Galt Gardens gets night safety lights

To please the sun-god, Lethbridge holds a “Festival of Lights” each year. To mark the tenth year of this celebration, a new choreographed light show has been installed in Galt Gardens and a hobo clad in red opens his lap to the children, amongst other ceremonial things. 10th Annual Bright Lights Festival JonnyI’m a webslinger …

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The Wilderness Downtown

Chris Milk made a neat interactive music video that uses HTML5 and Google maps to make a custom music video about the place you grew up in. My hometown happens to be Lethbridge, so it’s pretty boring. The Wilderness Downtown (via BoingBoing) JonnyI’m a webslinger located in Lethbridge, AB. I love all things nerdy, like …

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An arts community?

Here’s a bit of surprising news from the Lethbridge Herald this morning: In what promises to be a major downtown makeover, city council has enthusiastically endorsed a plan to build two major new arts facilities along a one-block plaza just east of Galt Gardens. The two-phase plan is to begin with a new $12.6-million community …

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Scenes from around Lethbridge

The venerable Jamie Vedres, whom I mentioned previously, has graciously allowed me to re-post some photos he took of downtown buildings. I like this guy’s style.

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