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Review: Heartbreaker at Enbridge playRites Festival of New Canadian Plays

Posted 49 weeks 3 days ago | By Lynda Sea | Culture Snacks

We’ve all been there. Heartbroken and falling apart while the world keeps on going around you. But Morwyn Brebner’s Heartbreaker deals not with the all-too-common romantic love theme but with the loss of family, sanity and reality that accompanies traumatic heartbreak. It’s fitting for a play about perceptions and subjective reality to have very little sets or props on stage save for a few translucent chairs and tables. Instead, the stage transforms via the actors’ dialogues,...

Charcut's $15 Lunch Deal

Posted 1 year 1 week ago | By Lynda Sea | The Food Files

Out-of-office lunches are a regular thing for the Avenue team. We endeavour to find new places to eat at all the time (it’s part of the job) and can often be found abandoning well-intended packed lunches without too much persuasion. Having our offices in Ramsay also offers decent lunch spots to frequent but it’s nice leaving our radius of usual eateries in Inglewood once in a while. My latest obsession is with Charcut Roast House’s $15 lunch offer. Sure, there...

Review: L’Orchestre d’Hommes-Orchestres Performs Tom Waits at HPR

Posted 1 year 1 week ago | By Lynda Sea | Culture Snacks

Last night was the first performance of L’Orchestre d’Hommes-Orchestres’(LODHO)'s Tom Waits tribute and it more than delivered a wonderful carnivalesque ride through the rich and frenzied repertoire of the American music virtuoso. Yet another big hit for the High Performance Rodeo. For the nearly two hour show, a four-man ensemble along with a female...

Review: Nevermore at the High Performance Rodeo

Posted 1 year 3 weeks ago | By Lynda Sea | Culture Snacks

January is a fitting month to go see Catalyst Theatre’s Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe. Jan 19th marks the birthday of the literary legend best known as the father of detective fiction and for his mysteries and macabre sense in popular poems and stories like “The Raven”, “Lenore” and “The Tell-Tale Heart.” Nevermore’s Calgary debut on Jan. 6 was a landmark night for the show. It marked the first time...

High-five to Five Guys Burgers and Fries at Deerfoot Meadows

Posted 1 year 6 weeks ago | By Lynda Sea | The Food Files

When everyone from the Washington Post and GQ, and even US President Barack Obama, has helped to create such an aura of hype around a burger joint to the degree they have been for Five Guys Burgers and Fries, you can’t help but pay it some attention. Curiosity will get the better of you, despite your skepticism. Well, at least that’s what happened in my case. Five Guys Burgers and Fries is a US chain that started in 1986 in Arlington, Virginia that has grown to more than 725 locations in North America to date. They call themselves the “Willy Wonka of...

Anthropologie opens today at Chinook Centre

Posted 1 year 6 weeks ago | By Lynda Sea | The Avenue Fashion and Style Blog

The wait is finally over. Anthroholics in Calgary turned out in droves last night to celebrate the grand opening of Anthropologie at Chinook Centre and were not disappointed. In the 6,500 square foot space, women all around me were snatching up vintage-style jewellery, bird-print skirts, vintage-chic glassware and home décor, colourful wool coats and sweaters. The lineups for fitting rooms snaked around the store and intersected with an equally long queue for the cash...

Beauty Uncovered offers Designer Dresses for Rent

Posted 1 year 12 weeks ago | By Lynda Sea | The Avenue Fashion and Style Blog

We’ve all been there. As the holiday season nears and more party invites come in, the last thing you want is to buy a new dress for each occasion, let alone wear the same dress twice. That’s why stylist Ava Czymoch is hosting a launch event, Cakewalk Designer Dress Rentals, where you can rent those party frocks without the costly price tags. On November 8 to 10, between 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., you can drop by Hotel Arts (119 12 Ave. S.W.) to rifle through, try on and rent dresses from high end designers such as Valentino, Pucci, Betsey Johnson, Diane Von Furstenburg and...

DJ Dolores Spins at Folk Fest

Posted 1 year 27 weeks ago | By Lynda Sea | Culture Snacks

Helder Aragao aka DJ Dolores from Brazil artfully blends pulsating beats with electronic groves and samples that converge into layered soundscapes. Tonight feels like one big dance party that's just getting started.

Coolooloosh on Stage 4

Posted 1 year 27 weeks ago | By Lynda Sea | Culture Snacks

The Israeli band Coolooloosh took to Local 510 Stage 4 earlier on in the night and unleashed a bunch of smooth, funky rhymes with guitar and horns. Their unusual name apparently means "celebration and joy" in Jerusalemite slang and there was no shortage of that with the crowd who couldn't resist getting up and dancing along.

Folk Fest Food

Posted 1 year 27 weeks ago | By Lynda Sea | The Food Files

Each year at folk fest, you'll find the regular food vendors (the famous curry booth India Palace, Ship and Anchor, The Nomad's Kitchen) and some new tasty ones to try. One of the first places you'll encounter just past the gates is the Slow Food Calgary booth, new to the fest this year. There's tasty lamb kabobs and pita bread as well as fresh cherries but it was the three mini burgers with beef from Hoven Farms that sold me. ...