Local Arts

Who: Styles of Beyond with DJ Skratch Bastid and Mat the Alien Where: Garfinkel’s When: Tuesday, March 23 Tickets: $10 Video may have killed the radio star but radio launched the career of So-Cal hip-hoppers Styles of Beyond.

Twenty-two years later Colin Hay still a Man At Work Who: Colin Hay Where: MY (Millennium) Place When: $17 - $20 The lead singer of Men At Work, who became a world-wide rock star when he sang Down Under, is coming to Millennium Place on March 26.

Who: Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band Where: Buffalo Bill’s When: Wednesday, March 24 Tickets: $20 With proportionally large numbers of both vacationers and residents that have temporarily forfeited the house, spouse and young ’uns p

Who: Tessa Amy Where: MY (Millennium) Place When: Friday, March 26 Tickets: $17 - $20 All you Canadians out there I want you to imagine you’re a musician living in the land downunda’.

Ever have an ex-girlfried you hated so much the mere sight of her made you gag and get that Oh-shit-I-really-am-about-to-puke taste in your mouth? Or considered paying someone to bounce an old boyfriend’s skull off the curb a few hundred times?

Who: Greasy Jack & Julie What: The Sunday Night Sound Lounge Where: The Wild Seed (Mount Currie) When: Sunday, March 21 February’s gala Cultural Cabaret event launching the Celebration 2010 Whistler Arts Showcase featured an all-star lineup

Who: Dark Star Where: Boot Pub When: Monday, March 22 It’s ironic, but as a group Deadheads will never die. It doesn’t matter that Bishop Garcia has long passed from this world. The jam goes on, and on, and on. Dig it.

Local artists looking for tips on how to take their work to the next level will want to put aside Saturday, April 17 for the Whistler Arts Council-sponsored portfolio development workshop.

Review: Obie Trice Sunday, Feb. 29, Garfinkel’s We get our share of conscious hip-hop and past-their-prime retro rappers, but rarely do the biggest here-and-now MTV stars come to Whistler.

By Shelley Arnusch Review: Tuned Women II Feb. 26 & 27, MY (Millennium) Place Ah, Tuned Women.