It’s a love affair that first began in the south of France, but it’s a romance of a different kind. The romance is Virginie Baysse’s passion for photography that first began on that Mediterranean shore. Since then, the Nelson photographer’s work has exhibited in France, Montreal, and the Kootenays. Her series Les baleines des...

On Thursday, music enthusiasts will not want to miss the official opening of the Shambhala Music and Performance Hall at the Tenth Street Campus in Nelson as Selkirk College drops the curtain on the newly invigorated state-of-the-art theatre. Formerly known as Studio 80, the previous 80-seat studio has been transformed into...

Rating: Two stars out of five Seven lone survivors of a transport plane wreckage in the desolate Arctic struggling to find safety, thwarted by wolves at every turn, seems like an excellent premise for an action-packed thriller. But The Grey, set in the stunning mountains surrounding Smithers, B.C., falls short as a tension-filled...

Act number two of the Capitol Kids Series is about to take center stage at the Victoria Street theatre when Kathryn Popham returns to take us down the yellow brick road with a ground breaking performance of the Wizard of Oz. This ground-breaking presentation, set for Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Capitol Theatre, features local...

A local group wants to occupy the Civic Theatre as an athletic facility with three squash courts, two multi-purpose gyms, a climbing wall, and a lounge/social area.  Tim Pearkes and Andy Leathwood presented the proposal to City Council on March 12 on behalf of the Nelson Downtown Athletic Club. The group is an amalgamation ...

It's fundraiser weekend at the Royal Inn. The Selkirk Woodworking Program is gearing up for a fundraiser event Friday at the Royal Inn. At the end of every school year the program showcases all the fine furniture made by the students during that year. In order to do so they need to rent some space in one of the local galleries...

Lone Sheep Publishing is proud to present Yves Engler, author of The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy and Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid. In his new book, The Truth May Hurt, Engler strips away the layers of former Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson’s past, exposing him as less of a Canadian peacekeeper and ...

KHAOS Opera sold out four of five shows at the Capitol Theatre this past weekend. That’s nearly 20% of the population of Nelson. “The public response to KHAOS has exceeded our wildest expectations,” said KHAOS producer Marty Horswill.  KHAOS also caught the attention of outside media, including the Globe and Mail, Shaw TV, ...

A former Catholic nun who first gained the spotlight with her 1993 book A History of God: The 4,000-year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam,  Karen Armstrong is now an author of 20 books that focus largely on commonalities of major religions – including the nearly universally but often-ignored principle of compassion....

Everyone’s favourite book club is back. One Book, One Kootenay (OBOK) is a region-wide book club that celebrates the work of the talented writers living in the Kootenay Boundary. Once again, readers from across the Kootenay region will read and vote for the book they feel all Kootenay booklovers should read. Three Kootenay ...