Arts & Life

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.

The pre-KISS concert barbecue will take place Wednesday at 5 p.m. at the CN Centre Atrium. The CN Centre and Eurest Foods will host the barbecue party.

Simon King the fast-talking outrageously funny Comedy Network star is coming to Nancy O's Thursday, July 7 and Friday, July 8, for a double shot of fun. For King it's all about the stream-of-consciousness monologue in hyper drive.

It's free. It's legal. It's Freegal, the Prince George Public Library's music database that allows library card holders to download up to three songs per week from the Sony Music catalogue for free.

Like castaway bath toys on steroids, James Matosevic said every participant in the Nechako River Float is adrift on their own initiative. There is no organization and no planning involved, other than an idea three years ago by his friend Cody Gray.

Three local children took honourable mentions this month for songs they composed on the piano in a recent international competition for young musicians.

Ask for what you want and you might just get it.

Tongues are wagging, heads are banging and the boys are trying on their platform boots in anticipation of the KISS concert June 29 at CN Centre.

She's his arrow, Paul Alexandre said of wife, Vicky Watt. But not the fatal, blood-shedding kind. More the spiritually directed type - something other's might call a moral compass, or true north.