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This computer-generated animated family comedy reveals the incredible, never-before seen answer to every child’s question: So how does Santa deliver all those presents in one night? The answer: Santa’s exhilarating, ultra-high-tech operat

“In Newfoundland, we had salt fish on Christmas Eve with 14 kinds of bread. No vegetables. I know it sounds kind of weird. But in the last couple of years my Uncle Harold has been making chilli,” laughs Kim Stockwood.

Once again Alberta Ballet’s well-received The Nutcracker returns to the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium for a three-day run from December 9 to 11.

In the music biz, Lisa Hewitt is coined as “the complete package.” The Canadian Country Music Award winner, living on an acreage outside of Gibbons, is blessed with killer looks, a radiant smile and a sassy, seductive voice.

Every high school fine arts department that wishes to increase its bottom line has to find a niche fundraiser.

In the past few years, Maggie Tree has developed a reputation for galvanizing women’s voices in theatre like no other. Back in March, the young company founded by St.

The St. Albert Community Band and the Saint City Big Band joint Christmas Concert is usually a fairly straight-ahead evening of music that you could safely put on the stereo. This year’s concert at the Arden Theatre on Wednesday, Dec.

Lo and behold. The concrete and glass cavern known as the Shaw Conference Centre has been transformed into a magical wintry landscape of enchanted forests and candy land dreams.

When University of Alberta’s Dr. Tom Dust looks back on the 15 years he’s conducted jazz band concerts in partnership with MacEwan University, there’s a note of pride in his voice.

Switch off the Christmas carols and hop onto the roots train for a ride to Mark Ammar’s Open Stage this Tuesday at LB’s Pub.