Local Arts

Southern Death Threat will headline the guitar-stressing, voice-shredding, all-out metal music festival Slammin in the Salmon Saturday at Rockin's River Resort.

The Vancouver death metal scene has opened its hellish gates and is about to Unleash the Archers on our fair city.

With 40 conductors to choose from, the task of whittling them down to the lucky seven who will audition as part of the new season at the Prince George Symphony Orchestra was quite a challenge, said PGSO's general manager, Ruth Langner.

If you were one of the lucky ones, the 5,000 or so ticket-holders who saw Kiss blow away the CN Centre crowd with a flame-throwing, blood-spurting, mind-altering assault on the senses, you know what the rest of the city missed.

If you were one of the lucky ones, the 5,000 or so ticket-holders who saw Kiss blow away the CN Centre crowd with a flame-throwing, blood-spurting, mind-altering assault on the senses, you know what the rest of the city missed.

A local teen who took top spot at the Prince George Old Time Fiddlers 42nd annual contest in April will now go on to compete at the provincial level.

He's been dressed when the Blue Man Group came to town and is currently ready to rock and roll along with Kiss, but what some people may not realize it that Mr. P.G. has a theme song of his own.

Try it before you bash it. That's what the ruthless and menacing lead singer of a death/thrash metal band said. She doesn't mean listen to metal. She means listen to a female-fronted metal band.

Cat Sivertsen's new exhibit at the Rustad Galleria, Aesthetics of Grief, launches at the Two Rivers Gallery July 7 with an artist's talk at 7:30 p.m. Sivertsen said she was at first reluctant to have the word grief in the title of the exhibit.

Here are a few ways to celebrate Canada's 144th birthday on July 1. Celebrate Canada at Fort George Park from noon to 7 p.m. during a free family event.