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If you presume that Jolene Higgins’ nickname Little Miss Higgins puts her on the petite side, you’re bang on. The blues-jazz singer is just under five feet three inches.

The iconic award-winning Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor makes no bones about animals. “Two legs are good. Four legs are better,” he chuckles, referring to his dog in a recent telephone interview with the Gazette.

There is something perfectly infectious about Antonio Banderas’s voice. There. I said it. It, therefore, makes perfect sense for the debonair Spaniard to play swashbuckling romantic adventurers like Zorro.

50/50 (14A) Inspired by a true story, 50/50 is an original story about friendship, love, survival and finding humour in unlikely places. Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen star as best friends whose lives are changed by a cancer diagnosis.

The 27 people who took the time to attend the city’s Cultural Master Plan open house Wednesday, came prepared with concrete suggestions about how to make St. Albert a more vibrant community.

The days of schoolchildren mindlessly colouring inside the lines of a paint-by-number project may well be over, thanks to the cultural business community.

With so much turbulence in the world, it almost seems like a luxury to celebrate co-operation between different groups and enjoy a concert of diverse cultures.

A 60th anniversary comes along only once in a lifetime and the Richard Eaton Singers are making the most of it. Under the direction of Dr.

As the pinch of winter approaches, the colour white starts to haunt our dreams. But on Saturday and Sunday, a parade of snowy robed dancers dramatically raised the temperature at the Arden Theatre.

Trevor Schmidt has one of those quirky, creative minds that works in mysterious, but compelling ways. As artistic director of Northern Light Theatre he’s programmed a season that features three Canadian plays with a focus on women and power.