Arts & Life

The Columbus Community Centre may just be the most cosmopolitan stable in the city come Saturday night. That's when the place is host to the first in a series of old-time country dances starring the all local band The Barndance Boys.

George Harris is known for his award-winning grasp of the visual arts, but he is putting courage before comfort and is showing colours never seen before, even by those who know him well.

Celebration of Lights Thursday, Dec. 29 and Friday, Dec. 30 from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Central BC Railway & Forestry Industry Museum for the annual Celebration of Lights. View more than 100,000 lights, enjoy visiting choirs and meet Santa and Mrs.

January Coldsnap, Prince George's unique winter music festival (most in Canada are held in summer, mostly outdoors, while this one is inside at a number of venues) made a triumphant return.

She looks like Alicia Keys and sounds like a cross between Molly Johnson and Ndidi Onokwulu. She generates lush pop-rock music compositions loaded in vocal muscle and fearless arrangements of guitar, keys, drums and brass (yes, brass).

If you already have the songs, you just need the knowledge. It takes more to tour than just starting the band van, and the BC Touring Council will help you get farther down that road.

Grandmothers in Africa are having to become full-time parents again, raising the children of a generation ravaged by fatal disease. The HIV/AIDS pandemic has killed many parents, leaving surviving children left alone save for their elders.

Dirty dangles, sweet snipes and sick cellies, boys, Letterkenny is back with some of the finest chirping you'll ever receive.

As a graphic designer with a creative edge as a potter and a mind for business, a local volunteer has put her juxtaposed skill set to good use at the Prince George and District Community Arts Council for more than a decade.

After lying low awhile, Prince George's country outlaw is set to shake like a rattler through the holiday season.