Mountain Guide

A regular favourite of the Bow Valley, Smokekiller – moniker of John Antoniuk – returns Sunday (May 26) for a show at the Elk & Oarsman in Banff. Antoniuk spoke with the Outlook while on the road somewhere between Thunder Bay, Ont. and Winnipeg.

If you’ve been waiting for just the right combination of classical music and pop to come along, you’re in luck. Plumes, a Montreal five-piece, plays Wild Flour Bakery in Banff, May 31 at 7:30 p.m.

On Thursday (May 16), The Banff Centre finally unveiled the lineup for its Summer Arts Festival, which spans June, July and August.

The photographs of Banff’s most famous photographer, Byron Harmon, are now online and easily accessible.

A month-long closure for renovations made Wild Bill’s Legendary Saloon a quiet place.

At the time, Sandy Walker’s trip to climb Monte San Lorenzo in Chile was the most remote place she’d ever travelled to.

Attending the annual Banff Mountain Wine & Food Festival is like being a kid in a candy store, according to festival representative Liz Horner, only it’s for adults.

Change no doubt can be hard. But in the same breath, it can also be incredibly motivating and inspiring.

For the fourth year in a row, Guy McClelland will be on hand at the Rocky Mountain Wine and Food Festival, Friday and Saturday (May 10-11) at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel.

We shoot bears with rubber bullets, chase them with dogs, launch noisy bangers or flares at them and all too often, we trap them and haul them off to an unfamiliar landscape, where many of them die.