EDMONTON RADIO: Peter Brown is the smart one
Peter Brown just missed out on becoming an actor when he realized “I wasn’t talented enough to make it fast and I didn’t love it enough to be a waiter and make it slow.” So then he fell back on narrowly avoiding a PhD from Cambridge University, deked around the opportunity to work for the […]
FOOD: Brooklyn Tomato neither Brooklyn nor tomato – just great Vietnamese
Not since Le Charles Mansion has a Vietnamese restaurant been so woefully named. I really meant to ask the server at Brooklyn Tomato (8205 83 Street, 780.756.6688) what that borough and that fruit-vegetable had to do with pho or bun or cha gio. Then I got distracted by the huge bowl of food they put […]
Party Under the Dome: you paid for it, you might as well enjoy it
In some of the more mature – meaning “old” – countries, celebrating the 100th anniversary of a building would seem rather gauche. Maybe 150 years, certainly 200, but a mere Century? Please. But this is Alberta, where we have a different concept of what constitutes old. Here, the centennial of a building is reason to […]
GOTYE: Just some song that we used to know
Once in a great while the pop music mainstream brings up something truly great, an artist with talent, integrity and intelligence who has worked hard, poured heart and soul, blood, sweat and tears into their work – and with some luck, perhaps divine intervention, come up with a song that defines an entire generation. And […]
MEET THE FRINGE CRITICS: Opinion and perspective needed
The army of Fringe theatre critics – more than 65 in all – have by now seen and reviewed just about all of the 215 plays at Village of the Fringed. Each review comes with a star rating to aid the bewildered theatrical consumer in making the difficult choice of what to see on the […]
FRINGE HOLDOVERS: The people, and the critics, have spoken
Want to see that great Fringe play that got five stars in all the papers, but found it’s all SOLD OUT? They hate it when that happens – which is why we have the annual Fringe Holdovers, the Fringe After the Fringe, starting next week at the Westbury Theatre (Venue 1, Arts Barns) and at […]
FRINGE EXCLUSIVE: Inside the Critics Studio
There is a secret room located deep in the bowels of the Fringe headquarters where the hopes, dreams, aspirations, talent and hard work of theatre artists are CRUSHED by the bucketful. It’s the “media room,” where Fringe theatre critics practice their art for 10 days every August. More than 65 journalists, broadcasters and bloggers are […]
