Mountain Guide

A Canmore filmmaker’s tribute to one of Banff’s historic homes will join the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival lineup this weekend.

When you hear that a group of Vancouver Island surfers are heading into the Rockies and stopping in Canmore, you might expect their plans are to spend time plying the waters of the Kananaskis River. You’d be wrong.

The Third Annual Bike Shorts Film Festival arrives in Canmore next Thursday, bringing with it a bounty of brief bike bits-and-bites. Bike Shorts, which is presented by Canmore Community Cruisers (CCC) and The Bicycle Café at Communitea Café on Nov.

“I say jokingly there’s two things all Canadians agree on; everybody hates Toronto and everybody loves hockey,” said country western musician Tim Hus. “Hockey is a common thread that runs through everything.

The 2011 Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival takes off this weekend with the screening of seven feature films, as well as a number of shorts and other activities. All screenings take place in the Eric Harvie Theatre at The Banff Centre.

The history of bark beetle suppression in North America is being described as a manual of failure that dates back to the 18th century when people first began to battle the insect, according to the author of the newly-published Empire of the Beetle: H

On Tuesday (Oct. 18), iconic Canadian musician Murray McLauchlan released his first solo album of new work in 15 years. To celebrate, he’s touring the country and will make a stop in Canmore. The show, taking place at Cornerstone Theatre on Nov.

When you’ve been in the music business for some time, have toured extensively in Canada and the U.S. and released seven albums, sometimes you need a little extra spark to keep you going.

Durrant Wallace is a tough man: strong, proud, slightly arrogant and a bit of an abrasive jerk. But then again, he needs to be.

World music maestro Jesse Cook loves Banff and since the mid ‘90s has played there at least once every couple years.