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If dragons were real then parents and pet stores everywhere would undoubtedly be inundated with requests for scaly, fire-breathing pets after this weekend.

Visual artists take heed — you could be the lucky recipient of $2,000. St. Albert’s autumn arts festival is returning for its second year with a new name and logo that will brand the event. The StArts Festival, formerly known as St.

As traditional drums and cymbals clash and bang, two sleeping Chinese lions wake up, clean their paws and start foraging for food at Sir George Simpson. About 260 wide-eyed students sit cross-legged on the gym floor completely enthralled.

The second lecture in a series sponsored by a local arts group prompted a near-capacity crowd to engage in somewhat heated yet intellectual discourse about the nature of art, all thanks to a fill-in speaker from New York.

There will be more than a few tears shed as St. Albert cultural services is about to lose one of its key people. The Arden Theatre’s programming presenter Brenda Heatherington is moving to Ontario as of April 30.

Havana-based Lizt Alfonso Dance Cuba returns to the Arden Theatre by popular demand after two sizzling sold out performances in 2008.

Come snow, sleet, hail or scheduling difficulties, the show must go on.

Optimism is rare in today’s music business, an industry of broken-hearted dreams. But somehow with bright lights, crunching guitars and a stripper pole, the brash boys of Social Code reveal a knack for it. The St.

The 29th Northern Alberta International Children’s Festival has announced its spring line-up. Gracing the festival brochure cover is a princely young lad wearing a cape, medieval shield and a golden horned crown.

When half the band quits, that’s usually a death knell for the group. However, All Else Fails has always flown in the face of convention.