GET YOUR GEEK ON! LeVar Burton to ‘make it so’ at local convention
When the captain ordered “make it so!” it was often LeVar Burton who jumped and made it so. And so it was on Star Trek: The Next Generation, which is looking pretty quaint in reruns today – and yet the Trekkian fame lives on for this award-winning actor. See him live and in person Sunday, […]
SYSTEM OF A DOWN HERE MAY 10 – area metalheads rejoice
Why don’t presidents fight the war? This is just one of many good questions posed by System of a Down, possibly one of the greatest modern heavy metal bands ever. No, not possibly. It is the greatest. Argue all you like, dudes. No one’s going to hear you at the band’s highly-anticipated concert in Edmonton, […]
Hot Picks, March 1
Just how much funk is TOO MUCH funk? Three-alarm Funk? Four-Alarm Funk? Don’t accuse the members of Five-Alarm Funk of being too eclectic – that’s kind of the whole point, as writer Damon Sparks discovered when he chatted with the band. Five-Alarm Funk plays tonight at Haven Social Club, that little slice of basement music […]
Freedom to Read: Putting the “ink” in kinky
It was a bitterly cold night on the east side of Jasper Avenue, but things were heating up inside the ARTery as the Edmonton Public Library hosted an evening of erotic literature readings as part of Freedom to Read Week. It was the library’s first time hosting an event like this, and while it may […]
Yet another week in the Big Onion starts with the blues. Forget it, buster! You and your blues dog buddies been out every night bloozing it up since last Thursday. You’re not going anywhere. That snow ain’t gonna shovel itself. Please, baby, please, just a little more? Debbie Davies is in town, starting a six-nighter […]
ART: Auction helps promote pedal power
A number of years ago, a fire broke out at a storage garage where many Edmontonians who owned high-end sports cars or other vintage automobiles kept them for the winter. The blaze destroyed some very expensive vehicles, and as you can imagine, their owners were terribly upset. But the car that Edmontonians cared most about […]
All good things must come to an end – and we speak of of three local worthy theatre productions closing today. It’s the last day for Legally Blonde, the Musical at the Jubilee Auditorium. The story concerns a ditzy sorority chick who shows her ex-boyfriend what-for when she goes to Harvard and becomes one of […]
EDMONTON RADIO: Is the Bounce bad for children? Short answer: yes
Important disclaimer: This article is about top-40 radio. Therefore, in a year or less, the names and song titles will appear hopelessly quaint and out of date. If you’re reading this in the future (hello, people of the future!), go ahead and laugh. If the Rapture hasn’t come by then, we will laugh with you. […]
Where to put the Goo Goo Dolls – next to the Replacements? Or nestled amongst Matchbox 20 and Hootie and the Blowfish? Maybe somewhere in between. We’re just putting together some IKEA shelves for our CD collection – where’s the damned Allen key? – so ‘90s. We’ll decide where they go after the Goos play […]
The ghost of David Lynch haunts area artist
This is a weird one. A cold wind skated blindly up Whyte Avenue when David Lynch’s disembodied voice began suddenly explaining how such winds are his favourite sound. My pocket recorder was playing tricks; I’d taped Lynch live down in Hollywood between his screening of Eraserhead and Sunset Blvd a couple months ago, yet here […]
The basic difference between “white” blues and “black” blues is that one loves the blues, whereas the other HAS the blues. We’ll have to make an exception for Johnny Winter, literally the whitest of the white bluesmen, who’s sharing a bill with the equally legendary harmonica James Cotton at the Polish Hall tonight. Both have […]
Out on a limb with radiohead: Local fans tweet their say
And on the fourth day there was The King of Limbs. Earlier that week, on Feb. 14, Radiohead announced on its website that the group’s new album was finished and would be released on Feb. 19. But last Friday morning, fans awoke to discover the album released a day earlier. The Internet, in particular Twitter, […]
