Local Entertainment

Every BFA acting student taking part in the musical Footloose opening at MacEwan University’s John L. Haar Theatre on Feb. 8 is about to make history. And that includes St. Albert actor Gabriel Gagnon.

Ron Willis, lead singer for Big Red Shoe, is a born storyteller and the anecdotes just come rolling off his tongue – like the time he opened for April Wine or was asked to play at Rockfest in front of 30,000 people.

Creative Endeavours features the prolific and diverse local artists, the wife and husband team of J. Marg and Gene Brenda. The exhibit will also feature Amber Bracken's candid portrait photographs of the couple in their home. Until Saturday, April 8.

St. Albert actor Alexandra Dawkins is getting typecast. The University of Alberta fourth year graduating BFA acting student first landed the role of brazen manservant Malvolio in Twelfth Night.

Can’t get enough hockey? The local chapter of the Canadian Progress Club (CPC) has just the thing. Today is its annual pond hockey championship, now in its seventh year.

From the time Sabrina Thieven was in diapers, she danced in front of the record player. Today Thieven, founder of Sabrina’s Dance Instruction, celebrates 30 years immersed in the ballroom dance world both as a teacher and a competitor.

Bellerose Composite High School’s is showcasing its annual musical production with a true story about a genuine phony. Catch Me If You Can is the incredible and not always believable tale of Frank Abagnale Jr.

We’ve all been there. In a world consumed by techno-holism, we’ve watched busy texters too distracted by their cellphones to avoid walking into street poles.

Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter John Mayer is on another quest to rack up more fans. He is launching his Search for Everything World Tour on Friday, March 31 at Times Union Centre in Albany, New York.

There’s no bigger promoter of live club music than resident drummer Mark Ammar, a man who spent more than a decade keeping blues jams humming throughout St. Albert and Edmonton.