Arts & Life

Once again it's that time of year where those Christmas light enthusiasts head for the never-ending display on Candy Cane Lane, which begins on McKenzie Avenue.

You don't even have to ask him. Mel McConaghy will tell you. He doesn't care what anyone thinks about the words he uses or how he writes his stories. At 82 he's well past the age of political correctness, he said.

The Ebenezeer Scrooge of Christmases past is back on stage in the present tense. Gary Chappel has portrayed the iconic character three times, now that he has been cast in the current production of A Christmas Carol staged by Judy Russell Presents.

And 50 years later the Prince George Cantata Singers choir, including two of its founding members, will be performing Handel's Messiah with the Prince George Symphony Orchestra tonight at 7:30 at Vanier Hall.

She's an artistic entrepreneur and she's nine years old. Maya McCutcheon from Fort St.

I must hand it to the Russell family.

One of the biggest forces in the classic tale A Christmas Carol is sweet and small. Tiny Tim is the light of daddy Bob Cratchit's eye.

Chelsey Fiddler will be one of the stars of the show, although she won't be on stage when her classmates perform their school play this week at College Heights Secondary School.

Kids are arting it up for other kids. Children's art will be the feature exhibition on the walls of Ritual Coffee Bar starting on Sunday.

On the anniversary of the day the actual Million Dollar Quartet meeting occurred in Memphis in 1956, Theatre Northwest was celebrating the same way Sun Records staff must have back in those halcyon days.