Local Entertainment

Just take a peek at The Stanfields’ website. It looks like a round of barflies flogging premium booze. But as lead singer Jon Landry assures, it’s more to do with The Dirtiest Drunk , a sleeper hit that shot to No.

In 1885, the North-West Mounted Police carried out a yearlong manhunt for a young Cree who poached a cow that didn’t belong to him. He was eventually killed and became a martyred folk hero, a symbol of resistance to aboriginals.

The St. Albert Theatre Guild Entertainers (STAGE) is looking for a couple of self-help gurus with the personality of snake-oil salesmen.

What makes for the ultimate road trip? Hitchhiking, truck stops, angry bears, prickly porcupines and a golfing goose with a duck caddy.

For book lovers suffering the post-summer blues, put these dates on the calendar: Oct. 14 to 24. Yes, it’s two weeks until Halloween, but it’s also the 10-day run of LitFest: Edmonton’s Nonfiction Festival.

Yowsers, can that girl belt it out. Even before Carolyn Dawn Johnson had bounded onto the Arden stage this past Friday night, the sold-out house was cheering her on. She wasn’t just another singer on a road stop flogging a new album.

My favourite section of the The Old Farmer’s Almanac is the weather predictions. And after our dreary, rainy summer, I quickly flipped to the 2011 almanac’s weather pages hoping for a ray of sunshine. Nope. It’s not coming.

You might just happen to be strolling around downtown Edmonton this weekend right around the district where Jasper Avenue curves north and turns into 124 Street.

Darcy Polny is full of beans and so is the main character from his first children’s book. The former long-time St.

Get ready to put your nostalgia where your mouth is as a local culture-boosting organization is putting on a fundraising dinner in a few weeks. The first annual St.