Sandfly Festival returns to Medicine Hat for Canada Day
The fifth annual Sandfly Festival sponsored by MY96 and New Country 1270 CHAT lights up Kin Coulee Park Tuesday from 4 p.m. to 10 30 p.m. with Tverdale WeedMonkey Gord Ramford Butterfinger and Staggered Crossing joining local acts. Promoter Kristina Twork notes 8000 to 10000 Hatters attend as the festival lines up funding beyond this year and seeks new sponsors.
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MY96
New Country
Tverdale
WeedMonkey
Gord Ramford
Butterfinger
Staggered Crossing
Kristina Twork
Hatters
Kin Coulee
Twork
Vulcan Alberta Receives Spacey Lifetime Award
The Alberta town of Vulcan gains a lifetime achievement honor from Space: The Imagination Station for devotion to space entertainment. Mayor Dave Mitchell accepts in red shirt with Spock ears as Space TV plans air of the award alongside footage of William Shatner. The town promotes its Star Trek link to draw tourists.
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Vulcan
Space TV
Alta
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Austin Powers
Dr. Evil
Yoda
Alberta
Space: the Imagination Station
Spock
Dave Mitchell
William Shatner
Mitchell
Toronto
Space Channel
Alison Salinas
TV Channel
Calgary
28 Days Later and the social horror of zombies
The piece surveys zombie cinema as social commentary from Night of the Living Dead to 28 Days Later. It flags themes of conformity, paranoia, and fear in modern society, with directors Boyle and Garland arguing zombies mirror mass behavior and anxieties rather than mere scares.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
Ranaiis
London
Danny Boyle
Jean
Paul Sartre
Boyle
Alex Garland
Bela Lugosi
United States
David Skal
George Romero
America
Skal
Romero
Garland
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