Arts & Life

They already have saucy nicknames, spicy costumes, and sassy moves. If you're an active burlesque troupe, you're already nine-tenths of the way to the comic-con spirit.

New life has been breathed into Final Breath. The Prince George short-film project was just a proposal, but it was so compelling it won one the $10,000 production grants being offered by Telus through the StoryHive cultural stimulation program.

One of the province's top watercolour artists, Cliff Mann, has a hometown exhbition set to open this month. Mann was a finalist at the Art Battle provincial competition in Vancouver in 2015 after winning the Prince George regional round.

The band is called West My Friend but for frontwoman Eden Oliver, tours of these parts could invite a slight name change to Home My Friend.

The business of arts and culture is exactly what Sean Farrell has been immersed in for most of his life. He finally gets to ply this trade in Prince George, after three years working here in other capacities. Farrell was a child phenom at the piano.

A disease or physical affliction puts stress on the cells of the boy, but there are also the cells of the spirit to consider.

The paint puck is about to drop. Nine art soldiers are training for battle, and Hub Space will be the battleground.

Evil is spreading. Like a viral pandemic or zombie apocalypse, Halloween madness has doubled in size in just one year and it is now infecting our young.

Pocket Theatre is calling for community actors. Auditions are being held for the local volunteer drama company's first show of the new season. The play they've chosen is The Weir, written by Conor McPherson.

A vehicle moves to pass on a wintery northern B.C. road, catches the fateful rut of hidden ice beneath the fresh snow, and author Edmund Arndt breaks the neck of the first character we meet in his new book.