Local Arts

The Sea to Sky Hotel is alive with the sound of frantic last-minute rehearsal. But the end result will be one of the biggest dramatic undertakings in Squamish history.

The Incredibles is an incredible feat of creativity. The movie follows in the Pixar tradition of A Bug's Life and Finding Nemo, using computer animation to create a convincing, but not quite real world.

It's far easier to trash a film then to praise it. With Ray there's no easy way out: - it's all gold. The curtain opens and we're in 1951, Ray's 21 and heading for Seattle to play a lounge club.

The Festival of Canadian Arts, featuring local performers and Canadian content, returns for the 12th year with two very different events. Presented by Howe Sound Performing Arts Association, Youth in Performance opens the Festival on Thursday, Nov.

Art, music, dance and weird hair are sweeping through Squamish again. The third Art and Soul fundraiser is Nov. 6 at Totem Hall. The event is to raise money for the Squamish skate park.

Sam Rami has made some of the most incredible movies of our time. That being said, his particular niche was horror and the Evil Dead series truly made him a master of very cheap and sometimes hilarious horror.

Shall We Dance, starring Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon and Jennifer Lopez, is a showcase for bad acting at its worst. Lopez, playing a dance instructor, looks like her face is made of granite.

Squamish's Sea to Sky Singers community chorus is looking for classically trained soloists for our upcoming Christmas concert. A soprano, mezzo-soprano, and alto are needed to perform Antonio Vivaldi's Gloria on Saturday, Dec. 11.

Ladder 49 starts out trying to convince viewers it's not a Hollywood film about firefighters. And it almost succeeds. The opening images are grainy, choppy news like footage of a building burning and emergency crews arriving.

The rehearsals for The Sound of Music are well under way now that the play is fully cast. Veronica McPhee has been chosen to portray Maria, a young would-be nun who is send to act as a temporary governess to seven children.