Silver Skate Festival wins winter festival derby in a walk

Posted on February 14, 2012 By Mike Ross Family, The Latest, Theatre

There is one major winter festival left in the winter festival season to ease us into springtime (now that wasn’t so bad, was it?) – and many hardcore hibernal celebrants agree that the Silver Skate Festival is the best. The 22nd annual event happens Friday through holiday Monday at Hawrelak Park. This is no frivolous [...]

FROZEN FESTIVAL: Ice on Whyte to be the Works of the Winter

Posted on January 10, 2012 By Mike Ross Family

Winter in Edmonton is becoming a frozen funhouse mirror of the summer festival season – so that must make the Ice on Whyte Festival the “Works of the Winter.” Opening Friday at the rarely-used End of Steel Park (that chunk of land with the stranded CN caboose across the street from the Yardbird Suite), the [...]