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Memorial service for Robert Bardston Friday
By Medicine Hat News on July 19th, 2018
Medicine Hat News Members of the Medicine Hat music community will come together Friday to remember one of their own. A memorial service will be held for Robert Bardston at River Valley Community Church at 2:30 p.m. A luminary in the city’s music scene, Bardston passed away last month. Bardston was a cellist and teacher ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!After Dark July 19-25
By Medicine Hat News on July 19th, 2018
THURSDAY – Karaoke, Oly’s Alehouse and Eatery, Johnny with Dynamite Sound, win a $100 gift certificate, 9 p.m., 403-548-6597 – Live jam, Cecil Hotel, 9 p.m. – Ride the Mechanical Bull, Ralph’s Texas Bar and Steakhouse, 9 p.m. – Top 40 DJ music with Ryan Stewart, Temptation Night Club, 9 p.m.-2 a.m. – DJ jam ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Eye on the Esplanade: The Inner Workings: All stories are important
By Medicine Hat News on July 13th, 2018
The Theban Necropolis, Egypt, 1922. After years of searching through sand and rock, a man stands at the bottom of set of stone stairs leading into the mountainside. His time has come. Chisel in hand, he makes a small hole in the sealed doorway. With the light of a candle he peers through the hole ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Comedy Festival wraps up with Brew Ha-Ha!
By Medicine Hat News on July 13th, 2018
Medicine Hat News Beer bellies and belly laughs are on tap at the Canalta Centre next month. The local venue hosts the finale of the MadHatter Comedy Festival on Aug. 11, presenting Steve Hytner, Kevin Farley and local stand-up comic Stephanie Foley for Brew Ha-Ha! Those three will provide the Ha-Ha, and the Brew will ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Rock Ramblings: No shortage of women rockers
By Medicine Hat News on July 12th, 2018
Since the beginning of rock’s popularity, women have been huge contributors to making it something that not only has lasted, but has become one of the most influential aspects of the 20th and 21st centuries so far. Women have helped shape and mold it into what it is now. And today, we’re going to talk ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Hat violinist retires Tchaikovsky performance in Carnegie Hall
By Chris Brown on July 12th, 2018
cbrown@medicinehatnews.com @MHNBrown If a musician is going to “retire” a certain performance so to speak, there are few better ways to do it than how Ciara Hager did last month. At New York City’s famed Carnegie Hall, the 2016 Crescent Heights High School grad performed Tchaikovsky’s Concerto in D major, first movement for her last ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!After Dark July 12-18
By Medicine Hat News on July 12th, 2018
THURSDAY – Karaoke, Oly’s Alehouse and Eatery, Johnny with Dynamite Sound, win a $100 gift certificate, 9 p.m., 403-548-6597 – Live jam, Cecil Hotel, 9 p.m. – Ride the Mechanical Bull, Ralph’s Texas Bar and Steakhouse, 9 p.m. – Top 40 DJ music with Ryan Stewart, Temptation Night Club, 9 p.m.-2 a.m. – DJ jam ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Library Chat: In 65 years, not a lot has changed around the public library
By Medicine Hat News on July 6th, 2018
I recently received copies of the 1953 and 1954 Medicine Hat Public Library annual reports. It is amazing at how little has changed in 65 years. It is true that inflation has transformed the dollar figures; the 1953 budget was a little under $26,000, which would surely warm the cockles of a 2018 taxpayer’s heart. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Rare Group of Seven art a coup for Esplanade
By Chris Brown on July 5th, 2018
cbrown@medicinehatnews.com @MHNBrown There’s a distinct feeling of seventh heaven these days around the Esplanade, where works from the famed Group of Seven are currently hanging. “There’s some really, really beautiful pieces and it’s really rare we would have pieces from the Group of Seven on display in Medicine Hat,” art gallery curator Joanne Marion said ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Rock Ramblings: Move it or lose it
By Medicine Hat News on July 5th, 2018
I’ve come to realize that I am now of a certain age where seemingly benign actions can cause me great injury. Earlier this year, for instance, I found myself in the doctor’s office with an unexplained pain running from my shoulder down my arm, and causing my fingers to go numb. He asked if I’d ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!After Dark July 5-11
By Medicine Hat News on July 5th, 2018
THURSDAY – Karaoke, Oly’s Alehouse and Eatery, Johnny with Dynamite Sound, win a $100 gift certificate, 9 p.m., 403-548-6597 – Live jam, Cecil Hotel, 9 p.m. – Ride the Mechanical Bull, Ralph’s Texas Bar and Steakhouse, 9 p.m. – Top 40 DJ music with Ryan Stewart, Temptation Night Club, 9 p.m.-2 a.m. – DJ jam ... Read More »
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