Entertainment Today, June 16
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame invites you to meat Gaga’s dress [New Window] The infamous meat dress Lady Gaga was grilled for wearing at the MTV Video Music Awards last year will be unveiled Thursday as the main course in a sizzling new display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Thu, 16 […]
Edmonton’s BioWare hit by hackers
Edmonton’s internet giant BioWare, maker of games like Mass Effect and Jade Empire, has been hit by hackers. Customer information regarding the roleplaying game Neverwinter Nights was accessed on a server. None of the information was financial, the company said, but personal information and passwords were accessed for some 18,000 customers. Here is the company’s […]
CONCERTS: Sum 41 screams at the Starlite Aug 18, Pitbull chews up the EEC July 14
Today on WHO NAMED THE BAND: Sum 41. Could be some kind of arcane code – maybe the collective IQ of the Canadian Liberal Party. The number of groupies the members of Sum 41 have bedded? Hard to know. Maybe ask the band when it plays Thursday, Aug. 18 at the Starlite Room – if […]
Food Bank donations imitate art
Attendees of the ANDY WARHOL: Manufactured exhibit at the Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) are reminded that while soup can be art, it is also food – so bring along some cans for the Edmonton Food Bank. Other non-perishable food items are also accepted, of course. One may also buy oversized novelty Campbell’s Soup tins […]
STAGE: Cirque Du Soleil goes far out with the far east
There are few odder sights than a performance of Cirque Du Soleil in full flight and fewer odder success stories. When Le Cirque rolls into E-Town in July for its performance of of its new show Dralion at Rexall Place, it won’t be quite the rare spectacle a Cirque performance used to be, back in […]
Foo Fighters return to Rexall Oct. 28
Who wrote “Foo for Your Love?” No, it wasn’t Mr. T, chumps. The song hasn’t been written yet – but we still sing the praises of the Foo Fighters, returning us to rock us an umpteenth time at Rexall Place on Friday, Oct. 28. Tickets are $39.50, $49.50 or $59.50 and go on sale Friday […]
FISHEYE 3D: Summer blockbuster
This stereoscopic image is not in Jasper or some far-off parkland, but in your own river valley, on an off-road bike path in the west end, where zillions of mosquitoes are waiting to devour you. Our regular photo of the day (potd) feature from Fish Griwkowsky is a visual diary and memoir of his life […]
