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SLATES
PART OF SOMETHING BIGGER There is a certain indefinable quality to Slates’ newest LP, Taiga: while its blend of influences, including modern gritty punk a la Constantines and Neil Young’s workingman...
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LUCAS CHAISSON, KAYLEY BIRD
LAST CALL GARAGE BAR – FEBRUARY 16, 2014 Last Call Garage bar is the brainchild of Jessica Marsh (who is a talented country singer-songwriter and an active member of the music industry and community in...
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THE CALGARY FILM STUDIO
NEW STUDIO SET TO EXPAND SOUTHERN ALBERTA’S FILM INDUSTRY After years of planning and negotiations with the province for funding, a long-awaited film studio has finally been set in motion. This $22.8...
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FACEBOOK MOVIES
NARCISSIST HOME MOVIES Although it’s all but died out now, Facebook started an insane micro-trend this past month when, in celebration of its 10 years of existence, the social media platform...
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CHEAP THRILLS
HIGH-OCTANE LOW-BUDGET ACTION FILM BRINGS THE PAIN Cheap Thrills delivers exactly what it promises, and then some. First time director E.L. Katz made waves at SXSW last year with Cheap Thrills, to the...
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AGAINST ME!
TRUE TRANS SOUL REBEL If the New York Dolls taught the world anything in 1971, it’s that when bodies move to rock and roll music, they can be transgressive in ways that operate both within and without...
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WALL OF SOUND – MARCH 2014
Anciients MUSIC NEWS, REVIEWS, VENUES AND GIGS TOO! The Anciients BUST A MOVE We all know by now the Anciients have been nominated for a Juno in a new category of ‘best metal/hard rock album’ and they...
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THIS MONTH IN METAL – MARCH 2014
Gatekrashör March: please bring some more bloody snow to the mountains, mmmkay? And keep up with the no more ice on the sidewalks thing… it rules. As for the metal, it just keeps on coming. So get out...
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BERMUDA VERSUS ENDLESS BUMMER
THIS IS NO LAME BATTLE OF THE BANDS The main organizers behind two of Edmonton’s newest independent music and arts festivals, Bermuda Festival (Daniel Lenz) and Endless Bummer (David Ferris), have...
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THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
WES ANDERSON’S LATEST OPUS IS DEFINITELY WORTH CHECKING IN TO Across several films now, Wes Anderson has created an image for himself as an iconoclastic proprietor of darkly whimsical, literary-minded...
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LEGEND HAS IT
FANTASY IMPROV PLAY TO HAVE WORLD PREMIERE IN CALGARY For Calgary native Rebecca Northan, this year’s edition of the Enbridge playRites Festival of New Canadian Plays represents coming full circle as a...
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VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL
CONTEMPORARY FESTIVAL BRINGS MODERN DANCE TO THE MASSES This year’s Vancouver International Dance Festival, running from March 7 to 29, will truly have something for everyone. Perhaps the most...
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BADGER
TESTING THE STRENGTH OF FAMILY TIES “Blood is thicker than water.” The saying is so ubiquitous that perhaps we never stop to consider what it means. Many of us don’t have to think about the bonds we...
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EL RUMOR DEL INCENDIO
REBELLION IN THE 21ST CENTURY In the 1960s and ’70s, left-wing student and guerrilla groups in Mexico rose up against the government in what has become known as la guerra sucia, or the dirty war....
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GISELLE
AN ENDURING TALE OF ROMANCE Alberta Ballet is fortunate to be in the hands of its artistic director, Jean Grand-Maître, who expresses his love for the culture in Calgary and Alberta as a whole — one...
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GLENBOW RESTRUCTURE
MAKING HISTORY AS IT STEPS INTO THE FUTURE With their 50th anniversary fast approaching in 2016, Glenbow has excitedly announced that changes are in store. Certain areas of the layout are going to be...
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THE DREADNOUGHTS
A CLUSTER FOLK OF FUN A staple in Vancouver’s infamous polka punk scene, the Dreadnoughts have been around since sometime in 2006, at least that is according to lead singer Marco Bieri. Now, in 2014,...
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HARRY MANX
THE ESSENTIAL LINK BETWEEN EAST AND WEST Describing Harry Manx’s music presents something of a challenge: it is like nothing you have probably ever heard before. If you are a fan of Harry Manx, and...
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SUBCULTURE – MARCH 2014
As I fend off another Facebooker that’s totally revved because I type in caps lock on social media, I almost have to laugh at the absurdity of their outrage … When you can’t even scroll down the news...
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EVERYTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN – MARCH 2014
COFFINWORM: IV.I.VIII (PROFOUND LORE RECORDS) “The Infinite Snake Anata that surroundeth the Universe is but the Coffin-Worm!” - Aleister Crowley After four rings, the voice that answers the Skype call...
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