Arts & Life

Seeing the St. Roch in person can strike a history buff with an almost religious dumbfoundment.

Let's have a little tritsch tratsch about the PGSO show this weekend.

A couple of seasoned grifters competing for swindle supremacy, a naive newcomer with a clean reputation, and a Grammy-nominated jazzy soundtrack - it's dirty, it's rotten, and it's filthy with scoundrels.

A song as old as rhyme is about to be sung at the Prince George Playhouse. Musical theatre performers of the city can join the chorus and some even take centre stage. Here is the story about to be told. See if it rings familiar.

The Prince George and District Music Festival has faded into history, leaving behind a list of medalists from its many disciplines and genres.

The region is in for some Nasti Weather. Isn't that great? A musical front is forecast to blow in from the Lower Mainland and cover a lot of the Prince George region next month.

Two Rivers Gallery wants to showcase their accessibility and barrier-free facility. "For me the gallery is not so much about the building but it's about engaging with art, creativity and expressing yourself," Carolyn Holmes, managing director, said.

The first time Dolores Drake performed on a Prince George stage, it was all by herself in Shirley Valentine, during the inaugural season of Theatre Northwest. That was 25 years ago.

Two of Prince George's performing arts groups have forged a partnership. The UNBC Musical Productions Club has been taken under the wing of 25-year-old professional drama company Theatre Northwest.

Sixty years ago this week, during the last week of February 1959, one of the world's biggest music acts performed in Prince George.