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Avatar (PG) It’s 2154 and humanity’s technologically advanced military industrial complex is poised to plunder the mineral riches of a planet called Pandora. The only thing in their way is the dominant life form called the Na’vi.

David Garber is a pillar of the Edmonton-area entertainment scene, a musical gardener of sorts who has devoted his life to nurturing the ambitions of young singers and musicians. As the former St.

After 25 years in the business, Edmonton Festival Ballet has developed a network of friendly contacts across North America that adds lustre to the amateur dance company.

This is the time of year, just after love itself gets a holiday that makes many hearts flutter from passion, others just get tingly nerves because they don’t quite know how to re-ignite that fire.

Edmonton is Alberta’s theatrical mecca, a thriving hotbed of live spectacles.

The 120-odd choral and band students from Sturgeon Composite High School never do anything in half measures. In March they are booked for a choral festival and the Alberta International Band Festival.

Canadian playwright Michael Healey does it again with Courageous , a play with two parallel stories running at the Citadel Theatre until Sunday, March 14.

With snow still on the frozen ground, Aynsley Nisbet has somehow found herself where everything is coming up roses. The 26-year-old local painter has a very big year ahead but can’t say that’s how she planned it.

Greenhouse growers aren’t psychic. But each year they look into their crystal ball and import new flowers that will boost visual appeal to any urban oasis.

Years ago I suffered from a three-year bout of bibliophilia. I fell in love with books, many for purely superficial reasons.