Local Arts

It started as a joke, but don’t overlook the music

Artist Carol Roberts teaches travellers how to construct their own visual diaries

Reviewed by Paula Shackleton Too Much Happiness McClelland & Stewart/Douglas Gibson Books 320 pages, $32.99 Alice Munro's 14 th book, Too Much Happiness , is a collection of 10 short stories.

The eighth annual Whistler Readers and Writers Festival saw a 15 per cent increase in attendance this year, attracting a crowd of almost 200 people who had a selection of 20 seminars to choose from, including an evening poet's walk, "Haiku Idol," and

The world premiere of Sacred Flight, a new work by veteran filmmakers Peter Chrzanowski and Ivan Hughes, will be at next month's Vancouver International Film Festival.

If you're Canadian, you know who Terry Fox is. For our international friends, here's a quick history lesson: Fox became famous for his Marathon of Hope, a cross-Canada run to raise money for cancer research.

Who: tobias.dj What: Frequency Fridays Where: Blacks' Pub, Whistler Village. When: Sept. 11 and every Friday from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Cost: Free. One of Canada's longstanding underground techno-turntablists, toibas.

Heritage minister's visit to Whistler part of MP's efforts to shorten the distance to Ottawa

Follow the boarders down the rabbit hole

Snakebit: Confessions of a Herpetologist