Local Entertainment

Get ready to buckle up. There's a 48-hour countdown to St. Albert's Rainmaker Rodeo. Every third weekend in May, the Rainmaker delivers three days of non-stop entertainment to visitors in the Botanic Arts City.

With the flick of a po’ boy cap, Kaput takes us warp speed back to the golden era of black and white silent films – the days of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Mabel Normand and Fatty Arbuckle.

Brad Necyk is on a bit of a run. He recently took over the McMullen Gallery for Of Other Spaces, an exhibit featuring works inspired by his turn as artist in residence for Transplant Services with Alberta Health Services.

It's hard to get an invitation to a Natalie MacMaster-Donnell Leahy kitchen party. For one thing, the internationally renowned fiddle champions and multiple Juno Award winners are too busy touring with their six children and hosting sold-out gigs.

It's a first. St. Albert Public Library has invited GeriActors and Friends to bring their novel brand of theatre to the city. The intergenerational company, a cocktail of seniors, caregivers and university students, will perform two programs on May 21. GeriActors is producing an original short titled Washing along with a three- minute snippet of The Seeing Heart, a dance produced with CRIPSiE, a radically different performers' society that is run by artists who experience disabilities.

Once again St. Albert actor Maureen Rooney dons the robes of the most famed Grey Nun of all in a touring show titled Interview History with St. Marguerite d’Youville.

If romance revolves around a shared interest in pop culture, why not skip the traditional white-on-white wedding cake and go with a blend of Harry Potter and zombies.

It’s not every day that a green, swamp-living ogre with bugle-type ears and horrible table manners turns out to be Prince Charming. But then, Shrek Jr.

Canuxploitation. It’s a funny word with an even funnier history that now has a capital ‘F’ funny film entry at the Metro Cinema.

Which is more terrifying: being chased by a snarling bloodthirsty velociraptor or being chased by a snarling bloodthirsty feathery velociraptor? Keenooshayo Elementary students got to judge for themselves Friday as they and some 500 other kids took i