider, Music
If you’re trying to build a bridge between the punk rock scenes of Edmonton and Cuba – a place not known for its punk rock, where rock ‘n’ roll was actually once illegal until Fidel Castro realized John Lennon was a comrade, and which is so screwed up that the entire grassroots economy runs on […]
Posted on April 19, 2011
By Tom Murray
Culture, TV and Radio
The Boss Life. You’ve seen this, right? I’m sure you’ve seen it, but I hadn’t until a couple of days ago, because all I do is watch William Powell movies and reruns of Masterpiece Theatre. Now, after repeated viewing, it haunts my very dreams. From what I can tell it’s a trailer from last year […]
Posted on April 18, 2011
By Albert Smith
Culture, The Latest, TV and Radio
WHAT THE FUCK? Since when is it acceptable to talk about a MOM I’D LIKE TO FUCK? Like seriously, I’M LAUGHING MY FUCKING ASS OFF! Oh, don’t be so shocked. We see this sort of thing in the mainstream media all the time. You probably know the above better as WTF, MILF and LMFAO. Don’t […]
Posted on April 18, 2011
By Mike Ross
Culture, TV and Radio
Edmonton does not need three top-40 radio stations. One of them has to die. But I hope it isn’t Hot 107, despite an unfortunate allergic reaction I had to “the new and even more annoying Bounce” after it launched last fall. Got sick on the floor – which I later learned from J-Lo is a […]
Posted on April 16, 2011
By Staff
Culture, Music
The beloved Empress Ale House has been through some trials that we’re not going to get into here – but the latest was almost the last straw: a fire that gutted the building next door on the early morning of Thursday, April 7. That the Empress only suffered “minor smoke damage” is occasion enough for […]
Posted on April 16, 2011
By Rob Drinkwater
Culture, The Latest, Theatre, Visual Arts
Once upon a time, on a dark and stormy night in a galaxy far, far away (but still in Edmonton, strangely enough), there was only one story slam. It was at The Blue Chair Cafe and it grew to be so popular that on some nights it even had to turn folks away. But things […]
Posted on April 16, 2011
By LH Thomson
Culture, Music, The Latest
John Mellencamp’s had that “respected country rock troubadour” label hanging around for long enough now for him to become iconic, the Farm-Aid face of a generation. When he rolls into Edmonton for his gigs tonight and tomorrow at the Jubilee Auditorium, it’s another city of a million souls, a good chunk of who are […]
