Posted on May 28, 2011
By Chad Huculak
Culture, Front Slider, Music
Andrew WK has a new partner in partying. Gig City caught up with the Party Hard hitmaker backstage at the Pawn Shop Friday night as he rolled through with his mysterious new protégé/collaborator Aleister X to give Edmonton a show like no other. Flashing a warm smile, Wilkes Krier assures us he still loves to […]
Posted on May 27, 2011
By BILL BENSON
Culture, Visual Arts
Is it ironic or simply fitting the most moving piece of art in the new Warhol show is a wig? It’s no ordinary hairpiece of course – it’s a wig worn by Warhol (and David Bowie, for that matter), another prop in the artist’s long line of mundane grocery items and human billboards made ridiculously […]
Posted on May 25, 2011
By Albert Smith
Culture, Front Slider, Theatre
Perhaps you or someone you know was once in danger of becoming … chronically single. You’d get set in your ways, get a cat, maybe surf for porn a bit too much for your own good and often have dinner at the houses of friends who now all seem to come in pairs. They’d occasionally […]
Posted on May 23, 2011
By Mike Ross
Culture, Music, TV and Radio
A lonely man weary from an honest day’s work is driving down life’s highway in a big truck, smoke rolling out the window, an ice cold beer sitting in the console, the lights of his home town only a few miles away. He’s heartbroken after another man kissed his girlfriend while he held the man’s […]
Posted on May 16, 2011
By Mike Ross
Culture, Front Slider, TV and Radio
Word on the street is that there will be … fewer words on the street. Edmonton’s two weekly magazines, VUE and SEE, are preparing to merge into one – according to businessman Bob Doull, who now owns both of them. He revealed the tentative plan on Monday. “There are lots of details to be worked […]
Posted on May 15, 2011
By Omar Mouallem
Culture, Front Slider, Music
A week before Shad’s concert in Edmonton at Brixx recently, the artist, whose album TSOL won the 2011 Juno for Best Rap Recording, was performing at one of the weirdest shows in his life. He hadn’t even gone up yet, but just the fact that he was in ultra-Mormon (read: ultra-white) Salt Lake City, Utah, […]
Posted on May 12, 2011
By LH Thomson
Culture, TV and Radio
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 […]
Posted on May 9, 2011
By Albert Smith
Culture, The Latest, Visual Arts
It might be time to play a new game: Are You a Better Artist Than a Fourth Grader? From the impressive results of ATB Financial’s first annual Young Artists Competition, the short answer is “probably not.” Winners of the province-wide art contest were announced today, unveiling original, Alberta-themed artwork from 31 Grade Four students from […]
Posted on May 9, 2011
By Rob Drinkwater
Culture, Front Slider
It was the weekend’s greatest party in Edmonton, and you missed it! On Saturday night, 54 delegates from cities across the Prairie provinces and the Yukon who were in the city for the Youth Summit on Sustainable Transportation boarded their own private LRT car outfitted with turntables and lights for a dance party that shook […]
Posted on May 4, 2011
By Mike Ross
Culture, Front Slider, Theatre
Are Edmonton theatre people a bunch of pussies when it comes to their critics – or is it the other way around? Just wondering. The following exploration all started with Facebook. In an effort to get fresh local arts material for GigCity.ca, I sent “friend” requests to as many Edmonton musicians, artists, writers and actors […]
Posted on May 4, 2011
By Chad Huculak
Culture, Front Slider, Music
Europe has spawned many extreme metal acts who extol the virtues of their Viking forefathers. Singapore’s Rudra is taking a different angle: they’re bringing ancient Eastern philosophy into the mix. The band plays a style it refers to as Vedic metal, which fuses black metal, death metal, and Indian classical music with lyrics derived from […]
Posted on April 26, 2011
By LH Thomson
Culture, TV and Radio
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 […]
