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Beyond panic

Samantha Power / 22 Feb 2012

A national panic has been created by Prime Minister Stephen Harper about his mysterious Old Age Security reforms. Read more »

These old sounds

Folkways keeps the past alive with the Winter Roots and Blues Roundup

Paul Blinov / 22 Feb 2012

Thu, Feb 23 – Sun, Feb 26 Winter Roots and Blues Roundup Full schedule available at ualberta. Read more »

Dyer Straight

Continental divide

Pressure is growing on the Christian-Muslim divide in Africa

Gwynne Dyer / 22 Feb 2012

Sudan was bombing South Sudan again last week, only a couple of months after the two countries split apart. Read more »

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Dish

Viva Cuba!

Bringing the melange of Cuban cuisine to Edmonton

L.S. Vors / 22 Feb 2012

Café Coral de Cuba Lidice Fernandez and Nestora Estevez 10816 - 82 Ave, 780. Read more »

Provenance

Six things about lychee

They're little and delicious

Bryan Birtles / 22 Feb 2012

So worth it Chinese records dated to 2000 BCE make reference to lychee fruit. Read more »

Veni, Vidi, Vino

Eye of newt

The essence of blending wine

Taylor Eason / 22 Feb 2012

Picture the witch's cauldron . Read more »

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Arts
Back Words

Lost and Found

Chelsea Boos / 22 Feb 2012

The Alley of Light is about turning a lost space into a place for people. Read more »

One Good Marriage

Saliha Chattoo / 22 Feb 2012

Humour may be one of our more cherished coping mechanisms, but bringing a dark comedy to life on stage can be a tricky thing to do. Read more »

Rearview Mirror

Carolyn Jervis / 22 Feb 2012

Does Eastern Europe really exist anymore? Guest curator Christopher Eamon poses this question in the AGA's new exhibition, Rearview Mirror: New Art from Central & Eastern Europe. Read more »

Cats

Paul Blinov / 22 Feb 2012

Chaz Wilcott had just graduated from college when he got the call: in what can only be presumed to be a momentary lapse in cleverness, the Magical Mister…. Read more »

Race

Paul Blinov / 22 Feb 2012

To point out that we're still living in a world where skin colour plays heavily into the distribution of politics and power seems an almost depressingly bland gesture,…. Read more »

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Film

Killer of Sheep

Josef Braun / 22 Feb 2012

Made while its writer/director was still a student at UCLA, Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep (1977) was one of the most extraordinary debuts of the 1970s, even though,…. Read more »

Oscar Nominated Shorts

Paul Blinov / 22 Feb 2012

Routinely one of the more curious categories of the Academy Awards, the shorts are usually the movie clips that intrigue but then never get seen—mostly because, outside of…. Read more »

Criss Cross

Josef Braun / 22 Feb 2012

From an aerial view of some anonymous stretch of Los Angeles we descend into a parking lot, and in that parking lot we find a man and a…. Read more »

The Man That Got Away

Paul Blinov / 22 Feb 2012

'My family almost forgot to tell me about my great uncle Jimmy,' begins the voiceover for The Man That Got Away in filmmaker Trevor Anderson's own unreplicable voice,…. Read more »

Sans Soleil / La Jetée

Josef Braun / 15 Feb 2012

'The first image he told me about was of three children on a road in Iceland, in 1965. Read more »

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Music

These old sounds

Folkways keeps the past alive with the Winter Roots and Blues Roundup

Paul Blinov / 22 Feb 2012

Thu, Feb 23 – Sun, Feb 26 Winter Roots and Blues Roundup Full schedule available at ualberta. Read more »

Hittin’ the road

Bryan Birtles / 15 Feb 2012

Tue, Feb 21 (6:30 pm) Featuring Rob Wright, Art Szabo, Ben Sures Brixx Bar & Grill, Free for Alberta Music members, $10 for non-members As a member of…. Read more »

Humans

Fri, Feb 17, Wunderbar

Paul Blinov / 15 Feb 2012

'If we know the song is not danceable, we're never gonna play it live," says Peter Ricq, one half of Vancouver dance duo Humans. Read more »

Human Statues

Fri, Feb 17, Horizon Stage, Spruce Grove and Sat, Feb 18, Shell Theatre, Fort Saskatchewan

Bryan Birtles / 15 Feb 2012

With tight vocal harmonies and an ability to work in a variety of genres, the only other thing that defines the Human Statues is the duo's sense of…. Read more »

Tuff House Records

Sun, Feb 19 | Royce Da 5'9'', Wayz, Peter Jackson, Tox & Cash Game | Starlite Room

Paul Blinov / 15 Feb 2012

Alberta can be a pretty difficult place in which to carve out a lasting musical scene. Read more »

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