Arts & Life

Anne Bogle has contemplated the letter B for most of her life. One tends do to that with one's initial.

The house lights will dim, the shaft of projector light will flicker to life, and some of the best Canadian movies of the year will splash across the screen.

As spring breakers sound the inevitable 'I'm bored' alarm, the Immigrant and Multicultural Services Society presents a musical theatre production Thursday at 11:30 a.m.

Heart came and they went crazy on us all. They also gave us fair warning: they cleared all the stage furniture out of the way. The performance space was wide and barren when Heart came out to prowl around CN Centre.

One of Canada's hottest new bands is coming to Prince George. Sweet Alibi picked up the Western Canadian Music Award, they've been getting wads of radio play, and they have just released their latest album.

Real Baby Food, by Jenna Helwig with registered dietician Natalie Stasenko, is a beautifully photographed cookbook that helps to address the sometimes frustrating question of what to feed baby as he or she transitions to solid food.

The Bastard of Fort Stikine: The Hudson's Bay Company and the Murder of John McLoughlin Jr., by Canadian author Debra Komar, revisits the murder of the chief trader of Fort Stikine . There was no trial and McLoughlin's murder was never solved.

Although there is clearly truth to the concept of there being bad art versus good art, part of art's universal appeal is its subjectiveness.

The Queens of Sheba wanted another royal ass-kicker of a woman on stage with them across Canada. The hall-of-famer headliners Heart and Joan Jett & The Blackhearts found their tour goddess in the form of Serena Pryne.

Artists are the operators of small businesses. In some senses, the artist is the product as well as the proprietor.