Mountain Guide

After two years as festival director of the Canmore Folk Music Festival, Kurt Bagnell is resigning from the position for personal reasons. Bagnell will continue with the festival until the end of 2014.

Not many bands can boast of being around over the 20-year mark, especially if you’re in the sub-scene of punk rock, but Langley, B.C.

“As a climber,” says Jeff Lowe, “I did the best I could with what I had from wherever I was.

It’s time to put the summer gear away, be prepared to defrost your vehicle in the morning and get ready to rake countless leaves – autumn has found the valley.

Sometimes creative magic happens – it has again for Max Elliott.

She has a teaching degree, she’s worked as a cook at a backcountry lodge, and as an air traffic controller. She’s also just the seventh Canadian woman to earn full mountain guide certification with the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides.

I laughed. I cried. I thought about life. I couldn’t put down Barry Blanchard’s long-awaited memoir, The Calling: A Life Rocked by Mountains.

Banff is gearing up for its second annual Pride event in the community and organizers promise it will be sassier than ever. The event’s founder, Joe Bembridge, a.k.a.

Next Friday, you could do the usual Halloween thing – dress up, trick or treat, go to a party, watch some fireworks, bob for apples, toilet paper a house … Or … You could find your way to Good Earth Café in Canmore and get in on Elk Run & Riot’s reco

The music world can definitely be a glowing pool of narcissism, as the musician’s job is a relentless showcasing of their own voices and faces on a nightly basis. Feathery voiced, Waterloo, Ont.