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From the moment the players’ needle dropped onto their first 45 and 78 records, the foursome of Grave New World sensed music would play a big part in their lives. And it did.

You could say that there’s a lot of flower power coming to St. Albert Place this weekend. There’s actually a whole lot more than flowers set to blossom.

Audiences and actors really seem to enjoy body-switch shows. Look at the fun Tom Hanks and Elizabeth Perkins had in the classic 1988 film Big.

The cheeky beat of Young Empires is back with a vengeance as they start a tour to promote The Gates, their first full-length album. Just released on Sept.

On any given day, you could walk into Embedded Custom Tattoo Studio and admire the skin-based canvases of the handful of resident artists who work there.

May the Games … finally be over. Over the last three years, we’ve watched Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) go from being some backwoods youth to military powerhouse to humanitarian figurehead and anti-war crusader.

Samantha Williams-Chapelsky has put her Juicy days behind her and has moved on to a new artistic vista. You could say that things are looking way, way up for her with her Elemental Sky series.

Russ Farmer, the St. Albert actor who has appeared at several Edmonton Fringe Festivals, steps into a revival of She Loves Me.

Broadway Across Canada just announced Dirty Dancing is touring. Individual tickets for the Edmonton premiere running Jan. 5 to 10 at the Northern Jubilee Auditorium are now on sale.

’Tis the season for snowflakes – whether El Niño permits them or not – so the St. Albert Chamber of Commerce is preparing a Friday night festival to celebrate winter’s rise as the temperatures descend.