Heritage Park: Dinner and a Movie With Cars of the Big & Small Screen

Good food, classic cars and a great film-- this sounds like HEAVEN!

Heritage Park has an event going on Tuesday Evening: February 4 & 18, March 4 & 18, April 1 & 15, 2014 featuring a themed, three course meal in the Selkirk Grille, admission to the Cars of the Big & Small Screen exhibit (which features the cars shown in the films), and of course a movie in Gasoline Alley’s Exhibit Hall.

Price - Dinner & Movie $44.90 + GST per person, reservations required.

Movie only - $9.95 + GST per person. Movie only tickets can be purchased upon arrival.

 

• February 4^th – Back to the Future View Menu
• February 18^th – Driving Miss Daisy View Menu
• March 4^th – Grease View Menu
• March 18^th – Goldfinger View Menu
• April 1^st – Ferris Bueller’s Day Off View Menu
• April 15^th – American Graffiti View Menu

Dinner reservations are required and may be made between 5:00 pm and 7:00 pm with the Selkirk Grille by calling 403.268.8607 or online.

For more info check out the website

Movie Night with Zac Trolley: Aliens

 

 

Have you heard of Mars One?

Have you heard of my good friend, Zac Trolley?

 

Well, you have now-- and count yourself lucky! Zac is about passion, mission, science and space. Along with being a Mars One Candidate, he has also been accepted into the prestigious International Space University to attend the Space Studies Program this summer. To pay for his tuition, he has created a fantastic event this Thursday, March 20 at The Plaza featuring his favorite sci-fi movie, Aliens.

 

This event is great because it's supporting local talent to flourish and grow in an industry that is just starting to gain mainstream awareness while also being a great retro date night! When was the last time you had a chance to see Aliens on the big screen? If ever?!

 

Come help Zac and other space pioneers continue to tend to and live their dreams and get your sci-fi on

 

And as an added bonus The Plaza has some of the best movie theater popcorn in all of the land. Gobble-gobble.

 

Event and Ticket Info:

Movie Night with Zac Trolley: Aliens

Plaza Theatre
1133 Kensington Rd NW Calgary, AB T2N 3P4
Canada                           

Thursday, 20 March 2014 from 9:00 PM to 11:00 PM (MDT) 

 

General Admission $10.00 (+ service fee)  

To buy tickets go HERE  

 

Further info on Zac Trolley

 

 

Extras to make a full night of it:

Interested in dinner and a movie, check out the Kesington Brasserier for some of the best food in the city-- it's just right next door to The Plaza! Or, down the road is the ever popular and very faithful Kensington Pub.

 

 

 

 

 

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An Italian Sunset: Mountain View Connection & Lougheed House

 

I have always enjoyed Chamber Music, it sounds weird-- I think. I came home from a day of school in grade 4 raving about these high school students who came to perform for my class. They style of music was apparently called "Chamber Music" and all I could picture was a chamber pot and someone playing a violin into it but I was still in love. My  mum thought I was crazy....

 

Since then, I have found a special place for classical (and more specifically Chamber Music) in my life as I have found it to be powerful at creating a peaceful mindset. When I saw this event I jumped on it, the Lougheed House is beautiful and as a big fan of Italian opera's.. personally, I can't think of a more beautiful way to spend a Monday night.

 

Oh and wine.

 

An Italian Sunset

Lougheed House
707 13 Ave. S.W.
Calgary

March 16 to Mar 17, 2014

7:30 PM

 

Italian music performed in one of Calgary's sandstone mansions makes for an incredibly luxurious evening. This concert will take listeners around Italy as the music of some of Italy's finest composers is performed. Soprano Allison Angelo is joined by pianists Kathleen van Mouril and Charles Foreman, as well as violinist Laura Reid and cellist David Morrissey, both from the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra. Enjoy a wine reception during the intermission and food catered by The Restaurant at the Lougheed House.

 

Adult tickets $40.

 

mountainviewconnection.com.

Culinaria: A Taste of Food History on the Prairies

 

This Event looks great and it's located at the beautiful and historical Lougheed House in West Conaught-- thought I think the house is always beautiful, the property comes alive in the Spring and Summer as the stunning gardens fill with unique and colorful foliage.

 

Collecting Culinaria: An exhibition of cookbooks and domestic manuals mainly from the Linda Miron Distad Collection.

June 18 – October 5, 2014

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The Linda Miron Distad Culinaria Collection, housed at the University of Alberta Libraries, currently consists of more than 3,000 food-related texts from around the world, spanning several centuries. Collecting Culinaria features cookbooks and household guides from the collection, as well as other selected items from the Library’s holdings. The exhibition, and accompanying catalogue, highlight some of the collection’s most intriguing texts and their themes, including manuscript cookbooks, dietetics and health, and celebrity chefs. Collecting Culinaria draws from and celebrates this vast and diverse trove of social, cultural, and gastronomic history. Lougheed House is grateful to partner with the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library at the University of Alberta, to bring you this exhibit.

The public is invited to the opening reception on Wednesday June 25^th, from 6.30-8.30pm with cash bar, where the curators, Merrill Distad and Caroline Leiffers, will be in attendance.

 

View the related web-exhibit ‘Culinaria: A Taste of Food History on the Prairies’

PHANTOM WING: a pre-demolition project at King Edward School

Remember when they did Wreck City? Well, this is some what along the same lines.

Explore the abandoned wing of Calgary’s fourth oldest school, re-imagined by 30+ Artists prior to demolition. Through a series of large-scale artworks, PHANTOM WING explores the soon to be demolished 1960s wing of the historic King Edward School, before it's redeveloped as a multidisciplinary arts hub (cSPACE). A community artists and performers have taken up temporary residence within the abandoned wing, creating infestations, fire-bell installations, psychedelic portals, Girl Gang Dance Parties, intercom performances, water-features, poltergeists, and more. The resulting exhibition will be both an echo and a bang: a reflection and a mirage. In essence, PHANTOM WING proposes the creation of a phantom limb – an event designed to resonate long after the building is severed from its adjoining sandstone counterpart.

Ticket Price:
Free (!!)

Location:
King Edward School, 1720 30th Ave. SW

Hours of Operation:
24 Sep 2013 - 6:00pm
25 Sep 2013 - 6:00pm
26 Sep 2013 - 6:00pm
27 Sep 2013 - 6:00pm
28 Sep 2013 - 10:00am
29 Sep 2013 - 10:00am

Website:
https://phantomwing.wordpress.com/

Stuart McLean: Christmas Concert 2013

Yes, it's August (AGAIN) but it's also the end of August and that usually means thoughts about Christmas (AGAIN). It's true but that's only because this is the time of year that the Stuart McLean Christmas Concert tickets go on sale (AGAIN).

You might SHOULD be familiar with his heart warming show in the CBC, well this is live and it's all about Christmas and all about fuzzy warm traditions and doing things from the heart. For me, there is no better way to start off Christmas then with a dose of Stuart McLean. Love!

Calgary, Alberta
Thursday, December 5th and  Friday,  December 6th @ 7:30 PM
Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
(855) 985-5000
www.ticketmaster.ca
In person: Monday – Friday 10:00 AM – 2:30 PM, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM


Banff, Alberta (spoiler alert-- one of Stuart's favorite places in Canada)
Saturday, December 7th @ 7:30 PM
Eric Harvie Theatre (The Banff Centre)
(403) 762-6301 or (800) 413-8368
www.ticketmaster.ca
In person: The Banff Centre Box Office Tuesday – Saturday 12 noon – 5:00 PM
Old Crag Cabin (211a Bear Street) Tuesday – Sunday 12 noon – 6:00 PM

Special musical guest this year will be the wonderful and talented, Juno Award-wining band, The Good Lovelies (they are a favorite of mine).

You can find out more information about The Good Lovelies here: www.goodlovelies.com

The concert always takes Foodbank donations by way of non-perishable food items and cash.There is plenty spiced eggnog (for adults and children) and holiday spirit served up. I personally can't think of a better way to start of the beautiful holiday season.
 

Related posts:

I've Been Waiting All Night for This

Lets Talk about Christmas

Music Obsession Monday: Dala

Photo borrowed from here

 

Kim's Convenience presented by Theater Calgary

Every year my friend Diana and I buy subscription tickets to Theater Calgary. I love this time of year, summer is about parties and being outside and a break from the norm but as the days get shorter and the nights get cooler, we all migrate inside and experience theater. The first play of the season always welcomes this transition.
 
 
This year, the play is called Kim's Convenience and I'm excited to see it. It has received rave reviews since debuting at the Toronto Fringe Festival last year, critics calling it touching and funny (my favorite combo of emotions if you ask me).
 
 

Date(s): Sept. 3 - 29
Venue: Max Bell Theatre, EPCOR CENTRE for the Performing Arts, 205 8 Ave. SE
Tickets: Prices vary
Korean immigrant Mr. Kim is nearing retirement and wondering what will happen to his convenience store when he stops running it. This family tale that looks to the past and future with love and laughter is by Toronto's Soulpepper Theatre Company, presented by Theatre Calgary.
For more info or to buy tickets go the the Theater Calgary website

Movie: For a Good Time, Call...

 

 

 

I went to a screener of For a Good Time, Call.... last night and I loved it. It was fresh, it was funny, it was bubble gum pink mixed with zombie strippers (minus the zombies). It was Bridesmaid's reduced. It was a dirty talking girlfriends and sex toy parties. It was a movie that was filmed in 16 days and you can't tell one bit. Simply perfect like confetti cupcakes and butter cream icing with sugar skull candies.

It's spanks as a date rape preventive.

It's 1-800-mmmHmmm

It's Snow White meets Barbarella and they become besties.

It's Justin Long, Kevin Smith and Seth Rogan all smashed in one.

It's sweet but with edge. This is a movie to bring your girlfriends too, maybe your guy friends (they'll enjoy the vulgar, sexy conversations) and perhaps your progressive, independent mom if you have that kind of an adult friendship with her. Don't bring your kids though (side note, I'm sick of people bringing babies and kids to movies that aren't meant for kids)- that's a no-no for sure.

Check you what Calgay's FFWD had to say about it.

It's girls being real, girls being funny and girls being awesome. If you have no qualms about sexy talk and sass then I think you might like it. It made my night but then I went into thinking it was going to be an awful movie that was filmed in 16 days that might make me roll my eyes out of pure classlessness.

I was wrong. It's fab. Its a good time with no strings attached.

and that's my cheese review of the day. xxoo

 

Hipster Love Story: Gotye with Chairlift & Jonti

 

 

 

 

You may have heard, Gotye is coming to calgary. If you've listen to the rest of the album you'll understand that there is more to the band then just a catchy break-up song. That's not what I'm here to tell you though, there are two bands opening up for Gotye... one of them being Chairlift.

 

Be prepared for a great mood lifter with the likes of this new song from Chairlift. It just makes you want to dance carefree through a library just like the cast of Breakfast Club. Catchy, poppy and the perfect way to kick off your work week, here’s “I Belong in Your Arms”

Sounds like a hipsters love affair if you ask me. I'm kind of excited for this.

 

Gotye

Details: Gotye, Chairlift, Jonti

Stampede Corral
10 Corral Trail SE, Calgary, AB T2G 2W1

Wed, Aug 29, 2012 08:00 PM

Stuart McLean Christmas Concert

Yes, it's August but it's also the end of August and that usually means thoughts about Christmas. It's true but that's only because this is the time of year that the Stuart McLean Christmas Concert tickets go on sale.

You might be familiar with his heart warming show in the CBC, well this is live and it's all about Christmas and all about fuzzy warm traditions and doing things from the heart. For me, there is no better way to start off Christmas then with a dose of Stuart McLean. Love!

Calgary, AlbertaThursday, November 29 & Friday, November 30 @ 7:30 PM
Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
(855) 985-5000
www.ticketmaster.ca
In person: Monday – Friday 10:00 AM – 2:30 PM, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM


Banff, Alberta
Saturday, December 1 @ 7:30 PM
Eric Harvie Theatre (The Banff Centre)
(403) 762-6301 or (800) 413-8368
www.ticketmaster.ca
In person: The Banff Centre Box Office Tuesday – Saturday 12 noon – 5:00 PM
Old Crag Cabin (211a Bear Street) Tuesday – Sunday 12 noon – 6:00 PM

Special musical guest this year is the talented Reid Jamieson.

You can find out more information about Reid here: www.reidjamieson.com

Reid will be joined by The Vinylettes; three fantastic female vocalists. If you were at our Christmas show last year, you’ll will know why we are so excited to welcome back The Vinylettes.

Related posts:

I've Been Waiting All Night for This

Lets Talk about Christmas

Music Obsession Monday: Dala

photo borrowed from here

Get Your Craft On

Stash Lounge, a place to get your craft on. Sew, knit, craft and crochet-- you can learn and do it all in an intimate class setting with other like minded creative people.

Located in the historic 1912 Hudson’s Bay warehouse in Inglewood. Check out the STASH Summer 2012 Classes Newsletter to find the perfect project for you. You can also browse the classes page, or class calendar for alternate views of offerings.

I want to make it all!


Stash Lounge
(403) 457-0766
1B, 1215 – 13th Street SE
Calgary, AB
Email: needles@stashlounge.com

downtownfood: simple. elegant. local.

When craving delicious, farm fresh cuisine, Downtown is the place to go!

Focused on sustainability and local ingredients, Downtown Food's small, well-crafted dinner menu inspires your palette with new flavours like the savoury watermelon salad. Signature dishes stand out like the bold tastes of the Korean BBQ-inspired Noble Meadows Crispy Duck Leg. Working with local Albertan farmers directly, you know that what arrives on your plate is healthy and environmentally sustainable.

While it might not be the easiest place to find (but hey, that's what a GPS is for), Downtown Food is centrally located with plenty of parking spots nearby.

628 Eighth Ave. SW., Calgary,

587-353-3474

  

Lunch Menu

Dinner Menu

and as an added bonus here is a fantastic review by Scrumptiously Fit Food

Evil Dead: the musical

It's back and covered in blood... again. If you were in Calgary about 4 years ago, walking downtown on a warm August night, you may have experienced it. Handfuls of people laughing and gallivanting around, participating in all types of debauchery...wearing white shirts covered in blood. Ruby red, sticky, washable blood.

That was the summer when Evil Dead: the musical first came to town with it's campy lyrics and splatter zone, it was the hottest ticket in town. Those of us who went became greedy, going not just once but sometimes three of four times causing the production to hold over an extra month due to the popularity and demand. It was fantastic.

Embrace the mess and wear your best white shirt. Buy your tickets in the splatter zone. Should you feel a little shy about it, there are plenty of seats out of reach. Just remember, messy is more fun.

Starting August 14th

Tickets range from $25 and up

located at the Pumphouse Theater on 2140 Pumphouse Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB T3CTP5

Devonian Gardens: Grand Reopening June 27th 2012

What the gardens use to look like.

Devonian Gardens opened in 1977, it was a state-of-the-art facility that attracted international attention. Thirty-four years later, much of the infrastructure had exceeded its 30-year lifecycle, and The City of Calgary Parks is rejuvenating this key downtown attraction. 

Devonian Gardens will be reopening to the public on Wednesday, June 27, 2012. After a four year closure and complete renovation, the new Gardens will once again be a favourite destination for lunch crowds, tourists, families, and corporate and private events.

Devonian Gardens "Tropical Oasis" Celebration - Event Schedule

Wednesday, June 27

12:15 - 12:30 p.m.: Official Re-opening speeches
12:30 - 2 p.m.: Drop-in Activities:

• "Palm Tree" - Your Handprint of Sustainability
• Devonian Gardens Scavenger Hunt
• Photo opportunities with face cut-out displays
• Garden Trowel give-away
• Interpretation by Nature Experts throughout the park.

Refreshments will be served.

 

 

 

Thursday, June 28

11a.m. - 2 p.m.: Drop-in Activities

• Artist Demo: Botanical Watercolour
• Garden Tours every half hour - fun facts on the development of Devonian Gardens
• Devonian Gardens Scavenger Hunt
• "Palm Tree" - Your Handprint of Sustainability
• Photo opportunities with face cut-out displays

 

 

 

 

Friday, June 29

11 a.m. - 2 p.m.: Drop-in Activities

• Garden Tours every half hour - fun facts on the development of Devonian Gardens
• Devonian Gardens Scavenger Hunt
• "Palm Tree" - Your Handprint of Sustainability
• Photo opportunities with face cut-out displays
• Drop-in Art Activity for Families

2:15 - 4:15 p.m.: Adult Watercolour Course: Botanical Watercolour

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday, June 30

11 a.m. - 2 p.m.: Drop-in Activities

• Garden Tours every half hour - fun facts on the development of Devonian Gardens
• Devonian Gardens Scavenger Hunt
• "Palm Tree" - Your Handprint of Sustainability
• Photo opportunities with face cut-out displays
• Drop-in Art Activity for Families

Tuesday Night Punk Rock Bingo

It's Tuesday, a middle child of the work week. No one really pays attention to her, it's between the hated older brother Monday and the more sassy younger sister Wednesday, it's at the start of the week so it even comes after Thursday.

Tuesday is a fun day though because not only do you have Taco Tuesday at Tubby Dog BUT it's also PUNK ROCK BINGO NIGHT! Both Broken City and The Ship and Anchor tip their paddles to these weekly events. If you cheat, you get a beat. If you win, you get some kind of wacky prize as your trophy. Have fun, enjoy and be prepared to wake on covered in bingo dobber.

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Bee's Knees

 

 

Kirk Anderson: Hive Mentality

Mar 16, 2012

Hillhurst-Sunnyside Community Association
1418 7 Ave. N.W.
Calgary, Alberta

backyardbees.ca

The president and founder of Backwards Beekeepers shares stories about natural beekeeping and community development in the buzzing metropolis of Los Angeles.

7 p.m.

Tickets $10 each or PWYC, available at backyardbees.ca or at the door.

The Shamrock Hotel

There is a little bar on the wrong side of the tracks. It's known for it's rowdy atmospher, it's gritty patrons and some of the best local music you can find. It's kind of a biker bar, it's kind of a scary bar and it has a loooong histroy in this fine cow town of mine.

In the spirit of St. Patricks Day, here is an article written for FFWD with lots of tasty history for all you Calgary Keeners.

Happy 100th St. Paddy's Day,  Shamrock!

Lucy Lost Her Heart

Today I bought my tickets to Theater Junctions production of Lucy Lost Her Heart. This is a second time around for this postmodern fairytale that investigates identity, lost memory and the game of truth and lies.

It's playing for a short time, from March 14th till March 17th.

The town of Lucy has strangely disappeared. Its inhabitants retreated into the tunnels of the abandoned mine and now they are stuck, suspended in time, caught like flies in honey. Pocahontas, Lost Soldier, FLIP, Red, Pierre, and a prehistoric bear wander through dark corridors haunted by history, attempting to understand where they are and how they might find a way out.

Lucy Lost Her Heart interrogates the violence of the past in relation to the possibilities for the future. Can our desire to “return home” lead us through the pain and anxiety of what the future might hold? The underground city of Lucyland opens onto a surreal landscape of stories and dreams as the characters attempt to understand their new reality, and to reinterpret themselves in a world where inventing stories makes the future possible.

Wide open, spare—equal parts beautiful and unnervingly empty.
Calgary Herald

Theatre Junction’s company of artists is a performance ensemble formed by Mark Lawes, Theatre Junction’s founder and artistic director. The ensemble is comprised of a unique combination of people, skills, disciplines and backgrounds, featuring actors, dancers, musicians and a sculptor. Together they fuse creative languages that reflect the multiplicity of the public and the many different points of view that are at the essence of our changing world. After premièring Lucy Lost Her Heart at Theatre Junction GRAND in March 2011, Theatre Junction was invited to Usine C in Montreal to be a part of their 2011–2012 season of international performance. Before taking their meditation on death, desire and the Canadian west on the road, Lucy Lost Her Heart will be re-created in Calgary as part of the 2011/12 season.

Haunting, catastrophic, addicting — this performance covers all bases.
Lifestyle Magazine

LUCY LOST HER HEART
Mar.14, 2012 to Mar.17, 2012
8 p.m.
$20 - $40.75

Theatre Junction Grand
403-205-2922

At 608 1st St. S.W.

The Big Taste

It's finally here. Our taste buds, mouths and wallets squeeee with delight!

THE BIG TASTE in CALGARY

March 2 - March 12, 2012

This is a once-in-a-year opportunity to experience new works
at participating restaurants in the heart of the city.

SET PRICE DINING
Lunches $15 and $25 per person
Dinners $25 and $35 per person
Gourmet $85 per person, includes chef favorites and wine pairing

Book directly with restaurants in this directory.
Please indicate you are a Big Taste patron at time of booking.

Please go to the website for further information on participating restaurants and what they have to offer.


Bon Appetite!

Something a Little Different for Valentines Day

This season's In Residence program features award-winning spoken word poet Shane Koyczan. On the most celebrated day of love, Koyczan will be back to premiere more new work directly inspired by his time visiting the Glenbow collection which exposed him to many stories of love.

Koyczan is remembered by many for his performance at the Opening Ceremonies of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. For many, his performance was the highlight of the evening and it was that performance that launched Koyczan to the world stage.

The sincerity and wit in Shane's poems are known to speak directly to the heart and you may find yourself laughing hysterically and crying uncontrollably all in one evening. David Bidini, who writes for The Globe and Mail remarked, "Shane swallowed the stage with the power of his verse, stepping from subdued deep hot sad love poetry to hip-hop power chord meta-meter, throttling the crowd with the weight of his rhymes, and effectively wiping the stage with us. And so, a whole new generation of rhyme readers will be born..."

Glenbow's In Residence program invites diverse artists from a variety of disciplines to interact with Glenbow's exhibitions and art collections and create a new work that debuts to the public at Glenbow. The first year of In Residence saw Calgary singer/songwriter Kris Demeanor develop and facilitate a series of participatory encounters where audience members became co-creators.
Show your romantic side with an evening outside the traditional dinner and a movie this Valentine's Day.

Warning: Language may be challenging for a younger audience.

7:00-8:30pm
ConocoPhillips Theatre
Tickets $15/ Members $12
Call 403.268.4110 for tickets

Website