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From hip hop to gypsy jazz to progressive, there is one music festival in the Kootenay aiming to offer something to satisfy everyone’s musical tastes.

In less than a year the Creston’s Best Singer contest has become one of the town’s hottest arts events. Now organizer Vern Gorham is bringing the concept over the Kootenay Pass and hoping to take the rest of the region by storm — starting here.

Digable Planets epitomized the laid-back charm of jazz hipsters better than any group before or since. The trio’s 1993 debut album, Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space), was a mellow ride packed with samples from Art Blakey, Sonny Rollins, and Curtis Mayfield, and the single “Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)” became a Top 20 pop hit.

It started with a desire to put an exclamation mark on Canada Day in Kaslo, but it’s become much more.

With works from the Touchstones Nelson permanent collection, as well as on loan from local collectors, Nelson Through the Lens: The Historical Photography of J.H. Allen will showcase the photographs of James (Jimmy) Allen (1878-1969) and celebrate the mark he has made on the landscape of our local history through his contributions as a photographer and community member.

Nelson’s Tim Kendrick has enjoyed several careers: fighter pilot, administrator and a few small businesses. Interests have included caving, mountaineering, scuba diving, search and rescue, building boats and exploring the B.C. coast, painting and pottery, but photography is the passion that has endured.

Directors of the Amy Ferguson Institute had good reason to break out the champagne last week.

Did well known First Nations artist Norval Morriseau ever visit Ymir? Not likely, but if you’ve visited the Hotel Ymir recently, you may have seen his work and wondered how it came to be there.

On one of the first Saturdays the cast of Hooked met in the common room of SelfDesign High, they were given an assignment.

Come sweat off the peeling remnants of your first summer sunburn at the Royal tonight when Arthur Funkarelli brings their highly destructive blend of punk, funk and ska to the legendary Baker Street watering hole.