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Aug 1, 2024 | 
edifyedmonton.com | Jesse Cole
If you’re an oenophile — that’s connoisseur-speak for those of us for whom wine is more personality than aperitif — then you’ve probably been on a wine tour or two. Likely somewhere in the Okanagan Valley, where Syrah and Riesling flow like the glacier-fed spring water that sustains the region’s bounty of vineyards. But even the most vino obsessed among us will admit that flying — or worse, driving — all the way to the B.C. interior for a wine tour can get a little tiresome.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
edifyedmonton.com | Jesse Cole
Like so many young creatives growing up in Alberta’s capital, rapper same as me looked to the cultural mecca of Toronto as a more sure-fire path to a career in hip-hop. So, after graduation, that’s where she went. It wasn’t until she’d been away from home for a few years that her sense of civic pride began to percolate, and it all started with the mention of an Edmonton bakery.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
edifyedmonton.com | Jesse Cole |A Day
Like so many young creatives growing up in Alberta’s capital, rapper same as me looked to the cultural mecca of Toronto as a more sure-fire path to a career in hip-hop. So, after graduation, that’s where she went. It wasn’t until she’d been away from home for a few years that her sense of civic pride began to percolate, and it all started with the mention of an Edmonton bakery.
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May 2, 2024 | 
edifyedmonton.com | Jesse Cole
When you pull up to the plaza at the corner of 137th Avenue and Admiral Girouard Street in Griesbach, the neighbourhood seems, well, a little cold. With drab, grey architecture and a half-finished housing development looming over it, the strip-mall that houses Mokha Coffee House — Edmonton’s new Yemeni cafe — hardly has the feeling of a lively community. But then you step inside Mokha and realize the community isn’t empty, everyone’s just tucked away inside.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
edifyedmonton.com | Urban Innovation |Jesse Cole
Terry Kirkland was 64 years old when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. “We had a patient with the exact same cancer as you, Terry,” the diagnosing doctor told him. “He was 47, and, with aggressive treatment, we got him to 52.”Kirkland couldn’t believe what he was hearing.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
edifyedmonton.com | Jesse Cole
I’ve wanted to try Banh Mi Diddy — the new Vietnamese sandwich spot just outside of downtown at the corner of 105th Avenue and 110th Street — since its soft launch last week. I tried on three separate occasions to pop in for lunch (it’s open from noon to 7 p.m., Tuesday to Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. on Sundays) but on each attempt I was met with a “sold out” sign. After finally getting my chance to try the freshman eatery’s offerings, I can see why.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
edifyedmonton.com | Jesse Cole
We can all appreciate wood in its natural form, but it takes a special sort of artistic vision to see what beautiful things that wood might become. That’s what the artists belonging to the Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association (NAWCA) specialize in: turning pieces of mahogany, maple or oak wood into fantastical artistic sculptures, all of which will be on display this weekend at the association’s annual woodcarving show in Edmonton.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
allevents.in | Jesse Cole
The Easy Leadership Summit™ is designed to help leaders scale their impact, build capacity, and increase their executive presence. About this EventFacilitated by Executive Leadership Consultant, Milton E. Fletcher, and Author & Leadership Coach, Jesse Cole, participants in the Easy Leadership Summit™ will:Develop a greater appreciation for crucial conversations and increase their ability to engage in them. Build capacity to scale community programming.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
edifyedmonton.com | Jesse Cole
If you’re part of the analog renaissance, you might have a Polaroid or two posted on your fridge or mirror, but, for the majority of people today, photography is an art consumed and shared almost exclusively online. That relationship between the medium — which, increasingly, is experiencing a resurgence of analog-film popularity — and its digital dissemination is the theme behind a new photography exhibit at Latitude 53.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
edifyedmonton.com | Jesse Cole
Let’s face it: jazz isn’t the cultural movement it once was. The improvisational genre’s fanbase, today, is far more niché and underground than it was 60 years ago. So, it’s not every day that jazz fans in Edmonton have the opportunity see an act at the calibre of Melissa Aldana. This Saturday, the Grammy-nominated tenor saxophonist arrives in Edmonton for a feature performance in Edmonton’s premiere jazz ensemble, the Don Berner Big Band.
