Arts & Life

Half-Life is getting a bigger audience percentage. The Theatre NorthWest play has hit such high public demand that they have added shows to accommodate the hunger for this comedic drama.

Sufey and Swain are swaying in the spring wind this weekend in Prince George. Sufey Chen is one of Canada's great yoga prodigies, with a globetrotting instructing career in the spiritual sport. She is also a well-trained musician and singer.

Words can move us deeply, and sometimes we can move for words. The area's poets have, over the years, been inspired and empowered by local places. Points of local interest drew their attention and they drew their word-paintings from it.

The buildup to Northern FanCon can be measured in the sound of saws and sewing machines and the smell of wet paint and hot glue.

The songs in the air are about to change their feathers. Instead of just crows and chickadees, soon there will be all the birds of spring ganging up in their ornithological orchestra.

There are rogue waves in the ocean, sudden gusts on the prairies and there's this year's Speech Arts & Drama Festival. "We had 168 registered performances last year. This year we have 314, it was getting close to double in one year.

It was a glitzy affair, as it is each April. Juno what I mean? The tallest trophy in the Canadian music land - the Juno - was handed out this past weekend in a mega-celebrity extravaganza held this year in Ottawa. There was northern B.C.

Like pages in a hurricane, brains were speedily fluttering for bookish answers at a local school on Tuesday. Each year in B.C.

The D.P. Todd band has travelled far and wide with teacher Susan Klein as the bandleader.

There was little reaction to the close of the river ferry era. It was hardly noticed by anyone at all, which caught the notice of local historian Trelle Morrow.