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Habitat for Humanity will have four new homes to add to its inventory. On the third annual Habitat Day, Edmonton Habitat for Humanity board chair Carolyn Graham announced that the charity would be partnering with four local developers, Sterling Homes, Landmark Homes, Christenson Developments and Tristate Signature Homes to build residences for needy families in...
Edmonton’s own Malorie Urbanovitch beat out four other emerging Canadian fashion designers at last night’s Mercedes-Benz StartUp competition. “I have no words,” said Urbanovitch, bouquet in arms, just moments after her victory was announced. “I’m absolutely overwhelmed, I gave it my all.” A Canada-wide program helping young fashion designers understand the business side of the industry, Mercedes-Benz StartUp selected five...
Edmonton received a sparkling grade for economic growth, but it came with a warning that there could be consequences for the future if we don’t do more to diversify our business community. At its annual luncheon Tuesday at the Shaw Conference Centre, Edmonton Economic Development Corporation President and CEO Ron Gilbertson praised Edmonton for its overall economic health, giving the city an overall A- grade. The major reasons for the good grade? Over the last 25 years, Edmonton’s real personal income...
Linkin Park will come to Edmonton for the very first time Sept. 2, to headline this year’s instalment of the Sonic Boom festival. The announcement was made Monday morning at the southside studios of Sonic 102.9, with morning man Garner Andrews and Dave Johnston of Union Events announcing the roster for Edmonton’s largest annual rock festival, held on the Northlands grounds. Unlike last year's festival, which was moved indoors into the Edmonton EXPO Centre, this year's...
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...
Miranda Wulf is one of ArtsScene Edmonton’s two fresh-faced co-chairs. Together with visual artist Erin Ross, the 30-year-old image consultant and owner of LoullouDi Image & Style heads the volunteer organization aiming to mix arts and business in the city through networking events and parties. After founding co-chairs...
Last winter, the Alberta Party invited me to be a fly on the wall as Edmonton-Rutherford candidate Michael Walters held an intimate strategy meeting in the basement of his home. At the end of the meeting, the party staff and members huddled together to utter a group cheer like something you'd see in a football game. Their rallying cry? “Deb Grey!” So what's a centrist politician like Walters doing channeling the campaign spirit of the first Reform Party MP ever elected? Obviously, it's not the policy...
In honour of it 30th anniversary, the Film and Video Arts Society Alberta hosted FAVA Fest from March 20 to 24, which culminated with the first-ever Awards of Excellence for local filmmakers in five categories. “It’s a silly thing, but sometimes people think that after many years they don’t need acknowledgement," says FAVA President (and filmmaker) Eva Colmers. "To be asked to come on stage, to look at the audience and to receive a full-fledged thank you, that shows we want them to continue." ...
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...
