BLUES: Sonny, Bettye and more
1-2-3-4 “I love the woman/ but she got cancer from smokin’ cigarettes “I love the woman/ but she got cancer from smokin’ cigarettes Don’t remember the next line, But Sonny Rhodes is your best bet. Friends, there are times in all our lives when the blues come down like rain, when the devil’s at yo’ […]
REVIEW: Wildflower Grill pretentious, overrated
When one blows $300 on a dinner for four (including wine), it’s the little things that matter. It was a once-a-year dinner with friends from out of town, so we decided to go to the Wildflower Grill – where the first portent of impending culinary doom was something called a “amuse bouche.” The complimentary amusement […]
FISHEYE: Birds and the birds and the bees
Another bird you might be familiar with is the white-breasted nuthatch. Nature’s one-way signs, this little goober and its mate were looking for a nice spot to do things bees also do. Our regular photo of the day (potd) feature from Fish Griwkowsky is a visual diary and memoir of his life in and out […]
FISHEYE: Spring fling
Where do your emotions come from? Is the answer cedar waxwings? If so, then you might be having emotions again, for they are again busy stealing our leftover mountain ash berries before zipping off elsewhere. Our regular photo of the day (potd) feature from Fish Griwkowsky is a visual diary and memoir of his life […]
FISHEYE: Whyte on fire
Water pools on the corner of Whyte and 99th during a fire which consumed business early this morning. The Empress Ale House and the laundromat on the corner escaped the blaze, though the scent of smoke is unavoidable. Our regular photo of the day (potd) feature from Fish Griwkowsky is a visual diary and memoir […]
CONCERTS: Switchfoot coming, Britney rumoured
Switchfoot is set to play May 27 at Rexall Place, according to a reliable source close to the band. No, not God. The reliable source is of course the band’s own website, which has the date posted as part of a North American tour behind Switchfoot’s new, Grammy-winning album Hello Hurricane. One of the biggest […]
Perverts hang out together – nudge nudge, wink wink
OK, before we continue on to the hard truth about the topic of Pornography in the new play Pervert, we have to acknowledge the following obvious question: in the Internet age, who still goes to porn stores? Nevertheless, the interplay between several such denizens — after a store clerk accuses a customer of theft — […]
Hark, good citizens: Ol’ Mack is Back at the Walterdale
Roll up, roll up, good sirs, and cast yon sideways glance at this middling trifle we emblazon with the status of “Hotpick.” T’was in olde London town that a beggar named Macheath – Mack the Knife – strove to wed a comely maiden named Polly. Suffice said, her father, the King of the Beggars, did […]
FISHEYE: Aztec camera
This is city hall’s tall staircase up to council chambers, under one of our glass pyramids. I often fantasize we would take the Egyptian thing all the way in this city of pyramids – statues of Ra and Anubis in public squares, for instance, not to mention interring our dead leaders for thousands of years […]
LIT: Wayne Arthurson’s killer job
Edmonton, are you exotic? No, you couldn’t be. How could a city like you, Edmonton, with your cold and snow and your northerliness and your general sense of Edmontonness be exotic? Oh sure, you made the Top 10 in that livability list of Canadian cities recently, but that’s livable; it’s got nothing to do with […]
FISHEYE: Fading memories
In desperate need of a major touch-up, the Plainsman Apartments mural on 108 street north of 107 Avenue is nonetheless one of the iconic pieces of public art in the city. Our regular photo of the day (potd) feature from Fish Griwkowsky is a visual diary and memoir of his life in and out of […]
