This week I was interested to learn of a flareup of the perpetual culture war at the Arden Theatre in the Edmonton suburb of St. Albert, Alberta. Like most people who come from what is now Sturgeon County, I know the 500-seat multipurpose performing venue to be a secret blessing of the hinterland. If you picked it up and moved it into Edmonton, it would immediately compete to be the nicest, best-equipped theatre of its size in the city. It’s owned and managed by the City of St. Albert, so it can be rented for any purpose that is otherwise legal, and you probably already know from the way I’m talking where this is going.
