YOU SAID IT: U2 fans react to Edmonton show

Posted on June 1, 2011 By Andrea Scharner Music, The Latest

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Folk fest sells out

Posted on June 1, 2011 By Staff Music, The Latest

The folk fest has sold out – in a good way. Weekend passes for the annual Happening on Hill Aug. 4-7 at Gallagher Park are gone. They went in the first two hours after they went on sale today (June 1). It is said demand was so great that the phone lines crashed, the online […]

NextFest celebrates growth of Edmonton’s arts community

Posted on June 1, 2011 By Adrian Lackey Culture, Family, Front Slider, Music, Visual Arts

With local outfits like U22 Productions and Next Gen and events like NextFest and Pecha Kucha, Edmonton has an explosive arts vibe these days. Maybe it’s the social networking or the sense of appreciation for the important things that sometimes comes about after a recession, but hardly a night goes by in E-town without a […]

Solo punks tread softly on the working road

Posted on June 1, 2011 By Chad Huculak Music, The Latest

The punks are here, and they’re armed with acoustic guitars. New City Compound is hosting four punk rockers-gone-solo Friday night. Dave Hause, who fronts Philadelphia pop-punk band The Loved Ones, is on the bill along with Tony Sly (No Use for a Name), Mikey Erg (The Ergs, Star Fucking Hipsters) and Ben Disaster of local […]

U2 IN EDMONTON: Where the streets literally have no name

Posted on June 1, 2011 By Staff Front Slider, Music

It’s a beautiful day in Edmonton when love comes to town, where anticipation wasn’t better than the real thing – in a place where the streets literally have no name. Just ask the people walking down 82nd Avenue, or “Whyte,” as some folks insist on calling it. Perhaps Bono and the Edge and the Other […]

CONCERTS: Tegan and Sara get intimate July 6, Daniel Tosh adds show

Posted on May 31, 2011 By Staff Comedy, Music, The Latest

Here’s a show that’s going to sell out in the blink of an eye – Tegan and Sara at the Myer Horowitz Theatre on Wednesday, July 6. Well, maybe: the big discussion online yesterday was whether the $75 the pair are commanding for tickets was highway robbery. The twin sister goddesses of alternative rock from […]

Hobbit hoax burns Edmonton film producer

Posted on May 31, 2011 By Mike Ross Culture, Film, TV and Radio

Message to the Hobbit Oilsands Hoaxters: The goal of shedding light on the environmental situation in Fort McMurray may be a worthy one – but it does not justify the means of screwing over one guy. Forget politics. We’re talking identity theft. The guy in question is local film producer Josh Miller, who is annoyed […]

TRUE TALES OF THE ROAD: Tea with Bono

Posted on May 31, 2011 By Mike Ross Culture, Front Slider, Music, TV and Radio

Before the concert of this decade – tonight at Commonwealth Stadium – there was the concert of the last decade. It’s 1997 (we seem to be missing a decade) and U2 comes to Edmonton to play not one, but two shows at the stadium on the band’s Popmart tour. Local media greet the band on […]

Kathy Griffin to give Edmonton a piece of her mind Oct. 12

Posted on May 30, 2011 By Staff Comedy, The Latest, Theatre

“I saw Tommy Lee at an awards show, and I got crabs just from looking at him!” “I may have said in an interview in People magazine that I thought Renee Zellweger was so thin that she looked like the lost Olsen triplet. And I may have said that she hasn’t eaten since Chicago … […]

Rise Against returns to rock Rexall Oct. 8

Posted on May 30, 2011 By Staff Music, The Latest

Again we ask a musical question: Rise Against what? Why, everything, of course – and we have a dandy subject for a WHO NAMED THE BAND feature when the mainstream punk band (not an oxymoron) returns to Edmonton, at Rexall Place on Saturday, Oct. 8 with Flogging Molly and the Black Pacific in support. Tickets […]

U2 fever sweeps Edmonton

Posted on May 30, 2011 By Albert Smith Front Slider, Music

The floodlights are on at Commonwealth Stadium. They’re building something that looks like the timewarp machine from Contact. Is Jodie Foster coming? Something’s going on. You can feel the excitement in the air, the local media has gone on full paparazzi alert, fans are staking out the Fairmont Hotel Macdonald, the TV weather forecasters are […]

REVIEW: The misadventure of Lauryn Hill

Posted on May 29, 2011 By Mike Ross Culture, Front Slider, Music

Free advice for Lauryn Hill: Fire your soundman. Fire your bass player. Fire your drummer. Keep your backup singers. And for God’s sake, please chill out just a wee bit. These are really the only conclusions a discerning music fan can draw from Hill’s terribly disappointing show Saturday, May 28 at the Edmonton Event Centre. […]

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