Tubby Dog celebrates 10th annual Hotdog Eating Contest
When you look at the hotdogs served in Tubby Dog’s annual hotdog-eating contest — kids’ birthday party-sized wieners in small buns, as opposed to your typical chili-covered Tubby Dog — it doesn’t seem...
View ArticleSnack Talk — Haribo Fried Eggs
This candy is pretty good, but I don’t think I would really go out of my way to buy another entire bag. Maybe I will throw a couple into my bulk candy bag next time, but that is about it.
View ArticleSucker for punishment
Though he’s soft-spoken and relatively shy in real life, Ryan Hemsworth has a huge personality, and just might represent the future of electronic music.
View ArticleLeela leading the charge to sustainability
The snow may be upon us, but Calgary just got a little greener with this year’s recipient of the Calgary Small Business Week Environmental Stewardship Award from the Calgary Chamber of Commerce.
View ArticleArts funding
The Epcor Centre for the Performing Arts is facing further financial hardships as city of Calgary administration has recommended council not meet the centre’s request to replace withdrawn provincial...
View ArticleCities of nature
We often think of protecting nature as something done outside of cities. It’s what our national and provincial parks are for. That’s where nature is.
View ArticleLumps of coal for your Blu-ray player
Looking for a Christmas gift for that special movie lover on your list? Then for heaven’s sake, don’t buy any of the stinkers from this list.
View ArticleA history of Horrible Bosses
Nobel Prize-winner and well-known thinker Bertrand Russell once stated “the trouble with the world is that the stupid are so confident while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
View ArticleCruel intentions
I am a bi male in my early 20s who until recently was in the closet. I have been exploring my sexuality for the past year, and I didn’t want to label myself and open a Pandora’s box of oppression in...
View ArticleLogging in Calgary's watershed
A Spray Lake Sawmills logging project is facing public opposition over fears accelerated harvesting will damage a watershed that contributes 20 per cent of Calgary’s drinking water supply.
View ArticleLockdown
Premier Jim Prentice says he knows the “optics” of locking the front doors of the legislature building are bad, but is unwilling to restore public access for the time being.
View ArticleChild poverty
The rate of child poverty in Canada today is virtually the same as it was in 1989, when Parliament vowed to end it.
View ArticleMagical times
We’re often told the holidays are about spending time with family, and local performing arts organizations are providing plenty of opportunities to do just that with shows that cater to audiences of...
View ArticleA decade of GIRAF
“Calgary definitely has an appetite for animation,” says Quickdraw executive director Peter Hemminger.
View ArticleArts Seen - week of Nov. 27, 2014
Calgary has plenty of opportunities for kids to enjoy the performing arts year-round.
View ArticleFame, scandal and poetry
Even though they died almost 200 years ago, the lives and loves of Romantic poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron continue to fascinate contemporary audiences.
View ArticleThis year’s flick picks
The 10th annual GIRAF festival of independent animation opens with a flick that any moviegoer will want to see, The Tale of Princess Kaguya, the latest from beloved Japanese animation company Studio...
View ArticleHot 5 - week of Nov. 27, 2014
Homegrown Canadian talent, two new concept stores and iconic French beauty in this month’s lineup.
View ArticleBryan Ferry - Avonmore
It’s been an odd few years for Bryan Ferry, who’s given us everything from old-timey jazz albums, to Bob Dylan cover collections, to electrofied collaborations with Norwegian DJs.
View ArticleDavid Bowie - Nothing Has Changed
Nothing Has Changed is the latest David Bowie career-spanning retrospective.
View ArticleCruisin' the Cosmos - week of Nov. 27, 2014
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22 — DEC. 21) This week’s horoscope is simple and short ’cause there ain’t much to report, except things’ll all work out well if you remain a good sport.
View ArticleDigital art and mid-20th century composition
Olivier Messiaen’s Turangalîla-Symphonie is a symphony so complex that one could fill an entire article musing on its themes and instrumentation (when was the last time you heard someone play an ondes...
View ArticleGoings On - Week of Nov. 27, 2014
“Real hip-hop” dorks would likely beg to differ, but there’s something downright delightful about the simple, party-starting rap of French Montana.
View ArticleFrank and Tony - You Go Girl
At the end of 2014, Brooklyn electronic imprint Scissor + Thread have earned our full attention.
View ArticleTujiko Noriko - My Ghost Comes Back
Amidst Editions Mego’s M.O. of experimental electronic/noise avant-gardism, Tujiko Noriko is an oddity.
View ArticleShaani Cage - Danyaal
The first I’d heard of Shaani Cage was at my day job — for music website aux.tv — where, in an interview, Sanctums’ Evangelos Typist flagged the duo as an electronic act to watch.
View ArticleMassive Oh, Canada contemporary art exhibition comes to four local galleries
A massive survey of contemporary Canadian art will be spread across four Calgary arts organizations for an exhibition in early 2015.
View ArticleSnack Talk — Lucerne Holiday Eggnog
Snacking is what this is all about, so let’s get talking about a delicious beverage that I am completely obsessed with over this money-grubbing holiday.
View ArticleArts Seen - week of Dec. 4, 2014
Over its 19-year history (as of this month), Fast Forward Weekly has featured the work of many talented local illustrators on its covers and within its pages.
View ArticleBringing it home
“My own children are hugging me, and their hugs are a little bit longer than usual.”
View ArticleExploring the intricacies of sake
Origami is the Japanese art of paper folding. A simple piece of paper, in the hands of the right person, can yield an infinite number of animals or objects.
View ArticleThe politics of disappearance
The refusal to act on the issue of missing and murdered aboriginal women in Canada is a human rights violation of epic proportions that cuts to the core of our national identity and our idea of...
View ArticleCruisin' the Cosmos - week of Dec. 4, 2014
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22 — DEC. 21) When folks find out you’ve had a windfall, they’ll do their best to scoop it up themselves.
View ArticleWithout boundaries
I am now able to cross “interviewing a musician in a men’s room via Skype” off my bucket list.
View ArticleAlvvays look on the bright side
If you were to assign a nickname to Toronto’s Alvvays, it would be “the little indie band with the funny spelling that could.”
View ArticleNo more funds
The Epcor Centre for the Performing Arts is facing an uphill financial battle after council finalized the city budget with no money for the centre to cover a $420,000 funding gap left by the province...
View ArticleThe skeptic versus the mystics
Toronto-born magician The Amazing Randi does not want to trick you.
View ArticleSplish splash, I was taking a bath
Don’t you hate it when a team of blind guys steals your bathtub… and you’re still using it?
View ArticleMerry and not-so-merry Christmas Songs
Winter wonderlands, frosty snowmen and red-nosed reindeers are all well and good, but where are the songs about being dragged to awful New Year’s Eve parties, the stress of obligatory holiday...
View ArticleThe growth factor
Appearing on CBC radio in advance of the final council debate on the city budget this week, and in response to the question of why we can’t keep the city tax increase below 4.7 per cent, Coun. Ward...
View ArticleFinding lost childhoods
How do you capture the effects of 130 years of the residential school system in Canada?
View ArticleLabour pledge
Labour leaders from Alberta, B.C. and Saskatchewan made a joint statement intended to pre-empt any government attempts at watering down health and safety regulations in the three provinces in order to...
View ArticleEmerald Web - Whispered Visions
If Rodriguez-like success stories have taught us anything, it’s that there is a frightening amount of forgotten geniuses out there.
View ArticleVarious Artists - Native North America (Vol. 1): Aboriginal Folk, Rock, and...
As modern artists like Tanya Tagaq and A Tribe Called Red continue to usher forward an indigenous music renaissance, the timing of Light in the Attic’s Native North America (Vol. 1): Aboriginal Folk,...
View ArticleShe & Him - Classics
A friend of mine had a theory about She & Him. He believed that She called all the shots and Him simply did as he was told.
View ArticleBad bill
Critics are heaping scorn on what is largely perceived as the first mistake of Premier Jim Prentice’s government.
View ArticleLava Dining heats up Kensington
Nestled between The Roasterie and Delicious Thai on 10th Street N.W. in Kensington, Lava Dining may be easy to miss at first glance, but has been earning praise from critics and diners alike since it...
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