PREVIEW: A worthy blues cause without selling your soul
The blues can be fickle. If you take your blues – and your blues music – really personally, for their curative qualities, you may be inclined to find a blues contest kind of silly, preferring instead a dingy bar with low light and lower prospects. But you’d be wrong. Blues contests have a long and […]
TONIGHT: Artists for Life, Pink Floyd, Raygun Cowboys, Bobby Cameron
The only funny thing to say about Artists for Life – tonight at the Catalyst Theatre – is that the very title suggests there might be artists who are NOT for life. Even death metal bands are into life. It’s just so bleedin’ obvious, isn’t it? As is the desire to support worthy charities like […]
Cameron Carpenter pulls out all the stops
Time was that “bad boy of the organ” meant something different than it does today – but we’re not going to get into that. We’re still bummed out that the SexCity.ca domain has been taken. So what makes Cameron Carpenter such a big deal – beyond the fact that he looks like he ought to […]
The DAILY FUNNY: A really premature look at Green Lantern
Looking forward to the summer blockbusters? Imaginative critic Mike Parker checks in with this animated review of what’s probably happening in the movie Green Lantern, based on the trailer. U.S. Political commentator and thoughtful journalist Andy Borowitz continues to be on a roll, with this good-as-gold exclusive on the ramifications to congress of Osama bin […]
Seinfeld blasts Edmonton with hilarious nothings July 9
Some stand-up comedians are deep, so deep that they are called the philosophers of the modern age – the only people in the world who are expected tell the harsh truth and help us laugh at the tragedies of the human condition. And there are guys like Jerry Seinfeld. Master of Minutiae, Titan of the […]
Fresh music from Dirty Laundry at the Blue Chair
You feel that? There’s a fresh wind blowing through Alberta right about now – and with it the winsome, lonesome, sweet, sweet music of Jenny Allen and Leslie Alexander. The pair are on “Allen and Alexander’s Dirty Laundry Dual CD Release Tour,” performing tonight at the Blue Chair Cafe. Here we may explore another fascinating […]
The DAILY FUNNY: Terrorist snuff fantasies and the zombie apocalypse
Hey, who better than The Onion to bring a little clarity to the question of what’s really important in the story of Osama bin Laden’s death. I mean, really? You wanna discuss geopolitical tensions and the brinksmanship of modern politics? Wha-eva. Meanwhile, if irony were a case of irony from ironyville, it couldn’t be any […]
