Local Arts

Hootstock has come in to roost. The annual eclectic music festival near 100 Mile House is not shutting the gate, but it is getting closer to home.

The wild chemistry of music has been fused with the natural elements of backwoods farm life. The reaction is slowly boiling in the form of The Alkemist, the magical one-man-band act of Jay Myers.

The Long Island Medium, Theresa Caputo, who has a long-running TLC reality television series, said during a phone interview that it doesn't matter if she's doing a reading for one person or five thousand, the message heard will impact everyone.

Geoff & The Ninja made history when it became the first TV series to ever film all its episodes in Prince George.

A Good Death To Self has been given life. This new book was penned by Prince George writer Solomon Goudsward, the young scribe's debut novel, and it was launched recently with an event at Books & Company.

A name has been announced for this year's Northern FanCon that sets a bright new star in the event's all-time constellation of celebrity guests.

If you've heard the faint strains of singing and instruments this week, you aren't imagining things. If you want to hear that music more clearly, come inside to hear the best in young and aspiring amateur musicians.

Growing in the Manitoba cottonwoods you'll find the earthy strands of Madeleine Roger's music. She'll bring those sounds to Prince George next week for a Tuesday night show at Nancy O's.

Reconciliation. The Two Rivers Gallery is calling for the Aboriginal artists of B.C. to submit whatever art they wish to create with this term - Reconciliation - as the central theme. It might be the most important word in Canada at the moment.

No one can accuse Sasparilla Foxx of not having any skin in the game.