META-FRINGE: Giant Invisible Robot battles with four enormous thumbs up!
When you see FOUR THUMBS UP, you know you’re in for a really good play at the Edmonton International Fringe Festival. Good luck getting tickets to Giant Invisible Robot! Now please welcome the CBC’s Paul Matwychuk to our multi-thumbed hydra of hyper-criticism, a meta-media monster that already includes the body parts of several different theatre […]
META-FRINGE – Three thumbs up for new David Belke play Forsooth, My Lovely
Now we have Vue Weekly magazine to add to our critical conflations of the Edmonton International Fringe Festival – creating a Frankensteinian meta-critic with three thumbs. Enjoy the best of the best, and if you’re into that sort of thing, the worst of the worst. THREE THUMBS UP FORSOOTH MY LOVELY, BYOV 29 (mixture of […]
TONIGHT: Taylor Swift to pluck our heartstrings a second time
A dad I know is afraid of Taylor Swift. He doesn’t put it that way of course. He goes at if from a backdoor approach. “Have you listened to that tune “Picture to Burn?” he says. “Her boyfriend breaks up with her for another girl, so she trashes his house. And she’s a kid.” This […]
META-FRINGE: Elephant and Scarlet woman feel the love
Catch Day Three Meta-reviews here: In Gig City’s daily meta-fringe, we’re only interested in meta-mutilating the published reviews of Fringe plays that are either really, really great … or blow it right out of the ass. The vast middle ground of differing critical opinions on so many different types of live theatre at this event […]
PREVIEW: Shake your marimbas at Edmonton’s Second Annual Latin Fest
So you’re Fringed out — or even, perish the thought, think live theatre is like watching paint dry. Or darn it, you just need a change of pace for a few hours. You have a few choices: self-flagellation with the limb of an Olive Branch to celebrate the birthday of The Blessed St. John of […]
FISHEYE: Benched
Edmonton has spoken. Our regular photo of the day (potd) feature from Fish Griwkowsky is a visual diary and memoir of his life in and out of the city. More Fisheye photos here (if we’ve managed to fix the old links by the time you read this.)
TRUE TALES: Sex with Janis and the Edmonton Rock Music Festival
The question must be asked: What was it like making love to Janis Joplin? Her one-time creative partner Sam Andrew replies, “Feathery, light and very feminine – way more feminine than I would’ve thought. I knew her really well. It wasn’t surprising, though. She was definitely all woman.” It was just the one night of […]
REVIEW: 2011 Edmonton Folk Music Festival a blast and a gas
Too big? Stop whining! The Edmonton Folk Music Festival isn’t big enough. We won’t be satisfied until they annex a block of Cloverdale and tear down the homes to make room for another stage, until they expand the beer garden all the way into the Dawson Forest, until they extend the event to 1,000 performances […]
Tim Robbins honks the good fight
I wish I could tell you that Tim Robbins fought the good fight, and the critics let him be. I wish I could tell you that – but the folk fest is no fairy-tale world. Folk fest life consists of routine, and then more routine. Every so often, Tim would show up with a fresh […]
