Glenn Kubish

In the words of Darlingside , you can't live in the past, but the only way to go is to go back.   This week's Three Things goes back to the Edmonton Folk Music Festival. Three Things, episode 135:                            1. Tarps   It’s Saturday morning, we are in a line of festival goers that snakes down the multi-use path on Connors Road next to the dormant LRT tracks. We are waiting for the gates at the top of the hill to open. The wail of bagpipes means it won’t be long. The pipes are leading tarp holders who had been in the pen since whatever o’clock AM to their preferred seating locations at the base of Gallagher Park—where it’s flat, where you’re not fighting a slow but relentless rearguard action against gravity. The rest of us, those who preferred a decent night’s sleep, will scurry to a patch of earth on the slope of the amphitheatre, throw our tarps down and stake our claim when the gates open....

  We managed to get out downtown last week, and stayed in, too. Here are three things that left behind tracks of gratitude and happiness. Three Things, episode 107:                              1. Print   The big five Asian cuisines are Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai and Vietnamese, which means Filipino is not quite in the gang, yet. Our friend Ariel knows that’s not fair. Ariel runs Filistix, the wonderful Filipino restaurant on 100 Avenue downtown, which is where we were last week for a unique sit-down dining event called Rice and Mysticism. Six courses of pre-colonial and early contact Filipino food researched and prepared by Chef Earl Briones, who narrated the evening, telling stories from island history and culture as he introduced each dish of plated art. Shelagh was where she’s meant to be: at a table with food and words. That night was Edmonton’s version of the evening she spent at The Cloister...