Tiny black bugs, ‘psycho-looking’ leaves plague city gardens
Edmonton Journal
Thu Aug 11  2011
Page: A3
Section: City & Region
Byline: Jennifer Fong

It’s raining bugs.

Tiny little black things that fall into your lunch, cling to shirts, get lost in your hair.

“If I’m wearing lip gloss, they fly and just hit my mouth and stick,” said Kris Friesen. “It’s just gross.”

Good news: they’re not baby mosquitoes.

New Kids on the Block and Backstreet Boys take 11,000 fans down memory lane

Edmonton Journal
Wed Jul 13 2011 
Page: B3 
Section: Arts & Life
Byline: Jennifer Fong
Dateline: EDMONTON

CONCERT REVIEW

New Kids On The Block & Backstreet Boys

With: Neverest and Matthew Morrison

When: Tuesday

Where: Rexall Place

When the New Kids on the Block and the Backstreet Boys announced they would share the stage on a co-headlining tour, there were doubts.

Almost a decade separated the two boy bands -the New Kids started making girls cry back in the 1980s while the Backstreet Boys didn’t come along til the late ’90s. Did they even share the same fans?

And how, exactly, were nine grown men going to fit on one stage?

Then, perhaps the most obvious question: aren’t guys who are in their 30s and 40s a little too old to still be doing pelvic thrusts and singing about wanting it that way? Has anyone even figured out which way it is?

Edmonton Journal
Tue Jul 12 2011 
Page: A4 
Section: City & Region
Byline: Jennifer Fong
Dateline: EDMONTON

Krista Thompson has many friends to help her through breast cancer, and she owes it all to the New Kids on The Block.

When the boy band from the 1980s reunited three years ago, so did their fans, many finding each other online and meeting at concerts.

Readers recall their encounter with band

Edmonton Journal
Tue Jul 12 2011 
Page: B1 / Front
Section: Arts & Life
Byline: Jennifer Fong
Dateline: EDMONTON

CONCERT PREVIEW

New Kids On The Block & Backstreet Boys

With: Neverest and Matthew Morrison

When: Tuesday at 7: 15 p.m.

Where: Rexall Place Tickets: $40.01 to $101.26 through Ticketmaster

The story of how the Backstreet Boys bought Ashley Rose more than a dozen tacos 15 years ago involves a devoted mom, a mistaken order, and a high-speed chase through north Edmonton.

If you see Tyson, ‘grab him by the tail,’ owner says

Edmonton Journal
Sun Jul 10 2011 
Page: A2 
Section: News
Byline: Jennifer Fong
Dateline: EDMONTON

Missing wallaby Tyson comes from a long line of runaway kangaroos.

“It’s in his blood,” said Stacie Barr, the owner in an unusual missing pet case in northeastern Alberta. Barr’s little marsupial, a mini-kangaroo, hopped away near Onoway last weekend.

Tyson’s father wandered off from his eastern breeder, and so did his grandmother. “Tyson’s father is still on the run. They’re still getting sightings of him in Ontario.”

Visit to fire-ravaged Slave Lake boosts morale in many ways

Edmonton Journal
Thu Jul 7 2011 
Page: A3 
Section: City & Region
Byline: Jennifer Fong
Dateline: SLAVE LAKE

Patty Gullian summed up what seemed to be on everyone’s mind here Wednesday.

“It’s nice to know that you come from a little town and you can meet royalty,” she said, after shaking hands with the world’s most famous newlyweds as the royal couple toured fire-ravaged Slave Lake.

Long after the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had departed, the town was still buzzing.

“My heart, it’s beating so fast,” said Mary Hudson, who told a beaming Prince William she loved him.

Big demand for saddle hackle since hot new hair trend exploded leaves sportsmen short

Edmonton Journal
Sat Jun 18 2011 
Page: A1 / Front
Section: News
Byline: Jennifer Fong

Fly fishermen and the fashion conscious are flocking together over a feather.

And not just any feather, but super long and narrow quills that come from designer chickens produced by only one farm in Canada.

Fishermen want them to tie flies. Stylists want to tie them into hair.

Money parties a twist on Tupperware

Edmonton Journal
Sat Jun 11 2011 
Page: A1 / Front
Section: News
Byline: Jennifer Fong

It was a typical girls’ night -nine friends gathered around a living room, nibbling on crudités -until one of the women begins a presentation.

Ah. So it’s that kind of party. You wonder what the sell is. Makeup? Jewelry? Tupperware?

Women these days are “all getting together to eat and socialize, and have a good time and spend money on products and basically make the saleswoman wealthy,” Kim MacDonald tells the group. “That’s not really our goal here. Our goal is sort of the opposite.

“You keep your wallet in your pocket and we teach you how to get rich.”

Ballet dancers and their slippers are not unlike hockey stars and their sticks

Edmonton Journal
Sat May 14 2011 
Page: H2 
Section: Style
Byline: Jennifer Fong

A week before she hits the stage in Alberta Ballet’s Serenade, Nicole Caron sits down with two identical white cloth bags.

Inside one are the supplies she keeps close at all times: elastics, ribbons, two X-Acto knives, shoe glue, scissors, Colgate dental floss and a lighter. From the other, she pulls a pristine pair of pointe shoes and, with the X-Acto knife, begins to destroy them.

Nostalgia stokes supergroup tour with Backstreet Boys

Edmonton Journal
Tue May 3 2011 
Page: B1 / Front
Section: Arts & Life
Byline: Jennifer Fong

A week before he flew across the country to begin tour rehearsals in Los Angeles, Jordan Knight was at home in Boston, watching CNN and thinking about taking his 11-year-old son to hockey tryouts later that night.

“He’s got a little Canadian streak in him,” Knight joked.