Arts & Life

Entering the Studio 2880 gallery, the viewers stare in wonder at the sculptures there and wonder if they've ever seen anything like them. The artist knows they haven't.

Cody Karey is the comeback kid in the kitchen. The 24-year-old singing sensation from Fort St. James has proved his additional artistic skills by surviving now to the Top 7 of MasterChef Canada.

The thrill of the bid is coming to the city's top art gallery. Auctions are one of those events when the arts cross a line and almost become a sport.

The connection between a child's participation in music lessons and that child's academic success is heavily documented. Learning music does something positive to the learning sectors of the brain.

The Wilds are running loose in Prince George. The B.C. band is led by singer/songwriters Holly Arntzen (vocals, dulcimer, piano) and Kevin Wright (vocals, percussion, sax) plus regular guest musicians who sit in on their music and their message.

Vanier Hall will be uptown and gettin' funky on Sunday night. The dancers from Judy Russell's dance studio will put their all-star skills on the stage for a fundraising event to move them on to the next level of festivals this spring.

Two of this region's favourite music acts have won the first round of the playoffs in the CBC Radio Searchlight competition.

Cody Karey lives on in the MasterChef Canada kitchen. Although the young Fort St. James amateur chef was eliminated two weeks ago on the competition show, he made the Top 10 and he got a surprise call-back from the show's producers.

Boo! Boo! A chorus of disapproval barreled across the dark auditorium in the moments before the PGSO began their most recent show. The voices were few, but they were loud and definitive. The protest had nothing to do with music.

Some bands just click with a community. When Books & Company proprietor Owen Lubbers announced during a recent live music event that Shred Kelly was coming back to his concert hall, a roar of approval spewed out.