Silver Skate Festival in full, cold swing this weekend
Music, mushing, skating and sleigh rides: Edmonton’s longest-running winter festival, Silver Skate, is back for another year. The festival runs at Hawrelak Park through Monday 21, February which is Family Day. Silver Skate is rooted in the Dutch tradition of the love of outdoor activity. The festival’s anchor events, the Edmonton Winter Triathlon (skate, ski, […]
Will grounding airport help arts districts take off?
Pilots have a saying: Avoid clouds. Mountains have been known to hide out in them. But members of Edmonton’s burgeoning north-side arts communities don’t believe there are any metaphorical mountains looming in the cloud of uncertainty over the closure of the City Centre Airport. At best, the approximately 25,000 people who are expected to live […]
CONTEST: Wen there’s a will, there’s a Wei…and free tickets, too
Wen Wei? Way! ….when? If you asked the question above, you’re either a mildly delusional website editor or a fan of the unparalleled Wen Wei Beijing Modern Dance Company. Assuming the latter, you could win free tickets to the company’s performance Feb. 25 at the Timms Centre. Wen Wei blends multiple styles including traditional Chinese […]
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 […]
Snooki hits Edmonton tomorrow!
We wanted to bring you some high culture for the big launch of GigCity.ca – so we know you won’t be disappointed that Snooki is coming to Edmonton to help us celebrate the Jersey Shore Family Day Long Weekend! That’s right: The most talked-about star or Jersey Shore will be appearing at the Union Hall […]
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 […]
Death Cab for Cutie gets sensitive in Edmonton
Welcome to another episode if Who Named the Band? Our guest today is Death Cab for Cutie, which brings its breezy yet sensitive brand of morbidly artistic pop rock music to the Shaw Conference Centre on Tuesday, May 24. In addition to past sensitive new-age rockers like Soul Meets Body or I Will Follow You […]
