GIGGLE CITY: Harland Williams comes from a happy place
Like many Hollywood stars whose stand-up comedy made them into a Hollywood star, Harland Williams still goes out on the road to do stand-up comedy, from time to time. He does it to pay the bills, to maintain the lifestyle to which he has become accustomed, but that’s not all. “I love it,” he says. […]
Simple Plan brings romance to Rexall Place Feb. 14
The plan was simple: Form a simple band that plays simple music – and then call that band Simple Plan. It sure worked wonders for these Montreal titans of emo. Now you can mark your calendar – buy a 2012 calendar and mark that – for Feb. 14 when Simple Plan brings its zippy romantic […]
Pearl Jam Week declared in Edmonton – on screen and stage
The new Pearl Jam documentary Twenty is opening the Edmonton International Film Festival (EIFF) on Thursday – which just happens to be a day off for the band before they play Rexall Place on Friday. Coincidence? Probably. Will members of Pearl Jam actually show up at the screening? Probably not. Sources close to the band […]
EDMONTON RADIO: Up! Yours!
After a summer of no radio whatsoever – except for a sample in Montana where I learned that things could be much worse – I tortured myself by listening to nothing but Up! 99.3 FM for two entire weeks. This is the worst radio station in Edmonton. It contains the highest ratio of bad songs […]
TONIGHT: The Notorious Vince Neil expected to rock the EEC
It must be tough to be a 50-year-old rock star whose very name has become synonymous with excess, overindulgence and general rock ‘n’ roll decadence. Imagine the inner dialogue: Oh, Christ, not Dr. Feelgood again … Do I really have to swig that bottle of Jack Daniel’s? My freakin’ liver’s gonna explode … I don’t […]
AGA contest wants your wildest wild life
We’ve all got a story about being cold. You can’t live in Canada for any length of time and NOT have a story about being cold. Let’s face it, “the north” is a culture unto itself; and the Art Gallery of Alberta is working with the theme in its latest contest. The AGA wants to […]
THEATRE: Comely wenches cross swords, egos in Heroine
Ahoy, mateys: Thar be something mighty fishy about Heroine – a ripping yarn about a pair of comely wenches what pillaged the high seas in the misty days of yore, got scurf’d to the brig and marked with the black spot for a date with the hempen halter. The play about female pirates opens Friday […]
ART: Does this look like $350-million worth of museum?
All right, someone has to say publicly what plenty of us are thinking: the proposed design for the Royal Alberta Museum looks like a high school. Even the distance perspective drawing looks, at best, like the front of a mid-sized city airport. This? This is what we’re getting for $350-million in taxes? Keep in mind […]
Paul Brandt, nice guy and country singer, returns to the Jubilee Auditorium Dec. 12
We can’t get enough of Paul Brandt. What’s not to like? The guy is almost supernaturally nice. And generous? To a fault! So fans ought not to be getting tired of this behatted Albertan any time soon. On the spurred bootheels of his sold-out Slave Lake benefit at the Winspear Centre on Wednesday night comes […]
Hey Romeo, keyboardist Rob Shapiro win big at the 2011 CCMAs
Since it our job to root out the Edmontonian content in any entertainment news story, let us celebrate with our own hot country trio Hey Romeo, which scored Group of the Year at the 2011 Canadian Country Music Awards in Hamilton on Monday night. And Johnny Reid and Dean Brody each walked away with three […]
THEATRE: New season ahoy!
From Fringe summer to subscription winter, the rhythms of live theatre in Edmonton are as predictable as a horse on a high fibre diet. No, that’s not the best image to go with some of the finest thespianism in Canada, but it just came out. Remember one of the cardinal rules of improv: what is […]
