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Okanagan Symphony Orchestra music director Rosemary Thomson in action at the podium. Photo by Lynda Miller.

Okanagan Symphony Orchestra in tune for season

2023/2024 will be the last season for music director Rosemary Thomson

Participants in the clog dancing class in West Kelowna back in 2022. Clog dancing will take place again in 2023, although times are currently to be determined. (Contributed)

Okanagan gets footloose with clog, round and square dance awareness week

Non-profit groups from across the valley will be putting on lessons

Vernon Public Art Gallery’s 13th annual Riot on the Roof set for Aug. 21, 2021. (Contributed)

Riot on the Roof cancelled in Vernon

Vernon’s biggest alternative art party is scheduled to take place again in 2024

The Detonators Car Club are bringing back a burnout competition to the Friday Night Lights Car Show Aug. 18. (Detonators photo)

Enderby lights it up with burnouts, bands and slick cars

Friday Night Lights family event and car show Aug. 18

The Detonators Car Club are bringing back a burnout competition to the Friday Night Lights Car Show Aug. 18. (Detonators photo)
The Vernon Towne Theatre will be showing the short films created in the 48 Hour Film Competition, taking place from Sept. 15-17. (Greater Vernon Chamber of Commerce photo)

48 hour film competition opens to Okanagan film geeks

‘Someone could red carpet their way from the Okanagan to Lisbon to Cannes’

The Vernon Towne Theatre will be showing the short films created in the 48 Hour Film Competition, taking place from Sept. 15-17. (Greater Vernon Chamber of Commerce photo)
A piece in the new Cardiff Miller Art Warehouse in Enderby, opening July 29. (Contributed)

Art gallery gives life to vacant Enderby warehouse

Canadian artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller open space July 29

A piece in the new Cardiff Miller Art Warehouse in Enderby, opening July 29. (Contributed)
FIlms such as Until Branches Bend, have been filmed in the Okanagan. (Courtesy of Until Branches Bend)

Okanagan film industry champions massive growth over the past three years

Over 18 per cent of all films in B.C. were shot in the Okanagan in 2020

FIlms such as Until Branches Bend, have been filmed in the Okanagan. (Courtesy of Until Branches Bend)
Dawn Petten (left) and Sheldon Elter alternate evenings as the only actor in the production Every Brilliant Thing that will run July 18-Aug. 20 at the Caravan Farm Theatre in Spallumcheen. (Contributed)

‘Brilliant’ North Okanagan show shines light on depression

Every Brilliant Thing plays July 18-Aug. 20 at Spallumcheen’s Caravan Farm Theatre

Dawn Petten (left) and Sheldon Elter alternate evenings as the only actor in the production Every Brilliant Thing that will run July 18-Aug. 20 at the Caravan Farm Theatre in Spallumcheen. (Contributed)
The Cirque Du Soleil show Corteo will be in Penticton for eight shows in January, 2024. (Cirque Du Soleil - MajaPrgomet)

Cirque du Soleil’s Corteo coming to Penticton for 8 shows in 2024

The arena production will be at the SOEC for 4 days in January

The Cirque Du Soleil show Corteo will be in Penticton for eight shows in January, 2024. (Cirque Du Soleil - MajaPrgomet)
A 1969 van being wrapped by Penticton detail shop Bling Performance on the new Discovery Channel docu-series Bush Wreck Rescue. (BWR)

Penticton auto detailer featured in new TV series Bush Wreck Rescue

Bling Performance wraps a ‘hippie’ 1969 Chevy V10 van in the Discovery Channel show

A 1969 van being wrapped by Penticton detail shop Bling Performance on the new Discovery Channel docu-series Bush Wreck Rescue. (BWR)
Tim Hicks plays Vernon Oct. 25, 3034. (Tim Hicks photo)

Country star Tim Hicks ready to get loud in Vernon

Tickets now on sale for October show at Performing Arts Centre

Tim Hicks plays Vernon Oct. 25, 3034. (Tim Hicks photo)
Mike Biden photo

PHOTOS: Monster trucks take over Penticton Speedway

Six of the biggest and baddest monster trucks put on a monster of a show

Mike Biden photo
Keremeos' Charley Cotrill is one of six farmers looking for love on the new CTV series Farmers Looking For Love that begins airing on CTV on Sunday, May 28. (Farming For Love)

Keremeos wine maker finds local fame on Farming For Love reality show

The CTV unscripted show featuring 6 B.C. farmers begins airing on Sunday, May 28

Keremeos' Charley Cotrill is one of six farmers looking for love on the new CTV series Farmers Looking For Love that begins airing on CTV on Sunday, May 28. (Farming For Love)
Enderby’s Starlight Drive In outdoor movie theatre is kicking off its season this weekend, May 5 and 6, 2023. (Starlight/Facebook)

Enderby drive-in movie theatre opening this weekend

Starlight Drive In movie theatre starts its 2023 season May 5 and 6

Enderby’s Starlight Drive In outdoor movie theatre is kicking off its season this weekend, May 5 and 6, 2023. (Starlight/Facebook)
Enderby’s Starlight Drive-In is busy repainting its outdoor screen in preparation for the 2023 season, which it says will begin in May. (Starlight Drive-In photo)

Enderby drive-in movie theatre preparing for May opening

The Starlight Drive-In is making preparations for its 2023 season

Enderby’s Starlight Drive-In is busy repainting its outdoor screen in preparation for the 2023 season, which it says will begin in May. (Starlight Drive-In photo)
A Buddy Holly tribute artist performs in the Louisiana Hayride Show. (Contributed)

Louisiana Hayride Show returns to roots in Okanagan Shuswap

Be transported back in time with tribute artists, live band performing classic hits

A Buddy Holly tribute artist performs in the Louisiana Hayride Show. (Contributed)
Brodo’s Cannery Darkling Stout beer brownines with a whisky cream chees and brown butter milk crumbs were served up at the Fest of Ale.

PHOTOS: Winners announced at Okanagan Fest of Ale for best beer, cider

People choose lemon sour beer from Kelowna and judge’s choice was for Firehall’s Stout

Brodo’s Cannery Darkling Stout beer brownines with a whisky cream chees and brown butter milk crumbs were served up at the Fest of Ale.
Gordon Lightfoot performs during the first concert at the newly re-opened Massey Hall in Toronto, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021. Canadian folk icon Lightfoot is cancelling his 2023 concert schedule in Canada and the U.S. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston

Singer Gordon Lightfoot cancels 2023 concert schedule, citing health

Canadian folk icon, 84, is recovering from undisclosed health issues

Gordon Lightfoot performs during the first concert at the newly re-opened Massey Hall in Toronto, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021. Canadian folk icon Lightfoot is cancelling his 2023 concert schedule in Canada and the U.S. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston
Vanessa Hudgens arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

‘Everything’ wins best picture, is everywhere at Oscars

Eccentric, anarchic tale about a Chinese immigrant family lauded for freshness, performances

Vanessa Hudgens arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Members of the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra play alongside the Okanagan Symphony Youth Orchestra in Kelowna Friday, Feb. 10, 2023. (Photo: Maja Pannes: OSO)

REVIEW: Okanagan Symphony Orchestra gives the gift of music

Retired musician Karen Krout captures the sounds from a March 3 Kelowna concert

  • Mar 9, 2023
Members of the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra play alongside the Okanagan Symphony Youth Orchestra in Kelowna Friday, Feb. 10, 2023. (Photo: Maja Pannes: OSO)