Arts & Life

For the fourth time, legendary rocker George Thorogood is coming to perform in Prince George. The force behind Bad To The Bone has struck a good vein in B.C.'s biggest northern city. It is here he is beginning his Canadian tour on April 19.

The Alphabet Project

Theatre North West and marketing professional Marnie Hamagami have joined forces. The professional theatre company had undergone some personnel changes and needed to fill the key job of sales and outreach manager.

The auctioneer will take the bids on April 30, but art investors are invited to come Thursday to look at the items up for sale. The Two Rivers Gallery will hold its eighth annual live auction at the end of the month.

Theatre North West always produces high-caliber material, but there is a scale of TNW's own. The last play generated the wrong kind of buzz, indicating audiences found it among the worst done by the local pro theatre company.

Monster trucks deserve a monster event - double the size. When the Monster Trucks Destruction Tour hits Prince George on May 7, there will be two shows to choose from.

A truly unique musical danced across the P.G. stage this week. It wasn't one of the blockbusters with decades of reputation, it wasn't glamorously attached to superstar performers, and yet it had a charming familiarity.

Not all the special guests at tonight's Certified Country Tour are on the main marquee. The signs and posters tell us the headliners are Gord Bamford and Joe Nichols. But there is another key performer.

Gord Bamford and Joe Nichols are the juice in the bottle, but tonight's concert at CN Centre has a different kind of cork. You could call them an urban jug band, you could call them slickgrass or Mumford's country cousins.

You don't have to be Atom Egoyan or James Cameron to get called a filmmaker. If you make commercials for local TV or websites, you are a filmmaker. If you make short stories on camera with your buddies, you are a filmmaker.