Mountain Guide

If the on-again, off-again blasts of cold weather the Valley has experienced lately have you mired in the mid-winter blues, an evening of laughing 'til it hurts might be just the remedy you need. On Feb.

Willock & Sax Gallery in Banff is the place to be this month during Exposure 2011: the Calgary Banff Canmore Photography Festival, if you want to explore the role of the book in photography.

The Calgary Banff Canmore Photography Festival is right around the corner and compared to last year, it is growing.

Both geographically and musically, it’d be hard to get much farther away from Cuba than Smithers, B.C. And yet, that’s where singer/songwriter Alex Cuba finds himself these days.

Trapper’s Ball tickets now available at Cornerstone The Canmore Winter Carnival kicks off this week with a long list of events and activities all meant to shake off those mid-winter blues.

As both a lover of music that harkens back to a bygone age and a person who has called Western Canada and the American mid-west home, Little Miss Higgins has plenty to choose from when it comes to songwriting material.

Here in the Bow Valley, owning a home away from home is nothing new. In Canmore in particular, many people from around the world have purchased a property which they call their second home.

A clutch of smiling owlets, a great whale, a diving seal and a harried mother polar bear attempting to corral her two young cubs are all part of an exhibition at Canada House Gallery to honour one of Arctic Canada’s most renowned graphic artists.

Imagine marching across Canada with hundreds of poorly trained and equipped men while facing prairie blizzards, thunderstorms and droughts.

Banff painter Lynne Huras is having a hard time seeing the land for the trees.