Arts & Life

From out of the river mud comes a country-rock band ready to kick up your Christmas heels. For the second year in a row, local band Mud River is hosting a concert for the fans of golden-age Nashville and white Bing Crosby snow.

Turning the page on unhealthy relationships can be the dawning of a new day in someone's life. There is now a popular book that gives 20 health-based perspectives on cleaning out the human pain in your life, and one of them comes from here.

All these two volunteers want to do is serve coffee, cookies and toast and love people.

Christian country duo Doug and Marnie Phair live on a small dot on the map, near Burns Lake, about three hours west of Prince George. But they are on a much bigger map now, in a musical sense.

Devon Flynn's pen has been working overtime and now all that ink is spilling off the page and onto the stage. The local writer-actor-comedian is having not one, not two, but four plays presented to the public all in one raising of the curtain.

One of northern B.C.'s sweetest migratory songbirds is flying home for the winter. Maureen Washington is all-Prince George but she has become one of Victoria's leading voices in jazz and blues in recent years since she moved south.

Alice got some royal advice while in Wonderland. She was told by no less than the Queen of Hearts herself that "sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." The message got through to Theatre North West.

The Grinch was all about wrecking Christmas, but somehow it feels like a big gift to the community when the green curmudgeon comes to town - at least when he's brought by Nove Voce Choral Society.

Some of the city's most celebrated creators and makers will be together Saturday, meeting the public and displaying loads of art for sale.

Four plays are making their world debuts tonight in Prince George. All of them are written by one playwright, and he is also a local scribe. There's a four-night run for this unveiling. Devon Flynn is a Prince George writer, actor and comedian.