The Unknown Studio

We love great content — content that focuses on the interesting stories in Edmonton that should be told to the masses. So we want you — our listeners — to help us create this content. We want YOU to produce a segment for the Unknown Studio.

As such, we’re holding a contest starting today, and ending on September 30. We want you to pitch us your segment idea. It can be hard news, comedy, skit-based, a radio play, a series of interviews — whatever you want. Read the rest of this entry »

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And so we come to a special summer episode, featuring content from two of our favourite summer festivals here in Edmonton — the Folk Music Festival and the International Fringe Festival. So I guess that either makes this show a season two postscript, or else a season three prequel. I’ll let you decide. Here’s what we have in store for you…

0:00: Scott blows the dust off our recording equipment
2:02: Adam talks to Kat Danser at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival
6:25: Adam talks to the Deep Dark Woods at the EFMF
11:56: Sex Talk with Lauren – Have Dildo Will Travel
14:17: 30 years of the International Fringe Festival
16:57: Adam talks to Scott C. Bourgeois and Leah Anderson about two Fringe productions they’re in
27:15: Scott talks to two lovely women from New York, performing at the Fringe for Channel One
37:15: Adam chats with young playwright and Fringe performer Ben Wheelwright
43:49: Scott shares a few moment with several Kows from Apocalypse Kow
51:22: Scott talks to Trent Wilkie from the one-man show Aachen
1:00:30: Outro

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Welcome to another “Hitting the Links,” fellow Internauts.

I will be spending the next week firmly entrenched in my various Edmonton International Fringe Festival projects. You should check out both the stage play I’m in, as well as the nightly improv show.

The improvisational comedy show in particular might be up your alley.

But before I delve deeply into the world of theatre for the next week, I leave you with 18 Internet holes of glory for you to poke your business into. Uh…

This week’s batch of the bizarre includes a police force being laid off, thinking machines, real-life costumed crime fighters, undead squids and a town-for-sale.

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Scott and I met for lunch the other day to discuss the forthcoming season of the Unknown Studio — our third since we launched this puppy back in June 2009. Originally, we’d agreed to take a short summer hiatus. That has turned into a full-on summer vacation from our beloved podcast. There are several contributing factors to our extended absence Read the rest of this entry »

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Sylvancroft, former residence to Mayor Harry Evans | Photo by Raffaella Loro

Both of my parents moved to Canada from Europe when they were young. They settled in Alberta and eventually started a family in Edmonton. My dad was an entrepreneur, and my mother was studying at the U of A and working in the old courthouse downtown… Eventually, they started having kids and my mom dedicated her life to raising us boys, but she looks fondly back on her days working among judges and lawyers.

We spoke a little bit a few weeks back about the history of Edmonton and some of the characters that she grew up around. My mom, a citizen of Calgary for about 6 or 7 years now, still misses the city. Read the rest of this entry »

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