Arts & Life

Community creates art and art creates community. The funding for the main thrust of local arts and culture just got easier.

There's something curious, almost hard to believe, about the hottest band on the charts these days from Newfoundland and Labrador (NL). There's not a fiddle in the bunch. No one has an accordion. Zero penny whistles.

Blackstone is a rock that keeps on rolling for Prince George actor Steven Cree Molison.

The party on Saturday at Nancy O's is going to be mad. Mad as a hatter.

The lights will be dim to pitch black, the mood will linger somewhere between spooky and terrifying, and for 15 minutes you'll be on a supernatural roller coaster through the theatre of your mind.

For the first time ever, an all-ages Haunted Maze will be open to the public as a fundraising event for BC Children's Hospital at 1363 Manson Cres. Organizers will also take donations of non-perishables for a local food bank.

Out In The Cold is already getting a warm reception. The new family book published by the Lakes Animal Friendship Society (LAFS) is freshly out on bookstore shelves just as the winter weather is setting in.

People love music, they love theatre, they love history and they love a night out on the town. Those four elements are being blended with four of the greatest pop vocal groups of the modern age.

Jon White had 99 reasons to do a special event comedy show, but it wasn't enough. He needed one more. Now he's getting it, and you can be there on Thursday night to see it happen.

His first snap of Prince George was cold by festival and warm by reception. His reception started static but tuned in clearer to the crisp northern air of this city at the centre, the territory of coming together.