Local Arts

Buck stops here One of the coolest cats to ever come out of Canada, Nova Scotia hip-hopper Buck 65, will be coming through Whistler on Jan. 21.

CD a compilation of tributes to friends lost in October's flood What: Watershed CD Release Who: Rutherford Creek Collective Where: Moe Joe's When: Sunday, Jan. 11 Tickets: $15 We all have our own ways of dealing with grief and tragedy.

What: Mutiny on the Airwaves - Freeradio Whistler Fundraiser Where: Dusty’s When: Friday, Jan.

Small Town Alberta comes to Ski Town B.C. Small Town DJs, Calgary’s favourite turntable partners, are the special of the week at Tommy Africa’s Soul Kitchen this Sunday night.

World renowned realist nature artist and Canadian dignitary Robert Bateman will be appearing at the Brackendale Art Gallery on Saturday, Jan.

Ange Constable treats homes and businesses as her canvas By Kara-Leah Grant There is a magnificent red dragon looping down my stairs. It’s come to drink from a cascading blue waterfall and sips while poised for flight.

What: Through My Window/Winter Where: MY (Millennium) Place When: Jan. 1-31 In other locales winter is a dour subject, fodder for metaphors by bad and good poets alike about sadness, pain and discontent.

The Rutherford Creek Collective will release the locally produced benefit CD Watershed at Moe Joe’s on Sunday, Jan. 11. The Collective formed in the wake of the October flooding in the Sea to Sky corridor.

30th birthday looms on the horizon of 2004

Well it seems every girl in the world is completely in love with Viggo Mortensen these days. I guess playing the king of all men is a good way to get chicks.