Cartoon Machine thrives in Torontonian urbanity
Stand-up comedians and cartoonists are the only people in the world who can be counted on to tell us the brutal truth – no matter what. We’re lied to on a daily basis by the government, the media, corporations, even our neighbours and loved ones. Someone’s got to do the dirty job of being honest. […]
Wildrose Man lost and out of place at Edmonton folk fest
Well, that was a big fat fail – wearing a Wildrose Party T-shirt at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival to get a rise out of the Lefties. Nobody cares! Plus there are so many layers of irony on everything nowadays that it’s hard to tell anything about anything anymore. What a waste of $25, which […]
The Full Mountie revives Klondike at Fort Edmonton
All days are Klondike Days at Fort Edmonton Park – and so it’s a natural that the first idea the new artistic director Dana Andersen came up with would be an improvised Klondike melodrama. Pity it comes AFTER Klondike Days is over. The Full Mountie, playing Aug. 1-3 at the Capitol Theatre and performed by […]
STREET FEST: Anyone can learn to juggle
One ball is easy. Two balls are no problem to handle. Three balls is a trick. Of course we’re talking about juggling. An Edmonton high school phys-ed teacher used fail any student who didn’t learn to juggle three balls – so now there are likely hundreds of locals who have mastered this basic street performers’ […]
