Local Arts

Home cooking instinct cost Richmond’s Debra Pangestu a chance to remain among TV’s top amateur cooks. As a youngster, when Pangestu watched her mom cook at home, if a bay leaf was among the ingredients on a recipe, it remained in the finished dish.

How do you escape the hum-drum life on a chicory farm in 1955 rural Ontario and make a break for the bright lights of Hollywood? Peggy Ann Douglas has a plan—and it revolves around ascending the tiers of “royalty” in the beauty pageant circuit.

As a clinical counsellor with more than two decades of experience, Richmond's Danielle Aldcorn is attuned to examining issues and situations in great detail.

As a journalist, Richmond’s Debra Pangestu is not used to being the one in the spotlight.

When newly minted children’s author Brandee Bublé has the opportunity to read her work to an audience, she sometimes has to pinch herself to prove she’s finally a published author. “I imagined it was going to come one day in the future … maybe.

On one of the busiest days on Debbie Tobin’s calendar she prefers to keep a low profile. That “busy” day comes on Monday (Feb. 9), the seventh year of the Children’s Arts Festival at the Richmond Cultural Centre.

Valentine's Day concert brings together local choir and Vancouver favourite

The artist behind YVR’s signature Thunderbird, a leading performing arts festival boss and an acclaimed Winnipeg architect are the highlights of this year’s 2015 Lulu Series: Art in the City.

Latest offering from Richmond stage, Valley Song, deals with relationships during post-apartheid South Africa

Richmond mom-of-three and self-taught writer, author launches debut book