Signs of life in the north kick off AGA fall season
The Art Gallery of Alberta’s fall season kicks off today with a neat idea: a combined show from artists in three circumpolar countries: Canada, Denmark and Iceland. The artists are Kevin Schmidt ( Canada ); Jacob Dahl Jürgensen and Simon Dybbroe Møller ( Denmark ); and Ragnar Kjartansson ( Iceland ). The exhibition, curated by […]
Edmonton Comedy Festival to ‘keep it clean’
It has been said that it’s easier to clean up a dirty joke than it is to dirty up a clean one. Or is it the other way around? Never mind. The point we’re trying to make here is that the Edmonton Comedy Festival, happening Oct. 19-23 in venues across the greater metropolitan area, is […]
Weekend Music Preview: Busy, it is not
This weekend features mostly local performers, with the biggest name appearing at the Winspear on Sunday: Grammy and Oscar winning Jennifer Warnes. Other notables include Edmonton’s Wool on Wolves, with two performances – Friday and Saturday – at the Pawn Shop, and a CD release party for All Else Fails on Saturday. Friday Consonance: local […]
GIGGLE CITY: Brian Stollery has a short attention span
In the old days, Henny Youngman could fire off one-liners – “take my wife … please!” – and no one would wonder if the poor guy was having marriage troubles, or expect him to get into some deep comi-philosophical routine about the battle of the sexes. It was a joke and that was that. It […]
Blues bands face off to rep city in Memphis
There’s no way around it: it’s a little disappointing that in a city as big as Edmonton, only three outfits are facing off for the title of top local blues band and a chance to represent Champ City in Memphis. The contest is the first annual playdown, with the winner to be sponsored by the […]
TONIGHT: Ke$ha to get $leazy at Rexall Place
Britney Spears is too robotic, Lady Gaga is too bizarre, Katy Perry is too bossy – but when it comes to pop tarts we love to hate and hate to love, Ke$ha is JUST right. Playing Wednesday night at Rexall Place on her Get $leazy Tour, this chick at least doesn’t take herself too seriously […]
Metro Cinema returns with a week of camp
If the offerings in a film series are, for the most part, of material available on most decent cable packages, is it really a worthy film series? Or is it another excuse for like-minded folk to get together in this thing we call “community”? “Camp” would seem to be a theme in Metro Cinema’s grand […]
DEJA BLUES – Johnny Winter and James Cotton return to Polish Hall Oct. 14
Great news for blues fans – if you can tear yourself away from the Beaumont Blues Festival for a moment – blues legends Johnny Winter and James Cotton are coming to play the Polish Hall on Oct. 14 and … hey, wait a minute! Didn’t we just do this? We sure did: The same bill […]
When it comes to Leg renos, province plans to keep you wading
After months of confusing signals that led many to fear late-night pool parties at the Legislature could be going down the drain, the province says visitors will still be able to wade in new pools that will replace the current ones in 2013. Concerns had been raised in the Legislature earlier this year about the […]
TODAY: Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue at Symphony Under the Sky
It’s been said before and it will be said again: The average symphony orchestra “grooves” like a coal truck on a bad gravel road, which is to say it doesn’t. It’s generally much better at rendering Tchaikovsky than, say, Ellington. But this will be repeated, too: The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra is not your run-of-the-mill coal […]
