Culture

Robert Kroetsch’s long poem is to Albertans what Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass is to Americans. Revealing how we create a culture out of emptiness, the poem’s mystery lies in what it leaves unsaid.

The Edmonton Art Gallery has been rebranded. It has a new name and will get a fabulous $48-million facelift. But can the EAG really be the art gallery for all of Alberta?

Who You Callin’ Cultured? The arts are viewed as a “frill” by many in Alberta. Which isn’t to say we have no culture of our own. But how do we begin to encourage something that makes us so uneasy?

1950s Windsor Park was a “perfect place” to grow up.

Does solid footing on the Bo-Dex really mean our cities are creative?

An expat Calgarian peers into the past.

Are Alberta’s two big dailies telling you what you need to know?

Do Alberta’s political cartoonists critique our attitudes, or merely reflect them?

In a sea of newspaper leviathans, the Nesbitts have kept the Brooks Bulletin afloat for nine decades.

Remembering Bob Edwards, the crusader behind The Eye Opener.