Local Entertainment

After having watched the Twilight movie series, it is somewhat refreshing to experience a chapter in the Underworld saga where vampire and werewolf characters aren’t bogged down by romance and emotions. No.

It has been about seven months since Sturgeon County artist Daniel Evans reconstructed a treehouse that his Opa built for him when he was a child.

One local woman fought her addiction to video lottery terminals and won, only to find that she had a much bigger and more important battle ahead of her.

It’s a couple of rare songbirds that fly to Nashville, write 10 tunes around a theme and record an album live with an animation backdrop.

This year Big Valley Jamboree celebrates the big 2-0. Yes, for the last two decades the music festival has developed a sterling reputation for importing the best country entertainers on the continent.

There is some music that is so timeless you can immediately identify what decade it stems from.

Once again the children’s champions at Concrete Theatre remount Lig & Bittle, a munchkin tale about two odd people trying to find their niche in a world where they don’t fit in.

Sitting on a darkened stage while concert pianist Eve Egoyan played Ann Southam’s Simple Lines of Enquiry was like being submerged in a directionless abstract world.

After a ho-hum start to the new year, the WindRose Trio’s concert of light classics on Sunday at Robertson-Wesley United Church promises to be a warm breath of fresh air.

The insane risks people take never cease to amaze. Take Capt. Joseph Kittinger, considered by some as the first human in space.