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No longer is ballroom dancing that old-fashioned hokey stuff your grandparents did. Next week, a young St. Albert duo steps into the spotlight displaying a sophisticated spin on the exhilarating and challenging world of competitive ballroom dancing.

Fate. Destiny. Kismet. It’s so easy to pooh-pooh this intangible element. And yet that is exactly what brought two of North America’s most virtuosic guitar trios together.

Shakespearean purists enjoy comparing the Bard’s plays to sparkling, multi-faceted gems. And so they are.

Romeo and Juliet is perhaps Shakespeare’s most popular tragedy, a story of timeless love and innocence that woos any audience.

DesirĂ©e Leverenz, 22, may be hard to get a hold of these days. And there’s a good reason. The St. Albert actor is heavily involved at the University of Alberta’s New Works Festival now running until Feb. 9.

Author and life coach Laurel Vespi is giving a free talk on the Eyes Wide Open principles at the St. Albert Public library on Sunday, Feb. 2.

“It’s all right. Nothing’s broken,” says a character after a first-act tussle in Citadel Theatre’s latest production Clybourne Park. But of course something is broken.

Representatives from the Northern Alberta International Children’s Festival were all smiles last Wednesday afternoon. Conservative member of Parliament Brian Storseth (Westlock-St. Paul) stopped by St.

It’s been a scant three years since Luc Tellier was cast as the rapscallion Peter Pan in St. Albert Children’s Theatre winter production of the same name.

So many North American movies are about flash and bang special effects, glossy marketing campaigns and ultimate banality. The best way to make back a production buck is to cater to the most common of the common denominators.