New crop of heritage panels ready to be sown in our communal backyard
A new crop of heritage panels is just about ready to be sown in our communal backyard this year. Rob Buchanan (left), Cathy English, David Walker and Toni Johnston (right) talk about the new heritage panels at an editing session at the Museum on Friday. All four of them have been deeply involved in the creation of the heritage panel network and other...
The Little Shadows — a remarkable new book by Marina Endicott
The Little Shadows is marina Endicott's hugely interesting new work. What is life? it is the flash of a firefly in the night the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset — Crowfoot By Leslie Savage Marina Endicott’s novel The Little Shadows is a whirlwind of a book...
In Pictures: Flying Without Wings!
By David F. Rooney The city’s newest public sculpture — Flying Without Wings by Rob Buchanan — was quietly installed at the Tournament of Champions Winner’s Circle at the base of Mount Revelstoke by the Railway Museum on Track Street on Thursday morning. The chrome sculpture is a stylized ski jump that is also an homage of sorts to local...
Colour, form and texture can help you find a Sense of Place
By David F. Rooney The Visual Arts Centre’s first regular show of the exhibition season will help you locate a Sense of Place — and not necessarily here, either — through colour, form and texture in more than 40 works of art by local artists. The show opened Friday and some of the works are absolutely spectacular. There’s a fair amount...
Coming to a gallery near you: A Sense of Place
Criminally Vain by Nikki Treber By David F. Rooney The Revelstoke Visual Arts Centre is inaugurating its 2012 exhition season with an interesting show of about 40 paintings, sculptures and drawings based on the catch-all theme A Sense of Place. Cancelled: a private showing and sale of works by painter Nicola McGarry who is preparing to head off to art...
Rocky Mountain Express — a film review
The Empress steams alongside a river in a still from the fil, Rocky Mountain Express. No. 2816 is a familiar sight here and is the star of this film. Photo courtesy of The Stephen Low Company Editor’s Note: As previously telegraphed by our new columnist, Tom Parkin (Where Were You in ’62?), a recently-released IMAX film has opened on the Wet...
Pretty in paint
By David F. Rooney It’s no secret to people who know me that I enjoy babies. I may not enjoy having them around 24/7, but I greatly appreciate their innocence, natural joy and willingness to be adored by everyone around them. One of the infants I especially enjoy is Gwen Lips and Chris Johnston’s daughter, Bridget. She almost always has...
I spy with my little eye…
I spy with my little eye something that looks fantastic! Got an old cupboard door gathering dust in your garage or shed? Artist Krista Stovel, who has gained a reputation for her creative work using the photo transfer process, would be interested in acquiring it. She's in need of cupboard doors for her kitchen and would like to transform them —...
The Revelstoke Theatre Company has a new home: The Powder Springs Inn
The Powder Springs Inn will be the new home of the Revesltoke Theatre Company, which will inaugurate its move there with the 2012 Theatre BC Kootenay Zone Festival. David F. Rooney photo By David F. Rooney The Powder Springs Inn will be the new home of the Revesltoke Theatre Company, which will inaugurate its move there with the 2012 Theatre BC Kootenay...
The Mystery Yarn Bomber strikes again!
By David F. Rooney The Mystery Yarn Bomber has struck again! Sometime overnight she — or he (but I’m betting it’s a she) — gave the bears at Grizzly Plaza a makeover in colourful yarn to ensure they they put their best paws forward when they greeted the sun on Thursday morning. “I was just going to work and there they were!”...
