Local Entertainment

Every year thousands of music fans trek to St. Albert's Rainmaker Rodeo concerts ready to kick up their heels and party until the crack of dawn.

If you squeezed your eyes shut for just a moment and listened to the St. Albert Community Band, you would have almost believed you were at the Winspear Centre attending a symphony pops concert. They were that good.

Jason and the Argonauts has set sail for the landlocked shores of St. Albert and they will dock at the International Children’s Festival from June 1 to 5. With two actors and a navy of G.I.

A Morinville artist has won provincial acclaim for her pencil-crayon vision of Canada. Colette Bachand of Morinville Community High School learned this week she’d been declared the Alberta winner for the annual Canada Day Poster Challenge.

Mechanical elephants, flying machines, and more have touched down in Edmonton this week as part of a new exhibit on Muslim science. Staff at the Telus World of Science Edmonton opened their new Sultans of Science exhibit on Friday.

Alberta has produced quite a few great artists that have blazed trails with their vision and talent. We all know the mega stars – k.d. lang, Nickelback and Michele Wright, and now there is Asani.

Kyler Schogen is like a rolling stone that gathers no moss. Born in Germany and raised in Vancouver, the singer/songwriter lived in Los Angeles for 14 years until moving to Alberta to provide support to aging parents.

Now in its third incarnation, the Varscona Theatre Alliance’s Crystal Ball introduces a special guest from the shadowy dark world of vampires.

Nothing shows a movie franchise’s age like rehashing of one of the basic plots for all movies: two formerly endearing characters have settled down with children and one has a mid-life crisis. So boring. So stale.

A Nightmare on Elm Street (18A) Freddy Krueger returns in this contemporary reboot of the 1980s horror series.