El Cortez Mexican Kitchen • Tequila Bar
8230 Gateway Blvd.
780-760-0200
www.elcortezcantina.com
Tues. to Fri. 4 p.m. to late
Sat. 11 a.m. to late
Sun. 4 p.m. to 10 p.m.
closed Mondays
Food: 4 of 5 Suns
Ambience: 4.5 of 5 Suns
Service: 3 of 5 Suns
Dinner for two excluding drinks and tip: Basic, $25; loaded, $80
It’s more than food at the El Cortez Mexican Kitchen Tequila Bar.
You may think you’ve stumbled into a shoot-‘em-up spaghetti western set as you enter the splashy restaurant/bar on the edge of Old Strathcona. You half expect a young Clint Eastwood to be standing at the bar, downing tequila by the bottle.
But look a little closer at El Cortez’s murals and artwork. It’s as much Salvador Dali as Mexicano. Peering down on our table from the wall was a modern sea serpent with a light fixture doubling as its eye. Beside the bar was a larger-than-life mural of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
The whole thing reflects the pop-sophistication o ...
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A Christmas Carol
Citadel Theatre,
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
To Dec. 23, 2015
Review by GRAHAM HICKS
How is it possible, after seeing a show on 16 consecutive opening nights, that one is still reduced to tears and gentle sobs of happiness/joy/sadness, at least 10 times through the evening?
Because it's A Christmas Carol, darn it! And not just any Christmas Carol but an adaptation for the stage by Tom Wood that is as classic as the brilliant book on which it is based.
It still must mystify its creators, Wood and director Bob Baker, that they produced such a gem of a production that it has hardly needed any tweaking since that original opening night on the Citadel's Maclab Stage in 1999.
Here's Christmas Carol, 2015, as popular if not more so than ever.
And if there are any rumours out there declaring this to be the last year Christmas Carol will be done at the Citadel, they are unequivocally, absolutely and utterly untrue, says Citadel General Manager Penny Ritco.
Why does thi ...
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