Posted on September 24, 2012
By Wayne Arthurson
Culture, Front Slider, Lit
For years, we have been cocky about our bookstores. As city after city lost their independent book sellers, Edmonton crowed: “We have two strong independent bookstores!” But we crow no more. Although there is no official word from the owners, Greenwoods’ Books is closing in about a week, according to discussions on Facebook and Twitter. […]
Posted on September 20, 2012
By Michael Senchuk
Music
A pair of seminal metal bands are in Edmonton this weekend, with death metal act Obituary playing the Pawn Shop on Friday night, followed the next evening by thrash metal artists Anthrax at EEC. If metal isn’t your scene of choice, there’s classic rock, indie pop, indie rock and even folk to be heard this […]
Posted on September 19, 2012
By Mike Ross
Front Slider, Music
The metal band Anthrax only had one problem with its name – in the tense few weeks following Sept. 11, 2001, when packets of deadly bacillus anthracis spores were mailed to several media outlets and politicians around North America. Seventeen people were infected, five died. The Edmonton Sun newsroom even got a delivery of suspicious […]
Posted on September 19, 2012
By Mike Ross
The Latest, Theatre
Anything that can be done to hasten the annual Halloween creep would be fine by the folks at Kill Your Television Theatre, whose production of “Victor and Victoria’s Terrifying Tale of Terrible Things” opens Friday at the Varscona Theatre. They originally wanted a late October run, which probably would’ve sold more tickets, but with schedules […]
Posted on September 19, 2012
By Mike Ross
The Latest, Theatre
“You want the truth?! You can’t handle the truth!” Imagine having that damned line of dialogue hanging over your head when you’re trying to do a serious stage version of “A Few Good Men.” Hell of a distraction. The line – uttered by the crusty Colonel Nathan R. Jessep in the famous courtroom blowout in […]
Posted on September 18, 2012
By Mike Ross
Music, The Latest
For a good old fashioned socially-conscious folk singer like Maria Dunn, you couldn’t ask for a richer topic than Edmonton’s famed GWG clothing factory. It has everything: Labour unions, local history, the immigrant experience, women’s rights and – since the factory closed seven years ago – another illustration of the drawbacks of corporate globalization. Almost […]
Posted on September 18, 2012
By Stuart Adams
Front Slider, Visual Arts
“Organic” is an odd word to describe abstract metal sculpture, but the term was overheard several times at the opening of “Samskara” by Isla Burns, at the Peter Robertson Gallery until October 2. There was another popular description among first night viewers – “tactile.” The sculptures almost invite you to touch them, the smaller ones […]
Posted on September 18, 2012
By Mike Ross
Music, The Latest
The summers fill with outdoor festivals, the winters with cool indoor gigs. Behold the great cycle of life! The latest on the sked is the Sheepdogs (right), the fast rising Saskatoon foursome playing Friday, Dec. 14 at the Edmonton Event Centre – almost exactly one year after the band’s last appearance in town. Since then, […]
Posted on September 17, 2012
By Mike Ross
Music, The Latest
On their own, big bars. Together, the big hall. In the grand rock ‘n’ roll tradition of teaming up two slightly disparate modern rock bands to bolster their combined audience, Big Wreck and Theory of a Deadman are joining forces for a winter tour set to swing through town in December. The bands will play […]
Posted on September 17, 2012
By Mike Ross
Front Slider, Music
If you missed Corb Lund and the Hurtin’ Albertans at their first mainstage appearance at the 2012 Edmonton Folk Music Festival, you’ll get another chance this winter. The Albertan country hero will perform at Northlands Expo Centre on Friday, Dec. 7. Tickets go on sale Friday. The show is part of a world tour behind […]
Posted on September 15, 2012
By Scott Lingley
Dining, Food, The Latest
Change, they say, is the only constant thing in life. They have obviously never been to Savoy’s Health Café (11010 51 Avenue, 780.437.7718), which has been operating out of the same hole-in-a-strip-mall location across from Southgate for the best part of two decades. In truth, the Savoy is not exactly the same as it has […]
Posted on September 15, 2012
By Maurice Tougas
Culture, Front Slider, Theatre
The Mayfield Dinner Theatre had great success with “The Buddy Holly Story” back in 2010 – it was a corker, despite the fact you knew going in that it wasn’t going to have a happy ending. So there are high hopes for “Four Lads Who Shook the World, The Beatles Story: Part 2,” the current […]
