Malaika Horswill, 23, and Oscar Derkx, 22, have known each other since grade one. They were both in Annie at age 11 and 12 and they acted and sang in every Capitol Theatre summer youth production since, with increasingly major roles, until they graduated from high school. But their collaborations haven’t ended there. The...

  Through their long and wild career, The Rolling Stones have made their mark on our culture; from epic albums to famously bad behavior. Over their 50 year history, journalists have collected a treasure trove of material, but none more prolific than music journalist Hanspeter Kuenzler. The eBook People (www.theebookpeople.com)...

The annual one-day music festival Keep the Beat has raised about $12,000 in a single day in each of its past few years. And it has done that without selling any tickets, without adults, and with almost no overhead. The money all goes to War Child Canada. This year's event runs from noon to 10pm at Lakeside Park on Wednesday,...

The Pied Pumkin are back in their old stomping grounds. The folk band is playing Thursday at 8 p.m. in the Vallican Whole in Winlaw. This independent folk ensemble became a major staple of the Canadian folk scene with its rich harmonies, mighty grooves and memorable stories. Music fans are asked to support the band along with...

Brent Bukowski spent the past weekend installing the north side of the railing he designed and built for the Baker St. Bridge across Cottonwood Creek (just below the 4-way stop on Baker). He was commissioned by Nelson's Cultural Development Commission after a juried competition last year. The project is part of the city's...

Access to the Russian-language Wikipedia is disabled across almost all its pages on Tuesday, July 10, due to the Russian parliament, the Duma, debating amendments to the law "About information" which may lead to censorship of Runet through blacklisting and filtering of internet sites. The proposed bill aims to creating a...

Friday was electric in Nelson as the 24th annual ArtWalk kicked off at various businesses in the Heritage City. Nelson’s ArtWalk offers area artists the opportunity to have their work viewed by more than a thousand art-lovers while giving downtown businesses a doorway into creative culture — a veritable feast for the ArtWalking...

The Elephant Mountain Literary Festival will highlight local culture, writing, reading…. and wine. A number of celebrated writers from across the country will join an impressive group of local authors July 12-15 at the Hume Room and at the Art Therapy Institute at 191 Baker. Local writer Tom Wayman is one of the organizers....

After tickets quickly sold out for the first show, sponsors decided to add a second Bruce Cockburn show for Wednesday, August 8 at the Capitol Theatre. For over four decades Cockburn has been a staple in Canadian music as an ever evolving and skilled lyricist and musician. Tickets are $40 plus service fees, and go on sale...

My craving for a great science fiction / alien thriller was thoroughly satiated this weekend after an intense ride with director Ridley Scott aboard the spaceship Prometheus. Scott's classic original Alien set the bar high for every alien from space film for the past   three decades. As a co-owner of the Alien trilogy, I have...