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Last night, along with our friends at TheEdmontonian.com, we celebrated our birthday. Granted it was about two months too late — we needed time to get our shit together, order a cake, prepare a program for the evening, and plan how much we were going to drink — but it was still awesome.

More awesome than we could have expected.

On the next episode of the Unknown Studio, we’ll have a few highlights from the evening. Meanwhile, League of Extraordinary Media co-founder Brittney Le Blanc was kind enough to take a bunch of photos of the event and post them. Here’s a slideshow for you:

Huge thanks to all of the local celebrities who read for us, including Josh Classen, Ryan Jespersen, Samantha Power, Colin MacIntyre, Craig Schram and Trent Wilkie. You were all amazingly hilarious. We’ll definitely have to do it again sometime.

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Although it’s been an unicorn’s age* since we last updated the website with something that wasn’t a podcast, I thought I’d bring us all back to earth with a post about our forthcoming co-birthday party with the delightful cherubs who run TheEdmontonian.com.

Fans of ours will recall that we made a big deal out of turning one back in June. But I feel like we didn’t go far enough, like we didn’t really KICK IT UP to the NOTCH that this momentous occasion merited. So, after some discussion with our League of Extraordinary Media friends, we decided a party — with delicious cake and delicious entertainment a delicious amount of time after our deliciously authentic birthday — was in order. Read the rest of this entry »

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On Saturday, July 24, 2010, I was part of history. I joined a bunch of sweaty Edmontonians in a small, cute little apartment just off Whyte Avenue to be part of the internet television event of that particular 18 minutes. I was a guest of the first ever episode of Saturday Night with Samsonow. Read the rest of this entry »

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On behalf of myself, Rachel, Scott and Anita, we wish you and your — as well as this great nation — a very happy birthday!

If you want to know what’s happening in Edmonton, go see what Jeff has to say about it!

Take it away, Tom Brokaw!

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Work on the Dawson Bridge continues this month. And most recently the big news story is the fact that the project was granted a noise waiver — crews are working almost around the clock to ensure the bridge will open on November 26, 2010.

(As an aside, I’m hopeful they hit their target so I have a local watering hole I can hop and skip to. It’s called the Hilltop Pub.)

Given that I live three blocks away from the bridge myself, I have to note my own surprise at how late into the night these guys are working. I wouldn’t say it’s been disruptive to me, since I’ve learned to be able to sleep through everything — including those magpie jerks that insist on making a whole pile of noise first thing in the morning — but the noise is definitely noticeable, perhaps even more so because the River Valley is usually an exceedingly quiet place. This is, of course, with the exception of emergency vehicle sirens, but there’s a reason those things are really loud. Someone ought to point that out to Councillor Jane Batty. Read the rest of this entry »

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Regular listeners of the show will know that we had local retaurantrepreneur Nate Box on the show last episode. We wanted to talk with Nate about his latest business venture, elm café — an approximately 200 sq. ft. café just a block and a half south of Oliver School west of the downtown core. After a few delays — some self-imposed, others inflicted by higher powers (including a ceiling collapse which thankfully harmed nothing except the open date) — elm café (#100, 10140 117 St) quietly opened its doors bright and early Monday morning at 7am.

I stopped in because I wanted delicious morning coffee… and I wanted to be their first customer. Sadly, I wasn’t early enough. I was merely customer #2, as the owner of the building grabbed a cup of joe on his way into work. Still, I was greeted with true warmth. Besides, I prefer to think of myself as #1 all the same — not unlike Commander Riker, who was second only to Captain Picard. Read the rest of this entry »

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