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Purple City Music Festival is happening this weekend, Sept 11-13, downtown Edmonton. Three full days of live music, wrestling, outdoor stage, market, and a music conference — plus free events, all ages, all licensed. Hit purplecityfest.com for details.
German post-hardcore trio FJØRT is touring Western Canada for the first time this month. If you're into Touché Amoré, Deafheaven or Mogwai, they're worth catching.
Third-party political advertisers have now raised over $1.2 million ahead of the election. Someone's keeping tabs on the money flowing in.
There's a community-led food map up showing where residents can access meals and resources across Edmonton. Local groups have been sharing the link.
Strathearn Art Walk is happening. Check out what's on in the neighbourhood if you're looking for something to do this week.
The EIFF is back for its 40th run starting Sept 24. Screenings at Garneau Theatre and Landmark Cinemas City Centre—local Alberta films, international stuff, shorts, features, Q&As. All the cinema you won't find on Netflix. Come celebrate 40 years of Edmonton film.
Metro Cinema's got three Rocky Horror Picture Show nights in October in tribute to Tim Curry, and Oct 9 is already sold out. Oct 24 is 80% sold and expected to sell out by Friday. The Lowdown Cheap Little Punks shadow cast is doing the whole thing live with props and gags while the movie rolls. Oct 31 is still around 50% sold if you want costumes, call-outs, and ridiculous prizes.
someone spotted a huge billboard going up at 137 Ave and St. Albert Trail and r/edmonton's wondering: how does this actually get approved? who's checking on signage at major intersections?
blue jay sighting in the city. folks on r/edmonton confirming if anyone else caught one.
summer flooding left basements needing repairs and one person's been emailing TD for 7 weeks with no reply after their claim was filed in June. others on reddit sharing similar delays.
Someone picked up old Bullwinkle's postcards from a Marketplace seller and it's sparking nostalgia in the subreddit. People are posting their favourite memories — apparently there's a legendary Pizza 73 story hiding in the comments.
New show called High-Level Agree or Disagree is asking LRT riders for their hot takes, inspired by the Subway Takes format from other cities. Basically roasting commuters with controversial statements and seeing who's brave enough to pick a side.
Someone caught a drone cleaning the exterior of the Art Gallery downtown. Never seen that before — apparently a local cleaning company figured out a way to reach high spots without scaffolding. Pretty cool application.
Weird Al hit the stage at an Oilers event and folks managed to grab video of the last 20 seconds of 'We All Have Cellphones' before the set wrapped. Classic Weird Al chaos if you managed to catch it live.
Someone spotted helicopter activity in the river valley near Quesnell Bridge, probably part of the drainage upgrades Whitson Contracting is wrapping up there. Nobody's totally sure what they were hoisting, but construction equipment swings from helicopters aren't super common around here.
Fireworks started going off from the surface lot beside the high level street car track on 109th and Jasper, and when a peace officer and fire truck showed up, they just stood around watching. Nobody knows if someone ditched them there or what the deal was.
Someone dropped a book with no return address in mailboxes all down a street at 9 p.m., and inside is a weird handwritten message mentioning holy family members and names. Definitely unusual.
Someone left a shopping bag on ETS bus 109B between Northgate and Castle Downs with two MacEwan bookstore sweaters and a hat — expensive stuff left near the back. They've filed with ETS lost and found but aren't hopeful.
Someone just got hit with a 20% service fee at MKT even though they were only doing bar service — no table service involved. Is this normal? Other places doing it? Wondering if it's a new thing or just MKT being weird.
Someone in Beaumaris has a very chill domesticated pigeon hanging around their bird feeder — super friendly, eating seeds. If it's yours, heads up there are cats in the yard. Update: it flew away after snacking, so hopefully it's doing okay.
