http://www.reddeeradvocate.com/entertainment RSS Feed for Entertainment - Red Deer Advocate en-us Fri, 17 May 2013 15:34:47 GMT http://www.reddeeradvocate.com/entertainment/Brandts_own_brand_of_country_music_207875521.html Sure, there’s a division between church and state, and prayers are no longer said in schools — but Paul Brandt wants to know who took the gospel out of country? http://www.reddeeradvocate.com/entertainment/Adkins_picks_unknown_singer_to_join_him_in_TV_appearances_207540501.html Celebrity Apprentice finalist Trace Adkins has an apprentice of his own. In the market for a duet partner, Adkins picked out an unknown singer he saw at a junior-college fundraiser to join him for his appearances this week on Today and Fox & Friends. http://www.reddeeradvocate.com/entertainment/Cho_gunning_for_Sulu_to_get_his_own_ship_207540081.html Now that he has a taste for the captain’s chair, Star Trek Into Darkness cast member John Cho is setting his sights his own star ship. In the J.J. Abrams-directed 3-D sci-fi adventure opening Thursday, Lt. Hikaru Sulu (Cho) gets to sit in the cushy command spot as the Enterprise embarks on a mission from a volcanic planet to the Klingon homeland to San Francisco Bay. http://www.reddeeradvocate.com/entertainment/Shaking_the_Family_Tree_207393261.html Tom Chadwick, the aimless, hard-luck bloke at the heart of director Christopher Guest’s endearing faux-documentary HBO comedy Family Tree, will grasp at any straw linking him to his brave, fearless ancestors. “I was the first out of our group to wear skinny jeans,” he brags. Played with unlimited likeability by Chris O’Dowd (“Bridesmaids”), Chadwick is emotionally adrift in London after losing his job and girlfriend. http://www.reddeeradvocate.com/entertainment/Spring_gala_at_Lacombe_gallery_207392861.html Lacombe’s Gallery on Main — recently called “one of four must-see galleries across Canada” — is holdings its Spring Gala anniversary art show May 24-26. http://www.reddeeradvocate.com/entertainment/Ferguson_to_speak_at_artist_awards_gala_207392601.html Best-selling author and humorist Will Ferguson will entertain next month, along with the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra and award-winning grass dancer Taylor Crane, at the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Distinguished Artist Awards Gala. http://www.reddeeradvocate.com/entertainment/Right_to_the_funny_bone_207400211.html For five thrilling, nail-biting seasons now, Bull Skit co-founder Jenna Goldade has been trying to locate Red Deer’s funny bone. It hasn’t always been easy, as some of the improvs and comedy sketches from her troupe’s fly-by-your-seat early seasons can attest. But lately, Bull Skit has been scoring many more hits than misses with a colourful lineup of monthly humour that’s been drawing bigger and more diverse audiences by poking fun at the political, the local and the just plain loco (i.e. fibbing Alberta leaders, tardy City of Red Deer road workers, and a drunken Batman). http://www.reddeeradvocate.com/entertainment/Dying_for_a_good_part_207400421.html It’s a good day to die, according to Red Deer actor Larry Reese, whenever you’re “shot” by Tim Roth. Reese plays a Yukon dress shop owner in the new TV miniseries Klondike. His character was killed this week by Roth’s ruthless character, The Count. http://www.reddeeradvocate.com/entertainment/The_Jazz_Age_can_be_revisited_at_graveyard_207391961.html No offence, Scott and Zelda, but this plot of land, pinched between Rockville Pike and Veirs Mill Road, is easy to miss. Thousands of commuters drive past with nary a wave. Red Line trains zip by, oblivious. Nearby strip malls yawn. Not exactly the kind of place where you’d expect to find a Great American Writer and His Wife. http://www.reddeeradvocate.com/entertainment/Sarah_Polleys_moments_of_truth_207260741.html The easy way to describe Stories We Tell is that it’s a documentary, by the Canadian actress and director Sarah Polley, about her mother, her family and a secret that had a seismic effect on all their lives.