Local Arts

You can't bring the whole fam damily but you can still enjoy the Fluster Cluck. No chickens will be harmed in the making of this comedy show, but some side splitting may occur and there's no promises on the condition of your funny-bone.

One of Canada's leading wildlife photographers will be in Prince George for public engagements tonight and Thursday. John Marriott is a columnist for Outdoor Photography Canada Magazine and his latest book is Tall Tales, Long Lenses.

Jesse Roper is one of the blues-folk guitar soldiers of B.C., a young veteran of the provincial scene, but he has rarely been to Prince George. Even when he has been here to play, his performance was quite underground.

Middle-America isn't a place, it's a lifestyle. It's a way of being. It's apple pie. It's corn on the cob. It's church picnics. It's barbershop quartets. It's immigrants in turbans. Wait...what? That last part, there, that doesn't sound quite right.

Get your hands dirty with the Prince George Potters Guild. The PGPG is holding the next in their annual series of classes, and this one is always among the most popular.

You can't pretendium that you don't love art, when it's made with energy like this. An unusual art show is on now at Ridge Side Art / Groop Gallery.

It must be Thanksgiving.

The power of woman will be en pointe at Vanier Hall this week. Ballet is one of the power-plays in the performing arts. It is deeply rooted in formal traditions of dance, but also soars to interpretive heights.

The stars of a show aren't always the singers and actors on the stage. Often it includes the people behind the scenes in the creative trades. They, too, rise to various levels of success in their professions.

I don't think I've ever hated a character on Theatre Northwest's stage before, but I do now. Oh, Hedda, you deserve to boil in your own stew. It's a delicious kind of disdain for Hedda - the kind audiences have savoured for the likes of J.R.