GIGGLE CITY: Harland Williams comes from a happy place
Like many Hollywood stars whose stand-up comedy made them into a Hollywood star, Harland Williams still goes out on the road to do stand-up comedy, from time to time. He does it to pay the bills, to maintain the lifestyle to which he has become accustomed, but that’s not all. “I love it,” he says. […]
Simple Plan brings romance to Rexall Place Feb. 14
The plan was simple: Form a simple band that plays simple music – and then call that band Simple Plan. It sure worked wonders for these Montreal titans of emo. Now you can mark your calendar – buy a 2012 calendar and mark that – for Feb. 14 when Simple Plan brings its zippy romantic […]
Pearl Jam Week declared in Edmonton – on screen and stage
The new Pearl Jam documentary Twenty is opening the Edmonton International Film Festival (EIFF) on Thursday – which just happens to be a day off for the band before they play Rexall Place on Friday. Coincidence? Probably. Will members of Pearl Jam actually show up at the screening? Probably not. Sources close to the band […]
EDMONTON RADIO: Up! Yours!
After a summer of no radio whatsoever – except for a sample in Montana where I learned that things could be much worse – I tortured myself by listening to nothing but Up! 99.3 FM for two entire weeks. This is the worst radio station in Edmonton. It contains the highest ratio of bad songs […]
TONIGHT: The Notorious Vince Neil expected to rock the EEC
It must be tough to be a 50-year-old rock star whose very name has become synonymous with excess, overindulgence and general rock ‘n’ roll decadence. Imagine the inner dialogue: Oh, Christ, not Dr. Feelgood again … Do I really have to swig that bottle of Jack Daniel’s? My freakin’ liver’s gonna explode … I don’t […]
THEATRE: Comely wenches cross swords, egos in Heroine
Ahoy, mateys: Thar be something mighty fishy about Heroine – a ripping yarn about a pair of comely wenches what pillaged the high seas in the misty days of yore, got scurf’d to the brig and marked with the black spot for a date with the hempen halter. The play about female pirates opens Friday […]
After 11 years, urban DJ Arlo Maverick rides into the sunset
For 11 years, Marlon Wilson has been Edmonton’s go-to guy for fresh urban sounds. This month, the Politic Live emcee will bid farewell to The Urban Hang Suite, his weekly Saturday night radio show on CJSR 88.5 FM. The Suite will air one final time from 11 p.m. Sept. 24 until 3 a.m. the next […]
Paul Brandt, nice guy and country singer, returns to the Jubilee Auditorium Dec. 12
We can’t get enough of Paul Brandt. What’s not to like? The guy is almost supernaturally nice. And generous? To a fault! So fans ought not to be getting tired of this behatted Albertan any time soon. On the spurred bootheels of his sold-out Slave Lake benefit at the Winspear Centre on Wednesday night comes […]
