Kori Wray auditions for Canada’s Got Talent – and now she waits
Kori Wray is an old hand at TV talent contests. The Edmonton singer made the top 100 on three different seasons of Canadian Idol, was on PopStars and went to Nashville as part of a Canadian talent and model search – and now she’s a hopeful for the inaugural season of Canada’s Got Talent. Edmonton […]
Hey Romeo, keyboardist Rob Shapiro win big at the 2011 CCMAs
Since it our job to root out the Edmontonian content in any entertainment news story, let us celebrate with our own hot country trio Hey Romeo, which scored Group of the Year at the 2011 Canadian Country Music Awards in Hamilton on Monday night. And Johnny Reid and Dean Brody each walked away with three […]
Can I bring my new wife to the Bear’s Halloween Howler?
If you care, and if you’re not too mad at the Bear for its controversial “Win a Wife” contest, you may be excited to know all the details for the radio station’s annual Halloween Howler, announced Monday. Are you ready? Here it is: Finger Eleven! Plus Jonas and the Massive Attraction and Hinder in the […]
THEATRE: New season ahoy!
From Fringe summer to subscription winter, the rhythms of live theatre in Edmonton are as predictable as a horse on a high fibre diet. No, that’s not the best image to go with some of the finest thespianism in Canada, but it just came out. Remember one of the cardinal rules of improv: what is […]
Edmonton Comedy Festival to ‘keep it clean’
It has been said that it’s easier to clean up a dirty joke than it is to dirty up a clean one. Or is it the other way around? Never mind. The point we’re trying to make here is that the Edmonton Comedy Festival, happening Oct. 19-23 in venues across the greater metropolitan area, is […]
City pledges $5 million to invest in Edmonton film industry
The City of Edmonton has jumped into the movie business with a pledge of $5 million towards a new Edmonton Filmed Entertainment Fund – bringing us one step closer to that magical title of “Hollywood North.” The money will be used to finance projects that already have backing and distribution deals, and so will be […]
Weekend Music Preview: Busy, it is not
This weekend features mostly local performers, with the biggest name appearing at the Winspear on Sunday: Grammy and Oscar winning Jennifer Warnes. Other notables include Edmonton’s Wool on Wolves, with two performances – Friday and Saturday – at the Pawn Shop, and a CD release party for All Else Fails on Saturday. Friday Consonance: local […]
GIGGLE CITY: Brian Stollery has a short attention span
In the old days, Henny Youngman could fire off one-liners – “take my wife … please!” – and no one would wonder if the poor guy was having marriage troubles, or expect him to get into some deep comi-philosophical routine about the battle of the sexes. It was a joke and that was that. It […]
TONIGHT: Synth duo Junior Boys keep it in perspective at the Starlite
The Junior Boys’ latest effort It’s All True is somewhat of an international project – Matt Didemus of the Hamilton-based synth-pop duo lives in Berlin, and frontman Jeremy Greenspan wrote some of the album while in China. On tour, however, the strength of their live set relies heavily on an Edmonton native. “We go through […]
Blues bands face off to rep city in Memphis
There’s no way around it: it’s a little disappointing that in a city as big as Edmonton, only three outfits are facing off for the title of top local blues band and a chance to represent Champ City in Memphis. The contest is the first annual playdown, with the winner to be sponsored by the […]
