Archive for January, 2009

Just like Art Bar where Edmonton’s Jesse Sherburne brought the hipster bar in to the art realm, Instant Coffee is bringing a bar into the light world (or something along those lines). As part of the exhibition Assume Nothing: New Social Practice presented by the Art Gallery of greater Victoria, www.aggv.bc.ca scheduled events January...

Oh No Forest Fires, a five piece (whoa alliteration..sorta!) band hailing from Toronto a city with no forest fires. They’re songs are pretty but not that pretty and catchy and yes, very catchy. They just played a show in a garage yestserday afternoon and now they’re playing a non garage venue. Along side ONFF...

Raymond Biesinger, Edmonton’s own musician, illustrator, small press publisher and all around nice guy has been running Royal Bison Art and Crafts fair for a few years. The event has attracted hundreds if not thousands of artsty hipstery (oh did I just use that word?) likeminded people together for a weekend. Everything from records...

Papercubs editor, Kristin Cheung catches up with Matt & Kim, Brooklyn based keyboard,synth, fun band to see whats up. We talk about lots of things but most notable where are good places to eat in Brooklyn. Papercubs: Whats up with that address on the To/From EP ? Matt: When we made that first CD...

Learn to draw cartoons and comix and other cute figures at “The Art of Cartoon and Comix” workshop, hosted by the one and only and ‘Eve Corbel‘. Corbel is a  cartoon editor (wow, what a job that is!), senior editor and salad-for-lunch-everyday-editor at Geist Magazine, a Canadian literary magazine in which you wouldn’t think...