Arts & Life

The baton is being passed for the next PGSO season. Eight times. The PGSO is in the midst of a search for a new full-time professional conductor, and after an international search for qualified candidates, five have been shortlisted.

Mobs of supporters with wads of cash will swamp Studio 2880 on Saturday. The Prince George Chamber of Commerce has established the Cash Mob habit, with a handful of these business booster events already behind them.

Alternative-rock band Bend Sinister, one of B.C.'s most lauded groups in recent years, has put a regional tour date on their schedule. They announced 12 new appearances this spring and summer.

The peaty aroma of the burning Scottish nectar will waft through Theatre North West once again.

When Derrick McCandless moved away from Prince George, the first gas station attendants he tried wouldn't help him fill up because they were too fixated on the images of jets slamming into the World Trade Centre towers in New York.

While often simply called "May-long," the first long weekend on the warm side of spring is officially known as Victoria Day. That is a fact still remembered in Barkerville. They even built an annual event around it.

Where the Wild Things Are has been held over. More precisely, the children's play has been held within. The show was created by a touring arm of Presentation House Theatre Company from the Lower Mainland.

It's a country comeback at CN Centre. An encore performance by Florida Georgia Line has been announced for Nov.

The wild things are at Theatre North West this week, but you'll have a wild time finding any remaining tickets. Some remain, as of press time, but they were going fast.

Let's move to the middle of the alphabet, m'K? For the 11th image in The Alphabet Project - a centennial initiative of the Prince George Citizen and the Community Arts Council - photographer Pat Suter went back to the beginning of that 100 years and