Royal Wedding comes to Edmonton!

Posted on April 28, 2011 By Staff TV and Radio

The Royal Wedding is neigh! Or is that “nigh?” Didn’t get your invitation? Neither did we. Weird. But that doesn’t mean we can’t embrace the Event of the Decade – the Wedding of the Century! – with style, grace and good manners at the Edmonton Exclusive Royal Wedding Celebration, happening at 3 a.m. on Friday […]

Rock ‘n’ roll on tap at Edmonton’s International Beerfest – also, beer

Posted on April 28, 2011 By Mike Ross Dining, Music

Too many beer festivals? Not enough beer festivals! These are two schools of thought coming into the Edmonton’s International Beerfest, continuing today at the Shaw Conference Centre. There once were none. Then there were three. And now we’re down to about two, give or take – but this particular beer festival is the biggest beer […]

Tragically Hip play Northlands July 14, Lil’ Wayne on, the Game off

Posted on April 25, 2011 By LH Thomson Music, The Latest

Canadian rock legends The Tragically Hip are coming to play an outdoor show at Edmonton’s Northlands Park on July 14, it was announced today. The band is expected to perform songs from an as-yet-unreleased album they’re working on, along with all your usual Hip favourites. We’ll kill Gord if he doesn’t do New Orleans is […]

Sloan bringing 20th anniversary tour to Edmonton to back new album

Posted on April 25, 2011 By Adrian Lackey Music, The Latest

We’ve waited 20 years for an answer to the question: who exactly are the People of the Sky, and why are their bodies covered in coke fizz? Sloan will answer those questions and more as the legendary Halifax rockers kick off their latest album on the tour, which just happens to be on their 20th […]

RHYME & REASON: Edmonton Poetry Festival opens tonight

Posted on April 25, 2011 By Staff The Latest

If you’re a poet, then just stow it, unless you know it, then let it flow-it – at the festival for poets. Not bad, eh? Maybe we should crash one of the “slams” at the Edmonton Poetry Festival, opening tonight at the ARTery and running through May 1 at various venues around town. Just banish […]

Shuttered landmark pub has been frozen in time for three decades

Posted on April 23, 2011 By Rob Drinkwater Culture, Front Slider

It might have been due to liquor laws that discouraged visible drinking, or perhaps it was because street-level property on Jasper was once too valuable, but there was a time when downtown Edmonton’s fanciest bars and restaurants were located in basements. Like today’s downtown restaurants, the customers were well-heeled and worked in the then newly […]

Dirty Vegas brings Electric Love to Buffalo Underground

Posted on April 21, 2011 By Staff Music

Have you ever heard of a song being used in a television commercial BEFORE winning a Grammy award? Welcome to the wonderfully topsy-turvy world of dance culture, people, epitomized by global stars like Dirty Vegas. The British house trio – spinning the tracks tonight at Buffalo Underground – has claimed a good deal of its […]

To boldly make comedy where there was no comedy before

Posted on April 21, 2011 By Rob Drinkwater Comedy, Theatre

Inoculate yourselves, because free comedy is spreading in pubs west of downtown like a sniffle through a kindergarten. The Gas Pump, located at 10166 114 Street, is the latest establishment to offer a slate of comedians on a night which is traditionally slow in the hospitality industry – Mondays at 9:30 p.m., fitting nicely between […]

No Second Coming for Dead Jesus

Posted on April 21, 2011 By Mike Ross Music

In the end, maybe Dead Jesus broke up because its members were getting a sense of humour about the whole “black death metal” schtick – and that, friends, is the kiss of death. “Yeah, there’s a lot of dour-faced, inner-circle, moping around in the metal scene,” admits bassist Lord Bedingfield IV with a laugh. “It’s […]

TRUE TALES OF THE ROAD: Ripped off in Cuba

Posted on April 20, 2011 By Mike Ross Culture, Film, Front Slider, Music

If you’re trying to build a bridge between the punk rock scenes of Edmonton and Cuba – a place not known for its punk rock, where rock ‘n’ roll was actually once illegal until Fidel Castro realized John Lennon was a comrade, and which is so screwed up that the entire grassroots economy runs on […]

FISHEYE: Spanks for the memories

Posted on April 20, 2011 By BILL BENSON The Latest, Visual Arts

The various nursery rhyme tile mosaics on the walls of the Royal Alexandra Hospital make up some of the coolest public art in the city. Where else, for instance, can you see a promiscuous, shoe-dwelling crone spanking her child’s bare ass on the side of a children’s ward? Our regular photo of the day (potd) […]

GIGGLE CITY: Bob Angeli’s ethnic comedy journey

Posted on April 19, 2011 By Albert Smith Front Slider

Bob Angeli doesn’t headline his own comedy club very often, but it’s Easter weekend, and Bob is Italian, possibly Catholic, so … well, you can insert your own racial joke here. Only if you, too, are Italian, of course. Delicate thing, this racial comedy. Angeli knows the balance well, as you may see below. You […]

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