A look at the documentary film SANTACON that tells the story of the perhaps one of the most hated global events on the planet and how it took on a life of its own from its creators.
PALGARY ALMANAC #220

Playlist:

• Janel Leppin - The Brink Is Home
• La Scie - Cache-soleil
• moonhasteeth - In Bocca Al Lupo
• Eggs on Mars - Good Morning (I Love You)
• José González - For Every Dusk
• Rae Spoon - Country Music Breaks My Heart
• Miina - Live My Life on Holiday
• Population II - Angélisme
• Pranatricks - Islands of the Sun
• feldmark - Climbing Galaxies
• Bill Callahan - Empathy
• ZIG MENTALITY - SPRING OF ENDLESS GLORY
• Buzzy Lee - Shoulder To Shoulder
• Cryptozoologists - Jumper Cables
• Aysanabee - Home (Timelines Acoustic)
• Arlo Parks - Jetta
• Status/Non-Status - Good Enough (feat. Julie Doiron)
• Avro - Insomaniac
• Kim Gordon - GIRL WITH A LOOK
• Lala Lala - Car Anymore
• Courtney Barnett - Another Beautiful Day
• Sunglaciers - Starting to Come Back
• Tommy Douglas Keenan - Wehn I Leave the Mountains
• Yael Naim - Solaire
• Mitski - Charon's Obol
• The Last Sound On Earth EP, Helado Negro - Protector

Katelyn Showfill for peter this fine april morning and play a little bit of everything under the sun and rambles too. It a vibey mix of bit of everything.

Playlist:

• Pavement - Harness your hopes - B sides
• The Killers - Read my mind
• Viagra Boys - Best in show
• Peaches - Fuck the pain away
• Faure & Ravel: String Quartets - Ravel: String Quartet, M.35: II. Assez vif - Tres rythme
• TV Girl - Blue Hair
• Men I Trust - Tailwhip
• Lande Hekt - Kitchen II
• The Surfrajettes - Toxic
• Hot Hot Heat - Banadages
• U.S Girls - 4 American Dollars
• Lowell - The Bells
• Saya Gray - ...Thus is why (I don't Spring 4 love)
• Holy Fuck - Tom Tom
• plants and animals - House on fire
• Braids - Young Buck
• George Enescu, Valentin, Radutiu, Per Rundberg - Cello Sonata in F Minor, Op. 26, No. 1:II. Allegretto Scherzando
• SUUNS - 2020
• Nico - These Days
• Cootie Catcher - Friend of a Friend
• FEAST - Glass Cowboy
• The Calrizians - Card player, gambler
• Wingnut Dishwashers Union - Jesus Does the Dishes
• Touch girl Apple Blossom - The Springtime reminds me of you...
• Asher White - Night Faces
• Night Chill - 7 Witches
• Big Milk, Carina, Jordan Way - Shake it off - Cover Light
• Brain Bent - Panic
• Julius Sumner Miller - This Town Sucks
• The Kaputnicks - Beach Blanket Ringo
• 504 Plan - A song for neurodivergent people
• Danger!! Death Ray - I Married a covert Fink!
• Jack Stauber - Oh Klahoma
• The Last Dinner Party - Caesar on the TV Screen
• FEET - Chalet 47
• MF DOOM - One Beer

A glimpse into the precarious lives of undocumented Albertans with writer Marcello
PALGARY ALMANAC #219

Playlist:

• True Green - Hail Disaster
• Michael Granzow - Mountain View Cemetery
• Bitter Fictions - Sapphire
• Big Thief - Incomprehensible
• Tommy Douglas Keenan - Oh Melody
• Puma Blue - (Fool)
• Yael Naim - Everthing's Gone
• Helado Negro - More
• Charlotte Cornfield - Lost Leader
• Bill Callahan - Computer
• Paolo Di Carlo - Curves
• Cryptozoologists - I Hate Music
• Graham Janz - i want to smash every car that i see
• Ribbon Skirt - Braids
• Beauts - Cave
• Em Spel - The Tide
• Casanova Frankenstein Jr. - Canadian Babe
• Tōth - Ageless Moon
• L'Eclair - Space Song
• Ora Cogan - Division
• Psst Shh - Wild Internet Church
• Ya Tseen - Ixwsiteen (I See You)
• Alexis Taylor - Your Only Life
• The Golden Age of Wrestling - Stanley Park Ravers
• Cass McCombs - Peace
• Mitski - Dead Women
• Fruit Bats - Let You People Down
• Altin Gün - Neredesin Sen

Preview of the April issue Alberta Views magazine with Editor Evan Osenton. This will not be posted to Tik Tok
PALGARY ALMANAC #219

Playlist:

• True Green - Hail Disaster
• Michael Granzow - Mountain View Cemetery
• Bitter Fictions - Sapphire
• Big Thief - Incomprehensible
• Tommy Douglas Keenan - Oh Melody
• Puma Blue - (Fool)
• Yael Naim - Everthing's Gone
• Helado Negro - More
• Charlotte Cornfield - Lost Leader
• Bill Callahan - Computer
• Paolo Di Carlo - Curves
• Cryptozoologists - I Hate Music
• Graham Janz - i want to smash every car that i see
• Ribbon Skirt - Braids
• Beauts - Cave
• Em Spel - The Tide
• Casanova Frankenstein Jr. - Canadian Babe
• Tōth - Ageless Moon
• L'Eclair - Space Song
• Ora Cogan - Division
• Psst Shh - Wild Internet Church
• Ya Tseen - Ixwsiteen (I See You)
• Alexis Taylor - Your Only Life
• The Golden Age of Wrestling - Stanley Park Ravers
• Cass McCombs - Peace
• Mitski - Dead Women
• Fruit Bats - Let You People Down
• Altin Gün - Neredesin Sen

Update on the Arusha Centre's efforts to save the historic Old Y in Calgary's Beltline for the next generation of community building.
PALGARY ALMANAC #218

Playlist:

• Those Who Walk Away - First Degraded Hymn - Alessandro Cortini Remix
• Charlotte Day Wilson - Patchwork
• Lara Somogyi & Jean-Michel Blais - ascension
• Fruit Bats - Let You People Down
• Sabine McCalla - Sunshine Kisses
• Diewob - Spirit Island
• Yin Yin - In Search of Yang
• Jane Inc. - keeping it with me
• Charlotte Cornfield - Hurts Like Hell
• Helado Negro - Don't Give It Up Now
• Gus Englehorn - Horse Hair Purse
• Courtney Marie Andrews - Keeper
• Rev. LV - Presence 2 (Piano Tape Loop 4.5)
• Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore - Perpetual Adoration
• Glissandro 70 - Bolan Muppets - Dan Bodan Remix
• The Golden Age of Wrestling - hamburglar (always your girl)
• Cass McCombs - I Never Dream About Trains
• Mike Cyril - Plans For Me
• Yumi Zouma - Bashville on the Sugar
• Gorillaz - Delirium (feat. Mark E. Smith)
• parallel - Lucky
• The Science of the Heart - Be Love
• Mitski - Charon's Obol
• Bill Callahan - Lonely City
• Dry Cleaning - Evil Evil Idiot

PALGARY ALMANAC #218

Playlist:

• Those Who Walk Away - First Degraded Hymn - Alessandro Cortini Remix
• Charlotte Day Wilson - Patchwork
• Lara Somogyi & Jean-Michel Blais - ascension
• Fruit Bats - Let You People Down
• Sabine McCalla - Sunshine Kisses
• Diewob - Spirit Island
• Yin Yin - In Search of Yang
• Jane Inc. - keeping it with me
• Charlotte Cornfield - Hurts Like Hell
• Helado Negro - Don't Give It Up Now
• Gus Englehorn - Horse Hair Purse
• Courtney Marie Andrews - Keeper
• Rev. LV - Presence 2 (Piano Tape Loop 4.5)
• Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore - Perpetual Adoration
• Glissandro 70 - Bolan Muppets - Dan Bodan Remix
• The Golden Age of Wrestling - hamburglar (always your girl)
• Cass McCombs - I Never Dream About Trains
• Mike Cyril - Plans For Me
• Yumi Zouma - Bashville on the Sugar
• Gorillaz - Delirium (feat. Mark E. Smith)
• parallel - Lucky
• The Science of the Heart - Be Love
• Mitski - Charon's Obol
• Bill Callahan - Lonely City
• Dry Cleaning - Evil Evil Idiot

Preview of upcoming new exhibitions launching March 26 at Contemporary Calgary with Chief Curator Mona Filip and Senior Curator Kanika Anand.
PALGARY ALMANAC #218

Playlist:

• Those Who Walk Away - First Degraded Hymn - Alessandro Cortini Remix
• Charlotte Day Wilson - Patchwork
• Lara Somogyi & Jean-Michel Blais - ascension
• Fruit Bats - Let You People Down
• Sabine McCalla - Sunshine Kisses
• Diewob - Spirit Island
• Yin Yin - In Search of Yang
• Jane Inc. - keeping it with me
• Charlotte Cornfield - Hurts Like Hell
• Helado Negro - Don't Give It Up Now
• Gus Englehorn - Horse Hair Purse
• Courtney Marie Andrews - Keeper
• Rev. LV - Presence 2 (Piano Tape Loop 4.5)
• Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore - Perpetual Adoration
• Glissandro 70 - Bolan Muppets - Dan Bodan Remix
• The Golden Age of Wrestling - hamburglar (always your girl)
• Cass McCombs - I Never Dream About Trains
• Mike Cyril - Plans For Me
• Yumi Zouma - Bashville on the Sugar
• Gorillaz - Delirium (feat. Mark E. Smith)
• parallel - Lucky
• The Science of the Heart - Be Love
• Mitski - Charon's Obol
• Bill Callahan - Lonely City
• Dry Cleaning - Evil Evil Idiot

PALGARY ALMANAC #217

Playlist:

• Rev. LV - Relection 1 (Piano Tape Loop 4.3)
• Fruit Bats - Two Thousand Four
• Sabine McCalla - I Went to the Levee
• The Golden Age of Wrestling - casperslide
• Lara Somogyi & Jean-Michel Blais - mythes
• Mike Cyril - Decay
• Courtney Marie Andrews - Pendulum Swing
• Diewob - Ginger Girl
• Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore - Melted Moon
• Cass McCombs - Priestess
• Helado Negro - Protector
• Bill Callahan - Stepping out for Air
• Ariel Ulysses - 0:00
• Rev. Dave and the Sin Eaters - All Alone on the Trail Tonight
• Rev. Dave and the Sin Eaters - All Alone on the Trail Tonight
• Langhorne Slim - The Dreamin' Kind
• Dean Johnson - Winter Song
• Charlotte Cornfield - Living With It (feat. Feist)
• The Science of the Heart - Here
• Alley Goop - Sizzle
• acrxxkedclwn - Current
• Young Neighbours - Luckiest (feat. Eric Pauls)
• Eli Moore - The Power Line (feat. Ashley Eriksson & Half-Handed Cloud)
• parallel - Force
• Dry Cleaning - Hit My Head All Day
• AVI - The Way It's Always Been
• Devours - ketsbetch

Drew Anderson with the Narwhal helps us unpack the proposal for a massive $10-billion AI data centre in Olds Alberta that would consume as much electricity as the city of Edmonton.
PALGARY ALMANAC #217

Playlist:

• Rev. LV - Relection 1 (Piano Tape Loop 4.3)
• Fruit Bats - Two Thousand Four
• Sabine McCalla - I Went to the Levee
• The Golden Age of Wrestling - casperslide
• Lara Somogyi & Jean-Michel Blais - mythes
• Mike Cyril - Decay
• Courtney Marie Andrews - Pendulum Swing
• Diewob - Ginger Girl
• Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore - Melted Moon
• Cass McCombs - Priestess
• Helado Negro - Protector
• Bill Callahan - Stepping out for Air
• Ariel Ulysses - 0:00
• Rev. Dave and the Sin Eaters - All Alone on the Trail Tonight
• Rev. Dave and the Sin Eaters - All Alone on the Trail Tonight
• Langhorne Slim - The Dreamin' Kind
• Dean Johnson - Winter Song
• Charlotte Cornfield - Living With It (feat. Feist)
• The Science of the Heart - Here
• Alley Goop - Sizzle
• acrxxkedclwn - Current
• Young Neighbours - Luckiest (feat. Eric Pauls)
• Eli Moore - The Power Line (feat. Ashley Eriksson & Half-Handed Cloud)
• parallel - Force
• Dry Cleaning - Hit My Head All Day
• AVI - The Way It's Always Been
• Devours - ketsbetch

Euan Thomson from Drug Data Decoded shares new information obtained showing how Alberta's health agency responsible for harm reduction may be suppressing and distorting data to facilitate the government's closures.
PALGARY ALMANAC #217

Playlist:

• Rev. LV - Relection 1 (Piano Tape Loop 4.3)
• Fruit Bats - Two Thousand Four
• Sabine McCalla - I Went to the Levee
• The Golden Age of Wrestling - casperslide
• Lara Somogyi & Jean-Michel Blais - mythes
• Mike Cyril - Decay
• Courtney Marie Andrews - Pendulum Swing
• Diewob - Ginger Girl
• Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore - Melted Moon
• Cass McCombs - Priestess
• Helado Negro - Protector
• Bill Callahan - Stepping out for Air
• Ariel Ulysses - 0:00
• Rev. Dave and the Sin Eaters - All Alone on the Trail Tonight
• Rev. Dave and the Sin Eaters - All Alone on the Trail Tonight
• Langhorne Slim - The Dreamin' Kind
• Dean Johnson - Winter Song
• Charlotte Cornfield - Living With It (feat. Feist)
• The Science of the Heart - Here
• Alley Goop - Sizzle
• acrxxkedclwn - Current
• Young Neighbours - Luckiest (feat. Eric Pauls)
• Eli Moore - The Power Line (feat. Ashley Eriksson & Half-Handed Cloud)
• parallel - Force
• Dry Cleaning - Hit My Head All Day
• AVI - The Way It's Always Been
• Devours - ketsbetch