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Life is not all about fabulous food and bountiful beverages, is it? No, the belly also laughs. If you are looking for some humorous entertainment to round out an evening, the 18th Annual Funny Fest has you covered. Running from May 31st to June 10th, this festival of standup and variety comics will give you […]

Here comes Stampede! The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth is barrelling down on us (did you see what I did there?) like the tourist attraction of a freight train that it truly is. But we’re old hands here, aren’t we? And as old hands we know that with Stampede comes construction. It’s as if the

As you dine around Calgary and environs, you may have noticed a little announcement somewhere on the menu, or in the name of a dish, about using Spolumbo’s Sausages. Tom and Tony, the Spoletini brothers, and Mike Palumbo (hence Spo+lumbo), are CFL alums who as friends started selling their sausages at farmer’s markets around Calgary.

Coffee culture is centuries old. I sat in an African restaurant and watched beans being roasted in a pan over an open fire, as they did for hundreds of years. Smoke occluded my view and the whole place had that unique odour of freshly roasted coffee, mixed with burning coal. That technique doesn’t work so

Summer or winter it’s nice to be able to catch a couple of tunes on a Saturday afternoon, especially when they’re accompanied by a tasty beverage. Calgary is blessed with a few Saturday afternoon jams, but the granddaddy of them all is at the Ship and Anchor, on trendy 17th Avenue in the Beltline. Running