The Rossland Mountain Film Festival (RMFF) is gearing up for its 11th year of pre-ski season stoke seeding and is searching for film makers both local and from afar.  Aiming to showcase filmmakers, photographers, and all visual artists to generate enthusiasm for adventure sports and celebrate Rossland's great mountain culture,...

Two professional bands will be marching into town to kick off October and will be tooting their own horns in support of the Rossland Secondary School’s band program. Don’t expect a stogy old marching performance, however, as the Naden Band brings with it two 70 person professional bands playing a variety of music inspired by...

 From an impromptu talent show in Rafters to champagne with the mayor of Amsterdam--the Boomtown Garter Girls have been wowing audiences for 30 years as Rossland’s unofficial ambassadors.     This weekend, the Girls will be celebrating 30 years of dance with a blowout Red Feather Saloon party at the Miners' Hall this Saturday...

What do you get when you cross a civic celebration with an aging old theatre, a beer garden, and a party featuring dancing girls--when no girls show up? Well you’ve got yourself a piece of local history that displays in numerous ways the character of Rossland and Golden City Days.    Sure, Rossland is known far and wide for...

On his latest album, Joel Plasket’s heavy-handed musical wisdom delivers a bit of advice on why you should get out to the Miners' Hall this weekend to see a Juno Award-winning talent:  “The reason why I like the instrumentals, is ‘cause they haven’t got any words.”  This four piece acoustic instrumental quartet finds both...

The Rossland Chamber of Commerce is proud to present Taste of Rossland, back for another year of eating, drinking and mingling.  This year’s event coincides with the annual three-day Golden City Days. Taste of Rossland will take place at the Ross Thompson Ballroom, at the Prestige Mountain Resort on September 12th, from 1-5pm. ...

Graffiti. Love it or hate it, it's pretty much an inevitable part of life in any town or city. It's nothing new: look at the caves of cavemen...er, cavepeople...they had graffiti too. Granted, it's a little disappointing to see that, often, it appears as though not a lot of technical progress has been made in the last 50 000...

I was having a really bad day last week; in fact, it was a bad day in a string of bad days, and what I wanted most was to wallow in a nice bath for the evening and go to bed early with my cat. Instead, someone reminded me that the Follies was ending a week earlier than normal (something I should have known from my visit with...

With all of the various plans going on in Rossland in recent years from tackling climate change to saving schools, there has been one plan quietly putting rubber to the road…err… off-road. Rossland’s Active Transportation Plan (ATP) was completed in January of 2009 by Stu Spooner . The latest part of the plan to be implemented...

Following the release of two albums with his former band Ross-Vegas Tim Bourchier is back with some new funk and soul flavor as “The Fabulous Chairs.” The band, who’s lineup varies from show to show is backed by Bourchier and Mike Johns and will be playing this Friday night at the Red Room and then again next week at an outdoor...