Avenue regrets to announce that Joe Flaherty has come down with an illness and will not be able to fly to Edmonton for Thursday’s SCTV Retrospective at the Metro Cinema at the Garneau. “We got the news Wednesday morning,” said Avenue Editor Steven Sandor. “We have the footage selected, the speakers lined up, the beer in the cooler, the theatre booked. And we decided, as the event is a tribute to a wonderful time in Edmonton, that the show will go on.” Tickets for the event are $25 and include two drink tickets that can be...
UPDATE: Due to illness, Joe Flaherty has had to cancel his appearance on Thursday. We apologize to all ticket buyers for the inconvenience, but the show must go on. (Read the full release.) Get ready to yell “ohhhh-woooo” at the moon when SCTV cast member Joe Flaherty comes to the Metro Cinema at the Garneau to help Avenue raise funds to immortalize the sketch comedy show. Count Floyd himself will join in on the on Sept. 6 screening of the seminal show's best skits...
Why are heirloom tomatoes so popular right now? Well, it might have to do with how unpopular grocery store tomatoes have become. On last week’s episode of Day 6, CBC Radio One’s newsmagazine show, a University of Florida scientist discussed how measures spent preserving and enlarging the fruit have sapped it of flavour. Professor Harry Klee and colleagues have spent a decade unlocking the tomato's genome and are now putting it together with more taste. But until then, you can unlock...
With KFC outlets closing across Canada, you might be wondering where your next bucket of fried chicken is coming from. No? Well, let me tell you where it should be coming from. The Korean fried chicken at Lee House, a little 40-seat gem on Calgary Trail, has a following of its own. “About 70 per cent of the people order it,” says Philip Lee, 30, the eldest son in the family restaurant. ...
E. Paul Zehr has made his childhood fantasies a profession. Many kids who grew up voracious comic book consumers no doubt daydreamed about what it would be like, to fly those skies, to fight that villain, to have that superpower. But as professor of neuroscience and kinesiology at the University of Victoria, he entertains those fantasies for science. In fact, he’s turned his “what-ifs” into two books about biological capabilities, Becoming Batman and ...
The Common turns into a dance party on weekend nights but before people express themselves vertically they come to express it orally. The vintage chic resto-lounge has the kind of room that induces conversations with dim lighting, close-set tables and dishes — such as lamb hot dog and the beer-steamed mussels — that are conversation pieces in themselves. With each drink (perhaps a lavender cocktail that’s as rich as dessert), you can hear the discussions and laughter increasing another couple of decibels. And that...
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...
