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FAVA Fest Redux
The local film society shows that a small budget doesn't mean a small production, and proves it with a screening of celebrated works.
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The local film society shows that a small budget doesn't mean a small production, and proves it with a screening of celebrated works.
What's the value of creativity? That’s the question company and organization heads are asking themselves in a quest to harness the “creative class,” a term coined by urban theorist Richard Florida (The Rise of the Creative Class), and spurred by modern philosophers like Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. While writing about...
It's been more than four years since Edmonton's most well-known rapper (and former poet laureate) released his last album, 2008's Afterparty Babies, an original mélange of hip hop and electronic music. A lot has changed since then. For one, Cadence Weapon doesn't live here anymore. Since moving to Montreal, though, he's found new ways of expressing his music, both instrumentally and lyrically. ...
Last February, Joe Gurba, a.k.a. rapper The Joe, was sipping coffee at Transcend on Jasper when a staff member asked him if he was interested in helping them. Gurba is already a talent booker for Wunderbar, bringing alternative indie rock and rap acts to the popular beer emporium, but this award-winning cafe was looking for something more intimate and mellower. He was introduced to general manager Michael Harvey, also co-owner of Café Haven. Harvey asked him what...
The inside of Cask and Barrel looks like a lavish Prairie barn. Rest your drink on black and polished wood stumps; pull up a stool made from Montana wine barrels (you can still see the stamp on some seats); watch the game under a skirt made from scrap bulkhead palettes. Chris Smith, of the once beloved Hothouse Design Studio, designed the room, and he also wrangled other former Hothouse designers, including Donna Nygren...
Edmonton’s longest-running improv group, Rapid Fire Theatre, is about to make its biggest move since 1990, when it left downtown’s Phoenix Theatre for Chinook Theatre, which later became the Varscona. In September of this year, the 31-year-old company will be moving back downtown, into the Citadel’s Zeidler Hall, formerly the Metro Cinema’s space. That’s right, crowd favourites Chimprov and Theatresports, as well as...
Check out scenes from the March 5 celebration of Avenue’s annual food issue, starring dishes from the best restaurants in the city: Pampa Brazilian Steakhouse, Duchess Bake Shop, The Bothy, Transcend Coffee and Numchok Wilai, with charcuterie by Laura Rogerson. The packed, buzzing event was hosted by Appliance Gallery, Lightform and Dwell Modern.
Two lawyers and an IT guy walk into a bar — sorry, no punch line here — and they proceed to gut it and redesign it until it’s the modern resto-pub they themselves would want to hang out in. That’s the genesis behind Social Modern Pub (which opened in late December as "Social Public House," but quickly rebranded after Oil City Hospitality converted the Bank into “Public House” the same week). The new bar located behind Grant MacEwan University...
After announcing the finalists of Avenue's 2012 Design Contest two weeks ago, when the February issue hit the stands, it was finally time to announce the grand prize winner who gets a trip for two to New York City to attend the International Contemporary Furniture Fair. And that talented designer is Robert Faulkner, a 22-year-old University of Alberta industrial design student who...
For those of you who love Fork Fest — Live Local’s festival that sees restaurants offer low-priced multi-course meals for a week in winter and a week in summer — Jack’s Grill still offers its sweet deal from Monday to Thursday. And, wouldn’t you know, the $45 three-course table d'hote has been there since Fork Fest of 2011. You can find out more about it here, however, it might be outdated because it features...
This morning the Edmonton Music Awards announced the nominees for Music Video of the Year on Breakfast Television. The remaining nominees will be announced on Fri., Feb. 3, 2012, and the winners will be unveiled at the Royal Alberta Museum on April 28, 2012. Wool On Wolves "Honeybee" Death By Robot "No Need...
