Posted on July 10, 2011
By Michael Senchuk
Music, The Latest
There was no press release. There was no announcement on a local radio station. But one of the biggest buzz bands of the year – The Pains of Being Pure At Heart – added a number of dates to an already lengthy tour late last week, and one of those is in Edmonton. The New […]
Posted on July 9, 2011
By Albert Smith
Comedy, Culture
Mankind is Jerry Seinfeld’s business. His mission is to explore tiny human stupidities, leaving the larger idiocies to other comedians. His tool is a microscope. His result is universal humour. EVERYBODY’S done the dumb little things he talks about, we’re all guilty of the trivial human mistakes he’s built a career on – even Jerry […]
Posted on July 9, 2011
By Andrea Scharner
Front Slider, Music
There are people who will argue that the point of any communal gathering – this Sunday’s SOS Fest included – is the sense of community itself. And let’s face it – it’s hard to dispute when you see a few blocks of Whyte Avenue blocked off so that folk of all ages can boogie to […]
Posted on July 8, 2011
By Mike Ross
Culture, Front Slider, Music, TV and Radio
Well, this is awkward. I’m at a fancy dinner party for the Royal Newlyweds and I’ve got Ezra Levant sitting to the left of me and and Colleen Brown to the right. Or maybe it’s the other way around. Ezra is a Sun TV commentator who criticizes government arts funding. Colleen is a local recording […]
Posted on July 6, 2011
By Mike Ross
Comedy, Culture, Family, Front Slider, Theatre
Jugglers! Tricksters! Clowns! Fools! But enough about the Harper government – the Edmonton International Street Performers Festival opens tomorrow! By fantastic coincidence, Cirque du Soleil’s Dralion plays through Sunday (July 10) at Rexall Place. This is the famous French-Canadian acrobatic circus that was started by – you guessed it – a street performer. What are […]
Posted on July 5, 2011
By Staff
Music, The Latest
Today on WHO NAMED THE BAND we explore another group that sounds like its name – Godsmack. Playing Thursday, Sept. 1 at the Shaw Conference Centre – for which tickets are $50 and go on sale Friday (here) – the Boston hard rock band has been “smacking” the word of “God” and other things relentlessly […]
Posted on July 5, 2011
By Staff
Music, The Latest
Whether you love to hate him or hate to love him, Matthew Good is at least one of the more interesting characters on the Canadian music scene. And now for something completely different: Matthew Good in a soft-seater. The deep-thinking Vancouver rocker has announced a string of theatre dates across Canada that brings him to […]
Posted on July 5, 2011
By Mike Ross
Culture, Front Slider, Lit, Theatre
New York in the ’50s, Switzerland in the ’30s, Monte Carlo in the ’20s, tea with a vaudeville star, champagne with the ambassador, a conga line at a wedding, a murder mystery at the symphony, a discussion of green peppers during a cocktail party – don’t ever accuse Stewart Lemoine of being stuck in the […]
Posted on July 5, 2011
By Rob Drinkwater
The Latest, Visual Arts
Filmmaker Curtis Cleveland has lived in both Vancouver and Edmonton, and Cleveland says it was easier shooting the feature-length upcoming movie The Bike Heist here than it would have been in Vancouver. “It’s almost impossible to do a low budget film there now because the city is almost spoiled,” Cleveland told an audience of bicycle […]
Posted on July 2, 2011
By Mike Ross
Comedy, Front Slider
Besides sexual bias, there is another reason you don’t see as many female comics as male ones: Female comics tend to have babies, from time to time, which is not conductive to being on the road performing nasty jokes for drunks. Performing July 6-10 at the Comic Strip, Felicia Michaels says she has had two […]
Posted on July 1, 2011
By Staff
Family, Front Slider, Music, Theatre
When your entire town turns into one big party and choice paralysis turns to decision exhaustion, where do you turn for guidance? Right here, reader! It is our job as modern Internet journalists to be the proverbial “BS filters,” or to at least try to distil the vast clumps of Canada Day events happening throughout […]
Posted on June 30, 2011
By Staff
Music, The Latest
Souljah Fyah, Peter Belec, Kat Danser, Wool on Wolves (right) and Hey Romeo are just five of the local nominees for the 2011 Western Canadian Music Awards, it was announced today – the five showing the musical diversity of Edmonton in urban, jazz, blues, rock and country music, respectively. That about covers it. The awards […]
