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In the springtime you love your fragrant, blossoming apple tree, and give little thought to the fall fruit, be it tiny, tart Siberian crabapples or larger and sweeter Norkent apples. But the apples will come, regardless of your schedule or ability to process them all. So you bake some pies, and you drop off bags of apples with friends who welcome them with varying levels of enthusiasm.

Cuban ballet master Alberto Alonso and his wife, rumba dancer and actress Sonia Calero, escaped Cuba in 1993, leaving behind everyone they knew. Alonso and his brother, Fernando Alonso, spoke on the phone often during this period, always ending the call with the promise of “I will see you again.” A promise that seemed an impossibility due to the political climate. Fast forward to 2007, when Alberto and Fernando are reunited at the Edmonton International Film Festival (EIFF).

Autumn is an underrated season for stargazing. Before temperatures get too cold, and after the late sunlight of an Edmonton summer, fall is a great time to catch sight of celestial bodies and night-sky events at a dark sky preserve, one of Edmonton’s dedicated observatories or in your own backyard.

Autumn is an underrated season for stargazing. Before temperatures get too cold, and after the late sunlight of an Edmonton summer, fall is a great time to catch sight of celestial bodies and night-sky events at a dark sky preserve, one of Edmonton’s dedicated observatories or in your own backyard.

Gardening is always a leap of faith and an act of hope, no more so than in the fall. Fortunately, it’s also a lot of fun, and Tay Maidens is here to help — she’s a shift lead in the nursery at Salisbury Greenhouse in St. Albert. Maidens recommends four favourites. “Start with at least two different kinds of tulips,” she advises. Tulips are among the first to bloom, and picking two or more will probably mean they won’t all bloom at exactly the same time.

There's something delightfully voyeuristic about strolling past these windows at night A space that practically calls for a vinyl soundtrack and a tray of toothpick cocktail sausages making the rounds OK, maybe cocktail sausages are too basic for this chef‘s kitchen. Make it prosciutto-wrapped figs with a warm balsamic glaze The garage offers enough room to keep a car for every outfit — or every mood With a backdrop like this, even the most casual deck gathering will feel like a VIP mixer

International adoption involved heaps of paperwork, home visits and a long wait. But as the saying goes, a drop of water can penetrate stone, and after six years, we finally received our referral, which meant we had the Chinese government’s official approval to adopt the child they matched us with. Before receiving documents from the social workers at our adoption agency, I was told only my daughter’s age and shown two small photographs.

It was a warm mid-summer day in 2005, and a frenzy was brewing at West Edmonton Mall. Security personnel had amassed at the entrance to Galaxyland, but if you craned your neck, you could still see inside, where Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, the most glamourous couple in the world — heck, maybe the most glamourous couple of all time — were paying our humble amusement park a visit.

There’s a growing movement in our digital age to appreciate the older, analog ways of doing things. Along with mechanical watches and cars that don’t rely on a computer, this includes vinyl records — and places to listen to them. What does this have to do with food? Bear with me, we’ll get there.

Normally I’m a coffee drinker. So when I spotted Koffee Cafe on 28 Avenue on my way to Woodvale, a community in Mill Woods, I pulled in. But on a whim, I ordered a chai latte. It felt warm and decadent. The café itself is a straightforward spot for coffee, chai, a sandwich or Indian food. Yellow walls, black ceiling, sports photos on the walls.