The Edmonton Folk Music Festival made a sad announcement today for music lovers. One of the festival headliners Sinead O’Connor has cancelled her summer tour dates, including her appearance at the festival. That last time O’Connor was supposed to play at a Alberta folk festival was in 2012 at the Calgary Folk Music Festival. Her…
When’s the last time you cleaned up your social media accounts? Public or private, you should be taking a look back and checking out if the things you posted or were tagged in should still be visible to anyone – yourself included. I’m going to assume that everyone knows who has access to their accounts,…
Leonardo Dicaprio and Tom Hardy spent a lot of time in Alberta over the last year filming The Revenant with the Oscar winning director Alejandro González Iñárritu (The Birdman). Most of this was filmed just outside of Calgary.
I went to my very first Edmonton Folk Music Festival last year and I was blown away. It quickly ranked to the top of my Alberta music festival chart and this year’s line-up is promising more of the same! So this year, if you are planning on spending a few days on the hill, make…
A city always has its exciting key tourist attractions to visit – those places that make all the guide books and ‘best of’ lists. But if you want an authentic trip, are new to a city, or just don’t get out much, you’ve got to find out where the locals spend their time. Those places…
Turning a passion into your business is the dream for many. Ted Stovin’s passion is rodeo and bull riding. A former bull riding competitor and current owner and runner of the online cowboy news site Everything Cowboy, Ted has made the transition from player to commentator and rodeo event organizer. Ted has a passion for…
Calgary actress Shannon Burgess had been missing since late November 2014 and this weekend her body was found. Her husband, Josh Burgess, has been charged with second degree murder. The Calgary Police Service has released the following statement: We have arrested a man in relation to the disappearance of Shannon Madill (Burgess). Madill, 25, was…
The ENMAX Corral Show at the Calgary Stampede gets better and better every year. Located on the Stampede grounds, the Corral seats just over 7,000 people and has a free with-park-admission show every day (at 2, 4 and 7 PM) for Stampede goers to attend. This year the circus is in town from Montreal. The…
Leaving something behind usually brings about feelings of failure. Think about it. When we hear that relationship doesn’t work out—we politely give our “awws” and then, in the small dark alleyways of our mind, feel pity for the person as if they couldn’t match with someone successfully. The same can be applied for work, for…
USA — It’s reported that several counties in some of the conservative states have been denying ANY marriages licenses in an effort to protest the recent SCOTUS ruling in favor of gay marriage. In Kentucky, four couples are suing Rowan county clerk Kim Davis for refusing to issue marriage licences. In Arkansas and Mississippi some…