Arts & Life

One of Canada's country sweethearts is coming back to Prince George. It's a little-known fact that the first concert Terri Clark ever played on Canadian soil after hitting the big time was in Prince George.

Summer instrumental music comes in for a landing on Sunday. The Prince George Airport will guide in a chamber trio on Sunday for a live performance in their big, vaulted ceilinged public area bathed in natural light and open to the eye.

These guys can be forgiven for their sentimentality. When a big chunk of your town burns down, everyone evacuated, and all industry in the area threatened, it will cause you to ponder the big issues of life.

Dallas Green has been to Prince George but not since March 8, 2010 and not since he was in the band Alexisonfire that opened for Billy Talent that night.

With their golden glow from the Sun Peaks Con Brio Festival, the District 57 Tapestry Singers are now shining for their home audience.

Time has eased Phil Morrison's pain and fear, but a humourous edge still cuts when he thinks back on things like the disintegration of his marriage and ensuing child custody struggle.

Once again, players venture forth into the wasteland with Bethesda Softworks' newest installation of the Fallout video game series - a post-apocalyptic, open-world, role-playing game with first person (or third person) shooter elements.

The baton is being passed for the next PGSO season. Eight times. The PGSO is in the midst of a search for a new full-time professional conductor, and after an international search for qualified candidates, five have been shortlisted.

Mobs of supporters with wads of cash will swamp Studio 2880 on Saturday. The Prince George Chamber of Commerce has established the Cash Mob habit, with a handful of these business booster events already behind them.

Alternative-rock band Bend Sinister, one of B.C.'s most lauded groups in recent years, has put a regional tour date on their schedule. They announced 12 new appearances this spring and summer.