You may think you know culture here in the Basin, but be prepared to discover something new! The Columbia Basin Culture Tour (CBCT) is a free, self-guided tour showcasing local arts, culture and heritage throughout the region Saturday and Sunday, August 14-15, 2010 from 10 am to 5 pm.Take a road trip to a different community...

If ever there was a Canadian band that defied traditional pop sensibilities and set out purely to have fun making music with their friends, it is Lake of Stew. With three albums under their belt, the Montreal band's music is now being played on CBC radio. Having recently been voted as possessing one of the top ten band names...

Vancouver seems an unlikely place to nurture such a rustic troubadour as Dustin Bentall, but Canada seemed like an unlikely country to be the birthplace of artists like Rick Danko, Robbie Robertson, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel or Neil Young. If you look you’ll find as deep a frontier spirit and hard luck charm as any...

 In the wake of the regional recreation deal's collapse, the remaining loose pieces of the puzzle started to reassemble themselves this week with arts at the core of the progress.Facing a looming deadline of December 31st, 2010 for a new cost sharing/funding arrangement to be in place for the Trail and Community Arts Centre,...

Like the great cartographers of olden times, or perhaps the Google Earth of the music world, the driving force behind Mae Moore’s nearly three decade long music career has been a desire to explore, map and take listeners on a trip through the deepest depths of human emotions. Her talent in bringing people together through...

In various pockets around town the ideas, visions and concepts developed over the past few years in the Visions to Actions process that created Rossland's Strategic Sustainability Plan and our new Official Community Plan are coming to life. These initiatives stand to serve as the initial building blocks of creating the future...

Every community has a story. For Christina Lake the story dates back to the times before even the First Nations story began, back to the time that only exists in the legends of the S’nixit people who lived in the area. Marilyn James, of the S’nixit nation, explained that the story of Christina Lake is still being created in...

Ah yes, the good old banjo: that brilliant half guitar-half drum instrument. For generations its god-given talent for getting toes tapping and people dancing has been a staple in country music, hoedowns, and lazy days spent sitting on a back porch picking the world's cares away.  You'd think that any instrument with the ability...

Students from Selkirk College’s School of University Arts & Sciences dug into their studies through an archaeological field school at Zuckerberg Island in Castlegar from June 7-11. During the week, archaeological sites were set up in and around former kekulis (remains of underground houses built by First Nations people) and...

With the amount of rain and dark days we've been receiving this spring, it's been a great time to catch up on our reading. As we (fingers crossed) start moving our reading locales out from under warm blankets to beaches, patios and sunny spots of grass, the Rossland Library has lined up a buffet of books for us. This summer...