Hot picks: Advantage, indie bands!
It’s Saturday, and Gig City suggests ye denizens of olde Champe Towne quaff a few brews, watch some footie and maybe catch one of the dozen or so decent plays in town these days. What’s that? Music, you ask? Oh, if you insist. The selection is eclectic and marvellous. Wild-T and the Spirit are doing […]
MUSIC: Jenn Grant’s Egyptian solitude
Jenn Grant admits she’s a bit of a home body when she’s not on tour. Traditionally, Grant has always written songs at home, and her friends have to drag her out of the house these days when they want her for a night on the town. But when she wrote the opening track to her […]
Edmonton non-profit benefits, but indie cinema firm left reeling
Citadel Theatre says it’s not worried about filling the void that will be left when Metro Cinema departs Zeidler Hall and heads south across the river to The Garneau in a few months, but the move has an unhappy ending for The Garneau’s soon-to-be displaced tenant. “For us, it was a dream come true and […]
LIT: Local novelist short-listed for Stephen Leacock Award
There seems to be a strange aversion to humorous novels in Canadian literature – according to Edmonton novelist Todd Babiak. So thank goodness for the Stephen Leacock Award, which has short-listed Babiak’s latest novel “Toby: A Man,” it was announced today. This is yet another feather in Todd’s cap. He’s competing against four other writers. […]
ELMO COMING IN JULY – ‘pre-sale’ tickets on sale today!
Now here’s a heck of a coincidence: The Sesame Street Live production of “Elmo’s Healthy Heroes” at Rexall Place July 22-24 happens mere DAYS after Katy Perry’s show in the same building. What are the odds? You remember how the pop temptress recorded a duet with Elmo that Sesame Street producers decided to axe because […]
Raise your glass! It’s Joe Bird Day
It may be better to honour the late Joe Bird on his birthday than on the day he died – but that doesn’t mean his friends can’t gather for a few quiet drinks in his memory. Bird died suddenly on April 1, 2009. Cathleen Rootsaert, his longtime partner in the comedy troupe Three Dead Trolls […]
Trophy is just the beginning for Edmonton Juno winner
Quanteisha Benjamin had a mouth full of mashed potatoes when her name was announced as the winner of R&B Recording of the Year at the Juno Awards Gala Dinner in Toronto on March 26. She didn’t expect to win. The first thing the 18-year-old Edmonton singer said to the crowd of Canada’s top music industry […]
Hot Picks, April 1: Rock Lobster Day!
April Fool! There is no April Fool’s joke! That’s the joke. Really. We couldn’t possibly make up anything so crazy or unbelievable in the realm of arts and entertainment that Charlie Sheen hasn’t already actually done it – so why bother? Let’s just get on with today’s cool gig. Guys: You want to seriously impress […]
Hot Picks, March 31: Experimenting on Gertrude Stein
Those clever Dicks and Janes at the University of Alberta are always up to something cool. Opening tonight at the Timms Centre for the Arts (corner of 87 Avenue and 112 Street) is an unusual performance art piece called The Gertrude Stein Project. The Studio Theatre production features the work of Beau Coleman, who performs […]
High octane estrogen on stage at the Roxy
As a tradition, men are a rarity in the audience for your typical Hey Ladies! show – an all-female comedy revue taking place Friday, April 1 at the Roxy Theatre. “But you (men) are always welcome,” purrs co-host Davina Stewart, aka Ms. Davina. “No vaseline on the doorknobs,” she warns, “no salt in the sugar […]
TRUE TALES OF THE ROAD: Mother Mother’s long journey
This isn’t easy. The best road stories can’t be told, and sometimes a great band simply won’t have any truly horrifying experiences to share. Too busy working on their music, eh? Mother Mother, playing a SOLD OUT show at Edmonton Event Centre tomorrow night (Thursday, March 31), is far more interesting for its music than […]
CUCKOO EDMONTON RADIO: Ah, Juicy Fruit
The gut reaction to listening to the radio station formerly known as the Sound – which relaunched Monday as Lite 95.7 – is to re-enact a scene from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. It’s the part where Jack Nicholson’s character McMurphy tries to strangle the evil Nurse Ratched after she goaded a teenage boy […]
