NEW FESTIVAL NAME: K stands for Klondike, you nitwits

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 […]

Journey, Night Ranger, Loverboy bring classics to Edmonton

Posted on July 16, 2012 By LH Thomson Front Slider

It’s time for everyone’s favorite game show…. It’s “Name the Classic Rock Band with the Most Original Members!” This year’s edition, coming to Edmonton Nov. 27th at Rexall, features Journey, Night Ranger and Loverboy – or, reasonable facsimiles thereof. Journey is headlining due to its recent revived popularity at the hands of Glee, we assume. […]

REVIEW: Bill Maher laughs with us, at them

Posted on July 6, 2012 By LH Thomson Comedy, Front Slider

There was a time when Bill Maher’s jokes were so shocking, he had to warn the audience. “I’m about to start talking about religion,” he would say, “and it’s usually right about now that some of you get up to leave.” But the guy used to star on a show called Politically Incorrect, too. These […]

Right? Left? Bill Maher bound to make someone mad

Posted on July 3, 2012 By LH Thomson Comedy, TV and Radio

When people hate you as much as some people hate Bill Maher, but you still make enough money to give a political cause a million dollars, you know you’re doing something right. At the Jubilee Auditorium on Friday night, Maher is an unapologetic agnostic. His latter-career political genesis started as a centrist libertarian on Politically […]

Slash returns to Edmonton July 16

Posted on May 7, 2012 By LH Thomson Music

Axls? He don’t need no stinkin’ Axls! With apologies to the Treasure of the Sierra Madre, the high priest of gargantuan Gibsons, the top-hatted terror, the 40 ounces of fuzzy hair that is Slash is returning to E-town for a show at the Jube on July 16. Slash and special guests Monster Truck are here […]

BOOK REVIEW: Personal demons make the story in A Killing Winter

Posted on April 17, 2012 By LH Thomson Culture, Front Slider, Lit

One of the reasons “write what you know” is a maxim is that it works for many people. And it works in A Killing Winter – Wayne Arthurson’s second novel about a jaded journalist investigating a murder. He’s written about what he knows. But here’s the surprise: it’s not daily newspapers. And it’s not crime […]

FAVA Fest goes long on top-notch shorts

Posted on March 18, 2012 By LH Thomson Film, The Latest

This is film festival season, of that there is no doubt. This week, however, is hyper local thanks to the infusion of local short-film making excellence that is the Film and Video Arts Fest. The Festival runs at the FAVA Exhibition Suite (9722 102 St) and Metro Cinema at the Garneau, 8712 109 St. For […]

Heavy issues at Edmonton Jewish Film Festival: Lest we forget

Posted on March 10, 2012 By LH Thomson Film, The Latest

This town sure has a lot of film festivals. Hot on the heels of the Global Visions Docs and the Oscar shorts series from the Edmonton International Film Fest folks, noted local filmmaker Josh Miller is once again leading the charge as the Edmonton Jewish Film Festival kicks off Sunday at the Citadel Theatre’s Ziedler […]

GLOBAL VISIONS: The Loving Story a touching chapter in Civil Rights movement

Posted on March 3, 2012 By LH Thomson Film, Front Slider

Loving Story is a touching slice of history – director Nancy Burski’s tribute to a little-remembered by highly significant moment in U.S. civil rights history, told through the eyes of an interracial couple in the ’50s. Richard Loving had a fortuitous name – he loved his wife, she loved him, and that love beat segregation. […]

Life and death matters at Global Visions Film Festival

Posted on March 2, 2012 By LH Thomson Film, The Latest

If you imagine documentarians to be journalists who broke out of the box and found their hearts, the Global Visions Film Festival is for you. Edmonton’s annual “non-fiction” film festival runs at venues around town through Sunday. Here are three more capsule reviews by Lowell Thomson: * * * INTO THE ABYSS, directed by Werner […]

GLOBAL VISIONS: No humans harmed in brilliant eco-mentary If a Tree Falls

Posted on March 1, 2012 By LH Thomson Film

Continuing the environmentalist thread seen in some of the selections at the Global Visions Film Festival, If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (showing Friday at 9:15 p.m. at the Metro Cinema) is substantial, balanced journalism – the kind of documentary we all wish we saw more often. But more than […]

GLOBAL VISIONS FILM REVIEW: Unfocused Peace Out fails to save Peace River

Posted on March 1, 2012 By LH Thomson Film

Out here in conservative land, the Global Visions Film Festival is about as hippie-dippy-trippy as a film fest gets. But what is Global Visions all about? At its heart, the annual documentary festival, which runs at venues around the city for the next four days, is a celebration of the cerebral. Pretty much every documentary […]

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