Local Entertainment

The Essar Centre has confirmed this morning that Bob Dylan and his band will indeed be playing in Sault Ste. Marie on Sunday, November 9, 2008. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. with the show commencing at 7:30 p.m.

A confident and downright sexy Sheryl Crow happily shared a career-spanning evening of music with a near-capacity Essar Centre audience last night in Sault Ste. Marie.

Two very special exhibitions were celebrated at an opening reception Thursday evening at the Art Gallery of Algoma. Drawn Together in Algoma pays tribute to the 1918 boxcar excursion made by the Group of Seven to the Algoma region.

Critically acclaimed Canadian rising star Nathan Lawr is scheduled to perform in the Sault in the most intimate setting possible. A house concert.

Three Sault Ste. Marie-related films will be featured at the 20th annual Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival as part of its Northern Connections programming.

With the temperatures dipping drastically last night and a frigid wind blowing through the Roberta Bondar Pavilion, attendees at Froshapalooza bundled up and huddled in to take in the diverse musical line up presented by the Sault College Student Adm

The largely female audience in attendance at Wednesday night's Backstreet Boys (BSB) performance at the Essar Centre didn't care that the boys are no longer boys at all.

Some basic rules to remember when attending a Pat Benatar concert: 1. Refrain from attending a Pat Benatar concert clad in 80s Benatar-style rock diva garb. This includes spandex, leg warmers and stilettos.

She wrote her first song when she was only nine years old, received her first standing ovation at 13 and had earned a permanent gig at Nashville's Tootsie's Orchid Lounge by the time she was 16.

A few expletives escaped the lips of local musicians Mark Kuntsi and Jay Case Sunday evening during Bell Border Jam's final performance as Blue Oyster Cult (BOC) founding member Buck Dharma introduced the bass player as "the world famous Rudy Sarzo.