Dennis Rodman celebrates 50th birthday – at the River Cree Casino

Posted on May 9, 2011 By Staff Comedy, The Latest

In this modern age of certain celebrities who have so little left to sell that they start selling their personal lives – even getting PAID to attend their own birthday parties – one wonders what sort of bidding war erupted with Dennis Rodman’s impending 50th birthday. Well, hey, we won – the River Cree Casino […]

AIR SUPPLY: Balm for the boomers

Posted on April 30, 2011 By Albert Smith Front Slider, Music

These kids today … with their “fire” and their “wheel.” Old-timers shouldn’t grump. Twitting and textering are just different tools with which to communicate, like the telegraph wire or smoke signals, and stars like Tiesto and Lil Wayne merely represent the latest examples of musical expression, as they are artists that will prove to be […]

THE WEEK AHEAD: Cheese, with a side of ham and corn

Posted on April 11, 2011 By Staff Music, The Latest, Theatre

Ladies and gentlemen: Cheese. Ham and cheese. Ham and cheese with a side of corn. Great. Now we’re all hungry for Julio Iglesias, the man whose picture you see before you, whose pose was obviously contrived to pre-emptively make fun of Julio Iglesias. Yes: I fully admit I am often seen as a hokey old […]

CONCERTS: Carmen Electra, Art Garfunkel, Men Without Hats

Posted on April 8, 2011 By Staff Music, Theatre

The Pussycat Dolls are coming?! No, it’s the Pussycat Dolls BURLESQUE REVUE – a Vegas-style show featuring music of the Pussycat Dolls without the actual Pussycat Dolls, coming to the River Cree Casino Saturday, June 18. Don’t pull a long face: There is some celebrity oomph to the event: The special guest star will be […]

Hot Picks, March 19

Posted on March 19, 2011 By Adrian Lackey The Latest

Hot picks? Hot picks? Hah! Today, Gig City is downright hot-blooded! And that can only mean Foreigner is in town. The band plays River Cree Casino tonight. Seriously, for those of you who can remember the halcyon, heady days of the 1980s – when repression was king and Lou Gramm hadn’t decided to torture us […]

Hot Picks, March 12: Wynonna will stand by you

Posted on March 12, 2011 By Staff The Latest

In the pantheon of country sweethearts in American history, Wynonna stands out. Maybe it’s just her hair – or perhaps it’s her 14 No. 1 singles, or her distinctive mono-name, or a combination of all of the above. Dolly might be a bigger star, Taylor Swift might be younger, but so what? Wynonna’s carved herself a place […]

Tripping back to Supertramp

Posted on March 3, 2011 By Mike Ross Music

If you’re looking for an Edmonton connection to Supertramp’s Roger Hodgson, who played Saturday (March 5) at the River Cree Casino – you couldn’t do much better than Andy O’Kell. The drummer was part of a group of local musicians crazy enough to do something no other local band had ever done before – or […]

Posted on February 26, 2011 By Mike Ross The Latest

Where to put the Goo Goo Dolls – next to the Replacements? Or nestled amongst Matchbox 20 and Hootie and the Blowfish? Maybe somewhere in between. We’re just putting together some IKEA shelves for our CD collection – where’s the damned Allen key? – so ‘90s. We’ll decide where they go after the Goos play […]

Morning man on a mission: Terry Evans takes on censorship

Posted on February 21, 2011 By Mike Ross Culture, Music, The Latest, TV and Radio

Terry Evans has worn many hats in his long radio career in Edmonton. Wasn’t he a clean-head for a while there? Maybe it was a shave-your-head-for-cancer-awareness thing. He even tried stand-up comedy (he wasn’t very good, sadly) but says he hasn’t had an act since 1993. He’s far too busy. In addition to wearing his […]

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