Arts & Life

Kilted dancers from Excalibur Theatre Arts will soon be off to the highlands of Seattle to represent Prince George.

Art Battle tonight! The second annual Art Battle-Prince George is waged starting at 7 p.m. at Groop Gallery. Some of the area's best painters will race the clock and impress the judges, hoping to prevail as the winner.

The organizers of the proposed Performing Arts Centre have established their next board of directors.

History has always had questions of Billy Bishop. One doesn't shoot down 72 enemy aircraft, go on solo air raids, and rise in 10 years from Ontario school truant to the rank of major without picking up controversy and acclaim.

One of the most colourful wrestlers in the history of professional entertainment-wrestling has become one of the most colourful retired wrestlers as well. He will be in Prince George in person, this week, to show off his true colours.

Life is built on creation and innovation. Making something out of nothing, or something out of a bunch of other somethings, is the foundation for most great inventions and discoveries over human history.

For the first time in her meteoric art career, painter Cara Roberts will hang a show of her abstract work. Prior shows have focused on her realistic paintings for the simple reason of that was all she had.

A B.C.-based solo rocker has rarely built such a buzz by 21 years of age as Sam Weber.

NEW YORK — Joan Rivers, the raucous, acid-tongued comedian who crashed the male-dominated realm of late-night talk shows and turned Hollywood red carpets into danger zones for badly dressed celebrities, died Thursday. She was 81.

LONDON - Acclaimed actor and Oscar-winning director Richard Attenborough, whose film career on both sides of the camera spanned 60 years, has died. He was 90. The actor's son, Michael Attenborough told the BBC that his father died Sunday.