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When a director gets on the phone to plug a show, they usually love to discuss the gifted playwright or their dynamite cast. Not Shelley Tookey.

Five years. Five long years. That’s how long it’s been for since Disney’s lamentable decision to scrap its long-standing traditional hand-drawn animation department.

Bob Brandon came to St. Albert with a vision. "Most people put church in this box," says the former pastor of Victory Life Church: it's separate from the community, a place you go to get your soul insurance renewed.

Every year when the sun sets behind the Arden Theatre, people trudge happily through the snow to rejoice in the traditional Community Carol Sing.

Many people have told me that the English language is the most complex and therefore most difficult language in the world to learn.

Every year the Kokopelli choirs of Shumayela (12-16), Kokopelli (14-24) and Oran (adult) grow both musically and spiritually.

What better way to relive the magic of Christmas than with two of the most anticipated Edmonton Symphony Orchestra (ESO) concerts of the Robbins Pops Series. In A Very Merry Pops, on Dec. 18 and 19 at 8 p.m.

The Christmas season is upon us, the signs are all around: St. Nick is making appearances in parades and department stores, Christmas carols have been playing since the day after Halloween and houses near and far are ablaze with lights.

There were times when St. Albert Singers’ music director Criselda Mierau felt she bit off more than she could chew when planning this Saturday’s Christmas concert at the Arden Theatre.

It is meant as a trip down memory lane but reads like it could be about country kids in 2009. Well-known St.