Life

You’re probably familiar with Downtown Disney, but Orlando has a real downtown charged with life on every block.

Cooper Battersby and Emily Vey Duke, co-creators of Lesser Apes, kicked off their artists’ talk at the Penticton Art Gallery trying to answer some big questions.

A local band is putting on a fundraiser for the South Okanagan Similkameen Brain Injury Society, combining art and music at Fibonacci’s Cafe tomorrow.

Let’s see, here … the story of an ordinary slacker who discovers a mystery drug that gives him superhuman mental ability. Honestly though, the writers of Limitless could’ve perhaps benefited from popping a few of those magic pills themselves. This film has a ridiculously great concept but runs out of steam before even the halfway mark.

Recognizing how much web technology and communication have become a part of everyday life, the festival’s volunteer board of directors decided earlier this year that Peachfest needed to update its web presence.

A record number of Canadian families are discovering the fun and flexible travel that the RV lifestyle provides and are taking advantage of continued affordability in the marketplace.

In time with World Water Day on March 22, the organizers of the Meadowlark Festival have announced that international water advocate Maude Barlow will be the keynote speaker for the 2011 Meadowlark Festival.

Imagine escaping from the everyday pressures of work to spend quality time with your children: swimming and interacting with dolphins and stingrays; building sandcastles on one of the most beautiful beaches in the Caribbean; or snorkelling above the world’s second largest coral reef.

On March 26, a Cawston group is offer a day-long documentary film festival featuring themes such as poverty in Canada, globalization, peace issues and sustainability in global and local agriculture.

Reading Abraham Verghese’s novel Cutting for Stone feels at times like watching a PBS live surgery show. In an Ethiopian operating theatre, twin boys Marion and Shiva are being born. With no other surgeons to be found, the father, Dr. Thomas Stone, is forced to cut the children from their ailing mother.