Posted on August 2, 2012
By Mike Ross
Music, The Latest
They can’t all be rural right wing rednecks, can they? Someone’s got to be faking it. It’s probably not Toby Keith. Saturday’s closer at the Big Valley Jamboree seems clear where he stands, and so do his fans. His album titles alone speak volumes: White Trash With Money, That Don’t Make Me a Bad Guy, […]
Posted on August 1, 2012
By Maurice Tougas
Dining, Family, Front Slider, Music
Jack Little has a lot on his plate right about now. He’s getting ready to host a party, which requires food and drink, some music and a whole lot of dancing. This is no backyard BBQ. Little is the executive director of the much-loved Edmonton institution, the Servus Heritage Festival. If the weather holds, he’s […]
Posted on July 31, 2012
By Mike Ross
Music, The Latest
Görgön Hörde is not comprised of actual Gorgons, is neither horde nor Swedish death metal band. It is an Edmonton punk trio saddled with a silly name that may already be too late to change. Nomenclatural intervention would be painful. And so it is written in gratuitous umlauts, which, like tattoos or ear lobe labia, […]
Posted on July 30, 2012
By LH Thomson
Comedy, Culture, Family, Front Slider
The most anti-climactic, waste-of-money contest in city history has wrapped up and we have a new fair name. The winner? No one, really. When Northlands announced a couple of months back that they’d be looking for a new name for Capital Ex, the collective yell for a return to the silly-but-lovely tradition that was K-Days […]
Posted on July 27, 2012
By Michael Senchuk
Music
Go ahead, try and pick one genre or theme for this weekend’s musical offerings. We dare you! Edmonton is about to be inundated by live tunage. Rexall Place plays host to two nights of diametrically opposed genres, with Iron Maiden performing as part of their Maiden England World Tour on Friday night, and then Il […]
Posted on July 24, 2012
By Mike Ross
Front Slider, Music
Edmonton’s Shout Out Out Out Out is another band that displays the rare phenomenon known as “rockonomatopoeia.” The band sounds like its name. Shout Out Out Out Out member Whitey Houston, aka Lyle Bell, asks us to imagine using a Space Echo – one of several pieces of vintage musical equipment this band uses (and […]
Posted on July 20, 2012
By Mike Ross
Music
There’s something disturbing about Steve Martin coming to Edmonton – because he’s not here to do comedy. He’s going to play bluegrass. Oh, joy. Sure, you can expect humour when Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers perform Sunday at the Jubilee Auditorium. They’ll probably do an a cappella number called Atheists Don’t Have No […]
Posted on July 19, 2012
By Michael Senchuk
Music
Weekend Music Preview: Cats Pandas And A Train Of Musicians It’s a busy weekend in live. Not only does the Capital Ex get underway (featuring AWOLNATION, USS, and Sam Roberts on Friday and Saturday night), but the Full Flex Express Tour hits town on Friday, featuring the likes of Skrillex, Diplo, and Grimes. And then […]
Posted on July 19, 2012
By Michael Senchuk
Music
If you’re a band from Vancouver, but spent considerable time plying your trade in Edmonton as well, the question beckons: who gets the release party? Well…. why can’t you have a release party in both? A shaker on the west coast and another in the festival city as well? So says Hot Panda, performing Friday […]
Posted on July 16, 2012
By Albert Smith
Music, The Latest
Rather than rehash the longstanding feud between Noel Gallagher and his singer brother Liam, which led inevitably to the death of the band Oasis, we shall simply note that Noel was the talented one. Oh, sure, Liam’s still recording with those Oasis blokes, only they now call themselves Beady Eye. They didn’t exactly hit it […]
Posted on July 14, 2012
By Wayne Arthurson
Front Slider, Lit
Minister Faust is a man of many hats. He’s a radio personality and political activist. He’s published his own magazine (the now defunct Africentric Magazine), written for the video game industry (EA Games Darkspore, the sequel to award-winning Spore), plus he’s an award-winning novelist, known for such books as “The Coyote Kings,” “The Space-Age Bachelor […]
Posted on July 12, 2012
By Mike Ross
Comedy, Front Slider, Theatre
The health of a good festival, like any good tourist attraction, can be measured on how fast it sucks the money out of your wallet – and it looks like the Edmonton International Street Performers Festival is in the pink. This is not a complaint. It’s a compliment. This venerable busker’s fest has long been […]
