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How about a gourmet meal, served by some of Saskatoon’s finest chefs?  And the proceeds go to a great cause?  Where do I sign up!?Saturday, February 16th (late Valentine’s dinner idea?) at Prairieland Park, you can enjoy a 6 course gourmet meal, all to raise money for Station 20 West, which gives access to healthcare, better food, and more, to inner city residents.  It&r

Matt Voyno from ArmsUp and one of the two dudes behind The New Rockstar Philosophy sent me this press release, and I thought it was a neat-o idea, so I’m throwing it up here.  In addition to releasing their book, they are going to be teaching a class at RAIS.  Check it out! ------------------------------ The New Rockstar Philosophy is a book and blog designed to help arti

The Master failed to make an impression the first time I saw it at the Toronto Film Festival. It felt hermetic and pretentious. However, many critics fell deeply in love with the film by Paul Thomas Anderson and topped several “Best of 2012” list.I decided to give The Master a second chance. While some elements I overlook became more striking (cinematography, the score by Jonny Greenwo

The Academy Awards are less than a month away and there is little clarity on who are the frontrunners. Lincoln appears as the favorite, but Steven Spielberg’s historical drama generates little passion, same as Life of Pi. Silver Linings Playbook has avid fans, but also equally ardent detractors. Amour, the best film of the bunch, is also the least seen.In order to sort out favorites from als

Planet S isn't the only paper to get busted for accidentally running out-of-town content...

What's Whitworth up to in Regina on a frosty Sunday night, you ask? Editing stories like a good worker bee? Um, sure. Oh, and also this:Hello, Paul. I wasn’t aware the Discovery Channel had a homosexualist agenda. Thank you for the enlightenment. I apologize if I came across as someone who thinks you’re a frightened, angry coward with a broken moral compass who’s probably gay

First up, for anyone that tried to go see BLUE RODEO last night based on the story we ran in our latest issue, oops — sorry! (Bet you had a helluva lot of trouble trying to find the damn Conexus Arts Centre in Saskatoon as well, didn’t you? Haha!) That story came to us courtesy of our sister mag in Regina, prairie dog, and some stupid Planet S editor forgot to change the preview box co

Followers of Planet S online know that Sam Corbett, drummer of Saskatoon's The Sheepdogs has been sending me dispatches from the road to post as guest blogs here.  From funny to telling, Sam is giving us the lowdown on what happens when a band from Saskatoon hits the big time.  This week, Corbett talks about hockey!Also, dig back through the archives to see some of Sam's older en

Blah blah blah:Early on Sunday morning — day 113 of the lockout — NHL commissioner Gary Bettman confirmed from New York the two sides had reached a tentative agreement on the framework of a new collective bargaining agreement that will finally spark the beginning of the regular season. Details of the new CBA were not immediately released, and Bettman cautioned they still need

 Zach Lucky has recently released his album, Saskatchewan, and as part of yet another crazy tour across Canada, he’s playing a show at the Mendel Art Gallery on January 9th.  Advance tickets are available at Unreal City (or you can buy them at the door, but be warned, it’s limited seating and the early bird gets the Lucky tickets).  Carly Maicher is the opener.  And

Yay for Canada.  But not all Canadians are winners.  In fact, many are LOSERS!

Man, I love Motown music, from the older stuff, to anything by the Funk Brothers.  Some local musicians are putting together a Motown night, with the proceeds going to HELP DRC's next project in the Congo.  It's called Mo' Love: A Tribute to Motown!  It's December 21st at The Fez.They're gonna squeeze a 10 piece band of Saskatoon's best musicians up on stage

Followers of Planet S online know that Sam Corbett, drummer of Saskatoon's The Sheepdogs has been sending me dispatches from the road to post as guest blogs here.  From funny to telling, Sam is giving us the lowdown on what happens when a band from Saskatoon hits the big time.  This week, while the Sheepdogs are actually in town, Corbett tells us about the horrors of being an interna

You’re familiar with the awesome midnight movies that Bad Monster Films and The Broadway Theatre put on --- well now they’re doing a night with a Saskatoon angle.  What could be better than Troll 2?  Two movies shot in Saskatoon over 10 years ago, that’s what!  Midnight Madnesss becomes Saskatoon Madness!  Saturday, November 24th at The Broadway Theatre. 

1989 saw one of the worst Canadian tragedies in recent memory --- the misguided and misogynistic rampage of a gunman in Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique.  Many women were injured or killed, and the effects, including suicides, were still happening long after the shots had stopped ringing out. Fire in the Hole Productions presents The December Man (L’Homme de Décembre), a

        By Lisa JohnsonTHE THREE EXILES OF CHRISTIAN E.Nov. 8-10La Troupe du Jour  Saskatoon audiences will get their first opportunity to take in live theatre at La Troupe Du Jour this season starting tonight – and they won’t need a single syllable of French to enjoy it. But the coolest part about Les Trois Exils de Christian Essiambre

This is hilarious: Democrat candidate Colleen Lachowicz won Maine's Senate district 25 on Wednesday, defeating a one-term Republican senator.  Republicans had vilified Lachowicz because she has an orc character in World Of Warcraft. "Colleen Lachowicz spends hundreds of hours playing in her online world Azeroth, as an Orc Assassination Rogue named Santiaga," said

Yup — that’s my backyard today.Seriously? C’mon — I’m supposed to be on vacation! VACATION, DAMMIT!Sure, nothing extravagant — just sitting around the house, drinking wine and healing my overstressed, Planet S-addled brain (you know we just came out with Best Of Saskatoon, right? Check it out! It’s super-awesome-fun-happy-time! Unless, of course, you were

 In the entertaining documentary Hellbound?, Canadian director Kevin Miller tackles a fairly now notion of hell that seems to be gaining traction: There isn’t any. While for the longest time churches around the world preached about fire and brimstone for wicked souls, a dispassionate analysis of the Bible would reveal three versions of the netherworld: Eternal torment, annihilation and

Nooooooooo! It's bad enough that Grimes, a buzz-worthy indie electro artist from Montreal, lost out on this year's Polaris Prize to Feist.Now we have to reckon with Grimes aka Claire Boucher canceling her Saskatoon appearance at Louis' Pub, Saturday, Oct. 20.According to various sources, Ms. Boucher developed an inner ear problem and is scheduled to see a specialist in her hometow

Don’t miss the metal show to end all metal shows! I know, I say that all the time, but this time it’s true!  I swear!  They won’t even bother to do any more metal shows anywhere in the world after this because the world will be “metalled out!”   It’s a fucking Saskatoon Thrash Metal Showcase!Check out Untimely Demise on Friday (October 1

That’s right — Ottawa will be back in the Canadian Football League as of the 2014 season, says this story in the Globe and Mail! Freakin’ hooray, I say — our one truly national professional sport (except for those ugly CFL X-Era years, when U.S. teams like the Birmingham Barracudas and the Baltimore Stallions, who — ugh, choke down rising vomit — won the Grey Cu

When Sammy Hagar released ‘I Can’t Drive 55’, punk band The Minutemen responded with their album, Double Nickels on the Dime, a fuck you of sorts to the lameness of Hagar’s song.  Minuteman Mike Watt said that driving fast wasn’t insubordinate, but that real rebellion was “writing your own fuckin’ songs and trying to come up with your own story, your

Followers of Planet S online know that Sam Corbett, drummer of Saskatoon's The Sheepdogs has been sending me dispatches from the road to post as guest blogs here.  From funny to telling, Sam is giving us the lowdown on what happens when a band from Saskatoon hits the big time.Dig back through the archives to see some of Sam's older entries --- but here is a brand new one!  It is

Feist wins the Polaris Prize and Twitter immediately explodes in a caterwaul of snarky comments and thinly veiled barbs.Not that anyone should be surprised.The Polaris Prize awards a $30,000 prize to a Canadian album based solely on artistic merit, whatever that means. Some people have taken exception to the fact that Feist clearly doesn’t need the money. Others loathe that a star who has re

I have to go against the grain with my review of Compliance --- a movie that is getting pretty decent reviews across the board (though it wasn’t without its controversy at Sundance).  My reviews are usually spoiler free, but I will warn you that I can’t properly discuss it without revealing some plot details. Compliance goes to great pains to let us know that it is based on a

Now, for the relapse. And none too soon. 6 days in NYC turns out to be my limit and I have the shin splints to prove it.  One more Yankees v Jays (and again Ichiro killed my team) then 8 hours of pounding pavement with a 31 pound backpack.  On the upside - me and my luggage made it to Wall Street and the TSE and all that stuff.  Pretty cool to see the old architecture down there. &n

According to the sink in my hostel, young Europeans and Aussies are reeeeeeeeally hairy. Seriously people! Can you rinse that away please. I was curious about the carpet matching the drapes, French lady, but now thatI know I would appreciate a shade of housekeeping here. Oh-and Aussie boy: Sneaking two girls in at 4am and letting them crash on your top bunk above me is funny but not cool. Hope you

That is the only explanation for my stroke of good fortune. I put my name on a list to see a Letterman taping this morning. Within an hour I got a call telling me I was in. On my way to pick up my ticket I noticed NYPD everywhere. Like 20 on every block near the theatre. So I ask a cop what the deal is and he tells me Obama is coming to do Letterman. I sat in the 4th row near the band. Nice. Ya

I am in New York. It's alright. My Hotel is 112 years old and once housed survivors of the Titanic ( back in 1912). I was not here for that. It is on a street paved with bricks and has a rooftop bar overlooking a river of some sort with a bay. There's a statue of a torch bearing chick off in the distance. My girlfriend found a comedy club online called The Comedy Cellar. She said, "Hey, you sh