Posted on August 8, 2012
By Michael Senchuk
Music
If you’re heading to the Edmonton Folk Music Festival this weekend, you may find yourself becoming far too comfortable – in the beer gardens. It happens to the best of us. After all, you might have to line up to get back in. And you can hear the music, after all – sort of, at […]
Posted on August 8, 2012
By Maurice Tougas
Music, The Latest
Here’s a phrase you may never have seen before: Yanni rocks. Sure, it’s not like the traditional way you might say, “Nickelback rocks, man!” but the high priest of New Age music defied every expectation by putting on an upbeat, vibrant and – dare I say it – rockin’ show at the Jubilee Auditorium on […]
Posted on August 7, 2012
By Mike Ross
Front Slider, Theatre
Imagine you’re a big time movie director alone on an elevator with a mime for one minute. Better yet, imagine you’re a big time movie director stuck in an elevator with a horde of actors, comics, dancers, singers, musicians and don’t forget mimes, each of whom have an amazing story pitch. You will be rescued […]
Posted on August 7, 2012
By Albert Smith
Comedy, Front Slider, Music
One of the biggest stand-up comics who gets away with murder because he can blame it all on his racist puppets is returning to Edmonton. You guessed it: Jeff Dunham – along with Walter, Peanut, Jose Jalapeno on a Stick, Melvin the Superhero Guy and the ever-loving Achmed the Dead Terrorist, and many more! – […]
Posted on August 6, 2012
By Mike Ross
Culture, Music, The Latest
Corb Lund is writing a new paradigm for country music. Not to put too highfalutin a point on it, but it’s a direction that favours honesty and critical thinking to a level hitherto unseen in the redneck stereotype you hear in most popular country music on the radio today. In a world of polarized politics […]
Posted on August 4, 2012
By Mike Ross
Dining, Family, Front Slider
The Servus Heritage Festival, Edmonton’s most delicious festival, is going hot and heavy at Hawrelak Park all weekend – and judging from the madding crowds on opening day Saturday, this could be a record breaker. Attendees are advised to bring: – More money than you think you need, which is converted into “Heritage Euros,” better […]
Posted on August 3, 2012
By Albert Smith
Music, The Latest
Now here’s one guy who has carried the “Junior” label with style and dignity – Frank Sinatra Jr. The son of the Chairman, a chip off the old block, the apple that didn’t fall far from the tree, will be singing the songs his dad made famous in Sinatra Sings Sinatra, an old school Vegas […]
Posted on August 1, 2012
By Maurice Tougas
Dining, Family, Front Slider, Music
Jack Little has a lot on his plate right about now. He’s getting ready to host a party, which requires food and drink, some music and a whole lot of dancing. This is no backyard BBQ. Little is the executive director of the much-loved Edmonton institution, the Servus Heritage Festival. If the weather holds, he’s […]
Posted on July 31, 2012
By Mike Ross
Music, The Latest
Görgön Hörde is not comprised of actual Gorgons, is neither horde nor Swedish death metal band. It is an Edmonton punk trio saddled with a silly name that may already be too late to change. Nomenclatural intervention would be painful. And so it is written in gratuitous umlauts, which, like tattoos or ear lobe labia, […]
Posted on July 30, 2012
By LH Thomson
Comedy, Culture, Family, Front Slider
The most anti-climactic, waste-of-money contest in city history has wrapped up and we have a new fair name. The winner? No one, really. When Northlands announced a couple of months back that they’d be looking for a new name for Capital Ex, the collective yell for a return to the silly-but-lovely tradition that was K-Days […]
Posted on July 27, 2012
By Michael Senchuk
Music
Go ahead, try and pick one genre or theme for this weekend’s musical offerings. We dare you! Edmonton is about to be inundated by live tunage. Rexall Place plays host to two nights of diametrically opposed genres, with Iron Maiden performing as part of their Maiden England World Tour on Friday night, and then Il […]
Posted on July 26, 2012
By Mike Ross
The Latest
Il Divo’s Sebastien Izambard does not know the meaning of the words “novelty act.” Seriously. He’s French, and there doesn’t seem to be a comparable idiom in his mother tongue for a group of singers whose style outweighs their apparent substance – in this case a poperatic quartet of Armani-suited man candy bellowing Nights in […]
