Local Entertainment

Out with the old. In with the new. Last April while most of us were dusting out winter closets for an annual spring cleaning, CHICKAdivas opted to reform themselves into La Vocabella, a sleek, urbane clone of their past self.

There are a couple new faces at Ammar’s Tuesday Night Open Stage and they come with the names of Bill Dowey and Richard Kovaleski.

Wars have unfortunately been fought since the beginning of mankind. Throughout history, many songs have been written about war and the heroes who lay down their lives.

If you presume that Jolene Higgins’ nickname Little Miss Higgins puts her on the petite side, you’re bang on. The blues-jazz singer is just under five feet three inches.

The iconic award-winning Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor makes no bones about animals. “Two legs are good. Four legs are better,” he chuckles, referring to his dog in a recent telephone interview with the Gazette.

There is something perfectly infectious about Antonio Banderas’s voice. There. I said it. It, therefore, makes perfect sense for the debonair Spaniard to play swashbuckling romantic adventurers like Zorro.

50/50 (14A) Inspired by a true story, 50/50 is an original story about friendship, love, survival and finding humour in unlikely places. Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen star as best friends whose lives are changed by a cancer diagnosis.

The 27 people who took the time to attend the city’s Cultural Master Plan open house Wednesday, came prepared with concrete suggestions about how to make St. Albert a more vibrant community.

The days of schoolchildren mindlessly colouring inside the lines of a paint-by-number project may well be over, thanks to the cultural business community.

With so much turbulence in the world, it almost seems like a luxury to celebrate co-operation between different groups and enjoy a concert of diverse cultures.