Posted on March 19, 2012
By Albert Smith
Music, The Latest
Yanni is no fool. He knows he’s considered the king of cheese among the “cool” crowd – “a guy who plays the piano and probably has some incense and a couple of crystals,” as he told a reporter recently – just as much as he knows that the “cool” crowd has no business being at […]
Posted on March 19, 2012
By Albert Smith
Comedy, Front Slider
New rule: If you’re going to be a “political” comedian, you’d better be funny. If not, run for office – or get a job on Fox News. That’s not one of Bill Maher’s official “New Rules,” the title of two of his best-selling books, but maybe it ought to be. Fans of the acerbic liberal […]
Posted on March 18, 2012
By LH Thomson
Film, The Latest
This is film festival season, of that there is no doubt. This week, however, is hyper local thanks to the infusion of local short-film making excellence that is the Film and Video Arts Fest. The Festival runs at the FAVA Exhibition Suite (9722 102 St) and Metro Cinema at the Garneau, 8712 109 St. For […]
Posted on March 18, 2012
By Staff
Film
MARCH 20 – 22 | 5PM, 7PM & 9PM FAVA FEST SCREENINGS: AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE SUBMISSIONS FAVA’S EXHIBITION SUITE (9722 102 ST) View an assortment of independent media art by local FAVA filmmakers. See what is in the running for FAVA’s Awards of Excellence. Tuesday | March 20 | 7pm Experimental I Michael Rault – […]
Posted on March 17, 2012
By Adrian Lackey
Front Slider, Theatre
Remember how Seinfeld pimped itself as a “show about nothing?” On reflection, we can all realize what a lie this was. Seinfeld was the new rulebook of etiquette for the upcoming millennium. The comic deceit, however, is that this new book of etiquette was being written by four people who were the most oblivious to […]
Posted on March 16, 2012
By Mike Ross
Front Slider, Music
This was really weird: All the Edmonton punk rockers from the early ’90s seemed to unplug their guitars and “go country” at the same time. By the end of the decade, you could barely find an alternative rock band playing in an alternative rock bar. They were all playing country. No, not the sort of […]
Posted on March 15, 2012
By Albert Smith
Music
Let’s think of other cultures whose stereotypes we can hang a day on like we do as an excuse to get drunk with the Irish on St. Patrick’s Day. Better yet, let’s not. No sense letting political correctness get in the way of a good excuse to get drunk. Besides, as prominent local Irish person […]
Posted on March 14, 2012
By Mike Ross
Culture, Front Slider, Music, TV and Radio
Continued heavy casualties are expected in the escalating Top-40 Wars of Edmonton, which has so far claimed the souls of at least two radio stations, an errant program director, numerous worthy but fatally overplayed recording artists and thousands of civilian victims. The numbers are grim. Here’s the top 11 of the commercial FMs in the […]
Posted on March 14, 2012
By Albert Smith
Contests, Music, The Latest
Oh, Montreal – always so cool, always on the cutting edge. If Quebec secedes, please stick with Canada, won’t you? Maybe we could build a wall in the middle of the city or something. Just trying to help here. Canada’s coolest city comes up again because one of Canada’s coolest new bands that happens to […]
Posted on March 13, 2012
By Mike Ross
Front Slider, Theatre
Do you dare enter the theatrical time machine? There’s sure to be some temporal confusion among citizens attending the latest theatrical amusement at the Capitol Theatre in Fort Edmonton Park – a 2011 reproduction of a 1929 theatre in a 19th Century historic park presenting a Neil Simon play from the 1970s. Good theatre is […]
Posted on March 13, 2012
By Albert Smith
Comedy, The Latest, TV and Radio
Before Brent Butt went on to star in the modern version of The Beachcombers, he was a happening stand-up comic – and like most happening stand-up comics who make it big, he always seems to come back to his roots. The star of Corner Gas and CTV’s Hiccups will hit this road this spring for […]
Posted on March 12, 2012
By Mike Ross
Culture, Front Slider, Lit
You may have seen the commercial – more like a mini documentary, really, about modern womanhood. We see little girls declaring they can do anything, teenage girls learning how to do anything, grown women doing anything: scientists, doctors, lawyers, captains of industry, you name it, their stories all quite believable and touching and empowering. At […]
