With the incredible run of big-name acts Edmonton has hosted over the last week – Van Halen, Black Keys, Nickelback – and with the toast of the blogosphere Bon...
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CONCERT ANNOUNCEMENTS: Refused, Nazareth, Buddy Guy
There’s something about the Scandinavian culture that leads itself to great rock bands – could be that ancient Viking blood coursing through veins of the citizenry, filling them with...
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My Darkest Days to rock against breast cancer on Nickelback tour
“If there were no boobs, we wouldn’t have music videos,” declares Sal Costa, lead guitarist for My Darkest Days, which opens for Nickelback at Rexall Place Tuesday night. It...
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REVIEW: The Black Keys get trippy at Rexall
It’s almost a shame the Black Keys took this long to become known to the universe. The band had a total of five albums before the last pair –...
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LIVE TO WORK, WORK TO LIVE: Zoning proposals good news for city artists
In the movies, artists live in studios in giant empty warehouses because the rent is low and there’s plenty of work space. They sleep next to their sculptures and...
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WHAT’S SO FUNNY: Mike Dambra’s sperm cures cancer
Mike Dambra has become famous for, nay, almost dependent upon, a joke so politically incorrect it can cause even insensitive boors to swoon in shock – a routine about...
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NICKELBACK TIMELINE: A special connection to Edmonton
If you want to know where you’re going, you have to know where you’ve been – and if you’re going to Nickelback on Tuesday night, chances are you’ve been...
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These are the Boomers in your neighbourhood: The legacy of Rockin’ Rick
Rick Shermack, better known as Rockin’ Rick, will go down in history as the man who invented Alberta’s most famous shooter. That’s right, China White was a rock band...
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CONCERT REVIEW: Van Halen a strange brew at Rexall
The jump kicks may be no more, but that doesn’t prevent David Lee Roth from executing some impressive moves for a man his age. Flamboyantly sparkly, all smiles, he...
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THEATRE REVIEW: Daniel MacIvor’s In On It is slightly out of it
In the play within a play that is Daniel MacIvor’s “In On It,” the playwright is messing with our heads. It won’t insult your intelligence – but it will...
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Alt.News
CKUA move may leave arts groups homeless
A number of artists and arts organizations could become homeless when CKUA pulls up stakes from the Alberta Block and moves further east on Jasper Avenue to the newly rebuilt Alberta Hotel. The venerable radio station currently rents office space to about a dozen musicians, artists and organizations, including the local musicians union, for...
Zerbin, Tupelo Honey double winners at Edmonton Music Awards
Let’s get this out of the way: People are going to complain about the Edmonton Music Awards – this year’s crop of winners including Tupelo Honey, Zerbin and people’s choice selection Killinger, as revealed in the second annual awards ceremony Saturday night. Haters are going to mutter that the EMAs do not accurately represent...
WRITER CITY: Dellamonica puts the magic in magical realism
A.M. Dellamonica – an Edmonton-bred fantasy writer whose first novel Indigo Springs won the “Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature for the Fantastic” – has a fresh sequel on the shelves called Blue Magic that may be even more fantastic. Now living in Vancouver with more than 30 short stories to her credit,...
City of Edmonton Archives launches online exhibit with Ella May Walker
Wilfred Walker, son of the late Edmonton artist, author, musician and conservationist Ella May Walker, offered up a revealing detail about his mother as he addressed a recent gathering at the Prince of Wales Armoury that officially opened an online archive exhibit about her. “There was a nudist colony on Lake Wabamun,” Walker began....
FOOD: Shawarma is superb at Dahlia’s Mediterranean Bistro
Seems like just yesterday that Montreal expat Fadi Smaidi, scion of a Lebanese food dynasty in Canada’s coolest city, opened Dahlia’s Mediterranean Bistro (10235 124 St.), named for his young daughter on Edmonton’s yet-to-be coolest street, 124th. The reasons for Smaidi’s pilgrimage to this particular northern waste are obscure to me but now, three...
RESTAURANT REVIEW: Man can live by pho alone – at Thai Binh
“Is that all you eat – Vietnamese food?” This question was put to me by a regular reader who has noticed my affection for the cuisine of that particular Southeast Asian nation – my first review for Gig City being for a vegan Vietnamese joint – and while I don’t actually eat Vietnamese every...
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