New all ages club opens Friday with Scenic Route to Alaska
One of Edmonton’s premier folk-rock acts will help launch a new all-ages downtown venue on Friday. Scenic Route to Alaska, fresh off a long drive home from Toronto in a ’91 Toyota Corolla, will headline the first show at the Elevation Room in Transcend Coffee’s downtown location (Jasper Avenue and 104 Street). “We’re unbelievably excited. […]
Reading a right at Edmonton Remand Centre
Imagine if you had weeks, or months, or possibly years to go by, sitting in a tiny room with little else to occupy your time except read – but your selection of books was bought for $10 per box on the last day of an Edmonton Public Library book sale. Books for prisoners at the […]
REVIEW: Titanic, the musical, sinks
The Titanic will go on forever as a symbol of European industrial arrogance. It was – according to lyrics in a musical about the greatest nautical disaster in history – “the largest moving thing on Earth.” Its designer, owner and captain all thought it too big to sink, and thus deemed it unnecessary to provide […]
THEATRE REVIEW: Ignorance is bliss
“Happiness gives our existence meaning,” the audience is informed at the top of the Old Trout Puppet Workshop’s new play Ignorance. However, the narrator adds, the average person experiences only 14 minutes of true happiness in his or her lifetime. As we listen to this, an innocent child is being strangled to death by one […]
QUILTING ROCKS: It’s all about the grannies at AGA Refinery Party
Quilting with granny is not usually on the itinerary for your average hip party – but no average party is a Refinery Party. Saturday night at the Art Gallery of Alberta, the conversational topic over drinks, rock ‘n’ roll singalongs and various good times shall be the merits of “textile art.” Consider the obvious: Textile […]
FOOD: Southeast Asian home cooking in the houses
If you’re a diner-outer who wants to feel like you’re going over to someone’s home for a nice meal – albeit one you have to pay for – there are no shortage of choices in Edmonton. Take, for example, the enclave of fancy manses just off High Street (Manor Café, Violino) or the Ethiopian eateries […]
Yanni returns to perform Aug. 7 at the Jubilee Auditorium
Yanni is no fool. He knows he’s considered the king of cheese among the “cool” crowd – “a guy who plays the piano and probably has some incense and a couple of crystals,” as he told a reporter recently – just as much as he knows that the “cool” crowd has no business being at […]
FAVA Fest goes long on top-notch shorts
This is film festival season, of that there is no doubt. This week, however, is hyper local thanks to the infusion of local short-film making excellence that is the Film and Video Arts Fest. The Festival runs at the FAVA Exhibition Suite (9722 102 St) and Metro Cinema at the Garneau, 8712 109 St. For […]
PAINTING WITH WOOL: St. Albert textile artist has no time to make rug for the Queen
Imagine being textile artist whose rugs are in such great demand that you have to turn down the Queen of England. That was the situation that St. Albert’s Rachelle LeBlanc found herself in just a few weeks ago. A group in England asked for her help making a rug for the Queen’s diamond jubilee. Celebrities, […]
WIN: Tickets to Plants and Animals March 27 at the Starlite Room
Oh, Montreal – always so cool, always on the cutting edge. If Quebec secedes, please stick with Canada, won’t you? Maybe we could build a wall in the middle of the city or something. Just trying to help here. Canada’s coolest city comes up again because one of Canada’s coolest new bands that happens to […]
Brent Butt comes back to stand-up comedy – June 22 at the Winspear
Before Brent Butt went on to star in the modern version of The Beachcombers, he was a happening stand-up comic – and like most happening stand-up comics who make it big, he always seems to come back to his roots. The star of Corner Gas and CTV’s Hiccups will hit this road this spring for […]
