Local Arts

Not every performer gets to go on touring forever like the Rolling Stones. Red Green has always been a practical thinker. He knows that one day even duct tape loses its stick, so he's giving his fans fair warning.

Any old definition of the word artisan will get a rebuild and rethink this weekend at the Civic Centre. Studio Fair is the biggest annual arts show and sale on the Prince George calendar. It is like a convention for the best makers and creators.

Work is underway to install the long anticipated mural on the parkade at Fifth Avenue and Queensway. The call was issued by the City of Prince George in July for expressions of interest from artists of the region.

A Prince George expatriate just got honoured in Newfoundland and Labrador for doing what they do best in that province. Josh Sandu took home the hardware for that other thing they rock on The Rock.

When John Mellencamp wanted to R-O-C-K in the U-S-A, he called on Mike Wanchic to join him. Since 1976, Mellencamp and Wanchic have been hitting the same notes.

A feast of a book is getting a sumptuous response from the public. Feast: Recipes And Stories From A Canadian Road Trip was written by Prince George's Lindsay Anderson and her culinary accomplice Dana VanVeller from southern Ontario.

Sufey Chen gave birth to her first child less than a year ago. Now she is also the mother of a new book about the experience. Chen, 24, has spent the past decade touring the world as a globally sought yogini.

Tonight is one of the city's most anticipated parties of the year. Menagerie is the Two Rivers Gallery annual Halloween blast, and this year the theme is Adrift In Space. This year marks the eighth edition of the masquerade fundraiser.

Gord Bamford is the headliner tonight at Heartbreakers, but he is not on the stage alone. The country music star has a couple of rising talents, both with their own growing list of hits.

Northern FanCon has beamed some new ideas into the Prince George hyperspace.