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This photo of Norm Gautreau..

Fighter still fighting the good fight

AT 82, former Canadian welterweight boxing champion Norm Gautreau is fast.


 

Artist to explain piece on The WALL

In March, a large work by artist Paul de Guzman entitled "the people are the city." was unveiled at "The WALL" at the CBC Plaza on Hamilton Street.


 
Carlos del Junco

Harp master in HHS

To say Carlos del Junco plays the harmonica is like saying Jimi Hendrix played guitar.


 
Baja Cruise

Baja cruise explores coastline in style

THE name Baja California has an exotic ring to it, and the peninsula stands out on a map, but in fact it is just a long finger of under-populated, mostly scrubby land stretching from San Diego down to Cabo San Lucas, where a recent rush of expensive hotels has transformed the party town invented by Canadians on the cheap.


 
Mayumi Tsuzuki and Marco Jimenez

City dancers heat up the floor

They are the best Cuban salsa dancers in the world, and they hail not from Havana, but from a dance studio just a few steps from Metrotown.


 

1953: Langley eyed for new jail site

Eighty Years Ago -- February 23, 1933


 

Clarke in Mexico with U20 national men's team

Richmond's Caleb Clarke has joined the national team in Mexico City for a week long training camp leading up to the 2013 CONCACAF U20 Championships which take place Feb. 18 to March 2.


 
A memorial of flowers

Crash victim remembered as caring

Her family had plans to take her out to dinner and spend time together on her special day.


 

Curtains rose and fell in 2012

The surprising end of the 49-yearold Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company shook the local arts and culture scene in 2012.


 

CIS volleyball comes to Yale

Yale Secondary School in Abbotsford will host the No. 1 men's university volleyball team in the country, as the Trinity Western Spartans play an exhibition match against the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds on Oct. 15 at 7 p.m.


 

NORCECA championships scheduled for LEC in 2013

On the heels of the U-23 Pan American Cup, another high level men's volleyball tournament is coming to the Langley Events Centre (LEC).


 

Calendar

Artemis Gallery: 104C-4390 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. Hours: Tuesday-Sunday, noon5 p.m. Info: 778-233-9805 or artemisgallery.ca.


 

Last year's winner finds inspiration in outdoors

At the urging of one of his art students, artist Kerry Vaughn Erickson decided to take part in the 2nd Annual Steveston Grand Prix of Art - an outdoor painting competition that pits artists from all across the Lower Mainland against each other in a friendly, fast-paced competition to paint a scene somewhere in Steveston.


 

Calendar

Artemis Gallery: 104C-4390 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. Hours: Tuesday-Sunday, noon-5 p.m. Info: 778-233-9805 or artemisgallery.ca.


 

Calendar

Artemis Gallery: 104C-4390 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. Hours: Tuesday-Sunday, noon5 p.m. Info: 778-233-9805 or artemisgallery.ca.


 

Be more consistent with communist outrage, Bill

Re: "Red-scare politics are dirty and 'upset people,' Brar says," the Now, Aug. 30.


 
Jagrup Brar

Red-scare politics are dirty and 'upset people,' Brar says

Surrey-Fleetwood MLA Jagrup Brar would like to assure constituents that, despite what you may have heard, he would not be leaving the B.C. NDP to join the Communist Party of British Columbia.