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Saxophonist Jonny McCormack is barely back from Vancouver after a six-month touring leave in Ontario and Montreal and he’s hit the pavement running.

Listen to Final Flash and you might be forgiven for thinking you’re in a 1960s retro time warp with blazes of The Byrds, Pink Floyd and Supertramp. The Montreal-based up-and-comers are, at their foundation, a psychedelic folk/pop/rock band.

Not too many people in St. Albert remember when the last community music recital series was held – or even if one ever existed. Certainly not Nancy Watt, a music teacher who has made the city home for 14 years.

No one can ever say StArts Fest organizers lack work ethic. In fact, they probably burned the midnight oil judging by the quantity and quality of artistic disciplines packed into St. Albert Place this past weekend.

As tears trickled down Joanna Drummond’s face, the audience in the Arden Theatre strained to hear her words. The Sidney, B.C. transplant, a long-time potter of St.

When you go to the St. Albert Public Library, the walls will distract you from the books. You can thank the Alberta Foundation for the Arts (AFA) for that.

The Edmonton Chante International Festival, Edmonton’s foremost francophone music and arts extravaganza, has turned on the taps in Old Strathcona from Sept. 23 to Oct. 2.

Everyone loves a hero. They are needed to fulfil our fantasies and if one isn’t around, we reach to our past, or invent them. Billy Bishop Goes to War , opening at the Citadel Theatre on Thursday, Sept.

It seems director Paul W.S. Anderson has lost all of the momentum and respect he earned with films like Soldier and Event Horizon (along with the original Resident Evil).

As an assassin, Jack (George Clooney) is constantly on the move and always alone. After a job in Sweden ends more harshly than expected for this American abroad, Jack retreats to the Italian countryside.