Local Arts

Snippets of life, shards of love, ribbons of everyday impressions tied in unusual knots, that's what you find in the drawers of Genevieve Jaide's lyrics.

Foundational composer Ludwig van Beethoven gets a special spotlight in the new season by the Northern Orchestra.

Graffiti art on downtown walls can be a crime. When Audrey McKinnon did it, it was merely a Misdemeanor In Colour And Scale. The images were sprayed onto the interior surfaces of the Omineca Arts Centre, taunting the senses into deeper investigation.

Autumn is upon us. The leaves are changing their colours, the dew is thick and wet in the mornings, some frost whitens the tips of the longer hours of darkeness, and the chill is brisk.

The success of Miranda Lambert in concert is bringing more steak than sizzle. Here's a country star who could wind a crowd up with fire and confetti cannons if she wanted to. She could arrange the set list to manipulate the crowd's emotions.

Since he became a resident of B.C. once again, Stephen Fearing has made himself increasingly available to the northern half of the province.

When the clouds of paint cleared and the battlefield was silent from the Art Battle onslaught, one winner was left standing, toilet brush held aloft in triumph.

Hamlet may have wondered if to paint or not to paint was the question, but the Community Arts Council asked it a little differently. Two paint or not two paint? Yes, two, please.

When people lose their way, go off society's track and commit dark acts, art can be a strong compass to follow back to the light.

Fans get to give another expression of appreciation for a band beloved around these parts.