Entertainment

It's no secret that the Comox Valley is home to many talented artists, and a report by Courtenay community services director Randy Wiwchar shows the number of artists living and working in the Valley actually exceeds the national average.

Carter Johnson has returned home from the Canadian Federation of Music Teachers’ Associations’ National Piano Competition in Regina with arms full of awards.

There will be a ‘welcome back from a wonderful summer’ event at the Union Street Grotto this Friday from 7 to 9:30 p.m.

Kevin Kane and brothers Tom and Chris Hooper grew up together in Kelowna, learning to play instruments in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

The 2011-12 season has got off to a formidable start.

The True Colours Youth Company of Performing Arts is embarking on another exciting season of dance excellence.

Maybe you can't get tunes like Eat My Brain and Someone Who's Cool out of your head.

Sylvia McGourlick has been successful in having her raku piece included in Lark’s new book, 500 Raku.

Based on Joe Dunthorne’s acclaimed novel, Submarine is a captivating coming-of-age story with an offbeat edge. Fifteen-year-old Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts, Jane Eyre) is a consummate anti-hero, as sardonic and self-obsessed as any postmodern Holden Caulfield, and Roberts plays the role with the necessary cocktail of stubborn egotism and gangly unease.

Secrets. If you dig deep enough, every family has them. Events, topics or people that aren’t talked about or acknowledged. Sometimes the secrets are buried so deep they simply disappear. And sometimes they’re revealed in surprising ways.