Mountain Guide

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.

No stranger to the Bow Valley, artist Dominik Modlinski returns to Banff this Saturday with Horizons, a show of new work at wCanada House Gallery.

With more than 90 people set to take the stage of its next production, Bow Valley Chorus gives new meaning to the word Mass.

For its fifth incarnation, the Banff Community Coffee House returns Saturday (May 11), with a performance at St. George’s-in-the-Pines. The event, which began as an effort of Volunteer Banff, had two productions in each of 2011 and 2012.

Walking into an artist’s home is much like having a special preview into what makes them tick. And while there’s often a lot going on, as is the case with Banff multimedia artist Carolyn Walton’s abode, it feels right.