The Opera Underground – A Writing Contest! With a Free Ticket Prize!
I love to sing – far more often, I fear, than people love to hear me sing. I find empty LRT stations and underground parkades particular tempting. (I have embarrassed my daughter no end by bursting...
View ArticleSam Steele Throws a Party
The University of Alberta’s Sam Steele exhibit had its gala grand opening at Enterprise Square on Wednesday, June 20th. Sir Samuel Benfield Steele, Mountie, military officer, western pioneer, thought...
View ArticleDowntown revival hollow without Jasper Avenue
On a blustery fall day, pedestrians push past Enterprise Square, the old Hudson’s Bay building, oblivious to what’s inside. There’s no need to glance across Jasper Avenue at the old Paramount Theatre,...
View ArticlePaula Simons: Enterprise mission a bold new frontier for Edmonton Public Library
Rental Space, the (not quite) final frontier. These are the voyages of the Edmonton Public Library. Its three-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new readers and new borrowers, to...
View ArticleGraffiti artists invited to make their mark as downtown library closes
If you’ve got a secret tag you’ve been yearning to share, take your talent to the Stanley A. Milner Library in downtown Edmonton on Dec. 17. The date marks the beginning of the end of an era, as the...
View ArticleArtists give Jasper Avenue the gift of the strange
So you’re walking down Jasper Avenue. You’re not paying much attention to the street signs. After all, they’re always the same. Don’t park here. Loading zone there. Watch out for construction. Don’t...
View ArticleEditorial: Downtown revival hollow without Jasper Avenue
All of city council's efforts to push downtown revitalization mean little if Jasper Avenue is once again left to take the heaviest hit from a sagging economy.
View ArticlePaula Simons: Enterprise mission a bold new frontier for Edmonton Public Library
The Milner's move to Enterprise Square is a win for the library, the university and the downtown.
View ArticleGraffiti artists invited to make their mark as downtown library closes
Share your favourite colourful icon, saying or city scene with fellow artists as main branch shuts for renovation.
View ArticlePaula Simons: Pop-up street signs demand Edmonton stop, look and listen
"Warning: By its nature, the metropolis provides what could otherwise be given only by travelling; namely, the strange."
View ArticleDyscorpia brilliantly weaves the vanishing boundaries between humans and...
An ambitious and frankly unnerving group art show running at Enterprise Square through May 12, Dyscorpia considers massive change from the perspective of our ever-expanding biological thresholds
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