Doing the can can in a can-do town: The legend of the Dancing Waiters
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...
INTERVIEW: The Creaking Tree Quartet kicks off their tour in Rossland
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...
Watch out taste buds, Taste of Rossland is back!
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. ...
GALLERY: Mountain Kingdom murals or Golden City Garbage?
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...
Falling for the Follies, Part Two: It’s a Wrap!
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...
Lifecycles: a sea change for mountain cinema?
It’s a rare thing to gain exclusive, invite-only access to the world premiere of a film. Almost as rare for this writer is an impromptu trip through Vancouver and the Sea to Sky Corridor to bear witness to such an event: I don’t like leaving my house. Even more rare (and now we’re talking almost […]
Nice day for a stroll to the museum, eh? New trail to be constructed this year will make that Canuck dream a safer off-road reality
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...
INTERVIEW: Arrive early to get a seat to the Fabulous Chairs show this Friday night
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...
Columbia Basin Culture Tour coming to Rossland
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...
INTERVIEW: Lake of Stew brings Canada's best band name and perhaps most unique sound to Rossland Sunday night
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...