Re-Imagining Rossdale: Pehonan and the Power Plant
EPCOR decommissioned the Rossdale power plant in 2011 and handed it over to the City not long after I moved…
Stories tagged: 2010s
The City Market: Local Goods and a Homegrown Community
When I first moved downtown from the Whyte Avenue area, I was incredibly nervous. Resistant to the idea that downtown…
Edmonton: The Great Escape
On August 1, 1926 there is a story that the barking of a small dog startled an elephant named Mary…
End of an era: Goodbye, Avenue Theatre
The word was given by general manager and talent buyer Steve Derpack, who explained on Facebook that it’s “primarily a…
Linear Stories on the LRT
While riding the LRT from Bay to University, memories often come to me. Ingrained in each station are personal stories,…
Purple City: An Edmonton Tradition
It’s the name for the nighttime game that involves staring at the floodlights at the Legislature for about a minute,…
Urban Dream
I know… in my mind I know they were thinking of moving. In my mind I remember hearing, “This house…