We continue telling spooky stories with "The Tower," a 1955 short story by Marghanita Laski.
Rambler's Almanac #93: Gather round as we tell each other spooky ghost stories during this liminal time of the year... We hear adaptations of Joseph Payne Brennan's "I'm Murdering Mr. Massington," Marghanita Laski's "The Tower," and H.P. Lovecraft's "The Music of Erich Zann," all produced by Rambler host Sarah Rowe.

Playlist:

• If I Look Strong; You Look Strong - The Crazy New Electronic Song That Switches Between Genres Three Times and Gets Everyone Really Excited With Its Psycho Drum Editing
• Where`s The Other - Infinity Stratagem
• Aagtive - Sleepy Forest
• Rich Aucoin - ESC
• Brian Eno - Icarus Or Blériot
• Caleb Nichols - From a Hole in the Road
• What Does It Eat - Walter
• Junior Boys - Waiting Game
• Weyes Blood - God Turn Me into a Flower
• Hello Moth - Lucid Dream (Mothapella Mix)
• Korea Town Acid - Heart Breaker (Hood Joplin Dream Girl Edit)
• Obongjayar - Some Nights
• StegoSarahs - The Music of Erich Zann
• Adrian Quesada - Rise of the Have-Nots

Calgary-based animators share about the award winning animated short film THE FLYING SAILOR based around the historic 1917 Halifax Harbour Explosion.
PALGARY ALMANAC #152

Playlist:

• Selci - Fallen Woman
• Colin Stetson - Taking the Evening Air
• Selina Martin - Something Wide Awake
• Jason Collett - Up The River
• Andrew Bird - Greenwine
• Broken Social Scene - This House Is On Fire
• Bill Callahan - Last One at the Party
• kkidss - apple sauce
• Pony Girl - Age of the Anxious
• Eryk Salvaggio - Phototropic Response
• The Smile - Open the FLoodgates
• Junior Boys - Samba on Sama
• Rich Aucoin - Esc
• Rahill - I Do Woder
• Weyes Blood - Grapevine
• Jessica Moss - Light Falls on Every Door
• Mitski - Heat Lightning
• Samantha Savage Smith - Spun Out
• Destroyer - Somnambulist Blues (feat. Sandro Perri)
• Andy Shauf - Wasted on You
• Black Country, New Road - Haldern
• Dana Gavanski - Under the Sky
• Future Islands - Last Christmas

PALGARY ALMANAC #152

Playlist:

• Selci - Fallen Woman
• Colin Stetson - Taking the Evening Air
• Selina Martin - Something Wide Awake
• Jason Collett - Up The River
• Andrew Bird - Greenwine
• Broken Social Scene - This House Is On Fire
• Bill Callahan - Last One at the Party
• kkidss - apple sauce
• Pony Girl - Age of the Anxious
• Eryk Salvaggio - Phototropic Response
• The Smile - Open the FLoodgates
• Junior Boys - Samba on Sama
• Rich Aucoin - Esc
• Rahill - I Do Woder
• Weyes Blood - Grapevine
• Jessica Moss - Light Falls on Every Door
• Mitski - Heat Lightning
• Samantha Savage Smith - Spun Out
• Destroyer - Somnambulist Blues (feat. Sandro Perri)
• Andy Shauf - Wasted on You
• Black Country, New Road - Haldern
• Dana Gavanski - Under the Sky
• Future Islands - Last Christmas

Calgary local news year in review for 2022 with LiveWire Calgary Editor Darren Krause.
PALGARY ALMANAC #152

Playlist:

• Selci - Fallen Woman
• Colin Stetson - Taking the Evening Air
• Selina Martin - Something Wide Awake
• Jason Collett - Up The River
• Andrew Bird - Greenwine
• Broken Social Scene - This House Is On Fire
• Bill Callahan - Last One at the Party
• kkidss - apple sauce
• Pony Girl - Age of the Anxious
• Eryk Salvaggio - Phototropic Response
• The Smile - Open the FLoodgates
• Junior Boys - Samba on Sama
• Rich Aucoin - Esc
• Rahill - I Do Woder
• Weyes Blood - Grapevine
• Jessica Moss - Light Falls on Every Door
• Mitski - Heat Lightning
• Samantha Savage Smith - Spun Out
• Destroyer - Somnambulist Blues (feat. Sandro Perri)
• Andy Shauf - Wasted on You
• Black Country, New Road - Haldern
• Dana Gavanski - Under the Sky
• Future Islands - Last Christmas

Rambler's Almanac #92: Nicole and Sarah power through cold early mornings with good tunes and strong coffee. Join us and take a listen!

Playlist:

• Begonia - Cold Night
• The Corey Hotline - Grave Diggin' Love
• The Trade-Offs - Let Go, Give In, Fall Down
• Foxwarren - Lost On You
• Sister Ray - Reputations
• Rubblebucket - Zeros as Round as the World
• Jimmy Hunt - Nos Corps
• Oracle Sisters - Who Knows Where the Time Goes
• ZENON - 7 Deadly Sins
• dumb - Strange is the Morning
• Sunny War - No Reason
• Left at London - Revolution Lover
• The Mars Volta - No Case Gain
• Lime Garden - Clockwork
• Moon Walker - I'm Afraid I'll Go To Heaven
• Paul Jacobs - The Tree Outside My House
• Bly Wallentine - Wallentine's Day
• Zacht Automaat - Bite the Invisible Hand
• Kiwi Jr. - The Sound of Music
• 0Stella - Red Skates
• Living Hour - No Body
• Pictures of a Neighbourhood - Window Glass
• Jacob Faurholt - Sometimes I Feel The Stars Are Under Us
• Heaven For Real - Energy Bar
• Bibi Club - Femme-Lady
• King of Foxes - Pleasant Solutions
• Payphones - Another Ghost
• H!CKEY - End of a Journey
• Big Joanie - Insecure
• Caleb Nichols - I Can't Tell You
• Ten Minute Detour - Morningbird
• L'omelette - Ink on Paper
• Cynthia Hamar - Little Bird

Narwhal Ontario Reporter Emma Macintosh shares the story behind the Ontario Government's u-turn on opening up the Greenbelt for sprawl development.
PALGARY ALMANAC #151

Playlist:

• Colin Stetson - The Purifying Flame
• CHAMPS - My Baby Lorraine
• Junior Boys - Night Walk
• Rich Aucoin - 456
• Brian Eno - Inclusion
• Bill Callahan - Planets
• Rahill - Growing Pain
• Pictures of a Neighbourhood - Lots of Love
• Bristol Manor - Black Moon
• Weyes Blood - It's Not Just Me, It's Everybody
• Lucrecia Dalt - Contenida
• Mabe Fratti - No Se Ve Desde Aca
• Hermanos Gutiérrez - Pueblo Man
• Angel Olsen & Sturgill Simpson - Big Time
• Jessica Moss - Opened Ending
• Bartees Strange - Cosigns
• Alvvays - Lottery Noises
• Sister Ray - Violence
• I Think of You, And Maybe Me - Resist
• Esmerine - Number Stations
• Valiska & Zenjungle - Familiar Dialogue
• Cindy Lee - Lucifer Stand
• Thom Yorke - Impossible Knots

PALGARY ALMANAC #151

Playlist:

• Colin Stetson - The Purifying Flame
• CHAMPS - My Baby Lorraine
• Junior Boys - Night Walk
• Rich Aucoin - 456
• Brian Eno - Inclusion
• Bill Callahan - Planets
• Rahill - Growing Pain
• Pictures of a Neighbourhood - Lots of Love
• Bristol Manor - Black Moon
• Weyes Blood - It's Not Just Me, It's Everybody
• Lucrecia Dalt - Contenida
• Mabe Fratti - No Se Ve Desde Aca
• Hermanos Gutiérrez - Pueblo Man
• Angel Olsen & Sturgill Simpson - Big Time
• Jessica Moss - Opened Ending
• Bartees Strange - Cosigns
• Alvvays - Lottery Noises
• Sister Ray - Violence
• I Think of You, And Maybe Me - Resist
• Esmerine - Number Stations
• Valiska & Zenjungle - Familiar Dialogue
• Cindy Lee - Lucifer Stand
• Thom Yorke - Impossible Knots

The story behind Alberta's failure to uphold polluter pay policy for the oil and gas industry.
PALGARY ALMANAC #151

Playlist:

• Colin Stetson - The Purifying Flame
• CHAMPS - My Baby Lorraine
• Junior Boys - Night Walk
• Rich Aucoin - 456
• Brian Eno - Inclusion
• Bill Callahan - Planets
• Rahill - Growing Pain
• Pictures of a Neighbourhood - Lots of Love
• Bristol Manor - Black Moon
• Weyes Blood - It's Not Just Me, It's Everybody
• Lucrecia Dalt - Contenida
• Mabe Fratti - No Se Ve Desde Aca
• Hermanos Gutiérrez - Pueblo Man
• Angel Olsen & Sturgill Simpson - Big Time
• Jessica Moss - Opened Ending
• Bartees Strange - Cosigns
• Alvvays - Lottery Noises
• Sister Ray - Violence
• I Think of You, And Maybe Me - Resist
• Esmerine - Number Stations
• Valiska & Zenjungle - Familiar Dialogue
• Cindy Lee - Lucifer Stand
• Thom Yorke - Impossible Knots

Playlist:

• Jack Name - I Came to Tell You In Plain English (I'm Leaving You)
• A. Savage - Winter In the South
• Tim Hill - Paris, Texas
• Various Artists - One More Name
• Cool Ghouls - Gord's Horse
• White Cloud - All Cried Out
• Julien Gasc - Canada
• Doug Firebaugh - Alabama Railroad Town
• Fiver - It Is What It Is
• Willie J Healey - Subterraneans
• Sister Ray - Prophecy
• Luke Temple - Empty Promises
• Walter TV - Last Day
• Gold Celeste - Can of Worms
• Sunbeam Sound Machine - I Promise That I'll Try To Give You All My Love
• Travis Bretzer - Billy & I
• Good Morning - Keep It
• Pinback - Tripoli
• Big Thief - Sparrow
• Marlaena Moore - I Miss You
• The Drums - Book of Stories
• Ylayali - He Needs Me
• Foxwarren - To Be
• Cate le Bon - Here It Comes Again
• Living Hour - Middle Name
• Astrel K - Is It It Or Is It I
• Big Rig - Crying In A Corn Maze
• skirts - Always
• Alex G - Runner
• Helena Deland - Lean On You

PALGARY ALMANAC #150

Playlist:

• Nils Frahm - Right Right Right
• Laura Hickli - Finding You're Not Missing a Thing
• Da'at - Luz
• Hermanos Gutiérrez - El Bueno y El Malo
• Deanna Petcoff - Falling Upwards
• Gloin - Pitchfork
• Alvvays - Belinda Says
• High Five - Ghostly
• Weyes Blood - The Worst is Done
• Perfume Genius - Hellbent
• Esmerine - Hymn for Rob
• Bill Callahan - Coyotes
• Jessica Moss - Undirected
• Sister Ray - Prophecy
• Bibi Club - La Nuit
• Loyle Carner - Plastic
• Hot Chip - Broken