PREVIEW: Sesame Street sneezes on your kids
One of the biggest shows in E-Town this summer, and its star lives in a garbage can. That’s fame for you. At least, that’s fame as brought to you by the letter ‘S’, as in Sesame Street! And if you have any doubts as to the popularity of Grover, Oscar, Big Bird and the rest […]
South Park comes to Edmonton – sort of
It’s official – Edmonton is on the counterculture map….well, beyond being the home of Bioware and Christian Hansen and the Autistics: we’re a South Park reference. In this week’s episode, “Royal Pudding” which aired Wednesday night on the Comedy Network, the “Princess of Canada” is kidnapped at her Royal Wedding. A secret message from the […]
The DAILY FUNNY: iPhones and dirty racehorses
We’d like to tell you this Sunday edition of the Daily Funny cleverly loops together a string of seemingly unrelated comedic threads until, subtly and cleverly, an overarching theme is revealed. We’d LIKE to tell you that’s the case. But instead it’s more like a bunch of unrelated funny crap stuck together…… With that said, […]
The DAILY FUNNY: The Donald Ducks
Turnaround is fair play in politics, and after weeks of Donald Trump harping on “birther” theories baut Barack Obama’s birth, the media has started asking the obvious question: where is the Donald’s hair from? Andy Borowitz reports. Comedian bio pics are rated in this Splitsider piece. No potential George Carlin piece is mentioned, but that’s […]
POP CULTURE: SUN TV drinking games and modern media
The call went out early, as it has with many a pop culture phenomenon, as it had with Must-See TV Thursdays, with Don Cherry broadcasts, with Samatha Taylor’s Video Hits: How can we turn SUN TV into a drinking game? That, after all, is the best thing you can do with a television set: tune […]
Tragically Hip play Northlands July 14, Lil’ Wayne on, the Game off
Canadian rock legends The Tragically Hip are coming to play an outdoor show at Edmonton’s Northlands Park on July 14, it was announced today. The band is expected to perform songs from an as-yet-unreleased album they’re working on, along with all your usual Hip favourites. We’ll kill Gord if he doesn’t do New Orleans is […]
COMEDY: Garfunkel and Oates’ “Weed Card” for 4-20
Today’s a special day for a whole bunch of special lil’ folk. Like pixies and leprechauns, these wee folk take to the hills and the woods and the forests, shying away from the light of day, their existence shrouded in myth and ceremony. Yes, we’re talking about hippies. And the date today is 4/20, which […]
BEST READS: Do paper books have a future?
* Remember that feeling of opening a crisp new hardcover book, the smell of fresh-cut paper and print ink, the sturdy weight of it in your hand? Hold onto that memory, because pretty soon it may be all that’s left of the traditional book. * There really is only one good newspaper chain left, you […]
John Mellencamp, Record Store Day and the joy of vinyl
John Mellencamp’s had that “respected country rock troubadour” label hanging around for long enough now for him to become iconic, the Farm-Aid face of a generation. When he rolls into Edmonton for his gigs tonight and tomorrow at the Jubilee Auditorium, it’s another city of a million souls, a good chunk of who are […]
