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Canadian jazz star Laila Biali, who performs at the Capitol Theatre this weekend, remarks on motherhood, swimming in Kootenay Lake — and working with Sting

For 20 years, across Canada and in 15 countries around the world, Flyin’ Bob has performed as a juggler, tightwire walker, comic, and musician in every venue imaginable: the street, stage, corporate offices, national television shows, and schools.

The City of Nelson and its Cultural Development Commission will be continuing with last year’s initiative to devote up to 35 per cent of the Columbia Basin Trust community initiative funding to local arts, culture and heritage projects.

Paula Smith’s mother still has Paula’s Grade 8 sketchbooks. At first she drew from photographs and pictures cut from magazines, but as her creative bent took root, and she began taking additional courses, Paula began to draw from life while studying the work of other artists. It was about this time that the dream of being an artist — even a starving artist — took hold. It hasn’t let go.

The breakthrough in Deborah Loxam-Kohl’s war with noise took place as she attempted to carry on a conversation in a small cafe with a concrete floor and bare walls.

In these days of single song downloads and shuffling iPod playlists being the way of the world, what’s an artist doing releasing a classic concept album — something designed to be listened to as a whole entity, from beginning to end, and not necessarily in bite-size pieces?

Would-be rock stars and pop divas in disguise, the Capitol Theatre wants you.

After writing up to 5,000 words on the subject of isolation, the winners of the 2010 Kootenay Literary Competition got a chance to shake off their subject matter at an awards ceremony Saturday night that capped off the competition’s biggest year yet.

There may be snow on the ground, but it’s going to be sizzling inside the Capitol Theatre and Spiritbar this weekend if Scarlet Mary Rose has anything to say about it.

During the eight years Declan O’Driscoll lived in Nelson, his Yggdrasil theatre company toured West Kootenay with plays based on the mythology of the Valhalla mountains and classics such as The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.