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With Royal Canoe’s most recent release, Something Got Lost Between Here and the Orbit, debuting on Sept. 16, it was something that felt a bit anti-climactic for vocalist Matt Peters. “We’re feeling pretty great,” Peters said, while watching the Toronto...
Although the weather has taken a turn towards a cold, Canadian winter, local artists Layla Folkmann and Lacey Jane Wilburn can be found hard at work creating a masterpiece of colour and creativity just north of Rogers Place by the MacEwan LRT station....
With Rogers Place opening its doors in September, it felt like Edmonton’s downtown revitalization had taken its first major step. But the revitalization wouldn’t be where it is today if it weren’t for others laying groundwork, like executive director Jason Flammia...
Downtown Edmonton has become an increasingly vibrant community. Rogers Place is just the latest revitalizing tool meant to transform the city centre into a world-class area for Edmontonians to enjoy. But this downtown transformation has not come without pushback....
This time last year, Edmonton’s first Nuit Blanche took over the downtown area. Nuit Blanche is a world-wide contemporary art event that featured more than 30 art pieces. This year, on Sept. 23 and 24, the Edmonton branch of the Nuit Blanche society held...
Downtown Edmonton has officially joined the 21st century with the opening of the new arena, Rogers Place. Over 57,000 enthusiastic Edmontonians attended the open house on September 10th to get their first look at the venue that will host some of the biggest acts in...
As the fall semester gets underway, the majority of MacEwan’s sports teams will resume business as usual and begin their 2016 seasons. However, this time around, the women’s and men’s Griffins hockey teams will play in a brand new venue: the Downtown Community...
Recently, there was a tremor in the landscape of social media: the announcement of a pro-misogyny group (unnamed here because they don’t deserve more web traffic) calling for organized meetings in major cities worldwide. The planned meeting in Edmonton was met with...
The door jingled as we walked in. We were greeted by a bright-pink poster featuring Polaroid photos of past fortune recipients and a description of the kinds of fortune telling offered at the Russian Tea Room. We were shown to a small table in the corner. I was...
Leather: the rich smells, the luxurious look and appeal. Leather has certainly remained in style over the years, but the industry’s tradespeople have suffered. The art of leatherworking seems to have almost withered away into non-existence, but in the basement of...
One of Canada’s more renowned contemporary artists recently showed his work in an exhibit at dc3 Art Projects, a gallery located just a couple of blocks from MacEwan University’s City Centre Campus. Gary James Joynes (otherwise known by his stage moniker “Clinker”)...
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...