Posted on September 17, 2012
By Mike Ross
Music, The Latest
On their own, big bars. Together, the big hall. In the grand rock ‘n’ roll tradition of teaming up two slightly disparate modern rock bands to bolster their combined audience, Big Wreck and Theory of a Deadman are joining forces for a winter tour set to swing through town in December. The bands will play […]
Posted on September 17, 2012
By Mike Ross
Front Slider, Music
If you missed Corb Lund and the Hurtin’ Albertans at their first mainstage appearance at the 2012 Edmonton Folk Music Festival, you’ll get another chance this winter. The Albertan country hero will perform at Northlands Expo Centre on Friday, Dec. 7. Tickets go on sale Friday. The show is part of a world tour behind […]
Posted on September 15, 2012
By Maurice Tougas
Culture, Front Slider, Theatre
The Mayfield Dinner Theatre had great success with “The Buddy Holly Story” back in 2010 – it was a corker, despite the fact you knew going in that it wasn’t going to have a happy ending. So there are high hopes for “Four Lads Who Shook the World, The Beatles Story: Part 2,” the current […]
Posted on September 14, 2012
By Mike Ross
Music, The Latest
Due to overwhelming demand – they can say that again, the first show sold out in seconds – a second night has been added for the legendary Sir Paul McCartney in Edmonton. He will play again on Thursday, Nov. 29 at Rexall Place. The Wednesday show is clean, like we said, with many fans complaining […]
Posted on September 14, 2012
By Wayne Arthurson
Music, The Latest, TV and Radio
Big Time Rush are not only a boy band, they are stars of a TV show of the same name. It’s very much like the Monkees, including the frenetic silliness, the fact that one of them always wears headgear (usually a helmet) and one is not entirely sure if the boys are actually singing the […]
Posted on September 13, 2012
By Maurice Tougas
Front Slider, TV and Radio
“Hail Mary” is a new reality series following a group of football players trying out for the Edmonton Eskimos – but even if you think a convert is someone who changes religions, the producer says no prior knowledge of football is required. “One of the key things the broadcaster, Citytv, wanted us to do was […]
Posted on September 13, 2012
By Mike Ross
Music, The Latest
Just a few minutes before Striker went on stage to open for Metallica at Rexall Place last month, a balding, middle-aged man wearing a bathrobe came up to them. It was Lars Ulrich. “He just wanted to give us a pep talk,” says Striker guitarist Chris Segger. “The gist of it was: ‘Go look ‘em […]
Posted on September 13, 2012
By Michael Senchuk
Music
Finishing up a week of extraordinary gigs – including Purity Ring on Monday, and Band Of Skulls and Stone Temple Pilots on Wednesday – this weekend features some equally extraordinary local musicians, as well as the sold out show for The Tallest Man On Earth. Friday Herman’s Hermits – This English band fronted by Peter […]
Posted on September 13, 2012
By Wayne Arthurson
Culture, Lit, The Latest
Running a publishing company has always been a crapshoot – and with the advent of e-books, the ease of self-publishing and the closing of major and minor bookstores across the continent, things are even crappier in the book publishing business. But that didn’t stop two Alberta moms from taking a plunge into it. Tina Moreau, […]
Posted on September 12, 2012
By Maurice Tougas
Culture, Front Slider, Theatre
Funny thing about Cavalia, the equine-themed extravaganza now playing under the very big top at the City Centre Airport – it could do with a little less horse play. “It’s ABOUT horses, idiot!” I hear you saying. “Why would you want fewer horses in a show about horses?” First, there are no two ways about […]
Posted on September 11, 2012
By Mike Ross
Comedy, The Latest, Theatre
The annual Die-Nasty Soap-a-Thon – running continuously this Friday through Sunday at the Varscona Theatre – has chosen “Game of Thrones” as its theme this year. But don’t worry, it shouldn’t be any harder to follow than any other 50 hour marathon of improvised comedy. The inexhaustible Mark Meer – who once again is expected […]
Posted on September 11, 2012
By Mike Ross
Front Slider, Theatre, Visual Arts
For fashionistas pondering the impending autumn installment of Western Canada Fashion Week, the answer to the question of “Why Edmonton, of all places?” is simple – why not? No other city in the West has managed to mount a fashion festival that covers Western Canada and survive for eight years. Not Calgary. Not Winnipeg. Edmonton’s […]
