GIGGLE CITY: Mike Dambra plays Pickle
Edmonton comedians Mike Dambra and Drew Behm suffered minor injuries over the weekend when they were assaulted by two disgruntled hecklers in Rimbey. We can laugh about it now. Or is it … too soon? Mike Dambra doesn’t seem to think so. Doing the emcee gig at the Comic Strip this weekend (for headliner Daniel […]
B.B. King, a real bluesman, returns to Edmonton May 14
There are few guitarists who can be identified by one note and B.B. King is one of them – and he only plays one note! Ha! Just kidding. He plays three. The point being that the blues legend is a master of understatement. He’s 86! Wouldn’t you be? No need to show off anymore. And […]
Heaviest winter on record as Deep Purple comes to Edmonton Feb. 21
Slowhand Walter, fire in this guy? No, it’s just one of the most famous misheard lyrics from one of the most famous rock classics ever pressed into service – Smoke on the Water – and soon we’ll get a chance to mishear it again live when Deep Purple comes to Rexall Place on Tuesday, Feb. […]
Don we now our gay apparel – in Darrin Hagen’s new comedy With Bells On
Most guys don’t start their day expecting to be trapped in an elevator with a giant transvestite – nor realize that he and “she” are not so different after all. That’s the premise of Darrin Hagen’s new play With Bells On, opening Tuesday at the Roxy Theatre. It’s based on a real life experience – […]
TRUE TALES OF THE ROAD: Harlequin blows up good
One of the most powerful figures in the Canadian music business was once arrested for trying to bring explosives on an airplane. Oh, my, that doesn’t sound good, does it? Just imagine if that had happened today – and not in 1978, when airport security wasn’t so serious. “He’d probably still be in jail,” says […]
Lady Antebellum to Own the Night at Rexall March 27
The South lost, didn’t it? Maybe not. A little country group calling itself Lady Antebellum – its last name usually used as a reference to pre-Civil War southern U.S. during the era of slavery – is taking the world by storm. The Grammy-winning band will play Rexall Place on March 17 as part of its […]
Gordon Lightfoot keeps moving forward
When Gordon Lightfoot showed up at the Occupy movement in Toronto to support his protesting daughter, a lot of people jumped to interesting conclusions about the man. Internet boards were full of Canadians either decrying him as an aging hippie, or cheering him … as an aging hippie. It was selling the man a wee […]
Mercury Opera goes Underground for experimental concert
You get all kinds of buskers in LRT stations, but this one is a doozy – an entire opera company in Bay Station on Friday night. BING BONG! Northbound to Clareview! Clareview! Cue Nessun Dorma. Anyone who pays their fare is welcome to attend Mercury Opera’s experimental opera recital in a production called “104 Underground.” […]
