ART: Pawn stars benefit from collateral collectibles
Stony Plain Road is a great destination if, due to poor financial advice, you need to pawn your Makita drill. It’s also handy if you need nipple tassles for your girlfriend (or boyfriend) from one of the area’s handy adult XXX shops. But it’s not the part of the city you would think to hit […]
REVIEW: Feast from the east
Midnight Sun Restaurant 11023 124 Street 780.452.2282 An ode to ginger beef: I think that I shall never like you, err you crunch when I should bite you and if your spice is tame a bland, it would be more than I could stand, but please don’t be too limp or weak, with too much […]
Music … and a few other gifts, besides
Edmontonian Rhea March isn’t just building a team of talented young musicians. She’s building a family. March has spent the past four years assembling a roster of gifted Albertan songwriters under age 22 for her non-profit U22 Productions. U22 shows youngsters the ropes of the music industry through mentorship, performance coaching, booking, management, promotion, recording […]
LPs? For the record, the aficionados are sticking around
Independent record stores are an endangered species. We must do our best to preserve these little music shops and their fragile natural habitat away from encroaching box stores and other predators. For without record stores there would be no more … Record Store Clerks. We need Record Store Clerks. Who else will tell us what’s […]
Mass Effect’s Commander Shepard gets his one-man improv on
When Mark Meer speaks, geeks listen. His voice is devoured by theatre audiences, improv junkies and video gamers; we’re all geeks in our respective interests. “My concerns are nerdy,” says Meer. “I grew up enjoying SCTV, Monty Python and Kids in the Hall. I didn’t have drama class in school. The closest I had to […]
Rihanna gets Loud in Edmonton June 22
Poetic justice 101: Chris Brown proves himself a complete twit after he didn’t win a Grammy (complaining on Twitter: “This industry is based on politics and a**-kissing!”) – while the woman he was convicted of assaulting has turned into an even bigger star than ever. In the wake of collecting a trophy for best dance […]
Rammstein rams Rexall, Mother Mother moves up to Edmonton Events Centre
The concerts are really starting to pile up here. Now it’s Rammstein coming to Rexall Place on Friday, May 13 – a full-blown, flaming-phallus, exploding arena-rock spectacular from the German techno-metal band that makes Marilyn Manson look like Marilyn Monroe. Maybe because it’s all in German it sounds scarier. They could do The Beer Barrel […]
REVIEW: A radish-al flip on a pub favourite
Brewster’s Brewing Company 11620 104 Ave (and four other city locations.) 780.482.4677 I’ve never liked brew pubs. This seems like an important admission to begin with when a person is about to write about such a venue, but I raise it only to make the point that, as a light drinker, it’s very rarely a […]
The Pixies bring Doolittle to life: May 1 at the Shaw Conference Centre
You can’t expect the Pixies to mount the same old kind of tour that every other aging reunited rock band does. The Eagles, they are not. The Pixies embodied the term “alternative” long before that sort of thing was cool – and alternative is exactly what fans are going to get at the Doolittle Tour, […]
Katy Perry makes our dreams come true … on July 17
Elmo didn’t want to play dress-up after all, but the Sesame Street episode that never was turned out to be a real attention-getter for Katy Perry: Too sexy for Sesame Street? This we’ve got to see. And you will – when the 26-year-old siren of seduction performs Sunday, July 17 at Rexall Place (if you’re […]
