Local Entertainment

As you've probably heard, Ballet Kelowna announced it is closing its doors for good at the end of the Kelowna and Summerland shows, taking place March 15-16. This is heart-wrenching, and phone calls and emails have come in from across the country as the news spreads.

The Kelowna band Fields of Green has spent this winter recording its new five-song EP with the legendary GGGarth (Rage Against The Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Biffy Clyro, Hedley) and Paul Boechler, who is producing and engineering what will be the band's second release.

When Halifax artist Sarah Maloney first read about the Great Tulip Crash, sometimes compared to a modern stock-market collapse, she knew she had found a theme for her next project.

The Kelowna Art Gallery has announced a new series of six-week CONNECT classes beginning in February.

No one could blame the cast of Noises Off if they are feeling a little split these days.

In this day and age, I don't think there's anyone who hasn't been affected by cancer in one way or another. I've lost an aunt, a couple of friends and even seen young kids suffer through chemo, radiation and then pass away. At present, both my mom and my dad are fighting it.

Have you ever been told you're not creative? Did someone laugh at you because you coloured outside the lines or because the horse you drew looked more like a basset hound?

Okanagan film commissioner Jon Summerland has announced a deal that will create the start up of a new gaming/animation studio in the Valley.

How very odd. How very intriguing. How very probing. How very funny.