Mountain Guide

Encaustic painter Susan Wallis sees landscape not as a ‘place’ but as a self-contained subject complete with its own emotions.

The story of someone giving up one career to pursue another when they realize their passion lies elsewhere is not a new one. Among musicians touring the Bow Valley, the story is certainly not new.

In the music business, like pretty much any other endeavour, all good things must come to an end. And so it is with Winnipeg’s SubCity Dwellers. Nothing disastrous, mind you.

While Through the Lens was designed to introduce Bow Valley students to photography, it has also created a few powerful spin offs in the process.

One of the Canmore museum’s most successful exhibitions is back for the month of February as part of Exposure 2011: Calgary Banff Canmore Photography Festival.

Some bands just like to do things a little differently. For Eve Hell and the Razors, that meant putting out an album, then deciding maybe they should form a band. However it worked out, it works.

The fourth annual Bow Valley Justice Film Festival is scheduled for this weekend, hosted by Canmore-based CAUSE Canada and featuring a lineup of critically-acclaimed and meaningful films that can inspire and motivate.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Does the name ring a bell? Love him or hate him for what he accomplished as prime minister, nobody can dispute he had a larger than life persona and a long-running effect on the Canadian psyche.

The dramatic landscapes of the UNESCO Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site draw millions annually who eagerly take home books and calendars and digital camera cards filled with pretty pictures of an exceptionally beautiful place.

The Exposure 2011 Calgary Banff Canmore Photography Festival is moving outside this week for the inaugural outdoor projection in downtown Canmore. Exposure chair Craig Richards said the outdoor wall projection, which will occur Friday, Feb.