The DAILY FUNNY: Royals, Dinosaurs and Tokyo’s worst
The “all-nighter” or “all-day watch” is a classic old journalism chesnut, favoured by bored columnists the world over, in the era when people were still paid to just be columnists. The premise is simple: you go experience a whole night or day of something at best semi-bearable for a few minutes — Brady Bunch Marathon, […]
Electronic superstar Tiesto draws 7,500 to Northlands
If anyone has any doubts that dance culture is alive and well and going full tilt in Edmonton, just look at last night’s sold-out Tiesto show. Look at it, we tell you! The 7,500 orange-clad folk descending on Northlands Expo weren’t the Christian Youth conference (that’s next month), but a horde of ravers celebrating the […]
Tougher road, no regrets for California punk icons Strung out
Long-time California pop-punk scene-makers Strung Out have influenced a generation, but if Jordan Burns sounds a little wistful that the band didn’t hit the pop-culture big time with a little more oomph forgive him: he’s the band’s manager and drummer. “There’s numerous bands. I mean, Blink 182 – Tom Delonge used to have a Strung Out […]
Command Sisters take their sound to Nashville
Have you ever been to an actual hootenanny in Nashville? At ages 15 and 12 respectively, Charlotte and Sarah Command,will go you one better: they’ve played one. The sisters recently spent two weeks in Nashville, performing at eight different venues in a whirlwind tour of the music city but had time to chat on the […]
Tickets for Maroon 5 in Edmonton on sale May 27
One good reason to catch these guys? It might be your last chance. Maroon 5, lead by lothario-like frontman Adam Levine, play Rexall Place Sept. 10. Tickets go on sale via Ticketmaster on Friday, May 27. The soul-pop artists, noted for hits This Love, Sunday Morning and Wake Up Call, have sold millions of albums. […]
Royal Wedding comes to Edmonton!
The Royal Wedding is neigh! Or is that “nigh?” Didn’t get your invitation? Neither did we. Weird. But that doesn’t mean we can’t embrace the Event of the Decade – the Wedding of the Century! – with style, grace and good manners at the Edmonton Exclusive Royal Wedding Celebration, happening at 3 a.m. on Friday […]
Rock ‘n’ roll on tap at Edmonton’s International Beerfest – also, beer
Too many beer festivals? Not enough beer festivals! These are two schools of thought coming into the Edmonton’s International Beerfest, continuing today at the Shaw Conference Centre. There once were none. Then there were three. And now we’re down to about two, give or take – but this particular beer festival is the biggest beer […]
The Daily Funny: Royal TV watching
You know why Charlie Brooker’s such a well-liked columnist/literary ne’er-do-well in his home nation of England? It’s his optimism. Pay witness as Charlie explains what he expects from Royal Wedding T.V. Coverage in Ye Merrie Olde Englande. It never ends. Just when you thought U.S. President Barack Obama had closed the issue of his birth […]
ROCK BITS: Rock the vote, kids rock, roots rock weirdo and Mel’s rockpile
Hockey or the damned election – that’s all anybody ever talks about in Edmonton at this time of year, year after year after year. From the Department of Pointing Out the Painfully Obvious comes this observation: Artists all over town are ever so slightly leaning to the side of the commie pinko bleeding heart […]
