Local Entertainment

Come the end of December you’ll hear all kinds of people talking about “out with the old and in with the new.” That mantra doesn’t displease Gail Sidonie Sobat.

Spiks. Polacks. Half-breeds. Greasers. Hoodlums. These are the kids that walk the grey streets of West Side Story, Jerome Robbins’ 1957 gangland take on Romeo and Juliet. They are the kids parents don’t want around the house.

Take a young businessman, add a love of Hawaiian music and a fascination with making fine objects with wood and what do you get? The answer is apparent as soon as you descend the steps to the basement of Tom Wolansky’s St.

From Vaudeville to the Astaire-Rogers movies to the penguin footwork in the animation Happy Feet, the intricate artistry of tap is notched into the North American cultural mindset.

You wouldn’t think that a story about three obnoxious kids on social assistance crashing auditions for a Christmas pageant would make much of story.

There is always a goose-bump moment as chills race up and down your spine at the Morinville Community Christmas Celebration.

The Edmonton Singing Christmas Tree returns with all the razzle-dazzle of previous years and then some. Now in its 45th season, this two-hour-plus variety show is themed The Magic Of Christmas.

When this time of the year rolls around, I always sit down at my computer and look at all of the movies that were released in the preceding 12 months. I put checks next to the ones that I saw.

Music producer John Armstrong has a goal to keep The Christmas Carol Project going until its 20th birthday – and possibly longer if fans keep buying tickets.

Last week I attended a preview of Capitol Theatre’s Cinderella: A Classic Christmas Pantomine and witnessed something quite disconcerting.