Lucinda Williams brings Blessed to Winspear July 6
As folk spreads its wings far beyond the place where it was put – the Edmonton Folk Music Festival – folk fans can look forward to high-octane folking almost every month of the year. It’s all thanks to folk fest producer Terry Wickham, also producer for the “Winspear Presents” series, which has just announced Lucinda […]
Captain Tractor returns, one McDade to the good
Local Celtic-rock heroes Captain Tractor have had a love-hate relationship with the Internet. In the mid-90s, the band was hailed for getting online before its peers. Four years later, they were thrown into a sea of debt, thanks in part to illegal downloading. Today, as the sextet readies the official release of its new disc […]
Men Without Hats dream of aliens
The road tales were fun. Now it’s time to conduct another microscopic examination of another seemingly trivial matter in the world of rock bands – the band name. This week’s guest: Men Without Hats, a new wave blast from the past this Friday at the Century Casino. The very process of naming a band goes […]
Santana comes to Rexall Aug. 30
If anyone can think of another guitarist you can instantly recognize from a single note other than Carlos Santana, we’re all ears. Can’t do it? That’s because there isn’t anybody else with such a distinctive, passionate tone as Carlos. It’s as if his soul is coming out through his guitar. Consider this remarkable trait while […]
GIGGLE CITY: Jen Grant’s female perspective
Funny, we don’t get many comediennes for Giggle City – mainly just comedians. In fact, Jen Grant – at Yuk Yuk’s this weekend – is the first female comic we’ve interviewed for this series, not counting the fabulous Stephanie Wolfe from the Die-Nasty soap opera. Stand-up is a male-dominated industry, with only a few notable […]
Dennis Rodman celebrates 50th birthday – at the River Cree Casino
In this modern age of certain celebrities who have so little left to sell that they start selling their personal lives – even getting PAID to attend their own birthday parties – one wonders what sort of bidding war erupted with Dennis Rodman’s impending 50th birthday. Well, hey, we won – the River Cree Casino […]
Fringe Festival unveils 2011 theme – Fringeopolis!
“All great works of art come from the Metropolis,” Edmonton Fringe Festival Executive Director Julian Mayne quoted American poet Ezra Pound before introducing this year’s Fringe Festival title at a press conference today – Fringeopolis. The motif on the poster that was unveiled is a definite homage to the 1926 Fritz Lang futuristic dystopian movie […]
Win Buddy Guy tickets!
Edmonton seems to have a new once-a-week blues room with the Polish Hall – a little slice of the Chitlin’ Circuit right here in the Big Onion. This Friday: Buddy Guy, the hardest working showman in the blues. We have a pair of tickets to give away to the show, thanks to promoter Bryan Taylor […]
The Joys of Mother’s Day
Must Mother’s Day always involve some combination of Eggs Benedict, Julie Andrews and Tom Jones? Yes. That’s just the way it is – so suck it up and show some love for the woman who gave you life, no less. You make her worry, you know. You really ought to call more often. A little […]
The DAILY FUNNY: iPhones and dirty racehorses
We’d like to tell you this Sunday edition of the Daily Funny cleverly loops together a string of seemingly unrelated comedic threads until, subtly and cleverly, an overarching theme is revealed. We’d LIKE to tell you that’s the case. But instead it’s more like a bunch of unrelated funny crap stuck together…… With that said, […]
