Arts & Life

Take a number, Theatre North West season pass holders. No more lining up around the block at Books & Co. August 1 to get the best seats in the house for the professional theatre's upcoming season.

Kevin Costner wandered around Sun Peaks Resort near Kamloops last Saturday in flip flops, holy old jeans and a plaid shirt, goofy sun glasses and a ball cap -- just like every other rock star movie icon on the planet.

Two German visitors passed through Prince George this week on their quest to create art that crosses a continent and combines cultures.

Judy Russell presents the ballets La Fille mal Gardee, The Girl Who Was Guarded Too Much, the first comic ballet ever created, and Pinocchio, created specifically for the Enchainement Ballet students by their teachers, tonight at 7 p.m.

There's a music festival and steak dinner fundraiser for Lakeland Mills victims Saturday at the Central B.C. Railway and Forestry Museum. The fun starts at 5:30 p.m.

Public art continues to beautify the city as local artist Keith Carlson takes on a project between two buildings at the Prince George & District Community Arts Council complex on 15th Avenue.

Canada Day celebrations are in full preparation mode and the Multicultural Heritage Society needs help to put it all together on the big day at Fort George Park for July 1.

In the wacky world that exists in Mel Brooks's head came a production with such kerfuffery, such skullduggery, such bamboozlement that only the zany entertainers of Judy Russell's could possibly pull it off.

Style-savvy, fashion-forward women can now click their way into better living with Framework Magazine, an online resource created by Duchess Park grad Bria Lear.

With more than 17,000 comic books on hand, a local collector doesn't go for the most popular stories but found his own path of animated adventure.