Local Arts

As a diplomat's wife in the 1960s, Pat Service first picked up the paintbrush while stationed in Scotland. The Port Alberni native studied at the Glasgow School of Art and continued while in Venezuela and eastern Canada.

Two Tri-City youth will appear in the Vancouver International Dance Festival, which starts on Friday.

Paintings, photos, ceramics, mixed media and graphics by Gleneagle secondary students can be see this month at the Port Moody Public Library. The students aretaught by Melanie Stokes, Mike McElgunn and Arynn Gunn.

Next week, NeverYouMind Productions - a group co-created by Port Coquitlam's Lauren Campbell and Flora Kara of Port Moody - will mount A Particular Class of Women at the Inlet Theatre, a show by playwright Janet Feindel that was inspired by a 1985 On

Coquitlam singer/songwriter Cassandra Bangel will drop her second EP on Friday in Vancouver.

The Coquitlam-based pop band The Faceplants will kick off its national tour in Port Moody on Saturday.

For anyone who has been to Europe, it's a common scenario: You have to use a public restroom but you're also forced to pay, or at least make a donation to the janitor. There's no way out.

April Verch freely admits she's an over-achiever. "Oh, yes, I'm definitely a Type A personality,"the fiddler/step dancer says after she's asked about her touring schedule this year that include more than 80 dates in Canada, the U.S.

In 2009, when writer-director Tracey Power opened her musical biography of Maillardville's Lucille Starr, the Canadian countrymusic pioneer was in the audience to see how it played out.

She calls her concussion"Marvin.