Daryl Katz tagged by underground graffiti artist

There was an image that appeared in just about every news story about last weekend’s protest at Churchill Square over the arena agreement between the City of Edmonton and Oilers owner Daryl Katz. It was on the placards the protesters carried — a black-and-white, stencilled portrait of Katz wearing a top hat and with the […]

THEATRE: Freewill Shakespeare Fest offers you Moor

Usually in Shakespeare, the less-reputable characters are the bloodsuckers. At the Freewill Shakespeare Fest this year? Well, it’s in Hawrelak Park, so you…(bzzz)…do the (thwack!) math on (smack!, damn skeeters!) that one. Oh, get over it. Bring bug juice to the shows from June 30 to July 24 and revel in the one reason good […]

You Said It: Supertramp Rocks Edmonton

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Digital TV switch brings out MacGyvers, thrift store sets pile up

YouTube is full of TV antenna MacGyvers offering advice on how to make your own set of rabbit ears capable of receiving digital signals for when broadcasters in many Canadian cities switch to digital-only signals on Aug. 31. And inside the engineering department at Global Edmonton, operations manager Peter Wugalter is trying them all. There’s […]

FISHEYE: Out like a ‘lion

Dandelions are sort of the opposite of the icicles in winter we obsessed over not so long ago. If only there were some way to seasonally exchange them – I bet we’d love them if they were blooming through the January snow, despite the cold. As it stands, as Metallica says, kill ’em all. It’s […]

YOU SAID IT: Death Cab for Cutie plays Edmonton

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Obsolescence, photography, death and Polaroids

How long has it been since you smelled the chemical aroma of a Polaroid photo fresh out of the camera? Ten years? Twenty? Can you even still buy the film? (Yes and no. We’ll get to that.) Polaroid photographs generally weren’t considered art. The film and the print were the same thing so you couldn’t […]

FISHEYE: Cat Nap

Rough Life. Our regular photo of the day (potd) feature from Fish Griwkowsky is a visual diary and memoir of his life in and out of the city.

The Glamour Life On A Book Tour, Part III: Great big family

Stop 3 – Winnipeg In Winnipeg, a writer would describe Vancouver like this: “It’s big, it’s beautiful, but it’s empty of culture.” He captured my mood exactly. I like Winnipeg the instant I arrive. It’s not as warm as LA but the sun is shining, and the Bed and Breakfast I’m booked into picks me […]

FISHEYE: Hop Hip Nation

Is there anything worse than being slightly behind your camouflage time? I suppose a hip injury or something … Our regular photo of the day (potd) feature from Fish Griwkowsky is a visual diary and memoir of his life in and out of the city.

The Glamour Life on a book tour

Wayne Arthurson’s latest detective novel Fall From Grace is available at Amazon and various other online locations — plus, at good old fashioned book stores. His recent book tour in Canada and the U.S. is recounted in an exclusive four-part series for GigCity. Part 1 starts in in Los Angeles. (Read: Part II, Part III, […]

FISHEYE: Rack ’em up

Everything is taxidermy and antler mounts up in Dawson City. Everything. Oh, wait. There is also drinking. Our regular photo of the day (potd) feature from Fish Griwkowsky is a visual diary and memoir of his life in and out of the city.