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If you’re into the idea of making personalized gifts this Christmas, but you don’t feel like turning your living room into Santa’s workshop, Edmonton Public Library’s Makerspace can help. The Makerspace is located in EPL’s Stanley A. Milner branch, right across the...
As the semester chugs along, the light at the end of the proverbial tunnel is often the holiday season. Even if they don’t celebrate anything in December, students can still look forward to the sweet relief of having no school responsibilities. For those that do...
Startup Edmonton is a place where entrepreneurs go to make their visions a reality. In 2012, the staff team of six opened up a space in the Mercer Warehouse, where they connect start-ups to the resources they need to get their company off the ground. Through...
“Fell in Love with New York” is one of the biggest hits from The Zolas’ four-song Wino Oracle EP, but the band was beginning to fall out of love during our interview. The Vancouver-based band is playing the Mercury Room on Oct. 30, but was travelling from...
For its second year running, Deadmonton House is bigger, scarier, and more theatrical than ever. If you remember Deadmonton’s first haunted house last year, you’ll remember the legend of the Williams family. Last year, we visited the family’s cursed farm and...
From Oct. 9-11, the third incarnation of Jason Flammia’s Up + Downtown Music Festival took place, featuring over 70 independent artists and 11 venues throughout downtown Edmonton. Attendees with weekend wristbands, which were sold for $85, were granted access...
The last time we had a federal election, Stephen Harper and the Conservative party won a majority government with less than 40 per cent of votes. Such is the way for Canada, a country with the first-past-the-post system. As many Canadians continue to grow tired of...
Rebecca Lappa is a first-year voice major in MacEwan University’s bachelor of music program, and she has recently received her fifth nomination for a Canadian Folk Music Award (CFMA). Her album, Tattered Rose, features a series of modern folk songs intended to...
Peter Norman is MacEwan University’s newest writer-in-residence, and his works include books on poetry, chapbooks, and a published novel. Norman has been able to use the varied landscapes and the people he meets around the country to diversify his writing skills,...
Most people living in the Jasper Place area would not draw similarities between their neighbourhood and the urban metropolis of London. The Jasper Place region has, unfortunately, been excluded from much of the art and culture scene in Edmonton. Moreover, an alley...
Nuit Blanche Edmonton lit up the city last weekend, marking the first in (hopefully) a long line of artistic events to take over the downtown core. Featuring over 30 exhibits, including some from Yoko Ono as well as local artists, the festival brought a charge of...
Rick Miller’s father was seven years old in April 1945. At that time, he lived in war-torn Vienna, Austria. On the day the Russian army liberated Vienna, he went out to a courtyard, where Russian soldiers asked him for directions in return for a chocolate bar. He...
MacEwan University’s Aboriginal Education Centre provides the campus community with a chance to learn from indigenous Elders in a series called Tipi Teachings. On Sept. 18, the centre held a session called “Teaching of the Tipi within Families,” which was hosted by...
Dc3 Art Projects is an Edmonton-based contemporary art gallery determined to support artists in bringing their work to the public eye. The gallery's current exhibition features Tammy Salzl’s “simplest of gestures” and Brandon Vickerd’s “Faltering Monuments.” The...