Earth not ready for ‘Mars Needs Moms’
It’s not surprising that ‘Mars Needs Moms’ failed so miserably at the box office – the $150 million film making a pathetic $6.9 million on opening weekend – because Disney KILLED THE WRONG MOM! There’s a rich history of cinematic matricide in Disney animated features, and indeed many stories aimed at children, as parents are […]
LITERATURE: Montmaray a masterful fantasy, absent magic
“A Brief History of Montmaray” by Michelle Cooper is set in a fictional, wind-lashed island kingdom and is aimed at the teenage market – yet none of the characters have any supernatural powers. Everyone lives in a castle that has secret tunnels and even a creepy crypt, but there’s not a witch, warlock, or handsome […]
REVIEW: A realist’s guide to the fruits of vegging out
There’s something telling about the media release that got sent out with How to Grow Food, a new book by Richard Gianfrancesco about harvesting your own vegetables and herbs in everything from kitchen flower pots to a mansion estate backyard. It states that 31 per cent of households participate, or desire to participate, in food […]
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, […]
LITERATURE: A bodice-ripping good time from Cheryl Tardif’s alter-ego
Cheryl Kaye Tardif is an Edmonton writer of thriller/suspense novels. She’s had several of them published, has one due out this month, and has a loyal following. So why in the world did she want to write a romance called “Lancelot’s Lady” under a somewhat cheesy-sounding pen name of Cherish D’Angelo? “I’ve always said since […]
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 […]
