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  • Dead Venues – The Indie, Rock, Alt Music Scene (1980s-2000s)

    Eden Munro and Mike Siek

    What makes up a music community? How does one venue turn into a place where a community can grow while…

  • The City Market: Local Goods and a Homegrown Community

    Sally Scott

    When I first moved downtown from the Whyte Avenue area, I was incredibly nervous. Resistant to the idea that downtown…

  • End of an era: Goodbye, Avenue Theatre

    Mike Ross

    The word was given by general manager and talent buyer Steve Derpack, who explained on Facebook that it’s “primarily a…

  • Parking Meter Fairy’s days numbered

    Mike Ross

    The officer stops writing and mutters, “You could.” Oh, thank you, Parking Patrol Officer. Clink, clink, clink, clink go four…

  • Purple City: An Edmonton Tradition

    Rob Drinkwater

    It’s the name for the nighttime game that involves staring at the floodlights at the Legislature for about a minute,…