Local Entertainment

It’s pretty tough to find the articulate Gerry Buccini at a loss for words. But when the St. Albert Community Band president heard the group was nominated for a Mayor’s Celebration of the Arts Gala award, he was left slightly tongue-tied.

For a theatre company just recently created, the St. Albert Community Theatre Guild is picking up incredible steam and unleashing a crackling energy that up to now has flowed unchecked.

Over the next 10 days, Capital Ex will be courting visitors with top-notch concerts, adrenalin pumping midway rides, stunning fireworks and tempting carnival food loaded with all the good stuff no one should be eating.

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Christopher Nolan is a genius when it comes to directing and screenwriting, especially when these pertain to movie structure. Memento rocked. The Prestige rocked. Batman Begins rocked.

A budding Edmonton fashion designer is going to be hanging out with a few of her new buds tomorrow and everyone is invited to join her.

The late-model Volkswagen is well past saving. It has a substandard paint job, the interior is shoddy and of course it is completely on fire because someone has actually set it ablaze.

Come rain or shine, the Ride for Our Troops event starting at Edmonton Garrison on Saturday is a go. And bikers can cap off the four-stop route with a hog-wild party and concert hosted by MuchMusic at Rednex in Morinville.

In a miracle of local entertainment bookings, Tina Turner will be playing two shows in St. Albert this weekend at the intimate setting of the Cornerstone Hall.

In the past 18 months singer/songwriter Brad Kells rediscovered his mojo during the recording of Runaway, a nine-track CD he likens to prairie rock. “It’s rock, easy listening with an edge.

It was exactly eight weeks ago when something miraculous happened. In the early morning hours of May 26 I was out walking around when I saw hundreds of birds flying in V formations, all in the same direction. They weren’t geese.