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Janine BrĂ©mault Bamford, a passionate history buff of Britain’s Regency period, is all set to turn heads at the St. Albert Botanic Park.

Ice cream. There's a really good reason why the song isn't about how we all scream for asparagus. The slender vegetable is fine and dandy, sure, but it is not what are you jonesing for when it's 30-plus degrees outside and you've got a sweet tooth aching for something frosty, fun-coloured and just the right fit for your fist.

It’s one of those timeworn tales that still proves to have some punch: the American president finds himself in a life or death situation against terrorists. We’ve had Air Force One with Harrison Ford, which was fun.

The Whyte Avenue Art Walk is taking its 20th anniversary in stride as approximately 450 artists will be stretching their canvases and creative talents across four-kilometres of the bustling heart of Old Strathcona. There are eight blocks of art that you would need all weekend or more to catch.

Walterdale Theatre’s last-out-of-the-gate musical is the sentimental tug-at-the-heartstrings A Man of No Importance.

Money is endlessly fascinating, if you ask me. For my whole life, I've picked up the pennies from the street and examined the date to see how old they were.

'There is no fate but what we make' is a poetic and great line from the first Terminator that came out 31 years ago, and it's held up over time. It has been repeated in each of that visionary movie's sequels but hasn't aged a bit. One could take it entirely out of the context of a science fiction tale about killer androids ruled by a sentient artificial intelligence and use the phrase as a personal philosophy. Seize the day, that sort of thing. It is a phrase about hopefulness and fulfilment.

The boy wizard is back up to his old tricks, literarily speaking. The Morinville Public Library has brought Harry Potter out of retirement to help promote its summer reading program. Library assistant Kaitlin Erdmann said that this is a big departure for the library as it marks the first time that it has developed its own programming for this popular feature on its calendar.

Drum-heavy pop music sends a squirrel scurrying up a tree at the Freewill Shakespeare Festival in the forested Heritage Amphitheatre in Hawrelak Park. Hundreds of jovial theatregoers amass once again to enjoy an evening of outdoor theatre.

One of the great things about a first-time festival is that it’s impossible to compare it to previous events. But setting this thought aside, the inaugural Seven Music Fest last Saturday was a triumph for everyone involved.