Metro Shorts had many, “where the hell are they going with this” moments, and Oliver Lessard delivered one of my favourites. Here it is:
Metro Shorts Memories: Oliver Lessard
Metro Shorts Memories: Angela Seehagen
Have you ever had a dream where your pants were too tight and you look down and it wasn't pants but paint and they aren't even your legs and then you are totally cool with it? Welcome to the creative world of Angela Seehagen.
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Metro Shorts Memories: John Osborne
Metro Shorts was a quarterly film competition hosted and curated by Mostly Water Theatre and produced by The Metro Cinema Society located in the historic Garneau Theatre. It gave Edmonton filmmakers the chance to get their work screened live, adjudicated by professionals, get paid, win prizes, and be forced to make more shorts. It ran for 10 seasons, screened over 400 shorts, and ended in 2019. These stories are a celebration of some of the filmmakers that crossed our paths.
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‘Fantasy’ drenched with reality
Samara Von Rad's first release is a fun little EP named Fantasy. This thoughtful collection (which she hopes will grow into a full-blown album) contains enough high-quality musicianship to make you forget that this rad-badness is as indie as fuck. Track reviews: Zombie in Love A driving rhythm that is sonically and lyrically locomotive. The …
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Enabling hate
Kerry Diotte is my Minister of Parliament (MP). He is my representative in Ottawa. He is the person I go to in hopes of having a national voice to air my opinions on the state of the country in which I live. Recently, my MP attended and spoke at a rally organized by an alt-right website. …
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Somebody Has To Say It All
I was once told that trying to explain canoe trip to people was like trying to cut vegetables with a screwdriver. Here is my attempt. Yesterday sucked. And it was awesome. I had been paddling on the North Saskatchewan River for three days, each day an 8 hour paddle. I had put in at Drayton …
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Send a friend some Dicks By Mail
What do you give someone who has everything? If you said a bag of dicks then you've come to the right place. Dicks By Mail is just that, a bag of (gummy) dicks sent anonymously to whomever you want. Be it your ex, your boss, or just your friends, site owner and Edmontonian Brady Grumpelt thinks …
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Tamarind Nectar beverage review
At the suggestion of Andriko Lozowy and the Sailin' On vegan food truck at the Edmonton Folk Festival, I've decided to review the Tamarind Nectar beverage from Jumex. Lozowy suggested it was a hard sell which made me a bit hesitant, but as a man who once ate his weight in Big Turk bars, I've never been …
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The Dungarees at the Pawn Shop Feb. 27 – An interview with Robb Angus
Writing for a newspaper has its benefits and its detractions. Sometimes, the detractions are that stoic humour doesn't translate into print. I interviewed James Murdoch (second from left) of the Dungarees earlier this week and his answers were sound and to the point. I added Robb Angus (center) to this interview and his answers were...hard …
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Eating with a beaver – OR – My lunch with Marcus
During a recent canoe trip down the North Saskatchewan River I had a rather interesting experience. While eating lunch on the river bank, a beaver swam by with a big-juicy-leafy-branch and I joked that if it wanted, there was a seat open by me. Well, it stopped swimming as I said this and turned towards …
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