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 […]
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 […]
GIGBITS: Bummed out artists, Mark Meer in plastic, Joe Bird Award
Look on the bright side – at least there won’t be another election for the next four years. Even so, a number of Edmonton arts people are deeply bummed today, for some reason. Some of the usual suspects chimed in on Facebook: Music promoter John Armstrong: “So what’s next? Can we impeach him? Are there […]
Little Women set to music at Citadel Theatre
Let us take you back to a time when the word “gay” meant something else than it does today, when four teenage sisters with lots of time on their hands only got into the kind of trouble that was suitable for a family audience. Continuing previews at the Citadel Theatre tonight and tomorrow before the […]
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 […]
DANCE: kicking their brains out in Riverdance
Three ways Riverdance is like the Titanic: 1. It’s really big and long. 2. It’s filled with Irish. 3. The conclusion is inevitable. The Titanic ended by sinking. Riverdance ends with everybody in a giant line, arms linked, reels and jigs raging full-on and they’re step dancing their brains out. All else – the fog […]
THEATRE: Brad Fraser’s wholesome family comedy
A promiscuous teenage girl gets a job at a local restaurant and discovers that her boss once had a homosexual love affair with her father. Do all of Brad Fraser’s plays have to have a gay theme? Short answer: No. But it sure sets the stage for a wholesome family comedy, doesn’t it? At the […]
THEATRE: Ayn Rand meets Anthony Robbins in Public Speaking
True story: After seeing a performance of Faithless – which Chris Craddock wrote in 2005 with his co-star, Steve Pirot – I approached the actor in the lobby afterwards. I said to him, “Man, if only I had a quarter of your talent.” Craddock raised an eyebrow and gave me a playful smirk. “But, Adrian, […]
