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Nearly 60 more acts just dropped, including North Carolina alt-rock Rainbow Kitten Surprise topping Thursday night after Juno-winning Oji-Cree singer-songwriter Aysanabee and the lovable

be-hatted powerhouse Serena Ryder open the fest up.

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Purple City Music Festival has announced its first wave, full of hot and heavy talent from across the continent on its way to downtown Dirt City Sept. 5-7.

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Calgary’s loss was Edmonton’s gain when Mariel Buckley shifted cities five years ago, bringing with her one of the best county songbooks in Alberta.

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The Edmonton Folk Music Festival doesn’t announce its full lineup for about 10 days, but another big piece of the weekend has been announced.

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Every once in a while, I leave an Edmonton theatre feeling lighter than when I entered. Such was the case this week, when I saw Horseplay at the Gateway.

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Adaptations of classic works are tricky. In taking another crack at The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Jane Eyre or Anne of Green Gables, writers must convince an audience that the tale has

contemporary relevance, while retaining enough connection to the original text to engage fans drawn to see the familiar story.

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FascinAsian Film Festival : This first-ever Edmonton appearance of Winnipeg-born FascinAsian includes four features, 15 shorts and much more.

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The $100,000 annual Edmonton Arts Prizes have been awarded, showcasing an impressive range of local talent and vision!

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The multi-night candyfloss juggernaut of KDays Music Fest has unleashed its headliners, including L.A. punk legends Bad Religion opening night, Rage Against the Machine/Audioslave’s Tom

Morello July 19, Edmonton-spawned indie superstars July Talk (good month for this!) and Christmas-loving L.A. vocal quartet 98 Degrees dropping in as the festival finale.

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Some of the biggest songs in pop history will be hitting the stage at Edmonton’s Jubilee Auditorium starting this fall.

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It's hard to imagine Back to the Future without Christopher Lloyd or Michael J. Fox, but neither were sure things in their roles

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South of the rink, north of the Bob and Doug statue, DJ DJ Alize will be hosting the official Tailgate Party from a balcony at the tip of the arena overlooking the crowd, spinning tunes when

appropriate.

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Author Genevieve Graham is on a one-woman quest to spread her love of history, to share her obsession with this country’s past and bring it to life through her novels.

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Though finally free of mortgage debt, I still follow the antics of the Bank of Canada with morbid interest. High rates combined with the merciless upward push of housing prices can toss me

back to younger days, when calculating what kind of wrinkled raisin I would be once my debt was paid off was a kind of sport.

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One of North America’s largest Fringe festivals says a new fundraising campaign that lets donors “adopt” and then name a portable toilet has helped prevent the event from getting dumped.

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Filmmaker Kate Kroll does not make many appearances in her documentary Lunatic: The Luna Vachon Story. Occasionally,  the viewer will hear her voice asking questions.

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Shumka Dance Festival : Dazzlingly visual and full of jaw-dropping skill leaping back centuries, Shumka’s inaugural dance fest has schools across Canada presenting their finest ensemble

work.

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When filmmaker Rob Grant was pitched the teen comedy This Too Shall Pass by Michael Simon Baker, he was not sure the screenwriter had a firm understanding of his past work.

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