Posted on June 9, 2012
By Mike Ross
Culture, Lit, The Latest
Wayne Arthurson’s tale of life and death on the mean streets of Edmonton turns out to be a big hit with Alberta readers. The local author has won the top prize at the Alberta Book Awards – a $10,000 Alberta Reader’s Choice Award honouring his first novel, Fall From Grace, dealing with a gambling-addicted newspaper […]
Posted on June 8, 2012
By Albert Smith
Music
Pearl Jam stole all that 20-year nostalgia mojo, but there is another … Tickets go on sale Friday for the return of veteran grunge rock band Stone Temple Pilots, at the the Shaw Conference Centre on Wednesday, Sept. 12. Featuring the flambouyant and occasionally unstable lead singer Weiland, the band was going to be working […]
Posted on June 8, 2012
By Mike Ross
Music
You don’t have to smoke marijuana to play reggae properly – but it helps. “God knows!” declares Barrington Brown, aka Koolant, the new lead singer for the Wailers – who, at the age of 27, hasn’t been alive as long as Bob Marley has been dead. Koolant is nonetheless a stone-cold, real-deal Jamaican Rasta-man who […]
Posted on June 7, 2012
By Mike Ross
Comedy, Front Slider, Theatre
Mark Meer appears to be the only Edmonton nominee at this year’s Canadian Comedy Awards – and that says more about Mark Meer than it does about any possible bias against Edmonton. We’re just one funny town in a funny country – and this particular local actor just happens to stand out because he works […]
Posted on June 7, 2012
By Michael Senchuk
Music
It goes without saying that the biggest live event of the weekend is the Open Sky Music Festival down at Hawrelak Park – but we’re going to say it anyway. Some extraordinary talent takes the stages Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. This is always a stellar event, with great music, food, and fun. The other big […]
Posted on June 7, 2012
By Mike Ross
Comedy, Front Slider
Unlike comedians for whom the craft of stand-up comedy is merely a launch pad to sitcom or late night TV heaven, Kathleen Madigan prefers to stay out of the small box, to keep it pure, to work hard to make comedy something best experienced by a live audience. Ironically, this makes her a better comic […]
Posted on June 6, 2012
By Mike Ross
Culture, Family, Music, Theatre, TV and Radio
For those in the straightest quarters of Edmonton who don’t know, the word “Pride” in its proper form has come to mean “gay pride,” just as the word “gay” in all its meanings will apply to the big parade and subsequent party taking place Saturday at noon in downtown Edmonton. It’s the Edmonton Pride Parade. […]
Posted on June 5, 2012
By Adrian Lackey
Front Slider, Theatre
The 2011/2012 Edmonton theatre season has wrapped up like all theatre seasons have ended for the last quarter century – with the announcement of the Sterling Award nominations. And what tight races we have this year! The main event will feature a bare-knuckles, all out, pier five brawl between Arthur Miller’s classic post war masterpiece […]
Posted on June 4, 2012
By Albert Smith
Music, The Latest
He just came back to say … I’m back! Man, that Colin James joke never gets old, and yes, the multi-stylistic Vancouver veteran will return to perform at the Jubilee Auditorium on Thursday, Nov. 15. Tickets go on sale Friday. A man who never wears out his welcome in this town, James is touring with […]
Posted on June 3, 2012
By Mike Ross
Comedy, Front Slider, Lit, TV and Radio
As a stand-up comic with a gift for going over the top, Henry Rollins makes Denis Leary look like Steven Wright – but he’s not really a stand-up comic. As a motivational speaker, Rollins is more motivational than Tony Robbins and Gene Simmons rolled into one – but he’s not really a motivational speaker. As […]
Posted on June 2, 2012
By Wayne Arthurson
Front Slider, Lit
Jalal Barzanji’s The Man With the Blue Pajamas – detailing the Iraqi author’s imprisonment at the hands of Saddam Hussein – might not have been possible without the work of Edmonton editor Peter Midgley, who was shortlisted for the $2,000 Tom Fairley Awardby the Editors’ Association of Canada. This is the only national award that […]
Posted on June 1, 2012
By Albert Smith
Music, The Latest
Stop whatever has replaced presses: The Edmonton Folk Music Festival has sold out. Again. Like anybody didn’t see that coming. “It was crazy,” says producer Terry Wickham, who reports that 1,200 people showed up at the folk fest office to buy tickets in person at 9 p.m. Friday morning, where it’s usually around 400. Online […]
