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Two of Alberta’s busiest roots troubadours are slinging their guitars and heading to the Arden Theatre this coming Saturday.

Children’s entertainer Alex MahĂ© is about to release his fizzy new album RĂ©veillons les bonnes chansons! Browsing through it, you realize it’s one of those CDs awash with glee-filled homespun truths sparked by energy and openness.

One of Vicky Lau’s great pleasures is designing and sewing costumes to wear at cosplay events. After the St.

Never in the history of biodiversity has there been a ladybug this big, and yet there it is, measuring three feet from its antennae to the butt end of its elytra, the hard and round shell that extends out into the forewings.

Based on Frank Miller's latest graphic novel Xerxes and told in the breathtaking visual style of the blockbuster 300, this new chapter of the epic saga takes the action to a fresh battlefield – on the sea – as Greek general Themistokles (

Back in 1936 General Franco’s soldiers murdered poet, playwright, and theatre director Federico GarcĂ­a Lorca at the outset of the Spanish Civil War. His body mysteriously disappeared and to this day no one knows where the remains are buried.

Singer-songwriter Joel Kleine is living with a ticking time bomb – Friedreich’s ataxia. It is an inherited disease that causes progressive damage to the nervous system with symptoms ranging from speech problems to difficulties walking.

Most people think of tradition as something that lives in the past. Not so Alasdair White. “Tradition is something that keeps going.

The Arden Theatre’s family series is celebrating spring break with The Tate Move Project’s The Itch of the Golden Nit. It is an animation film made by kids for kids using art as the inspiration.

The parrot-handled, umbrella-toting nanny has blown into town and No. 17 Cherry Tree Lane is downing a spoonful of medicine in no uncertain terms.