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Pavlo, the Toronto-based virtuoso guitarist of Greek heritage, is on cloud nine. He’s just signed a three-year contract with CBC and Bravo to broadcast Mediterranean Nights , a two-hour special of music and dance funded on his own dime.

As you make plans to take your special someone out for a romantic meal on Valentine’s Day tomorrow, there’s one man in town who wants to encourage you to do one better and learn how to make the meal together at home.

It all started with a rice-paste fish. My sister came home recently with the weirdest snack I'd ever seen. It was a blob of glue-coloured goo, shaped and painted to look like a goldfish. Apparently, it was edible.

There’s been an invasion of wimple-clad nuns at Bellerose Composite High School as the music theatre program debuts The Sound of Music at the Arden Theatre Feb. 17 to 19. “It’s chaos. There’s nuns everywhere.

Despite an overall trim to arts and culture spending, St. Albert’s Arts and Heritage Foundation (AHF) is breathing a sigh of relief in the realization the cuts could have been worse.

A year ago, the highly successful Nevermore: The Imaginary Life & Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe scooped up seven Sterling Haynes Awards.

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you took about four back-to-back episodes of Friends with two-dozen main characters and set their intersecting lives in the world of Crash with the frenzied timeline of 24? Of course you haven’t.

Only the stonehearted would be unsympathetic to the predicament of two adolescent protagonists in Beautiful Thing, Jonathan Harvey’s eye-opening comedic drama about a boy who falls maddeningly in love with the boy next door.

Only the masterful Stephen Sondheim could lift Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street , from the grotesque to the sublime.

What do you get when you take almost 200 artists, one big dream and the organizational skills to successfully navigate through a logistical nightmare? The answer is Kunamokst , the name of the latest mural project by Lewis Lavoie and Phil Alain of Mu