A century ago, the Camrose Canadian Club was the toniest time-killer in town. While billiard tables took up the main floor, an upstairs reading room offered international periodicals as fodder for heated discussions. (more…)
Despite municipal anti-graffiti campaigns, don’t expect Matt Amero and Jason Ritchie to scour the walls of their Icon Hair Gallery in downtown Edmonton. (more…)
What’s that you say? Can a record store thrive in a trendy Calgary ’hood? You bet, says Recordland owner Armand Cohen, who claims he’s selling even more vinyl these days than back in the ’80s and ’90s. (more…)
WHETHER IT IS DIVINE INTERVENTION or just plain old business smarts, Cheryl McMann will probably never know for certain why business is so good. (more…)
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Curb Appeal—Lethbridge’s Free Pie in the Sky has it, Nanton’s Biggest Little Railway does too. Do you? View our top picks of the province’s interesting and appealing storefronts, then send us one or two of your own for uploading by e-mailing us at curbappeal. |
WANTED: ONE FREAKIN’ LARGE CAN OF BIG ROCK BEER, stolen from a farmer’s field late June. Reward? Beer. No one driving across Alberta this summer could have missed those hay bales, stacked two-high and wrapped to resemble cans of Big Rock beer. (more…)
“A HOBBY GONE BAD,” ANTON SCHEIWILLER SAYS by way of describing Ultimate Trains, the model train store and summer tourist attraction he runs with his wife, Joan, in Nanton. Behind the brightly coloured storefront, just off Highway 2 about an hour south of Calgary, lies if not the largest then the busiest “garden railway” layout in North America, with 22 G-gauge trains running simultaneously. (more…)
When the City of Lethbridge planned to demolish its obsolete, 1.9-million-litre water tower in 2000, local developer Douglas Bergen stepped in with a scheme to cut windows into the steel tank and turn it into a restaurant. (more…)
They don’t make buildings in Edmonton like they used to. In fact, there are no others standing on 97 Street that are timber-pressed, metal-clad or built before World War II. (more…)
NOT MANY PEOPLE FIND THE bellowing noise of city streets calming. But when Derek Besant saw two deaf passersby signing in front of K&W Audio, he found himself stuck in a peculiar paradox: the noisy Calgary street was suddenly rendered eerily silent. (more…)
