Local Entertainment

Working in a newsroom, you always hear first-hand about the drug busts and hard-core addicts and you shake your head. But what if one of the addicts turned out to be your teenage daughter’s good friend? Life suddenly takes on a new dimension.

Prepare to step through an exotic portal to the mysterious Middle East in Edmonton Opera’s latest production of The Abduction of the Seraglio, opening tonight for a three-performance run. However, director Michael Cavanagh has a twist in mind.

No Canadian prime minister in recent history has arguably had as much impact as Pierre Elliot Trudeau.

Based on Mordecai Richler's comic novel, Barney Panofsky (Paul Giamatti) is a seemingly ordinary man who lives an extraordinary life. The film spans four decades and two continents taking viewers through the highs and lows of his life.

No one will ever accuse Jason Statham of being a bad actor. As far as I can tell, he’s either just playing the same character over and over or he’s just playing himself again and again.

St. Albert has 150 years of rich history behind it but what came before that? The Musée Héritage Museum now has the answers in its new History Gallery to be unveiled next week.

When the library celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2009, they kept quiet about the fact that the history of public book reading actually goes back decades further. That history is actually pretty interesting.

Every woman of advancing age fears becoming invisible. It is a hard-hitting simple truth that wrinkles and flabby skin discourage the admiring glances many women need to reinforce their sense of worth and femininity.

St. Albert rockers White Lightning are out to impress and astonish with the release of their third disc and first full-length album.

Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor has a knack for creating intense family drama where nothing really seems as it is.