Arts & Life

Some people manage to live a simple life with flair.

Lynyrd Skynyrd took to the CN Centre stage Monday night to a roaring crowd. Here is Rickey Medlocke, left, and Johnny Van Zant enjoying the crowd reaction to their rock and roll sound.

The PGSO ascends, on Saturday night. In a show focused on the violin, the symphony presents a night entitled Virtuoso and they intend to live up to the bold name. The centrepiece will be the Ralph Vaughan-Williams's popular The Lark Ascending.

When the creative advice to all authors is "write what you know" and you are a celebrated lawyer, a rancher, a former urbanite who now embraces the backcountry, and live a fascination for the aboriginal culture in your home territory, that leaves you

Some bands have made rock 'n' roll hall of fame careers out of their live shows. James Brown, The Grateful Dead, Rush, Phish, and the one coming Monday night to Prince George, Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Dreamland Theatre disappeared into the sawdust and mud of time, but through the welding of words, it still lives a ghostly existence.

This past week marked Prince George's centennial, a benchmark aboriginal residents think of with concern for the future, at best, and hostility at worst.

Financial seeds donated by the public have produced a bumper crop of movie moments for an upstart Canadian production company.

Hearing stories is a favourite form of entertainment, all around the world and all throughout time. As humans, it's what we do.

Craig Cardiff returns to a city that has enjoyed embracing his brand of modern acoustic folk music.