Browsing the "Arts" Category

Note: this article was prepared for the griff’s annual joke issue. Stephan Boissonneault Writer The Edmonton arts community is certainly growing. The Art Gallery of Alberta hosts many exhibits throughout the year, and more and more young people are throwing their lives away to become artists. Speaking of the meaningless [...]

Reunited local band realizes it has nothing to offer, vows to continue playing shows. Note: this article was prepared for the griff’s annual joke issue. What: Glen Orra play a gig, with The Marquee and Jasper & The River Valleys. Where: Your mom’s basement. When: After dinner. Price: $3x = 8^2 [...]

Note: this article was prepared for the griff’s annual joke issue Kyle Muzyka Writer The annual Stuff White People Like festival in Pittsburgh unveiled its line-up yesterday, promising both Mumford & Sons and Vampire Weekend as headliners for the weekend of July 5. These bands will be joined by SWPL [...]

Note: this article was prepared for the griff’s annual joke issue. The Twilight Potter Hunger Games Celebrity tontine sparks Battle-Royale-style deathmatch Eric Silver Copy Editor In a last-ditch attempt to claim the throne as the queen of pop culture (ultimately cementing an author and book saga into the moors of [...]

Note: this article is part of the griff’s annual joke issue Stephan Boissonneault Writer The critically acclaimed Twilight saga has taken an obscure yet interesting turn with Quentin Tarantino’s new movie Jacob Unchained. Tarantino was quoted saying, “I didn’t even consult Stephanie Meyer (the writer of the Twilight novels) about [...]

Eric Silver Copy Editor Childhood friends Deana Freitas (guitar) and Kelly Fagan (vocals) started playing music together a few years ago as an acoustic duo. Since then, they’ve expanded into a group they feel is almost complete. In October they put out calls for musicians on Kijiji and through friends, [...]

Kevin Pennyfeather Opinions Editor What: The Kite Runner Where: The Citadel Shoctor Theatre When: March 9-31 Price: $36.75 – $73.50 at CitadelTheatre.com Crippling guilt: an emotion that, as hard as we may try to avoid it, will plague many of us at one hopefully brief point or another during the [...]

Note: this article was prepared for the griff’s annual joke issue. Rostin Bleff Manarchy Editor Recent provincial budget cuts will hit the arts the hardest, according to officials from various arts organizations throughout the province. Last month’s budget, which featured large cuts to post-secondary education and health care, also took [...]

D. C. Johnson Arts Editor A five-year-old Greg Payce (now 56) probably didn’t think he would win the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Art while he was digging up and working with clay from his backyard in Edmonton. Though the University of Alberta graduate knew his calling was [...]

Tisha Raj Writer What would you do if your community was riddled with young drug peddlers on bicycles making their daily rounds? What if people just give you horrified looks if you mentioned where you were living? Many Edmontonians today still think of 118 Ave. (or Alberta Avenue) as a [...]