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 [...]
Black Mastiff mauls over log cabin recording session
Edmonton’s Black Mastiff – at Brixx tonight (Saturday, Feb 26) – have just finished tracking their upcoming album in the wilds of Alberta. “It was in (bassist) Clay Shea’s family cabin in Nordegg,” explains singer and guitarist Bobby Yiannakoulias (above, right) while picking up gear from the band’s rehearsal spot in anticipation of a road trip [...]
Metro’s next Edmonton Tonight keeps things eclectic
Painter Eric Visser, cellist Josephine van Lier, and CKUA music programmer Baba Singh will be among the guests of the next Edmonton Tonight, Friday, Feb. 25 at 10:30 p.m. at Metro Cinema. Host Tom Bernier will welcome Visser and van Lier, a creative couple who will chat about how the arts played a major role [...]
THEATRE: A Smurftacular look at tragedy, loss, and the unanswerable questions
Tragedy strikes everybody from time to time and we all have our own ways of coping. In Trent Wilkie’s Gargamel, he takes a humorous slant on misfortune. Wilkie, a founding member of Edmonton’s Mostly Water comedy troupe, found inspiration in the calamity the was inflicted upon his inner circle. “My brother was in a nasty [...]
Snooki and the cult of the suitably vacant
What: Snooki Polizzi hosts a long weekend party Where: Union Hall, 6240 99 St. Tickets are $20 at the door, $40 for VIP access. There’s little doubt that, had Nicole Polizzi hit the airwaves of a U.S. Network in 1985, protests would’ve formed outside the station, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission would’ve been hauled in [...]
Mad Men, in-crowd drive rebirth of cocktails
Cocktail hour — what a wonderful parlance. It conjures up a world of thick glass tumblers and geometric ice cubes tinkling in the midst of a an expertly mixed libation. So why is it cocktails in Edmonton bars are practically synonymous with sickly sweet swill served in neon pink cups? Preferably with thumping music, of [...]
The best thing about those old Bugs Bunny cartoons – aside from the high quality violence you just don’t see anymore – was the music. They used full-blown orchestras in those days, creating an evocative canon of music that became its own genre: cartoon symphonies. The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra takes a crack at it at [...]
MUSIC PREVIEW: from Motown to E-town to Downtown with the Pale Moon Lights
Pale Moon Lights, with Concealer, Jody Shenkarek and Fear and Worry Sat at 8 p.m. The ARTery, 9535 Jasper Ave It was almost like seeing the Pale Moon Lights for the very first time at last December’s CD release for Notebook Magazine’s Great Northern Revival compilation. They’d been around for years, but the three-piece – [...]
GIGGLE CITY: Marcus Beaubier
Our guest this week is Marcus Beaubier, performing at Yuk Yuk’s (in the Century Casino) tonight (Saturday, Feb. 19) Warning: The following contains explicit content not suitable for children. Q. If you could be any Canadian celebrity, who would you be, and why? A: Some sort of weird hybrid of Gord Downie from the Tragically [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
