Arts & Life

A motivated cast and a motivated director have found each other at College Heights secondary school. There are so many signs of intelligent life in that mix, that they chose an ironic title to produce for this semester's play.

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less." -- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass.

The ballet world is swooning for Matt Cluff. The Prince George dancer is now a cast member in Romeo & Juliet in one of Canada's most fanatical ballet hotbeds. He was called to this prestigious stage by Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montral.

There is an insatiable appetite for Little Shop of Horrors. It is one of the most successful and longest-running musicals in theatre history, and it is tailor made for high school productions.

From out of the river mud comes a country-rock band ready to kick up your Christmas heels. For the second year in a row, local band Mud River is hosting a concert for the fans of golden-age Nashville and white Bing Crosby snow.

Turning the page on unhealthy relationships can be the dawning of a new day in someone's life. There is now a popular book that gives 20 health-based perspectives on cleaning out the human pain in your life, and one of them comes from here.

All these two volunteers want to do is serve coffee, cookies and toast and love people.

Christian country duo Doug and Marnie Phair live on a small dot on the map, near Burns Lake, about three hours west of Prince George. But they are on a much bigger map now, in a musical sense.

Devon Flynn's pen has been working overtime and now all that ink is spilling off the page and onto the stage. The local writer-actor-comedian is having not one, not two, but four plays presented to the public all in one raising of the curtain.

One of northern B.C.'s sweetest migratory songbirds is flying home for the winter. Maureen Washington is all-Prince George but she has become one of Victoria's leading voices in jazz and blues in recent years since she moved south.