Blue Rodeo tops off a night of Canadiana at Calgary Folk Fest
By Vanessa Gillard Sunday evening at Folk Fest this year was a hard one to top; the beautiful weather had put everyone in a splendid mood and the sunset was beating orange on the...
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Calgary Folk Fest delivers on all fronts
By Sean-Paul Boynton When the sun finally decided to keep on shining throughout the weekend after a gloomily rained-out Friday, the 2011 Calgary Folk Music Festival truly came alive. In this reviewer’s opinion, the...
Zola Jesus miraculous at Central United
By Therese Shultz Central United Church was filled once again on June 23 as the venue was taken over by the haunting and ominous sounds of Zola Jesus. Nika Roza Danilova, lead songstress from...
An appreciation of The White Stripes
By Sean-Paul Boynton Nearly four years ago, The White Stripes played their very first concert in Calgary, and it was more than worth the pain of being continually passed over during the previous seven-or-so...
Raise the curtain on a new year of theatre
by Kevin Rushworth Web Editor She Has a Name Women and children — innocent and without a voice to speak up against their everyday horrors — have become the faces of Southeast Asian human...
Haunting war poem is given new passion in musical play
by Kevin Rushworth With each passing year, the “greatest of wars” slips further from public recollection. In four years, it will be the 100th anni- versary of the beginning of the First World War....
Comedian is hot(z) stuff
by Blaine Meller There are a lot of things that make Jeremy Hotz laugh; politics, universities, Sarah Palin, the Saddledome and ointment. Ointment? “You can’t be a big tough guy, walk into a store...
Hats off to 100 years
by Claire Miglionico It’s weather fit for a Monday morning — foggy, rainy, and just plain ugly on Sept. 20. But today isn’t an ugly day inside Mount Royal University. Today is a day...
Welcome to the Cuckoo’s Nest
by Kevin Rushworth Dark, looming shadows played eerily upon sterilized white walls as the curtain rose on Theatre Calgary’s production of the celebrated play One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The encompassing themes were set...
