The Unknown Studio

Many people spend their time wandering through the city miserable. And local photographer and Wonderful Person™ Ashley Green is trying to change that. Ashley is the mind behind LoveLetters2Strangers, a relatively new initiative that involves creating lovely little notes of encouragement that are distributed to random people walking in the street, left behind in coffee […]

Sometimes a podcast is too good for me to go through it thoroughly for you and provide a breakdown. This is one of those podcasts. Last weekend, Scott and I spent some time with writer, journalist and lyricist Omar Mouallem. I’ve been reading Omar’s stuff in newspapers and magazines for years. I got to know […]

This time of January is typically cold. And even a city with a Winter City Strategy needs to work hard to get people out of doors. Enter the Deep Freeze Byzantine Winter Festival, with its ice sculptures, curling, and this year: cowboys! Scott and I sat down with one of the festival organizers, Cadence Konopaki […]

“HAVE YOU FINISHED YOUR SHOPPING YET?!” That’s what I’ve been asking everyone I bump into over the last few weeks. It’s probably because I’m exhausted and I’m having trouble being my usual charming self. Instead I’m being an unoriginal bastard. The Christmas break can’t come soon enough. I know a lot of you are feeling […]

If you’re in the know in Edmonton, you’ve probably heard of Dana DiTomaso. Dana moved here from Hamilton 3 years ago with her now-wife; she’s the technology columnist on CBC’s Edmonton AM; she was named Top 40 Under 40 this year by Avenue Magazine; she was named one of the “Next Ten” by Alberta Venture; […]

This past weekend, Scott ran the show on his own while I was away at a course in Calgary. His guest was author SM Stirling, one of the guests of honour at the annual Pure Speculation Festival. Check out the conversation Scott had with SM and enjoy the rest of the show! 0:00: Intro – […]

Holy hell, ladies and gentlemen, it’s been far too long since Scott and I have been together recording at the Unknown Studio. But wait, what’s this? A new episode? A NEW EPISODE! This week, in the studio with us was a gentle man named “Gentle” Stan Woo, one of the organizers of the 7th annual Pure […]

While Scott is away on a long-delayed honeymoon, I’ve been left with the keys to the studio. And that means no “typical” in-studio interview this episode. But Scott’s absence, while exceedingly lonely, gave me the opportunity to get out there and chat with people. And since it seems that this week, there’s tons of stuff […]

Listeners of the podcast will know that Scott and I typically try and keep the show around an hour. Sometimes it means cutting stuff — and usually only a little bit of it. But in this episode, Scott and I spoke with critically-acclaimed author Minister Faust (his latest work is featured in the image attached to […]

Welcome back to another glorious season of podcasting action, my friends! And we’re staring this one off with a real doozy. Scott and I sat down with Josh Classen, senior meteorologist from CTV Edmonton. Guess what we talked about? No, not the weather, my precious little nose-miners! We talked about one of Josh’s great passions: […]

Many of you tuned in to watch Scott and I on BT Edmonton yesterday. And a goodly quantity of you also checked out our live blog, written by Scott while we hung out with BT co-host Ryan Jespersen and his amazing crew of teamsters. While we were on the show, we recorded a podcast for […]

It’s Season Finale time, everyone! We recorded this episode live in front of about 50 people in the back room of Happy Harbor Comics in downtown Edmonton. We had a great time doing the show thanks to our outstanding guests. You can actually see the full recap of the show thanks to the work Sandra […]

Wow, we’ve done 70 episodes of the Unknown Studio since June 2009. And this one, like many of its predecessors, is a doozy, my friends. After much whining, griping and threatening from Mr. James Leask, we finally acquiesced and invited the Comics! the Blog guys onto the show. (And, truthfully, it didn’t take much arm-twisting […]

A new website launched in Edmonton a month or two ago, one created by and for lesbian, gay, transgendered, bi, and queer people… and “everyone in between.” The site is the brainchild of Terah Jans and Janelle Aker, who some of our listeners might recognize on yonder Twitters. IDigYourGirlfriend.com was originally just a Twitter account […]

Unless you’ve been on a hunger strike recently — or you hate leaving your house/apartment/condo/domicile/disused box in the river valley — you’re probably at least a little bit aware of the growing food truck community here in Edmonton. Bolstered by events like the City Centre Farmers Market and the hugely popular What the Truck events […]