Music & Gigs
16:46 - 04 December 2008
A SOULFUL strummer from St Albans has taken the local music scene by storm with her fresh and folkie sound. Katie Masson, aged 22, of London Road, has been showcasing her talent every week at various venues across the city and has recently finished recor... Full Story »
16:37 - 04 December 2008
PUNCHY pop band The Scratch have returned from a nationwide tour and are now determined to conquer their home town of St Albans. John Viney, Andy Thompson, Andy Grimwood and The Baron met in St Albans and have been playing together for seven years. With... Read More »
16:44 - 04 December 2008
LOCAL organist and conductor Andrew Parnell is putting on the next Tuesday lunchtime recital at Marlborough Road Methodist Church in St Albans. For 25 years, Andrew s professional career was centred on St Albans. He was assistant master of the music and d... Read More »
16:37 - 04 December 2008
THREE seasonal concerts are being held at St Albans Organ Theatre on the next two weekends. The first at 2.30pm this Sunday afternoon, December 7, features the theatre s collection of mechanical dance organs and other instruments and will run from 2pm to... Read More »
Comedy & The Arts
16:38 - 04 December 2008
A CHRISTMAS comedy party night with three top comedians and a disco is being held at a St Albans club next Thursday evening, December 11. The MC for the night at Havana in Victoria Street will be Lateef Lovejoy, who made his showbiz debut as a 12-year-old... Full Story »
16:47 - 04 December 2008
A SERIES of images of Africans taken by a Moroccan-born fine art photographer go on show at St Albans Town Hall from Saturday. Said Ouama is showing powerful images of the African people taken by one of their own as opposed to an outsider in the exhibitio... Read More »
16:45 - 04 December 2008
ISLAMIC myth and legend is uncovered next Friday, December 12, with an evening of story-telling and illustration at the Maltings Arts Theatre. Hamzanama: The Return of Amir Hamza, follows the success of The Adventures of Hamza at the St Albans theatre las... Read More »
10:18 - 04 December 2008
TREASURE Island, The Panto will be held at Henlow Theatre on Henlow Camp and promises to be lots of fun, with plenty of piracy, lunacy and, of course, a parrot! The HATS production will be performed at 7.30pm on January 30, 2pm and 7.30pm on January 31, a... Read More »
10:20 - 04 December 2008
* FOLLOWING its great popularity earlier this year, the exhibition of 100 Years of Letchworth Natural History Society will return to Letchworth Museum s Mezzanine Gallery from December 6 to January 10. The exhibition features text panels charting the deve... Read More »
10:13 - 27 November 2008
CHILDREN will be enchanted with Quibble and Squabble s Magical Christmas Eve. Held at The Market Theatre in Hitchin from December 6 to January 10, this is a fun-packed story about two silly and useless witches, Quibble and Squabble, who do nothing but arg... Read More »
14:22 - 25 November 2008
A DAY in the Death of Joe Egg is regarded as a masterpiece of its kind — in the hands of Tidemark Theatre this week it is easy to see why. Peter Nichols play is set in the 1960s and uses politically-incorrect words like spastic to describe the severely m... Read More »
16:37 - 04 December 2008
GET up close and personal with Thomas Hardy when Ver Poets celebrate the centenary of The Dynasts with a performance evening tonight (Thursday). It is being held at 8pm at the White Hart Hotel in St Albans where Andy Pinder will be reciting choice Hardy p... Read More »
At The Movies
17:03 - 25 November 2008
STARRING Demi Moore and Michael Caine, Flawless is a diamond heist thriller set in swinging 1960s London. Moore plays the beautiful and ambitious Laura Quinn, an executive at the London Diamond Corporation who is constantly passed over for promotion despi... Read More »
17:02 - 25 November 2008
WITH the festive season fast approaching, this year s must see Christmas comedy hits our screens, starring Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn. When happily unmarried couple Brad and Kate find they are unable to escape on their annual exotic Christmas vaca... Read More »
17:00 - 25 November 2008
THE latest offering from acclaimed director Clint Eastwood stars Brad Pitt s missus Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich in a film based on shocking true events. Changeling is set in Los Angeles in the late 1920s, and focuses on Christine Collins (Jolie) and... Read More »
14:30 - 17 November 2008
CHOKE is the latest offering from eccentric author Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club) and break out new director Clark Gregg. The film, based on Palahniuk s 2001 novel, tells the dark, comedic tale of Victor Mancini (Sam Rockwell) a sex addicted, con artist who... Read More »
14:29 - 17 November 2008
ROM-COM My Best Friend s Girl stars Dane Cook (Good Luck Chuck) as the seductive, yet distinctly unlikeable cad, Tank. When guys get dumped they hire Tank to seduce their ex-girlfriends and take them out on the worst date of lives in an attempt to send th... Read More »
14:28 - 17 November 2008
LEONARDO DiCaprio stars in this adaptation of David Ignatius novel of the same name. The Titanic star plays CIA agent Roger Ferris who discovers evidence suggesting a terrorist leader maybe operating out of Jordan in the Middle East. With the help of CI... Read More »