FISHEYE: Photo of the Day
Remember what your grandmother always told you. This tasty font sits above the Royal Museum theatre entrance which, despite some circulating rumours, is in no way closing down any time soon. Our regular photo of the day (potd) feature from Fish Griwkowsky is a visual diary and memoir of his life in and out of […]
FISHEYE: Photo of the day
Just a quick reminder that you don’t need Valentine’s Day to do something romantic today, and maybe even more than once a year. Our regular photo of the day (potd) feature from Fish Griwkowsky is a visual diary and memoir of his life in and out of the city.
FISHEYE: Pho-D’OH! of the Day
Is it just us, or does this hydrant have a bit of a Homer Simpson thing going for it? Our regular photo of the day (potd) feature from Fish Griwkowsky is a visual diary and memoir of his life in and out of the city.
They blinded me with Science Sunday!
As a parent, you try so hard. You do everything you can to keep your kids from getting too interested in the world around them. To raise them to be uncurious blobs is tough work that requires vigilance and dedication if you’re going to keep on top of a child’s natural sense of wonder. And […]
REVIEW: Amsterdam delicious, across the board
DUTCH DELICIOUS BAKERY 13232 118 Avenue Edmonton, AB T5L 4N4 780.455.2323 You won’t find too many successful bakeries in large strip malls. More than the smell of fresh bread and fond childhood memories, bakeries are reflections of their communities. Often forgotten in the modern age of grabbing everything at the supermarket, bakeries that survive tend […]
VISUAL ARTS: Matters of scale and intricacy
When I first noticed Lisa Rezansoff, it took about half a six-pack of Pils to realize I was at the table of a born artist. Almost unconsciously her pen-in-hand would pattern some of the most marvellous things our group of drifters had ever seen, a new language of drawing that made us think of dreams […]
It’s just too cold: Star Party moved to City Hall
Leave it to Edmontonians to make the best of beastly weather – but sometimes it’s all just too much. The Winterlight Festival’s Star Party, which was supposed to be taking place at Elk Island Park this Saturday, has been moved due to predicted overcast skies and severe cold. The event will now take place at City […]
SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION, Part II: local schoolkids learn about online journalism from gigcity editor
[EDITOR’S NOTE: When my daughter’s grade three teacher asked me to talk to the class about the media, I said: What’s in it for me? Then I felt ashamed. The medium doesn’t matter. It’s the message that counts. The Internet is about sharing. I share information with you, you share with me and we are […]
GET YOUR GEEK ON! LeVar Burton to ‘make it so’ at local convention
When the captain ordered “make it so!” it was often LeVar Burton who jumped and made it so. And so it was on Star Trek: The Next Generation, which is looking pretty quaint in reruns today – and yet the Trekkian fame lives on for this award-winning actor. See him live and in person Sunday, […]
REVIEW: If they’re not Famoso yet, they should be
FAMOSO NEAPOLITAN PIZZERIA 11750 Jasper Avenue , Edmonton (and two other city locations) 780.732.0700 Over the last 40 years or so, I have been fortunate enough to eat pizza in all manner of places, and in all manner of styles. Served by an aquaphobic Flemish engineer in west Africa, with his lovely wife coating a […]
ART: Auction helps promote pedal power
A number of years ago, a fire broke out at a storage garage where many Edmontonians who owned high-end sports cars or other vintage automobiles kept them for the winter. The blaze destroyed some very expensive vehicles, and as you can imagine, their owners were terribly upset. But the car that Edmontonians cared most about […]
The ghost of David Lynch haunts area artist
This is a weird one. A cold wind skated blindly up Whyte Avenue when David Lynch’s disembodied voice began suddenly explaining how such winds are his favourite sound. My pocket recorder was playing tricks; I’d taped Lynch live down in Hollywood between his screening of Eraserhead and Sunset Blvd a couple months ago, yet here […]
